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Buoyed by a thrilling 5-0 win over Koln, Borussia Dortmund take on Hamburger at Volksparkstadion on Matchday 5. The Millionaires outclassed the Billy Goats at their Signal-Iduna-Park at the weekend, with the team managing to keep their fourth consecutive clean sheet in the 2017/2018 Bundesliga campaign. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored a brace in the victory over Koln and the opposition defenders are likely to have their work cut out for them when facing the Gabon international. Hamburger have been having their ups and downs at the start of the season, but they will have a big fish to fry in Wednesday's football match against Borussia Dortmund. Taking everything into account, there is a big value in betting on the visitors, who have been in a splendid form of late. You should bear in mind that the Millionaires are eyeing their fourth straight win over die Rothen in the German top flight.
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Lewis Holtby is a left-footed footballer who plays for Hamburg as a midfielder. Holtby began his senior career at Alemannia Aachen and he played for the club between 2007 and 2009. The German player then joined Schalke in 2009, but he was quickly sent to Bochum on loan. After ending his loan spells with Bochum and Mainz, he returned to Schalke and it has to be noted that he made 55 goals for the club, scoring 10 goals in Bundesliga. On 28 January, 2013 Holtby signed a four-and-a-half-year deal with Tottenham Hotspur, but he was playing below expectations for the Premier League club. In September, 2014 Holtby joined Hamburg on loan and on 1 July, 2015 he signed a permanent contract with the club. His contract with Hamburg expires on 30 June, 2018. Lewis Holtby has 24 caps for Germany U21 and he made his debut for German national team on 17 November, 2010 in a goalless draw with Sweden. He started the game, but he was substituted by Andre Schurrle after 77 minutes.
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1909 by eighteen footballers from Dortmund. Die Schwarzgelben (The Black and Yellows) play their home games at Signal Iduna Park, but the stadium's original name is Westfalenstadion. The capacity of Borussia's home ground is 81,539 and it has to be noted that the stadium was opened in 1974. BVB have the highest average attendance in the world of football. Borussia Dortmund have won eight Bundesliga trophies, while clinching the German Cup title three times. However, the club's biggest success came in 1997 when they outplayed Juventus in the Champions League final. Karl-Heinz Riedle scored a brace for BVB in the 3-1 win over Juve, with Lars Ricken finding the net in the title game as well. Borussia's biggest rivals are Schalke 04 and the two teams square off against each other in the Revierderby.


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Evening shows at the theater were below par. Only one event was scheduled on the promenade deck and that was so. Our other cruises on Royal Caribbean seem to be much better.
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CNY Students Continue with protests as students Tafadar Sourov and Khalil Vasquez face a disciplinary hearing for alleged involvement protests following the of the Morales Shakur Community Center at City College.
The City College of New York was the scene of protest and significant police presence Friday as two student leaders were brought before a hearing committee after they were suspended.
On October 20, CCNY security abruptly seized and shut down the Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community and Student Center ("Morales/Shakur Center") at CCNY to prevent student and community access.
Many student protesters believe the university closed the The Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community and Student Center in response to allegations that the center was being used as an organizing space for the protests that took place against former CIA director David Petraeus, who was offered a $200,000 teaching job at the City University.
The students, members of the Maoist student group Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee, were thrown off campus for their role in organizing protests against the closure of the Morales-Shakur Center, a leftist organizing space established in 1989.
Petraeus was named a visiting professor at Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York in July 2013. After word spread of his $200,000 salary for the academic year and critics denounced the salary and protesters hit the streets, Petraeus agreed to take on the teaching position for just $1 in order to keep the focus on the students and away from any monetary controversy.[191] In September 2013 Petraeus was harassed by students at CUNY while walking on campus
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And after years of working with retail clients, I know that you're probably more comfortable working with images than sitting down to write.
In fact, the words "copy" and "writing" probably make you cringe.
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Think about it: when a potential customer visits your website or social media properties, you have about seven seconds to make a good first impression. Within those precious few seconds, that visitor is going to decide whether they leave or stay to learn more about what you have to offer. The words the potential customer reads must convey not only a message – but your brand's voice.
And that's where your creativity comes in.
Just as you choose products that fit with your brand, you can choose words that reflect your brand and your voice. Choose words that make your reader laugh, smile, reflect and react.
You don't have to be a seasoned writer to create killer copy. There are just two fundamental principles related to copywriting that you should keep in mind when you're creating posts, product descriptions, calls to action, ads, etc.
If you can get comfortable with these two principles, your ads will perform better, you'll improve conversion on your ecommerce site and you'll increase the number of customers that walk through your doors each day.
When your customer reads your communication, he or she needs to feel like they are interacting directly with you. Your copy can be professional, but it needs to be conversational, as well. The focus of your writing should be THE CUSTOMER.
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A few months ago I blindly kicked into a step running up stairs in The dark and since then, ive had minor to serious pain in and around the ball of my left foot. I have difficulty lifting my big toe off the floor, and recently, I've had difficulty curling in downward. I play collegiate level volleyball, and though I can play with the pain, after games, the pain is high and painful walking persists into the next few days. Just recently, after games, the bottom of my foot around the ball is swollen and feels as though I am standing on a wide lump when standing erect. After games, any kind of bending of the big toe or toe region of the left foot hurts badly. Please help, could something be broken?
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A string trio commissioned by The Rosetta Trio. When writing your eyes have their silence, I was struck that the pace of our lives seems to be ever increasing from one year to the next. New forms of communication technology appear every year. It was only 10 years ago that I got my first e-mail address. Since then have come instant messages, cell phones, text messages, and now, with the iPhone, a device where you can talk on the phone while instant texting your e-mails and googling to your heart's discontent. As the world becomes hyper-connected, we spend more hours each day at work, going to and from work, going from place to place, and fewer hours "in between." It is in the in-between where we have time for reflection, time for peace, and time for love.
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Victoria is a ward in Southend-on-Sea of East of England, England and includes areas of Priory Park, Westcliff, Sutton Temple, Milton, Temple Farm Industrial Estate, Southend Airport, Eastwoodbury, Clifftown, Southend-On-Sea X and Porters Town.
In the 2011 census the population of Victoria was 11,004 and is made up of approximately 50% females and 50% males.
The average age of people in Victoria is 36, while the median age is lower at 35.
80.8% of people living in Victoria were born in England. Other top answers for country of birth were 1.8% Zimbabwe, 1.2% Scotland, 1.1% Ireland, 1.0% Pakistan, 0.9% Bangladesh, 0.8% Philippines, 0.7% India, 0.5% Wales, 0.4% China.
88.6% of people living in Victoria speak English. The other top languages spoken are 2.5% Polish, 1.1% Bengali, 0.8% Czech, 0.6% Urdu, 0.6% Shona, 0.5% Tagalog/Filipino, 0.3% African language, 0.3% Portuguese, 0.3% All other Chinese.
The religious make up of Victoria is 50.8% Christian, 32.7% No religion, 5.3% Muslim, 0.7% Buddhist, 0.6% Jewish, 0.6% Hindu, 0.1% Agnostic, 0.1% Atheist. 833 people did not state a religion. 63 people identified as a Jedi Knight and 4 people said they believe in Heavy Metal.
30.0% of people are married, 14.5% cohabit with a member of the opposite sex, 1.3% live with a partner of the same sex, 32.6% are single and have never married or been in a registered same sex partnership, 14.2% are separated or divorced. There are 934 widowed people living in Victoria.
The top occupations listed by people in Victoria are Elementary 14.5%, Professional 13.9%, Elementary administration and service 12.5%, Caring, leisure and other service 12.4%, Administrative and secretarial 12.2%, Skilled trades 10.9%, Sales and customer service 10.2%, Caring personal service 10.0%, Associate professional and technical 9.9%, Administrative 9.7%.
