 layer technique

Drawing a full architectural street scene if you’ve never done it might seem like an overwhelming task. You have to draw buildings and landscape, furniture and people. The layer technique is a way that I find helps me organize my thoughts without getting majorly overwhelmed by the abundance of lines. Breaking down your scene into layers will help you plan out your composition without ruining the other elements of your architectural scene. Not to mention you can make quick and easy changes or even erase a layer completely if don’t like what it looks like. I will be using the 1-point perspective tool for this tutorial.

Step 1: Outline building shapes

Start with the outline of your background buildings. Roughly block out where you want the buildings to go. A trick that I find useful at this step is drawing a line slightly above the horizon line as a reference eye level. I will unleash its power in the next few steps.

architectural street scene outline
Don’t forget the eye-line layer. You’re going to want that eye-line.

Step 2: Add facades

Next, begin to fill in your building facades. Remember that line we drew? It is the key to success when drawing street scenes. It acts as a directional delineator to keep you from getting confused as you draw in more shapes. Everything above the line will slope upwards, and everything below will slope down. When deciding where to add in your windows and doors, use the eye line as a reference for heights. Imagine a person standing. If the door height slopes down below the eye line, realistically it will be impossible for a person to walk though that door without crouching or hurting their neck. Unless you are drawing a funhouse style drawing, you will want to pay attention and make sure there is enough head space so you don’t accidentally draw giant people.

architectural street scene building
Everything above the eye line slopes up; everything below slopes down. Handy, huh?

Step 3: Add natural elements

Add in some lush greenery like trees, bushes, planters, and flowers. You can turn down the opacity of the background to help you visualize how your elements will fit into the scene.
architectural street scene trees

Step 4: Add people

Add life by drawing in outlines of people in your scene. You want to align all the heads of the people at eye level to maintain your perspective. Change the sizes of the people to create the illusion that some people are closer to you or father away. The smaller people appear to be much farther away that the larger people. Be sure to consider the movements of people in a space by adding people who are walking, sitting, or gathering around at a spot.
architectural street scene people

Step 5: Blocking — erase where layers overlap

This is where working in layers becomes handy. Turn on and layer all your elements and erase lines that overlap. If you are looking for a cleaner sketch, you can turn down the opacities of your rough layers and trace over the final compositional lines you want to keep.
architectural street scene layer

Step 6: Add colour

Once you are done erasing or tracing, add in shade and shadow and begin to colour your drawing. You can create focal pints by colouring in the specific layer you want to highlight. I personally like to leave the people in white in order for them to stand out and emphasize movement in the architectural street scene.
architectural street scene shadow

The final result

And voila! I hope this guide makes drawing architectural street scenes a lot easier for you. Remember practice makes perfect!
architectural street scene<|endoftext|>Cubic Meters to Liters Conversion

Enter the volume in cubic meters below to get the value converted to liters.

(find cubic meters)
Results in Liters:
Loading content.
1 m³ = 1,000 l

How to Convert Cubic Meters to Liters

To convert a cubic meter measurement to a liter measurement, multiply the volume by the conversion ratio.

Since one cubic meter is equal to 1,000 liters, you can use this simple formula to convert:

liters = cubic meters × 1,000

The volume in liters is equal to the cubic meters multiplied by 1,000.

For example, here's how to convert 5 cubic meters to liters using the formula above.
5 m³ = (5 × 1,000) = 5,000 l

How Many Liters Are in a Cubic Meter?

There are 1,000 liters in a cubic meter, which is why we use this value in the formula above.

1 m³ = 1,000 l

Cubic meters and liters are both units used to measure volume. Keep reading to learn more about each unit of measure.

Cubic Meters

One cubic meter is equal to the volume of a cube with each edge measuring one meter.

The cubic meter, or cubic metre, is the SI derived unit for volume in the metric system. Cubic meters can be abbreviated as , and are also sometimes abbreviated as cu m, CBM, cbm, or MTQ. For example, 1 cubic meter can be written as 1 m³, 1 cu m, 1 CBM, 1 cbm, or 1 MTQ.

Try our cubic meters calculator to calculate the volume of a space.

A liter is a unit of volume equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters.[1] The liter is a special name defined for the cubic decimeter and is exactly equal to the volume of one cubic decimeter.

The liter is an SI accepted unit for volume for use with the metric system. A liter is sometimes also referred to as a litre. Liters can be abbreviated as l, and are also sometimes abbreviated as L or . For example, 1 liter can be written as 1 l, 1 L, or 1 ℓ.

Cubic Meter to Liter Conversion Table

Cubic meter measurements converted to liters
Cubic Meters Liters
0.001 m³ 1 l
0.002 m³ 2 l
0.003 m³ 3 l
0.004 m³ 4 l
0.005 m³ 5 l
0.006 m³ 6 l
0.007 m³ 7 l
0.008 m³ 8 l
0.009 m³ 9 l
0.01 m³ 10 l
0.02 m³ 20 l
0.03 m³ 30 l
0.04 m³ 40 l
0.05 m³ 50 l
0.06 m³ 60 l
0.07 m³ 70 l
0.08 m³ 80 l
0.09 m³ 90 l
0.1 m³ 100 l
0.2 m³ 200 l
0.3 m³ 300 l
0.4 m³ 400 l
0.5 m³ 500 l
0.6 m³ 600 l
0.7 m³ 700 l
0.8 m³ 800 l
0.9 m³ 900 l
1 m³ 1,000 l

  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Units outside the SI,

More Cubic Meter & Liter Conversions<|endoftext|>The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.

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<|endoftext|>When touring abroad, it's better to visit the caves instead of the museums because the _ are much more boring.
Option 1: museums
Option 2: caves
Answer: 1<|endoftext|>Smooth Criminals: 4 Notorious Masterminds

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The criminal underworld is filled with all types of characters. Thugs. Psychopaths. And masterminds. These sociopaths are often so diabolically creative and clever, that it becomes virtually impossible for law enforcement to bring these outliers to justice.

Instead of helping the world, criminal masterminds utilize their creative intellect to the detriment of society. Here are four such individuals.

Carl Gugasian

Holding a master’s degree from the prestigious University of Pennsylvania and a PhD from Penn State, Carl Gugasian also received special forces and tactical weapons training during a brief stint in the US Army. Loaded with outstanding academic and armed forces credentials, Gugasian’s potential for a positive societal impact was limitless. Yet, despite all these accolades, Gugasian chose to spend his life robbing banks.

Soon after receiving his doctorate, Gugasian began meticulously planning bank robberies. During that time—on eight separate instances—Gugasian was on the brink of moving forward with his robbery fantasy, but then backed down at the very last minute. On the ninth instance, however, he pushed down his reluctance and went forth with his plan. Using a stolen car as a getaway, Gugasian finally crossed the line into a life of crime. And there was no turning back.

Gugasian was notoriously diligent with his planning. He would scout a bank location by first referencing topographical and street maps in local libraries. His goal was to find to a bank in a small town that was close to a wooded area, but also easily accessible to a freeway. After narrowing his search, Gugasian would determine which banks had late autumn and winter closing times. This way, he

 landscapes without weird, wonky lines or distortion.

The layer technique

Drawing a full architectural street scene if you’ve never done it might seem like an overwhelming task. You have to draw buildings and landscape, furniture and people. The layer technique is a way that I find helps me organize my thoughts without getting majorly overwhelmed by the abundance of lines. Breaking down your scene into layers will help you plan out your composition without ruining the other elements of your architectural scene. Not to mention you can make quick and easy changes or even erase a layer completely if don’t like what it looks like. I will be using the 1-point perspective tool for this tutorial.

Step 1: Outline building shapes

Start with the outline of your background buildings. Roughly block out where you want the buildings to go. A trick that I find useful at this step is drawing a line slightly above the horizon line as a reference eye level. I will unleash its power in the next few steps.

architectural street scene outline
Don’t forget the eye-line layer. You’re going to want that eye-line.

Step 2: Add facades

Next, begin to fill in your building facades. Remember that line we drew? It is the key to success when drawing street scenes. It acts as a directional delineator to keep you from getting confused as you draw in more shapes. Everything above the line will slope upwards, and everything below will slope down. When deciding where to add in your windows and doors, use the eye line as a reference for heights. Imagine a person standing. If the door height slopes down below the eye line, realistically it will be impossible for a person to walk though that door without crouching or hurting their neck. Unless you are drawing a funhouse style drawing, you will want to pay attention and make sure there is enough head space so you don’t accidentally draw giant people.

architectural street scene building
Everything above the eye line slopes up; everything below slopes down. Handy, huh?

