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TANIA and JIM's Wedding
"My bridal bouquet and grooms boutonniere turned out beautiful. They even got the exotic orchids I wanted.....for a decent price. Grooms calla lily snapped after receiving line hugging and fortunately one of the floral employees was able to fix it quick (stopped at store real quick)...."
TANIA and JIM's Wedding
"Food was excellent, many compliments. We also got to take home any leftovers, since we paid for the food."
Mark and Rachel's Wedding
"Surprisingly they were better than expected! All the flowers turned out great and were reasonable in price."
Sylvia and Kel's Wedding
Emilie and Travis 's Wedding
"Stacey the Catering manager was great! They delivered and the food was awesome."
Jesse and Christine 's Wedding
"Great price and value!"
Franchesca and Brad's Wedding
"We had our cake done at Hy-vee and it was perfect! The bakery department knows what they are doing! We had a lace design on our cake and it was beautiful! I would definitely recommend Hy-vee!"
Franchesca and Brad's Wedding
"The hy-vee on 23rd st did an amazing job! Everything turned out so beautiful! Renetta, who is the floral manager was so helpful! I would definitely recommend Hy-vee!"
Eileen and David's Wedding
"I went to the Hy-Vee on 156th and Maple. I didn't know what I wanted for flowers at my wedding, so I definitely was looking for guidance from the floral department. However, the manager was cold and unfriendly, and didn't go out of her way to help me out with suggestions. Apart from that, I was also taken aback by the prices. I ended up doing the bouquets, boutonnieres, and corsages myself, but the arrangements Hy-Vee did for the church were much smaller than I expected, especially given the prices. I would not recommend them for flowers."
Monona Wedding In March
"Molly at Hy-Vee was a dream to work with! I changed my mind 100 times about what we wanted for our appetizer buffet, and she was extremely accommodating. The price was very affordable, as well."
Our Wedding
"Good customer service during the process but it was very clear the day of my wedding that they did not have the same vision as I did about how my bridal bouquet should have looked.. I was very sad about my bouquet and when I look at my pictures I can't help but cringe a little..."
Our Wedding
Alicia and Christopher's Wedding
"Flowers looked amazing, delivery was on time, Kay (floral manager) did a great job working with us. Overall VERY satisfied with our value for our money. Stayed fresh for two weeks!"
Alex and Suzi's Wedding
Ankeny Wedding In June
DeAnna and Bob's Wedding
"LuAnn was the florist at New Ulm Hy-Vee that did our flowers. She had many ideas and recommendations. This was helpful for me since I didn't know much about flowers. They did a wonderful job and great price."
Dubuque Wedding In September
Sadie and Kyle's Wedding
"Shannon in the Floral Department was AWESOME to work with. She went the extra mile to make sure our flowers were perfect. The prices are some of the lowest around and the quality and was as good if not better than any of the more expensive shops."
Jennifer and Chris's Wedding
McKenzie and Scott 's Wedding
"Kay Meyers was so helpful and full of ideas. I had the most beautiful bouquets, cake decorations & centerpieces because of her creativeness."
Fort Dodge Wedding In May
"we ordered flowers in bulk and did the arranging ourselves--hyvee gave us a great discount on the flowers!"
Alison and Stephen's Wedding
Robert and Krista's Wedding
Robert and Krista's Wedding
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It's David (FrankenCar) and I'm working with Leo (1 can 'rado) to set up another dent day with justin (West Coast Dents). He has done many of these DENT MEETS in the past and all he asks for is a total of 10 cars to make this event worthwhile for him and ourselves. I will start a list and if you put your name down.............CONSIDER IT A COMMITMENT to show up. If you don't attend and flake out...........Justin said he will charge normal price for you the next time you sign up. (DON'T BLOW IT)Speaking of prices, he didn't actually give me a range because everyone will have different needs and wants done to their cars. This is what he said: "I will hook up everybody that shows up and will be taken care of: GUARANTEED" He said if the dents are small, he can get them done in 5 minutes!!! 3 cars with average sized dents can be done in an hour. ***IF ANY OF YOU GUYS HAVE A DENT LARGER THAN A BASEBALL..........please send pics to Justin personally @ 415-378-5753.
The meet will be hosted by Pure Grain German Bakery & Café in Downtown Vacaville Sunday June 24th starting at 8:00 AM. Pure Grain will be offering 10% off for anyone attending this meet, so bring your appetite! And that's for anyone attending - dent repair or not! So come out get your fill of German cars and German food!
Here is a map of the location where we will meet: Red=Parking Blue=Pure Grain German Bakery & Café
Justin does great work and hooked us all up last time - Thread here.
And Justin's got the hook-up on professional mobile wheel curb damage repair/refinishing and paint scratch/chip touch-up. Let me know if there is any interest in getting any of this done - If there is enough - we could have that done too.
Good news - Bear (Clear Choice Windshield Repair) will be coming out to replace windshields and do chip repair. He's offering killer pricing for us at this GTG with a MK4 at $195 and MK3 at $210. He inspects each windshields for imperfections and rejects those that are not good. The car must remain parked for at least an hour after glass install before driving. Chip repair is $40 and is covered by any full coverage insurance policy; they waive the deductible & he can bill them directly. Post if you need any windshield work!
LMK ASAP fellas...............we need "10" cars.
1. FrankenCar (David).................'91 VW GTI
2. FrankenCar (Wife)...................'98 VW New Beetle
3. 1 can 'rado..............................'95 B4 Passat Wagon
4. 1 can 'rado (Wifey)..................'03 Honda Odyssey
5. Onlooker ................................'91 Jetta GLI
6. JT932.....................................'01 Audi TT
7. Romad (TDIclub).....................'05 Jetta Wagon TDI
8. Baumeister.............................'03 VW New Beetle
9. Sausewagen...........................'03 Jetta Wagon TDI
10. dropped87gti.........................'07 Vw Rabbit
11. xsp2467................................one of my too many VW's (20th AE)
12. Amy (not on Vortex)..............'05 Audi A4 Cabrio
13. MY-TDI.................................'09 jetta TDI sedan
14. dropped87gti (SacWater)........GTI?
15. taurus...................................MK3
16. Sqratch................................'09 GTI
17. Subliu..................................'03 Subaru WRX
1. TurboChick (TDIclub)..............'98 VW New Beetle TDI........................Chip Repair x1
2. Sausewagen...........................'03 Jetta Wagon TDI............................Windshield
3. xsp2467.................................20th AE..............................................In stall Only (dealer glass)
4. xsp2467 (Sister).....................'86 Golf.............................................. Windshield

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Mark Wahlberg Runs Away on 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' Poster
by Ethan Anderton
March 28, 2014
After an IMAX poster for the sequel/reboot Transformers: Age of Extinction arrived earlier this month, another new poster keeps the new marketing aesthetic alive. In this one, we're still on the farm, but Mark Wahlberg and his daughter Nicola Peltz are running from the new enemy that has emerged on Earth at a time when the Transformers are being hunted down, having been banished from the planet and disavowed by the government that once trusted them to protect us. These posters are much better than the Photoshopped floating heads and other lame designs, so maybe there's hope for a fresh sequel too. Look!
