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Daily Archives: February 22, 2009
In my last post, I argued that the Seventeenth Amendment should be repealed. Once upon a time, Americans from across the political spectrum could agree on at least one principle of good governance: federalism, or more generally, localized decision-making.
To put a fine point on it:
- Your state knows its own values and interests better than the national government does.
- Your county knows its own values and interests better than the state government does.
- Your city knows its own values and interests better than the county government does.
- Your neighborhood knows its own values and interests better than the city government does.
- Your household knows its own values and interests better than the neighborhood does.
- And you arguably know your own particular values and interests better than other members of your household do.
Depending on who's won lately, the people in power at higher levels of organization may approximately reflect your values and interests, but the further away they get, the less likely this is to be the case. Simply put, the more people you have to represent, and the further they are away from you, the harder it is to faithfully represent them all.
Even if your Congressman is a tremendously intelligent and virtuous man, what he doesn't know about his constituents' beliefs and circumstances could fill libraries.
So as a general rule, it makes sense that we should want matters to be decided at the most local level possible. If you have a personal problem, you have the greatest incentive to fix the problem, your values will determine what trade-offs you're comfortable with, and the matter probably shouldn't leave your household — or at worst, your peer groups. If it doesn't naturally spill over into other people's lives, they don't want you to make it their problem.
Largely because so much power has accrued at higher levels of government, people increasingly turn to the impersonal and ignorant forces of those higher levels to handle their problems. Today, the federal government has so much power, reaching down to the most local possible decisions, that people focus an inordinate amount of their attention and aspirations on who controls it and what they do with it. Everyone's fate is determined by whose collective hand controls the Biggest Lever.
I cannot stress enough how dangerous a development this is. Let's leave aside, for the moment, how centralized control and planning tend to double down on mistakes rather than correct them. They have much more insidious effects.
Making everything a national issue has poisoned the national debate. It is a significant cause of the Culture War (see Roe v Wade, or Defense of Marriage Act). It has contributed to making politics personal, and it's why so many people have become emotionally invested in the person of the President. Think about how much more common it has become for both parties to use the language and imagery of dictators to describe the president — usually when we disagree with him.
Bottom line: it is difficult to tolerate your neighbor's difference of opinion if his opinion controls your life. It has become too difficult to mind one's own business.
Let that marinate for a minute, and I'll move on to my suggestion for one solution. Continue reading
Podcast for 22 Feb 09
In this podcast, Bruce, Michael, and Dale talk about the first month of the Obama Presidency.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Dope Of the Week
Where to start with this joker:
California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested that his party is out of touch with average Americans on the issue of health care.
"You've got to listen to the people. If the nation is screaming out loud, 'We need health care reform. We want to have universal health care. We want to have everyone insured. We want to bring the costs down. We want everyone to have access.' I mean, that's what they want; that's what you do," Schwarzenegger said on ABC's "This Week."
Arguing that California Republicans were out of touch with the majority of Californians who wanted to raise taxes to fix the state's budget crisis, Schwarzenegger said it is "the same nationwide."
He said Republicans need to embrace what the people want, even if it means accepting tax increases that go against their party principles:
"Even though it maybe is against your principles or philosophy, you still have to go, because that's what the people want you to do," he said.
A) Healthcare: the nation isn't screaming any of that out loud. A definite minority want it. But just as large a minority don't want any part of it. A third minority isn't sure one way or the other.
B) If the purpose of government is to simply give the people everything they want, then there's no reason for a budget, a legislature or a governor. Just put everything to a direct vote via referendum, write a program that can figure the cost of each "yes" referendum, figure the tax necessary to fund the approved program and assess the tax. If you must have a legislature or governor, they would only write the law and rubber stamp it based on the referendum (per the Schwarzenegger "philosophy" only unanimous approvals allowed) and the "governor" is there to do nothing more than to sign it into law – period. Once taxes reach 100% nothing else can be signed into law and the legislature is in permanent recess and the governor is no longer needed (hey I can be just as absurd as Schwarzenegger).
Oh, wait, I forgot – you have to have a governor and a legislature to pile up trillions of dollars of debt "giving the people what they want" and drive the state into bankruptcy – my bad.
C) Why have principles if you're not supposed to live by them/act on them. Why run on them, tell voters they'll be your guide and get elected because of them? Schwarzenegger has gone from a somewhat entertaining RINO to an outright idiot.
"Even though it may be against your principles or philosophy" do it anyway because that's what the people want? This guy would obviously rather be liked than principled (if he ever was really principled). Principles are a hindrance to his pursuit of approval (see what steroids will do to your brain?). And my guess is, he'd label this nonsense as "leadership".
Lord help California. Schwarzenegger makes Gray Davis look great.
Repealing the Seventeenth Amendment
George Will argues we should repeal the Seventeenth Amendment. I doubt it will happen–too many people are convinced of the Populist notion that the more direct the democracy, the better. But I've been arguing for years that this measure would restore a great measure of federalism to the US, and that we would generally benefit from such a change.
Doug Mataconis of Below the Beltway isn't so sure. He writes,
As I've noted before, it's a provocative argument, but I think there's something missing:
My take on the subject is this — from a procedural point of view the 17th Amendment is certainly one of the factors that has made the expansion of Federal power, and the erosion of Federalism, more easy to accomplish. Returning to direct election of Senators *might* have a positive impact, but that will only happen if the Senators elected have a proper understanding of their role under the Constitution.
And if the state legislators appointing them have that same understanding.
Given the political climate in America today, having Senators who are beholden to the whims and wishes of state legislators is unlikely to produce a better breed in the Upper House than having Senators who are beholden to the whims and wishes of voters.
In some sense, repealing the 17th Amendment involves turning back the clock in more ways than one. We can return to the procedural methods that the Framers first put in place, but that doesn't mean that the philosophy that will guide the Senate will change in any significant respect.
I can't comment on whether we'd get a "better breed", but the procedural change would change the practice, if not the philosophy, of senators. As I argue in the comments, the purpose of many of the checks and balances in the Constitution of the early republic was to have people in power answer to those who were jealous of their own power. Repealing the Seventeenth wouldn't cure all ills, but it would help.
For example, the federal government has extended its power over state and local matters by using its superior funding power to provide goodies, and attaching strings to that money.
If we posit that state legislators want to arrogate more power to themselves, then–given the power–they will resist those strings. US Senators, realizing that their appointment to the Senate (and all the attendant benefits) requires pleasing the state legislators, will avoid attaching those strings. They don't need to understand anything except who's buttering their bread.
Let's say that state legislators still like the idea of getting federal money without having to levy their own taxes. Well, if the Senate tries to appropriate no-strings-attached money for the states, naturally the House and President will resist. They don't want to levy taxes and receive no controlling benefit in return.
A smaller number might be ideologically committed to using the superior federal power of taxation to fund these goodies, but not having strings attached to federal money would dull the incentive.
