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The Hillary Campaign
I found the perfect campaign manager for Hillary.
He's the Perfect Liar for The Liar Supreme.
Someone who was a big star back in the day. So he has mass appeal.
That sounds like Liberal economics doesn't it? 🙂
Oh, and in case you think this was an original idea…:)
From 2008, ABC News…
So now the Clinton campaign has taken it to the next level, taking it to the airwaves with their patently false twisting of Barack Obama's words. . (Listen to the ad HERE).
"Listen to Barack Obama last week talking about Republicans," the announcer says.
"The Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last 10, 15 years," Obama says.
"Really?" says the announcer. "Aren't those the ideas that got us into the economic mess we're in today? Ideas like special tax breaks for Wall Street. Running up a $9 trillion debt. Refusing to raise the minimum wage or deal with the housing crisis. Are those the ideas Barack Obama's talking about?"
"The Republicans were the party of ideas," Obama says again.
"Hillary Clinton thinks this election is about replacing disastrous Republican ideas with new ones, like jumpstarting the economy," says the announcer. "Putting an immediate freeze on foreclosures and mortgages. Cutting taxes for the middle class. and creating millions of new jobs. With the economy in crisis, we need a president with the ideas, the solutions that get America working for all of us. Hillary Clinton. Solutions for America."
At this point, the Clintons obviously know and don't care that this is a blatantly false representation of what Obama said, which doesn't square with the video or transcript of what Obama said.
This has been tirelessly fact-checked by us, the Washington Post, Factcheck.org, Politico, and Politifact.
With unanimity, the charge has been established as false.
And yet the Clintons continue to make it.
Hilarious isn't it. 🙂 ABC leaping to the defense of their guy, Presidential Hopeful Barack Hussein Obama being attacked by The Once & Future Queen in 2008.
Sound at all familiar??
So I'm just keeping it all in the family. 🙂
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Derek Hunter: As far as years go, 2015 certainly was one of them. The news was not wanting for content, and we columnists were not wanting for material. It was a year of tragedies and triumphs bookended by terrorist attacks in Paris. A reality TV star became the leading candidate of a major political party, "Star Wars" returned, and I got married. Yep, 2015 was quite a year.
I had a health scare that resulted in a pacemaker and a different view on mortality just months after my Dad died.
Not the best of times by far.
Donald Trump. For all his problems, and they are legion, and the bluster, and it is constant, he's done more than anyone in recent years to get people to pay attention to politics and just how corrupt the media and the Democrats have become. He's been battering the media since the start, slamming his opponents since and changing how politics is done.
While, I'm still not a full on Trump guy I do like that he makes the Left and the RINOs crazy and just doesn't give a damn. That really shakes them up.
Trump has been holding a clinic on how to run against Democrats and the media since his announcement. Aside from momentary flashes, none of the rest of the field appears to have learned a thing.
Because they are all stuck in their ways. They can't see doing it any other way. Especially, Democrats, they have one playbook and they go to it every nanosecond of every day.
Expect all out nuclear war again on the Republicans. No atom will be lest un-nuked, no ethic or moral will not be cr0ssed in the quest for the Coronation of King Barack's successor Queen Hillary.
The Republican RINOs are just plain lost.
If Trump is the nominee, Democrats may well win, but they will have been so battered and bruised they'd be hard-pressed to govern with any effectiveness. If he isn't the nominee, whoever is will have learned how to be locked in a box with a rabid spider monkey and survive. The eventual nominee, whoever it ends up being, will be a much more devastating candidate thanks to Trump's entry into the race.
The Media is still setting up the Coronation of Queen Hillary I like they have for 4 years now. I doubt they are going to change.
But maybe, just maybe, the sleeping stupid will recognize it for what it is.
That,and just maybe, the Republicans will actually run a campaign to WIN this time. Maybe.
As awful as she is, Hillary Clinton is not the worst person on the national political stage. Until he leaves office, Barack Obama's head wears the crown.
In a post-9/11, post-Paris, post-San Bernardino world, the president of the United States managed to go 12 months in which he used the words "radical Islamic terrorism" only to chastise others for saying them.
Well, you're talking about his friends and mentors, the Muslims. They can't be evil. That's like Lule finding out Darth Vader is his Father…. 🙂
The economy continues to falter, our enemies are on the march, and the president has improved his short-game. The Obama presidency is a hilarious joke, but sadly it's not the funny kind of joke.
But the Democrats continue to self-delude themselves that everything is awesome and we just need to get rid of those naybobs negativity.
One more year…
11 Months+ a few days. Don't make it any longer than it has to be. Though if Queen Hillary wins we're all doomed and you might as well close up shop and move to Fiji because it's over.
Lie Of The Year
The "winner" of this category is obvious, which is why it hasn't won any of these "awards" from the mainstream media: Hillary Clinton's ever-evolving claims about classified material on her secret, unsecured email server.
Though I think her saying that the Benghazi families who have been ripping her for years about her You Tube cause of the incident are now lying because she never said it was pretty close.
Her original statement at her press conference at the UN, was, "I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material." High-stakes divorce settlements are less carefully worded.
Note how she specifically said she didn't send any classified material, and how there "is" nothing classified on her server. She'd wiped it by then, though not thoroughly, so, in using present tense, she was telling her version of the truth.
After that original statement, Hillary's story "evolved" at least two more times to she never "sent or received anything marked classified at the time."
After that lie the media lost interest. Why wouldn't they? Their candidate is ensnared in an FBI investigation that, were it anyone else, already would have led to an indictment and hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees by now.
But we aren't named Clinton; we haven't been selling, or at least renting, our positions for sums of money that rival the worth of third-world economies, and a president of her party still controls the prosecutors.
No, we're civilians, bound by truth, and she's Hillary, utterly unburdened by such trivialities.
As we wind up 2015, I think we've dwelled enough on politics. So a few notes on a couple of other things.
The year started with a great Super Bowl. What a game! But it will be remembered as the game that gave us Deflategate. Tom Brady won – everything. He continues to live a charmed life, and good for him. Unless you bet against him.
And the Seahawks created a blunder for the ages that will be talked about until Liberals outlaw football altogether sometime later in the Century.
The Super Bowl was the highlight of the year for New England sports fans, but the rest of the world had to suffer until the World Series. After decades of miserable losing, New England (particularly in Boston) started winning. And their fans, both in baseball and football, became even more miserable to be around during a game. And I say that as someone with many friends who fit this description.
But the highlight of the year was the World Series.
The Kansas City Royals are a lot of fun to watch. They scrap and scrape together runs in a way no other team does.
Arizona Cardinals anyone? Anyone?? 🙂
I love "Star Wars," saw it three times the weekend it opened. But it doesn't win for movie of the year with me. There were a lot of great "art house" movies, and I'm sure one with $48 in box office receipts will win the Oscar. But "The Martian" was the most enjoyable movie of 2015. If you haven't seen it yet, do yourself a favor. Even if you don't care for Matt Damon (and I wouldn't blame you), you'll enjoy this movie.
I love "Star Wars" but I still think either Jurassic World or Avengers 2. I never saw "The Martian".
"The Walking Dead" remains TV's best drama.
DOCTOR WHO! 🙂
The zombie aspect might turn your off, but it's much more than that. Moreover, it's a show that generates true suspense, in which no one knows what's going to happen from week to week and no character, no matter who they are, is safe.
If you're a comic book nerd, or if you don't mind super hero movies, might I also suggest checking out "Jessica Jones" on Netflix. It's a surprisingly good series with humor, action and a great anti-hero. And, unlike "The Walking Dead," you can binge-watch it over a weekend.
Haven't got around to it yet. And that shows you how technology has changed so much.
I'm not sad to see 2015 go, though it does seem like it went fast. With 2016 being an election year, it will fly by as well. While I work and play in the first half of this column, life happens in the rest. Hope you had a great 2015, and I hope you have as much fun as possible in 2016.
Here's to 2016. The Hope of the future of our Country rests on your shoulders.
No pressure. 🙂
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If you Like your Job…
Please enjoy the latest installment of the "it's working" chronicles. Sorry, American workers (via The Hill):
ObamaCare will force a reduction in American work hours — the equivalent of 2 million jobs over the next decade, Congress's nonpartisan scorekeeper said Monday. The total workforce will shrink by just under 1 percent as a result of changes in worker participation because of the new coverage expansions, mandates and changes in tax rates, according to a 22-page report released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). "Some people would choose to work fewer hours; others would leave the labor force entirely or remain unemployed for longer than they otherwise would," the agency said in its latest analysis of the now five-year-old law.
This assessment largely confirms the bombshell February 2014 analysis from the nonpartisan entity, which also projected that Democrats' $2 trillion healthcare scheme would slow economic growth and slow job creation. Take it away, 2011 Nancy Pelosi:
"Four million jobs will be created by the legislation when it is fully in effect."
In 2010, she said Obamacare would create 400,000 new jobs "almost immediately." Last year, the law's defenders were reduced to arguing that the reduction in worker hours was a positive development, offering Americans more time to spend with their families, and freeing them from "job lock." CBO's findings determined that Obamacare disincentivizes work, shifting the burden of subsidizing health coverage for people who choose to work less or leave the workforce altogether onto the backs of middle class taxpayers. Democrats' frantic "liberation from job lock" spin worked out…about as well as one might have expected. Obamacare's cheerleaders have been wrong about virtually everything: Their law was not a job creator. Their law has not bent the national health spending "cost curve" down. Their law has not even approached lowering rates across the board. Their law has not made healthcare more affordable. Their law has not secured access to care. Their law has not reduced emergency room visits, or decreased uncompensated care. Their law did not guarantee that satisfied consumers could keep their preferred doctors and plans. And their law has not attracted nearly as many enrollees as they expected, largely due to lack of affordability. Their law has not signed up as many young and healthy consumer as they'd anticipated, raising new fears of an adverse selection spiral.
Gee, How many times have I said that very thing? 🙂
And their law has not become popular post-implementation. Meanwhile, the string of high-profile failures among Obamacare co-ops is inflicting more chaos onto an already-strained system:
Health care providers could get stuck with unpaid bills in a half dozen states where co-op plans have collapsed. That's because there's no financial backstop in those states if the failed nonprofit startups backed by Obamacare loans run out of money before paying off all of their medical claims. That messy scenario is already playing out in New York, where the state's co-op shut down at the end of November after its financial situation proved direr than originally known. The Greater New York Hospital Association estimates the co-op, Health Republic Insurance of New York, owes its members at least $165 million. And the Medical Society of the State of New York found that of more than 900 doctors surveyed, 64 percent reported being owed money by the co-op plan. For most insurers, a state's guaranty fund – bankrolled by the industry – will cover unpaid medical claims if they become insolvent. But in some states, like New York, that fund doesn't support plans that are licensed as health maintenance organizations, which is typically how the co-ops were set up. The other five states where providers could end up with unpaid bills if the failed co-ops run out of money: Kentucky, Louisiana, Nevada, Oregon and Utah…Just over half of the 23 co-ops seeded with $2.4 billion in loans have collapsed, with most set to cease operations at the end of this year. That's left roughly 600,000 individuals scrambling to find new coverage.
On Capitol Hill this week, Republican lawmakers are demanding answers about how the government spent hundreds of millions of dollars on state-level Obamacare exchanges that ultimately collapsed, and have since been abandoned. Here's Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) grilling acting CMS administrator Andy Slavitt about whether or not he agrees with the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office's (GAO) recently-announced verdict that zero of the remaining state-level exchanges are "fully operational," after five years and $1.45 billion in IT spending, courtesy of taxpayers:
