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"Kubla Khan" Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The following entry presents criticism of Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" (1816). See also, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Criticism" and Lyrical Ballads Criticism.
Along with "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798) and "Christabel" (1816), "Kubla Khan" (1816) has been widely acclaimed as one of Coleridge's most significant works. While Coleridge himself referred to "Kubla Khan" as a fragment, the vivid images contained in the work have garnered extensive critical attention through the years, and it has long been acknowledged as a poetic representation of Coleridge's theories of the imagination and creation. Although it was not published until 1816, scholars agree that the work was composed between 1797 and 1800. At the time of its publication, Coleridge subtitled it "A Vision in A Dream: A Fragment," and added a prefatory note explaining the unusual origin of the work. The poet explained that after taking some opium for medication, he grew drowsy while reading a passage about the court of Kubla Khan from Samuel Purchas's Pilgrimage. In this dreamlike state, Coleridge related, he composed a few hundred lines of poetry and when he awoke, immediately began writing the verses down. Unfortunately, a visitor interrupted him, and when the poet had a chance to return to his writing, the images had fled, leaving him with only vague recollections and the remaining 54 lines of this fragmentary poem. Although many critics have since challenged Coleridge's version of the poem's composition, critical scholarship on the work has focused equally on its fragmentary nature and on its place in Romantic writing as a representative work of poetic theory.
Plot and Major Characters
The poem begins with a description of a magnificent palace built by Mongolian ruler Kubla Khan during the thirteenth century. The "pleasure dome" described in the first few lines of the poem is reflective of Kubla's power, and the description of the palace and its surroundings also help convey the character and nature of Kubla, the poem's main character. In contrast to the palace and its planned gardens, the space outside Kubla's domain is characterized by ancient forests and rivers, providing a majestic backdrop to Kubla's creation. It initially appears that there is harmony between the two worlds, but the narrator then describes a deep crack in the earth, hidden under a grove of dense trees. The tenor of the poem then changes from the sense of calm and balance described in the first few lines, to an uneasy sense of the pagan and the supernatural. There is a vast distance between the ordered world of Kubla's palace and this wild, untamed place, the source of the fountain that feeds the river flowing through the rocks, forests, and ultimately, the stately garden of Kubla Khan. As the river moves from the deep, uncontrolled chasm described in earlier lines back to Kubla's world, the narrative shifts from third person to first person; the poet then describes his own vision and his own sense of power that comes from successful poetic creation.
Major Themes
Despite the controversy surrounding the origin of "Kubla Khan," most critics acknowledge that the images, motifs and ideas explored in the work are representative of Romantic poetry. The emphasis on the Oriental setting of "Kubla Khan" in contrast to the description of the sacred world of the river is interpreted by critics as commonplace understanding of orthodox Christianity at the turn of the century, when the Orient was seen as the initial step towards Western Christianity. Also typical of other Romantic poems is Coleridge's lyrical representation of the landscape, which is both the source and keeper of the poetic imagination. Detailed readings of "Kubla Khan" indicate the use of intricate metric and poetic devices in the work. Coleridge himself explained that while any work with rhyme and rhythm may be described as a poem, for the work to be "legitimate" each part must mutually support and enhance the other, coming together as a harmonious whole. In "Kubla Khan" he uses this complex rhyming structure to guide the reader through its themes—the ordered rhymes of the first half describe the ordered world of Kubla Khan, while the abrupt change in meter and rhyme immediately following, describe the nature around Kubla Khan—the world that he cannot control. This pattern and contrast between worlds continues through the poem, and the conflict is reflected in the way Coleridge uses rhythm and order in his poem. Critics agree that "Kubla Khan" is a complex work with purpose and structure, and that it is representative of Coleridge's poetic ideal of a harmonious blend of meaning and form, resulting in a "graceful and intelligent whole."
Critical Reception
When Coleridge first issued "Kubla Khan" in 1816, it is believed that he did so for financial reasons and as an appendage to the more substantial "Christabel." The work had previously been excluded by Wordsworth from the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads and there is little evidence that Coleridge himself claimed it as one of his more significant works. In fact, when first published, many contemporary reviewers regarded the poem as "nonsense," especially because of its fragmentary nature. In the years since, the poem, as well as the story of its creation, has been widely analyzed by critics, and much critical scholarship has focused on the sources for this work as well as the images included in it. Recent studies of the poem have explored the fragmentary nature of the poem versus the harmonious vision of poetic theory it proposes. For example, in an essay analyzing the fragmentary nature of "Kubla Khan," Timothy Bahti proposes that the poet uses the symbol of the chasm to represent the act of creation, and that the struggle between the fragment and division that generates the sacred river is representative of the act of creative continuity. Other critics have focused on "Kubla Khan" as a poem that relates the account of its own creation, thus stressing its importance as a work that defines Coleridge's theories of poetic creation. It is now widely acknowledged that "Kubla Khan" is a technically complex poem that reflects many of its creator's poetic and creative philosophies and that the thematic repetition, the intricate rhymes, and carefully juxtaposed images in the work come together as a harmonious whole that is representative of Coleridge's ideas of poetic creation.
Principal Works
The Fall of Robespierre. An Historic Drama [act 1 by Coleridge, acts 2 and 3 by Robert Southey] (play) 1794
A Moral and Political Lecture, Delivered at Bristol (essay) 1795
Conciones ad Populum. Or Addresses to the People (lectures) 1795
Poems on Various Subjects [with Charles Lamb and Robert Southey] (poetry) 1796
Fears in Solitude, Written in 1798, During the Alarm of an Invasion. To Which are Added, France, an Ode; and Frost at Midnight (poetry) 1798
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems [with William Wordsworth] (poetry) 1798
Remorse. A Tragedy, In Five Acts...
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Paul Magnuson (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: "'Kubla Khan': That Phantom-World So Fair" in Critical Essays on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Leonard Orr, G. K. Hall, 1994, pp. 71-80.
[In the following essay, originally published in 1974, Magnuson theorizes that "Kubla Khan" shares many themes and images with Coleridge's "conversation poems."]
Coleridge's Fame as a poet rests on the achievement of the mystery poems, "Kubla Khan," "The Ancient Mariner," and "Christabel." The Conversation Poems, if they are known to a general audience, are regarded uncritically as minor efforts in a mode more properly Wordsworthian, even though they precede "Tintern Abbey" and clearly...
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Timothy Bahti (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: "Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" and the Fragment of Romanticism," in Modern Language Notes, Vol. 96, No. 5, December, 1981, pp. 1035-50.
[In the following essay, Bahti examines the language and structure of "Kubla Khan" and notes that it is both a fragment and a whole.]
I wrote reflections that, in many ways, were even stronger than their origin.
—Derek Walcott
[Der] negative Sinn … entsteht, wenn einer bloß den Geist hat, ohne den Buchstaben; oder umgekehrt. …
—Friedrich Schlegel1
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Billie Burnett King (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: "Coleridge's Mandala," in Southwest Review, Vol. 66, No. 4, Autumn, 1981, pp. 404-10.
[In the following essay, King analyzes "Kubla Khan" in the context of Carl Jung's theory of the structure of the human psyche.]
The Age of Enlightenment was one of those recurring periods in the history of Western man during which Reason attempts to swallow all the affective states of personality and is, for a time, apparently successful. During this particular era, the intellectually elite firmly believed that Reason and his elder son, Science, would not only solve all of man's problems but also make possible the full realization of his potential. When the great god...
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Donald Pearce (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: "'Kubla Khan' in Context," in Studies in English Literature, Vol. 21, No. 4, Autumn, 1981, pp. 565-83.
[In the following essay, Pearce proposes that Coleridge's notebooks, letters, and early poetry all contain details that are strongly reminiscent of the landscape in "Kubla Khan."]
In the Paradise Lost—indeed in every one of his poems—it is Milton himself whom you see; his Satan, his Adam, his Raphael, almost his Eve—are all John Milton; and it is a sense of this intense egotism that gives me the greatest pleasure in reading Milton's works.
—S. T. Coleridge1
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Edward Strickland (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: "The Topography of Initiation in 'Kubla Khan,'" Ball State University Forum, Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter, 1981, pp. 69-78.
