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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung (Newspaper) - February 19, 2011, New Braunfels, Texas guest columnHidden meanings By Judith Koch Special to the Herald-Zeitung In last week's column. I made a case for the fact that Paul's statement in Romans 6:14 that we art* not "under the law" was not a valid reason to break any of Gods (Commandments. In it, I promised to explain what this verse is really saying, by looking at it in context. ()ne thing we should keep in mind is that it was a well-known fact that, even in Bible times, Paul's writings were hard to understand. I'eter said in 2 Peter 3:16 that the unlearned and unstable struggle with his writing, to their own destruction. Those are some pretty strong words. We don't want to show ourselves as unlearned and unstable, nor do we want to struggle with a few of Paul's words in a way that leads to our own destruction. We often see that many people are willing to throw out the law of God, despite page after page of Scripture that show the Jesus did not come to do away with the law, and it is those of us who keep the commandments who have the right to the Tree of life. Yet people do disregard much Bible truth relating to (rod's law, and often it is based on the writings of Paul, either taken out of context, or mis* understood. If you read one passage of Paul s that seems to throw out whole chapters of Scripture, you can be assured you ate not interpreting it correctly, especially if that one passage seems to contradict the very actions and teachings of Paul shown elsewhere. When interpreting, you should consider all of Scripture (Genesis to Revelation) rather than just one book (Romans), just like you should consider all of Romans rather than just one verse. 'Taking just the book of Romans, are there other sections that seem to imply God's law was done away with, and all we need is grace, as verse 6:14 is interpreted? Here is a summary leading to the context of chapter six. Romans 1:5 says that we have received grace for obedience, not grace to replace obedience. Much of chapter one shows how those who changed the glory of the incorruptible God were given over to uncleanness through lust, and lists a whole series of sins that violate (kxi's statutes and commands. This doesn't sound like Paul is advocating doing away with any of God's laws, even ones not contained in the Ten Commandments. Romans 2:13 says we are not to be hearers only of the law, but doers of the law to be justified. Verse 23 says breaking the What law dishonors God. No sign here that Paul believes or teaches that the law was done away with at the cross. (.hapter three ends by stating faith does not make void the law, but rather establishes the law. The plan of salvation included Jesus obeying the law for us and dying to pay our penalty for breaking it. This shows that God's moral standards are eternally valid. As I mentioned in my last column, if the law could have been changed, God could have just changed it instead of having Jesus die for our sins. Our very need to have faith in Jesus for salvation shows that the law is still valid (established). If there was no law, there would be no sin (see Romans 4:15), and thus no need for faith in a Savior. Chapter four points out that, even in Old Testament times, using Abraham as an example, it was his faith, and not his obe-dience to the law, through which he was made righteous. The law was never meant as a means to salvation. Chapter five gives us assurance it is our faith and God's grace that give us the hope of glory. So far, I see nothing in the context leading to chapter six that is any effort whatsoever to say Gods law became void. Romans 6:12 says we are not to let sin reign in our mortal body. The oft quoted "ye are not under the law, but under grace" two verses later (6:14) is in the context of telling us not to allow sin to have dominion over us. Remember what sin is defined as—the transgression of the law (1 John 3:4). Two verses later (6:16), we are reminded we either sin unto death, or live in obedience unto righteousness. Nowhere in this section is Paul ever implying grace is there to release us from obedience to God's law. The word "under" (Strong's 5259) in Romans 6:14 and 15 is most often translated "of" and also can be translated "by", "with", and "through". We are not of the law, but of grace. We are not saved by the law, but by grace. We are not saved with the law, but with grace. What Paul is really saying is the same thing he says in Ephesians 2:8-9. We are not saved through the law, but through grace. Not of works, lest any man boast. The law is not there to save us, nor can it. 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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Tom Perkins, a longtime homeowner in Cheyenne Canon spent his Thursday afternoon repairing his roof after it sustained minor damage from Wednesday's hail storm.
Perkins told KRDO Newschannel 13 this was the worst storm he experienced in close to 10 years.
"I got three skylights that are broken out," Perkins said. "My trees are all stripped, my flowers are all gone. Other than that, great. It's Colorado in the spring. It's exciting."
Perkins estimated damage to his roof will cost hundreds of dollars.
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It takes Motorola Inc. employees about 30 seconds after they meet Edward J. Zander to realize how different their new boss is from their last one. Where Zander's predecessor, Christopher B. Galvin, was reserved, polite, and genteel, Zander is a brash Brooklynite, incessantly pumping hands and flashing his trademark mile-wide smile.
But in March, three months after taking over the chief executive post, Zander showed he also was going to be much more demanding. He gathered his top 20 execs in the company's downtown Chicago offices, some 30 miles from the Schaumburg, Ill., headquarters, for a two-day brainstorming session on how to improve Motorola's lackluster execution. His message: Employees will be held accountable for customer satisfaction, product quality, and even collaboration among business units. "If you don't cooperate and work together, I will kill you," he said. Today, Zander laughs: "That's surviving-and-growing-up-in-Brooklyn talk. It was my way of saying, 'We're going to fix this thing."'
Zander is about as affable as CEOs come, but he's deadly serious about restoring Motorola to the top of the communications world. The tech veteran, who spent 15 years at computer giant Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW ) and eventually became its president, is trying to reinvent Motorola as a nimble, unified technology company. His most dramatic effort to date is a plan to dismantle Motorola's debilitating bureaucracy and end a culture of internecine rivalries so intense that Motorola's own employees have referred to its business units as "warring tribes." And he's not leaving it to chance: He has made cooperation a key factor in determining raises and bonuses. "It's a damn different place," says Patrick J. Canavan, a 24-year veteran and Motorola's director for global governance. "Everyone is looking out for everyone else."
The changes are just beginning. BusinessWeek has learned that Zander has been exploring a major reorganization, and the first steps of the restructuring may be unveiled at an investor conference in Chicago on July 27. By October, Zander hopes to abandon Motorola's stovepipe divisions, which are focused on products like mobile phones and broadband gear, and reorganize operations around customer markets -- one for the digital home, for example, and another for corporate buyers.