Senate Republicans used a budget maneuver called reconciliation to vote to repeal vast swaths of Obamacare last week, approving a bill that would gut the law. Once it passes the House, President Obama is expected to veto the legislation in order to protect his unpopular, harmful law. Hillary Clinton, who invented Obamacare, asserted last week that the law is working.
And The Ministry of Truth assures us that it's all just a plot by dissidents and Thought Criminals and that they just want poor people to die. 🙂
THE AGENDA IS THE AGENDA. They fight for it to very last drop of YOUR blood. 🙂
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Bailout Time For Baby
The Greatest Socialist Baby, ObamaCare, needs a bailout diaper change because it's overwhelming success in creating "better" and "more" Health Care for everyone has got some 'wastage' (aka poop) 🙂
When Obamacare was rammed through Congress without a single Republican vote way back in 2010, conservatives warned that the massive government program would ultimately require bailing out health insurance companies that gladly signed on.
Fast forward five years and it's that time. Today on Capitol Hill, lawmakers are being pressured by the White House to provide money, or a bailout, to insurance companies losing money due to running government Obamacare exchanges. From The Hill:
White House desperately trying to add insurance company bailout to tax extenders bill. https://t.co/CUVd2IYFRC pic.twitter.com/EIwKuvJm2Y
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) December 9, 2015
Republicans and Democrats are close to agreeing on delaying two major taxes, the "Cadillac tax" on high-benefit plans and the medical device tax.
But those proposals have run into opposition from the White House, which wants language fixing ObamaCare's so-called risk corridors — a program intended to help insurance companies that take a financial hit by participating in government-run health exchanges.
That program is nearly out of money because of a policy rider sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on a year-end spending bill in 2014 that bars the Department of Health and Human Services from tapping into other accounts to fund it.
Rubio's role has injected presidential politics into the debate, making it all but impossible for GOP leaders to agree to the White House's demands.
The talks appeared to hit a wall Monday when Republicans ruled out fixing the risk corridors, which they panned as a "bailout for insurance companies."
"This is not on the table. Risk corridors is fully off the table," said a Senate Republican leadership aide.
Despite the disagreement, Republicans are feeling optimistic they can get the healthcare pieces worked out.
Repealing the Cadillac tax, which hits the health plans of union members especially hard, is a priority of Reid's and many Democrats.
But that was the "soak the rich" component of ObamaCare because only "rich", well to do, greedy, people had those plans they said.They kneww they were lying but they didn't care. The Agenda Uber Alles. It was a funding mechanism they used to sell the CBO (and thus con everyone else) on the BS that is ObamaCare.
My Blog Nearly 6 years ago (January 8th, 2010):
Those who think they'll be exempt from the tax because their health care insurance isn't one that Obama would define as a "super, gold-plated Cadillac" plan are kidding themselves. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, director of the Congressional Budget Office under George W. Bush, says 95% of Americans who are covered by plans that fit into the Cadillac category make less than $250,000 a year.
Even groups on the left get it. As Jim Kessler, vice president for policy for the progressive Third Way think tank, puts it: "A lot of those folks that have Cadillac plans have Chevy wages."
Also don't believe the claim that the tax will be on the insurance companies only. Sure, insurers will write the checks to Washington. But they'll forward their costs to the customers, adding to a tax burden that's already too punitive — and going to get worse.
"Passing the tax on to workers would result in an effective tax rate that is even higher than the specified 40%," Curtis S. Dubay wrote in October in a Heritage Foundation WebMemo. "When the insurance companies embed the cost of the excise tax in premiums, the prices of plans will rise. A higher price means the excise tax would be higher, too."
This would happen when the tax on a $10,000 individual plan adds $600 (40% of the $1,500 beyond the $8,500 threshold) to the cost, leaving a new premium of $10,600. The new cost will then be subject to the tax, boosting the premium another $840 (40% of the $2,100 over the $8,500 threshold). By now, that $10,000 plan is costing $11,440 a year.
"This cascading effect," explains Dubay, "could raise the effective rate for the excise tax to 67% according to one estimate — considerably higher than the 40% specified in the bill."
The problems don't stop there. The growing premiums will drive many private employers that provide coverage for their workers to downgrade to cheaper insurance plans, which defeats the effort to improve health care.
A Liberal Democrat "soak the rich" scheme that blows up in their face and does the exact opposite. Nah, that never happened before…
See Alternative Minimum Tax 🙂
The good news is, it looks like the Obamacare Cadillac tax will be repealed and insurance companies will have to take the hit they signed up for when they agreed to Obamacare years ago.
I'll leave you with this, which explains why Democrats and Republicans are on board with repealing the Cadillac Tax.
Want to know how the ACA/Cadillac Tax wipes out your company plan? Just listen to these 3 short radio segments: http://t.co/WEbtQ47Cxs
— Rich Weinstein (@phillyrich1) September 14, 2015
They knew this 6 years ago, but THE AGENDA IS THE AGENDA, after all. 🙂
Most Americans don't know what their insurance plans are worth. They're happy to let their employers pay the premiums for them and believe that the money isn't coming out of their pockets.
Very Very true.
I heard a woman say, "Well, I just got out of the hospital. It cost $150,000. And I paid nothing. It was wonderful"
She was complaining about a $42 State Mandated charge in her car insurance. Because "I'm poor you know". "I'm on a fixed income" (aka I relied on Social Security to pay for my glorious retirement).
And now 6 years later with the economy in the crapper because of Liberals they do it EVEN MORE now than they use.
People may not know the value of ANY insurance, but politicians know the value of politics. 🙂
"These are plans," says the St. Pete newspaper, "that generally have very low co-pays and lots of extras."
Sound familiar? Then either be prepared to pay more, or be stuck with a brass-plated, Yugo plan that's more affordable. And while learning to settle for less, don't forget: This grand reform effort coming out of Washington is supposed to improve our health care.(IBD and my Blog- January 2010).
It's Bailout time, and you get stuck with Government "improved" Health Care and The Check.
Congrats. It's a Whopper (from your own Burger KING). 🙂
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But I am Your King!
Now, 25 Republican governors – and one Democrat too – have said they don't want Syrian refugees in their states, as President Obama recommitted the U.S. to take a portion of this population fleeing from ISIS.
Military age males…unable to vet properly (according to FBI and Intelligence agencies) from the country is the #1 sponsor and producer of terrorists in the world and one of the Paris Terrorists was a "refugee". I don't understand the reason for them to be cautious. 🙂
'It is very important,' Obama said. 'That we do not close our hearts to these victims of such violence and somehow start equating the issue of refugees with the issue of terrorism.'
Yeah, don't equate my Agenda with fighting terrorism. 🙂
Oh, and the Leftist yesterday were also going all "Supremacy Clause" on me so you know it's about the Agenda and The Narrative and not about national security. It's pure partisan politics.
You will do as your King commands or else!
The problem for Jindal, Abbott and the other governors opposed to admitting refugees, however, is that there is no lawful means that permits a state government to dictate immigration policy to the president in this way. As the Supreme Court explained in Hines v. Davidowitz, "the supremacy of the national power in the general field of foreign affairs, including power over immigration, naturalization and deportation, is made clear by the Constitution." States do not get to overrule the federal government on matters such as this one.
This power to admit refugees fits within the scheme of "broad discretion exercised by immigration officials" that the Supreme Court recognized in its most recent major immigration case, Arizona v. United States. (Think Progress)
So you KNOW it's just partisan politics. You might remember this one. It;s where the State of Arizona decided that since the Feds were not enforcing Federal Law, that they would and Obama and Holder slap them down basically saying if the they want to ignore the border they can.
Mind you, the Left also says the refugees and illegal immigration are two different issues, but they combine them anyways when it's about their politics and their Agenda.
So you know it's all politics.
'If there were a group of radical Christians pledging to murder anyone who had a different religious view than they, we would have a different national security situation,' Cruz said, who criticized the Obama administration for 'pretend[ing] as if there is no religious aspect to this.'
Could be because he's partial to Muslims over Christians. 🙂
But i'm just being "Islamophobic", "heartless" and "aprtisan" right? It's because Barack is black right? 🙂
And you know the Left is in full manipulation mode when they start quoting The Devil Himself, The Great Satan, George W. Bush…
The Democratic president said he had a lot of disagreement with Bush on policy.
'But I was very proud after 9/11 when he was adamant and clear about the fact that this is not a war on Islam,' Obama said. 'And the notion that some of those who've taken on leadership in his party would ignore all of that – that's not who we are.'
The president called on Americans to follow Bush's example. (UK guardian)
So you know it's an Agenda policy item and nothing else.
You are being manipulated.
European parliamentarians were warned of the "real and genuine threat" of the Islamic State putting 500,000 Islamic extremists in April this year. The British politician, Nigel Farage MEP, warned the EU its immigration policy placed a "direct threat to our civilisation".
Mr Farage told a meeting of the European Parliament in French city of Strasbourg: "There is a real and genuine threat. When Isis say they want to flood our continent with half a million Islamic extremists, they mean it.
"There is nothing in this document that will stop those people from coming. Indeed I fear we face a direct threat to our civilisation if we allow large numbers of people from that war-torn region into Europe.
"It is ironic that nine days before a British General Mr Cameron and Mr Miliband are not engaged in this debate, and in fact the UK can do nothing. We are impotent, we have surrendered our ability to get involved (with stopping the immigrants)."
Despite Farage's warning the EU continued to push ahead with its plan to force each EU country to take a percentage of the refugees. This left countries unable to secure their borders, and the Schengen Agreement meant most EU countries have dropped their passport controls. Only the UK and Ireland have a permanent exception from Schengen and are therefore allowed to keep passport controls.
Following news the French would treble their military presence against the Islamic State the UK admitted it had foiled seven major attacks recently. Islamic affairs expert, Alan Mendoza, said: "It is essential that Western nations now rethink their military strategy towards Islamic State. We have fought ?a phoney war to date and it has led to real casualties on European soil.
"We now need to redouble our efforts to expunge this scourge from the territory it holds. In Britain's case, this will mean committing to military action in Syria, or risk becoming an international also-ran in terms of our influence."
At tonight's Mansion House speech in the City of London the Prime Minister, David Cameron, once again justified the British approach to dealing with the Jihadis. He said: "The more we learn about what happened in Paris the more it justifies the approach that we are taking in Britain.
"When you are dealing with radicalized European Muslims, linked to ISIL in Syria and inspired by a poisonous narrative of extremism, you need an approach that covers the full spectrum – military power, counter-terrorism expertise and defeating the poisonous narrative that is the root cause of this evil."
His speech did not make any pledge to protect the UK from mass immigration, despite the public anger about it. However he had already pledged a 'shoot to kill' policy for terrorists in Britain, something that was immediately condemned by the leader of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn.
A petition demanding to shut the UK border to Syrian refugees has now reached 410,000. It is unlikely to be acted upon. (Townhall)
So do you want to be next? Is the risk of being "islamophobic" higher than the risk of MORE terrorists getting into the country?
THE AGENDA IS THE AGENDA
THE NARRATIVE IS THE NARRATIVE
YOUR KING HAS SPOKEN
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"Damn The Torpedoes, Full Steam Ahead!"
Despite overwhelming opposition from the American people and lawmakers on Capitol Hill, it is becoming clearer by the day President Obama is planning to close Guantanamo Bay prison with or without the consent of Congress.
For he is King, and his Agenda is King. So the King gets what the King wants regardless. Who gives a crap about a Constitution when The Agenda is The Agenda.
It's Good to Be The King!
When asked about the constitutionality of unilaterally closing the prison with an executive order, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest admitted Monday that the legality of such a move isn't clear, but hinted President Obama will do it anyway.
So what. Obama himself said 22 times that the Executive Order for Amnesty was unconstitutional, but he did it anyways because the Agenda demanded it.
"The focus of our efforts right now is on Congress and there are members of Congress who share this goal [closing GITMO] and who have indicated at least an openness to working with the administration to achieve this goal.
Democrats and RINOs.
