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Jackie Robinson Day in LA and across the nation
Each year on April 15, we take time to reflect on just what an incredible role Jackie Robinson played not only in the game of baseball, but in our society today. While the pregame ceremony at tonight's game will be a moving part of the celebration, we are doing something else today that should really be special.
This morning at Crenshaw High School, 10 former, current and future Dodgers will take part in a panel discussion in front of the entire student body to help future generations understand just what this amazing Dodger and amazing person accomplished in his lifetime. Jackie's teammate, Don Newcombe, will moderate the discussion, which also includes Tommy Davis, Maury Wills, "Sweet" Lou Johnson, Matt Kemp, James Loney, Marcus Thames, Tony Gwynn Jr. and Xavier Paul.
Trayvon Robinson, who went to Crenshaw High School, was excused from tonight's game for Triple-A Albuquerque to take part in this event, which says something about how important today really is. As Jackie Robinson famously said, "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives" and 64 years after he first played for the Dodgers, he continues to impact us all every day.
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Thanks Josh! Have a great #42 Day!
A 42 win season would be very nice, because that would leave even more EMPTY SEATS than I can hope for, although I still think this team will win 79 in spite of what Ned has put together on the field.
Josh – Thanks for adding this post and setting up a place to remember Jackie Robinson. In honor of this great day, I think it's appropriate to compare and contrast the efforts and results of Jackie Robinson to those of Frank McCourt:
The impact on the Dodgers:
Jackie was obviously a great player. Beyond that, he kicked opened the door for other great Brooklyn Dodger black teammates: Don Newcombe, Roy Campanella, etc. etc.
Frank has done worse than jack-s&&t for the Dodgers. He hired Ned. He has decimated the minor-league talent. He has decimated the major-league talent. He has sucked money out of the Dodger franchise, just so he and Jamie could live lavish lifestyles.
The impact on baseball:
Jackie opened up baseball to all colors and creeds. This allows the best players from around the world to come play in MLB, making MLB a place where only the best can thrive – a true meritocracy.
Frank increased the prices at the parking lot. Frank has demolished one of the greatest baseball franchises and has brought it close to laughing-stock status.
The impact on society and the USA:
Jackie helped to fulfill what America should be, a land of equal opportunity for all.
Frank abused that opportunity, taking only for himself – a true robber baron of baseball. Not only that, let it not be un-said on April 15 (the traditional tax day), that Frank has not paid one lick of taxes in years – when is the IRS going to go after this guy?
Bravo, SELLTHETEAM!
Thanks Josh for a new thread. I am wearing my Jackie Robinson at work today and heading to the game afterwards.
I always look forward to Jackie Robinson's day at Dodger Stadium. To me is equal with a National Holiday.
Thank you Jackie! your breakthrough had an effect not just on baseball but you paved the way for a change in American society.
Today, in honor of Jackie Robinson, make your life important by having a positive impact on the life of someone else.
I know legal matters move slower than glaciers, but when the hell is SOMETHING going to be decided about this once-proud franchise and its true ownership? Jamie, please gouge your soon-to-be ex to the financial hilt so we can be rid of you both.
I've been saying for a long time now that we have 2 ways of getting rid of mccourt:
1) Dropping attendance far enough to force him into bankruptcy
2) IRS audit
Now (unfortunately), we have a third way. Albeit, it's kind of an ammendment of #1. Perhaps Mr Stow can sue him for enough to drive him out.
But we can assist the IRS a little, perhaps. Report him:
I am. Believe it.
Give it time. I heard yesterday that the family is just totally focused on Mr. Stow right now. The lawsuit will likely come, but all in due time.
I'll never ask this again, but if you could be so kind as to moderate my comment "awaiting moderation" discussing Jackie Robinson and his impact on the nation before gametime, I'd be VERY thankful.
[filling in for Josh]
Peaceful Setting for Jackie Robinson Day
Wasn't it a great and peaceful game yesterday? Lots and lots of blue and nobody hurt whatsoever. A great lead-in to tonight's #42 game.
Tonight's Dodger Lineup
Gwynn LF
Blake 3B
Ethier RF
Kemp CF
Loney 1B
Uribe 2B
Barajas C
Carroll SS
Garland P
Yeah it might help if we stop attending Home games or report him to the IRS. But is it really? There are so many people that work there a Dodger Stadium that need the check to survive. Frank will most likely cut jobs before he claims bankruptcy. Who knows? Maybe the employees are the ones that need to protest and of course the fans can join and help! But who knows? He can sell the team, but what if he does and the team gets relocated to another stadium? Or what if the next honor is an even bigger A**Whole? We do need to be careful what we wish for. I don't what exactly needs to be done to improve Dodgers future, but I do BELIEVE that if we ask GOD for his help and put the future of the Dodgers on his hand…he will help. NOW IF YOU ARE NOT A BELIEVER…JUST SKIP OVER THIS. But I feel that with little prayers things will get better. I'm sure some of you are already. But everyone is welcome to join me.
"I pray for GOD to please help the situation with the Dodgers Oranization. I pray for ownership to improve. I pray that if the Dodgers is to remain under the ownership of Frank, then I pray for Frank to open his eyes and have a change of hearts so that he realizes that Dodgers is not for personal use BUT for him to share with the employees, the players, the fans and the City of Los Angeles. I pray for Frank to learn to love and respect BASEBALL. If a new owner buys the Dodgers, then I pray for him, her, or them to be a great fan of the game, have great love for baseball, respect the players & employees, care for the fans and still be a successful business person(s). God please please improve security at Dodger Stadium and restore the family atmosphere it once had. And if you have time please God improve the Pitching situation! And God I know this will require a BIG MIRACLE but can the Dodgers win with 94 games (OK OK I know, now I'm asking for too much). I understand that these changes could take time, so God please give me (us) patience….AMEN!"
You suggest it may be better to live with the A*hole we know rather than take a chance on another A*hole that we don't know, and that may be good logic. As far as I'm concerned, I'll take the big risk and chance it with a different A*hole – I've sure had it with the once named FRANK.
Josh: Why in the world is Donnie batting Jamey Carroll 8th? Against right-handers, Carroll should be batting 2nd and Blake should be batting 5th. At least until Loney remembers how to hit.
Rosie – I do believe in the power of prayer. I also believe that God helps those who help themselves. I cannot believe that Frank will get any better. I will be praying for Frank's revenues to dry up and for the team to be sold to a better owner.
Believe me, I know to be careful what you wish for, but honestly Frank is as low as you can go, so any new owner by definition would be an improvement.
Yea – He and the owner of the Mets have to be the two worst owners in baseball history, if not all of sports, and out of the two, I am siding with Frank as being the worst because we are closer to how horrible he is.
It looks like we are italicized now. I am not sure if that is better or worse than being bold.
Not sure why Carroll is not batting 2nd either. Some positives to look forward to is Andre continuing his hitting streak and possibly getting his 100th home run. He was mentioned on MLB today and how he had a great start last season before his pinky injury.
Kemp is such a monster that it burns me with Donnie batting a guy at #5 (Loney) who has been hitting just below and just above the Mendoza line since August 1, 2010.
Could it be that Josh is trying to SLANT things in favor of Frank?
St. Louis (6-7) hit .216 and totaled 21 runs while losing six of its first eight, but has hit .363 and scored 46 runs while winning four of five.
Good Evening All…
Let's get a win streak started, Boy's!!!
Go Dodgers!!!
Enjoy the game everyone…
Like leading lambs to a slaughter…
Who is the long releif guy, at the moment?
Looks like my Robinson tribute was denied/floating in Moderation Limbo. Sad.
Not as sad as this slaughter, though. Yeesh, I was hoping for the Mariachi and Ranchero bands to chase Rick and Charlie off the airwaves on the way home. No luck there either.
Nice to see we were able to get Pujols back on track.
Can Loney pitch and bat in the 9 hole please.
Give me a break!!
I don't know about the rest of you, but with our gifted line-up I think we're going to be able to battle the Snakes right down to the wire this year.
Look out below!!!!
This team's so far down the toilet it has to look up to see the Tidy Bowl man.
When do the Dodgers get a turn to take batting practice?
Meanwhile, at my son's high school game, they took batting practice and defeated their cross-town rival 11-1 🙂
That's terrific Nells!
Alright Nelly!!! :)))
This team stinks so much even a vulture wouldn't pick its carcass.
But Ned continues to pick his a**!!!
Its the only way he can scratch his head Wally.
Thanks!!!! I see we are still slanted.
Well, this is probably the biggest turd of a Dodger team I can remember. Hopefully Kershaw can get'em tomorrow so we don't get swept!!!
I think we can catagorize tonight's effort as a floater.
Let's just hope attendance plummets. Its really the only way to show Frank how the fans feel about this embarrassment he puts on the field.
Well, the MLB Quick Pitch report was all about Pujols and his two jacks, along with Berkman's. The only positives they could say about us is Andre's 12-game hitting streak, and Kershaw is pitching tomorrow.
Thank goodness Ned got us Uribe though or we'd really be in trouble.
Notice how the gnats aren't missing him much.