The reorganization will help Zander deliver on several new initiatives. Perhaps the most important is what the chief executive calls "seamless mobility." The idea is that Motorola should make it easy for consumers to transport any digital information -- music, video, e-mail, phone calls -- from the house to the car to the workplace. Mastering that technology would do more than boost cell-phone sales. It also could make Motorola a key player in the digital home, helping it sell flat-panel TVs and broadband modems, home wireless networks, and gateways to manage digital content. Separately, BusinessWeek has learned that Motorola is planning a major push to sell more services to corporations. While Motorola sells communications gear to corporate customers now, Zander sees an important growth opportunity in managing networks for those companies. "We have to get more focused on that," said Zander in an interview with BusinessWeek.
So far, Motorola is performing impressively under its new chief executive. On July 20, the company reported that second-quarter sales surged 41%, to $8.7 billion, while operating income rose five-fold, to $845 million. The primary driver was the mobile-phone division, which boosted revenues 67%, to $3.9 billion. Still, investors are looking for Motorola to get its profitability up to the level of its rivals. Despite Nokia Corp. (NOK )'s recent troubles, the operating margins in its mobile-phone business are 19%, compared with 10% for Motorola. "Margins are still sub-par," says Barbara L. Rishel, a senior portfolio manager for MTB Investment Advisors, a large Motorola shareholder.
No disagreement from Zander. Although he's unlikely to announce it on July 27, Zander is planning to trim costs in coming months by shedding employees, according to insiders and analysts. He's also plotting management changes that will bring in more handpicked people to help execute his plans. On July 20, Motorola said the head of its mobile-phone division, Tom Lynch, would leave the company at the end of the summer. Zander declined to discuss any details of cost-cutting or executive changes.
But investors that want Zander to jettison poorly performing businesses may be disappointed. The CEO proceeded with the spin-off of Motorola's semiconductor unit that had been put in motion before he arrived -- the deal took place on July 16, despite upheaval in the chips market. Still, insiders say he's impressed with the remaining portfolio of businesses, including the $4.4 billion wireless infrastructure business that some analysts have suggested that Motorola dump.
Instead, Zander is focused on reducing the number of separate businesses. Analysts say he is working on a plan that could combine the wireless network unit with the company's broadband division. By collapsing two units that make equipment to route data through networks, Motorola could cut expenses and smooth execution. Zander declined to comment on any potential reorganization.
Just as important as the structural changes will be the strategy that goes with it. The concept of seamless mobility was born on a flight to France in February, when Zander and his chief technology officer, Padmasree Warrior, were headed to a wireless-industry conference. The strategy has been refined over the past few months until senior leaders from Motorola's business units gathered last month at Motorola University, adjacent to headquarters, to discuss strategies for internal development and potential acquisitions.
The Motorola vision starts with users sitting at home watching, say, the New York Yankees battling the Chicago White Sox. To leave home, they pause the video, transfer it to their phone, walk into the garage and transfer the video to the car as they drive away. The car would switch to audio so as not to distract the driver and then switch back to video if the driver stops at a traffic light. Motorola has the technology portfolio to pursue the entire scenario. Besides phones and cable set-top boxes, it has a $2.3 billion automotive-electronics business that develops technologies for cars to communicate with outside networks.
The key will be beating rivals to market with innovative solutions. That's why Zander's top priority has been improving execution. The main driver is a new incentive plan. In the past, workers were compensated based on the revenue, profit, and cash generated in their particular sector. If one sector did well, its employees pulled in huge bonuses. A unit that didn't perform got little or nothing.
Zander has been relentless in trying to get the most out of his staff. A new bonus plan bases 25% on three key areas: customer satisfaction, product reliability, and the cost of poor quality. When the heads of each business unit first laid out their targets, Zander's no-nonsense roots showed: "You're sandbagging," he barked. Before long, the targets were more difficult. "We're driving for improvement year over year," says Michael J. Fenger, a vet Zander picked to improve corporate quality.
If Zander can maintain Motorola's momentum, the years ahead look promising. It's gaining share on the world's mobile-phone leader, Nokia, and the elements of Zander's master plan have yet to take root. "It's a big ship," Zander concedes -- so it will take time to change direction. But it takes no time at all to to see that Zander is committed to the challenge.
By Roger O. Crockett in Chicago


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Matt LeBlanc plays a deliciously outrageous version of himself in this laugh-out-loud comedy from creators David Crane (Friends) and Jeffrey Klarik (Mad About You). Episodes offers a peek behind the curtain at the insanity of Hollywood. Youll never watch TV the same way again.Sean (Stephen Mangan) and Beverly (Tamsin Grieg) are a happily married English couple, who are also the successful creators of a hit British TV show. Their life seems complete. That is until a hugely powerful and charismatic US network president persuades them to move to LA to remake their show for American television. Hes full of praise and promises not to change a thing.However, things begin to unravel as soon as Sean and Beverly arrive in LA. They discover that the network president has never even seen their show. To make matters worse, he insists that they replace their brilliant lead actor (Richard Griffiths), an erudite Royal Shakespeare veteran with... Matt LeBlanc! Sean and Beverly are appalled. But the decision is out of their hands. Matt comes on board, and soon Sean and Beverly find themselves in a complicated triangle which threatens to destroy not just their TV show but also their marriage.
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Fixing the damn mopar chrome tip
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Hi guys!
I didn't liked to see the clamp and I don't wanted it to be so away from the bumper.... so I decided to twist it a bit and weld it so that I no longer see the clamp, could move it a bit further into the bumper and allow it to better follow the bumper curvature.
The guy that welded it had poor welding skills, but the good thing is that I cannot see the poor job unless I go bellow the GC. I put some paint there to avoid rust.
I painted the tip on the inside to camouflage the factory tip. Next step is to improve the finishing... need to do a second hand and paint the muffler and the rest.
Some lessons learned or improvement opportunities....
If you want it even further into the bumper or want a stronger weld, you can make two new, but smaller, slots and those slots will fit into the muffler's edge.... and get a better welder!