Step 3: Add natural elements

Add in some lush greenery like trees, bushes, planters, and flowers. You can turn down the opacity of the background to help you visualize how your elements will fit into the scene.
architectural street scene trees

Step 4: Add people

Add life by drawing in outlines of people in your scene. You want to align all the heads of the people at eye level to maintain your perspective. Change the sizes of the people to create the illusion that some people are closer to you or father away. The smaller people appear to be much farther away that the larger people. Be sure to consider the movements of people in a space by adding people who are walking, sitting, or gathering around at a spot.
architectural street scene people

Step 5: Blocking — erase where layers overlap

This is where working in layers becomes handy. Turn on and layer all your elements and erase lines that overlap. If you are looking for a cleaner sketch, you can turn down the opacities of your rough layers and trace over the final compositional lines you want to keep.
architectural street scene layer

Step 6: Add colour

Once you are done erasing or tracing, add in shade and shadow and begin to colour your drawing. You can create focal pints by colouring in the specific layer you want to highlight. I personally like to leave the people in white in order for them to stand out and emphasize movement in the architectural street scene.
architectural street scene shadow

The final result

And voila! I hope this guide makes drawing architectural street scenes a lot easier for you. Remember practice makes perfect!
architectural street scene<|endoftext|>Cubic Meters to Liters Conversion

Enter the volume in cubic meters below to get the value converted to liters.

(find cubic meters)
Results in Liters:
Loading content.
1 m³ = 1,000 l

How to Convert Cubic Meters to Liters

To convert a cubic meter measurement to a liter measurement, multiply the volume by the conversion ratio.

Since one cubic meter is equal to 1,000 liters, you can use this simple formula to convert:

liters = cubic meters × 1,000

The volume in liters is equal to the cubic meters multiplied by 1,000.

For example, here's how to convert 5 cubic meters to liters using the formula above.
5 m³ = (5 × 1,000) = 5,000 l

How Many Liters Are in a Cubic Meter?

There are 1,000 liters in a cubic meter, which is why we use this value in the formula above.

1 m³ = 1,000 l

Cubic meters and liters are both units used to measure volume. Keep reading to learn more about each unit of measure.

Cubic Meters

One cubic meter is equal to the volume of a cube with each edge measuring one meter.

The cubic meter, or cubic metre, is the SI derived unit for volume in the metric system. Cubic meters can be abbreviated as , and are also sometimes abbreviated as cu m, CBM, cbm, or MTQ. For example, 1 cubic meter can be written as 1 m³, 1 cu m, 1 CBM, 1 cbm, or 1 MTQ.

Try our cubic meters calculator to calculate the volume of a space.

A liter is a unit of volume equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters.[1] The liter is a special name defined for the cubic decimeter and is exactly equal to the volume of one cubic decimeter.

The liter is an SI accepted unit for volume for use with the metric system. A liter is sometimes also referred to as a litre. Liters can be abbreviated as l, and are also sometimes abbreviated as L or . For example, 1 liter can be written as 1 l, 1 L, or 1 ℓ.

Cubic Meter to Liter Conversion Table

Cubic meter measurements converted to liters
Cubic Meters Liters
0.001 m³ 1 l
0.002 m³ 2 l
0.003 m³ 3 l
0.004 m³ 4 l
0.005 m³ 5 l
0.006 m³ 6 l
0.007 m³ 7 l
0.008 m³ 8 l
0.009 m³ 9 l
0.01 m³ 10 l
0.02 m³ 20 l
0.03 m³ 30 l
0.04 m³ 40 l
0.05 m³ 50 l
0.06 m³ 60 l
0.07 m³ 70 l
0.08 m³ 80 l
0.09 m³ 90 l
0.1 m³ 100 l
0.2 m³ 200 l
0.3 m³ 300 l
0.4 m³ 400 l
0.5 m³ 500 l
0.6 m³ 600 l
0.7 m³ 700 l
0.8 m³ 800 l
0.9 m³ 900 l
1 m³ 1,000 l

  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Units outside the SI,

More Cubic Meter & Liter Conversions<|endoftext|>The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.

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<|endoftext|>Smooth Criminals: 4 Notorious Masterminds

Photo courtesy of

The criminal underworld is filled with all types of characters. Thugs. Psychopaths. And masterminds. These sociopaths are often so diabolically creative and clever, that it becomes virtually impossible for law enforcement to bring these outliers to justice.

Instead of helping the world, criminal masterminds utilize their creative intellect to the detriment of society. Here are four such individuals.

Carl Gugasian

Holding a master’s degree from the prestigious University of Pennsylvania and a PhD from Penn State, Carl Gugasian also received special forces and tactical weapons training during a brief stint in the US Army. Loaded with outstanding academic and armed forces credentials, Gugasian’s potential for a positive societal impact was limitless. Yet, despite all these accolades, Gugasian chose to spend his life robbing banks.

Soon after receiving his doctorate, Gugasian began meticulously planning bank robberies. During that time—on eight separate instances—Gugasian was on the brink of moving forward with his robbery fantasy, but then backed down at the very last minute. On the ninth instance, however, he pushed down his reluctance and went forth with his plan. Using a stolen car as a getaway, Gugasian finally crossed the line into a life of crime. And there was no turning back.

Gugasian was notoriously diligent with his planning. He would scout a bank location by first referencing topographical and street maps in local libraries. His goal was to find to a bank in a small town that was close to a wooded area, but also easily accessible to a freeway. After narrowing his search, Gugasian would determine which banks had late autumn and winter closing times. This way, he could escape under cover of darkness.

Gugasian would even find a secret location in the woods where he would hide


She preferred speaking through the microphone more than the bullhorn, because the _ was muffled.
Option 1: microphone
Option 2: bullhorn
Answer: 2<|endoftext|>, there is one where you can fire missiles from outer space, they just land randomly though and don't really hit anything.

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    Bahamut_42 (Expert) - 8 years ago 1 0
  3. Just because it's an ICBM doesn't mean it has to go Inter-Continental. It just means they have the range of more 3500 miles(roughly)

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    Inara - 8 years ago 0 0
  4. "After attempting to launch the ICBM, the launch terminal reports an error and mentions that the missile's tracking system is damaged (naviagation data corrupted) and that the missile has failed to launch. "

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     Happy Saturday! I’m five days into #the100dayproject, and so far, it’s been awesome! I thought it would be hard to make myself cook something every evening, but it’s really been easy - I haven’t hit a wall (yet). This morning, I decided to take advantage of having the day off and make some brunch! I baked some blueberry donuts and they turned out SO GOOD. Sweet and moist but not too cake-y! Get the recipe below!

Ingredients: donuts

 - 1/2 cup of flour (I did 1/4 whole wheat, 1/4 ap!)

- 1/4 cup of sugar

- 1/2 tbs. of melted butter

- 1/2 tsp. of baking powder

- 1/4 tsp. of baking soda

- 1/4 tsp. of vanilla

- a pinch of salt

- 1 tsp. of cinnamon

 - 1/2 cup of milk

- 1/2 cup of blueberries

- a squeeze of lemon juice

Ingredients: vanilla glaze

- 1 tbs. milk

- 1/4 cup of powdered sugar

- 1 tsp. of vanilla

1. In a large mixing bowl, combine all dry ingredients. In a small bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, vanilla, butter, and lemon juice. Stir wet ingredients into dry, mix until combined.

2. Pour batter into greased donut pan and drop in blueberries.

3. Preheat oven to 350.

4. Meanwhile, make glaze. Stir together powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla. Bake donuts for 16 minutes, then let cool for 5 minutes. Pop out of pan and dip tops into the glaze. Serve with coffee and enjoy!

       Thanks for reading, and have a good weekend!<|endoftext|>Friday, November 30, 2012

Overheard in the Hallway...

Me: "Once upon a time..."

RX: "...Climate Change?"

Me: "Okay, Chevy Suburbans, then."

og said...

I always liked the janet jackson song " i want to take you in an escalade"

Old NFO said...

Dammit, now I've got to get the coffee off the screen... :-)

Critter said...

so, how much was a carbon credit in antelope horn and sharpened flint?

Anonymous said...

When Nat Geo went away from black and white photos of half naked women it was the begining of the end.

Bubblehead Les. said...

On the Other Hand, if Doggerland was still above water, Rommel would have parked his Tanks in Trafalger Square in 1940.

bluesun said...

For a while I was marking every time I saw a climate change mention in NatGeo when I read it, with the intention of writing them all down and blogging about it. But my fingers got so tired of folding the corners of pages over, I kinda gave it up.

mariner said...

