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Monopoly: A Novel of Atlantic City (Part Two)
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Chapter 6
Slumped on the sofa, Debbie was staring at the flickering TV set with a gaze as blank and unchanging as an old Conelrad test pattern broadcast at five in the morning. A teen dance show was on the tube, relayed live from happenin'
"The TV didn't wake you up, did it?" she asked fearfully.
After assuring her it hadn't, I drifted into the kitchen for coffee. We exchanged some small talk, but it was nothing to engrave on the Lincoln Memorial. Mostly I could tell when she looked at me that she was ashamed; because I'd seen her crying and afraid last night and I knew she'd been violated by the cops, she was worried that in my eyes she was soiled now.
I started breakfast. Life goes on. Initially she was transfixed by the constellation of phosphor dots in the next room, but the smell of the bacon seduced her, as I knew it would. She returned to the kitchen with a little less of the Jonestown look to her.
"I better be going," she said. "Like now."
"Stay for breakfast," I said. "You owe me that."
She glared at me. She actually glared at me. It was the first time she hadn't acted like she was crawling into a hole to lick her wounds and die.
"What do I—" she started to say. "What do I—"
"Where are you going? You got anyplace?"
She blinked at me.
"You got anyplace to go to?"
She took a deep breath and got ready to say something.
"I wasn't just out hitching a ride last night," she said. "I was running away from home. I can't go back. Things are too bad there."
"What about your dad?"
Her dad, it seems, had skipped out when she was two years old, and when last heard from, had mailed them a cheerful postcard from a tavern in
"At least sit down and supply me with a little company during breakfast, okay?" I asked. "I could use that."
She blinked violently and sat down at the dining-room table as if my invitation to breakfast had been as shocking as a hard slap to the face. I served bacon, scrambled eggs, toast, orange juice—the great all-American start-up. Although she didn't attack her vittles ravenously, she did eat. God knows I was starved. Afterwards we each sat back and enjoyed a smoke.
"So how are you doing?" I said. "Should I ask?"
She just stared at me. And otherwise, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the show?
"How do you think I feel? I feel shitty."
"I'll tell you the first thing I think we should do. Contact your mother. What's her phone number?"
Horror. "No. Oh no. I can't let her know. What'd she think?"
"Debbie, your mother has got to know sooner or later."
"No she doesn't. Nobody has to tell her."
"What about the cops? What they did to you? What are you going to do about them? Are you going to let them get away with it?"
She turned her face away. "Leave me alone."
"What about the other girls who're going to come after you? What about them?"
"You mean you think—"
"You think you're the first girl they've done this to around here? Or the only girl? Christ, Debbie, it's probably a regional sport. You think you're going to be the last girl?"
She began sobbing. I got up and smoked a cigarette quietly and looked out the window. Outside, bright sunlight was splashing down on the stippled green lawn. A beautiful summer day at the seashore. A great day to be alive.
When she finished, I got her a box of kleenex, and after she wiped her face and blew her nose several times, I asked, "Can I get you anything?"
"What's your mother's number? I'll talk to her."
She gave me a number with a 201 area code, 561 prefix. I dialed the number and hung on. The phone rang. Several times.
"Hello?" I got a slurred female voice: middle-aged. "Whoizit?"
"My name is Scott Lawrence. Is this the Miller residence?"
"I'm—Laurie Miller."
"Mrs. Miller, I'm calling from the
"Trouble? What kind of trouble?"
"She had a run-in with the cops. They nabbed her on what they say is a drug possession charge—"
"Drugs? She had drugs?"
"No Mrs. Miller, it looks like a frame-up, but—something more serious happened. They hurt her."
"How'd they hurt her? Put her on the phone."
Cupping my hand over the mouthpiece, I turned to Debbie. "You want to talk to your mother?"
"Okay," she said hesitantly, and took the phone from me.
"Hello Mom. No I'm—I'm not hurt bad. It's just— What?" She paused. "No I didn't have anything on me. You don't understand. They—" She was cut short.
She sat there listening, wide-eyed. Finally she clamped her eyes shut and the tears began to flow, and she held the phone away from her.
Quickly I snatched the phone and spoke into it. "Hello?"
The line was dead.
"What happened?"
"She hung up on me," she sobbed. "She said I shouldn't of been there in the first place, and anything I got I deserved. She said I could take care of myself. She was drunk."
"Yeah, I guessed that," I said and dialed the number again.
"What is it?" the lush on the other end demanded.
"Now listen Mrs. Miller. I don't think this is the kind of thing that can be adequately explained over the phone, but Debbie's in trouble. Deep trouble. She needs help. And I wanted to contact you—"
"Who the hell are you?"
"Scott Lawrence. A private investigator from
"She seemed okay to me." There was a pause as she fumbled with a cigarette and lit it. "She shacking up with you?"
"Mrs. Miller, this conversation doesn't seem to be getting us anywhere. I was under the mistaken impression you—"
"You didn't answer my question. You fooling around with my daughter?"
"Your daughter was gang-raped by five policemen last night," I shouted. "Her rights were violated, among other things. So I'm throwing the book at the bastards who did it. You want to help me?"
A stunned silence. "What did you say?"
Debbie was hunched over in her chair, face buried in splayed red hands. She made no sound, no whimper, but it was terrible, terrible, terrible.
"You heard me. She was coerced into having sex in a jail cell in a small town down here at the shore.
"I don't believe it," she said, followed by a crash as the phone dropped, and then silence.
Debbie raised her head. "Why did you have to tell her?"
"I love dealing with drunks," I said. I yelled, "Hello? Hello?" into the mouthpiece several times, but no response, and then the phone on the other end was hung up. When I tried again, the line was busy. She'd taken the phone off the hook.
"A great lady," I said, and replaced the phone. "I can imagine what your home life must be like."
"I wish I could just like disappear," Debbie said miserably, and pitching forward she disintegrated into hopeless broken sobs. It must be so wonderful to break the news to your parents. Dear Mommy and Daddy: Last night I was fucked by five cops. I was a little shaken up but now I'm fine.
I let her cry herself out, and then after the long drawn-out whuffling sobs had subsided into weak sniffles and occasional whimpers, I assisted her to her feet and escorted her to her room, where I put her to bed.
In the dining room, I sat down at the little pink telephone table and dialed my friend Jim Montgomery of the New York Times, who covered
When his office informed me he was at the
"Hello, Scott," he announced in his dry, humorous voice. "What's up?"
"I think I've got a story for you." And I elaborated on what'd gone down—emphasizing how the cops had intimidated Debbie in my presence when she started to blurt out what they'd done and then delivered a pretty thinly-veiled threat if she didn't shut up. I guess I got pretty worked up.
"I can see you're very caught up in this, Scott, but—do you think this is really a story for the Times? I mean, a standard—"
"This is a
"Staying at my cottage here in
"Goodman? You mean Goodman who used to be with the—"
"U.S. Attorney's office under Lacey and Stern, that's right. He'll stick up for her. You coming down or not?"
"Scott, I'm just about to leave on vacation tomorrow."
"Goddamnit Jim, they picked the girl up off the fucking street and fucked her to death! Doesn't that mean anything to you? Why the hell are you a journalist anyway? I thought you were one because—"
"Don't yell at me. Or use that tone on me. Did the story really happen the way she tells it?"
"The medical report backs her up in every detail. And the honcho from the Prosecutor's office saw the bruises."
"You've done well in corroborating your case from the start. Look. I'll tell you what. I'll talk to my editor, but—I think I could come down tomorrow. Just to take a look around. Any more than that I can't promise."
"It's a deal. When can you make it?"
"How's noon sound to you?"
"Fine. What's happening in
"The usual. They caught an assemblyman from
"Glad to hear the place hasn't changed."
"What's her name?"
"Debbie. Debbie Miller."
"It sounds like you've got a lot of personal involvement in this case, Scott."
"Man, do you want to live in a world where teenage girls get gangbanged by small-town cops?"
