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2008 You Know What I Like About Obama?
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I just watched Barack Obama on Meet the Press. (Here's the transcript if you missed it.) And I have to admit—as much as I hate to acknowlege my loyalty in this primary is being swayed by personality and not just the issues—I love the way he speaks. What everyone missed during the furor about Biden calling his opponent "articulate" ("clean" was probably the real clue to Biden's racial consciousness) is that when Obama is talking about an issue, he actually lets us see the way his mind is working. His reasoning is as if not more evident than his positions. (Okay, maybe "articulate" was not the right word. I'll go with "eloquent.") That style of rhetoric is probably all wrong for a presidential campaign—it can't be easily reduced to soundbites, it can sound overly "professorial" and insufficiently decisive. But what a relief it is after seven years of listening to George W. Bush, whose most alienating quality is not inarticulateness (though he has that too) but an absolutely opaque mind.
Look at the way Obama responds to Tim Russert on a patented MTP quote question implying that he's been inconsistent on Iraq:
MR. RUSSERT: You were not in the Senate in October of 2002. You did give a speech opposing the war. But Senator Clintons campaign will say since youve been a senator theres been no difference in your record. And other critics will say that youve not been a leader against the war, and they point to this: In July of 04, Barack Obama, Im not privy to Senate intelligence reports. What would I have done? I dont know, in terms of how you would have voted on the war. And then this: Theres not much of a difference between my position on Iraq and George Bushs position at this stage. That was July of 04. And this: I think theres some room for disagreement in that initial decision to vote for authorization of the war. It doesnt seem that you are firmly wedded against the war, and that you left some wiggle room that, if you had been in the Senate, you may have voted for it.
SEN. OBAMA: Now, Tim, that first quote was made with an interview with a guy named Tim Russert on MEET THE PRESS during the convention when we had a nominee for the presidency and a vice president, both of whom had voted for the war. And so it, it probably was the wrong time for me to be making a strong case against our partys nominees decisions when it came to Iraq.
Look, I was opposed to this war in 2002, 2003, four, five, six and seven. What I was very clear about, even in 2002 in my original opposition, was once we were in, we were going to have to make some decisions to see how we could stabilize the situation and act responsibly. And thats what I did through 2004, five and six, try to see can we create a workable government in Iraq? Can we make sure that we are minimizing the humanitarian costs in Iraq? Can we make sure that our troops are safe in Iraq? And thats what I have done. Finally, in 2006, 2007, we started to see that, even after an election, George Bush continued to want to pursue a course that didnt withdraw troops from Iraq but actually doubled down and initiated the surge. And at that stage, I said, very clearly, not only have we not seen improvements, but were actually worsening, potentially, a situation there. And since that time Ive been absolutely clear in terms of the approach that I would take. I would end this war, and I would have our troops out within 16 months.
MR. RUSSERT: Some involved in the anti-movement have said that in 2004, 2005, 2006 Barack Obama voted to fund the war. Every time there was a proposal to have a fixed date withdrawal you said no, it would be a slap in the face to the American troops, it may create bloodshed and more division, that American credibility was at stake, that you were not a leader in trying to stop the war until you ran for president and got to Iowa and got to New Hampshire and had a sense of the anti-war, war fervor in the Democratic base.
SEN. OBAMA: No.
MR. RUSSERT: Where was the leadership?
SEN. OBAMA: I, I, I disagree with that. You know, throughout I was a constant critic. The first hearing that I had was with Condoleezza Rice in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This was a few months after I had been sworn in as senator. And I told her at that point, we need to wind this war down. It is true that my preference would not be to end this war simply by cutting off funding. My preference would be for the president to recognize that we needed to change course, and that was what I continually pushed for. At the point where we realized the president was not willing to change course, I put forward a very clear timetable for when we should remove our troops. And, when that was vetoed, I then suggested that the only way to get the president to the table to negotiate how were going to move in a different direction in Iraq is by not giving him a blank check when it comes to funding.
Ka-pow. Look, as regular Slog readers will know, I've stayed with Obama's original position on the war much longer than most people who initially opposed the war. I still have serious misgivings about premature withdrawal, and think the surge has been working better than most Democrats are willing to admit. In the long term, though, I realize that I'm losing that argument. (Blackwater is not helping my cause.) And there's no way I would resort to hawkish Republicans (with their truly reprehensible positions on global warming and taxes and gay rights, not to mention abortion and intelligent design) to keep troops in Iraq. So Obama's relatively moderate position is acceptable to me. But what really gives me comfort is the way he reasoned through this policy transition. The fact that he was right on the war to begin with isn't just a "ha ha, I told you so" issue for me. It's a signal that he reasons correctly and vigorously. And I see the logic in—though I'm not persuaded by—his gradual change of heart. I just love seeing someone stand up to Russert's plaintive reduction of ideas to political maneuvers: It did take leadership to resist early calls for complete and immediate withdrawal. It still takes leadership to admit troops will remain to protect American interests in Iraq for a long time.
Say what you will about Donnie McClurkin. (And I'm sure you will in the comments: for the record, here's the relevant section of the MTP transcript.) Please continue to put pressure on Obama about his contributor-inflected energy policy. I still feel a wave of relief—and yes, hope for the future of politics—when I hear him speak.


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Bad at Sports: Major League Art
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Antoine Catala's "Couple in a Garden"
Tony Wight Gallery has become one of a handful of go-to galleries in Chicago where I consistently encounter paintings that get me to think more deeply about, well, painting. I hadn't given that same level of consideration to video art in awhile, at least until an encounter last Friday with Wight's latest offering, a 13 minute video projection titled Couple in a Garden by the French-born, NY based artist Antoine Catala.
I was initially put off by the gimmicky psychedelic trippery of Catala's piece, which uses datamoshing— visible information loss caused by extreme data compression–to make the image of two people standing in front of a garden appear to sag, swirl and drip like the juicy innards of a lava lamp. (Catala has used this same technique previously, to notable effect). Yet the soundtrack (by Ensemble/Olivier Alary) consists of a low-lying, atonal thrum that was just annoying enough to prevent me from mindlessly consuming these images as if they were, indeed, bottled within a lava lamp, mesmerized though I was by the disintegration and reconfiguration of the couple projected in front of me.
