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The compassion and liberalism of former President Bill Clinton:
Clinton interrupted his campaign in 1992 to oversee the execution of a mentally retarded man in Arkansas, where he served as governor.
By W.C. Varones - November 30, 2005 1 comment:
John Bolton is awesome:
What has confounded John Bolton's abundant detractors, both American and foreign, is how little he has lived up to their caricature of him as the fire-breathing, unilateralist, neo-conservative pit bull during his first four months as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
"He's an intelligent person," says Ambassador Munir Akram of Pakistan, a Bolton opponent on any number of issues, most critically now over U.N. management reform. "He's articulate, and he's a tough negotiator. As far as I'm concerned, he's quite okay."
Mr. Akram then pays Mr. Bolton the greatest compliment possible from within the ranks of diplomats deeply suspicious of his motives for wanting the U.N. job in the first place. "I have no reason to believe he's here to destroy the institution," the Pakistani envoy says. "I can work with him."
That said, Mr. Akram and others remain far from viewing Mr. Bolton as their salvation, though that well may be what he represents. His appointment to the U.N. was the rough equivalent of Richard Nixon's visit to China, as he is determined to provoke needed change and has the hard-line credentials to sell skeptical congressmen on any agreed-upon reforms.
Well, that was certainly worth a Senate Democrat and Voinovich temper tantrum!
By W.C. Varones - November 29, 2005 No comments:
It's time to ban individual ownership of knives
Just weeks after San Francisco voters passed a soon-to-be-overturned ban on personal ownership of handguns, a man was stabbed to death in a troubled neighborhood.
A neighbor commented on the weapons of choice:
"There are never any guns involved," she said. "They use knives."
After we get rid of the knife epidemic, we're coming after blunt instruments. Is being able to play baseball really worth the risk of someone being beaten to death with a baseball bat? Are home repairs really worth the risk of someone's skull being smashed in with a hammer?
The left side of your radio dial
Is it just me, or is Communist Radio not so Communist any more? I've noticed recently that I can occasionally listen twenty or thirty minutes at a time and not hear a single left-wing lie or distortion. I may be desensitized from living in San Francisco, but I think NPR is also changing. In the latest issue of Vanity Fair, James Wolcott laments the demise of taxpayer-funded left-wing propaganda at NPR and PBS.
In other left-wing radio news, Marc Maron said this morning on Air America's Morning Sedition radio show that the show was being cancelled. I don't know what they are going to replace it with. I do know that during the breaks, they were airing a lot of public service announcements, a sign that they aren't selling enough ads.
UPDATE: I take it back about Communist Radio not being so communist any more. They did a story about the Minuteman Project at the border, and introduced it saying, "While some people say the Minutemen are racist...." I can't recall them ever introducing true racists, promoters of racial quotas, that way: "Reverend Jackson, it's good to have you on the program, even though some people say you are a racist..."
Where would we be without studies?
Study: Abused women at greater risk for health issues
Stop beating your wife. You're just going to have to pay for more doctor visits.
Not kill animals? Perish the thought!
Little Meggy Gurdon is traumatized by pro-vegetarian Thanksgiving children's books at OpinionJournal.
Padilla indicted
This is great news.
The Bush administration has backed down from one of its most unconstitutional actions: the indefinite detention of an American citizen without due process.
Three years after the Bush administration labeled U.S. citizen Jose Padilla an enemy combatant and denied him normal access to the courts, he's facing criminal charges that he trained as a terrorist in preparation to fight a jihad.
An indictment unsealed in Miami on Tuesday accuses Padilla and four other men of being part of a North American terror cell that sent money and recruits overseas to "murder, maim and kidnap." If convicted, Padilla could face life in prison. Two others charges, providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy, carry maximum prison terms of 15 years each.
The spectacular allegations that led President Bush to classify Padilla an "enemy combatant" in 2002 — that the former Chicago gang member sought to blow up U.S. hotels and apartment buildings and planned an attack on America with a radiological "dirty bomb" — were not part of the indictment.
I don't doubt that Padilla is guilty, but he's not worth destroying the constitution. Give him his due process and fair trial, and send him away!
Tookie the role model
Stanley "Tookie" Williams is about to do some bad drugs. Williams will take his final medicine on December 13 for his gruesome murders of a family at the motel he robbed and the clerk at the 7-11 he robbed.
The Hollywood set wants to spare "Tookie" because he's had a death row conversion, and is now publicly opposed to murder. How convenient! Tookie even writes children's books, and is said to have prevented hundreds of thousands of children from becoming gang members.
If he's such a good role model, why is his own son on the run from a charge of raping a 13-year-old girl at gunpoint, and why is another son serving 16 years for second-degree murder?
And what irony: two brothers were shot, one fatally, returning from the "Save Tookie" rally.
If you're going to be against capital punishment on principle (as I am), that's fine. But don't hold up this piece of garbage as your poster child.
CNN shows its true feelings
CNN flashes a big black X over Dick Cheney's face during his speech.
An honest mistake? Maybe, but it fits a pattern at CNN (thanks to Hugh Hewitt for that one).
Pete du Pont on the corrupt and incompetent U.N.
The corrupt and incompetent U.N. still wants to take over the Internet.
If you can't see why that might be a bad idea, Pete du Pont explains it in an op-ed in OpinionJournal:
Paul Volcker's recent report on the United Nations Oil for Food scandal taught us a great deal about how the U.N. works. Ten billion dollars worth of Iraqi oil was illegally smuggled to adjacent nations. Saddam Hussein collected $229 million in bribes from 139 of 248 companies involved in the oil business and $1.5 billion in kickbacks and illegal payments from 2,253 firms out of 3,614 providing humanitarian goods under the U.N. program. The U.N., which supervised and controlled the Oil for Food program, did nothing about any of it.
Mr. Volcker concluded that the "Secretariat, the Security Council and U.N. contractors failed most grievously in their responsibilities to monitor the integrity of the program." Secretary-General Kofi Annan's reaction was that the report was helpful, but he has taken no action at all against the United Nations employees Mr. Volcker found to have performed unethically and improperly.
Indeed, last Tuesday Mr. Annan took action to reinstate U.N. Deputy Director Joseph Stephanides, who was fired six months ago for illegal bidding procedures. It seems that Mr. Annan didn't think what had happened in the Oil for Food program was really that bad after all. Or to put it our own perspective, Dennis Kozlowski stole $600 million from Tyco and got eight to 25 years in prison; Kofi Annan supervised more than $12 billion in international theft and will stay in his job.
All of which explains why allowing the United Nations to be in charge of running the Internet is a very bad idea.
The greatest band you've never heard of
I just got back from an Old 97's show. I've listened to this band's recorded music for three or four years now, and finally got to see them live. It was worth the wait.
The Old 97's are cowboy rock. The closest well-known band I could compare them to is the Rolling Stones on their country-most songs, like Sweet Virginia and Dead Flowers.
The show was at the Independent on Divisadero Street, pretty much San Francisco's smallest music venue that's bigger than pub-size. Catch this band now, while they are still playing venues this small. They have been playing for more than 10 years, but they are going to get some big exposure in a Hollywood film next summer.
Check out some Old 97's tunes online. Try Barrier Reef, Victoria, and West Texas Teardrops for a start. Then go buy the albums. And if they come to your town, see them live.
Extra crispy
Rumors are flying that the chief Evil Al, Al Zarqawi, AKA Ali Z was among the terrorists roasted to a crisp recently in Mosul.
Thanks to the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler for the tip.
Krauthammer: France is doomed
The isolated, unemployed underclass will soon outnumber the coddled and complacent "old French."
Reminds me of a bit of Dylan:
Come gather 'round bathophobes
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come socialists, bureaucrats
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
Krauthammer's prescription: France should be more like America, and integrate its immigrants and poor into mainstream society. Sacre bleu!
