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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Standard Cosmology Theory Is Confirmed By ACT For Smallest Scales In The Universe.

ResearchBlogging.orgIt never ceases to amaze me how well standard cosmology theory fits the ever increasing amount of data with precision. The results just released from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) confirm that, even on the smallest scales, the predictions of the Lambda CDM universe preceded by an epic of inflation are correct.  This study extracts data for L modes of The CMB between 500 and 10,000.  (For a discussion on how these L modes refer to large and small scales of the universe see my posts here and here.)

 I will show three plots and interpret the results.

In the first plot above, we see results for the the power spectrum of the CMB plotted out to L = 3000 for their 148 GHz detector and their 218 GHz detector.  As the top panel shows, the second through seventh peaks of the theoretical CMB power spectrum are confirmed with near exactness!

The next plot is also very interesting.  Here we see the CMB power spectrum results out to L = 10000.  The key is to notice the red versus the green line.  The green line shows what the power spectrum should be if the only physics affecting the CMB photons were processes that occurred during and before the photons were emitted. (Called primary processes.)  The red line is how the spectrum changes with the further assumption that, after the CMB photons were created, they have been affected by processes in the "foreground" like inverse Compton scattering from free electrons in galaxy clusters, gravitational lensing, etc... (Secondary processes.)  This means the matter and other contents of the universe are interacting and affecting the CMB photons precisely as cosmologists have predicted they should.

The last plot shown is related to gravitational lensing.  Here, A_L is a parameter that quantifies how much gravitational lensing the CMB photons have experienced since being emitted.  A_L = 0 means they have experienced no lensing and A_L = 1 means they have experienced the exact amount of lensing predicted by the standard Lambda CDM cosmology.  The red line is the results for when ACT data is combined with WMAP.  As one can see, A_L = 1 is heavily favored over A_L = 0, and the lensing of the CMB has been "detected" by 2.8 sigma.

Conclusions: The Lambda CDM model initiated with a brief phase of inflation continues to fit the data with incredible precision.  ACT has shown that the standard cosmology theory continues be confirmed down to the smallest scales of the universe.  The prediction for the shape of the CMB power spectra arising from both primary and secondary sources fit the data quite well out to L=10000.  Now all we need to do is hope some group like Planck finds a detection of B-modes and experimental verification of standard cosmology will be nearly complete.

(Image Credit: Das, S. et al.)
Sudeep Das, Tobias A. Marriage, & et al. (2010). The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave
Background Power Spectrum at 148 and 218 GHz from the 2008 Southern Survey E-Print arXiv: 1009.0847v1

  1. So when are you guys going to give us our inch long theory of everything? =:) Actually, will the theory of everything replace the standard model? Or just make it more concise and less messy?

  2. Stan, I think it is still unknown whether a "theory of everything" will be an inch long or whether it will be huge. (Here's to hoping it is!) As you know, the standard model is actually long and messy as it is and perhaps the idea that the theory that best explains the universe is less messy is just a pie in the sky dream.

    I think the only thing we can hope for sure is that we will be able to extend the standard model in a way that makes good sense and will account for new data while making verified predictions.

    For example, supersymmetry extends the standard model in a straight forward way, fits all the data we could ever dream of :) (like it's extension string theory) and so once we can find a ways to falsify it we should be in business if it can pass such tests.

    Is supersymmetry less messy? Well, in principle at high energies it is, but at low energies where all symmetries are broken the thing is very messy indeed. Unfortunately, beautiful theories become ugly when we have to get them to fit nature.

  3. JS,

    Did you take a day off or wasted three days messing around with this article?

  4. Anonymous,

    I read this article last night so I almost made it a full 3 days off. :) (After watching Boise St. beat Virginia Tech.)

  5. JS,

    Good for you! Be one with where you are.

    Also, one does not learn of God by reading others' writings and interpretations, especially controlling interpretations. Explore on your own. Follow Your Bliss! per Campbell, and many others.

    Instead of using your knowledge to justify the nonsense of eons past, experience the Universe and write about it. There is a grace in that. The rest is arrogance. Hawking did is to write about what he thought, gracefully. It is God's problem how to deal with Hawking, not yours. That's all.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Who's Expecting?

We have to apologize for the recent disappearance! The last couple months have been packed with quite a few changes and surprises for us. The farm vet has been keeping up with his ultrasounding though - here are some photos.
9 weeks

You may have guessed it, this is not the normal ultrasound the farm vet performs. It's "baby farm vet!" We are thrilled to announce a new addition to the farm vet family is expected in September. We don't plan to find out the sex of the baby so we may not get many more at-home ultrasounds in order to keep it a surprise. These photos were taken at nine weeks and I am now 14 weeks.
Yes, the cow to human pregnancy comparisons have begun but I must admit I don't mind as I've grown up around bovines my whole life! It was quite funny when the farm vet pointed out, "There are the back legs!" and he didn't catch how he misspoke until someone said, "How many legs does it have?" =)


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Friday, January 20, 2012

Director's Spolight #3.5: John Huston's The African Queen

In the world of film, it is not the actor, nor the screenwriter, nor the producer who makes or breaks the movie. Whatever their contributions, it is ultimately the director who is the sole author of the film. Every month, Director’s Spotlight takes a look at an auteur, shines some light on a few items in the director’s body of work, points out what makes them an artist, and shows why some of their films work and some don’t. January’s director is master craftsman and storyteller John Huston. Next up is 1951’s The African Queen.
Grade: 84 (A-)
Huston’s The Red Badge of Courage wasn’t quite the triumph it should have been, but the director had little time to mourn its death. He was too busy prepping and shooting The African Queen, a film inspired by the director’s own love for adventure, boating, and Africa. His fourth collaboration with Humphrey Bogart saw the two and co-star Katharine Hepburn as liberated as they’d ever been, and the result is one of the most exhilarating films of their respective careers.
1914: Rose Sayer (Hepburn) and her brother, Samuel (Robert Morley), are British Methodist missionaries in East Africa. Canadian steamboat captain Charles Allnut (Bogart) pilots the titular boat and delivers the Sayers mail and supplies. The two barely hide their disdain for Allnut, but when the Germans destroy the village and Samuel dies of fever, Rose has no choice but to accompany Allnut up the river. When the two learn that a German gunboat, the Queen Louisa, blocks the British counterattacks, Rose comes up with a plan: take the explosives on the African Queen and ram into the Louisa to give the British a fighting chance.

Huston knew the importance of casting the right people in the right roles, and it matters in The African Queen more than just about any other: Rose and Charlie are the only real major characters in the film, and the vast majority of the film takes place on the boat with the two, essentially alone. It’s fortunate, then, that Huston rarely found an actor more suited to his purposes than Bogart, and vice versa. Allnut is another classic Huston outsider, but he’s no Sam Spade/Fred Dobbs cynic: Allnut is fun. He enjoys boating, drinking, smoking, eating, and being alive in general. Bogart was always great, but rarely was he ever this joyous; it’s almost as if Bogart channeled a bit of Huston’s spirit. The role won the actor his only Oscar, and while it’s hard to imagine him winning over Marlon Brando’s revolutionary performance in A Streetcar Named Desire, it’s still one of his finest. Nearly as good is Hepburn, prim and proper as ever but a bit less brass than usual; it’s fun to see a gentler version of the Hepburn character, although she’s just as stubborn as ever (the character was reportedly modeled on Eleanor Roosevelt).
Their energy matches that of the film. The African Queen is, as Huston’s best films are, brilliantly constructed, well-paced, and wonderfully alive. The film doesn’t cut quite as deep as The Maltese Falcon or The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (the look at Western imperialism is fleeting), but it hardly matters: Huston and company are putting on an adventure film of the highest order, with set-piece after set-piece. Bogart and Hepburn face rivers, rapids, Germans, crocodiles, mosquitoes, leeches, swamps, and storms, and when the action lets up, the characters clash (or come together). Huston fell in love with Africa, and he shoots it as if to say, “this place is goddamned incredible”.
That isn’t to undersell the danger: the African setting is well used, but the performances and action often become frantic in the later going, no doubt inspired by the very real dangers of shooting in the Congo (Hepburn later wrote a tell-all book about how trying the filming was). Bogart and Hepburn grow dirtier, sweater, and more ragged as the story progresses; no doubt the real trials and tribulations took some of the Hollywood out of the great Old Hollywood actors. There’s some drawbacks: the cinematography is sometimes frustratingly one-note, a necessary evil given the difficulty of shooting on the river; the reliance on stock footage is also unfortunate. These are minor quibbles, however, when the film is so consistently exciting.