Here's the new poster for Michael Bay's Transformers: Age of Extinction from Paramount Pictures:
Michael Bay is again directing Transformers 4, or Transformers: Age of Extinction, from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, as his last film in the blockbuster series before handing the franchise off to another director. No plot details are known yet, but Bay says, "We start four years later and there's a reason why we're meeting a new cast. We keep the 'Transformers' the way they were. It's just four years later. There's a reason the Transformers are redesigned. We're trying to broaden the franchise and give it more places to go." The new cast this time around includes Mark Wahlberg, T.J. Miller, Jack Reynor, Nicola Peltz, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Sophia Myles, Li Bingbing. Transformers: Age of Extinction hits June 27th this summer.
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Re: Preparedness & Survivalism, we shall prevail
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Good way to lose weight eat green salads. Do not eat meat with any starchy food and weight will start dropping off bigtime.
That is no meat with potatoes,bread,or rice.
Work, food, clothing, shelter, women,raising healthy White children, defending territory, and common sense. Anything else someone is telling you is probably lies.
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The country has been splintered apart over the past 40 years by the Zionists who have pushed the multicultural/diversity crap.
I think a Balkanization is more likely. However, after that occurs, over several decades later, whites may be able to retake much of the continent as the disorganized and undisciplined races end up like Haiti and Mexico.
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I am curious as to the meat starch connection. What is this based on? Or in other words what is the theory behind meat and starches.
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This is all theoretical and discusses what White people would theoretically do if Guns are banned. It also discusses Courage, a noble trait applicable to all forms of political discussion.
WHO WILL TAKE A STAND, by Kyrik300 -- There are 240 million plus Guns in the USA. This does not count an estimated 10 million firearms purchased in the months leading up to and the days and weeks after the 2008 election of Obama; all in the waning teacup twilight of the Bush 43 regime, who left the building with a muffled, "meow".
There are at least 85 million gun owners. This does not count the additional first timers (Gun Rookies) that have recently purchased guns.
An incident at a school somewhere will be all that's necessary to touch off the coming confiscations and gun banning. The gun hating Democrats have a majority and the White House. Let's examine how the gun grab would happen. This is for theoretical purposes only, a 'What If' scenario when SHTF.
The gun grabbers will offer to pay citizens to snitch on those who keep them. This will be their most effective means to arrest gun owners. So don't think that just simply hiding them will work. In the internet posts, when 'Obama' is Googled with 'gun ban', as many antis as gun owners are there on the blogs, and you can read the glee in the voices of the antis as they try and dissuade the scared gun owners from being worried. "Obama won't take your hunting rifles." We've all seen the posts. The antis soon break out into taunts of the gun owners. The antis basically say, "I hope the government grabs your guns and arrests you. You should be treated for mental problems, etc, for insisting on owning guns, etc."
After a gun ban, these people will gleefully and surreptitiously work in trying to get us arrested. They are really jealous of us and hate us for our independence, confidence and lack of reliance on handouts from the government. Plus, gun ownership is usually associated with White males, and we Whites have a lot of people who lay out plans for us to become extinct. Neurotic Jews, Homos, Feminazis, Lib-tards, Coloreds, etc.. This animosity really powers up the antis. You can read their posts and the hateful glower they shower us with is heard behind the words they post.
There are billboards right now in Colorado alongside interstates that advertise rewards for anyone to turn in those who have 'illegal guns'. I've seen a sign or two in the Atlanta area as well. Jealous neighbors, anti-white neighbors, angry wives, jilted girlfriends, well meaning liberal relatives, etc. will turn in gun owners, who usually are white males. A number of long jail terms will be handed out. The media will repeatedly refer to the victims of gun grabbers as 'Gun Runners'. Dead gun owners will also be referred to as cop-haters, illegal gun owners, extremists, domestic terrorists, gun runners, etc.. No LEO will ever lose his or her job for gunning down a gun owner. Episodes of COPS will feature successful takedowns of gun owners.
Don't think you can say to LEOs, "Oh, those guns? They were stolen about a year ago." I wish I had a dollar every time I've seen this answer posted in a gun blog. Pelosi's crew will soon make it a Federal Felony for not reporting gun thefts. That gets rid of this particular loophole. Say to a LEO at your door that they were stolen and there is not a report on it in their files and you go straight to jail and the jackboots will pull your house apart looking for your guns.
In a full blown gun ban maybe 20 to 30 million duck hunting 'Elmer Fudds' will turn their guns in right off, scared to death of arrest or getting a fine for retaining their firearms. The first amnesty will get maybe 10 to 20 million Elmer Fudds. After scaring the public with Waco Style Raids and deaths of gun owners, another amnesty will be offered and the last 10 million or so Elmer Fudd owners will turn in their guns.
It will leave about 30 to 50 million gun owners left within 2 years of a gun ban. About 30 to 45 million people will hide their guns and never fight. Some will hide them inside of drywalls and crawl spaces in their homes, many will bury them in PVC pipe in the back yard. Some will just keep them out of sight in the basement. Probably a third of these will not hide it good enough and lose them and get arrested, or be snitched out.
Only 4 or 5 percent of the 85 plus million gun owners will ever actively resist gun confiscation. Still, that is a greater number than all of the LEOs and NG put together. You can expect 2 or 3 million gun owning men (the first wave) to fight immediately. Kiss the wife and kids goodbye, lock and load, and find the nearest nest of evil gun grabbers. This is enough to plunge the nation into chaos. Another 2 or 3 million men (the second wave) will fight later, when they see that the fight might be winnable, but after the initial outrages against gun owners have happened (Waco x100) and when they see there isn't a ghost of a chance to overturn the gun ban by the courts. There won't be. The Fighters will be in two parts, first wave immediate fighters and the second wave.
There will be anywhere from 4 to 6 million fighting men (and some women). However, this will be the hard core element of gun owners. By now there will be a simmering low speed insurrection going on. 20 or 30 thousand people will have died in the first couple years, and the media will do it's part and not report on the deaths. Probably not even FOX will report on the numbers. Blowhard talk radio conservative voices will offer insincere condolences and call for people to vote Republican.
Hush Limbaugh will call Patriots: "Law breakers, plain and simple, folks. Listen, law enforcement, they have to do their job", while he does his tap tap tap on the microphone. Media outlets will not mention hardly anything unless it is to disparage white people.
Like insurrections everywhere, there will be many in the local community who will assist the Patriots in any way they can, and many also who will quietly hinder any way they can. Some of the hindrance will come from stupid misguided 'patriots' actually lemmings. Communities will be ripped in two. The Chaos will be limited to the Midwest and South and West, you won't hear a peep about guns east of the Alleghenies.
