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Tim Blair
–, Monday, February, 25, 2013, (4:13pm)
Lenin said "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."
Islam has gone the Commies one better: The modern western welfare state gives them the money to buy the rope with which they will hang us.
They're a little more proactive in Bangladesh:
Bangladesh police fired live rounds in clashes with Islamists demanding the execution of bloggers they accuse of blasphemy, killing at least three protesters and injuring dozens …
Mizanur Rahman, deputy police chief of Manikganj, said clashes broke out after up to 3,000 protesters, including students from religious schools known as madrassas and supporters of the main opposition party, barricaded a highway.
"They attacked us with machetes, sticks, bricks and firearms from three sides when we tried to clear the barricade. We fired back in self-defence," he told AFP, adding that at least 40 people were injured.
"The imam of the local mosque used a loudspeaker to rally the protesters. They were shouting slogans for the execution of the bloggers, accusing them of being non-believers and atheists," Rahman said …
Tensions have risen over allegedly anti-Islamic blog posts by Ahmed Rajib Haider, who was hacked to death last week near his home in Dhaka.
Australia's online atheist community will be right on to this as soon as they can find a Catholic angle.
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Paul Sheehan has it covered.
On Monday, in Dhaka, I received a friendly rebuke from the Bangladeshi Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism, Faruk Khan. I had described Bangladesh as a moderate Muslim nation.
''No.'' he replied. ''Bangladesh is not a moderate Muslim nation.''
Mon 25 Feb 13 (04:27pm)
Mon 25 Feb 13 (05:36pm)
The Minister was spot on. I have worked in Bangladesh and moderate it ain't. It is no Saudi Arabia but you watch your Ps and Qs never-the-less - particularly outside of Dhaka.
Mon 25 Feb 13 (06:28pm)
Sheehan is always good, but stuff like Blair linked to above shows he missed the mark a bit in that column.
Mon 25 Feb 13 (07:04pm)
They don't seem to have progressed as far as the Flintstones.
Mon 25 Feb 13 (08:46pm)
Perhaps they are hoping their antics will secure a speaking spot at the upcoming Australian Islamic Peace Conference.
Mon 25 Feb 13 (04:30pm)
Coming soon to Australia, just a matter of time....
Mon 25 Feb 13 (04:36pm)
I'm an atheist. Some of us know which religion poses a real threat to freedom. Hint: it's not Christianity.
Mon 25 Feb 13 (04:43pm)
Mon 25 Feb 13 (05:46pm)
I concur WT.
Disappointing remark there Tim.
Mon 25 Feb 13 (06:13pm)
BS. Atheists are frequently slagging off Christianity but never say boo about Islam. Gutless hypocrites.
Mon 25 Feb 13 (07:03pm)
Atheists never say anything about Islam?
And you wonder why atheists think you Christians are idiots?
Mon 25 Feb 13 (07:16pm)
Qld Skeptic, you are confusing atheist with Atheist.
The first is an adjective, the second a noun.
I describe myself as atheist because I don't believe in any god, but belong to no group of Atheists. I'm more than happy to describe Islam as the greatest threat facing our modern western democratic society.
Mon 25 Feb 13 (07:28pm)
Bit of a cheap shot there Tim - not all athiests are ABC sheeples.
Qld Skeptic I call BS on your BS call - I have never slagged off at Christianity, and am critical of Islam.
Gillard is a politician who is attacking Christianity. Please do not associate me with her because she is an athiest too. Its as silly as saying that because she's been a cr@p PM then every woman will be too - generalisations lead only to farcical conclusions…
Mon 25 Feb 13 (07:37pm)
Good for you Weary but in my experience when prothlesysing atheists carry on about the evils of religion (quite why they feel the need to go one about their lack of belief is unclear but each to their own) it's not Islam that they condemn or mock. Some of them at least have the grace to acknowledge that it's only prudent to attack religions that they know will either not respond at all or in the mildest of terms.
Others have less awareness. I'm looking forward to noted atheist Tim Minchin's latest satire on Muhammad but somehow must have missed it. No doubt it will be along any minute now.
Mon 25 Feb 13 (08:49pm)
There is admittedly a considerable average difference between the more religious, evangelical Atheist fundamentalists, and the type of atheists who simply don't believe there's a God.
Mon 25 Feb 13 (09:10pm)
I've been an atheist since I can remember. My father, raised in a strict Catholic household, rejected the Catholic church when I was about 4 and became virulently contemptuous of that institution and Christianity, in general. In my household, the mystical side of Christian belief became a subject of scorn and ridicule. That said, my father reconciled many of the basic philisophical tenets of Christianity with enlightened humanism: the sanctity of the individual, the "Golden Rule" etc, so we were brought up with a strong moral underpinning.
My father is part of what I refer to as the Old Guard of Atheists: those who rejected Christianity in favour of reason, whilst maintaining the morality that they (quite often, unknowingly) carried as a cultural residual from their upbringing and surroundings.
And this is where I get Tim's frustration. Tim isn't referring to the "Old Guard". He's referring to the "trendy" Neo-Atheists; the sort who bang on about the "science being settled" with respect to climate change, the types who constantly share the banal drivel of "I love science" links on Facebook when they wouldn't have ever picked up a physics book in their lives. These people are, at best, deferring morality to a select group of politically correct "scientists" (Flannery, Attenborough, Suzuki etc), and at worst are simply nihilists. Nihilists in that the idea of a greater being to them is an anethema, not because they have any well grounded alternative view of the universe, but because a greater being means that they are answerable to basic morality and are held personally responsible by that being.
