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The Politics of Israel's Past
The Bible, Archaeology and Nation-Building
Edited by Emanuel Pfoh, Keith W. Whitelam
It is not uncommon that historical images—presented as simply given, self-evident and even indisputable—are employed in political readings of the past and used as a legitimizing tool. For that reason, the authors of this volume, biblical scholars, archaeologists, anthropologists and historians, undertake a deconstruction of modern biblical discourses on the Bible's production and the history of ancient Israel, enabling the exploration of critical approaches to ancient Palestine's past, to the history of the peoples of the region, to the history of the biblical text(s) and, last but not least, to the modern political uses of biblical narratives as legitimizing land ownership and nationalisms.
Among the topics treated are the appearance of Judaism and its connection to the production of biblical literature, the politics of archaeological practice in Israel, the role of archaeology in the production of nationalist narratives of the past, the relationship between genetic studies and Jewish nationalism, and the prospects for writing critical histories of ancient Palestine beyond biblical images and religious and political aspirations.
Each article illustrates the close relationship between the Bible, archaeology and processes of nation-building in the State of Israel. The Politics of Israel's Past concerns itself both with the ways in which contemporary politics affects the knowledge of the past and with the processes by which constructions of an ancient past legitimate modern political situations.
My copy arrived today! It's a very nicely done collection even if my saying so is an exhibition of bias (having lent a hand in its formalization). I commend it to your attention and I congratulate Keith and Manu (and the many contributors) for a nice addition to the discussion.
Keith Whitelam on the Spate of Recent Archaeological 'Discoveries'
The discovery of an inscribed neck of a jar in Jerusalem (An Inscribed Pithos from the Ophel, Jerusalem", by Dr. Eilat Mazar, David Ben-Shlomo, and Prof. Shmuel Ahituv (63 IEJ no. 1, 2013, pp. 39-49)) has again led to some interesting claims. Although most of those who have pronounced on the inscription believe that it is possibly written in Canaanite, it is still seen as evidence for the monarchy of David:
"The archaeologists suspect the inscription specifies the jar's contents or the name of its owner. Because the inscription is not in Hebrew, it is likely to have been written by one of the non-Israeli (sic!) residents of Jerusalem, perhaps Jebusites, who were part of the city population in the time of Kings David and Solomon."
This interpretation follows the same pattern as the interpretation of the inscription at Tel Zayit : "The discovery during excavations at Tel Zayit in 2005 of a limestone boulder inscribed with the letters of the alphabet provides a useful illustration of this point. This stone with a few inscribed letters was found embedded in the wall of a building at this relatively small rural site. It was so difficult to see that it was spotted by one of the volunteers at the excavations sometime after the wall of the building had been excavated. However, on the basis of these few inscribed letters, it has been claimed that this is evidence of widespread literacy and the development of a centralized bureaucracy and political organization controlled from Jerusalem at the time of David. The political implications are so important that even the smallest item discovered in excavations is enlisted in the struggle to establish 'facts on the ground'." (Rhythms of Time: Reconnecting Palestine's Past, chapter 7)
Since the model imposed on the past is one of Jerusalem as the capital of a Davidic kingdom, the evidence has to be fitted into this pattern. It is not allowed to challenge the standard view or, heaven forbid, give succour to the view that Jerusalem in the tenth century was a small highland town and that we do not know the ethnic makeup of its inhabitants.
Gershon Galil claims that "the Ophel inscription should be dated to the second half of the 10th century (it was absolutely not written in the 11th century). In the mid-late 10th century the house of David controlled Jerusalem, and I agree with Athas that:
"The language of the inscription is difficult to ascertain from so few letters, but there is good reason to think it is probably Hebrew" (although it is well known that the roots ḤLQ and NTN are clearly also attested in other West Semitic Languages).
Since it has to fit the model, it seems now that "there is good reason to think it is probably Hebrew". What is the good reason? Apart from circular argument?
Thanks to Jim West for the various links.
You're welcome.
Related Articles
- Gershon Galil's Alternative Reading of the Jerusalem Inscrption (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
- Gershon Galil: A Reconstruction of the Jerusalem Inscription (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
- The 10th Century BCE Jerusalem Inscription (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
- Jerusalem: The Movie – My Review (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
- Aaron Demsky's Reading of the Jerusalem Inscription (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
- The IEJ Essay by Mazar et al on the Jerusalem Inscription (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
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'Rhythms of Time': An Update
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Rhythms of Time: Reconnecting Palestine's Past has been delivered to the Kindle store. Available in 2-4 working days!
Keith Whitelam's "Rhythms of Time: Reconnecting Palestine's Past" Reviewed
My review of Whitelam's soon to appear book is uploaded (and downloadable) here. I've mentioned it before and now having had the chance to work through it fairly carefully I can sincerely affirm that it is excellent.
Good News: Keith Whitelam's Book Will Be Out In the Next Few Weeks
I've mentioned this before and now I've got a few more specific details:
The book is aimed at the general/interested reader rather than a specialist Biblical Studies market, though its author hopes that it is affordable and interesting for students. It is priced at $7.99 in the USA (the price will be converted for local currencies). Hopefully it will be available from 1 February 2013 (this will depend on different companies and how quickly they make it available on their electronic stores). It will be available on Amazon (for Kindle), Apple iBookstore (for iPad), Barnes and Noble (for Nook), Reader Store (for Sony Reader), Kobo (for Kobo Touch, Kobo Wi-Fi, Kobo Vox), Copia, Gardners, Baker and Taylor, eBookPie, and eSentral. The ISBN for the epub version is 978-0-9575406-1-3.
Visit your local e-publisher and pick up a copy soon as you can. I'll be reviewing it in the next few weeks, so watch for that if you like.
Related Articles
- An Excerpt From Keith Whitelam's Forthcoming "Rhythms of Time: Reconnecting Palestine's Past" (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)


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It is the most dangerous spider to be living in the wild and breeding in britain, and its bite can put a fully grown man in hospital.
The species has been in the country for over 100 years after being introduced on a cargo of bananas from the canary islands.
But according to Stuart Hine, an insect expert at the Natural History Museum, it is spreading:
"There is no doubt in my mind that this is due to the milder winters caused by global warming,"
"Every year, the UK is breaking records for warm temperatures and it is these temperatures that are keeping the spiders alive. It used to be only a handful of spiders would be able to survive the cold weather so the numbers were always kept down. But now they are all surviving the winter and are crawling out of hibernation earlier to mate."
"The numbers have just rocketed into the hundreds of thousands. They can hide in gardening gloves and will bite when you put your hand in. We would urge gardeners to be on their guard in the future."
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A bite from the false black widow delivers enough poison to cause severe pain and inflammation.
Last year market trader Jason Fricker, 34, from Dorchester, Dorset, spent three days in hospital after one bit him on the chest. An entry on the Natural History Museum's website said a bite from the spider at first caused a burning sensation. It then 'increased in intensity, like being scalded, stabbing pains spread first to armpit then down right arm'.
The entry concluded: 'Also flu-like symptoms, aches, sweats, fatigue, perspiring, cold and shaky. Face and right arm went purplish and slightly puffy. Felt unwell for three days.' Another victim reported that the bite lasted for a similar time before becoming infected.
One study found that the pain was far more severe than that from a wasp or bee sting. Mr Hine added: 'Normally an antihistamine cream will take the pain away but, depending on the amount of venom injected, a doctor may need to be seen.'
The species - only the female of which bites - had been considered native to Dorset but has spread as far as East Anglia. It usually lives on walls, fences and tree bark.
Spider facts
"Steatoda Nobilis' is the the most venomous of the 12 biting spiders in Britain.
Only the females bite and they live for around four years while males die younger.
Despite their reputation, they eat only woodlice and smaller spiders.
They have very poor eyesight and depend mostly on vibrations to find their way around.