The African Queen features the sweetest love story in any of Huston's films; the director often dealt with doomed romances, where at least one of the principals would end up dead or in jail. Not so here: it’s a classic case of characters first disliking, then understanding, and finally loving each other, and love triumphs over all. It’s an old story, but the people involved are so talented that it works. Rose first dislikes Allnut’s drinking, coarseness, and general unkemptness, and Allnut doesn’t take kindly to her orders (he thinks her plan is nuts). The two gain respect for each other as Allnut keeps them alive and Rose’s idea turns out to be the right thing to do. They keep each other alive, bond over shared near-death experiences, and eventually fall in love.
When they first kiss, they spend the next several minutes trying to carry on as if nothing happened. It’s no use: they’re in love all right. When it comes time to destroy the Louisa, they argue over who should stay on board and steer the boat. The plan fails as the African Queen sinks during a storm. When they’re caught by the Germans, they’re given a last request before they are to be hung: they choose marriage. It’s a wonderfully sweet moment that would have been some solace had the two actually died (not unheard of in a Huston film). But the Louisa happens to drive into the half-sunken African Queen right before the hanging, and love ends up conquering all after all as the two swim towards the shore and marital bliss. It’s a fitting ending to the most pure piece of entertainment Huston ever crafted.

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Sunday, December 8, 2013

Sweet Sunday Scripture...

This time of the  year can be very busy.....
busy shopping days,
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holiday baking,

and decorations......

Our schedule can be very hectic....
Parties and events......

Sending out cards to family and friends....

We hears songs of "holiday cheer"......

But in the weeks before we celebrate the Savior's birth
Why is it we feel such stress and anxiety instead of cheer?

I believe it is a matter of time........
or how we spend our time....
Take some quality time this season to prepare your heart.
Take time to remember.....

The reason for the season.......

"...the Angel said to them ...
I bring you good news of great joy.
It is for all the people.

Today in the town of David
a Savior has been born to you.

 He is Christ the Lord."

Luke 2:10-12

And as you reflect  upon these precious truths...
I know it will change your holiday anxiety
into holiday cheer/joy!

May your days be Merry and Blessed!

  1. Hi Patty, I just sat down to do some visiting and was going to come to your blog when you stopped by. WOW how unreal. Love this post. It is so true as we all are so busy with the hustle of the season, but in the end all that really matters is the knowing why we do what we do and the reason for the season. We celebrate the birth of our Savior and our hope for the future.
    Love your pics and the beautiful nativity.
    Wishing you a great week. Hugs and Blessings!

  2. Amen, Patty! Jesus is the reason for the season! We didn't have church either....these forecasts have been a little off...not as bad except Friday was very bad! My hubby left the house fri. morn at 3:15 and didn't return home until 8:30 that evening. He is a truck driver and I was praying he would be safe as well as my son and brother and others!! God is so good.....JOY unspeakable! Blessings~~~Roxie

  3. Thank you again Patty! We all need to do this and I am certainly TRYING! Trying being the key word. Usually I don't get so stressed about it and try to just enjoy. This year it has been a bit harder. Miss my dog under my feet and actually miss going to the Nursing Home! Joy to the World, yes. and we are all so blessed.

  4. Oh, Patti, I love the wooden blocks. Yes, I am trying to slow down this Christmas and appreciate the Reason for the season. I am sitting with an elderly lady for only 12 hours a week so Christmas will be simple. My mom and dad are gone. My brother lives in another town. I will enjoy my husband's family and my sister's children and we don't do gifts. My children will be home so that will be Christmas to me. Hope yours is a merry one.

  5. My dear sweet friend Patty . I have had you on my mind. I saw your blog pop up in my posts of blogs I followed and I ran right to it. I am so happy to read your posts and so true . I love this reminder of the birth of christ. YOU show that in all your posts and I feel it from you . YOUR a kind good gentle soul. I just feel so blessed to know you. GOD sure had a plan . Isn't is something how were able to connect with like minded people and make life long friends out of blogging sharing ideas with like minded beautiful souls (YOU) I just want you to know I put you in my grateful journal and i am so blessed to have met you . KEEP those mountain blessings coming my beautiful friend. If i lived near you…I promise i would come on over and hug your neck.. oxoxxo HUGS

  6. Oooh, your baked goods look yummy! It can be a stressful time I think because we just try to do too much. It's hard to not get caught up in the commercialism of the season, but we all need to remember why we are celebrating in the first place!

  7. Love this post, I am trying to space things out and enjoy the season more this year!

  8. Great post!! A wonderful reminder of the real meaning of Christmas! :)

  9. Amen! I hope you & your family have a wonderful Christmas!

  10. My favorite memory is of Mother quoting Luke chapter 2 at Christmas time.

  11. Great post, so true. Jesus is the reason for the season. Sometimes we get so caught up in trying to make others happy, we seem to forget that for a little while. God Bless you Patty and your ministry. Blessings, Trisha

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Friday, December 02, 2011

Catholic High School Taliban meets Lululemon

I went to a Catholic high school that had a uniform policy. It wasn't all jacket, ties, and plaid skirts, but more of a dress casual with monogrammed Docker type trousers and an assortment of shirts and sweaters. All in all not a terrible uniform policy although one did get tired of it because the subdued white, navy, maroon, mustard yellow colour selections matched the paint on the lockers. Yeah, it was weird.

It was the enforcement that sucked. You couldn't wear just any old pair of khakis, it had to be the one with 1x2cm school logo patch just above the rear pocket. If you didn't have this patch, but your pants were otherwise like every other pair of khakis out there, you found yourself in detention. What this meant was overzealous teachers looking at students' arses and asking them to life their shirts to make sure they were in uniform.

It was a bit different for female students who had the option of wearing plaid skirts and many did. Their skirts couldn't sit higher than four inches above the knee. More than that, and they'd be in trouble. This was different from males because it represented an implicit sexualisation of the uniform and its wearer. Teachers would of course be quite happy to wander about staring at female student's legs to be sure the skirt was within the required range.

Now they're at it again.

Students at a Catholic high school in south Ottawa are protesting a dress code that requires a long shirt be worn with form-fitting yoga pants.
The pants are popular among girls at St. Joseph's High School in Barrhaven and they are not happy about the requirement that carries the threat of suspension.
The Ottawa Catholic School Board put the policy in place but St. Joseph's has started to enforce it.
"Everyone's like, the school's so lame I want to move out. Like, it's bad," said Crystal Gomes, who joined about 300 other students in signing a petition protesting the requirement.
"Everyone's just going to wear it anyway to see if the school's going to suspend us anyway," another girl told CBC News.
Emily Devenz walked into school in her favourite Lycra pants — without the required long shirt.
"I'm pretty angry about it because I'm one of the girls that wears Lulus every single day," Devenz said. "They already banned ripped jeans, skinny jeans and jeggings, so I was pretty upset because that kills my whole wardrobe."
Mothers who dropped off their teens at the school Wednesday joined the debate.
"I've seen it really form-fitting — that I can see the outline of everything on their body," one said. "It just adds too much temptation for the boys in the school."

So once again, a Catholic institution is telling young women they have to alter their attire and hide their bodies because the lads, once again, are held completely unaccountable for their potential actions.  Once again women are being told they are threatening, their sexuality is dangerous, and men are never to be trusted. Heterosexual men are being told they are powerless in the face of what this time? Lulufuckinglemon? And that they cannot be held responsible for what they might do upon seeing the female form described in black lycra! It is therefore up to women to make themselves as undesirable as possible in order to save the men from themselves.

The school has a bit of a problem here. I mean they seem to want to keep women looking unattractively virginal by restricting their attire. But they're stuck, because to go the full anti-Monty, they'd have to borrow from their conservative counterparts in Islam and issue some sort of Catholicised hijab (what that would look like, i can only guess). This clearly wouldn't fly for reasons of religous rivalry.  On the other hand, they can't make women look too androgynous because well, that would be giving a nod to the genderqueer community, and we all know about how the Church sees that sort of thing as big fat hellfire sin. So no joy there either.

Maybe there's a solution in the holy book. They could crucify random male students for their sins and those of the rest of the males and then allow the women to collect at the base of the cross and lament the poor lad, you know, true to their Biblical role. But clearly not while wearing yoga pants.

harebell said...

