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damn man thats heavy stuff, wish i had some good advice, wish you the best of luck!
you guys are kinda like my weird family at this point... no other way to put it
anyway...ive been mia cause,....wll you know my life for the past year
and now...boom pow
Tonya is in jail
resisting arrest
assaulting a police officer...she bit him
she was drunkenly insane...like this when i came home from work...i have decided to leave her inside awhile...i dont know how to protect the baby anymore...i cant work and come home knowing she took care of him...this is a month after she abandoned him drunk and ended up inside with simple dui
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damn man thats heavy stuff, wish i had some good advice, wish you the best of luck!
having abs because you are skinny is like a women having tits because she's fat
she was home drunk, how did the police get involved?
Your situation sucks and I have empathy for you and your kid. But if it were me, I would make her bail asap.
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Keepin Green.
Hate to hear that. Substance abuse is a horrible situation. For the person and anyone who cares about them. Im wishing the best for you.
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Sounds like a nightmare ...Situation has gotten out of control . I wouldnt begin to give you advice but this has to be the end of it . Sorry bro
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I'm usually with you... not here tho. This is a consistent pattern of behavior that is endangering his child's well being. and directly putting kos at risk of being guilt by association... or she comes home drunk and starts swinging a knife he pushes her into a door it breaks she's got 115 stitches and he get a tossed for domestic abuse. And it will be big bad asshole husband beats poor defenseless wife...Originally Posted by HFO345082
limited facts as I know it.
shes hot. I have tugged it to a few of her vids. But her allowing her husband to post that. Is not normal.
shes got a drug issue that resulted in termination from a medical field. Barred from her profession (?)
she had a hyper religious set of influence from her parents
been arrested several times now violent crimes
kos man you have cheated. I get this and so do you... you don't do that to someone you really love. Look at it for what it is
She's putting you in risk. She's putting your son at risk. If you both get picked up on a domestic charge where does your son go? Your mother in laws... yikes.
shes got shit on you... but you have more on her. Not saying you should turn it into that. But it's a card you have in your pocket. My retarded advise is to get out of this fight for your kid. Mandate that she get split custody as long as she goes to some program. Your son needs both parents. Stay nice before you have to sever it cause the risk becomes even more serious find a woman to love and model to your kid what human adult spouse relationships should be like.
Kos you know I have very little equity in being a good husband. But I do in being a good father. Model for your kid man.
i am not on steroids now because of her threats to turn me in... hope recovery gos decent
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did you youtube her biting a cop?
i wish....would be hilarious...sorta\
i laugh at you life...and all your shit
she bites me all the time
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fuck bro, your a good dude and work hard you dont deserve to deal with shit like that
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Do not bail her out get a restraining order and put her shit jn storage, boom done
Nothing good is going to happen in jail, she doesn't belong there. She can't even help herself in the slammer. Any possibility of help is on the outside. In jail there are only user's and the used.. it brings out the worst in people. True, I'm only aware of jail for men, maybe the woman's jail is better but I doubt it. Get her out, she needs her son, make a deal with her and start over. It's not good to separate a mother from her child, it's terrible for both. In a relationship you need to believe in the future being the husband and father only you can do this. Only you can prevent more damage.
you cant leave her in jail, no matter what bro, get ur fucken ass down there and get her out......the greatest people in this world dont leave theirs behind......if u want to leave her, get her life in order then leave her at a time when she can handle things, if not, kiss and make up, but do whatever it takes to help her through this....
everything uve ever posted on here about stepping up and achieving shit means fuck all if u cant step up when she needs you, no matter how many times that would/will be
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.... ~ Shakespeare
can u fucken imagine how she would feel to know u let her spend an extra minute inside there?
i never did time but when i was young and wild my parents left me on remand for a month for getting in a fist fight with 2 off duty cops, fuckers ill never forgive them (parents that is) and the only lesson i learnt from it is my parents are arse hats.....
in all this shit on here about you KOS ive always thought ur all right, a man who says what he things and does, go get you wife bro!
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you can bail her out, but that will cost you. may be wise to save that money for a lawyer, she assaulted a police officer so she will have to do time for sure, seems like you get a better break if you stay in up till arraignment. she could plead no contest and get time served with probation. jail aint bad, its not prison
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Hey KOS,
Very sorry to hear about this situation and what you're going through.
When children are involved a messy situation becomes even more complicated.
You're getting all kinds of advice but I think maybe what you need are some objective opinions.
I wish I had one to offer.
It's obvious there are some problems and I don't know if they can be worked out or not.
For your son's sake, I hope you two can figure out how to work things out (whether it means you stay together or not).
I know many former couples who have better relationships with their children after splitting up. They just don't fight anymore.
Not saying that's what you should do.
