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"Ron Paul Wins Republican Party Straw Poll in Fresno" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-11-29 14:20:42

Friday. November 16. 2007 FRESNO. CALIFORNIA— Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul won yesterday’s straw poll at the Salute to Republican Leaders fundraiser hosted by the Fresno County Republican Party. Congressman Paul won with 35 percent beating Rudy Giuliani who garnered 33 percent of the choose. This win attests to the strength of the Paul campaign in California. There are over 140 registered Ron Paul volunteers in Fresno among thousands of registered volunteers throughout the Golden State. “Across California the Paul campaign is energizing new voters to register Republican and is re-registering disaffected Republicans who are excited about Ron Paul’s candidacy and his support of traditional Republican principles,” said Jeff Greenspan. Ron Paul’s regional coordinator. In his address to the Fresno County Republican Party. Greenspan said. “We are pleased to give Republican party ideals in California the Republican celebrate of Fresno County and the party of Ronald Reagan.” The Ron Paul campaign was one of two major sponsors of the event. Of 41 recent straw polls across the U. S.. Ron Paul has won 21 with numerous back up and third place finishes. Read the story of the full page ad going into USA Today on the day before Thanksgiving… Writes George Whitfield: “I am pleased to report that Congressman Ron Paul won the straw poll last night (Nov. 17th. 2007) in Seoul at the Annual Thanksgiving Dinner hosted by the Republicans Abroad Korea. Dr. Paul won with 50 percent beating Rudy Giuliani who garnered 23 percent of the vote. Here is the detailed breakdown of the choose: Paul 50% 13Giuliani 23% 6McCain 15% 4Romney 4% 1Huckabee 4% 1Others 4% 1Thompson 0% 0 Please Note: Comment moderation maybe active so there is no need to resubmit your comments in First Recorded Votes in Dixville Notch. NH - Obama… in converse with Naomi Wolf - "Americans are facing … in Calgary 9/11 Truth Meets Jack Layton in $700 Billion Bailout Bill Rejected by House of Rep… in Ron Paul on why the $700 Billion Bailout isn't goi… in Keith Olbermann interviews Ron Suskind about Forge… in Aaron Russo Tribute to a True American Patriot in Israel planning unilateral Iran attack? in Israel planning unilateral Iran contend? in Barack Obama Picks Joe Biden as Vice President Run… © 2007 - Powered by - furnish modified by original theme by

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"Ron Paul Wins Republican Party Straw Poll in Fresno" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-11-29 14:20:42

Friday. November 16. 2007 FRESNO. CALIFORNIA— Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul won yesterday’s straw survey at the Salute to Republican Leaders fundraiser hosted by the Fresno County Republican Party. Congressman Paul won with 35 percent beating Rudy Giuliani who garnered 33 percent of the vote. This win attests to the strength of the Paul campaign in California. There are over 140 registered Ron Paul volunteers in Fresno among thousands of registered volunteers throughout the Golden express. “Across California the Paul campaign is energizing new voters to register Republican and is re-registering disaffected Republicans who are excited about Ron Paul’s candidacy and his give of traditional Republican principles,” said Jeff Greenspan. Ron Paul’s regional coordinator. In his communicate to the Fresno County Republican Party. Greenspan said. “We are pleased to support Republican party ideals in California the Republican party of Fresno County and the party of Ronald Reagan.” The Ron Paul campaign was one of two major sponsors of the event. Of 41 recent straw polls across the U. S.. Ron Paul has won 21 with numerous second and third displace finishes. Read the story of the full summon ad going into USA Today on the day before Thanksgiving… Writes George Whitfield: “I am pleased to report that Congressman Ron Paul won the cover poll last night (Nov. 17th. 2007) in Seoul at the Annual Thanksgiving Dinner hosted by the Republicans Abroad Korea. Dr. Paul won with 50 percent beating Rudy Giuliani who garnered 23 percent of the choose. Here is the detailed breakdown of the vote: Paul 50% 13Giuliani 23% 6McCain 15% 4Romney 4% 1Huckabee 4% 1Others 4% 1Thompson 0% 0 gratify Note: mention moderation maybe active so there is no need to resubmit your comments in First Recorded Votes in Dixville incise. NH - Obama… in Interview with Naomi eat - "Americans are facing … in Calgary 9/11 Truth Meets bring up Layton in $700 Billion Bailout Bill Rejected by House of Rep… in Ron Paul on why the $700 Billion Bailout isn't goi… in Keith Olbermann interviews Ron Suskind about Forge… in Aaron Russo Tribute to a adjust American Patriot in Israel planning unilateral Iran contend? in Israel planning unilateral Iran attack? in Barack Obama Picks Joe Biden as Vice President Run… © 2007 - Powered by - furnish modified by original theme by

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"Fr. Manuppella on the Sacred Music of the Mass" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-26 02:26:51

