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Situated right across the Fullerton Hotel, it is easy to overlook this nondescript, standalone building. But miss it, and you're missing out on a gem.
Boathouse is located inside this historic Fullerton Waterboat House - a heritage building (circa 1919) that once supplied fresh water to ships anchored offshore. (Photo courtesy of Boathouse)
It is so easy to be enchanted by this place. Walking into the cosy, intimate dining room - and I say dining room, not restaurant - I felt as if I was coming over to a friend's house for dinner. If you find fine dining intimidating, you'll feel completely at ease here.
The decor was understated, with very clean lines and lots of open space. Very tastefully done. In fact, it reminded me so much of a family friend's summer home in Sweden. Such is its welcoming vibe.
We were warmly received upon arrival by hosts, Kannan and Sophia, who took us through our menu for the night.
Melon Mint
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Fish Chowder with Seabass Carpaccio
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Atlantic Pink Snapper panseared with shaved Zucchini & Truffle Mash in a Fish Bouillon
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Tagliatelle Wild Mushroom in a Truffle Sauce
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White Chocolate Semifreddo with Fruit Compote
Unlike the melting ice-cream on the other plate, this semifreddo was a dream to photograph. I felt it could have been a wee bit airier. The best semifreddo I have ever tasted melted on my tongue like a snowflake. But still, this was a commendable creation that we all enjoyed.
More desserts (special order)
Extras for the dessert aficionados among us. (Bottom right) Creme Brulee, (Centre) Caramel Apple tartlets and three varieties of (melting!) ice-cream, (Top left) Panna Cotta. All competently done, but the Creme Brulee was my favourite.
Situated above Boathouse is an open air deck called [ prel . ude ].
Here, you can take in a 360-degree view of the surrounds. Grab a chair, order a drink (there is a bar here). Then, sit back and watch the world go by.
I didn't want to go home!
A picture says a thousand words, and this one aptly sums up my wonderful evening here.
3 Fullerton Road
#03-01 The Waterboat House
Singapore 029415
Tel: (65) 6538 9038
Many thanks to Kannan and Sophia of Boathouse for the warm hospitality, and The Fullerton Heritage for arranging this.
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my favorite restaurant out of the 5 places we went to :)ReplyDelete
All of us feel the same way! :)ReplyDelete
it looks like a little boat That I travelled the sea once when I was a teenager....but i love the cosy and understated inside..very homey.. the food looks good too...whta n array n choice ! and the deck,,,,i cld sit there well past midnite with my jambu air and soy souce dip! m sooo kampung!...heheh u lucky peope ...all this with CNY as the climax!!!ReplyDelete
Bring me there bring me there!ReplyDelete
Wow another food review...I am expecting more to come on yu sheng and abalone and pen cai?ReplyDelete
Lucky gal!
You have time to bake or not? Counting down to 4 days before eve.
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Ju, I wish I live in Singapore so I could try te restaurants out. Having your honest opinion and review on these restaurants, I know my burnt pocket is so worth it!ReplyDelete
Wow, looks like Fullerton's restaurant chain is doing a major food blogger, food review campaign...how many restaurants do they have under their belt? Will you get to eat at Jade, the Chinese Restuarant? I heard that is divine.ReplyDelete
Oh my..your reviews are so wonderful.. a breath of fresh air this am for me..A co-worker just returned from one month in many countries..He raved about Singapore..RAVED.ReplyDelete
I beamed as if I had something to do with it..:) Imagine that! It's in knowing you that I felt this connection.
You would be proud to hear is illustrious comments on where you live. From the OOH and AHH and cleanliness and Pizzaz and friendliness and food.. the panache.. Out of this world I think were some of his words~:)
You are making the area proud and even better known with your delightful blog.
wow, look at that, I'm already drooling, great color, looks deliciousReplyDelete
I like this place, feel so cosy ! Look like you eat a lot recently huh? your simple die before CNY, forgot liao? Hahaha..ReplyDelete
I love that space, that's really my kind of place. And the seafood all looks so fantastic. You would have a hard time dragging me off of that rooftop, I can assure you!ReplyDelete
Ju... oh my... Good for you!ReplyDelete
Ha, we both posted this the same day! Boathouse is my favourite of the five too! I'm thinking of going back there already...I want to try the crabcakes, pink snapper and wagyu steak!ReplyDelete
Ciao Ju, io e te abitiamo in luoghi molto distanti, ma vicini grazie al web, mi dici che questo è il tuo ristorante preferito, devo dire che i piatti sono presentati in modo eccellente, e sono molto invitanti. Un abbraccio Daniela.ReplyDelete
What a lovely location!!! I would love it there. I would want to live there haha, especially with all of those delicious dishes! Wow. Thanks for sharing these photos with us.ReplyDelete
Wow! Lovely place and great food. Lucky you :)ReplyDelete
I imagine the view would be even more spectacular once the IR is up and running! Then you probably REALLY wouldn't go home hey!ReplyDelete
Yum, I would love some of that snapper! And your pictures are gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Thumbs up from me too Ju! Love the restaurant coverages you are doing. I'll make sure to have it on my list of places to go to one day!ReplyDelete
Oh you're right Ju, it does look like someone's living room! That always relaxes me. It looks wonderful! :DReplyDelete
So far away from the snow storm... beautiful photos and I love the food and architecture of the place... wish I was there!ReplyDelete
This has always caught my eye whenever I drive past. I never knew it's so simple and understated inside. The fairy lights outside adds a nice touch too. Lovely pics, Ju! ^^ReplyDelete
oh gosh..the desserts...yumReplyDelete
Oh Wow. All the food looks so amazing! How lucky you guys are! Again, LOVELY photos.ReplyDelete
Yikes I wish I could go there too. But I might have to fork out a fortune, no? :) Spectacular dishes, especially dessert.ReplyDelete
Lucky you, Ju! I was smitten with the outside of the restaurant and surprised by the clean and austere appearance inside. But the food...the food....ah, the food! How fast can I get there?!ReplyDelete
Beam me over, Scottie.
Thanks, Ju!
Good place for a romantic Valentine night out!ReplyDelete
Wishing you and your family a Happy & Prosperous Chinese New Year!
So many new places! have to pick the best when i next visit.ReplyDelete
Holy Moly that is amazing!!! What a beautiful meal, I will have to recommend this place to my friend who lives in SIngapore. Happy New Year Ju to you and your family :)ReplyDelete
This looks like a grand place to dine & wine,...ReplyDelete
The food looks great!
Hmm ... Food looks good!ReplyDelete
Happy Lunar New Year to you!!! 恭喜發財!!


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This topic contains 7 replies, has 2 voices, and was last updated by QUESTIONM 1 year, 9 months ago.
