On a hot summer day many years ago, we bellied up to the counter at Wilson's Ice Cream Parlor in Door County, Wisconsin.
With its candy-striped awnings shading windows that look out over pristine Eagle Harbor, Wilson's could be the poster parlor for summer vacation.
We watched as our grandpa, the dignified Bob Fey, placed his order.
"Hot fudge sundae?" we wondered, as Wilson's served them famously, hand-dipped beauties dripping in fudge and whipped cream and served in old school crystal bowls. "Root Beer Float?" we guessed, a frosty mugged, homemade refreshment on a hot summer day.
But Grandpa Fey was nothing if not consistent.
Bean soup? On a hot day in July? Really?
Even the waitress seemed startled, but she obediently brought his steaming bowl of soup.
I thought of him earlier this week when I made a pot of bean soup. Sadly, the wind whipping off the giant mounds of dirty snow made it a perfect day for a thick bowl of bean soup.
But, thanks to Grandpa Fey, visions of a Door County summer cheered us as we scooped up our soup.
1 ham bone (usually leftover from the pervious day's ham dinner) Hopefully, with plenty of ham.
One can stewed diced tomatoes.
Place beans in large pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil, turn off the burner and let sit for one hour. Add the rest of the ingredients, turn up the heat and allow to cook for several hours. Don't let the soup boil, or the beans will burst. I covered the soup, turned it on low, and went to work.
When I returned, I scooped out the ham bone, cut the remaining ham into bite sized pieces and returned it to the pot.
Serve warm with a green salad and a good hunk of bread.
Wilson's Ice Cream Parlor is a perfect stop after a bike ride through Peninsula State Park.
Here are my ingredients for bean soup. After big holiday meals I always ask if I can take home the ham bone. At first they looked at me a little strangely, but now they wrap it up and hand it over without me even having to ask.
You can either soak the beans overnight, or boil them and let them sit for an hour.
You can dump everything into a big pot and let is simmer all day. This soup makes the whole house smell delicious.
Here it is, not so perfect on a hot summer day in a famous ice cream parlor, but a really nice dinner on a cold spring night.
And here's my Grandpa Fey during Thanksgiving, just before the millennium with Molly. He had a great sense of fun and a well protected set of taste buds.


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What's the difference between regular and organic milk?
Topic: What's the difference between regular and organic milk?
Question: I know about the no pesticides and hormones stuff, what I really want to know is why does organic milk have a 6 month shelf life and doesn't have to be refridgerated? That just seems unnatural to me!
Best Answers: What's the difference between regular and organic milk?
You've brought up 2 seperate issues- the first one is that organic milk is, as you said, from cows that are never given growth hormones that would make them produce milk 24/7. Some people say these hormones are harmless, while others contend that the excessive consumption of cow hormones can cause everything from breast cancer to premature puberty in girls. I honestly don't know about that, but I have read that hormones can cause cows to secrete pus (eeewwww!). Whether you believe these stories or not is your call- it's never been proven that organic milk is better for you, but it's also never been proven that it's not. As for staying fresh that long, that's not an aspect of the milk itself but one of the attributes of its packaging. Those strange, unrefridgerated boxes that you sometimes see organic and soy milk in are what keeps it fresh. The milk inside would spoil just like any milk if it were in a regular carton. The packaging is specially designed to be air-tight and more products are being housed in it. I'm currently paying my way through school as a supermarket cashier and have encountered everything from beef broth to wine in those same boxy packages. In a way, they're like the tin cans of the new millenium. You can still buy beef broth and condensed milk in tin cans that keep the product fresh until it's opened, when it starts to spoil like anything else. Organic milk in one of those boxes starts to spoil after opening too. Hope that helps!
Originally Answered: Can I replace evaporated milk with regular milk in this recipe?
No, you can't substitute the evaporated milk with regular milk. Evaporated milk is regular milk with the water removed ("evaporated") from it. (Ever notice on the can that you can add equal parts of water to evaporated milk to make "regular" milk?) An "easier" recipe for fudge is: 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1 (12 ounce) package chocolate chips 1 teaspoon vanilla Nuts (optional) Combine the sweetened condensed milk with the chips and melt in a double boiler until the chips are melted. Add vanilla and nuts. Pour into a buttered 8-inch square pan. Let cool and cut into squares.
You probably purchased it in an aseptic package. They can package pretty much anything that way...BUT....you have to refrigerate it after opening. And write the date you opened it because it will only be good for about a week after that. When you're poor and you get "commodities" from the government, they give you regular milk in an aseptic package.
The selection you made was probably "ultra" pasteurized. It extends the shelf life by quite a bit, but removes some of the benefits of milk. You can find organic milk with normal pasteurization.
Organic milk is produced without synthetic chemicals, hormones or antibiotics. Hormones are powerful. Even trace amounts can cause dramatic changes in living beings. When you choose organic milk, you know that added synthetic hormones are not stimulating the cows' milk production."Agricultural pesticides are now widespread. They can even be measured in raindrops falling from the sky, fog rolling over the hills, 'fresh' snow, and in water we drink. Organic agriculture reduces pesticide exposure because it comes from organic cows that are fed food grown without chemical pesticides.""Unlike factory cows, organic cows must have access to open air. Organic cows from some dairy farms are allowed to graze freely in organic pasture when it is in season. This kind of farming is kind to animals, supportive of wildlife, healthy for rural communities, respectful of our air, water and soil, and healthy for children."
The organic milk i buy it last 1 month and has to be refrigerated. Can you be more specific about the milk you buy?
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Although apparently Wuhan a city of 11 million people which was sealed by the Chinese authorities in late January seems to be returning to normal experts say that life here can never resume the earlier normalcy there is too much trauma within the exterior and a huge detrimental effect on life and business there. This reopening of Wuhan was decided after only 3 new cases were reported in the previous 3 weeks and no deaths were reported recently. In a briefing by the Deputy Mayor it was indicated that 94% of the businesses across Wuhan had resumed operations and companies were slowly calling back their employees.
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Tony Lucca at The Hotel Cafe :: Paint a Picture Tour
with Casey Buckley, Anna Rose, Keaton Simons, and The Rollaways
There is nothing quite like great live music, and there is nothing quite like discovering new music. The one thing I've learned from going to Tony Lucca shows is that you will have both experiences happen every time. Tony is not only a tremendous performer, but he has a keen ear for music, and is generous at sharing his show and stage with other musicians and bands, all of which I'm always grateful to have "musically met". It makes for an energy that is infectious and a feeling of collaboration that reminds me of my time in ensemble theater groups back in my college days. In a way, it breaks the "fourth wall", as well, making the audience feel part of the stage and show, as well.