For three years no less!!! Geez!!! I mean, it was painfully obvious how inept Ned was, but this is just criminal!!!
What I notice is that this team doesn't win much when the other team doesn't help.
want to clarify that I want the Dodgers to win 42 games. And only 42 games. That's how many times they play SD, SF & Anaheim. I'll share the same prediction I gave in the spring to my work pals: 72 – 90 will be their record. And now that may actually be optimistic. This team doesn't look as good as the '92 team that very nearly lost 100 games. That team had Brett Butler fashioning a nifty .413 OBP, Eric Karros hitting 20 HRs (the only Dodger to hit more than 6), a rotation led by Orel Hershiser with 4 of the 5 starters registering ERAs under 4 (and the 5th one – Ramon Martinez at 4.00) but no one able to win more than 11, Daryl Strawberry and Eric Davis missing tons of games to the DL.
Tonight's attendance: 36,282
2010 attendance (6 games) – 284,804
2011 attendance (6 games) – 263,109
From The Times' run-down of tonight's game:
"At least not that many Dodgers fans had to endure the ugly loss. What was announced as a crowd of 36,282 seemed to fill only about half of the 56,000-seat ballpark, with large chunks of empty seats in prime locations.
In six home games, the Dodgers have averaged 43,852 fans per game, a decrease of 3,615 from the same point last year."
More fodder for the Stow lawsuit:
"But several LAPD officers and senior police officials said the departure of uniformed officers significantly changed the atmosphere in Chavez Ravine by undercutting the ability of the remaining security staff to deal with confrontational fans.
The situation was compounded by what police have said is the increasing presence of gang members at Dodger games over the last several years.
"I lasted two games," said one LAPD officer, who stayed on briefly at the stadium after uniforms were eliminated. "It was crazy. These gangbangers would be drunk, defiant, cursing us out when we tried to kick them out. They had no idea we were cops. We had no leverage on them. There is no authority in a polo shirt."
Hey north! Try busting up your post into smaller segments. My first try at the above was in one long post with fancy italics and stuff.
Then I tried it again in one piece, with a new first sentence to avoid the "It looks like you just posted that" crime, but without the italics.
"Moderation again"
Then I just cut-and-pasted it in 3 sections. Success.
I'd like to read your Jackie Robinson post.
Isn't' everybody proud of our little Donnie? He's doing such a great job, of actually taking scrubs and turning them into, well, scrubs. But the best part is he's getting managerial experience, and it's costing boss very little compared to Torre who was making 4 Mil for turning scrubs into scrubs.
Last night's loss was ugly but we all know it was the umpires fault. I just want to thank all of you true Dodger fans for continuing to come out and support us. After all Boss needs another new mansion, and I need a new toupee. Thank you.
CHEERS, CHEERS as the team exposes itself and settles in the standings in a place they can be comfortable for the rest of the season. It's a good thing that there are many EMPTY SEATS, and hopefully those will grow and grow as we advance into the season.
At least we can look forward to seeing Sands before too long, because "what's to lose" and maybe a few others who are at least fresh and exciting to watch (on TV, of course).
As long as we're in a rebuilding mode, why not just let Andre and Matt depart early to somewhere their talents can actually lead to a post-season role. They deserve that, and, of course, they'll be gone anyway as soon as free agency is available. The caveat, of course, is that Ned wouldn't have the faintest idea who to get for them in a rebuilding effort, since his radar is out only for those over 30.
In the meantime, lets keep watching and cheering those EMPTY SEATS.
Good Morning All…..
This losing thing is far from fun.
Any chance Frank can talk Jamie into heading to Venezuela, armed with a new pre – nup ( Wink, Wink ) to pick up Belisario, literally.
For fun, let's see if I can stop the italics…. any luck?
You know you are supporting an exciting team when my priority is trying to adjust italics…post-game Dodger talk was an "excuse fest" held by the two hosts, stating that 14 games isn't a large enough sample size to make any statements about Ned's work as a GM or this team in general. Fair enough. I agree….they won't finish last. Maybe………………………………….
They are kidding themselves!!!
Good God, we've seen Ned for 5 years!! He's a baffoon and way below average by any baraometer!!! Geez, what a couple of gomers!!!
If you haven't noticed, anyone who has become critical about the Dodgers on Dodger Talk, doesn't last very long!!! I imagine these gomes just want to keep their gig!!!
How can anybody with Ned's record of "accomplishments" have lasted five years? Only in the disfunctional ownership situation. Of course, he's now trained and well prepared for some high ranking government position where wasting money is an equal accomplishment.
My buddy had a splendid idea…not to be morbid. Dress Frank up like a Gnat next time Gints in town and force him to run for it in a dimly-lit parking lot.
I can't help but wonder what Sands would be doing in the bigs.
I am just saying that he seems to have has a desire, to be like " Mike" so to speak. He play's LF, and is healthy.
Injecting new owners into the mix would do wonders, until then, a wide eyed youngster, who has been raking, might inject some sort of spark.
We need Padilla back strong, he has been a solid asset in the past.
Has Jamie landed in Venezuela yet?
Down the Hatch!
At this point, I'm not even angry anymore.
Just disappointed.
This year feels different than any year I've been a Dodgers fan. Everything's up in the air, and the one person who can do something about it one way or the other won't.
Not only the physical attendance at games is shrinking, also the amount of commentors here (though the amount of comments is about par).
One thing I will say for the current situation: What did you think was going to happen? By all rights, just about every win was handed to the Dodgers, and Pujols just exacted his will. Save the '09 NLDS, this is pretty much par for the course.
Was just playing on the radio, thought it fit perfectly:
I couldn't take it any longer
Lord I was crazed
And when the feeling came upon me
Like a tidal wave
I started swearing to my god and on my mother's grave
That I would love you to the end of time
I swore that I would love you to the end of time!
So now I'm praying for the end of time
To hurry up and arrive
Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
I don't think that I can really survive
I'll never break my promise or forget my vow
But God only knows what I can do right now
I'm praying for the end of time
It's all that I can do
Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you!!!
It was long ago, it was far away
and it was so much better than it is today…
Wow terrible news for the Nats organization. Nationals prospect, 18, dies of meningitis in DR
Also paying
$7,700,000 Manny Ramirez
$3,500,000 Juan Pierre
$3,375,000 Andruw Jones
$1,500,000 Jason Schmidt
$1,000,000 Vicente Padilla
$150,000 Brad Ausmus
$125,000 Octavio Dotel
*$17,350,000 Total
Frank only has Neddy to blame when he writes out these checks to add insult to injury!! LOL!!! Wake up Frank, fire Ned!!!
Spent some of the afternoon watching the old Eastwood movie "Hang 'em High". Gave me a great promotional idea for really packing Dodger Stadium… Mmmm.
Wow — it just keeps getting worse. I thought it was bad when I went to bed last night. This is going to be one ugly season on & off the field. Let's just enjoy Vin and maybe seeing a few prospects come up and deliver as well as the successful seasons that I think Matty, Kersh, and Dre might have.
Loney I think just doesn't have any power. I had hoped it would develop after a couple of years but at this point I don't think it will. He's a great glove and a nice guy but he doesn't have any power at all. He's also really lost at the plate. Has taken some bad ab's with RISP.
Speaking of Loney, Sands has also played some 1B with the Isotopes.
This Fox-McCourt alliance needs to be investigated!!!
Well said D4!!! LOL!!!
Frank has instituted a Lay Away plan.
Things are always darkest before the light.
Ah yes, Frank living his life with other people's money as usual.
What the hell does he use as collateral?
No collateral needed @ K Mart….there is a small processing fee, if things go wrong though
Kuo to the DL is a killer… I can't believe I'm giving up on the season 2 weeks in but I don't see any scenario where we win the division
I agree!!! That is a big ouch to the bullpen and to the team in general.
Hello ladies & germs!!! Are we ready for another magical night of Dodger baseball???
LOL!!!! Like I think enchanted or jhall said, it is just time to laugh now. Also, like Collie just said, it is just time to enjoy the individual performances of Dre, Matt, Kersh, and Carroll (I like how he has stepped up so far), and look to see what young prospects get their day on the big boy field.
I agree Sands needs to come up.. He is certainly worth the risk of playing every day in LF I mean how much worse can he be then Gwynn/Thames?
That would be Gwynn/Thames/Gibbons.
After losing 4 in a row and with your ace on the mound at home.. tonight is as much of a must win as you can have on an April 16th
I am watching the gnat/Dbacks game, and how fortunate we are to have Vinny (and Rick and Charlie) compared to these two boneheads (Krud and Krap). They spend too much time analyzing what the managers and players (of both teams) are doing rather than just calling the game as it is played. My hubby even prefers to listen to Vinny because he tells stories instead of talking about what the manager is trying or not trying to do.
Kruk and Kuip will always be #1…
In their own humble opinions, of course.
Nothing but class, minus the "cl", of course.
Vin grew up a Giants fan and exudes class.
Guess they left the class at Coogan's Bluff.
No kidding!! What idiots they are!!!
Is anybody surprised that they didn't score?
Question – does Uribe ever make it to .200 this season?