They grow to up to half an inch long and are increasingly found in garden sheds and outbuildings
this is worrying news for me as i am an arachnophobiac as it is, and ive always told myself they cant do me any harm to try and overcome it, but now i cant be so sure!
So gardeners be careful this summer! and anyone else who is out and about in the UK.
P.s. sorry to kind of leave out anyone who isnt in the UK

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Permanence and Parenthood: The Case for Abolishing the Adoption Annulment Doctrine
Margaret M. Mahoney
University of Pittsburgh
September 1, 2009
Indiana Law Review, Vol. 42, p. 639, 2009
University of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2009-26
As a general rule, the legal system intends the parent-child status to be permanent. Whatever the realities of the relationship between a biological or adoptive parent and his or her child as it unfolds over the years, in the eyes of the law, the connection is important and lasts until the death of either party. This Article focuses on the phenomenon of parents seeking to terminate the relationship status earlier, most often before their children reach adulthood. As described at length herein, two legal doctrines govern in this area: the termination of parental rights statutes enacted in every jurisdiction and the abrogation of adoption doctrine. The Article takes the position that the second of these doctrines, which sets out unique standards for the annulment or abrogation of adoption decrees, should be abolished.
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Keywords: adoption, adoption annulment, adoption abrogation, termination of parental rights
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NEWARK — A forensic scientist who tested blood and other evidence that were collected at the scene of the August 2007 schoolyard triple killing is testifying this morning at the trial of one of the defendants accused.
The scientist, Matthew Wood, was employed by the New Jersey State Police Office of State Forensics at the time of the killing, in which six young men were charged. Wood, an expert in forensic stain analysis, examined several pieces of evidence days after the Aug. 4 schoolyard shooting, including a cigarette butt, a napkin, hair fibers and blood, then sent them to a state DNA laboratory for a fuller examination.
The latest defendant to stand trial in Superior Court, Alexander Alfaro, 20, is charged with three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, along with related robbery and weapons offenses in connection with the killing behind Mount Vernon School.
Prosecutors say the six defendants set upon four college-bound friends that night in what began as a robbery, and what has been called gang-related. Iofemi Hightower and Dashon Harvey, both 20, and Terrance Aeriel, 18, were lined up against the school wall and shot in the back of the head. They died. Terrance's sister, Natasha Aeriel, who was 19, was shot in the head but survived.
Aeriel testified last week, but did not remember Alfaro. The trial is in its second week, and so far, prosecutors have not brought out any forensic evidence linking Alfaro to the scene.
Prosecutors say Alfaro admitted to attacking Hightower with a machete in a taped statement to police following his arrest, which will be played at trial.
Another defendant, Rodolfo Godinez, was convicted last spring by a jury and in September, Melvin Jovel admitted to being the gunman. Both were sentenced to more than 200 years in prison.
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• Newark schoolyard slayings trial to resume with detective testimony
• Lone survivor in Newark schoolyard triple slaying recounts harrowing experience at trial
• Survivor in Newark schoolyard triple fatal shooting won't be permitted to say she was sexually assaulted
• Defense argues evidence in Newark schoolyard slayings doesn't implicate second suspect on trial


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thanks - it was a good interview.
Hi all,
I know several people on here are fans of the Perfect Health Diet, and I found this intervew from a few weeks ago while catching up on some podcasts... this is from Ben Greenfield Fitness.
Episode #152: If You Could Eat Fat All Day, Would You? (What is the Perfect Health Diet?)
ETA: the interview starts around 46:00 of the podcast...
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Thanks for posting the link to the interview. Love the Perfect Health Diet website.
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The Bedroom Tax demonstrations across the UK yesterday were great, and you can see some footage of the Glasgow demo here. More reports on the Bedroom Tax will be heading your way soon from A Thousand Flowers.
But something happened at the Glasgow Anti Bedroom Tax demo yesterday, and it needs to be talked about. It happened because a rape apologist was invited to speak on the platform. Dave Sherry was invited to speak in his capacity as UNITE Scottish Federation of Housing Associations branch secretary, but one of his other roles is as a member of the Disputes Committee of the SWP which it has emerged has delivered a "not proved" verdict in the case of senior party member Martin Smith raping a teenage member of the party. It has also taken it upon itself to "rule" on several other rape cases. That Disputes Committee, and all in the SWP who have lined up to support it and silence internal dissent against its decision to even entertain holding its own rape trial, let alone come to the decision that they "didn't think that Comrade Delta [Martin Smith] raped W" (Candy U, Disputes Committee member, from leaked transcript of an SWP conference), is a Committee of rape apologists. The ins and outs of that case and the other rape cases the SWP Disputes Committee have felt it appropriate to try to cover up, and the droves of activists who have left the SWP as a result, have been discussed extensively elsewhere. (There is a round up of almost every article written about the current SWP crisis here if you're so inclined)
When Dave Sherry took to the megaphone to speak to the crowd, a group of activists (from a variety of backgrounds and affiliations, or none) booed him. We shouted "rape apologist", because that's what he is. We disrupted his speech because he does not have a right to speak for any progressive movement. His uninterrupted presence would have been an indication that we condone the things he has done, and we don't, and we shouldn't. We started when he spoke and we finished when he finished.
Here's a short video of some of what happened next:
Abusive behaviour came from stewards on the demo (mostly SWP members. Keir McKechnie and Graham Campbell – though it's always anyone's guess what his current affiliations are – are easily identifiable in the video and photographs. If anyone knows who the steward with curly black hair and the steward with a grey ponytail are let us know because they were the worst for it) and some bystanders (mostly Solidarity members – if you don't know anything about Solidarity, it was Tommy Sheridan's breakaway group from the Scottish Socialist Party following his high profile defamation case against the News of the World and you can read the full story of the misogynistic aspects to that here)
They were shouting at us to shut the fuck up, to leave the Bedroom Tax demo and "go back to our rape demo", telling us we would be arrested for telling the truth about Dave Sherry's involvement in a rape conspiracy. We were called "middle class" for you know, thinking rape is a problem that shouldn't be swept under the carpet. Josh Brown (Glasgow SWP Organiser) was repeatedly giving us the fingers from the middle of the speakers platform – while Sherry spoke next to him, while wearing a stewards's bib, and while most of the crowd probably had no idea what was going on – but they say we were the ones making a mockery of the demo?? Funny that.
The police were entirely absent from the whole affair but the stewards decided to appoint themselves law enforcement positions and start physically trying to throw us off the demo. They effectively kettled us, and we were shoved together very tightly, it was the sort of behaviour you would expect from Strathclyde police, not other lefties. Male stewards started to grab young women and tried to forcefully shove us out of the crowd, they were going for some people repeatedly. We told them to stop touching us, and eventually they had to give up on trying to physically remove us like some kind of Keep Rape A Secret private security service. There was a clear gender divide in how they treated us – anyone that they read as a woman was put in a situation of clear danger, with people screaming and touching them. Male activists involved report having "keep your women in check" chat directed at them, but the worst of the grabbing and threats was reserved for female activists. Racist comments were directed at one activist for "not even sounding Scottish".
One unknown young female steward was very keen to let every female Sherry protestor know that she wanted to hurt them, threatening various women with ripping their throats out/kicking their cunts in/stabbing them. I very much doubt she was SWP and to be honest it was more upsetting to see older people who should have been diffusing that situation for both her own safety and ours actually egging her on – it seemed to be a pretty clear example of them using a working class woman as their disposable attack dog while they stood comfortably behind her. For all anyone knew she could have personal reasons why her immediate response to feeling under attack was to threaten violence, and the stewards and bystanders who definitely knew exactly what we were protesting against had a duty not to allow the situation to escalate to threats of violence (but you know when the stewards actually are being violent and throwing you about who the fuck can you trust?)
