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'Vanity Fair' Names Cruelty-Free Lifestyle Guru 'Best Dressed'
We already loved Kathy Freston for her wonderful books, Quantum Wellness and The Quantum Wellness Cleanse, which promote a vegan diet as part of a healthy lifestyle. (Even Oprah tried the cleanse!) Now we have yet another reason to love Kathy: Her animal-friendly fashions have earned her a spot in Vanity Fair's 2009 International Best-Dressed List.
And that's not all. Kathy also defines her personal style as "cruelty-free" and her cause as "animal protection." Favorite shoes? Why, Stella McCartney, of course!
"Best-dressed" Kathy Freston is yet more proof that nobody has to die for fashion. Just wait—I'm sure we'll see a whole slew of cruelty-free fashion mavens on 2010's list.
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THESE are the type of celebrities who are worth celebrating. Never mind the cold callous dimwits who flaunt leather and fur. Sarah Jessica Parker comes to mind. I'm tired of all these silly vacuous vain selfserving heartless twits being set up on pedestals that they don't deserve to be on. We need more people like Kathy Preston in the public's eye. It's too bad Oprah didn't get it while she had the chance. Who could learn what she learned and then CHOOSE to engage in animal cruelty again? The minute I learned the truth I became veg. And that was that period. 1982 was the last time I ate the flesh of a land animal. Fish has been more of a back and forth thing. Well shrimp anyway. But I digress. Kathy? YOU ROCK GRRRRL!!!!
It is sooo easy to find crueltyfree fashions nowadays. Years ago it was a real chore but now there is so much to choose from! I love Kathy!
Linda McCartney would be so proud of Stella McCartney who has wondrously advanced her Mother's humane worldview with class and style.
Im SOO HAPPY that celebrities are making themselves vegetarians!!They are giving a great example to their fans!! GO VEGIES!!
Love her and her book and love that she loves Stella McCartney! I love Matt And Nat too gorgeous handbags!


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'American Horror Story: Coven' - 'Protect The Coven' Recap
Well this season is really dragging, huh?
Coven continues to take one step forward, and two steps back in narrative and once again, leans entirely too much on the whole Supreme mystery. I've griped about my issues with the season before, and really not much has changed. "Protect the Coven" is another pulpy hour full of the bitchy dialogue and hammy acting we love, but not much else.
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First up. It's a Delphine LaLaurie origin story. Yay? Ugh, enough with this character, did we really need a whole cold open to show that she is a messed up psychopath? We kind of already knew that. Plus, Delphine comes off as a character so perverted that it makes me strongly resent every attempt by Murphy & Co. to show any redeeming qualities within her or use her as a comedy relief prop. The woman is so despicable that her flashbacks are anything but enjoyable, not even in the sick and twisted exploitative AHS way. The only redeeming factor in this flashback was the parallels drawn between her and Fiona, specifically their relationships with their respective daughters. Delphine is clearly annoyed with everything Borquita does in that flashback, and Fiona is currently going through a similar phase with Cordelia. Delphine and Fiona have bonded on this issue before, earlier in the season and this once again shows the similarities the two women share. Maybe I'm reaching, but I feel like the whole season will hinge on that theme of mother/daughter relationships. Where Delphine's daughters were ultimately victims to their mother's evildoing, Cordelia might emerge triumphant over Fiona's selfish acts.
It's Nan's funeral and everybody is garbed in their best blacks (seriously, they all look fabulous) as Fiona half-asses an insincere eulogy. The gathering is interrupted by none other than a very alive Queenie with a leashed (and put together) Delphine in tow. Look, I love Queenie, but doesn't anybody stay dead in this show? Marie sasses Quenie, Delphine spits in Marie's face, Marie bitch-slaps her right back, Cordelia says something sweet, Fiona says something mean. "The funeral's over, say your prayers as you exit," announces Fiona and they all go back to Miss Robichaux's.
Hank's daddy and his henchman discuss covering up Hank's identity and setting up a meeting with the witches.
Back a Robichaux's Delphine is back in servitude and she voice-overs even more of her origin story. She goes all The Help on the witches and shit-pies the soup, they all seem to really enjoy it, Myrtle in particular. Mmmm E. coli. Delphine goes on about how much it sucks to clean up after the girls and I continue to not give a shit. Marie threatens to "finish what she started," and do away with Delphine as she originally intended. By all means, Marie. Cordelia busies away in the kitchen desperately attempting to bring her "sight" back as the gardener walks in with a cut on his hand, of course, Delphine volunteers to fix it and we all know what she's up to. She still hasn't finished her extremely long V.O monologue. Cut to poor James all tied up in the attic (Spalding's creepy old room) listening to the ramblings of insane Delphine, she proceeds to torture him. Sick.
Hey it's Zoe! Remember her? She does some witchcraft to figure out what really happened to Nan and is revealed that Fiona and Marie killed her. Seriously though, where are these girls learning all this seemingly complicated witchery? Cuz, its not like the girls are in class everyday learning to hone their powers. Madison barges in and they bitch over Kyle, Madison makes a lamp knock Zoe out by clonking her on the head Ha! Myrtle comes in and breaks up the argument and reprimands Madison, "Oh Madison, you are the worst kind of Hollywood cliché: A bobblehead with crotchless panties!" Madison isn't very fazed by it all and remains defiant.
Fiona hangs with the Axeman and for some reason I find their scenes together really dull. Even though there's a lot of Jessica Lange being awesome (as always), it's just that the character is so thin and one-dimensional, she's been harping about the same exact problem for the entire season now, that not even the flawless performance can save that. The Axeman wants to move away together after the whole witch-hunter/Supreme bidness is done with. Fiona agrees, as long as Axeman does one "little thing" for her, which is a little questionable. If she is not in it for the power/glory of Supreme, then why doesn't she just die? Axeman's been dead for a while now and he doesn't seem to be in such bad shape. Obviously she would just stay the age she is now. And it's not like there never will be another Supreme contender down the line to threaten her life all over again. I'm sure Cordelia would be willing to 'release' her mother's spirit (much like Zoe did to the Axeman) as long as Fiona vows to stay away from the Coven.