The drinking has to stop but the person doing the drinking has to figure that out for themselves. That's just the way it is.
Is there a reason or reasons she drinks?
Does she have mental health issues?
I apologize for the personal questions and they certainly don't need to be answered in an open forum.
They are questions you need to ask yourself and your wife (most likely you already have).
I met someone back in 2009. She was a great person with an amazing personality. Outgoing, funny, incredibly beautiful and successful (only to name a few of her many qualities). She was a popular fashion/fitness model and a well established real estate broker doing quite well in both fields.
She did drink quite a bit and dabbled with a bunch of other substances. It wasn't until I'd been with her several months that I learned about her history of mental illness (paranoid schizophrenia)and of course it didn't matter to me. I wanted to do everything I could to help her.
We were doing great, she was getting plenty of work and selling a bunch of property at a time when real estate was way down. We were happy, or so I thought.
She was drinking more and more and I finally got her to tell me that she was drinking to quiet the voices she was hearing. She was seeing one shrink after another and they kept prescribing more and more meds which got her popped three times in two months for DUI.
The doctors all said she was going to be "fine" she just needed to adjust to her meds. In the meantime she just kept drinking. Thankfully, she wasn't violent.
She would call the police to the house for things that were only happening in her head...it was all real to her though.
I would try to talk her through her episodes which became longer and longer. Mostly she just drank until she passed out and started over again the next day. No more work, shoots cancelled, listings cancelled...nothing.
In 2010, the day after Christmas she left the house with some friends to go do some shopping. She didn't come home that night. She never stayed out.
I called and reported her missing, her mother also filed a report and her mental health counselor (state worker) filed a report of a "known mentally ill missing person" which the police are supposed to act on immediately...they should have pinged her phone but they did nothing.
Two days later she was discovered by a motel attendant in the room where she hanged herself early that morning.
I truly hope your situation is not like this at all.
Unfortunately, when people are drinking until they pass out at any hour of the day when they should be taking care of a child, I have to assume the worst and hope I'm wrong.
I'm a very private person and normally wouldn't put something this personal in open forum.
I wanted you to know that I empathize with your situation.
I also wanted you to look at what's going on as possibly being a sign of mental illness.
I have a friend who went through a similar scenario with his wife recently. She got a DUI with their daughter in the car.
She had been constantly putting the child at risk since she was born. Drinking and downers.
I told him my story. He talked to her. She told him she heard voices and saw people no one else could see. She was scared. She was contemplating suicide.
She admitted she had attempted to kill herself by drinking bug killer.
She went in for a psych eval and three month commitment.
Things are going good now.
She's not drinking, she takes her meds and they've been doing much better for six months or so now.
Mental illness isn't always obvious. Heavy drinking can be a sign of it.
I guess my suggestion to you is to have your wife evaluated. The court may do it anyway.
I hope it works out in whatever way best benefits all three of you.
Jail saved my life. Leave her there. Take your kid and get the fuck away from her. Forget about getting your dick wet and be a father. You can't fix her, or make her get fixed. Leave
sounds liked she took some mtr, lets blame it on saney.
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You need to have an intervention with everyone who ever meant anything to her in her life, her Mom, Dad, you and anyone else she looks up to. Leaving her in jail is not the answer. She don't need NA or AA right now, she needs a 30 day in house treatment center. You owe her one more chance at this life and you need to make sure she knows that this is the last chance she will get from you or society in general. You grew up in a dysfuntional family and you need to try to break that cycle. Do what you can to try to get her right but make sure she understands that this is the last straw, there are no more chances after this one. But you need her in life as much as she needs you right now, Good luck and keep a level head at all times, cause like jimmy said, one bad push and you could be the one on the inside looking out.
she said she doesnt need rehab...didnt sound like she would go willingly
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This is your ace card to get custody of your kid a boot her out. You tried to help and she doesnt want it. Time to move on, its very obvious.
Yep. Let her go. This is no kind of life for you and little KOS to be living.
Shes probably not happy with you and the marriage so shes acting out, by letting her go maybe it will give her peace and she can heal. Just an observation based on what youve told us in the past.


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- Typefaces---commonly called 'fonts'---are essential to a designer's ability to communicate visually. The end of the twentieth century was the age of the desktop computer, font design software and page layout programs and the new digital technology removed typography from the exclusive area of the specialist type designer, type foundry and typesetting company and placed it in the hands of graphic designers and non-specialists. This democratisation also led to an exponential growth in the number of typefaces available to users of type. This paper explores the extraordinary breadth evident in the intentions behind the design of a typeface; the reasons someone decides to create a new set of letterforms;and the associations and connotations which typefaces accrue as they are used by designers as components of visual culture. Reflecting the place of typefaces within a cultural and sociological context, it is the diversity of approaches and outcomes which are discussed in this paper. It addresses the cultural significance and meaning of typefaces by showing the role of personal interpretation and a search for appropriateness in the use of the vast resource of an estimated 100,000 Western typefaces.