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Don't forget to stop by Hymie's this week and pick up your copy of our first ever Halloween mix CD — Twenty-five tracks of terror starring vampires, werewolves, zombies and other spooky characters.
There's also fun bits from story records interspersed throughout. It's a fun soundtrack for Friday evening, while you're watching the trick or treaters come and go.
"The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe, performed by James Mason
George Rose reads W.W. Jacobs' 1902 story, "The Monkey's Paw."
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I Have No Words
This is my first post on C99, and it may well be my last.
I don't even have that much to say, i thought i was completely disillusioned by the end of the 2016 campaign. There was nothing left to shock or disappoint me.
And then I read this:
"Stephen Colbert's Favorite Things about Mike Pence."
I mean what else can I say?
There is nothing but bitter, bitter sadness here.
President Dense
Colbert, who describes Pence as a "man who thinks seltzer water is too spicy," seemed particularly tickled by the nickname Pence earned among legislators: Mike Dense. "I hope soon he'll be President Dense," Colbert said.
What's not to like? Can you explain your bitterness?
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
President Pence
I'm not the OP, and I'm not exactly bitter about Colbert, because I figured out a while back that he sold out.
But this makes me uneasy:
"I hope soon he'll be President Dense,"
Right there Colbert is saying he hopes that Trump is impeached (or perhaps forced to resign, a la Nixon?), and that he's looking forward to Pence becoming POTUS.
He's even giving us a preview of what his comedic approach to Pence will be during his presidency: "President Dense" and making fun of Pence's religious fanaticism. Maybe he's trying out his jokes now to refine his Pence material so he'll be ready when Pence takes office.
Right now we have a buffoon as president. With Pence, we would have a narrow-minded religious nut who truly believes that the US should be run according to the Christian bible, and that he's been divinely appointed to make that happen.
Interesting article by Jeremy Scahill of the Intercept on the dangers of Pence as president:
Mike Pence Will Be the Most Powerful Christian Supremacist in History
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
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Personally, I thought Colbert lampooned Pence in the conservative character he's played on TV for so long.
And "I hope soon he'll be President Dense," struck me as an obvious joke, very far from a wish...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I'm thinking shock value and the evident absurdity of anyone hoping for a dense President, one even in youth eager to betray his college buddies for having had beer at a party because fun is against his religion.
One who's mindlessly judgmental, authoritarian in his obsessive dream of dragging everyone else back into a dark age where getting stoned means a painful and barbaric death under religious law for spitting on Sunday or whatever. God forbid anyone having sex for love or fun, rather than producing babies-within-marriage until the baby-factory women each die in childbirth and the world of life perishes of compulsory maximized starving-child production!
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
TV character
If that's what it was, the allusion to the TV character went right over my head. I got rid of my TV 15 years ago. I don't watch TV shows, even via the Internet.
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
Strictly speaking, that's probably an overstatement
"The most powerful Christian supremacist in history" was probably Pope Innocent III. On his watch and with his encouragement three brilliant civilizations were destroyed: the Albigensians in southern France, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and the Byzantine Empire. (The latter two were later resurrected, but as pale shadows of what they had once been.)
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
True. Of course, people like Roy Moore would insist that the Roman Catholic popes are not Christian. The American Protestant fundamentalists have co-opted the term "Christian" to apply to themselves only.
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
Kinda makes me wonder
If Jon Stewart got out of it because he had no intention of going along with the narrative?
Couldn't get into the link and read the article. Apologies for the non sequitur.
If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I Don't See The Problem
"But what really comes through in this piece is Pence's belief that he's doing the Lord's work," Colbert added. "As [Coppins] puts it, 'what critics should worry about is not that Pence believes in God, but that he seems so certain God believes in him.'"
That strikes me as a pretty harsh and humorous criticism. What am I missing here?
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
What you're missing
is that Mike Pence is an American Torquemada. There is nothing funny about that, though Mel Brooks gave it a shot and sort of hit. Brooks showed the inquisition as a 1930s Busby Berkeley routine. Some european director showed Osama bin Laden as a brain eating zombie. Colbert showed Pence as an awkward teenager. The BBC (?) tried showing Hitler as a goofy neighbor - the show as gone down in history as an epic failure that offended millions. See?
A PROUD Hillary hater since 1993
shouldn't go there
What you're missing is that Mike Pence is an American Torquemada. There is nothing funny about that,
And therefore comedians shouldn't "go there".
The Chump was manna from heaven to the likes of Colbert. Pence, OTOH, is useless for thios kind of humor, as he has none.
"I say enough! If Israel wants to be the only superpower in the Middle East then they can put their own asses on the line and do it themselves. I want to continue to eat."
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I think the question
Is really what is missing from our supposed "subversive" comedy. Mark from Queens provided an excellent link down thread discussing both Stewart and Colbert in the context of political humor and the role it plays, or more pointedly, what role it was meant to play:
What Stewart and Colbert do most nights is convert civic villainy into disposable laughs. They prefer Horatian satire to Juvenalian, and thus treat the ills of modern media and politics as matters of folly, not concerted evil. Rather than targeting the obscene cruelties borne of greed and fostered by apathy, they harp on a rogues' gallery of hypocrites familiar to anyone with a TiVo or a functioning memory. Wit, exaggeration, and gentle mockery trump ridicule and invective. The goal is to mollify people, not incite them
The author of the article makes a convincing case for what political comedy is, and what it isn't in the context of broadcast media. Here's the link: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-jokes-on-you
If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Didn't you see what happened to Rachel and Keith
after Obama became president? Everything that they said about Bush should have been said about Obama too, but they gave him a complete pass for the war crimes he committed just like Bush did.
And Rachel has lost what was left of her reputation for pushing the Russian propaganda. People are being told that Trump had direct relations with Putin while the only information that has been released by Mueller is that Flynn lied about talking to someone in Putin's government. The truth is that Flynn did speak with a Russian after Trump was elected, but he did it on Kushner's orders and it was about the upcoming vote for sanctions on Israel. Rachel has not reported that.
Disclaimer: No Russian, living or dead, had anything to do with the posting of this proudly home-grown comment
If anyone who studies politics doesn't despair,
they lack understanding. Speaking for myself, I have had to take a politics holiday every so often because this shit is infuriating. Please fortify yourself with your favorite potion and then contribute more. If any website can put up with me, they can handle anybody.
President Dense
There were not any auto correct typos in my block quote konundrum. The quote was "President Dense".
I fail to see the problem here, so I'll just back out now.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
We had eight years of that adorable idiot, Dubya. Have
you noticed how cute and folksy he has become? Nothing like that awful Trump! We've completely forgotten the awkward neck rub Dubya gave Angela Merkel.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
I've been convinced since the beginning Trump is a stalking horse and shit like this only furthers my suspicion.
Both Stewart and Colbert sold out, IMO
They played the same game that Rachel and Keith did. I have been thinking about this since I started watching Jimmy Dore and Camp. I realized that I used to never miss the other twos shows and wondered if Dore and Camp could sell out too in the future.
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I think you're taking Stephen too literally.
And Monsieur Colbert is not particularly adept at back-handed snark, which is the main means of attack open to him on today's CBS.
The memories of the demise of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour run deep indeed:
Their own television variety show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, became one of the most controversial American TV programs of the Vietnam War era. Despite popular success, the brothers' penchant for material that was critical of the political mainstream and sympathetic to the emerging counterculture led to their firing by the CBS network in 1969. One show was left unaired.
And this isn't the first time Stephen's gotten into this class of trouble with snark. I still have family members who believe that his right-wing roleplay on The Colbert Report was on the level!
So I say: Cut Stephen some Slack, but do please stick around here, good old c99, yourself, writing and commenting. As you are now discovering, even when we disagree with one another's ideas, we maintain the utmost respect and esteem for each other's persons. Yes, that's rare among political blogs. But it's how we roll here.
So welcome! And do please allow us to hear more from you!