One Solidarity activist, Joyce Drummond, was telling the woman making the threats that it was good on her and pointing out to her ex-SSP members she saw in the crowd as "grasses". Drummond was formerly best known for being Tommy Sheridan's most virulent supporter, and for being caught out in Sheridan's perjury trial as one of the group behind a motion calling for the minutes of a Scottish Socialist Party meeting (where Sheridan admitted that he had done the things which he later denied in court) to be "destroyed" – but now she's best known to those who have seen the above video as "that awful woman".
I can absolutely guarantee you that had police officers been present anywhere in that crowd, they would have been demanding our arrest, and detailing a list of our supposed crimes – all the while screaming about "SSP grasses" and "ISG fuckin misfits" (they have a very one-dimensional view of feminism so have to assume that their only opposition is from the groups who they've chosen as their sworn enemies, when in actual fact EVERYONE with any political awareness hates them). Which is pretty ridiculous given their supposed opposition to the "bourgeois" legal system. "Assist women to take rape cases to the police? Nah we'll deal with it ourselves and call the women liars. Think it's wrong for Tommy Sheridan to take a false case to court based on cross-examining women he's slept with and calling them liars? Nah, support him to the hilt, it's not lying if you lie in a bourgeois court. Anti-rape campaigners heckling a rape apologist? ARREST THEM!"
Let's be clear: Dave Sherry wasn't even heckled just because he was a MEMBER of the SWP. Sure, it's desperately clear by now that all with an ounce of integrity within the SWP have now resigned their membership – and it's reasonable to direct ire at those who have quite deliberately chosen to stay in an organisation that condones the cover up of rapes within its ranks. But there was another SWP speaker on the bill at this rally (speaking as an 'anti Trident campaigner') who no one heckled or made any attempt to disrupt. Dave Sherry alone was heckled because he is DIRECTLY culpable for the cover up of these rapes and the ensuing vilification of the women who had been harmed.
We really need to think of yesterday's excellent Anti Bedroom Tax demo and what happened within the five or so minutes of Dave Sherry's speech as separate issues, because they are – although unfortunately the involvement of the SWP in any issue now means that the SWP problem will have to be dealt with at every turn. It's sad for the genuine, non-front, people's movements that the SWP latch on to that they will have to deal with the structural problems of misogyny in a cult they have nothing to do with, but if we don't deal with it they will bring us all down, and we will not be safe in our own spaces. And in Glasgow, we have the additional problem that the SWP have political allies who are prepared to not only back them up but get aggressive with us if we are critical of SWP members like Dave Sherry.
The fact of the matter is, the SWP, the CWI (another small sect) and Tommy Sheridan's Solidarity all HATE each other (see the 'Axis of Ugly' section of this article). But the SWP and Solidarity are brought back together time and time again for two reasons. The first is that they each fulfil a need the other has – the SWP dedicate themselves to building fronts and meetings, Tommy Sheridan brings the punters in with his rhetoric, the SWP get to farm new recruits and Sheridan gains publicity and profile. The second is that they are dedicated misogynists who back each other up to promote the idea that sexism is a natural and acceptable aspect of the left and that all who criticise them are middle class feminazi woofters. Solidarity members have nothing to do with the inner workings of the Socialist Workers Party, and there is no legitimate reason for them not to join with the majority on the left and condemn the SWP's attempted cover up of rapes within its ranks. But it suits them to join in the silencing of women speaking out against the actions of Sherry and co because it furthers their worn out lines about women's safety being a middle class diversion from the "real struggle" and also they can't afford not to back up their own decisions to silence anyone who dared to question their own infallible misogynist hero, Tommy Sheridan.
Of course it's not just Sheridan who Solidarity have a history of defending, nor does the buck stop at plain old rape apologists like Dave Sherry. In the past, Solidarity members helped organise a campaign to defend convicted rapist, Chris Wiles. The thankfully now defunct Democratic Green Socialist website became a platform for their horrendous outbursts. The initial piece in which they called a teenage rape victim a drunken liar with a STI and asserted that the Scottish justice system is so desperate to convict rapists they just send anyone down has thankfully now dissapeared – though an archived version is still available here (massive trigger warning). Rape Crisis Scotland (who refuse to comment on individual cases) were so disgusted that they commented on the campaign, if not the case itself. Solidarity members responded by organising a birthday party for their rapist friend. Steve Arnott, a Solidarity member who can currently be found leaving daft comments on the above youtube video of yesterday's events, might want to learn when to pipe down given the Democratic Green Socialist website was run by him.
Rape apologists in our movements need to know that everywhere they go in political life this will happen to them. A loud roar should follow Dave Sherry, and the rest of his rape enabling cronies, until they can no longer functionally hold positions in any movement. As long as they are allowed to continue as normal, movements they are involved in are not safe for women. When you make or laugh at a rape joke, you are enabling rapists to continue by sending the message that what they do to people won't be taken seriously. The same applies to allowing those who attempt rape cover-ups to exist unchallenged within our movements. What happened at the hands of SWP and Solidarity members yesterday was at the extreme end of complicity in allowing rapes to occur. But there are many steps on that ladder and those who attempt to downplay what happens to women in all of society but on the left in particular, those who attempt to silence those who speak out about it, are every bit as complicit as those who assault anti-rape campaigners, or sit on rape-excusing Disputes Committees.
Dave Sherry should never have been asked to speak at such an event, which is far too important to be used as a vehicle to re-establish the credibility of deeply uncredible and frankly dangerous people and organisations. We need to keep this up, and provide no platform to the SWP (but in particular actual Disputes Committee members such as Sherry). It's appalling to see supposed "socialists" assaulting and screaming at young women speaking out against a rape cover-up, but in a way at least they are ready and willing to show their true colours – it should become clear to all who needs to be avoided for the safety of activists and the health of our movements.
The silver lining to the appalling behaviour exhibited by defenders of Sherry yesterday was an incredibly funny comment spat at one of our number by a couple of Sheridanistas, but which is better directed towards Sherry and the Sycophants:
"Get it up ye"
"RIGHT up ye"


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January 5, 2003, 02:07 AM
Every group has a motto if it wants to be great. What do you suggest the motto of THR be?
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January 5, 2003, 02:16 AM
Same as the three stooges, Eat, Drink, and Beat Larry.
January 5, 2003, 03:25 AM
The Beatles were a great group. What was their motto?
January 5, 2003, 03:28 AM
"The Right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Something like that.
January 5, 2003, 03:38 AM
Welcome to the land of free roamin',sniperchick chasin',elephant skin wearin',tactical lovin' Skunks! :D
January 5, 2003, 03:39 AM
Why not the same as TFL? Molon Labe
January 5, 2003, 03:44 AM
Chaim is right! ... It should be Molon Labe ! :)
January 5, 2003, 03:51 AM
Molon Labe
Keep The High Road
ed dixon
January 5, 2003, 04:01 AM
"Ohhh, :) you take the high road and... we'll take it back!" :fire:
Nah, of course, Molon Labe.
January 5, 2003, 04:13 AM
Actually thinking of Rich's challenge. Which was what his intentions were and TFL 's reflection proved that his Social Experiment worked. Keeping the High Road--not becoming less, but a better band of persons to carry on and teach.
Kinda the reason why Molon Labe became so important in the first place.
January 5, 2003, 04:47 AM
Heck, get redneck about it!
"Yep, My Cold Dead Fingers"
You would be surprised how many of those you still see in the south.
I agree, Molon Labe!
January 5, 2003, 05:48 AM
its a different forum , needs a different motto
January 5, 2003, 05:54 AM
All joking aside, while I aslo like the "molon labe" moto, perhaps it should be something a bit less "confrontational".
Wait a minute now, I'm not saying we should give the image of a group of folks willing to "roll over" in reguards to our 2nd Admendment rights. It's just that if we want to make our views known to others, and we want those others to take us seriously, then perhaps we should be willing to seen as something other than a bunch of angry gun owners yelling "Come and Get Them!". If we truely wish to have a dialogue with others, the purpose of which is to open the minds of those who don't understand our views and to perhaps change the minds of those opposed to us, I don't think a moto that can be taken as an implied threat will serve that purpose. We all know that some on the other side will use anything they can against us.
