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Aransas County Democratic Clubhouse
The official blog of the Aransas County Democratic Club.
Party Links:
Texas Democrats
Congratulations Are In Order
You Won't Believe This
A Few Words from Martin De Leon
A Statement from Dale Lloyd
Boo Hoo, I'm Gonna Sue
Kinky Backers: What Is Wrong with You?
Media Note: Juan Garcia
Bell Is Within Striking Distance
Congratulations go out to Juan Garcia for his narrow victory over Gene Seaman. This is amazing in that the Republican redistricting plan was supposed to keep the seat in Gene's hands. Juan will be good for all the people in the district even if a lot of them don't know it yet.
Congratulations also go to Martin DeLeon for his reelection as Justice of the Peace for Precinct 1. Martin garnered 1478 votes to challenger Jimmy Paterson 1164 votes to win by 11.8 percentage points.
I do think that congratulations are also in order for Dale LLoyd since he gets to stay retired. Seriously, for a race against one of the more recognizable names in the county, Dale made a good showing with 42% of the vote. I have no doubt that Dale's candidicy has raised expectations of how a county commissioner should act. That's good for all of us.
Finally, Congratulations to All of You for a job well done. I know from my view that the Democratic activists in the county have finally got their ground game going. Trust me, people outside this area have taken notice of what happened in the county.
(if you don't believe me go HERE)
posted by Jack Oat | 4:38 PM | 0 comments
I had an awesome day today. In spite of having to go to work this morning, I got to leave early but as good as that was it wasn't the awesome part.
I got off in time to go to early voting and took my wife. For the first time in a decade she voted Democrat. Great deal, huh? She's a wonderful person and has finally seen through the Republican bull . Before I get to the next point, I would like to say she is the sweetest person on the face of the planet and the day I met her was the greatest day of my life. But we still haven't got to the most awesome part of today even though we're close.
We went home and I agreed to wash her car. I figured it was the least I could do. After finishing I checked my email and discovered that Juan Garcia was coming to the Rockport GI Forum today from 1 to 3 PM. Now I haven't been able to do too much in the way of political activity for the last month because of my job. It looked like a good opportunity to see a great candidate. But it was 1:30 already. What the heck. I hit the road for the meeting.
I was driving along and remembered that I had my "Army of Juan" tee shirt in a duffle in the back of my Jeep. Woo Hoo! Serendipity baby! All I'll need is a quick stop to change shirts and I could be there by 2pm. By 2pm I realized I was lost but finally found the GI forum at 2:15. Juan wasn't there.
Okay, I been to enough of these gigs to know that candidates can and will be late. I'm sure at this stage of the game it must be mandatory. There are about three dozen people there and word was Juan would be there in about 40 minutes. Seems that he had an event in Mathis that had run long.
To me, this is a good sign. This is not Juan's first rodeo in Rockport. The Aransas County Democratic Club had previously held a fundraiser for Juan at Los Comales Resturaunt. He also has a group of Republican supporters in the county. Seriously, a lot of Republican supporters. He likes to get one on one with the attendees at his events. It is truly one of the things I like most about him. It is a personal trait which makes me think that when he is our state representative we will have someone who will listen to us. I could only assume a good turnout in Mathis.
Folks started leaving. I decided I would go and get some gasoline and come back so I wouldn't have to do it later. While at the store, a woman asks me where where she can get a Garcia tee shirt. "I'm so glad he's going to do something for the children," she said.
The cashier likes my shirt and wants to know what it means. I show her the back and she laughs, "Really?” I figure she thinks it's an odd campaign slogan. But this is fairly typical of the reaction I get to my tee. I can't think of a time I've worn it that someone hasn't asked about it. People want to know what it means. Many get it.
I went back to the GI Forum and the crowd had thinned out seriously. I was talking with a pair of members outside. They wanted to know where to get tee shirts! I said Juan might have some if he ever showed up. Anita O'Rourke, Democratic County Chairperson, pulled up and asked if Juan was there. And then he was.
He got out and went to talk to Anita. His traveling companion came over and introduced himself as Munuh. "Huh? I'm sorry. I didn't get that." I hate being old and possibly deaf.
"Minor," he said. Well, okay. I joked about being a minimalist myself. I know: Lame!
Juan came over and shook my hand. I told him he needed to give the person with the "Army of Juan" idea a raise if he got elected and told him the story of the Speedy Stop. Juan’s voice was seriously hoarse. He sounded like he had swallowed a box of nails.
We went inside where there were a total of about six people left. Now I know that might sound terrible but it was great. Juan is a rising star in the party and now I had a chance to have a very personal moment with a small group of supporters. I told him about my wife giving up on Republicans. He asked that I give her his personal thanks for her support
Someone asked how things went in Mathis and he indicated it went well. He said the consultants had told him he would need to attract about 180 people to his rally there to have a chance of winning the precincts in that part of San Patricio County. He said he thought there were more. It was then Minor came back and said he had just talked to someone back in Mathis and that 320 People had signed in at the event. Pretty good, right? It gets better.
Juan then told us what is the unbelievable part of this story. Juan was scheduled be at an event with Gene Seaman and Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick would be there to support Gene. Craddick was a no-show. But Craddick called Juan and asked him for his address so Craddick could send him the orientation guide for new house members. Go ahead. Read that again.
Now questions remain. On one side Craddick could just be messin’ with Juan but I doubt it given his bipartisan support. Maybe Craddick is just hedging his bets to gets Juan’s support to continue as speaker. Or it could be Gene being thrown under the bus. Hmmm. Just saying that makes me feel good.
Unbelievable, Huh? But let me finish. I’ve gotten to the unbelievable part of the story but haven’t gotten to the most awesome part. I knew I had to go. “Look,” I said, “I’m going home and writing about this on our county blog if you don’t tell me no.”
Minor said to go ahead. He asked what our blog address was and I told him. He then asked me if I posted anywhere else. I told him I was a member at Texas Kaos and DailyKos. “What’s your screen name?” he asked and I told him.
“Really? I’m Redstate” he say’s then turning to Juan and saying, “Hey, this is Ex Con.” So now I feel Stooooopid. It’s not Minor but Mynor (Eddie) Rodriguez: Mr. Redstate himself.
But something else is going here that I’m not sure I can explain. After 2 years of reading blogs and a year and a half of commenting, rating and writing diaries I have finally made a personal connection with someone I previously only knew on line. It is something I have waited for a very long time. This is a lonely part of the country to be a Democrat. But not any more. That’s the most awesome part of the day!
Take it back, Juan!
Cross posted at Texas Kaos (GO THERE!)
posted by Jack Oat | 10:51 PM | 1 comments
Be aware that early voting started today. To avoid issues that might keep you from voting on Nov. 7th, go to 602 East Concho according to the following dates and times:
8:00am to 4:30pm: Monday, October 23, through Friday, October 27
9:00am to 3:00pm: Saturday, October 28
8:00am to 4:30pm: Monday, October 30, through Friday, November 3
Dear voters of Pct 2, 1, and 1A,
I have been your Justice of the Peace for 12 years. I have been a Rockport City Judge for 11 years. I have overseen over 20,000 cases for the JP's office and at least that many for the City of Rockport. I was also a city judge for the Town of Austwell. I was a law enforcement officer for 20 years working with the City of Aransas Pass, City of Rockport, Aransas County Sheriffs Department, and the Refugio County Sheriffs Department. I have worked with the Tri-County Narcotics Task Force as an Agent and as a Lieutenant. My experience in Civil and Criminal law is extensive. I have also attended numerous of hours in service training.
When I took office in 1995, the office had anual revenue collections of approximately $40,000.00. This year my revenue collections will be approximately a half a million dollars. My yearly office budget with salaries and all supplies is approximately $100,000. This makes my office a self sufficient operation with money to spare that goes into the county general fund for other uses. I look forward in continuing this progress for the next four years. My thanks to those who vote for me and my thanks to those who support me.
Martin De Leon
For the last eleven years, Martin De Leon has served the the citizens of Aransas County as Justice of the Peace. Here he is shown with Court Manager Sandra Banueles and Court Clerk Nancy Rosser:
Martin has a succesful record serving Aransas County and deserves your vote.
Don't Forget: The election is in 2 weeks.
MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT
My name is Dale Lloyd; I am a candidate for county commissioner for Precinct 2. As a member of the community, I have many concerns for our neighborhood. Going door to door for the last five months, I have heard the same concerns and complaints from the people of Precinct 2. During this time, I have seen first hand the problems that we face. When I was campaigning in West Terrace I received many complaints about the drainage in their area. While campaigning on West Corpus Christi Street, I found the West Terrace drainage problem. Their drainage ditch is approximately fifty percent blocked. When talking to the owner of the property, he informed me that the drainage ditch has not been cut since last year.
Rockport's growth has changed the responsibilities of the county commissioner's job. It traditionally has been a part time job, but now problems require full time attention. We need a leader who will anticipate problems before they are in our face. Things are not going to improve if my opponent is elected. My opponent is quoted as saying "I will be available on any issue that may arise." Again, you have someone who is waiting for the wheels to fall off before they do anything. Precinct 2 families deserve and need a leader who is proactive not reactive.
Precinct 2 has some of the oldest neighborhoods in the county. Our infrastructures are aging and our communities are primarily made up of the elderly, blue collar and the average working family. Many of our households are working two jobs to survive. The least we can do is give them a better neighborhood to come home to at night. We need fewer dead ends and more street signs for quick 911 response and drainage ditches that do not turn your front yard into a moat every time we get an inch of rain.
We need to remember that growth affects different neighborhoods differently. Exploding growth means that old neighborhoods, like Precinct 2,will be hit hard by skyrocketing property taxes. Unfortunately, the rise in property taxes will force families to move.
Growth can be like a double edged sword. It is great to upgrade old neighborhoods with new houses, but not if it means that low income families and young families cannot afford to live in their own home town.
Growth and development can be planned and controlled. We have a lot of good resources within our county government. We need to begin to use those resources to our best advantage. Precinct 2 needs a leader who is prepared to act on issues not simply react to the problems.
Dale is an incredible candidate. He pounded the pavement in Precinct 2 to meet all of his future constituents. His dedication to the community has already shown what a great commissioner he will make. He has already started the work to transform Precinct 2. He deserves your vote.
According to the Caller-Times, Gene Seaman's attorney has been trying to get the TV stations in the Corpus Christi area to pull ads that he says misrepresent facts about Mr. Seaman, Republican incumbent in Texas House District 32.
"We have advised the local stations that the TV ads they are running are not just deceptive, they are just wrong," Seaman's attorney Lance Bruun said Wednesday. "We have asked them to pull the ads."
Seaman would not comment.
Bruun, sent a letter to the three stations Tuesday calling statements in the ad blatantly false. Seaman's campaign and Bruun, a former Nueces County Republican Party chairman, cite a letter from the Texas Ethics Commission that says it is OK for the representative to pay his wife as long she maintains separate ownership."
According to the man who paid for the ads, attorney Mikal Watts, the Seamans cannot have seperate ownership since Texas is a community property state. The ads do not mention Seaman's opponent, Democrat Juan Garcia.
"He is threatening all three stations," Watts said. "He can sue me or the PAC or both. The problem is that truth is a defense under the statute.
"He is hoping that the stations would rather pull the ad than face meritless litigation."
KIII (ABC) pulled the adds for a period while their lawyer reviewed the matter but they have started to re-air the commercials. KRIS (NBC) has notified Watts that they will continue to air the ads. There is no word in the article about CBS affiliate KZTV's position on the issue.
Help take back Texas back and donate to the Juan Garcia Campaign.
Cross posted at Texas Kaos. (Yes, you should go there.)
There are a number of events coming up for October:
The Sea Fair will be October 6, 7 & 8. The Democratic club will have a booth and volunteers are needed to man it. Please send an email to Anita Orouke (a.orouke@sbcglobal.net) and advise her of the times you would like to be there.
The Rockport-Fulton Chamber of Commerce will hold their Candidates Forum at noon on October 10th at the Saltwater Pavilion. Our local candites, Dale Loyd and Martin DeLeon, as well as Shane Sklar and Juan Garcia will be there.
South Rockport Neighbors Association will meetOctober 19 at 7:00pm at Anthonys Bed and Breakfast on South Pearl street. Dale Loyd and Martin DeLeonwill be present and Dan Pugh will introduce them.
Dale and Martin will also address the Oak Terrace Property Owners Association on Sunday, October 29, from 3 to 5 pm at the Masonic Lodge at Market and Hictory Streets.
I hope you have an opportunity to attend these events and show your support for some fine Democratic candidates.
How much more evidence do you need to understand that Kinky is as crazy as a soup sandwich. Do you actually believe that our great state will be better off with governor who behaves like this:
That's not all that makes me wonder why a sensible person would waste an important vote on this clown. check out this audio from Burnt Orange Report:
"It's like what old Abraham Lincoln said once he sobered up, ya know... I freed the what?"
"Yeah, reminds me of old Jimmy Carter's Christmas card that he sent to Khomeini some time ago that said 'Ho Ho Ho, the Niggers were the spies."
And there's this:
Then I come down to Houston, I went to a bowling alley. I couldn't go bowling, there were no bowling balls. The people here throw 'em all in the sea, thought they were nigger eggs...thought they were nigger eggs.
And here he is speaking of Katrina survivors in Texas:
"The musicians and artists have mostly moved back to New Orleans now. The crackheads and the thugs have decided to stay. They want to stay here. I think they got their hustle on, and we need to get ours," Kinky said.
This man is a joke, and certainly not a serious candidate. There are people who think voting for Kinky will send a message. I got your message: You haven't got the inclination to give careful consideration to making your vote matter.
Now Kinky would say that I don't have a sense of humor or am too politically correct. I am still waiting for Kinky to say something that isn't a joke or a book plug. But this is an election for Governor, not State Jester.
Chris Bell is a shoe-in if the Democrats just vote for him. Kinky isn't even a decent third pary candidate offering any reform measures. He's just a racist windbag cracking jokes. Chris Bell has a couple of new commercials out on broadcast now. Please consider going to the link on the left and making a donation so he can purchase more air time.
And Make Your Vote Count
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Trail of Happiness
Colorful Streets of Leeuwarden – Guide to Leeuwarden’s Street Art
guides 4. November 2017 Niederlande
While in some larger cities street art can be sometimes as easy to find as stepping out of your house door and being surrounded by an open-air gallery of painted exposures, it can be quite the opposite in other, usually smaller cities.
To discover a piece of street art worth the mentioning can be in such places like searching for the proverbial needle in the haystack.
Leeuwarden might be such a relatively smaller place. Too unknown to gain international attention and win street artists for a guest contribution.
Nevertheless, Leeuwarden’s streets are not completely untouched by creative hands. The street art scene is well-established and even bears a surprise here and there. If you love street arts like we do, you will surely enjoy our Guides to the colorful streets of Prague and Mostar.
A dedication to the local animal world
Insects and amphibians crawling up fuse boxes
Aquarium perfectly blending into the outer environment
Mata Hari, femme fatale and key character during WW1, originated from Leeuwarden
Before landing a skyrocketing career as an exotic dancer and model, Margaretha Geertruida „Margreet“ was born on 7th August 1876 in Leeuwarden as the eldest of four children. Her father was doing good in the many businesses he was engaged, enabling him to build up and maintain a high education and lifestyle for his family.
In the course of growing up, first financial problems which were accompanied by marriage problems made the family bliss go out of the window, resulting in divorce.
With the age of 18 the former innocent prestigious girl from a Dutch province slowly began to take the reigns of her success into her own hands. This transformation was put into movement when she showed first interest in traditional Indonesian dances when she was married to a Dutch Colonial Army Captain. Working on her moves and holding first performances, she gave herself the artistic name Mata Hari, meaning „Sun“ in the Malay language.
Being seen as the object of desire by many male Representatives of the contemporary rich and influential high society, Mata Hari was in the best position to pull the strings in the background, infiltrating as a political spy while she was flaunting wild love affairs. In the end, however, she herself was the one who got tricked by the men she once ruled, being sentenced to death after she was revealed as a spy during the First World War.
Exactly one hundred years after her death, on October 15, 1917, the Frisian Museum in Leeuwarden, the birthplace of Mata Hari, organized the largest ever Mata Hari exhibition, putting the spotlight on the rise and fall of this richly gifted woman in a time when women were often oppressed by men.
Balcony scene
Retro memories of a golden century
Decorating a construction site
Jockey on carousel horse
The grin of Roy Schreuder, Leeuwarden street artist
The beginning is near
May all your dreams come true
Lion brothers
Skull head
The Geisha
Colorful houses
King William of Oranje
Solar panels, wind turbines and biogas extracted from cow dung. Renewable energies are getting more and more important in times of resource scarcity and this artwork perfectly contributes to this environmental goal.