The pension accounting scam
I've posted about the pension accounting scam before.
Bill Fleckenstein explains it excellently here (same link as last post, but worth reading twice!).
If Democrats who know nothing about economics propose a windfall tax on energy companies, why not a windfall tax on homebuilders?
Homes are far more overpriced than gasoline.
What's more, this greedy corporate behavior is destroying the American Dream of homeownership. Affordability measures are at all time lows, meaning that in many areas an average-income family can't afford to buy an average house.
Why attack energy companies? The American Dream is not commuting 60 miles each way in an S.U.V.
So while average families either can't afford a home, or are pushed into suicidal variable-rate and interest-only mortgages, the fatcat homebuilders are lining their pockets with billions of dollars in ill-gotten gains. Here's how a typical homebuilder has done compared to ExxonMobil and the S&P 500:
Where's the outrage?
Awwww..... there's trouble in Johnny Depp's socialist paradise.
Will he come crawling back to "dumb" America?
P.S. And if America is a big, dumb puppy, what's France? A retarded and arthritic old cat?
I've been very pro-Alito since the nomination.
Here's a great TV ad supporting Alito.
Thanks, Polipundit.
Whatever happened to the Phase 2 Probe?
IP Freely asks, "Where's the report?"
On the Democrats' closed-door Senate stunt:
After Reid made his motion for a closed session Tuesday afternoon, the Senate reopened about two hours later after members agreed to appoint a bipartisan group of senators to assess the progress of the intelligence committee's investigation, the office of Majority Leader Bill Frist said.
The three Republicans and three Democrats are to report back to Senate leaders by November 14.
By my watch, we're past November 14. After seeing their own rabidly pro-war quotes come back to haunt them, maybe the Democrats just want to bury this issue.
Smackdown!
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh goes off on the 9/11 Commission:
It was interesting to hear from the 9/11 Commission again on Tuesday. This self-perpetuating and privately funded group of lobbyists and lawyers has recently opined on hurricanes, nuclear weapons, the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel and even the New York subway system. Now it offers yet another "report card" on the progress of the FBI and CIA in the war against terrorism, along with its "back-seat" take and some further unsolicited narrative about how things ought to be on the "front lines."
Yet this is also a good time for the country to make some assessments of the 9/11 Commission itself. Recent revelations from the military intelligence operation code-named "Able Danger" have cast light on a missed opportunity that could have potentially prevented 9/11. Specifically, Able Danger concluded in February 2000 that military experts had identified Mohamed Atta by name (and maybe photograph) as an al Qaeda agent operating in the U.S. Subsequently, military officers assigned to Able Danger were prevented from sharing this critical information with FBI agents, even though appointments had been made to do so. Why?
[The Commission's] dismissive and apparently unsupported conclusion would have us believe that a key piece of evidence was summarily rejected in less than 10 days without serious investigation. The commission, at the very least, should have interviewed the 80 members of Able Danger, as the Pentagon did, five of whom say they saw "the chart." But this would have required admitting that the late-breaking news was inconveniently raised. So it was grossly neglected and branded as insignificant. Such a half-baked conclusion, drawn in only 10 days without any real investigation, simply ignores what looks like substantial direct evidence to the contrary coming from our own trained military intelligence officers.
No wonder the 9/11 families were outraged by these revelations and called for a "new" commission to investigate. "I'm angry that my son's death could have been prevented," seethed Diane Horning, whose son Matthew was killed at the World Trade Center. On Aug. 17, 2005, a coalition of family members known as the September 11 Advocates rightly blasted 9/11 Commission leaders Mr. Kean and Lee Hamilton for pooh-poohing Able Danger's findings as not "historically significant." Advocate Mindy Kleinberg aptly notes, "They [the 9/11 Commission] somehow made a determination that this was not important enough. To me, that says somebody there is not using good judgment. And if I'm questioning the judgment of this one case, what other things might they have missed?" This is a stinging indictment of the commission by the 9/11 families.
George Bush does not care about white people
Deadly tornados are hitting the midwest, killing dozens of people.
Where's George? Traveling around Asia! Flying in luxury aboard Air Force One! Hobnobbing with the rich and powerful at elegant state dinners every night!
The UN still wants to take over the Internet, Part Deux
From OpinionJournal:
If Paul Revere were alive today, he'd have his midnight work cut out for him. Most likely he'd be spreading the alarm not on horseback, but by Internet: The U.N. is coming! The U.N. is coming!
The United Nations' so-called World Summit on the Information Society opens today in Tunis, Tunisia, proposing to set up U.N. sway over the Internet under the slogan of bridging the "digital divide." But that's the wrong metaphor. This three-day jamboree is a U.N. turf grab: the latest case of the U.N. misinterpreting its noble mandate to promote peace as a license to take a piece of anything it can get.
For anyone who cares about the vast freedoms and opportunities afforded by the Internet--for pajama-clad bloggers, for journalists, for businessmen and especially for people in the poorest countries--it is time for a call to arms. Sen. Norm Coleman, whose investigations into U.N. corruption have provided him with more insight than most into the cracks and chasms of that aging institution, has already warned in The Wall Street Journal against the possibility of Tunis becoming a "digital Munich." Whether America retains control over the root directory or some other setup ultimately evolves, the clear bottom line right now is that allowing the U.N. to involve itself in these questions is the wrong answer. A U.N. unable even to audit its own accounts or police its own peacekeepers has no business making even a twitch toward control
of the Internet.
Worse, the corruption and incompetence at U.N. headquarters, however disturbing, are the least of the problems linked to the U.N.'s bid to control interconnectivity. The deeper trouble is that the U.N. has embraced the same tyrants who in the name of helping the downtrodden are now seeking via Internet control to tread them down some more.
Evil Sony backs down
Sony is recalling all of its Trojan-horse music CDs. That's gotta be an expensive lesson in Don't Screw Over Your Customers 101.
Will they also retract their "Screw the Customers" Customer Agreement?
Evil Sony update
Last week, I posted about malicious secret code on Sony CDs that can damage your computer.
This week, Sony announced it will stop putting this particular code on its CDs.
But they aren't retracting their "Screw the Customer" Customer Agreement, which reserves their right to install spyware on your computer:
Sony's misplaced zeal to protect its intellectual property suggests that the company sees its customers not as kings but as captives. The Electronic Frontier Foundation yesterday dissected the Sony-BMG end-user license agreement (EULA) that accompanies Sony-BMG CDs and detailed the terms of imprisonment.
As the EFF explains, the EULA says that 1) if your house gets burgled, you have to delete all your music from your laptop when you get home; 2) you can't keep your music on any computers at work; 3) if you move out of the country, you have to delete all your music; 4) you must install any and all updates, or else lose the music on your computer; 5) Sony-BMG can install and use backdoors in the copy protection software or media player to "enforce their rights" against you, at any time, without notice. And the list goes on.
Don't buy any Sony-BMG music. And to teach these vicious bastards a lesson, don't buy any Sony products of any kind. Who needs 'em anyway? There are plenty of good home electronics brands that don't try to install unremoveable spyware on your computer.
Thanks to Vodkapundit.
