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Why I am an atheist – Beth

I went to Baptist church and Baptist school until fifth grade. One day during religious class, after the teacher said that people who don’t take the lord as their savior go to hell, I asked what happens to all the people who never have the chance to hear about God. “Everyone has heard about God,” she said. That just can’t be true, I pointed out— there are still remote tribes being discovered in the Amazon, for example, and that was even more true 200, 300, and 500 years ago. There have been literally billions of people who never had the chance to hear the Bible version of God, did they all go to hell? She just stubbornly maintained that EVERYONE has had the chance. It was so completely and obviously wrong that whatever child-like faith I’d had broke and drained away in an instant.

It was like when I realized that Santa had the same hand-writing as my mom: I saw that the story was made up, but absent the story the main event was still exactly the same. I still got presents and cookies and decorations and everything I loved. The made-up story didn’t enhance it particularly, and realizing it was false didn’t detract particularly. In the same way, once I realized the Bible stories I’d been studying daily were fake, I didn’t feel some big loss in my life. So I suppose you could say that I’m an atheist because I have a more-than-fifth-grade grasp of logic and because my enjoyment of life didn’t require clinging to falsity.

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  1. says

    I heard two different answers to the same question, one better than the other.

    One answer was that people who have not accepted Jesus will, unfortunately, go to hell. It is the job of Christians to make sure that everyone gets taught about Jesus, therefore. And if I don’t tell someone about Jesus, or donate to the missionaries going to ‘unreached’ people, it will be my fault when those people go to hell. Not a very nice idea to put in a person’s head.

    The second answer was that people who have never heard about Jesus will be judged by their behavior- specifically, were they generous to those in need? Did they live a moral life to the best of their understanding of what a moral life means? Those people would be offered an opportunity to accept Jesus in the afterlife.

    I like the second answer much better, and I think more highly of the Christians who taught me that than of the ones who taught me the first.

    The answer I ultimately came up with: ‘Stories about God are just stories, like stories about Darth Vader or Superman. Christians think those stories are very important, and they model their lives on them. But nothing bad happens to people who model their lives on other stories, or on something other than a story. What’s important is that you build your life on something worthy.”

  2. jaybee says

    The story I was told as a Catholic kid (but luckily as a younger child of a family with 8 kids, the money to send us to Catholic school ran out before I came of age) is that God judges people based on their knowledge. Thus, a heathen who never heard of Jesus would be judged based on how he behaved, while a Catholic child would be held to much higher standards, but it was the Pope himself who had the most difficult time getting into heaven as he had the most complete knowledge of what Christ demands of us.

    That is somewhat more fair, but still a crock o shite, of course.

  3. wcorvi says

    ALL of these answers, of course, smack of “What sort of story will this dumb kid believe?”

  4. says

    @contendedreader (1)

    I heard the “people will be judged by what they know” story too, and it makes me think: THEN STOP WITH THE F*&!ING EVANGELISM!

    If people can’t get judged for rejecting Jesus if they’ve never heard of Him, telling them about Jesus is the worst thing you could possibly do. If they accept, fine, but the majority don’t, and by informing them, you’ve sealed their doom.

    Nice one, God Botherers.

  5. nonny says

    It is one of the hardest problems for Christianity because saying that people will go to hell just because they never met a Christian or read a bible seems monsterous to most people, but if God can judge those people according to what they’ve done, then the ‘magic blood’ of Jesus is pointless, since he could just judge the rest of us the same way.

    Of course some liberal Christians would say that Jesus came to give us a good example to follow and get around the problem that way. You have to ignore the verses about how ‘NO-ONE GETS TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME!’ and so on.

    The whole ‘everyone must hear the word of God’ doctrine has real world consquences because missionaries are still trying to preach to the last uncontacted tribes and there have been cases where they’ve infected some with diseases accidentally.

    It’s sad your teacher was so close-minded.

  6. paleotrent says

    @ jonnyscaramanga

    I had a similar reaction to a Sunday School teacher when I was a young adolescent. He said his tennis buddy was a Hindu and so he had told his buddy (perhaps even more than once?) that he was worried about his friend’s soul, since as a Hindu he was bound for Hell. Like Beth, I asked him “Well what about people who have never heard of Jesus,” and unlike her teacher, this guy told me that they would get a free pass – they could get into Heaven. Upon hearing his answer, I informed him that by evangelizing we were doing a grave disservice to these “uninformed” folks, since there was always a chance that they would reject our religion. He never came back to teach our class again.

  7. Sastra says

    Missionary work is a self-destructive concept — because it has to mesh with the belief that anyone who is capable of being saved WILL be saved. In the real world, what work we do makes a difference: if you don’t do it, it may not get done. Christians of course want to appeal to this. But now there’s a catch coming from the supernatural dimension of the framework — and it really messes with the system.

    If a missionary fails to visit someone who would have converted had they heard the missionary and this person is subsequently damned to hell because of this, then either God is not interested in saving the savable or salvation ultimately depends on luck, chance — and the power of the missionary. They have the control. The free choices of the believer can outweigh the wishes of God, and successfully thwart His goals. Christians don’t like this option, when they reflect upon it a bit.

