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Living Together, Part 4

Succeeding Part 3. We left off with "Destroy attempts at widespread communal space."

The benefits of living together are so profound that elites need to deny them to others. It is the communal nature of elites that makes them elites: the gated communities, where security and road maintenance are shared; the tennis, golf, and "country" club format, where facilities are shared. Every aspect of western-style "independent conservativism" is, actually, an exclusive form of socialism, indistinguishable except by rhetoric from crony capitalism, which is to say, neither socialist nor capitalist ("Neither living, nor dead").

Handouts ~ An Aside

All the pillars of free trade, rough-and-ready marketplaces, and individualism are, in truth, bastions of collectivism--but collectivism of an exclusive sort. Western political offices, military commissions (even American), and upper-tier large corporation work come with: housing; food; medical care; recreational facilities; paid vacation time; job security; old-age pensions, and more.

There is often a seemingly-strange confluence of government work and free-marketism. Congresspeople, for example, who enjoy excellent, prepaid, lifelong healthcare after serving a four-year term sending their state-funded aides to vote in D.C., but who simultaneously decry the theoretically deleterious effects of public healthcare...small-time crypto-conservatives who consistently fail in employment responsibilities in the open market, resort to government work, and continue to complain about government spending more vociferously than anyone else. At some level, so many of those on the dole understand that, in a world of peaceful decency, their skill-sets--beating people with sticks; giving keynote presentations; making really cool, extraordinarily wasteful death-kill toys for global militaries--would result in them needing to admit their uselessness to society, like so many divorce lawyers begging the government to come up with new ways to formalize lovemaking and un-lovemaking.

Permission Denied

So, how do we keep the proletariat from enjoying the efficiency of living together? For each popular method below, we'll discuss: (I) The Means, or how living together is actually stopped; (II) The Rationale, or how The Means is justified; and, (III) A Bit Of Truth, or how The Rationale is a ploy. We'll use America as our example state; however, this model will generally apply across the board, except for those few East Asian and Western European countries still maintaining citizen medical care.

Putting A Stop To Living Together

Proportional Residency Requirements. I. The Means: Laws providing for police raids, assets seizure, and prison time in the event proles attempt to occupy a residence in more efficient numbers, often based around land-developer designations of "bedrooms" relative to headcount. II. The Rationale: Public health is endangered by too many filthy immigrants people occupying the same bedroom, therefore it is a social duty to prevent people from doing so. III. A Bit Of Truth: The government takes almost no other actions in service of public health, particularly those most consistently proven, over decades, to raise public health, including the mandatory provisioning of healthcare and prenatal care, as well as the provisioning of clean food, water, and housing. Additionally, residency proportions may correlate to resident health, but residency proportion is not the controlling variable.

To middle-classers, this seems like a joke. Who would want to sleep too-many to a bedroom? Or, to a house? This is a very real issue, though, for oodles and oodles of people, "even" in the western world. If you're in-between jobs, orphaned, homeless, or just fiscally-minded, sharing a residence gives all of the benefits discussed in Part 1, as well as the benefit of not being outside at night. For people walking the line between Option A, Homelessness, Option B, Prison, and Option C, a Chance to normalize things with a mailing address, consistent refrigerator and bathroom access, and the society of some friends, the government's imposition of residency requirements forces Option A and Option B onto many. Many, many, many. No joke.

So why shouldn't seven people be able to crash together in a two bedroom apartment in a comparatively expensive urban area? Enlisted military housing, particularly during deployment, is often worse in terms of proportions, as well as health results. The shelters, jails, and prisons that millions of people end up in after avoiding or violating these regulations are worse. Living outdoors is much worse.

If two 150 lb. men share half a bedroom, is it less healthy than if one 315 lb. man does?

If your friend Aisha mops up the kitchen floor every night, then unrolls a sleeping bag and uses it for eight hours, is it less healthy than if your seven cats urinate, defecate, mate, eat, and shed on that kitchen floor? However, none of the alternative situations threaten to upset the rent, property taxes, and/or prison funding that would be generated by forcing the extra taxpayer out.

An Aside On Pre-Criminalization And The Rightless

Slumlords just love versions of public health coding and bedroom maximums, because they can be, and regularly are, disregarded on a case-by-case basis, making end-users reliant on regulators who "look the other way" as long as the price is right. Like all forms of prohibition--from marijuana to immigration to prostitution to the kinds of cars black people are allowed to drive c. 1990 Compton--municipal coding is utilized to control the market for preferred distributors (in this case, land developers) who help write prohibitive regulations in the name of public safety, then apply them selectively in order to terrorize vulnerable groups.

Examples? Well, if you ignore building code violations--those related to actual safety, like exposed electrical wiring or lack of fire exits--then you're allowed to sleep one extra to a bedroom. If you so much as squeak about the rats breeding in the basement, you are out on your ass. Also, Slumlord is keeping the security deposit.

Non-citizen workers who dare complain about an OSHA violation are just as easy to dispose of, because they've been pre-defined by the government as a rightless group. Rightless groups are not only untrustworthy, and thus their testimony is not worth basing prosecution on; they're also pre-criminals, so any attempt to offer testimony results in police-based consequences. Cops pull over and search disobedient black people, extort cash and assets from drug users, and rape prostitutes, because those whose behavior has already been criminalized can't offer any effective resistance.

We've all sort of adopted the longstanding modern perspective of how ungodly it is when people try to decrease per-person government rents, though, which is why...

...Social Shaming. I. The Means: corporate media providing that it is laughable, disgusting, and abusive when proles attempt to occupy a residence in more efficient numbers, often based around temporally-popular bigotries, e.g. race, culture, age-discrimination, sex, or sexuality. II. The Rationale: (varies depending on era) [Group] who live in large quantities should be mocked to remind us how good we have it and to encourage them to better themselves. III. A Bit Of Truth: [Group] may be choosing to deliberately maintain a certain lifestyle despite movies and magazine ads.

The dirty Irish, of course, have too many kids and clog up the inner cities with papist babies who will spawn a Catholic revolt and overthrow the government. Decades forward, it's the blacks, and then the "Mexicans," having too many kids and wallowing in filth. Those stories have largely transitioned to white trash, where it's still really, really funny and socially acceptable to conclude the same things always concluded about large groups of people living together:

1) People live together because of incest and sexual slavery;

2) People live together because they're too lazy, stupid, or uninformed to make it on their own.

On Native American communities (America/Canada: "reservations," and don't forget the Inuit), in inner-city ghettos, and in poor, rural, blended "white" and "minority" communities, more insulated from postmodern culture, some westerners have preserved from destruction more efficient group lifestyles.

The American Indian schools movement is among the earlier postmodern attempts to condescendingly subject populations to federal power by breaking up social networks and subjecting the isolated individual to the power of the federal government. The white man's burden, and the burden of Christian missionaries to the New World, has been continued by the most politically-correct, avowedly-non-racist, non-sexist, non-supremacist thinkers of the day, who continually find new rationales to use police power, social scorn, and legislation to invade communities and break people apart from one another for their own good.