Intergalactic cat
Space chicken
Figments of Fantasy
Puffy elephant clouds
Caught in Flower Power
Psycho spray can
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Leaves 2007 - Galway
Lucy Caldwell
“We are where we come from?” That’s not true. That’s not true because if that’s true there’s no hope for any of us.
Lori is coming home from her first term at university. It’s only been a few weeks and already things have gone badly wrong. But none of the rest of the family knows, or understands, what really happened.
In this fiercely observed family drama, three teenage girls struggle to define who they are, and why, and where they might be going.
Lucy Caldwell is a young Belfast-born writer. She is the winner of the George Devine Award 2006 for Leaves, the premier award for new writing by an emerging playwright in the UK and Ireland. Leaves was also recently a joint winner of the 2007 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Alana Brennan
Conor Lovett
Daisy Maguire
Fiona Bell
Kathy Rose O’Brien
Penelope Maguire
John Leonard and music composed by Sam Jackson
Ben Ormerod
Sam Jackson
Production Photos from Leaves
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Reading in an Age of Catastrophe
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Dear Ed,
Your commendable Reading in an Age of Catastrophe
that touches on numerous matters that I endorse – e.g., Eleanor Roosevelt is my proudly remembered high-school graduation speaker - however rubs me at the wrong spot with its Adorno jibes . Let me explain.
I might easily have become a pianist or musician of some kind, and a happier person all around.
We had a grand on the second floor of our place outside Bremen
http://www.edition-falkenberg.de/produkt/der-bremer-fichtenhof-und-seine-bewohner-ein-wenig-bekanntes-kapitel-aus-dem-widerstand-gegen-den-nationalsozialismus
My father’s mother Omi Paula Roloff was friends with quite a few of the stars of German classical music; my father was Furtwangler’s ear that he would consult after a performance to get an honest evaluation; the one matter he took pride in first son was my affinity to Mozart. My mother’s mother Alexandra Einsiedel-Alvensleben was a concert quality pianist married to someone – Werner von Alvensleben - whose knowledge of music didn’t extend beyond the Radetsky March , so I was told. We had a then 40s state of the art record player and the appropriate collection. All I did was bang around the grand that no one played – Omi A. had left her bombed out apartment in Berlin and, apparently wanting to die, was bed-ridden, a wish I recall as exerting a weird and I imagine forbidding spell, as is appropriate in a child. I eventually taught myself to read music from the scores in the house but failed to ask to be taught and made no effort in that direction. There was no model.
When the US Army liberated us in Spring 1945 and the local chapter of the OSS made our place “off limits” to everybody else’s parties, this residence of long-time Hitler opponents some of whom had survived the siege of Berlin in their respective Gestapo prisons, started to resound to their music; and there was the Radio in the American Enclave Bremen that played the blues and I was introduce not just to the jiggaboo dance music which Adorno analyzes with such blinding brilliance
http://www.verlaine.pro.br/txt/adorno-on-jazz.pdf
but also the work of the auteurs of the time, which are not Adorno’s subject - best as I can tell he only takes a few swipes at the “soloing” that occasionally interrupts the rigidities. Adorno found, and I think it continues to hold true, that everything is syncopated in this country just about anywhere you point your ear for a listen, everything jingles.
Little, badly educated, me who may like scholarship but finds university campuses too arid readied an Adorno Reader in the late 60s as editor at Farrar, Straus, Susan Sontag was going to write the introduction. After I left the firm a nincompoop killed the project. However, I was now acquainted with the author and when we came to discuss the Jazz piece I indicated my reservations and promised to play him some of my individually beloved auteurs. – Adorno, if you take another look at this utterly brilliant piece – I cannot imagine any American intellectual, perhaps Fred Jameson, of being capable of such finely analytic work – it addresses the dance music part of Jazz, and in that respect this dancer must confess to having been as much of a Jiggaboo as any of the so profoundly industrialized of the upper class in hopping around to “the Jerk” – that music's then newest iteration - in the mid-60s – at the first disco, Arthur ‘s, as was Bobby Kennedy with someone aside Rose hopping next to him, and Jackie with one of those Russian ballet masters – a week during which so memorably I happened onto Bobby two other times, so that by the third time, he running into me waiting in the lobby of the hotel Carlisle, gave me the kind of really hard look that you might to someone who is tailing you: the day or so after Arthur’s I had come face to face with him - nearly collided - on 8th Street as he was campaigning for Abe Beame for mayor.
An distraught and shaky Adorno while we had lobster at the Frankfurter Hof where I had been once before in fall 1950 just prior to emigrating and seen Orson Wells scoot out the moment he entered as the band struck up “The Third Man” theme that haunted him wherever the so recognizable went in Europe during those days. Adorno was shaken also by German students giving him , one of the theoreticians of their revolt, the kind of hard time that reminded him of the thirties, and so he might not have gone mountain climbing the fall of 1969 and died of a heart attack and never have the opportunity to hear me play Monk, Bud Powell, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ornette Coleman, Ron Carter, Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, James Moody, Bud Shank, Guenter Schuller, Horace Silver,Max Roach, Herbie Hancock, Jusef Latif, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Red Garland,Ahmad Jamal, Winton Kelley, Charlie Mingus, Marian McPartland, Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson,Jimmy Smith, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker,Kenney Dorham, Freddie Hubbard, Art Blakey and discuss the why and wherefore of atonality in some of that music. – Negative dialectic prevails. I recall Adorno writing rather favorably of certain American classical music critics .
I hope you find his Amorbach as touching as do I. Anyhow, what can you expect of a such a serious intellect but to come out looking a bit like Mr. McGoo! The German students knew of Adorno’s proclivity for affair with beautiful young women but apparently not of his near-sightedness, and so when they pressed a balloon figure with breasts into his arms he first thought they were giving him a bouquet. I think that’s how that story goes. Best, Michael r.
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BONISA OPEN DAY (article first published : 2004-02-22)
Bonisa Private Gallery is to host an exhibition of fibre and textile art on March 7, an event which is likely to be popular with the public.
The fibre works shown are all by KZN artists, all members of an organisation called Fibreworks. The association which incorporates 50 members was formed in 1997 and has been very active holding exhibitons locally and abroad. The Tatham Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg has had two exhibitions and has fibreworks in its permanent collections.
Bonisa will also exhibit works from members of “Artworks” by Jeanette Gilks, Rosalie Dace, Helga Beaumont, Margaret Ruxton, Judy Breytenbach, Sue Ackermann and others. All accomplished artists in this form, their works are very creative with interesting names. The passion of the artists comes through in their works.
The use of fibre and textiles as an art form dates back many years. Most people are aware of the decorative use of cloth in functional areas, table cloths, bed-spreads, quilts, tea cosies, cushions and curtains etc, but fibre and textiles are used to great effect as an art media in their own right. It is a specialised form of art where threads are sown, woven and embroided to form pictures, images, patterns, collages.
Also featured will be an exhibition of ceramic art by Joy Savage which compliments the fibre and textile art. Joy has a long history in this field that includes ceramic jewellery, she has taught ceramics and art at various schools in the region of Durban. Active in exhibiting her work and having won various awards, her works are influenced by Africa and are titled such names as Etosha Pan, Migration and Ndebele. Also fascinating are the etchings on her works.
John Simpson will also again demonstrate and exhibit his Japanese-styled art. This former radio actor and presenter has not missed entertaining and displaying his art on every open day since the gallery opened two years ago.
Bonisa Private Gallery’s Open Day takes place on March 7 at 47 Ronalds Rd. Kloof from 10h00. Phone 031 764 0288 or visit www.bonisa.co.za
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SOMEBODY'S ROCKIN' !!
A look at the CROWN RECORDS label.
Listen to 'Guitar Stomp'
aka 'Operation Stomp'
Crown Records was a label owned by Jules Bihari on the West Coast, which was closely affiliated to the Modern/Flair/RPM family of labels, each belonging to different groupings of the Bihari Brothers. Kent was a subsidiary of Crown. The label issued a few 45's (including some by The Robins for example) before concentrating almost exclusively on the album market. It became the Biharis' privileged outlet for issuing their different catalogs on LP ; besides a huge (and hugely forgettable) 'Pop' series, one could find many superb R&B albums by the likes of B.B. King, Jesse Belvin, Pee Wee Crayton, The Jacks, Joe Houston, Jimmy Witherspoon...But Crown soon extended the scope of its activities by leasing material from record companies such as Sims, Sage & Sand (in particular), Abbott and others. Hence those classic LPs by Whitey Pullen, Doye O'Dell, Lonnie Barron...plus a big bunch of worthy 'various artists' compilations. Many albums sported front covers adorned with paintings made by a certain 'Fazzio' but the back of the records usually only listed other releases and there were no liner notes, in typical 'budget label' fashion. The label color was black first, then gray. Many LPs were released in both mono and stereo sound but you gotta be careful : a lot of them are in atrocious 'fake' stereo even if they look good pressed on red vinyl ! Even in mono, the discs had a tendency to be very hissy, suggesting the possible use of recycled vinyl. And while on the subject of recycling, Crown could have won first prize for endlessly re-issuing the same tracks with different titles, perhaps equalled only by Starday.
That said, for this very page, we will concentrate on the more 'Country & Rockabilly'-oriented side of the label. Our basis will be the 'Somebody's Rockin' CD issued by P-Vine in Japan (PCD-2467) in 1993, as part of their 'Greatest Rockabillies' series whose other offerings will be discussed on various dedicated pages on this site. The presentation and photos are very average, the sound quality is very variable (depending on whether they had access to original tapes or not) and the selection of tracks is very odd.
In reality, the 'Crown Greatest Rockabillies' sub-title is an absolute misnomer ; the music collected on this CD ranges from Hillbilly to latter-day Western Swing with some good Rock'n'Roll in between - thus, with maybe one or two exceptions, real Rockabilly you just won't find here ! Nevertheless, everything considered, the disc is in accordance with Crown's way of releasing records in the late 50's and until late in the 60's.
Let's now take a close look at the 21 tracks on hand.
1- Bobby James 'Don't Be Cruel'
A good starter although I've never seen it listed anywhere. His version is pretty close to Elvis' original : the vocal group is present but there's a much more prominent electric guitar backing and the Elvisy vocal is somewhat lazier.
2- Johnnie Lee Wills 'Milk Cow Blues'
3- Johnnie Lee Wills 'Blub Twist'
Johnnie Lee Wills, a younger brother of Bob Wills, was another very important figure in Western Swing. He sang and played tenor banjo with Bob's Texas Playboys way back in the '30s and went solo at the turn of the '40s. His RCA recordings from the early '50s are absolutely wonderful. On July 2 and August 6, 1962, he (as Johnny rather than Johnnie) & His Boys recorded twelve sides for the Sims label which made up the 'Where There's a Wills, There's a Way' LP (Sims 101) from which the above two selections are drawn.
The old favorite, 'Milk Cow Blues' (also on Sims 133), features a good vocal from Leon Rausch and an excellent guitar break from Autry Rutledge. 'Blub Twist' (also released as a single, Sims 129, with alternative B-sides) is a fast rockin' instrumental featuring some Chuck Berry guitar stylings from Rutledge midway through, followed by a brilliant trumpet solo courtesy of Harvey Gossman. Other personnel includes Glenn Rhees (tenor sax & vocal), Gene Pooler (steel), and Bobby Collins (drums), Gossman doubling on fiddle with Johnnie Lee himself. A great band indeed, maybe on a par with Leon McAuliffe's. Wills had a second LP on Sims (#108, cut live at The Tulsa Stampede) and a later compilation on Crown, which included the two tracks found here.
4- Billy Boyd 'Shuffle Boogie'
5- Billy Boyd 'Stompin' At The Crossroad'
6- Billy Boyd 'Oop-Shank'
Three more rockin' instros are next, taken from Billy Boyd's 'Twangy Guitars' album (Crown CLP 5170 in mono and CST 196 in fine true stereo). Just who this Billy Boyd is, I haven't got a clue but if you want an exciting Rock'n'Roll party album, that's the one to grab ! Pretty basic stuff but there's a nice variety of tempos and the guitars really rock. I should say that the twangy sound is more in the Link Wray vein than Duane Eddy's. It is believed that Jerry Cole played on some of the tracks. Of the three selected here (all in stereo), 'Oop-Shank' is the fastest and I'm sure that the tenor sax player is none other than multi-reedman Bud Shank, a Jazzman who used to do session work on the West Coast at the time. The Jazz flavor is apparent on several tunes, notably 'Jivin' At The Savoy', not included here.
Real great stuff which can be found in its entirety on another Japanese CD in the same series (PCD-2470).
7- Jenks 'Tex' Carman 'Hilo March'
8- Jenks 'Tex' Carman 'Wildwood Flower'
Now, just what Carman's offerings have to do on a rockabilly disc is unknown to me ! His acoustic slide guitar playing is raw and primitive but wonderful just the same. 'The Dixie Cowboy', as he was known, was a real oddity who first recorded at 4-Star before signing with Capitol where he cut 'Hillbilly Hula', 'Indian Polka' and 'Hilo March' among others which were compiled on a Bear Family CD. After that, he recorded for Sage & Sand. 'Wildwood Flower' features Jenks' singing which is also rather special and some tremendous electric guitar pickin', most probably from Roy Lanham who played on many of Carman's sides.
It was on Sage #272, with 'Honk, Honk, Honk' on the flip. As for 'Hilo March', it comes from LP 'Country Music On The Go-Volume 3' (Sage C-22) and is evidently an entirely different version to the one that Jenks had previously cut for Capitol [many thanks to Kent Heineman for that piece of info].
9- Red Rhodes 'Country Boogie Blues'
10- Red Rhodes '9 Pound Hammer'
11- Red Rhodes 'Steel Guitar Rag'
Another trio of instrumentals by steel guitarist Red Rhodes (famous for his E diatonic tuning) who used to have a repair shop in L.A. where Jeff Baxter once worked as a luthier. Red cut four LPs for Crown, sometimes billed as Red Rhodes & The Road Runners. One of them, #555, was titled 'Steel Guitar Rag' and issued circa 1966. It's most probably the source for track #11.
All three tunes display Red's impressive skills - a sort of circular stirring in 'Country Boogie Blues' and some kind of 'chicken pickin' in 'Steel Guitar Rag', both cleanly executed. The stereo sound here is superb. Red also recorded for other labels such as Alshire but I strongly recommend his 'Live At The Palomino' LP on Happy Tiger (HT-1003) where, backed up by Jerry Cole, Biff Adam and The Cass Brothers, he does 'Star Route', 'Mama's Hungry Eyes', 'Divorce' and seven more winners. During this period ('68-'69), Red backed up many artists including the great Gene Vincent ; Red can be heard on Gene's 'I'm Back & I'm Proud' album (Dandelion D9-102). Last, mention must be made of an album Red cut in tandem with Jimmy Bryant on Imperial, titled 'Wingin' It With Norval & Ivy' (LP-9349 in mono/12349 in stereo) and produced by Scotty Turner.
12- Hawkshaw Hawkins 'Shotgun Boogie'
Harold Hawkins was born in December 1921 and died prematurely on March 5, 1963, in the plane crash that also took the lives of Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas. He had a long association with the King label for which he cut many classics including 'Dog House Boogie' (#720), 'I Wasted A Nickel' (#821) and 'Rattlesnakin' Daddy' (#944). He then went to RCA ('Car Hoppin' Mama', #47-6211) and Columbia, before returning to King in 1962. It is unclear (at least, to me !) if the version of 'Shotgun Boogie' heard here is the original King cut (#932). I'd tend to think it's a recut - there's a prominent electric bass in the background and the guitar break really rocks. There's also some superb steel playing. It's one of the best cuts on the entire CD.
13- Okie Jones 'Could You, Would You'
This is the top side of Sage & Sand single #221, a pure hillbilly stomper from 1956 sung by Okie Jones who's backed up by The Lazy Ranch Boys - the same guys who played on Casey Clark's own great Sage & Sand '45s. The flip was 'How Could You'. Here's the review it was given in the September '56 issue of 'Country'n'Western Jamboree' : 'Okie Jones, last heard of working a metropolitan Detroit radio station, has an excellent side in 'Could You, Would You'. Lyric is especially catchy, one of those out-of-meter sides which made 'Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes' such a hit side. Band seems very loggy. Reverse side hurts the A-side, in that the title is sooo much like the excellent A-side'. Okie also had releases on the Majestic and Columbia labels as well as one under the name of Gene Jones on Gold Star. Listening to such tracks makes you understand why Country Music in those days was so exciting : the guitar player, the steel guitarist and the piano player all take a solo !
It was featured on 'Country Music On The Go-Vol.1' (Sage C-18) and on 'Oldies & Goodies-Country'n'Western Vol.1' (Crown LP 5213).
