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Monday, January 23, 2012
"The West is headed to dictatorship. It's already happening. The merger of state and corporate power is by definition called fascism. I just mentioned the Defense Authorization Act. Before you had that you had the abrogation of the Constitution under Bush, with the Patriot Act, which Obama reinstated and made even tougher by signing this bill. When I say the merger of state and corporate powers, look at the $16.1 trillion that the Federal Reserve has funneled into businesses around the world. Whatever happened to that thing called capitalism? This is not capitalism; it's fascism! The more societies break down and the bigger the screw-ups at the top, the harder they clamp down on the bottom. You see it going on around the world; they call it austerity measures. How about calling it enslavement?" – Gerald Celente, "Gerald Celente on Trend Forecasting and the Crisis of Western Civilization," The Daily Bell, January 22, 2012.
"There is no doubt, in my view, that the elites practiced directed history in the 20th century, setting up wars and economic catastrophes designed to consolidate world government. But in the 21st century, with so many understanding and evaluating the mechanisms of the elites, this is a considerably harder trick to pull off." – Anthony Wile, "Yes, The War for the Internet Has Begun," The Daily Bell, January 21, 2012.
Al-Media, not Al-Qaeda, is the biggest threat to Western freedom and global security.
The goal of Al-Media is to destroy the United States of America, erase the traditions of law and liberty in the West, and sell to the West a technological slave system disguised as a "new world order."
The information terrorists in Al-Media, aka the pundits, news anchors, and journalists, concealed the real perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks from public view and directed the world on the false trail of Jihadi terrorists.
Instead of serving as a guide for accurate information in dangerous and apocalyptic times, the Western mainstream media has acted as an evil predator that lies about issues of war and peace, life and death.
Elitist editors and reporters, many of whom are in the employment of government intelligence agencies, do not consider themselves to be part of the general public, but as part of the wolf class that preys on the defenseless masses who are lost in the enclosed fields of ignorance and blindness. They are like the predatory religious clerics of Iran who eat the brains of the people while pretending to be their guardians.
In the West, there is no turban to distinguish the wolf class from the rest of society. The evil predators appear in journalist clothes and prepare the people for slaughter by stuffing their brains with war fever, fanciful tales, dramatic narratives, and pseudo patriotism. Then they stand back and watch with pure joy in their cold hearts when their hard work to start a war pays off.
We saw this after 9/11 when a lot of journalists and reporters were smiling at the thought of a war in Afghanistan. The bombings and military movements was a huge rush for them. And we can see the same feelings of excitement and joy in journalists and cable pundits as the drum-beat for war against Iran gets louder.
Anthony Wile, the founder of The Daily Bell website, says that Western elites employ "dominant social themes – fear-based promotions – that are designed to frighten middle classes into giving up wealth and power to specially prepared globalist institutions." Al-Media is central to this political, social, and cultural process.
Somebody like Fox News's Rupert Murdoch is the Ayman Al Zawahiri of Al-Media. The heads of CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, etc., are probably all highly involved in the strategic and political operations of Al-Media. 9/11 was their most successful act of information terrorism.
But the Western mainstream media is experiencing major blowback. There is a massive political awakening in America and throughout the West. The younger generation has switched to the Internet to get their news and analysis, which is more fact-based than the trash on television and the trash in the newspapers.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh talked about the "collapse of the mainstream press" in a conversation with Larry Jacobs, a professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, and former Vice President Walter Mondale in December 2009. Hersh said:
"We didn't do the job, and I say we collectively, because We The Press . . did not challenge the president. We joined the team. We became jingoistic. It was very hard not to be. It was very hard not to, after 9/11. We wanted payback, we wanted to bomb. Everybody wanted to bomb Afghanistan."
The collapse of the Western mainstream press couldn't have come at a better time. It is a sign of hope that democracy is alive and that the West is far from dead. The collapse is giving way to the rebirth of fact-based journalism on the web, which is laying the foundations for a new global political era based on truth-telling and the rule of law.
Reviving free speech in the West will require a long, sustained, and determined effort. After all, our societies are under an information siege. But we must keep the faith that what we are doing in the alternative, fact-based media is making a dent in public opinion and the psychology of the people.
Truth-telling is easy, and its value is unmistakable. The media manipulators of mass reality have the more difficult job, especially since they have lost their monopoly over the distribution of information. That's why their days are numbered.
