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Wives do not need to be happy or loved
By Cran,
May 26, 2012 in Marriage & Divorce
No, indeed not! It is even better if you're not, because it will draw you to your father in heaven, who truly loves you, even if your husband lusts after and loves another woman.
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She talks about Leah, who wasn't loved by her husband Jacob, who favoured his second wife Rachel. But never mind...
When you feel like you are a Leah, unloved and hurt, know that there is One who loves you with an everlasting love. Everlasting means He has loved you even before the foundation of the world, and will always love you. You cannot make someone love you, just like Leah didn't succeed in making Jacob love her, even if she gave him children. But there is One who loves you just the way you are, and you don't have to do anything to make Him love you or love you even more. His love is constant.
I do not know this blog, I stumbled over it via a link from lessonsfromivy.com - the blog with the ramblings on modesty discussed in another topic, and was rather shocked by this post. Of course, it goes against common sense and human feelings to write such stuff at all, but that wouldn't surprise me, we're in fundiedom after all, but it is also contrary to what's usually written by them on the wife-husband-relationship. Always stressing that men need to feel respected, and women need to feel loved - but if they're not loved, they have to suffer in silence anyway and have no recourse to get their deepest need fulfilled.
Jacob is not criticized in the least for not loving Leah or treating her well in this post, although the bible commands husbands to love their wife (this is NT, Eph 5,31, of course, but God's law is unchanging, isn't it?), and I think the poster grants him more leniency than the bible does, to me, the description of Jacob's marriages has very negative undertones, while the children Leah has are meant to console her for not being loved, the lack of children from Rachel is, in my opinion, biblically seen as a punishment for both, Rachel (who is not really at fault for what her husband does, is she) and Jacob.
Genesis 29:30-34 30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. 31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren. 32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me. 33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon. 34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
Women can't win in patriarchy.
FlorenceHamilton
And yet, the Bible thumpers carry on that marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman and that is says so in the Bible. Don't they read it?
Childless
Sorry. If my husband fell in love with another woman, he would be gone. I would file for divorce immediately. I deserve to have a husband that loves me. Remaining in that situation would just make both of us miserable. I would feel unloved and he would be pining for someone else. Who would want to live like that? Life is to short to be miserable.
I guess that's one of the many advantages to being non-religious. I don't feel the need to spend my life in misery just to follow some stupid set of rules.
debrand
I've rarely heard Jacob criticized for his behavior. Fundies believe that the people in the bible really existed and yet they never really look at the characters as real people.
Jacob slept with his first wife even though he hated her. What does that say about him or the patriarchal system? I can't imagine having sex with someone that I knew disliked me. What a sad existence that women faced. And were their handmaids given a choice about having sex with Jacob? Neither Leah nor her sister were happy. Both women were taken from their homes and apparently didn't like one another. Leah's children apparently hated Joseph enough to sell him as a slave. Jacob's favoritism hurt his wives and children.What a screwed up family.
The women in the Old Testament who were happy seem to be the ones who took control of their situations: Abigail, Esther, Deborah. How do fundies miss the lesson that allowing another person to control your life won't bring you happiness?
FundiesInMyFamily
Location: Inside a bottle of Xanax
So 'husbands should love their wives like christ loves the church', but if he doesn't, it's okay because god still loves you? Sure thing. Love that fundie logic hard at work.
If I remember it correctly, it was not Jacob's fault that he wasn't in love with Leah. He had always intended to marry Rachel but was tricked into marrying Leah by the women's father.
Edited to change girls' for women's.
AuntCloud
Location: Puttin' on the glits
My impression is that there's a competition among fundie wives who can put up with the largest amount of crap to prove her godliness (Because, you know, there's a medal and a trophy at then end if you do). It's also a competition for who stifles her sense of self and self-preservation the best. Sort of like the black knight in Monty Python, "it's just a flesh wound!".
Shunned
God has munchausen by proxy. Hurt those you claim to love so they'll love you more for making them feel better.
Glass Cowcatcher
Location: Behind the Bluebonnet Curtain. Texas, y'all!
IIRC he slaved away to the girls's father for 7 years to earn Rachel's hand, got tricked into marrying Leah, then worked another 7 years to marry Rachel, for real this time.
The two women are literally treated as a commodity, no beating around the bush ( :D ) on that one. Leah could have, presumably, married someone she might have gotten on better with during that time, and poor Leah hs to wait 14 years before she marries the man she loves.
If that came straight out of God's mouth I don't want to follow that god.
Cowcatcher, you recall correctly.
I was hoping I didn't.
dairyfreelife
Yes, Jacob had fallen for Rachel and vice versa so Jacob asked for Rachel's hand in marriage. Rachel's father made Jacob work for seven years for him before he'd let Rachel be Jacob's wife. He loved Rachel, so he did just that and got tricked by being given Leah instead and forced to work more to "earn" Rachel. It was not fair to anyone involved really. Shows the problem with daughters as property. Today, Jacob and Rachel would have just married and Leah could have found someone she loved and things would have been fine. Not even getting into Rachel and Leah forcing Jacob and their slaves to have children for them and claiming the babies as theirs. And that churches today never mention the slaves. I corrected my Sunday Youth teacher at eighteen when he said Jacob had two wives and twelve sons between them to say that he had four wives and thirteen known children. He had a known daughter as well.
It was one mess of a family though. Not the model one in any way. Jacob himself came from a manipulative situation and poor family as well. Isaac and Rebekah had issues with their twins as well.
very well said
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Location: Ponyville, EQ
After being good friends for years with a happy, committed swinging couple who pursue casual and semi-permanent relationships on the side, both separately and as a pair, this mindset makes even less sense to me. If you aren't completely happy with just one person, either a) re-negotiate the terms of the social contract and discuss the possibility of an open relationship, or b) end the relationship. Continuing together despite fundamental *snerk* differences just seems like a pressure cooker of passive-aggression and unhappiness.
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I was a member of the Far Above Rubies Yahoo group in my almost-got-sucked-into-the-madness-of-fundie-ism days, and it's rife with this mentality.
fluttershies
Location: Old Hampshire
Jacob was a total mess. However that just reminds me that God can take messed-up people and achieve great things through them. The whole point is that it's God's power, not human power.
Swamptribe
So, the moral of this is that it doesn't matter what you do with your life. God will use you how he sees fit anyway. So, you don't have to take any personal responsibility because if you don't do great things. That just means that great thing weren't in gods plan for you. If you do crappy things, you know, like murder people, that was just gods will too.
No, not at all - just that because all people are sinful, all people are equal before God and therefore anyone can be used by God to do great things, not just 'good' or 'nice' people. Jacob still got punished for his sins, as does everyone else in the Bible (David springs to mind) who sins. He messed up and paid the punishment for it, but he was not beyond redemption, because for God no one is beyond redemption.
I don't get it when Christians display this attitude. You can't square up the idea that everything is a part of God's plan, and it's all laid out in advance, with the idea that prayer can change things or activities like abortion or homosexuality, which God is trying to call the people away from, can damn a nation.
I agree. I've known multiple couples like this, and it works well for them - BECAUSE they were honest with each other from the get-go. It doesn't mean that there haven't been hard times, but the open communication has made these relationships some of the strongest I've seen. Keeping it all bottled in is a recipe for disaster and misery.
So you can be a bad guy and be redeemed and good things happen, of you can be as faithful as Job, worshipping god and praising him even while he kills your family, destroys your home and livelihood, and covers you in painful illnesses because god got into a pissing match with the devil and felt the need to prove that his most faithful servant was faithful to a fault.
Moral of the story: If your life being fucked or rewarded is at god's whim and has nothing to do with how good or bad you are, then fuck god, let's just enjoy our lives.
I heard an atheist say once that if God was proven to exist beyond a shadow of a doubt, he would believe in him, but not worship him, because of crap like Job. One of the best defenses of one's set of beliefs I've ever heard.
I've never understood the Christian concept of free will. If an individual can do something that completely takes god by surprise, then god is not all knowing or all powerful. If god is all knowing, then mankind does not have free will. In other words, before you are born, god already knows if you are going to accept god or not. If god has no clue, then you've got a pretty clueless god.
If, god creates mankind and is all knowing, then mankind is very simply, gods plaything. That pretty much makes the Christian concept of god out to be a jackass.
See, it was stuff like this that made me an early skeptic. Try asking nuns these questions when you're in elementary school. Then, when they tell you that you should just have faith and believe your elders, don't ask why.
samurai_sarah
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One of my first WTF moments as a child, was when my (Catholic) parish priest explained that his deity accommodated atheists. "If you don't want to be with god, he's not going to force you, but make sure you don't have to be with him", were his words. It was a WTF moment, because he made it sound like whatever you do, you get indulged. That's not free will. I was an early skeptic as well... ;)
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Q: Binary Tree with negative values I was solving a data structure problem and I came across a Binary Tree problem:
Find the maximum node in a binary tree, return the node.
Given the following BST
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0   3 -4  -5

