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Who do you support for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts in 2010?
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#3273 Nov 10, 2012
With all of this talk about rich Republicans, how come no one ever mentions all of the rich Democrats? like Oprah Winfrey? is it because she is Black? Or that she donated to Obama's campaign? Obama himself makes over $250,000.00 per year. Why didnt he do anything about the tax codes these past 4 years? Why viciously attack someone for being successful? Obama ran a filthy campaign packed with lies and distortions. I have no more respect for him.
Obama still hasnt answered for Benghazi.
#3274 Nov 10, 2012
One question that wll probably be another one of my stupid ones is if Obmacare is so great why arent the Obamas and other people in the government going to have it?
#3275 Nov 10, 2012
Another one of my stupid questions would be just how good can the CIA be at keeping American security secrets if the big boss can't keep his extra marital affairs a secret?
#3276 Nov 10, 2012
Petraeus is being thrown under the bus - move over Hilliary !!!
For a career military person to resign - just one week before he would be called to testify re: Benghazi ... Hmmmm somethings not right here. By resigning I don't believe he has to testify - interesting, huh ????
#3277 Nov 11, 2012
It doesn't matter anymore.
We have the most disinterested, disconnected, easily distracted generation in human history.
A small, vocal minority cares about this stuff,
the majority falls in the disinterested group,
and the rest ignore it, like a *good* wife ignores the signs that hubby has something going in the side.
Everything is ok, everything is ok
Everything will be just fine.
Nothing to see here folks.
#3278 Nov 11, 2012
as part of the loyal opposition, i hope
and pray that things get better for my
fellow Americans living on the edge.
President Obama now owns this economy and
can no longer play the blame game.
hopefully, he will work with congress like LBJ,
Reagan or Clinton and get this country working
#3279 Nov 11, 2012
I am sorry I cannot answer your question. You see I am a newbee in this State and as the Sign says "Retired" so I am living by the God's Waiting Room motto which is; "Each Day is a Gift" which also puts me in the "Who Cares" section of society!
I do remember that they had more problems with the last election when Jeb was counting his brothers votes, I don't remember if they ever got a final count, did they??????
#3280 Nov 11, 2012
I agree with you. One think we do know is that it would not happen if you know who got elected! Thank the Lord America voted the right way!
#3281 Nov 11, 2012
Scare tactics won in the end.
at BEST
you'll get a repeat of the last 4 years.
At worst....
well I for one expect things to get much much worse.
#3284 Nov 11, 2012
Is Deval all packed for his cushy DC position ?? You just know he is leaving MA ASAP .... Hope he gets the appointment of Ambassador to Libya - that is an open position right now.....You just know that security there will never be lax again !!!!
#3285 Nov 11, 2012
With any luck, I'll have you in the next bed close enough to whack you on the forehead with my bed pan to make sure it's empty! Knowing you, you'd probably love it being the $$hithead you are!
#3286 Nov 11, 2012
Massachusetts is theoke ofthe country. We had a decent enator for on and the idiots of this state voted in the ying fraud ecause f the D next to her name. The Kennedy family has hurt oe people than they've helped.
#3287 Nov 11, 2012
Speaking of Kennedys, it was Patrick who was in Dorchester stumping for Warren who told people not to vote Warren then vote Romney for President, to vote Obama. When Brown ran against Coakley for the US Senate seat, it was Patrick Kennedy who accused Brown of being lock step with Republicans which is a lie. Its Warren who is lock step with the Democrats. Nothing is going to get better. If anything, this country is going to continue to spiral downward. Thats the truth whether anyone wants to accept it or not.
#3288 Nov 11, 2012
Looks like this technology stuff might be too much for you. Stick with the Magic Slate.
#3289 Nov 11, 2012
That was a great press conference with Lizzie and Deval.
#3291 Nov 11, 2012
It was hysterical. Just the laugh I needed to get me out of my depression over the election. What dopes in this state electing her. Brown was everything everyone says they want but he had an R instead of a D. Now we have this wacko.
#3292 Nov 11, 2012
YOu DO know don't you that Obama's father had like 5 wives at the same time right? I'll bet you are just fine with the muslim religion even though they treat their women horribly. What is it with you liberals? Aren't you suppose to be SO tolerant? Oh wait, only if they agree with you.
#3293 Nov 11, 2012
Even more interesting is that the affair was over months ago. He suddenly got a guilty conscience the day after the election?? I don't think we've heard the last of him.
#3294 Nov 11, 2012
You keep saying you're done here but you keep coming back. Why is that?
#3295 Nov 11, 2012
Conspiracy alert! Conspiracy alert! Sound the alarm!
We're doomed! The conspirators will enslave us all!
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Small?! She's using two hands to jerk him at one point. It's pretty big, and people think this vid is amazing because she handles a big one so well.
This babe appears in numerous bj compilations on the web.