[In the following essay, Strickland builds upon the thesis that "Kubla Khan" is a mythographic account of its own creation.]
If it has become a critical commonplace that the subject of "Kubla Khan" is poetry, more specific questions of intentionality in Coleridge's symbolism remain open to debate. Does the poem speak of poetry in general or of itself in particular? Among recent interpretations, those of Suther, Shelton, Purves and Patterson suggest variations of the first alternative, while Chayes and...
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Stephen Tapscott (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: "Pandemonium in Xanadu," Romanticism Past and Present, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1981, pp. 23-40.
[In the following essay, Tapscott proposes that Coleridge's vision of Xanadu in "Kubla Khan" closely parallels Milton's Eden before the Fall, both in its description of the physical detail and in its moral ambiguity.]
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Kubla Khan decrees his dome in an Edenic setting. Mythic, exotic, and remarkably tangible for a visionary landscape, the first representation of Xanadu...
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Anthony John Harding (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: "Inspiration and the Historical Sense in 'Kubla Khan,'" Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 13, No. 1, Winter, 1982, pp. 3-8.
[In the following essay, Harding discusses the impact of the Old Testament on Romantic poetry, focusing specifically on "Kubla Khan" as an example.]
Coleridge's admiration for the poetry of the Old Testament is well-known. To Coleridge, the Hebrew poets possessed in exemplary form the power of Imagination, the "modifying, and co-adunating Faculty,"1 which long before the writing of Biographia Literaria took a central place in his critical thought. Their poetry, in contrast to that of the Greeks,...
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Michael Bright (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: "'Most Capital Enemies of the Muses': War, Art, and 'Kubla Khan,'" Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 21, No. 4, Winter, 1984, pp. 396-408.
[In the following essay, Bright surveys three ideas as the thematic sources of "Kubla Khan"—that art is spontaneous and unexpected, that art can only flourish in peacetime, and that great rulers create the peace that is essential for the creation of great art.]
Like some Victorian explorer intent upon discovering the source of the Nile, John Livingston Lowes pursued the manifold streams of Coleridge's reading to reveal the literary origins of "Kubla Khan," and in The Road to Xanadu Lowes...
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John Beer (essay date 1985)
SOURCE: "The Languages of Kubla Khan" in Coleridge's Imagination: Essays in Memory of Pete Laver, edited by Richard Gravil, Lucy Newlyn, and Nicholas Roe, Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 220-62.
[In the following essay, Beer interprets "Kubla Khan" as a ferment of competing languages that dramatize the conflicts the author felt.]
A close reading of Kubla Khan makes one aware of an irresolution in the imagery which stands in marked contrast to the homogeneity of the verse. Throughout the poem there runs a strong incantatory strain, within which we become aware of an ingenious poetic language. The feminine rhymes in the second, third and...
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Cyrus Hamlin (essay date 1985)
SOURCE: "The Faults of Vision: Identity and Poetry (A Dialogue of Voices, with an essay on Kubla Khan)" in Identity of the Literary Text, edited by Mario J. Valdes and Owen Miller, University of Toronto Press, 1985, pp. 119-45.
[In the following excerpt, Hamlin notes that "Kubla Khan" remains a challenge for critics because of its visionary and inspired text, and that while it is a poem that displays the Romantic power of imagination it is also a text that stands on its own as a poetic statement.]
Sameron adion asō: but the to-morrow is yet to come.
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Fred L. Milne (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan': A Metaphor for the Creative Process," South Atlantic Review, Vol. 51, No. 4, November, 1986, pp. 17-29.
[In the following essay, Milne explores the idea that "Kubla Khan" is a poem about the creative process, focusing on the landscape, the figure of Kubla Khan, and the vision of Xanadu presented in the work.]
Although debate continues over whether or not the headnote Coleridge published with "Kubla Khan" in 1816 should be regarded as a factual account of the poem's origin, recent studies have suggested that regardless of its basis in fact the headnote serves most importantly as what Warren...
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H. R. Rookmaaker (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "'Kubla Khan' in the Context of Coleridge's Writings Around 1802," English Studies, Vol. 68, No. 3, June, 1987, pp. 228-35.
[In the following essay, Rookmaaker proposes that the key to understanding "Kubla Khan" may lie as much in Coleridge's other writing at the time he composed the poem as it does in its sources.]
Although most critics regard 'Kubla Khan' as one of the seminal poems of romanticism, there is sharp critical disagreement about its significance and meaning. While the general outlines of the landscape described in the poem are relatively clear, it offers only little indication concerning the significance of its imagery. The...
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Regina Hewitt (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: "The False Poets in 'Kubla Khan,'" English Language Notes, Vol. 26, No. 2, December, 1988, pp. 48-55.
[In the following essay, Hewitt suggests that "Kubla Khan" was Coleridge's attempt at evaluating established ideas of poetic creation and ultimately finding them wanting.]
Readers choosing to understand "Kubla Khan" as a comment on poetry may deem most concomitant interpretive issues settled some time ago by George Watson:
"Kubla Khan," then, is not just about poetry: it is about two kinds of poem. We have one of them in the first thirty-six lines of the poem; and though we do not have the other, we are...
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David Perkins (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: "The Imaginative Vision of Kubla Khan On Coleridge's Introductory Note" in Coleridge, Keats, and the Imagination: Romanticism and Adam's Dream, edited by J. Robert Barth and John L. Mahoney, University of Missouri Press, 1990, pp. 97-108.
[In the following essay, Perkins discusses the importance of the introductory note to "Kubla Khan," noting that it guides the reader's interpretation of the work from start to finish.]
Coleridge's introductory note to Kubla Khan weaves together two myths with potent imaginative appeal. The myth of the lost poem tells how an inspired work was mysteriously given to the poet and then dispelled irrecoverably....
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Kathleen Wheeler (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "'Kubla Khan' and Eighteenth Century Aesthetic Theories," Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter, 1991, pp. 15-24.
[In the following essay, Wheeler identifies "Kubla Khan" as a poem that reflected the concerns and interests of its age. The critic contends that by the time Coleridge wrote his poem, many of the ideas, imagery, symbols, and references to Orientalism had, in fact, already been assimilated into the English literary tradition.]
Few poems of classic status in the English literary corpus seem more exotic to the modern reader than "Kubla Khan." Coleridge's tantalising account of its origins combines with the Oriental imagery to tend...
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L. R. Kennard (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: "Kubla Can: Wordplay in Coleridge's Poetry," Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter, 1995, pp. 8-12.
[In the following essay, Kennard focuses on Coleridge's use of puns in "Kubla Khan."]
Summarizing Coleridge's attitude towards the pun, Sylvan Barnet notes three separate strains: "As a man in social situations he enjoyed puns and punning; as a philosopher he detested distortions of language; as a student of Shakespeare he found explanations for some puns and ignored others" ("Coleridge on Puns," JEGP [Journal of English and Germanic Philology] 56 [1957] 602-609). Published more than thirty years ago, Barnet's article and...
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David Chandler (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: "Two Notes on 'Kubla Khan,'" in Charles Lamb Bulletin, No. 102, April, 1998, pp. 64-5.
[In the following essay, Chandler discusses various sources that may have inspired Coleridge to write a particular line in "Kubla Khan."]
In an important article of 1985, '"Kubla Khan" and Michelangelo's Glorious Boast',1 Jack Stillinger made a significant contribution to our understanding of Coleridge's most enigmatic poem by demonstrating that the key line, 'I would build that dome in air', almost certainly derives from a 'boast', at one time attributed to Michelangelo, that...
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Douglas Hedley (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: "Coleridge's Intellectual Intuition, the Vision of God, and the Walled Garden of 'Kubla Khan,'" Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 59, No. 1, January, 1998, pp. 115-34.
[In the following essay, Hedley discusses "Kubla Khan" as a poem written within the visionary mystical tradition that draws upon the central Christian image of the walled garden.]
In his seminal work of 1917 Das Heilige Rudolph Otto quotes a number of passages as instances of the "Numinose." Alongside those quotations from more conventional mystics, Plotinus, and Augustine, Otto refers to Coleridge's "savage place" in "Kubla Khan,"1 It is also...
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Further Reading
Bate, Jonathan. "'Kubla Khan' and 'At a Solemn Music.'" English Language Notes 24, No. 1 (1986): 71-73.
