Rogue Politics http://roguepolitics.com Fresh Constitutional Opinion Wed, 22 May 2013 20:23:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Soldier beheaded in Woolwich,UK with bloodied man issuing warning! (Video) http://roguepolitics.com/2013/05/22/soldier-beheaded-in-woolwichuk-with-bloodied-man-issuing-warning-video/ http://roguepolitics.com/2013/05/22/soldier-beheaded-in-woolwichuk-with-bloodied-man-issuing-warning-video/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 20:23:00 +0000 Michael Haltman http://sago.com/?guid=35effe32e82fb48f5c7084ddfa102541

If this had occurred in the U.S. would the Obama administration have somehow found a way to call this act of terrorism workplace violence?

From The Investigative Project on Terrorism,

'A British soldier is dead, and two suspected terrorists were shot in a shocking daylight attack outside London Wednesday.
Some accounts say the soldier was shot, while other witnesses described the attack as a "beheading," the London Telegraph reports, and ITV News obtained video of a man with bloody hands carrying knives and a meat cleaver and warning "you people will never be safe" and saying "We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you."
He also said, "We must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
Other witnesses reported hearing the attackers shout "Allahu Akhbar" – God is Great – as they attacked the soldier outside Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolich. The victim was not in uniform.
The attackers left his body in the street and reportedly stayed nearby, "waving knives and a gun, and asked people to take pictures of them "as if they wanted to be on TV or something,'" the BBC reports.
Officials are calling it an Islamist terror attack.'


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If this had occurred in the U.S. would the Obama administration have somehow found a way to call this act of terrorism workplace violence?

From The Investigative Project on Terrorism,

‘A British soldier is dead, and two suspected terrorists were shot in a shocking daylight attack outside London Wednesday.
Some accounts say the soldier was shot, while other witnesses described the attack as a “beheading,” the London Telegraph reports, and ITV News obtained video of a man with bloody hands carrying knives and a meat cleaver and warning “you people will never be safe” and saying “We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you.”
He also said, “We must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”
Other witnesses reported hearing the attackers shout “Allahu Akhbar” – God is Great – as they attacked the soldier outside Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolich. The victim was not in uniform.
The attackers left his body in the street and reportedly stayed nearby, “waving knives and a gun, and asked people to take pictures of them “as if they wanted to be on TV or something,’” the BBC reports.
Officials are calling it an Islamist terror attack.’

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Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Darrell Issa has instructed to committee to subpoena IRS official Lori Lerner to appear again before his committee, saying that her opening statement waived her Fif the Amendment rights against self-incrimination. If you listen to it, he appears to be entirely correct:



You're not allowed to place a self-serving statement on the record and then claim the Fifth - you have to do it from the outset.

“When I asked her her questions from the very beginning, I did so so she could assert her rights prior to any statement,” Issa told POLITICO. “She chose not to do so — so she waived.”

“The precedents are clear that this is not something you can turn on and turn off,” he told POLITICO. “She made testimony after she was sworn in, asserted her innocence in a number of areas, even answered questions asserting that a document was true … So she gave partial testimony and then tried to revoke that.”

He said he was not expecting that.

“I understand from her counsel that there was a plan to assert her Fifth Amendment rights,” he continued. “She went ahead and made a statement, so counsel let her effectively under the precedent, waive — so we now have someone who no longer has that ability.”

That's why Issa had Lerner look at a transcript of the previous fairy tales she told the committee under oath and acknowledge that these were her statements.

In other words, her tits are in the wringer, to use a quaint Southernism I've always liked.

Issa doesn't want Lerner, or at least not Lerner alone. He wants to put the fear of G-d into her so that she'll see the wisdom of cutting a deal by selling out some of the other rats above her in the pecking order on the SS Obama.

All roads on this one lead to the White House.

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Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Darrell Issa has instructed to committee to subpoena IRS official Lori Lerner to appear again before his committee, saying that her opening statement waived her Fif the Amendment rights against self-incrimination. If you listen to it, he appears to be entirely correct:

You’re not allowed to place a self-serving statement on the record and then claim the Fifth – you have to do it from the outset.