Delphine is still in the attic, now with a dead James, when Spalding shows up. Weird, freaky, crazy Spalding, yay! They bond over Delphine's sadistic pastime and their mutual hate for Marie. Spalding wants Delphine to do something for him and in exchange, he'll provide the means with which to kill Marie.
Cordelia tries to make amends with Queenie, but she is furious and wants none of it. She tells her how she survived the ambush and says that her powers have grown; she survived a silver bullet through the brain. Maybe she's the net Supreme. Sigh. Queenie gets all up in Cordela's face about how weak and what a horrible leader she is and Delia just takes it as usual.
Cordelia then goes to her basement and in a crazy, desperate attempt to regain her sight; she pierces her eyes with some gardening shears. Ouch. I have to say that Sarah Paulson was really great in this scene, her turmoil and fear were palpable and that moment when she crumbles and breaks down, right before the violent act was heartbreaking. Boy has her face taken a beating all season long.

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By Chandra Stauffer • May 31, 2013
The Kansas House has rejected a new proposal to decrease the sales tax on groceries while keeping sales tax for other items at 6.3 percent.
The House voted 94-18 last night on the measure; it would have allowed further cuts in personal income taxes, in addition to the cuts made last year.
The proposal would have also decreased the sales tax on groceries to 4.9 percent in October.
The current, elevated sales tax is set to drop back down to 5.7 percent in July. Lawmakers raised it to 6.3 percent last year to offset income tax cuts.
The House's vote forced House and Senate leaders into more negotiations over taxes. They've so far failed to agree on taxes, and on the budget.


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My word for the year is Live, so I have given myself a challenge to reflect that idea in my mantel decor all year.
We see the mantel throughout the day, every day, it is the center of the family room, which is the center of the house.
So far we have had:
another that didn't get photographed...( oops!).
Since it is the time of year before Easter, we try to think on the season and remember what was done by Christ on our behalf.
That is why I chose this verse from John 15:13:
He gave His life so that we might live.
He calls us friends.
I have been meditating on life and the living of it...no easy task. It is not simply waking up and going about the day.
I am trying to live a grace filled - life of thanksgiving,
not easy.
I encourage my family to try the same, its been a good thing for us.
I ask God daily to help me face my fears,
He has been faithful and gives me the strength I need to put my feet out in the water.
Just a simple mantle, no not really-but also yes.
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I made the banner using this, also from The Graphics Fairy;
I printed the letters from Word, using Castellar font, enlarging them to 250, then cut them out pasted them on with glue.
My mother gave me the old mason jars for Christmas, I do so love them.... why don't they make them like this today????
Perhaps, when Easter is over, I will remove the banner or if I feel inspired, I 'll do another one... we will just have to wait and see!
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When it comes to creativity in photography, sometimes you just have to take what's handed to you. So, when the weather turns chilly, like it did recently here in Colorado, the snow makes for some great contrast in subjects. To that end, as a means of "hopping back on the photo horse" after a three week bout with the flu, here's some shots from the portfolio that serve as examples of how to capture contrast during snowy weather!
The soft lines of the snow against the hard edges of the numbers, plus the added black and white element of the snow and the background made this scene for me. What about you?
For some reason, snow capped branches of anything always catch my eye. A tweak of exposure adjustments, and a little contrast slider makes this strike a chord for my eyes. What do you think?
The light dusting of snow, the dark green stairs, and the maroon brick background made for some nice contrast. Added bonus that the angled lines of the railings and the squared lines of the bricks just added some more visual appeal for me. Would you have taken the shot?
This is probably one of my favorite "almost never happened" shots. It was taken on a photo walk a year or so ago, and it's been sitting quietly in my portfolio for a while. The dusting of snow, the black of the coal in the freight trains, then the slight hint of red just begged my camera to take the shot. I almost didn't because it was getting cold, but something told me to take it and I'm glad I did. Are you?
The dusting of snow across a car window is something that I've always found appealing. It's almost peaceful, seeing the outlines that a dusting of snow takes when adhering to a window. It may be boring to others, but the contrast of the white snow and the black of the window peeking through made it work for me!


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Summary of the Legal Basis: Section 5309, title 49 of the United States Code, requires the Secretary to promulgate regulations for the evaluation and selection of major capital investment projects that have a total project cost of less than $250 million, and that are seeking less than $75 million in section 5309 major capital investment funds.
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One of my dear fsils is so crafty! She volunteered to take on my lily pad pillow project for me as I've been sooo busy! She wasn't able to find a fake lotus flower so she made this flower herself. Man, she rawks!
it's so freaking cute! I need to go buy that big ring to put on there now!
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Your ring bearer pillow is gorgeous!
It's perfect!!!
That is adorable- sooo unique!
Your ring pillow is the cutest EVER!!!!


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Thursday, December 7, 2006
Venison Lasagna
1 pound ground venison
1 medium to large chopped sweet onion
2 garlic cloves chopped
1 8 ounce can diced tomatoes
1 8 ounce can tomato paste
1 8 ounce can tomato sauce
2 tablespoons dry red wine (look I didn't meausre, just give the bottle a small shake over the sauce and say your favorite Irish blessing).
1 teaspoons basil
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon parsley
1 teaspoon fennel
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon honey
cheese filling
2 cups low fat cottage cheese (even people that hate cottage cheese like this but you can use ricotta)
1 extra large egg beaten
1/2 cup grated Romano and Parmesan cheese mixture
2 teaspoons parsley
2 teaspoons basil
1/2 pound fresh mozzarella cheese, sliced
Cook lasagna noodles according to package directions. Drain and set aside.