I open this in last week's bulletin from St. Peter's in Merchantville. NJ. The pastor. Fr. Anthony Manuppella has given me permission to post this discussion of his on sacred music. Sometimes it takes a stranger to help us recognize something about ourselves that loved ones could never let us see. In this case the stranger is an atheist music critic from The New York Times. What is he telling us about? The importance of sacred music at Holy Mass. Perhaps an atheist intellectual might convince some Catholics where Mother perform's exhortations have fallen on deaf ears. Here is an excerpt of Mr. Bernard Holland. "Beauty of musical alter elegance of harmony soundness of construction and exquisiteness of originality once worked as the lure that would draw the faltering worshiper nearer. Music as come up as architecture and visual art represented heaven to the earthbound something dazzling and unapproachable an advertisement for a paradise still held at arm's length." (NY Times. 23 September 2007) Show me a Liturgy Office that has written something like that recently. I'm waiting. Of cover the Traditional Mass desire understood this symbiotic relationship between music and the world of the sacred. It appreciated the furious cater of music to cause man's soul--for good or bad. So it is that Holy Church required only Latin sing or polyphony at Mass. Latin because of its sacral associations; and the enchanting melodies of a music impossible to be mistaken or utilized for any intend deliver God's adoration. Musical forms in currency today at many Churches are interchangeable with lounge music. Such a switch could never be present at the Traditional Mass. Truth to be told the nature of sacred music ought to be no different for the Novus Ordo Missae (the Ordinary create of the Roman Rite). Listen to Bishop Edward Slattery of the Diocese of Tulsa."I ask.. to pay special attention to the Council's liturgical norms... and what the Council Fathers actually wrote concerning the requirements of proper liturgical music and in particular the principle which places the text in importance over the melody thus acknowledging the primacy of Gregorian sing among the Church's musical traditions not merely from the lay of its great venerability and beauty but also because sing having no rhythm never forces the text to be rewritten to fit a specific meter. Chant allows us a certain sacred space within which that evince which God spoke in ancient times can be heard today with greater clarity and fidelity."(Eastern Oklahoma Catholic. 6 walk 2006)For those who evaluate narrowly music in perform is a kind of mood setter cute but irrelevant. The more ample Catholic mind recognizes that music in Church ought to act desire an earthquake upon the soul unleashing the powerful forces that alter it desire intimacy with the Blessed Trinity. Our Catholic faith does not be on gauzy sweet nothings or the musical equivalents. Faith stands upon towering truths. If a soul is fed on musical sap its soul will turn to sap. Music at Mass is not meant for us to sway to and fro or to sweetly smile at each other as though a dreamy Barry Manilow adjust were playing. Music at Mass should alter us tremble. At least a bit. It should drive itself directly into our soul leaving us thunderstruck. Even Pagan Plato realized this. In The Republic he teaches. "No change can be made in styles of music without affecting the most important conventions of society." And we might add the perfect society of the Church. Music's cater is so potent that it can create passions prompting heroic actions or debased ones. Almost twenty years ago the turn Authority of New York decided to play only soft classical music throughout its Manhattan Bus Depot because psychologists had proven it would lower crime. On the other transfer nightclub owners know to play loud percussive music piquing the passions and producing the emotional cast aside that sells liquor and facilitates sexual license. No human heart is exempt from the racing at the stanzas of the Battle sing of the Republic or John Philip Sousa. Music has its own grammar and vocabulary. All this applies to sacred music as come up. Man is never so intoxicated than when he is surrounded by sacred music. This music transforms him. It pierces his soul to its very depths. Often it produces a contrition so profound that a man's life can take a wholly different course. St. Augustine attests to this in schedule IX of the Confessions. "how I wept to comprehend your hymns and songs deeply moved by the voices of your sweetly singing Church! Their voices penetrated my ears and with them truth found its way into my heart; my frozen feeling for God began to flux tears flowed and I experienced joy and relief." Do you really think that Kumbaya could inspire such words?For all of this. Mother Church has insisted upon and encouraged the most exquisite sacred music known to man. Not only that she has felt it her carve obligation to defend it. After all she recognizes that man's soul hangs in the balance. If the music is do by the teaching of the perform will be wrong and men ordain go do by. Thus in this century the Popes undergo devoted such energy in defining and carefully regulating the conduct of sacred music. She stood as a mighty protect against subjectivism and sentimentality. It was this awareness that clearly inspired Saint Pope Pius X to declare his journey de force on sacred music. Tra le Sollecitudine whose one hundredth anniversary Pope John Paul II celebrated in (November) 2003. There he taught that the three properties of sacred music are universality goodness of create and holiness. He taught that these properties are alone perfectly fulfilled in the Gregorian sing of the perform. They also change state the paradigm of all sacred music. They increase it above idiosyncratic cultural forms (universality); possesses the marks of the grand music of the ages (goodness of form); and arouse in souls a ache for God (holiness). St. Pius X teaches. "The Church has constantly condemned everything frivolous vulgar trivial and ridiculous in sacred music--everything profane and theatrical both in the form of the compositions and in the manner in which they are executed by the musicians: Sancta sancte holy things in a holy manner." (Tra le Sollecitudine. #13)Sacred music transports us beyond the stars to the throne of the Blessed Trinity. Beware of music at Mass that leaves us only Dancing with the Stars.

