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Red Tory: A New Lament For A Nation
Phillip Blond, the main architect of U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron's "big society", is coming to Canada this week. The timing couldn't be better as our political parties get set to offer up their competing versions of what ails us and how we might go forward together.
Blond is gaining a lot of attention with a blistering diagnosis of U.K. society that will, I think, resonate profoundly with many Canadians and tap into our growing sense that here too something needs changing and that our current politics are not up to the task. The ideas, laid out in speeches, articles, a new website and most recently Red Tory, a book named for a term invented right here in Canada, are getting picked up by conservative thinkers on both sides of the ocean and are being put into play by Cameron's coalition government. Blond's wide-ranging work — part academic thesis, part political tract, part sermon — is in fact being embraced and vilified across the political spectrum. It shows, for better or worse, that there is room in politics, even during elections, for big ideas. But it also shows, I believe, a troubling trend, a growing dependency on nostalgia as the inspiration for public policy.
First, what is the big idea at play here? Society, they say, is broken. The culprits: the uninterrupted growth of the state, which now reaches into every aspect of our lives, becoming increasingly centralized, authoritarian and remote; free market capitalism that has given free rein to greed and to corporations with no loyalties to community or country; and the glorification of the individual and a narrow notion of freedom that has turned us into atomised consumers, undermining our sense of responsibility to one another. The results: rising inequality and plutocracy, loss of community and mutuality, the hollowing out of civil society, and ultimately, the loss of meaning and civic virtue. This is Putnam on steroids. We aren't just bowling alone, we are helplessly alone in the face of an increasingly authoritarian state, greed-driven monopoly capitalism and a world of selfish competition.
Little wonder that Red Tory is creating a stir. Here Blond is criticizing social democrats with their faith in the state, and Thatcher Conservatives and Blair's New Labour with their faith in the markets, and all liberals for their glorification of the individual. His equation of Thatcher and Blair raises pretty tough questions about just what the so-called "third way" was really about. In short, it seems that just about everybody has been wrong and for quite a while now. And the solution: nothing less than a new politics – "the big society" – in which we recreate community and mutual responsibility, curtail the state and the corporation, and promote local autonomy and social enterprise and a shared sense of the common good.
So, what are we to make of all this? The diagnosis, even if over the top, will be compelling or at least recognizable to many of us, especially in our darker moments. We do worry about the increasingly closed, bureaucratized state that seems not only remote, unresponsive and inaccessible but also more and more intrusive and authoritarian particularly in the name of public security and safety. And it is an unexpected pleasure to read Blond as he explores the human and social costs of free market policies: the unsupportable levels of inequality, the power and reach of corporations, the interpenetration of money and politics — one could forget for a moment the Tory part of Red Tory. For Blond, the big box supermarket chain is the perfect symbol of what is wrong here — and he has a ready audience for these concerns. And surely, too, many of us have worried about how hollow is the narcissism and self-preoccupation of our consumer society and how hard this makes it for modern citizens to find any common ground or shared purpose.
Some of his solutions, though less clearly spelled out, will have resonance too – the importance of local initiative and control, voluntarism and social responsibility, cooperatives, mutuals, social enterprise, and other forms of association and community self-help. All this has enormous appeal as it seems to be putting people and their relationships at the centre of things — where they belong. Blond's work is brimming with good and important ideas and we ought to be watching with great interest as the U.K. government implements at least some of them. We are already seeing examples of social enterprise that show promise, and thinkers like Davies have set out ways to encourage mutuals and meaningful employee ownership. We are also seeing examples of social entrepreneurship where citizens are taking control over issues that matter to them, not waiting for government. And Blond's understanding of the need to harness the market and regulate the corporate sector for the common good is a refreshing voice in a neoliberal world.
But notwithstanding its merits, the approach, at least as I understand it, also presents real challenges and dangers. Its radical localism, its vision of community control of key services, will depend on local capacity which is inevitably uneven, on new funding models not yet fully developed, and on the willingness of communities to take on more responsibilities, which is not assured. Most people are already stretched for time and many may not want to become "service managers". And, if the state uses these new models to justify deep cuts, localism could easily become compulsory volunteerism or what we usually call offloading. So, for example, voluntary firefighters are important and deserve our respect and support – but they also deserve the best of training and equipment and the support of professionals and they cannot be expected to do the whole job. We know that community health care and social services are important but they cannot do it all. They cannot take on research and science, health surveillance, infrastructure and procurement, redistribution, and the pooling of risk to ensure that everybody is covered for care.
Communities cannot do it all and society cannot be reduced to the sum of its communities. How, in the face of radical localism, do we achieve any measure of trust and solidarity across communities? Modern society depends on some measure of reciprocal responsibility and mutual accommodation with strangers as we seek solutions for shared problems that cannot be solved at the community level – climate change, the degradation of our environment, poverty at home and globally. Bond powerfully takes up the issue of rising inequality and he wants to "recapitalise the poor" so they can break out of their cycle of dependency. But the risk of radical localism and a weakened state is the perpetuation of these inequalities and the privilege, prejudice and distrust that come with them.
The radical emphasis on community, taken to its extreme, looks awfully like a desire to roll back modernity and return to the "big society" that never was. For a country like Canada, in particular, making local community the centre of action, however attractive, misses the realities of mobility, the growing desire for variety and appreciation of diversity. It also offers little on the inevitable challenges of finding solidarity across dispersed and diverse communities. We should welcome the commitment to rebuild a robust and independent civil society but not as a community alternative to the state or as a rejection of pluralism. Here Blond's approach looks awfully like other more traditional conservative anti-governmentalism steeped in nostalgia masquerading as policy.