    But if the currently unsaved person will definitely be saved anyway (either through another missionary, a miracle, or good works), then what the missionary does is worthless. Sleep in, take a break, opt out, whatever: nobody who is savable will fail to be saved. You cannot make a difference to what is destined to be. All the arguments and pamphlets and attempts at persuasion are a sort of performance art at best, with the only consequence of a bad performance (or none at all) being for you. Other people are just props.

    Someone recently mentioned that virtually every religious belief falls apart when you examine all the implications. Missionary work certainly does.

  8. notfromvenus says

    @nonny –

    I know I’ve heard/read some other Christians resolve this another way, by saying that people who don’t know about Jesus just don’t get any afterlife at all. That way the only way to heaven is still through Jesus, but they don’t have to go to hell for something that’s not their fault.

    Fortunately I didn’t hear that idea until after I’d left Christianity, because part of what woke me up was realizing how monstrously unfair that was.

  9. stonyground says

    As a kid I always kept my questions to myself so I never got to experience any bullshit answers. The crucifixion-redemption thing seemed to make sense in that it would theoretically reduce the total amount of suffering. What I couldn’t fathom was why, if he created everything, did God come up with such an unjust system and then end up being snookered by his own rules? It also bothered me that the Ten Commandments were rubbish. A child could come up with a better TC than God, that seemed to me to be very odd.

  10. 'Tis Himself says

    Sastra #7

    If a missionary fails to visit someone who would have converted had they heard the missionary and this person is subsequently damned to hell because of this, then either God is not interested in saving the savable or salvation ultimately depends on luck, chance — and the power of the missionary.

    This meshes with the Calvinist idea that God only picks X number of people to be saved and the rest of us, regardless of how good we’ve been or how fervently we’ve believed are damned.

  11. Owlmirror says

    Can’t believe no-one’s posted this quote yet:

    The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that’s where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won’t do if they don’t know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.

      — (Terry Pratchett, Eric)

  12. robster says

    Why can’t the silly god thing the christians and muzzies follow do anything right? Really, why is it that the gods needs, need interpretation? If it was a real deity, surely if it can whip up a universe an a few days it could make its desires easy to understand? What a useless and FAILED god it is, I recon it would have trouble cooking a can of baked beans.

  13. Ex Patriot says

    I guess I’m in trouble then as I have gone some 70 years and have never been saved. Some tried a few times but they were told to put it where the sun doesn’t shine. I have never had the time to worry about such mundane things as that. Good for Beth, she woke up to the fact that religion is BS at an early age.


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US: Housing data bettered expectations but uneven growth risks prevail – ING

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    “But they are in line with the strong builder sentiment surveys recently released, so it is hard not to conclude that the interest rate sensitive construction sector remains in buoyant mood – not something we can say of the exchange rate sensitive manufacturing sector.”

    “One point of concern in the housing release was permits, which are lower at 1.103m from 1.161m, and their lowest since March. This looks like a normalisation from the multifamily sector after recent strength, whist single family home permits were only fractionally lower.”

    “We may see the housing start numbers moderate in the coming months as a result, though this likely reflects the noise in this series, and we don’t see any signs of this market slowing on a trend basis.”

    “That said, we doubt the Fed will pay much attention to this, and like the buoyant autos sector, this data likely carries less weight in their deliberations than core sales, and anything labour related.”

    “In terms of housing, what may be more important in coming months for the Fed is the degree to which strong housing rental increases feed through into higher core inflation figures, and whether they will be able to hold up in the face of slower house price growth. We think they will be worth watching.”
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11 August 2011

The Just Price

I spent my usual lovely summer holiday at Clissett Wood - making another chair of which I am irrationally proud. Nothing beats working with your bare hands and spending time in a woodland living with a community of people far from the reach of the internet. It is equally valuable to learn something about craft, and to admire those who make their living from wood. You can find something about the skills involved, and browse the beautiful products, at the blog of the Green Woodwoman.

During the many peaceful hours we talked about the difficulty of making a livelihood in competition with Chinese children or factory machines. We waxed nostalgic about the role of Medieval guilds in protecting their crafts and their craftspeople. We have launched an idea about reviving the idea of the Just Price, which was enforced by medieval craft guilds. Some of the woodworkers showing their wares at the H.art festival have agreed to sell according to a double pricing system. Here is the text we agreed to explain the reasons for this.

'Before industrialisation, prices were fixed by guilds which protected the livelihoods of craftspeople. The 'just price' reflected their skill, the time invested and their needs. We are reviving this custom, which we see as analogous with the system of fair trade. If you earn more than the average wage - and therefore more than we do - please pay the just price.

We also list a 'bare price' which is a realistic comparison with mass-produced and imported goods. We will not sell for less than the bare price because this also prevents craftspeople from undercutting each other.

We are prepared to negotiate between these two prices on the basis of your ability to pay.'

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  1. I can understand where you are coming from regarding the Medieval guilds, but it wasn't all good. They limited entry to the trade, effectively ran a cartel, kept prices artificially high, and stifled innovation. Yes, they protected their members, and they did guarantee quality. Inevitably, the merchants found a way to break the monopoly of the guilds, which has had both bad and good consequences. History is complicated like that.


