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Disfrutar de una vista de millones de dólares de un lanai de su propio. Marjorie se alza por encima del Valle de Lawai de Kauaʻi. Caballos pastan en el piso de Valle abajo. Cimas de montaña tropical llanta la vista. En el atardecer de llamada de palomas, a través del inmenso Valle. Después del anochecer, las luces de casas y granjas sparkle en la distancia. Aquí es real Kauaʻi--paraíso de Hawai. Marjorie tranquila, privado, y de acre romántica de Kauaʻi es especial. Aunque el ambiente es rural(no neighbors), eres cinco minutos de Koloa casco para ir de compras y a diez minutos de la playa de Poipu mundialmente famoso de.
3,8 en julio 05, 2014
We stayed 3 nights in the Sunset view room and everything was perfect! Alexis and Mike's place is just stunning and they are very welcoming. They gave us many advices such as snorkeling spots, great restaurants and things we couldn't miss in Kauai. They manage to book Luau show for us, which we really enjoyed by the way. Mike also booked a last minute helicopter tour for us and we even had front seats: it was just amazing! And the breakfasts were delightful: freshly squeezed fruit juices every morning, eggs, pancakes, local organic granola, yoghurts, cakes, fruits... you got it: a very complete breakfast that you have on the lanai with a breathtaking view on the valley. Our room was also perfect: the bed was very comfy, and we had a private hot tub on our lanai from where we could enjoy the sunset and the valley view. Also, many beach equipments are available: chairs, coolers, beach towels, snorkels etc. Mahalo Alexis and Mike, we really enjoyed our stay and if we come back in Kauai one day (we hope so), we'll definitely stay at your place again.
5 en diciembre 08, 2013
Marjorie's is an excellent place to stay. The view is beautiful, the breakfast was super !The owners weren't there, but the inkeepers Veronika en Fred were very lovely, helpful people.
5 en abril 10, 2011
We stayed in the Tradewinds room for 6 nights. Everything was just perfect. The room was beautifully decorated and immaculately clean. When we arrived, we were greeted warmly by Mike and shown to our room and there was a tray of fresh fruit, homemade cake and chocolates that looked so pretty, I had to take a picture of it. The view of their gardens and the valley was stunningly gorgeous. Mike and Alexis were so helpful with booking activities and beach and restaurant suggestions. We did a helicopter tour of the Napali coast and a Luau, Alexis called and booked both of them for us so we didn't have to do anything but show up. She also has some great suggestions and books on hiking and we were able to do a couple of amazing hikes and we don't even hike at home. Their breakfast's were just delicious. We thought we were going to have continental breakfasts only but everyday they made a hot breakfast for us and freshly squeezed fruit juice as well as the continental breakfast. We had buckwheat pancakes one morning and eggs cooked anyway you like with choices of bacon and quinoa another morning. Everything was so delicious and garnished so beautifully. If you are going on a hike or to the beach, they have a garage full of snorkel gear, boogie boards, coolers, ice packs, and Alexis even gave us and another couple staying there a camelback for water for when we were hiking. Several other hikers on the trail commented on how smart they thought my husband and I were for bringing it with us. Alexis is the smart and thoughtful one, thank god. One afternoon after a hike we spent a few hours swimming in their pool and relaxing in their hottub. We had such a good time and ended up playing cards on our balcony and watching the sun go down. The gardens and decking surrounding the pool area are just stunning. They really have done an amazing amount of work to make their place look so pretty. Thank you so much Alexis and Mike! Kerri and Dennis Bell
5 en marzo 10, 2011
Mike and Alexis are consumate professionals and truly meet your every need and exceed all expectations. They provide a family like environment, healthy meals with organic ingredients and every service you could desire in a tropical environment. Ask their advice on eating out and activities- they know the island inside out. Do yourself a favor- book this gem!
5 en julio 16, 2010
This is a wonderful B & B to visit. The host, Mike, is very helpful and did save our trip when a different B & B was too awful to stay in. They have everything that you need, beach gear, relaxing pool and a view that will stay with you after you are back home. We were able to move about the island easily from Marjories. Mike will give you many ideas about things to see and do. Stay here and you will not be disappointed.
5 en julio 10, 2010
My mother and I visited in early July '10. The island is incredible. Normally I enjoy vacation but am anxious to get home by the end. Not the case here. I truly don't want to leave, and a large part of the experience was the hospitality shown by Alexis and Mike. Breakfast each morning was delicious. Our room was very clean and had amazing views. The location is very secluded and quiet. Alexis gave us insight as to the best of Kauai, including best beaches, tours, restaurants, etc., that really made our stay all the more remarkable. I would have no hesitation in recommending this place to anyone, and I definitely plan to return. The location is also nicely central, with no more than half hour drive to nearly anything on the island. Beaches, shopping and other activities nearby.
5 en enero 25, 2010
Mike made us feel right at home here. He was extremely helpful in planning our days, moved his car so we could park on flatter ground, and made the best buckwheat pancakes you can imagine. The fruit and avocados left for us were wonderful. This is a very lovely and magical place, hidden away yet central enough for drives all over the island. We'd go back in a heartbeat. Susan and Bill
5 en octubre 24, 2009
After a lot of research, my wife selected Marjorie's Kauai Inn and it was the perfect selection. We had a warm greeting on our arrival to the Inn and found this to be a wonderful little Inn. Our room was clean and we had our privite outdoor hot tub, which we enjoyed in the evenings. We also used the pool which was wonderful. Mike (Inn Keeper/Owner) was very nice and helped with any questions that we had. It was everything that we look for in a B&B. Clean, very nice, friendly and a view to die for. I would go again in a heart beat. Thanks Mike. Pam and Rick, Maryland
4,0 en octubre 19, 2009
We stayed at Marjorie's in October. The weather was a little warm at that time. The location was convenient for our entire stay on Kauai. The inn is set in a beautiful small valley. Roosters crow all the time, but none were near enough to the inn to disturb us.
5 en octubre 15, 2009
We spent 3 nights here and wish it could have been longer. Our room was nice with a comfortable bed, huge terrace overlooking the pool area and valley below, and a small kitchen. It provided the perfect balance of serenity and convenience. At only 10 minutes away from the beaches and hotels of Poipu, we enjoyed the restaurants of local hotels and then returned to a place that feelt like home. Except, this home provided freshly squeezed juice, whole coconuts, waffles, french pressed coffee, etc for breakfast everyday. This home also had any item you need to enjoy the island of Kauai. One day we took advantage and grabbed some snorkels, beach chairs, beach umbrella and a cooler (even ice packs for the cooler) to spend a great day at one of the beaches. We did not take advantage of the surf boards, boogie boards or bikes, but recommend others to do so. What was great was that at the end of the day we could come back and enjoy a dip in the salt water pool all by ourselves. With only 3 rooms, we barely saw the other guests. Our host was amazing with tips about where to eat and what to see while we were there. I highly recommend this B&B and would visit again.