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DESCRIPTION OF PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER SERVICE Amanda Ree – Republic of Niger December 5, 2002 – January 30, 2006
Following a rigorous selection process, Amanda Ree entered training in the Natural Resource Management (NRM) program for Peace Corps in the Republic of Niger, West Africa. The intensive 11-week in-country training program focused upon: (1) The establishment of methodologies supporting the Food Security Program; rural health care practices, vegetable gardening, appropriate technology methodology, tree propagation, youth groups, agroforesty, field crop management, etc., (2) Hausa and French language immersion training, (3) development theory and history and (4) cultural integration including examinations into Islam, gender roles, the rural economy, etc. Having successfully completed training, Ms. Ree was sworn in as a Peace Corps Volunteer on February 21, 2003. She was assigned to live and work in Karaye, a rural community of 2,000 people in the Tahoua region of Niger. Throughout the course of her 3-year service, Ms. Ree collaborated closely with the government of Niger and relevant non-governmental organizations in the expression of her numerous community-based projects and other initiatives aimed at intervention in her field. Dave McNally, Associate Peace Corps Director for NRM and Abdourahamane Hassane, Associate Peace Corps Director for Program and Training, were her immediate supervisors. During her three years of service, all work was done in the Hausa language.
Health Built Full-Scale Health Clinic for Rural Community – Having designed a grassroots fundraising campaign, Ms. Ree built a website and raised over $20,000 for the construction of a full-service health care clinic and well in her village. As project manager, she collaborated closely with the government of Niger to develop contractual agreements that will serve to bring the clinic into the overall government stratagem for health care in Niger so as to sustain the clinic for the 8,500 rural individuals who will utilize the clinic as their primary health care facility. Additionally, Ms. Ree worked with the GON to train a clinic manager and health committee to represent the effected villages. Ms. Ree built a website to accompany this project: www.karayeclinic.org Wrote and Designed Manual on Health-focused Youth Groups – Ms. Ree devised a 12-lesson plan manual, complete with culturally appropriate pagivoltes, discussions, Q&A, songs, games and activities to enable other volunteers to lead health-based youth groups in their respective communities in Niger. In two versions of the book, the manual was translated from English into the two main local languages, Hausa and Zarma, and distributed to other volunteers to amplify their own work. Health Conferences – Based on her manuals, Ms. Ree devised and implemented a project plan for volunteers wishing to hold more intense health conferences in their respective regions. AIDS Ride 2005 Logistics Coordinator – Ms. Ree worked to budget, plan and prepare all meals for the 60-member team of the week-long 260-kilometer bicycle ride between the cities of Maradi and Zinder. Sensibilzation meetings were held in 32 villages and touched over 18,000 individuals with messages of AIDS/HIV education and prevention.
Environmental Management, Agriculture and Agroforesty Tree Nursery – Having worked with governmental agricultural service agents, Ms. Ree trained a community member on the income-generation management of tree work so as to sustain his new trade well into the future – annually planting, selling, and distributing a 4,000 indigenous tree nursery of six different variatals. Pioneered Regional Soybean Initiative – Worked to educate regional government service agents and rurally-based men and women about soybeans to introduce the crop in the village's lakebed as a profitable crop diversifier and a nutritionally heavy/economically appropriate alternative to animal proteins. Community Vegetable Gardens – Making use of the community's little-utilized lakebed, Ms. Ree worked to support men and women in the development of income-generating vegetable gardens and the appropriate technology related to their management: foot pumps, chain-link fencing, and various natural composting, mulching and, insecticide measures.
Leadership Regional Representative - For the third year of her service, Ms. Ree worked as volunteer leader in the Konni and Tahoua region of Niger and served as the critical financial, communication, and safety/security link between the volunteers in the field and the Peace Corps bureau in Niamey. She worked to coordinate and manage staff, program budget, and administrative expenditures. Ms. Ree worked to arrange program logistics in the region and served as program liaison to develop and maintain working relationships with the region's PCVs and the evolving "decentralized" government and its agencies. Additionally, she worked to support a team of 21 rurally-based volunteers in the coordination of project logistics and with service agents and government officials to design, implement and follow up projects in the health, natural resource management, education, and agriculture sectors. During this time, Ms. Ree supported volunteer safety, security, and health needs in the region and worked to maintain constant communication with the country headquarters in Niamey by continually producing and disseminating documentation on regional program activities and developments. President of Gender and Development Board (GAD) – For two years, Ms. Ree served as the board president for all GAD initiatives in Niger. Twice annually, she conceptualized, organized, and implemented community auctions to raise money for GAD projects. Under her tenure, GAD consistently broke fundraising records. Additionally, in this role, Ms. Ree worked with volunteers to research, plan, and implement gender and family-based projects in volunteer villages in every region of Niger. Editor of Peace Corps Niger Newsletter – Working entirely independently, Ms. Ree worked quarterly to gather relative content, design format, research, and write articles for The Galago, Peace Corps Niger's quarterly newsletter.
