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Predictions and Fulfillment
By Leon Suprenant | April 28, 2008
In last month's column, I surveyed several writers who viewed the Sexual Revolution and predicted dire effects, and I concluded with the predictions of Pope Paul VI in his 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae. The Holy Father suffered greatly and was widely rejected for his statements, but the others experienced no such effects. So, why was Pope Paul VI verbally crucified for his predictions while the others suffered no such consequences?
I think the reason why Pope Paul VI was vilified is that he spoke in the name of God and His Church. He didn't just offer personal opinion like the others. He taught with authority: "Nonetheless the Church, calling men back to the observance of the norms of the natural law, as interpreted by its constant doctrine, teaches that each and every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life" (Humanae Vitae, no. 11).
The Sexual Revolution was in full swing in 1968. Crazy theories about love, marriage, and sexuality abounded. And here was the Pope teaching that marital contraception is "intrinsically dishonest" (no. 14). Led by a handful of liberal priests, a revolution was organized within the Church against the teaching of Humanae Vitae, and it was quickly institutionalized. The explicit teaching of our Savior that each of us must take up our cross daily was implicitly denied with regard to sexuality.
Today we are experiencing the consequences of this revolution. The Boston scandals (and they are not unique to Boston) are too widely known to be ignored; Pope Benedict XVI alluded to them several times in his recent visit to America. One might ask: Is there a connection between the sins of the vast majority of married Catholics who use unnatural forms of birth control and the sins of a very small minority of the clergy who have succumbed to their particular sexual temptations?
Rephrased, the question is this: Beyond the personal weaknesses of some clergy, has the rejection of Humanae Vitae influenced the rejection of the ordinary teaching of the Church against same-sex sexual behaviors? If so, how?
I think there's a threefold connection: (1) ontological (at the level of being), (2) educational, and (3) psychological.
(1) Ontological. In 1977, Paulist Press published and widely promoted a book (Human Sexuality) written by a select committee of the liberal Catholic Theology Society of America (CTSA). It specifically made a moral equation between the practice of marital contraception and the practice of homosexual sodomy, implicitly accepting both. The authors were logically, if perversely, correct. The acceptance of the former entails the acceptance of the latter. Both contradict the marital meaning of sexual activity. The book's criteria for sexual morality can be reduced to a doctrine of mutual consent.
(2) Educational. The CTSA book was condemned by the American bishops, but the theories remained prominent in liberal theology. Consider seminary education from the mid-Sixties through the Eighties and perhaps beyond. I have been told that future priests were trained how to counsel Catholics to justify their acceptance of contraception.
Now consider the case of a priest who has a same-sex attraction. Maybe he entered the seminary with every intention of being celibate and chaste all his life, but in the seminary he learned to be liberal. He became trained to support married couples in their choice to use unnatural forms of birth control. He would know that one unnatural form of birth control was marital sodomy, and he would learn of the equation between marital contraception and homosexual sodomy.
(3) Psychological, spiritual, character dimensions. Even if a liberal priest with same-sex attraction has rationalized homosexual behavior, that doesn't mean he will develop a desire for minors. Only a few priests with same-sex attractions give into homosexual activity. Few of these develop a pedophilic desire, and fewer still succumb. But even a few is too many, and buying into a liberal rationalization that cannot say "no" to any mutually acceptable behavior certainly can't help a person maintain a chaste resolve.
The psychological, spiritual, and character dimensions of the problem were addressed by psychologist Richard Cross, Ph.D. in the March 2002 issue of Catholic World Report in an article entitled, "A Question of Character." A big problem, as he sees it, is that our priests have not been trained to lead the battle, a true spiritual warfare, against the pagan sexuality of our day. That, I believe, is at least partly the result of a comfortable, non-challenging pastoral accommodation with regard to marital contraception.
One thing is clear. The Boston scandals did not "just happen." God has given His Church the resources–spiritual and intellectual, prophetic and practical–to stay on the right track and to reform itself. However, the pastoral acceptance of contraception has led also to the pastoral acceptance of homosexual activity. These acceptances weaken individual persons intellectually and spiritually, and they weaken the Church. They create an atmosphere of permissiveness and mushy morality. It was in this atmosphere that the problem of clerical sex abuse of minors developed.
The problems of sodomy and pedophilia in the Church will be successfully addressed only by simultaneously addressing the larger problems of marital contraception and widespread fornication. The truth is that in God's plan sexual intercourse is exclusively a marital act. This act is intended by God to be a self-giving renewal of the marriage covenant, for better and for worse. The body language of marital contraception, however, clearly says, "for better but not for the imagined worse of possible pregnancy." It is invalid as a renewal of the marriage covenant and is therefore "intrinsically dishonest" (Humanae Vitae, no. 14).
The term "intrinsically dishonest" applies also to every act of adultery, fornication, masturbation, and sodomy. Such acts certainly do not renew the marriage covenant. Priests and theologians need to be prepared to teach and explain these truths. Fortunately, there is growing evidence that many recently ordained priests are rejecting the liberal theories, even though many had to listen to them in their seminary education.
Please pray daily for a rebirth of chastity.
John F. Kippley is the author of Sex and the Marriage Covenant: A Basis for Morality (Ignatius, 2005). He and his wife are the co-founders of NFP International. He can be reached through its website www.NFPandmore.org.


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Why Not to fear the Nuclear Plume Libtard Fear Mongering
Posted by avideditor on March 18, 2011
I used to fear the Nuclear Plume. Fear of it coming nonstop from MSNBC and Troofers. Even Drudge links to one of the troofers. But there is nothing to fear really. Drudge linked unfortunately to Al Jazeera during the Egyptian mess. Don't know what is wrong with him but don't be afraid.
Alex Jones is a conspiracy nut and just how he is dead wrong about 9-11 he is wrong on this. It is strange I kind of took him seriously until I stepped back and questioned why I was taking this nut seriously. He is wrong on his crazy conspiracies. He is wrong on this too. It is another one of his crazy conspiracies. So unless you think it was the government not the jihadis that did 9-11 don't worry. He was dead wrong on the Gulf Oil spill too.
MSNBC is also not credible at all if you consider they are pro communism and anti Israel. If they are so wrong to think the federal government should gain more power and to support the sick jihadis over Jews why believe them on this. Communism fails every time it is tried. And they support the terrorist "Palis" to a point you can call it Jew hatred. They have anti nuclear whack jobs as supposed nuclear scientists. The whole thing is being used by lefties to destroy our power supply and country.
Everyone on the right is saying there is nothing to fear. I believe them. Remember what the other sources said about the gulf oil spill. It turns out the right was right. I am not willing to go as far a Coulter on O'Reilly
But I think there is nothing to fear. Don't worry. Don't be mislead by pro commie jihadis or insane troofers.
On a side note I am posting alot less. Figured to post the best stuff every day or two is better then making around 20 posts a day on the things I find interesting. What do you think?
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March 18, 2011 at 5:20 pm
I agree. At this point the hype is overblown – the scientists have lost credibility because of the global warming scam, the media has proven itself to be completely unreliable from Obama to the Swine Flu scare (remember that?), the government has abdicated any statesmanship and gone pure partisan, and the White House Press Secretary told journalist Jake Tapper to ask his fellow reporters for answers because he apparently had none.
Life is short, you live in the best place in the world, enjoy it while you can.
March 21, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Ann Coulter RULES! Intelligent Common sense with a wonderful salty wit! Smack those libtard wackjobs down Annie- Annie get your keyboard! The radiation scare is a joke like all progressive pukes.


