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Wolseley and MES achieve significant transactional savings through the use of Asite and increase their volume of e-commerce transactions on Asite without investing in additional IT infrastructure.
Despite having heavily invested in e-commerce, with fully transactional websites for each of their eight divisions, Wolseley are keen to boost their volume of e-commerce transactions through Asite. Wolseley, one of the largest building products distributors in the UK, wanted to prove that they could not only reduce transaction costs with MES, a long-standing customer, but further improve the quality of service to their customers through improved order management information.
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Wolseley chose Asite because of their depth of industry knowledge and from providing e-procurement technology for both suppliers and their customers. "Asite is conceived and driven by people within the industry… There was an empathy", says David Moody, Sales and Marketing Director at Wolseley.
The first step was for Asite to thoroughly review the procurement processes at Wolseley and MES. Together with Wolseley and MES, they identified process steps that could be eliminated or improved. Potential savings could be measured along with any investments to ensure calculation of a clear ROI.
Asite provided MES with the Asite eProcurement solution, allowing them to send orders to Wolseley. Wolseley connected their order-management system to the Asite platform, minimising the intervention needed to process orders and dramatically reducing Wolseley's costs. Before this, orders from firms like MES had to be keyed onto Wolseley's computer manually.
For MES, using Asite was an opportunity to get involved in e-business without having to buy new hardware or software. Asite set up a version of Wolseley's catalogue for MES, showing the MES product-list. Once completed, it was easy to use, "You just look at what you want, click on it, press a button to make the order and wait for it to turn up", said David Saunders, Finance Director.
Users can also track the status of orders and check whether they've been dispatched.
Both Wolseley and MES realised significant reductions in their transaction costs including additional commercial benefits. The precise savings are commercially sensitive, but David Moody, Sales and Marketing Director at Wolseley says that "There's no doubt it will work".
These cost-savings were achieved through Asite's streamlining of business processes. Using Asite also increases the accuracy of orders received, reduces the number of queries per transaction and facilitates matching of invoices and purchase orders electronically.
"We'll be looking at our supplier base to see who we'd like to have join us on Asite." David Saunders, MES, Financial Director.
"I believe that it will help the bottom line…I expect it to bring a significant reduction on costs - both on site and in admin", says David Saunders, MES Financial Director. MES estimate that they will reduce transaction costs by 39%.
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Current Issue: 2009 - Volume 35 - Number 9 (/September)
Others of the Authors
Alessandra Naimaier Bertolazi
Simone Chaves Fagondes
Leonardo Santos Hoff
Vinícius Dallagasperina Pedro
Sérgio Saldanha Menna Barreto
Murray W. Johns
Bertolazi AN, Fagondes SC, Hoff LS, Pedro D, Barreto SSM, Johns MW. Portuguese-language version of the Epworth sleepiness scale: validation for use in Brazil. J Bras Pneumol. 2009;35(9):877-883
Portuguese-language version of the Epworth sleepiness scale: validation for use in Brazil
Validação da escala de sonolência de Epworth em português para uso no Brasil
Alessandra Naimaier Bertolazi; Simone Chaves Fagondes; Leonardo Santos Hoff; Vinícius Dallagasperina Pedro; Sérgio Saldanha Menna Barreto; Murray W. Johns
Objective: The aim of this study was to develop a Portuguese-language version of the Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS) for use in Brazil. Methods: The steps involved in creating the ESS in Brazilian Portuguese (ESS-BR) were as follows: translation; back-translation; comparison (by a committee) between the translation and the back-translation; and testing in bilingual individuals. The ESS-BR was applied to a group of patients who were submitted to overnight polysomnography in order to identify obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS), insomnia and primary snoring. A control group was composed of subjects with a history of normal sleep habits, without reported snoring. Results: A total of 114 patients and 21 controls were included. The 8-item scores of the ESS-BR had an overall reliability coefficient of 0.83. The study group was composed of 59 patients with OSAHS, 34 patients with primary snoring and 21 patients with insomnia. One-way ANOVA demonstrated significant differences in ESS-BR scores among the four diagnostic groups (p < 0.001). Post-hoc tests between groups showed that the ESS-BR scores of the patients with insomnia did not differ from those of the controls (p > 0.05). The ESS-BR scores were significantly higher for OSAHS patients and for primary snorers than for controls (p < 0.05). In addition, the scores for OSAHS patients were significantly higher than were those for primary snorers (p < 0.05). Conclusions: The results of the present study demonstrate that the ESS-BR is a valid and reliable instrument for the assessment of daytime sleepiness, equivalent to its original version when applied to individuals who speak Brazilian Portuguese.
Objetivo: Desenvolver uma versão da escala de sonolência de Epworth (ESE) para o português para uso no Brasil. Métodos: A versão no português do Brasil (ESE-BR) foi desenvolvida de acordo com as seguintes etapas: tradução; retrotradução; comparação entre a tradução e a retrotradução (por um comitê); e aplicação em indivíduos bilíngues. A ESE-BR foi aplicada a um grupo de pacientes submetidos à polissonografia de noite inteira para identificar síndrome da apneia-hipopneia obstrutiva do sono (SAHOS), insônia e ronco primário. Um grupo controle foi composto de indivíduos com história de hábitos normais de sono, sem ronco aparente. Resultados: Um total de 114 pacientes e 21 controles foram incluídos. Os 8 itens do ESE-BR tiveram um coeficiente de confiabilidade total de 0,83. O grupo em estudo foi composto por 59 pacientes com SAHOS, 34 pacientes com ronco primário e 21 pacientes com insônia. One-way ANOVA demonstrou diferenças significativas nos escores do ESE-BR entre os quatro grupos diagnósticos (p < 0,001). Testes post hoc entre grupos pareados mostraram que os escores do ESE-BR para insones não diferiram daqueles dos controles (p > 0,05). Os escores dos pacientes com SAHOS e nos roncadores primários foram significativamente maiores que os dos controles (p < 0,05). Além disso, os escores para pacientes com SAHOS foram significativamente maiores do que os daqueles com ronco primário (p < 0,05). Conclusões: Os resultados do presente estudo demonstraram que a ESE-BR é um instrumento válido e confiável para a avaliação da sonolência diurna e equivalente a sua versão original, quando aplicada em indivíduos que falam português do Brasil
Keywords: Validation studies; Sleep disorders; Cross-cultural comparison; Disorders of excessive somnolence.
Palavras-chave: Estudos de validação; Transtornos do sono; Comparação transcultural; Distúrbios do sono por sonolência excessiva.
Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is defined as an increased propensity to fall asleep under circumstances that the affected individual and others would consider inappropriate. It has been reported that EDS affects 0.5-14% of the population,(1-4) seriously interfering with professional activities, as well as with family and social relationships, and reducing cognitive performance, thereby increasing the risk of accidents in the workplace and traffic accidents.(5-8) It has been demonstrated that individuals who are sleep-deprived, due to limitations in either the quantity or quality of sleep, often are unable to respond rapidly to external stimuli and have greater difficulty in concentrating, which impairs their ability to perform certain activities, including driving a vehicle.(5,9-11) There is evidence that EDS is closely correlated with traffic accidents. The proportion of such accidents that can be ascribed to EDS ranges from 1% to 3% in the United States and is 33% in Australia.(9) There is a lack of statistical data linking EDS to traffic accidents in Brazil. The impact of EDS on the working adult manifests as decreased productivity, increased absenteeism, higher accident rates and a greater likelihood of disability due to EDS-related illness. The costs associated with EDS can be direct (charges for medical care or self-treatment that are borne by the patient, government, organized health care providers or insurance companies), indirect (patient- and employer-borne costs that result from EDS-related morbidity and mortality) or related (costs that do not qualify as direct or indirect costs but that can be rationally associated with the illness, such as cost of property damage or injury to other parties resulting from accidents associated with the disorder).(12) The annual cost of accidents attributed to sleep disorders is estimated to be between $43.15 billion and $56.02 billion in the United States. Work-related accidents caused by sleepiness accounted for $24.7 billion of those costs.(13-15)
Subjective and objective measures, as well as clinical assessments, can be used to investigate EDS. Polysomnography, the multiple sleep latency test and the maintenance of wakefulness test are the principal diagnostic tools currently available.(8,16-18) The multiple sleep latency test was developed to assess physiologic sleep tendency or the volition to sleep in an environment free of alerting factors: while patients are monitored using electroencephalography (EEG), they are given the opportunity to fall asleep during a 20-min period, four to six times a day. The maintenance of wakefulness test is a polysomnographic assessment of the propensity to remain awake during the day. However, both of these tests have the drawbacks that they must be conducted in a sleep laboratory, require qualified technicians, are time-consuming and are costly. Among the subjective instruments, the Stanford sleepiness scale and the Karolinska sleepiness scale have been employed to evaluate sleepiness.(8)
Measures of sleepiness over time include the sleep-wake activity inventory, the index of daytime sleepiness of the survey screen for sleep apnea, the Rotterdam daytime sleepiness scale and the Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS). The ESS was devised based on observations regarding the nature and occurrence of daytime sleepiness.(19) It is a self-report questionnaire that evaluates the probability of falling asleep in eight situations involving daily activities, some known to be highly soporific.(19,20) The global score ranges from 0 to 24, scores higher than 10 suggesting a diagnosis of EDS.(20) The ESS has been translated to and validated for use in several other languages, being widely used because it is simple, easy to understand and rapidly completed. The aim of the present study was to translate the ESS into Portuguese and validate it for use in Brazil.
The ESS in Brazilian Portuguese (ESS-BR) was developed in phases, as follows: translation; back-translation; committee-based comparison between the translation and the back-translation; and testing in bilingual individuals. In the translation phase, the ESS was translated into Brazilian Portuguese by two independent translators who were unaware of the study objectives. The translations were compared by the authors, and a consensus version was agreed upon. Back-translations to English were then carried out by another two translators, neither of whom had participated in any of the previous steps. The author of the original scale evaluated the back-translations, which were then merged into a final version to be considered.
The comparison between the original ESS and the final back-translation was made by a committee composed of individuals who were fluent in English and who were not involved in the present study. Each of the eight items was analyzed following the method described in the literature.(21)
Through this process, the committee approved a final version of the scale in Brazilian Portuguese, to be known as the ESS-BR (Appendix 1). In order to assess the linguistic interchangeability between the translation and the original questionnaire, we applied the two scales in a group of 14 bilingual individuals, who first completed the ESS and then, two weeks later, completed the ESS-BR. Correlations were drawn between the ESS scores and the ESS-BR scores.
Between January of 2006 and September of 2007, the ESS-BR was applied in patients 18 to 65 years of age who were under evaluation for primary snoring, insomnia (psychophysiological or idiopathic) or obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) at the Sleep Laboratory of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA, Porto Alegre Hospital de Clínicas), a tertiary university hospital in the city of Porto Alegre, located in the south of Brazil. A control group was recruited from among patients attending the HCPA Outpatient Ophthalmology Clinic and from among other volunteers. None of the control subjects had any sleep complaints, and all presented normal polysomnography findings. Data related to age, gender, body mass index (BMI), neck circumference, comorbidities and use of medications were collected. All of the subjects underwent polysomnography. Patients with mental impairment were excluded, as were those who were shift workers, as well as those presenting polysomnographic findings suggestive of disorders other than OSAHS, insomnia or primary snoring. The ESS-BR was applied within the two-week period preceding the polysomnography study and again within the subsequent two-week period.
Overnight, attended in-laboratory polysomnography studies were conducted according to the manual devised by Rechtschaffen & Kales.(22) The sleep studies were conducted using a Neurofax system (Nihon Kohden, Tokyo, Japan), which includes EEG (channels C3/M2, C4/M1, O1/M2 and O2/M1), electrooculography (channels E2/M1 and E1/M1), electromyography (chin and anterior tibia), monitoring of nasal and oral flux (using a thermistor), pulse oximetry, three-lead electrocardiography, snore recognition and body position sensing. Abdominal and thoracic movements were recorded using piezoelectric bands. Based on the results of the polysomnography results, the patients were categorized as belonging to one of the following groups: psychophysiological or idiopathic insomnia; primary snoring; and OSAHS. The diagnoses of OSAHS, primary snoring and insomnia were made in accordance with the international standards established by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM).(23)
Quantitative variables were expressed as mean ± standard deviation, and qualitative variables were expressed as percentages. When appropriate, 95% CIs were also calculated. All statistical tests were two-tailed, and values of p ≤ 0.05 were regarded as statistically significant. For comparisons among groups, ANOVA was performed. The effects of age, gender, BMI and apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) on the ESS-BR scores were evaluated by analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Internal consistency of the ESS-BR was assessed using Cronbach's alpha. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, version 12.0 for Windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). The study protocol was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the HCPA Graduate Research Program, in accordance with national and international guidelines. All study participants gave written informed consent.
There were no cultural barriers to the translation of the original ESS into Brazilian Portuguese, since the situations presented in the scale are common among Brazilians. Therefore, none of the eight items on the scale needed to be modified in terms of content.
In the group of bilingual individuals, the mean scores on the ESS-BR and original ESS were 6.7 ± 4.1 and 7.4 ± 4.3, respectively, showing good reproducibility between the translation and the original scale (intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.856; r = 0.917; p < 0.001). The internal consistency, as measured by Cronbach's alpha, was 0.76 and 0.79, respectively, for the ESS-BR and the original ESS.
A total of 114 patients and 21 controls were included in the study. The study group was composed of 34 patients with primary snoring, 21 patients with insomnia and 59 patients with OSAHS. The characteristics of the patients and controls are listed in Table 1. The ESS-BR scores presented an overall reliability coefficient (Cronbach's alpha) of 0.83. The mean ESS-BR score was 5.2 ± 3.0 for the controls, 8.8 ± 3.4 for the patients with primary snoring, 5.3 ± 2.6 for the patients with insomnia and 13.5 ± 5.1 for the patients with OSAHS. One-way ANOVA demonstrated significant differences among the four diagnostic groups in terms of the ESS-BR scores (p < 0.001). As can be seen in Figure 1, the post-hoc tests between groups showed that the ESS-BR scores for patients with insomnia did not differ from those of controls (p > 0.05), whereas the scores for the patients with OSAHS and the patients with primary snoring were significantly higher than were those obtained for the controls (p < 0.05), and the scores for the patients with OSAHS were significantly higher than were those obtained for the patients with primary snoring (p < 0.05). For the sample as a whole, a significant correlation was observed between the ESS-BR scores and the respiratory parameters obtained during polysomnography: AHI (r = 0.592; p < 0.001) and lowest oxygen saturation (r = −0.522; p < 0.001).