“When I asked her her questions from the very beginning, I did so so she could assert her rights prior to any statement,” Issa told POLITICO. “She chose not to do so — so she waived.”

“The precedents are clear that this is not something you can turn on and turn off,” he told POLITICO. “She made testimony after she was sworn in, asserted her innocence in a number of areas, even answered questions asserting that a document was true … So she gave partial testimony and then tried to revoke that.”

He said he was not expecting that.

“I understand from her counsel that there was a plan to assert her Fifth Amendment rights,” he continued. “She went ahead and made a statement, so counsel let her effectively under the precedent, waive — so we now have someone who no longer has that ability.”

That’s why Issa had Lerner look at a transcript of the previous fairy tales she told the committee under oath and acknowledge that these were her statements.

In other words, her tits are in the wringer, to use a quaint Southernism I’ve always liked.

Issa doesn’t want Lerner, or at least not Lerner alone. He wants to put the fear of G-d into her so that she’ll see the wisdom of cutting a deal by selling out some of the other rats above her in the pecking order on the SS Obama.

All roads on this one lead to the White House.

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For starters, the IRS has defied congress's request for all communications between the agency and the White House about targeting conservative, evangelical and pro-Israel groups.

In a May 14 letter signed by Rep. Dave Camp and Sander Levin, Chairman and Ranking Member respectively of the House Ways and Means Committee, the IRS was given a deadline of Tuesday, May 21 to comply with their committee’s demand for the information and records, including records of any communications between IRS and the Treasury on the matter.

The IRS missed the deadline and has apparently decided to stonewall...and we all know they didn't make that decision without guidance from the White House. No federal agency would.

It's also come out that the IRS' own internal investigation ended May 12th, 2012, six months before the election but was deliberately hidden from Congress.I wonder who gave that order:
Rep. Darrel Issa, the committee's chairman, said that the committee learned just yesterday that the IRS completed its own investigation a year before a Treasury Department Inspector General report was completed.

But despite the IRS recognizing in May 2012 that its employees were treating right-wing groups differently from other organizations, Issa said, IRS personnel withheld those conclusions from legislators.

'Just yesterday the committee interviewed Holly Paz, the director of exempt organizations, rulings and agreements, division of the IRS,' Issa said. 'While a tremendous amount of attention is centered about the Inspector General's report, or investigation, the committee has learned from Ms. Paz that she in fact participated in an IRS internal investigation that concluded in May of 2012 - May 3 of 2012 - and found essentially the same thing that Mr. George found more than a year later.'

'Think about it,' he continued: 'For more than a year, the IRS knew that it had inappropriately targeted groups of Americans based on their political beliefs, and without mentioning it, and in fact without honestly answering questions that were the result of this internal investigation.'

Moreover,the Administration's claim that the wrongdoing was limited to 'a few low level agents' is falling apart like a paper in the rain.

In fact, the IRS' own system makes a few low level IRS employees conducting as jihad on groups selected for their ideology impossible:
When an application for tax exempt status comes into the IRS, agents have 270 days to work through that application. If the application is not processed within those 270 days it automatically triggers flags in the system. When that happens, individual agents are required to input a status update on that individual case once a month, every month until the case is resolved.

Keep in mind, at least 300 groups were targeted out of Cincinnati alone. Those applications spent anywhere from 18 months to nearly 3 years in the system and some still don't have their non-profit status. 300 groups multiplied by at least 18 months for each group, means thousands of red flags would have been generated in the system.

So who in the chain of command would have received all these flags? The answer, according to the IRS directory, one woman in Cincinnati, Cindy Thomas, the Program Manager of the Tax Exempt Division. Because all six of our IRS workers have different individual and territory managers, Cindy Thomas is one manager they all have common.

It turns out Cindy Thomas' name is one we have heard before. The independent journalism group ProPublica says in November of 2012 they had requested information on conservatives groups that had received non-profit status.

Cindy Thomas, says Swann, is the highest-ranking employee in the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Department in Cincinnati.