Will gun owners be successful? Zog can easily draft a force large enough to overwhelm the 5 or 6 million gun owner resisters. Plans are laid down for such situations. Equipment is put aside for a force of easily 10 million men. Urban Pacification, another term for putting down your own citizens, has been honed to a fine art. Obama has stated he will assemble his 'Volunteer force equal to the DOD'. An extra-constitutional force of gun grabbers?
For gun owners to be successful, the (THEORETICAL) revolt would have had to expand into a regional battle involving other issues besides guns for the Patriots to survive what will essentially be a war of attrition. The impetus for this would be the memory of each other's outrages. As soon as enough men on both sides are out of the fight, there can be no turning back. Too many atrocities to forgive. Too many people burning in their hatred for one another; and fear of what the victor will do (post-war Truth and Reconciliation trials). Just like Civil War One. What a stupid and brutal way for such a republic to end. What can you expect from such implacable foes of civil and human rights such as Pelosi, Obama, Schumer and McCarthy? All of their plans and policies begin and end with coerciveness. Or how about a tip of the steel pot to the Jews who guide most of it and bend over the sad aftermath like buzzards in a bone yard?
I think the majority of people that are interested in American constitutional gun rights realize that the Obammessiah government wants our guns. It's only a matter of time before sweeping gun bans are in the Fed Beast's reticule. Say what you will for an AWB-only ban. My gut tells me that they will do a lot more than that. Obama wants a couple things, the Pelosi-Reid Wrecking Crew on the Hill wants many others.
If you give up your guns during the upcoming SHTF you will definitely suffer, everyone has who has done so in modern times has. I don't have to read off to you a list of people who did and died at the hands of their governments, I'm sure you could recount it by heart. Governments have offed more people than smallpox or cancer. LEOs around the country are training around the clock every day of every week in preparation for riots, confiscations and detentions on a scale our forefathers could have never imagined. I imagine if George Washington or Ben Franklin could see what nightmare the future turned into they would spin in their graves.
Darth Vaders, large, mean ugly brutes with no senses of humor and heavily armed, will come to your house, break down the door if they have to, and confiscate what you have stored. Got food preps, guns, ammo? They will carry it out, load it on trucks and take it away. You will never see all that ever again. What? How can they do that?
You say they can't? What about Bush 43's Executive Orders? Remember them? They must be important because every President has used them. They have the force of law. When President Obama declares a national emergency, the Executive Orders give him legal authority to seize every gun and bullet in the country. Bush 43 has greatly expanded them and Obama has stated his intention to max them out.
In his Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsen explains that even while they are dragging you away, you will tell yourself, "It's a mistake. I'm innocent. They will let me go." At what point should one resist ZOG? When one's belt is taken away? When they give you an orange jumpsuit to put on? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one is loaded into a cattle car? Do you draw the line at putting on the free wrist and leg bracelets?
Solzhenitsen had a lot of experience with Stalinist Doorkickers and Jackbooted Thugs. Solzhenitsen wrote: "And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive. Or if, during periods of mass arrests, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in sheer terror at every bang of the downstairs door . . . and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall and ambushed (the Jackboot) with axes, hammers, clubs, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?"
"We didn't love freedom enough, We submitted with pleasure! We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward." Solzhenitsyn says "resistance should have begun right there, at the moment of the arrest itself. But it did not begin."
Will we stand up for ourselves, fellow WNs? Right now you probably don't know yourself. You may not know until it happens. You don't know how much courage you are capable of. Have you the means, the strength, the spine, the intestinal fortitude? One thing is for certain friends, we do know that they are coming. We do know who the enemy is. The enemy is the Marxist gun grabbing hordes, Leftists and their Obammessianic politicians.
They have instilled in us a fear and a sick dread, so far. So we go out and buy, buy, buy guns and ammo (which is good) Because.. Because why? Because we have not yet made them sufficiently afraid when they set their thug-like Jackboots in our front yards. The Jackboots don't yet wonder whether they will ever return home. To them, in their black armor and testosterone fueled mania, they rule supreme, like superman.
We can win. How can we be sure of success? Look at the NAIS program. The government started a 'voluntary' mandatory program to RFID chip all livestock in the USA. Every year the USDA would say that 'next year it would be mandatory', then the year would go and pass, then they would again say, 'next year it will be mandatory'. Year after year like that, so as to try and make the American farmer submit. He never did. Only the Wisconsin farmers have accepted it.
Widespread grass roots opposition basically torpedoed it. It's is still a dying thrashing beast at best, but it is on life support. This occurred just by people saying, "No! we are not going to obey this." The NAIS is on the verge of dying. You could not pay BATF agents enough to show up for work if we had a fraction of the peaceful but firm opposition efforts spent on defeating NAIS. I'm telling you that there were USDA agents vowing loudly in the luster of their bravado that they would walk through every American's back yard and look for every sheep or chicken and to check if it was chipped. All of that turned out to be hot air. When these wannabe door-kickers wonder whether they will go home that night or end up fitted with a colostomy bag, is the only time they will stop their coming assault on us. Some of us will have to be martyrs , but so will some of them. With a vigorous enough political resistance (rallies, marches, etc..), the ban will soon be un-enforceable.
Instead what do you hear? "Get your assault rifle now before the ObaKwanBanana passes such and such law". "Bury your guns, Obama is a coming". If all gun owners, instead of meekly accepting their lot would reply with a throaty and hale "No Way, we'll have whatever guns we want, what are you going to do about it!" the suddenly frightened Fed Beast will back off greatly. It would skulk off to it's lair never to show it's hoary head for at least four years. How many laws are on the books now that never get enforced?
Get over your "I'm a White Dude so I have to obey, or quake in fear" crap. It makes me sick to hear the older generation of 'patriotic' white men carp about the coming gun ban and then in the same breath say, "well, he's my president and the law is the law". Oh, way to go Lemming, good little Lemming. Do any of the minorities obey laws they don't like? Definitely No! I'm getting sick of the fear I read on the Net everyday, from WN gun owners.
WNs need to be heavily involved in gun rights issues, but do yourself a favor. Don't discuss WN issues on gun-only forums. You already know that if you do you will get kicked off the gun-forums, and then you cannot add your voice against the gun grabbers. Say your WN peace on SF and like forums. Join The NRA or GOA, or both. Don't even think about hiding, stand up and be proud, believe me, it will take every one of us before it's over.
But what about after the ban, what if the animals get power drunk and ban all firearms, you ask? Consider this: Imagine, (this is an extremely hypothetical situation) every gun owning American severely intimidated just one Darth Vader type Stormtrooper who was trying to confiscate their firearms. I will not elaborate because I respect the rules here, but this is just the proverbial Charlton Heston statement, EG "Cold Dd Hnds". Even though that American might not fare well doing so, suppose each gun owner severely intimidated just one testosterone crazed door kicker. The Bad Guys wouldn't have enough people to replace them.