In the 21st century, Native American tribal leaders may refuse to let their elders be shuffled away into state healthcare facilities, or their youth stolen by Indian businessmen who work with outside interests to "modernize" a tribe by shipping its young people off to external employment (and individualized apartments, cars, healthcare, et cetera). Primarily Scots-Irish American rural communities sin by allowing grandma to stay in the home, rather than pushing her out the door to make it somehow. Many Americans also do vulgar stuff like letting their kids stay at home after 18, without an expectation that they leave and make it "on their own," and without being embarrassed that a kid had to "move back in" during a temporary job-related setback.

The response from the neo-liberal west is disgusting, and scathing: when Anthony, the young man, has a drink, crashes his pickup truck, then isn't sure yet about college, the problem is not Anthony or the economy, but instead the poor, ignorant, benighted Indian tribe, which has been discriminated against previously, ergo doesn't understand the kind of opportunities it should be pushing Anthony into. God knows, white kids never have drinking problems or issues with education and employment. Clearly, that tribe needs intervention. It's just so heart-rending that Anthony has no opportunities. A responsible government clearly can't stand by and allow this to continue.

When Grandpa, who has Alzheimer's, urinates in his pants, the culprit is not Alzheimer's disease or Grandpa's crankiness, but his stupid white trash family, for not getting Grandpa proper care--i.e., making Grandpa leave so he can go on state assistance and spend the rest of his days trapped in a somber building filled with shuffling, abandoned, violent elders, who are urinating constantly in their own pants, and who are properly cleaned up not by their children, but by rotating shifts of nursing students who laugh at inmate anecdotes over break.

The "non-ironic irony" (because it is, like everything in this section, arranged on purpose) of postmodern elder care is that regulated, profitable industry "nursing homes" are so disproportionately riddled with bedsores, deadly falls, resident-on-resident violence, staff-on-resident violence, and unattended fecal matter that elders tend to be better off at home. Similarly, regulated, profitable industry "schools" regularly endure hygienic conditions, violence, and emotional abuse rates far higher than that of some sisters and brothers who work and learn at home.

More genuinely ironic is all the good stuff enjoyed by many of those who live together. The communal support on Indian reservations, for example, leaves children and elders in the care of those who know and love them. A constant support network of babysitters, group nursing for infants, older children supervising younger, young men available for pickup basketball without paying a yearly city recreational fee--all right there. The constant criticism, and the massive pressure to conform, from government and society at large, does have an effect on these kinds of groups, and governments have spent the past century breaking them up, resulting in unavoidable schisms in those that still remain. Even so, the work is not done, so governments continue shattering alternative societies.

Political, academic, media, and pop-culture figures casually insult and patronize those who live together, their bigoted rhetoric polished so as to specifically appear different from all preceding history, even as they pursue identical ends (for their own good). Consider:

If a lot of Indians live together, they've been forced to stay on the reservation because of the racist attitudes of outsiders.

If a lot of men live together, it's a homosexual bathhouse. Call the police. (c. 1970s)

If a lot of women live together, it's a sex trafficking front. Those poor women need to be rescued from the abusive international superpimps who forced them to stay in place for nigh-constant rapine. (c. 2000s)

If a lot of white people live together, HAHA, white trash is funny! (c. 1970s onward)

If a lot of black people live together, it's a shameful failure of the black community to encourage its young people to pursue the education they deserve. Or, it's a meth lab. (c. 1990s onward)

Remember, Citizen: if people don't pursue the goals of life, liberty, and happiness in the way they should, they are (1) criminals, or (2) being taken advantage of. Report them to your local public health advisory committee.

The Biggest And The Worst

...and when a lot of people start living together, and try to develop any kind of off-the-grid system, the hammer comes down.

Here's a small one, about Turtle Island. Short, and worth reading.

But that's playing nice, with just one guy trying to live a touch more naturally, and surrendering the instant they send the first nerdy state agent out with a "violations" paper. Remember the above "if a lot of..."? Well, what happens when a lot of people get together, avoid the problems we'll cover in Part 5, and appear sustainable? Clearly, if a lot of people do that, it's a racist, incestuous sex-trafficking/weapons-trafficking front. Enter the American "cult" scare. Disney can build its own uber-racist city, but if anyone else does it, government troops move in: assault rounds shatter bodies, buildings crumble, and children burn. Remember: if you're not with us, you're Fallujah.

  1. This is at least one of the rationales behind the ongoing drone strikes - break up the tribal areas and destroy the attendant independence, and force them into the slums where every man is more or less for himself.

    1. Thank you for raising that point. The centralization of western civilization took centuries of raiding and demeaning those who would not urbanize.

      Some of us are able to remember, now, the way that unwanted children were abandoned outside of cities, to be called "vagrants" and "gypsies" by those inside the walls. Tribal structures that still exist in 2013, in Arabic lands or South American rainforests, remain under constant assault.


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Skyzoo has unveiled the tracklist and album cover for his upcoming album A Dream Deferred, which is reportedly a continuation of his sophomore album The Salvation. As reported by XXL, the cover artist was illustrated by artist Fabian Ciraolo.

Production for the album is handled by frequent collaborators 9th Wonder, !llMind, Black Milk, as well as other notable producers such as Focus, DJ Khalil, and Best Kept Secret. With a solid production cast, it’s obvious  that Skyzoo is not trying to leave any room for blemishes to spoil the album. As one might’ve expected, the Brooklyn MC  also has a proving  guest list consisting of reputable artists like Raheem Devaughn, Talib Kweli,  Freeway, and  up and coming MC Jared Evan.

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Eric Foner on the “Tragedy” of Socialism’s Failure

“To the Marxist paradigm that underlies this vision, I have no objection.” Eric Foner

College faculties tend to be very liberal – and very defensive about it. Any accusation of left wing bias makes the typical college professor fiercely indignant; and the most biased profs usually show the most indignation.

Campus Marxists have even been known to join together to form groups and publish papers to give an aura of academic legitimacy to their denunciations of their conservative critics. As far as their public image is concerned, university professors clearly want to be seen as moderate, mainstream Americans who can be trusted to give their students a well-rounded education.

When scholars write for other scholars, however, they are more candid.

The subject of leftist language in scholarly works is far too large for a short column like this one, so I am restricting today’s comments to a single paper by one very prominent history professor: Why Is There No Socialism in the United States? by Professor Eric Foner. Professor Eric Foner has served as president the American Historical Association and various other academic association; and is the author of the widely used freshman history textbook Give Me Liberty (which I have criticized pretty harshly in various pages of this website).

Dr. Foner also seems to be pretty thin-skinned. He once had a heated exchange with conservative columnist Daniel Pipes  after Pipes criticized something Foner had said in a public forum. When David Horowitz included a section on Foner in his book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, someone quickly threw together a Wikipedia page about Horowitz’ book, which portrays the whole book as a fraud and a crime, and puts a heavy emphasis on the passages about Foner.