Blond knows that he is vulnerable to such criticism but denies accusations of nostalgia with a simple, 'the past WAS better than the present'. But his romantic discussion of poverty before the rise of the social democratic state belies the point. Bond argues that the state stripped away the self-organizing capacity of the poor, diminishing them and trapping them into dependency. One gets a picture of bucolic medieval communities where church, charity and community ensured happy, well-adjusted poor, only to be undone by the heavy hand of the interventionist state. But this isn't history. Missing from this picture is any sense of the vulnerabilities, of the expulsion of the undesirable, of the imprisonment of beggars, of child labour and workhouses, and the demeaning dependency on charity typically reserved for the "deserving poor". This is indeed nostalgia not memory, not history — or, as historian Charles Maier put it, it is "history without guilt", dangerous because it reflects a longing for a time that never was, a sense of loss for something we never had, and therefore can blind us, in this case, to the limits of community and the important role the state has played in freeing the poor from misery and dependence. The contribution of free education, universal access to health care, help in tough times, pensions, for starters, deserves more than passing mention that some good was done. And surely these "intrusions" can't be seen as having enslaved the poor.
Few would disagree that we must reinvent how we deliver public services, that when badly delivered they can deepen dependency, that we must get the incentives right, that no one size fits all, that we have to find more empowering approaches. But Red Tory's anti-state rhetoric confuses the picture as does the uncertain idea of a "civic state" where local communities take over the functions of government. There are promising new models being tried out here and there that could help to make government work better, but the overall thrust of Red Tory is likely to lead to massive withdrawal of state programs, with the nostalgic hope that families and communities will fill the void. In the end, Blond joins Thatcher in the more traditional conservatism of Edmund Burke. What unites these three thinkers is their belief that our answers reside in "the little platoon" into which we were born – "to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affection. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind."
And this brings us to the crux of what is most troubling about the "big society" – and that is Blond's desire to rediscover the true Britishness that has been lost. He equates this with civic virtue and the common good, a return to some shared idea of the noble life, and he finds this in the past – before the ravages of secularism, liberalism and multiculturalism and the cultural relativism they imply. He is invoking a time when people knew right from wrong, took responsibility, were dutiful, when the elites had a sense of noblesse oblige, when communities had more control of their destinies. Was there such a time? Certainly not for women, or people who practiced minority religions, or no religion, or people who were different or despised. No wonder Cameron declared multiculturalism a failure. This is all a part of trying to roll back modernity – to what? To whose "high culture"?
Certainly, it is useful to debate these issues, to make sure that multiculturalism does not degenerate into islands of separate communities or a country bound together only by its diversity. And that means for a country like Canada a significant investment in civil society. It means state support for those diverse organizations that speak for the otherwise invisible, the marginalised and vulnerable, organizations like Egale, or the AFN and Elizabeth Fry and John Howard and the Civil Liberties Association. It means support for local, national and international non-governmental organizations to do what government cannot do as well. It also means encouraging new types of association that can push and prod government and hold it to account, associations that cut across our differences based on democratic values, human rights and a commitment to mutual aid and the peaceful resolution of conflict, associations that do not impose a single version of what it means to be Canadian but bring us together to hash out our best understanding of the common good and how to pursue it, associations that serve not as a substitute for the state but as necessary ingredients to revitalising our democracy and our citizenship.
I expect that whenever problems seem intimidatingly complex, nostalgia provides some comfort. We see it in the Tea Party's rewriting of history that turns robber barons into entrepreneurial pioneers or slave owners into the champions of freedom. We see it from the left when it reminisces about the days of the great equality movements when fundamental change seemed possible, even close at hand, reconstituting those days into some idyllic time that never was, forgetting the missteps and mixed motives. Nostalgia is a sort of utopian thinking and can be helpful in linking us to enduring values that may be at risk. It can be an impetus for action – as Camus said it, "every act of rebellion is a nostalgia for lost innocence." But it cannot be the basis for politics or policy.
So, Blond is right that we need to rebuild civil society and has some pretty exciting ideas – but just as the state without a strong and independent civil society is an empty shell that serves the powerful, strong civil society without the state is a myth. While we ought to learn from history, the model of civil society drawn from nostalgia is not the answer, nor is a sense of the common good derived from a romantic recollection of a particular tradition.
But, for all their warts, Red Tory and "big society" are reminders that politics and elections can be about ideas, even big ideas about citizens taking back their democracy and taking on the future.
22 Responses to "Red Tory: A New Lament For A Nation"-
Alex – your summary of what is clearly a fascinating read offers some interesting ideas and possibilties for Canada's structural problems.
I tend to look at this from a different perspective – but come to similar conclusions. I have for some time taken a position that cities – certainly the largest cities like London, New York, even Toronto no longer offer the economies of scale that urban architects thought was infinite. Their advantages will very soon be lost as the advantages of clustering around a large scale power source – invariably near water – and are replaced with local power – at the home – in the village – solar and wind – others yet to be invented. Until we find the sustainable alternative to oil / petroleum – I suspect the amount we travel will be totally different in a generation. But the premise of using more local enterprise as the starting point to taking back politics – fits with this anyway. Thanks for pointing us to these ideas. -
The recipe is not one or the other, but one AND the other, in balance. Thanks Alex. I appreciate your contribution. As time permits, I will read more of your postings!
Social entrepreneurship can nimbly incubate public policy, on location. Social entrepreneurs cultivate value in community relationships which in turn derive $$'s to meet the metrics of state and market.
Without connections, there are no neighbourhoods. Without nieghbourhoods, there is no tax base.
The state's best leveraging of resources to develop an independent, civil society is via public education. This was Egerton Ryerson's response to 1800's waves of immigration, socio-economic disparity, geo-political restructuring and shifts in economic engine. Public education is why Ontario led Canada's prosperity until the end of the 20th century — there is a correlation to breakdown in equitable access to even delivery of common curriculum and Ontario's decline in lead since the late 1980's..