And who would want that job with their crew cutted young bullies needing medical treatment right and left? It wouldn't be quite as attractive to a bully boy jock type mentality, would it be? Not quite as much fun to dress up all in black with a cool wardrobe, like a storm trooper, and be the dominant species on earth. Be a one percenter. Be a Doorkicker and shoot people. Many who would sell their own souls will seek employment therein for the chance to be a Top Dog. But if the bully boys know there is an outstanding chance that some of them are going to be wearing a colostomy bag and crying for mommy it kind of takes some of the fun out of it doesn't it? Not quite as attractive for any amount of Blackwater pay in that particular hypothetical situation now is it?
Technically speaking all Dictatorships rule through intimidation of either imprisonment or death, if you don't do what they want or if you resist. Obama's will be no different.
So all gun owning Americans just have to send that intimidation right back to the Bullies. Who are these Doorkickers anyway? They are crew cutted young twenty something punks who draw a paycheck from you the US taxpayer. Most of them are much younger than you. They work for you.
These Bully Boys are paid by us to intimidate us. This is done for no other reason than to submit our bodies to Obama's tyranny. It is the tyranny of the majority. 48% gets tyrannized by 52%. You have a right not to be tyrannized. That right is non-negotiable. The Constitution preserves regional and minority rights, we whites gave blacks their rights on that basis. Now one of them will refuse the same to us, how ironic. It's what some WNs have been saying all along, once a minority gets in power he tyrannizes the other group, in a form of payback.
Just remember that these Bully Boys are flesh and blood just like the rest of us. They are also able to be intimidated. If anyone doesn't believe that, you are fooling yourself. You can too just say "No!" to these Bully Boys. I cannot tell you the times that I have stood up to cops, and didn't get beaten to a pulp. I have no 'attitude' around cops and am a law abiding citizen. But I refuse to "Yes sir" them or grovel. I have never had too. If they tazered or pulverized everyone who questions them in a day, believe me, they wouldn't make it to the next shift change. The Jewsmedia gives them an exaggerated image of aggression and violence and invincible toughness that they don't deserve. It's just like Negroes, they know we white men think that every negro is a bad dude with a gun, and we try and avoid any confrontation with them. The negroes play up to that image we have of them. Even the most rank punk negro can usually scare a white person, even if the white can easily take them.
Gun owners just have to have the will to be Martyrs for our God Given rights and to take that intimidation and give it right back to the people who intimidate us. Put the fear of intimidation into them for a change. They have been doing it to us for a long time. That fear comes in many forms and can be peaceful but firm and resolute as well.
Think about it. Would you Live Free? Or would you rather be disarmed and live in slavery? Would you be willing to sacrifice all of your own personal interests if necessary to teach one Bully Boy some manners? It really is that simple, a choice.
White people of the United States: Be Men, not sheeple or cowards. The Coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man just one. The Zionists intend to enslave the whole world and have damn near succeeded. Fight. Be men. Death is coming. Accept it by either standing up like a man or from laying down to be slaughtered like a sheep but rest assured death has already taken wing and is on his way.
BTW, ZOG is totally Death oriented, it offers a rich milieu of death dealing media and corruptive entertainment. The Zionists who have taken over your government want a population reduction from war and the introduction of these immigrants into your homeland will bring it as surely as the night brings the incoming dawn.
Death has already spread his wings and is on his way to your neighborhood. Truth dare not be told. It is no longer a virtue, it is an offense. Thus is the way of the devil, the Zionist.
Whatever you choose, make the choice now. The time for fun and games and theories are past. We are all going to the great gun range in the sky someday anyway. Is disarmed slavery worth a few extra moments of time to us? When we are gone, would it have made such a difference if we stayed around just a bit longer by being a slave? What are we so afraid of? Afraid of losing a little time? Will it matter to us with whatever consciousness (if any) we have after we are dead if we lost a little time being alive, because we refused to be a disarmed submissive slave? Important issues to philosophically discuss, remembering that this is all theoretical.
What usually stops a man from defending himself? I think it would be safe to say, the fear of death. Satan and ZOG use that against us to enslave us. But let us consider the philosophical underpinnings of that subject, Death. This does not encourage violence, but instead is an attempt to free people up from fear, to instill in them courage and other noble traits.
Do you believe in God, how about heaven? Good! You can be happy then, if you ever die. You'll be catching a ride there sooner and be with the heavenly angels and Christ quicker. You don't believe in heaven? Fine. Then you have nothing to worry about anyway because we're going to die anyway. You believe in Valhalla? Great, you can be carried there on the eagle crested shield and get that chance to talk to Thor, Fria and Baldur. 1,000 years from now it will not have mattered to you if you died a few years earlier or later one way or the other would it? It is an unreasonable fear all humans have. The unnatural Fear of Death. It is how Satan manipulates us, and his earthbound henchmen use their Master's tactics well. Recognize it as unreasonable and conquer that fear. It is inevitable to us all. It is the truth of our existence. We cannot escape death. So don't fear it so much. Instead choose how we will live. A cowardly disarmed slave or a freeman or freewoman? You truly are never more alive in this universe than when you escape the fear of death and grow true courage. A truly brave person who has escaped this fear impresses even the angels, for they never have to face such threats. None of them have ever had to prove out such courage. This nobility in us mortals shines bright enough even for an angel in heaven to see and be amazed.
From the Movie Gladiator: "We are all just Shadows and Dust anyway. We all die, sadly we cannot choose when we die, but we can choose how we die. We can live as cowards or die as men. With Strength and Honor!", "What we do now echoes in eternity". Indeed it will.
Refuse to be intimidated by death. Turn that intimidation around onto our intimidators. You are gun owners. You are also Men, act like it. Do not be enslaved by the Marxists. Call their bluff.
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So fruit with meat, or salad and veggies??
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Is everyone ready for the Obama - ACORN ripoff of the taxpayers? In this writers personal opinion, ACORN is a Socialist put-together of blacks and minorities in the United States, who has had direct or indirect involvement with Comrade Marxist Obama.
Obama wants to give BILLIONS of taxpayers money to ACORN, which in turn, pays the Socialist Left-wing of Black organizations the money it needs to raise its own army in the streets. If you are not getting the picture as to what I am telling you, then you have totally missed the boat. You the taxpayer will be paying for your own destruction.
ACORN in its direction, is the same as the African National Congress party (ANC)of the Communist Mandela in South Africa.
This is the same ACORN that federal agencies raided as per involvement in voter fraud, etc. in this past presidental election. What is being sought after, is the taxpayer funding the TOTAL overthrow of the United States into a Marxist Communist agenda. Please share this revolting information with all those on your email list. Lets stop these Marxist Communists dead in their tracks. Thank you
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Obamas Bill Hands ACORN A $5.2 Billion Taxpayer Bailout.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 7 P.M.