Tony's shows tend to be more music events than just a single artist's concert. Last night felt more like a mini-festival, than a one-artist gig, and I loved every minute of it. When I left last night I had so much music spinning in my head, enough to feel like a mental jukebox (fair enough, my mind usually is), and I had a list of new artists that I wanted to listen to, and get further acquainted with, post haste. Oh my stars, discovering new music really does it for me – big time.
Let's start at the beginning then, shall we?
As I settled into a spot at the venue, coming early as to not miss any of the opening acts (three on the bill), I was lucky not to miss New Jersey singer, Casey Buckley. Unassuming, with just a guitar and a sweet demeanor, Casey sang a set of personal songs with such vulnerability, and perfect pitch, that I found myself mesmerized. All but one song were original, and all but one song were played on an acoustic guitar. My favorite original, though, was performed on the piano (I have such a soft spot for piano – a song about the struggles of long-distance love, dedicated to a girl in California, called 3,000 Miles. The cover Casey did blew me away. It is not easy to master Thom Yorke and have it both become your own interpretation, and still do Thom's crazy range justice. Casey did both with an amazing take on High and Dry that gave me all over chills. Casey is one to watch. I plan to feature more of his work here as his musical path unfolds. More to come, most definitely.
Check out more of Casey here.
Next up was powerhouse Anna Rose who lit the place on fire with her Janis Joplin meets Bettye Lavette, with a little Elle King thrown in sound. She took hold of everyone in the room and almost immediately had us moving. At one point, after she belted out her song Electric Child someone from the crowd screamed out "AGAIN!" in which she responded, "how about I do another? I promise I have more", and more she did, each song exploding from the small stage and richocheting off the walls like rapid gun fire. Her set was over before we knew it, leaving behind this lingering buzz in the room that felt like a mix of racing pulse desire and really strong whiskey. Anna is fierce and fantastic, and another to keep an eye and ear on, let me tell you. I promise this won't be the last you see of her here at lyriquediscorde.
Check out more of Anna here.
Next up was Keaton Simons who seemed to take the fire that Anna started and rain accelerator all over it. The walls continued to shake, and no one sat down again, no, instead we kept moving, rocking, and being sonically swept away. There seemed to be a lot of people in attendance who knew Keaton's music already, illustrated by how they all knew his songs enough to scream-sing-a-long, but Keaton was new to me. That said, I was just as taken over by his performance, and am guaranteed to be one of those scream-singing-a-long the next time I catch him live. Beautiful Pain was my favorite of his set, though Masterpice, that included an interjection Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars' Uptown Funk towards the end, was pretty cool, too.
Check out more of Keaton here.
That's a ton of good music already, right? And that was only the warming up of the crowd before Tony's set. Tony went on a little early so he could get a few extra songs in, and brought out on to the stage Keaton Simons and The Rollaways (Steve Bentz and Mic Capdevielle) to play along with him, and the show began. Tony is a phenomenal performer. He exudes emotion and energy that embodies his music. Each song seems to explode out of every pore, music that takes over his body in a way that makes his guitar seem just an extension of his physical form. It is near impossible not to react to the music, to not be taken over by it, and to not have the music slip on into your bloodstream, taking over your pulse, and filling you everything with sound.
I have been loving Tony's new album, self-titled, since its release. The songs have a touch of Nashville in them that have taken his already soulful songwriter/rock vibe and turned up the volume, adding a bit more blues to the mix. That said, as great as the album is, it does not hold a candle to how Tony and his band of fellow musicians sound live. I have said it before, and will most certainly say it again (and again), but Tony is amazing live. Electric, energetic, ROCK (in all capitals), passionate, personable, and generous in how he shares his stage with his fellow musicians, and with the way he engages the audience. He makes everyone feel a part of the show, and the music, and it makes a difference.
My favorites of the night? Smoke Em', Imagination, Delilah, Bad Guy (a treat to hear a song from Tony's older album, Shotgun), Old Girl (my favorite from the self-titled album), North Star (so beautiful on the piano!) and the end of the show number, Pretty Things, which has always been a "fan favorite", and my favorite, too. For Pretty Things, Tony let Keaton take the mic for a verse, and had Steve singing-a-long, too. Oh, and the entire audience were a part of the "big group sing", too. Those are some of the best moments in live music to me, when everyone's voices come together with the singer, making it the closest thing to a real life musical that life provides.
The show was fucking amazing. Tony was phenomenal. Also, Mic and Steve (The Rollaways) were incredible. I hope to hear more of them in the future. All the opening acts were awesome, too. What a night of music!
Check out more of Tony here.
There are still a few more dates you can catch to see Tony Lucca's Paint a Picture tour. If he is in your area you should go check the show out – you won't regret it. See dates and buy tickets here
Tony & Me – thanks for the music xo
Thanks for the night of incredible music, Tony, Steve, Mic, Keaton, Anna and Casey. What a great way to spend a Friday night in Los Angeles.
Monrovia, CA, USA
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Travelers (NYSE:TRV) posted a second-quarter operating profit of $2.13 a share, easily beating expectations of $1.60 a share. Revenues of $6.67 billion also topped estimates of $5.97 billion. Shares of the blue-chip insurer jumped 3% in pre-market trading.


Back in the days when we were all using the REHP board on fool.com (back when it was free), you might have read numerous posts from me -- Mesomic.
I think I read every single post there (and there were tens of thousands of them) over a period of a year or two or three before I finally got the courage to take the plunge and RE in July 2001, shortly before my 39th birthday (and what a great birthday present that was). Since then I've been living on about a 2.3% withdrawal rate or less -- much better than hoped -- and am happier than ever.
I'm also busier than ever. Not sure how I ever had time for work! ;-) Just for fun I thought I'd check on the "original" (for me) www.retireearlyhomepage.com to see what was new. I've a lot of catching up to do, and am not even sure if I'll get there, but thought I'd at least drop a line. And I figured it can't hurt to brush up on some of the things I learned before I actually RE'd. Some of you who've been here a few years may remember me.
Re: Whatever happened to Mesomic?
I don't go that far back at MF, about the time they started charging. I am close to retirement, maybe next year if there are buyouts or a bit later.
But it does involve planning issues so its good to know how it works for different people.
One of the biggest issues for me was and continues to be a [slight] feeling of not being a "productive citizen." I'm actually quite productive at most everything I do. But I do what *I* want to do. I generally go to bed later and get up earlier than when I was working full time, and I still feel like there aren't enough hours in the day to do all that I want to do. And yes, it's true that sometimes I take a nap, or even three, during the day. ;-) But usually not. I do some volunteer work but most of my time is spent among my many, many hobbies.
There is clearly envy among family and friends. I have to be careful not to be too "in your face" about being retired -- especially being so young. I generally try to "steer" conversation with new people I meet so that I'm not asked what I do for a living. It was fun to boast about retiring at 38 a few times but to be honest I don't enjoy boasting about it anymore -- not even to other folks who are retired, as they're usually older and still seem to be envious. For a while I made up occupations to tell people: investor, philosopher, consultant, etc. Sometimes I still do. But my tax return says "retired" and has for a few years now.