How to determine if your CD will infect your computer here. In particular the following CDs are known to have the malicious code on them, but other Sony-BMG CDs might also have it:
Trey Anastasio, Shine (Columbia)
Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas (Epic)
Neil Diamond, 12 Songs (Columbia)
Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia)
Chris Botti, To Love Again (Columbia)
Van Zant, Get Right with the Man (Columbia)
Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound (Columbia)
The Coral, The Invisible Invasion (Columbia)
Acceptance, Phantoms (Columbia)
Susie Suh, Susie Suh (Epic)
Amerie, Touch (Columbia)
Life of Agony, Broken Valley (Epic)
Horace Silver Quintet, Silver's Blue (Epic Legacy)
Gerry Mulligan, Jeru (Columbia Legacy)
Dexter Gordon, Manhattan Symphonie (Columbia Legacy)
The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity (Columbia)
The Dead 60s, The Dead 60s (Epic)
Dion, The Essential Dion (Columbia Legacy)
Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten (Epic)
Ricky Martin, Life (Columbia)
That's a shame. I've heard good things about the Neil Diamond CD and had intended to buy it. Would somebody please e-mail me the mp3s?
White Power at Huffington Post
Arianna Huffington has taken some flack for censoring comments on the Huffington Post. It violates the spirit of blogging to censor posts for offering contrary opinions, so long as the posts are not abusive or offensive.
Well, the censorship policy seems to have changed. Imagine my surprise to see comments like this on a Huffington Post story about the French riots:
I'm glad to see these bastards finally getting what they deserve. They are such cowards that they won't even stand up and defend themselves from a horde of turban wearing teenagers.
This is the one and only time that I'm rooting for the Muslims!
Posted by: WhiteNRight on November 13, 2005 at 12:04am
Then, a comment recommending, and linking to, the National Vanguard ("an intelligent and responsible organization that stands up for the interests of White people") web site.
This is not your father's Huffington Post.
France's Willie Sutton
The SF Chronicle reports on why they burn cars in France.
One rioter's answer:
"What else are you going to burn?"
Interestingly, though, car burning is very routine in France. It's just that the numbers are higher these past couple weeks:
No other country in Europe immolates cars with the gusto and single-minded efficiency of France. Even during tranquil periods, an average of 80 vehicles per day are set alight somewhere in the country.
"Burning cars is rather typically French," said Michel Wieviorka, a French sociologist who has studied the phenomenon. "The last two weeks have been unusual, but it is more common than people realize."
The practice, he said, goes back to the late 1970s, when the suburbs began to seethe. Parked cars made an inviting target for gangs of young men nursing a grudge and hungry for attention.
Heck, it's the national pastime! Those immigrants are just displaying patriotic fervor for their adopted homeland!
Or maybe they just want to follow in the footsteps of Jose Bove, who became a folk hero by destroying a McDonald's.
France update
Those Energizer Bunny rioters just keep going, and going, and going...
Japanese phone company can control your brain
This is pretty cool:
Just imagine being rendered the rough equivalent of a radio-controlled toy car.
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, Japan's top telephone company, says it is developing the technology to perhaps make video games more realistic. But more sinister applications also come to mind.
I can envision it being added to a military's arsenals of so-called "non-lethal'' weapons.
A special headset was placed on my cranium by my hosts during a recent demonstration at an NTT research center. It sent a very low voltage electric current from the back of my ears through my head -- either from left to right or right to left, depending on which way the joystick on a remote-control was moved.
Looking Presidential
Condoleezza Rice makes a suprise trip to Iraq.
Rearranging the deck chairs
France's answer to immigrant poverty and lack of employment prospects:
Redecorate the slums!
Deranged leftist and disgraced former CBS news producer Mary Mapes is out with a new book, blaming everyone but herself and her pal Dan Rather for running a hit piece on President Bush using badly forged documents.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler has fun with the story.
UPDATE: More news and video of Mapes gone wild here.
Thank you, America
Heartfelt thanks from the Kurds for stopping Saddam from killing them:
Video here.
Web site here: www.TheOtherIraq.com.
Thanks, GatewayPundit.
Tom DeLay's big night
The big winner of last night might be Tom DeLay.
Ohio rejected electoral reform that certainly would have led to more Democratic seats in Congress, and California rejected Proposition 77 which would have given the Democrats a chance to pick up seats in California.
The odds of another Republican Congress just went way up.
DiMaggio bounces back!
It's too early to count those spunky rioters out!
California voters: unbelievable morons
California voters voted today to allow incumbents to continue designing their own districts so that they can never be thrown out.
It doesn't matter how upset voters are with their representatives. Custom-drawn districts prevent incumbents from ever losing.
That's democracy? Well, California's retarded voters just voted for it.
Democrats, are you gloating because of the rebuke to Schwarzenegger? Don't. You just gave Tom DeLay an early Christmas present. The Democrats could have capitalized on the current anti-Republican mood and taken over Congress. Now, no matter how voters are feeling next year, the Democrats won't be able to pick up any California seats because there are no competitive districts. Without being able to pick up any California seats, it makes it much more difficult to pick up enough seats nationwide. Nice work, morons!
Did we hurt France's feelings?
The French are upset about media coverage of the riots.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer country.
California election results here.
Thanks to Polipundit for the tip.
Sony spyware
Sony has malicious spyware on its CDs that can damage your computer.
Don't buy Sony music, and certainly don't put any Sony CDs in your computer.
And teach these evil greedheads a lesson -- don't buy any Sony products at all.
Condi update
Last night on Communist Radio, I heard a discussion of life inside the State Department. The State Department's Foreign Service workers have a reputation of living in walled compounds in the countries where they work, and not interacting with the locals. Condoleezza Rice is trying to change all that. She's working to get Foreign Service workers more engaged with the people in the communities where they work.
Dr. Rice is also raising the priority of fostering democracy around the world. Instead of the defensive, security-focused State Department of the past, Dr. Rice wants a proactive State Department working to create a better world. It's not just the principled thing to do. It's also pragmatically the best direction, to improve the image of the US abroad while creating more stability around the world.
Meanwhile, the Draft Condi campaign goes on at full steam. Condi is focused on her current assignment and won't talk about the Presidency, but there's a lot of enthusiasm for her candidacy.
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
France's developed-world record riot streak may be coming to an end.
The twelfth night was a weak grounder to a fat and lazy third baseman, but the streak is still alive for now.
OpinionJournal tells us why there's nothing better for immigrant youth to do in France than riot:
Since the '70s, America has created 57 million new jobs, compared with just four million in Europe (with most of those jobs in government). In France and much of Western Europe, the economic system is weighted toward the already employed (the overwhelming majority native-born whites) and the growing mass of retirees. Those ensconced in state and corporate employment enjoy short weeks, early and well-funded retirement and first dibs on the public purse. So although the retirement of large numbers of workers should be opening up new job opportunities, unemployment among the young has been rising: In France, joblessness among workers in their 20s exceeds 20%, twice the overall national rate. In immigrant banlieues, where the population is much younger, average unemployment reaches 40%, and higher among the young.
To make matters worse, the elaborate French welfare state--government spending accounts for roughly half of GDP compared with 36% in the U.S.--also forces high tax burdens on younger workers lucky enough to have a job, largely to pay for an escalating number of pensioners and benefit recipients. In this system, the incentives are to take it easy, live well and then retire. The bloat of privileged aging blocks out opportunity for the young.
Luckily, better-educated young Frenchmen and other Continental Europeans can opt out of the system by emigrating to more open economies in Ireland, the U.K. and, particularly, the U.S. This is clearly true in technological fields, where Europe's best brains leave in droves. Some 400,000 European Union science graduates currently reside in the U.S. Barely one in seven, according to a recent poll, intends to return. Driven by the ambitious young, European immigration to the U.S. jumped by 16% during the '90s. Visa applications dropped after 9/11, but then increased last year by 10%. The total number of Europe-born immigrants increased by roughly 700,000 during the last three years, with a heavy inflow from the former Soviet Union, the former Yugoslavia, and Romania--as well as France. These new immigrants have been
particularly drawn to the metropolitan centers of California, Florida and New York.
Great Moments in Journalism
RALPH D. RUSSO, AP Sports Writer: "One loss by either of the three clears up all the potential controversy and sets up a perfect Rose Bowl matchup."