And that would have been just fine with the people who babble about climate change.

Firehand said...

Hey, at least he was a National Socialist, like so many of them want to be...

Kristophr said...

I always wondered why I kept finding flint chips in my old diesel Suburban.

BTW, I am hereby claiming Doggerland, and appointing myself Grand Poo-Bah of Doggerlandia.

As soon as the sea levels lower during the next Ice Age, I'll be taking bids for patents of nobility there. You will have to bring your own serfs, however.

Although I'm sure we can find some refugees somewhere.

RabidAlien said...

Firehand, not to get off-topic, but Rommel was about as apolicical as one can get in Nazi Germany and still retain oxygen in the lungs. He never joined the National Socialists/Nazi party, and despised what it was becoming. He was, however, a very patriotic German and an exceptional leader of men and knew how to utilize his (meager) resources (and those of his enemies, which he captured). Its like someone saying "Oh, you're an American. You must be a Democrat, then." Being one does not necessarily mean you are the other. Rommel served his country, not the man at the helm.

Now back to our regularly scheduled comments!

Anonymous said...

So where did all that Water come from, I know the area is shallow but that's a LOT of water.

Melting of some big continental glaciers? (Doggerland must have been nippy in winter) Or A huge inland sea that was higher that ocean level flushing into the world ocean.

It would be interesting to see what the rest of the word looked like: I'd imagine that off SE Asia there's be a lot more land too.

Would the Grand banks off the east coast have been out of the water?

Gulf of St. Laurence?

I'm sure the Arctic was covered with ice, but large parts must have been ice right down to what is now the ocean floor if the sea level was that low.

Windy Wilson said...

If Doggerland were still above water, would there be snakes in England?

The amazing thing is the same babblers about climate change can't explain how such a drastic warming occurred during the warm up after the last ice age without the infernal combustion engine making heat and allowing the masses to move about freely (Free movement being the true object of their ire, since having a truck allowed the Joads and others of that ilk to exercise initiative and get out of Dodge when the getting was good and the staying was terrible).

Windy Wilson said...

Anonymous at 2:38 pm, interesting and important questions, we may never know. I assume you know about the Scablands of eastern Washington State? Apparently during the ice ages there were periodic meltings and floodings of lakes formed by ice dams. I think Ballard of Titanic fame also did some exploration of the Black Sea to see if signs of human habitation could be found, and he found some farm building foundations (sorry about the alliteration.

Goober said...

Where did all the water come from?

That one is easy. During the last ice age, a not-unsubstantial portion of the world’s water was frozen solid and sitting in the form of an ice cap on the northern extents of the big continents. They extended as far south as Boise Idaho in some places. This caused the sea levels to be much lower than they are today since all that water wasn’t in the sea – rather, it was sitting on dry land in solid form. During that time, areas like Doggerland would have been under the ice (in fact, being a glacial moraine, Doggerland owes its very existence to the glaciers). However, there was a period of time during the melt-off where the ice had receded enough to expose areas like Doggerland, but not so much as to have created enough water to fill the oceans back up enough to inundate it. Doggerland’s time as dry land was limited the very same day it first saw sunlight. Another very well known example of this phenomenon is the Bering Sea Land bridge between Asia and North America, which is the popular theory for how humans got to North America in the first place.

It is highly probable that the amount of time it took to melt off enough ice to inundate Doggerland would have been measured in tens of millennia, so for the lifetimes of hundreds and hundreds of generations of humans, it was not temporary dry land, but firm, permanent ground. To us, looking through the lens of history, we see Doggerland as seafloor that was temporarily exposed, but to the people then, Britain wasn’t an island.

And, in fact, the sea level rise that inundated Doggerland, which has been occurring for much of the last 15,000 years, continues to this day, and is figured to continue continuing until the next ice age sets in (and we are due for one any day now) . Hence my reaction when arrogant humans

, there is one where you can fire missiles from outer space, they just land randomly though and don't really hit anything.

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    Bahamut_42 (Expert) - 8 years ago 1 0
  3. Just because it's an ICBM doesn't mean it has to go Inter-Continental. It just means they have the range of more 3500 miles(roughly)

    User Info: Inara

    Inara - 8 years ago 0 0
  4. "After attempting to launch the ICBM, the launch terminal reports an error and mentions that the missile's tracking system is damaged (naviagation data corrupted) and that the missile has failed to launch. "

    Fallout Wiki.

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This question has been successfully answered and closed.<|endoftext|>To Make / Blueberry Donuts

     Happy Saturday! I’m five days into #the100dayproject, and so far, it’s been awesome! I thought it would be hard to make myself cook something every evening, but it’s really been easy - I haven’t hit a wall (yet). This morning, I decided to take advantage of having the day off and make some brunch! I baked some blueberry donuts and they turned out SO GOOD. Sweet and moist but not too cake-y! Get the recipe below!

Ingredients: donuts

 - 1/2 cup of flour (I did 1/4 whole wheat, 1/4 ap!)

- 1/4 cup of sugar

- 1/2 tbs. of melted butter

- 1/2 tsp. of baking powder

- 1/4 tsp. of baking soda

- 1/4 tsp. of vanilla

- a pinch of salt

- 1 tsp. of cinnamon

 - 1/2 cup of milk

- 1/2 cup of blueberries

- a squeeze of lemon juice

Ingredients: vanilla glaze

- 1 tbs. milk

- 1/4 cup of powdered sugar

- 1 tsp. of vanilla

1. In a large mixing bowl, combine all dry ingredients. In a small bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, vanilla, butter, and lemon juice. Stir wet ingredients into dry, mix until combined.

2. Pour batter into greased donut pan and drop in blueberries.

3. Preheat oven to 350.

4. Meanwhile, make glaze. Stir together powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla. Bake donuts for 16 minutes, then let cool for 5 minutes. Pop out of pan and dip tops into the glaze. Serve with coffee and enjoy!

       Thanks for reading, and have a good weekend!<|endoftext|>Friday, November 30, 2012

Overheard in the Hallway...

Me: "Once upon a time..."

RX: "...Climate Change?"

Me: "Okay, Chevy Suburbans, then."

og said...

I always liked the janet jackson song " i want to take you in an escalade"

Old NFO said...

Dammit, now I've got to get the coffee off the screen... :-)

Critter said...

so, how much was a carbon credit in antelope horn and sharpened flint?

Anonymous said...

When Nat Geo went away from black and white photos of half naked women it was the begining of the end.

Bubblehead Les. said...

On the Other Hand, if Doggerland was still above water, Rommel would have parked his Tanks in Trafalger Square in 1940.

bluesun said...

For a while I was marking every time I saw a climate change mention in NatGeo when I read it, with the intention of writing them all down and blogging about it. But my fingers got so tired of folding the corners of pages over, I kinda gave it up.

mariner said...

And that would have been just fine with the people who babble about climate change.

Firehand said...

Hey, at least he was a National Socialist, like so many of them want to be...

Kristophr said...

I always wondered why I kept finding flint chips in my old diesel Suburban.

BTW, I am hereby claiming Doggerland, and appointing myself Grand Poo-Bah of Doggerlandia.

As soon as the sea levels lower during the next Ice Age, I'll be taking bids for patents of nobility there. You will have to bring your own serfs, however.

Although I'm sure we can find some refugees somewhere.

RabidAlien said...

Firehand, not to get off-topic, but Rommel was about as apolicical as one can get in Nazi Germany and still retain oxygen in the lungs. He never joined the National Socialists/Nazi party, and despised what it was becoming. He was, however, a very patriotic German and an exceptional leader of men and knew how to utilize his (meager) resources (and those of his enemies, which he captured). Its like someone saying "Oh, you're an American. You must be a Democrat, then." Being one does not necessarily mean you are the other. Rommel served his country, not the man at the helm.

Now back to our regularly scheduled comments!

Anonymous said...

So where did all that Water come from, I know the area is shallow but that's a LOT of water.

Melting of some big continental glaciers? (Doggerland must have been nippy in winter) Or A huge inland sea that was higher that ocean level flushing into the world ocean.

It would be interesting to see what the rest of the word looked like: I'd imagine that off SE Asia there's be a lot more land too.

Would the Grand banks off the east coast have been out of the water?

Gulf of St. Laurence?

I'm sure the Arctic was covered with ice, but large parts must have been ice right down to what is now the ocean floor if the sea level was that low.

Windy Wilson said...

If Doggerland were still above water, would there be snakes in England?

