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Way Station, by Clifford D. Simak
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Way Station, by Clifford D. Simak (Hugo Best Novel, 1964)
published in 1963
where I got it: gift from a friend
My friend Andy has been talking about Way Station for a while, but he's always so vague. He would just tell me how good it is, and that it's one of his favorite Simak books, and that I should read it. But he never actually told me what this book was about. Had he told me the premise of the book, I'd have read it the moment he gave me a copy.
It's funny, this book is *exactly* what the title says it is about. In rural Wisconsin, Enoch Wallace runs a special kind of way station. It's a place for the weary to rest for a bit, to have a bed for the night, and perhaps a cup of coffee in the morning before departing. The station takes up Enoch's entire home, and he's been running it now for, oh, about a hundred years. And when I say "weary to rest for a bit", I mean it's a stopping place for aliens who are jumping across the light years on their way to the frontier or back to their families. Some of them stick around for just as long as it takes to ready the machinery to send them back on their way, others have become friends with Enoch over the years, and purposely schedule their trips so they can spend as much time with their strange Terran friend as possible. He even shares his coffee with anyone who is willing to try it.
Way Station is a positively delightful novel. It's easy to get into, fun to read, and joyously optimistic about life in the universes. If you've read The Dark Forest, this book takes practically the opposite approach towards intelligent life in the universe.
Binti, by Nnedi Okorafor
Posted October 12, 2015on:
published Sept 2015
where I got it: purchased new
In a way, Binti is a completely traditional scifi/hero's journey story – young woman gets an opportunity to leave home, does so, finds herself in a situation far beyond her control, and ends up single handedly stopping an interstellar war. A perfect dove-tailing of tribal and futuristic, of sentient space ships and ancient cultural traditions, Binti was a beautiful story to read. For some of you, this will just be a story that you read and forget about two days later. For others of you, it will be a door that opens and never closes. File me under "others of you".
Binti is from Earth, from a traditional family in a traditional village. Her people are curious, but they don't travel. Her family is famously innovative, but inward looking. Her acceptance to a prestigious university is as thrilling to her as it is horrifying to her family. She leaves in the middle of the night. Just by leaving she has shamed her family, so she might as well go all the way and get on the damn shuttle.
She wasn't surprised to learn she was the only Himba on the shuttle, nor is she surprised to be the only Himba student at the university. However it was a shocked, shameful silence that blanketed her when strangers poked and prodded her protective hairstyle – can I touch it, does it smell, why do you put mud in your hair, that's so weird, don't let the mud touch anything on the ship. What they are telling her is that she is different from them, and that she should be ashamed of her difference. That to be accepted, she needs to assimilate, and look and act like them. That when she reaches civilization, she'll understand. Yes, all that in a facial expression and a few words spoken at her, not to her. People are just this crass in real life, too.
The Three Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
Posted May 27, 2015on:
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The Three Body Problem, by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu
published in November 2014
Where I got it: purchased new
This review contains minor spoilers.
I had a very tough time getting into The Three Body Problem. In the first half of the novel, it's hard to tell what's going on, who or what is important to pay attention to. There are certainly interesting and important things that happen (and which are explained at the end), but I couldn't understand how any of the dots were connected.
The story starts during China's Cultural Revolution. Professors, scientists, academics, anyone who is seen to be under the influence of western thoughts are persecuted and often psychologically tortured to the point of suicide. Ye Wenjie watches as her physicist father is murdered by teenaged Red Guards. Guilty by association, Wenjie is sent to the frontier to be politically rehabilitated through manual labor. A talented scientist herself, she is recruited to be part of the secretive Red Coast Base. It will be years before anyone is allowed to talk about what happened at Red Coast.
The narrative jumps between Ye Wenjie's life at Red Coast and modern day China, where nanomaterials researcher Wang Miao is pulled into a military investigation where he could be the key to stopping a dangerous enemy. Except no one will tell him who the enemy is, or where they are. He's shown a list of scientists who recently committed suicide, and is exposed to a terrifying countdown that is counting down to, what exactly? Reluctantly, Wang becomes friends with Shi Qiang, the gruff police officer who had originally pulled him into the military meeting. A name on the list of dead scientists catches Wang's attention, Yang Dong. He's encouraged to visit Yang's elderly mother, who turns out to be Ye Wenjie.
The connection between Wang and Ye Wenjie is a point of no return. For Ye, everything she's worked towards is coming full circle. For Wang, he learns of a video game called Three Body, in which the goal of the game (or at least the first level of it) is to predict how long the next stable and chaotic eras will be in an environment in which the laws of orbital mechanics don't seem to make any sense. Players who understand what the game truly represents are invited to learn who made the game and why.
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The Gabble and Other Stories, by Neal Asher (short story collection)
published 2008, Night Shade Edition published 2015
where it got it: received review copy from Night Shade Books (thanks!)
My first Neal Asher novel was The Skinner, an edgy space opera that I've lovingly described as "magnificently disgusting". In that novel, the name of the game is adapt or die, and the denizens of the planet Spatterjay take full advantage of evolutionary opportunities. Even visitors who stick around long enough can watch their bodies change into something not quite human. The Skinner made me an instant fan of Asher, and I've been watching for his titles ever since.
Many of Asher's novels take place in his Polity Universe, which in a similar fashion to Banks' Culture novels, the novels all take place in the same universe, and occasionally characters from one book show up or are mentioned in another, but you can generally jump around in the order the books were published. Not sure Asher is for you? Not sure you want to dive into a new universe? The Gabble, a short story collection of stores from the Polity will answer both of those questions for you. If you ask me, you can just answer those two questions with a resounding Yes and be done with it.
