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Photo Flash: Joanna Churgin, Matt Landig & More in Kentwood Players' DOUBT
Kentwood Players' production of "DOUBT, A Parable" by John Patrick Shanley opened last night, July 13, and runs through August 18, 2012, at the Westchester Playhouse in LA. The show is directed by Gail Bernardi and produced by Calia Mintzer-Wolf and Linda Reinhardt. Check out photos of cast members Joanna Churgin, Matt Landig, Heather Barnett and Jacquelin Schofield on stage below!
"DOUBT, A Parable" won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. It tells the story of a nun in a Bronx Catholic School in 1964 who suspects a popular priest of inappropriate behavior with a student. Armed with nothing more than a resolute belief in her suspicions and a few circumstantial details, Sister Aloysius instigates a campaign to remove Father Flynn, the beloved and progressive parish priest, from St. Nicholas School. She enlists the help of Sister James, a young nun in the order, and the child's tormented mother, Mrs. Muller.
The simple, always shifting plot leaves all four characters and the audience wondering whether they were justified in their thoughts, motives and actions for as Father Flynn states in his opening sermon, "Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty."
Featured in the cast are Churgin as Sister Aloysius, Landig as Father Flynn, Barnett as Sister James, and Schofield as Mrs. Muller. After-performance Q&A sessions with the cast will take place following all Saturday evening performances, and the cast looks forward to participating in some very lively discussions with audience members given the nature of the show.
For tickets, schedule and more information, visit www.kentwoodplayers.org.
Photo credit: Shari Barrett
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Something You Should Know
"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it." ~ Patrick Henry, A Founding Father.
There is evil in this world. Never for a single moment relinquish the fact there is not hideous evil on this planet.
This leads me to a bone-chilling quote from Woodrow Wilson's "behind the throne" personality, Edward M. "Col." House:
"[Very] soon, every American will be required to register their biological property in a National system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a chargeback for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer not being able to work and earn a living. They will be our chattel, and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions. Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, forever to remain economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges. They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be non the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two would figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability. After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debt to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges. This will inevitably reap to us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor or to this fraud which we will call "Social Insurance." Without realizing it, every American will insure us for any loss we may incur and in this manner; every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and, we will employ the high office of the President of our dummy corporation to foment this plot against America." ~ Edward Mandell House in a private meeting with Woodrow Wilson (President) [1913-1921] ~ Woodrow Wilson's personal papers.
Read that again…slowly.
There you have it, Birth Certificate, (biological property) Social Security Number and Social Security Retirement.
"A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated." ~ Woodrow Wilson
I hate to break the news but America was overthrown by political enemies within, right there on Capital Hill, on the evening of 12/23/1913. We all know what happened. Right? Of course not. I doubt one in ten thousand Americans can answer that question.
"This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President [Wilson] signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized….the worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill." ~ Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., 1913
In 2009 Ron Paul introduced the Federal Reserve Transparency Act (H.R.1207), which requested a full audit of the Federal Reserve, the first in its 100 year history. It gained wide attention and support but what passed was Senator Bernard Sanders' version titled Federal Reserve Sunshine Act (s.604), which demanded a partial audit, and here are their findings. The list of institutions that received the most money from the Federal Reserve can be found on page 131 of the GAO Audit. Here is the list:
Citigroup: $2.5 trillion.
Morgan Stanley: $2.04 trillion.
Merrill Lynch: $1.949 trillion.
Bank of America: $1.344 trillion.
Barclays PLC (United Kingdom): $868 billion.
Bear Sterns: $853 billion.
Goldman Sachs: $814 billion.
Royal Bank of Scotland (UK): $541 billion.
JP Morgan Chase: $391 billion.
Deutsche Bank (Germany): $354 billion.
UB (Switzerland): $287 billion.
Credit Suisse (Switzerland): $262 billion.
Lehman Brothers: $183 billion.
Bank of Scotland (United Kingdom): $181 billion.
BNP Paribas (France): $175 billion.
Many many more including banks in Belgium.
An excerpt from an article in Bloomberg News:
"The amount of money the central bank parceled out was surprising even to Gary H. Stern, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 1985 to 2009, who says he "wasn't aware of the magnitude." It dwarfed the Treasury Department's better-known $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. Add up guarantees and lending limits, and the Fed had committed $7.77 trillion as of March 2009 to rescuing the financial system, more than half the value of everything produced in the U.S. that year.
"TARP at least had some strings attached," says Brad Miller, a North Carolina Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, referring to the program's executive-pay ceiling. "With the Fed programs, there was nothing."
The Federal Reserve printed over 50% of our GDP and gave it to the Wall Street entities that destroyed our financial system at basically no interest. They then purchased US Treasury Bonds that have yield rates well over the interest (approx 3%) charged on those loans. That means they made a profit off the American tax-payers by borrowing money from the American tax-payer and then essentially lending it back.
"It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." ~ Henry Ford
Henry Ford makes a statement like that, don't you think folks would be rather curious?
But it is all just play money. Right?
"Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders." ~ The Honorable Louis McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee in the 1930s.
Currently The U.S. Federal Debt is over 15 Trillion dollars and rising fast.
The number 15 trillion? 15,000,000,000,000.
How long is 15 trillion seconds? 475,324.5 years.
Travel in one second at 15 Trillion MPH? 4,166,666,655 miles.
Times around the equator of the earth? 167,310.
Number of times from LA to New York in 1 second traveling at 15 Trillion MPH? 1,692,390.
15 Trillion Inches? 236,742,424 miles.
Times around the equator of the earth, 15 Trillion Inches? 9,507.
Number of times From L.A to New York, 15 Trillion inches? 96,150.
15 trillion-dollar bills stretched end to end? 145,359,848,336 miles.
Number of Times those dollar bills go to the moon at its average distance from the earth? 605,666.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction." ~Albert Einstein
The Federal Reserve is utilizing the American people as collateral to an absurdly expensive, overly extended, outrageously insane, horrifically unsustainable, line of credit. Everybody you know, I know, we know, especially America's children will suffer this.
Come one spring morning, if radical changes aren't made, America's children, your children, 'our' children, will awaken, horrified to realize, they have been enslaved in a third world country.
"Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits among you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take you the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of VIPERS AND THIEVES". ~Andrew Jackson
The US Federal National Debt is 15 Trillion, 264 billion, 918 million dollars and rising fast. The US total debt is 56 Trillion, 508 billion, 287 million dollars and rising fast. Each Individual citizen is responsible for $187,597.
These are the good old days,
Recorded at 2 A.M. MST. 1/23/2012 – Check for yourself:
Maybe the Mayan Calendar is tied to this Ticking Catastrophe.
Look at it this way, if nearly half of what you earn is spent by someone else, with out your input or consent, that means half your time is spent working for someone besides you.Correct me if I am wrong but that comes blatantly close to being a form of indentured servitude.