Explains some Miltonic parallels in "Kubla Khan."
Benzon, William. "Articulate Vision: A Structuralist Reading of 'Kubla Khan'." Language and Style 18, No. 1 (Winter 1985): 3-29.
A structuralist interpretation of "Kubla Khan."
Colombo, Claire Miller. "Reading Scripture, Writing Self: Coleridge's Animation of the 'Dead Letter.'" Studies in Romanticism 35, No. 1 (Spring 1996): 27-53.
Readings of "The Eolian Harp" and...
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oh boy, Irwin, you sound cranky, just like me, . . . Got to get spring started already here !
oh boy, Irwin, you sound cranky, just like me, . . . Got to get spring started already here !
Did you guys happen to see where Mr. Perez (almond farmer) was not worred about the bee shortage because he had hives, then they started cracking those yellow emty boxes on Perez orchard. This whole thing is a nightmare.
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$200 plus pollination fees next year?
So Kieth what is it ? A nightmare now? or nutrition or mites or what?
I am confused by your last post about almond grower, have you now changed you outlook?
There is a earlier post about the big picture and we need to keep that in mind, I have a current concern about my live stock and how to survive, but I also ask a big picture question, if the pesticides are being delivered in the root system thru water ( Systemic) WHAT IS IN OUR FOOD CHAIN THAT WE EAT EVERY DAY and how is this effecting our health?
I also ask what has changed? If it is now nessesary to treat for mites 3 to 4 times a year and feed pollen substitue 15 pounds plus a year what has changed because in REALITY a short time ago we did not do this and had incredible results. check out the pictures of the bee beards on trucks for 30 years ago in video. So I ask again what has changed?
Larry Pender,Jubilee HoneyBee Company,Camarillo, CA
What is the latest news about the self pollinating almond trees that may be coming in the future?
Your second question, everything has changed, crp is being pulled out, alfalfa is out, corn & soy beans are in. Farm machinery is so much faster these days that the farmers don't get behind like they used to so many blooming crops don't bloom. Look around, so much has changed, Larry we are both Calif keepers, look how many more bees there are in Calif, look at how many locations now have twice as many bees as they used to. Look at the video, look at those small trucks.... now all you see is 48 ft step decks.
We are asking so much from so little.
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In 2007 glyphosate was the most used herbicide in the United States agricultural sector, with 180 to 185 million pounds (82,000 to 84,000 tonnes) applied, and the second most used in home and garden market where users applied 5 to 8 million pounds (2,300 to 3,600 tonnes); additionally industry, commerce and government applied 13 to 15 million pounds (5,900 to 6,800 tonnes).[5] While glyphosate has been approved by regulatory bodies worldwide and is widely used, concerns about its effects on humans and the environment persist.[6] wiki
thats more monoculture crop ,no weeds, NO diversification
How much neonicotinoids, are used in the north American market?
iTS THE WHOLE ENVIRONMENT THATS TAKING A KICKING, NOT ONLY BEES
The bees are the canary in the coal mine
I think your missing Keiths point completely.
got to feed your bees,
or we can all go on whining and crying til someone gets those farmers to step back 50 years
ian, talking to you is like walking in circles in a closet. you never get anywhere!!! i get what hes saying. do you get what im saying. we need to make the whole country aware what the effects we are having on our environment. sure farmers can do their job faster now. but there is a demand for what they are doin. if you take away the demand for cheap crappy food then no one will do it cuz you make no money at it. so bottom line teach your kids to eat there veggies and not mc donalds. and maybe someday we can go back to family farms and not mass produced food. but really that wont happen and things are just goin to get worse and worse. and really i dont see how you can put a positive spin on that. sure i can keep good strong hives at what ever cost and i can make money doin it and i can be rich and buy a corvette. but in the end was it worth it.
It sucks for beekeepers trying to make honey off of weeds, but its not the beekeepers weeds, remember,
let me know how you make out with that mnbeekeeper
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Glyphosate degrades quickly, I doubt it has any lasting affects on most stuff. I know it has issues with amphibians etc... and you will ingest some in RR crops but I doubt it's affecting bees other than wiping out a lot of plants that would be potential sources of bee food. My first impression of the vid was, well, we dropped bees off then don't look at them for awhile, come back and they're dead.... maybe it's time to adjust that practice and make sure your bees are in good shape every month. I think fall nutrition is key as well as maintaining clean equipment and knowing what your mite issues are. Also, all the beekeepers say the same thing, bees look great in fall, well what happened then and why if the bees were in such tip top shape do you pull a 4 frame average come almonds?? If my bees looked great in fall and came out of winter with 4 frames average, I'd start thinking really quickly what looking good in the fall really means and what you need to do to make sure they stay that way.
it's a black eye for all of us when they show dead out hives in high paying almond pollination on TV.
As the old rancher said "you got live ones, ..... your going to have dead ones"
Seems the odds are increasing in this business...things are changing
A good beekeeper is one who could adapt to today's world. Were not living the 60's. We have mites and much more to fight with. You either do whats right or dont do and lose those numbers every year.
Do bbuilders that use fake protein also have fake muscles? Might want to ask them.
Should we stay silent.... what we should do is NOT have these beekeepers get on TV and say it's the chemicals that are killing the bees when in fact it's a shortage of good bee pasture that is at the root of the problem. All the folks that had good pasture last year, there are pretty happy with there bees. I know here in Calif, MNBeeker it's going to be another long summer for us, we are very dry, But I am not going to blame something else other than the poor conditions that the bees are in.
Bee on TV pushing that agenda, thanks but no thanks.
Wish all the best this summer.
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NEW ORLEANS -- The San Francisco 49ers were unable to finish the job against the Baltimore Ravens in Super Bowl XLVII. Not everyone in the Niners' locker room was ready to accept the loss.
"They got away with one," running back Frank Gore said, via The Associated Press. "We showed we were the better team. It was just a couple plays here, a couple plays there."
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"McCloskeys have been Republicans in California since l859, the year before Lincoln's election. My great grandfather, John Henry McCloskey, orphaned in the great Irish potato famine of l843, came to California in l853 as a boy of l6, and joined the party just before the Civil War. By 1890 he and my grandfather, both farmers, made up two of the twelve members of the Republican Central Committee of Merced County.
"My father's most memorable expletive came when I was a boy of 10 or 11: 'That damn Roosevelt is trying to pack the Supreme Court!'
"I registered Republican in 1948 after reaching the age of 21. We were the party of civil rights, of free choice for women and fiscal responsibility. Since Teddy Roosevelt, we had favored environmental protection, and most of all we stood for fiscal responsibility, honesty, ethics and limited government intrusion into our personal lives and choices.
"We accepted that one the duties of wealth was to pay a higher rate of income tax, and that the estates of the wealthy should contribute to the national treasury in reasonable measure.
"I was proud to serve with Republicans like Gerry Ford, the first George Bush and Bob Dole.
"In 1994, however, Newt Gingrich brought a new kind of Republicanism to power, and the election of George W. Bush in 2000 has led to wholly new concept of governance. The bureaucracy has mushroomed in size and power. The budget deficits have become astronomical. Our historical separation of church and state has been blurred. We have seen a succession of ethical scandals, congressmen taking bribes, and abuse of power by both the Republican House leadership and the highest appointees of the White House.
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"Men who have never felt the fear of combat, and who largely dodged military service in their youth, have led us into grievous wars in far off places with no thought of the diplomacy, grace and respect for other peoples and their cultures which has been an American trademark for at least the last two thirds of a century. We have lost the respect and affection of most of the world outside our borders.
"My son Peter, one of the U.S. prosecutors at The Hague of the war crimes in Serbia and elsewhere, tells me that people of other countries no longer look at the country which countenances torture as a beacon for the world and the rule of law.
"Earth Day, that bi-partisan concept of Gaylord Nelson in 1970, has become the focus of almost hatred by today's Republican leadership. Many still argue that global warming is a hoax, and that Bush has been right to demean and suppress the arguments of scientists at the E.P.A., Fish & Wildlife and U.S. Geological Survey.
"I say a pox on them and their values.