With Hat In Hand …
Pretty sad when you have the Secretary of State soliciting funds for debt instruments:
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged China to keep buying US debt as she wrapped up her first overseas trip, during which she agreed to work closely with Beijing on the financial crisis.
Ms Clinton made the plea shortly before leaving China, the final stop on a four-nation Asian tour that also took her to Japan, Indonesia and South Korea, where she worked the crowds to try to restore America's standing abroad.
In Beijing, she called on authorities in Beijing to continue buying US Treasury bonds, saying it would help jumpstart the flagging US economy and stimulate imports of Chinese goods.
"By continuing to support American Treasury instruments the Chinese are recognising our interconnection. We are truly going to rise or fall together," Ms Clinton said at the US embassy here.
Of course, its absolutely necessary that China (and the rest of the world) continue to buy these bonds and fund this spending debacle or taxes will have to be raised dramatically (and not just on the 'rich') and/or more money will have to be printed. That's not to say that both of those won't be done anyway whether China continues to buy or not. My guess is it's only a matter of time. Don't forget, health care reform legislation and environmental legislation are yet to come. Both may end up taking even more out of the private side of the economy than the so-called "stimulus" did.
Obama meets with Harper on "Buy American"
President Barack Obama made a trip to Canada this week to settle fears over the "Buy American" provision in the so-called "stimulus" package:
President Barack Obama on Thursday moved to reassure business and trade partners that the "buy American" provision of the economic stimulus package will not further harm the economy.
Critics of the measure, including foreign trade partners, business groups and even some U.S. industries that use steel and other products, have called "buy American" protectionist and complained it will drive up the cost of business.
Obama, who met with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper for several hours in Ottawa, said he told his counterpart the United States would abide by existing trade pacts.
"I want to grow trade and not contract it," Obama said. "And I don't think that there was anything in the recovery package that is adverse to that goal."
The provision mandates that any construction or infrastructure project in the "stimulus" bill would be required to use American metals, like iron and steel, unless costs were to exceed 25%. This misguided provision has sparked fears of a trade war.
In 1845, Frédéric Bastiat wrote the Petition of the Candlemakers, satire that pointed out the follies of protectionism to French lawmakers:
You are on the right track. You reject abstract theories and little regard for abundance and low prices. You concern yourselves mainly with the fate of the producer. You wish to free him from foreign competition, that is, to reserve the domestic market for domestic industry.
We come to offer you a wonderful opportunity for your — what shall we call it? Your theory? No, nothing is more deceptive than theory. Your doctrine? Your system? Your principle? But you dislike doctrines, you have a horror of systems, as for principles, you deny that there are any in political economy; therefore we shall call it your practice — your practice without theory and without principle.
We are suffering from the ruinous competition of a rival who apparently works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light that he is flooding the domestic market with it at an incredibly low price; for the moment he appears, our sales cease, all the consumers turn to him, and a branch of French industry whose ramifications are innumerable is all at once reduced to complete stagnation. This rival, which is none other than the sun, is waging war on us so mercilessly we suspect he is being stirred up against us by perfidious Albion (excellent diplomacy nowadays!), particularly because he has for that haughty island a respect that he does not show for us.
We ask you to be so good as to pass a law requiring the closing of all windows, dormers, skylights, inside and outside shutters, curtains, casements, bull's-eyes, deadlights, and blinds — in short, all openings, holes, chinks, and fissures through which the light of the sun is wont to enter houses, to the detriment of the fair industries with which, we are proud to say, we have endowed the country, a country that cannot, without betraying ingratitude, abandon us today to so unequal a combat.
Competition spurs improvements and lower prices. Protectionism is what brought us the Smoot-Hawley tariff in 1930, an interventionist economic policy that exacerbated economic problems which eventually led to the Great Depression.
Policies like "Buy American" will only cause retaliation in other parts of the world. We cannot afford that in the middle of a recession.
Obama seeks tax increases to
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With Wall Street already showing absolutely no confidence in Barack Obama and Tim Geithner, the president is announcing tax increases in an attempt to cut the budget deficit by half in four years:
A summary of Obama's budget request for the fiscal year that begins in October will be delivered to Congress on Thursday, with the complete, multi-hundred-page document to follow in April. But Obama plans to unveil his goals for scaling back record deficits and rebuilding the nation's costly and inefficient health care system tomorrow, when he addresses lawmakers and budget experts at a White House summit on restoring "fiscal responsibility" to Washington.
Yesterday in his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama said he is determined to "get exploding deficits under control" and said his budget request is "sober in its assessments, honest in its accounting, and lays out in detail my strategy for investing in what we need, cutting what we don't, and restoring fiscal discipline."
Reducing the deficit, he said, is critical: "We can't generate sustained growth without getting our deficits under control."
To get there, Obama proposes to cut spending and raise taxes. The savings would come primarily from "winding down the war" in Iraq, a senior administration official said. The budget assumes continued spending on "overseas military contingency operations" throughout Obama's presidency, the official said, but that number is lower than the nearly $190 billion budgeted for Iraq and Afghanistan last year.
Obama also seeks to increase tax collections, mainly by making good on his promise to eliminate some of the temporary tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003. While the budget would keep the breaks that benefit middle-income families, it would eliminate them for wealthy taxpayers, defined as families earning more than $250,000 a year. Those tax breaks would be permitted to expire on schedule in 2011. That means the top tax rate would rise from 35 percent to 39.6 percent, the tax on capital gains would jump to 20 percent from 15 percent for wealthy filers and the tax on estates worth more than $3.5 million would be maintained at the current rate of 45 percent.
Obama also proposes "a fairly aggressive effort on tax enforcement" that would target corporate loopholes, the official said. And Obama's budget seeks to tax the earnings of hedge fund managers as normal income rather than at the lower 15 percent capital gains rate.
Overall, tax collections under the plan would rise from about 16 percent of the economy this year to 19 percent in 2013, while federal spending would drop from about 26 percent of the economy, another post-World War II high, to 22 percent.
Add this to the list of "Things Not To Do During A Recession." Soak the achievers and give absolutely meaningless tax cuts, $13 dollars a week, to the rest of us while the government continues to plunge us further into debt.
Enough with wealth envy and populism. Let's cut taxes for everyone, cut spending and kill the corporate income tax.
Signing On To The "Name And Shame" Policy
Gotta love this chutzpah:
Invoking his own name-and-shame policy, President Barack Obama warned the nation's mayors on Friday that he will "call them out" if they waste the money from his massive economic stimulus plan.
"The American people are watching," Obama told a gathering of mayors at the White House. "They need this plan to work. They expect to see the money that they've earned — they've worked so hard to earn — spent in its intended purposes without waste, without inefficiency, without fraud."
This from a guy who just signed into law the biggest waste, fraud and abuse bill ever concocted by our so-called representatives in Washington DC.