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Alright back to football. Eli is working out this week with Plax and Shockey to work on their rhythms. I was pleased with his progress but he needs more work with them to get things more automatic.

I think he passed the ball to 5 different receivers, complete to all of them,and made an attempt to Finn that fell incomplete twice.

They included: Burress, Shock, Tyree, Carter, & Moss. Tiki also caught a greatpassmaking it 6 receivers Eli completed to,whichTiki broke out for 16+ yards. That was really special. I want to see more of this every week. What was funny was that no one mentioned that. Romo completed to 3 and there was mention of him spreading the ball around. And I can't tell you how many times I've heard commentators rave about Brady when he does the same thing. But no mention of that for Eli....shocking.

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All of the benchmarks used in this test- Queen, Photoworxx, ZLib, hash, and AES- rely on basic x86 instructions, and consume very little system memory while also being aware of Hyper-Threading, multi-processors, and multi-core processors. Of all the tests in this review, AIDA64 is the one that best isolates the processor's performance from the rest of the system. While this is useful in that it more directly compares processor performance, readers should remember that virtually no "real world" programs will mirror these results.
The Queen and Photoworxx tests are synthetic benchmarks that iterate the function many times and over-exaggerate what the real-world performance would be like. The Queen benchmark focuses on the branch prediction capabilities and misprediction penalties of the CPU. It does this by finding possible solutions to the classic queen problem on a chessboard. At the same clock speed theoretically the processor with the shorter pipeline and smaller misprediction penalties will attain higher benchmark scores.
Like the Queen benchmark, the Photoworxx tests for penalties against pipeline architecture. The synthetic Photoworxx benchmark stresses the integer arithmetic and multiplication execution units of the CPU and also the memory subsystem. Due to the fact that this test performs high memory read/write traffic, it cannot effectively scale in situations where more than two processing threads are used, so quad-core processors with Hyper-Threading have no real advantage. The AIDIA64 Photoworxx benchmark performs the following tasks on a very large RGB image:
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By Kris Rodriguez
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(April 2, 2009)--The UTSA Department of Political Science and Geography and the Texas Map Society will host a conference, "Mapping the New World: Spanish Colonial Cartography," from 8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, April 4 in the Buena Vista Street Building Aula Canaria (1.328) at the UTSA Downtown Campus. The conference will feature presentations by nationally renowned scholars in the fields of North American and Spanish colonial cartography.
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- Richard Kagan, professor of early modern history, Johns Hopkins University
- John Hebert, chief of the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress
- David Buisseret, former holder of the Garret Chair at the University of Texas at Arlington
- Ricardo Padron, associate professor of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia
- John Miller Morris, associate professor of geography, UTSA
- John Wheat, Center for American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.
The conference was made possible by grants from The Summerlee Foundation and Humanities Texas. Community partners include the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and the San Antonio Museum of Art.
>> Registration to attend the presentations and luncheon is $50, $25 for the presentations only. Limited space is available for UTSA students to attend the presentations for free. To register, contact Gary Houston, UTSA Department of Political Science and Geography, at (210) 458-5610.
For more information, contact Kit Goodwin at (817) 861-1425.
2009 Texas Map Society Spring Meeting, April 4
"Mapping the New World: Spanish Colonial Cartography"
8:15 a.m.
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Welcome: Dianne Powell, Texas Map Society president
Introductions: John Miller Morris, conference program chair
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"The Motives Behind the Compilation of the La Fora Map, 1769"
John Hébert, Chief of the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress
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David Buisseret, Formerly Garrett Chair Holder, University of Texas at Arlington
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"Urban Images in Hispanic Maps and Views"
Richard Kagan, professor of early modern European history, Johns Hopkins University
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"From Mexico to Manila: Mapping the Pacific in Early Modern Spain"
Ricardo Padrón, associate professor of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia
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"Colonial Cartography on the Far Frontier"
John Miller Morris, associate professor of geography, UTSA
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"From Old Maps to Modern Books: Jack Jackson's Colonial Cartography"
John Wheat, Center for American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
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Original post made by CDSI Research, another community, on Jun 14, 2010
Research Editor's comments: "I have just researched the many attempts by news media and other groups to access information at the county and in each district. The evidence is abundant that supervisors and department heads have delayed and ignored requests for public information."
Dear Emily:
Nothing in Contra Costa County and local governments' restriction of communication is even subtle. A simple review of public meeting policies illustrates that there is no interactive process for neighborhood and community groups to communicate with boards, councils, committees, commissions or departments. Each 3 minute presentation in such meetings is unanswered by policy and most often ignored by such government groups. More importantly, important issues are handled by consent prior to public meetings and further restrict public discussion of very questionable decisions.
I would assume that you received the same district 3 news releases that were part of BANG's story and likely see a need to illustrate the reasons residents throughout district 3 have used multiple requests to achieve any release of information or employed counsel in the absence of such release.
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a resident of another community
on Jun 17, 2010 at 10:50 am
This type of government attitude has only been with the latest (current) Supervisor. She believes county information is a secret.
I am counting the days in hopes of a new Supervisor. I am so dissapointed.
a resident of another community
on Jun 22, 2010 at 10:39 pm
I live in Discovery Bay and have previously supported both Mary and Dave Piepho. Infortunately, I can attest to Supervisor Piepho's negative attitude toward public inquiries as well as her questionable use of county assets for her own personal gain.
A little background: Mary scheduled CCC CAO David Twa (a very valuable county asset) to speak at a $100 per plate luncheon to raise funds for her personal office holder account. When questioned, Mr. Twa explained that he works for the Board of Supervisors and if one of them asks him to come talk to a group, he is compelled to do so. As he explained, it is part of his job.
It seemed to me that by booking Mr. Twa as the headlining act for her personal fundraising event, Mary abused her position and misused this valuable county asset.
As part of my research into these questionable activities on the part of Supervisor Piepho I requested from her office information and documents related to these account(s). Her office failed to respond in a timely manner. My request was submitted on March 24th, 2010. I followed up on this request on March 31st and again on April 5th without the courtesy of a response.
I attended the BOS meeting on April 13th to address Supervisor Piepho directly during the public comment portion of the agenda. I explained that my request had not been met with a response within the statutory time frames and asked for an acknowledgment that she had received it. Mary announced to her fellow board members that my request had been handled in a manner consistent with all public records requests received by her office. In other words, Mary admitted that her office does not adhere to the statutuory time frames for public records requests as a matter of course.
Before I left the chamber on April 13th, a county employee directed me to a woman by the name of Tomi Van De Brooke who introduced herself to me as a member of Mary's staff. Ms. Van De Brook explained that my request required a thorough legal analysis to determine that the Supervisor was not required to turn over information related to her office holder account because that was a personal account and used for many purposes, including campaigns.