Mon 25 Feb 13 (10:28pm)
evnumbers said it pretty well.
Possibly I could expand a touch.
This atheist harbors no desire to meet people who share my non-belief, to get in any way excited about my non-belief or to pour scorn on those who think differently.
Christianity is benign enough, Islam is a dangerous totalitarian ideology. Minchin is braver than most when it comes to poking fun at Islam.
TL/DR version: Not all atheists fit the Dawkins / Deveny stereotype.
Tue 26 Feb 13 (06:00am)
As a christian, I want to give my thoughts on the atheists not commenting on islam in this here forum.
Speaking plainly, that's bullcrap.
Our atheists simply don't preface their comments on islam with "as an atheist...". Well, mostly they don't. That's probably where the confusion comes from.
Tue 26 Feb 13 (08:31am)
I'm an atheist and thre are few things on this planet I utterly despise more than islam.
Actually, I take that back. There is nothing on this planet I despise more than islam, even braindead communism (BIRM) and bedwetting climate catastrophism (BIRM again).
Tue 26 Feb 13 (10:02am)
Feel free to post any links of Atheists publicly slagging off (i.e. ridiculing, making disparaging remarks etc) about Islam. There are heaps of examples of them doing so with regards to Christians.
Tue 26 Feb 13 (10:26am)
Or you could just use google. Do they have that in Queensland? Pretty sure they do.
The reasons it seems like atheists criticise christianity more than islam are 1) you're a christian, 2) you don't actually listen to any atheists.
Give up on God, he doesnt exist to give up on you.
Tue 26 Feb 13 (11:01am)
Qld Skeptic
Christopher Hitchens, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Theo van Gogh, Salman Rushdie, Richard Dawkins…
Now back in your box
Tue 26 Feb 13 (11:13am)
These people are, at best, deferring morality to a select group of politically correct "scientists" (Flannery, Attenborough, Suzuki etc), and at worst are simply nihilists. Nihilists in that the idea of a greater being to them is an anethema, not because they have any well grounded alternative view of the universe, but because a greater being means that they are answerable to basic morality and are held personally responsible by that being.
Wow, nicely summarised, Murph. I'm impressed.
Qld Skeptic: They do exist (Billy Connolly for example), they're just much harder to find. Plus they often slag off Christianity in the next sentence (Billy Connolly for example).
Tue 26 Feb 13 (11:43am)
I think the great James Delingpole says it much better than I can about Minchin's somewhat selective criticism of Christianity versus Islam.
Tue 26 Feb 13 (04:20pm)
Murph, you have missed the point if you mention Ali, van Gogh, and Rushdie.
1. Did they ridicule Christians?
2. What happened to them?
3. None of these were gutless hypocrites.
Tue 26 Feb 13 (11:36pm)
Qld Skeptic
There are plenty of atheists who criticise both Christianity and Islam. I'm not disagreeing with you that there is serious hypocrisy from those who criticise Christianity and fail to hold Islam to account at all. There is. You need, however, to dissociate atheists (reasonable people who do not believe in a god) from anti-theists (those who hate religion). Not all atheists are gutless cowards; just the activist types, like Gillard, who don't know why they're atheists, only that they don't believe in a god. They believe in nothing because it allows them to be answerable to nothing and nobody.
Wed 27 Feb 13 (08:56am)
Murph, I'm sure we're in agreement here. I despise hypocrisy. There are of course atheists that do not ridicule Christians, and also those that are critical of both Islam and Christianity. The point Tim was makling, and evidently James Delingpole has made the same point, is that there are those ones that dish it out to Christians (and Jews for that matter) but never the Moslems. I feel quite justified in calling those particular atheists gutless hypocrites, but I definitely do not include all atheists in that criticism. Unfortunately, your own personal type of atheism as you have outlined in your brief biography is becoming the less common type.
It raises the question of what was Tony Abbott's role in this?
Mon 25 Feb 13 (04:46pm)
The bleeding hearts have much to answer for. We have succumbed to their sheer, destructive idiocy.
Mon 25 Feb 13 (05:02pm)
Mon 25 Feb 13 (06:21pm)
The usual post-50s Labor/Greens women, suitably scarved, will be arranging some hug-a-thon with happy Moslem women volunteers; one could hope the Moslems invite them to convert/join up, for we all know the price of refusal.
It is simple ...
Deny all twelve and a half imams tickets to the cricket.
Mon 25 Feb 13 (06:01pm)
What on earth has atheism got to do with this?
Mon 25 Feb 13 (07:49pm)
Mon 25 Feb 13 (08:55pm)
1. News story recounts Muslims trying to kill (or succeeding at killing) bloggers because they are atheists.
2. Many leftist bloggers are both atheists and Islam apologists (see Green Left Weekly).
Tue 26 Feb 13 (03:58pm)
The left that protested the dutch MP would applaud a speaker who bagged Christianity. However there are many right wing atheists.
I've often asked atheists in North America if they would be willing to die for their atheist world-view. Every single one has said that s/he would not and I believe them.
But these guys, these atheists in Islamic countries. Man, these guys are the real deal. Courageous. Passionate. True believers.
I admire that.
While I think atheism is the most absurd philosophy on the planet, right next to worshiping dung beetles, I wish you people well on your journey to fight injustice.