To be sure, there's nothing all that revolutionary about Catala's techniques here. Datamoshing has already been used extensively in music videos (see this post on Kottke for numerous examples), and yet, despite its cliches, I found Couple in a Garden exhilerating to watch, the more so the longer I stayed. At first, I busied myself with trying to figure out who was the boy, who was the girl, etc. etc., but it soon became much more interesting to consider the possibility that, when confronted with images like Catala's, such distinctions are beside the point–which, I think, is the point.
Among other things, Michael Jackson was vilified for his attempts transcend race, gender, and to some degree age itself by "datamoshing" his own body through radical surgical modifications. His death two weeks ago highlighted the pathos and futility of such efforts, but for me, Catala's Couple in a Garden recaptures the essentially Utopian thrust of that desire, and some of its underlying innocence as well.
You can watch a 3 minute excerpt of Couple in a Garden on Catalo's website here. The exhibition is on view through July 31st.
Banff: The Residency
Want to keep up with Bad at Sports' own Duncan MacKenzie and Christian Kuras (who co-interviewed Mark Francis on Episode 197) on their artists-in-residential adventures at The Banff Center? Well, you can, you can. They're blogging all about it here, and if we're lucky maybe Christian will share his Twitter feed with us as well. In the coming weeks, they'll also have a Flickr site with pics, but for now, feast your eyes on their new light-filled studio space. More info on what Duncan and Christian are working on to come later; in the meantime, best of luck guys — work hard, play hard!
Chicago Pocket Garden
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Seen enroute to 65 Grand this weekend. This is one of the many great things about summer in Chicago. You can see these kinds of ad-hoc gardens everywhere, if you look for them.
Coincidentally, this weekend I also came across a book of photographs by Brad Temkin titled Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens. It's filled with images of modest urban backyards that look utterly familiar, unlike the glossy designer garden porn found in your typical home and garden magazines (though I love that too). Private Places is a fairly expensive coffee table book that only people who can afford more than a pocket garden can buy, but thankfully Temkin has an extensive web site containing a number of large-scale examples from the book, along with documentation of numerous other photographic works. Temkin's "Private Places" series is not new (most of the shots were taken in the period 2000-2004), but it's new to me, and worth another look by those already familiar with it as we career past the midway point of Chicago's precious summertime season. I can already feel it slipping away.
(Click on these thumbnail images to be taken directly to Temkin's website and to fully zoom-inable pictures of the gardens below). UPDATE: Wow, I am out of it. Turns out that Temkin is showing his photographs in Chicago right now, in an exhibition titled Chicago Gardens: Past and Present at the Chicago Tourism Center, 72 E. Randolph Street (through August 18th). Find more info on the show here, and apologies for not being on this in the first place.
From yesterday's L.A. Times:
"The legal adventures of Shepard Fairey came to a head today when the L.A. street artist received a sentence of two years probation from a Boston court as part of a plea arrangement with prosecutors.
Fairey agreed to plead guilty to three vandalism charges in exchange for the prosecutors dropping 11 other charges. The artist pleaded guilty to one charge of defacing property and two charges of "wanton destruction of property" valued at under $250.
The judge also ordered Fairey to pay $2,000 to a graffiti removal organization and said that the artist cannot possess tagging materials except for legal art installations."
Although Fairey's Boston-related court case is over, his legal battle with the Associated Press over his use of Barack Obama's image is still ongoing. Read more on this story here and here.

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Blaze burns man, devours his trailer on Tuesday
Published: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 9:48 p.m.
A mans face and hands were severely burned when he tried to put out a fire that went on to engulf his mobile home at about 2 p.m. Tuesday.
Firefighters were called to Meadow View Lane after neighbor Ray Hill called 911. The occupant, David Addams, was taken to Mission Hospitals with severe burns to his face and hands, which Hill said he sustained while trying to pull a burning couch out of the home.
Hill and Addams, both neighbors, were in front of the home when the fire erupted. Addams tried to take a burning couch out of his home to stop the fire.
Dave kept on fighting it and then a big ol ball of fire came over his head, Hill said of Addams, who works with him as a wood cutter.
After that failed, Addams tried to rush back into the home several times to retrieve his belongings.
By then the carpet was on fire, Hill said.
It only took about three minutes for the fire to spread throughout the mobile home.
Hill had to hold Addams back until the flames and smoke made it impossible to enter the structure. He said his neighbor was in bad condition before EMS transported him to the hospital.
The skin was just rolling off of his head, Hill said. Im just thankful I was here because Dave wouldnt have made it.
Hill said he has no doubt the cause of the fire was a candle that caught the couch on fire because his neighbor used candles for heat at times. There were also electric and kerosene heaters in the home, fire officials said.
Capt. Chris Smith of Etowah-Horse Shoe Fire Department said that by the time the first unit arrived, the single-wide mobile home was fully engulfed. It took about 30 minutes for firefighters to put out the fire.
You definitely dont need to go into a burning building to fight a fire without proper training, Smith said. You dont know what to expect or how fast it will spread.
No one else was injured in the fire, and the official cause is under investigation.
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New Michael Bolton, Featured in Dancing With The Stars Tonight [AUDIO]
Remember last year when Bruno said Michael Bolton's Hound-Dog Jive was the worst jive he'd seen in 11 seasons? If I recall correctly, Len said he needed a pooper scooper to clean up after it. Well Bolton returns tonight, but this time, not for more abuse from the judges.
Tonight, Michael teams up with Australian singer Delta Goodrem to perform "I'm Not Ready", a new song from his forthcoming CD "Gems - The Duets Collection" which will be released June 21st. Hear a clip of the new song after the jump.


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International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
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Calibration of the motor-assisted robotic stereotaxy system: MARS
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The motor-assisted robotic stereotaxy system presents a compact and light-weight robotic system for stereotactic neurosurgery. Our system is designed to position probes in the human brain for various applications, for example, deep brain stimulation. It features five fully automated axes. High positioning accuracy is of utmost importance in robotic neurosurgery.