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Not a bad job at all... :thumbsup:
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The weld looks fine :confused:,Thats all you need a few spots ,, anad the tps look great!:thumbsup:
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would have asked if he would have held it for ya to get rest of cash .. Gun store has 3 month layaway where i go its a good and evil thing this month have been a bad month for gun buying im tapped out again
This is a discussion on All the good deals pop up when you're broke within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; When I was at the GS today ordering my Colt XSE Commander, the owner ( a semi-good friend of mine) took me into the back ...
When I was at the GS today ordering my Colt XSE Commander, the owner ( a semi-good friend of mine) took me into the back and showed me a Brand new in the box (original cardboard box and slip on cover box) Colt Gold Cup, it was unfired and had all the paper work. He said he was going to keep it for himself, but wanted to offer to me before I ordered the XSE, but I really wanted the XSE. He told me $920 out the door , its a shame I didn't have the extra $$. That kind of stuff happens to me everytime
would have asked if he would have held it for ya to get rest of cash .. Gun store has 3 month layaway where i go its a good and evil thing this month have been a bad month for gun buying im tapped out again
It would take me forever to come up with a extra $900 more it took me all summer to come up with enough for the XSE a new holster and a new gun belt. Plus its not going anywhere, he said if I didn't buy it it was going home and being put in his safe.
I always wanted one of those.
I would get it...telling myself that I was going to buy it as an "investment" AKA Safe Queen...then I would end up taking it out & shooting the heck out of it.
Ya know that deep rich blueing that is on the older Pythons? That is what this Gold Cup looks like, it is defently a nice gun, also it is a lightweight model(I am guessing) cause it dosn't weigh anywhere near what a regular gubmit model weighs.
You could always still order an XSE as your "next" gun. Will you be able to find a GC in this condition again?
This is what teh shop owner said to me, but I have no use for the Gold Cup cause I wouldn't shoot it, I would stash it away and use it as a investment. And I want that XSE for my carry gun. Been carring my SP101 for a few months, but I just can't seem to become one with it, proboly cause its not a 1911.Originally Posted by CombatEffective
Sorry bruce ya should have got the Gold Cup
Funny, I have a 1911 that I just can't seem to warm up to. I see why people like them so much, but I just can't get all warm and fuzzy aboutOriginally Posted by Bruces45
Lee - I am with you!
Sure I ''like'' them, a lot but not enough to be to the exclusion of all else. I do admit (as with my BHP) JMB was inspired with his designs and even my old Sistema is a pleasure to own and shoot but somehow can't find the carry enthusiasm for the platform.
Bruce - you are right tho - some of the best deals do crop up when funds are inadequate. Or as is more likely, in this case - spending out on one when you see another - sometimes a chance in a lifetime it seems.
I ''lost'' out on a beaut' early 629 for that exact reason coupla years back - and always wished I'd been able to snag it.
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Associated Supply Company Said they would send "trial" inks for our printer at thier expense and then sent a bill for everything Las Vegas, although phone call was from Lenexa, KS Nevada
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Just found a picture of a Bulgarian 223 Trunnion. On the top left hand side there is a 24 stamped exactly like mine. That answers a lot of questions for me, Bullet guide is also most likely 223-5.56.
The barrel is a 22mm, there is a 223, 5.56 barrel on the same web site that is 23 mm. I am tempted to buy it and get it turned down to the same size the one I took out was. The steps should be the same so all my barrel accessories should work. I hate to pay that much for a barrel but hey, whats a guy to do?
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If it comes down to it, you might be stuck getting that 23mm barrel and have it turned down. Hope you can find a direct replacement though.
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Wow, already have my receiver in hand, Just made the corrections to the order yesterday, shipped same day, delivered today. NoDak Spud delivered the NDS-2 EZ
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Yeah he's a good guy, what's nice too with him is if there's a delay he'll let you know and give a good estimate of how long, not like some of these places that just take your money and ignore you.
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Coils, i have another problem now, the rear trunnion is an ak47 trunnion and I need an ak74 trunnion. the bottom hole is farther back on the 74. I'd like to trade this one for a 74.
I could weld a piece on this one and drill another hole but would rather have the right trunnion. do I just start a new thread and offer the trade?
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The four election commissioners of Precinct 313 East opened the doors of John F. Kennedy Elementary at 6 a.m. Saturday and waited for the first voter to show up.
A few voters from 313 West trickled through the doors, but by noon it was a possibility that no one was going to show up at 313E, Commissioner Evelyn Hawkins said.
When the doors closed at 8 p.m., that possibility had become a reality — none of the 411 registered voters in 313E had cast a ballot in the race for the 3rd Congressional District of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Republican Charles Boustany defeated Republican Jeff Landry with 61 percent of the vote. In Calcasieu, Boustany gained 13,301 votes to 4,413 for Landry.
"It was kind of on the boring side," Hawkins said. "But we chipped in and helped (313W).
Twenty-four people voted in 313W.
"Even though we didn't have much work to do, we enjoyed it," Hawkins said. "We kept each other company."
Overall, there was a low turnout Saturday — 15 percent of registered voters went to the polls in Calcasieu Parish, down from the 64 percent that turned out Nov. 6 to vote in the presidential election, Clerk of Court Lynn Jones said.
Precinct 313E, though, was the only local district that didn't cast a vote.
Precinct 309E, which votes at Reynaud Community Center, was the next lowest with only 10 votes.
Geographically sitting east of Lake Charles, 313E roughly stretches from Interstate 210 to La. 397. The precinct breaks down into 198 Democrats, 39 Republicans and 174 third-party or unaffiliated, said Registrar of Voters Angie Quienalty. Quienalty said the precinct has 255 black voters, 117 white voters and 39 voters of other ethnic backgrounds.
Jones guessed that in a Democrat-heavy precinct, "they chose to stay home with two Republican candidates."
In the Nov. 6 election, the precinct favored Democratic Ron Richard, with 91 votes. Thirty-three votes were cast for Boustany and six for Landry.
