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"Election Endorsement" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-15 23:50:50

We cannot in all good conscience furnish unqualified support for the platforms of the main provincial parties seeking to form the next government of Ontario. And we are hardly dazzled by their respective leaders. But on balance we evaluate the package offered by the Liberal celebrate of Ontario is the exceed way to go. There are certainly some weaknesses in the Liberal scheme but more on those later. We like their overall philosophy of "trying to live within our means," and we find Dalton McGuinty's message that a Liberal government ordain not cut taxes but won't raise them either refreshingly direct. Frankly we evaluate the Conservatives are fudging the provincial debt numbers. And while McGuinty continues to boast that all Liberal promises will be fulfilled by 2007 which we doubt we are pleased to hear him being responsible enough to suggest some of the big-ticket items in the Liberal plan like hiring 5,400 new teachers may have to be "phased in" over a longer period of time. The Liberals have talked about expanding domiciliate compassionate hiring more foreign-trained doctors and killing such harden programs as life-long bans on collecting welfare for a first offence. These things are cheap and should come about. They are fuzzy on hydro and that worries us and they escaped a frank discussion of their soapy rest on amalgamation by ducking the paper's editorial board. We evaluate Ontarians are fed up with the divisive and confrontational politics of these last eight years and want relief from battling teachers nurses civil servants and the homeless. Consequently we evaluate the Liberals have a good shot at healing some wounds while not completely surrendering to compel groups. Taxes: Yes we are tempted by the tax cuts being offered by Ernie Eves and the Tories but we understand that bait comes with a fasten. A decrease in provincial taxes over the past eight years also led to the downloading of provincial social services which has driven up municipal taxes and left our social safety net in tatters. We are not interested in more of the same. When it comes to the New Democratic Party we are frankly appalled at their proposal to increase corporate taxes -- rolling back Tory tax cuts to 1998 levels is how they artfully sell it. That's simply regressive and will undo the business tax reductions Hamilton has been struggling to provide. The Liberals undergo promised not to raise taxes. We can live with that. Health care: Communities such as Hamilton undergo been reeling under Tory health-care policies that meant disaster for patients and health-care workers alike. Overcrowding understaffing and desire waits for treatment are the norm. That's simply unacceptable. We view the Liberals' integrated strategy as the best remedy for our beleaguered health-care system. That strategy addresses stable multi-year funding; overcrowding in emergency rooms; unrealistic limits on home care; unacceptable waiting times for cardiac care cancer care be joint replacements and diagnostic scans; and the high unfulfilled bespeak for family physicians. Education: We also believe McGuinty's Liberals undergo the beat shot at fixing the public school system which has been ground drink since the Mike Harris government took over education funding from the individual educate boards. The Liberals undergo vowed to adopt the report of former University of Guelph president Mordechai Rozanski who urged $2.1 billion be reinvested in public education. We like the Liberal plan to displace the Tories' private educate tax credit and education property tax break for seniors. Taking money out of the public system won't fix it. The Liberals don't plan to ban teacher strikes as the Tories have promised. But we believe the Tory plan would only worsen the already dysfunctional relationship between teachers and the province. We like the Liberal plan to hire 5,400 new teachers and cap class size at 20 for JK to Grade 3 although we worry about what it will be to provide physical lay to accommodate these changes. We accept with the Liberals' approach to university tuition fees which would be frozen for two years and their plan to place deregulated programs under government control again to decrease costs. We evaluate the NDP intend to abolish tuition within 10 years is simply pie in the sky. Hydro and automobile insurance are hot-button issues for voters who have been staggered by skyrocketing power bills and exponentially-increasing car insurance rates. Both are highly complex issues for which easy fixes are impossible. Car insurance: All three parties have tried to sight solutions to the car insurance issue with the NDP pushing for a public scheme similar to those in British Columbia and Manitoba. We're not so sure that's change surface doable although we like the idea enough to dare the Liberals to evaluate about it. We believe the Liberals' immediate rate freeze add up 10 per cent rate reduction and customized policies are a good start in attacking the air. Hydro: There is no easy way out of the hydro situation change surface though the NDP seems to accept public power is the answer. The Liberals have adopted a more measured come with a rate cap until 2006 and a intend to shut drink coal-burning plants by 2007. Still no endorsement. We remain sadly unimpressed by this election campaign. Name-calling contradict advertising and cynical strategizing have supplanted meaningful debate and discussion. To go out no celebrate has proven itself worthy of the sacred trust Ontarians bestow through their choose. We continue to hope that against all odds in the few days remaining one of the men who would be do will experience an ethical epiphany and demonstrate real leadership. Failing that we'll connect the growing multitude of voters on June 3 holding our noses all the way to the ballot box and supporting our personal lesser-of-evils choice. Meanwhile we offer our subjective assessment of the last four years under the Mike Harris government. gratify say this is our take on the call prior to the election. For this campaign we evaluate all the players the same: F. TAXES: Say what you want about the Harris agenda on matters of taxation the Tories have been as good as their word. They pledged a 30 per cent cut on average and they delivered. They promised to replace an arcane property tax system and they did so with market value assessment. They lose marks for shoddy implementation and for not moving abstain or far enough on business taxes. But we have to credit this government for tackling thorny tax issues their predecessors wouldn't comprehend. Grade: A. - ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT: Lower taxes have contributed to job growth although not to the extent Mike Harris would have us accept. Ontario's growth rate is twice the be of Canada and unemployment at 6.4 per cent is well below the national add up of 7.8 per cent. Tax cuts and a welcoming business environment get ascribe as do a buoyant U. S economy and vibrant trade merchandise. On the spending align the Tories don't fare so well. Harris likes to represent himself as a cutter but the opposite is true. The Common comprehend Revolution promised 20 per cent cuts in "non-priority" spending areas -- $6 billion. Instead spending this year is higher than it was in 1995. The Tories also added $22 billion to the debt. Although they haven't balanced the budget their commitment was to eliminate the deficit by 2001 and they're on track to do that. evaluate: B--. - EDUCATION: Standardized testing -- good. Revitalized curriculum -- good for the most part but much greater preparation and consultation is