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Is it normal for your fingers to look bruised around the joints with RA?
My knuckles are constantly changing color from normal, to reddish to blue. Like some of the other posters have said, it does not necessarily coincide with pain. My Orthopaedic doctor did give me steroid shots in my hands, and I can certainly say they did help! Probably cut my pain in my hands by 50%.
I'd recommend that you talk to your rheumatologist about what's going on. Hopefully they'll be able to give you some reassurance about this. You may also want to bring up the possibility of a steroid shot in your hands, especially if you have a lot of pain. Steroid shots tend to last a couple of months, so it is a temporary solution.
While you're talking to your rheumatologist, you may want to talk about treatment options. The fact that you're having bruising makes it sound as if your RA is not controlled. Adjusting your current medication or switching to another medication may help suppress your RA, which should ultimately help the bruised appearance of your joints.
Yes, I have the same thing. Along with the bruising, they are very sensitive, hot as if they have a fever. So very sore that it almost hurts to look at them. What meds are you on?READ MORE
Over half of my knuckles were inflamed, bruised and not able to bend and straighten all the way for about a year. It made everything even more difficult than my "normal" RA did. I was trying to do everything with my palms and that just wasn't working. I went to the dr and at that time I was terrified of meds so she suggested doing some steroid shots. Although I'd heard some scary things about those also I felt a little better doing those. I got them in about 7 of my knuckles and within 24 hours the bruising, swelling and pain was GONE! It has been a little over a year and I've only had trouble with the bruising and swelling returning once. I know it isn't "solving" the problem or addressing the cause but for me I just needed relief immediately and enough that maybe the other things (supplements etc) I was trying could have a chance of working. Well worth it for me. Something to think about. Good luck!READ MORE
yes i do my fingers and toes look like that all the time and im 43READ MORE
Yes, me too. I notice the discoloration seems to come and go, and mine is not necessarily related to pain. I think my hands look awful, even though the xrays look fine.
Maybe I didn't know the back of my hands like the back of my hand?? :)READ MORE
Why my knuckels black and blue?READ MORE
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question... i have a red rash on my knuckels- not raised, looks like wind burn- not sensative- and my knuckels look slightly bruised-ish/ to white going up my hand-
I am meeting with an RA doctor next week- do you have RA and what were your symptons... just trying to figure out.. my wrist joints and achey-/sore- but not horrible... any info would help- thanks!READ MORE
Good that you are going to an RA Dr.. Don't know about the rash but the sore and bruised joints are usually part of RA. When I first get up in the morning my feet & ankles are very stiff & very painful for about 2 hours. I also have Ankylosing Spondylitis, which is another form of RA, that is really doing damage to my ankles, lower back, & knees. It's good to start a journal to report how you felt when you woke up & as the day progressed & to report any changes you notice so that you can remember everything to tell the Dr. when you see him/her.
Welcome to the group. There are so many wonderful people on here that can help you deal with RA issues that you have.READ MORE
i'm 52 years old and have had hard lumps form on the top and side of my fingers one of my thumbs are much larger than the other but today i noticed while in a lot of pain to move my fingers wrist or walk because of the pain in my hips i found brown looking bruses on my knuckles just show up


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Now i have used the windows edition and i must say that while it does look and work well that is only on the most expensive of hardware.
Even on my older macs Front Row looks and works as advertised.
Just another thing that mac does better as soon as they try.
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One of the advantages of the Ashtanga Yoga system is the fact that it is a set sequence of poses with a set methodology for getting in and out of each pose.
Once you've learned the sequences and how to get in and out of them, you don't have to think about what pose to do next. You know it.
As a result you can focus on doing the poses and smoothly connecting one yoga pose to the next one.
The technique for moving in and out of each pose is called a vinyasa but the term "vinyasa" can also be used to indicated a particular breath linked movement.
As an example, sun salutations can be considered a series of breath linked movements or vinyasas.
What is important about vinyasa is knowing where you are and where you are going to.
You can focus on moving from where you are to where you want to be while feeling your body (and controlling it) at the same time.
Once you have arrived in a posture, assuming that the end point is a posture that you are going to hold, you can then focus on moving your awareness within your body, making adjustments as and when you need to.
Because the sequence is set, one of the things that you can focus on both while moving in and out of postures and while holding them is your breath.
In Ashtanga yoga, a special type of breath is used and it is called Ujjayi Breathing.
In this breathing method you narrow your throat passage so that your respiratory muscles have to do more work while you inhale and exhale.
The more work your respiratory muscles have to do, the more heat your create, and the more you sweat.
In Ashtanga Yoga, sweating is one mechanism for getting rid of toxins that are in your body.
To help control your breath you can vary the amount that you constrict your throat and you can vary the way you use your breathing muscles.
Mula bandha is quite an advanced topic and for quite a while I've never talked about it because I didn't understand it fully enough. Only recently am I getting a better idea of what it is.
Anatomically, I believe that mula bandha helps to move and secure the sacrum (which is the base of the spine) relative to the pelvis.
Philosophically, I think that mula bandha is the ability to feel your entire body all at once, particularly your bones, while also having a clear idea of how you want your bones to be positioned or moved relative to each other.
Uddiyana Bandha is a compliment to mula bandha.
As with mula bandha, instruction on this can vary. I'd suggest learning to breath diaphragmatically first. Also practice gaining control of you transverse abdominus with agni sara.
Then work on pulling your lower belly in while using your diaphragm at the same time. You can either inhale, engage uddiyana (and mula) while using your diaphragm, and then relax both while exhale. Or you can exhale while keeping uddiyana engaged
These are suggestions, or guidelines.
Note your body's response to these practices. If you find yourself feeling anxious or tense, then practice without these locks and go back to basics, diaphragmatic breathing or costal breathing.
Once you've learned the sequences of poses and how to get in and out of them, you don't have to think about what pose to do next because you already know it. Instead you can focus on the pose that you are in and then focus on smoothly moving from that pose to whatever pose that follows it in the Ashtanga Yoga Sequence.
The primary series of Ashtanga yoga poses starts of with Sun salutations.
There are two types: Sun Salutation A (above) and Sun Salutation B (below).
One of the tricks to learning sun salutations (and the entire ashtanga sequence) is to break them down into smaller "practice elements."
As well as helping you to remember the movements, practicing "elements" makes it easier to practice feeling your body as you do them.
Learning and practicing a few movements at a time makes it easier to hold what you are doing in short term memory.
You can then focus on doing the movements and feeling your body while you do them.
Read more about sun salutation a and sun salutation b.
For tips on how to jump back into chaturanga dandasana a little more quietly (and with a little more control) you can read ashtanga jump backs.
Like sun salutations, the standing series of ashtanga yoga poses can broken into elements and learned a little bit at a time.
You can focus on a few poses at a time or even just one pose.
I'd suggest that at a maximum, especially if you are new to yoga, focus on learning four or five poses at a time.
This is a small enough number that you can easily retain in short term memory without having to stop and think.
But if you want to learn more in a single session then focus on learning groups of 2, 3 or 4 poses at a time.
To make remembering the sequence of poses easier it helps if you have a way of relating them to each other.
For myself I remember that:
The wide leg forward bending hand positions, in order, are:
This last position may be a preparation for the "big toe pose" that follows.
Here's a pictorial summary of the first part of the standing series of Ashtanga yoga poses.
The specifics including the vinyassas, are included in Ashtanga Standing Poses Part 1.
The next pair of poses is reverse prayer. The legs are in a similar position to revolving triangle but the hands are behind the back in prayer.