The fall of Al-Media is a clear indicator that the forces of freedom and reason in the West are regaining lost ground in the battlefield that matters most – the mind.
Saman Mohammadi is the writer and editor at The Excavator Blog
This article was posted: Monday, January 23, 2012 at 4:42 am


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Badgers heading to Rose Bowl
Wisconsin took the ball and ran away with another Big Ten title.
Montee Ball ran for 202 yards and three touchdowns and the Badgers scored seven touchdowns on their first nine possessions, blowing out No. 14 Nebraska 70-31 to win their third straight, and most improbable, Big Ten title on Saturday night.
Wisconsin will be the first five-loss team to play in the Rose Bowl and is the first school to represent the league in three consecutive Rose Bowls since Michigan in the late 1970s.
It was a milestone night for the Badgers.
For the first time in school history, the Badgers had two 200-yard rushers. They finished with the fourth-highest rushing total in school history (539) and tied a conference championship game scoring record. Texas also scored 70 points in the 2005 Big 12 championship game.
And it was a fitting end to a wacky Big Ten season. Wisconsin (8-5, 4-4) only reached this year's because Leaders Division champion Ohio State (12-0) and division runner-up Penn State (8-4) were both ineligible for postseason play.
The Badgers didn't care. Instead, they took advantage of their good fortune with a night to remember.
Ball broke the Football Bowl Subdivision career rushing touchdowns record.
Melvin Gordon opened the scoring with a 56-yard TD run and closed the first half with a 60-yard run to set up another TD, rushing for a career-high 217 yards on nine carries. Three different Badgers threw passes, including running back James White who also ran for four TDs.
The defense was dominant, too. In the first half alone, Martinez was sacked three times, fumbled twice, losing one and having the early pick-six.
Ball matched Travis Prentice's FBS record for most career games with multiple TDs (25), topped the 5,000-yard mark and was named the game's MVP. He also broke Prentice's record for rushing TDs in a career (73) and now has 76.
White added 108 yards.
Wisconsin piled up 639 total yards, and after blowing a 17-point lead against the Cornhuskers in a 30-27 September loss, Badgers coach Bret Bielema refused to let up.
Instead, he emptied the playbook and Nebraska (10-3, 7-1) got run over.
The onslaught came quickly.
Gordon took the ball on an end around, made two cuts and sprinted 56 yards for a 7-0 lead on the fourth play of the game.
On the next offensive play, a falling Kenny Bell tipped Taylor Martinez's pass in the air and Wisconsin's Marcus Cromartie picked it off and raced 29 yards. It was already 14-0 after only 2:07 in.
The 'Huskers finally counterpunched on their second series when Martinez avoided four tackles in his own backfield, found a crease in the middle of the field and stepped over one of his own blockers for a 76-yard TD run. Nebraska settled for a 32-yard field goal from Brett Maher to make it 14-10.
That's when the Badgers opened things up.
With the ball on the right hash, they sent seven players to the left hash and had Curt Phillips throw a pass to Derek Watt on the right. After two more conventional runs, White ran two plays out of the Wildcat formation, finally scooting 9 yards around the right side to give Wisconsin a 21-10 lead with 1:01 to go in the first quarter.
Wisconsin was only getting started.
The next score, a 1-yard run plunge from White again out of the Wildcat, was set up by a 27-yard pass from receiver Jared Abbrederis to Phillips.
And after Ball's record-breaking touchdown dive made it 35-10, Gordon went 60-yards on an end around to put the ball at the Nebraska 3 with 6 seconds left in the half. White again lined up in the Wildcat and this time threw a 3-yard TD pass to Sam Arenson for a 42-10 halftime lead.
Nebraska coach Bo Pelini and his players were left shaking their heads as a third league championship game opportunity faded away.
But things got even worse in the second half.
Wisconsin picked off Martinez again on the opening possession, and Ball had a 9-yard TD run on the next play.
Martinez answered with an 11-yard TD run, but Ball scored on a 57-yard run and White followed that with a 68-yard TD run to make it 63-17 with 6:42 left in the third quarter.


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Consumer complaints to the Federal Communications Commission about broadcaster indecency or obscenity dropped substantially in the third quarter of 2007, the agency reported yesterday. They declined from 4,368 in the second quarter to a mere 368 in July through September of last year. That's a dive of exactly 4,000 registered grumblings. There were just 100 in July, 119 in August, and 149 in September.
