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What kind of wood should I burn?
It does not matter
kind of wood you burn: as long as it is really, truly seasoned. In the case of hardwood, especially oak, it should be seasoned
at least one year! That means
last year's
wood -
this years
wood! If you're wondering about which wood is really the best, or which wood causes the least creosote to build up, the answer is the same!
Properly seasoned wood produces the most heat, and produces the least creosote!
It's not the
of wood you burn that really makes the critical difference, but whether or not the wood is seasoned.
Most firewood that hasn't been split or seasoned for a year isn't worth a darn!
On the other hand, dry, well seasoned wood is just great! Seasoned wood produces a lot of heat,
it burns clean!
If you have trouble starting your fire, or if you have trouble keeping your fire going, you are probably using
this years wood
- which means that it's not seasoned. Unseasoned, or green wood, is extremely frustrating and disappointing. If wood is not properly seasoned it will be hard to light. It will keep going out. It will smolder. It won't put out heat. The moisture content in unseasoned wood does not allow the wood to burn well. It just burns poorly and inefficiently. It is also precisely the moisture in wood which
creosote to build up at an accelerated rate. One fresh-cut cord of oak may contain enough water to nearly fill six, 55 gallon drums. The
moisture content
in the wood determines how much heat the fire puts out,
how much creosote will build up in your chimney.
If you are going spend hundreds of dollars on firewood, it's essential to
that the wood you are buying
Seasoned wood may look darker, or dingy, or gray compared to green wood - but if you split a piece of seasoned wood - it's WHITE on the inside. It may seem brittle. It may seem gnarly - but this is because it is just rough unfinished wood. If it is split in quarters, seasoned wood has cracks running through each piece, and a lot of little cracks on the inner rings at the ends of each piece. Tap the wood with a key or coin. Seasoned wood gives a sharp, resonant sound, like a baseball bat. Unseasoned wood sounds dull.
Standard lumber, available at any lumber store, like 2" x 4" s is unseasoned wood. It looks pretty - but in log form - even when split - it is very troublesome. Unseasoned wood has very few cracks, and it has a fresh looking center because it is actually still damp. Unseasoned wood usually has a whiter, lighter (drier looking) surface near the edges or ends which have been exposed since cutting. When firewood is very fresh, the bark will be tightly attached. Avoid these hassles! When you get cold, you will be miserable if your firewood does not produce the heat you need. Only well seasoned wood produces pleasant, trouble free heat.
Depending upon when it was actually cut down and split, softwoods like fir might be dry enough within one year to burn nicely. But, a year is not enough for hardwoods: especially oak! As far as quality is concerned, madrone is great wood! Madrone is very dense, HARD wood. It burns extremely HOT, and it burns for a long time. Next, come live oak, black oak, eucalyptus, walnut. White oak and tan bark oak come in last*. A mix of good oak AND madrone is your best bet. *
Tannoak, or tan bark oak, is not really oak: it is beech. It is often sold as "tan oak" in quantities by big outlets. To call tannoak "oak" may be false advertising. Tan bark oak burns much cooler than other woods, and it produces a lot of ash. It is usually sold very cheaply for commercial use by outdoor barbecue restaurants. In looking for firewood, I have had large wholesale dealers of tan bark oak ask me "why are you interested in this crap?" White oak can be troublesome wood because it does need to be seasoned for a couple of years.
For inexperienced fire-burner's, fir is probably the most trouble free wood you can buy overall.
But, if you read further down you'll see it's advantages and disadvantages. Eucalyptus can be a little gnarly to handle: but is absolutely great hard firewood. The oak that really burns good, is the very same wood that makes good furniture. If distributors are selling large quantities of wood, it may be because they can't sell it for other useful purposes. Most importantly, stay away from large quantities green wood -- and DON'T be fooled by claims of "seasoned fire wood." Seasoned wood is WHITE inside when it is split. Seasoned wood is comparatively lighter by weight, and so it has a brittle and hollow sound if you scrape an end with your fingernail, or it has the resonant sound of a baseball bat if you tap it with a coin. The darker color, the cracking pieces, and the many little cracks on the inner rings at the ends of each piece, are unmistakable signs of seasoned wood.
DO NOT cover your wood with a tarp .... or you will prohibit evaporation! Use a shed, or buy a prefab wood crib.
What REALLY causes creosote to build up?
Creosote is the condensation of unburned, flammable particulates present in the exhausting flue gas (smoke).
The actual cause of creosote condensation, is the surface temperature of the flue in which the flue gas comes in contact.
Like hot breath on a cold mirror, if the surface temperature of the flue is cool, it will cause the vaporized carbon particles in the flue gas (smoke) to solidify. This condensation is creosote build-up. If the wood you are using is rain logged, or green, the fire will tend to smolder. Wet wood causes the whole system to be cool, and inefficient. But, dry wood means a hot fire! A hot fire means a hot flue, and a hot flue means much less creosote.
Back in the early 1980's, tests were conducted to discover which kind of wood created the most creosote in a regular "open" fireplace. The results were surprising.
Contrary to popular opinion, the hardwood's, like oak and madrone, created MORE creosote than the softwoods, like fir and pine.
The reason for this, is that if the softwoods are dry, they create a hotter, more intense fire. The draft created by the hotter fire moves the air up the chimney faster! Because it is moving faster, the flue gas does not have as much time to condense as creosote inside the chimney. Also, because the flue gas is hotter: it does not cool down to the condensation point as quickly. On the contrary, the dense hardwood's tend to smolder more, so their flue gas temperature is cooler. Thus, more creosote is able to condense on the surface of the flue.
So, saying that "fir builds up more creosote than oak" just isn't true!