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We Can't Be Bothered About Rangers
By Ed_Scottishfitba
Updated Tuesday, 21st February 2012
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Terry Butcher proudly captained Rangers but he is focused exclusively on Inverness Caledonian Thistle's needs now.
With a significant amount of media focus on the administration situation at Ibrox it can be easy to forget that there are 11 other clubs in the SPL who are also fighting for survival. Inverness manager Terry Butcher says he has no time for sympathy for one of his former club Rangers as he looks to get his side into the top-six. Rangers visit on Sunday in front of the Sky cameras and Butcher will be saving any words of comfort until after the final whistle. Caley Thistle are within five points of Kilmarnock, currently in sixth, but Dundee United, Aberdeen and St Mirren are also in the hunt for a top-half finish.
Butcher said: "We have to pull our fingers out and get going if we want to finish in the top six, it's always been dog-eat-dog in the SPL but we have seven matches before the split so it's tight. If we get on run now and finish in style we could well get there. It starts against Rangers and they are a good side no matter what state they are in, but we have our own agenda and that is to get three points. These are troubled times at Ibrox but that is their concern and we can't be bothered about that because we have to do our professional best to win. I've been there before as manager of Motherwell and no one had sympathy for us when it came to matches. I don't think Rangers will expect any sympathy and they certainly won't get any from us when it comes to the game but obviously after the match, certainly."
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Featured Topics: Brand new Volvo Excavator that saves 9% fuel costs; Americans support more road projects; NAHETS offers ADEPT Training Certification
By Jarad Van Wagoner
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New Volvo Construction Equipment Excavator to Offer 9% Fuel Savings
Volvo Construction Equipment will be launching a new excavator that will be turning heads and saving companies, potentially, hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on the size and scope of a project and/or projects. That's great news in this day and age of rising fuel costs and razor thin margins.
According to EquipmentWorld.com writer Marcia Gruver Doyle, the new Tier 4 Final EC380EVolvo CE excavator, "takes full advantage of its ECO mode, which reduces on-demand flow and pressure loss in the hydraulic system. The ECO mode is designed to increase control for more precise performance in whatever work mode an operator puts the machine in: Idle, Fine, General or Heavy (the perennial U.S. operator favorite). Following user pre-set preferences, if controls are inactive for set amount of time, the excavator will automatically reduce engine speed—or even shut down. A gauge in the cab shows operators both current and average fuel consumption."
The new excavator will be released in December of 2014. For more details click HERE.
U.S. Citizens OK With Paying More Taxes for Increased Federal Transportation Funding
There is potential good news for construction companies and heavy equipment operators. A recent report released by AAA reveals that 68 percent of Americans want the federal government to invest more in roads, bridges and mass transit systems. Additionally, five percent of respondents said the federal government should invest less, while 24 percent want transportation spending levels to remain the same. The survey results also showed that 52 percent of respondents would pay higher gas taxes per month for better transportation infrastructure, while 41 percent would not be willing to pay more.
The citizen support could lead to future road projects that would translate into more business for construction companies and the need for more heavy equipment operators.
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Catholic education has played a major role in the development of Western nations, yet it is in many places in crisis. To bring about renewal, it is necessary to revisit the subject with an eye to fundamental questions. What is the purpose of education? What is distinctive about Catholic education? What is the right relationship between schools, parents, Church, and society?


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Buffalos 802.11n Balancing Act
Buffalo Technologys draft 802.11n productsthe WZR-G300N Nfiniti Wireless-N Router and Access Point (priced at $149) and the WLI-CB-G300N Nfiniti Wireless-N Notebook Adapter (priced at $119)are the second product family eWEEK Labs has evaluated that is based on Broadcoms Intensi-fi wireless chip set.
Like Linksys Intensi-fi-based products, which we reviewed in April and again for this package, the Nfiniti Wireless-N Routers throughput performance is highly dependent on the placement of antennas.
The Nfiniti Wireless-N Router has three antennas that we could rotate and adjust separately, but, for full range of motion, we had to stand the unit upright using the included base stand. (And we found the units balance tenuous with the power and network cables sticking out.)
Click here to read a review of Netgears WNR854T RangeMax Next Wireless RouterGigabit Edition.
While configuring the Nfiniti Wireless-N Router, we noted that if we logged in incorrectly, the resulting error page provided the user name. Wed prefer that the device not broadcast this information so readily.
One perk the Nfiniti Wireless-N Router offered that we have yet to see from other draft 802.11n products is support for WDS (Wireless Distribution System), which allows users to operate two routers as a wireless bridge.
Click here to read a review of Belkins draft 802.11n products.
With WDS, at least theoretically, users can provide a high-speed wireless path between two wired networks. Although Buffalo has offered this feature in many previous models of its wireless routers, we did not have a second draft 802.11n-enabled Buffalo router to test this capability at high speeds.
More information can be found at www.buffalotech.com.
Technical Analyst Andrew Garcia can be reached at email@example.com.
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Viva! Moda Magazine Runs an Orthodox-Inspired Fashion Editorial
Which is, err, rather unorthodox.
Polish fashion magazine Viva! Moda's spring issue features an editorial called "The Orthodox." In the spread, model Greg Nawrat wears high-fashion interpretations of Orthodox Jewish clothing — tallit katans and yarmulkes alongside skinny jeans, a printed bomber jacket, and some cloud-patterned pants. Nawrat's hair is styled in jaunty peyos; there's even a tefillin wrapped around his perfectly toned model forearm in one shot.
We squinted as hard as possible at the text opener, but could only make out the Polish words for "men's collections" and "aesthetic." Assuming there's a fashion-speak explanation at hand in what we couldn't translate, what could the, well, rather unorthodox pictures be trying to achieve?


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I have already explained this dynamic in a past article, but I feel it's something worth repeating as most investors would gain a lot from understanding it. When I wrote about Joy Global (NYSE:JOY) being punished by coal (NYSEARCA:KOL) producer's travails, I mostly said that one man's capex is another man's revenues. However, there's an even deeper dynamic at work when we are talking about capacity sellers - that is, companies which sell the means for other companies to produce more.
Basically, capex is usually divided into investments that are needed to keep production running at its present levels, and more importantly, investments that are needed to expand capacity - to provide the ability to produce more. Now, the problem that happens here is that when an industry is working below its production capacity, there's little need to invest in additional capacity. So for those sellers whose main line of business is selling equipment that allows for expanded production, such as Joy Global, when this happens, revenues for a given segment can go from a high level down to close to zero in a very short while.
Let us say the coal sector needs to expand capacity in a given year by 50 million tons. Then in the next year, by 100 million tons, and in the third year there's overcapacity and no need to expanded output. This translates into equipment buys able to produce 50 million tons in the first year, 100 million in the second (a 100% growth rate, fantastic), and then suddenly in the third there's almost no need for new equipment except for wear and tear replacement, regular maintenance, etc.