Jones also pointed out, though, that the 33 percent turnout at 313E on Nov. 6 was nearly half the parish average.
Registrar of Voters Angie Quienalty suggested that Barbe playing in the Class 5A state championship and Christmas shopping also affected the low turnout.
Paulette Dartez, the clerk of court's director of elections, said the police jury weighs each year whether to re-draw precinct lines.
It isn't the first time no one showed up to vote in a precinct or the first time no one has shown up to vote in 313E. Quienalty gave 10 instances in the last five years, the last three belonging to 313E.
The most recent was Aug. 28, 2010, when no one in 313E showed up to vote in a senate primary.
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Lorraine Gervais will be bringing another dance concert to the Center for the Arts at the end of May and this time she's in the smokin' country groove with "Sinners & Sweethearts—Country Western Legends".
She's brought over a dozen shows to the Center in the last few years highlighting vintage music of all genres, including R&B and soul, jazz, rock, and country, including tributes to Aretha, Ella Fitzgerald, Bonnie Raitt, Fleetwood Mac, Women of Rock, and more. "Our 'Honky Tonk Angels' show a few years back, featuring women singers of the 1950's & 60's, was really fun. I've gotten lots of requests to bring back that kind of authentic vintage country music again and I thought sliding into early summer was the perfect time!"
With this new show Lorraine is focusing on music from legends including Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Patty Loveless, Linda Ronstadt, LeAnn Rimes, Rosanne Cash, Loretta Lynn, Emmy Lou Harris, Bobby Gentry, and Crystal Gayle just to name a few. "And of course we'll sneak in a little outlaw music from Willie, Merle and Johnny Cash while we're at it, just for the fun of keeping things a little balanced…making everybody happy!" says Gervais.
Gervais will be bringing in another great group of players and singers to round out experiencing the show in the best way possible including singers Taylor Harris, Kate Haight, and former music partner Brielle Morgan Neilson, who's coming up from San Francisco to take part in the show. Rumour has it that there might even be another surprise guest or two. Steve Wall, Tom Menig and Larry Tracy will be on guitars and pedal steel, Charlie Faber will be playing bass, with Ty Smith on drums.
"The Center has a great listening and dancing venue, a big yummy sound system that doesn't overpower the space, and fun people working behind a full bar — how can you go wrong? So come on in with or without your cowboy boots and know that you'll have a great time!" Gervais says she just bought her first ever pair of cowgirl boots and is busy breaking them in so she won't make a fool of herself falling down onstage.


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Admit it. You sometimes read celebrity gossip columns discussing new houses bought by the rich and famous.
Typically, these concentrate on David and Victoria's Beckingham Palace, Madonna's latest English home, or JK Rowling's £5 million London base. But do not expect celebrities or the even richer City multi-millionaires to hunt for houses themselves.
Instead, they use buying agents. There are around 50 of them in the UK, mostly independent operators who go to extraordinary lengths to find out what their clients want, and then scour the country to find the right property.
"Finding out exactly what the client wants is an intensive process that involves interviews, meeting their partner and families, and encouraging them to focus on specific needs," says Jonathan Harrington, who runs the property-buying division of the Knight Frank estate agency.
The buying agent contacts estate agents in the client's chosen area to see what is already available, or known to be coming on to the market. "The critical factor is to have contacts in the industry who trust you," says Harrington, who organises his team of four according to their specialist knowledge of different parts of the country.
"It doesn't matter that we share the name with an established estate agency - we neither seek nor expect favours from Knight Frank estate agents selling properties, and we contact all agents in an area. Some of our best contacts work for companies that are rivals to Knight Frank," he says.
"We'll see any number of properties, short-list them and get the client to visit only one or two. We aim to ensure no wasted visits."
If a house meets the client's requirements, Harrington's team then negotiates. This will include dis cussions with the sellers over price, fixtures and fittings, the timing of the move, any sitting tenancies, land use and so on. Harrington arranges surveys, mortgage funding if required, local government searches, finds removals companies and ensures everything runs smoothly.
Many estate agencies dealing with high-price properties attracting high-profile customers have opened buying agencies in recent years, but Britain's oldest example of this business is the inde pendent Property Vision, which opened 18 years ago.
"We're more advisers than finders," says Rupert Bradstock, who runs its country house department.
"But our real work takes place after we locate the ideal property. We need to make sure it's as private as our client needs and there will be no surprises like pylons to spoil a view, or high hilltops, where press photographers could look down into the grounds," Bradstock says.
Not all buying agents oper ate on a large scale. Farmer Charles Grover started Perhay Property Search early this year to help people find homes in west Dorset. He has buyers wanting homes ranging in price from £200,000 to £1 million.
Grover, a former land agent, has good contacts. Even so, he says "it's been a baptism of fire" with bad weather, foot and mouth and a general election not making it the easiest starting period.
"One difficulty was getting established with estate agents willing to let you know of properties before they come to the market," he admits. "The other, bigger buying agents have their feet under the table in a big way."
The buying agent's work isn't necessarily over when the client is ready to move in. Knight Frank's Harrington has had to arbitrate between seller and buyer over the most trivial disputes.
"We nearly didn't go through with a purchase for some millions because of a dispute over fences and furniture," he says.
Even on the day of a house move he has to work for his clients. Once, he found himself herding sheep off land they were grazing against the new owner's wishes.
Contacts: Knight Frank, 020 7629 8171; Property Vision, 020 7823 8388; Perhay Property Search, 01308 488310.
The agents
Buying agents like to keep their activities low-key to keep clients' identities secret but it is known that:
Buying agents have clients spending as little as £200,000 - but are most effective when buying properties worth £1m or more.
More than 40 per cent of UK homes sold in 2000-01 for £1m or more were purchased by agents.
Property Vision bought more than £200m worth of houses in 2000 - 76 in London and 45 in the country.
Most clients pay a registration fee (£300 to £2,500), plus a proportion of the purchase price.
Buying divisions of established estate agents have strict rules to avoid conflicts of interest and prevent 'double fees' for clients - a buyer who finds a house for sale through their own estate agency forgoes the fee.