First, the key parameters of the robot's kinematics are determined using an optical tracking system. Next, the positioning errors at the center of the arc—which is equivalent to the target position in stereotactic interventions—are investigated using a set of perpendicular cameras. A modeless robot calibration method is introduced and evaluated. To conclude, the application accuracy of the robot is studied in a phantom trial.
We identified the bending of the arc under load as the robot's main error source. A calibration algorithm was implemented to compensate for the deflection of the robot's arc. The mean error after the calibration was 0.26 mm, the 68.27th percentile was 0.32 mm, and the 95.45th was 0.50 mm.
The kinematic properties of the robot were measured, and based on the results an appropriate calibration method was derived. With mean errors smaller than currently used mechanical systems, our results show that the robot's accuracy is appropriate for stereotactic interventions.
KeywordsStereotactic neurosurgery Robot calibration Isocenter Robotic surgery Deep brain stimulation (DBS)
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- Calibration of the motor-assisted robotic stereotaxy system: MARS
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International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
Volume 7, Issue 6 , pp 911-920
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- 2012-11
- 10.1007/s11548-012-0676-7
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- Ulrich G. Hofmann (2)
- Alexander Schlaefer (1)
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- 1. Institute for Robotics and Cognitive Systems, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538, Lübeck, Germany
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Skip to comments.A Fabulous Film: For Greater Glory
Posted on 06/01/2012 11:56:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: I have to tell you about a movie that opens today. I saw some of it last night. I got started late and I had to go to bed. Yes, yes, as powerful, influential member of the media, I have a screener. And they captioned it for me but they captioned it in Spanish. So... (laughing) It's this Andy Garcia movie. They're sponsoring it here on the program. It is excellent. It's For Greater Glory. It's about religious freedom in Mexico, set 1917. And it's an attack on the Catholic Church.
Catholics are mowed down, gunned down in church. Senor Calles runs the country back then and says, "For the greater good, for freedom, we've got to wipe out all the religious people." It'll infuriate you but it's Andy Garcia's movie. It's a great movie. There's even a story about him this week. (I forget where, maybe USA Today.) It's such a departure for a major Hollywood star to take on a role that promotes Christianity, that does not impugn it, laugh at it, make fun of it. It promotes it.
And there are parallels to the attack on the Catholic Church today, to this movie. It's pronounced. It's called For Greater Glory, and it opens today. Now, Andy Garcia has been in a lot of things. He was in Ocean's Eleven. He is the owner of the Bellagio in Ocean's Eleven. I've seen him a bunch of times at the AT&T Pro-Am. I've never met him but I've said hi when walking past each other on the golf course. But this is set in Mexico 1917. It's Catholics who die. They're gunned down. They're stabbed.
It's not too gory but it's still explicit enough, and these devout Catholics are fighting a leader of the country who has issued a mandate. The first thing in the movie is he issues a mandate to take from them their religious freedom and to destroy the church. It's his ticket to total control over the country, is to take away Catholic religious freedom, and he sends his military people into the churches. There's no slowness to this thing. It gets right to it.
I'm gonna finish it tonight. They were so nice to caption this for me. They even sent me two DVDs. I said, "Well, maybe they sent a Spanish caption, too." So I put the first one in, Spanish captions. I said, "Well, no big deal; I'll just put the other disc in." I put the other disc in, and it, too, was captioned in Spanish. (interruption) No, no, no, I haven't gotten The Avengers. No, this is the most recent screener that I've got.
RUSH: I don't want to give away this movie, For Greater Glory. I don't have much of it left to finish. It was tough because the closed-captioning was in Spanish, and I was rewinding at times to hear some of the dialogue because it's important. But basically this movie (it's the Andy Garcia movie) is the story of Mexico in 1917 through the '20s. The President is Plutarco Calles in the '20s.
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The President ordered every Catholic Church shut down, he made Mass illegal, and he set out on a campaign to murder priests. And the movie is about three different freedom fighters. One of the freedom fighters is Andy Garcia, but he doesn't start out that way. Andy Garcia shows up early in the movie, and he's unattached to the whole thing. He's looking at it from a bit of a distance. He then tries to make some money off of all this.
And in that process he gets caught up in the movement. He becomes a strident opponent of religious persecution. But it's eerie. The people that produced the movie and made it could not possibly have known at the time that they started this project that when their movie came out there would be a parallel to the Obama administration's war on the Catholic Church in America in 2012. Now, don't anybody misunderstand here. What happened in Mexico is not what's happening here in terms of the violence.
But the effort to run roughshod over religious freedom as a part of Obamacare is a close parallel. And for that reason the movie has a connection. Even if there was no connection, it's still a moving flick, and it is about what people do. It's about the honor and character, the devotion to beliefs of people who are committed to their God. It's as moving as it could be, and it's so unexpected. When's the last movie you saw, a mainstream Hollywood movie, that was pro-Catholic or pro-Christianity?
Or a movie that did not talk about priests or abuse of altar boys? When was the last time you saw anything like that reflected in the mainstream entertainment press or movies about religion, Christianity. Passion of the Christ is about it, right? And look at that. (chuckling) That's my point. It's my point. In the story I read yesterday about Andy Garcia and his role in the movie, he was asked, "Are you afraid what this role might do to the rest of your career?"
And he said, "No, no. I believed in the role."
You know, he's Cuban. He's a fervent anti-communist. Not a big pal of Fidel like Sean Penn and some of the others.
It obviously didn't concern him back when he did "The Lost City" , which certainly earned him the ire of the Hollywood Fidel Fan Club.
Romneycare in MA boxed in the Catholic institutions same as Obama does. See Romney wriggle on that fact.
It's Romneycare as well as Obamacare sitting before the Supreme Court, but with only Obama's name on it.
We've got us two socialists, thanks to the GOPE.
Rebellion is hard and it's scary, but we are the resistance.