This scenario makes for incredibly cyclical industries, one year being incredibly profitable and the next deep in the doldrums and losing money hand over fist. This is what can happen to Joy Global, and also in part to Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) or Terex (NYSE:TEX). In the semiconductor business, investors are already used to this dynamic for the semiconductor equipment makers, so those companies get awarded low multiples at the top of their cycles. Also, semiconductor equipment gets obsolete fast, which helps with the cycles guaranteeing demand even if the semiconductor market sees a prolonged downturn. Not so with mining/construction equipment. This is thus a further negative for those expecting a quick turnaround for Joy Global.
As a seller of capacity, Joy Global is bound to see a much deeper and protracted correction than mostly anyone expects today. Even if coal recovers a good part of the demand it lost during 2012 due to dispatch switching - as I expect it to, the sector still mostly won't need expanded capacity as compared to 2011. This means orders from the coal sector are both bound to drop a lot and to stay low longer than expected (given coal's impending 2013 recovery).
In Joy Global's recent quarterly earnings, this fast-acting dynamic can already be seen in the plunging orders for mining equipment (-34% year-on-year). The cuts, however, are bound to be deeper.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, but may initiate a short position in JOY over the next 72 hours.


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CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago's mayor has delivered a message to comedian Jon Stewart: don't diss his city's prized pizza.
Stewart denounced Chicago deep-dish pizza on "The Daily Show" this week as "an above-ground marinara swimming pool for rats."
His feigned tirade began during a Wednesday segment about hard feelings over North America's tallest building, a title heading to New York from Chicago.
The diss didn't sit well with pie-loving Chicagoans.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office sent an anchovy-covered "real pizza" to "The Daily Show" with a note that said: "Jon, Deep Dish With Dead Fish. Love, Rahm."
Stewart's staff wasn't impressed. A video clip on the show's Twitter page shows a dog sniffing the pizza before walking away.
An Emanuel spokeswoman noted that the pizzas in question actually were made in New York.
Celine Dion to host CBS' annual adoption special
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- CBS says Celine Dion will host a holiday special spotlighting adoption.
The network says Dion also will perform on the 15th annual "A Home for the Holidays," along with Ne-Yo, Chris Young and others.
The special will introduce families and the children they adopted from foster care. Among them is a Los Angeles couple inspired to act after seeing last year's program, and a young man who lived in 11 foster homes before a Washington woman adopted him.
According to the Department of Health & Human Services, there are about 400,000 children in foster care in the U.S.
Presenters of "A Home for the Holidays with Celine Dion" include the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and the Children's Action Network.
The hour-long special airs 8 p.m. Eastern on Dec. 18.
Playboy bunny art being moved to Dallas museum
DALLAS (AP) -- A 40-foot-high Playboy bunny logo that had upset some residents of the West Texas town of Marfa will be removed from a roadside art display and hauled to a Dallas museum.
The neon bunny that's part of the "Playboy Marfa" sculpture will be dismantled this month and moved to the Dallas Contemporary museum near the city's downtown. The move is the result of a deal with the Texas Department of Transportation.
The bunny will be installed at the museum in March and displayed in April.
Museum officials say it will be part of an exhibition highlighting art by Richard Phillips, who created the neon piece.
The sculpture debuted last summer in Marfa, but Texas transportation officials said it lacked an outdoor billboards permit and ordered Playboy to remove it.
R&B singer Chris Brown released from rehab
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Troubled singer Chris Brown is out of rehab.
Brown's representative Nicole Perna says the 24-year-old singer will continue treatment for anger issues as an outpatient in Los Angeles and "appreciates all of your encouragement and support." He entered rehab voluntarily after his arrest in Washington, D.C., following a fight with a man that led to a misdemeanor assault charge that puts Brown's probation in jeopardy.
Perna says Brown is working on the community service requirement of the plea deal he agreed to after pleading guilty to attacking then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009. Brown faces four years in prison if a judge decides to revoke his probation a second time. A judge briefly revoked it in August after a hit-and-run, and ordered him to perform an additional 1,000 hours of community service.


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Waiting to see if the scouts bring back any other news of significance. If not...
Esteriande directs the party to take up hidden positions on either side of the trail, ensuring all are out of sight. Her tactic is fairly simple, if the ogres chase her, she will ride back down the trail and halt at the end. They can launch a volly of arrows at the ogres as they chase Esteriande, while Muchorak can move from hiding onto the trail behind them to close the trap and bar their escape.
She wants the archers to concentrate on the lead and trailing ogres to help hem them in, and walk their missiles back into the centre. Cutting down as many as possible before they can close to where their ogre-hooks can dish out serious damage is the order of the day.
Meanwhile, Alli will drop some fireballs on the wooden buildings, which should set the cat among the pigeons for the ogres in the keep. While they are panicing about putting out said fires, the party can advance to the waterfall and enter the secret tunnels while Shelalu and the Black Arrows launch a diversionary attack on the north gate. Esteriande does not want them to risk themselves unduly, if they can draw out any ogres to the forest where they can pick them off, great, but the attack is primarily to help get the party inside the walls unnoticed.
Once everyone is in position and understands their role, Esteriande mounts up on Greyfog and rides openly toward the keep. Her sword is sheathed but she carried her bow strung. if nothing happens, she will pull up approximately a hundred yards from the gate.
"Hail ze fort!" She calls out cheerfully, and waits for some sign that she has been heard.
"It 'as come to my attention zat an uncouth and rowdy club* of ogres 'as taken up residence in ze castle of Fort Rannick with much violence and treachery. I 'ave come to inform you zat if you do not surrender, repent of your sins, and leave ze Fort at once great peril will come your way, and your lives will be in grave danger!"
Esteriande pauses, watching the fort closely. Readied action: Turn and ride if they sally forth! Otherwise she has the gloves to deal with projectiles.
Scouting rolls:
Stealth 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (8) + 19 = 27
Stealth 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (1) + 19 = 20
Stealth 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (16) + 19 = 35
Perception 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (3) + 13 = 16 +4 more v traps
Perception 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (4) + 13 = 17 +4 more v traps
Perception 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (17) + 13 = 30 +4 more v traps
Waiting for the ambush:
He finds a nice spot in the woods behind a double-trunked tree. He stands a half dozen arrows in the ground for easy access while shooting. Then he lounges against the tree while he waits for the show to begin.
When Esteriande departs to make her ultimatum, Romon's eyes follow her. Desna grant her luck.
Inikai finds a spot along the side of the road that has generous undergrowth for camoflage and is near enough so that he can sprint back to the road quickly.
