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American Smooth Open Silver
Viennese Waltz Variations
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Produced by Dance Vision 2004. Approximately 66 minutes.
Note: Progressive Twinkles are also know as Spirals.
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|Variation 1) Alternate Hold Open Rights: 1st Four Bars of Crossbody Lead, Man Change Weight to Left Foot - Lady 3 Step Right to Shadow, Man Curve 3 Steps, Lady Back, Close, Forward, Alternate Hold Open Right, Man Open Right, Lady 3 Step Right, Man Forward Right Foot Change, Lady Back Right Foot Change.
|Variation 2) Flip Flop to Canter Pivots: Twinkle to Flip Flop Position, Flip Flop, 4th Bar - Man Canter Pivot to Close Position, Canter Pivot Together, Man Turns Right to End, Left Side by Side Position, Hand to Hand, Man Forward Side Together - Lady 3 Step Turn to the Right, Man Balance on Right Foot, Lady 5th Position Break.
|Variation 3) Open Right Turns to Arabesque & Same Foot Lunge: 1-3 Reverse Turn to Checked Reverse, Open Right x 2, Man Back on Left Foot then Forward Right Foot Around Lady to Same Foot Lunge, Lady Forward on Right Foot Arabesque Left Leg, Point Left Foot to Same Foot Lunge, Man to Left Foot, Lady Canter Turn Left, Back ½ Left Turn.
|Variation 4) Side by Side Canter Grapevine: 1-3 Left Turn to Underarm Turn, Man Canter Forward, Lady Canter Rondé, Man 3 Step Left to Side by Side, Lady Canter Rock, Canter Grapevines Side by Side, Man Canter to Right, Lady 3 Step Under Joined Hands, Back ½ Turn.
|Review - Variations 1-4 in a routine format.
|Variation 5) Cuddle and Canter Grapevine: Left Turn, Man Back with Left & Hold 1,2,3, - Lady Step Back, Man Canter, Lady 3 Step Turning Left, Both Canter Grapevine Switching Sides, Shadow Right with Spin Off Ending.
|Variation 6) In & Out Rolls: 1st 4 Bars of Crossbody Lead, Man Canter, Lady 3 Step Right to Roll In, Man Step Across with Left Foot, Lady 3 Step Left to Rollout, Man Canter Side, Lady ½ Turn Right Canter, Man Step Right Foot, Lady Back on Right with Kick, Man Side Canter, Lady 3 Step Left, Man Canter Side on Left Foot, Man Curved 3 Step Turning Left, Lady Spiral Right, Back ½ Left Turn.
|Variation 7) Handshake Flip Flops: Twinkles to Flip Flop Position, Man Flip Flop Across Lady to Take Right Handshake Hold, Flip Flop, Man Canter, Lady Run into Shadow, Progressive Forward in Shadow, Man Canter Turn ¼ Right, Lady 3 Step Right, Back ½ Left Turn.
|Variation 8) Swivel to Rondé & Developé: Twinkles, Man Canter, Lady Canter Underarm Turn to Left, Man Lunge to Right Foot, Lady Swivel & Point Right Foot, Man Lunge to Left Foot, Lady 3 Step Right, Man Lunge to Right Foot, Lady Rondé, Man Canter Left/Right, Lady 3 Step Left, Man Step Left Foot, Lady Step Right Foot & Developé with Left Foot, Back ½ Turn.
|Review - Variations 5-8 in a routine format.


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"And how do you explode your wagers on a $3 table (usually $300 max)? This story and the thread itself getting more and more like fantasy fiction with every new post."
The table I was playing on in The Cal Hotel changes from $3 to $5 depending on time of day... I usually call it the $3 table cause it is the only $3 table that I know of anywhere and I always play on it cause it has a 6 shoe deck and can lower my bets to two $5 hands if need be... I was in a reckless mood then being down all my money and was betting pretty big compared to the other players on the table being it was a $3 ($5???) table... Why would I lie about any of this just to impress people I don't even know or make it sound more interesting... LOL... I even told of stories of me taking it up the butt from the casinos... Just trying to share my experiences with others and enjoy hearing/reading others successes/failures in Vegas... LOL
I don't think I told this one yet...
Was sitting on the $3 table at The Cal... I hear a bunch of people screaming like they hit the lottery... look over to where the noise was coming from and see a bunch of people crowded around the roulette table... A girl had put a stack of like maybe 30+ chips on one number (didn't see which number) and her friend tailed her for like maybe 10+ chips... Their number hit and they got paid out... Then, they left the initial chips and added more... LOL.. Must have had close to 80+ chips on the number and the dealer had to cut the stack in half cause it was too high and looked like it was about to tip over... Guess what.... Number came right back... Not lying... They cashed out and left with a butt load of $100 chips... Crazy
Warcam, I use to basicly live in TJ when I was in San Diego
When you say Caliente, Are we talking about near the publo amigo hotel? The Upstairs section in between Senor Frogs and Publo Amigo Hotel?
I've got alot... Mainly because the drunker I get, money management goes out the door... lol
Starting with how I lost my whole roll within just 4 hours of getting off the plane... 22 years old and only my 2nd time to Vegas... My cousin and I Flew into Vegas for 7 days. As soon as we landed, he jumped on another plane to Cali to meet up with a girl, and then drive down the next day with his brother. So basically I was alone for the night in Vegas. My plan was to play a little craps, get drunk and pass out early to wake up and meet up with my cousins.
My bankroll for the trip was $4000, so I cashed in $1000 at the craps table at Mainstreet. Within 1 hour and about 6 beers deep, I had lost almost all my chips. I ended up cashing in another $1000 thinking I could get it all back... Nope, wrong. Within half an hour, I lost all of my second buy in. Frustrated and wanting to get revenge, I cashed in the rest of my money... $2000. My chips went up and down, up and down. But about an hour and a half later, I lost everything. Ended up going all in on a roller who ends up crapping out after 3 or 4 rolls...
Now drunk off my behind and broke as hell, I called my cousin and told him I lost everything. He actually thought I was BSing and won, but could tell in my voice that I lost. Called my girl back home and told her to wire me the rest of my savings, $5000. Western Union took a huge chunk of my $5000 to do a money transfer. At the end of my trip I ended up winning some back and went home down $3000 for the entire trip.
