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What's the worst holiday gift you've ever received?
I thought it would be funny to talk about the worst holiday gifts you've ever received...and I'll go first.
The worst holiday gift I've ever received was from my husbands aunt that married into his family. One year, she gave me a "belly band." It's a band you are supposed to wear around your stomach to reduce belly fat!!!!!!!
Now, I just have to say that I am pretty petite, so it was a semi-odd gift. Even if I wasn't though...it still would have been RUDE!!!
Needless to say, her and I don't speak anymore...she got mad one year after my husband bought me diamond earrings and then found fault with everything I do...I can't even breath right according to her...so I don't expect anymore belly bands in the future!
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The worse gift I've ever received was a holiday dish towel, complete with stains. I can understand possibly being caught off guard when given a gift, but that's one of the reasons I always keep a couple breads, boxes of candy or small wrapped gifts on hand during the holiday season.
A funny gift given/received at my club gift exchange was a straw hat with long, red yarn braids attached (think...Anne of Green Gables). This isn't a gag gift exchange either! The lucky recipient left it at my house (the party was here) when she went home.
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The worst gift I got was when I was about 14 from a beloved aunt that did not have much money. It was a small ceramic toilet that was filled with a candle and believe it or not, my gift was one of the better gifts she gave that year.
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Worst Gift - Multiple years I received crappy gifs from a relative...they liked to give some of us nice things and the one they didn't care for that year received obviously cheap crap. One year my brothers and their wives all received lovely well thought out gifts. I received grocery store free with purchase glasses. My husbands name was written on it as an afterthought while the other married in spouses received something lovely.
I tried to be gracious and move on but then the jerks started comparing how much they time and money spent on the others vs. ours to us...it was awkward and hurtful. When we got home, my husband decided we should lobb them into the empty dumpster one by one, best satisfaction and stress relief I ever felt!
That year marked the end of the annual gift exchage with those relatives, everyone was embarrassed! It's such a releif to not have to spend hours shopping for someone just so they can treat you like crap!
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It is nice to read about other families that go through this.
When I first met my husbands family, it was on Christmas. I didn't expect any gift because I didn't know any of them but most of them gave my daughter and I lovely gifts. One sister gave me an opened bag of coffee. I couldn't believe it and thought it must have been a gag so the following year I wrapped the same coffee and gave it back. They didn't understand why I would give them an opened bag of coffee until my husband explained that it was the same coffee that they had given me the previous year. (I guess it wasn't meant to be a gag). Since that time, I too, have put a stop to the whole gift exchange with the entire family. We now only buy for the children and make a donation to a charity, church or mission.
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Haha!!! That is hilarious!!!
I got a purse once that I had given my mother-in-law the year before. Well at least I liked it. lol
My boyfriend's father passed when my boyfriend was 13. His family still celebrated christmas with his father's side of the family because his parents had been married many years and, of course, the kids were related. After his father passed away, though, things got very different. All of his cousins received gifts like ipods, computers, etc., and every year his family all received cheap soap. Not like, bath and body works. Like, Dial brand cheap soap. One bar each.
I know it's not MY story, but they were horrible gifts. Needless to say they no longer celebrate Christmas there. I found the whole ordeal pretty heartbreaking.
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One year my husband gave me gift that he thought was awesome and he was so excited to give it to me. It was brand new floor mats for my car. They were nice floor mats but really? I know he meant well
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I had a boyfriend get me a scale for Christmas one year back in college. I think I weighed 102# at the time! Not sure what that was all about.
Had a different boyfriend's sister give me a cheap plastic onion dicer. I couldn't even bear to re-gift it.
Most awkward gift are ones from employees. I wish they would save their money and spend it on their families and just say Merry Christmas to me. I'd be very happy with just that.
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Well, I would not call any gift a worst gift, because it is the thought that counts.
Some people have different tastes, some people just want to give something to be giving something and don't put a lot of effort behind it and some people go all out and know you perfectly and what to get
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2008-10-08 08:33:53
As its storyline was inspired by 1925's notorious Scopes "Monkey Trial," and its original 1955 presentation a response to McCarthyism, Inherit the Wind is one of those theatrical titles that wears its badges of Importance and Social Relevance on its sleeve. And so it isn't until you see the play (or see it again) that you realize (or remember) just how entertaining it is; Jerome Lawrence's and Robert E. Lee's courtroom drama is less a lecture or a harangue than a juicy, if sentimentalized, episode of Law & Order.
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2008-01-30 08:37:23
Last winter, in conjunction with his impending Visiting Artist residency with Quad City Arts, I had the opportunity to interview Los Angeles-based actor/director/playwright Tom Dugan. He was heading to our area to perform Robert E. Lee: Shades of Gray - a self-written solo production in which he portrayed the Confederate general under the direction of Mel Johnson Jr. - and during our phone conversation, Dugan recalled the process by which much of the play was written: In the back of a van, surrounded by books, while touring On Golden Pond with Jack Klugman.
