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Foreclosures are disappearing from most community listings. Foreclosure filings—default notices, scheduled auctions, or bank repossessions—fell 6 percent in the third quarter, dropping to the lowest level since the fourth quarter of 2005. Foreclosure activity in the third quarter is now 36 percent below the pre-recession average of 278,912 properties with foreclosure filings, according to ATTOM Data Solutions' latest report.
Properties that were foreclosed in the third quarter are seeing a slightly shorter process. The foreclosure process is averaging 713 days, which is down from 899 days a year ago. The states with the longest average timelines for foreclosed homes are Hawaii (1,491 days); Indiana (1,295 days); Florida (1,177 days); Utah (1,170 days); New Jersey (1,137 days); and New York (1,092 days).


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What's In Your Tank?/
We recently posted an article about the Aquaman Crystal and its potential to revolutionize the scuba diving industry, but it's important to take a look at the complexity of breathing underwater and what it is we actually breath.
Having a crystal that could absorb the oxygen from the water would be an amazing tool that could drastically influence the scuba diving world. Large, heavy scuba tanks could be replaced by smaller devices used to activate the crystalline material. However, there are complications to this idea.
When we breathe the air around us, we are not just breathing oxygen. In fact, we are only breathing about 20% oxygen, or less. The other 80% is mostly made up of Nitrogen and trace amounts of Argon and Helium. So, our bodies are not conditioned to breath 100% oxygen. We can handle that much oxygen on the surface or sea-level pressure, but below 20 feet of water, pure oxygen becomes toxic to the body. It is too concentrated for our bodies and Oxygen Toxicity starts to result.
Oxygen Toxicity
When the body takes on too much oxygen, the oxygen essentially becomes poisonous to our system. It can cause the body to convulse and create critical damage to cells and organs.
So what do we breathe? It is important to realize that scuba diving tanks are not pure oxygen tanks. They are air tanks. Yes, there is a difference. Air tanks used for scuba diving are made up of the same ratio of oxygen and nitrogen we use to breathe on land.
Experts will use higher percentage oxygen tanks in scuba diving for special reasons, but it takes advanced training. Nitrox tanks are popular for this, which are commonly filled with about 40% oxygen instead of 20% in regular air tanks.
It is interesting to note that we don't even use the nitrogen which makes up the majority of the gas which we inhale regularly. Our body uses nitrogen created from proteins we digest, but it doesn't use the nitrogen we breath in the air. Our body breathes for the oxygen, we just can't have too much of it at once.
So, with this knowledge, these Aquaman Crystals can be a great benefit, but we will have to learn how to modify their use to benefit the scuba diving world. It will be an interesting development.
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It's time to Vote for the Best Photo – "Having Fun with Food"
The photo contest has now come to a close, but the fun is just getting started. The P&P staff selected the FIVE FINALISTS. So now it's up to you – our customers – to VOTE for your favorite photo. Your vote counts as the photo with the most votes wins the grand prize – FREE PET FOOD FOR A YEAR! You may only vote once, but tell your friends to vote too. The voting period will end Oct 11, 2009. So get your vote in today! The Winner will be announced on our about Oct 12, 2009.


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Historic Furniture — Care and Preservation
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Proper care of furniture begins with understanding and appreciation of the unique characteristics of each piece of furniture within its surrounding environment. This article outlines some of the most critical environmental issues which affect the preservation of furniture. (Click here to continue.)


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- Avoid waterproof cosmetics. Getting them off at the end of the day requires more strong chemicals, which can also strip the skin.
- Watch expiration dates. Old makeup can become contaminated.
- Wash makeup brushes and sponges regularly to prevent bacterial buildup.
- Use black eyeliner and mascara. Black appears to be the least allergenic of the colors.
- Use earth-toned, light colored eye shadows like tan, cream, or beige rather than dark colors like blue. The lighter colors have a lower concentration of irritating pigments.
- Avoid nail polish. Touching one's eyes and face can cause irritation.
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Brahmagupta wrote an important work on astronomy,"BRAHMASPUTA-SIDDHANTA" means opening of the Earth. He calculated the circumference of Earth as 5,000 yojanas (1 yojana=7.2km) He explained that since the Moon is closer to the Earth than the Sun, the degree of the illuminated part of the Moon depends on the relative positions of the Sun and the Moon, and this can be computed from the size of the angle between the two bodies. Brahmagupta also calculated the instantaneous motion of a planet, gave correct equations for parallax, and some information related to the computation of eclipses. About the Earth's gravity he said: "Bodies fall towards the earth as it is in the nature of the earth to attract bodies, just as it is in the nature of water to flow.
Bhaskar was also an ancient astronomer of Indian astronomy during the 7th century. He was a great contributor to astronomy in ancient times.
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Mahabhaskariya, Laghubhaskariya and the Aryabhatiyabhashya(a commentary on the Aryabhatiya) were some of his work. Planetary longitudes, heliacal rising and setting of the planets, conjunctions among the planets and stars, solar and lunar eclipses, and the phases of the Moon are among the topics Bhaskara discusses in his astronomical treatises. In his commentary on the Aryabhatiya, Bhaskara explains in detail Aryabhata's method of solving linear equations and provides a number of illustrative astronomical examples
He was also known as Bhaskara Acharya ("Bhaskara the teacher"), was an Indian mathematician and an astronomer. He was born in 1114 A.D. near Bijjada Bida which is in present day Bijapur district, Karnataka, India. Bhaskara and his works represent a significant contribution to mathematical and astronomical knowledge in the 12th century.
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Bhaskara was the head of an astronomical observatory at Ujjain.He authored Siddhanta Siromani and Karanakutuhala, two books,reported on his observations of planetary positions, conjunctions, eclipses, cosmography, geography, mathematics, and astronomical equipment used in his research at the observatory in Ujjain, which he headed. Bhaskara accurately defined many astronomical quantities, including the length of the sidereal year, the time that is required for the Earth to orbit the Sun, as 365.2588 days. The modern accepted measurement is 365.2563 days, a difference of just 3.5 minutes. His mathematical astronomy text Siddhanta Shiromani is written in two parts: the first part on mathematical astronomy and the second part on the sphere.
Aryabhatta is at the top in the stack of greatest astronomer from the classical age of indian astronomy. He was born in 476 A.D. at Patliputra,Magadha (modern Patna, BIHAR). He studied astronomy at Nalanda University.His treatise, Aryabhatiya presented a number of innovations in astronomy in verse form, which were influential for many centuries.
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Aryabhata is the author of several treatises on astronomy like Aryabhatiya and Arya-siddhanta.
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Extraordinary plans for a 200m-high vertical theme park in Birmingham will be submitted to planning experts next spring, according to developer VTP Global
The news comes more than three years after the scheme, designed by RTKL, was first unveiled (click here for original story).
Despite being privately slammed by CABE back in 2007, the developer intends to press on with the sky-high tourist attraction, now known as the VTP200 (previously the Pinnacle), which will be the world's first city centre 'vertiplex' leisure tower and the tallest building in Birmingham.
VTP200 claim the tower, which will form part of the city's £6 billion Eastside redevelopment, would host 'the most thrilling activities on the planet'.
Visitors to the attraction will benefit from a 32-storey 'giant drop', two scenic lifts, a bungee jump, 20 flight simulators, and a 120m 'walk of fear' with no hand rail.
The 'icon for our times' will also house at its base a 250-bedroom hotel, 15 restaurants, bars and retail space.
The project was previously thought to have been shelved due to the recession.
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What a gimmick. Is this to re-invigorate the cultural void that surrounds the pay-to-enter Science Museum? People don't seem to be too fussed about the I-Max in there so more costly tech and extreme sports at the top of a Las Vegas tower, go figure.
wow hust like the really sucsseful one in liverpool that was built in the 60s. the guys at RTKL should make sure there is enough room for a radio station up there find cad blocks of mixing desks ect just to be safe.
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Get peace of mind with the Made in USA MonsterMan Grip as CA DOJ/BOF admitted it being a "Non Pistol-Grip" in a court of law!!!
For over 11 years the MMG has been sold in California and is one of the most recognized legal products for "Off List" rifles!!!
The MMG-AR "Featureless Grip" has been selling in California for over 10 years! It is the go to grip for turning your AR-15 rifle into a "Featureless" California Legal AR. With CA DOJ testimony that the MMG is not a "Pistol Grip" in the eyes of the law, people feel comfortable using the MMG-AR to keep their rifles legal.