Lessons learned... Do not chase your losses, instead walk away when the table is COLD... Do not use Western Union if you need money, instead try to get a marker from the casino as long as you know you can pay them back... Drinking and gambling do not mix, especially if you are DRUNK... <<< This one I have a hard time following because the beer just taste so damn good... lol
I got a lot more... What you guys got???
"Where are you staying at?"
krause... Gonna be at The Cal mostly... But plan on checking out some craps tables that offer the fire bet... would love to try my luck on the fire bet on my rolls only...
Anyone know which Casinos offer the fire bet???
wow, you guys have zero discipline,lol
good stories,glad i have discipline
Going to Vega, last week of May.
Looking at staying at Encore or Cosmo ~ lots of chicks === any opinions ?

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By Attorney Aly Benitez
Special to THELAW.TV
Buying a home is one of the most exciting times in a person's life. Most likely, it is the largest purchase you will ever make. Yet it is often also one of the most confusing purchases, due to the number of laws and regulations involved. Because of this, even if your state does not require it, hiring a real estate attorney to represent your interests just makes sense!
Here are five reasons why:
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5. Decrease Risk of Being Sued
Having a real estate attorney represent you is not a legal requirement in states such as Florida. Without one, however, your risk of being sued by the opposing party for failure to disclose information increases. Home inspections, title issues, and failure to disclose material facts are all serious and complex issues that require full disclosure. An attorney's job is to make sure you are compliant and to protect your interests. It then follows that having a real estate attorney involved in your next transaction just makes sense!
The author, Aly Benitez, is a real estate attorney in Orlando, Florida with Benitez Law Group, P.L.


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WSJ: Standing to sue the President
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June 16, 2014, 03:50:21 PM »
The Standing to Sue Obama
Members should let Boehner take the lead against executive excess.
June 15, 2014 5:48 p.m. ET
President Obama is setting a dangerous precedent by suspending his enforcement of laws on health care, immigration, drugs, banking and so much else, but the courts may soon be asked to throw a brushback pitch. That is, unless a rump group of backbenchers undermines the legal challenge.
Mr. Obama's practice of unilaterally waiving his duty to faithfully execute statutes has been abetted by a presumed lack of legal "standing" to contest his suspension. To the extent individuals have not suffered concrete injuries that the courts traditionally redress, he feels he can act without consequence to create whole-cloth regulatory regimes. This makes the inherent Article I powers of Congress irrelevant, with perhaps permanent damage to the separation of powers and political accountability. If Mr. Obama gets away with it, the next President probably will too.
President Barack Obama Associated Press
But Congress may yet have a way to challenge this usurpation in court. The Washington constitutional litigator David Rivkin and Florida International University law professor Elizabeth Price Foley have developed a legal theory that would allow for judicial review to resolve this dispute between the political branches on the merits. Members of Congress as individuals cannot sue as individuals over passing political disputes. But when the President is usurping core legislative powers, Congress as an institution can sue to vindicate this constitutional injury.
Short of impeachment, there is no other way for Congress to defend its rights, and the Rivkin-Foley case is narrow and limitedand should survive judicial scrutiny. The idea has secured the interest of the GOP leadership, which may soon authorize a House-led lawsuit.
The problem is that a handful of junior Members may move to pre-empt the House challenge with their own claim in a way that could undermine House leaders. As a legal matter, the formal imprimatur of Congress is important and serves as a limiting principle. Institutional challenges will be rare for only the gravest suspensions of law and keep sealed the Pandora's box that would be the endless deluge of ad hoc political lawsuits against the White House.
Backbench fervor may also get the better of legal precision. The Rivkin-Foley theory would itself set a precedent and depends on careful arguments. Mr. Rivkin was the legal innovator behind the challenge to ObamaCare's individual mandate and his ideas persuaded a majority of the Supreme Court, even if Chief Justice John Roberts ultimately got cold feet and called it a tax.
But that case was harmed in the lower courtsand in the court of public opinionby sloppy reasoning from politically ambitious litigators. Rump litigation could interfere by casting doubt on this case too.
The courts have long turned back flailing suits from individual legislators, from attempts in the 1970s to police the conduct of the Vietnam war to more recent efforts by Dennis Kucinich and others over Iraq. But personal pique as much as conviction seems to be a motivation in this dispute. Some Members just don't like Speaker John Boehner and prefer to sabotage him at every turn, even in this case when he would be doing a public service by hazarding his own reputation and office.
More judges are pushing back against Mr. Obama's abuses when individuals with standing have sued, and the courts may be open to a larger challenge that resolves the dispute in a constitutionally peaceful way. But defending Congress's prerogatives requires Congress.
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Flood of Undocumented Democratic Voters crossing border; crims released
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June 17, 2014, 11:02:45 AM »
prentice crawford
Re: The war on the rule of law
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June 17, 2014, 01:03:06 PM »
Practice run on the border from a year ago?
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9 Questions to Ask the IRS
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June 17, 2014, 05:23:52 PM »
Charles Krauthammer made an excellent point last night when he said of this scandal: Forty years ago Nixon was crucified by the press and forced to resign - partly over an 18-minute gap on one of his White House tapes. NOW - this administration is claiming they lost 26 MONTHS of e-mails from this woman at the center of the scandal" - and ONLY Fox News reported this story on Friday. Not a peep from any of the other major networks. Sickening.
Attkisson: 9 Requests Lawmakers Should Make About Lois Lerners Missing Emails
Melissa Quinn / @MelissaQuinn97 / June 16, 2014 / 0 comments
As congressional investigators ponder how a computer crash caused two years of Lois Lerners emails to disappear, investigative journalist Sharyl Attkissonoutlined several questions lawmakers should be asking the Internal Revenue Service.
During Lerners tenure at the IRS, tea party groups applying for tax-exempt status routinely were subjected to additional scrutiny and delays in their applications. The IRS informed Congress last week that it had lost an unknown number of emails from Lerner.
Now, as congressional Republicans call on the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the computer crash, Attkisson, a Daily Signal senior independent contributor, explained exactly what information investigators should seek regarding Lerners missing emails:
Please provide a timeline of the crash and documentation covering when it was first discovered and by whom; when, how and by whom it was learned that materials were lost; the official documentation reporting the crash and federal data loss; documentation reflecting all attempts to recover the materials; and the remediation records documenting the fix. This material should include the names of all officials and technicians involved, as well as all internal communications about the matter.
Please provide all documents and emails that refer to the crash from the time that it happened through the IRS disclosure to Congress Friday that it had occurred.