By Anonymous - November 07, 2005 No comments:
Forget Paris
Battle map from the UK Telegraph, thanks to the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler.
One for the record books
An 11th straight night of rioting in France.
These guys are the Joe DiMaggio of riots.
Watts riots, 1965: six days.
Brixton riots, 1981: three days.
Oldham riots, 1991: one day.
LA riots, 1992: four or five days.
France, not often at the top of the record books, finally has something to be proud of.
Brady Campaign: lying scumbags
The Brady Campaign can't win on reason or facts, so why not resort to lies?
Steyn's mailbag on France
Mark Steyn has a mailbag on the French intifada here.
The Lord giveth:
The liberal media finally gets what it's been clamouring for for years, ie the Arab street going berserk.
And He taketh away:
They can't pin it on Bush
Tough luck, suckers.
Matt Lake
UPDATE: And here is Steyn's much-anticipated column on the new French Resistance:
''French youths,'' huh? You mean Pierre and Jacques and Marcel and Alphonse? Granted that most of the "youths" are technically citizens of the French Republic, it doesn't take much time in les banlieus of Paris to discover that the rioters do not think of their primary identity as ''French'': They're young men from North Africa growing ever more estranged from the broader community with each passing year and wedded ever more intensely to an assertive Muslim identity more implacable than anything you're likely to find in the Middle East. After four somnolent years, it turns out finally that there really is an explosive ''Arab street,'' but it's in Clichy-sous-Bois.
The notion that Texas neocon arrogance was responsible for frosting up trans-Atlantic relations was always preposterous, even for someone as complacent and blinkered as John Kerry. If you had millions of seething unassimilated Muslim youths in lawless suburbs ringing every major city, would you be so eager to send your troops into an Arab country fighting alongside the Americans? For half a decade, French Arabs have been carrying on a low-level intifada against synagogues, kosher butchers, Jewish schools, etc. The concern of the political class has been to prevent the spread of these attacks to targets of more, ah, general interest. They seem to have lost that battle. Unlike America's Europhiles, France's Arab street correctly identified Chirac's opposition to the Iraq war for what it was: a sign of weakness.
Read the whole thing. He nails it.
Tough questions
It's a failed occupation. The insurgents can't be stopped.
Is it time to withdraw?
Vote Yes on the San Francisco handgun ban!
San Francisco voters will probably overwhelmingly vote yes on Proposition H, to ban ownership of handguns by individuals.
I'm supporting this measure. Why? Because I want to give our new and improved Supreme Court the opportunity to explain to these idiots the meaning of the Second Amendment!
The UN still wants to take over the Internet
In the Orwellian-titled column The U.N. Isn't a Threat to the Net, thoroughly corrupt and incompetent United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan writes:
The United States deserves our thanks for having developed the Internet and made it available to the world. For historical reasons, the United States has the ultimate authority over some of the Internet's core resources. It is an authority that many say should be shared with the international community. The United States, which has exercised its oversight responsibilities fairly and honorably, recognizes that other governments have legitimate public policy and sovereignty concerns, and that efforts to make the governance arrangements more international should continue.
Why not let the U.N. control the Internet? They do such a great job of fulfilling their existing mission!
Jihad!
France is so screwed. Angry Muslims have been rioting for a week. But this is just a preview of things to come. The immigrant Muslim underclass is unemployed, unassimilated, and growing, while France's overall population stagnates.
France has a history of appeasing Islamic fascists around the world. Most recently, they supported the quasi-Islamic but extremely fascist Saddam Hussein and protected him from enforcement of UN resolutions. Now the Islamic fascist issue is hitting a bit close to home. I'm sure France will be as accomodating to this wave of fascists as they were to those visitors in the 1940's.
The French speak condescendingly of American capitalism, while the stagnation and unemployment caused by France's socialist economic policies is creating not only poverty but violence.
At least you have to give them credit for self-awareness. Even before the riots, two out of three French people agreed that France sucks.
This is a terrible thing, especially for the victims, like the disabled lady set on fire or the paramedics pelted with rocks while trying to help a sick person. The people of France are reaping what their corrupt, arrogant, and socialist politicians have sown for years.
But Islam means peace!
What First Amendment?
Democrats vote for government control of political discussion on the Internet.
Several months ago, I noted Oakland's vicious eminent domain policy: bulldozing Mom and Pop shops to make way for greedy developers.
Councilman Ignacio de la Fuente, now running for mayor, is one of the leaders of Oakland's forced "redevelopment."
And now, according to prosecutors, while de la Fuente has been figuratively raping the people of Oakland, his son has been literally raping them.
Scooter Libby: bad writer and pervert
Newt Gingrich caught a bit of flack for some steamy (and some would say poorly written) scenes in a spy novel he wrote.
Scooter Libby absolutely blows Newt Gingrich away.
From the New York Daily News, on Libby's 1996 novel "The Apprentice":
Luckily, in the latest New Yorker, Lauren Collins summarizes the novel's sex scenes.
"The main female character, Yukiko, draws hair on the 'mound' of a little girl," Collins reports. "The brothers of a dead samurai have sex with his daughter."
Meanwhile, "certain passages can better be described as reminiscent of Penthouse Forum," Collins writes. "Other sex scenes are less conventional."
Collins quotes from the indicted aide's novel: "At age 10 the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest."
British Literary Review editor Nancy Sladek, who oversees a Bad Sex fiction writing contest, tells Collins: "That's a bit depraved, isn't it, this kind of thing about bears and young girls?" Never mind the passage concerning sex with a deer.
Thanks to Captain Corruption for pointing this out.
Alito on civil rights
This WaPo story may be what Old Zeke is talking about when he portrays Alito as anti-civil rights in his picture in the previous post:
In civil rights cases, Alito has agreed with the court's majority most of the time, The Post's review found. When he disagrees, he is not prone to inflammatory language or frontal challenges to Supreme Court precedent. Still, when he has taken a dissenting stance, Alito repeatedly has set a higher bar than his fellow judges for plaintiffs to prove that they were discriminated
against -- and sometimes even to get a trial.
Alito has written six major dissents, including Bray [v. Marriott] , on cases involving employment discrimination, siding squarely with the employee one of those times. Given the large volume of cases, the review focused largely on instances in which Alito differed with the other dozen members of the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit, generally regarded as a comparatively moderate appeals court, rather than his entire body of writings on rights.
The actual text of the Bray dissent is here. It's long, but very well-reasoned and worth a read if you have the time. In short, Alito isn't making any reactionary anti-civil rights ruling. He just argues that the plaintiff didn't meet the burden of proof. There were job candidates who appeared equally qualified by objective measures for a managerial promotion. Bray claimed that her rival was chosen because Bray was a minority. Alito agreed with the lower court that heard the case that her evidence to support this claim was insufficient. How radical!
In other Alito news, this Seattle P-I story shows that Alito was not only pro-privacy but also actively pro-sodomy in college, an issue I'm sure Old Zeke cares about deeply:
In college, Samuel Alito led a student conference that urged legalization of sodomy and curbs on domestic intelligence, a sweeping defense of privacy rights he said were under threat by the government and the dawning computer age.
President Bush's choice for the Supreme Court, in a report written years before ubiquitous personal computers made electronic privacy the everyday concern it is now, warned of the potential for abuses by officials and companies collecting data on individuals.
Three decades before the Supreme Court decriminalized gay sex, Alito declared on behalf of his group of fellow Princeton students that "no private sexual act between consenting adults should be forbidden." Alito also called for an end to discrimination against homosexuals in hiring.
Alito On Scene to Verify End of Parks Era
Brokeback Galaxy
Inspired by the new gay cowboy movie, "Brokeback Mountain," iFilm brings us "Romance of the Jedi."