Inequitable access to public edcuation, and to knowledge-economy necessary post-secondary education, is leveraging the current plutocratic trend. Socio-economic disparity serves nobody, posit the authors of "The Spirit Level".
Let's rebuild neighbourhoods with the idea for "Citizen Apprneticeship" . Let the state incent peer-tutor clusters in public education to pomote language fluency and literacy with value for post-secondary education. Let youth build Registered Education Savings Plan value with facetime instead of $$'s, with federal settlement and post-secondary fudning streams delivered through existing provincial and ddistrict school board jurisdictions.
I am hopeful that 2011 federal and provincial campaigns will build upon the headlined education plank in the platforms.
Thought provoking. Good to address these issues today.
Thanks Alex.
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Thanks again Alex for this other thoughtful subject. I would be interested to know if you think that there are countries that have found ways to make the "social contract" works better between private sector, civil society, local communities and the State?…
Alex – your last reply prompted me to come back with a further observation. I am not Canadian by birth – but rather – by choice. Growing up in the UK in the 40's and 50's – i saw what the social contract could do to rebuild – post WWII. Lend-Lease plus a left leaning Labour government – made rationing and all the sacrifices seem worthwhile. I also grew up in a school and social and religious circles where I mixed and mingled with kids my own age who were displaced from wartime Europe and who were scarred and formed by that experience. I met a second wave of those in '56 – Hungarian teenagers who matured stuffing Molotov cocktails down the turrets of Russian tanks – and Jordanian kids who related tales of Israeli planes flying low over their homes. I suspect that I'm one of just a few of your readers who can remember where I was when the news of JFK's assassination broke! When I and my family decided that we wanted to leave England for "new pastures" – we had a choice – of places like Australia or New Zealand – but – in large part because of PET and his Just Society – we chose Canada. On arrival, the wisdom of that choice was self evident – but sadly, over the intervening years – it seems our leaders who succeeded Trudeau have had less vision. My concern (and fear) now is – that we will not find another (or our Obama) in my lifetime!
As an immigrant myself I have always felt that Canada's distinctive contribution was in the unique way it combined three sets of values: New World values of freedom and equality of opportunity which immigrant families like my own sought and to an impressive degree found; northern values of mutual aid and community and a commitment to real equality that made freedom and opportunity possible for people like us; and pluralism built on a foundation of First Peoples, French and English and now includes Canadians from every part of the world that has required new kinds of association across all of our differences. My concern is that this requires strong government and strong civic society both,a new kind of leadership and enhanced citizenship.
I must admit Alex – I see it more where I am currently living – on an island populated with the fifth and sometimes sixth generations of families who came here in the early to mid-1800's – and the seven First Nations Bands that welcomed them and helped them through those first winters…
Alex – having now read both your analysis of Philip Blond's book Red Tory – and today Lewis Lapham's editorial in Lapham's Quarterly – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lewis-lapham/america-unemployment_b_844586.html – I have a sense that Mr Lapham has a better grasp of the history – at least from the American perspective – than Mr. Blond – of the evolution of western society to this point – though I have to admit I sensed – as I finished reading – that Mr. Lapham is offering no practical solution to reverse this trend…
Whenever I hear one of these puerile hymns to the wondrous Volk who never were, the Horst Wessel song begins to play in my head. For all its window dressing, this type of glutinous sentimentality for the unreal and impossible has a definite Fascist tint.
There is no way back. Or more precisely, there is a way back but now that non-whites and non-Christians and non-males can vote and participate in politics, it's not likely it will ever be taken, and a good thing too. It is the road to Hell.
The only question with people who put forward such schemes is whether they are extremely stupid or deeply dishonest. Your description of this ugly piece of work inclines me to the latter. He doesn't want freedom and empowerment. He wants to be Lord of the Manor again, with us all licking the blacking off his boots.
Sunsin – your comment is apropos and timely. Yesterday, one political party was slimed by a media outlet – in an action most reminiscent of those days in the 1930's when whole groups of people were socially diminished – without apparently any protest from the public at large.
The bad news is that these things still occur – that people who are so cynical think that normal folks will not take note and respond or react – that they would in effect acquiesce!
Apparently not Canadians. I think Mr. Harper was under the impression that his total audience was the rather socially conservative largely rural constituency that Mr. Manning spoke to and collectively brought together to form the Reform Party – but – in order to expand from that limited base – Mr. Harper had to cast his net further and that was his undoing.
What he has found to his rue is that while people may be conservative in that too drastic a regime change will unnerve these voters – when they are presented with too black and white a scenario – they will be forced – these same folk who may have had experience of other dictatorial regimes – which is why they came to Canada in the first place – to look seriously around for any alternative which is not so paternalistic – they have all seen too many Uncle Joe's and Adolphs and even Josefs and Fidels to want to be living in yet another such regime in the place they though was the source of the milk and honey!
I am an air force brat, so I think I have a different idea of community. When I was growing up we moved around a lot. One day I asked my parents 'where do we come from, where is our home?'. They told me that everywhere that we landed in Canada was our home. So in my mind, Canada is the community.
The creation of economic redistribution, universal health care, education grants, Canada pension and old age security programs were just some of the many tools created by the community, for the betterment of the community.
We were a community that was progressive and forward looking until the great neo-liberal experiment took hold. And what is the great neo-liberal experiment? In a word, the experiment is greed.
The experiment in greed must be extinguished before we can continue down the more human and progressive road that we were on. There is no point in going backwards, attempting to recreate past experiments in greed. We must move forward and create communities free from greed. And that includes the community of Canada. Simple.