Academic Papers: Where the Truth Comes Out

When Dr. Foner is writing for his fellow scholars, however, he shows no reluctance to own up to his Marxist sympathies. In Why Is There No Socialism  the professor applauds “the heroic struggles of European workers and socialists,” and makes it clear that he mourns the failure of Socialists and/or Communists to take control of the American government.

This paper is basically a review of the various theories left-leaning scholars have offered to explain what Foner repeatedly calls “the problem”: the failure of Socialist and Communist parties to gain political control of the United States. Foner finds the failure of Socialist parties in this country inexplicable given that, as he puts it, “The Left parties of Europe have without doubt improved the conditions of life for their constituents.”

A more politically moderate observer might leave some room for doubt about the benefits of Socialism in Europe, given the chronically high unemployment rates of European nations, among other things; but to a college history professor the benefits of Socialism are indubitable.

In the paper, the professor rather wistfully speculates that if the American Socialist Party had joined forces with the radical leftist group International Workers of the World (IWW) in the early twentieth century, the combined strength of the two might have made them a powerful force in American politics. The failure of these two groups to merge, he writes, was “the underlying tragedy of those years.”(Italics added.)

Professors with Marxist backgrounds

Anyone who denies that the halls of academia are full of hard core Socialists and Marxists should read this paper. In describing the work of his own mentor, Dr. Richard Hofstadter, Foner says that Hofstadter and another scholar “shared Marxist backgrounds.”

On the next page Foner describes the scholarly work of “one group of historians strongly influenced by the radicalism of the 1960’s.” In describing another school of thought on the subject of why America is not yet fully Socialist, he says that this approach has “an obvious appeal for more optimistic left-historians.”

In one section of the paper Dr. Foner describes Marxist political parties as victims of “outright repression.” This issue, he states, is “often stressed by historians sympathetic to American socialism.”He does not explicitly say that he is one of these historians sympathetic to Socialism, but a quick read of his history textbook will make his sympathies pretty clear. Page after page portrays American Communists as victims of unfair political repression.

In critiquing yet another scholarly theory about why Socialism has not caught on in the US, Dr. Foner rather unnecessarily reassures his colleagues that “To the Marxist paradigm that underlies this vision, I have no objection.”

If that is not clear enough, Foner further reveals his leftist sympathies by condemning the United States as an “imperialist nation” and “the very focal point of world imperialism.”

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Interestingly, Foner admits in this paper that in the 1930’s the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) “achieved primacy on the Left partially by virtue of its relationship with the USSR, the only existing socialist state,” and further admits that “every Communist party in the world had to deal with the Comintern.”

(The Communist International, or Comintern, was the department of the Soviet government that funded and controlled Communist parties in democratic nations).

These admissions about CPUSA and Comintern more or less contradict various statements in the professor’s textbook, where he basically portrays CPUSA as a home-grown political party that had nothing to do with the Soviet Union.

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In the paper, Foner makes this admission about a Soviet connection after praising CPUSA for all the positive things they supposedly did. “The achievements of the Communists,” he tells us, “were indeed impressive.” They “took the lead in a remarkable array of activities – union-building, demonstrations of the unemployed, civil rights agitation, aid to republican Spain, etc.” Dr. Foner’s history book goes into even greater detail about the supposed virtues and accomplishments of the Communist Party USA, but without the admission that they were agents of the Soviet Union.

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Professor Foner’s comments about organized labor reveal his radicalism as well as anything else in this paper. Where a moderate-to-liberal Democrat would typically express support for America’s union leaders, Foner condemns them as capitalist stooges: “Other writers contend that the problem is not the nature and role of unions per se, but the fact that labor leaders have constantly sought to undercut the militancy of the rank and file, preferring accommodations with capital to prolonged class struggle. Whether this is a question of the perfidy of individual ‘misleaders’ or the growth of bureaucratic structures isolating officials from their membership, the result has been a union movement uninterested in posing a political challenge to capital.”

Union leaders, in other words, have spent too much time negotiating with factory owners to get better wages and benefits for their workers, and too little time trying to overthrow America’s non-Marxist political system.

Professor Foner is quick to express his indignation whenever anyone accuses him of having a left wing bias. To borrow a phrase from Shakespeare, methinks the professor doth protest too much. The things he writes for his fellow academics make it abundantly clear that he is not just liberal, but radically leftist. Students who are required to study his tendentious history textbook should be aware that they are reading a version of history that comes from the far left.

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  • What does the far left lie about? The far right would have you believe that slavery never even happened. A textbook was recently published in Texas, claiming that Africans were brought over as migrant workers. Horrifying events have been covered up by a white history. So what might I ask you, so wrong about being socialist, communist, or radically left, if it be anything more than of those titles?

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Putin's Challenge and the End of an Era

Vladimir Putin's intervention in Syria may or may not keep Hafez Assad in power, but it marks the end of the era of presumed American omnipotence that began with the end of the Cold War in 1990.  The United States has been shocked by Putin's new move, but something like it somewhere in the world was inevitable sooner or later.  Essentially, Putin has simply adopted the new rules of international conduct followed by the Clinton, Bush II and Obama Administration to his own purposes.  Because of the disastrous impact of those rules upon our own standing in the Middle East and our ability to act, he is having no trouble doing so.  In addition, his goals, while hardly worthy ones, are so much more realistic than ours have been that he has a significantly better chance of success.

The new American doctrine was first enunciated by Paul Wolfowitz, then in the Defense Department, in 1992, when he penned a famous memo arguing that the United States should now strive to prevent the emergence of a new peer competitor and, essentially, rule the world.  That was not the view of his ultimate boss President George H. W. Bush, who had shown that he believed in the UN Charter, or of Secretary of State James Baker, or even, at that time at least, the view of Wolfowitz's immediate boss, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney.  But it apparently struck a chord within Wolfowitz's own Boom generation, because the Clinton Administration, especially in its second term, picked up that ball and ran with it.  Bush I had gotten United Nations authorization for the war against Iraq in 1991, but Clinton went to war with Serbia on NATO's behalf without it.  Putin, who was just coming to power at that time, was outraged, and U.S.-Russian relations have never been the same since.  This, however, was nothing compared to what happened under George W. Bush beginning in 2001-2.

George W. and his administration claimed the right to overthrow any regime that either sought weapons we did not think they should have, or supported international terrorism.  He assumed that western-style democracy would follow the deposition of dictators like Saddam Hussein.  He went into Iraq with almost no international support, beyond that of Great Britain, whose Prime Minister, Tony Blair, shared Bush's religious faith in the righteousness of their cause.  The result was not democracy, but tens of thousands of deaths, the ethnic cleansing of four million Iraqis (two million of whom left the country), the installation of an Iranian-backed Shi'ite government in Baghdad, and now, the fragmentation of Iraq into three states, a Shi'ite one, a Kurd one, and a Sunni one now ruled by ISIS.  That, one should think, would have persuaded subsequent Administrations to tread more lightly in the region, but it did not.