I should point out here that in the ashtanga yoga system, the right side is always done first.
Problems can arise in how you define which is the right side version of a pose.
The next posture, extended big toe pose, is three poses in one.
The fun part is holding the leg in place, unsupported for five breaths.
The next single leg balancing ashtanga yoga pose is half bound lotus.
Again you are on one leg, the other leg is in lotus.
You grab the toe of the lotus foot from behind the back with the same side arm. And you bend forward with the free hand on the floor.
The standing series finishes with a mutant sun salutation. Chair pose, followed by Warrior 1 and then Warrior 2.
Note that warrior 2 breaks the "right side first" rule.
You do left side warrior 2 first, then right side.
Ashtanga Yoga Poses part 1 has more details.
And ideally you can use the graphic below to see relationships between the poses in the second half of the Ashtanga standing series for yourself so that you can more easily remember the sequence of these poses.
The seated series of ashtanga yoga poses starts of similiar to the standing series, with some forward bends.
The first pose is actually sitting upright with legs straight (dandasana). If you've got tight hamstrings, this could be a stretch.
Following are three (or four) seated forward bending variations.
You grab the big toes, then the sides of the feet, then grab over the feet. Then finally you grab a wrist beyond the feet.
I've seen different variations of hand positions. In general they proceed from easier to more difficult.
Immediately following these forward bending yoga poses is a back strengthening yoga pose, reverse plank.
In this yoga pose you place your hands behind you, lift your hips with your legs straight. It acts as a counterpose for the forward bends, strengthening the muscles that have just been stretched.
The next two pairs of poses are also compliments.
Half bound lotus forward fold is followed by half hero forward bend.
In half bound lotus (see bound lotus yoga pose for tips on working towards lotus pose) one the foot is in lotus, again with the same side hand binding from behind.
In lotus position the thigh is externally rotated and the shin is displaced inwards with respect to the knee.
In half hero forward bend (triang muka ekapada paschimottanasana) the shin is folded to the outside of the thigh.
In this pose the thigh is internally rotated at the hip and the shin is displaced outwards with respect to the knee.
The next three poses are of the janu sirsasana type, a, b and c.
In janusirsasana type poses one knee is bend while the other is straight. And you bend forwards.
The C position has a similiar shin displacement to lotus. The only difference is the ankle is bend more than 90 degrees. (In lotus the front of the ankle can be stretched depending on the foot position that you use.)
Following the janu sirsasana series is the marichyasana series.
Here's where right and left can get confusing. General rule.
The marichyasana leg determines whether the pose is right or left.
In the first two marichyasana poses you bend forwards.
The third and fourth variations follow the same pattern but they are twists instead. You twist towards the marichyasana leg.
You also bind in these poses. And in general the binding arm is the hand that grabs.
Following the marichyasana series, the next few ashtanga yoga poses get a little bit tougher. Actually they got tough at the D variation.
The next yoga pose is boat pose.
You repeat 5 times, lifting up after each one. Then you balance in shoulder pressure pose with the legs on the shoulders, the hands supporting the body and the shins crossed in front of the arms.
Turtle yoga pose and sleeping turtle yoga pose follow.
In the first turtle yoga pose, you lay down between your legs and reach your arms under your legs. Legs are straight. In the second turtle yoga pose you cross ankles behind your head.
The next pose involves putting both legs in lotus then threading your arms through the gaps behind your knees. You then roll nine times in this position after first holding your face in your hands. This is called embryo in the womb. The 9 rolls represent the 9 months in the womb though some one told me it's actually 10 months. After, you roll up and balance on your hands (which are still inserted into your lotus!) This is called rooster pose.
For more on these seated poses check out ashtanga yoga poses 3.
The next set of poses could be thought of as a bit more relaxing.
Bound angle pose. How sweet. Feet together, knees bent to the side, bend forwards. (Grab the feet.)
Then two wide leg forward fold variations.
It's a little like the wide leg forward folds while doing the standing ashtanga yoga poses but first you bend forwards (while grabbing the big toes.) Then you fling your self up and balance on your butt.
The next version you start of on your shoulders with legs in the same position. You roll up to balanced, then roll forward and land on your heels.
Again like the standing ashtanga yoga poses you do a supine extended big toe pose.
Then you lay on your back, legs above you, grab onto your toes and roll up to balance, upward facing big toe pose.
Then lay on your back again, grab the sides of your feet and roll up to balance in Upward facing forward bend.
The final pose prior to finishing is a bridge variation. I actually left this pose out for a long time because I was worried about protecting my neck.
A substitute is bridge yoga pose.
The finishing series includes wheel pose 3 times. You push up and hold, then lower, then push up without much of a rest.
A seated forward bend follows to cool down.
Shoulderstand is followed by plough pose which in turn is followed by ear pressure pose (press your knees into the sides of your ears).
Then you do an upside down supported lotus (no need to bind this time.)
You then roll into fish (legs still in lotus) and extended fish yoga pose (legs straight.)
Then its time for headstand.
The final two poses are lotus variations. You bend forward in the first one doing a yoga seal, grabbing the feet from behind.
Then you lift up.
Finally you get to rest in corpse pose. This is a good practice at the end of any yoga practice. It's a chance for your body to recover and also to absorb the effects of the practice. And if you are really tired you just might fall asleep.
Fluid tensegrity joint anatomy looks at the tendency of the body to maintain space within the joints. The question is, how is this space maintained?
Why improve body awareness? So that you can use your body more effectively and fix problems yourself when they arise.
How is tensegrity maintained at the joints even as the body adopts non-tensegrity postures or movements?
Why being present is the oppositve of thinking and how to utilize both modes effecively.
Pigeon yoga pose variations include lifting the front hip and resting it on the floor. Learn how to activate the front hip in either variation for better hip control and more effective stretching.
Creating tensegrity in yoga poses. What is tensegrity, why should we aim to achieve it when doing yoga or any other activity where mindfullness is required?
Obturator externus anatomy for yoga teachers. If you have hip pain in forward bends and your hip feels weak, obturator externus may be the culprit.
Continue reading "Obturator Externus Anatomy for Yoga Teachers"
Yoga stretches for tight hamstrings. Learn to feel when your legs are active and when they are relaxed so that you can gradually stretch tight hamstrings.
An experienced yogi's yoga pose has a sense of bigness. How do you as a beginner add bigness to your yoga poses?
Basic yoga sequence for flexibility. Includes hip, hamstring, quad stretches and neck stretches and recovery exercises.
Back strengthening yoga poses can be used to strengthen the back of the body including hamstrings, glutes and both the lower and upper back.
A look at getting your feet off of the wall and balancing in handstand plus tips for greater arm stability.
Yoga pose sequences for flexibility and strength. These sequences can be used for improving hip and shoulder flexibility and strength.
Continue reading "Yoga Pose Sequences for Flexibility and Strength"
Why is joint space important in joint anatomy? Fluid tensegrity offers some ways of exploring the body for strength, flexibility and recovering from injury.
One of the concepts of taj chi is finding balance. More than just staying upright this can mean the balance between lengthening and relaxing, and between stability and relaxing.
Part 4 of my handstand youtube series. This one focuses on simple transitions to back against the wall handstands.
This handstand introduction video continues the L-shaped handstand using a wall but with exercises for pressure sensitivity using the hands. This is a preparation for the "chest against the wall" handstand.
For anyone who wants to do handstand but isn't sure where to start, here's an introduction to going upside down without having to worry about balance. Also some exercises for using the shoulders both prior to handstand and while doing it.