Maybe this needs updating

Southern Quebec said...

You're not paying attention, Boris. According to the Vatican's Chief Exorcist (WTF) good Catholics should not even be doing yoga! Practising yoga is Satanic. Who knew?

Unknown said...

Maybe the important point in this story is that the Board voted AGAINST one Trustee's motion to ban the skirts. Progress? Some emerging light?


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Marriage Won’t Mean You’re Never Lonely

There’s this one thing I still expect my husband to fix.

Years ago, as the practical outcome of an epic fight, I wrote my husband a not-so-epic poem. In it, I released him from the pressure to read my thoughts, to make perfectly nuanced romantic gestures on time, to protect my inner and outer world, keeping it safe and happy. It was a relief to both of us when I did this. He could love me as himself, not some propped up version of perfect.

Monumental transactions like this don’t become part of your soul overnight. Yes, I relinquished my unrealistic expectation for my husband to be my everything, but relinquishing something does not kill it. You slay it on an altar, but it still twitches and bleeds and sits upright like something very much alive. You forget you stuck a knife in it, and from time to time it reminds you it’s still there by attacking your emotional nerve endings like a case of shingles. In marriage, expectations do not go gently into that good night suddenly or all by themselves. You have to show them the exit to your heart in increments.

So this one thing I still expect Bill to fix: loneliness.

I remember a conversation with my very desirable, available, single sister in which I told her there were lonely moments in my marriage. I think she already knew this—academically at least—but hearing me say it out loud was a shock to us both. It is true. I am sometimes lonely when my husband is right there in the same room. I imagine he is, too, but the difference between the two of us is that he likes the loneliness at first. And even when he misses me, the me right there in the same room, he tolerates my absence for longer than I tolerate his.

You may think I’m going to say you should just try to let it go when you’re feeling lonely. Easier said than done! And you still have a living, breathing husband. You still have all those living, breathing emotions about his temporary, existential absence. So what do you do in the meantime, when you feel all those attendant feelings that go along with loneliness, and they don’t go away by telling yourself you shouldn’t feel them? Oswald Chambers said moods don’t go away by praying; they go away by kicking. Well, here’s a little kick—a formula—I’ve learned along the way for those times when my prevailing mood is lonely.

You learn to wait.

The other day I asked Bill if he ever felt bullied by my bottom-line, do-it-now, immediacy-at-all-costs personality. He thought for a moment and said, “Noooo, I haven’t. But I have felt rushed by you.”

Here’s a formula I’ve learned along the way for when my prevailing mood is lonely.

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No argument from me there. Waiting couldn’t be more contrary to my nature than singing opera. I am perhaps the most impatient person I know. So now that I am thinking about a little formula I learned to use long ago in the lonely times, I’m kind of proud of myself. I won’t even mind if you are just a tiny bit impressed.

Here’s what you do: You decide to wait for 48 hours.

48 hours feels like eons to impatient people who are also lonely. When I feel the loneliness setting in, I give myself two full days before I say anything to Bill. Within that time, one of three things will happen. First, it will go away on its own, because it was something I ate or read or saw in a movie. It was the weather or hormones. It was a vapor, and odds are I won’t even remember deciding to wait.

Second, the loneliness will become clearer and probably more intense, and I will go to Bill and talk with him about it. During the 48 hours, I’ve gathered a kind of sane grace to talk to Bill about it.

Or, third, Bill will notice the gap between us and move toward me to fill it.

Formulas never work all the time. But I’ve found this one works most of the time. “It” works, not us. That’s what I like about good marriage habits, even the ones I don’t practice consistently. Formulas work for you, creating healthy rhythms in their wake. And those rhythms, over time, become the music you hear as you sway or hop or jiggle through life together. Your dance may not look like much to anyone else, but who cares who’s looking when you’re cheek to cheek on the dance floor? When the distance between you, until next time, is almost non-existent.

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Contentment Experiment, wrap-up

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To read the contentment experiment introduction, click here.

Our two weeks of experiment finished about a week ago...

Truthfully, it was harder for me than I thought it would be. I thought at the big deal, I really like not spending money.

Remember, I am frugal to the core =)

And really, it wasn't the lack of spending money that was was realizing how much I really do depend on acquiring things (even if they are deals!) for a rush of happy feelings. Realizing that I can be lazy and not want to deal with the mess of one more meal or the mundane-ness of peanut butter lets just eat out. Realizing that I choose to be "picked up" by a starbucks coffee verses reaching out to my "living water" during moments of stress.

Yes, me...supposedly already content me.

Now, I'm not going off the deep end...I know that the Lord is the "giver of all good things" and there is no guilt to be found in enjoying all the incredible things he has blessed me with! But...I was reminded over the two weeks of my need to continually renew my mind to find my true and deep-down contentment in my relationship with my Lord.

It was a great experience and a great reality check. I realize this isn't something that I just learn once...but, it is something I will have to keep reminding myself of over and over again.
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Tasha Via said...

I think that was a GREAT experiment! I think that just being aware makes a world of difference in our attitudes=)
Love ya, Jenn!!

Becky Swann said...

I like your honesty, you are good at reminding me too through your blog!


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Monday, February 1

The Situation

Um... No. Not that Situation...
First of All:
I recognize that the 12 (OMG!!!!) of you who follow me probably weren't waiting on edge for a post from me, but regardless I apologize for my weekend hiatus. Too much alcohol and calories made me more than a little moody. >.<

Today is Day One of a Fasting Challenge! w00t!

I have 25 days until my boy comes to visit me (He's in Cali, I'm in Texas), and I need to lose at least 20 pounds by then.

Crazy insane? Yes. I know.

You all know how it is... You have goals, and they seem unrealistic, but if you try as hard as you can and push yourself to the limit, it's possible to do what all the Health Experts say shouldn't work.

So, what's keeping me positive about this? What's going to keep me motivated to succeed?

First and foremost:
This Blog and You People. <3

Also and not as importantly:
Thinspo, Punishments, and Homework.

If that proves inefficient, I WILL find something different, because I WILL be thinner when my boy comes than when he left!!!

Alright: This has been long. Sorry. Here's something to make YOU smile, and that isn't totally boring. ;)

This website is fantasmic. You list up to 43 life goals that you have, and as you complete them, you check them off the list. It seems silly, but sometimes it's just fun to surf around the site and look at all the creative, diverse, and lovely goals that everyone has in life. And... Reassuring to see that almost EVERYONE has some type of weight loss goal on there. Just reminds you that we are in the majority of people who want to change their bodies, but the minority of people willing to do it NOW.

Alright peeps-
I hope you like that site, and are doing well with your OWN goals!

(I'm'a go stalk your blogs now!)

  1. Naomi,I'm sure your bf likes you just the way you are ^^)

  2. Wow, so you're doing a 25 day fast?!? Good luck babe, you are a much better starver than I am, lol. I am sure that while being 20 lbs thinner would be an totally awesome thing, your BF will be happy just to have you in his arms again (*awwww*).
    Happy Fasting!
    Scarlet <3

  3. I just found your blog! Yay!! :D

    I'm so glad you are in on the weight loss challenge this week. We can do it! And you don't have to fast if you don't want to, the main rule is no purging is allowed. I am going to try and keep it fruit and veg only with a day or two of fasting thrown in for good measure. :)

    Be strong!

  4. First of all,I love your name (Naomi)

    Secondly,somehow,your positivity makes me feel really excited for you somehow. I love positive people. Too bad I'm not one of them.

    Lastly,the website is awesome. You just made my day. I love reading these sorta things. It makes me feel good! thanks :)

  5. Naomi, thank you for your comments on my blog on my crazy day yesterday and boy was it crazy! I like the idea of the website with goals :-)

  6. Naomi, now that I have found your blog, better believe I'm going to be waiting for your next post. I love your positivity, will power, and the personality you've portrayed in your posts :) Hope to read more about your fasting soon, maybe it will help keep me motivated on my fast as well :)
    Stay Strong!


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Thursday, February 28, 2008

About My Happiness Haven

I am Earthlingorgeous.

Someone who wishes the world would rather focus on seeing the good things in everything rather than on the negative ones.

I wish to break away from the pessimistic culture I grew-up with (where negatively angled story is more welcomed) by creating this blog.