The made in the U.S.A. MMG was created by a Californian who wanted an AR style rifle that did not have a "Mag Lock" on it, keeping the rifles ability to have a detachable magazine.
The MMG-AR is a patented grip designed to replace the pistol grip on a off list AR-15 type rifle allowing users to keep their magazines detachable in California. Users must also remove all other banned features on semi-auto rifles with detachable magazines. Made from glass fiber filled nylon, the grip is very strong to meet the most demanding needs.
The grip has been designed to feel more like a traditional hunting rifle stock and it removes the ability to hold it with a "pistol style grasp". If you are curious as to how it would feel to hold a rifle with a MMG-AR on it, shoulder a standard hunting rifle stock and keep your thumb on the side of the stock. This is similar in feel to shouldering a AR15 with a MMG on it.
The MMG-AR was designed to be used with the A2 Stock to prevent the thumb from wrapping up and over the grip. Most fixed stocks can be used with it though. Also, a Ambi Safety makes the rifle very functional.
California users must remove all banned features from their rifles (pistol grip, collapsable/telescoping stock, thumbhole stock, forward pistol grip, flash hider, & grenade/flare launcher) if they want to configure their rifle with the standard magazine release. Only for use on "off list" make and model rifles.
ATTENTION NEW YORK & other states, the MMG may benefit you guys as well. When using the grip, it often removes it from the "Assault Weapons" category of most states (See your local laws to be sure it will work for you).
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Each Harris Tweed coat has a fitted and shaped back panel, lined with polar fleece.
'2-strap' - The straps across the chest and stomach are separate. The stomach strap attaches under the back panel.
These can either be in the same material as the back, or in a contrasting colour. They are also lined with polar fleece and joined to the back panel by 4 buttons - 2 on the chest strap and 2 on the stomach strap.
Each dog coat is made to measure, which means a couple of fittings is needed to ensure measurements can be taken and final placement of the buttons/fixtures are right. If your dog wears a harness, a feature can be added to allow easy access, as in the photos shown.
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For mail order coats, as fittings are not possible, you will receive a calico pattern from the measurements to test that the fit is correct before cutting out the Harris tweed.
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Like a true citizen of Tibet, I have been critical of powers that be including LS as the president of CTA on policy, conduct, nepotism, regionalism, transparency, and accountability and the price I am paying is his personal attacks on me using his stooges today. What triggered the attacks is this informative piece https://thetibetstar.com/2018/02/21/president-sangay-and-the-sexual-assault-on-ms-leslie-butterfield/ I wasn't surprised because I was expecting it from a touchy vindictive man like him.
However, it's encouraging to be noticed and I will continue to speak up for our people and for our cause stronger than ever. Rights and responsibilities are not properties that belong only to the President, ministers and the parliamentarians. It also belongs to us –the people. Anyone who implies otherwise is either a fool or a threat to democracy and freedom around the world.
The details of the attacks will be released in the next article.
Till then stay strong and be determined to pay any price and when necessary make them pay a heavy price too for treading on a king cobra taking care of rats that are destroying our crops.
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I think this guy deserves whatever appreciation he wishes. "Shea Hembrey wanted to stage an international art show so he invented 100 artists and made all of their work too" (via b7om). You must watch his speech at TED Conference that suddenly revealed a nonsense of contemporary art :)


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(NECN: Kathryn Sotnik, Franklin, Mass.) - Boston Police returned Wednesday night to the Franklin, Mass. apartment leased to former Patriot Aaron Hernandez. Franklin Police were also on the scene.
Police took several pieces of evidence from the apartment, to which investigators were tipped off by Hernandez's friend, Carlos Ortiz, allegedly with Hernandez on the night of the murder of Odin Lloyd.
NECN obtained the search warrant for the apartment. In the paperwork, Ortiz referred to the apartment as a "flop house," saying that not too many people knew about it.
Police, while not elaborating, mention cocaine in reference to the reason they visited the apartment.
The search warrants also explain that police uncovered guns and ammunition from the apartment, including 22 and 45 caliber ammunition, a box of wolf ammunition and a rifle. A 45 caliber gun was allegedly used to kill Lloyd.
Police also found a white hooded sweatshirt, similar to the one said to be worn by Hernandez on the night of Lloyd's death.
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Also referred to as the people's party, the Populists believed more power should be given to the government. The Populists were an independent political party of middle class activists that consisted of farmers and laborers.
Populists were the product of a social movement that was created in response to the changes in the American economy and society during the 1890s. The Populist party was the most successful third party since the Civil War, but it eventually failed as a third party. In the 1896 election, Williams Jennings Bryant ran for president under the populist's party ticket but was defeated by the republican candidate. The party never recovered.


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The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: Torre pendente di Pisa) or simply the Tower of Pisa (Torre di Pisa [ˈtorre di ˈpiːza]) is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the Italian city ofPisa, known worldwide for its unintended tilt.
It is situated behind the Cathedral and is the third oldest structure in Pisa's Cathedral Square (Piazza del Duomo) after the Cathedral and the Baptistery. The tower's tilt began during construction, caused by an inadequate foundation on ground too soft on one side to properly support the structure's weight. The tilt increased in the decades before the structure was completed, and gradually increased until the structure was stabilized (and the tilt partially corrected) by efforts in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Learn more in wikipedia.org


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Police in Derry are appealing for information about an assault on two youths at the weekend.
Constable Black, the investigating officer, said the youths, who are aged 16 and 17, were walking to the Cityside via Ebrington Square with a group of friends after the fireworks display soon after midnight on Saturday.
"Two males in prison costumes walked past nudging one of the youths and taking a baseball bat that was part of the other's fancy dress costume. The two teenagers walked across Limavady Road. The two assailants then crossed the road and assaulted them.
"One of the teenagers was taken to hospital by ambulance with injuries to his face, back and hands.
"The assailants ran off towards Foyle Fold and we are keen to hear from anyone who can help identify them."
Anyone with information is asked to call the PSNI on the non-emergency number 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


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Picture this. On the ground floor of the house across the street from your home lives a couple with one child, a son, who is away abroad for most of the year. His parents send him on jaunts to Europe so he may soothe there his manic mind, which bursts to the fore soon as he's back in town. He screams demands and yells accusations of which their neighbours can hear every bit.
On the first floor of their house live their tenants, where the parents have two daughters, the elder of whom declares war on her father roughly twice monthly, and she is so scathing in her abuse that he can check himself only a short while before he begins his returns, loud but weak, and after a half-hour of taking the overwhelming oral beating he walks out and drives away and you hear only silence from behind the thick foliage where their house is. The silence holds until next time. That father, an artist, has enjoyed years of fame, and though he's out of public view these days, these spats within earshot of so many people would be hard for him to bear. Whether it's the father who suffers more, or the daughter, you cannot tell.
Picture this. The folks in the ivy-clad house six houses down the street live in Europe almost all months of the year, even in winter, and they are very successful doctors, but the bigger success in the family is the daughter, who is a constitutional lawyer, a lawyer making a name in Europe, but she's steeped in acute depression that she manages to keep secret where she works. She has a psychiatrist for a mother. You see the mother when she visits, only the mother not the daughter, and you see the wash of the daughter's suffering over the mother's face.
Also picture this. The daughter of the family on the corner of your street is an accomplished singer who has given classical performances across the nation, but she was brought down by in-laws resentful of her public shows, and she sings no more now, and has returned to her parents and retired at a young age to silence and to days of walking her little boy up and down the street.
That's four families among five that you know on your street, along which stand some thirty other houses each with its own public and private stories. Consider now the man in the other home that you know, some distance up the street, and hold that man who happens to be your age and is holed up in his house, and yourself, to honest light, that lone dull light that is all the light you've been able to access lately.
You have considered all six of six, and you have a statistic that is a match with this monsoon morning in June.


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TUCKER CARLSON, MSNBC HOST: The Republican Party will not nominate Rudy Giuliani for the presidency at least not according to Senator Sam Brownback. Welcome to the show. Before he withdrew from the race in the afternoon, Brownback addressed the value voter summit at the Family Research Council here in Washington. Brownback told the press that the Republican will nominate a pro life that Rudy Giuliani simply does not fit that bill.
