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I have read about how common it is to find these creatures mating. This is the first time I have ever caught a pair in the act. Then again he might just be scratching her back. John points out that this may be an example of mate guarding in which the male stands guard over the female to prevent other males from mating. bugguide.net/node/view/240590 There is extensive literature on this subject with reguard to the human as well as other species.
Put these two groups of Orchid blooms against a cream bkgd and felt the arrangement had the feel of a Chinese painting.
1957 BMW Isetta 300 in cherry condition. Spied this on Queen Anne Hill and fell instantly in love with it. Four wheels, but the rear wheels are closer together than the front. I understand from the owner that these were originally 3 wheel cars, but they added a fourth for stability. He says they were built to run on a BMW motorcycle engine. The door is actually the bonnet/dash. Took this with my iPhone.
Thanks for your views. Was surprised to see this hit Explore.
Heavy rain put our avalanche crews to work and Snoqualmie Pass was closed for about 12 hours on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. This is the view looking down on Franklin Falls and the snow packed Snoqualmie River from I-90.
Once the snow melts, there's a great hike over an old wagon road to the bottom of the falls. www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/franklin-falls
we put up a couple new shelves in my sewing area the other day. i like how they look with a print of david's painting 'beauty lives by kindness' & rows of serger thread.
p.s. david is going to have a shop online soon, so if anyone wants to buy prints of his amazing paintings... you'll be able to. updates to come.
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Put on the snake boots and walked out along the SW 196th Avenue Levee. Has been inaccessible since the hurricane felled trees which blocked all access points. Maintenance crews finally cutall the trees which were across the path but the path itself has not been cleared and is very overgrown with high grass. Sight distance to the west has improved as the strong easterly winds knocked down nearly all the trees near the canal and they flattened the vegetation along that side. Nearly all the tall pines are gone so it was difficult to find the old "sit spots." The sparrow field is almost entirely under felled trees and debris, so my hoped-for sightings of Savannahs and Swampies did not pan out.
Images from morning walk in the west Miramar (FL) wetlands.
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Put up to host his father Gerry's 70th, a little bit of Mongolia visits Watford Heath.
PB's yurt.
Photo by Gerry.
Put a nanoSIM in there inside an adapter and it wouldn't come out. Used violence, broke the SIM card slot. Managed to fix it...
Yes, I put my D7500 on a monopod and a timer, then raised above my head. Very carefully... thought I'd go for a unique angle.
You also can browse my 120+ and growing Abbotsford photos as I develop at flic.kr/s/aHsmMGbQhT . Enjoy!
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com
Crosby, Stills & Nash At Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, Australia
Crosby, Stills & Nash put on an impressive performance tonight at Sydney's famous Hordern Pavilion.
Often referred to as "the voice of a generation", they maintain universal appeal, as demonstrated at a very full Hordern Pavilion in Sydney tonight.
They've been performing together for four decades and have fans stretching across several generations.
The legendary folk rock trio played such beautiful songs such as Marrakesh Express, Wooden Ships, Teach Your Children, Carry On, Our House and Long Time Gone.
Australian music lovers were sure treated tonight.
John Nash announced to the crowd before the concert that he was sick but would still perform, and you could tell the crowd appreciated his honesty - a trait not always exhibited in the music industry. I thought John sounded fine, and of course he is supported by other world class artists.
They have been around for what seems like forever, but they have hardly missed a beat, and their music is timeless, and seems as relevant today as when they first got together.
Fans - don't miss your only chance to see one of the world's best ever supergroups when they come to your city.
Promo...
In the words of Crosby, Stills & Nash - it's been a long time coming - but the wait ends now! McManus Entertainment is thrilled to announce that music legends Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) - David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash - will tour Australia in March and April 2012.
Since forming in 1969, the world's first "supergroup" have delivered countless hits, with their timeless harmonies and melodic folk-rock becoming a cornerstone of today's rock 'n roll. In 2012 CSN will take to the road once again, as they have done on a recurring basis ever since their very first gig together before half a million people at Woodstock more than four decades ago.
Hailed as 'the voice of a generation', fans can look forward to yet another epic performance as they play songs from their amazing catalogue of hits, including Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, Marrakesh Express, Wooden Ships, Teach Your Children, Carry On, Our House, Long Time Gone, as well as the classic anthems of the Woodstock generation - Helpless and Woodstock.