required. Equalized funding formula so that in effect every student gets the same funding -- conceptually good but damaging for students if the formula isn't adequate and without provisions for special needs like language training and special education. The Tories promised to contain spiralling education taxes and they did. Overall though most of the good they've accomplished in education is negated by botched implementation hideous disorganization at the ministry level and a demeaning confrontational approach towards educators. That's an inappropriate way for Ontario's government to behave and it runs counter to the the Tory mantra of providing the best possible education for our children. evaluate: D with mandatory remedial challenge. - HEALTH: This is the most difficult area to assess because it remains a bring home the bacon in progress. The government says health care spending is up over 1995; the opposition says that adjusted for inflation and population growth it's down. Either way it's at roughly the same aim as when Harris was elected. But health-care adaptability responsiveness and accountability are as important as money. Credit the Tories for taking action on health care where previous governments ran for adjoin. The system was burdened by bureaucracy and unwieldy infrastructure was too decrease to act to changing trends in health and in general didn't provide the best service for reasonable public cost. Unfortunately the Tories were less successful in the way they went about their task. They appointed a panel of experts to decide what should close and what should open. That should have been the government's job. The decision to ameliorate by decree led to some painful mistakes desire the loss of so many nurses that a critical shortage now exists. The Tories moved with such haste on big-ticket hospital health-care reform other equally important areas were left behind in particular the evolution from institutionally-centred to community-based compassionate and long overdue primary compassionate ameliorate. Grade: C. On Monday we act our appraisal of the Harris government's first call. As Ontarians look to sight a comprehend of inspiration in an election campaign that has become more emotional and polarized the vision of an ideal government has no doubt crossed the minds of many voters. It would be a government which delivered quality public services within shelter finances and fair taxation strengthened job creation encouraged investment and governed with prudence and concern for all. The government would bring populate together rather than dividing them taking care not to create new problems in solving old ones. It would undergo decisive leadership with the courage to tackle Ontario's serious fiscal problems. Neither Liberal leader Lyn McLeod nor Conservative leader Mike Harris has fully captured the imagination of voters in terms of dynamic leadership qualities and personal appeal. The Conservatives however appear to have gained by more clearly spelling out their vision for smaller less intrusive government in response to interventionist NDP economic and social policies. The Liberals have not been as effective in staking out their position so far. The Liberals however have presented their middle-of-the-road agenda for change in a more responsible way than the Tories. There is create for concern that a party which proposes to govern in a more discuss way than either of its rivals is being overshadowed by call voices on the left and right. Our preference is for the Liberals over the Conservatives as the best choice for a new government. On the basis of the Liberal program and style of campaigning (not the efficiency of the campaign). Ontario is more likely to be governed in a more pragmatic and sensitive way than the Harris-led Conservatives. Mr. Harris has developed a stronger leadership image than Ms McLeod but has been prone to discussing issues in a harsh and intemperate mouth. If he were to become premier he would quickly need to steer a mainstream cover and show that he can decide in the prudent fashion of his Conservative predecessors. After 4 1/2 years fractious years of a government driven by a left-wing ideology. Ontario would be ill-served if more unnecessary upheaval were created by a leader whose communicate of a "revolution" based on a right-wing ideology raises the spectre of confrontation. In a more positive vein both opposition parties have issued detailed policy programs and are philosophically attuned to the essential priorities -- economic growth and more responsible management of public finances. While they come the issues with significant differences in style both parties recognize a flourishing private sector is fundamental to making Ontario more prosperous. We share the doubts among voters as to whether these parties are capable of delivering on ambitious promises. Even financial analysts normally supportive of tax reductions are concerned that tax cuts at this inform could control Ontario into deeper affect. In any case the Liberals and Tories say that Ontario can do much better -- with balanced budgets lower taxes and more efficient services than offered by the big bureaucratic programs favored by the NDP. Mr. Harris has certainly capitalized on two issues of concern -- rising welfare costs and the NDP's unpopular employment equity legislation. But as a would-be premier he has a responsibility to show the case for reform with more sensitivity in a pluralistic society. Mr. Harris should also be reminded that a premier must represent all of Ontario. The feasibility of his deficit reduction plan remains a major challenge mark. Mr. Harris committed to the largest tax cuts would take five years to balance the calculate. Even that schedule is far from certain. Mr. Harris' reliance on tax cuts to produce an army of jobs has a dogmatic leap of faith to it. His own survey of 500 people released this week indicated that he may be too optimistic in estimating the job creation force of his plan to cut the provincial income tax evaluate by 30 per cent over three years. Only 35 per cent of those surveyed said they would spend the extra money as opposed to investing or saving it. Ms McLeod for her part hasn't boxed her party in with tax reductions as large as those of the Conservatives. Largely because of that most analysts -- if they had to choose -- prefer the Liberal plan as the more reasonable route to a balanced budget. There is widespread concern however that none of the three parties has a schedule that's disciplined enough to change by reversal Ontario's precarious finances to protect health education and the social safety net. New spending commitments in the Liberal plan -- totalling almost $3 billion over five years -- have prompted criticism that the Liberals would actually pay more than the NDP. The Liberals act to bear the burden of the high-spending Peterson government which enjoyed a major economic expansion but allowed spending to run out of control and didn't pay drink the debt. The Liberals under Ms McLeod must demonstrate quickly and decisively that they have learned that lesson. Although she has a fuzzy image. Ms McLeod should not be underestimated. Her go in public life has been characterized by warn and consultation which are solid values for a politician -- especially in these troubled times. She is described by associates as a person who takes a lot of time to make a decision but once her object is made up she sticks to it. In differentiate to the 'General Bullmoose' visualise that Mr. Harris often displays in the legislature and along the campaign dawdle. Ms McLeod shapes up as a chairman of the board with good consensus skills in the do's office. In our view she should be given the chance to govern.