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Anyone know if this is available commercially in dvd quality?
i would love to suck on that!
Wow what a blowjob. Reminds me of my first wife, Lisa - exactly ssame tecnique
@123 Oh yeah? And you are one of those girls who think they can? ;) Very nice video, she doesn't shy away from his cum and keeps going after he has shot his load, sexy :))
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Yap. She knows what she does!
i wish my girlfriend was skillfull as she is but unfortunally not.
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wow... any other videos from her?
so cool and relaxed! nice
Her name?
suck him dry :)
Wish i whas that girl..
Please, I need a cock like this to suck on. :(
Very perfect... Any video?
I think she is one of the best swallower on this site...he came too soon and it doesn't matter to her, she swallows him appreciating all the load. I think she wears a wig but she is lovely and what a great ass!
Damn well done. Nice to see a chick who loves giving head. Pass on the wig, otherwise fucking excellent.
best clip of all
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Following assembly instructions took lot of time and little complicated but my kids (3 and 7 year old )love it.
This trampoline is GREAT! Fits perfectly in our living room, its not too small or too big. We have twin 14 month old girls and they love it! They hold onto the bar half way up the net and have learned how to jump. I filled it with ball pit balls too and so it is extra colorful and fun for them. :) Even the bigger kids want to play. It was easy to assemble, the only thing that might be a challenge for someone without a lot of arm strength is stretching the cords, other than that it was very simple. Also one other thing to keep an eye out for is the foam that wraps around the bars is a little thin and my girls have discovered they can bite it off so i had to wrap their little receiving blankets around there for now. I think the only thing they could possibly improve is a thicker sturdier foam around the bars or maybe a thin nylon wrap that velcros around the foam to protect it from damage. Older kids wouldnt be biting the foam though so I guess that's the only downfall of letting little ones use it. Other than that this is am amazing toy and will teach babies to jump and it's so cute and fun!! I'm might just buy another one for when they get bigger and jump more aggressively so they dont bump heads :)
This was a Christmas gift for my son who is 4.5 with Autism, we paid for next day delivery and it arrived exactly on xmas eve. He loves to hear the animal sounds and uses it every day.This trampoline fits great in our playroom since its winter we have it indoor but all 3 of our children love it! !!
hello I bought this for my son. he is 3 years old, and is autistic. we bought this so he could release energy and it fits our needs for our backyard. he really likes to jump in it and we enjoy that it has the net and security ring around it for him to hang onto. but like most of the other reviews it was a little hard to read the instructions. but none the less it took me about an 1 1/2 hours to get it together. the hardest is putting the net to the bottom ring and one step is behind the other. you will want to put the foam pads on the top ring before finishing. and I would recommend this for any one that has a small child that likes to jump. the animal sound do sound out really good. good luck and have fun. your child will.
I love this bouncer! My mom got it or my son's bday I have a 3 and almost 2 year old and they take out all the engery they have on this thing. They used to jump on the bed couch and anything that was bouncy but now they just go jump in the bouncer! As I see some people wrote that they struggled to set up we it only took my husband and I about 45mins. we havent set up the sound yet so I couldnt say about that! both of my kids jump at the same time the netting is a little too thin and looks easy to rip but so far it hasnt we'll just have to wait and see but besides that its perfect!
We bought this for my 3yr. old daughter for Xmas and I wish we would of purchased it a year ago. She jumps in it every day and it totally wears her out! It's the pefect size for her with plenty of room for a friend. We decided to keep it indoors because she's in it every 5 minutes. I gave it four stars because it was a pain to put together (according to husband) and the safety net has already ripped in several places. But my daughter loves it (and so do all the other kids that have come by to visit). It was the best $70 we ever spent!
Got this for my two year old and even with her weighting right around 30lb when she stands on this it touches the ground. Really unable to be used and a big pain to put together. Cute idea if it worked. She loved it the first couple times she tried it, now it's like you might as well just jump on the floor.
Well made product, although it was missing two of the thirty-two elastic straps everything else went together fine. Skywalker is sending the two bands that were missing, but my grandbaby is able to use the product until then. Need someone with strength to put the bands on. Recommend this product highly and it can be used up to 100 lbs. Also has the feature of jumping on a cat,dog or bird which make the sounds of the animal. Need three AA batteries they do not come with it and I used dollar store batteries and they work just fine. You can also turn off this feature
Bought this for a 2 1/2 yr old and he loves it! Pain to put together as any kids toys are but well worth the small headache. Well built and don't have to worry about him getting hurt.
We've enjoyed it for the most part, putting it together was enough to make you pull your hair out, the animal sound pads stopped after 2 months but I didn't miss the noise that terribly. Last week one of the posts popped off, the welded part just snapped. It's almost a year old so maybe I am expecting too much? It's been indoors always and I would say moderate to light use.