Trainings Young Girls' Group – In weekly village-based meetings, and for a one-year period during her service, Ms. Ree worked with 24 rurally-based girls between the ages of 12 and 15 on topics ranging from health care, income generation, and tree propagation. Working with a Konni-based health care worker, Ms. Ree organized and implemented three separate three-day field trips with the girls to the regional capital for intensive health-focused seminars and tours of the medical facility, schools, government offices, etc. Tofu Training and Tournee – In collaboration with her work on soybeans, Ms. Ree held a training for two women to develop skills necessary to make/sell tofu and other soy products. Following the training, Ms. Ree and one of the newly trained women launched a tournee in the region training 12 communities and over 1,500 rural women in the income-generation and dietary benefits of soy products and to enable other volunteers to logistically support the development of these efforts in their respective posts. Women's' Work Fair – Collaborated with two other PCVs, Konni-based doctors, teachers and other trained individuals in the conceptualization, organization and implementation of a three-day fair for 32 rural women from 18 communities. Topics included: income-generation skill development, money management, HIV/AIDS, family health and sanitation, women's roles and rights under Islam, and girls' education.
January 30, 2006
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Bill Gates once said, a community must first be healthy before any other philanthropic effort can take hold.
In a country like Niger, I believe that statement to absolutely be true. The rural population of Niger accounts for eighty five percent of its 11 million citizens – these people reside in the far removed villages and sheltered communities that few development agencies actually tread. Niger claims one doctor for every 75,000 inhabitants and, of these doctors, eighty five percent of them disproportionately live and work in Niger's cities. Therefore, since volunteers are overwhelmingly placed in rural villages, we have a unique reach into the rural areas of the country and it's most critically in need populations. One of the greatest strengths volunteers have is the ability to serve as a critical link for information and education.
Further, Peace Corps volunteers are armed with an inherent advantage of being able to spread the word among communities of which men are often back and forth on exode and women are rarely exposed to education let alone when it pertains to managing their health or that of their families.
With this in mind, and the love of my community and this country at heart, I designed the Health Manual for Children. The health manuals contain 12-lesson plans aimed at rural or city-based, literate or illiterate, boys and girls from the ages of 8-16. Each lesson plan takes into account local beliefs, value systems, myths and fears that determine the approach communities and individuals take to managing their health here in Niger. The lesson plans focus on the following applicable health issues: general hygiene, breastfeeding, family planning, the three food groups, Vitamin A, weaning foods, baby immunizations, diarrhea, conjunctivitis, malaria and individual/family health responsibility with a special and detailed focus on HIV/AIDS education and prevention. Each lesson plan is complete with:
Discussion dialogue and questions written especially for Nigerien children of diverse backgrounds. Games and activities providing an opportunity for abstract thought while drilling the messages home with fun messages. Stories and pagivoltes directed toward both literate and illiterate populations. Stories have been written and designed by the Ministry of Health, the Peace Corps volunteer, Nigerien Peace Corps health sector staff members and regional health workers. Stories and content and have been tested on rural populations prior to the completion of final drafts. Songs have been written to accompany each of the twelve lessons and were written specifically to enable children to have fun with the subject matter but also to further enable children to pass on what they have learned as the songs provide a valuable conversation piece.
Following two years in the village working with women and children, I have designed this manual in tandem with the two Konni region health care workers who proved to be invaluable resources in my own village. These women often led sensibilizations for my own girl's group and served as animators for a health camp I organized for 42 village-based children.
This project aims to supply the 130 PCVs working in every sector in Niger, in addition to headmasters of schools and PCV counterparts working in the health sector across the country, with a training resource on which to build youth groups in their own respective regions or otherwise lead sensibility meetings and trainings in their posts.
What is more, local health counterparts have put their skills to use translating the manuals from English into the two dominant volunteer local languages – Hausa and Zarma – where PCVs work as to further empower volunteers to successfully pass the information along. Forty manuals, in addition to being distributed via CD for easy computer download, will be produced and distributed to each of the regional Peace Corps transit houses and will be available at the Information Resource Center in Niamey for volunteers to use in collaboration with local health workers, schoolteachers, etc.
