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WRESTLING: 3-for-3: Dragons, Eagles, Wolverines win matches
Warren wrestlers claimed victories in all but three matches Tuesday night en route to a 57-13 non-region win over Cambridge Springs at Warren Area High School.
"I think we wrestled fair," said Warren coach Glenn Baldensperger, whose Dragons improve their dual match record to 14-5 with the win. "We were a little sloppy at times. There's still room for improvement."
After a Cambridge Springs pin at 126 opened the night, the Dragons racked up five straight wins, including a pin from Bailey Pratt at 138. Warren earned three technical falls in that stretch from Jason Peterson at 132, Jonah Hordusky at 145, and Garrett Smead at 160, as well as a victory by forfeit in the 152-pound weight class.
"I thought Garrett wrestled the most technically sound match of the night," added Baldensperger.
The Blue Devils picked up a win in the 170-pound weight class before Warren reeled off three consecutive pins from Dan Henry, Chris McNeal, and Alex Streich. Cambridge Springs received their last victory of the night via decision in the heavyweight class, and freshmen Glyn Mahood and Bailey Winslow wrestled to pins in the final two matches at 106 and 120.
The Dragons will be one of four teams in action at the District 10 Class AAA Team Duals on Thursday at Central Tech, where they open with top-seeded General McLane. The Lancers topped Warren, 68-3, earlier this season, and are currently undefeated in dual meets.
Warren 57, Cambridge Springs 13
126: Ryan (C) p. Sonny Leeper, 3:03
132: Jason Peterson (W) t. Loop, 16-1
138: Bailey Pratt (W) p. Reichard, 4:55
145: Jonah Hordusky (W) t. Crecraft, 15-0
152: Mike Card (W) wbf.
160: Garrett Smead (W) t. Cox, 19-2
170: Noble (C) m. Derek Reagle, 12-2
182: Dan Henry (W) p. Johnson, 3:27
195: Chris McNeal (W) p. East, 3:09
220: Alex Streich (W) p. Ebright, 0:54
285: Wolfrom (C) d. Kevin Barsness, 2-0
106: Glyn Mahood (W) p. Kuhn, 0:32
113: No match
120: Bailey Winslow (W) p. Schwab, 2:52
Sheffield 47, Keystone 33
KNOX – Sheffield earned its 10th dual match victory of the season Tuesday with a 47-33 victory over Keystone at Keystone Area High School.
The Wolverines (10-8) were largely helped by forfeits on Tuesday, receiving 30 free points via Keystone forfeits while the home team held a 33-17 advantage on the mat. Of the nine contested bouts, Sheffield won just three of them.
All three wins came in a four-match span early in the match that started at 113 pounts. Brandon Johnston was a 16-0 technical fall winner over Keystone's Austin Curtis and the Wolverines also got pins at 145 and 152 pounds.
At 145, Adam Barr needed just 24 seconds to pin the Tigers' Kyle Creed and at 152 pounds, Steve Gregerson logged a first period pin of Logan Means in 1:37. Forfeit wins for the Wolverines were credited to Tanner Barr (106), Ricky Prosen (120), Doug Grubbs (138), Collin Maines (160) and Tyler Berin (195).
Sheffield returns to the mat Thursday when it hosts Youngsville.
Sheffield 47, Keystone 33
113: Nick Baughman (K) p. Kyle Holden (S), 3:14
120: Ricky Prosen (S) wbf.
126: Brandon Johnston (S) tf. Austin Curtis (K), 16-0
132: Chad Rodgers (K) p. Jason Rulander (S), 4:47
138: Doug Grubbs (S) wbf.
145: Adam Barr (S) p. Kyle Creed (K), 0:24
152: Steve Gregerson (S) p. Logan Means (K), 1:37
160: Collin Maines (S) wbf.
170: Zach Stiglitz (K) p. Zach Miller (S), 1:47
182: Brandon Chambers (K) p. Robert Straw (S), 1:17
195: Tyler Bertin (S) wbf.
220: Zach Beichner (K) p. Blake Morris (S), 4:57
285: Tyler Beal (K) d. Jeremy Ehrgott (S), 5-0
106: Tanner Barr (S) wbf.
Youngsville 27, Strong Vincent 24
ERIE – Youngsville won just one bout on the mat during Tuesday's wrestling match with Strong Vincent at Strong Vincent High School.
That being said, the Eagles left Erie with their third straight dual match victory, defeating the Colonels by a 27-24 score.
"We didn't have our best night tonight," said Eagles coach Scott Ishman. "Sometimes you're going to have those bad matches and I hope tonight was our bad match for the week. Of course if you're going to have a night like this, it's nice to have it against a team without a full lineup. I hope the guys see we need to step it up in the room a little bit and not level out. We need to keep climbing as the postseason gets closer."
Sophomore Aaron Hoover provided the lone Eagles victory in a match that featured four double forfeits and four Eagles forfeit wins. Hoover earned a 13-6 decision win over Strong Vincent's Alec Smith at 132 pounds.
Youngsville (4-9) returns to the mat Thursday when it travels cross county to meet with Sheffield.
Youngsville 27, Strong Vincent 24
152: Jared Carlson (S) p. Wyatt Johnson (Y), 0:42
160: Dijon Deboe (S) d. Zach Ishman (Y), 5-2
170: No match
182: Chris Starocci (S) p. Stone Sivak (Y), 4:52
195: No match
220: Jaykup Durlin (Y) wbf.
285: Austin Slocum (Y) wbf.
106: Hayden Victor (Y) wbf.
113: No match
120: Chester Ciukaj (Y) wbf.
126: Josh Caban (S) p. Chandler Flinn (Y), 1:53
132: Aaron Hoover (Y) d. Alec Smith (S), 13-6
138: No match
145: Donald Keys (S) d. Tristan Gibson (Y), 3-2


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Skip to comments.Official: White House seeks Syria response 'just muscular enough not to get mocked'
Posted on 08/28/2013 10:33:40 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Official: White House seeks Syria response 'just muscular enough not to get mocked' By Justin Sink - 08/28/13 12:45 PM ET
A U.S. official briefed on the military options being considered by President Obama told the Los Angeles Times that the White House is seeking a strike on Syria "just muscular enough not to get mocked."
"They are looking at what is just enough to mean something, just enough to be more than symbolic," the official told the paper, giving credence to similar reports describing a limited military strike in the aftermath of last week's alleged chemical weapons attack.
NBC News reported earlier this week that the administration would launch three days of missile strikes, while CNN cited a senior administration official saying that the White House wanted to conclude any action before the president departs for the G-20 summit next week.
The New York Times also reported that the initial target list drafted by the Pentagon had fewer than 50 sites. The Pentagon has moved four U.S. Navy destroyers off the Syrian coast, which can launch low-altitude cruise missiles at selected sites.
On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney said that no course of action had been decided upon, but that the administration was not seeking "regime change" with its response.
"It is not our policy to respond to this transgression with regime change," he said.
In the U.K., foreign secretary William Hague said at a press conference that the government there was approaching the retaliation in Syria as a "very different situation from Iraq."
"Our government is going about it in an entirely different way," he said.
Meanwhile, Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said Wednesday said his county would turn into a "graveyard of the invaders" if foreign powers intervened in its civil war.