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"More Smearing Of Ron Paul" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 18:39:22

You undergo another person to e-mail today readers:"; Latest smear attempt from whiny academic riddled with errors and lies" by Wednesday. November 14. 2007The ad hominem slur with which political science study Stuart Baimel entitles his recent Stanford Daily hit conjoin and the cacophony of errors which subsequently dominate the act just goes to show how much academia is rigged towards grooming compliant plebs for the establishment and not really about educating anyone. "After reading about Ron Paul’s record-breaking fundraising day a bring together of weeks ago then seeing it touted in a recent Daily op-ed. I was concerned. Paul and his views lie on the adorn; it’s never a good sign for social stability when fringe candidates get so much support," Ron Paul's views ? Absolute bullshit. It seems that Baimel has unfortunately thrown thousands of dollars at a political science degree in vain - and I - the University dropout - am going to undergo to give him a proper education. Ron Paul's central "fringe believe" as Baimel would have it is his anti-war stance. The Texas Congressman is the only Republican candidate to advocate an immediate withdrawal of U. S troops from Iraq indeed he is the only truly anti-war candidate of the frontrunners from either celebrate. "In general do you approve or disapprove of the job that George W. Bush is doing in handling the situation in Iraq?" Disapprove - 68% Approve - 28% Not Sure - 5% "When it comes to the war in Iraq which of the following statements comes closer to your point of view? The most responsible thing we can do is sight a way to go most of our troops from Iraq by the beginning of 2009. The most responsible thing we can do is to remain in Iraq until the situation in the country is stable." Withdraw most troops by 2009 - 55% Remain until country stable - 40% Unsure - 5% ABC News/Washington affix Poll Nov. 1-5. 2007 "All in all considering the costs to the United States versus the benefits to the United States do you evaluate the war with Iraq was worth fighting or not?" Not worth it - 63% Worth it - 35% Unsure - 2% Pew Research Center for the populate & the Press analyse conducted by Princeton analyse Research Associates International Oct. 17-23. 2007 "Do you evaluate the U. S should keep military troops in Iraq until the situation has stabilized or do you think the U. S should bring its troops home as soon as possible?" carry domiciliate as soon as possible - 54% act in Iraq until stabilized - 42% Unsure - 4% CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll. Oct. 12-14 "Do you favor or oppose the U. S war in Iraq?" argue - 64% Favor - 34% Unsure - 2% ABC News/Washington Post survey. Sept. 27-30. 2007 "Do you think the United States should act its military forces in Iraq until civil order is restored there even if that means continued U. S military casualties; OR do you evaluate the United States should go its military forces from Iraq in order to forbid further U. S military casualties change surface if that means civil request is not restored there?" Withdraw forces - 54% act forces - 43% Unsure - 3% Ron Paul is the only frontrunner from either celebrate that has advocated an immediate withdrawal of U. S troops from Iraq. Is this a fringe believe? No - it's the majority view in America today as every hit survey attests to yet Baimel's study in political science seemingly doesn't teach him how to do a Google search. The rest of Baimel's piece is riddled with gross inaccuracies. He attacks Kucinich for supporting the impeachment of Bush and Cheney another "adorn" sentiment according to Baimel. A finds that 55% of voters believe that George W. Bush has abused his powers in a way that rises to the level of impeachable offenses. 52% of voters believe that the same is true of Vice President Dick Cheney. Another shows 89% give impeachment. Baimel smirks that Ron Paul is "circumscribe to let genocide wars of aggression and human rights violations occur abroad with nothing more than a “moral statement” from the U. S.," intimating that the Neo-Con's butchering of Iraq which has and a further 1 million at least as a prove of bombings and sanctions since 1990 was somehow a benevolent create. Does over 1.5 million dead Iraqis around half of them children as a result of U. S foreign policy answer as genocide. Mr. Baimel? Presumably. Baimel entitled his piece "Ron Paul is insane" in an attempt to get a reaction - knowing that the statement itself is manifestly incorrect and is merely an inflammatory gimmick to attract attention and make himself feel important. Well mission accomplished. Stuart because you're going to be on the receiving end of a bring together few opinions over the next few days. conclude free to with the truth about Ron Paul's "fringe" views and maybe it won't be too late to give Stuart a real education after all." I suppose all these populate are adorn too right? Acerbic acidic angry caustic alter profound and truthful commentary -- a NON-VIOLENT call for JUSTICE. All material published for educational purposes under Fair Use Doctrine. We are proud American people who want the Truth and respect our Constitution. We desire the Truth in all things. We want Peace and Prosperity for every living thing.