Even the Washington Post is saying that a Special prosecutor is not a matter of if but when.

Personally, I think the president is just arrogant enough to try and brazen this out.

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For starters, the IRS has defied congress’s request for all communications between the agency and the White House about targeting conservative, evangelical and pro-Israel groups.

In a May 14 letter signed by Rep. Dave Camp and Sander Levin, Chairman and Ranking Member respectively of the House Ways and Means Committee, the IRS was given a deadline of Tuesday, May 21 to comply with their committee’s demand for the information and records, including records of any communications between IRS and the Treasury on the matter.

The IRS missed the deadline and has apparently decided to stonewall…and we all know they didn’t make that decision without guidance from the White House. No federal agency would.

It’s also come out that the IRS’ own internal investigation ended May 12th, 2012, six months before the election but was deliberately hidden from Congress.I wonder who gave that order:

Rep. Darrel Issa, the committee’s chairman, said that the committee learned just yesterday that the IRS completed its own investigation a year before a Treasury Department Inspector General report was completed.

But despite the IRS recognizing in May 2012 that its employees were treating right-wing groups differently from other organizations, Issa said, IRS personnel withheld those conclusions from legislators.

‘Just yesterday the committee interviewed Holly Paz, the director of exempt organizations, rulings and agreements, division of the IRS,’ Issa said. ‘While a tremendous amount of attention is centered about the Inspector General’s report, or investigation, the committee has learned from Ms. Paz that she in fact participated in an IRS internal investigation that concluded in May of 2012 – May 3 of 2012 – and found essentially the same thing that Mr. George found more than a year later.’

‘Think about it,’ he continued: ‘For more than a year, the IRS knew that it had inappropriately targeted groups of Americans based on their political beliefs, and without mentioning it, and in fact without honestly answering questions that were the result of this internal investigation.’

Moreover,the Administration’s claim that the wrongdoing was limited to ‘a few low level agents’ is falling apart like a paper in the rain.

In fact, the IRS’ own system makes a few low level IRS employees conducting as jihad on groups selected for their ideology impossible:

When an application for tax exempt status comes into the IRS, agents have 270 days to work through that application. If the application is not processed within those 270 days it automatically triggers flags in the system. When that happens, individual agents are required to input a status update on that individual case once a month, every month until the case is resolved.

Keep in mind, at least 300 groups were targeted out of Cincinnati alone. Those applications spent anywhere from 18 months to nearly 3 years in the system and some still don’t have their non-profit status. 300 groups multiplied by at least 18 months for each group, means thousands of red flags would have been generated in the system.

So who in the chain of command would have received all these flags? The answer, according to the IRS directory, one woman in Cincinnati, Cindy Thomas, the Program Manager of the Tax Exempt Division. Because all six of our IRS workers have different individual and territory managers, Cindy Thomas is one manager they all have common.

It turns out Cindy Thomas’ name is one we have heard before. The independent journalism group ProPublica says in November of 2012 they had requested information on conservatives groups that had received non-profit status.

Cindy Thomas, says Swann, is the highest-ranking employee in the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Department in Cincinnati.

Even the Washington Post is saying that a Special prosecutor is not a matter of if but when.

Personally, I think the president is just arrogant enough to try and brazen this out.

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Welcome to the Watcher's Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the 'sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

'Nuff said.

This week's contest is dedicated to Rep. Darrel Issa..for relentless courage.

Council News:
This week, Ask Marionand Liberty's Spirit took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status with some great pieces.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won't be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category, and return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.

It's a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let's see what we have this week....


Council Submissions

Honorable Mentions

Non-Council Submissions



Enjoy! And don't forget to like us on Facebook and follow us Twitter..'cause we're cool like that!

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Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

‘Nuff said.

This week’s contest is dedicated to Rep. Darrel Issa..for relentless courage.

Council News:
This week, Ask Marionand Liberty’s Spirit took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status with some great pieces.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category, and return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

Honorable Mentions

Non-Council Submissions

Enjoy! And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!