Make sauce. Sauce onions until starting to caramelize. Add venison and garlic and cook until meat is no longer pink. There isn't enough fat to drain, so just leave it. Stir in tomatoes and seasoning and bring to a gentle boil. Simmer on low, covered, for 30 minutes. Add wine and honey and simmer uncovered on low for an additional 15 minutes.
Make filling: Whisk egg and then blend into cheese and spices, stirring well to break up cottage cheese and egg into a smooth mixture.
Cook 10 lasagna noodles and drain, patting dry with a paper towel. Layer half of the lasagna noodles in a lightly greased 9x13 pan. Spread with half the cheese mixture and half the meat sauce, repeating the layers. Sprinkle the top with a bit more Parmesan cheese.
Bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes, until it is beginning to brown and bubble just at the edges.
Let sit 10 minutes and then serve.
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I have always made my lasagna with cottage cheese instead of ricotta. Ricotta is good but the cottage cheese lasagna seems to make for a juicier lasagna. Plus, it is the only lasagna my wife likes so I am kind of limited.ReplyDelete
I absolutely love this lasagna recipe, I have used it with venison and with regular beef, but I think it compliments the venison perfectly, really drawing out its natural flavor. This is my go-to lasagna recipe, thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
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Ever wonder if there's an easier way?
Well, there's a simple way to tell which corner goes where, right from the get-go!
Every fitted sheet should have a tag sewn into one of the corners. That tag belongs on the bottom, left corner, if you're laying in the bed.
Once you know where that tag goes, then it fits right on! Now if I could just figure out how to neatly fold it…


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The total amout to create a committee with 4 men and 6 women = 10 people is C(10,5)
The forbitten committees have the 3 sisters. So 3 of the 5 places in the committee are occupied by the sisters and we choose only people for the last two places.
We have 7 people to choose from (10 - 3 sisters = 7), so it is C(7,2)
Then we just substract the forbitten committees from the total possible committees C(10,5) - C(7,2)


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Was health care reform about health or wealth?
Byron York is of the opinion it was as much about wealth as health and has come quotes to back it up. First Senator Max Baucus:
Health reform is "an income shift," Democratic Sen. Max Baucus said on March 25. "It is a shift, a leveling, to help lower income, middle income Americans."
In his halting, jumbled style, Baucus explained that in recent years "the maldistribution of income in America has gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy, and the middle income class is left behind." The new health care legislation, Baucus promised, "will have the effect of addressing that maldistribution of income in America."
Lest you feel York is making a one-quote mountain out of a molehill, Howard Dean follows:
At about the same time, Howard Dean, the former Democratic National Committee chairman and presidential candidate, said the health bill was needed to correct economic inequities. "The question is, in a democracy, what is the right balance between those at the top … and those at the bottom?" Dean said during an appearance on CNBC. "When it gets out of whack, as it did in the 1920s, and it has now, you need to do some redistribution. This is a form of redistribution."
And to make "three's a crowd", David Leonhardt:
Summing things up in the New York Times, the liberal economics columnist David Leonhardt called Obamacare "the federal government's biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago."
And, of course, if true that makes the "reform" as much about ideology as health insurance. It is also exposes one of the most cherished but false myths of the left – that economics is a zero sum game and that it is up to government to level the income playing field via redistribution in the name of "fairness". Of course they couldn't be more wrong on both counts. As John Steele Gordon points out, poker is a zero sum game and so is robbery (which is why it is illegal) – economics isn't nor has it ever been and it is a fallacy to believe so. He asks, as an example, "Paul McCartney was born into a poor family in rundown Liverpool and is now one of the richest men in England. Whom, exactly, did he rob?"
The answer is obvious. Given the answer then, why should he be punished?:
Every major technological development has produced an inflorescence of fortune making. The Industrial Revolution produced so many new rich that Benjamin Disraeli had to coin the word millionaire in 1827 to describe them. Railroads, steel, oil, automobiles, the movies, television, all produced prodigious new fortunes.
But the people who rode the railroads and automobiles, watched the movies and television didn't get poorer by doing so. Just like the millions who so willingly bought Paul McCartney's music, they got richer too. They had quicker, cheaper transportation, and better and cheaper entertainment. No one forced them to buy the product, which is a good deal more than can be said for ObamaCare.
Of course, one of the benefits of all the fortune making are the innovations brought to market by those making a fortune. They've made life better and cheaper for the rest of us. Electricity and the light bulb changed the cost and way we illuminated our night and was cheaper, better and safer. The money we saved was spent on other things in life that may have been previously unaffordable. And that's the case for most such innovations. Take the microprocessor and what it has done. The reason we can afford all the gadgets and goodies we have (enjoying that flat panel TV in HD?) is because of those who've become rich introducing innovative and cheaper products that have allowed us a standard of living unimagined by our grandfathers.
I don't begrudge Steve Jobs or Bill Gates a single penny of their fortunes, nor do I believe they "owe" me any of it. I benefit every day in ways unthinkable years ago (this blog post is an example) because of the innovations they, and many others, helped develop and bring to market.
However, what I don't want, and in fact detest, is a parasite class of politicians engaging in false moral preening under which they claim to be the arbiters of what is "fair" and "unfair" in terms of the distribution of wealth. And I certainly don't want them attempting to "fix" it through government.
The Howard Deans and Max Baucus of the world don't seem to understand the very basic economic truth that economics is not a zero-sum game, or if they do, they choose to ignore it for ideological reasons. I have to believe it is for the latter reason. If they didn't ignore that economic truth they'd have give up their claim (and power) that acting on that erroneous ideological premise is morally correct. Life, per the Democrats and the left, is not fair and the job of the left is to make it "fair". The one thing that should be clear by now is they see political power as the way of fulfilling that ideological principle and the control of the federal government as the means of imposing their false Utopian vision. They're all about gathering power centrally, not diffusing it. That scares people (see the Tea Parties). It should be just as obvious that they'll do it by any means necessary (review how we got health care reform) and for any reason -right or wrong- needed to accomplish it. "Fairness" works as well as any.
