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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Alt Thanksgiving History.

The Real Thanksgiving

Quoted from: The Hidden History of Massachusetts

Much of America's understanding of the early relationship between the Indian and the European is conveyed through the story of Thanksgiving. Proclaimed a holiday in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln, this fairy tale of a feast was allowed to exist in the American imagination pretty much untouched until 1970, the 350th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims. That is when Frank B. James, president of the Federated Eastern Indian League, prepared a speech for a Plymouth banquet that exposed the Pilgrims for having committed, among other crimes, the robbery of the graves of the Wampanoags.

 He wrote:
"We welcomed you, the white man, with open arms, little knowing that it was the beginning of the end; that before 50 years were to pass, the Wampanoag would no longer be a free people."

But white Massachusetts officials told him he could not deliver such a speech and offered to write him another. Instead, James declined to speak, and on Thanksgiving Day hundreds of Indians from around the country came to protest. It was the first National Day of Mourning, a day to mark the losses Native Americans suffered as the early settlers prospered. This true story of "Thanksgiving" is what whites did not want Mr. James to tell.

What Really Happened in Plymouth in 1621?

According to a single-paragraph account in the writings of one Pilgrim, a harvest feast did take place in Plymouth in 1621, probably in mid-October, but the Indians who attended were not even invited. Though it later became known as "Thanksgiving," the Pilgrims never called it that. And amidst the imagery of a picnic of interracial harmony is some of the most terrifying bloodshed in New World history.

The Pilgrim crop had failed miserably that year, but the agricultural expertise of the Indians had produced twenty acres of corn, without which the Pilgrims would have surely perished. The Indians often brought food to the Pilgrims, who came from England ridiculously unprepared to survive and hence relied almost exclusively on handouts from the overly generous Indians-thus making the Pilgrims the western hemisphere's first class of welfare recipients.

 The Pilgrims invited the Indian sachem Massasoit to their feast, and it was Massasoit, engaging in the tribal tradition of equal sharing, who then invited ninety or more of his Indian brothers and sisters-to the annoyance of the 50 or so ungrateful Europeans. No turkey, cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie was served; they likely ate duck or geese and the venison from the 5 deer brought by Massasoit. In fact, most, if notall, of the food was most likely brought and prepared by the Indians, whose 10,000-year familiarity with the cuisine of the region had kept the whites alive up to that point.

The Pilgrims wore no black hats or buckled shoes-these were the silly inventions of artists hundreds of years since that time. These lower-class Englishmen wore brightly colored clothing, with one of their church leaders recording among his possessions "1 paire of greene drawers."

Contrary to the fabricated lore of storytellers generations since, no Pilgrims prayed at the meal, and the supposed good cheer and fellowship must have dissipated quickly once the Pilgrims brandished their weaponry in a primitive display of intimidation.

What's more, the Pilgrims consumed a good deal of home brew. In fact, each Pilgrim drank at least a half gallon of beer a day, which they preferred even to water. This daily inebriation led their governor, William Bradford, to comment on his people's "notorious sin," which included their "drunkenness and uncleanliness" and rampant "sodomy"...

The Pilgrims of Plymouth, The Original Scalpers

Contrary to popular mythology the Pilgrims were no friends to the local Indians. They were engaged in a ruthless war of extermination against their hosts, even as they falsely posed as friends. Just days before the alleged Thanksgiving love-fest, a company of Pilgrims led by Myles Standish actively sought to chop off the head of a local chief. They deliberately caused a rivalry between two friendly Indians, pitting one against the other in an attempt to obtain "better intelligence and make them both more diligent." An 11-foot-high wall was erected around the entire settlement for the purpose of keeping the Indians out.

Any Indian who came within the vicinity of the Pilgrim settlement was subject to robbery, enslavement, or even murder. The Pilgrims further advertised their evil intentions and white racial hostility, when they mounted five cannons on a hill around their settlement, constructed a platform for artillery, and then organized their soldiers into four companies-all in preparation for the military destruction of their friends the Indians.

Pilgrim Myles Standish eventually got his bloody prize. He went to the Indians, pretended to be a trader, then beheaded an Indian man named Wituwamat. He brought the head to Plymouth, where it was displayed on a wooden spike for many years, according to Gary B. Nash, "as a symbol of white power." Standish had the Indian man's young brother hanged from the rafters for good measure. From that time on, the whites were known to the Indians of Massachusetts by the name "Wotowquenange," which in their tongue meant cutthroats and stabbers.

Who Were the "Savages"?

The myth of the fierce, ruthless Indian savage lusting after the blood of innocent Europeans must be vigorously dispelled at this point. In actuality, the historical record shows that the very opposite was true.

Once the European settlements stabilized, the whites turned on their hosts in a brutal way. The once amicable relationship was breeched again and again by the whites, who lusted over the riches of Indian land. A combination of the Pilgrims' demonization of the Indians, the concocted mythology of Eurocentric historians, and standard Hollywood propaganda has served to paint the gentle Indian as a tomahawk-swinging savage endlessly on the warpath, lusting for the blood of the God-fearing whites.

But the Pilgrims' own testimony obliterates that fallacy. The Indians engaged each other in military contests from time to time, but the causes of "war," the methods, and the resulting damage differed profoundly from the European variety:

o Indian "wars" were largely symbolic and were about honor, not about territory or extermination.

o "Wars" were fought as domestic correction for a specific act and were ended when correction was achieved. Such action might better be described as internal policing. The conquest or destruction of whole territories was a European concept.

o Indian "wars" were often engaged in by family groups, not by whole tribal groups, and would involve only the family members.

o A lengthy negotiation was engaged in between the aggrieved parties before escalation to physical confrontation would be sanctioned. Surprise attacks were unknown to the Indians.

o It was regarded as evidence of bravery for a man to go into "battle" carrying no weapon that would do any harm at a distance-not even bows and arrows. The bravest act in war in some Indian cultures was to touch their adversary and escape before he could do physical harm.

o The targeting of non-combatants like women, children, and the elderly was never contemplated. Indians expressed shock and repugnance when the Europeans told, and then showed, them that they considered women and children fair game in their style of warfare.

o A major Indian "war" might end with less than a dozen casualties on both sides. Often, when the arrows had been expended the "war" would be halted. The European practice of wiping out whole nations in bloody massacres was incomprehensible to the Indian.

According to one scholar, "The most notable feature of Indian warfare was its relative innocuity."

 European observers of Indian wars often expressed surprise at how little harm they actually inflicted. "Their wars are far less bloody and devouring than the cruel wars of Europe," commented settler Roger Williams in 1643.

Even Puritan warmonger and professional soldier Capt. John Mason scoffed at Indian warfare: "[Their] feeble manner...did hardly deserve the name of fighting."

Fellow warmonger John Underhill spoke of the Narragansetts, after having spent a day "burning and spoiling" their country:

"no Indians would come near us, but run from us, as the deer from the dogs." He concluded that the Indians might fight seven years and not kill seven men. Their fighting style, he wrote, "is more for pastime, than to conquer and subdue enemies."

All this describes a people for whom war is a deeply regrettable last resort. An agrarian people, the American Indians had devised a civilization that provided dozens of options all designed to avoid conflict--the very opposite of Europeans, for whom all-out war, a ferocious bloodlust, and systematic genocide are their apparent life force.

Thomas Jefferson--who himself advocated the physical extermination of the American Indian--said of Europe, "They [Europeans] are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of labor, property and lives of their people."

Puritan Holocaust
By the mid 1630s, a new group of 700 even holier Europeans calling themselves Puritans had arrived on 11 ships and settled in Boston-which only served to accelerate the brutality against the Indians.

In one incident around 1637, a force of whites trapped some seven hundred Pequot Indians, mostly women, children, and the elderly, near the mouth of the Mystic River. Englishman John Mason attacked the Indian camp with "fire, sword, blunderbuss, and tomahawk." Only a handful escaped and few prisoners were taken-to the apparent delight of the Europeans:
To see them frying in the fire, and the streams of their blood quenching the same, and the stench was horrible; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave praise thereof to God.

