Fall is arrived this morning at 5:05 am, just hours ahead of Olivia Marie “Howler” who was born at 7:00. Miss Olivia must have known fall was her grandmother’s favorite season.
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@George S. Harris
Or, if the clouds and rain keep you from the Corey Stewart Classic, you can always bop on down to the National Mall and enjoy the Solar Decathlon. All the green energy!!! It’s electrifying!!
Big Brother wants to spy on you. Tell me again why wanting smaller government is a bad thing.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/here-comes-fiattackwatch-bernanke-goes-watergate-prepares-eavesdrop-everything-mentioning-fed
the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, which in a Request for Proposals filed to companies that are Fed vendors, is requesting the creation of a “Social Listening Platform” whose function is to “gather data from various social media outlets and news sources.” It will “monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria.” The Fed’s desired product should be able to “determine the sentiment [ED:LOL] of a speaker or writer with respect to some topic or document”… “The solution must be able to gather data from the primary social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube. It should also be able to aggregate data from various media outlets such as: CNN, WSJ, Factiva etc.” Most importantly, the “Listening Platform” should be able to “Handle crisis situations, Continuously monitor conversations, and Identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers.” Said otherwise, the Fed has just entered the counterespionage era and will be monitoring everything written about it anywhere in the world.
By the by, I hear there is a new Ken Burns documentary on next month called “Prohibition”. THAT ought to be awsome. That’s an era I’d love to know more about.
I can’t wait for it to start. I think I read Oct. 2. wowowowowowow. G-men, gangsters, violence and ‘hos.
Are you watching Boardwalk Empire?
@pokie
@pokie
Just for you
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/
There is also an app for your iphone and ipad.
I know about it, but I haven’t watched it. Is it good? The Sopranos was the last thing like that I watched. I’m nutty about Ken Burns documentaries, though. Can’t get enough.
Cool era btw from the stories my grandparents told…my great grandfather produced bathtub gin, my grandparents hung out in Harlem while they both attended college. Grandfather attended Fordham, g-ma NY State Teacher’s College. My gma worked as a hostess until she cut her hair flapper style and was fired. I have photo albums of parties at what look like bookie joints (pony numbers on the board), great uncle’s honeymoon at Orlando which appears to be nothing more than a dirt road. Other great uncle landed his plane on Daytona Beach and posed for the Fla Air Corp. which he was part owner of. Love the pics of men and women hanging on the jersey shore in full suits and dresses complete with heels and hose.. I was seven when my gma taught me the Charleston and I was more than happy to inherit her jewlery collection in 1992 when she passed. Those screw on earrings hurt after a while, but like gma said “Only hussies put holes in their ears.” LOL.
That said, whatever happend to the art of dinner parties? Where did the idea of progressive dinner parties go? Doesn’t anyone arrange these anymore?
Fordham…..I had my eye on Fordham for their Medieval History and Medieval Studies Programs. I remember they looked delicious! I wound up at Catholic U, but man, I loved the thought of going to Fordham.
Well if this helps slowpoke my grandfather ended up at Fordham law and loved their Latin language program so much so that he ended up a Latin teacher for Bronx City schools. I remember my sister corresponding with him in Latin and how happy she was when he responded. BTW before there was Fordham there was an orchard, that my ggrandfather owned.
Progressive dinner parties? Is that where you eat the rich?
http://manassas.patch.com/articles/green-with-manassas-envy
FYI
A little good news:
Osbourn 42 Osbourn Park 7 Go Eagles!
Markets up this morning.
It doesn’t sound like such good news for OP. Congrats, Eagles. Better luck next time, yellow jackets.
http://historicmanassas.mymediaroom.com/wire/events/viewevent.aspx?id=11025
29th Annual Old Town Manassas Fall Jubilee this Saturday Oct 1st!
The weather forecast looks great!
See you there (Don’t miss the Chainsaw Chix)!
Would not have expected to see this from the LA Times.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-paul-poll-20110927,0,5007276.story?track=rss
It’s interesting to see how CNN’s polling data shows the GOP contenders stacking up (against Mr. Obama) and the open talk of Huntsman not qualifying for the Vegas debate.