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Go see a special live performance of Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen in Washington, D.C. on Monday Oct. 1. Click here for more information and to buy tickets.
Three blind mice, three blind mice,
See how they run, see how they run,
They all ran after the farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,
Did you ever see such a thing in your life,
As three blind mice?
Those are the modern words to "Three Blind Mice," that pleasant enough English nursery rhyme that we all remember from our youth. Back in the early 17th century, when the folk round was first published, that language was completely different. Words like scrapte and licke made it seem more sinister, as did the purported reference to Queen Mary ordering the execution of defiant bishops. Today, the song has lost those sharp edges for everyone but one small group: those beleaguered souls who make a living calling balls and strikes.
Consider Mario Seneca. Last month, the minor league umpire ejected a Daytona Cubs intern after the 21-year-old University of Illinois student dared to play "Three Blind Mice" over the park's public address system in protest of a close call. As you can hear in the video below, Seneca points to the sky and shouts "You're gone!" The reaction of the Cubs' broadcaster: "That is absolutely awesome!"
Fans at Jackie Robinson Ballpark immediately booed the fully sighted Seneca, who Deadspin later deemed "the most sensitive umpire in baseball history." The unpaid intern, who was fined $25 by the Florida State League for getting thrown out of the game, parlayed his infamy into a handful of media appearances. He even made it to SportsCenter.
Seneca, meanwhile, has made no public comments, allowing the sports media to make like an angry manager and rain spittle on his expressionless face. Justin Klemm, executive director of the Professional Baseball Umpire Corp., which governs minor league umps, says this silence is intentional. "Mario has decided not to talk about this and we're respecting his wishes," Klemm told me.
If Seneca won't defend himself, Kevin O'Connor will. An umpire evaluator for Major League Baseball who spent 10 years behind the plate himself, O'Connor had a similar brush with notoriety in 1985. As he tells it, O'Connor was working a game in the Florida State League when a coach got in another ump's face about an inning-ending call at first base. "That's when Wilbur started playing 'Three Blind Mice,' " O'Connor says. "I threw him out immediately and I was backed by the league 100 percent because I told him earlier in the season he couldn't do that."
Wilbur was Wilbur Snapp, a ballpark organist whose quick thinking and subsequent heaving won him mentions from Willard Scott and Paul Harvey, along with requests to sign autographs as "Wilbur Snapp, Three Blind Mice organist." When he died 18 years after he got the thumb, the New York Times saw fit to run his obituary: "Wilbur Snapp, 83, Organist Ejected by Ump."
O'Connor insists that snapping on Snapp was the right call, and not just because he'd already warned him against playing the song. Playing "Three Blind Mice"—well, it's "just not done," O'Connor says. While he admits that "from an outsider's view it's funny," to an umpire "it's a derogatory thing that's only going to incite the crowd. … It's not cute when you're the guy on the field and you don't know what the reaction's going to be."
Both O'Connor and Seneca are backed by the PBUC manual, along with decades of precedent. Fans and managers and players have been questioning umpires' eyesight since the day baseball was invented. Bob Emslie, who began umping in the 1880s, was given the nickname "Blind Bob" by legendary manager John McGraw. A more general pejorative, "Blind Tom," became associated with baseball arbiters in the early 20th century.
Despite the quotidian nature of these vision-related insults, "Three Blind Mice" has always had a special power to enrage. Umpires have been chucking anyone with the temerity to so much as hum the song since at least 1936. According to an Associated Press report from July of that year, umpire and Norman Rockwell subject Beans Reardon "chased [pitcher] Jim Weaver off the Pittsburgh bench" for singing the song, proving that if catchers wear the tools of ignorance, umpires don the tools of sensitivity.
In 1941, the Cubs expanded the possibility of song-based heckling by introducing the first ballpark organ. Though Wrigley Field ivory tickler Roy Nelson stuck to friendlier fare, the musicians weren't as kind in Brooklyn. In May 1942, Ebbets Field's Gladys Goodding welcomed Bill Stewart, Ziggy Sears, and Tom Dunn to the field with umps' least-favorite nursery rhyme. "It was a request number from a fan," UPI reported.
The fan may have been a part of the Dodgers Sym-Phony, a ragtag band that kept up a running commentary on the on-field action with a rotating cast of horns and drums. "Three Blind Mice" was long part of the Sym-Phony's repertoire, along with "The Hearse Song" ("The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out/ The worms play pinochle in your snout/ They eat your eyes, they eat your nose/ They eat the jelly between your toes").
"The Brooklyn Sym-Phony used to be the worst for us—they would always play 'The Three Blind Mice' when we'd walk out on the field," Beans Reardon said in a 1949 interview. "And that would eat up a feller like [umpire] Babe Pinelli. I said to the Babe, just ignore 'em, and he did and they stopped after awhile. Fans like you to growl back at ' em."
For the men in blue, ignoring "Three Blind Mice" is easier said than done. Goodding eventually stopped playing the song. The reason: A formal complaint from an umpire led the league office to tell her to cut it out.
Meanwhile, in the Midwest, legendary Chicago Stadium organist Al Melgard was earning a reputation as the Gladys Goodding of hockey. Often credited as the first to match music to the action on the ice, Melgard played "Clancy Lowered the Boom" when referee Francis "King" Clancy called a penalty and "Don't Cry Joe" when an opposing coach argued a call. He'd also welcome referees onto the ice with "Three Blind Mice," a practice that continued, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported in 1958, until then-NHL president Clarence Campbell "pleaded" with Melgard to stop playing the song because it "was bad for the morale of the referee and linesmen."
While Gooding and Melgard heeded the warnings of their leagues, Vince Lascheid, the Pittsburgh Penguins' organist from 1970 to 2003, preferred to live dangerously. Though the NHL ordered him to cut the song from his repertoire, he said he still snuck it in every now and then to "see what would happen." Nothing ever did.
In the cases when an organist or, more commonly these days, a button-pushing intern does get heaved, the question of jurisdiction always comes up. And the answer is: Yes, they can do that. The PBUC's umpire manual says, "Organists are not to play in a manner that will incite spectators to react in a negative fashion to umpires' decisions" and stipulates that a violation "can result in the umpire dismissing the violator from his or her duties for the remainder of the game." Counter to the minor-league law of the land, MLB's official rules are less explicit. Though there's no specific mention of music, they do grant umpires the "authority to order a player, coach, manager or club officer or employee to do or refrain from doing anything which affects the administering of these rules, and to enforce the prescribed penalties." Think of it as baseball's necessary and proper clause.
Just because umpires can eject rabble-rousers doesn't mean they always do. O'Connor says sometimes a warning is all that's called for. "You've got to handle the situation as it comes up," he says, denying that there's a strict rule for umps who hear those telltale tones. "Every situation is unique when you're officiating."
The trouble for umpires is that we only hear about it when they pitch a fit. Ignoring "Three Blind Mice" doesn't warrant blog posts, sports radio segments, or mentions from Paul Harvey. But it's worth saying that not all officials have skin as thin as a Pirates-era Barry Bonds. There are indeed umps who possess an unexpected ability to take a ribbing without retaliating. Or maybe there's another explanation. Perhaps it's just that their hearing is as bad as their eyesight.


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I have the day off today and a lot on the old to-do list so I'm hoping to get as much crossed off as I can before I go back to work tomorrow. Wish me luck! :)
I got some new Pure Innocence stamps from ATS not long ago and I must still be in an ice cream kind of mood because this little sweetie was the first one calling out to be inked. In fact I imagined her enjoying a cone of my absolute most favorite flavor... cake batter... yum! I don't get to enjoy it often because I've only found it in places like Cold Stone Creamery but man o' man is it gooooood! Ok, I'm making myself hungry again... better wrap this up and go get busy. ;)
Oh and just FYI... the little gal from yesterday's card has been given a name thanks to Donna and it looks like Georgia will be finding her way into stamp form in the near future after all... :)
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Press Release: Berkeley Unified School District Shows Gains on the API and AYP
The California Department of Education released the 2012 Accountability Progress Report today. This annual report contains two sections: 1) the state Academic Performance Index (API) measuring year-to-year growth in academic achievement that a school or local educational agency (LEA) has made, and 2) the federal Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) measuring how well a school meets minimum performance targets. -more-


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Hillary Clinton now holds a 10-point lead over Donald Trump, 51 percent to 41 percent, according to results from the latest NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll.
Clinton's double-digit lead is up from an 8-point gap last week. The 10-point margin is the biggest spread in the tracking poll since the two-way general election match-up was first compared in early May.
Over the past four weeks, Trump has lost support from core Republican voters. In previous weeks, the Republican nominee dominated Clinton among men. This week, however, Trump's margin over Clinton among men is only 5 points, down from a 16-point margin two weeks ago.