Guiliani has led the Republican field in most national polls for most of the year despite predictions that his descent was only a matter of time. It hasn't happened yet.
Who will leave the value voters summit with the support of evangelicals? Well, according to Kate O'Beirne of The National Review" the Republican Party's best candidate may be Senator John McCain. The reasoning? McCain is a strong and consistent pro lifer, has always been. He is perceived to be tough on national defense and he is record of fiscal restraint.
Add to that mix his reputation as a maverick and maybe it's time to look again at the man who was once front runner when all this began.
In a moment we'll be joined by a McCain supporter in Congress and after that by Kate O'Beirne herself.
Also today the Jena 6 are back in the news. Two of the six students who beat up a student on racial grounds in Jena, Louisiana, received a standing ovation Thursday night when they presented an award on BET. To support the civil rights of people who may have been treated harshly by the criminal justice system is one thing. To lionize two kids who joined four others to beat up an innocent victim seems quite another. We'll discuss it.
And the disgust is widespread over Congressman Pete Starks' suggestion Thursday that President Bush is quote, "amused" by the killing of American soldiers in Iraq. What was he thinking when he said it? We'll have reaction from both sides, but we begin with value voter summit the question of which Republican will land the support of conservative Christians. Joining me now is McCain supporter, Republican Congressman from California Dan Lungren.
Congressman, thanks a lot for coming on.
DAN LUNGREN, ® CA: My pleasure to be here.
CARLSON: So the central issue for lot of these voters is abortion, of course, and I wanted to play what Senator McCain said on that topic today at the summit. Listen to this.
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, ® PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I have been pro life my entire public career. I believe I am the only major candidate in either party who can make that claim.
I am pro life—I am pro life because I know what it is like to live without human rights, where human life is accorded no inherent value and I know that I have a personal obligation to advocate human rights wherever they are denied.
CARLSON: Boy, that's a pretty good argument. In one paragraph he ties together his personal history as POW with the support for pro life movement. Wraps up in a nice package, will that work? Is that enough?
LUNGREN: Well, I hope it's going to work. A lot of it depends on whether the electorate is going to be serious in this upcoming election. What I mean by that is, now we're talking about personalities, we're talking about who has the most money.
A lot of those things, if the voters start to concentrate on the serious issues before us, including the war, including this disaster we have about spending too much money, including our commitment to true social values, that John McCain has shown through his entire career, then I think what you're going to find is you're going to find that the voters are going to look to him seriously.
John started out as the front runner, fell way behind, believe me as one of his supporters I know how far behind he fell. But in some ways he's been liberated now we see John McCain as those of who have served with him know him. He has been a consistent pro lifer from the '80s when I served with him in the House, he has not wavered in his direction on what we need to do in the war. And on spending, no one can say he's a Johnny-come-lately. As a matter of fact he's oftentimes gotten the ire of his colleagues precisely because he has been so tough on spending.
CARLSON: I'm not disagreeing with anything you say. But you have to acknowledge that one of the reasons he's fallen so far behind, one of the reasons he raised so little money and now in debt because conservatives don't trust him. Why is that?
LUNGREN: Well, I think because John has angered some of his friends as well as his enemies. John .
CARLSON: He's pretty nice to his enemies.
LUNGREN: I think John's wrong on the issue of funding for campaigns, for instance. I think he's dead wrong on that. But on the key issues, not just politically but to the importance of the long term interests of this country.
The war and beyond the war in Iraq, the entire fight against Islamofascism, he's not afraid to call it that. On spending we are in a train wreck with respect to spending on the federal level. He's been fighting that for a long time. And when you talk about pro life, I've with him there when he has voted the tough votes on pro life. When he stood with us overnight when we tried to get a constitutional amend tomorrow protect the flag.
And talked about his experiences as someone in the Hanoi Hilton for five and a half years knowing that that single symbol of the United States meant something more than any other symbol and that's why we ought to attach some significance to it. Even put it in the Constitution.
He talked about those things without apology. But a lot of people have not heard that, at least they haven't concentrated on that. Part of I think what we need to do now is supporters of his is direct people to that record so they can see, he's not just saying it, he's lived it.
CARLSON: Speaking of his life, and its bearing on the campaign in his speech today to Christian conservatives in Washington he made reference to faith and God forged in prison that he spent time, God helped him when he was behind bars. He apparently has changed his religious affiliation from Episcopalian to Baptist, what's that about? And what's .
LUNGREN: I've never talked with John about the fact that he was Episcopalian and now attends a Baptist church. I take it on what he said publicly that's the church my wife, my family and I attend. John has never been one to wear his Christianity on his sleeve. But if you look at what he has done in his public life, he has been consistent with the Judeo-Christian ethic that is the bedrock of our foundational institutions and Constitution. He's not afraid to say that without having consideration for others who have a different point of view. He's able to say that, he's able to walk that line in part because of the life history that he has.
And I think that's one of the important things now. If the voters start to look at his life history, both what he went through in Vietnam but also how he has served this country in the House and in the Senate. They will see consistency which I think the American people are looking for.
CARLSON: McCain is not an easy guy to get along with. I find his personality appealing, I'll say it point blank, but he's not very popular on Capitol Hill as you know because when he has contempt for you he can't hide it, he drips with contempt. Now he's dripping with contempt for Mitt Romney. Every time he mention's Romney's name you feel like he wants to spit, why?
LUNGREN: I think that's over .
CARLSON: Come on, have you seen him lately? Everything he says about Romney. I despise you.
LUNGREN: John does have a tendency or has had a tendency in the past to have a temper, all of those of us who served with him on the Hill know that. We recognize that. He's not running for saint, he's running for president.
The fact of the matter is he feels passionately about consistency, about honor, about commitment. That drives him. I've seen it on the floor of the House of the Representatives.
CARLSON: He thinks Romney is a phony? Is that it?
LUNGREN: I didn't say that. What I said is, he is trying to tell his story. He understands that he doesn't have the money to tell his story the way the other candidates do. You can say that's the way he ran his campaign before or whatever but that happens to be the fact right now.
And so in a very real sense john is back to being the guy who is fighting from the back to try to get to the front as opposed to the front runner trying to use the money to put his issues out there. That didn't work. This is the John I know. This is the fighter I know. And this is the fighter that I think the American people will have some reaction to and have a resonance with.
CARLSON: Got to hope so. Dan Lungren, congressman from California Thanks very much.
LUNGREN: Thank you very much.
But John McCain has had some problems with Christian conservatives, will they come back to him anyway now that they face the specter of Rudy Giuliani. Plus two of the so so-called Jena 6 defendants presented the biggest award at BET's hip hop award show last night.
They were greeted with a standing ovation. They may have been mistreated but should they be treated as heroes? That's next.
CARLSON: Like sands through an hour glass, so too are the days of John McCain's presidential campaign. The Arizona senator has been scrutinized like no other candidate in some time, pundits have written him off, many social conservatives simply have turned their backs on him. Recently he's begun to show signs of life in the polls.
Maybe, just maybe he is the sleeper to watch. This weekend Republican candidates are courting the so-called values vote at conference here in Washington. McCain spoke at it today. Was it enough?
Joining me, MSNBC political analyst and Democratic strategist Hillary Rosen and the "National Review's" Kate O'Beirne.
Welcome to you both. Kate, here is what you write in "National Review." Part of what you write about McCain. You say, "When the false assumptions that the case for Giuliani are stripped away, McCain emerges as the stronger candidate." What are those false assumptions and what does that mean?
KATE O'BEIRNE, "NATIONAL REVIEW": As between John McCain and Rudy Giuliani, and I argue I think in the piece that maybe John McCain hasn't been scrutinized enough by conservatives, relative to the other candidates in this field. Two false assumption it seems underlie the Rudy Giuliani candidacy, one is that he'd be the most effective candidate against Hillary Clinton which polls show Republicans overwhelmingly believe to be the case.
If you look at actual head to head polling, though, that's not the case. John McCain polls against Hillary Clinton every bit as well. And sometimes better. Than does Rudy Giuliani. Both benefit from being the best known Republicans in the field. So that false assumption should not be helping Rudy Giuliani as it is. And the second one is, that social conservatives will have to put aside their concern with social issues because we face this enormous threat from terrorism and national security should take precedent, prominence over social issues.