Tue 26 Feb 13 (05:04am)
Tue 26 Feb 13 (10:33am)
Worshiping dung beetles is as bad as worshiping nothing?
What is absurd about not worshiping something that doesnt exist? You know the dung beetle exists. How many other things that dont exist do you not worship? All of them?
And the reason atheists in the West say they wouldnt die for their world view, is that their world view doesnt affect their lives right now, not that they dont really believe that they dont really believe in God.
The reason some atheists die for their world view is 100% of the time the fault of theists. People like you.
Tue 26 Feb 13 (11:40am)
Do tell; why is atheism an "absurd philosophy"?
Tue 26 Feb 13 (01:17pm)
"The reason some atheists die for their world view is 100% of the time the fault of theists. People like you"
This should tell you that Atheism is a "belief" (world view) otherwise why would some die for a world viiew (belief) irrespective of who is responsible for it. Atheists feel their belief is worth defending and superior to other beliefs. Well, in reality it is no different to a religion. No wonder I have substantiated many times over at The Punch that Atheism is a religion. Your question "What is absurd about not worshiping something that doesnt exist?" is absurd because Atheism is not nothingness, like I said earlier it is a belief. BTW, I thought we should put your theory to test:
"And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of a Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic? Who can dispute that they did their bloody deeds by claiming to be establishing a "new man" and a religion-free utopia? These were mass murders performed with atheism as a central part of their ideological inspiration, they were not mass murders done by people who simply happened to be atheist." - Dinesh D'Souza
Fri 01 Mar 13 (02:11pm)
Zac, your reasoning seems to be that if I don't believe that a Chinese teapot orbits Pluto (apologies to Bertrand Russell), that constitutes my belief? In the non-existence of a Chinese teapot orbiting Pluto? You really need to take Logic 101.
Not sure if the Atheists will be pleased with this angle; He said quote I am ...... "a cynical existentialist, anti-human humanist, anti-social social-Darwinist, realistic idealist and god-like atheist. "I am prepared to fight and die for my cause," he wrote. "I, as a natural selector, will eliminate all who I see unfit, disgraces of human race and failures of natural selection." Pekka Eric Auvinen (CNN, Europe). Atheist Pekka ended up killing 5 girls, 2 boys and their principal.
Tue 26 Feb 13 (10:15am)
Fri 01 Mar 13 (01:33pm)
Sorry Zac. He's not an atheist, he's a cynic. Can't you read?
All cynics must be like him.
Fri 01 Mar 13 (04:01pm)
Yep, when Atheists kill people for their beliefs (don't come and tell me Atheism is not a belief, I can substantiate what I got to say) they are called "cynics" and if it's the religious they are called "terrorists". Reasoning and logic is not working for Atheists. May be it works very selectively and at your whims and fancies.
They actually have to go out and buy the rope? Don't they have social workers and a raft of do-gooders to do it for them?
Tue 26 Feb 13 (12:25pm)
Evil people do evil things
Tue 26 Feb 13 (01:21pm)
It appears the ammunition shortages currently plaguing the U.S. have spread to Bangladesh. Really, only 5 rounds?
Wed 27 Feb 13 (09:53am)
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"We've been the No. 1 seed so many times that we don't even think that," said Charleston coach Danny Farmer, who guided the Bluejays to their last Christmas Tournament titles in 2001 and 2002. "We haven't won it in so long that we don't have time to think about the seeds. We're just going to come to play."
Charleston, a fifth-place finisher in 2004, will be without starting forward Josh Thompson and point guard Shawn Sherrell is still hobbled, although Farmer expects he may be ready for the semifinals, should the Bluejays advance that far.
Said Farmer, "We've learned a lot, gained a lot of experience since last year. Even with the injuries, this team has played well. Jamarcus (junior post Williams) and Justin (junior forward Clark) have come to play every night. It's been a joy. We look forward to every game.
Williams, an all-stater as a sophomore, and Clark, a tremendous outside shooter, top the team in scoring and rebounding and are its on-court leaders. Coach Brian Brandtner and the Bell City Cubs have gotten off to a hot start, including an Oran Tournament championship.
If the seeds hold, Bell City would meet Jackson in a semifinal matchup, but Brandtner is cautious about looking ahead.
"That's kind of scary to look too far ahead," he said. "We've played Oran and Advance already (Bell City wins) and, when you beat a team, that scares you the next time you play them. They have motivation.
"I'm worried about Oran (Bell City's first-round game) right now. They're playing pretty good ball and getting better. They're well coached and they play hard, so we look for them to have a good game."
However, for the sake of speculation, should the Cubs and Jackson survive to the semifinal in their bracket, an intriguing sidelight would be the battle between two of the area's biggest players, Bell City's Will Bogan and Jackson's Aaron Redecker, both 6-foot-10 postmen.
"That would be a marquee matchup between the two of them," admitted Brandtner. "I hope we're fortunate enough to get there (semifinal)."
Brandtner, in his first season at Bell City, emphasizes that his team is not a one-man show.
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"It's my job to get us in position late in the game and, if we're in that position, I feel pretty good about our chances."
Charleston's Farmer singles out Bell City and Jackson as two of the top teams, but expects a tough contest against the Cape Central-Notre Dame winner, should the Bluejays advance to the semifinal.
The fourth-seed Cape Central Tigers, with Derek McCord at the helm, own the second-most tournament championships with 10, their last in '96. Notre Dame, the fifth seed, hopes to make its presence felt under second-
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The Bulldogs have not won a Christmas Tournament championship in 19 years (1986).