This event marked the first actual Thanksgiving. In just 10 years 12,000 whites had invaded New England, and as their numbers grew they pressed for all-out extermination of the Indian. Euro-diseases had reduced the population of the Massachusett nation from over 24,000 to less than 750; meanwhile, the number of European settlers in Massachusetts rose to more than 20,000 by 1646.

By 1675, the Massachusetts Englishmen were in a full-scale war with the great Indian chief of the Wampanoags, Metacomet. Renamed "King Philip" by the white man, Metacomet watched the steady erosion of the lifestyle and culture of his people as European-imposed laws and values engulfed them.

In 1671, the white man had ordered Metacomet to come to Plymouth to enforce upon him a new treaty, which included the humiliating rule that he could no longer sell his own land without prior approval from whites. They also demanded that he turn in his community's firearms. Marked for extermination by the merciless power of a distant king and his ruthless subjects, Metacomet retaliated in 1675 with raids on several isolated frontier towns. Eventually, the Indians attacked 52 of the 90 New England towns, destroying 13 of them. The Englishmen ultimately regrouped, and after much bloodletting defeated the great Indian nation, just half a century after their arrival on Massachusetts soil. Historian Douglas Edward Leach describes the bitter end:

The ruthless executions, the cruel sentences...were all aimed at the same goal-unchallengeable white supremacy in southern New England. That the program succeeded is convincingly demonstrated by the almost complete docility of the local native ever since.

When Captain Benjamin Church tracked down and murdered Metacomet in 1676, his body was quartered and parts were "left for the wolves."

The great Indian chief's hands were cut off and sent to Boston and his head went to Plymouth, where it was set upon a pole on the real first "day of public Thanksgiving for the beginning of revenge upon the enemy." Metacomet's nine-year-old son was destined for execution because, the whites reasoned, the offspring of the devil must pay for the sins of their father. The child was instead shipped to the Caribbean to spend his life in slavery.

As the Holocaust continued, several official Thanksgiving Days were proclaimed. Governor Joseph Dudley declared in 1704 a "General Thanksgiving"-not in celebration of the brotherhood of man-but for [God's] infinite Goodness to extend His Favors...In defeating and disappointing... the Expeditions of the Enemy [Indians] against us, And the good Success given us against them, by delivering so many of them into our hands...

Just two years later one could reap a ££50 reward in Massachusetts for the scalp of an Indian-demonstrating that the practice of scalping was a European tradition.

According to one scholar, "Hunting redskins became...a popular sport in New England, especially since prisoners were worth good money..."

References in The Hidden History of Massachusetts: A Guide for Black Folks ©© DR. TINGBA APIDTA, ; ISBN 0-9714462-0-2

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Dairyland's Best Harvestore, Lamers Dairy & Store, Speel School Drive, Appleton, Wisconsin, September 2014
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A Harvestore repurposed as a dairy store entrance is eye catching in suburban Appleton among strip malls, Lowe's and rehab centers. Lamers Dairy & Store, locally owned, distributes milk throughout the region in returnable glass bottles. The store design reflects the farming legacy of the milk, cheese, ice cream, and Wisconsin souvenirs it sells not far from busy Highway 441. Visitors are invited to watch milk being bottled through an observatory window.

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Fire Work Tutorial
lesson 6

1. This tutorial show you how to make a simple picture frame around the image. First, down load this file. and open it in the Fire work environment. File --> Open -> select the file that you have just downloaded.

2. Click the pointer tool ( The black arrow ) and click the image once. You will see a blue frame around the image as shown:-

3. Now we going to change the canvas size. Click Modify --> Canvas size --> change the X = 304 and Y = 229 --> OK.

4. We going to add a background colour to the canvas. Click Modify --> Canvas colour --> from the drop down panel click Custom --> click the small window and fill in #FFF00 ( yellow colour) --> OK. You will have a frame of 2 pixel width around the image.

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Monday, November 11, 2013

My Trip Home - October 2013

A few weeks ago I traveled home for a visit and to help throw a baby shower for my good friend Kristen who is due in just a few weeks now!  I had the best trip.  Olive did so great on the plane both ways, she was a born traveler!  We got to see lots of friends and spent some time at the cabin, where Olive even got to enjoy her first snow!

Here are a few pics from the baby shower.  Kristen is Due December 7th with her first.  It is a boy!  We are all so excited!

Feeling the bump!

College friends, all of us have babies now with one still in the oven.

Olive is not used to the cold so her Granbee Cooper was nice enough to stock her up on some very cute warm clothes.  She wore her cute fleece on a walk on the golf course with the dogs and grandpa.  She loved it!

Beautiful fall weather!

It was a little big but at least she can wear it again at Christmas!

Grandbee also bought Olive an excersaucer which she had so much fun playing in.  Lots of new toys!

My parents just watched her play in it for a long time.

We also got to spend some time with my brother Colin, it was so fun to hang out with him!  We gave him some baby experience by having him feed her and push the stroller.  He said no to the diaper change however.

On a walk.

After Colin left we headed up to the cabin for some relaxation.  It snowed several inches and it was so nice to be in the cold weather.  Olive loved the snow.  Every time a snowflake would hit her face she would giggle.  It was so cute!

With Grandpa at the cabin.

First jeans!

Guinness was a little scared of her.

Big dog protection.

Loving the snow!

Loved all her new toys.

Snuggled after a bath at the cabin.

Why is it so cold??

Learning early to play the piano.

Juicy jumpsuit?  Check!

New hat?  Check!

Olive got to see tons of family and friends, including her grandpa Lissy and her uncle James!

Grandpa Lissy

Uncle James

Dinner at the Anderson's!
Meeting Laynie!

Marianne- the baby whisperer!

Joel was so excited to have us home though, he watched our plane land and took some pics of us getting off the plane (you can do that on a small island!)

It was such a great trip, we can't wait to get home again for Christmas!

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Monday, February 2, 2009

Onion Kulcha and Mushroom Masala

Dinner is always simple no rice affair at our home. Its either chapathi with subzi or stuffed parathas or dosas but no rice. Yesterday I saw this recipe for Onion Kulcha on Active cooking which seemed to simple enough to be tried. Mushroom Masala is my daughter's favourite. I have tried many recipes and this particular recipe is inspired from Spicy Tasty which I found while browsing through google. I havn't made many changes except for a few. And yes it tastes like the one made at restaurants.

Onion Kulcha

Whole Wheat flour or Atta - 1 cup
onion - 1 medium
green chillies - 1
coriander leaves - 3 sprigs
mint leaves - 6 leaves
carom seeds/ajwain - 1 tsp
red chilli powder - ½tsp (optional)
pomegranate seeds - 1 tsp, coarsely ground
salt to taste

Prepare a stiff dough with flour and water. Allow to rest for an hour. Divide the dough into 4 equal parts and make round balls.
Peel and chop onions finely. Wash and chop green chillies, coriander leaves, mint leaves finely
Prepare stuffing using chopped onions, green chillies, coriander and mint leaves. Add salt, red chilli powder, crushed carom and pomegranate seeds.
Take a dough ball and flatten each with a rolling pin into a round disc. Place a portion of the filling in the middle of the disc, fold in the filling and pinch off the excess dough to seal the edges. Then flatten again with a rolling pin into a large disc.

Place each kulcha on a plate and put it in a microwave to grill each side for 5 minutes or till brown spots appear on the kulcha. One can also tawa fry as for chapathis. Dab with a dash of butter for kids and serve hot with Mushroom Masala.