That's the focus of our efforts right now. I'm not aware of any ongoing effort to devise a strategy using only the President's executive authority to accomplish this goal, but I certainly wouldn't take that option off the table," Earnest told reporters Monday.
Either Congress does it for him, or he'll do it by Executive Fiat.
"There are a wide range of thorny, legal questions that are raised by this ongoing effort to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. I wouldn't sort of speculate on those right now. These are obviously, in some cases because of the unique nature of this facility, in some cases we're in uncharted legal waters here but, the President made clear from his first week in office that closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay is a national security priority."
The national security of The Middle East, not us. Releasing Terrorists is only good for the Terrorists. But when you're a Muslim to begin with… 🙂
Over the year the White House has slowly released GITMO prisoners in hopes the numbers will become so low, Congress no longer sees the prison as financially viable. Last summer, President Obama traded five top-Taliban commanders for alleged Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl.
And that worked out really well. But at least he didn't trade actual prisoners of war for the Iraq Nuke Deal… 🙂
Later this week, a report detailing how the administration plans to shut down the prison is expected to be released by the Department of Defense. (Townhall)
The Agenda is The Agenda.
The King knows Best. The All-Father of Government has spoken!
Needs to make room for real prisoners , maybe . Conservatives and other such lowlife opposition to The State. 🙂
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The Emboldened
Hollywood comedy legend David Zucker ("Airplane," "Scary Movie," "Naked Gun" films among many others) has written and produced this hilarious spoof on the disastrous Iran Nuclear Deal.
Now that the RINOs have emboldened our King AGAIN, he will now turned his Majesty to screwing us even more.
Climate Change, aka fuck your energy bills into the stratosphere and get 0ut your 19th Century Luddite Lovers kits because this one's going to hurt big time.
Oh, and he wants to sell trade and the country off to the Chinese.
But don't worry, if the next President is a Republican all this will he Bush's or his fault when it crashes.
So you'll eventually get nuked by Iran, killed by ISIS, have to heat your house with Candles, ride a government approved horse and buggy… But at least it will make Progressive Liberals feel good and make RINOs happy they were passive aggressive wimps.
He is the King. How can you tell? He ain't got shit all over him! (Monty Python).
Buoyed by the success of his nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama is preparing to move aggressively on other long-delayed priorities, including a major climate change summit this winter and his elusive quest to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
Yeah, let out more Terrorist to kill us. Maybe they too can be "refugees". Or even better sue the US for locking them up in the first place!
The National Security Council's directorate of strategic planning has been quietly building an agenda of action items for the closing year of Obama's presidency, in a White House that sees its work as far from complete, administration officials say.
He's far for done in "transforming" America into a 3rd World shit-hole, for it's own good.
"We have no intention of resting on our laurels," said one senior administration official. "We have an ambitious foreign policy agenda that we'll continue to pursue aggressively throughout the remainder of [the] fourth quarter of the administration."
Read: Screw America, then imperialistic racist dogs that we are! 🙂
Part of that agenda includes striking a calmer post-Iran deal relationship with Israel — including a November visit to the White House by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that officials announced on Friday.
Yeah, the deal is, we will try to keep Iran from nuking you until I'm out of office. Then all bets are off.
Oh, and those people who have been lobbing 1000's of missiles at you trying to kill everyone of you (Palestinians) are "the good guys".
Also high on the to-do list: completing a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal to which Congress gave "fast-track" approval in June; bolstering counter-terrorism partnerships in Asia and Africa; and putting U.S.-China relations on a firmer footing, a project that will include a state visit to Washington by Chinese President Xi Jingping this month.
Sell the country to the Chinese.
As Obama's presidency draws to a close, he will focus increasingly on the policies his successor will inherit after he's gone, according to sources familiar with the administration's thinking.
Whuich will all be the successor fault when they fail miserably. Oh, if its a Republican who dares to reverse any of it The Ministry of Truth will be out in full force to make sure the meek little RINO (The Republican Elite would never allow anything else) knows his place.
"The last 16 months actually can be very important not only for this president's legacy, but for setting up the next president's administration," said Brian Katulis, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress who is close to Obama foreign policy officials. "No matter what people say in campaigns, you're most likely to see incremental change from administration to administration."
That's why it's always Bush's Fault for everything Obama did wrong.
Even as the Iran deal gets implemented in the months ahead, a potentially thorny process that will occupy significant bandwidth in the White House, Obama will shift his focus to climate.
Translation: Screw you personally, next. If the Iran Deal was a little to esoteric for you grasp, wait until your energy costs triple (or worse).
But don't worry, it will be the fault of those evil Oil & Gas companies, they are so greedy… 🙂
An international climate summit kicks off at the end of November in Paris, where Obama hopes to find agreement on meaningful new limits on carbon gases. The summit is expected to be one focus of Xi's visit.
The Chinese, the world's greatest polluters! Did you think he'll get toug with them while he's selling the country to them in the trade deal?
Beneath the heady talk of agenda-setting, however, is the grim reality of a global stage where multiple fires burn despite Washington's efforts to extinguish them.
Hey, because he sets most of them and then blames someone else for them.
Obama could spend much of his final year performing triage on issues like the Islamic State, Syria's civil war and the conflict in Ukraine.
Which he's made worse by his own actions. So the clumsy surgeon who chopped off your leg when you had a cold is coming back for more! Rejoice! 🙂
Officials are also braced for possible new crises, including in Afghanistan, as U.S. troops withdraw from a country whose government and security forces remain fragile.
Illegals voting For Hillary, oh, sorry, that's not a crisis. 🙂
One of Obama's post-Iran deal projects has already run into trouble as Secretary of State John Kerry has begun new diplomacy to find a political resolution to Syria's civil war.
Why? You mean the "Assad Must Go" verbal abuse hasn't worked? I guess we'll have to step up our rhetoric, maybe hire a speech writer to toughen the language so we sound like a pit bull and act like an angry, yappy, chihuahua.
Russia, a key backer of Syrian President Bashar Assad, has recently sent military personnel and equipment to the country—a dramatic escalation that has surprised and angered Obama and Kerry and may derail that project.
You mean the Russians, The Syranians and The Iranians are all working together! How can this be, I'm Barack Hussein Obama and I'm the Most Important Man in Human History and you will obey me!
"We continue to believe that there needs to be a political solution to the conflict in Syria, and that support for the Assad regime, particularly in a military way, is unhelpful to achieving that goal," State Department spokesman John Kirby said Friday.
Talk is cheap. It's the only time a Liberal is cheap.
And although the White House been working on a new plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, a key promise from Obama's 2008 campaign, it has been bedeviled by old obstacles, including political resistance to the transfer of detainees from Cuba onto U.S. soil.
Well, since he's now buddies with Castro, maybe Castro will take them and then they can fly back to the Middle East so they can work on our inevitable death and destruction.
But it will make Obama feel good and give the Progressive Media the warm fuzzies, that's what is important!
Some Pentagon and intelligence officials remain deeply wary of freeing other detainees cleared for release, and some top officials are skeptical that the camp can be shut down as long as a Republican Congress remains in power.
So we have to destroy them. Simple. 🙂
Other disappointments appear inevitable. Obama is likely to leave office having made little progress on defusing the danger of nuclear-armed North Korea
Yeah, he was too busy giving nukes to Iran.
and on stabilizing a volatile relationship with Pakistan, which U.S. officials believe continues to support Taliban factions that attack and kill Westerners in Afghanistan.
So what? That was Bush's mess anyhow.
Nor does Russian President Vladimir Putin show any sign of ending Moscow's support for separatist rebels in Ukraine, despite U.S. and European sanctions intended to coerce him to do so.
Putin is very afraid of Obama… 🙂
Another frustration has been the resilience of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL. A year of airstrikes and the return of more than 3,000 U.S. troops to Iraq has failed to dislodge the Sunni Muslim group from major Iraqi cities like Mosul and Ramadi.
You mean just lobbing missles at the problem from a far isn't working? I'm shocked!
As some hawks call for a deeper U.S. engagement in the fight against ISIS, including by moving American soldiers from rear positions to the front lines of battle, Obama shows no appetite for escalation.
Yeah, that whole "Death to America" thing should be a clue.
That is despite his past vow to defeat the group: "Our objective is clear: We will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy," Obama said in a televised national address almost exactly a year ago, on Sept. 10, 2014.
Blah, Blah, Blah. If ISIS could be killed by boring them to death with Obama rhetoric, then yeah, he might stand a chance.
Katulis said he does not expect Obama to take aggressive new steps in the Middle East, where top officials remain deeply skeptical about their ability to shape events constructively.
After all, they have such a great track record…of absolute and total failure, that is.
"After seven years, you get a sense they understand that the lesson is that things are easier said than done,"Katulis said,
DOH! Really? I'm shocked.
citing two failed efforts to achieve an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. "There's a cautious pragmatism that I think will restrain the administration's ambitions on the tougher problems."
Yeah, that whole "Death to Israel", "Kill All the Jews", thing kind of gets in the way. After all, it's all Israel's fault don't you know. 🙂
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The Office prioritizes the investigation and prosecution of sex trafficking, child pornography, child enticement, and child endangerment offenses. For example:
Jeffrey Epstein Charged with Sex Trafficking Offenses: In July 2019, the Office charged Jeffrey Epstein with sex trafficking of minors between 2002 through 2005. Epstein sexually exploited and abused dozens of underage girls by enticing them to engage in sex acts with him in exchange for money. Epstein allegedly worked with several employees and associates to ensure that he had a steady supply of minor victims to abuse, and paid several of those victims themselves to recruit other underage girls to engage in similar sex acts for money. The indictment against Jeffrey Epstein was vacated following his August 2019 death.
Prosecution of Pimps who Preyed on Social Services System: Beginning from a tip about the trafficking of minor victims in and around the New York City area, the Office has successfully investigated and prosecuted violent pimps who trafficked adults and minors—some as young as 13 years-old—who were often part of the New York City social services system. The investigation has resulted in charges against 19 defendants in eight separate indictments; to date, 15 of the defendants have been convicted—two following jury trials and 13 by guilty pleas. Liudji Banjamin, the first defendant to be sentenced in this matter following his May 2019 trial conviction, received a sentence of 17 years' imprisonment. Benjamin has appealed his conviction. The remaining convicted defendants face substantial sentences.
Sex Trafficker Convicted at Trial: In October 2018, a jury convicted Lavelleous Purcell, a/k/a "King Casino," of five counts related to his forced prostitution of multiple adult women. Purcell was sentenced to 188 months' imprisonment.
Convictions for Sexually Enticing Minors: In December 2018, following a guilty plea, Clint Edwards was sentenced to 20 years in prison for arranging to meet a 14-year old child over social media and filming himself having sex with the victim in the basement of the victim's apartment building. Also in 2018, following an investigation by prosecutors assigned to the White Plains Division, David Ohnmacht pleaded guilty to enticing a 14-year-old girl via Instagram to engage in sexual conduct and for engaging in this criminal conduct while a registered sex offender. Ohnmacht received a sentence of 32 years in prison.
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Jackie Collins visited Sydney thanks to New Idea to be the guest of honour at the launch of her latest novel, Confessions of a Wild Child about the teen years of Lucky Santangelo.
The event was held at The Darling at The Star in Sydney and it was the perfect location for the Californian theme thanks to Visit California. Even better, the pool was actually to it's full potential with a duo of synchronised swimmers!
The night was hosted by Andrew O'Keefe (the Deal or No Deal guy) to quiz Jackie on her successful career as an author who has penned 29 titillating novels and sold over 500 million copies... thanks Wikipedia! Plus I totally remembered her younger sister, Joan Collins guest starring on The Nanny.
Thanks to Pacific Magazines for having me.