"Until the past few weeks, I had hoped that the party could right itself, returning to the values of the Eisenhowers, Fords and George H.W. Bush. What finally turned me to despair, however, was listening to the reports, or watching on C-Span, a whole series of congressional oversight hearings on C-Span, held by old friends and colleagues like Pat Leahy, Henry Waxman, Norm Dicks, Nick Rahall, Danny Akaka and others, trying to learn the truth on the misdeeds and incompetence of the Bush Administration.
"Time after time I saw Republican Members of the House and Senate speak out in scorn or derision about these exercises of Congress oversight responsibility being "witch hunts" or partisan attempts to distort the actions of people like the head of the General Service Administration and the top political appointees in the Justice and Interior Departments. Disagreement turned into disgust.
"I finally concluded that it was a fraud for me to remain a member of this modern Republican Party, that there were only a few like Chuck Hegel, Jack Warner, Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins I could respect. Two of the best, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, and Jim Leach of Iowa, after years of battling for balance and sanity, were defeated last November, and it seems that every Republican presidential candidate is now vying for the support of the Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells, rather than talking about a return to the values of the party I joined nearly 59 years ago.
"My favorite spokesmen have beome Senators Jim Webb and Barack Obama.
"And so it was, that while at the Woodland courthouse the other day, passing by the registrar's office, I filled out the form to re-register as a Democrat.
"The issues Helen and I care about most, public financing of elections, a reliable paper ballot trail, independent re-districting to replace gerrymandering, the right of a woman to choose not to bring a child into the world, a reversal of the old Proposition 13 and term limits which have so hurt California's once superb education system and the competence of our Legislature, are now almost universally opposed by California's elected Republicans, and the occasional attempts at reform by our Governor are looked on with grim disdain by most of them.
"From Helen's and my standpoint, being farmers in Yolo County gives us the opportunity to work for purposes which were once Republican, but can no longer be found at Republican conventions and discussions.
"I hope this answers your questions about the party and a government I have served in either civil or military service under ten presidents, five Republican and five Democrat."
"Respectfully, Pete McCloskey."
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a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Apr 24, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Graceful, elegant and articulate explication of one's personal philosophy and the grievous ills afflicting this country today, thy name is Pete McCloskey.
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Apr 24, 2007 at 4:34 pm
I had heard that the former congressman had changed parties, and my knee-jerk reaction was: So what took you so long, Pete? But after reading Mr. McCloskey's statement, I've banished the snarl from my lips. His words have given me a much stronger understanding of just how deeply rooted ties to a political party can be when generation after generation of a family proudly embrace it -- and of how painful it might be to break those ties after a lifetime of loyalty. Painful and brave. So welcome, Pete -- and thanks.
a resident of another community
on Apr 26, 2007 at 11:27 am
Dear Sir; Recently, while visiting Skylawn Memorial Park, there was a sign honoring "Pete" Mc Closkey Earth Day. This brought back memories to 1953. When I joined the 7th Battalion, United States Marine Corps Reserve, San Bruno you were my company commander. Over the years I would read about your progress in politics. Your observations and comments always impressed me and I considered of great value.
Now you have made a decision to change political affiliation. It must have been difficult? but when one is seeking the truth, things sometimes have to change.
May I wish continued success in your search.
Respectfully and Sincerely
Edward C. Plutte
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ICED EARTH's first officially recorded DVD / Blu-Ray "Live In Ancient Kourion" will hit the stores on April 15th (USA April 16th), 2013. The band recorded an epic two and a half hour monster of a show in a 6000 year-old ancient amphitheatre with an incredible atmosphere.
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The Limited Edition Deluxe Book features the main show and a plethora of bonus content on DVD and Blu-Ray Disc, as well as the entire concert on a 2 CD set (4 discs in total!). The audio version of the full concert is available as 3-LP gatefold in different vinyl colors, or as a 2 CD set. The standard DVD is also available for pre-order.
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Pulaski Technical College has received a $2,500 grant from the C. Louis and Mary C. Cabe Foundation to offer a two-week summer writing program for teens.
The Summer Writing Institute for Teens - SWIFT for short - will be conducted July 9-20. Classes will meet 8 a.m.-noon Monday through Friday on the college's main campus, 3000 W. Scenic Drive in North Little Rock.
The program is open to students in grades 6-12 who would like to explore the creative writing process and improve their reading and writing skills. Classes will be offered in poetry, fiction, oral histories, fables and fairy tales, and books to film.
"We are incredibly excited to offer this unique program in creative writing to area students," said SWIFT coordinator Sandy Longhorn, who is an English instructor at Pulaski Technical College. "Any student, currently in 6th-12th grade, with an interest in writing, is encouraged to apply."
Classes will be taught by instructors who hold a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and other experts.
Tuition is $150 per student and includes the cost of supplies, materials and a SWIFT tee-shirt.
Cabe Foundation funding will provide five scholarships to students who show financial need.
The Cabe Foundation was established in 1989 by C. Louis and Mary C. Cabe of Gurdon, for the purpose of assisting charitable groups, school and other organizations.
The Pulaski Technical College Foundation assisted with the grant application.
The deadline for application and tuition payment is May 1. Scholarship applications are due no later than May 1. Applications are available on the college Web site under Special Events.
Pulaski Technical College is a comprehensive, two-year college that serves the educational needs of central Arkansas through more than 50 occupational/technical degree and certificate programs, a university-transfer curriculum and specialized programs for business and industry.
The college's mission is to provide access to high quality education that promotes student learning, to enable individuals to develop to their fullest potential and to support the economic development of the state.
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For months there was speculation that the government would come down on Google like a ton of bricks over its alleged anti-competitive practices, but instead the search engine giant scored an impressive victory, with the FTC finding it not guilty of bias in its search results.
However, Google did agree to some voluntary concessions, including a vow not to scrape content from other sites in its search results, and a promise to provide advertisers with more information about their ad campaigns. In addition to this, Google earlier agreed to a concession about how it uses the standard essential patents it secured when it acquired Motorola last year, which will see it charge "fair and reasonable" rates for companies to use them.
Nevertheless, the FTC's ruling has upset a number of competitors, which had called for much stronger sanctions to be imposed on Google.
Fairsearch, a group that represents Google critics including Microsoft and Tripadvisor, said in a statement that the FTC's decision to close its investigation was very disappointing:
"The FTC's decision to close its investigation with only voluntary commitments from Google is disappointing and premature, coming just weeks before the company is expected to make a formal and detailed proposal to resolve the four abuses of dominance identified by the European Commission, first among them biased display of its own properties in search results."
The main issue of contention, as far as Fairsearch is concerned, is that Google abuses its position as the most popular search engine by favoring its own products and services in its search results. This much would seem evident whenever a user carries out a search in some industry that Google is involved in – for example, a search of "best sushi New York" results in Google affiliate Zagat ranking in first place, followed by seven listings from its own local directory services. Searches in other niches, such as travel, some consumer products, and even Santa Claus also invariably display Google results ahead of others.
Incredible as it seems though, the FTC said that it found no evidence that Google favored its own products ahead of others.
"Some may believe the commission should have done more, but for our part we do follow the facts where they lead," said FTC chairman Job Leibowitz in a statement.
"We do it with appropriate rigour. This brings to an end the investigation. It is good for consumers, it is good for competition and it is the right thing to do."
Google's chief legal officer David Drummond, took the opportunity to emphasize those sentiments in his own reaction:
"The US Federal Trade Commission today announced it has closed its investigation into Google after an exhaustive 19-month review that covered millions of pages of documents and involved many hours of testimony."
"The conclusion is clear: Google's services are good for users and good for competition."
Undoubtedly the controversy over Google's anti-competitive behavior will continue to drag on, with more cynical observers suggesting that the company may have done a deal 'under the table', so to speak.
It'll also be interesting to see what happens in the EU, where competition commissioners are expected to take a much tougher line against Google. Their investigation is still ongoing, but last month it detailed four key areas that it wants the search company to address:
1. The manner in which Google displays "its own vertical search services differently" from other, competing products
2. How Google "copies content" from other websites – such as restaurant reviews – to include within its own services
3. The "exclusivity" Google has to sell advertising around search terms people use
4. Restrictions on advertisers from moving their online ad campaigns to rival search engines
These are some tough questions for Google to answer, so it'll be interesting to see what their response is and whether or not it will be enough to appease the Europeans. Presuming Google's answers don't satisfy the EC, it's likely that it would be found guilty of breaching EU anti-trust rules, which could lead to a fine of up to $4 billion – and possibly even renewed legal action in the US.