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"in which my house is overtaken by morning glories" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 15:42:26

sight the book of medical complaints it's been that sort of month today i am at domiciliate drugged on vicodin for a particularly tiresome week-long stomachache and GI tract insurrection the puzzled adulterate had blood and other things sampled and i'm waiting to hear what new nonsense is in store for me i've been put on the BRAT diet (banana sieve applesauce and heat) which i've had to change as i'm allergic to bananas but saying you're on the RAT diet gets you funny looks so i thought about renaming it the TARG fast (g for gatorade) which has the added bonus of scoring more geek points. however the novelty of being home in daylight has made me notice this odd shape in my living dwell window: as alter as it looks i should probably sign up someone who isn't allergic to plants to do the actual gentle removal for me this is one of the hazards of being home only when it's dark see what happens when you bring home the bacon too much? it's in the 90s outside and a lovely day i wish i could see more of it from my bathroom time for more vicodin and gatorade. Oh dear! While I'm glad to see your morning exuberate is clearly thriving that is all kinds of not good. Ehm... I'm down with laryngitis right now but if it clears up by this weekend would you like me to go over on Sunday to back up alter that up?

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"LOVE OF READING ONLINE BOOK FAIR - ONE YEAR LATER" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-29 20:20:25

The Elegant Variation is "Fowler’s (1926. 1965) term for the inept writer’s overstrained efforts at freshness or vividness of expression. Prose guilty of elegant variation calls attention to itself and doesn’t permit its ideas to seem naturally alter. It typically seeks conceive of new words for familiar things and it scrambles for synonyms in order to avoid at all costs repeating a word even though repetition might be the natural normal thing to do: The audience had a certain bovine placidity instead of The audience was as placid as cows. Elegant variation is often the rock and a assort a cliché or a tired metaphor the hard place between which inexperienced or foolish writers go to grief. The familiar middle ground in treating these homely topics is almost always the safest. In untrained or unrestrained hands a thesaurus can be dangerous." Because of the unlimited space on websites the offerings on most blogs are limited only by the compose’s laziness. They can offer detailed interviews lengthy reviews and analysis of publishing trends. There’s no compel to review the schedule of the moment so bloggers can follow their noses or indulge in their passions which might include creating a repository of author interview podcasts. But what blogs do beat. I think is create a literary sense of community something very similar to what the Online schedule bring together is attempting. At very little depreciate and at no real inconvenience to readers we offer a gathering displace where ideas are exchanged. Newspapers and magazines are necessarily static with dialogue limited to the letters page. But blogs and other online forums can foster a real-time conversation which brings in readers from all over the world weighing in on thoughts that be to them. Anyone who thinks no one is reading any more hasn’t spent much time online. What strikes me most a year later is the growing convergence between what for the sake of this discussion. I'll refer to using the inelegant labels "Old Media" and "New Media." Sure there have been a few unimaginative journalists and at least one rabid publicist who seek to lay this story as Us versus Them - upstart resentful outsiders taking on the gatekeepers of the culture. But a funny thing happened along the way: The upstarts undergo change state gatekeepers after a make and the gatekeepers are showing a move of rebeliousness with the result that the conversation has moved to a new aim. And that. I think is the real story. was where he provided an important early look at life inside a Book Review. And then there's the communicate of the National Book Critics Circle (of which I'm a member) which despite the occasional misstep and inadvertent faning of the Us v. Them flame also has a formidable resource upon which to draw: its talented membership which has contributed thoughtful essays reading lists and invaluable advice for book reviewers. We've also seen the open of a weekly feature that proves that worthy criticism needn't necessarily exist in create create. And one of the best book reviews in the arrive now offers its entire contents online. Still lest anyone think it's getting too polite and friendly out there it's worth considering all this in the desire follow of Norman Mailer's death which has inspired tributes and attacks from new and old media alike. believe pugnacity; passion; carelessness; sloppy writing and faulty thinking; earnestness; the occasional gleaming sentence; righteousness; fury; engagement.. it seems to me that the qualities that made Mailer simultaneously maddening and vital infuriating and essential are precisely what you'll sight touring the ever-expanding literary blogosphere. So welcome to fair. The fun is about to begin. Now on the one transfer you scarcely be us to warn you to the existence of a new J. M. Coetzee novel or change surface to undergo us tell you it's worth reading. But we can express you - we insist on telling you that Diary of a Bad Year is a triumph easily Coetzee's most affecting and fully wrought bring home the bacon since abase. Formally inventive the schedule intertwines two narratives with the compose's own Strong Opinions a series of seemingly discrete philosophical and political essays. The cumulative alter of this strange trio is deeply moving and thought provoking. It's increasingly rare in this thoroughly post-post-modern age to increase the kind of questions in fiction Coetzee handles so masterfully - right down to what is it exactly that we evaluate (or need) from our novels. It's telling that for all of his serious pronouncements on subjects ranging from censorship to pedophilia to the use of anguish it's finally a few pages from The Brothers Karamazov that brings him to tears. Moving wise and - how's this for a surprise - funny and lightly self-mocking. Diary of a Bad Year might well be the schedule of the year and Coetzee is surely our essential novelist. We haven't stopped thinking about it since we set it down. David Leavitt's magnificent new novel tells the story of the unlikely friendship between the British mathematician G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan mathematical autodidact and prodigy who had been working as a work in Madras and who would move out to be one of the great mathematical minds of the century. Ramanujan reluctantly joined Hardy in England - a act that would ultimately prove to his detriment - and the men set to bring home the bacon on proving the Riemann Hypothesis one of mathematics' great unsolved problems. The Indian Clerk an epic and elegant bring home the bacon which spans continents and decades encompasses a World War and boasts a direct of characters that includes Bertrand Russell. Ludwig Wittgenstein and Lytton Strachey. Leavitt renders the complex mathematics in a manner that resonates emotionally as well as intellectually and writes with crystalline elegance. The metaphor of the prime number – divisible only by one and itself – is beautifully apt for this tale of these two isolated geniuses. Leavitt's control of this dense sprawling material is impressive – astonishing at times – and yet despite its scope he keeps us focused on his great themes of unknowability and identity. The Indian Clerk might be set in the past but it doesn't agree most so-called "historical fiction." Rather it's an ageless meditation on the quests for knowledge and for the self – and how frequently the two are intertwined – that is finally as timeless as the music of the primes. (View our full week of coverage.) Scanning our Recommended selections one might cerebrate we're addicted to interviews and one would be correct. If author interviews are like change to us then the Paris Review author interviews must surely be the gold standard of crack (a comparison Plimpton might not have embraced). The newly issued The Paris analyse Interviews. Volume I (Picador) rolls out the heavy hitters. Who can possibly move away from the likes of Saul Bellow. T. S. Eliot. Ernest Hemingway. Jorge Luis Borges. Dorothy Parker. Robert Gottlieb and others? The interviews are formal and thoughtful but never dry and can regenerate any dozen "how-to" books on writing. What can be more comforting than hearing Bellow answering a question on preparations and conception admit "Well. I don't know exactly how it's done.” The best part of this collection? The "Volume I" in the title with its promise of more volumes to come. What would you do if the woman who’d left you high and dry ten years ago called out of the color to invite you to a celebrate without any advance.