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Forum topic by nashbok | posted 05-02-2012 02:03 AM | 1915 views | 1 time favorited | 30 replies |
Topic tags/keywords: chestnut I just watched an interesting documentary on the American Chestnut tree (embeded below). I was familiar with the story of the chestnut blight but I had no clue how devastating the loss of chestnut trees was to American culture. I imagine if it were still around chestnut would be the staple hardwood and not red/white oak. Have any of you ever seen an American Chestnut in the wild? |
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#1 posted 05-02-2012 02:25 AM |
I had to take down a Chestnut when I lived in Indiana. It was almost 6' across at the base and solid all the way through. It broke my heart to cut it down, but my ex FiL slabbed it up into 8/4 and 12/4 pieces and let it dry for at least ten years. That tree made a whole lot of wood workers very happy and has built quite a bit of furniture so it wasn't a total loss. Too bad I wasn't into wood working then. -- Improvise.... Adapt...... Overcome! |
#2 posted 05-02-2012 02:51 AM |
I know someone who claims to have 2 of them, haven't seen them and wouldn't know them from other forms of chestnut so I don't know how accurate that really is. -- --Rev. Russ in NY-- A posse ad esse |
#3 posted 05-02-2012 03:07 AM |
Thanks for the video. Such a sad state of affairs. Hopefully the smart tree scientists can figure out a good solution to bring them back in full swing. -- "hold fast to that which is good" |
#4 posted 05-02-2012 03:18 AM |
I have not seen one, but I did see a documentary on PBS a couple of years ago about the American Chestnut. There are some groups trying to get it to come back. I think the folks were in Wisconsin that were starting to grow them. I have used reclaimed AC on some projects…beautiful wood. -- Wayne - Plymouth MN |
#5 posted 05-02-2012 03:48 AM |
I had a student make a hutch out of chestnut in my woodworking class 35 years ago. He got the chestnut from his |
#6 posted 05-02-2012 04:02 AM |
After I watched the video I did some checking around and the University of Tennessee has a hybrid that they're test planting in a few select national forrests. It's supposed to look exactly like an American Chestnut. About half of them have survived. Of course, if they do find a fix for the blight, I'll be an old man before I see any of the lumber. @Dallas In this day and age, I'm surprised they didn't just move the road. ;) @SnowyRiver I'll have to find that documentary. |
#7 posted 05-02-2012 04:10 AM |
Great video, thanks for posting. I had no idea… but now I want a chestnut tree. Maybe it'll survive in southern illinois! :-) -- Don't anthropomorphize your handplanes. They hate it when you do that. -- OldTools Archive -- |
#8 posted 05-02-2012 04:50 AM |
Unfortunately I'm not so good at recognizing lumber unless it's at least rough sawn, don't think I can even tell you what a poplar tree actually looks like :/ Guess it comes from growing up in the suburbs. -- The mark of a good carpenter is not how few mistakes he makes, but rather how well he fixes them. |
#9 posted 05-02-2012 04:57 AM |
Thank you for the video. I've never seen a chestnut, and was unaware of the significance of the chestnut for food or trade. My mother is from south western Virginia. Now I'll have to ask her if she saw them when she was a kid. Imagine how we would feel is suddenly all the walnut or cherry trees died. -- Ben in Va |
#10 posted 05-02-2012 05:38 AM |
Dallas, Future reference, when/if that tree tries to send up sprouts, make sure they know it's an endangered species, and that it would be very bad to cut them down… -- The mark of a good carpenter is not how few mistakes he makes, but rather how well he fixes them. |
#11 posted 05-02-2012 10:21 AM |
my parents have one growing in thier yard (west-central indiana). it's only about 20-30 yrs old, but it gets nuts, and they're really good. |
#12 posted 05-02-2012 11:26 AM |
I have seen them in the wild a number of times in the Mountains of North Georgia, up to 8" in diameter. However, the blight eventually gets them, so they cannot flourish. In the Chattahoochie National Forest, some of the old down logs that died from the blight 100 years ago still have some sound wood in them. -- Danny Located in Perry, GA. Forester. Wood-Mizer LT40HD35 Sawmill. Nyle L53 Dehumidification Kiln. hamsleyhardwood.com |
#13 posted 05-02-2012 11:34 AM |
I know where one is about a mile from my house. When the blight kills a tree, it doesn't kill all the root system and shoots sprout from time to time and they grow up to about 6" to 8" in diameter before they are killed back again. The one growing on my friends farm had seeds last year. Chestnut wood's best feature is it's rot resistance. -- Hal, Tennessee http://www.first285.com |
#14 posted 05-02-2012 06:52 PM |
They do have new varieties of the chestnut tree that are blight resistant and the tree place I deal with -- As ever, Gus-the 78 yr young apprentice carpenter |
#15 posted 05-02-2012 07:15 PM |
From what ive read there are only 12 mature amercian chestnut trees in North Amercia. -- Something, something, something. |
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Does anyone have a name and number for a dog sitter or daily boarding place in Havasu?
Doggie Daycare is the only place in town. We boarded our two dogs and it's better than leaving them in the truck all day , but I don't think they did everything they said they were going to do...like walk the dogs, let them out to play etc. At home our dogs come back from day care WORKED. They are so tired they fall asleep in the car driving home and sleep through the night. And, based on the sh!ts they had for the next 3 days I don't think they fed them our food
But like I said, it's better than leaving them in the truck/home/RV all day.
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Leave the dogs at home with a pet setter. You'll save a bundle and the dogs might like it better too.
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It's TORTURE! it's against the Geneva convention!!
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I would only recommend Pet Resort for boarding, 928-855-2888. If you want someone to come to the house I would recommend Alice at Alley Kat 928-208-7944.
I don't know the name, but there is one off of Kiowa and Aviation the only reason I know its there is the dogs keep me up all night!!
Not trying to bash anyones business here but i have heard from several different sources on different occasions that doggy daycare has LOST (don't ask me how) 3 dogs in the past!