The California sun-drenched embrace of their harmonies and musical variety has cemented their reputation as true music legends, but don't just take our word for it. In 1969, after seeing one of their shows, rock immortal Jimi Hendrix declared, "I've seen Crosby, Stills and Nash burnin' ass... they're groovy, Western-sky music," - and according to Rolling Stone, Jimi "knew what he was talking about."
These three consummate singer-songwriters have more than lived up to this reputation, with their masterpiece debut LP Crosby, Stills & Nash jumping straight to the top of the charts and Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list. That same year, they were honoured with the GRAMMY® award for Best New Artist and the following year 1970's Déjà vu also made the prestigious "500 Greatest" list. CSN have since captured the hearts and minds of an entire era, becoming inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, as well as the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2007.
CSN have been performing music together for more than four decades and have weathered changing times and various configurations, while simultaneously captivating the world with their peerless three-part harmony vocals, inspired songwriting, musical virtuosity and social activism.
Don't miss your chance to experience these iconic singer/songwriters perform live in 2012.
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Disregard email drafts, notes applications and daily agenda administrators: Taskade does all that and the sky is the limit from there
All that I have to keep my life running is put away on the web. Some place. I can't discover it.
I'm discussing all the record numbers, meeting notes, daily agendas, contact data and section drafts I have to see each day. Additionally the plans I need to cook, wines I have to attempt, and YouTube recordings I should watch. A portion of that stuff lives in my email inbox, and some in Google Docs. At that point there are my Pinterest sheets, incidental bookmarks and the Evernote account I can never compose lucidly.
In principle, the web makes it simpler than any time in recent memory to keep all that I need a couple of taps away. Actually, the web has a method of dividing our lives. It resembles I composed everything in a journal and afterward become inebriated, tore out each page and shrouded them in better places around my home.
Taskade makes an extraordinary device for easy plans for the day, and you can utilize photographs, emoticons and stock workmanship to tidy them up.
Photograph: David Pierce/The Wall Street Journal
In the course of recent weeks, an application called Taskade has helped me transform mayhem into request. Taskade joins huge numbers of the best highlights of Google Docs, Excel and Dropbox, alongside heaps of assignment the executives and hierarchical instruments. Taskade Labs Chief Executive Ivan Zhao depicts the item as "the up and coming age of Microsoft Office," which is a little hyperbolic and a ton aspiring. However, it is the best life-association device I've attempted.
Taskade consolidates the highlights of a note-taking application, an assignment the executives application and a spreadsheet device the way that Steve Jobs joined an iPod, a cellphone and an internet browser into the iPhone: All these devices cooperate to make something more than its parts.
I should make reference to that Taskade is genuinely costly: It has a restricted complementary plan, and expenses $8 every month for hefty use. All things considered, it may pay for itself in the applications it replaces, and I've discovered it effectively worth the expense.
I presently have a page with all my carrier and lodging faithfulness numbers in a bulleted list, over a photograph of my dental protection card and an installed map with bearings to my dental specialist's office. I made information bases with all the films, books, TV shows, and YouTube recordings I have to get to—every cell opens to a rich archive with my notes and considerations. Taskade has all the meetings, research material and frameworks for my segments. I'm getting hitched soon and am gazing intently at my marital daily agenda consistently.
One of Taskade's most up to date includes is an information base apparatus, which you can see as a table, a schedule and that's only the tip of the iceberg.
Photograph: David Pierce/The Wall Street Journal
I used to require five separate applications to keep so much stuff straight. Presently it's all in Taskade, a couple of snaps or a basic pursuit away.
Square by Block
It may be simpler to consider Taskade a super-straightforward web designer than a profitability application.
At the point when you open another page in the application, you're truly making a clear matrix onto which you can put and organize pretty much anything. The application's fundamental component is the square, which could be a passage of text, a bulleted list, a table, a picture, a code piece, a YouTube video, a PDF and that's only the tip of the iceberg. You embed blocks with a tap or console alternate way, and afterward reorder and sort out these however much you might want. You can without much of a stretch change the idea of a square, as well. For example, you can choose a lot of text and transform it into a daily agenda.
Taskade's essential component is the square, which takes numerous structures: text, joins, pictures, bookmarks and that's only the tip of the iceberg.