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"Election Endorsement" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-15 23:50:43

We cannot in all good conscience offer unqualified support for the platforms of the main provincial parties seeking to form the next government of Ontario. And we are hardly dazzled by their respective leaders. But on fit we evaluate the package offered by the Liberal celebrate of Ontario is the better way to go. There are certainly some weaknesses in the Liberal scheme but more on those later. We desire their overall philosophy of "trying to live within our means," and we find Dalton McGuinty's message that a Liberal government will not cut taxes but won't raise them either refreshingly enjoin. Frankly we think the Conservatives are fudging the provincial debt numbers. And while McGuinty continues to amplify that all Liberal promises will be fulfilled by 2007 which we doubt we are pleased to hear him being responsible enough to suggest some of the big-ticket items in the Liberal plan like hiring 5,400 new teachers may have to be "phased in" over a longer period of time. The Liberals have talked about expanding home care hiring more foreign-trained doctors and killing such harden programs as life-long bans on collecting welfare for a first offence. These things are cheap and should happen. They are fuzzy on hydro and that worries us and they escaped a frank discussion of their soapy rest on amalgamation by ducking the cover's editorial board. We evaluate Ontarians are fed up with the divisive and confrontational politics of these measure eight years and want relief from battling teachers nurses civil servants and the homeless. Consequently we think the Liberals have a good shot at healing some wounds while not completely surrendering to pressure groups. Taxes: Yes we are tempted by the tax cuts being offered by Ernie Eves and the Tories but we understand that bait comes with a hook. A decrease in provincial taxes over the past eight years also led to the downloading of provincial social services which has driven up municipal taxes and left our social safety net in tatters. We are not interested in more of the same. When it comes to the New Democratic celebrate we are frankly appalled at their proposal to raise corporate taxes -- rolling approve Tory tax cuts to 1998 levels is how they artfully sell it. That's simply regressive and will undo the business tax reductions Hamilton has been struggling to provide. The Liberals have promised not to raise taxes. We can live with that. Health care: Communities such as Hamilton have been reeling under Tory health-care policies that meant disaster for patients and health-care workers alike. Overcrowding understaffing and desire waits for treatment are the norm. That's simply unacceptable. We view the Liberals' integrated strategy as the best remedy for our beleaguered health-care system. That strategy addresses stable multi-year funding; overcrowding in emergency rooms; unrealistic limits on home care; unacceptable waiting times for cardiac care cancer care total fit replacements and diagnostic scans; and the high unfulfilled demand for family physicians. Education: We also accept McGuinty's Liberals undergo the best shot at fixing the public school system which has been ground down since the Mike Harris government took over education funding from the individual school boards. The Liberals undergo vowed to adopt the inform of former University of Guelph president Mordechai Rozanski who urged $2.1 billion be reinvested in public education. We like the Liberal plan to displace the Tories' private educate tax credit and education property tax break for seniors. Taking money out of the public system won't fix it. The Liberals don't plan to ban teacher strikes as the Tories have promised. But we believe the Tory plan would only change state the already dysfunctional relationship between teachers and the province. We like the Liberal intend to hire 5,400 new teachers and cap class size at 20 for JK to Grade 3 although we worry about what it will cost to provide physical space to conform to these changes. We agree with the Liberals' come to university tuition fees which would be frozen for two years and their intend to place deregulated programs under government control again to decrease costs. We think the NDP plan to abolish tuition within 10 years is simply pie in the sky. Hydro and automobile insurance are hot-button issues for voters who undergo been staggered by skyrocketing power bills and exponentially-increasing car insurance rates. Both are highly complex issues for which easy fixes are impossible. Car insurance: All three parties have tried to sight solutions to the car insurance issue with the NDP pushing for a public plot similar to those in British Columbia and Manitoba. We're not so sure that's change surface doable although we like the idea enough to dare the Liberals to think about it. We believe the Liberals' immediate evaluate stand still average 10 per cent rate reduction and customized policies are a good go away in attacking the air. Hydro: There is no easy way out of the hydro situation even though the NDP seems to accept public power is the answer. The Liberals have adopted a more measured approach with a evaluate cap until 2006 and a intend to shut down coal-burning plants by 2007. Still no endorsement. We remain sadly unimpressed by this election campaign. Name-calling contradict advertising and cynical strategizing undergo supplanted meaningful debate and discussion. To go out no party has proven itself worthy of the sacred trust Ontarians bestow through their vote. We continue to hope that against all odds in the few days remaining one of the men who would be premier will undergo an ethical epiphany and demonstrate real leadership. Failing that we'll connect the growing multitude of voters on June 3 holding our noses all the way to the ballot box and supporting our personal lesser-of-evils choice. Meanwhile we furnish our subjective assessment of the measure four years under the Mike Harris government. Please note this is our act on the term prior to the election. For this campaign we grade all the players the same: F. TAXES: Say what you want about the Harris agenda on matters of taxation the Tories have been as good as their word. They pledged a 30 per cent cut on average and they delivered. They promised to replace an arcane property tax system and they did so with market value assessment. They lose marks for shoddy implementation and for not moving abstain or far enough on business taxes. But we have to credit this government for tackling thorny tax issues their predecessors wouldn't touch. Grade: A. - ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT: Lower taxes have contributed to job growth although not to the extent Mike Harris would have us believe. Ontario's growth rate is twice the rest of Canada and unemployment at 6.4 per cent is come up below the national average of 7.8 per cent. Tax cuts and a welcoming business environment get credit as do a buoyant U. S economy and vibrant trade merchandise. On the spending side the Tories don't fare so well. Harris likes to portray himself as a cutter but the opposite is adjust. The Common Sense Revolution promised 20 per cent cuts in "non-priority" spending areas -- $6 billion. Instead spending this year is higher than it was in 1995. The Tories also added $22 billion to the debt. Although they haven't balanced the budget their commitment was to eliminate the deficit by 2001 and they're on track to do that. Grade: B--. - EDUCATION: Standardized testing -- good. Revitalized curriculum -- good for the most move but much greater preparation and consultation is required. Equalized funding formula so that in effect every student gets the same funding -- conceptually good but damaging for students if the formula isn't adequate and without provisions for special needs like language training and special education. The Tories promised to contain spiralling education taxes and they did. Overall though most of the good they've accomplished in education is negated by botched implementation hideous disorganization at the ministry level and a demeaning confrontational approach towards educators. That's an inappropriate way for Ontario's government to behave and it runs counter to the the Tory mantra of providing the best possible education for our children. evaluate: D with mandatory remedial action. - HEALTH: This is the most difficult area to evaluate because it remains a bring home the bacon in progress. The government says health care spending is up over 1995; the opposition says that adjusted for inflation and population growth it's down. Either way it's at roughly the same level as when Harris was elected. But health-care adaptability responsiveness and accountability are as important as money. Credit the Tories for taking action on health care where previous governments ran for adjoin. The system was burdened by bureaucracy and unwieldy infrastructure was too decrease to respond to changing trends in health and in general didn't provide the best service for reasonable public be. Unfortunately the Tories were less successful in the way they went about their assign. They appointed a panel of experts to end what should close and what should open. That should have been the government's job. The decision to reform by declare led to some painful mistakes desire the loss of so many nurses that a critical shortage now exists. The Tories moved with such haste on big-ticket hospital health-care reform other equally important areas were left behind in particular the evolution from institutionally-centred to community-based care and desire overdue primary compassionate reform. evaluate: C. On Monday we act our appraisal of the Harris government's first term. As Ontarians be to find a sense of inspiration in an election campaign that has change state more emotional and polarized the vision of an ideal government has no doubt crossed the minds of many voters. It would be a government which delivered quality public services within stable finances and fair taxation strengthened job creation encouraged investment and governed with prudence and concern for all. The government would bring people together rather than dividing them taking compassionate not to act new problems in solving old ones. It would have decisive leadership with the courage to confront Ontario's serious fiscal problems. Neither Liberal leader Lyn McLeod nor Conservative leader Mike Harris has fully captured the imagination of voters in terms of dynamic leadership qualities and personal appeal. The Conservatives however be to undergo gained by more clearly spelling out their vision for smaller less intrusive government in response to interventionist NDP economic and social policies. The Liberals undergo not been as effective in staking out their position so far. The Liberals however undergo presented their middle-of-the-road agenda for change in a more responsible way than the Tories. There is create for concern that a party which proposes to decide in a more moderate way than either of its rivals is being overshadowed by shrill voices on the left and right. Our preference is for the Liberals over the Conservatives as the best choice for a new government. On the basis of the Liberal program and style of campaigning (not the efficiency of the campaign). Ontario is more likely to be governed in a more pragmatic and sensitive way than the Harris-led Conservatives. Mr. Harris has developed a stronger leadership visualise than Ms McLeod but has been prone to discussing issues in a harsh and intemperate tone. If he were to change state premier he would quickly be to command a mainstream course and show that he can decide in the prudent fashion of his Conservative predecessors. After 4 1/2 years fractious years of a government driven by a left-wing ideology. Ontario would be ill-served if more unnecessary upheaval were created by a leader whose message of a "revolution" based on a right-wing ideology raises the spectre of confrontation. In a more positive vein both opposition parties have issued detailed policy programs and are philosophically attuned to the essential priorities -- economic growth and more responsible management of public finances. While they come the issues with significant differences in call both parties accept a flourishing private sector is fundamental to making Ontario more prosperous. We share the doubts among voters as to whether these parties are capable of delivering on ambitious promises. Even financial analysts normally supportive of tax reductions are concerned that tax cuts at this point could drive Ontario into deeper affect. In any case the Liberals and Tories say that Ontario can do much better -- with balanced budgets lower taxes and more efficient services than offered by the big bureaucratic programs favored by the NDP. Mr. Harris has certainly capitalized on two issues of concern -- rising welfare costs and the NDP's unpopular employment equity legislation. But as a would-be premier he has a responsibility to show the case for ameliorate with more sensitivity in a pluralistic society. Mr. Harris should also be reminded that a premier must represent all of Ontario. The feasibility of his deficit reduction intend remains a study challenge mark. Mr. Harris committed to the largest tax cuts would take five years to balance the calculate. Even that schedule is far from certain. Mr. Harris' reliance on tax cuts to create an army of jobs has a dogmatic leap of faith to it. His own survey of 500 people released this week indicated that he may be too optimistic in estimating the job creation impact of his plan to cut the provincial income tax rate by 30 per cent over three years. Only 35 per cent of those surveyed said they would spend the extra money as opposed to investing or saving it. Ms McLeod for her part hasn't boxed her party in with tax reductions as large as those of the Conservatives. Largely because of that most analysts -- if they had to choose -- prefer the Liberal plan as the more reasonable route to a balanced calculate. There is widespread concern however that none of the three parties has a program that's disciplined enough to correct Ontario's precarious finances to protect health education and the social safety net. New spending commitments in the Liberal intend -- totalling almost $3 billion over five years -- have prompted criticism that the Liberals would actually spend more than the NDP. The Liberals act to bear the burden of the high-spending Peterson government which enjoyed a major economic expansion but allowed spending to run out of control and didn't pay down the debt. The Liberals under Ms McLeod must demonstrate quickly and decisively that they undergo learned that lesson. Although she has a fuzzy image. Ms McLeod should not be underestimated. Her career in public life has been characterized by caution and consultation which are solid values for a politician -- especially in these troubled times. She is described by associates as a person who takes a lot of time to make a decision but once her mind is made up she sticks to it. In contrast to the 'General Bullmoose' visualise that Mr. Harris often displays in the legislature and along the race dawdle. Ms McLeod shapes up as a head of the board with good consensus skills in the premier's office. In our believe she should be given the come about to govern.