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To borrow from the Rob Reiner/Billy Crystal/Meg Ryan hit movie of the day When Harry Met Sally, George Harrison's Cloud Nine comeback album twenty-five years ago could alternately be titled "When Harri(son) Met Lynne". By 1987, Jeff Lynne had ceased to make neo-Beatles-influenced music with Electric Light Orchestra, while Harrison simply had stopped making music, period. After a long series of very public well-intentioned but ill-fated charity causes (the Concert for Bangla Desh cost George $2.25 million in personal tax), business lawsuits, scathing British press attacks, boring critical reviews, and diminishing album sales, Harrison mercifully left the music business for five years making Monty Python movies with his Handmade Films and tending to his garden at Friar Park.
But according to Tom Petty, in October 1987 there they were, the ex-Beatle and the ELO exile, George Harrison and Jeff Lynne, all beaming smiles backstage, first in Birmingham England and then again in London's Wembley Arena when Petty and the Heartbreakers toured the UK as Bob Dylan's band. "George had given me his unreleased Cloud Nine album, it was just about to come out. He had given me a cassette of it, & when I got home (to Los Angeles) I put it on and thought,'Man, this is amazing! The sound and the songs and everything, Lord this sounds good,and original, and different.Man, that Jeff Lynne just blows my mind.' I was playing it all Thanksgiving Day 1987."
Later that Thanksgiving day Petty would find himself stopped at a traffic light, only to spy none other than Jeff Lynne sitting in the car next to his. Coincidence? Fate? Urban planning? We'll never really know for sure, but of this we are certain: George Harrison's Cloud Nine set off a musical chain reaction which would revitalize not only the Quiet Beatle's music career, but result directly in Petty's Full Moon Fever, Roy Orbison's Mystery Girl, and spawn the super group the Traveling Wilburys. – Redbeard


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Șalom și salut, necredincioșilor, fiarelor, și Paisanoviților! Bine ați venit la casa căinței. Priviți coafura zionistă, refractară a Babei Z cum scînteiează, în timp ce ea izgonește pe Curvele Gramsciene, Porcii Fasciști, Papii din Laodicea, și Fiarele prădătoare ale Islamului, dîndu-i pe Mîna Atotputernică a Dumnezeului lui Israel. După ce se va termina de biciuit, se vor servi pișcoturi gramsciene și lapte de capră în salon. Vă rugăm și să gustați din plăcinta ocupației zioniste. L'Chaim!
Sunday, February 3, 2013
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- BulgarWheat12:04 PM
when I got off of the plane yesterday and finally got home, the daughter hit me with something I did not see coming. It seems that Ohio State has an outstanding dance program and there's an audition next week. She and the wife are going to drive up Thursday for auditions Friday and Saturday. I had to review her essay she'd written for entrance, she woke me up right after I fell asleep. Under the circumstances, of course I woke up.
It just dawned on me all of her ballet would be at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center which is frankly the finest athletic center in the world.
I can use my friend's address and dodge the out of state fees. She was after all, born in the Buckeye state. While not in school, she'd have to find herself a place to live and get a job during the summer.
The reality of her leaving the nest is really starting to hit me now. I don't agree with her decision, but she's the one that has to live her life, not me.
We'll see how she does with her auditions... - BabbaZee12:29 PM
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Law claims he's acting under the rubric of William F. Buckley,
supporting the most conservative candidate who can win. But Law is no
judge of that. Neither is Rove. Their advice led to the epic Romney
defeat, in which conservatives were told to vote for Romney in the
primary since he was the only candidate who could win.
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yeah well they were the idiots who laid down for that and listened and obeyed. No one objected to Mittens but us. And HOW DARE WE! we were told to boot. - BulgarWheat4:28 PM
the wife is going to teach the boy how to make cheese cake. He likes him some of dat cheese cake. I has a sour cream topping and the crust is baked with the cream cheese and bisquick mixture. Non of that gram-cracker crap for us!
I told him once he learns how to do this, he can have cheese cake anytime he wants. He likes the sound of that.
I also bought two new pyrex glass pie dishes since they need to make two of them tonight, one for us, and to take along another down to a super bowl party. That means supper is covered tonight. It's my favorite desert. It was no accident that Hudson whose mother and brother were murdered with a gun was chosen to perform with the Sandy Hook children right?
Jordan Kutzik (@Thrownpeas) February 03, 2013
No, it was no accident. Right on cue, many Twitter users parlayed the pre-Super Bowl performance by Jennifer Hudson and the Sandy Hook kids into an opportunity to call for stricter gun control laws:
If seeing the kids from Sandy Hook sing doesn't make everyone want to put down their guns, nothing will. #sandyhook #superbowl #guncontrol—
Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler) February 03, 2013
Sandy Hook Elem. school choir. Class act by the NFL. And quite the message to the gun nuts. #SuperBowl #sandyhook #NRA #fuckthenra—
Nameless Proletarian (@Otakar227) February 03, 2013
Jennifer Hudson and the Sandy Hook chorus, both affected by guns. The NFL is making a statement that I approve of.—
Kate Grabon (@KateGrabon) February 03, 2013
So screw the NFL kommie bitches- BabbaZee10:47 PM
Little Jimmy's gone
Way out of the backstreet
Out of the window
Through the fallin' rain
Right on time
Right on time
That's why Broken Arrow
Waved his finger down the road so dark and narrow
In the evenin'
Just before the Sunday six-bells chime, six-bells chime
And all the dogs are barkin'
Way on down the diamond-studded highway where you wander
And you roam from your retreat and view
Way over on the railroad
Tomorrow all the tippin' trucks will unload
Every scrapbook stuck will glue
And I'll stand beside you
Beside you child
To never never never wonder why at all
No no no no no no no no
To never never wonder why at all
To never never never wonder why it's gotta be
It has to be
Way across the country where the hillside mountain glide
The dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child to wander
Past your window with a lantern lit
You held it in the doorway and you cast against the pointed island breeze
Said your time was open, go well on your merry way
Past the brazen footsteps of the silence easy
You breathe in you breathe out you breathe in you breathe out you breath in
You breathe out you breathe in you breathe out
And you're high on your high-flyin' cloud
Wrapped up in your magic shroud as ecstasy surrounds you
This time it's found you
You turn around you turn around you turn around you turn around
And I'm beside you
Beside you
Oh darlin'
To never never wonder why at all
No no no no no
To never never never wonder why at all
To never never never wonder why it's gotta be
It has to be
And I'm beside you
Beside you
Oh child
To never never wonder why at all
I'm beside you
Beside you
Beside you
Beside you
Oh child - BabbaZee8:23 AM
Described as "paranoid and psychotic" by the admitting physician, Dr. John Riedler, Richard spent one week in the hospital denying that he had any psychiatric or addiction issues. He was placed on two medications: Seroquel and the antidepressant Wellbutrin, no stimulants. In his discharge report, Dr. Riedler noted that Richard had stabilized but remained severely depressed and dependent on both amphetamines and marijuana, which he would smoke in part to counter the buzz of Adderall and the depression from withdrawal.