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When actor/playwright Tom Dugan premiered his one-man show Robert E. Lee: Shades of Gray in Richmond, Virginia, in 2004, the packed audience at the Carpenter Center for the Performing Arts gave the production a standing ovation. Crowds were similarly enthusiastic after subsequent performances in Tennessee, West Virginia, and Georgia, and when Dugan performed Shades of Gray in Lexington mere days before his Quad Cities arrival, the show was sold-out long in advance of its January 11 opening.
Southern audiences, it seems, have been most appreciative of Dugan's historical endeavor. But what of Northern audiences?
"I'll let you know after I get through Davenport," says Dugan during a recent phone interview. "You guys - you count as the north, don'tcha?"
We certainly do.
Dugan laughs. "I'm finally invading the north!"
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I had 2 adf's, one of which died randomly thismorning for unknown reasons. He had no signs of any growth, but now my other adf has a large white growth, which is getting larger, and has now reached his left arm and he cant move it (the arm also appears red/sore)... (it started on his lower back)... i just added melafix to the tank hoping to cure it, but was wondering if theres any idea on what it is or what to do,.. he floats along the top of the tank, having trouble swimming.
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I have a west highland white terrier(westie). And my mom and I tried trimming him, but he won't stay still. He has fur/hair that's covering his eyes, he's starting to look like that dog in the movie, 'Shaggy Dog". There's no prices on the website, so if you had the full service can you please tell me how much it is. He weighs like about 25-30 pounds. Oh and I know you have to have proof that he has his rabies shots, but we lost them. And his old collar had the red tag for the rabies vaccination, but he got them off somehow. Is there anyway I could get the rabies papers again? Thank you, and please answer both ?'s
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A member of Greenville's Human Relations Council was found dead in his apartment early Tuesday morning and police continue to investigation how he died.
47-year-old Geoffrey Kenan's death is being investigated as a homicide, according to police.
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One of our major research focuses here at Cleantech Group is corporate-to-corporate relationships. We track them in i3 for our research subscribers. We also capture them in our market map (see the picture above). We spend so much time on relationships because we believe they have an outsized influence on cleantech relative to other industries.
Why? That is worthy of a post in itself but a few quick reasons include market share (in lighting, for instance, just 3 players have a combined 50% share of the market), importance of customer and channel access (e.g., governmental and utility clients whom are difficult for startups to reach), influence with regulators, and the mutually dependent relationship between large, slower-growing company balance sheets and the often superior ability of smaller companies to innovate.
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Drought-like conditions taking toll on Iowa crops
WEST DES MOINES, IOWA – July 6, 2012 – While Midwest corn and soybean crops are wilting from several days of triple-digit temperatures, shoppers wonder if they'll feel the heat of rising food prices later this year.
Economists say even with corn prices climbing to $7 per bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade yesterday, farmers are facing challenging times because the prolonged heat stress has diminished anticipated yields. Those higher corn prices will also put a pinch on livestock farmers who purchase grains for animal feed. That, in turn, could transpire to higher prices for items such as meat, dairy and eggs at the grocery store.
"Food prices won't jump immediately because of these daily swings in the market caused by reactions to the weather, but there are those trickle-down consequences," said Dave Miller, director of research and commodity services at the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. "That trickle-down is felt when supplies are tight and prices rise for several sectors of the farm economy, from processors to grain elevators to feed and ethanol plants. Those higher costs are shared down the chain."
Iowa farmers have been discussing the situation in a number of media outlets. Go to www.iowafarmbureau.com to see their interviews and perspectives.
Markets will be eyeing the next U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) crop production report released next Wednesday. But, even though the USDA confirmed that more acres are planted to corn and soybeans, prices for these crops are skyrocketing as hot, dry weather persists across much of the corn and soybean growing areas. In the past two weeks, conditions have deteriorated remarkably:
Prices for crops have been on the climb and markets may swing next week. This sharp rally in corn and soybean prices is having some negative impacts on users of grains and oilseeds. Several ethanol plants have closed as processing margins have turned negative and some livestock feeders are beginning to liquidate breeding stock in response to sharply higher feed prices and mounting losses on feeding livestock.
These price swings and other ag-related risk management topics will be discussed at the Iowa Farm Bureau Economic Summit, to be held July 23-24 in Ames. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will provide the summit's keynote address on July 24. For more information and to register, visit www.iowafarmbureau.com.
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Fujitsu's Perceptions of the Cloud
It's quite some time since I wrote about Fujitsu's presence on the cloud. Although the Japanese conglomerate had expressed its intention to invest big money in cloud computing almost a year ago (See: Fujitsu set to invest $1.2 billion-plus on cloud computing in 2011), there hasn't been any big developments on that front other than its launch in the North American market (See: Fujitsu Rolls Out Global Cloud Computing Platform in North America). However, all that is set to change as it launches two new services and a set of hardware modules called Dynamic Infrastructures Blocks (DI Blocks).One of the services is the Fujitsu Business Solutions Store that will allow companies to browse various cloud offerings through a single portal covering a number of platforms and markets. The second one offers customers a set of hardware configurations designed for private clouds. DI Blocks are modules that "are comprised of orchestrated server, storage, network and virtualization technology, wrapped with integrated dynamic resource management software," and can be configured for various cloud deployments.