But with John McCain you don't have to make that choice. Many conservatives recognize that John McCain has more national security experience than Rudy Giuliani, and has the most solid pro life report in the field. So you don't have to choose between .
CARLSON: It seems like a no brainer and yet if you look at the map, Hilary, it's kind of hard to see where John McCain wins or the John McCain resurgence really sort of bites in and starts moving forward. Do you see where?
HILARY ROSEN, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: He's not playing in Iowa, so far. But New Hampshire is a place he's always done well. He could still do well in New Hampshire. But I'm just so delighted with John McCain's resurgence as the true conservative. I've been saying on this show and on TV for a year that he's actually the true conservative. And you've been agreeing with that. The idea that everybody else has so readily dismissed him as that candidate .
CARLSON: He's very annoying to conservatives that's part of the problem.
Even though he is conservative.
ROSEN: Republicans don't trust him.
CARLSON: No. Because he's—I like John McCain. Most annoying candidate
by far.
ROSEN: But these things have a life of their own if after—if Rudy Giuliani is moving south you have 25 percent of the general voter population as white evangelicals. They're saying they're not going to support Rudy Giuliani. You have a significantly higher portion of that in the primary. They need somebody, and Fred Thompson just isn't shining through the way they were hoping he would. I think that's why people are looking at Kohn McCain because Fred Thompson is not the alternative.
CARLSON: It makes sense to me. I kind of like Fred Thompson's sort of laid back, Fred Thompson does not have plans for my life, I like that about Fred Thompson. He'll go to bed early.
O'BEIRNE: He has a natural appeal to conservatives, too.
CARLSON: He—doesn't have a master plan. He's not going to tell me to eat carrots.
O'BEIRNE: HE doesn't have a minor plan much less a master plan.
CARLSON: That's all right. He's like Bush pre 9/11
O'BEIRNE: These times call for a little bit .
CARLSON: But McCain wouldn't be in this position right now, he would have been the anointed candidate, I believe, had he not gone out of his way to stick his finger in the eye of bunch of symbolic issues and taunt conservatives. Why did he do that?
O'BEIRNE: He was of course a year ago the presumptive front runner leading in all the polls in name recognition. He certainly didn't help himself by sponsoring comprehensive immigration reform in the spring. Now it's not a symbolic issue as you well know.
CARLSON: No, that's not.
O'BEIRNE: And it completely reflects John McCain's convictions.
CARLSON: I think that's completely fair. That's all I'm talking about here. That's honest disagreement. I disagree with him profoundly. But I think he believes and that's totally sincere. I mean calling Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, who I never defend but agents of intolerance is, why do that. Why go out of your way like campaign finance reform to make the NRA mad.
ROSEN: As you recall he was doing that during the 2000 election where 20 percent, 20 to 25 percent of New Hampshire's voters are independents. That went over big with independent voters.
CARLSON: He won by 19 points for that reason.
ROSEN: So that's not a bad strategy if you're running against somebody as strong as George Bush was. I think that the problem now is, he has to recapture them and in doing so he has just looked like he has as few values as almost all those other Republican flip floppers in the race.
O'BEIRNE: But he's not changing any of his .
ROSEN: Now he has to get back to where .
O'BEIRNE: He's not changing his positions. He modified immigration, his message now is, we heard you loud and clear, you don't trust Washington to secure the borders. So he now backs something more like consecutive reform. He doesn't have to flip on anything else though which I think is a strength. One lucky thick for him, he now looking to appeal to those conservative Christian voters. They are obliged Hilary to forgive him.
CARLSON: You think they're obliged?
O'BEIRNE: They're totally obliged. Serious Christians.
CARLSON: I talked to someone who was there today when he spoke who said, you know, he said the right things but said them without passion.
ROSEN: He said—I think he actually said it in very John McCain way. I'm not going to con you. Which is not exactly, I'm going to agree with you. It's when I disagree with you, I'm going to tell you. Which is exactly really what people don't want to hear. People really want to you agree with him.
CARLSON: Of course they .
ROSEN: They don't want you to be honest. They want you to pander.
CARLSON: I host a TV show, you're telling me? You don't pander, demagogue, you get nowhere.
O'BEIRNE: Think of a national election because one thing at the moment is causing conservatives to give a second look to John McCain the imperative to beat Hillary Clinton next year. When they look for someone who can keep the base of the Republican Party intact, base it as one five out of the last seven presidential elections. Social, economic and national security conservatives. John McCain could do that. Have some appeal to independents. And be authentic.
I think a weakness of Hillary Clinton's is that people think she's something of a phony. So the authenticity that John McCain brings could .
CARLSON: I disagree. I think you want Hillary to be phony. You don't want the real Hillary.
I'm sorry. We're totally—We'll be right back. I promise.
We'll deconstruct the real Hillary in just a moment but meanwhile, two of the members of the so-called Jena 6 are getting standing ovation at the BET Hip Hop Awards last night.
The show hosts says they weren't condoning the racial beating of a white student, but were they?
Plus Chinatown is filling Hillary's fortune cookies with lots of dough, even if they're not making a lot of it. And has her rivals questioning her ethics. We've got details coming up. We'll be right back.
CARLSON: Remember the Jena 6? Well, they're the group of black teenagers who allegedly beat up a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana, apparently for racial reasons. Well, last night at the Hip Hop Awards in Atlanta two of the accused appeared on stage on BET to help present the video of the year award. Were they with booed? No, when they walked out onstage they were greeted withstanding ovation.
Yes they may have been treated unfairly by the justice system, I think they were treated unfairly but are they heroes?
Back with us now, MSNBC political analyst and Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen and the "National Review's" Kate O'Beirne.
Hillary, it seems, this is a line from the BET blog message board, which I don't typically read, but this is the news story. "These kids should not be made out to be celebrities. If anything, they should be humbled and go home not be trying to get celebrity status off of tragedy."
That kind of sums up my feelings. And shame on anybody who would present people who beat the crap out of a kid for no reason as celebrities.
ROSEN: Well, there's so many wrong facts in what you just said I don't know where to start. As practical matter, there was an unfortunate school yard fight. And there was—
CARLSON: There was a fight?
ROSEN: There was—it was fight, there was hitting both ways.
CARLSON: It was six on one. He was knocked unconscious the other kids kicked him on the ground.
ROSEN: You can argue whether it was provoked or not. The judge basically decided .
CARLSON: Six on one is a fight?
ROSEN: That it was repeat, there were multiple occasions. I'm not saying these boys were not guilty. But basically the judge decided to try them as adults. And decided that what the white kids did, you know all along were pranks. Now, you can .
CARLSON: No, because what the white kids did .
ROSEN: These guys should not have been tried as adults.
CARLSON: I agree with that completely.
ROSEN: The justice system treated them like much more hardened criminals than they were.
CARLSON: I agree with that.
ROSEN: There was no leadership on the ground. And I think what you say at the BET Awards was overwhelming frustration with the justice system that lets these kids .
CARLSON: These kids beat up a white guy because he was white. There's no evidence he had anything to do with the noose hanging. Even if he did .
ROSEN: I saw the reception this they got at the BET Awards is twofold if you kept reading what they were doing was. Applauding some social justice activity on the part of the community, on the part of BET. And a recognition that these issues of racism are not over. And that these kids are today's symbol of racism whether you want to buy that or not.
CARLSON: You know what, I totally—not only reject it. I think there is racism in this country, I'm not denying that. And I think these kids were charged with crimes that were too severe for what they did. And I'm not defending that at all. I'm merely saying if you look for new civil rights hero, six kids who beat up a kid because he's white and beat him unconscious, they're not your Rosa Parks.
ROSEN: There were nooses hanging from trees.
CARLSON: This kid didn't hang the noose from the tree.
ROSEN: But there were multiple .
CARLSON: So he's white so he gets beaten up?
ROSEN: What I'm saying you can so easily dismiss the fact that they were mistreated by the judge and the justice system.
CARLSON: That doesn't mean the kid should be beaten up.
ROSEN: You can't recognize the victim that they .
CARLSON: I absolutely can. I think they were mistreated by the justice system. That doesn't mean that the kid should be beaten up because he's white. That's all I'm saying.
ROSEN: No one is saying that.
CARLSON: Of course they're saying that. They're saying these guys are heroes. No, they're not.