By: David A. Patten
A rising chorus of GOP leaders are protesting that the blockbuster Democratic stimulus package would provide up to a whopping $5.2 billion for ACORN, the left-leaning nonprofit group under federal investigation for massive voter fraud.
Most of the money is secreted away under an item in the now $836 billion package titled Neighborhood Stabilization Programs.
Ordinarily, neighborhood stabilization funds are distributed to local governments. But revised language in the stimulus bill would make the funds available directly to non-profit entities such as ACORN, the low-income housing organization whose pro-Democrat voter-registration activities have been blasted by Republicans. ACORN is cited by some for tipping the scales in the Democrats' favor in November.
According to Fox news, Sen. David Vitter, R-La., could appear to be a payoff for community groups partisan political activities in the last election cycle.
It is of great concern to me, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., tells Newsmax. I think our government has stayed strong because weve had a two-party system, we have had robust debate, people have felt that it was one man-one vote. They are privileged and grateful that they have that ability to cast that vote. And when something is done to belittle or diminish that, it is of great concern to me.
Regarding ACORN, Blackburn added, Additional funds going to these organizations that have tried to skew that system, it causes me great concern and I believe that it causes many of my colleagues great concern.
The three-term congressman stopped short of suggesting the neighborhood stabilization money is a power grab by Democrats seeking partisan political advantage. But radio talk giant Rush Limbaugh did not.
Limbaugh warned his listeners Tuesday: Ill tell you whats going on here: We, ladies & gentlemen, were funding Obama and the Democrats army on the street. We are funding the forces of the Democrat partys re-election.
Blackburn echoed the concerns of Republican leaders who object that the bloated package lacks the short-term stimulus a cut in payroll or sales taxes would provide.
According to Matthew Vadum of the Capitol Research Center, the stimulus package now under consideration includes:
$1 billion stashed away in Community Development Block Grant money that ACORN often vies for successfully.
$10 million to develop or refurbish low-income housing, a specialty of ACORNs.
$4.19 billion to stave off foreclosures via the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. Vadum states the current version of the bill would allow nonprofits to compete with cities and states for $3.44 billion of the money. Some $750 million, however, would be exclusively reserved for nonprofits such as ACORN, which is actually an umbrella organization for over 100 progressive organizations.
Regarding the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, Vadum writes in American Spectator: Although ACORN operatives usually get their hands on such funds only after they have first passed through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development or state and local governments, the new spending bill largely eliminates these dawdling middle men, making it easier to get Uncle Sam's largess directly into the hands of the same people who run ACORN's various vote fraud and extortion rackets. And the legislative package provides these funds without the usual prohibition on using government money for lobbying or political activities.
The charges of partisan political payback appear to be resonating in part due to Obamas longstanding association with partisan get-out-the-vote operations. He was endorsed by ACORN, and during the campaign paid an ACORN affiliate $832,600 to get-out-the-vote assistance. Early in his career, he led a voter drive for an ACORN-affiliated group called Project Vote.
Its not the first time ACORN has been entangled in a bailout controversy. In September, House Republicans objected that the original $700 billion bailout package included $100 million for ACORN a tiny fraction of the sums for ACORN now being considered in the stimulus package.
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Makes sense really.
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This is a great point, we are a 200 Plus Million man army, who can stand against us if we really refuse to go along?
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On the eve of the first Test, Mahela Jayawardene mused on how the series might hinge on who broke first. He clearly had no intention whatsoever of it being him.
Leading Sri Lanka in a Test match for the first time in three years, he single-handedly navigated them to a position of safety against England yesterday after they had skirted perilously close to the rocks. He made his 30th Test hundred, his seventh at Galle, finishing the day unbeaten on 168, with the next highest score being 27.
That he was dropped four times, on 64, 90, 147 and 152 seemed to be interfering with nature, because he was largely sublime. Only Jayawardene stopped the tourists running through Sri Lanka. He was as easy on the eye as he has been for most of the last decade and, now he has got money in his pocket again after the Sri Lanka board paid its players for the first time in almost a year, he has a renewed sense of purpose.
On this ground four years ago, Jayawardene made 213 not out in a drawn match that Sri Lanka ought to have won and yesterday he ensured that his team remained competitive in the series. At 15 for 3, with Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad using the new ball with compelling zeal, they were in danger of terminal collapse. Tired after being on the road for three months playing one-day tournaments – they arrived in town two days after England – they looked short of preparation for a Test series.
But Jayawardene's graceful innings allowed considerable redemption and Sri Lanka were 289 for 8 at the close. It might yet be enough to make a fist of it if the pitch wears by days four and five.
England should have removed him. The first two chances fell to Anderson, the second pair to Monty Panesar. On 64, when the game was still all England, Jayawardene received a ball from Graeme Swann which surprised him with turn and bounce. Taking the shoulder of the bat, the ball looped agonisingly over Anderson, who could only touch it with fingertips. That would have made the score 131 for 6.
Jayawardene again escaped when he prodded a slower ball back at Anderson, only for it to squeeze through outstretched hands. The game had moved on when Panesar failed to grab a catch at long leg and Jayawardene was 152 when Panesar, more culpably still, shelled a skier at mid-on.
By then England were bound to have been wilting in the oppressive heat, but they would have chosen anybody but Panesar to be on the receiving end of those opportunities. Panesar was upset and several of his team-mates made a beeline to him as the players trudged off at the end. They were consoling him, too, rather than attempting to throttle him.
Anderson warranted better. He was admirable in becoming the sixth England bowler to 250 Test wickets, as was almost all of England's attack, including Samit Patel on his debut.
Patel turned out to be the answer to what England would do about their need for a fifth bowler. It meant it was the first time for almost 20 years that they took the field with three spinners in the side.
England made light of losing what seemed to be an important toss. Jayawardene must have felt like punching the air when the coin came down the right way but resisted the temptation to run in the direction of the dressing room. An hour later he will have been glad he did.
With his eighth ball of the series, Anderson produced a beauty for Lahiru Thirimanne, which the batsman had to play. It might have moved just a fraction and Graeme Swann pouched a smart catch moving to his right at second slip.
In came Kumar Sangakkara, a different set of exotic syllables altogether. Ninety times out of 100, perhaps 99 out 100 he would have left the ball six
inches outside off which came his way. But he was just in, he had not played a match of more than 50 overs for three months, he jabbed irresistibly at it and Matt Prior did the rest.
Prior, incidentally, decided after all to wear pads for wicketkeeping after discarding them in the second practice match. The game might, as he observed, be moving on but there is still a time and a place for everything.
In the following over, Stuart Broad produced a lovely ball to Tillakaratne Dilshan, who was already a man on a mission, cramping him for space. The edge was taken by Strauss at first slip.