Here’s one for the lady bloggers: “The first testicular guard, the “cup,” was used in hockey in 1874, and the first helmet was used in 1974. That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is important.”
@Wolverine
Which brain? 😈
Mayor Bloomberg predicts riots in the streets if economy doesn’t create more jobs
By Erin Einhorn and Corky Siemaszko
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Mayor Bloomberg warned Friday there would be riots in the streets if Washington doesn’t get serious about generating jobs.
“We have a lot of kids graduating college, can’t find jobs,” Bloomberg said on his weekly WOR radio show.
“That’s what happened in Cairo. That’s what happened in Madrid. You don’t want those kinds of riots here.”
In Cairo, angry Egyptians took out their frustrations by toppling presidential strongman Hosni Mubarak – and more recently attacking the Israeli embassy.
As for Madrid, the most recent street protests were sparked by widespread unhappiness that the Spanish government was spending millions on the visit of Pope Benedict instead of dealing with widespread unemployment.
Bloomberg’s unusually alarmist pronouncement came as President Obama has been pressuring reluctant Republicans to pass his proposed job creation plan.
“The damage to a generation that can’t find jobs will go on for many, many years,” the normally-measured mayor said.
Bloomberg gave Obama kudos for coming up with a jobs plan.
“At least he’s got some ideas on the table, whether you like those or not,” he said. “Now everybody’s got to sit down and say we’re actually gonna do something and you have to do something on both the revenue and the expense side.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/09/16/2011-09-16_mayor_bloomberg_predicts_riots_in_the_streets_if_economy_doesnt_create_more_jobs.html#ixzz1ZEiVinSE
Florida is expected to hold its presidential primary on January 31, likely throwing the carefully arranged Republican nominating calendar into disarray, CNN has learned.
The move would jumpstart the nominating process a month earlier than GOP leaders had hoped and almost certainly force Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada to leapfrog Florida and move their primaries and caucuses into early- to mid-January.
“We are expecting to meet on Friday from 11 to 12, and I expect that they will pick January 31 as Florida’s primary date,” Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon said about a state commission exploring potential primary dates.
From CNN
Man, that’s barely more than 3 months from now. Those Repugs better hurry up and select their sacrificial lamb.
Has anybody asked why our Congress had to vote to raise the debt again or “shut down the government” when we did this just a few months ago, with a debt raise that was supposed to cover us until NEXT YEAR?
When are the government elements that approved the “Gun Walker” operation aka Fast and Furious, going to be charged and when will this scandal be in the news 24/7? No one died during Watergate. Valerie Plame wasn’t harmed by her revelation. But that was spread across the news.
Where’s the news for Fast and Furious that has the DOJ, FBI, ATF, etc deeply involved in buying guns, allowing them to be smuggled, and then finding them at crime scenes including a murder of our agents?
Just think of the news cycle if Bush had done this.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/msm-sheep-ignoring-the-scandal-of-the-century/
Hit submit too soon
http://phelps.donotremove.net/2011/09/way-past-watergate/
http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/09/federal_judge_throws_out_xxxx.html
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — A Birmingham federal judge today upheld most sections of Alabama’s tough new immigration law. U.S. District Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn ruled on a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to block the law.
That is a very draconian set of laws. I would not expect them to stand just glancing at the article. The one I think that is going to really cause problems is the schools keeping track of immigration status.
It makes one wonder just what the school is going to do with that information or more importantly, what the school is going to be directed to do in the future with that information. Are people going to send their children to school and those children are going to be detained?
We should track and report illegal activity in schools, libraries, and everywhere else … if the kids aren’t here legally, we should not have them in schools. This is common-sense to me and, I would think for most people.
@Rick
But Pyler v Doe says otherwise. Rule of Law!!! [Best HSM voice]
How are you going to get the information and what are you going to do with it and that pesky Supreme Court case?
Also, what are you considering ‘criminal activity?’ Is existing criminal activity? We are talking about children here.