According to Fujitsu technology solutions product development senior vice president Jens-Peter Seick, "For enterprises, it is impossible to predict future resource requirements from IT systems, but with DI Blocks it is possible to create future-proof systems that are flexible and agile enough to meet ever-changing needs."
What's more interesting is what Fujitsu CEO Rolf Schwirz recently said at the Fujitsu Forum in Munich. According to him, IT vendors will have to change their business models to accommodate cloud computing in order to survive, and consumers of their services will also perceive IT differently.
"What will change will be the IT users – when you are provided with a cloud service, your IT decisions can be reversed all of a sudden, whereas today it is very difficult to reverse IT decisions," Schwirz said. "In essence, IT will disappear from the balance sheet because the capex (capital expenditure) turns to opex (operating expenditure), and the cultural change will mean IT won't think about technology in the stack any more, it will think about services that can support the core business of the company in the best way."
This capex vs opex approach had been discussed in one of my earlier articles (See Point 4 of How Cloud Computing Can Save You Money).
He also predicted a churn in the IT space. "Some of the companies you see in the world ranking of IT companies this week will disappear, because they are about to miss a train – they are not ready to sacrifice their business model to go into cloud computing," Schirwz said. "There will be new names and there will be names you know today which are ready to a certain degree to cannibalize their business models and go full steam into the cloud."
In one of my articles I had talked about possible consolidation in the cloud computing industry (See: Is Consolidation Coming to Cloud Computing?).
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Sporadic gunfire has continued through the night in southern Kyrgyzstan as the Central Asian nation's worst ethnic violence in decades shows no signs of abating.
Conservative government estimates put the death toll at more than 115 with 1,500 wounded in clashes pitting ethnic Kyrgyz against ethnic Uzbeks in the former Soviet country which hosts U.S. and Russian military bases.
Rioters have slaughtered Uzbeks and burned their homes, sending more than 75,000 members of the ethnic minority fleeing the country in attacks that appeared aimed at undermining the new interim government.
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Nuclear regulators gave new indications Tuesday that they are nearing a decision on whether to allow a partial restart of the idled San Onofre plant.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has established a 12-member oversight panel to provide a recommendation on the restart proposal from plant operator Southern California Edison. Edison has proposed restarting the Unit 2 reactor at partial power for five months.
The twin-reactor plant in northern San Diego County has been closed for nearly a year because of rapid and premature wear on steam generator tubing.
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Lincoln Arts should open books to public
By: Carol Feineman, Editor
I would not want to go a day without listening to music or looking at a painting. So I appreciate organizations such as Lincoln Arts that bring different genres to the public. Lincoln Arts was founded in October 1986 "to support and promote the arts, culture and history in the greater Lincoln area," according to its Web site. Even when the economy is vibrant, running a nonprofit arts organization is not an easy job. Hundreds of other groups are vying for the same donation money from area businesses and individuals. I know from first-hand experience. Starting in 1992, I ran a Grass Valley cultural center for five years and was then an arts/entertainment editor for eight years. In those 13 years, I saw that organizations strongly backed by the community were the ones to not only survive but to be well-received. Today, with more residents losing their homes, taking salary cuts and/or going on unemployment, it's an even harder struggle for nonprofits that also have to pay their bills. It's difficult for nonprofit arts organizations when residents must weigh purchasing a $20 concert or dance ticket, for example, against watering a backyard or buying new sneakers. So I cringed when I heard concerns from a handful of the 199 residents and business owners, who recently signed a petition asking that Lincoln Arts conduct annual, independent financial and management audits. The petition was received at the Lincoln Arts office at 580 Sixth St. on July 2. The person who mailed the UPS-delivered petition, Terry Dorsey, hasn't heard back from an organization representative. "I'm not surprised. One of the reasons we were doing this petition is because management at Lincoln Arts seems to be quite confused and doesn't like any form of criticism," Dorsey said. "And historically in the past, if someone did this, they were called where they were berated and threatened by the executive director." I know how these petition-signers feel. Lincoln Arts executive director Claudia Renati has not been forthcoming with my editorial staff as well. When I called last Friday to ask her about the petition, Renati passed the phone to her board president, June Reeves. The president told me their attorney said they didn't have to answer to nonmembers. Several times this year, The News Messenger asked Renati about the organization's expenses and income, and how much the annual Feats of Clay fundraiser brought in last year. Questions you'd expect from a newspaper when Renati and her president were quoted in an earlier story that said Renati and her daughter, the office manager, might be laid off because of budget problems. A story exactly a month later reported staff staying and President Paul Apfel resigning, partly over disagreements with salary cuts and budget issues. Renati repeatedly refused to say what the budget's income and expenses were. When I asked what the Lincoln Arts budget was for a column I was writing two months later, Renati would not give me that information. In fact, Renati tried to get the newspaper's top management to make the stories disappear, threatening that she would no longer advertise with us. Since the city gives Lincoln