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Precious Sophia,
For so long I've felt as if I've been in a storm. When you died it was a hurricane—merciless, intense, and completely devastating.
Then as months passed the hurricane lessened in it's intensity and it became a heavy thunderstorm. The rain was constant and every so often the lightning would strike or thunder would roll and I'd be hit with another bad day.
In the last few months I'd say that the storm has passed, but the rain hasn't stopped pouring. The darkness of the rain clouds hasn't lifted completely, and I'm still left here soaking wet and shaking.
The rain remains in the fact that I still miss you. It remains in the fact that I still have no child to call my own. It remains in the fact that Champ has gone through trial after trial after trial with little to no rest in between.
I read once "if it never rained, then how could we ever grow?" Well, I feel like I've been flooded for over a year.
Today it hit me just how tired I am of all this rain. I'm ready for the sun to shine.
In this storm Christ has been my umbrella. He has protected me from the worst of the downpour, but that doesn't mean that there's still not a deluge around me.
It's so hard to not get mad at God in times like these. I know that He is in control of everything, so why can't He just take away the rain? Why can't He allow the sun to shine, even if it's just for a short season? How does it make sense for us to go through all this pain? Each day that I go another night without sleep, or see Champ suffer through another medical problem I think, "Where is the sun? Why is the Lord hiding it from me?"
Sophia, I know the answer to all these questions. I know it's to wait on Him and trust Him. But sometimes when it seems like your prayers are going unheard and you've been forgotten in the midst of the squall it's hard to do those two things. Wait and trust.
So, here I stand—under my little rain cloud, hands clutching tight to my Savior umbrella, praying for the rain to stop.
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first, we have a function: with variables of , (m=1,2,...,M)
we know that the , can be considered as constants.
Now, based on we have a function of that to the maximize the minimum of , by optimally allocating the as
where ,
Actually, we can alternatively express the above function of z as
where the now becomes a variable which is the sum of the (m=1,2,...,M).
then, we want to prove is continuous to x and the function f(') returns the maiximized minimum value of with an input variable of .
for the z=f(x), I have prove it is a strictly monotonically increasing function to x, but I failed to prove the continuity of it.
We have a fixed set of constants (the s) and a function by a function (I understand the function itself). Clearly the order of the tuple is very relevant since for example .
Now here is where I get lost. So you would agree that the above implies that we could maximize our function based on the order of our xs. But, this maximization depends on the fixed s and so really it seems that where where are the values which maximize the function for the values of alpha and beta specified.
So, how can we fix the alpha and betas? Is this function even well defined?
actually, in the function of , the are predetermined in my model regardness of the or we can say are independent to the .
please have a look of my proof for the monotonicity of the funtion, then may be you can know about the problem.
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Foxman Slams Israel on His Way Out the DoorWednesday, June 17th, 2015
Abraham Foxman, perhaps the best known, certainly the best funded, of the American Jewish establishment "leadership," let the veil slip as he began his long-awaited exit from his throne as the national director of the Anti-Defamation League.
It happened at an event at the 92nd Street Y (when formed in 1874 it was known as the Young Men's Hebrew Association, it's no longer just for men or exclusively for Jews) on June 10. The program, entitled "What's Next for Israel? Ari Shavit in conversation with Peter Beinart, Abe Foxman and Dan Senor," received little attention until the virulently anti-Israel website Mondoweiss reported on it the following day, which was noted by JPUpdates.
The Mondoweiss article had the catchy title: "Foxman Bashes Israel for taking US and Jewish support for granted and not coming up with a peace plan."
Although it is impossible to know what exactly Foxman said, and how much was taken out of context in order to have Foxman appear to be in complete alignment with the views of the Mondoweiss crowd, the direct quotes are alarming no matter what the context. This appears as a direct quote:
I think we have signed up for Israel. Some—some unreservedly, others with some more reservations. I don't think Israel understands, appreciates, values, respects this partner– this side of the partner[ship]… There needs to be a lot more sensitivity and education in Israel as to the value of this community beside sending checks or in a moment of crisis, running to Congress…
Foxman appears to believe that Israelis are insufficiently grateful for American Jewish dollars and to American Jewish fat cats.
Perhaps in his retirement, Foxman might develop a curriculum for Israelis on the art of ring-kissing, or a class on American Jewish Leadership Veneration.
Why, the nerve of those folks over in Israel, living the easy life, probably sitting out on their deck chairs, popping bon-bons and watching their fingernails grow. And then they have the nerve to start whining when a rocket or two or three hundred interrupts their sunbathing. Foxman shouldn't bet on lots of Israelis signing up for his classes, though. Too busy dodging vehicular terrorists and whatnot.
The 75 year-old Foxman then explained to the Upper East Side crowd that he sees there is an existential threat to Israel, but he wonders whether the Israelis do. For if they did, surely they would make many changes and be…why, more like Foxman! You know, someone with the shrewdness to recognize that what Israel really needs is a dynamic new approach for peace. Because American Jewish support for Israel, according to Foxman, is atrophying without it.
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Do we feel an existential threat to Israel? I do. I sometimes wonder why they don't see it as I see it and as Ari [Shavit] articulated it. But I think we see the existentialist threat much clearer than they do. They're so close to it.