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The white man’s burden – The Journal, Detroit, 1898. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

My friend, and Jessica’s co-author Chalcedon451 posted this morning in somber mood. I suspect I know the proximate cause, and have no reason to disagree. His post is titled Recessional? I find it a very good post, and suspect I understand the reason it appeared this morning. Nor do I disagree with him. He says that it is the first of a series, which I look forward to.

He quotes Kipling’s Recessional in his post

Far-called, our navies melt away;

   On dune and headland sinks the fire:   
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
   Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!   
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,   
Lest we forget—lest we forget!

Nemesis lay here, as he saw it:

If, drunk with sight of power, we loose   
   Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe,   
Such boastings as the Gentiles use,
   Or lesser breeds without the Law—
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
It is of, course the reverse of the coin.
The obverse of which was the welcome we Americans received in The White Man’s Burden
And yet that is not the poem that comes to my mind. This one does.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
I think they are not far away, and approaching quickly.
But you know the Anglo-Saxon powers have been in dire straits before, if we were to look to 1588 for example, just a few days ago the Armada sailed on its Crusade. In 1942 today our countries were on the defensive around the world, the Pacific Fleet’s battleships in the mud of Pearl Harbor, the Repulse and the Prince of Wales sunk, Britain enduring the bombing of the air war, Doolittle had just made his ineffective but morale building raid. But in a couple of days the Imperial Japanese fleet will be stopped at the Coral Sea and soon the tide will turn at Midway, a battle won by taking long odds and playing to win. In less than three years Nazi Germany will be on the scrap heap of history, with Japan soon to join it.
And that may be the problem, those men (and women) were the generation that raised Chalcedon and I. When they said something you could take it to the bank, I have seen men go into very sketchy verbal agreements on million dollar deals. But we have become societies of chiselers, cheats and liars, and as long as we are we will accomplish little. If a man’s word is not his bond, he can never be trusted in any matter, great or small, and therefore he is useless, merely another mouth to feed without benefit.
But our folk wisdom insists that it is darkest before the dawn (so does experience) so maybe a different writer would be better.
After our election, on my post entitled Recessional, Representative Rebecca Hamilton, of Oklahoma said in my comments stream “Don’t be defeated. The fight has just begun.” And she is, of course, entirely correct, we are not defeated until we admit we are defeated. Which brings to mind as a guide for us all

THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. [...]

I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils; and as I do not, I cannot see on what grounds the king of Britain can look up to heaven for help against us: a common murderer, a highwayman, or a house-breaker, has as good a pretence as he.

And that is as good a guide as we are going to get, British or American as we attempt to salvage the good from our countries.

And lest you Americans think this is only for my Brit friends, you think maybe we got a problem when we’re sitting here looking at Chicago-on-the-Potomac wondering if there is an honest man in the city? Cause you know what? If there isn’t

It’s Nobody’s Fault but Ours.

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]]> http://roguepolitics.com/2013/05/22/recessionals-swivel-eyed-loons-tea-parties-and-summer-soldiers/feed/ 0 JESUS VS. MUHAMMAD!! (Qur’an Challenge II) http://roguepolitics.com/2013/05/22/jesus-vs-muhammad-quran-challenge-ii/ http://roguepolitics.com/2013/05/22/jesus-vs-muhammad-quran-challenge-ii/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 16:41:56 +0000 Liz Harrison http://goldwatergal.com/?p=2090 . . . → Read More: JESUS VS. MUHAMMAD!! (Qur’an Challenge II) . . . → Read More: JESUS VS. MUHAMMAD!! (Qur’an Challenge II)]]> Steven Crowder tackles Christianity and Islam – again. Well, the last time he became highly popular, and had oh so many posts from folks that “appreciated” his views on Islam, at least. Let’s see how it turns out this time around!

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President George Washington:  “There
is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.”

 

President Thomas Jefferson:  “When the government fears the people, there is liberty.  When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”

 

President Abraham Lincoln:  “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

President Franklin Roosevelt:  “The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.”