No to Romney. No to the GOPE. No to the media. No to the campaigns bought off over the past four years.
Just. NO.
For Rush to highlight this movie, with all of its parallels to the war by the 0bama administration's HHS on the Catholic Church and religious freedom, is simply awesome.
A miracle actually. God is in control.
'For Greater Glory' Review: Religious Freedom Epic Couldn't Be More Timely
I have met Andy Garcia. He is a nice guy and a great percussionist.
Viva Andy Garcia and "For Greater Glory"!
my grandfather fought in the Cristero War.... La Cristiada .... viva el Cristo Rey!
Primary is over.
Remove the regime, including HHS Sebelius. Send them packing.
Elect a president who will sign legislation to repeal Obamacare.
I plan to see the movie tomorrow
Isn't it great how when we need a movie or an event (Tea Party rallies) like this, He is always just in time.
This movie could very well be the 100' high wall that turns back Obamalama's evil health care abomination.
As incompetent as the GOP is, the Democrats always, always overplay their hand.
The great thing about this movie, is that most of the liberals and talking heads don't have a clue as to what this will do for the Catholics and the rest of the Christian community. A real shot in the arm.
>>> " Primary is over. " <<<
Actually for some of us, the election is also over but for down ticket. The Republican Party could care less about your vote. They are moving LEFT whether we like it or not, and prefer to do so without us.
Wait until you see your next Republican nominee, since you have complied in support of this socialist they handed you in this cycle. LOL!
No to Romney. No to the GOPE. No to the media. No to both socialism lite and Marxism 2.0.
Just. No.
Resistance comes at a cost. Stand up, pay up, or kiss your country goodbye. There will be even more to resist next time.
Problem is what are the alternate choices outside of Romney? HECK NO I will not see another four years of Obama. What are the choices out there?
Please let us know what you think of it!
" What are the choices out there? "
My choices sound a little prim, and I have never been thought of as "prim" in my life. LOL. But, my choices are my Church, her clear teaching best as I understand it, my conscience, because all of its on the line. I trust in God for the rest.
If we keep dumbing down even our faith, settling for less and less for our Republic, it only gets worse next time. And the next, and the next. Now is very important even if it comes at a cost.
Say if Obama gets re-elected but we Christians stood our ground, held to some degree of obedience to faith and trust in this G-d we profess, then will he not work in our favor?
Rebellion is hard and scary, but we are suppose to be the resistance. Not the enablers of moral decline.
Can't wait to see it tonight. IF, it doesn't storm first.
Or tomorrow's matinee.
I hope Andy is awesome as always. The trailers left me wanting more zeal from him in this charactor, but he is splendid on any day.
Can't tell much about his faith from the interview on EWTN, but terribly grateful he put this together.
BTW, is this his first direction on a movie? Thinking he produced or directed this. Is that correct?
Obama has already led this country into an unprecedented state of moral decline. Do you think giving Obama four more years is going to reverse that? My God, look what he's done to our military, the institution of marriage, the attack on Christianity and the Catholic Church. Do you really think Romney is that bad? REALLY?
If you read my posts you may get the idea from me that there are greater things than this hyped fear voting going on for Romney.
Neither of these posers are worthy of leading the Republic. I intend to enable neither of them.
Rebellion is never easy. Rebellion is hard, and it's scary, but we are suppose to be the resistance.
As a Christian there are some things we are bound by our faith to resist, and we all know what they are; gay adoption, gay marriage, assaulting religious liberty, abortion, forced redistribution.
Obama and Romney both reak of these things with records to prove it.
No to Romney. No to the GOPE. No to the Media. No to fear. No to Obama.
IIRC, both you and biggirl are, as I am, Catholic. Like you, I won't vote for a candidate (either Romney or Obama) who will persecute the Roman Catholic Church or any other in violation of the constitution and the single most essential human right of freedom of religion. Nor for any candidate who would be complicit in the evils of abortion or of homosexual anything. Nor for any gun grabber. Nor for anyone interfering in medical care. Etc.
God bless you and yours!
In the last analysis, your vote is your own. FWIW, I urge you to heed RitaOK's message and not wind up having Romney on your conscience.
One way or the other, may God bless you and yours, as well!
While good morals is very important, but so is also a good economy. We NEED BOTH in the USA right now.
I am much more fearful to have a second Obama term, because HE WILL in all likelyhood persecute the Catholic/Christian Churches.
The question I have is what good conservative alternate we have? I am at a lost right now to answer. God Bless.
Please see post number 21. Thank-you.
I am much more fearful to see a second Obama term.
And I think with the Supremes decision coming later this month, Obama's hand could really be overplayed this time around.
Looks like Obamacare is going to become DOA by the end of the month, thanks to the Supremes.
Romney then and Obozo now propose to give our Church leaders (and everyone else's) the choice between a life of mortal sin (paying for this barbarism) or life in prison (for NOT funding this barbarism).
We are Catholics. Economics may be an important as a strictly political issue but the issue of economics is not equivalent in importance to the issue of abortion. Material cooperation with abortion causes an automatic (latae sententiae) excommunication under the Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church. Just as many (including some bishops) would exclude from the Eucharist such notorious "Catholic" pro-aborts as Pelosi, Sebelius, John Kerry, Rosa DeLauro and others of their ilk as public pro-aborts, the same principle applies to Catholics in the pews. Thus we cannot vote for Obozo and we also cannot vote for Romney without a complete recantation of his pro-abort history and a credible recantation at that.
If by good conservative alternative you mean an electable one, we probably don't have one. If we sit still for Romney and his brazen tactics in buying the GOP nomination and his background as a pro-abort, we will never have a GOP candidate whom we can vote for. We have to repudiate his candidacy or the GOP has to repudiate his candidacy.
There are two issues: abortion and abortifacient procedures is the first. The second is active persecution of the Church. If the leaders of the Catholic Church can be coerced into a life of mortal sins (funding abortions) by threats of fines and jail if they refuse to obey the statist religion of Obozo or Romney, then next on the list are the other churches and not just Christian ones either. Orthodox Judaism will be on the list. Islam may be many bad things but just imagine trying to find an abortion mill in Saudi Arabia. Whether Mormonism is a Christian religion or not, it is a pro-life and pro-family religion and will be persecuted as well if it resists.