There was a weak correlation between ESS-BR score and age (r = 0.268; p = 0.002). However, when age was included as a factor in the ANCOVA, which also included gender, BMI and AHI, no age-related differences were found among the groups in terms of ESS-BR scores (p < 0.001). Patients with OSAHS were classified based on AHI and according to the criteria defined by the AASM.(23) Of the 59 patients with OSAHS, 24, 14 and 21, respectively, were classified as having the mild, moderate and severe forms of the disease. The one-way ANOVA did not show statistically significant differences among the three OSAHS categories in terms of the ESS-BR score (p = 0.293). Considering all patients with OSAHS, the ANCOVA showed that there was no significant effect on the ESS-BR score in relation to age, gender, BMI or AHI.
For the 135 individuals assessed in the present study, the scores obtained on the ESS-BR showed internal consistency similar to that of translations validated elsewhere,(24-28) despite the cultural and language differences among the populations analyzed. Comparing the ESS-BR scores obtained in the present study with those obtained in studies applying the original ESS, we found the scores to be similar for the control and OSAHS groups. In the present study, the ESS-BR scores for the insomnia group were very similar to those obtained for the control group.
In another study, the ESS scores for the insomnia group were slightly lower than were those for the control group, although the difference did not quite reach statistical significance.(19) However, in the present study, there was a significant difference between the primary snoring group and the control group in terms of the ESS-BR score. The relationship between snoring and EDS has previously been suggested.(26) In the present study, this difference might be attributable due to a selection bias, since most of the patients in the primary snoring group were referred for polysomnography due to clinical suspicion of OSAHS. In addition, some of these patients might have had increased airway resistance. Furthermore, the use of a thermistor rather than a nasal cannula during polysomnography might have resulted in the underdiagnosis of respiratory disorders in the primary snoring group patients.
The correlation between AHI and ESS-BR score was statistically significant, as has been demonstrated in other validation studies.(25-28) In one study,(19) the ESS scores were significantly higher for patients with severe OSAHS than for those with mild or moderate OSAHS (p < 0.001), although no statistically significant difference was found between the mild and moderate forms. Unlike other validation studies, the present study evaluated only individuals submitted to polysomnography, which enhanced the stringency of the selection of the groups.
Limitations of this study include the use of a thermistor rather than a nasal cannula during polysomnography, which might have resulted in the number of respiratory events being underestimated in some patients, mainly those in the primary snoring group. Another limitation is the small number of patients of our sample, which was due to the small number of laboratory beds at our facility, as well as to budgetary restraints. Finally, the Brazilian population is quite heterogeneous. Therefore, social, cultural and economic differences among regions restrict the extent to which the ESS-BR can be applied in Brazil as a whole.
The results of the present study demonstrate that the ESS-BR is a valid and reliable instrument for the assessment of daytime sleepiness, being equivalent to its original version when applied to individuals who speak Brazilian Portuguese. Neither major cultural adaptations nor structural modifications were necessary during the validation process, despite the cultural and language differences between the two populations for which the questionnaire was validated. Therefore, the ESS-BR can be regarded as a useful tool in clinical practice and in research. Nevertheless, we believe that further adaptations or even the development of a new instrument might be necessary in order to allow the effective use of the scale at facilities in other regions of Brazil.
The authors are grateful to the technicians Iara Regina Borges Kersten and Valmir Furquim Prestes, of the Sleep Laboratory of the Porto Alegre Hospital de Clínicas, for their assistance, as well as to Dr. Lúcia Campos Pellanda for her contribution in the preparation of the manuscript.
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Study carried out in the Sleep Laboratory of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - School of Medicine Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre - HCPA - Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Correspondence to: Alessandra N. Bertolazi. Rua Otávio Alves de Oliveira, 330/402, CEP 97050-550, Santa Maria, RS, Brasil.
Tel 55 55 3222-5599. E-mail: alessa.bertolazzi@terra.com.br
Financial support: This study received financial support from the Fundo de Incentivo à Pesquisa e Eventos (FIPE, Research Incentive Fund) of the Porto Alegre Hospital de Clínicas.
Submitted: 9 December 2008. Accepted, after review: 19 May 2009.
** A versão completa em português deste artigo está disponível em www.jornaldepneumologia.com.br
Physician. Santa Maria University Hospital, Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil.
Physician. Sleep Disorders Outpatient Clinic/Sleep Laboratory of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - School of Medicine Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre - HCPA - Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Medical Student. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - School of Medicine, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Medical Student. Federal University of Santa Maria School of Medicine, Santa Maria, Brazil.
Full Professor. Department of Internal Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - School of Medicine, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Physician-in-Chief. Epworth Sleep Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Brave Little Toasters
On November 15, 2021 By laurenjholmesIn Review
I've heard that Thomas M. Disch has written a lot of really good books for adults and a lot of high quality poetry. Of course, what he is best known for now seems to be the Brave Little Toaster stories. These strange books, The Brave Little Toaster and The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, seem to be children's books on the surface. I say seems to be because despite the format and subject matter, The Brave Little Toaster was originally published in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, to an adult audience. This seems unintentional; Disch said that he had trouble selling the story as a children's book because publishers found the concept too far-fetched, even after he sold the film rights to Disney. Still, The Brave Little Toaster did quite well as a F&SF novella with its mostly adult audience. It was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and won the Locus Award, Seiun Award, and British SF Association Award. Despite being a children's fable, the themes and social commentary of this story have appealed to adults for decades. Though I found the sequel, The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, to feel a lot more like a children's book.
It may seem strange that these little books about toasters, which were originally written in the 80s, are still talked about today. As far as I can tell both books are long out of print. I was lucky enough to find a second hand copy of Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars for under $100, but to read the original Brave Little Toaster, I ended up finding a copy of the anthology; The Best From FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, The 24th Series, edited by Edward L. Ferman. Along with Brave Little Toaster, this anthology also contains this story along with stories by Philip K. Dick, Lisa Tuttle and articles by Isaac Asimov and Algis Budrys.My copy is super beat up, as I imagine most copies are, but this book is a lot easier to find online for a reasonable price than Brave Little Toaster.
What ended up immortalizing these books were the movies based off of them. The Toaster movie trilogy is itself rather hard to find nowadays (though I heard some countries have the movies on Disney+) but they have a cult following. I watched the three movies (the first and third are based off of the books, but the second, Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue is completely original) a lot as a kid. Probably why I have issues throwing things away. The plot of the first movie is about a group of small appliances – an electric blanket, radio, vacuum cleaner, lamp and of course a toaster – are abandoned in a cottage, and go on a journey to find their master and be useful again. It is a cute premise that gets very dark, and the movie. The book and movie have very different endings, which in turn means that the book and movie versions of Goes to Mars are different. I wasn't as obsessed with Goes to Mars as a kid, so I'm not going to go into as much detail about that movie.