I'd venture to guess most Americans feel the way I do. And that's why the argument was never made about redistribution while the bill was being sold to the public. It is not a popular argument. York is surprised it is now being made. So is a Democratic strategist he quotes:
But he quickly saw that Democrats talking about redistribution could be politically damaging, echoing the controversy that erupted when candidate Obama famously told Ohio plumber Joe Wurzelbacher that "when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
" 'Redistribution' is an easy charge to make," the Democrat said. "I'm not surprised that it's an argument critics make; what I'm surprised at is that Democrats are making it."
I'm not. It's arrogance. Hubris. The passage of HCR has emboldened them. They've convinced themselves, despite the polls, that since HCR has passed it will become accepted and loved. Now, since its passage, they feel they can safely lay out the dirty little secret reason they wanted it passed. Ideology – and the power to impose it. All under the false flag of "fairness".
And they want the chance to do more.
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Well, of COURSE it's about wealth distribution. LOL. It's always been a mystery to me why dense righties can't see the self-evident unfairness of a world in which grunt engineer types can invent something and make a lot of money, while wise academics toil in obscurity dedicating ourselves to teaching younger minds, and have to endure obviously insufficient salaries. And pensions. And you wouldn't believe how picky the health plan is. My wife, who works at a hospital, often comments about how we ought to have all kinds of additional healthcare stuff, but no one will pay for it, and that's clearly unfair.
Corporations are a nasty, awful threat, as I've pointed out many times before. Perhaps you grunt types are just too close to the forest to see the trees, or something like that, because it's totally obvious from the celestial viewpoint of academia that people who create and run big corporations make far more money than they need, and that money could be put to much better use by wise leftists on our journey to collectivist utopia. Where everyone has food and shelter and healthcare and a good, satisfying job that doesn't involve doing anything too nasty or boring.
And this claptrap about everyone having access to the stuff created by corporations is such an obvious rationalization! Now, don't you start up about how my very comment is because of computers and internet access that is part of the stuff they create, because that would totally be irrelevant. Stuff doesn't matter! Life is a spiritual journey, and all you need is to turn the base necessities over to wise leftists, and you'll all be free to pursue that journey. Wouldn't that kind of freedom be so, so much better than the awful, self-reliance, individualistic kind? Why, you might reach a point where you don't even know where your next meal is coming from! How can you possibly be free when that kind of threat is continuously hanging over your head?
So we just need to redistribute our wealth so everyone can have enough to pursue that wonderful, spiritual journey and appreciate the leftist utopia we create together when we all sit down and hash things out in a spirit of comradeship. Without any of those awful insults you guys throw at me all the time.
Yes, and if we did that, the world would be so, so much better. And it would stay better, forever. I decree it. Plus I have analysis that says so. Analysis, analysis, rich, creamy analysis. So don't you dare bring up the history of socialist societies and start whining about "collapse" and "stagnation" and even more ridiculous stuff like "Atlas shrugging" and "stulifying bureacracy." Why, I'm part of a bureaucracy, and anyone can see that I'm not stultifying. {chuckle} LOL
"Health care reform" was about power.
The capacity to redistribute wealth is power and about power.
Bureaucratic control over health care is about power.
The optimum function of the extended order of liberty, which is the optimum approach to resource allocation, does not require any such kind of power.
So, this is only about the accrual of political power to movement socialism, which will benefit movement socialists, to whom the real advantages will be distributed.
Health care will deteriorate steadily. It was never the real object of the exercise.
I've looked at this as the first step of changing the electoral base of the Democratic party. Next is immigration reform.
The idea is to switch out the seniors to the now-illegal aliens.
The seniors are now getting way too expensive to pander to, so switching to now-illegal aliens is pragmatic.
"Paul McCartney was born into a poor family in rundown Liverpool and is now one of the richest men in England. Whom, exactly, did he rob?"
That depends on what you think of his music.
Comments from righties about income redistribution are just sour grapes. So you are worried about your children's and grandchildren's futures. Get them into government service with the iron rice bowl and your worries disappear:
In terms of compensation, federal workers are rapidly pulling away from private employees. As USA Today's Dennis Cauchon recently reported, "Federal workers earned an average salary of $67,691 in 2008 for occupations that exist both in government and the private sector, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The average pay for the same mix of jobs in the private sector was $60,046 in 2008, the most recent data available."
And that's only wages. Federal health, pension and other benefits are worth four times [my emphasis] what private workers on average enjoy, Cauchon added.
Even supposedly ill-paid state and local government workers "have higher total compensation than private workers [in comparable jobs] when the value of benefits is included."
Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_14811035#ixzz0k3K2Fij3
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Agree wholeheartedly with the benefits of free markets, and the damage from leftists imposing their own visions of fairness.
That said, we must admit the preference of businesses to gain monopoly rents and co-opt regulators. leading to tha national socialism variant of tyranny.
No matter one's view of Madonna, or Sean Penn, or Tiger Woods, they all got millions to part with money and thus deserve their fortunes.
But CEOs like O'Neal at Merrill or Prince at Citi ("gotta keep dancin' ") needed merely to seduce a dozen board members. For such, no one can claim free market feedback worked.
Shareholders had no reason to react at any of the "too big to fail" firm, nor could markets impose any discipline.
And government is utterly incompetent to regulate. The sole role of government is to enforce the premises of free markets: many small independent agents; free flow of information; no subsidies, barriers or distortions; no monopolies; and now as we have learned to our regret, no "TBTF."
Instead, government seeks to allow to TBTF, but then heap more layers of yet-more perverse regulation upon them.
Do we not recognize the idea of "iatrogenic disease?"
That said, we must admit the preference of businesses to gain monopoly rents and co-opt regulators. leading to tha national socialism variant of tyranny.