Francis Cardinal George of Chicago is now 75 years old and has submitted his resignation to B-XVI but it has not been accepted as yet. Cardinal George wrote in his Archdiocesan newspaper two years ago that he expected to die in his bed, that his immediate successor could expect to die in prison and the next successor could expect to be martyred in the public square. Cardinal George is NOT a sensationalist but a sober minded archbishop and worthy prince of the Church. Baltimore's new Archbishop Lori appears to be made of the right stuff as is Timothy Cardinal Dolan and the new Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez and Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput. Cardinal George is not the only prelate making dire predictions. The Vatican is sending us a steady stream of new and often better bishops, archbishops and cardinals. Just in time. Hartford and Bridgeport are awaiting new prelates.
For the foreseeable future, we are at war with the political powers that be. May that war be merely political and intellectual and spiritual by the grace of God! May God intervene with His good graces and touch hearts as necessary. OTOH, we must steel ourselves for whatever is to come and not be found wanting by those who have gone before us. We are living in times which will test whether our love for God is truly our priority.
Tom Hoefling is FR's Eternal Vigilance. He is an Evangelical and totally trustworthy on all the issues that count. I will vote for Tom. Virgil Goode of the Constitution Party is likely to be trustworthy as well on most of the important domestic issues but his party likes Ron Paul's foreign policy notions which are not my cup of tea.
Most importantly as Catholics, we are not faced so much with choosing the best candidate as we are with obeying the Church's mandate against material cooperation with abortion and with common sense resistance to persecution of our or anyone else's religion because of such religion's orthodox moral rules.
Many years ago, a very close friend became pregnant by a wealthy but utterly irresponsible young fellow who insisted on the baby being aborted (before such was legal). She had a good Catholic education but had become an atheist and was very determined to abort the baby. The abortion was to be performed secretly by a qualified OB-GYN at his home at a distance and in another state and the boyfriend would pay, would drive her there and drive her home. She was concerned that she might hemorrhage alone in her apartment but was adamant that she would take that risk if necessary but wanted to know if I would spend the night at her apartment just in case she might hemorrhage. She knew that she would not see the boyfriend again after he would drop her off and there was no one else available to her.
That seemed an insurmountable moral dilemma but I knew her well enough to know she was deadly serious that the abortion would go forward in any event. I tried to talk her out of it but she was adamant. I agreed to her request. My being available to protect her from death by hemorrhage was as morally acceptable as would be a doctor treating her in such an emergency or as would be a doctor treating the gunshot wound of a perp who instigated a gunfight. She had free will and was going to abuse it. If she were going to die as a wage of sin, it would not be by neglect. People like Herod Blackmun, Mitt Romney and Barak Obama are premeditated killers of many, many children, refuse to actually change on that or repent as publicly as they have sinned and the two who are living and running for POTUS are also rubbing our noses in it by persecuting our Church and other religions. Cooperating with such as these is the moral equivalent of knowingly and willingly nailing Jesus Christ to the cross to satisfy the mob at Jerusalem or Pontius Pilate.
The three traditional enemies of the Church are the World, the Flesh and the Devil. Most of us could muster, with God's help, the strength to tell the Devil to go back to hell where he belongs. Similarly, most of us CAN muster the moral strength to turn our backs against sins of the Flesh, whatever Planned Barrenhood may imagine. The absolutely sinister enemy is the World because it is all that most of us know. It surrounds us and amorally drowns us. Seducing us to go along in order to get along is the weapon of the World. If you have not read C. S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters, he understood the weapon of the World better than most of us Catholics and he was a Presbyterian IIRC. Read also his The Great Divorce which seems to be an allegory on Purgatory. Lewis had a lot of Catholic friends at Oxford like J. R. R. Tolkien and Charles Williams. They influenced him but he did not quite bring himself to swim the Tiber.
Voting for officeholder candidates who intend (by all reasonable analysis) to enforce a policy of abortion availability, abortion subsidy and Church persecution are a different matter. That is material cooperation and not merely protection after the fact. As Catholics, we may not do such things.
I do not mean to bully you but only to cause you to ponder the meaning of voting for either Obozo or Romney. That final decision is, as it must be yours and yours alone. I will pray for you and ask you to pray for me.
Again, whatever you may decide, may God bless you and yours!
Blessed John Paul II was verrry fond of echoing St. Paul in saying: Be not afraid! John Paul II suffered Parkinson's for years and Paul was beheaded. They lived free of fear and now know that they were right to live without fear. God is wonderful. He can do anything.
"There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution."
-- John Adams, Letter to Jonathan Jackson (2 October 1780), "The Works of John Adams", vol 9, p.511
What did you think of the film - For Greater Glory! Since you posted on the thread, surely you have seen it?
Actually, I mistakenly posted that particular quote to Black Elk on the wrong thread. My apologies.
I do intend to see the film, though. Which is saying a lot, since I don't pay much attention to entertainment offerings these days.
I don't think God works to favor unwise decisions that result in an evil regime remaining in power. I believe He would expect us to fight it and not go MIA during the election.
The only statement sent by helping to re-elect Obama is that progressive liberalism wins.
No to the GOPE.
We had a weak field and a lack of unity in opposition to Romney. THis is not the fault of the GOPE. And voting for even weaker candidates solves nothing.
Here Andrew Breitbart talks more eloquently about standing up in this election than either I or you:
I read a lot and sometimes write a little. I've found that no matter how I feel on a subject or what I write about it someone has already had those same thoughts or written the same words. Truly there is nothing new under the sun!
This conflict between the Obama administration and the Catholic Church has been on my mind a lot lately and I've read the words and thoughts of dozens of people as they've tried to rationalize the situation.
So I've put together a compilation of a number of essays by people whose names are hidden behind pseudonyms but whose ideas deserve wider circulation. The following is what I have gleaned/plagiarized from blogs I can't even remember the names of. I hope it is well received.