Even if you didn't watch The Brave Little Toaster as a kid there is still an interesting history behind the movie. It was the first CGI film John Lasseter (of Pixar fame) ever pitched, though after he failed to convince the Disney President that using computers would be 'faster or cheaper', he was fired. Keep in mind that years later, Lasseter would go on to make Toy Story, the first completely CGI film, which like Toaster, is about inanimate objects coming to life. Though Toy Story came about mostly due to Disney's interest in Lasseter and Pixar's short film Tin Toy, it is hard to imagine that The Brave Little Toaster did not provide some influence.
Lasseter is not the only connection between Pixar and Brave Little Toaster. The film attracted a lot of talent both new and old, including people who would go on to work for Pixar. Most notability, this was screenwriter Joe Ranft's first movie. Ranft would go on to become Pixar's Head of Story, and write for a number of Pixar movies, including Toy Story. He unfortunately passed away whilst working as co-director of the movie Cars. The connection between Brave Little Toaster and Pixar can be seen on the door of the Master's apartment, which contains an early example of the A113 Easter egg that that alumni of the California Institute of the Arts hide in movies – especially Pixar movies. Whilst Brave Little Toaster was a big part of my childhood, Pixar have been a lifelong influence on me. There was a time in my life where I was planning to be an animator. It was quite interesting learning about this connection. I find it crazy to think that in an alternate universe somewhere, Lasseter's pitch succeeded and The Brave Little Toaster could have been the first entirely computer animated feature film. Instead, it is a largely forgotten cult classic.
With the film and Pixar history out of the way, I should start talking about the books themselves. The plot of The Brave Little Toaster is that a group of appliances that have been left in a cottage go out into the wilderness in search of their human, who they call the Master. Along the way they meet flowers that speak in verse, squirrels that tell dirty jokes, and a pirate that steals and disassembles appliances. So far, pretty similar to the movie. Each appliance in the odd five-man band gets its own moment to shine, and they all have distinct personalities. However, in the book the confrontation with the junkshop owner is the climax. After that, they go to the Master's apartment, but end up getting a very different welcome by the newer appliances to what we saw in the movie. As I said before, this leads to a different ending. Still a happy ending, but not a painless ending.
This novella/children's book is full of charm. The appliances all have appliance concerns and thoughts as they go on this adventure. The Toaster thinks a lot about toasting bread, and its goals involve a lot of breakfasts. Its pretty cute. At the same time, the appliances all have issues with having a purpose. They want to be useful, to the point where sitting idle in the cottage is unbearable to them. Being in a junkyard, being damaged, all brings out fears that they are junk and worthless. Its interesting how Disch puts us in the head of an appliance in a way that starts out cute but speaks to very human needs about self-worth and purpose. This also ties into the moral of the story, which is how wasteful society is. We throw out things instead of doing minor repairs. Being a kids book, this moral isn't subtle at all, but it isn't out of place or annoying.
In The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, the Toaster and friends end up going to Mars. Shocking right? Given how differently the first book and movie ended, there are some differences. Most notably, no baby in a magic bubble floating through space in the book. For the most part though, the story is the same. Albert Einstein's old hearing aid helps the radio pick up a signal from Mars, from which the appliances learn that there are appliances on Mars who want to invade Earth and kill all the humans. So, a mission to Mars is planned. Using an unpublished anti-gravity theory of Einstein's, the hearing aid is able to get a crew of appliances to Mars in a clothes basket, using a single pack of macaroni and cheese as fuel. The Toaster, Radio and Blanket are back for this adventure. The Hoover stays home because it predicts that it will have a terrible time on a planet completely covered in dust. The Lamp stays home because its worried it'll be too dark on Mars. Yeah, the Lamp is super dumb. The rest of the crew consists of the genius Hearing Aid, the Ceiling Fan, the Calculator, and the Microwave. They are also joined by a balloon that they meet in orbit.
As you can see, The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars is completely crazy. Even without the space bubble baby. It also has a lot of the same charm as the original. The Toaster is still obsessed with toasting bread. When it gets stressed it thinks about making toast to calm down, and when it thinks about English muffins it feels uneasy due to an incident where it burnt one in the past. Unfortunately, we don't get similar moments inside other appliances heads as often as we did in the first book. The only other appliance we get similar insights to is the light-up Christmas Tree angel Tinselina. She thinks about Christmas a lot. There are so many novelty Christmas angels on Mars that they have Christmas once a month. Tinselina is head of the union, and has demanded that the Supreme Commander – who is a fridge the size of a pyramid – let them have Christmas so often. It would have been nice to see a bit more characterization for the other new appliances. The Microwave and Toaster had a slight rivalry at the start, but by the time they go to Mars that is forgotten, and the Microwave is pretty much just there to heat up the mac'n'cheese. The ceiling fan is also there pretty much just to translate when the Hearing Aid speaks in German. It's pretty much just the Toaster's story, with all the other appliances of the crew just there to make the plot work.
The ending also felt way too easy. But then again, I am an adult and this is a children's book. I guess what I'm really saying, is that this story doesn't have quite as universal appeal as the first book. It is a very simplistic story, with some very simple language. Which again, it is for kids. Though on the other hand the social commentary doesn't seem quite as practical for a younger audience. Planned Obsolescence is explained and treated as the horror it is, and there are also stabs made at senseless consumerism and militarism. Some of the appliances being made on Mars are completely pointless, and as the Toaster points out during the hours long military parade, there is no need for a pyramid-sized fridge or giant war toasters.
In the end, I am glad I read both books, even though I by far prefer The Brave Little Toaster. These are fun children's books with an interesting history. They also managed to pack in a lot of charm whilst saying things about consumerism and instilling just a bit of existential dread. If you are lucky enough to have a copy of these books, treasure them.
~ Lauren
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Lin Wood Tweet Thread Accuses Pence of Being "Disloyal" to Trump, "Traitor to We The People"
"I believe Chief Justice John Roberts & a multitude of powerful individuals worldwide are being blackmailed in a horrendous scheme involving rape & murder of children captured on videotape."
Posted by Kemberlee Kaye Monday, January 4, 2021 at 03:08pm 99 Comments
Lin Wood, Trump ally, and the attorney deeply entrenched in the Georgia special election efforts unleashed an interesting tweet thread in the wee hours of Monday morn.
In the thread, Wood suggested VP Pence was "disloyal" to Trump, saying Pence wants to be president in 2024, and calling Pence a "traitor to We The People."
Wood also said he believes, "Chief Justice John Roberts & a multitude of powerful individuals worldwide are being blackmailed in a horrendous scheme involving rape & murder of children captured on videotape," and says he "the key to the files containing the videos."
Tweets are as follows:
https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1345943902398910469?s=20
This morning, Wood sent two tweets saying that two of the tweets he sent the night prior may not be fully accurate:
Wood has levied incredibly serious accusations and has not provided any evidence publicly to back them up. Similar is the case of Sidney Powell. Many claims, no hard evidence to speak of.
Wood ingratiated himself with the right when he represented Nick Sandman, who was maligned by mainstream media outlets for a photo showing him smirking. Goodwill he's blown through encouraging people NOT to vote in the Georgia Senate runoffs and now through wild accusations rendered without one ounce of evidence.