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A new Mariah Carey song called "Almost Home" will hit the radio airwaves (as well as iTunes) on Tuesday. The track is from the movie Oz: The Great and Powerful, which is scheduled for a theatrical release on March 8. The song was co-written by Carey with Simone Porter, Justin Gray, Lindsey Ray and co-produced by Stargate. Carey is also working on a video with director David LaChapelle, which is expected to premiere in the coming weeks. "It's a feel-good record," the singer said in a statement announcing the tune. "It gives you the feeling of reaching your home and being with people that you love."
In a new interview, Robert Plant appears open to reuniting with Led Zeppelin next year. Speaking to the Australian 60 Minutes, Plant said his fellow Zep members Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones "are Capricorns. They don't say a word. They're quite contained in their own worlds and they leave it to me. I'm not the bad guy ... You need to see the Capricorns I've got nothing to do in 2014."Dave Matthews Band will launch its 2013 summer tour at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Woodlands, TX on May 17. The West Coast leg of the tour will include a return to The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA for Dave Matthews Band's traditional Labor Day weekend shows, and the trek is set to run through September 8 in Mountain View, CA.Travis Barker won't be making the trip to Australia with Blink-182, since he is still terrified of flying after a plane crash nearly killed him in September 2008. "I'm sorry to announce I won't be joining Blink-182 on this Australian tour. I still haven't gotten over the horrific events that took place the last time I flew when my plane crashed and 4 people were killed, two being my best friends," Barker wrote on Facebook. "I hope to come to Australia again some day perhaps by ship if need be. Unfortunately, there wasn't a boat that worked with the schedule this time around." According to Billboard, Blink-182 has tapped Brooks Wackerman (Tenacious D, Suicidal Tendencies) to fill in on drums. The trio will kick off their Australian tour this Wednesday in Sydney.David Bowie announced via Facebook that his next single, "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)," is coming on February 26. The single is off Bowie's forthcoming album, The Next Day, which arrives on March 12 via Columbia Records.Morrissey has postponed three more U.S. dates on his current tour due to illness. The singer is being treated for a bleeding ulcer and Barretts esophagus, an injury which has already forced him to put off a string of shows. The new postponements include February 21 in Denver, February 22 in Salt Lake City and February 24 in San Francisco. Morrissey is now shooting for a return in San Diego on February 27.Van Halen and Billy Joel will headline the new two-day Stone Music Festival in Sydney, Australia this April. Other acts confirmed for the event on April 20 and 21 include Buckcherry, Richie Ramone, Lifehouse and Kings of Chaos. This will mark Van Halen's first tour down under since 1998.Country singer Mindy McCready was found dead on Sunday of an apparent suicide. Arkansas's Cleburne County Sheriff's Office released a statement saying that officers were dispatched to the 37-year-old singer's home after neighbors heard gunshots. "McCready was pronounced dead at the scene from what appears to be a single self-inflicted gunshot wound," the statement reads. "At this time family members have been notified of the incident. Ms. McCready will be transported to the Arkansas State Crime Lab for an autopsy and the matter will be fully investigated." The singer was known for having a turbulent personal life and she appeared on the 2010 season of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.
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When David Fajgenbaum's mother, Anne Marie, was diagnosed with a brain tumor a few years ago, he was an 18-year-old undergraduate at Georgetown University. Within a few months, she was gone. As he mourned his mother, David realized that counseling was not what he or many other grieving students were seeking; it was understanding from other students experiencing the same tragic loss. So David organized a support group. In a year, it grew into a nationwide organization: the National Students of AMF (deceased or "Ailing Mothers, Fathers," or loved ones) Support Network.
As his mother's health declined, David told her he was starting the organization in her memory. It bears her initials: Anne Marie Fajgenbaum.
"Even though there are counseling and psychiatric services on campuses, people who are grieving aren't necessarily looking for someone to treat their grief," David says. "They're often looking for other students going through the same thing. It's incredibly comforting to know you're not the only one who's going through loss. To see that others are getting through their lives while grieving is really helpful."
He notes that college students, who are living away from home for the first time, truly need support: 38-45 percent of them have grieved the loss of a family member or other loved one from a terminal illness.
"College is supposed to be a happy time, and even good friends may not want to hear about such sad experiences," David says. "I wish that no one needed support groups like this, and that everyone could be free to focus on their lives and their studies. But unfortunately, coping with grief is something a lot of students are going through."
After his group got started, students from other colleges and universities started contacting him about starting chapters at their schools. Universities in Florida, Washington, Maryland and North Carolina were the first to start chapters of Students of AMF in 2006. David and friend Ben Chesson, who is in law school, established the nonprofit national organization.
Now there are 26 chapters, a Web site an annual conference and two fund-raising events: the Boot Camp 2 Beat Cancer & Family Fun Walk and the AMF banquet.
David currently attends the University of Pennsylvania medical school and plans to become a surgical oncologist. He read the AICR expert report and feels it's vital to get students to fight back against terminal illness by living healthy lives.
"Our organization has come a long way with a lot of support, and we're hoping to work in partnership with AICR to raise awareness about cancer prevention."


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I knew it was unloaded, but I still made him show me, just to be sure. As we stood side-by-side in our bedroom one night, he pulled the slide back again, tilting it slightly so that I could see inside. I peered into the chamber. There was nothing but darkness, an idling hollowness.
"Clear?" he asked.
My husband's voice was serious. Tonight we were practicing again. He raised his eyebrows in anticipation of my response. I felt like I, too, needed to act serious, so I fought what felt like the pull of an oncoming smile. Instead, I nodded.
"Clear," I said.
He released the slide with a sharp, attention-grabbing click. The sound alone was intimidating. He handed it to me, then waited for me to clear it again as I'd been taught. Always clear the gun for yourself, I heard him say in my head. I copied his actions, though not as smoothly. Using the strength of my right hand, I pulled the slide back, and although its springs resisted me, I still got a peek inside.
Still dark. Still hollow.
The muscles in my hand relaxed and the slide again glided back into place. Stretching out my right hand, I suspended the gun in my left, making sure to point the barrel at the ground. Even without that warm flash of chambered gold, that small shiny member, I held it gingerly, uncomfortably. Almost unintentionally, my fingers curled around the grip, careful to avoid the trigger, like a woman's eyes avoiding a stranger's.
"Hold it right," he corrected me.
I've been taught how to hold a gun and how to shoot it, too. I know not to touch the trigger until my hands are up and out in front of me, steady and strong, the gun safely secured within their grip. I know not to squeeze until I've found my aim. I know not to aim until I'm ready, until I fully intend to shoot, until I am completely committed to it—the trigger, the bullet, the moment. Until I mean it. Then I squeeze.
I knew the chamber was empty, but I still felt a small rush. Whether it was caused by thrill or fear, I'm still not sure.
Across the United States, an estimated 15 to 20 million women own—and carry—their own guns. Some use them for work, in law enforcement and security jobs. Some use them for fun, in shooting competitions and on hunting trips. Some women, though, use guns for an entirely different reason. For these women, guns are not for enjoyment, for hobby or recreation, but for personal safety. They are used for bodily protection.
Where I'm from in the South, gun-toting women are by no means an anomaly. I should know—my husband wants me to be one of them.
Some people talk about feeling empowered when they recall their experiences with guns. Simply holding a gun can make you feel powerful, if you are comfortable with the weapon, if you know how to use the machine. But perhaps you do not even have to know. Maybe the dead weight of it in your hands is enough, or the plain promise behind a slow squeeze of the trigger. Maybe knowing what it can do is enough to make you feel powerful.
It is these thoughts that play through my mind when I pick up my husband's Glock, or any of his guns for that matter, and force my finger to its cold, rigid trigger. When I watch him shoot at the range—knowing my turn is coming up next—a single question spins around my head, nagging at me with the intensity of a gnat, punctuated by persistence.
Are you ready for this?