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Django-FAQ
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This is a simple FAQ application for a Django powered site. This app follows
several "best practices" for reusable apps by allowing for template overrides
and extra_context arguments and such.

Features
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Question Headers can be created that can be used to group related questions into
sections.

Questions can be "protected" in which case they are only presented to
authenticated users.

There are some saved FAQs in a fixture named ``initial_data.json`` that provide
the example apps with some questions to view when you bring them up for the
first time. These FAQs provide additional notes about installing and using
django-faq.

There is a ``SubmitFAQForm`` defined that you can use to allow site visitors to
submit new questions and/or answers to the site administrator for consideration.
All submitted questions are added as "inactive" and so it is up to the
administrator to edit, activate or discard the question as well as set its'
sort_order field and slug to reasonable values.

Requirements
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Django 1.3, Python 2.5 or greater.

Installation
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1. ``pip install -e git://github.com/howiworkdaily/django-faq.git#egg=django_faq``

2. Add ``"faq"`` to your ``INSTALLED_APPS`` setting.

3. Wire up the FAQ views by adding a line to your URLconf::

        url('^faq/', include('faq.urls'))

Note: do *not* use ``pip install django-faq`` to install this app, as that
currently grabs another package entirely.

If you want to customize the templates then either create an 'faq' directory in
your projects templates location, or you can also pass along custom
'template_name' arguments by creating your own view wrappers around the 'faq'
app views. I show how to do the latter in the 'example' project included - look
at the views.py file to see the details.

If you'd like to load some example data then run ``python manage.py loaddata
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Example Site
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There is a stand-alone example site in the ``example`` directory. To
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1. Install django-faq (see above).

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Kentucky's GOP Governor insults teachers again
October 1, 2018 by middleamericandemocrat: Opinion 1 Comment
This Spring, teachers in Kentucky went on strike in opposition to a plan that was put into place by Matt Bevin, the Republican Governor, to cut teacher pensions and veto education funding that was passed by the State's legislature. The pension "reform" was passed, but the legislature listened to the striking teachers and overrode the Governor's veto of education spending:
Chicago Tribune: Teachers in Kentucky claim victory as Republicans reject GOP governor's veto
As Kentucky teachers declare victory after the Republican-dominated legislature overrode vetoes from the state's GOP governor of a spending plan that included new money for education, the question going forward is whether teachers will be able to sustain their momentum into the fall elections when Republicans will try to defend their super majority.
This prompted Matt Bevin, who seems to genuinely be a horrible person, to level a disgusting accusation at the striking teachers:
"I guarantee you somewhere in Kentucky today a child was sexually assaulted that was left at home because there was nobody there to watch them," Bevin said, according to a video posted to Twitter by a reporter for WDRB-TV. "I guarantee you somewhere today a child was physically harmed or ingested poison because they were home alone because a single parent didn't have any money to take care of them. I'm offended by the idea that people so cavalierly and so flippantly disregarded what's truly best for children."
This was not the first time Matt Bevin had leveled an insult at Kentucky's teachers:
Courier Journal: Gov. Matt Bevin calls teachers 'selfish and short-sighted' for protesting pension bill
Hundreds of teachers and educators flocked to Frankfort to protest the pension reform bill, particularly an unpopular provision — a reduction of the annual cost-of-living increase in benefits of retired teachers from 1.5 percent to 1.0 percent.
"It's about just straight up wanting more than your fair share," Bevin said. "This is a group of people just throwing a temper tantrum."
Nor, would it be the last time he insulted teachers, as Matt Bevin just illustrated last week:
The Hill: Some Kentucky teachers went on strike because they were confused, says governor
Gov. Matt Bevin (R) renewed his feud with Kentucky teachers during an interview that aired Friday, saying those who protested his efforts to overhaul the state's pension system were confused and misinformed.
"The bottom line is they didn't know and when folks asked them why, many of them didn't know why they were there, they were there because the KEA [Kentucky Education Association] told them to be there," Bevin told co-hosts Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on "Rising."
Bevin blamed union leaders, claiming they "mislead" and "misrepresented" facts to the public.
Matt Bevin is renewing his attacks on teachers because the State Supreme Court is currently deciding on whether the law Bevin passed to cut teacher pensions was constitutional. At issue was the unbelievably duplicitous way in which he rammed the law through the legislature, changing a bill that was supposed to be about sewage, while the bill was in committee:
Kentucky Today: Kentucky's pension reform case now in the hands of justices
The Kentucky Supreme Court will now decide the constitutionality of public pension legislation after hearing oral arguments on Thursday.
Senate Bill 151 was originally an 11-page piece of legislation dealing with sewage. It passed the Senate in that form and had two reading in the House, but in the closing days of the 2018 General Assembly, a House committee substitute was presented, which contained most of the provisions of SB 1, the original pension reform bill which had stalled in the Senate.
The changes to SB 151 were adopted by the House committee, had a third reading in the House with final passage in that chamber, and the House changes were approved by the Senate, in a matter of just a few hours.
It is worth noting that Kentucky teachers were not in any way confused about the issue at hand. Kentucky teachers need their pensions. It is all they have, because Kentucky teachers are not eligible for social security:
Kentucky Today: 3 persistent myths about Kentucky's teacher pension system
Worse, unlike most states and all private-sector workers, Kentucky's teachers aren't enrolled in Social Security. They don't have access to the nationally portable, progressive retirement benefit which all other workers might take for granted. Without Social Security as a baseline of benefits, Kentucky teachers are even more exposed to the poorly structured, back-loaded state pension plan.
Matt Bevin, the Republican Governor of Kentucky, seems to be doing all he can to insult and attack teachers, who just want decent school funding and a decent retirement, and who are not eligible for social security. The people of Kentucky will need to decide who they value more: teachers, or a carpetbagging Governor who has no loyalty to Kentucky. Bevin's term is up in 2019, but the people of Kentucky can start deciding as early as this November, when several GOP allies of the Governor in the State legislature who helped Matt Bevin with his duplicitous scheme to cut teacher pensions, are up for re-election.
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Maybe he isn't smart enough to realize that teachers vote? They might not have been smart enough to vote Democrat last election but I'll bet money they will in 2018 and in 2020. Most people learn quickly which side of the bread their butter should really be on. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.