February 21, 2013 at 2:50 am #21907
Hey guys my site is http://fullcirclecontact.com
I was wondering if anybody knew of a way to change the background of just the posts/post excerpts. I'm using the minimum theme and I've set it to a grey background but was just hoping there's a way to give the individual posts and excerpts a white box to go in.
Here's an example.
So let's just say I wanted to keep the background white like on Brians but inside that red box make it, green, whatever, is that possible?
This is what I mean by excerpts to
Bonus points if anyone can tell me how to add shading around those boxes too!
Regards, LukeFebruary 21, 2013 at 3:40 am #21911
Use this CSS:
[css].genesis-grid-even, .genesis-grid-odd {
background: #FFFFFF;
padding: 1em;
width: 42%;
-webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
-moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
February 21, 2013 at 5:09 pm #22098
Thanks man, that was quick!
That definitely did the trick for the post excerpts but the individual posts themselves are still not.."backgrounded"
is there another css for that?February 21, 2013 at 10:22 pm #22135
Aha! I'm slowly getting the hang of this stuff
I figured out that the code you gave me worked on the homepage because that's what had a "grid"
I tried simply swapping out the word grid for post like so
.genesis-post-even, .genesis-post-odd {
background: #FFFFFF;
padding: 1em;
width: 42%;
-webkit-box-shadow: -3px 3px 5px rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.8);
-moz-box-shadow: -3px 3px 5px rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.8);
box-shadow: -3px 3px 5px rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.8);
img.alignleft {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto }
but that didn't work does anyone know if I'm getting close though?February 21, 2013 at 10:27 pm #22137
Are we talking about setting background and box shadow of individual posts in archive pages like http://fullcirclecontact.com/blog/ or single post pages like http://fullcirclecontact.com/random-stuff-different-things-ranked/?
February 21, 2013 at 11:19 pm #22146
both if possible. Anything that is content basically posts, excerpts etc etcFebruary 21, 2013 at 11:37 pm #22152
Delete the CSS code that you have added, shown in post # 4 of this topic and add the following:
.hentry {
background: #FFFFFF;
padding: 1em;
-webkit-box-shadow: -3px 3px 5px rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.8);
-moz-box-shadow: -3px 3px 5px rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.8);
box-shadow: -3px 3px 5px rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.8);
February 22, 2013 at 1:45 am #22160
That worked perfectly, thank you!
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Siri integration?
Wondering if Siri integration is coming soon. I have seen comments about it dating back some years but to no avail.
I use Outlook daily and love the Outlook add-in. But I also create a good portion of my tasks on the go, with my iPhone and so Siri integration is key. I don't really want to add task through sending an email. Current GTD I use (Remember The Milk) has flawless Siri integration - but I need some added functions in Todoist.
Hope you guys can bring it. It's a wonder why it's not a function yet.
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Hi Roman,
We can't say when this happens, but we already have Google Now support on the Android side, so it's very likely Siri will be next.
This will make me very happy!
Indeed, this is a feature I'm waiting for!
Yes please make this feature sooner rather than later, it would make adding a task a dream
Yes, please!
Yes, please!
Yes, please!!!
If Todoist could 'read' from the built in reminders app, we would already have Siri integration. Toodledo reads from the reminder app, RTM has a special server for the default reminder and reads from that. Appigo Todo does the same with a special serve for reminder integration. So simply reading from the reminders all would give Siri integration.
How hard can it be? Look at "Braintoss" for iOS. It send a spoken message to my mailbox. Now it's my workaround until Siri intergation is ready.
Seriously, my RTM pro membership is up on 11/6/14. I would love to upgrade my Todoist membership to pro, but the lack of Siri integration is a deal breaker for me. I think so much on the go, I need Siri integration.
Oh and btw, I'm only listed as Premium user b/c I am test driving other pro functionalities through Todoist's free 30-day test drive. Am more than willing to pay the $29 yearly to go pro all the way - but need Siri. :)
This may help people in the meantime. This is how I am using Siri to send tasks to Todoist:
I created a list in the Reminders app called 'Tasks' (or any name you want to use)
In IFTTT.com i created a recipe that checks for new items in the 'Tasks' list and emails them to the Todoist email address <Project...>
I then tell Siri to add 'blah blah blah' to the 'Tasks list' and it goes into Todoist.
Its not as complicated as it sounds and not everyone may want to go to this option. It is an free option though.
The IFTT thing is very good. However, I and found it can take an hour or more to fire off and get a task from reminders into Todoist.
And the IFTTT does not seem to set reminders or notifications inside Todoist. I get the title and the rest in the in the note, not in the task settings.
I have to admit, this is becoming a nuisance for me, probably the only one. Sure we all have wish items (such as task start dates), but not being able to quickly add a task via voice from my car or when an idea comes to mind bothers me, and something I miss greatly from OmniFocus (which has its own issues and why I'm a paid Todoist customer, but I digress).
It shouldn't even be that hard - There's direct access with Siri in the app, or you could use a CalDAV server to manage it (just need to code the integration).
Yes there are workarounds, and no it is not a showstopper issue. But every time, every day I have to handle these workarounds to jot down tasks or ideas pushes me to look at other tools. And I really don't want to do that.
Please make this a priority.
This will be one of the most convenient features for "in the moment" task creation. I would use this very frequently.
I also want Siri integration, that is, let me specify a Reminder list for Todoist to monitor on my iphone/ipad.
Apps have been doing this for years. Please hurry up.
Siri integration would be very welcome!
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Point made?
My hope is you're doing this slow in that you want to do it right like OmniFocus did - By that, I mean they are the only Siri-integrated app that actually pulls in the location (i.e. if I tell Siri "Remind me when I get to the office to do X" It actually creates a location-based task. That's not meant to be a sales pitch for OF (plenty NOT right with it which is why I'm using Todoist haha), but it seems to be a missed point for the other app devs.
Of course, that's secondary to just being able to get the d*mn reminders in at all :)
Siri support would be really useful!!
Hard to believe, but I think I may use this to replace omnifocus. All it needs is the Siri integration. Will try ITTT workaround in the meantime.
+1 Siri all the way... I may have to go back to OmniFocus just for this alone... :( Or figure out some workaround with IFTTT which seems problematic.
The number one challenge with all to do lists is the effort involved in entering the tasks. Siri would be a quantum leap for Todoist, allowing users to enter a task as quickly as they say it.
Let's face it, To do lists are for busy people who are short on time. Giving them back some time by expediting the task entry process could easily become Todoist's single greatest feature!
This is definitely worth putting up the top of you development priority list folks.
+1 for Siri integration. CalDav server would be awesome (a la Remember The Milk) although auto-import would be okay too (a la Things). Need to have Siri integration to be competitive in this day and age.
I have the six month Premium membership through ProductHunt and would love to renew if this gets added within that time.