Because if they would see it, they would change so many things. Take the U.S. relationship. It's not that great, it's not perfect, but what keeps me up at night is the dependence of Israel on the United States. Now if you understand that reality, then you understand how serious and significant it is in your future, facing whatever threats, existential or not. And if that's the case, where is the sechel [Yiddish for shrewdness, sense]? Where is the smartness? Where is it to understand that you need to change that relationship, you need to find ways– and it's not happening! It's not happening!
So I sometimes say, What they say and what they do–don't they see what's around them? And they talk about the danger but I don't think they're acting it. If we have time, what do we tell Israel to do? Some of us see the crisis. But we don't have any magic formula. But … if they asked me, I would say, Come up with some creative dynamic approach for peace. It doesn't mean it will happen. But that's part of the existential disintegration of the support base.
The main attraction at the event was Ari Shavit, a journalist for the blindly leftist Haaretz, who was, as always, calling for a "settlement freeze." Mondoweiss quoted Foxman's response to that call as "it's smart for us to do it, regardless of whether we think it's right or wrong."Lori Lowenthal Marcus


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Newnan Community Theatre presents Simon farce 'Rumors'
By Joan Doggrell
Neil Simon's "Rumors" opened yesterday at the Newnan Community Theatre.
"Everyone loves Neil Simon," said Paul Conroy, Artistic Director for NCTC. "He's one of the top three best known American playwrights, the other two being Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. He's like an old friend you haven't seen in awhile, but when you meet again you know exactly where you left off and what you're getting into."
Perhaps the most recognized Neil Simon title is "The Odd Couple," first a 1965 Broadway play, then a successful film and television series followed by several spin offs. Simon also wrote the movie scripts for "Biloxi Blues," "The Goodbye Girl," "Murder by Death" and "The Out-of-Towners,." among others. Simon is credited with 38 plays. The most recent, "Rose's Dilemma," opened in 2003. He has won more Academy and Tony nominations than any other writer, and is the only playwright to have had four Broadway productions running simultaneously.
Simon's "Rumors" is a farce, pure and simple. Don't look for a serious theme, complex characters, or even a plausible plot. Expect unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguises and mistaken identity, verbal humor, physical humor and downright nonsense. Plus a lot of fun.
Paul Conroy describes "Rumors" as Simon's most "screwballesque" comedy. In screwball comedies, the upper class is sometimes brought down a peg or two. In "Rumors," the setting is a posh residence in New York City. The deputy mayor has shot himself in the ear. The characters arriving at his anniversary party make fools of themselves trying to conceal this embarrassing fact for fear that the hoi polloi who read newspapers might find out that their "betters" have feet of clay.
"It's a modern spin on those classic British and French farces, those fast-paced shows that clip along," Conroy explained. "This is Neil Simon's ode to that type of comedy. It moves so fast that people are going to say they didn't know the play was two hours long."
"Rumors" is a lot different from 'The Odd Couple,'" said Susan Patterson, who plays a leading role in "Rumors." "'The Odd Couple' was very much a character study, showing how Felix Unger and Oscar Madison were like oil and water. 'Rumors' is simply ridiculous. Really implausible things happen. There's a lot of confusion and chaos, slamming of doors, someone going out one door and someone else coming in another. The characters are telling lies and half-truths and trying to keep their stories straight."
"It's an unusual play in that two of the main characters aren't actually in the show: the deputy mayor and his wife," said Robbie Kirkland, assistant director for "Rumors."
"We had to devise ways to make sure that the person who is going to come through that door knows exactly when somebody else goes through another door.
We've come up with tricks and methods to signal each other because this person isn't supposed to know about that person. They can't be on stage accidentally at the same time," Patterson explained.
Mandy Mitchell, the "Rumors" director, keeps telling the cast, "If it's not fast, it's not funny."
NCTC is staging "Rumors" at 24 First Ave., Newnan. The show opens May 12 at 8 p.m. Subsequent performances are on May, 13, 14, 19, 20, and 21 at 8 p.m., and on Sundays May 15 and 22 at 2:30 p.m.
For more information phone 770-683-6282 or visit www.newnantheatre.org


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Apple's next iPhone could determine wanted vs. unwanted background noise
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By pulling an iPhone away from a user's ear, ambient background noise could go from suppressed to amplified, based on a new concept from Apple.
The idea for a system that could distinguish between wanted and unwanted background noise was revealed in a new patent application discovered this week by AppleInsider. Entitled "Decisions on Ambient Noise Suppression in a Mobile Communications Handset," it describes using noise canceling microphones, proximity sensors and gyroscopes to determine a user's intent.
While background noise is often a nuisance and can degrade call quality, there are occasions where that ambient noise is actually desired. For example, a user may be at a concert and want the person on the other end to hear the music playing in the background, but a smartphone's ambient noise sensor could instead attempt to reduce the noise.
Apple's proposed solution would offer the best of both worlds, allowing a user's voice to be properly heard by reducing unwanted ambient noise, but also intelligently detecting when the user wants the background noise to be heard more clearly.