The amazing thing is the same babblers about climate change can't explain how such a drastic warming occurred during the warm up after the last ice age without the infernal combustion engine making heat and allowing the masses to move about freely (Free movement being the true object of their ire, since having a truck allowed the Joads and others of that ilk to exercise initiative and get out of Dodge when the getting was good and the staying was terrible).

Windy Wilson said...

Anonymous at 2:38 pm, interesting and important questions, we may never know. I assume you know about the Scablands of eastern Washington State? Apparently during the ice ages there were periodic meltings and floodings of lakes formed by ice dams. I think Ballard of Titanic fame also did some exploration of the Black Sea to see if signs of human habitation could be found, and he found some farm building foundations (sorry about the alliteration.

Goober said...

Where did all the water come from?

That one is easy. During the last ice age, a not-unsubstantial portion of the world’s water was frozen solid and sitting in the form of an ice cap on the northern extents of the big continents. They extended as far south as Boise Idaho in some places. This caused the sea levels to be much lower than they are today since all that water wasn’t in the sea – rather, it was sitting on dry land in solid form. During that time, areas like Doggerland would have been under the ice (in fact, being a glacial moraine, Doggerland owes its very existence to the glaciers). However, there was a period of time during the melt-off where the ice had receded enough to expose areas like Doggerland, but not so much as to have created enough water to fill the oceans back up enough to inundate it. Doggerland’s time as dry land was limited the very same day it first saw sunlight. Another very well known example of this phenomenon is the Bering Sea Land bridge between Asia and North America, which is the popular theory for how humans got to North America in the first place.

It is highly probable that the amount of time it took to melt off enough ice to inundate Doggerland would have been measured in tens of millennia, so for the lifetimes of hundreds and hundreds of generations of humans, it was not temporary dry land, but firm, permanent ground. To us, looking through the lens of history, we see Doggerland as seafloor that was temporarily exposed, but to the people then, Britain wasn’t an island.

And, in fact, the sea level rise that inundated Doggerland, which has been occurring for much of the last 15,000 years, continues to this day, and is figured to continue continuing until the next ice age sets in (and we are due for one any day now) . Hence my reaction when arrogant humans claim responsibility for it and call it their own. King Canute would have laughed at that, I’m sure.

There was.

Some of it,


The dog ran uphill to chase the cat, but the cat was able to escape because the _ was too fast.
Option 1: dog
Option 2: cat
Answer: 2<|endoftext|> with.

Rajesh Koothrappali

Howard and Raj playing detective.

Raj is Howard's best friend. Howard invites his buddy over to his house all the time. Howard has called them co-pilots of the Millennium Falcon, and they have weekly routines they do together. However, Howard becomes easily distracted and sometimes abandons him, only to be unmindful of any wrongdoing. Sadly, he taught Raj his dance moves, and Howard seems to wear off on him, as Raj can be very womanizing and uses slang. He scoffs at Raj when he says something stupid, and has once complained that he's going to end up with swimmer's ear with Raj whispering in his ear, although Sheldon cannot tolerate his moist breath in his ear altogether. Despite the fact that Howard is undeniably obsessed with women, Dr. Beverly Hofstadter, Leonard's mother, says they are in an "ersatz homosexual marriage". Amusingly, Raj and Howard have several arguments during the series, in which Raj repeatedly accuses Howard of leaving him for everybody who's only slightly better looking and otherwise assuming the cliche female role in partnership arguments. Season 4 jokingly introduced the possibility of Howard's "latent homosexual tendencies" when George Takei appeared as himself in an imaginary conversation with Bernadette and Katee Sackhoff over his relationship status with Bernadette, but Howard quickly denied it. Before Howard met Bernadette, it was implied that he called Raj "honey", and Debbie Wolowitz is relieved when he has a girl over to the house. In "The Septum Deviation", Raj has dinner with Howard and Bernie is worried about what to get his parents for their fortieth wedding anniversary. Later Raj gets a call from his father that he has moved out and that his parents are getting divorce lawyers. Howard is visiting him and sympathizes with him. His discussion of their not communicating together causes a fight between Howard and Bernie. In "The Anxiety Optimization", Howard starts a game called "Emily or Cinnamon" where people have to guess whether statements Raj has made are for the woman or the dog he loves. Emily thinks Raj's sensitive nature is very sexy. In "The 2003 Approximation", Raj and Howard form a band call "Footprints on the Moon", when Stuart is looking for live music in his store. They write a song about Indiana Jones taking on Thor which is a cool song, but not easy to dance to. In "The Confidence Erosion", Raj takes a break from his friendship with Howard when he realizes that his lack of confidence is in part due to Howard's constant demeaning jokes. He changes his look, gains confidence and gets a job at the Griffith Observatory. After his show, a young woman even asks him to coffee. In "The Celebration Reverberation", Raj is still mad at Howard who still gets him to plan Halley's first birthday party. Both end up in Halley's bounce house taking out their frustrations on each other. The house is so much fun that they mend their friendship while bouncing around. In "The Planetarium Collision" Howard gets invited by Raj's boss to help host a planetarium show since he is an astronaut. Raj is worried that Howard will take over the show. Anxiety occurs between them and during their show they end up complimenting each other to excess. In "The Inspiration Deprivation", Howard buys a Vespa like he used to own with him and Raj planning to relive their good old days. Bernadette is angry and doesn't want him hurt. He sells it to Bert who immediately has an accident. In "The Maternal Conclusion", Anu is in London for a convention and then gets offered a job. She wonders what that means for them. Raj decides to go to London and propose thinking that this is his last chance for happiness. Howard goes to the airport and convinces him to stay.

Leonard Hofstadter

Leonard and Howard.

Howard met Leonard in 2003 as seen in a flashback of "The Staircase Implementation". Howard told Penny that both he and Raj liked Leonard. Leonard has helped him quite often, and Howard faced an allergic reaction partly to provide Leonard's first birthday party. Though, Howard finds Leonard's worries over Penny humorous sometimes, and they like to post embarrassing things about each other on YouTube and Twitter. The two of them made a pact that if either one of them ever got a girlfriend, the other one would set up the single guy with one of her girlfriends. When it comes to agreements and women, they frequently fight. Leonard does enjoy poking fun at Howard's height, although he is only a quarter of an inch taller ("And don't you forget it!"). But despite any problems, the two are best friends and help each other out often.

Sheldon Cooper

Sheldon often makes fun of Howard for not having a doctoral degree and for being an engineer, referring to engineers as "noble semi-skilled laborers" and "the Oompa-Loompas of science", and calling engineering "the slow younger brother of physics". He has referred to their group of scientists as "a group of geniuses and their friend Howard", thus ruling him out, and called Howard "a treasured acquaintance" instead of a close friend like Leonard, Raj and Penny. Sheldon describes Raj as Howard's primary friend, Leonard as Howard's secondary friend, and himself as Howard's tertiary friend.

With Howard on a trip to Houston.

However, Sheldon still says that if he ever needs a slightly apathetic tertiary friend, he is there for him, and refers to him as "the funny one" in their group. Howard is also the "Scotty" of their Star Trek landing party. Though often annoyed by Sheldon, Howard is able to perceive when Sheldon is upset, unlike with best friend Raj. Howard has varied between not really caring whether he and Sheldon are friends and being visibly wounded when Sheldon is dismissive of him. During the time when Sheldon considered who to jettison from his circle of friends and said critically that Howard doesn't have a Ph.D. and isn't available to play video games during the Jewish High Holidays, Howard seemed pleased that he might be freed from Sheldon's friendship, only to watch as Sheldon then ordered a horrified Raj out of the circle of friends. Later, the "treasured acquaintance" remark makes Howard's face fall as if hearing that Leonard, Penny and Raj are considered friends while he isn't, is upsetting to him.

In "The Friendship Turbulence" Bernadette is tired of Sheldon always degrading her husband. Sheldon reveals that the first time they met; Howard told him that he was a cross between C3PO and Pee Wee Herman, calling him C-3-P-Wee Herman. Howard then followed that by replacing slides from Sheldon's lecture with pictures of nude fat women bending over, quickly progression into a decade long rivalry of pranks, such as unwanted magazine subscriptions. To try to improve their relationship, Howard invites Sheldon to join him on a trip to Houston where he is speaking at NASA. Howard gives him a tour, helps him through the turbulence they experience on the plane trip and helps him deal with having seen his mother having sex. He notes that he drove away a man interested in his mother and that Sheldon should not stand in the way of his mother's happiness. In "The Comic Book Store Regeneration", when the gang receives the devastating news that Debbie Wolowitz died, Sheldon wanted to say something. Though the gang was worried at what insensitive thing he might say, Howard allowed Sheldon to speak. In a rare moment of compassion, Sheldon comforted Howard by stating when his father died, he didn't have friends to help him through it before reminding Howard that he does. These words surprised Howard but caused him to smile at Sheldon for understanding his grief and silently thank him for his words, moving past some of his sadness. In "The Explosion Implosion", Howard is worried about knowing enough to raise a boy, but then realizes that they could bond over launching model rockets. Sheldon also gets excited about it and they take a Saturn V model out to the desert to launch. The model rocket blows up disappointing Howard until Sheldon tells Howard that he thinks that he'll be a great father especially since Howard lost his. In "The Bow Tie Asymmetry", Howard got Mark Hamill to perform the Shamy wedding and Sheldon was grateful to him. Besides the point, the two are best friends.

