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I am a loving nanny who is caring for an infant who was born 26 weeks early and weighed 2 pounds. She is 4 months according to birth time and 7 in preemie term. They want the baby to be on a feeding/sleeping schedule consisting of 3 1hour naps a day and 3 feedings of 5 oz. a day too. This concerns me so much and I am unsure what if anything I should do. I am not a fan of scheduling a baby and I didn't with my children. They ate when they were hungry and slept when they were tired. They were not born prematurely. The baby isn't responding well to the schedule she's hungry throughout the day and she likes to 'snack' during the day even though she drinks more right after her naps. She is also tired more often too. Her mom is very sleep deprived and desperate to get her to sleep during the night- I completely understand that. I am not able to help over night because of my own family and her husband doesn't help at night either.
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A bluestone mine being operated by Johnston and Rhodes is located in Manchester Township along a remote stretch of the Upper Delaware River.
According to Bob Neal, who owns property across River Road from the site, this summer workers began building a long road from the mine, which is located near the top of the mountain, down the side of the mountain to River Road.
Because of the thick forest in the area, the property owners nearby heard the big trucks moving around, but weren't really aware of what was going on until the machines broke through to the road. Neal said at that point he went and asked what was going on, but, "By then it was too late; everybody was in shock."
What they were in shock about was a new road wending its way down the mountain with three switchbacks and places to turn around, which, in Neal's estimation, made the road at its widest spots some 80 feet across. What concerned him most was the erosion that could take place because of all the turned up earth and unplanted areas that could wash dirt and debris down the mountain onto his property.
He contacted the PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and he was ultimately allowed to accompany a member of the DEP to the site for an inspection, though he was not allowed to speak or take pictures. He said that there were a couple of permits that should have been in place before the road could have legally moved forward. As a result, the DEP ordered the road temporarily closed, and has since been working with Johnston and Rhodes, a family-owned company dating back to 1909, to bring the road into compliance.
So, why were the permits missed?
According to the Wayne County Chamber of Commerce web, Manchester Township has 918 people, and has a zoning/permit officer named Steve Macy. Macy, his title notwithstanding, said the township has no zoning. He said Johnston and Rhodes informed him before construction of the road began about what they were going to do, and that no permits were required from the township. He said the DEP was responsible for any other permits.
This was not necessarily clear to the DEP. According to an email from Lisa Kasianowitz, a DEP information specialist in Harrisburg, initially the agency was not sure whether the DEP or Wayne County would have jurisdiction over the matter. She wrote, "Now, it looks like it is going to be more us than anyone else."
But before the jurisdiction question was settled, a DEP inspector made suggestions about measures that could be taken regarding erosion and sedimentation controls, such as grading, planting and mulching.
According to Neal, the measures taken so far have had some effect: during the heavy rains earlier this fall the amount of sediment that was funneled into an existing 18-inch culvert and washed onto his acreage across the road was "only about four feet wide by four feet high."
Kasianowitz wrote that the permit applications from the company are still being reviewed, and the DEP had not felt it necessary to issue any fines to this point, but that could change in the future.


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Minka Kelly, the beautiful girlfriend of Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, is a hot Internet trend this weekend because of the release of her new movie, The Roomate.
The box-office thriller is about a roommate, played by Leighton Meester, who becomes obsessed and somewhat jealous of her friend (Kelly). As far as we know, it's not a story that was inspired by A-Rod and Jeter's relationship.
Super Bowl Sunday is just a day away, and there are plenty of news and parties to talk about.
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The Sullivan County legislators have come to an agreement about the make-up of a proposed new ethics law that will cover county employees, officials and members of various boards appointed by the legislature.
The most important change is that the new Sullivan County Board of Ethics, which will be appointed by the legislature, will be able to independently initiate investigations, and will be able to compel witnesses to produce documentation and other evidence.
Under the current ethics procedures, before the ethics board could act, a three-member panel of legislators must first determine whether any given complaint had merit.
The county has been without a functioning board of ethics since 2011, when three members of the five-member board tendered their resignations in the wake of an incident involving then-lawmakers Leni Binder and Jodi Goodman. Goodman and Binder had been accused of an ethics violation by accepting box seats for performances at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, which may have had a value of more than $75.
At a meeting at the government center on May 2, legislator Gene Benson attempted to have language included in the law that would prohibit elected county officials from serving on certain boards, and he also wanted to prevent elected officials who were lawyers, accountants and lobbyists from representing any entity that receives county funding.
Lawmaker Jonathan Rouis said such restrictions would be illegal, and doubt about the legality of the provisions was also expressed by county attorney Sam Yasgur and by senior assistant county attorney Cheryl McCausland. They also said the conflicts of interest were covered significantly in the new law, which, for instance, prohibits legislators from voting on any contract in which the legislator has any interests; "interest" is defined as a "direct or indirect financial or material benefit accruing to the county official, his or her relative or dependent, whether as a result of a contract with the county or otherwise."
Ultimately, the consensus was the language proposed by Benson would not be included.
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It was noted that state law already contains prohibition against such behavior, but it was also noted that it is the sole discretion of the district attorney to decide whether state law has been violated and whether or not to prosecute in any specific instance. If the language were included in the law, the new board of ethics could take action in response to a complaint if the district attorney did not.
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Gem State gun sales spike
Consumers also buying record amount of ammunition
Over in the Gem State, gun sales are on the rise, with gun retailers seeing their best sales in years and many companies filled with backlogged orders or sold out of some model lines altogether.
At Northwest Pony Express you can get everything from vintage guitars to guns, but the store recently sold out of semiautomatic rifles and saw a keen interest in self defense firearms.