He's gotta be at least 95 more than that, E.
Oh wait, you mean batting average…
Another question – with this line-up and this bullpen, does Kersh finish with a winning record?
Looks like the outfield will get a workout again tonight. Come on Kersh!!!!
Way to go Kersh!!!!!
I see we need a submarine to find Barajas' average now too.
I think Kersh will finish 15-12 despite being at the top of the league in ERA
Wouldn't it be nice to beat a team like 5-1?
How can anyone expect this team to score when the best "hitter" out of 5-6-7 in the order has a .190 average?
But then that would make Ned what? An idiot?
That was good……. NOT!!!
Stinks seeing that Frank got some more dough to keep him afloat. I just hope that Frank isn't able to string this along until he gets a TV contract. Sometimes I wish we could cut loose Darth Vader on Frank! Or have Bobba Fett encase him in carbonite!!!! No I'm not a geek I'm just trying to get through the McCourt years without crying!!!!!!
MLB, Selig, and the other owners need to step in and shut this con man down. Hell, get congress and the IRS on it. Frank is making a mockery of them all and a laughing stock of our Dodgers!!!!
Frank will just continue his quest for the Dodgers to just be competitive, which he can't even do that right now, and use Ned as his idiot sidekick. And people wonder why Andre said what he said – Geez!!!!
I bet Andre and Matt are just counting the days until they can blow this town. I would be if I were them.
Yep, I'd be outta there first chance I got!!!
I certainly don't blame them.
Saarlac Pit.
DEFINITELY Saarlac Pit.
Kersh is getting squeezed by this ump
Sounds good NSB…
Is this team capable of scoring a run? I mean a run – that's a lot.
Of course we are Beav! As long as it's because the other team had an error or two.
Down the hatch…
Well, once Kersh comes out, we are done unless we find some magical way of scoring some runs.
Am I hallucinating? Must be, because Theriot is beginning to look good to me. I guess that's what happens when you have to live with the infield we've got.
Theriot. JP. The Ortizi. Haegar. Where are they now that we need them?
Nice play by Dre!
Getting a run on this team is like pulling teeth — so maybe we should refer to it as the "Dentist" offense.
Andre did good :). 13th consecutive hit and some fancy footwork and slide to avoid that tag.
Now, he needs his 100th home run 🙂
Was that a Yoga or Gymnastic's move, he put on, to touch the plate? It was Sweet! Ethier way.
It was all that Yoga he does 🙂
What a great slide by Andre.. avoiding what should have been another promising inning messed up by Uribe and Loney
Allen Craig from Temecula just put the nail in Kersh's coffin tonight 😦
Looks like I was a tad optimistic when I figured 1-3 against the Cards. Well, now's a good a time as any…
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I must say Beav " I like it! "
Damn, that thing is filling up fast!!! Might as well enjoy the toilet ride to last place!!! LOL!!!
We're actually on a pace for 97 loses. Who's got 65 wins?
SellTheTeam is at 71 and Dad/Eric is at 72. Your 75 is looking a little bit too optimistic at this point Beav!! LOL!!!
I think you're right!! What was I thinking???
Well, this team won't see .500 again until opening day 2012!!!
The only thing Dodgereric is yelling from Temecula is "SELL THE TEAM!!!"
Sorry but that pickoff was just plain hilarious…
Seriously, at what point does Ned get canned? 100 loses? A new owner? Never? I mean to call this a major league team is a joke. Its even worse than last year's with Anderson, Haegar and the Ortizi. I honestly doubt these guys could manage .500 in the California League.
It really is a joke that Ned still has his job!!!
Way to go Andre!!!! Andre is continuing to hit his way to a better team.
Freaking Uribe can't even get the sacrifice fly with Ethier at 3rd and 1 out. Geez!!!
He has seen 6 pitches in the last 3 PAs – yuck!
Donny needs to bench Uribe and Loney for about a week!!!
At least!
Any boo-birds yet? I sure as hell would be.
I wonder what the attendance is tonight?
Got to thinking…
Mattingly didn't even manage in the minors, but in reality, isn't he managing a minor league team now? I mean these guys would even be an embarrassment to Kansas City.
I was watching the Mavs game and I was thinking, how would you guys feel about Mark Cuban buying the team?
Hell Yeah!!!
Sorry no way let's him stay with the Mavs I'd rather have someone us.
I'm praying for Jerry Buss but it won't happen.
Anyone else embarrassed yet? It's one thing to loose but to loose the way this team losses is really hard to take. I hope that some of the guys that are trying continue to.
I'm really unhappy with Uribe. He hacks at the 1st pitch all the time and pops everything up. I was wanting Ned to sign him in addition to a couple of other players. Ned just got him and it was a mistake. I hope after this season he sees what Pablo did and shows that he's a pro and losses his weight. Of course he "got his" so I'm sure he's all good.
Remember back in the day USA was worried about "commies" taking over from the inside? I'm starting to think that's what the Giants have done. Get Ned over here and add Conte and then start bringing over all their guys for large $$$ when they are past their prime and injured.
An owner from Boston, a GM & trainer from SF, a Manager from NY…
…..equals a horrible combination.
It's a total farce!!!
On David Letterman tonight, his Top Ten is MLB Slogans that were rejected. I bet #1 (or at least top 5) has to do with the security issue at Dodger Stadium.
That would be Monday Night. Sorry, I was thinking it was Friday when I saw the commercial.
Cuban may be an @ss but he wants to win and will do what he can to win so I'd bee happy with that.
Looks like Tronco still isn't fooling anybody.
Damn folks, it looks like its going to be a battle all the way – the Puds and the Snakes want it as much as we do.
& how can you have a pen without a lefthander?
In the good old days, Laird would get knocked down or hit for that SB up by 5 in the 8th.
I wonder how the two gomers on Dodger Talk will sugar coat this sh*t tonight!!!
It was the wind…
That's what I was thinking E — but the umpire already issued a warning. I think if I was pitching I wouldn't care, I'd still buzz the tower.
Damn straight!!!
And besides, its Troncoso – who cares??
Sweet — got that back molar out…
Uribe needs to be benched.
I wonder how Ned's going to restructure and defer Uribe's contract so we can get rid him like we did Andruw?
That fat bastard Uribe did it again. One pitch, weak pop up!!! When is Donny gonna bench this bum?
And of course, not to be outdone, Loney flies out!!! These two turds need to be benched or moved down in the batting order.
Thanks for the number, tru!
2010 attendance (7 games) – 324,989
2011 attendance (7 games) – 294,473
Down 30,000 after 7 games. That's more like it. 🙂
They say that today's attendance is the lowest Saturday attendance since 9-7-02 against the Astros.
Ya gotta love it!!! Thanks Trumom, Dad, and Mom!!!
With attendance dropping, so will the amount of incidents at tha stadium. Frank of course will hail that as a great victory in his war against crime.
I'm not up on my astrophysics… is it possible to have two black holes occupying nearly the same space, each sucking matter at the same time?
On a positive note, it's good to see Andre and Matt still fighting.
Pathetic! Another golden opportunity wasted. Uribe is as useless as testicles on the pope!!! Donnie should bench him, and shake up the lineup!
How much longer can this funk continue?
As useless as titts on a boar.
(I don't know where that derives from, but I always liked it.)
Who's next??…
Guess everybody gets to play now.
This season would be depressing enough in the hands of great ownership and management…1992 comes to mind. But when you combine this team's futility with a fan base that absolutely abhors both the owner and the GM, well, as Barney Fife used to say, "We have a situation here."
The Dodger infield is 0-12 tonight.
I'd like to put a bag over mccourt's head.
The outfield is 6 for 12, with Matt and Andre going 5 for 8.
Hey e, don't mccourt and Ned sit next to each other?
Ohhhhh, BLACK holes……
LMAO!!!! THAT is funny!!!!
Five in a row! 😦
How about a million-man march on Chavez Ravine to overthrow the greedy despot?
OK, me and kahli so far. 999,998 to go.
I'm in!!!!
At least the LA Kings won 4-0 loving beat that Sharks team from the Bay and that stupid beat LA chant.
Glad the Kings won!!!!
Can we just clone Kemp, Ethier, Carroll and Gwynn?
We helped the Cards score 66 runs in their last 7 games.
Ouch! That feels just like rubbing salt in the open wound.
Bench Uribe and Loney now and moved Ethier to 1st bases I remember he was taking some grounded last year ST and moved Thames in RF.
Why don't we just move the whole team to the middle of the ocean?
It is time to take some serious action with Loney and Uribe. Move'em down in the order, bench'em, or a combination of both!!!
Donnie baseball learned from JoJo The Clown.
Any Questions?
On another note….Does anyone think the LA/OC area can support another NBA team? The Kings move is a done deal.
No, and the Sacramento fans are furious, not at the owners but the city for not allowing a new arena to be built.
The Clippers need to moved to SD.
Well, gotta hit the hay. Night all.
Good Night enchanted!!!!
Good night Beav!!!
I don't even know why I hate the Red Wings so much but maybe I'm jealous of all those good players and there scout drafted in those middle to late round and a lot of Swedish players but this is stupid and the Red Wings tradition for 60 years.