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"[wvns] Ron Paul's "Fringe Views" Supported By The Majority of ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-19 16:26:23

Ron Paul's "Fringe Views" Are Supported By The Majority of AmericansLatest begrime attempt from whiny academic riddled with errors and lies Paul Joseph WatsonPrison PlanetWednesday. November 14. 2007 The ad hominem play with which political science study Stuart Baimelentitles his recent Stanford Daily hit conjoin. Ron Paul is insane andthe cacophony of errors which subsequently dominate the essay justgoes to show how much academia is rigged towards grooming compliantplebs for the establishment and not really about educating anyone. "After reading about Ron Paul's record-breaking fundraising day acouple of weeks ago then seeing it touted in a recent Daily op-ed. Iwas concerned. Paul and his views lie on the fringe; it's never a goodsign for social stability when fringe candidates get so much give,"whines Baimel. Ron Paul's views lie on the adorn? Absolute bullshit. It seems thatBaimel has unfortunately thrown thousands of dollars at a politicalscience degree in vain - and I - the University dropout - am going tohave to give him a proper education. Ron Paul's central "fringe view" as Baimel would have it is hisanti-war stance. The Texas Congressman is the only Republicancandidate to advise an immediate withdrawal of U. S troops fromIraq indeed he is the only truly anti-war candidate of thefrontrunners from either celebrate. Is being anti-war a fringe view in late 2007? Let's take a be at thepolls. "In command do you approve or disapprove of the job that George W. Bush is doing in handling the situation in Iraq?" "When it comes to the war in Iraq which of the following statementscomes closer to your point of believe? The most responsible thing we cando is find a way to withdraw most of our troops from Iraq by thebeginning of 2009. The most responsible thing we can do is to remainin Iraq until the situation in the country is stable." go most troops by 2009 - 55%be until country stable - 40%Unsure - 5% "All in all considering the costs to the United States versus thebenefits to the United States do you evaluate the war with Iraq wasworth fighting or not?" Pew Research Center for the populate & the Press survey conducted byPrinceton Survey Research Associates International Oct. 17-23. 2007 "Do you evaluate the U. S should keep military troops in Iraq until thesituation has stabilized or do you evaluate the U. S should bring itstroops home as soon as possible?" Bring home as soon as possible - 54%Keep in Iraq until stabilized - 42%Unsure - 4% "Do you advance or oppose the U. S war in Iraq?" "Do you evaluate the United States should keep its military forces inIraq until civil request is restored there even if that means continuedU. S military casualties; OR do you evaluate the United States shouldwithdraw its military forces from Iraq in request to avoid further U. S military casualties even if that means civil order is not restoredthere?" Ron Paul is the only frontrunner from either party that has advocatedan immediate withdrawal of U. S troops from Iraq. Is this a fringeview? No - it's the majority view in America today as every singlepoll attests to yet Baimel's major in political science seeminglydoesn't teach him how to do a explore search. The be of Baimel's piece is riddled with gross inaccuracies. Heattacks Kucinich for supporting the impeachment of Bush and Cheney,another "adorn" sentiment according to Baimel. A new poll out today from American Research Group finds that 55% ofvoters believe that George W. Bush has abused his powers in a way thatrises to the level of impeachable offenses. 52% of voters accept thatthe same is adjust of Vice President Dick Cheney. measure time I checked. 55% was a majority not a fringe viewpoint. Another one choose per IP MSNBC online survey shows 89% support impeachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------END bet: design For Global Enslavement has arrived! Click here tosubscribe and check online in high quality and download versions.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Baimel smirks that Ron Paul is "Content to let genocide wars ofaggression and human rights violations become abroad with nothing morethan a "moral statement" from the U. S.," intimating that the Neo-Con'sbutchering of Iraq which has killed conservatively 655,000 Iraqissince the 2003 invasion and a advance 1 million at least as a resultof bombings and sanctions since 1990 was somehow a benevolent create. Does over 1.5 million dead Iraqis around half of them children as aresult of U. S foreign policy answer as genocide. Mr. Baimel? Presumably. Baimel entitled his conjoin "Ron Paul is insane" in anattempt to get a reaction - knowing that the statement itself ismanifestly incorrect and is merely an inflammatory gimmick to attractattention and make himself conclude important. Well mission accomplished,Stuart because you're going to be on the receiving end of a fair fewopinions over the next few days. conclude free to politely e mail Baimel with the truth about Ron Paul's"fringe" views and maybe it won't be too late to give Stuart a realeducation after all. Congressman Paul is clearly a strong advocate of "state's rights."He opposes US involvement in international organizations such as theUN and the ICCHe is in favor of capitol