I thought that in a Binary Tree, every node's key is greater than all keys in its left sub-tree, and less than all keys in its right sub-tree.
Can a Binary Tree be unsorted ?

A: A binary search tree is supposed to be sorted and ordered.
But a binary tree can be unsorted like the one you have shown. Binary search tree is a type of binary tree which happened to be sorted.

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I thought that in a Binary Tree, every node's key is greater than all
  keys in its left sub-tree, and less than all keys in its right
  sub-tree.

That's property of Binary Search Tree.
Binary tree can be unsorted, but it isn't suitable for lookup (it doesn't have log(n) complexity).

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Donors come through for Share Your Christmas recipients Mexican Villa employees help save the day, fill in gaps Check out this story on news-leader.com: https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2018/12/23/donors-share-your-christmas-2018-springfield/2402919002/
Jan Peterson, Special to the News-Leader Published 4:23 p.m. CT Dec. 23, 2018
Share Your Christmas distributes gifts at Crosslines
Sheryl Wachter, left, hands a box to her husband Ron Wachter as they load gifts into a client's truck during the Share Your Christmas distribution at Crosslines on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Andrew Jansen/News-Leader
Heather Amundson, right, helps Ron Wachter load gifts into her truck during the Share Your Christmas distribution at Crosslines on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Amundson was receiving gifts for 2 girls, ages 4 and 3, as well as a 2-year-old boy. Andrew Jansen/News-Leader
Heather Amundson, right, hugs Sheryl Wachter after loading gifts into her truck during the Share Your Christmas distribution at Crosslines on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Amundson was receiving gifts for 2 girls, ages 4 and 3, as well as a 2-year-old boy. Andrew Jansen/News-Leader
Ron Wachter takes a bicycle out to a client's vehicle during the Share Your Christmas distribution at Crosslines on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Andrew Jansen/News-Leader
Betsy Stephenson loads gifts into her vehicle during the Share Your Christmas distribution at Crosslines on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Stephenson received gifts for a 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl. Andrew Jansen/News-Leader
Sheryl Wachter, right, hugs Betsy Stephenson after helping load gifts in her vehicle during the Share Your Christmas distribution at Crosslines on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Andrew Jansen/News-Leader
Volunteer Don Golik uses a hand-truck to pull a box of gifts for a client during the Share Your Christmas distribution at Crosslines on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Andrew Jansen/News-Leader
Lorene Guy, right, thanks Sheryl Wachter as she is being checked in during the Share Your Christmas distribution at Crosslines on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Guy was receiving gifts for her two grandchildren. Andrew Jansen/News-Leader
Betsy Stephenson, right, helps volunteers load gifts into her vehicle during the Share Your Christmas distribution at Crosslines on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Stephenson received gifts for a 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl. Andrew Jansen/News-Leader
Sheryl Wachter, left, and Billie Ridenour laugh as they load gifts into Ridenour's van during the Share Your Christmas distribution at Crosslines on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Ridenour was receiving gifts for her five grandchildren. Also pictured is Ron Wachter. Andrew Jansen/News-Leader
Sheryl Wachter, center, hands a box to Billie Ridenour as they load gifts into Ridenour's van during the Share Your Christmas distribution at Crosslines on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Ridenour was receiving gifts for her five grandchildren. Also pictured is Ron Wachter. Andrew Jansen/News-Leader
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Volunteer Lanny Brent loads gifts into a client's vehicle during the Share Your Christmas distribution at Crosslines on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Andrew Jansen/News-Leader
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"I had a donor who adopted the entire family," Wachter says, noting she corresponded by email with the donor, as she does with many, if not most, of the donors. "On Friday, they called and said, well, where are you located."
After she replied, there was a pause. "Where's Glenstone Street?" At that point, her heart fell. She knew where this was headed. "They lived in Springfield, Oregon," she says. "So, they have blessed a family in Oregon."
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Sheryl Wachter, left, hands a box to her husband Ron Wachter as they load gifts into a client's truck during the Share Your Christmas distribution at Crosslines on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. (Photo: Andrew Jansen/News-Leader)
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"I was going to call, but it was a madhouse and I decided to just stop in," Ferguson says.
After a quick chat with Wachter, he found a way for his employees to help. "A lot of times they'll have families that have been selected and they don't get anything. I said that's perfect. We can work last-minute. If you send it to me on Friday, we can do it over the weekend and we can have it to you by Monday," Ferguson says.
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"They had them identified. They were organized," Dickenson says.
Ferguson says he was particularly touched by $20 donated by an employee for a bicycle fund. When the manager asked the employee if he was sure he wanted to donate so much, Ferguson says the employee told the manager Crosslines had helped him as a child and he just wanted to give back.
That employee may be happy to know some specific wishes were made real thanks to donations like his.
"I remember this little guy wanted a green and black bike, and he's going to get it," Wachter says.
Volunteer Lanny Brent, right, and Sheryl Wachter load gifts into a client's vehicle during the Share Your Christmas distribution at Crosslines on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. (Photo: Andrew Jansen/News-Leader)
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Gray and her husband's third child, a girl, was born seven weeks prematurely four months ago by emergency C-section when Gray suffered a ruptured placenta. The child has a heart problem related to being born premature and needs a great deal of care.
Until Gray can return to work, the family is trying to make it on just her husband's salary. But, Gray says, their daughter has $48,000 in medical bills, and Gray has $33,000. "We also had to buy a new car — and get a loan for it — which we can't get licensed because we can't get it fixed," she says.
Christmas just wasn't going to happen for their two boys, ages 9 and 7.
"It means a lot," she says. "We didn't have money to buy Christmas this year. This is pretty much a huge weight off my shoulders."
More: 84-year-old bakes 15k cookies, unites siblings for first time in decades
And what will her kids think when they see Legos and Paw Patrol toys and other gifts under the tree?
"They're going to be excited. I turned in a really good wish list."
Heather Amundson, right, hugs Sheryl Wachter after loading gifts into her truck during the Share Your Christmas distribution at Crosslines on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Amundson was receiving gifts for 2 girls, ages 4 and 3, as well as a 2-year-old boy. (Photo: Andrew Jansen/News-Leader)
Coordinator: Thank you to all who helped
What a joy it is to live in a community that responds with generosity and compassion to those who need help this Christmas. Tuesday, Dec. 18, was a great day for both the Share Your Christmas team and the recipients of the gifts. There were hugs and tears, many words of thanks and smiles of relief as volunteers loaded families' cars with toys and clothes. Sometimes it became quite a challenge to fit bicycles, toys, new winter coats, jugs of laundry detergent and big packs of toilet paper into a car — a wonderful problem to have.
Meanwhile, volunteers were delivering 98 gift boxes to three area care centers. These boxes and bags were bulging with clothing, candy and other special treats. With the help of many, many donors, there will be lots of smiles at holiday parties as the seniors realize they weren't forgotten at Christmas.
Thank you to the Springfield News-Leader for sponsoring, through Crosslines, the Share Your Christmas project. You have made it possible for us to tell the stories of families and care center residents who need extra help this holiday season. As families left Crosslines with their gifts, many repeatedly called, "Thank you so much" and "Merry Christmas." Those words of appreciation and holiday wishes are being passed on to you, the donors. You are the ones to have brought such Christmas joy to many children and adults.
Thank you and Merry Christmas from the Share Your Christmas team.
— Sheryl Wachter, Share Your Christmas coordinator
Read or Share this story: https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2018/12/23/donors-share-your-christmas-2018-springfield/2402919002/
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import random