It is a misunderstanding to think that it's the pitch in wood which causes creosote. It's not the pitch that is the problem, it's the water IN the pitch. Once the water in the wood has evaporated, that pitch becomes high octane fuel! When dry, softwoods burn extremely hot!
Which kind of wood is better?
That depends on what you want.
If you are a first time fire-burner, or if you only want to burn a couple dozen fires a year: go with a DRY softwood, like fir. Your odds for being happy are higher with fir,
if you are just now buying wood for this year.
The fresh aroma of fir creates a lovely holiday ambiance! Fir seasons quickly, and when it is dry it is truly delightful, trouble free wood! It's easy to get going. It smells great. It's easy to split for kindling. It creates BIG, friendly, luxurious fires! But it definitely requires a good protective screen, or glass-doors because it does crackle and pop. Also, it burns much faster than oak or madrone. You must feed a stove much more frequently to keep it going with fir, and there is no guarantee that there will still be live hot coals in the morning. Because it does crackle, pop, and throw more sparks than hardwoods - it can be annoying to some fire burners. Also, it is important to know that fir and other softwoods go bad after 5 or 6 years. If fir is allowed to age for more than 5 years, the creosote - which is the flammable substances of the wood - evaporates. While fir is great for hot crackling fires in it's the first few years after being cut, if it is allowed to sit for too many years it just goes dead. A deal on fir which seems "to good to be true" - might indicate that the fir is so old that it is no longer really good wood. This can happen with ANY wood that is allowed to age too long. Still, to be safe in the later part of the season: fir is a very good bet. For the serious fire-burner, however, cord for cord the hardwood's are preferable.
Hardwood's, like madrone, live oak, black oak, eucalyptus, and walnut are the definite choice of the serious fire burner. You may pay $350 for a cord of seasoned oak, and only $250 for a cord of fir.
because the oak is more dense, it weighs much more than the fir. You actually get more for your money with hardwood.
In fact, you may get twice, or three times the fire for the money! Because
hardwoods are denser
, they provide more available fuel in the same space. So,
hardwoods burn longer.
If hardwoods are properly seasoned, they do burn very, very hot.
(Look for oak mixed with madrone.)
The fuel available in hardwood enables stoves or inserts to sustain higher temperatures for significantly longer periods. Also, unless the stove is shut down tight, hardwoods may keep a hot live coal bed for days. So as a rule
, airtight stoves, or inserts, perform best with
It is always important to have a good supply of kindling - because hardwood can be difficult to start. Having a quantity of fir on hand is great source of good kindling.
Unless you need to prove that you are a professional fire-starter who knows how to split kindling, etc. There is a very easy way to actually start your fire's with very little effort. Buy a box of small wax/sawdust
"Starter Logs"
- for a whopping $7 bucks. Then, buy a couple of large, cheap plastic bottles of barbecue lighter fluid. You do not even need one full starter log. Just break up the starter log, and strategically place the pieces under a set-up of selected logs, arranged as a 2 stack log cabin.
Douse the starter logs
- and the wood with lighter fluid - and start your fire. The wax starter logs burn long enough to ignite the logs, and the lighter fluid insures that everything gets going. It may sound "scary", but the danger factor is almost non-existent, and the ease factor is HIGH. One's method of starting a fire is sort of like a "Personal Computer". It's a personal thing. If you don't want to hassle with kindling, and taking the time - do it the lazy man's way. My family has used this method for decades - and I have never once even seen a flame catch onto the front step of a stove - or onto a hearth. Do not worry about a little "over-spill". Lighter fluid burns very, very cool. After you learn this method - you will enjoy watching your friend or neighbor demonstrate his fire starting skills -- while you gaze at his rear-end for ten minutes as he demonstrates his fire-starting expertise. This method horrifies people who don't understand it - and that must be respected. If you must use kindling, make a 2 - 3 high stack of kindling laid like a log-cabin over rolled up newspaper. When the kindling is going - add the logs.
NEVER - EVER use gasoline!
Gasoline is explosive and is very, very dangerous.
Do not imagine that the lazy man's "lighter fluid" method might ever be applied by using gasoline. Gasoline should never even be brought into a home.
When buying firewood, remember that first and foremost, it must be properly seasoned. The best way to get seasoned wood is to
buy THIS years wood for NEXT year!
Don't be scared by "green oak." Green oak is the buy
this year
for trouble free use next year. Wood sellers will often tell you that
even though this wood was split this year, it will be just fine
Except in the cases of fir or pine, that is not true.
Look for gray, or darker, brittle wood that has a lot of cracks in the inner rings. Seasoned wood might look gray, or dark or dingy because it has been sitting sitting in the sun, drying, and collecting dust for a while. But, if you split it: it's dry and very WHITE inside! Unseasoned wood has the fresh clean look of new lumber at a building supply store. Unseasoned wood has that same fresh look on the INSIDE when it's split. Though the older, seasoned wood is darker on the outside, it's bone white on the inside - which means thai it really is seasoned.
Remember, when wood gets over 5-6 years old, it does start to deteriorate, so
the best wood is 2-3 years seasoned
. If you find good dry wood of any kind, you will really enjoy your fireplace! But, if you get stuck with green wood you will be one very frustrated wood burner. Most wood for sale is "this years" wood. If you get serious about wood burning, you must always think one full year ahead!
You should always buy this years wood for for NEXT year.
Good buys of seasoned wood do come along, but they are often not advertised, because the serious wood burners already know where to go. If you are a first time wood burner, either buy dry, split fir, or hunt down really dry, cracking hardwood. You won't be sorry if you spend a little more money, just to make sure that you enjoy trouble free firewood.

