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Pay online self assessment tax and advance tax

Dear Friends, today we talk about What is the “Self Assessment Tax and Advance Tax” in India and we will know how to pay online self assessment tax and advance tax. Self assessment tax which we are finalizing the tax based on actual once the financial year completed and deduct whatever advance tax paid and balance need to be paid before filling the return.

In other words, Self Assessment tax means any balance tax paid by the assesses on the assessed income after taking into account the TDS and Advance tax before filing the Return of income. After reading this article how to pay online self-assessment tax and advance tax your time and headache will be reduced. We already discuss about all Indian tax in previous post.

How to pay online self assessment tax and Advance Tax

It is very necessary to pay online self assessment tax and advance tax because these will protect you from extra interest and penalty if not deposited tax in to Govt. account. All taxable Individuals and Corporate are liable to pay Self Assessment Tax. The Tax liability is computed after taking into accounts the various deductions & exemptions. If the Total Tax Paid (total of TDS & Advance Tax) is less than the Total Tax Liability, it means we owe the balance tax to the government. This has to be paid as Self Assessment Tax.

Both are one of the same, advance tax is the income tax which we are paying in advance for the particular assessment year in installment this is based on projected income for the particular financial year. Advance tax, it refers to paying a part of your yearly taxes in advance. Advance tax is the income tax payable if your tax liability exceeds Rs 10,000 in a financial year. Advance tax should be paid in the year in which the income is received. Hence, it is also known as the ‘pay-as-you-earn’ scheme.

Advance tax is applicable when an individual has sources of income other than his/her salary. For instance, if one is earning through capital gains, interest on investments, lottery, house property or business, the concept becomes relevant. Any rebate due fetches you an interest of 0.5 per cent every month, or, six per cent annually, as in the case of an income tax refund. However, if you don’t pay the advance tax on time, you’ll be charged one per cent every month, or, 12 per cent a year.

Must Read: Meaning of Tax and Types of Tax in India

Who should file it?

If you are salaried, you need not pay advance tax as your employer deduct tax at source (TDS). However, you still need to file it if you have other sources of income, increasing your liability to more than Rs 10,000. Professionals (self-employed) and businessmen will have to pay taxes in advance as, given their business income, the liability can be huge. The same goes for companies and corporate.

When File Advance Tax?

Advance tax or self-assessment taxes have to be paid on the 15th of September, December and March, in installments of 30 per cent, 30 per cent and 40 per cent, respectively, for non-corporate. Corporate’s need to pay it on the 15th of June, September, December and March. While employers deduct TDS on salaries, advance tax is paid on income that has not been subjected to TDS.

How to file it?

You can pay advance tax using the tax payment challan at the bank branches impaneled with the Income Tax (I-T) department. It can be deposited with the Reserve Bank of India, State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Indian Bank, and other authorized banks. There are 926 branches in India that can accept advance tax payments. You could also pay it online through the I-T department or the National Securities Depository site.

Note: Once you have paid the Self Assessment Tax, it will reflect on your Form 26AS within 2-3 days of making the payment.

What is the procedure for paying Advance Tax?

Direct Mode of Payment:
Self Assessment Tax can be paid by filling a Tax Payment Challan, ITNS 280. Challan, at designated branches of banks impaneled with the Income Tax Department.

Online Mode of Payment :

Assesses could pay Self Assessment Tax Online through the NSDL website, or Click on this link :
Then select 280 challan Select Tax Applicable as (0021)
Select Assessment Year (eg. If FY 2011-12, then AY is 2012-13)

Then select type of payment as (300) Self Assessment Tax, and fill rest details.

Must read: Service Tax in Tally

I hope you like this how to pay online self assessment tax guide. Give your important suggestions in comment box. Thanks.

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  1. Harsh

    I have a question: the TDS by my employer(s) has fallen about Rs. 30000 short of what it actually should have been. How much time do I have before which I can pay this amount without interest? Can I pay this while filing ITR, without having to pay interest/fine ?

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Cultivating the Black vote, GOP’s ‘reverse Southern Strategy’

Raynard Jackson | 7/7/2014, 1:19 p.m.
Last week’s election results infuriated me and not for the reasons you might suspect. My anger has less to do ...
Raynard Jackson

Normally, I blast the Republican Party for doing the right thing even if it’s the wrong way (Rand Paul’s visit to Howard University); but in this case, they did the wrong thing the right way. The Cochran campaign has spent more time and spent more money with Black Democrats than they have with Black Republicans. Go figure.

Over the years, I have had heated discussions with conservative and tea party members of the Republican Party over the issue of race. I have been told that sometimes I can be “hyper-sensitive” on the issue of race; I am “overreacting;” or “we just have a different view on this issue than you.” Really?

Some unknown group created a robo-call targeting Black voters that said in part, “Hello neighbors. It’s time to take a stand against the tea party. The time has come to say no to the tea party. No to their obstruction, no to their disrespectful treatment of the first African American president … If we do nothing, tea party candidate Chris McDaniel wins and causes even more problems for President Obama …” Both campaigns deny any involvement in the making and distribution of the recorded call.

The McDaniel campaign and the tea party are furious about the robo-call. Now that you have experienced the race card being played against you, maybe, just maybe, you will be more understanding of my views the next time we have a discussion about race.

Raynard Jackson is president & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates LLC. He can be reached through http://www.raynardjackson.com.

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

What not to wear, What to wear

Our first MOPS was a success. What a fun way to start the year, with our Steering Team participating in the Mom version of What Not To Wear. We saw some great outfits and some not so great outfits, but through it all we got too see a little bit of every mom in our fashionably and not fashionably challenged Moms.
We got to make a fun craft to help remind us when every MOPS meeting is with a notepad/calendar magnet for our fridges. It was a pleasure to see everyone's faces today and get to meet some new amazing ladies.
Don't forget to make sure to register for MOPS this year, the fee is $23.95 and gets you a subscription to MomSense Magazine, a magnet, luggage tag, tote bag and bumper sticker.
Thanks again to all the ladies who attended and for a great start to a new MOPS year.
Also, mark your calendars, Parent's night out is October 8. It will consist of bowling at Dallas Lanes and a dessert potluck afterwards.

MOPS meetings...

Childcare is provided for birth to 5 years old by our happy workers and they look forward to attending to your children so you can have a break. Learn and laugh with other moms with young kids.

Returning moms: the meeting cost is $2. If you are new to MOPS, worried about what to expect, please come and let us welcome you -- your first meeting is free! A one-time fee of $23.95 pays for the MOPs International membership and includes a subscription to MOMsense magazine, weekly emails, and a book.

MOPS is the second and fourth Tuesday of every month, from September to May.


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Sacred Heart Academy 1918 Commencement

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Class of Nineteen Hundred Eighteen, Sacred Heart Academy, Commencement Exercises, Thursday morning, June Thirteenth, nine o'clock, S. S. Peter and Paul's Church, Falls City, Nebraska.

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Nina Kraviz is a Siberian-born singer, producer and DJ. She runs Friday nights at Moscow’s famous Propaganda club. Her first 12 inch was released on Greg Wilson’s B77 label. Then followed the Voices Remix Project and First Time EP on Jus Ed’s Underground Quality imprint. Apart from being a part of the Underground Quality family, she produces deep house for REKIDS and Phillip Solmann’s (aka Efdemin’s) Naif label.

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February 15 Ten Years Later

On February 15, 2003, the world protested a long-announced pending war of aggression by the United States against Iraq.  The protest was the largest in world history, and we haven't topped it since.  It persuaded many nations of the world and the United Nations to oppose the war.  It built an international movement that went on to limit, reduce, and prevent wars, including thus far a fullscale war on Iran, as well as to educate a new generation about the evils of war.  This movement helped to delegitimize warmaking, a process still not complete.

But why were we not in the streets again the next day or week or month or year in the same or greater numbers?  Why had we not been in the streets when the sanctions and missile strikes laid the groundwork for the war?  Why were we not in the streets when the U.S. government was supporting the government of Saddam Hussein and its war on Iran?  Why are we not in the streets right now for the people of Bahrain whose dictator the U.S. and Western governments prop up?

Mike Ferner posted the following which I quote in full:

Where were you on 2.15.03?

By Mike Ferner

On that day, for the first time in human history, people of every nation on earth said “NO” to a war before it began.

By the 10’s of millions, starting in New Zealand and Australia and sweeping westward over the globe for 24 hours, people poured into streets and public places to shout with one voice, “NO WAR ON IRAQ!”

In the face of this overwhelming, universal cry for peace, the US and UK repeatedly lied  and invaded Iraq, which says all that needs saying about the supposed “democracies” we live in.  Even the staid New York Times was moved to admit that “there may still be two superpowers on the planet: the United States and world public opinion.”

If you were part of that earth-shaking cry for peace, you can remember the exquisite, breathtaking feeling of being part of something our species had never done before.

As long as we remember the power we exercised on that day it will be ours to use whenever we call it forward, as the Occupy movement did most recently.

Here are some images to remind us of what we accomplished when we united on February 15, 2003.

