As people are preferring to buy horses instead of donkeys or mules for their use these days  a lot of horses turn up at the fair every year also.For example this year there were only 300 donkeys and 50 mules but about 1200 horses at the mela.Also on display was a white colored Shyam Karan Horse  worth 31 lacs.According to the scriptures Lord Ram set loose a Shyam Karan horse when he performed the Ashwa medh yagh.

Legend has it that Sri Khalkhani mata performed a miracle for her devotee in distress by turning a bag of stones into gold coins.Since then this fair is held every year.

Hi hon! I'm really glad that you're around. You make my life bearable despite the challenges that i am facing right now.

Many years from now, if fate allows it, i hope we would still be together sharing this wonderful feeling called love.

I love you so much hon. Thanks for being there for me...

(Monday, August 27, 2007 11:49:00am)

luminerli said... (see "Deal")

Dear Hon,

Im sorry about what happened. i was hurt but it made my love stronger for you told me things i never expected from you. i'd rather die if i lost you.

i love you so much..

(Sunday, September 2, 2007 10:23:00pm)

Starting out on a lighter note, Adam Belz's story about Linn County offices staying at Westdale for now drew a lot of east side vs. west side sniping.

One westsider had a solution, though. Ernest Rimrodt wrote in his comment "Succession now"

Now is the time for the Westside of Cedar Rapids to revert back to Kingston City. The name of our town before the Eastsiders took us over illegally if history is correct. We have the Police Station, Water Treatment Plant, National Guard HQs, the Airport and now City and County Government agencies so I say its time to kiss Cedar Rapids good bye and go our own way.
We have been screwed long enough by folks with nothing more than Eastside and downtown interests and now is the time for succession...The Westside IS the Best side and we need out freedom to form and carve out our own destiny..

The word he was looking for in his title was likely "secession," and I don't know if his comment was serious or not, but it certainly got people talking.

Moving on to more serious topics, a story by Alicia Ebaugh about Cedar Rapids' borrowed armored personnel carrier drew a very divided reaction.

One long-time commenter, Censorship Sucks, wrote a comment titled "woohoo, more para-military wannabe's"

Just what this country needs more of, over-zealous para-military police forces. All you have to do is do a little research on the hundreds or thousands of botched police and SWAT raids in this country to know this isn't a good idea. Yes, I realize it's on loan. I also realize that even though they say it's out of the budge NOW doesn't mean that they won't try to sneak it into the budget later.
I suggest reading the many articles written about botched para-military police raids by Radley Balko on his website: http://www.theagitator.com/category/paramilitary-police-raids/
Also check out the map of botched raids on the CATO Institute's website: http://www.cato.org/raidmap/

Some people didn't like his take, though, and were happy with the police's decision to try out the vehicle.

Bob Johnson wrote in his comment "Show Me"

Show me where the CRPD has broken into the wrong home and killed a person under false pretenses/bad detective work or whatever. There are hundreds of SWAT/SRT teams across America and there are thousands and thousands of raids done for a variety of purposes every year. Not every one of them goes off perfectly I'm sure. But there is a big difference implying that it happens all the time, especially here in CR.
I am not a fan of buying this vehicle from our city funds, but if it could be obtained with grants etc from the feds then woo-hoo. I believe the big black and white EM50 they got a few years ago was paid for this way. A vehicle like this could be very usefull to not only CR but regionally as well. A vehicle like this could end up saving many lives in a rampaging shooter scenario, where officers utilize it to safely transport themselves and civilians to/from an active shooter.
In the end would it be useful to the police.....yes. Is it needed, depends. Officers never want to have to need their gun in a situation either, but they have one in case because we don't live in Maybury. Should it come from the city budget, I don't want it too for a number of reasons, but if it came from grants etc then great. I do like the idea someone said about people here in CR fabricating one, I think that would be interesting!

And for the last comment, I'll share a funny comment on a very serious story. Whirlpool is laying off nearly 440 people from its Middle Amana plant, which made a lot of people angry, especially in light of the dismal economic news elsewhere.

