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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (191 votes).
In short: Great buzz, shame couldn't run across the finish lineDate of review: September 6, 2011
In short: Absolutely no organisationIn full: Similar to other reviews. There was no staggered start, couldn't even get in the time zone areas they had at the start. There was a bottle neck on the course at the start and finish so we were queuing after we crossed the start line and before we could cross the finish line making the chip timing pointless. The whole course was far too crowded, ended up darting onto footpaths at the side of the road. Water stations were poorly signposted so missed most, when could get to one there were too few people handing out the drinks so couldn't get one. There were few bins close to the drinks stations so empty bottles were a massive hazard. I tried to contact the race organisers several times asking if they will sort it out for next year, with no reply, so sadly I won't be going next year and I definitely wouldn't recommend it to anyone. The worst organisation I have ever seen in such an event.Date of review: May 26, 2011
In short: Oh my God can you please sort out the organisationIn full: This was my first half marathon and I was shocked at how poorly it was organised. They expect that many thousands of runners and spectators to cram down broad street? I lost my friends at the bag drop, queue for the loos was terrible (thank God most men were [peeing up the walls!) My friend's mother who came to watch got trapped in the start line and couldn't get out (thought she was going to have to run the 13 miles with her handbag etc)and all those people queuing to cross the start line? How demoralising! It took an hour to get from the finish line to the bag drop and back again (a few hundred yards) and everyone queued for one guy handing out foils when there were dozens further down - no direction or organisation. Please Please Please in 2011 start and finish the race in cannon Hill park where people can disperse safely. I really feared being crushed and no runners were able to get into place acording to their speed. I really want to return this year but not if it's organised in this manner. And yes, race against climate change?????? Every one of the 12,000 odd runners and 30-40,000 spectakers would have had to come by car if it wasnt in walking distance THERE IS NO PUBLIC TRANSPRT AT 9AM ON A SUNDAY!!! Work out the carbon footprint on that!! The atomsphere on the run itself was lovely but please get it sorted for this year!!Date of review: April 4, 2011
In short: Organisation = shocking, first timer not looking for good time = perfect!Date of review: February 21, 2011
In short: Good City Centre race let down with bad organisation at the start and the finishDate of review: January 15, 2011
In short: Could do betterIn full: Different people to blame for different 'problems' - I didn't have trouble with the toilets - but there wasn't a massive number so I can see why some would complain. The start - well maybe organisers could have enforced the start zones so slow runners weren't far too near the front for their ability OR here's a novel idea give people a colour coded race number and ask them to stand in the right pen - oh I forgot they did do that and as usual at the majority of races people pay no attention and stand where they want.My 3rd Birmingham Half (4 if you count the half marathon back in 1989 (I think it was)) and I'll be back next year.This has the potential to be a great race - lets hope next year it is.Date of review: November 19, 2010
In short: Despite the poor organisation at start and finish I thoroughly enjoyed it!Date of review: November 19, 2010
In short: Good run but few glitches to be ironed outIn full: Pros- Nice route in parts around Bourneville and through the park- Excellent goodie bag with t-shirts etc and good medal- Semi smooth operation after the event collecting goodie bag etc - Good drink stations with bottles which are easier to drink than a cup- Handy bag storage area- Free massage at the end! Cant complain about that now!Cons -Not all the marshals knew what was going on, I asked for directions to the start and they didn't know-Start was very confusing, the start area was rammed and I couldn't get into the right time slot so had to wait behind the barriers, wait till the right time came past and then jump in.- Due to the confusing start I got stuck behind a lot of slower runners-Bottle neck of runners after the start, this was very frustrating having to stop and wait after going over the chip line -Parts of the course were far too narrow for the quantity of runners- Not enough toilets, queues were huge for the toilets and the NIAs toilets by the bag check in were closed. - Last 2-3 miles were uphill which was a killer but then again you want a challenge in life!-I'm not really a person to buy photos after an event which is handy as the official photos were ridiculously expensive! -Early start time knocked public transport options on the head! But then its good to have an early start and enjoy the rest of the day after the event.OverallApart from a couple of organisational glitches I had a great day, ran a PB and had a handy goodie bag, I had a smile on my face and thanks to the free massage some freshish legs to go home with, as its local(ish) I will be back next year, I'm sure all the glitches will be ironed out by then!Date of review: November 19, 2010
In short: what can i say that everyone else hasnt, organisation in 2009 was great with staggered wave starts , no coincidence it was world half marathon ! i was embarrassed for my local city, sort it out birmingham council, you already have a bad name !!!!!!!!Date of review: November 11, 2010
In short: Magnificent atmosphere and support all the way around the course, quick course with the overall majority on a straight flat, well organised despite people ending after the 2 hour mark having to wait...In full: Alot of people have critised this event obviously because of the troubles with the start and finish - they seem to have forget about the other 2 hours of enjoyment. I thought it was excellent overall!PROS -Atmosphere was electric with bands playing throughout the course and spectators cheering runners on all the way.Good support from sponsors - entertainment such as heart fm and x factor finalists singing at the finish line made it special.Loads of freebies given out and any type of drink you could want. Great location too, easy to get to and with almost 15000 runners parking was suprisingly easy to find in the nia, which doubled up as the luggage drop off point. The route was great too - a nice straight along the pershore road after a quick run around the city centre. It then looped around and went back along the pershore road and went against the other runners for 2 miles before doing a tour of a park and making its way back into the centre to face the uphill roads to broad st, overall a quick half marathon with not too much ascent. Plenty of marshalls and water points all around the course.cons-A slow start thanks mainly to people being in the wrong place - bib colours were given out but people expecting to run in over 2 hours shud not be at the front!Having to wait at the finish for runners finishing 2 hrs + (maybe karma?!)Not enough toilets and i had to go and use walkabouts toilets- almost missing the startDate of review: November 9, 2010
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SAN ANTONIO — KCWX-TV will televise this Thursday's UTSA men's basketball game at New Mexico State. Tip-off is scheduled for 8 p.m. (CT) in the Roadrunners' first Western Athletic Conference (WAC) road contest in Las Cruces, N.M.
The broadcast will originate from New Mexico State's AggieVision. Jeff Matthews (play-by-play) and Glen Cerny (analyst) will call the action.
The Roadrunners and Aggies will meet for the third time and first as WAC opponents. UTSA won the inaugural meeting, 81-74, in overtime on Jan. 3, 2005, in San Antonio. New Mexico State evened the series with a 74-72 home victory on Dec. 20, 2005.
KCWX-TV is available in the San Antonio market on AT&T U-Verse (2/1002 HD), DirecTV/DISH Network (2), Grande Communications (2/802 HD) and Time Warner Cable (4/102 HD). This marks the second men's basketball game that KCWX has aired. (Old Dominion on Nov. 11).

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Kentwood Players will hold open auditions for the Tony Award winning musical "Fiddler on the Roof" with book by Joseph Stein, lyrics by Jerry Bock, and music by Sheldon Harnick.
The auditions will be held on Saturday, January 11, 2014 from 11 am to 5pm (please arrive no later than 3 pm) and on Sunday, January 12 from 6 pm to 10 (please arrive no later than 8pm). Callbacks will be held on Monday, January 13 from 7 pm to 10. Auditions and performances take place at the Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Avenue, Westchester.
Performance dates are March 14 to April 19 with 20 performances on Fridays / Saturdays at 8 pm, Sundays at 2 pm and Thursdays on April 3, 10, and 17 at 8pm. This is a non-equity, non-paid production produced by Rocky and Victoria Miller, directed by Harold Dershimer, with musical direction by Catherine Rahm, and choreography by Isabella Olivas, produced by special arrangement with Music Theatre International.
"Fiddler on the Roof" is the heart-warming musical about the milkman Tevye and his family eking out a living in the Jewish community of Anatevka in Tsarist Russia. Tevye strives to keep up the traditions of his faith, race and culture against the backdrop of discrimination and prejudice in addition to the love, conflict and humor of finding husbands for his three eldest daughters.