Siri integration ASAP please!
Here is an easy work-around to add tasks from Siri to Todoist (requires Gmail):
1. Download IFTTT from the App Store (it's free!), create an account, and confirm your email address.
2. In the IFTTT app, click the "Recipe" icon in the upper-right, then the "+" icon in the upper-right.
3. Click the "+" button after "If", select "iOS Reminders", then select "Any new reminder".
4. Click the "+" button after "Then", select "Gmail", then select "Send an email".
5. In the "To Address" field, enter your Todoist inbox email. To find your Todoist inbox email, open Todoist on your computer, go to your Inbox, click the "Task Actions" icon, and select "Email Tasks To This Project".
That's it! Now, anytime you add a reminder with Siri, it'll automatically email that reminder to your Todoist inbox in the background.
Yeah, IFTTT works as an interim solution but the time between saying it and it actually showing up can be SO long which isn't always great for my workflow.
Having come from previously using Remember The Milk (great Siri integration) and Things (decent integration), having zero native integration is a big hurdle. Everything else about Todoist is better for my workflow though so I am hoping they add it soon (along with an iOS 8 widget!).
This has been around a while, but the problem is it leaves you with
multiple reminders / tasks that are unsynced; You need to go back in and
delete the Reminder.
I actually stopped using Todoist for this feature; Being able to just say
"Hey Siri" and have the task created while I'm driving after a conference
call, hands-free, finally convinced me to find a task manager that works
with my needs. I think Todoist is a great product, but this is something
that's been asked for over YEARS, so I'm not convinced its ever coming.
Small price to pay for the Sunrise integration imho. This work-around has
been a life saver for me, so I'm just posting instructions for those that
would find it helpful.
David, I would love to try it, but I can't find my ToDoist email address. I know I saw it somewhere, but it isn't apparent on this MAC OS-X 10.9.5.
Hi Larry, I attached a screenshot to show where you can find the email address on your Mac. Click "inbox", then just follow the captions on the screenshot. Hope that helps! If not, let me know.
So many people want this, I don't understand why it doesn't even seem to be under consideration.
I find using Todoist such a pain on my iPhone, that I just don't use it on the phone anymore. The phone is basically just a way of alerting me to things. I now do all my work on the Mac client.
Getting Siri working would go a long way to solve this for me, but right now, most of my quick 'to dos' are spoken in using Siri and Reminders. Todoist doesn't get in the workflow at all. This completely defeats the purpose of having a single kick-ass to do list for me.
If Siri isn't support come renewal time, then I'm not going to renew.
Oh, on the IFTTT workaround, it's far from perfect.
1) IFTTT kills my iPhone's battery (even when I turn off its need for location services)
2) It can sometimes take ages for the task to show in Todoist
3) You can't set reminder times. If you say "Siri, remind me call Joe on thursday at 3" then the time and date info isn't attached to the todoist task. This is more of an IFTTT app problem, but they aren't doing anything about it.
Adding this function would indeed make the application much more convenient. It is the absolute #1 I'd like to see implemented.
Todoist has the most supported OS base I have seen for a todo list app. With the specialty of siri, I can see how that would take some time to circle around to. I see how this can be part of plans, but no ETA. I appreciate all the places I can put Todoist the most. This doesn't mean I'm against Siri integration, it would mean a lot or even a widget in the notification area would be nice.
Please consider this before replying about how it's a pain... and the company SHOULD do this or any other such attitude. It makes it more difficult to review these messages when they have to sift through such comments. It's a solid service on all platforms it supports.
No disagreement that the supported platform list is fantastic. However, for those with iPhones its a huge gap as far as functionality goes. While I wouldn't call it trivial, it also isn't the most difficult decision task either.
I think the point many of us are trying to make in this Siri thread is Todoist is letting alternative products catch up and even surpass them. I doubt many of us would bother if we didn't think Todoist was a great product, but the absolute silence on this from Todoist speaks volumes
Guys, seriously, I love the new functionalities constantly added and you're obviously committed to delivering the best, most innovative product possible.
But I would gladly give up my Karma tallying stuff for Siri. I am sure there are individuals who love to dissect how much they get done in a day, etc. - all very useful practices - but not having the ability to add a task via Siri is still fundamentally lacking.
Your product is far superior to what I've used in the past - including my current RTM, but lack of Siri is outrageously missing at this point. So much demand and need for it!!
Come on!!
@David Temple
Hi David........your post in September "Small price to pay for the Sunrise integration imho. This work-around has been a life saver for me, so I'm just posting instructions for those that would find it helpful.". I cant see the instructions that you posted, is it possible to re-pos?. I am testing sunrise together with todoist and, like everyone else in these posts, would like to have a workaround for the lack of siri intergration. Thanks in advance.
@Patrick Gray -- The instructions (its a jpeg) was to find the email address for using with the ifttt recipe (which works sporadically at best). To find this email address, basically you will have to click on the wrench/pencil icon on the right (task actions) then choose the "email tasks to this project" menu item. That will give you the address associated with the todoist address tied to your inbox.
Hope that makes sense.
@Eric, Many thanks. I have moved forward with my workaround using Braintoss.Works well for what I need, but eagerly await some movement on the Siri integration.
It makes sense, but I have no wrench/pencil icon. I am using an iPhone 6 running IOS 8.1 or an Apple MacBook Pro running Yosemite.
I know I saw it (email address) sometime, but I can't find it! I went into "Inbox", but there are no task actions. My inbox is empty. If I add a task and then click on it, there is a thing underneath that says "Complete", "Schedule", "Notes", "Reminders", and "Edit".
@larry, those options are only available on desktop/web versions.
Where? There are no task actions on my web. (Safari)
WIthin each project, top right corner, beside the share icon.
Please guys just look into hosting a CalDAV solution a la Remember The Milk (http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/siri/). This is seriously the biggest obstacle to me staying a Premium member.
Your updates recently have been awesome and all, but I think easy/handfree entry of new tasks is going to be a bigger enhancement for users than being able to see their Karma trends on every device.
I don't HAVE a share icon. What am I doing wrong?
Please start a new topic about this and I can help you further.
If you go to Todoist.com and sign into your account on the web, then click on one of your projects on the left hand side, near the top...beside project name..there should be two icons shown.
@jordan - couldn't agree more. The superfluous is being prioritized over the functional - and for a GTD app, that's an issue.
@Larry - this button circled in red
I finally figured it out. What color is the symbol? It does not appear on my Safari browser. I finally opened the page in Chrome and then I could see it. My stupid Mac does not show the symbol, but Chrome does.
Well, it was fixed in Safari by changing the CONTRAST control which is located in System Preferences -> Accessibility rather than System Preferences -> Display where I would expect it. I used Braintoss and finally got it to send to Todoist inbox, but I would love to learn how to get projects, labels, etc. into the message. If anybody knows how, please post it. Thanks,
Just want to say that Siri integration in this app will make me go from omnifocus to todoist.