U.S. Protesters Gather For Peace In New York

Mario Tama / Getty Images

Thousands of protesters gathered for an antiwar demonstration Feb. 15, 2003, in New York City. The rally coincided with peace demonstrations around the world.

Peace rally, Feb. 15 in Vancouver

The February 15, 2003 anti-war protest in London.

protesters in front of Complexe Guy-Favreau in Montreal

The Stop the War protest in London, February 2003
The Stop the War protest in London, February 2003. Photograph: Dan Chung

Berlin  Indymedia

Barcelona: credit - www.punchdown.org

Lahore, Pakistan: credit - www.punchdown.org

Rome AP Photo/Plinio Lepri

Protesters fill St. John Lateran square during an antiwar rally in Rome on Feb. 15, 2003. An estimated 3 million participants turned out for the event.

Melbourne: Stop the W-ar!
Melbourne. Photo: Shannon Morriss

Johnnesburg: Stop the W-ar!
Johannesburg, South Africa.

BBC  Monday, 17 February, 2003

Auckland, New Zealand

Hyderabad, India

Peshawar, Pakistan

Bilbao, Spain

Baghdad     photo by Mike Ferner

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On February 15, millions of people protested, in approximately 800 cities around the world. Listed by the 2004 Guinness Book of Records as the largest protest in human history, protests occurred among others in the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Republic of Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Syria, India, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and even McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Perhaps the largest demonstration this day occurred in London, with up to one million protestors gathering in Hyde Park; speakers included the Reverend Jesse Jackson, London mayor Ken Livingstone, and Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy.[31][32] A large demonstration, also attended by perhaps around a million, took place in Barcelona.[31]

Beginning in 2002, and continuing after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, large-scale protests against the Iraq War were held in many cities worldwide, often coordinated to occur simultaneously around the world. After the biggest series of demonstrations, on February 15, 2003, New York Times writer Patrick Tyler claimed that they showed that there were two superpowers on the planet, the United States and worldwide public opinion.[1]

These demonstrations against the war were mainly organized by anti-war organizations, many of whom had been formed in opposition to the invasion of Afghanistan. In some Arab countries demonstrations were organized by the state. Europe saw the biggest mobilization of protesters, including a rally of three million people in Rome, which is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest ever anti-war rally.[2]

According to the French academic Dominique Reynié, between January 3 and April 12, 2003, 36 million people across the globe took part in almost 3,000 protests against the Iraq war.[3]

Mike Ferner (mike.ferner@sbcglobal.net) was in Baghdad on 2.15.03 with the Iraq Peace Team, a project of Voices in the Wilderness.  About 200 people from over 10 nations marched in a peace rally through Baghdad that day.

So, where were you?  I was here:

That's my wife, me, my dad and my mom in New York City on 2-15-03.  I was not then a peace activist.  I wasn't working or volunteering for any peace organizations. I wasn't writing about peace. I wasn't reading about peace.  But very soon I would be working as press secretary for Kucinich for President, and in May 2005 I would begin blogging at AfterDowningStreet.org.  I highly recommend to you, if you haven't yet, giving peace activism a try for this next decade or so.

Among the infinite changes and developments of the past decade for me: a neice, a nephew, and then a son.  My neice is a 10-year-old activist.  Here's a note from her:

from the youngest generation

My name is Hallie, I am 10 years old, and I live in Raleigh, North Carolina. I first became interested in climate change when I was in fourth grade. I read the adapted kids version of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth". What I read really angered, scared, and surprised me. I thought "Here I am, reading about this HUGE problem that will drastically change the world by the next century, and nothing is being done about it.” The book really opened my eyes to how serious climate change is, and I immediately wanted to get involved somehow.
My mom told me about a plan for an oil pipeline called the Keystone XL. It will run from Alberta, Canada, through the middle of the US, and finally end in Texas. Its purpose would be to carry oil from Alberta's tar sands down to Texas. It is to President Obama to approve it or disapprove it. Last year, my grandparents had gotten arrested for the civil-disobedience protest against the pipeline, and they had invited me to come watch the last day of it. This was a really amazing experience, how there were these people that were calmly and peacefully LETTING themselves be arrested, just to show how they felt about climate change and the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
From that point on, I realized how powerful civil disobedience and speaking up for your future can be. There are things I can do to help in my lifestyle and community, but there is more we can do together. I conserve energy, turn off lights when I leave a room, recycle, and ride my bike to school every day. Now I am also part of the iMatter Youth Council with Kids vs Global Warming to pressure the President and our leaders to stand up for my generation and take action on climate change.
Climate change is the most important issue for my generation because it is a scary idea to grow up in a world where extreme droughts and hurricanes are normal; polar bears, harp seals, and penguins are extinct; and North Carolina's coastline looks totally different because the West Antarctic ice shelf has melted. The USA emits 30.3% of all greenhouse gas pollution in the world. That's more greenhouse gas pollution than South America (3.8 %), Africa (2.5%), the Middle East (2.6%), Australia (1.1%), and Asia (12.2%) COMBINED! Therefore, as Americans, it is our obligation to work as hard as we can to fix that problem by fighting global warming. If we destroy this Earth, we won't get a second chance.
Together with other youth across the nation, I am asking my President to say NO to the Keystone XL pipeline. On February 18th there will be a huge Keystone XL action in D.C. We encourage everyone who can to come participate and stand up for our right to inherit a sustainable planet!

For more information about the Rally, visit forwardonclimate.org

In Solidarity,

Hallie and the iMatter Team
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So, where were YOU? Where are you now? Please report in at

World Beyond War

War Is A Crime

Talk Nation Radio

There Is No Way To Peace

Peace is the way.

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Tuesday, January 26

Trash to Treasure

Last night I made Sarah's roasted chicken. It is an awesome recipe and I feel like such a domestic goddess when I make it. Not only do you have an awesome golden bird to eat the first night, but you have 2 more nights worth of chicken for dinners throughout the week. See, isn't it purty?

However, when you are finished carving it, shredding it, and picking every last ounce of chicken off of it's bones, you are left with a greasy, ugly pile of stuff. All of this stuff gets dumped into the trash can in our house.

Today I get the dreaded call around 11:30am. My phone's caller ID says, "Child Development Center." This is hardley ever a good thing. I've been told that Charlotte threw up (a lot) during lunch and needed to be picked up. I had been praying that we would avoid this stomach bug that's going around, but no such luck.

So, I leave the office and go to pick her up. We walked through the door at home and I immediately knew what was waiting in the kitchen. I knew that the trash had been emptied and rummaged through by a certain black dog because that certain black dog was not there to greet us when we walked through the door. I guess the smell of chicken remains was more than she could take. She ate the entire thing - not a bone left in the trash can. She also ate every last red onion that the chicken cooked with as well.

So, not only are we bracing ourselves to clean up Charlotte throw up tonight - we have the dog to worry about too. Wish us luck.

Mel said...

I do not envy you! Here's to hoping you have a throw up free night!

And who could blame her with how yummy that chicken is! Erin made it for Craig and I over the holidays...YUM YUM!

Rebecca said...

Hope Charlotte is OK! Stinks about the dog rummaging through the trash too. :(

We love that recipe too - have made it a couple of times. We also made it last week with a pork roast instead of chicken (just to be different - and because Josh bought a crapload of pork roast at Costco). Oh. My. Goodness. Was that yummy too - and, no bones to clean up! (plenty of leftovers too, which we threw into stir fry a few days later)

Molly said...

You have a very neat dog...Colonel Mustard has a tendency to eat the good stuff like chicken first, then toss the veggies around (he's a meat-itarian), then shred the used papertowels up into 21,000 pieces, then cover the floor in coffee grounds. One day he'll figure out that the dog food is actually LESS secure and just tip that can over.
Sorry Charlotte doesn't feel good, sounds like Atlanta's getting hit hard with that stomach bug :(


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Kelly Ripa, she of her eponymous television show, Colgate and Nutella commercials, has caused quite a stir. She went on “The Wendy Williams” show last week and revealed, when relating an incident with her 13-year old daughter that resulted in her daughter losing phone privileges, “I don’t think she likes […]

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Prime Time International Co v. Vilsack

United States District Court, District Circuit

June 10, 2013

THOMAS J. VILSACK, Secretary U.S. Department of Agriculture, et al., Defendants. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Plaintiff,

Royce C. Lamberth, Chief Judge.

This case concerns the proper method to calculate assessments under the Tobacco Transition Payment Program. To phase out the old system of price supports and marketing caps, this transitional program collects assessments from tobacco manufacturers and importers and distributes these funds to eligible tobacco growers. Prime Time International Co., formerly known as “Single Stick, Inc., ”[2] has long disputed how the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) calculates cigar companies’ assessments. Prime Time primarily makes “small” cigars, which may contain significantly less tobacco per cigar than “large” cigars. USDA determines each cigar company’s market share—and, in turn, each company’s proportional responsibility to pay into the fund—by a “stick count” or “per-stick” method. This method relies on the number of cigars, not the weight of tobacco contained in each cigar, to determine each company’s market share. Prime Time maintains that this method—which treats large and small cigars alike—is patently unfair and violates a statutory mandate that each company pay no more than its “pro rata” share. USDA had argued that the governing statute mandated this “per-stick” method. After Prime Time challenged USDA’s methodology, and USDA obtained summary judgment at the district court, the court of appeals reversed the district court in part. Upon remand, USDA reaffirmed its per-stick rule after notice and comment rulemaking.

The parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment concern the nature and scope of the court of appeals’ administrative remand, whether USDA’s interpretation deserves Chevron deference, and whether USDA’s interpretation is reasonable. Since this Court finds that USDA’s per-stick rule is a reasonable interpretation of ambiguous statutory language, it will uphold USDA’s assessment calculation method. Therefore, the Court will grant the United States’ Motion for Summary Judgment, Civil No. 12-910, Sept. 14, 2012, ECF No. 13; deny Prime Time’s Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment, Civil No. 06-1077, Oct. 19, 2012, ECF No. 44; and enter judgment for the United States in the amount of $11, 679, 006.05, plus any additional unpaid assessments and interest accrued since September 14, 2012.

A. Statutory & Regulatory History

Prior to 2004, the government had implemented tobacco price support programs and marketing quotas for tobacco growers to aid domestic tobacco farmers. In order to gradually end such programs, Congress passed the Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004 (“FETRA”). Pub. L. No. 108–357 §§ 601–43, 118 Stat. 1418, 1522–36 (Oct. 22, 2004). This Act created the Tobacco Transition Payment Program (“TTPP”), a ten-year program to provide transitional payments to certain tobacco producers and farm owners while the government phased out the old system of price support and marketing quotas. FETRA designated USDA to administer the program in conjunction with the Commodities Credit Corporation (“CCC”) and the Farm Services Agency (“FSA”), two bodies under the umbrella of the Department of Agriculture.[3] 7 U.S.C. §§ 518–19a.

Per FETRA, USDA issues quarterly Tobacco Transition Assessments (“TTA”) on tobacco manufacturers and importers, and then distributes those funds to eligible tobacco quota holders and growers. 7 U.S.C. §§ 518a–b. In determining each company’s assessment, USDA follows several steps. The preliminary step is determining the total annual amount of the national assessment. The Act specifies that the assessments cannot exceed $10.14 billion over ten years, 7 U.S.C. § 518f, and the average annual total assessment is about $1 billion, 76 Fed. Reg. 15859, 15860 (Mar. 22, 2011) (available at Prime Time Administrative Record (“AR”) 12, Civ. No. 12-910, Sept. 12, 2012, ECF No. 12).

Once USDA calculates the total annual assessment, it undertakes a two-step process to determine each company’s assessment amount. Under “Step A, ” USDA divides the annual assessment liability among six statutorily-enumerated classes of tobacco products: cigarettes, cigars, snuff, roll-your-own tobacco, chewing tobacco, and pipe tobacco. 7 U.S.C. § 518d(c)(1); 7 C.F.R. §§ 1463.3, 1463.5. Congress set the initial apportionment percentages for each class in FETRA—for example, Congress made the cigarette class responsible for 96.331% of the total assessment, and the cigar class responsible for 2.783%. 7 U.S.C. § 518d(c)(1). Congress directed USDA to adjust the Step A assessment percentages periodically “to reflect changes in the share of gross domestic volume held by that class of tobacco product.” 7 U.S.C. § 518d(c)(2). To made these adjustments:

Each year USDA uses data from the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Bureau of Customs and Border Security (Customs)—the new volume figures (units for cigars and cigarettes)— and multiplies them by the 2004 tax rates to adjust the Step A allotments using the calculation Congress was determined to have used for the initial Step A allotments, Those former tax rates (not the [ ] revised rates) are used so that the adjustments to the Step A category allotments are for changes in volume (units and weights) only, not changes in tax rates.

76 Fed. Reg. at 15860 (AR 12).

After USDA determines the proportional liability of each class of tobacco product, it must divide that amount among manufacturers and importers within that category. This is known as “Step B, ” and it is at issue in this case. FETRA sets forth how USDA should calculate these Step B assessments. “The assessment for each class of tobacco product…shall be allocated on a pro-rata-basis among manufacturers and importers based on each manufacturer’s or importer’s share of gross domestic volume, ” with “[n]o manufacturer or importer…required to pay an assessment that is based on a share that is in excess of [its] share of domestic volume.” 7 U.S.C. §§ 518d(e)(1)–(2). “The amount of the assessment for each class of tobacco product…to be paid by each manufacturer or importer of that class of tobacco product shall be determined…by multiplying—(1) the market share of the manufacturer or importer…; by (2) the total amount of the assessment…for the class of tobacco product.” 7 U.S.C. § 518d(f). “The term ‘market share’ means the share of each manufacturer or importer of a class of tobacco product…of the total volume of domestic sales of the class of tobacco product[.]” 7 U.S.C. § 518d(a)(3).

Key to this case, FETRA states, “For purposes of calculations under this subsection…the volumes of domestic sales shall be measured by—[ ] in the case of cigarettes and cigars, the number of cigarettes and cigars.” 7 U.S.C. § 518d(g)(3). Implementing this statute, USDA derives the total number of cigars placed in the domestic market from excise tax reports provided to USDA by manufacturers and importers. See 7 U.S.C. § 518d(h); 7 C.F.R. § 1463.7. USDA then determines an individual manufacturer or importer’s pro rata share by dividing the number of cigars from a particular manufacturer or importer by the total number of cigars placed in the domestic market. See 7 C.F.R. § 1463.7. This is known as the “per-stick” or “stick count” method; this method of determining each cigar company’s market share does not differentiate between small and large cigars.

A manufacturer or importer may appeal its assessment to the Secretary of Agriculture, using “any information that is available, including third party data on industry or individual company sales volumes, ” and the Secretary “must make any revisions necessary to ensure that each manufacturer and importer pays only its correct pro rata share of total gross domestic volume from all sources.” 7 U.S.C. §§ 518d(i)(2), (i)(4)(B).

B. Procedural History

Prime Time predominately manufactures “small” cigars, which weigh less than three pounds per thousand cigars. Cf. 26 U.S.C. § 5701(a)(1) (defining “small cigars” for tax purposes). In 2005, Prime Time’s predecessor company, Single Stick, Inc., filed an administrative appeal pursuant to 7 U.S.C. § 518d(i), arguing that USDA’s per-stick approach improperly treated differently sized cigars similarly. In addition, Single Stick submitted third party industry sales data from A.C. Nielsen as an alternative source for calculating its market share. The Secretary, acting through the Deputy Administrator for Farm Programs, acknowledged that Single Stick’s objection to assessing large and small cigars equally was “philosophically well founded, ” but took the position that section 518d(g)(3)(A) of FETRA mandated the per-stick method. The Secretary also took the position that A.C. Nielsen data, which measures across-the-counter sales of tobacco products, did not conform to the requirement that USDA base market share calculations on the amount of product “removed.”[4] The Secretary agreed, however, that Single Stick correctly challenged both the exclusion of non-reporting manufacturers and importers in apportioning assessments and the inclusion of certain expenses in calculating assessments under the transition payment program. The Secretary adjusted Single Stick’s assessments amount after considering these issues. The Secretary rejected Single Stick’s claim that it was entitled as a matter of due process to examine the industry-wide tax and customs data USDA used to calculate the assessments because such information about other companies was made confidential by statute, per 26 U.S.C. § 6103. See generally Prime Time Int’l Co. v. Vilsack, 599 F.3d 678, 681 (D.C. Cir. 2010) (describing history of case).

After the Secretary made his determination, Single Stick petitioned for review in the district court per FETRA’s judicial review provision. See 7 U.S.C. § 518d(j). The district court granted summary judgment to the Secretary and USDA. Single Stick, Inc. v. Johanns, 601 F.Supp.2d 307 (D.D.C. 2009). The district court deferred to USDA’s interpretation that FETRA mandated the per-stick method as not contrary to congressional intent and as a permissible interpretation of the statute under Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984). Single Stick, 601 F.Supp.2d at 314. It rejected Single Stick’s due process claim regarding access to the data underlying the Secretary’s assessments because Single Stick failed to demonstrate prejudice. Id. at 315. Finally, the district court dismissed Single Stick’s claim that USDA’s failure to respond to requests for disclosure and “correction” of the data underlying the assessments violated the Information Quality Act (“IQA”), 44 U.S.C. § 3516, ruling that the IQA did not vest any party with the right to disclosure and correction and that USDA’s failure to respond did not constitute final agency action subject to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 704. Single Stick, 601 F.Supp.2d at 316–17.

Single Stick appealed, and while appeal was pending changed its corporate name to Prime Time International. See Prime Time v. Vilsack, 599 F.3d 678 (D.C. Cir. 2010). The D.C. Circuit reversed in part and affirmed in part the judgment of the district court. The court of appeals reversed the grant of summary judgment to USDA on Prime Time’s FETRA claims, avoided reaching Prime Time’s due process claims as USDA represented that they may become moot, and affirmed the dismissal of the IQA challenge. Prime Time, 599 F.3d at 686.