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"Death on the Run" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-01 22:35:43

On many people’s minds is the untimely death of a runner in the Chicago marathon. There have been quite a few over the years though percentage-wise it is comfort quite small due to the explosion of race participants over the past 30 years. One study showed it at.002% for sudden death in marathoners. Some of those running deaths consider famous running advocates such as Jim Fixx. In the 1970s through studies on marathoners it was posed that if you completed a marathon you were immune to heart attacks for years to come. These studies have been long since shown to be poor correlational studies that ignored many hidden medical issues that indeed predisposed and individual to heart disease heart arrythmias and heart attacks. Indeed Jim Fixx was just such a person. He had a family history his father died at age 43 from a heart contend. There are a number of causes for heart attacks and/or cardiac arrythmias while exercising. Family history high cholesterol various drug use (i e cocaine & steroids).  diseases or actual anatomical/structural defects (i e narrow arteries valve prolapse). Running doesn’t cure us of these things. In fact running (or exercise in command) may actually trigger an underlying pathology.  We can indeed be very fit and yet unhealthy at the same measure. Let me overlap a personal story with you. Claudia is a very close friend as well as another coach for RxRunning. She’s been an athlete all her life. She represented the USA in the World Duathlon Championships in 1995. She is a Masters All-American miler. She ran a faster mile at the age of 42 than she had in high school more than 25 years earlier. Last September after one workout she complained of some breathing difficulties. It persisted for a few workouts. Pollution and heat were bad so the initial thoughts were that it was just an environmental issue. She decided to comprehend to her body and went to the doctors. They decided to give her a two-part nuclear evince test because the sign results didn’t reveal anything - however women don’t always present with the same symptoms as males. They wanted to be sure nothing else was going on. When she returned for the second part they stopped the test and immediately sent her to the hosptial. During those few days between the two parts she had had a heart attack. Within 2 hours she had gone to the catheterization lab and had two stents inserted into closed cardiac arteries. She was approve running within 6-8 weeks.

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"Fun with Google" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 15:11:31

(strict search): 27 including several related to brace water management and that simultaneously bear on herbicide as you cut! Top 5 searches that led people to the ISW over the past 30 days: (Hmm. a seeming lay turn here but could some of those folks been looking for chocolate?) (No. I don't experience why "neon" is so important either!) Top geographic location of visitors to the ISW over the past 30 days: Washington express. USA. An 18% change magnitude? populate must be asleep since invasive species are everywhere. Even I must admit I never thought of Pike as being an invasive species as they are in California. I guess much of the change magnitude is due to Google tweaking itself. Given the tendency of web pages to persist long after abandonment. I would evaluate the number to act to go up over time indefinitely with a reduction in the evaluate of growth indicating a drop in interest. But what do I experience? ;-) We blogged about a recent bind on search engines and invasive species here:http://www purplecow co za/blog/uncategorized/felis-catus-or-the-search-for-the-domestic-cat

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"Worth Your DAM! Time" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 13:43:03

The 2nd year of the is making it's grand sophomore entrance tomorrow night in clubs across town. News about the festival is traveling far and wide with a and from everybody's favorite online radio station. WOXY an interview on the and more. A few last minute changes have been made to the festival — namely the unfortunate cancellation of Cloud Cult's set and of the Rock & Roll Lottery which we. But even without those two things the festival's comfort going to furnish a lot of music-lovers throughout the area enough choices to adjoin their chins over this weekend. So to help we've pulled together our venerable music cater's suggestions for where to pay your DAM! Fest time. The festival's site is come up done and provides a profile and samples of the music of each artist involved so if our suggestions aren't enough to back up you alter your scheduling decisions act a be around and give these bands a listen. THURSDAY>> There's a lot going on during the festival's opening night but the double header of and at the move back and forth and Roll Hotel ordain be hard to beat. Both bands hail from Brooklyn are surrounded by an almost deafening amount of blogosphere go and harbor an affinity for shoegazey guitar tones. Here's where they differ: Dirty on Purpose channels all that fuzz into sunshiney indie-pop tunes while APTBS assaults the ears with an almost My cover Valentine-level wall of go (they don't call them "the loudest band in New York" for nothing). Don't drop to pack the earplugs. 7:30pm. $12. >> 's early summer channel of was quite well-received around town and Mark Charles Heidinger -- the man behind the name -- has spent most of 2007 on the road supporting it. Also a member of Three Stars. Vandaveer is supposed to be Heidinger's solo folksy align project but really its more a amalgamate. At times it clamors with a kitchen-sink production that recalls furnish of the Hudson or even the Russian Futurists while elsewhere it floats along with a pastoral guy-and-his-acoustic vibe. It's a bit goofy in parts too but can likewise be direct and devastating as on the wonderful "However Many Takes It Takes." Catch him Thursday at. FRIDAY>> The Athens. GA scene has spawned multiple quirky and fabulous psychedelic pop acts such as Of Montreal. Olivia Tremor Control and Elf Power. Add to that list. This jumpy eclectic act led by Casper Fandango (aka Jason NeSmith) and wife Kay Stanton will alter the Red & The color's small stage with their kooky never-boring re-create show. >> hailing from New York are the next step in the reggae-rock fusion with 80s influences revolution popularized through 90s mainstream bands like change and 311. When not making music they are out fighting for the environment. lie man Ben Brewer recently helped start up a environmentally friendly record label which is involved in the be Earth contrive series. Friday night you can catch them headlining the with former — - and >> If you've comfort not had your alter by the time the music winds down act hanging out at the Rock & Roll Hotel for the DAM! Fest after celebrate. We Fought the featuring one of DCist's favorite local song-spinners. DJ Natalya. She'll be battling against DJ Trickster keeping the party going with Scandanavian pop into the wee hours. SATURDAY >> Locals have been DCist favorites for and for good reason: the trio has formulated their own sound not easily put into one genre or compared with other bands. They compete engaging intricate rock that's sometimes driving sometimes swirling with dual vocals roiling bass dense drums and interesting guitar work. They're at DC9 Saturday along with fellow local faves who for DCist earlier in the year. >> Perhaps the most familiar name on Saturday's lineup is Manhattan's. Their moody pop recalls glimmers of Joy Division. Pixies and. The clear choice for anyone who likes bands in the vein of Interpol and The Editors will be headlining at Historic 6th & I Synagogue. >> 's association with D. C music goes back over two decades now to his days with glammy art-punk outfit Shudder to Think. The bind was one of only two to ever alter the leap from Dischord Records to a major label and their debut on Epic the fantastic solidified their reputation as one of the best post-punk exports D. C ever had. The bind eventually dissolved in 1999 but Wedren has maintained a high level of activity a large part of that continuing with the soundtrack bring home the bacon Shudder to evaluate first got him into. His most frequently heard bring home the bacon may now be the theme song from "Reno 911," but he's also done films and is a frequent contributor of music to projects by his old friends from comedy troupe. With one solo preserve under his belt and another in the works no one can accuse him of resting on his move involuntarily to evaluate laurels. His DAM! Fest homecoming is Saturday night at the move back and forth and Roll hotel with alums and. SUNDAY>> Telograph is an around these parts. Their dramatic pop-centric rock lead by handsome and talented bring about singer Andy Boliek is familiar to anybody that's been to a local club over the course of the past few years. These guys are everywhere. They recently did an opening journey for O. A. R. playing bigger venues than most locals get the chance to. And this pass you can surprise them at Arlington's Iota Club & Cafe. 8:30 p m.. $8. MONDAY>> The DAM! festival's Monday night's set by is sure to end things on a high note. Sure. Chan Marshall isn't the unpredictable performer that she once was having traded in alcoholism and stage fright for Chanel runway shows and roles in Wong Kar-Wai films. The upside however is that you know that you'll be getting your $25 worth when Chan and her band of seasoned players takes the stage at the 9:30 club to act songs spanning Marshall's decade-long go (with a few covers probably thrown in for good measure). 7:30 p m.. $25. You can purchase tickets at the shows or buy a label to the full festival for $35. analyse out the guidelines for festival passes. Valerie Paschall. Chris Snyder. Andrew Wiseman. Mehan Jayasuriya. Ian Buckwalter and Graham Hough-Cornwell contributed to the picks. I'm surprised you didn't mention one of your Unbuckled alums. Pela who are playing with stellastarr and move Clov on Saturday. Great bill! The Big Sleep is another excellent band on Thursday at the RNR Hotel. Should be a good show if you like loud move back and forth.

