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Last week I had posted that the local ice fishing derby was likely to be canceled due to the lack of safe ice, but the derby Powers-That-Be decided to go for it and it seems their gamble paid off. While there are a number of places on the big lake where it would be suicidal to go out on the ice, there are a number of coves and bays where the ice is thick enough to support people and bob houses. However, cars and trucks won't fare well so no one has been seen out on the ice with either.
On top of that, the temperatures today are expected be in the 50's, meaning the ice will be melting even as the derby continues.
Hillary won the South Carolina Democrat primary by a huge margin. No real surprise there.
It will be interesting to see how they fare during Super Tuesday.
From the mouths of babes comes the answers we seek, in this case from 16-year old British teen Lexie Hill, who appears to have the answer to the UK's (and perhaps the US's) immigration problem.
(H/T Powerline)
I hear the cri de coeur from the SJW's, yet shake my head in disgust and amazement when one compares what the SJW's are 'fighting' compared to what took place during the Civil Rights movement in the 50's and 60's.
I am not the only one to have commented on this, but it seems the SJW's have to make stuff up in order to justify their existence, be it the "rape crisis" or the "inherent racism in our society" or the way overblown "LGBTQ" issues. What's worse is that many of the solutions SJW's propose go in direct opposition of what the people involved in the Civil Rights movement paid for in blood and tears.
Such are the wages of willful ignorance and leftist indoctrination in our education system.
From my observations, the very SJW's looking for "social justice" (whatever that is), tend to be the most intolerant, misinformed, closeminded, and racist people in the room. Then again, when does reality or truth mean anything to these idiots?
At least one Hollywood Social Justice Warrior is finding out that actions have consequences, that being Patricia Arquette. According to Variety, her speaking out about faux gender equality has cost her more than one job. But fear not, she's not suffering as her net worth is still in the double digit millions.
Her present role on CSI: Cyber where she plays the head of the FBI's Cyber division, has run afoul of reality where her character repeated the long discredited 'statistic' about 1 in 4 women on college campuses being sexually assaulted. That the character is in the FBI should have meant she should have known that statistic is bogus, but stated it as if it were gospel. It's one reason I stopped watching the show – embedded SJW propaganda.
One thing that turns me off more than anything else when it comes to entertainment is being preached to by people who are in no way wise and far less informed than I. In regards to Ms. Arquette, I blame that on the isolated bubble that is Hollywood, a place known for make believe and self-congratulatory "people in the know" who don't really know anything and are more than willing to prove it at every opportunity.
(H/T Ed Driscoll)
Ain't this the truth!
A liberal utopia can't have a reminder of their failed policies.
That certainly explains why San Francisco is moving to remove a tent city under a highway overpass housing numerous homeless denizens. What did the city think would happen when they made it so attractive for homeless people to come to their city? And then one of the tech startup crowd complained about having to "see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless people" on his way to work.
So rather than actually solving a problem they helped create, they'll merely hide it away...just like socialist always do.
I decided to pass on the Oscars tonight with the exception of Chris Rock's opening monologue. It was enough for me as I didn't need to hear the bleeding heart liberal politically correct dreck from the mouths of the Hollywood ignorati.
It amazes me how many people can't tell the difference between capitalism and crony capitalism. About the only thing they have in common is the word 'capitalism'. Beyond that they're nothing alike. In cause you're one of those still confused about crony capitalism, here's a little primer courtesy of Prager University.
There, does that explain it good enough for you?
And that's the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where winter weather cannot seem to make up its mind, the warm weather is welcome, and where we eagerly await spring.
Bernie's Supporters Hatred Of Work Is No Surprise
When one thinks about it, there is a perfect correlation between Bernie Sanders' "Free Shit" campaign and his supporters' hatred of work. After all, the two go hand in hand. Why should they work if Bernie is going to take stuff away from those who do work and give it to them?
It's the dichotomy between the makers and the looters, just as Ayn Rand laid out in both The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. And somehow I have no doubt many of Bernie's supporters would have no issue if he issued his own version of Directive 10-289 in order to make sure there is no disruption in the supply of Free Shit.
And so it goes in the Socialist Utopia of Bernieland.
Unseasonable warmth has returned, but I'm not complaining. Any time we don't have to stoke the woodstove or turn up the thermostat is a plus in my book. The warm temps did manage to melt away the couple of inches of snow we'd received from Friday night into Saturday morning.
While it will be chilly over the next couple of nights, we might be back into the 50's by Thursday.
Trump won in South Carolina, garnering about a third of the vote, driving Jeb Bush to end his campaign. Hillary won the Democrat Caucuses in Nevada, but it certainly wasn't a blowout, with Hillary defeating Bernie by only 4 points.
This is beginning to resemble the old Chinese curse - "May you live in interesting times."
Yet another college kangaroo court has found itself on the losing side of a lawsuit," settling out of court for $245,000 for mishandling a rape allegation. The unfortunate part of this is that the student involved in this debacle has no way to get his reputation back.
I expect it will take the loss of millions of dollars from lawsuit after lawsuit for the colleges to finally learn that the Department of Education does not have the power to force colleges to create these kangaroo courts because of a perceived wrong they felt had to be addressed by railroading college students, specifically male college students, and expelling them.
As I and many others have said over and over again, it's time to abolish the Department of Education and to prosecute the staffers in its Office of Civil Rights for civil rights violations.
Oh, I like this one!
The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit.
Before we let the MSM and the anti-gunners start making the claim that the Kalamazoo Uber shooter was some kind of Right-Wing Hater, it appears the guy is a self-proclaimed Progressive. But I expect we'll still hear from the usual suspects that the NRA is behind it all.
I just caught the trailer for the remake of Pete's Dragon. It's one that BeezleBub and I have decided we're going to see.
One thing that I believe is driving Trump's popularity is the urban elite's belief that the rest of us are ignorant mouth breathers who need people like them to run our lives.
But we don't need these close-minded bigots making our decisions for us because, quite frankly, they are neither as smart or as wise as they think they are. Trump is the antithesis of these elites and that's why he's getting the support he is. He's a businessman and knows how to make money, how to create jobs, and most importantly, to leave those things best handled by the average Americans to average Americans. We know what we need and how to get it.
Does that mean I support Trump? Nope. But if he ends up being the GOP nominee, I will vote for him.
I have already used this from Chris Muir more than once since I've seen it.
Morlocks, indeed.
Why are Progressives pushing for segregation? Is it that they really have chosen to ignore our own history in regards to segregationist abuses? Or are they hoping to foment greater racial tensions so they have something to campaign on, ignoring the fact that they're the ones who caused it to begin with?
Knowing a goodly number of Progressives, I'm willing to bet it's more the former than the latter as most of them appear to have no understanding of history at all.
That whirring sound you hear is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spinning in his grave.
And that's the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where sled dog races and ice fishing derbies have been canceled due to the warm weather, ice on the lake is retreating, and where thoughts of an early spring are filing our heads.
Smart Phones Are Killing Social Lives
I wonder how many of you out there have had this experience:
You're at a family gathering, perhaps the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, or Christmas, with parents, in-laws, brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles, and cousins by the dozens attending. But rather than hearing the banter that usually takes place at such gatherings, most of the kids and some of the adults have their heads bowed over their smart phones, texting, Instagramming, or Facebooking to friends far away rather than actually paying attention to and talking to the people around them. I know I've experienced that more than once. I find it both rude and annoying.
Welcome to 21st Century social interaction.
The scene above is but one small example of how smart phones have drastically altered how we interact with each other, and not for the better.
Who do we have to blame for this problem?
In Charlottesville, I found myself having a lunch conversation one day with some folks who are involved in Christian education at the elementary and secondary level. They were talking about the challenges they face today. One of the biggest is the ubiquity of smart phones in the hands of kids. Parents think nothing of giving them to their children, the educators said, and many kids have virtually unlimited access to the Internet. There's the "older brother porn problem" in which younger kids get turned on to porn by watching it on an older sibling's smart phone. And there's the problem of "After School App," an anonymous bulletin board service designed for high schoolers, one that allows them to gang up on other kids in their class and trash them mercilessly.
Parents, I was told, are typically no help at all. They don't want their kids to be out of step with their friends, so they give kids smart phones, which is a technology the kids aren't emotionally prepared to use. There's all kinds of bullying, and accessing porn — but parents don't seem to want to know about it because they don't want to have to tell their kids no.
One of the educators at the table added that the problem is not limited to the content accessed through the phones, but to the way using these devices is radically distorting the way kids communicate with each other, or fail to. Even if the kids only accessed benign content, and did not use social media to attack each other, they nevertheless spend enormous amounts of time on their smart phones, ignoring everyone around them. Some of them have trouble sustaining an actual conversation for more than a few minutes. All of them are losing the habits of common courtesy that has since forever been how human beings in social situations treat each other.