The nature and scope of the D.C. Circuit’s remand on the FETRA issue is hotly contested among the parties, and will be discussed in more detail infra. Prime Time’s basic argument on appeal was that USDA’s two-step method:

[S]kips a necessary step…[b]ecause FETRA requires that the allocation within a tobacco class be “on a pro rata basis” with “[n]o manufacturer or importer…required to pay an assessment that is based on a share that is in excess of the manufacturer's or importer's share of domestic volume.” 7 U.S.C. § 518d(e). Therefore, [Prime Time] argues, after allocating the assessment by class of tobacco products, USDA should divide the cigar class assessment into subclasses of large and small cigars, with the relative allocation determined by total weight, and then divide the assessments among individual large and small cigar manufacturers and importers on a per-stick basis from the subdivided assessments, satisfying subsection (g)(3)(A).

Id. at 420. The relevant, and contested, portion of the Circuit’s opinion is as follows:

The plain text of FETRA does not self-evidently vindicate USDA’s two step assessment method. Under FETRA, the “volume of domestic sales” and “market share” are not synonymous with “gross domestic volume.” FETRA provides, for example, that “[t]he volume of domestic sales shall be calculated based on gross domestic volume, ” 7 U.S.C. § 518d(g)(2) (emphasis added), indicating two different meanings for the terms. And section 518d(g)(3)(A) does not, on its face, require that a compound number of large and small cigars serve as the denominator when calculating a manufacturer's or importer's volume of domestic sales on a per-stick basis. Most critically, USDA’s interpretation appears to ignore the pro-rata-basis limitation Congress imposed on assessments within a tobacco class in subsection (e). As interpreted by USDA, it is irrelevant that one large cigar consumes far more tobacco than a small cigar, and so accounts for a far larger segment of the market than its per-stick contribution would indicate. Yet the text and structure of the statute titled the Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act suggests an easy counting metric for cigarettes and cigars may not override a statutory mandate that assessments be “allocated on a pro rata basis” within each class of tobacco product, id. § 518d(e)(1). Prime Time’s interpretation suggests that there is at least one way to interpret FETRA’s provisions consistently and in harmony, with none made superfluous or insignificant. See Corley v. United States, 556 U.S. 303, 129 S.Ct.. 1558, 1566, (2009); City of Anaheim, Cal. v. FERC, 558 F.3d 521, 522 (D.C. Cir. 2009).
For the purpose of this appeal, the court need only observe that USDA’s present interpretation is not mandated by the plain text of FETRA. USDA does not maintain that its interpretation of FETRA is a permissible view of an ambiguous statute entitled to deference under Chevron step 2, 467 U.S. at 843. Given that FETRA does not appear to be susceptible of only a single interpretation, we reverse and remand to the district court with instructions to remand Prime Time’s FETRA claims to the USDA for further proceedings. See PDK Labs. Inc. v. U.S. DEA, 362 F.3d 786, 797–98 (D.C. Cir. 2004).

Id. at 422.

On remand, USDA commenced notice and comment rulemaking on its Step B calculation method. See 76 Fed. Reg. 15859 (AR 11–16). The USDA received five sets of comments in response to its notice, and issued a final determination on November 6, 2011 concluding that the existing Step B method will remain in place. Bruce Nelson, Determination of the Administrator of the Farm Services Agency and Executive Vice President of the Commodity Credit Corporation Regarding the Current “Step A” and “Step B” Assessment Methods in the Tobacco Transition Payment Program (“Final Determination”), Nov. 16. 2011, AR 57–96.

USDA then intended to adjudicate three factual issues specific to Prime Time: (1) the reliability of the A.C. Nielsen data for determining market share; (2) Prime Time’s request for information concerning the market shares of other tobacco companies; and (3) the basis for USDA’s adjustment to Prime Time’s assessment at the end of the first year of the program. See United States’ Mot. Summ. J. 7; Letter from Scott Sanford to James Deer, Jan. 26. 2012, AR 118–22. Prime Time, however, took the position that “there are no remaining factual issues for the agency to adjudicate” and wished to expedite judicial review of USDA’s Step B methodology. Letter from John Wertheim to Scott Sanford, Dec. 27, 2011, AR 117.

Before the USDA’s final determination came in, Prime Time moved for summary judgment in the original district court action, Civil No. 06-1077. Prime Time’s Mot. for Summ. J., Civ. No. 06-1077, Oct. 17, 2011, ECF No. 29. The district court denied this motion without prejudice. Minute Order, Civ. No. 06-1077, Sept. 19, 2012.

On a separate track, the United States initiated a new civil case, Civil No. 12-910, as an enforcement action against Prime Time for failing to make millions of dollars in tobacco assessment payments. See Complaint, Civ. No. 12-290, Jun. 5, 2012, ECF No. 1. In the interest of judicial economy, the Court consolidated Civil Actions 06-1077 and 12-290, with all subsequent filings to be made in 06-1077. Order Consolidating Cases, Civ. No. 06-1077, Sept. 19, 2012, ECF No. 42. Prime Time then filed a cross-motion for summary judgment in 06-1077, seeking an adjudication that USDA’s Step B assessment method is invalid. Prime Time’s Cross-Mot. Summ. J., Civ. No. 06-1077, Oct. 19. 2012, ECF No. 44. Both motions for summary judgment are ripe for adjudication, and the Court resolves both herein.

A. Summary Judgment

Under Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a court shall grant summary judgment “if the movant shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.” Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(a); accord Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 247 (1986). In cases involving final agency action, the Rule 56 applies differently, as the court has a limited role in reviewing the administrative record. See Sierra Club v. Mainella, 459 F.Supp.2d 76, 89 (D.D.C. 2006). The court should focus on the administrative record compiled by the agency, “not some new record made initially in the reviewing court.” Camp v. Pitts, 411 U.S. 138, 142 (1973); see also Envtl. Def. Fund., Inc. v. Costle, 657 F.2d 275, 322 (D.C. Cir. 1981) (“It is well settled that judicial review of agency action is normally confined to the full administrative record before the agency at the time the decision was made.”). The agency’s role “is to resolve factual issues to reach a decision supported by the administrative record, while ‘the function of the district court is to determine whether or not as a matter of law the evidence in the administrative record permitted the agency to make the decision as it did.’” Burmeister v. Pension Ben. Guar. Corp, F.Supp.2d, 2013 WL 1869171, *3 (D.D.C. May 6, 2013) (quoting Mainella, 458 F.Supp. at 90). These record-review principles apply to FETRA enforcement actions brought by the government. See United ...

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The curious case of the media ignoring Rachel Dolezal's art lies

It has been said that the real power of the mainstream media is to "ignore." That is, to pick and choose what "they" want to publish and "make known"; the latter usually something that fits the particular agenda of the individual news organization.

The comments for some of DC Art News' posts on Rachel Dolezal abound with recommendations from DC Art News readers encouraging Dave Castillo and I to go to the mainstream press outlets with the various artistic deceptions and outright lies that Dolezal has purposefully committed throughout her artistic life.

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 "Alike's World" "Painting" from Dolezal's blog
And I have! I have contacted dozens and dozens of editors, writers, newsrooms about the expose that shines a light on her lies and fabrications when it comes to her art life.

So far, the response has been mostly zero.

Why would the media ignore the fact that Rachel Dolezal may have fabricated her art CV? Why would they ignore that she most likely lied (or vastly exaggerated) about her art sales while in the DMV?

While would they ignore the fact that she appears to be selling photo reproductions on canvas as original paintings?

Could it be because these discoveries fall "outside" of her race change storyline and expose the fact that her entire persona, including her production as an artist, is built on lies?

Many good people, who are not aware of Dolezal's artistic deceptions, have been otherwise very accepting of Dolezal's racial lie. After all, she was one with the "cause", blah, blah, blah, goes the "accepting" narrative.

Were they to discover that Dolezal not only created a mountain of lies in order to provide a base for her racial lie, and her life as a victim, etc. but also mimicked that performance for her persona as an artist, then they might repudiate her -- as a person -- rather than accept her, as a "sister."
Dolezal Name Meaning: Czech and Slovak (Doležal): nickname for a lazy man, from the past participle of doležit ‘to lie down.’

scarts said...

I'm baffled about this as well. I was already frustrated with people defending her "right to be black" (as if that was the real problem) and ignoring the fabricated hate crimes and bizarre fake childhood tales. Then, when I read about her art deception in your blog, I thought the press would be all over it, and the public would see her true character. But nope!

Also, why did some outlets cover the slave ship painting forgery, but don't want to touch this? Very odd....

Anonymous said...

Have you tried the Washington City Paper? It's the kind of "local" stuff you'd think the'd be all over ???????


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Just Curious

While not having Rob Dibble on the air is a joyous thing (sadly I was otherwise occupied tonight, and missed out on Ray Knight's banality), it does make me wonder ...

Why would he get put into time out after ripping on Strasburg but not for ripping on the broads? Stan Kasten's quote is priceless and almost makes me like the guy again, but is that really a dumpable offense? I guess the only way it makes sense is that if (as it seems it may have) it pushed enough people who were indifferent to his general obnoxiousness into the "he's a douchebag" category.