I long to be the self-reliant Southern woman; in-charge and distinctly unafraid. The independent feminist in me pounds away, asking me what I'm so hung up on. But for me, guns present an ongoing dilemma: To carry, or not to carry? The question is anything but uncomplicated—anything but easy.
Choosing to carry means that, someday, I might choose to shoot. I might pull the trigger. I might stop a beating heart. Somewhere inside, that feels like a sin.
Am I ready to shoot?
It's something I'm still warming to.
The South is a gun culture. Most of us believe in the right to bear arms—whether we bear or not. But that doesn't mean you won't get some looks—some raised eyebrows. Talk about guns— about your gun—and prepare to be associated with every extreme stereotype, from pro-secession Confederates to doomsday hoarders. Not everyone here is completely comfortable with guns.
Myself, at times, included.
The first time I ever pulled a gun's trigger was when I was eighteen, during my first trip to a local shooting range with my father. Feeling the bullet leave the barrel in one forceful, explosive instant gave me a new kind of rush, something I'd never quite experienced before. But, I wasn't sure if the feeling was good. I wondered: Is this what empowerment feels like? The only feelings I could recognize were anxiety, uneasiness, and a hint of the wild, reeling experience of being a little out-of-control.
"You'll get used to it," my father assured me. "It just takes a little time and practice to get comfortable with it."
I wasn't so sure.
Years later, every time I raise the gun, point the barrel, and finally squeeze, a wave of apprehension rolls over me, steadily swelling in the space of time between my finger's pull and the gun's blast. The only difference is that now I've come to expect it. I wait for that feeling as much as I wait for the gun to go off. Like the smoke from the barrel, the feeling lingers. It swirls.
The women I know who shoot and carry—many of them my friends—say their guns make them feel safe. Women form bonds with their guns, and like any good, secure relationship, this brings some peace of mind. Regular, ritualistic cleaning fosters closeness and familiarity. Trips to the range ensure that practice makes perfect. Concealed carrying, I imagine, feels like sharing a secret with a very close friend. And women like secrets. Secrets can save lives.
Yet, when I hold a gun I feel burdened. I am uneasy with it, or perhaps more precisely, with the responsibility of it. I am not sure if it is a power I want to take.
My husband gets frustrated with my uncertainties, my seeming indifference on the subject. But, it's not that I'm indiffer- ent—I'm ambivalent. My feelings are mixed and many. Our conver- sations often repeat the same pattern of dialogue.
"Why don't you sign up for that class?" he'll begin, referring to a women's gun safety course he has been urging me to take. And then, in response to my shrugs or sighs or silence: "I want you to be able to protect yourself. Even if you don't want to do it for yourself, can you do it for me?"
I avoid answering this impossible-to-say-no-to question because I have nothing to say that will satisfy him or me. I can't yet say, "Yes." Sometimes, I answer him with a half-hearted "I will," but he knows just as well as I do what that means. My reluctance upsets him.
Sometimes it upsets me too.
A few months before we got married, we made a trip to the courthouse to apply for our marriage license. While we were waiting in the little office, a middle-aged woman wearing heels and a gray, tailored suit walked in.
"Hello. I need to talk to someone about my concealed weapon's license," she told the woman at the desk. "I've yet to receive it in the mail, and I was wondering..."
"See?" my husband interjected, whispering in my ear. "Lots of women here carry."
I nodded.
"Lots of women probably do," I replied.
"Well, why don't you get your license? Just apply for it, then it's done."
"I will, after we get married," I assured him.
The promise, though, was empty. We both knew it—our stalemate on the subject was far from new.
Yet I know my husband has a point. Today, in 2013, millions of women carry guns. Millions of women need to protect themselves. Millions of women need reliable defense. They need security, dependability, an old friend with a secret.
I wondered why the woman in the gray, tailored suit needed a license. Had something happened to her? Did she feel unsafe? Did she need protection? Perhaps she needed to feel empowered, to feel powerful, to feel in control. To be in control.
She certainly wouldn't be the only one—Gun Owners of America reports that 200,000 women use guns in self-defense each year.
Despite my uncertainty, I know one thing for sure: we live in an uncontrollable world—something I read about and pray not to see. A world of random muggings, desperate hold-ups, haphazard hijackings, and pointless killings. But we also live in a world of methodical burglary, strategic kidnapping, and calculated murder. It's no secret that we live in a rape culture—a world where women's bodies are vulnerable to violence, anger, and brutality—a culture where one in five women have been assaulted. Women are attacked every day and sometimes killed.
My mother never taught me to live in fear. Guns aren't a product of paranoia; they're an act of deterrence. "A little secret to fall back on," she says. "Just in case."
"Guns may be dangerous," my mother says, "but danger itself is unpredictable."
If mothers are worried about their daughters, should we really be the ones keeping secrets? Perhaps it's time to find a little security in spilling the beans: women are packing heat. Although their profile may be low, their numbers are not. Especially, it seems, in the South.
But to me, this group of women feels distant. They are still more a number to study than a group to sign up with. Right now, I'm still learning to shoot.
My father and my husband weren't always into guns. They weren't always "gun enthusiasts," as they say. In fact, the men in my life began showing an interest in pistols, rifles, revolvers, holsters, bullets, and cartridges only a few years ago. Now, they go to the range as often as they can. I am always invited—and encouraged—to come along.
My husband started collecting guns halfway through his deployment to Afghanistan as an Army pilot. Two small scars remind us of the time he took a bullet through his arm and leg while flying in combat. He owns the same model of the gun he was shot with—an old Russian rifle that shoots long, round 7.62 mm bullets.
To him, guns are unmistakably linked to personal responsibility; they're for your own safekeeping.
"I realized that people will harm you, that only you can truly defend yourself," he told me one day as I watched him meticulously clean the dark, steel barrel.
"I realized that you can't expect anyone else to save you in time."
His words struck me in the same way that the bullet struck him: it was abrupt and surprisingly painful, "like a hammer, not a pierce." Together with his team, he was able to safely land the aircraft that day—upset only because the enemy got away.
You can't expect anyone else to save you in time.
My father's interest reflects similar, if not the same, beliefs. "It's about control," he says. "It's about knowing you can control something so deadly. And knowing I can protect my family."
To both my husband and my father, guns are about safety and defense. Guns are about protecting yourself and those you love, defending your home and property. Defending—for my husband—the troops and civilians on the ground.
They address distrust in humanity.
But I can never blame my family's beliefs—their shared mindset—on the South. They're not from here. Although they've lived in the South for many years—my parents more than twenty, and my husband six—they're from the Northeast, the Midwest, and the Northern Midwest. Not the South—that's just me. In a way, only I represent the South in my family—only I am so tied to it. Only I feel it. This is my home and my culture, but like anything loved, there comes a time when you must question it. My Southern identity is mine, but like most Southerners can tell you, it requires responsibility—guns aside.
Perhaps the burden of responsibility I feel while holding a gun is really the responsibility I feel for my own life, here in my South. Perhaps my apprehension lies in the burden of my own safekeeping, in becoming my own keeper, which requires admit- ting that I am a woman and can be attacked, killed. It asks that I take power and control for myself. For me, this is a hard reality to finally and fully face. Looking it dead in the eyes—for anyone, that's confrontational.
Standing next to me in our lane at the shooting range, my husband handed me a fresh magazine. It carried six tightly packed .45-caliber bullets, stacked together like a line of soldiers waiting for the trigger's command. With one forceful motion of my palm, I loaded them into the gun's well, making sure the magazine was properly seated. I looked to him for approval—he nodded.
"Now chamber your first round," he said.
Holding the Glock in my right hand, I used my left to pull and release the slide. I knew the bullet was loaded.
"All right, you're armed and ready to go," he said as he stepped back out of the lane.
The white paper outline of my enemy hung a few yards in front of me, fresh and clean. It was shaped like a man with bulky shoulders, a wide torso, and a masculine-looking head. I picked my mark, deciding on the upper chest area. Clenching the gun in my fists, I lifted it up and out in front of my body, holding it as I'd been taught. My eyes stared between the sights, fixing my target. My finger found the trigger. I exhaled, then slowly squeezed, hearing my father's voice in my head. Don't anticipate; let it surprise you.
A small dark hole appeared on the target's right shoulder. "Nice!" I heard my husband say.
