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First look at A-level alternative
By James Berressem2006-09-01T00:00:00+01:00
This month UK independent and international schools will receive drafts of a new post-16 qualification that will be available in 2008 as an alternative to A-levels and the IB
University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), part of the university's Cambridge Assessment Group, is working with independent and state specialist schools, and universities in drafting syllabuses for 19 subjects, including the core sciences of chemistry physics and biology, which will form the new Cambridge Pre-U diploma.
Cambridge Pre-U chemistry
In October 2005 the CIE began a consultation with schools and universities about its proposed design of a pre-university qualification which would 'prepare students to make a success of their subsequent studies at university'. The CIE put forward a simple qualification structure, similar in style to the IB, of three main subjects plus one subsidiary subject and a further opportunity, ie extended essay component, for students to develop and demonstrate skills of value in higher education. However, unlike the IB, the Cambridge Pre-U diploma will give students the opportunity to focus on their academic strengthens and interests, ie a student keen on science would be entitled to study all three core sciences plus maths, rather than be forced to choose between a science and a modern language.
In response to the consultation, Chas McCaw, chemistry teacher at Winchester College, put forward a proposal for a new style post-16 chemistry syllabus. Impressed by his 'bold and innovative' ideas, the CIE invited McCaw to put together and chair a chemistry development panel, which includes Simon Cotton (Uppingham School), Mike Thompson (Winchester College), Peter Wothers (University of Cambridge) and Lynne Symonds (the Association for Science Education). Following further consultation with the Rugby Group and Eton Group schools, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the Russell Group universities, the development team has now prepared a draft chemistry syllabus.
The syllabus and TNTs
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Speaking to Education in Chemistry, McCaw explained that the syllabus has been written with those students intending to continue with chemistry in HE. 'The aim is to encourage a shift away from students regurgitating facts, to them developing skills in solving chemical problems. Chemistry, being the central science and being a mature science, is now a collaborative subject for the emerging fields of molecular genetics, biotechnology, materials, semiconductors and nanotechnology', he says. 'As such, chemists are often needed to solve problems and synthesise molecules required in these areas. The course is designed so that students learn the key concepts required to characterise molecules, make meaningful predictions or calculate useful quantities and they meet interesting and challenging questions, which demand problems-solving and chemical skills'.
The syllabus content is broken down into five categories: organic, inorganic, physical, analysis and three dimensional chemistry. 'The course places an emphasis on the appreciation of three dimensional structure because it is fundamental to the subject at so many levels and brings to life some of the theory met', explains McCaw.
Several totally new topics, or TNTs as McCaw calls them, are included in the syllabus which have not been examined at advance level before. An example is the Van Arkel diagram, an understanding of which will help students predict the bonding in unfamiliar compounds.
The practical component of the syllabus is geared to training students in the skills they will need when starting a chemistry degree. While planning, data handling, drawing conclusions etc would be examined in a written, externally assessed exam, the internal assessments would focus on students' manipulative and observational skills. The development panel is keen to see, but not insisting, schools incorporate microscale chemistry into their lab work.
The draft syllabus assessment of the subsidiary course in chemistry consists of a two-hour written paper and 90-minute practical exam. Students taking the full Cambridge Pre-U qualification in chemistry would take a further two externally assessed papers, a three-hour written paper and a 90-minute practical exam. There is no extension paper. 'Extension-type material will appear at the end of long structured questions in the subsidiary and advance papers', explains McCaw.
Although not formally assessed, students studying for the full Pre-U qualification will be required to produce a 10-minute presentation on a chemical topic, answering questions at the end. Finally, if students select chemistry as the topic for the IB-style extended essay in their Cambridge Pre-U diploma, this would take the form of a literature research-based project.
The qualification will be piloted in schools in 2007-08 and a programme of INSET events will be run, and textbooks and resources produced to support the teaching of the course. The final qualification is expected to be available for first teaching in September 2008 to coincide with the launch of the revised AS/A-level specifications.
Aimed and marketed at UK independent and international schools, state-maintained schools will not be able to offer the qualification unless it is accredited by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA). However, some maintained schools have already shown interest in the exam, according to McCaw, and the CIE is ongoing in its efforts to get QCA's approval. For further information on the Cambridge Pre-U qualification visit the CIE website.
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Dawg Bites Fallout Thursday
The silly season is in full-bloom. I think we all need a good anti-histamine.
By DavetheDawg@DCDDawg Dec 12, 2019, 6:15am EST
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Good morning, Dawgs and Dawgettes. By the recent head-counts, it would seem that we haven't lost too many of you ever since our unfortunate case of "the bends" in the Benz. Of course, the week ain't done yet.
Yesterday, DawgOutWest worried about the Sam Pittman fallout regarding shootin', lootin', and recrootin'. The first casualty of Pittman's departure has been realized. Offensive lineman prospect Josh Braun announced he's no longer pledged to the Red n' Black. We wish him all the best, except during a certain weekend in Jacksonville every late October/early November. Word of the street is some other prospect might just jump at the chance to take Braun's now vacant scholarship, so we'll see how this plays out. The offensive line cupboard ain't bare, folks. This position is the least of our worries. (Wow. I couldn't imagine typing that 4 or 5 years ago).
Conversely, this popped up just as I was writing today's edition of Dawg Bites. There has been some "chatter" that Dan Lanning could be a candidate to become part of Mike Norvell's evolving FSU staff.
This should quell Dan Lanning rumors https://t.co/Wxl3lqhOv6
— Dayne Young (@dayneyoung) December 12, 2019
Dan is still the man in Athens.
What if Zamir "Zeus" White, in 2020, can come back from two knee injuries and realize his full potential - the type of talent that some recruiting services suggested was generational? That would be something.
Julian Rochester is looking forward to 2020, after sitting out all but 3 games this year. The soon-to-be redshirt senior defensive tackle will hopefully return to his 2017 form. He's going to be an importance piece of what should be an insane defense next season.
J.R. Reed and Richard LeCounte have decided they want to go bowling. Damn good Dawgs.
JR Reed said the Dawgs are playing, and he's a Dawg. Plans on playing in the #SugarBowl. Hasn't looked too far ahead on Baylor because enjoying the week and awards. #UGA pic.twitter.com/pNRwcKdKyM
— 11Alive Sports (@11AliveSports) December 11, 2019
That's how you do it.
Prather Hudson has elected to enter the transfer portal, forgoing his last year of eligibility. We all wish #24 nothing but the very best. I think he'll make someone's squad much, much better.
FInally, a shameless plug for My Old School.
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During this tour on the way tourists will see picturesque ranges, alpine valleys and the most interesting cultural sites as ancient houses, towers and churches with beautiful frescoes, which usually are leaved out of typical tourist trails. Guide knows a lot of old stories and legends to share them with guests during trekking. On the route you may stay in guesthouses or in tents.
Arrival in Mestia by car or by plain from Tbilisi. You can order individual transfer for additional fee. After check in guesthouse travelers will enjoy walking around Mestia to get familarized with Svaneti. Tour will include visit Margiani's ancient living complex and history museum of Svaneti. Finalize trek preparations with guide and enjoy dinner in the guesthouse.
Trekking starts. Trekking from Mestia to Jabeshi. Sleep in Jabeshi guesthouse or camp there. Total distance 12 km. Time needed 6-7 hours. Trail starts at elevation 1500 m above the sea level, maximum elevation is 1900 m and ends at 1650 m.
Trekking from Jabeshi to Adishi. Sleep in guesthouse or camping. Trail leads from the valley Mulakhura to Adishischala. Trail starts at altitude 1656 m, maximal altitude is 2540 m and ends at elevation 2100m. Walking time around 6 hours.
Trekking from Adishi to Iprali village in Kala community. Sleep in guesthouse or camping. Starting at altitude 2100, maximal elevation at Ckhutnieri path is 2700 m. Trail ends at elevation 1900 m.
Drive from Iprali to Ushguli. Walk in Ushguli hike to Shkhara glacier. Return to Mestia by car. check in guesthouse.