"The pipeline is just not set up to supply that quickly for the demand," Joe Ellithorpe at Northwest Pony Express said.
At October Country Muzzleloading, the holidays and hunting season helped sales, in line with how the gun industry did on Black Friday.
"They sold more guns in that one day than in any other day in history," John Maciocek at October Country Muzzleloading said.
It seems ever since the president's introduction of a task force to help what he calls an epidemic of gun violence, some people are worried about gun access and tighter restrictions.
"We hear people being concerned about if they can get one, will there be enough available, will they put a ban on them, some type of legal maneuver," Ellithorpe said.
Stores have to run back ground checks before selling firearms. So many people have been buying guns, the system, maintained by the FBI, has been backlogged. At times Northwest Pony Express had to wait a half hour before getting the green light to sell a firearm. Usually you just dial in and get an operator.
Store owners think this will all calm down soon, but are already looking to the future, as the nation debates what they think will make America safer.
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Skip to comments.Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 20 May 2012
Posted on 05/20/2012 5:27:41 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
p>The Talk Shows
May 20th, 2012
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.; former White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Mark Warner, D-Va., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas; David Axelrod, adviser to President Barack Obama's re-election campaign; Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chairman; Anders Fogh Rasmussenm, NATO Secretary-General.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM NBC's "Meet the Press"
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ABC's "This Week"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM "Fox News Sunday"
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CNN's "Late Edition"
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CBS's "Face The Nation"
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These men are blemishes at your LOVE feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm-shepards who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprootedtwice dead. Jude 1:12
Our Founding Fathers gave us all the weapons we need to protect our Country from another Monarchy. Whether that Monarchy is a Dictator, a King or Premier they had the Biblical wisdom to protect us from the enslavement we are beginning to witness. America has allowed her freedom to be compromised for decades from both Democrat and Repub presidents and it is time to begin to use the ultimate weapons our Founders gave us, our votes. We are witnessing some of the most dramatic votes in histoir against both Parties and against the common enemy, communism. We are watching entrenched corrupt politicians falling at a growing pace as a sleeping giant has awaken.
The Continental Army fought against a tyrant taxing them into poverty with guns and bullets and the knowledge of hanging if caught. They fought against the strongest most powerful army the world had ever known. They fought against all odds giving up their families and livelihoods to fight for the right to live their lives as free men and women. They believed that all men are created equal by their Creator and should be allowed to pursue their own dreams of life, liberty and happiness. After they faced loss after loss after loss they finally crossed the Delaware and did the unthinkable that Christmas Eve and beat the Prussian garrison at Trenton. This was more a symbolic victory than military in that Washington proved his rag tag army could defeat the undefeatable as the Prussian mercenaries were the Special Forces of their day.
After the war ended there was a void of leadership since there was no Country in history which had the people govern themselves to model itself. When they chose George Washington they chose him as the first King of America and he said no, he wanted to be the executive leader. This is when those brilliant men decided we would become a Representative Republic where the power would be diversified across the states so the populated NE states would not be able to dominate the agrarian states which were less populated. What they designed from a cross between Greek and Roman history was a truly brilliant form of gummit which contained a fire alarm controlled by the people if they needed to break the glass. America has become a raging inferno and the alarm is ringing. We have gone from the largest loaner Country in the world to the greatest debtor in a few short decades.
This has occurred from a lack of fiscal control or responsibility. We are seeing the results of nearly a hundred years of piling program after program and agency after agency added to the already burgeoning budgets which made the District of Corruption larger exponentially. These budgets and agencies grew by hiring more and more union employees who expected their salaries to increase exponentially too. We are now experiencing that burden as it enslaves the working class to a larger portion of their salaries going to this insatiable appetite. The problem with this gummit is we have the wagon trying to pull the oxen rather than feeding the oxen to keep it healthy and pull strong and hard. The occupiers want to eat the oxen to feed the wagon.
Rather than having to fight with guns and bullets the Continental Army gave us a nuclear weapon, the vote. Todays Continental Army is fighting with words and truth against the most powerful army ever amassed. The army we are fighting has been built over decades to promote communism in America and around the world and has developed a web of deceit and propaganda. This army has built a series of fortresses in the schools, academia, old media, Hollyweird, the unions, Acorn groups, environmentalism and many churches which are all controlled by the CommieCrat Party. These armies believe and have been invincible until a small group of rag tag freedom fighters stepped forward and punched them in the snout with the Tea Party or todays Continentals with a series of political victories shocking the world.
The Red army has been set back on its heels as their main propaganda weapons of Green Energy and global warming have been completely destroyed as viable arguments. Americans are waking up to the fact that their ideas lead to poverty, enslavement and joblessness. They lead to the dead end of a Julia lifestyle of waiting for your gummit check every month using their system to enslave you more and more. As the gummit owns more and more of your life from cradle to grave your life has less and less meaning while you become more and more dependent until you are living a completely bovine existence. This is where they want you to be since you will become more likely to vote for them for fear of losing your check. You then keep them in power until they eventually have DeathCare which will literally say who lives and who dies.
The Continental army is like the boy in Tiananmen Square facing down the tanks. They are standing in front of the most powerful armies in the world and holding up an old and decaying piece of paper screaming, READ IT! They are holding up the most brilliant piece of paper man has ever written which gives them the diminishing Right of Free Speech. They are destroying that most powerful army with the strength of words and ideas which are reflected in our Declaration. They are exposing the lies of Green Energy and how it leads to less and more expensive energy as well as the crony corruption. They are also showing what an absolute failure gummit is compared to private industry in every instance and how regulation is strangling both businesses and individuals alike.