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In the United States driving is presented in a straightforward manner. In driver's education class teenagers learn to stay on the right-hand side of the road, to avoid crossing any solid lines on high ways or freeways and to slow down at a yellow stoplight and stop when it is red.
In other parts of the world driving rules can be very different, depending on where you are traveling to. In many countries traffic flows on the left side of the road. There are different rules all over the world when it comes to yielding to pedestrians.
Drinking and driving is of great concern on an international level. Everyone knows that drunk driving is dangerous not only for themselves but for everyone on the road with them, but many people continue to drive under the influence. In the United States, drunk driving can lead to jail time depending on what state you are in and if you have any previous offenses.
In other countries, laws vary. Some laws are stricter while others are more lenient. In France, for example, a $1,000 fine must be paid by the offender in addition to imprisonment for one year. In South Africa, laws are even stricter. Offenders can be sentenced to 10 years in prison and/or a hefty fine. Drunk driving in India can be punishable by up to six months in prison or a fine of two thousand rupees if it is the first offense.
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text: "Irrefutable and Undeniable Evidence" 0x6a656666 posted:12/14/2012 12:26:37 AM Saw this February 2003 article while combing through the archives and thought it made some good points on what constitutes 'irrefutable and undeniable evidence' in the eyes of the US Government and how their proof was no better than what people provide as evidence in the paranormal community. Gotta love how the entire world seems to act only on their own psychosis. The 'we should form a mob, too' was hopefully sarcastic enough... Yesterday, I witnessed a video broadcast of Colin Powell trying to sway the U.N. using 'irrefutable and undeniable evidence' of Iraqi weapons inspection cover-up attempts by showing videotapes, satellite image captures, and intercepted phone communications. In response to this, Iraq officials claimed that U.S. evidence was unsubstantiated, loaded with lies and fabrications, that Iraq did not have any weapons of mass destruction, and the U.S. had no proof to back up their claims. United State's evidence, to Iraq, was not evidence at all--merely heresy used to convince people they should attack. After years of listening to UFO experts and scientists bicker back and forth about what makes up proof, I realized that Iraq was right. I also realized something about myself which confused me: even though I felt Iraq was scientifically right about U.S. "evidence" not really being evidence, I still felt Iraq was lying and I still supported the idea of attacking them based on that feeling. I also noticed how similar my own conviction that we should attack Iraq was to my conviction that UFOs are sometimes extraterrestrial in nature, to the conviction that there is life after death which sometimes get recorded by electronic devices, to the conviction that freemasons are up to no good. I then realized that Colin Powell's attempts at convincing the UN of his 'irrefutable and undeniable evidence' is no different than the struggle of those attempting to convince others of the viability of paranormal events; it is no different than the struggle conspiracy researchers have to show evidence of worldwide conspiracies starring the freemasons; and it is no different than religious leaders' attempts to showcase evidence of Satan being alive and well today and that Armageddon is just around the corner. The question is, is Colin Powell really bringing any kind of proof to the table at all, and in the end, does it really matter? I mean, we all know how effective the paranormal field is in convincing scientific hard asses of the viability of the subject--is Colin Powell's arguments any more effective? If so, why? In reality, it is difficult to impossible to prove anything that has no mathematical foundation because it cannot be tested using the scientific method. You cannot mathematically prove Iraq is housing these so-called weapons of mass destruction using some kind of formula, and you cannot mathematically determine what will happen in the world if the Iraq activity continues. In the same way, you cannot prove mathematically that the greys are abducting people or the Nordics are trying to teach us a 4th dimensional language while we sleep at night or trying to make our babies smarter through genetic manipulation experiments. The photographic, video and audio proof can all be disproved, so why bother? Photographic proof is not proof because it is not repeatable. It is a snapshot in time that gets everyone's minds reeling at the possibilities. It is just a snapshot of something that might have happened and people have to apply all kinds of background noise and personal interpretations to make sense out of the image, as one would have to do if they were going through psychotherapy and staring at an ink blot. People bring a history to the table that distorts reality. NASA looking at a photograph will see something quite different than say, a UFO researcher, as was seen just the other week when EUROSETI's images were debunked by those involved with the SOHO imaging project at NASA. On top of the static and misinterpretations people inherently carry with them in their minds like baggage, photos, just like any other kind of media, can be digitally edited. In the same light, Video proof is not proof because of technology. Anything that has been captured on film is not irrefutable evidence of anything, like a DNA sample would be. Videos are digital, and digits can be edited using the simplest software. Anyone can make a ghost float across the video screen, and they can do so at little to no cost. If they want the film effect, the edited digital copy can be burned on to film, so even film itself is not proof of