Thinking and Being present are opposites. This doesn't mean that thinking is a bad thing. But it can make being present easier.
Continue reading "Being Present is the Opposite of Thinking"
Thinking and Being present are opposites. This doesn't mean that thinking is a bad thing. But it can make being present easier.
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Why a page on Cape Town builders in my ExpatCapeTown Guide?
When we moved to Cape Town, we had our fair share of experiences with builders. Handymen were disappearing with deposits, poor craftsmanship, lacking expertise - which we realised and we are not builders - and so on. You name it, we experienced it.
When it comes to searching for good trustworthy builders you are really lost when you are new in the city or even country and do not know many people.
We were living though some real nightmares with Cape Town builders.., but have learnt valuable lessons. When you do not know many people and can not fall back on a network of friends who can recommend builders or handymen, you are always in for trouble. Luckily our Expatcapetown forum is there for you now! Simply go to Facebook and search for our facebook group Expat Cape Town. And below you will find some great experts in the chosen building sector.
• Check with the Master Builders Association of South Africa . This is an umbrella organization where you can find registered companies and get recommendations from them. But still check the companies out and get recommendations you follow up.
• Check with the Western Cape Master Builders Association whose website is currently being updated.
• Check out the listing of existing/suspended/deregistered Cape Town builders on the website of the National Homebuilders Registration Council
• Check out the following website with reviews and know what to do in case you want to complain about a company you are unhappy with. More info here.
• Get quotes from at least three renowned companies. Be careful with companies who come back with requests and quotes only after calling after them or who are too eager to please and lower their price too much.
• Ask friends about builders they trust and see our personal recommendations here:
Our recommendations are not paid or sponsored advertisements, only references for builders and craftsmen who we tried and tested and who satisfied our admittedly critical eyes. These builders were approved by ourselves or our friends. We can recommend them wholeheartedly but advise to check them out and see if you feel comfortable with them too - we all know that any builder's teams sometimes change and this can make a huge difference too. So please let me know about your own experiences or if you would like to recommend some great builders to us and other expats:-)
So if you are an expat in Cape Town looking for recommendations or live in Cape Town searching for the right guys to help with your building project, try these fabulous companies:
Metro Roofing Contractors: Trained and experienced roofers under the supervision of a very knowledgeable and experienced Australian Roofer. Adam Commerford was highly recommended to us by Bluescope Steel, the manufacturers of Australian high quality metal roofing sheets 'Colorbond Ultra', which are now more and more being used here in South Africa too for roofing purposes due to the harsh sea climate at the Cape.
Adam, an Australian expat in Cape Town himself, and his well trained team were very professional, always well organized. You might not want to think about re-roofing your house here, but be aware that metal roofs which are widely used in South Africa, will deteriorate quickly especially when living near the sea, and if you have got the wrong roofing sheets, your roof will not last long. Our roof showed the first leaks i.e. holes only 5 years after being built. Too late we found out that the 10-year manufacturer's warranty, as cheekily advised by the previous home owners, does not cover our seaside area! So be sure to do it right the first time, if you build a house here or if you are considering renovating your house and want to put on a new roof. Get the right roofing product and the right guy to put it on.
Metro Roofing is a growing company and comes highly commended. They are very professional, punctual, reliable, as well as trustworthy and worth the money. Contact Adam here.
New Look Window Systems: This company manufactures, supplies and fits UPVc windows and doors. Single and Double glazing. We have changed all our windows in our house and had security doors as well put in by them! These doors and windows would be pretty much standard where we are from('luxury designs' can be ordered as well), but here in South Africa, they are really special due to their locking system and having double glazed security windows to look through is so much better than hiding behind burglar bars! This greatly improves security and energy efficiency in your home. They import German Rehau window systems and manufacture them here according to your requirements. They offer twenty year of experience manufacturing and installing window and door systems.
This growing company comes highly commended. These Cape Town builders are very professional, punctual, reliable, as well as trustworthy and hey, they clean up constantly after their work. German spoken as well! Contact Joern or Stuart here.
Swiss Line Design: Structural timberwork, roof conversions, stairways, balustrades, decking, joinery and design.
This company is led by experienced Swiss Master Carpenter Marc Luedi who we recommend for his excellent workmanship. He and his team are very knowledgeable and professional and create individual designs for you. The wood they use is of superior quality as well. The Cape Town builders/carpenters led by this company come highly recommended from many expats living in Cape Town too. Contact Marc here.
Well, that is a whole different chapter. Still looking for great experts and any recommendations are welcome.
We have been through several companies as we were experiencing what many Cape Town house owners experience here. Leaking water pipes! Often you will notice bad piping work only when damage is done. As the quality of copper pipes used in the last fifteen years seems to have deteriorated, so we are told, and the quality of the Cape Water, coming from certain reservoirs, seems to be affecting the pipes too - we were told by several plumbers and leak detectors - and the wrong cement mix, this is a recipe for disaster...
Well, we found out that our house which is only 13 years old, was build with the lowest quality copper pipes you can get in South Africa.. So leaks appeared almost everywhere over the several months and quite some damage is done to the ceilings, floors etc. When we thought we are done fixing one leak, a new one appeared. So we ended up re-piping the whole house and including ripping our bathrooms, floors and fixing and patching up walls and ceilings...
Biofire/Designerfireplaces: Austrian masonry fireplaces for your living area - indoors fireplaces - designer fireplaces
Used to cosy fireplaces - the typical tile clad masonry fireplaces - we know from home, we started searching for a company to build us a warming fireplace for our home. We found Austrian expats, Harry and Evelyn Woerz, who are passionate about their energy efficient fireplaces, which they design according to your requirements and your design ideas and style specifications and get them built as tiny models in the Austrian factory (for reference when being built in your home). Bio Fireplaces is the leading European provider of full ceramic fireplaces. The masonry bricks are then assembled in your home and we really can't praise Harry and his expert team enough for the quick and expert assembly by locally trained staff. They work swiftly, are trustworthy and clean the area even during the building process. Contact Harry here.
Note: The new Consumer Protection Act, which was implemented in April 2011, gives you more leverage and you can challenge shabby work more easily. Also get your insurance involved in locating experienced and trusted builders should damage be covered by your building/household insurance.
Disclaimer: This page lists companies we used and trust and want to help promote their excellent workmanship and service. We only want to share our experiences with businesses who delivered great services to us. More info. Image: Shutterstock.com
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This year BTS will be heading to the Birmingham City Council House on the 9th -10th November 2016 and will once again bring together leading experts in the fields of Trauma and Orthopaedics to discuss central issues, current challenges and research in the assessment and treatment of trauma cases.
The Call for Papers deadline has now passed, applicants will be contacted over the next few weeks.
Welcome from BTS President Mr AD Patel
Dear Colleagues,
A very big thank you to all of you who participated in the British trauma Society meeting at Stoke-on-Trent in November 2015, I hope you enjoyed the meeting as much as I did.
It was your presence, your paper/poster presentations and the lively debate that made this meeting such a pleasure. In addition we were educated, entertained and often amazed by our four keynote speakers and the trade kindly contributed generously.
You will agree that Keele Hall in Stoke-on-Trent was an outstanding venue. Over the two days there were 57 podium presentations and 45 poster presentations. The four keynote talks ranged from 20 years of traumatic brain injury in the NHS, to biology of bone healing, to management of infected non-unions and finally a history of spinal injury management and the path to the Paralympics.