Take, for example, an iPhone user at the beach. The sounds of the waves would be reduced by an ambient noise suppressing microphone until the user pulled the iPhone away from their ear and pointed it at the water. At that point, the iPhone would disable its ambient noise suppression and allow the caller on the other end to hear the sounds as intended.
"A process running in the mobile device detects when the user has moved the phone off her ear during the call and in response automatically disables the ambient noise suppression," the filing explains. "This allows the background sounds to be passed through the uplink signal, allowing the far-end user to hear them more clearly."
Then, when the iPhone user places the handset back against their ear, the ambient noise suppression on the device will once again kick in, ensuring the best possible call quality.
Both the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 feature two microphones to reduce ambient noise and improve call quality. In addition to a microphone at the bottom of the device to pick up a user's voice, the handsets also feature a second microphone on top that detects ambient noise and helps to cancel it out.
All iPhone models also include gyroscopes to detect the orientation of the device, and a proximity sensor that disables the touchscreen when it is placed against a user's ear. By using these sensors, the iPhone would intelligently turn off the noise cancelation feature when a user pulls their smartphone away from their ear and holds it up to capture nearby sounds.
The proposed invention made public by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week was first filed by Apple in August of 2010. It is credited to Koji Gardiner, E-cheng Chang, and Jason Rukes.
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markbyrn Posts: 567memberIs the dude in the drawing bald because of all the radiation exposure from holding the phone to his head?
minnesota_steve Posts: 109memberEnough said.
jungmark Posts: 6,233memberAlso look at the phone in the drawing. It has buttons like a blackberry.
gatorguy Posts: 15,325member
network23 Posts: 3memberI hope they are taking into account those situations where the user is on speakerphone. They are away from the phone but still need ambient noise reduction.
jmgregory1 Posts: 413memberI want Apple to open up the noise suppression capabilities of the iPhone so that it can be tweaked. I'd love to skip having to bring noise canceling headphones onto the plane and just use what is built in to the phone to do the noise canceling.
phil sukalewski Posts: 40memberPerhaps they can find a way to increase the volume so that I don't have to push the headphones so deep into my ear to hear anything when I'm anywhere outside of a library.
wings Posts: 261memberWhat about those times when you pull the phone away from your ear and whisper to the person next to you about what an idiot you've got on the other end of the phone?
solipsismx Posts: 19,566memberNo one has come to doing this right. I best I've experienced is with Jawbone but even that isn't great. Frankly I'm amazed at what people hear as loud on the other end that I don't even notice. That's with my headphones which makes me think the noise canceling mic becomes inactive wihen those are in.
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dasanman69 Posts: 12,677memberQuote:Originally Posted by SolipsismX
No one has come to doing this right. I best I've experienced is with Jawbone but even that isn't great. Frankly I'm amazed at what people hear as loud on the other end that I don't even notice. That's with my headphones which makes me think the noise canceling mic becomes inactive wihen those are in.
I thought I was the only one.
"What's that loud noise?"
"What noise?"
"Sounds like a train"
"No way you can hear that, its like 2 miles away"
"It sounds like its right next to you"
Meanwhile when you want them to hear something
"Here, can you hear that now" putting phone in the air
"No it sounds all muffled, can barely make it out. Sounds like a dying donkey"
rbels Posts: 29memberAT&T has already done enough on this 'technology', but err on the other side. You hold the phone and talk directly, it will not be audible at all. if my neighbors cat meaws, its loud enough!
But I was surprised to hear the 'concert' example given. It takes "common sense and self-respect not to do that" for:
* One is not supposed to turn on the cell phone in in such quieter events
* Buy your own tickets rather than streaming the concert without permission. Steve didnt get Grammy for streaming such things, but selling for everyone's benefit.