Our 22 month old grandson started screaming "JUMP JUMP JUMP!" As soon as he saw it! He wears himself out in it from both jumping and giggling/laughing! Very safe as all coils are covered and all bars are padded! Screen stops them from falling off the trampoline! Love it love it love it! Great price, value and quality!
I got this trampoline for my grandchildren for Christmas. ( both age 2+)
My husband and I love that is it is easy to move around as it is stored under a cover when babies
aren't here. My husband said the instructions were hard to understand and he usually breezes
through these things. Looking at the picture online was easier for him to go by. I would recommend and would say it would last even longer, as I think it will for us, being that
it is not used on every day basis. They love hearing the animal sounds!
I order this for my daughter for Christmas, bc she's always jumping on my bed. I thought this would be a much safer way for her to jump, and not get hurt. Well, today was her first time getting courage to jump on it, and she got hurt. Putting the so called springs on are crazy, it is not very informative. I done as the picture shows, but it has so much slack in it my daughter was hitting the ground. Now I have to figure out some way to tighten them up so she can jump. BTW she's only 2 and only weighs 25lbs.
I bought this trampoline for my four grandkids. They are 5, 4, 3 and 2. They absolutely love it. It's a perfect size for them. I like that it is small and has the netting and bar to help protect them. We set it up inside the house and it does not take up too much room. The instructions were a little hard to follow. But we finelly got it together. The kids could not wait.
I bought this for Christmas 2012, so we've had it a little I've four months and my son still enjoys playing on it. The sounds are a little annoying, but they can be turned off. The only thing that I was disappointed with was putting it together. I had blisters on my fingers afterwards. Overall, it's a good product.
Bought this as a x-mas present for 3 yr old. It took my husband 3 hrs to put it together. The directions skipped parts on what to do. I had to bring the picture up online for some of the things. Then to top it all off, the animal sounds controller doesn't even work. (which may turn out to be a blessing) but on the other hand I paid for it and it doesn't work. So I will be calling the company after christmas.
The age for this trampoline is age 3-7 with a weight limit of 100lbs. My daughter is 43lbs and 4 years old. When she jumps the pad hits the ground! Also the netting was badly frayed before I even pulled it out of the box. Its going back to the store!
Two days, two parents, and much frustration later it is assembled. I pride myself on my ability to assemble almost anything single handed. This thing is insane! I hope it bring hours of fun b/c I almost had a heart attack putting it together. It should be a task on "amazing race". I will update my review after the child has given the ultimate verdict.
We ordered this for our 19 month old grandaughter and she loves it. I thought it would be smaller but it is just the right size for our basement so she can jump in it whenever she wants to. I would definitely recommend this trampoline for small children. Only one child though. Not enough room for more than one.
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If I ever meet an editorial writer who's capable of discussing sectionalism in modern American politics without invoking the Civil War, I'll be pleasantly surprised.
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Taking Hollywood to task
When I wrote my own review of Lincoln, I said this: "You buy a ticket to Transformers to see fighting robots, and you buy a ticket to Titanic to see the ship sink. Most of us who buy tickets to Steven Spielberg's Lincoln are probably going to see Abraham Lincoln himself, and in that regard this movie doesn't disappoint."
Based on some of the responses to the movie that have hit the Interwebs since then, I might need to revise that statement. Daniel Day-Lewis' performance was the main draw for me, but at least some viewers apparently had different expectations.
I have a tendency to judge all Lincoln-related movies by how convincingly they depict him. If a film can sell me on its Lincoln, I can overlook any number of other flaws. Conversely, if I don't buy the Lincoln, then it's hard for me to appreciate other strengths a movie might have. I've enjoyed quite a few good Lincoln portrayals over the years, performances that have captured particular aspects of the genuine article—Henry Fonda, Walter Huston, and Sam Waterston are favorites of mine—but I don't think I've ever seen anybody inhabit the role as completely as Day-Lewis. I didn't love everything about Spielberg's film, but what I really wanted to see was Lincoln himself, and I left the theater satisfied.
Some historians have noted the movie's inaccuracies, which is a perfectly proper thing for historians to be doing. Other commentators, though, seem less interested in what the filmmakers did wrong as much as they're interested in what they didn't do at all.
Over at The Atlantic, for example, Tony Horwitz writes, "I enjoyed Lincoln and agree that it strips away the nostalgic moss that has draped so much Civil War cinema and remembrance. But here's my criticism. The movie obscures the distance Lincoln traveled in his views on race and slavery. Probing this journey would have made for better history and a finer, more complex film." Sure, but it also would've made for a completely different film. Spielberg and Kushner made a conscious decision to focus on the last months of Lincoln's life. Including his transformation from a fairly conservative Whig into the man who embraced the Thirteenth Amendment and made public references to limited black enfranchisement would have required not a longer movie, but another one.