The Continentals are fighting on the internet and talk radio exposing the overt communism our country is turning to without distinguishing between Parties. They are discussing the scandals openly that are hidden by old media such as Solyndra, General Motors nationalization, the oil moratorium and harassment by this regime and the failure of raising taxes to punish the achievers. This Army of real Americans has captured the imagination of the world. While the world reaches out with shaky desperate hands for America to once more become their Shining City of Freedom and Hope. They reach up in hopes of her once again standing for the freedoms she once enjoyed and could have again if she would turn from her wicked ways and back towards freedom and liberty.
Once again America needs to defeat King George and his Dragoons at Yorktown to have another Continental Congress that would dismantle this oppressive gummit and all its tyrannical agencies. If an agency isnt for freedom and liberty it will be closed and the people fired to be retrained in the private sector. Unions need to be a completely optional enrollment and the members given their pensions in private 401Ks. Hollywhacked, union bosses, old media as well as academia need to have an immediate 75% tax rate so they can truly appreciate what socialism can do for them. It is time for them to practice what they preach. America needs to begin to truly manage her resources and have sensible productive practices put in place to maximize our great resources God has blessed us with and bring those jobs and entrepeneurs back home. When these changes are made we will see our debts disappear, Americans once again become producers rather than users and our City will be Shining Brighter than ever as a beacon of hope seen around the world for decades to come.
Pray for America
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily mine, but FReeper Brays. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.
Good morning! Bad earthquake in northern Italy last night with 3 people killed and several hundred injured. Centered near Bologna. Several historical sites were severely damaged.
Morning AB and everyone. Thanks for the thread. Looks like Paul Ryan is back, which is good news.
Morning All!
Thanks for the thread and ping AB.
Morning AB, All .
Been a tough week here in the swamps but never mind.
As always, thank you AB for doing this thread.
I must say I've had so much amusement with this Elizabeth Warren story and she is the gift that keeps on giving..
Now she contributed plagiarized recipes to "Pow-Wow-Chow", a native American cookbook, dear Lord in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, how much can one woman lie before we all agree that she is a liar?
I am declaring today National Elizabeth Warren Lie Day. Today we can lie with impunity for if Ms. Warren can, why can't we?
I begin .I am a size 5.
Speaking of .well here's a smile .on June 2 I will be a model in my church's annual fashion show.
Well I dunno what I was thinking at the time but when I was asked I kind of snorted and thought somebody was pulling my leg. A leg with considerable -sized thighs I might add.
"We need bigger models," the lady told me, as tactfully as she could.
Well yeah. Curvy ladies need to wear clothes too, made sense to me.
So tomorrow I go to, get this, Coldwater Creek right here in the swamps in our famous outlets in Delaware where we have NO sales tax and it works real well for us. Down the road in Merryland, O'Malley is working real hard to bankrupt that state and I thank God I got out of there.
Ladies on this thread will know Coldwater Creek, if not the men.
I will be walking the runway in TWO outfits .in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost ..
Pray for me please as of all the things I thought I'd ever do in my life, walking a runway was never in my list.
More updated news....the Lockerbee bomber is dead.
Turbin gonna get pwned here. Gregory weak at interrupting & redirection.
Hmmm do I walk on the beach and smell the tropical air or do I listen to Durbin??? looks like this is another stress free day
Situation where TV puts us at a distinct disadvantage. If you were sitting next to him you could at least hear the ocean...
In the preview on F&F, Wallace said the appearances of Ryan and Goolsbee would be in the form of a debate between the two.
It could get interesting. Ryan seems to be the most knowledgeable person in Washington on budget issues.
The Continental army is like the boy in Tiananmen Square facing down the tanks.
To the broader point—
As bray says, this is COMMUNISM we oppose. You can page through the last 120 years or so of history. What you will find is few occasions on which entrenched communism was done away via elections or democracy. It happened but not often.
I wish I could be as positive about the rise of a new force in electoral politics (the Tea Party) as bray is. But the history of the 20th century in Eastern Europe, S. America, Africa and southeast Asia—and even in Russia and China—is rife with the short-lived rise of opposition forces like the Tea Party and their eventual demise.
Communists, even our own Demoviks, have their ways of dealing with "democracy."
So as we wait for shows to come on, here's a thought. I read an editorial by Bill Krystal of all people, link below.
In this editorial Krystal urges Obama to drop Biden and to pick up Hillary.
I begin to scratch my aluminum-foiled head. Why on earth would Bill Kristol be wasting bandwidth worrying about the Democratic ticket?
His argument is that the Obamer ticket is a weak team, especially the Joe Biden part. He then asks if we-meaning Republicans/Conservative types-would be happy winning against such a hapless duo.
I read and I'm mentally screaming...YES! I'D LOVE TO WIN AGAINST SUCH A HAPLESS DUO, WHY NOT?
He goes into great detail about why Hillary would make a more formidible VP choice than Biden and I continue to scratch head and...
...well how darn much did Kristol get paid for this thing? Who paid him? I'm thinking the Hillary campaign.
Cause it makes no sense to me.
Wallace to Goolsbee: Can you name ONE CEO whose job is NOT creating wealth for investors?
Goolsbee: uuuuhhhhh. I agree with the Obama election teams assertion that Bain Capitol is EEEEVVVVVVIIIILLLLL and Romney is the reason.
Ryan: Romney wasn't even at Bain when the example in question was being closed. Obama is giving money to greenies who are losing money and filing for bankruptcy. Some companies succeed; some companies fail.
Ryan vs "The Ghoul"
Slice and dice time.
FOX News makes Romney the candidate when he is not yet.
And all the DNC, GOPe, and RomneyBOTs are in glee.
