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Review: Beefeater 24 (London Dry Gin)
Posted by Arctic Wolf on January 8, 2012
The new Beefeater 24 is advertised as being handcrafted with 12 botanicals which include grapefruit, bitter almond, orris root, Seville orange peel, rare Japanese Sencha tea and Chinese green tea. This makes the new Beefeater 24 gin more complex in construction than the previously reviewed Beefeater London Dry Gin which listed 9 ingredients. There are other differences as well, The new Beefeater 24 is bottled at a higher proof (45 % alcohol by volume) which to me seems most welcome, and all of the ingredients are apparently steeped in grain alcohol for 24 hours prior to a 7 hour distillation where the master distiller makes an artisan cut by hand from the heart of the distillation run.
This product has been brought into my local market by Corby, and I was delighted when the local rep arranged for me to receive a bottle of the new Beefeater 24 to review on my website. Here is an excerpt:
"… There is a 'freshness' rising out of the glass and I liken it to the scent of an alpine forest on a warm spring day with the snow is melt just beginning. The aroma of evergreen boughs and juniper jumps out of the glass pushed ahead by a crisp citrus-like aroma…"
Here is a link to my full review:
Review: Beefeater 24 (London Dry Gin)
As I usually do, I have provided a delicious cocktail after the review. in this case I stuck to tradition and recommended a Gin and Tonic.
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Aviation Week is carrying the news that NASA's FY2014 budget will include a $100 million line item to start planning a robotic mission to snatch an asteroid and relocate it to near the Moon, where it could be studied up-close by NASA—and possibly even visited by astronauts (hat-tip to the Houston Chronicle's SciGuy blog for the news).
The idea is based on a report by the Keck Institute for Space Studies, which outlines an entire robotic mission to locate and retrieve an NEA—a Near Earth Asteroid—of about 500,000kg in mass and a diameter of about 7 meters. Such an asteroid would be a C-type or carbonaceous asteroid, and would have the consistency of "a dried mudball." The asteroid would be hauled back via a robotic probe and positioned in an orbit above the far side of the Moon at the second Earth-Moon Lagrange Point, where the vagaries of gravity and inertia would keep the asteroid in a roughly consistent location. Once positioned there, the asteroid would—at least in theory—be within the range of a manned visit.
To go out and grab the asteroid in the first place, the report recommends a probe weighing about 18,000 kg, which could be lofted into space using an existing launch vehicle (such as an Atlas V). Shifting 500,000 kg of mass with conventional rockets would require a tremendous amount of propellant to be carried along with the probe so, rather than chemical rockets, the probe would be equipped with a "~40-kW solar electric propulsion system with a specific impulse of 3,000 s."
That's an ion thruster, as the technology is more commonly known. This type of engine works not by burning propellant in a thrust chamber, but rather by using electricity generated by solar panels to accelerate charged particles away from the spacecraft. The thrust from such an engine is relatively low, but its specific impulse—a measurement of the engine's efficiency at extracting force from a given amount of fuel—is extremely high. By way of comparison to the 3,000 s figure above, the RS-25 engines used on the Space Shuttle burn liquid hydrogen and have a specific impulse of 453 seconds in a vacuum.
The probe could use various gravity assist methods to reach its candidate asteroid, depending on where the target happens to be. Most of the potential rendezvous methods include a slingshot around the Moon to give the probe a big velocity boost out of the Earth-Moon system. Once the probe has reached its asteroid target, it would enfold the asteroid in a large bag and stabilize any tumble or rotation it happens to have using xenon-powered maneuvering thrusters. Once stable, it would begin a long ion-powered trek back to the Moon. Once the probe has returned to the Moon's vicinity with its cargo, it would initiate a braking maneuver (again using the Moon's gravity to assist) and stabilize itself in high lunar orbit at the EML2 point.
Because of the low available thrust and the high amount of mass involved, the entire retrieval mission could take up to ten years, depending on the candidate asteroid's location and orbit. Once the asteroid has been installed at EML2, the report says that it would remain stable with only a tiny amount of help: "We estimate that the lunar orbit could be maintained with station-keeping on the order of 10 m/s ∆V per year." The probe would remain attached to the asteroid in order to impart this momentum, though it would not have the propellant reserves to do this for very long and would need to have its xenon supply topped off for long-term station-keeping.
So, once it's there, what do we do with it? The report outlines several science possibilities, but NASA and the current administration are focused on sending astronauts out to visit. Manned exploration of a 7-meter asteroid might seem a bit of a stretch, but the report explains thusly:
Placing a 500-t asteroid in high lunar orbit would provide a unique, meaningful, and affordable destination for astronaut crews in the next decade. This disruptive capability would have a positive impact on a wide range of the nation's human space exploration interests. It would provide a high-value target in cislunar space that would require a human presence to take full advantage of this new resource. It would offer an affordable path to providing operational experience with astronauts working around and with a NEA that could feed forward to much longer duration human missions to larger NEAs in deep space.
There's another reason, too: rendezvous with a NEA is one of the potential objectives outlined in the Augustine report, a document commissioned by the government that attempts to give some direction to America's manned space program. The vast majority of the report's recommendations and conclusions appear to have been largely ignored; however, NEA rendezvous is mentioned as a potential way to keep the manned space program performing some meaningful work while looking for a bigger, more permanent goal:
There is a third possible path for human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit, which the Committee calls the Flexible Path. On this path, humans would visit sites never visited before and extend our knowledge of how to operate in space—while traveling greater and greater distances from Earth. Successive missions would visit lunar orbit; the Lagrange points (special points in space that are important sites for scientific observations and the future space transportation infrastructure); and near-Earth objects (asteroids and spent comets that cross the Earth's path); and orbit around Mars....
The Flexible Path represents a different type of exploration strategy. We would learn how to live and work in space, to visit small bodies, and to work with robotic probes on the planetary surface. It would provide the public and other stakeholders with a series of interesting "firsts" to keep them engaged and supportive.
A captured asteroid would provide NASA with another destination, besides the International Space Station, that astronauts could visit using the in-development Orion spacecraft. It also will provide a way to demonstrate the heavy-lift capabilities also-in-development Space Launch System. However, adding a manned component to the mission introduces a lot of dependencies—SLS's actual development and commissioning is still not entirely a sure thing. (Detractors often refer to the rocket as the "Senate Launch System" because of the large number of design and assembly contracts being run by the aerospace companies all across the country.)
The mission as outlined comes across as more of a technology demonstration and practice run than anything else, although there is obviously the opportunity for real science in the capturing and up-close observation of an asteroid. Aviation Week cites a number of experts who discuss objectives beyond just capture and rendezvous; the mission itself could serve as a test for technology that could eventually be scaled up to avert a collision with an inbound asteroid, for example. The presence of a carbonaceous asteroid in cis-lunar space also gives private companies the opportunity to test mining techniques to extract resources from the floating rock. Success could lead to additional robotic capture-and-return missions or even remote-controlled mining missions that return not whole asteroids but rather mined ore ready to be processed.
From a cost perspective, the $100 million line expected to appear in NASA's FY2014 budget is just the start, though: the total cost of the mission would be about $2.6 billion dollars (and that excludes any costs associated with later manned visits). Much of that $2.6B is tied up in the research and planning and manufacturing, and repeat missions would be less—perhaps $1B each.
The mission could launch as early as 2017, depending on the asteroid chosen. The combined Orion/SLS system is expected to make its first manned flight in 2021.


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What do you get when you cross an elephant with a Hindu....An Indian with a snout in his 24 inch as@hole that looks like Ganesh
Why are hinddoouss like sperm?
Only 1 in a Million actually works
Mother's milk is to babies as gang raypes are to hindus in mother india.
Two mothers. One good the other hindu mother bhery bad.
Q: What do you call a hindu shrink
A: TheRapist
E Coli? Food poisoning? Occasional Diarrhea? Runs? Bloating?
