The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by RMKrist/PurpleGirl:

She's gazing off into the horizon... or was it Russia and they reversed the image.

Renatus -- just reread your post and saw it is your sister. Sorry about the mistake in caller her your niece.

Renatus -- those promises of money are just that promises. They don't always pan out. I remember many articles over the past few years about how the military can renege on them. Money for college is a major tool in recruiting, as is the promise of training in an area of the recruit's choice leading to a civilian career. That too gets forgotten by the military. here are some searches to start you off. There is the "up to $X" language. Over the past few years I remember the stories about stop-loss orders keeping people in the services so they couldn't leave for school.

I googled "us military recruiting money for college" and among the cites for US military programs there were these cites:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/22/us-military-data-min.html

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/10/14-0

This is a .pdf from objector.org (a conscientious objectors group). The flyer is a little old but I think the basic ideas are still true.

www.afsc.org/pacificsw/ht/a/GetDocumentAction/i/46083

This article is from 2005:

www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0506/050607.htm

You need to be calm when you research this information and when you talk to your niece; you should also talk to her parents and find out what they think about her plan. I'm sure there's more out there on the net but you have to get the right search terms. I hope this helps.

But sometimes, of an autumn day, I would love a glimpse of pale golden sunlight on Georgian sandstone.

I love autumn sunsets when the light coming into my dining/living room is a warm gold and the room glows.

Serge -- Argh. Ah. Hope you get (or got) some real sleep finally.

I was looking for updates on the "sweat lodge" story and saw various write-ups of the interview with Dr. Bunn. It does not make James Ray look good.

Serge -- Argh. Ah. Hope you get (or got) some sleep real finally.

I was looking for updates on the "sweat lodge" story and saw various write-ups of the interview with Dr. Bunn. It does not make James Ray look good.

Serge -- Van Johnson and Van Heflin don't count because the comment was to not trust people with three first names. Also they took their acting names from their original names: Van Heflin took the Van from Evan and Van Johnson dropped the Charles and the Dell, becoming Van Johnson.

Dick van Dyke doesn't fit because his surname is van Dyke, two names as one unit.

fidelio: Thank you for those links. Interesting observations and informative.

EmilyH: Thank you for the link to T Poutine. I don't think I want to try making poutine but a sampling at a restaurant would be interesting.

From the Phelps-a-thon website and their own schedule page, they spent Friday, September 25 in Queens at a whole bunch of Jewish congregations and private high schools, and such. Saturday is indeed Brooklyn's turn and then on Monday they plan a protest at a Jewish synogogue back in Kansas.

What awful people they are.

There is a technical term for beautiful things that one does not use. That term is clutter. Learn to drink from the cup as though it is already broken, because the alternative is to choose between a cluttered life and an ugly one.

Abi, this is brilliant. A very good summation of a problem and its solution.

The quilts are beautiful. The essay is thought provoking and well written. I first learned about the Fibonacci Series in connection with weaving. I keep wanting to find something I can make using it.

I have a number of bags of unfinished crochet projects and a stash of yarn for future projects. I'm currently alternating making hyperbolic crochet coral reef pieces for a wall sculpture with other things like necklaces, scarfs, collars and blankets. Yarn stashes grow almost as fast as paper piles do.

Re Gingrich's conversion: His third wife -- Callista Bisek -- is Catholic. He has not given a reason for converting but it probably involves stuff with his wife, like wanting to worship along side her (well....). It may be possible for him to get annulments to cancel out the previous marriages, something that former senator Alfonse D'Amato did when he remarried. I did a quick search and couldn't determine what kind of ceremony he and Callista had. Catholicism doesn't permit a divorced person to be (re)married in a church ceremony. (And besides he and Callista were involved before the second divorce.)

I first saw the reference to SC law at Think Progress and, yes, adultery is a crime in South Carolina.

Goggle gives the relevant SC law.

Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses
CHAPTER 15.
OFFENSES AGAINST MORALITY AND DECENCY

I love the title: Offenses Against Morality and Decency.


From Think Progress:

Any man or woman who shall be guilty of the crime of adultery or fornication shall be liable to indictment and, on conviction, shall be severally punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than one year or by both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. . . . “Adultery†is the living together and carnal intercourse with each other or habitual carnal intercourse with each other without living together of a man and woman when either is lawfully married to some other person.

Fortunately for Sanford, it is not entirely clear that the South Carolina justice system has jurisdiction over an apparent crime that he committed while traveling abroad in Argentina. His lawyers might also argue that he cannot be convicted of criminal adultery because he and his Argentine lover were not engaged in “habitual carnal intercourse†— Sanford maintains that he only traveled to Argentina to see his mistress on rare occasions. (Think Progress)

A few comments and thoughts:

The last time I was by 23rd St & Madison Avenue, Live Bait was still there and open. (Roughly two months ago.)

A former co-worker (Pakistani Muslim) told me that before there were actual Halal meat shops near his Long Island town, he went shopping for meat at the Kosher butcher shop. Halal and Kosher are somewhat equivalent in many of the restrictions and slaughtering rules. In a conversation we had one time, he was surprised that I knew what Halal meant. Whenever we had an office-wide pizza lunch we always ordered one plain pizza that he could eat, at least before the Kosher pizza place opened. (I had to give up pepperoni pizza when we ordered from there.)

Lutheran being a religion, the cuisine would be German or Swedish and/or Norwegian, depending on who lived in the neighborhood. Original owners probably did name the shop after the medical center and the halal was added by later, new owners.

According to an old NYC joke you could tell how Jewish an area was by the number of Chinese restaurants it had.

I clicked through to the editorial from the Union-Times and then made the mistake of reading the comments. Many of the commenters do not know how to read and/or interpret and understand what they read. Regardless of its level of profit the bakery supports the economy of the whole area and is, therefore, very important. Anyway I hope the Verlaine Daeron gets her new visa and that the bakery is able to stay open.

#86 Ralph Giles -- I agree, especially when you consider topic series, for example books published by Springer Verlag. They all were yellow, iirc; hundreds, maybe thousands, of yellow books each and every year.

wrt shelving books: There was a mathematics professor at NYU's Courant Institute who shelved the books in his office by publisher. And he seriously thought that the library should do it that way.

I have a friend who was standing behind a door when it was opened quickly and forcefully knocking him into a cinder block wall. He sustained brain injuries which still affect him some 15 years later. There's a reason doors have signs that warn you to open them slowly. I've often reminded people who open opaque doors that they need to open them slowly because they don't know and can't know if there is someone behind the door.

Pete Seeger is a national treasure. I heard him sing the whole song in September 2001 when he performed at the Opening Meeting (annual kick-off rally) for the volunteers of the organization I worked for (Learning Leaders, formerly the NYC School Volunteer Program). Our keynote speaker that year was Laura Bush. I'd never heard that verse before and he spoke about it before singing it. It was a something. I can't say if LB reacted to it, but it was quite a moment.

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