What I loved about how Asher does alien planets and aliens is that everything is so damn alien. Why should aliens have two arms, two legs, a head, a nose and a mouth? If that configuration is unique to Earth, it follows that every planet will have a unique configuration based on evolutionary needs, the planet's unique environs, and any one of a million other variables in how life works. No one we run into is going to look like us, think like us, or communicate like us. There is no gentleness here, no Star Trek style diplomacy. Some species simply do not communicate with others, and humans are quite tasty. It might sound harsh, but this is how nature works. When it comes down to it, we are just animals in a food chain.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg
published in 1977
where I got it: purchased used
Raise your hand if you saw that blog post title and immediately heard five musical notes.
Novelizations are tricky beasts to review, because for the most part the author isn't in control of the plot or characters. It's hard to judge it as a story, because it's based on something that hadn't originally been meant to be presented as words on a page. Something that looks fan-freaking-tastic on the big screen might not translate so well to the page, you know? My attitude towards novelizations is do they add to my enjoyment of a movie? If it's a movie I've never seen, does reading the novelization make me want to see the movie? (That actually happened. Read a very enjoyable novelization in early 2014, liked it so much I bought a movie ticket. and the movie was awful!)
Reading the novelization of Close Encounters of The Third Kind was absolute pure nostalgic fun. The movie was a huge part of my child and young adulthood, and reading the novelization was a fun way to experience the movie in a different way. The book is a direct line for line, scene for scene novelization of the movie, but I was happily surprised by the deeper characterization and smoother pacing (I always felt the middle of the movie where Roy is figuring his shit out gets really slow and draggy). Or maybe I liked the pacing better in the book because I could control being able to linger in my favorite scenes, and zip through the less interesting ones. That's a nice thing about novelizations: the reader controls the pace.
Regeneration by Julie Czerneda, and GIVE AWAY of Species Imperative Omnibus!
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Regeneration (Species Imperative #3) by Julie Czerneda
published in 2006
where I got it: purchased used
It's hard to get into the plot of Regeneration without spoiling things that happened in the previous books, so I'm going to try to keep the plot-talk very light. The super quick oversimplified plot introduction is that in the not too distant future we have become part of the Interspecies Union, which is exactly what it sounds like. Thanks to no-space transit technology provided by the multi-dimensional Ro, and the Sinzi who administrate it, hundreds of galactic species can travel all over the place. Brymn, a Dhryn researcher, seeks out the Earthbound salmon researcher Dr. Mackenzie Connor (Mac to her friends), for help with how to save his species.
In Regeneration, the final book of the Species Imperative trilogy, while most governments are trying to figure out a weapon of mass destruction (or extinction) that can be used against the Dhryn, Mac and her team are asking questions that are more along the lines of *why*? Why do the Dhryn have this biological urge? What is their biology anyways? Have they always been like this? How and where did they evolve? Can we trust our sources of information? I wish all scifi books had this much science in their fiction. Give this series to a high school kid, and watch them fall in love with biology.
Underneath the superb characters and the smart dialog, and the hella fun aliens (whose biology makes sense!), and the political intrigue and the race against time are some heavy questions:
How do we handle an invasive species, especially if that species is intelligent and space-faring?
How do you study a species that most people (human and alien) have been taught to shoot on sight?
How do you get a panicked population to calm down? How do you get someone to work against their biological urges (or what they've been lead to believe are their biological urges?)
Migration by Julie E. Czerneda (Species Imperative #2)
published in 2005
where I got it: purchased used
Now that the summer is over, I want everyone to tell me how they dealt with all the weeds that popped up in their garden all summer. Did you read up online about invasive species? Did you pull the weeds out one by one? Spray weed poison on them? figure out what their food source was and then deprive them of it? Nuke 'em from orbit, just to be sure?
When I reviewed the first book in the Species Imperative series, Survival, I made reference to the Guggenheim Museum. That I'd felt a little let down that when I got to the top floor of the metaphorical museum, there was a door in the corner that said "roof", and how unsurprised I was that the door led to the roof.
Okay, so now I'm reading Migration, the second book in the series. I've opened the door, and I'm on the roof. And damned if the view from up here is far more amazing than I'd expected. I can nearly see my house from here, I can nearly see across the solar system from here, I can see that what's going on is a hell of a lot bigger than what I'd originally thought. What's happening here is huge. If Mac was on this roof with me, she'd be standing at the edge with a huge smile on her face saying "wanna jump?"
Mac is trying to get her life back together. She's getting better at using her prosthetics, getting better at not crying every time she thinks of Emily. She's trying to forget Nik before she decides how she feels about him. No one she works with knows where she's been, let alone what she's witnessed on an alien planet. The Dhryn are the galaxy's greatest enemies, how can Mac ever tell anyone she'd become friends with one? That she's spoken to a Dhryn progenitor? that when she sleeps, she talks in Dhryn? She's trying to stop waking up screaming. To be sympathetic to the galaxy's most invasive species is a recipe for arrest.


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Opened 9 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
#5609 closed (fixed)
newforms-admin: input fields do not regard field class
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|length input class
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I tried the newforms-admin branch, and noticed input field length for a SmallInteger field is wider than the trunk. Below is excerpt from the html source from newforms-admin branch and trunk. The one from newforms-admin is missing class=... etc.
Treatment visits: <input type="text" name="treatment_visits" value="19" id="id_treatment_visits" />
Treatment visits: <input type="text" id="id_treatment_visits" class="vSmallIntegerField required" name="treatment_visits" size="5" value="19" maxlength="5" />
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comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by awi <aloysius.prayitno@…>
- Cc aloysius.prayitno@… added
- Needs documentation unset
- Needs tests unset
- Patch needs improvement unset
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by Xian
- Owner changed from nobody to xian
- Triage Stage changed from Unreviewed to Accepted
Thanks for reporting this, please let me know if any other field types are displaying incorrect widgets.