ROSEN: No, they're applauding them for standing up and letting their case be emblematic of what is happening .
CARLSON: I think they're really flawed. Pick a Rosa Parks. Someone who is blameless.
O'BEIRNE: There are so many worthy young black kids, worthy young black kids who would have enjoyed being there at the awards ceremony. These six or two representing the six, were there because they picked on a white kid, beat him unconscious, kept kicking him, because he was white. That kid had nothing to do with the previous .
ROSEN: Those kids were there because 10,000 African Americans and ally coalition members went to Jena, Louisiana to, make this case the emblematic of the justice ..
CARLSON: I get that.
ROSEN: That's why they were there. Not because they were heroes.
O'BEIRNE: You can think they shouldn't be tried as adults. You can think that there was total over reaction in what they were charged with, seriousness of the offenses. And also recognize that they should not enjoy being celebrated.
CARLSON: We've got to go to a commercial break now. Hillary Clinton is finding good fortune in New York's Chinatown, 380 grand worth. Is that money legal? Remarkable tales coming up. Plus Barack Obama's calling for resignation of chief of voting rights in the justice department for remarks he has made. We've got the tape coming up.
CARLSON: Hillary Clinton can raise money with the best of them. In fact, she does it better than the best of them, having raised more money to this point in the presidential campaign than anyone ever in history. The "L.A. Times" today examines the source of some of that money, the low income waiters, dishwashers and street stall hawkers of New York's China Town neighborhood.
From that impoverished population in the month of April alone the Clinton campaign gathered a remarkable 380,000 dollars. How did they do it? How are Mrs. Clinton's rivals reacting to what they did?
Joining me now MSNBC political analyst and Democratic strategist Hillary Rosen and the "National Review's" Kate O'Beirne. Hillary, this is an amazing story. Here—I just want to throw on the screen—if you haven't read this story get the to the "L.A. Times." But here is just a quote that says a lot to me: "Clinton has enlisted the aid of Chinese neighborhood associations, especially those representing recent immigrants from the Fujan province. The organizations, at least one of which is a descendant of a China Town criminal enterprise that engaged in gambling and human trafficking, exert enormous influence over immigrants. Many of Clinton's donors said they had contributed because leaders in the neighborhood told them to. In some cases, donors said they felt pressure to give."
Human trafficking? Pressure to give? Could it be sleazier than that?
ROSEN: Well, it couldn't be sleazier than that if any of that were true and the Clinton campaign has completely disassociated with any of that. There's no one quoted in that story affiliated with the Clinton campaign who actually says that that's true. This fund raiser was organized—
CARLSON: Of course they're not going to.
ROSEN: Actually Hillary Clinton's campaign over the course of the last six or seven months has been probably as scrupulous as anybody can imagine, after their one unfortunate incident with the—
CARLSON: Have they given back all the money—all the donors who told the "L.A. Times," I felt pressure to give, that money should be returned. You would agree? But they haven't returned it.
ROSEN: If, in fact, that's true, then they would.
CARLSON: Do you think the "L.A. Times" is making it up?
ROSEN: I think Chung Sido (ph), who was the organizer of that event, said people came from all over the city for that event. This person was the former director of the New York State Democratic Party. This is a legitimate operation. There were people, according to the campaign, who ranged from doctors to lawyers to community workers to everybody. This sort of fabrication makes no sense. And you know what—
CARLSON: Fabrication?
ROSEN: If people are—
CARLSON: So the "L.A. Times" is a right wing paper?
ROSEN: If people were actually coerced, if people actually have legitimate beef, the campaign is going to be the first ones to give their money back.
CARLSON: Here is what the "L.A. Times" found. Again the "L.A. Times" is not known as a conservative paper with an axe to grind against Mrs. Clinton. In fact, it's a very liberal paper. Here's what it says, quote, "the Times examined the cases of more than 150 donors who provided checks to Clinton after fund raising events geared to the Chinese community. One-third of those donors could not be found using property, telephone or business records. Most have not registered to vote, according to public records."
That's pretty unbelievable. You're supposed to be—the whole point of disclosing your name, address, occupation is so people can track you down, so we have accountability in our system. One-third couldn't be found?
ROSEN: That was one-third by an "L.A. Times" reporter. There are FDC reports and there are—there is reporting requirements. If they're not met, then the money will be dealt with. I think the campaign has been pretty open and said, listen, if there are mistakes, we'll rectify them. We always have.
CARLSON: Mistakes, so dishwashers are giving 2,000 dollars to a presidential campaign? Come on.
O'BEIRNE: It's a devastating story. An awful lot of these people, it seems to me, are either straw men and don't exist. We'll presumably find out if they do exist. Maybe the campaign can find them. Or they have been strong armed in a way, because, as the paper reports, they're dishwashers.
They're not even registered to vote and they're showing a level of interest
ROSEN: Every campaign has over eager volunteers trying to show off for candidates. Every campaign has that.
O'BEIRNE: Actually John Kerry didn't. If this person is such a fabulous fund raiser in China Town, why didn't she go to work for John Kerry. He raised 10 percent of this amount in China Town for his whole presidential race.
ROSEN: This money was raised from all over the city.
O'BEIRNE: In the same community, he raised a fraction of this.
CARLSON: Answer this question, if you would, should the Hillary Clinton campaign be raising money from people who are not U.S. citizens and are not registered to vote? Is that ethical?
ROSEN: Of course not.
CARLSON: The vast majority of these people are not U.S. citizens.
The overwhelming majority are not U.S. citizens and cannot vote.
ROSEN: Well, that's actually not proven yet. That's simply an allegation in a story. And what the campaign has said is, if anything proves to be the case, they're going to return the donations. That's what's happened before.
CARLSON: Shouldn't they be screening this ahead of time? If you go down and start raising money from dishwashers and restaurant workers—I mean, I have nothing against them. I feel sorry for them. That's the second thing. The Times found out that a lot of these people gave money because they had family members in China and they believe that Mrs. Clinton, who has sponsored legislation unsuccessfully to reunite families, can help.
The piece made the point that she is, quote, exploiting the vulnerabilities of recent immigrants. It's a sad story.
O'BEIRNE: The larger issue—and it's getting so much attention, as it should—the larger issue is a problem for Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton's campaign is now saying exactly what Bill and Hillary said all during the '90s when similar instances were raised. Again, it happens to be with Chinese fund raisers. If anything is wrong, we'll make retribution. We'll return any illicit funds. Then a boat load of people fled the country and pled guilty or got convicted.
It has—it doesn't help her campaign to have this terrible flashback to what we went through in the '90s.
ROSEN: There's no question that this is not a good scenario. But I do think that the campaign has been direct. They have been open and they've been aggressive about screening where they can.
O'BEIRNE: They sure don't learn their lesson having gone through this in the 1990's.
ROSEN: There are a lot of events. There's a lot to do. The fact that they work with trusted community leaders is something that is—
CARLSON: The bottom line for me it's obvious, immediately obvious, that the vast majority of people in this donor pool, all of whom I'm sure are decent, hard working people, are not American citizens.
ROSEN: You're reading a story that—where there are no names.
There are not—
CARLSON: There are plenty of names. They show up to all these addresses that don't exist. The people aren't there. I've never heard of that person. He doesn't work here. Who's he? It's clear so much of this is a sham. I just think they should be screening better.
ROSEN: It's clear that so much of this is a lot of vagueries in a story that is yet to be proven.
CARLSON: I hope. I think the—
O'BEIRNE: The problem is it sounds like the Buddhist temple all over again and they're very slow learners.
ROSEN: It may feel like something you think you know, but until you do, we should be careful judging it.
CARLSON: Pete Stark, yesterday, Comrade Pete, Pete Stark, who is one of the more radical and widely renowned as one of the most unpleasant people in the U.S. Congress said this yesterday. You know, let's just play it again. This is during a debate. This is his two minute statement during a debate on SCHIP, the children's health care program. Here's what he said.
REP. PETE STARK (D), CALIFORNIA: You don't have money to fund the war or children. But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement.
CARLSON: This is a guy who six years ago accused J.C. Watts, the only black Republican in the House of Representatives, of having six illegitimate children. Untrue. It was just clearly out of control. Why did it take until just a minute ago for Speaker Nancy Pelosi to issue a pretty sensible statement saying that was inappropriate. Why didn't she do it right away?