These Too, Are Times Which Try Mens Souls
Unfortunately the 2012 election and the hoopla that goes with it is a distraction from the undeniable fact that we are truly and quite possibly in the final battle for the soul of America. Past elections have been childs-play compared to the ultimate outcome of this struggle. We simply must grasp the magnitude of this pivotal conflict. It is a concerted war against individual freedom of conscience and personal development within the moral society of our nation and it has been underway for years.
The Judeo-Christian society born on American soil in the 18th century established a Republic and forged a gentle giant of a nation which offered its inhabitants hope and freedom. For the poor or oppressed around the globe, it raised a beacon drawing millions of them to us. That hope is now being challenged by the political descendants of despots from past tyrannical governments. As long as the people could openly acknowledge and seek guidance from God these masters of deceit could never capture mens hearts.
The first step was to separate the young from their parents influence and substitute a far reaching government bureaucracy. Public schools, originally designed for the poor, was recognized as the primary vehicle with which to begin the eventual transformation of our nation. By the middle of the last century the progressive liberals virtually owned - and for the most part operated - both elementary and secondary education in America.
The educational dumbing down of Americans involved more than the rewriting of history. It had to include a reformation of conscience and the destruction of Judeo-Christian morality to accomplish the intent of those wanting to break the backs of Bible toting, flag waving patriots who clung to their guns and provided prosperity for themselves and their posterity. Unlike the sudden and brutal Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which awakened a sleeping giant, this sneak attack was a long, silent but deadly poisoning of the minds and morals of a nation until that nation began to compromise its values in the name of tolerance or fairness or social justice, weakening its will to staunchly defend the principles on which it was founded.
These enemies of liberty with their newly established politically-correct language defining our values and legislative agendas are now not just within our society but in political control of our lives too. Politics is being used as the tool or weapon of the real enemy. We must understand the real enemy is EVIL in all the forms of suggestive information, entertainment, or political theory it can deceitfully use to conceal its character. The only remaining obstacle to its complete success is the waning moral fiber left in the values held by Judeo-Christian patriots of this country.
Thus, it is altogether fitting that we not hesitate to use the words and tone of those founders which gave birth to our nation to demand that candidates for government office, especially the presidency, profess those precious values and vow to govern justly by them and to boldly face the critics who dare suggest they are not relevant in todays political arena. We can pray our hearts out but we also need to assure the Father willingly and publicly that we cherish our faith and freedom and deserve His help.
Time is running out. Its now or never. As students of history and/or as ardent believers in the word of God as given to us in the Gospels, who among us can deny or naively ignore the rampant Evil that is staring us in the face today?
I write to ask an honest question.
Should we vote for those conservative canidiates who are running for the USA House and Senate, thus having conservative majorities that will thus be able to put the feet of a President Mitt Romney to the fire in order to get very important and needed changes done for the good of this country?
I write this not out of FEAR anymore, which by the grace of God I have been given, PEACE of mind, but as a REALIST who KNOWS that in most likelyhood, Mitt Romney WILL more likely be the next President of the United States since it is in BIGTIME TROUBLE to begin with.
Plus the reality is that a re-elected Barack Obama WILL attack the Christian churches, including the RC Church.
The one last question I do have is, will a Mitt Romney even attack the Christian churches, because I have NOT once heard of anything happening in MA while he was governor?
There are attacks and there are "attacks." That Mexican President attacked the Church militarily and given what we see in Obama, we worry that he might too. OTOH, Romney did his damage legislatively by forcing the Church to either support his policies or face civil and/or criminal prosecution.
Which is worse? In Mexico the death toll is believed to be about 90,000 souls. I don't know the official numbers but in Mass. the number of babies killed for $50 (for free now!) is probably much higher.
The difference? No one heard the babies scream.
The executive is one branch of government. It cannot pass legislation, only sign or veto it.
If we have a conservative legislature passing conservative bills, I believe there is a good chance Romney will sign.
I know for certain Obama will not.
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There's an oft-told story about Steve Jobs insisting the wiring inside the Macintosh be made to look neat even though few owners would ever see it. Apple's human-interface chief Alan Dye, interviewed in Wired, says the same attention to detail lives on in Apple today, and is reflected in the care that went into the Apple Watch.
We have a group of people who are really, really super-talented, but they really care. They care about details that a designer might not show in his portfolio because it's so arcane. And yet getting it right is so critical to the experience.
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Our Dreaming Sophia Reverbnation page is being launched with three songs that were recorded on an IPAD. The songs are in the process of being choreographed, and we hope you like where we are in that process.
Here is a bit of Background Information on Sonja's lyrics for each song:
This one is called Khan, instead of Marco Polo, in order to avoid the inevitable associations with the swimming pool game.
Marco Polo was just a remarkably romantic figure who changed the course of Western civilization. An adventurer, only seventeen when he embarked on the long journey to the Khan's palaces, he would fight wars, advise emperors, build up trade, spend time in prisons and do all manner of other heroic and interesting deeds
Girls Gonna Go
My parents, who were both teachers, allowed me to spend a great deal of time in Hamburg, Arkansas during summer breaks. Peepaw Browder worked in a rice field and raised eight children. Two of the youngest girls and I spent many a summer's day seeking adventures in the small sleepy town. In those days, as long as you were in a pack, elders would simply instruct you to be back in time for lunch or supper. No one seemed to worry inordinately, and as a result, there was barely an inch of the town we had not curiously explored, usually walking down the train tracks. Today, all eight of those kids have done well and have escaped the poverty of their younger years. Being a school teacher in an inner city school, I want to think the kids I teach have a fighting chance of doing the same.
Lady Bonita
This song was inspired by our vacation of a lifetime in San Francisco this July. Ten days of pure bliss! There is actually a lighthouse in Sausalito called Bonita Point. I still want to work up some more verses for this song. It is a celebration of the rich cultural heritage of the bay area, as well as, of course, a love song for all pining women and their sailor men.


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SKELLYTOWN - The empty Skellytown school building will remain that way for the time being.