Folks, think thrice before eating in an Indian restaurant. Watch the cooks in the kitchen scratching their b ollz and fingering their a zz and then handling food without washing hands.
On top of that Hinddooos dont bury their dead. The carcass finds way to restaurants. There is no accounting of human bodies. Kid you not.
Google Aghoris
I love modi. Good man.
Too many Islamic paki raypists in Pakistan. LMFAO
Modi's boyfriend from Myanmar is f ukking Modi as we speak. He is a buddhist.
Hare krishna hare ram !!!
So true.
Islamic paki raypists from Pakistan are very bad. Too much gang rayping
Islamic paki raypists smell like pigs.
They are berry bad lol
Islamic paki raypists smell like skunks in heat.
They gang raype.
Islamic paki raypists eat cow sh it
How do you get a hinddoou out of a tree?
Cut the rope.
Islamic paki raypists wipe modi's asss after he defecates
Islamic paki raypists eat camel sh it
How do you get 100 hindoos into a car?
Throw a quarter in it.
How do you get
them out again?
Tell them Hafizz Saeeed is driving.
How do u get an Islamic paki raypist out of a tree?
Chop off his pair
Modi from India goes to the doctor and says, "I feel terrible."
Doctor says, "go home, get a bucket, p iss and s hit in it for a week. Throw in dead rats and rotting fish. Put a towel over your head and sniff the fumes for three days."
Week later Modi goes back and says, "Doc, I feel wonderful, what was the problem?"
Doctor, "you were homesick!"
Islamic paki raypists li ck modi's assscrack
Highest and best use of hindus? As toilets. Mouth open turn them around and lay them down face up. Then take a big dump in their mouth. Use face as overflow
Islamic paki raypists li ck modi's big b alls
Islamic paki raypists defecate in Pakistan streets.
They have no toilets
Kiss a hindu indian and he will backstab you. Kick him on the face and he will be a friend forever
Why do hindoos raype their mothers? It is prescribed in Gita Bhagavad.
Islamic paki raypists like gang rayping. They smell like pig sh it
Islamic paki raypists are evil and smell like my under arms.
Islamic paki raypists eat pig sh it
Lard Shiva rayped Kaali Maa.
Islamic paki raypists have BO so bad it can kill a rat
Islamic paki raypists su ck lord shiva di ck
Islamic paki raypists go to catholic church to pray to Jesus


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" Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day."
Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician who is the founder of the organizations that merged to form RainbowPUSH, and was also the host of Both Sides with Jesse Jackson on CNN from 1992 to 2000.
He was born on Wednesday October 8th 1941, in Greenville, South Carolina, United States.
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Once Jesse Jackson is convinced of the inherent correctness of his ideas, he stubbornly - and sometimes rigidly - defends and propagates them. Rev. Jackson should avoid obstinacy and antagonism, and cultivate balance, compassion, and perseverance instead.
Jesse Jackson easily assumes the role of protector. He springs into action when leadership is needed.
Pride can be his downfall. Jesse so powerfully identifies with his goals and ambitions that he sometimes refuses to see a potential flaw or weakness in his well-laid plans.
He possesses strength and determination, which, when applied to any endeavor he is committed to, will lead Jesse Jackson to great success in life.
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Loveland is known as the "Sweetheart City" but its thriving arts scene is what inspires passion in many residents. Numerous nationally acclaimed sculptors call Loveland home. You can see their work at area galleries and tour the foundries. The Benson Park Sculpture Garden contains impressive collection and you will find interesting artwork throughout the city. Each August, the city hosts Sculpture in the Park , a world renowned outdoor sculpture show attended by 150,000 art lovers. The almost 100-year-old Rialto Theatre has been lovingly restored and hosts performing arts groups & musicians and business meetings. In keeping with tradition, the Rialto periodically features silent films with live music accompaniment.
Any visitor to the thriving downtown area of Loveland, replete with examples of traditional Colorado architecture will know that Loveland is big on charm. With 25 city parks, including North Lake Park on the lovely and centrally located Lake Loveland, and Boyd Lake State Park, a boater/angler/water skiers paradise just outside of town, Loveland is big on recreation.
Loveland is big on beauty. It's nestled against the Rocky Mountains and is a hop skip and a jump from Rocky Mountain National Park.
A low crime rate, a solid school system, quality health care, countless entertainment options and friendly Lovelanders mean Loveland is big on quality of life.
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Fire Highlights Harsh Lives of Bangladesh Garment Workers
DHAKA, Bangladesh | Clothing is king in Bangladesh, a country that exports more garments than any other in the world except China. It is responsible for four out of every five export dollars and has turned factory owners into members of parliament and leaders of sports clubs.
That strength has often been turned against the workers in those factories, especially those who complain about poor working conditions and pay that can be less than $40 a month. A law-enforcement agency called the Industrial Police is specifically assigned to deal with unrest in factories, and labor activists accuse government forces of killing one of their leaders. Employees are barred by law from forming trade unions, even though Bangladesh allows workers in other industries to unionize.
Workers hope that could change following the industry's latest tragedy, a fire Saturday that killed 112 people at a factory that made T-shirts and polo shirts for Wal-Mart and other retailers around the world. But they have their doubts.
"The owners must treat the workers with respect. They should care about their lives and they must keep in mind that they are human beings. They have families, parents and children," said Nazma Akhter, president of Combined Garment Workers Federation. "Is there anybody to really pay any heed to our words?"
There have been many garment-factory fires in Bangladesh — since 2006, more than 300 people have died. But Saturday's was by far the deadliest, and has drawn international attention to labor practices as the government tries to encourage Western countries and companies to expand their relationships here.
The Tazreen Fashions Ltd. factory had no emergency exit, and workers trying to flee found the main exit locked. Fire extinguishers were left unused, either because they didn't work or workers didn't know how to use them. One survivor said that after the fire alarm went off, managers told workers to get back to work.
In an interview published Tuesday in Dhaka's Daily Star newspaper, the managing director of Tazreen Fashions expressed concern — about possibly losing foreign buyers. "I'm concerned that my business with them will be hampered," said Delwar Hossain. But there was no mention in the article of concern for victims or their families.
Tazreen has not responded to repeated requests from AP for comment.
Bangladesh's $20 billion-a-year garment industry accounts for 80 percent of its total export earnings and contributes a major share of the country's $110 billion GDP. This from an export market created only in 1978, with a consignment for 10,000 men's shirts.
By 1982, the country had 47 readymade garment factories. In three years the number rose to 587. Now it has more than 4,000.
The factory owners are a powerful group, holding parliamentary posts in both major parties. The head of the prominent Dhaka sports club Mohamedan is in the business; so is a former president of the national cricket board.
An important reason for their success is cheap labor. Almost a third of the South Asian country of 150 million lives in extreme poverty.
The minimum wage for a garment worker is 3,000 takas ($38) a month, after being nearly doubled this year following violent protests by workers. According to the World Bank, the per capita income in Bangladesh was about $64 a month in 2011.
On Tuesday, as Bangladesh held a day of mourning for the dead, 10,000 people, including relatives and colleagues, gathered near the site of Saturday's blaze, many wearing black badges as a sign of mourning. Security forces were deployed, but no clashes were reported.
"I've lost my son and the only member to earn for the family," said Nilufar Khatoon, the mother of a worker who died. "What shall I do now?"
The country's factories were closed as a mark of respect, and prayers for the dead were held in places of worship across the Muslim-majority South Asian nation. The national flag flew at half-staff in government buildings.
Authorities buried 51 unidentified bodies in a grave outside Dhaka. Many of the dead were charred beyond recognition. Some other bodies were buried in the same grave Monday.
Also Tuesday, about 2,000 members of 14 labor organizations held a rally in central Dhaka where leaders accused the government of neglecting the rights of garment workers.
About 15,000 workers protested a day earlier near the burned factory to demand better safety.