Everything was going England's way at this stage and the balance of power seemed to be confirmed shortly after lunch. Anderson, in his follow-through, touched a return drive from Jayawardene on to the stumps to run out Thilan Samaraweera, who was backing up.
But all the time, Jayawardene was dictating his terms. He ensured he scored off the bad balls – three in an over from Anderson went for four, two of them from serene cuts, one a casual clip off his legs – and he allowed Swann no time to settle by clouting his third ball for six. Masterful stuff.
Jayawardene and Dinesh Chandimal assembled another half-century stand before Chandimal gave Patel his maiden Test wicket, playing a grotesque heave across the line. Two balls and 30 overs later Patel, having been removed immediately from the attack, had his second when Rangana Herath was lbw.
It was a day that Patel must have thought would never come when he was prohibited from England squads because of fitness issues. It wasn't at all bad for a fat lad from Nottingham.
Timeline: how the first day unfolded
5.46am (UK time) Sri Lanka 11-1, 11-2: Lahiru Thirimanne 3, Kumar Sangakkara 0.
James Anderson takes quickfire wickets to give England the early impetus, Thirimanne and Sangakkara falling to successive deliveries.
5.54am Sri Lanka 15-3: Tillakaratne Dilshan 11
Stuart Broad continues the assault with an edged ball, caught by captain Andrew Strauss, removing the swashbuckling Dilshan to keep England firmly in control.
9.27am Sri Lanka 67-4, 128-5: Thilan Samaraweera 20, Dinesh Chandimal 27
England take another two, Samara-weera falling to an Anderson run out and Samit Patel having Chandimal caught by Ian Bell for first Test wicket.
10.35am Sri Lanka 170-6: Prasanna Jayawardene 23
Anderson removes the Sri Lankan wicketkeeper with an lbw decision in the first over after tea. The ball nips back. After a review the decision is upheld.
10.55am Sri Lanka 191-7: Suraj Randiv 12
England move into the hosts' lower order with a run out courtesy of a superb direct hit from captain Strauss and Randiv is inches short of his ground.
11.08am Sri Lanka 205-7: Century for M Jayawardene
Mahela Jayawardene completes another accomplished century with a delicate fine sweep, having batted beautifully and facing 200 balls. It is the 34-year-old's 30th Test century.
12.02pm Sri Lanka 253-8: Rangana Herath 5
Despite a Sri Lankan review, Patel gets the reward for a tidy spell of bowling with his second Test wicket, following a drifting delivery that has Herath clearly out lbw.
12.19pm Sri Lanka 263-8, 273-8: Two more dropped catches
Home hero Jayawardene is dropped for a third and fourth time – both by Monty Panesar who spills at deep square and third man to allow the century maker to continue his stand.
Missed a trick: the drops
9.47am (BST) Anderson drops Mahela Jayawardene off the bowling of Graeme Swann, despite an acrobatic effort in the field. Jayawardene on 64
11.03am Anderson drops Jayawardene for a second time off his own bowling, for what would have been a relatively simple catch. Jayawardene now just 10 away from his century.
12.14pm Monty Panesar drops a routine chance, Jayawardene let off again off Anderson's bowling. Jayawardene on 147.
12.19pm Panesar drops Jayawardene again off Stuart Broad – another clanger. Jayawardene has moved on to 152.
Galle scoreboard
First Test, Galle International Stadium (first day of five): Sri Lanka have scored 289 for 8 wickets against England
Sri Lanka won toss
SRI LANKA First Innings
H D R L Thirimanne c Swann b Anderson 3
12 balls 0 sixes 0 fours
T M Dilshan c Strauss b Broad 11
8 balls 0 sixes 2 fours
K C Sangakkara c Prior b Anderson 0
1 balls 0 sixes 0 fours
*D P M D Jayawardene not out 168
290 balls 3 sixes 20 fours
T T Samaraweera run out 20
82 balls 0 sixes 3 fours
L D Chandimal c Bell b Patel 27
48 balls 2 sixes 2 fours
†H A P W Jayawardene lbw b Anderson 23
40 balls 0 sixes 3 fours
S Randiv run out 12
15 balls 0 sixes 1 fours
H M R K B Herath lbw b Patel 5
30 balls 0 sixes 0 fours
U W M B C A Welegedara not out 10
18 balls 0 sixes 2 fours
Extras (lb6 nb4) 10
Total (for 8, 90 overs) 289
Fall 1-11, 2-11, 3-15, 4-67, 5-128, 6-170, 7-191, 8-253.
To bat R A S Lakmal.
Bowling: JM Anderson: 17-5-56-3 (6-3-10-2; 4-0-15-0; 4-1-18-1; 3-1-13-0), SCJ Broad: 18-1-66-1 (4-0-17-1; 3-0-3-0; 2-0-12-0; 2-0-9-0; 3-0-8-0; 4-1-17-0) (4nb), MS Panesar: 23-11-42-0 (5-4-1-0; 3-1-9-0; 5-3-6-0; 2-1-4-0; 3-2-5-0; 4-0-16-0; 1-0-1-0), GP Swann: 23-3-92-0 (6-0-18-0; 17-3-74-0), SR Patel: 9-1-27-2 (3-1-8-0; 5-0-18-1; 1-0-1-1).
England: *A J Strauss, A N Cook, I J L Trott, K P Pietersen, I R Bell, †M J Prior, S R Patel, S C J Broad, G P Swann, M S Panesar, J M Anderson.
Progress: Sri Lanka 50 runs in 23.4 overs, Lunch: 66-3 in 30 overs (M Jayawardene 30, Samaraweera 19), 100 runs in 41.4 overs, Jayawardene 50 off 134 balls (7 fours, 1 sixes), 150 runs in 56.3 overs, Tea: 168-5 in 61 overs (M Jayawardene 80, H Jayawardene 21, 200 in 67.6 overs, M Jayawardene 100 off 200 balls (12 fours, 2 sixes), 250 runs in 79.1 overs, M Jayawardene 150 off 259 balls (17 fours, 3 sixes), Close 289-8 in 90 overs (M Jayawardene 168, Welegedara 10).
Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pakistan) & R J Tucker (Australia).
Third umpire: B N J Oxenford (Australia).
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Well my new home is great. I get lots of bones to chew on. My mom buys the stew bones and bakes them in the oven for me and for my sister kooter. She love to take me out side to run. I am such a good girl cause idon't go to far from her and stay where she can see me. Kooter has tostay on a leash cause she runs from mom. She likes to listen to dad alot better. I think it is funny cause i can run and she can't unless daddy is around. I still don't like this deit thing that mom put me on though. But i am getting use to it. I get to go see the vet soon. Not that i am to happy about that but i guess he is a really nice guy. Kooter told me he is a little out there but he loves to get right on the floor with you and play. To me he sounds like a nice guy but he still is mean when he gives u those nasty shots. I am looking forward to learn how to bird hunt dad wants to get me into that. That will be something that him and i can do together. I just love being with my family. Now about the little two legged aniamls that are here. They are a had full and they say i can be. Maddie is my buddy she follows me all over. She is 2 and i love it cause she likes to throw things for me to get fetch. Some of the things i shouldn't have like stuffed aniamls and socks. But she is a ball of fun. Hollie and I are still getting use to each other. She is not to sure about me. I am alot bigger than her and well i get to be out of hand some times. But in time i will be good friends with her.