From Ace.
Stupid ads? Blame the Japanese...
Converse, the recently-bankrupt shoemaker now owned by Nike, has launched a campaign centered around Miami Heat star Dwyane (yes, Dwyane) Wade. In one TV spot, we see consecutive clips of Wade getting knocked to the floor during assorted high school, college, and professional basketball games.
The closing tagline, printed across a black screen: "Fall seven times, stand up eight."
Leaving aside for a moment the unorthodox (dare I say retarded) spelling of Wade's first name, for which Converse surely cannot be held responsible, what exactly is that tagline supposed to mean?
It's hard to fault the idea that when knocked down, the admirable thing to do is get back up again. But the mind becomes fevered trying to figure out how to stand up eight times after falling seven.
If I fall down, I'm limited to a single, miserable episode of standing up. I guess that's why Dwyane is in the NBA making millions, and I play softball with fat guys and make somewhat less than that. Heck, I bet on a good day, Dwyane could fall seven times and stand up thirty-eight.
Anyway, it wasn't Nike/Converse or its admen who came up with this glorious bit of wisdom. No, for something this good, they had to rip it off from the Japanese...
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Joe Wilson, just your ordinary, dutiful public servant.
Like Scalia, but pro-First Amendment
The more I read, the more I like. Scalia's views against freedom of speech and free exercise of religion are some of his worst aspects.
Law professor Jonathan Adler says Alito gets that stuff right:
A Justice Alito may vote with Justice Scalia on many issues, but they would hardly march in lockstep--and when they disagree we would be treated to an intellectual debate of the highest order. One area we may expect to see differences between the two is on the First Amendment. Judge Alito's record suggests that he is more sympathetic to religious liberty claims, and more willing to hold that purportedly neutral government regulations unnecessarily impede upon the right to live in accord with one's religious ideals. He has ruled favorably in challenges by Muslims and Native Americans who argued that local laws impermissibly burdened the exercise of their faiths. There are also indications a Justice Alito could take a more expansive view of constitutional protection for free speech, including religious expression. In several cases he
has voted to protect public school students' rights to express their own religious views.
Read the whole thing. You'll like Alito.
That's what I'm talking about!
Sam Alito supports free speech, according to the First Amendment Center:
A preliminary examination of his First Amendment opinions suggests that Alito is: (1) quite protective of several categories of expression, including religious and commercial expression; (2) far less protective of First Amendment claims raised by prisoners; (3) guardedly protective of First Amendment rights in defamation cases, and (4) generally concerned about prior restraints on expression.
Overall, his opinions suggest he is scholarly in his approach to deciding such cases, and sensitive to precedent but nonetheless capable of working around it when he deems necessary.
The article goes on to cite Alito smacking down school speech codes, college newspaper ad bans, anti-Muslim-beard police department rules, school censorship of a kindergartner's religious drawing, and police department gag orders.
It ain't exactly John Roberts and the hapless toad, but it's solid.
Thanks to TalkLeft.
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Sometimes it takes being broken ourselves to get us to the point that we will willingly minister to those who are broken around us.
Take yesterday for example. As I stepped out of our van to head into church, my shoes fell to pieces. Literally. Pieces. Right there in the parking lot.
First, I lost both heels in huge chunks. Then smaller, crumbly pieces followed suit. It was the craziest thing. I had to walk carefully and a little tip-toey so I didn't leave a huge mess with every step. But even with me walking with the greatest of care, I had to pick up pieces of my sole as we made our way in and as I made my way to and from the stage for choir.
We "just happened" to have visitors at church yesterday. People from Benjamin House Ministries, a ministry doing incredible work in Uganda. And what did they have with them in order to raise money for and awareness about their ministry?
Not just beautiful handmade necklaces and bracelets.
The ones you see pictured above.
Shoes I was able to purchase and slip on my feet between services. Shoes and a shirt purchased with money that will now be sown back into the lives of people in Uganda.
And I can't quite get over it. How God met me in my place of need and, in doing so, allowed me to help provide in a small way for people in their place of need.
Would I have stopped at their booth and given anyways? Maybe so. I hope so. But it was the brokenness I was walking in that made it a certainty.
How thankful I am that He let those shoes break exactly when they did. I want to remember He is a God who meets us in our brokenness. A God who tenderly helps us pick up the pieces of our soul. A God who takes those broken places, leads us to a place of healing and then allows us to minister out to others.
May we trust Him with our broken places-expecting Him to lovingly and powerfully meet us in them, knowing He can bring beautiful purpose out of pain. And may we become faithful and humble partners in His ministry of hope and wholeness. Because we have a world that is deeply hurting and is in desperate need of hope.


PANEUM Founder Peter Augendopler thanked Maria-Anna Eller by presenting her with a summery floral bouquet and the book "6,000 Years of Bread". The Viennese had travelled with her family to Upper Austria, where she visited the provincial exhibition in Enns and then the PANEUM. The special exhibition "Bread for the Legion – The Power of Grain" can be seen there, as part of the Upper Austrian Provincial Exhibition 2018, until 3 November 2018.
Home: PANEUM Founder Peter Augendopler (r.) and Director Christoph Hain welcomed the 20,000th visitor Maria-Anna Eller and her husband Martin.


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Ohio man who disparaged lockdown measures on Facebook dies of coronavirus
Social media posts of an Ohio man who disparaged coronavirus lockdown measures are now circulating online after he died of COVID-19, the disease associated with coronavirus.Screenshots of Facebook posts calling social distancing measures "bullshit" have surfaced online just days after John W. McDaniel, 60, died of coronavirus on April 15. One screenshot of a post…
Social media posts of an Ohio man who disparaged coronavirus lockdown measures are now circulating online after he died of COVID-19, the disease associated with coronavirus.
Screenshots of Facebook posts calling social distancing measures "bullshit" have surfaced online just days after John W. McDaniel, 60, died of coronavirus on April 15. One screenshot of a post dated March 13 included an accusation that the virus was a "political ploy."
"If you're paranoid about getting sick, just don't go out," another post allegedly said. "It shouldn't keep those of us from Living Our Lives. The Madness has to stop."
The posts have gone viral, even getting the attention of British broadcaster Piers Morgan.
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"Let his death be a warning to everyone else who wants to be 'living our lives' & ignore lockdowns – it may END your life," Morgan tweeted Tuesday.
RIP John W. McDaniel from Ohio, who posted this on March 15 & has now sadly died from #coronavirus.
Let his death be a warning to everyone else who wants to be 'living our lives' & ignore lockdowns – it may END your life. 👇 pic.twitter.com/HFa5ENGKuO
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 21, 2020
NBC News was unable to find McDaniel's account, which may have been deleted, and cannot independently verify the screenshots. McDaniel's family did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News.
McDaniels was a lifelong resident of Marion, Ohio, and an avid fan of Ohio State University, according to his obituary. His family described him as an entertaining storyteller who "loved life and loved everyone he knew with his whole heart."
In a statement to an NBC affiliate in Ohio, his wife wrote: "We ask you to remember we are a family mourning an unbearable loss. Use this as a reminder to continue practicing social distancing and keep each other safe."
The scrutiny of McDaniel's alleged posts have come after some in Ohio protested Gov. Mike DeWine's social restrictions and amid debates around the reopening of businesses amid the pandemic.
DeWine announced last week his intention to "start opening Ohio back up," with a tentative date to begin loosening restrictions on May 1. Other governors in states such as South Carolina and Georgia have also announced their plans to lift restrictions, even allowing some retailers to open this week.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned that a May 1 reopening might be too early. The White House's top coronavirus expert said that limits on testing would make it difficult to prevent new infections.
"We have to have something in place that is efficient and that we can rely on, and we're not there yet," Fauci told The Associated Press last week.