As for darkhorses, No. 7 Scott City, under coach Lance Amick, has been battle tested with a tough early-season schedule and No. 8 Scott Central, under coach David Heeb, is young and improving.


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AVON PARK — The renovation of a building on the South Florida State College Avon Park campus will kick off $2.6 million in projects that will allow the college to offer fire fighting and fire science technology programs.
Building P looks like a warehouse with a lot of empty space. It has been used for storage for several years, SFSC Vice President of Administrative Services Glenn Little said Tuesday.
The planned renovation work for the building includes remodeling the classroom space, installing new doors and constructing new rest room facilities.
The building renovation project will be part of the college's continuing efforts to offer a firefighter certificate program and a fire science technology degree program.
The college has been offering fire science courses for about three or four years, Little noted.
"We haven't really started a full fire fighting program to get your fire training certification and we can't until we get all the facilities and get them certified," he said. "We will be doing that in the coming year."
But, to offer the programs, the college will also need a fire tower, a burn room and fire fighting props in place, which will be located north of College Drive across from Building P, Little said. "It will be a fairly large set of structures."
The college will be bidding those projects in the coming months.
"It's two parts, one is remodel the building and do a bunch of site work and get it ready for a new building," he said. "And then we will buy a pre-engineered metal building that is specifically designed for fire facilities."
The total budget for the projects is $2.6 million, which includes architectural and engineering fees, Little said. The construction budget is around $2.3 million.
The college's board of trustee will vote today on the recommendation to accept the low bid for the Building P renovation project, which was $1,514,692 and submitted by L. Cobb Construction Inc., Wauchula.
"It should be a program of interest; it is just that the economy has prevented a lot of job openings in the [fire fighting] field until just recently, so we have been holding off to make sure that we train people who can actually go out and get jobs," Little said. "We will be starting up beginning as early as January with some more targeted [firefighter training] programs ... that's when all this work should be completed."
City of Sebring Fire Chief Brad Batz envisions many young firefighters from Highlands and surrounding counties going through the SFSC firefighter training programs because currently the closest fire academy is in Haines City and the closest to the south is in Fort Myers.
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Once the classrooms are ready and the drill tower, burn room and training fields with fire props are in place, "then you have a fire academy," Batz noted.
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This is going to sound odd....but I'm trying recreate a frozen entree!
Dave and I sampled a frozen entree at Costco on Sunday, and we both loved it. It was a Milton's Creamy Chicken with White and Wild Rice casserole. Totally yummy. Problem is, these things are usually so high in fat and sodium that we normally stay away from frozen entrees. Besides, I like to cook too much, and would rather just make it myself.
It wasn't your basic cream of chicken or cream of mushroom soup base. It almost had a white sauce or beschemel sauce taste and mouth feel. Maybe parmesan cheese? I looked at the nutrition label and it was 25 grams of fat per serving and had an unmentionable level of sodium, and I know I can do better than that! The ingredients weren't much help, it just specified chicken, rice, veggies, your basic polysorbate 80's, and the 'white sauce' had the required xanthan gum, but didn't show me much else.
Any Chicken, rice and wild casserole recipes out there that don't start with a condensed soup? I'm thinking a light cream cheese or something...anything? And incidentally, that photo on the box looks really NOTHING like what we had! Photo looks kind of oogy....this was really creamy and tasty but not that 'white'!


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Meeting at Night
by Robert Browning
Stanza 1 Summary
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Lines 1-2
The grey sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
- The poem opens with a description of the landscape: a "grey sea," "long black land," and a "half-moon" that is either rising or setting (it is "low" on the horizon).
- There are no verbs in these first two lines, so we don't know what the land is doing; it is just there.
- "Black land" and the presence of the moon inform us that it is nighttime (hence the title "Meeting at Night").
Lines 3-4
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
- The speaker continues describing the features of the landscape; there are "little waves" that, strangely, resemble "fiery ringlets."
- We already know that the speaker is near the ocean, but this description of the waves suggests that maybe the speaker is in a boat.
- The "fiery ringlets" of line 3 contrast with the images of darkness we have already encountered ("black land," the moon, and the "night" of the title).
Lines 5-6
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.
- Finally, someone is doing something in the poem! We learn that the speaker is sailing. He reaches ("gains") the "cove" (a kind of recess or sheltered space on the coast of an ocean).
- The descriptions in lines 1-4 refer to the scene the speaker observes while sailing.
- "Quench its speed" is strange, in part because we don't know what "its" refers to. It seems likely that "its" refers to the boat the speaker is sailing.
- "Quench" means to extinguish or stop (like quenching your thirst by drinking Gatorade), so "quench its speed" means to "stop" the boat on the shore, "i[n] the slushy sand."


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A few weeks ago I sat in a scuzzy motel room in Arkansas, listening to Elvis run through his greatest hits. It was just past midnight, the weather was hot, trucks rattled the windows overlooking Interstate 40, and 'Heartbreak Hotel' played like a soulcrushing existential meditation:
And although it's always crowded, you can still find some room where broken-hearted lovers cry away their gloom…
It was strange, digging an Elvis song because I can't listen to Elvis without hearing Chuck D looping on a boombox somewhere in Brooklyn circa 1989: Elvis was a hero to most but he never meant shit to me you see, straight up racist that sucker was simple and plain. Motherfuck him and John Wayne. (And then Radio Raheem slams the box on Sal's countertop and demands two slices.) Like many of my generation, I was raised on Public Enemy long before I ran into Elvis. And Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing drilled that lyric into my brainpan. Elvis was a racist. He stole his music from black people.