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- Title
- Characterisation of polarised supercontinuum generation and its focal field
- Author(s)
- Chick, Brendan James
- Abstract
- Since the first investigation of supercontinuum generation in microstructured optical fibre almost a decade ago, an enormous interest has developed in its application. Supercontinuum generation, the construction of broadband light from nonlinear and dispersive optical processes is a unique type of radiation that has the design functionality to enhance a broad range of applications. The temporal and spectral characteristics of a supercontinuum make it an ideal source in microscopy, as these features can provide a means to simultaneously optically image with different carrier frequencies or simultaneously optical record in a spectrally selective storage medium. These applications all involve the diffraction and interference of the supercontinuum field and what needs to be understood is how such a field behaves under these conditions. The investigation in this thesis identifies the supercontinuum characteristics which are important to the diffraction by a lens and how these characteristics will affect the measurement of the optical properties in microscopic applications. To achieve this goal there are two major areas of investigation; supercontinuum generation and optical diffraction theory. A theoretical and experimental investigation into supercontinuum generation is first presented, which investigates the polarisation properties of supercontinuum generation in highly birefringent photonic crystal fibre with two zero dispersion wavelengths. It is shown that the polarisation state of the incident ultrashort optical pulse maintains its polarisation state as it propagates through the optical fibre. The temporal and spectral properties of the principal axes are determined not only by the phase mismatch and the group velocity mismatch between the two fundamental linear polarised modes, but are affected by the different higher order dispersion coefficients. The balance between the nonlinearity induced by the Kerr effect and the second order dispersion initiates the formation of a high order soliton which then shifts spectrally toward the infrared frequencies. This formation sets the condition for the emission of dispersive waves which shifts toward the lower visible frequencies. However, the dispersion parameters associated with the two fundamental modes produces different high order solitons and phase matching conditions, which determine the wave-numbers for the dispersive waves. The larger of the two dispersion terms enlarges the initial compression of the ultrashort pulse creating a high order soliton with a significantly smaller temporal width, which under conditions of Raman scattering the shift of the soliton is further. Experimentally, it is confirmed that the two fundamental modes of the photonic crystal fibre have different spectral and temporal features. The degree of polarisation also confirms that the supercontinuum spectrum is highly polarised with the degradation attributed to the depolarisation caused by the objective lens. The processes of nonlinearity and dispersion act as phase shifts onto an ultrashort pulse. When superimposed through the diffraction by a lens of low numerical aperture, the temporal phase associated with the field couples with the spatial phase incurred by the lens. This coupling changes the way the field correlates, which is analysed through the degree of coherence of the field. Fluctuations occur in the temporal coherence of the field because of enlarged variations in spatial phase, which are associated with the conditions of destructive interference, which imposes zero intensity locations in the focal region of the lens. These variations are quantified through the coherence time of the field and is most dramatic for a nonstationary observation frame which is affected by the path difference between the rays at the extremities of the lens and the rays along the optical axis. The significant phase contribution that affects the temporal coherence of the SC field is the initial formation of the high order soliton. The compression of the ultrashort pulse and the formation of the high order soliton increases the bandwidth of the field altering the coherence time. After this point in the evolution the coherence is constructed by the interference from dispersive waves and the fission of the high order solitary waves. The two dominant processes which influence the temporal coherence in the focal region are the third order dispersion effect and the Raman scattering. However, the interference of the temporal phase from these effects and the other higher order dispersion and third order nonlinear effects couple with the spatial phase from the diffraction by the lens increasing the complexity of the degree of coherence. Specifically, the coherence time in the case of a nonstationary observation frame can be enhanced by a factor of 3 and occurs at the zero intensity locations within the focal region. Furthermore, it is shown that such an enhancement in the degree of coherence can be controlled by the pulse evolution through the photonic crystal fibre, in which nonlinear and dispersive effects such as the soliton fission process provides the key phase evolution necessary for dramatically changing the coherence time of the focused electromagnetic wave. An extension to this theory can be developed by an investigation into vectorial effects in polarisation, which are achieved through vectorial diffraction theory. This theoretical treatment gives insight into the coherence fluctuations introduced by a supercontinuum in a high numerical diffraction system. Under such conditions and due to the increased refraction at the extremities of the lens the incident polarisation state rotates to transfer energy from this state to the orthogonal transverse field and the longitudinal field, which is known as depolarisation. For a supercontinuum with a horizontal polarisation state the coherence times along the x-, y- and z-axes are different and change with increased numerical aperture. The coherence time for the x-axis increases with numerical aperture and the y-axis decreases with numerical aperture, which is due to the transfer of energy because of depolarisation. The influence of numerical aperture is evident along the optical axis (z), which shows the most significant change in coherence time. The mean coherence time as a function of numerical aperture decreases by an order of magnitude and is due to the superposition conditions no longer forming points of destructive interference. Since the field is a vector field containing three polarisation components, the theory for the degree of coherence is extended to incorporate cross correlation effects within these vectorial components which is calculated through a coherency matrix. The use of this matrix provides insight into interesting correlation effects between co-propagating vector fields such as the coupled modes (linear polarised modes) of a photonic crystal fibre. An investigation is presented on the coherence times for the supercontinuum field generated by cross coupling into the photonic crystal fibre. The coherence times under cross coupling conditions show that the degree of coherence of the two coupled modes from the fibre are different, which is due to the difference in phase associate with each mode. The effect of temporal phase from a supercontinuum and the spatial phase inherent from diffraction by a lens, are important to many experimental applications of supercontinuum generation. The manifestation of these temporal and spatial phase effects result in a modification of the focal region and the bandwidth of the field. Applications involving supercontinuum generation must first understand the generation of the supercontinuum and the modification imposed by the optical system.
- Publication type
- Thesis (PhD)
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences. Centre for Micro-Photonics
- Publication year
- 2010
- Keyword(s)
- Applied optics; Fibre optics; Nonlinear optics; Photonics
- Coverage
- Australasian Digital Theses collection
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- Copyright
- Copyright © 2010 Brendan James Chick.
- Thesis Supervisor
- [Min Gu]
- Thesis Note
- [A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Swinburne University of Technology, 2010.]
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In order to mark the historic moment, Dan Akerson, GM CEO, rang the bell to open trading for the day at the NYSE, flanked by key members of the GM management team. Outside, GM parked its latest vehicles on the street to mark the occasion.
Late Wednesday night the price was finally set at $33 per share, but shares opened at a strong $35 a piece. So far, the stock has climbed as high as $35.99, but has since dropped back down to roughly $35.35. The sales generated $20.1 billion for the automaker, marking the most money ever raised on a first day stock offering.