Mushroom Masala

Mushrooms - 1 packet around 8 big sized
Onions - 4 medium
garlic - 6 cloves
ginger - 1" piece
cashewnuts - 10-12
cardamom - 2
cinnamon- 2
Bay leaves - 2
Red chilli powder - 2tsp
garam masala powder - 1 tsp
Hung yogurt - ½ cup
Tomatoes - 2 medium
coriander leaves - handfull
butter/oil - 2 tbsp + 1 tsp

Hang yogurt in a muslin cloth for 15 minutes to drain off the excess water.
Blanch tomatoes in hot water for 5 minutes. Peel off the skin and puree to a smooth paste.
Peel and chop onions, garlic and ginger roughly into small pieces.
Boil a cup of water and add the chopped onions, ginger, garlic and cashews. When onions becomes soft enough. Put off the gas and let aside to cool.
Meanwhile heat a pan and dry roast cinnamon and cardomom seeds on a low flame. Powder them into a fine powder using mortar and pestle.
Wash mushrooms thoroughly in running water. Pat dry the mushrooms. Slice Mushrooms into thin slices. Heat a tsp of butter in the pan and saute mushrooms till nice and brown.
Blend the boiled mixture to a smooth paste.
Now in the same pan, heat butter/oil add cinnamon-cardamom powder and bay leaves. Saute for a while and add the smooth paste. Fry on medium flame till the oil comes to the sides of the pan.
Now add red chilli powder, garam masala, salt.
Add hung yogurt and mix thouroghly. Now add tomato puree and cook for another 8 minutes till the gravy is nice and red. Now add stir fried mushrooms and mix well. Simmer for another 5 minutes.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.

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Asha said...

Great combo, isn't IT? :)

Namrata Kini said...

Wow I love Onion Kulchas and Mushroom too. Great combination Poonam.

Ashwini said...

Love Kulchas..though I dont like mushrooms..I make them for my hubby..This looks yummy..

sowmya said...

mushrooms looks very nice..wil try it sometime..

vidhas said...

Never tried onion kulcha, sounds great. Mushroom is our favourite, great combo.Thanks for dropping by poonam.

Premyscakes said...

sounds delicious, and looks great poonam.

MeetaK said...

oh what a lovely meal. perfect that you are bringing it along to the mingle!

Uj said...

Looks yummy.. loved the combination

Varsha Vipins said...

I just love Kulchas Poonam n the mushrrom gravy looks so rich..yummy combo!!!

onno david said...

Wow. That's a very colorful dish. my favorite mushrooms masala. Your picture med me hungry!i can't wait to try it. I am going to ask my mom to do it.

Anonymous said...

Hi poonam,
I tried this ysdy.It was too gud.


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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Edit

There is an Earth elemental labeled as "golem" in the cave under the Kaedweni camp near the shore by the Nilfgaardian camp, in Chapter II. You can find it by exploring the caves while searching for Triss. Another one can be found in Kingslayers' hideout.

It is not particularly difficult to kill, unlike the golem in the original game, neither is it a monster boss of any kind. When it dies, it drops an Elemental stone and you can loot all the trunks and containers it guarded. In one of them, you can find the Armor of Ban Ard.

Journal Entry Edit

The earth elemental is the younger brother of the legendary d'ao, the genie capable of creating earthquakes and flattening mountains. Younger, and less powerful, but also more mischievous. Felling trees, crushing walls and smashing people to pulp can be counted among this creature's pranks. But only if their master allows it, of course.
The earth elemental always serves its summoner faithfully. It is most often employed as a guard, as it is tireless and always vigilant. It does have senses as living beings do, but it always recognizes the presence of intruders. It has no fear of monsters, let alone humans.
This monster's most dangerous weapons are its mighty arms. A blow from the earth elemental is akin to a battering ram hitting a city gate, and turns a normal human into a bloody stain. Its ripostes are especially dangerous, for this apparently sluggish creature can strike swiftly as well as strongly. Thus one has to defend oneself against its blows with all available means, including potions and Signs. According to the "fight fire with fire" rule – or rather the “fight strength with strength” – one should also use strong blows against the elemental, since only such attacks can grind its stone body down.
The earth elemental's body is solid rock, so the creature cannot be poisoned or blooded. It is best to summon a team of dwarven miners to use pickaxes on it until its done for. However if the witcher has no such team at hand, he should use regular means. The earth elemental, though it has no weaknesses, can be beaten.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Edit

Earth elementals can withstand a tremendous amount of punishment. Due to their enormous mass they are virtually impossible to knock off balance. They do not bleed nor feel any pain from poison or even fire.

They kill men with astonishing ease—whether by smashing them with their fists or hurling enormous stones at them. Their only weakness is their vulnerability to dimeritium dust—thus before combat one should prepare a full arsenal of bombs containing this ingredient.

Bestiary entry Edit

How to survive an encounter with an earth element? Simple. Run. Fast as you can.
— Nino Murk, bounty hunter
Earth elementals are made of mud, clay, sand and rock dust clumped together with water and brought alive with magic. While seemingly slow and ponderous, there creatures are nevertheless dangerous and should be avoided at all costs.

Combat Tactics Edit

Earth elementals are a test of strength and endurance. Even with a silver sword coated in elementa oil, earth elementals can resist impressive amounts of punishment before crumbling, while being able to dish out frighteningly powerful blows with their fists. Axii and Igni also have little effect, and Aard will only do a very brief stagger, if you're lucky. Also, against an elemental of equal or higher level than yours expect to have your silver sword go down to 0 durability during the fight even if you started at 100; note, the sword will still work, it just has reduced damage output.

Dimeritium Bombs make these elementals more susceptible to harm. They do not make them less dangerous. Strike once, twice if you judge it safe, then roll out of the way of an inevitable counterattack. Use heavy attacks for better damage output. You should be alert for elementals to raise a foot high off the ground. What follows is either a powerful ground stomp that sends a wave of rock piercing through the earth in a line before the elemental, or a shorter range cluster of them surrounding the elemental.

If an earth elemental jumps off the ground, move away as quickly as possible. The resulting shockwave knocks down any nearby victims and also creates a ring of rock around the both of you at a certain range, preventing you from escaping or getting too far away from the elemental. The rock ring disappears after about 15 seconds. The hammerblows delivered by an earth elemental’s fist can be made easier to avoid by using Yrden. Also, if you see the elemental crouch down and cover itself with its arms, do not attack; it will be partially reflected back at you, staggering you or breaking Quen, and the elemental will soon slam its fist into the ground creating a shockwave.

Quen is definitely your best option against these. You'll be able to use an attack combo right through its slow, single, powerful attacks and put multiple hits on it before having to back off, then wait for it to recharge and repeat. The elemental is also slow enough that some of its attacks can be completely evaded by your quick, short-range Dodge allowing you to keep hitting until it finally catches you and breaks your Quen shield. You'll need it; these things take a ridiculous amount of damage to defeat.

Associated quests Edit

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Megyn Kelly just freaking rocks!

CultMan said...

Like it -- forwarding it on to friends etc.

So maybe "debating" is not dead in this country.

Troy said...

she's a biased cunt.

El Duderino said...

Thanks for sharing your rigorous thoughts with us Troy, I'm always interested in the exchange of ideas with our friends on the left.


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Monday, January 11, 2010

On to other happy things - Jadzia!!

Jadzia is now 7 years old! She spent four days with me over New Years - I picked her up on New Years Eve (Thursday) and returned her home after church on Sunday. We had a good, good time.
We had our usual trip to Walmart - Carolyn doesn't go too far without getting something there ... she was in a very bouncy mood and I wanted to keep track of her so I put her in the shopping cart. I was told afterward that it is not the safest thing to do, and I will not do it again, but it was sooo fun and no one was hurt.

She is so much like me - a nut - and we can find laughter and fun in just about the simplest things to do ... just look at that face!! She is and continues to be a joy to me.

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Jimmy was a kind loving person. I was privledged to have met him when I was younger and he always showed me respect and kindness. Though it had been years since I had seen him, I was very sadened to hear of his passing. I will remember him fondly. Thank you Jimmy for being you.