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by oggie_rob
Working on this for the sprint. I'll be working off trunk and changing the db.models.fields.formfields() functions and probably some newforms.fields areas also. This will also result in changes to form_for_model/instance that I believe will be preferred (since things like class="required" is currently not being served up via form_for_model).
Changed 9 years ago by oggie_rob
Short version - most changes in trunk
Changed 9 years ago by oggie_rob
newforms changes to support newforms-admin setting up widgets correctly
comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by oggie_rob
This code is split two ways. Most of the changes I made were in newforms, so that form_for_model will return an appropriate widget. For example, a CharField model field will return a TextInput with class="required" (if blank=False), length="30" and maxlength according to the model. These changes then support features in newforms-admin pretty easily.
I updated some tests but ran out of time. Hopefully I can get to them later, but if the target branch is in question it would make sense to delay. Certainly there are plenty of tests that fail currently.
Finally one area that was a little funky... forms.Field uses a TextInput as a default widget, however the number of arguments in the __init__ function are rather small. It is a bit strange because typically you may want to set "size" and "maxlength" attributes of a TextField. Anything that extends Field misses out on those, however, and it is better to extend CharField. My feeling is that it would have been cleaner to not have a default widget.
comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by brosner
- Keywords nfa-blocker added; newforms-admin removed
This breaks current admin functionality. I am tagging with nfa-blocker.
comment:6 Changed 9 years ago by Alex
- Has patch set
comment:7 Changed 8 years ago by garcia_marc
- milestone set to 1.0 alpha
comment:8 Changed 8 years ago by brosner
Marked #7710 as a duplicate. We need to go through and find all the instances where there is a missing CSS class on a widget.
comment:9 Changed 8 years ago by anonymous
- Cc cmawebsite@… added
comment:10 Changed 8 years ago by brosner
- Keywords nfa-blocker removed
- milestone changed from 1.0 alpha to 1.0 beta
- Owner changed from xian to brosner
- Status changed from new to assigned
This ticket is going to require a bit of work. alpha will have to be released with this as a known issue in the admin. Bumping to 1.0-beta.
comment:11 Changed 8 years ago by Alex
- Version changed from newforms-admin to SVN
comment:12 Changed 8 years ago by jacob
- Resolution set to duplicate
- Status changed from assigned to closed
#8163 has a better (looking, mostly) patch.
comment:13 Changed 8 years ago by jacmkno
- Needs tests set
- Resolution duplicate deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
I don't think the #8163 has a solution for this that thicked was supposed to be fixed but it still does not work in the current dev version.
This ticket has to be re-opened.
comment:14 Changed 7 years ago by gwilson
- milestone changed from 1.0 beta to 1.2
comment:15 Changed 7 years ago by ubernostrum
- milestone 1.2 deleted
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from reopened to closed
So far as I'm aware, this was fixed a long time ago.


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Monday's "Immigrant Justice Rally" brought hundreds to the state Capitol. Many protested legislation that would make illegal aliens felons and secure the Mexican border with walls and new technology. It's a move U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering supports.
"Our first responsibility is to secure our border," said Pickering, "then have a system that we hope would transition those that are here illegally."
Immigrant rights advocates say they want that "transition" to mean the chance to become American citizens. There are an estimated 100,000 illegal immigrants in Mississippi.
"It's so many struggles that they went through to bring themselves here. Better themselves, better their families. They've been hiding in the shadows for so many years now," said Jerrico Romero, an immigration advocate.
Pickering said he supports a guest worker program that would allow the path to citizenship, but first, illegal immigrants would be required to pay fines and learn English.
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Pickering admits several industries in Mississippi are dependent on immigrant labor.
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Tools Explore New Thinking About Affordable Rental Housing
The National Housing Conference and Center for Housing Policy have created a suite of new materials exploring lifecycle underwriting, a new way of thinking about the costs of affordable multifamily rental housing. Read More
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A bipartisan commission of former Cabinet secretaries, former senators, and other leading housing and economic experts have unveiled recommendations for a new framework for housing policy, which the commission says intend to further the nation's ... Read More
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Where do you imagine Fleener getting picked?
I agree, I think he will be gone before 30. Pass catching TEs are very popular in today's NFL. Everybody wants one. They create mismatches and are usually excellent targets in the red-zone. However, Fleener is not quite a Vernon Davis type of prospect (VD went at #6, but he came out with a very weak WR class).
I think Fleener will get picked between 20-25. Floyd and Blackmon are both much better pass-catching options. Kendall Wright will also probably go before Fleener. He will probably be taken after the top 3-4 WRs are off the board.


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Skip to comments.Why Obama Will Lose
Posted on 10/15/2008 9:01:25 PM PDT by fiodora
Moments of crisis have their purpose, not least of which is to witness how those weathering them will measure up to much greater challenges ahead. The recent financial market tumble afforded priceless opportunities to rate the strength of character of those to whom we may soon be yielding the power to govern. It is noteworthy that when the opportunity arose to display the desired strengths upon which voters will be counting on beyond voting day, Barack Obama -- not John McCain -- chose instead to mock the presumed shortcomings of his opponent.
This particular crisis also furnished Obama and his loyal media posse with an unparalleled opportunity to reinforce the central theme of his campaign, which casts his opponent as the proud and fated heir of the totality of George W. Bush's legacy. The favored three-pronged Obama strategy now consists of dissociating his own party of any shared responsibility for the debacle, refocusing the blame for the negatives on his opponent and taking front stage as the deliverer from all our calamities. But this strategy is bound for failure.