One of the most successful and long-running musicals of all time, "Fiddler" includes such favorites as "If I Were a Rich Man," "Matchmaker, Matchmaker," "Tradition" and "Sunrise Sunset."
Those auditioning should arrive early to sign-in and must prepare 16-32 bars of a song from the character for which you are auditioning. An accompanist will be provided. No CD's, tapes, or acapella. Come dressed comfortably as you will also be asked to learn a basic dance/movement routine. Those auditioning for one of Tevye's daughters must have some BALLET. These roles, as well as those auditioning for one of the Russian dancers, will learn a separate routine at callbacks. Most roles will be a part of the ensemble.
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Post-race meal.
Photo courtesy of the Paatuwaqasti 50K Run and Relay.
Just before the start, there is a ceremonial blessing for the runners, after which race director Bucky Preston stands at the line, as he has each year since it's founding in 2003, and reminds competitors that "this is not a race." The event's motto explains this philosophy: "I run in reverence of all living things. In our prayers, may we always remember that water is life." After five or six hours of hoofing it through the Arizona heat, you'll seldom find a runner who disagrees with this statement.
"Putting Hopi life values and teaching at the forefront is the purpose of the run," said Preston, "[In older times] a runner would take one of the many foot trails from the village in the early morning to a spring, take a drink and sprinkle himself with the cold water. ... They received strength and were healed of any ailments. Everything at Hopi involves water—water is life. Now, water is being abused. In some places, it is gone and I want to bring awareness to the people."
The event continues long after the runners have crossed the finish line. Various speakers who work intimately with water usage in their respective communities make appearances, and all participants and volunteers are invited to a traditional Hopi meal. "The generosity of the Hopi, hosting this race and making visitors like myself welcome on their trails, is truly extraordinary. The material poverty that many of them endure is evident to anyone who runs around First Mesa, but this does not keep them from extending every kindness, from the encouragement and gratitude of volunteers and spectators all along the course, to the traditional meal served afterwards," says runner Andy Roth, a repeat participant. Awards come in the form of handmade Hopi crafts.
Modern Hopi villages rely on crafts and tourism as there is no industry. Meyer explains the struggle to maintain traditional culture, "Sadly, many young people move away to cities to find work and careers. Many villagers still have traditional gardens but it is challenging due to lack of moisture … Some live in traditional manner (no electricity or running water), but most live a life in between."


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Seoul, 22 April 2010 -Ladies and gentlemen,
B4E returns to Asia amidst an international landscape that is on the one hand full of optimism as some economies seize the sustainability agenda.
And on the other, perhaps more opaque; more uncertain and more fractured than in 2009, not least on the challenge of climate change.
The global economy is certainly now showing signs of recovery perhaps and in particular in Asia.
The question is whether this will be a Green Economy Recovery in 21st century with an emphasis on low carbon, clean tech, resource efficient sectors and services.
Or whether it is one that, despite some notable national exceptions, looks backwards or at the very least maintains the vacuum of the status quo.
Good News for the Green Economy
First the positive news: Some economies have put the financial and economic crisis to good use.
Last year, UNEP presented its Green New Deal policy brief to its annual gathering of environment ministers.
It recommended that one per cent of GDP, invested in green investments, could go a long way to revving-up the global economy while stimulating low carbon, resource efficient sectors; generating employment and setting the stage for a more sustainable development path.
Professor Edward Barbier, one of the authors of the UNEP brief and a leading environmental economist, has assessed how far countries have so far gone.
China and the Republic of Korea lead the way at three per cent of GDP, followed by Saudi Arabia, 1.7 per cent; Australia, 1.2 per cent and Japan, 0.8 per cent.
This is followed by the United States, with 0.7 per cent of GDP; Germany, 0.5 per cent; France 0.3 per cent and Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom, 0.2 per cent.
Both China and the Republic of Korea are embedding these policy choices in medium-term planning.
For example the government here has a five-year green-growth investment plan.
It will spend $60 billion to cut carbon dependency with the aim of boosting economic growth to 2020 and generating up to 1.8 million jobs.
Copenhagen Provides Cooperation, Economic and Forest Stimulus
The UN climate convention meeting also provided an 'economic stimulus' with developed economies pledging immediate funding of $30 billion over three years.
This could rise to $100 billion a year by 2020.
The funds will assist developing economies to not only adapt to climate change but to also assist in a transition to a low carbon economy.
Some of the funds will also be earmarked for investments in forests under the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD).
UN-REDD, of which UNEP is a key part, is preparing some nine countries including Papua New Guinea, Panama and the Democratic Republic of Congo for this new opportunity.
All in all, business opportunities in areas such as renewable and clean or cleaner energy generation alongside ones in natural resource management.
The Copenhagen Accord, to which over 100 countries have now associated themselves, is also the first cooperative climate document bringing together developed and developing economies on emission reductions and constraints.
If all the pledges and intentions outlined are fully met, then this too can provide Green investment opportunities.
Meanwhile some countries are pressing forward with new technologies in the field. Only a few days ago the US Department of Energy announced a carbon capture and storage project linked to a big pulverized coal-fired power station in Alabama.
Increasing numbers of financial institutions and lenders are requesting companies to disclose their carbon footprints, the latest being the Securities and Exchange Commission in New York.
Meanwhile, the lending criteria of banks including the World Bank are also coming under increasing scrutiny.
The recent row over South Africa's planned coal-fired power station-its first in 15 years-is a case in point.
While the World Bank voted in favour of the close to $4 billion loan, concern by several countries did secure provisions on improved energy efficiency and investments in renewables in South Africa.
Reality Checks in a Rapidly Changing World
But distinguished delegates, there are also some reality checks here and some underlying assumptions that can flip the glass to being either half full or half empty.
Copenhagen failed to deliver an international regulatory framework or legally binding treaty.
There remains debate as to the pace and scale of the $30 billion investment alongside concerns as to how much of this will be new and how much will old, or re-packaged money.
Meanwhile there is a sense of increasing bilateralism in the air.
Only a few weeks ago General Electric of America and the state of California announced cooperation with China's Ministry of Railways.
The plan is to use Chinese railway technology to assist in the development of the state's high speed rail links.
A fascinating reflection of the way geopolitics are shaping the current world.
But also underlining that while the big and rapidly growing economies have the finance, know-how and capacity to receive and to invest significant sums.
Green Economy: Future, Fracture Points and Fairness
So while some may board the high speed train to future Green Growth, others may be left at the platform without a ticket.
What are the prospects for small island states and for many smaller economies on continents such as Africa, Latin America and Asia?
Many of these still require pre-investment assistance and capacity building if they are to also enjoy economic growth, and more importantly sustainable Green Growth.
Business, in partnership with the UN, governments and public finance houses has an important role to play in assisting the realization of a fairer and more equitable world.
It also has a vested interest in seeing markets for low carbon, high tech investments flourish everywhere and not just in a few nations.
A vested interest too in seeing the sustainable and more intelligent management of increasingly scarce natural or nature-based resources-these will be constraints over the coming decades if not addressed.
Some Litmus Tests for Climate and Cancun
In respect to climate change, all eyes are now on the UN climate convention meeting in Cancun, Mexico.
What are some of the elements that can assist in ensuring the meeting is a success.
The $30 billion-worth of pledges need to be operationalized and operationalized fast.
UNEP, working with nine leading modeling centres, estimates there remains a gap between the pledges and intentions linked to the Copenhagen Accord and the science.
Emissions in 2020 need to be somewhere just over 40 billion tones (Gt) of C02 equivalent if we are to realize emission reductions by 2050 that keep a temperature rise to 2 degrees C or less.
So, this gap needs to be bridged between now and Cancun or in Cancun itself.