Ms. Van De Brooke then berated me for requesting this information. She accused me of wasting "thousands of hours" with "'all" of my requests for information. Several times she repeated her charge that I have wasted thousands of hours of county time with my harassing requests for information and in doing so have cost the County many thousands of dollars of tax payer money.
I suggested to Ms. Van De Brooke that she should be more supportive and helpful to citizens who seek information of their elected officials. She said that she didn't mind honest requests for information, but mine were not honest. I asked her if she was calling me a liar and she said yes, she was willing to be very transparent when someone wastes taxpayer money as she alleged I was. She went on to tell me that she has asked County Counsel to bring badgering charges (?) against me, but has been told that they can't do that. She left me with the impression that with any future request for information I risk losing my right to seek information from Supervisor Piepho.
I found her entire verbal assault on me, which took place in a public corridor, to be a thinly veiled threat to me and other members of the public not to pursue our rights to ask questions of our government. It appeared to me that she may have been attempting to whip up the some of the public in the corridor to the point where they would attack me for wasting taxpayer dollars in these difficult budget times. There is no doubt that her words and manners were intended to dissuade me, which I resent. Beyond that, her words may well have instigated negative actions by the crowd against me, or served as warning that other interested citizen should not request information from our County staff.
In order to protect myself and others from a repeat of this situation in the future, I have filed a formal complaint with Supervisor Piepho against Ms. Van De Brooke for exerting pressure to dissuade the public from requesting information from the County. It is important, I believe, that her actions are noted for the record and that she be afforded the opportunity to be trained in dealing with her external customers (the public) and applying the letter and spirit of the law as it relates to public records requests.
It should come as no great surprise that I have not received any acknowledgement from Supervisor Piepho's office or anyone else within the County to my complaint against a member of her staff.
I have spoken with another citizen who was treated similarly by Ms. Van De Brooke, and I feel strongly that she needs to stop all efforts to intimidate the public and limit their access to information. Also, Supervisor Piepho's lack of response to my complaint demonstrates her lack of committment to a cordial staff and an informed public. As a former supporter of the Piephos I find this extremely disappointing.
a resident of another community
on Jun 23, 2010 at 8:07 am
I took am from the Brentwood area. It is very sad when out local government is run like a dictatorship with our local Supervisor. District III Supervisor has been attmepting to hide issues from the public since her unfortunate election to this County. Slithering through the halls of government is not what we asked for or deserve. Her promises are empty and continues to act as if she is entitled to badger members of the community for wanting to participate in the local communities. Now Mr. Flint has to experience harrssment from her staff who doesn't want to work or also thinks it is none of the public's business to want to know what is being done for our communities and why. Sad day in this County when it is allowed to continue. Working hard to get rid of this queen is in the cards.
a resident of another community
on Jun 23, 2010 at 8:20 am
The democracy will cease to exist
when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
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a resident of another community
on Jun 23, 2010 at 9:06 am
I invite you to go to this website below to view just what our Supervisor gets paid sometimes twice to refuse to allow the public to know what is going out in our government. You will be shocked she gets paid that much to treat us like 2nd class citizens. Maybe that is why her entitlement attitude comes in. You can also view her arrogant husbands Deposition of insane statements about how he views government and destroys documents. The two of them make quite a pair. Please Take a peek.....
a resident of another community
on Jun 23, 2010 at 11:00 am
I too am a resident of over twenty years in District III closer to Discovery Bay. It is true tha Mary Piepho seems to think her office and duties are of a secretive nature. I posed a question to her regarding special taxes and thier legal use. Her answer after I pushed to get an answer was " It's Confidential Information ". I have never recieved any similar type answers from the previous five supervisors in my District. Those Supervisors were helpful, supportive, an easily accessable. Mary is just the opposite and as once I originally supported her, my experiences with her has not only distanced me from helping the community, but have concluded in my opinion that she is dishonest and practices immoral decissions. Something that Contra Costa citizens should not tolerate.
a resident of Walnut Creek
on Jun 26, 2010 at 5:01 pm
I too am disappointed in Mary Piepho. I put aside my bias about Mary's personal background and experience,and voted for her believing she was the more conservative of the candidates and that would lend some balance to the predominantly democratic County board of supervisors. Boy was I wrong. Evidenced more so by her Chief of Staff,Tomi Van de Brooke being revealed as a democrat herself. In the course of my job, I have had to speak with Ms. Van de Brooke on several occasions, and my in my personal experience have found her difficult, to be polite.
a resident of another community
on Jun 28, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Residents of Danville,
I am sorry that someone left the gate open in Discovery Bay and some of our nuts are now mingling with some of yours. The article linked to by Mr. Multi-personality talks about the dysfunctional nature of a small, but vocal group of individuals in our town. Don Flint felt a need to post in your forum here with proof of the claims made in the article that we have a few folks that cause trouble for the many. If you had direct experience with these people, knew their history or spoke with some of their neighbors you would understand these outbursts are simply manifestations of people with low self image who wish to spread their internal pain to others.
These posters would have you believe they are just citizens exercising their legal rights and casually attempting to gather information. Nothing could be further from the truth. In the Times article originally linked it discusses a large amount of correspondence from one individual. We're not talking 10 or even 20 letters. We're talking in excess of 100, many of them pages long. These are repetitive requests for the same information, over and over, some of them trying to revive controversies that are years old and long since settled. If you read just a sampling of the 10 lbs of typewriter generated correspondence(Bill is old school), you will see it's simple harassment. When as person tells you in their own words that they wouldn't be writing if the elected officials would just give them what they want, that should tell you the mindset.
If the requests were reasonable or valid, I would say they have a case. But these are people trying to push their personal agendas on an entire community by bombarding our services district and staff with the endless requests. It is harassment, pure and simple.
Don, I'm pretty sure you've been told why you're not getting an answer. You're asking a fund raising question of Supervisor Piepho through an official county email account. You cannot co-mingle those two things. Fundraising must be a distinct and separate activity. You inquiries are asking Supervisor Piepho to break the law and she's not going to do that. When you stood before the full board with this same ridiculous request and got silence in return, it should have told you something. Add 2 and 2 already and stop your whining.
As for Tomi expressing her dissatisfaction, she is just the first person in line, Don. You are wasting thousands of hours of staff time and tens of thousands of taxpayer's dollars in pursuit of your personal vendetta with the Piephos. That is unacceptable. You better get yourself lots of blank copies of complaint forms, because I think you're about to see a concerted effort by citizens to ask you to reign it in. Exercising one's rights guaranteed under the sunshine laws is one thing. Its assumes some amount of personal responsibility and reasonable behavior on the part of the requestor. Nothing about your efforts is responsible or reasonable based on what I've seen and read. The website linked by one poster is your own smear merchant site. There's nothing noble about it. It claims to be purely informative. Just join the mailing list and you get bimonthly, inflammatory commentary and innuendo from none other than Don Flint.