Posted by: J P - LaFayette, GA   Feb 03, 2013

He was truely loved by his family and will be deeply missed

Posted by: Earl Brooks - East Ridge, TN - brother-in-law   Jan 30, 2013

There so many it's hard to pick just one but I will try. My wedding day was one of the best days of my life and I got to share it with him. As the wedding song started to play for us to walk out he said he was so scared he hoped he didn't fall or mess up the march. He was dressed up and trying not to sweat out of his dress clothes but it was August in

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Posted by: Tracy Patten - Ringgold, GA - Daughter   Jan 29, 2013

Great teenage memories on Lyerly Street. Jimmy was a sweet soul.

Posted by: Teresa - Chattanooga, TN - Old friend   Jan 29, 2013

Praying for my family, may you find peace. Love You

Posted by: Jeanna Smith - Chattanooga, TN - Neice   Jan 29, 2013

My favorite memories of Uncle Jimmy would be when I was a little girl. Many times he would come to visit my dad and they would sit in the car together having a beer and joking. Jimmy always would bring Tracy and Chris with him and I would get to play with them. He was always cutting up with me and making me laugh. I was always so excited when he would come to visit us. He will certainly be missed. I love you Uncle Jimmy.

Posted by: Jeanna Smith - Chattanooga, TN - neice   Jan 29, 2013

So glad I got to come and visit a few months ago. You will be missed by many, especially by your wife and family. You was "one of a kind".

Posted by: Debbie Hill - Lenoir City, TN - sister=in=law   Jan 29, 2013

One of my favorite memories would be New Years Eve 2012 its a recent memory but a great one, the first New Years Eve we ever spent together. We laughed and talked til 5 A.M. when I crashed and you were still going strong.Thank you for the time we spent together and I would like to thank Jr and Traci for inviting me and Gail for sharing you with us. You will be forever in my heart and deeply missed. I love you, Brother

Posted by: Vikki Brooks - East Ridge, TN - sister   Jan 28, 2013

I love you all and I'm here for you anytime day or night please just call ....Gail if you need ANYTHING just let me know ......

Posted by: Vikki Brooks - East Ridge, TN - sister   Jan 28, 2013

So sorry to hear of your loss. But think of it as his gain, no more worries, he is free.

Posted by: Dawn Parsons    Jan 28, 2013


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The economic impact of tourism in Kentucky was more than $14.5 billion in 2016, the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet and the Department of Tourism announced today. Kentucky’s tourism industry experienced the strongest overall economic impact growth rate since 2005. All nine of the state’s tourism regions registered gains again in 2016.

“On the heels of the recent momentous success in our manufacturing and industrial sectors, it comes as no surprise that Kentucky is experiencing rapid growth in tourism as well,” said Gov. Bevin. “Kentucky’s natural beauty is unparalleled, with countless trails, mountain peaks and waterways to interest any outdoorsman. Visitors to Kentucky also have unique opportunities to experience the excitement and pageantry of the horse industry, watch bourbon being made at one of our many distilleries, and learn of the Commonwealth’s rich heritage with visits to one of our many museums and memorials. Warm hospitality, tremendous local pride, and experiences you can’t find anywhere else—there is no place like Kentucky.”

“A vibrant tourism industry means a vibrant Kentucky,” said Kristen Branscum, Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Tourism. “The natural beauty of our state provides unlimited opportunities for visitors to experience recreation or leisure activities around every corner. The economic impact numbers for 2016 reinforce the fact that the tourism industry is a vital economic driver for Kentucky.”

Kentucky's tourism industry generated $14.5 billion in economic impact during 2016, an increase of over five percent from $13.7 billion in 2015. The industry supported nearly 193,000 jobs and generated more than $1.5 billion in tax revenue, with $195.1 million going directly to local communities. The full tourism economic impact study is available at www.kentuckytourism.com/industry.

The Kentucky Department of Tourism continues to build upon Kentucky’s signature tourism industries of horses, bourbon, music, arts, outdoors and culinary to reach new audiences and present Kentucky as a top-level destination for visitors internationally and domestically.

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Catherine Rudd McShane,(Kay), 82, died January 25, 2017 at St Mary’s Hospital in Evansville, Indiana after a long illness. A Memorial Service will be held at 10:30AM, Saturday 12/28/17 at St Ann Catholic Church in Morganfield . Fr Freddie Byrd will officiate. Friends may call on the family from 9:00AM until service time Saturday at the church. Memorial donations may be sent online to the Alzheimer’s Association.

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Friday, June 22, 2012

On nuances of plagiarism

I have a perennial interest in gamebooks, which are the perfect way to meld my love of video games and my love of reading. Recently I've been into Tin Man Games' Gamebook Adventures, which brings the genre into the 21st century by using code to automate a lot. This isn't really a new idea. Fighting Fantasy Project has dozens of independently-produced gamebooks, some web-implemented, others in .pdf or Word format.

After getting a iPod Touch for my birthday, I've been working my way through the available GA books one by one, my latest conquest being book number 4, Revenant Rising. I was enjoying it up until the halfway point, where a dead minstrel spoke to me, giving information about a evil army I was currently trying to thwart. I was instantly reminded of a similar situation that occurred in one of my favorite FFProject indies, Hunger of the Wolf. At the time, I brushed it off and went on, but then I found another familiar situation: a detachment of said evil army camped by a river that I had to cross. And beyond that, a third set-piece: a village on fire, and me given a choice to rush into a burning building to save a peasant woman's baby, or confront the soldiers who were laughing at it.

With an eyebrow raise, I re-downloaded Hunger of the Wolf and took a look at them side by side. Sure enough, there's some utterly blatant ripping-off in evidence. Not only are the broad strokes of the plot similar, but huge swaths of the middle of Revenant Rising are simply copy-pasted from Hunger of the Wolf, with only slight modifications for the new setting and characters.

Curious as to how they expected to get away with this, I checked the credits page for Revenant and discovered exactly how they got away with it. The writer for Revenant, Kieran Coghlan, is the same man who did Hunger of the Wolf. The credits page also contains this line:

"Revenant Rising is based on an existing gamebook entitled 'Hunger of the Wolf' which is licensed to TMG by the writer."

In other words, Coghlan... plagiarized himself? My first thought, before I read the credits, was rage. My second was laughter: well, I guess that's okay, then! My third thought was "Wait, so I just paid $4.99 for something that was already available legally for free? With zombies instead of wolves?"

(I'm admittedly biased on the relative lack of wolves being a grave injustice.)

But this raises some interesting questions. Can an author plagiarize himself? Arthur C. Clarke copy-pasted an entire chapter of 2001 into the sequel and insisted (with some snark) that it was perfectly alright to do so. He has a point. If plagiarism is the theft of intellectual content, one can't really be accused of stealing something that was already one's own.

But on the other hand, if there's no foul play here, am I justified in feeling ripped off? Or is that just the gamer's sense of entitlement speaking?

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  1. Laziness of writers can be the commonest cause of plagiarism, as they do not want to spend much time in doing research work. However, they must be aware that it takes no time to check duplicate content, as there are varieties of plagiarism checker tools available in the market.

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Winston Smith, hero of the seminal dystopian 1984, once remarked "The best books tell you what you already know." Whether George Orwell meant it to be ironic or not is debatable, but it's very true. A great story doesn't preach to the reader. Rather, it brings clarity to things the reader already knew from his or her own life experience. It uses what the reader already knows to impart an understanding - perhaps great, perhaps small - of the nature of the world and the human condition.

I'm prepared to call Neal Shusterman's Unwind a great book. In fact, I'm prepared to call it one of the most significant YA books of the past ten years. I'm even prepared to say that it's the kind of book that will, and should be, stocked in school libraries and taught in junior high english classes decades from now. It's skillfully written and tensely plotted, but more than that, it has ideas. Important ideas about important things.

The premise is that a generation or so before the story begins, the pro-life and pro-choice factions of the American public came to all-out civil war. The problem was solved by a compromise: from conception to thirteen years of age, human life is protected by law. However, from thirteen years to eighteen, a child can, with his parents' consent, be "unwound". He or she is carved up into his component organs, which are then transplanted into donors who are in need (or just prefer new eyes to wearing glasses all the time). The rationalization is that life of the body doesn't technically end, but pretty much nobody actually believes this, least of all the kids sentenced to it. Our main characters are Connor, Risa, and Lev, three teens due to be unwound. Escape from the authorities, they go on the lam, trying to survive until they become legal adults.