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Lesbian Poetry
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Popular Contemporary Lesbian & Bisexual Poets
This page offers an biographies and references for a selection of notable lesbian and bisexual women poets publishing today. While copyright restrictions forbid me from displaying their work, you can use this page to find more about them.
Featured Poets:
Paula Gunn Allen - b. 1939
Paula, a novelist and poet, was born to Laguna-Sioux-Lebanese parents
in New Mexico. She is an activist for Native American and women's rights,
and her political concerns transmit strongly through her poetry. Her work
addresses the oppression of women in general and lesbians in particular.
Paula has taught English and Native American Studies at many prominent
universities, and is currently a professor of Native American Studies
at University of California at Berkeley.
Becky Birtha - b. 1948
Becky defines herself as a black lesbian feminist Quaker from a middle-class background. She grew up primarily in Philadelphia, where she produced two collections of short stories and The Forbidden Poems (1991), a collection of her poetry. Her work has appeared in many anthologies. In 1985 she was awarded an Individual Fellowship in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, and in 1988 she received a Creative Writing Fellowship in literature from the National Endowment of the Arts. She teaches English and creative writing at Bryn Mawr and Haverford College.
Elizabeth Bishop - 1911-1979
Elizabeth Bishop was known for her mastery of poetic form and her attention to descriptive details. She befriended poet Marianne Moore while at Vassar and considered her a mentor. In 1951, she won a Lucy Martin Donelly Travelling Fellowship from Bryn Mawr College (on Moore's recommendation) and she used this to travel to Brazil. While in Brazil, she met Lota de Macedo Soares, the woman she was to stayed with for sixteen years. While with Lota, she produced a great deal of work, including A Cold Spring, a collection that contained a number of lesbian love poems.
Elizabeth was honored with many awards. Her Complete Poems won the National Book Award in 1970, and Geography III won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977. Elizabeth was the first woman to win the prestigious Books Abroad/Neustad Interational Prize for Literature. She taught at Harvard, University of Washington, and New York University.
She had strong feelings against anything that divided
art by gender and refused to appear in all-women anthologies. Because
of this, if you're looking for her work, you'll have the most luck searching
out collections containing only her poetry, rather than looking in lesbian
poetry collections.
Olga Broumas - b. 1949
Olga, a native of Greece, began her poetic career by winning
the Yale series of Younger Poets award in 1977 for Beginning with
O. Stanely Kunitz, judge for the 1977 award, described her work
as "of letting go, of wild avowals, unabashed eroticism: at teh same
time it is a work of integral imagination, steep in the light of Greek
myth that is part of the poet's heritage and imbued with an intuitive
sense of dramatic conflicts and resolutions, high style, and musical
form." In 1978 she was awarded a grant from the National Endowment of
the Arts. Her books include Soie Sauvage, Perpetua, and
two books with T. Begley: Sappho's Gymnasium and Helen Groves.
Olga has taught at many colleges and universities; currently she is
the poet-in-residence at Brandeis University.
Chrystos - b. 1946
Born off-reservation to a Menominee father and a Lithuanian/Alsace-Lorraine
mother, Chrystos is a poet and a activist heavily involved supporting
Native Rights and prisoners' causes. She is self-educated as a writer
and artist. Her work forthrightedly speaks on her experiences and concerns
as a Native American lesbian; her work is both political and erotic.
Her poetry collections include Not Vanishing, Dream On,
In Her I Am, Fugutive Colors, and Fire Power. Among
her many awards and honors, Chrystos received a grant from the National
Endowment of the Arts in 1990, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship for poetry
in 1991, and the Sappho Award from the Aestrea Foundation in 1995.
Cheryl Clarke
Cheryl Clarke, an African-American lesbian-feminist poet,
is the directory of the Office of Diverse Community Affairs and Lesbian-Gay
Concerns, Rutgers University. She has published four books of poetry:
Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women, Living
as a Lesbian, Humid Pitch, and experimental love (a
Lambda literary award finalist).
Clare Coss
Clare is a playwright, poet, and psychotherapist. She
is the editor of the recently published poetic anthology The Arc
of Love.
Jewelle Gomez - b. 1948
Jewelle is an activist, essayist, novelist, and poet.
She published Oral Tradition: poems old and new and her poetry
appears in many anthologies. She lives in San Francisco where she
teaches creative writing and popular culture.
Judy Grahn - b. 1940
Judy Grahn has published ten volumes of poetry (including
The Queen of Swords and The Queen of Wands), is playwright,
novelist, has contributed to many anthologies, and author of non-fiction.
She is particularly known for her books Another Mother Tongue:
Gay Words, Gay Worlds (1984) and The Highest Apple. The
latter examines the work of nine major poets within a lesbian context.
Judy is known for a political consciousness in her poetry, critiquing
heterosexist and partriachal biases in our culture. She teaches at
the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Marilyn Hacker - b. 1942
Marilyn, a teacher, poet, and editor, is the author
of eight books. Her poetry collection Presentation Piece (1974)
was a Lamont Poetry Selection and received the National Book Award
in 1975. She received critical acclaim for Love, Death, and the
Changing of the Seasons (1986) a book of sonnets that explore
a lesbian relationship from inception through to end. Her talent with
sonnets and sonnet sequences earn her a distinctive place among modern
poets, where such forms are no longer as frequently explored. Mairlyn
has received Lambda Literary Awards for Going Back to the River
and Winter Numbers. She lives in New York City.
Joan Larkin - b. 1939
Joan is a poet and playwright who has been active in
producing ground-breaking lesbian and gay poetic anthologies. With
Elly Bulkin, she edited Amazon Poetry (the first lesbian poetic
anthology) and Lesbian Poetry (1981). She co-edited Gay
& Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (Lambda Literary Award winner for
poetry in 1989) with Carl Morse. She has taught writing full-time
since 1969. You can find Joan's work in many anthologies, as well
as in her two collections: Housework and A Long Sound.