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F. J. de Holl Doopsgezind Jaarboekje (1936)
Folpmer Jacob de Holl, born 1869 at Utrecht, died 19 December 1934 at Baarn, was a Dutch Mennonite pastor and theologian. After studying at the University and Mennonite Seminary at Amsterdam, he served as pastor at Mensingeweer 1897-1900, Hindeloopen and Koudum 1900-1903, Den Ilp 1903-1905, Medemblik 1905-1913, Borne 1913-1926, Purmerend 1926-1929, and Leermens-Loppersum 1929-1934. In 1933 he was appointed lector of the Amsterdam Mennonite Seminary, to teach ethics to the theological students, but his teaching was only for a short period, ending by his sudden death in 1934.

De Holl was a very learned man. He was a disciple of de Bussy, his teacher at the Seminary, who estimated him highly. De Holl published only one book, De Kennis van goed en kwaad; een gedachtewisseling met de professoren Heymans en Kranenburg (Amsterdam, 1928). Besides this he wrote a number of critical reviews of books on ethics in a number of Dutch periodicals. His historical study on Jan de Liefde was published in Doopsgezinde Bijdragen 1901.

De Holl was an amiable man, who was loved by many and whose influence reached much further than the small congregations he served.

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De Zondagsbode (6 and 13 January 1935).

Doopsgezind Jaarboekje (1936): 17-28 with portrait.

Author(s) Nanne van der Zijpp
Date Published 1954

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van der Zijpp, Nanne. "Holl, Folpmer Jacob de (1869-1934)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1954. Web. 20 Oct 2016.,_Folpmer_Jacob_de_(1869-1934)&oldid=95292.

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van der Zijpp, Nanne. (1954). Holl, Folpmer Jacob de (1869-1934). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 20 October 2016, from,_Folpmer_Jacob_de_(1869-1934)&oldid=95292.

Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Kitchener, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 791. All rights reserved.

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Southern District Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Church of North America was organized in 1909, comprising the churches of Kansas, Oklahoma, and California. The California churches, however, withdrew the following year and organized their own conference. The first convention of the Southern District was held in 1910 in the Ebenezer Church near Buhler, Kansas, with Johann Foth chairman, Martin M. Just vice-chairman, and Abraham L. Schellenberg secretary.

The purpose for the organization of the district conferences was to stress chiefly the home mission work and evangelism in the churches. At its organization this Conference had a membership of 2,100 with a total of 21 churches. The Colorado and Texas churches soon were added to the Southern District.

A number of leaders made valuable contributions in the early days of the Conference. Among these were Johann Foth, Martin M. Just, Heinrich Adrian, and Abraham Schellenberg. Later leaders include H. W. Lohrenz, H. H. Flaming, P. E. Nickel, J. K. Hiebert, P. P. Rempel, J. S. Regier, and P. C. Hiebert. Soon the sphere of labor of the conference expanded. Home mission work occupied the chief attention and called for the greatest efforts on the part of the Home Missions Committee. A Committee of Reference and Counsel was created and charged with looking after the spiritual welfare of the Conference and assisting the individual churches in the event of difficult problems. The evangelism project for the churches was another important factor to which much emphasis was given. The Home Missions Committee secured qualified evangelists and presented them to the churches for engagement.

A third project of the Conference is extension work. At first this work was confined to the fringe areas of the churches. In 1936 the Conference opened a field of mission work in Texas along the Mexican border with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Neufeld as missionaries. Other stations have been created there since, and also in Arkansas and Wichita missionary projects are carried on with good success.

Although a General Conference project, Tabor College is located in the Southern District, and the Oklahoma churches support a full four-year academy at Corn with a strong Bible department. A church school committee promotes the Sunday-school work as well as the religious education work of this district, and a youth committee has charge of the Christian fellowship work and the youth retreat.

In 1947 a constitution was adopted and in 1948 the Conference was incorporated in Kansas. Thirty-five churches belong to the Conference (1956) with a total membership of 4,763. -- P. H. Berg

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In 1987 the Southern District Conference (Mennonite Brethren) consisted of 40 congregations in the following states: Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, and Arkansas. In 1960 the Krimmer Mennonite Brethren Churches in these five states joined the Southern District Conference through merger. The total membership of the Southern District in 1987 was 6,598.

The Southern District Conference had five commissions: Stewardship; Youth; Church Extension and Evangelism; Christian Education; and Faith and Life. They were coordinated through a Coordinating Board, an executive committee, and a district minister.

In addition to the commissions there is an active Women's Missionary Service organization. Tabor College, a regional Christian liberal arts college, was owned by four districts: Southern, Central, Latin American, and North Carolina districts. The Tabor College Senate, with representatives from the churches of the four districts, operated the college. The college made annual reports to the four district conferences.