To bad basketball/hockey arena don't carry over 25,000+ than I could've predict that the Staples Center crowd for the Lakers 3 peats run today at 12:30 would get more fans than the game at Dodgers Stadium at 1:10 lol.
Cmon fans, support this mess, Er, I mean team, keep coming out to the park, boss needs new houses and remember he also needs your support to pay his lawyers.
LMAO along with an overstated crowd of 31,000 – what else to do. Just consider that none of us has to go out and borrow $30 million just to make payroll. Sooner or later there's no way to pay it back.
Is that what is called "living on borrowed time"?
Remember my prediction of 70 wins, maybe? Then again as GM I have to be optimistic, or Malibu will fire me.
Good Morning All
We're all winners today!
Have a great Sunday and enjoy the game…
For anyone interested in how its going down at AAA, here's their 10 game stats : http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=t_ibp&cid=342&stn=true&sid=t342
There's some guy name Juan Castro that's hitting .545 with an OPS of 1.524!! I'm surprised he's not playing short for us right now!!
Seriously though, I think Dee Gordon is vastly overrated, at least as a shortstop – guy already has 5 errors. Robinson's not doing very well either. Mitchell's tanking (surprise!) Then there's that Jay Gibbons kid… don't think the new contacts are helping much. Only guy worth a dime is Sands.
If you notice too, much like we have about a bazillion LFers, Alb has 6 shortstops listed and no 2Bman.
Long and short of it, don't expect any help coming from AAA for 2B, 3B, SS, C AND pitching. Which coincidentally [not] are the positions the "big" club is hurting for.
A job well done Ned my friend. A job well done indeed.
Nice Beav!!!
I hear the Lasik surgery people had their eye on Gibbons as their advertising poster guy – I guess that's not working out too well either. I also note how well all the recent years' #1 pitching draft choices are doing – I guess they're finding out that this isn't high school any longer. Kind of makes you wonder about Logan White – maybe he's in the right organization and job after all.
Also makes you wonder Bear just what kind of physicians this club employs. If I were injured on this team I'd seek my own medical treatment rather than let any of the club's medical staff touch me.
Is it me or are there a bunch of people there dressed as empty seats?
A view from last nights game. Keep it up Dodger fans. Stay home and continue the siege on McCourts wallet!!! It is the best and most effective way to show your displeasure with Frank, Ned, and this turd of a team they are putting out there for you!!!!!
We know Frank just got a $30 mil "loan" from Fox just to make payroll for another month or so. We know that he's borrowed heavily against future ticket sales. We also know that he's over $400 mil in debt.
At some point he's going to have to pay the piper.
I'd like to know what he is using as collateral. Jamie should have everything tied up and frozen in he divorce.
He must be getting by on his and Ned's good looks!!! LOL!!!!
Was just thinking – we'll know when all is lost when D4 shows up with a brown paper bag. 🙂
As for the $30 million Fox loan, evidently this is the SECOND time since the end of last season. Newspaper has no idea what McCourt used as collateral. This is NOT tied to television rights; it is, rather, a "personal" loan, not a Dodgers loan…hence, no need for Selig's OK. God and heaven have mercy on our beloved franchise. Shouldn't this be enough to run the guy out of baseball?
This could actually give Selig more ammo to force him out!!! Needs to be thoroughly investigated!!!!
Yes agreed Selig needs to investigate this 'personal loan'
Unfortunately I think Selig is incompetent so I'm not expecting much from him.. the Dodger fanbase is really screwed
Agreed Swood!! Having our fate in Seligs hands does not inspire my confidence!!!
Come on, Dodger fans, keep those EMPTY SEATS coming.
Resist that temptation to watch Uribe pop up; to see that smooth Loney swing end up in the usual groundout.
Resist seeing Pujols get healthy at bat; resist watching Theriot getting thrown out on the bases – at least he's getting on the bases in the first place.
Resist giving Frank any of your hard-earned dollars; make him get another Fox loan before the season is half over.
EMPTY SEATS, EMPTY SEATS – that's what this season is all about.
Yep Bear, unfortunately, the best way for the fans to show their displeasure and send a loud and clear message to Selig and MLB, is to just not show up!!!! It may be painful now, but, in the long run we will be better for it!!!!
Okay – I won't……..sigh…… I really hate Frank McCourt, and I normally don't use the word hate, but he gives me no choice when I have to side with my fellow ITDers instead of supporting the players at Dodger Stadium. I will spend my money at AT&T Park and Target Field this year, and be the proud Ethieraholic that I am when he is on the road.
Gee Mom, I wouldn't hold it against you if you go to Ethier bobblehead night at Dodger Stadium!! I know you don't hate Frank personally, you just find him to be a loathsome and contemptable human being as I do!!! I hate what he is doing to our Dodgers but, I don't wish any physical harm on the scumbag!! Just justice from MLB and the IRS!!!!
I can't believe Donny still has Uribe and Loney batting 5th and 6th.
I wonder if Josh Hamilton is taking a good look at that slide by Ethier last night. LOL!!!!
Hey Nelly, Grady Sizemore is back today!!! He hit a home run!!! The Indians and Reds are alot of fun to watch!!!!
I know!!! I was watching it (and the race – lol). I was telling my girlfriend he was back and what he did today!!! Yeah for Grady!!!!
I thought you might be on it!!!
Boy, would we have an outfield with Sizemore between Matt and Andre. And he could lead off!!! Fantasy, I know!!! With Furcal most likely and hopefully gone next year, it would solve two of our most glaring problems(lead off hitter and left field)!!!
Juan Pierre's a free agent after this season…
Not funny!!! LOL!!!
Enchanted – have you seen how many fly balls JP has missed lately?…..and don't forget his rainbow throw. LOL!!!
Andre and Matt will be playing with Grady before Grady plays with Andre and Matt, but I could deal with that!!!
Tou-Che Nelly!!! Nice one!!!
I would be thrilled!! LOL!!
But JP's such a hard worker…
Geez Beav, mom's got the spatula, you better run!!!
I'm all for moving Loney and Uribe down in the lineup the problem is who are we going to move up to their spots? Barajas and his awful situational hitting? Miles/Dejesus?
I hear you Swood!! Ned has painted us into the corner of a collapsing building!!!
I'm all for moving Loney and Uribe out of town. 🙂
Yep Beav, I would too!! However, I don't think anyone is interested in either one of them.
Dodger Stadium looks empty…….very empty! We will see what it is like after the 3rd inning.
C'mon Billz!! We need ya to come up big today son!!!
I've noticed that Uribe comes up BIG everyday. 😐
Barajas has me looking forward to seeing Navarro.
Ouch!! That is sad but true. This team would have been better off right now if Jamie was the owner and Ng was the GM from the outset of the McCourt era!!
I have to admit I was wrong when I said anything was better than Martin.
Yep, me too my brother!!!
That Albert!!! Geez!!! Andre smoked that ball!!!
Well, Billzs' second time thru the order. This is where it gets interesting!!!
Uribe's Andruw Jones without the charm.
How is it that Ned's always the first in line to buy other people's schmidt?
Baaah Neddy!!!
The way Ned puts things together, can you imagine what his high school shop projects looked like?
Mattingly said that this team isn't as bad as it looks.
I beg to differ.
I think he is going to the same eye doctors as Gibbons!!!!
Funny you should mention that Beav!! That's what Blow and Hummer said last night on Dodger Talk!!! What a pair of tools!!!
Those two gomers have the personality and insight of an empty "Sunny D"(pun intended) container!!!
Just for something entertaining to do, you know, while the games on, I looked up next year's free agents.
Its far too vast a list to cut and paste:
But suffice to say, there's plenty of "vintage" ballplayers for Ned to sign for next years pennant contending team.
Nope Beav, there's nothing there worth a crap!!! All the more reason to sell at the July deadline and score some good young prospects. This team is beyond one or two(we need 3 or 4) ill advised free agent signings to get back to prominence!!!
God help us if Ned is buying in July!!! It could set the organization back 5 years or more!!!
That's in addition to the 10 it already has been.
Poor Billz. He's finally throwing a decent game and these stiffs can't even scratch out a run for him.
Billz has earned his keep for the day 🙂
Yep!!! :)))
I think Fielder would help if we could sign him atleast we would finally have a little power in the lineup
Criminies swood, with Fielder and Uribe on the same side of the infield the earth would be thrown off its axis!
Yep, he would Swood!! But you would end up paying way too much in the long run!!!! Fortunately in this case(Fielder and Pujols), Frank ain't got the money to sign either of them!!!
Nice play Andre!!!
Yes, it was 🙂
Following the game on gameday, but how are we doing on EMPTY SEATS? A half empty ballpark could be setting FrankHole back a couple of hundred grand. Give us a report, somebody.
At least half empty IMO 🙂
I am sure I will be scolded, but the top deck is empty from homeplate out.
Let's put it this way Messagebear. The people (it's really not a crowd) just tried to do the wave, and it was abysmal 🙂
Help us Obi-Shad!! You're our only hope!! LOL!!!