The "colonialist threats" of Western powers "do not terrorize us because of the will and determination of the Syrian people, who will not accept being humiliated," Halqi said, according to AFP.
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Simply admitting this makes any effort epic fail.
In other words. This needs to be kept just political. Let's not actually have a mission or try to do anything.
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Wow. The sad part is that I am not one bit surprised.
I guess this means sending a cruise missile up a camel's butt is not an option
(paying attention Bubba?)
So we aren't seeking regime change,,then why are we considering any military offensive? And what are the targets going to be, internet servers?
Really? And how much does each cruise missile and guided bomb cost these days? And fuel for any bombers that head into Syria and get shot at?
Sounds like it will be just muscular enough to provoke and be mocked.
Ah, so being mocked is an issue for this WH?
Mock them! We have found an achilles heel. Mock, mock, mock the White House!
Wow... now THAT'S a foreign policy to be proud of...
Committing a small act of war is like being "just a little bit pregnant." Has anyone done the calculus to ask what a lone Syrian agent might do to this country in retaliation? If we believe they are capable of unleashing chemical warfare on their own population, why would they have any qualms about hitting the U.S. with the same weaponry? We know that DHS has no plans to seal our borders.
What an excellent plan by our Commander in Chief.
Everyone knows that it's a good idea to shake a hornets' nest just enough to make a strong statement, n'est ce pas?
Obama has already been mocked:
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who is known for his sharp tongue, said on Twitter that "the West behaves towards the Islamic world like a monkey with a grenade."
Combat for Community Organizers 101
I wouldn't be surprised if this spun out of control for purple lips, as he is facing more determined foes, and O is being pro forma here.
He is waaay out of his league, and this won't end well.
I predict nuclear weapons will be detonated somewhere on this earth before the term of this complete loser is over.
Yep.. I'll bet that "monkey with a grenade" comment by the Russian foreign minister is still burning up The One's butt.
He's still got over a year before the mid-terms, and a closetful of other scandal shoes waiting to drop. He needs to keep the hornets stirred up and buzzing, not kill them.
Well they forgot to mention the birthday cake and xmas card...........
Can you imagine the response if a Bush Administration official had said this in 2006?
And this idiot and all those around him, have miscalculated. The Russians and the Iranians will make O regret ever having done anything
Look out. Looks like Obama is really steamed . . . about the rodeo clown-thing.
Is this satire?
I get it - it's all about nuance. We only want to kill just enough people to boost 0bama's poll numbers. Theirs, ours, it really doesn't matter.
Is there no limit to the incompetency of the Obamadork & crew?
(This is a self-answering question.)
"West behaves towards the Islamic world like a monkey with a grenade.
I heard Dmitri is working on a spoof of a Peter Gabriel song,,but the new song will be called "Mock the Monkey"
may catch on
Or to a quiet room to play spades with Reggie.
"just muscular enough not to get mocked" ... unbelievable.
Obama-tized patriots, throughout history:
Bunker Hill, 1775, General William Prescott: "Don't shoot too much after they make a remark about the whites of your eyes!"
North Africa, 1943, General George Patton, "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by avoiding criticism.
Moon, 1969, Neil Armstrong: "Thats one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind. And stop making fun of the way I walk."
1776 Virginia: "Give me liberty or give me a tax break."
Patrick Henry
If this country was still "America" a president would have been run out of office for doing something like this. Fire some missiles and kill some people just to look tough.
We have to realize that when Obama talked about a "red line" he knew, or should have known, Assad would say "I'm color blind."
You talk sense. Bombing Syria is a lose-lose situation. If it were the Syrian leadership using chemical weapons on their homelands, surely they'd be willing to use them on us. The other possibility (probability IMHO) is that it was the rebels. If we punish the Syrian gov't for using weapons they haven't used, isn't it a logical conclusion for them to use them?....let the crime fit the punishment.
Another thought: If Obama bombs Syria, what's to stop the rebels from using these weapons in the US and blaming the Syrian government? We'd already be partway down the slippery slope.
Apparently there were no hornet's nests in Nigeria, so how could Barry get the message?
He's not incompetent. He is evil.
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Mr. President, what a stupid, little man you are.
Well, that's just swell.
Rules for Radical #5: Ridicule is mans most potent weapon.
Hey, Obama, congratulations for providing al-Qaeda an Air Force. Apparently you killed bin Ladin not to defeat al-Qaeda but rather to make a slot in their org chart for yourself.
1776 Virginia: Give me liberty or give me a big screen TV and a beer.
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To the surprise of not... one... single... Freeper.
Just the SAS and Seals over there to yell, "Boom". Problem solved.
Why are we involved in Syria at all? What makes chemical weapons worse than if Syrian government had dropped a daisy cutter on the rebels?
Also - aren't the rebels Al Qaeda? Why are we on EITHER of their sides? As far as I am concerned, if two enemies want to kill each other we should let them!
Mock, mock, mock the White House!...Actually, we don't have to. They do a REAL good job of it themselves.
Just Send...a-hole.
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Skip to comments.Mitt Romney leads Obama in first Gallup national tracking poll
Posted on 04/16/2012 12:03:42 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Mitt Romney leads President Obama in the first Gallup national daily tracking poll.
Romney took 47 percent support from surveyed registered voters, while Obama took 45 in a poll conducted between April 11 and April 15. Romney's edge though is within the poll's three point margin of error.
Independents tipped the scale in favor of Romney, going for the former Massachusetts governor 45 percent to 39.
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This is bad.
No Romney, no way.
Registered, not likely voters. Add 3-4 points to Romney's total.
Err, so how would it be any better if Obama were leading? It's either going to be Romney or Obama that wins, so are you going to actively cheer for Obama to lead the polls instead?
This is bad.
No Romney, no way.
Seriously? No way Romney is worse than Obama. None. He isn't my first choice, but I will easily vote for him in November. W. wasn't the best we have had (prescription drug benefit, no child left behind, etc.) but he gave us Roberts and Alito...which just might save us from Obamacare.
Let's get Romney in there, then hold his feet to the fire like we did with Bush when he nominated Harriet Myers...It's our only chance at this point.
Romney's edge though is within the poll's three point margin of error.
...and easily within the well known "ACORN Margin of Obama Victory Index".
Bull$hit. This is just push-polling to try to seal the deal for Romney at the GOP convention.
As a Romney loather I do have to say this is fair news. I want Obama GONE baby, GONE. Hello freepers!
IMHO, anyway you cut it, Obama losing is good...very good. He's intent on willfully taking the country down and four more years will do potentially irreprable harm.
We can and will survive Romney...can probably even hold his feet to his campaign pledges. Besides, Newt may still pull off a miracle and force a brokered convention.
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And the alternative of another 4 years from p-resident Jarjar and First Lady Chewbacca doesn't scare you?
This is bad.
No Romney, no way. . . . .
This is bad? Ok I could understand how Romney beating Michelle Bachman is bad, how beating Cain is bad, I can even understand how Romney beating Santorum or Gingrich is bad. Beating Obama is bad? Hillary beating Obama might not be wonderful but better than Obama.
I personally believe ANY repoublican, even RINOs beating Obama is not bad. There are always better possibilities, but get real, unless you want Obama to win, which I simply cannot understand how is anybody beating him bad?