Flight or drive to Tbilisi.
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This season's Champions League will bring about extremely easy and tough groups
How did your team fare in the group stage draw?
SoccerBy Matt Lichtenstadter on August 24, 2017 August 25, 2017
The UEFA Champions League draw took place this afternoon in Monaco and there are plenty of talking points that have already emerged. It's a fascinating draw with some brutal groups and some easier ones as well, and here are early thoughts on how this year's group stage will play out:
Spurs get screwed, the other English teams breathe a sigh of relief:
Tottenham was fortunate in their draw last year in the Champions League with CSKA Moscow, Bayer Leverkusen and a then unknown Monaco side, but yet still found a way to finish third. Fate obviously wasn't going to smile on Spurs again, and they are in what can be argued as the "Group of Death" with Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund and APOEL.
At this point, Spurs have made a few additions to their squad but its not at the level it should be yet, and that will make this draw incredibly difficult for them. It would be an amazing accomplishment if they could make the knockout stage, but as of now it seems unlikely. However, there will be at least four must-see games from this group (along with APOEL) in the next few months and it stands out as the most entertaining group of the lot.
The four other English teams fared quite a bit better in their draws. Manchester United will face Benfica, FC Basel and CSKA Moscow who are all teams United is decidely better than. Liverpool also fared well with their draw against Sevilla, Spartak Moscow and Maribor. And Manchester City, they of brutal Champions League draws in the past, will face Napoli, Shaktar Donetsk and Feyenoord. Those three groups should be dominated by the English teams and should easily advance to the knockout stage. Chelsea has it a little tougher with games against Atletio Madrid, no doubt raising the Diego Costa narrative), Roma and a trip to Azerbaijan against FK Qarabag.
Despite it being a bit difficult, Chelsea should be able to advance out of this group. Four English teams look to be favorites to advance out of their groups, while Tottenham got a raw draw and will be in with a huge challenge on their hands. Oh, and that thing about Tottenham and Wembley Stadium.
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There is already dissension in the ranks amongst PSG's Galacticos
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The Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain saga shows just how deep Arsenal's problems run
Barcelona's rough summer not made better by their draw
It has not been an easy summer at the Camp Nou after the Neymar transfer and subsequent fumbling around by Barca and their board. While they shouldn't have any trouble getting out of a group with Sporting Lisbon, Olympiakos and the team they beat to win the Champions League in 2015 in Juventus, it's not what you'd call easy either.
It is conceivable that Juve are better than Barca at present, and Ernesto Valverde hasn't exactly set the world alight in his early days as manager. While Barca will get out of this group, they may end up finishing second in it unless their transfer market travails are reversed, fast.
PSG and Bayern will make for fun soccer
PSG and Bayern Munich are together in Group B, which will make for two fun matchups; the best outside of the death trap that is Group H. Watching Neymar against this Munich defense that didn't look at its best against Bayer Leverkusen in the first Bundesliga match will be interesting, but it will also be the toughest test yet for the new look PSG squad. These games will also make for some appointment viewing. And, pour one out for Brendan Rogers and Celtic, who make the group stage yet again but are handed another rough draw. Brendan can never win, unless it's in Scottish League.
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Vol. 11, No. 1, April 1973 - "Soviet Union"
The rank-size rule is a procedure utilized by the urban geographer in studying a given area. It is a technique which can reveal the growth characteristics of an urban area and which provides a vehicle for comparing a given area to a norm. The writer has applied the rank-size rule to the Urals Region urban system of the Soviet Union, and the rank-size distribution will be presented graphically for the years 1897, 1926, 1939 and 1959.1 The rank-size rule will also be applied to the three major oblasts: Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Perm, since it appears the Urals may have three dominant cities, rather than one, assuming the primary position as expected from the rank-size rule.
The Central Chernozem Region of the U. S. S. R. is an economic region defined by Lydolph as being located wholly within the RSFSR with the southwest boundary being the political boundary of the Ukraine; the northern boundary coinciding with a line separating predominantly urban from predominantly rural populations which includes the southern fringes of Tula and Ryazan oblasts. On the east the region merges imperceptibly with the Middle Volga Valley thereby including Penza Oblast even though its industries are tied to the Volga Region.


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Sarah Brandt is surprised when the son of her superstitious next-door neighbor asks for her professional advice. She is even more surprised to learn that mild-mannered Nelson Ellsworth has a mistress and has gotten her with child. When the young woman later turns up dead under the infamous hanging tree in Washington Square, Nelson is the prime suspect. Sarah knows that he must be innocent and she enlists the help of detective Frank Malloy to help her find the real killer.
When the crime becomes public knowledge, Sarah and Frank must battle a legion of scandal mongering newspaper reporters who are intent on trying and convicting Nelson before he has even been charged with the crime. With the help of Nelson's mother and an ambitious reporter, Sarah must prove that, in this case at least, the victim may have been the victimizer.


He went to Auburn University on a football scholarship but was drawn to the baseball team.
During his big league career, Thomas batted .301, had 2,468 hits and blasted 521 home runs. He was nicknamed "The Big Hurt" as a feared slugger.
Thomas was inducted into the Hall of Fame on July 27. His mother was at the event, but his father and biggest coach, Frank Thomas Sr., passed away years before.
After his induction, Thomas was given a chance to serve as a studio analyst for Fox Sports. "I'm having a lot of fun on national TV," he said.
Thomas also had a chance to see his high school baseball coach Bobby Howard, who last saw him at Cooperstown.


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Daily News · 13/05/2018
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Orbán cabinet has total legitimacy, says new Fidesz group leader
Election 2018 Fidesz parliament
Budapest, 2018. április 25. Kocsis Máté (Fidesz-KDNP) megválasztott parlamenti képviselõ és Gulyás Gergely, a Fidesz alelnöke és delegációjának vezetõje megérkezik az Országgyûlés alakuló ülését elõkészítõ tárgyalásra az Országház Apponyi Albert terméhez 2018. április 25-én. MTI Fotó: Szigetváry Zsolt
Hungary's opposition has turned its back on the country's security and future, ruling Fidesz's new group leader has said. But neither the country nor the government will be "at their mercy", thanks to the electorate's powerful backing of the government in the April election, Máté Kocsis said in an interview.
Viktor Orbán's fourth government will confront policies currently pursued by Brussels as "its gravest challenge", he told Saturday's Magyar Idők. Fidesz's priorities have not changed, he added.
"These include protecting the borders, preserving our Christian traditions, working to achieve full employment, and supporting families," he said.
The governing parties have demonstrated their commitment to these objectives, and Hungarians clearly showed their support for them in the general election,
Kocsis said.
Commenting on the government's "Stop Soros" package of bills submitted to parliament in February, Kocsis said the package was a key component in combatting migration.
"We need a carefully considered law, since the issue here concerns sham civil organisations entrusted with what is very much a political task … attacking Hungary by exploiting legal loopholes," he said. Fidesz wants the government to keep its proposal on the table so that parliament can adopt the bill as soon as possible, he added.
Source: MTI
'EU leftists, Soros network' to interfere with Hungary election?
Sander Driessen says:
Viktor Orbán achieves important victory – Soros stops campaigning in Hungary
The Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán has achieved one of his most important goals: he managed to stop the political activities of the left multi-billionaire George Soros in his country. On 15.05.2018 Soros' donation machine – the Open Society Foundation – announced that it is withdrawing from Hungary. In the Orbán family an extra festive goulash dish will probably be cooked tonight: the great opponent of the Hungarian Prime Minister, George Soros, has announced that he will no longer hold campaigns aimed at Hungary. He finds it irresponsible to go even further with campaigning in Budapest and surroundings. The Open Society Foundations (OSF) of philanthropist George Soros ceases its activities in Hungary. The organization announced this on 15.05.2018. According to chairman Patrick Gaspard, the security of the 'operations and employees can no longer be protected against interference by the government'. Orbán accuses the Hungarian-American founder George Soros of being the center in a network of human rights activists, left-liberal media, opposition members and 'Brussels bureaucracies' who want to flood Hungary with refugees. The 100 employees of the OSF in Hungary now have to look for other work. The OSF itself is down, but not out. Soros is still a welcome guest in Brussels and will continue with his political campaigns from the headquarters in Berlin. So at Mufti Sauer (Merkel), a person who completely lost her way. So it seems that Europe is liberated from this man. (Satan) But Hungary is now free however – and again Viktor Orbán proves that he is perfectly capable of rowing against the Brussels stream. The Politburo in Brussels.