The first reason why Obama will be defeated is that this hour of crisis has uncovered a fierce vein of opportunism in the man. This pathological streak, characterized by a blind determination to succeed at all costs, was prominently displayed in his gleeful impetuosity to capitalize on the media's alarmist reports of a complete financial "meltdown".
During this financial collapse's most climactic moments, Obama directed his efforts at pandering to a somewhat misguided public discontent and stoking the embers of panic, rather than drafting alternative solutions for addressing the economic imbalances that precipitated the crisis in the first place. For a campaign that was pioneered on the pledge to steer off petty attacks, these types of knee-jerk reactions now define both the man and his campaign as both marked by extreme lapses of cognitive dissonance.
The second reason for the coming fall of Obama is that, while bad tidings may draw some attention, they are seldom guaranteed to encourage sustained support for the messenger. Obama's own predecessor is well acquainted with the unintended consequences of placing too much emphasis on the politics of doom and derision. Most people are eventually worn out and disillusioned by the constant drum of negativity. Other than the static mantra of "change we can believe in" -- recently modified to the slightly more imperious "change we need" -- Obama has little to offer in the way of any substantial alternatives to offset his ominous outlook of a future absent his wisdom and guidance at the helm, which leads one to believe that about the only thing that he can guarantee will change are his campaign slogans.
The third reason for Obama's eventual defeat is that -- in spite of his hopes for the triumph of image over substance -- he seems not to have yet assimilated the rather basic political maxim that words and deeds which project mutually contradictory messages can easily become very powerful weapons in the hands of one's adversary. To wit, few things appeared more contrived than the impassioned appeals on behalf of the downtrodden and the stern words of rebuke against the excesses of ruthless Wall Street profiteers still in his breath, as he boarded his personal jet to join in a $28,500 (hat tip to readers for correcting the figure) per plate fund raising fete with the most fiscally intemperate of our species: the lavish Hollywood glitterati. Needless to say, such glaring inconsistencies leave Obama wide open to the same charges of hypocrisy he has more than once indignantly leveled against the opposition.
The fourth reason is Obama's curious -- but not wholly unpredictable -- decision to yoke himself with Joe Biden, the gaffe-prone and mischievously wry senator from Delaware, whose core ideology is virtually indistinguishable from his own. Set against McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate, which brought a new level of political relevance to the office of vice-president, the democratic ticket has suddenly emerged as the one that offers the least opportunities for distinct philosophical approaches to today's sundry economic and social issues. It is no wonder the McCain-Palin ticket has become so attractive to a country that -- contrary to the current progressive dogma -- is very willing to embrace diversity.
And finally, with the exigencies of the moment calling for more desperate measures will come the re-awakening in Obama's mind of the notion that sooner or later he will have to conjure up the uncharitable verdict of racial malfeasance as the cause for this country's hesitancy in exalting him to the lofty echelons of American politics. No longer will he forego requiring votes from the reluctant as guilt offerings to atone for their prejudice laden indecision, or employing subsidiary bully pulpits to showcase his own personal (and mostly imagined) upheaval as a contestant of unwonted pedigree amidst what he and his minions insist on characterizing as a hopelessly racist electorate. And the more egregious these calls to penance for racial sins at the voting booth become, the more he will incur the disdain of those who silently feel that it should only be called racism when one votes or doesn't vote for a candidate because of the color of his skin. on "Why Obama Will Lose"
If Obama loses, there are going to be riots.
Heck, if he wins there are going to be riots.
Let there be riots and watch a democrat never win again as they will be associated with chaos.
But we all know if McCain wins, he'll immediately bump Palin as VP and offer it to Obama to show how he can reach across the aisle.
Btw, did McCain point to anyone tonight?
Listen to the George C. Scott "Patton" speech again.
The MARXISM espoused by Obama and his connections to Bill Ayers a traitor in wartime and a domestic terrorist for the better part of a decade (his group was active in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s in violent crimes), it is all PERSONAL REPUGNANT to Americans. It is not the America we grew up in. It is not the political ideology that we will accept lightly.
If we hadn't seen its' effects around the world, it might have had a shot.
In this day and time, a NAKED Marxist cannot win. For now, the media and the Democrats have tried to have a poker face and play at being moderates.
Good, let them burn their neighborhoods with the network TV cameras showing these animals across America.
Let there be riots....let people steal nike sneakers and break glass windows...come to my neighborhood please.
We have been fortunate not to experience election violence.
I've heard that police departments around the country are quietly gearing up for election day and the days after. If anything happens, they would like to nip it in the bud. But as we saw years ago with riots, esp. after Martin Luther King was killed, the police can be overwhelmed by angry mobs.
This election has made history based on predictions of violence. I have never, ever, heard of threats of violence based on results of any previous election in this country.
If violence breaks out, do you think that Obama will come out there and say, "can't we all just get along"????
I seriously wonder what the reaction of Obama would be to violence. If he loses this election and it's a razor thin margin, could he be angry enough that he wouldn't get out in front to appeal for calm? Just a thought.
He's a total lightweight
He is a commie socialist
He is a black man
He dissed Shrillary
His wife is a bee-yatch
He's a Black Panther
He sees America as THE PROBLEM, not as that which should be emulated.
Take your pick. The people who vote against him are going to have one or more of the above reasons as THEIR reason, like it or not.
That this boob made it past the first round still stuns me.
I agree. Obama will lose.
He will probably call his cousin Odinga for advice on how to keep the riots going.