99	99 Comments 2020 Election, Lin Wood, Mike Pence
2020 Election, Lin Wood, Mike Pence
MarkS | January 4, 2021 at 3:39 pm
He, as Sidney Powell, a lot of accusations with no evidence!
notamemberofanyorganizedpolicital in reply to MarkS. | January 4, 2021 at 6:11 pm
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan Ridicules Electoral Challenge
Bloomberg Pushes 'Violence
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/01/03/former-house-speaker-paul-ryan-ridicules-electoral-challenge/
Barry in reply to MarkS. | January 4, 2021 at 8:33 pm
There is a ton of evidence of election fraud. Lets just start with stopping the vote counting in the key cities in the key states, and when vote counting resumed it was done in secret. That's it, those votes should be nullified.
TheFineReport.com in reply to MarkS. | January 5, 2021 at 1:00 am
It's what we ALL here believe.
Pathetic nerds like Roberts (gates, boehner – you name them) are probably the porn stars of Epstein Studios. The films are probably being destroyed as we speak. That's the only thing that will keep Maxwell alive.
We have ONE person to blame for the absolute corruption of our country. One person.
His name is William Barr.
RNJD in reply to TheFineReport.com. | January 5, 2021 at 5:27 am
No, not all of us believe that. If there was even a hint of such behavior, John Roberts would have never been nominated, much less confirmed, to the Supreme Court of the United States.
TX-rifraph in reply to MarkS. | January 5, 2021 at 6:55 am
No evidence of fraud? The burden of proof lies with the states to PROVE (backed by evidence) the the election was fair and honestly run. ANY evidence that indicates that was not the case should block a certification of the results.
It is not hard to design a voting process with integrity — voter ID, clean voting roles, and accurate counts. Machines will provide extremely accurate counts if properly designed to do so. Machines routinely perform accurate counts in difficult manufacturing situations with no problem.
Powell, Wood, el al, do not need to prove anything. They only need to have the STATE prove that the vote was fair and accurate. Any evidence of error or fraud, no matter how small, indicates that it was not. The state will not or can not provide a satisfactory explanation for the massive errors, etc. They simply dismiss them. Corrupt courts are not evidence that "there is no evidence."
We have allowed the narrative to be flipped upside down logically. The State conclusively PROVES the voting process was fair and accurate or that state's votes get flushed (analogy intended).
mark311 in reply to TX-rifraph. | January 5, 2021 at 3:41 pm
No the burden of proof lays with the party making the allegation (s). Having it the other way around is daft you'd end up with many malicious and baseless claims.
The court cases this far haven't just dismissed the case made by the Trump legal team they have thoroughly eviscerated the testimony, expert witnesses and legal arguments presented to them.
MarkSmith in reply to mark311. | January 5, 2021 at 11:20 pm
..they have thoroughly eviscerated the testimony, expert witnesses and legal arguments presented to them.
Ha, definitely a cat lover. I have seen zero eviscerate, nice try bot.
Doug1943 in reply to MarkS. | January 5, 2021 at 8:37 am
It is the pity of the world that the internal rotting away of America, driven by the Left, is going to be effectively unopposed, because so many of the people who rightly oppose it, are gullible idiots. This charlatan Lin Wood knows his audience. They'll believe anything. Present company excepted, of course.
Dathurtz | January 4, 2021 at 3:52 pm
The only way to be certain of something is to be able to prove it. If you can prove it, then you have sufficient evidence to remove doubt. If you have sufficient evidence to remove doubt, then why would you make the claims without showing the evidence to support the claims?
Maybe I'm wrong because I don't understand PR/Media stuff, but I just can't bring myself to hop on board claims that bold without seeing strong evidence. I don't see how we can be expected to jump onboard unless/until the evidence is put out there.
mark311 in reply to Dathurtz. | January 5, 2021 at 5:25 am
You got it in one, is claims are nuts. Why would he not release the proof at the same time. Its an example of throwing shit and calling it a show.
TX-rifraph in reply to Dathurtz. | January 5, 2021 at 7:06 am
"The only way to be certain of something is to be able to prove it."
Certainty is not always possible. If I drop a quarter 1000 yards from the shore in Lake Superior, do you think you can find it? Do you think you can prove it is there?
Carl Sagan said that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Do you "prove" your innocence in a criminal trial? Logically, the state must prove its case. Same here in an election.
In theory, a trial is set up to be run by runs to be fair and honest. It is designed that was. An election process must be set up to be fair and honest. In these states, it clearly was not. There is massive evidence that indicate fraud. The state is on the hook for evidence and they don't have it. Just like a criminal trial.
Dathurtz in reply to TX-rifraph. | January 5, 2021 at 8:13 am
I think we should differentiate between the idea of certainty and the idea of an operating assumption. If I see you drop a quarter in the lake, then I can be certain a quarter was there for at least a while. If I come back a year later, I can operate under the assumption the quarter is at the bottom of the lake, but I can't be certain of it.
I can operate under the assumption that Roberts is compromised in some way, without being certain it is because he raped and murdered a child. Certainty would require a lot more evidence of that specific claim than just the claim itself being made.
It is silly to expect reasonable people to accept large scale claims when those claims come without evidence other than that gut feeling we have that something is wrong. I think there is a large gap between "something is wrong here" to "I am certain that particular person did that particular thing" for most people.
MrE | January 4, 2021 at 4:04 pm
Is Lin Wood being used to take down QAnon? If any of this is true, he needs to roll the film, or, STHU.
BethDonovan | January 4, 2021 at 4:10 pm
These seem like such bizarre accusations that it is really hard to believe them without some real proof. I have no doubt that Judge Roberts has been threatened somehow, but this? Wow.
TheFineReport.com in reply to BethDonovan. | January 5, 2021 at 1:02 am
We never would have believed ANY of the nightmarish stuff coming out as a result of Trump being elected.
A mafia – quite literally – runs America, as we've seen. That mafia does quite a bit of killing (hillary clinton's 'Arkancide' is no joke – just ask Seth Rich).
Imagine the worst – because it will be exposed, if the likes of Wood are not murdered first.
mark311 in reply to TheFineReport.com. | January 5, 2021 at 3:47 pm
Ask Seth Rich? His murder spawned a number of conspiracy theories which were totally baseless. If I remember rightly the family sued Fox news because fox news were full of shit.
MarkSmith in reply to mark311. | January 5, 2021 at 7:06 pm
Wow, where did you come from. Obviously you are not up to date on the news. Most recent doc release a few days ago has him alive for a few hours before he died. Look like FBI is covering a few little details up.
So what if they sued Fox. Does not tell the real story. What we do know is Rich has access to key information and their are a lot of unanswered questions about his death. Doc release tells us things were not investigated.
mark311 in reply to MarkSmith. | January 6, 2021 at 11:42 am
I come from planet earth. I'm really not into unsubstantiated conspiratorial crap. The relevance of fox news getting sued is that they were spewing out those same nonsensical conspiratorial stories. That's why fox news lost because they couldn't substantiate the claims they made and nor can you.
Milhouse | January 4, 2021 at 4:12 pm
Wow, he's gone full bananas. Does anyone still doubt that he's a prime loon?
Dathurtz in reply to Milhouse. | January 4, 2021 at 5:22 pm
I am willing to wait a bit and see. If he has the key, he should just make it available for anybody to see.