+1. Not even considering switching from Things until this is a feature.
I am waiting for this to switch as well. Please integrate with Siri... it makes all the difference in workflow.
I am all for this! Right now, I have the reminders app right next to todoist on my home screen. Unfortunately, I'm stuck to using both programs.
I use todoist for creating detailed tasks for my business and some personal things. However, for all the little reminders that I like to create on the spot, I use Siri to remind me.
This forces me to use two programs to accomplish the same thing. Let's get that Siri integration going!
What's the biggest hurdle and what can we do to get things rolling?
Go Siri!
@Tobias Johansson
Same here. Siri integration will make me go from Omnifocus to todoist.
Siri support and integration are key if ToDoIst is going to become "the" task app in 2015.


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Following the pioneering work of Hans Hoppe, Stephen Cox argues on the contrary that it is perfectly consistent for a libertarian to oppose "open borders." Cox's article is lengthy and covers many different points. I agree with him (and Hoppe) that there is no such thing as a "right" to immigrate into a country, and thus advocates of open borders should stop using this silly language. Having said that, I disagree with virtually every other point in Cox's analysis. In the present essay, I focus largely on his economic arguments. FULL ARTICLE
Upsidedown Luddism: The Case of Immigration
{ 33 comments }
- October 3, 2006 at 10:40 am
Thanks for the very thoughtfully rebuttal. IMHO, the fact that people can exploit the welfare state and overburden the taxpayers is a very compelling reason for killing the welfare state, but not a compelling reason to exile poor people. The fact that the popular mob can vote away peoples liberty is a very compelling reason for putting liberties over democracy, but not a compelling one for denying their liberties even more. The the fact that poor people are more ignorant about freedom and liberty is a very compelling argument of why it's so important to engage them like Robert Murphy is vis this article, not a compelling reason to lock out people seeking voluntary work.
We should't play in to the hands of the politicians. The only reason why they are so keen to attack illegal immigrants is because immigrants don't vote. By letting them attack, we simply allow them to distract from their own miserable failed economic policies.
- October 3, 2006 at 10:41 am
This is the first time I have ever read the idea that immigrant labor displaces machinery out of a job. It merely reaffirms in me the feeling that anti-immigration folks are grasping at straws.
- October 3, 2006 at 10:58 am
Robert Murphy,
"Open borders libertarians don't want to pass a law that foreigners should be able to move in; they simply oppose laws preventing people from moving in."
– I think what you're trying to say here is that libertarians should support a system that is neutral towards immigration, neither anti-immigration nor pro-immigration. Is this correct?
If so, then libertarians "simply oppose laws preventing people from moving in", where does that leave the policies that ENCOURAGE people to move in? I am, of course, talking about the twin subsidies to immigration:
First, there are the eggregious subsidies to agriculture and textiles that cause a severe overproduction in agriculture and textiles. Such state-encouraged expanded production significantly increases the demand for farm labor and textile workers. Reducing this subsidy alone would seriously curtail low-skilled immigration.
Second, the state expands the supply side of the equation by allowing illegal immigrants and their children to enter the country and recieve a bounty of "public goods" (I use quotation marks because I believe the theory of public goods is a fallacy). Such public good(ies) include $12,000+ a year for public education, free medical care, scholarships for their children, workers' compensation (come here to pick strawberries until you blow your back out in 10 years, then get on the dole), and so on and so on.
If such goodies were not available, the flow of low-skilld labor into the US would drop dramatically. If immigrants had to provide for their own medical care, education, etc., the US would have an immigration policy similar to that of the 19th Century: Those who are industrious enough to make it without a social safety net will go back home (as roughly half of immigrants have done in US history).
So in conclusion, policies you propose will simply result in a heavily government-subsidized immigration program. We have not even talked about other "externalities" associated with low-skilled immigrant labor, such as "knowledge of Thomas Paine", as you put it, extremely high crime rates, high out-of-wedlock birth rates, high high school dropout rates for their children (even those who were born in the US), and the incompatibility of foreign cultures with what's left of our libral tradition; if immigrants came from a myriad of different cultures, immigrants would be more likely to adopt US culture, and vice-versa. Historically Statist immigrant voting patterns must also be considered.
Oh, and why no criticism of Hoppe in your article? You stated that Cox built on Hoppe, but didn't ciritcize Hoppe. Why?
- October 3, 2006 at 11:08 am
David C,
How many illegal immigrants do you think read Robert Murphy's article today? How many minds were changed? How about zero. Hispanic immigrants (let's be honest, that is who we are talking about) get their news from extremely pro-immigration spanish television (since many do not read).
And what makes you think that illegals don't vote? It's "discrimination" to check an ID card to vote, for goodness sake.
Take a look at the disgraceful election of Loretta Sanchez in L.A. back in '96 as just one example.
- October 3, 2006 at 11:14 am
Nick Bradley writes, "where does that leave the policies that ENCOURAGE people to move in?" But can there be any doubt that libertarians are 100% against the "twin subsidies" that Nick describes? Libertarian policies, then, do not "result in a heavily government-subsidized immigration program".
- October 3, 2006 at 12:24 pm
Robert Murphy,
I find your argument unanswerable. My only addition to what you have so well demonstrated in so few words is that the argument for open borders, properly understood, is an argument ultimately for a Stateless Global Society.
- October 3, 2006 at 1:19 pm
I have heard that immigrants actually pay more taxes than they consume in government services and that the crime rate among immigrants is lower than among similar socio-economic status citizens. I don't have references, but the poster who claims otherwise didn't cite references either. I would like to see some statistics showing whether immigrants actually are a social problem as the opponents of immigration often claim without support.
As far as the article goes, the big message I got was that no one would come here unless present property owners were paying for their labor and willing to rent or sell living accomodations. In other words, if we as a group really didn't have any need or desire for immigrants, they would not be able to find work or a place to live. The fact that they can by the millions seems de facto proof of the virtue of immigration.
And it is not just cheap labor we crave. As a computer programmer, I compete with immigrants who work cheaper and drive down my professional white collar salary. It directly hurts my standard of living, but I still am willing to allow immigration because it makes sense to me. I would rather be free and less wealthy than live in tyranny with a higher paycheck. Freedom comes with a tangible cost.
- October 3, 2006 at 1:40 pm
"In other words, if we as a group really didn't have any need or desire for immigrants, they would not be able to find work or a place to live. The fact that they can by the millions seems de facto proof of the virtue of immigration."
Federal law prohibits discrimination in housing, credit, government benefits, and "public accomodation" (e.g., lunch counters) based on race or national origin. Furthermore, so long as Jose presents facially valid (i.e., forged) proof of US citizenship, the employer faces legal liability for refusing to hire the otherwise qualified applicant in favor of a white (or black) US native.