Arts free rent and Lincoln Arts relies on the public for donations and to attend fundraisers, Lincoln Arts should be open about their operations. It's also good PR to show the public that an organization has nothing to hide. In an e-mailed Lincoln Arts & Culture Foundation newsletter for July, Reeves wrote that "... since our membership remains low, we are going to schedule a couple of fundraisers before the end of the year to keep the coffers full." I called the Lincoln Arts organization Tuesday to find out how many members belong. The executive director told me she didn't have that number and would have to wait until her daughter, the office manager, arrived. Renati then added that she wouldn't answer unless her attorney, Therese Adams, advised her to respond. As an arts lover, I don't like to see Lincoln Arts embattled with about 200 community members. It isn't fun to watch. Likewise, those who organized the petition don't want to see Lincoln Art floundering. The petition-signers waited until after Feats of Clay was over in May to strike this conversation so that the Lincoln Arts' annual fundraiser would not be hurt. Whatever the reasons have been for Renati's on-going refusal to share information, I hope she and her organization will begin responding to the public. The News Messenger, the 200 petition signers and Lincoln Arts members all care about the organization's survival. Many of the signers are former Lincoln Arts members. If Renati and her board would at least talk to the signers, the Lincoln Arts' representatives could find some common ground among its former supporters. This is as good a time as any to try to work together. The arts belong to everyone. Carol Feineman can be reached at email@example.com


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Now that Alteil's getting back on its feet, it won't be long until cash comes back with it. In preparation for that point, I'd like to make two suggestions for events that I think would both satisfy players and make some new money.
First, Triple Change Cards. As both the promotion I've spent the most money on, and as the promotion that gave me the most customer satisfaction in the game, I'd like to suggest you open up this possibility again.
And second, returning Diva cards. This might be a little unrealistic of me, but I know I would certainly spend a lot to get my hands on these cards. Though some iczers have them, I know I regret never having gotten more than the Falkow set, and have been looking forward to Alteil licensing and promoting these cards again. Though this return could entail re-licensing the art from vocaloid, I think it would probably be possible to resurrect these cards by having new, non-vocaloid art made, or even by releasing them with April Fools-style homemade placeholder art.
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|December 30th, 2012, 12:28 PM
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My biggest gripe with the game, trophy wise, is that they made maps so you could keep track of 3 types of collectables (billboards, jack spots and cameras). So why would they not do it for the security gates? To just fuck with completionists or the game was about to ship when they realized they forgot?
It was no trouble at all getting those collectables, except for the gates, using the maps provided on the trophy guide and keeping track of it in the game. But no, now I have waste my fucking time looking for every single one and hoping I didn't miss anything because I can't keep track of it, it's just stupid!
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|December 30th, 2012, 06:44 PM
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my final gate was towards a billboard, blocking the only entrance towards that billboard. Funny how i already had all billboards completed, but not that gate
|December 31st, 2012, 07:11 AM
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As someone who loved Burnout Paradise I was hoping this would be BP2 but it's not. In a lot of ways it is but there's just something missing. For one thing the cars don't handle nearly as well. I can't seem to find the balance between not pushing the stick long enough and pushing it too long. I'm constantly bouncing back and forth between guardrails like a pinball.
One complaint I didn't see was the horrendous load times. Why do I need to see that stupid intro movie every single time I'm trying a race? I've seen it already stop loading your lame cinematic I'm just going to hit skip anyway omg why is this taking so long?? I could maybe see it the first time you start the race but triggering a retry from the menu should just put you in the race from the get go. It's just a painful process and makes things take way longer than they need to.
A lot of times I don't even bother trying to outrun the cops I'll just stop and let them bust me. In most vehicles it's nearly impossible to outrun them on the road based on speed alone. Of course then I have to wait for it to load up the map area for my respawn place so that's another 30 seconds before I can start playing again. But seriously I feel bad for the residents of Fairhaven because their police force are the biggest dicks in the universe. And that's not a compliment.
Also who thought the updates such as 'TRAFFIC TAKEDOWN' that fill half your screen during a high speed race were a goof idea? Please fire them.
Pretty much all my other complaints were already mentioned these were just ones I found particularly annoying. I'm sure there's a dozen more than I'm forgetting.
Oh and also the roads always seem wet yet it never rains in this game. What is the deal with that. I'm surprised Criterion didn't add weather to the races just to screw the players even more. I swear they love to torture people who play their games.
Everyone says it's a pretty easy platinum and for the most part it seems so other than that Win Every Race trophy. There's really some frustrating events in this game that I don't think I'm going to bother with. That will probably be the one trophy I am missing that prevents me from getting get 100%
|December 31st, 2012, 08:34 AM
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|December 31st, 2012, 12:56 PM
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This was a rushed, lazy and poorly developed game... yet here we are playing this shit... patch things up already for pete's sake!