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This collection shows real-life dramas that were outside the experience of most record consumers of the time: first flights of airships, circus auctions; and minstrel shows, for example. The people depicted were often those from outside the dominant majority, such as German or Irish immigrants, rural folk and African Americans. The public places visited, such as vaudeville houses, were often forbidden or denigrated by religious opinion. It seems these descriptive records brought into the home an outside world that was familiar, yet very distant.
Album Notes
Liner Note Author: Meagan Hennessey.
Recording information: Camden, NJ (03/20/1897-05/31/1923); New York, NY (03/20/1897-05/31/1923); Washington DC (03/20/1897-05/31/1923).
Illustrator: Tim Brooks.
Arranger: Theodore Bendix.


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Saturday, June 20, 1885 Am "dog tired" tonight. Was up at half past five. Got Girards hose and attached it to mine and gave the flower garden a good drenching. After breakfast led the hose into the garden and spent the whole forenoon watering the vegetable garden picking the strawberries besides. After dinner drove my father out. We went to Rondout doing some errands then crossed the South Rondout ferry and went around by Capt. Andersons where I stopped to leave the "buttermilk jug" and home by the Sleightburgh. It was pretty warm and very dusty and a strong South wind blew. We need rain very much these hot winds having dried up the earth. We got home at half past four when I took little Robbie Burns into the wagon and drove down town and got him a new pair of shoes and three pairs of stockings. The poor child seemed to respect himself more at once after getting out of his miserable old shoes and ragged stockings. I believe I could make something out of this boy if I could afford to keep him here. Calvert, Mary and Marion came by the Powell, and were delighted to get here. The letter I sent to Booth at the Albemarle came back today, so he had gone, probably to Newport.


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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
The Hound of Baskervilles
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Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
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The Dying Detective
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The Mazarin Stone
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The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
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The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Shoscombe Old Place
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Series Two
The Sign of Four
The Devil's Foot
Silver Blaze
The Bruce Partington Plans
Wisteria Lodge
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Series One
The Empty House
The Abbey Grange
The Musgrave Ritual
The Second Stain
The Man with the Twisted Lip
The Priory School
The Six Napoleons
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Series Two
The Greek Interpreter
The Resident Patient
The Norwood Builder
The Copper Beeches
The Red-Headed League
The Final Problem
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All Blog Posts Tagged 'Under' - Think Atheist 2016-12-03T19:59:47Z http://www.thinkatheist.com/profiles/blog/feed?tag=Under&xn_auth=no 59 years ago Today "Under God" was ADDED to the US pledge of allegiance. tag:www.thinkatheist.com,2013-06-14:1982180:BlogPost:1327404 2013-06-14T19:52:48.000Z Dan http://www.thinkatheist.com/profile/Dan

The schoolroom staple didn't originally include "under God," even though it was created by an ordained minister

By Jeffrey Owen Jones Smithsonian magazine, November 2003,

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The schoolroom staple didn't originally include "under God," even though it was created by an ordained minister

By Jeffrey Owen Jones Smithsonian magazine, November 2003,

Source: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The_Pledges_Creator.html?c=y&story=fullstory

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I first struggled with "under God" in my fourth-grade class in Westport, Connecticut. It was the spring of 1954, and Congress had voted, after some controversy, to insert the phrase into the Pledge of Allegiance, partly as a cold war rejoinder to "godless" communism. We kept stumbling on the words—it's not easy to unlearn something as ingrained and metrical as the Pledge of Allegiance—while we rehearsed for Flag Day, June 14, when the revision would take effect.

Now, nearly five decades later, "under God" is at the center of a legal wrangle that has stirred passions and landed at the door of the U.S. Supreme Court. The case follows a U.S. appeals court ruling in June 2002 that "under God" turns the pledge into an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion when recited in public schools. Outraged by the ruling, Washington, D.C. lawmakers of both parties recited the pledge on the Capitol steps.