Stealth for hiding (not sure if there are bonuses for time spent or if he can take 20)
1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11
Ahhh, ok, I was thinking we were hoping for a bigger battle here on the road. If this is just to be a diversionary tactic, if it's alright, I'd like to Retcon Ali's actions a bit. She'll still cast the long lasting Barkskin on Little Bear, Lunas but she'll save the other spells until later when they're not likely to run out unused. Only difference being she will also cast Barkskin on herself this time. That fly with you Wellard?
|Marak Quan
And so it begins, Marak thinks, with a bemused smile and Esteriande's 'diversion.'
The lore of Nethys allows him to cast forth his spirit, and bind it once more to his Shoanti companion, so that his own life-force will bolster that of the warrior.
shield other on Muchorak
|DM Wellard
Really Ali saw more than anyone else..and the retcon is ok with me..
There is a slight delay and then an ogre appears on the wall..he stares in disbelief at Esteriande sitting there on her horse then shouts something down into the gatehouse.
Another 3 ogres show themselves.. they argue amongst themselves for a minute then three off them vanish below and the fourth picks up a light ballista.
|Esteriande d'Litran
"'Ave you no voices?" Esteriande calls to them, eyeing the ballista. The prospect downs on her that they may shoot Greyfog rather than her, and takes a firm control on the reins with the hand that holds her bow. "If you attack, I shall take zat as a 'no'," she adds cheerfully.
"Zat will not go so well for you."
Not sure if the gloves of arrow snaring will allow a deflect arrows attempt on a shot aimed at Greyfog, or if Combat Expertise will assist Esteriande against missile fire is she isn't in melee, but she will attempt both if they are possible.
|Naria Yamyra
|DM Wellard
|Esteriande d'Litran
Esteriande calmly draws back an arrow and lets fly at the ogre on the walls.
Attack: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (1) + 14 = 15 Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
"Your Mozzer was an 'amster and your father smelled of elderberries!*" she taunts the ogres. Then she wheels Greyfog and rides away from the gates opening the range to 350 feet, not enough that they realise she will outrun them, but enough that they can't quite get her next round with luck...
* it sounds better in Galt.**
** where it is a deadly insult. Really.
|DM Wellard
There she goes. It won't be long now. Romon touches nock to bowstring.
Or "miserable fat Belgian bastards"*
* No offense met to any fine residents of Belgium or their descendants. It's a quote.
As she sees the Wolfkiller fire on Esteriande and its kin begin to chase her Alihawk screeches in anger and drops the two fire balls on the targets she was indicated to.
So basically just flying with free action to drop. Icky, I'll let you roll the damage as I don't know which ones you gave her
As she sees the Wolfkiller fire on Esteriande and its kin begin to chase her Alihawk screeches in anger and drops the two fire balls on the targets she was indicated to.
So basically just flying with free action to drop. Icky, I'll let you roll the damage as I don't know which ones you gave her
Damage for Fireballs (DEATH FROM ABOVE!)
1)6d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 4, 5, 1, 1) = 21
2)6d6 ⇒ (3, 5, 5, 2, 1, 1) = 17
Inikai readies himself for the ogres to arrive.
|Esteriande d'Litran
Esteriande glances back and looses another shaft at the now very distant ogre on the battlements.
Attack: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (8) + 14 = 22 Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
She rides on another fifty feet, sliding her bow away as she does so.
|DM Wellard
|Esteriande d'Litran
|Naria Yamyra
|DM Wellard
The small hawk come in from out off the sun in a perfect bombing run across the forts central coutyard..first the stables then the barrcks are rocked by the concussion off the fire balls and both buildings begin to smoulder slightly
By Raw you only did 5 damage on the stables and 3 on the barracks not enough to 'break' either off them and it's been wet so I dont think they are blazing..but if unattended.
The ogres stop at the 'WHUMMF' off the fireballs and seem to be arguing amongst themselves
|Esteriande d'Litran
Esteriande spins about and looses another arrow at the largest of her pursuers.
Attack: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (17) + 14 = 31 Damage: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9
"Now you fear me!" she taunts them. "Stunted little offspring of true giants, you are not able to catch and stop one leetle elf-woman!"
|DM Wellard
One off the ogres grunts as the arrow hits him.They turn to follow Esteriande but a horn blast from the fort makes them turn and start trotting back towards the gate.
Shalelu nods to Jakandros jerks her head and they and the other Arrows head off at accelerated speed through the trees to cause the diversion.
|Esteriande d'Litran
Esteriande rides back under the cover of the trees.
"Zat was an error, we delivered ze fire too soon. My friends, we 'ad better get to ze caves as soon as we can while zeir attention is on ze ozzers."
"It seems that the ogres are better organized than we thought. There is probably someone more intelligent than they are who directs them. In any cast, I have a few more fire missiles that Ali can drop on their heads."
Romon steps to the edge of the trees lining the road. His eyes are long with disappointment. He had been looking forward to an old fashioned ogre shoot.
"Off to the caves, then?" Without really waiting for an answer, he starts to trot toward the cave entrance.
A second bombing run is a great idea. Terrorist tactics 201. Smack the emergency response teams when they reach the scene of the first bomb.
|Esteriande d'Litran
"Let's get her to do them, now, while we make our entrance to the caves - it should keep them distracted," Esteriande agrees as they begin their trek toward the waterfall, trying to keep out of sight as much as possible from the Fort. Assuming we are leaving our horses in a safe location.
Strealth: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15
|Naria Yamyra
After her bombing run and witnessing the results, Alihawk quickly wings her way back to the others. Flowing to Gnome just before landing she hits the ground trotting along with the others. "Ali drop balls, but they no make fire on buildings yet. Many many many ogers come out to look. Maybe five packs like our new pack, or more!"
When Inikai offers her the next set of fire balls she nods and goes through the same routine, again diving out of the sun, this time dropping the fire weapons on the largest group(s) of milling Ogres.
4d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 6, 4) = 19
4d6 ⇒ (4, 3, 3, 1) = 11
|DM Wellard
Ali delivers her payload ah I love the smell of Naptha in the morning
Over a dozen ogres are hit by the scorching fire and a shower off arrows from the north diverts their attention away from the small hawk. Under cover off the confusion you manage to make your way through the trees to the point closest to the tunnel entrance.
After her bombing run and witnessing the results, Alihawk quickly wings her way back to the others. Flowing to Gnome just before landing she hits the ground trotting along with the others. "Ali drop balls, but they no make fire on buildings yet. Many many many ogers come out to look. Maybe five packs like our new pack, or more!"
"That is a small army of ogres". Inikai is starting to have second thoughts about this.
|Esteriande d'Litran
Romon keeps moving toward the cave. He knows the diversion won't last forever.
Fast stealth and trap spotting.
Stealth 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (2) + 19 = 21
Perception 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (20) + 13 = 33 +4 more against traps
|Marak Quan
After her second bombing run is completed, Alihawk swiftly wings her way over to her companions. For the moment, she remains in winged form, flying above her packmates thus allowing her height to give her an advantage in looking out for any potential threats.
Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (1) + 11 = 12
|DM Wellard
|Esteriande d'Litran
As Alli flies close, Esteriande nods to her and gestures to the waterfall.
"Time to go!" Esteriande tells the others, and leads the dash across the open ground to the waterfall. She skirts the pool as far as she can and then wades through and under the curtain of water.
|Naria Yamyra
Alihawk follows as well, at the last moment changing to wolf form. However it is a form none of the others have seen before.
Instead of the small but compact & powerful gray wolf they had all seen countless times before, landing amongst them on the other side of the waterfall with a heavy splash is a big charcoal gray wolf with glowing red eyes. It is even bigger than Lunas and bulges with amazing musculature. It's shoulder on a level with Romon's own, the four-legged killer is able to almost stare eye to eye with the rogue.
As the massive predator glances around at the various reactions of it's packmates it suddenly flows back into Gnome form. A small impish smile on her face Ali shrugs her shoulders and says simply "Ali bigger now." and as the impish smile flows into a grin, she flows back to dire wolf form, her fierce, gleaming jaws gaping open in the wolf equivalent of a smile.
Confronted face to face, Romon takes a step back from the big Aliwolf, and his hand drops to his best dagger. Then she switches back and forth and he relaxes a little. He wheels his hand back up in a friendly wave to cover the initial reaction. But when he turns his back on her to walk deeper into the caves his back prickles right between his shoulder blades.
Werewolf. Big effing werewolf. I am so glad I didn't get tangled too deep with that. Never have a girlfriend who's stronger and faster than you. Well, much stronger and faster.
|DM Wellard
The floor of this cave is dotted with puddles.
Patches of pale moss and fungus grow in sheets on the wall, while to the north, a five-foot-wide passageway angles up into darkness. A walkway of
soggy planks leads from this opening southeast tothe opening by which you entered curtained by cascades of falling water.
Lunas and Ursus shake themselves dry getting everyone wet again.
A DC 12 acrobatics check from everyone please as this is a very slippery floor.
|Naria Yamyra
Romon skips through the room, avoiding puddles. He's seen small carriages disappear into puddles in the streets of Magnimar. Maybe that's an exaggeration. But he has seen men step into puddles up to their knees.
He examines the walls to see if they are slippery or dry enough to climb.
Acrobatics : Take 10 for a 26? or 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (10) + 16 = 26
Karma, baby.
Ali Acro: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20
Lunas Acro: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21
Not that it matters here, but don't 4 leggers get a +4 bonus or something on trip/falling prone?
Hardly noticing as the soak the others by drying themselves, DireAliwolf and Lunas pad quietly forward along with Romon into the passageway, stepping carefully to avoid slipping.
As they move their senses are primed for any hint of danger.
Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19 +Scent
Lunas Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22 +Scent
Stealth: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (14) + 11 = 25
Lunas Stealth: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12
|Marak Quan
|Esteriande d'Litran
Esteriande moves on careful feet through the paddles toward the tunnel.
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (6) + 13 = 19
Perception: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (14) + 13 = 27
Stealth: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (11) + 11 = 22
"A little light, my friends?" she suggests softly.


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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Get Over It, Says The Left - Obama Won; Sorry - There's A Little More To It Than That...
1. He will oversee the death of the American coal industry. Obama set out to regulate it to death and he is succeeding. So far one-fifth of coal mines have closed because of Obama. The rest will likely fade away by the end of his second term.
2. He won't allow oil drilling on federal land, he won't issue new permits for offshore drilling, but he'll give hundreds of millions of dollars to "green" energy companies, many of which have gone bankrupt (except for their executives of course.) He will also give billions of dollars to OTHER countries like Brazil so they can drill for oil off their own shores.
3. He praises the Muslim Brotherhood, which has called for the destruction of Israel, and gives some of its members access to the White House, the Pentagon, and the CIA. He lavishes praise on Egypt's new president Mohamed Morsi, who has just anointed himself the dictator of that country.
4. He'll never really cut spending in a meaningful way. Therefore, we'll have at least five trillion dollars more debt by the end of his second term, making the dollar less valuable, increasing the costs of food and other products, and passing on a legacy of crushing debt to our children and grandchildren.
5. He and his White House staff, intelligence people, and State Department hacks, sat around and watched while four Americans were murdered in Benghazi, Libya. When these brave souls asked for help, it was denied. Obama and his fellow politicians should be charged with murder.
6. He gave executive privilege to Eric Holder so he doesn't have to testify about the Fast and Furious gun running scandal which resulted in the death of a Border Patrol agent. If there's nothing to hide, why the executive privilege?
7. He has visited numerous Arab countries, bad-mouthing America and bowing to the Saudi king (whose own dictatorship is as bad or worse than either Mubarak's or Qaddafi's regimes.) He has never once visited Israel during his time as president.
8. He insulted the United Kingdom by returning a statue of Winston Churchill that had been a gift from the British people. It is believed by some that this was because Obama's Kenyan grandfather was imprisoned by the British.
9. He provides full Secret Service protection to senior aide Valerie Jarrett, a benefit that has never before been provided to such a low-ranking figure. What is she - the power behind the power?
10. He is the only president in history to spend millions of dollars to hide his college records. Now why would he do that?
11. His parents were Marxists, his grandparents were Marxists, his mentor (Frank Marshal Davis) was a Marxist, he is proud to have hung out with Marxists in college, so why would anyone think that he leaned toward the socialist/Marxist world?
12. He believes that big government is smarter than the individual. All of us peasants are just too stupid to know what to eat, what to drive, or even what to think.
13. Instead of uniting the country, he has divided us more than any president in history.
14. He spent twenty years attending Reverend Jeremiah Wright's church, where the hate-spewing religion of black liberation theology (a Marxist based philosophy) sours the minds of its members, fostering bitterness and hatred.
15. His signature achievement - Obamacare - is the largest tax increase in American history. I didn't call it a tax - the United States Supreme Court called it a tax. That means Obama lied when he said he wouldn't add taxes to the middle class. Obamacare will strike every level of American life. Didn't feel like buying insurance? Sorry, you WILL buy insurance or the IRS will charge you a penalty. Not to mention what this entire program will add to the national debt.
16. Another gift of Obamacare will be the loss of millions of full-time jobs. This has already begun. Employers will change full-time jobs to part-time jobs to avoid the Obamacare mandate. Then employees will be forced to buy their own insurance, which won't be cheap.
17. He will likely succeed in raising taxes on the job creators in America. We already have the highest taxes in the world, so his actions will further suppress growth in America and drive more companies overseas.
18. He and his surrogates will do everything possible to minimize or destroy the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment. As soon as the election ended, his administration called for new efforts to pass the United Nations Arms Control Treaty. He said he will sign it when it comes before him. This agreement calls for registration and confiscation of certain weapons, and it is an end run around the Constitution. By the way, Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein also called for new gun control legislation which would include the banning of many weapons and weapons accessories. She also called for no "grandfathering" which would mean confiscation of banned weapons.