Options include some countries increasing their pledges upwards to bringing sectors such as maritime and shipping and aviation into the carbon and emission trading markets.
Is Business Out in Front?
Business, either through persuasion at the political level or through actions on the ground-for example greening their operations and their supply chains-can contribute to such aims and the wider sustainability challenge.
Indeed in some ways, business is out in front.
It was suggested that a failure to secure an international regime in Copenhagen would be the death knell for the carbon markets.
But the latest assessment of the European emissions trading market shows that despite this and in spite of a fall in emissions linked with the recession, the markets have proved remarkably resilient.
This should strengthen the resolve of others contemplating such markets with the ultimate aim of securing a higher carbon price.
Indeed a recent assessment of the proposed Kerry-Graham-Lieberman Senate bill in the United States, says if it were enacted in full the emissions trading market there could be worth over $250 billion.
The price of carbon could be over $30 a tonne between 2013 and 2020.
Green Growth-its Not Just Climate Change
The role of business and the link between more creative and intelligent markets and the wider sustainability agenda, is not confined to climate change.
Towards the end of 2010-the UN's International Year of Biodiversity-a landmark report by The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, hosted by UNEP, will be published.
Already some of the figures are emerging: An investment of $45 billion could secure a global network of protected areas whose services are worth close to $5 trillion annually.
A return of 100:1.
Some companies, including some in this room today, are making the business case for investing in natural resources whether they be in productive soils or biodiversity.
Climate and Natural Resource Scarcity-the Defining Challenge
Business and its experience will be key as to whether governments are persuaded to support new kinds of markets-for example in water and nature-based services-that bring value to these natural assets in order to conserve and sustainably manage them.
REDD may be the first, but eventually markets or funds could transform the economics of other terrestrial ecosystems via greater incentives for, for example, sustainable agriculture.
And what about marine: there is an urgent need to capture the true value of coastal ecosystems in terms of their role as nurseries for fish and coastal defense but also for also carbon storage.
The Green Economy is emerging, in part driven by the financial and economic crisis.
And in part because of a growing realization that the blunt and limited markets of the past are unlikely to sustain six billion people, rising to nine billion by 2050.
From its day-to day operations, to its ecological footprint and across its supply chains, managing environmental risks like climate change and the scarcity of natural resources, will increasingly define a company's business and political life in the 21st century.
Sustainable development is not a choice, but an imperative and the only course possible in our 21st century world.
A Green Economy will happen, either by design or default.
I am sure that any prudent and forward-looking business man or woman, would back a well-thought out, design-led path rather than the alternate one.
By its very nature, pressing the default button rather than the design route will be disruptive, unpredictable and bad for business.


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Posted on 11/10/2012 12:06:51 PM PST by Steelfish
NOVEMBER 10, 2012 Why I Despair The central problem is that America, knowing Obama, gave him a second term.
By Charles C. W. Cooke
An apocryphal tale tells of an American who claimed to own George Washingtons axe. Three times, he exclaims, the axe has had its handle replaced, and twice had its head replaced!
This is a joke that has been rendered in more serious form by philosophers throughout the ages perhaps most famously in Plutarchs Life of Theseus and it may be time now to consider it in relation to the United States. People and countries change, as they must.
But, as with Washingtons axe, to change too much is to invite the possibility not merely of alteration, but of replacement. Predicated, as it is, on an established set of principles rather than merely on geographical or racial fact America could presumably reach a point at which it could no longer usefully be called America. How close to that point are we?
I was born in England in 1984, two days before Ronald Reagan was elected to a second term. As a small child, I watched the Space Shuttle take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. I had an Apollo 11 lunchbox.
With varying levels of awareness, I saw the United States defeat Communism, come to Kuwaits aid in 1991, and rise to hyperpower status. During the 1990s, I watched in awe as Silicon Valley revolutionized the world.
Once, my father told me that the difference between the average Briton and the average American was that a Briton looks at a man driving a Ferrari and thinks, What a b*****d, while an American thinks, Ill be him one day. This my father considered a great virtue as do I. By the time that...
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Maybe they were intermittently replaced with the originals.
Or to quote the great philosopher, Gomer Pyle, "Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
Great read, although I cannot despair. I'm pessimistic about the future of this country, but my hope lies elsewhere. America, as great and exceptional as it is, is not the ultimate answer. I'm waiting on a certain carpenter turned king who will, when he is ready, provide the only true and lasting government for mankind.
So do I. We are Argentina now.
Hell you find some on here with the same "bastard" attitude towards other's material possessions.
To Hell with the despair, cynicism, apathy, and defeatism. The time for redress is now.
All you punks willing to abandon the Country, the Constitution, our children's future can go straight to Hell.
Great article. Loved it. I look forward to reading every single article from Victor Davis Hanson and Daniel Greenfield. Truly magnificent minds and awesome writers. Is the single, black mother of three in that government housing in Chicago reading their articles? She wouldn't even know where to look for them. The first rule of rhetoric is to "Remember the audience". We sit around and moan about how stupid the Democrat voters are. "Can't they see the mess they're making?" probably not, but they still vote. I want that vote. I want to take that vote away from the Democrats. And saying they're stupid doesn't get their vote. Who do you know that describes them self as "stupid"? They may not think they're brilliant, but they think they're clever or "street smart". OK. Let them think that. I still want their vote.
"If you understand yourself and you understand your enemy, in one hundred battles, you will never be defeated."
I disagree.
What has happened in the last two decades is different from anything before.
We are exporting JOBS.
Jobs which had been held by, and done by Americans. So many millions of jobs, have been exported.
All of those jobs, now are done by foreigners.
Therefore a lot of Americans who used to do those jobs, are out of work.
Money is flowing out of the country.
This is a gigantic fail. In every way.
We must turn it around now.
Bring back American jobs, and close the US to unlimited imports.
The despair is going to be in the hearts, stomachs, and heads of those foolish enough not to prepare just a little. Freepers are some of the most aware people I have (met).
There are plenty of warnings that times are a changing.
We had an exceptionally crappy week. My father in law and sister in law dead on the same morning. And a major mistake made by my son. And I think there was an election or something.
So what is there to do?
I'm canning fish. Not too many, but it brings my total up to 37 pints. And I have 52 quarts of venison and elk canned. I'm getting prepared. If you are wondering at how I can bring home enough meat to can some the answer is easy. I marched out into the King's forest and took what I needed.
This is indeed a time to despair. The only thing - barely - between absolute statism and a semblance of freedom was the putative conservative majority on the USSC. Kennedy was a bit of a wild card, but he came through on a number of significant decisions. The duplicity of Roberts has demonstrated that the USSC is lost and will be for a generation after Obama gets to replace at least one of the remaining conservatives on the bench. With McConnell and Boehner indicating surrender with their every action or inaction, all three branches of government are now in the thrall of the statists, all cheered on by a corrupt and self-indulgent Fourth Estate. Yes, miracles do happen. And it will take one for America to pull back from the precipice. The question is, does America deserve to be saved from its own folly?
That flag out front is flying for a certain submariner.
Move forward, soldier on.
We all die someday.
You won't ever get the vote of the Obamaphone "lady". The illiterate slum trash is unreachable. Try to get the vote of the college educated, who won't read this article either, and won't bother to look, and if by any chance they read it, (I linked it for some of them on my Fakebook page), it would offend them, I guess.
There are fundamental differences in play here. In the past when America was down, we had leaders who at least wanted America to recover and prosper. 0bama is not an American, having been raised in a muslim culture in Indonesia. His goal is not for individuals to prosper, in fact that is the antithesis of his marxist philosophy, which is wealth redistribution.
His main goal is the destruction of America, not recovery.
I thought 2010 was hard. 2011 beat that. Looks like 2012 is in the lead with 2 months 2 go. Yeah, I get mad (and banned), incoherent, sad. But I'm still sucking air.