Stole. Nobody will dispute that Elvis rode to fame on the back of old blues songs. There's the story that in 1957 he said, "The only thing black people can do for me is shine my shoes and buy my music." According to music historian Peter Guralnick, Elvis never said anything like that, and he was devastated by the rumor, choosing to address the matter in Jet Magazine before permanently shunning the press. "Tracing that rumored racial slur to its source was like running a gopher to earth," Jet later wrote. "Some said Presley had said it in Boston, which Elvis had never visited. Some said it was on Edward Murrow's show, where Elvis had never appeared."
And that Chuck D lyric? "As a musicologist — and I consider myself one — there was always a great deal of respect for Elvis, especially during his Sun sessions. As black people, we all knew that," said Chuck D. "My whole thing was the one-sidedness — like, Elvis's icon status in America made it like nobody else counted. My heroes came before him. My heroes were probably his heroes. As far as Elvis being 'The King,' I couldn't buy that."
According to Guralnick, Elvis would have been the first to agree:
When a reporter referred to him as the "king of rock 'n' roll" at the press conference following his 1969 Las Vegas opening, he rejected the title, as he always did, calling attention to the presence in the room of his friend Fats Domino, "one of my influences from way back." The larger point, of course, was that no one should be called king; surely the music, the American musical tradition that Elvis so strongly embraced, could stand on its own by now, after crossing all borders of race, class and even nationality. "The lack of prejudice on the part of Elvis Presley," said Sam Phillips, the Sun Records founder who discovered him, "had to be one of the biggest things that ever happened. It was almost subversive, sneaking around through the music, but we hit things a little bit, don't you think?"
Elvis desegregated his concerts. He name-checked blues and boogie artists at his shows. "Chuck D's attack was not aimed at Elvis the person, but Elvis the institution," said Helen Kolawole, in an essay for The Guardian called 'He Wasn't My King'. "The Elvis myth to this day clouds the true picture of rock 'n roll and leaves its many originators without due recognition."
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And what is this Elvis myth? I drive to Graceland, skirting past shuttered warehouses and banged-up row houses. I expect to see ferris wheels and giraffes because I keep confusing Graceland with Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. (America transforms its icons into such strange and loopy creatures.) Elvis Presley Boulevard is a tattered miracle mile. Two for one bacon burgers. Ladies' night at the car wash. A sign at Days Inn says, "If you aren't an Elvis fan, there is no possible explanation for you." I get cut off by a guy in a Yukon XL with a bumper sticker that says Blow Me.
I pull into a non-descript lot and pay a fortune for parking. Admission is $30. Only members of the "Elvis Insiders Club" are eligible to receive a discount on Elvis Entourage VIP packages. A shuttle bus takes our group across the street to a mansion on a hill. Remember that scene in The Jerk, when Steve Martin finally gets his dream house? He writes his mother:
Remember how I used to wish for a living room with a plaster lion in it from Mexico and how I always wanted a large 24-seat dining table in a dining room with original oil paintings by Michelangelo and Rembrandt and remember how I always wanted a rotating bed with pink chiffon and zebra stripes and remember how I used to chit chat with dad about always wanting a bathtub shaped like a clam and an office with orange and white stripes and remember how much I wanted an all red billiard room with a giant stuffed camel and how I wanted a disco room with my own disco dancers and a party room with fancy friends and remember how much I wanted a big backyard with Grecian statues, s-shaped hedges and three swimming pools?
Graceland is kind of like that. Nouveau riche. Ticky tacky. Classic American excess, tinged with sadness because there's the room he proudly decked out for his mother and over there you'll see the room where he recorded his last album because he was too drugged up to make it to the studio, and downstairs you'll find the lounge by the racquetball court where his body was found.
A photographic interlude:
Elvis bought that house when he was twenty-one. A kid who grew up poor and got lucky. Right place, right time. You get the sense that he knew it, too. Throughout his career, Elvis quietly sent money to Memphis charities and poor families. A thousand dollars here, five thousand there. When he received the Jaycee award for being one of the 'Ten Outstanding Men of the Nation' for his charity efforts, it was one of the only awards he showed up to collect. He was so proud of this award that he carried it with him on all of travels after giving this famous misty-eyed speech:
When I was a child, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream that I've dreamed has come true a hundred times. I'd like to say that I learned very early in life that without a song the day would never end. Without a song a man ain't got a friend. Without a song the road would never bend. Without a song, so I keep singing a song…
The shuttle bus dumps us in the gift shop. Elvis pillows, mailboxes, nightlights, tablecloths, oven mitts, spice racks, soap dispensers, soda, board games, and a 3-piece luggage set.
More Americans watched Elvis's Hawaiian TV special than the walk on the moon.
Big Momma Tornton first performed "Hound Dog" in 1952, four years before Elvis recorded it. Here she is, doing it with Buddy Guy in '65:
Helen Kolawole offers this thought experiment:
Let's imagine that instead of Elvis mania, Big Momma Thornton — author of "Hound Dog" — reigns supreme with her ode to no-good men. Big Momma's cultural conquest gives birth to a radical white teen culture and a complete and lasting overhaul of America's putrid racial politics. White teens frighten their parents silly with their extreme bids not to become Elvis's pale imitation of the black performers he witnessed, but the very image of Big Momma. Sounds outlandish? Any more audacious than stubbornly maintaining that this talented — but more importantly white — man deserves to be king of a genre created by black people?