"I say enough! If Israel wants to be the only superpower in the Middle East then they can put their own asses on the line and do it themselves. I want to continue to eat."
-- snoopydawg
And to get us used to thinking
of Pence as president.
More psyops, in other words. Manufacturing consent.
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
Are you on a phone? Re: comments not nesting
I too have this issue sometimes, and have contacted JtC about it. Now there are 2 - odd.
JtC, whatcha got?
"The gatekeepers must change."
To comment...
on the essay itself use the comment form at the bottom. To reply to a comment use the blue "Reply" button under the comment you want to reply to.
the nesting problems that you occasionally have on your phone is probably due to the small screen interface and you are inadvertently removing the parent link from the text editor body. Removing the parent link will cause the comment to act as a comment to the essay rather than a reply and it will default to the bottom of the comment thread.
My issue happened like this:
1.) Tapping reply, directly under member I'm replying to (I know how to do that.)
2.) Typing a subject (I usually hit backspace due to the cursor landing on space 2, instead of space 1 before I type anything - even on my desktop)
3.) Typing my reply comment
4.) Tapping preview
5.) Seeing the comment above the person I intended's ID in the preview
6.) Thinking I fucked up, canceling the reply, and repeating steps 1-5
7.) Ending up with a reply to my intended recipient AND the person who left a basic essay reply (directly to the essay author, - exactly like the one I was replying to, only a completely different user, and on his own, separate, direct reply to the essay author, DIRECTLY ABOVE the member my reply button tap was intended for.
I deleted nothing. I cancelled, and tried again.
"The gatekeepers must change."
Don't delete...
the first empty space in the subject line, it's there for a reason.
There are so many different devices (phones, pads, laptops, computers) that are all configured with different hardware combinations that it's impossible for me to troubleshoot each and every problem with each one. I can't tell you what your problem is without being able to duplicate it myself. It seems like phones have the most problems, possibly due to the software they use. And since it doesn't happen all the time, that tells me it's either operator error or a software glitch.
It has a purpose ??
Don't delete the first empty space in the subject line, it's there for a reason.
I should have known! You're one of our cleverest Conqueroos.
When I applied...
the parent link program the default for the subject line was (@username). That quickly became tedious and didn't work well in the Recent Comments listings in the sidebar. The subject line for every comment was @username which was OK for catching the targeted user's attention but it didn't say much about the actual subject of the comment and really made the Recent Comments list unusable.
The only way I was able to defeat the default subject line was to add the empty space at the beginning. It doesn't really hurt anything to delete/backspace the empty space but it does cause a warning to kick out in the logs.
Sorry then, JtC lol
I've been deleting that space almost forever - since I realized it was there.
I'll fight the urge to delete the 1st space.
"The gatekeepers must change."
No, you can delete it...
It doesn't hurt anything, it just leaves an annoying warning (actually just a notice) in the logs.
Well, here's the thing, JtC
Everytime a post is edited, say one that picked up lots of typos in the process of writing it, it adds another space. Eventually it will triggers an "title too long" error on this end. Then I will erase them, but I usually leave one space if I can.
Sometimes people's @names appear correctly when copied to the Subject line. Sometimes, they appear as number strings. Why is that?
As long as folks...
use the subject line the parent link resolves to a username when the comment is published.
Some folks don't use the subject line and just type in the comment body, that results in a numbered parent link in the subject line because it doesn't resolve to a username. That also causes the few words in the subject line to repeat in the comment body. It's a little annoying but it is what it is. It could be rectified if everyone used the subject line.
both Colbert & Stewart are not what they appear to be
They're neoliberal Democrats, like all the late night comics now. These guys don't have a shred of speaking real truth to power the way Bill Hicks or George Carlin did (although Colbert deserves credit for eviscerating Bush to his face). Jimmy Dore and Lee Camp are the only ones doing it now.
I've linked to this article a few times here and it is always apropos for these types of discussions. It's a must-read for this thread.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
- Kurt Vonnegut
Thanks konondrum! Good to see you back.
I think you were the one who commented on the essay I wrote at TOP during the primary that went over 1000 recs, that it was some kind of achievement. You told me that it was not uncommon way back when, but in the last few years it became kind of a rarity. Thanks for that.
I seem to also remember, but maybe I'm wrong, that you live in NYC (or are from here). We've been discussing having more regional C99 Meetups and I would like to organize one for here. Would be nice if you could make it.
I'm completely with you on the Neoliberal comics showing their true colors. I gave up on both Stewart and Colbert years ago, the latter being more difficult to do. They've been almost completely useless during the Obama years, and after their treatment of Occupy (as the brilliant Baffler piece points out) I jettisoned them for good. Helps also to get rid of cable and not watch tv. But glad you brought this to our attention. Just solidifies my position, and makes me want to redouble my efforts as one of many things I need to be more vocal about, to convince friends who still tune in to them thinking their getting the "progressive" point of view that they're getting divide and conquer propaganda.
And as you mentioned also, John Oliver's treatment of Jill Stein soured me greatly to him. And I had probably become an ever greater fan of his, because he was doing some amazing investigative reporting and using his platform to activate viewers to literally get involved with petitioning offending elected officials and legislation. That was great. But turns out when it came down to it, he's just another corporate sellout not willing to challenge the duopoly electoral system. Couldn't straighten his back and say that if there ever was a time to see it the 2016 Election was the biggest fraudulent sham of all-time. But he chose to ignore it, push the LOTE bs and take gratuitous shots at Jill Stein.
Franken in the mid-2000's was part of what was then an amazing crew at Air America. But how many of them sold out by showing their true colors defending Hillary? He, Maddow, Thom Hartmann and Sam Seder (it seems) all have. Hartmann seems to have gone back to his populist roots. Jeanine Garafolo was also part of the AA crew; but I don't think she'd ever sellout. (As an aside, when I met her through a comedian friend a couple of years ago, she had the most amazing essential oils on and a badass hippie/hipster jacket that momentarily re-ignited the little crush I had on her way back when).
We sometimes might think we're a backwoods minority here on the true so-called "progressive blogs," but I think the reality is the opposite is true. I think we just need to be more vocal in challenging all this putrid MSM-manufactured propaganda. With nearly 50% of the population not bothering voting, the winds are at out back for significant change to happen among the disenfranchised and pissed off.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
- Kurt Vonnegut
I'm amazed Colbert got
away with that virtually unscathed. That was a total smackdown, total undressing, right there in front of God and everyone - on national tv! Amazing.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-1.9) All about building progressive media.
@Mark from Queens - Colbert and Stewart
had a big thing rally at the Washington DC Mall way back in the times with stage and videos etc. As I can't access my own files, I have only this link to provide for context:
Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
Despite Stewart's insistence to the contrary, news reports cast the rally as a spoof of Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally and Al Sharpton's Reclaim the Dream rally.[5][6]
That was in 2010 and me ignoramus was there and was - as I remember - somewhat disappointed. I wasn't able to figure out what it was back then - just saying - my guts told me that "this is not what I would consider" a help to restore my own sanity or calming my own fears. It appeared to me as as way to not really speak up and not seriously speak truth to power.
I think the wiki page is worth a re-read today. But I am way too far away. Comedy is like a drink, it helps you to drown your gut's worries for a couple of hours, before your realize that wasn't the cure. ...
Thank you for your comment. I will read your link in a little bit.
To be fair
They're Millionaires trying to become Billionaires. Their former status has no appeal to them, much less anyone still stuck in that situation (or worse).
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Keen look at what "corporate" comedy
Has become, and who it serves.