Other than those two things, and the slight but decreasing worry about whether my money will last the rest of my life, ER has been *great*. No regrets whatsoever. That said, I often daydream about working again, believe it or not! But it will definitely be something where *I* call the shots this time around. Should be fun, even if I don't make any money. In fact, it might be fun *because* I won't be making any money at it. Ha!
One of the biggest issues for me was and continues to be a [slight] feeling of not being a "productive citizen."
Interesting comment, given the recent mention of Ted and his feelings about being a productive citizen.
That said, I often daydream about working again, believe it or not! But it will definitely be something where *I* call the shots this time around. Should be fun, even if I don't make any money. In fact, it might be fun *because* I won't be making any money at it. Ha!
This message board probably hasn't been around long enough to have many examples, but I wonder how many people who retire early, especially when it is very early, end up going back to work for one reason or another.
I only know one...a guy on the TMF REHP board who sort of day-traded AAPL stock and made a bunch. He was like 25 when he retired and I think had to scale back his retirement about a year later when he made a string of bad trades.
Anyone remember him or what happened to him? I want to say his userid was 4aapl or something like that.
Anyone remember him or what happened to him? *I want to say his userid was 4aapl or something like that.
Yeah, I remember him. *I was just lurking on the REHP (and the Fool in general) at that time. *IIRC he didn't retire but only planned to based on a fluffed up portfolio value that was mostly (completely?) in tech stocks. *When the downturn came in 2000 and his trading "geniusness" was shown to be equivalent to the other market timers he had to postpone plans of retirement.
I just did a quick check on the Fool and he's still posting there - I'm comped out the wazoo by the Fool and so my account is valid till sometime in 2008.
Always good to hear a success story!
I often daydream about working again, believe it or not!
Personally I wake up screaming.
But except for the "productive citizen" part, everything else you've said goes double for me.
Martha, I hope you're healing fast and eagerly anticipating physical torture rehabilitation. It's apparently very hard to persuasively explicate how one can retire from a 60-hour workweek to "nothing" and subsequently end up too busy to even think about returning to the office. But your creative juices presumably started flowing during your vacation and you'll surely find plenty of things to do during your new (temporarily) sedentary lifestyle. The trick is to extend that same beginning to the rest of your life.
From the books I've read (admittedly not from any of TH's unbiased sources) I'd say the recidivism rate is over 50%. However among that population it's very difficult to separate the "I'm bored" from the little white lies disguising "I'm bankrupt." I'd say they're evenly split among those who wish to return to work and those who wish they'd invested more aggressively (or with more savings).
I suspect that all ERs feel some degree of survivor guilt. ("How could I achieve this without everyone else I know? What let me escape their fate?!?") I was thoroughly brainwashed by the military but luckily I found several mentors (both positive & negative) and broke out of the mold. Ted was an extremely influential negative example.
When I first started posting here I frequently pestered the more "experienced" ERs with questions about upcoming pitfalls & surprises. Most of the answers ranged from "What pitfalls?" to "I'm surprised I didn't do this years ago!" I know it's turning into a cliche, but each ER experience is highly individualized and the only way to know how you'll turn out is to start experiencing it for yourself. If you weren't faxing & phoning the office twice daily from the road (OK, at least after the first week) then you should be able to survive. And thrive!
One of my in-laws did the same-- traded his schoolteacher's salary into small-cap stocks and an early retirement. He did this in the 60s & 70s no less. So he ER'd in his late 30s, moved to LA, and started auditioning for commercials & sitcoms. It paid for his travel & hobbies but he was living off his investment trades for over two decades.
Re: Always good to hear a success story!
Martha, I hope you're healing fast and eagerly anticipating physical torture rehabilitation.
Hey, I am still taking the pain killers. No worries for me.
If you weren't faxing & phoning the office twice daily from the road (OK, at least after the first week) then you should be able to survive. And thrive!
Checked email twice a day--does that count?
We love you here too Martha.
Tough love. Although if they REALLY loved you they'd be sending a courier to your house with the paperwork... and chocolate.
What a great idea Nords! The inbox fills up a little too much, you eat it!
As far as unbiased sources...there arent any. In fact, its hard to find any information source that isnt biased by the provider, the aggregator AND the reporter. Its all a matter of interest...if you dont care, you dont bother providing, aggregating or reporting. If you do care...you've got an influencing bias.
.. he was living off his investment trades for over two decades.
Then in 1997 he became convinced that the NASDAQ was overvalued and he spent the next two years shorting it. He shorted himself right back into the classroom.
It is amasing that he could still return to his previous profession. For certain occupations, i.e., engineering, there is no way that one can go back to the same profession without additional training.
LA schoolteacher-- middle-school math & science. The district even let him buy back into his pension plan.
I hear there's a lot of vacancies in that niche of the field... I bet they're real flexible.
Regardless of the working conditions, he says it's a lot better than the early 1960s Merchant Marine.
Congratulations. I also ERed at 38 and have many of the same experiences. Sometimes I have -nightmares- about my old jobs, even though I actually enjoyed working. I don't mind helping family, but most of the help that I'm asked for is financial planning. I live 5000 miles from most of them, so I'm available for emergencies, and not for painting the fence.
Man, I wish my folks would ask me for financial advice.
The funny thing is that frequently I'm asked for financial advise, but my suggestions are rarely followed. Some of them (parents, and siblings) trust their 'gut' instincts -- I don't. After years I'm convinced that a balanced fund approach is best for the average person who doesn't like to see significant fluctuation in individual assets.
I hear ya, John. And we're still waiting for the grandparents to swoop down and take the kid for a day or two... or a month.


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Honduras vs. USA World Cup qualifier: Sept. 5, 2017
World Soccer Talk September 5, 2017 Where to find on TV 11 Comments
If you're trying to find out how you can watch Honduras vs. USA in the World Cup qualifier, you've come to the right place.
After losing to Costa Rica on Friday, the United States Men's National Team faces a difficult test on Tuesday night against Honduras. The game will not be televised on ESPN or FOX Sports. Instead, you can only find it on beIN SPORTS and Universo, as well as legal streaming services. More details below.
Match: Honduras vs. USA
Kickoff: Tuesday, 5:35pm ET
Looking to watch Honduras vs. USA online from your work, home or on the go? If you live in the USA, there are several options to catch all the action.
US Only.
Here are all of the details of where you can watch it on television and via legal streaming:
Who: Honduras vs. USA
What: World Cup qualifier
When: Game kicks off at 5:35pm ET / 2:35pm PT; Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Where: Live on beIN SPORTS, Universo, Sling World Sports (7-day free trial)
With Sling World Sports, you can watch Honduras vs. USA and tons of other World Cup qualifiers with a free 7-day trial. With the legal streaming service, you can watch the game on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or hook it up to your TV with Google Chromecast or Roku.