And as I tweeted, when did being a jackhole become an issue with the Nats? It's who they hired. And they certainly kept Jackhole-in-Chief Jim Bowden around 14 years after his expiration date.

I wonder how much of this is some sort of tension with his XM duties. Dibble said something that he never would've said on MASN. (He basically admitted as such in the full transcript.) Does that not set well with the team?

As I sorta said with the whole firestorm with his comments on dames, there's part of me that wants to defend him. But his general douchbagosity makes it hard, and makes me not want to give him the benefit of the doubt. I guess that makes me no better a person than he is.

  • From what I have seen, John Angelos hired Dibble, I don't know how much input the Nationals had.

    I hope that he's spending these two days on an exit strategy.

    By Anonymous WFY, at 8/26/2010 8:17 AM

  • Isn't it just that Stan's only thin-skinned about criticism of the Nationals? Being a chauvinist isn't a problem. Attacking the product that Stan is selling is.

    By Blogger Steven, at 8/26/2010 8:38 AM

  • Well, also, what Dibble said was dumb and old-school, but certainly no worse than Joe Morgan's "Billy Beane wrote Moneyball and I'm not going to read it" idiocy. Or, you know, anything Tim McCarver says.

    So I'm in that crowd that hated Dibble when he started, but now I think he's ok.

    By Anonymous Kevin Rusch, Section406, at 8/26/2010 9:45 AM

  • Kasten's comment was very clearly a joke. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Dibble texted him "Good one!" the minute he heard about it.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8/26/2010 4:19 PM

  • Free Rob Dibble.

    By Anonymous Sunshine_Bobby_Carpenter_Is_Too_Pessimistic_for_Me, at 8/26/2010 8:34 PM

  • Dibble's comment on dames was on the mark. If dames want to talk for nine innings, they should go to Starbucks. If you really want to call someone a douche bag, then Stan Kasten is a much better choice.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8/26/2010 9:03 PM

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A look at the awful children's programming you're forced to endure before you can finally kick the kids out of the TV room to watch sports for eight hours. GIF by Jim Cooke.

The Show

The Theme Song

Chuggggggggggington! Chugga chugga chugga Chuggington! Chuggggggggggington! Chugga chugga chugga Chugga chugga chugga Chugga chugga chugga Chuggington! Chuggington! Clappity clap!

The Mythology

Chuggington is a cartoon that Disney Channel imported from Britain to better torture American parents. The original show uses British voices, but since this is 'MERICA and we can't abide by filthy English accents, the show has been re-dubbed using proper, shrill, annoying American voices. I'm not saying a bunch of little British twats screaming out the theme song is any better (thanks to "Another Brick in the Wall" and "The Living Years," I am firmly against using British boy choirs in rock songs), I'm just saying that the producers felt compelled to dumb down what was already a dumb British show.

The fictional town of Chuggington is a training depot for young train engines who are eager to prove themselves Really Useful. And yes, that's also the gist of every Thomas the Tank Engine story. Chuggington exists because one corporation saw another corporation making a mint from anthropomorphic train cartoons and train merchandise and had to get a taste of the action. Thus, you get pretty much the exact same characters and plots as a Thomas cartoon, only using cheap, shitty, Korean CGI animation (which Thomas also now uses). EVERYONE WINS! When I go to the bookstore now, I see the Chuggington crap slowly invading the territory where all the Thomas crap is. Somewhere, there's a deranged sales executive wielding a HAPPY TRAIN MARKET SHARE PowerPoint slide who could not be more excited about this development. The age 3-5 demo is theirs for the taking!

The trainees on Chuggington are asked to handle any number of random tasks: shipping freight, pulling the ice cream car (named Frostini, complete with comical Italian accent), or starring as an extra in Action Chugger's shitty action movie. The trainees fuck up ALL THE TIME. If this were a real railroad, 10,000 people would be killed every week thanks to runaway engines, crashing cars, and milk floods. These trains are as bad at training as the Grey's Anatomy doctors are at practicing medicine. But since this is Chuggington, such catastrophic errors serve merely as life lessons for the little engines as they aspire to a future of endless, motorized toil. One day, you little fuckers will all grow up to haul my grain. Lucky you.

Episode Format

Every episode of Chuggington consists of two vignettes ("Rolling Reporter Wilson," etc.) and a BADGE QUEST segment, in which a shrill loudspeaker named Vee (controlled by aliens?!) hands down tasks to the trainees so that they can get a stupid badge. The trainees then all assume that they can handle this task easily, with no thought or deliberation whatsoever. They're just so damn eager to get on that turntable. Inevitably, their callowness leads to them fuck up horribly, presumably killing 700 civilians in an engine fire. Then they decide to finally LISTEN, and complete the task properly. Then Vee gives them their badge even though they totally didn't earn it. If I fucked up that badly in Driver's Ed, I would get six years for manslaughter before they gave me a temp permit.

Wilson: Trainee. He's the red one. He's the prince of impatient railroad fuckups.

Brewster: Trainee. The blue one. If I'm not looking at the TV, I honestly can't tell the difference between him and Wilson. The writers clearly need to give Brewster some advanced form of alcoholism to make him stand out more.

Koko: Trainee. Sassy girl engine. Sometimes Koko teases Brewster by calling him a "slow coach." WHAT A BITCH.

Action Chugger: Movie star train. Only stars in brainless Hollywood train action movies like Unstoppable 2: Can't Stop Won't Stop. Can fly. Yeah, that's right. He can fucking FLY. Just like Astrotrain in the old Transformers cartoons. Why can't REAL trains fly? Because the world is shit, that's why. Anyway, Action Chugger is clearly gay and overplaying his masculinity to compensate for his insecurities. You can see that he's taken an unnatural liking to the two boy trainees.

M'tambo: He's the African engine and he talks with an African accent. THAT IS RAYCESS!

Dunbar: Boss of the trainees. EXTREMELY DEEP COUNTRY VOICE. Makes every order sound like a command to start square-dancin'. Calls all the trainees "chuggers," which is understandable but no less grating.

Emery: According to Wikipedia, Emery is "based on the Urban Transportation Development CorporationIntermediate Capacity Transit System Scarborough RT-type electric train." OK, then.

Harrison: One of the older chuggers. Has a deep, soft baritone that can be used to seduce all the lady trains and get their axles wet.

Old Puffer Pete: The oldest engine in Chuggington. Will die one day.

Frostini: The aforementioned ice cream car. Though if here were really Italian, he'd demand you call it "gelato" and make sure to NEVER include a piece of chocolate when handing you a sample of stracciatella.

Eddie: The handyman. Human. No idea why he's hanging out talking to a bunch of trains. He must get around at night.

There are also other chuggers like Zephie, Olwin, Piper, and more. I do not care about these chuggers.

Best Episode

"Wilson Gets A Wash." Wilson gets muddy and won't use the new chugwash. My children would like to subscribe to Wilson's "refuse to bathe" newsletter.

Worst Episode

"Lights Camera Action Chugger." The trainees are basically hired as pissboys on Action Chugger's movie set. He's abusing those young children for cheap labor. The Slumdog Millionaire guy approves.

Apart from the title sequence, there are no songs on Chuggington, which is nice. With a few exceptions, music makes any children's show 70 times worse.

That fucking air horn. Every two minutes during an episode of Chuggington, a shrill horn will blast: doo-DOO-doo-DOODOODOO! It's loud as shit. As always, I grade kiddie shows strictly according to my ability to ignore them. Chuggington fails miserably in this regard. Horns go off. Bells ring. Trains crash. Action Chugger has his own stupid entrance chimes. Watching Chuggington is like having a monkey orchestra playing on top of your head. And there are cuts every half a second. You ricochet between 50 different characters with barely any sense of forward narrative momentum. This must be what watching Downton Abbey is like. I don't trust the British to edit things properly.

Also, this is a Disney Channel show, which means there's no bullshit pretense that your kid is watching something good for them, like what you get with Nick Jr. There's no airy fairy "ecological" development to be had here. The people at BIG DISNEY are just trying to get you to buy more train shit, poisoning your child's mind in the process. HONKING HORNS, THAT'S TRAINTASTIC EVILDOING!

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  1. Thanks for the feature! My son broke his arm last week which threw out the schedule, so nothing to share this week but I'll be back next week :-) Meantime I'm looking forward to delving into this week's inspiration!


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Bab 16 Dominion over Kings

The last identifying characteristic that John was given concerning the woman astride the beast was that she was a city "which reigneth over the kings of the earth" (Revelation 17:18). Could there be a city that actually reigns over the governments of the world? History bears witness that there was indeed such a city, and only one. That city was, of course, Rome after its bishops began to call themselves popes and, claiming to be the successors of the Caesars, took upon themselves the imperial powers of worldwide sovereignty.