import tornado.httpserver
import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.options
import tornado.web

# Author: Wojtek Swiderski

from tornado.options import define, options

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define("port", default = 8000, help = "run on given port", type = int)

class IndexHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
	def get(self):
		self.render('index.html')

class MungedPageHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
	def map_my_first_letter(self, text):
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	http_server = tornado.httpserver.HTTPServer(app)
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Tonight, I disciplined a child for something he did not do. I had faulty information and I did not take the time to hear the whole story. It was the end of the day and every ounce of patience had already been drained from my body. I did not allow him to explain, I simply laid out the punishment and sent him off to bed. No explanations, no second chances, no mercy.
It was my mom fail of the day. When the rest of the story came out he was already in bed and now I have to wait until tomorrow to apologize. The failure hangs over me like a dark cloud and the guilt overflows from my eyes. I wonder what he thought as he tried to fall asleep. I wonder if he recounted all the times I have told him to carefully examine the facts before accusing someone. I wonder if he thought of all the lectures I have given on being slow to speak and quick to listen. I wonder how he reconciles my words with my actions.
I do not know what he is thinking tonight, but I know what will happen tomorrow. In the morning when he wakes up, I will be anxiously waiting. I will tell him I made a mistake and that sometimes, even Mommy gets it wrong. That sometimes in the midst of training hearts to love, ears to listen, and mouths to be kind, even Mommy messes it up. I will tell him I will try harder next time to muster up some extra patience to make sure I have the facts.
And when I tell him I am sorry and that I love him, that little boy will smile, look at me with his big brown eyes and say, "That's OK, Mommy, I forgive you." He will hug me and skip out of the room like it never even happened. There is not a doubt in my mind, I know that is how he will respond.
That's how children love, with tender grace and endless mercy. Forgiveness flows freely and love grows effortlessly.
I cannot wait for that moment, the opportunity to make things right with my son. The moment of restoration between mother and son. It reminds me of the kind of forgiveness Jesus offers.
When Jesus went to the cross it was based on faulty information. He had not committed any crime, He had not broken any laws, He had not done any wrong. He was punished for something He did not do and just as I desire that restoration with my son, I also need it from Jesus because I fail him daily. I want to tell him I am sorry for falling short, for trying to do things my own way, for holding tightly to things I should let go of, for spending too much time chasing things that simply do not matter.
And when I tell Him I am sorry, He will smile. That's how Jesus loves, with tender grace and endless mercy. Forgiveness flows freely and love grows effortlessly.
I will try again tomorrow to be a better mom than I was today.
And I will try to be a little more like Jesus.