Romney will lead the polls until he is safely nominated, and perhaps a bit beyond that. Then they will report the real poll numbers, or perhaps pad Obama's lead a bit, in order to suppress turnout. Getting many of us to vote for Romney is hard enough. Show him losing, and even fewer will make the effort.
When further questioned, an additional 4% of the pubbies said they will definitely vote.
The real results of this poll are much worse for obama than the 2% that is indicated.
It is at least 6 and probably closer to 10%.
Gallup doesn't want to put down such a wide margin this early in the spring.
I don't care who beats obumbler at this point. Any non muslim non commie non race baiter non redistributionist intent on reshaping america in his own warped image will do.
Like many here, I am not excited about Romney nor was he my choice. However I will back him fully to get rid of Obama. I think these numbers are very accurate for now. It is going to come down to about 10 states (unfortunately their is a built in bias in some states that we won't be able to probably ever replace), however any swing voters are going to be looking at the pocket book, no way is there anything in Obama's four years or upcoming years are good for him. Romney needs to attack Obama as hard as he went after Republican candidates. Gloves off, take no prisoners.
Gingrich's my guy, now that Santorum has dropped out, but any given GOP candidate will crush Obama, given that in 2008, he outspent McCain 3 to 1 and only beat him by 6% in the popular vote. The GOP nominee will probably beat Obama in campaign fund-raising this year, because of the defection of former Obama supporters who thought the guy was a moderate. Romney alone is out-raising Obama on Wall Street, and for a while, Mittens was sharing the stage with other GOP candidates who were also getting Wall Street money. An electoral vote landslide (>10% margin of victory in electoral votes) is a given - the only question is the magnitude. And that will depend on Romney choosing a solid conservative as veep.
You guys just don't get it. We're tired of RINOs, so we want to stay home, or write in someone.
When Obama wins, the GOP-e will get the message!
No Romney, no way. Just as SoConPubbie.
I am with you. Voting ABO this year.
Oh joy. Fauxbama leads Nobama. Hooray.
I am voting CO this year.
I'm with you, I wanted Palin, Cain, and Newt in that order. but at the end of the day I don't care who it is as long as it isn't obama.
There is the first issue. This will not work for Romney as well as it did for McCain. That is also assuming he would pick a Conservative.
I didn't see this coming.
For the last year I've been upsetting people at Free Republic with my prediction that Obama would be easily reelected.
The way I look at it, Mittens declined to comment on the Zimmerman imbroglio. That set him apart - in a good way - from both Obama and Santorum (my guy until he dropped out), whose common stance was, essentially, "get a rope".
Lets just get obama the hell out of office and then we can fight myth.
Obama needs to go, period. He is a plague on this nation, a tyrant, a destroyer of everything we hold dear, etc.
The USA will get the message. It will be game, set, and match for the US of A. This country will be transformed by Obama and put on a path to permanent decline and destruction. Obamacare will be the last nail in the coffin of this country as the Left and the welfare state bankrupt the country. In the interim, they will strip and plunder DOD (Guns vs Butter) and increase taxes to keep the welfare state treading water for a little longer.
America will look like CA demographically and economically in the next 40 years. The Dems will be the permanent majority party and the vision and values of our Founders will be a distant memory save for a vestigal Constitution that no longer serves any real purpose. Obama will appoint two to three more justices to SCOTUS in the mold of Kagan and Sotomayor.
I guess that will serve the GOP Establishment right. In fact, maybe you should work hard to get Obama reelected to ensure that the message is sent.
You know, this whole whinning and lamentations over Romney reminds me of a scene from a comedy. A guy is being stopped by police for some crime, and the guy essentially takes himself hostage pulls out his gun and shouts to the police, stop, or I'll shoot myself!
Romney is bad, but hussein is worse. Like it or not, and I do not, there are only 2 choices. Hussein will transform this nation into a socialist dictatorship. It is much less likely that Romney would do the same thing. Those who believe that Romney would be more dangerous should make the case right here and vote for hussein.
"Obama needs to go, period. He is a plague on this nation, a tyrant, a destroyer of everything we hold dear, etc."
I'm told here that Romney would be worse.
Vote for the more conservative candidate. Always. Even if the more conservative is not A conservative, vote for the more conservative.
Our grand kids will get the message.
"I guess that will serve the GOP Establishment right. In fact, maybe you should work hard to get Obama reelected to ensure that the message is sent."
See, the FR message is getting out. We are the resistance.
See Post 26. Stay home, and there may not be an election in 2016.
Sarah was always my choice. all i know is we cannot afford 4 more years of this guy. After 4 more years there won't be some glorious conservative march into power. we might win from the right at that point but after 4 more years what will be won? The right to slowly guide America into 3rd world status? The right to bargain with the rest of the world over our debt like Greece? The chance to finally restructure government benefits when the number getting aid and govt pensions combined will be over 60%? Hows that going to work? We may get in but it won't be glorious.
Romney will be a stronger candidate then McCain was. If not for Sara Palin McCain would have lost by 20 percent.
"See Post 26. Stay home, and there may not be an election in 2016."
Don't over think this.
FR says: No Romney, no way.
Stay home, or write in.
Send the GOPe a message.
Our grand kids will get the message....
The plain and awful truth.
Fake poll to get Romney nominated.
We must hold their feet to the fire!
Already Dick Cheney is dead to me for his glowing endorsement.
IF Bachmann or Palin endorse Mitt, they must be removed from office or influence of the TP.
Lesser of two evils II?
"When Obama wins, the GOP-e will get the message!"
Just like they did in 08?
Conservatives fit the Einstein's definition of insanity.
Pushing, prodding, cajoling the GOP into conservatism is FAIL.
We need to start a new party.
Romney might be worse than Obama - I agree 100%
There is also a chance, whether its 15% or 50% that Mittens will be bettern than Obama.
There is 0% chance Obama will be any better in a second term than we have seen in the last four years, and all signs point to far worse under Obama in a second term.
I am voting for ABO in november based on that chance, albeight small, that mittens will be better than Obama, not that I am convinced he will or wont be.
Does that make sense?
I voted third party in 1992, 1996, 2004, and 2008 in an attempt to send a message to the GOP.
So far, it isn't working out quite like I planned.....
Romney loves himself. Obama hates America. Why can't people see that the former is WAY better than the latter?
I'm not voting for Romney, but could I actually cheer an Obama victory?? Don' think so....
Only the number of votes in the electoral college can elect a POTUS... National polls won't matter.
"IMHO, anyway you cut it, Obama losing is good...very good. Hes intent on willfully taking the country down and four more years will do potentially irreprable harm.
We can and will survive Romney...can probably even hold his feet to his campaign pledges."
The difference between a Romney administration from 2013-2017 vs. a second term for Obama is, that with the former, conservatives "live to fight again" in the political realm. With the latter, there may not be "a fight next time", other than by force of arms.
Some could be chomping at the bit for just such a struggle, but one must be careful about what one wishes for. Although we as a fragmenting nation may indeed be headed in that direction, it's not "Seven Days In May" time quite yet....
"Does that make sense?"
Not to the PTB here at FR. I'm going with the consensus here.