In "The Imitation Perturbation", on Halloween at work Howard dressed up as Sheldon, but Sheldon was clueless as to the impersonation. After he realizes it, he sees that everyone is laughing at his idiosyncrasies. Later at the party, Sheldon and Amy show up dressed as Howard and Bernadette. Bernadette is not happy with Amy's high squeaky voice and cracks about her small body. Later Sheldon does apologize to Bernie and the bond over both being small in high school. Sheldon was only eleven.

In "The Meteorite Manifestation", the Wolowitzes are having a problem with their neighbors new deck and the floodlights that light up their backyard. Sheldon helps them with the paperwork at the city zoning office and makes their neighbors

 with.

Rajesh Koothrappali

Howard and Raj playing detective.

Raj is Howard's best friend. Howard invites his buddy over to his house all the time. Howard has called them co-pilots of the Millennium Falcon, and they have weekly routines they do together. However, Howard becomes easily distracted and sometimes abandons him, only to be unmindful of any wrongdoing. Sadly, he taught Raj his dance moves, and Howard seems to wear off on him, as Raj can be very womanizing and uses slang. He scoffs at Raj when he says something stupid, and has once complained that he's going to end up with swimmer's ear with Raj whispering in his ear, although Sheldon cannot tolerate his moist breath in his ear altogether. Despite the fact that Howard is undeniably obsessed with women, Dr. Beverly Hofstadter, Leonard's mother, says they are in an "ersatz homosexual marriage". Amusingly, Raj and Howard have several arguments during the series, in which Raj repeatedly accuses Howard of leaving him for everybody who's only slightly better looking and otherwise assuming the cliche female role in partnership arguments. Season 4 jokingly introduced the possibility of Howard's "latent homosexual tendencies" when George Takei appeared as himself in an imaginary conversation with Bernadette and Katee Sackhoff over his relationship status with Bernadette, but Howard quickly denied it. Before Howard met Bernadette, it was implied that he called Raj "honey", and Debbie Wolowitz is relieved when he has a girl over to the house. In "The Septum Deviation", Raj has dinner with Howard and Bernie is worried about what to get his parents for their fortieth wedding anniversary. Later Raj gets a call from his father that he has moved out and that his parents are getting divorce lawyers. Howard is visiting him and sympathizes with him. His discussion of their not communicating together causes a fight between Howard and Bernie. In "The Anxiety Optimization", Howard starts a game called "Emily or Cinnamon" where people have to guess whether statements Raj has made are for the woman or the dog he loves. Emily thinks Raj's sensitive nature is very sexy. In "The 2003 Approximation", Raj and Howard form a band call "Footprints on the Moon", when Stuart is looking for live music in his store. They write a song about Indiana Jones taking on Thor which is a cool song, but not easy to dance to. In "The Confidence Erosion", Raj takes a break from his friendship with Howard when he realizes that his lack of confidence is in part due to Howard's constant demeaning jokes. He changes his look, gains confidence and gets a job at the Griffith Observatory. After his show, a young woman even asks him to coffee. In "The Celebration Reverberation", Raj is still mad at Howard who still gets him to plan Halley's first birthday party. Both end up in Halley's bounce house taking out their frustrations on each other. The house is so much fun that they mend their friendship while bouncing around. In "The Planetarium Collision" Howard gets invited by Raj's boss to help host a planetarium show since he is an astronaut. Raj is worried that Howard will take over the show. Anxiety occurs between them and during their show they end up complimenting each other to excess. In "The Inspiration Deprivation", Howard buys a Vespa like he used to own with him and Raj planning to relive their good old days. Bernadette is angry and doesn't want him hurt. He sells it to Bert who immediately has an accident. In "The Maternal Conclusion", Anu is in London for a convention and then gets offered a job. She wonders what that means for them. Raj decides to go to London and propose thinking that this is his last chance for happiness. Howard goes to the airport and convinces him to stay.

Leonard Hofstadter

Leonard and Howard.

Howard met Leonard in 2003 as seen in a flashback of "The Staircase Implementation". Howard told Penny that both he and Raj liked Leonard. Leonard has helped him quite often, and Howard faced an allergic reaction partly to provide Leonard's first birthday party. Though, Howard finds Leonard's worries over Penny humorous sometimes, and they like to post embarrassing things about each other on YouTube and Twitter. The two of them made a pact that if either one of them ever got a girlfriend, the other one would set up the single guy with one of her girlfriends. When it comes to agreements and women, they frequently fight. Leonard does enjoy poking fun at Howard's height, although he is only a quarter of an inch taller ("And don't you forget it!"). But despite any problems, the two are best friends and help each other out often.

Sheldon Cooper

Sheldon often makes fun of Howard for not having a doctoral degree and for being an engineer, referring to engineers as "noble semi-skilled laborers" and "the Oompa-Loompas of science", and calling engineering "the slow younger brother of physics". He has referred to their group of scientists as "a group of geniuses and their friend Howard", thus ruling him out, and called Howard "a treasured acquaintance" instead of a close friend like Leonard, Raj and Penny. Sheldon describes Raj as Howard's primary friend, Leonard as Howard's secondary friend, and himself as Howard's tertiary friend.

With Howard on a trip to Houston.

However, Sheldon still says that if he ever needs a slightly apathetic tertiary friend, he is there for him, and refers to him as "the funny one" in their group. Howard is also the "Scotty" of their Star Trek landing party. Though often annoyed by Sheldon, Howard is able to perceive when Sheldon is upset, unlike with best friend Raj. Howard has varied between not really caring whether he and Sheldon are friends and being visibly wounded when Sheldon is dismissive of him. During the time when Sheldon considered who to jettison from his circle of friends and said critically that Howard doesn't have a Ph.D. and isn't available to play video games during the Jewish High Holidays, Howard seemed pleased that he might be freed from Sheldon's friendship, only to watch as Sheldon then ordered a horrified Raj out of the circle of friends. Later, the "treasured acquaintance" remark makes Howard's face fall as if hearing that Leonard, Penny and Raj are considered friends while he isn't, is upsetting to him.

In "The Friendship Turbulence" Bernadette is tired of Sheldon always degrading her husband. Sheldon reveals that the first time they met; Howard told him that he was a cross between C3PO and Pee Wee Herman, calling him C-3-P-Wee Herman. Howard then followed that by replacing slides from Sheldon's lecture with pictures of nude fat women bending over, quickly progression into a decade long rivalry of pranks, such as unwanted magazine subscriptions. To try to improve their relationship, Howard invites Sheldon to join him on a trip to Houston where he is speaking at NASA. Howard gives him a tour, helps him through the turbulence they experience on the plane trip and helps him deal with having seen his mother having sex. He notes that he drove away a man interested in his mother and that Sheldon should not stand in the way of his mother's happiness. In "The Comic Book Store Regeneration", when the gang receives the devastating news that Debbie Wolowitz died, Sheldon wanted to say something. Though the gang was worried at what insensitive thing he might say, Howard allowed Sheldon to speak. In a rare moment of compassion, Sheldon comforted Howard by stating when his father died, he didn't have friends to help him through it before reminding Howard that he does. These words surprised Howard but caused him to smile at Sheldon for understanding his grief and silently thank him for his words, moving past some of his sadness. In "The Explosion Implosion", Howard is worried about knowing enough to raise a boy, but then realizes that they could bond over launching model rockets. Sheldon also gets excited about it and they take a Saturn V model out to the desert to launch. The model rocket blows up disappointing Howard until Sheldon tells Howard that he thinks that he'll be a great father especially since Howard lost his. In "The Bow Tie Asymmetry", Howard got Mark Hamill to perform the Shamy wedding and Sheldon was grateful to him. Besides the point, the two are best friends.