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Rob, if you are looking at making that kind of marking gauge I would recommend to do at least the front face in steel rather than brass unless you happen to have a hard brass variety. Steel sheet edges are very good att cutting into softer things including brass - don't ask me how I know otherwise it is a very handy tool to have. This one replaces an old worn-down wooden version for me and so far I very happy with that type of design.BR/Peter
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We got some feedback last week about male breast cancer awareness, and this week are devoting our attention to the men who suffer and have suffered from this disease. According to the National Cancer Institute, 1,970 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, and 390 others will lose their lives to it.
Our focus in October, like so many other organizations from Dannon Yogurt to the National Football League, is on women and breast cancer, partly because it is personal for us.
Though our scarves are pink, we encourage supporters to knit them in a rainbow of colors. Here are two scarves that are adaptable to male or female wearers—and when you knit one with your favorite guy in mind, remember the male breast cancer victims who have endured in the shadow of their female counterparts.
First, a bias garter stitch scarf from Judy knit in Alpaca Sox, a fingering weight yarn available in a wide spectrum of beautiful solid, kettle-dyed and hand-dyed colors.
I have two inspirations for my Breast Cancer Awareness Scarf. My sister, younger by exactly one year, has survived breast cancer for 6 years and, so far, is cancer free. Also, my late husband's mother survived breast cancer for over 50 years with no recurrence. Two very remarkable women. These are two of the good stories.
My scarf is very versatile and can be knit in a many of the other Alpaca Sox colors that would be good to remember the men who have been touched by the horrible disease. It can also be knit in other yarns that come in colors that represent other Cancer groups. Just follow the same instructions changing needles size to accommodate the yarn.
My thoughts and prayers go out for all who have been touched by ANY kind of Cancer.
Next, this 3x3 ribbed scarf is cozy and warm in La Gran, and easily adaptable in over 45 colors!
Pattie designed it, and says, " I have been working here at least 100 years and of all the yarns that come and go, La Gran is my favorite!"
Please support research, and those working towards a cure, for all forms of cancer if you can. We are confident that any donation you make to these causes, no matter how small or large, will be greatly appreciated. For more information about the CEY Pink Scarf Project and to see other patterns in the collection, visit our Web-Letter.
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- AnonymousOctober 13, 2010 at 1:45 PM
"Our focus (...) is on women and breast cancer, partly because it is personal for us."ReplyDelete
It is not impersonal for the male sufferers.
Thank you! These are great! Couldn't get the first one to download, though...ReplyDelete
Thanks, yarnfest! The first link should be working fine now. Sorry about that!ReplyDelete
Thank you Judy... I had goose bumps reading this... It really means allot to me that you mentioned me...ReplyDelete
Love you,
Your sister... Sandi
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Tim Burton's return to stop-motion, Frankenweenie, hits theaters on October 5. The film is based on a live-action short that Burton made quite a while ago, and centers on a young boy who reanimates his deceased dog. The pic has received some rather glowing reviews, with our own Matt Goldberg calling it a return to form for Burton that rediscovers "the fun and warmth that used to be intertwined into his visuals and tone." Read his full review right here. Disney has released six clips from the film as well as the pic's "12:01 IMAX Poster," which will be given out to fans who attend Frankenweenie midnight IMAX screenings. The limited edition poster is actually pretty great and features an original sketch by Burton himself.
Frankenweenie features the voices of Charlie Tahan, Winona Rider, Martin Short, Martin Landau, Christopher Lee and Catherine O'Hara. Watch the clips and check out the poster after the jump.
Here's the synopsis for Frankenweenie:
From creative genius Tim Burton ("Alice in Wonderland," The Nightmare Before Christmas") comes "Frankenweenie," a heartwarming tale about a boy and his dog. After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog Sparky, young Victor harnesses the power of science to bring his best friend back to life—with just a few minor adjustments. He tries to hide his home-sewn creation, but when Sparky gets out, Victor's fellow students, teachers and the entire town all learn that getting a new "leash on life" can be monstrous.


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Now might be a good time to tell you that I'm going on vacation on Thursday and I won't be coming back until October. Not just a vacation from blogging, but a right proper vacation that involves travel and perhaps pancakes at faraway diners, but mostly just not doing the normal home-work-home-work thing. So there will be this post and tomorrow's posts, but then it's going to be more than a week until the next one. Please remember to come back. You can leave a trail of virtual breadcrumbs. We can dustbust them together when I get back. If anyone would like to use the "Tales From The Sharrows" brand to launch his or her own blogging career, I am officially soliciting and welcoming any and all guest posts. Posts can be on any topic, except for pogo stickery, unless it's to denounce the baleful influence of pogo "legalization" on our youth. Please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Richard III was willing to give his kingdom for a horse and I would have given at least one horse so as to not have to pick up my car from the auto dealership, where I rested all day after having work done on it for an hour and a half all morning. I'd like to pretend like I'd be able to weave together some sentences that incorporate Lancasters, oil changes, hunchbacks, Tudor/tutor puns, York Peppermint Patties, Prince Hal, HAL 9000, Rafalca, Prii (the plural of Prius), roses, the Spin Doctors (bonus points if you get that right away) and the like, but I think I'll spare myself the trouble of writing it and spare you the considerable burden of reading it. "In many ways, my bike ride to the car dealership was much like the War of Roses" starts the fictitious college application essay that will get me rejected from any and all programs to which I would apply. My bike ride did evoke all of those things and more, but it also involved my riding in the almost rain following the rain that had already come. The rain that came fell hard and it broke branches and shook free leaves and it littered the sides of the road with sticks and twigs and various detritus that I didn't think would be as disruptive to my bike ride as it actually was. When I ride the Cross Check, a cylcocross bike, kindling in the bike lane isn't a warning- it's an invitation. That bike loves riding over crap. I can't help it, even though I've fop-ified the bike with metal fenders and touring tires and racks and panniers and all of the things that make a bike practical and wholly impractical for an athletic competition that requires you to ride through terrible turf and over logs and shit. The little tires on the other bike didn't seem to do as well. I worried. I avoided sticks (and stones, lest, well, you know the saying) and I spent my ride down New Mexico Avenue and up Tunlaw and through Glover Park and eventually Georgetown riding slightly to the left of where I would generally ride and doing the best I could not to fall over. I did not fall over.
New stop sign at W Street NW on 37th. New to me, at least. New since the last time I rode that way.
The Georgetown streetcar track project (which has nothing to do with a streetcar) is now over and the bike lane on 34th is now striped fully from Wisconsin Avenue to Prospect Street. It's also only about 2 feet wide. But it works! There used to be a one block gap and in that one block, even though the one-way street stayed the same width, drivers would drift back over to the right. White paint works! It has limitations, but it works. It's almost the exact definition of better than nothing. But better than nothing is still better than nothing.
I rode into Rosslyn and then got on the MVT and the "time trial" portion of my commute began. It was like a time trial in that I rode by myself and it was unlike a time trial in that I rode very slowly, in spite of the fact that maybe I was trying to do otherwise. It was sort of a Schleck time trial in that way. The trail was wet but it wasn't slick. There were very few bicyclists and the few I saw seemed to be riding in the other direction. No Rootchopper sightings.
Around Gravelly Point, where the wind picked up the point where I think I was briefly riding in reverse, I sensed that a muscular superbiker type was riding up quickly. I sat up, he rode by. And then, like a dolt, I tried to give chase. I did not succeed. In fact, I did not succeed even worse than usual and gave up giving chase within about 10 seconds. I thought that maybe be trying to keep up with him that I could motivate myself to maintain a somewhat reasonable pace for the last mile or two, but that simply didn't happen.
I rode up to the dealership and a young woman outside, an employee on her smoke break, saw me and asked if I was "trading in?" Har har. Maybe I wouldn't trade my car for a horse, but I wasn't looking forward to driving home. It took me a long time and I was in heavy car traffic for most of it. Oh well. At least I don't have to do it again tomorrow.
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According to this post the plural of Prius is Priora.ReplyDelete
So a Toyota dealership with a backlog has a plethora of Priora.
Just sayin'.
If you want to build a fire, just go ahead nowReplyDelete
With stuff that poked right through you tire, just go ahead now...
Woot! I got the Spin Doctors reference. (But you should have also included Purple Rain)ReplyDelete
Glad you didn't break any bones.ReplyDelete
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From Sean @ katron.org (h/t Tango). This is the hits Jake Peavy allowed in Petco park displayed on the Cell (US Cellular Field). I think there are 2 doubles and 1 triple between the '372' and '400' signs, and 1 double to the right of the '400' sign that would be home runs on the Cell. I also see 1 single and 1 double and 2 fly-outs, in front of the '377' sign, that would be warning track signs on the Cell. I assume this is for 2009. BTW, I unchecked the home run box. Home runs in Petco are home runs in the Cell too!
Very cool site. Excellent work.