Yeah, well there is an easy answer to that cunundrum, DON'T GIVE GOVERNMENT THE POWER TO MEDDLE IN THE MARKET! Then it cannot help create monopolies or subsidize one business or industry over another.
We are so far removed from anything like a free market it always makes me chuckle when I hear lefties talking about the dangers of deregulation.
But CEOs like O'Neal at Merrill … needed merely to seduce a dozen board members. For such, no one can claim free market feedback worked.
Interestingly, Stan O'Neil, when he was CFO at ML, warned repeatedly of the dangers of the sub-prime mortgages. When he became CEO, he then turned 180 degrees and drove ML deep into that market as "socially responsible".
Given the impetus behind the sub-prime market, calling it a "free market" (with its natural feedbacks) is laughably ignorant. Calling the financial industry "free market" is likewise laughable – other than pharmaceuticals, it's the most heavily regulated industry in the US.
The WSJ did a piece some 20 years ago about how there is no word for "fair" or "fairness" in many foreign languages.
The idea of "fair" seems to be an Anglo invention.
The best example they gave was while one person tries to position themselves for a parking space, another comes along, perhaps in a smaller more agile vehicle, and takes that parking space. Most Americans would call that "unfair" on the part of the second driver but many Europeans would call that "clever".
While Progressive worry so much about America's image abroad, perhaps they should consider this as well.
In German they do use the English word "fair," but the German equivalent is ungerecht, which can mean "unjust" as well as "unfair." Although I think the German who lost out on the parking spot would probably use another word, "Arschloch!" yelled out the window to the guy who took the spot.
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I think the Democrats have a good idea with wealth redistribution. Let's start with them. Every Democratic member of Congress must give up enough personal wealth so that they are at the median American wealth level. The redistribution must be to a registered charity, for example the Salvation Army.
You cannot separate health and wealth. People wealthy with good jobs usually have insurance coverage that is the equivalent of any other health care system in the world. They get excellent care, so long as the profit motivated insurance company doesn't find some technical reason to deny coverage. It's especially the lower middle class who are most often under-insured, or are in risk of medical bankruptcy. Wealthier people also live longer on average, and have better health.
Also, note that the Republican party is very much for a lot of redistribution of wealth — they support and often have created programs that do that very thing. The two parties disagree about the proper boundaries, but in a country where the gap between the rich and poor is larger than any other advanced industrialized country, and has been growing since 1976 to levels not seen since the 19th century, I don't think the wealthy have too much to worry about.
The gap between rich and poor is meaningless, in a backwards agricultural society it might not be very high but everyone lives a subsistence existence. I would much rather a society where some people are filthy rich, but even the poor are well off compared to other nations.
You are correct that Republicans sometimes support stupid schemes, but the Democrats always do so there is at least some reason to prefer them.
In any socialised medicine there will be an eventual deterioration of service, and increased rationing. In that rationing, as is currently the case in Europe, old members of the middle and lower classes often cannot obtain life lengthening treatments. But the Rich simply pay for it or fly to another country and get it, thus your great plans to equalize continue to fall apart.
Yes, I make that point all the time to students: Americans are in the top five percent of the world in wealth, even most middle class poor Americans live in luxury compared to much of the world. Yet it is also true that politics is not about absolute measures, but relative measures. And people compare themselves to others.
European health care operates very well (the UK has the most problems — and they're really the only ones with what one could argue is socialized medicine). People can choose doctors in most places, have no waits, and while a basic standard is offered to all, wealthy can buy supplemental insurances. Most conservatives in Europe support their health care systems, insurance companies compete (in places like Germany and Switzerland) and their outcomes are better than ours overall. You cannot compare the US to other industrialized states and say we can point to better outcomes. There is always rationing of course, but market rationing simply makes sure the wealthy get what they want, and the farther down you are, the less likely it is you can have it. That works very well for rationing swimming pools, Porsches and Lagavulin scotch. But for health care, it is arguable that this isn't proper — health care is more like police protection, education, and national defense than fine single malt scotch.
You don't understand markets, Scott. Or you don't want to understand them because to do so would vitiate your purpose as an advocate of social engineering.
The supposed thirty million Americans without health insurance coverage is 10% of the population.
Only idiots believe that to get that 10% covered do you need to give the federal government bureaucratic control over the entire market for health care.
And the fact is that forcing coverage of that 10% through a bureaucratic manipulation of the medical industry will damage the entire industry. But the people doing it don't really care about that.
The first point of damage will be to price structure, which will precipitate deterioration throughout the industry, and we won't have to wait four years for that to kick in.
All of this has been one enormous lie, and I can only believe that that is among the reasons you are so attracted to it. It somehow proves to you that reality is made up out of whole cloth the way you yourself make things up out of whole cloth, and this gives you a sense of satisfaction in addition to the satisfaction you gain from an increase in socialism and a decrease in America.
But for health care, it is arguable that this isn't proper — health care is more like police protection, education, and national defense
No, it's not, and it has never been. You're using an unproven premise. Health care is not something a government is obligated to provide.
In fact the police power of the state does not provide "police protection." Police protection is something usually reserved for politicians and material witnesses.
Further, the police power of the state is a source of authority and is not by necessity a state provided service. It is actually a flexible kind of agency, even though it is most often handled by government. There is also the crucual element of individual responsibility: more guns, less crime — and that's where the authority of the law and individual protection merge in a free society.
Also, if the way that public education has been bungled and deteriorated over the years is any indicator of what will transpire with health care, then we will see a society of well-indoctrinated sick people. Plenty of social hygiene but minimal real medicine. That's very costly, you know (something everyone will be remined of whenever they seek modern medicine).
Compulsory public education more and more resembles a mass penal colony in this country. I really hope that more and more parents can avoid encarcerating kids in it.
We can choose. If we want to make it more like police protection, we can. All other advanced industrialized states have done so. Even conservative Sarkozy of France mocked the way the US avoided doing so in the past. We are now moving in that direction. We have the power to do so, we have the freedom to do so.