Plus Sling World Sports, the legal streaming service, also streams MLS, select USMNT and USWNT games, Euro 2020, select World Cup qualifiers, Euro 2020 qualifying games, DFB Pokal, select friendlies, UEFA Super Cup, World Cup 18/22/26, Women's World Cup 2019 and more.
The Sling Orange app is available for Windows 7 & higher, Apple computers (Lion 10.7 & higher), Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire tablet (running Android 4.4.2+), Roku, Android TV, ZTE, Channel Master, Apple iOS 8 (& higher) phones & tablets, Android 4.0.3 (and higher) phones & tablets, Xbox One.
SEE MORE: Schedule of World Cup qualifiers on US TV and streaming
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Oliver Tse September 5, 2017
Looks like Telemundo Deportes will have its "B" team calling the Honduras vs USA match on Universo from Hialeah, Florida: Copan Alvarez (pxp) and Sammy Sadovnik (analysis). Ana Jurka should be the host as she is Honduran. The last time Universo did a Honduras match, Frederik Oldenburg was on the ground as the reporter.
That would allow Telemundo Deportes to save its "A" team for Costa Rica vs Mexico on Telemundo: Andres Cantor (pxp), Manuel Sol (analysis), Carlos Hermosillo (studio pundit), and Miguel Gurwitz (host).
beIN has rounded up freelancers from the "B" list to go with staff talent Kevin Egan (host), Phil Schoen (pxp), and Julian Gonzales (reporter – HON bench): Jovan Kirovski (analysis), Carlos Bocanegra (studio pundit), Ali Kreiger (studio pundit), Jimmy Conrad (studio pundit), and Heath Pearce (reporter – USA bench).
Every word that comes out of Bocanegra will be parsed and dissected, as he is the undisputed front-runner for the studio pundit role on UEFA Champions League telecasts on Turner Sports (truTV, TNT, TBS) starting next season. He is the prohibitive 1-20 favorite to land that job (95% probability) for one reason and one reason only (besides his resume, which is more than good enough): he lives in Atlanta and he can do the job at least $500/day cheaper (no travel cost) than any other candidate.
Fake Soccer Insider September 5, 2017
Love how you feel the need to include your turner front runner line in every long wind bag post you make like you are involved in the process. I am surprised you didn't mention Katy Riley or Brittany Arnold again. Only people who will be dissecting his words are losers with nothing better to do than play pretend soccer broadcaster insider.
The Auditor September 5, 2017
Surprised he didn't bring up the names of Telemundo execs, or tell us to watch YouTube clips of Bocanegra to judge for ourselves, or tell us how Andres Cantor was hard to understand in the OIympics in 2000, or how the PxP'r misidentified a goal scorer in an Atlanta United match on regional TV months ago…
Jack S. September 5, 2017
Signed up with fubo.tv today and was watching some of the Brazil v. Columbia match on my Roku and then tried to change to the USA v. Honduras game and the fubo.tv app on the Roku no longer loads. Rebooted the Roku and get the same thing – app launches and I see 'Retrieving….' on the screen for about a minute or two then the app exits.
Then tried to access the game via my web browser through fubo.tv's website. No dice. I click on the link to the live match on their home page after signing in and I see a black page with an endless spinning circle.
Anyone else experiencing trouble with fubo this afternoon? I'm thinking a cancelled membership and a refund is in my immediate future.
MDFootball September 5, 2017
Yes, same here.
Tried to access http://fubo.tv from another PC in the house (via web browser) and their website routes me to a webpage that says that fubo.tv is not available in your area.
Nice. Complete meltdown, by the look of it. I guess I'm off to find a stream somewhere on the Internet.
Christopher Harris September 5, 2017
If you're experiencing issues with fuboTV not working, try Sling World Sports (which offers a free 7-day trial). Sign up at http://worldsoc.cr/2wDzVOU
Thanks for the tip! Did that just now and am currently watching a "Hair Club for Men" commercial. Hopefully it's a halftime advert.
Ken September 5, 2017
Glad us soccer chose a second rate and unavailable network to show the cup… would hate to see soccer gain traction with greater visibility via espn and the like….
imo you shouldn't have to search high and low to see our national team….. yet tennis me around the horn are readily available on espn as substitutes…. pathetic marketing and viability effort by us soccer…..
CTBlues September 6, 2017
The US doesn't have the rights to away games. FOX and ESPN don't want to pay the crazy fees the local FA's charge for the CONCACAF WC qualifiers so the sheiks of Qatar pay for it so be grateful because the only way we used to get them was if a bar paid a satellite company to show it with a cover charge similar to the Six Nations in rugby.
As for the Open Cup I think the final is the only game on BeIn. ESPN has games mostly on ESPN3 but they televise some if the match up is good and they have opening in their schedule.
The US Open Cup Final will be on ESPN2 on September 20.


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Django Unchained:
Another Jewish Wet Dream
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Quentin Tarantino's last movie, Inglourious Basterds (2007), tells the story of a group of American Jews who team up with a non-white (an Amerindian-white mix from Tennessee with an Italian name, like Tarantino himself), to torture, mutilate, and slaughter evil white men and women (Germans, Nazis) during World War II. 'Terds, in short, is nothing but an elaborate fantasy of Jewish sadism and revenge. Tarantino's producer, Lawrence Bender, told him, "As your producing partner, I thank you, and as a member of the Jewish tribe, I thank you, motherfucker, because this movie is a fucking Jewish wet dream." Lovely people.
Tarantino's latest movie, Django Unchained (2012) tells the story of a black former slave, Django (Jamie Foxx), who is trained as a bounty hunter by an itinerant German dentist, Dr. Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Django and Schultz then try to locate and buy Django's wife Broomhilda (sic). Once Broomhilda is discovered, Django goes on to slaughter countless evil whites: slave owners, their sisters, toothless inbred redneck morons, slave traders, and the horses they rode in on — apparently with exploding bullets, given the geysers of blood, severed limbs, and flying entrails that, aside from inducing nausea and nervous laughter, give the film a tiresome, farcical feel.
Chattel slavery was an evil institution inflicted upon black slaves and free whites alike by America's small, sociopathic capitalist class, which included such revered "Founding Fathers" as Presidents Washington and Jefferson, who, to advance the economic interests of their class, used a lot of high-flown twaddle about rights, freedom, and equality to get the rabble to fight and die in a war of secession from England.
When America was founded, it was an overwhelmingly racially and culturally homogeneous country, but it was never really an organic community in which social inequalities had to justify themselves by serving the common good. Instead, it was a liberal society in which individuals, who possess "rights" that trump considerations of the common good, sought to enrich themselves by means that a decent society would not have permitted, including slavery.