While we will never be able to sway the opinions of some people out there, there are those that will listen if we can make a well reasoned, logical, and factual presentation of our views. Those people may not, at first, be comfortable being thought of as a member of a group standing behind that "line in the sand" and telling those on the other side to "come and get them". We need to be able to recruit those who aren't quite sure why they should be on our side yet. And yes, we do need them.
Having said that, I agree with "Molon Labe" and all it implies. And I'm ready to prove it, if need be. I'm just not sure that the people we would like to see take a stand with us are, at this point in their "opinon forming", ready to do the same. It, simply put, may make some others whom we could use on our side, see us as the "gun nuts" the other side makes us out to be. We don't need to help them do it.
January 5, 2003, 07:53 AM
Borrow the line from Heinlein
An armed society is a polite society.
Most here are armed and most here are polite, close enough.
January 5, 2003, 08:05 AM
"Bad to the bone"
January 5, 2003, 11:05 AM
I'm going to take some time to think about this.
The only thing that comes to mind, not having finished my morning coffee, is "Ask me about my gun."
It is friendly and invites discussion.
Okay, back to the coffee and the duck hunting show on tv.
January 5, 2003, 11:28 AM
I like Molon Labe, too. But actually, doesn't our name contain our motto? :confused:
Hk Paul
January 5, 2003, 11:44 AM
Im for Molon Labe all the way.
Were are we going to put it? how about right under the logo in italics.
January 5, 2003, 11:51 AM
I went to our Northern Ohio TFL farewell shoot wearing my TFL/Molon Labe shirt and hat. I had at least three other shooters ask me what the significance was to Molon Labe. I tried to explain the historical meaning and that it was the new battle cry of our 2nd Amendment fight. I got a couple 'thumbs up' for that explanation.
I think that we should continue to carry on in the spirit of TFL and adopt the 'Molon Labe' as our battle cry.
January 5, 2003, 12:02 PM
Thought about it for a while. Why don't we use the "sheepdog" approach? Something along those lines would be quickly understood by one who needed to. A few examples below, I'm sure others could come up with something better.
"Sheepdog(s) (to) (of) the world"
"Sheepdogs, watching over the flock"
"Sheepdogs, (always) (ever) alert for wolves"
"Sheepdogs vs the wolves"
"Sheepdog(s), man's best friend(s)"
Well, you get the idea. I'm sure there are many more. SHEEPDOG, I think it kind of sums most of us up.
January 5, 2003, 12:10 PM
dave posted
" Same as the three stooges, Eat, Drink, and Beat Larry" Just remember Larry is likely to fight back with vigor. :)
Also I was thinking many folks do NOT know what Molon Labe means/stands for.
Who has a real good explanation of situation. I know the story but have forgotten the spacifics.
January 5, 2003, 12:27 PM
At the battle of Thermopylae Xerxes of Persia demanded that the Spartans lay down their arms. Leonidas, King of Sparta, told Xerxes "molon labe", or "come and get them."
The 300 Spartans present then proceeded over the next 3 days to kill 20,000 Persians while fighting to the last man. They saved Greece.
January 5, 2003, 12:29 PM
From TFL : http://www.thefiringline.com/Misc/library/TFL_Primer.htm
Molon labe
(mo-lone lah-veh)
Two little words. With these two words, two concepts were verbalized that have lived for nearly two and a half Millennia. They signify and characterize both the heart of the Warrior, and the indomitable spirit of mankind. From the ancient Greek, they are the reply of the Spartan General-King Leonidas to Xerxes, the Persian Emperor who came with 600,000 of the fiercest fighting troops in the world to conquer and invade little Greece, then the center and birthplace of civilization as we know it. When Xerxes offered to spare the lives of Leonidas, his 300 personal bodyguards and a handful of Thebans and others who volunteered to defend their country, if they would lay down their arms, Leonidas shouted these two words back.
Molon Labe! (mo-lone lah-veh)
They mean, "Come and get them!" They live on today as the most notable quote in military history. And so began the classic example of courage and valor in its dismissal of overwhelming superiority of numbers, wherein the heart and spirit of brave men overcame insuperable odds. Today, there lies a plaque dedicated to these heroes all at the site. It reads: "Go tell the Spartans, travelers passing by, that here, obedient to their laws we lie."
We have adopted this defiant utterance as a battle cry in our war against oppression because it says so clearly and simply towards those who would take our arms.
It signifies our determination to not strike the first blow, but also to not stand mute and allow our loved ones, and all that we believe in and stand for, to be trampled by men who would deprive us of our God-given – or natural, if you will – rights to suit their own ends.
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January 5, 2003, 12:35 PM
"It signifies our determination to not strike the first blow, but also to not stand mute and allow our loved ones, and all that we believe in and stand for, to be trampled by men who would deprive us of our God-given – or natural, if you will – rights to suit their own ends."
Sounds like taking the High Road . Thats why I prefer Molon Labe, re-enforces our purpose of this forum. Just think its a good choice.
Signifies, and goes hand in hand.
January 5, 2003, 01:30 PM
How about 'Pinko Power!'...?
Oh, wait, I thought this was that other board....
Ill throw one out there. Not nessisarily the exact words, but the thought....
"I intend to protect my rights"
Is there a more elegant way to say that?
January 5, 2003, 01:46 PM
If we really need a motto --
The roots of THR are in TFL and I see nothing wrong with continuing to use Molon Labe as a motto -- if we really need one.
January 5, 2003, 08:49 PM
How about "Knowledge, Justice, and Freedom"
January 5, 2003, 08:53 PM
"Don't Tread on Me" Molon Labe.
January 5, 2003, 10:12 PM
why not just "Polite Society"
January 5, 2003, 10:26 PM
January 5, 2003, 10:47 PM
"Unwitting participants and survivors of a large social experiment.":scrutiny:
January 5, 2003, 11:14 PM
"What part of 'shall not be infringed' don't you understand?"
January 5, 2003, 11:27 PM
January 5, 2003, 11:31 PM
Another vote for " Molon Labe".
What those words say and mean is what we all stand for everyday as gun owners, americans, human beings defending them selves and families and friends.
January 5, 2003, 11:48 PM
"Send more guns." :D
Fair 'n Square
January 6, 2003, 12:06 AM
I posted the Greek symbols for Molon Labe in my office at work. Many wondered what they signified, and it gave me an opportunity to explain it in the context of our obligation to safeguard our rights today.
"Molon Labe!"
January 6, 2003, 12:17 AM
Shoot to stop!!!
January 6, 2003, 12:39 AM
I agree with
sasnofear - different forum, different motto
matis - the forum's name is the motto.
"Take The High Road" could invite as much conversation as "Molon Labe Too" if we put in greek letters or use a gaelic dialect. Or simply leave it as is and "Take the High Road":)
January 6, 2003, 01:38 AM
Shoot to stop!!! and stop to shoot!:D
Really though, I am partial to Molon Labe. "Don't Tread On Me!" isn't a bad second.
January 6, 2003, 01:41 AM
I find it interesting that people often take the statements
Molon Labe
From My Cold Dead Hand
to be confrontational, or even threatening or aggressive - as they are not that at all - they are a statements that simply mean that one will not allow oneself to be violated and that the person who intends to initiate the confrontation needs to be willing to kill the person he would violate. They are telling would be aggressors that they will have to initiate lethal violence if they want to have their way. Sheep do always seem to misunderstand because of course they don't believe in violence, as they just like to pass laws and then leave the enforcement to the government officers - out of sight out of mind. Kind of like people who think hunting is horrific and barbaric, but think nothing of going to the store or local resturant to buy pre-packaged or pre-cooked meat.
January 6, 2003, 01:51 AM
The Beatles were a great group. What was their motto?