Barack Obama has continued down the same path three times.  In 2010-11 he blessed the Arab spring, when the neoconservative fantasy of democratic revolution throughout the Middle East seemed to be coming true.  That resulted within a couple of years in an Islamist government in Egypt, which in turn was brutally overthrown by the Egyptian military. Then, purportedly moved by human rights concerns, he took the lead in bringing about the fall of Muammar Qaddafi in Libya, throwing that country into a civil war that continues today,  And last but not least, he announced, not long after the beginning of the civil war in Syria, that Assad must step down.  Even before the sudden rise of ISIS, the US proceeded on the assumption that it could sponsor reliable, relatively secular allies among the opposition who would take Assad's place.  That was the same fantasy that had led us into Iraq ("Iraq has always been pretty secular," Paul Wolfowitz famously told Terri Gross), and it has been equally successful.

Ever since Clinton in 1999, the United States has in effect claimed a right to take military action anywhere that we feel it serves our interest to do so.  Even before that, Clinton had struck Al Queda camps in Afghanistan with cruise missiles.  Bush, of course, went into Iraq.  Obama pushed the no-fly zone in Libya and has begun bombing once again in Syria and Iraq.  All of this has taken place without UN authorization or a declaration of war.

When Communism fell in 1990, as I have noted repeatedly here, the US assumed that our values and our influence were now supreme,. Others felt differently.  Both the Chinese and Russian governments have repeatedly made clear that they do not accept this view, and that they are especially opposed to the idea that the world has a right to depose authoritarian governments on the grounds of human rights violations.  Ironically, in so doing, they, not we, are standing up for the original principles of the UN, which was based, as it had to be, on respect for national sovereignty.  Putin has spoken repeatedly and tellingly about the weaknesses in the U.S. world view.  Last year, he decided to show us that we could not simply promote a pro-western government in Ukraine, annexing the Crimea and starting a border war.  Now he has taken another huge step: adapting American principles for his own purposes in Syria.

Putin, like us, has taken sides in a Middle Eastern civil war--and has now deployed troops and planes and begun combat missions on behalf of his side.  We really have no legal basis for complaining, since this is exactly what we have done in Libya, in Syria, and in Iraq.  The difference, alas, is that while we have lined up behind a non-existent "moderate opposition" in Syria, Putin is assisting one of the real contenders for power, Hafez Assad, as part of a coalition of allies including Iran and Hezbollah.  We on the other hand have no real allies in the fight now.  Putin may in part be reacting to the Iranian nuclear agreement, of which he is a part, by trying to ensure that he,. not the US, will be Iran's leading ally in the years to come.  That would tend to push the U.S. to the Sunni side of the on-going conflict in the Middle East, which we do support in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.  But the Sunni side in Syria now is effectively ISIS, and we cannot ally with them.  I am not even convinced that Turkey and Saudi Arabia are more concerned by ISIS than they are by the Shi'te leadership of Iran and Syria and the Shi'ite insurgency in Yemen.

As ye sow, so shall ye reap.  George H. W. Bush, the last of seven presidents from the GI generation, thought that the end of the Cold War could usher in the world ruled by law and the UN that he had fought to create.  But his Boomer and Gen X successors, including his own son, decided that they lived in a new era of U.S. omnipotence, and acted accordingly.  Almost no one--especially in the political arena--stood up to say that this vision was based on false principles, and that it was Washington's responsibility as the leading world power to stand for impartial principles.  Putin, or some one like him, was the inevitable result.  We now find ourselves engaged in the Middle East in a traditional great-power struggle for influence in a region increasingly devastated by anarchy.  While Putin may not be able to restore Assad's control over all Syria, he may well keep him in power for a long time to come.  In a hopeful sign, a peace conference is meeting to discuss bringing the conflict to an end, and not only Russia and the U.S., but even Iran, is attending.  I hope it succeeds relatively rapidly, because I don't think any of the likely presidential winners will be interested in going ahead with it after 2017.

Friday, October 09, 2015

The Crisis of American Politics

The resignation of John Boehner and the Republican failure to elect a new Speaker yesterday are the biggest symptom yet of the deep crisis in our political life.  Although obviously not as serious as the civil war, it is becoming the worst since 1860-1, because it definitely threatens our ability to govern ourselves.  It results from at least 35 years of ceaseless anti-government propaganda and from the irresponsibility of the Republican leadership--as well as the inability of Democrats to take much interest in the details and possibilities of government, either.

Essentially, the position of Grover Norquist, a lobbyist, that the federal government needs to be shrunk to the size that it can be drowned in a bathtub, has become orthodoxy among too many Republicans.  While Boehner and the majority of House Republicans seem to understand that we need more or less the government that we have, between 40 and 50 House Republicans, most of them elected in the last three elections, do not.  Many of them apparently live in a bubble of wealthy contributors and Tea Party activists.  That is why they complain that they have not been able to deliver the "change" that they claim their constituents expect, including the repeal of Obamacare and, now, the defunding of Planned Parenthood.  They evidently feel no obligation to make our institutions work because they do not believe in them.  Sometimes it seems that shutting down the government isn't their nightmare, but their fondest dream.

The disease from which they suffer is having other effects.  Every single Republican now peddles the same doctrine of lower taxes, the repeal of the ACA, no funding for Planned Parenthood, fewer regulations, and so on.  The Republicans have now grown two generations of dedicated cadres who want to undo the last 100 years of our history.  Meanwhile,. the Democrats have bred almost no one actively working to preserve and extend the ideas of the Progressive Era and the New Deal--although Bernie Sanders, born when FDR was still President, seems to be one of the exceptions.  The Republicans know what they want; most Democrats appear as lukewarm defenders of the status quo.That is why the Republicans seem to be able to hang on to the momentum in our political battle, even though the American people do not want much of what they are selling.

This morning on NPR I heard an unlikely source point to another problem: the failure of authority at all levels of our political system.  For 40 years, a commentator (whom I did not initially identify) said, we have had political reforms decentralizing our government, legislative bodies, and political parties, and making it harder and harder for anyone to exercise effective leadership.  The Speaker of the House no longer enjoys power over committee assignments and campaign funds, and thus has no way to bring his troops into line.  The commentator,. who stated this very telling point without a hint of partisanship, turned out to be David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush.  Rather than dismiss the remark based upon its source, I take all the greater pleasure in commending Mr. Frum for his insight because he happens to be on the other side of the aisle.  Alas, today news stories report that the rebels want to weaken the speaker's power.