"Government is saying to the average citizen every January 1: "For the next five months you'll be working for us, for goals we shall determine. Is that clear? After May 5 you may look after your own needs and ambitions." Richard
Money for Nothing and Houses for Free
The greatest Banking Fraud in world history has taken place over the last decade. Millions of people have lost their homes. Deliberate, calculated and pre-determined. It can be traced directly back to The Federal Reserve. The writing was on the wall when interest rates were practically nil, the loan instruments were ridiculously unconstrained, adjustable, and underwriters, in mass, had abandoned the buildings.
Worthless financial paper assets were bundled in bulk, AAA rated and bought on faith by institutional investors, foreign governments, their banks and private investors. Rightfully they should have been purchased. People then lost their homes and their 401K retirement funds fell right through the floor at the same time. It was hard to see at the time, but if one would have stepped back one could have seen it was going to happen.
Interest rates were on the floor and the financial instruments were terribly risky. With just a flip of a switch everything would go upside down. Default the majority of these loans two years in the future and steal these houses. Houses that people had lived in for years and new home buyers that never had a chance. Many new home buyers were not even remotely qualified to buy a home. Folks traded in their fixed rate, which of course were higher than the introductory 'teaser' rates.
As borrowers over their heads in toxic loans they didn't understand, they found their interest rates reset to their true 'fully indexed' rate that they couldn't afford. Accordingly, rates exploded, real estate that had been driven up by demand plummeted, homes mortgage payments shot through the roof and millions of people were left standing on the railroad tracks wondering what hell the light at the end of the tunnel was. It was a massive train wreck. The banks turned around and confiscated the property they had just legally stolen from the people.
All one had to do was follow a middle class, maybe so-so credit rating, on an adjustable re -fi, put a balloon payment (pay in full or re-fi) out two years, rapidly raise the interest rate and burst the over inflated housing sector.
This is what happened on a massive scale.
Why would the banks do this and get stuck with millions of fore-closures? Because they didn't. The American People got stuck with millions of foreclosures. The loans were backed by the Government Sponsored Enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac putting the burden on the government and consequently forcing the tax payer to pay. The Federal Reserve paid the bank notes off and the tax payer is paying The Federal Reserve back right now.
In President George W. Bush's second term the Banks were de-regulated and it became legal to begin creative financing. Back in the late 80′s and early 90′s the same thing happened and the envelope was pushed to far and a lot of CEO's got tossed in jail and a lot of small banks hit the dirt.
No mystery, an entire middle class can be wiped out like this and nobody gets hung now, because they simply re-legislated the laws for what has been the biggest banking fraud on planet Earth. Most folks still don't know the mechanics of how easily they were stolen from. Folks just know they have lost everything and are mad as hell. The whole episode looked like it came out of the clear blue. Well, it didn't.
America is being driven purposely into 3rd world country status.
The house of cards crumbling was just a matter of time and math. All of it was predictable. All of it was deliberate. All of it was criminal and nobody has been held accountable.
In other words millions of people have lost their homes, their jobs and their 401K and the millions of folks who still have their homes, their jobs and their 401K, tax payers at large, workers at fast food places, waitresses, plumbers, bricklayers and school teachers are paying off the defaulted mortgages. All the while the Banks own the homes free and clear to re-sell again.
A stain would be left on the mortgage industry. The mortgage industry was only the messenger. It was the message that should have been shot.
"The Bold effort of the present Central bank had been made to control the Government…are but premonitions of fate that await American people should they be deluded into a prepetuation of this institution or establishment of another like it." ~ Andrew Jackson
Ron Paul has been fighting for years and years and years to put a stop to this. Nobody listens. Well, Well. Is it too late? It could be or it is certainly one stroke before midnight. Ron Paul's stance on The Federal Reserve is well documented. He has written books clearly stating his positions. Abolish The Federal Reserve. Revert to sound money principles and eliminate all fiat printing. Article I section 10 of the Constitution make the Federal Reserve, Constitutionally illegal.
If it were not against the law for me to walk through your neighborhood and steal whatever I want, I would not get arrested, but, since it is against the law for you to walk through your neighborhood and steal whatever you want, you will be arrested.
Get the point?
An Inheritance for Your Children
The Patriot Act? A 1472 page bill. Have you read it? It was reintroduced. Again Ron Paul voted against it. It is treasonous against The Bill of Rights and The Constitution. Here are a few 'bullet points' if I may;
Freedom from unreasonable searches: The government may search and seize Americans' papers and effects without probable cause to assist terror investigation. Violates Amendment IV.
Right to a speedy and public trial: The government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial. Violates Amendment VI.
Freedom of association: To assist terror investigation, the government may monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity. Violates Amendment I.
Right to legal representation: The government may monitor conversations between attorneys and clients in federal prisons and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes. Violates Amendment VI.
Freedom of speech: The government may prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation. Violates Amendment I.
Right to liberty: Americans may be jailed without being charged or being able to confront witnesses against them. US citizens (labeled "unlawful combatants") have been held incommunicado and refused attorneys. Violates Amendment VI.
The enemy redefined: The Patriot Act also broadens the definition of "terrorist" to anyone who opposes a federal government program or policy. Conservatively this gives them probable cause for 70% of Americans. We have it now from a member of Bush's own cabinet, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, that planning for an invasion and occupation of Iraq was in the works before Bush was even sworn into office in January 2001, while work on the fine print of the so-called USA Patriot Act was underway well before the first plane hit the first tower.
The National Defense Authorization Act. Signed by President Obama. New Years Eve 2011.
A shocking outright betrayal of the citizens of the United States, a Gestapo assault on The US Constitution and Bill Of Rights. This is not a secret conspiracy. This is not a shadow government. This is the President, House and Senate shredding civil liberties in broad daylight.
America is being thrown over Niagara Falls.
Christopher Anders, senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement. "Based on suspicion alone, no place and no person are off-limits to military detention without charge or trial."
"President Obama's action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law," said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director. "The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield. The ACLU will fight worldwide detention authority wherever we can, be it in court, in Congress, or internationally."
Under the Bush administration, similar claims of worldwide detention authority were used to hold even a U. citizen detained on US soil in military custody, and many in Congress now assert that the NDAA should be used in the same way again. The ACLU believes that any military detention of American citizens or others within the United States is unconstitutional and illegal, including under the NDAA. In addition, the breadth of the NDAA's detention authority violates international law because it is not limited to people captured in the context of an actual armed conflict as required by the laws of war.
"We are incredibly disappointed that President Obama signed this new law even though his administration had already claimed overly broad detention authority in court," said Romero. "Any hope that the Obama administration would roll back the constitutional excesses of George Bush in the war on terror was extinguished today. Thankfully, we have three branches of government, and the final word belongs to the Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on the scope of detention authority. But Congress and the president also have a role to play in cleaning up the mess they have created because no American citizen or anyone else should live in fear of this or any future president misusing the NDAA's detention authority."
Let me ask you this? How in the living hell can these people on Capital Hill disagree about absolutely everything and then stumble all over themselves 93-7 (Senate vote) to give the United States Military unprecedented and unconstitutional powers to arrest and detain American citizens in secret, without trial for an indefinite period of time?