"all you need is love"
January 6, 2003, 02:02 AM
You know, on further thought I figured, why do we need only one motto? Molon Labe wasn't official at TFL (I don't think) it just kinda got adopted by just about everyone. So unofficially why not:
-"the high road" or "take the high road"
-"A Polite Society" (most people would know what phrase that refers to and those who don't would figure it out fast)
-"Molon Labe"
-and of course, Tamara's suggestion "Send more guns!":D
January 6, 2003, 02:50 AM
I liked WonderNine's suggestion:
"The Right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
January 6, 2003, 05:26 AM
"E Pluribus Unum" Of many, One
Your Freedom to speak, My Freedom to defend!
January 6, 2003, 10:20 AM
This is my rifle, this is my gun! This is for killing, this is for fun! ;)
January 6, 2003, 10:43 AM
Molon Labe it is. After researching the Greek use of it, it seems apporpriate.
January 6, 2003, 11:24 AM
...exhale and squeeze.
...home on the range.
...molon labe
...don't tread on me
...without the second, there will be no first.
...truth will out.
...granted by God, exercised by Man.
...defending the right to defend yourself.
January 6, 2003, 11:50 AM
I think I'm impressed by "Without the 2nd there can be no 1st." And I would use the digits as opposed to words to emphasize the amendments.
Nathaniel Firethorn
January 6, 2003, 12:34 PM
Same as the three stooges, Eat, Drink, and Beat Larry.http://www.wildestwesterns.com/images/3-Stooges.JPG
"No wonder da water don't woik! Da pipes is clogged up wit' ammo!"
- pdmoderator
January 6, 2003, 12:37 PM
Is life so dear or peace so sweet to be bought at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me Give me Liberty or give me Death!
patrick henry
Carlos Cabeza
January 6, 2003, 03:54 PM
JUST DID IT !!!!! No,
Thats my skydiving group's motto........
LIVE FREE OR DIE or EXHALE and SQUEEZE!
January 6, 2003, 05:54 PM
Live to exercise your rights, exercise your rights to live.
January 6, 2003, 07:50 PM
"Don't Tread on Me"
Just leave me alone please.
January 6, 2003, 08:01 PM
GUNS: Because some people just need shooting.
I want that on a bumpersticker. :)
- Gabe
January 6, 2003, 08:20 PM
Fight crime...shoot back!
January 6, 2003, 10:53 PM
"Aim small - miss small"
"Freedom First" - all else is secondary. :cool:
(But I can live with Molon Labe. :D )
January 6, 2003, 11:46 PM
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
Life balances between freedom and safety, but too often one is bought with coin from the other making us poor in both.
January 7, 2003, 10:15 AM
'Windage and Elevation'
'Guns 'R' us'
Toiling in Liberty's Garden
The Front Line in Homeland Defense
The Buckshot Stops Here
January 7, 2003, 10:21 AM
Same as the three stooges, Eat, Drink, and Beat Larry.
Correia is going to have HUGE issues with this...
January 7, 2003, 01:51 PM
Molon Labe
Nothing has changed except the server in which we enter our pixels. We've already found a motto which fits us, we're still the same people with the same mission.
Besides, Molon Labe is/was actually starting to gain recognition. Why start all over again? Sensless
January 7, 2003, 02:18 PM
January 7, 2003, 03:35 PM
Another vote for Molon Labe -- It's a message that needs to get out beyond TFL and THR.
January 7, 2003, 05:10 PM
How about "Today we carve out our own omens"? Or "O tempora, o mores"? Or maybe "YOU! Off my planet!".
Seriously, Molon Labe sums it up nicely. Why dumb the message down?
January 7, 2003, 10:41 PM
How about "Molon Labe if you dare or dare you to Molon Labe". I have two reactions to my hats, one I tell them what their about. Two, if the look like MMM'ers I tell them, you don't want to know but rest easy in knowing we're here"! Amazing responses! Let's keep Molon Labe but let's see if we can add something to it.
"Come and get them":
If yo momma will let you,
If you can get past Spike (my killer poodle),
When you have reinforcements,
If you have any testicals,
If you're not afraid I won't take your's
When you have a search warrent, and the previous statement!
A day after hell freezes over,
Collect them in hell, see you there first,
you'll need a back-hoe because it will be in my coffin,
if you bring;
a shrubbery,
you get the picture!
Realistically boys and girls, the divide is so wide between what they have and what we have that we no longer have the ability to take back our corrupt government. When we say "Molon Labe" we are in effect pledging our LIVES, fortunes etc. With each passing day it becomes more of a suicide mission. There are at least 20,000 of us who recognize this county is not what it was suppose to be. Strangely enough that is the same number the "free state" group is looking for. They want to take over a small state by having the 20,000 elected to various positions in a state, then file to succeed from the Union and telling Washington they don't need their money and they won't be sending any to them!:neener: (we need a fiendishly-clever smiley!
January 8, 2003, 01:11 AM
Although my new favorite (in)famous last words are:
"The Jews Have Weapons! The Jews have..."
I'm not sure if that's an authentic quote though. I heard it was the last utterance of the first SS trooper to fall during the Ghetto Uprising.
January 8, 2003, 02:41 AM
I guess that lets out the Texas translation of Molon Labe on the TexasGonzales flag, just pure "come and take it".
See it here: http://www.galleryoftherepublic.com/pages/txflags/gonzales.html
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Show #3846
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PLUS: Martha Stewart Desperate; Local News Highlight; Governor Christie's Weight Loss; Frankenfish; Stooge of the Night; a Top Ten List; and a Professor of Metallurgy Reviews "Iron Man 3"
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I know, right? This on network television?!
Sitting in with the band tonight, the great Todd Rundgren! His new album is entitled, "State." I believe he's wearing Joseph's dreamcoat.
I once had a terrycloth top that I would wear in college whenever there was an outdoor party. It became my signature piece. I know, pretty pathetic, but it was college. I knew then what few seemed to realize: "If not now, when?"
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Late Show Jingle: "We hope you enjoyed our little skit."
It's a weeknight, so you know what that means! It's time for "Stooge of the Night!" Tonight's 'Stooge of the Night' is Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa.
DAVE: "Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley voted 'NO' on gun reform legislation despite the fact that 88% of voters in his state wanted background checks for gun buyers. He enjoys ceramics, big band music, and his 'A' rating from the NRA.
'88%? That's nearly half!' says Chuck.
It's Chuck Grassley, and he's our 'Stooge of the Night'"
Tonight's "Stooge of the Night" was sponsored by P.J. Clarke's. "Tell 'em Ray Milland sent you!"
1. "Has the United States Treasury considered a sandwich-backed currency?"
3. "When will this country lift the ban on Cuban sandwiches?"
2. "When I say 'Hold the pickles,' I'd really like to hold the pickles."
1. "Grinder? I just met her!"
Dave's favorite sandwich - Bread, ham, mustard, cheddar, slap them all together and there you go.
She's on the popular "New Girl" on the FOX. The season finale is next Tuesday. Taylor Swift will be making a cameo. Dave wonders how Taylor Swift got to appear. Zooey says Taylor said she liked the show, we asked her to be on, she said yes. Wow! That's not quite what Dave meant. Under what premise does Taylor Swift get to be on? Dave says years ago, Sammy Davis Jr. would make a guest appearance by driving down the street when his limo broke down.
Zooey has two dogs at home. We see a photo of the two spooning. Ahh. At home, Martha Stewart growled, "How can they . . . . and not me . . . ."
Zooey will be on the Late Show Friday to perform a song from her album, "She & Him."
Her "New Girl" season finale will be next Tuesday, May 14th at 9 PM on the FOX.
Thinking about going to see "Iron Man 3"? Before you decide, we visit with a Columbia University Professor of Metallurgy, Dr. Stuart Brinworth. Dr. Brinworth enters.