The factory itself is gutted. Its eight floors are littered with burned clothes, yarn, machinery and furniture. Broken windows and black ashes are scattered on the floors and staircases.
Authorities have formed three committees to look into the incident. An industry group has suggested that sabotage may be to blame, though fire officials have said it was not the fire itself, but the poor safety measures that caused the high death toll.
"It was complete darkness," said Mohammad Zakir Hossain, a Tazreen worker who survived the fire. "I couldn't see anything but I started moving forward. I can hear shouts from many of my colleagues in the darkness, 'Oh Allah, save me, save me.'"
Hossain says he was making 4,500 takas ($55) a month, plus about 30 takas (37 cents) an hour in overtime.
Wal-Mart has said the Tazreen factory was making clothes for the retail giant without its knowledge. Wal-Mart, which had received an audit deeming the factory "high risk" last year, said it had decided to stop doing business with Tazreen, but that a supplier subcontracted work to the factory anyway. Wal-Mart said it stopped working with that supplier on Monday.
Wal-Mart and other companies linked to the factory's products have expressed sympathy for the victims and a commitment to improving worker safety.
The European Union's delegation to Bangladesh said while it recognizes the importance of the garment industry to the local economy and European consumers, "the EU has always been very clear about the need to improve working standards and safety in this sector."
Dan Mozena, the U.S. ambassador to Bangladesh, also expressed his concern over labor rights and warned that any chaos in the sector could drive global brands away.
The United States and even many global buyers have been pressing Bangladesh to allow garment factories to form trade unions, but the government and industry have resisted.
The industry fell under more pressure after a labor leader was killed in April, his body found in a roadside ditch. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton raised concern about the killing, and workers' rights issues overall, during a visit to Bangladesh the following month.
Aminul Islam had complained before his death about police harassment, wiretapping and even being abducted and tortured, allegedly by a domestic intelligence agency. Authorities are investigating his death but have revealed nothing about their progress. Meanwhile, the leading Bengali-language Prothom Alo newspaper recently reported, citing an anonymous source, that top officials of the National Security Intelligence had regular contact with the main suspect before and after Islam's death.
Even as it fends off criticism, Bangladesh is seeking more business from the West, including pressing the United States for quota-free and duty-free access for its garment products to the U.S. market.
Earlier this month, senior executives from more than two dozen global brands and retailers visited Bangladesh in a bid to forge long-term agreements to source garments from its factories.
In September, Karl-Johan Persson, chief executive of the Swedish retail chain H&M, visited Bangladesh and said his 2,600-store group would increase its business relationship with the country.
Mustafizur Rahman, executive director of the Center for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh's leading independent think tank, said there is "hypocrisy" among buyers who "talk about ethical buying and ethical sourcing, but when it comes to price they refuse to offer a good rate. They often go to less compliant factories for a cheaper rate. Being compliant is not cheap."
At the same time, Rahman said Saturday's fire "highlights inner weaknesses of a giant industry very essential for the country's survival."
"This has come as a strong warning," he said. "But it was too costly."
Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division, blames a "nexus of influence" between senior government officials and factory owners that "allows impunity to flourish." Until that changes, he said, government vows to improve safety should be treated with skepticism.
"Six months or eight months down the road, if history is any indication, we will have another factory fire, and more workers will be killed," he said.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.


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Sunday, January 13, 2013
The Honey Boo Boo of the firearms industry.
Surrounded by groupies and acolytes and yes-men, it can be easy to lose perspective. When your every utterance is treated as a pearl of wisdom, when there's nobody who tells you "no", you can start to buy into your own hype.
James Yeager has long been known for being willing to embrace controversy within the firearms industry, most recently by threatening to beat up the internet for calling him a coward, but largely remained a cipher to mainstream media and the outside world.
And then, in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting and right smack in the middle of a raging national debate about guns in the hands of the mentally unstable, he put up a red-faced and spittle-flecked YouTube video in which he threatened to "start killing people".
The outside world noticed.
Mainstream media noticed.
The unblinking eye turned on his background. They haven't discovered the "duel contract" yet, but they will. His toter's permit got yanked.
He deleted the original video, put out an edited one, and has now appeared in a third video with a man who seems to be his lawyer (put that man on danger pay, James!), walking back his earlier statements but the internet, like rock and roll, never forgets.
Here's my question: In his entire entourage of uncritical nuthuggers, was there not one single person willing to play Smithers to Yeager's Mr. Burns? Nobody to say "Uh, sir, maybe going on camera all bug-eyed and threatening to kill people isn't such a good idea when bug-eyed people have been running around killing people."
And no matter how much you don't want him on your team, he is on your team anyway. He is getting so much attention at HuffPo and DailyKos because to them, he confirms every stereotype they have of gun owners the way Limbaugh listeners think that all Democrat voters are dreadlocked hippies in #OCCUPY_DRUM_CIRCLE. James Yeager has sent the entire gun rights movement downrange with a camera.
Thanks a lot, James. Before you score another Own Goal, how about hiring somebody whose only job is to follow you around and say "No."? You need a Smithers in your life.
83 comments:
- staghounds said...
That's an ultimate power that the MSM still holds.
THEIR crazy outliers are just crazy outliers who don't represent the true movement. They don't get exposed, except to people who want to do the research.
OUR crazy outliers ARE the movement, because they are the only face the neutrals are shown, incessantly.
- 9:41 AM, January 13, 2013
- staghounds said...
Not always- here's a straight article from of all places the Washington Post:
- 9:43 AM, January 13, 2013
Oh come on now, Buck has been out of control for a LONG time. It's just too bad we all have to be pulled down by him.
- 9:46 AM, January 13, 2013
- Tam said...
"Oh come on now, Buck has been out of control for a LONG time."
Reading is FUN-damental! :)
- 9:48 AM, January 13, 2013
- Matt G said...
Jeez, you nailed this one. You said everything that I was thinking when I saw that vid, but better.
- 9:50 AM, January 13, 2013
- Tam said...
I thought that the post title was explained by the second sentence of the second-to-last paragraph.
- 10:00 AM, January 13, 2013
- J. Sullivan said...
What you call The Elvis Syndrome my circle of compadres calls The George Lucas Syndrome.
Yeah. That's right.
We're the real Wookie Suiters.
- 10:07 AM, January 13, 2013
- rremington said...
We seemed to be doing pretty well in this latest fracas till Alex Jones and James Yeager popped up.... At least we have Ben Shapiro (sort of) on our side.
- 10:16 AM, January 13, 2013
- Joseph said...
Look. Nutjobs like Yeager are going to be around throwing hand grenades into the room, always. Paying them mind is playing into their hands much the same way as the MSM does evil assholes like the one who shot up Newtown.
The real work is you and I contacting our representatives and making it known how we feel and how we want them to vote on any legislation that comes to them related to gun ownership. If you haven't called or e-mailed them, then you should assume the Yeager-ball speaks for you as far as your representatives are concerned.
- 10:25 AM, January 13, 2013
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- 10:25 AM, January 13, 2013
- Spud said...
It's kinda like the effect that "Doomsday Preppers" has on the reputation of rational "normal" preppers whom are just concerned citizens, that want prudent insurance policies.
There is much difference between Tin Foil Hat and Rational Self Sufficient folks. The fault lies with those which cannot distinguish one from the other.
- 10:25 AM, January 13, 2013
The folks I work with have been watching this latest drama and our opinion is the next episode of Gun Trainer Gone Wild will be that Mr. Yeager will be ordered to have a psychological evaluation by the state or his firearms will be confiscated till he proves he is not a risk to the general public.
To be a fly on that wall.
- 10:31 AM, January 13, 2013
- Rev. Paul T. McCain said...
I have a couple response videos to Yeager, the first, the longer one I made after he challenged people to come down and duel him, then, the second after his "I'm going to start killing people" rant:
- 10:37 AM, January 13, 2013
Imagine if a guy like Yeager tolerated criticism from his followers. Nineteen times a day, it'd be "Jim, you idiot, for God's sake..."