I remember being especially peeved at Jon when he aired his piece on OWS, thinking to myself "not helpful, Jon" and disappointed because he had the power to highlight what was happening in his own backyard very effectively. Hadn't occurred to me then that his mission to stay "relevant" in the lucrative market of media dispensed opium fell more along the lines of what the author summarizes in his closing:
In a sense, these quacks have no more reliable allies than Stewart and Colbert. For the ultimate ethos of their television programs is this: the customer is always right. We need not give in to sorrow, or feel disgust, or take action, because our brave clown princes have the tonic for what ails the national spirit. Their clever brand of pseudo-subversion guarantees a jolt of righteous mirth to the viewer, a feeling that evaporates the moment their shows end. At which point we return to our given role as citizens: consuming whatever the quacks serve up next.
Thanks for the link to a well written and astute look at the role our modern day court jesters are actually playing. The entire piece is a must read.
If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
There have been many times
In the last year where I have either cringed at recalling my years of loyalty as a partisan patsy, or wistfully remembering how much easier it was living in ignorance. This brave new "woke" world offers very little relief in the way of comfort out there. Living in reality among the insane and the cravenly greedy is a lonely and merciless march through betrayal and frustration. It's also one of the main reasons I spend what little "leisure" time I have here among fellow refugees of last years election.
So, welcome. You are not alone in your "woke ness"
If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
That's one of the advantages
Of staying away from social media. I'm not pelted with the noise of the day. Used the term "woke" in a more sardonic attempt to define the new state of awareness we collectively find ourselves in. Others here have compared our awareness to taking the "red pill" from the movie, "The Matrix", but since I've never seen the movie, I didn't use that analogy.
If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Oliver shit all over Bernie too.
IIRC, it was in line with the "fairy dust and unicorns" stuff that Clinton was on. I couldn't understand how anyone in the audience was laughing as he was mocking Sander's platform, but it outlined where Oliver is coming from.
When you reply to a comment...
don't remove the parent link. (it'll look like @#number, @#number etc,). If you remove that then your comment wont nest in the right place and will appear as a comment to the essay and will default to the bottom of the comment thread.
nesting comments
When you reply to a comment...
don't remove the parent link. (it'll look like @Dopeman , @Lookout etc,).
Actually, in the editor, it'll look like "@" followed by symbols and numbers. This changes to @Dopeman, @Lookout etc., when the comment is saved.
In either case, if you want the comment to nest correctly, don't delete this material!
p.s. Thank you for all you do, JtC!!
"I say enough! If Israel wants to be the only superpower in the Middle East then they can put their own asses on the line and do it themselves. I want to continue to eat."
-- snoopydawg
It's also OK...
to remove the extra parent link that shows when you edit your comment, as long as you leave one parent link it will nest as a reply.
For the record
I just get numbers. Like for this post it has
I assume that's you, JtC.
Okay, that didn't work as it converted the symbols to your name.
Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons - For thou art crunchy and good with ketchup
You get numbers...
in the text editor but when you publish the comment it resolves to the username.
They don't always resolve in the Comment Lists.
Maybe it's my browser.
See my comment above...
A lot of us were duped by them
I tried making this point in one of my comments. The same thing happened with Keith and Rachel after Obama was president. They had all kinds of nasty things to say about Bush, but got amnesia during Obama's tenure. So did many people on ToP. I was accused of being an Obama hater, a racist and other names because people only saw who he was on the outside. Very charming family man and a ruthless war criminal. They refused to see that he was no different than Bush or Cheney. I had many fights with them about Hillary's warmongering....
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It's good to see you too
I hope that you will stick around with us. Stephen's press dinner speech was a thing of beauty and I too can't believe that he didn't suffer from it. His and Stewart's shows during the Bush years gave a lot of us some relief from what they were doing. I see why you are disappointed with him.
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I am sometimes a bit amazed about the intensity of
your feelings about Obama. I understand all the arguments given, but don't believe in the judgement that he was a 'ruthless warmonger', when he started out in 2007/8. To me he seemed to be a light-weigh and clueless naive about anything that related to other countries' political interests and peoples outside the US. In that sense if you want to hate or judge anybody for them being clueless, I wonder who you wouldn't judge that way.
My son and me had canvassed in Obama's first presidential campaign. I think my son also voted for him (that being his first time voting at all - as he became a US citizen in late 2003). I remember that both of us became disillusioned about him when he didn't make the efforts to stop the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and didn't close Guantanamo Bay. We both were not able to understand the discussions about the question, if Obama could or couldn't have done that. I believe most Germans still believe that Obama had no chance to implement his campaign propaganda later when he became President. Therefore the relative lenient way they think about him.
I remember also (unfortunately I remember things that are not relevant to most of you) that - ironically - Angela Merkel, who is accused of a lot of stuff - seemed to have been the only one whose instincts told her that Obama is a bit too "easy on aggrandizing himself". She therefore didn't allow him to speak in Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.
Conflict over Berlin Visit Becomes US Campaign Issue
The fact that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is less than thrilled about the idea (me: Obama speak at the Brandenburg Gate), has made the rounds in the American media. But Obama, casually dressed in an buttondown shirt without a tie, appeared very relaxed. "We have been trying to coordinate with the folks on the ground in terms of finding an appropriate site, but we didn't have a particular site in mind," Obama said according to the paper. "I want to make sure that my message is heard as opposed to creating new controversy. Our goal is for me to lay out how I think about the next administration's role in rebuilding a trans-Atlantic alliance. I don't want the venue to be a distraction."
It was almost as if he said it in passing, but even so, it sounded as though it were the end of the ambitious plans for a speech at the Brandenburg Gate that has kept his team on tenterhooks for days now. The debate those plans sparked have even come as a surprise to his staff.
Is Obama Speech Site Contaminated by Nazi Past?.
The exact location of Obama's speech had become a matter of intense speculation in Berlin after his campaign team originally suggested an appearance at the Brandenburg Gate. Many, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, questioned whether the site -- where Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both spoke when they were in the White House -- was appropriate for a candidate. Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit, who is a major figure in Germany's Social Democrats, was in favor of the Brandenburg Gate site and the Obama visit quickly became yet another excuse for German politicians to fire off barbs at each other.
I remember the coverage of the speech. I also remember being in agreement with Merkel's point of views.
German Politicians Are in an Obama Tizzy.
I think Merkel had the right instincts. Til today that is not seen by most Americans.
Oh, and btw many of you wonder why Germans have been big Obama fans, as it is said in many opinion pieces in the US and in Germany. I think the answer is pretty obvious. With our German racial history, our generation (mine that is the post wwII born ones, now elderly) have a justified fear of racism, so I doubt that a lot of Germans would have had the guts to criticize Obama back then when he campaigned the first time. On which basis should a German have done it? So, I think, Angela Merkel's instincts were the most 'criticism' you could expect from a German politician.
interested in hearing from other countries
It's so interesting to hear your point of view
My story is kind of the antiparticle or through-the-looking-glass version of yours, since I made the opposite journey, from Hawaii to Germany.
By now, even though I've lived in Germany for four decades, I realize that — let's face it — I'll never really understand what it's like to be an "Ossi" / a German. I'll never think about, or have the same personal reaction to, politics and social developments that a German / an Ossi would have.
In particular, I'll never really understand in my gut all the guilt and walking-on-eggshells and bending-over-backwards that afflicts a typical educated German as soon as the slightest whiff of uh-oh-maybe-it's-prejudice surfaces.
Thank You, lotlizard, the feeling like a German/Ossi issue ...
I watched the Berlin Wall coming down - Gorby and the Gipper playing nice with each other etc - from Washington DC at a time I had no connections at my job to news, media, internet or the like. I felt tremendous hope and joy over what had happened watching the coverage on US MSM TV news on my sofa in good 'ol Washington DC. It was of course nowhere enough to understand what was going on for me.
When I heard about the Ossi / Wessi debacles later on, I was so disappointed and confused. Of course I couldn't understand really how it must have felt for the Ossis being 'the other Germans'. I think only in the last weeks or so it became more comprehensible to me.