JusticeDelivered in reply to Milhouse. | January 4, 2021 at 5:27 pm
What he is suggesting is most certainly possible, so I am willing to wait a bit for the evidence to be revealed.
One thing I do know for certain is that the Beltway is full of scum, and the CCP is even worse.
notamemberofanyorganizedpolicital in reply to JusticeDelivered. | January 4, 2021 at 6:04 pm
Lin Wood is entitled to his opinion.
TheFineReport.com in reply to notamemberofanyorganizedpolicital. | January 5, 2021 at 1:05 am
Nor do we truly know what he knows.
Who among us ever imaged the sheer scope of Epstein's sexual corruption of world leaders, beginning with Bill Clinton.
We live in a nation now controlled by a Junta.
Shit like Kamala Harris and Biden are its figureheads. They are pathological liars on a scale that make hillary clinton blush in embarrassment:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=kamala+harris,+caught+in+a+lie&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj2p8bRj4TuAhWXHDQIHeUlBNMQBSgAegQIBhAv&biw=1760&bih=834
mark311 in reply to notamemberofanyorganizedpolicital. | January 5, 2021 at 5:28 am
He is entitled to his opinion of course but his opinion is insane. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
TX-rifraph in reply to mark311. | January 5, 2021 at 7:10 am
Claiming there was no fraud in this election is an extraordinary claim given the evidence that has already been exposed even with all of the attempts to dismiss it and suppress it.
mark311 in reply to mark311. | January 5, 2021 at 11:09 am
Evidence? Nope very little evidence, I've yet to be given any coherent reasonable source that lays out a compelling case. I'm happy to be proven wrong, I often am but so far nothing has come forward to remotely convince me of the case.
Here kitty kitty kitty.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Actually there is more than enough patterns and emails and news reports that can assist in all of it. You your friend Google or take a look at some of the stuff on csapn. Read a few books (if you can) and you will realize that Lin is not so far out there. I post a few link in this thread. Check them out…oh but you will not. Dinner time Moorse.
@marksmith
All of which has been debunked. So no there is a weak, poorly constructed set of arguments with limited to no evidential base making wild assertions that have been torn apart in court and public forums.
RNJD | January 4, 2021 at 4:16 pm
Maybe we just misunderstood and it's a crackpot, not a Kraken, that Sidney released.
gonzotx in reply to RNJD. | January 4, 2021 at 6:40 pm
rduke007 in reply to RNJD. | January 4, 2021 at 6:53 pm
It's crockpot kraken…. Then you fondue it….
Barry in reply to RNJD. | January 4, 2021 at 8:36 pm
RNJD at it's sockpuppets are Marxist party plants
MarkSmith | January 4, 2021 at 6:08 pm
Geez, except for Milhouse, I don't recognize anyone posting here. I guess I have not been here in awhile.
I recommend that you watch this movie:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/WAwZNh5OpweU/
Also, I recommend that you watch this
It started when Webb wrote a series of three articles for the San Jose Mercury News in 1996 dubbed "Dark Alliance." In his report, Webb — who had won a Pulitzer in 1989 for a different story — claimed that the CIA was partly responsible for bringing crack cocaine to the United States in the 1980s.
Webb conducted a year-long investigation during which he discovered that a San Francisco-based drug ring, which had ties to a CIA-sponsored Nicaraguan contra group called the FDN, sold cocaine to a dealer in South Central Los Angeles. The millions of dollars made from those sales were later used to fund a secret war against the leftist Sandinista regime. In short, Webb accused the CIA of being complicit in getting thousands of poor African-Americans addicted to crack in order to fund rebels in Central America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFlzNhVtRD4
Or read this:
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/the-clinton-body-count-part-1-mena/
You know what? Maybe Lin Wood is not as nutty as you think!
I dare you to watch out of the Shadows or read about Gary Webb!
Hey trolls are you from the CIA?
Sorry im confused what Gary Webb got to do with Lin Wood?
Gary Webb broke the story about drug running that the CIA was doing. The point is that the CIA or FBI will and could be doing illegal activity to justify their actions including supporting the sex trades.
After I heard an NPR story about how the CIA was using GPS Fusion to shut down an independent WSJ investigative reporter about the drug dealings in South America the linkage to illegal activity became clear. Woods accusations are not that far fetched considering that the CIA was doing a great job of getting America hooked on crack cocaine in the 80's and 90.
mark311 in reply to MarkSmith. | January 5, 2021 at 3:51 pm
So it has no relevance at all, thanks.
Egghead | January 4, 2021 at 6:36 pm
I remember seeing a television interview with Debbie Wasserman Schultz years ago where tears were literally streaming down her face, but the lady interviewer just grinned like an idiot and ignored her tears without question.
Our leaders have been and are compromised.
TheFineReport.com in reply to Egghead. | January 5, 2021 at 1:06 am
It ain't just our leaders: it's our schools, our media, our military, and every 3-letter government agency. EVERY ONE OF THEM.
We've got to get out before the killing starts.
mark311 in reply to TheFineReport.com. | January 5, 2021 at 11:10 am
Maybe its you that been compromised?
TX-rifraph in reply to Egghead. | January 5, 2021 at 7:14 am
I disagree. "Our leaders…" are not victims. They are corrupt people. The voters are the victims — willing victims where they voted for the corrupt "leaders."
Even if everything Lin Wood says is both true and comes with bona fide proof it sounds crazy, and so probably shouldn't be said, unless his actual goal is to torpedo Trump.
MarkSmith in reply to randian. | January 4, 2021 at 7:13 pm
How does it torpedo Trump? Read my previous post. The Intel Community is behind it all. The swamp is huge. This tells it all:
The 10 intelligence agencies who have members employing this blackmail scheme include CCP, CIA, Mossad, FBI, MI6. The others are easily identifiable.
The agencies do not which of them was hacked by Lizard [email protected]
— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) January 4, 2021
Why Trump is still alive in my question? I am surprise Intel have not taken him out like they did Kennedy.
Air Cocaine: the Wild, True Story of Drug-Running, Arms Smuggling and Contras at a Backwoods Airstrip in the Clintons' Arkansas
As that Time magazine editor told his reporter Lawrence Zuckerman, this was precisely the kind of drug story that would end up on the front pages of American newspapers. But it turned out to be a setup, part of an elaborate sting operation concocted by Oliver North, the CIA, George Bush's drug task force and a convicted drug runner named Barriman Alder Seal. It was Seal who had piloted the plane, equipped with CIA-installed cameras, to that Nicaraguan airstrip and brought the cocaine back to Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. In return for his services, Seal received more than $700,000 and a reduced sentence on pending drug convictions.
irv | January 4, 2021 at 7:06 pm
Lin Wood is off his meds. Poor guy. He really needs a keeper. Maybe Jill Biden can recommend one?
MarkSmith in reply to irv. | January 4, 2021 at 7:16 pm
The guy has more balls than you ever will. Are you a troll?
TheFineReport.com in reply to irv. | January 5, 2021 at 1:07 am
You don't know what he knows.
TX-rifraph in reply to irv. | January 5, 2021 at 7:19 am
You might ask "Why is he saying what he is saying right now?" Do you think a lot of people will be listening carefully after a statement like that?
Per TFR, "You don't know what he knows." And, neither do I.