Photograph: David Pierce/The Wall Street Journal
Taskade resembles chess: simple to learn, hard to ace. The application itself looks genuinely natural, with a sidebar on the left and your open page on the right. It has a couple of stylish comforts, similar to the alternative to add a spread photograph to the head of any page.
At the point when you first open the application, however, it doesn't do what's necessary to assist you with understanding all that it can do. Even following quite a while of utilizing Taskade every day, I'm just currently making sense of the most proficient approaches to get things done while attempting to abstain from settling on awful design choices. Do I truly require a full-page photograph inside my daily agenda? My recommendation: Make weighty utilization of Taskade's layouts, since they help you spread out pages and show what the application's prepared to do.
There are local Taskade applications for Windows, Mac and iOS. Mr. Zhao says an Android application ought to be accessible inside weeks. The web application works wonderfully on work area and portable, as well, and it's precisely the same experience regardless of which stage you're utilizing.
Taskade is exceptionally reliant on web network. It works disconnected uniquely with pages you've opened as of late while associated—which implies everything you can do is cross your fingers each time you open Taskade on a plane. On the upside, you can implant tweets and YouTube recordings, even whole website pages, inside a Taskade report.
Photograph: David Pierce/The Wall Street Journal
In spite of the fact that I use Taskade to keep steady over my own work and life (and you ought to as well), Taskade is intended for business groups. It offers communitarian altering, inline remarks and valuable devices for overseeing consents and allocating undertakings. In the event that you utilize Slack, you can get cautions each time somebody remarks on or changes a Taskade archive. Is anything but a substitute for Slack or Salesforce, however it can supplant a significant number of the apparatuses endless organizations use to store and offer data.
All in one resource
Matt Galligan, organizer of the Picks and Shovels Co., a digital money administrations startup, offered a valuable representation for Taskade. He says utilizing the application is much the same as shopping on Amazon. Previously, "stores specific," he stated, "and they worked admirably." Then Amazon went along and accumulated everything. It perhaps wasn't the best store for any single thing, yet the one-stop comfort made it brilliant.
That is simply it: Taskade isn't as ground-breaking a spreadsheet device as Excel, and it doesn't have a portion of the errand the board highlights I need—when an undertaking is expected, I might want an alarm, for example. (Taskade says that is coming.) Yet the application has helped me shave the spots I hold stuff down to only two. I can't prevent email from coming in; I can put everything else in Taskade.
Photograph: David Pierce/The Wall Street Journal
There's parcels left for the Taskade group to do, obviously. Notwithstanding task updates, it's additionally taking a shot at schedule sync, PowerPoint-style introduction includes, a web trimmer, better disconnected help and that Android application. It's additionally wanting to help administrations, for example, Zapier and If This Then That (IFTTT), which help move information between applications. In any case, it as of now accomplishes more than any of its rivals.
For quite a long time, I've bobbed around different note-taking applications and efficiency devices, never entirely upbeat. Evernote makes it simple to catch data, yet I never preferred the interface. Google Docs and Keep don't offer enough highlights. Trello, Asana and other task the board programming don't work for note taking.
Taskade wires the best of each—and others—into an uncommon renaissance application, capable in endless techniques for creation and association. I can't put a cost on the true serenity that originates from an unfragmented life. Pause, yes I can: It's eight bucks every month.
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Disregard email drafts, notes applications and daily agenda supervisors: Taskade does all that and that's only the tip of the iceberg
All that I have to keep my life running is put away on the web. Some place. I can't discover it.
I'm discussing all the record numbers, meeting notes, plans for the day, contact data and segment drafts I have to see each day. Besides the plans I need to cook, wines I have to attempt, and YouTube recordings I should watch. A portion of that stuff lives in my email inbox, and some in Google Docs. At that point there are my Pinterest sheets, random bookmarks and the Evernote account I can never arrange soundly.
In principle, the web makes it simpler than any time in recent memory to keep all that I need a couple of taps away. In actuality, the web has a method of dividing our lives. It resembles I composed everything in a scratch pad and afterward become inebriated, tore out each page and shrouded them in better places around my home.
Taskade makes an incredible device for easy plans for the day, and you can utilize photographs, emoticons and stock workmanship to tidy them up.