Ideally, America would have been a classical republican society with a broad middle class of self-employed farmers, tradesmen, craftsmen, and merchants. To prevent the loss of freedom that comes when a few wealthy men end up employing masses of poor men, enterprising individuals would have been kept in check, so that there would be few employers and few employees. Capitalism and inequality would, in short, have been subordinated to the common good.
The second best option would have been the regulation of capitalism by a strong political alliance of independent smallholders and organized labor, with the aim of creating a genuinely organic republic. (The labor movement, in my opinion, is the one truly heroic chapter in American history.) Under such a system, slavery would have been abolished peacefully and bloodlessly, with compensation, as it was virtually everywhere else, and all blacks would have been repatriated to Africa to enhance the racial and cultural homogeneity that are the greatest blessings and strengths of any society. Large plantations would have been split up into small, independent farms. The people from the big houses would have learned to pick their own damn cotton.
It would be wonderful to have a movie that dramatizes the true evils of slavery, and of capitalism more broadly, from a pro-worker, pro-smallholder point of view. But Django Unchained is not that movie. The truth about slavery was evil enough. One does not need to exaggerate or tell lies about it. But this movie is filled with ludicrous lies and just plain indifference to the truth.
A title card informs us that the movie is set in 1858, "two years before the Civil War." The Civil War, of course, began in 1861.
In one scene, we see masked vigilantes on horseback, presumably the Ku Klux Klan, which was not founded until 1865.
When Dr. Schultz learns that Django's wife is named Broomhilda, he tells the story of Siegfried and Brünnhilde, incorporating elements of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, the libretto of which had been written in 1852 but circulated only among Wagner's friends. The two operas from which Dr. Schultz was borrowing, Die Walküre and Siegfried, premiered in 1870 in 1876 respectively.
At one point, we are ushered into the Cleopatra Club, a lavish brothel full of black whores. (It seems odd that white men would prefer black whores when white whores were plentiful.) The historical Cleopatra, the seventh of her name, may have been a bit of a whore, but she was a Macedonian Greek, not a black.
The Cleopatra Club is decorated with busts of Queen Nefertiti, who lived 1,300 years before Cleopatra, and who was not black either. The particular bust that is reproduced, which is in the Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin, was unearthed in Tel-el-Amarna in 1912.
But why be pedantic, given that this movie is created by a consummate cynic for an audience of morons?
In one of the salons of the Cleopatra Club, its owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) is overseeing a "Mandingo fight" between two strong blacks. The fight does not take place in a ring, but just at one end of a room, surrounded by the chairs of spectators — an absurd, impractical, and unsafe arrangement, given that these men are fighting to the death. (There is no evidence that slave owners ever had such gladiatorial contests, by the way.)
After a lot of grunting and some eye-gouging, Candie orders the victorious slave to dispatch his opponent with a claw hammer. Later Candie orders a runaway slave torn to pieces by dogs. Yes, this is a disgustingly sadistic movie: the Marquis de Sade meets Uncle Tom's Cabin (a characterization I was saving for Mandingo [1975], which now seems like a Jane Austen adaptation by comparison).
The message of this movie to blacks is that white people are loathsome sadists and morons who should be killed with utmost brutality and dispatch. Louis Farrakhan described the movie as "preparation for race war." White people have died because of this movie, just as white people have died because of the lies Anderson Cooper and other people in the media told about George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. Thus we should count ourselves fortunate that Django Unchained is so long and boring (at 2 hours and 45 minutes) that it puts insuperable demands on the average black attention span. (At least we'll know for sure next summer, if babies start turning up with names like Broomhilde and Phrenology.)
If Tarantino had merely wanted to whip up blacks into a murderous rage against whites, he would have made a very different movie. But Tarantino had quite another audience in mind. Tarantino wants an Oscar. He wants it bad. Thus Django Unchained is another Jewish wet dream. This is a movie calculated to appeal to Jewish hatred of white Americans. Specifically, Django Unchained is about the Jewish strategy of using blacks as biological weapons of mass destruction against whites. (Released on Christmas Day, so Jews could see it either before or after dinner at a Chinese restaurant.)
The key to the filmmaker's intent is that Christoph Waltz plays the character of Django's partner, Dr. Schultz, as Jewish.
When Dr. Schultz first appears, he is driving a little peddler's wagon with a large, spring-mounted model of a tooth bobbing drolly on top. He is an itinerant dentist with a foreign accent. He is physically small and nonthreatening, with a shambling gait, and his arms and hands held close to his body. He is a real talker though, with a smooth patter and large vocabulary that the stupid, taciturn goyim find off-putting. But appearances are deceptive, because Dr. Schultz is actually a cold, calculating killer who employs complex subterfuges and a gun up his sleeve to get his way. He is a bounty-hunter, who prefers to bring them in dead. He likens his work to the slave trade: human flesh for cold, hard cash. But his wares can't run away.
Hateful fantasies about teaming up with blacks to harm whites are staples of the Jewish imagination. During the 2008 US presidential campaign, Sandra Bernhard warned Sarah Palin to stay away from the Jewish stronghold of New York City lest she be "gang-raped by my big black brothers":
During the 2012 US presidential campaign, Bill Maher warned whites not to vote for Mitt Romney because "Black people know who you are, and they will come after you":
But the black-Jewish alliance against whites goes far beyond the fantasies of psychopaths with media megaphones. It is an integral part of the Jewish community's strategy for advancing its collective interests in America.
As our own Andrew Hamilton ably sums up, before the Civil War, Jews were overrepresented among the people who created and benefited from Negro slavery. Furthermore, they played almost no role in abolishing it. However, as Kevin MacDonald exhaustively documents, after the immigration of millions of East European Jews at the end of the 19th century, Jews began to regard black civil rights as a way that they could increase their own communal power by eroding the power of the white majority. Thus Jews have taken the lead in promoting black political emancipation, social mobility, and cultural visibility — all at the expense of the white majority.
It is, of course, impossible for the director of Pulp Fiction to create 2 hours and 45 minutes of film that are completely devoid of charm, although Django Unchained is Tarantino's worst effort. My favorite parts are Fritz the horse, the Spaghetti Western music, and Samuel L. Jackson's performance of Calvin Candie's loathsome and obsequious head house nigger Stephen.
Stephen enjoys great familiarity with and influence over Massa Candie. In front of others, he is the Massa's faithful echo: "Yassa, dass right." But in private he pours himself the Massa's cognac and tells him what's what. Yet he is so jealous of his status as head nigger that he never considers doing anything for the good of his people. Indeed, he is more zealous about degrading his fellow blacks than Candie himself, who is a proven sadist.
Jackson is a brilliant actor. All he needed to bring this role alive was five minutes watching Tarantino interacting with Harvey Weinstein.
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Most Hollyweird movies are 'jewish wet dreams'. But there is exceptions:
http://www.natvan.com/PeopleIKnow.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_(2011_film)
Nicolas Winding Refn is our generation's greatest auteur. I await the day when CC reviews his films.