Other Southern District ministries were managed through cooperative arrangements with the United States Conference of the Mennonite Brethren and the General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches in North America. The records of the Southern District Conference are housed in the archival center at the Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies at Tabor College. The Southern District Conference maintained an office in Hillsboro, Kansas. -- Wesley Prieb

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In 2010 the following congregations were members of the Southern District Conference:

City State Congregation
Marshall Arkansas Martin Box
Aurora Colorado Ethiopian Evangelical Church
Denver Colorado Garden Park Mennonite Brethren Church
Franktown Colorado Holy Spirit Church
Littleton Colorado Belleview Community Church
Littleton Colorado Trailhead Church
Buhler Kansas Buhler Mennonite Brethren Church
Cimarron Kansas Valleyview Bible Church
Garden City Kansas Garden Valley Mennonite Brethren Church
Hays Kansas North Oak Community Church
Hesston Kansas Hesston Mennonite Brethren Church
Hillsboro Kansas Ebenfeld Mennonite Brethren Church
Hillsboro Kansas Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church
Hillsboro Kansas Parkview Mennonite Brethren Church
Inman Kansas Zoar Mennonite Brethren Church
Marion Kansas Good News Christian Fellowship
Newton Kansas Koerner Heights Mennonite Brethren Church
Olathe Kansas Community Bible Church
Olathe Kansas Ethiopian Christian Fellowship Church
Topeka Kansas Cornerstone Community Church
Ulysses Kansas Ulysses Mennonite Brethren Church
Wichita Kansas First Mennonite Brethren Church
Wichita Kansas Lighthouse Community Church
Kansas City Missouri Watershed
Adams Oklahoma Adams Mennonite Brethren Church
Balko Oklahoma Crossroads Bible Fellowship
Collinsville Oklahoma Discovery Bible Fellowship
Cordell Oklahoma Bible Mennonite Brethren Church
Corn Oklahoma Corn Mennonite Brethren Church
Edmond Oklahoma Memorial Road Mennonite Brethren Church
Enid Oklahoma Enid Mennonite Brethren Church
Fairview Oklahoma Fairview Mennonite Brethren Church
Indiahoma Oklahoma Post Oak Mennonite Brethren Church
Lawton Oklahoma Faith Bible Church
Meno Oklahoma New Hopedale Mennonite Church
Okeene Oklahoma Okeene Mennonite Brethren Church
Tulsa Oklahoma The Heart
Weatherford Oklahoma Pine Acres Church of the Mennonite Brethren

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Mennonite Brethren General Conference Yearbook (1981): 174, 192-195.

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Address: 7348 W 21st Street, Suite 115, Wichita KS 67205-1765

Phone: 316-722-8680

Web site:

Author(s) P. H. Berg
Wesley Prieb
Date Published June 2010

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Berg, P. H. and Wesley Prieb. "Southern District of Mennonite Brethren Churches (United States Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. June 2010. Web. 20 Oct 2016.

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Berg, P. H. and Wesley Prieb. (June 2010). Southern District of Mennonite Brethren Churches (United States Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 20 October 2016, from

Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Kitchener, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, pp. 588-589; vol. 5, pp. 847-848. All rights reserved.

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Dying Light Dev: Development of Hellraid On Hold

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Dying Light and the original Dead Island developer Techland announced today that it has kept the development of Hellraid on hold. The horror adventure game had been slated to be released later this year originally, but the studio decided to keep it on the back burner once Techland decided the title wasn’t living up to internal expectations.

To be fair, it seems as if Hellraid wasn’t exactly living up to external expectations either. Late last year, the company gave a live stream of the game during it’s development and we weren’t all that impressed. Still, Techland did a pretty good job putting a different spin on the zombie genre with Dying Light so we were willing to give it a shot. It appears the developers decided it wasn’t really worth that shot anymore.

The company released an official statement about why they were scrapping the project saying:

“Dear Hellraid fans, we would like to officially announce that our dark fantasy FPP game Hellraid will not be released this year as previously planned, and the development of the game has been put on hold. In the recent months we conducted an internal analysis and came to the conclusion that Hellraid, in its current shape and form, is not meeting our own expectations for this project.”

“Therefore, we decided the best course of action would be to send it back to the drawing board and invent our dark fantasy title anew. In the meantime, we will consolidate our development resources and focus on further expansion of our Dying Light franchise.We wish to thank all our fans for your support – you’re the best!”

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Answer: Grass does not grow well in shade. However, fescue grass is sometimes sold as a ?shade? grass because it performs best out of all other varieties of grass available, but it?s still not a solution for very shady areas. Sod can be established in the shade if managed properly, but sod in shade will naturally get thinner and thinner over the years. Overseeding will need to be done on a regular basis to keep the grass looking nice. Watering sod in the shade will be different than watering sod in direct sunlight. A shady environment has less air movement and less sunlight. Both of these factors result in less water evaporation and therefore shady areas need less water. A regular feeding schedule will keep your sod growing vigorously, and help it remain green for the longest period possible. In the areas that refuse to grow grass - soil compaction might be a factor. Try aerating the lawn and spreading a little compost over the top. The compost will work its way into the soil to provide more root room and better drainage. Best wishes with your lawn.

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

The Creaking of the Weathervane

WeathervaneAnyone who pays attention to the economic weather knows that a major financial storm is on the way.

The fiscal nor’easter is still below the horizon, but clouds have moved in and the rising wind is filling the windsock out by the airfield. The weathervane on the high gable is creaking and rattling as it flips back and forth in the face of the shifting monetary gusts.

Since I added the “Financial Crisis” section to the news feed a couple of years ago, the number of articles filed under that heading has steadily increased. It is now often the single largest section in the news feed.