"All other advanced industrialized states have done so."
That is one of the poorest excuses I have ever heard and yet I hear it time and again. What will you do Erb the next time one of your children tells you that you should allow them to do something all because "all of the other children have done so" – if I remember correctly my parents countered this by saying "And if all of the other children are jumping off of cliffs you should do the same?"
Yes, there it is again, "all the other advanced industrial countries…blah, blah."
Who cares? Canada's an "advanced industrial country" right here on the North American continent and Canadians come to the U.S. when they need prompt advanced industrial medical care.
My father, who was wiser than I ever knew, had it all in a nutshell: "Anything for free stinks."
That's the exact opposite of the Howdy Doody Erb socialist worldview. In the world of the advanced extended order of liberty, profit drives quality and innovation. Bureaucratic distribution drives nothing but rules, social hygiene indoctrination, and slow mediocre service.
Americans still breathing American principles and American air know the difference.
Well Erb I call it socialism because only a stooge would not see that it is indeed a slow path to socialism. It certainly will lead to rationing because we cannot pay for it.
Your problem is that each day brings you a tabula rasa on the antics of the democratic party. Whereas the rest of us remember their many schemes which turned into exactly what they said it would not be, we remember the bloated costs and the unintended consequences.
But you just close an eye to left wing history.
"the maldistribution of income in America has gone up way too much
>>>I believe this argument is a winner. And the GOP should use it to attack……the out of whack salaries of govt workers, which are majorly increased over those in the private sector.
A smart and gutsy party could do damage to the Dems with this one
You forgot some other kind of "innovation": legal and political innovation.
Lawyers create new laws, and thus demand for their product. 2700 pages is a lot of demand.
The Politicians came up with a new way to game the CBO. Again, innovation.
Innovation is not always good and should not always be rewarded.
SShiell, it's not jumping off the roof, that hurts people. This is giving health care, saving lives, and improving health. It's the right thing to do. It's a disgrace it's taken us this long; this is a moral, ethical issue — it's about preserving life. Still, this reform was only a first step, it doesn't solve all the problems.
More nonsense. You don't need to enact a bureaucratic takeover of an entire medical industry to provide 10% of your population with health coverage, which will then deteriorate and still be rationed in its deteriorated state.
The biggest lesson of the 20th Century was that attempts to centralize industries does not work. Why? Because the central bureaucrats can never obtain enough knowledge to make it work properly. Price signals are obstructed and costs rise as service deteriorates and choices narrow.
This sort of thing comes down to acquiring power and controlling lives. It has nothing to do with "giving health care" or "saving lives." That's just a lie.
You're pathetic. You use a childish rationale for why we should have health care – because "Everybody Else Does" and then you can't even put together a coherent response beyond it is the right thing to do blah, blah, blah!.
I have never once argued against reforms in the health care industry. I have never once argued against providing a safety net for those who are unable to fend for themsleves. I do however take exception in "The Government Answer is the only answer" type of approach the Democrats have cobbled together and you continue to defend. And I further take exception to the deceptions used by the Democrats in hiding the true cost of this fiasco which is again something you continue to defend.
And for once I agree with you that this reform is but a first step. The next steps are to take back the House, the Senate, the Oval Office, kill the bill, keep the good parts and start over.
I note that others provide health care and have superior results. We can learn from that. I don't think government is the "only answer."
Except that they don't have superior results, which reduces your whole argument to flinders.
Yes, on almost every measure other states out do us in health care. They also have superior results in education, with a far more centralized government education system than we have. Look at the real world, not at ideology.
I don't think government is the "only answer."
But you continue to defend this trasvesty of a bill without such a disclaimer. Nor did you make any such disclaimer during the entire health care "debate".
Back room deals, NON-transparency, cost double-speak, demonization of helath care opponents, and outright deception from the Democrats regarding the contents of the bill was defended by you at every turn – so now don't be surprised when we LOL when you say I don't think government is the "only answer."
You're wrong – I think the bill needed to pass, but it's not at all perfect, and hopefully can be tweaked and improved over time. I think the GOP can play a role in doing so. As I said, I'd prefer a German style system, the US plan has less government than in any advanced industrialized state. That's why the hyperbolic rhetoric around it is ridiculous.
"As I said, I'd prefer a German style system, the US plan has less government than in any advanced industrialized state. That's why the hyperbolic rhetoric around it is ridiculous."
And with hardly any effort at all we can round up speech after speech by Obama prior to his candidacy that he wants a government run system and that it will not happen all at once. One step at a time – "in 10 or 20 years, it will happen, we will be there" those are his words.
You can't be so ignorant as to ignore the step-by-step progress to the single payer system, can you? And that is why your comments regarding hyperbolic rhetoric are so ridiculous. Either you are defending the system and the ultimate goal or you are not – and you have been an avid proponent from the beginning – in other words, you are an advocate for single payer.
Professor Erb:
(circa 2010) "This is giving health care, saving lives, and improving health. It's the right thing to do."
(circa 2020) "Yes, I know it's a complete mess, but we meant well!"
Jeez, if ever there was a rock-solid predictor of failure, it is a Progressive saying that something is the right thing to do. They use that when they have no other sensible reason for doing what they "feel" should be done.
Your prediction, notherbob, is based on fantasy. Looking at reality — how other health care systems work — the idea it'll be a complete mess in ten years is very unlikely.
" . . the idea it'll be a complete mess in ten years is very unlikely."
And, pray tell us, what kind of evidence can you produce to back up this prediction of yours? The US government track record for:
AmTrak? Broke!
Medicare? Broken!
Medicaid? Broken!
Postal Service? Broken!
VA Hostipal System? Broken!
US Education System? Broken!
US Energy Department? Broken!
In fact, let us indeed look at reality – outside the US military, can you provide a single solitary success story care of the US government? Something, anything that we can possibly see any likiehood that it won't "be a complete mess in ten years."