I aimed again, breathed out, and squeezed.
Bang! Bang!
A few inches to the left, two more tears in the target's chest. "Good job, babe!"
Three to four inches in diameter, the group was far from perfect. An ideal group stays within a boundary the size of a quarter. But my aim does not have to be perfect; it only has to stop someone, to stop an attack. It only has to control a situation. Remember, you shoot to stop, not to kill, my father always says.
I emptied the last three bullets into the pseudo-man's head.
The more I shoot, the smaller the waves of apprehension I feel pulsing between each slow squeeze. Pulling the trigger feels less sinister, less treacherous—less likely to knock me off my feet.
Perhaps shooting is a cerebral game. Perhaps one's unease with guns comes from years of hearing the words "deadly" and "dangerous" in the same sentence as the word "gun," from seeing the menacing ways guns are portrayed in television shows and movies. Perhaps the unease is a psychological reaction to a machine so metallic and cold. Perhaps it's a subconscious response to the acts implied by the gun's very existence, acts of controlling, of defending, of killing. Perhaps the unease is a response to the taking of power—to trading a husband's hand for an entirely different kind of grip.
Perhaps it's just a matter of "getting used to it," of coming to terms with the gun and reconciling it with who you are and what you believe in. As in any relationship, getting acquainted and comfortable takes time, especially when one half of the whole is so unforgiving.
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Frost Bomb has a niche for Challenge Modes where you can Frost Bomb + pet freeze for tons of damage. Unfortunately that's getting severely nerfed in 5.4 due to the Frost Mastery change.
I just wish they would fix the random no detonation bug ...
It's been 2 patches now for heaven sakes!
Just add it to the list of problems with the damn spell.
To date, I have encountered the bug about 10-20 times. There was once, when I was fighting Mumta and none of my Frost Bombs detonated! I cast like 3-5 bombs during the fight, none of them went off.
I found some use of it on raden balls *wink*wink*. Nice burst of dmg. But true it has not much of use. LB is superior on ST and NT on aoe. And even on raden i needed to make own arcane spec to make it viable.
Unbelievable. 5.4 last patch of the expansion. It's still bugged!


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The Grammys Fashion Ban — Shocking Outfits From Awards Shows Past
CBS has laid down the law, placing a ban on puffy vagina skin, butt cracks, and more…
Yes, that's right — the powers that be have decreed that there shall be no boobs, butts, or other naughty bits (aka: fun stuff) at the 2013 Grammys … which got us thinking: we bet there have been some pretty shocking wardrobe choices at the Grammy Awards shows of yore, right? AMIRITE??
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Too Pretty to Fly? Women Charge "Beauty Discrimination"
The flight was from Tampa Bay to Los Angeles. Swedberg said they were treated unfairly from the moment they entered the plane.
She also said she asked a flight attendant for a bottle of water and was told she had to wait until the rest of the flight was served. "And I patiently waited and then when they came around with water, they skipped me," Swedberg said.
Later, Williams exchanged profanities with another passenger over the use the plane's bathroom. But she indicated that the attendants only questioned her.
"I think they were just discriminating against because we were young decent-looking girls. I mean, nobody else on the plane looked like us except us," she said. "[The flight attendants] were like older ladies. We were younger. Who knows, they could have been just jealous of us because we were younger."
Southwest defends the incident, saying the women caused a disruption on the flight.When the plane landed in LA, the women were met by four uniformed officers and later questioned by the FBI. The women were released nearly two hours later.
No charges were filed, but Williams and Swedberg say they were banned from all future Southwest Airlines flights, including their scheduled flight home to Tampa.
Swedberg said, "I don't know what happened on this flight; I didn't do anything wrong and I feel like I was just discriminated against based upon my looks."
Hate to say it, Nisreen, but although the above "semi-glamour" shot makes you two look good, this picture captured from a video report shows you just ain't that good-lookin'. I think you were treated as you were because you two were probably acting like b*tches.
Good luck finding flights - on other airlines.
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- Sarah said...
Wow, what stuck-up bitches. Maybe they can catch a flight with Paris
- February 23, 2008 at 10:05 AM
- Andi said...
Wow. I can't believe the things that people can bring themselves to say out loud. With a straight face.
- February 23, 2008 at 10:28 AM
- Nick Kasoff said...
If these barely average women were discriminated against for being too beautiful, somebody is in serious need of having his vision checked. What a joke!
Nick Kasoff
The Thug Report
- February 23, 2008 at 11:04 AM
Their complaint might have merit on Al-Aqsa Airlines, but thats about it.
- February 23, 2008 at 2:37 PM
Yes, they are HOT, but I'm sure they got kicked off the flight for mouthing off, and no other reason.
- February 24, 2008 at 3:55 PM
As a Southwest Airlines Employee, I just wanted to clarify a few points:
1. As most of the comments suggest, our Crews' decision had nothing to do with the ladies' appearance, but rather their behavior and interaction with another Customer onboard.
2. The two ladies are not "banned" from ever traveling on Southwest in the future.
Our Employees simply have an obligation to maintain a safe environment onboard for all of our Customers. Of course, we would have gone out of business a long time ago if we discriminated against beautiful women – or anyone for that matter.
Paula Berg
Southwest Airlines
- February 25, 2008 at 12:33 PM
they are not so great looking.they were most likely acting rude.
- February 25, 2008 at 1:21 PM
sorry Paula but I don't think anyone is buying your comment. If they weren't banned then why was their return flight cancelled.
I'm sure they were spoiled brats but it makes me question the quality and training of Southwest employees if they can't resolve this diplomatically and need to call the police and ban someone for life.
But I think everyone must keep in mind you get what you pay for "Southworst" airlines...think about it.
- February 25, 2008 at 5:59 PM
perhaps they were temporarily banned.. if what Paula is saying is correct.. then again what arline makes their offical statement in a blog??
- February 25, 2008 at 6:37 PM
Had they sued for bitch discrimination they might have had a case.
- February 26, 2008 at 1:35 AM
The brunette was on TV. . too pretty?. . without a ton of makeup and good lighting. . not even close. She needs a makeover AND a diet before she'd be considered "too pretty".
I'm a commercial pilot (not for Southwest). Airlines do NOT pull people off of aircraft without just cause. I guarantee if other passengers were interviewed the story would be completely different.
- February 26, 2008 at 2:46 AM
"Decent-looking girls"? I'd say they look more like trailer trash ho-hags to me, except that's an insult to people who live in trailers. And ho-bags. My guess is, these girls got on the plane, started acting rude, escalated the situation, and were humiliated with being escorted off. So, they did what any narcissist would. They went on TV to bitch about how they've been mistreated by the world.
What clueless skanks! I mean, check out the off-the-shoulder thing and the blaze orange nails! Yeesh!
- February 26, 2008 at 4:37 AM
I know these girl personally, and I know how bitchy and rude they really are. This doesn't shock me at all.
- February 26, 2008 at 5:05 AM
Too pretty to fly? You've got to be kidding me. Almost any other word would be appropriate - too rude, immature, arrogant, stupid, clueless, etc. It's no wonder that everyone thinks Americans are idiots. For a few minutes, I was not sure if this was a real story or a parody.
I'm not sure what's worse - their behavior and subsequent claims or the fact that this turned into an actual news story.
- February 26, 2008 at 7:28 AM
The poor girl wanted a bottled water as soon as she sat down. And when told she would have to wait, she probably got angry. I think this girl is a sad reflection on spoiled rotten teens out there.
They have it all now days! She probably thinks if they get some cash out of this, they are set for life. What a travesty!
- February 26, 2008 at 9:12 AM
Are they serious??? LOL! I can't stop laughing. The dark haired one has a big thing on her face and is FAT! They probably thought they should be treated "special" because they think they're pretty, and the people on board just treated them "normal". That's hilarious! Stuck up for no good reason. These two little narcissitic little bitches probably gravitated to each other because they are "so special".
I still can't stop laughing!!!!!!!
- February 26, 2008 at 10:02 AM
- February 26, 2008 at 10:21 AM
What bitches. The ugly brunette wanted a bottle of water right as she got on the plane, but to my knowledge most courteous people just wait until the flight attendants serve the entire cabin about 15 minutes into the flight. I'm embarrassed to call myself an American teenager after watching this. These girls were arrogant, rude, ugly, and just straight up dumb. Read a book or study a language, not a celebrity gossip magazine.