We signed off and I hung up.
When I sauntered out the front door to fetch the morning paper—the
Straightening up I gazed at it hard. A brand-new shining ivory-white police cruiser, with the gold
Nicky Scarfo, former Mob boss of Atlantic City
Chapter 7
The blazing sun beat down on me. Sweat trickled down the back of my neck. I don't know why it was so hot, or why it took me so long to cross that narrow street, my shoes scraping against the asphalt. But finally I was standing by the car, the paper rolled up in my hand, and Conover was looking up at me with cool insolence, the sunlight glinting off his mirrored shades. For what seemed like a long time, nobody said anything; the cops just stared at me contemptuously. It was dark inside the car. I shielded my eyes from the sun with a hand.
"Anything wrong, officers?"
"We got a call from the
"Related to some scurrilous rumors someone was mouthing off last night," Rossi said.
"What kind of rumors?"
"Everyone knows that bitch is a fuckin' liar," Conover said.
"She was examined by a doctor in the emergency room last night. There's medical evidence."
"No shit."
Rossi just smiled up at me. "So what? So who you gonna go to? The
"I just talked to a friend of mine from the New York Times. He's coming down tomorrow to do a story on it."
"Whoopee," Rossi said, twirling his index finger. "I'm shakin'."
"You don't understand how things run in this town," Conover said with an understanding smile.
"Yeah, buddy," Rossi said. "You don't watch it, you'll wind up slapped in jail."
"He looks like a drug user," Conover said, eyeing me. "Don't he look like a drug user to you, Gene?"
"Definitely," Rossi said.
"Take your Abbott-and-Costello routine somewhere else. But don't park in front of my house. Don't harass me. And don't you dare ever, ever try to intimidate me."
"You don't like it?" Conover said, and made an expansive grin. "Call the cops."
With a scowl I wheeled around and stalked back to my house. The paper was still clutched tightly in my hand.
I had just crossed the street and I was just stepping onto the sidewalk when I heard the two car doors open at once, as if by signal, and listened to the soles of their shoes scuff against the macadam as they got out.
"Mind if we come inside?" Rossi said. "There's some things we'd like to discuss."
When I turned around slowly to confront them, they were both facing me, teeth bared in tight grimaces, their hands resting on their gunbelts around their hips.
"What if I don't feel like having you in," I said.
"We got a search warrant," Conover declared happily.
"You think of everything."
"We don't fuck around," Conover said.
"On what probable cause?" I asked.
"The drug connection," Rossi said. "You and the girl. The judge said look into it."
"Let's see it."
Rossi handed it to me. It had the signature, all right.
So opening the screen door, I stepped aside and held it open for them. I wasn't about to enter my house with my back turned to them. "Come in," I said.
Strolling past me, they entered my house confidently and I stepped in behind them, releasing the door.
The screen door slammed shut with a bang. Neither of them reacted. They both stood in the center of my sunburst rug in the living room, coolly glancing around the place.
Compared to the throbbing heat outside, the interior of my house was a haven of cool darkness. Rossi eyed the living room slowly. "Nice digs you got here," he said.
At the mantelpiece over the fireplace, Conover picked up the framed picture of my parents from the Forties. "How long you had it?" he asked inbetween snaps of his chewing gum.
"Ten years."
"You in the service?" Rossi asked, staring at me.
"Yeah," I said. "Americal Division in
"Nice," Conover said, his gaze wandering around the house.
My heart was hammering and I was clenching my fists at my side. My palms were wet. And black with newsprint from gripping the paper. "What did you boys want to talk about?"
"We had a misunderstanding last night," Rossi said to me in a hard, restrained voice. "The young lady was hysterical. Out of her head. Didn't know what she was saying."
"How do you account for the semen inside her vagina?"
"Maybe she fucked her way down the
"You explain the bruises, cocksucker," I said.
Throwing me a murderous glance Conover advanced a step in my direction, but Rossi blocked him with an arm.
"Maybe she liked it rough," Rossi said. "Look," he said in a conciliatory tone, "you can understand. You were a cop once. It's one in the morning and out of nowhere the sweetest little cupcake you ever saw turns up by the side of the road when you're on patrol and you get a little carried away. No harm done. It's like the birds and the bees. Natural. Are you gonna stand there and tell me you never got caught up in something like that when you were a cop?"
"You bastard," I said. "Oh you bastard."
"Gene," Conover said, snapping his gum, "I don't think it's workin'."
"Get out of my house."
"We're not leaving till you get one thing straight," Rossi said. "You make trouble for us over this and you won't have a home in this town." He was jabbing his finger against my chest.
"No, we're tellin' you, asshole," Conover said.
"You can have it either one of two ways," Rossi said in a calm, deadly voice. His eyes were glittering blackly and his chest was rising and falling. "You go your way and we go ours. No trouble. Or you make the mistake of stirring things up, and we come down hard on you."
"And the cunt," Conover said.
Debbie appeared suddenly in the hallway. Without a word she had emerged from her room and now she stood in her bare feet, only a few feet away. Her hair was tousled and her heavy-lidded eyes were still half-asleep. "I heard voices," she said.
Conover grinned delightedly. "Well well," he said.
Rossi smirked. "Miss Miller."
"How's our little girl?" Conover asked warmly.
Debbie blanched in abject shock. It was terrible. Horror catapulted her into full wakefulness. She gazed at them in naked terror, like nothing so much as a tiny mouse that has been clawed severely by two vicious bloodthirsty cats and yet manages to escape with its life, and who emerges the next day into the sunshine, relaxed and confident, only to be pounced on again.
"Lookin' good, Deb," Conover said with a grin.
"We were just talking about you," Rossi said with a small, private smile.
Staring at them agog, she tried to utter words of astonishment, but nothing came out. She choked on her vocal chords.
"Hey hey," Conover said with a malicious grin, "I bet I know why you've got her stayin' with you. You been slippin' it to her, right?"
"Get out," I said under my breath.
"Say, I think I hit a nerve there, Gene. That a fact, Mr. Lawrence? Tell us, Deb. You been keepin' Mr. Lawrence warm at night?"
Debbie was unable to move or speak. She just clamped her eyes shut and began to shiver.
"You mother," I said, staring at Conover.
"If you haven't tried her yet, you should," Rossi said. "She's got a roll like you wouldn't imagine."
"She's tight," Conover said.
"And bright," Rossi said.
"Tight and bright," Conover said. "And hot. Right, Deb?"
Debbie began to sob.
"Debbie, get back to your room," I said. "I'll handle these two. Debbie, I'm talking to you."
"I don't think she hears you," Rossi said.
"You see what you're putting this girl through?" Conover said. "That's what we were talking about."
I took Debbie by the shoulders, and turning her around, steered her back to her room. She fell on the bed and I went out, closing the door shut.
When I returned, Conover and Rossi were smirking at each other in the middle of the living room. I was furious.
"You motherfuckers," I said. "Get the fuck out of my house."
"Not till we get one thing straight,
"Get the hell out of my house before I throw you out."
"That's an answer," Conover said brightly. "What'd I tell you, Gene? He's a dumb-ass. See, I told you he wouldn't go for it. Well while we're here I think I'll just pay a visit on my girlfriend and see how she's doing—" and he took a step toward Debbie's room.
At that point I went for his throat. I'd been bottling up my fury ever since they'd begun taunting Debbie in front of me, but when I saw that oaf moving toward Debbie's room something just snapped inside me and a blinding rage seized me and I was lunging for him.
For one brief tantalizing moment my hands were clamping around his neck and the bastard was reeling back and gasping in shock and surprise and all of a sudden he wasn't smirking anymore, and then the hard end of a billy was ramming into the pit of my stomach brutally. Rossi's hand
I pitched forward on my knees, holding my stomach and gasping futilely for breath. My diaphragm! I felt like I'd been stabbed with a sword. I was dying.