The Dems have started them before. Here's one from 1866-
New Orleans Riots (18731874), clash of political factions led by Louisiana gubernatorial rivals Republican W. P. Kellogg and Democrat John McEnery. The disorder began 5 March 1873, when McEnery's partisans attacked two police stations. On 6 March the members of McEnery's legislature were arrested and jailed. In response to the violence, federal troops were ordered into Louisiana to protect Republican officials, which angered the McEneryites. In response, McEnery's supporters formed the White League in the spring of 1874. On 14 September 1874, the league launched a successful attack on Kellogg's forces; twenty-seven people were killed in the melee. McEnery took over the state government the following day, but U.S. troops hurried into the city and restored Kellogg on 17 September. The uprising paved the way for the overthrow of the Republican regime in Louisiana three years later.
Same here.
Obama is going to lose.
Historically liberal northern senators have a very poor track record trying to win the white house, for democrats southern governors have been the key, southern governors that appear to run as moderates.
Governors are always favored for the white house. Reagan, Carter, Clinton, Bush 43. Governors all.
So we have an uber liberal/socialist junior senator from the north with radical ties, against a moderate experienced senator war hero from the west with a Governor on the ticket. If history is any teacher, Americans will elect McCain.
He is right. McCain/Palin will win...bambi is a worthless sack of ..it...
He only made it past the first round by cheating and stealing the nomination from Hillary. I guess the Clintons' are shocked it happened to them. Shows you how the donkey party eats their own. As the old saying goes what comes around goes around...or what seeds you sow you shall reap...
IF Obama wins, it will because of FRAUD, pure and simple. He's been setting this up for years. CO
IF Obama wins, it will because of FRAUD, pure and simple. He's been setting this up for years. CO
And WTF should I care?
I am only seeing a very few HusseinO bumper stickers. I saw very many more Kerry bumper stickers here in Californica
We need to ensure Obama Hussein LOSES. He's a fraud, folks. A Marxist. Americans are certainly asleep at the wheel this year.
If enough rats get in the privacy of the voting booth and vote McCain, we can win. But the voter fraud is going to be hard to overcome. God help us.
And probably in the same places to boot! Rioters don't typically bother driving to a different neighborhood.
I am more and more convinced that the erronious polls are a setup for the "we wuz cheated" that will come on Election Night.
McCain will win. Sarah Palin has brought a breath of fresh air...and true change. What a great team!
Let us not forget that Reagan was behind in the polls quite up the election and he crushed his opponent both times! I think once the actual voting starts Obama might not win.
Who is Bambi?
Yes she is cool! But there are no more debates with her in them. I wonder how she can get more visibility ???
If Obama looses, may it be because of the FRAUD, pure and simple. May his strongest supporters, the alphabelt media, be exposed for what they are, leftish leaning liars.
Who's the schmuck in the fedora? Looks like Lavrenti Beria.
You go the schmuck part right. It's Saul Alinsky.
That's a phenomenal graphic!
What a piece of crap!
Did you catch the number of ACORN registrations turned in to Ohio??? Exactly 666,000! No joke...
"That this boob made it past the first round still stuns me."
My thoughts exactly. How anybody can vote for Obama, given his connections to terrorists both domestic and foreign, and the connection to Chicago's corrupt polical machine is beyond me. My choice for President was made two years ago and has never waivered. In fact my confidence in McCain as the better choice has risen sharply during that time.
However, if a southern democrat senator with a democrat governor as a running mate were on the ticket........then it would be 24-7 the importance of executive experience, the history of presidential elections, etc., etc.
Another good example is military service......
When Clinton ran, military experience was played down by the MSM, because the republicans, Bush41 and Dole, were real war heroes and Clinton was a draft dodger (the MSM even covered up his lying/law breaking concerning his draft record), BUT, when Gore and Kerry ran, suddenly, it was important for a candidate to also be a veteran (the MSM covered up the real reasons that Gore and Kerry only served a fraction of the required term/tour of duty for Viet Nam).................today, the MSM reluctantly acknowledges McCain's real hero status, but is, for the most part, silent on the importance of military veteran service. How convenient.........
The MSM covered for Clinton to get him elected, and they are covering for Obama to get him elected.......Clinton was/is deeply flawed, as is Obama.
If Obama were to win, it would only be possible through naked media bias and massive vote fraud, the same way Clinton won two presidential elections.
For those who cannot see the naked media bias, well, the scales have not fallen from their eyes as of yet..........
The basic tools of the MSM are hammer and tongs, and rose-colored glasses. To paraphrase Fox News, I'll let viewers decide as to which political party gets the hammer and tongs, and which party is seen through the rose-colored glasses.
One last thought...
Obama has no Perot factor helping him.
Clinton did, both times.
Obama does not have the Perot factor, but he does have something very big that the Clinton races did not have to such a degree......."racial bias" browbeating peer pressure by the Obama camp and the MSM.........the kind of stuff that frightens queasy democrats, moderates, independents and RINOs into hiding behind the couch.
That too!! You have a point but Fraud by any other name is still Fraud no? It all stinks imho. CO
Recently, the nauseating cult-like media does not even bother to pretend they are "converted."
The media-lackies happily hump the freedom of press...
Now we have Odinga's model...
You are right!!!!!
Do you think then that Joe Biden along with other officials in the Democratic Party should be prosecuted for fraud in allowing Obama to continue his charade of running for President when everyone knows he doesn't have a valid birth certificate?
I left off the Obambi...that comes from Jack Wheeler.
Yeah actually I do. I think they should ALL be prosecuted, exposed and everything else that can be done to them. I suppose it depends on the will of the opposition and "authorities" whoever that might be nowadays. Shiza. CO
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Learning from our past.