19. By sending Obama back to the White House, you have probably given him the opportunity to fill at least one Supreme Court seat. That one seat will give the liberals/Progressives the majority of the Court. Then they will do what they can to interpret the Constitution far to the left of center, including the Second Amendment. This will all be in Obama's favor - NOT to the benefit of liberty-loving Americans.
I could go on, my left-wing friends and relatives, but you get the idea. Electing Obama for a second term was one of the biggest mistakes in American history. So, no, I will not get over it, but you will not enjoy the ultimate consequences of your very poor decision.
But I guess there is just one piece of positive news about his reelection. Maybe Michelle Obama is proud of her country for the second time in her life.......
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Happy Birthday, America. God has truly showered His grace upon you as a nation. Many people today take delight in attacking America. Many people castigate the U.S. regularly, spewing hate-filled epithets about our nation. The problem is, the leading America-haters are American citizens. We have so much to be thankful for, yet so many of …
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It began when I bought him his first pair of cowboy boots. He looked at them lovingly and wore them with great pride. Even to bed. After he fell asleep, I would quietly go into his room and remove them gently not wanting to awaken him. Michael and I "progressed" from the boots to …
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Remembering Mom and praising God
When Mom gasped suddenly and took her final breath in this life earlier this month, succumbing to the insidious disease of Alzheimer's, we were there with her. My brother Jimmy, sister Kelly, our aunt Kathryn and uncle Reggie (Mom's brother and sister), and I were gathered at her bedside and watched her pass from this …
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Contributing Monkie Sarah Backhouse
Published on January 15, 2008
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Green is about to become MK Olsen cool with the launch of the world's first eco nightclub in NYC. The not-so-imaginatively titled Greenhouse is expected to open this winter at a so-far "secret" location — somewhere in the vicinity of West 21st Street and Tenth Avenue in Manhattan.
The club's launch party earlier this year at Parisian nightclub Le Baron was rumored to be a sexy, sultry and smoke-filled affair hosted by models Jessica Stam and Carmen Kass. Among the revelers were Lily Cole, Rebekah McCabe, Scott Morrison, MK and a shirtless Bruce Willis – yikes.
Greenhouse is being constructed and decorated in an eco-friendly manner, but what can we expect from this "new approach to nightlife"? A vintage dress code? A hybrid-only valet? An organic bar? While details are sketchy, you can expect to dance atop recycled tables under energy efficient disco balls.
I think it'll be interesting to see how the not-so-obvious partnership of green and clubbing will do. Says hybrid driving Charity Water ambassador Stam, "I'm not sure an eco-friendly nightclub is gonna fly, but it's raising awareness. Every little bit helps."
Sure does. And if there's no interest, we can enlist the services of a semi-naked Willis every night to really draw in the crowds.


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Released: Jan 10, 2012.
Genre: Alternative Rock, Folk, Indie, Post-Rock.
Label: Self-released.
Number Of Tracks: 8.
Songs For The Sleepwalkers is a Swedish act whose music is a blend of alternative, folk and post rock moments. This records has got a very nice candle-lit vibe to it, and lyrics and music go very well together. All the performances are very natural, leaving that "human touch" that is really a must in this genre.
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Spanish chef Dani Garcia is putting in hour after hour of work and sacrifice to achieve his dream of conquering the palates of New Yorkers with Manzanilla Spanish Brasserie.
The eatery, which is at 345 Park Avenue South, brings the dishes of Marbella, in southern Spain, nearly 6,000 kilometers (3,728 miles) to diners in Manhattan.
Garcia, who was born in Marbella in 1975, says he welcomes diners to a "very New York" space that has Andalusian roots adapted to the Big Apple.
"It's a lifeline, it's oxygen, it is many things for me professionally and personally, much more important than it might appear," the famous chef of Calima, a Marbella restaurant awarded two Michelin stars, said in an interview with Efe.
Manzanilla Spanish Brasserie is not a tapas bar like the similarly named establishment in Malaga or a haute cuisine restaurant like Calima, the chef said.
"It's a brasserie, a pretty open concept and very New York, very geared to the city," but without forgetting its roots, Garcia said.
The chef and his mother, Isabel Reinaldo, have just teamed up to publish "En la cocina de mi madre" (Ediciones B), a collection of innovative recipes for preparing traditional and new dishes.
"It is inevitable, your way of cooking is unique and even if I open myself up to new ingredients, in the end you are you, and your kitchen has your personality and your flavor, and, if you can, in 80 percent of the cases, it is a reminder of the kitchen in your home, in your land, of what you have lived all your life," the chef, who trained with Martin Berasategui, said.
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hi to all my friends,enemies across the valley
with a heavy heart i am closing my account
when virtual life starts to weld with real life
its time to call it a day.
seems im upsetting far too many people in various places
and as a person this is not what im like as a ''real person''
so im bailing and not coming back...lifes too short
and people in the real world are starting to believe cyber s%*t
and taking things said on here to heart.
and that is not what this forum is about nor do i want it to be.
thanks to one & all for entertaining times,its been fun
Adios Amigo's
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It's just banter. What happened?
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Don't do that coolie. What's PM going to do without you?!
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Come on coolie dont disapear m8
Posted 03 June 2013 - 07:48 PM
Put yer dummy back in ya silly old fart
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Its just PMT he'll be back when dewsbury win......so cpuld be a while
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Coolie just needs a bit of space - life comes before RL every time.
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Kennel ManagerTara Grobner
Tara came to Mountainview with a sincere love of animals and a great work ethic, which makes her a natural as an Assistant Manager in our Pet Lodge.
Tara rescued Maggie (pink collar) shortly after she started with Mountainview, and took her on knowing full well that she had heartworm and a long road of treatment ahead of her. Roscoe welcomed her with open arms, and now they are a very happy family!!
Kennel AssistantBailey Bremner
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Bailey was hand selected to work at VCA Mountainview. She is the perfect mixture of brilliant with a lot of compassion mixed in. Bailey has been working with us since her early high school days, and continues to work on a seasonal basis while she studies to be a veterinarian.
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Nikolos found out he loved working with dogs and cats just by chance. Looking for some summer work, Nikolos applied at a doggy daycare in town, and fell in love. It has been his passion ever since, and it has married well with VCA Mountainview.
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Our guests enjoy his high energy and recognizes the passion he has for their pets. Christopher was promoted to Pet Lodge Manager a short time after being hired because of his obvious commitment and dedication to each pet in his care.
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how do you spell freemason?
What yall know about the new world order?
This video of George W. Bush's voice was edited to state a powerful REAL message to consider:
(If you want facts or help on what this message means I can provide, what he is saying is what is really going on to put basically.)