On 3rd November, there was a whole day instructional course on external fixation for trainees led by Paul Harwood and Stuart Matthews from Leeds and myself from Norwich and was sponsored by Depuy Synthes. The emphasis was on practical application and everyone applied a pelvic external fixator and a tibial external fixator and in pairs applied spanning external fixators. 6 CPD points have been awarded for this course and the feedback has been excellent. For those who attended the meeting, 2 CPD points were awarded per day.
Remember to also check out the full list of BTS 2015 prize winners which you can do HERE. The judges found it very hard this year based on the calibre of entrants. All the winning papers and posters will be published in Injury.
At the AGM, Miss Aurelie Hay-David from Royal Cornwell hospital was co-opted as Secretary and Miss Abigail Clark-Morgan as Publicity Member and responsibility for the website. Fairly shortly there will be a postal ballot for the posts of Vice-President, Treasurer, Scientific Officer and Medical Student's Officer which will then be ratified at the next AGM in Birmingham during BTS 2016.
This meeting made a reasonable profit which allows funds for fellowships. Applications for fellowships will soon be available on the website.
Provisionally the next British trauma Society meeting will be held in Birmingham on the 9th and 10th November 2016 with an instructional course on the 8th November. We look forward to seeing you all again and please encourage your colleagues to attend and make it a great event, once again.
Finally a big thank you for the enormous hard work put in by the event's organisers Archer Yates Associates.
See you in Birmingham!
Yours Sincerely,
Mr A D Patel MB, ChB FRCS
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The St. Charles Public Library will offer free introductory computer classes for St. Charles Library cardholders in November. The classes include: Introduction to Windows 7; Introduction to Social Networking; eBay Buying and Selling; and Digital Music Downloads.
Introduction to Social Networking is scheduled from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 4 and 5. This course will cover how to create and manage a Facebook account; how to connect with friends and family; how to share photos; and how to protect your privacy.
Students are expected to come to class with the intention of creating a Facebook account, should they not already have one. Class is two-hour sessions that must be taken in succession.
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Class is three 90-minute sessions that must be taken in succession. Successful completion of this class is a prerequisite to all other computer classes offered.
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I hate sleep. There. I said it.
I don't get people like my brother, who crawls into bed for a "sweet nap" whenever he's bored. If I'm bored, I damn well wouldn't be sleeping. Wait—that doesn't matter, because I'm never bored. I always seem to have something to do.
And that's precisely why I detest sleep. Because it is just a waste of time. 24 hours in a day is already not enough…so why would I want to be motionless with my eyes closed for hours when there are so many freaking things to do? But unfortunately, God designed humans so that we need to take a rest for 7-8 hours a day. If anybody knows why He did that, please enlighten me. I would really like to know.
That said, I have been sleeping 8 full hours for consecutive days. It's a miracle! I usually get only 5 hours a sleep. Strangely, that has not messed up my productivity time. I still got things done. I still manage to have time to slip in a movie at night, and perhaps some blogging. So what does this say? Perhaps I've been sacrificing sleep for nothing. I need to experiment on this more…
Part of the reason why I've been able to sleep so much is because I've been dreaming a lot. Strange, but good dreams:
Yesterday, I dreamed that one of my friends who is struggling with an eating disorder called me up asking me to eat a Wendy's burger with her.
Another day, I dreamed that I got a 99% on my final essay for my writing class (what bullshit)
I also dreamed that I became best friends with a popular blogger (not telling who) and she taught me how to hip-hop dance.
Sigh. If only all these dreams were true…
But I suppose that's precisely why they are called dreams. They are wistful wishes that come true without any effort from our part. You know, I've always been a dreamer…but what do I actually do to achieve them? For example…
I wish I was a better Christian…yet I don't communicate with God, or read His words as much as I should…
I wish I had better grades…yet I skip classes all the time, and rarely do my readings…
I wish I had more time…yet I waste a lot of the time I already have doing frivolous stuff…
That's it! Time to stop wishing and to start actually doing something about it! I only get dreams when I'm sleeping anyway…when I'm motionless! Time to get moving, time to take action!
But first, let's fuel myself with some food…
I have to admit, I've been extremely lazy these days, and I've been turning to the same stuff over and over, for the main reasons that 1) it's fast and convenient; 2) it tastes good and is pretty nutritious; 3) I can get most of the ingredients from my school dining hall, which I now frequent daily like a kleptomaniac…
Anyway. Here's what I've had for several days now:
Spicy-PB Vegetable and Cottage Cheese "Mix-it-up" Bowl
Base Ingredients:
- onions, diced
- bell pepper, diced
- mushrooms, diced
- zucchini, chopped
- tomatoes, diced
- bean sprouts
- kidney beans
- spinach
- Soul Food Seasoning (from Biz)
Dressing Ingredients:
- 2 spoonfuls soy sauce
- 2 spoonfuls peanut butter
- 2 spoonfuls Habanero-Lime Salsa (from Christina)
- 1/4 cup almond milk
- pinch crushed red pepper flakes
Topping Ingredients:
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 4 yukon gold potatoes
- hot sauce
Okay, first the potatoes. I roasted them hasselback-style, by slicing numerous slits down the center of each potato, but not all the way through. And then I sprinkled them with this amazing seasoning:
Biz, thank you SO much for this. I'm obsessed with this seasoning now. I practically sprinkle them on anything and everything!
And then roast the potatoes in 425 degree oven until cooked through:
Nice and crunchy!
For the dressing ingredients, just mix everything together until smooth.
And the base ingredients: Mix everything together with plenty of that incredible Soul Food seasoning (or just salt and pepper if you don't have it). Cook it with the dressing.
Ladle the cooked ingredients into a dish. Top with cottage cheese and potatoes. Sprinkle with hot sauce. That's it!
Now wasn't that the easiest thing you've ever heard! Well, next to pouring cereal in a bowl, of course. But this is much better. It looks more impressive!
Everything should be topped with something golden and crunchy…
Wheee! Look at it do a back-bend! Potato doing yoga!
Creamy, crunchy, spicy, peanut buttery…mmmm…
Now, isn't this the perfect college student's meal?
But on to the perfect college student's snack…
I once said I hate bars. Okay, not just once. Several times, in fact. Well, I put my foot in my mouth, because I've decided that I do like bars. Love them, in fact. It just depends on what bars they are.
Perfect Foods Bar sent me two of each of the following bars:
- Carob Chip
- Peanut Butter
- Fruits & Nuts
- Cranberry Crunch (Lite)
Here's what they say about their bars:
"Perfect Foods Bars are made from a delicious creamy blend of organic peanut butter and honey. The organic honey provides quick balanced energy and the added omega-3 "healthy fats" increase endurance. There's also plenty of easy to digest, alkaline forming protein for immediate tissue repair. Enjoy this innovative approach to consuming over 30 different high nutrient foods not readily available in today's fast pace society."
Okay, peanut butter and honey. What's not to love? Plus they've got 30 different high nutrient foods. But what about the taste?
Well, all I can say is: I'm not sure if Perfect Foods Bar is the perfect food, but it is the perfect bar indeed. Oh Em Gi. So. Freaking. Good.
They just completely melt in your mouth like fudge. I store them in the fridge, so when they enter my mouth it is cold and firm, but then slowly dissolves in my tongue…a delicious blend of pure peanut butter and intense honey…
The only thing is that it isn't mixed with all the artificial crap, so the taste is pretty strong, bold, and intense…not a bad thing at all, but you just don't want to finish the whole bar in one sitting, or it does get rather cloying.
I think I've waxed enough poetry about Perfect Foods Bar. My conclusion is this: Larabar, bye bye. You guys really got to check this stuff out!