As far as statistics on the net costs of immigration, the folks at vdare.com and the Center for Immigration Reform can help you out. I'd also invite you to visit the AFDC office, county jail, and public hospital in your town. Then you can swing by the EASL departments at your local public schools. Then go see the aging relatives from the old country who were brought here under family reunification provisions and steered onto Medicare/Medicaid and SSI. Tell them all to check out mises.org.
- October 3, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Reactionary, David(AFAIK) as well as Robert Murphy in the original article are talking about this from an Anarcho-capitalist perspective. Not from the perspective of the current society. They are saying that in an Anarcho-capilist society borders both would and should be open.
I fully agree with them.
- October 3, 2006 at 2:27 pm
In an anarcho-capitalist society, it would be entirely up to the property owners as to whether the borders of their property should be open or closed. Immigrants would either have to acquire rights of passage or be shot as trespassers.
I can foresee people in an anarcho-capitalist society forming, as they do now, communities for mutual defense and infrastructure. These communities would undoubtedly have rules for access to the property by their members' invitees. Some members may end up disagreeing with the rules, in which event they will just have to leave the community.
- October 3, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Nick, "why no criticism of Hoppe?"
Hoppe's basis for restriction of immigration is one of private property. That if _everyone_ decided not to rent, sell, or allow transit to immigrants, then immigration stops.
But while Hoppe's extreme is based upon private property, what Cox has done is say that it is OK for the government to _force_ other people not to rent, sell, or allow transit to someone who the government deems "illegal".
It makes no difference what so ever if the arbitrary border is city, county, state or national. If I am willing to rent/sell to someone, who are you to tell me I may not? To say it is fine to voluntarily cross one arbitrary line, but not another, is hypocrisy.
Hoppe is not being hypicritical, merely extreme (and in my opinion needlessly so, for it has allowed Hoppe to be attacked personally as a racist and elitist).
Cox, on the other hand, has made the error of identifying a "collective" as a valid decision making entity for individuals.
Reactionary is correct that there are lots of laws already creating an environment of arbitrary chaos in terms of rent/sell/hire decisions. While it's easy to say "Until there is no more of these intrusions, we _need_ immigration controlls", this is just falling back into the cycle that Mises identified so very long ago: Every intervention creates problems that call for more interventions, which create yet more problems, ad infinitum.
It is educational to remember that in openly Socialist countries, one may not move without permission. Why? Because open immigration would create problems! …ah, yeah.
I have no doubt that Massachusetts would like to erect barriers to the movement of people from lower-paying places like Alabama if they could. California sure did! It is the blocking of these short-sighted restrictions (immigration controlls) that created the largest free-trade and free-movement economy in the world, for a while anyway, the United States!
Again: To argue that it's ok to freely cross one arbitrary line but not another is hypocrisy, historically demonstrable to be destructive to productivity and happiness.
- October 3, 2006 at 2:31 pm
To those who say we must restrict immigration until we eliminate the welfare state, I say: How are we ever going to get rid of the welfare state unless it is put under pressure?
At the same time, there's nothing unlibertarian about the view the immigrants should not be allowed to vote or receive welfare. (I actually advocate that for non-immigrants as well!) As I think Lew Rockwell said, the current situation, in which it's fairly easy for anyone to become an illegal immigrant, is actually pretty good.
- October 3, 2006 at 2:55 pm
"To argue that it's ok to freely cross one arbitrary line but not another is hypocrisy, historically demonstrable to be destructive to productivity and happiness."
Why do you call national boundaries "arbitrary?" Are property lines not "arbitrary?" You can't see them from space either.
Would it be destructive to productivity and happiness if I forbid you from bringing in your buddies in the Russian mafia, or people with communicable diseases? How many people should you be allowed to invite? One thousand? One million? Ten million?
- October 3, 2006 at 3:12 pm
Kristian Joensen> They are saying that in an Anarcho-capi[ta]list society borders both would and should be open.
More precisely, there would not be "open borders" (political borders); there simply would be no borders of the political variety to even consider in anarcho-capitalism. As far as private property goes, those boundaries would certainly not be open, except by invitation/permission.
- October 3, 2006 at 5:24 pm
Hoppe's argument is that if all property were private, the owners would have the right to restrict immigration to their property. Since government doesn't actually OWN property, but is merely being a caretaker, it can act in the best interest of the collective owners.
In Hoppe's "Democracy: The God that Failed", Hoppe rebukes the claim that "pressure" can be put on the welfare state via massive immigration. He states that the culture our (still remaining) liberty is basd on will be destroyed; nothing short of civilizational suicide.
"It is educational to remember that in openly Socialist countries, one may not move without permission. Why? Because open immigration would create problems! …ah, yeah."
In socialist countries, their immigration controls are designed to keep people IN, not OUT. I suppose somebody could immigrate to a socialist state if they wanted to. A teenage kid immigrated to Cuba the other day to be with family.
- October 3, 2006 at 6:15 pm
Reactionary, we are ancaps (or private law libertarians, as I prefer) precisely because we believe that property lines are not arbitrary, but national boundaries are. I'm sure someone can explain the historical reasons for this conclusion if you'd like.
Anyway, using the justness of national boundaries to justify immigration strikes me as close to a reductio ad absurdum, at least as far as the Americas are concerned. It is common knowledge that, from the perspective of political entities, all or almost all the land in North America was stolen from various American Indian peoples. Now, I don't think this creates a valid claim against most individual property holders today, but, if one accepts political boundaries as legitimate, I don't know how one can avoid the conclusion that there the territory of the United States justly belongs to someone else, and so the U.S. government, at least, has no right to regulate its borders.
- October 3, 2006 at 6:46 pm
"In socialist countries, their immigration controls are designed to keep people IN, not OUT. I suppose somebody could immigrate to a socialist state if they wanted to. A teenage kid immigrated to Cuba the other day to be with family."
Sweden has very restrictive immigration and naturalization procedures, from what I've read, as do most of the other welfare states in Europe.
- October 3, 2006 at 7:33 pm
Excellent article. The author has no notion of economics.
However you didn't glom onto the fundamental hypocrisy at the heart of his screed. He claims that poor people are incapable of paying their way. And note well, this is not just about immigrants. American-born poor people cannot pay for health care and cannot put their kids through school.
The Joe down at the 7-11 can't afford to get his cuts fixed any more than the un-stamped immigrant at Tysons.
Just how could this happen? Well, I ask the question. Here we have a "professor" of 19th century literature with a cushy job. He "works" maybe 20 hours a weeks and has excellent health benefits. People flock to him and pay big bucks for his "services".