ROSEN: I don't know because it's pretty obvious it was a ridiculous statement and it's pretty obvious it was distracting. But it's also pretty obvious that it is so not a point of what the whole day in Congress was yesterday, which was discussion of the president vetoing a bill to bring health insurance to poor children. And what are we all talking about, Pete Stark's 30 seconds.
CARLSON: You're right.
ROSEN: Instead of the fact that there is a huge discussion here with no leadership on how we fix this really important insurance program. It was a dumb thing to stay.
O'BEIRNE: It was a disgraceful statement, although he's been a disgrace in the past. He, of course, smeared our troops, accusing them of blowing up innocent people. I think the reason is always there would seem to be a delay in Nancy Pelosi condemning it is sometimes tonally they just don't understand what this sounds like to people. And there's been such a blow back against him that she finally belatedly is saying something.
I don't know why their instincts aren't better when they see a senior member of their caucus smearing our troops, saying such a disgraceful thing about the commander in chief. They ought to be faster on the dime.
CARLSON: Hillary Clinton is—because she is at this point the front returner by a dramatic margin, has decided to go after rural Americans. They're now an interest group too, along with Pacific islanders and everyone else. Rural Americans for Hillary has a lunch scheduled—if this account can be believed. This is so amazing, I don't really believe it. But I'll throw it out here anyway.
The lunch for rural Americans for Hillary is in a lobbying firm in Washington, D.C.
O'BEIRNE: Probably serving Ethanol.
CARLSON: Could that be real?
ROSEN: If there were corn products on the menu that would be good for Iowa.
CARLSON: The Edwards campaign is upset, because nobody is allowed to talk to rural America apart from John Edwards, whose father, you may have word, once worked in a mill.
O'BEIRNE: I didn't know that.
CARLSON: That's what I heard anyway. John Edwards is from a rural state. His father once work in a mill. To which another rival unnamed campaign, presumably Hillary's campaign, points out that Edwards, too, has ties to Monsanto (ph), which is an agra-business.
ROSEN: You know, the fact is, when you get to the kinds of money that these folks are raising, on both sides of the aisle, there are a lot of business interests all over the place. These candidates have to be incredibly careful. It makes no sense to—talk about tone deaf? It feels more tone deaf when you have that much control over a smaller group of people than when you have community fund raisers going out raising money.
CARLSON: So you're saying, as a political matter, if you are going to
have a meeting of Rural Americans for Hillary, you probably shouldn't do it
ROSEN: Maybe ought to be in a rural area.
CARLSON: Right, like in a corn field or under an oak tree. Not in a lobbyist's office. Is that what you're saying?
ROSEN: Having said that, there's a whole program where Hillary Clinton is speaking to rural voters and this could have been just a small piece of that message.
CARLSON: I know they're going to say she won upstate New York, and she did, in her last election. It's hard to see Hillary Clinton connecting with a lot of rural voters. Is it?
O'BEIRNE: I find it rather hard to see how she might do it. I don't think it will be scolding them about their eating habits, which she's taken to doing lately.
CARLSON: No one has worse eating habits than rural America. I don't mean that at all as a criticism because those are my eating habits, too. Should she be telling us what to eat? I just wonder about that. Should she be telling us like—if you are already thought of as a scolding nag who wants to control other people's lives should you—
ROSEN: It's so interesting to me. I've read this recently in Mark Penn's book how we're somehow the most health conscious generation that ever lived, and yet we're the most obese generation as well. It is this sad irony.
CARLSON: We don't like it when other people point it out and scold us for it.
ROSEN: No one wants to be told.
CARLSON: I don't. Thank you both very much. Have a good weekend.
One of the biggest scandals to rock Washington in recent years is coming to the big screen. We've got details on who is playing whom when we dish out the D.C. Dirt coming up.
It's always a bit tricky, meanwhile, navigating the world of Washington politics. Still ahead, our chief cat walk correspondent Bill Wolff tells us how that's also true in the world of high fashion. He's done the reporting coming up.
CARLSON: Welcome back. Just when you thought the show could not get more informative, we bring you what is really happening here in Washington, D.C. Joining us now to do that, Roxanne Roberts and Amy Argetsinger, the ladies of the "Washington Post's" universally -- I mean universally read gossip column, "The Reliable Source," live in the studio for the first time. It's so nice to see you.
AMY ARGETSINGER, "THE WASHINGTON POST": Nice to finally meet you.
ROXANNE ROBERTS, "THE WASHINGTON POST": It's worth the traffic.
CARLSON: Seeing you in person reminds me of something I've been wondering all day, what's the latest on Valerie Plame?
ARGETSINGER: You know, this week has been like a 2003 nostalgia trip for us. First thing that happens is it comes out that they are making a movie about Judy Miller.
ROBERTS: No, it's not really about Judy.
ARGETSINGER: You're right, it's not really the Judy Miller movie. It happens to be starring the gorgeous British actress Kate Beckensale (ph) in the not Judy Miller role, as a reporter who happens to go to jail to protect her CIA source.
ROBERTS: If I was Judy, I'd be very pleased about that.
ARGETSINGER: We repeat, not Judy Miller. But it's interesting because the interesting irony is that Judy Miller's old attorney, Floyd Abrams (ph), is taking a role in the movie as—
CARLSON: Father of our own Dan Abrams.
ARGETSINGER: He's taking a role not as the lawyer of not Judy Miller, but as the judge who sends not Judy Miller to jail.
ROBERTS: If I was Judy, I'd be very pleased.
CARLSON: Has the real Judy Miller weighed in on this?
ARGETSINGER: She has quietly let it be known that she's not thrilled about Floyd's involvement. However, she did agree to have lunch with Floyd and Kate Beckensale (ph).
CARLSON: I wish I had been there. Speaking of the Plame case, whatever happened to Patrick Fitzgerald, the sort of intense prosecutor everybody in the media seemed to love.
ROBERTS: Funny should you ask.
CARLSON: Something going on with him?
ROBERTS: He's engaged.
ARGETSINGER: The heartthrob of Washington—when he came on the scenes two years ago, women were calling our column saying what can you tell us about this gorgeous hunk of a special prosecutor.
CARLSON: That's sick.
ARGETSINGER: Isn't it sick?
CARLSON: That is sick. If there's anybody who is into some weird stuff, it's Patrick Fitzgerald. Let's be totally honest. He's one intense unhappy guy.
ROBERTS: He is a straight arrow.
ARGETSINGER: He is single, or was.
ROBERTS: He is sort of handsome, but he was sort of like Mr. Straight arrow, right. Sort of tall, sort of burly, very masculine.
CARLSON: Seems like very repressed and angry to me.
ARGETSINGER: Some women like that. Anyway, so for months people would ask us what is going on with his love life, very secretive guy. We could never get anything out of him. Finally we got the word he's engaged. He's off the market, just like we lost eligible bachelor Harold Ford last week. Now we lose Patrick Fitzgerald. He's marrying a 34-year-old Chicago school teacher.
ROBERTS: Former investment banker turned Head Start teacher.
ARGETSINGER: Marathon runner.
ROBERTS: Very sweet.
CARLSON: Anything else going on?
ARGETSINGER: Well, we also just wrapped up third quarter of campaign finance data. So, of course, it's a great chance to see which Hollywood celebrities are endorsing or supporting which candidates. Found out all kinds of interesting stuff. Whoopi Goldberg coming out for Bill Richardson. She hosted a little cocktail party for the New Mexico governor with the ladies from "The View" in Sojo the other night.
Renee Zellweger has given a couple thousand dollars to Hillary Clinton.
ROBERTS: Robert Duvall is a Giuliani guy. He held a fund raiser for Rudy at his place in Virginia.
ARGETSINGER: As is Bo Derrick.
ROBERTS: Rudy blew off the—remember, the debate about blacks in America? Blew that off to hang out with Bo at a fund raiser in California.
ARGETSINGER: Are you sure about that?
ROBERTS: I am.
CARLSON: Fantastic. At least he had a good reason. Sean Penn?
ARGETSINGER: Gave 2,300 dollars to Dennis Kucinich.
CARLSON: I was going to call that, Dennis Kucinich.
ARGETSINGER: He also gave 4,600 dollars to John Edwards.
CARLSON: Because I sort of know Sean Penn and I know that he's a true believer. I don't agree with a single thing he's ever said, but I think he means it.