Don, the fact that you complained to the DA and you've gotten nothing back should be telling you something about how he views your antics. You seem a little slow on the uptake.
McGee is the resurrection of the name of another of the local critics who untimely passed last year. Creepy to see his name being used that like. See the 2nd class citizen comment and ask yourself if self image isn't a root factor as suggested.
Finally there is Disappointed Constituent who I believe is none other than Richardson himself, the central figure of the article. I've read enough of his manifestos to recognize the writing style. At one time he was offered an opportunity by the Sheriff in a private meeting the Sheriff claims never happened to sit on a board overseeing a special tax within the community. Bill, you seem to forget there were other people at the yacht club get together. The Sheriff has been quoted in the Times that he would never support a local oversight committee. But what he meant to say is that he would never support one that didn't include his hand-picked cronies so he would control the message. Eventually the issue was resolved, the Supervisor appointed a committee and poor Bill got left on the outside looking in. It will take years, if ever, for him to get over that one.
Bill is complaining about a legal opinion rendered by County Counsel to the Board of Supervisors regarding this special tax. It's protected under attorney-client privilege, no different than any reader here who would enjoy such protection with their attorney. Bill and Don think those legal protections should be suspended for their needs and have repeatedly demanded documents related to this exchange. "It's confidential" is the paraphrased response they have received. Nothing sinister, unless you're a little off your rocker.
These people operating with malice as their primary motivator.
Once again our apologies to the readers. We're exploring options for adding mental health resources out here in East County to address this issue. The possibilities of our nuts inbreeding with your multi-personality nuts in the valley is too frightening to be ignored.
a resident of Walnut Creek
on Jun 28, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Neuter Nuts sounds like Tomi. She likes to post on blogs with aliases, rather than identifying herself. If not Tomi, certainly someone close to her, and obviously a District 3 Supervisor insider. Mr. Flint and every other citizen has the right to request whatever County records they wish, regardless of motive, and most information is not confidential. Unlike Neuter Nuts, Mr. Flint obviously gave his identity for the records request which is not required. County policy also includes provisions to recover certain costs incurred by the County from the requester. As if having Mr. Twa, Contra Costa CAO who serves at the pleasure of the Board, speak at an election fundraiser isn't sketchy enough, to say the least, whoever Neuter Nuts truly is is making Mary Piepho look even worse in my eyes.
a resident of another community
on Jun 28, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Don Flint is the Hal Baily of Discovery Bay.
a resident of Danville
on Jun 29, 2010 at 11:05 am
I don't mind hearing about experiences that other people have with the county, even if those people don't hail from Danville.
This stuff is hard to believe! If true it signifies problems.
A county employee within the course and scope of his job is used by Piepho to promote fundraising? Does anyone think that's kosher?
Van De Brooke chastising Flint for his request for information? NeuterNuts thinks that's ok. Really? There is no excuse for the county to intimidate anyone seeking information. It's not up to NeuterNuts or the county to decide which requests are and are not reasonable. Are we sure that NeuterNuts isn't Mary herself.
I hope Flint should report Van De Brooke to the ACLU.
Neuter Nuts talks like he has a lot of information straight from Piepho. Does that account for the excessive name calling. Doesn't she realize that ridicule and name calling do nothing more than make her feel better while demonstrating to the rest of us that she can't win the argument with facts?
a resident of another community
on Jul 1, 2010 at 11:36 am
Facts you say, Danville newbie?
Did you miss the fact I stated previously that Mr. Flint was asking for and expecting Supervisor Piepho to break the law on his account and that his grandstanding effort at the Board of Supervisor's meeting was also in that vein?
Did you miss the fact that Mr. Flint is not a casual requestor of documents, but vexatious requestor simply digging for information that he can(and has) twisted or posted out of context to smear the reputation of people? And he does this on your and my dime. Would it be reasonable in your mind if he marched into a county office and demanded, "I want everything"?
Flint's antics aren't limited to Piepho. He goes after the services district, the county's Community Development Dept, the DA, LAFCO. The guy seems to have a lot of free time to make a lot of people miserable.
Are OK with that behavior?
Twa was simply providing information on county finances at the meeting. An activity he does with considerable frequency in numerous venues. Flint has it painted as something nefarious and you took the bait.
People used to yell fire in crowded theaters because they thought it was funny to watch the stampede. People died from that stupidity, so laws had to be passed. People like Flint and Richardson abuse the sunshine laws for their own selfish reasons and when it becomes overly burdensome to the function of government, laws get passed to deal with people like them. But as is the nature of such legislation, they usually overextend and hurt innocent people who respect the rights and the access. That's the blowback factor. It happened last month in Hawaii with the birthers abusing the system.
There is bill in the California Legislature(currently on hold) to address just the sort of abuse. Jerry Brown supports it. Starting to see why it might be on hold for the next session?
Nobody is trying to take away his rights, so chill with the ACLU bit. It's in all our best interest if people like Flint exercise some level of self control and responsibility so that we don't all suffer the consequences of his foolishness and if VandeBrooke suggested he do that she was in essence doing us all a favor.
I'm sorry if you took offense to my use of the word "nuts" as I felt smear merchant was a bit too abrasive to use here.
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LITTLE FALLS —The gray skies and cold temperatures matched the mood Saturday as mourners gathered by the hundreds to say goodbye to the two Little Falls teenagers shot to death Thanksgiving Day at the home of Byron David Smith.
The parking lot at Living Hope Assembly of God Church just north of Little Falls was full long before the joint service for Nick Brady, 17, and Haile Kifer, 18, began. By the time the service started at 10 a.m., cars lined both sides of Haven Road.
Church volunteers directing traffic estimated the church was set to seat approximately 275 people. "There are more than that in there though," said one parking attendant, who did not give his name.
Friends and family outside the service described both teens as fun, outgoing, athletic and friendly.
Tiffany Kostohryz, who said she was a friend of Brady's family, said the church was so full people were overflowing into the lobby, flooded down the hallways and in classrooms nearby the at-capacity auditorium.
Kostohryz said Brady's grandmother, Bonnie Schaeffel, read the eulogy for her grandson while Kifer's mother, Jenny Kifer, read the eulogy for Hailey. Brady's mom, Kim Brady, played Amazing Grace on the piano.
Kostohryz said the mood in the service was sad, as she expected it would be, however, Brady's Grandmother, Bonnie made the crowd laugh with her eulogy reading. "Other than that it's all tears," Kostohryz said.
While mourning the loss of the two teens, many funeral goers, including Kostohryz, couldn't help but question the decisions Brady and Kifer made that ultimately cost them their lives. "They definitely shouldn't have been doing what they were doing," Kostohryz said. "But they didn't deserve this."
Kostohryz expressed her sorrow not only for Kifer and Brady's family, but also the family of Byron Smith who awaits trial in Morrison County. "Three families are now destroyed," she said.