If he weren't an idiot, that might be a Sign -- but then if he weren't an idiot, he wouldn't be all the time giving everybody cause to call him one.
And from the other direction, who's going to sign up as his follower anyhow? Either another idiot, or somebody who's new to the gun culture and doesn't yet know any better. By the time he's confident in his own opinions, his opinions will have been formed by years of rationalizing the behavior of a reckless jackass.
Morons don't gather in clumps just by chance, you know.
- 10:40 AM, January 13, 2013
I actually see this as a bit of an opportunity. Decent gun blogs have been calling this guy out forever, we need to point that out to people. We were ahead of the curve on thinking this guy was a bit nuts. Police ourselves, others won't have to. I have yet to hear anyone from the gun crowd arguing that he should get his carry permit back. Instead of this being some big negative, point out that the laws are already in place to take the right away from a hot head who had done nothing more than run his mouth.
- 10:48 AM, January 13, 2013
- Robb Allen said...
You ever read the comments to any of his YouTube videos. The people who drink the Yeager Koolaid run mightily close to homoerotic fandom.
The time he did the duel thing there were hundreds of commenters saying things like "Mr. Yeager, these idiots don't deserve someone like you!!!" or "I've taken your courses and these poopie heads calling you names don't know what it's like to be 'in the shit' like you were!!! YOU ARE SO AWESOME!".
I've seen less devotion in Justin Beiber fan clubs.
I can't imagine having that kind of a following. I prefer to basically be told I'm wrong every day of my life so that I'm aware that I am fallible and can correct my actions.
- 11:09 AM, January 13, 2013
- Jake (formerly Riposte3) said...
"I have yet to hear anyone from the gun crowd arguing that he should get his carry permit back."
I'll bite. He should. Why do I say that?
To start, I'll quote Weer'd Beard: "If James Yeager has committed a crime, arrest and charge him, then take away his rights that way." If he is truly a danger to himself or others, then there is a process for taking his right away for that, too. The state needs to use it, or give him his permit back. He's either a danger, or he isn't.
If he is a danger, simply taking away his permit does nothing - he still has guns, he's still a free man, and he still can commit crimes. If he's not a danger, then he has the same right to carry a gun for his own defence as anyone else.
This current situation smacks of the same mentality behind the political punishment inflicted on TJIC (though somewhat less egregious) for using his First Amendment Rights to say something that offended the powers that be.
TN needs to either charge him with a crime, have him committed for a psych evaluation, or give him his permit back. Anything else is arbitrary political intimidation.
- 11:14 AM, January 13, 2013
- Tam said...
TJIC didn't threaten to kill anybody.
(And, yeah, I think Yeager will probably get reinstated at a hearing, at least as long as nobody discovered that he's been offering to duel people to the death. I'm ambiguous though: It's easy for me to say he should get reinstated, since it's not my signature on his chit. Nobody's gonna sue ME if he actually does 'roid out and cap somebody.)
- 11:18 AM, January 13, 2013
- Jake (formerly Riposte3) said...
True, he didn't, though the anti's behind TJIC's revocation claim he did, and may actually believe that. And the only reason I think Yeager's punishment is less egregious is that he actually gets to keep his guns, he just can't carry them, while TJIC lost his guns completely.
But it's the same mentality behind the punishment - "I think he said something threatening, so I'm going to take away his guns/carry permit in a manner that doesn't require me to actually prove anything."
- 11:26 AM, January 13, 2013
- Charles Lee Scudder said...
Honestly, he's the hot head I fear. The one that the media will use to con the rest of the country to taking all of our 2A right. If he can't even keep his head enough to not post a video, first he had to film it, then upload it, and still did not think it unwise until the crap storm..... Lot of time to cool down, and yet he didn't. Tells me a lot.
- 11:31 AM, January 13, 2013
- Tam said...
"But it's the same mentality behind the punishment - "I think he said something threatening..."
I don't think there's any question that James said something threatening. "I'm gonna start killing people" isn't exactly loaded with nuance and ambiguity.
- 11:40 AM, January 13, 2013
- ASM826 said...
I cannot be any more responsible for what Yeager does with his mouth than I can be responsible for what <\random spree shooter's name> does with his guns.
- 11:44 AM, January 13, 2013
- Tam said...
Who said you were?
- 11:46 AM, January 13, 2013
- Lynx217 said...
first of all i think itd be best to throw out the extremists on all sides of this debate, as it would also be better to do to politicians. extremism never solves issues. then we need to do something big to prevent another newtown as much as possible. sad to say but true our schools are going to have to start resembling something more of a government building with bulletproof glass and metal detectors. im not sure armed guards will work - a strong bully could overpower one and get his gun. or a guard could go nuts. but they could be invaluable too. but we have to keep the guns as far away from the schools as possible. we have laws that require doctors to notify the dmv if someone becomes unfit to drive, why not for guns? but give people a chance to contest it so doctors cant go crazy. and require anyone who buys a gun demonstrate they know how to operate it safely? i truly wish we could go back to the days where everyone had a gun but we didnt kill each other with them. somewhere we lost our way. any ideas?
- 11:56 AM, January 13, 2013
- Tam said...
"then we need to do something big to prevent another newtown as much as possible."
I disagree.
I think we need to avoid letting statistical outliers provoke us into doing "something big", callous as that may sound.
- 12:01 PM, January 13, 2013
- Jake (formerly Riposte3) said...
I'm not denying that. But I'm not saying the people behind either punishment are being rational about it, either. I'm just saying the mentality behind both is the same.
Sure, Yeager made a pretty clear (but generic) threat, but if he broke the law he needs to be charged. If they think he's a danger, they need to have him committed. In either case, just yanking his permit does no good (and could actually push him to carry through on his threat). But if it's neither, then there's no reason to yank his permit.
- 12:01 PM, January 13, 2013
- Tam said...
"Sure, Yeager made a pretty clear (but generic) threat, but if he broke the law he needs to be charged. If they think he's a danger, they need to have him committed."
In a state that issues a permit to carry a gun in public, even shall-issue states, somebody is signing their name to a piece of paper certifying that they believe you aren't going to do something dumb with it. Given his recent behavior, I'm glad I'm not the one being asked to sign off on his level-headedness.
The suspension and/or revocation process is detailed here; it is a matter of the legal code and the law doesn't necessarily have anything to do with logic. This discussion would be different if he lived in a state where he needed a permit to own guns, and different yet again if he lived in a Constitutional Carry state.
- 12:12 PM, January 13, 2013
- Tam said...
(PS: If they Googled him and discovered his dueling contract, then I'm not a damn bit surprised they yanked it. All the hotheadedness involving that, where he threatened to kill specific people and stated that he didn't care if he went to prison or not, are much better reasons to pull his chit than this latest one.)
- 12:15 PM, January 13, 2013
- Cincinnatus said...
Exactly, Tam, his duel nonsense would be substantive enough to confirm a revocation in at least my state.
- 12:22 PM, January 13, 2013
Jake, he may not have broken a law, but I'm betting he violated the conditions he agreed to upon getting his carry permit, and thus had it revoked. It's not complicated, every state has conditions for holding a permit, you can violate those conditions without violating a law, yaeger did that.
If you want to debate the merits of the law, we can do that, but I know damn well what will and what will not cause me to lose my permit under the laws that currently exist. I'd like to keep my permit, so I behave. It's a choice I'm able to make because I'm not controlled by the day's emotion like yaeger is.
- 12:26 PM, January 13, 2013
- Les Jones said...
I hope this whole episode will cause some people to re-think their support of Billy Beck and the Threepers. True, they don't make scary videos that are easy to embed, but they're running around in "we're ready to start killing government officials at any time" mode.
- 12:47 PM, January 13, 2013
- Kristophr said...