ROBERTS: You think he's a Dennis kind of guy.
CARLSON: Yes. I mean, if you really believe it, if you're not just playing, you're a Dennis Kucinich man.
ROBERTS: What about Ron Paul.
CARLSON: Or your a Ron Paul man on the other side.
ARGETSINGER: It's important to note that Sean Penn is sharing the love. he also gave 4,600 dollars to John Edwards.
CARLSON: That's not as good a choice. Ladies, thank you so much.
It's so nice to see you in person for the first time ever.
ARGETSINGER: Good to be here.
CARLSON: She did it again. The pop star whose career seems to be burning faster than the Hindenburg makes headlines with what seems like a joke but is not a joke. Bill Wolff has all the unfunny details ahead.
CARLSON: Welcome back. Joining us now for our final segment ever broadcast from One MSNBC Way, Secaucus, New Jersey, vice president of MSNBC, Bill Wolff.
BILL WOLFF, MSNBC VICE PRESIDENT: Bitter-sweetness in the air, Tucker. But let's get right to the real news of the day. Now, there is such a thing as too much Britney Spears news. So, at some point in the future, we will crease to report her every hapless move.
However, today, there is fresh news of the fallen and still falling pop tart. She was on her way out of a southern California medical facility yesterday in her motor coach when this happened—your video courtesy of the very fine Hollywood.com.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's OK. Is he all right?
WOLFF: That was Britney Spears running over the foot of a paparazzi. The guy was fine. Tucker, the even more important news centers on what kind of doctor Britney had just seen. Notice that her hand was over her mouth. The Internet Speculation, which is always right as you know, is that she had her lips plumped through the magic of collagen, Tucker.
CARLSON: Let me just say, I support Britney's choice running over that guy. I don't know. You used to be able to get your lips pumped up without being harassed by photographers. I think that's fair.
WOLFF: Should you really?
CARLSON: I think so. You know, whatever I do—if I see he operandi outside my plastic surgeon, I go out the back door.
WOLFF: You know what, I had tummy tuck about two weeks ago and there was a guy—enough already. Leave me alone. Let me live my life in private. I got supermodel news now for you, Tucker, also from Los Angeles. Where Fashion Week saw near tragedy. Here we have guy inflicting himself with pain with a failed Martial Arts move.
Note the hole in the runway right there. Next up, a classically under fed model. That's not her—there she is. Whoops, everything is fine until down she goes. Down goes the supermodel. She is wearing underpants, her mother will be glad to know. As a public service, I'm hoping we'll be able to, as she cleans herself up, run it again. There goes the model down. No reports of injuries. Also no reports of anything. It's a random piece of videotape. I'm not sure what happened afterwards. But it's a model falling through a very small hole in the floor, Tucker.
CARLSON: It's kind of a cute video, honestly.
WOLFF: If that's your thing. It just seems to me that if she had just mixed in a donut, perhaps an In and Out burger, she might have been—had more girth, and not fallen through the hole.
CARLSON: Blame the victim yet again. Bill Wolff.
WOLFF: That's my way. News from the design world now, Tucker, Dateline South Korea. This is the toilet house. Yes, the toilet house. It's a project of the Korea Toilet Association, a group that actually exists. Tucker, it look like a toilet. There you go.
It will be open by November 11th, when guests will be invited to spend a night in the luxury facilities, so to speak. The cost of one night's accommodation, so to speak, 50,000 dollars. Tucker, the money will go to the KTA, which will use it to provide toilets to developing countries. The Association says about 40 percent of the planet's residents live without toilets.
What's not clear about the toilet house is whether the garage will serve as the magazine rack. Thank you.
CARLSON: You know, as we often point out on this show, just when you're despairing of America's future and you think to yourself, this is the weirdest country on Earth, with Florida and California and Washington and—
WOLFF: Tennessee.
CARLSON: Exactly right. You look over to Asia where they take weirdness to an art form, a kind of living Oragami.
WOLFF: There it is. Look at that, the toilet house. There was an old woman who lived in a toilet?
CARLSON: Would you spend the night there, Bill?
WOLFF: Of course. My favorite room in the house. But enough about me.
CARLSON: That's absolutely repulsive. Thanks for sharing.
WOLFF: Finally, Tucker, movie news. As you said, it's a bitter-sweet day, because today is the last weekday that MSNBC News's live TV news operation will originate in Secaucus, New Jersey. All around me, but out of view of this camera, folks are boxing up the memories of 11 glorious years in the swamp, preparing to land eight miles east of here at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and NBC News World Headquarters on Monday morning.
There it is. You will notice on Monday certain differences in MSNBC's fine news programming, namely amazing new sets, better news coverage and a market drop in stories about the national car of New Jersey, the bitching Camero, the official hair care product of New Jersey, Aqua Net, and the president of the United States of New Jersey, Mr. Jon Bon Jovi. Thanks, New Jersey. You get a bad rap in a lot of ways.
CARLSON: I thought Bruce was the president and Jon Bon Jovi was V.P.
WOLFF: Where you been buddy? Jon Bon Jovi is the emperor of everything that happens between the Hudson and Pennsylvania.
CARLSON: Bill Wolff for the last time from New Jersey. Thanks.
WOLFF: Have a great weekend.
CARLSON: You too. That does it for us. Thanks for watching. Up next, "HARDBALL" with Chris. We'll be back Monday. See you then.
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Real food ranch dressing recipe (Dairy-free, sugar-free)February 24, 2014
Several weeks ago this photo of my ranch dressing got a lot of attention on Instagram and Facebook.
Apparently, everyone likes ranch. Me too!
But here's what I don't like about the classic Hidden Valley Ranch we all grew up with:
Soybean Oil, Water, Egg Yolk, Sugar, Salt, Cultured Nonfat Buttermilk, Natural Flavors (Soy), Spices, less than 1% of: Dried Garlic, Dried Onion, Vinegar, Phosphoric Acid, Xanthan Gum, Modified Food Starch, Monosodium Glutamate, Artificial Flavors, Disodium Phosphate, Sorbic Acid and Calcium Disodium EDTA as Preservatives, Disodium Inosinate and Disodium Guanylate.
Anything that starts with a low-quality processed oil and ends with the word "Guanylate" does not belong in my body, or yours. And why, oh why, does every salad dressing need sugar in it? Ridiculous.
This is what we need to change about our food, in my opinion. It's not about choosing between paleo or vegan or whatever. It's just about cleaning the junk out and eating…real food.
Anyway, this has been a favorite recipe from my Reinvent Clean Living Immersion program for some time. But then I found myself making it again. And again. Using it for salads. Dipping veggies. Even topping eggs.
I determined that we all need ranch in our lives. So here it is, my gift to you. Promise me you'll never buy the bottled stuff again. Pretty please?
- 1 cup unsalted cashews
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (about 3 lemons)
- 1 Tbl. dried parsley
- 1 Tbl. dried dill
- 2 tsp. onion powder
- 1½ tsp. salt
- Soak cashews in water overnight. Alternatively, you can soak cashews in boiling water for 1 hour.
- Drain and rinse cashews.
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Henry McMichael is the 3rd generation McMichael from Holts Summit, Missouri. The McMichael family has been an active part in the growth of Holts Summit for generations. This community is an important part of his life.
Henry served 3 1/2 years in Army Intelligence with time in Vietnam. He worked for National Cash Register (NCR) for 32 years while he was actively involved in real estate. He has been a licensed Broker for 33 years. While raising a family he developed 5 subdivisions: Mer-Mac Hills, Maplewood, Brentwood North, Hickory Nut Lane and Wildwood. All located in the Holts Summit area.
Henry's passion in real estate lies with selling land. This likely stems from his lifetime of farming and working the land. He enjoys walking the acres of ground and envisioning the possibilities. As a matter of fact, if he could have super power, he would love to be able to fly so he could soar over and enjoy the lands he sells.
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Don't expect to catch Chicago Bears wide receiver Earl Bennett stressing over his fantasy football lineup. He doesn't care for the popular pastime, he explained on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio.
"When I'm out, the first thing is like, 'Hey Earl, how you doing? Nice to meet you. Oh by the way, you didn't get me any points this weekend in fantasy.' Or, 'By the way, you got me "X" amount of points in fantasy.' So it's like, It just bugs me," Bennett said. "Everybody calls me like, 'Yo, who should I start this week?' I'm like, 'Man, leave me alone.'"