Standing over me, Rossi was breathing hard, billyclub gripped tightly in hand.
"Assaulting an officer," he said darkly.
Hands clutching his throat, Conover was staggering back. He was amazed. When he recovered, he got roaring mad and advanced on me, swearing, but as he was about to kick the shit out of me, Rossi restrained him.
"Bob," Rossi said, "when are you ever going to learn that the rough stuff went out a long time ago? Now we use persuasion. Now calm down and help me sit him on the sofa. That was a stupid thing to do anyway."
Each taking one of my arms, they pulled me to my feet and dumped me on one of the orange sofas. I was still wheezing for breath. I was also semi-paralyzed. A billy in the gut will make you think twice before moving again.
After I was half-slumped, half-sprawled in the middle of the sofa, Conover and Rossi each sat on either side of me, Rossi still gripping the billy, held casually in hand. The room insisted on spinning around me.
"Maybe there's something you don't understand about our community, Mr. Lawrence," Rossi said by way of making conversation. "
"Gene's a thinker," Conover said.
"You see, this here down around
"Be terrible for our image," Conover said.
"Right," Rossi said. "Right. Bob understands. So whenever we find anyone in danger of spreading irresponsible malicious rumors around here, why then it's our duty as civic representatives to take that person aside and say—'Hey.'"
"'Hey,'" Conover said.
"'Sir, we don't mess on your turf—and you don't mess on ours.' You understand?" He rested the billyclub on my crotch. "Because we got a philosophy down here."
"You got a philosophy?" I gasped.
"Yeah," Rossi said. "It's okay to do whatever you want to—only just don't get caught."
Conover howled with laughter. Rossi allowed himself a few chuckles, but then his face went grim and he leaned over, staring at me, and pressed the end of the billyclub against my stomach.
"And buster," he said, "we don't intend to get caught."
A long moment of silence passed. Rossi nailed me with his fixed gaze. I was acutely aware of the end of the billyclub poking into my stomach.
Then the billy went away and Rossi turned his head to Conover. "What do you think, Bob?"
"I dunno, Gene. I don't think he's gonna buy it."
"You don't think so?"
"He's a wiseguy."
Suddenly Rossi sprang to his feet and smiled. "Then let's do it."
"What do you mean?" Conover said.
"Look at him." Rossi was staring at me heatedly. He was smiling but his eyes were not.
Conover looked at me. I sat there quietly, hugging my stomach, and said nothing. I was just trying to keep from throwing up.
"He's not going to shut up," Rossi said. "He'll blab the first minute we walk out the door. No, there's just one way to deal with jokers like him."
"What's that?" Conover's mouth was dry.
"You said so yourself, Bob. Look at this guy. He looks like a drug user. No, a drug dealer. A big-time drug dealer from
"Why, now that you mention it, Gene, yeah."
"You know, I bet if we searched this house long enough, we could find out where he stashes his heroin."
"I bet you're right, Gene," Conover said excitedly, standing up.
"You start looking around. I'm going back to the car to get the drug identification kit."
"The planted evidence, you mean," I said.
"You're looking at ten-to-twenty in
"Guess I'll start shakin' down the place," Conover said to no one in particular, and stepping into the hallway, disappeared.
I sat there on the sofa, feeling my stomach churn and staring blankly at the wall ahead of me. I felt numb. They were going to frame me on a trumped-up charge and there was nothing I could do about it.
From the next room I could hear Conover's shoes clomping around. He was in the bathroom, rummaging through the medicine chest. He was in my bathroom, rummaging through my medicine chest.
And after checking out the toilet tank and figuring it was a good place to stash the dope so it could be "discovered," he would turn around and step out into the hallway, and the next place he would visit would be Debbie's room. His hand would close around the knob, and he would open the door slowly...
I stood up quickly, my heart slamming against my ribcage. I felt heat burning my armpits. My head was turned to the side and I was staring at the source of Conover's movement.
This was my house. I didn't have much in this world, but one of the things I prized most was having a safe, secure place to come home to. A place of my own. A place where I would not be disturbed.
I was not going to let them walk all over me.
Head buzzing, I stepped quietly into the hallway so that I could look into the bathroom. His back to me, Conover was pawing through the medicine chest. I flashed on the way he'd intimidated Debbie last night, and then I went nuts.
Acting swiftly, I moved into the bathroom and slammed my left fist into his left kidney, smashed my right fist into his right. He moaned and jerked upright, clawing at his back, and before he could utter a cry I grabbed him by the collar and rammed his head into the tile wall, then shoved him into the old-fashioned white enamel bathtub. He slipped and crashed into it, hitting his head with a crack.
"Help! Help!" I cried, and stationed myself behind the bathroom door. Blood was singing in my temples and I was light-headed.
Thudding footfalls were galloping through the house. As soon as a gun gripped by a hand was thrust through the door into my field of vision, I threw my shoulder against the door, slamming it shut on the wrist. Outside Rossi cried out in pain and his hand jumped open, the snub-nosed police revolver clattering to the floor.
Throwing the door open I saw Rossi standing there in the hallway, and while he was grabbing his wrist I kicked him high between the legs. He howled and collapsed in pain on his knees, clutching his groin.
Grabbing him by the collar, I slammed him up against the wall and screamed, "You motherfucker! Don't you ever come into this house again! You hear me? Don't you ever set foot in here again, and don't you ever, ever, ever—" and here I snapped his head against the wall each time "—try to threaten me again!"
Just then the hallway door opened and Debbie stood in the doorway, looking at me on my knees, slamming a cop up against the wall. "What's all the—" and then she stopped dead and stared at me woodenly.
"Get back inside your room!" I yelled. "Let me take care of this!"
She blinked and shut the door quickly. Scowling I turned my head and glanced into the bathroom, from which low moans were originating.
Conover was stirring in the bathtub. Falling over on one side, Rossi was cupping his groin, his face wrinkled in agony, and his eyes were clamped shut. Flinging him away I stood up and stepped into the bathroom to attend to Conover.
The cop lay stretched out on his back in the tub. His crewcut head was lifted a few inches and his face was screwed up into a grimace. Blood was streaming out of his nose. He was a real hurtin' little cowboy. Two shots in the kidneys delivered with triphammer force will do that to you.
Stooping over, I reached down and relieved him of his .38 Police Special and his billyclub. "Hey fucker," I said with a warm smile. "How does it feel to be on the receiving end for a change?"
He coughed and slumped against the enamel. Picking up the toilet plunger in the corner I prodded him with it and he whimpered.
"Why aren't you answering me?" I asked. "Where's the snappy comeback? I thought you were the tough guy with the funny answers who liked to dish it out. What's wrong? Where's the cop wit?"
A few feet away Rossi tried to sit up and collapsed on his side.
"You fucking bastards," I said, reaching down and seizing Conover by the collar. "I hate you fucking small-town cops. I was on the Philly force eight years and I never saw shit like this."
Out in the hallway Rossi groaned. "Ohh, my balls," he muttered, rocking back and forth. "My fucking balls."
"You must be crazy," Conover croaked, "if you think you can get away with this. Your ass is grass."
"No it's not," I said cheerfully, and stabbed the hard wooden tip of the plunger into his belly. He doubled over in agony. "Because if you so much as dare breathe a word about this when you report in, I'll have some friends of mine from South Philly bounce your asses from here to
"Yeah, yeah," he yelped quickly.
"Good." I hauled him up by the collar. He stood on shaky legs. "Now get out of here." He stepped out of the tub and I shoved him out of the bathroom. "And take your partner with you."
As he assisted Rossi to his feet, I said, "And I don't want to see either one of you around here ever again. Understand?"
"Yeah, we understand," Rossi said, leaning against the wall, and began coughing.
"So fuck off," I said.
"Can we have our guns back?" Conover asked.