Booming echoes of the shot across the bow heard internationally:
Section 1021 and 1022 have been called a violation of constitutional principles and of the Bill of Rights.[20] Internationally, the UK-based newspaper The Guardian has described the legislation as allowing indefinite detention "without trial [of] American terrorism suspects arrested on US soil who could then be shipped to Guantánamo Bay;"[21] Al Jazeera has written that the Act "gives the US military the option to detain US citizens suspected of participating or aiding in terrorist activities without a trial, indefinitely."[22] The official Russian international radio broadcasting service Voice of Russia has compared the Act to legislation passed by the Third Reich;[23] the Act has been opposed by the ACLU and Human Rights Watch, and received criticism from The New York Times,[24] the World Socialist Web Site[25] and other news organizations.
How many of us would risk hanging to sign The Declaration of Independence?
It utterly puts a chill in my spine because the tyranny our Founding Fathers have fought against has entwined and entrapped us all over again. The insidious evil of Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. With only a few changes The Declaration of Independence is alive today.
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." ~ Thomas Jefferson
America is one step away from the Dark Ages.
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically become instruments of tyranny at home" ~ James Madison, Father of The Constitution
Crazy or Common Sense?
Hope is not a strategy. Change is for certain. What will be will be or what we make happen transpires. We still have a voice. Our fore-fathers suffered death for our Liberty and now America, as we used to know her, is one step away from the gallows.
America began by divine providence instated through men and women of their own conviction and courage.
The original intention of an ideal. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness is an exploration of the commonalities we all share. Liberty, to do, be and become more, unshackled by the constraints demanded by another, enabling society the wholeness of being. Life, to be, optimum potentialities expressed. Integrating respect one to another. The pursuit of Happiness, where ones private life, spiritually, sexually and family are blessed with sovereignty. Ones public life embraces the community.
We are being stripped of our personal liberties. We are pitted against one another by the one snake with two heads calling themselves our elected party officials. The party is over. We have been made fearful of our own shadow. America has been bought, sold, traded, manipulated and the middle class is being thrown unmercifully upon wherever they may fall. The poor to be ravaged by wolves, where there are no scraps. The ground beneath our feet to be our own tears to walk upon. Wanton deceit and betrayal. A populace asleep at the wheel.
"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." ~ Martin Niemoeller, German Lutheran Pastor
The most basic cornerstones of fundamental freedom? The Magna Carter. The Constitution Of The United States. The Bill of Rights. Habeas corpus. Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is dangerous. None of us are getting out of here alive, if we don't fight for dignity we all die in despair.
History repeats itself if we let it.
Actualization and acceptance of human equality in global consciousness has a long way to go. America, let's keep it up. There is Ron Paul and there are the principles of Ron Paul. They are intertwined yet they can be separated. Ron Paul, the man, can be separated from his political views as they are solely based on The US Constitution, The Bill of Rights and not his personal opinions and prejudices. This is vital to always keep in mind while forming an opinion. His political performance has proved this again and again. My Support for Ron Paul is not only for Ron Paul. I am supporting our original founding documents, protective mechanisms. Ron Paul embodies the principles of our founding fathers, that is why he has my support.
"You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual" – Ron Paul
It is Destiny. A New World Order is coming.
Novus Ordo Seclorum "New Order of the Ages." It is embedded into The Great American Seal. It has been a creed in America since 1782. Take a one-dollar bill and look for yourself. The Federal Reserve Act is a betrayal of The US Constitution. It is not an out picture of Original Intent. In God We Trust is blasphemous to The Great American Seal and legislation to coin this phrase was adopted on 7/11/1954. Religions are man-made, thrusting a God demanding inhumane obedience on another and this God can not be trusted. The Founding Fathers knew this in every fiber of their being. Novus Ordo Seclorum shall manifest itself in opposition to the tyrannically imposed 1% on humanity because it is the 99% whose survival is at stake. Novus Ordo Seclorum is not an Imperialistic Decree, it is an Embrace of Humanity.
The phenomena today within Occupy Wall Street and the upheaval at large, 'The Protester' Time Person of The Year, are tragically symbolic of the unrest domestically and globally. Ron Paul is a physical proponent and representative of what can be defined as collective agreement. An agreement that has been decades and centuries in the making.
Agreement is the single most powerful experience human can manifest. An idea whose time has come. This is ultimate agreement. The unshackling of the human. The individuality of human in congruence to the expression of the greater human.
Agreement happens and continues to happen from multitudes of people who will never meet. Agreement is duplicate spiritual alignment regardless of culture and language back ground. Agreement can happen spiritually one from another through Aeon's of time. Agreement through spiritual and emotional resonance connected at the absolute place of still is the single most potent force field utilized within the currency of creation.
Critical mass. The Hundredth Monkey. 2012.
"There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it." ~ Ron Paul
"I am an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect" ~ Ron Paul
The political principles of Ron Paul? They fit into this equation perfectly. These principles can be directly related to our Founding Fathers and the freedom experiment that was initially set into motion.
2012 has been a long-awaited year and in my honest opinion we are going through a reversal of magnetism on many spiritually conscious and deeper levels.
Globally if you will.
This reversal in short can be described as a shift of paradigms: Institutions of religions, to, spirituality of individuals. Politics of power-to-people of promise. Aggression of war-to-give peace a chance. Division, separation, isolation-to-unity, togetherness, embrace. I, me , mine-to-you, we, ours.
This will not be a Utopian grandiose experience but utter sheer survival of the human species in relation to ourselves and in relation to the Earth as our home. These are postulates the 'huddled masses' are coming into agreement with.
The political principles of Ron Paul are bigger than the man. Bigger than Republicans. Bigger than Democrats. These are American principles, taking us back to square one upon the principles which America was founded. These principles occupy the 99% percent. Who needs more?
"It does not take a majority to prevail but rather an irate, tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." ~ Samuel Adams
The terrorists, have they won? They are not the ones taking our Constitutional Rights from us. They did not legislate the Patriot Act. They aren't strip-searching folks traveling right here in America. How can we be so badly defeated, to the point, The Constitution is scrapped, 1000's of our brave are dead and trillions of our treasury spent? Are we losing this battle at such a phenomenal rate that suddenly, legislation is passed (NDAA) declaring even now after more than ten years of war, America, is a battlefield and the military can detain an American Civilian without trial, and hold them indefinitely? America is fighting a War on Terror purporting our freedom by destroying our freedom.
"America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. … She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom." ~John Quincy Adams, (1767-1848) A Founding Father.
The Senate and Congress upholding The Constitution? It must be called what it is: Dereliction of Duty.
Post 9/11 many had been hypnotically paralyzed for years by fear instilled purposely by the promoters of terror. Awaken quickly or as a society we shall be Dead on Arrival. Fortunately many of our 18-24 yr old's, staunch, fierce, loyal supporters of Ron Paul were 8-14 years old on 9/11. It's a bit more difficult to continually convince there's a monster under the bed. The rest of many adults spanning generational fortitude were deer in the headlights.
Ron Paul is throwing a rock at these headlights and if we do not run quickly in the right direction we will be shot alone in the darkness.