Skellytown Councilman Claude Hooks withdrew his proposal to turn the building into a halfway house for ex-convicts when public sentiment overwhelmingly opposed the plan Tuesday night.
"We don't see a blessing coming," he said. "We can't take advantage of it."
White Deer Independent School District shut down the Skellytown campus in May 2002 in the midst of declining enrollment and funding problems.
The district had slowly been moving grades to White Deer, until only pre-kindergartners through fourth-graders were left.
The district then deeded the property to the city of Skellytown in November.
The deal made the city responsible for paying $1,500 a month in upkeep on the building, Hooks said.
Hooks said he was trying to make the building a viable property.
"It's a white elephant," he said. "There's nothing we can do with it. But it has sentimental value."
He said the halfway house would have been part of the Nehemiah Project, a mission Hooks leads to rehabilitate offenders through Christianity.
"What we try to do is integrate these guys back into society as Christians so they don't repeat," he said.
He said while residents at the halfway house would not be violent offenders, many residents were scared for their safety, perhaps for good reason, because Skellytown has no local law officers on the payroll.
"But if you take a close look at it, these guys have families also; they feel the same way," he said.
Now the city is looking at moving the library into the building, along with the justice of the peace office, Hooks said.
The city will meet with the county judge in the near future to see if that could happen.
Another possibility is to turn the building into a community center.
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As far as Hollywood goes, some might say we're smack in the middle of a leading-man renaissance. Instead of the Brad Pitts and Tom Cruises of the world getting women all hot and bothered, it's a new breed of actor stealing the spotlight, one that's equal parts brainy, quirky, sensitive: Enter the Era of the Nerd.
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In terms of television, NBC was one of the first to champion the nerdy leading man, with offbeat single-camera comedies like "The Office," which brought its hot nerd trifecta—John Krasinski, Ed Helms, and B.J. Novak—to the masses, followed by "Community" and "Parks and Rec," both filled with slightly left-of-center actors who embraced their outsider status with sexy aplomb.
"Saturday Night Live" followed suit by adding a handful of new, smart, slightly geeky castmembers like Seth Meyers and Andy Samberg, who both went on to score their own TV shows.
In film, we have Judd Apatow to thank for changing our perception of actors like Jason Segel and Jay Baruchel, nerds at their core, but who have emerged as in-demand leading men. And let's not get started on Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Cera.
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Gators center Jonotthan Harrison believes this week's matchup with No. 3 Alabama will be all about the battle at the line of scrimmage.
And he has no doubts No. 12 Florida will find success running the ball come Saturday.
"We will get the run," Harrison said Tuesday. "We will get the run. It starts with the offensive line, and that's the position I play, and I have confidence in my unit."
When asked if he was making a guarantee, Harrison wouldn't take it that far, simply responding that he is confident in his position group.
Considering the numbers, it's understandable that Harrison feels sure about Florida's ability to run against Alabama. The Gators currently tout the top rushing offense in the Southeastern Conference and rank 10th in the nation with 259 yards per contest on the ground.
Florida also averages nearly 6 yards per carry behind its close-knit offensive line and a running back corps led by speedsters Chris Rainey and Jeff Demps, who have combined for 765 rushing yards and six scores on the ground.
Although Harrison said he is sure Florida will be able to establish the run against Alabama, the Gators will be facing a tough test, as the Crimson Tide's run defense ranks third in the nation (45.75 yards per game allowed).
"It's a line-of-scrimmage game," Harrison said. "If the offensive line does their job, and does their job successfully, then the offense in general will have more success."
Patience key: Offensive coordinator Charlie Weis said Tuesday that Alabama's defense is solid at all 11 spots on the field and that the Gators need to play fundamentally sound against the Tide if they want to come out on top.
"Sometimes when you're playing football you have to realize that punting isn't necessarily a bad thing," Weis said. "What you have to do is make sure you make good decisions in the game where you don't make a critical mistake … and all of a sudden give one to them."
While Weis said the Gators need to be cautious in not making bad decisions, he added Florida will be sure to empty its playbook on the field Saturday night.
"You have to go ahead and throw the kitchen sink at them now," he said. "They're going to get the kitchen sink. You guys have been writing about holding things back, well you won't have to worry about that this week."
Brantley fine: Weis said quarterback John Brantley, who briefly exited the Kentucky game after taking a couple of hard hits, is healthy and took "most of the reps" in practice Tuesday, an encouraging sign for the offensive coordinator.
"He's glad the game is still a few days away," Weis said. "But he's moving along nicely. He's progressing nicely. He threw the ball well [Tuesday]."
Etc.: Defensive tackle Omar Hunter said the injured finger in his right hand is getting better and that he hopes the protective mitt he has been wearing during games will be even smaller this weekend.
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May 23 (Bloomberg) -- West Texas Intermediate crude advanced as violence flared ahead of Ukraine's May 25 presidential election.
Futures headed for their third weekly gain. An attack yesterday by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine left 16 servicemen dead, the highest death toll for government forces since the separatist conflict in the eastern part of the country began in March. Libyan National Oil Corp. Chairman Nuri Berruien resigned, the company said. U.S. crude supplies tumbled 7.23 million barrels last week, the Energy Information Administration said May 21.
"Geopolitics appears to be the principal driver," Gene McGillian, an analyst and broker at Tradition Energy in Stamford, Connecticut, said by phone. "There's a lot of wariness surrounding this weekend's presidential election in Ukraine and concern about Libya. WTI is also up because of tightening supply."
WTI for July delivery increased 24 cents to $103.98 a barrel at 9:50 a.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The volume of all futures traded was 53 percent below the 100-day average for the time of day. Prices have climbed 1.9 percent this week and 5.6 percent this year.
Brent for July settlement rose 2 cents to $110.38 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. Volume was 36 percent lower than the 100-day average. The European benchmark traded at a $6.40 premium to WTI.
Ukraine Unrest
The government in Kiev accused Russia of seeking to destabilize the country before the ballot. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk called for a United Nations Security Council session on the situation. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has estimated the number of Russian troops on the frontier at 40,000.