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Amy: Give me a minute. I'm gonna go wash up.
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Eric Zuesse -- How Both Putin and Biden Bungled in Ukraine
How Both Putin and Biden Bungled in Ukraine
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at The Duran
Vladimir Putin's repeatedly pre-announced goals for Ukraine, and for his invasion of Ukraine, consistently contained two main points:
(1) to permanently block Ukrainian membership for Ukraine in the anti-Russian military alliance NATO; and, (2) to "denazify" Ukraine.
On 21 March, AP reported that "Zelenskyy said that Kyiv will be ready to discuss the status of Crimea and the eastern Donbas region held by Russian-backed separatists after a cease-fire and steps toward providing security guarantees." This milestone was the very first time that Ukraine's President Zelensky said that there might be circumstances under which "the status of Crimea and the eastern Donbas region held by Russian-backed separatists" could even possibly be negotiated by Ukraine's government. All Ukrainian-government leaders, after U.S. President Barack Obama perpetrated in Ukraine a violent coup which overthrew Ukraine's democratically elected and neutralist President, and installed a U.S.-controlled rabidly anti-Russian government in Ukraine, in February 2014, have said that Ukraine will never consider the status of those two former regions of Ukraine to be negotiable — that they're both parts of Ukraine, regardless of what the residents there want (which, clearly and overwhelmingly, after that coup, has been NOT to be ruled by that regime). (It definitely was a coup — NOT an authentic revolution — that installed it.)
So: Zelensky was now saying that "after a cease-fire and steps toward providing security guarantees," Zelensky would negotiate "the status of Crimea and the eastern Donbas region held by Russian-backed separatists." This was the first major change-in-position by EITHER side in the present conflict; and the fact that it was being made by Ukraine was indisputable proof that militarily Russia was winning the war, up to that moment in time. (Subsequently, however, the war-situation is far less clear; Ukraine might be winning it.)
The deeper, and continuing, deadlock is (2) denazification of Ukraine. In my news-report on March 21, "Why The Question Of Which Side Is 'nazi' Blocks Any Peace Settlement", was explained WHY that issue is so extremely unlikely to be able to be agreed-upon between Zelensky and Putin — and, therefore, why Russia will either have to accept defeat in this war, or else defeat Ukraine 100% militarily before there will be any capitulation by Ukraine in this conflict.
However, even if Russia defeats Ukraine in this war, Russia's own national-security situation (which is the ultimate reason that can justify ANY nation's participation in any war) will be substantially reduced by the war, for the following reasons:
On March 14th, Chris Hedges very realistically summed up the war-situation (both present and future) as follows:
The decision [by Biden) to destroy the Russian economy, to turn the Ukrainian war into a quagmire for Russia and topple the regime of Vladimir Putin will open a Pandora's box of evils. Massive social engineering — look at Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya or Vietnam — has its own centrifugal force. It destroys those who play God.
The Ukrainian war has silenced the last vestiges of the Left. Nearly everyone has giddily signed on for the great crusade against the latest embodiment of evil, Vladimir Putin, who, like all our enemies, has become the new Hitler.
The United States will give $13.6 billion in military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, with the Biden administration authorizing an additional $200 million in military assistance. The 5,000-strong EU rapid deployment force, the recruitment of all Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, into NATO, the reconfiguration of former Soviet bloc militaries to NATO weapons and technology have all been fast tracked.
Germany, for the first time since World War II, is massively rearming. It has lifted its ban on exporting weapons. Its new military budget is twice the amount of the old budget, with promises to raise the budget to more than 2 percent of GDP, which would move its military from the seventh largest in the world to the third, behind China and the United States.
NATO battlegroups are being doubled in size in the Baltic states to more than 6,000 troops. Battlegroups will be sent to Romania and Slovakia. Washington will double the number of U.S. troops stationed in Poland to 9,000. Sweden and Finland are considering dropping their neutral status to integrate with NATO.
This is a recipe for global war.
On April 2nd, Russia's RT bannered "Finland can join NATO without referendum – president", and reported:
The president of Finland, which borders Russia, has claimed that the widespread support for NATO membership expressed in recent opinion polls could pave the way for joining the US-led military bloc without a referendum. The attitude of the Finns towards NATO membership took a U-turn following Moscow's attack on Ukraine. …
Support for NATO membership reached a record-high 62% in Finland this month, according to a poll by Yle. A poll commissioned by Helsingin Sanomat and released this week shows that 61% of Finns want their country to join the bloc.
This indicates a complete reversal of public opinion after Moscow sent its forces into Ukraine – according to Yle, previous polls showed that Finns were against NATO membership.
Putin's goal to block Ukrainian membership for Ukraine was part of his broader goal to shrink NATO (its membership) by reversing NATO's inclusion of the half of its member-countries that were added after 1991, which was when the Cold War ended on the Soviet Union's side but secretly continued on the American side, and NATO therefore has expanded (even after the supposed end of the Cold War on — also —America's side) to include in NATO virtually all European countries right up to Russia's western border. (This produces a Cuban-Missile-Crisis-in-reverse crisis now, but one which will be far longer and more drawn-out.)
On April 3rd, NATO invited not only Finland but also Sweden (both being officially neutral during the Cold War till now) to become members.
Consequently: Russia's precipitate invasion of Ukraine, which was intended by Putin to shrink NATO, might instead lead to further expansion of NATO — even if Russia will win the war in Ukraine.
This is not, however, to say that Putin made the wrong decision to invade Ukraine, but that he did it at the wrong time. Biden had forced him to invade in order for Putin to prevent American nuclear missiles from ultimately becoming installed into Ukraine just a 5-minute flight-time away from nuking Moscow and thereby (in post-2006 U.S. strategic thinking) able to 'win' a U.S.-planned World War III by blitz-invading Russia so fast as to disable Russia's entire retaliatory capability.
I had therefore expected Putin to invade Ukraine, but not before Zelensky would finally unleash the 60,000 Ukrainian troops on the Ukraine-Donbass contact-line (border) for them to race into its former Donbass region in order to slaughter its people (who had voted over 90% for the democratically elected and internationally neutralist Ukrainian President whom Obama had overthrown) and to retake its land — restore it to Ukraine. If Putin had done that (waited, in order NOT to have started this war), then though many of the residents in Donbass would have been killed, and the war there would have been devastating, Russia would have been able to respond immediately and send its troops in within no more than a week to conquer and destroy almost all of those 60,000 invading Ukrainian troops (plus, unfortunately, many of their civilian hostages or "human shields" in Donbass), and the international "optics" of the situation would then have been vastly less bad for Russia (and vastly more bad for Ukraine) than has resulted from Russia's having invaded first — invaded "preemptively." Perhaps, in that situation, NATO's own future would be its shrinkage, instead of (as now seems to be not only possible but even likely) its accelerated expansion. (In addition, the international image then of Zelensky would now be vastly worse, because he would have been the first to invade.)
Consequently, Putin invaded at the wrong time. Too early. I am NOT saying that he should have allowed Ukraine to conquer Donbass, but that his plan should have been to prepare Russia's forces so that they could defeat Ukraine's invasion — NOT MERELY so that they could themselves successfully invade Ukraine. Because of what Putin did, Russia's key propaganda-losses in this matter could actually accelerate NATO's enlargement and the U.S. regime's success against Russia.
He clearly was scared by what Biden and NATO were doing in this matter, by their backing Ukraine all the way, rushing weapons into Ukraine — continuing the Obama-installed coup-regime of Ukraine as being an American vassal-nation. Those reinforcements by NATO unfortunately gave Putin an excessive sense of urgency. Russia's enemy (today's Axis Powers) used even that as grist for their propaganda-mills. On December 9th of 2021, Reuters headlined "Russia keeps tensions high over Ukraine" and (styled as a news-report no commentary) said "Moscow has an interest in keeping tensions high." On December 15th they bannered "Russia hands proposals to U.S. on security guarantees", which were demands (Putin's "red lines"), not 'proposals'. On December 17th IBT bannered "EU threatens Russia sanctions as NATO backs Ukraine", and reported that NATO and almost all of the EU rejected Russia's entirely reasonable demands. NATO's chief emphasized Russia would have no say, whatsoever, on whether or not Ukraine becomes a NATO member. RT headlined December 20th, "Russia promises 'military response' to any further NATO expansion." Then, on the 26th, it was a "'life-and-death' issue for Russia". (It was — and is — an "existential" issue, as viewed by the Russian people, and has been referred-to as such by Putin.)
However, Biden himself has likewise vastly miscalculated in this matter, because of reasons that were well-described by Alasdaire Macleod in his March 31st article "Edging Towards A Gold Standard". The response by Biden (and by the leaders of all of America's vassal-nations) to impose upon Russia the sanctions that now have been imposed, will harm the entire world's economy — not ONLY Russia's — and could very well turn out to benefit greatly Russia's economy; but, definitely, NOT benefit the economies of the nations that are cooperating with those sanctions (all of whom will be suffering from this).
On the other hand, if the allegations that were published in CNN's April 3rd "Bodies of 'executed people' strewn across street in Bucha as Ukraine accuses Russia of war crimes" turn out to be true, then Putin's own reputation will be so negatively affected that he will lose this global conflict personally, even if Russia itself turns out to have won it. If that article is true, then he might even end up being prosecuted as an international war-criminal (as George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden — and Ukraine's post-coup leaders Yatsenyuk, Poroshenko, and Zelensky — definitely ought to be, but never will be).