Amid the furor, the judge who wrote the ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court, based in San Francisco, stayed it from being put into effect. In April 2003, after the Ninth Circuit declined to review its decision, the federal government petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn it. (Editor's Note: In June 2004, the Court ruled unanimously to keep "under God" in the Pledge.) At the core of the issue, scholars say, is a debate over the separation of church and state.

I wonder what the man who composed the original pledge 111 years ago would make of the hubbub.

Francis Bellamy was a Baptist minister's son from upstate New York. Educated in public schools, he distinguished himself in oratory at the University of Rochester before following his father to the pulpit, preaching at churches in New York and Boston. But he was restive in the ministry and, in 1891, accepted a job from one of his Boston congregants, Daniel S. Ford, principal owner and editor of the Youth's Companion, a family magazine with half a million subscribers.

Assigned to the magazine's promotions department, the 37-year-old Bellamy set to work arranging a patriotic program for schools around the country to coincide with opening ceremonies for the Columbian Exposition in October 1892, the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World. Bellamy successfully lobbied Congress for a resolution endorsing the school ceremony, and he helped convince President Benjamin Harrison to issue a proclamation declaring a Columbus Day holiday.

A key element of the commemorative program was to be a new salute to the flag for schoolchildren to recite in unison. But as the deadline for writing the salute approached, it remained undone. "You write it," Bellamy recalled his boss saying. "You have a knack at words." In Bellamy's later accounts of the sultry August evening he composed the pledge, he said that he believed all along it should invoke allegiance. The idea was in part a response to the Civil War, a crisis of loyalty still fresh in the national memory. As Bellamy sat down at his desk, the opening words—"I pledge allegiance to my flag"—tumbled onto paper. Then, after two hours of "arduous mental labor," as he described it, he produced a succinct and rhythmic tribute very close to the one we know today: I pledge allegiance to my flag and the Republic for which it stands—one Nation indivisible—with liberty and justice for all. (Bellamy later added the "to" before "the Republic" for better cadence.)

Millions of schoolchildren nationwide took part in the 1892 Columbus Day ceremony, according to the Youth's Companion. Bellamy said he heard the pledge for the first time that day, October 21, when "4,000 high school boys in Boston roared it out together."

But no sooner had the pledge taken root in schools than the fiddling with it began. In 1923, a National Flag Conference, presided over by the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution, ordained that "my flag" should be changed to "the flag of the United States," lest immigrant children be unclear just which flag they were saluting. The following year, the Flag Conference refined the phrase further, adding "of America."

In 1942, the pledge's 50th anniversary, Congress adopted it as part of a national flag code. By then, the salute had already acquired a powerful institutional role, with some state legislatures obligating public school students to recite it each school day. But individuals and groups challenged the laws. Notably, Jehovah's Witnesses maintained that reciting the pledge violated their prohibition against venerating a graven image. In 1943, the Supreme Court ruled in the Witnesses' favor, undergirding the free-speech principle that no schoolchild should be compelled to recite the pledge.

A decade later, following a lobbying campaign by the Knights of Columbus—a Catholic fraternal organization—and others, Congress approved the addition of the words "under God" within the phrase "one nation indivisible." On June 14, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the bill into law.

The bill's sponsors, anticipating that the reference to God would be challenged as a breach of the Constitutionally mandated separation of church and state, had argued that the new language wasn't really religious. "A distinction must be made between the existence of a religion as an institution and a belief in the sovereignty of God," they wrote. "The phrase 'under God' recognizes only the guidance of God in our national affairs." The disclaimer did not deter a succession of litigants in several state courts from contesting the new wording over the years, but complainants never got very far—until last year's ruling by the Ninth Circuit.

The case originated when Michael Newdow, an atheist, claimed that his daughter (a minor whose name has not been released) was harmed by reciting the pledge at her public school in Elk Grove, California. If she refused to join in because of the "under God" phrase, the suit argued, she was liable to be branded an outsider and thereby harmed. The appellate court agreed. Complicating the picture, the girl's mother, who has custody of the child, has said she does not oppose her daughter's reciting the pledge; the youngster does so every school day along with her classmates, according to the superintendent of the school district where the child is enrolled.

Proponents of the idea that the pledge's mention of God reflects historical tradition and not religious doctrine include Supreme Court justices past and present. "They see that kind of language—'under God' and 'in God we trust'—with no special religious significance," says political scientist Gary Jacobsohn, who teaches Constitutional law at WilliamsCollege.

Atheists are not the only ones to take issue with that line of thought. Advocates of religious tolerance point out that the reference to a single deity might not sit well with followers of some established religions. After all, Buddhists don't conceive of God as a single discrete entity, Zoroastrians believe in two deities and Hindus believe in many. Both the Ninth Circuit ruling and a number of Supreme Court decisions acknowledge this. But Jacobsohn predicts that a majority of the justices will hold that government may support religion in general as long as public policy does not pursue an obviously sectarian, specific religious purpose.