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This itty bitty adult kitty showed up at my mom's. We have one outdoor cat, Artemis. We had recently rehomed her brother & adopted brother because my mom is moving to Texas & can't take them with her. We didn't rehome Artemis because she doesn't like to be in a carrier, car, house, and you're lucky if you can get a stroke in on her back. We felt a little bad that she was alone, when she was used to the other cats & they often slept together.
It was a few months ago, and then one morning this very small adult female was on the porch waiting for breakfast like she'd lived there all along. She could be handled, was friendly, didn't have a thick winter coat, and looked healthy. So I'm guessing she had a home at some point and wasn't one of the MANY feral's in our rural area. We haven't been able to find her owner so, before she could add to the population, we had her spayed. She also got her shots, wormer, and a name. We are glad she is here to keep Artemis company.
We thought of rehoming her, because my stepdad isn't really a cat person & he'd be the only one to care for them. But when I talked to him he'd already been looking at heated water bowls & making plans for building a cat house for his two cats!
Dido has the most amazing coat I've seen. It is a calico color and pattern, but the brown & black patches are tabby too. Never seen that before. She has the most amazing bright green eyes. They just leap off of her face and mesmerize you.
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I'm not only a chic who now knows more about craft beer than I did yesterday, but this event sparked a conversation about mammogram testing and what more I can do to spread the word to my friends and family about prevention and early detection
The Kitchen restaurant owner, Cathie Moreno, lights up talking about her craft beer program and beer-centric menu, and tells funny stories about her appearance on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, and she's just one Plaza Park star attraction in Oxnard
Shock Top beer and head brewmaster Jill Vaughn hosted their own Shock Top Tap Takeover at GULP in Los Angeles on September 24th. This was a night that allowed guests to get insight from Jill on the unique Shock Top brewing process, her own background and of course getting to sample beers such as Shock Top Spiced Banana Wheat
Vodka is one of the most beloved spirits in the United States and fittingly we have a day to celebrate it with National Vodka Day, which happens October 4th. Vodka can take on any flavor and that makes it a favorite when it comes to mixology. Splash Magazines Worldwide has compiled a list of some amazing vodka drinks for you to try out to celebrate this day
Bringing it to the forefront is Ole Smoky Moonshine, which was made legal almost five years ago. Made in Tennessee, Ole Smoky Moonshine comes in many variations and flavors
Before the first ever Food Network in Concert event at Ravinia this past weekend, I was able to catch up with Chef Tim Graham and pick his brain about his personal cooking style, new trends this season and his favorite Food Network TV show
Magicians of the century, Siegfried & Roy® kicked off the 11th Octoberfest at Hofbräuhaus Las Vegas as honorary keg tappers. The six-week celebration continues through Oct 31, 2014 with celebrity guest keg tappers every Friday and Saturday night
The Eating Prague Tour mission is to provide a non-touristy, food-related experience in friendly neighborhoods of a fascinating city. It is a 4 hour walking tour to restaurants and cafes that locals cherish, but tourists rarely discover
The journalists who contribute to Chicago Splash Magazine gathered recently to enjoy an unusual and very special opportunity when "Make it Magnifique", the new campaign of the "The Cheeses of Europe" offered a night of cheese sampling. The cheese was accompanied by wine from another source
Football season is here and that means tailgating parties at games and at homes to get your gameday going. This season, get away from the same boring drinks that have been filling your football season for so many years gone by and add something creative and flavorful to your tailgating menu
Cabinet of Curiosities is available now, only at the Field Museum, so Hop To It, grab a pint, and satisfy your curiosity!
Heartbeat of the American garagiste movement comes to LA – first time so many micro-production, high-quality artisan winemakers from across California pour in LA under one spectacular roof; tickets on sale May 15th
The Double Helix Wine & Whiskey Bar at Town Square celebrated its third anniversary on June 19, 2014 with wine, signature cocktails, freshly grilled carne asada, and chicken tacos as well as alcohol infused snow cones
The Fourth of July lands on a Friday this year and that means that your celebration of Independence might just carry over well into the weekend. To make sure that your party is memorable, Splash Magazines Worldwide has put together a list of a few of our favorite backyard barbeque items that will leave your guests wanting to stay at your party for the entire three-day weekend
Napa and the fine goods it is known for took center stage at BottleRock '14
Go loco this year and surprise your friends' taste buds by serving up a new twist on a Cinco de Mayo staple. Margaritas can be one of the most versatile drinks around, so this year experiment with your drink
Vegas Uncork'd by Bon Appétit comes to Vegas May 8-11. The 8th annual festival is a unique, 4 day culinary extravaganza. The highlight is the Grand Tasting on Friday, May 9 in the picturesque Garden of the Gods pool oasis at Caesars Palace.
Cinco de Mayo and Los Angeles go hand-in-hand and that means there are no shortages of celebrations no only Cinco de May, but there are festivities that go all weekend long as well. Splash Magazines Worldwide has put together some of the best spots to celebrate this day as well as some recipes for you to enjoy if you are celebrating with friends at home
UNLVino attendees enjoyed wine, beer, spirits and food at the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas Founder's Grand Tasting 4-12-14, the grand finale of 4 days of thirst quenching and delicious sampling at the annual UNLVino Wine Festival
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Heading into the first round of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, there are trade rumors aplenty. Here's part one of my two-part roundup of this morning's NHL trade rumors.
SPORTNET's Darren Millard last night took to Twitter to report "Hearing
#coyotes have put (Keith) Yandle back In play. He was available for the right price @ the deadline. Deal is close. "
SPECTOR'S NOTE: No word so far from the Coyotes, or from the Arizona Republic, which covers the Coyotes, regarding this. If true it would be a significant move by GM Don Maloney, shipping out his top defenseman. The main reason could be financial, given the club's ownership situation. Yandle is in the first year of a five-year, $26.250 million contract. It could also be perhaps Maloney believes the rise of young d-man Oliver Ekman-Larsson allows him to shop Yandle for more offensive depth, which was an issue for the Coyotes through the playoffs.