Well, his job is to separate Americans into two groups – those who have the right to a high-paying job and those who have to stitch up their own cuts. The government ensures that there is no comptetion against his certification cartel and then he whines that those who have been left out in the cold somehow don't carry their weight.
Strange world A parasite claims that his host is living off him!
- October 3, 2006 at 8:50 pm
Good Point. As I've yelled my head off on other posts on immmigration, those who fear unwashed masses pouring across the border would recoil just as quickly from the very Caucasian inhabitants of trailer parks from the Atlantic to the Sabine River (at least in the south)…to say nothing of the urban descendents of the freedmen. but they're stuck with those poor people, so they attack the ones they can…the ones comming here from more severe poverty.
- October 3, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Nick Bradley,
How many illegal immigrants do you think read Robert Murphy's article today? How many minds were changed? How about zero.
My point was that they need to be engaged more, and your statement proves it.
Hispanic immigrants (let's be honest, that is who we are talking about) get their news from extremely pro-immigration spanish television (since many do not read).
I find that hard to believe, sounds like a stereotype to me. I live in a very Mexicanized neighborhood and contrary to myth, the large majority are reasonably educated, most work in the services sector and not textiles and agriculture, and most contribute more than they take from the system.
And what makes you think that illegals don't vote? It's "discrimination" to check an ID …
Once again, sounds like a compelling argument for cleaning up the voter registration setup, not a compelling argument against immigration. So the bottom line is that immigrants benifit our country more than they hurt it, and they are getting a bad wrap in the name of a system they didn't vote for.
- April 2, 2011 at 3:08 pm
The solutions are not very complicated:
1. Get rid of the drug war and you get rid of the escalating violence along our borders. The recreational drug market is a multi-billion dollar business. People at all levels of society, from Congressmen, Doctors, Judges, CEOs, CTOs, CFOs, all the way down to ditch diggers and homeless buy drugs illegally for recreational usage. The 'Drug Ware' is hypocritical and self-destructive. It's the same exact thing as the effect that prohibition had. The better the government does at enforcing the drug laws, the more profitable it gets to break them and the more violence it causes.
2. Make it vastly easier to come into the country to work, to learn, to live. If people want to come in to work and people want to hire them… then it should be allowed. Absolutely allowed.
3. Get rid of the welfare state and you get rid of the moochers and parasites. Also you prompt our own people to get out and compete in the market place instead of sitting at home waiting for better jobs to come along.
Do all those things and you will pretty much solve the immigration issue.
This sort of stuff is things that the American public don't want to hear, but it's the honest truth.
- October 4, 2006 at 3:32 am
David C, CATIM, ALL,
Yes, this is a utlitarian question. But do you think that the US would be MORE libertarian after masss immigration of low-skilled labor or LESS libertarian? Perhaps the answers will help us develop an a priori reason why that may be.
My answer is that unless we are seeing mass immigration of middle and upper-class businessmen, enterpeneurs, and professionals, the answer is clearly no.
Under our current system, which is more democratic than republican (in the classical sense), the peopel can vote to expropriate virtually and good or service produced by somebody else. Vitually nothing is off limits. With voter franshice expanded to include all adults over the age of 18, excluding felons (for now anyway; Hillary may get her way), even the bottom rung of society. The Left gets its proletariat. Have you ever wondered why Labor Unions now SUPPORT immigration, whereas historically they were the most vocal opponents of it?
Let's take a look at Hans-Hermann Hoppe's "On Free Immigration and Forced Integration".
Hoppe first discusses what a privately-wned government (i.e. a monarchy) would do in this situation: minimize emigration of the productive and immigration of the non-productive, maximize the emigration of the non-productive and the immigration of the productive. This would increase the long-term value of his country.
Hoppe then, however, turns to caretaker government, i.e. a democracy:
"As far as emigration policy is concerned, this implies that for a democratic ruler it makes little, if any, difference whether productive or unproductive people, geniuses or bums leave the country. They have all one equal vote. In fact, democratic rulers might well be more concerned about the loss of a bum than that of a productive genius. While the loss of the latter would obviously lower the capital value of the country and loss of the former might actually increase it, a democratic ruler does not own the country. In the short run, which most interests a democratic ruler, the bum, voting most likely in favor of egalitarian measures, might be more valuable than the productive genius who, as egalitarianism's prime victim, will more likely vote against the democratic ruler. For the same reason, a democratic ruler, quite unlike a king, undertakes little to actively expel those people whose presence within the country constitutes a negative externality (human trash, which drives individual property values down). In fact, such negative externalities – unproductive parasites, bums, and criminals – are likely to be his most reliable supporters."
Hoppe then moves on to looking at what a proper libertarian policy would be for the US and W Europe (which I have advocated before):
"The current situation in the United States and in Western Europe has nothing whatsoever to do with "free" immigration. It is forced integration, plain and simple, and forced integration is the predictable outcome of democratic – one-man-one-vote – rule. Abolishing forced integration requires a de-democratization of society, and ultimately the abolition of democracy. More specifically, the authority to admit or exclude should be stripped from the hands of the central government and re-assigned to the states, provinces, cities, towns, villages, residential districts, and ultimately to private property owners and their voluntary associations. "
– I have proposed in the past that immigration policy revert back to the states, perhaps even lower is possible. States would sponsor immigrants for x number of years before they could apply for US citizenship. Under this time period, freedom of movement ouside of the state's borders would be restricted (unless arrangements were made with bordering states), and the immigrant would not be subjct to Federal taxation or Federal law. The individual state will decide how many immigrants it wll recieve each year, the cultural origin of its immigrants, and the skills sets of its immigrants. States would probably elect to deny immigrants access to public good(ie)s for x periods of time, or require the head of the household to immigrate years before he can bring his children. Perhaps even the county where the migrant's initial employment resided would have to vouch for him as well. Under such a system, the County would vouch for the immigrant's work permit for x period of time.
Regardless, a sub-national immigration policy would avoid forced integration of peoples and seriously cut back on subsidies to immigrant labor.
Later on in Hoppe's Article, he goes on to state what shoul be done if a democracy cannot decentralize immigration policy:
"What should one hope for and advocate as the relatively correct immigration policy, however, as long as the democratic central state is still in place and successfully arrogates the power to determine a uniform national immigration policy? The best one may hope for, even if it goes against the "nature" of a democracy and thus is not very likely to happen, is that the democratic rulers act as if they were the personal owners of the country and as if they had to decide who to include and who to exclude from their own personal property (into their very own houses). This means following a policy of utmost discrimination: of strict discrimination in favor of the human qualities of skill, character, and cultural compatibility.