The federal government had a successful day as the Treasury was able to reduce its ownership significantly, selling 75 percent of its common shares and bringing back nearly $12 billion of taxpayer funds. It is estimated that the U.S. government still needs approximately $27 billion in order to break even, which would require GM stock to rise 25 percent to nearly $41 per share.


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There are approximately 2.3 million people incarcerated in the United States, and yet hardly anyone is attending to the fashion needs of the prison-industrial complex! To remedy this injustice, we asked Bert Burykill, our recently-paroled penitentiary correspondent, to give us some inmate style tips. If you're reading this in jail, take heed lest you become a human fifi towel.
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Detroit Mower Gang now moves snow to help people who can't help themselves
On this bitterly cold day, Tom Nardone's snow blower provides a path of necessity.
"Our goal is to help people who can't help themselves," said Nardone, leader of the Detroit Mower Gang, a volunteer group that has cut the grass in parks in the city of Detroit. "
Now they're proving to be men for all seasons.
"I got this snow blower, it does all the work, it's fun to run, why not?" Nardone asked.
During Michigan's three other seasons, Nardone leads the Mower Gang—a group of volunteers who cut the grass in city parks. Detroit 2020 has featured the work they do to make Detroit a better place.
"Kids can't mow their own playground. They can't take care of their own swing set," said Nardone. "These folks, they would probably like to dig themselves out but you're 70 years old, you have dialysis, you're not lifting a foot of snow."
It's a different season and a different machine but the mission is the same.
On this bitterly cold day, it was assistance for Annie, a Detroit resident and dialysis patient. Her daughter reached out through the Detroit Mower Gang Facebook page.
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I think that they should get some reward for what they are doing. It's great that they care enough about others that they would face this awful cold to help people they don't know. I'm 62 and on disability I can't move my car out of the garage to even get to my snow blower so I am stuck till it melts down some. I live in Milford and it may still be a few days before my subdivision gets plowed in which case they will block my driveway with even more snow so I'm not going to be able to go anywhere for a long time it looks like. Maybe someone will start a Mower Gang in the suburbs one day it's a great idea.


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Skip to comments.Gay Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger gets a rough welcome in southern Utah
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Although Mitt Romney has virtually locked up the Republican presidential nomination and all of his serious challengers have conceded the race, presidential candidate Fred Karger is still out on the trail campaigning.
Karger, a gay Republican running an issues-based campaign to change attitudes within the GOP about same-sex marriage, took his efforts last week to Utah, which holds the nation's last primary election, on June 26.
Karger spent four days in the state, meeting with local Republican leaders and urging the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to stop funding efforts against gay marriage. (Prior to launching his presidential bid, Karger founded a group called "Californians Against Hate," which focused on Mormon involvement in the campaign to pass Proposition 8, a ballot initiative passed in 2008 banned same-sex marriage.)
During his visit to Utah, Karger met with Washington County Republican Party Chairman Willie Billings, who Karger said was "welcoming" and "friendly." After their meeting, which was first reported by the Los Angeles Times, Karger gave Billings some campaign paraphernalia, including a Frisbee and a T-Shirt. When Billings brought the souvenirs home, however, his wife, Nanette Billings, threw them in the garbage and fired off an email to Karger, calling him "a radical idiot" and saying
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Why would anyone vote for a "man" who leads with his degenerate proclivities?
I'd watch a Fred Karger/Buddy Roemer debate...for the laughs!
"A roast in every rump". You just KNOW that this guy's gonna turn heads with this slogan! Bob
If not for the 22nd Ammendment, Bill Clinton might STILL be president...
His anti-God worldview isn't American-—it belongs in some Marxist/pagan/earth worshipping country—not a country built on the Laws of Nature and Nature's God.
We were built on the idea of "Higher Law"-—God's, not Barney Frank. He is advocating changing the whole Christian worldview of America-—from God to paganism.
It won't work-—Rule of Law is based on Virtue—Justice. It is where Just Law comes from and he is ejecting Virtue and inserting Vice as "Good". Unjust Law promotes Vice. Only Just Laws promote Virtue—ALWAYS—otherwise the Laws are unjust and unconstitutional. Sodomy promotion is evil. So is baby-killing. We know these behaviors are evil because they are unnatural and destroy life or bodies. It is Satanic.
He wants to change the Christian Paradigm which made us exceptional, into a pagan worldview which has always led to nihilism—disintegration of cultures.
Sorry, NEVER going to vote for a pervert for anything.......
1. You are not "gay" you are a homosexual. Deal with it...
No really: I like girls. A LOT.
Decades ago the Communists planned to infiltrate American institutions and take them over from within.
A couple decades ago I remember reading about Lib/Dem plans following that model (or continuing it might be a better way to put it) to specifically target the Republican Party. Guys like this are the result.
We have a number of 'republicans' in the last several elections advocating the overthrow of the traditional planks of the party platform, so what else can one conclude? I remember working with a 'republican' at a newspaper who flatly refused to accept that such machinations were happening. He sounded just like the libs who scoffed at McCarthy.