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Q: Criteria for Lipschitz continuity  Is the following statement true. Assume that $f:[0,1]\to [0,1]$ is a continuous function such that $$\sup_t\lim\sup_{s\to t}\frac{|f(s)-f(t)|}{|t-s|}<\infty,$$ then $f$ is Lipchitz continuous.

A: Even more is true: Suppose that $E$ is a measurable subset of an interval, $f$ is a function
on $E$ so that for every $x\in E$, $|D^+(f)(x)|\le M$ (the quantity $|D^+(f)|$ is defined below). Then
$$
mes(f(E))\le M \cdot mes(E),
$$
see e.g. the proof of Lemma 3.13 in http://www.ams.org/bookstore/pspdf/gsm-105-prev.pdf
("A First Course in Sobolev Spaces" by G.Leoni). Here $mes$ is the (outer) Lebesgue measure and
$$
|D^+(f)(x)|= \lim sup_{y\to x} \frac{|f(x)-f(y)|}{|x-y|}
$$
Note that Lemma 3.13 assumes that $f$ is differentiable, but the proof uses only the upper bound $|D^+(f)(x)|\le M$ for all $x$. In your case, $E$ is an interval $[s,t]$ in $[0,1]$ and
$$
M= \sup_{x}  \lim sup_{y\to x} \frac{|f(x)-f(y)|}{|x-y|}
$$
Then, you conclude that for every $s$ and $t$ in the interval $[0,1]$,
$$
|f(s)-f(t)|\le mes (f([s,t])) \le M |s-t|
$$
and, hence, your function $f$ is $M$-Lipschitz.

A: Yes, it's not hard to show that $f$ is Lipschitz of constant
$$k:=\sup_t\lim\sup_{s\to t}\frac{|f(s)-f(t)|}{|t-s|}\, .$$
Indeed, let's take any $l > k$.  By assumption, any $t\in I:=[0,1]$ has a nbd $J_t:=]t',t''[\cap I$ such that for any $s\in J_t$ one has $|f(s)-f(t)|\le l|t-s|$. Extract a finite covering of $I$ by these nbd's, say $J_{t_0}\dots J_{t_{n }}$  with $0:=t_0 < t_1 < t_2 <\dots < t_n:= 1$, and assume it is minimal. By minimality, it follows $J_{t_i}\cap J_{t_{i+1}}\neq\emptyset$ for all $0\le i < n$. As a consequence,  there is a sequence $0:=s_0 \le s_1 \le \dots \le s_{2n}:=1$ such that $s_{2i}=t_i$ and $s_{2i+1}\in J_{t_i}\cap J_{t_{i+1}}$, Therefore, since any two consecutive $s_j$'s are (in some order) a $t_i$ and an element of $J_{t_i}$, we have
$$|f(1)-f(0)|\le \sum_{i=0}^{2n-1}\big|f(s_{i+1}) - f(s_i)\big|\le l\sum_{ i = 0 }^{2n-1} (s_{i+1} - s_i)=l\, ,  $$
and in fact $|f(1)-f(0)|\le k$ because the above inequality holds for any number $l > k$.
This also implies, by rescaling and localizing,
$$|f(b)-f(a)|\le k |b-a|$$
for all $a$ and $b$ in $I$.
$$*$$
[edit] I realize now that there is another proof (which is, in a sense, the true proof) that follows from a beautiful theorem by Antoni Zygmund. Let $D f$ represent any of the Dini's derivatives of $f$ .

Theorem. Let $f:[a,b]\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$
  be continuous, and  assume that the set
  $f(\{Df \le 0\} )$ is nowhere dense.
  Then $f$ is increasing.

What is great of this theorem is the statement, natural and powerful; once you know the statement, the proof is not difficult by a nice argument by contradiction (assume that e.g. $f(a) > f(b)$ and consider a value $\lambda\in \big( f(b), f(a) \big)\setminus f(\{Df \le 0\} )$; then argue on the larger $t$ such that $f(t)=\lambda$...). There should be a proof in Mc Shane and Botts' Real Analysis, I think.
In your case, apply Zygmund's theorem to the functions $t\mapsto lt\pm f(t)$, with any $l > k$, as above and conclude that $f$ is $k$ Lipschitz.
Another well-known application  of this theorem:

Theorem. Let $f:[a,b]\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ be
  continuous and admit $f'(t) \ge0$ up
  to countably many points; or
  either, absolutely continuous and
  $f'(t)\ge 0$ a.e. Then $f$ is
  increasing.

(as before life is simpler applying Zygmund's theorem first to $t\mapsto f+\epsilon t$ with $\epsilon > 0$).

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Here is the definition of the Trinity I have been utilizing: One God subsists in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; co-equal and co-eternal. Recently, while talking with two Jehovah Witnesses I was challenged on my view of Jesus and the Father being co-equal.
They attacked equality of the Godhead by saying the Father was greater and had knowledge Jesus lacked. They used the verse in John 14:28 where Jesus says, "You heard that I said to you, 'I go away, and I will come to you.' If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I." I explained Jesus had two natures being fully God and fully man. In his human nature Jesus gave up the use of certain prerogatives such as all knowledge and subjected himself to the headship of the Father. In his divine nature He continued to have all the attributes of God. I said president Obama and I are equal in our human natures but since he is the president I could say he is greater than me. Jesus as a human could say the Father is greater, speaking about position, just like Obama is to me. Jesus and the Father are equal in they share the same divine nature. My Jehovah Witness friends struggled with the idea Jesus could be fully God and fully man. I took them to Philippians 2:5-8 "Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross." I said as a human Jesus didn't desire equality with the Father because he took on flesh (bond-servant) subjecting himself to death as a human something the Father cannot do. Philippians says he was in the "form of a bond-servant." I asked do you believe Jesus was fully human? They said yes. I said the Greek word for form is "Morphe" which means nature or essence. Jesus had a human nature. Just like he had a human nature, we see in verse 6 Jesus also was in the form (morphe) of God. What that means is he also had the nature of God. Jesus was God taking on human flesh. As a human he didn't use all his divine abilities. That's what it means "…but emptied himself." Jesus at times became tired, ate food, and died on a cross; all things only a human can do. On the cross the human Jesus died but the 2nd person of the Trinity, his divine nature, could never die.
They continued to challenge the equality issue by taking me to 1 Corinthians 11:2-3 "Now I praise you because you remember me in everything, and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you. 3 But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ." How can Jesus be equal if God the Father is the head over him? I said similar to a husband and wife being equal in their human natures, the Bible says the husband is to be head over his wife. The second person of the Trinity (Jesus) is equal in nature to the Father but takes a different role by taking on human flesh, and subjects himself to the headship of the Father. The Father and the Son can be co-equal, while at the same time the Son submits to the headship of the Father; similar to the headship of the husband over the wife.
The issue of equality depends on our understanding of how one God can subsist in three persons. I've had people ask, how can we say that God is one undivided being and yet in this one being there are three persons? First, we must understand that each person is fully God; that is each person has the fullness of God's being in himself. The Son is not partly God or just one-third of God, but the Son is fully God. The Father and the Holy Spirit are each fully God. All three persons are co-equal. To help you understand how this works I have provided different circles to show the correct and incorrect ways to view the being of God.