Doha Madani
Doha Madani is a breaking news reporter for NBC News.
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I whipped this sweet concoction together in just minutes using 2 Tablespoons of candied ginger (for zip), 1 cup kombucha (for probiotics and fizz), 1 teaspoon turmeric (brain food), 1/2 of a pink grapefruit (vitamin C and bioflavonoids) and a half an apple (keeps the doctor away).
Here is my method: Using a sharp knife, cut off the skin of the grapefruit and chop it into chunks. Cut the apple into chunks (don't peel it). Put apple and grapefruit into blender. Follow with minced candied ginger, turmeric and kombucha (plain or ginger flavored). Throw in 3-4 small ice cubes, blend and serve immediately. Fills two, 12-ounce glasses. What's not to like?
Warm a cup of water to 100-110 degrees (no hotter than you would use for dissolving yeast). Dissolve 1 teaspoon raw honey in the water and stir in 1 tsp raw vinegar (with the mother). Add 1 shake cayenne, 2 shakes powdered ginger, and 4 shakes turmeric powder. Stir with a silver spoon. Why silver? Because you're worth it!


The Yearbook also includes despatches from serving officers in far flung parts and that the vast majority of authors are ARNO members reflects great credit on our own Association. It is particularly pleasing that they and others continue to fly the White Ensign across such an impressive breadth of influential roles.
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The M&H Racemaster tire brand has deep roots in the drag racing world, and Coker Tire is your source for the longstanding tire brand. Despite its history, M&H also develops a number of modern drag racing tires, from DOT approved drag radials to 17 " front runner tires for use on modern muscle cars with big brakes. Coker Tire also offers M&H vintage drag slicks in several sizes to fit Nostalgia Super Stock cars, Nostalgia Funny Cars, Nostalgia Top Fuel Dragsters, gassers, hot rods and much more. Among the immense M&H Racemaster product line are drag slicks and drag radials to fit sport compact cars, modern sports cars and more, so Racemaster tires reach a wide variety of applications, in addition to its faithful customers with a nostalgia drag car in their garage.
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K.R. Ravindran – Trustee Chair's Column
K.R Ravindran reflects on how we are the only species that bears the responsibility of protecting the environment for future generations.
By K.R. Ravindran
Published Date: February 1, 2021
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Having grown up amid lush green forests in the mountainous landscape of Sri Lanka, I always recall the words of the great poet Rabindranath Tagore: "Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
How sad that so often we humans insist on interrupting this conversation. Just like every other living thing, we are a part of nature. But we are also the only species that bears the responsibility of protecting the environment for future generations.
The coronavirus pandemic has shed light as nothing has before on the relationship between environmental degradation and threats to public health.
A few years ago, the government-owned electricity company in my country planned to build a second coal power plant, in eastern Sri Lanka.
It would suck 93 million litres of water per hour from a bay where fragile ecosystems meet the deep sea, the site of one of the largest spawning grounds for sperm whales in the world.
After processing, those 93 million litres per hour would be dumped into the ocean, now loaded with toxic chemicals that put that marine life at great risk.
Learning from the lessons of the damage caused by the first plant, a coalition formed, made up of many public advocates, including Rotarians.
They ran a campaign that alerted the media, the public, and the local community to the potential dangers, in addition to taking legal action.
The government eventually abandoned its coal plant idea after the resulting public outcry. We can truly move mountains when we come together.
When some of us moved to add the environment as Rotary's newest cause, we did so because of the urgency of the problem. In 1990-91, Rotary International President, Paulo V.C. Costa, set forth a vision, and today we will take this work to the next level.
We live in a time of great stress on our environment, of rapidly rising sea levels, massive storms, disappearing rain forests and wildlife, and destructive forest fires.
Climate change touches us all, rich and poor.
We will face the challenge strategically, as with the other areas of focus. In fact, the six other areas of focus depend on this one. For what good is it to fight disease if our polluted environment causes us to become sick again?
The Rotary Foundation will be central to this work. More than $18 million has gone towards environment-related global grants in the past five years.
Building upon this work to protect the environment, we will give yet another Rotary gift to future generations. And you can be a part of it today.
Recycled laptops help isolated students
February – March 2021
We need to solve the plastics problem by 2050
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OK. Guess what? You know that AJATT support ticket system?
Total failure. Pretty much. Not total, but…"meh".
And it's my fault, not yours.
So, we're going back to email — where things make more sense. But with a twist (more addresses, more eyes on the email, including Veronica's).
The support ticket system is being phased out.


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Butterfield Fulcrum Group expands in Dublin with the creation of 150 new jobs
November 6, 2012 November 6, 2012 782 Views
Expansion of Fund Administration activities in Dublin will bring employment to 250 within 3 years, 6 November 2012
Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, TD, today announced that Butterfield Fulcrum Group, a leading, independent fund administration company, is to expand its operation in Dublin with the creation of 150 new jobs bringing total employment to 250.
The new jobs will be in the areas of middle office and customer relationship management. Butterfield Fulcrum established in Ireland in 2009 and since then has reached its 100 employee target with projected employment growth now set to reach 250 with today's announcement. The Irish Government through IDA Ireland has worked with the company to secure this investment.
Making the announcement, Minister Bruton said, "International financial services is a key sector targeted in the Government's plan for jobs and growth, and in the past 18 months we have implemented a number of changes to support expansion and job-creation in this sector. Over recent months we have seen some positive announcements in this field, and today's announcement this leading international company is creating an additional 150 jobs in Dublin is very welcome. This is testament not only to the business environment for international financial services which we have created but also to the excellent skills that are available here. The Government will continue to work hard, through the Action Plan for Jobs, on implementing the necessary changes to ensure that we can see further announcements like this in the near future".
Commenting on the announcement, Glenn Henderson, CEO of Butterfield Fulcrum said, 'Butterfield Fulcrum has had a very positive experience in Dublin. Our experience with the Irish labour market has been phenomenal. Our clients have been very impressed with the calibre of those we have hired in Ireland. Today's expansion is as a result of this success."
Welcoming the announcement, Barry O'Leary, CEO of IDA Ireland said, 'The expansion of Butterfield Fulcrum in Dublin adds to the established reputation of Ireland as a global centre for fund administration and will enhance Ireland's profile within the hedge fund industry globally. The success and accelerated growth of the company's Irish operations demonstrates Ireland's ability to host international financial services companies and provide the highly skilled employees they require for rapid growth. '
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Gannow Green
Garretts Green
Garretts Moor
Garrison Farm
Gibbett Hill
Gib Heath
Gilbertstone
Gipsies Corner
Glebe Farm
Golden Hillock
Good Knaves End
Goosemoor
Gorsey Bank
Gospel Oak
Gosta Green
Gravel Bank
Gravelly Hill
Great Barr
Green Lanes
Greensills
Greens Village
Greethurst
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Griffins Hill
Grindleford
Grove End
The Gun Quarter
Gibbet Hill B73 - Grid reference SP102943
Gibbet Hill lies at New Oscott opposite Oscott College on the Chester Road in the Antrobus Road area. During the 18th century highwaymen were always a danger for travellers. And the Warwick Road, the Coventry Road and the Chester Road, especially in the waste around Sutton Chase, were notoriously dangerous. The infamous Dick Turpin is said to have worked in league with a Sutton highwayman named King who was born somewhere between Sutton and Stonnall. Turpin was hanged in 1739, and King was popularly believed also to have been caught and then burned to death in Sutton Park.
During the 18th century people and property in outlying areas were also vulnerable to armed attack by criminal gangs from Birmingham. Associations for the prosecution of felons were formed in a number of rural districts including in the manor of Perry Barr at the edge of which is Gibbett Hill. This was prominent hill overlooking the main road and an ideal place for a gibbet.