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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Legal Historians Who Tweet
You know who you are. Let us know and we'll make sure that the world does, too.
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- Patrick S. O'Donnell said...
I'd be more interested in those who refuse to tweet!
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- Josh Stein said...
I am at "lawhistory" providing links to academic articles and news, along with some (very brief) analysis on current (legal) events.
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- May 2, 2013 at 11:35:00 AM EDT
You can find me at @rschwier Tweets on legal history, libraries, academia, etc.
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Author Daniel Keys Moran created Jaster Mereel, the identity behind Boba Fett before things took a turn (for the better or for the worse) with his backstory. Moran created Fett's moral code, starting with "A Barve Like That" in Tales from Jabba's Palace and then in "The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett" in Tales from the Bounty Hunters, both edited by Kevin J. Anderson and published by Bantam in 1996, the same year this web site began. BFFC moderator Eric Cromwell interviews the author, finding out more about his creative contributions to the post-Jedi storyline for Boba Fett.
Part 1
I'd like to first acknowledge to readers that you were a science fiction author for some time before becoming involved in the "Star Wars" brand. From being published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine to your own novels, I was wondering if you could just mention how you got involved with the Star Wars books and how you specifically landed the Boba Fett assignment on Tales of the Bounty Hunters?
If I recall, my then-wife (possibly then-girlfriend) Heather McConnell, who was also my editor at Bantam Books, suggested me to Kevin J. Anderson. I was a big Star Wars fan and I jumped at the chance to write Star Wars, despite the money being so-so. I wrote a piece for Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, which Kevin liked, and then wrote "A Barve Like That" for Tales from Jabba's Palace -- that was about Boba Fett as well, though I ended up putting a pseudonym on it-- J.D. Montgomery. Somewhat to my surprise, Kevin then asked me to write the Boba Fett piece in Tales from the Bounty Hunters, despite the problems with "Barve" -- and after clarifying that I was really going to get to write what I really wanted to write, I said yes. And Kevin protected that story and it was published the way I wrote it, with genuinely trivial changes here and there -- I owe Kevin one for that.
What attracted you to Boba Fett?
Strong, silent, brutal. A little Man With No Name thing going on there that I liked. He was a nearly blank canvas with striking presence -- a guy even Darth Vader had to hold back. That one line from Vader -- "no disintegrations" -- gave Fett his street cred.
I was wondering how you came up with the name of Jaster Mereel and if there were any influences building that character? Perhaps other literature or films?
No idea where the name came from. It was me, but beyond that, don't recall. As to influences on the character, mostly Westerns, which I like -- easily half my top 10 favorite movies are Men on Horses (Or Camels. Or Motorcycles.) Boba Fett would have fit into the Sergio Leone/Eastwood saga with no real changes except costume. A little Torquemadea, too -- that scorched-earth fundamentalist worldview (my addition, that) -- that sense of utter moral certainty that drives the people who talk to God...
Can you tell us what was altered in your other Boba Fett story "A Barve Like That: The Tale of Boba Fett" in Tales from Jabba's Palace that made you publish it under the pseudonym J.D. Montgomery? And was it the first "Fett survived" story out there? Either way, what compelled you to bring this story to life?
I believe it was close to being the first official "Fett survived" story. There was a previous piece of official fiction, I forget by whom, that had a barely-living man being found just outside the Sarlacc. The guy who finds him assumes it's Fett. I didn't want to use that -- I wanted to leave Fett down in the Sarlacc for some years, as the Sarlacc, which was intelligent, slowly digested him. We'd explain away the other guy as someone misidentifying Fett -- who that other guy would be we'd have had to work out. Lucasfilm didn't want to go for it, so I was stuck with Fett down in the Sarlacc for only a day or two. Beyond that, Lucasfilm decreed that the sarlacc couldn't be intelligent -- that was pretty much the breaking point for me. I stuck an alien down in the sarlacc, named him Susejo (O Jesus, backwards) ... had Fett fight with him for a bit and then climb up out of the Sarlacc. I don't think it was a really bad story -- but I don't think it was good, either.
Nearly twenty years ago now David Gerrold picked up a movie novelization I did and asked me if it was any good. I hedged: "Parts of are pretty good." "Ah," he said. "Perhaps you could go through and circle them for me."
I didn't feel like circling the bits of Barve that I thought were OK. So I stuck a pseudonym on it.
What attracted me to the story as I envisioned it? The nightmare of a strong man dying a slow death across years, losing his sense of who he was piece by piece -- Alzheimer's, anyone? -- and then a final shot at life long after he'd accepted the inevitability of death -- you can't do complex things in short stories, but that was a story worth telling even at a short length.
Long after I wrote that story I ran across a really great scene in a Stephen King novel, "From a Buick 8" -- the novel crosses a generation, and in the first half a strong man is busy being the chief of police; in the second half that same guy is going down with Alzheimer's, and his men come to see him and he has a moment of clarity and says to them, "Boys, I'm in Hell."
I wanted to send Boba Fett to Hell. Instead he had a bad couple days in San Bernardino.
What is your take on the fact so many Boba Fett fans still prescribe to the idea that this bounty hunter has his own moral code, as I believe first detailed in your story?
Not a surprise and not really due to me. Bounty Hunters as moral agents is pretty stereotypical stuff. Or "archetypal," if you like. I'll take credit for the fierceness with which Boba Fett believes in his Code -- men living by a Code has always been of interest to me. (There's a long post about this at my blog so I won't spend too much time expounding on it here. And it talks about the Star Wars stories at some length, as well.) This wouldn't be an archetype if it didn't resonate with people.
The difficult thing with Fett was finding a worldview for him that permitted him to proclaim a Code -- given the stark Evil that permeated the Empire, Fett pretty much had to be either 1) Evil, or 2) an incredibly unforgiving, harsh, "greater good" sort of guy. The second approach worked and has resonated with some readers.
What is your outlook on this character now after having contributed to his growing popularity?
Don't know that I contributed much, to be honest with you. The entire universe of Star Wars literature is a little ancillary to what Lucas has put on screen. I have three sons -- 5, 8, 11 -- all perfectly clear who Boba Fett is, but I don't know if any of them know I once wrote stories about Fett.
Part 2 of our interview with Daniel Keys Moran


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December 6, 2012 | Lynchburg, Va.
The Flames prepare to host Stony Brook this weekend, coming off a tough three-game road trip, in which the Liberty University Division I men's hockey team posted two victories.
This is Liberty and Stony Brook's second time facing off for a two-game series this season, with the Nov. 17-18 series resulting in a split. The Seawolves successfully defended their home ice by a 6-4 spread in Happauge, N.Y., before Liberty lit up the scoreboard the following night, scoring five unanswered at one stretch in the first two periods, to take the next game 6-3.
Following the win Liberty embarked on its trip where the Flames notched a 5-3 revenge win over Davenport and rolled to a 5-1 victory and eventual split with last year's American Collegiate Hockey Association national championship runner-up Oakland.
Scouting Preview, Games 23-24: No. 15 Stony Brook University (9-5-1) vs. No. 12 Liberty University (12-9-1) Dec. 7 (8 p.m.) and Dec. 8 (7 p.m.) at the LaHaye Ice Center.
Liberty Scouting Report: A 7-3 loss to Oakland last Saturday snapped a three-game Flames winning streak, the longest for Liberty since starting the season 8-0. Despite the loss, the Flames look to be showing signs of life once again after dropping nine of 10 following an unbeaten September.
Rick Turner leads the Flames in points with 44 and is second in the ACHA for goals (27) and top five for points. During the road trip, Turner put up five points in three games, including four goals. Ryley Egan leads Liberty in assists with 19 and is second on the team in points with 28.
Flames captain Andrew McCombe continues to look strong on the ice for Liberty, posting five points (three goals) in the last three games.
In the net Blair Bennett (7-5) had a strong opening game against Oakland, making 36 saves. He has a 3.29 goals against average and a .90 save percentage.
Stony Brook Scouting Report: After splitting with Liberty Nov. 17-18, Stony Brook travelled to West Chester University Nov. 30-Dec. 1 and secured two wins, 6-2 and 5-2.
Nick Barbera leads the Seawolves in points with 16 and is tied with Daniel Cassano (14 points) for the most goals on the team at eight. Andrew Balzafiore has 12 assists to lead the team.
Goalie Brendan Jones (4-2-1) has played the most games for Stony Brook and maintains a strong save percentage (.91) and GAA (3.44).
All-time Series: Liberty leads the all-time series at 14-2-3.
Coaches: Kirk Handy is in his 13th season as Flames head coach, with an overall record of 269-117-13. Chris Garofalo is in his third season as head coach of the Seawolves, and has been with the team since 1992, filling many roles from player to general manager to coach. He has an overall record of 49-30-3.


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At the first of the year I wrote a post about how I was finally ready to make my time in WoW all about me instead of following a crowd or doing things because I felt they were the expected order of things. I mentioned I was going to work on setting some specific goals for myself concerning what my top 3 or 4 main focuses would be. I haven't actually decided on any specific goals yet, but I certainly have made sure I've done more than login just to sit idly and hope some sort of opportunity walks up and smacks me in the back of the head. I've been spending more time on alts and just doing whatever random things I have felt like doing. It's been a lot of fun. I have a total of 11 characters across 4 servers now and between those 11 characters I am in 2 different Horde guilds on a permanent basis, 2 different Alliance guilds (1 as a trial member on a Shaman I'm leveling just to check the guild out) and 2 characters who are guildless just because I like them that way at the moment. I'm feeling pretty good with the state of things and I can tell I've actually managed to let go of a lot of the pressure I was putting on myself for no reason. I'm like a free spirit in-game currently. Logging in to whatever faction, guild, character I feel like without worrying about needing to put face time in anywhere with anyone. Well, except for my besties in Cat Ate It on Proudmoore. When they are online I come running cause they're awesome.
Point is, as a result of this recent free spirit attitude of mine I've actually been accomplishing things. This will be completely boring to anyone besides me, but thanks to the wonderful add-on Multishot, I can actually easily see that over the past 2 weeks I have achieved a lot. There are a few that appear to be duplicates, but they were done on separate characters so they count as a new one in my book. And I apologize in advance for the crappy, inconsistent sizes and resolutions of these screenshots. I was lazy and did this at work where I don't have my fancy photo editing software.