The normal social cues we grownups take for granted are indecipherable to too many of these kids. They can't easily read facial expressions or body language, missing non-verbal messages or misinterpreting them. This can lead to social ignorance and the inability to interact with others unless it's through a smart phone screen. How many times have we seen a bunch of kids together, hunched over the smart phones and texting to each other even though the person they're texting is close enough to reach out and touch? They don't speak to each other. They don't look each other in the eyes. It's like they've become 'electronically' autistic.
The linked article goes on to mention that parents who are techies limit their kids access to smart phones, assuming they allow them to have them at all. Even people like Steve Jobs didn't allow his kids to use iPads even though he was the driving force behind them.
I know my son didn't get his first cell phone until he was a senior in high school. Even today, almost 4 years later, he still doesn't have a smart phone. He's using the flip phone, just like his old man. However that is about to change, not because he wants to "be like everyone else" but because it will make Skyping with Polka Girl a lot easier. (She is presently back home near Gdansk, Poland and they Skype two or three times a day.) He presently uses his laptop to do that, but it's problematic at times, so he's going to switch over to some kind of smart phone. In this case he has a good reason to get one and he's getting it himself. His mom and I have nothing to do with it. If it weren't for his need to Skype, he said he wouldn't even be bothering to get one.
Will this problem get worse? Unfortunately, I expect it will, but eventually I believe the trend will reverse itself and this problem will resolve itself. If not, we may find our society becoming more insular and less robust, leaving too many of our people incapable of interacting directly with each other. This problem may also resolve itself as many of the people with this problem will not have kids because they won't be able to interact directly with members of the opposite sex.
Let's hope it doesn't get to that point.
Sanders Supporters Ignore Socialism's Dark Side
One thing I find to be common amongst many of Bernie Sanders' young supporters that disturbs me to no end is their total ignorance of history, particularly when it comes the subject of Socialism and the horrors it has visited upon hundreds of millions of people. Socialists of all stripes are either ignorant or willfully ignoring the dark side of their political ideology. I guess it lets them sleep at night.
Writes James Freeman on this subject:
Joseph Epstein marvels at the way Bernie Sanders has caught on with young voters. "Does this generation that has grown up with a greater sense of entitlement and protection than any other in history really want the revolution Mr. Sanders is selling? Can they have so little sense of the past not to know that the promise of socialism—'democratic socialism,' the senator would interject here—has ended up in gulags and brutal cultural upheaval?"...We also feature today a 2003 observation from historian Alan Charles Kors: "No cause, ever, in the history of all mankind, has produced more cold-blooded tyrants, more slaughtered innocents, and more orphans than socialism with power."
When I point out Socialism's dark side, I am usually brushed off with the usual refrain: "But we're smarter than they were. We won't make the mistakes they made!"
But they're wrong. They aren't any smarter than their ideological ancestors. If anything, they're stupider. As such, that also makes them that much more dangerous because they believe the drivel being foisted upon them as "An Important Truth", a concept which I always find to be anything but the truth, and they never question any of the tenets of that "Truth", no matter how inhumane or monstrous they may be. Then again, they really aren't smart enough to figure out their being lied to. It also lets them get away with not having to think for themselves, something many of them have never really had to do before.
Being one of the most coddled generations ever, they're all for "someone else" - meaning you and me – to take care of them for the rest of their lives. No wonder they're all over Bernie Sanders and his "Free Shit" campaign. He won't tell them that all that free stuff will end once his administration runs out of other people's money, but he'll blame all of those from whom he took all that money to pay for all the "Free Shit" he promised everyone, calling them greedy and evil and unfeeling, being unwilling to work as slaves to the state. They will either have gone broke (and their businesses with them), or they'll have gone Galt and let the Sanders Administration try to figure out who to rob next to pay for all the "Free Shit", which it won't be able to do because there will be no one left to rob.
And then it will get worse.
Gas Can Hell
While this is not an new story, it is one that still pisses me off. What am I talking about?
Gas cans.
You know what I'm talking about – the red containers with a spout used to fill the gas tanks on all kinds of power equipment ranging from leaf blowers to lawnmowers to snowblowers, chainsaws, lawn tractors, and a whole host of other equipment and small vehicles.
It used to be that they held gas and allowed you to fill a gas tank with little muss or fuss. But seven years ago the EPA got involved with gas cans and everything has gone to hell.
While they still can hold gasoline, they no longer allow easy transfer of fuel from the can to whatever gas tank you're trying to fill. Where it once could be done easily, it now requires two hands to even open the gas spout (you have to slide a toggle before you can press the handle that opens the spout..and that toggle is rarely easy to move). And because the vent that used to allow gas to flow freely is no longer allowed, gas flows poorly, in surges, and usually ends up everywhere but in the gas tank you're trying to refill. It spills, sloshes, and ends up places it's not supposed to.
The new gas cans were supposed to help prevent gas spills while at the same time eliminate gas vapors from escaping into the air. But between the now increased number and volume of gas spills and the big whoosh of gas vapors that are expelled from the cans when the spout valve is opened, I'd say they've been a complete failure.
If nothing else this works as an example of how government doesn't make things better but worse, due entirely to its intervention. Government didn't know better and actually made the situation worse than if they'd left well enough alone.
Make Sure You Choose The Right Adversary In The Class War
Despite what Bernie Sanders and his fellow Progressives/Socialists/Communists claim, our economic problems are not the result of the rich screwing over the poor and it never has been.
It's the looters and moochers who use the power of government to make sure they're always the winners and everyone else, including the rest of the rich, are the losers. It's called cronyism, rent seeking, and 'industry' protection.
If the Progressives/Socialists/Communists want to target the right group, they have to understand just who the real adversary is. Here's a little graphic to help them with this problem.
See, that isn't so hard, is it?
The Deep Freeze has hit New England, meaning we're seeing actual temperatures below zero and wind chills down to -40ºF on top of it.
I made sure we had extra firewood stacked in the wood box next to the Official Weekend Pundit Woodstove so I wouldn't have to go out during the night or early morning to refill it.
It must be global warming.
One real downside to this bitterly cold weather has been losing the use of two of the bathrooms in The Manse. The pipes are frozen with no hope of thawing them because the Pex tubing used to plumb The Manse is inaccessible without opening walls.
When we had our little interior flood a few years back I could see how much of the plumbing was against the outside wall. I should have had it fixed then.
It was reported last evening that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away during the day yesterday.
Scalia has been known as a scion of the conservative wing of the court, being a firm believer in strict interpretation of the Constitution as written by the Founders and its Amendments.
As I mentioned above, Scalia was a constructionalist when it came to the Constitution. One of my favorite quotes from Scalia:
A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
That also applies to the Constitution in general. He didn't believe the "living document" argument put forth by the Progressives, knowing that it meant anarchy because the laws could be reinterpreted at whim to mean the opposite of what the law, and hence, the Constitution meant.
Writes Ed Driscoll about the "one fun element of the Democrat presidential primaries": Reading how much left wing elites truly despise the base of Democrat voters.
Yeah, that's a winning strategy. Somehow I doubt they'll be able to keep up the "We Truly Care" false front long enough to win the White House or make gains in the House and Senate.
Who are the real sexists in the room when it comes to politics?
Hint: It's not the GOP.
By way of Susan Olsen comes this from Antonin Scalia: "Good intentions are not enough."
Death threats from vegans? What the heck is this world coming to?
James O'Keefe returned to New Hampshire last week to test its Voter ID law, one driven by his Project Veritas video exposé back in 2012 showing how easy it was for non-residents and non-eligible voters to vote.
I thought we had a pretty good system set up here in the Granite State...until James O'Keefe showed us we still have some problems in regards to voter fraud.
But at least we're not hearing about the wholesale disfranchisement of the poor and minority voters that so concerned the Left. I guess it means they were still able to pull off their voting scams.
Recovery? What recovery?
With the world economy softening, how close are we to a downward economic slide to rival that of the beginning of the 9-Year Recession we're still dealing with?
Pretty darned close, from what I've been seeing.
Unfortunately it may be closer to the truth than anyone cares to admit.
And that's the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where the temps are below zero, pipes have been freezing, and where even going into the garage can be painful.
A Good Explanation Of Socialism's Failures
As a follow up to my previous post, there's this little gem from the comments that explains the biggest flaw of socialism that socialists, past and present, have chosen to ignore, and with good reason.
Socialism is all about making everyone materially equal, not prosperous. There is no concern for the poor or oppressed, just enmity to the materially advantaged. A world where everyone is impoverished is more desirable and just than one that had a strata of poor to rich. Capitalism is the greatest system to improve the welfare of the impoverished but it does result in material inequality. This is why the left hates it while perpetually praising all those "workers paradises" that barely produce even life's most basic staples. Venezuela is the latest unlearned example.