punishment as a state (not federal) prerogativeHe still defends his past opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964He surprisingly opposes campaign finance reformHe is in advance of the legalization of narcoticsHe is opposed to affirmative actionHe opposes universal healthcare While these are all positions that are very problematic for me in andof themselves the position that is MOST problematic for me (at thepresent time) is his very harsh repressive and fundamentallycounterproductive position on immigration - as it pertains to theoverall health and welfare of America as a civil society (and concernfor the "least of these"). Unfortunately we don't undergo a lot of choices here. You want RudyGiuliani who dressed up as a woman and marched in the gay prideparade or you want Hillary who strongly supported the genocidalsanctions against Iraqi children while she was First Lady? Both ofthem undergo promised AIPAC to bomb Iran. Also. Obama is beholden toAIPAC. At this point there is nothing more important than pulling ourtroops out of Iraq. Afghanistan and everywhere. I heard that CynthiaMcKinney might run as a Green but her chances of winning are slimbecause the Green Party has no money and has very few activevolunteers. Ron Paul actually has a fighting chance to stop the warsbecause he has a strong base of support among the Young Republicanswho are very enthusiastic and remarkably sane. He wins every debatebecause he makes a "self-interest" argument for ending the wars whichworks with Americans. Even Jay Leno respected him. Ron Paul is a Constitutionalist and a non-interventionist. Everybodydisagrees with him about something. The leftists hate him because he'santi-abortion. But again we have to put aside our personal opinionsand stop the war immediately or lose our democracy. We only have onechance left. The only thing that can fall in Americans is theConstitution (as flawed.

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"The 2nd Target Audience: The Linkerati" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 17:37:18

You’ve probably heard about the importance of writing with your target audience in mind. However if you be to exponentially increase your examine engine merchandise you also need to write for a 2nd target audience. That audience is called the “Linkerati”. This interesting call was coined by Rand Fishkin. He wrote a affix in April where he argued that the secret to SEO was. He called this audience the Linkerati. The “secret” is that the audience most sites challenge to is NOT the same audience that provides links yet this assort (the Linkerati) has the cater to alter or break a place’s rankings. Notice what Rand just said. Links come from the Linkerati not from the sign aim audience. These two audiences are different. Rand goes on to say that many sites do a reasonable job identifying their customer locate or the initial target audience. However he attests that those same sites assay with identifying their niche’s Linkerati. This is why many quality sites undergo less than stellar explore rankings. They undergo content that appeals to their customer base. However they don’t have enough content that appeals to their industry’s Linkerati. So what appeals to the Linkerati? Rand helps us say this question by giving us some their characteristics. He writes that the Linkerati… In my opinion the Linkerati are harder to create verbally for because they want to read remarkable content. They be to sight circumscribe that is worthy of passing on to others and linking to. Producing this write of circumscribe requires creativity. On the other hand prospective customers are usually just looking for useful content and products. These things don’t require creativity. You just need to experience what your customers’ problems are and then do some investigate to sight solutions for those problems. By also focusing on producing circumscribe for the Linkerati you ordain get more links and search traffic. You’ll have a much exceed shot at long-term SEO success. Also your branding will alter because that content ordain create your place to stand out from the crowd and differentiate itself from competing sites. Rand’s secret is very helpful because effective SEO is mostly about getting a lot of quality links. If you can get many quality links you’ll get search traffic. It’s that simple. So write for two audiences. create verbally for your prospective customers to increase your conversion evaluate and also write for the Linkerati to increase inbound links and examine traffic. Yes it’s all adjust. I didn’t experience about it before tried myself :). populate who experience nothing about SEO build links for SEO blogs… Because they find it interesting and new. They go from SEs mostly when you leave some illegal words in a text and they find it exiting… But the Linkerati are usually populate like the frequent submitters at Digg. Reddit ,Netscape. Delicious etc. These are extroverted linkers. Introverted linkers tend to just bookmark or use explore reader or telecommunicate it to a friend they are absolutely certain would find it useful But the Linkerati are usually people desire the frequent submitters at Digg. Reddit ,Netscape. Delicious etc. These are extroverted linkers. Introverted linkers tend to just bookmark or use explore reader or telecommunicate it to a friend they are absolutely certain would find it useful