But the drop probably means nothing, because FCC indecency complaints are famously volatile. They sometimes accelerate from a handful of gripes to almost half a million outraged filings in a single month, and they've maintained this unpredictable, roller coaster pattern ever since the agency started posting its numbers.
I've kept track of FCC indecency/obscenity/profanity complaint rates since 2002, which was the first year that the Commission began publishing its quarterly stats on how many consumers contacted the agency to report the broadcast of what they perceived as indecent words or images. Back then, the Commission reported comparatively few protests. The most the FCC received in 2002 came in March, where 161 complaints were logged.
In December of 2002, Cher famously spoke the word "fuck" in her acceptance speech during the Billboard Music Awards. The Commission received 17 indecency related communications that month, it disclosed. In January of 2003, Bono blurted out "this is really, really fucking brilliant" during the televised Golden Globe Awards. The FCC logged 24 complaints, and another 46 in February, with the numbers staying fairly steady at that level until June.
But inexplicably, from June of 2003 onward, the number of recorded protest filings grew dramatically. You can point to instigating events, like Janet Jackson's famous 15-second Super Bowl breast-disclosure scene in February of 2004—that spectacle still holds the title for complaints, with well over half a million in a single month. Two months earlier Nicole Richie made her "Have you ever tried to get cow shit out of a Prada purse? It's not so fucking simple" comment on another installment of the Billboard Awards. The FCC reported over 76,000 protests at the time.
But why didn't Bono's and Cher's earlier remarks spark similar explosions? And why, after 2003, did uneventful months start bringing in 100,000 indecency communications, only to be followed or preceded by remarkably slow patches of activity? Here's a chart that illustrates a pattern (or lack thereof).
Data source: FCC
My theory (and I'm not alone here) is that, starting in the summer of 2003, the big decency groups accelerated their action alert campaigns, targeting specific shows and urging consumers to file with the FCC. They also began putting pressure on the Commission to count protests in ways that would boost indecency complaint stats. The two groups that led the charge in these areas were (and still are) the Parents Television Council (PTC) and Concerned Women for America (CWFA).
The PTC, for example, expressed outrage in early 2003 that the FCC reported only 97 indecency complaints for the fourth quarter of 2002. The group's Web editorial, titled "Can the FCC even count?", noted that CWFA received over 6,900 gripes about ABC's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in November of that quarter. The Commission disclosed in its March 2003 Quarterly report on Consumer Inquiries that the agency logged them all as one consolidated complaint. The FCC may have done this because many of those complaints probably came from a PTC sponsored link or from the CWFA's coordinated campaign against the show. But the PTC derisively called the statistical move "creative counting."
"For months the PTC has been pushing the agency for better enforcement of decency standards," the group declared. "This latest example just proves once again how little the FCC weighs the concerns of ordinary citizens."
Data source: FCC
An Internet Archives scan of the PTC's Web site circa 2002 reveals no database page where a consumer could go, look up a specific show, then file a grievance against a program. Then by 2003, parentstv.org offered a drop down option bar leading to ratings for dozens of TV shows. And, by 2004, the non-profit had a sophisticated FCC complaint form, with options bars at the top displaying PTC TV program guides and movie reviews.
Obviously it would be simplistic to lay the roller coaster nature of the FCC's indecency complaint stats entirely at the feet of the PTC and CWFA, but these two groups have probably had a big impact not only on the number of complaints that the FCC receives, but on the way that it counts those communications now.


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Rabid response: One bite, five shots
Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck had some great adventures.
"It's Duck season!" "It's Wabbit season!" "It's Wabbit season!" "It's Duck season, Fire!!" Boom!
Remember when they entered Aladdin's cave and found enough jewelry to make Joan Rivers have a seizure?
Daffy said, "It's all mine, mine, mine! I'm rich and happy!" But could you imagine if Bugs Bunny had rabies? He would have bitten off his nemesis's head and made Daffy paté.
Just so you know, bunny rabbits tend not to get rabies. Sylvester the cat, Goofy the dog, and that more obscure character, Fuzzy the ferret, are more likely to be afflicted.
Because rabies vaccination laws are pretty strict for dogs, few of them have rabies today. Cats are less likely to get vaccinated, and therefore more cats than dogs tend to have rabies. As for ferrets– who has a ferret? I know Ben Stiller made a joke about a ferret, and oooooh! did he tick off a lot of ferret owners. But I don't know anyone around here with one.