Observant readers will have noticed during that time that the crisis has not eased, as was repeatedly predicted for the first eighteen months or so. Despite the upbeat announcements issued over and over by Mrs. Rosie Scenario, the recovery never quite showed up. It is now widely acknowledged that the world economy is certain to experience another major lurch downwards in the not-so-distant future.

To provide a sense of the looming storm, I’ve selected a sample of five articles more or less at random from tonight’s news feed.

First, the price of gold — always a significant bellwether — briefly surged above $1,600 per ounce:

Gold Soars Above $1,600 for First Time

The price of gold soared above $1,600 for the first time on Monday as investors bought the safe-haven metal amid deepening debt worries in the eurozone and the United States. Gold jumped as high as $1,603.40 an ounce at 1150 GMT on the London Bullion Market, as the precious metal extended its recent record-breaking surge. In later slipped back to $1,599.45, compared with $1,587 late Friday. “Gold hit another milestone ... at $1,600 as investors lose confidence in the ability of politicians to get to grip with the debt problems weighing down on sentiment,” said analyst Michael Hewson at trading group CMC Markets. “More advances look likely while this lack of confidence prevails as investors plough capital into the asset.”

The price has more than doubled since I first started paying attention to it a year or two ago. Obviously, it can go back down again, and probably will. But the overall trend has been steadily upwards ever since the real estate crash first hit.

Next comes a judicial assault on “speculation” in Italy. When governments start going after speculators, you know that the economy is in bad shape:

Market Speculation Probe as Italy Hit Again

Stocks, bonds suffer despite austerity package

(ANSA) — Milan, July 18 — An Italian prosecutor opened an investigation Monday into speculative attacks against Italy’s financial system.

The Milan bourse fell and bond spreads stayed close to recent highs amid fears of Greek debt-crisis contagion despite last week’s fast approval of a 70-billion-euro austerity package.

Prosecutor Michele Ruggiero, from the southern city of Trani, started the probe in response to complaints from two leading consumer protection associations, Adusbef and Federconsumatori.

Ruggiero travelled to Milan to gather information from Consob, the bourse regulator, as the bellwether FTSE MIB index fell by 3.22% and leading banks like Intesa Sanpaolo, Unicredit and Monte dei Paschi di Siena registered losses of 6-7% despite passing European Union stress tests Friday.

The real issue is not speculation, but the declining confidence in Italy’s ability to pay back its debts, leading to an increase in cost of government borrowing. The spread in bond yields is a sign that the market has begun to view Italy’s sovereign debt as somewhat risky:
The spread between Italian bond yields and those of benchmark German bunds, a measure of the premium Italy has to pay on its huge public debt, climbed back to levels seen last Tuesday, before the austerity package went through parliament in record time as politicians rallied together.

“The uncertainty about Italy remains high despite the approval of the budget,” analysts at the Goldman Sachs merchant bank said.

There’s no doubt that currency speculators can make huge profits during a crisis like the current one. But they don’t cause the crisis; they are a symptom of it.

Vast fortunes were made (and lost) during the German inflation of 1923. But the crisis that created those opportunities resulted from the printing of money by the Weimar government so that it could meet its reparations payments under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles — not because of “speculation.”

Next is a report that the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has woken up to the fact that trouble lies ahead. Who knew?

Nick Clegg: ‘I Fear We’re on the Brink of Another Financial Crisis’

Nick Clegg has said he is “incredibly worried” that the world is on the brink of another financial crisis.

The Deputy Prime Minister said he was concerned the crisis in the eurozone could spread to Britain and have a “direct impact” on jobs. The admission is the first time that a senior British politician has suggested that the problems in Greece, Spain and Italy could affect Britain. European leaders are due on Thursday to convene an emergency summit in which they hope to approve a plan for private-sector involvement in bailing out Greece. Mr Clegg was asked on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show: “How worried are you that we are on the edge of another really serious world financial crisis?” He replied: “I’m incredibly worried. I think the gravity of the uncertainty in the United States, which is basically a product of political gridlock, and the growing fiscal crisis, sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone is immensely serious.” He said that it was foolish to think that Britain was able to “wash our hands of it” because the country was not a member of the eurozone.

The Eurozone leaders are dancing around the idea of a Greek default. But no one wants to call it that — announcing a nation’s default on its sovereign debt can have major repercussions in the global financial markets — so the preferred euphemism is “debt restructuring”.

Is there really anyone who is fooled by this ludicrous euphemism? Aren’t all major investors aware of what “restructuring” means?

Pressure for Deal at Thursday Eurozone Summit

Berlin Working on Plans for Greek Debt Cut

The leaders of the euro zone are becoming convinced that the only way to save Greece is to restructure its growing mountain of debt. The only remaining question is how.

The German Finance Ministry is analyzing a number of options, including the EU rescue fund purchasing Greek debt. The appeal was a dramatic one, but the situation warranted it. “The current mood is not helping us pull ourselves out of the crisis,” Greek Prime Minister Giorgios Papandreou said in an interview with the Financial Times Deutschland published last Thursday “This insecurity frightens off investors.”

Papandreou is undoubtedly right. As his country stands dangerously close to national bankruptcy, finance ministers from the 17 euro-zone countries remain divided on how to organize a second bailout package for Greece.