Photograph: David Pierce/The Wall Street Journal
In the course of recent weeks, an application called Taskade has helped me transform mayhem into request. Taskade consolidates a significant number of the best highlights of Google Docs, Excel and Dropbox, alongside loads of undertaking the executives and authoritative instruments. Taskade Labs Chief Executive Ivan Zhao depicts the item as "the up and coming age of Microsoft Office," which is a little hyperbolic and a ton aggressive. Be that as it may, it is the best life-association apparatus I've attempted.
Taskade joins the highlights of a note-taking application, an assignment the executives application and a spreadsheet instrument the way that Steve Jobs consolidated an iPod, a cellphone and an internet browser into the iPhone: All these apparatuses cooperate to make something more than its parts.
I should make reference to that Taskade is genuinely costly: It has a restricted complementary plan, and expenses $8 every month for substantial use. In any case, it may pay for itself in the applications it replaces, and I've discovered it effectively worth the expense.
I presently have a page with all my carrier and inn faithfulness numbers in a bulleted list, over a photograph of my dental protection card and an implanted guide with bearings to my dental specialist's office. I made information bases with all the films, books, TV shows, and YouTube recordings I have to get to—every cell opens to a rich archive with my notes and considerations. Taskade has all the meetings, research material and diagrams for my segments. I'm getting hitched soon and am gazing intently at my marital plan for the day consistently.
One of Taskade's freshest highlights is an information base apparatus, which you can see as a table, a schedule and that's only the tip of the iceberg.
Photograph: David Pierce/The Wall Street Journal
I used to require five separate applications to keep so much stuff straight. Presently it's all in Taskad
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The very last photo in my series "Growth". This photo captured my dad tilling the garden after I had bush hogged the remains of dead plants. After we finished tilling we planted Rye and Vetch as a cover crop to help the soil for the next gardening season.
打你個小人頭，等你成世無出頭，十足豬泵兜。
打你個小人眼，等你眼紅兼眼坦，行路僕到喊。
打你個小人鼻，等你索野無曬味，鼻涕流到地。
打你個小人耳，等你耳嗚難制止，唱歌一舊屎。
打你個小人口，等你有氣無定抖，食親飯都嘔。
打你個小人手，等你有錢唔識偷，無鞋挽屐走。
打你個小人胸，等你呼吸唔暢通，肺癆兼中風。
打你個小人肚，等你惡運行到老，日日畀人告。
打你個小人腳，等你有鞋唔識著，出街無人約
A popular Chinese belief practice in Hong Kong, a voodoo-like ritual called Beating the Petty Person takes place at street junctions, which is believed that it will cast the evil away along the roads.
These cut-out paper tigers (called White Tiger despite its yellow appearance ) represent the evil omen (白虎), one can cast away these bad omen by offering (feeding) these tiger with fatty pork and sticky rice, it will then be burnt at the end of the ritual
Demanding boss, troublesome neighbour or annoying customer – now you can give that petty person holding you back a good pasting without having to do time for assault.
In Causeway Bay, the flyover known as Ngo Keng Kiu passes over a three-way junction, making it the ideal feng shui spot for dispelling evil.
It is here that Hong Kong’s ‘professional beaters’ gather. Don’t waste time waiting for tattooed heavies to show up; these fighters come in the form of old ladies. Just tell one who the person holding you back is and she’ll light some incense, make cut-outs of a paper tiger and beat the ‘petty person’ out of your life with her shoe while chanting a series of rhymed curses on the target person.
This ritual is considered to be more effective on Jing Zhe; – the first thunder of the year as predicted by the lunar calendar.
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check out more Hong Kong Streets & Candid shots here:
Taking the Streets in Hong Kong
For more on this unique tradition :
Petty Person Beating 鵝頸橋底的打手們
Explore the Chinese Cultures:
Chinese Traditions
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I didn't put any description of this picture for a long time due to scheduling of work. People been telling me, about why I self-mutilating, what's the idea? Someone even brought this up to be similar to the VT shooter!
Tsk tsk... I suffer dermographia. RoyalWitCheese explained the condition. So I take advantage of my condition and just wanna have some fun with it. There will be more pictures that might be similar to this in the future. I carry my own canvas in a sense. =p
Pardon for the quality of the picture. I shot this picture with my iPhone.
Day 5. 080510.
Project SoulPancake task: Give a stranger a compliment.
This one was actually really easy for me. I feel like i give a lot of people compliments, especially on the subway when people catch me looking at them. See, mostly i keep my eyes averted (to discourage crazies from striking up conversations), but i am easily distracted by shiny jewelry or cute shoes. And when i see someone see me see them, well then i feel like i ought to explain why i was staring. Hence, the compliment.