Devon Rausch, a junior at Pillager High School, said he was known Brady since elementary school and reconnected with Brady when he returned to Pillager this fall. "It was weird," Rausch said of attending the service. "I've never been to a friend's funeral before."
Raush described Brady as fun and kind. He was at a loss for answers as to why Brady and Kifer might have resorted to burglarizing Smith's home Thanksgiving Day.
"They shouldn't have broken into the house, but he didn't deserve to die," he said.
Eric Elliott said he met Haile Kifer just recently in a recovery program. Elliott did not say what Kifer was recovering from, only that "she died for the disease of addiction."
"She was trying to face her demons," Elliott said.
Elliott described Haile as being fun-loving, high spirited and the "kind of person you would remember." He said Haile was trying to turn her life around.
"I don't think God created bad people," Elliott said. "He created good people who get sick and do bad things."
The service for Brady and Kifer lasted a little over an hour. When the service ended, pallbearers — most of who appeared to be teenagers themselves — carried the two caskets to the awaiting hearses.
The crowd from inside the church slowly filed out to their vehicles in near silence with more tears and embraces exchanged than words.
Passing by the church's marquee — which read, from Psalm 34, "The Lord is close to the brokenhearted."
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Helen Clark, or "The Lady" as the maitre d' at the restaurant rightly and delightfully called her, was in town but she was, as always, busy, busy, busy. She had a brief gap, but was having her hair cut. Perhaps I could interview her at the salon?
No, I could not, but we could meet at a place for lunch over the road from Servilles in Newmarket where she always goes when she's home. That was pretty nice of her. You'd have never dared suggest an interview at the hairdressers when she was PM. So I sat there and waited and wondered why on earth I wanted to attempt to interview her again, given that I have failed, abysmally, to do so on other occasions. On one of these occasions, after she won her third term, I had to put a pen through almost all of my questions within 10 minutes of arriving because they were all of a theme: Had she entertained the notion that she might not win? No. Had anyone dared raise the idea that she might not win? No, and so on. She had a good time during that interview and laughed during almost all of it.
Some things about her haven't changed a bit. After lunch - she had a spicy Sicilian pizza, if you really want to know; "that's me!" she said, a tad spicily - she went off to have her hair done and I went to pay.
There wasn't ever any question about who was going to pay: The paper was. I'd have insisted, of course, but usually there's a token attempt on the part of the interviewee to put their hand in their pocket. She just said, "thank you for lunch", and off she went. Laughing on the inside, no doubt. And no doubt it served me right. I'd been teasing her about her legendary frugality, just a bit. You wouldn't want to overstep the line which, while not quite as emphatically drawn as it was when she was PM, is still much in evidence. She likes to have the last laugh and I have to give it to her. If I was going to bang on about her thriftiness, I could damn well pay.
She's been back in the country from New York, where she lives and works as the third most important person at the United Nations in her role as head of the UN's development programme. It is a Big Job, the sort that is described in Capital Letters, and she says there was no job in NZ she could have done after being PM for so long. I wondered if she thought that was a shame, in any way, and she said: "I think that's reality. I mean, what else could Tony Blair do in Great Britain?"
The country, she says, is too small for ex-PMs. "Too small to create a space." She needs a bigger space than most ex-PMs. She is a big character and remains an intriguing one. At least she's always intrigued me. I'm not sure she intrigues herself, overly. She has always had her gaze held firmly upwards and outwards - which is one way of saying the very thought of navel-gazing would earn one of her dismissive honks. She was a farmer's daughter, after all, and, at her realist, practical core, still is.
She is also still terrifying, although she was in very good, almost indulgent, humour and what passes for chatty. You would not have entertained the idea of eating pizza with her when she was PM. (She wouldn't have entertained the idea of pizza with me when she was PM.) Still, if I'd been eating pizza with anyone else except perhaps the Queen, I'd have eaten it with my fingers. She used a knife and fork and so, of course, did I.
She's in town at an interesting time. The Labour Party conference is this weekend and there are rumblings about David Shearer's chances of holding on to the leadership. Don't bother asking her about these things. She's not even going to the conference, though she says she was asked to so that she might be presented with a "gold badge and life membership. I said I didn't think it was appropriate". Why ever not? "Because I'm holding a senior diplomatic position. And I'm just standing aside at the moment."
Somebody suggested before I went to see her that she might be wonderfully indiscreet now she's out of the game, but, ha, ha. She didn't tell me she'd popped in to see David Shearer in his office in Wellington on Tuesday night. I read it in the paper yesterday.
All she'd say about him is that she "hardly" knows him; about as well as she knows John Key. (Well, enough to pop in on though, apparently. I bet he got a fright.) So she's as close-mouthed as ever and warned me before we met that she doesn't enter into debate about NZ politics. "You might want to keep that in mind."
Keeping that in mind, I asked if she was going to write a memoir. She said she was far too busy and: "You know, I could say it's too early. Ha, ha, ha."
Oh, probably. I did ask if she wants to be head of the UN and she said: "My answer to that is that I have the best job in the UN now because in Development you always have a positive and focused job. The Secretary-General's job is overwhelmed by the political and security issues, which are extremely taxing and hard to resolve because of the structure of the Security Council in particular. Take Syria. So, for me, coming out of the intense, you know, partisanship of New Zealand politics, to go to the Development Programme and pretty much have a free run to do positive things, I find that refreshing."
She's the good guy now. "Yeah! We're the good guys."
You can see that it might be refreshing to be the good guy. Not that she cares what people think of her. She really doesn't seem to, which is partly what makes her so intriguing, and scary. It's her relentless self-belief and indifference to being liked. I asked if she knew - or was interested in why she was such a good politician. (The past tense was wrong; she is still a politician.) She wouldn't be offended if I said I thought a large part of what made her such a good politician is that she doesn't care whether people like her? "No." The Herald's deputy political editor, Claire Trevett, had written a column for that morning's paper which ended: "Nobody dared call Helen Clark 'nice'."
"Ha, ha. Well, she could have! I wouldn't mind somebody saying it! I do think in public life, if your aim is to be liked, you're going to let people down because you're always going to be agreeing with this one, agreeing with that one ..." That might have been a bit pointed, but there was no point asking. I tried her on John Key's gaffes, but she didn't bite.
You'd think she might miss being the PM. You'd be very silly to think any such thing. "No. Shut the door on it," she said, shutting the door on any further outlandish questions on that matter of no consequence. She was really cross with her husband, Peter Davis, when he told a journalist, after the 2008 election, that she felt rejected. "Yes, I did. It didn't really express how I felt at all." Perhaps he felt that she felt rejected. "He might have but ... I don't need him feeling something for me." But you can't, can you, dictate what other people are feeling for you? I thought that it was rather sweet, actually. "Well, if it had expressed how I felt, that would be fine! But that just wasn't a sentiment I would have expressed. When you're going for a fourth term, you're reasonably realistic about the prospects. I mean, you're always kind of working for the tide to turn back in your favour. But you wouldn't be in the contest if you were afraid of losing."