Thank you for posting such an outstanding article, Steelfish. It is dark and depressing—but these are dark and depressing days.
What was once America has arguably entered the point of no return, degenerating from being the greatest democracy the earth has ever known, to a petty, corrupt and thugish 3rd world socialist state ruled by a de-facto godless one-Party dictatorship. Bereft of morality; bereft of initiative; bereft of hope. May God have mercy on us.
But have an anti-depressant handy with a glass of Scotch as a chaser :(
Welcome to prepper life! Don't forget to stock up on food other than meat, ammo & guns and water. Think about how you will survive with out your furnace, any electricity, or gasoline.
Right now, I've got a hole in my heart the size of Texas. It will mend. I just have to live through it and not be too obnoxious to those around me.
I take hope when I see Argentina where 700,000 people showed up outside the capital and said enough with the corrupt government that has bankrupted the country. We need to see those huge Tea Party crowds again in Washington not just in 2012 but every year. Let Congress and Obama know that millions of Americans will not accept socialism.
America's die was cast when we ceased to be a moral country. My own opinion is that the seeds for this were planted in the 1960s. Whenever it occured, we have ceased to be a nation of moral citizens. Oh, there is a solid minority of moral people, but that is not enough to stave off societal collapse and a race toward communism.
We really are doomed. You cannot use the past as any sort of indicator going forward, because the nation is no longer composed of the sort of moral, hard-working, self-sufficient, courteous, charitable individuals who made this nation into what it is and held it there for so long.
Now we have a majority of selfish, greedy people who have no shame or stigma, thinking nothing of murdering the unborn, are proud of their free handouts instead of ashamed, and believe that any way to riches is a good way, be it gambling, crime or other nefarious means.
The America is doomed because the heart and soul of the average American is doomed.
We are no longer the people who in generations past could save this nation from decline, decay and fall. Those people are mostly long dead. In there place are millions of selfish, greedy, lazy scum who want a free ride paid for by their neighbor.
We are no longer a moral people. The US consitution only works for a moral people.
The nation is doomed. It is just a matter of how long until the fall is complete.
Pray to God and apologize to your children and grandchildren.
I was just checking prices on the big bags of sugar, flour, beans, etc. I have my wood stove, candles candles candles and 3 bottles full of propane for the outdoor grill. And enough firewood for the winter. Total store bought cans at 6 months. Total store at dry goods at 12 months. Need to bring that back to 24. Now would be the time to do it. Sooner would be better.
Condolences, bro. Be obnoxious to me if ya need.
"Clock Stikes 12 And Moondrops Burst At Out You From Their Hiding Place".
I almost cried reading this.
I also know that even if you get conservative leadership many moons from now, the country would be almost impossible to fix.
Once the healthcare system has been ruined, it will never come back as it was. Those choices we had will be gone.
I despair for America too. I am just now coming out of deep mourning and getting around to digesting the coming nightmare in a country where I no longer feel welcome.
"a Briton looks at a man driving a Ferrari and thinks, What a b*****d, while an American thinks, Ill be him one day. "
I think, "Damn. Sorry about your penis, dude."
I am really concerned that in 2016 Hillary will run for President. How do we even try to put a candidate up against her?
Then we have Boehner and McConnell...forcing their pick against what our people want....
Then we have our campaign fiasco against theirs....the fraud, etc.
Sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't have put all the forces and money against obtaining the Senate majority. At least then we would have a chance to impeach and/or stop Obama reign for next 4 years.
I agree Chipper. Resentment demonstrated here on FR toward wealth is evidence we have passed the tipping point.
Hillary would have run better if her daddy had shot her agin the wall instead. I a have a prediction. obama will be assassinated in his 7th year. And the Tribulation will end.
I don't understand: why do you have a hole in your heart if you didn't vote for the GOP in the last 5 presidential elections?
I think, Damn. Sorry about your penis, dude.
Nothing like putting the horse before the cart.
I got this J.
STFU sockhead.
"To Hell with the despair, cynicism, apathy, and defeatism. The time for redress is now.
All you punks willing to abandon the Country, the Constitution, our childrens future can go straight to Hell."
Couple of sayings. First I do not know the source for:
"Reality is what it is. It is not what we believe it to be."
Second from a gal who wrote a lengthly book many folks in this forum have read:
"We can evade reality. What we cannot evade are the consequences of evading reality."
Those who are downhearted have a basis for so being. They don't wear blinders, but have taken a look at reality, looked into the future, and cannot discount or ignore what they see.
Just came back from my evening walk with a few thoughts. One is that we are approaching a point where those in this country who believe in conservatism, tradition, and "the old ways", are on the verge of being (or already are) outnumbered by those who believe in none of those things, and who openly loathe such ideas.
There will be no way to win these folks over to our side with reason (or even pandering), now or in the future. What we have to offer, they don't want. And what they want, the other side promises to them and has their loyalty, whether it delivers or not. There is a chasm between "us" and "them" as deep and wide as the Grand Canyon. That is reality.
It's as if our ship of state has struck the iceberg. The bow is down in the water, starting to slip under. At this point, does it make much sense to argue that we should pull together and save the ship?
Of course, that analogy is from the Titanic, as were some of my thoughts from the walk.
There came a point, as the last lifeboats were pulling away, that Captain Smith went to the wireless office to tell the operators (still at their posts) that they were relieved. It's been years since I read Walter Lord's book, but he detailed the conversation as the Captain saying they were released from their duties, and to try to save themselves. I do remember a line from the book: Captain Smith told them, "That's the way of it at this kind of time."
I think we're coming to that point as conservatives in a nation that seems to be disintegrating around us. We have pretty much "done our duty" — yet still, our message is rejected by a growing proportion of the population, who clamor for socialism. Their numbers are increasing, like water pouring into the hull, pulling us downward.
Conservatives must redirect their efforts. Our future is not to save a ship that refuses to be saved, but rather to save ourselves, our families, with the help of those around us of like minds. That is now "our duty".
I sense Ms. Rand had something similar in mind with her book. She, too, realized that the system could never be repaired as it stood, but would have to collapse totally before it could be resurrected. But before that reconstruction can begin, we must first survive the collapse with strength enough to rebuild, when the time comes.
Because "That's the way of it at this kind of time".
Yes, its truly sad. I think in many respects the article answers many of our concerns on how on earth this could have occurred. This was a change election and boy didn't we get one brought to us courtesy by a seismic shift in demographics by people to whom food stamps and amnesty trump everything else and a current of single white women that has become a rage against anyone who dares to talk about personal responsibility and individual liberty.
I think that more about the guys with monster-chassis vehicles.
Another Obama voter, eh? You speak their language. Thanks for the enlightenment.
God grant that he is correct about those rights, they may be the only way we can ever get back what has been stolen.
I'm telling your mom.
"If you are wondering at how I can bring home enough meat to can some the answer is easy.
"I marched out into the Kings forest and took what I needed."
An absolute truth in 2012.
Right, I just hope he doesn't invite the "Caliphate" in to help with the dismemberment of our society. JRandom said we all will die, I am not going until I can send some on ahead.
God grant that he is correct about those rights, they may be the only way we can ever get back what has been stolen.
you didnt vote for the GOP
Another Obama voter, eh? You speak their language. Thanks for the enlightenment.
Sockhead. LIVE FREE.
Mine, too, newheart.... but in the meantime, my kids will need food and shelter.
The craziest thing about this essay is, it was written by someone born in 1984. Jesus. Think about that. You want to talk about despair??? Think about how FAR we have fallen in so short a time. Then remember, with Obozo, everything happens on steroids.
Would you have guessed ten years ago that we would have fallen this far, this fast? I would not have.
The second term will see the real Obama come out—It will be a good thing to have him exposes and ripped apart by the media. People deserve the leaders they get. God will punish America for the election—at least I believe this is possible. Look to see a return of Old fashioned racism—real racism. Now, Obama could change—he could re-invent himself like Bill Clinton did—never happen.