The election is 7+ months away. In politics that is a lifetime. This poll is, in and of itself, meaningless. Here's why:
The MSM are pushing Romney. This poll is specifically meant to discourage Conservatives. The way you're babbling on about Romney, a national socialist (fascist) being no way worse that Obama, the left-wing in this country is manipulating the fears of folks like you successfully.
"Im not voting for Romney, but could I actually cheer an Obama victory?? Don think so...."
It's a distinction without difference.
" An electoral vote landslide (>10% margin of victory in electoral votes) is a given - the only question is the magnitude. And that will depend on Romney choosing a solid conservative as veep."
I wish I had your optimism, but I don't.
Here's my prediction (from another thread):
Romney wins it 270 to 268 electoral votes.
Obama gets:
Romney gets the rest, including Florida, Virginia, and Ohio. Without ALL of these, he loses.
Even with the numbers above, Nebraska could throw a wrench into things because their electoral votes are split (not winner-take-all). Suppose Obama wins the district that includes Omaha? In that case, wouldnt it end up as a 269-269 tie? (Note, Maine also assigns electoral votes proportionally, but I expect Obama to win everything there).
Too bad the Republican legislature of Pennsylvania failed to pass legislation making PA a proportionally-assigned electoral vote state. If that were the case, Romney might pick up at least half of the evs there.
But this election isnt going to be easy.
Its going to be a squeaker or a blowout.
And for the R guy, the best he can hope for is being the squeaker....
Thats the way I see it...
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Most of the non-SLS shampoos don't clarify the scalp and leave buildup in the hair, most of the SLS shampoos leave the scalp dry, then over-oily and irritated. This shampoo actually does clarify! I was amazed how much buildup it has removed from my hair and how quickly. It smells really good and a little goes a long way. Moisture wise I am happy as well, I use it with Smooth As Silk Conditioner and Nutrafix hair reconstructor, and my hair got softer, smoother and even more straight. If you thought that this review was helpful, please feel free to press the "Yes" button.
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I was looking for a no sulfate shampoo (because I have color-treat my hair), after not finding much I recognized searching the internet. I went to our local organic chain food market and pick this product. After two shampoos, I knew I needed more and iherb.com had much better prices than I found locally. Shampoo lathers well and even more if you do a little pre-shampoo (wet hair apply a litte bit of shampoo and quickly work through hair, rinse and then shampoo again). This product helps with my frizz from having naturally curly hair and even makes my hair shine. I feel it is also helping with color fading, like I had read about No Sulfate shampoos. Smell is good, but not lasting, which I prefer.
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If the bear was provoked, there is no wonder it "attacked", it was just doing what bears do. Too many people obviously do not have any idea what a black bear can do, even a small one.
Black bears are predators, and in the GSMNP, they are the top of the food chain. Many people simply do not understand the mentality and the insticts of the bears. For too long, the black bear has been portrayed as a "cuddly" animal, when nothing is further from the truth. Black bears can be dangerous animals. Actually, when comparing a black bear's potential to attack versus the grizzly's, I'll go up against the grizzly anytime. The grizzly bear usually only attacks when it is provoked or is protecting its cubs, food or territory. While the black bear also displays these habits, there is one major difference in the two animals; the grizzly attack is almost always defensive, while if a black bear attacks, it has decided that you are food. One of the ways to "combat" a grizzly attack is to drop and curl up into a fetal position, and try not to make a sound. Generally, if the bear gets no response, it will quit and go off on its own business. A black bear, on the other hand, will continue to attack and/or maul, as it is going to EAT you.
When you see a black bear in the wild, obviously, you want to try to avoid provoking or startling the animal. However, if you do find yourself in a situation where you are confronted, there are a few simple things to do to protect yourself.
Overall, stay alert to your surroundings, and respect that you are invading the bear's home.
I too have had similar experiences with people who have no sense. However, I have lived in Knoxville all my life and made hundreds of trips to the Smokies fishing, camping, etc and have never seen a bear. Too many people who visit the Smokies just don't understand that they are out in nature and a whole new set of rules apply. Having a son, I feel for the boy, but it appears that a stupid decision was made by the father if he knew the bear was there and didn't take the correct action. I am just waiting for one of these idiots to try bring a lawsuit against the NPS for not protecting them from these bears.
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I had a friend finishing up at UT Vet School during the last bear attack - the bear she helped autopsy wasn't even the bear involved in the attack, they determined.
This always makes me so angry and sad. That 86 pound bear wasn't much bigger than my Labrador. The kid had just been chowing down on a bucket of fried chicken and supposedly had it on his shirt. Like Trout Assassin, I am completely skeptical that you could just come upon a bear like that kid described. Where on Road Prong trail could you suddenly just pop up in arm's reach of a bear? You'd have to climb one of the rockfalls, which this kid wasn't doing.
My alternate scenario goes something like this: Jr. sees a bear, probably wings a stick or a rock at it to see if it will roar. The bear stops and rears up, so Jr. moseys over to "pet" it while Dad watches. The bear, having been confronted by a belligerent child about its own size, and being a young, inexperienced bear, does all it knows to do and scratches the kid less than most dogs could do in two bites. The pictures of the kid are on the net now. With all due respect, I have personally been mauled much worse by a dog when I was about the kid's age.
In consequence, the bear is killed, I guess. How did they get it to UT to weigh? I don't think they tranquilized it.
Bill Bryson calls these people "tuorons." It isn't a nice term but it's accurate, and the bears have to pay the price. I'd really like to see the Park Service apply a little pointed questioning to the father rather than doing its best to reassure people that bears aren't that dangerous. This was clearly a human-created situation.
No way would I ever take my chances with a grizzly over a black bear..period.....
I think too many people think they know what to do in these situations, I have had more bear encounters this year in the park than I have had in my life combined and only once did a bear even act like it wanted to hang around....They are just as scared of us.....just don't let your kids poke and prod at wildlife like all these idiots do in cades cove and cataloochee and everything would be just fine... If it is absolutely necessary to harass wildlife go to the zoo. I know if someone came in my house smelling like food and shaking a stick at me I'd probably do my best to maul them.....people just don't understand how Wild this part of the world really is....it is not a zoo....
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On a somewhat related note...last week, a 12 foot gator attacked a kid who was swimming in a pond near here. The kid was able to get away, but the gator got his arm. Afterwards, Wildlife and Fisheries was able to kill it, and they immediately slit it open and got the arm out, but doctors were unable to reattach it. It was the first gator attack I could remember around here in years, but it wasn't all that surprising; people who lived around that pond called it "Old Joe", and had probably been feeding it marshmallows and other junk for years. Every gator I've ever seen in the wild has taken off when it saw me, but once they lose that fear of man, they become very dangerous. I would imagine that it is even more so with a bear; a gator, after all, is cold-blooded, and can go for long stretches without eating, but a bear needs to eat all the time.
What can you say? People can be very stupid.
If you are on a tight stream/river, a bear can come out of no where. I would be hard pressed to spot a bear before it got to me on most of the waters in the Smokies. Lesson learned: Watch your kids like a hawk and be prepared. Again, this is why I carry a huge knife when I go to the park. It may look silly, but if attacked, I have a much better chance than if not. That assumes of course that I see the bear in time to get to my knife, which may not be the case. Up above Elkmont or Treemont, with the water rushing, it would be hard to hear a bear coming in time. Not certain about the area this kid was in.