Damn that was a bs game that 4th quarter and the way the Hornets was getting all those and 1 and I knew it was going to get ugly and making scrub getting career game vs us.
Obi-Shad!!! We need the attendence for todays game!!! Help us Shad!!!
SWEET!!! Thank you Billz and Andre!!!! Let's get some runs!!!
That's the way to pick-up Andre Chad!!
Well, if you're going to throw out those Two Dodger DOGS, make sure you get them spayed first.
Oh Crap!!
What Beav, you sound like Ned when Frank forgets the lubricant!!!!
I was referring to Brox coming in to pitch.
Well Jhall you know I can't do nothing until the game is done.
I hear you my friend!!! Keep us updated!!!
What the heck we finally get some good pitching by Bills than we have no offense.
Are you surprised?
Nah but at least 1-0 score.
Well look like I got my 1-0 score but it the other team that score.
Another Brown Out By Brox!!! Way to go Andre!!! Maybe you and Kemp can wipe up his mess?!!!!
Geez I knew that 2 outs double was going to cost the shutout.
Way to go Andre!!! Come on Matt!!!! Get a HR and end it!!!
If Kemp doesn't get the run in, we're screwed!!!
Guess he got the run home!
Too bad Brox gets the win and not Billz.
Wow I must had miss a good race probably better than these 2 games. Jimmie Johnson won 0.002 seconds.
It was a great race!!! I would guess Dodgereric is very happy about the outcome!!!
Matthew did it!!!!
KEMP is just a beast
Well, Brox certainly doesn't deserve the win, but, I guess thats baseball!!! Nice job Billz, Andre, and Matt!!!
Billz deserves major kudos for that game!!! Matt and Andre did their part in the end, but Billz allowed them to get to that point. Way to go Billz!!!
Holy shit Kemp did it.
And thank you LaRussa for not IBBing him. You gave us the win
LOL Swood!! I was thinking the same thing. In that situation, I would not have pitched to Kemp with Uribe and Loney coming up!!! What a dumbass!!!
"So Matt, what do you think of this season's slow start?"
"Well, I think Colletti has regressed. He's not the GM he was last season. His FAs seem unproductive, his trades questionable, his overall desire and focus seems to be lacking."
Excellent Kahli!!
Brox basically shits his pants and comes out smelling like a rose!!! Bullshit!!! He should be buying Andre and Kemper steak dinners tonight!!!
Don't let it get lost. The fact is, Uribe, Loney, Barajas, and Miles go 2 for 12, no runs, no rbi's…., 5 strikouts, and 5 LOB…. We got lucky that Billz was on today and Kemper and Andre continue to come up big!!!
Brox should order the salad plate…
New thread children 🙂
Franklin is there Broxton.
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04/17 @ LAD L 1-2 0.0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 L(0-2) BlSv(4) 11.57
04/09 @ SF L 2-3 0.2 2 2 2 0 1 0 1 3 5 20 L(0-1) BlSv(3) 9.82
04/08 @ SF L 4-5 1.0 2 1 1 0 1 0 4 1 6 20 — BlSv(2) 6.00
04/05 vs PIT W 3-2 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 16 — Sv(1) 4.50
03/31 vs SD L 3-5 1.0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 4 5 14 — BlSv(1) 9.00


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Another 559,000 visitor trips vanished from the Central and North Coast routes after 2004, for a total of more than 3.2 million.
The controversial austerity program that Gulf Islanders say is hurting regional businesses — the percentage of self-employed entrepreneurs there is about three time the provincial average — is defended by both ferry authorities and the provincial government as an essential measure to offset rising operating costs.
But annual financial reports to the ferry commissioner show smaller service routes cited as money drains often operate in the black. The Swartz Bay-Gulf Islands service, for example, generated net surpluses of $2 million in both 2013 and 2012. The red ink rises when servicing costs for ferry company debt that has zoomed from zero to $1.4 billion in just 10 years are applied.
And even as the corporation was starting to trim more than 5,000 sailings to and from small communities with no alternative, it was simultaneously pouring cash into a hole in the water called Route 30, a daily ferry service between Tsawwassen and Nanaimo.
Route 30, one of the three major routes to Vancouver Island cited as the ferry system's money-spinners, has, in fact, consistently operated at annual losses that dwarf other losing routes over the period when cuts were decimating the visitor traffic that sustains the region's economically vital tourism sector.
The cumulative losses from this one route, almost $180 million in total, are more than 10 times the $14 million in annual savings that the ferry corporation seeks to recover by slashing operating costs on its so-called minor routes.
Since residents are compelled to travel for work, shopping, school, and medical treatment and are therefore forced to accommodate reduced service and increased tariffs, it seems reasonable to conclude that the decline in visitor trips represents discretionary travel, most of which involves tourism or recreation.
Tourist-reliant businesses on the Gulf Islands — resorts, restaurants, bed and breakfasts, small retailers and outdoor recreation providers — warn that the economic consequences are harming a region that's often featured as a marquee destination in provincial marketing.
"We feel like we are being boiled like a frog with the rising fees and the pending service cuts," says Tim O'Connor, who runs a coffee shop on Saltspring Island. He says that when he had to grapple with end-of-life care for two relatives, one in Duncan and one in Victoria, it required four trips per week on the ferries.
"It nearly — or may have — bankrupted me," O'Connor said of his plight. "That, compounded by our dropping revenues from tourism and decreased disposable income of our year-round residents, has really affected (us)."
Tom Toynbee, who returned to Saltspring to take over Mouat's, a company his grandmother began there in 1907, points an accusing finger at the provincial government. He argues it privatized the ferry system not to improve an essential service but as an expedient way to get the costs off its books.
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One ploy, he says, was the characterization of Gulf Islanders as entitled, well-heeled fat cats, a fiction that's quickly dispelled by census data that shows median income sharply lagging the rest of the province and an "idyllic paradise" that's largely without the amenities urbanites take for granted — supermarkets, sewers, doctors and dentists, policing and fire services.
How important is all this to the rest of the province?
In 2011, tourism contributed more than $1.3 billion in tax revenue, $3.2 billion in export revenue and $6.5 billion in added value to the provincial economy. And since 17 per cent of the tourism businesses contributing to this provincial economic activity are located in the Vancouver Island/Coast economic zone, the impact of a significant downturn in tourism there promises to affect everyone else, too.
This effect is amplified because the coastal region serviced by BC Ferries contributes roughly 36 per cent of provincial tax revenues yet benefits from only six per cent of provincial capital expenditures on transportation infrastructure, including ferry spending, according to an economic analysis by former MLA and cabinet minister Gordon Wilson. The affected region includes 51 municipalities and regional districts including all of Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, the Sunshine Coast and Powell River, the Discovery Islands, Alert Bay and Sointula, the central coast, Prince Rupert and the north coast and Haida Gwaii. This comprises 20 per cent of B.C.'s population. So fewer tax dollars from a stagnant or contracting economy across a region providing more than a third of provincial tax revenue can only mean less money for spending somewhere else.
So what's the plan?
Well, it appears there is no plan. A policy paper delivered to the provincial government in 2011 noted that while there's much talk about marketing the provinces' tourist attractions — like the Gulf Islands — there's no planning that actually "ties together the main policy areas for tourism into an action-oriented business plan."
Gosh, I'm no economist, but I'd say a greater public "investment" in ferry services aimed at recovering those vanishing tourist trips might be one strategy for stimulating business activity and generating some concurrent increase in provincial tax and export revenues.
Put another way, cutting off your nose to spite your face seems a weird way to go about developing B.C.'s economy. Just sayin ...

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Mathematics Colloquium
All colloquia are on Fridays at 4:00 pm in Van Vleck B239, unless otherwise indicated.
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|September 4
|Isaac Goldbring (UIC)
|On Kirchberg's embedding problem
|September 11
|Doron Puder (IAS)
|Word-Measures on Groups
|September 18
|Izzet Coskun (UIC)
|The geometry of points in the plane
|September 25
|Abbas Ourmazd (UW-Milwaukee)
|Structure and Dynamics from Random Observations
|October 2
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|Hadi Salmasian (Ottawa)
|October 23
|Lu Wang (UW)
|October 30
|Ruth Charney (Brandeis)
|November 6
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|November 13
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|November 20
|November 27
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|December 4
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September 4: Isaac Goldbring (UIC)
Title: On Kirchberg's embedding problem
Abstract: In his seminal work on the classification program for nuclear C*-algebras, Kirchberg showed that a particular C*-algebra, the Cuntz algebra O2, plays a seminal role. Subsequent work with Chris Phillips showed that O2 also plays a prominent role in regards to the wider class of exact C*-algebras, and this led Kirchberg to conjecture that every C*-algebra is finitely representable in O2, that is, is embeddable in an ultrapower of O2. The main goal of this talk is to sketch a proof of a local finitary reformulation of this conjecture of Kirchberg. The proof uses model theory and in particular the notion of model-theoretic forcing. No knowledge of C*-algebras or model theory will be assumed. This is joint work with Thomas Sinclair.
September 11: Doron Puder (IAS)
Title: Word-Measures on Groups.