From Anglo-Saxon times hanging was the usual means of capital punishment and it is very likely that the bodies of the guilty would remain upon the gallows as a warning to others. The habit of gibbeting or hanging in chains the body of the executed criminal near the site of the crime dates from the Middle Ages. However, it was not until 1752 that gibbeting was legally recognised. After execution bodies were to be given to the surgeons to be dissected for science and were not to be buried without this being done. The judge might also direct that the corpse be hung in chains. The location of the gibbet may not have been the place of execution. The last man gibbeted in this country is said to have been James Cook at Leicester in 1832 who was executed for the murder of a London tradesman. Cook's body was hung on a gibbet 33 feet high. However, the body was soon taken down and buried on the spot where the gibbet stood because of the disturbances caused by the crowds of people visiting the place on a Sunday.
See also The Tyburn.
See http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55137&sheetid=8339&ox=4178&oy=1236&zm=2&czm=2&x=466&y=263.


that is a great sign!!!! best of luck to you!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is a great sign. I was told that if you have an ectopic pregnancy the numbers will not rise or atleast not rise much at all and a lot of times will even decrease. I learned plenty about all of that because I was proned to having an ectopic pregnancy. I have 3 children so I decided to get my tubes cut and tied a little over a year ago...and now here I am 5 weeks pregnant with #4 :) Crazy....but he/she is developing normally in my uterus, so this is quite a gift from God. I'm sure your baby is developing normal as well.
don't belive everything these doctors say....I was also having cramps everyday and I had a cyst on my right ovary (which could be the circle you have)...they scared the c___p out of me and told me it could be ectopic....I had another ultrasound done after and a DIFFERENT doctor told me cramping is very normal since my uterus is expanding and that having a cyst on the ovary is also very normal (since the egg came from that ovary) and that it will go away on it's own...I was happy to hear this but the first doctor really scared me alot and I was always so paranoid...wondering if I'll ever bleed and die. Just enjoy your pregnancy and as long as your not bleeding, you should be fine. I'm on my 22 week now and not a big fan of doctors these days.
Hi sarahlou21! That black circle thats on your right ovary is a cyst. Thats how cyst show up on ultrasounds. I know because one, I work at a an Ob/Gyn office and two because I always get cyst on my ovaries. Cyst sometimes can be very painful, sometimes when I get them I have to take 800mg of Mortrin because thats how painful it gets. I hope that helps a little!


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Мелиса Маккарти () е американска актриса, сценарист и продуцент, носителка на награда "Еми" и номинирана за "Оскар", "Сателит" и награда на "БАФТА". От 2015 г. има звезда на Холивудската алея на славата.

Мелиса Маккарти дебютира в киното през 1998 г. От 2001 до 2007 г. играе Суки Сейнт Джеймс в телевизионния сериал на The WB "Момичетата Гилмор". От 2007 до 2009 г. играе Дена в сериала на ABC "Коя е Саманта?". През 2011 г. играе в сериала на CBS "Майк & Моли", за който печели награда "Еми".

Маккарти е притежател на производствената компания Он дъ Дей Продъкшънс. През 2013 г. списание Форбс включва Маккарти в своя списък "Стоте най-влиятелни знаменитости". През 2015 г. тя получава почетна звезда на Холивудската алея на славата, а по-късно пуска линията дизайнерско облекло Мелиса Маккарти 7, което е предназначена за жени с всякакви размери. През същата 2015 г. Форбс помества Маккарти на трета позиция в своя ежегоден списък "Най-високо платените актриси в света".

Частична филмография

 Телевизия
 "Момичетата Гилмор" (2000 – 2007)
 "Коя е Саманта?" (2007 – 2009)
 "Майк и Моли" (от 2010)

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Американски актриси
Американски озвучаващи актриси
Американски комици
Американски филмови продуценти
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We just received this set, after having a patio done in our backyard. All arrived only a few days after ordering. It is a very nice set. We like the colors. Photos actually match real close what you will receive. I took some photos how it came out after assembly. Assembly was straight forward, took some time for the entire set, but not a big deal. It is our first Santa Rosa style set, so I can't compare to previous experiences. We give this set 5 stars. It is comfortable for patio use, the shipping happened fast, the packaging was well done. Communication with the mfr is great as well. I had a question about the shipping and received immediate reply/attention. This purchase was a pleasure.
This chat set is a great addition to any patio. Each club chair comes complete with its own ottoman and the 3-seater sofa is spacious enough that you do not really need an ottoman. This set also features a tempered glass top coffee table, perfect for placing all of your drinks and cake plates. The entire set is made with top quality wicker and features an aluminum frame and water resistant cushions. Enjoy this set for years to come.
Dimensions 33.0 In. X 28.0 In. X 15.0 In.
Great outdoor set. Easy to assemble just takes time. Seats stay together even without using the clips Seat have right depth and padding.
This set is beautiful. I am so happy overstock damaged my other set in transit and ended up with no more in stock. This set was twice the price but 10 times the quality! The set up was a bit annoying because we didnt have a bit for our drill for the larger head size so it was all by hand. The cushions are comfy, furniture is sturdy and the colors are beautiful.
This set is gorgeous. I am so happy with the quality of it. We had a backyard bbq for father's day and everyone was commenting on how nice the set was...this was just what we wanted...it makes our backyard looks like a resort. It's comfy and a nice size...not too low like some of the other sets we viewed. I would absolutely recommend this set.
I love this sofa. They look very expensive, are well made. Feel comfortable to sit, cushion is perfect. Thia cushion is beyond my expectation !!!
Arrived extremely fast via Fedex in 7 large boxes. A couple of the items required some simple assembly. We are very pleased with quality of the product. Cushions are very comfortable. Nothing negative to report, everything was exactly as expected!
This was the second sectional we bought for our patio since we liked it so much on our deck. Arrived quickly and exactly as described. It does take a little time to put together, but you just have to be patient. We love it!
"What are the dimensions of the 3 seat sofa?"
The dimensions are 33.25 inches L x 89 inches W x 24.40 inches H.
"Is there a cover set for this product?"
"Does the table have storage underneath it?"
"Is the fabric sunbrella and is the frame powder coated?"
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The project will transform a 63,000-square-foot retail store into a new multispecialty healthcare facility. Photo Credit: Simone Healthcare Development
Adaptive Reuse Healthcare Project Begins on Long Island
June 21, 2022 June 17, 2022 HCO News Staff 1163 Views Catholic Health, MCG Construction, Newman Design
By HCO Staff
CENTEREACH, N.Y.—Simone Healthcare Development, Catholic Health and Ocean State Job Lot joined with officials from the Town of Brookhaven and Suffolk County on June 13 for a groundbreaking ceremony signifying the official start of construction by Simone Healthcare Development for Catholic Health Ambulatory & Urgent Care at Centereach, a new multi-specialty practice featuring primary care, women's health, behavioral health, cardiology, neurosciences, orthopedics and several other services.
The development will transform a 63,000-square-foot retail store located at 2112 Middle Country Road into a new healthcare facility. Catholic Health will lease the new building from Simone and plans to open in the Spring of 2023.
Newman Design is the core and shell architect, led by Brian Newman. MCG Construction is the General Contractor for the core and shell.
Simone Healthcare Development, an affiliate of Simone Development Companies, is acquiring part of the building from Ocean State Job Lot, the largest closeout retailer in the Northeast. The company recently vacated the building and is opening a new 36,000-square-foot store on the eastern portion of the 10.4-acre property.
"We are extremely pleased to begin construction at this property. It has been an intricate process to work through the business and approval issues, but worth all of the effort to bring Catholic Health to Centereach," said Joseph Simone, President, Simone Development Companies.