14- Oscar Hart 'Fender Bender'
Another Sage & Sand offering. Despite a spoken intro explaining that it's all about 'a lil' ole cotton pickin' guitar' and various vocal interjections during the song, this is an excellent boogie-based country guitar instrumental with added echo and speeded up parts. Band is The Hart-Tones. Oscar Hart's real name was Oscar Vanderveer. He was born in Oklahoma and later graduated from Texas State College of Commerce. He moved to California and built his own studio in West Covina where he produced many of his recordings, including this one and others like 'Six Guitar Wail' which can be found on his 'La Mirada' LP (Sage C-12).
'Fender Bender' is on 'Country Music On The Go-Vol.1' (Sage C-18) and also on CLP 5213.
15- Evelyn Harlene 'I've Got The Blues'
And yet another Sage & Sand side - the flip of 'I Wanta Be Free' (Sage #243), which is real wild female rockabilly. Superb bluesy number with piano, electric guitar and brushes, all courtesy of Casey Clark's Band. Evelyn sings with confidence and gusto - somewhere between Ella Mae Morse and Wanda Jackson. There's a real downhome piano break (Evelyn herself at the 88 ?). Excellent sound, too, on this one. It was on 'Oldies & Goodies-Country'n'Western Vol.4' (Crown LP 5243).
16- Johnny Horton 'Somebody's Rockin' My Broken Heart'
17- Johnny Horton 'Rhythm In My Baby's Walk'
Taken from the Crown album 'Johnny Horton - Country Style with Billy Barton & Don Hughes' (CLP 5290 in mono and CST 290 in stereo), here's some very early Johnny Horton on the menu at present and it's a delight.
Although his style was not yet fully created, our man sings quite distinctively. In fact, both sides were recorded on February 13, 1952, for the California-based Abbott label. 'Somebody's Rockin' My Broken Heart' (Abbott 108) gave its title to the present CD but it's no rocker at all - it's a relaxed hillbilly number sung in duet with Hillbilly Barton. The lively 'Rhythm In My Baby's Walk' (Abbott 109) is, in retrospect, typical Horton - but not quite rockabilly, of course ! This time, Hillbilly Barton is absent but steel guitar legend, Speedy West, is on board, firing another memorable solo. There's a count-in at the beginning of the tune which suggests it might be an alternate take ; we'll have to listen again to the original master which appeared on the brilliant Bear Family 7-LP box set from 1991, 'Johnny Horton - The Early Years' (BFX 15289). 'Rhythm In My Baby's Walk' is titled 'Rhythm Baby Walk' in error on the CD, as it was on the original Crown LP.
18- Unknown Artist 'Guitar Stomp'
Wrongly credited to Johnny Horton on the CD cover, this instrumental has long been a mystery. In the early '60s, a single appeared on the Royalty label (#123), a logical offshoot of Crown, credited to Hank Brown. One side, 'Operation Blues', was in fact the old Homer 'Zeke' Clemons song from the Modern label (#20-533, itself a reissue of a Blue Bonnet recording released in 1947). The other side, 'Operation Stomp', was a driving guitar & steel guitar instro, clearly dating from a later decade. In reality, 'Guitar Stomp' and 'Operation Stomp' are one and the same recording. On aural evidence, I can safely say that the unknown artist is...Red Rhodes ! The tune could even have been cut at the same session as 'Country Boogie Blues'. The good news is that it appears in true stereo on this CD, as it probably did when it surfaced on the stereo version of the Johnny Horton/Billy Barton Crown LP (CST 290, later reissued as CST 485). The other good news is that you can now hear thirty seconds of 'Operation Stomp' by clicking the turntable on the left !
19- Johnny Tyler 'God's Gonna Turn Us To Dust'
Responsible for a number of wonderful sides on the Hickory label out of Nashville, Al Terry shared a Crown album with Johnny Tyler ('Country Music Stars', CLP 5321) but he's wrongly credited on the CD as the singer of 'God's Gonna Turn Us To Dust'. Noted collector/discographer Big Al Turner has confirmed that it's Johnny Tyler who sings and explains how the song appeared on two different EPs : 'I believe that 'God’s Gonna Turn Us To Dust' was originally issued on Rural Rhythm 512, and then subsequently reissued on Rural Rhythm 509, when that particular disc was reissued sometime later. The logic for suggesting this sequence is that the first copy of Rural Rhythm 509 has the original early label, whereas the repressing has a much later design, plus it has the prefix SPEC'. (See picture at left).
The song begins and ends with sound effects recalling the crashing of bombs - and the atomic bomb is precisely what Tyler exposes in this stompin' Hillbilly Gospel. A nice harmonica break and a classy Chet Atkins-style solo complete this song which is close in spirit to Glen Barber's own 'Atom Bomb' (first issued in England on Ace LP CH 191 and now available on Ace CD CHD 191 - see my Glen Barber story).
Johnny Tyler had an impressive recording career, having also waxed for Ekko, RCA Victor, Starday, Stanchel and Specialty, among others.
20- Marvin Rainwater 'Freight Train Blues'
21- Marvin Rainwater 'Teardrops'
Marvin Rainwater is a prolific artist whose main work was on the MGM label, between 1956 and 1960. Any rockabilly lover will cite 'Hot & Cold'/'Mr. Blues' (MGM 12240) as one of their top favorite singles ! He then went to Warwick, Warner Bros. and other labels. The two tracks on this CD are taken from the Crown album 'Marvin Rainwater' (CLP 5307 in mono and CST 307 in stereo). They are magnificent slices of vintage Country music with plenty of guitar pickin' and Marvin's ample, expressive voice.
Conclusion It's a nice little CD with consistently good music but totally out of context if we refer to its title. Listening to it with headphones will reveal hiss and other defects which prove that it was mostly mastered from original vinyl, with a minimum of cleaning up and just about no equalizing ! Still, since most of these tracks had not yet appeared legally elsewhere when the CD was issued, this disc stands as an interesting compilation of the kind of Country-based stuff that could be found on Crown - even if it originated from other labels.
© Paul VIDAL * Privas, France * Spring 2005-May 2014-May 2019
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Home » Guest Contributor » The Implications of Shifting Digital Transformation Responsibilities
The Implications of Shifting Digital Transformation Responsibilities
This entry was posted in Guest Contributor Industry Trends Opinion and tagged Digital Transformation Ensighten on March 2, 2019 by Steven Bowcut
By Marty Greenlow, CEO, Ensighten
Today’s senior executives are under great pressure to transform their organizations for the digital world. Although this digital transformation imperative has been underway for several years now, we’re currently seeing a significant shift within the C-suite when it comes to ownership of these colossal undertakings. This shift could have significant implications for the paths—and ultimate success—of these important initiatives.
As responsibility for these weighty projects changes hands, it’s understandable that the priorities behind digital transformations might likewise alter course. But as some of the finer points of a digital transformation are reshuffled, there’s one element that must remain front and center within the project roadmap: data security.
Marketing’s Diminishing Role in Transformation
According to Altimeter’s fifth annual “The State of Digital Transformation” report, successful digital transformations require an enterprise-wide, cross-functional effort. As such, it should come as no surprise that these initiatives are increasingly being owned by executives with broader organizational oversight. Altimeter found that, for the second year in a row, CIOs are most commonly cited (28 percent) as the official owner of transformation initiatives. They’re followed by CEOs, who saw a 35 percent uptick in their ownership of transformation initiatives in the most recent survey.
Perhaps most notably, the role of the CMO in owning transformations has diminished over the past year. In 2017, 19 percent of survey respondents said transformation responsibility lay with their CMO. In 2018, that percentage fell to a mere 5 percent.
Of course, this shift in executive responsibility makes a lot of sense. Many initial digital transformation initiatives were sparked by the need for companies to get closer to their customers, particularly as emerging (and disruptive) direct-to-consumer business models have flourished. CMOs—by virtue of their proximity to the consumer, not to mention their experience in transitioning their organizations from traditional to digital channels—represented the most logical candidates to guide these initial pivots. But as transformations have matured into enterprise-wide movements, they’ve increasingly required enterprise-wide oversight.
Increasing Touchpoints, Increasing Vulnerabilities
According to Altimeter, most digital transformations in 2018 are focused on better understanding customers, improving their journeys across touchpoints, and enabling greater customer centricity. Over the next three years, 54 percent of companies said that they are focused on integrating all social, mobile, web, commerce and service efforts and investments to deliver an integrated, frictionless, omnichannel customer experience.
While these are necessary initiatives for modern-day companies, creating a more-seamless digital journey for customers opens up organizations to new data security vulnerabilities. As additional vendors and partners are employed help companies connect with consumers across their myriad devices and preferred platforms, the possibility of data leakage and breaches rises exponentially. In fact, a recent survey of 300 CISOs and CSOs by Fortinet found that 85 percent of CISOs said security issues during digital transformation had a “somewhat” to “extremely large” impact on their business.
Here’s the good news: Today’s executives understand that security needs to be a part of their digital transformation initiatives. In fact, Altimeter found that, in addition to customer experience, 45 percent of companies undergoing transformation are prioritizing the development of an agile IT infrastructure and technologies with increased flexibility, manageability and security within the next three years.
But there’s a caveat: “Security” takes many forms. With marketing executives increasingly shifting to a secondary role in digital transformation initiatives, it’s important that enterprises still adequately account for the complexity and vulnerabilities that today’s marketing technologies and relationships introduce to the organization. Standard IT-led cybersecurity measures often fail to account for these types of marketing security vulnerabilities, which promise to only increase in number as companies broaden the reach of their customer journeys.
Digital transformations shouldn’t open up companies to new risks of data leakage and breach. Quite the opposite, in fact. Thus, as responsibility for digital transformation increasingly settles at the enterprise level, it’s imperative that companies today continue to bring all stakeholders—including marketing—to the strategy table.
Marty Greenlow, CEO, Ensighten
Marty provides the strategic and operational leadership for Ensighten and brings a wealth of experience in high-growth companies. Prior to joining Ensighten, Marty spent 15 years with Spectrum Equity, a leading growth equity firm in the software and internet markets. In addition, he held senior leadership positions at venture backed start-ups and was the Director of Acquisitions at a public company. He began his career with Ernst & Young. Marty holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Baltimore.
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Writing for Kids? Don't forget the Bows and Arrows
I generally read adult fiction, especially in the mystery genre. I stopped reading teen books when I finished the last Nancy Drew mystery back in junior high. But after hearing all the hype about a young adult book called "The Hunger Games," by Suzanne Collins, I decided to check it out to see why it was so popular.
Much like the "Twilight" trilogy, "The Hunger Games" has been translated into more than two dozen languages, has garnered positive reviews and is now a movie. So it has to be good, right?
But after reading only a few pages, I quickly learned this was not really a kids' book. The story features a 16-year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a very hungry, post-apocalyptic world. She volunteers to participate in the annual Hunger Games to replace her lottery-selected younger sister, Primrose. The games require that children between the ages of 12 and 18 must battle to the death every year to appease the government.
Only one will survive.
This is a kids' book?
It sounds more like a Grimm's fairy tale. Speaking of which, apparently, some parents today are refusing to read the old fairy tales to their kids because they're "too scary." These parents prefer to retell the stories with positive endings, hoping their children will learn a valuable lesson (instead of spending a sleepless night in Mommy and Daddy's bed.)
I can just imagine how they would rewrite the classic "The Three Little Pigs."
"The pigs work together to build their houses, then invite the Big Nice Wolf in for a vegetarian meal and a game of Candy Land. The end."
And how about "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?" Instead of having the evil stepmother chase Snow White from the castle, Snow White gives the ugly woman makeup tips, they bake an apple pie and start a special school for Little People.
And the dog from "Old Yeller" lives forever.
Goodness. The adult mysteries I read are much tamer than "The Hunger Games." While Katniss is trained to kill with a bow and arrow, most of the heroines in the books I read have a skill too, but instead of archery or swordfighting, they're more apt to bead or decoupage or scrapbook while they fight crime.
As for my own mystery series, I offer party tips, not how-to-stay-alive tips. And my protagonist only has to juggle party planning with murder solving. Poor Katniss struggles with getting enough food to eat while surviving killer teens. Sounds like I need to ratchet up the blood and guts and simmer down on the crafts and party tips.
My children's book, "The Code Busters Club," is about four children who solve a mystery by cracking codes, not skulls. Maybe I should rethink that and write about a kid who skips school, sneaks out at night, lies to his friends, smokes, hangs out in a graveyard, engages in witchcraft, runs away from home, pretends to be dead, breaks into a house, gets lost in a cave, nearly starves to death and plans to become a world-class robber when he grows up.
Oh wait. Mark Twain already wrote that book and called it "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
And we let our kids read that?
What's the post-apocalyptic world coming to?
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“School up!” – They are really moving on
Excavation for the foundations
“School up!” is no longer just a donation campaign, but a project that is realized. Thanks to your donations, the first building of the new school is being constructed in the small village of Thulosirubari, some 70 kilometers east of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. “Digging foundation has been started. Construction materials have been dropped on site,” Shyam Pandit wrote to me these days. Shyam is the liaison man of the German aid organization “Nepalhilfe Beilngries” in Nepal. “I was on-site and talked to the contractor. He said and committed, the building would be finished before the next raining season June/July 2017, except painting. They are really moving on.”
Aid project: School up!, Arjun Gatraj, Construction work, Gerlinde and Ralf School, Ralf Dujmovits, Shyam Pandit, Sindhupalchowk, Thulosirubari
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Schoolchildren in Thulosirubari
… go! Not only Olympic athletes are currently waiting for this call. People in Thulosirubari are in the starting blocks too. Hopefully we are only few days away from the start of the construction of the new school at this small village in Sindhupalchowk District in Nepal. According to the German aid organization “Nepalhilfe Beilngries” finally all bureaucratic barriers have been broken down so that the school for 700 children and adolescents in Thulosirubari can be rebuilt. That has been and will be the goal of the aid project “School up!” that I had launched along with the professional climbers Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner from Austria and Ralf Dujmovits from Germany a year ago. The “Gerlinde and Ralf School”, which had been inaugurated only in 2009, was so badly damaged by the devastating earthquake in Nepal on 25 April 2015 that it had to be demolished.
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Demolition of school has begun
The school in Thulosirubari is going to be demolished
It was simply too dangerous. In the village of Thulosirubari in the Nepalese earthquake zone, residents and helpers of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have begun to remove the debris of the school. The building that was heavily damaged by the quake on 25 April “stands dangerously on the side of the ground where children use to play”, Arjun Gatraj, chairman of the School Management Committee, writes to me. As reported, the ground floor of the “Gerlinde and Ralf School” had collapsed, the building cannot be maintained. “These days, we have the big problem on how to destroy the main building and how to clear the rubble”, says Arjun. “We have no money for that ant the Government of Nepal is also not able to support us.”
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Education in tin sheds
A return to normal is difficult while you have to live in ruins. “The earthquake has destroyed almost all the houses”, Arjun Gatraj wrote to me from Thulosirubari in Sindhupalchowk District. The village is about 40 kilometers as the crow flies from the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, but is only accessible by a gravel road. “The people are struggling to make ends meet. They live from hand to mouth”, Arjun said. According to him, the devastating 25 April earthquake killed about 75 people in Thulosirubari. Seven of the victims were students of the “Gerlinde and Ralf School”, but they didn’t die at school. “When I heard about the earthquake, I had many familiar people of Nepal in my mind: friends, good friends, and of course the many children in the various schools of the German aid organization Nepalhilfe Beilngries, also the students of the school in Thulosirubari”, says Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner. “Then my thought was immediately: Saturday is no school, thank goodness!” With their financial commitment, the extreme climbers Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner and Ralf Dujmovits had made it possible at all to build the school.
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Marcus Wilson, rap star
Former Evansville standout guard Marcus Wilson has completed his professional basketball career and is entering a new life as a rap artist. Here is the complete story:
http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20100722/Sports/7220382/1001/Sports
Author Dave ReynoldsPosted on July 22, 2010 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Marcus Wilson, rap star
Near Brave Fears to Poland
Jeremy Fears, who practiced with the Bradley Braves during his transfer year to BU but never played on the Hilltop, has signed a professional contract with PBG Poznan in Poland.
The 6-foot-4 Fears went from Joliet High School in 2004 to Ohio University, where he played for twoe seasons before transferring to BU.
After his sit-out season, he left Bradley for South Carolina-Aiken, where he finished his collegiate career. Last season he played in Hungary and Slovakia, averaging 22 points per game.
Author Dave ReynoldsPosted on July 22, 2010 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Near Brave Fears to Poland
Forget about Ocherobia
So what has become of Michael Ocherobia, the 6-foot-8 recruit from the Canary Islands who had apparently orally committed to Bradley?
I had heard that Ocherobia had not qualified academically at Bradley and asked Jim Les recently if that were true.
Les’ response? “No comment.”
I asked again in a different way, explaining to Jim that he didn’t have to comment on the academic part of it if he thought that was a problem with NCAA rules. Just an acknowledgement whether Bradley was still recruiting Ocherobia. Or not.