Bellamy, who went on to become an advertising executive, wrote extensively about the pledge in later years. I haven't found any evidence in the historical record—including Bellamy's papers at the University of Rochester—to indicate whether he ever considered adding a divine reference to the pledge. So we can't know where he would stand in today's dispute. But it's ironic that the debate centers on a reference to God that an ordained minister left out. And we can be sure that Bellamy, if he was like most writers, would have balked at anyone tinkering with his prose.

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 I Pledge Allegiance... tag:www.thinkatheist.com,2010-03-31:1982180:BlogPost:248986 2010-03-31T01:11:24.000Z Jake W. Andrews http://www.thinkatheist.com/profile/JakeWAndrews
I caught this on NPR today.

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Not only did I learn a new term, "Hapax Legomenon" (which means a word or phrase used only once in a written record or language) but about how the pledge of allegiance was meant as, according to the 9th circuit court of appeals, a

"Proud…

I caught this on NPR today.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125316062

Not only did I learn a new term, "Hapax Legomenon" (which means a word or phrase used only once in a written record or language) but about how the pledge of allegiance was meant as, according to the 9th circuit court of appeals, a

"Proud recitation of the ideals on which our country was founded"

But as Geoff Nunberg points out, "What makes the pledge important isn't the meaning of the words, it is the way we have managed to keep them from meaning much of anything at all." Even though the phrase, "Under God" was not originally put into the pledge until the 1950's as a way to combat "Russian atheistic communism". So as the court of appeals states, this is what our country was founded on, are we then kicked to the curb by Americans again? And what is the purpose of the pledge of allegiance if the words are meaningless and are filled with Hapaxes?

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 The Pledge and Our Money tag:www.thinkatheist.com,2009-08-27:1982180:BlogPost:134336 2009-08-27T16:00:58.000Z Corey Lord http://www.thinkatheist.com/profile/CoreyLord I just got done answering a poll about whether the US should omit "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, and naturally I said that it should be omitted. To me it isn't just the fact that I don't believe and God or religious figure has a place in the US government but the fact that the general population feels that the current pledge is the original. After proving to the many other people that answered this poll that "Under God" was in fact added in 1954 and showing them what the original… I just got done answering a poll about whether the US should omit "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, and naturally I said that it should be omitted. To me it isn't just the fact that I don't believe and God or religious figure has a place in the US government but the fact that the general population feels that the current pledge is the original. After proving to the many other people that answered this poll that "Under God" was in fact added in 1954 and showing them what the original pledge was, there still was no budge in their stance. I asked questions like "What about getting in touch with the heritage of the Pledge?" and "What is so bad about the original version?" but to no avail.

 The religious people in this country still feel its better to have God in everything because of how important God is to this country (at least that's the opinion I hear most). Well I decided to delve into the constitutional issue of the legislation of such phrases as "Under God" and "In God We Trust". I figured since the pledge of allegiance and what is put on our money is legislated and endorsement of religion would have to be taken up by the Supreme Court. And low-and-behold it has. The case is Lynch v Donnelly and was brought before the Court in 1984. The case is directly related to the use of religious symbols during holidays but Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., in his dissenting opinion, offered his explanation as to why some religious reference is allowed to be legislated. Here is his quote:

 ...I would suggest that such practices as the designation of "In God We Trust" as our national motto, or the references to God contained in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag can best be understood, in Dean Rostow's apt phrase, as a form a "ceremonial deism," protected from Establishment Clause scrutiny chiefly because they have lost through rote repetition any significant religious content.

 What struck me was the fact that the Justice seemed to be minimize the meaning of God when used in such practices such as placing "In God We Trust" on our currency and "Under God" in our Pledge of Allegiance. Based on the arguments that most religious supporters of those phrases, they tend to feel the use shows a reverence to their Almighty. In reality the US government stance is that God has no religious meaning and is more a tradition that shouldn't be broken.

 If this is the stance of the US government then if I were to a believer then I would want them to take the phrases aways instead of fighting to keep them in law. Since there is a diminished recognition of a higher power to the point of lacking any religious content then I would ask the government to not mock my God.