Here's a poser. If she was still PM you'd never have dared ask; if she was still PM the question wouldn't have been there to ask. Still, it felt like asking for trouble - quite likely in the form of her infamous death's head glare - to ask if she'd cried when she lost. The real surprise was that she answered at all. "On the night, absolutely not. Then after it was over ... I was so exhausted, you know. You probably don't realise how tired you are and suddenly you don't have to carry on that pace. And the campaign, you know, that was a very tough campaign." So there were tears at some point. "Possibly at some point. But not out of self-pity, ha, or concern for myself, just exhaustion."
I was honestly so amazed by this that I couldn't think what to say. So - what else? -I started talking about her hair. Um, was she letting it go grey? She laughed long and hard at that. "No! I never put anything in it. Ha, ha, ha. It's as it was."
But is she? Yes, of course, and no, almost imperceptibly, not quite. A layer, a thin one, has possibly been peeled off by defeat - although she would scoff at that. Perhaps she's just reverted to the person she was before she put on the armour that went with being the PM.
Also, for all that she doesn't care about being liked, it must make for a happier existence being one of the Good Guys, and she's obviously at home in the UN. It is a place, for one thing, where nobody blinks an eye at the fact that she lives in New York and Peter lives here. Plenty of UN staffers have such arrangements, she says; career couples often do. But she didn't mind me asking if people thought it was weird.
She loves New York - "the T-shirt was made for me" - and her nice apartment with views of the UN building and the Chrysler Building and the East River. I said it amused me that her apartment was in the Trump Towers - meaning it was a bit funny for a socialist. She didn't think it was a very good joke. "Well, it's very handy to the UN."
She's still run around in a government limo when she's home, but even socialist ex-PMs get that perk.
She did think it was funny when I suggested it might be a bit annoying for Peter when she comes home, which wasn't a joke. "Ha, ha. I unsettle his habits." I asked if he'd bought a new washing machine. (He once told me she wouldn't allow a new one, despite it being 20 years old and second-hand when they bought it.) "He did! He bought a new TV too. I've given up. He runs the house. I'll re-establish control some time, but not just yet. Ha, ha, ha!"
Nice? She's certainly much more fun to interview than she was when she was PM. But much as I'd like to dare to say she's nice, she's much more interesting than that. Of course the really annoying thing is that she knows it.


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|Humanscale's focus since its inception in 1982 has been providing outstanding ergonomic seating and accessories for the home and the office. Their products, which range from task chairs to keyboard trays to CPU holders, are all geared towards making life simpler, easier, and healthier for anyone who works at a desk. Widely recognized for their line of office seating, Humanscale has done much to advance design in some newer product areas- namely in computer and office accessories such as monitor arms, foot machines, and the ergonomic computer mouse. Winner of numerous design awards, Humanscale continues to deliver groundbreaking office tools that combine simplicity, aesthetics, and ergonomics.
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Designer of the Freedom Chair, the Liberty Chair, and the Diffrient Light, Niels Diffrient is internationally recognized as a premier designer in the field of ergonomics. Diffrient is a world-renowned and world-travelled designer who has worked with some of the greatest aesthetic and ergonomic designers of this or any century. Diffrient was trained at the Cranbrook Academy of Art where he was able to win the First Medal of Design 3 times during his tenure. After graduation he spent time traveling and working in Europe, thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship he had won. Aside from his obvious bonafides in the realm of furniture design, he also has a background in aeronautical engineering.
Diffrient has created many wonderful chairs in his long career. The Freedom Chair is among the most recent, but he was also responsible for the Diffrient Light Chair and the Liberty Chair. Diffrient co-authored the original three part book on modern ergonomic design, title "Humanscale." It was he who helped to lay out clearly and with great aesthetic and scientific insight the way forward for office chairs, and indeed all types of human-centric furniture design.
The Freedom Chair is one of his greatest accomplishments. It combines his love of design with his passion for ergonomics and humanistic art. It's a comfortable, ground-breaking chair built by one of the masters.
With a resume that includes collaboration with icons Eero Saarinen and Marco Zanuso, a background in aeronautical engineering, and numerous design awards, Niels Diffrient is undoubtedly one of the most influential designers of the past 50 years.
Born in 1928 in Star, Mississippi, Diffrient attended Wayne State University and eventually enrolled in the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he won the First Medal of Design three times during his tenure there. After traveling and working in Europe thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship, Diffrient began work at the design firm Henry Dreyfuss Associates, where he would stay for 25 years. While there, he co-authored the three-volume publication Humanscale. This work summarized his design principles which were rooted in the belief that the human body should drive design for products that humans will interact with. In his own words: "A design should look good and be appealing, but without compromising human factors. Aesthetics should enhance the technical side, not deter from it."Read the story behind Niels Diffrient and the Freedom Chair
- Awards and Honors:
- 2002 Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Product Design Award
- 1996 Chrysler Award for Innovation
- 2005 Legend Award from Contract Magazine
- Named the "Granddaddy of the ergonomic revolution by Forbes Magazine in 2007
- Honorary Royal Designer for Industry Member- awarded by the Royal Society of Arts and Industry
- 1996 I.D. Magazine Top 40 Design Innovators
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This particular version of the Freedom Chair is a perfect illustration of how Humanscale customers can have their cake and eat it too when it comes to office chairs. When the ergonomically designed headrest is added to the already sterling (in terms of comfort and support) frame, the Freedom Chair has absolutely no gaps in its ergonomic structure. From your head, neck and shoulders to your spine, buttocks and legs, you're assured of a fantastic sitting experience throughout the workday. But what about style? Well, with a leather upholstered Freedom Chair, you certainly have nothing to worry about on that front.
Using beautiful leather designed to fit the chair perfectly, Humanscale has found another way to add beauty and sophistication to the product. Choose from three different styles of leather (Vicenza, Cervo, and Acqua) and over a dozen colors to make the chair just right for your needs. Using Smart Furniture's online design engine, you can make lots of important choices about this chair, and take part in the final design - from casters and base finishes to armrests and leather types. The Freedom Chair with leather upholstery and a full headrest is a powerful office chair - more than capable of carrying you through eight and ten hour days at work in comfort and style. That's what you get when you shop with Humanscale and Smart Furniture!
Another way the Freedom Chair earns its name is by making non-traditional sitting styles comfortable and supported. For instance, when you slouch (as most office workers do) in a standard office chair (which most office workers have) you're really doing damage to your spine and everything that connects to it - your muscles, your posterior, your arms and shoulders and neck. If can even cause headaches. The Freedom Chair is perfectly designed to accommodate slouching in all its degrees, and gives users the freedom to choose how they want to sit at work.
This is the epitome of an ergonomic chair, built by one of the pioneers and greatest artists of the ergonomics movement, Niels Diffrient. Every part of this chair was built to make you more comfortable, more healthy, and more productive. Let's start with the back of the chair.