A better solution is to pack a canister of bear spray and learn HOW TO USE IT. It has a range of 40 feet and suspenses in the air creating a fog. I've had the wind carry it back on me after showing my wife how to use the can, so I can attest to its potency!(:>)
Other areas may have more bear, but if they are hunted they have some fear of man. In the Smokies we could be dealing with a problem someone else started. I remember camping at Elkmont just behind the old Cabins, my neighbor kept food on his picnic table at night. We had to chase off a bear twice till his wife packed up camp.
ijsouth- I think I heard of two attacks last spring or year before. One I know was a snorkeler at a spring. I had a large gator come out of nowhere and grab a bass I was fighting near Naples. I've really gained respect for them. I read that some guys actually wade into the canals around the Tamiami to get at Snook under the bridges.
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There seem to be a lot more "incidents" in Florida than here in Louisiana; I went to FSU, and I used to wade fish around Tallahassee...the gators there were more aggressive. Florida is such a fast-growing state, and there is a lot more human/gator interaction. When I'm fishing, I actually like to see a good sized gator - they tend to keep the snakes and gar in check.
As for bears...I've yet to see one in the park. However, a few years ago, we ended up in the Smokies after evacuating for Katrina. We were on the Foothills Parkway in the Cosby section, and we saw a momma and two cubs crossing the road...pretty neat. We try to be very careful when we park the car - we try to avoid letting any food items out of the car.
last time i came to the park i was traveling on the gravel part of the tremont road--a young black bear ran out in front of my truck--i hit the brakes --the bear went on across the road down to the stream and stopped--i drove on--about 100 yards up the road, 2 girls were walking on the side of the road--i stopped and told them a bear was not far down the road by the creek--both smiled--wanted to know if it was a big one--started digging out cameras and ran down the road--excited---i stopped to warn the girls--not to tell them what they were missing--i do not think there is any "living with bears" as long as bear ignorant city folks and country folks too, come to the park solely to make contact with a bear--they have fondled one too many black teddy bears in gatlinburg and if that's not enough,the tourons identify the park's wild bears with the admirable,humanistic,chinese made stuffed animals, not to mention,billboard bears,smiling thanking you for coming bears,neon bears,chocolate bears etc.---it,once again,proves the power of imagry in selling tourism no matter how absurd it is..
the incicent occured at rainbow falls not road prong....it was less than 300 yards from the trail head. i just came back from roaring fork and there is a ranger suv and a large park horse trailer at the rainbow trailhead (trail is open)...so maybe they got the wrong bear and are looking for another bear. or maybe they all just wanna hang out at rainbow.
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Skip to comments.Gay pride - and Israel's, By Bret Stephens (YOU'LL DIE VOMITING)
Posted on 06/20/2003 1:23:06 PM PDT by Alouette
Today, June 20, gay and lesbian Israelis will parade through Jerusalem's streets, from City Hall to Independence Park. The march was supposed to have taken place last week; it was postponed after one of its organizers, 47-year-old American immigrant Alan Beer, was murdered by a Hamas suicide bomber aboard Bus 14A.
For those of us who devote a good amount of thought and breath defending Israel from various calumnies - particularly those coming from the hard Left - the fact that this march is taking place at all is excellent news. So Israel is a theocratic state? Show me an equivalent march taking place in Iran or Saudi Arabia. So the Israeli army is an instrument of Fascist oppression? Maybe, but gays and lesbians serve in the IDF's ranks without formal discrimination - more than can be said for the US armed services.
Why, then, should those most opposed to this march be the same people, more or less, who are most ardently "pro-Israel"?
"This is a disgusting parade which has no place in a Jewish state," said Itamar Ben-Gvir, a spokesman for the outlawed ultranationalist Kach movement who also confessed to taking down 30 rainbow-striped flags in downtown Jerusalem. "The gay and lesbian community is a marginal, fringe group, and they must not be given a public stage," added MK Nissim Ze'ev of the haredi Shas party.
I know at least a few people who'd argue that it is Ze'ev and Ben-Gvir, not Beer, who represent a "fringe." But put that argument aside. The question is, when we boast that Israel is "the only democracy in the Middle East" (Turkey honorably excepted), what are we really saying? Exactly how does it distinguish us from our neighbors and enemies? And what obligations does it impose upon Israelis, gay and straight?
ONE WAY to get at these questions is to point to what we're not. For starters, we're not a country that treats homosexuals the way the Palestinian Authority does.
A few months ago, watching the news in the run-up to the Iraq war, I spotted a couple of demonstrators marching to a "Queers for Palestine" banner. Note the preposition. While most of the antiwar marchers were merely against war (even if this meant keeping Saddam Hussein in power), these two were for Palestine. I spent the remainder of the evening trying to think of the nearest equivalent. Blacks for the Old South? Jews for the Ayatollah? "Recovered" homosexuals?
In fact, "recovered" is what Palestinian gays must be if they are to survive in "Palestine." As Yossi Klein Halevi wrote last August in The New Republic, Islamic law prescribes five separate forms of death for homosexuals. To these, the Palestinian Authority adds several of its own. In the West Bank city of Tulkarm, Halevi reports, a young Palestinian homosexual he calls Tayseer "was forced to stand in sewage up to his neck, his head covered by a sack filled with feces, and then he was thrown into a dark cell infested with insects and other creatures he could feel but not see... During one interrogation, police stripped him and forced him to sit on a Coke bottle. Throughout the entire ordeal he was taunted by interrogators, jailers, and fellow prisoners for being a homosexual."
Tayseer's story is one of hundreds. Halevi also tells the story of one Palestinian homosexual who was put in a pit in Nablus and starved to death over Ramadan; of another whose PA interrogators "cut him with glass and poured toilet cleaner into his wounds"; of a third who lives in fear of his life from his brothers.
"It's now impossible to be an open gay in the PA," says Shaul Ganon of Aguda-Association of Gay Men, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgender in Israel.
All this is of a piece with the broader treatment of homosexuals throughout the Muslim world. The Taliban used to put homosexuals to death by collapsing a wall on them. In Malaysia, the maximum penalty for sodomy is 20 years in prison and "mandatory whipping." In Egypt, an increasingly severe crackdown on homosexuals is now entering its third year. In April, Brazil put forward a gay-rights resolution at the UN Human Rights Commission; Muslim countries successfully filibustered it.
And so on. Of course, everybody knows this, though nobody talks about it much. And of course, everybody knows that Israel is a comparatively receptive place for gays and lesbians, though nobody talks about it much, either. Along with South Africa, France, Ireland, Canada and Spain, Israel has been in the forefront of granting legal protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation. So when we say, "We are the only democracy in the Middle East," we are not simply making a statement about our political structure, but about social and cultural attitudes. We are a typical Western state. Nothing demonstrates it better than today's march.
"TYPICAL," HOWEVER, is also problematic. Typical Western states also mass produce and widely disseminate pornography, ingest gigantic quantities of narcotics and generally suffer every plague of affluence. The gay-rights movement, some argue, belongs in this category.