Of course many crypto-socialists, also known as egalitarians, subscribe to the idea that "making everyone materially equal" means pulling the bottom strata of the socioeconomic scale upwards, at least in theory. But practice has shown that it actually means pulling everyone except the elite down to the bottom of the socioeconomic scale all while making sure the floor of that scale moves downwards at the same time. How that helps anyone is something none of them, including certain members of my own family, have ever been able to explain to me. It all sounds like wishful thinking on their part, ignoring human nature and how it makes their solution totally unworkable.
Question To Ask Progressives
Now that the hubbub over the New Hampshire Primary has faded away and the focus has shifted to Nevada and South Carolina, I can finally think straight and the compulsion to sow expletives throughout my speech and writing has diminished...for the time being.
One of the more interesting activities in which I indulged during the run up to the primary was skewering both Clinton and Sanders supporters about their support, knowing or otherwise, for an all-powerful all-encompassing totalitarian nanny state.
More than a few denied any such support, but follow on questions shredded those denials and made them feel either uncomfortable or angry that I dared to question their beliefs.
I wish I had read Oleg Atbashian's (of The People's Cube) treatise on What To Ask Progressives, particularly on their ideological beliefs and how it is they could possibly defend them.
I found I had asked a couple of the Clinton/Sanders supporters some of these questions listed by Oleg. A sample of a few Oleg has suggested:
Why do those who decry modern civilization never live far from shopping centers and why don't grind their coffee with a stone ax?
If Hollywood types are so opposed to capitalism, why is there a warning against unauthorized distribution of their movies?
How come industrial logging is a crime against nature, but the destruction of forests by wildfires is a natural cycle of life?
If Al Gore is right and our consumption of the planet's resources is a moral issue, doesn't that make genocide an ethical solution? How about an artificial famine? What would Al Gore choose?
Since our planet's resources are limited, wouldn't the ultimate act of environmental activism be to stop eating and starve to death?
How exactly does dependency on the government increase "people power"?
I particularly like that last one, having used a version of it myself. No one has been able to adequately answer is other than by using some convoluted explanation that boils down to "Because slavery is freedom!" How Orwellian.
In any case, Read The Whole Thing.
Unanticipated Rise In US Traffic Fatality Rates
An article on Jalopnik asks "Why are America's traffic deaths rising so fast?"
The piece delves into a number of possible factors including more people driving and driving more often. But that would normally not be reflected in the death rate, meaning the number of fatalities per millions of miles traveled. But the rate is rising, a trend opposite that of the past six decades.
One factor not mentioned in the article (but may be in the linked NHTSA report): increasing levels of driver distraction. Many of the electronic gizmos that can lead to driver distraction either didn't exist or weren't as ubiquitous as they are today. Once they reached critical mass, and tying in with the 'grafted to the hand' nature of smart phones used by teens and younger adults, the negative effects of chronic 24/7 connectedness is now making itself known by way of higher traffic fatalities. More than a few studies have indicated that driving while using these devices is tantamount to driving while intoxicated. If that is indeed the case it would be the equivalent of a substantial increase of people driving under the influence.
Maybe the way to help solve this problem would be to push this idea: "Put down the damn phone and drive, you damnfoolidjit!"
Posted by DCE at 2/08/2016 08:16:00 AM
The aftermath of the 5 inches of snow that fell Friday morning left us with a bit of plowing and shoveling, but by Saturday morning the roads and driveways were pretty well cleaned off and the sun was able to melt what snow and ice remained on them. This was more of what we call a 'nuisance' storm, just enough to cause some poor road conditions and then it disappears. Not that I'm complaining.
BeezleBub is preparing for the arrival of Polka Girl. She'll be here tomorrow and will be departing for home next Sunday. BeezleBub will be traveling to visit her during Spring Break next month.
Long distance relationships can be hard, but not undo-able.
I almost didn't watch the GOP debate last night, but decided it would be interesting to see what the candidates had to say one more time before Tuesday's New Hampshire Primary.
Of them all, I had to say that Chris Christie kicked ass, and in particular Marco Rubio's ass. He was taking no prisoners and gave better than he got.
It will be interesting to see what the after-debate polls have to say.
One thing anyone who has been paying attention understands is that neither Democrat contender understands anything about economics and our economy except how to destroy it. Of the two, Bernie Sanders has the least understanding and the greatest desire to destroy what's left of our economy, finishing the work Barack Obama started.
The latest example of his economic ignorance is his tweet that tries miserably to tie imprisonment to unemployment and poverty as if either of those conditions automatically means you "Go directly to jail. Do not collect $200."
I'm sorry, Bernie, but debtor's prison is just so 18th century!
Speaking of Bernie Sanders, we should all remember that he's never held a private sector job. All of his paychecks have come from government, be it the city of Burlington, Vermont or from Uncle Sam as a member of Congress, either in the House or the Senate.
He's never had to worry about making payrolls or having to deal with ever more restrictive or damaging regulations while trying to stay in business. He really has no clue what effect government spending, taxation, and regulation has on the average worker, and I doubt he really wants to know all of his rhetoric to the contrary.
Why doesn't this surprise me?
The White House is apparently upset that the House and Senate Budget Committee chairmen have stated they will not hold hearings on Obama's "worthless" budget.
Some may take this to mean that the GOP isn't interested in going over the proposed budget, but one has to look back through Obama's previous budget submissions to see that he usually didn't have a budget to have hearings on because he always submitted them months late, leaving little if any time to debate anything. This is the only time during his entire administration he's had a budget submitted on time, and in this case "on time" it means a week late.
I can't possibly add anything to this.
Feminism is a synonym for 'Shut Up, Men'.
Another factor affecting the so-celled wage gap between men and women: commute times.
Hillary has been hammering away on the 'wage gap' between men and women, ignoring all of the factors that create the perceived difference. When comparing like jobs, the wage difference between men and women disappears, with women earning slightly more money than men. Hillary ignores the fact that men take much more dangerous jobs, suffering a disproportionate number of job injuries and fatalities, jobs that due to the higher risks pay more money.
Now we can add commuting times as yet another factor that determines the income of men and women.
Why do men commute more? Part of the reason is likely that they place a higher priority in maximizing income, so are willing to travel farther to a job that pays more, while women would rather commute less and will accept lower pay in exchange for a shorter commute.
That longer commutes cut into leisure and family time is something else not mentioned by either Hillary or the rest of the 'women earn less money than men' feminists.
Then Left has long clamored on about how the GOP will bring back the days of Jim Crow, with racial segregation being the law of the land. Too bad for them that they got it entirely wrong.
I am ashamed to say our family's alma mater, the University of Connecticut located deep in the heart of the ultra-blue Nutmeg State, is building new segregated dormitories on campus.
First it will be this. Will it soon to be followed by segregated classes created to help African American students feel 'safe'? At some point will a Black-only campus be created? Does no one on the Left see either the irony or backlash this will incur?
Of course not. It's all about social justice, not racial equality or civil rights. It's all about feelz.
If this were happening only at UConn, we could look at it as a aberration. But it's not as it looks like the University of Iowa is looking to follow the same path. How effin' stupid is that?
I had hoped the Carolina Panthers would give the Denver Broncos a run for their money in the SuperBowl, but my hopes were dashed as Denver beat them handily, 24-10.
Democracy In Small Town America - 2016 Edition
Call it a twofer for American democracy, one for Small Town USA and the other for the entire nation.
Earlier this week our little town held it's school district and town meetings, the first steps in a two-step process that decides what our town will spend during the upcoming fiscal year. Each meeting of the town's residents deliberated school and town budgets and warrant articles that covered everything from zoning amendments to changes in how town government will run to funding outside agencies. One article even dealt with changing the classification of a dirt road from a town maintained road to an unmaintained road.
Some amendments to budgetary items and a few town warrant articles were made, those being the most debated issues addressed during the meetings. But for the most part both meetings were low energy with little real drama. Frankly, that's a bit unusual considering some of the school district and town meetings in the not-so-recent past.
It's amazing to see folks not blink twice when some spending articles total in the millions of dollars, with little discussion or debate, but lengthy and sometimes passionate debates over a spending article asking to spend a few hundred dollars. One would think it would be the other way around.
The outcome of these two meetings won't be known until we move on to the second step in the process next month, when the people in our town will vote to accept or reject all of the warrant articles as well as elect some town officials.
Early next week, specifically Tuesday, voters will head to the voting booths to vote during the New Hampshire primaries, helping to select the candidates from each party who are vying to be their party presidential nominees come this fall. Once done, the echoes of the candidates' speeches and campaign ads will rapidly fade away and be nothing but a memory by Wednesday evening, leaving us to recuperate in peace for the next few months until Election Day 2016 approaches.
And so it goes in small town America.