(Marijuana is known to increase the risk for schizophrenia, psychosis and memory problems, but Richard had smoked pot in high school and college with no such effects, several friends recalled. If that was the case, "in all likelihood the stimulants were the primary issue here," said Dr. Wesley Boyd, a psychiatrist at Children's Hospital Boston and Cambridge Health Alliance who specializes in adolescent substance abuse.) Think about it.
Why does the civilian Department of Homeland Security need billions of rounds of ammunition?
This is the agency that is responsible for policing the border. But it doesn't.
This is the agency that is responsible for catching terrorists. But it doesn't.
So why does Homeland Security need so many weapons and enough hollow-point rounds to plug every American six times?
Maybe this is the "civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" as the Defense Department.
These words – "civilian national security force" – have haunted me ever since I first read them.
Obama has never explained what he meant.
He's never been called to account for that remark.
Doesn't this sound like police-state talk to you?
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/why-is-government-stockpiling-guns-ammo/#YlhparIpSi5XPqic.99- BabbaZee9:06 AM
Activists say under Islamic laws a father cannot be executed for murdering his children. Husbands can also not be executed for murdering their wives, the group say.
Celebrity Saudi preacher who 'raped' and tortured his five-year-old daughter to death escapes with light sentence
A Saudi preacher who tortured his five-year-old daughter to death has been released after agreeing to pay 'blood money', activists said.
Lama al-Ghamdi died in October having suffered multiple injuries including a crushed skull, broken ribs and left arm, extensive bruising and burns. The child had also been repeatedly raped and then burned. - mawskrat9:43 AM
from a Church of Scientology commercial
Closing words: 'In the eternal debate for answers, the one thing that's true is what's true for you' the commercial's narrator concludes
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Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook - pbird9:46 AM
For two generations we've been lectured about the dangers of overpopulation. But the conventional wisdom on this issue is wrong, twice. First, global population growth is slowing to a halt and will begin to shrink within 60 years. Second, as the work of economists Esther Boserups and Julian Simon demonstrated, growing populations lead to increased innovation and conservation. Think about it: Since 1970, commodity prices have continued to fall and America's environment has become much cleaner and more sustainable—even though our population has increased by more than 50%. Human ingenuity, it turns out, is the most precious resource.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323375204578270053387770718.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read - pbird9:53 AM
College. Higher education dampens fertility in all sorts of ways. It delays marriage, incurs debt, increases the opportunity costs of childbearing and significantly increases the expense of raising a child. If you doubt that the economics of the university system are broken, consider this: Since 1960, the real cost of goods in nearly every other sector of American life has dropped. Meanwhile, the real cost of college has increased by more than 1,000%.
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The two-day old tenure of Secretary of State John Kerry got off to a flying start today with an astonishing statement from his ambassador to Egypt, Anne W. Patterson, at a joint ceremony in Cairo to mark the delivery of four American-made F-16 aircraft:
U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Anne W. Patterson.
Today's ceremony demonstrates the firm belief of the United States that a strong Egypt is in the interest of the U.S., the region, and the world. We look to Egypt to continue to serve as a force for peace, security, and leadership as the Middle East proceeds with its challenging yet essential journey toward democracy. … Our thirty-four year security partnership is based upon shared interests and mutual respect. The United States has long recognized Egypt as an indispensible [sic] partner.
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2013/02/what-planet-does-john-kerry-live-on - pbird11:36 AM
Kashmir's Grand Mufti Bashir-u-Din Sunday issued fatwa against Kashmir's only all girl rock band Pragaash and said music is not good for the society.
Speaking to Rising Kashmir over the phone, Grand Mufti confirmed the decree and said he has asked girls that music is not good for society and they should inculcate "better values" within themselves.
"Yes I issued the fatwa where I said to the girls that music is not good for society," he said. Mufti also said that all the "bad things happening in the Indian society are because of music."
http://www.risingkashmir.in/news/grand-mufti-issues-fatwa-against-pragaash-41066.aspx - BabbaZee11:39 AM
It is not to be believed.
CVS Caremark will indeed drive me to my grave.
I don't want to tell the story... if I have to tell it again I think I will truly die. So just pray for me. Please
I will post three other horrible stories instead:
Lutheran school closes as stunned parents learn 'their five-year-old children were performing oral sex on each other'
A proposal by the Prince George's County Board of Education to copyright work created by staff and students for school could mean that a picturedrawn by a first-grader, a lesson plan developed by a teacher or an app created by a teen would belong to the school system, not the individual.