GKD32 | January 4, 2021 at 7:14 pm
Unfortunately Lin Wood is wrong about some of the issues he is speaking of. However, the number of missing and and exploited children world wide is mind blowing.
Have you ever heard a politician say " we need to bring the full power of the federal government to include the Intelligence agencies to find these children" No you haven't….ever wonder why.
MarkSmith in reply to GKD32. | January 4, 2021 at 7:19 pm
What is he wrong about? Timothy Holmseth?
Timothy Charles Holmseth Tholmseth FBI witness. Award winning news reporter. Pentagon Pedophile Task Force. JSOC. Helped take down Jeffrey Epstein. Uncovered Ukrainian Embassy baby sales. One
So is there anything true about what this guys writes?
https://timothycharlesholmseth.com/?s=sawyer
Looks like Bush Sr. is caught up in this drug mess too. Makes sense since his connection with the CIA. Listen to the Gary Webb stuff I posted above.
notamemberofanyorganizedpolicital in reply to MarkSmith. | January 4, 2021 at 9:23 pm
I'm confused since in your post above there is the statement that it was a deep State sting.
Milhouse in reply to MarkSmith. | January 5, 2021 at 12:03 am
No, there's nothing true about it, and he's a lunatic just like you.
And no, GHWB had no connection to the CIA other than having been appointed its director for a short time. The CIA is controlled by Democrats and conspired to try to bring GWB (Jr) down.
MarkSmith in reply to Milhouse. | January 5, 2021 at 3:22 pm
Milhouse you are so predictable and simple minded. I dare you to trace the drug running story of Gary Webb and you will see a nice little connection with the Bushes and Clinton's. There is loads of information about it out there. Do search on Gary Webb on cspan and check it out.
One antiTrump guy that I give some credit to is Ray McGovern. McGovern said that Binney is a truthful guy so I give McGovern some credit.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50611.htm
Clapper Admits Gross Intelligence Failure on Iraq WMDs But Still Escapes Justice
November 15, 2018 "Information Clearing House" – Former National Intelligence Director James Clapper's key role in helping the Cheney/Bush administration "justify" war on Iraq with fraudulent intelligence was exposed on Tuesday at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington. His own words were quoted back to him from his memoir "Facts and Fears: Hard Truths From a Life in Intelligence." Hard truths, indeed.
I discovered Ray McGovern when he was attacking the Russian BS and confronting Adam Schiff at a conference.
Here is a nice little quote:
By Ray McGovern
— That Bill Casey, Reagan's CIA Director, has largely succeeded in the objective he set forth at a cabinet meeting in Feb. 1981:
"We'll know when our disinformation program is complete, when everything the American public believes is false."
— The media is the cornerstone of the MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-MEDIA-Academia-Think-Tank) complex. Wall Street and Silicon Valley, of course, fit under that rubric — as does what has become of the Democratic (as well as the Republican) Party.
Milhouse is right, nothing you have stated makes any sense in context of what Lin Wood is saying.
Ha, must be a cat lover.
The CIA and FBI have consistently operated outside the law in horrible ways. I provided you with examples of where they were doing it. To the point when actions of people like Clapper got thousands of innocent people killed based on a lie. Including in this killing are thousands of our service men and just as many were injured.
Clapper Admits Gross Intelligence Failure on Iraq WMDs But Still Escapes Justice.
Just think, the Intel community is willing to lie to have people blown up, what makes you think they would not blackmail people?
Your a troll.
Provided examples of the CIA misdeeds which is totally irrelevant to lin wood. The alleged actions of a totally different organisation is not relevant or evidence of the conspiracy theory put forward by lin wood.
It is not, then who is doing the blackmailing? It is not a far fetched when you look at the big picture.
@mark smith
Well for one you need to show there is blackmailing at a. And if there is black mail there is a whole universe of people and parties who could be guilty. You have shown precisely no relationship between the two. All you've done is said x is bad must be involved in y.
Milhouse in reply to MarkSmith. | January 6, 2021 at 1:05 am
I remember the crazy drug story from when it was first published, in the San Diego Mercury if my memory serves me, and it was just as insane then as it is now. You're simply using one lunatic to prop up another one.
Oh, and the race hustlers on the left picked up that story and ran with it, spinning it into a narrative that crack is a CIA attempt at genocide.
rhhardin | January 4, 2021 at 7:30 pm
"traitor to we the people"
Us the people. It's an apposition and both words have objective case as objects of "to."
Exiliado in reply to rhhardin. | January 4, 2021 at 8:39 pm
He wrote
"A traitor to We The People is exposed every few minutes these days."
You conveniently forgot to reproduce his capitalization of certain words in your (mis)quotation.
"We the People" is a direct quotation from the Preamble to the Constitution. It is widely used as a noun-phrase and it and widely understood in meaning and significance by almost everybody, with the exception of some grammar nazis and some change-averse dinosaurs.
I sincerely hope you are neither. The last thing We the People need is somebody trying to invalidate the Constitution because the founders "forgot" to use a coma between "We" and "the People" when they wrote it.
rhhardin in reply to Exiliado. | January 4, 2021 at 9:06 pm
The constitution used it properly in the subjective case, subject of "establish." Here it's required to be in the objective case, object of "to."
Nothing about commas
rhhardin in reply to rhhardin. | January 4, 2021 at 9:07 pm
Subject of "do ordain," should have said.
Milhouse in reply to rhhardin. | January 5, 2021 at 12:07 am
Exiliado is correct. The constitution did indeed use it the way you say. But people referring to the constitution are using it very differently. They're using it as it it were a proper noun, a title belonging to the body of US citizens considered as a whole. So the "We" is correct in that context.
Barry in reply to rhhardin. | January 4, 2021 at 8:42 pm
Grammar Nazi's invariably screw things up.
rhhardin in reply to Barry. | January 4, 2021 at 9:08 pm
If "to we the people" doesn't sound wrong to you, English is not your first language.
txvet2 in reply to rhhardin. | January 4, 2021 at 11:58 pm
It rings wrong on the ear, but it's still proper usage because it's a quoted phrase used as a single entity and the pronoun "we" isn't to be considered individually. You'd be right if it weren't a direct quote, but NOBODY would EVER say "Us the People" in this or any context referring directly to the Preamble.
Barry | January 4, 2021 at 8:41 pm
Acid. LSD.
It's the only reasonable explanation.
I think Mr Wood may have been cultivated by someone deep in the bowels of the deep state in order to spread information that discredits legitimate information. His "source" has been reliable so Mr. Wood believes them. But now they are using Mr Wood for what was always their end game.
My2centshere | January 4, 2021 at 8:59 pm
Nick Sandman even said he doesn't understand why Wood speak in such a way.
txvet2 in reply to My2centshere. | January 5, 2021 at 12:03 am
So now your "authoritative source" is a Midwestern teenager? He's about as "authoritative" as Greta Thunberg.
My2centshere in reply to txvet2. | January 5, 2021 at 10:16 am
The point of the comment was about someone who knows and has actual interactions with the man. Not just some random person hiding behind a keyboard. I think the "kid" has made some pretty great choices.