Faster Internet Speed Arrives In Town
I got a pleasant surprise today, that being the download speed from my ISP, the local cable company, has been bumped up to 40Mbs at no additional cost. The upload speed, however, is still where it was before at 4Mbs.
That will certainly help the cable company keep its present Internet customers, and maybe entice some of those still using DSL to make the switch.
Of course this speed increase could have been driven by the prospect of a new player entering the market. Ain't competition, even of it hasn't arrived yet, a wonderful thing?
Make Sure You Choose The Right Adversary In The Cl...


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Netflix review: Arrested Development – Season 3
Rewatchability
Half a classic
It falls over a few hurdles, but it's worth watching - for completists, fans and anyone who simply loves good comedy.
Andrew Jones | On 25, May 2013
Reading time: 3 mins
The truncated final broadcast season of Arrested Development can be split into two halves in terms of plot and quality.
The first six episodes deal with Michael (Jason Bateman) falling for beautiful British girl Rita Leeds (a game Charlize Theron), while struggling to find out who, if anyone, has set his father up. The second half finds its way back to the Bluth family, upping the ante, and the amount of incest, to the maximum. You can say this for it: it certainly didn't go out with a whimper.
It's a soft opening for the final outing of the Bluths on Fox, with The Cabin Show, the premiere, only amounting to about 10 or so chuckle-laughs, including one simply brilliant moment of silence that alludes to too much information. Otherwise, it takes a long time, and some really weird sub-plots, for the season to really kick in. The Charlize Theron stuff, while offering some good jokes, is far too flat, and its big twist a real lame duck – but there are gems spliced within these episodes, including Maeby (Alia Shawkat) as a studio exec dealing with some big flops, plus a great build-up to a sight gag involving a mole, a jetpack, a toy town and a group of Japanese investors that cuts it perilously close to bad taste.
Once the show finds its way through these initial episodes and makes a dash for the finish line (head first like Pete Rose), the episodes become a lot lighter, funnier, and full of strong character moments. One particular episode, Save Out Bluths (or S.O.B's), is a great take on the kind of show that would do anything to keep audiences interested. The cameos, the stunt casting, 3D sequences, Ron Howard's narrating pleading to tell your friends about the programme; it's irony that pushes into genuine as well.
Franklin returns in a fantastic episode featuring Judge Reinhold and former American Idol contestant William Hung, which mocks magazine ads for My Name Is Earl (this is how old these episodes are now), while Michael discovers a possible sister in Nellie (Justine Bateman), once again increasing the ick-factor of the incest within the show and how meta it was willing to go.
In addition, Henry Winkler's lawyer, Barry Zuckercorn, is fired by the family and replaced (to skew younger) with Scott Baio – much like Happy Days once did – and one perfectly cast episode involves Andy Richter as identical quintuplets, including Chareth the Flirt.
As season three tries to wrap up several years of the show, it sometimes struggles with its own plots and how far to push them (Tobias' Graft vs Host story is horrible), but it remains part of one of the best shows on TV. An ensemble playing up as expected, with lots of great jokes, revelations and freeze-frames, season three of Arrested Development tries earnestly. It falls over a few hurdles, but it's worth watching – both for completists, for fans, and for anyone who simply loves good comedy.
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007 Ribbed Army Sweater Navy Blue
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Justin Bobby once said "truth and time tell all" — and he's vindicated once again. With Lauren Conrad returning to MTV for The Hills' 10th-anniversary special, The Hills: That Was Then, This Is Now, more of the "reality" behind the show is finally coming to light. A fun fact that is sure to pique every true fan's interest? That black mascara tear wasn't mascara at all.
There have been many memorable moments, characters, and one-liners that have come out of the never-ending drama that is The Hills — like the aforementioned Justin Bobby, who so great he needed two names — but the most GIF-able was definitely that tear. For those that remember [Ed. note: me], the moment arrived when LC got into a major cry session with her BFF, Audrina Patridge, over some roommate-jealously issues that stemmed from Lo Bosworth moving in and causing a divide in the house. We know, how did we ever keep with all this?
The tear became a GIF, it went viral, and the rest is history — or not. "I don't think it was the mascara — I think it was the eyeliner that was running," Conrad told MTV News. "I still wear that mascara and it doesn't run like that."
Wait, what? So, was it liner, mascara, or was there foul play afoot? (We're kidding...kind of.) Back in 2013, Conrad told Cosmopolitan that she believed the producers amped up the drama by slowing down the tear when editing. They denied it — again, kind of.
The team further defended their editing skills: "I think it might have been slowed down in the trailer, but not in the show," Sean Travis, The Hills executive producer, adds.
Either way, this tear will live of in GIF form for years to come — at least in our beauty chat. And until more of teargate unfolds, here are plenty of waterproof liner alternatives to prevent a reoccurrence — although if it was the liner, we're sure glad it ran.


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Confirmed - No parking lot at 160 Lees Avenue
City staff have advised the OECA that the OLRT Confederation Line Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Ottawa and the University of Ottawa has been amended and the replacement parking lot is no longer proposed at 160 Lees Avenue. The new proposed location is 193 Lees Avenue, a city owned property (an untravelled road allowance) adjacent to 200 Lees Avenue (part of the university's Lees Campus).
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Proposed Ramp for Old Town Hall
City staff kindly met with OOECA and CAG representatives and with Christine Honsl - an OOE resident who uses a chair for mobility - to review proposed plans for a ramp that would provide access from ground level to the first floor of the Old Town Hall (OOE's community centre).
The community welcomes the city initiative to restore access to the first floor, something that has been lacking because of the malfunctioning of the old elevator. However, it is also worth noting that both this elevator and a proposed ramp still will not allow access to the second floor of the Old Town Hall. We recognize the budgetary constraints that have led to the city's not addressing this longstanding problem but want to ensure that at some point this lack of second floor access be fixed.
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Brantwood rink closed for the season
March 3, 2013, was the last day for the Brantwood rink. The rink, run by about 50 community volunteers superbly coordinated by Cindy Courtemanche, opened earlier (Christmas) than virtually all other city rinks and closed later, even being open after the heavy snowfall of February 27. And a very big thanks to Mike Galazka, owner of Mike's Service Centre, who for more than 20 years has plowed the rink, and whose plow suffered in the clearing of the aftermath of the February 27th storm.
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The #16 bus to return to part of Main Street
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1744: he goes with his family to Edo. He becomes disciple of the star Segawa Kikunojo I, who gives him the name of Segawa Kingo.
1st lunar month of 1745: Kingo makes his first appearance on stage, at the Nakamuraza, playing in the new year drama "Hagoromo Kotobuki Soga".
1751: Kingo goes back to Kyôto.
Fall 1754: Kingo goes to Edo.
11th lunar month of 1754: Segawa Kingo takes the name of Segawa Kinji at the Ichimuraza, playing in the kaomise drama "Keisei Asakusa no Kane".
1755 ~ 1756: he stops acting and works for the tea house Ineya, managed by his elder sister in the district of Takanawa.
1756: he is back in the theater world, becoming a disciple of Ichikawa Danjûrô IV, who gives him the name of Ichikawa Takejûrô.
11th lunar month of 1762: he becomes disciple of the actor Matsumoto Kôshirô III, who gives him the name of Ichikawa Somegorô I during the kaomise program "Nagi no Ha Izu no Sugatami", which is staged at the Nakamuraza.
2nd lunar month of 1763: Somegorô plays in the same theater the roles of Hôjô Gorô, Tamaya Shinbê and Soga Jûrô Sukenari in Kanai Sanshô's new year drama "Momo Chidori Ôiso Gayoi".
11th lunar month of 1763: Ichikawa Somegorô I takes the name of Ichikawa Komazô II at the Nakamuraza, playing the role of Izumi no Saburô in the kaomise drama "Daijôbu Takadachi Jikki".
5th lunar month of 1764: Komazô plays in the same theater the role of Sakuramaru in the drama "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami"; the roles of Matsuômaru and Umeômaru are played by Ichikawa Danjûrô IV and Ichikawa Raizô I.
1st lunar month of 1766: Komazô plays at the Nakamuraza the roles of Ômi no Kotota and Kawazu in the new year program "Kaidô Ichi Izu no Harugoma".
5th lunar month of 1766: Komazô plays in the same theater the role of Danzaburô in the drama "Yaoya Oshichi Koi no Edozome".
8th lunar month of 1766: Komazô plays in the same theater the roles of Date no Yosaku and Keimasa in the drama "Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna".
11th lunar month of 1766: Komazô plays at the Nakamuraza the role of Utô Bunji, disguised as a tea seller, in the kaomise drama "Kogane no Hana Kaijin Aramusha". His stage partners in the roles of the two rebels Abe no Sadatô and Abe no Munetô, Bunji's wife and Hachiman Tarô Yoshiie (Abe clan ennemy) are Kirishima Gizaemon I, Matsumoto Kôshirô III, Yoshizawa Sakinosuke III and Bandô Hikosaburô II.