Abstract: Let w be a word in the free group on k generators, and let G be a finite (compact) group. The word w induces a measure on G by substituting the letters of w with k independent uniformly (Haar) chosen random elements of G and evaluating the product. Questions about word-measures on groups attracted attention in recent years both for their own sake and as a tool to analyze random walks on groups.
We will explain some properties of word-measure, give examples and state conjectures. We will also talk about recent results regarding word-measures on symmetric groups and word-measures on unitary groups.
September 18: Izzet Coskun (UIC)
Title: The geometry of points in the plane
Abstract: Grothendieck's Hilbert scheme of points is a smooth compactification of the configuration space of points in the plane. It has close connections with combinatorics, representation theory, mathematical physics and algebraic geometry. In this talk, I will survey some of the basic properties of this beautiful space. If time permits, I will discuss joint work with Arcara, Bertram and Huizenga on codimension one subvarieties of the Hilbert scheme.
September 25: Ourmazd (UW-Milwaukee)
Title: Structure and Dynamics from Random Observations
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This portion of our museum website is dedicated to honouring 50 years of the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation. The Seaway and, in particular, the Welland Canal have been vital aspects in creating and sustaining the industry and commerce in the area.
Here you may view photographs ranging from the Welland Canal's creation to its local use and areas you may recognize that surround the Welland Canal. The above photograph of East Street was taken from West street across the Canal. This photograph is similar to many you may see while exploring the Port Colborne Historical and Marine Museum's Half a Century: Online Exhibit, as all of our photographs come straight from our collection, many donated by local photographers and never before released to the public. Each of the photos you will find in our exhibit will come with detailed information, so you may learn a bit more about Port Colborne's local history while you enjoy the beautiful sights that the area has to offer.
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Making Friends November 5th, 2012
Some of the most extraordinary experiences I've had while snorkeling or diving have been with sea turtles.
They each seem to have very distinct personalities and generally extremely curious and playful. This seems to be true wherever I have encountered them (though off the coast of the UAE and Oman, the smaller turtles are generally skittish and won't let you get too close, while in the Seychelles, they would often either ignore me completely or swim up to meet me).
I spotted this fabulous little guy swimming along the corals about 8 meters below the surface, off the coast of Grande Soeur (Big Sister) island in the Seychelles.
I swam down to meet it and together we circled back up to the surface, almost in a dance. I spent some 40 minutes or so swimming with this turtle, it seemingly as curious about me as I was about it.
More coming soon!
Tags: dive, diving, play, scuba, sea, seychelles, snorkel, snorkeling, snorkelling, turtle
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Anemones October 25th, 2012
These days, I seem to be increasingly turning my focus to underwater photography. Something about it makes it just so very attractive to me. Perhaps it is the challenge of shooting in this difficult environment, or perhaps the sense of wonder brought on by the alienness of the landscape and the life. And it must be said, the coastal waters of the UAE and Oman offer many opportunities for the adventurous.
Few species of life appear as alien as do anemones. These animals are named after the colorful terrestrial flower. They are carnivorous polyps which sting their prey – any fish which stray too close to their tentacles – with a potent neurotoxin.
These two closeups were taken some four to five meters below the surface about 10 minutes apart, during the course of a snorkeling session.
The first is a closeup of a type of anemone which is commonly home to clownfish (which, especially if you have kids, appear to have now been renamed "Nemo fish"). I love the purple tips.
I'm assuming these are a type of anemone as well. Any confirmation of this is welcome. These grow in massive domes reaching a meter or more in diameter.
More coming soon!
Tags: anemone, clownfish, coast, diving, marine life, nemo, oman, polyp, sea, snorkeling, snorkelling, tentacles, UAE, water
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Lion Fish January 29th, 2011
Last month I went on a boat trip in Oman with a few friends. We took a dhow along the coast of the Mussandam peninsula, starting from the port in Dibba.
While snorkelling on this trip I came across three separate lion fish. Now, I've seen many lion fish before, but never quite like these. All the one's I'd seen before would be peacefully floating about under an overhang, or hiding in a hole or some such.
But these three were out hunting. They were spread out, some 50 or more meters apart along a wall of coral, and swimming about in pursuit of schools of small fish.
Above a lion fish swims off in pursuit of rapidly disappearing small fish under the curious gaze of two of my buddies.
Above, a lion fish tries to close the deal. It was impressive to watch the lion fish in action. However, I was quite surprised at how slow a lion fish at full speed is. In the near 2 hours I spent in the water snorkelling near and around the hunting lion fish, I did not see a single charge ending successfully with a catch. I guess the bigger they are, the lazier they get… 😉
All pictures taken with my (very) old Fuji FinePix Z100 in an underwater case.
More coming soon!
Tags: boat trip, coast, dhow, dibba, finepix, fish, fuji, hunt, hunting, lion, lion fish, lionfish, mussandam, oman, sea, snorkelling, underwater case, underwater housing, z100
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Dibba Underwater October 29th, 2009
Before get on to the pictures from my Lebanon and India trips, I suppose I need to finish what I started.
As I'd previously mentioned, the water was so very crystal clear – and just the perfect temperature. The night we arrived, the moon was full and shining so very brightly. So brightly in fact, that you could see unaided 8 meters below the surface of the water.
Who could resist? So I grabbed my snorkelling gear and my diving torch and led my friends in two different snorkelling trips around the rocky point near to which we were camped.
Those night snorkelling sessions were among the most extraordinary snorkelling/diving sessions of my life. This was thanks in great part to the strong "fluorescence" which wasn't overpowered by the moonlight. I understand this bioluminescence is due to microorganisms – plankton and such – which react to movement (of the water), such as when a human swims along, by lighting up.
This basically means that you end up swimming in a sea of stars. It's an absolutely beautiful effect.
The fluorescence was so strong that you could spot someone swimming a fair distance away from the light his movement was giving off. We could also spot fish underwater in the same way.
That first night, we found the sea bed littered with crabs. They were out en masse, it seems, to find mates. We're talking fairly large crabs, by the way. The majority measured some 30cms in diameter, at least. And a fair few were even bigger. Beautiful blues and yellows and other colours (as revealed by torchlight). I saw most at about some 6-9 meters below the surface, although there were a few in the shallows.
Crabs have very very distinct personalities, I discovered. Each crab I approached displayed a very different reaction. Some danced in circles around me, pincers raised, trying to run away but semi ready to fight if they had no choice. A small number stood their ground, and aggressively raised their pincers, opening and shutting them in warning. One even actively chased me away. I tested their reactions in other ways, too. For example, I placed the blade of my diving knife in the open pincer of a few, to see what they'd do. Most just got annoyed and moved away. One did absolutely nothing. Just stood there. Even after I tapped him on the nose with it. One snapped his pincer shut on the blade so very tightly I had to fight with it a fair bit to get him off. He only released my blade after I'd shaken him dizzyingly and dragged him along for a goodly number of minutes.
There must have been some crab-fights too, along the way, or some crab predator had himself a feast, for the next morning there were crab carcasses littering the sea floor, and crab limbs floating haphazardly about.
When I woke in the morning I was itching to get into the water. So I quickly snapped me a few shots and then got in the water. Some of my pals had woken by then and I took one of them with me.
We saw 5 sea turtles, 2 giant sting rays (one as long as me, and the other a bit smaller), loads of cuttlefish and squid and small and big fish.
It was an absolutely beautiful session lasting over 3 and a half hours. And the bonus was that I'd made it completely across the point I'd been wanting to for more than a year now.
After crossing what we dubbed Eagle Rock (just above) we broke past the point and into a wide open stretch of sea which many kilometers away led to the beautiful fjords of the Mussandam. The moment we turned the point we were assaulted by an incredibly strong current taking us out to sea, and we had to fight so very hard for every inch to go back the way we'd come until we crossed the point again.
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We started in that little bay at the bottom left, and made our way to the tip at the right corner of the satellite picture above.
The sight we were greeted with on crossing the point was simply breath-taking. Unfortunately, it didn't translate as well as I'd hoped in picture.
A ray, about 9 meters down.
A turtle. One of the ones we saw proved very playful and swum around with me a few turns until I ran out of air. The rest made a break for it when they spotted us. All were juveniles, no bigger than 50-60cm in diameter.
Itty bitty fish just below the surface.
My friend, Luca, seen from 6 meters down, and being chased by a wall of tiny fishies. Now he's a very tough cookie. A real-life He-Man. He swam over three and a half hours without fins (flippers) and wearing only those tiny swimming pool goggles, as opposed to a full mask and snorkel like me. And he fought the super-strong current like that. And won.
A pufferfish. Seen about 9 meters down.
We even had the unique experience of witnessing two local snorkellers, a father and son, while they were spearfishing and trident fishing for their food.
This was their catch when we'd caught up with them.
The squid they'd hunted would release blotches of ink every time they banged against the snorkeller trailing them, or against the other catches. The way back was peppered with strips of ink.
Some of the ink they left behind.
All pictures above taken with my old FinePix Z100 in its underwater housing. The Z100 is an ok point and shoot, but unfortunately its batteries are a nightmare – they run out of juice far too quickly.
More pictures coming very soon!