The American Civil War (HIS-326)
- Course Description: A study of the Civil War focusing on topics such Civil War medical practice, prisons, Negroes in the Civil War, constitutional issues, conscientious objectors, Copperhead activity, desertion and the life of the common soldier rather than on generals and battles.
- Course Topics:
- Events Leading to the Firing on Fort Sumter
- Civil War Prisons
- The Political, Economic, and Military Issues Confronting the Confederacy
- The Military Contribution of Blacks in the Civil War
- Medical Practice During the Civil War
- Course Length: 6 Weeks
- Credit Hours: 3
Modern World History (HIS-225)
- Course Description: An exploration of modern history addressing five regions that cover the entire world over the time period from the 1950's until today. Emphasis is on how the ending of the Second World War as well as the Cold War, industrialism, religious conflict, terrorism, and modern technology are affecting the world of today.
This course will also take into account the increasing importance of political revolutions, nationalism, and the interdependence of nations, as they developed in order to give the student insight into the present world as it is moving through the 21st Century.
- Course Objectives:
- Place the History of America in the Proper Perspective of World History
- Identify the Forces that have Shaped a New Global Culture
- Discuss the Enduring Issues that Face the World Today
- Interpreting Historical Situations and Events in the Light of Our Own Unique Christian World and Life View
- Course Length: 6 Weeks
- Credit Hours: 3


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The circuit shown below has been in operation for a very long time. A student inadvertently drops a screwdriver across terminals a and b. Assume that the resistance of the screw driver is negligible.
a- Find the current in the screwdriver at t = 0+ and t = ∞.
b- Derive an equation for the current in the screwdriver for t ≥ 0+ .
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However I don't see any of my content in this new install. i looked in the database and it's still there.
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The ABC does to Joyce what it denounced when done to Gillard
Andrew Bolt
–, Tuesday, June, 18, 2013, (2:24pm)
ABC managing director Mark Scott claims there's no bias at the ABC, despite every one of its main current affairs shows being helmed by people of the Left.. Last night he got yet another opportunity to reconsider his complacency.
Can Scott explain why the ABC's Q&A broadcast this offensive and deceitful text? There is no suggestion at all that any National or Liberal MP endorsed or was party to an offensive question put to Julia Gillard by 6PR's Howard Sattler. Incdeed, Coalition MPs denounced it, as did ABC presenters.
So why was this equally offensive text sliming Joyce and his wife broadcast by the ABC?
Once again, for many on the Left it is not the principle that counts but the side.
Once again, the ABC betrays its bias. Would it have aired this text were its target a Greens MP?
Have Your Say
Whatever the merits of Sattler's enquiries, at least he didn't hide behind anonymity.
The ABC needs a firm leader to regain control and set standards.
Tue 18 Jun 13 (03:42pm)
The bio for the twitter account is interesting:
I make good people & good cake.I know some stuff about the law.Also Convenor, Women's Legal Centre,ACT. Views are my fault,RT's are not.Canberra.
Tue 18 Jun 13 (03:42pm)
Sattler was sacked by Fairfax. Who will be sacked at the ABC?
Tue 18 Jun 13 (03:47pm)
Tue 18 Jun 13 (04:09pm)
Who will be sacked at the ABC? Hopefully everyone fron the top down
except the cleaners and gardeners.
Tue 18 Jun 13 (04:20pm)
Currently, they are working out juicy deals for termination when Abbot gets in power.
Tue 18 Jun 13 (04:27pm)
No One, they are all protected.
Once again the position of being considered gay, referred to as gay, rumoured to be gay, joked of as gay or whatever is considered to be offensive or you are being slimed, as if your reputation is being impugned by the very inference.
I think there is way too much confectionery outrage on both sides and both sides are using this kind of puerile nonsense as some pathetic rod with which to beat each other. Stop it and grow up.
Tue 18 Jun 13 (03:50pm)
"B-But it's not offensive when I do it!" - ABC
Tue 18 Jun 13 (03:52pm)
Tue 18 Jun 13 (04:39pm)
Much like our Parliament. Madam Speaker likes to say, "its the context of the word".....
I'm sure Barnaby Joyce is not fretting about Msloulou's childish drivel.
Tue 18 Jun 13 (03:55pm)
It's funny, a friend of mine asked me today and asked me if I watched it. I laughed. "why would I watch any show which supports the hurling of items at our PM? The same as if I would not watch the Bolt report IF it endorsed the throwing of a sandwich at our current PM.
To think I would watch that.
Tue 18 Jun 13 (03:57pm)
I looked at a board manned by the left. They are completely impervious to anything other than the mob think.
Mr. Jordan and Steiner are an excellent example and insight into what goes on in their heads, even if it's inexplicable.
And as a collective they are very vindictive. It'd be scary to be exposed in a room of lefties.
Tue 18 Jun 13 (03:57pm)
False indignation is the cornerstone of Left wing philosophy
Tue 18 Jun 13 (04:00pm)
Once again the petty and insignificant grabs the headline. This person's point of view has nothing to do with most people's world.
The ABC and the left seem unconcerned about anything that affects people in their day-to-day-lives. A question to Julia Gillard on a radio show has nothing whatsoever to do with politics, but it keeps getting oxygen.
Let's hear about the real issues for a change on Q&A;.
Tue 18 Jun 13 (04:03pm)
Thought at the time, what a pathetic question and why was it allowed air. Who at the ABC passed this nonsense as fit for prime time TV?
Fiona Stanley seemed a waste of space too, motherhood statements only, and out of her league with the ratbags of the left on the panel.
Have only recently tried again to watch this program, as it was so dreadful in the past. Once I check who's on the panel, make a decision, and even then if watching, a minute or 2 is often enough to turn me off. But if this level of trash is going to be passed off as genuine worthwhile question for panelists, it will be the Off button again.