Still, last Monday, they at least agreed on one thing: that, so far, all rescue efforts aimed at buying Greece some time to gain some control over its debt problems had failed. Indeed, Greece’s economy is on the verge of collapse, and its skyrocketing debt level has now reached 150 percent of GDP.

Finally, a bracing essay from Prof. Walter Williams, one of my favorite writers on economic matters. He is a professional, and I am an amateur, yet we have come to the same conclusion about what lies ahead.

Does that mean that what is staring us in the face is so obvious that anyone with even a lick of common sense could figure it out?

Can This Union be Saved?
by Walter Williams

National debt is over $14 trillion, the federal budget deficit is $1.4 trillion and, depending on whose estimates are used, the unfunded liability or indebtedness of the federal government (mostly in the form of obligations for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and prescription drugs) is estimated to be between $60 and $100 trillion.

Those entitlements along with others account for nearly 60 percent of federal spending. They are what Congress calls mandatory or non-discretionary spending. Then there’s discretionary spending, half of which is for national defense. Each year, non-discretionary spending consumes a higher and higher percent of the federal budget.

The spending path that Congress has chosen for the last half-century is unsustainable and will end up with economic collapse but little or nothing can be done about it unless I’m grossly wrong about the American people. Americans who detest our country and those who love our country are hell-bent, wittingly or unwittingly, on destroying it.

To put this in perspective: Defense spending is called discretionary and totals $685 billion. Our deficit is $1.4 trillion. Defense spending could be entirely eliminated and we’d still have a massive deficit. Any congressman unwilling to make cuts in entitlement spending is not to be taken seriously about sparing our nation from economic collapse.

Everyone who receives government largesse and special favors deems his needs as vital, deserving, proper and in the national interest. It is entirely unreasonable to expect a politician to honor and obey our Constitution and in the process commit political suicide. What’s even worse for our nation is that voters ousting a politician who’d refuse to bring, say, aid to higher education back to his constituents is perfectly rational. If, for example, he’s a Virginia politician and doesn’t bring higher education grants back to his constituents, it doesn’t mean Virginian taxpayers will pay a lower income tax. All that it means is that Marylanders will get the money instead. Once legalized theft begins, it pays for everyone to participate. Those who don’t will be losers.

That’s the nation’s dilemma…

Ladies and gentlemen, a major economic storm is bearing down on us. Time to gather up the family and head for the cyclone cellar.

To quote a well-known verse from Bard of the Boomers: “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

Or again: “It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.”

Hat tips: Fjordman, Insubria.

You New said...

The bellweathers are appearing...
Cisco, 11,000 jobs
Borders 11,000 jobs

Nick said...

Mr. Weatherman

English Pensioner said...

Is it because people in Greece (and maybe other countries) are worried that their Euros will be compulsorily converted into Drachma (or Lira, etc) which will then fall like a brick? I'm sure that I'd buy gold if I lived in any of these countries.

1389 said...

Now you may be able to understand why I'm a secessionist.

As long as some of the States think that they can continue to loot the other States (or each of the States think they can continue to loot all of the other States) it ain't gonna work.

Secession looks to be the only real way to get the grabbermint under control.


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Florida has been lucky in terms of its standing in the Associated Press poll until now.

In the past few weeks, the Gators have not dropped far despite their losses because other ranked teams also lost. But their slump, losing five of their past eight, finally sunk them to a season-worst No. 22 in the AP poll.

Florida also fell from No. 13 to No. 19 in the USA Today coaches’ poll.

The Gators began the season No. 9 in the AP poll and climbed as high as No. 7 in November. After dropping to No. 19 in early January, they rebounded to No. 8 at the beginning of February.

Florida finished the regular season 22-9, including 10-6 in the SEC. It opens the SEC Tournament in New Orleans on Friday against either Alabama or South Carolina (SEC Network, 3:30 p.m.).

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Huzzah: A president at newswire operator Thomson Reuters says traditional journalism is not actually being strangled by Google, blogs and the rest of the internet. And that anyone who thinks so — *cough* AP *cough* — should get a grip.

Thomson Reuters' media group president Chris Ahearn recently tweeted that his company "stands ready to help those who wish an alternative to the AP," the Reuters competitor that has proclaimed it is "mad as hell" at various internet fiends. AP is trying to charge people for quoting as few as five words of its content.

Ahearn has elaborated on his "alternative" in a blog post, writing that too many traditional media organizations waste manpower "recycling commodity news" and that they should instead seek to retool, including by forging a new "win-win relationship" with new media. The executive dispenses bluntly with those who would point the finger, like AP:

Blaming the new leaders... or saber-rattling and threatening to sue are not business strategies – they are personal therapy sessions. Go ask a music executive how well it works... Let's stop whining and start having real conversations.

It sounds like Ahearn has started just such a "real conversation" himself. TechDirt has already blogged back. And Reuters is even authorizing bloggers to "hyperlink" and excerpt its side of things, as God and the U.S. Code intended. Imagine that.

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The Bronx Zoo was closed today after an adolescent Egyptian cobra went missing from an off-exhibit enclosure. Uh oh. "Deadly cobra" and "missing" are not two things you want to hear in the same news story.