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future." John F. Kennedy
The interplay of dynamics is easy to understand why Ron Paul can only continue winning. Within the illusions of win, lose or draw, after more than 30 years of vigilantly holding the flame from the initial spark which became the fire in the belly of the Revolutionaries Heart; IMHO, by continuing to fight the good fight, Ron Paul can only be winning.
Paul is in alignment with spontaneous combustion within the global human DNA that is releasing itself to transform. Consciousness is the most important thing winning, an enlightened new generation.
Ron Paul has the most valuable asset in the 2012 Presidential Election and that is Challenging the Impossible. Thousands of young people fueled with the adrenalin of the naivety of youth, unfettered by the restraints of defeat, dissolution, despair, unbridled creativity, X factor unknown, relish challenging the Impossible. Ron Paul is the embodiment of the challenge of Impossible.
If I give my best, I can only be winning. It is up to me, spontaneous combustion, into the pursuit of I'm Possible.
Life, Liberty and The pursuit of Happiness is led by example and then invoked in another. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness is inherent in all human DNA. It is an individuals personal experience. These parameters cannot and will never be set by another.
The whole tragedy behind 9/11, pretended us free, yet that could only be, by robbing our Liberty.
"The liberties of our country…are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." ~ Samuel Adams, A Founding Father
Suppressed countries for aeon's of time are attempting to free themselves to emulate our experiment of democracy. We here in the United States through the myriad of mirrors (War on Terror) and the duplicity of One (Democrat/Republican) are strangling the very freedoms we so grandiose promote.
Look what's going on elsewhere. 'The Protester.' Time Person of The Year, is uniquely and tragically aligned with The Ron Paul Revolution. The protester embodies the veracity of our own Founding Fathers who spirits fervently beat to the drum of 'Give me Liberty or Give Me Death.' A single protester overseas has done more for true democracy and inspiring equality and human rights than all of The United States Military Industrial Complex, ideology of forced democracy, all in the name of God.
America is no longer a Republic. We are an Empire and every thing as we know it is teetering on the brink of extinction. We can not be a Republic and an Empire both.
The Federal Reserve, Military Industrialized Complex, IRS, Patriot Act, governmental departments, Commerce, Education, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, massive government all operate within Imperialistic ideology.
Ron Paul is igniting the underbelly of a downtrodden deceived American populace and this election is about our survival. Reality is no longer what it seems. The enemy lies within. Complacency, sedation, the hypnosis of TV and radio talk shows. Listening to another and then another who finally brainwash one into becoming themselves. Mainstream media is nothing short of intellectual, suggestive propaganda, bordering on pseudo treason, purporting the theft of an individuals right to independent thinking.
"Evil flourishes when good men do nothing." ~ Edmond Burke.
I honor the Principals and Patriots who founded this great country. Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, the heroic others creating the domino effect rippling through a natural evocation of yearning to be a greater of who one can be.
I believe in America and I believe we are right back where we began and so many of us are watching our beloved country being destroyed by greed and power. Is America the Home of the Brave and Land of the Free? America is now a series of Multi National Corporations given the right to masquerade as individuals.
We must not tolerate a Dictatorship Regime.
Upon enlistment, military men and women swear to uphold The Constitution. Politicians, Senators, Congress and the President of The United States swear to uphold The Constitution. Americans are emboldened in the pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness. Americans have the right to free speech. Americans have the right to assemble and protest peacefully. Americans have the right to be heard and vote to make a difference.
One Voice. One Vote.
Abolishing slavery insured there would be no-second class citizens. Women's right to vote assured there would be no second-class citizens. Child labor and protective laws assured there would be no second class citizens. Are Multi National Corporations, American Citizens? Yes they are. This has been upheld in The Supreme Court.
Those of us living in America as American Citizens, who are Americans? Are gay people any more or less Americans than the Evangelical Christians? Are the disenfranchised Occupy Wall Street protesters any more or less Americans than successful law-abiding businessmen? Are peaceful Muslims any more or less Americans citizens than those following the teachings of Christ? Are Rich people any more or less American than poor people?
Black, brown, red, yellow, white. What gives here? We are all Americans.
What freedoms on behalf of the American people were threatened to warrant the lost lives of our brave men and women and literally trillions of dollars usurped from our treasury regarding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?
Personal liberties are being stripped away, all of this, we are being told for our own protection. The Senate and Congress is and has been passing legislation to give Multi National Corporate Interests more and more of the American Pie and now the Military control over American Citizens. This is all happening in broad daylight. Wall Street robbed Main Street but essentially who is accountable? What were the legal banking mechanisms that made such a rape of American prosperity possible?
The Army, Navy and Air Force, men and women in service, have donated more to the political campaign of Ron Paul then all other Republican contenders combined. More-so than President Obama. A rather astute patriotic voting block. Right?
Brave men and women in the armed services are not fighting for the freedoms of America but for Multi-National Corporate Interests. We are nation-building, we are thrusting our brand of 'democracy' and puppeteer politicians. We have over thrown governmental regimes of the world for political and corporate control.
How can America have come so progressively far with the Civil Rights Movement, Women's Right to Vote, The Bill of Rights and the most important legal protective mechanism, The Constitution, to literally be in a political societal regime of contentious outrage leading us into the brink of anarchy and an imposed police state of affairs?
IMO Elected Republicans post 9/11:
President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, all of them, their whole war cabinet, chicken hawks. God anointed Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. The whole family values chorus of Evangelical extremists. Control freaks. Endless wars, special interests. Inhuman rape and pillaging of 3rd world country resources. Mass murder heroes. Empire builders, bullying about the planet recklessly, unlawfully, violently, stealing what ever they regard as theirs. Republicans love their Bibles and their wars. Republicans destroy the environment. Republicans hate science. Republicans have hatred down to a science. Republicans use their God as a weapon for what-ever war they wage. Social wars, political wars. Onward Christian soldiers, flagrantly careening down a one way street, oblivious that life is a two-way highway. This is the short list. If Republicans are going to heaven I sure as hell have no intention of being there.
When Obama was elected President. My prayer was we could be a beacon of hope to the rest of the world because of his ability to speak and the color of his skin. My prayer was that we could embrace the human race. Our great nation, once again to be a great nation. I am guilty of being an idiot.
If I never knew it before, I know now the political system today is a charade of musical chairs. Republicans and Democrats are one and the same. Politics is a maze of mirrors and the puppets exchanged.
IMO Elected Democrats post 2008 presidential election: Ditto.
Wall Street bank bailouts, NDAA, Renewal of the Patriot Act. No immediate end to Iraq as promised. Expanding the war in Afghanistan. Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Actions in Libya in violation of the War Powers Act. Drones to murder an American citizen without due process in Yemen. Expanding the defense budget that is rapidly bankrupting this country. Trillions of dollars in deficit spending. This is the short list. I am jaded politically. I was in the Hope and Change choir.
Nothing has changed and hope is for kids on Christmas Eve.
Ron Paul is an open book.
Read it.
Take the initiative to study the policies of Ron Paul. If you say no, make it an informed No. Main Stream Media is not going to aid you in this. Google and Yahoo. Seriously. Spread the word about Ron Paul. This is more important than anything we can do. The rest takes care of itself. Moms and Dads. I am telling you seriously, we are losing our country. Do this for your children. These are the good ol' days, wait till your kids grow up.