anything. ANYONE can add tubular structures to a satellite images and say they were nuclear missiles that were moved, and they can do so at little to no cost. Even the United States. Similarly, audio proof is not proof because audio recording can be edited just as easily as video, and it is hard to prove the origin of an audio sample if it is not repeatable. Independent researchers cannot duplicate the same audio of a conversation that happened at some given time at a given location that only showed up on a single recording device. The time when it can be recorded has already passed--the audio recording could only exist once, which is not proof of anything at all. All of these pieces of so-called evidence were brought to the table by Colin Powell, and the same arguments that others use to discredit the paranormal were the same types of arguments that Powell was up against at the U.N. How can you say you have brought irrefutable and undeniable evidence to the table when France cannot get on the phone, call some radio or satellite station operator, and tell them to tune to such and such a frequency to see if they can pick up the same Iraqi phone conversation? All Colin Powell brought to the table WAS beliefs, if you use the same types of arguments to the table that scientist use to discredit UFO data. He was unconvincing, and the United States should be held to the same types of standards that the paranormal field is up against, because we're not talking about some 'yippee! I'm right!' kind of vindication--we're talking about invading a country and killing thousands of people because of what? Video, audio, photographs, and logical inductions that depend on the individual proof of hundreds of unsubstantiated axioms? The proof, however, was adequate to the United States, enough so to call a thousands and thousands of U.S. reserves out of waiting--150,000 troops so far--to fight for our country, to fight for our beliefs--not for our proof--on what Iraq 'might' be harvesting, on what 'might' happen if we do not act, if we sit back and let the activity continue. We want to take preemptive strikes as a result of a possibility, not a certainty. Using this reasoning, people who believe they have evidence of the UFO cover-up have enough information to break down the fences, cross that line in the sand, and invade Area 51. People who believe freemasons are trying to enslave the world have enough evidence to secede from the country and start their own government, or anarchy, without paying taxes. People who believe that Jews are taking over the world have enough evidence to burn them all in concentration camps. People who believe George Bush is a lizard who drinks the blood of four year olds have enough evidence to shut down all the Kindercare centers and send him to the electric chair. Who needs proof when you have a mob? But we won't call them a mob. We'll call them "soldiers" and "troops"-- 150,000 of which are headed to Iraq to risk their lives for their country that has sent them there because of unsubstantiated evidence and a fear of the future. We most certainly WILL attack Iraq, without proof or of certainty, or of support for that matter, setting an example for the entire world to see that proof itself is inconsequential, so scientists can shut the hell up with their arguments against people that believe in UFOs or God. That's right. This is good for the UFO community because we are seeing that you do not NEED proof to act; you only need conviction, and a mob. Yes, it is the power of mobs that change the world, not scientific data. There is not enough time to convince everyone to use the scientific method or to consult a calculator and use equations against things which are not repeatable, equations that don't even exist, before people are allowed to make a decision, and act. So forget about it! Move on! If the United States government does not need scientific proof that Iraq is harboring biological weapons before they act, then we don't need proof for any of our convictions, either! This is very good news. People do not act on proof, anyway. It is not proof which throws the switch and causes people to make a decision. There's mathematical formulas you can apply to nutrition which show you why eating a McDonald's cheeseburger is not good for you, but this mathematical formula does not convince people to stop eating McDonald's cheeseburgers for lunch every day. People ACT, and then look for proof that it was the right move afterwards. I think this kind of decision making even influenced the scientific method to make it more "natural." Finally, we can breathe a sigh of ignorance and defiance, for it is not proof which causes one to act; it is merely the conviction that one must act based off of a personal judgment call. I have a personal conviction that the God of the Old Testament is an alien and that the real God is something else; I need no proof that this is so. I just need you, my mob, to join me and FORCE the world to believe this as well! Only through mob action can there be change, so forget about the scientists. This is a revolution! That's right. If the scientific method goes against what you believe, it is nothing more than a stalling technique, where you overload the opposition with so many miniscule and pointless facts that everyone is overwhelmed into docility. But we're on to them! They don't want us to make a decision! We're on to SETI. We're on to the atheists. And most importantly, we're on to Iraq, and we must attack! Link: Who Needs Proof When You Have a Mob?spooky1 posted:12/14/2012 10:59:32 AM Very interesting, Jeffbobprin posted:12/15/2012 10:04:03 AM I always felt sorry for general Powell as a good soldier he was following orders from those scions of truth and morality W and lil' dick. They produced the "truth" to fit their agenda. Yes that cost a heavy price in death and ruined lives on both sides. Not to mention the credability of a worthy man. If the government lent even a small amount of acknowledgment to any paranormal event then things would be quite different indeed LincolnGenghis