Please provide the documents that show the computer crash and lost data were appropriately reported to the required entities including any contractor servicing the IRS. If the incident was not reported, please explain why.
Please provide a list summarizing what other data was irretrievably lost in the computer crash. If the loss involved any personal data, was the loss disclosed to those impacted? If not, why?
Please provide documentation reflecting any security analyses done to assess the impact of the crash and lost materials. If such analyses were not performed, why not?
Please provide documentation showing the steps taken to recover the material, and the names of all technicians who attempted the recovery.
Please explain why redundancies required for federal systems were either not used or were not effective in restoring the lost materials, and provide documentation showing how this shortfall has been remediated.
Please provide any documents reflecting an investigation into how the crash resulted in the irretrievable loss of federal data and what factors were found to be responsible for the existence of this situation.
I would also ask for those who discovered and reported the crash to testify under oath, as well as any officials who reported the materials as having been irretrievably lost.
In testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in March, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told lawmakers agency emails get taken off and stored in servers. Yet the IRS said Lerners correspondence, sent between January 2009 and April 2011, is irretrievable.
Congressional investigators are working to determine whether Lerner acted alone or on orders handed down by the White House. House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., said in a statement Friday the IRS loss of documents makes it more difficult for investigators to determine who, besides Lerner, was involved in the scandal.
Lerner testified twice on Capitol Hill about the targeting, but invoked the Fifth Amendment both times. In May, the House voted to hold her in contempt for refusing to cooperate with investigations.
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Re: The war on the rule of law
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June 17, 2014, 10:13:56 PM »
Hillary calls the IRS issue not a scandal but a partisan "circus".
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IRS manages to vaporize Lerner's emails.
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Lerner Emails (Really) Gone
How green! The IRS recycled former-IRS official Lois Lerner's computer hard drive, making it impossible to retrieve the lost emails that would undoubtedly be another smoking gun on the Tea Party targeting scandal. An IRS spokesman said, "We believe the standard IRS protocol was followed in 2011 for disposing of the broken hard drive. A bad hard drive, like other broken Information Technology equipment, is sent to a recycler as part of our regular process." Furthermore, the magnetic tapes -- the backup system the IRS uses -- only keeps information for six months before it's written over with new information. In other words, they did a thorough job of "losing" those emails. Meanwhile, ABC and NBC ignored the story while making room for a report that Britain's royal baby, Prince George, was learning how to walk. More...
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Re: IRS manages to vaporize Lerner's emails.
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Quote from: Crafty_Dog on June 19, 2014, 11:31:35 AM
Lerner Emails (Really) Gone
How green! The IRS recycled former-IRS official Lois Lerner's computer hard drive, making it impossible to retrieve the lost emails that would undoubtedly be another smoking gun on the Tea Party targeting scandal. An IRS spokesman said, "We believe the standard IRS protocol was followed in 2011 for disposing of the broken hard drive. A bad hard drive, like other broken Information Technology equipment, is sent to a recycler as part of our regular process." Furthermore, the magnetic tapes -- the backup system the IRS uses -- only keeps information for six months before it's written over with new information. In other words, they did a thorough job of "losing" those emails. Meanwhile, ABC and NBC ignored the story while making room for a report that Britain's royal baby, Prince George, was learning how to walk. More...
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The irony (and elephant in the room) is that this is the agency that controls the record keeping of all Americans with its enormous federal powers. It galls me that you have to be a right winger to feel outrage over this.
The IRS is part of the executive branch of the federal government. Over the months they have been trying to
find the Lois Lerner emails, all the chief executive above them had to do was order all of his government, the White House in particular, to release to the committee
copy of whatever email exchanges with Lois Lerner that they had. Part of his deny, delay, deflect, and divert attention strategy is that: HE DID NOT DO THAT.
This scandal and coverup goes all the way to the top! If the IRS knew for months, he knew for months (or should have know, same thing). Administration of the IRS is part of his sworn responsibilities. He chose to have his White House NOT cooperate with this investigation. Delay as long as possible and then not disclose is not what people thought they were choosing with "the most transparent administration ever".
IRS, ATF, INS, NSA, DOJ etc., without oversight, eventually will evoke some nazi analogies...
My latest thought is that the House and Senate should take up impeachment after the 2016 election and before the end of his term, out of principle, leaving not enough time on the clock to swear in the Vice President as his replacement. Appoint the special investigators now, get all the information now, and mark history with the precedent that this country does not tolerate this kind of governance.
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Re: The war on the rule of law
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June 19, 2014, 02:07:34 PM »
We stand at the precipice of Orwell's memory hole.
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Gowdy takes on IRS's Koskinen
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Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) hit IRS Commissioner John Koskinen with a question the bureaucrat couldn't answer Monday: "You have already said multiple times today that there was no evidence that you found of any criminal wrongdoing," Gowdy said. "I want you to tell me what criminal statutes you have evaluated." Befuddled, Koskinen replied, "I have not looked at any." Gowdy fired back, "Well then how can you possibly tell our fellow citizens that there's not criminal wrongdoing if you don't even know what statutes to look at?" Gowdy repeated the question, and Koskinen again admitted, "I reviewed no criminal statutes." The only hope for the IRS is smoke and mirrors. We're glad at least Gowdy isn't going to take it.
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Re: The war on the rule of law
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June 24, 2014, 01:50:42 PM »
Thank god for Gowdy.
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Sen. Cruz: Special Prosecutor or Impeach Holder
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When the IRS had integrity
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June 27, 2014, 03:47:22 PM »
Johnnie Walters, RIP
Remembering when the IRS had integrity.
James Taranto
June 27, 2014
(Best of the tube tonight: Catch us on "Lou Dobbs Tonight," 7 p.m. ET on Fox Business, with repeat showings at 10 p.m. and 4 a.m.)
In the scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service, the IRS commissioner refused to play along with a corrupt administration, the New York Times reports. A White House aide handed him a list of 200 political "enemies" the president wanted investigated. In response, the commissioner asked: "Do you realize what you're doing?" Then, he answered his own rhetorical question: "If I did what you asked, it'd make Watergate look like a Sunday school picnic."
The White House aide's reply was "emphatic," according to the Times: ""The man I work for doesn't like somebody to say 'no.' "
The commissioner went to his boss, the Treasury secretary, "showed him the list and recommended that the I.R.S. do nothing." The secretary "told him to lock the list in his safe." Later, he retrieved the list and turned it over to congressional investigators.