The News of the Week? Fox begins
as Romney's lawyer defending the criticisms of
Romney as a vulture corporatist.
Romney-PIMP Wallace interviews Goolsbee and
shapes the issue as involving "all CEOs".
Goolsbee correctly suggests that Wallace focus
on what Romney actually did, so RomneyAnchor-wife-in Training
Wallace interrupts him and focuses only on the result.
Goolsbee: "It depends how they did it".
[Millions at that point remember Seamus on the roof].
Wallace then calls on Ryan to be Romney's second lawyer
who willingly obliges. Romney was ONLY at Bain for the
good things, but was away for all bad things.
[Do they really believe conservatives are dumber than rocks?]
I noted that when I checked my earthquake ap last night(I am a geek with these. have aps on computer & iPhone and always checking)
Did you have your trip to England yet? I think it is so great to be there during the jubilee. I have never been to Europe and at this stage probably will not, but the British Isles have always held a lot of interest to/for me.
...well how darn much did Kristol get paid for this thing? Who paid him? Im thinking the Hillary campaign.
I was in there about 20 years and take my word for it, you'd find more logical thinking in the chronics ward at your local nuthouse.
Goolsbee comments that we can't look to things Obama did three years ago but it's okay to run a misleading advertisement connecting Romney to the closing of a steel plant years ago when he wasn't even with Bain Capital. Sheesh!
So it's Sunday morn and I already went to mass yesterday, sang the songs for the choir. Oh my ...what a story about my church I got...might be I share. Maybe not.
Anyway, can sleep late, until 8 in the am or so, then get up and do my Sunday cooking chores. I love Sundays, enjoy this thread, watch the talk shows, putter around.
6:45 am, the dog, which sleeps in my bedroom, comes out from her hidey hole and begins pacing. She's ten years old and drinks a lot as they begin to do at that age. Thus she pees a lot. Oncit in a while she pees on the bedroom floor, gotta watch her carefully.
Well I didn't especially want to get up so early, earlier than my other week days, but I'll never complain should she tell me she needs to go outside, no sir. So I get up, let her out the back. SHE GOES UNDER THE DECK! She don't even pee!
Well what hey?
So I call her back, come on JoAnn, you wake me up and don't even pee? We go back in bedroom, she goes back in hidey hole, I try to sleep.
But this new kitten we got, love him dearly but he's bad, dear Lord he's bad. Every morning I got to give him a smidge of Frskies or he shall die any second, he is on his last legs.
Gerald is his name. He thinks I've lost my mind getting up and getting him all ready for some Friskies and a puddle of milk, being it's his last breath and everything. So he begins scratching at my bedroom door and howliing as he has only two, maybe three breaths left before starvation overtakes him.
The dog, meanwhile, gets up once again and once again, now really mad, I let her out back to pee and this time she does. But she pees but a little so whatever had her spooked it wasn't a full bladder.
Gerald, meanwhile, has to drag his body through the house as he pleads with me for food that he may live another day.
ONE MORE TIME...I go into bedroom, hoping for that one extra hour of sleep.
No go. Dog once again gets up, panting and heaving like she does when she's scared. Gerald is about to go any second and by now he's throwing himself at the closed bedroom door.
So I gave it up and got up.
I don't know what's wrong with the dog. She's got amazing hearing, as dogs do. I suspect she heard thunder somewhere as she is terrified of thunderstorms. Or maybe an earthquake.
Y'all remember that earthquake that rocked the east coast? Knocked over a glass on my kitchen counter? Yup, JoAnn heard that and behaved the same way.
As for Gerald, well he'll live another day as he finally got some Friskies and a puddle of milk, God Bless.
Wallace: Massachusetts was 47th in job creation.
In response, Ryan visibly gulped and began to lie.
[Wake up conservatives. These people should be Democrats
because of the way they ziplessly lie.]
Ryan makes unfounded claims exactly the opposite
of the facts which are here:
THE REAL DEAL: Massachusetts was 48th in
job creation under bad governor Myth Romney.
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
Goolsbee criticizes Romney for not creating jobs as governor, etc.
Ironically, Goolsbee is criticizing Romney's tenure as governor for doing the same kinds of things to shore up the MA economy then that Obama is trying to do now on the National economy. Goolsbee claims Romney's methods were failures.
Ryan responds that Romney created 40k jobs during his last year in office. The thing hurting our economy is a debt crisis, due to a failure of leadership.
Wallace brings up the 0-99 Senate vote on Obama's budget proposal.
Well, the ghoul scoring pretty good points on why Romney sucks.
He's firing the opening salvos of the upcoming Romney/Obama debates, and the campaign attacks for the November election.
Paul Ryan is excellent. He's answering Wallace's questions coherently and directly. Wallace is left stuttering and Goolsby tries to change the subject. Ryan would be a good VP candidate in that he is a good spokesman for conservative economics.
Ryan/Goulsbee is a liefest. It is all Bush's fault, it's congress' fault, none of it is his fault.
Raise taxes on the rich and starve Granny. Pure scare tactics and communist rhetoric.
Watching Goolsbee try to justify and explain the Obama Admin actions and policies it like watching an earthworm try to wiggle across an electrified metal plate.
If the GOP keeps harping on the economy, they could have a winning issue. But, they have to explain the situation in terms the average voter can understand. Ryan seems very capable of explaining things in understandable terms.
Well, the ghoul scoring pretty good points on why Romney sucks.
Hes firing the opening salvos of the upcoming Romney/Obama debates, and the campaign attacks for the November election.
As an aside, I often wonder—do people like Goooooooooolsbeeeeeeee really BELIEVE what they are saying? Could anyone?
Editor of the Weakling's Standard.