1st lunar month of 1767: Komazô plays in the same theater the roles of the tedai Matsuwakaya Shirobê, Mioya, Soga Jûrô and Yodoya Tatsugorô in the new year program "Hatsu Akinai Ômise Soga". He also replaces Ichikawa Raizô I, who falls suddenly ill, in the role of Honmachi no Tsunagorô.
7th lunar month of 1767: Komazô plays in the same theater the roles of Satô Shirobê Tadanobu and the fox Genkurô in the drama "Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura"; his stage partner in the role of Shizuka Gozen is Nakamura Matsue I.
11th lunar month of 1767: Komazô plays at the Nakamuraza the roles of Nitta Yoshisada and Nagahama Shinzaemon in the kaomise drama "Taiheiki Shizu no Furisode".
1st lunar month of 1768: Komazô plays in the same theater the roles of Shigetada, Soga Jûrô and Minoya Kichibei in the new year program "Fude Hajime Soga no Tamazusa". His stage partners in the roles of Soga Gorô and Kudô Saemon Suketsune are Ichikawa Yaozô II and Ichikawa Danjûrô IV.
4th lunar month of 1768: Komazô plays in the same theater the role of Karigane Bunshichi in the otokodate drama "Otokodate Itsutsu Karigane". His stage partners are Nakamura Sukegorô II (Kaminari Shôkurô), Matsumoto Kôshirô III (Gokuin Sen'emon), Arashi Otohachi I (Hotei Ichiemon) and Ichikawa Yaozô II (An no Heibei). He also plays the roles of Ono no Tôfû, Sakuramaru and Monogusa Tarô in the dramas "Ono no Tôfû Aoyagi Suzuri", "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami" and "Monogusa Tarô".
8th lunar month of 1768: Komazô plays in the same theater the role of Hosokawa Katsumoto in the drama "Tenjiku Tokubê Kokyô no Torikaji", whose plot and characters belong to the "Tenjiku Tokubê" world. His stage partners in the roles of Tokubê, Tokubê's wife and Harimanosuke are Ichikawa Danjûrô IV, Yoshizawa Sakinosuke III and Ichikawa Yaozô II.
11th lunar month of 1768: Komazô plays at the Nakamuraza the roles of the shamisen player Kichiroku and Suruga Hachirô in the kaomise drama "Ima o Sakari Suehiro Genji", which celebrates the arrival in Edo of the Kamigata star Nakamura Utaemon I and the shûmei of Osagawa Tsuneyo II.
1st lunar month of 1769: Komazô plays in the same theater the role of Shigetada in the new year program "Soga Moyô Aigo no Wakamatsu".
2nd lunar month of 1769: Komazô plays in the same theater the role of Oniô Shinzaemon in the dance drama "Sugatami Asama-ga-Dake".
7th lunar month of 1769: Komazô plays in the same theater the roles of Chihara Sakon, Shinoda Saemon and Sasaya Jûbê in the drama "Nenriki Yuzuriha no Kagami".
11th lunar month of 1769: Komazô plays at the Nakamuraza the role of Sano Genzaemon in the kaomise drama "Kawaranu Hana Sakae Hachinoki".
1st lunar month of 1770: Komazô plays in the same theater the role of Soga Jûrô Sukenari in the new year sogamono "Kagamigaike Omokage Soga". His stage partners in the roles of Soga Gorô Tokimune, Kudô Saemon Suketsune and the courtesan Ôiso no Tora (Jûrô's lover) are Ichikawa Yaozô II, Nakamura Nakazô I and Nakamura Matsue I. His son makes his first appearance on stage, receiving the name of Ichikawa Sumizô I.
11th lunar month of 1770: great shûmei at the Nakamuraza. Ichikawa Danjûrô IV takes back the name of Matsumoto Kôshirô II, Matsumoto Kôshirô III becomes Ichikawa Danjûrô V, Nakamura Shichisaburô II takes the name of Nakamura Shôchô and Ichikawa Benzô I received the name of Ichikawa Monnosuke II. Komazô plays the roles of Minamoto Yorimasa and Hanamori Kisuke in the kaomise drama "Nue no Mori Ichiyô no Mato".
1st lunar month of 1771: Komazô plays in the same theater the roles of Soga Jûrô Sukenari, Sukebei and Mionoya in the new year sogamono "Sakaichô Soga no Nendaiki". His stage partners in the roles of Soga Gorô Tokimune, Kudô Saemon Suketsune and the courtesan Ôiso no Tora (Jûrô's lover) are Ichikawa Danjûrô V, Nakamura Nakazô I and Iwai Hanshirô IV.
3rd lunar month of 1771: Komazô plays in the same theater the role of Hanbei in the Miyakoji-based dance-drama "Oborozuki Tsui no Someginu", which puts in the same michiyuki the couples of lovers Tokubê/Ohatsu ("Sonezaki Shinjû"), Ochiyo/Hanbei ("Shinjû Yoi Kôshin") and Osome/Hisamatsu; the role of Hanbei's lover Ochiyo is played by Yamashita Kinsaku II.
4th lunar month of 1771: Komazô plays in the same theater the role of Ôboshi Yuranosuke in the drama "Kanadehon Chûshingura". His stage partners in the role of En'ya Hangan, Kô no Moronô, Kakogawa Honzô and Okaru are Ichikawa Yaozô II, Ichikawa Danjûrô V, Nakamura Nakazô I and Nakamura Matsue I.
7th lunar month of 1771: Komazô plays in the same theater the role of Hamanari in the drama "Tamura Maro Nanae Gasane".
11th lunar month of 1771: Komazô plays at the Nakamuraza the role of Ariwara no Yukihira in the kaomise drama "Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji". His stage partners in the roles of Matsukaze and Murasame, two pearl-diving sisters in love with Yukihira, are Nakamura Nakazô I and Iwai Hanshirô IV.
1st lunar month of 1772: Komazô plays for the first time, in the same theater, the role of Kudô Saemon Suketsune in the new year sogamono "Haru Soga Akebono no Zôshi". His stage partners in the roles of Soga Gorô Tokimune and Soga Jûrô Sukenari are Ichikawa Monnosuke II and Ichikawa Yaozô II.
2nd lunar month of 1772: the Nakamuraza is completely burned in a big fire. There is no performance up to the 8th lunar month.
11th lunar month of 1772: great shûmei at the Nakamuraza. Matsumoto Kôshirô II, Ichikawa Komazô II and Matsumoto Sumizô I respectively take the names of Ichikawa Ebizô III, Matsumoto Kôshirô IV and Ichikawa Komazô III. Kôshirô plays the roles of Yoshigorohachi and Sagami Jirô in the kaomise drama "Ôyoroi Ebidô Shinozuka".
1st lunar month of 1773: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Soga Jûrô Sukenari, the priest Seigen and Kyô no Jirô in the new year sogamono "Wada Sakamori Eiga Kagami". His stage partners in the roles of Soga Gorô Tokimune, Kudô Saemon Suketsune and the courtesan Ôiso no Tora (Jûrô's lover) are Ichikawa Yaozô II, Nakamura Denkurô II and Sanogawa Ichimatsu II.
5th lunar month of 1773: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Katsukawa Harumoto in the drama "Dainippon Ise no Kamikaze".
7th lunar month of 1773: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Asama Saemon in the drama "Keisei Kataokayama".
9th lunar month of 1773: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Matsuômaru in the drama "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami". His stage partners are Nakamura Shôchô (Kan Shôjô), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (Sakuramaru), Bandô Matatarô IV (Umeômaru), Ôtani Tomoemon I (Matsuômaru's father Shiratayû), Nakajima Mihoemon II (Matsuômaru's master Fujiwara no Shihei) and Yoshizawa Sakinosuke III (Matsuômaru's wife Chiyo).
11th lunar month of 1773: premiere at the Nakamuraza of the play "Gohiiki Kanjinchô", performed as a kaomise drama. Kôshirô plays the roles of Minamoto Yoshitsune and Izumi Saburô [casting]. This 46-days long performance, which is also the shûmei of Nakamura Rikô I, is a tremendous success.
1st lunar month of 1774: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Soga Jûrô Sukenari and Shigetada in the new year sogamono "Oatsuraezome Soga Hinagata". His stage partners in the roles of Soga Gorô Tokimune, Kudô Saemon Suketsune and the courtesan Ôiso no Tora (Jûrô's lover) are Ichikawa Monnosuke II, Ichikawa Danjûrô V and Nakamura Rikô I. A "meeting in the darkness" scene, which is played by Nakamura Nakazô I, Ôtani Hiroji III, Nakamura Rikô I and Kôshirô, is particularly well received by the audience.