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Did you get a chance to do Crossfit when it was still hardcore? Did you get a chance to do 15 body weigh overhead squats followed by 400-yard sprints for time until you puked, or Tabata intervals until you puked, or sled pulling followed by burpees followed by box jumps followed by muscle-ups, until you puked? If you haven't done it already, it's too late. Crossfit is over.

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Tombstone Tuesday: Bitten While Hiking to Shoot a Family

My love for history and genealogy has led to some interesting field trips around the area in which I live.  As a volunteer for Find-a-Grave, I get requests from time to time for photographs of long departed loved ones.  I don't know these genealogy buffs who submit the requests, but I enjoy the hunt.  I always learn something new.

For instance, take a closer look at one of the recent requests to come my way.  It seemed easy enough.  All the lady wanted was some pictures of a couple of gravestones in the Old Landrum Family Cemetery in Fayette Co, GA.

Looking it up seemed easy to do.  Here it was.  And then I got lost.

The description of the location was confusing as I am not an "oldtimer" of the area.  The directions said, "accessible from the abandoned section of Peachtree Parkway."  Hmm, abandoned Peachtree Parkway?

One fine, steamy day last week, I took a quick drive to the area I thought could be the abandoned Peachtree Parkway.  Well, the area is all built up and even has an elementary school on it. So, if it was it, it's not now.

Being an enterprising young grasshopper, I popped into the first funeral home I saw.  The kindly gentleman asked (in a oh-so-sorry-for-your-loss-gentle-voice) if he could be of service.  I told him  I was looking for a graveyard.  One can imagine the looks on the faces as I beamed and said I wanted to shoot someone.  Oops, clarification was needed.  I wanted to photograph someone who was buried in a local cemetery and I couldn't find it.

Well, they couldn't either.  The lady who was happily and joyfully assisting me at this point called City Hall to see what they knew.  Nothing.  But, they knew someone who would know.

My new buddy and I were looking at maps of the development of Peachtree City when she spotted an area called "Landrum's Mill Pond."  About that time, the lady at City Hall called back and told us she has spoken to someone else at the library who said the cemetery was down a well worn path through the woods.  She even had directions!

"Go up Hwy 74.  Turn onto Peachtree Parkway, and turn left onto World Dr.  Go to the cul-de-sac and park.  Walk down the path and it will be in the woods."

A quick driveby told me it was going to be a little harder than that, so I went home and got my energetic fun loving family and dogs.  As usual, they were eager to assist :).

Hiking, we went down the path which quickly showed evidence of asphalt and old faded lines.  Eureka, it's the abandoned Peachtree Parkway that we didn't know existed!  Hmm.  No graveyard seen here.  Let's start taking some of the paths off of this path.

At the second path I sent the kids and dogs down, they started yelling.  "Come quick! It's a cemetery."

There sat the old Landrum Family Cemetery in a nicely fenced in area.

As I surveyed the area, I could see a spot where the trees were younger.  Could this have been the site of the family home of Jeptha Landrum?  He was the owner of the land from around 1825 or so, and is reported to have assisted the Creek Indians in their removal after the Creek Nation signed the land over to the state of Georgia.  The Landrum family owned quite a large plantation and Landrum served the new county as a Judge and also as sheriff.

I don't know if the clearing with the young trees was the house site, but I can imagine the site if it had been.  The cemetery would have been down the hill off of the dirt road leading to the house in an area close enough to visit, but not close enough to be disturbed by the creek or mill pond.  The mill pond is still there and is further down the path from the cemetery.

Back in the cemetery, I started taking shots of the graves.  Some were legible and others were not.  There were a number of broken stones that appear to once have had markings on them.  Others had succumbed to the elements of time.  Still, other spots were quite sunken.  Could these be the slaves indicated by the Landrum family to be buried there?  Early tax records show the Landrum family had somewhere around a dozen slaves or so around the 1850 time frame.  Of course, these same records indicate taxes on the land were less than $1.  Oh, if only I could have that tax bill today!

We wiped off some of the stones as I snapped away.  Some of the markings appear to be gone.  Others, I can probably make out enough to match them with the index of the cemetery put online by a Landrum family member.

I sent some of the pictures to a local photographer friend who tried to bring out the details for me.  She suggested I go back and take some more shots for her to play with.

I plan to go back out there in the fall to retake some shots.  Photographs of old graves can provide some more clues if the lighting is different (hence, a different time of year and time of day).  I will also take some water with me to sprinkle on the graves.

Yes, I will go out there again on another hike.  But I think I will wait until the chigger bites heal!

Ahh, genealogy.  It's fun hiking around the past, even if the present bites you.

Note:  Many thanks to the wonderful folks at the Carmichael-Hemperley Funeral Home and Crematory on Senoia Rd in Peachtree City.  They were super as they spent about an hour with me trying to find the old cemetery.  I appreciate their kindness!

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Leslie Ann said...

Sounds like a wonderful fun adventure!

I remember quite a few years ago while I was still in Idaho a cousin and I went through the cemeteries getting rubbings of headstones. Well silly me wearing flip flops (I still call them thongs) stepped on a stinging nettle -- twice!. I broke out in hives that lasted for weeks!

hummer said...

Ooh I remember the chigger bites. They itch it seem for-ever (drawn out for emphasis) Broken headstones just make me sad.

Marian Pierre-Louis said...