Rabies is a virus that attacks the central nervous system, like the brain. Because it's fatal, post-exposure prophylaxis is vital. It's transmitted to humans via saliva, and about 40,000 Americans every year get rabies prophylaxis shots after being bitten. So if Mike Tyson had had rabies when he bit off Evander Holyfield's ear, Evander could have caught rabies and never lived to reach ABC television's new hit Dancing with the Stars.
Only mammals carry rabies, so if you're bitten by Daffy Duck, you're safe. (If you're bitten by Goofy, then there's something really wrong with you anyway.) Though Batman Begins has been going gang-busters at the box office, bats are one of the biggest rabies carriers. So I'm sure Batman has a rabies vaccine in his utility belt.
Carnivorous wild animals– in particular skunks, coyotes, Ann Coulter, bobcats, and foxes– are other mammals that frequently have rabies. So if you're at a bar and want to pick up a fox, be careful. Hardy har har!
Woodchucks are also commonly infected by rabies! How much wood can a woodchuck chuck before he croaks from rabies? Bites from these animals almost always warrant rabies shots: immunoglobulin shots once, and rabies vaccine shots five times over a 28-day period.
Small rodents like squirrels, hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils, chipmunks (like Chip & Dale, who are so polite they make Queen Elizabeth look like Tonya Harding), rats, and mice have not been known to transmit rabies to humans. So rabies prophylaxis for bites from these small critters is usually not necessary.
Elsie the cow and other domestic livestock can be exposed to rabies, but it's pretty darn rare. Public health officials usually make recommendations about livestock bites on a case-by-case basis.
Whether to get rabies shots for cats, dogs, and ferrets depends on the situation. Contagious animals usually die or show neurological evidence of rabies within 10 days. So if you can observe the animal for 10 days and see no evidence of rabies, you don't need to be treated. But if Goofy starts acting like Cujo, then it's time to get the shots.
"Shot through the heart, And you're to blame. You give love a bad name." Egad! I'm quoting Bon Jovi.
If the animal is a stray, you might not be able to catch it for observation. In that case, you probably should get the shots.
Pet owners! Please vaccinate your pets against rabies. Not only can it save your pets' lives, but you can potentially spare a person the agony of worrying about having rabies if Fido breaks bad and breaks someone's skin.
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HI, CAROLYN: Husband and I (married 5 years, young kid) have had some issues and have been seeing a marriage counselor off and on over the past six months. The sessions are going well.
However, there's a pretty major thing I've been leaving out: I feel like I've fallen out of love with my husband and have felt this way for about a year now (so it's not a fleeting thing). So we may be getting along better, but I don't know that I want to (or should) stay married to him when I feel so ... indifferent toward him. So, do I bring this up in counseling? How? — HOW HONEST TO BE?
ANSWER: With the counselor in a solo session. Don't just assume it can't be fixed without teasing out the difference(s) between now and five years ago. Good luck.
RE: OUT OF LOVE: I think that is pretty normal. I look at love like the tides. It ebbs and flows with high and lows. I've been married 23 years. Some days I ask myself, "Why did I get married?," and then my spouse does something or we do something together and I tell myself, "Yes, that is why I married him." — ANONYMOUS
ANSWER: Thanks for this. I agree this is common and therefore a strong possibility, one worth holding on to as a point of reference, even a goal.
Since it could be other things, and since even if it's just a tidal thing that can be heavy to leave unspoken, I still think solo counseling is a good idea. Some have pointed out that couple's counselors often won't see one party solo, in which case I think it's worth pursuing the solo part with a different therapist. The marriage counselor can provide names, no doubt.
Either way, patience is important — to recall what brought them together, to dig into what has changed, then to see whether there's a foundation to build on anew. The alternative is too heartbreaking to be anything but a last resort.
DEAR CAROLYN: How do I decide when to be honest and when to spare feelings? I want to be honest with my boyfriend, but am stumped when he asks if I have concerns about him long-term. The answer is that I do, but they are shallow and I can deal with them. He's 10 years older than me, significantly overweight with no muscle strength. It would really hurt him if I mentioned these things, and I truly can overlook them. — LIES
ANSWER: But ... why is he asking? Are you asking that of him?
