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Best of Frenemies :Though the Washington hand credits Obama with deep sympathy for the Jewish state, the incidents he recounts contradict that assertion.

How the PA spends its money

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I made apple butter in my crock pot last nite.

8-year-old Westport boy on trial for exuberance

DIdn't read this whole article, but I saw somewhere yesterday that the judge threw it out.

We have a couple in town who have made their living suing people for everything imaginable. They are old, decrepit and basically pariahs.

Unfortunately, people like this are never introspective, the problem is always 'it's the rest of the world', never themselves.

#1 fjord on 2015-10-14 07:09 (Reply)

For me it's time to roast and freeze the surplus ripe tomatoes, all the greenies that came off the vine as the vines died went into a bag. This weekend we gorged on sliced tomatoes and now I can't look another one in the eye.

#1.1 John the River (Link) on 2015-10-14 07:54 (Reply)

No pickled green tomatoes?

I just went out in my garden yesterday, I found a whole new bunch of volunteer tomato plants that sprouted from fruit drop. I have to pick them as we'll probably have frost on Sunday nite.

also found whole crop of limas.

#1.1.1 fjord on 2015-10-14 12:49 (Reply)

"WE SHOULD PUT A STIFF EXCISE TAX ON THE BLUE (flood) AREAS TO DISCOURAGE DEVELOPMENT"

No, simply remove the government subsidy to flood insurance and let the market sort this out.

#2 Incunabulum on 2015-10-14 09:05 (Reply)

Re: The new nuclear energy

This was a very interesting video and if it works the way they think it will, it will be revolutionary, but the issue about not producing bomb making material is a little off. Because of Jimmy Carter, we are the only country in the world that uses reactors that do not produce or need "bomb making material". That is why we have so much radioactive waste. Other countries recycle their fuel so there is very little waste. The fact that they also produce plutonium hasn't been a problem so far. Now with the new Iran nuclear deal, there will soon be no need for terrorists to contemplate stealing fissile material from a nuke plant because they'll be able to get it from Iran.

#3 mudbug on 2015-10-14 09:39 (Reply)

"Women Will Likely Have to Register for the Draft, Army Secretary Says"

Good. It's about time - I remember when I was a high school student 25 years ago and senior year all my male friends had to register for the draft. The double standard was stupid and inefficient then, and it's stupid and inefficient now. We should all have to register for national service, duh.

Plus with so many girls being given straight-up boys names, this policy will be much easier to implement than having one for males and a different one for females (for example, there was one girl named Walker at my high school who got into all sorts of trouble with the federal government for not registering - there are millions of girls with names like that nowadays).

Equal treatment means equal treatment. Time to get drafted, ladies!

#4 JM01 on 2015-10-14 12:49 (Reply)

"Osterweil's pro-looting essay from 2014 is also instructive. He argues that stealing other people's stuff in times of civil unrest is a "righteous" thing to do."

As long as they don't steal his.

According to his logic shooting looters is also "righteous."
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#5 chasmatic (Link) on 2015-10-14 13:12 (Reply)

Looting legitimacy: Those FOOLS. Burning and looting their own neighborhoods when they KNOW there's so little worth stealing there. They need to riot and loot where the rich people live--I mean, they got STUFF worth stealing. And getting shot at, maybe killed.

Burning Churches in Palestinian areas: Corruption and violence all the way down.

Obama's sympathy for Israel is as deep one half of one femtometer. And as wide.

#6 Sam L. on 2015-10-14 13:22 (Reply)

Re: looting.
It is bizarre that anyone would try to justify and mainstream looting. The problem for the looters is if the police don't take it seriously the store owners may. Sooner or later a few looters will be sent to their great reward by some store owner/home owner and no doubt the same people who now advocate for looting will be advocating punishing those who defend themselves from looters. The state and the politicians who allow and even encourage looting will have blood on their hands. We need to remember the reason we have civilization is to protect the citizens from the bad guys and if we abandon that then the citizens must do the job.

#7 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-10-14 17:56 (Reply)

It's already happened. A number of Korean shop owners defending their stores in the L.A. riots opened fire on the rioters, in response to looters first shooting a shop owner's wife and daughter. You can find a bunch of YouTube videos. Unfortunately for the looters it turned out a lot of the Koreans were heavily armed, including Uzis and military assault rifles. A couple of shop owners were killed, and who knows how many looters--nobody really kept track of how various looters were killed.

The Koreans didn't give a you-know-what about U.S. political correctness, and given their national history they knew what to do in this sort of situation. Especially when repeated calls to the police got no response--the police had already ceded the area and its inhabitants to the rioters.

#7.1 Jim on 2015-10-14 19:27 (Reply)

I smoked plenty of pot back in the day, and I'm now 67 and still here.

#8 David Zincavage (Link) on 2015-10-14 21:02 (Reply)

And you think mere moderate survival is a logical argument for something or other. Not helping your case here.

Lots of people start using marijuana for anxiety, and it's not a bad short-term solution. It's a terrible long-term solution, as I was telling the young man admitted for suicidal behavior due to his paranoia and low-level hallucinations today. He is 21, and certainly doesn't look schizophrenic.

I've seen plenty of that in 40 years. Not all users, certainly, nor even most. But way more than should be.

#8.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-10-14 21:36 (Reply)

Drugs and alcohol, other addictions are symptoms of inner troubles. What we see are the outward manifestations of emotional or mental disorder.

Emotional and mental well-being is an Inside Job. Prayer helps too. People that get drunk or stoned don't like themselves, and they settle for less.
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#8.1.1 chasmatic (Link) on 2015-10-15 00:43 (Reply)

I think a lot of people begin using pot or alcohol simply because many/most people they know do it. For most people, especially at first, pot and alcohol are not debilitating and you cannot argue them out of using by predicting health or social problems that may result. Not everyone is affected in the same way by either of these two drugs and not everyone takes the same "dose" so results vary. So most people simply ignore any advice that these drugs are harmful especially because their personal experience contradicts the predictions. And therein lies the problem in my opinion. for most people the feeling seems to be if the drug doesn't seem to harm me and I enjoy it where's the problem?
In my life I have known many people "addicted" to pot or alcohol and in general it has ruined their life. A family member who I still to this day describe as the nicest guy you would ever meet was an alcoholic and it destroyed his marriage and destroyed his life. But he would never admit his addition or the problems it caused. Of the people I know who use pot none of them are successful in life in any way. I truly do not know with any certainty if it is the drugs or the personality that chooses to use the drugs that is the problem. But I suspect that if the drugs were to never enter into the equation that most of these people would have been able to hold their lives together.

#8.1.1.1 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-10-15 11:02 (Reply)

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Wednesday, October 14. 2015

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