The comparisons in The West analogizing Putin to Hitler are obscene not only because this war had been started by Obama's 2014 Ukrainian coup and Putin has been forced constantly to be responding to it (and had very effectively been doing so up until 24 February 2022), but because Hitler (like the other imperialistic fascists in his time) was championing imperialism, whereas Putin (and Xi, and Iran) defend their nation against U.S. imperialism (neoconservatism), exactly as their people demand them to do. Today's Hitlers are on the American Government's side; they are called "neoconservatives," and are now demanding that the entire world either follow their demands or else will be punished by their supposedly all-encompassing empire for disobeying the U.S. Government. That's why neoconservatives hate the U.N. They want it to be destroyed so that the U.S. Government will take over the entire world. They are in Hitler's tradition, just for a different country to become the ruler-of-the world. FDR would have puked to see today's Amerika. Most Americans, prior to 1945, were anti-fascists, and anti-imperialists. This is a fundamentally different country than it was then. Sadly, most Americans today tolerate its being so — if they're not neocons themselves. Obama should face a firing-squad. This war was started by him. Biden merely continues it (and should be punished severely — also a war-criminal — for doing so). Even if Putin has now responded in a wrong way to it (by failing to be sure that his soldiers would adhere to the laws that internationally pertain to warfare), a defender against imperialism is not nearly as evil as a perpetrator of imperialism is; and the perpetrator in this case (the U.S. Government) therefore deserves to be treated far more harshly by the international legal bodies. Otherwise, there can be no justifiable international law pertaining to international wars. To defend improperly against an aggressor is never as bad as to be an aggressor — not even when a stage of that defense (such as is the case of Russia's invasion of Ukraine) is a part of that defense against imperialism. Today's rulers of Ukraine want their country to remain an American vassal-nation. They need to be dealt with as such. But never do the mere residents of any land deserve to be treated that way. This is — and should be — basic in international law pertaining to warfare.
On April 4th, Russia's RT headlined "Russia and Ukraine trade accusations over Bucha civilian deaths (TIMELINE): After footage of dead civilians in the Ukrainian city of Bucha emerged, the West immediately pointed the finger at Moscow", and included such items as, on April 2nd,
One clip published and later deleted by Ukrainian military commander Sergey Korotkih showed Ukrainian troops in Bucha discussing engagement rules. Korotkih, formerly a citizen of Belarus, is an open neo-Nazi who went to Ukraine back in 2014 to fight in the ranks of the notorious Azov Battalion. In Russia, Korotkih is wanted on multiple murder charges. One of the fighters can be heard asking if it was OK to shoot at "guys not wearing blue armbands" identifying Ukrainian soldiers. The response was an affirmative "you bet".
which links through to this uploaded cellphone video evidence recording that conversation, physically onsite at Bucha, as Ukraine's forces were coming into the area to inspect and evaluate the situation and to record and display the extent of their victory there.
Furthermore, on April 4th, Russia's Ministry of Defense alleged that "All units of Russian troops completely withdrew from Bucha on March 30, and these shots [videos about Bucha that were distributed to the press] appeared on the 4th day after that, when SBU officers and representatives of Ukrainian TV arrived in the area" — which, if true, would conclusively prove (even without there having been the necessary independent international investigation into Ukraine's allegations on the matter) that Ukraine's accusations were, in fact, bald-faced lies.
If Russia's allegations in that Bucha matter are true, then, of course, the propaganda-value of the 'news'-reports by CNN and others regarding it will reduce with time, and perhaps even become the enduring scandal here — yet another scandal of U.S.-and-allied 'news'-media being actually instead propaganda-media. Trusting Western reports regarding Russia might then turn out to be even stupider than it was before. Putin's reputation in the U.S.-and-allied countries might then not suffer long-term harm from the Bucha matter. Putin's approval-rating within Russia, itself, has risen from his low of around 60% in August 2021 to above 80% now, mainly as a result of soaring from 71% just before the February 24th invasion. However, what's far more important going forward will be the public opinion of him outside Russia, in the countries that never really stopped their Cold War against Russia after the Soviet Union's 1991 end. America's regime-change-in-Russia campaign will almost certainly not succeed by driving Putin's approval-rating inside Russia down to where, say, Joe Biden's in America is. But if America takes an alternative approach, such as a military coup, or a blitz invasion of Russia, perhaps the people who rule in America might ultimately succeed (in which case what happened to Ukraine after Obama conquered it in 2014 might happen, some day, to Russia itself).
Then, later on April 4th, the best news-site on the war, South Front, bannered "NEW EVIDENCES SHED LIGHT ON ALLEGED MASSACRE IN BUCHA, KIEV REGION (VIDEO, PHOTO)", and reported that,
Today, there are more interesting videos from Bucha shared by the Ukrainian military which may help to shed light on what did really happen in the town left by the Russian troops on March 30.
On April 2, a day before Ukrainian "journalists" came to Bucha to stage the horrific scenes on the streets, the National Police of Ukraine published a video of the mop up operation in Bucha.
The footage confirmed that:
• there were no corpses laying on the streets. Not a single civilian confirmed that any mass shootings [had occurred] in the city.
• Ukrainian demining teams who entered the town right after the Russian withdrawal had no work to do. They are seen walking on the streets along with civilians. Not a single mine left by the Russians was shown on the video.
• Servicemen of the National Guard asked some civilians if they needed help, none of them replied asking for any immediate assistance, confirming that they are fine.
Only one man is seen killed in his car. It is not clear how did his death happen. Another victim was obviously a servicemen of one of the warring sides killed in clashes, whose corps[e] is laying [lying] near a destroyed military equipment.
One of [the] Ukrainian "patriots" made a comment on behaviour of the "Russian invaders". After his own compatriots told Russian servicemen about his acute social awareness, Russian military checked his apartment but found only flags and a bunch of Ukrainian symbols. To add some drama to his case, the man claimed that [a] Russian soldier took him out "to kill him", but suddenly changed his mind and brought the man to the military commander. The brave patriot only had a short peaceful conversation with Russian servicemen, with no tortures. …
This video of the National Police of Ukraine, shot presumably on April 1 or earlier, does not really correspond to what the Ukrainian media published on April 3, trumpeting to the whole world that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation allegedly carried out a "mass massacre" of civilians.
As more photos are shared from the spot, more proves [proofs], that the scene was staged, appear.
As the main video proof from Bucha raised a lot of suspicions and was quickly disclaimed, it was accompanied by more fake photos allegedly made in the town.
Unfortunately, these attempts are even less effective and are evident lies. For example, notorious Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Arestovich published the photo of a woman tortured in Mariupol last week by Ukrainian Azov militants, claiming that she was a victim tortured by the Russians. The photo was later deleted but was widely spread by the Ukrainian MSM, who even did not come together if it was in Gostomel or in Bucha. The Ukrainian media are trying their best to gain as much hype as possible, lying on any matter. …
However, at around the same time, Al Jazeera, from the Thani family who own U.S.-allied Qatar, headlined "Bucha killings: 'The world cannot be tricked anymore'," and showed Ukraine-government-supporting alleged "witnesses" who alleged that Russian soldiers had perpetrated a "massacre" there, and urged international war-crimes trials against Russia's leaders (and nothing against America's leaders).
No one has — at least in any prominent 'news'-medium — urged any war-crimes trial against any American leader: not against George W. Bush, nor against Obama, nor against Biden: no American leader at all.
Yet later in the day, America's AP bannered "Biden: Putin should face war crimes trial for Bucha killings", and an editorial in Jeff Bezos's Washington Post headlined "The Bucha massacre should prompt a forceful response" and said that "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the civilian executions 'genocide,' and President Biden declared that Mr. Putin is 'a war criminal.' Those words will find meaning only with a determined prosecution."
As-of day's-end on the 4th, it seemed that there were corpses in Bucha, but there was no public information yet on the identities of the dead, nor on how many were civilians, how many were Ukrainian soldiers, and how many were Russian soldiers, and the ways in which each of those individuals had become killed — much less on whether any legal grounds yet existed for asserting that any "war crimes" had been perpetrated by anyone there. And the Ukrainian account of the Bucha matter was full of faked 'interpretations' of the 'evidence' they were providing. Nonetheless, on the morning of April 4th, Washington's The Hill had bannered "Macron, EU official join calls for further sanctions over 'clear' indications of war crimes in Bucha". The neocon lynch-mob were out for blood — Russian blood. It was just another day in their empire, and Russia was one of the few countries they hadn't yet conquered. So: now, they'll use the incident to 'justify' adding sanctions against Russia, regardless whether it had actually been fraudulent and the criminality perpetrated by Ukraine. It's just the same as they had done with the MH17 airliner shoot-down over Ukraine, blamed on Russia but perpetrated actually by Ukraine, in order to meet Obama's demand for a 'justification' to add yet more sanctions against Russia.
Since that's their objective, Russia requested at the U.N. Security Council an independent international investigation of the Bucha site, but the UK voted the proposal down there, in order to allow Ukraine's lies and faked 'evidence' to control the public's 'understanding' of the situation.
I agree with Alex Christaforu's view (as is superbly explained at the link there) (except that I do not agree with his gratuitous praise there of Trump) that this is aimed, by the UK/U.S regimes, and by their supporters (the "neocons"), actually against Germany, so as keep it inside the U.S./UK empire, against Russia.
But not ONLY that. All of this is actually the U.S./UK empire's public-opinion-management in order to strong-arm the leaders of Europe to destroy their own nations' economies (by keeping them U.S.-allied) and to keep them as vassal-nations of the U.S./UK empire — to keep America as being the #1 world power. (The U.S. regime is even blocking Russia's foreign-debt payments so as to produce a Russian default, which would be blamed on Russia — NOT on the imperial regime itself, which forced it.)
So: would that neocon strategy (to hold the U.S./UK empire together, including Europe against Russia) be more difficult if Putin had waited until Zelensky invaded Donbass? I think it would. That strategy had worked (via the Pearl Harbor attack) for FDR, in order to get America united to join the Allied powers against Hitler, and subsequently to help get global public opinion increasingly united against Hitler (by exposing that Hitler's side WAS the aggressors' side) and in favor of the Allied cause; and I think that Putin, by what he did on February 24th, has missed his chance to use that strategy here.
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Moral Victories in the Battle for Congress
Cultural Conservatism and the House GOP
by Marty Cohen