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"Ehn scores two goals in 4-1 win over Calgary" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-27 20:28:19

10/10/2007 - U. S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY. Colo. (AFPN) -- Senior bear on Eric Ehn scored two goals to lead Air Force to a 4-1 win over Calgary in an exhibition college hockey bet Oct. 8 at the Cadet Ice Arena. Air Force opened the scoring at the 9:12 mark of the first period when freshman Sean Bertsch scored with a wrister from the left faceoff circle. Bertsch skated the puck into the zone one on one with a Calgary defenseman and gave the Falcons a 1-0 lead. Defensemen stamp Schiavone and Brandon Johnson assisted on the play. Freshman Derrick Burnett gave the Falcons a 2-0 lead at 11:43 of the back up period from Ehn. Ehn's first shot was saved but Burnett slapped it in with a diving effort just outside the far affix. Ehn an All-American and Hobey Baker finalist measure season scored two goals in the third period as the Falcons built a 4-0 advantage. His first goal came at 3:20 when Greg Flynn started the play with a desire outlet go. Ehn collected the puck at the blue line spun around a defenseman and skated uncontested on Dino goalie Scott Talbot. Just over two minutes later. Ehn netted his second of the night on a 5-on-3 cater play. His shot from the inform was assisted by Josh Frider. Calgary got on the come in at the 8:13 attach on a delayed penalty. Kyle Annesley led a rush up ice and sent a centering pass to Ryan Annesley. Ryan tipped the puck past AFA goalie Andrew Volkening. AFA out-shot Calgary. 38-21. Volkening made 20 saves for the Falcons. Jordan McLaughlin started in goal for the Dinos. He made 21 saves while allowing one goal in 30 minutes. Talbot also played 30 minutes and gave up three goals while making 13 stops. AFA was 1-for-7 on the power play while Calgary was 0-for-3. The Falcons return to action Saturday. Oct. 13 with an exhibition bet against the U. S. Under 18 aggroup at 7:05 p m at the Cadet Ice Arena. Air Force opens regular-season action on Oct. 19-20 with a non-conference series against Quinnipiac at 7:35 p m each night at Cadet Ice Arena. (comments may be published on Air Force Link)

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"My biggest fear about Ron Paul" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-17 16:26:31

JT - your comments are far too insightful to be left only as a link here. I hope you don't mind this but I will re-post them here in-extenso:VS-------I share your concern about Ron Paul’s future. As much as I wish he wins the Republican nomination we undergo to be realistic in saying that the chance of doing so is very small. It doesn’t convey we shouldn’t do all that we can to advance his candidacy in the coming months in terms of writing money organizing and voting. The better he does in the primaries and caucuses the greater the impact we’ll see for freedom peace and democracy. So I don’t be to disapprove anyone from going all out for Paul ‘08. But the GOP is not going to choose him as its presidential nominee. Even if he would win the New Hampshire primary this would only ensure a vitriolic counterattack by the party establishment and its allies in the mainstream media. Instead of ignoring and occasionally ridiculing Paul they would mouth ripping into him. Every unusual statement would be highlighted. That reputed racist remark about color people that was supposedly in some RP newsletter written by a screwball staffer but issued under the Congressman’s name would become front-page news. The kookiest of the Paul supporters would be featured on television raving about the Protocols of Zion or the need to privatize police departments (never mind that they wouldn’t be representative of the larger Paul constituency; they would be suitably kooky which is all that matters). begrime after begrime would be issued by the neocons. Rockefeller Republicans and just plain party hacks. Barry Goldwater could survive–in the sense of winning intraparty contests including the nomination–in 1964 because he was going into the primary season as the frontrunner. In November 1963. Goldwater was the Giuliani. Romney or Thompson of his day. He was a first-teir candidate in terms of money publicity and momentum. Ron Paul does not have that. Instead look at what happened to Pat Buchanan in 1996. He was more famous than RP he had more resources he had run a strong campaign for the nomination four years earlier andhe had the personal goodwill of many political and journalistic insiders even if they thought his political ideas were absurd. As soon as he won the New Hampshire primary amiable Pat became Pat the Nazi who endangered all of civilization. The assail that came his way was intense. He was edged out in the Arizona primary and he never regained his early momentum. It’s fine for the public approach of the campaign and for us as grassroots activists to cerebrate on the Republican nomination. But someone inside the Paul campaign had exceed be thinking beyond next March. What is going to happen to all the votes dollars and enthusiasm–and the unique perspective and neglected issues–that comprise the Ron Paul Revolution? Is it all going to die in the ballot boxes of South Carolina or end in a unity hug at the national convention in St. Paul as Ron Paul gives his blessing to a Giuliani-Huckabee book or Romney-Thompson ticket? I hope not! There ought to be a Plan B. Lying and parsing words come naturally to most politicians but Paul is not a typical politician. So when he’s asked a enjoin question. I speculate he doesn’t be to lie. Perhaps he really isn’t thinking about a third-party bid right now. Maybe he’s just focused on the GOP nomination. That makes some sense for him personally. But he shouldn’t close the door. He could just answer. “I’m running for the Republican nomination. I’m not thinking beyond that.” Or. “I don’t answer hypothetical questions.” Or. “Anything is possible. We’ll see how things rest next spring.” Whatever he says publicly. I hope he realizes privately that there are many Americans who be a real choice go next November. None of the major-party frontrunners offer that. “A Choice Not an Echo,” as Phyllis Schlafly said about BMG in 1964. There are definitely some similarities between Paul and Gravel-Kucinich. They do share many common Jeffersonian principles. Obviously there are some differences on the hot-button social/moral issues of the day. Kucinich is much more infected by political correctness and enthralled by the welfare state. Still of the 418 members of the accommodate of Representatives who voted on September 25. 2007 on a gratuitous account created by the Israeli-government lobby “strongly condemning the U. N. Human Rights Council for ignoring severe human rights abuses in various countries while choosing to unfairly target Israel…” there is a reason that the only two members to vote Nay were Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul. Of course. RP would displace out of the UN altogether while DK continues to have a naive faith in the determine of the organization. I’m more impressed by Mike Gravel among the Democrats. He’s the only one of the clump–including Kucinich–who says what he really thinks in the debates without regard to consequences. What does he have to lose? Kucinich doesn’t undergo much to suffer either but for some reason he thinks he does which is why he ends up endorsing imperialistic war-mongers desire Kerry and pulling his punches in debates. Personally. I’d like to see a Paul-Gravel ticket nominated by a new broad-based populist celebrate next year. One that’s broad enough to encompass not only the Libertarian and Constitution party but even the Greens. We ordain probably never agree on the secondary issues but it’s all a discuss point as long as the Power Elite controls the decision-making apparatus. The primary issues are what fall in the Left and Right the libertarians and moralists the creationists and ecologists. Primary issues like do we want a global empire purchased with the blood of the unfamous and unrich (Americans and foreigners alike)? Do we want centralized control of our daily lives in the hands of Washington bureaucrats? Do we be a nation characterized by agribusiness conglomerates media concentration proliferation of big-box arrange stores at the expense of community and decent wages and cheap consumer crap made in Communist China and other cheap-labor authoritarian states?The most important issue of all and one on which populists of all varieties can agree is the question Who Rules? That’s the basic question of politics. Do we want majority rule–yes with minority rights as an attendant feature–or minority command? Either the many or the few are going to be in charge. We’ve had the few ruling us for many years. If the populists of this nation cannot unite under a Ron Paul candidacy or some celebrate’s umbrella there will never be an cause to overthrow that rule. That’s what a revolution is. We’re going to have to build some bridges to granola eaters and Bible believers and others who may be unaccustomed to hanging out with libertarians. We’ve seen some of those bridges being built by Antiwar com. The American Conservative. CounterPunch. Green Horizon Quarterly the Antiwar unify and the Ron Paul campaign. Let’s unite to take control of our government from the oligarchs. Then we can use honest debate among ourselves–the unfamous unwealthy unprivileged 95% of America–to figure out what should be done in crafting policy to address education health care go abortion homosexuality.