Johnnie Walters testifies before a Senate subcommittee, March 1973. Corbis
It's enough to restore your trust in the government--except that it happened more than 40 years ago. The corrupt order was delivered by John Dean in September 1972. The commissioner, Johnnie Walters, eventually "testified to various committees investigating alleged Nixon misdeeds," the Times reports. "He left office in April 1973." He died Tuesday; the Times article we've been quoting is his obituary.
Walters wasn't the first IRS commissioner to resist President Nixon's political pressure. His predecessor, Randolph Thrower, was fired "for resisting White House pressure to punish political opponents," as the Times notes. Thrower died this March at 100. When Walters took office in 1971, "his stated goals were simplifying the tax process and catching tax cheats," but his job "had grown more complex" when Nixon imposed wage-and-price controls in an economically ignorant effort to curb inflation.
But the obituarist dryly notes that "Mr. Walters had not been told of Nixon's other job requirements," which surfaced in a recorded Oval Office conversation: "I want to be sure he is a ruthless son of a bitch, that he will do what he's told, that every income-tax return I want to see I see, that he will go after our enemies and not go after our friends." When Nixon learned that Walters had refused to follow the wrongful order, he asked: "Why the hell did we promote him?"
Later, he told the aforementioned White House aide, John Dean: "You've got to kick Walters's ass out first and get a man in there." He added that the Treasury secretary, George Shultz, "needed to make sure that Mr. Walters left if he wanted to keep his own job," in the Times's paraphrase. Shultz remained in office until May 1974, three months before Nixon's resignation, and later served as President Reagan's secretary of state. He's still alive at 93.
This Wednesday, as Mediaite.com notes, Barack Obama's Treasury secretary, Jack Lew, testified before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, pressed him about the purported harmonic convergence of crashed computers that caused seven IRS employees' emails to go missing. "Sometimes a broken hard drive is just a broken hard drive," Lew said.
As far as we know, even Bill Clinton never said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
One group of experts, the International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers, apparently disagrees with Lew and the current IRS commissioner, John Koskinen, as The Weekly Standard's Jim Swift reports:
IAITAM administers internationally accepted certifications for information technology professionals. According to the group's standards, if Lerner's supposedly malfunctioning hardware was properly destroyed, there would be records of it.
Dr. Barbara Rembiesa, president of IAITAM, questions whether there is documentation of the destruction of the files. Who performed the work, says Rembiesa, is important because not all IT professionals are IAITAM certified.
"The notion that these emails just magically vanished makes no sense whatsoever. That is not how IT asset management at major businesses and government institutions works in this country. When the hard drive in question was destroyed, the IRS should have called in an accredited IT Asset Destruction (ITAD) professional or firm to complete that process, which requires extensive documentation, official signoffs, approvals, and signatures of completion. If this was done, there would be records. If this was not done, this is the smoking gun that proves the drive or drives were destroyed improperly or not at all."
Also on Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Committee released an eyebrow-raising email exchange from December 2012 (that is, postdating the alleged computer crashes). It seems that Lois Lerner, the IRS's since-ousted head of tax-exempt organizations, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican member of the Senate Finance Committee, were invited to appear together at a conference.
Lerner turned down the invitation, emailing Matthew Giuliano, a lawyer then employed as a manager at the IRS: "Don't think I want to be on stage with Grassley on this issue." (The "issue" and the identity of the conference sponsor are redacted from the email exchange.) But she observed: "Looked like they were inappropriately offering to pay for [Grassley's] wife. Perhaps we should refer to Exam?"
"We have seen a lot of unbelievable things in this investigation, but the fact that Lois Lerner attempted to initiate an apparently baseless IRS examination against a sitting Republican United States Senator is shocking," Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp said in a press release. "At every turn, Lerner was using the IRS as a tool for political purposes in defiance of taxpayer rights."
Giuliano gingerly replied to Lerner that he was "not sure we should send to exam. I think the offer to pay for Grassley's wife is income to Grassley, and not prohibited on its face."
There's no indication that Lerner pressed the matter further, and the email exchange alone is consistent with the hypothesis that she was an overzealous enforcer but not a partisan one. That is the claim administration apologists have been making, though when you stop and think about it, that means their defense is that the IRS is indiscriminate in opportunistically snooping on private correspondence.
Anyway, everything else we know about Lerner and Obama-era IRS practices argues against that defense. "If this were a Republican administration," former Clinton aide Lanny Davis tells radio host Larry O'Connor, who quotes him in the Washington Free Beacon, "I'd be saying when hard drives have been obliterated and this recent Lois Lerner--I think very inappropriate, maybe innocent but completely inappropriate--'maybe we should look at Mr. Grassley' . . . there's no Democrat that I know of that wouldn't be asking a Republican administration to conduct an independent investigation."
Four decades ago, during a Republican administration that was brought down by corruption, the IRS turned out to be a bulwark of government integrity. Today the possibility remains that the IRS itself is the source of the corruption. As we've repeatedly argued, that would be even worse than an IRS that follows corrupt orders from the president. A corrupt administration can be replaced, as Nixon's was. It's harder to see what can be done if a vital and permanent institution of the administrative state has been corrupted.
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Impeach corrupt officials, not seek special counsel; Boener's plan is feckless
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Re: The war on the rule of law
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"and those who have protected those officials need to be removed from office now, not two or three years from now when we may finally have a scrupulous attorney general. This is why the Constitutions impeachment clause makes clear that the political process of removing malfeasant officials from power provides no double-jeopardy protection against a later criminal prosecution for the same misconduct"
So what does it take to impeach these officials?
And won't impeachment simply die in the Senate?
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Quote from: ccp on June 29, 2014, 11:47:05 AM
"and those who have protected those officials need to be removed from office now, not two or three years from now when we may finally have a scrupulous attorney general. This is why the Constitutions impeachment clause makes clear that the political process of removing malfeasant officials from power provides no double-jeopardy protection against a later criminal prosecution for the same misconduct"
So what does it take to impeach these officials?
And won't impeachment simply die in the Senate?
I believe impeachment requires only a simple majority in the House. Removal from office requires 2/3 majority of the Senate.