In "The Imitation Perturbation", on Halloween at work Howard dressed up as Sheldon, but Sheldon was clueless as to the impersonation. After he realizes it, he sees that everyone is laughing at his idiosyncrasies. Later at the party, Sheldon and Amy show up dressed as Howard and Bernadette. Bernadette is not happy with Amy's high squeaky voice and cracks about her small body. Later Sheldon does apologize to Bernie and the bond over both being small in high school. Sheldon was only eleven.

In "The Meteorite Manifestation", the Wolowitzes are having a problem with their neighbors new deck and the floodlights that light up their backyard. Sheldon helps them with the paperwork at the city zoning office and makes their neighbors tear down their deck. They deny knowing who filed the paper work. Sheldon was not happy that he learned that they had made other home improvements without the proper paperwork. He decides to take


The child focused on the reading instead of paying attention to the television because the _ was important.
Option 1: reading
Option 2: television
Answer: 1<|endoftext|> but never bothered to prescribe for you a remedy for getting better, you'd be looking for a new physician pronto.

Yeah. That’s as succinct a description of the Legislature as I’ve ever seen. Well done!

How long do you think an engineer would last in the profession who tells clients only what they cannot build, and never offers any ideas on how best to design and build a structure?

Kind of like you, here, telling us that we CAN’T cut our taxes without telling us how to make the Legislature LISTEN and ACT on what we want, you mean?

So why do we accept King Eyman and others of his ilk telling us what we can't do and never demand that they come up with a better plan?

But… didn’t you do precisely the same thing at the start of this column? Where is YOUR “better plan” for the monorail?

As one of “Eyman’s Ilk,” I have a dozen ideas for better plans. But you on the left throw a fit whenever anyone comes after your sacred cows, such as prevailing wage, the sales tax shift, the ½% art requirement, taking ferries out of the transportation mix, getting rid of light rail, building a few hundred more miles of roads… those things are ALL “better plans.” And to people of YOUR “ilk,” they’re ALL DOA.

Instead, otherwise intelligent voters are suckered into a chorus of Just Say No while the king cashes in on the money people are throwing at him.

As opposed to the unions cashing in on the money you would have government throw at them, right?

This guy has saved the people of this state billions of dollars. If you and your ilk don’t believe you’re taxed enough, then feel free to start writing our state government extra checks. They’ll take the money.

What’s stopping you?

We're dying around here for lack of visionaries.

You include yourself in that description, do you?

Almost 50 years ago, attorney Jim Ellis and a handful of others dared to dream into existence the creation of a bold regional effort that successfully cleaned up a badly polluted Lake Washington.

In 1968, Ellis spearheaded an effort to get voters to approve a 47-mile rail transit system, at a local cost of only $385 million. An earlier generation of naysayers killed that one, and today we're paying an incredibly high cost for that myopic, tightwad decision.

See, in the mind of the far left, it’s “only” $385 million. Well $385 million back then was as much a waste of money as the $4 billion you people want to spend now.

We can play the “back then” game all day, including the part where state taxes, “back then” were dramatically less, both as an amount and a percentage of our incomes, than they are now.

Is there any hope that in our lifetime some politician(s) will have enough guts and backbone to challenge the Just Say No mentality?

Let me rephrase your desire.

Is there any hope that in our lifetime some politician(s) will have enough guts and backbone to ignore the people, their will, what they want in a huge way for Mr. Li’s fantasy kingdom?

Until then, we're consigned to borrow (loosely) from another Annie Oakley song and hum along with "Doin' Nothin' Natur'lly," while we stew in our beloved cars, stuck in gridlock.

Chi-Dooh Li is a Seattle attorney. E-mail:

For Mr. Li, I offer this bit of advice:

Earlier in your screed, you mentioned “successful rapid transit systems elsewhere in this country and around the world, in cities and regions the size of Seattle and Puget Sound.”

Perhaps you would consider moving to one of those paradise locations, where the voters are far smarter, where government is the be all to end all, where taxes are at, say, 70%, and you, as one of the people, have no say.

No lie they won't tell, no twist in the truth they won't take. the generation in action.

TODH to Generation Why?

Tuesday, September 27, 2005
The Truth Behind the Protests - What Liberals and the MSM Don't Want You to Know

This picture got the liberals all excited over the weekend. Afterall, here's a "Republican" publicly denouncing "his party" in the midst of a liberal protest. Just one problem. The guy is a Democrat... and has been for a while. (hat tip: Wizbang) He also did this back in February.

His wife is
Executive Director of Compton Foundation. They fund all kinds of leftist causes (including the "September 11th Families for a Peaceful Tomorrow")

Then there's this picture, plastered on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle. (hat tip: Zombie) The "hoped to convey a positive message about the rally -- perhaps that even politically aware teenagers were inspired." But look at the "anatomy of a photograph" for the truth behind the girl, the photo and the cause.

The group is dressed like terrorists, waving Palestinian flags and signs with vulgarities... and being led by a handler wearing a shirt depicting the flag of communist Vietnam.The truth ain't so pretty.They can't tell people the truth about their positions, their causes or their beliefs. So they have to alter the perception of reality to get people to buy their bullshit. Only the ignorant are buying, and fortunately they're outnumbered.

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Leftist hero, Ronnie Earle: "I am not a crook?"

This speaks for itself.

September 29, 2005, 8:11 a.m.
DeLay’s Prosecutor Offered “Dollars for Dismissals”
How Ronnie Earle works.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Travis County, Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle, the man behind Wednesday's indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on state campaign-finance charges, has also indicted several corporations in the probe. But last June, National Review's Byron York learned that Earle offered some of those companies deals in which the charges would be dismissed — if the corporations came up with big donations to one of Earle's favorite causes. Here is that report, from June 20, 2005:

On September 21, 2004, a grand jury in Travis County indicted three associates of DeLay — John Colyandro, the head of DeLay's political-action committee, Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC), Jim Ellis, a DeLay aide and officer of the committee, and Warren Rebold, a Washington fundraiser. The indictments received front-page coverage, with a number of commentators suggesting that Earle was moving toward ultimately indicting DeLay.

Receiving less attention was the grand jury's decision to indict the eight companies for making allegedly illegal contributions to TRMPAC. In addition to Sears, Cracker Barrel, Questerra, and Diversified Collection Services, the group of indicted companies included Bacardi USA, Westar Energy, Williams Companies, and the trade group Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care. Under Texas law, corporations are not allowed to contribute directly to political campaigns, but are allowed to fund the administrative expenses of a political committee.

Thursday, September 29, 2005

A liberal look at the DeLay indictment.

Leftists are positively giddy over the DeLay indictment. Our local CCD tools certainly are.

But the Washington POST, hardly a bastion of conservative thought, has taken a somewhat more sober view.

The DeLay Indictment
Thursday, September 29, 2005; Page A22

YESTERDAY'S indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on charges of conspiring to violate Texas campaign finance laws won't come as a surprise to anyone who's watched the Texas Republican operate over the years. In his drive to consolidate Republican power, Mr. DeLay has consistently pushed, and at times stepped over, ethical boundaries.

He is, as we said last year, an ethical recidivist -- unabashed about using his legislative and political power to reward supporters and punish opponents, and brazen in how he links campaign contributions and political actions. Among the DeLay activities that have drawn disapproval from the House ethics committee: threatening a trade association for daring to hire a Democrat; enlisting federal aviation officials to hunt for Democratic state legislators trying to foil his Texas redistricting plan; and holding a golf fundraiser for energy companies just as the House was to consider energy legislation.

Nonetheless, at least on the evidence presented so far, the indictment of Mr. DeLay by a state prosecutor in Texas gives us pause. The charge concerns the activities of Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC), a political action committee created by Mr. DeLay and his aides to orchestrate the GOP's takeover of the Texas legislature in 2002. The issue is whether Mr. DeLay and his political aides illegally used the group to evade the state's ban on corporate contributions to candidates. The indictment alleges that TRMPAC took $155,000 in corporate contributions and then sent a

 but never bothered to prescribe for you a remedy for getting better, you'd be looking for a new physician pronto.

Yeah. That’s as succinct a description of the Legislature as I’ve ever seen. Well done!

How long do you think an engineer would last in the profession who tells clients only what they cannot build, and never offers any ideas on how best to design and build a structure?

Kind of like you, here, telling us that we CAN’T cut our taxes without telling us how to make the Legislature LISTEN and ACT on what we want, you mean?

So why do we accept King Eyman and others of his ilk telling us what we can't do and never demand that they come up with a better plan?

But… didn’t you do precisely the same thing at the start of this column? Where is YOUR “better plan” for the monorail?