Another bar that I've really enjoyed was sent by my freaking sweet friend Natalie from
Eating to Live Life After ED:
They're called Spring Hill gourmet bars, and they were amazing. Once again, I chilled them in the fridge first. And they're incredibly crumbly, buttery, and exactly like a shortbread cookie.
Here's the Wildberry & Nougat one:
And the Chocolate & Oat one:
And my personal favorite, the Muesli bar:
Sorry, I don't know where to get them here in the States. Of course. All the good stuff has to be somewhere else! Sigh. Well, we can only dream that they'll sell them in U.S. stores someday…
Speaking of dreams…Here's today's question of the day:
Had any good dreams lately? Is there a dream that you are actively going to pursue instead of wishing for it to come true?


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Sulaiman To Marquez: Forget Pacquiao, Retire From Boxing
By Miguel Rivera
Jose Sulaiman, President of the World Boxing Council, has advised Juan Manuel Marquez (55-6-1, 40KOs) to retire from boxing. He says there is no reason for Marquez, 39-years-old, to continue fighting for the sake of a fifth fight with Manny Pacquiao. Sulaiman feels Marquez can now retire on top after knocking Pacquiao out in six rounds last December in Las Vegas.
Top Rank is very interested in a fifth fight between Marquez and Pacquiao, possibly in the fall in either China or Mexico. Marquez, who wants to continue fighting, has rejected the idea of a fifth fight with Pacquiao, but Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum says the Mexican star is making those kind of comments to receive the biggest offer possible.
"Juan Manuel is a great fighter who won a lot of money and became famous, and fought with several big names including Manny Pacquiao. Undoubtedly with that last victory over Pacquiao, it has taken his career to an immeasurable height, and it is the culmination of a great career for a young Mexican who is 39-years-old and has a very nice family. In my opinion, he should hang up the gloves," Sulaiman said.
"Juan Manuel, he can walk away after knocking out someone who they were calling 'the best fighter in the world.' I'm just giving friendly advice. For what does [he need a fifth fight], it's just to make money. The money is a short-term plan, but at 39-years-old with a very beautiful family - you are raising the level of risk to your health. When you're young it does not matter, but when you are more advanced in age it can be dangerous. My recommendation to Juan Manuel is sincere, respectful, and affectionate. I recommend to everyone [in his position]. I know his family, he is an idol in Mexico, but what you have to look at is his age and one bad punch can remove the happiness from his life in the future. There is no point [to keep fighting], is what I mean."
[QUOTE=josenoway;13059065]Yeah, we keep hearing about how Marquez is going to get annihilated. every. phucking. time. He was going to get annihilated in their rematch, didn't happen. Then he was going to get annihilated in their 3rd fight because he had…Comment by twrx on 02-20-2013
[QUOTE=AsianBigfoot;13049743]PEEDs Marquez should give Pac a 5th fight without the infamous Heredia. and if Maquez can't KO Pac w/out Heredia it only proves he's roided. Viejo culero Sulaiman should retire too.[/QUOTE] Sure lets get rid of nacho too while were…Comment by josenoway on 02-20-2013
Yeah, we keep hearing about how Marquez is going to get annihilated. every. phucking. time. He was going to get annihilated in their rematch, didn't happen. Then he was going to get annihilated in their 3rd fight because he had…Comment by Imatroll on 02-20-2013
Yea bro GTFO of boxing before Pac KO's you! Retire essay!!!!Comment by GRUSTLER on 02-20-2013
[[email protected];13054636][B]pac will annihilate marquez the next time they fight[/B]... that's what sulaiman is trying to say...[/QUOTE] This is funny because Pacquiao got annihilated last time they fought.Post a Comment - View More User Comments (50)


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DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - A 12-year-old boy has been
arrested after allegedly pointing what turned out to be a toy gun
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A phrase used when something amazing, miraculous, something thought to be impossible, etc. had happened.
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The one and only mother of the Lord Jesus Christ, the virgin Mary. Also used to describe an undescribable event.
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Aren't these pretty ornaments? There are 10 hard plastic bell shaped ornaments covered with glitter for extra sparkle! Ornaments measure 2 ½" long (at longest), there are 2 gold color bells, 2 red color, 4 green color, and silvery/blue color bells. Very colorful!
Perfect for an aluminum Christmas tree -- this listing has 6 hot pink color glass ornaments! Made by Coby Glass Products of Woonsocket, RI -- A Division of Corning Glass Products -- and are in their original box that proudly proclaims "American Made". These are larger size ornaments -- box states they are 3 1/4". In very good condition with some darkened spots (usually caused by spray "snow"). Very pretty and great collectibles!
These are great vintage Christmas items -- even the box is neat!
They are older ornaments -- box has a red stick-on stamp that reads "PASSED, JIS S-3003, J.P.I.C." It also has blue stamped "V. C965, JAPAN".
Box top describes these as "XMAS BELL, SET OF 12". There are 6 round shaped ones (like dinner bells) and 6 shaped like "cow bells". Each has a different design on front and has various messages: Merry Christmas, Holiday Greetings, etc...
They are older ornaments -- box has a red stick-on stamp that reads "PASSED, JIS S-3003, J.P.I.C." It also has blue stamped "V. C965, JAPAN".
Box top describes these as "XMAS BELL, SET OF 12". There are 6 round shaped ones (like dinner bells) and 6 shaped like "cow bells". Each has a different design on front and has various messages: Merry Christmas, Holiday Greetings, etc...
This listing has 14 plastic icicles! These have the in-mold hook. Nice!
I've grouped 14 of these pretty tree reflectors into this listing! These are "doubles" -- they have a silver color star shape with a round flower shape attached to the centers. The flower shapes are in assorted colors -- red, blue, gold, etc. Reflectors are in very good condition with a few showing some storage evidence -- nothing serious. Very nice!
I've grouped together an assortment of aluminum Christmas light reflectors! There are a total of 17 in assorted shapes. There are stars and flowers and they are in very good condition – I noticed a few have some color wear. Nice items, nicely priced!
There are 17 hard plastic star shaped light covers/reflectors in this listing! There are 2 red, 3 gold, 3 blue, 4 clear and 5 green color ones. Super!
This listing has 19 metal icicles in the original box! These are "Diamond Ray Jeweled Icicles" made by The Venus Company, USA. Icicles have been used because prior owner attached thread for hanging (per package instructions). Super collectible item. I have had metal icicles in my collection for many years and display them on an aluminum tree – gorgeous!
Wow – what a find! This listing has 12 aluminum Christmas ornaments to add some pizzazz and light reflection to your tree! They're in wonderful condition – the dark green has lost a few of its aluminum pieces, the hangers on a couple have split and been taped, and one of the cornucopias has lost its hanger. See photos to fully appreciate these very difficult to find ornaments!
Another neat reflector listing! There are 12 reflectors – 3 blue, 3 gold, 1 silver, 1 pink, 4 red – all have the cardboard centers and are in super condition.
I've grouped together a wonderful assortment of ornament shapes and sizes in this listing! There are Poland, Japan, and USA stamped on the caps – some are not legible but I would say they're from Poland. There are a few dark spots and some spray snow evidence – see photos to appreciate these lovely ornaments!
This listing has an assortment of beautiful glass ornaments from Poland! There are 2 round shaped ones with hand painted designs, 5 round shaped reflectors, and 5 tear drop shaped reflectors. Ornaments have very minor use/storage evidence but are in wonderful condition as is the original box!