If the Bible teaches the equality within the Trinity we should expect to see all three persons given equal status in the scriptures. This is clearly communicated by Matthew in his recording of what Jesus said as he commissioned his disciples. Matthew 28:19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit." Immediately, we notice Matthew says to baptize them in the name, singular. The conclusion is these three persons are the one God, thus we see the singular for "name." In other places when listing multiple names, Matthew utilized "names" plural. In Matthew 10:2 "Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; and James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother." Matthew chose the singular Greek word for "name" because he was communicating the oneness and equality of one God subsisting in three persons. Even the Jehovah Witness Bible (NWT) uses name singular, while at the same time denying the Trinity.
The very names "Father" and "Son," drawn as they are from the family, the most familiar of human institutions, indicate very strongly the distinct personhood of both the Father and the Son. When "the Holy Spirit" is put in the same expression and on the same level as the other two persons, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Holy Spirit is also viewed as a person and of equal standing with the Father and the Son. Matthew 28:19 provides strong support for the definition of the Trinity and the equality within the Godhead.
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Reacting to Spree Killings, Progressively
[Please excuse this brief detour; we are still hard at work on our 'Re-colonization' series.]
Of the many things Progressives are known for, number one is being on the right side of history.
So in the wake of this latest U.S. spree killing, we turn to our leading leftist voices to help us make sense of the madness.
Having studied their recent corpus on the question of the spree-killer-for-a-cause, we believe we've found some progressive principles to light our way.
I. Do not make generalizations about his group
The first thing progressives have taught us about the terrorist spree killer is to avoid generalizing about his group. When Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan, for example, mowed down thirteen co-workers and wounded thirty at Fort Hood while crying 'Allahu Akbar,' this was the official reaction:
U.S. Army Major Hasan and his 'infidel' victims
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano stated "we object to—and do not believe—that anti-Muslim sentiment should emanate from this ... This was an individual who does not, obviously, represent the Muslim faith."
Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr. said "I'm concerned that this increased speculation could cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers ... Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse."
The Boston Marathon bombers drew a similar reaction:
Sixteen lost limbs in the carnage
Authorities are well aware that in the aftermath of the events in Boston nothing can be more counterproductive (not to mention unfair) than stigmatizing the whole American Muslim community, which is as horrified as any other by the attacks and could be a huge asset in preventing new ones.
A Salon writer tartly reminded us that:
The Tsarnaev brothers' criminal and perverse actions do not speak for me or the overwhelming majority of Muslims. I am not compelled to apologize for them or explain their actions. Muslims are not a monolithic, Borg-like collective ... with a telepathic understanding of the perverse mind-set of radicals in their "community."
When the dreaded D.C. sniper turned out to be two Nation of Islam black Muslims who admired bin Laden and planned to 'kill six white people a day' because 'the white man is the devil,' leaders were quick to call for caution:
Rev. Al Sharpton, renowned African-American politician, says that ... society must caution against profiling people of color. "The face of black America is represented more by [local police] Chief Moose than by the snipers," said Sharpton.
Rev. Horace Sheffield III, president of the National Association of Black Organizations, said that he was surprised that the suspects were black, but that "there are bad and good people in every race." ... Kweisi Mfume, president and chief executive officer of the NAACP, said in a Friday press release, "Madmen, like bigots, come in all colors."
Years earlier, Sharpton et al. had also been quick to react to the Long Island Railroad mass murderer Colin Ferguson (6 dead, 19 wounded), known by neighbors for his nightly chants of 'all the black people killing all the white people':
Victims of the Long Island Railroad shooter, Colin Ferguson
Civil rights activists Al Sharpton and Herbert Daughtry urged that African Americans in general not be blamed for the crime; Sharpton, in particular, criticized what he called attempts "to demonize black and Hispanic dissatisfaction" by linking those groups to the murders.
[Jesse] Jackson stressed the shootings were the result of one man and should not be seen as indicative of all African Americans. The day after the shootings, Nassau County Executive Thomas Gulotta called Ferguson "an animal". Jackson and other African American leaders criticized the comment as racially charged, but Gulotta later insisted his statements had nothing to do with race.
Progressive rule number one, it would thus seem, is to avoid stigmatizing the attacker's group at all costs.
II. Try to identify his grievance
Once generalizing has been avoided, we are advised by progressives to step back and try to peer into the mind of the terrorist killer. Can we understand what could have possibly led him to such carnage?
In truth, the question is often dual. At one level, the terrorist murders 'for a cause,' something larger than himself. After the Boston Marathon bombing, the surviving killer was explicit:
Bloodied Djhokar Tsarnaev emerges from Boston boat
[...] a note scrawled by Dzhokhar with a marker on the interior wall of the boat where he was hiding said the bombing were "retribution for U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq", and called the Boston victims 'collateral damage', "in the same way innocent victims have been collateral damage in U.S. wars around the world."
But such claims often go hand-in-hand with a far more personal motive. Older brother and guru Tamerlan was a volatile but talented boxer whose non-citizen status had ended his Olympic dreams. It is said his radicalization began then. Empathetic writers have pored over the reasons why these two could have gone so far off the rails, from mentally ill parents to immigrant alienation to simply being a millennial.
This dual-motive is seen again and again in mass killings 'for a cause,' such as that of Major Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood:
Major Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist become jihadi
During the first day of the trial on August 6, Hasan—who was representing himself— admitted that he was the gunman during the Fort Hood shootings in 2009 and stated that the evidence would show that he was the shooter. He also told the panel hearing that he had "switched sides" and regarded himself as a Mujahideen waging "jihad" against the United States.
Digging deeper, it seems former patriot Hasan had been radicalizing slowly, exchanging e-mails with jihadi imam Anwar al-Awlaki (later nabbed by a U.S. drone in Yemen), and felt our Middle East wars were unjust. An Army psychiatrist, he had to listen to returning soldiers' stories all day and he said he felt some of them had committed war crimes. His superiors did not share this view. He may have been finally pushed over the edge by a coming deployment :
Fort Hood Army Base massacre
He was to be deployed to Afghanistan, contrary to earlier reports that he was to go to Iraq, on November 28 [the shooting occured Nov. 5]. Prior to the incident, Hasan told a local store owner that he was stressed about his imminent deployment to Afghanistan since he might then have to fight or kill fellow Muslims. According to Jeff Sadoski, spokesperson of U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, "Hasan was upset about his deployment".
Digging deeper still, it turns out Hasan had lost his father in 1998 and mother in 2001, this last loss said to be especially devastating for him. Parentless and unmarried at age 39, was his growing social isolation what ultimately started the horrific ball rolling?
Footnote: The DoD raised eyebrows by declaring the massacre 'workplace violence' instead of 'terrorism'-- but as is so often the case in these attacks, the abstract and the personal seem to be hopelessly mixed.
The D.C. snipers' motives were even more enigmatic. Details came out at their trial:
The acolyte and the guru: 'He was the father I wished I had'
Malvo testified that Muhammad, driven by hatred of America because of its "slavery, hypocrisy and foreign policy" and his belief that "the white man is the devil", planned to kill six whites a day for 30 days. Malvo alleged that Muhammad had said: "We are going to go to the Washington DC area and we are going to terrorise these people."
Digging deeper, we see that Muhammad (nee Williams) was a disenchanted Gulf War vet, Nation of Islam member, and possibly in the extremist group Al-Fuqra. His brainwashed protegé, Lee Malvo, glorified jihad in jailhouse drawings:
White House in the crosshairs: 'Your life belongs to Allah. He will deliver you to us.'
But digging deeper still, we find a personal crisis among the most acute imaginable: losing one's children. Ten years after the attacks, acolyte Malvo gave a jailhouse interview:
He said there is no explanation for why he and Muhammad killed so many people, .... He knows that Muhammad snapped when he lost custody of his children and wanted to get back at his ex-wife, Mildred Muhammad, who lived in Prince George's County, ... "We were searching for Mildred," Malvo said, adding that everything they did was toward the goal of finding her and getting the children back.
His ex-wife, who claims he returned from the Gulf War with PTSD, concurs:
Mildred Muhammad says convicted killer John Muhammad began plotting against her after she won custody of their young son and two daughters in 2001. ... [She] says her ex-husband thought if she were killed by a crazed gunman, he would regain custody of their children and collect compensation owed them as crime victims. "His end-game scenario was to come in as the grieving father," she says.