NEWSOBSERVER.COM: Luke DeCock reports the Carolina Hurricanes are believed in the market for an impact player, and he believes they'll never be in a better position this year to land one than tonight in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft. He also reports the Hurricanes rumored optimism of their planned pursuit of New Jersey Devils pending UFA Zach Parise "has cooled". The Hurricanes have been linked to Columbus' Rick Nash, Anaheim's Bobby Ryan, and Pittsburgh's Jordan Staal.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: To land either guy could cost the Hurricanes promising young players like Ryan Murphy, Justin Faulk and Brandon Sutter. Of the three, Faulk is considered untouchable, but I have to wonder if Murphy or Sutter could be part of a deal. They'll certainly have to part with at least one of those guys if they hope to land an impact player.
THE GLOBE AND MAIL: Eric Duhatschek, while suggesting the possibility of moving high-salaried players during the Entry Draft, pointed out there's "considerable chatter" about Calgary Flames defenseman Jay Bouwmeester and San Jose Sharks blueliner Dan Boyle being available for the right price.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: High-salaried players rarely move during the season, when teams have limited cap space and less willingness to invest, but as we've seen in recent years, some can be moved in late-June and early-July, when teams have more cap space to spend, especially those who need to reach the salary cap minimum. Bouwmeester and Boyle could be shopped, though there would probably be a limited market for their services because of their big contracts, as well as their no-trade clauses.
MLIVE.COM: Ansar Khan reports the Detroit Red Wings are likely to stay out of trade talks involving big name players going into the entry draft, as it appears they've set their sights upon the UFA market, where they could be bidders for Zach Parise and Ryan Suter.
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Adam L. Jahns reports league sources confirm the Blackhawks are shopping defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson, as well as blueliner Steve Montador.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: Of the two, Hjalmarsson will attract the most interest. It appears the Blackhawks will likely look for depth at forward.
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The ladies have it under control in Xander Marro's puppet dioramas exhibited in the group show "New Mythologies II" at Candita Clayton Gallery (999 Main St, Pawtucket, through June 1).
In The Hunt, a papier-mâché marionette woman perches atop a stepladder aiming a bloody spear downward at a white boar with poodle-ish tufts of fur, a dragon tail, and Mary Jane shoes. In Point Blank, a lady stands on a chair aiming a rifle at monstrous lady with a pair of boar heads.
It's one of those antiquated domestic tropes — the hysterical woman cowering atop a kitchen chair waving a broom at a harmless mouse. Only Marro turns the mice into actually scary beasts and arms the women with more firepower. The ladies appear calm and collected; it's just one more mess to clean up.
Marro's best diorama is The Accident, in which a woman in a fur-trimmed white cape stands on little stuffed fabric boulders before a patchwork diamond patterned backdrop (Marro has a great way with humble papier-mâché and sewn cloths). The woman drops a glittery cinderblock onto a giant white tarantula wearing Mary Janes on its eight legs.
We're recognizably in fairy tale land — the beautiful lady in her snow princess cape, the beastly spider, the sparkles. But Marro makes it fresh, with her own invented monsters, with all those shoes, with her women not waiting to be rescued but getting on with smashing the giant vermin themselves.
"New Mythologies II," featuring four Providence artists, is a reprise of the fantasy theme of a show at Candita Clayton two years ago. Back again with Marro are Corey Grayhorse's arresting photos of candy-colored carnival sideshow fashion freaks, about half of which will be familiar if you saw her March show at Craftland in Providence, and David Allyn's porcelains.
Grayhorse photographs a green-haired woman pushing a red-haired woman around a Laundromat in a cart; a woman in white cradling a child wearing a Mickey Mouse mask like a Madonna and Child; and two people wearing Laurel and Hardy masks holding hands in the snow near a geodesic dome. Grayhorse turns the world into a fluorescent dreamscape, pulsing with color and pattern. It's a place you'll want to run away to.
Allyn fashions handsome ceramic vases and panels decorated with images of helicopters, 1970s cars for sale, giant sci-fi robot spiders, and sepia downtown skylines amidst flowers, mushrooms, and butterflies. One vase features Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman. Allyn's gritty and hipster graphics are too easy, but his craftsmanship is lovely.
Added to "New Mythologies" lineup is Holly Gaboriault, who makes small, sharp collages by pasting together pictures of skinny models in fashionable coats, blouses, dresses, and heels with the heads of cats or dogs. A bird-headed figure struts by in leopard print pants. The collages seem to be the jumping off point for paintings of wildly attired animal-headed figures. But, for now, Gaboriault's painterly chops lag behind the promise of her vision.
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mega-millionaire, right-wing Christian founder of Blackwater, the private security firm
Original post made by Mr. Prince, Canyon Oaks, on Aug 20, 2009
Erik Prince is "the secretive, mega-millionaire, right-wing Christian founder of Blackwater, the private security firm that has built a formidable mercenary force in Iraq," Chris Hedges wrote December 31, 2006, in Truthdig.
Prince "champions his company as a patriotic extension of the U.S. military. His employees, in an act as cynical as it is deceitful, take an oath of loyalty to the Constitution. These mercenary units in Iraq, including Blackwater, contain some 20,000 fighters. They unleash indiscriminate and wanton violence against unarmed Iraqis, have no accountability and are beyond the reach of legitimate authority. The appearance of these paramilitary fighters, heavily armed and wearing their trademark black uniforms, patrolling the streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, gave us a grim taste of the future. It was a stark reminder that the tyranny we impose on others we will one day impose on ourselves.
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a resident of Canyon Oaks
on Aug 20, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Starr defense
"The new 'counsel of record' for the North Carolina-based company is none other than former Whitewater investigator Kenneth Starr—the independent counsel in the 1999 impeachment of President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal," Jeremy Scahill and Garrett Ordower reported online October 26, 2006, in The Nation "Starr was brought in last week by Blackwater to file motions in front of the US Supreme Court in a case stemming from the killing of four Blackwater contractors in the Iraqi city of Fallujah on March 31, 2004."