Another unfortunate species of chicken bred thirty years ago has also come home to roost in the Republican coop this week: the idea that politicians' sex lives are newsworthy.  Republican lawmakers, it seems, received emails accusing their leader, Kevin McCarthy, of having an affair with a Republican colleague. She denied it, but there is no way of knowing whether it played a role in his decision to give up the speakership.  I have no idea whether the accusation was true, but a government composed of people who have never been guilty of an affair would be chosen on a very poor basis. I for one do not want it.

There is an obvious, though unlikely, solution to the situation in the House: the election of a new Speaker by a coalition of moderate Republicans and Democrats, together with an agreement to keep funding the government at current levels, forget about Obamacare and immigration, and leave Planned Parenthood on its own.  That would be the equivalent of a Parliamentary National Government, such as Britain formed in each of the two world wars.  It would definitely isolate the anti-government revolutionaries, and it would also force some Republican presidential candidates, in all probability, to support the deal.  I do not expect it, but I I thought I would put it forward to introduce a ray of hope into perhaps the most hopeless American political moment that I have ever lived through in 68 years.

Thursday, October 01, 2015

When Print was King

The name William Allen White is largely unknown to Americans today.  White was born in Kansas in 1868, making him an exact of contemporary of two of my heroes from the Missionary Generation, W. E. B. Dubois and Henry M. Stimson.  His father was a doctor and a Protestant and a Democrat; his mother was born a Catholic, orphaned, raised a Congregationalist, attended college, and was, as White repeatedly puts it, a "black abolitionist Republican."  White was born in a small town, Eldorado, where, as he proudly explains, the first building to go up was a two-story state of the art schoolhouse.  He describes his childhood in detail rivaling that of Thomas Wolfe in Look Homeward, Angel, and he is astonishingly frank about his emotions throughout his life.  He frankly confesses that he hated a younger brother who arrived on the scene when he was about four, and that he was not at all sorry when the brother died a couple of years later.  White eventually attended two colleges, including the University of Kansas, but he did not graduate, largely because he was already deeply involved in journalism.  After working for the Kansas City Star, he started his own paper, the Emporia Gazette, in the 1890s, and remained its editor until his death in the midst of the Second World War, whose conclusion he, like Franklin Roosevelt, did not quite live to see.

White's generation, as I pointed out in No End Save Victory, probably lived through more dramatic technological changes than any other, and he describes the impact of all of them, save the airplane.  (White died in the midst of working on his autobiography, and he had only reached the  mid-1920s when he put it down.)  But he also lived through enormous political changes which he describes in great detail.  In his youth, he freely admits that he was a happy child of the upper classes who saw nothing wrong with the established order.  And as a matter of fact, he became famous during the 1896 campaign between McKinley and Bryan by writing an editorial, "What's the Matter with Kansas?", that went viral (via the telegraph) and was redistributed in millions of copies byMcKinley's campaign manager Mark Hanna. The matter, the editorial claimed in language reminiscent of contemporary Republicans, was that populism was driving capitalists (he did not say "job creators") and wealth out of the state.  White was by this time a Republican.  He had reached his twenties without party affiliation, and his only strong political view at that point was opposition to the protective tariff, a Republican shibboleth.  But he joined the party, he said revealingly, because he wanted to have a real impact on public affairs, and joining one of the two parties was the only way to do so.  It is one of  the many tragedies of contemporary American life that that attitude is nearly extinct and that young men and women are more inclined to distrust any political party.

I was constantly reminded, reading the early chapters of White's book, of the far greater role politics played in American life in the nineteenth century than it does today.  Without the radio, movies, or large-scale spectator sports, it, along with commodity prices, was the main source of day-to-day entertainment in the land, and millions of men and women, like White's parents, took it very seriously. As a Democrat, White's father waited patiently for the return of his party to power after the Civil War, and by the early 1880s, he was well acquainted with the new Democratic governor of New York, Grover Cleveland of Buffalo, in whom he was pinning his hopes.  It is hard to imagine anyone in America today, of any age, who could have identified an up-and-coming politician from another part of the country as a possible President at a comparable stage of his career.

"What's the Matter with Kansas"--whose title was borrowed, of course, by Thomas Frank, in a book several years ago on the rise of the Republican right--introduced White to the upper reaches of the Republican Party, including both Mark Hanna and McKinley himself.  Meanwhile, he was making a name for himself as an author of newspaper articles and books, and making important connections in the New York publishing world.  He was also an important figure in Kansas politics, and he describes the politics of the Gilded Age in great detail, explaining how railroad lawyers carefully built up networks of influence in every town so as to control party conventions ,who in turn elected legislatures, who in their turn elected U.S. Senators.  Corruption today, of course, is more straightforward, since politicians beg money from corporations directly, and it is no longer necessary to cultivate reliable supporters among the population at large face to face.

Trips eastward on the train became a regular feature of his life.  A great turning point occurred in 1897, when White went to Washington to avoid being appointed the postmaster in his small town, and heard that the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt, wanted to meet him.  White was immediately seduced by Roosevelt's concern for economic justice and the common man, and Roosevelt, from the next-older generation, became the great inspiration of his life.  This was the beginning of White's conversion to Progressivism.  He did not want Roosevelt to become Vice President in 1900, and indeed, he tells, much more frankly than TR's recent biographer Edmund Morris, how it was Senator Platt, the Republican boss of New York, who arranged the nomination to get TR out of New York, where he had become Governor after his exploits in Cuba in 1898.  White hoped that TR might succeed McKinley in 1904, but as it turned out, an assassin's bullet raised TR to the White House.

White returns again and again to the Progressive platform that developed thanks to Roosevelt, Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin, and others in the first decade of the 20th century. It included the direct election of Senators, direct primaries to nominate candidates for all offices, the eight hour day, new rights for labor, and some control over the Trusts. Women's rights were another part of the platform, and Progressives pushed not only for women's suffrage, but for an eight-hours day for women, knowing that factories that employed both sexes would have to extend the same benefit to men as well if it passed.  It was, as White emphasizes, a bipartisan movement, which by 1912 commanded majority support in both parties.  But it was not, White says repeatedly, a movement of the masses, but rather of the middle class, who believed for moral reasons that the economic order had to be reformed and the benefits of progress spread more widely.  Not for nothing, as I have noted before, have ideologues like Glenn Beck identified Theodore Roosevelt as the source of the evils of the 20th century.  It is exactly the idea that the distribution of income and wealth has to reflect moral principles that the Republicans have been trying to wipe out since Reagan, and that Bernie Sanders is now trying to revive.

White realized during TR's presidency that while his hero talked a moving game of justice, progress, and war on the "plutocracy," he was always willing to make necessary compromises to get anything done, and his entourage always included one George Perkins, a partner of J. P. Morgan.  (Morgan saved TR and the country in 1907, when he singlehandedly stopped the third major panic of White's life, after 1872 and 1893.)   Roosevelt left office in 1909, of course, and his hand-picked successor, William Howard Taft, immediately turned into putty in the hands of conservative Republicans.  In 1912, Roosevelt took Taft on for the Republican nomination under the new rules, winning every primary but losing at the Convention thanks to the strong-arm tactics of the party leadership and the corruption of southern Republican delegates.  It was because he felt cheated out of the nomination, not for ideological reasons, that TR, with White's support, decided to bolt the party and run on a Progressive ticket.  That doomed Taft but elected Wilson, whom White found nearly as congenial politically--although he never warmed to him personally at all.