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For example:
Georgia road wins under Fox
2009-10 - Auburn
2010-11 - St. Louis, Georgia Tech, Mercer, Ole Miss, Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee
2011-12 - Southern Cal, Mississippi State
2012-13 -
Now, road wins are not the end all and be all of basketball excellence. You do have to win some to get places, as was illustrated in '10-11 when we won seven and still was a bubble team into the NCAA tourney. We are going to have to get very lucky to notch a road win this year. In fact, I don't see us winning more than three more games total, if we are lucky. And next year isn't looking any better.
I'll grant Fox had a good season in 2010-11 and lost his two best players. It is notable that both of those players were recruited by Felton. We can quibble about what Felton's issues were, and they were many, but do you think recruiting has gotten better? Air Force Dawg has put together some telling stats on Dawg Run that put our recruiting in fairly clear focus. Yes, we have an extremely good player in Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. We have other very good players on the team. However, there isn't any potential signee that is going to make the math of this equation any better.
I had all the faith in the world that we had a chance to become the program that was consistently in the NCAA tourney after 2010-11, despite the loss of those two players. We had a 5 star recruiting coup and won some games in '11-12 that gave us some reasons to think we had something working. All of that momentum, and then some, is gone. We are regressing offensively, haven't improved defensively, and continue to look less and less able to play any phase of the game with competence.
We are going the wrong direction. Even if we were holding steady, which we aren't, it wouldn't be the right direction. I'll not list all the programs that have been where we were (the best example is Baylor) ten years ago. The only thing in 2006 holding us back was a bad hire. That was 2006 when we were struggling back from the non-sense of the end of Harrick's tenure.
What is holding us back now? The inertia of low expectations?
Georgia has a terrific athletic program. The basketball facilities are comparable with most of those in the
Greg McGarity has publicly stated that he expects his programs to compete for championships in all sports. He
If Mr. McGarity truly wants Georgia men's basketball to compete for championships or even be merely competent, the time has come to show that.


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Senator John Kerry in the Saint Petersburg Times
For nearly 20 years after the fall of Saigon, the Vietnam War took a less bloody but equally hostile form. The United States and Vietnam had no diplomatic relations. Vietnamese assets were frozen. Trade was embargoed. But in 1995 the United States normalized relations with Vietnam. The Cold War had ended, and we even signed a trade deal with a country where 58,000 Americans had given their lives.
The result? A Vietnam that is less isolated, more market-oriented, and, yes, freer — though it has miles to go.
Yet when it comes to a small impoverished island 90 miles off the coast of Florida, we cling to a policy that has manifestly failed for nearly 50 years.
While our Cuba policy has largely stood still, reality has changed dramatically. Today, the Cuban "threat" is a faint shadow, change is afoot in the Cuban leadership, and — importantly — Cuban-Americans increasingly seek broad, far-reaching interaction across the Florida Straits.
We need a Cuba policy that looks forward, brings our strengths to bear, and builds on what works to help the Cuban people shape their country's future.
Democracy in Cuba rightly remains an American policy goal. But for 47 years, our embargo in the name of democracy has produced no democracy at all. Too often, our rhetoric and policies have actually furnished the Castro regime with an all-purpose excuse to draw attention away from its many shortcomings. We have played to Fidel Castro's strengths, not ours.
Fortunately, we know there is a different strategy that can succeed. The Clinton administration refocused policy around what matters: on the Cuban people, not the Castro brothers; on the future, not the past; and on America's long-term national interests, not the political expediencies of a given moment.
We improved cooperation on issues like migration and fighting drug trafficking. Family travel in both directions skyrocketed, and the regime's portrayal of us as the neighborhood bully was readily debunked. Americans helped repair a synagogue roof, and Baltimore Orioles players visitingCuba for an exhibition game gave children bats and balls — gestures of American generosity.
As promised, the Obama administration has expanded licenses for Cuban-Americans — albeit only Cuban-Americans — to travel to Cuba. Controls on family remittances, gift parcels and telecommunications transactions have been loosened as well. Mid-level talks about immigration and postal relations have resumed. And we've turned off an Orwellian electronic billboard flashing political messages from our Interests Section in Havana.
These are positive steps, but they are only a start. So what comes next?
First, at a minimum, the administration should reinvigorate people-to-people relations. When announcing expanded family travel, the president said, "There are no better ambassadors for freedom than Cuban-Americans." True, but there are 299 million other Americans whose challenging minds, economic success, love for democracy and solid values make them proud ambassadors as well.
Second, the administration should review the programs that the Bush administration funded generously to substitute for people-to-people diplomacy.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is already considering how best to reform Radio and TV Martí. After 18 years TV Martí still has no significant audience inCuba. U.S. civil society programs may have noble objectives, but we need to examine whether we're achieving them.
In addition, I am announcing my support for the Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act. Nowhere else in the world are Americans forbidden by their own government to travel. Americans who can get a visa are free to travel to Iran, Iraq, Sudan, and even North Korea. This act does not lift the embargo or normalize relations. It merely stops our government from regulating or prohibiting travel to or fromCuba, except in certain obviously inappropriate circumstances.
Free travel is also good policy inside Cuba. Visiting Europeans and Canadians have already had a significant impact by increasing the flow of information and hard currency to ordinary Cubans. Americans can be even greater catalysts of change.
Studies of change in Eastern and Central Europe find the more outside contact a country has, the more peaceful and durable its democratic transition. That's one reason why all ofCuba 's major prodemocracy groups support free travel, as do longtime Castro critics like Freedom House and Human Rights Watch. A majority of Cuban-Americans have joined the rest of the country in supporting travel toCuba by all American citizens.
Today, we have a choice: seek solace in old rhetoric, ignore change and resist it, or mold it and channel it into a new policy to help achieve our goals. After 50 years of failure, it's time to try something new.
John Kerry, D-Mass., is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Blah de blah, thank you for stating the obvious.
It appears Mr. kerry now sees the reality of the situation, hence the prompt boarding on the (very) slow moving bus travelling in the correct direction. A watershed time is upon us. Before you know it, all self-seving political animals shall be promoting themselves as die hard supporters of change. Strange they were not involved in the action of change. Fence dwellers 'til the last moment.
Freedom is around the corner.
I say we study Francisco Chaviano and Yoanni Sanchez.
The US Cuba blog has the text of the speech by Senator Kerry supporting the Freedom of Travel to Cuba bill.


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Badgers Win Season Opener
Andersen Victorious In UW Debut
Wisconsin had such a good time in its opener, even new coach Gary Andersen decided to have some fun.
It wasn't hard for the 23rd-ranked Badgers to enjoy themselves after overpowering Massachusetts 45-0 on Saturday afternoon in Andersen's debut.
Melvin Gordon ran for 144 yards and a 70-yard touchdown, James White added 143 and a 51-yard score, and the revamped defense throttled UMass.
"Today was the first game. It was sort of special to me and will be forever," Andersen said.
With the score 38-0 at the end of the third quarter, the only Wisconsin tradition left to put this season opener in the books was for the stadium public address system to blare House of Pain's "Jump Around" to get the fans in the stands hopping for the fourth quarter.
And look who was on the field, too, for a moment of levity while conferring with his defense during that break.
"I think the 'Jump Around' a little bit, he got out there and mixed it up with us, so that was fun," linebacker Ethan Armstrong said. "That's really rewarding as a player to see your coach, just day in and day out be the same and always have that energy and that intensity."
Newly-minted starting quarterback Joel Stave overcame a slow start to connect with receiver with Jared Abbrederis for two long touchdowns in the second half.
It was 31-0 with 10:31 to go in the third quarter by the time White sauntered through the line untouched and into the end zone for a 51-yard score.
UMass was simply overmatched against the Big Ten's three-time defending champion. The Minutemen are only in their second year as a major college program, and the spread offense was minus two of its top players Saturday with running back Jordan Broadnax and tight end Rob Blanchflower out with injuries.
"Wisconsin is an awfully good football team," UMass coach Charley Molnar said. "We're not there yet."
They were relatively close at the half, down only 17-0. Wisconsin helped with a few of their own mistakes, including a missed field goal.
Then the Badgers opened it up with three touchdowns in the third quarter.
Stacey Bedell finished with 70 yards on 19 carries for the Minutemen, who were also tripped up by a few pre-snap penalties. UMass finished with seven flags for 40 yards.
"Even if we were running on all cylinders, we would have been hard-pressed to get 10 points," Molnar said. "With us not running on all cylinders, you see it was impossible for us."
Wisconsin couldn't have scheduled a better opponent for Andersen to make first appearance on the Wisconsin sideline. He sported a black visor and a white pullover on a warm, sticky afternoon, appearing calm and cool on the sideline.
Andersen replaced Bret Bielema, who left in December to take the Arkansas job. Andersen arrived from Utah State, where he led the Aggies to a school-record 11 wins in 2012.
Andersen promised the running game would remain a big part of the Badgers attack, even with standout Montee Ball now gone. But new regimes always bring questions as to how a team might look, at least until actual games are played.
Well, the running game remains alive and well at Wisconsin. Even backup Corey Clement ran for 101 yards on 16 carries, mainly in the second half.
Gordon got 13 carries while White had 11.
The Minutemen didn't actually flaunt a sturdy defense to begin with. UMass gave up more than 40 points a game last season.
At Wisconsin, Andersen switched the base defense to a 3-4 scheme, and the Badgers showed no problems picking it up Saturday.
After Stave's 4-yard touchdown run gave Wisconsin a 7-0 lead, Brendan Kelly forced a fumble that was recovered by Armstrong. He finished with five tackles, while fellow senior linebacker Chris Borland had nine stops.
Stave was intercepted on a deep pass down the middle by Devin Brown on the next play. He was 4 of 11 at the half with 36 yards.
But he recovered in the second half, helped by adjustments by Abbrederis on both of his long touchdown catches that were slightly off target. Burning his defender each time in man coverage, Abbrederis' scores came from 65 and 57 yards.
"We came out at halftime and said ... that if it's up in the air and it's close, Abbrederis is going to come down with it most of the time," Andersen said.
Stave finished 9 of 17 for the game for 197 yards.
As lopsided as the score was, Andersen knew he definitely had to improve in one area next week.
"I would not say we are game ready (in) singing 'On Wisconsin,'" said Andersen, referring to the school's fight song. "We've got a ways to go."