Historian Kate Masur, meanwhile, complains that "it's disappointing that in a movie devoted to explaining the abolition of slavery in the United States, African-American characters do almost nothing but passively wait for white men to liberate them.…Mr. Spielberg's 'Lincoln' helps perpetuate the notion that African Americans have offered little of substance to their own liberation.…[I]t reinforces, even if inadvertently, the outdated assumption that white men are the primary movers of history and the main sources of social progress." But this isn't a movie "devoted to explaining the abolition of slavery." It's a movie about the twilight of Lincoln's presidency. Any examination of the men who stood at the pinnacle of the American government in the 1860's is inevitably going to spend most of its time on white men.
William Harris wrote a book about the last months of Lincoln's second term; I don't think anyone who would criticize that book for failing to analyze the evolution of Lincoln's views on race from 1858 to 1865 would get much of a hearing. Similarly, I think most of us would be quite surprised if a reviewer referred to a novel about Lincoln as "an opportunity squandered" because the book didn't deal with African-American life in nineteenth-century Washington.
Yet Masur ultimately concludes that the move is "an opportunity squandered." That sort of reaction is legitimate when it comes to major museum exhibits or interpretation at an important historic site, since those are educational institutions which can and should try to tell definitive stories about their subjects. Movies shouldn't have to be so authoritative.
We seem to hold filmmakers to a lower standard when it comes to getting the facts straight, but a higher one when it comes to deciding what to include and what not to include. The reason, I think, is because movies reach so many people and leave such an impression. We envy filmmakers their audience and their influence, and since we know how many stories about the past need telling, we want filmmakers to use the tremendous resources at their disposal to tell the ones that matter to us, as well as to tell their own stories well.
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Daniel Day-Lewis and Tony Kushner resurrect Lincoln
Cross-posted at the blog of the Abraham Lincoln Institute for the Study of Leadership and Public Policy
First things first. You buy a ticket to Transformers to see fighting robots, and you buy a ticket to Titanic to see the ship sink. Most of us who buy tickets to Steven Spielberg's Lincoln are probably going to see Abraham Lincoln himself, and in that regard this movie doesn't disappoint. In fact, between the two of them, star Daniel Day-Lewis and screenwriter Tony Kushner have almost worked a miracle of resurrection.
It's not just that Day-Lewis disappears into the role. It's that his Lincoln is so complete. We've had excellent movie Lincolns before, but I don't think anyone has captured so many aspects of his personality in one performance. You get the gregarious raconteur as well as the melancholy brooder, the profound thinker as well as the unpolished product of the frontier, the pragmatic political operator as well as the man of principle. He amuses the War Department staff with off-color jokes in one scene, then ruminates on Euclid and the Constitution in another. It's the closest you're going to get to the real thing this side of a time machine, a distillation of all the recollections and anecdotes from Herndon, Welles, and the other contemporaries into one remarkable character study.
And it's primarily as a character study that the movie stands out, for there is much about Steven Spielberg's Lincoln that is unremarkable. Not bad, mind you, but unremarkable. The film takes as its story the effort to get the Thirteenth Amendment through Congress, and at times it's too much a run-of-the-mill political procedural. The Thirteenth Amendment was undeniably one of the Civil War's most important outcomes; it formally ended a divisive institution which had existed in America for more than two centuries and contributed to a fundamental shift in the relationship between U.S. citizens and their government. But it seems—to me, anyway—like an odd method of approach if one is trying to convey all the drama and significance of Lincoln's presidency in a couple of hours. Why not the Emancipation Proclamation or the ups and downs of the Union's military fortunes, instead of an issue dependent on so much wheeling, dealing, cajoling, speech-making, and roll-calling? Telling the story of the amendment's fate makes this a movie that's as much about democracy as it is about Lincoln himself, and that's fine, but Day-Lewis and Kushner have given us such an interesting central character that the rest of the film seems unexpectedly average by comparison.
Even Spielberg's directorial trademarks—his tendency toward sentimentality and his flair as a visual stylist—are surprisingly kept in the background. This movie doesn't have the signature Spielberg "moments"—no little girl dressed in a crowd of black and white, no thundering footfalls from some unseen menace causing ominous vibrations in the water, no kids on flying bicycles silhouetted against the moon. One scene between Lincoln and Mary does have a distinctively "Spielbergian" sense of light and shadow, but other than that, the director's fingerprints are not really apparent. It's a very restrained, straightforward effort.
Perhaps that's as it should be, because ultimately this show belongs to the screenwriter and the cast. Like Lincoln himself, Kushner has a flair for language, and the dialogue is some of his best work. Tommy Lee Jones, Sally Field, and David Strathairn give some of the finest performances of their careers, and Jackie Earle Haley looks more like Alexander Stephens than Alexander Stephens himself did.