The Freedom Chair has an automatically adjustable backrest (Dual Pivot back support) that makes the process of comfortable recline easy and simple. You won't have to fuss over a plethora of levers and knobs, you'll simply be able to recline while all the time maintaining support throughout your back, neck and shoulders. Many modern chairs that try to be ergonomic can make this simple process messy and difficult to understand, leading to incorrect user-created setting that become permanent, and permanent problems as well. When you introduce too much uncertainty into the design, it can be difficult to create a consistently satisfying product. The Freedom Chair deftly avoids that pitfall.
The headrest of the chair is also adjustable, allowing the user to recline healthfully and set the chair to their proper height and weight. This does more than simply calibrate to your height, though - this adjustment will truly "protect your neck." When you lean back in the Freedom Chair, the headrest comes up to greet you, keeping your head a bit elevated even in recline. That keeps your spine correctly aligned, and it keeps you from building up discomfort in your neck, shoulders, and head.
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This is one of the best ergonomic office chairs you can buy. From stem to stern it's been built for optimal ergonomic performance and the ultimate in personal comfort and healthy while sitting.
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Now that we have the results from the US' election day– who won? Here's how the Global Exchange team has interpreted some of the results, and we'd like to hear your take on them too!
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[quote user="BlueSanta"][quote user="nycsportzfan"]ya I don't really notice a huge lack of arM strength either Sure its not like hes got JaMarcus Russell ArM strength but hes got enough of a arM to be successful in that aspect thats for sure I liken hiM to Andy Dalton a kid who is just very sMart and savy and is just good at football There is way to Many stupid players in the NFL where a player that has savy and sMarts and anticipates and can flat out fool defenders is going to succeed Sure dalton weighs upwards to 20lbs on kellen and has a inch or 2 on hiM but i think Moore can be every bit as successful and people May be suprised at Kellen's success given a chance Then again he could never be given a chance SoMetiMes it happens like that as well Theres probably 10000000 players who never were given chances who can play in this league because of so called liMitations but then guys like Wayne Chrebet Wes Welker Drew Brees JiM Leohnard Doug Flutie Danny Woodhead Steve Largent and others are lucky enough to get a chance and people are like "hey these guys can play!" To be honest i think it Makes for a better league when u add good football players like that to the league because right now its watered down with way to Many flat out "DUMB" players but they have the size and ht and so called NFL bodies
Last year, well prior to the draft, well before he had a good senior bowl or combine I said I thought some team was going to fall in love with Christain Ponder. Watching Moore, I get the same feeling. In a way he reminds me a lot of Ponder. He has the same type of accuracy and has an underated arm. I dont like his throwing motion as much as Ponders. But its not a bad 1 either. He also doesnt hold onto the ball too long like Ponder sometimes did.
The 1 knock on him is his height. But, I dont buy it in his case for a couple reasons:
1) Watch his highlights and you will see him do 1 thing better than most NFL vets. He ALWAYS looks defenders off. You just dont see this kid stare down recievers. This makes it very difficult for tall defensive lineman to bat his throws down. He will look right, look mid, and dump it off left instantly. The Poor D-lineman dont have a chance to get their hands up cause they cant read his eyes.
2) He isnt a runner by nature but he has decent mobility. Like Doug Flutie, like Drew Breeze and since he is a left especially like Steve Young and mike Vick, he is mobile enough to find the passing lanes by putting himself in position quickly. Without being overly technical about why, being left handed helps him as a shorter QB too. Mostly because the upfield rushers are usually lined up on the left side. It gives an extra demention of defensive scheme to counter lefty QBs.
Im not going to keep arguning this because it just goes around in circles I see what would be the weakest arm in the NFL out there and all the anticipation in the world isnt going to cover it up. His ability to read defenses could be invaluable to a team though and it may allow him to have a good career as an NFL back up but a franchise signal calling QB he is not. U guys keep bringing up Drew Brees he is nothing like Drew Brees.Yes Brees is short but he doesnt have all the other short comings. Pennington had a weak arm after 3 arm surgeries but he wasnt 5'11 with horrible mechanics.While all these other QB's might have 1 negative they dont run the gamut like Moore does.Wouldnt surprise me if he ended up being a great clipboard holder though because of his mind
Here look at this this guy put up a great piece on why Kellen is not a franchise QB. Before u say its Bleacher Report the guy has real credentials he isnt some hack and I agree with everything he points at.
Thats a disaster in the NFL. U dont have the same room to throw in the NFL as college.There will be bodies all around him. [/quote] U think what u want I'll be sitting back laughing when hes throwing Bee Bee's in the NFL I don't see anything but a nice rifle arm in tapes i've seen Dude can make every throw no problem I hope the Giants draft him in RD 5 I'd love to have this kid! Tell BSU's Kellen Moore and his 507 Yard Passing Day...e[/quote]LOL riflearm he floats 15 yard throws there no velocity at all. Even his biggest supporters will admit he has a below average arm[/quote] look at the tape if thats not rifling it in there then what is? He can make all the throws touch throws fit into a tight spot the only thing he can't probably do is throw the ball 60yrds through the air So what? Watch the tapes where are u seeing anything but a nice arm? maybe your mistaking his touch on some passes for weak arm but this kid wings in there just like anyone else
[/quote]Im not responding to any more Moore posts after this because it could go on forever butyour actually in the minority of seeing anything but a weak arm. Its not how far u throw it its how hard as well.He puts air under the majority of his throws its really clear as day.U have to be able to beat DB's to spots with throws in the NFL and with his arm and poor mechanics it doesnt look good.. U might be right about the draft part though. Tebow got picked in the first round sowho knows what 1 team might think


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Top retired general says, "USA can forget about winning the war in Iraq."
Original post made by It's Over, Palo Verde, on Jun 3, 2007
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Most Americans cannot imagine the nightmare they have unleashed with their arrogant negligence and will forever reap the sour rewards. Not only will their be no "winning" in Iraq, USA could triple its effort, money, and soldiers and still will not reach the starting line, much less finish the race.
The Untied States of Liars and Thieves is broken, the coffers are empty.
Our 'leaders' (heh) have erased any last trace of USA credibility in the world while we tuned in to watch American Idol.
It's all over but the shouting.
Its a befitting end.
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a resident of Meadow Park
on Jun 3, 2007 at 5:40 pm
I think you are completely right and I totally agree with you and Sanchez.
But just you wait. The local loyal fans of Bush will find something to denigrate you and general Sanchez... you'll soon be branded something between a defeatist, a "liberal" (horror!!), and a traitor.