Tags: camping, crab, current, cuttlefish, dibba, eagle rock, finepix, fish, fuji, india, ink, lebanon, pufferfish, sea, snorkelling, spearfishing, squid, sting ray, trident, UAE, underwater, underwater housing, z100
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Is Rihanna Channeling Taylor Momsen?
The singer premieres a platinum fringe that looks just like another celebrity bad girl, Taylor Momsen
Courtesy Rihanna; PictureGroup
We all know Rihanna can Talk That Talk, but who knew she was a Gossip Girl too?
When the singer debuted a sneak peek at her new platinum do (which she'll sport on an upcoming cover of ELLE), we couldn't help but think of another towheaded trouble maker: Taylor Momsen.
With that chunky fringe and stained pout (not to mention that major 'tude!), Rihanna is the spitting image of a good Upper East Sider gone bad.
But while the look may not be permanent (as we all know, she's quite the quick change artist), it's not exactly temporary either: "bleach + weave" she Tweeted a curious fan. Tell us: Who looks better with a platinum fringe?
—Justine Harman


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SAN FRANCISCO NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is chugging toward some interesting mineral deposits on the rim of a fresh crater, guided by a sharp set of eyes from above.
Opportunity arrived at Mars' Santa Maria crater in the last few days, and it should make it to the crater's southeast rim in a few weeks. Once there, it will investigate a patch of minerals that likely formed in the presence of water billions of years ago, researchers said here today (Dec. 16) during a press conference at the 2010 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
The rover knows where to look thanks to NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which detected the minerals, known as hydrated sulfates, from 150 miles (250 kilometers) up while circling the Red Planet. This level of teamwork between rover and spacecraft is unprecedented, researchers said.
"It's the first time we've used minerals detected from orbit to drive where a rover should go," said Mars Exploration Rover deputy principal investigator Ray Arvidson, of Washington University in St. Louis.
The rim of Santa Maria
MRO detected the hydrated sulfates on Santa Maria's rim using its mineral-mapping spectrometer. Opportunity wasn't too far away, so the rover team decided to send the rover over for a closer look, researchers said.
The Martian surface is bone-dry today, but hydrated sulfates and clays which also form in the presence of water reveal that the planet was once a much wetter place. But that was long ago; scientists think the clays are 4 to 4.5 billion years old and the hydrated sulfates are about 3.8 billion years old.
Craters provide a way for scientists to probe such ancient rocks, which would otherwise remain buried and out of reach.
"These are nature's drills to expose the bedrock," Arvidson said.
And Santa Maria is special as far as craters go, he added. The crater appears to be extremely young in the geological scheme of things perhaps just a few million years old, Arvidson told SPACE.com so its surface hasn't been too grimed over by weathering.
"We've never seen a crater this fresh, this big," Arvidson said.
Opportunity should soon get a good, up-close look at the minerals on the southeast rim. When it gets to the area in the next few weeks, the rover will verify MRO's orbital observations and also collect more in-depth data, researchers said.
On the way to Endeavour
The Santa Maria stop marks a slight detour for Opportunity, which is making its slow, steady way to a giant crater called Endeavour.
The rover turned its wheels toward the 14-mile (22-km)-wide Endeavour in the summer of 2008. Opportunity has since covered about 9 miles (14.5 km), with about 3.7 miles (6 km) left before reaching the crater, researchers said.
And MRO will help guide Opportunity the rest of the way. The orbiter has detected clays at Endeavour, and it has found clays and hydrated sulfates at various other spots, helping scientists plan Opportunity's route. The goal is to investigate and characterize the ancient Martian environment, to help determine if the planet may ever have been capable of supporting life, researchers said.
Opportunity and its twin rover, Spirit, both landed on Mars in January 2004. Their mission was initially slated to last only about three months, but both have far surpassed that lifetime. [ Photos from Spirit and Opportunity ]
Last year, Spirit got bogged down in soft sand, and it stopped communicating with Earth in spring 2010. NASA officials haven't given up hope of hearing from the rover, though.
"We're listening now," said rover project manager John Callas, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "We've been listening every day."
But Callas said that pessimism is definitely in order if Spirit hasn't made a peep by March, when the Martian sun will be strong and the rover will have had plenty of chances to warm up and power up.
- Gallery: Latest Photos from Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity
- Mars Rovers Most Amazing Discoveries
- NASA Rover Halfway to Huge Crater on Mars


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Peer-Reviewed Publications
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Accuracy of self-reported data for estimating crash severity." Accid Anal Prev. 2003;35(6):833-40."
Differences In Air Bag Performance With Children In Various Restraint Configurations And Vehicle Types. Nagoya, Japan; 2003.
Effect of vehicle type on the performance of second generation air bags for child occupants." Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med. 2003;47:85-99."
Risk of injury to restrained children from passenger air bags." Traffic Inj Prev. 2003;4(1):58-63."
Shifts in child restraint use according to child weight in the United States from 1999 to 2002." Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med. 2003;47:313-28."
Suboptimal restraint affects the pattern of abdominal injuries in children involved in motor vehicle crashes." J. Pediatr. Surg.. 2003;38(6):919-23."
Upper Extremity Fractures in Restrained Children Exposed to Passenger Airbags. 2003 ed. Detroit, Michigan; 2003.
Evaluation of a child with pre-existing disabilities after a traumatic event." Pediatr Emerg Care. 2002;18(3):197-9."
The influence of harness type on child restraint system misuse." Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med. 2002;46:261-9."
Injuries to children in forward facing child restraints." Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med. 2002;46:213-30."
Pediatric pelvic fractures in side impact collisions." Stapp Car Crash J. 2002;46:285-96."
The role of restraint and seat position in pediatric facial fractures." J Trauma. 2002;52(4):693-8."
Child occupant protection: a summary of current safety recommendations." Prim. Care Update Ob Gyns. 2001;8(4):141-148."
The effect of seating position on risk of injury for children in side impact collisions." Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med. 2001;45:61-72."
Factors influencing pediatric injury in side impact collisions." J Trauma. 2001;51(3):469-77."
Protecting the child's abdomen: a retractable bicycle handlebar." Accid Anal Prev. 2001;33(6):753-7."
Seat belt syndrome in children: a case report and review of the literature." Pediatr Emerg Care. 2001;17(6):474-7."
Assessing child restraint misuse by parental survey." Inj. Prev.. 2000;6(2):145-7."
Computer crash simulations in the development of child occupant safety policies." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2000;154(3):276-80."
Factors influencing pediatric injury in side impact collisions." Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med. 2000;44:407-28."
Misuse of Booster Seats." Injury Prevention. 2000;6(4):281-4."
Determinants of Injury Severity With Child Exposure to Passenger Air Bag Deployment. Barcelona, Spain: Professional Engineering Publications Ltd.; 1999.
Determinants of Injury Severity with Child Exposure to Passenger Air Bag Deployment.. Professional Engineering Publishing Limited; 1999.


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No, not the kind of drive by with Eazy-E, but the kind of drive by with Robby Gordon flying past his crew on a high-speed run in the desert. Have you ever seen a faster one than this?
All we have to say is that Gordon has a very trusting crew.
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|Slug-vomiting Charm
Slugulus Eructo[1]
|Hand Movement
Point wand at victim
Causes the victim to vomit slugs
- "...pointed it furiously under Flint's arm at Malfoy's face. A loud bang echoed around the stadium and a jet of green light shot out of the wrong end of Ron's wand, hitting him in the stomach and sending him reeling backwards on to the grass. 'Ron! Ron! Are you all right?' squealed Hermione. Ron opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out. Instead he gave an almightly belch and several slugs dribbled out of his mouth on to his lap."
- —Ron curses himself.[src]
The Slug-Vomiting Charm[2] (Slugulus Eructo) is a charm that causes the victim to burp up slugs and slime for approximately ten minutes; they may also take on a sallow complexion as a side-effect. It is described as a green jet of light.
In 1992, Ron Weasley attempted to curse Draco Malfoy with this charm after Malfoy referred to Hermione Granger as a "filthy little Mudblood". However, because his wand was broken, the spell backfired, causing Ron to curse himself.[3] Ron was then taken inside to Rubeus Hagrid's Hut where he threw up slugs every so often into the basin given to him by Hagrid.
Behind the scenes[edit | edit source]
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ron shouts "Eat slugs!" but does not say the incantation whilst casting and so must have been casting it nonverbally (and hence must have practiced it a lot in the past).
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, the incantation, Slugulus Eructo, is revealed. When shopping in Diagon Alley, if one enters Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment, they can buy this spell. It is erroneously grouped in the transfiguration category. On use, the victim will belch slugs for some time.
- Rupert Grint stated that vomiting slugs was the most challenging scene to film in that movie: "I think coughing up slugs was quite hard. Ron has a scene where he has to cough up these giant slugs. I had this giant slug in my mouth loaded with slime and I spat them out. I think it was plastic. I hope it was plastic."[4]
- Despite the challenge, Rupert apparently enjoyed filming the scene: "It was so fun because they had all these different flavours of slug slime. There was chocolate, there was lemon, there was orange, there was peppermint. All these different flavours - they made them taste really nice."[5]
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (First identified as Slugus Eructo)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Pottermore (Mentioned only)
Notes and references[edit | edit source]
- ↑ LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- ↑ In Order of the Phoenix, the spell is referred to by this name in the narration: "Harry was reminded forcibly of the time that Ron had accidentally put a Slug-Vomiting Charm on himself".