DR. BRINWORTH: "'Iron Man.' Really? 'Iron Man.' Immediately, all credibility is right out the window. Iron is a relatively soft, heavy, metallic element. That suit is not made of iron! It's an alloy of some kind, probably titanium! You'd need a very specialized molecular structure to provide the high strength, low weight properties of a flying suit! Does Hollywood think we're idiots? The character's name should be something like 'High-Carbon Steel and Titanium-Alloy Man!'"
DAVE: "Thank you, Professor, but . . . . "
DR. BRINWORTH (ignoring Dave) "And another thing . . . . People talk about tin foil. It's not tinfoil. It's aluminum foil! Tin foil hasn't been a consumer product since the 1940s!"
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Security enters to lead Dr. Brinworth off.
DR. BRINWORTH (frantic, with more to say) "Listen to me, America. Pencils don't have lead in them. It's graphite! Graphite, you hear me? It's not lead, it's graphite! What's wrong with you people?"
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Music from Todd Rundgren.
He's has 5 kids at home living in a 2-bedroom New York City apartment. It probably explains why he is always eager to go out on the road. But obviously not ALL the time.
His kids range from 9 years old down to 5 months. Yikes! Five kids used to be a lot more common than it is today. I come from a family of 5 kids, as does my wife. In the neighborhood, that was about average. Remember, back then we didn't have cable. Jim is always surprised when strangers feel the need to tell him that having 5 kids is a lot. Jim says big families today are like waterbed stores. They were popular once but not anymore. Now they're just kinda weird. He'll often take the family on the road in the tour bus. The family likes it because it's probably a bit bigger than their apartment.
How does Jim stay in such good shape? He's not so sure that he is. He's tried eating healthy, like kale, but it isn't at all appetizing. He describes kale as tasting like bug spray. It's like spinach with hair. If he heard that kale could cure cancer, he'd rather the chemo.
Jim's new book is entitled "Dad Is Fat." It's in stores today. Jim says he got the title from the very first sentence his son wrote. Yeah, that's what his son came up with.
Jim Gaffigan --- I like him. I was disappointed his "Welcome To New York" show didn't last. (Oh, man, really? 2000? "Welcome to New York" was 13 years ago?)
PISTOL ANNIES: From their new album, "Annie Up," Pistol Annies performed "Hush Hugh."
And that was our show for Tuesday May 7, 2013.
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Back in '75, the Islanders were playing the Pittsburgh Penguins in the playoffs. The Islanders were newbies on the block in only their third year in existence. They were absolutely putrid their first two years. I had an Islander jersey I would wear whenever they won. When that rarely came around, I decided I'd wear the jersey to school whenever they won or tied. And then it got to the point where I would wear the jersey if they lost but played well. In 1975, the Islanders fell behind 3 games to 0. They came back to tie the series at 3-all. Without cable TV, I was unable to watch Game 7, but my friend had cable. I walked the two miles to his house to watch it on a grainy black and white TV. And Islander Eddie Westfall scored late in the third for the 1-0 win to make history. The Islanders won 4 Stanley Cups in the early 80s, but that month of Islander playoff hockey in 1975 vs. the Rangers, the Penguins, and the Flyers remains the best month of hockey I ever had.
Mickey Mantle corked his bat? That's what they're now saying, but I don't really care. Pitchers scuff the ball; hitters cork their bat.
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I liked "MASH" and "Newhart." Didn't quite go for "Seinfeld."
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People Wonder Why Their Health is So Poor? Seriously...?
This happened to me today. I was giving blood at the Red Cross, reclining on that curved seat, watching people around me and Rachel Ray (hey, she's gained some weight) on TV, when they guy helping me said out loud, to his co-workers, that he was dying to order a greasy pizza for lunch. He had my attention; it seemed like a weird thing to say in front of so many people.
He's not a big fat guy, and perhaps 30-40 years old, but in today's world not being fat makes him the exception. Returning to my side to check on the blood falling out of my arm (they love vascular in-shape people at the blood center), he told me it's been a while since he enjoyed a big greasy pizza and he misses them.
I said something appropriate and non-judgemental; I was a captive audience. He went on to say that less than a month ago he had a heart attack! At that point I asked how bad an attack it was (weird question, I know, but he was at his job and seemed fine). His reply was "...medium bad; they went in through my wrists and put several stints in, I had all kinds of blockage, but now I'm great." (I'm not quoting directly).
Then it got weird for a moment. He became a bit animated and told me "...they're trying to get me to eat real food, instead of pizza and fast food."
Think about this for a moment. I clearly had the impression he thought of this "real food" stuff like it was a weird conspiracy, something the medical people were trying to get over on him.
Real food. This guy had the big warning shot across the bow, a heart attack at a young age. He seems to have recovered, yet he's frustrated by attempts to force him to eat "real food."
And people wonder why obesity is rampant in America, ravaging younger and younger generations, killing and degrading millions?


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The aim of this International Conference on Asian studies is to encourage academics, scholars and practitioners representing a exciting diversity of countries, cultures, and religions to meet and exchange research, ideas and views in a forum encouraging respectful dialogue. ACAS 2013 will afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, and networking across higher education and beyond.
We welcome papers that focus on (but not limited to):
* Seeking refuge
* Unruly belonging(s)
* Intersections of gender, race, religion, sexuality
* Transforming cultures
* Trans-cultural displacement/belonging
* New imaginings/formations of home
* Citizenship beyond borders
* Communication, new technologies and belonging
* Cultural narratives of belonging/not belonging
* Cultural politics of survival/transgression
* Cosmopolitan exhaustion/renewal
* Belonging in the Anthropocene
* Construction of identities
* Multiple and complex belongings
* Intersecting narratives and identity
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19.May.2010 #487
"Interesting to note that according to our submitter, Taylor does not have a girlfriend." -Your Status Is Annoying
Thanks for sending, J!
"Interesting to note that according to our submitter, Taylor does not have a girlfriend." -Your Status Is Annoying
Thanks for sending, J!
"Just when I thought I'd already seen the epitome of douchbaggery, Taylor M comes along." -Emily B
Why is he quoting himself?!! Why?!!
He's waaaay too attached to that blow-up doll …
Holy Douchebags! This douche wins the Le Douche Royale award.
Maybe he's talking about his left hand?
I'm welling to bet this douche is hoping people will copy/paste his quotes so he can get a swollen head when he sees someone else's status with the quote and "-Taylor M" after it.
In case you didn't already know, this is TAYLOR M speaking here. it's an original quote by taylor m. what a genius. his fuckerey is emblazoned across facebook; like a knife into our eye sockets. -Mallory R
I wonder if the worlds LEAST interesting man drinks Dos Equis as well…
"Taylor M will live with his parents for his entire life and die a virgin." – bees
There's no reason to put quotes around something and credit yourself WHEN YOU'RE THE ONE SAYING IT! Dumbfuck…
"explicate"? Hahahahaha
Taylor cannot be the one who originally said it. Let's face it. Taylor can't spell laudable. You just know he can't.
[…] you're going to quote yourself, at least make it somewhat coherent." –Your Status is […]
I am Taylor Mickal.
I recently came upon this site and decided to search myself. I was greatly amused, haha.
For the record, I quote myself because I care about giving credit where it is due, and I also believe that we are all responsible for what we say. Not only in my words, but in others. If I see a quote without the rightful person who wrote it on someone's status, I am quick to correct it. I simply think that a man's word is everything; it's all he has when everything has been taken from him. And because of that, I put my name behind my own writing.
I am a writer and a poet, as well. So this is my form of "copyrighting" the things that I write, since I thought it would be silly to write (C) Taylor Mickal after everything.
You all might think it's silly, and a status is a status. But I consider words to be words, whether they are written, spoken, or typed. Continue to think as you will, though; I have offered my say.
Afterall, I don't care what people think of me, so long as they continue to think. -Taylor Mickal
P.S. I was in a relationship for the 1st, 3rd, and 4th status updates. But nice try "submitter J"…kinda.