"I'll put them in your car." While Conover helped Rossi make a few faltering steps into the living room, I went outside, emptying the shells from their revolvers, and dropped them in the back seat of the cruiser along with their billyclubs. When I turned around, Conover and Rossi were staggering out the front door, and the screen door slammed shut behind them. I stood and watched while they stumbled down the concrete path. As they approached the car I went over to them. "You'd better go home and get cleaned up before you report for duty."
"Right," Conover said and assisted Rossi into the prowl car.
"Don't bother the girl again either," I said. "Because I'd just love an excuse to kill you both."
I stood on the front porch, hands gripping the waist-high black iron railing that enclosed part of it, and watched while the cop car turned around and faltered its way back up the street, like a crippled animal. I stared at it intently as it made a left-hand turn onto
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What can I say? At least Harriet Miers seemed like a pleasant lady, despite the thin resume! The President's next pick for the Supreme Court is a woman (I wonder if she's a typical white person), Elena Kagan, who's never written an opinion, nor has ever been a judge. Yet, the Left is buzzing that her lack of experience is somehow a "plus" and totally different than Miers somehow.
Same hypocrisy, different day.
I guess not knowing anything about being a judge is fine for the Left, since being on SCOTUS is more like a legislative extension to them anyway. Recently, though, Nixon appointees Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist had not been judges either. Powell acted merely as kind of a placeholder for the 15 years he was on the court, so moderate he likely would have voted "present" most of the time if that was an option. Rehnquist was a decent man and a pretty good justice — we lucked out with him and once he left, we got Roberts as Chief Justice.
Yet, I'm pretty sure Obama hasn't selected Kagan to be a placeholder, a moderate with little experience and nerve, like Powell. Dick Durbin has said:
"President Obama said he wanted someone on the high court who understood the impact of the law on average Americans, and I believe the depth and breadth of Ms. Kagan's will allow her that perspective."
Touchy-feely hopey-changey law, hug-filled lollipop law, sensitive Liberal law understood by "average Americans." While Kagan may not be a "wise Latina," I have a feeling she won't be a thoughtful unbiased open-minded moderate either. We'll see how this unfolds in front of the Senate in the coming months.


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Chutzpah from the Archbishop of Canterbury...
Here's a man who can't even show leadership on the ordination of gay people in his own church..
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, leader of the world's Anglicans, has launched an attack on the United States, saying it has lost the high moral ground since the September 11 attacks in 2001.He has no problem criticizing the US - but on the gay rights of his own parishioners, he is far less certain. This man is not fit for leadership.
Williams, a longtime critic of the war in Iraq, said in uncharacteristically blunt language: "We have only one hegemonic power at the moment. It is not accumulating territory, it is trying to accumulate influence and control. That's not working."Asked in an interview with the Muslim lifestyle magazine Emel, if he thought the United States had lost the high moral ground since the 9/11 attacks, he replied "Yes.


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If you walk into a seafood restaurant this summer searching for a good tuna steak or poke, you might have to say "Charlie sent you."
The iconic beatnik tuna cartoon character created in the 1960s by Starkist Tuna to advertise the brand was always looking, not for tuna with good taste, but for tuna that tasted good.
Now, more than 50 years later, it's not just taste, but sustainability that matters. The world of global fishery has evolved into a complex system of best environmental practices for the fishing industry but which brings some confusion for the consumer.
Newer items on restaurant menus like poke (Hawaiian–style fish) that feature raw tuna should be readily available as to origin of the catch. Can the consumer tell if a fish is a good choice -- is it caught with nets that sweep up other species including birds and sea turtles? Or with a long-line pole which is the preferred method of catch? It might take reading information from the Monterey Bay Seafood Watch (
www.seafoodwatch.org) out of Monterey, Cali., which monitors fishing practices and lists best sustainability fish choices for consumers.
Tuna has always been a popular item, canned (albacore), the traditional tuna steak as well as newer poke bowls.
My own quest started with a desire to try poke, delicious raw fish served locally In a bowl with seaweed, ginger, onion and other island-based plants. In Norwood, the restaurant Shabu Lee on Washington Street is a popular local eatery that serves poke as an appetizer. Typically, poke (Hawaiian-style raw fish) includes tuna. But I was disappointed that the employees at Shabu Lee didn't know where the fish was sourced. The name of one of its suppliers, True World Foods, the largest sushi supplier in the United States headquartered in Northfield, Ill., sources bluefish tuna as listed on its website. It is often served as an appetizer as was the delicious dish I tasted at Shabu Lee, but Monterey Bay lists bluefish tuna as one to avoid.
True World, in a statement released by President Robert Bleu, states "Monterey Bay's information on bluefish tuna is outdated." The statement goes on to confirm that poke does not use bluefin tuna and Shabu Lee in Norwood only sources yellowfin and bigeye for its popular poke bowls.
For consumers like myself who want to know where their food comes from, including fish, it's not always easy. If a restaurant manager doesn't know where its fish is from, that's a red flag: Avoid that eatery.
Rich Vellante, executive chef at Legal Seafoods, offers up the Legal Seafoods' best practices: a closed system using only local fisherman and which only buys whole fish.
In this manner, Vellante explains, fish and grade can be easily identified. Fish sold in chunks or small pieces offers no way to identify the species or grade.
"It should always be a concern as to how much tuna is being harvested," he says, adding that Legals looks for yellowfin tuna caught by line and pole (no large tankers with nets) and sold as an entire fish. As well, he says that Legals' tuna is BRC-certified (British Retail Consortium standards for safety and quality) and evaluated for categories indicating fat level content.
Monterey Bay Seafood Watch says to "look for the following sources of handline – hand-operated pole-and-line or trolling line-caught tuna: albacore (aka light tuna) caught in the Eastern Pacific and Western and Central Pacific and yellowfin from the Western and Central Pacific. Say 'no thanks' to wild-caught or farmed bluefin tuna." As well, the watchdog organization says to remember that in sushi tuna is known as "maguro." Monterey Bay is emphatic that its tuna website is accurate and assessments are ongoing, according to Maddie Southard, content manager for Monterey's Seafood Watch program.
I went to the site of the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood watch for more information. Based in California, a state with some great environmental laws, Monterey Bay Watch wants to partner with local businesses to provide the best information possible. According to Southard, businesses pay to join the partnership for some of the most up-to-date information on fish, seafood and sustainability practices. Consumers can research typical fish served in poke bars in around Boston for sustainability information.
Others serving poke on the menu like PF Chang in nearby Dedham's Legacy Place, cannot comment on the sourcing of its fish, though a spokesman does say poke is on the menu. Repeated calls were unanswered. So beware: a restaurant should be able to verify where its fish are caught and methods used. For example, species of fish, sea or country of origin, and catch method should be readily available.
Catch method of preference for tuna is pole and line caught, rather than any type of long line, which is known to cause destruction to other marine life including the marine albatross bird.
The world of fishing has changed since the days of Charlie the tuna but it's still up to consumers to ask questions. If your restaurant cannot tell you much, it's time to say "Sorry Charlie."
Debbie Spingarn writes an occasional column for this newspaper.


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The heavy rain Boise experienced over the holidays left many gardeners stuck inside looking out. The Christmas tree has been dragged out back and the poinsettia is staring at us from the corner of the dining room. So what do gardeners do with holiday plant leftovers besides pitch them? Let's find out.
Meticulous year-round care makes a poinsettia red for next year's holiday season
I understand that a poinsettia can be made to bloom again. Can you explain how that's done?
Sharon, Kuna
The poinsettia, a native of Mexico, likes it warm but needs the coolness of fall with short days and long nights to go into its colorful metamorphosis. The spectacular "flowers" that people see flashing bright on top of the poinsettia aren't flowers at all but colored leaves called bracts. There are no petals on a poinsettia. The true flowers are those tiny, inconspicuous yellow-green beady structures at the very center of the bracts. So the idea for most people isn't how to make it flower again but rather how to make those bracts turn red and that's a challenge.