Romney didn't create a single job in MA, businesses did. Gummit cannot create jobs, it can only lose them by too much regulation and taxes.
Now Bayh is claiming we need more Porkulus to stimulate the economy. How about getting out of the way?
I leave at the end of the month. Couldn't go if husband working overseas didn't have lots of British Air miles. He got us free ticket (my sister is going with me).
Just curious: you list a CATO report dated 2004 as a summary of state performance through 2006. How do 2005 and 2006 compare?
Hyperliberal Etch-a-Sketch Romney raised taxes (calling
them 'fees') and sank (CATO's term) the Massachusetts
"* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide
those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states."
Romney ruined Massachusetts.
Romney also INSTALLED RomneyCARE and Gay Marriage
and covered up the BIG DIG and put in
liberal, murderer-freeing, judges.
LET's LET HIM DO THAT TO AMERICA, too. [/s]
Good Morning All. Just back from a two week job in Springfield, IL. Had a good time and had the oppurtunity to visit many of the Lincoln historical sites. Went to his tomb. He's still there. One of our greatest Republican buried in a corrupt state owned my the Commurats. Wonder how many of the tourists visiting the sites hava any idea he was a Republican?
At the G8 Summit, Barry used a term that was fairly cryptic: "fiscal consolidation". WTH does THAT mean? We will all share our budgets, debt, and spending? Sounds like a new spin on an old Communist concept of 'redistribution of wealth' but at the 'global community' level. When the community-organizer-in-chief sits among a group, he can't help but to organize them, I guess.
Brilliant as always, Bray! Thank you both for the highlight of my Sunday mornings.
One thing, though - green energy and global warming haven't been completely destroyed yet, unfortunately. We have to diligently stay on this and work like hell to take back the Senate, put more conservatives in both houses and get the BHO scourge out of our White House. Then we need to keep the heat on the next POTUS (I still pray it's not Romney).
He didn't have a Republican congress pushing him in MA. Don't forget the last 2 years of the Bush admin were controlled by a Dem Congress that went on a spending spree and never allowed a audit of Fannie Mae which killed the economy.
In most cases, congress has far more to do with losing jobs than the President/Gov does. I doubt Romney wrote Romneycare, he only signed what the congress wrote.
Oregon is as communist as MA and I would kill for a Gov as conservative as Romney. We have a full blown Marxist but our congress kept him under control.
That's very revealing advice from Krystal. Revealing of his intentions I mean.
I think Hillary on the ticket covers two things: 1) She's much stronger than dipstick Biden and 2) If Hussein's numbers continue to drop and the ineligibility question picks up steam (as it seems to be doing), Hussein can be yanked by the Dems and replaced with Hillary.
And here is Krystal helping them...
Thanks! I have to wait another hour for FNS to come on here. Ryan's terrific. I wouldn't mind seeing him as VP or even POTUS someday but I'd hate to lose him in the House today, where he's doing so well.
Thank you so much. I am now an official FReditorial writer. Laz and Jim have started an editorial page they want to promote and I was asked to contribute to it. This was my first submission yesterday.
Ryan would be an excellent VP and keep the focus on the economy and budget. He has all the facts and has a way of saying it in a way people understand. Unfortunately he is too White and Male for our victim class society. It might offend a minority like women who outnumber men.
The big media simply wants ratings to sell advertisements.
More people would watch t.v. news shows if Hillary were
on the ticket. If Obama/ Clinton would win, the Clintons would work behind the scenes secretly to remove Obama from office.
Meet the Press, Durbin vs. Ryan, Gregory asks about Boehner's comments about spending cuts vs. increasing debt limit.
Durbin was surprised that Boehner reminded voters of what happened last summer. It is not responsible. Promotes Simpson/Bowles commission approach.
Ryan supports Bowles/Simpson approach to closing tax loopholes, but not approach to medicaire costs.
A reminder on Goolsbee, this was May 2011, keep in mind the Unemployment Number is down because there are less available jobs;
Goolsbee isnt the only one saying more than 2 million private sector jobs added in the last 14 months; State run media regurgitates it with no clarification.
May. 6, 2011
That means over the last 14 months, Obama said, weve added more than 2 million jobs in the private sector.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney pointed out to reporters that April was the 14th consecutive month of growth in private sector employment, for a total of 2.1 million jobs
Austan Goolsbee looks like he needs both Exlax and Preparation H.
McCain didn't fight back properly during the last campaign.
Romney must fire up the people to win this election. The voters need some beef. Where is the beef? Obama will attack with everthing he has; even lies and deception.
Romney must speak out or he will lose like McCain.
You've made your points quite well, but I do have a question.
Only two horses in the finale have any chance of winning. What then?
Go have fun on the runway and being with your friends, and there's nothing like being yourself and having the confidence to stay focused on what you want to do, in other words don't let what others may think distract you from your fashion show.
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Sharks are on the move in and around Maui waters.
Now, scientists trying to solve the recent spike in shark attacks, are offering you a way to have an idea where the predators are lurking.
They've tagged some, so you can track them online.
"In the course of three days, we tagged 15 tiger sharks and a lot of them were very big tiger sharks, and pregnant females. So now we are starting to see the movement of those 15 sharks in the three weeks that we tagged and released them," said Kim Holland of the Institute of Marine Biology.
Holland and his team are tracing every move they can of the first eight sharks tagged, and there are more sharks to come.
The satellite tracking devices are quickly relaying valuable data.
"And as the shark gets it's equilibrium back , it swims away into the deep. And every time that fish breaks the surface and the transmitter comes out of the water, we are going to a hit and those are the hits that you will be seeing on the web page," said Holland.