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Norman and the Demon
Deek Rhew
Norman sat on the chair, snugging up the laces of his all-weather boots—a task made more difficult by his ever decreasing flexibility and his ever increasing mid-section. He could just make out the words of the news report over the drumming of the rain. Not that there had been any change in the last hour. The anchor droned on in an ominous end-of-the-world tone, though the twinkle in the man's eyes belayed his excitement. Not much happened this close to the equator weather-wise, so when a major "event" occurred, the news reporter couldn't hide the smile on his lips and the five-year-old-on-Christmas-morning sparkle in his eyes as he doled out the details on the destruction of homes and property.
Footwear secure, Norman started to pull his pant leg over the top of his boot when he paused. An insignia had been indented into the heavy leather, and he inspected it as he had a thousand times before. He had been delivering the mail for almost thirty years, and in all that time, he'd never tired of tracing his finger over the sleek eagle's head and around the sharp lines surrounding it.
A huge crack of thunder shook the windows and rattled the teacup collection in the china hutch on the far side of the room. The noise brought Norman out of his reverie, and he focused once again on the task at hand. The house creaked and groaned as the pounding coastal winds tried to rip it off its foundation. The news reports during the week had warned of the impending disaster. This morning, the spring tropical storm, just shy of hurricane intensity, struck the coast with all the anger of a constipated god fresh out of laxatives.
"Norman Philip Templeton the Third." Hands on hips, Owen, Norman's partner, blocked the door. "You will not be leaving this house today." Norman stared out the window, blurry with thunderous rain and screaming winds. Maybe he should stay home. Though not listed in the USPS Official Rules and Regulations Field Guide, perhaps extenuating circumstances did exist, for safety reasons, in which he could miss a day of delivering the mail?
Owen stepped forward and took one of Norman's hands between his two strong ones, his gaze softening. Those sad eyes almost tipped it. Norman almost took off his monogrammed, official blue USPS rain gear. Almost followed the man he loved back to the bedroom. No one would blame him. His grandfather would have called the storm a "real doozy, not fit for man nor beast." Almost. But the deliveryman had sworn another oath, this one to his country, and it superseded all others.
He shook his head. "I'm sorry, I have to."
"Norman, no!" Owen grabbed his arm. Norman pulled free, shouldered his waterproof bag, and opened the front door. Before him stood a two-inch-thick, steel and shatterproof glass security screen door. Norman knew that if the communists ever attacked, they would shut down the essential services of the city: water, electricity, and communications. The most essential of these essential services: the communication provided by the United States Postal Office.
Despite being a target and in constant peril, he would never succumb to potential threats to his country—terrorists both local and abroad, anarchists, and especially, the weather. So he had created an off-the-grid fortress out of their house—bars on the windows, a month's supply of food in the basement, security cameras, a gun and taser in the desk drawer, and reinforced entrances.
The civil servant grasped the handle on the heavy security screen, took a deep breath, and twisted. The door did not open. He pushed, but it refused to budge. He looked at Owen, who watched with a mixture of apprehension and sadness. Norman tried again. Still nothing. Shoving harder, he threw his appreciable bulk against the door. One second, Norman Philip Templeton the Third, USPS delivery man and essential service provider for the government of the United States of America, stood red-faced and grunting. A heartbeat later, he had vanished as if a magician had commanded him to do so. Except no magician's assistant ever squealed like a little girl who'd just found a spider in her shoe.
Caught in the guaranteed unbreakable glass, the gale force winds yanked the security door open. The screen's hydraulic failed, disintegrated into a cloud of metal and rivets, and allowed the handle to smash through the bungalow's siding. It hurled the dandy of a man, his cry becoming the primary soloist in the choir of winds, while he sailed over front yard as graceful as a flying manatee. Momentum and air pressure no longer capable of supporting such bulk, his impromptu trip ended, and he splatted unceremoniously in the middle of the rain-sodden lawn. The impact drove the breath from his lungs, removing his falsetto soprano from the choir at the crescendo of the concert.
Norman stared up into the dark, angry sky. Leaves and debris swirled and dove overhead like roving gangs of demented birds. The end had come. He would die here. Another soldier fallen while serving his country. The broken-hearted would weep during "Taps" as Marines lowered his casket into the frozen ground of Arlington Cemetery. He required no accolades, no statues or monuments. He only wished to leave his country a little safer—the children, women, and citizens of his great nation more secure—than when he joined it.
Norman shed a tear in sympathy as the scene continued and his partner fell to his knees—sobbing into the folded United States flag clutched to his breast. I'll miss you too, honey.
His dolorous mental screenplay abruptly ended when strong hands grabbed him under the armpits. Owen. The real life Owen—not crying but looking both frightened and angry at the same time—towered over him and dragged the sodden freedom fighter towards the safety of their bunker. The large man forded the civil servant across the lakes and rivers of their lawn and through the ruined threshold of the house. Owen dumped his life partner against the wall and leaned against the door, forcing it closed one small step at a time until he snicked the latch in place.
Owen stripped off his partner's muddy clothes, clucking and muttering incoherent curses under his breath—something about the stupidity of blindly following orders and battling terrorists and space aliens that don't actually exist. Owen hauled Norman into the steaming shower, washing—and in some cases using vigorous scrubbing—and removing every speck of dirt from the postman's pallid, white skin until it gleamed as red as a Macintosh apple.
Norman kept his eyes downcast and bit his lip as the wash rag gave him rug burn in places he'd rather not have rug burn, as harsh and raw as any schoolyard bully could dish out. After Owen snapped off the water, he dried, dressed, and deposited the big man into their bed. Owen glared down, eyes flashing as though he were Thor and Norman had broken his favorite hammer.
"I've had enough of this nonsense, Norman. You will not move from this spot for the rest of the day. Do I make myself clear?"
Norman cowered, grateful he could hide under the blankets. "Yes, dear." But as his life partner stormed from the room, Norman vowed he would never again allow another blemish on his otherwise pristine service record, no matter the cost.
The next morning, no storm threatened. The sun, coming up over the mountains, confirmed another gorgeous day of perfect weather. In spite of the clear blue sky and abundant sunshine, dark and petulant clouds loomed inside of Norman. While sorting the mail in preparation for the route, he saw it. 116 South Lancaster Drive had a catalog and a come-on from the local cable company. Junk. Anyone else, given what awaited at 116 South Lancaster Drive, would have thrown the mail in the trash or let it accumulate for later delivery. But not Norman. Not sleet, nor snow, nor rain. He had an obligation to fight the communists, and that meant carrying out every essential detail of his essential service. They wanted chaos. They wanted the system to break down. They wanted to see America fail. Not on his watch. Never. Even if that meant he had to face…Demon Dog.
Norman rounded the corner heading north on South Lancaster Drive. Carrying the mail up the walkway of 102, he verified the correct delivery of each item and poked it through the slot of the front door. He did the same for 104, 106, and 108. But as he completed each delivery, his feet grew more ladened, as though a menacing troll added sand to his boots with every step. 110, 112, 114. He closed the gate on the final house, turned, and plodded down the sidewalk—the troll had added liquid lead, turning the sand to a metal-concrete hybrid.
He stopped at 116 and pivoted to face the property. Scanning the yard, his eyes searched for any signs of danger. Ms. Brooks had brought the Spawn of Satan with her when she moved in. The first time he had met the two of them, Ms. Brooks—Polly, she had asked him to call her Polly—had been sitting in the huge two person swing on her front porch reading a book. The terror from down under lay in her lap. He and Ms. Brooks had exchanged greetings and introductions, continuing in pleasant small-town small talk. But as the trifled conversation went on, Norman had found it more and more difficult to concentrate. The dog watched the civil servant. It sat up and stared at him, black eyes assessing and appraising. Norman hadn't been able to take his own eyes off the intelligent, evil irises. Though the sun blazed bright overhead, he had nevertheless seen a flash of night shine in their glowing, red depths. Somehow the dog housed the spirit of a malevolent demon.
A shudder ran through Norman's body. A thick drop of sweat, as icy and foreboding as a serpent's forked tongue, weaved down the vertebrae of his spine. Enough pleasantries had been exchanged, so he attempted to deliver Ms. Brooks' mail. But he had only begun to extend his hand when The Demon snapped at him.
Ms. Brooks scolded, "Saundy! Bad girl! Mr. Templeton is a nice man." The dog looked at her for a minute then turned its hawk-like glare back to Norman. To his horror, the dog bared her teeth at him and licked her chops, never once breaking eye contact. With quaking fingers, Norman flung the mail into his new acquaintance's lap and stepped away. The dog looked at her mistress as if to say, "What's gotten into him?"