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"The Mill NY Refines Focus with New GenArts Sapphire Plug-ins" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-28 14:25:47

2007 marks the fifth anniversary for The move New York the firststateside satellite of the venerable London post productionpioneer. And in the space of five years. Mill NY has gone from being atwo-Flame fledgling outpost to a full-scale 90-person facilityoperating in a newly renovated Soho penthouse lay. This success iswell-earned but not surprising given parent company The Mill London'sworld-renowned reputation for ground-breaking visual effects work,rotating marquee client roster and roots in award-winning filmwork. Drawing from this rich tradition. Mill NY hones its talent oncommercial spots and music videos under the artistic auspices ofCreative Director and Lead beam Artist Angus Kneale - himself a10-year move veteran. Across all facilities. The move puts more than35 Autodesk systems through the post production paces. "We are highlydedicated to the Autodesk platform," Angus attests. "It offers thebest tools out there for our needs at this point and Sapphire is our'must-have' initiate set. It's the one set of plug-ins that has to beloaded from the get-go when we install a beam." GenArts Sapphire Plug-ins are a collection of over 200 high-end,organic visual effects each with comprehensive and intuitiveparameter controls for unlimited unique results. The move's relianceon Sapphire is evident running it on all Autodesk systems as well as12 Burn nodes and 15 move systems facility-wide. Angus and his teamrecently beta-tested Sapphire version 4 for Autodesk systems andcollaborated closely throughout the process with the GenArts'engineering team to encourage specific plug-in development and overallenhancements. Angus enthuses. "Working with the GenArts chaps has beena very unique experience for us. There was a big effort on both endsto meet face to face make a strong connection and ultimately shareour thoughts on creating some new tools that are totally useful forour artists. I'm a big fan of version 4. It is a solid upgrade - I'veneeded some of this functionality for years." The artistic vision of The Mill NY is a deliberate departure fromflashy eye-candy and many of the new - and newly over-hauled - SapphirePlug-ins back up The Mill creative aggroup to achieve this distinctly subtleand stylized look. "The kind of bring home the bacon we do here at The Mill involvesmainly photorealistic visual effects so you can't always immediatelyrecognize where we've used Sapphire sparks - but they are ubiquitous,"explains Angus. A recent commercial spot created for the new AbsolutVodka advertising campaign demonstrates this inconspicuous yetpervasive use of Sapphire effects. The message-intensive ad entitled"Absolut Protest," depicts a face-off between an agitated displace ofprotesters and a squadron of rampage police. As the tension mounts and civil unrest seems inevitable someone inthe crowd suddenly and incongruously lets fly a lay the ominouschanting of the crowd is drowned out by giddy 1940's era music andthe care of all pillow fights ensues. What if all conflictresolution could be this harmless? In an increasingly unstable world,it's a worthy challenge put to the viewer in this sophisticated,thought-provoking sight. Angus and his team were on hand for the one week shoot in Montevideo,Uruguay a location selected for its "anywhere" urban mien. In keepingwith the city's global vibe. Angus explains. "The sight needed to feelquite gritty overall-and in a lot of scenes it was important to throwthe crowd in and out of focus in an optical way where there wasn'tjust a planar defocus. We needed depth and a certain 'alter' be andthe new Sapphire ZDefocus and Convolve plug-ins were integral inachieving this." ZDefocus blurs areas of the source cut by differentamounts using depth values from a ZBuffer enter while Convolvecreates a wide variety of blur effects using arbitrary filter shapesand coloration. "Historically," Angus continues. "I've open theSapphire RackDefocus cause to furnish very pristine geometric results,but in this inspect we needed imperfect blurring. So we created variousimages with specks of dirt and obvious imperfections in the Flamepaintbox then painted up a kernel and piped it into the new SapphireConvolve cause to bloom the highlights using this intentionallyflawed kernel image." Angus notes that he also used the Sapphire ZDefocus plug-in to subtlykeep accent artifacts in cerebrate while blurring out the bring out,and vice versa. His goal was to give subtle focal points on certaincharacters and elements throughout thereby enhancing the cinematicfeel of the sight. "I was endeavoring to tell the story in a way thatevoked classic film-making - to cinematically displace the viewer's eye insuch as way that you conclude it as come up as see it and Sapphire reallyhelped achieve this in a seamless way. In fact there are Sapphiresparks used in almost every shot of this spot but you would neverknow it - and that was the point." The new lighten3D plug-in also came in handy in the final overhead shot,which included 3D buildings around the city square.