More from my collection! Here is an assortment – Poland, Germany, Italy – all are indent/reflectors! I kept/stored these in a newer box so they would be protected. There are 7 round shape, 4 tear drop shape with end points, and there is one that has an indent/reflector on both sides with a teeny, pointed, delicate end (another reason for storage in a box!). These ornaments are gorgeous with a few dark dots and some color darkening at tops – that's it!
Lovely Shiny Brite ornaments in this listing! They're assorted shapes, all have stripes, some are painted, some have glitter, and some have "snow". They are in very good condition with a few dark spots (caused by artificial snow" and some flecks of missing color. Lovely ornaments for your vintage/retro tree!
This listing has a neat assortment of smaller size Shiny Brite ornaments! There are 5 round with stripes and 7 fancy shapes. They are in very good condition with normal "use" – some dark dots, etc. The round solid red color one has some candle wax drips that have caused some paint loss. Nice ornaments, nicely priced!
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Posted on 11/09/2010 8:35:35 AM PST by jpl
Dagong Global Credit Rating Co., the Chinese rating company that was recently rejected in its bid to be an officially recognized bond rater in the U.S., just downgraded the entire U.S. The always objective Xinhua has the scoop.
The United States has lost its double-A credit rating with Dagong Global Credit Rating Co., Ltd., the first domestic rating agency in China, due to its new round of quantitative easing policy.
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Goodbye dollar, you sure were nice while you lasted. :(
We need to do what Reagan did in the early 80s to strengthen the dollar
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Tuesday, November 09, 2010 10:08:03 AM
(CH) Chinese rating agency Dagong Global Credit downgrades US credit rating due to QE program (update) - Chinese press
- Cut long term US sovereign rating one notch to A+ from AA, with a negative outlook.
- "The serious defects in the U.S. economy will lead to long-term recession and fundamentally lower the national solvency. The credit crisis is far from over in the United States and the U.S. economy will be in a long-term recession." Weaker dollar will hurt US ability to attract dollar capital reflow. "In essence, the U.S. government's move to devalue the dollar indicates its solvency is on the brink of collapse"
More http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=171703
And what are we going to replace the dollar with? Euros? Chinese currency? A basket of currencies? Gold? Nope, nope, and nope.
They're right.
And Cloward / Piven marches on.
Dagong it!
This is what a trade war looks like in the age of 'free trade.'
So it begins, and while the swingin' party couple and their posse are overseas, not that they'd know what to do about it, of course.
I propose a basket of commodities.
Someone needs to go into the business of creating the "Util" unit of exchange. It should be backed by actual gold, silver, platinum, oil, wheat, copper, coffee, etc. Those commodities should be regularly audited to ensure they actually exist in ownership by the steward of the "Util."
Then, people around the world can choose to contract and pay in worth-less Dollars, risky Euro, politically controlled Yuan, or the solidly backed Util.
I want to be a Trillionaire. I'll invent the "Util."
Do you people trust Daogang over the likes of Standard and Poors, Moody's and Fitch?
That's a really good idea, but there has to be some kind of entity behind it. Maybe you and I should start it, I don't trust any government or the UN or the IMF or the World Bank.
"The brink of collapse."
Such rosy optimism.
lol but realistic
You mean the guys who were either stupid idiots or lying for all those years about all those "mortgage backed securities" that were worthless piles of crap, which led to a near-total crash of our economy?
Sorry, I don't believe a word that comes out of the mouth of Warren Buffett or any of those Wall Street jokers. Honestly, have you been living in a cave these last three years or what?
But I thought Glenn Beck was depressing and nuts and a fear monger? He only keeps beating this into our heads on every single show.
Just great.
I don't blame China one bit. This is a strong warning. They don't want hyperinflation either.
This downgrade will be heard around the world.
This is being done by the Fed and Geithner on purpose. Obama has announced to the world that we are "in decline." They want the Chi-coms and Muslims dominating the NWO.
Get ready for the Global Guided Guild currency, easily implantable into your forehead or wrist, and pay no mind to the shape of that GGG mark.
I agree those evil creeps!
Well, for starters, lets not have a "Federal Reserve Note"...
It doesn't matter what we think. It matters what the Chinese think, and I'm guessing they are with Daogang.
Yep. Here it comes. I pray everyone is prepared for what's coming. China will be calling the tune.
Actual Report:
Apparently so. It's China so it must be true!
This is just commie propaganda.
You don't suppose that influenced their decision any, do you?
So we should believe communist propaganda? Please.
This is completely worthless, but I guess it's good that people believe it. Makes the dollar cheaper.
That wasn't my point. Printing money devalues the dollar, and China is the primary holder of this diminished asset. Hence, it doesn't matter what I think about Daogong, or Moody's, or etc. etc.
Other economic powers are not happy about Bernacke's decision. Brazil last week is already on record criticizing QE2. I'd like to know the rationale behind QE2, because frankly, it seems to me like the intent is to harm our economy and expedite the inflationary process.
What will we do with our dollar? Real easy answer....the government will do a reverse split. Bring in your old dollars and get 10 for 1. We all feel richer but ultimately poorer.
It's amazing how even some conservatives don't seem to understand this.
Instead, the idiots running the Fed, failing to spend their way out of debt, now plan to inflate their way out of it. Here come double digit interest rates.
So what should we do with our money? Take out of savings? How can we prepare?
The days of preparing are nearing their end. The days of dealing with a new reality are neigh. Is it the SHTF/TEOWAWKI? I don't think so, but our standard of living is going to take a major hit.
That being said:
There's a guy who posts link to a prepper manual on a lot threads, find it and read it. There are also many websites on the issue.
I am going to start my own credit rating website. Anyone who will not hire me gets a low rating.
You mean those guys who MISSED the dot com bubbl, the real estate bubble, the mortgage backed security debacle......?
What do you expect? These rating companies got paid plenty of money to rate the dot com, real estate, and mortgage companies. That is what they are in business for.
I agree, however the US is still the tall man among midgets. Despite all that Bernanke has done, the US is still in better shape than everyone else.
The rationale for QE2 is very simple, and has everything to do with the Chicoms downgrading our credit rating. The rationale is that our previous model for financing government debt was to externalize it; sell bonds on the foreign market. While not entirely advisable, it was sustainable, so long as the annual debt sale was around $400 billion. However, once it ballooned to $1.4 Trillion, foreign governments could not sustain it. There just isn't that much credit in the world markets to buy up that much debt. Not year after year, which is what we've done and where we are headed for the forseeable future.
So if we can't externalize the debt, as long as we are running $1.4 Trillion deficits, the Fed has NO CHOICE but to internalize (monetize) it. We sell the bonds to ourselves and print the money to cover it. Inflation will result, and interest rates will go up. A lot. If you are a bank, you can't lend money at 5% while the value of the monetary asset depreciates 10% annually. The interest rates have to remain above the inflation rate or the banks go under.
By the way, for all you history buffs out there, our old model is how the British financed WW1. They sold bonds on the New York market. Our new model of internalized debt is how the Germans financed the same war; they sold themselves short-term notes because they were frozen out of the New York market. Guess who had the hyper-inflation? That's where we are headed, and the Chicoms are not stupid; they see it happening and that's why we've been downgraded.
I'm worth $50 million...in Zimbabwe dollars. Meaning that we may all be trillionaires soon enough and it will mean that all of together won't be able to buy a loaf of bread.
China can help us solve this problem.
They can take Obama and his hate America crap away amd put him up in the Chinese Gulag.
Obama is the root cause of this derelict US fiscal policy.
Palin is all over Bernecke. And all America should be.
You really think they knew that ma and pa your neighbors were lying about their income?