Great story! Thanks for sharing it!

topshot2015 said...

haha thats my family. The Landrums Have been in Georgia since, the 1500s. My family still lives there today, in the Roswell area. Right next to Chadwicks store, witch my other Great grand father opened, washington Chadwick......

C.L. said...

These are my ancestors as well.

Judge Jeptha Landrum was my 5X great-grandfather.

Thank you so much for the pictures and story behind obtaining them.

Christopher A. Landrum (Austin, TX)


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Earl Sweatshirt

Featuring Tyler, The Creator

Produced By Tyler, The Creator

Album Earl

Couch Lyrics

[Verse 1: Earl]
Uh, was always smartmouthed and quick-witted
But somethin' was always missin' like six digits
Lucky seven probably poppa
Little nigga so they picked on him, hassled him
Things changed when I hassled back, so
David hit the pavement with this grapple rap
Snapple fact: you rather wack
While I am poppin' like a snappin' crack
So high you could see like Tallahass, the opposite of cataracts
Matter fact I am Farmer John milkin' cattle tracks
Action packed nipple squeezin', boy colder than sniffle season
Simple genius, go hard and spit bits of semen
So when the street is split, don't act surprised, agree with it
The Gang of Wolves that creeps in crypts
As deep as Dawson's Creek and shit
I pray they got gills either that or grab some floaties
I know I got skills, why you think I'm posted boastin'
Braggin' tell these faggots to stop naggin'
Cause them Wolf Gang niggas threw them off the bandwagon like

[Verse 2: Tyler]
Uh, was always fucked up as shit with it
But I didn't cross the line until the bridge hit it, troll
I got you niggas nervous like virgins flirtin' with Uncle Mervin
Fuckin' y'all with no lubricant, go grab the detergent
I preach to demons at your church, now I'm the newest sermon
Wearin' nothin' but they fuckin' blast with the matchin' turban
I drive through white suburbans in the black Suburban swervin'
Hittin' curbs and blastin' Erick Sermon drunk off English Bourbon
I'm stealin' purses rapin' nurses I'm a crooked surgeon
And treat the beat like sanitized nazi pussies, I'm a German
I'm squirtin' while I'm masturbatin' and regurgitatin'
From eatin' Miley Cyrus salad pussy platter they were servin'

My only purpose is to jerk it cause it has a curve
So bitches hate to do me like it's convict community service
This my Zombie Circus, you better get a fuckin' ticket
Odd Future Wolf Gang like they're filmin' Twilight in this bitch

[Verse 3: Earl]
I'm back on my sixty six sick shit
Flowin' like the blood out the competition's slit wrists
She lick it up, Dracula, then spit it back, back at ya
She mad as fuck, stuck in the back of a black Acura
Fed her acid now the duct tape quacks back at her
Hello Heather yellow feathers now you ain't laughin', huh

[Verse 4: Tyler]
Bitch you're barely breathin' leavin' on the back of the boat
While I fill you up with semen from the Wolf Gang team and
Flowin' like the creampie inside of your daughter
Oughta eat the bitch with salt and wash it down with a gallon of water
I grab the saw and sawed off her arm and auctioned it
And dip her teeth in gold molds and flossed the shit
Fuckin' awesome spittin' box of trees, got you niggas
Shakin' like it's Parkinsons
from the clitoris of Kelly Clarkson's dick
Ironin' you niggas now it's time to starch the shit
Drown your bitch in a tub of cum and throw a shark in it
Find a random abandoned garage and go to park in it
Find Earl laying on the burgundy carpet, pull my knife out, sharpen it
Stab him, put a arch on it, pour unleaded gas on him

Get the Zippo and spark the shit
Hop back in the van and then depart the bitch
Killed him on his own track, the faggot shouldn't have started it

About “Couch”

“Couch” is the third track off of Earl’s first release with Odd Future, self titled Earl

The song describes the rape and murder of a female, leading up to Tyler killing Earl and discarding the evidence

The beat is produced by Tyler, the Creator

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

The Burning Soul-John Connolly

The Burning Soul
John Connolly
Atria, Sep 6 2011, $26.00
ISBN: 9781439265270

In Pastor's Bay, Maine Randall Haight consults with attorney Aimee Price over unsigned threatening letters he receives in the mail at a time when fourteen years old Anna Kore vanished from a strip mall. The anonymous author knows who Randall was. When he was fourteen years old William Lagenheimer and a buddy raped and killed a teenage African-American girl. He was convicted and did time. Upon his release, the state court granted him a new identity.

Aimee persuades private investigator Charlie Parker to look into who the pen pal is and if the timing is deliberate to make Haight the suspect in the Kore case. Although Charlie detests doing anything for a rapist-killer, he begins his inquiry into Haight’s claims of being a victim, a town without pity horrific heritage and the Kore clan’s bloody secrets.

The latest Charlie Parker investigation (see The Whisperers) is a superb mystery as readers will understand troubled Parker’s self flagellation as he realizes perhaps too late his arrogance could harm the abductee. The story line starts slow but a few chapters in accelerates into a terrific running out of clock thriller with a great late twist as Parker and law enforcement know each hour a kidnap victim remains a captive means it is less likely finding the person alive. Readers will appreciate Parker’s doubts as he wonders if he is doing more harm than good.

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