It would die in the Senate, yes, but if they take their responsibilities seriously it would require them to take it up seriously in a trial and conduct a vote. If done before the election, there are several hot-seat Dems who would have to give it careful consideration, Landreau, Begich, Hagan, Prior? And there are others who may be sick and tired of this administration bringing down the good name of transparency and liberalism, lol. After the election it still cannot be done on a party line vote. As intended, impeachment of anyone requires significant support from both sides.
The impeachment proceedings would cause SOME press coverage of the case against them, and the trial in the Senate could get quite testy. )
This is all time and energy not devoted to the administration's transformation project so in that sense we all win no matter the outcome.
Obviously if R's bring a weak case and get no crossover support it could easily backfire on them too, like budget showdowns, etc.
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Thanks for response.
OF course you know all this too....
It doesn't help that in Nixon's day the media was gunning for the Republican and now the vast majority is protecting the President. Public opinion counts for everything in this kind of thing.
Such a victory would be weak. Obama will continue to do whatever he wants. Ultimately he will pardon all the illegals. That is his way of giving the Right the finger.
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Don't make me violate the constitution again...
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What would happen to you if you did this?
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That is a very interesting legal point GM.
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Quote from: Crafty_Dog on July 06, 2014, 10:37:09 AM
I disagree with Andrew McCarthy. They are not willing to de-fund or impeach so compare blowing the whistle only with not blowing the whistle. What he does not say with certainty is that this will fail on standing. The lawsuit keeps the over reaches of power in the news. McCarthy says correctly, this is about public opinion.
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July 06, 2014, 11:45:55 PM »
I can envision it failing for reasons other than standing with a practical result of giving Obama a chance to pretend his lawless rampage has been upheld.
If the Reps can't make the case for defunding in the court of public opinion, how can they succeed in an effort to take it to SCOTUS? Do we want SCOTUS as the arbiter of these things? What if Hillary is elected and she gets to appoint some justices? We'll be fuct.
I wish I had the time to read McCarthy's book on the case for impeachment. Anyone here know of any serious reviews of it?
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Will try to find a good review- summary.
No matter how right the case for impeachment is, it still:
a) fails without Dem support, and
b) installs Joe Biden as President.
The two strategies are not mutually exclusive. As you argue the merits of the lawsuit, you are building the case for impeachment.
The main remedy is the next election.
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Re: The war on the rule of law, House Lawsuit
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The Boehner Lawsuit Against Obama Is Beginning to Take ShapeA vote on the resolution to authorize the legal action is set for the week before August break.
July 8, 2014
Starting next week, House Republicans will launch a highly visibleand likely tumultuousthree-week process of bringing to the floor legislation to authorize their promised lawsuit against President Obama over his use of executive actions.
"In theory, you could report out a resolution tomorrow and vote on it," said a House GOP aide on Tuesday. "But that is not the approach [the leaders] want to take."
Rather, the aim is to displayif not actually engage ina more deliberative process, even if amid controversy. This drawn-out script builds toward a potentially dramatic floor vote held just days, or even hours, before the House adjourns on July 31 for its August-long summer break. more at link)
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Personally, while I think it would be highly satisfying to me personally as a conservative, I hope that conservatives WON'T try to impeach Obama. My own preference is that they simply attempt to turn him into a post-November lame duck legislatively (presuming that conservatives get enough seats back to overide a veto). My reason being that O still has a... let's just say 'zealous' in the religious sense of the word... 25-40% base that is going to become very, very (very) galvanized if Conservatives make that move, either after, or especially, before November.
Please don't misconstrue-- I think this president is an overt liar, he is a terrible president, he is actively trying to sink the country, and he is ENTIRELY impeachable, quality wise. I just think it would be a bad idea.... imagine how twirled up the media will get about it. It will just pour political gas on the fire, whereas I think Obama can be just as effectively neutered legislatively, *assuming* conservatives gain that super majority. A two-year impeachment trial portrayed for that duration by MSNBC as 'white racist conservatives gunning for the black guy' every night on the news running up to 2016 is a mistake.
Eric Holder, now, HIM I hope they tar and feather after November. I understand that he is also impeachable. (
) If Conservatives win back the Congress, I will wager a digital beer that he simply resigns in the face of what is likely to be a very swift campaign to unseat him.
But, I'm open to opposing vp's.
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Politically I'm thinking it would be a bridge too far, even though both he and the nation thoroughly deserve it.
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Quote from: Crafty_Dog on July 11, 2014, 01:34:47 AM
Politically I'm thinking it would be a bridge too far, even though both he and the nation thoroughly deserve it.
For one thing, we don't have direct proof tying the President to some of the worst offenses. Hard to say if willful neglect in governing equals high crimes and misdemeanors.
Impeachment is a political solution that would fail, install Biden as President if successful, and most certainly backfire on Republicans.
Republicans have a public perception problem. They need to be seen as relentlessly advancing real solutions to real problems - every time they get a camera or microphone to their podium. They need to change hearts and minds and they need to win races.
People are seeing how bad Democratic policies and governing can be, but haven't fully jumped over to conservative governing principles. This is an enormous and historic opportunity to win people over and change directions. The over-reaches of power and lawless governing are abominable, but side issues to being on the wrong track headed the wrong direction.
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Exactly so.
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Quote from: Crafty_Dog on July 11, 2014, 06:23:02 PM
Exactly so.
We won't impeach, but if we did, what would be the articles of impeachment against him? Will anyone add, correct or fill in details to make the case:
1) Fast and Furious, what exactly are we charging them with doing there?
2) IRS Targeting, applying the laws and enforcement mechanism unequally under the law with the intention of stifling opposition gaining unfair advantage in the election.
3) A long list of 'passing' laws by administrative decree when he couldn't get the votes to pass in congress, as required by the constitution. EPA rules, for one example. Removing the work requirement for welfare, for another.
4) 13 Unanimous rulings in the Supreme Court against the administration for over-reach of executive power.
5) Benghazi: Putting Americans in harm's way, not sending help, then deliberately misleading the American people about what happened.
6) Immigration and border unenforcement.
7) ...
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A number of those have yet to be traced to him personally , , ,
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Nixon was a beacon of integrity in comparison.
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Umm , , , well , , , ummm , , , maybe they were not vaporized after all , , ,
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Re: The war on the rule of law -Does Obama WANT impeachment
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Personally, I think this is EXACTLY what he wants, and is the only thing that is likely to reinvigorate his presidency...
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A friend writes:
We have met the enemy and he is us. Yesterday, in a series of hits as operatic and brutal as the last 15 minutes of the Godfather, the government effectively made inversion through corporate merger an offense punishable by corporate death.