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In addition to crop insurance, the groups advocated heavily for planting flexibility for farmers. "Our top policy priority for Title 1 in the 2012 Farm Bill is to maintain full planting flexibility and avoid potential planting distortions, so producers are encouraged to follow market signals rather than making planting decisions in anticipation of receiving payments under government programs," stated the groups. "With the anticipated elimination of direct payments and possible restructuring or elimination of the counter-cyclical program, it is imperative that any alternative program included in the next farm bill be structured in a manner to not distort planting decisions and to provide full planting flexibility."
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Whether they are 30 days late or 90 days late, there has been a recent rise in mortgage defaults. The foreclosure rates that temporarily slowed during the government's initial push toward loan modifications are once again on the rise. Currently, more than seven million American homeowners are in some sort of mortgage default.
The reasons for the high number of defaults cannot be attributed solely to people who purchased homes above their means. On the contrary, the extraordinarily high number of defaults is the result of a longstanding recession and our current economy and the trickle-down effects from them.
The recession has closed businesses, resulting in the loss of jobs. Those who have been able to find alternate employment after being laid off have had to accept jobs which pay 25 to 50 percent less than they were making with their previous employer. Homeowners who oncehad two to three incomes to pay their bills are now struggling to pay the same debt with one income, and in some cases, no income. The jobs which were once available are no longer there.
With the loss of jobs comes the loss of benefits. The employees who have lost jobs have also lost their insurance benefits, and as a result, when they are faced with an illness or injury, are saddled with high out-of-pocket medical bills if they have no insurance. Those who are able to maintain their insurance benefits are strapped with yet another high monthly payment to keep the coverage previously paid by their employer.
The jobless aren't alone. Those who are employed are also taking pay and benefit cuts, receiving a reduced income and paying more out-of-pocket to keep insurance and other benefits. It's a sacrifice that they are expected to make in an effort to keep their jobs and help their employers stay in business. Those homeowners, too, are facing the fact that they have less income and more expenses, while still trying to stay current in their mortgage payments.
In addition, the foreclosure crisis and economy have caused a rapid decline in housing values, which in turn causes a loss in home equity, an asset which once increased the credit –worthiness of homeowners. With the decline in home value, comes a loss in the value of the down payment on a home, meaning homeowners who once borrowed 80 percent of their home's value now owe a significantly higher percentage. Sometimes these homeowners are discouraged to find that they owe more than their house is worth after making years of payments.
Add to the above reasons inflation and the rising cost of food, medical care, utilities, and maintenance, and it's not so hard to see that the dollar is being stretched further than it was several years ago. Many homeowners who purchased a home within their means five years ago have not received cost of living raises for years, and are now paying more for all their goods and services on the same or less income they made when they purchased their home.
These situations are the ones faced by many of the seven million American homeowners who are currently in default on their mortgage. It's not reserved solely for low-income families, or even those who borrowed with little or no down payment. It's a rising epidemic due to a stagnant economy, and one that's being experienced by people of all incomes, including celebrities and millionaires, who are also experiencing the effects.
There is hope for these seven million homeowners, however. Lenders are often willing to work with homeowners to bring them up to date, and some homeowners are eligible for a loan modification which will recalculate their monthly mortgage payment to one that is affordable based on their current income and circumstances. The key is for all homeowners to talk to their lenders, expressing their intent and desire to keep their homes and work with their banks to bring their payments current and find an option which is acceptable to all parties. Learning more about loan modification programs and the requirements to apply and be approved is one step that many homeowners have not taken advantage of. If you are currently in default, now is the time to take action, before your bank forecloses. Put aside your fears, become educated and take immediate steps to do what you have to do to make sure you are one of the seven million homeowners who were able to save your home. It is possible and it's not too late.
Anna Cuevas, known as "America's Loan Modification Guru," has guided thousands of Americans in keeping their homes from foreclosure. A popular blogger (askaloanmodguru.com andhuffingtonpost.com), Cuevas has been called a "superhero of the loan modification industry" and has been nominated for CNN's Heroes. She is the #1 bestselling author of SAVE YOUR HOME Without Losing Your Mind or Money.


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At 25 this young man was still a baby in life. What could possibly drive him to commit such a horrific thing?
Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, 25, fatally shot his girlfriend early Saturday, then drove to Arrowhead Stadium and committed suicide in front of his coach and general manager after first thanking them for everything they had done for him, police said.
Authorities did not immediately release a possible motive for the murder-suicide, which stunned the team and came one day before a home game against the Carolina Panthers. The NFL said the game would go on as scheduled.
Belcher's dead girlfriend is believed to be Kasandra Perkins, although that has yet to be officially confirmed. On Facebook, a profile for Kasandra Perkins includes pictures of her with Belcher, whom she refers to as her boyfriend. Belcher and his girlfriend had a baby less than three months ago on September 11.
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Hint: prove by induction on the degree of polynomial in R[x].
Can someone please help me with this question:
Prove by induction that every polynomial in R[x] can be written as a product of irreducible polynomials in R[x] (Note: R is the real numbers)
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Base case: for every polynomial of degree 1 is irreducible so it can be written as itself.
Inductive step: We can assume the statement is true for polynomials with degree . You need to show that it is true for polynomials with degree .
Can you continue from here?
Two hints more (well read and better thought, the following hints are about 90% of the answer to your question):
1) Any real polynomial of odd degree has a real root (m.v.t. for continuous functions) , and:
2) If is a root of a real polynomial, then also is , or in other words: complex non-real roots of a real polynomial come in conjugate pairs.
To prove the inductive step you have to note that all polynomials of degree are either irreducible (if so they can be written as a themselves), or written as a product of two polynomials with smaller degree. Then you can use the assumption and write down each of them as a product of irreducible polynomials.
As many other times in the past I misread, or better: didn't read completely. The induction proof works for polynomials over any integral domain, and since I read "real" I assumed (because, and I checked, I did NOT read it in the OP) that he meant : any real polynomial can be written as the product of irreducible polynomials....of degree 1 and/or 2 .