Again, I got a no comment.
In our conversation in Milwaukee earlier this week, Jim and I were talking recruiting. I asked about the Braves’ two open scholarships for next year.
He corrected me. “It’s three because we have one leftover from this year,” he said.
OK. I guess that means Ocherobia is no longer coming. For the life of me, I don’t know why it couldn’t have been said in a straightforward way.
As in “We are no longer recruiting Michael Ocherobia,” a comment well within the NCAA language rules.
It also makes me wonder, in retrospect, about Sean Harris, the 6-7 California kid on a Mormon mission who committed to Bradley before leaving the country. Harris supposedly was to arrive on the Hilltop for the 2011-12 season and have three years of eligibility.
Did Les forget about Harris? I certainly did that day, but will make sure to ask about him next time.
Author Dave ReynoldsPosted on July 9, 2010 Categories Uncategorized2 Comments on Forget about Ocherobia
Recruiting month upon us
The July basketball recruiting period started this week at dozens of locales around the country. The AAU tournaments during this live evaluation time of 20 days provide college coaches browsing for recruits a Wal-Mart-type shopping experience.
“There are so many tournaments now there’s not as many (Division I recruits) on each team as there used to be,” said BU coach Jim Les while watching the NY2LA Next Level tournament at Mequon, Wis. “There still are some teams that are loaded. But, for the most part, it’s more watered down now than it used to be.”
The Missouri Valley Conference was well-represented at the suburban Milwaukee event as coaches from nine of the 10 schools (only Wichita State, which usually concentrates on the nation’s South and West events) were checking out the action.
Most of the Big Ten was on hand as well. Both Bruce Weber and Jerrance Howard of Illinois were there Wednesday.
Les was planning to be on the road for nine days of the first 10-day period. His week began at the adidas event in Indianapolis on Tuesday, then flew to Mequon for two days. Then he drove to the Division I Event at Highland, Ind., for a couple of days before heading to Augusta, S.C., for the Nike Peach Jam.
Then it’s off for a week before the second 10-day period begins, lasting until the last day of July. Check out the Journal Star for recruiting updates throughout the month.
Author Dave ReynoldsPosted on July 8, 2010 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Recruiting month upon us
Remembering Levern
Joe Stowell tells of how Levern Tart, who passed away this week at the age of 68, ended up at Bradley. Stowell was then the BU assistant coach to Chuck Orsborn.
“I got a call from the sports editor at the (Palm Beach) Sun-Sentinel who had watched us play in the 1960 NIT. He told me there were two kids down there who could kick the butts of any of our players. So I said, ‘We’re always looking for good players’ and told him I’d come check them out. I went to see Levern Tart and he was signed to go to Indiana on a football scholarship. Nobody had recruited him for basketball. The southern schools at that time didn’t recruit blacks. Well, I’d never seen him play and he had never seen Bradley, but he signed his Letter of Intent while I was there. (The other kid was Joe Strawder from Belle Glade, Fla. We’ll save that story for another time).
“The first day Levern was at Bradley, I took him to the gym to work him out. We played one and one and it didn’t take me long to figure out he was all left-handed. I tried to force him to his right, but he just went to his left harder. He knocked me down about three times and I finally said, ‘Levern, before you leave here, you’re going to learn to go to your right.’ Well, he did learn some, but he was so strong, he usually could score going to his left. He and Al Smith were probably the two strongest kids I had and they were both left-handed.”
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'Bilateral exercises useful during important naval ops'
Article Posted on : - Apr 27, 2015
ON BOARD INS VIRAAT (PTI): Expressing gratitude towards India for rescuing several French nationals from war-ravaged Yemen as part of 'Operation Rahat', a senior French Navy officer has stressed the need for holding bilateral exercises.
"Some of your (Indian) ships conducted evacuation of French nationals from Yemen. We have been very grateful for the support provided by the Indian Navy during such occasion," Rear Adm Eric Chaperon, commander of Task Force 473 told reporters here on Saturday.
Task Force 473 representing the French side is a part of the ongoing bilateral naval exercises 'Varuna', which begun off-Goa coast from April 23 and will culminate on May 2.
Two Indian ships - INS Mumbai and INS Tarkash-- which are currently part of Indian fleet for the exercises had participated in evacuation of civilians from Yemen recently.
India evacuated over 3,000 people including over 1,200 foreign nationals during the risky operation.
Chaperon attributed the success of 'Operation Rahat' to naval exercises like 'Varuna'.
"This (successful evacuation) has been a result of exercise...There has been so many exchanges between our ships," he said.
By developing understanding and cooperation between ships, we facilitate their cooperation for any kind of mission.
"The level of cooperation that we draw here is useful in any place, where armed ships are asked to move," he added.
He said such operations have to be executed in limited time frame and there is a necessity to exchange information and help.
"What we are doing here is an exercise of cooperation," the French naval officer said.
Rear Admiral R Hari Kumar, flag officer commanding western region said Indian Navy was also in touch with French counterpart during the evacuation in Yemen.
"A common strategy was developed between both the forces that helped the mission. When you practise during the exercise you arrive at common procedures and methods of how one ship can help another in a joint mission," he commented.
The 14th edition of 'Varuna' started with the arrival of four French naval ships at Goa including aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, two destroyers Chevalier Paul and Jean de Vienne, replenishment tanker Meuse and a maritime patrol aircraft Atlantique 2.
The scope for exercise includes the entire gamut of maritime operation from aircraft carrier operations, anti submarines warfare exercises, maritime interdiction operations to multi ship replenishment exercise.
The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is carrying its complement of fighter aircraft Rafale M, Strike aircraft super Eternard, E2C Haekeye AWACS and helicopters Dauphin and Alouette 3.
The Indian Navy is represented by the aircraft carrier INS Viraat, a Delhi class destroyer, a Teg and a Brahmaputra class frigate, replenishment ship Deepak, a Shishumar class submarine and fast attack crafts.
The Indian Navy's aviation assets, including fighter aircraft Sea Harriers, maritime reconnaissance aircraft P8I and Dorniers, Seaking 42B and Chetak helicopters are also participating in this exercise.
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Army Chief Gen M M Naravane has exhorted Army men deployed along borders with China, Pakistan to remain vigilant round-the-clock, and assured that their operational and logistical needs will be met at any cost.
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Caribbean Sees Drop In Remittances
CaribWorldNews, WASHINGTON, D.C., Tues. Mar. 17, 2009: Remittances to the Caribbean dropped by over five percent in the last three months of 2008, Inter-American Development Bank data showed Monday.
A 2008 graph of remittance flows unveiled yesterday showed money transfers to the region turned negative in the last quarter of 2008 by almost six percent, a trend that was also true for Latin American nations. Guyana showed a drop in overall remittances for 2008.
Looking at last quarter trends, researchers of the bank`s Multilateral Investment Fund, said remittances late last year dropped to about $17 billion to those regions, and they predict the trend could continue this year.
Seven of the region’s nations receive 12 percent or more of GDP from their compatriots abroad, including Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala. The Caribbean, like most nations in this region, had seen continuous upward growth in remittances since 2001.
For the few countries in the Andean regions that have reported data for January, totals were down by as much as 13 percent, analysts added. The economic slowdown in the United States, sharp spikes in food and fuel prices, a harsher climate against immigration, and a weakening U.S. dollar were all blamed for the drop.
The decline comes after almost a decade of growth in remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean. A decline in remittances is likely to translate into greater demand on social safety networks by families who rely on money flows from abroad to cover basic expenses, researchers said, since many of the Caribbean nations are highly dependent on the remittances.
The money sent home by migrant workers is a key source of income for millions of families across this region. Last year Latin American and Caribbean expatriates transferred some $69.2 billion to their homelands, 0.9 percent more than in 2007, according to the IDB.
`While it is too early to project by how much remittances may decline in 2009, this is bad news for millions of people in our region who depend on these flows to make ends meet,` said IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno. `The issue has become more complex, as more factors have come into play. The world is facing its worst economic crisis in recent memory. Unemployment is rising in industrialized nations. The climate against immigration is becoming harsher. Even exchange rate fluctuations are playing a larger role than before.` – By CWNN Staffwriter
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Piranha Eating Human
Piranha do not produce feces. It is a quite popular dish in some places. Piranhas live in rivers in South America, in the rainforest –why not look on a world map to see where that is? The word piranha means fish tooth –and piranhas teeth are razor sharp! Piranhas jaws are so strong that they can crush a human hand in 5-10 seconds! Like sharks, piranhas can sense when there is blood in the. Also type in the cheats menu: Big Piranhas - SVWG, Invincible Piranhas - CIKA, Piranha Gang - HUTR, Fully Upgraded - YDOL, Move Fast - XUOK, Slow Motion Alligator - PUKV Cheat Description Unlimited blood. Yes, all the time to the second. With knee-trembler's above the waves and tremors below, released from their dormant sleep, thousands upon thousands of flesh-eating nippers are released into the lake with whetted appetites and razor-sharp teeth. Tometes camunani prefers to live in quickly moving water. What is the prey of a piranha? Piranhas have so many preys in the wild, they prey on Fish like the angelfish and mammals like mice and. Apr 17, 2015 · Piranhas Kill 6-Year-Old Girl by Eating Her Legs Share on By the time she was rescued bloodthirsty piranhas has eaten the flesh from her legs. The truth is, people are a lot more dangerous to piranhas than piranhas are to people. To date, piranhas number about 50 species. One of the earliest entries in what is now known as the “Jawsploitation” cycle of movies throughout the 1970s and beyond, Joe Dante’s Piranha was also a major hit for New World Pictures in 1978. A video out of Spain posted by RT shows blood being taken out of the body via syringe, mixed with grated meat, boiled and then eaten. Once blood is shed, piranha can detect a drop from two miles away. Piranha are very skittish and stressful. Dec 01, 2005 · Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report. These things most certainly can eat a cow. 10 Likes, 3 Comments - IACJ DMedia 👑 (@iacjdmedia) on Instagram: “#NewJersey lake The 🐟#fish w/ #eerily 👪human-like 😆#teeth #PacuFish 🍌🍎🍏🍊🍇🍓🍒🍉🍐#fruits #nuts #piranha…”. This means that their diet consists of meat from other organisms and plants. Piranhas like to eat and this guy has a fork and a knife, so let’s just go with Piranha Grill. Nov 30, 2000 · General Biology. Attacking a live animal isn't out of the question for piranhas, but it's not likely they could take down a healthy, full-grown human. Most piranhas have large, sharp-edged teeth for slicing through flesh and preying on other fish. Piranhas are one of the most efficient predators on earth, with razor sharp teeth and a ferocious nature. A piranha is a fish with famously sharp teeth. May 16, 2019 · Even the threat of a tightening noose sends leftists into a feeding frenzy. Although P. I cannot wait to eat my cupcakes. The document has moved here. News channels love to sensationalize piranha attacks to take advantage of our preconceived notions. That means they live only from the crumbs that fall from the other fishes (scales, fin parts). There are also situations when Piranha are naturally more aggressive, however, humans have been attacked, but it's most likely that they were doing something to aggravate the fish. Local children swim in South American rivers inhabited by piranha. An Arizona fisherman got a big surprise when he found a fish with human-like teeth on his hook. Feb 02, 2013 · I would say only about 3% of it happens. Normally, piranhas eat other fish and wounded animals. They may bite/nip at something that's alive, but they're typically scavengers that eat remains of other fish/animals that float by. Piranha After Roger Corman saw Jaws smash box-office records in 1975, he produced the original Piranha, his own cheapo aquatic horror story. They can cause blood lose, but most of the time the people drown before even the piranhas get there, the piranhas are just scavenging. Better in the stomach of a. PIRANHA 3D Plot: “They’re back! Every year the population of sleepy Lake Havasu explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 for a single, wild weekend – the 4th of July, a riot of sun, drunken fun and sex-crazed mayhem. ), but to the extent they are real they tell us something about how human behaviors are linked to environmental cues, and that seems valuable in itself. In the world of nature, though, there are always exceptions, as evidenced by plants that attract, trap, and digest animals (mostly insects, but also the occasional snail, lizard, or even small mammal). to good-looking nude. A powerful predator, the jaguar prowls the forest floor in search of prey. piranhas are known to only attack living creatures its own size or smaller. POLICE have rescued two teenage sisters from a circus in southern Italy which forced one of them to swim with flesh-eating piranhas for the audience's amusement. Sharks are cold-blooded, and that is the reason why sharks don’t have to eat as much as most people think; this means their circulation is slowed down, and they can burn energy at a slower rate. Piranhas only attack humans in movies. Piranhas are members of a family of omnivorous freshwater fish. Oct 01, 2009 · Piranhas generally pose little threat to humans, and attacks on humans are extremely rare. com- A Human Can Kill A Piranha Hairstyles for the big day - or every day. Reports of Piranhas biting people in their native habitats are rare, so the danger of Piranhas is exaggerated. It also houses an actual piranha named Earl who serves as the club's mascot and trash compactor. com Human Interest 20-Year-Old Sorority Sister Who Died After Pancake-Eating Contest Was the Daughter of Fallen 9/11 Cop: 'She Was Really Loved'. Baby piranha will feast on tiny crustaceans, fruits, seeds, and aquatic plants. The giant fish has 32 teeth that are of similar size to those of a great white shark and has been known to attack humans and even crocodiles. Jan 31, 2002 · In the wild, most Piranha eat primarily fins and scales of other large fish, only opportunistically scavenging on an old carcass, and only seasonally consuming large quantities of vegetable matter, so you are best off to try to duplicate this in the aquarium environment. But as they grow older they will need to be fed on larger pellet based based foods. 13 Scariest Freshwater Animals From the fearsome piranha and vampire fish to the mighty anaconda, the crocodile, and the candiru, these are among the most terrifying reptiles, insects, spiders. May 02, 2007 · Answers. Note: to turn off these warnings you need to set the 'safe mode' to OFF (on the top right). Piranha Predators. Can a piranha eat a human? Legend has it that piranhas gather in predatory shoals and can strip human beings to the bone and eat them alive. A tip - don't be the one drinking the rainforest's water! Piranhas get their food by attacking and eating their prey. Jul 10, 2019 · Between the violent-underwater-volcano-of-blood FX that still holds up today due to its low-fi technique, and the sound of the relentless piranha gnashing and ripping through human flesh and bone. The legend may be more truth than fiction, sending shivers up the spine of those who paddle the Amazon’s winding waters by canoe. The cattle are unaffected, while the birds gain food. Jul 10, 2019 · ‘Piranhas’ Trailer: A Cast of Locals Come of Age in Berlin-Winning Mob Drama — Exclusive The movie won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival. The yellow-bellied piranha has a horrific appearance, with a mouth packed full of. Tometes camunani prefers to live in quickly moving water. Aug 29, 2019 · The costumed servers, who have trained for a month in Japan’s ancient ninja stronghold of Iga, not only take orders and run food but perform martial arts, from throwing shuriken to blowing darts—just in case eating piranha ramen alone is too tame… The World’s First Piranha Ramen Is No Joke – Gastro Obscura. This does not include the scavenging of corpses, a single attack born of opportunity or desperate hunger, or the incidental eating of a human that the animal has killed in self-defense. Oct 19, 2018 · The Jurassic seas were a formidable place - home to sharks, crocodiles, sea monsters, and, apparently, piranha-like, flesh-eating fish. When that gets low, they will have the instinct to eat again. ” So, before we get immersed into the piranha world, you have to keep in mind that the word “piranha” is not a scientific term. 2 Puffer Fish. Piranha Blu-ray delivers great video and audio in this excellent Blu-ray release After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of. Red-bellied piranha reproduction begins with a courtship display involving swimming in circles. Oct 16, 2019 · Now, scientists at the University of Washington have affirmed that piranhas and their plant-eating cousins, pacus- indeed lose and regrow all the teeth on one side of their face multiple times throughout their lives. 10 Likes, 3 Comments - IACJ DMedia 👑 (@iacjdmedia) on Instagram: “#NewJersey lake The 🐟#fish w/ #eerily 👪human-like 😆#teeth #PacuFish 🍌🍎🍏🍊🍇🍓🍒🍉🍐#fruits #nuts #piranha…”. Feb 03, 2012 · "My Favorite Museum Exhibit" is a series of posts aimed at giving BoingBoing readers a chance to show off their favorite exhibits and specimens, preferably from museums that might go overlooked in. The biggest kinds may even strip the flesh from land animals that venture into the water, but they are not usually dangerous to humans. Lethargic, sluggish Piranha, not willing to eat, severe body dammage (bites, chunks of flesh missing), cloudy eyes, missing eye, labored respiration (could be a sign of gill problems), parasites on the body. The multi-depth tooth pattern and its bevels and angles provide real “grabbing power” that simply eats up small trees and saplings. What does a Piranha eat? Victims are usually animals smaller than themselves such as insects, aquatic invertebrates and other fish, although attacks on animals as large as horses have been witnessed. Antonio Machado-Allison, a world leading piranha expert, once told me, “Piranha is an indigenous name applied to some sort of fish that have the capacity or capability to eat meat. Also, there is a look-alike equivalent of the piranha called the pacu that is in the same subfamily as the piranha, Serrasalminae. Nothing died prior to the spiritual fall of Adam and Eve (see comments on Genesis 3:19 and 3:21). Tiny Piranha but not tiny for long, your goal is to swim around the waters and eat as many little fish as possible to eventually grow into a Huge piranha. Aug 13, 2016 · The pacu fish, a South American relative of the carnivorous piranha characterized by its distinct human-like teeth, has been showing up unexpectedly in Michigan lakes. Apr 25, 2017 · The fact that we exist today means they were able to escape the threat of death. A Great White Shark vs A School of Piranha Piranha are not the human-skeletonizing demons that Hollywood has made them out to be. Pacus look so much like piranhas that pet store owners often sell pacus to freshwater aquarium buffs as "vegetarian. For starters, you can tell them that red-bellied piranhas gnaw on the fins and flesh of nearby fish even when they are mere babies at just 1. They have been in the water with piranhas, fished for them and studied them. The presence of blood generally is believed to stimulate the feeding frenzy of flesh-eating piranhas. Hey there guys. Of course they devour it – as piranhas would – and they agree it’s very nice, but, after all, they still prefer chewing on humans. Even their name means "tooth fish" in a South American Indian dialect. We are their number one predator. The rain brings a bumper crop of prey: Great white egrets nesting in the only dry place left. com , the best source for free online games on the net!. Most piranhas live in warm, fresh water. Sep 16, 2019 · The piranha-topped piranha ramen, like P. Piranha eating a fish. This Mario-themed puppet pays homage to the ubiquitous man-eating plants that plumbers have to deal with when saving a kidnapped princess. Be careful when you’re swimming, because piranhas will eat you alive. Note: to turn off these warnings you need to set the 'safe mode' to OFF (on the top right). The legend may be more truth than fiction, sending shivers up the spine of those who paddle the Amazon’s winding waters by canoe. The Evolution of Diet. This seems likely, as I recall hearing that piranhas only go after dead flesh when they're feeding. Here's What Men in Asia Eat To Boost Their Libidos. They have, however, been known to attack sickly, old animals that come to drink from the river. They will eat small mammals like moles, squirrels, mice and shrews. Piranha Fish Attack Piranhas belong to the sub-family Serrasalminae, which also includes closely related most omnivorous fish such as pacus. the Piranha along with the Coelacanth, Leech, Sabertooth Salmon, and Trilobite, all became tamable with the fishing basket introduced in aberration. your welcome. Black-tailed or San Francisco piranha it is the largest and one of the most dangerous piranhas. Cattle egrets eat the insects stirred up by cattle when they are grazing. Dec 04, 2019 · Piranhas and pacus shed and replace half of their teeth at a time. No, not much. Mar 30, 2018 · A flesh-eating piranha was found in a waste treatment works in Chichester, West Sussex Credit: Solent News. Pacus look so much like piranhas that pet store owners often sell pacus to freshwater aquarium buffs as "vegetarian. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. Jul 25, 2018 · 11-year-old girl catches piranha relative in Oklahoma lake; fish has human-like teeth by The Associated Press | July 25, 2018 at 3:07 p. Did you know this about piranhas? The piranha's razor-sharp teeth are built for rapid puncturing and sheering. Mar 19, 2015 · Piranhas play an important ecological role as scavengers and predators in their native rivers, says Hogan. 9 m (3 feet) and 25 kg (55 pounds) in the wild. The popular image of piranhas is one of a vicious, flesh-eating (even human eating) predator that devours its prey in a matter of seconds, creating a big bloody frenzy that leaves only the skeleton behind. Piranha was a smash – New World’s highest earning picture since the company’s inception. Five species are considered potentially dangerous to humans: Serrasalmus piraya, S. Piranha fishes eat cow head. I strongly doubt that there was ever a human really killed by being "eaten" by piranhas. From what i heard is this is actually a ceremony where they dress up the body of the dead every year but i can be wrong since most of the damage here is segregated. They can cause serious injury, removing fingers and toes and leaving jagged, gaping wounds. The Human, also referred to as a Survivor or Player, is the only playable creature in ARK: Survival Evolved. The piranha aquarium is more common Pygocentrus nattereri, red-bellied piranhas. However, when he tries to share with his friends, they inform him that piranhas don't eat those fruits and veggies- they eat toes, knees, and bums. some people who were vacationing at the beach suddenly attacked by piranha fish which is very wild. The Piranhas Diet - What Do Piranhas Actually Eat? Written by PiranhaGuide on April 8, 2019 in Breed To take your information from Hollywood, you would think that Piranhas are just pack hunters, permanently hungry and roaming around looking for a meal to attack. Wimpel piranhas (Catoprion mento) are very sneaky. Also, piranha, even prehistoric piranha, probably wouldn't have behaved or looked as vicious. One of the reasons may be that humans do not hunt and kill Piranhas in large numbers. If I can keep you from reading one atrocious novel, I've done my job. With a motley crew of strangers thrown together to defend these shores, it is now up to them to prevent the largest eat-out in human, and piranha, history. Three Piranhas. Jul 17, 2011 · Piranhas are omnivorous and research has shown that only a small group eat meat as part of their diet. As you now know, humans are omnivores. In the fish’s native Amazon-basin region, local fishermen reportedly grill them in banana leaves or boil them with tomatoes, making a soup that they believe has aphrodisiac effects. They should be fed 2-3 times per day. Attacks on humans are uncommon, but they do occur. Article by Amy Deacon People eat fish, Grogan. Piranha and Human Interaction. By clicking on CONTINUE you confirm that you are 18 years and over. Sharknado Week: Piranha 3D. Piranhas eat anything meat. Hollywood has, from time to time, sent wrong information about many things around us and piranhas are just one of the victims. Dec 15, 2017 · The piranha argument is effective in countering (2), but still leaves a lot of room for (1). Some piranhas have grinding teeth to eat vegetation and a few are even strong enough to crunch on the hard seeds and nuts that fall into rivers from trees. In every level you will have your mission like to eat a certain number of people or to roll over the boat with people and eat them alive or to during certain amount of human blood. Tometes camunani prefers to live in quickly moving water. These piranhas are nest builders, with males creating bowl-shaped crevices in the sediment where eggs are placed. If left underfed, they will begin to feed on each others fins and scales. Piranhas have a reputation of being vicious fish, stripping victims of flesh in minutes, this may be true in the wild where you could be attacked by thousands of fish…. Incredibly, hungry piranhas might even attack humans. Some others subsist entirely on the consumption of tiny plants and algae. Piranha was a smash – New World’s highest earning picture since the company’s inception. But do you think he can convice the others to join him?. Can’t have a film about killer man-eating fish without a healthy dose of eviscerated human meat. You can also find multiple synonyms or similar words on the right of Piranha. They are mostly carnivores (a flesh eating animal,) though I haven't seen a fish yet that is truly carnivore, even eating a small amount of vegetation with the live prey would make them omnivorous. We saw human eating piranhas for the first time ever. How they do it may help explain why the fish go to such efforts to replace their teeth. Various species are the victims of culling in attempts to make beaches safer, bycatch by commercial fishing vessels, trophy catches and the. I stayed with you and snuggled, and waited by the door, when you were getting ready to go out to the store. Jimmy Jangles finds that last part hard to believe!. They are renowned for their sharp teeth and aggressive appetite for meat. Complete redeye piranha skeleton (Serrasalmus rhombeus). eigenmanni , but piranha. That means they eat meat and they eat anything they can find. Piranha follow. For starters, you can tell them that red-bellied piranhas gnaw on the fins and flesh of nearby fish even when they are mere babies at just 1. The documented cases of piranhas eating humans involve people dying of other causes, then being eaten by the fish. Jan 12, 2016 · Piranha attacks humans videos piranha fish attack photos does piranha exist how many piranha attacks have there been history of piranha fish real piranha fish attacks. Jun 19, 2019 · With the well known Fugu fish in Japan being exceptionally poisonous to eat, it seems an appropriate question to ask. many died because they were eaten by the fish Piranha Eating Human Cannibals Home Latest Popular Trending. When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal. Oct 19, 2018 · As a marine piranha-like fish contemporary with dinosaurs, it is the oldest known flesh-eating actinopterygian, revealing remarkable convergent evolution with modern piranhas. A piranhas jaw bones can easily crush a human hand in a matter of 5-10 seconds. Piranha is also stronger than normal humans. Jul 23, 2013 · Piranhas won’t eat you if you fall in an Amazon River. Realizing that was silly, Usagi took a breath and got ready to eat. piranha definition of piranha by merriam-webster. They are carnivores and scavengers. Piranhas that are swimming freely don't have any reason to attack humans. | For more River Monsters visit http://animal. In Belgium there is a TV program on popular science with 2 guys testing all kinds of things (Het lichaam van Coppens). Barracuda feed on an array of prey including fish such as jacks, grunts, groupers, snappers, small tunas, mullets, killifishes, herrings, and anchovies by simply biting them in half. You may often come across video footages of piranhas killing capybaras. The sharp teeth of these tiny fishes are a dead giveaway. Designing a recipe with crickets “The pair of us designed the study, which involved eating cricket powder that had been cooked into meals,” said Weir. Piranha taste very fishy. Piranha (ピラニア, Pirania) are omnivorous freshwater fish native to the Amazon regions of South America. Stunned Davey White, 37, spotted the sharp-toothed predator in the water while on a walk. As for the movie, the greatest smallest fish monsters motion picture ever. In particular, it is targeted by the caiman and crocodile during the end of the rainy season (as the rivers and tributaries dry up, the piranhas are easy prey). She has peach-colored defined lips, and long platinum-blonde hair that reaches to her waist. Why not ?. A Hungry Piranha is calling for your help! Are you willing to take a deep dive into the ocean full of deadly aquatic creatures in this online survival game? This is an amazing adventure giving you thrilling challenges. Smaller than they are. Apr 08, 2019 · The Piranhas Diet – What Do Piranhas Actually Eat? Written by PiranhaGuide on April 8, 2019 in Breed To take your information from Hollywood, you would think that Piranhas are just pack hunters, permanently hungry and roaming around looking for a meal to attack. Piranhas are quite light sensitive, and they can suffer damage if they are exposed to strong aquarium lights. They make our worlds an easier and better place to live in, giving us reason to pause and smile and — in some. Realizing that was silly, Usagi took a breath and got ready to eat. They can and they are. Best solution would be to eliminate all HUMAN life from that river. The scare is because of an Ogden pond fisherman's catch of a 15-inch specimen of the bright-colored, carnivorous South American freshwater fish, which can seriously harm humans and large animals. Piranhas don't only kill and eat living animals, they scavenge for carcasses and feed on whatever meat they can find. Some are eaten, some aren't. Before we begin with our list of 20 piranha facts, we need to tell you something - they aren't human killers. Man eaten by Piranhas (Graphic!) Pirahna's dont normally attack humans unless the taste blood in the water around them. When the dry season arrived, the three piranha species specialized on eating fish fins. What crocodiles eat includes everything that is edible. Photo by author (H. Some piranhas do occasionally eat small mammals, but as with humans, it's usually when the unfortunate animal is already dead or gravely injured. Outsized jaw muscles allow the black piranha to exert bite force equivalent to 30 times its bodyweight, a feat unmatched. They will eat small mammals like moles, squirrels, mice and shrews. Piranhas are members of a family of omnivorous freshwater fish. Be careful when you’re swimming, because piranhas will eat you alive. They don't waste time eating and then digesting. It would take concidering the type and size quite many. Adult piranha will eat just about anything - other fish, sick and weakened cattle, even parts of people. Their fear of humans makes sense. A team of teeth. Using a dash into an animal tier five and above attaches to them. According to NPR, the Fore people ate their dead instead of burying them to protect them from worms and maggots. We have swimming pools for humans, let piranhas have the river. if you go to search on internet for piranhas or seen a video of how piranhas eats then may be anyone would belife that yes piranhs can really strips anybody to the bone in under a singel minite. Aug 13, 2016 · The pacu fish, a South American relative of the carnivorous piranha characterized by its distinct human-like teeth, has been showing up unexpectedly in Michigan lakes. Oct 14, 2011 · Twenty-five species of piranhas exist in the wild today, but only "two or three" species pose a threat to humans, Parmentier said. Adolescent piranhas require feeding more often than adults. Apr 08, 2019 · The Piranhas Diet – What Do Piranhas Actually Eat? Written by PiranhaGuide on April 8, 2019 in Breed To take your information from Hollywood, you would think that Piranhas are just pack hunters, permanently hungry and roaming around looking for a meal to attack. Jan 12, 2016 · Piranha attacks humans videos piranha fish attack photos does piranha exist how many piranha attacks have there been history of piranha fish real piranha fish attacks. Piranha Stock Photos and Images. Despite this, and their reputation, the likelihood of a piranha (or a school of piranhas) trying to make a meal out of a human are relatively slim. Normally, piranhas eat other fish and wounded animals. Apr 17, 2019 · AN amateur angler fished out a flesh-eating piranha from a lake in Doncaster. sharks, piranhas & monsters: amazon. Attacking a live animal isn't out of the question for piranhas, but it's not likely they could take down a healthy, full-grown human. Attack occurred in same Argentine river where 70 were injured last month. Even attacking a live creature is rare unless they're quite hungry. "A common feeding behavior is to nip off parts of the. Disproving Hollywood Stereotypes: The Bare Bones of Piranha Behaviour. Thanks once again for being most helpful, Ian Fruit-eating Piranha ID request hallo! my name is Francesca and I'm. The dark organ in the middle of the viscera is an ovary filled with eggs. One of those is the red-bellied piranha, pygocentrus nattereri but also called serrasalmus nattereri. I watched you in the morning, I watched you late at night. Piranhas' Bark as Bad as Their Bite. Apr 17, 2015 · Piranhas Kill 6-Year-Old Girl by Eating Her Legs Share on By the time she was rescued bloodthirsty piranhas has eaten the flesh from her legs. Fish dont eat people reassures the camp leader in the film Piranha, shortly before a shoal of incredibly voracious fish turn the waters alongside the camp site red, in a savage attack on innocent bathers. This isn't just sick, it's clas-sick! Source. I know this sounds like I am a little nuts, but what I want to know is that a warning has been issued to Tsunami victims to not. They have a single row of teeth, which are very similar to human teeth, used for grinding, chewing and cracking hard nuts that fall into the river. Here’s what you need to know to eat fish and stay healthy. Enough said! Sometimes it’s harder to write about something you deeply love than writing about something you deeply hate. PIRANHA 3D Plot: “They’re back! Every year the population of sleepy Lake Havasu explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 for a single, wild weekend – the 4th of July, a riot of sun, drunken fun and sex-crazed mayhem. Take humans for instance: we replace our teeth once during our life, so our adult teeth must last a very long time. They are renowned for their sharp teeth and aggressive appetite for meat. Despite their reputation piranhas aren't the bone-stripping threat to humans that they are made out to be. As long as you are uninjured, piranhas will likely leave you alone. Can humans eat piranhas? Answer. If you are thinking of having a pet piranha, pay attention to this AnimalWised article about this very special exotic fish that requires a. Wiki User 04/16/2012. In general, there is no need for humans to be concerned about a massive attack by schools of piranha, but for safety reasons it is advised not to go swimming in closed-off lakes. Piranha 3D Blu-ray (2010): Starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ving Rhames and Elisabeth Shue. Being an exotic tropical fish, many people ask if they can eat Piranha without consequences. (Mario Tama/Getty Images). Directed by Joe Dante. Hungry Piranhas. The dark organ in the middle of the viscera is an ovary filled with eggs. Local children swim in South American rivers inhabited by piranha. Because these fish often spend their time looking for prey, many people associate piranhas with sharp teeth and an aggressive appetite for meat. Realizing that was silly, Usagi took a breath and got ready to eat. How would that even be possible for a bunch of 10-inch, 3-pound fish? Let's find out. It has also not been conclusively proven that they are huge contributors to the river ecosystem. Legend has it that tiger fish have once occasion eaten humans and even crocodiles. sharks, piranhas & monsters: amazon. Jul 23, 2013 · Piranhas won’t eat you if you fall in an Amazon River. Piranha Fish Species, description, information, habitat, and more! Saltwater Aquarium Guide. Stunned Davey White, 37, spotted the sharp-toothed predator in the water while on a walk. However, if you have been cut enough to allow blood into the water, they. Piranha Information, facts and fiction. Feb 02, 2013 · I would say only about 3% of it happens. It is not recommended to swim where piranha live in drought season because of increased aggressiveness caused by food scarcity. Clair when she snagged an unsuspecting catch -- a two-pound red-bellied pacu, which is a cousin to the vicious piranha. Before we begin with our list of 20 piranha facts, we need to tell you something - they aren't human killers. parasitic amoeba eating. if you go to search on internet for piranhas or seen a video of how piranhas eats then may be anyone would belife that yes piranhs can really strips anybody to the bone in under a singel minite. By Rebecca Boyle. One of those is the red-bellied piranha, pygocentrus nattereri but also called serrasalmus nattereri. Even though the razor sharp teeth and shredding jaws sound very scary, piranhas actually very rarely attack humans. The piranha jaw is strong, with the largest in the species being able to bite with a maximum force of 3 times their own body weight. You can watch a video about how vicious the fish. Nov 04, 2013 · Piranha-Like Fish Found At Chicago Area Lake. The legend may be more truth than fiction, sending shivers up the spine of those who paddle the Amazon’s winding waters by canoe. Piranha Fish Attack Human And Feeding Piranha. “People eat fish, Grogan. Piranhas have the reputation as man eaters, but it is not true. In fact, normal piranha look a lot like normal fish when their mouths are closed. "There are no documented human deaths from piranha attacks," according to the Encarta. We license premium user generated video to media publishers, producers, brands, and creatives around the world. You may understand "Piranhas meaning in Bengali" from defination at English to Bangla online dictionary. The predators of the Red-Bellied Piranha are: Piranhas and Humans. We all know the basics of the food chain: plants eat sunlight, animals eat plants, and bigger animals eat smaller animals. A Piranha Bean is a Beanbean Kingdom species of Piranha Plant that somewhat resembles a smaller version of Petey Piranha, except with the head of a normal Piranha Plant. The fact is that hungry piranha will bite almost anything, even other piranhas. Piranhas involved in death of girl after canoe capsizes on Brazilian river in storm. However, they eat mostly fruit and vegetables. The red belly pacu grows to a huge size of more than two feet, representing the very outer limit of how big a fish you can keep in a home aquarium. A person's shoulder blades are not collapsible and therefore could cause a snake to burst. Some human deaths have also occurred. But most fishermen were content to go home with plenty of the reputedly aphrodisiac piranha red belly , claimed then town spokesman Nelson Custidio. rhombeus, and S. While the myth of the man-eating piranha belongs to movie theaters, the Internet has a wealth of mysterious footage of piranha packs taking down capybaras. Find out what piranhas eat -- and don't eat! -- in this new, irresistibly funny picture book from Aaron Blabey, the bestselling creator of Pig the Pug! Everyone knows that piranhas don't eat bananas -- except for Brian. piranha fish attack human | real piranha attack appeared at the sea new 2015 piranha fish attack human piranha food Animal Attacks Piranha Literature Subject. Be careful when you’re swimming, because piranhas will eat you alive. Report missing or broken trailer Original Trailer. Jun 25, 2017 · With Man Creating Monstrous Chimeras, Is Nature Striking Back? More Bizarre Animal Attacks Upon Humans Include Savage Wave Of Man-Eating Piranha Attacks. Eating marijuana gives you a different high. Dec 15, 2017 · The piranha argument is effective in countering (2), but still leaves a lot of room for (1). What's on it may surprise you. Legend has it that piranhas gather in predatory shoals and can strip human beings to the bone and eat them alive. Nov 17, 2011 · Flesh-eating piranhas attack 15 bathers at tourist spot Metro Web Reporter Thursday 17 Nov 2011 1:58 pm Share this article via facebook Share this article via twitter Share this article via messenger. Download in under 30 seconds. Attacking a live animal isn't out of the question for piranhas, but it's not likely they could take down a healthy, full-grown human. the Piranha along with the Coelacanth, Leech, Sabertooth Salmon, and Trilobite, all became tamable with the fishing basket introduced in aberration. An omnivore (/ ˈ ɒ m n ɪ v ɔːr /) is an animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal matter. While it is true that pacu is related to piranhas, unlike their meat-loving cousins, pacus are omnivores. He fell from his canoe. Predatory, fish-eating birds such as egrets and storks are also fond of eating piranhas. Though they will eat a dead or defenseless creature that falls into the water. The African tigerfish is the first freshwater fish recorded and confirmed to attack and catch birds in flight. Piranha can smell blood and will attack any injured creature. The document has moved here. Article by Amy Deacon People eat fish, Grogan. Directed by Scott P. This seems likely, as I recall hearing that piranhas only go after dead flesh when they're feeding. The Pacu, also dubbed 'The Nut Cracker' and 'The Ball-Cutter', boasts a set of human-like teeth which can. Sep 23, 2000 · However, there is evidence that the ancestors of the piranha were once plant-eaters.