In his post "New Stock Market Terms," Tan Dog wrote:

And here are some new Stock market terms for these times;
CEO --Chief Embezzlement Officer.
CFO-- Corporate Fraud Officer.
BULL MARKET -- A random market movement causing an investor to
mistake himself for a financial genius.
BEAR MARKET -- A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no
allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and you ain't get'n any either
VALUE INVESTING -- The art of buying low and selling lower.
P/E RATIO -- The percentage of investors wetting their pants
as the market keeps crashing.
BROKER -- What my broker has made me.
STANDARD & POOR -- Your life in a nutshell.
STOCK ANALYST -- Idiot who just downgraded your stock.
STOCK SPLIT -- When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your
assets equally between themselves.
FINANCIAL PLANNER -- A guy whose phone has been disconnected.
MARKET CORRECTION -- The day after you buy stocks.
CASH FLOW-- The movement your money makes as it disappears

What comments enlightened or enraged you this week? Tell us about it in the comments below.

I've been doing a lot of reading online articles and blogs.

I'v'e also taken to reading the comments and reactions on any blog or article.

These are usually more revealing (and interesting) than the article because it is how people really think-feel.  Granted that anything on the internet is veiled in anonymity, giving commenters the freedom to be more venomous, more obnoxious, more hateful, and more extreme, than in real, face-to-face, life.

There is a point to all this, I'm getting there.

Most people like to feel they belong.  It is a trademark of the Baby Boomers, in fact.  They invented peer pressure I think.  I would know, since I am a Boomer myself, and I can safely say that political correctness IS peer pressure.  If you are not politically correct, you're on the outside looking in, effectively exiled from polite society.

It isn't just mean girls.  It's even worse, because once a path (or political party) is chosen, there is no other alternative but to wholly invest onself into the attitudes and behaviors that best exemplify that path.  This means there is no objectivity, no rationality, but feeling the pressure to conform.  When that happens, what's left is passion.

Not to mention, most people also like to be right.  Often, being right means winning.  Often, it means being better, superior, than the other guy or the other side.  Often, when we lose, we see ourselves as deficient, or inadequate, or inferior, to the winners.  No one ever wants to lose.

So for me, it's come to a reason versus romanticism thing.  By romanticism, I mean emotion and subjectivity, and by reason, I mean emotion's opposite, which is cold hard logic and reality.

The point is no one is immune to this election season's emotional tenor.  It has prompted me to start this blog.  It's a place to vent.   Disgusted enough to leave the Republican party, I can't seem to shake the anti-Democrat line, and the "condescending and elitist" attitude that partisans naturally take.  At least, I've been made aware and I'm trying.  But it may be a matter of a years-long habit, where passion rules and political correctness requires we take sides, and then to defend those sides as if there were no alternative.  Objectivity, logic, tells us there are indeed other sides.

So why aren't the ranks of Independents swollen with disaffected voters?  Why don't we have more political parties?  Why have we let just two parties represent our interests?  Or why have political parties at all?  Why not just elect individuals who best represent our needs and goals, and represent to the world what best serves our country?

Why indeed, to paraphrase Alfred E. Neuman, do we get a choice of two presidential candidates and 50 for Miss America?

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"Oh shit, I've got this cake, therefore I can't eat it." WTF?

Waymack Optical
Cabot, AR, 72023

Thank you for stopping in this area and showing me the Signtronix program. I had been in business here for 7 months and felt invisible. We are now very visible.

As a matter of fact, our business has almost doubled. People are saying "I didn't know you were here. How long have you been here?"

Everyone that I have dealt with has been really nice and professional.

Thanks for your help. I have been able to buy the building I was renting.

Dennis A. Waymack

Camdenton Pet Grooming
Camdenton, MO

Signtronix - To Whom It May Concern:

Since we have installed our new sign from you, the outside appearance of our business has greatly improved. We get daily compliments on it. It has made our business a lot easier to find, both for new and old customers.

New customers that are directly related to the sign are about 12% of our sales. This is a small increase that will improve as the year goes by.

As i know the majority of bloggers* feel the same way as me I have made a commitment to myself that I will always try to comment on any blog I find from now on. I may not always manage it, but I'm certainly going to try. If you want to do the same thing, then great. Tell me about it here.

I have just written an article on this subject over on the FuelMyBlog blog [here]. It looks like it may turn into a very big debate, which is, after all the whole point! Why not pop over there and give you own opinion?

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* For those that don't know, a blog is a website with regular updates like mine. A blogger is someone who writes this kind of site

Posted by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad at October 7, 2008 8:11 AM |

All comments are moderated (meaning they get reviewed and will be invisible until I release them), but unless you use dirty words or diss my mother, comments relevant to the posting will be made visible.

Have a great day!

Lee

Esti 5% Emo. Forta de neoprit. Esti foarte tare! Daca ti se intampla ceva rau, te ridici, te scuturi si mergi mai departe. Ce mare lucru, nu? Bine lucrat! Tine-o tot asa. Multumesc ca ai jucat...