[W]hen you tax away from someone the fruits of five months of his labor, you are in effect taking away five months from him. You are taking away part of his life. Dance around the issue all you like, but this is forced labor by any reasonable definition of the term. – ROLLBACK , p 185 (2011) paraphrasing Robert Nozick. James D.Wright,
Ron Paul is giving his all, serving his entire political career defending the Constitution. Wall Street does not own him. Wall Street to de-rail him. Main Stream Media is much obliged to throw Ron Paul and his supporters, all of us, on the trash heap of inconsequential political fringe. Contribute to his campaign. Don't for a moment think any contribution is too small.
Young people you deserve every bit of the freedoms and opportunities your parents generation has been privileged to embrace. Inexcusably, abominably, we are leaving you financial burdens unbearably, despicably, as I write, over 187K apiece. A life of servitude and enslavement to the Federal Banks. Your freedoms are now under Martial Law. That is correct. The military can arrest you and hold you, any one of us, indefinitely under suspicion only, as a threat to our nation. You have not been responsible for this.
The Ron Paul Revolution is a match on gas to the status quo, financial, blood sucking political establishment.
Dec. 2011, a few friends encouraged me to publicly share my perspective politically, my views of Ron Paul. It has engaged and angered me intellectually, scrutinizing more closely today's overt persistence of flagrant, haughty, whoring, inept: Dereliction of Duty. I knew nothing prior of Ron Paul. A Republican from Texas running for President. What else needs to be said? What else needs to be known?
Spring the steel trap of my mind.
With an open countenance searching for facts, I quickly discovered Ron Paul is the only candidate who sees clearly the catastrophic ruin we are hurtling into. Do your own research. Look for yourself. If you have questions, ask me, I am here. Book mark my blog. Check back with me. America is in flames. This is not a spectator sport.
I was a human potential advocate long before I discovered Ron Paul. I didn't know his consciousness existed in politics. The Ron Paul Revolution is a coming home for me. He is a rare gem of political sovereignty.
America's traffic in misery. The Devil's Triangle. Guns, Drugs and Oil. Per population the highest incarceration rate of any free nation. Military budget encompassing the total world combined. What Constitution? America is a teetering nation bent on world domination. America is being shattered by it's own usurpation.
"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." ~ Ronald Reagan
Many politicians are whores on the Chess Board of World Corporations and The Federal Reserve Banks.
In plain view. The White House, Capitol Hill and the Halls of Congress.
What can one person do? How can anybody, who is nobody, having nothing, coming from nowhere, possibly make a difference in the alligator swamp surrounded by the hyenas salivating over an America, soon to be their financial and human resource carcass?
Remain independent without prejudice. Encourage the introduction of unfamiliar thought. Be inclusive, compassionate. Embrace the whole, in the midst of political and societal upheaval on all fronts. Welcome controversy. Welcome constructive criticism. Respect contrary opinion. Know there is no single solution but there are premises that lead to greater inclusion. Encourage unheard voices of common sense. Share the remedies for complex situations. Recognize the frailness of the human being and pin not your hopes on one man. Pin not your hopes on any one particular persuasion of political ideology. Do not sit to close to the flame. Become the fire that is burning.
American Heritage I Am.
Liberty is my foundation. I'm in for the duration.
"Posterity—you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."~ John Quincy Adams, A Founding Father.
Liberty is an eternal consciousness. Liberty left not abandoned to languish. Liberty, regardless of an election cycle or a particular human being. Liberty is a DNA component for all human to be free. All of us together are each other.
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BBC Review
The love expressed on this album is not just this year's; it's a daily, toilet...
Lucy Davies 2003
Athlete have come of age on Tourist. Gone are the lazy laid back beats that pervaded Vehicles& Animals, "El Salvador", "Shake Those Windows" and"You've Got The Style". Also absent is the dizzy persona trying to suss out what life's all about.
They've developed on this, their second album, but there's an overriding sense of melancholia, so much so that initially the album proves quite difficult to listen to. "Wires", the first single, is about singer Joel Pott's recollection of his newborn daughter being rushed into intensive care. Unlikely indie song material indeed, but the beautiful poetry combined with a contagious catchiness has got everyone singing under their breath.
The unassuming voice of Pott slurping up to each note can sometimes get a bit too much, like talking to someone with low self-esteem, but when he sings on "Trading Air": "Someone better help me disarm myself, I don't want no-one else, All I want is you", I kind of think he means it. The love expressed on this album is not just this year's; it's a daily, toilet cleaning, baby sick wiping endurance type love.
The band are clearly trying out new ideas on this record but the splicing of a gospel choir onto the second half of "If I Found Out" is somewhat incongruous. It just jars: indie bands and gospel choirs don't go, as the gospel choir invariably makes the band look a bit weedy in comparison. "Ooh you gotta have soul" could have been tacked onto any of the songs, and makes you want to grab some Southern fried chicken.
Final track "I Love" combines the best components of new and old style Athlete: a tiny acoustic guitar, in a shimmering sampled background, with Joel giving a perfect sense of wellbeing in loving everybody here. Then a laidback beat cuts through from the old days, the upwards lilt returns into Joel's voice and coolcasio beats come in.
Ultimately, the songs here are intelligent, relating more specific personal experiences yet crediting the audience with the ability to understand them, something that marks them out from their less risky contemporaries. A nice evolution.


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At a candidate screening by the San Antonio Express-News for state Senate District 25, two candidates, Elisa Chan and incumbent Sen. Donna Campbell, made their anti-gay views apparent. The third was noncommittal, according to Texas Freedom Network.
Chan made a name for herself last summer when she served on the San Antonio City Council, and an aide recorded an office meeting about how she could vote "no" on the city's proposed nondiscrimination ordinance without incurring political fallout. Chan never apologized. Instead she blamed the ex-staffer for recording the conversation, resigned from the council and announced a run for the state Senate.
The question was, "Should gay couples be allowed to adopt?"
Chan: No.
Campbell: No.
Bexar County Commissioner Mike Novak: I'm not the judge.
Every time the Texas Legislature has broached the subject of gay couples adopting, Texas Child Protective Services has quietly but forcefully intervened to let legislators know that without the LGBT community, there's no way CPS could handle the number of children in foster care each year.
Campbell, who has four adoptive children, is proposing reforms to the state's adoption laws to make it easier to adopt children — apparently unless you're gay.


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Get your gingerbread mayor
11:22am Tuesday 3rd June 2014
By Hannah White
11:22am Tuesday 3rd June 2014
By Hannah White
GINGERBREAD mayors are being sold by a Salisbury bakery to raise funds for Exeter House School.
Henderson's bakery in the Market Place is supporting Mayor Jo Broom's appeal through which she hopes to raise £50,000 for the school to transform an underused area of its grounds into a special place for students to connect with nature and the environment.
Half the profits from sales of gingerbread mayors, priced at £1.20, will be donated to the appeal.
Youngsters from First Steps nursery were invited to try out the new product at the bakery on Monday morning.