I want to awaken the inner peace in me and in everyone and to create the energy of happiness from within outwards. To see change we should begin with ourselves.

Like any beauty queen I to dream of world peace. May I be an instrument of such despite not owning a crown or a title in any beauty pageants except for being Ms. Friendship when I was a Junior highschool student. Oh wait! I was 2nd runner-up in the May Flower! LMAO!

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

"Your Pastor is here to see You"

Last weekend we celebrated Samuel's 6 th birthday and Williams 8th birthday. I want to share a story about William and the circumstances that occurred after he was born. It is such an example of God's goodness and abundance to me.
William was born at home, as planned, three weeks early and weighed a healthy 9 lbs 2 oz. Though that is not usually significant, we realized some hours in, that he was not breathing normally and his color was not right.
William was our ninth home birth and we had never had any concerns before, other than Jaundice. So, we packed up a few things, including the oxygen tank and midwife, and headed to  the emergency room in Tacoma. Our midwife had called ahead so that we would not spend anytime in the waiting room.
A couple doctors and nurses assessed him and soon they wisked  him off to the Nicu.  I was saddened at this separation, but I really felt a peace about it too. We knew he needed these medical professionals.  We had to wait outside as they hooked him up to various things and when they called us in to be with him, I'll never forget, he was in the same cubicle that our nephew, George, was in eight years before, fighting for his life at only 1 lb. 11 oz. Some doctors and nurses even remembered George, who survived after 8 months in the hospital. Again, I felt at peace with this: our family cubicle in the Nicu.
We were weary, and I had been up and on my feet for hours, after having just given birth. As a pastor's wife, I must confess, that at one point the thought went through my mind, "Well, the pastor won't be coming coming to visit." We were between assistant pastors at the time, so David was the only pastor at MCC.
This is where God really showed Himself. We had to leave William for a bit so that I could lie down and as we walked out of the nursing station, a nurse stopped us and said, "Your Pastor is here to see you." What?
We shook our heads and I tearfully said, "No, this can't be." And as I said it, the doors to the Nicu opened and there was Pastor Roth and his wife from a church across town!  They were such a blessing and the timing was so good! Ruth right away went to work giving me a back rub and sharing their own Nicu story. Of course, we let them see the baby.
This isn't all! During the 10 days that William was in the hospital, many people from our church visited and several friends from outside our church, but do you know? In end, FIVE Pastors and/or Pastor's wives came to visit us. Pastor Houston and his wife, Emily, Pastor Jackson and his wife,Jan, Pastor Pollock and his wife, Susan, and a Pastor's wife that we didn't really know but had heard and cared.
 Really, I can only remember that one instance of self pity because, of course,  otherwise I was focused on William and his oxygen levels, but somehow, God in His wisdom, knew that I needed to see that ministry may seem lonely at times, but the reality and truth of it is this- We are one body, and when part of our body hurts, we all hurt. Also, God hears our thoughts and knows our needs and He is abundant far above anything we can ask or think.

"Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen." Eph. 3:20-21

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  1. What an encouraging passage of Scripture! William is such a wonderful child! God definitely has a special plan for his life. :)


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Moonbabies: Chorus/Raindrops (Single, 2014)

Sweden's MOONBABIES double single release "Chorus/Raindrops" These two tracks showcases a new softer, reflecting and melodic side of the Moonbabies. Ola Frick describes "Chorus”: It’s got this pulse, effortlessness, and classic melodic feel to it, mixed with 80’s nostalgia & our love for Yazoo/Fleetwood Mac.” Carina Johansson Frick on 'Raindrops’: "It came from a feverish dream, one that felt so incredibly intense and real. About death and love basically. A bigger than life beauty and some dark unknown feeling that makes me feel slightly afraid."

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The Elemental South: Visions of the Southern Landscape

TJC Gallery, 154 W. Main Street, Spartanburg, South Carolina
Dec 4, 2014 – Feb 26, 2015

Having spent most of her life on her family’s farm in rural, the prominent Southern author Flannery O’Connor believed that “the things we see, hear, smell, and touch affect us long before we believe anything at all, and the South impresses its image on us from the moment we are able to distinguish one sound from another.” Featuring paintings by Rockwell Kent, Robert Gwathmey, Elliott Daingerfield, and Gladys Nelson Smith, this exhibition focuses on the innate but highly complex connection between humans and the land on which they live, and specifically addresses the various ways that artists working in the American South relate to their native or adopted landscape. This relationship cannot be reduced to a single definition, but rather encompasses a wide range of emotions and perspectives that artists have conveyed through their portrayal of human presence in the landscape.

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The Chicken Chronicles - Chapter One

Can you believe that this is a future cozy coop for a flock of chickens? We have great plans for it. When we proudly show friends this old corn crib and tell them our coop plans they kindly tell us “Maybe you should just tear it down and start over!” We admit that our old corn crib has no floor, a big hole in the roof, no walls to speak of, and seems to lean to the west. On the other hand, the foundation is still standing strong and we have a wonderful collection of recycled building materials ready to turn into our new coop.

So far we have lots of old barn siding and flooring, windows picked up from tree lawns on garbage pick-up day (the advantage of having a pick-up truck!), gutters and down spouts from my Mom’s house when she had hers replaced, tin roofing from friends, and insulation from other friends. We even have recycled window and door hardware. We had chickens years ago and, thankfully, we still have all the equipment we will need to feed and water our flock. The old layer boxes will have to be rebuilt to fit their new home but will work well. We even have a stack of straw bales for bedding. Our “still need to buy” list includes nails, some 2×4’s, hardware cloth to cover the windows (raccoon protection!), supports for the steps, strong fencing and posts, and I am certain, a few unknowns.

We are planning a two room coop with a fenced yard that can easily closed off into two separate yards. By separating the yard and coop into two we have the option of rotating the yards or using one room and yard for laying hens and one room and yard for meat chickens or maybe one for older hens and one for a broody hen and her chicks. The yard is shaded by mature pines so our hens will have shade on hot days and protection from winter winds.

This is going to be a “learn-as-you-go project. We will fashion our coop from (mostly) what we have on hand. Follow along and see our coop become a reality. Look for “The Chicken Chronicles – Chapter Two – The Chicks Are Here!!” next Saturday.

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Fran The Country Cousin

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See, I added a little protection there in the post title since I didn’t want to spend time explaining to any commenter that when you are in your late 60’s, White Trash was just a part of the vocabulary when you were growing up.

I realized tonight that when I went out and climbed up on a ladder to stomp trash in two containers that I am a self-made white trash gal. I come from respectable parents, grandparents and so forth, and here I am stomping trash before I walk back into a house (cafe) that is an almost solid mass of memorabilia.(Clutter)

The inside of my car is like a messy house trailer. Trash container in the car? Hey, just toss it over my shoulder into the back seat. I think I need a portable fridge with a car charger to ride in the passenger seat with me.

The trick is I can “pass” because I clean up fairly well. And my English diction is impeccable – give or take a smidgen of slang. I can recite poetry, studied Latin, do not appreciate those tawdry shows on television and yet, with very little effort, I can lean back in a chair, prop a booted foot on a table or wall and when really, really pressed, I have used a vinyl table cloth inside.

Yeah, Old AJ is WT. Sorry, ancestors, all you DAR and Daughters of the Union ladies, all you sturdy, upstanding people who went taught Sunday School and kept me from hearing, let alone saying certain words until I got to Bloomington, Indiana. Heck, I’m making myself feel guilty: I may have to redeem myself, but I probably didn’t leave enough time.

One good thing: I don’t crush beer cans with my bare hands – I specialize in those new really thin plastic water bottles, and I don’t bash them on my forehead.

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December 12, 2016
Cross Country Skiing in Lake Louise, Alberta!

 Well isn’t that dandy. Christmas is ’round the corner and I haven’t even gotten my bathing suit off from the summer yet!!! CRISIS! Lol jk jk.

We have a lot of snow in London, Ontario, and although the photo above was taken last winter on my Calgary Alberta tour, I still look the same!!!!

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Thursday, May 11, 2017

Experiment #1: Creating a Proper Bucket List (via The Art of Manliness)

For starters, raise your hand if you LOVE lists. And I'm talking about any sort of list: grocery list, to do list, best-of list, Christmas list, checklist or even a David Letterman Top 10 list.