Prohibition and pacifism were both common among Progressive men and women.  (White notes the emerging female presence in progressive politics, including friends of his like Susan B. Anthony, Ida Tarbell, and Edna Ferber.)  White, who drank very little all his life, shared both views, and sympathized with Wilson's desire to stay out of the First World War, rather than with TR's frantic attempts to get the United States into it.  Looking back on these events nearly thirty years later, White realized how the war had doomed Progressivism.  He strongly supported Wilson's war aims, and he took his family to Paris where he covered the peace conference, gradually realizing, as he wrote, that Wilson ws being outmaneuvered by Clemenceau, who was turning the League of Nations into a mechanism to maintain the old balance of power.  White also visited the American-occupied Rhineland, where he was struck by the excellent relations between the German population and American troops.  The Germans, he noted, were shocked by fraternization between American officers and their men, and could not believe that the men obeyed their officers out of respect, rather than fear.  White was devastated by the defeat of the League of Nations, which he blamed partly on Wilson's refusal to compromise.  He was even more devastated by the nomination of Warren Harding for President (following the unexpected death of TR in 1919), and his decision to endorse Harding was one of the most difficult of his adult life.  White met Harding several times during his Administration and regarded him as a victim of the men around him. Unfortunately White died before he could discuss Calvin Coolidge, although he had already left behind a biography of Coolide, A Puritan in Babylon, which I have never read.

Although White was a journalist rather than a historian, I identified with him throughout much of the book.  He had loved politics all his life, and he was keenly aware of the great historical changes through which his country was passing in a way that most of my contemporaries have not.  I have no doubt that he would have instantly grasped the insights of Strauss and Howe.  He loved to read, and he was, like myself, a pianist, albeit of a different sort.  He was an all-around intellectual and devoted to his two children, one of whom, his daughter Mary, died tragically after a riding accident when she was about to enter Wellesley College.  And he wrote constantly.  The difference, alas, was that there was a national market for his ideas.  He became wealthy, by the standards of his time, based upon his writing of both non-fiction and fiction.  I think White would have enjoyed reading this blog on a weekly basis--but in his day, it wold have had many more readers.  That is a commentary on the differences between his era and mine, not any differences between him and me.  Like Henry Adams, he is a kindred spirit to whom I shall return, even though he died a few years before I was born.


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Welcome to the New France portal. This Wikipedia portal aims to provide easy access to all Wikipedia articles relating to the history of New France. You will find below both a featured article, a biography, a location and an image related to New France. The topics tab presents a selection of articles, the most exhaustive possible, dealing with the realities of the French colonization of North America and classified by topic.

New France (1534 - 1763)

New France, circa 1750

New France is the name that France gave to its colonies in North America. The history of New France began with the first attempts at French colonization following the first trip of Jacques Cartier in 1534.

From 1604 to 1760, the Kingdom of France gradually expanded its authority over lands inhabited and sometimes settled by Native American populations. Samuel de Champlain founded the town of Quebec on July 3, 1608. It is one of the first permanent European settlements in North American soil and it was the capital of New France for over a century and a half.

This vast territory spanned three distinct regions: Acadia, in what is now Atlantic Canada and part of North Eastern United States, Canada, then comprising only St. Lawrence valley, and Louisiana, which included the Illinois Country, comprising the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys down to the Gulf of Mexico. New France had a low population growth compared to the British American colonies adjacent to its eastern borders. Around 1730, the gap was considerable: the British colonies had about 250,000 people of European origin while there were only 30,000 people in New France.

This, in addition to its geographical position preventing the expansion of the British colonies, triggered confrontations. Those became more frequent until the fall of Quebec on September 13, 1759. A year after its capital was captured, New France fell and was dismantled. Parts were ceded to Great Britain while the rest went to Spain.

New France ceased to exist in 1763 when France ceded Canada and its dependencies to Great Britain by signing the Treaty of Paris. Then in 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte returned the vast Louisiana region to France from Spain under the Treaty of San Ildefonso. However, the treaty was kept secret, and Louisiana remained under Spanish control until a transfer of power to France on November 30, 1803, just three weeks before the cession to the United States under the Louisiana Purchase. Today, all that remains to France of this once vast wilderness empire are the little islands of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, located off Newfoundland, Canada.

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Map of the scene of operations of the French and Indian War

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American chapter of the Seven Years' War, known in Canada as the War of the Conquest. The name refers to the two main enemies of the British: the royal French forces and the various American Indian forces allied with them. The conflict, the fourth such colonial war between the kingdoms of France and Great Britain, resulted in the British conquest of Canada. The outcome was one of the most significant developments in a century of Anglo-French conflict. To compensate its ally, Spain, for its loss of Florida, France ceded its control of French Louisiana west of the Mississippi. France's colonial presence north of the Caribbean was reduced to the tiny islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

There were numerous causes for the French and Indian War, which began less than a decade after France and Britain had fought on opposing sides in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748). Both New France and New England wanted to expand their territories with respect to fur trading and other pursuits that matched their economic interests. Using trading posts and forts, both the British and the French claimed the vast territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, known as the Ohio Country. English claims resulted from royal grants which had no definite western boundaries. The French claims resulted from La Salle's claiming the Mississippi River for France—its drainage area includes the Ohio River Valley. In order to secure these claims, both European powers took advantage of Native American factions to protect their territories and to keep each other from growing too strong.

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Port of cod fishing founded in 1713, Louisbourg lived peacefully for three decades as a port of the French colony.

A fortress was built in 1719 to protect the interests of France in the New World and to serve as a center of operations for seasonal fishing industry. In 1758, the British took Louisbourg to the French. The fortifications were destroyed in 1760.

Over 200 years later, in 1961, the Government of Canada began to rebuild a fifth of the historic town of Louisbourg to provide work for coal miners out of work and awareness of the city as a museum of living history.

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  • ...On July 3, 2008, Quebec City celebrated its 400th birthday! It was the first city founded by Europeans in North America, always on the same site. All year 2008 is devoted to festivities.
  • ...The Battle of Quebec occurred on October 16, 1690 between the British and French forces. When the British sent a request for the city to surrender, Frontenac replied "I have no reply to make to your general other than from the mouths of my cannons and muskets.". This legendary response, and a poor assessment of the fortifications by the British, allowed France to keep Quebec for almost another seventy years.
  • ...During the Great Upheaval of the Acadians in 1755, seventy-eight survivor families settled on Belle Île in France while the British took possession of French colonies in America. Since then, their descendents have remained on the island. Today most islanders have Acadian ancestry.