Jake: Yeager violated a law.
He issued a duel challenge.
States outlawed dueling because it was used by contract killers as a tool to use personal pride to gull people into getting murdered.
States made dueling unlawful for good reason.
Yeager committed a felony. Jail his ass.
- 12:53 PM, January 13, 2013
- Jake (formerly Riposte3) said...
"Yeager violated a law. [...] Yeager committed a felony. Jail his ass."
I don't disagree. But if they want to punish him, then they need to actually charge him.
- 12:54 PM, January 13, 2013
- Tam said...
" But if they want to punish him..."
Losing his toter's permit wasn't done as a punishment. In the black letter of the legal code of the state of Tennessee, you can have your permit revoked by the issuing agency if they deem that you "(c) Poses a material likelihood of risk or harm to the public;"
That's the way things are.
The way things should be is a matter for another discussion.
(I don't think anybody should need a carry permit anywhere in the U.S., so there wouldn't be anything to revoke. I'd also like a magic flying unicorn pony that could talk to me and be my best friend.)
- 1:00 PM, January 13, 2013
- Al T. said...
Dang Tam. Thanks to you and my senseless right click on "Honey Boo Boo", I now have to change my last name, pour bleach in my eyes and drive a lag bolt into each ear. That's gonna leave a mark.
Perhaps Buck Yeager could co-star with ol' HBB.
- 1:07 PM, January 13, 2013
Dueling is a crime you say.
Are they sending a SWAT team after James Cameron?
Your loyal second,
- 1:28 PM, January 13, 2013
- Mike said...
Jim Yeager is to the RKBA movement what the Spetsnaz are to hostage situations.
- 1:28 PM, January 13, 2013
- Eck! said...
The dumb bunny didn't understand the first rule of opsec.
That being to give the enemy a warning or detail of what you plan to do is poor operational security.
Why? because they will be prepared to counter that and likely shoot you and ask questions later.
To stand up and say politely that you believe in the constitution and the right to defend ones self and property is a good message. To say your going to shot them is stupid.
He was very stupid and as a preper didn't understand opsec.
- 1:32 PM, January 13, 2013
I don't care for Mr. Yeager. I find his instructional style repellant, his bombastic comments and braggadocio do not impress me in the slightest.
His self-created problems do bear watching, however.
If he remains on the scene and in the limelight so be it.
But if he disappears and his website goes dark that's another matter entirely.
I'm not a conspiracy buff but I do think it's quite possible that there may be some purposeful misdirection in all of this emotional sturm und drang.
Why now?
What (if anything) would the government want to distract us from?
Why the hardcore, drastic, and apparently coordinated change in tactics?
This is too important to easily fall into the usual blogosphere tropes.
Remember Rule Number 4. "Be sure of your target...and what's behind it."
- 2:06 PM, January 13, 2013
- Tam said...
"What (if anything) would the government want to distract us from?"
I'm not seeing the government involvement here. Explain.
- 2:08 PM, January 13, 2013
- nemesis443 said...
"I'd also like a magic flying unicorn pony that could talk to me and be my best friend."
If it farts rainbows of money (or ammunition) I want one, too!
- 2:38 PM, January 13, 2013
- hektor said...
"If it farts rainbows of money (or ammunition) I want one, too!"
As long as said ammunition is expelled at safe velocities.
- 3:14 PM, January 13, 2013
"Jim Yeager is to the RKBA movement what the Spetsnaz are to hostage situations."
I think Mike wins the internet today.
- 3:34 PM, January 13, 2013
I keep hearing the clip from the Spruce Moose episode....
Burns: "Hop in"
Smithers: (pointing to the model in Burns' hands) "But sir...".
Burns: "I said hop in!"
- 3:56 PM, January 13, 2013
Sorry, Miss Tam;
In Mr. Yeager's particular case I was referencing the agency that rescinded his concealed carry permit. I assumed that would have been his local sheriff's department or similar local governmental functionary.
I wasn't clear in my statement. If Mr. Yeager's appeal goes through and appears to apply an unbiased application of local existing statutes to what he has created for himself...well and good.
If, on the other hand, he appears to be railroaded that would indicate something very different and worrisome to me.
I'm just trying to see my way through the fog. I feel a bit overwhelmed by the emotionally charged rhetoric that seems to pervade this issue and the plethora of knee-jerk reactions that seem to be coming from everywhere.
You and the people who respond here are trustworthy.
- 3:59 PM, January 13, 2013
- staghounds said...
Actually issuing a challenge to duel stopped being a crime in Tennessee in the code revision of 1989.
He's committed two Tennessee offenses:
39-17-308. Harassment.
(a) A person commits an offense who intentionally:
(1) Threatens, by telephone, in writing or by electronic communication, including, but not limited to, text messaging, facsimile transmissions, electronic mail or Internet services, to take action known to be unlawful against any person and by this action knowingly annoys or alarms the recipient;
39-17-309. Civil rights intimidation.
(b) A person commits the offense of intimidating others from exercising civil rights who:
(1) Injures or threatens to injure or coerces another person with the intent to unlawfully intimidate another from the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the constitution or laws of the state of Tennessee;
(2) Injures or threatens to injure or coerces another person with the intent to unlawfully intimidate another because that other exercised any right or privilege secured by the constitution or laws of the United States or the constitution or laws of the state of Tennessee.
Harassment's a misdemeanor, the other a felony.
- 4:21 PM, January 13, 2013
Can someone point me to the original video somewhere? I can't find it; it's not on youtube anymore.
The only video I've seen is the news interview with the local reporter - hardly anything shocking. He says "If they come to confiscate my guns, I'll shoot them." And he doesn't back down. I mean what does everyone think "From my cold dead hands" and "Molon labe" mean?
- 4:21 PM, January 13, 2013
- staghounds said...
And, "avoid letting statistical outliers provoke us into doing "something big"?
This is a world where every airline passenger, forever, will have to remove his shoes because one nut made an ineffective bomb.
- 4:23 PM, January 13, 2013
Oneother posturing macho phony Super Secret Ninja SF Ranger Seal killer commando. Bet he was on a CIA hit team while he killed bad guys with a table leg. AKA another loud mouth punk.
- 4:26 PM, January 13, 2013
- jed said...
I find it sad that I even know what a 'Honey Boo Boo' is. I probably need to step away from the monitor more often.
Of course, I also find is sad that as a culture, voyeuristic intrusion into people's personal lives is considered entertainment. What would Alan Funt do?
- 4:46 PM, January 13, 2013
The man not to fear is the red-faced one, full of bluster, spouting noisy nonsense. He will only annoy you.
The man to fear is the white-faced one, full of quiet resolve and determination. He may kill you and walk away.
- 4:49 PM, January 13, 2013
Anon 4:21 - It looks like the original video can still be seen at ENDO: http://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2013/01/10/buck-yeager-will-kill-anyone-who-tries-to-take-his-guns/
The lose-your-permit quote is at 1:03: "If it goes one inch further, I'm gonna start killing people".
- 5:08 PM, January 13, 2013
- Smince said...
I'm fine with extremists. They make the rest of us appear perfectly normal.
- 5:35 PM, January 13, 2013
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- 6:18 PM, January 13, 2013
- Cybrludite said...
I think I speak for many in the gun community when I say, "Who the hell is James Yeager?"
- 8:24 PM, January 13, 2013
- Karl said...
Tam, I think you would have written this post regardless of Yeager's video. Ed Schultz is going to find the material that supports his gun-grabbing inspirations. It was Yeager this time. Piers found Alex Jones.
Nonetheless - I like your writeup and it is a good reminder to us that we shouldn't post anything that can be snipped into a 5 second MSNBC clip.
BTW - all Democrat voters are commie bed-wetters. I don't need Rush to tell me that! :)
- 8:41 PM, January 13, 2013
Small Name, Big Ego, as the TV Tropers term it.