3rd lunar month of 1774: Kôshirô and Iwai Hanshirô IV perform together the roles of Onatsu and Seijûrô in the same theater in the michiyuki "Nushiyatare Koi no Yamabuki".
5th lunar month of 1774: several actors, including Ichikawa Ebizô III, Ichikawa Danjûrô V, Iwai Hanshirô IV and Kôshirô leave the Nakamuraza.
11th lunar month of 1774: Kôshirô moves to the Moritaza and plays the roles of Matsuura Saemon and Satô Tadanobu in the kaomise drama "Ichi no Tomi Tsuki no Kaomise". His stage partners in the roles of Shizuka Gozen and Minamoto Yoshitsune are Iwai Hanshirô IV and Bandô Mitsugorô I. It is said that Kôshirô, portraying Matsuura Saemon, makes his stage appearance from a trapdoor riding a horse.
1st lunar month of 1775: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Chihara Sakon, Kashima Saburô, Umegaya Yoshibei and Kyô no Jirô in the new year program "Shida Yuzuriha Hôrai Soga".
5th lunar month of 1775: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Matsuômaru and Kakuju in the drama "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami". His stage partners are Ichikawa Danjûrô V (Matsuômaru's master Fujiwara no Shihei, Kan Shôjô), Iwai Hanshirô IV (Sakuramaru), Bandô Mitsugorô I (Umeômaru, Genzô), Sawamura Chôjûrô IV (Matsuômaru's father Shiratayû), Azuma Tôzô II (Tatsuta no Mae), Nakamura Noshio I (Matsuômaru's wife Chiyo) and Sakata Kônosuke (Princess Kariya).
8th lunar month of 1775: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Yamana Saemon and Nagoya Sanzaburô in the drama "Keisei Tsuki no Miyako".
11th lunar month of 1775: Kôshirô moves to the Ichimuraza and plays in the kaomise drama "Oyafune Taiheiki". His stage partners are Ichikawa Ebizô III, Iwai Hanshirô IV, Ichikawa Yaozô II and Nakamura Noshio I. This kaomise is a huge success, starting the 1st day of the 11th lunar month and ending the 15th day of the 12th lunar month.
1st lunar month of 1776: Kôshirô's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, is jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent). He plays in the same theater the roles of Chichibu no Shôji Shigetada and Soga Jûrô Sukenari in the new year drama "Kamuri Kotoba Soga no Yukari"; the roles of Soga Gorô Tokimune and Kudô Saemon Suketsune are played by Ichikawa Yaozô II and Ichikawa Ebizô III.
3rd lunar month of 1776: Kôshirô's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, is jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent). He plays in the same theater the role of the shirozake seller Shinbê in the drama "Sukeroku Yukari no Hatsuzakura". The roles of Sukeroku, Agemaki and the villain Ikyû are played by Ichikawa Yaozô II, Iwai Hanshirô IV and Sakata Hangorô II. The performance is a huge success and a long run.
11th lunar month of 1776: Kôshirô moves to the Moritaza and plays the roles of Hakata Rozaemon, Masanari and Tamaya Shinbê in the kaomise drama "Hikitsurete Yagoe Taiheiki".
1st lunar month of 1777: Kôshirô is in the Edo hyôbanki the kanjiku for tachiyaku actors.
Summer 1777: the book "Yakusha Sensakuron" ("About actors prying") is published in Edo. It gives some private information on actors. Edo readers learn that Kôshirô lives in the district of Sakai-chô and his annual salary is 800 ryô.
11th lunar month of 1777: Kôshirô moves to the Nakamuraza and plays in the kaomise drama "Masakado Kanmuri no Hatsuyuki". His stage partners are Ichikawa Danjûrô V, Yoshizawa Sakinosuke III and Bandô Mitsugorô I.
2nd lunar month of 1778: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Chichibu no Shôji Shigetada, Takemura Sadanoshin and Oniô Shinzaemon in the new year program "Kaidô Iro Yawaragi Soga".
7th lunar month of 1778: premiere at the Nakamuraza of the play "Date Kurabe Okuni Kabuki"; Kôshirô plays the roles of Hanyûmura Yoemon, Kizu no Kansuke, Nagoya Sanza, the sumô wrestler Kinugawa Tanizô and Watanabe Minbunosuke [casting].
8th lunar month of 1778: the "Kôshirô Impeachment affair" shakes the Kabuki world. The growing influence of Ichikawa Danjûrô V in the patrons organizations or the shibai jaya circles created some enmities and a group of people plotted in the shadows to get him accused of misappropriation of funds. Ichikawa Danjûrô V is ordered to leave the stage for a while, give his name to Ichikawa Kôshirô and take the name of Ichikawa Ebizô. The widow of late Ichikawa Yaozô II, who is also the lover of Ichikawa Danjûrô V, leads him to think that both Iwai Hanshirô IV and Kôshirô are responsible for this dirty and complicated plot. Ichikawa Danjûrô V lets his anger explode twice on stage in front of the audience: the 27th of August he accuses Kôshirô and the 28th it is the turn of Iwai Hanshirô IV. As a consequence, Ichikawa Danjûrô V decides to leave the Nakamuraza.
11th lunar month of 1778: Kôshirô becomes zagashira at the Nakamuraza and plays the roles of Sano Genzaemon Tsuneyo and Aoto Magosaburô Fujitsuna in the kaomise drama "Motomishi Yuki Sakae Hachinoki", which celebrates the shûmei of Yoshizawa Ayame IV and the first stage appearance of Bandô Mitahachi I.
1st lunar month of 1779: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Kudô Saemon Suketsune and Gunsuke in the new year program "Gohiiki Nennen Soga".
3rd lunar month of 1779: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of the shirozake seller Shinbê in the drama "Sukeroku Sato no Yozakura". The roles of Sukeroku, Agemaki and the villain Ikyû are played by Ichikawa Monnosuke II, Iwai Hanshirô IV and Ôtani Hiroemon III.
5th lunar month of 1779: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Kan Shôjô and Matsuômaru in the drama "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami"; the roles of Umeômaru and Sakuramaru are played by Bandô Mitsugorô I and Ichikawa Monnosuke II.
11th lunar month of 1779: as a consequence of his troubles with Ichikawa Danjûrô V, Kôshirô moves to the Ichimuraza and plays the role of Kanesuki in the kaomise drama "Azuma no Mori Sakae Kusunoki", which celebrates the shûmei of Azuma Tôzô III and Segawa Otome.
1st lunar month of 1780: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Kyô no Jirô, Yawata no Saburô and Kaminari Tsurunosuke in the new year drama "Ume Goyomi Akebono Soga".
5th ~ 6th lunar months of 1780: big troubles at the Ichimuraza! Onoe Kikugorô I leaves the theater after a terrible quarrel with Kôshirô and there are some serious management troubles (the theater can't pay the actors).
11th lunar month of 1780: Kôshirô plays at the Ichimuraza in the kaomise drama "Mure Takamatsu Yuki no Shirahata".
3rd lunar month of 1781: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Obiya Chôemon in the Tomimoto-based dance "Michiyuki Segawa no Adanami"; the role of Chôemon's lover Ohan is played by Segawa Kikunojô III.
9th lunar month of 1781: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Magoemon in the drama "Keisei Koi Bikyaku".
11th lunar month of 1781: Kôshirô plays at the Ichimuraza in the kaomise drama "Mukashi Otoko Yuki no Hinagata", which celebrates the shûmei of Matsumoto Sanjûrô and Ichiyama Sukejûrô. The management of the theater has to struggle hard to find the money to pay the actors. Kôshirô's stage partners are Iwai Hanshirô IV, Yoshizawa Ayame IV, Nakamura Sukegorô II, Ichimura Uzaemon IX, Nakayama Tomisaburô I, Sakata Hangorô II, Sawamura Chôjûrô IV and Onoe Monzaburô I.
1st lunar month of 1782: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Matsuômaru in the drama "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami"; the roles of Umeômaru and Sakuramaru are played by Onoe Monzaburô I and Ichiyama Sukejûrô.
2nd lunar month of 1782: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of the sumô wrestler Kinugawa Tanizô and the yakko Gunsuke in the drama "Sumidagawa Yanagi no Dateginu".
5th lunar month of 1782: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of the shirozake seller Shinbê in the drama "Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura". His stage partners are Ichimura Uzaemon IX (Sukeroku), Iwai Hanshirô IV (Agemaki) and Sakata Hangorô II (Ikyû).
6th lunar month of 1782: casting change in "Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura"; Kôshirô replaces Ichimura Uzaemon IX in the prestigious role of Sukeroku and his son Ichikawa Komazô III plays the role of Shinbê.