China's trade policy depends upon an underrated yuan which is linked to the US dollar deliberately. If the US inflates then China must cut the yuan as well or give up that policy.
This in not exactly objective or dis-interested opinion.
We have to bite the bullet and start over. Communists must be ousted.
Oh please.
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Skip to comments.TRANSCRIPT: Moyers hosts RON PAUL (R, Tx) on PBS's "NOW"
Posted on 10/04/2002 8:37:02 PM PDT by Askel5
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The rational Soviets of whom you speak asserted absolutely that "the revolution makes no sense without terror".
I spent yesterday reading Claire Sterling's "THE TERROR NETWORK" from 1980. Sterling appears to have been somewhat the liberal and obviously would have liked to restrict her treatment of terrorism to the old guard far right terrorists (like those who, along with the Soviets, helped terrorize the state of Israel into being). Instead, she focuses plainly on the real scourge: Soviet-sponsored terrorists.
Which groups included ABSOLUTELY the Arabs ... from well into the first half of the 20th century.
Judging by the flyleaf, this book was roundly applauded by the right when it came out. The research is impeccable. The conclusions are sound and the facts are plain: Soviets sponsored the bulk of global terror and the purpose of terror was to terrorize ... causing government to end up draconian entities actually ripe for being overthrown.
Makes sense. This was precisely the intent of the terror instigated by the Narodnaya Volya or "People's Will" who birthed the Bolsheviks:
It should be noted that not only did the terror campaign demystify Russian rulers in the eyes of the people but it also caused the Government to overreact.
From 1879 onwards, the Imperial Government introduced a stream of extremely harsh counter measures meant to prevent terror, but which had the effect of alienating moderate groups in Russia.
In the long run this made it impossible for the regime to ever secure the support of moderately conservative and liberal elements in Russian society; so it was left to fall, isolated and alone, in 1917.
--- Richard Pipes
[Disclaimer: I'm no more a Pipes fan than a Moyer's fan but his facts as contained in this piece are incontrovertible.]
This has been the model of leftist terror for nearly four decades now ... "liberation" on a scale and with such bloodshed that governments overreacted and the desired revolution and toppling of legitimate governments was effected.
If we know this to be true, I think it behooves us to proceed with absolute caution and in perfect comport with those founding principles which distinguish our nation from all others.
Summary execution -- at home and abroad -- of anyone the Administration deems a terrorist does not appear to fit that bill.
Another quote from the current issue of Arab-Asian Affairs:
Shortly after 9/11, George Bush Sr. was reported to have ruminated in public that a "prohibition" on CIA assassinations should be removed since it tied the United States' hand in the face of its enemies. In August 2002, ABC News briefly posted a news report, attributed to Reuters, that the White House had announced with zero fanfare that, with immediate effect, certain individual whom President Bush or other high-level members of his Administration have designed as terrorists, are subject to summary execution by Homeland Security operatives, US Intelligence officers, or in some cases, by US military personnel.
The Presidential Directive applied to both US and foreign citizens, both within and outside the United States.
The announcement was made as silently as possible -- late one Sunday evening, from the President's Texas home, in Crawford. Citing security considerations, top Bush Administration officials afterwards declined to comment on the new Directive. No subsequent references to this contneitous decision have been made or are likely.
Frankly, I was surprised to read this when my issue arrived last week. I had missed this somehow. Searching on the internet, I found a copy of the original Reuters story but very little in the way of discussion.
It's possible I missed the discussion somehow on FR but searches of "execution", "Bush / execution | summary | terror" brought up nothing on the story.Bush OK's Summary Executions Of Some Designated As Terrorists 8-12-2002 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a surprise move sure to raise outcries from foreign governments, civil liberties groups and others, The White House today announced with little fanfare that effective immediately, certain individuals whom President Bush or other high-level Administration members have designated as terrorists are subject to summary execution by either Homeland Security operatives, U.S. intelligence operatives, and in some cases by U.S. military personnel. The presidential directive applies to both U.S. and foreign citizens, both within and outside the United States territory. The White House gave notice of the new policy in as quiet a way as possible, making the announcement late Sunday evening from Crawford, Texas. The unprecedented move is thought certain to generate a firestorm of protest from numerous quarters.
Having subscribed to a couple of Story's publications for several years now, I know for a fact he edits meticulously and will even reissued an entire mailing for a minor mis-cite in one issue. A most trustworthy source.
So ... if anyone can dispute Story's account or the Reuters story as posted here (taken from a chat room dated that day with a comment "Does anyone have a problem with this?"), I would sure like to see it.
I know there was lots of talk about and support for taking a page from Israel where the ready assassination of terrorists was concerned but I hadn't realized there had been a presidential directive in this regard.
As much as I too would sorta like the freedom to act thus, I'd always been somewhat proud that it was not our national policy to do ... regardless that it's probably true it was a "hypocrisy is the compliment paid to virtue" sort of thing.
I am not a moral relativist.
Nor am I a Calvinist (or one of their pragmatic progeny) who believe that the ends justify the means.
I believe actions have consequences and the unleashing of evil actions will have consequences that cannot be accounted for in advance by Good Intentions or the Best-Laid Plans.
I believe I'm mistaken here ... I think it's Daniel Pipes I have a problem with.
(Better to err on the side of the disclaimer, however, as bad at names as I am ... )
I am not a moral relativist.
Nor am I.
Nor am I a Calvinist (or one of their pragmatic progeny) who believe that the ends justify the means.
Nor am I, nor do I.
I believe actions have consequences and the unleashing of evil actions will have consequences that cannot be accounted for in advance by Good Intentions or the Best-Laid Plans.
I agree. I'm not quite seeing how your points above relate to my comments or the war on terrorism. Do you NOT want to defeat those who attacked our nation on 9/11? Do you think some of the means President Bush has selected to fight the war on terror are wrong? Please be clearer.
I had to cancel my subscription because the paperboy kept throwing it in the bushes.
Kidding aside. You rock.
Of course you do - he has eloquently pointed out how the worship of
Satan Allah will destroy the West. First on their list? Catholics.
It's gonna be fun watching you wimps get exterminated. My kind fights back.
Drunks? If you're not with us your [hic] agin us. Would you like to be on our mailing list?
You bastard. I love you man...
Where's my keys?
You're damn right I do.
I prefer to do it on our terms, not theirs.
I refuse to "stoop to conquer" by adopting the immoral means and premises of our enemies. If we ourselves abandon the self-evident truths of our Declaration, the clear framework of our Constitution (by which our Constitutional Republic was intended to operate) or the Judeo-Christian heritage from which we derive our concept of a Just War, we have no business seeking to "nation-build" in our image for the just and moral nation for which so many Americans have died to preserve for our progeny will no longer exist.
This is precisely the predicament Ron Paul is addressing with our newly-minted "preemptive strike" policy. If the United States is staking that as a "moral" policy, on what grounds will we protest another sovereign nation's invoking it?
I must be Irish!
Yes ... as elucidated above.
Additionally, I believe the harping on the need to "nation-build" or liberate the Iraqis (as we liberated the Serbians) from their dictator all are indications that we are padding our case for war with elements absolutely outside the parameters of a Just War.
Finally, assuming we did invade Iraq on the basis of his being a dictator or engaging in the production of WMD, do we then have the backbone to pursue those who supported, sustained and supplied him with the cash, armaments, military advisors and bioweapons expertise that made him the threat he is?
Do we confront Russia?
Do we hold Russia accountable for their support of Saddam in the last war we now seek to "finish"?