Well My new home is not to bad. I get alot of attention and there are kids her. I like kids and attention. Though i do miss my old mom and dad but they still come and see me which i like alot. they are happy that i am in a happy place. I have a new puppy sister her name is kooter. She is a little thing compared to me and well we like to play keep away from each other, I think i make her mad cause she has a hard time gettin things back. Well I have a nice kenel that i go into duringt the day when it is not to cold out so I get to enjoy the weather, My new mom seems good she like to play with me alot. She made me go on a diet though i have gotten pretty fat.. So i have to start waiting for the kids to drop stuff for me to eat. But my new mom runs me in the yard every night so far for about 20 mins. Boy it is tiring but i love to fetch my ball and have her love me. I think i am going to like it there.
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Yes, you heard right, a red velvet cheese ball! How good does that sound?! Well it sounded pretty good to me. I was out browsing around Pinterest (major time sucker, I know) one day when I came upon this recipe by Taste and Tell and I just HAD to make it. The great thing was, it called for red velvet cake mix and I just happened to have some leftover mix sitting in my pantry from when I made red velvet cake batter truffles. I had been trying to figure out how I could use the rest of it up and this sounded perfect.
The recipe is really quite easy, you basically put everything in a bowl, mix it up, form it into a ball, chill it and cover it with crushed up white chocolate chips. That's it! It would be the perfect thing to make for a Valentine's Day celebration, you can whip it up in no time and it is really delicious.
Red Velvet Cheese Ball
- 8 oz cream cheese (I used light), softened
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups red velvet cake mix
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup white chocolate chips, slightly crushed
Put cream cheese and butter in a mixing bowl and cream together with a mixer.
Add cake mix, brown sugar and powdered sugar, mix until well combined.
Once mixture is well combined, turn out onto a piece of plastic wrap and form into a ball. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
While the cheese ball is chilling, lightly crush white chocolate chips. I did this by putting them in the blender and pulsing until I has the right consistency.
Once cheese ball is chilled, unwrap it and place it on a piece of parchment paper and do any necessary re-shaping.
Gently press white chocolate onto cheese ball until well coated. Serve with vanilla wafers.
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well yesterday was a significant day indeed for you Debra27.oh no,
this makes it all seem kind of laughable,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =U8y0MR8KiY8XX&feature=wat ch-vrec
I finally today checked the calendar and see that my beloved grandson will be here that day...so I don't care.
I guess I worry about leaving my family, because I know the pain of death and hate to have that happen to them..but if we all go together, I have no fear.
So I see 27 days OR
648 hours
I guess I worry daily about leaving my family and though I know there would be sadness I am more worried about the fact that I don't have life insurance and that all we worked for would be in jeopardy. We hope to each get it after tax time this year, as long as we make it to the new year that is!
So today were down to 26 days. A lot of changes have taken place since this countdown has started, but I will always remember starting a wonderful friendship at the beginning of it.
Friends till the end! Hahaha!


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toilet drain pipe is crooked on new construction
I have a new house I'm working on and the drain for one toilet is crooked. I have a 4" drain in concrete with a glue in inside closet flange. When I put the closet flange in one side it about 3/4" off the slab, what are my options? I'm hoping they make a flange with more play in it than this one, the other 2 went in and were only about 1/4" off.
I think they make special plastic shims to support the flange. I am sure others will advise. Good Luck
Flange kit
There is a 2 pce flange exstention kit I bought at Home Depot for ceramic floors which contains two white pvc rings with foam seals in between. It also has instructions referring to shimming. Hope this helps. SORRY I PITCHED THE PACKAGING
A toilet flange should be bolted down on top of the finished floor level with only the thickness of the flange above finished floor level.
The flange and toilet should be as level as possible for the wax ring to seal properly.
The toilet should be leveled with a level across the bowel. There are beveled plastic shims made for the purpose to level the toilet base on an unlevel floor (shim under the rim of the base).
If your flange won't seat better than being 3/4" off on one side, I don't believe that anything short of breaking up the concrete and replumbing it to be level on top of the finished floor is ever going to work properly.
Good luck!
I'd avoid shimming the flange at all costs. If you have access to the pipe you could add a Fernco hub connector to get just enough flex in the pipe to bolt the flange down. Otherwise a short section needs to be re-plumbed.
Thanks for the replies, I have no access to the pipe to straighten it. The bathroom is in the middle of the house with a concrete slab. The floors are stained concrete so I really hate to bust it out. I think there were some closet flanges with rubber gaskets around them to make the seal, I'm going to go back to the store and look around for anything that may work.
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I'm about to get my first groovebox, but i don't really know what to look for. I tried some at a musicstore today, but you know, i can't really tell the difference. I'm considering these three:
Korg padKONTROL
Akai MPD 32
Akai MPD 26
My budget is between 2-300 dollar. I already own a Microkorg så maybe it would be good for me to continue along the Korg road with this sampler too? Ofcourse Akai was the inventors of this so they might be the "safe" buys? And i don't really know if i need the 32 or the 26 will be good enough for me.
I'm gonna use it to learn these grooveboxes, as it is my first of it's kind, just to play and have fun and last but not least to record some stuff. I'm not that much into recording. I've been playing the piano and guitar for 8 years now, but have never really been recording my own stuff. But now i have started to record in garageband. So at the moment the recordings from the groovebox is just to be used in garageband, but sooner or later i'm gonna change to ableton, Logic etc. So the idea is that i can use the sampler for this too, atleast until i need something bigger.
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The three items listed are just controllers for software. If you want a sampler/groovebox look at the MPC range by Akai.
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...or if you wanted a budget controller that integrates with a DAW you could also look at the Maschine Mikro.
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Save a bit more money and get a Native Instruments Maschine. Pretty much everything you need really and more!
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hello - i have a question regarding groove box and copyright usages. if I am making music from a groove box with programmed in box sounds and rhythms and beats and etc, and I compose a track with no or very minimal change to the patterns and sounds that it already comes with... do I have right to copyright / release / sell the resulting track? my concern is that the track we composed isn't too different sounding than something that might be easily created by anyone else turning on the same machine.
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Check the manual. In most cases it shouldn't be a problem but the manual should tell you all you need to know.