Ultimately, though, when this movie soars it's because it makes one of the most compelling figures in American history seem to live again. When I was in the museum business, we used to bring in Lincoln impersonators to do presentations for groups of schoolchildren. These events were always a lot of fun, but the most memorable moments for me happened offstage, when "Lincoln" would relax on a couch in the office, out of character. At those times you could catch a glimpse of him, sitting there in a black suit with his stovepipe hat on the table beside him, one long leg folded over the other while he chatted and joked with the staff. It was downright surreal. This, I would think to myself, is what it must have been like to sit in the telegraph office at the War Department or in a parlor at the Executive Mansion, watching Lincoln just being himself. I had the same thought the first time Spielberg's Lincoln appeared on the screen, and that was more than worth the price of a movie ticket.
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North Koreans love Gone With the Wind
Pyongyang is just about the last place in the world you'd expect to find GWTW fans, but apparently you can't swing a dead cat there without hitting one.
Maybe the notion of a society devastated by war and famine is especially resonant in North Korea. Or maybe it appeals to some aspect of East Asian culture in general; Tony Horwtiz mentioned GWTW's popularity among Japanese visitors to Atlanta in Confederates in the Attic.
Personally, I think the explanation is pretty simple: Margaret Mitchell was a master storyteller who knew how to create remarkable characters. Sure, her portrayal of the Old South was mythical—but holy cow, what a myth she managed to build.
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Is Lincoln to blame for America's empire?
Some observers see Lincoln's presidency and the outcome of the Civil War as the point when America got off-kilter, sort of like a national equivalent to the Fall of Man. At some point between 1860 and 1865, so this line of thinking goes, the country went off the rails and abandoned the legacy of the Revolution and the Constitution, leaving us with the centralized, interventionist, and industrial nation in which we now live.
There's a nugget of truth to all this, but it's hidden among a lot of overstatement and moralization. The Civil War did contribute to the creation of a stronger and more vigorous central government, Lincoln's use of presidential authority was broader than many of his predecessors, and the Union's victory did accelerate the creation of a more consolidated and economically modern America. At the same time, though, you can't attribute America's transformation entirely to the Civil War or to Lincoln's presidency. The war was a critical step down that road, but it wasn't the only one—and the road itself was circuitous, since the exertion of federal authority has expanded and contracted at various times between 1865 and today. Lincoln did a great many consequential things, but he didn't sucker punch the whole country into the modern age single-handedly.
In an interesting and provocative essay, Thomas DiLorenzo takes this notion of the Lincoln presidency as something akin to America's moment of original sin and applies it to foreign policy. He argues that Lincoln abandoned the Founders' desire for neutrality and friendly commerce in favor of "imperialist fantasies about perfecting the entire planet as the bedrock of American foreign policy ideas." Lincoln, he states, believed that it was incumbent upon Americans to impose democratic ideals on other countries, and so our subsequent foreign entanglements and interventions follow from this misguided conviction.
DiLorenzo thus uses an interpretation of the past to critique the present. As far as his criticism of American interventionism goes, I'm inclined to agree with him, at least to a considerable extent. What I don't agree with is his diagnosis of the historical origins of the problem. Like the larger concept of which it's a part—the notion that the Civil War is the point at which the country somehow went wrong—I think his argument contains a kernel of historic truth hidden in a matrix of serious oversimplification. DiLorenzo makes Lincoln out to be a far more influential figure than he actually was.
He's certainly correct that Lincoln believed the U.S., as an experiment in popular government, had an important role to play in the world. Indeed, that's one reason why he took secession so seriously. If the nation collapsed in civil warfare, he thought, then the whole notion of a nation governed by the people themselves was in doubt. Hence his argument at Gettysburg that America was a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to a proposition of equality, and that the war was a contest to determine whether any such nation could survive. If the Union prevailed, self-government would be vindicated and would have the opportunity to take root elsewhere.
But I don't think DiLorenzo is accurate in equating Lincoln's brand of American exceptionalism with a zealous support of foreign intervention. Ever since the Revolution—since earlier than that, actually, if one takes the Puritans into account—Americans have believed they could instruct the world, but not all of them have believed they must do so by force. I don't really see any reason to assume that Lincoln's American exceptionalism was necessarily of the militant kind or to lay the blame for America's status as a global policeman at his feet. True, the interventionist and expansionist U.S. of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries probably wouldn't have taken the form it did if it weren't for the creation of a consolidated and industrial nation with a vigorous government, which the Civil War made possible. But that's not to say that it wouldn't have become an interventionist and expansionist country at all. The agrarian, slave-based economic interest that was so influential in antebellum America was something of an imperialist engine in its own right, spurring on conflict with Mexico and sparking filibustering expeditions in other parts of Latin America. Indeed, well before the Civil War, America had been practicing a form of internal imperialism with regard to the Indians. It's therefore entirely possible that an America without a Lincoln presidency or a Civil War might have become an interventionist world power anyway, albeit an interventionist power of a different kind.