Exclusive: Eric Schmidt of GOOGLE Unloads on China in New Book
The new book is co-written by Jared Cohen, a 31-year old former State Department big shot who now runs Google Ideas, the search giant's think tank.
the pair come close, on occasion, to suggesting western governments follow China's lead and form closer relationships between state policy and corporate activity.
former State Department big shot ...
http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2013/02/01/exclusive-eric-schmidt-unloads-on-china-in-new-book/ - pbird11:40 AM
Bloomberg administration's stealth war on teen pregnancy.
Handouts of the "morning-after pill" to sexually active students have skyrocketed under an unpublicized project in which health centers in public schools offer girls a full menu of free birth-control drugs and devices, records obtained by The Post show.
Last September, the city revealed it had started giving out Plan B and other birth control in the nurses' offices of 13 high schools. At the time, officials said 567 girls had gotten Plan B.
But the birth-control blitz was much bigger than the city had acknowledged. About 40 separate "school-based health centers" doled out 12,721 doses of Plan B in 2011-12, up from 10,720 in 2010-11 and 5,039 in 2009-10, according to the newly released data.
About 22,400 students sought reproductive care from January 2009 through last school year, records show. Under state law, minors don't need parental OKs to get contraceptives.
The revelations stunned Mona Davids, president of the NYC Parents Union, whose 14-year-old attends a Manhattan high school.
"I'm in shock," she said. "What gives the mayor the right to decide, without adequate notice, to give our children drugs that will impact their bodies and their psyches? He has purposely kept the public and parents in the dark with his agenda."
Davids, who is black, noted that most school-based health centers are in poor neighborhoods.
"This was population control on blacks and Latinos without our knowledge," she said.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/city_secret_school_birth_control_39jedC7GufuBW20ps7nvZI - BabbaZee12:31 PM
Here is what Piggy's Candy Store looks like today — now it appears to be an Islamic school. Gone is the cluttered window offerings of the candy store. I doubt anyone walking down the street knew that in 1954 Ernest was killed and Bernard and Angelo were severely injured in a gang war.
My old neighborhood
Dion's too. He WAS a Baldie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nRdkYb6avU - pbird12:31 PM
HSUS, CEO Wayne Pacelle, and ex-employee Scotlund Haisley are defendants in a $5 million federal lawsuit stemming from a September 2009 "raid" on a South Dakota hunting dog breeder named Daniel Christensen. A judge later ruled the raid illegal because the search warrant was wrongfully obtained by an animal control officer who had "intentionally misled the issuing court."
All of the animal cruelty charges against Christensen were dropped. But he didn't get all of his dogs back. Some died after they were seized; others apparently were adopted out.


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2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - .020 Definitions for chapter.
620.020 Definitions for chapter. The definitions in KRS Chapter 600 shall apply to this chapter. In addition, as used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Case permanency plan" means a document identifying decisions made by the cabinet, for both the biological family and the child, concerning action which needs to be taken to assure that the child in foster care expeditiously obtains a permanent home; (2) "Case progress report" means a written record of goals that have been achieved in the case of a child; (3) "Case record" means a cabinet file of specific documents and a running record of activities pertaining to the child; (4) "Children's advocacy center" means an agency that advocates on behalf of children alleged to have been abused; that assists in the coordination of the investigation of child abuse by providing a location for forensic interviews and medical examinations, and by promoting the coordination of services for children alleged to have been abused; and that provides, directly or by formalized agreements, services that include, but are not limited to, forensic interviews, medical examinations, mental health and related support services, court advocacy, consultation, training, and staffing of multidisciplinary teams; (5) "Foster care" means the provision of temporary twenty-four (24) hour care for a child for a planned period of time when the child is: (a) Removed from his parents or person exercising custodial control or supervision and subsequently placed in the custody of the cabinet; and (b) Placed in a foster home or private child-caring facility or child-placing agency but remains under the supervision of the cabinet; (6) "Local citizen foster care review board" means a citizen board which provides periodic permanency reviews of children placed in the custody of the cabinet by a court order of temporary custody or commitment under this chapter; (7) "Multidisciplinary teams" means local teams operating under protocols governing roles, responsibilities, and procedures developed by the Kentucky Multidisciplinary Commission on Child Sexual Abuse pursuant to KRS 431.600; (8) "Permanence" means a relationship between a child and an adult which is intended to last a lifetime, providing commitment and continuity in the child's relationships and a sense of belonging; (9) "Preventive services" means those services which are designed to help maintain and strengthen the family unit by preventing or eliminating the need for removal of children from the family; (10) "Reasonable efforts" means the exercise of ordinary diligence and care by the department to utilize all preventive and reunification services available to the community in accordance with the state plan for Public Law 96-272 which are necessary to enable the child to safely live at home; (11) "Reunification services" means remedial and preventive services which are designed to strengthen the family unit, to secure reunification of the family and child where appropriate, as quickly as practicable, and to prevent the future removal of the child from the family; and (12) "State citizen foster care review board" means a board created by KRS 620.310. Effective: July 15, 2002 History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 87, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2002. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 144, sec. 4, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 278, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 18, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1996; and ch. 301, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 434, sec. 1, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 258, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1988; and ch. 350, sec. 41, effective April 10, 1988. -- Created 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 423, sec. 63, effective July 1, 1987.Disclaimer: These codes may not be the most recent version. Kentucky may have more current or accurate information. We make no warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the information contained on this site or the information linked to on the state site. Please check official sources.


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- David Breidenthal (Bassoon)
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At the age of only 26 Zubin Mehta became the youngest person ever to head a major American orchestra. In his 16 years as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic he elevated the orchestra to international acclaim. These renowned concerts from 1977 show them at their best with Mozart, Bartók, and Dvoák works.