It always seems impossible until it's done.
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|January 3rd, 2013, 11:20 PM
Join Date: Jul 2011
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NFS:MW = Burnout 2(Demo Beta)
After reading through the posts in this thread I'll be backing up my save file regularly...
NFS:MW plays more like an appetizer rather than a full meal. There are so few races in the single player campaign and not a lot of depth overall. The city should be 4x it's size, the cars should have greater customization options(engine swaps, decals, etc.) and if they were attempting to make this "Burnout 2.0" it should have had everything that was in Burnout plus more.
Car control has been an issue for me and I still haven't gotten a real feel for it. I'm still progressing through the game, but it still doesn't feel right. For the past few NFS games cars have felt like they've had the control stiffness of a driving simulator in an arcade game. It seems like the only way you are supposed to steer the car is by tapping the brake and drifitng, but that doesn't always work. I've just been driving with a DualShock, but maybe I'll test out my Logitech wheel to see if it makes it any better... but it doesn't feel right without a cockpit view option. Since the controls are so unpredictable, it doesn't make playing online all that appealing.
Glitches - I've fallen through the bottom of the map about four times after playing the game for about 7 hours.
I'm still enjoying the game overall and don't regret my purchase, but this is more of a $20 title given the time most people will spend playing it. I don't think I'll be supporting the title by buying any DLC, which is too bad because I've loved the Burnout series.
Racing games I own in order of bang fer yer buck:
Burnout Paradise
Gran Turismo
Midnight Club: Los Angeles
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|January 4th, 2013, 06:47 PM
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Just a quick bitch to get it off my chest lol.
I love how you hit invisible objects, or get taken out after an AI passes you but doesn't even scratch you. And my ultimate favortie is starting a race and your stopped, basically stopped or wrecked...
|January 4th, 2013, 06:50 PM
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I'm actually enjoying this game quite a bit,as someone else mentioned it is a little step closer to the NFS of old. But...
The fucking menus! All EA games have them now,the ones with writing flying around EVERYWHERE. Multiple tickers,takedown signs flashing in your face when you're trying to see the road,online instructions floating around at the bottom of the screen... its ridiculous.
Why didn't they include the cool down hiding spots from the original Most Wanted? Trying to escape the cops in the slower cars is more difficult than it needs to be.
And yeah,no checklist for the gates is a bit of a fail.
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I don't know what you're all whining about. I just love being well in the lead and literally in sight of the winning line after seven miles hard racing, getting totalled by a cop driving a family saloon who comes out of nowhere, then finishing sixth. ;^) Still love the game.
On a serious note: complaining about the traffic? But ... it's a road racing game ...
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The Wright Perspective: Who is on the Right?
My column for this week at Everyjoe:
What is a Conservative? Who is on the Right? I am, if these words are used honestly. They are almost never used honestly.
Conservatives are placed to the Right on the traditional Left-to-Right political spectrum. That spectrum groups Whigs and Republicans as well as their enemies the Monarchists and Imperialists on the Right, Conservatives as well as Anarcho-Capitalists, and, worst of all, members of the National Socialists Worker's Party (Nazis). The traditional spectrum is based on the assumption that enlightenment, change, revolution and progress are the exclusive property of Socialism, and that any opposition to Socialism is rooted in benighted ignorance, folly, reaction, conformity, cowardice and regress.
If we call ourselves "Right," the unwary are likely to get a confused mental image of a follower of Torquemada, Simon LeGree, Adolf Hitler, George Bush and Gordon Gekko, perhaps with Cotton Mather thrown in. But none of these men have anything in common, except that they represent ideas Progressives hate.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
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- Comment by Tecumseh:
Wednesday, May 14th 2014 at 3:45 pm |
Sounds pretty much right to me.
The cultural descendants of the French Revolution, Marx, and Lenin can be summed up in two thoughts: 1) The ends justify the means; and 2) They know best what those ends should be. Divorced as they are from any thoughts of higher authority, they see anything they wish to accomplish as "good" and any opposition as "evil". From there it is a relatively easy proposition to come to a place whereby murdering practically every inhabitant of a city with almost 600,000 people or eliminating at least ten percent of the population is seen not only as necessary, but positively virtuous.
The triumph of modern progressivism represents nothing more than the triumph of Satan. The dragon is being loosed from the pit right before our very eyes. And we must not forget that the prime movers behind the spirit of progressivism are not flesh and blood, but the very powers we were warned against in the Bible.
- Comment by Mary:
Friday, May 16th 2014 at 12:11 pm |
There's a third.
3. Only the elite are really human. The rest of humanity is, in reality, chessmen. They can be moved about the chessboard of life by the hand of the elite, and have no movement except what the hand gives them.
This is why they get so annoyed when we jump up and run about on our own. And no matter how often they hear us correctly predict the easily predicted results of their programs, they will still be surprised when we are right.
To be sure, this is in part because what I just said is tautological: those who give up thinking like that stop being leftists.