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Election year nonsense
By Selwyn Duke
To use a play on Winston Churchill's cynical words, the best argument against democracy is a five-minute perusal of election coverage. Another way to put it – at risk of sounding trite – is if it weren't for nonsense, it wouldn't make any sense at all. Yet, if being trite were a sin, most presidential aspirants would languish in political purgatory.
First we have the bromidic bilge about change. You can bet your withholding tax that the Democrat candidates were programmed to pepper their speeches with the word in a measure as liberal as their politics. Tell certain constituencies you're a change agent – even if the only thing you change is your personality – and the idiot vote swoons.
Change isn't by definition good; it's just by definition change. One-hundred years ago, Russians' dissatisfaction with the Tsar led them to roll the dice. Things couldn't get any worse, many thought. So they made a change.
And the communists took power in 1917.
Then, if your child's diet yielded vigor and health, would you place him in the hands of some guru promising ambiguous change? Wouldn't you demand specificity?
In C.S. Lewis' book The Screwtape Letters, written from the point of view of a demon bent on undermining civilization (a perspective much like that of certain campaigns), the chief demon Screwtape instructed (I'm paraphrasing):
"Change is supposed to be a means to an end, but we have to convince people that it is an end unto itself."
Many have been convinced. And, for sure, mentioning it incessantly has become a political end unto itself.
Then there's populism, now a euphemism for statism. Mike Huckabee thrives on populist rhetoric, delivered with a mouth greased with snake oil. No doubt, he turns phrases as well as he turns out Christian votes, but we're choosing a president, not a wordsmith.
But Huck has his strong points. He believes in charitable giving – at least with tax money – which makes some think he wears his cross more than he carries it. He also opposes anti-marriage, although this minister has presided over some strange unions. Why, he created an unequally-yoked marriage between Christianity and statism, which basically means he'll rob Peter to pay Paul in the name of religion while praying for votes.
We're Peter, by the way.
It goes down easy, though, with his chicken-fried charm and nimble tongue. Just remember the masterful verbal salvo aimed at Mitt Romney:
"You know, people are looking for a presidential candidate who reminds them more of the guy they work with rather than the guy that laid them off. . . ."
I hated the guy I worked with.
But it's correct to associate Romney with money. We had been told that even if Romney kept losing and losing and losing . . . and losing, he wouldn't be out of it and could keep campaigning for the duration, through November 2012.
This speaks volumes. People don't research and vote for the best; instead, they're bought by the fellow who can afford the most face time.
And what a face.
Romney has one great asset and one great liability.
And they're the same thing.
If a filmmaker cast a man to play the president of the United States, it would be Romney; he has the looks, bearing, voice, temperment, and, oh, yes, the hair. Yet if you cast someone to play a phoney politician, it would also be Romney. It's so superficially perfect, it doesn't seem quite real. It . . . yes.
Speaking of phoniness and style over substance, there's Barack Hussein Obama. Have you ever seen those multi-racial, computer-generated pictures politically-correct marketers sometimes place on packaging? I mean the ones that don't look like anyone you might actually meet; that is, unless, through marvels of genetic engineering, you somehow amalgamated the genes of every single racial and ethnic group on the planet into the Democratic National Committee's conception of an über-politician. Obama is as close as you'll come.
So the young flock to him because, weaned on political correctness, he fits their profile. Not only is he multi-racial, he has a cool, exotic foreign name, a resonant voice and rock-star persona. He isn't just a plain vanilla white dude. It doesn't really matter what he says.
Good thing for him, too, because he makes Romney seem like a font of ideological fortitude and depth. I honestly cannot address the substance of what he says because I've yet to detect any. But he's practiced in the platitude, speaking of change; being a uniter, not a divider; yada, yada, yada. His is a Seinfeld campaign: It's about nothing. But it sure is entertaining and he lies like George Costanza.
As for Obama's nonsense, there's no greater insult to intelligence than the "uniter, not a divider" schtick. To believe it is to confuse cause with effect. Who thinks President Bush – who we're told is a divider, not a uniter – asked 50 percent of us to vote against him in 2000?
Our division is a product of a deep, abiding philosophical rift. That's why it's called the "culture war," not the political one. How much fellowship will there be between two groups on opposite sides of abortion, anti-marriage, guns, Iraq, the nanny state, taxes, public displays of faith, and probably the chasm between Heaven and Hell? To think we're divided because of a politician gives voters no credit for having principle; it says that, if the right demagogue comes along, they will unite around him. It is to believe all voters are lemmings, as opposed to just those who vote for tears.
Talking about Hillary Clinton, it's said her strength vis-B-vis Hussein Obama is experience.
Sigh. Yawn.
Experience is much like change, an ambiguous term saying little of quality, only type. What is the given individual experienced in? As I wrote recently, if criticized for lack of experience, I'd answer:
Well, honestly, you're right. I have no experience levying confiscatory taxes and stealing people's wealth. I have no experience violating the Constitution, writing intrusive laws and robbing people of freedom. I have no experience propagandizing and lying to get elected. I have no experience pandering to special interest groups, taking lobbyist money and funneling funds to pork barrel projects. So, you're right, I have absolutely no experience.
Vote for the other guy.
Speaking of the other guy, we have Ron Paul.
Don't laugh.
If you support him, don't scream . . . yet. Paul deserves great respect for upholding the Constitution; if other politicians followed suit, we wouldn't be losing freedom. Paul also is honest, and anyone who doesn't respect that deserves damnation to a netherworld of listening to Hillary Clinton's nails-on-a-blackboard speeches (circa 2003) for all eternity. But his foreign policy – or lack thereof – deserves criticism. Dar al-Islam won't narrow its scope just because we narrow ours.
Now we have Paul's supporters. A motley crew, they hail from the right, left, middle and probably the fourth dimension and beyond. People thus find them hard to peg, but it's not difficult.
I call them the X-Files Set.
Conspiracy is their stock-in-trade, and every day or event is an exciting new episode. It's not that things aren't always as they seem in their world; they're never as they seem. They believe Bush and bin Laden shot Kennedy and Oswald perpetrated 9/11, or something like that. One wrote me recently and mentioned one of their common themes: Paul would be assassinated before the election.
Yes, assassinated.
But, friends, unless you mean at the polls, you needn't worry. He's not that important or dangerous, and the establishment isn't Hollywood. The Paulistas also believed he'd launch an electoral revolution and capture the nomination. And now that Paul has won the race to become the most interesting asterisk in the first six primary contests, I'm waiting for claims that the vote was rigged (I just gave them an idea).
Paulistas aren't crazy, but they do live in an echo chamber. I understand this well. If I, who mainly preaches to the choir, believed my email, I'd think my coronation nigh. That's why I won't drink anyone's Kool-Aid – not even my own.
The subject of widely-imbibed, sweet-but-deadly concoctions brings us to perhaps the worst election-year nonsense of all, the idea that low turnout is bad for "democracy."
Far too many people vote, largely because those possessing only the superficial rely on the support of those who can't see past it. Thus, our standard for electoral participation is this:
Is your body warm (not a prerequisite in Chicago and its environs)? Can you operate a slot machine? Then, congratulations! You can vote.
This brings me to something not at all nonsensical. With our sorry crop of experienced change agents of unity, sweetness and light, people sometimes ask me whom they should support. And I'll answer, since if you're reading me, perhaps you should vote.
My motto is simple: ABHHH.
Anybody but Hillary, Huck or Hussein.
Want a better choice? Get the turnout down to about 1 percent.
That may not be the language of populism or unity, but it also isn't nonsense.