Polly gave Norman a bewildered smile as he backed off the porch. Forgetting all elements of propriety and dignity, Norman beat feet to the entrance of the yard as fast as his stubby legs would carry him and slammed the gate as he exited the property. Since that day, Demon Dog haunted Norman's dreams and made the days he had to deliver to 116 South Lancaster Drive a nightmare. Though he bore no external scars on his wrists, ankles, or hands—the dog had never once touched him—Norman could have used a baggage cart to tote the emotional traveler's trunks he lugged around with him.
For the first few deliveries, the dog sat on the porch staring at him, its eyes never leaving his. Sometimes when she watched him, a low, Cujo-like growl—more befitting of a much larger animal— emanated from deep in her throat. Then, as if to throw him off, she started sitting in the middle of the yard, so for part of his trip to the house, his back remained exposed and vulnerable. Her eyes always watched him. As the deliveries continued, Demon Dog had begun to hide.
Last month, Norman had stopped outside the fence and searched everywhere. Not seeing the canine, he'd unlatched the gate and made a break for the house. He hadn't run, but his cadence had been much faster than his usual, purposeful chubby-man's amble. He'd speed-walked the thirty feet or so up the sidewalk, past the huge tree in the yard, to the steps of the house when the awful low growling had frozen him mid-stride. Norman could have been playing a one person version of the child's game of Red Light, Green Light.
From where the sound emanated, he hadn't known. His head had shot right then darted left. He'd peered into the bushes but seen nothing out of the ordinary. As he'd turned, looking deeper into the hedge, the tendons in his neck had creaked and popped like an old screen door on a haunted house. What he'd seen when his head completed the pivot had nearly made him lose what little control he'd had over his bladder. In the brush, not five feet away, two red orbs from the pit of Hell glowed and simmered. Lucifer himself pulled the strings of this evil puppet, coaxing Norman with blazing fingers to follow it to the dark fires of ember and soot.
In a sudden burst of adrenaline, Norman had sailed forward, flying over the steps, slammed the mail half through the slot, and bolted back down the sidewalk—arms pumping, official USPS mail bag banging against his hip. He'd yanked the gate shut behind him as he blasted through it. Momentum had taken him into the middle of the street where he spun around, holding his hands up as though he were Jackie Chan ready to fight a brigade of pissed off ninjas. Nothing. Saundy hadn't followed him. She never did. She never barked. Never ran at him. But she always growled. Hungry and predatory. If she had actually sprung at him, he could have kicked back or called the sheriff, but the attack never came.
Norman's gaze had roamed the yard, seeking signs of danger while he straightened his uniform and tried to control the trip-hammering of his heart. He'd tucked in his now sweat-soaked official USPS shirt, picked up the mail that had spilled as he eluded the beast and her evil intentions, and trudged to the next house on the block. When he'd gotten home that night, Norman lain his head in Owen's lap. The whole story spilled out while tears plummeted down his chubby cheeks and soaked his partner's work pants, which still smelled of bread and bagels.
But Norman's partner had little sympathy and admonished him. "You're being ridiculous. First of all, I've met both Polly and her little dog, Saundy—her name, by the way, is Saundy, not Demon Dog, and it's short for Cassandra—and both are as sweet as chilled honey in August. Second, dogs don't stalk people, and they certainly don't play mental games."
"But—" Owen cut him off, raising a finger.
"And third, even if the dog did attack, it weighs all of ten pounds. Twelve tops. I put up with the bars on the windows and the guns in the drawers, but this is too much. Seriously, Norman, get a hold of yourself!"
"The dog loves you because you always smell like food." Norman crossed his arms and pouted. Owen owned and operated Baker's Dozen, the small pastry shop on the south side of town. After an afternoon in the store, he wore the scent of muffins and cookies as heavy and thick as a 15 year-old boy wears cologne on his first date.
When his partner hadn't replied, Norman said in a timid little voice, "Maybe you could come with me one day…" But Owen had just looked at him with that pitying expressing Norman hated. It was just a little mutt. Come on old boy, pull yourself together. After all, who's at the top of the food chain here?
Once, he'd had a dog that would eat out of the litterbox, and since Norman himself had never felt so obliged, he could conclude, with relative certainty, that he— Norman Phillip Templeton the Third—sat squarely at the top of the species hierarchical pyramid. From then on, Norman had never shared the details of these little incidents. But no matter what pep talks he gave himself, things at 116 South Lancaster Drive continued to devolve. On this delivery morning, though sunny and bright, the nip of the cool night air still lingered. In spite of the chill, the armpits on his otherwise clean and crisp uniform had tear-drop-shaped sweatstains under them.
He stopped at the precipice and scanned the yard over the greying fence but could detect no threat. This cursory examination offered little comfort, however. He knew the demon lingered. Someplace. He sensed it. Silence crowded around him. Suffocating and stifling. No cars trundled up the street. No birds sang. No crickets chirped. He stood alone in the universe, and all creatures held their collective breaths in anticipation of the upcoming showdown.
While his heart thudded like a stampede of scared cattle, his numb, sweaty fingers grasp the hook and unlatched the gate. He pushed it open. Rusty hinges squeaked on their arched journey until the gate bumped against the picket teeth of the wooden border. He took a step off the safety of the sidewalk, past the fence, and entered the perimeter. He waited. Nothing. Norman took a deep breath and, by sheer will, forced himself to take another step, crossing the threshold as open and exposed and heroic as the first invaders of Normandy. One step, then another. Again and again. His eyes darted this way and that as he tried to look everywhere and at everything at the same time. Nothing. She watched. Her coldness penetrated the depths of his bones.
"Where are you, Demon?" Then, above the hammering of his heart, he heard it—the low menacing growl answering his question. I am here. But where? No telltale glowing eyes in the bushes. He bent down and looked, but nothing lingered under the porch, one of her favorite spots that emphasized the self-illuminating amber of her hellish gaze. She didn't sit in the yard or next to the door, or, god-forbid, in front of the mail slot as she had before. The stains under his pits grew heavier. Oh my god, where is it?
As he proceeded, the sound grew near, so near. Like angry hornets swooping and diving around his ears, trying to get in and break through the fragile, cracking surface of his mind. He waved a hand as if to ward off the insects. Then he froze. Looking up, he found himself staring into the cold, hateful eyes of the Demon Dog. Somehow it had made its way to the top of the small roof that overhung the porch. It looked down on him like a stone gargoyle from an ancient Transylvanian cathedral.
Norman froze, rooted in place until he became a statue himself. Then something fundamental in him broke, and his body went limp. His hunched shoulders went slack, and his eyes dropped as he bowed his head. He acquiesced to a higher power he understood he could never defeat. His body wrote a story of complete and utter surrender, which even the thickest tomes could never capture. An inevitability had come to pass, and now an odd sort of peace came over the stubby little mailman. He no longer fought the current in an attempt to make his way upstream but let the natural flow of the river carry him. He wondered if torture victims—subjected to hot lights and wicked sharp tools—succumbed in this manner when they at last snapped and gave the enemy that final, crucial piece of information.
On leaded feet, he made his way to the porch, pushed the catalog and come-on through the front slot, and trudged down the steps and sidewalk. At the gate, he stopped and turned around, metaphorically— and literally as two of his shirt buttons had popped during the confrontation—exposing the white of his belly. Head still bowed and not making eye contact, he backed out of the yard, drawing the gate closed in his wake. His heart had slowed to its regular rhythm, and his body temperature and blood pressure had returned to normal. He slumped away.
Saundy watched as the Blue Man left her field of vision. He was her bitch now. The true and rightful hierarchy has been established, with her squarely at the top. She stood and stretched a long doggy yawn. Turning, she padded her way across the roof to the side of the house. She jumped on top of a large stack of firewood leaning against the wall, back down to the lawn, and then up onto the porch. She circled three times before lying down in a tight little ball in a ray of cool morning sunshine. She sighed and fell asleep
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Friday Jun 24 2022
How strained is relationship between Prince Charles and Boris Johnson?
Friday Jun 24, 2022
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will meet with Prince Charles in Kigali on Friday on the sidelines of a meeting of Commonwealth leaders, after media reports the heir to the throne privately described the government's plans to
send asylum seekers to Rwanda. as "appalling".
"How strained is the relationship between the Prince of Wales and Boris Johnson? " said a correspondent accompanying the royals.
He said "The pair will meet on Friday morning for "a cup of tea and a catch up" while both are in Rwanda after Charles was reported to have privately criticised UK plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda."
Earlier this month two British newspapers reported that Charles had privately criticised the plans. Charles was concerned the controversial asylum policy would overshadow the Commonwealth meeting where he is representing his mother Queen Elizabeth, The Times said.
The government says the deal will stem the flow of dangerous cross-Channel trips and smash the business model of people-smuggling networks.
Asked about Charles' purported comment, Johnson said: "I have no evidence for the assertion that you made ... I can't confirm that. I think the policy is sensible, measured."
"I very much look forward to seeing (Charles)... but you would not expect me to comment on conversations that I may or may not have with him."