Of course not.
I remember when Obamugabe won (quote, unquote) the '08 Democrat primary. I said to my husband, hallelujah! NO WAY will this country elect someone named "Barack HUSSEIN Obama" a mere 7 years after 9/11!
It is to weep.
"I am really concerned that in 2016 Hillary will run for President. How do we even try to put a candidate up against her?"
In 2016 I believe Hillary will be 68, probably too far along to run for the presidency. Look at her -now-. :)
I would be far more leery of the 'rats pushing Michelle Obama at us, with the argument that "he can't run again, but she CAN" .
Of course, Valerie Jarrett will -still- be running things and pulling the strings...
Progressives don't believe in Free Speech and they certainly don't like the idea of an Armed Citizenry.
Not only did the Electorate choose insanity over reason, they validated all the lies and hatred toward Conservatives and Republicans expoused by the Left.
Special Ed Schultz and Crissy Tingles are now aligned with the "mainstream" majority and we have become the the Tea Party Fringe. The Constitution and the Rule of Law are outmoded concepts.
Long live Pharoah Obama, the giver of Food, Phones and other people's money.
...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ...
When elected officials and bureaucracies act outside the law they are simply lawbreakers. When the majority of the people vote in favor of the lawlessness that has greatly manifested itself in the highest offices they have withdrawn their consent to be governed by a constitutional government. By what legitimate basis does the United States of America, as a Constitutional republic, still exist?
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
'The People' no longer support that. They voted in support of lawlessness from the highest office on down. They voted against the rule of law. By referendum we now have a banana republic. The USAINO.
Just where did you ever get an idea like that? I've been a rock ribbed conservative since you were wearing three cornered pants. You are apparently off your meds.
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Here's how RW members rated this race (249 votes).
In short: The seafront stretch a definite plusIn full: Well organised but I missed a count-down at the start. Did I just not hear it? I enjoyed the first 8 miles but the last third of the race is just plain boring. Would really like to see this part re-routed if possible. The drummers and piper were great and lifted my spirits. Chocolate and fruit at the finish were also nice touches.Date of review: March 12, 2014
In short: Lovely run with views out to seaIn full: I am surprised by some of the comments here. One complains the hill should be reconsidered; I hope they do not plan on doing the Hastings Half! Someone said you could not get a PB due to the wind. Not this year maybe (it was fierce) but other years - the wind changes. Yes the harbour run is the least attractive but you have roughly 9 miles of views out to sea along one of the most beautiful coastlines the UK has to offer. Do this one; it's worth it!Date of review: March 12, 2014
In short: a hill tough wind an injury but ni e raceIn full: This race is a nice varied one with a lqrge well 2 large hills at the start long way down run along the sea front slight drag of run around harbour then back along front to start finish. Apart from the odd finish in which you cross back and forth a few times a good race. Would of been even better without strong wind and an injury but they cant help that!Date of review: March 12, 2014
In short: Lovely run along the coast surrounded by positive spectators.Date of review: March 12, 2014
In short: I've ran this for the past three years, and it's an excellent race! Will be there again next year! Date of review: March 12, 2014
In short: A fun-filled half marathon with a hillDate of review: March 12, 2014
In short: Good run for a PB. Flat after 3.5 milesDate of review: March 12, 2014
In short: Great RaceIn full: Killer hill to Beachy Head that really should be reconsidered as it's in no way conducive to running, and again this year I was dizzy running around housing estates -- which also should be reconsidered. Very sharp turns elsewhere, especially at Sovereign Harbour, taking up precious time. This year very strong wind along seafront during final few Ks, making it impossible to really speed up. Very challenging to improve PB, tho I managed 10 mins on last year. Overall however, very enjoyable and a great race. Date of review: March 12, 2014
In short: Friendly well run event that raises a lot of money for charityIn full: I have run Eastbourne Half 5 times and each year the event has got bigger with more support. This year there was plenty of cheering and a couple of bands along the way which always lift you. The first bit is my favourite and the hill after 3 miles adds some variety. The worst bit is around the harbour later on in the race as there are quite a few turns and you are mainly running around a housing estate. It would be good to vary the route but I realise this is very hard and it is difficult to close roads, etc. The event is well run and the marshals were good. I wouldn't say it is a very fast course due to the turns in the harbour and the usual winds! I will definitely race again and would recommend this race to first timers as there is a relaxed and friendly atmosphere with a lot of people raising money for charity.Date of review: March 12, 2014
In full: A nicely organised event with nice coastline scenery along the way. In terms of PB potenitial I would day it's a no go. Firstly with the steep hill between 2-3 miles leading up to Beachy head and secondly due to the strong wind that is present in the last 1.5 miles! My first half marathon competitive race but went 3 minutes quicker in training.Date of review: March 12, 2014
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Vietnam Airport Deploys New Air Traffic System
Air Traffic controllers at Ho Chi Minh City International Airport in Vietnam began using a new advanced surface movement guidance and control system (A-SMGCS) recently, the A3000 from Saab subsidiary HITT.
The A3000 uses surveillance data from a new surface movement radar (SMR) to locate all aircraft and vehicles operating on the airport's runways and taxiways. The system will soon have the capability to integrate multilateration and Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) surveillance in the near future, according to Saab.
Controllers at Ho Chi Minh will also be able to use the system's recording and replay of voice communications along with the traffic display picture.
"The A3000 also provides VATMC with a flexible system that can grow with the airport and expand to include solutions such as electronic flight strips and Collaborative Decision Making systems," said Ken Kaminski, general manager of Saab ATM.
Currently the A3000 is deployed at more than 40 airports worldwide, including multiple locations in Europe, Asia and South America.
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Barclays promotes IBD head to replace King
Barclays' head of the investment banking division for the UK and Ireland has been promoted to take over from Tom King to run the European business, Financial News has learned.
Barclays has announced that Richard Taylor is to take over from Tom King as head of the investment banking division in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to an internal memorandum on senior management changes seen by Financial News.
The investment banking division includes all corporate finance activities, including mergers and acquisitions and equity and debt capital markets.
The promotion comes after Barclays announced last month that King was to head the IBD business globally from New York, taking over from the UK bank's new Americas chief executive of corporate and investment banking, Skip McGee.
Taylor has worked at Barclays since the beginning of last year, having previously worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. When the Libor-rigging scandal broke in July, he told Financial News that clients were remaining loyal to the bank.
He said: "Barclays has 300 years of history serving clients in the UK. Clients understand that the actions of a relatively small number of individuals are not representative of how we act and behave in addressing their strategic and financing needs."
Other changes announced today include Mark Warham, currently co-head of Emea M&A, becoming sole head of that business. He will also serve as vice chairman of IBD, where he will assist Taylor in working on relationships with UK clients.
Matthew Ponsonby, Warham's current co-head of M&A, is to become chief operating officer for IBD in Emea.
Michael Hill, co-head of global healthcare, is to have his remit expanded to include responsibility for the investment banking division's cross-selling initiative with the corporate bank.
The memo said that "more information on this important initiative will be announced shortly".
Financial News understands that the initiative is likely to include driving existing investment banking clients to corporate banking services, such as cash management and selling investment banking products such as private and public market bonds, risk solutions and equity capital markets to clients of the corporate bank.
The memo said: "These changes reflect our emphasis on client focus and on maintaining a strong regional team that is aligned with our global business."
The changes will take effect next year on completion of the year-end review process at the bank.
Barclays declined to comment.
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What you can do about aquatic invasive species/Janet Marr
Some Copper Country lakes now have fleas. (Spiny water fleas, that is). Eurasian water-milfoil, another infamous and unwelcome aquatic invasive species, has also put in an appearance. So … as you may well ask, why should I care about these and other aquatic invasive species (AIS)? Here are some of the "whys."