I don't buy this for a second. But I appreciate why the argument is made. "Gay-Pride Parade Sets Mainstream Acceptance Of Gays Back 50 Years," went a headline a few years back in The Onion, a satirical newspaper. "'I'd always thought gays were regular people, just like you and me, and that the stereotype of homosexuals as hedonistic, sex-craved deviants was just a destructive myth'" the paper "quoted" Hannah Jarrett, a fictional 41-year-old mother of four. "'Boy, oh, boy, was I wrong.'"
The Onion gets it exactly. For decades, the basic problem with the gay-rights movement has been that it tended to make opposite demands. It rightly insisted on mainstream acceptance and equal protection of the laws. Insanely, it then proceeded aggressively to flaunt its every difference. The aim, it seemed, was not to join a mainstream in the manner of the black civil rights movement or feminism, but to overthrow the very concept of "mainstream."
The result was to confirm every lurid prejudice about gay life. Sexually promiscuous? Emotionally unstable? Morally suspect? Politically radical? The icons of gay life in the 1970s and 1980s, from Michel Foucault to the Village People to Calvin Klein, all giddily seemed to answer yes.
My guess is that the way in which the gay-rights movement pursued its agenda set it back by at least a decade. That both the IDF and the British military allow openly gay service members ought to have been enough to show that the US armed forces could have done the same - but the gay community bears its share of the blame for making its case such a difficult one to make. Ditto for gay marriage, which only this week was legalized in Canada: This was something that ought to have happened ages ago, if only more of the gay community had been demanding it back then, and if (male) gay relationships did not have a reputation for being so fickle.
Now this is changing. As Andrew Sullivan writes, among gays "a need to rebel has quietly ceded to a desire to belong. To be gay and to be bourgeois no longer seems such an absurd proposition. Certainly since AIDS, to be gay and to be responsible has become a necessity."
Sullivan is right - indeed, has to be right. Those who opposed the gay-rights revolution cannot realistically expect that today's homosexuals will simply be pushed back into the closet. And to preserve existing legal barriers against gays would only perpetuate a gay subculture that is both neurotic and alienating. The only decent conservative alternative is to insist that gay men and women join the social and cultural mainstream - and enact the policies required for them to do so.
WHICH BRINGS me back to Beer. Cleveland-born, a software engineer, "Al" was also an observant Jew who came to Israel five years ago because "it gave him the opportunity to pray as he wanted and live the [Jewish] life he wanted," according to Ze'ev Pertrucci, a former roommate. Interviewed by The Jerusalem Post in 1999, Beer said his homosexuality had presented no obstacles to joining an Orthodox synagogue.
"My understanding of being Orthodox is that there is a long list of mitzvot to keep, which is what I do," he said. "It doesn't bother my being religious."
Testifying in the Knesset the same year, Beer told a parliamentary committee he was "proud of my many identities": Gay, Orthodox, Jerusalemite, Zionist. "People can be both free and holy," he said. Friends recall his "American swagger," his Hawaiian shirts, his passion for cinema, his "infectious laugh," his willingness to volunteer, easygoingness.
Beer was murdered after returning from a shiva call for a friend up north. Had he not been on that bus, he would have marched Friday for gay pride. Would any of us not want him back? And would any of us, really, not have wanted him there?
Israelis attend a gay pride parade in a park in downtown Jerusalem Friday June 20, 2003. The parade was scheduled for last week but it was postponed after a Palestinian suicide bomber attack in Jerusalem that left 17 people dead.(AP Photo/Enric Marti)
Hello! This is GOD SPEAKING.
"I agree with your conclusion". "Bless you"
It's a contradiction in terms. Do Hawaiin shirts conform to shatnes?
He must like boys in black hats. :(
My oldest son spent several years as a shliach in San Francisco. Many openly gay men attended his synagogue because they liked the rituals and the cuisine. Many of them also hit on my son, and when he didn't return their affections, he was told, "you're in denial."
To this day he is a confirmed FAG-HATER. "Don't call me a homophobe," he snarls, "I'm not afraid of them, but they better be very afraid of ME!"
LOL! A 2003 Darwin Award nominee if ever one was :)
One can only assume that the marchers were looking for some *VERY* rough sex!
Haziz! More crisco for the Camels!!!! :) :)
BTW, please respond to my FReepmail before sundown. Shabbat Sameach!
Like I said once, Jews in Israel have had more Jews killed by abortion than by arabs. Israel is winning the war against the arabs, it is a fact as long as it is holding on as it has, despite incompetence. However Israel is far from winning the war waged against it by medias which seek its destruction as a rival of attention. Gays are a particular media group of this whole manifestation and they will demand an end to individual expression supressed by gay group impression.
Frankly, even common sense would not go hand in hand with celebrating sodomy. As for observant and gay, I am sorry, there is no third party in this. Either one is Orthodox or one gangs up against or for Orthodoxy. Third parties always gang up against the Orthodox (that is those who go about the rules of Orthodoxy), for it only is a ruse, just like the third party of peace, which is just a ruse to call Israel warmongering and to gang up with terrorists against Israel.
He must like boys in black hats. :(
I think it is worse than that. Liking boys in black hats is one thing, but passing people through a sexual selection machine is NAzidom Mengele like butchery.
My oldest son spent several years as a shliach in San Francisco. Many openly gay men attended his synagogue because they liked the rituals and the cuisine. Many of them also hit on my son, and when he didn't return their affections, he was told, "you're in denial."
Typical of pure gay race and pure gay piousness Nazi bull crap. They pretend you can consume like them too, but then they pretend they are pure, looking for the gene. It is a sick behavior.
I'm not in denial, I would enjoy seeing them getting hammered by pigs if they asked me.
The Nazies' aryan race rights were pushed back in the closet after a sick surge in huge popularity. Same ol same ol. The gays will receive the same treatment if they push their "rights" to force young men in "marriages"/sexSlavery, out of which they cannot get out to join a normal life unless sued in a divorce at great expense.
Dissembling Before G-d
by Rabbi Avi Shafran
Am Echad Resources
October 26, 2001
Orthodox Jewish homosexuals are the subject of a documentary film that achieved darlinghood at a number of film festivals over the past year and has now been similarly well-received at its New York debut. Many audiences and reviewers have found "Trembling Before G-d"'s portrayal of the anguish faced by Jews who want to remain Orthodox but see themselves as homosexual to be compelling.
And on one level the film might well be regarded as a tribute to the determination of heartfelt Jews who, despite the catastrophic clash of their desires and their faith, nevertheless find themselves simply unable to abandon the latter. The Jewish soul is indeed a hardy, holy thing.
Unfortunately, though, "Trembling" seems to have other intents as well. While it never baldly advocates the case for broader societal acceptance of homosexuality or for the abandonment of elements of the Jewish religious tradition, those causes are subtly evident in the stark, simplistic picture the film presents of sincere, conflicted and victimized men and women confronted by a largely stern and stubborn cadre of rabbis.
That picture is both incomplete and distorted. For starters, the film refuses to even allow for the possibility that men and women with homosexual predilections might - with great effort, to be sure - achieve successful and happy marriages to members of the opposite sex.
Though he interviewed hundreds of subjects for the project, producer Sandi Simcha DuBowski claims to have been unable to find any such people.