I saw a little feature on German TV (forgot which one, ARD or ZDF), in which a youngish girl reporter met with a group of elderly former East Germans near - I think it was Dresden or Leipzig - in a garage, where she managed to get the men open up to explain their 'not liking too much the many refugees' and it was - as they say - 'not racism or xenophobia'. Yet it was clear from what they said, that they felt it was unfair that asylum seekers got a lot of more goodies in social services and freedoms for free than they themselves ever got. Things they themselves had missed during the GDR regime under Honecker far too long.
For the first time I felt I could have some empathy with their thinking, even if my brain told me that they sounded 'right-wingish' to my 'left-wingish' ears.
You know I just rediscover my homeland, ie "fatherland". Oh my, what a word.
My mothers influence on me was much more subtle, but more persistent. She talked very little, but her silence often was very telling and her being 'not an activist', but her doing mostly the right thing was what was 'formative'. She never would have told anyone to believe this or that, go to church or not, basically being unconnected intellectually and emotionally the official churches and their religions. She had her reasons and I think they came into being on experiences she made during wwII. That's why I wasn't raised to be a "believer" and have feeble relation to religious beliefs. But I realize sometimes that I miss that as well. My ping-pong journeys from Germany to East Coast to Hawaii to Germany back and forth during the last four decades were not all voluntarily made. So, for sure, confusion is my middle name.
As for walking on egg-shells when some of us Germans see a racial or ethnic prejudice on the horizon - even if it may be a fata morgana - I think not all of them have that reaction.
When I grew up I happened to be 'fascinated' with the life-stories of Holocaust survivors through books I picked in a library. My siblings - one read way more than me, the other read almost nothing (but he became enthusiastic for JFK for a while) - had not these reactions and are not aware of mine or theirs. This kind of fascination (which is an awful word for describing my feelings from my teenage years), is probably similar to what today's youngster have with the intertubes's many places, where they believe to have found the fountain of wisdom and truth.
I think it happens to be more an individual reaction of each person, than it's a bug or a feature of the "German Soul" so to speak. Na ja, may be one of my typical German excuses? Who knows ... ?
Nailed it
"I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you"
Alvin Lee - Ten Years After
Stop the War!
@EdMass I'll believe a lot
I'll believe a lot of things about Obama, but not that he's stupid or naive.
He was new to DC, not politics--and the politics he came up through was Chicago politics.
The issue is patriotism. You've got to get back to your planet and stop the Commies. All it takes is a few good men.
Keep pushing the door open. Light the corners till the melt.
Morire de cara sol.
--Jose Marti
I have a problem with genocide, Mimi
and drone assassinations that target civilians, slavery and not prosecuting war criminal who tortured innocent people and financial criminals whose greed has caused so much pain and misery. I didn't think I had to explain this.
Obama was far from being naive when he was running for the presidency. He knew damn well what his job was going to be.
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well - don't get upset - what you have and had explained
many times is not what I criticized or wanted to get at. I only asked myself, why you don't seem to talk with the same intensity about Bush, Cheney, Bill Clinton and others. They have done the same as Obama did.
And who do you think has not a problem with genocide? Or with not prosecuting violations of international criminal and war laws, which many US Presidents have ?
What got me most upset about Obama was the fact that he was a constitutional lawyer and - having been that - I would have expected he would take international criminal and war laws way more serious than he did.
As I explained elsewhere, I don't think you will find many Germans my age, who have NOT a problem with genocide. Obviously we Germans had a 'masters degree' in genocide, right? (Sorry for saying it bluntly) Wasn't the word genocide created or used based on what Germans did to the Jews during the first half of the 20th century? And contrary to what some Americans think, we did learn in school what we had done, and it was not swept under the carpet. At least not in my school and in my time (late fifties to late sixties) and in my region (Northern Germany and Berlin).
One paragraph of the Wikipedia Page on the German RAF group summarizes it pretty well:
The origins of the RAF group can be traced back to the student protest movement in West Germany. Newly found youth identity and Many young people were alienated, from both their parents and the institutions of state. ...
In West Germany there was ,[8] as former (actual and supposed) Nazis held positions in government and the economy.[9] The Communist Party of Germany had been outlawed since 1956.[10] Elected and appointed government positions down to the local level were often occupied by ex-Nazis.[9] (in office 1953–63).
Just saying we had our" problems with genocide and racism", snoopydawg, more than you ever want to have. It's our historical context having grown up in the fifties and sixties in Germany. Most people are very aware of it.
Peace, snoopydawg. Peace and justice matter. Most people know that.
Pick a Republican with enough
Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States. This is a change for Republicans: the House and Senate doing the work with the president signing bills.
- Grover Norquist
Pence is far more dangerous than Trump. Not just because he might bring about Armageddon on purpose to get raptured but he'll be far more effective at moving the Republican agenda. He won't be disrupting their messaging with daily bombastic fuckery like Trump, he'll faithfully recite the talking points he's given. He and "mother" will smile for nice pics with the children at the White House Easter egg hunts and all the rest...
Pence is Grover's dream come true and our worst nightmare.
If we seem unemotional about the situation
It's not because we are oblivious or in denial about Pence, poised to step into the Oval Office. It is because we have been walking into this with our eyes wide open from the very beginning — even before the election was held. We spoke words of reality to each other to get ahead of the situation, and that was really hard. People got angry or put off. Some thought we were the enemy, and nothing could be further from the truth. You can't mount a rescue if you refuse to deal with reality — and that includes facing the truth about the so-called leaders of this party and the nation.
This may not be the happiest blog in cyberspace, but it's solid and intellectually honest. We are not slaves to ideologies and try to remain openminded about sources if the facts can be verified. Stick around and let us know what you think. Different ideas and observations from your own life are really welcomed.
this is so true for me.
i wander into conversations with shell-shocked left-libs, many of whom i have known for quite a while, and they can't comprehend my equanimity, while they are living in terror. all i can tell them is, "i was where you are 10 years ago."
You've always been a cool customer.
I'll bet you were born blasé.
@UntimelyRippd Correct. As far as
Correct. As far as racism and election fraud (even if those accusations of fraud against Trump are true), I was there 17 years ago. Bet you were too.
The issue is patriotism. You've got to get back to your planet and stop the Commies. All it takes is a few good men.
Keep pushing the door open. Light the corners till the melt.
Morire de cara sol.
--Jose Marti
Or perhaps where I was *40* years ago when I expatriated … n/t
Yeah? Well it's where *I* was 50 years ago,
when I started kindergarten!! Cherry tree, my ass.
"I cannot tell a lie —
… I put that envelope underneath all that garbage." — Arlo Guthrie
Colbert has been pushing russiagate to the max too
There are a slew of folks who want to impeach T-rump. I'm not one of them.
Many of my "liberal" friends that read the NYT and WaPo think russiagate will bring down ole "tiny hands". They are wrong...including Colbert. Why worry about about what they say?
Now possibly, just possibly, some dirty money shenanigan involving T-rump's real estate empire could bite him in the ass, but the oligarchs all play that game and what's good for the goose might be good for the gander (and TPTB might get cooked too), so I doubt they will go there. Just look at all the shit with the Clinton Foundation that still hasn't seen the light of day.
If you're going to wig out about something, I suggest the Tax Scam is a better vehicle for your anger. T-rumps impeachment is a pipe dream of misled dumbocrats (IMO).
Good start with your first essay here. Jump in the water's fine....
"Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream."
True, that.
It's the American people at their most vulnerable, and frankly pathetic. We've lost a generation of news people, comedians, satirists, and journalists. They're all over there, holding on to wisps of smoke, and propping up each other's faith in the sanctity of "authority" — in the obvious absence of tangible, credible, peer-reviewed evidence.
Personal invective aimed at a country rube.
What Colbert did is what I would expect a stand-up comic would do. Some parts funny and other parts not. Using childhood angst was not all that funny. That segment goes along with a Colbert theme that the Trump administration is ignorant.