Personally, I like making to do lists so much that I often completely rewrite my list even if I've only marked off a couple things or wrote it sloppily in haste. It has to look pristine - something that brings me comfort and pride as I mark off a completed item, whether at work or at home. I may even color code it with different pens or highlighters. (Stop judging!) But an everyday to do list carries only marginal weight. It really only encompasses your tasks for the day or the week. You don't usually put something months down the road on your measly, little to do list. Well, at least I don't. That's where a bucket list comes in.

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recently tweeted out a link to a 2009 article by an author with the name of Chris about how to create a solid bucket list. He stressed that even though you're getting older, it doesn't mean you should give up on your childhood aspirations. In fact, you now have more money to your name and are probably actually closest to being able to accomplish those goals than ever before! And writing those goals down is already one step closer to achieving them - no matter how lofty or crazy other people might think they are.

       "Sure, you have more responsibility now than when you were a kid, but you also
     have far more capability. The things you could once only dream of are now within
                        your reach; why not take hold of them?"

In the article, we are provided with some instructions/tips on how to construct a bucket list. Let's run through them one by one and see what we can make of it.

#1: Materials

A legitimate bucket list is a big deal that should have life-altering consequences, so we're instructed not to write it on something that can easily get lost, or something that sits on a shelf and never gets opened more again. The list should always be close by for two reasons: 1) so you can easily add to it, and 2) so you're always aware of it. I plan on having mine on my desk when I'm at home, and along with me whenever I go to work or out of town.

The article recommends a Moleskine notebook by name, so I picked one up at Target ($19.95 for a 5.25x8.25 notebook - which is apparently a dollar cheaper online). It's not quite pocket-sized, but it's also not a full-fledged 8.5x11 notebook you used to take notes in school.  It's that perfect in-between size.

To keep us from easily erasing goals down the road, we're instructed to use pen to write our list , so I grabbed a couple from the office supply cabinet at work. Let's be honest - I'd already spent too much on the notebook, so I had to find some cheaper options for my writing utensils. Can't beat free!!

#2: Writing the List

Now I'll admit, I already have a pretty extensive bucket-ish list typed up in Evernote (a program we'll hopefully work in a later post), so I had a little bit of a head start here. However, knowing that I'm officially writing these in pen in a notebook designated for my life's ambitions adds a little gravity to the situation. However, the article states that if a goal is important to you, no matter how big, it should make the list. (Full transparency, I wrote out a "practice list" in a different notebook first...Remember my "pristine" comment earlier?)

           "Life is short, but not short enough that you can't get a lot done before
          the final buzzer. Nothing is too don't leave anything
                           out that is important to you."

My bucket list items are all over the place. My brain officially goes AWOL when it comes to making lists like this. I created goals for many different areas of my life: career, health & fitness, relationships, faith, hobbies and travel. And I'm sure more will come to me after I finish up this post. Here are just a few examples:

In the end, I wrote down 22 different items on my official Bucket List. Here are the ones on this page as well as a few others:
  • Participate in a Spartan Race
  • Learn How to Play the Piano and/or Guitar
  • See the Northern Lights
  • Go Skydiving
  • Change Jobs / Have a Career in Sports
  • Own a House
  • Get Back to My High School Weight
  • Digitize & Edit Old, Family Videos

#3: Maintaining the List

This is the part that is probably the hardest for all of us. It's easy to float away on a cloud of dreams and life goals, but once you have to face the music and stare down what you just wrote on that page, the reality hits you like a truck and you start questioning the items you were so eager to take on ten minutes ago. But think of the feeling you'll have once you can finally cross that life-long goal off that bucket list! And once one is completed, the next one will come that much easier!

In order to accomplish what we just wrote down, Chris instructs us to keep our list somewhere we can see it at least once a day and write down our progress. For this reason, I only put a few goals on each page - to leave room for notes and/or updates. Now we start making progress one day at a time, or one decision at a time! And don't erase any of your goals!

During the life of The Magazine Experiment, I really hope I will be able to cross off some of these goals along with you. And if I do, I promise to document them here. I encourage you to try this exercise as well - and let me know what goals you put down on YOUR bucket list! Tweet some of your favorite goals to me @MagExperiment on Twitter!

Also, make sure to check out The Art of Manliness. This site has a wealth of articles, tips and tricks for ANYTHING related to men or about men. You have a question about it? Chances are good that it's on the site.

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* I came to this story the old fashioned way (for me): I saw Su Lin at the Field Museum and needed to know more. That led me inevitably to Vicki Croke’s The Lady and the Panda from 2006. It’s a terrific read. If you have any interest at all in learning more about Ruth Harkness, that’s the place to go. I’ve got a few quibbles here and there, but, for real, it’s delightful.
* Quentin Young’s (slightly strange and contested) version of events is told in Chasing the Panda by Michael Kiefer.
* If you’ve got a few hundred bucks (or a library with more liberal lending policies with old books than mine), why not read Ruth’s own book, The Baby Giant Panda?
* If you’re interested in zoos writ large, I’m a fan of Animal Attractions: Nature on Display in American Zoos by Elizabeth Hansen.

* We start with Hush-Maker by Moon Ate the Dark.
* Roll on with Freudian Slippers by Chilly Gonzales.
* Hear Bibio’s Cherry Blossom Road a couple of times.
* Hit up Nice Dream by radio.string.quartet.vienna
* Hear Don Redman and his Orchestra play Blue Eyed Baby from Memphis.
* The centerpiece of the middle section is Snow Again by Lambert.
* We hear a couple of pieces by Dan Romer: An Old Fashioned Man and End of the World.
* We finish up on Lullatone’s Falling Asleep With a Book on Your Chest.

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  1. Ken Pimple says:

    This is gripping – a life of adventure and heartbreak.

  2. Kedar Shelke says:

    Guys you are ruining the elegance of stories by providing intro at last I think they should all end with infinitely long pause

  3. Scott B says:

    Fantastic, as usual. But mostly, I’m taking the time to comment here to convey my love for your music choices in episodes. Just…Outstanding. Thank you, Nate.

  4. Tiffany Zarem says:

    Fantastic! I love your podcast and the way you bring history to life with great story-telling and modern perspective. I’ve enjoyed many episodes, but since I work in a science/natural history museum, this one in particular really inspired my imagination.

  5. Taylor says:

    I could listen to you all day.

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  7. loothi says:

    Fell in love with that piano track by Lambert “Snow Again”. Magical.

  8. Lucas says:

    Great story. However I don’t know why you kept feeling the need to notify us about her race and that of her husband’s and that the her helpers weren’t white and that made you cringe. You even took a break from the story to emphasize that. Of course they aren’t white, they are in China and the fact they agreed to help means they could not find anyone that offered better compensation. So without her they would have made less or nothing. Again the story was awesome and greatly composed, I just don’t know why you kept bringing non relevant rants about race into it. I would love to discuss this.

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    The Baby Giant Panda is out of copyright, so I’ve scanned it and made it available through Internet Archive for anyone who is interested in reading Ruth’s account:


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Your Political Intolerance Creates Hate

Your Political Intolerance Creates Hate

I didn’t like Obama as President. I didn’t like his policies. I didn’t like the way he conducted himself overseas. I didn’t like the way he was soooo quick to blame race for things before even looking at facts, like the events leading to Beergate. I didn’t like his choices for a lot of offices and judgeships. I didn’t like the way policies he and his wife championed impacted my family, including my kids’ school lunches. I didn’t like the way the economy remained stagnant under him, severely impacting my family and friends and what we could afford to do. I didn’t like – loathed, in fact – his signature accomplishment of Obamacare.

But here’s the thing: not once – ONCE – have I ever said things like “if you voted for Obama, then you voted against me”, “if you are still willing to defend this dangerous deranged idiot, something is seriously wrong with you”, “I can’t express how much I hate these people. I will never forgive them for what they’ve done to this country” – nor do I tolerate those comments from others on my social media. (Those are an actual comments people I know in real life have on their Facebook walls.)

I have seen a spate of these comments recently. I have seen years, now, of posts about how anyone who doesn’t oppose Donald Trump and everything – every.single.thing. – he supports is a racist, homophobic, greedy, scumsucking, child-killing (on account of opposing Obamacare), evil, anti-American hater, coward, and most likely closet Nazi and member of the KKK.

Here’s the point I want to be very, very clear about: I want to hear all sides of issues. I WANT to understand opposing points of view. I may never change my mind but I WANT to know why you believe what you do so we have the best chance of reaching a solution that works for everyone, and sometimes I do change my mind. But when you say I voted “against you” or there is something “seriously wrong with” me, YOU have stopped the conversation.