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Posthumous portrait of Champlain by E. Ronjat (19th century). No period portrait of Champlain exists.

Samuel de Champlain (French pronunciation: [samɥɛl də ʃɑ̃plɛ̃])(c. 1575 - 25 December 1635), "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, geographer, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, ethnologist, diplomat, chronicler, and the founder of Quebec City on July 3, 1608, of which he was the administrator for the rest of his life.

In every way but name, Samuel de Champlain was Quebec City's Governor. Given the fact that Champlain did not come from the class of nobility, he never would have been able to reach that title. However, he received the title of "lieutenant" (adjunct representative) of the, one after the other, designated Viceroy of New France, the first being Pierre Dugua de Mons.

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Québec or Quebec City, also Quebec City or Québec City (French: Québec, or Ville de Québec), is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in the province – after Montreal, about 233 kilometres (145 mi) to the southwest. Quebec City is one of the oldest European settlements in North America.

Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain on 3 July 1608 at the site of a long abandoned St. Lawrence Iroquoian settlement called Stadacona. It was to this settlement that the name "Canada" refers. Although called the cradle of the Francophone population in North America, the Acadian settlement at Port-Royal antedates it. The place seemed favourable to the establishment of a permanent colony.

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My sister Nina, brother-in-law Drew, and niece Ripley came to CA from Maryland for a quick visit and I spent the afternoon at the park with my most favorite niece EVAR (also she's my only niece).

I don't see my family too often, considering the distance (Nina & Drew live in Maryland, my other sister & mom live in Ohio) so when I had the chance to spend time with them, I took it! While Nina & I didn't grow up very close (we're technically half-sisters), since adulthood our relationship has only become closer & stronger. It actually made both of us realize that we may want to have more than one child! Drew is a birdie (one who is fond of birds) who educated Rye Bread & me by pointing out all the different varieties & species of the avian kind. My only contribution was that one time a hummingbird flew next to me for a good 3 minutes & I kind of felt like Snow White.

Don't mind the scab on Ripley's nose - she fell at daycare. And as our aunt said "Oh no, she can't fall don't want her to have a flat nose." HEAVEN FORBID!
my older sister, nina, & ripley
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

~Reflection of the past~

~My girlfriend and I have went thru many stages in our lives together...Middle school...High school... marriage... family  and the loss of our mothers.  We are still friends to this day. To ..boys and broken hearts they left behind in our fabulous teen years. And thru it all we are there for each other. I was listening to a song  just the other day playing on the radio . I stopped to listen for the first time....though it has played just about non stop on the radio since its release .... And I thought of the days sitting on my girlfriend's bedroom floor as we mixed tapes for every cause we the "In love" tape the "Creep broke my heart " tape and everything in between.While this song played..I thought too bad this one wasn't around back then. Fairly fitting to some of the guys we met and thought...You're gonna wish you never had met me.

Friday, July 1, 2011

~A Ginger Life~
Life of a redhead. . . .
When I was growing up in the 70's and 80's, it was not popular to be a redhead. Memories of my childhood{Which were gruesome
to say the least} rang with heckles of "Freckle-Face","Pippi Longstocking" and my most favorite "Medusa" . My brothers were always quick to my defense  ,both tan ,one blond the other sand colored hair . I was the freaky baby sister with the fair skin .The only other family members that had red hair were Dad who stands 6'2 now with grey hair and my 2 aunts {Fay and Sheila}who I thought were so pretty.
I never possessed the California or Maui tan that many of my family and friends had. No matter how hard I tried, the best I could come up with was  the "Savage Tan," which bore an eye catching resemblance to a sunburn.
If I was really lucky  I didn't blister . . . and peel .

As for  today, grateful  to actresses like Julia Roberts
and Gillian Anderson ,{Who my big brother Mike said I look like and love him for that } red hair is wicked hot. I've learned to welcome the fact that I was hallowed to be born with a hair color that is outside the realm of the ordinary. We redheads are a rare and exotic breed. Our temperament matches our hair color, fiery, uninhabited and passionate.
Naturally red hair is scarce. In fact, only about two percent of the United States population is born with red hair. So rare are true redheads that, for centuries, redheaded women were hung or burned as witches. Some theorize that the red hair gene is so recessive that redheads are ultimately doomed for extinction.

I have many daughters and a son that say I'm pretty to have the color of hair I have ,and how I tried for years to change it.
With that I just smile . . and think "WOW . . What an incredible crew I was astonishing bless to have and keep ."


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Christian Life Community

CLC is a worldwide association of lay Christians who are bringing their faith and spirituality into mission, based upon an Ignatian model of Spiritual Life. The members of CLC commit themselves to actively explore their spirituality, their faith, and integrate that into their daily lives through community and service. Meetings are held in the Family Life Center twice a month from October through May on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 7 pm.  Please watch this video for more information about the Christian Life Community.  Contact:  Tom McDermott at (843) 768-2236.

As part of their mission at Holy Spirit, they are Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist to parishioners who are homebound and nursing home residents.

Mark your calendars and plan to attend the Ignatian Spirituality Days of Recollection with the Spiritual Exercises directed by Rev. Dominick Totaro, S.J. on Friday, Jan. 26th from 8:30 am to 3 pm and Saturday, Jan. 27th from 9 am to 3 pm. Lunch will be served both days. The retreat will be held in the Family Life Center and the Chapel. If you would like more information about this program or our Christian Life Community, please contact John Lombardo at 614-620-6052 or Tom McDermott at 843-768-2236.  The retreat is free but contributions, in the form of cash or check, to defray the cost are appreciated.  Checks may be written to Dominick Totaro, S.J.


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The Cuddle Pages

This site is the official website of the newsgroup alt.cuddle.

alt.cuddle FAQ

The official Charter of alt.cuddle

Visit the CuddleLand Garden of Remembrance and Carousel

...and with thanks to Sir Jon, the Cuddler's Gallery

links to historical alt.cuddle, and much more material coming soon....

 Posted 3/23/03 as a humble tribute to Princess Tuggy, who touched all of our hearts deeply.

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Thursday, 2 May 2013

Developing A Internet site? Try These SEO Tips

By Jenni Hoyali

If you would like to get into search engine optimization but are not positive how to do, then look no further. This article can help you to perform just ,that for your search engine optimization endeavors.

Be sure you comprehend your audience base ahead of placing substantial effort into search engine optimization. Your audience or user base influences the very best strategy to optimize your web site for search engines. For those who have a mainly commercial audience base, you use different keywords and phrases than if your customer base consists of mostly private people. Understanding your market demographics ahead of optimizing tends to make your efforts more productive.

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As you begin to construct your internet site, you are going to locate out numerous strategies to support consumers and search engines navigate your website. One such way would be to use breadcrumb navigation. This is a method of secondary navigation which makes it easier for users to navigate around your internet site when there. The concept is the fact that every page is accurately described so people usually know their way around.