Today it's not just the candidates. The entire machine of the GOP is feted with liberals, homosexuals and communists. One need only look at their direction, policies, public statements and compare it to the following...
Congressional RecordAppendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordmans request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following Current Communist Goals, which she identifies as an excerpt from The Naked Communist, by Cleon Skousen:
[From The Naked Communist, by Cleon Skousen]
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchevs promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them censorship and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as normal, natural, healthy.
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with social religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a religious crutch.
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of separation of church and state.
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the common man.
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the big picture. Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the cultureeducation, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use []united force[] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Romney is for homosexuals in the military. Romney is
for homosexual adoption. Why is anyone upset?
Why is Romney the conservative candidate for President?
There's a word, Sister Lucia of Fatima fame called it "diabolical disorientation."
First....Can anyone confirm for me this poster is suggesting that he will lead us out of an Afghanist society entrenched against homosexuality and pro-choice into a new light?
If so, some may know I work as contractor in Afghanistan and I have a unique view into daily life here, details, of which, I'm duty bound to not reveal.
But, in general terms, homosexuality here is open, frequent, and NOT suppressed in the least.
Let's not mention, beastiality and pedophilia.
In terms of sexuality, they trump any suggestions Fred Karger is foisting upon the voter via this poster.
Don't know about the pro-choice here though.
Pro-choice: If a microbe is found on Mars, or anyother planet, it will be hailed as LIFE. Yet, a fetus is not. That microbe would be handled with the utmost care and reverence.....not the fetus.
Aside from what you mentioned, in a secular sense, if you believe in a God, you have to also believe God's laws are manifest in his creation of nature and are impossible for man to transcend.
Nature does not require human permission...
All men are born of a woman and every living thing dies.
This idea that 'thou shalt marry and be given in marriage' is corrupt and degenerate.
It is an impossible immortality of a kind (i.e., eternal love), but not of the persons of men.
A lot of self-proclaimed Biblical "experts" continue on the same path of error in their arguments and ignore the very foundation of the Bible and all of creation - - Genesis.
Even the idea of evolution is confirmed by Genesis - - ALL MEN ARE BORN OF A WOMAN.
I would not even shake his hand. You don't know where they have been.
If he's gay, then he isn't a Republican, he's a RINO.
He is better labled a YAG. (They do everything backwards)
Is he running for President of a queer nation? Is his flag that rainbow one stolen from the Christians by the Reprobates?
I wonder if Yahoo! News ran such an in-depth article about the Texas prisoner who got 40% of the vote against Obama?
Freddy Kruger is more like it.
Freddy Kruger is more like it.
Why don't I feel the need to advertise that I'm a raving sane heterosexual who loves having sex in the missionary position with the same woman as often as I can get it?
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Presidential candidate Fred Karger, alleged Republican, sloganizes — "out of Afghanistan, gay marriage, pro-choice, jobs plan". Thanks presidio9.
At least he acknowledges homosexuality and abortion are inextricably linked: both acts are anti-procreation and anti-life.
If this Karger was an honest Republican candidate for the presidency, why would he start with the very last primary state, Utah? Now that's really doing it backwards (no pun intended).
The only thing that explains the appearance of this article is that its writer is an advocate of the "gay rights" agenda and/or he's trying to distract attention from the big race on the ballot in Utah, the US Senate primary in which Orin Hatch is being challenged.
Of course not. Remember they serve Maobama, not the American people.
Thanks for the ping!
Gay Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger gets a rough welcome in southern Utah
I doubt that.
But he would have won a third term in 2000.
Actually Karger has been in it from the start.
The random nobody candidates never get mentioned. He has though a little cause of the gay stuff. He only got on a few ballots and has gotten about 10000 votes, most of them from Cali.
He is the only remaining challenger to Romney I'm aware of that hasn't quit (Rand Paul endorsing Romney means Ron does too even though he only "suspended" his campaign rather than officially dropping out).
If I had ranked Karger with the real candidates he'd have been dead last. He also wants to give 16 year olds the vote. If anything it should go back up to 21.
No kidding, I'm glad this guy's joke "campaign" has received zero media coverage. Being a "gay Republican" is one thing, if he was liberal on gay issues but held traditional GOP views on everything else (I know a "gay Republican" who voted for McCain in November 2008 and is a Ron Paul supporter, he's a big 2nd amendment guy who absolutely despises Obama and routinely posts stuff attacking embryonic stem cell research, Obamacare, envirowacko causes, etc.)... but a glance at Karger's website and you wonder why he considers himself a "Republican" at all. This guy is probably to the left of his fellow phony "gay Republicans" at the Log Cabin crowds, at least they claim to be "fiscally conservative" or other such nonscene. Karger's platform reads like a carbon copy of Dennis Kuncinch or Howard Dean's.