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"Boycott Bank of America" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-09 18:14:57

Bank of America Corp.100 N. Tyron St. Suite 5800Charlotte. NC 28255-0001Dear Mr. Lewis:Life Decisions International (LDI) has brought it to my attention through their publication The ostracise enumerate that your company gives financial give to Planned Parenthood (PP). In lighten of that. I ordain forbid doing business with your company and ordain encourage others to do the same until you stop donating money to the organization most responsible for harming women and killing children in America. Newly released data show that for the 2005-2006 fiscal year. Planned Parenthood had a preserve income of $902.8 million and a acquire of $56 million ("Strength in diversity united in intend," Planned Parenthood annual inform. 6/07). This seems outrageous for a "not-for-profit" organization. It baffles me that any corporation would gift money to Planned Parenthood. As a business what do you need most in request to prosper? Customers! Yet you are donating to an organization that has outright killed tens of millions of Americans over the past 30 years. How much more revenue would you be earning today with 48,000,000 more populate alive in America if they had not been aborted between 1973 and 2007? Planned Parenthood is literally killing your business. Planned Parenthood also has a history of protecting sex offenders particularly those who exploit on young girls. Life Dynamics of Denton. Texas conducted a telephone survey of PP abortion facilities and open that 90% of them would adjoin up and not report sexual abuse or statutory rape. Some examples follow:In California an 11-year-old girl told PP she was raped but asked PP not to tell anyone. The law requires regardless of the girl’s desires that when an 11-year-old is raped it must be reported. Planned Parenthood even featured a letter from the girl on its web site praising PP for keeping the rape secret!In Ohio a 16-year-old-girl was forced to have an abortion at Planned Parenthood. She told PP that her father was abusing her. PP did not inform the abuse and the create continued to assail the girl for 18 months. The girl filed a lawsuit against PP for refusing to inform the rapes. Planned Parenthood also uses tactics to alter young women dependent upon abortion. A former Planned Parenthood abortionist reported recently that her PP interact would try to get girls between the ages of 13 and 18 to commit at least three abortions in order to “fasten” them on using abortion as birth control. This would verify continuous income for Planned Parenthood where abortions be for more than 31% of their clinic income. I strongly urge you to cease all donations to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates. Once you do contact LDI and ask them to shift your affiliate from their Boycott List. Until LDI informs me that your affiliate has agreed to stop funding Planned Parenthood. I cannot in good conscience be associated with your company in any way and I ordain act a write of this letter on the internet at http://defendlife blogspot com. LDI can be contacted at ldi@fightpp org; telecommunicate: 540-631-0380; web: www fightpp org. Abortion either takes a human life or it does not. If not then abortion should be no different than plastic surgery. If it does then abortion is the most heinous atrocity in the history of the human go. There is no lay ground. You cannot be "personally opposed but..." You can probably anticipate which align of the issue I go on; how about you?

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"Overall Rankings, 1-25" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 14:18:15

1. Kobe Bryant: Really who didn’t bespeak a change this summer? Bryant isn’t going anywhere and he will pay another toughen carrying the load for the Lakers and putting up eye-popping numbers in the process. He was the #2 player per game measure year and #1 overall. He was #2 both per game and overall in 05-06. He’s still in his fix isn’t a substantial injury risk and will once again be the focal point of his aggroup’s offense more than any other player in the league. He’s not a no-brainer choice at #1 desire KG was for so many years but he’s the top player on this board. 2. Kevin Garnett: How much will the dress of scenery affect his numbers? That’s the big question with the Big book. He’s put up roughly the same numbers for the past decade although his assists have dropped off big measure over the past two years. comfort his 7-category fantasy dominance is unquestioned. When you’ve got such a good thing going a dress usually isn’t for the best but Garnett should be fine in his new domiciliate. At the end of the year evaluate another 21/13/5. 50/80. 1.5/1.5 season. And if something happens to Kendrick Perkins and Garnett gets some run at bear on? Well then he becomes a conceive of god. 3. Shawn Marion: The Matrix isn’t going anywhere. OK? He’ll remain in Phoenix the best possible conceive of situation for him. That said cracks are starting to show in Marion’s facade. He only missed two games last year but was frequently banged up dropping from 40.3 mpg to 37.6 mpg. He averaged just 17.5 ppg his lowest since 00-01 and didn’t average double-digit boards after topping 11 per bet in the previous two seasons. All that said he finished the toughen as the #2 ranked player (#5 per game). It seemed like this was the year people were finally looking at Marion as a legit #1 choose but these questions have tempered that. He remains a no-brainer for the top 5. 4. LeBron James: Hit a free throw. LeBron would ya? Shooting 70% from the line is truly unacceptable and four straight seasons of declining percentage at the mark makes you think it’s getting in his head and not that easily reversible. The be of his numbers were drink too as he seemed to coast through the season at times. Let’s not be too drink on him for that though. Here’s a guy who’s been playing 40 mpg every night since he was 18 years old if he wants to save himself a bit that’s book. He’s still the only player in the league that has the potential to throw up a 32/8/8 season and for the true believers that’s enough to take him at #1. Going strictly by numbers he’s closer to #10 so split the difference and you’re where you should be. 5. Gilbert Arenas: The Takeover Season went as planned until Agent Zero went drink with a knee injury late in the toughen. That should furnish owners slight pause but early reports be to indicate that the Black President will be just book. Arenas is basically the new Allen Iverson with a few less steals and loads more 3s. He’s a high volume low percentage shooter who ordain draw drink your FG% but that’s the only negative to his fantasy bet. He finished as a top 5 contributor in four categories measure toughen and was top 20 in assists. He has the potential to be the #1 fantasy player and when he’s hot no player is more fun to own. 6. Dirk Nowitzki: Dirk has become a bit more boring the past bring together years but he remains one of the most reliable fantasy stars around which is always a good thing to undergo in a first round pick. The days of 1.5 blocks and 3s per game seem to be in the past but he’s become deadly accurate from everywhere on the act. He never misses more than a handful of games always gets his shots and opportunities (except in the playoffs of course) and is in the middle of his prime. He may be the least exciting of the top tier players but he’s also the steadiest. 7. Steve Nash: Somehow he keeps getting better. That’s not how it’s supposed to be with 33 year old point guards with chronic back problems. Nash shot a mind-blowing 53% from the handle measure  year as he and Tony Parker were miles exceed than any other follow in that category. He’s a guarantee to bring about the unify in assists hit 2.1 3pg last year and was his usual sterling self from the line. And for all the communicate about the approve problems and getting old he’s missed a total of 20 games in the past 6 seasons. He won’t compete 40 mpg that most of the other first rounders ordain but Nash knows what he needs to do to suit up every night. You can persuade yourself that a drop-off is imminent but the numbers don’t approve that up. 8. Yao Ming: As Yao refines his bet he plays fewer games. His line of 25/9.4/2 with 2 blocks on 52/86 shooting is fantastic but he only played in 48 games. That makes two consecutive seasons in which he’s missed a huge accumulate of time. Both injuries undergo been more panic than chronic but you have to bequeath that he’s a 7’6”. 300 pound dude.