It's a great premise, and as I said, it makes for a great book. I am not, however, prepared to say that it is perfect. The plot has a kind of thrown-together feel; essentially, our heroes move from one adventure to another, meeting other characters and situations along the way. I got the feeling that I wasn't really reading a novel, but a series of short stories jerry-rigged into one. I don't mind that either. Dystopians are about dysfunctional societies, so many of them use the plot as simply an excuse to move the protagonist around and observe the setting. But there are places in Unwind where the seams are visible. Lev's character arc shows it the worst. When we first meet him, he's a doe-eyed innocent brought up to celebrate his potential unwinding as a religious experience. Early on, he's separated from the other two and disappears, then the next time we see him he's a kind of Artful Dodger in training. The next time we see him after that, the world has beaten him into a cynical loner with anger issues. How he got from point A to point B to point C is given only a cursory explanation.

I don't mean to say that the plot of Unwind is bad, because it isn't. Despite some rough edges, it moves at a brisk pace and is never anything less than involving. But it's obvious that neither the plot nor characters are really that important. What's important are the ideas.

So, what about the ideas?

Well, Unwind has been marketed as a book about abortion. It isn't. The pro-life/pro-choice civil war is given only the barest of mentions, and in so far as Shusterman  has an opinion, it would seem to be contempt for both sides. He portrays the Great Debate Of Our Times as an unhealthy distraction that blinds us to more serious issues, and engenders fanaticism and obsession. This idea is developed further in the sequel, which explicitly defines the Unwinding Accords as a method of avoiding problems rather than having to talk about and deal with them.

If you wanted, you could construct a Liberal Christian interpretation of the novel that frames it as a condemnation of the pro-life movement. The idea that unwinding is acceptable because the body lives on as a collection of transplanted organs is a slap in the face to Conservative Christians for focusing on the life of the body - which never lasts forever anyway - over the life of the soul. But except for a discussion between several characters about what makes them alive (the eventual conclusion being that they can't know), Shusterman eschews any spiritual or metaphysical argument in favor of concrete, secular ones.

No, the true thrust of the book goes deeper. Broadly, it's about man's inhumanity to man. Specifically, it's about a lot of things: selfishness, political partisanship, apathy towards others ("Not my problem" is practically the mantra of the damned), trophy children. Most of all, though, it's about depersonalization. It's about what happens, and what we're capable of, when we start thinking about our fellow human beings as problems rather than people. It's about what happens when people stop having names and instead become part of a "them". It's about how absolutely critical it is to a society that everyone be acknowledged as someone.

This is something that we, the people of this place and time in history, need to learn. But then again, it's also something we already know.

Read this book.

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Typically I blog on the 1st of every month, however, this month, as we are discussing Women's Health, I have been neglectful. I am a late arriver to the party.

This has been a very busy month for me, as one of my sons and his fiance got married. It has truly been a joyous family celebration, but now, I am ready to take a deep breath and rest.

I am not exactly a shining example for women's health. My mother died of a heart attack at the age of 46, my father died at 69 just 10 days after sextuple bipass surgery. Yes, you read right – 6 bipasses. Every single person in my family on both sides has died from heart disease.

This has made me think and try so very hard to live longer than my parents and to strive for a healthy lifestyle. My father was actually an alternative health practitioner, so you would think that this would give him a little extra leverage, right? Well, he died the same age as his father died, so maybe not.

I would say that I have learned some important messages from heart disease: it's sneaky, it's not just about one thing, and it can put you in a hospital bed or mortuary in a heart beat. Literally.

Heart disease the biggest reason I am a vegetarian. It's the reason I do yoga every day. It's the reason I am grateful for every day that I have lived beyond the age of 46, when my mom passed. But, I still have so much to learn and so much improvement to make.

This past month showed me that I am not stress-free. I try, I swear I do, but it's a lot of work trying to feel pretty when one is surrounded by beautiful people (if you have ever seen my new daughter-in-law's family, you would see how beautiful that they all are). Pressure.

So many women lose weight in preparation for an important event, but no, I snacked my way to it. There's no gray space with me and stress. I am either eating, or can't touch food. It's ridiculous.

Oh well, now I will try to get back on the wagon, live in the moment, and be my healthy self. And perhaps just those three things will give me the energy to jump back into life and do all my regular stuff – like blog at Women on the Verge.

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Mitt gives a big hand to Mitt.Capping off perhaps the most exciting pre-campaign campaign since fictional candidate Tim Pawlenty’s campaign was accidentally announced on a website on a Sunday night, Mitt Romney today announced he was really doing that thing he has been doing non-stop since approximately 1996: running for president. The health-reform Mormon returned to his roots in liberal Massachusetts New Hampshire (where he bought rented a giant farm specifically so he could do this in New Hampshire), where he woodenly recited his talking points and was politely applauded by paid staffers and family members.

Romney bought (rented? borrowed?) the 300-acre landmark so he would have a backdrop for his presidential campaign announcement. Most people just get some banners and a PA system or whatever, but Mitt Romney is one of the wealthiest men in America, so he just bought somehow got this gazillion-dollar farm in a state where he doesn’t even live. Why not?

From the NYT blogs:

Mr. Romney made his candidacy official at a family farm, where he invited supporters and media to a “Cookout With Mitt and Ann.” Under clear but windy skies and with tractors and hay bales as a backdrop, Mr. Romney hopes to send the message that he intends to win New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary.

The choice of the Bittersweet Farm for his announcement is an interesting one for Mr. Romney, who regularly argues for a smaller federal government that spends less. The rolling green hills of the farm were preserved in recent years in part with $1 million in federal money, according to a recent report in Seacoast Online.

Another gazillionaire welfare farmer. OR NOT, god you guys. Didn’t he buy some mansion in New Hampshire? Is this not it? Ugh, nobody’s MUCH HELP. [NYT]

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  • johnnymeatworth

    Finally there's an official GOP candidate to ignore!

    • nounverb911

      Isn't that "all of them, Katie"

    • Negropolis

      And boy will they be ignoring this guy…again. Doesn't he get how out of touch with his party he is? Unless you're screaming about second amendment remedies, you ain't going to be heard, Mitt. BTW, don't even try it, 'cause you suck as an actor. Keanu Reeves has better acting chops than you.

  • pinkocommi

    I'm looking forward to the tweet of a picture of Mittens' wiener in that special Mormon underwear.

    • Ruhe

      Good luck with that. I hear that one of the more magical features of LDS underwear is that it scrambles the memory chips of any nearby cameras so Mormons are basically amateur porno proof.

      • HistoriCat

        So that's why Utah is the nation's biggest consumer of the professional stuff …

      • DahBoner

        Didn't work for Belladonna:

        "I had to do a lot of things I can't imagine anyone wanting to do."

        That's the trouble with Mormon porn stars–they have no imagination…

    • chilequiles

      No amount of photoshop could make wangs in magic underwear look good.

    • lochnessmonster

      where he "woodenly" recited his talking points…guess we missed the photo!

  • nounverb911

    If elected, Mitt plans on putting Joe Miller in a dog carrier on the roof of Air Force One.

    • Lascauxcaveman

      Damn! I was planning on voting for Obama, up til now.

  • freakishlywrong

    Bittersweet Farm? Really? Get the fuck outta here! That's what I'm calling his campaign from this moment on.

    • mrpuma2u

      I believe it will turn bittersweet very quickly, with the Palin/Paultard mouth breathers screaming for his head on a routine basis. I just hope he has to face a few of them close up in the Iowa caucuses.

    • Callyson

      Bitter…because owned by Mittens.
      Sweet…because it is counting on being sold promptly after the 2012 election.

  • SayItWithWookies

    There's a fake ranch in Crawford he could get for cheap.

  • mull_man

    Dibs on the campaign bus roof rack!