[Check my 3RD POST for videos and or info]
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how do you spell freemason?
What yall know about the new world order?
bro this is edited you can tell when he is speaking that his tone changes after every few words as if it's a bunch of speaches into one. I bet 99% that it was a speach about the Taliban and just another speach about himself and they just subsitituted the two nouns. it's very easy to edit something like that becuase it's just audio and that picture was funny.
Basically this video is trying to send you a message to what is really going on in the world.
I'll try to give a basic understanding about this video:
George W. Bush is a puppet being controlled by outside influences (banks, people with the money, and dark cults) he makes decisions based on what the "outsiders" want (look up Bilderbergers or Bilderberg) and also he is a freemason, many politicians are.
Bush is trying to help move along plans of "One world government" "one world religion" aka "New World Order" What his father and others speak about.
Even if you may not believe this (there is OVERWHELMING evidence) The attack on the US, (9/11) was staged purposely by our government to go to war in the middle east AND to put fear into the United States population so that they would be more willing to give more power to the government.
This man that we call our president has no regard for human life, and has helped kill people with bad intentions. As of right now he has the power to express that of dictator, the patriot act part 1 and 2 lean very close towards dictatorship.
This subject can go a long way,the lies about oil, global warming lies, and much more. To make it a bit easier I have to give you some google/youtube/other source videos to understand what I mean better. If you are new to this or do not believe it, keep an open mind, for I was naive as you once:
Loose-Change (Talks about 9/11):
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9/11 Blueprint For Truth (Architectural standpoint on 9/11):
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EndGame (Talks about people who have great influence on the world):
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Washington Your Fired (Dense material on The Patriot Act 1 & 2):
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History Of Freemasonary (If you want to know about freemason's):
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In Lies We Trust (1 of 16) (Dr. Leonard Horowitz talks about Aids, Vaccines and more):
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A.I.D.S. Virus Made in a Lab in Fredrick, MD (Self-Explanatory)
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I have tons of material, documents, videos and what not. I'll update this when I get a chance.
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You're right about the AIDS that was created here, just like the anthrax, and various forms of cancer viruses. Vaccines HARBOR cancer viruses that is why cancer is in more people in the US today then ever before. Taking vaccines is basically getting yourself ready for a slow and painful death, you take a vaccine and you poison yourself. I wish more people knew about these things cause Ignorance = Death.
There are many documented beliefs in the origination of AIDS, I.E.
AIDS is quite possibly one of the most horrific developments
this past century. Millions of dollars are being
poured into research and yet a cure still seems all but
completely elusive. Gone are the days of carefree sex 'n'
drugs 'n' rock 'n' roll, as the deadly virus does not seem to
be at all choosy in who it targets.
Shocking as the whole phenomenon would be if this really
was a natural plague, theory has it that the AIDS virus
was in fact artificially manufactured by the U.S. government
to kill African-Americans and this is being taken
very seriously by the black community. Rumors are being
circulated that the disease was developed to kill off the socalled
"useless eaters" of the human race—blacks, homosexuals
and drug users to be more precise. The Minister of
Health for Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, Dr. Abdul
Alim Muhammed, has called for a formal investigation. In
his words:
"We know from the Congressional Report that money
was appropriated for the creation of artificial biological
agents to defeat the human immune system. This took
place in July of 1969. Ten million dollars was allocated to the U.S. army. So . . . let there be hearings to uncover the
Many African-Americans quote this experiment, which
took place at Tuskegee as grounds for skepticism about the
government's intentions. From 1932 to 1972 about four
hundred poor black men were used as guinea pigs as scientists
studied the effects of syphilis left untreated. And
what's more, as Thomas Blocker, Director of Health Professions
at Morehouse College says: "A number of people
have the idea that the re's always the possibility that people
who are disadvantaged may be used as guinea pigs in terms
of medicine."
Can it be proven though?


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Published Saturday, February 1, 2014 3:17PM EST
SIMCOE COUNTY, Ont. -- A fifth case of a deadly and highly contagious pig virus has been confirmed in Ontario.
The provincial agriculture ministry says a pig from a farm in Simcoe County north of Toronto tested positive for porcine epidemic diarrhea on Saturday morning.
It's the third hog to test positive this week in the outbreak, which saw its first confirmed case on Jan. 22.
Ministry spokeswoman Susan Murray says more pigs are expected to test positive for the virus -- which has killed millions of piglets in the U.S.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced this week it will issue permits allowing veterinarians to import a vaccine for the virus as a precautionary measure.
Officials stress that there is no risk to human health or food safety.
A group representing the province's hog farmers has said the virus is spread through contact with manure, which can cling to trucks, trailers and even clothing and boots.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne discussed a cohesive national approach to battling the outbreak with her federal, provincial and territorial counterparts on Thursday.
Wynne said she is committed to helping the Ontario pork industry increase compliance with enhanced biosecurity protocols, and national information sharing to mitigate the impact of the virus.
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(Philadelphia, PA) - Denied strenuous activity as a child, Jim Hendrix more than made up for lost time as an adult -- climbing the sides of mountains, leaping out of planes, surfing the wild waves and cruising the asphalt on two roaring wheels.
Hendrix was born with a defective heart… one that wasn't fixed by surgery until he turned 13. The Ocean City, New Jersey native had "tetralogy of Fallot," a condition consisting of a number of different congenital defects within the heart.
"There was always a constant worry my heart would fail, due to the limited amount of ways to help children born with congenital heart defects back then," said Hendrix. "I'm lucky that I survived long enough for technology to catch up and help me."
And now it has, in many new ways, including the new Philadelphia Adult Congenital Heart Center, which is open and available to patients like Jim Hendrix. The center is the first of its kind in the Mid-Atlantic region -- a joint venture between the University of Pennsylvania Health System and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Gary Webb, MD is one of the world's foremost authorities on adult congenital heart disease and was recruited here to lead the center. "Our center provides patients access to real expertise in the area; it gives these patients what they need," Dr. Webb explained. "The center also has a multidisciplinary team of experts for patients to meet their specific needs. And we can provide patients with better information about their specific problems… information that has been unavailable up to this point. This will allow them to take greater charge of their own health and live longer."
"Thanks to advances in medical and surgical care, children with congenital heart defects are now surviving into adulthood - and thriving," said Thomas L. Spray, MD, chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Cardiac Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "As many as one million adults in the United States are currently living with congenital heart disease. These patients face unique challenges and require highly specialized care to manage their medical and surgical needs."
Jim Hendrix has finally found specialized, multi-disciplinary care at the new Philadelphia Adult Congenital Heart Center. And now that the doors are open -- the push is on to inform other physicians and patients about its existence.
Hendrix adds, "Finally, there's a center that cares and sees you through life for this."
PENN Medicine is a $2.7 billion enterprise dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and high-quality patient care. PENN Medicine consists of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
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