Aquatic invasive species may become very aggressive and spread rapidly once established. They can destroy fish nursery habitat and other biological resources; restrict fishing, boating, and other recreational water activities; reduce plant/animal diversity; decrease property values; and are very expensive to manage.
Spiny water fleas (actually a crustacean, not a flea) compete with native fish for food and foul fishing gear.
Dense Eurasian water-milfoil mats entangle boat propellers and interfere with swimming and fishing. If an infestation is bad enough, a path may even need to be cleared through the tangle of plants for boats to get to and from a boat launch or dock.
Where have spiny water flea and Eurasian water-milfoil been found in Baraga, Houghton, and Keweenaw Counties? Spiny water flea is known from these area waterbodies (Medora, Gratiot, Fanny Hooe, Lac La Belle, and the Portage). To date, it is not known from any of Isle Royale's inland lakes. Isle Royale has had rigorous control measures in place for several years to prevent the spread of spiny water flea from Lake Superior into its inland lakes.
Eurasian water-milfoil was discovered last fall in Chassell's Pike Bay and other parts of the Keweenaw/Portage Waterway. Currently, a committee of concerned Chassell Township residents and officials is discussing management of the Pike Bay infestation. In addition to the Keweenaw/Portage Waterway, Eurasian water-milfoil is known from Prickett and Keewaydin Lakes, and a pond near Baraga.
Other AIS in our 3-county area or nearby counties include zebra mussel that occurs in Isle Royale's Rock Harbor and Washington Harbor, and curly-leaf pondweed, known from Gogebic and Iron counties.
Preventing AIS from invading an uninfested waterbody will save a lot of headaches down the road! How can you help prevent spread of AIS into our area's lakes? Clean, drain and dry your boat, trailer, and equipment every time you leave a body of water. Dispose of unwanted bait in the trash, and never release plants and animals into a water body unless they came from that water body. The use of a U.S. Forest Service portable pressure washer, a tool for preventing the spread of AIS, will be demonstrated at some local fishing events including the Knights of Columbus Pike/Walleye Tournament on June 1 at Lake Linden.
For information about AIS found in our area or region, how to identify and manage AIS, or if you want to report an AIS sighting, please contact Sue (Houghton Keweenaw Conservation District) at 906-482-0214; firstname.lastname@example.com or Janet (Keweenaw Invasive Species Management Area or KISMA) at 906-337-5529; firstname.lastname@example.com Here's a good website to learn more about AIS: www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/aquatics/main.shtml
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They should play together for old times sake. I'd like to see them do something during the tour. Paul should be more receptive to the older members of Wings.
Although, i always thought Denny Seiwell was a terrible live drummer based on the tapes of the 1973 tour. And Henry McCullough - let's just say that punches would probably be thrown unforuntately - and i never thought Henry could even touch Jimmy or Rusty (the new guitar player).
A good choice for keyboard player would be Darryl Dragon and i'd like to see Toni Tenielle join to add Linda's high harmonies (in tune). That way we can re-do "I am your singer" and the high parts from Ram. BEsides, we can get Love Will keep his together and Muskrat Love as part of the tour.
Maybe, the Captain and Tenielle could open the show or something. I'd love to see a woman behind Paul playing a keyboard again. A trained musician and vocalist like Tenielle would be good (Although Stella from what i hear has a lot of musical talent). Just a thought


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Culture in the School, A Class Act
Culture is intrinsic to education, just as education is intrinsic to culture. The two go hand in hand. It follows that access to cultural activities at school is essential for students. Ensuring that students have opportunities to participate in cultural activities is one of the objectives of the Ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport and the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications.
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Fall 12 NRSE 4520 Assessment and Promotion - page 47
Anyone else taking Assessment for Fall third session? Suggestions from anyone who has taken it already?... Read More
Dec 13, '12 by Simply ComplicatedSame here, I ended up with an A so I'm happy. Just glad it's done with.
Jan 3, '13 by cincinursemaryStill no course eval. I want the opportunity to let them know the major glitches in this course. Anybody else ever get one?
Jan 3, '13 by koolmaditzQuote from cincinursemaryNo I never received one either !!Still no course eval. I want the opportunity to let them know the major glitches in this course. Anybody else ever get one?
Jan 3, '13 by cincinursemaryQuote from koolmaditzI emailed the student center and they said...No I never received one either !!
[COLOR=#1f497d]"The course evaluation was sent out in November. I
apologize you did not receive one. If you like you can write your own course
evaluation and I will send it to the School Of Nursing Coordinator. "
I wonder if it was ever sent out. And I doubt it was sent in Nov, b/c the course was not over until December.
Time to move on I guess.
Jan 4, '13 by emergencykenI never got one either.
Jan 13, '13 by Simply ComplicatedI read somewhere they chose NOT to send it. They realize what a cluster@#$& the class was, so decided not to do it, as they were making a list of issues to fix. Something about not getting to review the class with the merger.
Jan 13, '13 by SmoothOperatorRNQuote from cincinursemaryNor did I. Wonder why?? Hmm. Maybe because the class was a cluster ...NOPE, but thanks for reminding me. Last time I didn't get the course eval till like 2 weeks after the course ended. I had to come back to this board and read all my complaints to remember what I wanted to say.
Jan 17, '13 by MovingForward2012Is there a message board for 4530 Family nursing. If so what is the title b/c I can not find it. Thanks
Jan 17, '13 by evieincoQuote from MovingForward2012It's just Family Nursing January or something like that.Is there a message board for 4530 Family nursing. If so what is the title b/c I can not find it. Thanks
Jan 21, '13 by MovingForward2012Thanks for the info [COLOR=#003366]evieinco
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Skip to comments.Killing The Goose (Sowell on Unions)
Posted on 11/19/2012 10:51:01 AM PST by jazusamo
Killing the goose that lays the golden egg is one of those old fairy tales for children which has a heavy message that a lot of adults should listen to. The labor unions which have driven the makers of Twinkies into bankruptcy, potentially destroying 18,500 jobs, could have learned a lot from that old children's fairy tale.
Many people think of labor unions as organizations to benefit workers, and think of employers who are opposed to unions as just people who don't want to pay their employees more money. But some employers have made it a point to pay their employees more than the union wages, just to keep them from joining a union.
Why would they do that, if it is just a question of not wanting to pay union wages? The Twinkies bankruptcy is a classic example of costs created by labor unions that are not confined to paychecks.
The work rules imposed in union contracts required the company that makes Twinkies, which also makes Wonder Bread, to deliver these two products to stores in separate trucks. Moreover, truck drivers were not allowed to load either of these products into their trucks. And the people who did load Twinkies into trucks were not allowed to load Wonder Bread, and vice versa.
All of this was obviously intended to create more jobs for the unions' members. But the needless additional costs that these make-work rules created ended up driving the company into bankruptcy, which can cost 18,500 jobs. The union is killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
Not only are there reasons for employers to pay their workers enough to keep them from joining unions, there are reasons why workers in the private sector have increasingly voted against joining unions...
(Excerpt) Read more at creators.com ...
Im distressed by the fact that the emerging narrative on unions, (even among conservatives, and this is horrifying for what it means for the future of the country) seems to run like this,
Public sector unions are REALLY bad. There are some bad things in private sector unions, too, but they arent pure evil like public sector unions. Private sector unions, especially at the turn of the century, were actually pretty good.
This is pure BS! It is very, very, very scary when, even here on FR for Petes sake, people do not recognize the following two things:
Unions can ONLY!!!! exist because of government force applied selectively against private property owners (evil rich people),
I expect ignorance of this fact elsewhere, but here on FR??????????????????????
Heres how the purely evil, anti-American, communistic, welfare-begging private sector unions work ..
I set up a business, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY (my capital and/or cash money).