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- ↑ Scholastic Interview with Rupert Grint
- ↑ Mugglenet Profile on Rupert Grint
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LITTLE ROCK While the central conceit of French writer-director Lorraine Levy's The Other Son may seem a bit cheesy - the hoary "switched at-birth" trope has been used by everyone from Shakespeare (in The Comedy of Errors) to Mark Twain (Pudd'nhead Wilson) to throngs of desperate soap opera writers - the film is redeemed by fine performances and an uncommon emotional honesty.
Set in Israel's Gaza strip, the film tells the story of two families, one Palestinian and one Israeli, living on either side of the wall separating the occupied West Bank from Israel. When 18-year-old Israeli Joseph (Jules Sitruk, Monsieur Batignole) takes a blood test as a prerequisite for his compulsory service in the Israeli Air Force, the lab notifies his French-born physician mother Orith (Emmanuelle Devos) that her husband, Army officer Alon (Pascal Elbe), cannot possibly be Joseph's father.
The first order of business for Orith is to convince Alon that she was not unfaithful to him. Once that's done, the couple must decide how to handle the realization that the boy they raised as their son is a biological stranger - at first they can't bring themselves to tell Joseph the truth.
It's left to the doctors in Haifato explain: During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, an Iraqi missile attack effected the evacuation of the clinic where Joseph and another baby were being held. In the chaos, the infants were inadvertently exchanged. Orith and Alon's biological son - now named Yacine (Mehdi Dehbi) - was raised by a Palestinian couple, Said Al Bezaaz (Khalifa Natour (The Band's Visit) and Leila (Areen Omari).
The political implications are enormous - tellingly, the overriding concern of the males involved seems to be that one of their own was raised by "the other side," while the more pragmatic mothers seek reconciliation with their lost offspring.
But the potential for melodramatic bombast is undercut by the essential decency of both families - though Alon is a military man, he is no stereotype. There is a well-earned scene where the fathers, after an initial burst of hostility, wordlessly sip coffee together in a cafe. Said and Lelia's younger son, Bilal (Mahmoud Shalaby) has a more violent reaction, he rejects his "brother" as a Jewish occupier.
Both families are able to find some commonalties - though the Israelis are better off, the Palestinians aren't exactly poverty-stricken - Yacine is a pre-med student in Paris.
And Joseph doesn't mean to follow in his presumed father's footsteps: For him the military is just an obligation to meet - he is a musician like Said.
Also all of the principals speak French except for Said and Bilal - a subtle but perhaps not insignificant point given that the writer-director is French. This removes them slightly from the typical Israeli-Palestinian dynamic - by making the families more worldly, Levy makes it more plausible that they might see beyond the narrow identity politics of the situation. The film is hopeful in that neither Joseph nor Yacine seem particularly devastated by the revelation - though it raises some interesting questions. Suddenly Joseph is not Jewish, but Yacine is. But years of love and nurturing cannot be summarily dismissed.
Somehow Levy - and her actors - avoid sentimentality and trite homilies. The Other Son explores the age-old nature vs. nurture divide, and ends up as refutation of ignorance and hate.
The Other Son 87 Cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Jules Sitruk, Pascal Elbe, Mehdi Dehbi Director: Lorraine Levy Rating: PG-13, for a scene of violence, brief language and drug use Running time: 105 minutes
MovieStyle, Pages 31 on 12/14/2012
Print Headline: The Other Son


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Is it true that games are better off without a demo? Epic Games is certainly hoping so, as Shacknews is reporting that Gears of War 2 will ship without a demo. The first game launched the same way, and we know how that story went. Millions sold, huge new franchise, etc. Still, why wouldn't you create a demo for such a hugely anticipated title?
Associate producer Tanya Jessen told Shacknews that it's due to fast turnaround. "A two-year production cycle, for a game of this caliber, is really short," she said. Releasing a demo takes time, time that Epic may not have if it hopes to launch the full game in November.
The other possibility? We're all over-thinking this, and there won't be a demo because there doesn't need to be one. Gears of War 2 is going to sell in huge numbers sight unseen anyway; this isn't a game people will need to try out before they realize they want to buy it. Why spend time and money putting together a demo when it most likely wouldn't impact sales?
It's bad news for people who like to taste before they order, but nothing surprising.


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Subpoena seeks names -- and lots more -- of Web posters…
Talk about crossing the line. This is it! At a minimum this type of police state action will suppress free speech and can lead to nowhere good.
In a nutshell some comments were made to one of THOMAS MITCHELL's commentaries:
One person who signed himself "Louis D. Brandeis" called federal prosecutor Greg Damm, whose name is on the subpoena, "evil incarnate and everything that is against the American justice system."
"Christian Patriot" wrote a couple days later, "I suggest we go back to a gold and silver standard, which would immediately wipe out the national debt, not charge us interest for their toilet paper, or better yet, I'll trade you eggs for milk. Tax that if you will."
"Randall" wrote, "If it is legal tender, value of said legal tender it set by the gov and stamped on the face.
"Maybe the Government should be on trial."
Read them yourself at http://www.lvrj.com/news/46074037.html.
So, if THAT'S all that is required to get the U.S. Attorney issuing subpoenas, then blogging will die a rather sudden death! It's one of the last bastions of free speech left, that's why it's so important to protect it!
The government, of course, can only be put on trial if it agrees to be. However, there is certainly nothing wrong with the American people pointing out government official's ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL actions – in fact it's our DUTY!
How many times have I stated that Hank Paulson is a traitor to his country and HE BELONGS IN JAIL? This is not funny, that's EXACTLY where he belongs! He is guilty of crimes against his own country, specifically FRAUD, and he should not be protected by the laws shielding government employees as he had malice in his intent and abused the powers of his office.
Should I be attacked by the U.S. Attorney's office for saying so? Is this Communist China or America?
To me this subpoena is meant to harass and to intimidate. Heck, they probably WANT the word to be spread about this so that people will be AFRAID to comment on BLOGS and in the ONLINE MEDIA! Do not give in! The Constitution guarantees the freedom of speech, but at the same time do not be stupid and say something that can incriminate you personally. Yes, there are certain things that cannot be said in public… you must be careful to not make personal threats or to incite violence. And you certainly don't want to discuss YOUR illegal activities in public. That does not, however, mean that we can't talk about these subjects and we certainly should.
Many, many issues involved here, the U.S. Attorney's office deserves the light of day on this one!
Here is a link to the U.S. Attorney's Office Mission Statement:
U.S. Attorney's Office Mission Statement…
Here is a link to their contact page if you would like to let them know that you do not appreciate such actions, mailing address and fax number is at the bottom of the page:
U.S. Attorney's Office Contact Page…
The Obama appointed head of this office is Eric Holder, the U.S. Attorney General. Please direct your correspondence and displeasure with this situation to him!
And while we're at it, here's a link to the U.S. Attorney's Office own page of LINKS:
U.S. Attorney's Office LINKS…
Please note that the VERY TOP LINK IS TO THE PATRIOT ACT!!! And what happens when you click that link? You land on this page:
FISA 101: Why FISA Modernization Amendments Must Be Made Permanent
Are you kidding me? A GOVERNMENT AGENCY POLITICKING TO MAKE THE PATRIOT ACT PERMANENT!
Officials in our government are supposed to be NEUTRAL! They are NOT supposed to be lobbying for acts and laws that pretend to make you more "safe" yet rob you of your freedom and liberties, the very thing they claim to be protecting. What nonsense.
"Protect America Act…" "Patriot Act…" These are acts designed to control you and to profit the military industrial complex which is owned largely by guess who?
Folks, our liberties and freedoms are being subverted. You are being lied to and controlled.
Freedom and Security are tied together… those who pursue "security" SACRIFICE FREEDOM, while those who pursue FREEDOM will GAIN SECURITY!
This is a concept which our Founders, like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, understood thoroughly. The pursuit of "security" as is presently being followed will ABSOLUTELY make us 100% LESS SAFE as we have abandoned all fiscal discipline and sanity and have BANKRUPT our nation by doing so.
We spend more money on "national defense" than the rest of the entire world combined!!! Yet, we cannot sell all our debt and now must print money to buy our own debt! THAT IS DEFAULT!!! When one can no longer finance their operations, they are BANKRUPT! You have sacrificed your FREEDOM for "SECURITY" and are now a prisoner and a slave to our collective DEBT.
Quotes by Thomas Jefferson:
"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither"
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
"If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions."
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny"
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
I am going to keep playing this tune until people GET IT. LISTEN TO THE WORDS OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY!
Styx – Suite Madame Blue (America Patriotic):
Chalmers Johnson – Keynesian Military Spending (6 minutes):
Chalmers Johnson – DECLINE of EMPIRES: The Signs of Decay (1:03):


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