I wonder if the Broomhilda plot is a sort of racial reversal of "The Searchers", where the Comanche chief keeps the kidnapped White girl as a mistress/wife.
While he was certainly schmoozing it up for the Oscar, I cannot imagine that Tarantino, being his autistic cinemaniac self, would consciously want to do a film to stir up Blacks. I guess that is a side effect he wasn't aware could happen, and that blindness fits his type. Despite his flirtation with his alledged "Indian heritage" (a SWPL thing), he is essentially a good White liberal who thinks he is doing something good and just for the blacks. Maybe he even identifies with the Christoph Waltz character. It might be "passover syndrome", as that type of liberal is incapable to actually imagine how Black eyes will view this and feel about it. Also, he loves to show violence for violence's sake. He probably had old exploitation flicks in mind such the notorious "Addio Uncle Tom", which targeted basically White audiences for shock value entertainment, hiding behind moral pretensions. In any case, it was irresponsible to do that film, as it adds certainly fuel to the postracial Obamerica, and it will make the divisions even more visible. Jamie Foxx cheering how great it was to "shoot white people" won't pass unnoticed. I wonder how it will make Whites feel, who watch this in theatres with a majority black audience… any self-respecting White should boycott this film. If anything, this is a test, how low their sense of self-respect and self-consciousness has sunk.
Finally, a great and truthfull review of a Hollywood movie. It WON'T get points with either former record store employee turned genius Hollywood "director", nor his boss.
Jungleboots
Prior to the abolishing slavery the negro was housed,fed, clothed, looked after medically and worked. After slavery ended the negro was housed,clothed,fed, looked after medically and does not work, oh and gets paid on top of all that.
With the industrial revolution starting soon after the war the negro was soon to be obsolete anyway. With the European man's iventiveness the negro and his labor were no longer needed and his usefulness and contributions were all but a memory and now as in 1865 he is nothing but a burden for he fits in nowhere that is civilized.
I almost feel sorry for Christoph Waltz. I think the man had the potential to be a great but instead choose to be the German/White version of Stepin Fetchit.
Truly sickening is the fact that not only were slave masters in the South not making their slaves (which had cost more then the average man made back then) fight to the death, but that according to John Sack in An Eye For An Eye, genocidal Jews and Poles made German civilians do so at bayonet point. Perhaps this would only make Tarintino and Waltz laugh if they knew about it.
Wow. Nicely put. Great article.
Tarantino is an obvious sellout, pathetic and grovelling. Doubtful it will get him anything else than more of a platform to brainwash the masses.
Reminds me of a line from the new BSG where the skinjob tells the human that sold our her race: "Do you think that just because you are more enlightened then the rest of your kind that we hate you any less?"
I don't agree on the interpretation of dr Schultz. He is obviously not supposed to be Jewish, but is portrayed clearly as a proud, albeit liberal, German nationalist. In fact, it would not be a large stretch of imagination to assume that he was one of the many liberal nationalists driven into American exile by the failed national revolution of 1849. This would explain his Wagner aficionados as well, since Wagner had been a fellow fighter in that struggle.
It easy to forget that romantic German nationalism wasn't always the enemy of liberal modernity, but rather, at its beginning, its main champion. Such a liberal nationalist would reasonably be an abolitionist of the worst kind as well.
All is not Jewish that glimmers.
Hollywood deals in stereotypes, not nuanced realities. This movie certainly deals in grotesque stereotypes. So although Germans like Dr. Schultz may have existed in the real world, that does not change the fact that the character is not played as a stereotypical German but as a stereotypical Jew.
Sutton Who?
Dr. Johnson,
You know I generally hold your work in high esteem, but I really have to question your cynical characterization of the American founders. Do you really think that Washington and Jefferson were mere "sociopathic capitalists" who cynically appealed to liberal principles to trick their fellow colonists into killing and dying in a war of secession to advance nothign more than oligarchical class interests? This sounds like a purely Marxist reading of the American Founding to me.
I'm not dogmatically committed to that position, but I do think it is worth making an experiment of deconstructing American capitalism all the way back to the Founders.
1. I think that slavery is a rather transparently evil institution that requires a certain amount of sociopathy or at least moral callousness and hypocrisy to create and sustain it. All a slave trader or slave owner would have to do is ask himself: Would he like to be a slave? All he would have to do is enter imaginateively into the life of a slave and ask himself if this is the sort of life he would like to live. And if not, then why is he inflicting it upon another human being?
2. Jefferson and Washington were highly intelligent men. They were capable of appreciating the suffering of the enslaved. They knew they would not wish to live such a life. And they knew that they were not immune to dramatic reversals of fortune. If the war had been lost, they would have likely hanged. They also knew of the incompatibility of Negroes and whites, the inability for them to live in the same society in conditions of freedom and equality. They knew the damage to free whites done by a slave economy. They knew the dangers to society presented by free blacks. But they didn't care enough to fix these problems. They didn't care enough about the common good.
3. Jefferson certainly did not believe that all men are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. He owned slaves, after all. He knew that Negroes, free or slave, were bad for white society as a whole. But he did not care about the life, liberty, and happiness of little white folk. What he did care about, however, was getting the little people on board to kill and die in a war of secession that would advance the economic interests of himself and many of the other signatories of the Declaration.
4. At the time of the founding, America was an overwhelmingly homogeneous society. Some of the Founders recognized this as a blessing. But it was not so important even to them to make the preservation of a common race, religion, and culture an explicit provision of the constitution. What was more important to them was the assertion of individual rights against the common good. Thus they created a society in which the pursuit of individual economic interests trumped the common good of the race in matters of immigration. Capitalists gained an advantage over free white laborers by importing black slaves and Asian coolies and by encouraging the immigration of ever more heterogeneous white stocks. And that is exactly what they did.
5. What was really important to America's founders and rulers? Liberal principles and natural rights? Or wealth? Clearly the latter. Sure, they were all for rights when it suited them. But when such notions got in their way, they were quickly dropped. Hence when the Indians or the Mexicans or the Labor movement got in the way of making money, America's oligarchs did not bow to the rights of others but resorted to the utmost brutality to maintain and enhance their position.
6. The American Constitution draws upon the best of the Western tradition of political philosophy. But it is essentially a liberal document, meaning that private interests trump the common good, meaning that the document makes no SERIOUS provisions for the perpetuation of the society it supposedly founds. The real foundation of American society — the common race, history, religion, and culture of the people — were simply treated as given, like the land and the buffalo, to be appropriated, consumed, and destroyed by private interests.
7. I believe that liberal individualism, by positing individual rights that trump the common good, i.e., by allowing individuals to enrich themselves at the expense of the common good, is immoral as such. You will not find a single Founder or leading figure in American political and economic history that is not tainted by this moral blight. America was doomed from the founding to become a raceless, rootless, oligarchical machine at war with the organic community that founded it.