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THE MilBlog link starter kit
In honor of his MSNBC face time, I want to throw you BLACKFIVE's way for an outstanding MilBlog listing.
Shameless self-promotion on my part, I know (ma'ma would be proud there, natch), but he has some primary sources that deserve a quick look when you get a chance. There are a few I would add, but you can go to "Phibian's Favorites" for those.
Thanks Matt for the vote of confidence.
Left jab from France - Waiting for the Dutch power hand
Well, that was interesting. Wait for 01 JUN to see what my friends the Dutch do.
Last month I said,
If the French say "Non" and the Dutch say "Nee"; in three months we could see the death of "Europe à la Française." I have my doubts, but; does anyone have an extra bottle of California Sparkling Wine just in case?
I don't know if we should be drinking yet. Some in Europe may decide to ignore the vox populi and force this "constitution" through one way or another.
I don't know enough about you, but I love the Red-Blue maps. Via Powerline here's a fun one.
Let's watch this play out. There are other things happening in Euroland as well. Interesting. Sell Euros.
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The Fall of Constantinople: An exception to the Sunday Rule
Sunday is the day of rest; the reason I usually only put out the Sunday Funnies until Monday. Today, we make an exception.
With delicious irony, France chose the anniversary of the Fall of Constantinople for the referendum on the EU constitution. There will be more to follow on this; I go to LGF for updates – but I have to wonder if the French still study their own history as Europeans?
In case you are wondering how writers get their ideas for The Lord of the Rings and such movies, below is an extended quotation from one of the best descriptions of the last hours of the Eastern Roman Empire – Byzantium; and with it the last bulwark against the Islamic armies swelling towards Eastern Europe from Asia. In 230 years they would be at the Gates of Vienna.
In the city everyone realized that the great moment had come. During Monday, May 28, some last repairs were done on the walls and the stockades, in the collapsed sections, were reinforced. In the city, while the bells of the churches rang mournfully, citizens and soldiers joined a long procession behind the holy relics brought out of the churches. Singing hymns in Greek, Italian or Catalan, Orthodox and Catholic, men, women, children, soldiers, civilians, clergy, monks and nuns, knowing that they were going to die shortly, made peace with themselves, with God and with eternity.
When the procession ended the Emperor met with his commanders and the notables of the city. In a philosophical speech he told his subjects that the end of their time had come. In essence he told them that Man had to be ready to face death when he had to fight for his faith, for his country, for his family or for his sovereign. All four reasons were now present. Furthermore, his subjects, who were the descendants of Greeks and Romans, had to emulate their great ancestors. They had to fight and sacrifice themselves without fear. They had lived in a great city and they were now going to die defending it. As for himself, he was going to die fighting for his faith, for his city and for his people. He also thanked the Italian soldiers, who had not abandoned the great city in its final moments. He still believed that the garrison could repulse the enemy. They all had to be brave, proud warriors and do their duty. He thanked all present for their contribution to the defense of the city and asked them to forgive him, if he had ever treated them without kindness. Meanwhile the great church of Saint Sophia was crowded. Thousands of people were moving towards the church. Inside, Orthodox and Catholic priests were holding mass. People were singing hymns, others were openly crying, others were asking each other for forgiveness. Those who were not serving on the ramparts also went to the church, among them was seen, for a brief moment, the Emperor. People confessed and took communion. Then those who were going to fight rode or walked back to the ramparts.
From the great church the Emperor rode to the Palace at Blachernae. There he asked his household to forgive him. He bade the emotionally shattered men and women farewell, left his Palace and rode away, into the night, for a last inspection of the defense positions. Then he took his battle position.
The assault began after midnight, into the 29th of May 1453. Wave after wave the attackers charged. Battle cries, accompanied by the sound of drums, trumpets and fifes, filled the air. The bells of the city churches began ringing frantically. Orders, screams and the sound of trumpets shattered the night. First came the irregulars, an unreliable, multinational crowd of Christians and Moslems, who were attracted by the opportunity of enriching themselves by looting the great city, the last capital of the Roman Empire. They attacked throughout the line of fortifications and they were massacred by the tough professionals, who were fighting under the orders of Giustiniani. The battle lasted two hours and the irregulars withdrew in disorder, leaving behind an unknown number of dead and wounded.
Next came the Anatolian troops of Ishak Pasha. They tried to storm the stockades. They fought tenaciously, even desperately trying to break through the compact ranks of the defenders. The narrow area in which fighting went on helped the defenders. They could hack left and right with their maces and swords and shoot missiles onto the mass of attackers without having to aim. A group of attackers crashed through a gap and for a moment it seemed that they could enter the city. They were assaulted by the Emperor and his men and were soon slain. This second attack also failed.
But now came the Janissaries, disciplined, professional, ruthless warriors, superbly trained, ready to die for their master, the Sultan. They assaulted the now exhausted defenders, they were pushing their way over bodies of dead and dying Moslem and Christian soldiers. With tremendous effort the Greek and Italian fighters were hitting back and continued repulsing the enemy. Then a group of enemy soldiers unexpectedly entered the city from a small sally-port called Kerkoporta, on the wall of Blachernae, where this wall joined the triple wall. Fighting broke near the small gate with the defenders trying to eliminate the intruders.
It was almost day now, the first light, before sunrise, when a shot fired from a calverin hit Giustiniani. The shot pierced his breastplate and he fell on the ground. Shaken by his wound and physically exhausted, his fighting spirit collapsed. Despite the pleas of the Emperor, who was fighting nearby, not to leave his post, the Genoese commander ordered his men to take him out of the battle-field. A Gate in the inner wall was opened for the group of Genoese soldiers, who were carrying their wounded commander, to come into the city. The soldiers who were fighting near the area saw the Gate open, their comrades carrying their leader crossing into the city, and they though that the defense line had been broken. They all rushed through the Gate leaving the Emperor and the Greek fighters alone between the two walls. This sudden movement did not escape the attention of the Ottoman commanders. Frantic orders were issued to the troops to concentrate their attack on the weakened position. Thousands rushed to the area. The stockade was broken. The Greeks were now squeezed by crowds of Janissaries between the stockade and the wall. More Janissaries came in and many reached the inner wall.
Meanwhile more were pouring in through the Kerkoporta, where the defenders had not been able to eliminate the first intruders. Soon the first enemy flags were seen on the walls. The Emperor and his commanders were trying frantically to rally their troops and push back the enemy. It was too late. Waves of Janissaries, followed by other regular units of the Ottoman army, were crashing through the open Gates, mixed with fleeing and slaughtered Christian soldiers. Then the Emperor, realizing that everything was lost, removed his Imperial insignia, and followed by his cousin Theophilus Palaeologus, the Castilian Don Francisco of Toledo, and John Dalmatus, all four holding their swords, charged into the sea of the enemy soldiers, hitting left and right in a final act of defiance. They were never seen again.
Now thousands of Ottoman soldiers were pouring into the city. One after the other the city Gates were opened. The Ottoman flags began appearing on the walls, on the towers, on the Palace at Blachernae. Civilians in panic were rushing to the churches. Others locked themselves in their homes, some continued fighting in the streets, crowds of Greeks and foreigners were rushing towards the port area. The allied ships were still there and began collecting refugees. The Cretan soldiers and sailors, manning three towers near the entrance of the Golden Horn, were still fighting and had no intention of surrendering. At the end, the Ottoman commanders had to agree to a truce and let them sail away, carrying their arms.
The excesses which followed, during the early hours of the Ottoman victory, are described in detail by eyewitnesses. They were, and unfortunately still are, a common practice, almost a ritual, among all armies capturing enemy strongholds and territory after a prolonged and violent struggle. Thus, bands of soldiers began now looting. Doors were broken, private homes were looted, their tenants were massacred. Shops in the city markets were looted. Monasteries and Convents were broken in. Their tenants were killed, nuns were raped, many, to avoid dishonor, killed themselves. Killing, raping, looting, burning, enslaving, went on and on according to tradition. The troops had to satisfy themselves. The great doors of Saint Sophia were forced open, and crowds of angry soldiers came in and fell upon the unfortunate worshippers. Pillaging and killing in the holy place went on for hours. Similar was the fate of worshippers in most churches in the city. Everything that could be taken from the splendid buildings was taken by the new masters of the Imperial capital. Icons were destroyed, precious manuscripts were lost forever. Thousands of civilians were enslaved, soldiers fought over young boys and young women. Death and enslavement did not distinguish among social classes. Nobles and peasants were treated with equal ruthlessness.
Hat tip Arrggghhh!!!
Donald Trump - YOU'RE HIRED!!
Donald Trump is not one of my favorite people, but who cares. That guy is good at what he does. He has made more money going bankrupt that I can even imagine.
We do agree on one thing 100% though, the proposed "Freedom Tower and Monument to Dhimmitude" that they plan to replace the World Trade Center is just the wrong plan, at the wrong time, for all the wrong reasons.
Donald Trump has the pull, stature, reputation, and ability to say what millions of us everyday shmuck have been saying to each other for the last couple of years,
Your plans for the World Trade Center Site are not worthy, ugly, late, uninspired, and not worthy of this Nation or New York City. (my words)
Here is The Donald. He has a better way of putting it.
"It's a building that's essentially a skeleton," he said.
Trump said the plan "looks like a junkyard."
"You take a look at a the roofs of those buildings, they're all at different angles, different shapes," he said. "It is the worst pile of crap architecture I have ever seen in my life."
How can you disagree with the man. Look at the thing.
Donald has the right idea. You need to send a message when you rebuild on the WTC site. Donald doesn't just whine from the grandstands, he offers solutions.
Trump's alternative would be replicas of the original 110-story towers, only a bit taller. The design and model by architect Ken Gardner, embraced by Trump, offered buildings that would be 1,474 feet -- more than a hundred feet taller than the original towers, once the world's tallest buildings.
"What we need is support to build a bigger and better version of two buildings and more that were taken down by people that were animals," Trump said. "If something happened to the Statue of Liberty, you wouldn't rebuild it as something other than the Statue of Liberty."
From my last trip to NYC (I need to finish that mission report), my oldest and I went by the WTC site. It is an open sore. It has been almost four years. We could have defeated Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan by now and we still have this?
Something needs to be done soon-and done right. Like I have said, I'm not a big Trump fan, but when he is right-he's right. We are a better country than this.
Hat tip VodkaPundit.
Taunted and baited by Mrs. Salamander
Yes, I heard it last night. There I was, watching, after what I saw earlier on it the week, what I thought would be one of the last Dead-Body-Dramas allowed in the Salamander household; and Mrs. Salamander spoke with a glee most heard when she knows a hot-button is going to be pressed and I spiral out of orbit – “Did you just hear that?”
“What?” I demurred, distracted by the editorial page of the IBD (multi-tasking as usual), did she just say something about Tom Delay?
“Yep, she sure did. Something like about they should look for the guy shooting all the judges to be wearing a Tom DeLay t-shirt.”
Law & Order: Criminal Intent added to their sister shows a growing smear of anything and everything Republican or remotely to the right of Rep. Sanders (I-VT).
Mrs. Salamander issued a fatwa against that show, with the declaration,
“We watch too much TV anyway. We fuss at the children, we should practice what we fuss. I don’t think we need to watch that show next season.”
I know better than to argue with her. She has a good point, but L&O: CI was my favorite. OK, the lead is a bit kooky, but….
Oh well, time to move on. Medium is good.
UPDATE: Thanks to the MRC you can watch the video here or just listen to it here. (NB: not me and the miss'us sitting on the couch, but the show-quote in question)
Keelhaul them all – blasted meme
….but how can I say no to the fair mistress Bookworm. My wee Bookie….my heart is weak.
Total number of films I own on DVD/Video: Including the kids stuff? Dozens. Phibian specific: about a 20.
The last film I bought: Das Boot: Directors Cut – nothing more to be said.
The last film I watched: Goodfellas – A classic mob movie. Why watch 3 Godfathers? The soundtrack is prime.
Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me (in no particular order):
1) Monty Python's The Holy Grail
2) The Moderns
3) Stalingrad
4) The Unbearable Lightness of Being
5) The Party Animal
So who do I tag….well….because I know he will rise to the bait and I have no doubt that his movie list will be entertaining to say the least, Skippy-san….and because I know they have a WESTPAC approved movie list that they have viewed dozens of times (and American needs to know more about what keeps its Sailors ticking), Bubblehead, Eagle1, Scott, and the Yankee Sailor. And Skippy – you can list the porn if you want.