Therapist Adam Jessel, though, writing in the Jerusalem Post, says there are many, and recounts how he attended a screening of the film with precisely such a person - a man, it turned out, who was actually interviewed by DuBowski but whose experience was not included in the film. Jessel also quotes another man who reported that DuBowski, with whom he spoke by phone, "told me he doesn't believe in change. He didn't seem to be interested in meeting any Jews who were in the process of change either."
Such change is more common that most people realize. An organization - JONAH (firstname.lastname@example.com) - has been helping Jews, both Orthodox and otherwise, who wish to overcome homosexual orientations, and has met with considerable success. Neither it nor any of its clients are featured or mentioned in "Trembling."
What is more, and even more important, is that while the film thoroughly portrays the challenges faced by its subjects, it simply does not allow Judaism to make its case. Several prominent Orthodox rabbis were interviewed at length by DuBowski, but only short excerpts are included in the film.
One of those rabbis, Rabbi Aharon Feldman, currently the dean of Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, says that the film fails to convey the deep compassion with which thoughtful Orthodox Jews regard those who are challenged with a homosexual orientation. The film, he asserts, "makes us appear to be narrow and bigoted" when, in fact, "it is compassion, albeit without condoning" that accurately describes Orthodoxy's attitude toward homosexuality.
That attitude reflects the fact that no sexual orientation itself is condemned by the Torah. Axiomatic to Jewish law is that only acts and willful attitudes (like nurturing desires that are wrong) can be prohibited, not inherent proclivities. Behavior, though, in every area of human life and endeavor, is carefully delineated by Jewish religious law. That is Judaism. And controlling behavior, even - no, especially - when difficult, is precisely what the Torah asks of its adherents.
That's not, however, the film's attitude, which is better summed up by one of its subjects, Rabbi Steve Greenberg, billed as "the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi." Addressing the Torah's strong prohibition of male homosexual acts, he suggests to the camera, without elaboration: "There are other ways of reading the Torah." What Rabbi Greenberg apparently believes is that elements of the Jewish religious tradition are negotiable, that the Torah, like a Hollywood script, can be sent back for a rewrite. That approach can be called many things, but "Orthodox" is not among them.
DuBowski has told the press that his experiences in making his film have made him more religious, that he has experienced Shabbat for the first time and laid tefillin. Such Jewish growth is no small thing, and is a true tribute to the man. May he continue to grow as a Jew, and to learn more about Jewish ideals and observance. And may he also come to understand why his film, whether or not it is a critical success, misleads.
Because "Trembling Before G-d" wrongly answers the most important Jewish question imaginable: Is Judaism is about what we'd like God to do to accommodate us, or about what we are honored, exalted and sanctified to do to obey Him?
|Posted on Mon, Jun. 16, 2003
KEY WEST - After the rain, the sun pierced the clouds, setting the perfect stage for a rainbow. And then it appeared, all 116,800 square feet of it, unfurled from a U-Haul at one end of Key West's Duval Street, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean.
''We did it, we've done it,'' red-faced volunteers whooped as they learned that the 16-foot-wide, 1.3-mile-long rainbow flag, the longest to date, made it from sea to sea. ``We made history.''
The flag was unfurled at midday and carried by some 2,000 people, creating a surreal paint-like stripe along the main vein of this island.
It took three months, six sewing machines and three tons of fabric to make the banner, created to commemorate the first rainbow flag, a symbol of gay, lesbian and bisexual pride born in San Francisco a quarter of a century ago.
Coordinating the event was Gilbert Baker, a former GI turned drag queen turned seamstress who made the first rainbow flag for a 1978 gay-rights parade.
The flag has since been adopted worldwide as a symbol of gay pride, eclipsing other icons such as the Greek lambda sign and the pink triangle first used in Nazi Germany to identify homosexuals.
In 1994, Baker sewed a mile-long flag that was marched down New York's First Avenue, to commemorate the Stonewall riots, a series of violent conflicts between homosexuals and New York City police officers in 1969. It was a catalyst for the gay-rights movement.
Now 53, Baker is known as the ''gay Betsy Ross'' to some.
In November, he agreed to make a 25th anniversary flag that would stretch 'coast to coast' across Key West.
Two original colors, turquoise and fuchsia, were added, restoring the banner to its eight-color glory.
Sunday's event capped Key West's PrideFest week and drew a crowd as colorful as the headlining flag.
Among them: Zelda Angelfire, a six-foot-tall drag queen from Toronto wearing a gravity-defying blond bouffant, red ostrich feathers, and silver and gold lamé heels.
''The rainbow flag is a unifying symbol, when gay and lesbians see it, they know they are welcome,'' said Angelfire.
John Mahaney, 53, of Key West, dressed his dog, Bingo, a German shepherd and Whippet mix, in a rainbow-hued visor and matching party beads. ''If it was a more formal event, he would've worn pearls,'' Mahaney said.
Volunteers, outfitted in white shirts emblazoned with the logo of Absolut Vodka, the undertaking's main sponsor, were placed every 10 feet.
Key West's mayor, Jimmy Weekly, announced to cheers that he would hang a rainbow flag in City Hall. A pastor from Holy Trinity Lutheran Church blessed the crowd.
At Baker's side was his roommate and friend of 30 years, Cleve Jones, the man who created the Names Project AIDS memorial quilt.
''We both do big fabric,'' Jones said.
Whether the Guinness World Records will acknowledge the flag is not yet known, though Baker said the record keepers recognized his 1994 feat.
From the middle of Duval Street, it was impossible to see either end of the flag: the overall view was limited to people who swooped by in helicopters and the transfixed onlookers who cheered from the rooftop of the island's tallest building, La Concha hotel.
It took two hours to fully unfold the flag. A moment of anxiety came about 1:30 p.m., when it seemed there were not enough volunteers to unfurl the whole thing. But patrons from nearby bars responded to calls for help.
At 2 p.m., the long process began of folding the flag into halves, then quarters then eighths. It was snaked back into Baker's workshop at Duval and Amelia streets, where it will be divided, along prepared seams, into pieces and shipped to 120 cities around the world.
At the end, Baker was elated, and said he was forever indebted to Key West.
''In the world of [flag design], known as vexillography, there is a saying that I embrace,'' he said. ' `A true flag can never be designed, it is torn from the souls of the people.' ''
You'll never stop us; we hide the C-4 and nails in our A*s!!!(And we love it!!!)
Where here,where queer,.... bomb your a*s!!!
Now I want to thank you so very much for combining your strong advocacy for Israel with a wholistic Torah worldview that teaches all mankind in every age and land how one is to live. The nudnick who wrote the pro-homosexual article in the Jerusalem Post has doubtless become the poster child for "palaeoconservatives" who insist that Yasser Arafat is somehow going to save the world for decency and morality and that every homosexual activist on earth receives his instructions directly from 'Ari'el Sharon. But unfortunately his message has become a main component of "pro-Israel" rhetoric. Israel is a "democracy," Israel is "western," Israel is a product of the same tradition that created the United States of America and the modern post-enlightenment West. Blakh.
However, before we get too embarrassed or stutter too defensively before our "palaeoconservative" critics let us remember that their entire pose, their entire pretenses to morality, are phony. They are frauds from beginning to end as may be easily demonstrated.