If it's just conversation, then you can say, "Of course I do — I have concerns about myself long-term. I'd be nuts not to. Why?" ... then see where that takes you. But if he's asking out of insecurity, be it about himself or about your relationship, then both the share-it-all route (hurting him) and the spare-feelings route (misleading him) have some major hazards.
So it comes down to, how freely can you speak with him, and how much more freely would you like to speak?
By the way, please don't dismiss your concerns because you think they're "shallow." Treat any real concern as a legitimate one, even those you aren't proud to have.
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Serious Reads: Best Food Writing 2012, edited by Holly Hughes
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For my last review of 2012, it seems only natural to write about Best Food Writing 2012, edited by Holly Hughes. This is the twelfth year of the Best Food Writing series, and the most enjoyable anthology I've read in a long time. The contributors range from popular bloggers like Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, to accomplished authors like John T. Edge, and all levels of notoriety in between. I appreciated the diversity of topics, writing styles, and sources incorporated into Hughes' collection, a testament to her desire to provide a complete and rich representation of the food writing scene.
Happily, many of the pieces included in Best Food Writing are from books you've read about on this site in the past year—Tomatoland, An Everlasting Meal, and A Spoonful of Promises to name a few. Other pieces are from the New York Times, Gastronomica, or popular food magazines like Food & Wine and Saveur. But in addition to these high-profile foodie readers, there were also interesting and off-beat pieces from non-traditional food writing sources.
Contributions ranged from serious to light-hearted. Maureen O'Hagan tackles the tricky topic of childhood obesity through the eyes of two obese teens, providing a perspective on junk food and overeating that is rarely heard in the media. Kevin Pang tells the story of Brandon Baltzley, an up-and-coming chef struggling with a cocaine addiction. But more hilarious food reflections are provided by Joel Stein, who entertains with a piece on finding his manhood through barbecue, and David Leite, who recounts his Thanksgiving baking catastrophes.
Over the years, this series has incorporated more online writers into its pages, giving credibility and recognition to authors who primarily publish their work digitally. One of the most touching pieces in the book is from James Beard Award-winning blogger Elissa Altman, of the popular Poor Man's Feast. Her short memoir about her mother's egg obsession—and how different preparations indicated whether she was in a good mood or in a rage—is both heart-wrenching and funny. Such pieces show how creative and wide-ranging food writing can be.
Best Food Writing 2012 lives up to its claim—the work included in this anthology is some of the best food writing I've read this year. The book succeeds in demonstrating the depth and creativity that food writers can accomplish. A must-read for aspiring food writers, obsessive readers, or those just looking for a fast, enjoyable read this holiday season.
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The Soluble Fiber Solution
THE BASICS: Inadequate intake of dietary fiber contributes to the risk of developing obesity, type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, and colon cancer. For years, researchers focused on insoluble fiber, or roughage, but the bigger health benefits might actually come from soluble fiber. Soluble fiber helps reduce appetite, leading to less food consumption and then to weight loss. It can also relieve constipation, improve inflammatory (irritable) bowel disease, lower cholesterol and blood pressure, and enhance protection against cancer and infection.
ALIAS: The most common types of soluble fiber sold as dietary supplements include oat bran, flaxseed, glucomannan, beta-glucan, inulin,
and psyllium.
HOW SOLUBLE FIBER WORKS: Soluble fiber, sometimes called viscous fiber, expands and forms a gel when it encounters water in the digestive tract, creating a sense of fullness. Some types of soluble fiber reduce the absorption of cholesterol and enhance the growth of beneficial bacteria in the digestive tract. Although soluble fiber might actually slow the digestive process, its bulk promotes regular bowel movements and well-formed stools.
Sandy was 50 years old, overweight, prediabetic, constipated, and had elevated cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Hunger often sabotaged her best intentions to lose weight and improve her blood sugar levels.
One day, while visiting a nearby natural foods store, Sandy heard about soluble fiber supplements and thought they might be of benefit to her. She began taking two capsules about 15 minutes before each meal, and eventually increased the amount to four capsules. The capsules helped Sandy feel full, so she started eating less and losing weight. Her blood sugar, cholesterol, and triglyceride levels went down.
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Studies suggest that alginate, a type of soluble fiber extracted from seaweed, may help to ease
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HEALTH BENEFITS: Different types of soluble fiber may have slightly different health benefits.