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- Written: 1943
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- Written: 1891
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Posted by Luke Gibson Tax and Inequality Policy Adviser
15th Oct 2013
I was on my bike very early this morning to join a group of Somali campaigners who are calling on Barclays to keep open the cash lifeline to Somalia.
Every year Somali migrants send around $1.3 billion dollars to friends and families at home and over £100 million of this comes from the UK. This money simply dwarfs the amount of humanitarian aid governments send to the country and is vital for families in Somalia who rely on this income to cover basic costs like food, water, education and healthcare.
So it has obviously come as a serious blow to Somali communities in the UK to find that it will become more difficult and expensive for them to get money to their loved ones in the near future. As banks become increasingly risk averse due to counter-terrorism legislation, the accounts of money transfer organisations that transfer these funds to Somalia have been closed down. Organisations that send large volumes of money each month (above 3 million euro) need to have a bank account. Smaller organisations, transferring less money, don't.
Two weeks ago Barclays closed all but one of the accounts of the larger organisations, with the remaining one currently seeking a court injunction to prevent the bank from shutting it down. Whilst at the moment small organisations can still process transactions, there is concern about the tightening environment and increased difficulty in sending money.
In response, campaigners got on the saddle of London's famous 'Boris bikes' sponsored by Barclays to get the message to the bank that the most vulnerable should not be made to suffer while government, regulators and banks get a workable solution in place. They brought with them bags of fake cash to illustrate the money that will now be more difficult to send to those who urgently need it back home.
One of these campaigners is Farhan Hassan who says that the account closures mean that his 80 year old mother-in-law won't get the money she relies on for things like food, rent and healthcare. Farhan started a petition that has the support of gold-winning Olympic champion Mo Farah and has garnered over 100,000 signatures.
The British Government has, at the last minute, announced a raft of measures to clarify regulation and respond to banks' concerns. Banks must now take responsibility and keep accounts open so that ordinary Somalis do not suffer while these solutions are put in place. The money transfer sector should be creative and open about exploring new opportunities, including mobile money, and where there are alternatives, Government, the banks, and the sector should communicate transparently around these to ensure that everybody knows the options.
African Development Solutions (Adeso) who are working with Oxfam on this issue emphasise that the last thing anyone wants in Somalia is a deterioration of the humanitarian situation or a return to famine, simply because the UK government, the sector and the banks are unable to find a solution to solve the current perceived risk of working with money transfer organizations.
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Balinese Cooking Evening Class with Anika Guest House - kuta
Bali cooking is a creative process that is simple and a lot of fun. In Anika Bali Cooking Class, you will learn the techniques and become familiar with the fresh herbs, spices, and other ingredients that make Balinese food delightfully tasty as well as nutritious and cleansing. Over the day we will explore different ways to blend and balance the varied flavors to create a stimulating array of unique tastes. |


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Donald Garrett gave props (28 May 2010):
Handsome guy, well captured!
eithne mythen gave props (12 Jun 2010):
A superb capture, love the title..
Frank Summers gave props (16 Jun 2010):
Great Shot.. was this at Disney?
Steve Wilson (Deleted) said (21 Jul 2010):
Talk about sharp. This is beautiful, Howard.
Richard Bruns said (14 Oct 2010):
800 lbs. per square inch if you get your finger in the beak!
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Nice portrait and handsome bird!
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"O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!"
"Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer."
Christopher Marlowe
"When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself"
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Donaji & the Magical Poncho
This is the story of a fearless girl and her encounter with the wicked cold wind god
4.34 / 5.00 6,451 ViewsJust watch it and vote please. Also, leave some comments. I like reading them.
Enjoy the show!
I'm not a fanboy of both consoles and please, no fanboyism around here. I've made this without the Wii cause, the Wii allready outsell them both. So, there's only 2 consoles left.
Thank you very much for the frontpage. Thank you everyone that Voted for my movie.
Special Thanks to Tom Fulp also.
Think about the role placement here... the Spartans were outnumbered massively and yet they made history by being just unfathomably great warriors... and you put the 360 in their role against the PS3?! 360s are the legions of half-assed nothing special. You get no wins for having the roles backwards. The PS3s are few and yet massively more powerful. The 360s are many and... well... nothing spectacular. You lose...
ps3's win
The ps3's win because all the 360's RRoD and had to be sent into the microsoft and the ps3s took over in the two weeks they where all gone for matienence.
i love this. even though i like ps3 bttr. but a good idea for the dead 360's wouldve been to put the red ring of death on XP
Where's wii?
Why is Nintendo Wii not here? It's outsold all the rest and should be here! Still good though but I think you should've added wii.


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I am at 26 year old mother of one beautiful daughter. I love to be heard/seen. Some people might take me as cocky but that's far from the truth. I love people and their company to a certin extent...some people are just too much.


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8 Android apps to optimize your boozing
0. phoneArena 30 Apr 2012, 22:48 posted on
When it comes to using your cell phone to assist you in an evening adventure fueled by adult beverages, the average handset was limited to calling a cab, figuring out what time it is, and mixing drinks with those retractable antennas. Apparently they were supposed to give you better reception, but they did a better job of mixing a Jack and Coke on the fly...
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2. Phullofphil (Posts: 802; Member since: 10 Feb 2009)
Boozing awesome!!! I like boozing but hat the after part
3. digicon (Posts: 121; Member since: 11 Aug 2011)
What about untappd.com ? That's all about Beers !
4. remixfa (Posts: 14495; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
BOOZING! woot! :)
be careful with that BAC app. how much alchohol is in your blood is very dependant on size, weight, liver & kidney function, tolerance,ect. It might be a nice guestimate but dont take it as fact.
5. GALAXY-S (Posts: 701; Member since: 07 Jun 2011)
Im goin to download liquor run mobile seems the best of all.. when im at a friends house or club its always good to know were your nearest liquor store is
.. lol looking at the phone while drinking is not the best idea though!