Tue 18 Jun 13 (04:04pm)
The ABC will try to laugh this off. But this must be pursued vigourously. This comes straight after the ABC ran a non-stop vicious smear campaign against the Coalition over the fake 'menu', which the ABC repeatedly reported as genuine and as having been used 'at a coalition fundraiser', and clearly inferred it had been instigated and condoned by senior Coalition members.
Post election, we must harry the government to take serious action against the ABC and individual responsible staff at this taxpayer funded body.
Tue 18 Jun 13 (04:06pm)
Again I suggest you look at the letterhead of the PM's Press Office to establish the link between ABC and our PM.
Only question
Is she seeking from or giving advice to Tony Jones
Tue 18 Jun 13 (04:11pm)
Joyce is brilliant he is correct on the smoking issue too , stopping choice of brands of something legal just because you dont like it is rediculous . As for the health issue , well lets talk about fluoride poison in the water , sodomy poo sex ..... joyce
Tue 18 Jun 13 (04:14pm)
Why are you assuming the text slimes Barnaby Joyce? I would enjoy seeing Joyce asked that question because he would handle it superbly, telling the person asking it exactly what he thought of such a dumb question. He would not pussyfoot about the way too many politicians do today. Joyce's response would be classic.
One cannot help but feel that "the prissy self-righteousness Hawke eschewed has descended like a cloud over Australian politics. Prudery, moral outrage and manufactured affront are now the standard currency of debate"
Want to see that change? Start here.
Tue 18 Jun 13 (04:15pm)
Another @msloulou77 tweet,
Tony Windsor reeks of decency. Oh, for more like him #lateline
Well she got the reeks part right. Check out her tweet history, not hard to guess where her loyalties lie. Wonder if she is a member of Women for Gillard?
Tue 18 Jun 13 (04:21pm)
In my opinion the ABC needs be sold off.
Tue 18 Jun 13 (04:22pm)
Penny Wong today in the Senate to George Brandis:
'I don't need a blue tie to know you're a pompous git'
There's that famous Labor "civility" on display in our Parliament.
Tue 18 Jun 13 (04:24pm)
Tony Abbott - are you reading this? I don't care what you've said; sell this disgusting institution off!
Tue 18 Jun 13 (04:28pm)
Anther example of the "morally superior" belief of the left. It's only wrong if YOU do it!
Tue 18 Jun 13 (04:28pm)
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Soliman Motivated By Sturm's Verbal Jabs Over Drug Test
By Adrian Warren
Felix Sturm's stern words are motivating Melbourne veteran Sam Soliman going into his rematch with the IBF middleweight boxing world champion in Germany this weekend.
Soliman, 40, will step into the ring in Krefeld on Saturday looking to achieve the high point of a long professional career.
Soliman outpointed Sturm last year in a non-title bout in Germany.
However the German boxing commission altered the result to a no-contest after announcing Soliman had tested positive to an illegal stimulant.
Soliman won a crucial battle outside the ring when his B sample tested clean and showed no traces of any substance prohibited by the IBF.
Sturm 35, who won the title last December from Englishman Darren Barker, who took it from Australia's Daniel Geale four months earlier, sniped at Soliman and his team at this week's press conference.
"He and his team acted unprofessional before the fight and when we received the news about him testing positive, well, enough is enough," Sturm said.
"It's time someone sends him into retirement."
Soliman is determined to stay composed in the ring, whilst admitting Sturm's words have fired him up.
"I love all that, it gives me all the energy to do what I have to do in the ring," Soliman told AAP.
"But on top of that, composure is the most important thing and I'll have that in the ring.
"The best payback is in the ring."
Soliman said the key to victory was he had left no stone unturned in his preparation over the past seven and a half weeks.
Primed by long-standing trainer Dave Hedgecock and good sparring with Denmark's former super middleweight world title contender Rudy Markussen, Soliman is convinced he can stay a step ahead of Sturm.
"While he's training hard to match anything that I have, I'm coming up with new stuff all the time," Soliman said.
Former flyweight and super flyweight world champion Vic Darchinyan (39-6, 28 KOs) gets another chance to boost his flagging career by challenging Jamaica's unbeaten WBA featherweight champion Nicholas Walters (23-0, 19 KOs) in Macau Saturday night.
The 38-year-old boxer, who relocated to Australia after representing Armenia at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, has lost three of his last five fights, but fought well in his last contest against old adversary Nonito Donaire before being stopped in the ninth round.
Soliman is going to get beatdown if Sturm lets his hands goComment by Weebler I on 05-30-2014
[QUOTE=Box-Office;14604089]Signing with a German promoter to get a Sturm and possibly an Abraham fight isn't bigger than signing with an American one and get a string of big fights. You can't compare the two.[/quote] If you read the link doktor…Comment by Box-Office on 05-30-2014
[QUOTE=Weebler I;14604056][B]Why couldn't they sign with a German promoter and fight in Germany to make sure they got a fair shake? [/B] Anyway Sturm fought De La Hoya, Zbik, Macklin, Murray, Castillejo, Griffin, Geale, Barker, Soliman. Yeah he avoided a…Comment by Weebler I on 05-30-2014
[QUOTE=Box-Office;14604041]I do think traveling to prove your worth should go both ways of the pond, but in Sturm's case he never even tried unifying it with Abraham in Germany when he held the IBF version. [B]Also if all legit MWs…Comment by Box-Office on 05-30-2014
[QUOTE=Weebler I;14604029]How many of them signed up to fight the champion in Germany? Of course Sturm is the one who should return to the US so they could rob him again. Fool me once...[/QUOTE] I do think traveling to prove…Post a Comment - View More User Comments (11)


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I am not the one draging them in, they are all over this forum and it was thier out of state money that funded the campaign for prop 8
If they dont bring up thier faith.. I wont either
Judge overturns California's ban on same-sex marriage
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A federal judge in California has knocked down the state's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, ruling Wednesday that the state's controversial Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution.