Out of touch, Leftist, freedom hating judges
…in Italy. More I&W from the coming European Civil War. Here we have another case of Europe trying to surrender to a retrograde philosophy that wishes to throw the fruits of The Enlightnment in the sewer and replace it with an authoritarian legalistic thought control regime.
Leftist and Muslim Fundementalism are finding common cause: the destruction of Western Civilization. Neither can compete in the marketplace of ideas, so instead of arguing against other opinions, they want to outlaw them.
A judge has ordered best-selling writer and journalist Oriana Fallaci to stand trial in her native Italy on charges she defamed Islam in a recent book. … In "La Forza della Ragione," Fallaci wrote that terrorists had killed 6,000 people over the past 20 years in the name of the Koran and said the Islamic faith "sows hatred in the place of love and slavery in the place of freedom."
State prosecutors originally dismissed accusations of defamation from an Italian Muslim organization, and said Fallaci should not stand trial because she was merely exercising her right to freedom of speech.
But a preliminary judge in the northern Italian city of Bergamo, Armando Grasso, rejected the prosecutors advice at a hearing on Tuesday and said Fallaci should be indicted.
Grasso's ruling homed in on 18 sentences in the book, saying some of Fallaci's words were "without doubt offensive to Islam and to those who practice that religious faith."
Adel Smith, a high-profile Muslim activist who brought the original law suit, hailed the decision.
"It is the first time a judge has ordered a trial for defamation of the Islamic faith," he told reporters. "But this isn't just about defamation. We would also like (the court) to recognize that this is an incitement to religious hatred."
I’m not going to hold my breath for Judge Grasso to rule on The Last Temptation of Christ.
At least someone it Italy if fighting this attack on freedom of speech.
Justice Minister Roberto Castelli, who has a prickly relationship with the Italian judiciary, said the ruling represented an attack on freedom of expression.
"In Europe we are seeing the birth of a movement that is looking to silence those who don't follow a single mindset, within which it is forbidden to speak ill of Islam, of homosexuals or of the children of homosexuals," Castelli was quoted as saying in an interview with Radio Padania.
"In Fallaci's book there is very strong criticism but not defamation," Italian news agency ANSA quoted him as saying.
There was no immediate comment from Fallaci who is in her 70s and suffers from cancer.
Piss off the Islamofascist and the Dhimmi; buy her book .
Pop culture is filth
Though he is reconsidering, I’m believe John Derbyshire is right. Pop culture if filth.
How many of you have daughters? How many of them have taken a dance class – or sung in a chorus? If not, I am sure most of you have been in an audience of the above.
Now, one of the most popular songs for 1st through 4th graders to sing/dance to (as chosen by ADULTS) is the apparently saccharine Jackson 5 song A-B-C. Have these adults ever read the lyrics? Only in hindsight have I realized that I was part of an audience of hundreds of adult parents watching grade school girls dance to this:
Michael: You went to school to learn, girl
Things you never, never knew before...
Jermaine: Like I before E except after C...
Michael: And why 2 plus 2 makes four
Now now now, I'm gonna teach you...
J5: Teach you, teach you
Michael: All about love, dear...
J5: All about love
Tito: Come on, let me love you just a little bit!
Jackie: Come on, let me love you just a little bit!
Jermaine: I'm a going to teach how to sing it out!
Michael: Come on, come one, come on
Let me show you what it's all about!
Michael: Your education ain't complete
T-T-T-Teacher's gonna show you
J5: Show you, show you
Michael: How to get an A!
Michael: Sit down, girl!
I think I love you!
Get up, girl!
Show me what you can do!
Shake it, shake it, baby, come on now!
Shake it, shake it, baby, ooo oooh!
Shake it shake it, baby, huh!
123, baby, oo ooo!
ABC, baby, nah nah!
Do re mi, baby, huh!
That's how easy love can be.
That is just so wrong in so many ways. It does explain why Michael Jackson has such a dorked up view of sexuality. Hopefully, the 10 yr old girls singing and dancing to this song don’t process the lyrics. Mea Culpa here. I didn’t process the lyrics in time to ask the other adults “Do you know what those lyrics you have Katelyn, Brittany, Emma, and Emily dancing to are about?”
The album ABC came out in 1970. Shows that the sexualization of pre-pubescent children is a long standing problem.
The smear of this generation of veterans builds
Taking out their tried and true smear template, the Hollywood Left and their fellow travelers are starting out to libel today's veterans just like they did Vietnam veterans. I don't think they can help themselves.
For the sake of this post, it would be best if you have read B.G. Burkett's book Stolen Valor . If you have not read it; buy it , read it, and then donate it to your local library.
He exposes the macro lies, smears, and half truths that the anti-war/anti-military/anti-veteran slathered over the Vietnam veterans. He exposed the methods, reasons, and styles of the victim/PTSD/homeless-dirty-vet-in-a-boonie-hat hucksters exceptionally well.
The Vietnam Vet pushed by The Deer Hunter , Taxi Driver , Apocalypse Now , Platoon , and the rest of that ilk does not have anything to do with the facts, demographics, or social statistics of those vets. I see that at my micro level as well. They are 180 degree opposites of the folks I served with early in my career, my Uncle, my Dad's friends, and my neighbors.
I saw this coming last year. The usual subjects and plot lines are coming out. You are starting to see the focus on the "gun crazy Iraq vet."
Two of my favorite shows have forced me to turn away in disgust. Three come to mind from memory; there may be more.
- Law and Order. On 22 SEP 04 we were treated to, wait for it, you got it - an Abu Ghraib story where an Iraqi immigrant who murders a former military policewoman in retaliation for torturing her brother at Abu Ghraib prison.
- Law and Order: SVU - Last week had a prostitute that was dismembered. Why was she a prostitute? Well, it seems she had her knee blow apart in the OIF and was put out of the Army and addicted to pain killers my the VA as she was recovering and sold her body to support her habit.
- Law and Order: SVU - Tonight was the last straw. Did you catch it?
10pm 2005-05-24 ALL NEW!
VIOLENT POLICE BEHAVIOR IS LINKED TO AN ANTI-MALARIA DRUG, ADMINISTERED TO THEM BY THE U.S. ARMY-When two Police officers from separate precincts attack their wives and demonstrate suicidal behavior, Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Chris Meloni) investigate, and connect the incidents to both men serving in the same Reserve unit in Afghanistan. Linking this behavior to a similar trail of attacks in 2002 by officers, Benson and Stabler connect this to a drug called Quinium, which the Army prescribes to fight malaria. When they discover that the Army is aware of its side affects, Novak (Diane Neal) goes after the government for administering the drug. Meanwhile, Detective Stabler faces some tough personal issues at home with his wife. Dann Florek, Richard Belzer, Ice-T and B.D. Wong also star. TV-14
See the trend?
I'm still pissed. I am tired of "them" using any chance to smear or put the military in a bad light, but will do nothing to show the good being done. Do they have any idea how insulting this is? Do they care? Do they have any friends or family in the military?
Harumph, I think I know the answer.
UPDATE: Blackfive and his band of happy warriors is on the hunt as well. He had joined up with what looks like an outstanding new place to add to your AM read; MediaSlander. Read it early, read it often. Thanks Clay.
Labels: Hollywierd, Media, Moonbats, Stolen Valor, Vietnam War
From the Jaws of Victory
Too much reading material, too little time. Cleaning up the den tonight I found my 09 MAY Investors Business Daily that I forgot to read. It isn't available online, but at the bottom of an editorial page, they write something that needs repeating well and often because they don't teach it in schools, and you won't see it on TV. Here are the juicy parts.
Napoleon is said to have observed that “history is a set of lies agreed upon.” There is no better example of this than in how modern-day pundits have rewritten the history of the Vietnam War.
..by March 1972, when the North Vietnamese launched a conventional assault dubbed the Easter Offensive. With American air support, the South Vietnamese Army was able to hold on to every one of 44 provincial capitals except Quang Tri, which was later retaken. … but in 1975, the post-Watergate Democratic majority in the Senate (61 to 37) and House (291 to 144) voted to cut off all aid to South Vietnam, despite the fact that the 1973 Paris Peace Accords called specifically for “unlimited military replacement aid” for South Vietnam.
This time there would be no American sir support or aide. It was congressional Democrats and their allies in the media, … who ensured South Vietnam’s defeat and ushered in an era of mass carnage, boat people and re-education camps that resulted in more deaths after the war than during it.
After Saigon’s “liberation” the summary executions of tens of thousands of South Vietnamese began. Hundreds of thousands more were forced into re-education camps as 1 million boat people fled on anything that would float, with countless thousands perishing in the South China Sea. And let us not forget the killing fields of Cambodia, where 3 million were slaughtered.
This is one reason why, though I understand the anger of the Not One Dime folks, I will not join, support, or advertise it more than I already have. I will not be part of something that leads to the many of the same Senators from '75 gaining power again. There are more things going on here than politics. Never let the perfect be the enemy of the good. At this time in our Nation's history; the Senate moves further Left at our own peril. Don't send individual Senators money; fine. Tell Senator Frist to not even bother thinking about '08; fine. But a total ban on support? Harumph - I'm not throwing that temper tantrum.
BTW, if you don't subscribe to Investors Business Daily, you are literally poorer for it.
Another Leftist crosses the aisle
Like Harry Stein , we are finding more and more folks from the traditional Left crossing the aisle to the other side.
In article yesterday in the SF Chronicle, Keith Thompson writes in "Leaving the left: I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity," a powerful overview on why he has changed.
Nightfall, Jan. 30. Eight-million Iraqi voters have finished risking their lives to endorse freedom and defy fascism. Three things happen in rapid succession. The right cheers. The left demurs. I walk away from a long-term intimate relationship. I'm separating not from a person but a cause: the political philosophy that for more than three decades has shaped my character and consciousness, my sense of self and community, even my sense of cosmos. ...
My estrangement hasn't happened overnight. Out of the corner of my eye I watched what was coming for more than three decades, yet refused to truly see. Now it's all too obvious. Leading voices in America's "peace" movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom. ...
These days the postmodern left demands that government and private institutions guarantee equality of outcomes. Any racial or gender "disparities" are to be considered evidence of culpable bias, regardless of factors such as personal motivation, training, and skill. This goal is neither liberal nor progressive; but it is what the left has chosen. In a very real sense it may be the last card held by a movement increasingly ensnared in resentful questing for group-specific rights and the subordination of citizenship to group identity. There's a word for this: pathetic.
Now, I find myself in a swirling metamorphosis. Think Kafka, without the bug. Think Kuhnian paradigm shift, without the buzz. ...
I love that last part. This guy isn't just a bumper-sticker Leftist...wasn't-excuse me.
I began my activist career championing the 1968 presidential candidacies of Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, because both promised to end America's misadventure in Vietnam. I marched for peace and farm worker justice, lobbied for women's right to choose and environmental protections, signed up with George McGovern in 1972 and got elected as the youngest delegate ever to a Democratic convention.
Eventually I joined the staff of U.S. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio. In short, I became a card-carrying liberal, although I never actually got a card.
As always, you need to read it all. He goes through, in detail, where he believes the Left has lost its way. He leaves with a good closer.
All of which is why I have come to believe, and gladly join with others who have discovered for themselves, that the single most important thing a genuinely liberal person can do now is walk away from the house the left has built. The renewal of any tradition that deserves the name "progressive" becomes more likely with each step in a better direction.
Welcome aboard friend - glad to have you at last. Lucky for me, I had an empiphany early on in life. I had a brief flirtation with the Left in my college days. At my school, in the basement of the campus library, basement I ran across an article in a peculiar magazine called "National Review." The cover was about the great cover-up (then) by the then un-named MSM about the horrendous state sponsored famine in Ukraine. That was my tipping point.
Britain is lost
I thought the Left's self-hate of history and inability to accept any act of valor that gave them a right to exist was bad in the U.S., but we have more evidence that the Mother Country is slowly killing herself.
ADMIRAL NELSON saw off the mighty Franco-Spanish fleet at the battle of Trafalgar but 200 years on, he has been sunk by a wave of political correctness.
Organisers of a re-enactment to mark the bicentenary of the battle next month have decided it should be between “a Red Fleet and a Blue Fleet” not British and French/Spanish forces.
Otherwise they fear visiting dignitaries, particularly the French, would be embarrassed at seeing their side routed.
Well, screw the French and Spanish. They WERE the aggressors in a war where they supported a murdering megalomaniac hell-bent on creating a super-state based on nothing but his own ego (AKA Napoleon); they were sunk for their vanity, pride, arrogance, and military ineptitude (with some help from an Admiral of unique brilliance).
This battle was a critical victory for Western Civilization in general, and Britain in particular.
Admiral Nelson is not "Bomber Harris." There is nothing arguable about this man or the battle that Britain needs to be sorry about.
What is next? The American Civil War is the "War between Grits and Beans?" WWI the war of "Flag Officers of Feathery Funny Hats and Flag Officers With Spiked Helmets?" WWII the War of the "Blondes and the Brunettes?"
A spokeswoman for the Royal Navy said: “This is an illustration and theatre on water. Nelson is featured, but we are not billing it as Britain versus France . . . This will not be a French-bashing opportunity.”
The battle will be staged in the evening of the international fleet review on June 28. The Queen and senior royals will attend the day’s events and government leaders from 73 countries have been invited.
War is not theater or theatre. Admiral Nelson, HMS Victory, and their men did not give their lives so 200 years later a bunch of self-important spoiled nit-wits could pretend it had nothing to do with the defense of Britain and democratic government against a French despot. The Queen should be ashamed of herself for letting her House be associated by this exercise in self-flagellation and the Church of PC's excretory smear against those who gave more, sacrificed more, and proved more than they and their milque toast buddies can ever imagine.
Will the British version of "Protest Warrior" be there to, in a similar way The Sex Pistols helped the Queen with her Silver Jubilee, raise a spontaneous "Rule Brittania" when the French "leader" comes up to say something froggy? Are there any British patriots left? Sad.
When we turn The Battle of Midway to the Battle of Circles and Stars, I'm going to start learning Arabic and Chinese because I will know that all is truly lost.
Pathetic. Admiral Nelson has a quote that I think very much applies here.
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
-Horatio Nelson
Hat tip Andrew Stuttaford at The Corner.
An American Muslim calls hypocrisy where he sees it
As stated before American Muslims need to come to the aid of their religion by following the lead of their countrymen who moved away from extremism and exclusivity. We have our places of worship side by side, and do our best not to be too intrusive with each other.
IMAO, American Muslims are not quite there, yet, but there is a growing body of responsible Muslims that get it. Want to be Americans that happen to be Muslims; not the other way around.
In an outstanding piece on OpinionJournal.com, Ali Al-Ahmed gets it. Director of the critically important Saudi Institute, he is a brave, confident, secure man in a brave, dangerous, and often I am sure, lonely fight. We need more of this man. An American who happens to have his Sabbath on Friday. A 21 Century Muslim. Just as I am not an 8th Century Christian, he is not an 8th Century Muslim.
His points are right on target.
As a Muslim, I am able to purchase copies of the Quran in any bookstore in any American city, and study its contents in countless American universities. American museums spend millions to exhibit and celebrate Muslim arts and heritage. On the other hand, my Christian and other non-Muslim brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia--where I come from--are not even allowed to own a copy of their holy books. Indeed, the Saudi government desecrates and burns Bibles that its security forces confiscate at immigration points into the kingdom or during raids on Christian expatriates worshiping privately.
Although considered as holy in Islam and mentioned in the Quran dozens of times, the Bible is banned in Saudi Arabia. This would seem curious to most people because of the fact that to most Muslims, the Bible is a holy book. But when it comes to Saudi Arabia we are not talking about most Muslims, but a tiny minority of hard-liners who constitute the Wahhabi Sect.
The Bible in Saudi Arabia may get a person killed, arrested, or deported. In September 1993, Sadeq Mallallah, 23, was beheaded in Qateef on a charge of apostasy for owning a Bible. ... As Muslims, we have not been as generous as our Christian and Jewish counterparts in respecting others' holy books and religious symbols. Saudi Arabia bans the importation or the display of crosses, Stars of David or any other religious symbols not approved by the Wahhabi establishment. TV programs that show Christian clergymen, crosses or Stars of David are censored.
Around 30,000 (Americans) live and work in various parts of Saudi Arabia. These people are not allowed to celebrate their religious or even secular holidays. These include Christmas and Easter, but also Thanksgiving.
The Saudi Embassy and other Saudi organizations in Washington have distributed hundreds of thousands of Qurans and many more Muslim books, some that have libeled Christians, Jews and others as pigs and monkeys. In Saudi school curricula, Jews and Christians are considered deviants and eternal enemies. By contrast, Muslim communities in the West are the first to admit that Western countries--especially the U.S.--provide Muslims the strongest freedoms and protections that allow Islam to thrive in the West. Meanwhile Christianity and Judaism, both indigenous to the Middle East, are maligned through systematic hostility by Middle Eastern governments and their religious apparatuses.