There is a spark of divinity within all people, just as there was in Jesus.
The "Christ" is that part of God that is in every person.
Heaven is not a place, but a state of consciousness.
We create our own heaven and hell, here and now.


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Jacques Prost (* 1946 in Bourg-en-Bresse) ist ein französischer Biophysiker und Festkörperphysiker (weiche Materie).

Prost studierte ab 1965 an der École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud. 1969 erhielt er die Agrégation in Physik und 1973 wurde er promoviert.  1973 bis 1975 war er als Post-Doktorand an der Harvard University.  Er gründete eine Gruppe für Flüssigkristallforschung in Bordeaux (1969 bis 1987, Forschung für das CNRS) und eine  für theoretische physikalische Chemie an der École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI) unter Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, die er 1987 bis 1995 leitete. Dort befasste er sich mit Flüssigkristallen und weicher Materie.1996 gründete er eine Gruppe für physikalische Chemie am Curie Institute in Paris, mit der er biologische Fragen wie molekulare Motoren, Zellbewegung und Gewebedynamik, biologische Membrane, Mechanismen von Hörzellen und Adhäsion von Proteinen untersuchte. Er führte das Konzept aktiver Gele und von homöostatischem Druck in Geweben ein. Unter anderem untersuchte er den Einfluss mechanischer Spannung auf Tumoren und wies Wachstumsunterdrückung nach (verbunden mit der Wirkung des Inhibitors p27). Inzwischen ist er emeritiert.

2003 wurde er Generaldirektor der ESPCI als Nachfolger von de Gennes.

1995 erhielt er den Prix Jean Ricard. 2007 wurde er Mitglied der Académie des sciences. 1990 bis 1999 war er wissenschaftlicher Berater von Elf Aquitaine. 2007 erhielt er den Cino del Duca Grand Prix und 2016 den Sackler-Preis in Biophysik. 2009 wurde er Mitglied des französischen Comité de l'Energie Atomique.

Schriften (Auswahl)
mit P. de Gennes:  The physics of liquid crystals, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1993
mit J. Rosselet, L. Salome, A. Ajdari: Directional motion of Brownian particles induced by a periodic asymmetric potential, Nature, Band 370, 1994, S. 446
mit J. F. Chauwin, L. Peliti, A. Ajdari: Asymmetric pumping of particles, Physical Review Letters, Band 72, 1994, S. 2652
mit Frank Jülicher: Cooperative molecular motors, Phys. Rev. Lett., Band 75, 1995, S. 2618
mit F. Jülicher, A. Ajdari: Modeling molecular motors, Review of Modern Physics, Band 69, 1997, S. 1269
mit S. Camalet, T. Duke, F. Jülicher: Auditory sensitivity provided by self-tuned critical oscillations of hair cells, Proc. Nat. Acad. USA, Band 97, 2000, S. 3183–3188
mit K. Kruse, J. F. Joanny, F. Jülicher, K. Sekimoto: Asters, vortices, and rotating spirals in active gels of polar filaments, Phys. Rev. Letters, Band 92, 2004, S. 078101
mit K. Kruse, J. F. Joanny, F. Jülicher, K. Sekimoto: Generic theory of active polar gels: a paradigm for cytoskeletal dynamics, European Physical Journal E, Band 16, 2005, S. 5–16
mit A. Roux u. a.: Role of curvature and phase transition in lipid sorting and fission of membrane tubules, The EMBO Journal, Band 24, 2005, S. 1537–1545
mit M. C. Marchetti, J. F. Joanny u. a.: Hydrodynamics of soft active matter, Reviews of modern Physics, Band 85, 2013, S. 1143

Weblinks
Webseite am Institut Curie
Prost bei der Academie des sciences.

Einzelnachweise

Biophysiker
Physiker (20. Jahrhundert)
Hochschullehrer (École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris)
Mitglied der Académie des sciences
Franzose
Geboren 1946
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Support Samsung Galaxy Tab Deal?
Discussion in 'Android Devices' started by MrDonBonJovi, Sep 14, 2011.
Does anyone know of any stores offering promotions for the galaxy tab right now?
I'm looking to get one for when I go back to school for a text book reader, any thoughts on that as well?
There is a deal somewhere, head over to XDA tab 10 and there is a thread about it.
The devices are refurbs though.
well other than the fact that the retail price for the 16 gig SGT 10.1 is $499.99 and not $599.99, thats seems to be a pretty good deal. Saving $150.00 is still pretty good.