I think it's nice to compliment people on things, because i think often (maybe even especially here in NYC) people work hard on presenting a particular image of themselves. And it must please them to know it's working.
That's how i got the idea for this photo. I was remembering this time my best friend and i were sitting in the grass on our college campus (making fun of people, which isn't nice but i can't seem to help it), and we drew "popular" faces on paper and held them up in front of ourselves and told each other how pretty we were. Because we didn't think we had very pretty, popular faces. And everyone around us seemed to be wearing pretty, popular faces. And i wonder now how many of those faces were real.
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February 16th, 2015 - Bottlenose Capture and Slaughter — at Taiji Japan
Disturbing and sinister scenes this morning saw another swift drive end in the live capture of 5 adult Bottlenose Dolphins, plus the butchering of another 2 adults and 1 defenceless baby.
As this once completely free pod was driven in towards the Taiji Cove, the future of this small close-knit family remained uncertain. Relentless harassment from the circling skiffs and drive boats instilled fear and panic among the adults, as they searched for an escape route to freedom both for themselves, and the helpless baby dolphin clinging to their side. But their tireless efforts to escape were to prove completely futile.
In a truly disgusting display of power and gluttony, dozens of Taiji killers and dolphin trainers laughed and joked with excitement as some herded the pod towards their final taste of freedom, and others tossing used cigarette butts into the water as they waited. They were unable to contain their greedy and excitable expressions as their collective vision of hauling in the next "Cash-Cow Catch" was becoming reality. Five adults Bottlenose were hand picked by the local 'Taiji Whale Museum" trainers, harnessed into slings, then transferred to floating pens within the Taiji Harbour, where they now begin their epic journey of torturous starvation, medicated feeding and belittling hand signals from their new task masters and rulers. For the remaining two adults and the one defenceless juvenile, no time was wasted as they were subjected to the same pain and suffering as the thousands of small cetaceans slain in these waters before them. Today's livestream is available at livestream.seashepherd.org
Sites for more information :
Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians Page (official)
www.facebook.com/SeaShepherdCoveGuardiansOfficialPage
Cove Guardians
www.seashepherd.org/cove-guardians
Photo: Sea Shepherd
After having put a few stickers in place the rest looked so empty, so had to put one one more... and more... and more. I thought i might have overdone it a bit, but now I've had it like this for two days, and i like it. When it is dark in the room if i lay in bed reading on the screen the glittering of the HK plastic is kind of cosy.
1100 R Korčula, Samostan Anđela čuvara, Put sv. Nikole 31, Foto Berner 6168 sent 23.XI.1930. Dorica Janku Burgstalleru TDor 19301123c
Samostan Anđela čuvara u Korčuli zaživio je 1905. godine kao kuća matica nove Kongregacije koju je podigao iz postojećih zajednica u Šibeniku i Splitu hrvatski dominikanac o. Anđeo Marija Miškov. Samostan je odmah postao kuća novicijata. Godine 1906. otvoren je dječji vrtić. Privatna ženska građanska škola odobrena je 1910. godine, a pravo javnosti dobila je 1921.Godine 1915. otvorena je ženska pučka škola s pravom javnosti. Sestre su odgojile naraštaje djevojaka u kršćanskom i hrvatskom duhu. Tijekom II. svjetskog rata samostan je bio razrušen, a sestre su proživjele teške dane i godine. U vrijeme komunizma zabranjen je svaki javni odgojni rad. Sestre su od samih početaka na Korčuli skrbile za stare i nemoćne u staračkom domu Zaklonište. Otvorile su prvi laboratorij u gradu i počele sa zdravstvenom skrbi. Nakon ublažavanja političkih prilika 70 – ih godina prošlog stoljeća sestre su ponovno otvorile odgojno obrazovnu ustanovu dječjeg vrtića, a nakon otvaranja Doma zdravlja u Korčuli bile su većinski dio radnog osoblja. I danas je samostan Anđela čuvara kuća matica Kongregacije i kuća novicijata. Nakon demokratskih promjena sestre se stručno osposobljavaju za rad u predškolskom odgoju i danas uspješno rade s djecom u vlastitom, suvremeno opremljenom vrtiću koji svojim radom obuhvaća sve dobne skupine djece. Daju satove iz stranih jezika, glazbe i matematike. Prisutne su u školskom vjeronauku i župnoj katehezi u Korčuli i okolnim župama. Geslo “BOGU, REDU, NARODU” pod kojim je o. A. M. Miškov postavio na noge Kongregaciju, sestre nastoje ostvarivati i danas.