When YOU are not willing to listen to anything I (or anyone else who holds a different opinion/belief than you) say, ever, then how on earth can we EVER find common ground? If your response to someone disagreeing with you on climate change, gun control, immigration, or any other hot-button topic is to say “we have nothing to discuss” or to insult them and refuse to talk, you are part of the problem – and I really don’t care what side of the issue you are on. Genuine discussion of issues is critical to democracy.

Look, I get it – there are racists in America. That isn’t exactly a new development but most people seem to agree that after decades of lessening racism and racial tensions, racial tensions have flared since Obama was elected, well before Trump started running for office. In my opinion, all the pontificating by the media and in social media about how “common” and “acceptable” racism supposedly has become is the reason so much of that hate is on display. People argue that simply hiding racism doesn’t eradicate it, which is true, but when something is on public display, it grows and spreads. Hiding racism won’t end it but it can help slow or even stop the spread of it.

“Mixed race” marriages are common now. If there really was still some huge social stigma, then there would be an issue when they happen on popular TV shows and there just isn’t. Can you even imagine if the mixed-race couples on today’s Hollywood Red Carpet had been on TV and in magazines in the 60s and 70s? Today, people would give you a blank look if you mentioned mixed-race couples as an issue – because racists are outliers now, not a sign of what the mainstream finds socially acceptable.

If you think I am being willfully blind, that conservative racism definitely reared its ugly head in opposition to Obama, read this fascinating Harvard article in HuffPo. The researchers looked for, and failed to find, racism in a group of older white Georgians interviewed specifically to learn about their racist opposition to Obama. These Harvard researchers concluded “the press and elites continue to look for a racial element that drives these voters’ beliefs – but they need to get over it.” Their words.

Most people know racism isn’t magically all-gone but you have to be incredibly delusional to think the situation hasn’t improved drastically in the last sixty years. Acting like it hasn’t doesn’t do a thing to reduce racism going forward. Claiming every single person who voted for Donald Trump or supports his policies, or conservative policies and politicians in general, is a racist makes you look like an intolerant, delusional ass.

Blaming All Trump Supporters/Conservatives

Blaming all conservatives or Trump supporters for every racist, potentially racist, or can-be-spun-to-seem-racist act that happens just make everyone more angry for no good reason.  In fact, one of the “rises in hate crimes” attributed to TRUMP supporters early last year was a series of attacks on Jewish cemeteries and bomb threats. The only person I found who was accused in these crimes was a man whose “Twitter feed is full of rants against white people and Trump.” He is most definitely not a Trump supporter and Trump supporters were as horrified as any other group by what happened.

When you post all of these hateful things, YOU ARE CREATING A CLIMATE OF HATE – THE KIND OF CLIMATE THESE OUTLIERS FROM BOTH SIDES THRIVE IN. Every time you refuse to hear anything that goes against what you have already decided to be true, you add to it. Every time you refuse to be friends with someone based on their politics, you amp it up a bit more.

We Can Be Different And Want the Same Thing

When you post links like this one on “I Don’t Know How To Explain to You That You Should Care About Other People” without a single comment questioning the article…. You are fomenting hate. You assume that just because I don’t want to do things the way you do and vote for politicians supporting policies your support that I don’t care.

You probably use disposable paper napkins instead of cloth and keep the water on for every single moment you are in the shower. You probably haven’t bothered to put special film on your home windows to reduce heat gain in the summer or replaced your curtains with ones designed to reduce heat gain/loss to lower heat and ac use. You probably don’t recycle as assiduously as my family. We all show how we care about other people, the earth, animals, etc. in our own ways and to different degrees.

I don’t accuse you of not caring about the environment because you drive a Pruis (I question the impact the batteries have on the environment) and have a longer commute to work while I work from home (zero commute) and use dryer balls instead of dryer sheets. People can work toward a similar goal, such as protecting the environment, in different ways. It’s not only OK, it’s probably more effective.

Just because people do it differently than you doesn’t mean they don’t care or that they care less.

Deplorables and Shitholes

When you are all good with all of Trump’s supporters being labeled “deplorables” but somehow a disputed use of “shitholes” in a private meeting where both sides used “salty” language is practically a cause for invoking the 25th Amendment and having POTUS removed for being mentally unstable, YOU ARE CREATING A CLIMATE OF HATE.

And here’s the thing: I would be pretty damn pissed if he had said that in a public setting, including Twitter, because he is the President. But he didn’t. He did it in a smaller private meeting where they were negotiating and trying to work through issues. And he didn’t say anything about the PEOPLE. Haiti lost TEMPORARY protective status. You see that word there – TEMPORARY? It means not forever. They were going to lose it eventually. It just happened to be now. It doesn’t mean he hates Haitians or Haiti or black people in general. His reported focus was making sure new immigrants will not overwhelm the system. His job isn’t protecting Haiti, Nigeria, Norway, South Africa, El Salvador, or anywhere else. It’s the US.

Don’t like it? Tough luck. This isn’t Star Trek. There is no United Federation of Planets, and there is no United Earth or Terra or whatever you want to call it. Maybe someday – we can all hope – but right now, the POTUS and the US government have to put the US first. Russia puts Russia first. China puts China first. Every other nation puts themselves first (in a few cases it’s a federation, as in the EU and formerly the Soviet Union), their allies second, major trade partners third, etc. We, as nations, work together more every year – but if the POTUS doesn’t put American first, as Donald Trump does, then no one will.

It’s Not Personal

Do I like Trump? No. I do not like Donald Trump and while I haven’t specifically asked, I don’t think my friends do either. But I do like his policies and our support is about his policies not about him as a person. Many of you don’t like him or his policies. I and many of my conservative friends are more than happy to discuss them with you and explain why we do, as long as you don’t attack us for it.

I don’t think less of you for not supporting him or for supporting politicians or policies I don’t like. I do, however, think less of you for refusing to even consider another point of view. And I definitely think less of you when you accuse me of being all kinds of nasty things just because I support the policies of the current POTUS or any other politician. And for the friend who decided whether to try to have a kid on whether their candidate won the Presidential election – your priorities are whacked.

For the love of God and all the things we all love, get over it. Your candidate didn’t win and your favored policies aren’t being implemented this year. Suck it up, buttercup. And yes, that goes for both sides.

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Note to Rush Limbaugh On What A Real Apology Looks Like

Back in May of last year, liberal talk show host Ed Schultz called conservative talk show host a “right wing slut.” Reaction was rather fierce, and Ed Schultz offered what a real apology should look like. Rush Limbaugh and fans, take note:

Laura Ingraham herself was initially a bit snippy about it, tweeting “MSNBC suspends Schultz. Oh great, now his ratings will go up,” but later got to the better part of herself and tweeted, “Ed Schultz: Apology accepted.”

A key difference here remains that Laura Ingraham is herself a professional media figure with a 5.5 million daily listener audience and a frequently-seen figure and substitute host on Fox News. She is, in other words, quite able to defend herself. And no, Rush Limbaugh is not the only one with a problem with shooting his mouth off in a foul manner. It remains, however, that there is an acute disparity of power between a media mogul with a daily listening audience of about 15 million and a lone citizen activist giving invited testimony to Congress. I have no great love for Rush Limbaugh–decades ago I found him funny and refreshing but these days mostly just foul and irrational–but I think if he wants to retain any sense of dignity and decency, he should be looking to Ed Schultz for what real contrition looks like. Especially towards a target who is not a fellow media mogul but rather an ordinary citizen who just had the guts to take a stand, whether you agreed with that stand or not.

(Further argument/discussion here.)

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  • RP

    ANyone know where one can get a list of advertisers that are still supporting Rush.

    One email started that suggest a boycott of these products with those not supporting Rush might convince the rest to leave his program and leave his radio stations with much less revenues.

    Less revenues equals less radio stations carrying his program

  • dduck

    Just caught Fluke on The View, and as I predicted, not only didn’t she NOT accept his apology, she threw it back in his face.
    This is one sharp cookie, and my other prediction was that she will be on some ballot soon.

  • zephyr

    RL lives in a world of delusion. His apologies mean nothing.

  • Widget

    Only one person so far that I’ve seen noted one thing about Limbaugh’s apology. That is, part of it was legal-statement, likely CYA material. It was an apology, despite what so many are incorrectly saying it was.