- 9:52 PM, January 13, 2013
A potential bright side is that ordinary people - those about whom the media know nothing and can only theorize their reactions - will see this clown and Alex Jones and ask "What the hell is the media trying to pull on us? This clown car is supposed to be the other side of the debate?"
It will call for the rest of us to wipe the spittle from our chins and not threaten to kill people, but I think we can do it. The best argument at the grass roots level against these idiots are normal, responsible citizens being good neighbors, who also own firearms. While the media fulminates against the faceless and monolithic NRA, people (in flyover country anyway) are going to look at those they know and say "He owns a gun, and I'm not afraid of him."
- 10:26 PM, January 13, 2013
- ASM826 said...
"And no matter how much you don't want him on your team, he is on your team anyway."
No, he's not. Gun owners are not all one team.
- 11:57 PM, January 13, 2013
- Eric said...
Should somebody tell the folks at XS Sights that they still have demo videos from the subject in question on their web page?
- 1:00 AM, January 14, 2013
- leBolide said...
And the worst thing about this is that now youtube thinks I *want* to watch Yeager videos and keeps suggesting them and I can't make it stop!!!
- 1:27 AM, January 14, 2013
In 1994, shortly after the passage of the AWB, I had a guy threaten to kill me and my family because he was convinced that, as a police officer I was going to go door to door and take his firearms.
I had broken bread with this fellow at his home, had traveled to numerous IPSC matches with him and had known him for 13 years at the time.
My closest and best friends are gun people. Most people that I admire,such as you Tam are too.
Unfortunately, some of the biggest assholes I have ever met consider themselves in the club
- 1:32 AM, January 14, 2013
- perlhaqr said...
I think we need to avoid letting statistical outliers provoke us into doing "something big", callous as that may sound.
Oh, I dunno. A national program to train teachers how to carry and deal with threats might not be such a bad outcome.
- 7:23 AM, January 14, 2013
- TJIC said...
As much as I might be tempted to defend Yeager, a little, for saying something stupidly at a bad time, I'm not going to.
The man once decided that he didn't like the 100 year old Supreme Court ruling on the First Sale doctrine, so he rented several DVDs from me, microwaved them, mailed them back to me, and said "they didn't play; maile me new copies". He repeated his stunt.
It took several months to drag him through Small Claims Court (he claimed that as he was a deputy, if I sued him he would personally drive to Massachusetts and arrest me, he refused to sign for registered mail, etc.), but in the end he ended up coughing up triple damages for his fraud.
I had a xerox of the check pinned to the wall near my desk for a few years.
Douche bag.
- 8:24 AM, January 14, 2013
- TJIC said...
Jake (formerly Riposte3) said...
> "I have yet to hear anyone from the gun crowd arguing that he should get his carry permit back."
> I'll bite. He should. Why do I say that?
> To start, I'll quote Weer'd Beard: "If James Yeager has committed a crime, arrest and charge him, then take away his rights that way."
What Jake said. The modern tendency of the government to punish people for thought crimes via revoking "privileges" is bullshit. Yeager is a yahoo. If he's a criminal yahoo, then prosecute him. If he's not a criminal yahoo, then his right to keep and bear arms shouldn't be infringed.
This, DESPITE the fact that I loathe him.
- 8:27 AM, January 14, 2013
- Tam said...
" If he's a criminal yahoo, then prosecute him. If he's not a criminal yahoo, then his right to keep and bear arms shouldn't be infringed."
Every Tennessean's RKBA is infringed by the existence of the current HCP system rather than Constitutional Carry, but James signed up to play the DPS's game by the DPS's rules, and then broke them, so they took his ball and went home.
- 8:31 AM, January 14, 2013
- Tam said...
(I'll also point out that staghounds, whose job it is to know such things, pointed out two crimes that the State of Tennessee has not charged him with, despite all of us who had access to his various internet ramblings witnessing them with our own monitors. Apparently threatening someone with bodily harm or death for exercising a Constitutionally-protected right is looked upon rather dimly by the Tennessee legal code. James should put a sock in it before someone files a complaint.)
- 8:36 AM, January 14, 2013
- TJIC said...
> Every Tennessean's RKBA is infringed by the existence of the current HCP system rather than Constitutional Carry
100% agreed.
> but James signed up to play the DPS's game by the DPS's rules, and then broke them, so they took his ball and went home.
What do you mean "signed up to play"? Do you mean "used the best means available GIVEN the unconstitutional rules"?
If so, then this sentence works equally well under, say, the Soviet Union: "Sure, it would be better if we had free speech, but we don't...and Yuri knew that when he published his book via the State Publishing Factory #12. So now he said something naughty about the Party and can't publish any more? Well, he signed up to play the Party's game by the Party's rules, and then he broke them."
I mean, yes, it's a 100% valid DESCRIPTION of what happened, but it's not in any way an excuse for the state's outrageous behavior.
> (I'll also point out that staghounds, whose job it is to know such things, pointed out two crimes that the State of Tennessee has not charged him with
Selective prosecution is also a huge problem. If we are all committing two felonies a day (or whatever the number is) and the powers that be prosecute us all for them, then the system will be revealed to be a joke. On the other hand, if we're all just racking up these imaginary felonies and the government can find absolutely any person on the continent and prosecute them IF THEY WANT TO, then the system is no longer about crime and punishment, but has become about annoyance-and-discretion and punishment.
- 8:54 AM, January 14, 2013
- Jake (formerly Riposte3) said...
"yes, it's a 100% valid DESCRIPTION of what happened, but it's not in any way an excuse for the state's outrageous behavior."
- 8:59 AM, January 14, 2013
- Tam said...
Only physics problems and Ayn Rand novels start out with the sentence "Assuming a frictionless environment..."
CCWing in TN without a toter's permit is a misdemeanor, and having to actually use a weapon in self-defense is an affirmative defense to the charge of going armed. Speaking as a former resident of that state and knowing the choice I made, I find myself unmoved by this line of reasoning.
- 9:00 AM, January 14, 2013
- TJIC said...
> Only physics problems and Ayn Rand novels start out with the sentence "Assuming a frictionless environment..."
Tam, I'm ** NOT ** assuming a frictionless environment. I understand the laws on the ground.
The thing I'm differing with you on is not the description of what happened, but on the apparent acceptance of what happened on your part (and even there, I don't think we're at all far apart). I just sort of dislike the phrase "he chose to play by their rules". No, he didn't. He HAD to play by their rules because that's the only game in town.
Change the phrase "he chose to play their game to their rules" to "unfortunately those were the rules", and we're in violent agreement. It's just that the former phrasing seems a bit dismissive and makes it sound like James was the one who chose to opt in (e.g. "well, he DID go to the country club restaurant in a torn Budweister t-shirt despite the fact that they require jacket-and-tie...").
- 9:07 AM, January 14, 2013
- Tam said...
I can go with "unfortunately those were the rules".
(I also know that he and I apparently had differing views of "HAD to". ;) )
- 9:09 AM, January 14, 2013
- Jennifer said...
He's a mess and the sooner he fades out of limelight, the better. He can't handle criticism. He fears his own inadequacies and thus surrounds himself with yes men.
Some people's greatest purpose in life is as a bad example.
- 9:16 AM, January 14, 2013
- richard mcenroe said...
Felony Stupid may not be chargeable, but it still has consequences.
- 10:48 AM, January 14, 2013
- staghounds said...
Jennifer has obviously wandered in from talkaboutthepresiden.t.org
- 4:01 PM, January 14, 2013
If it wasn't Yeager, it would have been someone else. If they couldn't find a Yeager. They would have invented one.
I think we need to stay focused on one thing: Winning. The left is out of control and is acting not as if they just won an election, but as if they just won the final election. Think Hugo Chavez with a first world country at his disposal.
They have overextended themselves and if we're smart we will look at this as an opportunity to defeat them in detail. Write. Call. Join. Donate. Make sure that their great-great-great grandchildren will be afraid to whisper about us a hundred years from now.