I pay for the space, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
I pay the taxes using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
I supply the parts and inventory, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
I pay for the insurance, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
I pay the labor, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
I recruit, hire, and advertise, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
Oftentimes an entire lifes savings (MY PRIVATE PROPERTY) is at stake.
My future, my standing in the community, my credit, and MY PRIVATE PROPERTY are all at stake.
If I fail, I stand a good chance of being economically crippled for life.
One day, on MY PRIVATE PROPERTY that I own and acquired using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY, one of my employees, who is only in my presence because of the risk of MY PRIVATE PROPERTY, comes to me and says, Heres the story, Bub. From this moment forward I am going to begin organizing YOUR OTHER EMPLOYEES, to work AGAINST YOUR PRIVATE INTERESTS and do everything in our power to TAKE BY FORCE AS MUCH OF YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY AS WE CAN GET OUR HANDS ON. We are going to spend a great deal of time and effort ORGANIZING AGAINST YOUR INTERESTS TO DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO GROW STRONGER AT YOUR EXPENSE, IN ORDER TO TAKE YOUR MONEY. You might as well have your business competitors working here on the shop floor. If you do not agree to our demands, we will go on strike, make your life miserable, harass and threaten and/or MURDER IN COLD BLOOD anybody you may want to hire in our place.
Now the one and ONLY way that such a thing could EVER take place is for the government to step in and say, Mr. Employer (rich, white, capitalist, male), if you fire this union man, you are going to jail.
Plainly and simply, no union could ever exist in a free society. Yes, in a free society, you should be able to form and join a union of any type at any time for any purpose whatsoever. AND YOUR EMPLOYER SHOULD BE ABLE TO FIRE YOUR HAPPY ASS IN A HEARTBEAT FOR DOING SO.
I find this ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. Truly. A man strolls onto the PRIVATE PROPERTY of another man and tells him how he will employ his PRIVATE PROPERTY going forward, OR ELSE!, and hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people the world over think that the first man is not only somehow better than sub-human filth, they actually see him as a hero! To me, this is one of the most perverse and mystifying examples of twisted human thinking the world has ever seen. I cant say it enough; you come onto my PRIVATE PROPERTY, and bargain with me, using the THREAT OF GOVERNMENT SANCTIONED FORCE, about how much of my PRIVATE PROPERTY you will allow me to keep! And this is somehow acceptable?
As I say, even conservatives, (who have escaped the liberal brainwashing that begins when we are still in the womb on guns, race, US history, etc., etc., and do not subscribe to the easy notions that are so readily picked up by the unthinking) seem to fall for this trap. Seem to believe that
The work place is filled with mean managers and mean bosses who were/are really mean to kids and women and workers and paid them pennies instead of the legitimate millions that they were REALLY worth, making evil white male capitalists even richer, and they enslaved them and coerced them and made them work real hard and were really, really mean. THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for the government stepping in and saving women and children from mean bosses and really mean white capitalist men.
Needless to say, each and every single word of that narrative is as totally false and ridiculous as the liberal narrative on US history, or bad guns, or evil white men. If you know people who believe that stuff, you cannot help them. DO NOT waste your breath on them, DO NOT do their research for them; have them read Sowell or Williams or von Hayek, or von Mises, or Friedman, or even Stossel when they write of sweatshops either in todays 3rd world or in America at the turn of the century.
" Plainly and simply, no union could ever exist in a free society. Yes, in a free society, you should be able to form and join a union of any type at any time for any purpose whatsoever. AND YOUR EMPLOYER SHOULD BE ABLE TO FIRE YOUR HAPPY ASS IN A HEARTBEAT FOR DOING SO."
In nature as in our lives, parasites can kill the host(ess).
Public sector unions have to be dissolved.
How ironic that the hero of this fable was named "Simpleton".
I think there are times when unions have done good, in improving working conditions and safety and such, but like civil rights groups and such, there is no need for their indefinite existence. Much of that oversight is done by the gov now anyway.
Absolutely...Dr. Sowell lays out the problem with them perfectly, the public sector unions are breaking the taxpayers.
When the baby boomers are all gone the states may have to look at budgets a little differently.
This is simply not true. There is reason for collective bargaining, even from the perspective of the employer; else companies like ManPower and ADP would not exist. The factory owner would rather not deal with personnel details.
There were real problems before the union movement that primarily stemmed from abuse of the courts via the Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific interpretation of the 14th Amendment of corporations as persons. People without money had no recourse in civil cases against such large entities.
The real problem with unions is monopoly power. If we restructured the NRLA such that unions were corporations competing in the business of supplying skilled labor, a lot of these problems would vanish.
From what I can tell, you don't think free association is an unalienable right.
Precisely, and the RATS are their enablers and that's why RATS control CA and other big states, all of which are going BROKE or already broke.
What has ManPower and ADP got to do with unions? I don't see any connection.
Santa Clara, 14th amendment, civil cases, NRLA, unions = competing corporations???? Smokescreens.
How's this for a solution — If I am on your private property, your rules apply. Period.
As do private sector unions. All unions are unadulterated evil as stated so well by jazusamo in the second post of this thread. That was true in years past, today and in the future. The rise of unionism in America was due to foreign socialist influences, as revealed by the IWW ("Wobblies").
The leftist narrative builds falsehoods around such manufactured incidents as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory of 1911. Similarly, liberal-infested Hollywood paints oh-so-sympathetic fairy tales in such movies as Matewan and Norma Rae.
Quite simply, unions are a collectivist cartel with Big Labor nothing more than an organized crime extortion racket. The full force of RICO laws should be brought down hard to exterminate every last vestige of this anti-American, anti-liberty evil force.
Jim Robinson said it best in post #249:
Unionists be damned!! Unite against the damned unionists!!
"As do private sector unions. All unions are unadulterated evil as stated so well by jazusamo in the second post of this thread."
I think you mean "stated so well by ME, DR2Brains!"
That's cool. I forgive you.
That's what I keep saying. These Hostess brands are nearly double the price of the competitors. I don't buy this stuff often but when I did, I never bought the Hostess stuff.
I take a no compromise stand when it comes to unions. And, as I have posted elsewhere here on Free Republic, among the top three moments of my long life are when I led a successful rebellion to bust a private sector union in the Big Labor stronghold of Western Pennsylvania more than 30 years ago.
You busted a union! I bow in admiration, dude. Good work.
And thanks for the kind words.
Obama's NLRB has probably done more for their criminal enterprises than most any other president in the last 60 or 70 years. One more reason that the reelection of Obama will hurt our country tremendously in the future.
Thank you. Unfortunately, it was just one union that I and a group of Patriots were able to get decertified.
It was my reaction to how the evil forces allied around Big Labor busted an entire region. Western Pennsylvania once was the arsenal of the world, with steel mills and coal mines working 'round the clock. Both employees and employers prospered. Then, inevitably, unionists (under the control of anti-American, anti-growth socialists) killed that goose of prosperity. The alphabet soup regimes of the USWA (Iorwith Wilbur Abel), UMW (Tony Boyle), IBEW ( Gordy Freeman) and numerous others put ridiculous workplace rules as well as obscene salaries and benefits into action. This crippled not only the steel and mining companies but the dependent industries. What remains today of Wheeling, Steubenville, Weirton, Pittsburgh, Johnstown and the entire Mon Valley is a testament to the destructive nature of unions.
There is no "problem" on Earth (some still insist that there were "problems" that unions helped fix) that justifies the creation of these monstrosities that funnel 100 BAZILLION FREAKIN' DOLLARS TO THE DEMS EVER 10 MINUTES. Dems are in office and they get literally BILLIONS from unions — now THAT's a PROBLEM!
That's not merely an opinion, it's an undeniable fact!
We're all in agreement about the nature of unionism and my hope is that this reaches a broader audience of FReepers who may still remain moderate on the issue of Big Labor (as Doctor 2Brains made clear in his post).