I have no idea how Lincoln would feel about modern America's willingness to spend blood and treasure policing the world. Maybe he'd endorse the extension of American ideals and institutions to foreign countries by force of arms, at least under some circumstances. Or maybe not; after all, he was a vocal critic of America's war with Mexico in the 1840's. Whatever the case, I think he'd be quite surprised that anyone would draw a direct line between his readiness to use force to suppress what he considered an internal rebellion and the deployment of American forces across the globe a century and a half later.
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Among the stories told was one about a re-enactor who was re-enacting a battle at one point and thought he had been "killed" by another re-enactor. However, after the battle was over, nobody else saw the "killing" re-enactor, and Riley implied it was the spirit of an actual dead soldier who took part in the battle re-enactment, thinking it was real.
A subsequent investigation by four adolescents and their dog revealed that the "spirit" was actually a local con man in disguise. When reached for comment, the malefactor stated, "I would've gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for those meddling kids!"
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Confederate descendants carry on the work of their forefathers
…by seceding from their SCV camp.
It seems some members of Florida's General Jubal A. Early Camp No. 556 (of ginormous Confederate flag fame) wanted to devote more of their efforts to historic preservation and education. Their compatriots preferred to focus on charitable work and PR, so twelve of the historically minded gents accordingly took their leave and formed a new camp, named for Judah P. Benjamin.
When members of a Civil War heritage group can't persuade fellow members to engage in Civil War heritage activities, I think you've got a case for secession that even the most radical of nineteenth-century Republicans would support.
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The worst of Liborio Solis' road trip to Japan ended Monday at the scales, as fight night provided far more memorable results.
One day after being forced to vacate his 115 lb. title due to missing weight, Venezuela's Solis found redemption in the form of a split decision win over Daiki Kameda in a 12-round war Tuesday evening in Osaka, Japan.
Solis was already facing an uphill climb in trying to claim a win over a Kameda on the road in Japan. The Land of the Rising Sun was kind to the visiting Venezuelan when he conquered Kohei Kono to win a 115 lb. belt in May, but such courtesy never figured to be on the table for Tuesday's affair.
Scores were 116-112 (twice) and 115-113 in a bout previously billed as a title unifier in the super flyweight division, but instead a non-title affair once all was said and done. [Click Here To Read More]
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"The scale snafu meant that both belts were on the line only for Kameda, who would retain his alphabet belt regardless of what occurred wile a loss would mean the belt Solis owned would remain vacant."
This is not true, according to the information which was stated on the television broadcast.
According to the TV broadcast, yes the belts were on the line for Kameda only (scenario one), however a Solis win would mean both belts would become vacant (scenario two). A draw would result in Solis' belt being vacant, and Kameda retaining (scenario three).
Again, that is how it was broken down by the Japanese TV broadcasters.
So, it would seem both belts are now vacant.
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2. If a Champion shall fail to make the prescribed weight prior to the expiration of the two additional hours, the title shall be forfeited on the scale. The contest may be staged, however, as a fight for the vacant title. If the challenger, having made the prescribed weight, shall win, he will be declared the winner of the vacant title. However, should the former champion win, the title will remain vacant. If the Champion makes the weight and the Challenger fails to do so, the fight may be staged with the understanding that the Champion will retain his title whether he wins or loses the bout. In the event both contestants fail to make the prescribed weight, the sanction of the bout will be withdrawn.
In this particular instance:
IBF - Solis is viewed as the challenger, Kameda as its champion. Therefore, Kameda retains title regardless of ring result
WBA - Solis is viewed as champion, Kameda as challenger. Solis missed weight but won fight. Therefore, WBA title is vacant.
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I get your point with regards to the stated rules. I don't know what more to make of it. Unless the Japanese broadcasters reported in error. I do read and understand Japanese, and they explained it pretty clearly both written and spoken, several times.
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But if that was the announcers' explanation, then they were wrong and misunderstood the rule.
I know it's confusing in a unification match when one champ comes in heavy; my guess is they combined rules when trying to explain.
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Specifically, that although it was previously reported that Daiki Kameda would lose his title with a loss, according to the IBF rules, should a champions' opponent come in overweight that he will retain his title with either a win or a loss, and so Daiki's status doesn't change.
So, it appears Japanese media was in error.
Or maybe they just wanted to create more suspense for the audience .
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No, we are in a world of the making of people Vince. They are the one's who've run up a 5,000 billion pound mess, less 22 billion shared between the bankers at Northern Rock, Bradford and Bingley, Gordon Brown, RBS, Lloyds... Nice Traditional banks Vince. Not casino banks.
This is yet another day of shame for Vince Cable and Nick Clegg. A rich country which protects the rich and has no aspiration for the majority of its'population. The Liberal Democrats will pay the price for their carpetbagger leadership. Sadly so will the young people working hard to make the grades for university. The Libcon coalition have raised the spectre of class war and civil unrest. They have,with their scaremongering, set citizen against citizen-all to avoid taxing the rich and developing an appropriate system of taxation. Government of shame.