- 6:28 PM, January 14, 2013
- Jennifer said...
staghounds, that would be fitting, no? Honestly, I didn't even notice. thanks for that.
- 8:57 PM, January 14, 2013
- Tam said...
"staghounds, that would be fitting, no?"
I know I LOL'ed.
Yeah, POTUS needs a Smithers even worse than Yeager. :D
- 10:05 PM, January 14, 2013
- Rey B said...
He needed someone to ride in the chariot with him and whisper in his ear. "Remember thou art human." What he got was a large group of yes men. Sad that.
- 10:13 PM, January 14, 2013
- Justthisguy said...
Duelling ain't so bad. Prayer and my Pastor's exhortations to the contrary, if I still had my inheritance I would use some of it to buy some plane tickets to Paraguay (the only place it's still sorta-legal) for m'self, my second, and my surgeon, to have it out with the person I refer to as my ex-brother.
Yes, he cheated me, quite badly, and there is nothing the Law can do about it. I would be willing to take my chances, to have a chance at him
- 12:44 AM, January 15, 2013
- Justthisguy said...
And, no, if I ever do happen to meet the ex-brother in that kind of situation, well, no, I'll not delope.
- 12:51 AM, January 15, 2013
- Geodkyt said...
Tam, the problem is POTUS would declare Smithers a terrorist and have him taken out by a drone strike.
For the children, you know.
Of course, I could be wrong -- the First Klingon might just eat him.
- 1:48 PM, January 15, 2013
- Evyl Robot Michael said...
Well said, Tam. That guy has been the recipient of more of my facepalms than I care to think about.
- 11:53 AM, January 30, 2013


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Ron Sand has added a new motel to his family's others with the renamed Sand's Inn Park Terrace on Main Street in Fort Morgan.
That means his family now has the Sand's motel it owned for years, the Country Comfort Motel on Highway 34 west of town and the new Sand's Inn.
Sand took over the former Best Western motel, cleaned it up and now has a number of very nice rooms of various bed and room sizes.
That includes beds that have an old-fashioned look of a cast-iron bed frame, but they are new, Sand said.
Each room has its own refrigerator, microwave oven, coffee maker and Internet service, as well as some new furnishings, he said.
The ceilings also have a retro, metallic look of embossed flowers, and ceiling fans. However, there is brand-new air conditioning and heat in the rooms, Sand said.
"It really turned out nice," he said. "People will be surprised by how nice the rooms are. We're really excited about this."
All of the rooms are non-smoking and no pets, but that should not stop anyone because the family's other motels offer different kinds of rooms for different needs. The Sand's Motel on West Platte Avenue allows pets and smoking on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, and the Country Comfort has long-term room rentals which seem like small apartments with their own kitchenettes.
The new motel is also has the latest technology.
Motels used to want locations on the main thoroughfare or the highway, but today everyone looks on the Internet for motels, Sand noted. That meant drafting his grandson to make a website for the family's motels, although that is not up just yet.
Sand has two wide screen TVs hooked up to security cameras in his lounge, and can easily see what is happening all around the motel for greater safety.
He can make up electronic keys with the touch of a button that destroy themselves after a set amount of time, so no one can walk off with a key, he said.
Sand can log guests in on his iPad, which will directly take their credit cards, or they can hook their own iPads in and do it.
The family filled in the rarely used swimming pool that sat behind the restaurant area and put in a patio that will be used for the restaurant when it opens again.
That restaurant will reopen with an American smorgasbord theme. Guests can eat from several choices of breakfast, more choices for lunch and choices of casseroles for dinner. There are plenty of other kinds of restaurants in town, and it will be nice to have American-style food, Sand said.
It will not have a menu, so it will be different with just the smorgasbord.
Sand said he hopes to open it in early 2013. It will also not have a bakery in the basement as it used to, since that is now against health department rules.
The family is still working on the upstairs rooms, which were torn up for renovation by the former owner. One plan is to have an inside staircase for use when the weather is bad.
A laundry room will go in one part of the upstairs for guests.
Sand said he would be glad to give anyone a tour of the place.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Giant dose of small ball, and suddenly San Francisco finds itself in a most unique position — way ahead in a postseason series.
Madison Bumgarner shut down the Detroit Tigers for seven innings, then the Giants took advantage of a bunt that stayed fair to eke out the go-ahead run in a 2-0 win Thursday night for a 2-0 edge in the World Series.
Gregor Blanco's single trickled to a stop inches fair on the infield dirt, setting up Brandon Crawford's run-scoring double-play grounder in the seventh. Hunter Pence added a sacrifice fly in the eighth, and that was plenty for the Giants.
Game 3 will be Saturday night in Detroit and for once, the masters of the October comeback aren't playing from behind. The Giants overcame a 2-0 deficit to beat Cincinnati in the best-of-five division series and escaped a 3-1 hole against St. Louis in the NLCS.
The loss certainly left the favored Tigers wondering what else could go wrong. Prince Fielder was thrown out at the plate by a hair and moments later starting pitcher Doug Fister was struck squarely in the head by a line drive.
The 6-foot-8 Fister managed to stay on the mound, and even excelled. Bumgarner more than matched him, however, allowing just two hits before the San Francisco bullpen closed it out before another pulsating crowd.
Santiago Casilla pitched a perfect eighth and Sergio Romo worked the ninth for a save in the combined two-hitter, leaving Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera in a huge hole heading back to Comerica Park. Anibal Sanchez will start for the Tigers against Ryan Vogelsong in Detroit.
The Tigers looked foggy at the plate, maybe still lost following a five-day layoff after an ALCS sweep of the Yankees. Cabrera hopped up and twisted away after third baseman Pablo Sandoval, who homered three times in the opener, snared his early line drive.
Bumgarner had something to do with the Tigers' troubles, too.
Bumped from the NLCS rotation after two poor postseason starts, he returned with a flourish. The left-hander struck out eight and looked as sharp as he did in the 2010 World Series when, as a 21-year-old rookie, he stopped Texas in Game 4 on the way to a championship.
This game was scoreless in the seventh when the Giants went ahead, right after actor Tom Hanks — a former peanut vendor at the nearby Oakland Coliseum — sang "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" on the field.
Pence led off with a single and Fister departed, getting lots of hugs in the dugout. Rookie reliever Drew Smyly walked Brandon Belt on a full-count pitch and Blanco's bunt loaded the bases.
The Tigers kept their infield back up the middle, and had no play at the plate on Crawford's bouncer.
Pence added the insurance run the next inning with his flyball off Octavio Dotel.
Fielder and the Tigers came up inches short of taking an early lead, the result of yet another alert play by second baseman Marco Scutaro and a dubious decision by third base coach Gene Lamont.
Fielder was hit by a pitch to lead off the second, Delmon Young followed with a double and when the ball rattled around in left field, Lamont waved the burly slugger home. Even with no outs, Lamont sent him.
Scutaro, in the middle of every big play for the Giants this month, dashed across the diamond, caught Blanco's relay and unleashed a strong throw to the plate. All-Star catcher Buster Posey made a swipe tag to Fielder's backside, just as the Tigers star slid home. Umpire Dan Iassogna had a clear look and made a demonstrative call — out!
Fielder immediately popped up from his slide and pleaded his case with two hands. Tigers manager Jim Leyland rushed out and pointed to the plate. At second base, Young yelled, "No!"
But even if there was replay review, it wouldn't have helped the Tigers. Because TV replays showed Iassogna, working his first plate job in a World Series, got it right.
There was no dispute that Fister somehow avoided a serious injury moments later.
With two outs in the Giants second, Blanco lined a shot up the middle that hit Fister on the right side of the head and deflected on the fly to shallow center field.
Fister showed no visible effect from the blow — in fact, some in the crowd wondered whether the ball perhaps glanced off his glove because Fister stayed on his feet. Only when fans saw replays did groans echo around the ballpark.