Again, in confounding ways, the political and the personal seem able to come together in a tragically toxic cocktail.
Finally, the Long Island Railroad killer Colin Ferguson was well-known for his desire to 'kill everybody white':
After arresting Ferguson, police found pieces of notebook paper in his pockets with scribbled notes with the heading "reasons for this". One of the notes referred to "racism by Caucasians and Uncle Tom Negroes".
His defense team justified the massacre thusly:
Kunstler and Kuby proposed an innovative defense that Ferguson had been driven to temporary insanity by a psychiatric condition they termed "black rage" [drawn from the 1968 study by psychiatrists Cobbs and Grier].
Kunstler and Kuby argued Ferguson had been driven insane by racial prejudice, and could not be held criminally liable for his actions even though he had committed the killings. The attorneys compared it to the utilization of the battered woman defense, post-traumatic stress disorder and the child abuse syndrome in other cases to negate criminal accountability.
Digging deeper, as in so many of these cases, Ferguson's life was littered with dysfunction and disappointment. Son of a wealthy Jamaican family, he lost both his parents at age 20 and migrated to the U.S. where menial jobs and his marriage's failure in 1988 sent him into a tailspin. After a work injury, he took time off to attend junior college, where his outbursts troubled peers:
Ferguson interrupted the professor by shouting, "We should be talking about the revolution in South Africa and how to get rid of the white people" and "Kill everybody white!" When students and teachers tried to quiet him, Ferguson started threatening them, repeatedly saying, "The black revolution will get you." He was suspended from the school in June 1991 as a result of the threats.
NYC cop Brian Parpan: '...the most carnage I'd ever seen'
Digging deeper still, we see the now-familiar 'triggering event': his final appeal to increase a $25,000 workers' comp settlement was rejected for good in April 1993. The shooting took place eight months later. A footnote:
The Daily News has learned that the chairwoman of the state Workers' Compensation Board, Barbara Patton, frequently takes the 5:33 p.m. train to Hicksville, N.Y., the train on which the massacre occurred.
Following the progressives' lead on terrorist spree killers then, we have seen that Principle 1 is to avoid stigmatization and Principle 2 is to search for motivation. This leads us to Principle 3.
III. What lessons can we learn?
Some spree killers 'for a cause' are seeking real change (e.g. modifying foreign policy). Others wish to simply register their unhappiness about an under-appreciated harm. While the slaughter of innocents is always denounced across the board, some still ask: Does this madman's grievance have any weight? Should we alter our behavior after this to avoid future carnage? Many progressives have answered in the affirmative.
The recent Charlie Hebdo massacre in France led to much soul-searching in the press. From the Financial Times editorial page:
Blood-spattered office of magazine Charlie Hebdo
Charlie Hebdo has a long record of mocking, baiting and needling French Muslims. France is the land of Voltaire, but too often editorial foolishness has prevailed at Charlie Hebdo.
'A star is born!'
This is not in the slightest to condone the murderers, who must be caught and punished, or to suggest that freedom of expression should not extend to satirical portrayals of religion. It is merely to say that some common sense would be useful at publications such as Charlie Hebdo, and Denmark's Jyllands-Posten, which purport to strike a blow for freedom when they provoke Muslims, but are actually just being stupid.
Lesson learned: In order to prevent slaughter by irate immigrants, Western satirical journalists would do well to mock only Christians or Jews, but not Muslims.
While not strictly a spree killing 'for a cause,' Omar Thornton's Hartford massacre touched larger questions and led to much media finger-pointing:
I was not surprised when I read on CNN.com that the alleged shooter told his uncle, "I killed the five racists that was there that was bothering me." As in most instances of workplace violence, the alleged shooter was probably a victim of unchecked discrimination.
While Hartford Distributors--a family owned beer distributor--denies that Omar Thornton, the alleged shooter, ever complained about discrimination, I found it interesting that they did not mention whether their company provided training to educate their employees about preventing, detecting and correcting workplace discrimination.
Thornton (l.) and victim Louis Felder, father of three, interred at Stamford's Congregation Agudath Sholom
Footnote: After 9 months' investigation into this pressing question,
There is no evidence to support a man's claim that he was a victim of racism before he fatally shot eight co-workers at a beer distribution company last summer, the police in this central Connecticut town said Thursday. The man, Omar S. Thornton, who was black, "did not seem to understand the concept of seniority" and believed that he was subjected to racism in his job...
... The police report said Mr. Thornton had made racist comments himself. A co-worker told the authorities that Mr. Thornton asked him if he knew any good white men and said, "You got to kill them before they go bad."
Lesson learned: Even in workplaces where no racism is present, companies would do well to increase anti-discrimination training in order to lessen the chances of an unforeseen massacre.
The most horrific spree killing in U.S. history, the 9/11 attacks, have provoked immense soul-searching. Analyst Steven Kirsch:
If we want to stop the attacks, we must address the root cause. Specialists on bin Laden such as Milton Bearden ... noted that bin Laden's original and still preeminent goal is to rid the US military presence from Saudi Arabia. ... 911 is our "canary in the coal mine;" it is a warning sign that our international reputation is bad and that we must move to correct it or face more incidents.
After London's 2005 underground bombing, the Guardian's Jason Burke opined:
Britain, 2013: What lessons to be learned from Soldier Lee Rigby's beheading by a Nigerian Muslim?
We need to recognise that doing things that enrage millions, even if we feel that anger is wrong-headed and misdirected, will make us more of a target. Before the invasion of Iraq the UK was fairly low down the target list for the militants. Now, Britain has joined Israel and America at its top.
Some causes of terrorism do exist within the UK. They include identity issues and the poor economic performance of many British Muslim communities as much as the activities of radical rabble-rousers from overseas. ... We need to look for new allies in the Islamic world. We should be developing major programmes to develop civic society... Every diplomatic mission should make convincing Muslims that the West is not an aggressor a priority.
Lesson learned: Dropping bombs on Muslims, propping up corrupt Arab dictators, or palling around with Israel are just a few of the activities Western countries could cease engaging in if they wanted to avoid future bloodshed of innocents.
As for recent terrorist spree killer Dylann Roof, shall we be asked to examine his grievances as well? He is reported to have told his victims, 'You rape our women, and you're taking over our country, and you have to go.'
Mourning the victims of Charleston church masscre
In his online manifesto, he says:
The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. ...this prompted me to type in the words "black on White crime" into Google, and I have never been the same since that day. ... There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on White murders. I was in disbelief. At this moment I realized that something was very wrong. How could the news be blowing up the Trayvon Martin case while hundreds of these black on White murders got ignored?
Young Roof had, it appears, concluded that America was embroiled in a low-grade race war in which nearly all the fatalities were white and nearly all the aggressors black. Far-fetched?
As far-fetched as concluding that America and her kid brother Israel sanction, harass, and bomb Muslims throughout the Middle East, and prop up corrupt Arab dictators?
As far-fetched as concluding that mocking their prophet is grievously offensive to most Muslims?
As far-fetched as concluding that white racism could drive a black man over the edge?
The progressive's argument, as we have seen repeatedly, is that he doesn't condone the violence of the terrorist spree killer, but he can try to walk a mile in his shoes...
...This compassion, he feels, sets him apart from the rush-to-judgment conservative. He would be the first to ask, What were the real motives of this troubled soul? Were they legitimate?
Is it true, as the Charleston killer asserts, that the modern American press has drawn a permanent blackout over black-on-white crime?
Colin Flaherty has meticulously documented the facts in his interactive e-book, where one can click through directly to dozens of videos of the daily black-on-white violence about which the American press says nothing. So have Unamusement Park, American Renaissance, Violence Against Whites Blog, the Council of Conservative Citizens (cited by Roof in his manifesto), as well as by ourselves here at this blog.
The progressive would tell us not to jump to conclusions--he detests jumping to conclusions--but to look at the facts and figures. Is America really in the throes of an unreported black-on-white crime wave?