Using the threat of an unlimited Treasury investigation, the President and Senator Dick Durbin stopped Walgreen ( WAG) from moving to Switzerland. The wreckage of some $10 billion in lost stock value for mostly Main Street investors was left as a grim reminder not to cross the government by, in this case, following the letter of our own stupid laws.
This is a mighty fine way to discourage foreign as well as domestic entrepreneurs from founding and keeping companies in the USA. Think about it -- "Using the threat of an unlimited Treasury investigation". This is becoming the standard modus operandi -- remember the IRS "investigations" of political activists.
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Absolutely consistent with every other Federal policy, foreign and domestic. The US government is not only a colossus now, but has become a bully. It's acting more and more like an organized criminal enterprise.
We can also see, now, how a democracy gives us essentially zero control over the government machine. Hans-Hermann Hoppe argues that democracy tends to increase the power of government and ultimately ensures that we have the worst societal members in positions of power. See
That's why our founding fathers advocated a Republic and abhorred democracy.
Obamacare was arguably the most stupid thing the Obama administration has done to date. Trying to stop corporate inversions might be the second most stupid thing. Not only are the Dems showing themselves to be very anti-business, they are displaying supreme ignorance of how business and taxation interact. Instead of trying to stop inversions they should simply fix the tax code. But no, they want to force things to work their way, giving top priority to government's claim on profits. This will keep the economy weaker than it otherwise could have been for the next few years.
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Treasury and Inversion
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More than 20 Obama officials have lost or destroyed emails after probes launched
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Issa: More Than 20 Obama Officials Lost or Destroyed E-mails After House Launched Probes
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August 7, 2014 5:27 PM
The revelation that Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Marilynn Tavenner did not retain her e-mails means that more than 20 witness in the Obama administration to lose or delete e-mails without notifying Congress, according to the top House investigator.
The Obama administration has lost or destroyed e-mails for more than 20 witnesses, and in each case, the loss wasnt disclosed to the National Archives or Congress for months or years, in violation of federal law, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) said of Tavenners lost e-mails.
It defies logic that so many senior Administration officials were found to have ignored federal recordkeeping requirements only after Congress asked to see their e-mails, he continued. Just this week, my staff followed up with HHS, who has failed to comply with a subpoena from ten months ago. Even at that point, the administration did not inform us that there was a problem with Ms. Tavenners e-mail history. Yet again, we discover that this administration will not be forthright with the American people unless cornered.
From February of 2010 to November of 2013 one month after the launch of the HealthCare.gov website, as the Daily Callers Patrick Howley noted Tavenner didnt maintain copies of her e-mails as required.
During her entire tenure at CMS, Ms. Tavenners CMS e-mail address, which is accessible to both colleagues and the public, has been subject to write-in campaigns involving thousands of e-mails from the public, CMS wrote to the National Archives and Records Administration, per Howley.
Therefore, she receives an extremely high volume of e-mails that she manages daily. To keep an orderly e-mail box and to stay within the agencys e-mail system capacity limits, the administrator generally copied or forwarded e-mails to immediate staff for retention and retrieval, and did not maintain her own copies, CMS said.
Issa subpoenaed the missing e-mails ten months ago. The evidence is mounting that the website did not go through proper testing, including critical security testing, and that the Administration ignored repeated warnings from contractors about ongoing problems, he said at the time. The American people deserve to know why the administration spent significant taxpayer money on a product that is entirely dysfunctional and puts their personal information at risk.
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Address: 208 W. Schubert , Fredericksburg TX 78624 - view map
Sleeps: 8 | Bedrooms: 3 | Bathrooms: 3
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Bella Manor is a stunning hill country bed and breakfast in Fredericksburg, Texas, located just two blocks north of Main Street shops. It is home to two beautiful suites, the Main Suite which is a large three bedroom, three bath suite with large dining room and full kitchen, and the Carriage Suite which is a cozy one bedroom, one bath suite. Each suite has a private entrance, of course, and a special flair all its own! The original home was located at the old Fredericksburg Icehouse. Noted builder, Tony Martin, used the beautiful beams, the kitchen and the sunroom as a base around which to build the fabulous Hill Country style home you see today.
The Main Suite of Bella Manor is located in the front portion of the home and boasts fabulous soaring ceilings, exposed beams and rock work and plenty of space to spread out. The antique front doors, imported from Portugal, will be the first thing to catch your eye. As you enter the home, your eye may go straight to the beautiful candlelit fireplace with a large flat screen television above. You will then certainly appreciate the exquisite furnishings throughout..from the beautiful curved sofa in the den to the massive carved wooden king size beds in the two bedrooms. Each of the two downstairs bedrooms offers a king size bed with luxurious linens, a flat screen TV with cable selections and a private bath. The front bedroom's en suite bathroom boasts a claw foot tub, separate shower, and his-and-hers vanities. The bathroom for the equally beautiful back bedroom offers a stand alone shower.
The suite also includes a full and fabulous kitchen and an attached east-facing sunroom which has a queen size sleeper sofa. Overlooking the beautiful den is a third loft-style bedroom offering two twin beds, a flat screen television and a private bath with a claw foot tub. This bedroom is accessed from an outside staircase located just outside the kitchen.
All in all, the suite can accommodate up to six guests with space, elegance and luxury. For larger groups, add the Carriage Suite, which provides room for an additional two guests. No finer accommodations exist in the hill country; so reserve your time in this glorious home today!
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We hope you are making plans to be our guest at Absolute Charm B&B and Vacation Rentals, where our aim is to give you that perfect Texas Hill Country getaway you are seeking. Whether you are interested in spending the weekend with us or taking a longer vacation, we know the charm of Fredericksburg, Texas will captivate you. Please acquaint yourself with our Policies below.
We look forward to having you as our guest!
CHECK~IN: 4:00 pm CHECK~OUT: 11:00 am
PLEASE NOTE: You will not go directly to your suite or cottage for check-in, but will instead come to our reservation office located at 711 West Main Street, Fredericksburg, TX, Arrival packets may be picked up from the Express check-in station set up on the front porch here at our office beginning at 4:00 pm. If you have any questions or need any assistance, please come inside and speak to one of our friendly staff.