All eyes are on North Carolina yet again as another scandal has rocked the school. This one has nothing to do basketball or football but rather a former player's mom receiving some extra benefits from her boss. A boss that happened to be her boyfriend.
The woman in question is Tami Hansbrough, the mother of Tyler Hansbrough, who worked as a fundraiser for the dental school. Her boss is former UNC quarterback Matt Kupec. Here's the Raleigh News and Observer with more details.
Thorp confirmed that a dental foundation audit later found that during that championship run, Tami Hansbrough had been traveling to cities in which Tyler Hansbrough was playing basketball. But Thorp said those foundation-paid trips were legitimate because she was raising money for the university, and UNC fans traveling to those games would have been good candidates to make donations.
Fine. Ok, maybe that's a plausible excuse. But there's more juicy details.
In mid-2010, Kupec sought to hire a fundraiser. By then, Kupec was in a relationship with Hansbrough, Thorp said, and Thorp had heard that she might be interested in the job. When Thorp learned that she would be reporting to Kupec in the new job, Thorp told Kupec he could not hire her because it would violate the university's nepotism policy since they were in a relationship.
The position disappeared and was never filled. A short time later, another fundraising position surfaced, only this time it reported to Winston Crisp, who is the vice chancellor for student affairs. Thorp said he had supported the position being created.
Certainly not the worst scandal in sports but with the Eye of Sauron directing its gaze on Chapel Hill, this is probably the last thing the institution needed.


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In rescue effort, banks to acquire majority stake in Jet
Board okays bank-led provisional resolution plan for restructuring to meet funding gap of ₹8,500 crore; airline reports ₹732 crore Q3 net loss
A consortium of commercial banks led by State Bank of India (SBI) will acquire a majority stake in Jet Airways (India) Ltd. by converting part of their debt into equity for a consideration of ₹1 and advancing more capital to give the airline a lifeline to enable it to achieve a turnaround.
Jet Airways' board, on Thursday, considered and approved a bank-led provisional resolution plan (BLPRP) that proposes restructuring under the provisions of the 'RBI Circular' to meet a funding gap of nearly ₹8,500 crore, including proposed repayment of aircraft debt of ₹1,700 crore.
This will be met by an appropriate mix of equity infusion, debt restructuring, sale/sale and lease back/refinancing of aircraft, among other things.
The BLPRP will be presented to the consortium of lenders, overseeing the committee of the Indian Bankers' Association, board of directors of Etihad Airways and promoter Naresh Goyal, for consideration.
Lenders will convert debt into 11.4 crore shares of ₹10 each by allotment of such number of equity shares at an aggregate consideration of ₹1.
The BLPRP is subject to the company receiving requisite approvals from shareholders at its EGM to be held on February 21, 2019.
Debt to shares
Jet Airways said the conversion of lenders' debt into equity shares would result in the lenders becoming the largest shareholders in the company and they would appoint nominees to the board.
"Such allotment/conversion of lenders' debt to equity shares of the company will be made at an aggregate consideration of ₹1, in accordance with the RBI Circular, whereby lenders can convert debt to equity at ₹1, when the book value per share of a company is negative," Jet Airways said.
Post availability of interim credit facilities by domestic lenders, an appropriate governance structure including the board composition would be put in place.
The airline did not announce the quantum of stake the banks would pick up. However, Mr. Goyal's stake is likely to be reduced substantially to about 20%, post debt recast from 51%.
"The bank-led resolution plan is a win-win for all stakeholders. However, composition and the quality of the board is key to the outcomes," said Kapil Kaul, CEO, South Asia, Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA).
'Interim arrangement'
"I don't see lenders running Jet Airways for long and this is an interim arrangement. Expect a new ownership order to emerge in the near term," Mr. Kaul added.
Jet Airways Group on Thursday reported a net loss of ₹732 crore (standalone net loss ₹587 crore) for the third quarter ended December 31, 2018, against a net profit of ₹186 crore for the same period last year. Total revenue for the quarter was flat at ₹6,411 crore, compared to ₹6,412 crore in Q3 FY18.
Vinay Dube, CEO, Jet Airways said, "Jet Airways continues to make steady progress on its operational and financial turnaround and with the approval of the bank-led provisional resolution plan by the board of directors of the company, we remain confident of delivering a more strategic, efficient and financially viable airline."
Network restructuring
During the quarter, the airline restructured its network, moving capacity away from unviable routes to profitable ones.
As part of its strategy to enhance efficiencies and reduce costs, the airline announced strategic changes to its current distribution process, which will be effective from April 1, 2019.
Mukesh Ambani's RIL buys out British toy-maker Hamleys for £68 million
'Firms missing from database will not affect GDP calculation
Jet collapse: pilots ask PM to probe Etihad's 'role'
Hospitality sector set for boom after a decade's lull
'Jet's lenders gave paltry sums in instalments'
Industrial growth dips in Feb., retail inflation at 5-month high in March
Knotty times for Tiruppur knitwear industry
Jet Airways may make a landing in Tata Group
Growth rate highest since liberalisation: CEA
New loan pricing scheme may be put off
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Visit North West > Preston
Preston is situated in the heart of Lancashire and is the county's administrative centre. It has a population of around 130,000 and is one of the UK's newest cities.
The city is home to the University of Central Lancashire. A student population of over 30,000 adds a vibrant buzz to the centre.
Harris Museum and Art Gallery
Hotels and places to stay in and around Preston include:
Lea Gate by Greene King Inns
Macdonald Tickled Trout Hotel
Holiday Inn Express Preston South
Whitburn House Hotel
Winckley Square Hotel
Preston Marriott Hotel
Mercure Preston Samlesbury
The Bluebird Inn
Barton Grange Hotel
Holiday Inn Preston
Preston took a major blow in 2010 with the relocation of the National Football Museum to Manchester. Nevertheless, Preston still offers some interesting museums; the magnificent Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Museum of Lancashire, and the Lancashire Infantry Museum.
The Preston Guild Hall and Charter Theatre is the city's major entertainment venue. Both Vue and Odeon have multiplex cinemas in the city, while tenpin bowling is offered at the MFA Bowl. Children can enjoy a train ride on the Ribble Steam Railway.
Preston has over 700 Grade I and II listed buildings but over two thirds of its area is open space and countryside. Avenham Park and Miller Park rank amongst the finest examples of Victorian era parks in the country. Both are close to the city centre and have benefited from multi-million pound refurbishments. Other parks include Ashton Park and Moor Park.
Avenham Park
Attractions outside the city but within easy reach include Astley Hall and Park, Beacon Fell Country Park, the British Commercial Vehicle Museum, Brockholes, Cuerden Valley Park, Hoghton Tower, Preston England Temple, Turbary Woods Owl and Bird of Prey Sanctuary, Samlesbury Hall, the West Lancashire Light Railway, Worden Park, and Yarrow Valley Country Park.
The Fishergate Shopping Centre and the St George's Shopping Centre are the major shopping malls in the city centre. Retail parks include the Capitol Centre and Deepdale Shopping Park.
Botany Bay near Chorley, Bygone Times in Eccleston, and Huntley's Country Stores in Samlesbury all offer unique shopping experiences and products.
St George's Shopping Centre
Preston has good connections to the UK's motorway network. The M55, M61 and M65 terminate in the city. The M6 motorway passes Preston and offers a direct route to destinations such as Lancaster, Penrith, Carlisle, Warrington, Stoke-on-Trent, and Birmingham.
The nearest motorway service stations are Charnock Richard (M6), Blackburn with Darwen (M65), and Rivington (M61).
Car parks in the city centre can be found at Preston Train Station, the Fishergate Shopping Centre, the St George's Shopping Centre, and Preston Bus Station.
Preston Train Station is on the West Coast Main Line and offers direct connections to London, Birmingham and Glasgow. Regional destinations such as Blackpool, Lancaster, Bolton and Warrington are also served.
Railway stations in the areas surrounding Preston are Adlington, Bamber Bridge, Buckshaw Parkway, Chorley, Croston, Euxton Balshaw Lane, Leyland, and Lostock Hall.
Preston Bus Station is one of the UK's most controversial buildings. Buses and coaches departing from here serve local, regional, national and international destinations.
Preston Bus Station
Cyclists and walkers can enjoy the Preston Guild Wheel, a 21-mile long traffic-free route that encircles the city.
Preston Weather
5-day weather forecast for Preston. View temperature, wind speed and chance of rain.
Map of Preston
Interactive map of Preston showing the precise locations of hotels, tourist attractions, and other points of interest.
Beautiful park in Preston city centre.
Cuerden Valley Park
Country park stretching from Bamber Bridge to Whittle-le-Woods.
Samlesbury Hall
Historic house with plenty of attractions.
Preston England Temple
The largest Mormon temple outside North America.
Brockholes
Nature reserve with innovative visitor centre, walking trails, playground, and restaurant.
Fishergate Shopping Centre
Shopping mall in Preston city centre. Stores include Argos, TK Maxx, Debenhams, and Primark.
The biggest shopping centre in Preston. Stores include Marks and Spencer, H&M and New Look.
Preston Train Station
Train station in Preston city centre. View train times, station facilities and location map.