As one of “Eyman’s Ilk,” I have a dozen ideas for better plans. But you on the left throw a fit whenever anyone comes after your sacred cows, such as prevailing wage, the sales tax shift, the ½% art requirement, taking ferries out of the transportation mix, getting rid of light rail, building a few hundred more miles of roads… those things are ALL “better plans.” And to people of YOUR “ilk,” they’re ALL DOA.

Instead, otherwise intelligent voters are suckered into a chorus of Just Say No while the king cashes in on the money people are throwing at him.

As opposed to the unions cashing in on the money you would have government throw at them, right?

This guy has saved the people of this state billions of dollars. If you and your ilk don’t believe you’re taxed enough, then feel free to start writing our state government extra checks. They’ll take the money.

What’s stopping you?

We're dying around here for lack of visionaries.

You include yourself in that description, do you?

Almost 50 years ago, attorney Jim Ellis and a handful of others dared to dream into existence the creation of a bold regional effort that successfully cleaned up a badly polluted Lake Washington.

In 1968, Ellis spearheaded an effort to get voters to approve a 47-mile rail transit system, at a local cost of only $385 million. An earlier generation of naysayers killed that one, and today we're paying an incredibly high cost for that myopic, tightwad decision.

See, in the mind of the far left, it’s “only” $385 million. Well $385 million back then was as much a waste of money as the $4 billion you people want to spend now.

We can play the “back then” game all day, including the part where state taxes, “back then” were dramatically less, both as an amount and a percentage of our incomes, than they are now.

Is there any hope that in our lifetime some politician(s) will have enough guts and backbone to challenge the Just Say No mentality?

Let me rephrase your desire.

Is there any hope that in our lifetime some politician(s) will have enough guts and backbone to ignore the people, their will, what they want in a huge way for Mr. Li’s fantasy kingdom?

Until then, we're consigned to borrow (loosely) from another Annie Oakley song and hum along with "Doin' Nothin' Natur'lly," while we stew in our beloved cars, stuck in gridlock.

Chi-Dooh Li is a Seattle attorney. E-mail:

For Mr. Li, I offer this bit of advice:

Earlier in your screed, you mentioned “successful rapid transit systems elsewhere in this country and around the world, in cities and regions the size of Seattle and Puget Sound.”

Perhaps you would consider moving to one of those paradise locations, where the voters are far smarter, where government is the be all to end all, where taxes are at, say, 70%, and you, as one of the people, have no say.

No lie they won't tell, no twist in the truth they won't take. the generation in action.

TODH to Generation Why?

Tuesday, September 27, 2005
The Truth Behind the Protests - What Liberals and the MSM Don't Want You to Know

This picture got the liberals all excited over the weekend. Afterall, here's a "Republican" publicly denouncing "his party" in the midst of a liberal protest. Just one problem. The guy is a Democrat... and has been for a while. (hat tip: Wizbang) He also did this back in February.

His wife is
Executive Director of Compton Foundation. They fund all kinds of leftist causes (including the "September 11th Families for a Peaceful Tomorrow")

Then there's this picture, plastered on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle. (hat tip: Zombie) The "hoped to convey a positive message about the rally -- perhaps that even politically aware teenagers were inspired." But look at the "anatomy of a photograph" for the truth behind the girl, the photo and the cause.

The group is dressed like terrorists, waving Palestinian flags and signs with vulgarities... and being led by a handler wearing a shirt depicting the flag of communist Vietnam.The truth ain't so pretty.They can't tell people the truth about their positions, their causes or their beliefs. So they have to alter the perception of reality to get people to buy their bullshit. Only the ignorant are buying, and fortunately they're outnumbered.

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Leftist hero, Ronnie Earle: "I am not a crook?"

This speaks for itself.

September 29, 2005, 8:11 a.m.
DeLay’s Prosecutor Offered “Dollars for Dismissals”
How Ronnie Earle works.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Travis County, Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle, the man behind Wednesday's indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on state campaign-finance charges, has also indicted several corporations in the probe. But last June, National Review's Byron York learned that Earle offered some of those companies deals in which the charges would be dismissed — if the corporations came up with big donations to one of Earle's favorite causes. Here is that report, from June 20, 2005:

On September 21, 2004, a grand jury in Travis County indicted three associates of DeLay — John Colyandro, the head of DeLay's political-action committee, Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC), Jim Ellis, a DeLay aide and officer of the committee, and Warren Rebold, a Washington fundraiser. The indictments received front-page coverage, with a number of commentators suggesting that Earle was moving toward ultimately indicting DeLay.

Receiving less attention was the grand jury's decision to indict the eight companies for making allegedly illegal contributions to TRMPAC. In addition to Sears, Cracker Barrel, Questerra, and Diversified Collection Services, the group of indicted companies included Bacardi USA, Westar Energy, Williams Companies, and the trade group Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care. Under Texas law, corporations are not allowed to contribute directly to political campaigns, but are allowed to fund the administrative expenses of a political committee.

Thursday, September 29, 2005

A liberal look at the DeLay indictment.

Leftists are positively giddy over the DeLay indictment. Our local CCD tools certainly are.

But the Washington POST, hardly a bastion of conservative thought, has taken a somewhat more sober view.

The DeLay Indictment
Thursday, September 29, 2005; Page A22

YESTERDAY'S indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on charges of conspiring to violate Texas campaign finance laws won't come as a surprise to anyone who's watched the Texas Republican operate over the years. In his drive to consolidate Republican power, Mr. DeLay has consistently pushed, and at times stepped over, ethical boundaries.

He is, as we said last year, an ethical recidivist -- unabashed about using his legislative and political power to reward supporters and punish opponents, and brazen in how he links campaign contributions and political actions. Among the DeLay activities that have drawn disapproval from the House ethics committee: threatening a trade association for daring to hire a Democrat; enlisting federal aviation officials to hunt for Democratic state legislators trying to foil his Texas redistricting plan; and holding a golf fundraiser for energy companies just as the House was to consider energy legislation.

Nonetheless, at least on the evidence presented so far, the indictment of Mr. DeLay by a state prosecutor in Texas gives us pause. The charge concerns the activities of Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC), a political action committee created by Mr. DeLay and his aides to orchestrate the GOP's takeover of the Texas legislature in 2002. The issue is whether Mr. DeLay and his political aides illegally used the group to evade the state's ban on corporate contributions to candidates. The indictment alleges that TRMPAC took $155,000 in corporate contributions and then sent a check for $190,000 to the national Republican Party's "soft money" arm. The national committee then wrote $190,000 in checks from its noncorporate


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The Assyrians have invaded Judah and are marching from victory to victory. They have amassed a large force just outside Jerusalem and are threatening to lay seige to the city. Things are grim.

The Assyrian king, Sennacherub, sends a letter to King Hezekiah pointing out that the Assyrians have defeated everyone they attacked:

This message is for King Hezekiah of Judah. Don’t let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you with promises that Jerusalem will not be captured by the king of Assyria. You know perfectly well what the kings of Assyria have done wherever they have gone. They have completely destroyed everyone who stood in their way! Why should you be any different? Have the gods of other nations rescued them—such nations as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Tel-assar? My predecessors destroyed them all! What happened to the king of Hamath and the king of Arpad? What happened to the kings of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?” 2 Kings 19:10-13

Facing overwhelming enemy forces and certain defeat, what does Hezekiah do?  He repairs immediately to the Temple and lays the letter before the Lord.

The story continues: “After Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it, he went up to the Lord’s Temple and spread it out before the Lord. And Hezekiah prayed this prayer before the Lord: “O Lord, God of Israel, you are enthroned between the mighty cherubim! You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You alone created the heavens and the earth. Bend down, O Lord, and listen! Open your eyes, O Lord, and see! Listen to Sennacherib’s words of defiance against the living God. It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these nations. And they have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire and burned them. But of course the Assyrians could destroy them! They were not gods at all—only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands. Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power; then all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you alone, O Lord, are God.” 2 Kings 19:14-19

Oh for Hezekiah’s absolute clarity and confident faith, “But of course the Assyrians could destroy them! They were not gods at all—only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands.”

PS: History records that the Assyrians were routed and abandoned their invasion.

#identifiedwithChrist #prayer<|endoftext|>We gave intensive care to the ratchet instead of the crank as the _ was flexing.
Option 1: ratchet
Option 2: crank
Answer: 1<|endoftext|>Theresa May Doesn't Know How Much She Drinks A Week - So Why Should You? (VIDEO)

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Maybe Theresa May had a fuzzy head on Friday morning, or was she just pre-occupied with keeping the country safe? Either way a BBC Breakfast interview on the government's new alcohol minimum pricing scheme didn't go so well.