Care for your poinsettia like a houseplant. Give it plenty of light with temperatures between 60 and 80 degrees, as well as regular watering and fertilizing. Avoid over watering by waiting until the top of the soil feels dry to the touch before watering again. Poinsettias do best with warm water.
Despite all your best efforts, this colorful holiday symbol may drop most of its leaves due to low winter light. Around mid-April revive your Southern beauty by repotting. The plant can be placed back into the same pot if you want, just knock most of the old soil off and add fresh potting soil. Leave a reservoir about half an inch between the soil and the top of the pot so water can be applied without running out over the edge. Cut the stems to within 5 inches of the soil line. New shoots will appear.
When danger of frost is past in May, your poinsettia can be moved outdoors to a sunny, protected spot in the garden to make caring for it a little easier. Sink the whole shebang in the ground, pot and all, and continue regular watering and fertilizing. The poinsettia's attractive leaves make it a fine exotic addition to the landscape. In June and again in August, pinch the growing tips back to make the plant bushier.
In September, prior to frost, bring the plant indoors. This phaseplaying an indoor version of Mother Naturebegins the challenging part of making a poinsettia bloom again. Under natural conditions down south, as the days get shorter and cooler in the fall, the poinsettia forms its tiny beady flowers and colorful bracts but here up north, with our unpredictable frosts, it is way too cold to allow the poinsettia to stay outdoors to take advantage of the cool short days and long nights.
The number of artificial lights in and around homes makes it a nightly chore to give the poinsettia its required dark period of 14-hours each night. But if you're up for it, this is how it's done. Begin by placing your green garden refugee in a cool (60 to 65 degrees Fahrenheit) place. To give the total darkness that poinsettias need, consider putting the plant in a thick, black plastic bag and tie the top shut or put it under an overturned box or plastic garbage can that is taped to the floor (if necessary). Total darkness is extremely important, no streetlights or room lights should interrupt this beauty sleepeven a slight crack of light coming through from under the box can screw up your efforts.
During the day, the plant is given normal lighting. Continue this special treatment daily for eight weeks. Your poinsettia will color up, but it may be taller than what it originally was. That's because poinsettias grown in greenhouses are pinched several times during their lives to reduce size and are usually treated with plant growth regulators to keep them compact. But hey, if you pull off the poinsettia's mysterious color transformation at home, that automatically bumps you into the heady world of the advanced green thumber. That's nothing to sneeze at. Still, you probably won't attempt it more than once and chances are you'll return to the ranks of those who just pitch the red rascals out on the compost pile and buy another next Christmas.
Use fresh cut trees even after the holidays are long gone
I bought a cut Christmas tree this year and hate to see it just tossed out. Do you have any suggestions for getting a little more use out of it?
Marty, Ontario, OR
Used Christmas trees can be chipped into valuable garden mulch, but before you do that, consider extending the usefulness of O Tannenbaum by turning it into a backyard song bird feeder. Redecorate the branches with orange slices and suet balls, popcorn and cranberry garland, apple slice wreaths and peanut butter-smeared pinecones rolled in birdseed. This is a kid friendly outdoor project that gives the whole family a break from cabin fever. Just remember that those little feathered friends also need water nearby, so put out some H2O in pie tins or other shallow containers. Fir tree foliage is highly fragrant. Potpourri makers like to strip the needles from the branches and snip them into small pieces for adding to sachets and stuffing aromatic pillows. Gardeners living near steep hillsides will find old Christmas trees effective soil erosion barriers. Woodworking enthusiasts will see a multitude of potential in the trunk wood of an evergreen, while economy-minded wood burners can save the wood for next year's cozy fires.


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I swear I know I am married but it hasen't felt like it lately. Jason took last Monday and Tuesday off and this weeks days off are Saturday and Sunday so he is working 10 days straight. And it isn't like he works a normal 9-5 shift. On a good day he leaves at 7 and gets home sometime between 5:30 and 6. Yesterday ended up being a 7-7. With all the things going on in life I feel like we never see him. I love the benefits we get from his job and the fact that it allows me to stay at home with the kids but sometimes I just feel like saying screw it all and opting for less money for more time. Normally it isn't this bad but 10 days straight with no help with the kids gets very wearing. Especially when it feels like all I do is drive from one activity to the next. Thank God soccer will be over soon and we'll only have dance and awana to worry about. I can handle 2 days a week!
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Imām Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ājūrī was a famous muḥaddith and jurist from the fourth century after Hegira. He was born and grew up in the western part of Baghdād named Darb al-'Ajūrr, hence the appellation.
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Many women wonder if it's safe and healthy to eat fish during pregnancy. Fish contain omega-3 fatty acids, B vitamins and are a great source of lean protein, making them an important part of a healthy diet, including during pregnancy.
However, fish and shellfish can accumulate the environmental toxin mercury, which can be harmful to unborn babies and young children by harming nervous system development, leading to developmental and learning disorders. Some fish and shellfish contain higher levels of mercury, while some have relatively low levels. Knowing which fish are healthy for you and your baby during pregnancy is important.
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Field Trip Fun
Sorry folks.
No I haven't fallen off the end of the earth, it just seems that way.
I'm not entirely sure why, either. Possibly because I feel guilty bringing my boring life into print, so I try to wait for exciting bits. Recently, however, reading some other blogs on the RAOK ring, I've come to realize that the blogs I love most are the ones where everyday normal life IS the exciting bit. SO, I am endeavouring, for the next month, to blog on a daily basis. I make no promises as to quality, not even knitting content, but blog I shall.
So….what's happened since last we spoke? OH! I rounded up all of my Grade 9 Drama students and took them to see Holy Body Tattoo at the National Arts Centre. We saw a show called "monumental". Here is some needed background, for those of you just tuning in. The school at which I teach houses the poorest students in the city. More than half are first generation Canadians or brand new immigrants, generally from Africa and the Middle East. I absolutely adore the school, the staff, and generally everything about the place. We always seem to turn weaknesses into strengths, and this show was no exception.
For most of the students, this was their first time ever seeing live performance. For all but 3, it was their first time to the NAC (a very impressive edifice). For every single one, it was their first time seeing modern dance. Thus some…preparation…seemed necessary. First, I had to explain how very very impressive it was that we had this opportunity. I did this by introducing the idea of a field trip, and then asking my class if, in their estimation, they could behave up to the very high standards require…with some help, of course. They discussed the matter and decided two things. First, that getting out of school for a morning was DEFINITELY worth ten dollars, and that the few who couldn't afford it might be able to borrow money and pay back slowly. (NB. The school actually covers a few of these kids regularly, but we never mention that in class. The funding is for the "very poor", so most of our kids, who are merely "poor" don't qualify.)
Second, that they would indeed like to learn theatre manners, and that the few who didn't really want to learn would acquiesce if only to get out of school. Fair enough.
So we looked at dance. We looked at communicating without words. We figured out ways that we could communicate using multimedia to add to dance (a projector and a CD player). Then we practiced our "boredom busters". For those of you not teachers, if you place 20+ young teens into a theatre, out of school, they will talk. Then they will pass notes. Furthermore, they will attempt to do so in a manner that is so pathetically sneaky that it is completely impossible to ignore. I explained this to my class. They disagreed. I pointed out much evidence to support my theory. They finally admitted that I was correct. Then I introduced the boredom busters.
A boredom buster is a mental game that can be played without moving or changing one's expression. They each came up with several of these, and we practiced them.
The day came. We took the city bus to the theatre. Halfway there, I thought I was going to have a difficulty. One of my less well-behaved boys stood up, followed by his buddy, and both moved towards the front door. As the bus came to a stop, I judged whether I could run along the bus corridor and grab the boys before they took off. I took one step, and then a second, and then stopped sheepishly as my two boys helped a mother carry a stroller onto the bus and stood so that she'd have seating.