    It was 1/5 (real) apology at most, the rest being 3/5 or more political statement (about the real issue here, the Democrats’ and liberals’ behavior, which is wrong), and 1/5 or so legally managed CYA stuff.

    If anyone believes that Limbaugh hating is going to guarantee Obama a second term after this year, I believe that is wrong.

    This was nothing as bad as what Ed Schutz did. Rush was criticizing the left-wing parasite stuff, while Ed Schultz had nothing to criticize, was just being personal. Rush was wrong, but it’s nothing like what it’s being made to seem by many.

    Sandra Fluke has already been wrong herself since Rush said what he said, making herself look even worse than when she appeared at Pelosi’s hearing, something far, far more bad than anything that the Republicans like Blunt have done. At least, to those who aren’t being taken advantage of by the “war on women” Democrats and liberals. Maybe the Fluke testimony in Pelosi’s really stupid hearing was arranged ahead of time with Obama and it’s a campaign act to exploit the ignorant.

  • roro80

    “Just caught Fluke on The View, and as I predicted, not only didn’t she NOT accept his apology, she threw it back in his face.”

    Let us all hail magical dduck the pychic. I mean, who else but this brilliant ducky of ours could have predicted that a non-apology after 4 days of calling this woman a prostitute and a slut might not be accepted with a whole and loving heart? I mean, who could possibly have thought that “I think slut-shaming is valid criticism of this dirty slut, but wish I had used nicer euphamisms to describe her awful sluttitude” might not have gone over so well? You truly are magical, dduck. Good work. I wait with bated breath for your predictions on whether the sun will rise tomorrow, and whether Pauly Shore’s purported comeback will be successful.

  • CStanley

    There are elements of an apology that contribute to a sense of sincerity, but really a lot of it has to do with a person’s history. In this case, limbaugh’s history is such that no one believes he is actually apologetic. And the flip side of it is that none of his detractors are sincere if they called on him to apologize because asking for an apology that you have no intention of accepting is disingenuous as well (and we see this all of the time from people on the left and right, when really they’re trying to score points by engendering sympathy for their own political allies and score points against their mean opponents.

  • dduck

    Roro, I’m concerned that your snotty nose will drip on you Oreos. Please wipe now.

    Btw: that was originally a response to a commenter on another thread 2 days ago.

    I also predicted the Giants would win the SB.

  • roro80

    One whose snot is dripping down his own beak best not talk about others needing to wipe their noses. Not sure what your mucus-y comment was in response to; don’t care.

  • DaGoat

    Well dduck I also predicted the Giants would win the Super Bowl, but I was a little surprised Fluke didn’t take the high road and accept the apology. This makes her a bit less of a sympathetic figure in my eyes since she had a chance to help defuse the situation and be the bigger person, but passed on it.

  • dduck

    DG, I said what I said, because I suspected she was not exactly what they (NP?) wanted to portray her as-an innocent.
    It was a prediction based on observation, with the Giants it was all hope.

  • dduck

    Dear clueless, good nite.

  • roro80

    “I said what I said, because I suspected she was not exactly what they (NP?) wanted to portray her as-an innocent.”

    Who the hell cares if she’s an “innocent”? And *I* am supposed to be the snotty one here?

  • dduck

    The subject was the “prediction”, nothing else.

  • bluebelle

    It was a very carefully worded statement — where he gives very little ground– probably written by his legal team. All done to stem the exodus of his sponsors. Then he followed up today using the apology to demonize the left– actually pretty brilliantly done.

    Schultz–otoh– does not make 50 million a year, and was suspended by his network. After a fairly sincere sounding apology, where he did not mention taking on the tactics of the right– he attended anger management and sensitivity training. He came back on the air and has not repeated the offense.

    People doubt Rush because he is one of the most cynical, demeaning blowhards in the US. He has a long history of using the politics of personal destruction — hiding behind the label of entertainer. He is not a an entertainer he is a demagogue.

    How entertaining is it to think about him and his audience watching a young woman’s sex tapes??

  • cjjack

    You know, there has been a lot of back and forth over Limbaugh’s comments. A lot of people have (correctly) made the point that folks like Bill Maher and Ed Schultz have said as bad or worse.

    A lot of people have compared the respective apologies, and commented upon whether or not they were sincere enough.

    That is all well and good, but nowhere in the back and forth, left and right discussion have I heard enough answers to a very simple question:

    Aren’t we better than this?

    Yes, Ed was contrite enough in his apology to Ingraham, but has he really backed off his level of rhetoric?

    Sure, Rush was dragged kicking and screaming to apologize, but has he really backed off his level of rhetoric?

    Quick…name a talk show host on either side of the aisle that went too far, and then not just apologized, but fundamentally changed the tone of their show as a result of the backlash.

    You can’t, because there isn’t one. Not a single one of these highly paid pundits answered the question “aren’t we better than this?” by actually toning down their divisive rhetoric.

    Our political leaders are just as guilty in this regard. Sure, there were some cross-aisle hugs when Gabby Giffords was nearly assassinated, but after the ceremonial grieving was over, the attack machine geared up again.

    Aren’t we better than this?

  • bluebelle

    Okay — yes the rhetoric is bad it seems as though after something terrible happens it eases up and then after a few week resumes. It reflects the frustration of a completely polarized society.

    Reading the comments from the Limbaugh afficionados, I totally feel as though I live in an alternate universe. Of course there are many in the middle but the loudest voices tend to be on the fringes.

    But Rush has been doing this since Reagan was in office– so to me he has always been in a category of his own. Yes, others lose their temper and use those kinds of words too. I never watch Bill Maher– but he seems to be the worst offender on the left. Rush called that woman and the other female students epithets 46 times–not out of anger but purposefully over a period of three days. How can he think his apology which does more to denigrate the left for his own lapses is any where near adequate??

  • TheMagicalSkyFather

    DaGoat-But if she would have accepted an obvious “I am not sorry but I am sorry you were offended” apology then we wouldnt get the fun of blaming the victim and calling her more mean names!!!!

    An apology is a line or two, any more than that is a rationalization and/or a defense of ones prior point that you must attach to an apology if you have any chance of having it heard. Once you are “explaining” and “rationalizing” it is no longer about apologizing and merely about trying to again win the argument you just lost. When the 10 year old rolls his eyes when you force him to apologize to his sister do you accept that or do you note that it is not an apology if it is not truly meant to apologize and “but she hit me first” excuses tend to also be unacceptable.

  • TheMagicalSkyFather

    One other side point if we treat Shultz and Rush equally let us see what actually happened with Shultz. He used the word one time and then was suspended without pay for one week for the offense.

    Rush used the term 53 times over three days so I would assume those on the right defending Rush with the crimes of Shultz will agree that Rush should go off the air without pay for 53 weeks. Also Ingraham did not at first accept his apology and instead made snarky comments though she did come around shortly. Of course Shultz’s apology was very short and did not include much of the “the other side did it first” stuff that Rush’s did, if it had I doubt Ingraham would have accepted such an apology.

  • dduck

    Isn’t RL show on radio? Would that mean that only he would be watching those tapes. He is more of a pig than I originally thought.

  • The_Ohioan

    “Aren’t we better than this?”

    Probably not. At least not unless someone makes us behave. We’ve come flat up against the wall that separates free speech from calumny which I’ve been concerned about for some time.

    The problem with Limbaugh and his ilk (on the left and right) being allowed to dominate the airways for most of the day and evening is the ability for them to spin any fact into the gold (pun intended) thread of trashing any other viewpoint with no rebuttal from higher powers. Not just speaking rationally about differing ideas, but being violently denigrating about peoples ideas and motives.

    The miasma of distrust that brought Hitler to power started in the early 1920’s and took many years to culminate in ultimate political power. We ignore the results of rabble rousing, no matter which group is doing it, to our peril.

  • DaGoat

    MSF I don’t think Schultz’a apology was all that brief, but I do think it was much more sincere than Rush Limbaugh’s. As another commenter has pointed out despite the apologies none of these media personalities is going to change their stripes. Schultz went on being the same guy, and so will Limbaugh.

    I would have liked to see Fluke accept the apology because it would have been the civil thing to do and it would start bringing this episode to some closure. Despite all the calls for civility I doubt either “side” really wants it. The far left is having a great time knocking Limbaugh off his perch (deservedly so), the far right is having a great time defending him and accusing the left of hypocrisy, and the blogs and commenters are all having a great time arguing.