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Top 10 Climbs on the Palos Verdes Peninsula
The South Bay used to produce lots of riders who could absolutely smoke it on the uphills. This was due in part to the excellent climbing available on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, but also because it used to be affordable for young people to live here. Now, not at all, and while there are a handful of good climbers who both ride PV and live here, for the most part they live elsewhere. However, LA riders who want hard, hilly riding in a gorgeous setting still come here. Below is my ranking of the ten best climbs. Route descriptions are referenced according to Strava.
1. Forrestal-Ganado-Domes: 3.4 miles, average grade 6.3%. The toughest climb on the peninsula. It begins on Forrestal when you turn off of PV Drive South, connects with Ganado, then takes Crest all the way to the radar domes. If you do "Segment Search" in Strava for "The Big One, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA," you'll find it. It's a solid 20-minute climb. The first part of Forrestal is deceptively steep, and the rest of the climb to Crest is not deceptive at all. It goes up, and up, and up. There is one place where you have to dismount and squeeze through a narrow gate to connect to the rest of the climb. The wall before Ganado is horrific, and Ganado itself is beyond horrific. This is as close to a pro climb as we have in the South Bay. Long, leg breaking, steep, lung busting, relentless, and ridden rarely because it hurts so much.
2. Anchovy-Friendship Park-Domes: 4.0 miles, 7% (est). This would be harder than Forrestal except that after you complete the climb above Friendship Park there is a substantial respite before you hit Crest and climb to the radar domes. Otherwise, it's an absolute killer. It starts off as an 8.2% wall, climbs for half a mile, then finishes at 11.6% for another five hundred yards before briefly leveling out. You enter the park's parking lot, pedal to the back, lift your bike over the barricade, and continue up the paved road for another .5 mile, averaging a solid 15% along the steepest part. Then you get another breather from Calle Aventura to PV East until you turn right on Crest and grind the final 1.6 miles at 5.3% to the radar domes.
3. The Switchbacks: The Strava segment is called "RPV Switchbacks." This is the gold standard climb in the South Bay. 1.9 miles, 5.1%, and a mere 508 feet of climbing, it's hardly a tough or challenging climb. You can big ring it or spin it…as you wish. However, if you want to crack the top hundred times, get ready to leave something on the road. This is the most popular climb in the South Bay; everyone's done it, it's drilled every single week on the Donut Ride, and although there are many harder climbs, there's none that's tougher if you're out hunting a legit Strava KOM. Which I know you're not. But just in case, Phil Gaimon has it.
4. Calle de Suenos-Crest-Whitley Collins: 3.3 miles, 4.5% (est.) this is a harder, more interesting, and less common route than Hawthorne-Crest, which I've left off the list because it's so ugly, boring, and such a wretched slog compared to Calle de Suenos. Hawthorne is slightly longer and slightly steeper, but this is my list. Sorry. The section on Crest after crossing Hawthorne is not steep but kind of a grind. The kicker is the back side of Whitley-Collins, which rips up at 7.8% and is gnarliest at the end…as it should be.
5. Paseo de la Playa-Via del Monte-Granvira Altamira-Whitley Collins: This is an amalgamation of several climbs, beginning at Paseo de la Playa in Rat Beach, connecting with Palos Verdes Drive Boulevard, doglegging through Malaga Cove to the Strava segment called Via del Monte Full, straight across Hawthorne to Ridgegate, right on Highridge, and then finishing with the front side of Whitley-Collins and its .2 miles at 9.9%. The entire climb is like a billion miles long, has one traffic signal and four hundred stop signs. You'll have to decide for yourself what to do about them. This is a killer climb to do early in the morning, shortly after or just before the PV cops park their dummy patrol car with the blacked-out windows somewhere on Via del Monte. This climb has everything. Steep sections, 180-degree turn, flat spots, false flats, slight and brief downhill, long grinds…and it finishes with a leg-breaker. As it should.
6. Eastvale-Sunnyridge: This is a little-ridden, extremely noxious climb that will completely crush you. It's only about a mile long, but averages a solid 9%. The key is to bear right when Eastvale meets Sunnyridge. From there it kicks up and up and up. Take care descending Sunnyridge. It's a residential street. This is certainly one of the nastiest climbs on the hill, and gets bypassed for that very reason. You pick it up on PV Drive North just past Crenshaw, and of course it ends in a dead-fuggin-end. As it should. This Sunnyridge is the home of the best South Bay climber ever, Stathis the Wily Greek, so some reference it as Stathisridge. If you can't stomach the dead end, there's a dirt path behind the little park that drops you off onto Crest. It's not hard or technical but you can fall off pretty easily if it's damp or muddy.
7. Crenshaw-Crest-Whitley Collins: In the spirit of miserable, dangerous, grinding, unpleasant rides with nothing to recommend them except length and dreadfulness, I give you Crenshaw. If you begin it at PCH, it's about 4 miles at 7%. The traffic is dense and fast and dangerous on the lower slope. The traffic is not as dense, but faster after you cross PV Drive North. However, the width of the lane makes it relatively safe. Relatively. After the light at Silver Spur, the road jacks up considerably and really sucks. You get a brief respite on Crest, and then get pounded in the face with a brick when you hit the final .3 miles on Whitley-Collins. This climb is so miserable and awful that you'll never, ever do it more than once.
8. Reservoir-Homes & Domes: This is the climb up Palos Verdes Drive East to Miraleste, down Miraleste, and up through the neighborhood back to PV Drive East, then up to the radar domes. It's a terrible climb up from the reservoir due to the traffic, narrow lanes, angry drivers on their way to curse you at church, and bad pavement. The climb is neither challenging nor particularly scenic. The Better Homes Section up Via Colinita is about .7 miles, fairly steep, pretty, but not otherwise notable. So why do this climb? Because it's a standard.
9. Zumaya-Coronel: This is actually the name of the Strava segment; it's 2.9 miles at 4.4%. It has a couple of steep sections and only two brief sections where you can catch your breath before it kicks up again. It includes the sweeping uphill grind on Coronel and finishes at a nice little grassy knoll, from where the shots were fired. It's the finishing climb on the Donut Ride for those who haven't left everything on the Glass Church sprint and The Rollers.
10. You tell me.
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§ 92 Responses to Top 10 Climbs on the Palos Verdes Peninsula
What about Via La Cuesta? Short, only about 1/3 of a mile long but starts steep and just gets brutal the more you climb.
What is the max angle of via la Cuesta?
At the 1/4 mark, according to my bike computer it is 189′ of elevation gain, so 189÷1320×10 = 14.3% grade. Feels much steeper.
I can tell you she's a bitch and makes you breathe hard!
If you get a chance, try the hill. It's off Via Campesina, right by Palos Verdes Country Club.
Hey Wanky, I got a climb for u. Don't if it qualifies cause it starts in Pedro. Up Capitol into Trudie to Via Colinita right on pvde and then left on Crownview. I don't know the stats but its pretty tough. Mike G.
I agree with other posters…..
Clearly these belong;
La Cuesta
Browndeer. http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1684975
Thanks for the ride with gps segment. I think I'm doing PV tomorrow, I'll give Browndeer a shot. Went up to Mandeville last week and tried out the "Three Bitches". They were pretty grueling.
Patrick, never heard of the three bitches in Mandaville, but I assume one of them must be the last street where you can go right just before the end.
Sorry for the late reply. The "Three Bitches" starts at Chalon off Mandeville. You make a left there (right across the street from the fountain". From there you make a right on Arbutus Dr. and then make a right on Banyan. Those are the "Three Bitches". Banyan drops you off on Westridge where you can drop back down and pick up Mandeville at the bottom.
Let me know if you give them a try.
For a Gruelling Climbing ride up that way! – checkout The Saddle Peak Five Challenge (Las Cinco Muertes)
Keep refreshments in an ice chest in your car at the start (top of each climb).
crashnburn told me this was called motherinlaws, seemed appropriate
Hawthorne to Crest via http://app.strava.com/segments/905888
If you don't want that boring climb up Hawthorne then "motherinlaws" is a good alternative. I guarantee you won't be bored. Maybe puking, but not bored. Pretty good climb.
crownview is by far the hardest climb ive ever done in PV…. oh and the three bitches in Manderville; you gotta try them!!
CROWNVIEW ! It is the king of PV Pros train on it ! go there and suffer !
I don't know about you, but when I finished the Clif Climb TT in 2011, the only time I've been on the Peninsula, I was about dead by the finish at the Domes. It was the first time I met G$, and even though he's a world renowned superstar cyclist, he still took the time to tell me I suck and to get off his road (actually he was very friendly and congratulated me on my finish, but don't tell anyone).
How are you getting onto Calle De Suenos to cross Hawthorne to Crest? I don't see a connection on my PV map.
Okay, a little blasphemy here. For the ultimate off road climb in RPV try the McCarroll trail in the Three Sisters Preserve – starts at the corner of Tramonto Dr. and PV Drive North. Follow the Tramonto trail across McCarroll Canyon to the Three Sisters trail. The climb starts here. Take a left on McCarroll trail and grind up to Ocean Terrace Drive. It's only about a mile but expect 30+% sections. It used to be traction-limited much of the year but now it's used by land conservancy vehicles. For most, just cleaning it will be a rewarding accomplishment.
[…] enthusiasm of the moment got me. The drop down at Paseo del Mar is fun; the climb out, not so much. It's easily skipped…and I should have…because it was hot […]
Crownview Dr. off of PVDrE. .9 miles of 10%+ ecstasy.
More civilized, but decent climb, Silver Spur from where it originates at PVDrN up to Hawthorne, has a good segment at 12%
Another take on 2. Anchovy-Friendship Park-Domes
Instead of Anchovy to the park take Friendship Park Drive from Miraleste. Gets into 10-12% for about 1500ft.
6100 PVDrW across from the Fire Station: It's a private roadway. When the gate is open you can do the short jaunt up 15% grade.
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Buggy Whip Ln. in Rolling Hills. Ouch. Much ouch.
Harder yet is getting past the guard shack to get to Buggy Whip.
Can't you access Buggy Whip off of Palos Verdes Drive North via Bent Springs Trail?
Actually I should have said Portuguese Bend Rd. to Lower Blackwater Cyn. to Middleridge to Hix Trail and the to Buggy Whip? Bent Springs Trail looks like a bridal trail.
ah…that's why you hafta circumvent the guard shack(s) since they're programmed to say "no." used to live there so i know. middleridge ln to buggy whip (or vice versa) is walkable but not rideable on a road bike. it's about a 100 yard stretch connecting the two. buggy whip (bottom-north end heading sw is just brutal. via los cumbres, ganado, crownview and silver arrow can all take a back seat and watch.
So we're talking trails!
I dunno. If these trails are road-bike-worthy it should work.
Know where I will be going this weekend.
Hix Trail (on Google Maps) appears to be just a short trail that connects Middleridge to Buggy Whip. I probably won't make it over there until the beginning of the week. If you make it over there this weekend, report back with your findings.
You better take the cross bike! Notice how I said "you".
Done Eastvale/Sunnridge. Really brutal on a hot day (no breeze). Seth, have you done this one?
Get back to me when you find out.
Anyone tell me palos verdes east Where marry mount college all way to P V north to get back to redondo beach. How difficult it is ? And what is the average grade ? Thank you
Actually there's two ways, clockwise and CCW. West from Marymount and follow the various PV Drives back around to Malaga Cove.
Or East from Marymount, again taking the various PV Drives around to Malaga Cove. This one is little easier, but no the great ocean views.
I don't do Strava but Google Maps shows 350 ft vertical gain CW and 515 ft vertical on the CCW. Still think CCW is the easier route.
just did via victoria above pv drive in the lunada bay area. last .25 mile is reminiscent of via los cumbres but the very end of the street is flat and a nice place to take in the hard earned view-or not.
If you're doing the northbound ascent on Hawthorne from PVDW, take the first Monaco entrance at the light, and continue up along streets that parallel Hawthorne.
You will be treated to grades that double those on Hawthorne. There are a few places you can bail to Hawthorne, or you can take the side streets all the way to Crest.
you forgot the damn Crownview!
Hi guys,
I did for 1st time a ride in Palos verdes yesterday afternoon after work. I am looking to ride with more riders in the afternoon aftework. I work in Torrance and live in Costa Mesa. So better to put some ride afterwork to miss the traffic. Do you any teams or meet up group?. Thank you
Anyone have a recommended 2-3 hour ride from Long Beach that would hit some of these climbs? Travelling on business and would like to either do the PVP, or drive up the coast to Santa Monica/Malibu. What would you recommend if I have one morning to ride before getting on a plan and heading back to "no-mountains" Michigan.
Well to ride PV you first have to go to PV. An excellent entry point for a climber from LB would be to take Friendship Park Drive up to Friendship Park. At the top of this warm-up climb you turn right into the first parking lot, go to the end, over the barrier, and take the paved trail up to PV Drive.
That trail is described in a posting somewhere above, and has a short 20% pitch for further warm-up. From PV Drive you have access to the whole peninsula.
I wonder about this too, and I always feel a little weird when I enter this area. So it's OK to walk your bike up on to the sidewalk and continue on up Oceangrove? This is what I always do and no one has ever said anything to me and it's such a short little section! I try to do this climb once a week. The sign does say, No Skateboards/No Bicycles.
I've done that a bunch of times, sometimes when a resident was there to witness my crime. They hardly acknowledge my presence, which is real insulting. I'd rather they throw a fit and call the cops.
Slight variation that I tried this morning: Ride #2, then — instead of turning right onto Crest to the domes — continue down PV Drive East, then turn right on to Ganado, and take that to the domes. From the beginning of the climb at the bottom of Anchovy to the top is a bit less than 5 miles, with 1400 feet of elevation gain. Lots of pain, but a couple places to recover along the way.
(Thanks for this site and list, btw — I moved here a month ago, and it's been an invaluable and very amusing/readable resource.)
Did first time climbs on Calle de Suenos today and Crownview earlier in the week. Agree that Calle de Suenos is much nicer than Hawthorne EXCEPT for the flight of step google maps had me take to get to it! Is there any easy way to access that other than just to,come down crest from Hawthorne? As for Crownview, that is nuts. The descent back down is crazy.