Cel putin asta e aproape de adevar... De ce 5% si nu 0%? Eeeh... Sunt curios altii cat au, sincer... sunt 10 intrebari, fara cont, fara delay, poti incerca si tu AICI.

Astept comentarii (si rezultate)  :D  Just for fun.

TE ADOR MUMUSETEA MEA !!!

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Nother thing to look forward too. there seems like there may be some break through in spells that the High Pally may hand that knowledge down soon. Probable to fight this Litch King thing.  I'll have to grab me a group and hunt this thing down. but one step at a time. First a Glass of Ale!!!

Michele Jones, a Phd student at the University of North Carolina, wanted to investigate the impact that comments had on credibility and reader perception of bias in the news

She conducted an online experiment with 76 participants reading a story about abortion which carried either pro-life or pro-choice comments.

What she found was that readers who have strong opinions will perceive bias against their side in a news story. This is called the Hostile Media Effect and has been found in numerous studies.

But the picture was more confused when it came to the impact of comments on perceptions of bias.  A statistical analysis showed that the comments themselves did not lead readers to see more bias in the story.

However, the participants were also able to add their thoughts at the end of the study and these suggested that the nature of the comments affected how the story was perceived.

So, for example, people might see the original story as balanced, but the tone of the comments made them wonder if the journalist had deliberately chosen pro-life or pro-choice comments.

Jones sees this study as a starting point as it throws up interesting questions about the relationship between a news story and the discussion around it.

At a time when many news outlets are experimenting with different forms of user-generated content, this is an area that would benefit from further study.

I have sat here and read many of the comments and the article. I am going to reply to this as a person who studies religious theology. As a person of color, A christian and a LGBT identified Christian and a musician. To start with I find it amazing how we consider ourselves as followers of Christ. Now being a person who studies theology never once do you hear Jesus talk about or condemn homosexuality. Yet we call ourselves followers of Christ. That’s the first problem Now I have read and seen you all have taken bible scriptures and have thrown it in our faces and expect that to be the end of it. You pick and choose what it is you want to read and say. I have yet to see any of you people who have taken these clobber scriptures and use all of the context. When you have taken all the context then your at the next level for discussion. Next speaking as a person of color, I find it interesting that you have not remembered that we have struggled against a long period of prejudice and hatred. Do you really think as people who have struggled to get rights, to be treated equal and with respect. Do you honestly find yourself any different than the people who hate people of color. So to condemn homosexual people I just find that very odd. As a christian you focus mostly on the judgement of God. Now to back up and correct the one person earlier who spoke of Bishop Carlton Pearson and Dr. Yuvette[sic] Flunder they teach exactly what Jesus taught. We should not worry about the judgment of God but the Grace and Mercy of God, as well as Gods love he has for every person everything every being. If most of you could understand that it is not about us. It is not about who loves who and who is doing. It is all about worshiping and serving God. When we as a people can get off the the petty things and realize it is about Gods love. We will not have to care about what someone else is doing because we will be more focused on Gods love and loving each other. Doing that will cover all of the thing. REMEMBER Jesus taught us love. I have yet to see you scripture clobbers talk about the love of God. Lastly I will talk now as a musician. I have seen you all talk about not to promote Tonex because of his life style. Well is this the case many of your churches will not have good music. Most of church musicians are gay. Most of you people in the church especially the pastor knows it. You won’t see that pastor get rid that musician unless they cause a scene. The pastor knows about the lifestyle but is not willing to loose his members because of bad music. Most of these pastors will pimp these people for their benefit and use their gifts. So next time you think about not promoting a musician because of their lifestyle. You remember that most churches run the music department by gay men who write that music and teaches the music that gets people in your church. Remember that!!! Now what we need to praying for is not for god to change somebody. We need to pray first that we as Identified Christians grow stronger in God. That is what we NEED to be doing, there would be much less DRAMA if we could do that. Next as we grow in God we need to get a reality check of what it is Jesus was teaching us on how to live. If you all don’t know Jesus has never turned away from anyone, nowhere in the bible will you see that. Some how you bible clobbers have missed that fact. I say this as a closers, don’t let ignorance (which means lack of knowledge) prevent you who identify as Christians from the important thing which is Gods love for us, and by Gods grace (which means we get what we don’t deserve) and Gods Mercy( which means we didn’t get what we do deserve) Don’t let this prevent you from the real reason as to why we serve the God we serve and have the Faith we have as Christians. Peace with you will, Blessings Brandon