WWWM
Well thought our reply. Thanks for this great review. I won't be seeing the movie.
Isn't their "twaddle" about rights one reason CC is allowed to operate as opposed to being shut down for hate speech? Your doors aren't getting kicked in, at least for the moment, because of the 1st and 4th amendments. To this day, civil libertarians frame their arguments against invasive legislation like the Patriot Act and NDAA using language straight from the 18th century 4th amendment. We get fair trials from the fifth. Gun rights from the second.
These aren't exactly minor points.
The anti-federalists were responsible for those critical additions to the Constitution, but, broadly, they shared the same worldview as Washington and Jefferson. Of course Jefferson didn't believe all men are equal, but does that necessarily make his make his soaring rhetoric twaddle for crass material interests?
I know you have a far deeper understanding of the issues than I do and respect that. My understanding has always been, however, based on the texts from the era and putting aside all the modern garbage about the era, Jefferson meant equal in a very, very narrow sense. They were proposing equality as a matter of political/legal right not literal equality. A concrete example of this, in my understating, would be the rabble getting the same free speech protections as the wealthiest merchants. They were proposing are new understanding of "equal" in terms of legal protections, not ability, status, etc.
All leaders use propaganda for their agenda to rally the masses. Hitler did too, and I think he really loved the Germans. But he had to shade the truth in public now and then.
Jefferson did too; his rhetoric might stand alone in English. I don't care how hokey and goofy people here consider it, his line about humbly pledging our "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" sends a shiver down my spine.
More importantly, note the phrasing: we pledge our lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. Fortunes. They knew they would lose their immense wealth if they lost, and, as you point out, hang by the neck until dead. You seem to be saying they risked all their wealth (and lives) to protect a portion of their wealth from taxes, motivated solely by the most crass and petty material concerns, not wanting to pay taxes.
I'm sure they were in part motivated by material concerns. As opposed to who? The British or French aristocracy, or the Vatican?
Which leaders are not motivated at some level by material concern? That's politics, geo-politics, reality. You can't get anything done with wealth, including pursuing high culture.
Hitler, again, the prototype for the leader who sacrificed all for his people, formulated a master plan that called for stealing land from Slavs for the material benefit of Germans. The material benefits of the secession from Britian did in fact filter down to the common man or rabble, just as the Slavic expansion would have presumably benefited Germans.
Then there is the complete absence of textual support (that I know of) for this reading of the founders' motives. There is nothing in the public documents, or in their the private letters and diaries, the gist of which is "let's manipulate these rabble to protect our wealth." I don't recall any writings, speeches or documents by the factions loyal to Britain making this argument either. No one (again that I know of) tried to dissuade people from dying for Washington and Jefferson to protect the rich man's wealth.
If part of your rationale for this reading is that there was a hidden, occult dimension to their motives that they kept out of public view, this gets into a general problem with occult interpretations. If it's hidden, no clear evidence, how can you know if a person was motivated by something?
Bottom line: I think the preponderance of the evidence is they were trying to act in the common good as they understood it. The better explanation for the deemphasis of organic unity is not indifference but that they just didn't realize the consequences this deemphasis would have long-term.
I think it's important not to fall into hagiography about the founding era. Conservatives tend to do this. Just as modern egalitarians see the founders as the worst racist demons, the conservatives see them as almost divine. Still, I don't think the evidence is very strong it was all a mask to justify capitalist accumulation. White Nationalists (not you) often distort the era as much as any cultural Marxist.
I don't think that rights exist by nature. But they do exist by convention. And yes, they are embodied in our legal code. So to the extent that most people believe in freedom of speech and the law protects us, these rights protect us. But when our rules think it is in their interests, they regularly ride roughshod over rights. But they do have to factor in public opinion to some extent. But the fact that we benefit from the existing legal system is no reason to think that we can't improve upon it.
As for the interpretation of the Founders' movtives, that is an issue I want to continue for another time.
Stronza
Maybe the two great ones just had a serious blind spot by today's standards. Having both come from comfortable, educated backgrounds, they likely viewed themselves as big daddies who "knew" what was best in the long run. Pure paternalism, not a scheming, manipulating mentality. Wish I could say the same about today's "leaders".
I like your response, Lew.
Jaego
On number 7: that is the situation of man under modern capitalism. And as Americans, we are the offspring of Mercantile Britain – the leading nation of the time if not the founder of modern Capitalism. Thus as strange as a mixing Howard Zinn and White Nationalism seems, I think there is something needed here. But it must remain an existential criticism not a personal one against the founders or a racial one against Whites. Needless to say, it always has been used this way in the past. Thus, this is very much an "in house" issue, but an important one. We need to do better in the future for sure.
On slavery: some of the signers knew that Black Slavery was a terrible way to start off the new republic. John Adams and his wife wrote to each other about it. But the Northerners who felt this way could not afford to alienate powerful Virginia and the Carolinas. There would have been no revolution or new nation if they had.
torgrim
Posted February 3, 2013 at 9:05 pm | Permalink
Well said, Mr. Johnson!
"America was doomed from the founding to become a rootless, race less, oligarchical machine at war with the organic community that founded it."
I say this from the perspective of one that has family in this country since the Civil War, that stupid brother war, that took my gr.grandfathers brother, as he, literally, "stepped" off the boat. The farm of my gr. grandfather was hewed out of a hard place and was a success for his family until the "American Clearances", of the 1980s when a large majority of the family farms were "transferred" to the corporate sector, er, oligarchs. In the long run, this is not about my family but the common good of all of the families that carved out a life for their children from a very hostile place in the beginning only to be appropriated through fraud and deception and transferred to the "Man".
Dick Idol
What a scream! I also thought Jackson's head house nigger role to be a biograph of Tarantino's head house nigger role to Weinstein. Samuel L's performance was the only entertaining thing about this long-winded bore.
Tarantino will always be haunted by the (now seemingly accidental) success of Pulp Fiction. It was a wonderfully entertaining flick, but now he obviously doesn't possess the power to make even an 'okay' B-movie anymore. 'Terds and Django were obvious attempts for Tarantino to find his way back into the hearts of American hipsters. He speaks of these two movies as if they are serious attempts to make a comeback. Unfortunately Tarantino's audience has gone from cinephiles to Cartoon Network's "adult" audience.
Greg, your seven points are brilliant, on elaborating what the founding fathers actually were like. Yes, leftists use many of these points to browbeat the average white person with, but that's only because of their hatred for the average white person,whom they viciously equate as having those same worst traits that the founding fathers did.
Lew wrote:
"You seem to be saying they risked all their wealth (and lives) to protect a portion of their wealth from taxes, motivated solely by the most crass and petty material concerns, not wanting to pay taxes."