Scientists hope this University of Hawaii webpage Pacific Islands Ocean Observing Systems will be the go-to site for all things ocean-science related.
The highly mobile tigers ranging from nine to 14 feet are cruising our waters leaving a trail of a mystery for Holland and others to solve.
Tigers don't normally travel in schools like hammerheads, but why Maui, and why so many attacks that seem to come at all times of the day.
"This fish was tagged off of Kihei .You can see it going to Lanai and Molokai and now it's off Kailua- Kona," said Holland.
But Holland cautions don't rely on the shark tracks to keep you safe.
"You won't be able to say I'm in Waianae. Are there any sharks here? It doesn't work that way. It's near-real time, not real-time. Besides, we don't know about the sharks that dont have our tags on them. These are just eight sharks," said Holland.
And there are so many, many more out there.


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"I thank the folks who got out and voted to support me," Blaschke said. "I look forward to the race in November against the Democratic candidate."
Blaschke will face incumbent Refugio County Judge Rene Mascorro who was unopposed in the Democratic Primary and received 82 votes. The general election is Nov. 4.
"I'll give it my best shot, and I wish Sylvia Barrera Wiginton the best of luck," Blaschke said.
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"I want to thank everybody, getting out knocking on door to door," she said.
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If so, what's Kurama's elemental chakra?
if i recall one tails has wind? but idk about others
shakaku had the giant wind bullets
Bijuu don't have elements just Yin / Yang.
I don't think the tailed beasts have Elemental Chakra.
Originally Posted by kobak
Kurama has wind and fire nature chakra according to narutopedia.
Kurama doesn't have Fire or Wind.
I don't they have specific elemental chakras. I think they are way beyond that.
Kurama at the very least has fire chakra. I believe he also can use wind on occasion. So the answer to your question is yes, they do have elemental charkra.
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Bijuu don't have elements just Yin / Yang.
Originally Posted by ~Dream~
Bijuu don't have elements just Yin / Yang.
Shikoku had wind release and I'm guessing earth with the sand
i think it wood bee fire type chakra
Well, the Eight seem to be a water-type, which makes sense for the Hidden Village in the Cloud, then I'll probably say Kurama would be fire type, which seem to fit the Hidden Village in the Leaf of the Fire Nation...
kurama has fire and wind
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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki addresses the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, East African Community and Southern African Development Community summit in Kampala, Uganda, Oct. 22, 2008.
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"Kenya's Makeover in Diplomatic Ties Should Focus on Economic Statecraft"
Op-Ed, The Daily Nation
August 4, 2009
Author: Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Science, Technology, and Globalization; Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Kenya's diplomatic approach of "wait-and-see" has been rendered obsolete by external factors for decades. The country cannot wait for its tea, coffee and tourism competitors to capture its markets before it can react.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the leadership of Mr Moses Wetang'ula, is working to reinvent the country's diplomatic machinery by focusing on economic diplomacy (covering economic, peace, environmental, diaspora and cultural affairs).
Indeed, this was the main focus of the 15th Biennial Ambassadors and High Commissioners Conference held in Mombasa under the theme of "Leveraging Kenya's Diplomacy for Enhanced Competitiveness".
The main focus of the nine-day conference that ended on Monday was to "identify key strategies for enhancing Kenya's competitiveness through adaptation of the foreign service to changes in the global environment".
It was apparent from the outset that the effectiveness of Kenya's diplomatic efforts can only be as strong as the domestic reality that they represent. The ability of diplomats to represent the country is largely dependent on what happens at home.
In fact, globalisation, especially the pervasiveness of mass media and other communication, make it is difficult for diplomats to take positions that depart radically from press reports. Much of the diplomatic work is therefore public and diplomats are called upon to do as much communication as they do negotiations.
In addition, diplomatic missions have to contend with a wide range of other forms of national representation over which they have no control. For example, athletes and other public figures have become a major part of the country's image, especially given the fact that they attract considerable media attention.
But probably the most significant influences on Kenya's foreign policy have come from recent trends in globalisation. The main features of a globalising world include increased connectivity among countries, greater mobility and enhanced inter-dependence. These forces are closely associated with heightened economic completion among and between nations.
The process of economic globalisation has been reinforced by a new set of trading rules agreed under the World Trade Organisation that have undercut traditional preferential arrangements that tied former colonies to their former colonisers.
Indeed, economic liberalisation has been the driving force behind globalisation and it has tended to favour countries and regions that have the capacity to adapt to changing global conditions. The challenges have recently been compounded by the impact of the global financial crisis whose full implications are still unfolding.
The competitiveness of the industrialised countries is driven by their pre-existing technological capabilities. The intensified use of technological innovation as a tool for competitiveness has tended to undercut countries like Kenya that are historically dependent on export of raw materials or trade in services like tourism that are linked to natural endowments.
In addition to global economic challenges, Kenya is also dealing with major regional issues, especially those associated with economic integration. The prospects for Africa's economic progress lie largely in the continent's ability to rapidly foster viable regional integration arrangements. However, this process is slow, largely because of uncertainties associated with perceptions about economic risks.
Another regional challenge is peace in neighbouring countries. Kenya has historically served as an anchor for stability in the Great Lakes Region, where it has played a key role as a mediator. But the worsening situation in Somalia is forcing Kenya to rethink its position and widen the range of options needed to safeguard its own security.
Post-poll chaos
The 2008 post-election violence not only dented the country's peace brand, but it has also forced the leadership to rethink Kenya's role in the region and the world. Furthermore, Kenya's landlocked neighbours are actively diversifying their routes to the sea.
But despite these challenges, Kenya has all the pieces that are needed to enable it to adapt to a new global economic order. It has laid strong foundations in human resources. This is reflected in the appointment of highly competent managers at various levels in the public service.