  • dduck

    DG, you are obviously a nice guy, and wish this sordid affair would go away, but this is Fluke’s golden opportunity to further her agenda and her potential seat in congress. Accepting an apology, even if it was sincere, would end her 15 minutes of fame. With Pelosi behind her and you go girls from very famous politicians, she will ride the wave.

    I would advise her to go for the gold.

  • TheMagicalSkyFather

    DaGoat-I think she should accept Patricia Heaton’s since it did seem sincere but I havent found anything saying she did or did not accept it yet.

    I do see your point but I am also a bit tired of the “sorry or the word apology was in it so we must all now forgive and forget everything” silliness. I may not care that you insulted me but I only accept apologies that are sincere and if you put me in a public forum that wouldnt change. I wouldnt say it would be civil to accept a fake apology in my view it would be acting as an enabler.

    If I felt that Rush was truly hurt by this emotionally and personally I may take some pity but the reality is that he is hurt politically and financially and is mid-mad scramble to put out the fire he started and I find it a bit hard not to laugh about that.

    When has he chosen to pity those that wanted to save their money or political stance that he did not agree with? I am not saying go down to his level but to not accept what is not offered honestly is not insulting or lacking in respect or honor it is refusing to publicly accept a lie.

    On a side note imagine a woman in your life prior to you meeting her personally and then think how she would have reacted to you calling her a slut 53 times. Then apologizing in the manner that he did. Would they accept your apology? Would you prompt them to accept an apology from someone else that had done it? Imagine this was your daughter and take out the political element. Do you then think him saying that he just chose the wrong words is acceptable as an apology? And that is ignoring him saying it wasnt personal when he was personally insulting her.

  • DaGoat

    dduck I think there’s some truth in what you’re saying, and there’s a thin line between where being a victim ends and exploiting a situation begins. Fluke had a chance to help end the conflict and passed on it.

  • TheMagicalSkyFather

    Much like Mitt and many in the GOP had a chance to speak up and give us a Sista Soulijah moment and instead most passed on it. Those that did not will not be forgotten because it took guts but neither Mitt nor Rick were up to the task.

  • DaGoat

    You are using “the other side does it” argument now MSF. I would have liked to see Romney speak up as I would have liked to see Fluke accept the apology.

  • dduck

    DG, “Fluke had a chance to help end the conflict and passed on it.”
    And, I agree with that decision. But, don’t get me wrong, I don’t have to agree with anything she says, I am only thinking pragmatically and if I had an agenda, say stop wasting precious water, and I had a chance to make a big splash (pun intended), I would milk it till the cows come home.

  • TheMagicalSkyFather

    DaGoat-I am actually pointing out how the GOP harmed itself from the top down. Many are acting like Rush and the GOP are victims but only if you think they should have acted in the way they did. Fluke failed to accept the apology and you do not think that was a good thing since the controversy would have gone away.

    I think the ordeal allowed for a soft pitch for both Rick and Mitt to have an easy Clinton moment and they failed and in doing so allowed themselves to be pulled into it. Compared to Clinton’s moment this was a rather easy one and they failed.

    Fluke is not running for the nomination for a major parties POTUS ticket so I would hardly say that I am trying to equate the two. I instead am venting about something that I have failed to note elsewhere, Mitt and Rick got a soft pitch and ducked it.

    As for Fluke and her reasons, in my view this isnt about her, Dems or Progs but about NOW(in her mind anyway but that is just my guess). My guess is that NOW is finally getting some vengeance for Rush giving us the term Feminazi and then defining it as any woman to the left of him twenty years ago. It is a rather poetic justice since it is well deserved now if they can just make up as many lies and falsehoods about him as he did about them Rush and NOW may be a bit more even steven. This isnt even about the GOP though, this is a fight between NOW and Rush and that is why Rush is getting so upset…its the first one against NOW he seems to be losing and he has only his inability to control himself to blame.

  • DaGoat

    It is a rather poetic justice since it is well deserved now if they can just make up as many lies and falsehoods about him as he did about them

    It wouldn’t be poetic justice, it would be sinking to his level. If this has boiled down to a battle between Limbaugh and NOW, why is this even an important topic any more? It’s like I said above – the calls for civility are really just BS and most people are just enjoying rolling around in the mud. Hardly anyone is even talking about the underlying issue, it’s all about Rush vs Fluke.

  • TheMagicalSkyFather

    DaGoat-I would have to agree though I think NOW can play just as dirty as any other political group and most likely does on a regular basis.

    Calls for civility? Sorry I must have missed that I thought we were speaking of calling random private citizens sluts or whores for daring to speak their mind. Sure it was far from civil but that wasnt really the issue, I mean when has Rush been noted as being civil. Where he hit the landmine was 53 sluts slung on a private citizen(meaning not a pol or a screamer, so in short me you and everyone we know). I dont want civility I dont want him to go away either. I want Rush blasting on every channel possible acting his normal racially and sexually tone deaf self because I want to see Obama win this election plain and simple.

    I also think if we are going to discuss “civility” rules then we should also be barred from calling male pols, screamers and lobbyists “whores/sluts/prostitutes” which they commonly are. We also need to end the habit of questioning mens masculinity which is a common tactic of primarily female screamers and pols. In other words to be civil we have a long way to go, to merely note that calling a private citizen slut 53 times on the radio over 3 days says a great deal about the mans morality and views on women is rather easy and true.

  • rudi

    Here’s a good way to handle a similar situation.
    If Cal Thomas can apologize to Rachael and take her out to lunch, really contrite apologies are possible. Cal Thomas also posted his apology.
    Rachel Maddow and my lesson in civility When one writes about moral convictions, it’s probably a good idea consistently to live up to them.

    Thank you Cal Thomas, you are gracious in a real heart felt apology.

  • roro80

    “DG, you are obviously a nice guy, and wish this sordid affair would go away, but this is Fluke’s golden opportunity to further her agenda and her potential seat in congress. Accepting an apology, even if it was sincere, would end her 15 minutes of fame. With Pelosi behind her and you go girls from very famous politicians, she will ride the wave.”

    Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable.

  • roro80

    “to merely note that calling a private citizen slut 53 times on the radio over 3 days says a great deal about the mans morality and views on women is rather easy and true.”

    Well heck, TMSF, if she didn’t fall down and lick Rush’s toes after his totally sincere apology for not using better euphamisms to disguise his disgust for her gender, and instead continues to fight against him, she obviously is a prostitute. Right?

  • dduck

    “Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable.”
    Thanks, Roro.

  • ThomasJoad

    The power of sheer idiocy weighs heavily with Rush Limbaugh. Heavier than Rush, under idiocy, his own bough breaks. Fool is he who rushes into idiocy with the twenty-score weight of a fat-man. Heavy is the fool who bows to idiocy and rushes to fat conclusions; fat of head, fat of heart and fat of mind. Limburger ‘tis the flavor air about the rushing fool of fat-wind and flatulently-practiced flap. Like a rotund freakish clown out on idiot’s limb, donning bow-tie and suit of Oxycontin. All in decorate of a double-chinned self-pregnant humor so full of bull that even long-quiescent lard in great drums coagulate spontaneously greens within throw of the fat-man’s quivering-gullet proclaim. Behold ye the weighty clown, clomping out an idiocratic-rap so roly-poly afoul in its jaundiced bowel howl that even fat itself fears its own role undone! A mighty rush of limburger wind breaks through the boughs and potash aflame to offer up its polycyclic neoplastic treat with the fiercest of false conviction – on into the open-mouthed constancy of the right-wing triglyceride moment. Revere ye! the bulbous Pope of pretentious poo in his pulpit a-pander flinging said orts into the welcoming yawn-guzzle of mass stupidity. But alas, the fat-man is fated to bleat, blither and blubber alone; ineffectual, flaccid and scat-like upon his fat-man throne, bellowing his fat-man moan into a fool-hearty fat-man microphone. Yea, soon the fat-man must sing lying down in lie’s vast fat shower, naked and alone; too small for him to exit at the fat lady’s tone. Trapped at long last, shivering, naked and morose; stranded away from dearest adipose; never to accomplish his deepest desire for to fitfully consume endless gobs of pure yellow fat – with the most genuine zeal – piled by proportion obscene atop fat-fried scones – and a side of baby seal.

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