I wish to remind you that the real reason our founding fathers fought against the mother country of Great Britain was they wished to wrest free from the Bank of England's control of money. It wasn't because of taxes. They preferred that the colonies issue it's own debt-free/interest-free currency, rather than use Bank of England's debt-based currency, which is very much like the Fed Reserve notes we use today.
It is explained more here: http://www.monetary.org/an-abbreviated-monetary-history-of-the-us-part-1/2010/11
Thanks for this information. That is a long article with a lot to chew on; I'll have to take a closer look later. Money and banking issues are an interesting vantage point from which to consider their motives and rationales.
Posted February 3, 2013 at 7:12 am | Permalink
Greg J wrote:
1. I think that slavery is a rather transparently evil institution that requires a certain amount of sociopathy or at least moral callousness and hypocrisy to create and sustain it. All a slave trader or slave owner would have to do is ask himself: Would he like to be a slave? All he would have to do is enter imaginatively into the life of a slave and ask himself if this is the sort of life he would like to live. And if not, then why is he inflicting it upon another human being?
Didn't our founding fathers consider their slaves to be less than a human being? After all, they wrote in the constitution that negroes were 3/5 of a human being. They did consider them in less capacity of whites.
Btw, slave system started with the indentured servants, and then a free black started American slave system as we know it by being the first American to own a slave.
Posted February 4, 2013 at 12:25 am | Permalink
Some one did respond to Dr. Greg Johnson's item #2 above about Jefferson/Washington :
I agree that the Founding Fathers had their shortcomings and that it is obvious today that the Constitution has some serious oversights and flaws. However, unlike Washington, Jefferson was not that wealthy. In fact, after he died, his estate was heavily in debt. Furthermore, Jefferson was an outspoken critic of slavery and worked his whole life to end it.
So, why did Jefferson own slaves?
People today are a bit spoiled and they tend to forget what it was like 200 years ago. Remember, that was a time before the industrial revolution. If Jefferson had not of owned slaves, his farm would not have been viable at all. Simple as that. And this was true of almost every Southern farm back then. The point is that: (1) Whites could not tolerate the heat of the South in the summer like Africans could; and (2) once one farmer started using slaves, all of them had to or else they will be undercut on price, and thus destroyed, in the marketplace. A similar situation exists today with outsourcing. Under such conditions, it is not so much a question of morality as survival. And the moral solution to the problem requires collective/governmental action, without which it won't ever be implemented.
The blame lies more with the system of government the Founding Fathers developed, and the constraints imposed on it by limited technology of the time, than any flaws of their characters. They generally wanted to do the right thing, they just didn't know how to bring it about.
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Senegal's water shortages require a long-term strategy
By AT editor - 6 July 2020 at 11:10 am
Senegal's capital Dakar is facing yet another water shortage, though this time concerns have been exacerbated by the ongoing Covid-19 epidemic and the greater need for personal hygiene.
"How do you wash your hands during a coronavirus crisis when the heat is coming?" Papa Mbodj, the father of a 9-month-old child, laments. "Water is a vital source, it is a primary need to which we are entitled."
The issue of access to water has been plaguing Senegal and the wider region for years. Shortages have already led to several instances of civil unrest, with a recent protest ending with local law enforcement dispersing villagers with tear gas and live rounds. More than 16 people were arrested following the incident, including four suspected organizers of the civil action.
Even so, the protesters have a point: secure and sustainable access to water, and therefore sanitation and hygiene, in West and Central Africa is a persistent challenge. Less than half of schools have access to water, and less than 40 percent of them also have access to adequate sanitation. More than a third of all people across the region do not have access to safe water at any time.
Even communities who do have access to water regularly face interruptions to a clean supply. In December 2019, photos of bright orange water spurting from a tap made the rounds on social media; the brackish liquid could not even be used to wash clothes or dishes. Instead, residents reported having to line up at a water truck, where water is distributed on a "first come, first served" basis. The source of the photos? The town of Foundiougne in southern Senegal, home to nearly 7,000 residents.
In 2020, Senegalese communities are battling the same issues as they have for decades, only now they are also trying to fend off a virus that has infected more than 11 million people worldwide. Without running water, basic sanitation requirements such as frequent hand-washing are impossible to meet, exacerbating the risk of rapid virus transfer among communities at an already critical time.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called upon governments and policy makers to ensure citizens are provided with the vital infrastructure to allow for life-saving hand hygiene in the face of the novel coronavirus. As such, the ongoing Covid-19 crisis has only highlighted the plight of African communities in securing access to safe water. The number of Covid-19 cases on the continent now exceeds 400,000 people, and a combination of limited healthcare facilities, high rates of HIV and tuberculosis and densely-populated slums has governments across Africa concerned about the potential spread of the coronavirus.
In Nigeria's Lagos, authorities have responded by deploying some 100 public handwashing stations in "strategic locations." One design "can be connected directly at public places such as markets, bus stations, hospitals and many other identifiable public places," said Princess Aderemi Adebowale, the Special Adviser to the Lagos Governor on Civic Engagement. "Members of the public can have access to water and dispensable soap to wash their hands."
In Kenya, authorities began distributing free sanitizer in March, while also calling on water companies not to shut down water supplies to citizens whose payments are overdue. Meanwhile, the South African government is investigating options to source groundwater and drill additional boreholes to service vulnerable communities. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, water shortages and access to clean water have become top policy priorities across Africa.
While long-term solutions are being investigated, quick fixes in this time of crisis are required to enable populations to maintain adequate access to water. An admittedly short-term – but nevertheless essential solution – is the supply of bottled water in areas where sanitation is at its lowest levels. Since bottled water is the safest option, governments in the region would be well-advised to ensure that sufficient supply is guaranteed.
At the same time, a host of innovative solutions are also being pursued by entrepreneurs and policymakers across the continent. From 3D-printed water filters to solar-powered water kiosks, the tools to solve Africa's water crisis promise a path to development that is nothing short of fascinating. In fact, the challenge pre-coronavirus appears to have been cultivating the necessary political willpower to roll out these solutions on a large enough scale.
But now that governments are in a state of emergency and can no longer postpone such urgent developments, progress could soon become a reality. Still, in Senegal and beyond, authorities' battles with ensuring a sustainable water supply have been compounded by constraints on physical water suppliers, rising demand and budget constraints for years.
Supplying safe drinking water and providing basic sanitation services to the entire African continent could cost up to $15 billion, according to World Bank estimates. It is little wonder, then, that the fight for access to clean water and adequate sanitation is an uphill battle that can only be won if the international community provides financial assistance for such infrastructure development projects.
Even so, there is also a very real hope that the coronavirus pandemic will finally provide the impetus for governments to invest in providing a reliable supply of potable water in earnest. "Don't waste a good crisis," says Inga Jacobs-Mata of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). In the case of Africa's fight for safe and sustainable access to water, he had better be right.
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