More specifically, it means distinguishing strictly between "citizens" (naturalized immigrants) and "resident aliens" and excluding the latter from all welfare entitlements. It means requiring as necessary, for resident alien status as well as for citizenship, the personal sponsorship by a resident citizen and his assumption of liability for all property damage caused by the immigrant. It implies requiring an existing employment contract with a resident citizen; moreover, for both categories but especially that of citizenship, it implies that all immigrants must demonstrate through tests not only (English) language proficiency, but all-around superior (above-average) intellectual performance and character structure as well as a compatible system of values – with the predictable result of a systematic pro-European immigration bias."
- October 4, 2006 at 7:23 am
Hoppe is quite right about forced integration. And since the rulers in a democracy don't care who votes so long as they get more votes than their opponents, the more voters (bodies) the merrier.
Furthermore, since the welfare state depends on a "worker ponzi" for its funding, and since the domestic workforce is rapidly drying up, the "solution" is to domesticate foreigners, plans for which are fully underway in the form of the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership — http://www.spp.gov — and the creation of an EU-like North American Union complete with its own euro-like currency — http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15017
That is, the "solution" to the US's immigration problem is essentially make Mexico our 51st state, the better for its 110 million people to keep the ponzi going.
- October 4, 2006 at 9:10 am
Any paranoid delusions being besides the point, the fact is that immigration to the US is in function of the demand for workers and little else. People do not come to the US just to receive welfare – most immigrants when polled or interviewed will tell you that they risk their lives to find work. It is also obvious that only the most productive people immigrate: if they wanted to be UNproductive, they could do that perfectly at home once they consider the risks and costs of immigration.
- October 4, 2006 at 1:37 pm
Nice rebuttal.
The welfare and voting arguments against immigration were never very convincing since logically that would end in a libertarian position opposing reproductive rights for the poor.
I agree that the best thing that Libertarianism can bring to the table at this point in history is a consistent philosophy that brings attention the inconsistencies in the other major political lines of thought.
- October 5, 2006 at 5:48 am
Francisco Torres,
"Any paranoid delusions being besides the point, the fact is that immigration to the US is in function of the demand for workers and little else."
You make a good point, but you are missing the big picture. Demand for low-skilled, dirt cheap labor has bean gratly inflated by subsidies to the agricultural and textile industries. This is in addition to generous subsidies the US provides for immigrants to make them more comfortable when they get here.
Essentially, The USG is intervening on both the supply AND the demand side.
- October 5, 2006 at 5:50 am
David White,
The only positive I could see about N. American Union is if Canadian or Mexican states demand decentrlization of power from Washington as a precondition to joining. Under such a scenario, Americans would benefit from such a setup.
- October 5, 2006 at 7:34 pm
Nick Bradley:
Americans will only benefit with TRUE decentralization — i.e., the collapse of the federal government and the devolution of power back to its constituent states (but not stopping there).
A North American Union, on the other hand, would be but the next step in the drive toward Global Union — i.e., a world state that will be to humanity what truth is to a politician.
I'd have more to say, but II need to sign off before my opinions are scrutinized by Homeland Security (hi guys):
- October 6, 2006 at 3:41 pm
David Spellman
"In other words, if we as a group really didn't have any need or desire for immigrants, they would not be able to find work or a place to live. The fact that they can by the millions seems de facto proof of the virtue of immigration."
Is the fact that millions participate in government politics de facto proof of the virtue of government?
- October 7, 2006 at 9:12 am
Each year the science web site the EDGE.com posits a question. What is your dangerous idea? Something that you can't prove but may be true.
My dangerous idea is that neither I nor anybody else can have a dangerous idea.
The very belief that one is a "free thinker" is a myth and because one is not "free to think" he is not free to dispose of the myths that he has.
Explains a lot doesn't it?
- November 2, 2006 at 10:47 pm
I do not shrink from the imaginary scenario of legions of immigrants crossing the border to sign on to welfare, Medicaid/Medicare, free hospital care, etc. Nearly all "illegals" come here to work and earn for themselves and their families. But let us imagine droves of welfare loafers and other slackers immigrating for the "free" hand-outs that the welfare state provides.
In my mind we libertarians should shout (like GWB's notorious quote): "Bring 'em on!" The vile welfare state must die and I say "Speed the day." One of the most useful aspects of such an open border would be the destruction of the welfare state.
Keeping immigrants out to preserve welfare hand-outs for U.S. citizens is about the most
"unlibertarian" argument I can imagine.
- June 9, 2007 at 10:31 am
John Stuart Mill asked the question: To what extent can government be empowered to control human behavior? Mill attempts to answer this question in his essay On Liberty and comes to the conclusion that men generally agree on what men ought not to do but disagree on what men ought to do. Therefore, the proper role of government, if one exists, is limited to punishing men for doing that which they ought not. Those things which men ought not to do are actions that infringe upon the life, liberty, or property of other individuals. In this sense, where government is limited to its proper function, everyone is freer because justice is safeguarded.
This brings us to Dr. Murphy's case against national boundaries and whether government has any right to defend its citizens from military, economic, or social invasion that infringe upon their right to life, liberty, and property respectively. In Dr. Murphy's ideal and utopian society, men do not gather into gangs, mobs, or governments to plunder and kill their fellow beings because everyone is a willing libertarian. In the real world, we know this not to be the case and such was not the case at the time the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution. To defend the colonies and their citizens from English oppression, lines had to be drawn and armies raised. These lines are called borders. Borders are essential to the protection of life, liberty, and property. It is the communists that believe borders do not exist because all land is communal property. Is Dr. Murphy arguing the communist line? I don't think so because he does admit to agreeing with Hoppe in his essay entitled "The Case for Free Trade and Restricted Immigration.â€
Dr. Murphy agrees that immigrants shouldn't trespass to make purchases or take up jobs, but finds the argument that a nation is a house to be absurd. Again, this argument is based on Murphy's anarchist beliefs in which no proper role exists for government to protect the life, liberty, or property of its citizens. Again, in an ideal world this argument is valid. In the real world, however, evil men do exist and the citizens of the United States have delegated to their government power to define borders, to regulate trade, and to create rules for naturalization. Therefore, the nation is a house. Dr. Murphy may wish to argue whether the people have any right to delegate these powers to government, but the fact that it has already been done doesn't invalidate the argument that a nation holding such powers is a house. I personally believe that if a man has the right to his property by defining its borders, setting rules for admittance to it, and defending it with force of arms, he may delegate such powers to the government to impose on public holdings of real-estate.
The essential point I am making is that protecting American rights isn't the same as preventing Immigrant rights. Immigration laws won't prevent Dr. Murphy from selling his property to foreigners. All the immigrant has to do is purchase it legally by coming to America legally. A case could be made for relaxing immigration law to allow more immigrants entrance, but even Dr. Murphy admits in doing so "new floods of low-skilled workers would push the wage in certain occupations down…. We would still see low-skilled immigrants taking jobs for wages that native-born Americans would consider unacceptable.†These immigrants would also consider these low wages unacceptable if the welfare state didn't exist to subsidize their pay or if they had to pay taxes like citizens.