What do the National Crime Victimization Survey, the FBI, and the Department of Justice have to say?
Does the overwhelmingly black-on-white nature of interracial violence in the U.S. shock you? If it does, then perhaps there is something to this spree killer's contention that such crimes go largely unreported in the national media.
Another way to look at the question:
In a blank-slatist world, violent blacks would choose their victims in much the same way as violent whites do. It would look like this:
Back in reality:
Images source
Interracial violent crime in the U.S. is an overwhelmingly black-on-white affair.
The racial animus behind these crimes need hardly be belabored; if 13,463 white-on-black rapes vs. 0 black-on-white rapes were occurring yearly in the United States, the media would be in a state of permanent uproar. We'll just remark in passing that since Obama took office, hundreds of random black-on-white assaults (up to and including disfigurement and death) have been committed to the tune of 'cracker,' 'tree honky,' 'white bitch,' 'white boy,' 'white motherfucker,' 'move your white ass,' 'I hate white people,' 'kill the white people,' 'fuck you, white bitch,' 'I hate you fucking white people,' and 'get that white man.' But such stories are carefully confined to the local police blotter, as are those of the unarmed white men regularly shot by the police, for whom no white has ever burned down a city or even, it seems, raised an eyebrow.
The shock of this revelation seems to have metastasized in a young loner with the same profile we've seen so often--high-school dropout, broken home, social isolation, mental problems, drug use-- creating yet another spree killing monster to add to the horrifying gallery.
We join with progressives, then, in saying that while no one in their right mind can support slaughtering innocent Christians at a Wednesday night Bible study, it is possible that greater societal forces can push unstable people over the edge--and that such people's groups should not be stigmatized. We also join progressives in saying that these societal forces deserve to be looked at closely. We echo progressives' call to do our very best to avoid repeating the conditions that led to such unthinkable horror.
(Please excuse us for the pause; we shall return to our 'Re-colonization' series promptly. Thank you for reading.)
Posted by M.G. at 11:50 PM
Labels: Afro-Americans, Caribbeans, Co-existence, Crime, Foreign Policy, Islam, Press, Progressives
Ragno said...
I'm an unabashed M.G. Miles fan, so I might be a tad biased, but I'm hard-pressed to think of anyone who does a better job of housebreaking outrage into logic and common sense via the marshaling of available evidence and primary sources, and the applied discipline of her intelligence.
At present, post-Dylan Roof (but early in what looks to be an 18-month-long auto-da-fe of the American South - or however long it is until the next national election) it's extremely difficult to get a word in edgewise amid the impermeable progressive hum of our media. This creates incredible frustration, and practically invites intemperate language from dissenters; which makes this blog, already must reading, even more necessary. Your work here is important and deeply appreciated.
Ragno--
Thanks much for your encouragement. I agree it's hard to keep a level tone or even a level head when The Narrative takes over the airwaves with such fury. Cold hard facts, delivered without malice, can be a welcome antidote.
AP said...
Great work as always, M.G. Don't forget about spree killer Christopher Dorner. The African American cop who attributed his murder spree to "racism." And of course, as you've pointed out, there was a huge push to understand the motives of the killer - so much so that his previous employer opened up an investigation to make sure that there wasn't merit to the claims of racism in his manifesto. Meanwhile, progressive news shows had to almost hide their approval of the fact that he was killing for social justice. The Young Turks referred to him as a "revenge killer." How's that for trying to sympathize with the killer's grievance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWAdfLxKIBQ
AP--
Yes, I think the Dorner case was a bit like Thornton in that it wasn't exactly 'for a cause,' more personal revenge, but supposedly mixed in with larger issues like racism or corruption. At first blush it looked like there might have been a legitimate beef with him being unfairly dismissed, but when people who knew him started talking, it became clear he was a habitual liar with a martyr complex. But yes, many blacks (and white SJWs) fêted him due to what they saw as 'payback' for years of unfair treatment. That was one of the most egregious 'sympathize with the spree killer' cases I think we've seen.
I always enjoy your articles! Just wanted to write something, usually refrain from doing so since this page doesn't seem to support Disqus =P (I hate registering everywhere).
In the past I was called a coward for posting anonymously =P
Anon--
Thanks for stopping by. You weren't called a coward by me. I prefer people use any handle at all just for easy replying ('as Joe Schmoe said' is easier than 'as Anonymous #3 said'), but I'm not religious about it. Please don't hesitate to share your thoughts in the future.
Lion of the Judah-sphere said...
Progressives are right in one way: all major spree killers have been men. Must be the evil patriarchy.
Magnificent.
M.G., other spree killers include Christopher Montfort, the half black former LE student (U of Washington [state of WA]) who firebombed police vehicles then assassinated one Seattle police officer and wounded his partner, and failed to assassinate a third because his gun jammed. His stated motive was to kill police officers in order to end police violence.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/montfort-defense-to-argue-insanity-in-cops-fatal-shooting/
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/she-loved-chris-monfort-aunt-says-of-his-troubled-mom/
That second link shows the lengths that the SJWs will go to try to blame a white person for a black or mixed race person's actions (the "alcoholic violent maternal grandfather"). More PC than pointing out that mixed race kids often turn out very bad indeed and that white women married to black men frequently have an ill time of it even if they DO succeed in enraging their daddies.
Then there was the spree killer he inspired a month later (in 2009), Maurice Clemons, who blamed police/LE for his inability to stay out of trouble with the law and his fury at being held to civilized legal standards. He assassinated four Lakewood, WA, police officers in an ambush at a coffee shop as they sat together working on their laptops prior to the beginning of their shifts. They were all fully geared up and wearing body armor. Of the many people who aided him with his crime, six were charged.
Both of these sprees received the exact Progressive treatment you describe. Even worse, at The Evergreen State College in Washington's state capital, a loud mouthed minority of moral degenerates who call themselves radicals, anarchists, progressives, and such all insisted that Montfort and Clemons were black heroes working to liberate blacks from white racism. I even had the non-enviable experience of hearing them compared to the "heroes" Lovelle Mixon and Wesley Cook (whose stage name is Mumia). Compare:
https://denverabc.wordpress.com/prisoners-dabc-supports/political-prisoners-database/christopher-monfort/
Of course now, these degenerates have a whole new set of blacks to add to their deck of trading cards. Point out the realities of black on white violence, and they literally spew hot saliva in their fury.
Sean Detente said...
Thanks for making this blog. I'm getting perturbed with all this enforcement of PC multiculturalism being foisted upon everyone. Your writing is logical and systematic in the topics you explore.
I don't have anything against blacks, personally, but the unwillingness of the public to draw a line in the sand, so to speak, to discuss what are obvious problems with blacks is aggravating. Oh, the left certainly blathers on about having a "serious discussion about race", but they'll never accept any discussion beyond what fits their already in-place narrative.
I don't particular care for writing that goes out of its way to be overtly racist (though I certainly don't condemn the God-given right to it), and what I appreciate most about your blog is in its polite focus of thought.
Wow, I feel like the scales have fallen from my eyes. I've never heard of this site before but someone posted a link to this article on another website I frequent. Thank God I found this article because it has really awakened me.
I feel like I just had a revelation like when Neo swallowed the pill in the Matrix movie. I have never seen progressivism in its hideous true light until now. I've always thought it was just a goofy, slightly-stupid utopianism but I can see its true evil now. It is the most evil, anti-white ideology ever created.
I always thought progressives merely suffered from misplaced motives. Now it's like I can see they are not just passive, apathetic hypocrites. They have to be an incarnation of evil to be capable of this kind of blatant, diabolical, deliberate and willful hatred towards the white race. Lying comes as naturally to progressives as crying does to a baby. They are willful liars and deceivers. When a white person commits an atrocity they blame our entire race. When a minority does it, they urge caution and restraint and try to examine his motives. That is not accidental, that is willful demonization of white people.
Olorin--
Yes, I remember the Clemons case but not the Montfort one. From another article on Montfort:
Monfort's life, it seems, is one of unfulfilled ambition. Driving trucks, he talked of flying airplanes. Working security, he talked of being a cop. [another article said he tried to join the police force but a hiring freeze shut him out] Taking classes at community college, he talked of Harvard Law.