The names associated with the labor movement in the past and present constitute a rogue's gallery of evil.
None of them were or are pro-American. Instead they all sought (and most were, unfortunately, successful) to stifle America's economic might through absurd regulation (giving rise to OHSA and the EPA to name but two) and confiscatory wages. La Cosa Nostra has been neutralized for the most part but the far more powerful and richer organized crime consortium known as Big Labor continues to drain our nation of wealth.
Everything, they are equivalent to what unions would be without monopoly power.
Santa Clara, 14th amendment, civil cases, NRLA, unions = competing corporations???? Smokescreens.
Two brains is inverted. If you had half a brain you would realize the those historic robber barons only existed because of collectivism. They are not and never should have been PRIVATE because they are not equivalent to people, and do not possess unalienable rights of human beings. In fact, that corporations are allotted human rights at all is due to an historical act of monstrous corruption. I don't suppose you'd like to know it was done by a communist lawyer on behalf of progressivist Republicans. That's why I referred to the headnote on Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific. Your hand-waving in reply merely exposes your ignorance. Unions are nothing more than a contract among equals. Where that breaks down is that, as corporations, they are afforded an unqual degree of protection under the NRLA granting them exemption from monopoly laws. That should be changed.
Hows this for a solution If I am on your private property, your rules apply. Period.
Oh, so I can take your money, rape your wife, and kill you just because you are on my property?
Idiot, you clearly don't have half a brain much less two. You cannot commit murder on your property. You cannot steal my money on your property. You cannot rape my wife on your property. You cannot.
That's what laws are for, as enforced by the people or their agents. People associate to exert power as an unalienable right, as the essence of 'governments instituted among men.' Liberty is expressed individually, but it is enforced collectively. Deal with it.
You're an idiot liberal. Deal with it.
Unions are like fire. A very useful servent, a very dangerous master.
And the bigger they get, the harder it is to control.
Oooo... aren't you smart! Can't think outside the Hegelian box the socialists made for you.
I'm no liberal. I never said I opposed right to work laws. I don't. It's you who's the collectivist here: You want the public to protect collectivized investments with minimized accountability, while refusing workers the very same right to a free association no different than among stockholders. You want to socialize the risks and privatize the benefits of your investments. A classic double standard.
I don't want EITHER side to have monopoly or even oligopoly power. I prefer FULLY private free enterprise, in other words, with real accountability via laws governed by natural law competition among the several States and not by the Feds, the latter being effectively one stop shopping for corruption. I want human beings to have rights superior to any association, union or corporate. You simply lack the vision to understand the distinctions or the solutions I posited, stuck in your bull-headed rut labeling anyone who disagrees with you a "liberal." Well here's reality turkey, your corporate game was instituted by a communist, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Clerk of the Supreme Court, a Republican, and a Marxist when he added a bogus headnote to the decision of the Court in Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific.
Yeah, I know, you don't get it, Hegel's got your brain by the lobes. Yet corporate socialism and Marxism both comprise a system devised and funded by some of the richest bankers in Europe. Hence, you are the leftist here, you just don't know it.
You're an idiot liberal. Deal with it.
You're an idiot liberal. Deal with it.
THAT WAS AWESOME! I hope you don't mind, but I reposted the majority of that on my FB page. Should probably get some panties in a bunch, and start some fur a flyin!
No Unions are like disease...... never useful...
Well! I am flattered. Thank you.
This is simply not true. There is reason for collective bargaining, even from the perspective of the employer; else companies like ManPower and ADP would not exist. The factory owner would rather not deal with personnel details.
Unions in their current form would not exist without government force applied against property owners. That does not imply that there would not be any form of collective bargaining. Trade guilds could engage in collective bargaining to the benefit of both workers and employers, if such guilds were in a position where their continued existence relied upon their ability to do so. If a trade guild refuses to accept or retain members who are not good workers, employers who hire workers from the guild would likely pay extra for doing so, but might find it easier to get quality workers than if they search for workers outside the guild. Of course, the more tolerant the guild is of bad workers, the less advantage employers would see to hiring them, and the less money the guild would be able to demand for its workforce.
One thing that I wish more people would realize is that the real battle isn't between workers and employers, whose interest substantially overlap. The real battle is between union workers and non-union (actual or prospective) workers.
Well played!!
He busted a union and all the jobs went to communist China.
Disagree there. I think the unions have done a fabulous job of serving the interests of the international banking interests that spawned them. They have forced exportation of our nation's manufacturing infrastructure (essentially a form of intellectual property) for fun and profit. Our enemies now possess the latest information to make everything from screw machines to plastic resin synthesis. Unions have facilitated taking America into socialist dictatorship from the top down. In that respect they are almost as damaging as environmental and safety regulations.
Hence, the real battle is between collectivism and private enterprise.
Free trade in labor markets is a human right. Unions never got the memo.
"Youre an idiot liberal. Deal with it."
Perhaps you are getting a tad excited, Doctor. Take a tranquilizer and once it takes effect consider the following:
1. Whatever Carry_Okie may be, an idiot he assuredly isn't. Hint, think standards of deviation above normal, more than just one, too.
2. Remember what Darbyshire said about life being an IQ test?
3. Carry_Okie is a master of multi-disciplinary arguments, though he (and I) tend to prefer the more correct term 'hypothesis'.
4. The issue of corporations is a complex one, loaded with intellectual traps, an issue where things really are not as they seem.
5. In the instant case of Hostess v. Goonion, the Chinese have a saying about only a foolish man breaks his own rice bowl.
6. Thanks to Big Gubbamnet, the strikers can collect unemployment even though they are unemployed by the consequences of their own acts.
Thanks for this thread.
FYI Pings.
Remember only unsuccessful parasites kill their host. The successful parasites coexist with the host.
That's not what happened at all.
When the union left our company, profits improved and management was able to upsize the staff. The adversarial relationship between we workers and the bosses vanished. Additionally, the burdensome work regulations that actually were detrimental to the employees were eliminated. For example, the turnaround time rule was tossed, allowing those of us who desired to work additional hours with some nice paychecks.
The deadwood was eliminated. Over a period of months, just about all of those who voted in favor of unionism during the decertification election were fired. I'll confess to taking real glee when a 25-year vet of the company was dismissed. He was a bad seed from the get-to, a featherbedder who thought tenure and seniority were his protection. When I engaged in the action to bust the union, this hateful creep uttered these words: "I was here when you got here and I'll be here when you leave". The Na-Na-Hey-Hey-Goodbye song was popular around that time and we who were loyal to the American spirit of free enterprise gave that union goon a serenade as he slinked out the door for good. This guy and his fellow unionistas were the real communist sympathizers since they favored collectivism.
Hostess Shrugged.
Good for them.
He's an idiot liberal.
Fabulous. I DID read the whole thing.
Mere repetion is no substitute for either insight or hard data.
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I am very new to rails and am having a hard time writing unit tests.
How do I write rspec tests for accepting url parameters?
Basically I get a url like the following:
In my controller I asssign it to a variable.
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In my view I am just comparing the group id with the id retrieved from the database
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I am not sure how I would go about writing tests for this.
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HOUGHTON – Becky Bean got involved with dog sledding just last winter, working as a dog handler for Aspirus Keweenaw colleague Kelly Jo Engle at Kelly Jo's Solitaire kennel in Stanton Township.
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CopperDog board member and Eagle River resident Lesley DuTemple is in charge of the finish line and serves as the organization's liaison with the village, though she gives Dar and Jim Huovinen the credit for organizing the mushers' warm reception, which includes a trail of candles from the finish to the community center potluck and an outdoor bonfire.
DuTemple said Eagle Harbor doesn't get the influx of visitors other CopperDog host sites do since teams don't start arriving until about 11:30 p.m. and there's no corresponding daylight start the next day. But residents are still proud, and with no restaurants open in the winter they want to show the mushers the village's best face.
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