It would seem unfair and inconsistent not to go to the source of Saddam's ability to threaten us.
Paul is talking convention warfare and Bus has stated several times that we are fighting a new and different kind of war. Does Paul have Attention Deficit Disorder?
Without a doubt, four decades of gramscian-marxist revolution has rendered many Christians a bunch of "peace and social justice" pansies who faint at the mere mention of any but the honeyed passages of Scripture (suitable for use to sweeten the sting of "Humanitarian" research on excess, already-been-killed human lives).
I simply have too much respect for my father and others in the military around whom I was reared to believe that politicians should be sending them into war based on "feelings" or some kind of nationalistics "social work" where we jump around the planet deciding which nations we'll Fix based on what Ziggy B believes is the pragmatic cluster of Self-Interest necessary to catalyze our "morality" in some areas but not others.
To wit ... Clinton's rushing into Serbia on the basis of as-yet unproven genocide while ignoring entirely the bodies that floated out of Rwanda like logs. A badass troop of boy scouts could have taken on the machete wielding savages killing thousands. I fail to see how we managed to pull out of a nation where desperate folks were BEGGING the UN Belgians to please kill them with machine guns knowing the certain horror and diabolically primitive deaths that awaited them.
Again, it's a matter of Consistency. If we are going to play the Self-Interest card ... by all means, let's play it and make no bones about it.
I see no reason to dress it up in terms of "moral" purpose ... particularly given the means we seek to employ in the process.
And what about this "new and different" type of war justifies a "new and different" type of United States?
These monsters have Catholics at the top of the list - and all of your theories involving Bushes and Kissinger won't change that.
The only thing that will wake you up is a suitcase nuke in Rome.
If we cannot win it with an absolute respect for and reliance on sound Christian principles, we have no basis taking on "Islam" in the name of Christianity.
The US is changing for better or worse every day. Yes, a "new and different" US is in the making, for better or for worse....with the help of average Americans. Don't let wishful thinking blind you.
I realize that our demographics are changing, we are a welfare state, we have abridged -- perhaps forever -- the so-called "God given" constitutional rights of our citizenry and have abandoned our Constitutional Republic in favor of the "democratization" model which communists have recognized for a century as the ideal means by which to exploit the "will of the people" in service of tyranny.
It's no secret I can't get past the shock and horror that is knowing we not only consider abortion to be the "vital" linchpin of our population control at home and abroad, but we now presume the right to make utilitarian best use of the "Excess" human lives we manufacture like widgets to supply the demand of the Economically Fit for children they can purchase to spec.
(Given the support of the director of the NIH for human cloning, I suspect that too shall become the law of the land soon enough.)
But regardless how many in this godless nation believe that truth is a matter of "Majority Rule", I still see no evidence that the Self Evident truths on which this nation was founded have changed ... which self evident truths included the fact that all men are created equal.
If I am blinded somehow to this inconceivable development, please point out for me the "new and different" self-evident truths on which our policies now are based so that I may get with the program as have you.
I would like them articulated as clearly as were the self-evident truths on which we based our original independence and claim to the moral authority to wage war.
Can you source his stand on the funding of Israel?
Yes. He has the traditional libertarian view:
Our policy of subsidizing both sides is ludicrous. We support Arabs and Jews, Pakistanis and Indians, Chinese and Russians. We have troops in 140 countries around the world just looking for trouble. Our policies have led us to support Al Qaeda in Kosovo and bomb their Serb adversaries. We have, in the past, allied ourselves with bin Laden, as well as Saddam Hussein, only to find out later the seriousness of our mistake. Will this foolishness ever end?
A non-interventionist foreign policy has a lot to say for itself, especially when one looks at the danger and inconsistency of our current policy in the Middle East.
I'd like to add another point. We currently plan to help North Korea build two nuclear reactors. Yet Bush called North Korea one of three nations in the "Axis of Evil", along with Iran and Iraq.
So we spend billions of dollars to invade one evil nation, Iraq, because it might have or soon acquire nuclear bomb material. Meanwhile we actively help another evil nation, North Korea, acquire nuclear bomb material.
Thanks very much for the link.
I am one of those who believes we are absolutely correct to apply to the Republicans the exact standards with which we so rightly excoriated the Democrats.
Why? Truth, by its very nature, does not change.
... you know something my friends, if we keep going the way we're going, persisting in the path that we have persisted in then we, the very country that more than once in this century has saved the world from the shadow of the worst evils will no longer be there in the 21st Century to save the world from the shadow of evil.
And worse than that we won't save the world from that shadow because we will be casting it.
We don't get it, do we? We are either going to continue to be the country that holds before the world those ideas and standards of godly justice and liberty and decency for which so many of our patriots died or we are going to turn into that power which plunges the world into a maelstrom of evil like nothing we have ever seen.
I frankly don't think that for American there will be a middle way. And that's the truth of it. And we are already at it. For we've had an administration that has aided and abetted and promoted and coerced the culture of death in every continent and toward every nation on the fact of the Earth already.
Using our capital and our money and our clout they have forced other nations to take the same ungodly stance toward innocent life in the womb that they take now.
So my friends, don't think that this is just some future that we are talking about. We are already far down the road toward the destruction of our republic, our conscience, our decency. The question isn't whether we will choose that road but whether we will turn back now before we pass the point of no return.
That's a noble ideal to aim for, but if you think it's a fact then just take a look at our
Justice Legal System.
It wasn't Moyer's question I was criticizing. It was Paul's non sequitor reponse that was criticizing.
Paul avoids completely the dangers of WMD and terrorism in his answer to Moyers question. Moyers asks if Sadaam is planning an attack against the U.S. The SUBSTANCE of Paul's response is to only address the possibility of a Sadaam attack from his army, navy and air force leaving out the obvious -- WMD and terrorist attack.
MOYERS: Have you seen or heard anything from the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department or the White House to suggest that Saddam Hussein is planning an attack on the United States?
PAUL: No, I see nothing imminent. He doesn't have an air force. He doesn't have a navy. He can't even shoot down
he didn't shoot one of our airplanes down in twelve years
and his army is 1/3 of what it was twelve years ago. So, you know, this fictions that he's Hitler and that he's about to take over the Middle East
I think it's a stretch.
Yes, but, unfortunately, it is a concept, an ideal, and can not enforce itself. The state of the world shows that the influence of truth on human behavior is diminishing.
What makes you think that the presidents reason for removing Sadaam from power is Nation Building or empire building?? That was the reason for Haiti and Bosnia, but it's not the case here.
Actually, I think it behooves everyone to remember that our President -- in whom we vest all this moral authority to decide which nations to attack and which individuals to execute -- thinks that some human lives are fit only for the trash and therefore suitable for human research sans informed consent.
I've been reading the words of his adviser, Condoleeza Rice.
That was the reason for Haiti and Bosnia, but it's not the case here.
Perhaps we should finish what we started in Haiti so first to prove ourselves equal to the task of "nation-building" before embarking in haste elsewhere to depose dictators and "democratize" other nations.
I've been reading the words of his adviser, Condoleeza Rice.
Addressing the U.N., this is what the president said should be the mission -- "The choice is up to the United Nations to show its resolve. The choice is up to Saddam Hussein to fulfill his word, and if neither of them acts, the United States in deliberate fashion will lead a coalition to take away the world's worst weapons from one of the world's worst leaders"
Better still, we should all listen to the President when he speaks to our sovereign country and defines the mission, this Monday.
Looking forward to it. Thanks for the discussion.
We'll pick it up then. Regards.
You're welcome A5.
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