Go out and get inbound links from competitor sites that are equivalent to yours. This will show that your site has similar content to that topic. It'll give your site far more creditability as well, due to the truth that your competitor's site finds the information on your website useful.

If you add a certain keyword or key phrase to an article title, make sure to also contain it in your article's body copy too. Actually, a great practice is to get the keyword in the first sentence from the article. The keyword ought to also be peppered throughout the article's body copy, but do not overdo it. You want just sufficient that search engines very easily locate the keywords and phrases and deem your article relevant, but not so considerably that the article becomes impossible to read.

If you post new content in your blog or site, let your network know about it. Every one of the major social networking sites let you pose links: create a buddy list by adding your colleagues and clients. Each time you update your blog, post a link to your new article.

In case your search engine optimization final results are not as savory as they could possibly be, contemplate adding or optimizing your mobile website. Several site owners are frustrated by a lack of visitors, but this should not be the case! A mobile internet site will make your content accessible to wider selection of audiences, and make it simpler to discover your business on local searches.

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A great tip for search engine optimization is always to discover out which search phrases produce probably the most hits then implement these keywords and phrases into your domain name. Employing this technique is an excellent method to move up on the search engine lists as domain names do play a part when picking the order.

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Double Coconut Muffins

As promised another muffin recipe, this time quite a tropical variant. And it is healthy too, with all that coconut and whole wheat flour and no butter. The double coconut comes from the virgin coconut oil and the shredded coconut.

Beware when you buy coconut oil! There are two variants, purified and virgin. Purified coconut oil is just the actual oil, all the other coconutty things are taken out. So it does not taste like coconut at all. It is still a nice fat to work with, it has a very nice mouth-feeling and you can heat it to high temperatures, I use it for example in my home-made cruesli instead of vegetable oil, but it is not the real deal. If you find coconut oil in the shop that does not specify being virgin or purified, it will probably be purified, especially if it is quite cheap. Check your toko or Asian supermarket for it.
And then there is virgin coconut oil. This really is just pressed coconut and tastes like all the coconutty goodness. Unfortunately virgin coconut oil is in many parts of the world not available or very expensive. In the Netherlands you can buy it at a health/bio food store, but it is extremely expensive. So I started thinking on a substitution and found one: santen (creamed coconut). It is ground, dehydrated flesh of a coconut and is usually sold as a white, solid block. In the Netherlands you can find it at a supermarket, toko or Asian supermarket. It can be used together with water to form coconut milk. It has a fat percentage of about 70% and tastes very coconutty, so I figured it would be a good substitution for the virgin coconut oil. And indeed, it worked very well.

Some other things to think about when making the recipe. If you add cold eggs and yoghurt to the molten coconut oil/santen the fat will solidify again, which will make the batter quite stiff. For the baking itself it is no problem, but you need some muscle to mix the stiff batter. So make sure your eggs and yoghurt are on room temperature. Also here in the Netherlands sweetened coconut is not available, so I used unsweetened and added some extra sugar, which worked fine. Furthermore, the hydration of shredded coconut can vary quite a lot and because you’re using quite some coconut, it can influence the baking. If your batter seems very dry, add some extra liquid, if your batter seems very wet, add some extra coconut.

These muffins are cold definitely much better than hot, when hot the coconut flavour disappears completely, while cold they are very coconutty. The yoghurt gives them a nice slightly tart flavour and they are not too sweet. And while most muffins go stale very fast, these can be stored well for a few days.

Double coconut muffins (10-12)

Adapted from Smitten Kitchen
110 gram virgin coconut oil (or santen)
95 gram flour
60 gram whole wheat flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
230 gram full fat Greek yoghurt, room temperature
65 gram granulated sugar
1 large egg, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
90 gram sweetened shredded coconut, divided (add 40 gram sugar when using unsweetened)

Preheat oven to 190C. Grease 12 muffin cups with butter or coconut oil, or line them with papers. Melt the coconut oil (I used the microwave), but don’t let it get too hot, or it will curdle the eggs. Whisk together egg, sugar, coconut oil, yoghurt and vanilla. Mix in the coconut, baking powder and salt. Then fold in the flour until just combined, don’t overmix! Divide batter over muffin cups. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Transfer to wire rack and leave to cool.

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5 Top Tips for Thwarting Thieves

If home security is on your mind, you may want to take a look through this list of tips and tricks that may help add an additional edge to your security system. The ideas range from the simple to the complex, but they should complement any security plan and be within a reasonable price range for most homeowners.

1. Install a Security System and Let Them Know It
A security system should be an obvious idea for home theft deterrence, but it is always worth a reminder that you should have one installed, and visibility of the system is pivotal to getting the most out of it. You do not need to broadcast just how in-depth your security system is, but at the very least posting signs promoting your security provider is essential. Utilizing the threat of the security system can avoid issues like broken windows and doors from theft attempts or a thief unwittingly stumbling on a system vulnerability.
2. Automated Interior Lights
An old trick for keeping thieves away on vacations or even when just out for the day is to leave a light on to indicate that someone is home. A prolonged surveillance of a house can reveal this pattern, making it ineffective against more intelligent thieves. An automated system can control these lights, turning them off and on to simulate there being occupants. While not foolproof, it can at least make it more difficult for a thief to assess if the house is empty or not, thus discouraging any attempts.

3. Visible Surveillance Cameras
Placing a few cameras in spots where they are visible without being easily accessed is a great deterrent as the thieves cannot regularly appear around your house without fear of being caught on camera. There are even fake cameras that sell quite well due to this intimidation effect, but the ease at which wireless cameras can be installed means there is little reason to not go the extra distance and install a working surveillance system.
4. Loud, Angry Dogs
Sometimes, the old fashioned approach is the best one. Humanity has used dogs for home security farther back than anyone cares to remember. Even a small dog can act like an intelligent, fluffy alarm system with the right training, and large dogs can drive intruders away by their presence alone. Just be sure you keep in mind that if you do not want your dog to bark at night, then it might not be the best option for you.

5. Proper Outdoor Lighting
It may seem like something out of a video game, but thieves do often make use of shadows and dark corners in order to do their work. Keeping every outside corner of your house covered by lights will help discourage nighttime intruders. If you live in a rural area you can use flood lights to cover a larger area for the same effect.
Protect the People and Things You Love
Whatever options you decide to employ, the most important thing is that you take the time to secure your home, both to protect your investments and protect the people you love. At the very least, install a regular home security system and use it properly.

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(Originally written in 2001, when my oldest son was in kindergarten, to give some advice to a friend …)

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Booze, fancy clothes, parties, the holidays are here.

Goose Barnacle, purveyor of exquisite things, hosted two new brands at their holiday party last Thursday. Brookes Boswell, a milliner, for all of your proper hat needs and Corridor Clothiers, shirtmaker, for all of your well fitting shirt needs. Extreme merriment ensued. Continue reading