While Christian conservatives had been active in national politics for decades and had achieved a seat at the table by working with the Republican Party, the 1980s and 1990s saw them make significant strides by injecting issues of moral traditionalism into U.S. House races across the country. Christian conservative activists worked diligently to nominate friendly candidates and get them elected. These moral victories transformed the Republican House delegation into one that was much more culturally conservative and created a new Republican majority. In Moral Victories, Marty Cohen seeks to chronicle this significant political phenomenon and place it in both historical and theoretical contexts. This is a story not only of the growing importance of moral issues but also of the way party coalitions change, and how this particular change began with religiously motivated activists determined to ban abortion, thwart gay rights, and restore traditional morality to the country.
Beginning in the early 1980s, and steadily building from that point, religious activists backed like-minded candidates. Traditional Republican candidates, more concerned about taxes and small government, resisted the newcomers and were often defeated. As a result, increasing numbers of House Republican nominees were against abortion and gay rights. Voters responded by placing moral issues above their interests in economic policies, which led to the election of ever more socially conservative representatives. As a result, the House Republican caucus evolved from a body that advocated largely for low taxes and small government to one equally invested in moral and social issues, especially abortion and gay rights. The new moralistic Republican candidates were able to win in districts where traditional business Republicans could not, thereby creating the foundation for a durable Republican majority in the House and reshaping the American political landscape.
Chapter 1. The Lay of the Land
Chapter 2. A Voter's Right to Choose
Chapter 3. Party Coalition Change and U.S. House Elections
Chapter 4. From the Protests to the Precincts
Chapter 5. Religion and Republicanism
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Chapter 7. Issue Polarization and Voting Behavior in U.S. House Elections
Chapter 8. The Importance of Being Moral
Chapter 9. Moral Victories and a New GOP Majority
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A new study sheds light on how particular verticals see dominance among certain devices.
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The new study on cross-device behaviour surveyed nearly 5,000 adults in the UK to reveal how much time users spend on different devices in regard to specific sectors.
As it turns out, smartphones are the device of choice for visiting content related to sports and health & fitness - such as Fitbit and the NHS - and people, family and lifestyle sites - such as Netmums and BBC Good Food.
Technology and government & law sites are seeing the most screen time on desktop, while property is most often accessed via tablet. What the study proves, says Verto Analytics' CEO, Dr. Hannu Verkasalo, is that advertisers and media owners need to adapt their strategies in line with how users naturally expect to consume them.
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L.A. Mayor Ditches Gas Plant Plans
Marina Schwarz February 12, 2019 in Nat Gas / LNG
Marina Schwarz + 1,576
Los Angeles ditches plan to invest billions in fossil fuels, Mayor Eric Garcetti says
And a utility has warned this may leave the city without power. Should be interesting to see how this unfolds.
Popcorn time! Enjoy your intermittent power.
"It's the right thing to do for our health. It's the right thing to do for our Earth. It's the right thing to do for our economy," Garcetti said. "And now is the time to start the beginning of the end of natural gas."
"This is the Green New Deal," he added, referring to the sweeping climate change policies championed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y) and endorsed by several contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination. "Not in concept, not in the future, but now."
... "We are in uncharted territories. I get it. We are in a new era. We are headed to renewables that some might view as unreliable," Vasquez said. "I'm trying to figure out how to reinvent the way that we do business."
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8 hours ago, Tom Kirkman said:
Pass the salt, please. Oh, and extra butter on mine. I can't wait!
My latest proposal:
Ban all vehicles in Los Angeles. Everybody has to walk or bicycle.
I call it:
"Healthy Carbon-Free New Deal"
If elected, I promise to shove this down everyone's throat for their own good.
Sounds like a sure-fire win-win proposal.
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I am out here in LA LA Land another month. I saw that this morning. It was added into the good news that Governor Newsom has ended part of the "train to nowhere".
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-governor-gavin-newsom-state-of-the-state-20190212-story.html
It will be fun watching Los Angeles deal with hot summers while relying on increased solar and wind. I don't know how the grid interconnects in California but when it gets hot it gets hot almost everywhere.
Edited February 13, 2019 by ronwagn
Illurion + 893
AND, it will cause all of the Los Angelinos to lose weight.
Oh, come on, leave them some public transport. It is totally doable, isn't it? It must be, it's so simply. And good for everyone as noted above.
5 hours ago, Marina Schwarz said:
Back in the early 1970's, the early "electric cash registers" built by "NCR - National Cash Register", HAD A "CRANK" ON THE SIDE TO TURN TO GENERATE POWER TO RUN THE REGISTER DURING A POWER FAILURE...!!!
I own a small flashlight that has a small "CRANK" ON THE SIDE THAT I CAN TURN TO GENERATE POWER TO RUN THE FLASHLIGHT DURING A POWER FAILURE.".... NO BATTERIES....!
IN CONCLUSION, I THINK THAT "MAYOR ERIC GARCETTI" SHOULD ORDER THAT "ALL HOUSES AND BUSINESSES, AND CARS, AND BUSES, IN LOS ANGELES, "BE ORDERED" TO INSTALL A "CRANK" ON THE SIDE OF THEIR HOUSE, BUILDING, CAR OR BUS, IN ORDER TO GENERATE POWER TO OPERATE..........!!!!!!
SEE..........!!!!! SIMPLE...........!!!!!!!!!!
AND THEY MUST HIRE ALL OF THE UN-SKILLED ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM MEXICO TO "TURN THE CRANKS."...!
SEE, Even i can be a "green" liberal......
BY DOING THE ABOVE, THE MAYOR CAN THEN ORDER THAT "ALL POWER GENERATING PLANTS " BE DECOMMISSIONED, AND DESTROYED.....
Edited February 13, 2019 by Illurion
But utilities...
12 hours ago, Marina Schwarz said:
Los Angeles has a good bus system that runs off of CNG. Ever since they got rid of the street cars. They worked well also, but the lines and tracks were unsightly. The commuter trains don't seem to get much use. It is fun to watch the sparks or whatever move along the overhead electric power lines. Unfortunately, the bus lines plan on experimenting with new electric buses. What can go wrong?
On 2/13/2019 at 7:29 AM, Marina Schwarz said:
What do they know compared to true Greenies? We will see unless Garcetti backs down. They will probably end up renovating natural gas backup though. Then they will claim that it all worked fine while the customers pay double.
Happy Go Lucky + 25
On 2/12/2019 at 9:34 PM, Illurion said:
Very helpful so the Lost Angels don't roll into the ocean during the next earthquake
Edited February 15, 2019 by Happy Go Lucky
Danlxyz + 44
How much will it cost the people in LA?
Luckily for us Germany has voluntarily become the crash test dummy for green energy. Electricity costs them 29.5 euro cents/kwh. I pay about $.10/kwh in Colorado.
I believe the Democrats, with hugging AOC leading the charge, realize unlike Venezuela, that they can't nationalize the oil and gas industry so they just pass the New Green Deal and kill it.
On 2/15/2019 at 12:38 PM, Danlxyz said:
Time for German Yellow Vests. Tell the AFD. I can't wait until the next elections.
54 minutes ago, JoMack said:
The Green New Deal would kill the American economy. We joke but it is gallows humor.
1 minute ago, ronwagn said:
Totally agree ronwagn. It is definitely "not" funny! 1/3 of the Democrats running for President want this to become law. But, even Democrats who actually look at other countries trying to go Green see that the electricity prices skyrocket and they face blackouts. Obama tried to kill exploration on federal lands but failed. In New Mexico the industry was manipulated to use proprietary information to bring federal leases they wanted into a sale. The BLM changed the competitive lease sales to one a year and the industry had to nominate the tracks for review. So, very little acreage was placed up for sale. The State of NM did the opposite and had sales every month. As more and more exploration and development was being done on state lands, federal oil and gas reserves were being drained. Again, the Democrats will try to stop oil and gas from continuing, so we'll watch California closely as its Governor closes its gas fired power plants. When the blackouts start they'll blame the oil and gas companies who like Republicans don't fight back. But, I bet we'll see California buying its power from Arizona, which they are doing now, but it will increase substantially when the plants are closed.
Think what Silicon Valley will do when they have no reliable source of energy. When you can't turn on your lights when you throw the switch, heat or cool your home, and your computer screens remain blank, how many more of the population and industries will dump California for states that keep the lights on. I only hope when the Californians leave, they also leave their progressive wish lists in the trash.
2 hours ago, JoMack said:
Unfortunately, it seems that Californians are usually sufficiently brainwashed that they take their political misconceptions with them. I will spend my last years wintering in California where I spent half my life before getting out. I left in 1986 and moved to the corn and soybean country of Illinois. Chicago just turned Illinois totally Democrat and immediately started trying to degrade the Second Amendment statewide. Chicago is going broke even faster than the state of Illinois which is the state in the worst shape of any. More people are leaving Illinois than any other state. California is losing legal citizens and encouraging illegals to move in. Chicago has one of the highest illegal immigrant populations now. California and Illinois both learned how to buy the loyalty of government workers with higher pay, higher retirement pay, and benefits.
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44 minutes ago, Dan Warnick said:
While Trump was talking about "Countries" when he gave his "SHITHOLE" quote many months ago, i believe the term could also accurately describe many cities, and perhaps States, here in the USA.
I personally see Chicago, and the State of California as belonging on that list...
But then i am biased.
UsedCamelSales + 6
Analogous to AOC and progressives in NYC killing off Amazon job HQ2. California is making idealistic decisions not based on economics. This mode of operation is not sustainable and not feasible and will lead to catastrophic consequences. The cost of living and future shortages will create a hostile environment for the decision makers survival. The PG & E activist lawsuits by legislatures in California to bankrupt the largest California and US utility company is just the beginning of creating non affordable utility costs in California. California already pays the highest gasoline costs and now the highest utility costs, it can not sustain this path without major consequences. The exodus of out migration of its people will accelerate due to high cost of living and extreme over taxation. I feel sorry for the future of California. Its only hope is regime change and that means run out all the progressives once their system collapses.
9 hours ago, Illurion said:
California is infested with liberals, some of them are relatives of mine that I still love despite it. One third of Californians are still conservative. The voting process has been manipulated to allow just about anyone to vote once or more whether you are a citizen or not in some cases. There is no enforcement that I know of.
You can avoid the shitty areas but even San Francisco, Venice Beach, and Hollywood have their charms.
California is still the most beautiful state in the Union and has the best weather. Some of the best beaches and mountains and deserts and coastline. Many of the best National Parks and forests.