Into the theatre we trotted, with nary a second to lose, as the city bus had been late. The NAC had been very kind to us, and given us discounted tickets…but in the highest balcony. On my way up the stairs, I heard the first of my students turn the final corner, look at the theatre and gasp "Miss got us into the penthouse! WOW! Look!" I love these kids.
During the performance, my students were silent. Not "I'm in terror" silent. These kids were entranced. We'd already discussed the fact that dance communicates to your emotions, so figuring it out involves paying attention to how you feel, not what you think.
At no point did any student so much as wriggle, not once during over an hour of very high level modern dance did I have to quell a whisper, or glare. Whoops, I lied. At one point, a student leaned over to me and asked, of the Grade 12 audience below "Don't they know that when they talk like that, they're interfering with the communication?"
The bus ride home required us to walk through a shopping mall, at 11:30 am, past the food court, to catch a bus that the kids are familiar with. I didn't lose one kid. I was so impressed, that I gave them a little leeway. Since we had our class right after lunch, and the bus ride was cutting into their lunch period, I'd give them a ten minute window after the bell, so that they had time to get food and eat. Furthermore, they could, one time only, eat in class as we discussed the show.
When the ball rang, every single kid was at the classroom door, waiting. Moreover, the class discussion was not only interesting, it was insightful. At one point during the show, three pairs are dancing together. One member in each pair falls to the ground, and what follows looks disturbingly like a sexual assault. The first pair has a male crouching over a female who is trying to escape. The second pair is two women in the same position. The last pair has the female on top. One young man's comment: "When I saw the guy on top of the girl, I wanted to protect her. When I saw the two girls, I wanted to watch, and when I saw the girl on top, I wanted to laugh. Miss, do you think that the dancers were trying to point out how we treat bad things differently depending on who's involved?"
Altogether a rewarding event.
Tune in tomorrow, when I continue to catch you up on the joy of being me.
PS. That baby blanket? Still not finished. 28 rows left.


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If there's one thing I love about being an architect in today's modern world, it has to be technology. Technology gives birth to numerous inventions that make our bloody profession way easier. Inventions like computer, telephone, television, cars, cameras and light bulbs are just too essential to live without. Though, (sad to say) many technological advancement caused a great damage to our natural environment and to our health too.
But, todays architects have become more aware of these harsh effects- that actually made us more eager in promoting green architecture which is quite synonymous to sustainable design- that uses construction materials known to be renewable, non toxic to the environment and easy to maintain. For instance, Solar PV, it produces clean, renewable electricity and at the same time, maintenance wise and, is also practical since it allows the users to use less public utility electricity when producing their own electricity.
You see? Technology is actually a solution, when used properly. And, its importance to our daily lives grows bigger and bigger as it continues to develop each day.
But, have you ever consider (or even thought of) living in a rural area without all the sort of modern technology or electricity, perhaps? For a city dweller (since birth) like me, that's completely unimaginable. From sun up to sun down, practically everything a person does is powered by some form of electricity. Without it, a person's quality of life and livelihood would drastically change. It's no surprise then that Manileños complain to no end when a "brownout" happens.
Students at Nueva Vizcaya watch a DVD movie for the first time.
Imagine then how residents of remote provinces live without any kind of steady source of electricity since power lines cannot make it to their areas due to the terrain and distance. Kerosene lamps are the staple source of light during the evening. On top of being fire hazards, gas lamps may not be bright enough to read by and have been found to produce climate-changing carbon dioxide emissions. Then there's the electric generator, which not everyone can afford, hence only a fortunate few posses this.
So when electricity made it to these far-flung homes, its residents were surprised beyond belief because it was literally their first time to watch DVD movies, use electric fans and read properly under a light. But it wasn't the usual power coming from a utility grid that they experienced rather, solar power. Using solar PV (photovoltaic) panels mounted on roofs or poles, the sun's energy was harnessed and routed through an inverter, thereby allowing the house's outlets to have power.
A pole mounted solar panel stands next to a school in Luna, Apayao.
These towns in North Luzon, Apayao, Kalinga, Nueva Vizcaya, Isabela, Agusan Del Sur, Lanao Del Norte, Sultan Kudarat, Masbate, Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat, Zamboanga City, and North Cotabato are part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Rural Electrification Program. In cooperation with AMORE (Alliance for Mindanao and multi-regional Renewable Energy development) and UNDP (United Nations Development Program), the program was implemented by Propmech Corporation through their solar division, Green Heat.
Propmech was selected through a bidding process and was able to offer the lowest price and showed that they have the capability and man power to design and install the systems. Propmech is a locally-owned company also engaged in marine engineering.
Throughout all these provinces, over 600 barangays were energized with varying systems, tailored to the area's needs and specifications. All the barangays were selected by the DOE with the help of the Electric Cooperative of the Provinces. Prior to the electrification, these barangays had never had electricity.
A housing project in Masbate is now outfitted with roof mounted solar panels.
Today, a house in any of these locations can generate about 300 to 500 watts per day. Its residents now enjoy using appliances like CFL and LED lights, radios, televisions and DVD players, as well as electric fans. Each house uses different solar home systems ranging from 20 to 300Wp (watt peak), which demonstrates that solar PV as an alternative energy solution can be applied to a relatively smaller scale.
With DOE subsidization and a payment plan, residents are able to afford the systems, which range from PhP19,000 to PhP175,000, depending on the requirements of the home. Over a period of time, the home owner is able to recoup their investment and enjoy a level of energy self-sufficiency.
The introduction of solar power to these remote areas allows its villagers a better lifestyle in many ways. From getting entertained to staying informed to increasing productivity, the advantages the solar PV systems bring to these villages are numerous and long-lasting.
To learn more about solar PV systems, visit www.greenheat-intl.com.


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This one is self explanatory.
I'm not agreeing or endorsing this little chart here, but I must say those guys over at Free Republic can be a hoot. Sorry for the pixelation. If I try to make it any bigger it pushes it down the page to below where the links are. If you are having trouble reading it though, go here. You'll have to blow it up with the right bottom corner button, but that should be needed only for people who are too blind to be using the internet anyways.


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8" x 10" embossed copper, framed. Not available for immediate delivery, allow 3-4 weeks production time.
Framed dimensions will be approximately 12" x 14".
Please note that the visible color of the copper greatly depends on the light it is reflecting and will vary between photographs and during the course of the day.


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Original Sin?
|March 12th, 2014 at 7:05:31 PM permalink
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It is opinionģit is you and others who attribute miracles and the like to him. Why would an omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient being need a son?
|March 12th, 2014 at 7:08:18 PM permalink
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I am unsubscribing to this thread as there is no logic herein and no way to change anyone's minds - rational thought can never win an argument versus faith
Good night and good luck.
Fr Gamble - although we disagree, I respect you as a human being. Best wishes and positive variance.
|March 12th, 2014 at 7:21:22 PM permalink
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So you believe.
I don't know how to say this without sounding offensive, so I assure you I mean no offense: can you put yourself in other people's frame of mind? try to see things as others see them?
If God and Jesus were real, then, yes, some of the events in the Bible would be, literally, awesome. I can see that if I try. Of course, I can say the same of the Greek gods in the Illiad, or in movies about them.
The oral tradition was very important and widely used. Mnemonic devices were often used.That's why Jews to this day sing when reading the Torah in a synagogue. And why so manu ancient stories are told as poems.
But it was used to pass on stories, not necessarily true stories.
Of course mopst people believed most stories, from Gilgamesh to the Illiad to the Oddissey to the Norse myths to the Bible and even beyond that. All you can say is they were all orally transmitted.
I've seen people swear to "miracles" by psychics, Mexican medicine-men (it's the term used), astrologers and many others. For that matter there are millions who believe in astrology, numerology, dianetics, etc. The number of adherents to an idea, I've said this before, indicates its popularity. Perhaps also its usefulness, real or illusory in peoples' lives. But not it's validity.