President Harry S. Truman:  “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”



President John Fitzgerald Kennedy:  “Ask not, what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

President Ronald Wilson Reagan:  “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”

President George W. Bush:  “I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you, and the people that knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.”

President Barack Hussein Obama:  “Uh, I read it in the newspaper.”

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]]> http://roguepolitics.com/2013/05/22/great-quotes-in-presidential-history/feed/ 0 Get busy living or get busy dying. http://roguepolitics.com/2013/05/22/get-busy-living-or-get-busy-dying/ http://roguepolitics.com/2013/05/22/get-busy-living-or-get-busy-dying/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 14:18:14 +0000 April http://www.oddlysaid.com/?p=2636 . . . → Read More: Get busy living or get busy dying. . . . → Read More: Get busy living or get busy dying.]]> Get tissues.

Watching this young man face death with such joy and courage makes me look at how I face life. Get busy living or get busy dying.

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]]> http://roguepolitics.com/2013/05/22/get-busy-living-or-get-busy-dying/feed/ 0 Maximize (and De-stress) Your Family Photo Collection http://roguepolitics.com/2013/05/22/maximize-and-de-stress-your-family-photo-collection-2/ http://roguepolitics.com/2013/05/22/maximize-and-de-stress-your-family-photo-collection-2/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 14:14:07 +0000 Diane Markins http://dianemarkins.com/?p=2495 kid matters, not the various clothes on the kid) 3. Store digitals on your computer and in your email folders 4. Organize your digital photos by folder . . . → Read More: Maximize (and De-stress) Your Family Photo Collection . . . → Read More: Maximize (and De-stress) Your Family Photo Collection]]> Photos are a huge source of stress to me. This must be an inherited disorder because my mom had it too! I love looking at my pictures, but mostly they get shoved in an album or box that collects dust in the back of a closet. Even the digital photos I’ve got stored are not something I remember to look at very often.

That has changed–especially my very favorite shots– since I discovered Fabness.com. The owners, Mark and Jennifer Lander, will join me on Bold Living May 25th (following my chat with Paul Chinikidiadi) with some tips about how to maximize the enjoyment of the photos you love most.

I have always admired other people’s custom wall canvases and wanted my own, but thought they were probably really pricey so I didn’t pursue it. (I met a women at an event I spoke at recently who told me she spent $50 (with a deal coupon) on a 16″ X 20″ canvas of her family. Fabness.com is sponsoring Bold Living. So…for about $25 you can get the same thing with the code BoldLiving at checkout.) I know I can afford it now any time.

The other reason I held back was that I like to change my rooms and pictures often. With such a low price, I don’t hesitate to get rid of canvases when I have a new fav photo of my grandkids. (Keep em comin!) No guilt or money wasted.

You don’t have to be a pro photographer (although they work with pros too). Use your cell phone or disposable camera if that’s what you’ve got when the action happens.

Here are some tips for de-stressing your photo anxiety:

1. Toss duplicates/ very similar shots
2. Only keep the shots you LOVE (the kid matters, not the various clothes on the kid)
3. Store digitals on your computer and in your email folders
4. Organize your digital photos by folder
5. Schedule half hour a week to organize paper photos into albums (refer to #2)
6. Take a ton of candid shots when something fun is going on and delete all but the best few immediately
7. Stunning scenery is always picture-worthy, but lousy shots are boring. Get your face or your kids’ faces in front of that mountain and the memory is preserved without the need for super photo skills.
8. Canvases of your photos make decorating any room much more personal and creative
~Group/party shots for dorm rooms
~Photo of a hand-made quilt or sweet teddy bear gift from grandma for nursery
~Champagne glasses toasting at sunset to commemorate an anniversary (in your own hands–you were there!)
~Child in costume or with special cartoon friend for kid’s room
~Your most inspirational quote or Bible verse on a pretty background for your office
*You can have the photo wrapped all the way around the wood frame or choose a border color that ties well to your color scheme.

Don’t take photos and forget about them for future generations to discover. They are shots you took because the moment was meaningful. Access the memories from those photos frequently. It will always make you smile (and you don’t have to say “cheese”).