It's a challenging scenario, although Kolawole gets one key fact wrong: Big Momma Thornton was the first to record "Hound Dog", yet the song was actually written by two Jewish guys named Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. And if you head over to the Stax Museum, you'll hear Rufus Thomas and Booker T. talking about tuning into gospel and the Grand Ole Opry and being influenced by Hank Williams, who in turn was influenced by Robert Johnson and Jimmie Rodgers, who played with Louie Armstrong . . . and American pop music is just such a crazy mixed-up thing with so many bright spots and sad corners and catchy hooks and horrible endings.
Here's Heartbreak Hotel, in case you're in a scuzzy motel tonight and you feel like listening to it:
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Elvis Presley – Heartbreak Hotel


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There were 72 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Saturday. At that time, there were 1,428 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
Armed robbery: A man was walking south on South Pilgrim Street toward East Market Street about 10:35 a.m. Saturday when a man rode up on a bike and robbed him at gunpoint. The robber went through the victim's pockets, taking his wallet, cellphone and keys before fleeing north on South Pilgrim Street. He was described as a black man 30 to 35 years old, 6 feet 1 inches tall and 170 pounds with a black baseball hat, a black jacket and black pants.
Shooting: Police were unable to locate the gunmen or the victims after shots were fired near William Moss Boulevard and EWS Woods Boulevard about 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Witnesses said two men stood in the street and fired several rounds at a silver vehicle before fleeing in a gray late-model Volkswagen Jetta. Several shell casings were found in the area.
Robbery: A 22-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman were walking near Hickock Drive and Hickock Court about 11:30 p.m. Friday when a man approached them on a bicycle, pulled a black handgun from his pocket and pointed it at the victims. The victims dropped their bags and ran away. When they returned, the man and their bags were gone.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 65 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Saturday, including 10 vehicle accidents, 35 medical calls and one structure fire.
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The 8 million offer to fight Tony was a MULTI-FIGHT deal..
8 for Tony
6 for Hatton..
6 for Cotto...
10 for Oscar...
Not being a fool..Floyd rejected that BOGUS offer and countered with his own
8 for Tony..agreed
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Arum...RAN to the media and laid this famous egg:
"Mayweather is delusional...sometimes you gotta' know when to hold em' and when to fold em'.....
When Arum rejected his counter-off...
Floyd bought-out his contract and became one of the wealthiest fighters EVER...Leaving Arum the shattered..bitter old FOOL you see today...
THAT is how it REALLY went down..
Margarito is NOTHING to duck..never has been..never will be..
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I bet Arum's buddies still rip him over losing out on all those Mayweather MILLIONS.
As for the haters...
Brian Kenny said Floyd was going to duck Baldomir BEFORE he jumped all over Margarito's lap.
They'll use any sorry-as.s fighter's name to diss Mayweather...
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People overrate those old school fighters so much that you hear comments about how those guys would easily beat both or have them scared to move above 140.
I dislike Floyd, but I definitely think he holds his own and even beats a lot of the ATG/HOF fighters from back n the day. I also think he loses to some....but I'm starting to get tired of how much people overrate those "old school" fighters in some weak attempt to look like a knowledgeable poster.
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Ummm because Manny Steward really is a Uncle Tom.
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You overrate the modern fighters like PAC that can't even fight on the inside or move his damn head after he punches.
Stop being jealous that so many of those greats donn't look like you and show some respect.
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That's an interesting ?....... Idk but Steward sucks anyways..... You either have guys that want to concoct some type of story line to get extra face time (Kellerman,Merchant) or guys that don't know what the hell they are watching (Lampley,Steward)..... I missed the guys that actually used to call the fight and tell you what was going on......
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Maybe it is because he is an ******* and a lot of people around boxing don't like him. Maybe Steward finds it hard to hide the fact.
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SEBRING - When a drug operation went bad earlier this year and suspected drug dealers shot two deputy U.S. marshals, Highlands County Detective Nathan Coogan ended up being lead detective for the Highlands County Sheriff's Office.
"It was definitely a learning experience," Coogan said Tuesday of being involved with such a major case involving multiple law enforcement agencies.
For his good work on that case and many others, Coogan was recognized Tuesday as the Veterans of Foreign Wars Officer of the Year.
Coogan, who only became a deputy in October 2012, when the Highlands County Sheriff's Office took over law enforcement for the city of Avon Park, said he never imagined that within two years he would receive such recognition at the Sheriff's Office.
"It was unexpected," he said.
Mike Norris, commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4300 in Sebring, presented Coogan with a plaque and a $100 check.
Norris said that Coogan was being recognized because of his dedication and good work and that he "represents the finest standards" of law enforcement.
"You serve the public well...," Norris told Coogan.
Coogan said he had wanted to be a law enforcement officer "as long as I can remember." When he served in the U.S. Air Force from 1999 to 2005 he was a military security officer, he said.
During that time, he said, he was stationed at McDill Air Force Base in Tampa, He was deployed at times to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq, as well as off the coast of Venezuela.
When Coogan left the Air Force, the Avon Park Police Department hired him in 2006. Coogan said he attended schools in Hardee County and then lived in Avon Park until he went into the Air Force.
During his stint in Avon Park, he rose to the rank of detective sergeant. Currently he's assigned as a persons crimes detective in the criminal investigation unit of the Highlands County Sheriff's Office.