Consider, for example, the arrogant imperialism of Pope Alexander III (1159-81). Declaring that "the power of the popes is superior to that of princes," Alexander excommunicated Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany and Italy. Attempting to chastise the pope, Frederick's forces were defeated by the pope's army. The chastened emperor came to Venice to beg forgiveness and absolution, promising to "submit always to the Roman Church." Imagine a church ruling the world by military might! Fortunatus Ulmas, a Catholic historian, enthusiastically described the scene:

When the emperor arrived in the presence of the pope, he laid aside his imperial mantle, and knelt on both knees, with his breast on the earth. Alexander advanced and placed his foot on his neck, while the cardinals thundered forth in loud tones, "Thou shalt tread upon the cockatrice, and crush the lion and the dragon

The next day Frederick Barbarossa ... kissed the feet of Alexander, and, on foot, led his horse by the bridle as he returned from solemn mass, to the pontifical palace....

The papacy had now risen to a height of grandeur and power which it had never reached before. The sword of Peter had conquered the sword of Caesar!4

As a swordsman, Peter had been signally inept: Aiming to cut off a head, he had instead severed an ear. Christ rebuked His erring disciple, healed the ear, and then allowed the armed band to lead Him captive on His way to the cross. The early church knew full well that Christians did not wield sword or spear in the defense of Christ. His kingdom, which is "not of this world," must first be established in the hearts of those who believe in Him as the Savior who died for their sins. These true disciples follow in His path of rejection, suffering, and death. How then did those who called themselves vicars of Christ reach such a worldly pinnacle whereby they could command emperors, defeat their armies with the sword, and place a foot upon the neck of a vanquished sovereign?

The Path to Earthly Glory

Some years after Constantine had moved the imperial headquarters to the East, the Roman Empire in the West broke up. The vacuum created by the absence of a central authority in Rome was filled by the Church, the only Roman institution capable of doing so. The Church played the major role in education and charity. Gradually, however, the popes took over the civil government of Rome and its surroundings; and then by fraud (as we have seen) they added the large territories of the Papal States to their domain. As their ambitions grew, the new Roman pontiffs took upon themselves the titles and much of the flavor and function of emperor.

The popes, some of whom were exceptionally capable military leaders, had armies and navies at their command to extend and to hold their territories. They wielded. However, a greater power than the force of arms: "The keys of heaven" were theirs. Temporal rulers were compelled, no matter how unwillingly, to bow the knee to the popes. Only the "heretics" (true Christians) doubted that the Church determined who entered heaven and could bar its gate to any who opposed her.5 The most powerful civil rulers trembled when threatened with excommunication, for it was almost universally believed that outside the Church there was no salvation. Historian Walter James writes:

The Papacy controlled the gateway to heaven which all the faithful, including their rulers, hoped earnestly to enter. Few in those days doubted the truth of this and it gave the Popes a moral authority which has never been wielded since.6

The fraudulent Donation of Constantine mentioned earlier was followed by a veritable library of forged documents. It was these false decretals that traced papal authority back to the early bishops of Rome and through them to Peter. Even Thomas Aquinas, the Roman Church's greatest theologian, was deceived by these fraudulent assertions into believing that "there is no difference between Christ and the Pope. . . ." So blinded was Aquinas by the pomp and power of the popes that he "made the Fathers say that in fact the rulers of the world obey the Pope as though he were Christ."7

On the contrary, Christ had nothing to do with the rulers of this world; and far from obeying Him, "the princes of this world ... crucified the Lord of glory" (1 Corinthians 2:8). Yet the Catholic heresy stuck and became the central principle of the popes in fulfilling John's vision by literally ruling over the kings of the earth.

Papal Dominion over England and Ireland

During the Middle Ages the awesome power which the popes wielded over the kings of the earth continued to grow. Gregory VI (1045-6) had declared that the pope commanded blind obedience to his every word, even from sovereigns. Alexander II (1061-73), with the counsel of the great Hildebrand (later Gregory VII), issued a decree declaring Harold, the lawful King of England, a usurper and excommunicated his followers. The pope decreed that William, Duke of Normandy, was the lawful claimant to the English crown.

With the pope's blessing, William the Conqueror killed Harold in battle, took England, and was crowned in London on Christmas Day, 1066. William accepted the crown "in the name of the Holy See of Rome." It was another triumph for the papacy and greatly increased Roman Catholic influence in England. Freeman, in The Norman Conquest, elaborates on the arrangement:

William was authorized [by the pope] to go forth as an avenger of Heaven. He was required to teach the English people "due obedience to Christ's Vicar," and, what the papacy never forgets, "to secure a more punctual payment of the temporal dues of his apostle."8

In 1155 Pope Adrian IV gave the crown of Ireland to the King of England. Thus, by his authority as "Christ's vicar," he subjugated Ireland to English rule and consigned Ireland's "peaceful and Christian people to the merciless cruelties of Henry II, upon the ground that it was a portion of 'the patrimony of St. Peter and of the Holy Roman Church.'"9 Subsequent popes affirmed this decree.

So long as England remained Catholic the arrangement was tolerable. But when England turned Protestant its continued control of Catholic Ireland and Protestant persecution of Catholics planted the seeds of a problem that continues to this day. While Catholic Ireland has many legitimate grievances too complex to relate here, she needs to remember that it was, after all, the Roman Catholic popes who gave Ireland to England in the first place.

In fact, the popes were to blame for many of England's trials and tribulations as well. The Roman pontiffs treated "its kings [as] their vassals, and its people as having no rights of any value whatsoever when they came in conflict with the demands of the papacy.... The Catholic clergy, as the popes' emissaries, ran England, disregarding the laws of the land, as though the popes were the sovereigns of the country. Civil courts had no iurisdiction over priests. Thompson elaborates:

It would be impossible to enumerate ... the outrages and enormities practiced in England during this gloomy period by kings and popes, who considered the assertion of any single popular right as a crime which God had appointed them to punish! More than a hundred murders were committed by ecclesiastics during the reign of Henry II, in which the parties were not even punished....

The clergy had absolute power over their own body, and no appeal was allowed from their decisions. A layman forfeited his life by the crime of murder, but an ecclesiastic went unpunished. This was called one of the immunities of the clergy! [When the king tried to change the law to deal with clergy] the pope refused his sanction and denounced it as "prejudicial to the Church, and destructive of her privileges!" 10

Looking back from today's perspective, such overt papal dominion over sovereigns seems inconceivable, but it was in fact the norm for that day. The popes literally ruled the entire known world for centuries, exactly as John's vision foretold.

Pope Gregory VII (1073-85)

Before he became pope, as the famous Hildebrand, Gregory VII was the manipulating genius behind five other popes, including Alexander II. Gregory began his pontificate "by asserting the right to dispose of kingdoms, in imitation of the example set by Pope Gregory I [the Great], nearly four hundred years before." He declared that the power to "bind and loose" granted by Christ to Peter gave the popes "the right to make and unmake kings, to construct and reconstruct governments, to wrest from those who disobeyed all the territory held by them, and to bestow it upon those who would hold it subject to papal authority." Had he not read Revelation 17:18?

Gregory was the first pope to literally dethrone kings. If he decided to depose the German emperor, Gregory simply said, "To me is given power to bind and loose on earth and in heaven." If he set his heart upon some property that belonged to others, Gregory simply declared, as he had at his Roman Synod of 1080: "We desire to show the world that we can give or take away at our will kingdoms, duchies, earldoms, in a word, the possession of all men; for we can bind and loose."11

Picture, for example, in 1077, the humbled Henry IV, supreme head of the Holy Roman Empire and heir to Charlemagne (whom Pope Leo III had crowned emperor in 800), crossing the Alps and forced to wait, in penitence, barefoot in a haircloth shirt in the snow outside the castle at Canossa to make his peace with Gregory VII! Claiming to be "King of kings," Gregory, because of a quarrel with Henry, had declared: "On the part of God omnipotent, I forbid Henry to govern the kingdoms of Italy and Germany. I absolve all subjects from every oath they have taken and I excommunicate every person who shall serve him as king." Henry had no defense against that superweapon of the popes.

Thus was established that magnificent "whore" portrayed by John in Revelation 17-headquartered in a city located upon seven hills (verse 9) and which "reigneth over the kings of the earth" (verse 18). One eighteenth-century historian counted 95 popes who claimed to have divine power to depose kings.12 There is no other city which meets these criteria. John's vision had been remarkably accurate.