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There was no Knicks game last night. But the Knicks—the doomed, imploding Knicks—are today's big sports news in New York, even if Carmelo Anthony hasn't really requested a trade, even if Mike D'Antoni is secure in his coaching job*, even if the last game the team played was a tight road loss in Chicago, where the home team ran its record to 17-3.
The Knicks have lost a lot recently, six games in a row. This has upset the folks who were plotting championship parade routes after the dawn of Linsanity in February, with an injured Anthony watching the Knicks' seven-game winning streak from the bench. As soon as the superstar returned to the lineup, the Knicks turned awful again. Someone is to blame.
Never mind that the days of Linsanity featured a lot of narrow wins, against bad teams. Of the Knicks' foes in that stretch, only the Lakers and the Mavs are currently in playoff position. Since Anthony's return, the Knicks have mostly faced a string of playoff-bound teams, like the Bulls, Heat, and Sixers. Their fortunes dipped accordingly.
But what should be disappointment with a struggling team—if not hope that the Knicks will bounce back—has become hysteria. Consider this paragraph in Chris Broussard's story for ESPN.com, "Sources: Knicks tuning out coach."
With Anthony sapping the energy from the offense, the players often lose their incentive to play defense. But even when he's trying to play defense, Amare Stoudemire struggles. Having spent almost his entire career in D'Antoni's non-defensive system, Stoudemire has trouble making defensive reads and rotations. Anthony knows what to do defensively, but simply refuses to do it consistently, the sources said.
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If any of that made sense to you, congratulations—you're a New York Knicks beat writer. Basketball seems the last major sport where journalists seriously attempt to explain winning and losing by referring to body language and mojo. The New York Post discusses "scowl-filled losses," and no less than the New York Times writes, "joy has faded, pushed aside by tension and resentment." Perhaps these are the impulses that arise after spending so much time in the locker room and covering the team all day, every day. (Presumably the same conditions inspire splashy stories quoting an anonymous person "familiar with [Carmelo's] thinking.")
The result, in this high-variance shortened season, is that the Knicks can't weather a simple losing streak without a media storm whirling around their star player and coach. Last month, Denver lost five in a row and later in the month lost five of six. The Clippers are 4-8 in their last 12. The Pacers had losing streaks of four and five games. No one threatened to blow those teams up, and no one demanded it, either. But on the Knicks, after less than a month of a healthy Melo playing alongside Jeremy Lin—whose assist-to-turnover ratio, by the way, is 42nd among NBA point guards—against tough teams, primarily on the road, it's apparent to all that someone must go. That this thing, which had yet to work all that well in the first place, is cursed to never, ever work, because someone simply isn't willing to put in the emotional or attitudinal effort to make it work.
The Knicks play again tonight, at home against Portland, and they'll probably win, because the Blazers are 20-22 and have struggled on their eastward swing. And then we can start a new cycle all over again.
*Apparently D'Antoni didn't care for such security. The news of his resignation broke shortly after we published.


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Since I live in the Ottawa area, it is my 'home' newsletter, and I particularly like the articles in it each issue. I never miss the genealogical travels that Edward and Elizabeth Kipp make to Salt Lake City, down to New York State, and other places because I enjoy them so much. Well done!
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Merrill Allan Clay A Veteran of World War I and World War II by Marilyn Adair. She tells of her father's service in the First World War as a Sapper with the Canadian Division , Corps of Engineers, Signal Company in France, and Belgium.
The Rathbun Family and the Town of Deseronto by Joyce Fingland where she writes about the Rathbun Company in Deseronto, a company that built its fortune on prepared lumber for the American and overseas market, the railway which ran through the town, and the Portland cement company.
Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy 2014 by Ellen Paul. Ellen tells of her experience at the Salt Lake City Institute and how the instructor helped her along the path of trying to breaking down her brick walls.
Ottawa Heritage Day Celebration 2014 was well-attended, and received a good review in this issue, and there is the Early Bytown Settlers Index as well in this issue which covers surnames beginning with N, O, P, and Q.
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