posted:12/15/2012 3:16:07 PM A big role in that whole thing was the media also. They broadcasted whatever the Gov told them to say via their owners. Anybody who questioned the data was threatend with being fired and blacklisted, in addition to that anybody else who spoke up and questioned the whole thing was told they were unamerican and got threatened by the horde of mindless sheeple that were drinking all the koolaid they could get there hands on. To actually have a free society you have to have a free media. I don't think I can remember in recent times the last time I have seen a reporter jailed over not giving up a confidential source. Used to be quite prevalent way back when and their editors and private owners would back them up. You don't really see it now days because most of them are only reporting on the safe stuff they are allowed to report. I remember watching this interview with an old retired newspaper editor a while back and he was discussing this current type of soft journalism going on. My favorite part of the interview was when he was talking about back in the day when he was running a desk. He said if he started going more then a week or two without getting any threats over what his investigative reporters were writing, he thought they were slacking off and not doing there jobs right. It sounded like if his reporters had all their facts right he didn't care who bitched about it , he would back them all the way to hell if he had to. That kind of attitude is really what is missing today in allot of things. 0x6a656666 posted:12/16/2012 6:52:01 PM The whole Colin Powell thing reminded me of some form of pareidolia where if you squint enough, you can see weapons of mass destruction.Wereparadox posted:12/16/2012 8:17:11 PM jaguarsky posted:12/18/2012 11:48:11 AM I was watching "Oliver Stones Untold History of the United States" last night: JFK, Cuba, Soviet Threat. Same ole, same old. The government has lied to us at almost every historical turn and never was it more dangerous than during the Cuban missle crisis. It was the Kruschev who sent a letter to Kennedy explaining that they had both lost control of their war machines. He paid a high political price for his willingness to negotiate and stand down. Kennedy paid the ultimate price for trying to back away from southeast Asia. Personally I will never believe anything the government says ever again. I have seen UFOs, up close and personal, so I know they exist. I do not know if they were from outer space or were some black projects of the government. At any rate they had no business hovering over my neighborhood. I understand that there are many machinations needed in the running of something as complex as world super powers, but it has always seemed to me that starting with the truth is a much easier path to follow.LincolnGenghis posted:12/18/2012 1:21:14 PM "Operation Northwoods" would be a good one for People look up. See if there's some things in there that Sound strangely like something else more modern. Did those plans that Kennedy rejected get pulled Out of storage, dusted off, updated with a new target and used by a certain other president?? I don't know what does everybody else think??LincolnGenghis posted:12/18/2012 1:21:16 PM "Operation Northwoods" would be a good one for People look up. See if there's some things in there that Sound strangely like something else more modern. Did those plans that Kennedy rejected get pulled Out of storage, dusted off, updated with a new target and used by a certain other president?? I don't know what does everybody else think?? Please log in or become a member to add a post.


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Does anybody really care? I'm not just perplexed about the day, but the month as well. My morning stroll with you-know-who was a little confusing today. After a week of clouds, fog, rain and ice, the thaw gave way to actual sunshine, and the illusion that spring had sprung was in full force. Momentarily unsure that it was still January, I needed to clear the fog in my brain and checked the calendar to be sure. Sure enough, according to the computer, it's still winter... but a pop-up banner caught my attention (www.library.thinkquest.org [2]).
"January 14 is National Dress Up Your Pet Day," it declared. Thinking on my feet, I diverted Dharma's attention away from the screen. According to www.dressupyourpetday.com [3], this questionable holiday was "established in 2009 by celebrity pet lifestyle expert Colleen Paige and is sponsored by the Animal Miracle Network as a fun way to celebrate our beloved pets and support the pet fashion community."
None the wiser, my undressed pup was chewing on a bone, oblivious to the landmark holiday, and I decided that keeping her in the dark was really okay. Not that she doesn't have a sweater or two (winter has been cold in the past) and she has more than a few outfits given by her legions of fans, but still, her head is swelled enough without thinking that she needs even more attention. "What will they think of next?" I muttered and decided to investigate further. No longer relegated to "officially sanctioned" holidays (which necessitates an actual act of Congress) the monthly (and daily) calendar is rife with celebratory announcements.
January, it turns out, is not only National Eye Month, but also—Hot Tea Month, Soup Month and Prune Breakfast Month. I like soup as much as anyone, but will be passing on the prune parade that is likely underway in Florida as I write this. Bean Day, Hat Day and Peculiar People Day (hmm) flashed across the computer screen, as I perused the never ending array of January's "special" interests. Clearly Congress had stepped in as National Blood Donor Month popped up (www.wikipedia.org [4]) for January, but it would appear that Hug Day has yet to be declared as official or national. Wiki also illuminated the origins of Black History Month (February), describing how the federal government expanded it from "a week to a month led by the leaders of the Black United Students at Kent State University in 1969."