Donald Trump is a fucking liar
|March 12th, 2014 at 7:22:48 PM permalink
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The First Letter of St. Paul to the Thessalonians was written circa 49 AD.
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|March 13th, 2014 at 7:30:33 AM permalink
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This bugs me.
The Bible is a book of truths, right? I know many books that are books of truths, we are surrounded by them. I have a service manual for a second generation Honda Civic here, and anything you find in the book exists and is where and how the book says it is. My girl's probabilities textbook is here, and yup, everything in it is true. It can be proven, it works out as good now as it did back in the days of Pythagoras (or whomever). I am surrounded by non-fiction literature, from biological pieces about wildlife of the Northeast to histories of military aircraft to medical text books. Some of the info is recent; the military text is only from the 70's on. The medical, the math? Well, that stretches back generations, into the way back.
To understand them, all one needs do is read. I can't think of a single book of truths that needs anything else. Read ~~> gain understanding. Why is it then that the "ultimate book of truths" requires so much rigamarole?
That's not to say it lacks worth. Aesop's fables are valuable as well. Despite the fact they are stories of fiction, the lessons therein are very real. But "book of truth"? Is there any other book of truth that requires all sorts of special interpretations?
Be bold and risk defeat, or be cautious and encourage it.
|March 13th, 2014 at 7:42:57 AM permalink
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Not to speak for FrG, but I don't think he can. I've tried to make him see, back when he and I first began speaking, and I think I failed. But, to be fair, can you do the same?
I know I cannot see religion the way he does. I can try, I have tried, and I'll surely try again. But I can't, and I suspect you can't either. It's more than mental, it's "a feel", and feels are hard (impossible) to force.
As an aside, I heard something spoken by Neil deGrasse Tyson that I think deserves consideration...
"As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, the is no intersection between the two. That is for certain.
And it's not for want of trying. Over the centuries, many people, theologians as well as scientists, have tried to explore points of intersection. And anytime anyone has declared that harmony has risen up, it is the consequence of religion acquiescing scientific discovery.
In every single case."
Is there anything that can be said to combat that quote?
Be bold and risk defeat, or be cautious and encourage it.
|March 13th, 2014 at 7:58:44 AM permalink
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Wow. I've never thought about it in that way.
|March 13th, 2014 at 8:22:25 AM permalink
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I'm Christian.
That said, I don't believe that there was a single Adam and Eve and I don't believe that people lived for 900+ years either before the Ark. With regards to Christianity, I always find myself asking why God sent down Jesus 4000 years after Adam and Eve, if God was perfect? Why do the people before Jesus have a certain path to Heaven, while those after Jesus' death had a different path?
Anyway, that said, I don't believe in Original sin. Sin is in the eye of the beholder. Heck, Luther defines sin differently than the Catholics (in mind). By definition, for me, we are all born without sin, but our natural progression in development and thought leads us into traditional Biblical sin. We can't help ourselves.
For example, I commit adultery (according to Luther) about 100 or so times a day. But I've actually only commited the biblical act of adultery three times, and that was well after I separated (but not divorced) from my first wife, and I don't consider that adultery, though FrGamble would disagree with me.
|March 13th, 2014 at 11:08:35 AM permalink
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Passing on history and geography lessons requires a good story since such knowledge would be passed around campfires with the young and old having to have their attention remaining on the story line.
With all our knowledge of vortexes we have no better instruction on how to escape one than in the Oddessy. No claim of reliance on the various gods was made. No institution sought to attach its coat tails to the myths. No con man had a vested interest in making the myths "holy".
|March 13th, 2014 at 1:11:55 PM permalink
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I said as much in my post.
Fortunately I can turn it on and off at will, and I know I'm "suspending disbelief" when I do it. In fact, I don't think anyone can read as much SF as I do without having this knack.
Should there be?


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Jessica Biel has it all. She's Mrs. Justin Timberlake, she has a son, and she co-owns Au Fudge, a popular kid-friendly restaurant in LA. But underneath all that, Jessica Biel is suffering. Au Fudge has been hit with multiple allegations and she keeps getting rejected for roles she really wants. She wants to be an A-lister like Scarlett Johansson, who can hand-pick the roles she wants without auditioning. Various sites online say that she doesn't seem to understand that she's not Johansson, or even Anne Hathaway, so she shouldn't be "devastated" after losing juicy roles. Her claim to fame is not a movie but as being Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive. But that was in 2005 and since then she's made only one movie that garnered her rave reviews, The Illusionist.
If you ask why Hollywood fails to cast her, you have to look at her track record: mostly duds. Then there's the fact that she's full of herself. According to Elle, she rationalizes that she loses roles because she's just too fit. But casting agents suggest she just can't act. Various sources have warned Biel to take acting lessons and not count on her beauty to land a role. There's a lot here that Biel wants us to forget, but all of this is just the tip of the iceberg. There's more, so please enjoy our list of 15 Things Jessica Biel Wants Us To Forget.
15 Her Restaurant Allegedly Stole Over $400,000 In Tips From Employees
Biel's popular kid-friendly eatery Au Fudge is a hit, a place where A-listers feel comfortable bringing their kids. In fact, Emily Blunt, Rachel Zoe and Lea Michele and so many other celebs love it. What Biel wants us to forget is that last September, she and her business partners were sued for allegedly keeping more than $430,000 in tips from their employees and denying them meals and rest breaks.
According to People, 9 former employees are suing. The plaintiffs allege: "Each of them had their gratuities wrongfully converted and were improperly denied meal and rest breaks, in addition to withholding overtime compensation and [using]. . . various illegal payroll practices." Biel and the others allegedly used the money to host private parties and to keep the rest to themselves. This is big, and if this really happened, Biel and her partners will be in hot water. Isn't it enough that they all make a lot of money? Why steal from their own employees?
14 She Doesn't Want Her Son To Follow In Hubby's Musical Footsteps
Biel will regret it if her son, Silas, ends up following in his father's musical footsteps because she doesn't want him to be a "struggling musician." "There are many qualities I'd love [Silas] to get from Justin," she told News, "[But] there's one thing I don't want for him. I really don't want him to be a musician."
But even if Silas does choose music—or even acting in films—Biel will do her best to support him. She's not ruling anything out; she's just another protective mother who wants the best for her child. She did add that her statement was "sort of as a joke," but because she has seen her husband Justin Timberlake struggle to make it to the top, and because she has witnessed how cutthroat the music industry is from him, she confesses she'd rather have her son work at a more stable job, like being an engineer or a doctor.
13 She Thinks Being Too Fit Is Why She Won't Get Cast In A Rom-Com
Biel wants us to forget that she has had a hard time landing the lead in a comedic rom-com. That's true, but her reason is a little narcissistic: she's too fit, and is therefore not considered to be funny too. As we can see from pics of her online, Biel does have a toned body and stunning arms that many women would die for. She keeps healthy by using free weights while at the gym. When she's not using muscle to burn off fat, she takes to pilates, which is her favorite exercise. But we're still confused. Her explanation that she's too fit seems like a big excuse. After all, many actresses with bodies like hers do end up in rom-coms. Just look at stunner Anne Hathaway. She's totally toned too, and she was the lead in many rom-coms.
12 She Seems To Have Been Blackballed From All Marvel Movies
Biel regrets not getting parts in Marvel's Iron Man and Wolverine. Insiders say she was a shoo-in for Black Widow in Iron Man because she'd starred in a previous Marvel movie, Blade: Trinity. But she lost the role. She also lost the lead role of Viper in Wolverine, the follow-up to X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Because both films are by Marvel, it seems as if Biel has been blackballed from its universe. Initially, it looked like Biel had Viper until it was revealed that talks between her and Twentieth Century Fox broke down. Biel would've never turned down the part. It was one that Biel would've wanted because she has gone on record saying she wants the parts that A-list stars like Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman get (Johansson plays Black Widow). But there must have been a gag order because we don't know what happened to both roles.