The process of democratisation over the last two decades has also spawned a wide range of new actors that has added to the diversity of institutions in the country. For example, the Press has emerged as a major democratic force.
However, despite these improvements, many of the structures of government have not appreciated the demands of an entrepreneurial state. There is widespread misalignment of Kenya's economic aspirations and its government structure. This misalignment is a major source of ineffective use of existing resources.
Take Vision 2030, for example. The country has spent the last five years articulating a vision that would guide its transition to becoming a middle-income nation. This is exactly the kind of vision that should guide diplomatic engagement. This excellent set of ideas is not managed as a vision, but more like a pair of binoculars hidden in the back pocket of a minister.
The talented Mr Mugo Kibati has been appointed to "deliver" the vision. You do not deliver a vision; you realise it through executive leadership. Our eyes, or instruments for vision, are not on our hips or elbows. They are right below our foreheads and well protected, complete with eyebrows to deflect anything that might impair our vision. The operative word here is "fore".
No foreign representative of the President will take instructions from the hip of a minister. But the good news is that the core elements of the nascent economic diplomacy are in Vision 2030. Hopefully, at an appropriate time, Vision 2030 will assume its proper role as an organising framework for Kenya's economic governance.
Another example is the Brand Kenya Corporation that has the finest professionals you can find in the field. Yet it is buried in a sectoral ministry and hardly leverages the political capital of the presidency, as it should. The location of this important effort within the structure of government will also need to be rethought.
These structural limitations, however, are easy to fix. Kenya now needs to realign its institutional structure with the demands of global economic competitiveness. Its diplomats are being asked to champion economic development when the state itself is not entrepreneurial. This has to change.
Own staff
Furthermore, foreign service is a specialised professional activity like medicine and engineering and must have the capacity to train and recruit its own staff. It must employ its staff based on rigorous training and examination that conform to international standards. Countries like Brazil can serve as role models on how Kenya can quickly professionalise its foreign service.
Indeed, the ministry has set up the Foreign Service Institute to undertake research, training and advocacy on a variety of issues. Its central mission should be to build the capacity needed for the effective functioning of the foreign service. The institute could also play a key role in helping Kenya to provide intellectual leadership in emerging areas of diplomacy.
For example, it can sponsor the creation of a School of Environmental Diplomacy to leverage the presence of the United Nations Environment Programme in Kenya. Such a school would make Nairobi a location of choice to gain practical experience in environmental diplomacy.
A shift toward economic diplomacy will not only change the outlook of the foreign service, but it will also create new demands that require additional financial and human resources. It will not be helpful to expect the envoys to help promote Kenya's exports without providing them with additional support to do so.
To liaise
One of the approaches adopted by various countries is for ministries dealing with international trade, commerce or research to liaise with the relevant foreign service functions they need performed. For example, when the Swiss Government converted its Boston consulate into a science and technology cooperation centre, it funded it partly through the ministry responsible for research.
The Swiss Government also uses modern communication technologies to reduce the cost of such cooperation. Kenya's MFA should be a primary use of high-speed internet as way to maintain regular contacts with the capital. In fact, virtual corridors can now be created between Kenya's embassies and various designated locations in Kenya.
Other cost-lowering measures could include outsourcing many of the embassy services like visa and other enquiries to call centres located in Kenya. The saved resources could then be used to support activities associated with economic diplomacy.
Prof Juma teaches at Harvard Kennedy School and serves as a trustee of the Victoria Institute of Science and Technology in Kisumu.
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Grilled Veggie Sandwich-Gundersen Lutheran 500 Club
Veggie Sandwich
Makes 4 servings
Getting started Equipment needed: cutting board/chef knife, large skillet, baking pan Preheat oven to: broil Do right away when you get home: action step 1
1 medium green bell pepper
1 medium red or yellow bell pepper
1 small yellow onion
1 small zucchini
2 tsp. olive oil Salt* and pepper
1 ½ Tbsp. butter/margarine
4 slices provolone cheese
1. Wash all veggies. Thinly slice into strips.
2. In a large skillet over medium-high heat, sauté vegetables in oil. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Whole wheat buns
3. Cut buns in half and lightly butter each half. Place butter-side up on baking sheet and broil until lightly grilled. Remove from oven. Top with vegetables and cheese, return under broiler and heat until cheese is bubbling and turning brown.
Suggested Side Items: fresh fruit and your favorite soup
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Aaron Rodgers couldn't sleep. It was getting late on Wednesday night, and while kickoff for his team's NFC Wild Card playoff game against the rival Minnesota Vikings was still almost 72 hours away, the Green Bay Packers quarterback was thinking about what was at stake.
With one Super Bowl championship, one Super Bowl MVP and one NFL MVP on his resume, Rodgers was thinking bigger. His 2012 regular season hadn't been as numerically impressive as the prior year – although 39 touchdowns and eight interceptions is nothing to shake a statistical stick at – but in some ways, his performance had been better, given what defenses had thrown at him and the revolving door of injured pass-catchers the offense had dealt with.
He'd also felt the gnawing disappointment – no matter how quickly he'd said he got over it – of last year's one-and-done postseason, as the offense had been uncharacteristically sloppy in a loss to the eventual Super Bowl-champion New York Giants.
And so, Rodgers found himself contemplating what lay ahead. A loss to the Vikings a few days earlier at the Metrodome had lengthened the road to New Orleans and Super Bowl XLVII, but it had only strengthened his resolve to duplicate the feeling he'd had after winning Super Bowl XLV.