- Comment by ConceptJunkie:
Wednesday, May 14th 2014 at 5:30 pm |
This is a good article. I've shared the link on Facebook, so we'll see how my few liberal friends react. I expect they'll ignore it. Or maybe they'll be so distracted by "41 Slow Motion Bouncing Lady Bits" and not actually make it to article.
- Comment by Vicq Ruiz:
Wednesday, May 14th 2014 at 8:32 pm |
Of recent years I have taken to referring to myself as a 19th century liberal.
- Comment by Tecumseh:
Wednesday, May 14th 2014 at 10:27 pm |
Classical liberal is the term.
- Comment by Sean Michael:
Thursday, May 15th 2014 at 3:31 am |
Let's not forget the embarassing fact that Hitler himself was a man of the left and always considered himself a leftist radical. Jonah Goldberg demonstrated this with ample quotes from Hitler's own words in LIBERAL FASCISM.
And I don't see why conservative republicans have to be the enemies of conservative monarchists. What matters to a conservative is whether the gov't he lives under, republic or monarchy, is (1) legitimate and (2) accepts limitations on its powers and respects the rights of its people.
Sean M. Brooks
- Comment by ConceptJunkie:
Monday, May 19th 2014 at 8:24 am |
It's a cultural meme that's a holdover from the fact that we, as a country, rebelled against a monarchy that needed rebelling against. We've convinced ourselves that a democratic republic is the only good way to implement a modern, liberal (in the classic sense of the world) government.
On one hand, I believe a monarchy could be perfectly fine, if it's a Catholic monarchy anyway, but I can't help but wonder if that's the same kind of mistake made by people who think communism would be just fine if it were only done correctly. I think the important difference is that any government based on Catholic social justice (as described by Pope Leo XIII, not the modern version which too often ends up being nothing more than watered down socialism) will be fine.
- Comment by brucecharlton:
Thursday, May 15th 2014 at 5:38 am |
I think your answer is too complex and fuzzy-edged to be useful – the useful answer must be simple.
Mine is that the only real Right is the Religious Right – and everybody else is of the Left.
And the Religious Right is defined simply as those who put Religion *first* when it comes to organizing society.
Therefore, there are as many 'Rights' as there are Religions – and (since the Left is always evil, later if not sooner) the only legitimate political choice is the choice between Religions.
Now, this definition means that a "Secular Religion" must be regarded as an oxymoron; and the only Religions are theistic. I know there are arguments for calling, say, political correctness 'a religion' but this would need to be regarded as merely a simile – not a genuinely correct characterization.
So – if it accepted Religion = a type of theism.
Then – the political spectrum is:
Right = Religion-first versus Left = everything else
(…including secular reactionaries, libertarians, National Socialists and all fascists who do not grant primacy to the Church).
(I regard fascism as nothing more precise than 'reaction against communism' – hence mostly secular. But among fascists some are Left and some are Right – eg Mussolini was of the Left, Hitler was of the Left; but Franco, I think, began on the Left merely allied with the Church from necessity and mutual interest; but after about a decade, Franco perhaps evolved to become of the Right – for example he gave the economy over to Opus Dei technocrats in the 1950s, with good results.)
- Comment by Rainforest Giant:
Thursday, May 15th 2014 at 12:05 pm |
Without acknowledging the truth of Christianity I think that all left or right are in error. To paraphrase Mr Charlton, 'right becomes left' if it is not moored in Christianity. When we move from the truth of Christianity we leave ourselves open to overt and covert errors and refuse to see the real truth of the world around us. When we insist that all humans and cultures are equal and identical we err but the left must insist that all are equal (except as they offend the left's shibboleths) because there is no God the Father who made us all equal or Christ the Redeemer who makes us all the same promise.
- Comment by Stephen J.:
Thursday, May 15th 2014 at 10:52 pm |
I think Left and Right are differing schools of answer to the same question:
"Under what circumstances, and to what degrees, is it morally licit to use the power of the State to control, via the public declaration of what is forbidden or compulsory and public punishment for doing the former or not doing the latter, the behaviour of your fellow citizens?"
Both Left and Right claim (many adherents often honestly) to favour the narrowest circumstances and the smallest degrees possible that are compatible with maximizing public weal. The biggest difference between Left and Right is:
– The Right generally believes that public weal can and should be maximized by working towards the reduction of state power, because they believe that the personal choices of individuals are the most influential factor on their social prosperity and the State's optimum function is to keep those individuals' collisions to a minimum; while:
– The Left generally believes that maximizing public weal requires working (at least temporarily) towards the expansion of state power, because it believes that the impersonal conditions of society are the most influential factors on citizen prosperity and the State's optimum function is to change those conditions in ways no lone individual can do.
Each will have specific areas of policy which vary from their general norm (many who otherwise identify as conservatives are very keen on heavy state power in the areas of drug policing or anti-terrorism, and many progressives who otherwise favour heavily-controlled speech in both politics and art consider any attempt to restrict pornography as intolerable "government morality"), but I think this is an accurate generalization, or as accurate as any generalization can be.