It's a useful expression, and one that I have employed for quite a few years now, both in blogging and in the Council Chamber.
In my case it wasn't used as an excuse but as a challenge to be met - to get a good (though inevitably not perfect) result despite the circumstances.
When one analyses what is being proposed with regard to tuition fees, and remembers the origin of the whole business (as you have done, to your credit) it is actually a perhaps surprisingly good outcome, though "less than ideal". The raising of the threshold for repayment from £15,--- to £21,500 is a very welcome move.
I could live with that; and in fact we are going to have to do so anyway, owing to what Labour did to the nation's finances during the preceding thirteen years.
To quote Voltaire's:
"Excellently observed," answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden."
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New London - The City Council's Finance Committee on Monday forwarded to the full council a resolution that would designate $925,000 from a bond ordinance approved in 2011 for improvements to Riverside Park.
The plan to improve the park is based largely on a proposal developed in 2011 by the Community Research and Design Collaborative at the University of Connecticut. To better link Winthrop Elementary Magnet School, the park and the Thames River, the plan would involve building a set of stairs from the school to the park, a pedestrian bridge over the railroad tracks on the riverbank and a pier to stretch out into the river.
The plan also calls for additional picnic and activity spaces within the park.
The proposal passed the committee unanimously, with the support of Council President Wade A. Hyslop and Councilor Erica Richardson. The committee's third member, Councilor Michael Passero, was absent from Monday's meeting.
"I have been through the park since the effort to save the park and I see how much more that park is being utilized and I appreciate the fact that those who voted to save the park did," Hyslop said. "It certainly shows that there is a need for a park on that end of the city."
Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio voiced his support for the improvements and told the committee that the city would not bond the full $925,000 at once, but would instead bond what it needs as each phase of the plan progresses.
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According to a debt service schedule Finance Director Jeff Smith prepared for the councilors, the city's average annual payment for the Riverside Park project would be roughly $67,000.
For each city resident, the project would cost 1 cent per week for the first year, 3 cents per week for the second year and 5 cents per week for the remaining term of the debt, Finizio wrote in an email last month to the City Council.
In an email to the mayor, City Treasurer Donna Rinehart said adding the debt to the city's budget would not require a tax rate increase of even 0.01 mills, which is the smallest change that could trigger a recalibration of the city's tax rate.
"While there is a nominal financial burden on the city to conclude this project, it is not enough to cause even the smallest tax rate increase," Finizio wrote. "At peak debt service levels, this project still costs the average New Londoner less than a penny a day."
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What are your Kids doing Right Now...((While you are on Cafemom))
What are they doing? It's still early here where I live so are they sleeping? Eating breakfast? What?
It's 7:55 AM here.
My eight year old dd is watching cartoons and having a lazy morning (this is the only morning we don't have anything scheduled for school)
My seventeen year old son is at work.
I am at work so not sure, but I can almost guess my 15 year old is still asleep and the 4 year old is probably watching Ninjago!
she's right next to me on the couch, while she is watching "wonder pets".


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Car rental agencies and cities get ready to go head-to-head over taxes again
"There are no polite words to describe what I feel has just been done to me"
No industry piles on the fees and surcharges like the car rental industry. Yes, they have their reasons. And yes, they have competition from airlines, which haven't met an ancillary fee they don't like.
But sometimes it's useful to watch the rubber hits the road, so to speak. I'm talking about a postmortem on a real car rental bill.
Like Paul Irvine's. He recently rented a car from National at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, which is one of the most notorious places for car rental fees.
Here's the damage:
5 days @ 38.50 per day = 192.50
Customer facility charge = 15.00
National busing recovery fee = 4.49
Concession recoup fee = 26.78
Sports venue tax 5% = 12.43
Veh lic recov 2.34 per day = 11.70
Veh rental tax 10% = 25.05
Total = 320.27
That's some bill!
Irvine can hardly believe it.
I can't fathom which of the above constitutes sales tax, analogous to what one would expect to pay when buying a meal or a shirt but the difference between the rental charge itself and the grand total, composed of additional taxes and charges ripped out of an unsuspecting consumer, is $127.77. This represents approximately 40 percent of the overall cost. There are no polite words to describe what I feel has just been done to me.
It is simply unbelievable that a company can get away with the kind of charges they willingly tack on to a customer's bill to fatten their own bottom line and that, in addition, they can be coerced by a local, state or federal government entity to extract even more blood to pay for their own programs which have not survived a simple cost-benefit analysis to the extent that they could be funded out of general tax revenues.