Don’t schools have enough to do without asking them to track immigrants and serve as ICE agents?
Well, Rick, tell me where you’d prefer to have the kids who are here illegally.
The ones that had nothing to say about coming to the US but were brought by parents.
Are we better off with them out in the streets? Are they better off not being educated?
Is the country better off with uneducated kids?
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/09/0ld-habit-meaning
Sad, but she is right. Ten years ago our area was covered by the
Manassas Jounal Messenger and the Potomac News, huge rivals,
and the weekly Manassas Gazette. The Washington Post had opened
a Manassas office and had large PWC sections on Thursday and Sunday.
The J-M and PN have merged, but the result is a mere shadow of a paper.
The Gazette is long gone and the WaPo is slicing local coverage and may soon
close their PWC bureau. The Patch internet “papers” are interesting, but lack
the resources to do much heavy lifting.
M-H and pals, guess its all up to you now.
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/09/old-habit-meaning
We’re better off when we are a nation of laws, and those here illegally are deported, and not provided with things like schooling that send a mixed message.
Rick,
May want to Google “Plyler vs. Roe”
.
I’m familiar with it. As I am with Dred Scott. It’s time to revisit this issue.
Can I ask, if I might be so bold, does Plyler vs. Roe require that things be provided to noncitizens that are not provided for all citizens? Does it indicate that a US citizen in Arkansas is exempt from from paying out of state tuition to a Texas college? it would seem that if someone is not a citizen of the US it is also not a citizen of Texas either.
by the way, the word “it” is used since there is really no good way to talk about gender, when it is unknown.
@ Cato
No you don’t eat the rich silly. They refuse to lay down on the crackers. Progressive dinner parties are where those that are middle class simply break out the good china and campbells cook books, jello molds, and best flat wear/china and hold political discussions, and meet with other “like-minded” folks while the children sleep.
I’m late to the conversation, but congrats, Moon!
You are not answering any of my questions.
“tell me where you’d prefer to have the kids who are here illegally.” deported. That’s the point of legal vs. non-legal status. Isn’t this common sense?
“Are we better off with them out in the streets? ” No – deport them.
“Are they better off not being educated?” No. But it’s better for all of us if we deport people who aren’t legal here.
“Is the country better off with uneducated kids?” No. But they don’t belong here, so deport them. Then, less and less of them will be coming here. It’s a pretty simple paradigm. Either the welcome mat is rolled out, or it is not. Logic like yours has led to the impresion of a welcome mat. And that’s causing real human suffering.
Do you really want to be known as the country who rounds up kids, many of them who speak perfect English, and send them out of the country to a place where they might not even know the language?
Would you try to hook them up with their parents before the deportation began?
Who would pay for this deportation? Where would you take them?
Its easy to say Deport them. Its a lot harder to actually do.
@Emma Thanks you, Emma.
Manassas City Council and Manassas School board are meeting to discuss ways to improve test scores. Suggestions:
1. Opt out of NCLB. It is killing you.
2. Pay for a teacher consultant from Manassas Park. They have done remarkable things over there. NO one knows the secret. It is amazing. I thought at first they were cheating.
I thought about doing a thread on it but decided against it. You guys can’t bury your scores like the county can. You need to look at what you are doing right. NCLB is a teacher and kid killer. It looks at what you are doing wrong. It has unrealistic impossible goals. Get rid of it. Do whatever it takes. It would improve teacher morals 400%. This would transfer to the kids instantly.
“Do you really want to be known as the country who rounds up kids, many of them who speak perfect English, and send them out of the country to a place where they might not even know the language?” Yes. And I want word to spread.
“Would you try to hook them up with their parents before the deportation began?” Sure.
“Who would pay for this deportation? Where would you take them? ” The federal Government. To their country.
“Its easy to say Deport them. Its a lot harder to actually do.” I have a feeling that if illegal immigration were taking money from the wealthy, rather from the middle and lower classes, we’d be deporting on sight.
EAsy to say Rick. Much harder to do. Its really hard once you put a face on those that you are so willing to deport.