- Comment by John C Wright:
Friday, May 16th 2014 at 3:34 am |
Agreed. When you speak of the Left's willingness to blame impersonal conditions of society, you have struck the nail on the head. First, it seems more in keeping with the childlike idea they have of science (or, rather SCIENCE!) to place blame on inhuman factors for the success or failure of moral actors rather than moral actors; second, it allows them to reject all contemplation of history, evidence, and experience, because if the institutions of society are to blame for all human misery, there is no need to be loyal to those institutions; third, it allows them to be wrong on every issue of public policy from the time of Marx onward, and blame the diseases (so to speak) on the doctor, because if the cause and effect is merely a vague attribution of blame to some undefined idol called society, their imaginations are set free to envision any sort of benefit they wish to envision springing from any sort of public policy even a retarded monkey could see is obviously counterproductive, such as, for example, state control of industries, minimum wage laws, paying poor women to have bastard children, race quotas for college admissions, and on and on and on. Each one of these things has the exact opposite effect of the stated goal sought, but the self defeating nature of the policy never causes the true believer to question the wisdom and goodness of the policy. This is because the theory of the Left divorces cause from effect in human action.
- Comment by Mary:
Friday, May 16th 2014 at 9:53 am |
Thomas Sowell's Vision of the Anointed is good on this.
- Comment by Stephen J.:
Friday, May 16th 2014 at 2:39 pm |
"This is because the theory of the Left divorces cause from effect in human action."
Part of the reason for this is because one of the primary goals of the Left (at least in most leftists' understanding that I've known) is to create a society where a moment's bad choice or a temporary turn of bad luck need not lead to permanent, or indefinitely long-term, bad consequences.
Insofar as this represents a genuine desire to alleviate suffering and to look after ones' fellows with compassion, I can respect it; the problem is (a) the failure to recognize that removing responsibility from human beings has its own major social and philosophical problems, and (b) the all-too-frequent predilection to enforce that "responsibility" on anyone to whom they form an antipathy, but through informal and private networks rather than government power. (Donald Sterling is probably a terrible person and a terrible manager, but losing one's job, fortune and place in society over one non-criminal remark taped in privacy without consent should give anyone the chills.)
- Comment by Richard A:
Friday, May 16th 2014 at 10:41 am |
I understand a general attitude of chivalry toward women to be an important marker of respectable conservatism, at least in Western societies. It would seem from many earlier comments that you do, too. So why are you choosing to post some of your musings on a site with a bouncing lady bits link embedded at the top? For that matter, why would a self-identified conservative forum allow such a thing?
- Comment by John C Wright:
Friday, May 16th 2014 at 2:24 pm |
The content of EveryJoe's advertising was not an item in my contract with them, only the length of the articles and their rate of pay. It annoys me, but the editor tells me my columns might help put heart in young and lustful conservative boys reading the website, so on the whole I think I am doing more good than harm: but it is something that makes me hold my nose. It is like eating with harlots and taxgatherers.
- Comment by John C Wright:
Friday, May 16th 2014 at 7:53 pm |
Okay. I have asked the editor to talk to the publisher, to see what can be done. I doubt, after two 1K essays, I have the clout to swing this, but we'll see.
- Comment by Rainforest Giant:
Friday, May 16th 2014 at 8:09 pm |
Thank you. If they cannot change their adverts I think you are doing more good than harm in exposing these young men to better ideas. And if it makes you feel any better I once collected taxes.
- Comment by Richard A:
Friday, May 16th 2014 at 3:20 pm |
When Playboy interviewed Bill Buckley, the interviewer asked him why he'd agreed to be published in their magazine. His response was that he wanted his son to read something he'd said publicly.
I only hopped over there the first time when you put up the link to an article by a Col. Kratman, who I gather is also a new recruit to the blog. No doubt your young lusty conservative boy is also attracted to arcane discussions about firearm design (a much safer attraction than bouncing boobs, I'd say), but I marveled as well that a 'Col.' would willingly associate with it. I'd been told any number of times by my father, who'd been an officer in the US Air Force, and a former boss of mine, who'd been an officer in the US Army, that "an officer is a gentleman." I presume Col. Kratman, especially if he's publicly willing to be identified as a conservative, would say, and believe, the same. Surely he's holding his nose, too?
Maybe Everyjoe could put it at the bottom of the web page, so it's not something one has to see?
Note: the interview was reprinted a few years later in an anthology of Buckley's works; I did not read it in the original 'journal'.
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'Brain Games' Can Stave Off Dementia by Boston (WBZ)
This is a great news article about using brain games to stave off dementia. It talks about the brain game business, medical research and even the costs! Short but great article about brain games such as the ones we sell at Monkey Pod Games.
Brain Games are "your way to ward off the worst" warns Alzheimer's expert by Head Strong Cognitive Fitness
A short but strong article about the need to use brain games in order to fight off Alzheimer's. In this article Dr. Sid Gilman, gives his expert advice.