Take care.
a resident of College Terrace
on Jun 3, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Oh, you can rest assured that the right wing venom machine is already working full time on turning general Sanchez into a traitor, coward and wimp. Remember, John Kerry was a weakling for spending two tours of duty as a decorated swift boat officer, and a traitor for protesting the war after his discharge while Bush was the intrepid hero for evading Vietnam and deserting from his Alabama Guard duty. Every single decorated general speaking against the war has been turned by the right wing venom machine into a fan of jihadist terrorism, a traitor and an anti-American cut-and-run coward.
a resident of Midtown
on Jun 3, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Everyone knows that Iraq was handed over to State, and an ineffectual State at that, too soon. Sanchez was sandbagged for Abu Ghraib even though it was strictly a media event that should have been handled with one Court Martial, 5 company punishments and a letter in a company commander's jacket. Bush could have scotched the fuss but he didn't. Sanchez did good, and his criticism was on.
Some people think flying Continental Air Defense on a Delta Dagger hardly is shirking. Some people consider National Guard service to be draft dodging. Some people have so much hate that they can not see straight. Pity.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Jun 4, 2007 at 2:40 pm
The USA-haters and Arab-haters that shredded our Constitution and orchestrated the horrifying War on Muslims are victorious... unless we hunt them down and bring them to justice.
And notice how the same mainstream media that lied about WMDs are also unwilling to call for a full investigation of the 9/11 attack.
Isn't this is the same mainstream media who has repeatedly endorsed amnesty for illegals and unsecured borders for many decades?
Ever get the feeling you're being lied to by people who really hate your guts?
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This may be old news to some of you, but I'm just learning about the Mitt Romney shirts at Urban Outfitters and I'd love to hear what people are thinking. NPR just shared an article about the so-called hipster apparel shop and the interesting move they've made with shirts that feature the right-wing Presidential hopeful as a sort of pop icon. Many people are reading this with a political slant, others say it's about fashion and that the shirts are more ironic than anything. But can fashion be divorced from politics, in this instance? Deets and a "Mitt Is The Sh*t" shirt inside.
NPR pulled together various reactions to the shirts. They're calling it "The Politics of Cool":
A recent poll by Hiram College confirms that 18-to-29 year-old support for President Obama is 13 percentage points greater than that for Republican Mitt Romney. So when Urban Outfitters unveiled a line of Romney T-shirts in late May, the decision immediately generated a buzz.
"Mitt Romney's stiff, suit-wearing persona is exactly the kind of thing the designers at a place like Urban almost certainly can't help but see as kitsch, and that's how they rendered it, for the benefit of the most knowing tranche of their customers," wroteNew York Magazine. It opined that while "hope was cool back then," the shopper whose T-shirt featured a Shepard Fairey portrait of Barack Obama in 2008 could not be assumed to wear any political attire "unironically" four years (and many fashion cycles) later.
A piece by Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams with the tagline, "Urban Outfitters' sneaky conservative propaganda stunt markets dishonesty as irony – again," noted that the company's founder, Richard Hayne, has a history of donations to former GOP candidate Rick Santorum. Williams called the Romney T-shirts an "insidious" marketing ploy.
Donna Sturgess, president of the "neuro-insight" brand-research company Buyology, says that this reporting takes an intellectual view of Urban Outfitter's inventory at the expense of emotional insight. She is adamant that "coolness" — and not politics — is the factor to watch.
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I'm sure you guys remember a time long ago (circa 2008) when everybody and their Mama (including my family members) was wearing an Obama shirt. In fact, whole blog posts were written about it and we'd get to see Beyonce, Chris Brown, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ryan Gosling, Diddy, Pierce Bosnan… everyone rocking Obama. The shirts, to me, were more trendy than political and while I thought they were cute, it made me wonder if Obama himself was becoming a trendy idea. And if he was, what would that mean for future elections, if the trend started to die out (as trends are known for doing
some of the time all of the time)?
And now it seems that Mitt Romney is becoming a trendy idea. But will these shirts have great bearing on the political choices people make? I always ask that question about bumper stickers and pins: do we really make important decisions based on these small things? In a way, I suppose we do. Because if nothing else, shirts, buttons, and bumper stickers create visibility. So just like the "Legalize Gay" shirts at American Apparel will create visibility for a certain movement, these Mitt shirts will too. But is it all far too trendy to create any real, lasting impact?
They've got an Obama Tebowing shirt too, just to be fair.


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Nice!!! From the gold medals, I take it you did well. Is that from 50yds?
Here's a target I shot last weekend at the Civilian Marksmanship Program .22 Sporter match, at Camp Perry, Ohio:
Those of you with a squirrel rifle in the closet might enjoy this type of match:
Nice!!! From the gold medals, I take it you did well. Is that from 50yds?
Great Shooting.
I've spent many, many hours with some great shooting 22 rifles.
The kind that puts a hole through a hole. Same thing for the 22 pistols.
Lots, and lots of just plane old fun.
Your in my Mind, and in my Sights
Great shooting! If it wasn't for 22's and good quality pellet guns - I'd feel lost!
My .22 sits on top of the coat rack by the back door with a box of ammo. Whenever I get the hanckering to shoot I sit on the back deck and shoot clays I have setup on the other side of the pond on the bank. I am guessing about 110 yards. I cna hit them everytime with the .22. The .22 has a hell of a drop from 25-50 yard to out at 110.
Great group! I think most of us grew up on a .22. I still love them.
With the price of ammo, it is the only thing I can afford to shoot on a daily basis.
I wish I could get 500 rounds of 7.62 x 39 for $25.
Ain't that the truthWith the price of ammo, it is the only thing I can afford to shoot on a daily basis.
Nice shooting and congrats.
How about some more details? Like distance, scoped or open sight
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem" Ronald Reagan
I shoot my 10/22 weekly............................
Marlin Modle 99 (The original) .22lr Semi Auto fun
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NASA Goes With 'Tron-Like' Design for Next Spacesuit
Posted Friday, May 2nd 2014 by Newsy, a Newser Video Partner
(NEWSER) – It's time for Tron. NASA has announced the results of a public vote for its next-generation spacesuit design, and with more than 60% of 200,000 votes, the "Technology" option won. NASA says that it's "laser-focused" on heading to Mars and that this new Z-series of spacesuits will help determine what astronauts will live and work in on the Martian planet one day. But of course, what's hard to ignore is that this suit looks like the get-ups from the Tron movies. Newsy reports:


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Any one every used either brand?
I have never used either but personally, I like the wheels you already have. IMHO
I'm personally not a fan of the wheels but I tend not to like wheels with 'holes' in them as general rule. (My truck had American Racing wheels on it with 'holes' in them when I got it ... and they were promptly replaced.) I also think the caps are a bit gaudy with the skull.
However, that's my opinion and it's what works for me on my truck. What matters is if YOU like what you're picking out ... and if YOU would be happy with it. What I think is completely irrelevant when it comes to YOUR truck, as your truck is an expression of YOU, not me. Put simply -- select what makes you happy!
Ok just really looking for thoughts on the tires lol ill be getting tires soon. i really need them bad and im really low on cash
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