The Home Secretary was asked how many units of alcohol she drinks a week, and the answer was a bit blurry, truth be told:

It's okay Theresa, we all have those weeks when we find we've knocked back more than we'd planned.

Maybe the lack of clarity was due to the suspicion that the whole announcement has been rushed out to take the heat off George Osborne, who continues to face a hostile press over the granny tax.

Or perhaps it's just that Theresa May is tired. She should remember the warnings from Tony Blair though, whose autobiography details an increasing reliance on wine to get through life at the top.

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Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely

Last night on my way out of campus, I called Andrew to chat. I wasn't aware that Dubya was speaking last night, and I called at 8:57. So once Andrew told me, I flipped it over to NPR and listened to El Presidente tell me.... NOTHING. I already knew that the mortgage backed securites are failling. I already knew that our economy is terribly shakey right now. I already knew that people are going into foreclosure because they can't refinance or sell their houses and they had terrible ADRMs. But when I thought about it a little more, I realized Georgie's speech wasn't really intended for me. It was intended for people who really don't know what was going on and could therefore be scared into thinking that rubber stamping a bill with vague outlines for $700 BILLION dollars is a good idea.

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that a bill that would inject some MAJOR funding into these failling banks and investment companies is a bad idea. On the contrary, I feel like we need to do something, and do it quickly. However, I would be very unhappy to see a bill pushed through that didn't have a lot more oversight than Bushie wants. Giving $700 B to Paulson to do what he wants with it is not going to help the situation. We need more people giving the okay. Not too many people - too many cooks in the kitchen, and all that - but no one person or small group of likeminded people should have that control. I don't want all that money to be wasted. I want it to be injected where it needs to be injected and I really want some educated people figuring this out. What I don't want is the people who got us into this mess in the first place to be handed a blank check and be told "here - go have fun". So Mr. President, good for you for admitting this is a time for government intervention. This is more than the market correcting itself. But we need more oversight on this money. We need more control over what's going on with our economy. I'm no socialist, but oversight and control over vast amounts of money never killed anyone.

Also... it isn't fair. I know I sound like a petulant 5 year old, but it isn't fair! I saved money for a down payment. I took a second look at the offers of 100% financing and scary ADRMs. I signed a 30 year fixed mortgage that I COULD AFFORD! I bought a condo instead of a house, because despite what the banks were telling me, I couldn't afford a McMansion. I've never been late on a single mortgage payment. But no one is going to try to help me - no one is going to fight for my interest rate to be

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As Perl is installed on our cloud web hosting platform, you'll be able to run Perl/CGI scripts with any of our cloud hosting plans without difficulty. You may also do this automatically through a cron job if your package comes with this attribute. If not, you are able to add cron jobs through the Upgrades section of your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. Over 3000 Perl modules can be accessed on our servers and you can use them with your scripts. The entire list is available inside the Control Panel and if you need to use any module, you only have to add the path to our module library inside your script. When third-party scripts that you want to include in your website require a particular module, for instance, you do not need to worry whether they will operate properly or not. This way, you'll be able to make a dynamic website and provide a huge selection of features to your site visitors.

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All Linux semi-dedicated plans that we provide can run CGI scripts or various other applications developed in Perl and due to the fact that cron jobs are a part of all of our plans, you can choose if a given script will be executed manually or automatically on a regular interval of time. What is more, you can take advantage of a huge library of over 3000 modules which are already installed on our servers and use their functions in order to save time when you create your scripts. In the event that you use a third-party Perl script, you can also be sure that in case it needs some module in order to run efficiently, we will have it because our library features both widely used modules and less popular ones. You will be able to see the path to the modules that you need to use in our scripts in the Server Information drop-down menu of your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel.<|endoftext|>It is 701 BC. Hezekiah is king of the southern Kingdom of Judah. “Hezekiah trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before or after his time. He remained faithful to the Lord in everything, and he carefully obeyed all the commands the Lord had given Moses.” 2 Kings 18:5-6

The Assyrians have invaded Judah and are marching from victory to victory. They have amassed a large force just outside Jerusalem and are threatening to lay seige to the city. Things are grim.

The Assyrian king, Sennacherub, sends a letter to King Hezekiah pointing out that the Assyrians have defeated everyone they attacked:

This message is for King Hezekiah of Judah. Don’t let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you with promises that Jerusalem will not be captured by the king of Assyria. You know perfectly well what the kings of Assyria have done wherever they have gone. They have completely destroyed everyone who stood in their way! Why should you be any different? Have the gods of other nations rescued them—such nations as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Tel-assar? My predecessors destroyed them all! What happened to the king of Hamath and the king of Arpad? What happened to the kings of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?” 2 Kings 19:10-13

Facing overwhelming enemy forces and certain defeat, what does Hezekiah do?  He repairs immediately to the Temple and lays the letter before the Lord.

The story continues: “After Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it, he went up to the Lord’s Temple and spread it out before the Lord. And Hezekiah prayed this prayer before the Lord: “O Lord, God of Israel, you are enthroned between the mighty cherubim! You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You alone created the heavens and the earth. Bend down, O Lord, and listen! Open your eyes, O Lord, and see! Listen to Sennacherib’s words of defiance against the living God. It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these nations. And they have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire and burned them. But of course the Assyrians could destroy them! They were not gods at all—only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands. Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power; then all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you alone, O Lord, are God.” 2 Kings 19:14-19

Oh for Hezekiah’s absolute clarity and confident faith, “But of course the Assyrians could destroy them! They were not gods at all—only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands.”

PS: History records that the Assyrians were routed and abandoned their invasion.

#identifiedwithChrist #prayer<|endoftext|>Theresa May Doesn't Know How Much She Drinks A Week - So Why Should You? (VIDEO)

Posted: Updated:

Maybe Theresa May had a fuzzy head on Friday morning, or was she just pre-occupied with keeping the country safe? Either way a BBC Breakfast interview on the government's new alcohol minimum pricing scheme didn't go so well.

The Home Secretary was asked how many units of alcohol she drinks a week, and the answer was a bit blurry, truth be told:

It's okay Theresa, we all have those weeks when we find we've knocked back more than we'd planned.

Maybe the lack of clarity was due to the suspicion that the whole announcement has been rushed out to take the heat off George Osborne, who continues to face a hostile press over the granny tax.

Or perhaps it's just that Theresa May is tired. She should remember the warnings from Tony Blair though, whose autobiography details an increasing reliance on wine to get through life at the top.

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Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely

Last night on my way out of campus, I called Andrew to chat. I wasn't aware that Dubya was speaking last night, and I called at 8:57. So once Andrew told me, I flipped it over to NPR and listened to El Presidente tell me.... NOTHING. I already knew that the mortgage backed securites are failling. I already knew that our economy is terribly shakey right now. I already knew that people are going into foreclosure because they can't refinance or sell their houses and they had terrible ADRMs. But when I thought about it a little more, I realized Georgie's speech wasn't really intended for me. It was intended for people who really don't know what was going on and could therefore be scared into thinking that rubber stamping a bill with vague outlines for $700 BILLION dollars is a good idea.

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that a bill that would inject some MAJOR funding into these failling banks and investment companies is a bad idea. On the contrary, I feel like we need to do something, and do it quickly. However, I would be very unhappy to see a bill pushed through that didn't have a lot more oversight than Bushie wants. Giving $700 B to Paulson to do what he wants with it is not going to help the situation. We need more people giving the okay. Not too many people - too many cooks in the kitchen, and all that - but no one person or small group of likeminded people should have that control. I don't want all that money to be wasted. I want it to be injected where it needs to be injected and I really want some educated people figuring this out. What I don't want is the people who got us into this mess in the first place to be handed a blank check and be told "here - go have fun". So Mr. President, good for you for admitting this is a time for government intervention. This is more than the market correcting itself. But we need more oversight on this money. We need more control over what's going on with our economy. I'm no socialist, but oversight and control over vast amounts of money never killed anyone.

Also... it isn't fair. I know I sound like a petulant 5 year old, but it isn't fair! I saved money for a down payment. I took a second look at the offers of 100% financing and scary ADRMs. I signed a 30 year fixed mortgage that I COULD AFFORD! I bought a condo instead of a house, because despite what the banks were telling me, I couldn't afford a McMansion. I've never been late on a single mortgage payment. But no one is going to try to help me - no one is going to fight for my interest rate to be lowered. Why can't I get a letter in the mail saying "hey, you were responsible, you didn't