"Catholic Health is a dynamic and expanding network of integrated hospitals, physicians and outpatient care centers," said Catholic Health President & CEO Patrick O'Shaughnessy, DO, MBA. "Our delivery of exceptional medical and surgical treatments is infused with a heavy dose of compassion and empathy. As we expand our services, with sites such as Catholic Health Ambulatory & Urgent Care at Centereach, our strategic objective is to be the most trusted health care system on Long Island."
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It's been almost two years since I published my last book Invasion! But I am kicking off 2021 in style with the launch of a brand new WW2 Factbook – 1001 Sensational Second World War Facts – which is available now on Amazon Kindle worldwide.
A paperback version of the book will be available very soon, and as soon as I get my head around the different formatting requirements of some of the other e-book distributors, I hope to be able to offer up this one on KOBO, Apple books, Barnes and Noble and a host of other platforms…
As you can probably guess from the title, the book is a WW2 factbook, but it is no ordinary factbook. No. It just happens to be the biggest, baddest WW2 factbook in the history of WW2 factbooks. And that's a fact.
1001 Sensational Second World War Facts
Obviously in the making of the book I had to wade through an awful lot of facts, good ones, bad ones and ones that were just plainly made up! Here are my top ten favourite facts from the book (in no particular order – although my personal all-time favourite single WW2 fact is the last one in this little list):
Yugoslavia suffered more military casualties than both the United Kingdom and the USA with around 446,000 deaths
Since the end of the war, over 2-dozen Medals of Honor have been awarded to men who were denied the Medal during the war due to their race, ethnicity, or religion
Taking place over 100,000 square miles of ocean, the Battle of Leyte Gulf is widely recognised as the largest naval battle ever fought
The SS opened a bank account in which they deposited gold, jewels and money taken from Jewish victims. The bank account was under a fictitious name – Max Heiliger
During the battle of Stalingrad, the life expectancy of the average Red Army soldier was 24 hours
The youngest US serviceman was Calvin Graham who enlisted in the US Navy after Pearl Harbor aged just 12 years old. He was wounded in combat and given a Dishonourable Discharge for lying about his age. (His benefits were later restored by an act of Congress)
Luftwaffe fighter pilot Erich Hartmann racked up 352 confirmed kills making him the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare
Delighted with the destruction the Luftwaffe had caused to Coventry in a single raid, the German propaganda ministry invented a new word – Coventrieren or to 'Coventrate' – which meant to devastate via heavy bombing
The whole attack on Pearl Harbor lasted approximately 110 minutes
On 5 May 1945, Troops of the 23rd US Tank Battalion under Captain John 'Jack' Lee and a number of German soldiers led by Major Joseph 'Sepp' Gangl joined together to defend Castle Itter in Austria and its prisoners (including former French Prime Ministers and the sister of Charles de Gaulle) from the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division. It is the only known time during the war that German and Americans fought side by side
Get another 991 Second World War Facts right now by downloading the Kindle ebook for just £2.99
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East Egg Moves West
By The Wilson Quarterly
Sociologists have explored virtually every aspect of the poor and middle class, but they are finally beginning to study the enclaves of the rich.
Social scientists havechronicled nearly every possible aspect of poor and middle-class neighborhoods over the last century. Finally, sociologists are beginning to probe one of the remaining under-researched territories of America: the enclaves of the rich.
The comfortable class is hardly confined to the hedge-fund manager haunts of New York and the stately formality of Boston, where previous students have usually looked, write Barrett A. Lee and Matthew Marlay, sociologists at Pennsylvania State University. The well-off have moved to the suburbs. And to the West. In the most recent census figures, 30 percent of affluent neighborhoods—the top two percent of census tracts (each populated by about 4,000 people), with median family incomes of about $110,000 and over—are located in the West, 27 percent in the South, 26 percent in the Northeast, and only 18 percent in the Midwest. Nearly eight of 10 rich neighborhoods aren't in central cities at all.
The flush communities are populated by families with children, for the most part, and about 88 percent of their residents are white. Roughly two percent are African American and about the same percentage are of Hispanic descent. Asian Americans, however, are overrepresented. On Main Street in a hypothetical Richville, eight of 100 residents would be of Asian descent, compared with five of 100 in Averagetown. About 13 percent of the households would be headed by somebody born in another country, compared with 14 percent for all communities. Nearly 70 percent of adults would have college degrees, compared with 26 percent overall.
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Not too many full-time coupon clippers would live in these rarified reaches. Men in these census tracts would be more likely to be working than their counterparts in areas lower on the income ladder; women less likely. But most affluent households—70 percent—do report "unearned" income from interest, dividends, and rents, the authors write. Lee and Marlay were unable to squeeze out precise information on overall wealth—the oceanfront vacation home or the odd private jet—from the data available. But they did find that long before the current housing downturn, the top two percent of houses cost nearly $400,000, compared with just over $100,000 in the average sample census tract. The richest neighborhoods are not likely to be gated communities. Such developments are more often home to people some notches down the wealth ladder and worried about crime.
With a grand total of 74 wealthy census tracts, the Washington metropolitan area tops the list in terms of quantity. Metropolitan New York City is second with 54. Nationwide, there are 764 wealthy neighborhoods as defined by Lee and Marlay's criteria. Interested though most of us are in how the other half lives, the authors note that the evidence produced by their statistical analysis is "rather predictable." But the "modest surprises" offered by the authors' research are somewhat comforting: Even the rich in America tend to hold down jobs, and a substantial number of them are first-generation immigrants.
THE SOURCE: "The Right Side of the Tracks: Affluent Neighborhoods in the Metropolitan United States" by Barrett A. Lee and Matthew Marlay, in Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 88 (3), 2007.
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On November 16th, we hosted one of my personal favorite events, Paint Night!
Some of the members of our Ministry Team got together and traced out the outline of what we decided to paint, which ended up being an adorable landscape filled with hot air balloons. It looked absolutely adorably cartoonish, like Yoshi or Mario was about to run up the other side of one of the hills and jump into the hot air balloon—needless to say, I am incredibly pleased.
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Epcot's "Circle of Life" Attraction Closes for Enhancements
Monday, February 08, 2016 Advisory, Epcot, Refurbishments, Rumors, Walt Disney World
The often-overlooked attraction themed after The Lion King (located inside The Land pavilion at Epcot) abruptly closed to Guests on Sunday, February 7, 2016 without any official announcement from the Walt Disney World Resort.
While the short environmental film is certainly due for an update, at this time it is not clear whether this closure is part of a larger project including a replacement for the existing movie or if it's just part of a major refurbishment of the theater.
Guests browsing the official website of the Walt Disney World Resort will now see the following note on the page dedicated to the Circle of Life attraction:
As part of our continuing efforts to exceed the expectations of our Guests, The Circle of Life is currently closed for enhancements. Please check back here for the latest updates and information about when it will reopen.
The inclusion of the word "enhancement" seems to point to the possibility of having a new movie or even new special effects added to the old Harvest Theater, which has featured this attraction since 1995.
In addition to that, plenty of work has already been done inside the theater overnight during the past few months. As we previously reported, the sides of the theater were completely refurbished back in 2014, while the refurbishment of the theater's seats was just completed, according to our sources.
The calendar on the attraction's page states that the Circle of Life will remain closed through April 2, reopening to all Guests on April 3. What might need to be done that requires a two-month closure?
PHOTOS: © 2016 Walt Disney World Resort. All Rights Reserved.
I always thought that theater with its location inside The Land and with Soarin' would make a nice spot for Disney Nature to have a movie and promote those movies and messages.
Marc February 9, 2016 at 10:45 AM
Could it be an update to change the show to a Lion Guard theamed experience.
It's missed cause most people go left when they enter the land building. I bet it's very quiet ATM with Soarin down to the summer.