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#187651 Apr 8, 2013
Huh? Do you mean they are having sex, or they are going to the theater? Many married couples have sex. Many unmarried couples have sex. and in your category, many single people have sex.
You have an issue with two men having sex. What's the big deal? Why does this disturb your peace? You come on here to vent, but you don't have to take seriously any criticism of you. Go talk to a psychiatrist and get some feedback.
#187652 Apr 8, 2013
As always, nothing but angry irrelevant ad hominem.
But thank you for stopping by and sharing your thoughts.
#187653 Apr 8, 2013
lol. He's stoned!
#187655 Apr 8, 2013
Nope only responding to them, but we all remember that you are incapable of seeing past posts so .. shrug ... you choose to remain ignorant.
Your choice
#187656 Apr 8, 2013
Yes.... do look up the etymology of scapegoat.
#187657 Apr 8, 2013
keep trying lil' buddy.
if you're attacking spelling and grammatical errors then you've lost the war. when you understand that, maybe you'll run off to the corner and hush. that way, the rest of the grownups in the room can continue the conversation.
it's ok. someday you'll make it to the grownup's table.
#187658 Apr 8, 2013
I doubt if anyone that is actually married would say that. And it looks like the wedding business is booming. I really doubt if many people would spend SO much money on a one day party, if it was just to celebrate an indiscriminate coupling.
I think you missed your true calling. You should have been a crepehanger.
#187659 Apr 8, 2013
Thank you for clarifying, they are not scapegoats or whipping boys here as we all know, they are funding the campaigns opposed to equal rights, and they are the ones carrying signs and putting placards on their lawns.
Thank you for clarifying that is not what I am doing
I have not said anything about "white guilt" I said slaves, I didnt say anything about color. You have a problem with white guilt? Ok... I dont.
Yes we had slaves in this country, yes other countries had slaves, yes slaves have been of a variety of races in different times and places.
It is a good example of.... Just because something was historically true... does not make it a good thing.
I dont want to go back to slavery because it used to be common in many cultures
I dont want to go back to burring people at the stake because they believed in this religion or that religion
I dont want to go back to the time when Alcohol was illegal in the US
I dont want to go back to the time when Women were not allowed the vote
and I dont want to go back to the time when marriage was not allowed to same sex couples as it is today, recognized in 12 states ( and one district ) and performed in 10 states and that number is growing every year.
Just because something used to be true, does not make it a good thing.
which is why I give no credit at all to the Historically or Traditional arguments.
#187660 Apr 8, 2013
Reported! Irrelevant off topic nonsense, angry ad hominem, dopiness, pettiness, conjecture and a joke fail!
#187661 Apr 8, 2013
Too funny!
How about when a good cigar was a smoke?
#187662 Apr 8, 2013
I would have to say I admired Mary when she was much younger, but was a terrible queen.
Elizabeth was not beyond reproach either, however was a MUCN better queen.
One of my favorite quotes about her was from Raleigh ( if I recall, this is out of memory so not sure ), "her majesty did everything in halves"
LOL, she frustrated a lot of people, but still Elizabeth was perhaps my favorite English monarch, there are a couple others I admire. Henry the 2nd for example, although I dont have a favorable opinion of any of his sons. Particularly not the 2nd eldest Richard or the youngest John, both disasters.
Was it Churchill that mentioned we owe more to John's vices than the best behavior of any other king.( or something like that ) ( chuckle )
#187663 Apr 8, 2013
Thanks for taking the time to share those thoughts. But it proves nothing. Again, you fail.
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#187664 Apr 8, 2013
Now marriage isn't about sex?
Anytime the issue starts exposing the fallacy of your position, all of a sudden, that's not what marriage is about.
It's not about children because ss couples are barren.
It's not about sex because gays only have a harmful imitation.
It's not about gender because ss couples are only ever a duplicated half.
Furthermore, I don't know a single heterosexual couple who got married so they could have the benefits the government provides.
Man up and get your own relationship, and quite your gay twirl whining!
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#187665 Apr 8, 2013
He is incapable. As soon as you get specific, he does a gay twirl dance to another spot, and wants you to answer HIS question.
He is clearly ignorant and immature.
Good luck.
#187666 Apr 8, 2013
No same sex marriage is succeeding you are failing, even your partys idiot spokesman/entertainer has conceded the point.
What I think should happen, is happening, that is not failing
#187667 Apr 8, 2013
Well I dont want to go back to that time, but I would like one of those brought to this time :)
( I dont smoke them very often, but have on rare occasions )
I dont like looking back with rose colored glasses as too many do, I dont pine for the past.
"The good ole days werent always good, and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems"
#187668 Apr 8, 2013
Yes. Same sex marriage is succeeding, but you are failing.
One could say same sex marriage is succeeding despite your best efforts!
#187669 Apr 8, 2013
Just keep your smoke away from me.
And shuddup. Don't try and get cute with me you corny jackass!
#187670 Apr 8, 2013
so, if marriage IS about sex....then everytime we see a married couple, we're supposed to visualize them having sex? is that it? is that what you do?
or, if marriage is about sex, then perhaps is a public declaration of one's sexuality - what one prefers.
i don't know about you, but my relationship with my partner / spouse isn't all about sex. there's far more to our relationship than a physical act can express.
if sex is all i wanted i wouldn't be in stable, long term and monogomous relationship.
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