Leyland, pitching coach Jeff Jones and a trainer went to the mound, and Fister insisted on staying in the game. He walked the next batter to load the bases, but retired Bumgarner on a popup, starting a streak of 12 straight hitters set down by Fister.
Among those who winced was Oakland pitcher Brandon McCarthy, who sustained a skull fracture and brain contusion after being hit by a line drive last month.
"I'm not watching but did just see the replay. Certainly hope he's ok," McCarthy tweeted.
NOTES: Bumgarner struck out Austin Jackson and Omar Infante to start the game. Two other Giants fanned the first two batters in a Series game: Christy Mathewson (1905) and Carl Hubbell (1933). ... Bumgarner picked off Infante at first base to end the fourth. Infante made a break for second and, like Fielder earlier, came up short with his slide. ... Scutaro was the only Giants hitter to have previously faced Fister. ... Posey has a hit in all seven World Series games in his career.


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Mystery Greenfield police donation made by 11-year-old
A $10mystery in Greenfield has been solved, and the story has a very happy ending.
Greenfield police said a boy walked into the police department Friday and gave the clerk a bag of coins worth about $10.
Police were pleased but puzzled by the anonymous donation, so they spent the weekend looking at surveillance video from the lobby hoping to identify and thank their donor.
On Monday, Assistant Police Chief Paul Schlecht got his man.
Our news partners at Greenfield Patch report that Maxx Siepert's grandfather was a Milwaukee police officer who was killed in the line of duty in 1974.
Siepert said he had just studied the September 11 attacks in school. He said he learned of the great things police and firefighters did and he wanted to give back.
"Happy I did what I did because, one day, that's going to make a difference," he said.
Schlecht said the donation has lifted the spirits of the entire department.
"Officers are dealing with bad situations or difficult situations," he said. "To have someone come in with that act of kindness, it lifts morale."
Siepert said he hopes his donation will encourage others to do the same.
"If every person would do that, we'd have such a great world," he said. "It would be awesome."
Schlecht said the money will be given to the Greenfield Police Foundation, a nonprofit organization associated with the police department that helps funds the department's K-9 unit, hunter safety courses and Citizen's Police Academy.


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Tips for juggling work, motherhood
Juggling motherhood with a job can be a very difficult task. While there is no magic solution to add extra hours to the day or make the situation easy, these tips can help make your day a little less chaotic.
Ask for help: No one can do everything themselves. Know when to ask for help, whether it's to help with child care or to help with chores around the house or running errands.
Leave your child with someone you trust: Making sure your child is safe and in good hands while you are at work will erase a lot of stress. Make sure you are comfortable with your child's childcare center or nanny, or that they are at a school that you like.
Plan ahead: To ease the stress of the morning, try laying out your child's clothes the night before and getting all of his or her things packed that they will need at school or daycare. Also try to get yourself prepared the night before by pre-selecting your outfit and getting all of your work materials together.
Try not to feel guilty: Many moms feel guilty about going to work and leaving their child during the day. Try to give yourself a break and remember that you are working to provide for your child.
Keep your mind focused: When you're at work try to focus on work issues and not let your mind wander into childcare issues. And when you're at home, try to stay focused on your child and not on your work. This will give you a good separation between work and home.
Don't take on too much: Working and caring for your child can take up your entire day. This might mean you can't make elaborate meals each night, or clean the house every day, or volunteer to coach every single one of your child's teams. You need to learn to do what you need to do and let some of the extra tasks go.
Be proactive: Make sure you are looking ahead at your work schedule and your child's schedule so you can plan ahead to take days off to go on field trips, to attend games, or to be home for your child on days off of school.
Take time for yourself: Make sure you set aside some time for yourself to relax and clear your head.


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Crank Like a Russian – How to Power Train for Climbing
I'm looking for a new method for structuring my power-training sets on the hangboard. I've used the pyramid structure many times, but surely some different combinations are equally effective?
I'm looking for a new method for structuring my power-training sets on the hangboard. I've used the pyramid structure many times, but surely some different combinations are equally effective?
James Harrison | Flagstaff, Arizona
Strength athletes commonly adapt very quickly to the classic formula of pyramid training—this is where you do sets of, say, 8, 6, 4, 2, 4, 6, 8—and
many find that they have to change to avoid hitting a plateau. There are plenty of other methods out there, and I've picked one for you that is hot
off the press, as well as a little controversial. It is adapted from a Russian power-training coach, Pavel Tsatsouline's, technique called greasing
the groove. Tread carefully, as this program is geared toward elites (a few top-level competition climbers such as Leah Crane, British bouldering champion,
have had exceptional results with it). The extent to which it can be down-geared and adapted safely for intermediates is not yet proven. Go carefully
and monitor your body for signs of injury.
First, pick an exercise in which you want to get really strong (for example, a pull-up on a finger edge) and then add weight so you can do only one set
of three reps, to failure, three times a day: in the morning, at lunch, and in the evening. Elites should do this for a block of five or six days in
a row before taking a rest day and then repeating this cycle. Intermediates might extrapolate that they should train for two or three days in a row,
probably only twice a day instead of three times. The important part is always to keep making the exercise harder, so that you can only just complete
the three reps.
The only time you should stop increasing the weight is if you fail to do two reps, in which case go back to the previous weight. If you are training with
two arms on a fingerboard, then you can use a weight belt. If you're training with one arm, you can use a pulley and counter-balance with weight. With
this method, simply remove a small amount of weight from the counterbalance (for example, half a kilogram) every time you make a target. The idea is
that it gets harder and harder to make the three-rep target as you reach the later stages of the program, but you always make it in the end, and find
yourself getting loads stronger if you stick with it.
This methodology contradicts conventional theories on strength training. The big questions are how can one get sufficient recovery when you train so frequently
and how can one maximum set be enough to trigger the strength gains? We've always thought that the best way is to do several sets.
Tsatsouline maintains that the reason we find walking so easy is because we do it all the time, and that we should treat strength training the same way.
If you can teach your body to adapt to a higher level of frequency, you get more gains than by training sporadically. He also maintains that any more
than one set is over-kill for this method, provided you give it your all. Doing just one set each time rather than three should reduce the risk of
injury, provided, of course, you always warm up thoroughly before each maximum set.
You asked for something different, so you got it! Good luck, train safe and don't forget that this type of training is all well and good provided you have
the climbing skills to go with it! Power alone is never sufficient to get you up a hard route or boulder problem.
This article was published in Rock and Ice issue 190 (December 2010).


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An about-face lands a tattoo-loving Romney supporter on the RidicuList.
Post by: Anderson Cooper
Filed under: The RidicuList
I think the issue is where he put the tattoo. I can see if you wanted to get it on your chest or back, but the face is kind of silly.
From a guy using a pink scrunchie to hold his hair back....it is fitting. I say let it stay. Haha that rhymed...
Fact check. This guy didn't support the Romney-Ryan campaign. He sold advertising space on his face and guess who decided to take him up on the offer?
45 second commercial? GO TO HELL.
I'd bet this is not his only tatoo.
one thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.
Hysterical Sheila...I almost fell out my chair laughing! You can't zero in on that any better!
Well.....there is STILL 2016 to look forward to! (lol)
This single picture explains it all... he really doesn't look smart at all.
I would think most people would agree that it was a bad idea, no matter which candidate it supported and no matter who won.
If I were him, I'd be more concerned with the pink scrunchy. You can afford a Romney tattoo, but not a package of plain hair bands?
Actually he went to a GOP center asking if anyone would pay for him to get a Romney tattoo on his face. Some one took him up on it. Don't recall how much he got (maybe around $5k), but definitely not worth it.
HA HA HA!!! Best Post Award!!
I could have told him he would have it removed!
What was ridiculous was that he got the tatoo in the first place!
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