My hints, thus, as huge overkill.


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L-R Men's Lacrosse Rallies To Beat Rollins, 17-16, In Double Overtime
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Bears rally from a six-goal deficit to defeat the Tars
|Sophomore Sam Ashton scored the game-winning goal in double overtime in Lenoir-Rhyne's 17-16 win over Rollins in Deep South Conference action Sunday afternoon at Moretz Stadium.
Hickory, N.C. - The Lenoir-Rhyne Men's Lacrosse Team (4-10, 2-6) rallied from a six-goal deficit to defeat Rollins (3-11, 1-6), 17-16, in double overtime in Deep South Conference action Sunday at Moretz Stadium. L-R sophomore Sam Ashton (New Market, Md.) scored the game-winner 20 seconds into the second overtime.
Lenoir-Rhyne freshman John Remsen (Oceanside, N.Y.) scored four goals while freshmen Miles Britton (Wesley Chapel, Fla.) and Imari Davis (San Diego, Calif.) added three goals and two assists each as the Bears won their second consecutive match.
Rollins was led by Will Diamond's (Delray Beach, Fla.) four goals and three assists in the setback.
The Tars scored seven straight goals, including three by Diamond, to end the first period with a 9-3 advantage.
Rollins held a 16-14 lead with 1:22 remaining in the fourth period before Lenoir-Rhyne scored a pair of goals to force overtime including a score by Remsen with 18 seconds left to extend the contest.
Ashton and freshman Ned Kaish (Atlanta, Ga.) also scored three goals each on the day for the Bears, who held a 50-47 edge in shots taken. Kaish leads the squad in goals this season with 30.
Rollins, which lost its fourth straight match, received three goals and one assist from Oliver Moore (Skaneateles, N.Y.) in the loss as well.
In goal, freshman Alex Squires (Lawrenceville, Ga.) was credited with the win after stopping four shots for Lenoir-Rhyne while Rollins' Andrew Sheerin (Huntington, N.Y.) suffered the defeat despite totaling 10 saves on the afternoon.
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This unit is designed to cover the comparison of sets of objects that are equal to each other using one-to-one correspondence. For example, your child may compare three balls to three bats. Hands-on activities and learning tools are provided to help your child understand and practice the concept. This unit is designed to last one week, depending on how often you teach math.
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Unusual percussion work opens Ojai North festival [Mercury News]
Rachel Efron returns to Berkeley [Coco Times]
California Classics: The Berkeley City Club [San Diego Reader]
Berkeley Lab and San Jose partner to boost clean tech [LBNL]
A boost from Berkeley for Darcy Burner [Seattle PI]
Photo: Blue dragonfly in Berkeley, by Giséle Frazão Teixeira.
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Nurses strike at Alta Bates, 10 other hospitals
An estimated 4,500 registered nurses from 11 Bay Area hospitals, including Berkeley's Alta Bates, went out on a one-day strike today to protest what they say are some 100 concessions to patient care being made by their employer, Sutter Health.
Dozens of staff gathered outside Alta Bates on Ashby starting at 7am this morning and they plan to be there until 7pm tonight. Most of them were wearing red and many solicited support, in the form of honking horns, from passing cars.
"We are protesting the cuts Sutter Health has made to community services," said Rochelle Pardue-Okimoto, a spokesperson for the protesters. "There are over 60 propositions on the table which make it very difficult for us to treat patients."
Pardue-Okimoto said negotiations between nursing staff and Sutter Health management have been ongoing since May last year and that very minimal progress had been made.
"We are not asking for more," she said. "We will keep the status quo. We just don't want any takeaways. They need to take the 60 propositions off the table." One key issue, Pardue-Okimoto said, was Sutter Health's desire to combine sick time with vacation time. … Continue reading »
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Most of the 18 limited edition prints have been snapped up. But we have just a few prints left of "Supermoon", which was shot by the hugely talented Ira Serkes,
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Berkeley sitting ban progresses toward November ballot
In a contentious meeting that lasted until the wee hours of the morning and exposed deep divisions in Berkeley, the City Council voted early Wednesday to proceed with a measure that would put a sit-lie ordinance on the November ballot.
In a 6 to 3 vote, with City councilmembers Kriss Worthington, Jesse Arreguín and Max Anderson dissenting, the council directed the city manager's office to come back July 10 with wording for a ballot measure. The council will then have to vote again whether to actually place the measure on the November ballot, but its placement is expected.
City Council chambers and a downstairs hall were packed early in the evening with scores of people who wanted to speak for and against the measure, which would make it illegal to sit on a sidewalk in a commercial district between 7 am and 10 pm. Violators would be given two verbal warnings to get up, and if they didn't comply, could get a $50 ticket. If voters adopt the measure in November, it would go into effect in July 2013. … Continue reading »
Snapshot: Bob and Suzan, Stonemountain & Daughter
The father/daughter team of Bob and Suzan Steinberg represent third and fourth generations of textile business knowhow. Bob was born in 1933 in Los Angeles and started working for the family textile business at the age of ten. He's been a "fabric man" ever since. With his 9-year old daughter, in 1967 Bob opened up Bob Steinberg's Fabric Emporium which specialized in "counter-culture alternative style hippie fabrics." In 1976 they both moved north to the Monterey Bay area where Bob opened up a fabric store with the intention of taking a classic Jewish immigrant family business (Steinberg and Sons) and modernizing it. With that in mind Stonemountain (Steinberg literally translated from German) & Daughter was born. In 1981 they brought Stonemountain and Daughter to Berkeley. Suzan manages the store with her father, and after 31 years of being in business in Berkeley, they've managed to remain one of the few independent merchants in the textile business today with customers in every state of the union.
When did you arrive in Berkeley?
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What's your hood?
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As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Suzan: A therapist or a councilor.
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