First, as with Communists, they are very selective about just which "gays" they oppose. Any "gay" who is anti-Israel (Gore Vidal, Justin Raimondo, perhaps Arafat himself) are embraced as allies just as enthusiastically as anti-Zionist Communists who are hailed as "honest" Communists (because the Jews who "created Communism" lost control of their creation and it fell into the hands of people they could not control). This blatantly eliminates both Communism and homosexuality as genuine issues in the "palaeoconservative" community. Each and every single appeal to anti-Communism and anti-homosexuality is proved by these stances of theirs to be thoroughly and completely dishonest and fraudulent. (BTW, I have come to believe that he same people who support Communism when it has been turned against its "creators" also place capitalism and Monotheism in the category of things created to "subvert" the west but which Jews now "oppose" because it has been inculturated by its intended "victims." Don't expect any lying "palaeo" to admit this is his view of religion, however.)
But now let's cut to the nitty-gritty. Some of these people (and I know through personal correspondence), even those who actually consistently take moral positions (assuming such "palaeos" actually exist) take these positions for the exact same reason that Alan Dershowitz supports "social justice"--ie, either groundless personal "hang-ups" or for the practical reason that morality "works" while immorality is corrosive.
Now a certain "palaeocon" who shall be nameless has told me that he defines conservatism by traditional vs. radical (which certainly makes more sense than the nonsensical "big vs. small government" thing one hears so often). The thing is, this person does not believe in HaShem. He "opposes" homosexuality (when not advocated or practiced by a fellow Jew-hater) for some non-Theistic reason. And the thing is, while this fellow thinks he is the exact opposite of Dershowitz to me they are the same thing. They are non-Theistic moralists, and "non-Theistic morality" is an oxymoron. It doesn't matter if the non-Theistic morality advocated is "traditional" or "radical." Do you hear that, some of you freaking Nazi lurkers??? IT DOESN'T MATTER. The whole purpose of opposing homosexuality is to acknowledge HaShem. And the very idea of some denier of HaShem advocating "morality" because their stupid subjective guts tell them homosexuality is wrong (rather than simply submitting to the decrees of HaShem) is ridiculous. No "palaeoconservative" therefore, can be said to advocate "morality" since "morality" is based on the decrees of the Jewish G-d. Similarly Dershowitz cannot advocate "justice" since G-d defines this is well. Dershowitz and these people are ultimately the same, however many people that offends. Anti-Semitic "morality" is merely another form of atheistic "social justice."
I want to thank you also for posting genuine Jewish information on the Bible as well, Alouette. The biggest secret in the world is that Orthodox Judaism is the most "Biblical fundamentalist" religion on earth. Unfortunately even most Orthodox Jewish rhetoric aimed at the non-Jewish world awards only "tolerance," despite the fact that the "tolerant" people are the very ones who deny the Divine origin of the Holy Torah. If the true Orthodox Jewish concept of the Bible ever becomes generally known I believe that there will be a stampede out of confused, liberal, decadent, decaying, liberal chr*stianity and to Nochut. Unfortunately, the "tolerance" rhetoric imply that Judaism is Biblically liberal so most people never learn. As I said, it's the biggest secret in the world.
Once again, Alouette, thank you for taking the stands you do, for doing so publically, and in the name of the G-d and Torah of Israel. My apologies again for the tardiness of this post.
In closing (and with regard to the recent Supreme Court decision here in America), perhaps some day a liberal "rights" organization will challenge the laws against murder on the grounds that they merely enforce a sectarian religious taboo. After all, that's what morality is. And without G-d "thou shalt not kill" is as imaginary as Dershowitz's G-dless "justice" or the "palaeos'" G-dless "morality."
Shabbat shalom.
Yes, but this is the "freedom" that led to two churbanim (-ot?) and two exiles. The Kahanists are right--the government of the "Jewish" state has fallen into the hands of heretics.
Now Yehoshu`a Bin Nun, that was a prime minister!
Never has anything been more obviously true, yet treated as though it were not. Chr*stianity is always seen as l'ancien regime while the older religion of Judaism is treated as some sort of younger freethinking heresy, the expression of which requires a post-modern, enlightenment world. When will this illusion be dispelled?
The most tragic thing are those Jews who never hear of G-d until from the Notzerim and who convert to that religion convinced that it is the only form of Biblicism or religiosity that exists. Then their misguided efforts to confront their brethren is cast as a crusade to awaken "freethining heretics" to religion. But how did this religion, which is a thousand years later than Sinai, whose founder contradicted the Bible and the laws of G-d so explicitly, ever come to be perceived as so "conservative?"
J*sus may be a conservative icon, but he was an irreverent iconoclast. Most iconoclasts eventually become icons of conservative societies, from Jefferson to Marx.
The inter-Jewish debate now is too often between combatting chr*stianity in the name of secularism or else acquiescing to the leadership of that false religion to save the world. Whatever happened about letaqqen `olam bemalkhut Shaqqay? That is the true Jewish position.
I would add just a word of caution here for those FReepers who are unfamiliar with the topic of Judaism and capital punishment, who might take this statement as teaching that Judaism does not really inflict capital punishment at all. It is true that the carrying out of death sentences must be carried out according to the Oral Law and that this does indeed set severe boundaries. For one thing, the person must have previously been formally warned before two witnesses (I think the number is two) that he is engaged in an activity that is punishable by death. If this warning has not been given, the person cannot be put to death by the court. Also, there must be at least two witnesses to the exact same overt act. Two witness, each of whom witnessed a different act, are not sufficient. Neither is confession by the person himself admissible, or hearsay, or circumstantial evidence (though the King of Israel has the authority to order one executed based on circumstantial evidence). Also, as I understand it, people not mentally competent may not be put to death.
Now it is true that with all these requirements in place that capital punishment under the Torah is indeed rarer than might be at first assumed by a mere reading of the Written Torah itself (the Talmud noted that a court that inflicted the death penalty once in seventy years was considered brutal). However, it must be stressed that if anyone met all these criteria he had to be put to death by the court. In fact, the Torah specifically forbids having mercy on someone who has met all the criteria for being put to death.
Also, even in those cases where someone has committed a capital crime but has not met the criteria which would allow the death sentence by the court, HaShem Himself reserves the right to inflict the penalty. I have read that, for example, someone guilty of a crime punishable by death by strangulation, but who cannot be punished by the court, may choke to death while eating. It requires a total trust in G-d to obey Him even when He forbids the human court to take action for some technical reason when the person has done something worthy of death. The lack of this type of faith shows just far yeridat hador (the regression of humanity through the generations) has come.
Finally, the laws for Benei Noach (non-Jews) are somewhat different. While confessions and circumstantial evidence are still not admissible, no prior warning is required and only one witness is necessary. Also, as I understand it, a non-Jew is responsible for obeying the Noachide laws even if he is ignorant of them. So the fact that the current state of Israel does not have the authority under the Torah to enact the death penalty (and that Torah Jews must not allow it to do this) does not mean that Torah requires a crusade against the death penalty among non-Jews. However, our current legal system is not that commanded by HaShem, and only one form of capital punishment--death by beheading--is permitted to non-Jews. It is imperative for Jews and non-Jews to educate themselves and fight for obedience to G-d in our laws and systems of justice, and this includes not only the fight to maintain capital punishment but also to see to it that it is carried out only in accordance with Divine instructions. I am afraid we are a long way from there yet.
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