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When complications with bankruptcy filing fees means more trouble
Posted on Oct 29, 2012 in Bankruptcy, Chapter 13, Chapter 7
Every bankruptcy case requires a filing fee. As mentioned last week, the filing fee for Chapter 11 bankruptcies is set to increase in November. Chapter 7 filing fees are currently $306, and Chapter 13 filing fees are $281. In nearly every case, the debtor filing the case pays their attorney the fee up front, and the attorney pays the fee online through the court's administration system. It's easy, reliable, and ensures a quick payment to everyone involved.
Sometimes, however, filers need help with the fee. The courts then allow two other options: paying the filing fee in 3-4 installments, or waiving the fee altogether. This is more common in Chapter 7 cases, since Chapter 13 cases involve a monthly payment to creditors, which cannot start until the filing fee is paid.
In a recent and bizarre case from Kentucky, a lawyer and his client clearly did not communicate well. The debtor paid the $281 filing fee to the attorney. The attorney, however, did not pay that fee to the court when he filed her Chapter 13. Instead, he kept the money and filed a motion to allow the filing fee be paid in installments. The case was dismissed when the debtor did not pay the fee in installments. As you can imagine, the debtor was quite confused when the case was dismissed. She had paid the $281 and her first plan payment of $100, and didn't understand why the case was suddenly stuck.
She did what most people will do when their case is dismissed. She called the bankruptcy court. She faxed in the proof of the receipt from the $281 and the $100 payments. The court reinstated the case, and the lawyer called the client to find out what happened. That's when the court stepped in.
The court was confused as well why the petition asked for a filing fee in installments, when the debtor clearly paid the filing fee in advance. It was unnecessary to ask since the debtor had the means to pay the fee in full at the time of filing. The court issued an order demanding a full audit of the attorney's bank accounts!
The moral of the story – As attorneys, we should always seek to have the fee paid in full at the time of filing. But if that can't be done, and the debtor needs time to pay in installments, communication is essential to prevent the court from punishing the lawyer for questionable practices.


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Director Balu Mahendra dies at 74
Balu Mahendra, known for his films such as Sadma, died Thursday morning of a heart attack
Chennai: Veteran Tamil director and cinematographer Balu Mahendra, known for his films such as Sadma, died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He is survived by his wife and son.
The 74-year-old five-time national award winner had recently released his directorial venture Thalaimuraigal that depicts the relationship between a grandfather and grandson, with him playing the protagonist.
He was born as Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran in Batticalo, Sri Lanka, into a Tamil family. In a film career spanning over four decades, he directed 22 films, many of them considered non-mainstream or art movies.
In 1978, Mahendra, mostly seen with his trademark cap and spectacles, won his first national award for his cinematography for the Kannada film Kokila, which was his first film as a director. For Moondram Pirai, he won the national award again for cinematography and Kamal Haasan won the best actor award. He paired Kamal Haasan and Sridevi again for the Hindi version of the film titled Sadma.
"Deeply saddened on the demise of Balu Mahendra. The legacy of his creations Sadma and Moondaram Pirai will live on. My condolences to the family," Sridevi wrote in a post on Twitter.
In an interview to Rediff in 2002, Mahendra had said that of all the movies he had directed, he was "satisfied only with two—Veedu and Sandhya Raagam. I have made the least number of mistakes in these films."
Despite the awards and recognition for his films, Mahendra, in the same interview, seemed regretful for his choice of movies, saying he could perhaps have been more mainstream. "Was I right in denying my family the comforts they would have otherwise enjoyed, had I been a little more liberal and commercial regarding my cinema?," he said.


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But creating a whole new class of devices? That's an entirely different challenge. Fans point to Apple's winning decade of turning out gadgets like the iPod and iPhone as evidence that Steve Jobs and Co. have demonstrated a deft hand for designing appealing, must-have consumer electronics. But skeptics fear that Apple is headed for a device dead zone.
The Tablet's classification will fall somewhere between pocket-sized phones and bag-sized laptops. It would take a very compelling product to convince people that they need yet another device in that in-between range. Amazon's Kindle success, with an estimated 1.5 million sold, helps prove that size hasn't been a huge obstacle when it comes to electronic book readers. But the Kindle has been available for two years. As of 2010, the niche will tart to get crowded with other e-book devices from Barnes and Noble and Sony N. Apple shares recently reached an all-time high as excitement around the new product builds. But if people don't stampede for Apple's dazzling Tablet, it -- like all bubbles -- will burst.
Written by Scott Moritz in New York
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Investors have made plenty of green off gold in 2009, but as the poet Robert Frost wrote, "nothing gold can stay."
Gold futures hit record highs in 2009, as gold bulls rode the fear caused by Lehman Brothers' collapse in late 2008 and the ensuing heavy borrowing by the U.S. government to glory. Noted investors like John Paulson, David Einhorn and Jim Rogers, as well as many central banks around the world, also took big positions in gold, amping up the bullishness. The SPDR Gold Shares hit an all-time high of $119.54 on Dec. 3.
That's a 52 per cent march higher from the 52-week low hit in early January. But while gold futures have backtracked this month, they could be headed much lower.
Gold is a popular hedge against inflation, which may be one factor driving bullion prices higher as the U.S. government borrows heavily to fund the bailout of Wall Street, the economic stimulus program and other measures meant to blunt the effect of the Great Recession -- not to mention the war in Iraq. That said, the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee and recent wholesale inflation and consumer price data have done little to give root to near-term inflation fears.
"For the next two years, deflationary pressure is going to be dominant, and it is going to become a time bomb down the line if and when we keep monetizing large deficits," Nouriel Roubini, the bearish chairman of economics research firm RGE Monitor, told a Reuters conference earlier this month. "It may be too soon to hedge with gold."
So while deep-pocketed investors like Paulson, Einhorn and Rogers may be making a good long-term bet on inflation, remember they all got into gold at much lower levels. And they are better able to wait out that time than many investors are. And central banks? Traders should be leery of following their lead.
According to Bloomberg, central bank gold-buying will result in the first net expansion in gold reserves since 1988. Gold tumbled 15 per cent that year and prices didn't recover for 15 years. Moreover, as the economic recovery plods on with 10 per cent unemployment, consumers have been reluctant to open their wallets for discretionary items like jewelry. Gold bulls are surely tired of hearing it, but Warren Buffett's famous disdain for the precious metal rings particularly true in a time of frothiness like the present.
"Gold gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it," Buffet told an audience at Harvard University in 1998. "It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head."
Written by Michael Gannon in New York
Someone Cut Uncle Sam's Credit Card
It doesn't take a fortune-teller to foresee the bursting of the bubble in U.S. Treasuries. But for those still in need of convincing, look no further than the Oracle of Omaha's last letter to shareholders.
"When the financial history of this decade is written, it will surely speak of the Internet bubble of the late 1990s and the housing bubble of the early 2000s, but the U.S. Treasury bond bubble of late 2008 may be regarded as almost equally extraordinary," wrote Warren Buffett to his loyal Berkshire Hathaway subjects. Buffett issued that warning, mind you, in February 2009.Report Typo/Error
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