His bio says he used to be an aide for Ronald Reagan? I find that hard to believe, if he was as liberal back then as he is now. Karger seems to be the GOP equivalent of Randall Terry this year (Terry is a hard core pro-life activist who is only running in the RAT primaries to embarrass Obama)
To balance it out perfectly, we really need a debate between "Republican" Fred Karger and "Democrat" Randall Terry. Not only would hell have to freeze over, it would have to reach Absolute Zero on a summer day in August for them to win their respective party's nomination. That being said, if it was Terry (D) vs. Karger (R) in November, I'd not only endorse but work my heart out for the RAT nominee. Here's a comparison... Randall Terry lists his stands on some issues, via his website:
Government-mandated universal health care - Strongly Oppose Comments: The government is not our Savior, nor our Provider, nor our Healer. The premise for such a proposal requires the forcible transfer of wealth. I.e., why should I be compelled to labor for the benefit of another against my will? That is the essence of slavery. The motive (health care for all) is good, but the means is immoral.
Capital Punishment for convicted murderers - Strongly Favor Comments: There are some people for whom I would offer to pull the switch. (I also believe that executions should be public, and that young men who are in trouble with the law should be required to view the execution.)
Same-sex marriage - Strongly Oppose Comments: Same sex marriage is an affront to God and man. It violates Natural Law, and well as the Laws of God. Beyond that, it seeks to legitimize a sinful, self-destructive lifestyle. We cannot legitimize nor normalize that which is against the Laws of Heaven and Nature, and a behavior that is self-destructive.
Prayers in public schools - Strongly Favor Comments: While I strongly favor voluntary prayer in government (public) school, I confess that I disagree with government funded, government mandated schools. The premise of government schools is that every child is a child of the state. That is a lie. So while the galley slaves are forced to row the boat, should they be able to pray? Should the Ten Commandments be hung on the wall? Yes. But it should be voluntary.
Legal abortions through first six months of pregnancy - Strongly Oppose Comments: Abortion is a euphemism for child killing. Abortion is murder. Murder is the deliberate destruction of a judicially innocent human life in a time of peace. (Not war, not manslaughter, not an accident, not capitol punishment, not killing an animal.) Hence, laws must be passed that protect human beings from conception until birth, making it a criminal act to kill a human being while they reside in their mothers womb.
Right of individuals to keep and bear arms Strongly Favor Comments: Remember, Gun control is a steady hand. The second amendment is not for hunting, it is to keep a people free. The right to keep and bear arms is ultimately about self -defense; defense against evildoers, whether criminals outside the law, or criminals in power that use the law and levers of government to oppress people. I.e., if the Jews of Germany or the Armenians of Turkey had been armed, perhaps their respective governments would not have slaughtered them.
Stronger regulations to protect the environment Oppose Comments: We have plenty of regulations to protect our water and our air. The current green movement is often driven by those who are anti-human (Malthusian) or anti-American (communists and socialists).
Expansion of domestic oil drilling Strongly Favor Comments: Our foreign policy regarding oil is suicidal. We are literally funding terrorism every time we fill up our cars with gas. We should exploit the oil in ANWR, on both sides of Florida, off the coast of the southern states and Texas, as well as opening up drilling inland. If we exploited the oil at our disposal, we would free ourselves from our addiction to Arab oil, and put a significant crimp in the funding or terrorism. Moreover, if we exploit domestic oil, it will create hundreds of thousands of jobs for Americans.
Enactment of stronger anti discrimination laws -- Strongly Oppose Comments: We have more than enough anti -discrimination laws as it is probably too many, when it comes to hiring quotas for larger companies. My bet is that the next anti-discrimination laws will favor homosexuals. Business owners should be able to hire and promote who they want to, not who the government is currently favoring.
Expansion of nuclear energy -- Strongly Favor Comments: A great source of energy.
Taxes on gas-guzzling vehicles -- Strongly Oppose Comments: I think everyone who loves freedom should drive a great big, safe, SUV and everyone who wants us to be slaves to the socialist state should drive an itty-bitty Hyundai.
Stem cell research -- Strongly Oppose/Strongly Favor Comments: 1, 5. If the question means embryonic stem-cells, I am opposed. Such research is a criminal act, reminiscent of Nazi medical research. To create a human life in order to destroy it is barbaric. If the question means adult stem cells, I am highly in favor, and recent medical breakthroughs using adult stem cells show great promise.
Tort reform -- Strongly Favor Comments: Our health costs (cost of care and insurance) are skyrocketing because of lawsuits many of them frivolous and because of defensive medicine; i.e., doctors prescribing tests that are not needed, because they are afraid of being sued if something goes wrong. We need a cap on amounts to be awarded, and perhaps a medical review board to assess whether the medical practice in a given case was sound, even if the outcome was not what was hoped for. That review board could determine if a lawsuit had merit or not.
State right-to -work laws -- Strongly Favor Comments: I support unions; the safety and wages we enjoy are largely due to unions. But I also support the freedom of individuals to not join a union, and to be able to work without fear of reprisal.
Privatization of Social Security -- Strongly Favor Comments: cannot say enough, nor say it strongly enough. Social Security is a scam. It is immoral; it is theft and a compulsion -driven, generational transfer of wealth. It is a Ponzi scheme. And it needs to be ended. As a practical matter, and a matter of political expediency, those who are on Social Security must continue to receive their benefits. Then, an arbitrary age must be picked (age 55 or 57) in which those people of that age will receive some benefits. But at the end of the day, people should be free to determine how they will prepare for old age. It is not the governments duty.