The Bloodiest Pontiff

Of Innocent 111 (1198-1216), whom he says "encompassed Christendom with terror... for close on twenty years," de Rosa writes: "He crowned and deposed sovereigns, put nations under interdict, virtually created the Papal States across central Italy from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic. He had not lost a single battle. In pursuit of his aims, he shed more blood than any other pontiff."13 Desiring to put Otho of Saxony on the German throne, Innocent wrote:

By the authority which God has given us in the person of St. Peter, we declare you king, and we order the people to render you, in this capacity, homage and obedience. We, however, shall expect you to subscribe to all our desires as a return for the imperial crown.14

Innocent III's "proud spirit chafed at the thought that any earthly potentate should equal him either in greatness or authority. Therefore he required that `all disputes between princes' should be referred to him; and if either party should refuse `to obey the sentence of Rome, he was to be excommunicated and deposed,' and a like penalty was to be visited upon those who refused to attack whatsoever `refractory delinquent' he should point out."15 As Ehler and Morrall remind us, "The Papacy became not only the highest authority in respect of international jurisdiction, being entitled to judge kings and princes, but secular potentates also sought the Pope's sanction in major changes of their international position, such as acquisition of new territories or titles."16

John Lackland, King of England, made the mistake of having a violent quarrel with Pope Innocent III. "After attempting resistance he completely submitted to Rome, surrendered his royal crown to Pope Innocent III and received it back from him as a vassal of the Holy See."17 The document, dated May 15, 1213, is known as "King John Lackland's Infeodation to Pope Innocent III."18 (See APPENDIX C) R. W. Thompson adds his insight:

Forfeitures, interdicts, excommunications, and every other form of ecclesiastical censure and punishment were of almost daily occurrence. Even such monarchs as Philip Augustus and Henry IV quailed before him [Innocent III], and Peter II of Aragon and John of England ignominiously consented to convert their kingdoms into spiritual fiefs and to hold them in subordination to him, upon the condition of paying an annual tribute.19

Yet More Evidence

Gregory IX (1227-41), who established the Inquisition and the handing of heretics to the secular power for execution, thundered that the pope was lord and master of everyone and everything. Innocent IV (1243-54) agreed because, as he argued, the popes did not get their dominion merely from The Donation of Constantine but already had it from God. Boniface VIII went further and, in his Bull Unam Sanctam in 1302, in which he claimed authority over all temporal powers, made absolute obedience to the pope a condition of salvation.

By the time of the death of Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa (upon whose neck Pope Alexander III had placed his conquering foot) it had long been understood that "nobody could acquire [the Imperial crown] without coronation by the Pope.... "20 "Emperor Charles IV secured peace and final harmony with the Papacy by renouncing any Imperial activity in the whole of Italy [leaving the popes to govern there] and this self-restriction was observed by subsequent Emperors until the end of the Middle Ages."21

Pope Julius II (1503-13), furious because Louis XII of France wouldn't support him in his military campaigns, drew up a papal bull depriving him of his kingdom and giving it to Henry VIII of England, provided he proved his piety by supporting the pope in his wars. Julius died before the bull was published. That pope's passion for fighting "holy wars" to extend the papal territories inspired Michelangelo, whom he hired to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, to pen the famous lines so apropos of Julius and many other popes:

Of chalices they make helmet and sword

And sell by the bucket the blood of the Lord.

In a recent article in a national Catholic newspaper, a priest confessed, "The church ... was subverted by the ambitions of such men as Gregory VII, Innocent III and Boniface VII into a politico-ecclesiastical institution wielding totalitarian power in both sacred and secular fields."22 He fails to mention that the dogmas and claims of Rome remain the same today as they were then. The Church has not changed; only circumstances force her to vary her tactics.

The open threats and aggression of a Gregory VII won't work in today's world. Though wielded more subtly, however, the Vatican's power is no less effective today than it ever was. One author who spent a lifetime analyzing and writing about the Vatican concluded:

The Vatican is ... the paramount superpower of our times. Its adherents ... nearing a billion, can be made to operate in every corner of the world.... Hence the importance [for every government] of having the Pope as a partner in the pursuance of any given world policy. ... Vatican policies are directed by the Pope ... [who] has neither Parliament, Congress or Senate, or any similar democratic body ... limiting his decisions, powers or policies. He is an absolute autocratic ruler, in the fullest meaning of that word.23

A Golden Cup in Her Hand

Kings dwell in palaces, are waited upon by servants, and, because of their absolute authority over their subjects, accumulate great wealth. It would therefore be expected that a city

which reigns over the kings of the earth would be the wealthiest of all. Such is the case with the woman astride the beast. That fact is surely signified by the "gold and precious stones and pearls" with which she is adorned as well as by the "golden cup in her hand" (Revelation 17:4).

That the golden cup is "full of abominations and filthiness" indicates that her wealth has been acquired through abominable means. Cardinal Baronius, though a defender of the papacy, confessed that in St. Peter's Chair have sat monsters "filled with fleshly lusts and cunning in all forms of wickedness [having] prostituted the Chair of St. Peter for their minions and paramours." In his sixteenth-century Ecclesiastical Annals he wrote:

The Roman Church was ... covered with silks and precious stones, which publicly prostituted itself for gold.... Never did priests, and especially popes, commit so many adulteries, rapes, incests, robberies, and murders ... [as in the Middle Ages].24

Petrarch, poet laureate of the empire, described the pap, court in Avignon scornfully as "the shame of mankind, a sin of vice, a sewer where is gathered all the filth of the world. There God is held in contempt, money alone is worshipped and the laws of God and men are trampled under foot. Everything there breathes a lie: the air, the earth, the houses and above a the bedrooms." Referring to Avignon as "the Babylon of the west,” Petrarch declared:

Here reign the successors of the poor fishermen of Galilee ... loaded with gold and clad in purple, boasting of the spoils of princes and nations. Instead of holy solitude we find a criminal host. .. instead of soberness, licentious banquets ... instead of the bare feet of the apostles ... horses decked in gold and fed on gold, soon to be shod with gold, if the Lord does not check this slavish luxury.25

Of Rome's wealth in the Middle Ages de Rosa says: "The cardinals had huge palaces with countless servants. One papal aide reported that he never went to see a cardinal without finding him counting his gold coins. The Curia was made up of men who had bought office and were desperate to recoup their enormous outlay.... For every benefice of see, abbey and parish, for every indulgence there was a set fee. The pallium, the two-inch-wide woollen band with crosses embroidered on it ... paid for by every bishop ... brought in ... hundreds of millions of gold florins to the papal coffers.... [T]he Council of Basle in 1432 was to call it `the most usurious contrivance ever invented....' " De Rosa continues:

Dispensations were another source of papal revenue. Extremely severe, even impossible, laws were passed so that the Curia could grow rich by selling dispensations ... [such as] from fasting during Lent.... Marriage in particular was a rich source of income. Consanguinity was alleged to hold between couples who had never dreamed they were related. Dispensations from consanguinity in order to marry amounted to a million gold florins a year.26

An Eyewitness Account from Spain

D. Antonio Gavin, author of A Master-Key to Popery, was born and educated in Spain at the end of the 1600s. As a Roman Catholic priest he had become thoroughly disillusioned by the evil in which he found himself entangled. Fleeing the Spanish Inquisition disguised in an army officer's uniform, Gavin made his way to safety in England. His book gives a cleat picture of Roman Catholicism in his day and has much to say about her incredible wealth and the part it played in the practice of Rome's paganized Christianity:

In the cathedral of St. Salvator [in Zaragoza] there are ten thousand ounces of silver in plate, part of it gilt, to adorn the two corners of the altar on great festivals [and an] ... abundance of rich ornaments for Priests, of inexpressible value. Eighty-four chalices, twenty of pure gold, and sixty-four of silver, gilt on the inside of the cup; and the rich chalice which only the Archbishop makes use of in his pontifical dress.

All these things are but trifles in comparison with the great custodia they make use of to carry the great Host through the streets on the festival of Corpus Christi:.. . [solid gold set with diamonds, emeralds and other precious stones it is] five hundred pound weight.... Several goldsmiths have endeavoured to value this piece, but nobody could set a certain sum on it.27

The most famous church in Zaragoza is called Our Lady of the Pillar because of an alleged appearance of the Virgin there. Gavin describes the crown on the image of the Virgin: "twenty-five pounds weight, set all over with large diamonds, so that nobody can see any gold in it, and everybody thinks it is all made of diamonds. Beside this rich one, she has six crowns more of pure gold, set with rich diamonds and emeralds.... " He goes on to say:

The roses of diamonds and other precious stones she has to adorn her mantle are innumerable; for though she [the image of the "Virgin"] is drest every day in the colour of the church's festival, and never useth twice [in a year] the same mantle, which is of the best stuff imbroidered with gold, she has new roses of precious stones every day for three years together, she has three hundred and sixty-five necklaces of pearls and diamonds, and six chains of gold set with diamonds, which are put on her mantle on the great festivals of Christ.28

A visitor to Zaragoza today may enter the treasure room to see some of the wealth. The Virgin has a different skirt for each day of the year embroidered with gold and set with diamonds and other precious stones. Another image of silver five feet high is set with precious stones and wears a diamond-studded crown of pure gold. In the early 1700s "the Right Honorable Lord Stanhope, then General of the English forces," was shown the treasure. Gavin was present and heard the General exclaim, "If all the Kings of Europe should gather together all their treasures and precious stones, they could not buy half of the riches of this treasury." Such was the wealth 280 years ago in one cathedral in one small city of Spain!