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Does the Use of Lidocaine in Dogs and Cats Reduce Post-Operative Tracheitis?
Examination of a human systematic review and two veterinary prospective trials suggest topical application on the glottis, and placement of lidocaine on the endotracheal tube both seem to improve sore throat and laryngeal response in animals. Choice of pre-medicants and induction agents appears to have an impact on the extent of lidocaine efficacy. Consideration should be given in allowing enough time for lidocaine placement to have effect (around 60-90 seconds). Limitations in more confident assertions of the efficacy of lidocaine being utilized to prevent tracheitis is that only the human systematic review had enough follow up time to examine the benefits of lidocaine on sore throat in intubation.
Cassu, R.N. et al (2004) Effects of Topical Lidocaine in the Endotracheal Intubation in Cats. Ars Veterinaria, 20 (1), pp. 28-34.
Dyson, D.H. (1988) Efficacy of Lidocaine Hydrochloride for Laryngeal Desensitization: A Clinical Comparison of Techniques in the Cat. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 192 (9), pp. 1286–1288.
Tanaka, Y. et al. (2015) Lidocaine for Preventing Postoperative Sore Throat. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 7, p.CD004081.


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This is one of those posts that doesn't really have an overriding theme as such, but is more a number of things I want to talk about smashed together to form one decent sized blog. Starting with the strongest foot first, I'm going to talk about Bath.
"Strongest foot first" is not something I ever thought I would be able to say about Bath Rugby this season but January was a relatively good month for Bath. It started off with a New Years Day win over London Irish 30-3 but from all reports that result came with a cracking performance - something which has been lacking this season. The next two results were disappointments, losing 26-19 to Saracens and losing 24-22 to Montpellier. Losing away to Saracens is nothing to be ashamed about (they are, after all, Premiership champions) and from what I read, Bath played well. On top of everything else, a losing bonus point was earned as well - so at least the game wasn't completely fruitless. The Montpellier defeat was a tough one to take as it was another last move/kick defeat. That's now happened 3/4 times this season, and Bath have lost after taking the lead more than that. That result pretty much ended all hopes of further European Rugby action but it was nice in the next game (and my first one of 2012) to sign off the Heineken Cup campaign with a 23-18 win. I thought when Glasgow went 18-17 ahead that it would be yet another game that Bath had started strong but eventually lost. Thankfully this was not the case. The final game of the month (which I was at again) was in the LV= Cup against Northampton. That tournament is one area where Bath have been doing very well this season with 2 games played and 10 points on the board. I had little hope Bath would beat Northampton, but was astonished to not only see Bath win, but to crush the Saints 46-14. The final pool game is Sunday away to Exeter. We beat them earlier in the season at home and I am hopeful the same result will be achieved in this meeting. The next two games for Bath after that are fairly crucial league meetings against Newcastle Falcons and Gloucester. Both games are vital to push further away from relegation and closer towards the top 6. I will be at both and will likely report back on them another day. At the moment though, with back to back home victories, it is not all doom and gloom coming from Bath for the first time in a while, which is nice.
Moving from positivity to Portsmouth, it has been another dull week for Portsmouth. So much so, that there's nothing to say...
Oh, aside from the fact that it really doesn't look good for the future of the club. I know that has been said a lot on here by me, as well as other people (I believe there are posts about Pompey's 99 problems, 101 problems and even more problems which weren't assigned a code number). What we knew was that the parent company had gone into administration, the chairman of the club arrested and cash flow for PFC coming to a grinding halt. Now, the executive officer, David Lampitt said we had enough money to keep the club running in the short term, but for long term survival to be assured, more investment would be needed. All sounds wonderful as ever. Recently news came out that the club had failed to pay its tax bill for 2 months, owing the HMRC £1.6m. Now, one can only assume that bill will continue to increase month on month which is why the club have been issued a winding up order. We had this before so obviously a second one being issued is of course a massive worry.
On the pitch at the weekend, we were away to Peterborough. A team who we should be beating but who beat us at Fratton Park. Taking into account performances generally this season haven't been wonderful and now the added off-field pressures, I think it would have been a fair move to write off Pompey in this one. However, according to friends who were there, the performance from Pompey matched the score line as we won the game 3-0. Swept up in the victory, Pompey fans such as me may have just forgotten the off-field issues temporarily to enjoy the victory and how much it meant to the club. And then the clubs bank accounts got frozen, which meant that cash flow has come to a complete halt. It also means the players and staff of Portsmouth will not receive their January wages. This appears to be a vital blow right before we go back to court against the HMRC and I honestly don't know what will happen. If the worst happens, I'll be sure to dedicate a post to it then, but I hope I don't have to. This week during Prime Ministers Questions, our local MP for Portsmouth North, Penny Mordaunt, raised the issue and asked the Prime Minister to back her in getting the HMRC to meet with the club, rather than just go straight to court, which he said he would. This is promising stuff but it is hard to get overly excited about it. After all, you know it's a shit situation when it gets talked about in the House of Commons!
Anyway, I recently got invited to a St Patrick's event on Facebook, which I declined as I'm not Irish. Why does England embrace St Patrick's Day so much?
Perhaps I am missing out of some real enjoyment in life but I really don't understand the need to celebrate Ireland's patron saint to the degree that we do. Almost every bar becomes Irish for the day and a lot of people drink Guinness. It could be because I don't like Guinness which is my whole reason behind me not celebrating St Patrick's Day. The seemingly obvious answer is that it is an excuse to get completely and utterly shit-faced and write off this country-wide session of binge-drinking to celebrating St Patrick. Now, I enjoy the occasional drink these days (nowhere near as much as I used to) and even on the occasions when I have too many and I get drunk – I don't feel the need to write it off to anything other than "I got drunk". Someone actually said to me last year "Oh come on man, you have to celebrate St Paddy's day" and had no answer when I asked why. Perhaps I am just being a killjoy but I don't see why England celebrates St Patrick's Day.
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Responsibility and accountability are easy. The difficult part sometimes is letting go of the authority to do the job. This means that you clearly define the role of the manager, tell him or her what you expect, let him do his job, don't try to manage the people who report to him, and track the results. Feedback is critical...both positive and negative. Sometimes employees try to do an end run around their manager and come to you. You can't let this happen. You have to send the employee back to his manager.
If you are doing this, give yourself two pats on the back. If you are not, then make a commitment to yourself to do this.