- February 26, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Conceited girl #1: WAHHHHHHH!! :(*** I want bottled water!!! NO! Not the same kind as the OTHER passengers, I want mine in a GLASS BOTTLE!! AND I WANT IT NOW!!! :(***
Conceited girl #2: OMgZ!!! That bathroom is too small to get all pretty in and it smells like sh*T!
Gril #1: Sh*&T???! OMG, GROSS!! LOLZOLZOZLOZL
Other passenger: Can you please be quiet down and stop using profanities. There are young kids on this flight and its also rude and inappropriate.
Girl #1 & #2: oMGZ!! sTFU!! We'RE goinG to BlOG ABout this on oUr MySpaces and SUE cuZ We'RE Princesses!!!
- February 26, 2008 at 11:14 AM
I have been flying Southwest four times a month since 1990, and I love them. I witnessed numerous times how accomodating and patient the staff is, including pilots personally escorting my old dad to the waiting area.
Italian Chicagoan
- February 26, 2008 at 11:56 AM
i really believed this possibly at first since the girl who was banned from flying because of her outfit before was just a tiny girl with tiny clothes although they didn't cover up that much. but these girls first of all aren't models and admit they were yelling, disruptive, and banging on a bathroom door because a genleman was taking too long. so obviously, with security, airlines don't put up with this crap. they ban you. duh! it's pitiful parents have raised imbeciles and i must say (having been born in the early early 70's), it's the kids born in the 80's and 90's who are complete morons. the parents just didn't give them curfews, or rules, or anything. my friends and i all born in the late 60's/early 70's all grew up respecting authority, being polite, calling everyone sir or ma'am, and never being loud or rude. what's happened to our youth? was it because more couples divorced so they indulged the children? something about these kids raised in the 80's and 90's (and possibly 2000's) is rotten. they are entitled rotten spoiled brats who are clueless about themselves and think they walk on water. it is just pitiful and they're going to be taking care of me one day? holy hell!
- February 26, 2008 at 12:13 PM
The brunette looks like Droopy the dog...
- February 26, 2008 at 12:38 PM
Should have thrown their bit*ch a$$es off in mid-flight...
- February 26, 2008 at 12:53 PM
This blog is hilarous. I love it!
- February 26, 2008 at 1:26 PM
"my friends and i ... all grew up respecting authority, being polite, calling everyone sir or ma'am, and never being loud or rude." ...
OK who do you think you're fooling, loser?
- February 26, 2008 at 2:48 PM
I witnessed those 2 skanks being detained by the cops at LAX on Valentines Day... Of course, I didn't know what they had done at the time and not until I heard their allegations today... I remember thinking the massively fat-assed brunette looked like a porn star wannabe and the blonde looked as if she was an anorexic hoochie on crack... Too pretty for SWA? I saw them in person and they aren't all that...
- February 26, 2008 at 7:59 PM
I really think they are spoiled brats who acted bitchy but that is not enough reason to ban them from flying back to Tampa. I think the airline over reacted. Some of these air crews can be arrogant, example: About 15 years ago I was in a flight that arrived in Puerto Rico, I have not flown for a while and got exited, I got up while the plane was moving and was seconds away from the gate. A lady stewardess screamed at me: "Sit Dowm!!!" I complied but felt mistreated by the way she screamed at me. She could've say: "please sit, the plane still moving or she could've said: "You need to sit down sir, we are not at the gate yet" I mean, she did not show any respect at all, I am a grown man..Then she stared down at me until I walked away from the area she was in, like trying to provoke a situation knowing well that if I fell in her trap I would have gotten in a lot of trouble. Then again, I feel sorry for the stewardess, they get crappy pay...
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Shaul, deputising for the injured Australian Shannon McDonnell, provided the highlight of a tight and tense elimination play-off as Hull booked a place in the preliminary semi-finals.
Defeat ended Catalan Dragons' season and signalled the end of the road for popular Australian second-rower Steve Menzies, who hung up his boots and trademark headguard after 21 years as a professional, while skipper Remi Casty bowed out of Super League in disappointing fashion as he heads for the NRL with Sydney Roosters.
A damp and miserable night in Hull, in front of a crowd of just 4,979 in the cavernous KC Stadium, might not have been the most appropriate setting for Menzies' farewell and he was denied a consolation try just before the end.
But the Black and Whites will not be complaining after successfully following up their Challenge Cup quarter-final win over the Dragons.
In conditions made difficult by persistent rain, the Catalans sorely missed the kicking game of scrum-half Scott Dureau, who was absent for the start of the season after undergoing brain surgery and missed the end of it with a quad muscle injury.
The only try of an error-strewn first half came two minutes before the interval when rising star Shaul collected Leon Pryce's towering kick on his own 20-metre area and sprinted through a fragmented defence for a solo score, his sixth in seven Super League appearances.
Danny Tickle added the conversion, to make up for an earlier long-range penalty miss, as Hull led 6-2 despite being on the back foot for most of the opening half.
The Dragons actually adapted better initially to the greasy conditions and forced three early goal-line drop-outs to lay siege to the Hull line.
The home side's defence held firm, although Catalan centre Elliott Whitehead would surely have scored but for dropping the ball in a promising position.
The visitors' only first-half points came from the boot of scrum-half Thomas Bosc, deputising for Dureau, who succeeded with a 32nd-minute penalty after missing with an earlier attempt.
It was not until the second quarter that Hull began to pose any problems for the Dragons defence and Shaul might have scored an earlier try had he been able to finish off a break by veteran centre Richard Horne, who was also inches away from touching down Daniel Holdsworth's grubber kick.
Shaul's try initially acted as a spur for the French side, who dominated the early stages of the second half but without finding the craft to unlock Hull's defence.
The Catalans cut the deficit to just two points on 56 minutes when Bosc opted to kick for goal when Hull were penalised for offside in front of their own posts.
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It appeared that Tickle's team-mate Danny Houghton was in front of him when he kicked the goal but it became irrelevant when scrum-half Jacob Miller went on a jinking run and got skipper Gareth Ellis over for the clinching try on 67 minutes.
Tickle's third goal made it 14-4 and that is how it stayed after video referee Ian Smith ruled that Menzies had lost control of the ball as he drove for the line two minutes from the end.
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A few minutes later we thought Mr Bean had rocked up -- EG came pedalling around the corner in this dolphin contraption thing with a brolly - it was totally hilarious but we couldn't wait to get onboard... Flik and I got on the back and Anita & EG pedalled at the front, all the way around the bend to the lagoon side where the others were chilling out... We gave a wave then swapped positions and Flik & I pedalled back, it was hard work! We were pretty happy when one of the guys Josh hopped on and took over and we got to be ladies of leisure again.
Soon enough though it was time to shower and dress and get back on the road, stopping about an hour later at a roadhouse for a bit of lunch - buckets of bread with soup.
A few hours and the mandatory bus nap later we were almost there when EG asked us if we wanted to visit this glass making place -- we weren't all that keen but realised there wasnt much to do in Pamukkale once we got there (late arvo) so we told the driver to turn around and we were glad we did! It was brilliant - they took us upstairs and showed us how they make the plates and bowls with the colours - just amazing -- even more amazing was the shop downstairs...
We arrived in Pamukkale just after 5pm and set off exploring the streets - making our way quickly up the hill to check out the calcium deposits covering the mountain in front of us... A few of us went to the slowest internet then decided to have an early dinner (the others were going at 8pm -- we were hungry!) so we went to this place that sold "lamp chops" and had a huge feast -- just as we were finishing the other group rocked up to the same place so we recommended to them the mixed grill... mm mmmmm The restaurant we were at overlooked the travertines which were all lit up..
The night was young and we decided to check out the night scene - first and only stop was the 'Pasha' disco so nearly all of us went in for a beers and a boogie -- it was great -- we were the only customers in there. We carved up the dance floor and they bought us out a plate of chopped apple and orange -- really bizarre. Just after 11 I left and went back to the hotel which had free internet so I quickly loaded some pics onto the Facebook A/C which took about an hour -- ending up in bed at around 12.30am..


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