"There are undeniable benefits to having Starr, the US Solicitor General under President George H.W. Bush, represent Blackwater—a highly partisan GOP company—in front of a Supreme Court stacked with Bush appointees. Starr also has a personal connection to Blackwater. Starr and Joseph Schmitz, the general counsel and chief operating officer of Blackwater's parent company, the Prince Group, have both worked closely with the arch-conservative Washington Legal Foundation. Since 1993 Starr has served on the legal policy advisory board of the organization for which Schmitz has frequently acted as a spokesperson and attorney," Scahill and Ordower wrote.
CIA-Pentagon-Blackwater "revolving door"
"A number of senior CIA and Pentagon officials have taken top jobs at Blackwater, including firm vice chairman Cofer Black, who was the Bush Administration's top counterterrorism official at the time of the 9/11 attacks (and who famously said in 2002, 'There was before 9/11 and after 9/11. After 9/11, the gloves came off')," Ken Silverstein wrote September 12, 2006, in Harper's Magazine.
In fall 2005, Robert Richer "resigned from the post of Associate Deputy Director of Operations; he immediately took a job as Blackwater's Vice President of Intelligence. Richer is a former head of the CIA's Near East Division and long served in Amman, where, for a period beginning in 1999, he held the post of station chief. For years he was the agency's point man with Jordan's King Abdullah, with whom he developed an extraordinarily close relationship," Silverstein wrote.
Also, Silverstein wrote in September 2006, "there's talk at the agency that Blackwater is also aggressively recruiting José Rodriguez, the CIA's current top spy as director of the National Clandestine Service. Rodriguez has a number of former agency friends at Blackwater, most notably Rick Prado, with whom he served in Latin America and who is now Blackwater's Vice President of Special Programs."
Recent Cofer Black start-up and merger, Total Intelligence Solutions, LLC, is a merger of three companies, The Black Group, The Terrorism Research Center, Inc. and Technical Defense. TIS very well may fall outside the legal corporate domain of Blackwater, however two of the top executives at TIS, Cofer Black and Enrique Prado still hold positions at Blackwater, and Robert Richer recently left his position at Blackwater to take on responsibilities at TIS. As well, it should be noted that one of the three companies merged to create TIS, The Terrorism Research Center, is owned by Blackwater founder Erik Prince.
a resident of Canyon Oaks
on Aug 20, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Colombian "seasoned counter insurgency troops"
The Colombian news magazine Semana and the Financial Times of London reported in September 2006 that "35 Colombians—mostly seasoned counter insurgency troops—alleged in a letter to Blackwater that recruiters had promised them salaries of $4,000 a month," Bill Sizemore wrote in The Virginian-Pilot. "They said it was only when they were given their contracts barely hours before leaving Bogota that they learned they would be paid $34 a day, or about $1,000 a month."
"American contractors can earn $10,000 a month or more working for Blackwater and its competitors in Iraq," Sizemore wrote.
In July 2005, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) was concerned "that U.S. government contractors [were] hiring thousands of impoverished former military personnel, with no public scrutiny, little accountability and large hidden costs to taxpayers," Sonni Efron wrote in the Los Angeles Times.
"The United States has spent more than $4 billion since 2000 on Plan Colombia, a counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics program that includes training and support for the Colombian police and military. Last month, Congress moved toward approval of an additional $734.5 million in aid to the Andean region in 2006, most of it for Colombia. 'We're training foreign nationals - who then take that training and market it to private companies, who pay them three or four times as much as we're paying soldiers,' Schakowsky said. 'American taxpayers are paying for the training of those Colombian soldiers,' she said. 'When they leave to take more lucrative jobs, perhaps with an American military contractor, they take that training with them. So then we're paying to train that person's replacement. And then we're paying the bill to the private military contractors',"
a resident of Downtown
on Aug 20, 2009 at 11:50 pm
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The same individuals will just be wearing new uniforms, working for Triple Canopy, the firm that won the State Department's contract after Iraqi officials refused to renew Blackwater's operating license, according to American diplomats, private security industry officials and Iraqi officials. Blackwater — viewed in Iraq as a symbol of American violence and impunity — lost the contract after being accused of excessive force in several instances, particularly an apparently unprovoked shooting in downtown Baghdad in 2007 in which 17 civilians were killed.
Despite the torrent of public criticism against Blackwater, American officials say they are relieved that the old guards will stay on. Otherwise, Triple Canopy, they say, would not be able to field enough qualified guards, with the proper security clearances, before the new contract goes into effect in May.
"There is just no other way to do it," said one Western diplomat, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he is not permitted to discuss the issue publicly.
Critics of Blackwater said they worried that the same people might perpetuate what they believed was a corporate culture that disregarded Iraqis' lives.
"They're really all still there, and it's back to business as usual," said Susan Burke, an American lawyer who has filed three civil rights lawsuits against Blackwater on behalf of Iraqi civilians alleged to be victims of it.
An unresolved question is whether Blackwater, recently renamed Xe (pronounced zee), or any affiliated company will profit from the deal. Speculation inside the industry and the Iraqi government has focused on whether Triple Canopy might hire as a subcontractor a company called the Falcon Group, identified in a lawsuit brought by Ms. Burke as a Blackwater affiliate.
a resident of Birdland
on Aug 21, 2009 at 12:16 am
The affidavits by the two witnesses, who did not want to be identified in the court documents filed Monday for fear of retaliatory "violence," paint a menacing portrait of Prince, who recently resigned from his company.
"First, he views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe. ... Second, Mr. Prince is motivated by greed," says John Doe No. 2. "He sought every opportunity to deploy men to Iraq in order to earn more money from the United States government."
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 21, 2009 at 5:32 pm
"Christians" have been the most violent KILLERS since the beginning of time.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 26, 2009 at 1:18 pm
To I agree & Pathetic Prince,
Sending a mentally retarded boy to blow himself up these are the people who you are concerned about.
Just maybe it's time for the Muslim and Islamic faith to let the rest of us live the way we want.
As for the private security firms
Yes they should be controlled, but understand they do a dangers job that would need to be done by US Troops. Unless you been in combat you would understand.
Ex US Army Ranger
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