9th lunar month of 1782: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of the tôfu maker Goroemon and the king of thieves Ishikawa Goemon in the drama "Hama no Masago Otogi Zôshi".
11th lunar month of 1782: Kôshirô plays at the Ichimuraza in the kaomise drama "Ise Heiji Eika Goyomi".
6th lunar month of 1783: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Ôboshi Yuranosuke and Hayano Kanpei in the drama "Kanadehon Chûshingura".
11th lunar month of 1783: Kôshirô moves to the Moritaza and plays in the kaomise program "Ono no Terusaki Yuki no Akebono".
1st lunar month of 1784: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Fujiya Izaemon in the drama "Haru no Yo Shôji no Ume"; the role of Izaemon's lover Yûgiri is played by the Kamigata actor Mimasu Tokujirô I.
2nd lunar month of 1784: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Kudô Saemon Suketsune, the warrior Taira no Kagekiyo and Oniô Shinzaemon in the drama "Haru Goyomi Nigiwai Soga".
3rd lunar month of 1784: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Kameya Chûbê in the drama "Keisei Koi Bikyaku"; the role of Chûbê's lover Umegawa is played by Mimasu Tokujirô I. He also plays the role of Mohei in Chikamatsu Monzaemon's drama "Daikyôji Mukashi Goyomi"; the role of Mohei's lover Osan is played by Mimasu Tokujirô I.
4th lunar month of 1784: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of the yakko Gunsuke in the drama "Sumidagawa no Meishoki".
7th lunar month of 1784: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Sagisaka Sanai and the yakko Ippei in the drama "Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna".
9th lunar month of 1784: Kôshirô celebrates his coming departure from Edo by playing in the same theater the role of Obiya Chôemon in the drama "Tagasode Futatsu Nishikie"; the role of Chôemon's lover Ohan is played by Mimasu Tokujirô I.
Fall 1784: Kôshirô and Iwai Hanshirô IV go together to Ôsaka.
11th lunar month of 1784: Kôshirô plays in the kaomise drama "Naka ni Môketa Otogo Kaomise", which is produced by Nakamura Kumetarô II at the Naka no Shibai. Kôshirô is not very well welcomed by the Ôsaka audience and Onoe Kikugorô I's son Onoe Ushinosuke I, who works at the Kado no Shibai as a zamoto, makes a scornful speech on stage against Kôshirô, the "frightening uncle from Edo in the little hut next door".
1st lunar month of 1785: Kôshirô's rank in the Ôsaka hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, is jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent).
4th lunar month of 1785: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Sasaki Rokkaku, Ukiyo Watahei and Watari Kanpei in the drama "Zen'aku Onna no Tsutsushimigusa". He also plays the role of Kameya Chûbê in the drama "Kurikaeshi Koi Bikyaku"; the role of Chûbê's lover Umegawa is played by Iwai Hanshirô IV.
5th lunar month of 1785: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Sasaki Moritsuna in the drama "Na ni Ôsaka Kôraiya Bashi". He also plays the role of Kameya Chûbê in the michiyuki "Meido no Wakarezato"; the role of Chûbê's lover Umegawa is played by Iwai Hanshirô IV.
Summer ~ Fall 1785: Kôshirô plays at the Kita-Horie Ichi-no-Gawa Shibai (Ôsaka) the role of Obiya Chôemon in the drama "Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami". He also plays the roles of Genta and Shigetada in the drama "Hirakana Seisuiki".
Winter 1785: Kôshirô plays in Kyôto. It seems he is not very well welcomed by the audience.
1st lunar month of 1786: Kôshirô's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, is jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent).
1st lunar month of 1786: Kôshirô plays at the Kita-Horie Ichi-no-Gawa Shibai (Ôsaka) the role of Nagai Uma-no-Kami Nobuaki in the drama "Ôtô-no-Miya Asahi no Yoroi".
2nd lunar month of 1786: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Tsukimoto Enshû in the drama "Akiba Gongen Kaisen Banashi". He also plays the role of Fujiya Izaemon in the drama "Yukari no Tsuki"; the role of the courtesan Yûgiri (Izaemon's lover) is played by Sawamura Kunitarô I.
Spring 1786: Kôshirô goes back to Edo.
5th lunar month of 1786: Kôshirô joins the Kiriza and becomes reconciled with Ichikawa Danjûrô V, ending a nine years long quarrel.
8th lunar month of 1786: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Nagoya Sanza in the drama "Muromachi Onna Bunshô". His stage partners in the roles of Fuwa Banzaemon and the courtesan Katsuragi are Ichikawa Danjûrô V and Segawa Kikunojô III.
9th lunar month of 1786: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of the tedai Yodoya Shinshichi in "Kôrai Giku Ukina no Irozashi", the second part (nibanme) of "Muromachi Onna Bunshô".
11th lunar month of 1787: Kôshirô plays at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Yukimizuki Eiga Hana no Hachinoki", which celebrates the shûmei of Ôtani Oniji III.
2nd lunar month of 1788: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Banzui Chôbê in the drama "Keisei Azuma Kagami".
9th lunar month of 1788: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Danshichi in the drama "Tsuki no Tomo Yoi no Miya Gohyakuzaki", whose plot and character belong to the "Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami" world. His stage partners are Sawamura Sôjûrô III (Tokubê) and Ôtani Hiroji III (Sabu).
11th lunar month of 1788: Kôshirô plays at the Nakamuraza the roles of Sen no Rikyû and Mashiba Hisayoshi in Sakurada Jisuke I's kaomise drama "Tôzumô Hana no Edokata", which celebrates the return in Edo of the actor Nakamura Nakazô I. Premiere at the Nakamuraza of the Tokiwazu-based dance-drama "Modori Kago Iro ni Aikata" (commonly called "Modori Kago"); Kôshirô plays the role of Azuma no Yoshirô (in reality Mashiba Hisayoshi) [casting].
1st lunar month of 1789: Kôshirô's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, is dai-jô-jô-kichi (grand - superior - superior - excellent). He plays in the same theater the role of Soga Jûrô Sukenari in the new year drama "Edo Fuji Wakayagi Soga". His stage partners are Nakamura Nakazô I (Kudô Saemon Suketsune), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (Soga Gorô Tokimune) and Ôtani Hiroji III (Asaina). He also plays in duo with Osagawa Tsuneyo II in the dance "Ukina no Irochimaki". From the 11th, Kôshirô plays the role of An no Heibei in the drama "Otokodate Itsutsu Karigane", sharing the stage with Nakamura Nakazô I (Kaminari Shôkurô), Ichikawa Monnosuke II (Gokuin Sen'emon), Ôtani Hiroji III (Hotei Ichiemon) and Ichikawa Komazô III (Karigane Bunshichi). The performance is successful but the audience drops when Nakamura Nakazô I falls ill and has to be replaced.
6th lunar month of 1789: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Ono no Tôfû in the drama "Ono no Tôfû Aoyagi Suzuri".
7th lunar month of 1789: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Awa Minbu, Akaneya Jirozô and Tanzaemon in the drama "Heike Hyôbanki", which celebrates the 77th, 13th, 37th, 37th, 60th and 7th memorial services of late Nakamura Denkurô I, Nakamura Denkurô II, Kineya Kisaburô VI, Nakayama Kojurô V, Nakamura Denjirô I and Nakamura Denjirô III.
11th lunar month of 1789: Kôshirô plays at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Komachi-mura Shibai no Shôgatsu".
1st lunar month of 1790: Kôshirô plays in the same theater in the new year drama "Haru no Nishiki Datezome Soga".
3rd lunar month of 1790: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Obiya Chôemon in the drama "Ohan Chôemon"; the role of Ohan is played by Segawa Kikunojô III.
7th lunar month of 1790: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Yoemon and Amakawaya Gihei in the drama "Chûkô Ryôgoku Ori".
2nd lunar month of 1791: Kôshirô, Ichikawa Komazô III, Matsumoto Yonesaburô I and Matsumoto Kojirô join the Kawarasakiza; Kôshirô plays the roles of Ume no Yoshibê and Kudô Saemon Suketsune in the new year drama "Hatsu Midori Saiwai Soga".
5th lunar month of 1791: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Tsuribune Sabu, Nan Yohê and Hosokawa Katsumoto in Sakurada Jisuke I's drama "Onna Date Kôraiya Shima", which mixes the "Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami" and "Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki" worlds.
11th lunar month of 1791: Kôshirô moves to the Nakamuraza and plays the roles of Hirai no Yasumasa and Banzui Chôbê in the kaomise drama "Nidai Genji Oshi no Gôkyû".
1st lunar month of 1792: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Dozaemon Denkichi, a Dôjôji temple priest, the sumô wrestler Matsukaze Sehei and Awazu Rokurô Saemon in the new year drama "Sumidagawa Shibai no Ennichi".