Paul Henderson, who owns the bakery, said: "Jo came to us and told us about her plans and we thought it was a great idea and a great charity to support - it's for children and education, and it's local."
Ros Haigh, fundraising coordinator at Exeter House School, said: "This is such an amazing opportunity for us. A lot of people have heard of Exeter House but don't know anything about it or where it is. It's amazing for us to get the school and its work known."
Cllr Broom is hoping to get a different business in the city each month to offer a 'mayor's special' to support the project.
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Thanks for the information. I'd like you to grab a few towels for peace of mind :)
Secondly I'm attaching a diagram, and I'd like you to remove item number 10 which is the toe kick. With this removed, you can view the underside of your dishwasher. Have a flashlight handy. The motor will be in the middle of the dishwasher as you're looking in. Take every item out of your dishwasher if you haven't already. Start a cycle. If you see a leak, STOP the dishwasher by opening the door. Please try to pin point if it's coming from the motor area. You might even let it run 15-30 seconds so you can discern if this is the point of the leak. If you don't see a leak within a few moments, grab a pillow and lie there (no jokes, I'm being serious :) ). I'm telling you this because some dishwashers will leak in the wash and not the drain and vice versa.
ok - will try it... if the amount of water that leaked earlier leaks again - I'll be floating :) Back as soon as I can
Right now I can't get the kick plate off. There is one flathead screw holding it on and it won't budge...Will keep working on it though. I do know that it was leaking during the wash cycle. It had gone through the prewash cycles and was about 10 minutes into the main wash cycle when it started leaking. It only came out on one side of the floor, - the left side as you face the dishwasher. There was no water from the right side.
The kick plate is coming off finally! Almost ready to start the cycle.
Hi - don't know if you saw my last message! started the 1st cycle and within about 30 sec. the drip drip drip started. It is coming from a hose that comes in to the dishwasher from the sink side. and then when we hit the drain button to turn off the water - it sprayed across


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Addiction is life-threatening. For many addicts, kicking their chemical addictions is difficult to do. Most of them have been in and out of drug rehabs but they walked out not cured.
Why? It is because the drug rehabs they have been to do not offer real healing system. Instead, they were offered with toxic substances that only caused more harm to their bodies.
Enter ibogaine clinic that cures heroin addicts. Ibogaine, per se, is a natural substance that cures dependency. The overall treatment is rapid but painless. It is a holistic approach that repairs the body down to a cellular level.
Ibogaine clinic does not give their patients a title that their condition is incurable. Rather, it encourages their patients to stay balanced using non-toxic medicines.
The clinic utilizes a real treatment that reverses the damages those drugs have done to the patient's body. It uses organic therapy that resets the brain to a state before the addiction began. It is a type of therapy that does not require the patient to take medicines for the rest of his/her life. Addicts need to be healed, empowered and inspired. They should not be treated as people with incurable disease.
Addiction can be cured through ibogaine and other natural substances. In an ibogaine clinic, you will be provided with natural, organic therapy that rebuilds your brain and resets your mind resulting in complete healing of body and soul.
Organic therapy
The organic therapy that an ibogaine clinic offers can purge the body to eliminate addicting substances. After eliminating those toxins, the body will be provided with vital nutrients, which are needed to repair and renew body cells so the body can work and function properly.
Unlike conventional treatment facilities, ibogaine clinic does not involve outdated group meetings, which are proven to be ineffective. These meetings will only cause patients to get lost during the sessions. They do not help patients to be completely healed or recovered.
Ibogaine clinic encourages patients to stay focused and avoid slipping through cracks. As they need undivided attention, the clinic offers them one-on-one session and provides them with real food and real therapy.
In an ibogaine clinic, patients will not receive band-aid treatment. That said, they will not be taking maintenance drugs, like suboxone, anti-depressants, etc. These drugs will never cure addicts. Rather, they will only cause them to get hooked to a legal drug.
When you submit yourself to a real treatment in an ibogaine clinic, you will receive real treatment so you can start rebuilding your life.


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We answered a question about sun screens last week and have received several inquiries about a recommended installer. I called Henry at Complete Screen. 818-470-1444. He installed the screens on my home and has agreed to give a 10% discount on solar screen work as a courtesy to our readers.
Hello Robert,
Now that the summer is around the corner, my wife wants me to build a planter box. We are thinking about using a red brick and using the stucco wall of the house as basically the fourth side.
The more I think about this though, the more it seems I should not have wet or even damp dirt up constantly against my house. Would this be a problem? Thank you,
Pete W.
Hi Pete,
You're right, you would not want to use the wall of the house as a planter side. I would just use the brick to build the fourth side and wall-in the enclosure.
Stucco is not designed to keep water out of your house.
There's paper under the stucco that will protect the house, but not if there is constant exposure to water as with a planter. Eventually the paper will deteriorate and you will have leaks inside your home. It would just be a matter of time and would probably happen in less than one year.
The right way to build the planter would be to construct all four sides, have it free standing, and pull it away from the house about 1 to 2 inches to give it some breathing room.
This would also allow the water to escape from your home's wall if there is a weep screed. You can put in weep holes along the bottom of the planter so that any excess water will leach out.
You are also going to want to seal the inside of the planter. Many times I've seen where somebody has used roofing tar like Henry's 208.
They'll smear it on and think everything is fine, but it is far from waterproofed. Henry's is a roofing mastic and is great for sealing roof vents, but is not designed to be buried underground.
I would recommend a product called BT, (bituthene). It's an elastomeric, rubberized system.
Once you get your four walls up and complete, make sure you brown coat — taking portland cement and sand and smooth out all of your grout lines on the inside of the planter.
You want it to be all at one, true level.
Let that dry out for a couple of weeks then come back and apply a 30 mil coat of BT and let dry for 24 hours.
Then apply a second 30 mil coat. Now, you are waterproof. This will prevent water from saturating your mortar and brick and causing damage.
You would then put in a protective styrofoam-type board to protect the BT from rocks and roots during the backfill.
We use Amacore board for this application. Whatever board is left above grade can be trimmed with a razor knife.
We see it done all of the time at homes and condos, but never use your home as the fourth wall of a planter. If you follow the steps above you'll be fine.
Hey Robert,
I'm having an RV pad poured. A contractor tells me I need 6 inches of concrete. Is that overkill? Wouldn't 4 be enough? I just want to be sure, thank you,
Mel W.
Hi Mel,
He's right. I would not only use a minimum of 6" of concrete, but in the path of the carriage, under the wheels, I would install at least 1/2" rebar to reinforce those areas.
If you were to only put in 4", the concrete would eventually crack under the weight of the bus.
Hello Robert,
I'm the new president of the board and am trying to get everything taken care of at once. The Fire Department inspected our building and one of the things on our list is to fire proof the underside of the parking garage, which sits under the building.
We have three 6 x 6 inch holes that go into the building and it looks like there is plywood under it. So, if you could tell us please, why do we need to fire proof that and how do we do it? Many thanks,
Anastasio Q.
Hi Anastasio,
What the Fire Department wants you to do is to close up those ceiling holes so in case there is a fire, mainly a car fire, the flames won't burn up through the plywood and allow smoke to infiltrate the building.