Coogan said he has been the lead detective in cases involving robberies and home invasions. He helped investigate a series of restaurant robberies, he said.
Sgt. Tyrone Tyson, who nominated Coogan for the award, said that Coogan has an exceptional work ethic, a never say quit attitude and is a great team player, according to a press release.
Tyson also said that Coogan goes out of his way to assist new detectives and is always willing to assist in any investigations as needed, the press release said.
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Thursday, July 31, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit issued a ruling in the Minnesota childcare provider's lawsuit challenging a state law designed to forcibly unionize them. Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Foundation, issued the following statement in the wake of today's ruling:
"We disagree with the court's limited ruling holding that the childcare providers' lawsuit is not ripe until a unionization election is requested. However, we are encouraged that the court's reasoning further legitimizes the personal homecare providers' lawsuit filed earlier this week.
"The court's ruling today means that the homecare providers' suit is indeed ripe for review because those providers are under imminent threat of unionization, with the unionization election starting tomorrow.
"No homecare personal or childcare provider should be forced to associate with a state's hand-picked political representative. Jennifer Parrish and other Minnesota childcare providers intend to refile their lawsuit if and when AFSCME union officials push to force childcare providers into union ranks."
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Tifton Harley-Davidson in Georgia celebrated its pending expansion at a recent groundbreaking ceremony that included the town's mayor and representatives from the Chamber of Commerce.
Tifton H-D will grow from an 8,136 sq. ft. dealership to 29,597 sq. ft. destination in what the owners say is the only authorized Harley-Davidson expansion of 2010.
The highlight of the improvements will be a 7,329 sq. ft. second-story event deck with a state-of-the-art band stage and lots of party space, according to the Americus Times Reporter.
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The Dealer Floor Plan (DFP) pilot program will provide lines of credit that allow dealers to borrow against their inventory, and then repay that debt as they sell their inventory or borrow against the line of credit again to add new inventory.
The SBA says it will provide loan guarantees for the lines of credit through its 7(a) program. The pilot program will be available through Sept. 30, 2010, at which time the SBA will make the determination of whether or not to extend the program.
Loans will be available for a minimum of $500,000 up to the $2 million allowable under the 7(a) program. With a maximum repayment term of five years, the loans will come with a 75 percent government guarantee. Borrowers will also benefit from the temporary elimination of fees on 7(a) loans made possible by the America's Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
"Floor plan financing can offer some dealerships the opportunity to get through these tough economic times by allowing them to keep their inventory and cash flow intact, as well as save jobs these small businesses provide," SBA administrator Karen Mills said in a press release posted on the association's website.
The DFP program is the latest SBA initiative favoring small businesses. In early May, the administration temporarily amended the SBA 7(a) Business Loan Program to make it easier for businesses to qualify. The Motorcycle Industry Council decided to offer Dealernews readers access the MIC Technical Notice that addresses the SBA 7(a) loan program changes (usually the notices are for members only). Click here to download the notice.
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Fans push Betty White for Oscars on Facebook; Vernon Jordan stops by "The Good Wife"; Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift to faceoff at CMT Music Awards…
Facebook Fans Mount Betty White Oscar Push: Betty White is continuing to ride a wave of popularity on Facebook. After fans created a page that led to the comedian's appearance on "Saturday Night Live," there's a new group dedicated to getting the former "Golden Girls" star to host the Oscars. The group has already seen its fan page swell to 40,000 members for the campaign for "Getting Betty White to Host the Academy Awards." [EW]
Lil Wayne's Music Contraband: Even behind bars Lil Wayne can't stay out of trouble. The rapper, who is serving time in Rikers Island on a gun charge, found himself in trouble with the law for music contraband. Yes, that's right, "music" contraband. The multi-platinum rapper reportedly had a charger and headphones for an unauthorized mp3 device and a fellow inmate had a watch that doubled as a music player –all three of the items were confiscated. [LA Times]
CMT Nominees: Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood will go toe to toe on the CMT Music Awards for video of the year. The two, along with Lady Antebellum, snagged three nominations from the coming awards show set to air on June 9. [OMG]
Twilight Salary Drama Builds: Actors Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz are reportedly each holding out for a $4 million payday for the next installment of "Twilight." The two have banded together in hopes of pushing producers to settle the squabble. [EW]
Vernon Jordan on "The Good Wife": Veteran D.C. power player Vernon Jordan popped up on last night's episode of "The Good Wife" playing himself. He was touted as a possible new partner for the troubled firm at the center of the drama.


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MARKET SNAP: At 6:15 a.m. ET, S&P 500 futures up 0.1%. 10-Year Treasury yield higher at 2.70%. Nymex down 3 cents at $104.27. Gold 5.9% lower at $1,288.0. In Europe, the FTSE 100, DAX and CAC 40 are closed for the Easter public holiday. In Asia, Nikkei 225 flat and Hang Seng up 0.3%.
WATCH FOR: March Chicago Fed National Activity Index (8:30 a.m. Eastern Time). March Leading Indicators (10:00): seen +0.7%; previously +0.5%. Halliburton, Hasbro, ICU Medical, Kimberly-Clark, Netflix, Rent-A-Center, SunTrust and Zions BanCorp are among companies scheduled to report quarterly results.
While the beating that momentum stocks have taken over the past month has garnered plenty of attention, the major U.S. stock indexes are once again perched near record levels.