The lesson here is simple: If Muslims wish other religions to respect their beliefs and their Holy book, they should lead by example.
I want to share a lunch of tabouli and baba ghanoush appetizer with a BBQ beef rib main course lunch with this guy.
To the Honor Roll with you!
Hat tip The Corner.
Don’t BRAC me, don’t BRAC thee; BRAC that Congressional District behind yon tree
Last week the long awaited BRAC list came out. Early and often the gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes and the high-pitched squealing started by the stuck …. stuck… affected Senators and Congressmen.
I know I am late with this, but I’ve been giving the taxpayers more bang for their buck this week. John at Arrggghhhh!! and Bubblehead already sent me a report chit; but enough of my excuses. Let’s look at the Navy side of the house. When you look at the list, the first things that comes to mind is, if you are a Blue Stater, you are going to have fewer military folks to yell at.
Politics had nothing to do with this; a lot of it has to do with high overhead and a desire to shrink tail to make more tooth. This is one place I see a problem; once you get rid of acreage for the military, you will have a lot of trouble getting it back when you need it. Additionally, concentrating your fleet. This man would agree, it is best if your enemy concentrates his fleet. I can see him now, looking at us like,
“Do you ever remember anything? BTW, your torpedoes still suck – the 'Long Lance' still laughs at you.”
Back to the subject at hand. The Navy Times has a solid executive summary. Lets review some of the high points. I’m not going to cover all the Navy issues, just the ones that interest me the most.
Closing New London: Real good review by Smash, but I think some of the BRAC is penny wise and pound foolish. There is more to a military base than just jobs and money saved. It isn't a zero sum game, and the world isn't static. St. Mary’s is nice, but the place is already packed for its environment with a fair number of people having to live in Jacksonville. More subs in Norfolk. Well let's talk about Norfolk.
Hey speaking of subs. Who here remembers NS Charleston? Lots of space there. Oh, that’s right, closed that last decade. Eggs. Basket. Talk amongst yourselves.
Norfolk sinks into the Chesapeake - Women and Minorities suffer most: Doing my finger and toes math, the Navy plans to move ~6,500 military and civilian personnel to the Hampton Blvd – 564 – Terminal Blvd traffic jam. If you have not been to Nahfawk in the last five years; you have not been to Norfolk. This is no longer an extra inexpensive and affordable town. Not San Diego yet, but not low rent either. Property values are going through the roof, and remember those crack houses in downtown Nahfawk from the ‘80s? Well, folks are buying them by the bucketful, fix’n em up, and moving in. The downtown residential areas are improving and the nightmare commute on 64/264/Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel (HRBT) is just getting too much for people. That’s QOL. Let’s talk strategery. NIT is huge. The commercial traffic is growing, and the GPIII container ships are huge and getting larger. They all go through the HRBT and past the Navy Station to get to NIT and other commercial terminals. The HRBT is the only way to get to the open water – The Chesapeake Bay. Still need to get throught the CBBT to get to the open Atlantic. Norfolk is beautiful at Christmas. Eagle1 call your office.
Navy Reserve HQ leaving the French Quarter and Moving to CFFC in Norfolk - NAS Willow Grove Closed: Can we be honest here. Let’s declare the Naval Reserves a hostile force and send them to GTMO. We would all be better for it. Either that or add a rider to the next Welfare Reform Act. OK, that was overboard. How about this. Any Navy Reserve unit or reserve requirement activated since 9/11 will receive a 50% plus-up in personnel, funding and material. Reserve units or funded SELRES billets not activated will be put in a pool. 80% of those billets will go away and funding given to the Marine Corps. The remaining 20% of the billets will be used to fund more Intel Specialists and build a viable Brown Water Navy force in the Reserve Component. We will then cut 80% of all Reserve staff positions. I’m sorry, we don’t need a parallel Reserve Staff structure that mirrors the Active Component. That is just a jobs program. Oh, and just for spite – the non-deploying enablers knows as TARs and now FTS personnel will have their XXX7 designators converted to XXX0 and promptly given Sea Duty orders. Either that, or they can go work for Skippy in Japan for a couple of years.
Manpower and Personnel consolidation in Millington: About damn time. Quit fighting each other and serve the fleet. Right idea. Low cost of living area.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard: As my P-3 friends would say – NH and ME Congressional delegation can just “Set 5.” Trying to do anything to make that yard more usable is about as much of a nightmare are garbage in Groton. IMAO, the dredging issue was of the last nails in Portsmouth’s coffin. After awhile (see Roosevelt Roads closing) if you are too much of a pain in the tail, eventually someone is going to say, “enough.” Enough. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like the idea of having even less strategic, irreplaceable industrial capacity, but, enough.
“Realignments” - The hidden story: Stuck between the Closures and Gains is an interesting and neglected section called “Realignments.” Let’s look at one spot.
Naval Air Station Brunswick, ME: losing 2,314 military, 61 civilians. What does NASB do? Well, the largest job it does is host 3 VP and 1 VPU active duty squadrons. Everything else is support, reserves, or “other.” Each VP squadron has ~400-350 personnel. Lets call it 400 to keep it easy. The 3 (in the old Cold War NASB had 6) add up to ~1,200. The VPU has less – lets call it 250. That makes it 1,450. They have a Wing staff there as well, but it and the support functions are not that big, a couple hundred max. That leaves another 600 +/- from other commands. WHAT IS LEFT? In the report they state that NASB will become a "Naval Air Facility." OK, but are you going to have anyone there besides the reserves to keep the facility open? It is one of the last military airbases left in the NE (actually the last one working full time) on the great circle route to Europe, so I can see the need to keep it open. As a matter of fact, when you look at page C-8, that is exactly what happened. As the last base standing in Kerry Kountry, they are keeping it for Homeland Defense. But the question remains, what is left there? VPU and reserve VR squadrons?
I want to see the details there. The Navy Times has a funny line,
“Jacksonville would gain Patrol Wing 5 and its P-3 maritime patrol aircraft squadrons from Brunswick Naval Air Station…”
Really? Mmmmm. As my P-3 spy tells me, in the Cold War each P-3 wing had 6 squadrons. They now have 3 (+1 VQ or VPU depending on where you are). NAS Jacksonville already has 3 VP squadrons and Patrol Wing 11. Do you really think there is a reason to have Wing 5 AND Wing 11 on the same base? With the problems we are having with our P-3 fleet as we wait for the P-8 – what odds do you want to take that those 3 squadrons may not make it past the Puzzle Palace on the Potomac as they make their way down the coast from NASB to NAS Jax. I smell the blood in the water from here….. The sharks are hungry.
This is only the end of the beginning. Still more steps to go. One thing that does worry me as the military retreats from the NE, those bases are about the only reason many of those senators show any support for the military at any time. I know that is strictly political, but support is support. Making sausage is ugly. Let the games begin.
He’s still watching.
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AP, your bias is showing
My Dad used to say, "Son, don't believe everything you read."
Newsweek is just one example. When it comes to the MSM, we have to keep beating that drum.
The AP in this article proves the point....again.
Point: always, always look at who they use as reference and who they interview. For the reasons of this post, the point of this article isn't important. The balance of their sources is. Let's review.
``Members of Congress are under more scrutiny from various interest groups who play a larger role in politics in every single way than they did in the past,'' Democratic consultant Jim Jordan says. ``That makes it very difficult for even well-meaning and sensible members of Congress to come together for compromise.''
Look where he works now. His background?
Jordan comes to Westhill Partners from his own successful consulting firm, Thunder Road Group, where he directed political and communications strategy for several “527” groups in the 2004 election, including America Coming Together and The Media Fund. Previously, Jordan served as campaign manager for presidential candidate Senator John Kerry. Prior to that, he served as Executive Director, Communications Director and Political Director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
OK. Let's find that balance.
If the Senate GOP leadership accepts anything less than a vote on each of Bush's nominees, ``I think people will be extremely upset,'' said Wendy Long of the Judicial Confirmation Network.
We have a 1 to 1 tie. Next round.
``You cannot back down from bullies,'' said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.
That was easy. L2 - R1.
``If we fail to step back from the abyss, we will descend into a dark, protracted era of divisive partisanship,'' said Sen. Arlen Specter, a Republican from Pennsylvania who has not indicated publicly what course he will take.
Senator Specter is a tie. Argue if you want, but he's a tie - leaning left.
Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a congressional watchdog group, said the judicial fight is a reflection of intensely partisan times.
D21 takes a bit of digging until you find out a little more by President and founder by Fred Wertheimer. Mmmmm. Former President of Common Cause and wants to have government tell you what you can say during an election. (Yes, he is the husband of NPR's Linda Wertheimer. No Red Stater there) Yep Lefty. L3 - R1.
Looks like the author, Ron Fournier, needs to get out more. His Rolodex is a bit lopsided. Did you know that,
"Ron is usually happiest with a piece of metal in his hands!"
Oh, wait, that is another Ron Fournier. This Ron Fournier has some balance problem history he still needs to work on.
The title of his AP piece is Politics Goes Extreme in D.C.. The more and more I look, the extreme seems to be coming from the Left that is coming unglued the more they stay out of power, and they just don't understand it.
Hint Ron; if you want to get a better perspective, you need to loose your fear of the right and talk to them more; if not personally - professionally. We would all do better by your efforts to improve yourself and your writing.
Three Leftist Democrats, a Liberal Republican, and one Conservative Republican does not balance make.
Conservative denominations grow - Liberal ones wither
Hey, I get to plug Slate back after their kind mention early on.
Yes, another diamond in the rough that is Slate. Judith Shulevitz has a great write up in Slate The Power of the Mustard Seed - Why strict churches are strong.
This deserves a careful reading from both the Left and the Right. You don't have to agree with all she says to see that she is on to something. Here is a quick look.
What does the pious person get in return for all of his or her time and effort? A church full of passionate members; a community of people deeply involved in one another's lives and more willing than most to come to one another's aid; a peer group of knowledgeable souls who speak the same language (or languages), are moved by the same texts, and cherish the same dreams. Religion is a " 'commodity' that people produce collectively," says Iannaccone. "My religious satisfaction thus depends both on my 'inputs' and those of others." If a rich and textured spiritual experience is what you seek, then a storefront Holy Roller church or an Orthodox shtiebl is a better fit than a suburban church made up of distracted, ambitious people who can barely manage to find a morning free for Sunday services, let alone several evenings a week for text study and volunteer work. ...
... if strictness, judiciously enforced, provides an advantage in the spiritual marketplace, then it makes sense that America, one of the few countries with no state religion and a truly open market in religion, should be home to so many varieties of fundamentalism and orthodoxy. The explosive growth of conservative Christianity, Judaism, and Islam and the slow decline of more genteel denominations such as Episcopalianism may well represent not the triumph of reactionary forces, but the natural outcome of religious competition.
Hat tip Diocese of Brandon - The Anglican Church of Canada .... of all places.
The MSM's distain for the military-The Newsweek Edition
Thank you Newsweek for proving again you and much of the MSM will believe anything too good to check in order to validate your beliefs in the military, this administration and your base belief that this country is as bad as you want it to be. You feel so much better about yourself pointing out how brutish lesser mortals are; you don't care how many people it kills.
This whole "flushing the Koran" event that Newsweek brought us is just another example of how the MSM has a inherent bias, dislike, and misunderstanding of the military.
They don't let the military in their schools. They don't let their children join the military, and they sure don't have many military personnel in their imperfect circle of acquaintances and friends. Because of this intentional disconnect, they do not a real in-depth picture of what makes up the military except for the twisted prism view that comes out of Hollywood, The New York Times, and Vanity Fair. There are no individual members of the military, just cliche freakshow items to look at and be glad you aren't one of them. Because they are not like you, you can do things to them and assume things about them that you wouldn't do to someone you consider your equal or social peer.
The default setting for the MSM is to assume the worst out of the lesser humans that lead and serve in their military. Therefore, Newsweek assumes without any valid proof, that their military would do just about anything horrible thing you can think of. I mean, they saw The Core. What more do you need to know?
Newsweek's apology is just lame. There, another uneducated word from this RedState rube. Lame. The real truth got lost in the aftermath of the blood Newsweek has on their hands and the chaos they mindlessly created.
Anyone that has any knowledge of the cultural love of conspiracy and knee-jerk fatwaism of Radical Islam could have seen this coming.
I think what might be helpful is to demystify the Koran to begin with. First of all, there has to be a billion of the things out there. We are not talking about a single item. The Shroud of Turin, The True Cross, The Holy Grail, The Wailing Wall, or an irreplaceable Buddist monument. We are talking about a copy of a holy book. In a mature, secure, and modern society, is a rumor started by clueless, Leftist, agenda driven media worth all these deaths?
Heck, I even have a Koran. This AM I wandered around thinking "where is my copy that I bought in a souk in Saudi Arabia in 1991?
Ahhhh, there it is in the "Religious Misc" section of the highly disorganized Salamander Library and Thought Machine.
It is in an honored position next to the first Bible I received in 4th grade. Take it out and open it to the place the marker has been in since I bought it. Hmmmmm, wonder what this says?
And I put it back.
Ha: scared ya didn't I. Don't worry, I brushed the dust off my fingers from the pork rinds I was eating before I picked it up.
BTW: In case you are wondering about the card to the right of the picture; that is the "I am a stupid driver and I hope whatever I did doesn't insult Islam or anything" card they gave me when I stepped of the plane in Kuwait in '01. I couldn't drive my "battle Suburban" around the backside of the moon country without it. If you wonder what it says in English, I flipped it over. You can read the high res here.
UPDATE: Andrew McCarthy wrote what I wish I wrote. Must read. On target with secondaries.
Battle for the Ivory Tower
A sub theme of this blog is the battle for Western Civilization and the core of Western culture in general. After all, if you don’t have liberty, justice, and progress; the best Navy in the world is a worthless tool of oppression…..but I digress.
Often the isolation and general Moonbattery of the best institutions of higher learning in our country is a point of many a migrane and trip to the liquor cabinet. As much as I snark a bit with anti-snob attitide at them; they are important institutions that need to be fought for.
There is much reason to despair, but there are good people putting up the good fight – and now and then we score a victory.
One of our best institutions is Dartmouth University. One of the good guys, Peter Robinson, was just elected along with another fellow travelwer to the Dartmouth College board of trustees. They were write-in, anti-establishment candidates with a radical agenda.
Todd Zywicki and me, … ran our campaigns independently of each other, but we both concentrated our attention on a couple of themes, including a demand for the College to sweep aside its de facto speech code in favor of true freedom of speech on campus. And we won.
Free speech. Radical.
Hey Moonbat, look: Free Speech – BOO! Ha, ha. Scared you.
Ain’t it grand to be on the Right side of history? I'll savor this, but,
"And miles to go before I sleep,
Miles to go before I sleep."
A sad day for American Muslims
This is just sad. Such a small turnout; such little support.
The folks at Free Muslims Against Terrorism gave a March Against Terrorism on the 14th. This was the turnout.
Davids Medientkritik has some better pics and commentary.
The War Against Muslim Extremism (lets be honest here: this isn’t a “Global War Against Terrorism”) is going to be a long one. The last one lasted a good 800 years or so from the time the Arab armies destroyed Christian Palestine, Mesopotamia, Syria, Egypt, The Maghreb, Byzantium, S.E. Europe, and the Iberian Peninsula until they were pushed back to more defensible borders.
Americans of the Muslim faith are at a tender moment. They are our neighbors, coworkers, and friends. What they need to do though is to turn to what the largest ethnic group in America did in the last century; turn against the evil aspects that hijacked their source culture, language, and country. I’m talking about Germans.
Unfortunately the identity politics and victim hood pimps are putting their efforts, money, interest, and concern with the German-American Bund….ummm….sorry, CAIR and their Fifth Column meeting.
Kamal Nawash is a brave American with the right idea at the right time. I just wish more of the American Muslim community and religious leaders would join him. Mr. Nawash and his organization are not perfect, nor do I agree with all their stands, but on balance they are a mainstream organization with the right focus for the time. Maybe there is a larger organization than his trying to do the right thing? I haven't seen one. But if this is it...
We are just one or two major attacks away from some very ugly backlash if the terrorists are found to be living and supported inside the American Muslim community, and the impression becomes that American Muslims are not Americans first. That has always been the deal. Japanese Americans shamed their countrymen last century by proving their Americanism first; even while their family members were behind barbed wire. God help any community that does not accept “the deal.” 150 years ago, my Southern ancestors learned the hard way what happens to folks that don’t stick with “the deal.” America is a different place than it was 65 or 150 years ago, but people and institutions are the same and the #1 rule is self preservation.
It is time to step up to the plate, or leave. This is serious business. Time is short.
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