- Glucomannan. This type of plant fiber has several positive effects, according to a recent overview of the research in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. After daily consumption for several weeks, glucomannan can lead to a modest reduction of blood sugar levels. In a couple of studies, supplements promoted modest weight loss, which was enhanced when glucomannan was combined with a low-calorie diet. Other research has shown that glucomannan decreases total cholesterol, "bad" LDL cholesterol, triglyceride levels, and blood pressure.
- Beta-glucan. This type of soluble fiber enhances the immune system, and it may protect against cancer and infections, including fungal infections. Scientists recently discovered that macrophages, a type of white blood cell, ingest beta-glucan and then secrete a specific antitumor compound. Other researchers have reported that beta-glucan reduces LDL cholesterol and improves blood sugar control in people with type 2 diabetes.
- Inulin. Not to be confused with the hormone insulin, inulin is both a soluble fiber and a prebiotic, meaning that it is a food source for beneficial intestinal bacteria. Like other types of soluble fiber, inulin functions as a natural stool softener and can reduce constipation. A study in The Journal of Nutrition noted that it may reduce the severity of inflammatory bowel disease.
- Psyllium. Obtained from the seed husks of Plantago psyllium, psyllium helps normalize bowel movements, preventing both constipation and diarrhea. A study of 125 people with type 2 diabetes found that psyllium supplements led to significant reductions in blood sugar, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglycerides. Other studies have yielded similar results. A recent article in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics noted that psyllium likely plays a role in preventing inflammatory bowel disease and ulcerative colitis.
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Normally this time of year people are in a party mood, what with the cherry trees blooming, temperatures rising and students on spring break. That mood has been effectively dampened by the enormous suffering up north, but recreation in general is being discouraged by several related factors, such as the call for energy conservation and reduced public transportation. Small businesses, especially restaurants, bars and events promoters, are being hit the hardest, even if their enterprises were not affected directly by the earthquake.
They certainly don't appreciate the well-meaning but short-sighted official requests for jishuku, or self-restraint. Making such a request sounds paradoxical: Can self-restraint be compelled from above? At a press conference on April 1, Renho, the Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker who was put in charge of energy conservation, blasted Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara for a remark he made implying that it's unseemly for people to want to "drink and chat" at a time like this. Renho said that Ishihara shouldn't use his political platform to "restrain people's freedoms and social activities," which have negative economic consequences.
According to the Fuji TV morning show, "Toku Da Ne," as of April 1, 1,320 concerts and other events featuring foreign performers had been canceled due to fears of radiation from the damaged Fukushima power plant. In fact, one events company has already gone out of business as a result, and that company is headquartered in Fukuoka.
Those cancellations can't be helped. What's more problematic is that many Japanese are being made to feel guilty about going out and spending money. Fuji TV cited a survey of 301 small businesses in Tokyo. Eighty percent said that their business has fallen off sharply since March 11. So one French restaurant decided to buck the whole jishuku movement and started advertising a 30 percent discount on all meals for the time being. They've been packed ever since.


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Dear God I don't know how some people get out of their house and function properly. I swear to GOD I don't. How do you survive in your ridiculous little life - what with all of the enormity of injustice heaped upon you on a daily basis?
Well, luckily, Gidge is here to help you - to bring you some peace during these trying holiday times to alleviate some of your frustration and bad temperament.
Let's cover - HOLDING DOORS.
Holding doors open for folks is friendly, good manners and just polite. I'm not the best at it in the world, but I try. I always, ALWAYS say thank you when someone holds a door for me. I think it's something someone doesn't HAVE to do and I think it's lovely when they bother.
So yesterday - the boy and I are trudging into the Chuck E. Cheese for a birthday party for one of his friends. As we slog through the rain/sleet/ugliness two other families are almost at the door as well. I get there first - and hold the door.
Family 1 passes through.
Family 2 is slightly further back - but is VERY overloaded with STUFF so, to be polite- I stand and hold the door - even making small talk as they go through.
Then I start into the door myself. Out of the corner of my eye I see a woman and her child who I had never seen, who weren't all that close even- suddenly come RUNNING - so although I'm in the door already - I lean back and hold it open as she's suddenly closed the gap considerably. Which is why I can HEAR her as she's snarling,"Oh fine just slam the door on my face nice manners, nice christmas spirit. NICE SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY!"