How to Improve Memory Concentration by Methods of Healing
This is a very insightful article about why our brains lose the ability to remember things and what to do about it. What makes this article unique is that it takes the position that memory loss is not due to the brain losing its ability to function.
Increasing the Capacity of Various Regions of the Brain by Advisor
This is an interesting article explaining the best way to exercise our right side of the brain and our left side of the brain. Scientists have established for a long time now that each side of the brain has its specific function and are quite different from each other. This article explains how brain games can be used for left side exercise.
New Program Targets Seniors – North Shore News
A certain neighborhood has gotten federal funding for a program that is aimed at improving the mental state of seniors by providing them with brain exercise programs. An interesting news article to see how communities are working together.


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PORT ALLEN — Chief Financial Officer Audrey McCain has asked a state district judge to hold Mayor Demetric "Deedy" Slaughter in contempt of court, according to documents filed April 4 in 18th Judicial District Court.
McCain charges that Slaughter has disobeyed a court order issued to prevent the mayor from interfering in McCain's daily job responsibilities.
McCain's petition, filed by Baton Rouge attorney Seth Dornier, accuses Slaughter of ignoring District Judge Alvin Batiste's Feb. 20 preliminary injunction blocking Slaughter from taking adverse employment actions against McCain. The judge issued the injunction after he nullified the mayor's Feb. 11 attempt to fire McCain.
McCain informs the court that she repeatedly has been publicly accused of malfeasance in the aftermath of Batiste's ruling.
McCain declined to comment further Tuesday on her contempt filing.
But according to the contempt request, McCain says Slaughter:
Slaughter has said she fired McCain, who also serves as the city municipal clerk, because of accounting deficiencies cited in an audit report of the city's financial records for fiscal year 2011.
Judge Batiste ruled Feb. 20 the mayor lacked the authority to dismiss McCain without City Council approval because McCain is a city government department head.
Slaughter wrote City Attorney Victor Woods on Tuesday that McCain allegedly had been trying to act as the city's mayor by no longer attending staff meetings, not providing detailed revenue reports the mayor requested and presenting proposed budget adjustments to the City Council without first discussing them with the mayor.
Slaughter advised Woods that she disputes all the claims against her that McCain listed in her contempt petition to Judge Batiste.
"I am requesting that you seek sanctions from the court for the frivolous representations that she has made in her petition," Slaughter wrote. "None of these allegations have anything to do with her being able to do her job. She and certain council members want to control the Mayor's Office."
Batiste has not set a court date to hear the contempt filing, but New Roads attorney Cy D'Aquilla, who represents McCain along with Dornier, said Tuesday a status conference to set a trial date for a permanent injunction against the mayor has been set for April 30.
D'Aquilla said the judge will most likely hear arguments on McCain's contempt filing during the April 30 status conference.
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Monday, June 10, 2013
Starting in July, the National Park Service is closing the parking lot at Muir Beach until at least November 2013, so the Pelican Inn is offering parking and the trail in front of the hotel is still open to walk to the beach!
Overnight guests, as always park for free and dining guests will be allowed 2 hours of free parking, and then charged a reasonable hourly rate after that. There will be fewer day trippers so the beach won't be as crowded, making this summer the perfect time to come for a visit.
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Pelican Inn, Muir Beach, CA
Known for its hospitable and classic English style, the Pelican Inn provides an ideal getaway for those looking for a great place to stay near the beach. And, as an added bonus, the Inn's pub offers really well crafted British fare such as fish and chips, prime rib and yorkshire pudding as well as a great selection of beer and wine!
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Retiring Missouri Sen. Kit Bond has a new job with a St. Louis-based law firm.
Bond is joining the Thompson Coburn law firm as a partner and will work primarily out of its Washington, D.C., office.
The 71-year-old Republican decided not to seek re-election this past November after 24 years in the Senate. He previously served as Missouri's governor. Rep. Roy Blunt was elected to replace Bond and will be sworn in Wednesday.
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Danny: Hey Joe and Gavin how's it hangin?
Maloofs: Not bad Danny. We're 12-20 and frustrated with our two best players. Cousins is a basketcase ruining our chemistry and Evens is hurt and will be a free agent next year. What are you thinking.
Danny: We're now a sub .500 team and dropping faster than Kobe's pants in a Colorado hotel.
Maloof: Haha. The refs handed the Lakers the title against both of us, so if you can help us, we'll help you.
Danny: OK. Let me get to the point. I'll give you a sharp shooting Terry. Our key PF in Bass and a future all star in Courtney Lee and we'll take those two Cousins and Evans headaches away.
Maloof: Haha HAHA thats even funnier than Kobe than Kobe pending divorse for being a rapist. Look. Cousins is top tier center and future all star. Evans is geting us 16 PPG on a consistent basis. We're not trading all star caliber players for your junk.
You give us Rondo, Terry, Bass, and Melo and we'll give you Cousins, Evans, a first round pick and a player TBD.
Danny: Deal. But can we throw in Doc too?