"It's such a long process," Rodgers began. "We're here in April and we put a lot of time in – in the meeting rooms, in the weight room, on the field, OTAs, training camp, preseason, a long 16-game, 17-week season … and then it's one-and-done. You either win, or you go home. That's the nature of our business.
"I think it's important for us to call on some of the experience we have and what that run felt like in 2010 – when we were excited to get into the playoffs and knowing if we just got in, anything could happen. Much like I'm sure Minnesota last week was thinking. 'If we just get in, anything can happen.' That sense of urgency, that was slightly lacking last year.
"I really feel like you make your money during the season. You get paid to play and play real well, and you earn your paycheck during the season. And you create your legacy in the postseason. I was thinking about that actually when I was lying in bed – just how special that run is and just how you never know when you're going to get these kind of opportunities again. You have a great team, great opportunity in front of you, and you just want to make the most of it and get back to the Super Bowl and have more of those moments."
On Saturday night, the Packers created another of those moments – and set the stage for more. While the Vikings were pinning their hopes on the element of surprise with backup Joe Webb subbing for an injured Christian Ponder, the Packers got exactly what they've come to expect from the reigning NFL MVP. The result: An imperfect but effective 24-10 victory and an NFC Divisional Playoff Game date with the San Francisco 49ers next Saturday night in the City by the Bay.
While it left plenty of room for improvement – especially offensively, where the Packers seemed to shut things down after taking a three-touchdown lead one drive into the third quarter – it was a step toward the ultimate goal.
"We're a long ways from being where we want to be. Today was a good initial game for us in these playoffs. But the ultimate goal, it's going to take a lot more than tonight to pull it off," said Packers safety Charles Woodson, who returned from a nine-game absence (broken collarbone) to give a lift to a defense that got it done against Webb (11 of 30, 180 yards, three sacks, one TD, one INT, 54.9 rating) and, most importantly, Adrian Peterson (22 carries, 99 yards).
"We're moving in the right direction, we feel good about what we did today, but there'll be things we can look at to get better and get ready for next week. Of course, it's going to be a tougher opponent coming up next week, so we've got to be ready for that.
"Not to talk too much about last year, but last year's team I just think there was a lot of uncertainty going into the playoffs. I don't think there's any uncertainty going into these playoffs. We know what we are, we know what we're capable of, and we look forward to next week."
While the offense bemoaned the way it throttled down after taking a 24-3 lead in the third quarter – the Packers punted on each of their final six possessions, managing only one first down during the final 19 minutes of the game – the lead might as well have been 48-3 with the way Webb was overmatched and the way the defense had finally solved Peterson, who'd gutted the Packers for 409 yards in the teams' first two meetings this season.
"I knew if we had the opportunity that we had it within us," Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji said. "We just had to prove it and show everybody that we could do it. Adrian is a great back; he still made some awesome runs today. But for the most part, we did a good job on him. We tried to keep him at the same level, (and) we did a good job of just staying on the same plane and making him run around in the backfield and guys tackling him.
"It was no secret. We all knew what the key to us winning this game was, particularly on defense. It was good to see us rise to the occasion."
Webb, on the other hand, did not. He became the first quarterback in NFL history to start a playoff game after not throwing a single regular-season pass, and it showed.
The Vikings had decided Ponder was a no-go after he threw roughly 10 passes in pregame warm-ups and headed back inside the locker room, where coach Leslie Frazier told Webb he'd start. While Webb had taken most of the reps in practice during the week with Ponder was listed as questionable because of the bruised triceps he suffered when he banged his throwing arm on a Morgan Burnett blitz in last Sunday's game, it didn't appear Vikings offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave altered his offense to accentuate Webb's strengths.
After putting the Packers on their heels early with a few read-option plays en route to an opening-drive field goal, Minnesota seemed to settle into its same offense, and Webb looked very much like the athletic 2010 sixth-round pick who'd been drafted out of Alabama-Birmingham to be catch passes, not throw them.
"We kind of prepared for a little bit of both (quarterbacks)," Frazier said. "As we were going through the week and realizing the possibility on a short week that Christian might not make it, so we better make sure we have something in the package in case it does become Joe. So, Bill and our offensive staff did a good job of including what we would call 'Joe-type' plays.
"We mixed some of those read-options along the way. But at some point, you'd like to be able to complete some passes. You're right -- early on, we did have them a little bit off-balance. But we had some opportunities in the passing game. We just couldn't connect."
No, they couldn't. On their next four drives, the Vikings punted as Webb took two sacks, nearly threw an interception as he unloaded the ball while in the grasp and had completed only 3 of 12 passes for 22 yards at halftime – despite having taken the Packers by surprise with the quarterback change.
"We watched our game film, we had the mindset of thinking Christian Ponder was going to be the quarterback and that was all we knew of until a couple minutes before going out for pregame," Burnett said. "It's part of the game of football. You have to be prepared for whatever happens, and you can't put too much thought into it. You just have to go out and play and execute."
And that's where the game was won, as Rodgers executed brilliantly when the game was in the balance. He played virtually mistake-free football. After spotting the Vikings a 3-0 lead and going three-and-out on their own opening possession, the Packers (12-5) marched methodically down the field on an 11-play, 82-yard drive – without a single pass completion to a wide receiver – en route to running back DuJuan Harris' 9-yard touchdown run for a 7-3 lead. During the drive, Harris carried five times for 22 yards while also catching two passes for 28 yards.
"The big thing tonight was he took what they gave him – check the ball down early to the running backs, allow them to get first downs. He made some plays with his feet and he was just playing consistent football," wide receiver Jordy Nelson said.
Or, as coach Mike McCarthy put it, "Aaron's very composed. We had some things go awry in the second half but I thought he played a typical Aaron Rodgers game. Very steady."


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