Wow, so much of what you said explains nothing! P.S. You're also a douchebag because of your profile pic.
So much of what I said explains nothing? Well my apologies for you being illiterate.
And my profile picture was inspired by a movie scene; not arrogance. My god your name is fitting, someone needs to have you escorted to the hospital immediately to have your head injuries checked out.
"I recently came upon this site and decided to search myself." -Taylor Mickal
The natural reaction of anyone on discovering a website, I'm quite sure.
"Taylor M, why didn't you sign all that mess?" – Monica
haha, his avatar fits!
If you consider words to be words, you should picked better ones…
I think it's more fun to think of words as pretty pictures.
oops! *should have picked*
"'I recently came upon this site and decided to search myself.' -Taylor Mickal
The natural reaction of anyone on discovering a website, I'm quite sure."
Someone wrote on their status: "Have you been to the website 'Your Status Is Annoying'? Because you're kind of popular there." and for it just kind of felt like they were speaking to me, so I decided to check it out and do a search.
All I had to do was type "Taylor" and there it was.
It really astounds me how many of you are offended by such unoffensive status updates; I don't think I'll understand it…and I don't think I want to.
And Monica, I knew someone would be stupid enough to ask that question.
When I began the comment, I introduced myself, making it unnecessary to put my name at the end.
Well, Ding Dong, directly before your status is your name, thus making it unnecessary to put your name at the end. Dar, dar, dar. Is the light flickering for you, yet?
Yes, you are correct. But there is a principal difference between saying something and saying something while confirming it is yours.
Even on this site, my name comes before the comment I made, but yet I introduced myself and continued speaking in first person.
Often, people on facebook post quotes that are not theirs. Many assume that the words are of another origin, and many assume that the words are written by the person who said them. I dismantle all assumptions. It's that simple.
>Even on this site, my name comes before the comment I made, but yet I introduced myself and continued speaking in first person.>
Confirming your weirdness.
You just keep digging your hole deeper there, Taylor. Why don't you give us another argument trying to convince us how smart you are so we can make fun of that too?
That's acceptable, Monica.
And wambulancegirl, I'm fine with that as long as I'm the one with the shovel.
Taylor, if your profile picture was just to replicate a movie scene, why is it now a different pose, yet still a douchey and self-loving half naked photo?
Let's just all admit that you're kind of a tool – which is fine – but learn from this. Put up a profile picture where you have clothes on. Stop quoting yourself. And quit being so damn arrogant, you're not going to make friends that way.
Because the first picture was an exact replica, and I decided to do more, as I was fond of them. You can call it arrogant, but it has nothing to do with my thinking that I'm better then anyone else, and everything to do with my appreciating and loving myself. And that is an arrogance I am okay with being accused of.
So, I'll continue to put up a profile picture however I please, I'll continue quoting myself, and I'll continue to do what I feel is right regardless of how other people feel, because I have that weird thing called conviction; if I do something because of how other's feel, then I am an appeaser, and I have compromised that conviction.
And that is something I simply won't do.
Wow. You have such strong and also toolish convictions. Because unwavering convictions are always the answer – never mind humility, flexibility or understanding.
You know who else was uncompromising in their convictions? Hitler. That's right, I think you are just as bad as Hitler, if not worse. (I'm obviously exaggerating, you're clearly not as smart as Hitler. But I think it illustrates my point that just because you have "convictions" doesn't mean you're not a total ass-tard)
Hitler, you say?
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble." -Mohandas Gandhi
"A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience." -Curt Siodmak
"Conviction is the conscience of the mind." -Nicolas de Chamfort
"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct." -Thomas Carlyle
"Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not." -David Seabury
"For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights." -B. R. Ambedkar
"Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide." -Andrew Johnson
"If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction." -Jacques Derrida
"If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion." -Mia Hamm
"t's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen." -Muhammad Ali
"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens." -Powell Clayton
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." – Victor Hugo
"We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must." -Jim Cramer
"Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction." -Guy Verhofstadt
"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you." -Lyndon B. Johnson
"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
…and probably the most important for you who have so many assumptions:
"You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions." -Denis Waitley
Yes, I have conviction; surely I must be as bad as Hitler. For he wrote about nothing but love (which is all that I have written about in the above status updates.) What a terrible monster I must be.
Wow, Taylor. I just searched you, and your profile picture is one of the douchiest things I have ever seen. Put on some goddamn pants at least. Nobody wants to see a picture of you in your underwear.
"He who uses a picture of himself in his underwear as his Facebook picture is doomed to live a sad, lonely life in his mother's basement."–ShananaBanana
OMG He's still talking!! Stop talking!!!!
Taylor, could you please just stop being annoying? That's the whole point.


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Q: Now that Easter is approaching, what are the time frames and conditions for keeping hard-boiled eggs? Do you keep them in the fridge, or is it OK to leave them out, and for how long?
— D.P., Grand Rapids
If you are going to be decorating or coloring eggs, be sure to use uncracked eggs; a cracked shell can allow dirt and germs from your hands and working surface to get into the egg, spoiling it quickly.
Pretty decorated eggs used for display never should be left out of refrigeration more than two hours (the two-hour rule also applies to any spoilable food that may be served on a buffet table).
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It takes only one or two pieces of sugar-free gum to be harmful to a small dog.
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San Francisco Unified School District is implementing a Russian FLES program at Argonne Elementary school. The program is in its third year. There are 240 FLES K-2 grade students and 8 4-5th grade Heritage speakers in the program right now.
Please feel free to contact me. I would like to collaborate with other Russian FLES teachers.
I have only one class which is offered at our school for spring semester only. All the levels are combined in the same classroom which is quite challenging to teach.
We have Russian Face to Face available, but to be honest I don't find it that helpful, except for the video series. I do look at it from time to time, to check that my students have practiced what is "expected" for their level. But we are a completely TPRS school, so I do create a lot of our material and I use a variety of resources for comprehensible input, including Blaine Ray's "Bednya Anya,"
and Ann Rolbin's First Reader in Russian, in semesters two and three. In semester four we are reading from "Stories from Today's Russia", as well as articles from newsweek and the BBC online, and singing the students' favorite contemporary Russian songs that they find on Youtube. We teach grammar embedded in context, but for great, relevant practice in specific structures I use Poexali; I know it's aimed at adults, but it uses such high frequency, up-to-date vocabulary, it fits very well in my program.
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JAA Golf League
(results of May 28 – Cascades front nine)
Gilpin Golf 143, Mast Golf 146. Mike Kulka 39, Dave Gilpin 39, Tim French 39.
Scott Machine 153, Vandy's 154. Phil Fischmeister 38.
The Brass Rail 139, West Point Lounge 149. Matt Farhat 37, Jerry Lefere 39.
Kibby Cobb Liquor 148, South Central Credit Union 149. Rob Longbrake 37, Greg Zeller 39, Mike Gilbert 41.
Dubbers Golf League at Cascades Golf Course
(results of May 28)
Flight A: Low gross: Rhonella Brelinski 52. Low net: June Hinkle 41.
Flight B: Low gross: Eleanor James 50. Low net: Toni Smith 32.
Flight C: Low gross: Norma Testa 62. Low net: Christie Swanson 36.
Flight D: Low gross: Marcia Brown 62. Low net: Judy Barry 37.
(May 30 at Hankerd Hills)
First Flight
Low Total: 113 (Kathy Swihart and Nancy Showerman). Low Scramble: 34 (Janice Haynes and Suzy Pringle). Low Best Ball: 35 (Michele Sanders and Amanda Sanders). Low Alternate Shot: 44 (Karma Sheriff and Jean Harpowski).
Second Flight
Low Total: 126 (Becky Barton and Penny DeForest). Low Scramble: 37 (Dee Jarzab and Lagaia Simon). Low Best Ball: 42 (Aggie Straub and Char Hoadley). Low Alternate Shot: 43 (Cindy Miller and Miriam Warmingham).