Share your photo tips in a comment below. I’d love to see some of your favorite and most creative photos on facebook, so post and tag Women in High Def.

*For one week only, Fabness.com is offering a 10″ X 15″ canvas for $12! The code is BoldLiving12. This stupidly cheap deal expires June 1st so jump on it!

Authored By Diane Markins

By Diane Markins See The Original Post Here

]]> http://roguepolitics.com/2013/05/22/maximize-and-de-stress-your-family-photo-collection-2/feed/ 0 Maximize (and De-stress) Your Family Photo Collection http://roguepolitics.com/2013/05/22/maximize-and-de-stress-your-family-photo-collection/ http://roguepolitics.com/2013/05/22/maximize-and-de-stress-your-family-photo-collection/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 14:14:07 +0000 Diane Markins http://dianemarkins.com/?p=2495 kid matters, not the various clothes on the kid) 3. Store digitals on your computer and in your email folders 4. Organize your digital photos by folder . . . → Read More: Maximize (and De-stress) Your Family Photo Collection . . . → Read More: Maximize (and De-stress) Your Family Photo Collection]]> Photos are a huge source of stress to me. This must be an inherited disorder because my mom had it too! I love looking at my pictures, but mostly they get shoved in an album or box that collects dust in the back of a closet. Even the digital photos I’ve got stored are not something I remember to look at very often.

That has changed–especially my very favorite shots– since I discovered Fabness.com. The owners, Mark and Jennifer Lander, will join me on Bold Living May 25th (following my chat with Paul Chinikidiadi) with some tips about how to maximize the enjoyment of the photos you love most.

I have always admired other people’s custom wall canvases and wanted my own, but thought they were probably really pricey so I didn’t pursue it. (I met a women at an event I spoke at recently who told me she spent $50 (with a deal coupon) on a 16″ X 20″ canvas of her family. Fabness.com is sponsoring Bold Living. So…for about $25 you can get the same thing with the code BoldLiving at checkout.) I know I can afford it now any time.

The other reason I held back was that I like to change my rooms and pictures often. With such a low price, I don’t hesitate to get rid of canvases when I have a new fav photo of my grandkids. (Keep em comin!) No guilt or money wasted.

You don’t have to be a pro photographer (although they work with pros too). Use your cell phone or disposable camera if that’s what you’ve got when the action happens.

Here are some tips for de-stressing your photo anxiety:

1. Toss duplicates/ very similar shots
2. Only keep the shots you LOVE (the kid matters, not the various clothes on the kid)
3. Store digitals on your computer and in your email folders
4. Organize your digital photos by folder
5. Schedule half hour a week to organize paper photos into albums (refer to #2)
6. Take a ton of candid shots when something fun is going on and delete all but the best few immediately
7. Stunning scenery is always picture-worthy, but lousy shots are boring. Get your face or your kids’ faces in front of that mountain and the memory is preserved without the need for super photo skills.
8. Canvases of your photos make decorating any room much more personal and creative
~Group/party shots for dorm rooms
~Photo of a hand-made quilt or sweet teddy bear gift from grandma for nursery
~Champagne glasses toasting at sunset to commemorate an anniversary (in your own hands–you were there!)
~Child in costume or with special cartoon friend for kid’s room
~Your most inspirational quote or Bible verse on a pretty background for your office
*You can have the photo wrapped all the way around the wood frame or choose a border color that ties well to your color scheme.

Don’t take photos and forget about them for future generations to discover. They are shots you took because the moment was meaningful. Access the memories from those photos frequently. It will always make you smile (and you don’t have to say “cheese”).

Share your photo tips in a comment below. I’d love to see some of your favorite and most creative photos on facebook, so post and tag Women in High Def.

*For one week only, Fabness.com is offering a 10″ X 15″ canvas for $12! The code is BoldLiving12. This stupidly cheap deal expires June 1st so jump on it!

Authored By Diane Markins

By Diane Markins See The Original Post Here

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