I'm sure someone has done this before, but I couldn't find it in searching. simpletemplate is a library for Django that allows you to use SimpleTAL in views. You can use TAL, metal in Page Templates and render them back. At this current time of writing, this site is using them.


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Q: MongoDB invalid file error I have mongo .ns file having length of 16777217 (not multiple of 1024 * 1024).if I start mongo instance, it gives me error that invalid file size. Ideally the ns file should be multiple of 1024*1024. Not sure how it got created. Any suggestions ?
Error log:

2017-06-16T09:31:30.634+0000 I INDEX    [initandlisten] Invalid length: 16777217 for .ns file: /var/lib/mongodb/mytestDB.ns. Cannot open database
  2017-06-16T09:31:30.635+0000 W STORAGE  [initandlisten] database /var/lib/mongodb/ mytestDB could not be opened due to DBException 10079: Invalid length: 16777217 for .ns file: /var/lib/mongodb/mytestDB.ns. Cannot open database
  2017-06-16T09:31:30.635+0000 I STORAGE  [initandlisten] exception in initAndListen: 10079 Invalid length: 16777217 for .ns file: /var/lib/mongodb/mytestDB.ns. Cannot open database, terminating
  2017-06-16T09:31:30.635+0000 I NETWORK  [initandlisten] shutdown: going to close listening sockets...
  2017-06-16T09:31:30.635+0000 I NETWORK  [initandlisten] removing socket file: /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock
  2017-06-16T09:31:30.635+0000 I NETWORK  [initandlisten] shutdown: going to flush diaglog...
  2017-06-16T09:31:30.635+0000 I STORAGE  [initandlisten] shutdown: waiting for fs preallocator...
  2017-06-16T09:31:30.635+0000 I STORAGE  [initandlisten] shutdown: final commit...
  2017-06-16T09:31:30.638+0000 I JOURNAL  [initandlisten] journalCleanup...
  2017-06-16T09:31:30.638+0000 I JOURNAL  [initandlisten] removeJournalFiles
  2017-06-16T09:31:30.654+0000 I JOURNAL  [initandlisten] old journal file /var/lib/mongodb/journal/j._0 will be reused as /var/lib/mongodb/journal/prealloc.0
  2017-06-16T09:31:30.686+0000 I JOURNAL  [initandlisten] Terminating durability thread ...
  2017-06-16T09:31:30.738+0000 I JOURNAL  [journal writer] Journal writer thread stopped
  2017-06-16T09:31:30.738+0000 I JOURNAL  [durability] Durability thread stopped
  2017-06-16T09:31:30.738+0000 I STORAGE  [initandlisten] shutdown: closing all files...

A: Fixed this problem. Ideally the file size should be multiple of 1MB. In this case it was 1B more than 16MB. I truncated the file size to 16MB and mongod instance started working again.
unix command:
truncate --size=16M mytestDB.ns