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|Monday, Sept. 23rd Daily Discussion
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|Sep 23 2013, 05:45 PM Post #81
Tough love is one thing. Power plays that blow up in your face are another. If I was a mom fighting with my kid, and he stormed out of the house, threatening never to return, I would still prefer he crashed at a relative's house instead of sleeping on the street. Because that way I'd know where he was, and that someone who cared could at least let me know the sitrep with him. All it takes is one night on the streets for a kid to run into a situation that could be the death of him--a drug overdose, a robbery, a shooting, a stabbing, a case of hypothermia if the temperatures drop too low. I'm surprised no one's directed JJ to a shelter or a youth hostel--that would do in a pinch, and at least he'd sleep warm--or are we to believe that Salem has no homeless and no runaways? I think it's stupid and short-sighted for Jennifer to demand that no one in JJ's family take him in. If anything, she's driving him even further away with those tactics. I could almost not blame him for breaking in to a place he knows won't be occupied for the night. And I hope Jen-Jen doesn't sleep a wink for worrying--that is, if she's capable of worrying about anyone except Daniel.
|Sep 23 2013, 05:50 PM Post #82
|Sep 23 2013, 06:05 PM Post #83
Today's show, hmmm....
Wish today had been a new day in Salem. The clothing is really getting to me.
I don't really care about Jeanie. It still bothers me that she should be so much older. Why is she about 20 when Brady is in his freakin' forties? Speaking of that, it bothers me that Brady is somehow Jennifer's peer. And Kristen just disgusts me. The way she hangs on Brady and goes around harassing everyone. Not too obvious you have something to hide, Kristen :blulaugh: She's becoming an idiot villain.
Ha, I knew there would be some contrivance forcing Eric to use Marlena to hypnotize him. Too funny. Again, so annoying that Eric's flashbacks aren't from his POV. Marlena's asking him who is the woman, and they show a flashback of Eric screwing Kristen and you can see her face perfectly. But he can't see it. :shame:
I enjoyed Victor. The way he ignored Kristen's babbling. I hope he picks up on her paranoia and realizes she has to be hiding something. Can't wait till she is found out. What she did is truly despicable, and the way she's going around acting like a teenager is ridiculous.
Oh, and Brady is a dick.
|Sep 23 2013, 06:11 PM Post #84
|Did anyone else wonder how Kristen knew about Victor's time with Nicole? She wasn't around then :shrug:
|Sep 23 2013, 06:16 PM Post #85
It seemed strange to me that Daniel left his apartment to go on a road trip and there he is in Salem Square or whatever they call it.
|Sep 23 2013, 06:17 PM Post #86
|I'm trying to figure out how Kristen knew Nicole was lying because it was a pretty gosh darn accurate (and appropriate) lie that she told about Maggie.
|Sep 23 2013, 06:17 PM Post #87
No, Eric is too old. Her trueloveforever is Johnny.
|Sep 23 2013, 06:19 PM Post #88
She will most likely not sleep a wink worrying about him while he's out having a blast trashing Dan's apartment. All the more reasons for nobody in the family to take him in, he's just looking for trouble. If JJ's going to be fixed in any way, he will have to start by taking responsibility for his actions. I still say his mother's personal life has nothing to do with it, doesn't matter who she's seeing. It's not like she's got some guy living at her house . JJ has a home to go to but he prefers the streets to following rules. Lets see how that's going to work out for him.
|Sep 23 2013, 06:21 PM Post #89
You said it! I don't expect my kids to be perfect when they're teens, but just turning them out onto the streets? I wouldn't be able to sleep! And WTF is wrong with JJ staying at a relatives home until he cools off? Jennifer really has been an awful mother to that kid.
|Sep 23 2013, 06:22 PM Post #90
Wait, I'm confused. Really confused. I thought Kristen was wearing a dark short wig when Eric saw her in the lobby at the check in counter. Then in the hotel room she took off the wig and raped him without the wig on, her hair long and blond like usual? Help!
|Sep 23 2013, 06:25 PM Post #91
Would JJ be doing it if he could go anywhere else? He tried to stay at the mansion and Justin shut him down. He overheard Daniel and boom, plan made. Yeah, he's a troublemaker. But Jen's only giving MORE opportunity to make bad decisions and none to make better ones.
|Sep 23 2013, 06:26 PM Post #92
She did. The OP is wondering how Kristen's long, curly locks translate to Nicole's hair at the time of the rape.
|Sep 23 2013, 06:31 PM Post #93
Ok, thanks. I thought she said Eric sees a woman with short hair in his flashbacks: why not review when Eric was in that hotel & blacked out, and when Nicole got her hair cut short like the woman he sees in those flashbacks
|Sep 23 2013, 06:32 PM Post #94
You know when you turn your kid out on the streets? When you have done everything you can and they still continue to self destruct and you can no longer enable it in good conscience.
But the first rule of turning your kid out is being willing to accept they could die and very likely will on the streets. No sane therapist would ever say a kid will straighten out on the streets. They will die or go to jail.
Jennifer hasn't offered rehab or therapy or an alternative living situation. She's just given him a likely death sentence or forced him into crime or prostitution.
|Sep 23 2013, 06:44 PM Post #95
Probably a plot point so Nicole will figure out that JJ & his friends
are partying at Dr. Dan's house
|Sep 23 2013, 06:47 PM Post #96
Back in the day when Jen was a teen didn't they do a story about runaways?
Didn't the Horton's fundd a center for troubled teens? I think Kristen
was a volunteer there
|Sep 23 2013, 06:48 PM Post #97
OP went onto comment how they just blew the contrived plot out of the water, because the hair wasn't the same. Haha.
|Sep 23 2013, 06:48 PM Post #98
Yes. I really wish this would get remembered. Ah, the days when University Hospital had multiple wings... and floors... and a balcony... and a roof...
|Sep 23 2013, 06:50 PM Post #99