Stade Pierre-de-Coubertin, Lausanne, Switzerland
They throw a ball instead of a shot because of their young age.
Dear President Obama,
I am a liberal Democrat who donated time and money to put you in the White House. I, like so many others, worked hard making calls and knocking on doors to help get you elected President with the hope that you would use your office to save the disappearing middle class from the Republican induced slide into serfdom – not so you can “welcome” the same failed “Republican ideas” turning “The Land of the Free” into “The United States of Serfs and Lords” since Reaganomics declared war on those not “born on third base thinking they hit a triple,” as Anne Richards once said to describe George W. Bush.
I have been watching in anguish as you squander the mandate and the majority we worked for and negotiate away the progressive initiatives that would not only give the American People a chance, once again, at the American Dream, but also ensure the Democratic majority for generations.
Now I see you AGAIN pining for Republicans like a battered spouse pining for an abuser while the Republicans promise to destroy you – and by extension destroy WE THE PEOPLE.
I would agree that the midterms were a repudiation of your policies if the People were actually CORRECTLY INFORMED ABOUT THEM and having a conversation in the REAL WORLD. The FACT is that most people are woefully misinformed BY DESIGN and are wedded to outright lies perpetrated by Republican propaganda outlets like Fox “News.”
So, NO… The Republicans did not win because people embrace Republican policies... They voted AGAINST YOU because, besides the misinformation campaigns designed to make them stupid enough to vote for their own demise, the American People want a leader with a spine.
Your incessant penchant for capitulation sends the message that Republican ideas have merit and your constant submission merely makes you looks weak.
If you KNOW that the Bush tax giveaways to the rich will add 700 Billion to the deficit while not creating A SINGLE JOB, WHY WOULD YOU CAPITULATE to it? Republican ideas are what GOT US into this mess – which is why THEIR benefactors have the millions of dollars it takes to run misinformation campaigns targeting Democrats.
To quote Harry S. Truman, “The Democrats are for the people. The Republicans are for the special interests. They've always been for the special interests.”
This is the message you need to stick to – NOT “we welcome Republican ideas!”
Republican “ideas” can be broken down to two words – CHEAP LABOR… And now… WITH YOUR HELP… they are actively hurting the People for political gain.
SO WHY would you validate Republican policies that have FAILED THE WORKING PEOPLE whenever they are tried and collapsed the economy for a SECOND time in a century?
Why would you agree to policies that will guarantee more people fall into poverty while the rich disappear behind the walls of their gated communities?
When they attacked FDR, he FOUGHT BACK with COURAGE:
“…although I rubbed my eyes when I read it, we have been told that it was not a Republican depression, but a Democratic depression from which this Nation was saved in 1933 - that this Administration this one today - is responsible for all the suffering and misery that the history books and the American people have always thought had been brought about during the twelve ill-fated years when the Republican party was in power.
Now, there is an old and somewhat lugubrious adage which says: "Never speak of rope in the house of a man who has been hanged." In the same way, if I were a Republican leader speaking to a mixed audience, the last word in the whole dictionary that I think I would use is that word "DEPRESSION."
Are you really a Democrat or just so traumatized by growing up as a mixed-race child with an absent father that you can’t upset the big, authoritarian, white daddies whose approval you desperately long for?
Are you just an empty suit that doesn't have the courage of Democratic convictions?
Democratic Policies WORK - and we have history to back that up. The Dems gave us the New Deal policies that CREATED the America Dream and built the middle class!
Conversely, Republican policies destroyed the middle class, created the widest gap between rich and poor and turned America into the LEAST upwardly mobile of all industrialized nations.
I understand that there is a 24-hour propaganda channel devoted to destroying you (and that’s another thing. Why would you walk back from THE TRUTH when your administration called Fox “News” an arm of the Republican Party? THAT IS THE REALITY –and their million-dollar donation to the RGA is just a confirmation of what everyone knows. Why do you NEVER stick to your guns?) …but SOOO WHAT?