1st lunar month of 1793: Kôshirô's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, sôkanjiku section ("all kanjiku"), is goku-jô-jô-kichi (extreme - superior - superior - excellent).
2nd lunar month of 1793: Kôshirô plays at the Ichimuraza the role of Hazuna no Gengorô in the new year drama "Mitsugi Soga Fuji no Kisewata".
3rd lunar month of 1793: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Asagao Sempei in the drama "Sukeroku".
5th lunar month of 1793: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Ôboshi Yuranosuke and Amakawaya Gihei in the drama "Kanadehon Chûshingura".
Fall 1793: the Ichimuraza goes out of business and gives its license to the Kiriza.
11th lunar month of 1793: Kôshirô plays at the Kiriza the roles of the tôfu maker Saburobei, Watanabe Minbu and Hosokawa Katsumoto in the kaomise drama "Matsu no Tayû Yuki no Datezome", whose plot and characters belong to the "Meiboku Sendai Hagi" world.
11th lunar month of 1794: Kôshirô moves to the Kawarasakiza and plays the roles of Bingo no Saburô, Hata Rokurô Saemon, Nagasaki Kageyu Saemon and Kusunoki Hangan in the kaomise drama "Matsu no Misao Onna Kusunoki".
1st lunar month of 1795: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Kudô Saemon Suketsune and Banzui Chôbê in the new year drama "Shimekazari Kichirei Soga".
5th lunar month of 1795: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Kakogawa Honzô and Horibe Yajibê in the drama "Kanadehon Chûshingura", which commemorates the 12th anniversary (13th memorial service) of late Onoe Kikugorô I.
9th lunar month of 1795: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Daihanji no Kiyosumi and Kamatari in the drama "Imoseyama Onna Teikin".
11th lunar month of 1795: Kôshirô plays at the Kawarasakiza the role of Tawara no Tôta in the kaomise program "Fuku Botan Azuma Dairi". The actor Ichikawa Ebizô shares the top of the bill with Kôshirô.
1st lunar month of 1796: Kôshirô's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, is shin-jô-jô-kichi (truly - superior - superior - excellent).
3rd lunar month of 1796: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Yuranosuke in the drama "Taiheiki Chûshin Kôshaku".
8th lunar month of 1796: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Tsukimoto, the boatman Yojirô, Rikyû and Konoshita Tôkichi in the drama "Keisei Suikoden".
11th lunar month of 1796: Kôshirô plays at the Kawarasakiza the roles of Ishikiri no Gorota and Komatsu no Shigemori in the kaomise drama "Itsukushima Yuki no Kaomise".
1st lunar month of 1797: Kôshirô's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, sôkanjiku section ("all kanjiku"), is goku-jô-jô-kichi (extreme - superior - superior - excellent). He plays the roles of Oniô Shinzaemon, Kamaya Takehei and Kudô Saemon Suketsune in the new year drama "Fuji Miru Sato Yawaragi Soga". The roles of Soga Gorô Tokimune and Soga Jûrô Sukenari are played by Ichikawa Komazô III and Bandô Minosuke I.
3rd lunar month of 1797: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of the shirozake seller Shinbê in the drama "Sukeroku Kuruwa no Sakurabito". His stage partners are Ichikawa Komazô III (Sukeroku), Nakayama Tomisaburô I (Agemaki) and Onoe Matsusuke I (Ikyû).
5th lunar month of 1797: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Nan Yohê in the drama "Sekitori Shôbu no Katabira", which is similar to "Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki".
9th lunar month of 1797: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Hosokawa Katsumoto in the drama "Mitsugimono Shiga no Irifune".
11th lunar month of 1797: Kôshirô moves to the Nakamuraza and plays the roles of Yahei and Miura Heitayû Kunitae in the kaomise drama "Kaikei Kokyô no Nishikigi", sharing the stage with Ichikawa Danjûrô VI, Iwai Hanshirô IV, Ichikawa Komazô III, Onoe Matsusuke I, Nakayama Tomisaburô I, Bandô Hikosaburô III, Nakamura Noshio II, Bandô Minosuke I, Iwai Kumesaburô I and Ichikawa Ebizô V. This kaomise program, which celebrates the reopening of the Nakamuraza, is a huge success.
3rd lunar month of 1798: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Yawata no Saburô and Chichibu no Shôji Shigetada in the drama "Wakakoma Norizome Soga".
5th lunar month of 1798: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Hachizô and Date no Yosaku in the drama "Katakiuchi Somewake Tazuna".
8th lunar month of 1798: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Yonetsuki Hachirobê, Oyamada Tamon and Ukishima Danjô Saemon in the drama "Irifune Shinoda no Dekiaki".
9th lunar month of 1798: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Yuranosuke and Shinoda Shôji in the dramas "Taiheiki Chûshin Kôshaku" and "Ashiya Dôman Ôuchi Kagami".
11th lunar month of 1798: Kôshirô does not take part in the Nakamuraza kaomise.
3rd lunar month of 1799: Kôshirô plays at the Nakamuraza the role of Ito Kurô Sukekiyo in the drama "Sukeroku Kuruwa no Hanami Doki", which commemorates the 22nd anniversary (23rd memorial service) of late Ichikawa Ebizô III. The roles of Sukeroku, Agemaki and Ikyû are played by Ichikawa Danjûrô VI, Iwai Kumesaburô I and Ichikawa Komazô III.
4th lunar month of 1799: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Ishidô Umanojô, Amakawaya Gihei and En'ya Hangan in the drama "Kanadehon Chûshingura". The roles of Kô no Moronô and Yuranosuke are played by Ichikawa Komazô III. Ichikawa Danjûrô VI, who plays the roles of Teraoka Heiemon, Ôwashi Bungo and Momonoi Wakasanosuke, falls ill the 18th April and dies the 13th day of the 5th lunar month. The management of the Nakamuraza decides to stop the productions up to the 11th lunar month kaomise.
11th lunar month of 1799: Kôshirô plays at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Tametomo Yumiya no Oyafune", which celebrates the shûmei of Bandô Mitsugorô III.
1st lunar month of 1800: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the roles of Kyô no Jirô and Chichibu no Shôji Shigetada in the new year drama "Fuji o Mimasu Saiwai Soga". This production is the last stage appearance of Iwai Hanshirô IV, a long time stage partner of Kôshirô.
5th lunar month of 1800: Kôshirô plays in the same theater the role of Kajiwara Heizô Kagetoki in the drama "Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura".
11th lunar month of 1800: Kôshirô does not take part in any kaomise program.
5th lunar month of 1802: Kyôjûrô appears on stage for the last time, at the Ichimuraza, playing the role of Tadayoshi in the drama "Taiheiki Chûshin Kôshaku".
Matsumoto Kôshirô IV was one of the best tachiyaku actors of the second half of the eighteenth century, excelling as wagotoshi or jitsugotoshi. He was also a great jitsuaku (in the latter years of his life) and outstanding in sumô wrestlers or otokodate roles. He made a great career but was in trouble many times, especially after the terrible quarrels with Ichikawa Danjûrô V or Onoe Kikugorô I.
Matsumoto Kôshirô IV's best roles: Soga Jûrô Sukenari, Chichibu no Shôji Shigetada, Fujiya Izaemon, Kameya Chûbê, Obiya Chôemon, Banzui Chôbê, Matsuômaru ("Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami"), Kinugawa Tanizô and Kudô Saemon Suketsune.


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Recreation of Captain Bligh's mutiny voyage begins
Aussie adventurer Don McIntyre and his crew will suffer same depravations on 4000-mile voyage to Timor
An audacious bid to recreate the 4000-mile journey of Captain William Bligh following the mutiny on HMS Bounty began this morning.
Led by Aussie adventurer Don McIntyre, the four-man crew taking part in the attempt boarded an open boat almost identical to the one used by Bligh and were cast adrift off the coast of Tonga at 11am local time.
The voyage has begun 221 years almost to the day of the infamous mutiny, which saw Bligh and 18 of his crew packed into a launch and left to their fates by mutineer Fletcher Christian.
The reenactment will see McIntyre and his crew attempt to navigate to Tonga, 4000 nautical miles to the west, along the same route used by Bligh.
His team will suffer the same depravations as those experienced on the original voyage, carrying only a two-week supply of water, no navigational charts, and little food.
The only nod to the modern on the seven-week voyage will be a computer to communicate with shore and emergency safety kit.
"We're incredibly excited to start the expedition today and feel close to the experience of Captain Bligh and his crew; however everyone aboard the Talisker Bounty Boat will be pushed to the limit of endurance and survival, forever hungry and unsure of everything, except their own desire to fight through this," McIntyre said.
Through the journey, he hopes to raise $250,000 for the Sheffield Institute of Motor Neurone Disease, which is building the world's first research institute for Motor Neurone Deaseae, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.