Colbert though, did play his part in pushing Trump for the nomination when he had on Bill Clinton (during primaries). Clinton bashed Bernie supporters as essentially complainers and losers, and had very high praise for Trump.
Previously when I have seen some of Colbert's clips, he crossed over into bashing Russia really as a nation and people. But he filmed parts of his show in Russia one time and refrained from setting up individual Russians for mockery. (I have seen segments from the Daily Show and John Oliver basically say the country Russia is a piece of shit.)
It would seem you've spent time somewhere else
Deep Breath. We're not like them.
You can say anything you want.
You can have your own opinions
We're pretty cool here.
Deep Breath.
"I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you"
Alvin Lee - Ten Years After
Stop the War!
Remember --
The Republicans were able to sell America on two terms of Reagan and a term of Bush because the liberals could be so easily pushed aside. By that time they had become so irrelevant that America was ready to embrace two terms of Clinton, two terms of Bush Junior and two terms of Obama. Is there some reason we embrace liberals as a political force and enshrine Stephen Colbert as their voice?
"Day-to-day life under crapitalism is so horrible and depressing." -- Sam Miller
So your saying the Democrats would have never got elected
After 1980, if they hadn't become Republicans?
Not necessarily.
But I am saying that if liberals will vote for Republicans if said politicians have a (D) next to their names, then it hardly matters that they loudly proclaim their liberalism to the world.
"Day-to-day life under crapitalism is so horrible and depressing." -- Sam Miller


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Much of the country continue to keep in their hearts, the late Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old armed with candy and ice tea, who was gunned down by a neighborhood watchman by the name of George Zimmerman. The Martin family mourned the death of their son two years ago and then mourned his death again a year later when Zimmerman was found innocent and set free. The Martin family may mourn yet again as there are now talks of Zimmerman boxing in a celebrity match.
According to NY Daily News, Zimmerman has been training for quite some time for this event. The celebrity that is in negotiations to box Zimmerman is hip-hop artist DMX. The report goes on to say nothing is in writing as of yet to confirm the match between DMX and Zimmerman. Maybe Zimmerman is not familiar with the rapper DMX, because not many would voluntarily step into the ring with the rapper. DMX, known for his aggression, passion, and fiery rage on stage with music, could possibly be a beast in a ring with boxing gloves. Those familiar with DMX would put their money on him winning a match against Zimmerman, hands down. Though DMX has a long wrap sheet, it is not reported that he has ever been on trial for taking a life. Those who are familiar with Zimmerman cannot say the same. Zimmerman has a record and, though found innocent of killing the young Martin, is still under suspicion by much of the public as a cold-blooded murderer.
What many fear is a possible repeat of the Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev being showcased on the cover of the legendary, iconic Rolling Stone magazine as if he were a rock star. On April 15, 2013 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother set off two bombs in a crowd of spectators at the Boston marathon killing three people (including a child) and severely injuring more than 300 people. Many of Rolling Stone's subscribers were in an uproar over the cover of the magazine displaying Tsarnaev as a glorified celebrity. Though it is not yet confirmed that Zimmerman will be stepping in the ring as a celebrity, much of the public is rearing up to protest. Reported By CNN, Zimmerman's defense in the murder trial was that he was followed by Martin and attacked by the 17-year-old. He reported that Martin was beating his head into the concrete and he feared for his life. He maintains he had no choice but to reach for his gun to shoot the 17-year-old dead in self-defense.
Some are outraged at the thought of Zimmerman possibly being made into a celebrity. DMX has reported to TMZ that if the money is right he cannot wait to "Kick Zimmerman's a**." DMX is 43-years old and commands the stage with the same amount of fire and energy as he did when he was in his 20s. The question entering into the minds of many that followed the Zimmerman trial is, if Zimmerman could not defend himself against a teenager armed with candy, how will he fair in a boxing match against a grown man armed with 43 years of rage and known for growling like a pitbull? Guns are not allowed in the ring.
Editorial by Meleika Gardner
NY Daily News
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I continued to spend today on the edge of my seat and did not make it through without a break down. Hope threw up twice in the night, thankfully they were little. In the afternoon Hope threw up a much larger amount. She hadn't slept much all night and was still very fussy. I feared the worst and was completely overwhelmed. The doctors have decided that it could have been a result of the potassium supplement they gave to her. They have stopped the potassium and we are praying that it stops the vomiting as well.
Sadie and I had a birthday party this afternoon. Hope spent the afternoon with Melanie and her mom as Sadie and I went to the party. I left the party at 3:30 and planned to get back to the hospital to talk with the doctors before running home to make dinner and run some errands. The traffic was horrible and it took me an hour to get home! By that time, it wasn't worth driving all the way over to the hospital and I didn't have enough time. I was crushed, I wanted to check on Hope and I felt badly that she had only had a few hours with me in the morning. All of these emotions just strengthen my desire to have her home. I am constantly choosing one child or the other.
We are praying that this is our last weekend in the hospital and that things will move forward on Monday. The hospital staff are getting everything in order for us, I don't see us being delayed by anything there. If we are not able to leave on Monday, it will be Hope's body refusing to move forward.
All day today I have gone from high highs to low lows. I had moments of joy as I watched Sadie play or listened to the things she says. In the next moment I'm frustrated and anxious to get home and have a sick feeling as I just wait for the hospital to call with bad news. It's not that I'm an overly negative person. Our experience has taught me that terrible things happen to Hope all the time. This is our reality and it makes it difficult to believe that we'll make it home on Monday like they say.
I have never wanted a weekend to go by more quickly! Please pray for us as we walk through this stressful period of time and are overwhelmed emotionally. I'm not sure what I'll do with myself if I make it home on Monday. I'm pretty sure I'll be in shock and experiencing incredible joy as I put Hope down in her own room! I also long to do very simple things with her, like dress her in something other than a sleeper! I have so many cute clothes just waiting for her. Thank you for continuing to journey with us, we know it has been long.


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We found a Video of late 90s, where Karan Johar is receiving award for K2H2.
It was Sonakshi Sinha – a teenager who announced the name, then. Subhash Ghai and Shatrughan Sinha is standing side by him.
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Karan would probably not have imagined then, the movie will go down the history and will achieve cult status.


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Quit playing games with your Heart – by Rhea Dopmeijer
You can listen to an audio version of this article, look further down.
Quit playing games with your Heart
Quit playing games with your heart,
Feel the joy that creates the truth
That lies deep within you.
No need to play games anymore,
Or hide behind barriers your true self.
For the time has come
To shine your true colors.
Finding this inner core that has
Been hidden for so long,
Gives you all you need
And have been searching for.
For so long on the outside,
Instead of creating this abundance
That lies dormant within your heart.
Just tap in and the need for hiding
Will disappear and challenges
Will turn into experiences.
Knowledge will arise when barriers disappear
Finally free from any old emotional wounds.
Bringing in all parts of yourself Home,
And liberating anything that holds you back
From shining from within.
For love has been the grand Format
Of how you can live your life.
Once you have released Love will help
You rebalance finally to Be-come
the best you can Be.
Then games are no longer a necessity
To connect with anyone else
And we all are One through the
Eyes of your Higher Self.
And so it is.
High Self – RheaDopmeijer ©
Heartfelt Messages 2-12-2013
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First Stacking
Just seven hands in to my first live cash poker in Las Vegas, and I've already been part of a full-buyin stacking.
I bought in for $200 tonight with one pair in a 1-2 game at the MGM, when I picked up pocket Kings just seven hands in to my session. UTG limped for $2, UTG+1 also limped for $2, and I popped it up to $10 from third position with KK. Pissingly, two other idiots called the $10 bet behind me, even with the first two under the gun players still to act, and they of course also called the bet. I knew of course this was a bad situation for my pocket Kings, with four other players calling 5x the big blind to see the flop despite my very reasonable efforts to push them out by bumping it to $10. Obviously it wasn't enough, and I knew I would have to get a very favorable flop or fold to any action.