  • nounverb911
    • Buckminster

      He never had my vote, but after hearing the dog story, I want to send him to the nearest vet to be neutered.

  • Come here a minute

    Since Mitt's new farm has so much space, I'm sure he won't mind if Sarah's bus parks there overnight, and the kids take the dirt bikes out on the rolling green hills.

  • I can feel the enthusiasm for Mittens from here in Canada City. Or I just farted.

  • where he woodenly recited his talking points

    Again with the penis? Don't people know there are working stiffs out there who are finding it hard to get a job?

    P.S. Who wants to bet that tomorrow, our elite press corps will still be engorged with talk of Weiner's wiener rather than Mitten's mutterings?

  • OneDollarJuana

    Bought himself a spread, huh? When will he start clearing brush?

  • RadioJr.

    We finally have a candidate we can sink our fangs into.

  • prommie

    Suddenly I am sooo tired, I am yawning and I can't keep my eyes open. Its such a boring afternoon. Boring, tiring, yawn. . . . .

    • SayItWithWookies

      You better rest up, then — Pawlenty'll be making his announcement any week now, and the repercussions from that will probably make the whole country feel like it's Friday afternoon after a heavy lunch.

      • WriteyWriterton

        Republican Presidential candidates, Melatonin, Ambien, or L-Tryptophane as an insomnia remedy.

        Compare and contrast.

    • fuflans

      republicans: soporific or batshit.

      we report. you decide.

  • mrpuma2u

    So he kicks off his campaign on "Bittersweet Farm" that just received a megabuck of socialist tax dollars. Damn your fancy Cadillac tractor driving welfare queen ass, Mittens!!! F*$% RINO.

    • SayItWithWookies

      He's just sticking to his values — lying, like charity, begins at home.

  • Barb

    He reminds me of the actor they select to play the American President in a Canadian movie. He could actually win this thing if he gets the "soccer mom" vote. (and marries all of them)

    • Lascauxcaveman

      Lotta soccer moms are still carrying the torch for Barry O. I don't see Mitt taking many of them away. Especially the ones paying attention to what he says, is, stands for.

  • nounverb911

    "Cookout With Mitt and Ann."
    Bring your own weiners.

  • YasserArraFeck

    It's not real until I see Mittens out there on his "lawnmachine" clearing brush.

  • nounverb911

    "was politely applauded by paid staffers"
    Mitt is so boring he has to pay people to applaud him?

    • Steverino247

      That's the new GOP for you. We had Meg Whitman doing that out here in CA.

      • AJWjr.

        And she fucked her domestic help, too. Didn't result in any bastard offspring like herr governator's dalliance did, but it helped keep her from being elected. Well done, CA.

        • Steverino247

          You're very welcome. Our pleasure.

    • Dashboard_Jesus

      "and was politely applauded by paid staffers AND family members" …hell it looks like Mittens even has to pay his FAMILY to applaud/ vote for him?

  • Poindexter718

    The Mittens/Tea-Paw deathmatch should be fascinating, as it represents the clash of two axioms of GOP politics: nominate the guy who's next in line versus nominate the guy who puts the entire line to sleep.

    • Negropolis

      I think it's nominate the guy who's next in line versus the guy who is next in line to the next-in-line.

  • Goonemeritus

    Cool now I can finally finish my declared Republican candidate position Venn diagram. I have found if you included a Hermann Goering circle the similarities become much clearer.

    • WriteyWriterton

      Venn Diagram + Godwin's Law = TeaPublican Presidential field.

      • Goonemeritus

        How can you avoid Nazi comparisons with these guys it’s like writing bio piece on Raquel Welch and not mentioning breasts?

        • WriteyWriterton

          Not arguing. Agreeing. (But you're REALLY dating yourself with the Raquel Welch reference.)

          • Goonemeritus

            You kid’s, I suppose I should have used Rula Lenska to make it more current and hip.

          • WriteyWriterton

            Rula Lenska? Wow!

            Dude, I'll bet I'm older than you. I just wouldn't think of the current Raquel Welch and "breasts" right away without feeling a bit queasy.

          • Goonemeritus

            I once had a boss who said the best part about getting older is there is a bigger percentage of women that he finds attractive. That said you're right about a current day Raquel or Rula for that matter.

          • WriteyWriterton

            I agree with your boss – further evidence of my pathetically advanced age.

          • And in conclusion, tits! Jeez fellas, focus.

            Did you see Battle Of The Network Stars last night? How about the rack on that Adrienne Barbeau?!

          • Negropolis

            Did you catch the latest talkie with Rita Hayworth? Roof!

  • FNMA

    For some reason, I thought of this Del McCoury tune:

    • OneDollarJuana

      Damn! Who was that fruity-tooty in the scarf? Talk about bad '80s coutour!

      • FNMA

        Marty Stuart. Old buddy of Johnny Cash. Was dropped by Columbia when he protested Johnny being cut from the label. When Pops Staples died, Marvis gave Marty one of Pops' guitars. Yeah, the hair and the get-up, it's a bit over the top…

        Fun Fact about Del McCoury: His full first name is Delano and he was named for FDR and has stayed true to his namesake. Good guy.

        • Lascauxcaveman

          I love the album he and the boys did with Steve Earle.

    • occams8ball

      thanks for posting, comrade.

  • Weenus299

    "I'm going to be the one to get my ass kicked in 2012!"
    "No, I'M the one who will get my ass kicked in 2012."
    "NO, ME! I kicked more old ladies out of their homes!"
    "Oh yeah?! Well I kept people out of work from paying their bills, AAANND I'm going to make poor people pay all their doctor bills with their children!"

  • BlueMonkeh

    • I think Mittens just wished everyone a happy National Donut Day eve. We can go back to our naps.

  • And they're off!

  • PabaBritannica

    Still doesn't have a blimp.

  • Lionel[redacted]Esq

    So, Mitt decided to announce his candidacy at a "cookout" for the media at government subsidized farm. I'm sure the 'baggers will have no problem with that.

    And, now that we know who the GOP front runner that will collapse into oblivion is, the question comes down to who will bring just enough craziness to the nomination. My money is still on David Koresh Michelle Bachmann, but I'm still willing to be surprised.

    • anniegetyerfun

      Nah, the Teabaggers are fine with government subsidies as long as they are going to white people. Now, if a black woman owned the Bittersweet Farm, we'd have some fightin'.

  • KeepFnThatChicken

    Another way to say this: "And he's already created one job! Joe Miller's!"

  • CrankyLttlCamperette

    Bring back the "Fudge" photo!

  • RadioJr.

    Mitt, can you tell us that story again about how lovely Paris was during the Vietnam Era?

    • Texan_Bulldog

      And how all your gazillion sons serve the USA by working on your campaign. I bet he doesn't whip that chestnut out again.

      • Tapp, Trig, Twat…where do these Wonderbread Repubes get these names?

    • Aw Radio, you're playing the Chickenhawk card on a guy to battled rugby players in Paris and was attacked by a pedophile papist on a Bordeaux country lane?

  • SorosBot

    Is the campaign preseason over already? But I don't see any star players on the field coming on the field now, just the same group of crappy scrubs and untrained rookies who've been playing the exhibition campaigning.

    • Ruhe

      Oh, we're into the real season alright. It just looks like endless preseason because Mitt plays for the Bengals.

  • Callyson

    The rolling green hills of the farm were preserved in recent years in part with $1 million in federal money
    OK, as boring as Mittens is, I *am* interested to see what Joe Miller and the rest of the teabaggers do with this gem…

    • DaRooster

      I truly can't wait to see them (R- candidates) rip each other to shreds with their back stabbing, vile shit… it's gonna be fun!
      At least until Diebold determines the final election… to end ALL elections.

  • BloviateMe

    This is horrible, even ghastly masturbation material, when it comes down to it.

  • WriteyWriterton

    Mitt Romney – the man whose bread always lands jelly-side down AND jelly-side up.

    • OneDollarJuana

      White bread and cloyingly-sweet jelly. Mmmmm. Well, you are what you eat.