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ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. - A Federal Emergency Management Agency official has been arrested in connection with a voter fraud case in St. Johns County.
Michel Pawlowski, 68, was named in a complaint last fall alleging voter fraud. He lives in Maryland. His daughter ran for St. Augustine Beach city commission and won.
According to the charging affidavit, Pawlowski signed a voter registration form in which he reported his legal address in St. Augustine Beach and voted by absentee ballot in the general election in November 2010, the presidential primary in January 2012, and the general election last November.
According to the affidavit, Pawlowski got a Florida driver's license this year and also bought a house with his daughter in St. Augustine Beach this year. When asked why he registered his name as a Florida voter, he couldn't explain, according to the affidavit.
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Dr. Oz's yacon syrup experiment found that some women who took it for a month lost weight. The syrup is extracted from the yacon plant in the Andes Mountains in South America.
The television doctor, born Mehmet Cengiz Oz, asked 60 women to try a teaspoon of yacon syrup for 28 days and around two-thirds completed the month
He said that of the 40 who took the syrup for a month, 29 lost weight; 14 lost five pounds or more but on average, only 2.9 pounds were lost, according to his show's website.
The average reduction in waist size was 1.9 inches, he added.
And 27 of the women recommended yacon as a weight loss aid.
"Yacon, a South American root which has been part of the Andean diet for hundreds of years, may be the next big thing to promote healthy weight loss," his website says. "Not only does it have the potential to significantly trim waistlines, it also appears to naturally support good digestion and regulate blood sugar – all without supplements or pills."
The women were tasked with taking a teaspon of the syrup with or before each meal–breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
"One 2009 study published in Clinical Nutrition followed 55 obese Argentine women who took about 3-4 teaspoons of yacon syrup over the course of a day," it reads. "The women were also instructed to slightly reduce their caloric intake and to walk for 45 minutes twice a week."
It added: "Over 120 days, the women who did not take yacon syrup did not experience significant changes, while the women who did use yacon lost an average of 33 pounds and 4 inches of waist circumference."


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Beauty or Brains, Cautious or Courageous? Gender and Power in Online Visual Designs
If the world was defined & designed by women…
…What would tabloid newspapers look like?
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Todays commenting fields are often put at the bottom of the site. How important do you feel if placed at the back of the auditorium? Does it feel like your voice matter, when the newspapers never read the commenting fields? I compare the room of the commenting fields to the rooms of sterile, white halls at hospitals. Grey, white, and similar sans-serif fonts in every commenting field. They could have used fonts, colours and graphics that reminds us of something seriousness and reflected, or perhaps more entertainment and fun – which would have indicated different values of this room. This design can imply cold, narrow and sterile. Which MAY have an effect on the debate itself, because it is related to how we perceive this space.
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Five things I didn't know about design research
Example: I study social media from a communication perspective and argue that typography, graphics, buttons and "likes" shapes the type of conversation in social media. This does NOT mean that functions and aesthetics DOESN'T shape the conversations, or that it is irrelevant to study the use perspective of social media. It just means that my argument is that a communication perspective is useful when designing social interfaces. As a professor said: "The thesis is not the history of what you've done, but an argument".


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Bleak weather outlook casts doubt on Dover race weekend schedule
Rain has hampered numerous Sprint Cup Series events this season, creating considerable frustration for drivers, teams and fans.
This weekend's activities scheduled for Dover International Speedway could be the wettest yet, however.
With Hurricane Joaquin expected to bring massive amounts of rain to a large portion of the East Coast in the next few days, NASCAR could be forced to reschedule some or all of this weekend's on-track proceedings at the "Monster Mile."
According to weather.com, Joaquin strengthened to major hurricane status as a Category 3 storm Wednesday night, and was hammering the central Bahamas on Thursday morning. Prospects remain worrisome for the U.S. mainland as the official forecast continues with a chance of the East Coast seeing its first landfalling hurricane in 15 months.
Not surprisingly, this weekend's forecast for Dover, Delaware, is uncertain at best and downright bleak at worst.
Weather.com projects an 80 percent chance of rain in Dover on Friday, and a 60 percent chance of wet weather on Saturday when the XFINITY Series is scheduled to compete.
Although Sunday's forecast calls for cloudy skies and just a 20 percent chance of precipitation, there is a coastal flood watch in effect for the Dover area from 6 a.m. ET Friday until 5 p.m. ET Sunday.
The green flag is scheduled to wave on the AAA 400 — Race No. 3 of the Chase for the Sprint Cup — at 2:45 p.m. ET Sunday. The 1-mile track does not have lights.
Continue to monitor FOXSports.com for the latest weather updates on this weekend's NASCAR activities.


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My husband told me the other day that he loves that I have reached the stage of life where I'm "adorably eccentric" with my clothing choices and "could give a darn what others think." It is totally true. If I want to put on a beanie and run around town, I will. Of course it helps that I have moved away from urban environs where women are expected to have coifed hair and slick attire. In a mountain town I am free to be me.
My attire for fishing is a work in progress. Years of being a rock and ice climber have resulted in acquisition of photogenic colors. My bright pinks and turquoises tend to spook the lurking fish I seek. Now I need to subdue my look. When we headed into the boonies two weeks ago to fish little mountain streams with a buddy, I packed the tamest things I had that would keep me warm in light of sub-freezing night time temperatures. The tan down skirt was a last minute addition—one I highly recommend.
Sure it looked a little funny wearing a skirt over my soft shell pants as I stood on that boulder and cast into the shallow pools and riffles, but I was cozy despite the thirty something temperatures. And while the trout weren't biting despite my efforts at subterfuge, neither was the wind. And the blasé blue Buff® infinity tube wrapped around my head and neck helped ward off the chill too. My flair was concealed and my core temperature was ideal. The point is this, women who play outside shouldn't care how it looks. Function comes first, fashion is, well optional if you ask me. But my husband suggests this is just an age of enlightenment I have reached. So be it. Embrace the goofiness! And maybe by doing so you'll catch more fish.


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Republicans elected two governors, Democrats elected two Congressmen. Steve Benen breaks it down pretty well:
"Going into yesterday, it'd been a good year for Democrats in special elections, winning three races -- New York's 20th, Illinois's 5th, and California's 32nd. Yesterday, Dems made it five for five.
In California's 10th, Lt. Gov. John Garamendi (D), running a progressive campaign, defeated Republican David Harmer by double digits, 53% to 42.7%.
And in New York's 23rd, in the race that captured extensive national attention, Democrat Bill Owens scored a surprising win, beating Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman, 49.3% to 45.2%, with nearly all of the votes counted.
While it's a mistake to characterize either of these House races as bellwethers, the New York defeat not only gave Democrats something to be happy about on an otherwise disappointing Election Day -- Owens will be the first Dem to represent this area since the 19th century -- it was also a setback for the right-wing activists and leaders who'd invested so heavily in this special election.
Indeed, the far right had a plan. Activists and their allies would drive the moderate Republican away and rally behind the right-wing candidate. They would then take this model on the road, making NY-23 a model for competitive contests elsewhere. Of course, the strategy looks less impressive when the Democrat wins."
Actor and conservative firebrand of Tennessee, Fred Thompson must feel pretty lousy after the things he said yesterday in a rally for the Conservative - I mean Celebrity Tea Party candidate - Doug Hoffman:
"The eyes of the nation — the eyes of the world — are on New York 23 tonight," he said. "And tomorrow you're going to shake the foundations of Washington D.C."
And then there was this from singer John Rich, of the duo Big & Rich:
"Tomorrow, there's going to be a lot of conservative partying going on in this neck of the woods," the singer said.
Mr. Rich also took swipes at Dierdre K. Scozzafava and the Republican officials who picked her as a congressional candidate over Mr. Hoffman.
"I'm a little sideways with the Republican Party for putting up Dede Schizophrenic," he said."
Aw, poor Fred and John - they likely feel all bruised and battered by the election day outcome, so here's something to soothe your boo-boos and make you feel better.


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Tanzania Government organizes sorghum day
The Tanzanian Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives in partnership with ICRISAT-Nairobi organized a farmers' field day on 22 June. About 200 men and women farmers attended the day dedicated to sorghum. The event started with a tour of a sorghum field planted with …