And that's when the flop came down 332 with two diamonds. I had the King of diamonds, but that has nothing to do with the story and I never considered the backdoor flush draw a factor in the hand. All I knew was, after I had kicked it up to $10 preflop, I'm surely not putting anyone on a 3, but there could easily be one (or more) flush draws out there, a bunch of overcards, and quite likely some middle pairs which are now overpairs to the board. The only hand I was legitimately worried about was pocket Aces, maybe at least partially because I have managed to run Kings into Aces three times in the past few nights already, but really by just limping and calling preflop, no one played their hand like AA since anyone with a brain would do whatever they could to limit the number of players in the pot with a raise in that situation.
Anyways, further complicating matters, the UTG player then led out into me, donk betting me after I had been the preflop raiser, which is almost never a monster since it is so much more obvious to go for the check-raise against the preflop raiser who is pretty sure to c-bet a flop like this. His bet was for just $10 into what was I guess around a $50 pot. UTG+1 just called, and I raised it to $50 with my pocket Kings. The two late position guys folded, and then UTG minraised me to $90. It felt like a punch in the stomach. Now that move realy felt like pocket Aces, a vibe I had already kind of been on even before his action on the flop. My first reaction was to grip my cards almost immediately to chuck them into the muck. But then that little voice started talking.
"You really think that guy limped preflop UTG with Aces? And then you think that, seeing another limper, a 5x raiser, and two callers of that raise, he then decided to just call along with his pocket rockets and knowingly take a 5-way flop for $10 rather than try to thin the field and/or build the pot with the best possible starting hand and a lot of action coming on this flop? You really believe that? Come on....you know he didn't play that hand like pocket Aces before the flop at all. The story he's trying to sell you just doesn't add up."
On and on the voice went, and before I knew it I had convinced myself that just calling the flop and seeing if the turn card changed anything was the right move, he probably didn't have pocket Aces given his preflop action, and I was just seeing things that weren't there because of my recent experiences with running Kings into Aces. So off went another $40 of my now just $100 stack remaining into the middle on my call. The turn card was an offsuit 4, making the board 2334 with still the two diamonds. As I was just processing the hand, the UTG player instantly announced all-in. He had me covered by about $60 or so.
I guess I'm just a sucker for the insta-allin move on the turn. actyper used is successfully against me an the BBT4 Tournament of Champions final table a couple of weeks back, and then tonight when this guy pushed so quick and with so much bravado, I very quickly let that voice again convince me that my one pair was sufficiently ahead of his overall range that I clearly had the roughly 33% equity I needed to call of my last $100 to win $300. I mean, the board is 2334, and he called a 5x raise preflop and donk-bet and minraised me on the flop. No way in hike he has A5 there, right? Donk-betting and minraising that flop with A5? Not a chance. 65, same story. I don't really see him donk-betting and then min-raising me if he has 44 on that flop either, as he would probably want to put in a significant raise to find out where he's at and try to get a higher middle pair to fold. So basically, either this guy has AA, or he has 22 and flopped a set, or I am ahead of every other reasonable hand since no hand with a 3 is worth calling a 5x preflop raise with, other than perhaps 33 which would mean he flopped quads and I'm just not going to spend time considering that.
So I struggled with it, but eventually I don't think I made a good move on the flop because I left myself no choice but to call off my last hundy on the turn when getting 3-to-1 on that pot. I mean, if the flush had completed, or if the only open ender on that flop would have filled with a 6 on the turn, then I would surely get away. But how do I really put my Kings behind his range here, I kept asking myself. And when I couldn't answer it anymore, I just shrugged, slid my chips into the middle and asked him to show me his pocket Aces.
He did in fact not have pocket Aces.
He did, however, show me the J3 of spades. Soooooooted donk FTW!
Although I forked over $200 with just one pair during my first orbit of my first cash session in the process, this hand just reinforced what I already knew in coming to Las Vegas after my last couple of live sessions at the casino -- I am going to make so much money playing poker here this weekend.
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. . . It might sound like we are having a downer on the Clubman, but the truth is that the new car is a thoroughly capable machine, one with enough substance to back up those handsome looks. With the premium small car segment being a hotly contested one, however, it's going to have a real fight in its hands. Wish it luck.
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'Man and Modern Architecture' — Alden B. Dow's look at 2000
A city is its people. A city should reflect the morals, ethics, values and beliefs of its people both past and present. The quality of life that we enjoy today is because of the hard work, determination and passion expressed by those who came before us. One such man who believed this and dedicated his life to improving the quality of life for our community was Alden B. Dow. Today, April 10, marks the 100th anniversary of Alden B. Dow's birth.
Using the past as a guide, Alden Dow was constantly looking forward. He would wonder, how do we achieve quality in everything: architecture, education, the arts and sciences, and community? The article that follows, "Man and Modern Architecture," expresses Dow's vision for the year 2000. Whether it is what he believed life would be like or if it was his hope, we are not sure. What is interesting is that he wrote this article in 1946. This article, like all things Dow created, makes us think. Our hope is that it will challenge everyone who reads it to think about their hopes and dreams for their own future."
- Craig McDonald
Director of the Alden B.
Dow Home and Studio
By Alden B. Dow,1946
The year is 2000 A.D. I have had a wonderful experience today, and I want to tell you about it. I have been visiting a small nearby community. I was driving a car, and I thoroughly enjoyed that drive because it seemed so easy and safe. The first thing I noticed on entering this community was that the streets all developed into sweeping curves running first this way and then that way. There were no building approaches from this thoroughfare, and very few cross streets. This street was devoted to heavy fast traffic. I passed a few manufacturing plants and was simply amazed to see such clean and colorful places. They seemed to be well separated from the rest of the community by well kept park areas. Everything seemed clean and healthy looking. I had not realized until then what a filthy world I had been living in. It was quite obvious that this cleanliness was attuned with the progress of the country.
The shopping center seemed to be not only surrounded by parks, but arranged within a park. The buildings all appeared to be individual buildings, and most of them practically surrounded by a garden of some kind. All of these buildings were connected by walks that wound around through these gardens. Most of these walkways had protective coverings over them, so that you could walk around through these gardens to the various buildings in all kinds of weather. I was surprised at the variety of forms in these buildings. Every one was an individual, and a very strong individual at that. I didn't see any parking meters in this shopping center, and yet I saw hundreds of cars parked in various areas provided for them.
I was surprised to see that these automobiles also appeared to be individuals. I didn't see two that were alike. Many were combination automobile and flying machine. They were all sized, forms, and colors, and they were all beautiful.
In fact, no matter where I looked everything seemed to be beautiful. From this shopping center I drove down a long curved street through the park, and presently realized that I was in the residential area of town. The streets seemed to be quite wide, and on either side of the street was a parkway that appeared to be about 100 feet deep. Back of that park, facing this street, were the private residences. Some of the houses seemed to be located almost on the park line, while others were 100 feet or more in back of it. The individual private properties appeared to be about 100 feet wide. The houses varied in size, but most of them were quite small. The individual gardens seemed to be just as important as the house, and just as varied. I didn't see any two houses that looked alike and they were all very gay and happy looking.
I just couldn't resist visiting one of these homes, so I drove off through the park and up to a house. The flowers and foliage around it were simply fascinating, and the way that house seemed to grow with those flowers was a delight. Little steps from the driveway led to a terrace which I soon realized was part of the living space of the house. I crossed this terrace, and soon found myself in the most fascinating enclosed space imaginable. Light seemed to be coming in from all angles. It was even pouring through the ceiling in colors more gorgeous than I had ever seen before. The form of this area I find hard to describe. At first glance it seemed very simple, but now I realize it was extremely complex. I might liken it to the space within a flower or that under a spreading apple tree. Here and there growing plants were climbing over this form as if they were part of it. It was hard to realize that I was no longer on the terrace, but inside of the house itself.