  • Texan_Bulldog

    I think if Mitt runs on the "I'm White" platform, he's a shoo-in. Poor Herman Cain–it'll probably be another couple hundred years before we're ready for another black president, although I was looking forward to 'a pizza in every oven' campaign he was going to run on.

  • nounverb911
    • Let's have an Anchor Steam instead.

      • OneDollarJuana

        Anchor Porter for me!

  • He won't be on a few State's ballots because his Dad is Mexican.

    • DahBoner

      Mitt has done quite well, for an anchor baby….

  • jus_wonderin

    Oh joy. Now if Perry gets in, well, it makes finding the GOP Hair Apparent much more difficult.

  • WhatTheHeck

    Fool. He should have started off his campaign wearing black leather chaps with his legs astride a hog and saying how lovely the fumes were.

  • DaRooster

    He bought a FARM?

    Get a friggin' BUS Dude… Old McDonald had a farm… and he's old. Bus is the new farm.

    • nounverb911

      Joe Miller wishes Romney "bought the farm".

    • DahBoner

      Yeah, farming isn't cool anymore, unless you have an organic farm with naked hippy chicks…

      • easybaked

        Does he grow tomaccos there? Yes, they are real.

    • Negropolis

      Bus is the new farm.

      Bloody brilliant quote!

  • JUNIOR! Nowhere in the article does it say he "bought" the farm. It refers to "a family farm", "the farm", and "a nice farm". NOT "his farm".

    A little reading comprehension here, mmmkay?

    • Thanks for fixing! You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

  • OneYieldRegular

    So they give federal farm subsidies for hay bale props too?

    • easybaked

      Needs more codpiece.

  • Fare la Volpe

    Oh good. I was waiting for X-Pac to enter the arena.

  • Texan_Bulldog

    Hell, another shooting rampage in AZ — 5 dead so far. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH AZ?

    • genxr

      Obviously not enough guns.

    • SorosBot

      Fuck the NRA cocksuckers again.

    • Pragmatist2

      Hold it! I know! I know!
      It's "Arizonans," right???

    • BaldarTFlagass

      Well, at least one of the victims was a lawyer.

      Henry VI

      • fuflans

    • BerkeleyBear

      Would you prefer to start chronologically, alphabetically or numerically?

    • vodkamuppet

      Joe Barbera? That one didn't end well either.

    • C_R_Eature

      It's not just Arizona. Unfortunately.

      Hey there, Mr LaPierre…can we go over this "An Armed Society is a Polite Society" theory of yours again? I'm still not getting it.

  • RedneckMuslin

    You know who else had a cookout on a farm?

    • nounverb911

      Old MacDonald?

    • Fare la Volpe

      No, but I know some guys who had a cookout in a camp.

    • SexySmurf

      David Koresh?

    • jakegittes

      Steve Raichlen?

    • AJWjr.

      The Merry Pranksters?

    • SorosBot
    • C_R_Eature

      The Donner Party?

  • OC_Surf_Serf

    You will not win.

    Send gazillion dollar consultant fee to:

    Meme Mezzanine
    69 Wonkette Plaza
    Anusburger Lane, DC

  • elviouslyqueer

    Romney blamed the president for high unemployment, rising gasoline prices, falling home values and a soaring national debt.

    Uh, Mitt? 2007 is on the phone and would like a word with you.

  • MozakiBlocks

    Speaking of GOP morans, apparently Chris Christie is getting ready to hold a press conference to address the helicopter ride.

    And the media will just ignore it. Why do a story on the misuse of government property and resources, when you can run around with your hair on fire screaming about a Democratic Congressman's COCK??????!!!!!!?????

    • neiltheblaze

      I agree. I really wish the MSM would just get off Weiner's cock already.

    • anniegetyerfun

      Because IT'S A PENIS. Penises are extremely serious business. Unlike, say, corruption.

    • finallyhappy

      He said he'll pay for the rides. He is still a fat fuck

    • emmelemm

      But… but… PENIS!

    • fuflans

      to be fair, if i were a msm type, i would use any excuse to cover anthony and any excuse to back quietly away from the christie mound.

  • Billmatic

    Guys it's ordained that Rick Perry will be the GOP nomination.

    1. Successfully ran a rebranding campaign which transformed him from Bush-era yesman to anti-establishment outsider, will appeal to Teabaggers who are proven to care little for facts.
    2. The fact that he actually is a good ole boy Bush crony will please rank and file Republicans.
    3. Will do anything and everything a corporation pays him to do.
    4. Phenomenal hair, great electability.
    5. Tests highly in the all important "Would you like to have a beer with him?" polling category.
    6. Texans are never boring.

    He's like Action Figure Mitt Romney without all the Health Care/Mormon stuff. Did I mention he has a Kung-Fu Grip?

    • emmelemm

      Quality hair trumps everything.

      • Slim_Pickins

        Not since Blago….

  • Obama is doomed. How can he run against the governor who crossed party lines to work with Ted Kennedy on health insurance reform for Massachusetts? Doomed.

  • littlebigdaddy

    Wake me when there's a Weiner angle. I am all about the sausage today.

  • VinnyThePooh

    Sarah is in MarthaStewartshire too. Stepping on Mittens toes. Shit's on. Mormon vs. Moron. *ding-ding*

    • AJWjr.

      Yeah, what a coinkydink!

  • whiskeybaby

    Buying the farm seems like an appropriate metaphor for Mitt's campaign.

  • Bittersweet Farm–more like Cold Comfort Farm.

    • flamingpdog

      Definitely not Boone's Farm.

      • flamingpdog

        Mmm. so downfisty is a fan of Boone's Farm? Guess mom had better put a lock on the frig now.

      • finallyhappy

        Does it still exist? I nthe 70's, my dad told me it would kill me- he said Boone's farm apple wine was pure poison. He offered to buy me better stuff- but we wanted Boone's Farm.

  • Fare la Volpe

    That ring finger's looking awfully bare. Just one? Mormon Jesus is disappoint.

  • BloviateMe

    "Mittens Is In: Romney Officially Declares, Finally"

    I wish Anthony would run, so we can get a "Weiner is in, finally" story line.

  • neiltheblaze

    Right – but how did his wimpy cookout stack up against John McCain's awesome barbeque – with his signature anusburgers slathered with his secret recipe poblano BBQ sauce? Hmmmm? If somebody from Politico or Newsweek was there, I'm sure we could find out.

    This must be good news for John McCain.

  • baconzgood

    Iz two buzy to do teh snarkz. Meeeez pizzed

    • fuflans

      you know, LOLcats vs. mittens, LOLcats ftw every time.

  • Slim_Pickins

    Wonkette Jr., I think I have it figured out. You're anonymous because you're paying Wonkette for the privilege of posting rather than the other way around.

    • God I wish!

      Wait, people would pay Wonkette to post things here???? DING DING DING DING.

      • WriteyWriterton

        Ken! Good to hear from you. These must be stressful times, what with the Darwinian competition for employment raging at your place. Glad to know you're still alive. (Well, at least we know you're avatar is still active.)

        • AJWjr.

          How do we know it's Ken, though? Suppose his account got hacked, as seems to be all the rage lately? Dick pic or GTFO!

      • SheriffRoscoe

        My commenter account is paid in full right up through the year 2050, Ken. What, my Ameros aren't good enough for this place?

        • WriteyWriterton

          SR: How did you finance your payment to Wonkette?

          Fyi, I used the power of home equity – mine and other people's: I took out a second mortgage with Countrywide. I also bought a lot of CDO's from Goldman Sachs, which they told me were GREAT investments.

  • Mort_Sinclair

    I love that the teabaggers are going to turn on Mittens and his Magic Mormon Underwear. Let them have a little fun with the Angel Moroni (how aptly named) and the Jews of Mexico. Bring it on!

  • BlueStateLibel

    The guy is really a glutton for punishment, isn't he? Poor lady America must endlessly repeat, "No means no, Mitt!" Don't you get it, Mitt? She (America) is just not into you.