LATE ARRIVALS: If arriving after 6:00 p.m. (4:30 p.m. on Sunday), you will find a lockbox on the front porch of our office at 711 West Main Street containing a packet inside with your name on it (the lockbox code will be in your confirmation email). Your packet will contain a map to your suite or cottage, keys if needed, parking instructions, and information about Fredericksburg. Your B&B's homeowner contact information will be provided as well in case you need anything during your stay.
Travel Guard Insurance provides travel insurance that protects your vacation investment. To learn more details of how to purchase Travel Insurance call Travel Guard at 800.827.0471. Absolute Charm's Travel Insurance code is #255770.
If you choose not to purchase travel insurance, we encourage you to review our Cancellation/Move Policies below. If you have purchased travel insurance you may submit a claim to Travel Guard by calling 800-827-0471 and giving them Absolute Charm's Travel Insurance Code #255770.
For your protection and ours, ALL cancellations MUST be made in writing via email, by responding to your confirmation. Your cancellation request will be handled in one of the following ways:
* ANY request to cancel or move your reservation for the properties listed below must be submitted 30 days or more in advance of your arrival date, At 30 days and within you are fully responsible for the ENTIRE amount of the reservation.
*Cancellation requests submitted 30 days or more in advance of your arrival will only incur a $35.00 cancellation fee per property and the deposit (minus the cancellation fee) will be refunded to the same credit card we originally charged
*Cancellation requests for properties that do not fall under the Group Cancellation Policy mentioned above, MUST be made 10 days or more in advance of your arrival, within 10 days of your arrival date you are fully responsible for the ENTIRE amount of the reservation.
*Cancellation requests submitted outside of the 10 day window will only incur a $35.00 cancellation fee per suite/property, and the deposit you made at the time of the reservation (minus the cancellation fee) will be refunded to the same credit card we originally charged.
Any request to change rooms, and/or reservation dates will result in a $35.00 move fee pursuant to the policies above.
We will email you a Cancellation Notice for your records once your request is processed.
Packages/Spa Cancellation Policy: Pampering Packages or Massages must be cancelled at least 48 hours in advance or you will be charged the full amount. Please help us respect our vendors by giving ample notice should you need to cancel.
Some of our properties include breakfast in the form of a voucher/certificate, a continental breakfast or full breakfast for each day of your stay.
Please check the property's page for information regarding the details of your breakfast.
All properties are quoted for single/double occupancy including breakfast (if applicable). Taxes (city and state) and processing fees will be added to the rates quoted. Additional guests beyond 2 will be charged $35 per person per night.
All properties require a two night minimum stay. Some of our properties allow for a one night stay during the week (Sunday through Thursday) but at the higher weekend rate. Moving from room to room for purposes of determining the length of your stay is not allowed. For example, if you stay one night in one room and then move to another room that does not qualify as a two-night stay.
One night stays may be booked online or feel free to give us a call (866.244.7897) or send us an email (firstname.lastname@example.com) anytime, and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Rates are subject to change without notice.
Children and pets are allowed at some of our properties, but only if it is specifically mentioned on that room's page and on the Kid Friendly and/or Pet Friendly page. Please call us (866.244.7897) if you need guidance on which rooms will allow children and/or pets.
Pets, if allowed (see above), there is a $35.00 per pet, per night fee at each property. This fee covers standard cleaning up after your pet(s). If your pet(s) cause any damage to the room or its furnishings, you will be charged the cost of the damages incurred. The fee for bringing an undisclosed pet is $200 per night/per pet. No exceptions.
Children, if allowed (see above), ages 4 and under are free and accordingly will not receive breakfast. Children ages 5 years and older will be charged at the adult rate of $35.00 per person and will be provided with breakfast. Again, not all properties are able to accommodate children so please double check the page of the property you are choosing to see if children are allowed.
Some of our properties allow small parties or gatherings, all guests must be current guests with Absolute Charm ($35.00 fee per guest applies). If you are intending to have a bachlorette, anniversary, birthday or other party/gathering, we must receive written permission from the homeowner in advance.
Group party size must be confirmed 10 days prior to arrival.
No Split Bills! If you are sharing the fees for a room or rooms, please put the charges on one person's card and split the bill among yourselves.
You agree that any loss or damage to the property will be billed to your credit card by Absolute Charm. Guests are financially responsible for any damages done to the B&B or any of the property's contents. Any excess cleaning will be billed to your credit card at an hourly rate of $25.00.
A few of our properties are able to accommodate VERY small weddings, only with advanced notice and permission of the homeowner. There is a non-refundable facility use fee of $1,500.00 plus a $500.00 damage/cleaning deposit. The damage/cleaning deposit will be refunded after the wedding as long as there is not any excess cleaning required. This applies to any type of wedding, rehearsal dinner, or wedding reception.
Our rates are based on double occupancy meaning the rates shown are what we charge for either one or two people. After the first two guests, we charge an additional $35.00 per person per night. We understand that plans do change, so just please be SURE to let us know immediately if your party size has changed from what you originally indicated. If it is determined that you have brought more guests than originally indicated, a $200 fine per guest will be incurred and will be charged to the card on file for the reservation.
Pets are only allowed at a few of our properties, and only if it is specifically indicated on that room's page. Some rooms also have weight limitations on pets. For those rooms that do allow pets, there is a $35.00 per pet, per night fee. Whether or not the property actually accepts pets, a $200.00 fine per pet will be charged to the card on file for the reservation if you bring an undisclosed pet(s).
Smoking is NOT allowed inside any property as all of our B&B's and Vacation Rentals are non-smoking. Smoking inside ANY Absolute Charm property will result in a $200 fine, which will be billed to the credit card on file for the reservation.
Please note: For your safety and the safety of all our guests, absolutely no candles are permitted to be used in any of our properties. Damages to our rooms or violation of any of our policies, including those shown above, will result in a minimum $200.00 fine.
You agree that any Loss or Damage to the property will be billed to your credit card by Absolute Charm. Any excess cleaning will also be billed to your credit card at an hourly rate of $25.00.
If you bring children, or anyone, who wet the bed there will be a $50.00 fee per bed which has been wet. Also if sheets are ruined by spilling wine, coffee, blood, etc. on them a $50.00 fee will be charged to cover a portion of the cost to replace each set of sheets ruined. Accidents do happen; we simply ask you to reimburse the owner for your accidents that cause out-of-pocket expenses.