I agree. She should have asked Grandma Caroline to take him in. Make him work at the pub. Maybe show him some love and caring instead of kicking him out to fend for himself. He needs to take responsibility for his actions.
|Sep 23 2013, 06:51 PM Post #100
I enjoyed seeing a nearly empty martini glass in front of Nicole today. Alcohol is pretty much the only friend she has left in Salem given how much an asshat Brady has been to her lately. For a moment, I thought Nicole was going to hook up with that hot waiter at the club. She could use some good sex and he would certainly give it his best shot.
I honestly do not know how that club stays open if it is that empty during the evening\night. Maybe Chad and Sonny need a tax write-off? If nothing else, maybe Nicole will start spending more time there as I cling to my pipe dream of Nicole and Sonny becoming besties.
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Why engagement matters in an era of customer experience
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I am going to attempt this. What is it? Well, it's lots of different things. It's sort of an Artist Convention. It's sort of an Art workshop weekend. It's sort of an illustration & graphic art expo. It's kind of a gathering of weirdos with drawing skills. I'm pretty excited. I have hopes. That's sort of a big deal for me. Having hopes. As the Wonder Woman painting post below proves, many times things just don't work out right for me. It's cool. I've come to expect that. I'm pretty hard to disappoint. I just hope I find some answers. Get some leads. Gather a better understanding.
There are workshops with titles like: Getting Started in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Artist as Brand, & Women & the Fantastic Arts. There are one on one talks with artists like Mike Mignola & Brom. There is even a life drawing session late at night atop the Aladdin sponsored by TAD. Oh, and portfolio reviews. I don't even have a portfolio right now. How sad is that?
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I sure hope I find it here. Or at least an arrow pointing to a path that might lead me to a direction. I've never felt more lost in my life than I have these last few years. I was always absolutely certain I was an artist & that I would make my living doing art. Lately, though, I've wondered if I didn't make some horrible mistake. I have moments where the universe seems to be reassuring me, but sometimes I wonder. I have to find a direction soon. A path. A goal. I have to.
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Tara Reid has made a transformation. The actress showed up to the "American Reunion" Los Angeles premiere yesterday looking stunning and goddess-like in a long white dress. She accessorized with simple diamond jewelry and slicked back hair.
Several years ago Tara had botched plastic surgery that resulted in a stomach deformity, and for years online bloggers have criticized her appearance. She also battled an alcohol problem and spent time in rehab. But look at her now! It looks like she's back on track (take note, Lindsay Lohan.)
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RIP Wille Mitchell Andrew and Ian at Royal Studios in Memphis
Took a while to get this done and posted, a memorial slideshow for Willie Mitchell, father of Memphis funky soul music. The slideshow depicts co-producer Ian Berzon and me, Andrew Thomson, exploring and trying out the facilities at Royal Studio in Memphis, musical home of everyone from Al Greene to the Rolling Stones. We were planning a recording project with Willie and his sons Boo and Archie Mitchell, but sadly due to Willie's untimely death last year he could not work on it with us.
We treasure our time with him, during which he was tremendously hospitable, inspiring and kind to two strange kids from California. The soundtrack to this slideshow is "The Great Pacific Northwest Forest" a Memphis soul inspired song that he liked, though he said "We've got to get you a better guitar!" as you will see. Note that they are still making great records
Farewell Les Paul
Farewell to the man credited with inventing the electric guitar and multi tracking.
One thing's for sure, he invented his own style of music and no one has ever duplicated it.
Congratulations USA!
This is a very unusual entry for me.
I was initially very cynical about the choices presented to voters in this election, but as the day drew closer I saw one campaign doing something I had never seen before in American politics: talking to us like adults. They made it clear from the slogans to the volunteer and internet organizing efforts that the people are the true source of power and change.
Whatever the reasons we all have reason to celebrate today. The people are just a little bit more sophisticated, more mature and smarter than many of us believed, and perhaps we are moving towards being just a little bit less racist, though there is plenty of distance to go.
And unlike the previous administration, who isolated themselves from the voices of the people, the new incoming one is asking us from the beginning to share our visions for a new America.
The link to send in your ideas and dreams for change is here.
Please consider writing in your thoughts to the new administration, your hopes and dreams to our new President elect. In whatever areas you agree or disagree with his stated policies so far, please let him know. This new team is asking for our input and we must give it. It is not the president who determines the nature of our society, it is the people and we must always provide the public pressure that politicians need to support them in finding the courage to do what is right.
here is the letter I just wrote to our incoming President Barack Obama