Get some 3/16" steel plate and put 3M Fire/Smoke retardant caulk around the perimeter of the hole.
When the plate is bolted to the ceiling, the smoke will not be able to pass between the concrete and the plate.
Use expandable anchors or redheads to attach the plates to the ceiling.
Use 1/4" to 3/8" and it will be difficult to core but bolt the plates to the ceiling over the holes. This will sandwich the 3M caulk giving you a smokeproof and fireproof seal.
Mr. Lamoureux,
My husband is very handy and we are in the process in remodeling our kitchen. I know you are a stickler about permits.
That being said, my husband has relocated our kitchen sink and cabinets about 4 feet away from where they were, has added an electrical circuit in the kitchen and has moved the stove from one side of the kitchen to the other
We still have plans to add more lighting in the ceiling. He says we don't need any permits because he's an owner/builder. I say we do. Answer please? If I win, I get a nice dinner.
Mary H.
Hi Mary,
Call and make your reservations.
Any time you add circuits and move plumbing, there are rules and regulations you need to abide by. These changes absolutely require permits.
If and when you decide to sell your home, many times after a remodel you will be asked if the work is permitted.
You always want to be able to say yes and have those on file in the city.
It's also a matter of safety. I'm not disqualifying your husband in any way, but how well does he know the trades?
Improper electrical and plumbing installation can cause fires and flooding.
This is why you need to go through the right channels of permits and inspectors.
We do this for a living and that's how we do it. When it comes to building and safety, don't take any chances.
We have designed a custom, full-color The Signal/Your Home Improvements T-shirt we will give you if we answer your question. The T-shirt is available to be picked up at our office.
Robert Lamoureux has 25 years experience as a general contractor, with separate licenses in electrical and plumbing contacting. He owns IMS Construction Inc. in Valencia. His opinions are his own, and not necessarily those of The Signal. Opinions expressed in this column are not meant to replace the recommendations of a qualified contractor, after that contractor has made a thorough visual inspection. Send your questions to


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The Melksham Gardeners' Society's fifth Open Flower and Produce Show takes place at the town's Assembly Hall on Sunday, September 8.
As well as the usual classes of flowers, fruit and vegetables it will include displays of children's handicrafts, cookery and photography.
There will also be demonstrations by the Wiltshire Guild of Spinners, Weavers and Dyers, Melksham Bee Keepers and the Trowbridge Metal Detecting Club, among many others.
Doors open at 2pm, with entry at £1.50 and prizes will be presented by the mayor from 4pm.


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I know there are a lot of good brands and reps out there but I have to say thanks to Phil a Kicker. He has helped me with my current set up quite a bit and I recently had an issue with one of my tower speakers. I mentioned it to him yesterday and no questions asked he shipped a new speaker today that should arrive Tuesday. Customer service at its finest.
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Three Perspectives on the Closing of Pupusódromo in Santa Ana
BAD: There aren't enough Salvadoran restaurants in Orange County, and that one of the few and longest-standing has closed down means Salvis are probably leaving their traditional OC homeland of SanTana for greener, more assimilated pastures. Pupusódromo didn't serve the best pupusas, but did serve shrimp versions (the only place you could find those crispy discs in la naranja) and a good turkey sandwich. It will be missed.
GOOD: Replacing Pupusódromo will be a restaurant specializing in tortas ahogadas, the regional specialty from Guadalajara that finds a torta drowned in viciously hot salsa and raw white onions. Not nearly enough places sell tortas ahogadas, and I hope the new restaurant will also sell other Jaliscan dishes like tejuino. No word yet on its opening.
HUH?: SanTana is the county's main home for Mexis from Mexico City, Michoacán, Guerrero, Oaxaca, and the Yucatan (among other states), but historically hasn't drawn immigrants from Jalisco. This new restaurant makes more sense in Anaheim or Orange, but whatever: bring on the tortas ahogadas!
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One of my biggest gripes with Twitter is that I have a hard time keeping up with everyone I follow. I love to follow my favorite blog updates, but I also love to read what my friends are up to, as well as follow breaking news updates. So I'm overjoyed by the most recent news out of Twitter HQ: lists!
According to a recent Twitter blog post, the feature will be rolled out soon, and it allows you to sort the accounts you follow into groups — for me, my favorite tech bloggers, favorite comedians (Eugene Mirman, anyone?), and best friends. Lists you create are defaulted to public (though you can make them private), and you'll be able to subscribe to other users' lists — a great way to discover new users.
The blog post doesn't give a date, but they've already been testing the new feature with a small group of Twitter users, so hopefully we'll see its release in the next week or so! Do you think you'll use this feature? How will you divide the accounts you follow into lists?


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You can celebrate Easter this year in style - your own style - by crafting some lovely decorations to display around your home or to give to friends and family.
We've compiled 10 of our best Easter crafting ideas that we hope will inspire you to get busy and make this year's Easter long weekend your most stylish one yet.
Happy Easter!
1. Decorative blown eggs
Decorative eggs are a popular Easter tradition, but you'll want to make sure the contents of the eggs have been 'blown' (removed) before decorating them. After all, no-one wants their pretty dyed or decorated egg to go rotten while it sits on the table!
Learn how to pierce a hidden spot on the egg and blow out its contents here. It isn't difficult to do but it is delicate, so expect a few egg casualties in the process.
Once you've blown your eggs it's time to beautify them. Try one of four different ways to dye your eggs here. Or forget the dye and decorate them instead with these five stylishly crafty alternatives.
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2. Wool-wrapped Easter tree
If there are pretty ornaments such as blown eggs on offer, it's only right that they should be put on display, non? And what prettier way to do this than to hang them?
Create a stunning wool-wrapped Easter tree or branch. Set it in a heavy-bottomed and stable vase and style it up by wrapping parts of the branches in wool. Then you can hang your decorated blown eggs from its branches. Gorgeous!
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3. Felt Easter basket
An Easter basket is an essential item for that all important Easter egg hunt on Easter Sunday. This year, why don't you make your chocolate sleuths their very own felt Easter basket to carry while they turn the garden over in the search for Easter treats?
These super cute Easter baskets are made from felt and fabric and can be as decorated as simply or as decoratively as you like. You could even try embroidering the child's name to make it more personalised.
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4. Easter feather bowl
Here's another stunning way to display your eggs - a woolly Easter feather bowl.
This feathery bowl is wrapped in wool and is as soft as a real bird's nest. It's a really pretty and versatile decoration, so you could keep it on display after Easter so everyone who comes to your home will be able to admire your crafty prowess.
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5. Easter terrarium
The very best thing about making an Easter terrarium is that these lovely decorations require little maintenance and tend to thrive on neglect!
This Easter Terrarium would make a stunning centrepiece on the Easter dining table this year. And the kids will have a great time helping you put it together.
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6. Chocolate Easter eggs
Making your own chocolates at Easter time is almost as good as eating them! Why not try it this year and make your own chocolate Easter bunny as a gift for friends and family? And, as an added little bonus, you could also include a few additional sweets inside your bunny for a surprise!
