My wife and I will be in the Denver area next May for a few weeks and want to drive down to the Silverton area from Denver and take the train to Durango/return. Doesn't look like any easy way so what is the best advise. Thanks

That is a great movie/story.... we are overwhelmed with special affects and fantastic, over the top stories. I love this movie, even though I know how it ends.

Go Steelers!!

Just about ready to kick off.

Nevermind.

I spend my Saturday's in the fall split between hunting and watching Penn State games. When I'm at the hunting cabin in Bradford county, there is no cable TV and barely any antenna reception. I'm not up to speed on all of the cutting edge technology, but I understand that there are options like slingbox to relay cable.

I have Comcast cable, an iPhone, and a Kindle Fire. What are the best options for me?

I am a little more than halfway through this book. I recommend it, as it provides a lot of insight as to the mentality on PSU campus in 1969 and many parallels can be drawn to modern day. The book concerns the Aardsma murder in Pattee over Thanksgiving weekend in 1969. The author has a very specific individual (now deceased) for which he makes a case for guilt...but the surrounding goings-on are all too familiar. Read it, and if you have what were your observations? I didn't find out till I bought it that it was written by a guy who used to work for the Patriot, so I'm keeping that in mind as I go.

Lately, China is in the news for "devaluing" its currency. And, world markets have reacted. Also, Trump made some harsh remarks.

IIRC, some time ago, Trump made remarks about China not respecting Patent Rights stating that they are basically "stealing" technology. This was years ago, btw.

So, I have a few questions regarding China:

1) Is China a "fair" player in International Business or not? Do they steal patents, for example, without paying rights?

2) How does one exactly devalue a currency? And, "should" a Country seek approval before doing so from other economic powers since it has global impact?

3) How do you see China in the coming years? Playing more favorably economically or being even more unfair?

Thanks in advance.

AG Kane Said to Be Facing Inquiries on Multiple Fronts
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane speaks during a news conference Aug. 12 at ... Sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there appears to be an active FBI investigation asking questions about …

Anyone have an idea why the FBI is interested in Kathleen Kane?


Should move the views & posting to: The "Kane Iquiries" thread. Sources.....
bjf1984, 49 minutes ago

Judge implies Kane can release porn emails
August 14, 2015

The judge supervising the grand jury that investigated state Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane said Thursday she hasn’t officially asked him to allow her to release the offensive emails she claims exist, so he can’t act to order their release.

Judge William R. Carpenter also implied she doesn’t need his permission to release the pornographic and racially and religiously offensive emails she claims are at the root of her troubles. The emails were never introduced before his grand jury in Montgomery County, he said.

Other than thanking grand jury members for their hard work, Judge Carpenter said nothing else in a statement released Thursday about the criminally charged attorney general’s request.

Chuck Ardo, Kane’s spokeswoman, said Kane’s lawyers will file a request next week asking Judge Carpenter to lift an order she claims blocks the release of the emails. He said the office would have no further comment.

Kane of Waverly Township is accused of leaking secret information from an earlier grand jury to a Philadelphia newspaper to embarrass a former prosecutor she thought did the same to her and then lying about it to Judge Carpenter’s grand jury. She told reporters Wednesday her troubles started when she made it known her office had the technology to trace every email in former attorney general Tom Corbett’s administration, her predecessor.

State prosecutors and judges started investigating her because she found their “pornographic, racially offensive and religiously offensive emails” on attorney general’s office computers and they want to stop her from releasing them, she said.

She singled out Judge Carpenter, saying he and other judges and prosecutors had, “wittingly or unwittingly,” kept the emails secret. She said Judge Carpenter “to this day prevents the complete public dissemination of these emails under a tortured interpretation of our state’s grand jury secrecy law.”

The judge referred his grand jury’s findings to Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman, who last week charged Kane with obstructing the administration of law, official oppression, false swearing and perjury.

Kane says she’s innocent and the release of the emails is essential to her defense.

http://citizensvoice.com/news/judge-implies-kane-can-release-porn-emails-1.1926731#

I was told today was a good day for Curley, Schultz & Spanier
Link to various remarks & story:
http://abc27.com/2015/08/11/curley-spanier-schultz-appeals-heard-by-superior-court/

Since 2011 The Penn State University has gone through the most extensive and intensive period of "image re-formulation" in history. I challenge ANYONE to find another case where the public was so convincingly sold on CRIMINAL GUILT based on the crimes of a former employee. Most amazingly, this image destruction has been done without ONE SINGLE LEGAL FACT and in light of MULTITUDE of obvious suspicious actions events and actors.

From day one of all this I have believed that all of this "Scandal" was an ENGINEERED event - just too many pieces had to be "fit" together for it to occur "naturally" and too many "unfortunate mistakes and "gotcha" events have happened to support the "Story" which the public believes.

So here is a "lens" (perspective) which can be used to better understand "the Penn State Scandal". It explains why people are so definite in what they believe as "facts" (no matter which side they take) and why it is so hard to get a change the public's perception.
It all makes sense how & why PSU/Paterno was targeted when you look through this "lens".


The Big Lie Theory
A big lie (German: Große Lüge) is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously."

Hitler asserted the technique was used by Jews to unfairly blame Germany's loss in World War I on German Army officer Erich Ludendorff.