11 She Was Treated Badly By Former Beau, Gerald Butler
Gerard Butler and Biel met and dated while filming Playing for Keeps in 2011. Allegedly, the two split because Biel, who was 30, was looking to settle down and Butler wasn't ready for anything serious. But the real reason they broke up was that Butler didn't treat Biel with the respect she wanted; she was not dating anyone else and was caught between leaving him and starting over yet again, or staying with him and not being able, for example, to have kids. Butler now regrets the way he treated Biel, and reportedly he said that she's "the one who got away." Lesson to learn. You don't treat any woman, especially the sexiest woman alive, with disrespect.
10 She's Ashamed That Anne Hathaway Got The Roles She Wanted
Biel is ashamed that she lost two meaty roles that could've been career changing. She very much wanted to play Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises and Fantine in Les Miserables. Because both roles ultimately went to Anne Hathaway, Hollywood has portrayed her as "forever being frustrated by Anne Hathaway." Biel says, about losing the part in The Dark, that she was "gutted," as if she were hit by a wrecking ball. For Les Miserables, where she was once again overshadowed by Hathaway, she told Elle, "I auditioned for Fantine and I sang 'I Dreamed a Dream.' I didn't get it. And I would have loved it." Why so many losses? To many in the know, there's a consensus that Jessica is not talented enough, and that's why she keeps losing parts.
9 Her 2015 Box Office Bomb, Accidental Love
Long before David O. Russell was an Academy Award fave (The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook, and American Hustle) the director made a political satire called Nailed that became known in Hollywood for its production woes because it lacked funds to complete the project. Shot way back in 2008, Biel's character gets a nail shot into her head and because she lacks insurance and can't have the nail removed—yep, that's the plot—she asks a Congressman, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, to fight for health care reform. Of course, the film is dated. Both actors walked off the set in 2008 because they weren't paid and after Russell disowned the film in 2010, the doomed movie was released VOD in 2013 with the title changed to Accidental Love. Biel regrets the film. It took away her time, she failed to make any profits, and she could've picked a more promising role while filming took place.
8 She Regrets Her Raunchiest Role Now That She's A Mom
Biel has starred in many movies, but she regrets only one: The Rules of Attraction. Biel plays the promiscuous student who attends a college populated by the overprivileged and spoiled. Now that she has a child, she doesn't want her son to see the movie due to its graphic content. There's a scene where Biel is shown inviting football players into a dorm room to get "close" to her. Another is Biel sniffing Bolivian Marching Powder until her nose starts to bleed. The movie initially received an NC-17 rating, so the director had to make cuts to receive an R rating. Despite this, the movie is still explicit, including many gratuitous shots of teens getting it on with each other, and even to themselves. The movie was dismissed, but because the budget was so low, it did become a minor box office success. In fact, despite negative reviews, today it is a cult classic.
7 Her Racy Photoshoot (At 17) Which Angered The 7th Heaven Producers
Posing in frilly panties and with just a hand covering her chest that left little to the imagination is Jessica Biel's biggest regret. Her racy image appeared on the cover of Gear when she was only 17 and at the time she played the wholesome girl-next-door in the television series 7th Heaven, a faith-based drama intended for the entire family. She admits she was at that rebellious age and "had enough of being virginal," as she told EW. The photos were intended to show off to the world that she was not her goody-goody character, but the pics were so revealing that the higher-ups—the network, WB, and the producer, legendary Aaron Spelling—were extremely pissed off. Biel claimed to EW that she thought the layout would be "subdued. . . I'm talking about how much was shown of my chest area." She was so upset about the layout that she called her father and cried.
6 She's Still Haunted By Being Passed Over As The Lead In The Notebook
In 2004, Biel auditioned for the lead female role in The Notebook, a movie that became a sleeper hit and a cult classic among many young women. Rachel McAdams eventually got the lead and that was her breakout film that turned her into a bona fide star. Biel regretted not getting the part. She told Page Six that "That's one that I wanted so badly." If she had starred in the movie, her career may have been as bright as McAdams. Biel knows why she didn't get the role. She told Allure what she tells everyone: that she's too good looking for most roles. "It really is a problem," she said. "I have to be blunt." Well, if you put it that way, good thing she can't open a movie on her own. Her beauty would be so piercingly hot that theaters showing that film would literally burn down the moment movie-goers catch the sight of her on screen.
5 She Got A Huge Cold Sore Right After Being Named Hottest Women Alive
Biel has successfully lived a private life with Timberlake, away from the paparazzi and the Page Six gossipmongers. That all changed when she got engaged to the sexy crooner and the paparazzi wanted a photo of her gigantic engagement ring, which they got. They also got much more: Biel sporting a cold sore. How embarrassing! It's not the look you want if you are Esquire's 2005's Sexiest Woman Alive. A cold sore is a virus that happens because of an infection with the herpes simplex virus (HSV). It is not HSV type 2, which is more serious and is known by the dirty words "genital herpes." Good thing Biel had HSV 1, which occurs when you come into contact with people who carry the virus and is transmitted to you when, say, they kiss you. Trust us, this photo is something Biel wants you to forget.
4 She Doesn't Want To Be Reminded Of Her Painful Split With Chris Evans
Chris Evans starred with Biel in the 2004 thriller Cellular, long before he became a superstar in the Captain America franchise. The two hit it off during filming and started dating. He told Boston Magazine that chemistry was very important in a movie: "Any time you get to work with someone that you know, it's gonna lend itself to the on-set relationship." The two dated for over four years, and Biel went on record to say he's "definitely a keeper." She also admitted that she and Evans discussed marriage. They also wanted children. Obviously, this never happened, and we can only imagine how Biel felt after they broke up. She doesn't just date. She's looking for something more.
3 She's Still In The Shadow Of Hot Hubby Timberlake
These days, Biel is enjoying the accolades for appearing as the lead in the TV show The Sinner. This is her first major work after a string of failures. But Biel is not yet the A-lister that she so desperately wants to be. In fact, Biel has lived in the shadow of her more successful hubby, who can switch from acting to being a musician effortlessly. For example, his last released song Can't Stop The Feeling for the movie Trolls debuted at No.1 in the US Billboard Hot 100 and became the best-selling song of the year with 2.4 million copies sold in the US. Biel meanwhile is criticized. The New York Daily News put it aptly: "Being married to Justin Timberlake is her calling card at the moment." An insider for Vulture added: "Her claim to fame is marrying Justin Timberlake."
2 She's Been Nominated Three Times For Worst Actress Razzies
Biel was nominated three times for her performances in three movies. But these nominations are not the kind you want to get. Known as Razzies or Razzie Awards, The Golden Raspberry Awards honor the worst films, directors, actors, actresses, among many others each year. The Razzie nominations and ceremonies always precede the awards you desire, the Academy Awards, and was started as a mock award that has now gotten more serious attention. Biel was nominated Worst Supporting Actress in 2007's I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry. In 2012, Biel got hit twice. She was nominated again for Worst Supporting Actress in 2012 for two of her movies, Playing for Keeps and Total Recall. It keeps showing up that Biel loses roles because she doesn't know how to act. Did Biel learn her lessons here?
1 Her Last Acclaim Was For 2006's The Illusionist... After That, It Was All Downhill
As reported in The New York Daily News, an agent warned that Biel "should get an acting coach" and do a film that "would show off her talent, not her beauty. . . She may be gorgeous. . . but her acting ability just isn't where it needs to be." In 2006, that all changed when Biel starred in the turn-of-the-century movie The Illusionist, opposite an entirely A-list cast. With that role, she received the best reviews of her life. Reelviews called her performance the "film's real acting revelation." Variety said, "Handily employing a refined English accent where the others lay on a light Austrian veneer, Biel is entirely stunning enough to fight to the death over." As a result, Biel received the attention she always wanted. But it did not last. She has a habit of picking bad roles and followed The Illusionist with Next and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, both of which were trashed by critics and fans.


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