We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Money Orders, Cash and Absolute Charm Gift Certificates purchased from Absolute Charm. At the time of booking, you must pay for half of the reservation minus the taxes. If you are making a reservation within 10 days (30 days for group properties) of arrival then your entire balance must be paid in full.
You agree to authorize Absolute Charm to charge the remaining balance due to the credit card on file 10 days (30 days for group properties) before your arrival date. If card declines, you forfeit your deposit and your reservation is subject to cancellation. If you would like the remaining balance to be charged to a different card, it is YOUR responsibility to contact us with the new information prior to the deadlines above.
No Split Bills! If you are sharing the fees for a room or rooms, please put the charges on one person's card and split the bill among yourselves.
Your payment and personal information is always safe. Our Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software is the industry standard and among the best software available today for secure commerce transactions. It encrypts all of your personal information, including credit card number, name, and address, so that it cannot be read over the internet.
We respect and are committed to protecting your privacy. We may collect personally identifiable information when you visit our site. We also automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, cookie information and the page(s) you visited. We will not sell your personally identifiable information to anyone.
The State of Texas and City of Fredericksburg impose 13% lodging tax on every stay. In addition, Absolute Charm charges and retains a 5% fee in exchange for the services we provide in facilitating your transaction. There is no additional fee for booking your reservation by phone versus booking online.
If you leave items in your room, give us a call and we will gladly send the items to you via US Postal Service via priority mail or overnight service...your choice. You will be charged the exact amount the Postal Service charges PLUS a $10.00 handling fee to cover employee time. Items not claimed within two weeks will be donated to charity.
Absolute Charm is not responsible for any items left behind.
Please remember check in takes place at the Absolute Charm office located at 711 W. Main St, Fredericksburg, Texas 78624.
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- Filner says he was forced out due to a "coup" based on "rumor and innuendo"
- His remarks left people inside City Hall stunned, a source says
- Council president says the deal " allows our city to begin to heal"
- 18 women have publicly accused Filner of sexual harassment; 1 has sued
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is resigning in the face of a torrent of sexual harassment claims -- though he's not going out quietly.
City Attorney Jan Goldsmith announced around 3:45 p.m. (6:45 p.m. ET) that the City Council, during a closed-door session, had accepted the terms of an agreement with Filner that was reached after three days of mediation talks.
Filner submitted a "signed resignation" that "the city has accepted" in a 7-0 vote by council members, Goldsmith said. That resignation will take effect at 5 p.m. Friday, August 30.
After that vote, Filner spoke at the City Council meeting -- his first extensive public comments in weeks -- and began by offering a "deep apology ... to all the citizens."
"The city should not have been put through this," the 70-year-old mayor said. "And my own personal failures were responsible."
A short time later, though, Filner went on the defensive. While admitting that his behavior toward women was inappropriate at times, he insisted that he "never sexually harassed anyone."
In the process of "trying to establish personal relationships," the mayor explained, "the combination of awkwardness and hubris, I think, led to behavior that many found offensive." He added, "Not one allegation ... has ever been independently verified or proven in court."
"But the hysteria that has been created ... is the hysteria of a lynch mob," Filner said, criticizing an environment in which "rumors become allegations, allegations become facts, facts become evidence of sexual harassment which have led to demands for my resignation and recall."
Blasting politicians and members of the media who "unleashed a monster," the mayor said, "The hysteria ended up playing into the hands of those who wanted a political coup -- the removal of a democratically elected mayor purely by rumor and innuendo."
"They found the weapons they needed in my own failures as a human being," Filner said of "well-organized interests" opposed to him. "But they found with those weapons and they used them, in a bloody and vicious way."
The outgoing mayor's remarks -- going from a contrite apology to a withering attack -- left many watching from inside City Hall stunned, according to a source who was there. The comment about his being the victim of a "coup" especially caught people off guard.
"We are shocked that he would go there," said the source inside City Hall.
This defiant stance notwithstanding, it doesn't change the fact that Filner's term as mayor ends -- according to a deal he agreed to -- next week.
And when it does, City Council President Todd Gloria will step in on an interim basis. Gloria said Friday afternoon, after the council session, that he'll soon begin work on setting up a special election.
Speaking shortly after Filner, Gloria -- who, along with the other eight council members, had demanded Filner's resignation -- said that he believes the "settlement represents an end to our civil nightmare, and it allows our city to begin to heal."
"San Diego is back," the incoming interim mayor said later. "We are America's greatest city, and we always will be."
The agreement signed off on Friday does not affect a lawsuit brought against Filner by Irene McCormack Jackson, the mayor's former communications chief, according to Goldsmith.
Jackson left her job when she sued the mayor in July -- saying he had subjected women to "crude and disgusting" comments and inappropriate touching -- but remains a municipal employee, Goldsmith noted. He said Friday that the city will continue to engage in mediation talks with Jackson and her lawyer, Gloria Allred.
Under the mediation agreement, San Diego will dismiss its cross-complaint against Filner in relation to that lawsuit, the city attorney said.
Goldsmith also said that, for any claims brought against San Diego and Filner for his alleged conduct while mayor, "the city will provide a joint legal defense through the city attorney's office for the city and Mr. Filner."
Friday's announcement marks the latest milestone in a saga that has gripped San Diego for seven weeks, when the first in what would be 18 women came forward publicly to accuse Filner -- during his time as congressman and, since 2012, as mayor -- of inappropriate behavior.
Numerous public officials, including all nine city council members and the state's two U.S. Senators, urged Filner to step down. So, too, did a majority of locals, according to polls.
Some of them voiced that view to city council members Friday, before they convened in private session to make their decision on the agreement.
Other speakers also rose to support Filner.
Scott Andrews claimed "everything but due process has occurred," while one woman called what's happening "a circus to get a good man out of office."
A few offered sympathy for the council members, given what they and other municipal leaders have dealt with in recent weeks and the decision that lay ahead.
"It is really about the city that we all love," said Laurie Black, a longtime civic leader. "And make your decision with the intentions of loving your city."
Even once Filner leaves office, the city could bear the repercussions of his alleged behavior.
As Goldsmith noted, the city can be held liable for the actions of its employees -- including its past and present mayor.
Filner, himself, is hardly out of the woods. While he now only faces one lawsuit, others could follow.
Plus, there's the chance that the congressman-turned-mayor could be prosecuted by local, state or federal authorities.
Speaking to that point after news of the resignation became official, California Attorney General's office spokesman Nick Pacilio said, "We can confirm a criminal investigation is underway."