The TRUTH and the TRAGEDY is that people who are paying attention know that you have done more for the middle class in 2 years than ALL Republicans have done since well before the time Reaganomics declared war on working people.
Unfortunately, your “bipartisan Kum Bah Ya” nonsense helped blow Republican booby traps in policies that COULD HAVE BEEN IMMEDIATELY EFFECTIVE for the people.
If you think that FINALLY Republicans will come to the table as the “Team of Rivals” you yearn for now that they’ve gained a majority in the House, you better come to his senses.
Capitulate to the GOP again and again and AGAIN and they will STILL call you a Socialist, a Marxist, a Kenyan, an "other." They will still work to destroy you (and US) – that’s a PROMISE reiterated repeatedly by Mitch McConnell - to ensure your policies fail, the America People CONTINUE to suffer, and you are a one-term President.
I’m sure you know that “undecided voters” or “Independents” are, in actuality, low-information voters. They don’t pay attention to politics until the last 2 weeks before the election. Then they turn on the TV and hear Republicans railing against you and they DON’T SEE ANY CONCRETE IMPROVEMENT in their lives, so it’s easy to be conned.
For instance… a health bill that keeps the insurance racket in charge AND doesn’t kick in until 2014 DOESN’T do ANYTHING to fix the miseries of TODAY!
Was it worth secretly bargaining away the STRONG PROGRESSIVE LEGISLATION OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORTED BY THE PEOPLE – The Public Option - to get the vote of Olympia Snowe?
You should have come out fighting with MEDICARE FOR ALL and then negotiated your way into a Public Option that KICKS IN IMMEDIATELY.
You gave the Republicans and their “privileged Princes”, as FDR called them, all the time in the world to “catapult the propaganda” and run the “BIG LIE” strategy on so-called “Obamacare” plunging the approval ratings for a program that forces insurance ghouls to treat people like humans – rather than hosts from which to suck profit – from above 70% approval to below 50%.
These numbers should be a reminder of the power of propaganda –not a reflection of what the people think is an effective policy.
So you squandered your mandate and your majority - but don’t for A SECOND think it is because the American People rejected liberal democracy – they rejected fecklessness and inaction.
Instead of trying to reflect Lincoln’s so-called “Team of Rivals”, you needed to be more like FDR – and UNAPOLOGETIC DEMOCRAT on the side of the people who never missed the opportunity to remind them which Party plunged them into Depression – and which Party pulled them OUT.
If you had reached back through the proud history of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY and channeled FDR – creating something like a 21st Century Civilian Conservation Corps to put people back to work IMMEDIATELY, you (and by extension US) would not be in the position of having to endure another round of Republican assault on the working people of America.
When Democrats act like Democrats instead of "Republican Light" they win elections. Period. Just ask Blanch Lincoln and the other 20 Republican-Light “Blue Dogs” joining the ranks of the unemployed.
Why are you begging for Republican ideas when DEMOCRATIC ideas, policies and ACTION, CREATED the American Middle class? Before the New Deal, we had a country that was reflective of "Oliver Twist" - an upper class that ran everything and had all the wealth a small mercantile class and an EXTREMELY LARGE pool of poor, cheap labor to exploit.
These are pesky facts that the “undecided” voters don’t know. YOU need to REMIND THEM!
Reach back into the great history of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY for inspiration. We have plenty to be proud of and Republicans have… who? Lincoln? Read the 1864 Republican Platform and you will discover that Lincoln was a Liberal who would have been drummed out of today’s Republican Party.
STOP trying to win Republicans over and get help for those childhood wounds rather than work them out at the detriment of the People.
Be a PROUD DEMOCRAT!
Harry S. Truman said, “The first rule in my book is that we have to stick by the liberal principles of the Democratic Party. We are not going to get anywhere by trimming or appeasing- -And we don’t need to try it.
The record the Democrats have made in the last 20years is the greatest political asset any party EVER HAD IN WORLD HISTORY! We would be foolish to throw it away. THERE IS NOTHING OUR ENEMIES WOULD LIKE BETTER and nothing that would do more to help them win an election.”
Imagine this: Instead of looking like a whipped puppy at your press conference following the midterms, if you had come out swinging and HONESTLY explained to the American People that the REPUBLICANS are blocking EVERY attempt to get us out of the ditch for POLITICAL GAIN – and TURN THEIR EVIL STRATEGY AGAINST THEM!