- April 2, 2011 at 2:03 pm
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|Mommy and Daddy Rabbit...trying out a new home.
Well, last week I shared with you the story of a cute rabbit that we spotted in and around our backyard. If you missed it, you can read about it here. And then on Sunday, I added a PS to that day's post as follows:
PS - The rabbit is back! He might actually be a she. And he - or she - built a cute little nest in one of our front garden beds, hidden by some marigolds and our mugo pine shrub. I think I'm happy about this. I think my husband is not. To be continued . . .Well, little did I know the story would get even cuter, at least for me!
Monday morning, as I was on the phone and walking around the house while talking, I wandered into the dining room to see if I could see the rabbit. Well, much to my surprise - and delight - there were two rabbits! My guess - and imagination - is that after the daddy rabbit felt like he found a suitable home, he then went and brought "the Mrs." over to move in so they could have their babies. I was so excited! I was only able to snap these pictures - pardon the window screens blocking a clear view - as I didn't want to disturb them.
|I tried to zoom in on them. Think of this shot like one of those grainy celebrity paparazzi shots!
My husband came downstairs, and of course when I showed him the rabbits, he wasn't pleased. I suggested they made our front garden bed look even prettier, almost like having live garden statues hopping around the pretty flowers. No luck. My husband was adamant that the rabbits must go.
|Another paparazzi shot! They saw me, and the rabbit on the right hopped into their hole.
|How protective this guy was of his lady friend!
Like I said last week, the little girl in me wanted to let them stay there. The adult in me knew they needed to find another home. The little girl in me wanted to just sit there and watch them for hours. The adult in me knew my husband wanted them gone. So after some child-like pleading on my part, which did absolutely nothing at all to help the rabbits keep their home, I agreed to investigate the hole. I took two very long plant stakes, and in a super-slow and gentle manner, slowly parted the marigolds and the mugo pine branches. I saw a well-built nest of grass clippings done as a nice roof, and the hole was very deep. But there were no babies in there yet. So we covered up the hole, and I stayed around to watch if they came back at all. (No doubt they were probably back at
|Super impressed with how neat and tidy their home was. I think they would have been excellent tenants!
During the very short time I watched them through the dining room window, I adored how one would hop in and out of the hole, while the other was standing guard. Then they both hopped among the marigolds a bit: honestly the cuteness factor was Off. The. Charts.
Oh - and my husband assures me that if we had a huge property, he wouldn't have any problem with the rabbits. And I understand. Our development has quite a few rabbits, not surprising as we have wooded areas around us. But what is surprising is that these little guys (and gals) don't seem to be afraid of us humans. Of course, that just endears them to me all the more. (Which isn't a good thing, if your husband is not a fan of the rabbits.)
I'm secretly looking forward to seeing some baby rabbits hopping around soon!


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Westward ho for CicLAvia
January 17, 2013
Saddle up, Westsiders: L.A.'s favorite rolling street party is headed your way in April.
CicLAvia, the car-free bicycle and pedestrian fest started in 2010, is on the move again, preparing for its most ambitious year yet with three events, including one that will stretch from downtown to Venice Beach on April 21.
It's part of a major expansion that organizers hope eventually will stretch to all corners of the county and create 12 separate, localized CicLAvias each year.
"Up till now we've been downtown. Now we want to show that it will work in the rest of the region," said Aaron Paley, CicLAvia's co-founder. A second 2013 CicLAvia is being planned for June 23 with a new route expected to run along Wilshire Boulevard from downtown L.A. to Fairfax Avenue near LACMA. And this year's third event, on October 6, will return to familiar territory downtown, although with a deeper stretch into Boyle Heights and a new route into Chinatown.
The downtown-to-Venice Beach route will be the longest yet for CicLAvia—15 ¼ miles each way—and carries with it some important cross-town symbolism.
"One of the things that's exciting about connecting downtown and the Pacific is just the sheer drama and the significance of it," Paley said. "We know that the east-west connection is very difficult and for people who drive it every day, it's a challenge…The idea that you will be able to walk or ride your bike—or go in your wheelchair or do your inline skating—and go from downtown to the beach is just of historic significance."
Venturing out on such a long ride should be attractive to many participants, but Paley said the event is more about creating a pop-up "linear park" on city streets than throwing down an endurance challenge.
"This isn't the marathon. It isn't all or nothing," he said. "We want kids to be able to explore, maybe get out and ride in the streets for the first time that day. And if they ride a half mile, that's great."
The hope is that participants will arrive via public transportation if possible—perhaps by taking the Expo Line to the Culver City station at Venice and Robertson, or riding the bus to the Pico/Rimpau Transit Center at Venice and San Vicente.
Paley said the impetus for pushing outside the downtown zone and toward the ocean this year came from Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who kept asking: "When can we go all the way to the beach?"
The mayor, he said, even burst into a planning meeting to promote the idea—prompting a round of brainstorming in which the Department of Transportation's special events traffic guru, Aram Sahakian, came up with the idea of using Venice Boulevard, a route traveled by other events like the Los Angeles triathlon.
"We've used it before. We know exactly what we're dealing with," Sahakian said.
Taking the route deep into the Westside—where traffic woes are among the city's worst—will require plenty of outreach to make sure residents and businesses know what's coming. "I'm crossing my fingers and praying that they won't be too unhappy," Sahakian said.
So far, so good, said Diana Rodgers, who manages the Mar Vista Farmers' Market and is enthusiastic about the coming of CicLAvia to her area.
"We love it and we want to be a partner and provide refreshments," she said.
The farmers' market, which takes place on Sundays and is located on Venice at Grand View Boulevard, is accustomed to rolling with the closures that come with big events like the marathon and triathlon, Rodgers said, and should be able to take CicLAvia in stride.
"As long as we have the information, we tend to do OK, as long as we have crossing guards at the points needed," Rodgers said.
Westside cyclists like Cynthia Rose, director of the group Santa Monica Spoke, said the new route will be a big draw in her part of town.
"There's a huge pool of enthusiastic Westside supporters and they've felt sort of geographically separated," she said. "Now all of a sudden it's going to be that connecting of the dots, from the ocean to downtown Los Angeles."
Paley said the final map for the downtown-to-Venice Beach route is still being fine-tuned. The CicLAvia team will be taking an exploratory ride along the proposed route Sunday to see how it works and connects with two major hubs downtown—City Hall and Union Station.
Beyond the 2013 lineup, he's looking forward to CicLAvia's gradual multi-year expansion.
"We want the entire county to be able to benefit from Ciclavia," Paley said.
So what's on tap for 2014? "I can tell you that the Valley," Paley said, "is high on our list."
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