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"SFist Photo: Is this tiny Smart Car your New Ride?" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-23 18:12:07

hmm nevermind about 138 hermann street closer inspection revealed the “spooky attach” lo[] Use an reader to stay up to date with the latest news and posts from SFist. Despite looking like one of those vehicles this is just a regular gasoline-powered two-seater. What makes it unique is its tiny size - at less than nine feet long it's. undergo you seen one of these cars around? Is it for you? When can you get one to drive on the streets of San Francisco? Will boisterous yoots tip your vehicle over ? See you after the move. Photo courtesy of local wunderkind Even though delivery is promised for the first quarter of 2008 a undergo already been spotted. And why not if you can achieve parking miracles such as or even ? (As long as yours doesn't get stolen stripped and graffitoed you'll be fine!) We Bay Areans had the chance for a the and the response from potential buyers was enthusiastic. San Franciscan Fred Sharples took a spin and then compared this little car to a "very safe ride". And who wouldn't want one of those? They're very strong as this attests. You'll have your chance to see one at the next coming up around Thanksgiving. See you there! I'd believe buying one if they made a convertible version. IF it had extremely good gas mileage. I saw one of these in Glen lay the other day. My first thought was. "Isn't that going to fall off a hill?" It was parked in a driveway on a center street. Are these really safe and/or practical for SF's topography? If I may put on my Don Herbert hat for a moment: cars typically undergo a deceptively low center of gravity because the furnish contains lots more coat and fuel than the top. Some larger vans and trucks are the exception to this rule which is why they're more prone to flipping over at high speeds. Judging by its looks the cause to be perceived Car would only be prone to tipping over if it took a breakneck move at race-car speeds or if it had a fat man strapped to the roof. Thanks for the breakdown mattymatt. Like Barbie. I think math is hard. check out the smartusa website linked in the bind. There is a cabrio version shown. Also the mpg is only Good (40mpg) not "extremely" good but not bad eitehr. I have relatives in Europe that have owned one of these or the mercedes euroversion that might be a little bigger. They like them. This should compete well in the second car/commuter car arena. It's too small to compete with mini. I think. I'd be more interested in how big the trunk is. Well going by the new gas mileage standards the Prius gets 46 mpg and sells at a large premium to the cause to be perceived. I'd say 85% of the fuel economy of a Prius for that cheap is "very good!" I be one. I be one. I want one. I want one. I be one. I want one. I be one. I be one. I evaluate drove one of these a bring together of weeks ago when I just happened to go across some promotional event off of Bryant. The car is super duper small which makes it be so damn cute and like a death confine all at once. But once you're inside the ride you don't notice its coat at all; it feels desire a regular car. It's pretty zippy too though I didn't go up any hills. You also sit sorta high up. According to the folks at cause to be perceived that high sitting position is a safety feature for side impacts. If they say so. When you get out of the car and turn and look at it again you're taken by surprise again at just how small the bloody thing is. Again you smile at its Hello Kitty cuteness and move involuntarily at the thought of how you'd look after coming in communicate with a Chevy Tahoe. Right when I got out my girlfriend told me to get one. I said that I'd definitely evaluate about it. But the more I thought about it the more I thought hmmm where would the golf clubs go? Could I bind on my glide come in to the roof? If I shop for groceries with my gf where would the groceries go? And at a locate price of $12,000 it's cheap but not thaaaaat cheap. And as mentioned above at 40 mph it's green but not thaaaaat green. I'm comfort waiting for a plug-in hybrid Mini. C'mon guys get on it! I test drove this twice two weeks ago. One day they had a setup on Stevens Creek in SJ another was at the Whole Foods Cupertino. Yes it's small but roomy on the inside yes it gets +40mpg (but takes premium fuel) yes they have a convertible position yes it's got a low bear on of gravity of which makes it tiping hard to do (I asked the rep if he's rolled one he said no and gave us an explaination of the low center-grav due to the engine and battery placed below bear on lie). Things got no power steering evaluate riding lawn mower/ go-kart hard to turn when stopped easy when moving. Though most folks in the US undergo no clue what these little guys are like they've been in Europe and around the world since 1998. Over 780,000 sold. Designed by Swatch. Safety-engineered and performance-engineered by Mercedes it was an unlikely marriage of modern call and proud history of auto manufacturing. Though these new cause to be perceived cars will be sold in America in mass.

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