Third Flight
Low Total: 138 (Lynne Purcell and Corky Rossman). Low Scramble: 39 (Nancy Osterberg and Robin Loos). Low Best Ball: 49 (Barb Fischer and Charlotte Edington). Low Alternate Shot: 52 (Connie Sink and Barb Dixon).
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The Jackson County Women's Golf Association One-Day Meet will next be at Concord Hills on Monday, June 9. There will be an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start, and the cost is $20 (with cart) or $11 (without cart). For more information or to sign up, call Kathy Gabriel at 517-783-5072. The registration deadline is Thursday, June 5.
The Western Football Quarterback Club four-person golf scramble will have a shotgun start at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 14, at Arbor Hills Golf Club. The entry fee of $50 per golfer includes 18 holes of golf with cart, cart signs and scorecards and a picnic lunch. Hole sponsorships at a cost of $100 includes a hole sign and an entry fee for one golfer. The proceeds will help send football players to camp. For more information, contact Tom Dirlam at 517-449-3691 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Checks made payable to Western Football Quarterback Club can be sent to P.O. Box 458, Spring Arbor, MI 49283.
The seventh annual Grass Lake Chamber of Commerce Charity Golf Outing is planned for Friday, June 20, at Calderone Golf Club. Check-in is from 7:30-8 a.m., and a shotgun start will take place at 8:30 a.m. The cost per foursome is $260 (if paid after June 6, it's $300) and includes 18 holes of golf, cart rental and dinner. The outing is limited to the first 36 teams and only one team member can have an 18-hole handicap of 6 or less. The first-place team wins $500, second gets $300, and third, 10th and 20th places earn $100. Plenty of sponsorship opportunities are available, and two-thirds of the proceeds benefit the continued development of the Grass Lake Community Sports & Trails Recreation Park. For more details or registration information, contact Jason Bruneel at 517-522-6269 or email@example.com.
The eighth annual Ladies Legacy Golf Outing will be Friday, June 20, at Cascades and Ella Sharp Park golf courses. The outing begins with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start, with lunch to follow golf at Cascades Manor House. The cost is $70 per player. All money raised goes to the Jackson Community Foundation Legacy Scholarship, which benefits Jackson County graduates. Call Cathy at 517-783-3963 for more information or to register a team.
The first Patrick Michael Sullivan Memorial Golf Outing is set for 4 p.m. Saturday, June 21, at Lakeland Hills Golf Course. The outing is a nine-hole, four-person scramble at a cost of $35 per golfer, which includes golf, cart, prize opportunities, dinner and dancing. People who do not wish to golf but would like to attend the dinner and dancing at 7:30 p.m. may do so for $10 each, payable at the door. Proceeds will help establish a scholarship at St. Mary's Star of the Sea School in honor of Patrick Sullivan, who died unexpectedly in 2008. Hole sponsorship opportunities for $50 are also available. Send golfers' names and entry fees to Patrick M. Sullivan Golf Outing, 514 Harwood St., Jackson, MI 49203, or contact Mickey Sullivan at 517-474-4392 or email@example.com.
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There's no need to ever feel left out again at the water cooler conversation. Here's a rundown of the stories currently trending in the world, the country and your backyard.
Hard drives destroyed: According
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of a series of the newspaper's hard drives in order to keep the information NSA
leaker Edward Snowden provided them from falling into the hands of Chinese
spies. Alan Rusbridger, the paper's editor, said a pair of staffers from
British eavesdropping agency GCHQ monitored the process. Full story: The
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Actor commits suicide: Lee Thompson Young, a young
actor best known for Disney's "The Famous Jett Jackson," apparently took
his own life in his Los Angeles apartment, police say. Young also had roles in the film 'Friday Night
Lights' and the series 'Rizzoli & Isles.' He was 29. Full story: The Associated Press
Man found in singer's home: A man has been found dead from a gunshot wound inside the home of singer Olivia Newton-John. According to authorities, the man did not live there and was not related to Newton-John, though he had permission to be at the home but wasn't staying there. Initial reports indicated the death was a suicide, but police say there is an ongoing investigation. Full story: CNN
Insurance money: The man who kidnapped a 16-year-old girl after murdering her mother and brother named the girl's grandmother as the beneficiary of his life insurance policy. James DiMaggio, who was killed by the FBI in the Idaho wilderness after he kidnapped Hannah Anderson, left $112,000 to Bernice Anderson, Hannah Anderson's paternal grandmother. Full story: The Associated Press
Bomber crash: Four crewmen survived the crash
of a B-1B bomber in a remote area in
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crashed near Broadus Mont. The crew ejected from the plane. All four suffered
some injuries. The crash remains under investigation. Full story: CBS News
Seeking more info: The man who produced a documentary about the crash of TWA Flight 800 over the waters of the Atlantic in 1996, has filed suit to get more information about the night the plane went down. Thomas Stalcup says in two lawsuits he filed last week that he received inadequate responses to Freedom of Information requests to the Missile Defense Agency and the Naval Special Warfare Command. Stalcup believes the plane was shot down by a missile. Full story: The Associated Press
Suits expected to be settled: A lawyer hired by Penn State University
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Plugged-In 208
- Views: 518 Little Creatures/Big Clues: Using Ants to Assess Climate Change
We take the presence of ants for granted. Yet their numbers, diversity and behavior are sending us clues about the changing environment - but are we paying attention? Wesley Mathern peers in the miniature world of our fascinating insect neighbors.
- Views: 264 It Can't Hold a Candle to…Comparing the effectiveness of alternative forms of energy
How much energy generation from coal, wind, or solar power does it take to power an appliance, a whole house, a town? People hear about alternative energy all the time, but not the power-full details. Can we gain the energy we need in a cost effective way, and save our environment at the same time? Plugged-In meets people who are bringing new energy to the average home.
- Views: 509 Cutting Edge-ucation: Educational technology meets medicine and the marketplace
Multimedia learning at its very best is practiced and invented at the Center for Creative Instruction at UTMC. Software engineers, designers and faculty create amazing ways of teaching through technology. The Anatomy Revealed project is our subject to explore the range of ways CCI can bring a topic to life! Designers from CCI and anatomists talk about the axis where medicine, technology and product development meet.
- Views: 483 Global Perspective: Bringing innovative business practices into area businesses
The Executive Center for Global Competitiveness (ECGC) is an outreach and engagement center at the University of Toledo's College of Business Administration. The ECGC brings a host of innovative practices, research and hands-on consulting to area businesses. We visit SSOE, an engineering and architectural design and construction management firm in Toledo to see how they are partnering on innovations in process improvement.


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Sanabia heading to disabled list
ST. PETERSBURG — It was another painful loss on Sunday for the Marlins in more than one way.
Right-hander Alex Sanabia is heading to the disabled list with a strained right groin. The team officially announced the move on Monday morning. And the team is calling up lefty reliever Dan Jennings from Triple-A New Orleans.
Sanabia threw four innings and gave up four runs in Sunday's 5-3 setback at the White Sox.
After being swept at Chicago, the Marlins on Monday will be opening a two-game set with the Rays at Tropicana Field.
Sanabia has dealt with a sore groin since his start early in the month at San Diego. The right-hander is 3-7 with a 4.88 ERA.
Because the Marlins won't need another starter until Friday at home against the Mets, the team is going with another reliever. Jennings, 26, is 3-2 with a 1.80 ERA for New Orleans. He has an 0.68 ERA in his last 10 outings.
The Marlins have a few days before bringing in another starting pitcher.
Barring any setbacks, Nathan Eovaldi is expected to fill the rotation spot.
Eovaldi is on the 60-day disabled list with right shoulder inflammation. He is eligible to be reinstated on Thursday.
Eovaldi on Saturday threw his first rehab assignment game for Class A Jupiter.
If the team opts to give Eovaldi another rehab start or two, Wade LeBlanc and Duane Below are spot start options.
— Joe Frisaro