By placing responsibility for the loss of the world war on the shoulders of Ludendorff they took away the weapon of moral right from the only adversary dangerous enough to succeed in bringing the betrayers of the Fatherland to Justice.

All this was inspired by the principle—which is quite true within itself—that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.

It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the factswhich prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.

For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.
ABOVE SOURCE: Wikipedia


Note that trained propagandists (known often as “spin doctors) understand how the big lie theory can be applied to “shaping” (more like creating) the public’s perception of an event.

The engineered “spin” of facts created by the “Big Lie” is designed to create a new public belief. Once the enough of the public “buys” this alternate reality, the deceived public then uses “the Big Lie” itself to disprove the factual realities that actually exist

A core principal of this theory is that if you tell a lie often enough (using the power of the mass media), some of the people who hear it will believe it. The more the lie is repeated to the public, the greater the number of people who believe “The Big Lie” is the truth.
Please note that "lies" include exaggerations and (selectively edited and) out-of-context quotes.

Court hears arguments in appeal in Penn State cover-up case


Gary Schultz, left, is Penn State's former vice president; Graham Spanier, center, is the university's former president; and Tim Curley is the former director of athletics.

By Jan Murphy | jmurphy@pennlive.com
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on August 11, 2015 at 12:11 PM, updated August 11, 2015 at 12:29 PM

A state appellate court heard legal arguments Tuesday morning as to whether former Penn State administrator Gary Schultz had proper legal representation when he testified before a grand jury.

The approximate half-hour Superior Court hearing was the first of three that the court was holding on Tuesday in an appeal of a January ruling by Dauphin County Judge Todd Hoover. The other hearings to follow focused on appeals of two other former Penn State administrators – Graham Spanier and Tim Curley.

Spanier, Curley and Schultz face trial on perjury, obstruction of justice and other charges stemming from allegations that they failed to report a 2001 Sandusky locker-room assault reported to them by then-graduate assistant Mike McQueary; and that, years later, they lied to state investigators about what they were told about that case and their response to it.

The three are challenging Hoover's dismissal of motions that sought to void their testimony that the perjury count stems from and bar Baldwin's potential appearance as a witness for the prosecution.

In his ruling, Hoover said Baldwin – who accompanied Schultz and the other administrators during their grand jury appearance to testify about what they knew about the early child sexual abuse allegations against the longtime Penn State assistant football coach– properly attended that proceeding while representing them as agents of the university in connection with university business.

Tom Farrell, the attorney for Schultz who was not in attendance at the hearing, said Hoover created an "unprecedented second-class" attorney-client representation by ruling that Baldwin could properly represent the university and his client.

He said six times during his grand jury testimony, Schultz indicated that Baldwin was his counsel. "He believed he was represented," ... full story: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/08/court_hears_arguments_in_appea_1.html

But if Baldwin was there in the capacity as Penn State's attorney

According to varied defense attorneys.


http://m.sharonherald.com/news/stat...efc-ccbf-59bb-8fcc-b4f99eae3654.html?mode=jqm

My favorite six in order:

1. The Searchers
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3. High Noon
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. True Grit (original)
6. A Fistful of Dollars

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Women breastfeeding feeding their babies...

Old men walking in the park...

Children playing...

...in a split second they were all KILLED.

But, it saved American lives....BLAH BLAH BLAH.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-days-atomic-bomb-killed-140-000-people.html

Got to thinking
The Jazz Singer with Neil Diamond - terrible script, worse acting and Sir Laurence must have been embarrassed, but the music was/is great.

Other thoughts?

I figure that story is at least as worthy of discussion here as some of the stuff we are going on about this morning.

IMHO, it is good to see PSU taking a firm position on this.

Disney down 10% mainly on ESPN numbers. Iger said its all good even has the discussion delved into the end of the bundle. So the question is if you had the choice to pick any channel, would you drop ESPN? What would you be willing to pay/month to keep it? $15? $25? $35?

The older I get the less sports I watch. Rarely watch ESPN except when they have a Penn State sporting event. Never watch any of their talk/analysis shows, not even their pregame stuff. If I had the option to livestream PSU stuff or somehow else view them, I would probably drop ESpiN

just listening to Episode 2 of their new "Reasonable Doubt" podcast on itunes, and they were discussing Bill Cosby. They were talking about if anyone has gone from being so beloved to being so vilified so quickly, and Adam said, "Joe Paterno"

Geragos adds: "Joe has made a comeback in death, it's bizarre, but it is good for Penn State, Nittany Lion fans"

keep fighting!

The Princeton Review published their list of the top ten party schools for 2015 (link below). Topping the list is University of Illiinois. The ranking:

1. University of Illinois
2. University of Iowa
3. University of Wisconsin
4. Bucknell University
5. Syracuse University
6. University of California-Santa Barbara
7. West Virginia University
8. University of Georgia
9. Tulane University
10. Colgate University

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/03/living/illinois-party-school-princeton-review-feat/index.html

Looks like University of Illinois!



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Some here may even know or know of the accused. He's an oncologist at Allegheny General.

LINK: http://news.yahoo.com/zimbabwe-accuses-2nd-american-illegally-hunting-lion-060415307.html#