There is something seriously wrong with the financial machinery of this country and the inter-relationships between private wealth and the public purse. I'm wondering what can be done to lift the veil on this kind of robbery so the public can be better protected.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
This is one of those rare cases when I feel that the victims aren't just renters like Irvine, but the car rental companies, too. When 40 percent of the money you take from your customers goes to taxes and other fees, you aren't a car rental company anymore. You're a quasi-government agency that collects taxes from unsuspecting travelers.
This madness has to end.
Part of your nonrefundable airline ticket is refundable, after all
It turns out your nonrefundable ticket isn't entirely nonrefundable, after all. Taxes and government fees, which until now have disappeared into a void — and many believe, are simply pocketed by airlines — can be returned.
Just do what Susan Cornell did when Spirit Airlines wouldn't refund the taxes and fees on her canceled ticket: dispute your credit card charge.
Several months ago, she asked Spirit for her money back, but it didn't bother responding. Undeterred, she wrote to government officials and told her story to a national audience on Peter Greenberg's radio show.
Today we checked our American Express bill, where we charged the Spirit tickets, and we were given a $42 credit yesterday from Spirit. This is the amount in dispute — We won!
Apparently they can't keep the pre-paid travel taxes and government fees!
Maybe this small victory will put the spotlight on Spirit's billing practices and force Spirit to return money to others. Can you imagine how much money that might be?
Yes, I can.
It has all the makings of a class-action lawsuit that would involve the entire airline industry, particularly if an audit showed that airlines kept all of the money paid in taxes and fees and passed none of it along to the government. But even if it did, passengers would be able to take up their case with governments and airports. I'd pay good money to see that trial.
Has anyone else managed to get a refund on fees and taxes on a domestic, nonrefundable airline ticket?
Hey Priceline, I want my taxes back!
Question: I'm trying to get a partial refund for my airline ticket, and am getting nowhere. Maybe you can help me.
I recently booked a nonrefundable ticket on Lufthansa from San Francisco to Istanbul through Priceline.com. I had to call off my travel plans because of an illness, so I decided to recoup my rather sizable surcharges and fees, which amounted to about $350.
I phoned the airline to ask about a refund, and an agent suggested I get in touch with Priceline. But Priceline said it could only refund the taxes and fees if Lufthansa agreed to it. The back-and-forth continued, with neither side able to help me.
I feel Priceline is responsible for the refund, since it was my travel agent. How do I get these two groups to talk to each other and rectify the situation? — Kevin O'Connell, San Francisco
Answer: Priceline should have helped you with your refund instead of passing you off to Lufthansa.
While it's true that a nonrefundable airfare isn't refundable, there's another part of your ticket that I think should be reimbursed. Certain government taxes and fees ought to be returned to you.
It turns out your base fare was $50 less than the other fees you paid. And getting more than half your money back for your airline ticket is better than nothing.
I've often wondered what happens to all of those extras that get tacked on to your airline ticket. There's a long list of them, including a federal excise tax, a passenger facility charge and a September 11th Security Fee. Do those get sent to the government when you cancel your flight? Or does the airline just pocket them?
When you ask the airlines, they insist the money is going to the right place. Some carriers will refund a portion of your fees upon request; others won't.
To avoid a runaround, you should have put down the phone and picked up a pen. A brief, polite letter or email to Priceline would have prevented the seemingly endless game of pass the buck. You can also forward a copy of the letter to Lufthansa — or, if necessary, to a supervisor at Priceline.
A phone call is probably the least efficient way to initiate a refund request, but I don't have a problem with starting the process with a verbal request. The moment you run into trouble, hit the keyboard.
I contacted Priceline on your behalf. It apologized for the delay and refunded your taxes and fees.


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Always brush your teeth and take a bath before you go to bed. But I don't get it! What's the point?
Have you ever seen where these worms live? They poop in their bedding and then they eat their bedding too! YUCK!!!
I hope there's no fish in that pond!
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Actually worms taking a bath is really popular these days. What I really mean is that people are coming up with unique ways to house their worms like a bath tub worm bin.
If you have an old bath tub lying around and don't really know what to do with it (other than scraping it for metal) then turn it into a worm bin.
Worms don't really like swimming in water. They don't even want to be that wet. They prefer their bin to be just moist enough that you can feel it on your hands when you put them into the bedding.
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Worms prefer to swim around in dead, decaying plant matter and animal poop (Yuck!). If a worm bin gets too wet then they can't breathe and it disturbs the everyday living and eating habits.
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As the contentious Broadway Walmart proposal continues to move forward toward a final showdown, I would like to draw attention to a different aspect of whether a new Walmart represents a "fit" for the downtown area.
As many readers are likely aware, Walmart has for several years been the target of increasing protests over the organization's low wages - wages that are so low that by one recent estimate, each Supercenter costs the state's taxpayers around $900,000 in health care and other necessities for its workers who cannot make ends meet. (In effect, Walmart's multi-billion-dollar ...