This makes sense, but apparently February also includes Crepe Day, Darwin Day (I suspect someone is trying to make a monkey out of me) Gum Drop Day and (ready for this?) February 18 is now Cow Milked While Flying in an Airplane Day. Really, people? Clearly, anyone can get in on this, which would explain Frog Month, (April) Panini Month, (August) and Sweet Potato Awareness Month (which is still vying for both February and November.) How aware do I need to be? Sweet potatoes are just fine, but this onslaught poses the question: "who is responsible for this silliness?" Thinking that there might be a greeting card for September's Talk Like a Pirate Day ("Greet your friends with 'ahoy, matey' instead of 'hello'!"), I decided to separate wheat from chaff and went to the source—Hallmark.
"Pay dirt," I shouted to the dog (who by this point, I shamefully admit, was wearing a tutu and sunglasses) and bookmarked the page (www.theultimateholidaysite.com [5]) that breaks it all down. Offering a free app that glorifies anything, the fine folks at Crown Media offer tips to "manage your gift list" and "check out the full calendar of holidays happening every single day of the year." Shaking my head, I explored more, while slipping a clown suit on Dharma and admiring my handiwork. I missed National Whipped Cream Day, but Send a Card to a Friend Day (Hmm) is right around the corner. If Pets Had Thumbs Day (I'd be out of a job!) is coming up in March, along with Hug a GI Day, which actually sounds worthy.
Lumpy Rug Day, Eat Beans Day (uh oh) and Marooned Without a Compass Day sound a bit contrived, while World AIDS Day, May Day and Independence Day still ring true. There are cards for sidewalk egg frying, planning your epitaph and celebrating the existence of cream cheese brownies (I kid you not!), but I'm unclear as to whether Peppermint Patty Day refers to the candy, or the cartoon character. (There's probably a card for both.) Either way, I need more stamps.


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New Cumberland race heating up
NEW CUMBERLAND – An interesting political season may be in the offing now that three people have filed to run for mayor of the Hancock County seat.
New Cumberland city elections, held every two years, are scheduled for May 14 and will decide the mayor's race and three city council races.
Incumbent Mayor Richard Blackwell, 71, said he will run for re-election. He will face 1st Ward Councilman Pat Jones and political newcomer Linda McNeil, 71, president of the Hancock County Museum Commission.
In city council, only one race is contested; Ward 1, Seat C, which will pit incumbent Brian Webster, 47, against Melissa Perkins, 48. Ward 2 incumbents Shawn Marks, 63, and Judith Bartley are both running unopposed.
Ward 2, Seat B Councilman Jack "Art" Watson is not running for re-election, and no one filed for that seat by the Jan. 26 deadline, so the vacancy will have to be filled by mayoral appointment, City Clerk Tammy Jenkins said.
New Cumberland has two wards, each of which has three council seats. Council members serve four-year terms, but the terms are staggered so that there are elections for some seats every two years.
"There's never a total replacement of council," said Blackwell, a former councilman who was appointment mayor in May 2011 after the resignation of Mayor Joe Sargent.
Council members who serve by mayoral appointment must run for election after two years, Jenkins said.
In the mayoral race, Blackwell will have a two-year record to run on. Previously, he served on city council "on and off" since 1973.
McNeil, a retired registered nurse, said she decided to run for mayor because "I see some issues in the town that I think I have the ability to help correct. … We're a good little town, and we are a good place for businesses to come to. I think I have some experience … that would help me work on that part of it."
McNeil said she has successfully worked with local government officials in her capacity as museum commission president.
Jones, who brings his city council experience to the mayor's race, could not be reached for comment.
In the one contested city council race, Perkins said she decided to run because "there needs to be some changes in the city government. There's just too many things pushed through because nobody wants to differ with anybody."
A bookkeeper at the Hancock County Sheltered Workshop, Perkins served on council for two months in 2011.
She was appointed to Blackwell's vacated seat in May of that year but had to relinquish it when Jones was elected and took office in July. Council terms run from July 1, the start of the fiscal year.
Webster, concluding the end of his second term, comes from a family with a history of public service. His father, William Webster, was both Hancock County sheriff and New Cumberland police chief. His grandfather, John D. Herron, was New Cumberland justice of the peace.
"I was just real interested in the city. I just wanted to help the city as much as I could," he said.
A retired truck driver, Marks is finishing a two-year stint on council and is hoping to be elected to his first full term.
"I'm enjoying the ride," he said.
Bartley, who could not be reached for comment, assumed her seat in November 2011 for the resigning Bob Mills.
A drawing for the order in which candidates' names will appear on the ballot will be held on Tuesday.
There are an estimated 900 registered voters in New Cumberland.
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