U.S. crude inventories dropped to 391.3 million barrels in the seven days ended May 16, the lowest level in six weeks, according to the EIA. Stockpiles rose to 399.4 million through April 25, the most since the Energy Department's statistical arm began publishing weekly data in 1982.
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Lesbian doctor is first openly gay president of the Canadian Medical Association
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I wish reporters could loose the word/term 'openly' gay. Why not just say, Gay. Adjectives such as 'openly' just add to the mainstream hysteria that there's something wrong with being gay.
I disagree. It is usually necessary to specify "openly gay" because in most cases the sentence would be false if the word "openly" was omitted. Reid is probaly not the first CMA President who is gay. There likely have been gay CMA presidents before, but we can't be sure because they were not out.
Similarly, if ever an openly gay man became President of the USA, it would be untrue to say that he was the first gay President, since there have been one or more closeted gay President.
The word "openly" does not imply anything negative, unlike "self-confessed" or "admitted," which were the terms used in the past.
My doctor here in Oslo ( Norway ) is gay, and he doesn't conceal it. My dentist is gay, married to a gay psychologist. They are honest and tell openly about themselves if anybody should ask.—And my physiologist is both a neighbour and gay- without concealing his sexual identity. Why this "noise" about a lesbian Canadian doctor ?
Because she's been elected the president of the Canadian Medical Association.
Ummm, guys, this is only "news" to PinkNews…
They aren't even talking about it on the news here in Canada… we are SO not impressed by everyday occurrences like.. oooo, someone who happens to be gay got a job.
So how many governor-generals, prime ministers, lieutenant-governors and premiers are there, or have there been, who're gay in Canada? Oh, right.
The reason this is newsworthy, IMHO, is that her position and that of the new United Church of Canada moderator are elected positions in organizations that are historically quite conservative. Their memberships seem to have adopted the motto of Brian and Patrick Burke's NHL anti-homophobia group: "If you can play, you can play."
(The news coverage I saw at the time of the CMA meeting in Yellowknife, NWT, mentioned she was First Nations and an ER doc. Nothing about her sexual orientation.) BTW, I have to keep reminding myself that American soil is only 67 km away….and about 400 years by all appearances!
um, the leader of one of the major provincial political parties was a gay man, no hiding, no subtlety.
I doubt any medical order in Canada is particularly "conservative" at least as far as sexual orientation is concerned.
I've had four family doctors in the last 40 years, and all of them have been gay. what a coincidence.
It's just not a big deal to Canadians…. unless their name is Stephen Harper.
As a Canadian myself, I disagree. Medical doctors and their associations are very conservative, and fairly often homophobic.
As an open lesbian, Reid's election to the CMA is definitely significant.
My home and native land!
Now explain to me why most of the the rest of the British Empire is so anti-gay!!!
The prime ministers of Iceland and Belgium are "open" homosexuals. Six of the representatives in the Norwegian Parliament are "open" homosexuals. The chief police person in Norway was "openly" GAY, married to a man ( two children)-and newspapers did not bother to discuss it.He was accepted – a 100%. Berlin and Paris have had "openly" gay lord-mayors- AND on the other "side"—hundreds of thousands gay, lesbians and transgender persons march in Pride parades all around the world- without fear of showing their faces–people from ALL kinds of political parties, religious groups etc. etc. They are the "brave" ones. To a large degree The World has changed in favour of US !! ( With exceptions, of course-) Paul from Brighton !- I agree with you- Greetings from old Helge in Oslo !
Now, if that could be repeated here in the UK, that would neatly push Peter Saunders and his right wing fundamentalist worldview into touch.
—and by the way: The British Embassy marched in The Pride Parade in Stockholm, Sweden in 2011, with a huge banner. (Thank You U. K.) And so did The American Embassy in Stockholm this year ! (— Fear is mans worst enemy– )
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Players to Watch: LB Colton Smith, OL Jordan Wright, LB Austin Shatto, Austin Shatto, OL Nick Garza, OL Jacob Smith
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- Remember the Pokemon listed there are/should only be the ones available, not the ones fleeing. I'm (very slowly) playing through the game again to check when I have time, so it hasn't been forgotten about. Werdnae (talk) 07:51, 18 July 2011 (UTC)


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Other than that, there are no accounts more privileged than a member of Domain Admins. Members of Domain Admins are Administrators over the domain controllers (your SBS machine), and therefore can modify any user account and push any group policy out to any member computer.
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Water group gets its first assignment
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Passion for life is fueled by the joy of seeking Christ in the church (ecclesiology), the grace of living Christ (Christology) in the ordinariness of life, and the hope of arriving at our final home one day (eschatology). Enamored of God, my eyes are opened to his presence in the changing culture of our time. He is there. He is present. He is alive!
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Orange Cashew Chicken
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Prep 10 mins
Cook 20 mins
This is from a Quick Cooking Magazine. The tender chicken, crunchy cashews, and sweet citrus sauce make it a fast, delicious meal.
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- 1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast, cut into 1 inch cubes
- 2 medium carrots, sliced
- 1⁄2 cup chopped celery
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 3⁄4 cup orange juice
- 1⁄4 cup honey
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1⁄4-1⁄2 salted cashews
- hot cooked rice
- In a large skillet or wok, stir-fry chicken, carrots and celery in oil for 8-10 minutes or til joices run clear.
- Reduce heat.
- In a bowl, combine the cornstarch, ginger, orange juice, honey and soy sauce until well-blended.
- Stir into chicken mixture.
- Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes, or until thickened.
- Stir in cashews.
- Serve over hot rice.
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I don't know why this recipe calls for 2 whole tablespoons of cornstarch for 4 servings.... It was like eating gelatin!! The taste was good, but I'd suggest not wasting your cashews on this because their flavor was lost in the sweet orange citrus plus too much honey.
This was good and came out quickly!
Delicious! This turns out best with fresh squeezed orange juice and a little additional orange peel. I also like to triple the ginger, which brings out the flavor more.