Much of the turbulence has been concentrated in social-media companies, cloud-computing firms and early-stage drug producers. As these so-called momentum stocks have dropped sharply, the worry has been that they'd take the broad market down with them.
That hasn't played out.
Many investors now believe that the big flows of money into and out of these stocks will have little impact on the appetite for bigger, more-established companies. There is renewed confidence that the broad indexes are poised to move higher once the so-called momentum stocks stabilize.
"Does the recent mini crash in the high-valuation sectors signify the beginning of major trouble on Wall Street? The answer is no," Chen Zhao, managing editor and chief strategist at Canadian research firm BCA Research, wrote to clients last week. "The recent shakeout may be the byproduct of market rotation, which often results in leadership shifts rather than a new bear market."
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, coming off its biggest gain of the year during the holiday-shortened week, is only 1% from its all-time high. The S&P 500 is positive for the year and is only 1.4% from its own record hit earlier this month.
By comparison, the Nasdaq Biotechnology Index, which doubled from early 2013 through the beginning of this year, is down 14% over the past month. The Nasdaq Internet Index is down 9% over the same time frame.
"Investors have collectively realized that earnings and growth assumptions in these highflying stocks were too aggressive and hard to come by in a world of low nominal growth and weak pricing power," Mr. Zhao said. "As a result, they have run for the exits, causing prices to fall."
The difference is that the broad market hasn't felt the same pain.
"Such localized shakeouts are an inherent part of any bull market," he added. "Although high-valuation stocks have been hit hard in the U.S. equity market, the rest of the global financial markets remain very much focused on exploiting yield, playing various carry trades and taking on risk. This is another reason why the crack in social network stocks may not be foretelling of something bigger about to happen."
The bull market, in its sixth year following the financial crisis, has shown signs of fatigue in 2014. After last year's 30% rally, the S&P 500 is up just 0.9% this year. As MoneyBeat columnist E.S. Browning pointed out, the S&P 500 hasn't dropped 10% or more since September 2011. That is twice as long as usual.
But stocks have avoided a major drop in 2014. Neither the Dow nor the S&P 500 fell even 4% in the latest round of selling. That resilience has made market watchers like Mr. Zhao confident in the near-term outlook.
If momentum stocks can't take the market down, what will?
"It is too early to abandon equities," Mr. Zhao said. "There is no reason to exit the party just yet."
Morning MoneyBeat Daily Factoid: On this day in 1980, Rosie Ruiz was declared the female winner of the Boston Marathon. Days later, however, she was disqualified from the race and her title was stripped after officials revealed she didn't actually run the race. She jumped onto the course about a mile from the finish and completed the marathon essentially sweat-free.
-By Steven Russolillo; follow him on Twitter @srussolillo.
Netflix Inc. is projected to report first-quarter earnings of 81 cents a share, according to a consensus survey from FactSet. The video-streaming company is expected to add 570,000 subscribers in the second quarter, slightly below the 600,000 in the second quarter of last year, according to analyst Doug Anmuth at J.P. Morgan. Anmuth rates the stock at overweight with a price target of $500.
Professional networking site LinkedIn Corp. said on Friday it has reached 300 million members worldwide after adding more than 23 million members since year-end. It had roughly 277 million members when it reported fourth-quarter results in February. The stock market was closed Friday for Good Friday.
Halliburton Co. is forecast to post earnings of 72 cents a share in the first quarter.
Tech Slide Hurts Demand for IPOs: "Fund managers are shying away from U.S. IPOs after having been burned by once-highflying tech and biotech stocks. But many investors remain optimistic about the overall stock market."
Risk of Stock Pullback Continues: "Investors breathed a sigh of relief last week as major stock indexes recovered almost all their recent losses. Talk of a major downdraft faded. Many money managers warned clients, however, that the risk of a sharp pullback has been delayed, not eliminated. Stocks still are expensive after last year's huge gains, making it hard for them to keep rising as the Federal Reserve reduces its support. "
Police Grapple With Cybercrime: "As crime is increasingly moving online, state and local police—who have spent decades refining how to track down murderers, thieves and drug dealers—are having a hard time keeping up."
Silicon Valley Tech Giants Discussed Hiring, Say Documents: "Some of tech's biggest names—Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin, Bill Campbell—conferred and squabbled and made peace privately for years, documents in a current Silicon Valley antitrust case reveal. But they were unable to pull a new company into the club, the court documents show: Facebook declined their friend request."
Ahead of the Tape: AT&T Counts on Its Next Big Thing: "AT&T is heavily promoting an offering called Next, but the strategy has its drawbacks."
Court Case May Help Define 'Insider Trading': "The outcome of a pending case could threaten some of the convictions won by prosecutors in their yearslong crackdown on insider trading."
Mutual Funds Moonlight as Venture Capitalists: "BlackRock, T. Rowe Price Group and Fidelity Investments are among the mutual-fund firms pushing into Silicon Valley at a record pace, snapping up stakes in high-profile startup companies."
Fallen Bitcoin Titan Focused on Cafe: "As the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange sank deeper into trouble, its CEO was busy focusing on coffees and pastries for a bitcoin cafe he planned to open."
The New Winners and Losers in America's Shale Boom: "A new breed of energy company is a hit with investors using a mantra long scorned in the oil-and-gas business: Small is beautiful."
Airbnb Valued at $10 Billion: "A group led by private-equity firm TPG finalized an agreement to invest $450 million in Airbnb, valuing the home-rental site at $10 billion."