When that reporter asked, “how does it feel?”
Rather than say, “it feels bad,” hoping to appear humble enough to win some Republican hearts- imagine if you said, “I fear for America. These elections saw the influence of foreign money and unprecedented power of anonymous special interests and their front groups that THREATENS our entire electoral system. These are the same powerful influences FDR reigned in with the New Deal… he called them ‘privileged princes” of ‘new economic dynasties, thirsting for power,’ who ‘reached out for control over government itself.’ They are BACK and, with the help of the Citizens United ruling, have democracy itself against the ropes! Tragically, REPUBLICANS are ALSO blocking every attempt to solve the problems THEY CREATED solely as a political strategy, proving again that they care only about their own jobs and futures – not the jobs and future of the American People!”
Now THAT would have been a game-changing statement that would use jujitsu to crush them under the weight of their own obstruction.
I know you give good speeches… in fact, I started to support you for the nomination and gave money to your campaign after your speech on race because it was a breath of fresh air for a politician to address a tough subject with HONESTY, warts and all…
WHERE IS THAT MAN?
Not to mention your incessant buying into the Republican talking points about deficit-reduction when we need a real STIMULUS from the bottom-up makes me really wonder about you. I’m sure you’re familiar with Republican strategist Jude Wanniski’s “Two Santa Claus Theory” – where Republicans spend like drunken sailors when in power and then scream about deficits when Democrats are in control as a strategy to privatize everything? Why wouldn’t you be honest with the American People and tell them that it’s ALL part of Republican strategy?
Why would you HELP their agenda rather than being STRAIGHT and HONEST with the People?
If you had been honest and courageous, instead of “we’ll compromise with Republicans” so their terrible, middle-class-killing ideas will finally create an American landed gentry and force future generations to compete with Chinese slaves for jobs…. WE THE WORKING PEOPLE wouldn’t be poised to, once again, fall off the Republican-created cliff.
The America People like a FIGHTER and they like a WINNER who takes ACTION – not some weak-capitulator, middle of the road, mush who compromises away our future in the name of “playing nice.”
Our GREATEST PRESIDENT FDR said, “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
I as YOU to start channeling him now - and remember that the only reason FDR didn’t get elected to a FIFTH term WAS BECAUSE HE WAS DEAD.
On the other hand, if you can’t muster the stomach for the fight, and would rather capitulate to abysmal policies meant to cut the “uppity” American worker down to size, please simply announce yourself as a one-term President so we can nominate someone with a spine and a stomach for the fight.
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Bulger Salad
1/2 C bulger wheat
1/2 tsp coarse salt
3/4 C boiling water
cover the bulger with the water, and let stand for 30 minutes, or until the water is absorbed. I cover the bowl I put the bulger in with a plate, so the water and steam can cook the bulger tender.
2-3 scallions minced
3/4 cup halved seedless grapes (red or green)
1/2 C toasted chopped pecans
1/2 C feta cheese, you can crumble it, or cube it.
add all ingredients to the bulger
add this dressing
whisk together
-2 Tbs (fresh) lemon juice
-1 Tbs olive oil
-season with salt and pepper
add to ingredients, and mix well.
and enjoy!
Daniel DiCriscio Puts a Sock On It for Charity
Television Personality and Celebrity Stylist Daniel DiCriscio takes it all off for testicular cancer awareness
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Daniel DiCriscio Reveals All For Charity
PRLog (Press Release) - Mar. 27, 2014 - LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Daniel DiCriscio is taking it all off again and this time it's for a good cause. The Cock in a Sock campaign to raise awareness and funds for testicular cancer research originated on instagram and is now spreading to all forms of social media and news outlets.
In the US, between 7500 and 8000 diagnoses of testicular cancer are made each year. In the UK, that figure is approximately 2000. It's the most common types of cancer for guys between 20 and 39.
DiCriscio decided to help raise awareness for this important cause by taking his own Cock in a Sock selfie to show his support for testicular cancer awareness.
DiCriscio states, "It takes balls! Since this subject, and my photo, are considered 'blush material' and testicular cancer rarely discussed, there's no reason why this subject should be kept in the dark any longer.".
Daniel DiCriscio is a Television Personality, Celebrity Stylist, Image Consultant, Recording Artist, and Model based in Los Angeles, California.