Ummmmmmmm what? Woman, you weren't anywhere NEAR- possibly not even parked when I got to the door. I SAW you were nearing and halted - holding the door so that it in fact DID NOT slam your face. What the hell?
This woman glared at me as we went in, and the nice lady at Chuck E. Cheese asked "Are you all together?" at which point Mary Sunshine barks "We're not with HER".
I swear from now on I'm just not going inside, I'll just stand and wait to see if anyone, ANYONE in the parking lot would like to go inside.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Door Holding Etiquette for Patrons of the Chuck E. Cheese
Posted by Gidge Uriza at 6:44 PM
Labels: Atlanta, bible belt manners, morons, southern hospitality
3 comments:
ummm, you left out the stuff you said back to her....
- Mon Dec 14, 05:23:00 AM
She was probably just upset because her kid was making her go into Chuck E Cheese in the first place. Damn, I hate that place.
- Mon Dec 14, 05:54:00 PM
- Emma said...
i wanna know what you said to her!
- Wed Dec 23, 05:23:00 PM


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Thursday, March 1, 2012
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Dude. I could have written this post. No, wait. I did write this post 4 years ago:ReplyDelete
- JugglerMarch 1, 2012 at 10:03 PM
I love the picture...ReplyDelete
KC- whoa. Even the vitamin c reference is there! I guess you will just have to believe me that it's a case of great minds thinking alike and not overt plagerism....ReplyDelete
I've heard of that Burzynski "doctor" and how someone went there and asked about the treatment - apparently, they charge you a thousand dollars up front just to see him, and then you have to pay the cost of the treatment before you get anything done. No thanks - ill stick with my evidence based medicine, thank you very much.ReplyDelete
- mommabeeMarch 3, 2012 at 1:44 PM
Great that you are "respectfully skeptical" of both Western pharmaceutical treatments and of traditional or naturopathic treatments. As a user of both, I like the term complementary the best. Patients should be supported in their efforts to complement their therapies by understanding and knowledgeable doctors. Most naturopathic or alternative therapies just cannot fit the randomized control study model. Let's not forget that some of these methods have a much more "robust" use historically than many of our newer methods. As long as complementary methods don't harm our patients, I'm all for their use.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 7, 2012 at 4:50 PM
In the word of a great doctor "where will our next ideas come from if not evidenced based." We have no mechanisms of actions for about 1/3rd of common meds used today. You can also only find evidence if you look. My literature is your literature. www.pubmed.gov - fenugreek and lactation - at least 15 studies in peer reviewed journals. On the other hand, it's been used for >200 years, is cheap, tastes good and works for you. Who decides the evidence. Personally, the longer I'm in medicine, the more convinced I am that standard of care is set by Television.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 8, 2012 at 2:24 AM
I hink it's a shame more medical schools arent incorporating some form of complementary medicine such as supplements in to their programs - I guess it's a little like chronic pain if you cant see it (it being evidence apparently in this case?) then it doesnt exist and thus cant be help/cant help?ReplyDelete
It is a shame more doctors arent willing to think outside the box. To me the biggest sham is when medications such as the fish oil that was marketed via commercials about a year ago many times over as 'being better than anything you can by at a store' (or something like that) in why sometims supplements ARE better than pharmaceuticals - really would you want to give your patient a doctoed up (no pun intended, accepy my apology) chemical filled fish oil or send them to a privately owned health store run by a trained nutritionist where they can get fish oil that is pure and less costly and proven? It is a shame it is always western vs complementary and not western with complementary! Ive seen this Dr.Burszynski's video (cant remember who it was done by in which he was sued by the govt many times over and he was always able to win) and it seems like instead of assuming his treatment doesnt work maybe more doctors should be studying it??? What kills more cancer patients now? Chemo I believe? I personally if given a diagnosis like say ovarian cancer would never do these treatments that basically kill patients and offer absolutely no quaility of life. I dont mean to rant here but again it seems ridiculous (and I really like your posts usually as a patient myself with a rare disorder) that it has to be tradt'l medicine (western) or nothing. :(


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Sherlock Holmes un-kicked the bucket way back in 1894. More than a century later, even though Harry Potter ends up on the wrong side of a killing curse, he un-bites the dust.
In "Game of Thrones," Beric Dondarrion has un-bought the farm at least six times, despite having been hanged, impaled by a lance, bashed in the head with a mace and stabbed through the eye with a dagger. And that's just by the end of the third season.