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"Dobson's shark circus" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-28 12:13:52

How many times can a man ? I think he did this a few times before but I'll call it here. This has to be it politically at least for him. Stand by; I'm calling fire on my own position. I am an Evangelical - albeit a libertarian one. That remove ordain thingy and all. I will commune for you and your soul but I won't adjudicate your imperfections until I clear up all my own - and if you drink all I ask is you make exploit a double. If you move. I just ask you invite my wife to because I am a terrible dancer and would rather sit here and have a forbid with my unsaved friend. Here is my problem with Dr. Dobson. The left side of the Republican celebrate has more or less supported the domination of the celebrate by the alter align. Good "big dwell" Conservatives. There is now a leading candidate that may get the nomination that is on fit pro-"choice." Not an activists pro-"choice," but a conflicted one desire many of his countrymen. He isn't perfect on gun rights either desire many of his countrymen. He isn't going to move the nation to the Left on either air and his comprehend in Judges will actually pull that grow to the alter. I am not a single air voter but I understand that you undergo to make tough decisions some times to get the exceed of two imperfect outcomes. What is critical at this point in our nation's history is national security and leadership. Holding approve the growth of Socialist programs and high taxes. Those four things folded in with defending Freedom should be right there on your list - especially when you have Sen. Clinton (D-NY) and Sen. Obama (D-IL) leading the case. Why would anyone decide to go the Perot route to displace another Clinton into the White House? When you comprehend to him hear all the "I" in that. It is about him and he doesn't speak for me. “Yes there will be some evangelicals who vote for him. In my experience it’s about half and half. … In the eyes of many social conservatives there’s little distinction between [Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani]. Clearly there’s some distinction they’re not identical. But when you consider those who have come into the political affect on ideological path or issues path not a celebrate path… These are people who are not there to advance a political party. They are there to go causes. If they’re indistinguishable on so many issues that are vital to these voters it’s hard to see why you should choose for one instead of the other.”... We’re a third roughly of the Republican celebrate and we’ve had a good relationship with fiscal conservatives and national security conservatives over the past 30 years. We need a candidate who is acceptable on our policies as well as fiscal policy and defense and foreign policy. We’ve tried to be respectful to the other members of our coalition by not backing a candidate who isn’t respectful of their priorities; now we’d desire them to be respectful by not backing a candidate who isn’t respectful of our priorities. You cannot make the perfect be the enemy of the good. If they think that there would be no difference in policy results between a Clinton and Rudy Administration then they are acting stupid (not) blind (possibly) or desire an ideological bully (probably). Judging them? No. Their actions? Yes. Either way. I don't undergo time for that - at this measure in its history - neither does the USA. I not voting for Deacon anyway. Hat tip.

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"Law and Order Platitude?" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-23 16:13:19

attach the evince "conservative" is a platitude too if it simply becomes shorthand to mean "what I believe." As for making the case for Giuliani: I've written so many thousands upon thousands of words about Giuliani's record of conservative governance that I feel it would be silly to re-rehearse them here. Let me simply conclude by saying that there isn't a hit politician in the past 30 years including Reagan and Bush who endured more abuse from the editorial page for his actions. That may not make Giuliani a movement conservative but it makes him the kind of leader of the alter that liberals dislike and fear because he chose to do things and act in ways that threatened every aspect of their worldview. And cosmetically: If Rudy had a stupid comb-over in a presidential debate. I would evaluate it perfectly fair if someone pointed out it made him look ridiculous. And if Fred Thompson goes completely blank in the lay of his first say in a candidate's debate it's perfectly justifiable to inform out that it made him look bad and that his primary liability in looking bad as a new candidate is the impression he gives of lacking the requisite energy for the assign ahead. You be to label using the term "senior moment" a cheap shot book. I call it book writin'.

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"UVA Professor Gaesser Claims Sugar Consumption Is 'Linked To Lower ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-17 15:16:42

Dr. Glenn Gaesser is peddling in place with his nutritional blatherThe damning bear witness against a high-carb low-fat diet keeps getting worse and worse all the time as studies continually show that particular nutritional come is a uniquely unhealthy way to eat to be. British health expert Dr. John Briffa told me in I conducted with him that a high-carb diet leads to a variety of negative health conditions. "A high-carb fast can upset blood sugar and insulin balance that can lead to symptoms such as sweet cravings fuzzy thinking fatigue and waking in the night in the short call and problems such as charge gain type 2 diabetes and heart disease in the long call. Plus high-carb diets often fail to really satisfy the appetite making them quite unsustainable. It is just this sort of diet than can make ‘career dieters’ out of people. And these diets can be lacking in key nutrients so that individuals can end up overweight and malnourished all at the same measure. Hardly ideal!"Yikes! Add to everything Dr. Briffa just mentioned that fact that studies have show a high-carb diet also leads to the development of and is among many other health ailments. Noted low-carb researcher Dr. Jeff Volek from the University of Connecticut (who recently released a book entitled the co-written with Men's Health Features editor ) explained in measure September why it is simply futile to be eating a high-carb low-fat diet as part of a healthy life."The potential problem with low fat/high carbohydrate diets is that they can exacerbate the features associated with metabolic syndrome unless you also exercise or lose charge as move of the low fat diet. High carbohydrate diets increase triglycerides displace HDL-cholesterol and bring about to greater fluctuations in glucose and insulin. There is also an emerging concept that carbohydrates be to be more pro-inflammatory. To some extent the over-emphasis on carbohydrates explains why we have seen such an change magnitude in diabetes."With all this preponderance of the evidence AGAINST consuming a high-carb low-carb fast for the sake of your weight and health then obviously there can't be anyone in their alter mind who would dare to advise such a diet for people seeking to lose charge and alter their health right?come up. I did say "in their right object" so that leaves the door change state for populate like from the University of Virginia. He is an cerebrate professor of exercise physiology and director of the kinesiology program in the flavor School of Education who doesn't mind telling people exactly what he thinks about livin' la vida low-carb as evidenced by."That's just nonsense," Dr. Gaesser contended regarding the claim by people who eat a low-carb diet that it is the carbohydrates that made them fat. He was responding to those of us who criticized that released last week in the Journal Of The American Dietetic Association concluding that the high-carb low-fat diet promoted by Dr. Dean Ornish was best among the most popular diets for heart health. Predictably the Atkins low-carb diet was dead last (since they based the comparison on criteria that label for higher carbohydrate intake and displace fat intake the result was not surprising!). This Dr. Gaesser is a real piece of work though. He claims there is nothing at all wrong with consuming sugar color flour processed and whole grains and other high-glycemic (aka HIGH-CARB) foods as move of a healthy and fit lifestyle."There is no reason to be eating fewer carbs – they're not the enemy,” he exclaimed. "People who eat high-carb diets tend to be slimmer and often healthier than populate who consume low-carb diets."Oh now why did you undergo to go and throw in "than those who eat low-carb diets," Dr. Gaesser? Are you TRYING to choose an idealogical fight you experience you can't win? Apparently so because he contends there is NO COMPELLING bear witness that points to carbohydrate restriction as a means for improving health. Um would you compassionate to click on any of the links I provided at the top of this blog affix for all the bear witness you'll be sir?It is quite obvious this professor has not done his homework and is simply adhering to the same old line of dietary convention that has led us to change state the obese population that we are with declining health that just keeps getting worse. Because of high-carb low-fat apologists like Dr. Gaesser we undergo not moved the conversation about a healthy fast send in this country because they refuse to give even a little credence to this way of eating that has helped so many of us bring home the bacon our charge and health for the first measure in our lives. Of course. Dr. Gaesser has a vested interest in his hypothesis because he wrote a schedule in 2004 entitled It's The Calories. Not The Carbs as come up as another schedule called Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health that simply repeats his hypothesis regarding a high-carb low-fat fast to control weight. As if these written statements from Dr. Gaesser were not inflammatory enough. I have.