The Vatican's incredible riches have been accumulated at the expense of the people in even the poorest countries. At the time of Mexico's Civil War the Roman Catholic Church there owned "from one-third to one-half of all the land of the nation [and about one-half of all the property of Mexico City]. Its revenues from tithes, Masses, and the sale of devotional articles such as statues, medals, rosaries, and the like, amounted to between six and eight million dollars annually, while its total revenues reached the astronomical figure of twenty million dollars.... This drain on the poor country of Mexico was equal to the operating expense of the entire United States government during these same years."29

We bring this lamentable recital to a close. There can be no doubt that John's remarkable vision had come to pass: A city on seven hills sated with wealth, which claimed a special relationship to God and Christ, literally ruled over the kings of the earth. As with the other identifying criteria John provides, there is only one city in history (and only one today) which passes this test. Peter de Rosa reminds us of what must have shocked John:

Jesus renounced possessions. He constantly taught: "Go, sell all thou hast and give to the poor, then come and follow me." He preached doom to the rich and powerful.... Christ's Vicar lives surrounded by treasures, some of pagan origin. Any suggestion that the pope should sell all he has and give to the poor is greeted with derision as impractical. The rich young man in the gospel reacted in the same way.

Throughout his life, Jesus lived simply; he died naked, offering the sacrifice of his life on the cross.

When the pope renews that sacrifice at pontifical high mass, no greater contrast could be imagined. Without any sense of irony, Christ's Vicar is clad in gold and the costliest silks.

... the pope has a dozen glorious titles, including; State Sovereign. The pope's aides also have titles some what unexpected in the light of the Sermon on the Mount Excellency, Eminence, Your Grace, My Lord, Illustrious One, Most Reverend, and so on....

Peter, always penniless, would be intrigued to know that according to canon 1518 ... his successor is "the supreme administrator and manager of all church propel ties." Also that the Vatican has its own bank.... 30

The Vatican has gathered its incalculable fortune through the most abominable means: selling bogus tickets to heaven. Nino Lo Bello, former Rome correspondent for Business Week, calls the Vatican "the tycoon on the Tiber" because of its incredible wealth and worldwide enterprises. His research indicates that it owns fully one-third of Rome's real estate and is probably the largest holder of stocks and bonds in the world, to say nothing of its ownership of industries from electronics and plastics to airlines and chemical and engineering firms.31

In his September 1993 trip to the Baltic countries "the pope was an unusually stern critic of unbridled capitalism. In a speech that hinted of more to come, the pope said capitalistic ideology

was responsible for `grave social injustices'-and that Marxism's `kernel of truth' lay in seeing capitalism's faults."32 One marvels at the hypocrisy of such statements coming from the head of a Church which is the biggest capitalist in the world! Lo Bello suggests that the Church shed its "mantle of piety; then at last the Vatican will expose the full extent of its financial interests."33

The woman riding the beast has used her wealth and power to subdue kings and kingdoms and to slaughter millions who, though they were subject to civil authority, could not accept her heresies. To this day that gold cup overflows with the blood of those who, for conscience' sake, were martyred for their faith.

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    By Ruth T. Rodriguez
    PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, May 22 (PNA) â€“ Remember the 11 Vietnamese fishermen, who were also arrested in March this year by the PNP Maritime Special Boat Unit (SBU) off the municipal waters of Taytay in the northern part of the province with over 50 dead sharks?
    They pleaded â€œguiltyâ€ Wednesday to Judge Ambrosio de Luna of Branch 51 of the Palawan Regional Trial Court (RTC) for poaching, or violating Republic Act 8550, otherwise known as the Philippine Fisheries Law.
    Because of their plea, De Luna has scheduled the promulgation for the 11 Vietnamese fishers on June 4.
    On the other hand, the fishing vessel KH 96365TS that was loaded with dead sharks had been forfeited in favor of the Philippine government.
    On March 26 this year, while conducting seaborne patrol 20 nautical miles off mainland Taytay, and near the Nido Platform, a team from the PNP Maritime SBU arrested the Vietnamese while fishing for sharks, some of them threatened and protected under Philippine laws.
    PNP Maritime administrative officer and spokesman Inspector Bryan Espinosa said, â€œOn March 26, our personnel conducted a seaborne patrol within the vicinity of Taytay, specifically near the Nido Platform when they chanced upon the fishing vessel of the Vietnamese within our territory, thatâ€™s why they made the arrest.â€
    Currently, the Vietnamese are detained at the Palawan Provincial Jail (PPJ), where they await their sentences, he said.
    Incidentally, Wednesday was also the day the Philippines welcomed Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. (PNA)
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    Sad they cannot fish in their own waters and we all know the reason why.
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Round 2 of the Circle of Friends Remix is now open for reading at cof_remix. (Or will be, once the rest of the world catches up to the 10th of November.) This is a remix of an untitled drabble by sroni.

Title: Reactions (the Meet the Family Remix)
Rating: G
Word Count: 984
Pairing: Willow/Kennedy

Summary: Getting to know Willow means getting to know her friends.

Reactions (the Meet the Family Remix)

Willow is gorgeous, with freckles lightly dancing across her nose, and the cutest eyes Kennedy’s seen in months. And while she wasn’t expecting to find romance in Sunnydale, it takes her less than an hour to decide that she’s going to kiss Willow as soon as she can figure out how to manage it.

Because those eyes are just… well… cute.

It’s not as simple as usual. Willow’s been hurt before, clearly, and isn’t falling for Kennedy’s playful smiles and entendres.

So she decides to get advice, and tracks down Dawn. Who instantly responds with “Hurt her, and I’ll put a two-pronged serving fork through your ear.”

Then she has to sit through a forty-minute lecture on Tara – how great Tara was, how wonderful, how pretty, how she was good at word games, how she made awesome pancakes, how nice her hair was, how perfect she was for Willow, how much Willow loved her, how she was meant for Willow, on and on for nearly an hour – until Kennedy is nearly suffocated under intimidating enthusiasm for someone she’ll never live up to.

But in the end Dawn pauses, looks at Kennedy carefully, and asks, “You really like her, don’t you?”

“Yeah,” Kennedy says. “I mean, I’m not thinking romance of the century, or– well– Yeah. I do.”

“Okay.” She nods, adds, “ ’Cause I’m serious about the fork in ear thing,” and promptly crosses her arms and starts giving Kennedy ten simple, clear steps for dating Willow Rosenberg.

Dawn’s helpful. Once she’s decided to be on your side.

Kennedy corners Xander one morning, after training. “You don’t like me, do you?”

He shoots her a Look – capital L – and says, “No, I don’t. But Willow does – so I’ll be nice.” He shrugs, and keeps putting the axes away.

Not good enough. “Why don’t you?” she demands, and Xander eyes the stance she’s suddenly adopted, muscles tense, body poised for a fight, and he calmly answers “For starters, that. If something doesn’t suit you, you get ready to beat it down until it does. It’s stupid. And pretty annoying. So – no, I don’t like you. And anyway–” He pauses, shrugs again, and turns back to the axes.

Which is the end of it, as far as he’s concerned. But Kennedy can hear the words he almost let slip – “And anyway, you don’t love Willow…” and is fuming, itching to make him say it, to push him, to dare him to say it, to her face, so that she has a good excuse to punch him, because he doesn’t get to say that, not now, not this time, not about Willow. Not about her.

She’s falling good and proper for Willow, and so help her, if Xander says so much as a word about it, she’s going to hit him right in his smug mouth. And then she’s going to throw him through a wall, and…

Kennedy bites her lip, and concedes that he might have a point about that first part.

“Do you like being a lesbian?”

Two days before the end, and after a long and confusing conversation in which the logic of lesbianism, feminism, and lingerie are discussed in great detail, the last thing that Anya ever says to her is:

“Well, I suppose Willow is reasonably sexy, in a non-penisy way, but I prefer men. I’d recommend trying them out sometime – you might like the change. But not Xander. And Willow is appealling, and nice, I guess.”

Kennedy nods, says, “Um… thanks,” and manages to leave the room before Anya asks any more questions about her sex life.

A week later, she remembers the conversation, and smiles. From then on, whenever she looks at Willow, a voice from the past says “she’s appealling and nice” in her mind, and the smile comes back again.

Kennedy’s first real conversation with Buffy happens in a bar just outside L.A. They both get drunk – Buffy mourning the sudden absence of Spike, and Kennedy complaining about the wondrous, the perfect, ex-girlfriend that she’ll never truly supplant. In the end, they collapse on the doorstep of the motel, and get hauled inside and woken the next morning by Faith, who forces coffee down their throats while making rude comments under her breath.

When Buffy groans and shuffles off to take a shower, Kennedy looks at Faith watching her go, and realises that, when it comes to loving someone still in love with their ex, she’s not alone.

Buffy and her never really get that close, but somehow the get-drunk-and-complain sessions become a regular event whenever the two of them are in the same town. Eventually, Buffy’s mourning for Spike changes to Buffy’s being irritated by Faith, and then at last Buffy’s mildly resigned grumbling – and blushing – about various Faith-related issues. Kennedy, on the other hand, still just grouses about the ever-present memory of the woman she replaced.

Willow is sweet, with silly traditions of watching Charlie Brown cartoons. She gets stagefright, and can’t play piano unless she thinks Kennedy’s in another room. She wears ridiculous sweaters, and doesn’t realise how dumb they look. She can be downright frightening when she’s doing something she’s good at, and still might need to be stopped someday. And she likes jello.

She also has the cutest eyes Kennedy’s ever seen.

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