My vision for this country has been greatly uplifted by the awesome power of the grassroots movement led by the youth of America to finally bring to the White House a statesman, a scholar, a civil rights attorney, a community organizer and a president who put the people first in his campaign for the first time in our history. To me this is just as historic as the long overdue breaking of the glass ceiling in Washington politics for African Americans, also a very moving moment. This historic moment is moving all Americans, even on the right to embrace our new beloved President... (I weep with joy as I write these words without irony for the first time in my life) and there has never been a more opportune moment to enact our greatest and most democratic aspirations. The time is now for a green new deal and our new president elect has promised this. It should be done with the fearless ambition of FDR and no delay can be countenanced. This is the will of the vast majority of the people of the United States and the world. The time is now to declare a new peace agenda for the United States and our President elect has done that. But we must apply the same logic to all corners of the world, not just to the unpopular wars. We cannot achieve peace by trading one war for another. The universal health care agenda must move forward and I hope and trust that the people will push for an even more bold approach than the admirable and progressive one proposed by the new incoming administration. Health care is a right, and our country will be so much stronger when our people are healthier and stronger. One of the most grave crimes of the previous administration was the violation of the constitutional rights and fundamental human rights of people at home and abroad, what ultimately must be judged as the trampling of the dignity and rights of all people, as we were asked to silently endorse kidnapping, murder, and the most extreme and outrageous forms of torture seen in modern times. This new vision of America must stand as a beacon against torture and for human and civil rights. The first step must be the restoration of our own constitution, because our bill of rights is the core of our value as a nation claiming a special destiny in the world. Ultimately this vision for a new America must include returning the power to the people, and giving up much of the new executive power seized illegally and immorally by the previous administration. I believe most of us will be sympathetic if this is the final priority of this new administration rather than the first priority, but this too cannot be forgotten. As vital as it is for our new President to make bold and fearless fundamental change in our system and national policy, in the end he must also surrender back some of the power of the executive branch seized by his predecessor. This final step will be difficult, but we must become the change we wish to see in the world, and the fragile flower of democracy must be watered by the hundreds of millions of raindrops of re-empowered citizens if it is to grow. America and the world rejoices in this moment. This is not the time to become timid. It is inspiring to see the calm, measured rational approach to governing take hold, and we all hope and pray it will be matched by a bold realization of the dreams that lit our way to this victory. Dreams of a more open, more peaceful, more ecologically intelligent, more healthy, more efficient, more fair and more just United States of America
Victor Indrizzo with Macy Gray live
For those who don't have the dvd Macy Gray live in Vegas, you should all run out and buy it right now, and this video sample from you tube shows why. It's a wonderful and passionate shnow with a great band including our very own Victor Indrizzo on drums as he is on most of her albums. One interesting point of note is that as well as drumming with Macy Gray for many years, Victor also wrote and co wrote many of her songs. Check your liner notes for more details, but htis guy is an amazing all around musician and songwriter and we are lucky to have him playing on an album's worth of songs in the new INternational Superband assembled to record the Hello Andrew greatest unreleased hits record album series.
Tabla Maestro Tanmoy Bose interviews Pete Lockett
Here's a joyous thing: a half hour of enlightening interview from Indian TV of the amazing Pete Lockett and Tanmoy Bose. Sit back and enjoy or click through to watch it full screen. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4486200216434027462&hl=en-GB
Why this is the greatest band in the world.
As further proof that I am working with one of the greatest bands ever assembled, here is an educational and funny video about the making of the Steely Dan track "Peg" from their acclaimed pinnacle album "Aja", infamous in the world of studio musicians for the extreme attention to detail and perfectionism that led to many top players being brought in to try the same parts and few of their performances making it onto the record. In this environment, (listen for a funny moment as Becker and Fagen estimate how many guitar players they tried out for the solo, "3,4,5,6,8...") In this environment, one musician dared to disobey the Dan and play a little slap bass, and yet the part is still on the record and now the studio songsmiths seem to love it. Has anyone else done this? I doubt it. It could only be my new bass player, the most recorded and influential bass player in history the legendary Chuck Rainey. http://youtube.com/watch?v=CH0JpBzi68E
New Addition
The latest addition to the Superband is Dweezil Zappa, on a short break from his second Zappa Plays Zappa tour, playing exciting new versions of Frank Zappa songs to thrilled audiences. Here he is on a Youtube posted video playing Dirty Love with former Frank Zappa guitarists Steve Vai and Mike Keneally. Guitar solo lovers rejoice! this embedded video is actually posted on Youtube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=r2o_RLAWy_I
Miike Garson video with Bowie
Hello! Here's another great video of a member of my International Super Band, Mike Garson, on piano, performing with his long time collaborator, David Bowie. Even if this is not one of your favorite Bowie songs (maybe you should listen harder) don't miss the beautiful solo meditation by Mike at the halfway point. Enjoy!
Elliott Randall Video
Hello Everybody! Your video for today is an amazing performance by the legendary Elliott Randall, (Steely Dan {Reelin' in the Years etc.}, Doobie Brothers, Blues Brothers) who recently joined the roster for the International Super Band. A spectacular and continuously inventive guitar player and a wonderful brilliant human being. Here he is in concert with some other famous and great players, as listed on Youtube: Elliott Randall and Friends recorded LIVE! Featuring Darrell Nutt on drums, Cliff Williams (AC/DC) on bass, Danny Shepard on guitar, Steve McDougal on keys, and Paul Fleisher on sax. Enjoy and rock out! http://youtube.com/watch?v=N9-ZlCpL17E