The floors in this area appeared smooth and shiny and rich in color, but they were softer than any carpet I have ever stepped on. Beyond this space I could see children playing around in the garden outside. Presently, I was greeted by a very friendly person who seemed to take my delight with such surroundings for granted. She impressed me as being much like the old English gardener who loved every plant as well as any person who also loved them. She let me up a small winding stairway where there were two seats and a working counter. With almost childlike admiration she pointed to the shadows on the forms below us cast by the branches outside hanging over this building. This space seemed to be devoted to just such contemplations. It was the inspirational nook. It was a place to view nature in all its glory.
We passed from one space in this house into another, and each seemed to be more fascinating. I have no idea how large that house was, yet I am sure it was small in terms of 1946. In lots of ways it impressed me as being like those big old apple trees we use to climb around in. There were several very small parts of it that still seemed to be in the process of construction. I say construction, yet it was more like a combination of sculpturing, painting, glazing, and landscape gardening. I soon discovered that the owner of this house was as much interested in watching and helping this little house grow as he was in bringing his flower into bloom in the garden. In fact there seemed to be no difference, except that one grew out of the soil, and the other seemed to be growing out of the individual's living there, and they were fascinated with the possibilities of this growth. It was not a matter of cost, or competing with a neighbor. It seemed to be a matter of individual expression, and these people seemed to live to watch that expression grow.
I left this house with the greatest admiration for human nature. I realized that here human nature was beginning to flower, but why had it taken so long? These people were certainly more happy than any I had ever seen before, and it seemed to be due to the simple fact that they were living and growing as individuals.
As I went away from this house and on down the parked street, I noticed a large rambling structure set back on a large gardened area. I knew it was a public building of some kind, so I turned into the drive. It was a school, and what an exciting building it was! It didn't seem to have any real walls in terms of anything that I had ever seen before. They seemed to be alive and moving. They were made up of gears, wheels, levers, and planes all hooked together in some sort of balance that caused them to move with the slightest breath of air. Those walls themselves were lessons in mechanics. There was every combination of gear and lever imaginable. Again, the things growing outside of the building seemed to be as much a part of the building as the building itself, and I was hardly conscious of entering that enclosed space.
I was in several classrooms. Each one seemed to be different. Each one an individual. I noticed things made by students everywhere. They were all exhibited individually. None was compared with the other. All were admired as an individual. There was sewing, cooking, shopwork, painting, but the forms of all of these things seemed very strange to me. There was never a set pattern for the form. They were all different.
I visited several classes, and was much intrigued with their method of approach. All subjects seemed to be approached from the point of view of the nature of the subject, and the relation of the individual to it. I spent some time in a history class and I never heard a single date. It seemed to be concerned only with the nature of the situations, or the causes and effects. I visited a class in mathematics. Here animated motion pictures were being used to help the student visualize the nature of numbers. With the very few minutes that I spent in there I have a much clearer conception of plain arithmetic. I see arithmetic now as a simple individual possessing a set variety of abilities. The greatest experience of the day was a visit to the class in musical composition. Here they demonstrated possibilities that I had never dreamed of before. Students composed as easily as a man would speak. As a demonstration the instructor asked me to briefly explain to one of the students my impressions of the school. This student then took me into a small adjoining room and seated himself before a large keyboard. He asked me to sit in front of him, and he watched me while he played. I have never heard sounds like that before. They seemed to come from far away and near, and wove themselves into the most uplifting music I have ever heard. It left me completely entranced. He had described my feelings so perfectly in music that I felt as if I were the music itself. This was living in a way I had never dreamed of before. In fact that was the impression that everything about this community made upon me. Everything about it seemed to emphasize the potentialities and beauty of the individual, and the magnificence of the Almighty.
I visited a class that was called human behavior. They were using a text that I was informed was being used by most of the schools of the world. It was called the Ethics of Accomplishments. The instructor in charge informed me that it described human behavior in terms of vigor and honesty, and made accomplishments in relation to society so clear that anyone attempting to use underhanded and vicious methods to attain power was almost immediately recognized, and such recognition always spelled his failure.
The school believed that regardless of a person's physical or mental condition, and by the very nature of this condition, he had some peculiar ability, and in the peculiar ability laid his true value to himself and society. In other words, that was that individual's genius or his true purpose in life. This didn't mean that a man just lived as he pleased. It was thoroughly recognized that he had a duty to his family, his neighbor, and his community that was absolutely essential. But outside of this duty, there was still much time and space for him to develop purely as an individual. They informed me that the development of the individual most always developed into the true worth of that individual to the community.
I hated to leave those people in that happy spot, but here I am still dreaming of that far off land. It was not a land that was designed by any one person or any set of laws. It was a land made of you and me and millions of others, all living as strong healthy individuals. But here in this year of 1946 we have not yet seen the individual. And yet why do we live? Can happiness be any-
thing else other than the individual's well being? Today we seem to see this well being only in terms of material things, such as going to the movies, listening to the radio, taking longer and longer vacations. All of them are pacifiers. They will never make strong healthy individuals or happy individuals. Individual happiness is something much more fundamental. It is a matter of the individual growing completely, and here we ignore the fact that an individual human being is different from an animal which requires only food, shelter, and exercise for his well-being. Man has a brain capable of some thought, and the purpose of that thought is to be creative. The great Designer that put us together was very careful to arrange things in such a way that we would use every ability he gave us to the limit of our capacity. He made unhappiness, war and chaos a stimulant, a force to develop these abilities. He saw the human race flowering only through the development of these abilities in the individual. Yet today we ignore them. But they are determined to grow because nature demands expression. The tragedy of it all is that we have two kinds of creativeness - constructive and destructive, and if one can't grow, the other will. We see this demonstrated constantly by our children. If we can't give them something constructive to do they will set to tear the house apart, and so it is with grown ups. If they don't know how to be constructive, they will be gangsters, and so it is with nations. Those that forget how to be constructive go to war.
A lot of people tell me that they are not creative, but I think I can show you that you cannot help but be creative in some line or other. It may be homemaking, it may be in a social way, it may be in handwork or it may be in a number of things. It is always there. Your problem is to find it. This of course is not easy, but it is easier if you have some idea of the workings of nature. Now that may sound like a feeble statement, but I find very few people have any idea of what nature is all about. Let's take a look at human nature. All we seem to see in her is a very complicated arrangement of nerves, muscles, cells, and chemical compounds, explanations of which are all very complex.
Rather than view it in this light, suppose we consider the human being as a community. Now that community is made up of a lot of individuals. If one individual in that community is stricken with typhoid fever, unless something is done about it immediately, the whole community is endangered. The same way when your neighbor in that community experiences some great sorrow. You, in perhaps a smaller way, experience it with him. If some of the people in that community work hard and make real contributions, but others lie back and do nothing and wait for someone else to take care of them, the compensations required of the doer are so tiring to him that he finally moves out. Then there is the youngster bursting with energy. He just must run and play hard.
Now the human being is no different than this community. It is made up of little individuals. Call them cells, nerves, muscles, or what not. They all have a particular purpose or ability, and if that ability is not exercised by every one of these individuals, some other cell or individual must compensate for it. If this compensation becomes a real burden on a particular cell or nerve, the equilibrium of the whole human system breaks down. In minor cases it is an unpleasant person. In more serious cases it is sickness. In major cases it is insanity, and even death. Viewed in that light, the human being is a beautiful mechanism possessing amazing possibilities. The balancing of these abilities, call them forces, is the basis of all creations. In other words, if the importance of these abilities or forces is recognized you will find that it will open up a creative field so tremendous in scope that it can never be exhausted. If you don't recognize these abilities they will force their way out some how, and chances are to no good end. The important thing, if you want to be happy, is to see to it that these forces are used constructively.