Sally MJ | January 4, 2021 at 9:59 pm
I don't trust him. I think he's a stealth anti-Trumper. He campaigned against Trump supporters voting in the Georgia election. And he's off the wall now. I think he is undermining Trump, wasting his time and energy, but pretending to support him. I wish Trump could see through his act.
txvet2 in reply to Sally MJ. | January 5, 2021 at 12:04 am
I think it's more likely he's an opportunistic self-promoter looking to build his reputation.
Milhouse in reply to txvet2. | January 5, 2021 at 12:11 am
But he is discrediting anyone who still supports Trump. And Trump, by listening to him and repeating his insanities, gives them credence.
The fact remains that there was a massive amount of fraud in the election. I have no idea whether it was enough to make the difference, but nothing will convince me that it wasn't there or that it wasn't significant. But every time someone reasonable starts to talk about this the Dems tar us with this lunatic's brush, and use him as an excuse to ignore us.
mark311 in reply to Milhouse. | January 5, 2021 at 5:33 am
I'm curious as to why 'nothing' would convince you fraud didn't happen?
TX-rifraph in reply to Milhouse. | January 5, 2021 at 7:25 am
"…enough to make the difference."
That is not the test. The test is whether the election process is fair and honest. Any fraud is evidence it was not. Only a fair and honest election process yields results that are political (rather than criminal). Only a result from a demonstrably (by design) fair and honest election should be certified. Otherwise a flush is in order if there is evidence of fraud of any amount as that is evidence of a design failure. It is actually not hard to get it right.
mark311 in reply to TX-rifraph. | January 6, 2021 at 11:53 am
Well you seem to be setting an impossible standard, no system is ever perfect. The overall state of the electoral system is pretty good from a fraud perspective. Trump's own commission disbanded because they found so little evidence. The Heritage report had something like 1300 individual cases of fraud over 20 years that's to say circa 65 individual fraud cases per year out of millions. So the threshold for reform of the election system needs to be two fold reduce fraud and without harm to the electorate ie voter suppression.
SuddenlyHappyToBeHere in reply to Milhouse. | January 5, 2021 at 11:03 am
"… nd Trump, by listening to him and repeating his insanities, gives them credence."
Not precisely. Trump repeating the nonsense shows that Trump himself has gone off the cliff of sanity.
TheFineReport.com | January 5, 2021 at 1:08 am
I think Trump has shared information with Wood, and Wood is reacting like any one of us would if we saw it.
rhhardin | January 5, 2021 at 5:36 am
"Us the people" is exactly what the original is, an apposition, but in the objective case.
Mr85 | January 5, 2021 at 7:54 am
There is a lot of ground in between "there was some voter fraud" and "there is a child rape and snuff film blackmail conspiracy". When did the comment sections of LI turn into Infowars? Can you conspiracy idiots just secede already?
lc | January 5, 2021 at 8:44 am
I really do not know what to make of him. His rally with Powell was odd and had me questioning him and his motives.
I did listen to the entire fireside chat above, and he sounded more grounded and sane.
What was in those envelopes given out at the Bush funeral?
Egghead | January 5, 2021 at 8:45 am
'Her silence means her consent.' – Mohammed regarding his 'marriage to 5-6 year old Aisha. (Their method of counting years was shorter than ours, so Aisha was probably 5 years old.)
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aisha#In_the_Hadith
Also, who would believe that 'modern' people with an ancient religion would publicly condone an old man/men with herpes sucking on baby penises which can and has maimed and murdered babies who catch herpes – and that parents are literally expected to sacrifice the LIVES of TWO baby boys before parents are religiously 'permitted' to decline the 'tradition' of this absolute travesty?!
As an aside: Do the rabbis ride on camels, too? (An Islamic middle eastern ruler had asked religious men who then denied him 'needed' permission to modernize, so he replaced their limos with camels to make his own point.)
RAM500 in reply to Egghead. | January 5, 2021 at 10:39 am
You're slime.
Then, there are those rumors/reports of Chinese selling various body parts of imprisoned dissidents for transplants….
Communism + Capitalism = ???
RAM500 | January 5, 2021 at 10:34 am
1. Anyone who uses "we" as an object, instead of "us", should be chained to a blackboard.
2. Lin the Lawyer is often useful but always egomaniacal.
Egghead | January 5, 2021 at 10:54 am
Men who 'marry' five year olds are slime.
Men who risk passing – or actually pass – herpes to babies via penis sucking are slime. Herpes can be fatal to babies.
Based on these slimy middle eastern religious traditions, it's completely believable that some men use child sex and murder to reward and/or blackmail other men.
Doug1943 | January 5, 2021 at 11:32 am
When I was a teenager, I read Me, Robot by Isaac Asimov.
Are you stirred by the phrase, We the People? I am stirred by Us the People!
chzwiz007 | January 5, 2021 at 11:45 am
Powell, Wood, and Qanon are all part of the democrat/socialist/CCP plan to divide and conquer Republicans. The people that propagate and support these conspiracy stories are part of the real conspiracy and are evil.
mark311 in reply to chzwiz007. | January 5, 2021 at 4:02 pm
A conspiracy theory critique of another conspiracy theory. Comedy gold.
Are you posting as chzwiz007?
Why would you think that ?
Something else is happening here. Lin Wood is being allowed to speak because some evil people have a religious belief that YOUR knowledge of and silence about their evil actions absolves them from moral responsibility for their evil. Read Lin Wood's words….
YOUR silence means YOUR consent….
mark311 in reply to Egghead. | January 5, 2021 at 4:03 pm
Silence is not consent
Communication happens at the point of the receiver versus the point of the sender which leads to a catch-22. Various groups have clearly stated that they believe that your silence is your consent to their evil actions. You refuse their message but stay silent. They interpret your silence as your consent. They continue to perform evil actions with (near) impunity. Who won there?
Doug1943 | January 6, 2021 at 12:11 pm
Lin Wood may have helped influence history, by telling Republicans to stay home in Georgia, so that the Democrats would win, and take control of the Senate, as well as the House and Presidency.
The man either has the brains of a house plant, or is a plant in another sense.
All the paedophile/Satan-worship bs is to distract the low-IQ section of the conservative movement, which is, unfortunately, signficantly large.
Old Mo 'married' a 5-6 girl which was unusual at that time; so, when questioned Old Mo explained, 'Her silence is her consent.'
When a European lady labeled Old Mo (whose behavior is an example of model behavior to his followers) as a pedophile, a European lady judge ruled that Old Mo was NOT a pedophile because he had 'married' the 5-6 year old.
Citing Old Mo's example of child 'marriage,' some religious men perform temporary tourist 'marriages' between rich guys and young girls. Divorce is quick and easy for the rich guys at the end of the vacation.
Satanic? Check. Pedophile? Check.
The same type of men who would do this stuff would ALSO do other similar stuff like using child sexual exploitation as a reward and/or blackmail.


Impressionable kids, who have psychological issues are influenced by social media? Who would have ever thought of that? Brown doesn't have the courage of NPR, to report something that goes against the liberal narrative.
What's sad is that Brown University had to commission a study to discover a phenomenon that that's been referring to as "fashionably gay" and "fashionably trans" for years now. You know when something seems cool, all the kids want to be that so they can be cool too!
Of course, the conclusions of the study blow the prevailing narrative, so it must be sucked down the memory hole. It's very interesting how Leftist 'peer pressure' on Brown University caused them to censure their own study.


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