Establishing a national sales tax -- Strongly Favor Comments: The federal income tax should be ended now. The government has NO RIGHT to know what we make. Moreover, the graduated income tax is Marxist straight out of the Communist Manifesto. Get rid of the income tax, and replace it with a federal sales tax on ALL retail purchases.
Enhanced penalties for hate crimes - Strongly Oppose Comments: A crime is a crime is a crime. Theft, or murder, should receive the punishment due the crime, regardless of motivation.
Conferring Miranda rights on suspected international terrorists -Strongly Oppose Comments: No. They need to be treated as spies, or as enemy military combatants.
Increased tax rates for the wealthiest Americans - Strongly Oppose Comments: I think we should just take all the money of all the wealthiest Americans, and give it to the poor. Then we can all be broke together. But in a few short years, the money will probably be back in the hands of the formally rich, the industrious, the entrepreneurs, etc. (This was a joke of sorts.) OK, on a serious note
I despise the graduated income tax. It is based in a Marxist paradigm of class warfare, and as I stated above, the call for a graduated income tax (the poor p aying a smaller percent, and the rich paying a higher percentage) is straight from the Communist Manifesto. I call for the end of the income tax altogether, and the institution of a Federal Sales tax.
Not much to argue with on Randall Terry's points. Although I do oppose public executions. The liberal talk show host of yore, Phil Donahue, proposed public executions as well. However, his motivations were different. He thought once the public could see such events, there would be overwhelming opposition to the death penalty. This is false. I think a majority would be enthralled with them and they would become entertainment (just as they were in the past) where folks would gather to watch (in this instance, on live tv).
No, I think they should remain private affairs with no spectacle or sideshow aspect whatsoever. Let the worst of those criminal offenders be extinguished with no fanfare, quietly, and with some level of dignity (for which they certainly did not afford their victims).
I'm surprised that I agree with that Democrat on about half of those issues. I hope that, in 2014, he'll run for the U.S. Senate or governor, as a Republican.
Phil that's because Terry is not really a democrat, he's a conservative Republican running as a democrat to embarrass Obama by winning conservative democrat votes. He's twice run for office as a Republican (Congress in NY and State Senate in FL) and lost the primary.
Heck the literal DINO Terry I'd prefer over Romney and Goode.
It would have to absolute zero IN THE CENTER OF THE SUN for him to win the rat nod though. ;-D
As for Karger he seems to have a legit GOP past, according to Wikipedia and it says he's pro-2A but that's not on his website
I'm mentally unbalanced but I'd get behind public executions (mind you I would never convict someone of a serious crime unless I was sure they did it) in a second. It would scare the hell of scumbags to actually see it. You are right for every liberal that started to scream and cry there would be 10 people who would just want to watch it.
The criminal justice system would be a lot different if I had my way. Few would be in prison getting 3 taxpayer funded meals a day, lots of executions and forced labor in lieu of more serious punishment for non-dangerous offenders. Maybe some gladiator stuff or Rollerball, I'm serious.
In the Oklahoma RAT Primary, he won 11 counties in the state, including the entire panhandle, and two delegates to the convention. I doubt OK Republicans were crossing over to vote in the RAT primary, so it begs the question just who was voting for him. Probably quite a few OK Democrats didn't know he was so conservative, or quite frankly didn't care because they were disappointed with Obama and Terry was the "not Obama" choice on the ballot. Watching him embarrass Obama is entertaining, it's better that he ran as a RAT on a super conservative platform.
Fred Karger is some super liberal douchebag. Although he seems to be some kind of Democrat plant, apparently he has self-identified as a "Republican" for most of his life. Why he does that is beyond me. On his website, he compares himself to Ronald Reagan and says he wants to inspire America like Reagan did, through optimism. Of course his whiny "you hateeeeeeeee me cuz you won't let me marry whoever I want!!" persona is nothing like Reagan's sunny optimism and laid-back manner. Maybe it's like the "transgender" crowd who "feel" psychologically they are "women" even if they're clearly biologically male. This guy "feels" he is a Republican, even if 80%-90% of his policy positions are in-line with Howard Dean wing of the Democrat Party. Karger could use a good therapist.
(And how come media won't refer to delusional people as "the millionaire" if they psychology "feel" they are wealthy, given that they refer to people by whatever gender they imagine themselves to be?)
Brilliant observation!
I've always felt I should have been born a millionaire. I demand they start treating me by my income bracket of choice and give me one of those no limit credit cards.
"I've always felt I should have been born a millionaire. I demand they start treating me by my income bracket of choice and give me one of those no limit credit cards."
Toss in Kate Upton and you'll always have pillows and never develop a calcium deficiency.
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Saturday photos from Newell Lodge
Saturday afternoon turned sunny and warm for the last day of the Newell Lodge Festival.
Frances Mooney and Fontanna Sunset kicked the day off, and were followed by the Amanda and Scott Anderson Band. Amanda is another of the fine young singers emerging in bluegrass.
Eddie Rose and Highway Forty came in from North Carolina. Ralph Stanley II brought his Stanley sound to the stage. He was followed by Volume Five.
All in all it was a good day to be a bluegrass music fan in South Georgia!
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