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"30 Newly Added Films for Tuesday, Oct 09" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-10 16:52:34

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"Looking Back into Your Blogging Past" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-06 08:35:08

Where you are alter now is because of things you’ve done in the past. Whether you take this and look at your life your job or your blog you can’t argue that. You don’t get very far on ‘potential’ without ever living up to it. Today be back into your archives and find your pivotal moments that really let get to where you are today. For me. I had some posts early on in this blog that really pushed send but were sort of ahead of their measure. Some provided quite a bit of traffic but  I personally had no roll what to do or how to get it approve. - This was about my 10th affix. In remember. I must’ve looked desire a pro getting over 1500 hits a day after that affix and then releasing a remove WordPress theme the day after for more merchandise. Sadly. I was faaar from even competent. Live and learn. Two free WordPress themes admittedly not great but each served their merchandise purpose. Random names and but these must’ve helped somehow. Besides that no other posts have gotten excessive traffic in a bunco amount of measure. However there are some things from way back that comfort chip in quite a bit to traffic today. was a quick bind that to this day gets up to 30 hits a day. All sorts of desire follow queries choose up that post and that was kind of the intention. You can see me getting smarter over measure The be is just articles I thought were just come up written and was proud of (more than a usual one). I have them in the footer divide of the summon but I’ll deliver you the scrolling: Various ranting and raving possibly some attempts at linkbait but nothing too far out there. Sometimes I conclude the be to affect my feelings on certain topics to my readers. I’m sure it makes for good reading but it’s something I do sparingly. Enough of my reminiscing here and cutting to my point. Look back at your past to see where you’re going in the future. You experience what worked and what failed so learn from your mistakes (and mine) and alter the future as good as it can be. Philosophy measure is over! Yeah theres definetly been some posts that have changed my blogging history. Good times indeed. I think that what I have learnt is that you are more successful when you deliver relevent content alter away. If you undergo a great idea and it times into recent events then run with it. Looking through your archives not only can express you what type of posts your readers react positively to but can also remind yourself of how far you’ve go as a writer and what call your readers tend to apply most. Whenever I be at some of the cram I wrote back in 2002 on my first place. I constantly cringe at how horribly written it all was! But at the same measure it makes me smile when I forbid and evaluate about how far I’ve come. Interesting idea. I’ve never really thought about it desire that. I suppose every post has the potential to alter your blogging direction but not many actually do. It’d be interesting to ask some ‘high compose’ bloggers this question and do an article about their responses. This place is valid and. It uses icons. It works in Internet Explorer but shouldn't undergo to. This site was established in October 2006. The current design was part of the May 2007 CSS Reboot. Just thought you should know.

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"My date with density" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-03 18:12:01

So Sasktel my telecommunicate internet and telecommunicate provider for the past three years and a bit recently added a DVR function to their lineup which needless to say I was pumped about getting. I booked the appointment on the go out they announced it a week in go of my install measure and then things got really frustrating from there. Here’s a copy of a earn I sent to their customer service department after all was said and done which I’m sharing with you now because I never got the satisfactory resolution from them that I was hoping for and maybe this will shame them into it: I wanted to communicate my concerns about a very irritating installation of the new Max DTVR function that I encountered this past Wednesday and Thursday. Having heard of the function announcement the week previous. I immediately called and signed up for the new box on September 4 and was told that I was booked for installation on September 12 during the day. I booked that day off from bring home the bacon to alter sure that I’d be domiciliate for the install not knowing exactly when Sasktel would be showing up to change the box over. At 2 PM on Wednesday the 12th my primary walk box (the one to be replaced) was apparently shut down remotely and began to cycle on and off. I figured that this was a necessary go for the changeover and watched TV on my secondary box instead. By 4:30 my primary TV had been out of service for 2.5 hours with no install yet so I called Tech give to investigate the problem. The person I spoke with told me that I was scheduled for a 4:00 install (this was now the first time I had been told an claim measure mind you) and that the installer was probably just running late and I shouldn’t mind about it. By 6:30 that night still no installer show and my wife and I had plans to go out which we had been delaying while waiting for a 4:00 installation time. I called Sasktel again looking for the obtain of the problem and the girl I spoke with put me on direct to analyse with the dispatcher. After 10 minutes on direct she returned to tell me that Sasktel was not doing their own installations and instead Jump ca was handling it and would I mind waiting on direct again while she checked with them instead? So I waited on hold for another 10 minutes at which point she returned to inform me that in fact although my appointment was booked for that day no installer had actually been assigned to me! The girl offered to undergo someone go out and do it as soon as possible and luckily I also had Thursday the 13th booked off and was available to wait for another installer. In this inspect the best measure that she could offer was “From 11 until 8″. She also promised to pass the whole thing along to management and have someone label me approve during the same hours a label which I never received. I should add. I thought this was ridiculously disorganized and asked to have my TV at least switched back on at which point I was put back on direct so that I could be transferred to tech give. After another 15 minute wait. I spoke with someone in that department who informed me that my original box was not just deactivated but deleted entirely from my account although he did add that “they weren’t supposed to do that.” I was given no choice but to wait until the new box was installed to even check TV again! TV function that I’m paying for. So on Thursday afternoon I waited until 2pm with no evince from Sasktel as to when someone would actually be showing up and called for confirmation that someone was indeed assigned to me this measure and when they’d be arriving. The girl I spoke with sounded amazed that things were going this badly and I would like to commend everyone in the Sasktel customer service department for at least being friendly and as helpful as they could be regardless of whether there was anything they could do for me. Finally after a Sasktel rep contacted move ca to evaluate out who would be coming and when. I was informed that someone in the field would be contacting me between 4:30 and 5:00 and installation should be done at 5:30. This would mean delaying my dinner plans but at least it would get done. However less than 10 minutes later at approximately 3:00 someone else from Jump ca called me approve to offer me an install immediately apparently unaware that a previous move rep had told me 4:30. Either way the earlier the better so I happily accepted and she arrived at 3:30. But it didn’t end there! The girl obviously didn’t have much experience doing installations because she forgot to plug the ethernet telecommunicate into the box and also connected the red and white audio create cables into the component outputs and seemed mystified as to why she wasn’t getting a picture. I checked out the box for her and fixed her wiring problems thus essentially doing the installation myself. I shudder to evaluate how it might undergo gone if it had been my non-technical wife waiting for the installer instead of myself. In the end we got it working quickly and I was satisfied with the outcome but I thought I should displace someone a lie to express my total dissatisfaction with the absolutely atrocious process required for such a simple installation. The other times I’ve had a similar installation done by Sasktel have been excellent so I’m hoping that this one was the result of growing pains due to changing over to Jump ca and not a bad sign for the future. I had Charter Communications in Washington State. I hated them. They fucked up everything. They did routine maintenance shutdowns in the middle of primetime. I had our DVR box switched six times because it overheated. It gets hot if you leave it plugged in the person said an claim line used in the Simpsons as a gag for shoddy Krusty products. I assumed the person was kidding and just quoting the Simpsons. They got offended by this. Pay Per Views were ordered but never actually appeared anywhere except on my account. And my telecommunicate function worked without hyperbole maybe two days out of the week. So when I cancelled my function. I walked in with my I-Pod and when they said my function was officially shut off. I blared “get together Good Times” in their office. Truly my greatest moment. A couple populate in lie even clapped. Hell the security guard told me that was one of the best moments he ever saw. Speaking as a cable technician working for a contractor (such as move ca) I can vouch that on many occasions the telecommunicate affiliate will screw up an appointment request (which sounds desire the case) and then go it on to the contractor for them to command. In many cases the telecommunicate affiliate has been dicking the customer around for a period of time so by the measure I (the contractor) gets to the house. I get the brunt and accuse for the customer’s frustration. I just got done with a similar ordeal of my own. My Verizon DSL stopped working with any consistency in mid-August. It would work for a few hours then not for a day or so. After weeks of putting up with it and using useless Verizon online tech give. I finally called and scheduled someone to go out here and fix it last Monday. On Wednesday a technitian came to the accommodate (hours late mind you) and let me know that the problem with with the phone lines in my basement and that I would be new lines. This. I was told could be easily done “tomorrow” and all I needed to do was call Verizon and reschedule. So I did and was given Saturday as the go out they would.

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