But if making your own chocolates just seems like way too much hard work, we've got an alternative that will prove just as popular. Buy some small, solid chocolate eggs from the supermarket and customise them. Take off the wrapper, dip them in melted white chocolate and cover with sprinkles. Easy as.
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7. Easter Bunny bunting
Hands up who loves the Easter Bunny? This very cute Easter Bunny bunting can be hung anywhere you like - in the family room, outside near the barbecue or even in your child's room.
This fun craft activity can be a family event - just print out the FREE bunting printable, devise a production line, and have everyone make a crafty contribution to each bunny. The best part is that you can make as many or as few as you like.
Hop to it!
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8. Easter Eggshell vases
Eggshells are the perfect waterproof receptacle for a bunch of tiny flowers and make a cute and fun Easter table decoration or gift. Each Easter eggshell vase is a masterpiece of decoupage and are just gorgeous to have around.
While you're doing the tricky-sticky bits, send the kids outside collecting sweet little flowers to put inside each vase.
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9. Easter window decorations
What better way to welcome your guests to your home this Easter than to display some pretty Easter egg window decorations? With just white paper and some colourful cellophane, you can make some delightful decorations that will stream rainbows of colour through your windows.
While they will look terrific stuck to your windows, they can look even better hung at different heights and in different sizes to catch the light and appear to seemingly float in the air.
But one of the best things about this activity is that you can get the kids in on it to help.
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10. Little Easter egg pinatas
These cute Easter egg pinatas will make sweet little Easter gifts for friends and family at Easter. Just simply fill a decorated blown egg with M&M's Minis.
Pop the eggs into a gift bag and tie with a ribbon to finish.
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Hilltowns Archives The Altamont Enterprise, October 30, 2008
Walter's petition for Democratic line twice-denied
By Zach Simeone
WESTERLO Susan Walter's hopes of running for Westerlo Town Board on the Democratic line have officially been denied. Judge Joseph Teresi of the New York State Supreme Court dismissed her petition twice this week for failure to submit a certificate of acceptance, and commencing her petition in an untimely fashion.
Democrats outnumber Republicans by nearly 3 to 1 in Westerlo, and have had a tight hold on the government for decades. This fall, however, the Republicans formed a committee to back a challenger to the Democrats.
On Aug. 20, Walter was nominated by the town's Democratic Party to run to keep her seat; she was appointed to her position in April. On Aug. 26, a certificate of nomination was filed with the Albany County Board of Elections.
But Walter is not enrolled as a Democrat; she has been a Republican for most of her life. Between being appointed by the Democratic town board in April, and hoping Hillary Clinton would end up on the presidential ticket, Walter figured it would be a good idea to switch parties, she said.
She filed paperwork for becoming a Democrat, but will still be enrolled as a Republican for the Nov. 4 election.
When a candidate like Walter is nominated by a party she is not enrolled in, that candidate is required by law to file a certificate of acceptance for her nomination. The last date to file a certificate of acceptance was Sept. 19, and Walter never filed.
When the Albany County Board of Elections met on Sept. 26, the Republican elections commissioner John Graziano found Walter's certificate of nomination to be "null and void," since the Election Law requires a certificate of acceptance.
Matthew Clyne, the Democratic commissioner, agreed with Graziano's citing of the law, but said that Walter's nomination should stand, since no one had filed a complaint in regards to her failure to file a certificate of acceptance.
Last Tuesday, Oct. 21, the petitioner and respondent were scheduled to appear at the Supreme Court, the lowest level in the state's three-tiered system, to make their cases before Judge Teresi. But, after receiving the paperwork relating to the case, the judge cancelled their appearances.
"Sometimes, the judge makes those decisions on his own if there's enough information included in the papers," said Graziano. "Each of us had attached to the papers our stance on the issue, so the judge made his decision based on the law as it pertains to our positions."
On Oct. 22, Teresi handed down a decision.
"Because this petition was commenced untimely, it is dismissed," Teresi wrote.
He also echoed Graziano's point that Walter had failed to submit a certificate of acceptance in accordance with the Election Law, and the Democrats waited too long to petition the court in regards to that point.
"As petitioner did not commence this proceeding until October 15, 2008, it is time-barred pursuant to [the Election Law]."
Then, on Oct. 23, attorney Justin Corcoran wrote to Teresi on Walter's behalf, seeking a re-argument of Walter's case on the basis that, "because no respondent asserted a statute of limitations affirmative defense," the court cannot apply the statute of limitations to dismiss the petition as untimely.
On Tuesday, Teresi responded, again dismissing Walter's petition.
"[The] petitioner's non-filing of a certificate of acceptance, in light of the clear statutory mandate expressed in [the Election Law], cannot be overlooked, and does not form the basis for a finding that the Democratic Party certificate of nomination is valid," Teresi wrote. "To rule otherwise would, in effect, reward non-filing…Such result is inconsistent with both the purpose and the plain language of the Election Law."
"I think the judge had to do what he had to do," Milner said yesterday. "If she had gotten on the ballot, that would have been fine with me too. But, if the judge gave in, then everyone from now on could be late with their paperwork. If people don't do things right, you got to penalize them for it," he said. "They were so busy trying to keep me out of the running, they forgot to do their own homework."
Milner said last week that he was hoping Walter would get on the Democratic line, as to ensure a fair contest. Milner had intended to run as an independent, but his petition was denied by the county's board of elections after members of the Democratic Party challenged his flawed paperwork. He is now running as a Republican.
"If I win when she's not on the ballot, people will say it's because she wasn't on the ballot," Milner said. "That's like what the Democrats did. They wanted me off the ballot because they saw me as a threat."
Walter, though, remains confident. Her name will appear on the ballot, on the Conservative line.
"It hasn't dampened my spirits at all," Walter said on Tuesday. "I'm just going to stick to running on the conservative line. I'm going to continue going door to door, though I don't have much time left. But I'll be out there Saturday and Sunday."
She said that she's met a lot of people, and has been getting "good vibrations" from them.
"This is just a glitch, one of those things that happen occasionally," Walter said. "I'm hoping for the best, and I'm still anxiously waiting for next Tuesday to see what happens."
Full coverage of the ballot battle can be found at www.altamontenterprise.com, in the archives for Oct. 16, 2008, and Sept. 4, 2008.
Profiles of the candidates can be found in the archives for Oct. 16, 2008.


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Reebok Classics Pump 'Respect' Pack
Reebok's Pump Technology just hit a pretty special milestone. The adjustable cushioning system turns 25 this year and to help celebrate it's anniversary Reebok is doing the most fitting thing possible, releasing five iconic models in a special colorway.
The Reebok Pump AXT, Reebok Pump Omni Zone, Reebok Insta Pump Fury, Reebok Pump Omni Lite, and Reebok Court Victory Pump all find themselves at the center of the release, unified by a similar color blocking. Neon green is found the outsole and pump while red hits the midsole as well as the lace plates leaving black to do the work on the rest of the upper.
The Reebok Classics Pump 'Respect' Pack will hit reebok.com as well as other select retailers on August 1. If the full set isn't in your budget, pick the pair that best aligns with your personality and lace up!
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