[The trial showed] the obsessive political ideology of Monfort, who carried a copy of the Constitution in his breast pocket and saw himself as a modern-day version of a Revolutionary War-era patriot.
Sounds all too familiar. The number of serial or spree killers I've read about over the years who wanted to be cops or were failed cops (or pretended to be cops) is astounding.
As for Clemons, I remember that was the one Mike Huckabee famously pardoned. Violent and mentally unstable all his life (first armed robbery at 17), he never should have been on the street. That was just a completely avoidable tragedy.
But I think that perversely, the fact that police brutality and police corruption do exist allows some people to turn a Montfort or especially a Dorner into a 'Robin Hood' figure. There are a lot of dirty cops out there, but carrying out random pogroms against them only feeds the paranoia on both sides. The black community in particular has a grossly skewed picture of their own victimization, ginned up even more by the Holders and Sharptons and Obamas--it' a recipe for just these sorts of disasters.
Oznoto Ignoto said...
America is being destroyed, France is being destroyed, Germany, Sverige, Norge, Schweiz, are all being destroyed.
The elites of the western world are at enmity with their ethnies and conspiring for their destruction.
My country, The USA, has never been a real nation. It has always been an experiment in terror.
Like the French Terror it was bankrolled by the Rothschilds. Todays bad actor is a billionaire commie Jew named Soros.
Yet it's The Synagog of Satan that runs the show. Even Islam works for them. They would never admit it, but they do.
(ISIS stands for Israeli Secret Intelligence Services?)
Jesus accused them rightly, and to this day they have not changed. Except today they run the world.
The reason blacks are rioting and immigrants are flooding the west, is that it serves the plans of the Synagog of Satan.
Those plans include the total destruction and reconstruction of humanity, as soulless entities who have no family, no
heritage, no hereafter, who will then reincarnate perpetually in spiritual limbo. And by the way,
I'm a Jew, and I approve this message.
They are willful liars and deceivers.
While I understand your disgust, I tend to think today's leftists are more deceived than deceivers. Remember, from infancy they are force-fed a steady diet of equalitarianism. On TV, in movies, the newspaper, at school, even in church, they're told 'We're all the same' and 'If the melanin-enhanced are doing poorly, it's your fault.' Don't underestimate the effect of all this brain-washing. There are real parallels between the early Soviet era and ours.
When you add that to the progressive's almost pathological affection for the underdog, which is hard-wired into him, you can see how we get to out-group altruism gone haywire. The 'willful demonization of white people' you speak of has been drilled into him, it can be un-drilled, un-learned. We live in a highly indoctrinated age, and it could all come tumbling down at any moment. I wouldn't be quite so quick to impute 'hatred' and 'evil' where 'gullibility' and 'conformity' explain things just as well.
Artur said...
Hi MG:
Ggood article, though I am surprised that you did not mention the St. Louis County shootings in 2008.
One of the most absolutely amazing things about the SLC shootings, is that not only did the killer resemble Omar Thornton in motive, skin color, and most likely, Intelligence, the dude had THE SAME LAST NAME !! :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkwood_City_Council_shooting
"Cookie" Thornton was your typical Dunning-Kruger style aggrieved North American Pavement Ape : very high self-esteem, too stupid to understand his own worthlessness, and thanks to our friends in the Tribe, fully convinced of the wickedness of the white man.
I mean it is the same damn thing over and over again: Schlomo whispers in the ear of the negro that ALL his problems - literally every single one - were caused by the white man, the black brings a ridiculous discrimination lawsuit before one of the bodies creted to coddle him (EEOC), suit is dismissed as nonsensical, the negro's passions are further inflaming, cat 5 chimpout result.
I don't like using impolite words when discussing blacks, but often times their actions are just so outrageous and hateful that it would appear supine I believe to limit oneself to polite language only.
How is the weather in France? You know I may be there in a month or so.
- Arturo
Artur--
So sorry I missed your comment, I was offline for a while.
I actually do remember the Cookie Thornton case, he was a real whackadoo with a serious persecution complex. The 'going postal' guys who shoot up their workplace always seem to have this profile. There were lots of killers I didn't add but could've, I wanted to keep it short.
Are you going to Paris? Have you heard the 'refugees' are now creating tent cities all over the capital? People say Paris is devolving into basically a third world colony at this point. I wish you nerves of steel for your trip!
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Classy Brothel Girls Bring Dirty EVIL Secrets to "Madame Claude" reviewed! (Cult Epics / Blu-ray)
Posted by Steven Lewis on February 28, 2021
A high end Paris brothel ran by the influential Madame Claude sends the most beautiful and sophistical women to wealthy and powerful dignitaries all over the world to satisfy their most sexual desires. Her lucrative business becomes a governmental target seeking to collect back taxes on the illicit business. However, the French government is the least of her worries when a playboy-aspiring rake and amateur photographer snaps photos of Madame Claude's clients in compromising situations that can be ruinous to their status. The CIA becomes involved when unscrupulous business dealings involving an American and Japanese companies connect to Madame Claude and her potentially persuasive young women after rumored photographs put the Madame Claude in the middle. Two governments, big businesses, a jet setting brothel, wealthy socialites and a nosy photographer become involved in lies, secrets, and the potential for murder.
Part biography, part fiction, "Madame Claude," also known as "The French Girl," is the 1977 released erotic and political thriller based off the real Madame Claude, Fernande Grudet, as her life of prostitution management and scrutiny unfolded before the public eyes in the mid 1970's. Erotically and elegantly sexy with gorgeous women groomed into lust and ensnared into the lion's den of exchanging powers, "Madame Claude" became the third film from the immensely successful erotic French director, Just Jaeckin, following 1974's "Emmanuelle" and 1975's "The Story of O." Jaeckin, pressured by his financiers to continue his success in the highly sought eroticism, returns to the randy genre, but this time with a story to his liking, one that is embroiled in the background of a bribery scandal involving aerospace company, Lockheed, at the heart of it. From a script by crime-action writer André G. Brunelin, based off the book of memories of Madame Claude by Jacques Quiorez, Jaeckin splices visual elements of each story together to form not only an arousing sexual lamination but also a cloak-and-dagger tenser of a film. Shot primarily in Paris, with minor shoots in the Bahamas and Washington, D.C., especially the scenes on the faux White House, "Madame Claude" is a production of Orphée Arts of Paris with Claire Duval on as executive producer.
While the titular character is the obvious centerpiece, Jaeckin mingles the characters around each other in a game of espionage chess toward the endgame of checkmate. Keystone to everyone's problems is Madame Claude, played by renowned French actress and early onscreen sex object, Françoise Fabian, who previously had roles in the paranormal pubescent horror, "Expulsion of the Devil," a more comedy-friendly brothel film, "Holiday Hookers," and among many other films predating 1977, but not until later in Fabian's career did show rocket to success, playing older, more aligned, women that strongly championed feminism, such as portraying "Madame Claude" who used sex as a means to gain control and power of men, and pushed it to the brink of the era's cinematic limits. "Horsehead's' Murray Head plays the photographer schmo, David Evans, making Madame Claude's life complicated. An about town ladies man, Evans goes to each of Claude's girls one-by-one and, for some reason or another, they invite the handsomely charming, but brutish, amateur porn photographer into their bedrooms, sleeping his way into blackmail scheme that will bring down the most powerful brothel head in all of Paris while also lining his pocket with not only money but power among the socialites who treat him like the village idiot. Head's nails down the fast-and-loose aspect of Evan's personality that treats his stratagem like a game he's already won, but when the government agencies come knocking on doors, Head about faces Evan's waggish incompetence to a frightened man looking around every corner for danger. It's wonderful to see Head interact with Klaus Kinski ("Nosferatu the Vampire") and Marc Michel as a ridiculed subordinate in an examination of social status as Kinski and Michel flaunt expensive taste and lavish orgies in lieu of decency, but it's Murray Head, playing the fool with cemented proof that would put all them of into shame, as the aspirer to their life of luxuries. The beautiful Dayle Haddon ("Cyborg"), Vibeke Knudsen-Bergeron ("Spermula"), and Ylva Setterborg stun in just a handful of the very elegant, and very naked, women acting as Madame Claude's international bound employees. Other cast of characters in "Madame Claude's" game of lies and spies include Robert Webber ("Death Steps in the Dark"), Jean Gaven ("The Story of O"), François Perrot, André Falcon, and Maurice Renot.