    • WriteyWriterton

      He doesn't even rate the decorous peck on the cheek on the porch, after the long boring date, where he insisted on telling Lady A what he got in every course he took in B-School.

      He must live in an impermeable bubble of self-of-steam.

    • flamingpdog

      Ms. America says, "Take your grimey Mitt offa me!"

  • Eve8Apples

    Soooo, let's see what is going on the world today. Hey, is that Snowbilly riding on a bus? What are Snowbilly and Trump up to today? Did they share a slurpee at the 7-11?

  • Wilcoxyz

    Best part is, Palin's gonna bait this guy all campaign long with her media whoring and ignorant carping and he can't say shit about it, or the tea-tards will destroy him.

    • fuflans

      and she won't run and she'll doom his campaign.

      yeah, that sounds about right.

  • Walnutz cooks the steaks with JP4 and saves the napalm for the Copper River Salmon.

    • DaRooster

      Doesn't he have ribs?

      • Yeah, but they typically are a bit over-done for my tastes since he used willie pete to roast those.

  • SheriffRoscoe

    It's definitely Romney's turn. We owe him that much for being such a nice loser in 2008. Besides, I'm looking forward to all the linguistic gymnastics he performs when Obama thanks him, publicly, in each and every debate, for doing such an excellent job with health care in Massachusetts.

    • WriteyWriterton

      I'd like someone to ask him about the Mormon practice of converting dead Jews, (because I need to get into Heaven to be with my lapsed-Catholic-y spouse after we kick it), but I suspect the religion thing will be off-limits. Sigh…

  • Fox n Fiends

    Bittersweet Farm, founded in 1980…..

  • DaRooster

    Not always their pits though…

  • Fox n Fiends

    That why it needs to be called the Reagan-Bush Deficit, along with the 2nd Bush-Iraq War and the Republican Economic Collapse of 2008.

  • Needz moar New England tornadoes.

  • prommie

    Off Topic, but a thing of beauty: Anthony Weiner said today, to the press, "I was perhaps, you'll forgive me, a little stiff yesterday."

    I now officially love this man.

    Credit to TPM

    • anniegetyerfun

      Be careful – you might now permanently be linked to him, in some sort of made-up, online relationship, after having made that declaration.

  • DashboardBuddha

    Wow…he does have big hands. Big hands you know you're the one

  • flamingpdog

    George Romney: Brainwash.
    Mitt Romney: Brain bleach.

    Raquel Welch: Brain candy.

  • easybaked

    So Mittens is taking the whole family with him on the campaign trail?

    This is not good news for Seamus.

  • Lazy Media

    Mittens is gonna be the modern-day Wendell Wilkie if it KILLS him.

  • BZ1

    Bittersweet Farm is too delicious for words…

  • jakegittes

    I actually posted on Breitbart that Romney wasn't a real Christian and that he's a RINO. I'm getting lots of support for that statement from the NotsoBrightBarters. Sweet Jeeezus.

  • AJWjr.

  • hagajim

    Mitt – sorry to say it, but your still a complete snoozzzzzzzzzzzzer.

  • Walkinwiddaking

    He will never win. The back of his hands are too simian.

  • chascates

    Will he be selling 'magic underwear' with Romney 2012 on them?

  • Alt Alt text: "And white folks be clappin' like this…"

  • VinnyThePooh

    I used to commute through Stratham for two years. We're not exactly talking about humble people of the Earth here. Homes started around $650k. A short, ten minute drive down 108 will get you to the Omega House, for chrissakes.

    • fuflans

      damn. i dated a blueblood who went to exeter, family came over on the mayflower or some such.

      i made him propose to me in a bar in chicago.

      he was very nice but i decided i needed to be an actor.

      probably not well thought through on my part.

  • texasold

    Moroni is for Mitt!

  • Richard Nixon is playing thinking about running: "Right now, I'm concentrating on being dead, but we'll see.

    • user-of-owls

      He's reported to be forming an exhumatory committee.

    • flamingpdog

      Nixon now, mort than ever!

  • LiveToServeYa

    I anticipate his wily and cunning political maneuverings with bated breath.

  • user-of-owls

    So many M&M jokes just low-fruit hangin':

    Mormon & Megalomaniac 2012! (Romney/Palin)
    Mittens & Mole-rat 2012! (Romney/Guiliani)
    Mitt & Man-Servant 2012! (Romney/Cain)
    Mormon & Minnesota-psychotic 2012! (Romney/Bachmann)

    …and on it goes. More? Please contact by clicking the reply button below. Oh, and do not be alarmed by the 20,000 pop-up windows advertising things not appropriate for a family-friendly blog like Wonkette. Chances are your IT people are too busy surfing said sites to notice your, um, unauthorized usage.

    • RadioJr.

      Mitt & Mustache '12 (Romney/Bolton) obvs.

  • freddymcmurray

    The GOP's great white hope isn't great. And he's hopeless. But he IS white! Yay us.

  • rocktonsam

    can you imagine Mittens wife wanting him ,let alone Merkia

  • Negropolis

    "Bittersweet Farm"

    Honestly, isn't that the entire story, right there? Everything about this guy just screams loser, but bless his heart, he's going to try until he fails, again. Someone needs to take Mitt to the side, explain to him that he has oodles of money, a beautiful wife, a gaggle of children, and literally a tribe of grandchildren, and that that should be enough.

    Willard, STOP it; just fucking STOP IT, already. This is getting sad and pitiful.

  • Negropolis

    Mitt, you're going to have to do some crazy shit this time to get any attention. Until I see you decked out offensively as an Injun and tossing tea into your native Boston Harbor surrounded by Fox News cameras, who the fuck cares? Honestly, who the fuck really cares, Willard?

    I have bowel movements more exciting than Willard. I have DMV visits more memorable, gas station trips more fulfilling, hours-long marathons of American Pickers programming more educational, etc…you get the point, Willard.

  • crybabyboehner

    Junior, please ask you dad where he keeps that photo of Mitt in the fudge factory.

  • crybabyboehner

    How will Republican leaders across the Deep South ask their fellow Christians to vote for a Mormon?

    "Hey, at least he ain't a nigra."

  • ttommyunger

    Sure, Mitt, go for it. I used to think if I pinned a towel around my neck it would be like a Superman Cape and I could fly. Sure, go for it, Mitt… Loser!

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MCC SPAN display, movie March 17-18

The following press release was received from the MCC Student Peace Action Network:

[Mar. 15, 2010. Crystal Lake, IL] The McHenry County College Student Peace Action Network (SPAN) will host the Eyes Wide Open display provided by the American Friends Service Committee March 17th and 18th in the commons at McHenry County College 10:00am-2:00pm. Eyes Wide Open is a static display which symbolizes the human cost of war using combat boots to represent the lives of Illinois casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.

In conjunction, SPAN will also feature a movie screening of Rethink Afghanistan, March 18th at 7:00pm in Room B177c, the Faculty Dining Room. Rethink Afghanistan is a ground-breaking, full-length documentary focusing on the key issues surrounding the Afghanistan War. Directed by Robert Greenwald the film features experts from Afghanistan, the U.S., and Russia among others discussing critical issues like military escalation, how escalation will affect Pakistan and the surrounding region, the cost of war, civilian casualties, and the rights of Afghan women.

With March 20th marking the 7th year of the Iraq War, SPAN believes it to be important to memorialize our fallen soldiers giving these men and women names instead of just a number. SPAN’s stance is still that the troops in Iraq should be brought home rather than sent into Afghanistan.

SPAN is made up of students promoting peace nationally and locally through action and education. The events are co-sponsored by Pax Christi and the McHenry County Peace Coalition. The events are free and open to the public.

The college is located at 8900 U.S. Hwy. 14, Crystal Lake. For more information, contact the MCC Student Activities Office at (815) 455-8772.

For information, contact:

Molly McQueen
Action Coordinator for SPAN
McHenry County College
(815) 354-3161 email:

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