So author Walter Mosley had ample precedent to un-pull the plug on his most famous fictional creation, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins. Sure, it's been six years since the heartbroken World War II vet drunkenly drove his car off a cliff on the Pacific Coast Highway at the end of "Blonde Faith." And sure, as Mosley reiterated in interviews when the book was released in 2007, he definitely intended to finish Easy off, once and for all.
But none of that is preventing the African-American private eye from directly addressing readers in the opening sentences of Mosley's newest novel, "Little Green."
"I came half-awake, dead and dreaming," Easy recalls. "My eyes were open but I couldn't focus on anything because I was still falling as if the nightmare had followed me from sleep into the waking world. I didn't know where I was or where I'd come from."
No matter. Mosley's fans are just glad that Easy's back.
In "Little Green," once Easy wakes up from the coma in which he has spent the previous two months, he quickly begins a new case. At the behest of his best friend, Mouse, Easy searches for a teen named Evander Noon, who disappeared during an acid trip in the midst of the psychedelic haze that was Los Angeles in 1967. Easy's investigation brings him into contact with drifters, drug lords and other denizens of the Sunset Strip.
The 61-year-old Mosley, who will visit the Enoch Pratt Free Library on Tuesday as part of his book tour, is nearly as indefatigable as his fictional creation. The author of 37 novels, five works of nonfiction and a play, Mosley also has won a Grammy Award for writing the liner notes for a Richard Pryor album. An exhibit of his artwork opened last month in New York.
Mosley recently spoke about his varied artistic output and what the social changes of the '60s and '70s might mean for his fictional African-American detective.
What inspired you to bring back Easy?
I started to get interested in him again. A novel should be an experience, a discovery, and I had lost interest because writing the books had become too easy. No pun intended.
I just started thinking about him again. I thought how the story would go, how would I bring him back, what would happen, the details of the book. I thought that he'd be in a coma for a while, and there'd be a case waiting for him when he woke up.
Most of my other books, fiction and nonfiction, have been about redemption. But this book is about resurrection. It's about actually experiencing death and feeling death and death being right there and you not going there, you going the other way, back to life.
"Little Green" is your 12th novel to feature Easy. Will there be a 13th?
I've already finished it. It's called "Rose Gold." I'd like it to come out about a year from now.
You've said in the past that you'd like to write enough Easy Rawlins novels to bring him into the 21st century. Is that still your plan?
I may do. I'm not really thinking about that right now. Right now I'm interested in the '60s and '70s, and I'm going to stay there for a while. It's a very transitional period in American culture for black people and for women. It's also when we begin to understand ourselves as an international power, even though we have actually been an international power for a long time.
Your books are written in period dialect, and they contain some hot-button ethnic slurs. Just reading those scenes made my chest tighten up, and I wondered if they were difficult to write.
Nope, not in the least. You know, novels are repositories of language, and there's no word that's truly profane or bad. I don't think I'm gratuitous about it.
If I were writing a novel before 1910 in which women were subservient to men and I didn't use the language that was common at the time, I'd feel bad about it. In my opinion, it would be a false representation because I'd be lying about the political journey of women.
You caused a stir a while back when you gave up an advance for one of your novels to publish instead with the Black Classic Press, which is based here in Baltimore. Do you anticipate further collaborations with them?
I have no plans to do it, but Paul [Coates] and I are good friends. If I ever want to publish another book with them, I think Paul will do it.
Literature is one of the vertebrae in the spine of culture. If you don't control your own curating of culture, at least to some degree, then you don't exist inside the literary canon. Black publishers in general, and the Black Classic Press specifically, are very important for that reason.
An exhibit of your artwork, "Alien Script" opens Monday at the Kimmel Center in New York. Do drawing and writing express different parts of you?
I've been drawing for 49 years, and I have thousands of drawings. I was showing them to a curator one day, and she said, "We could do a show."
I used to draw first thing in the morning. Then, when I started to write, that pushed the drawing aside. Now, I write first thing in the morning.
Writing to me is very realistic. It's like painting the world: what things look like, how people move, where are people in the world. My drawing is completely fanciful. I have no talent and no interest in the human body or in rendering a three-dimensional perspective.
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Author Walter Mosley will read from his new book at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the central Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St. Free. Call 410-396-5430 or go to prattlibrary.org.
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"Little Green" was released May 14 by the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. $25.95, 306 pages.


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