Following his films "Emmanuelle" and "The Story of O," Jaeckin's "Madame Claude" strays into an atypical kind of formulaic eroticism downplaying the sexual excursions and discoveries for a more typical crime drama affair. Jaeckin's directorial abilities can take you on an exotic tour around the world and onto the fleshy planes of some of the most gorgeous and provocative women to ever grace the screen. Yet, "Madame Claude" trims substantially the skin with a more precise execution to be more of an oil lubricating the machine rather than the gear that actually operates the mechanism to entail sex as a misused tool for motivation and bribery. These scenes of fleeting eroticism outright shine Just Jaeckin's proclivities with mirrored reflections and becoming lost in the entanglement of sexually enflamed bodies and these scenes outright shine Jaeckin's intent on delivering a corkscrew crime drama with double-dealings, wiretapping, and counterintelligence gathering as what unfolds isn't clearly delineated between Madame Claude, David Evans, the French and U.S. Governments and the Lockheed scandal that actually becomes sidetracked at times by the infiltrated sex-training of Madame Claude business as the brothel head has to train an alternative misfit new girl and send her to the Bahamas work trip shortly after a quick one-night-stand initiation with one of the Madame's trusted former beaus. We wholeheartedly become more intrigued and fascinated with Madame Claude's feminist principles, recruiting subjugated women to use their sexuality to dominate and become wealthy in the process. In more than one scene, Madame Claude flaunts self-admiration in transforming star-crossed girls into young women fortune bound with their promiscuous ways. Madame Claude's murky backstory caresses her complexities of anti-man without detail delving into the turning point catalyst that made her become who she became to be, an affluent Madame, other than a seemingly emotionally and controllably invalidating romantic experience with a long time friend and business companion, Pierre (Maurice Renot).
Cult Epics sustains another forgotten classic into a celebrated Blu-ray release with a new 4K HD transfer of "Madame Claude" from the original 35mm negative, supervised by the original cinematographer, Robert Fraisse. Housed on a BD50, the region free release maintains the impeccable coloring under Fraisse's soft glow with no cropping or undue enhances that tries to put out fire with gasoline and, aside from a discolored yellow-greenish, translucent stripe, perhaps a loose film roll, during the opening scene, the image quality is clean and pleasing in it's natural 35mm grain. The English and French language audio tracks come with three options: LPCM 2.0 mono, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono, and a Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo. The DTS-HD Master Audio had the highest marks, slightly topping Dolby Digital stereo with a little more gusto in the pipes. Audible dialogue is clean and forefront, but the engineered dubbing laid over Murray Head and, even, the self-dubbing of Dayle Haddon can be off-putting at times when actors' voices seem to not be sharing the same vocal space with others on screen. French composer Serge Gainsbourg's lounge, yé-yé score tuned into that erotic soufflé of light and airy pop music that can be often dreamy with singsongy female vocals, complimenting the softer, sexier side of Jaeckin's film while also playing into period melodies of the 1970's. Cult Epics always has down right with resurrecting obscure erotica for not only quality sake but also to arm the hell out of the releases with bonus material. Included with "Madame Claude" is an audio commentary by Jeremy Richey (author of the upcoming book entitled Sylvia Kristel: from Emmanuelle to Chabrol), a high definition, Nico B. produced interview with director Just Jaeckin from 2020, the vintage French theatrical trailer, a promotional photo gallery, and Cult Epics previews. Not the most sensual film shot by the renowned maestro of venereal visuals, Just Jaeckin explores his versatility by acclimatizing familiarity with new horizons surrounding brothel delights with shadow games and the new 4K Blu-ray from Cult Epics is the one, and only, way to experience it all in "Madame Claude."
Cult Epic's "Madame Claude" on Blu-ray. Available at Amazon – click the poster!
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InicioTechnology'Sonic 2' Beats the First Film at the Box Office
'Sonic 2' Beats the First Film at the Box Office
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 surpassed competitors at the box office and even its predecessor. First Sonic the Hedgehog opened in theaters in the spring of 2020 and grossed a very solid $58 million in its first three days of release. Now Sonic 2 here, and it's made even better in theaters. It opened to ticket sales in America for approximately $71 million.
Sonic was one of the last hits in cinemas before the Covid pandemic started closing multiplexes around the world, so the fact that Sonic 2 starts even better – a very good sign for the film and the franchise. (BUT Sonic the Hedgehog 3 seems inevitable at this point.) The latest movie brought back Jim Carrey as the evil Dr. Robotnik, along with Ben Schwartz as the voice of Fast Sonic. He also introduced film versions of Sonic's sidekick Tails and the fearsome Knuckles the Echidna, voiced by Idris Elba.
The news was much less positive for Ambulance, a new action movie from director Michael Bay. It was something of a return to form for Bay, with critics praising the film—it holds a 69 percent on Rotten Tomatoes—and calling it the best film in years. But the public didn't care; the film grossed just $8.7 million over the weekend, second only to Sonic 2 but also Morbius and lost citywhich have been in theaters for several weeks now. (only plus Ambulance is that it was relatively inexpensive to produce, costing $40 million to produce). This will be the worst first weekend of Michael Bay's career.
Here's the full top 5 weekend box office hits (via Checkout Mojo):
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 – $71 million
Morbius – $10.2 million
lost city – $9.1 million
Ambulance – $8.7 million
Batman – $6.5 million
To sum it up, Michael Bay is making a really decent action movie, and he's barely made ten times less than the second one. Hedgehog Sonic. Films!
Rating of all video game movies ever made, from worst to best
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The absolute highlight of Joseph Arthur's return to Seattle last night? New songs galore, including the pointed, gorgeous "Pledge of Allegiance" that he debuted live earlier in the day at KEXP. Don't get me wrong, I love any opportunity to see Joseph live, but hearing new songs being worked out early in their live existence is always inspiring.


This mixed rice dish is a staple in Indian cuisine. Whether made with vegetables, chicken or lamb, these recipes all boast eclectic flavors.
Made with fragrant basmati rice and aromatic spices, this healthful vegan tofu biryani smells as good as it tastes.
This fragrant spiced lamb-and-rice dish from Chopped judge Maneet Chauhan is just one of the many biryanis she features quarterly at her Nashville restaurant, Chauhan Ale and Masala House. The flour-and-water dough that covers the biryani while it cooks is not meant to be eaten. Instead, crack off the dough lid and discard before serving, then scoop out the saffron-laced rice and lamb beneath.
The cooks of India and Pakistan take their rice seriously. It is in these regions that the humble grain is transformed into some of southern Asia's most delicious dishes, such as biryani, a richly perfumed combination of rice, vegetables, and sometimes fruits, nuts, and meats. Our vegetarian version features potato, carrots, and peas.
Many Indian restaurants call any spiced rice dish biryani, but Suvir Saran insists, "Biryani must be layered." Here, he boils rice like pasta to make it fluffy, then layers it in a casserole dish with yogurt, pistachios and apricots.
Though some of the fat has been cut from this version of the elaborate rice pilaf called biryani, the saffron-infused milk and the drizzle of melted butter over the top make it a dish fit for Shah Jahan, the creator of the Taj Mahal. the rice is cooked with whole spices, which are not meant to be eaten.
Made with fresh vegetables, raisins and almonds, this vegetarian version of biryani, a traditional Indian rice dish, is a meal in itself or a great side dish.
This chicken biryani recipe with lots of vegetables, chicken, dried apricots and aromatic spices is hearty enough to be a complete dinner in itself.


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