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Skip to comments.William Ayers a keynote speaker next month at the Association of Teacher Educators conference
Posted on 01/18/2013 3:13:57 PM PST by george76
The Association of Teacher Educators has recruited Chicago professor and former domestic terrorist William Ayers to speak at their the 2013 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia which will be held next month.
William Ayers, a co-founder of the radical Weather Underground domestic terror group, was a key figure during the 2008 presidential campaign due to his Chicago ties to then-Senator Obama.
no specific mention of Ayers controversial background, describing him as the formerly Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The online biography also lists several of Ayers books, including Fugitive Days, which chronicles his activities as a radical domestic terrorist in the 60s.
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Is the "Revrund" Wright going to be in his entourage?
Can we Freep this event? This terrorist anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-liberty bastard needs to be shouted down and publicly humiliated and disgraced.
Too bad he wasn't a suicide bomber.
This man should be in prison... FOR LIFE. How insane can things get in this country? They might as well let Jerry Sandusky do lectures. He could be 'The formerly Distinguished assistant coach for Penn State'. No need to mention the child molesting. He was probably misunderstood, and given ten years, he'll be seen as a hero for fighting against 'the man'. College students everywhere will answer the call, "It's my penis, I'll put it where I want! Stop controlling me!"
Shameful. Anyone paying attention would pull those kids out of schools.
Step 2: Of they are, make a big stink about how union thug teachers are going to here a terrorist speak. Then attack the school board, that more than likely consists of former union thug teachers or relatives, for wasting your tax dollars.
Step 3: Make sure your local newspaper and TV news programs know about this.
Step 4: Arm yourself to protect yourself from union thug teachers.
I can't think of a better place for the scumbag ayers to speak to a bunch of terrorist, socialist teachers in the city where cheating scandals of the teachers have all but decimated the public school system.
What do they mean "former" domestic terrorist? He has never changed his mind.
formerly Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
A cop-killer by any other name is still a cop-killer.
How many teachers will walk out on him while he is talking?..
I'd like to get a count....
"Association of Teacher Educators" — as opposed to what other kind of educators? What other kind of teachers? "Black Hebrew Israelite Jews" ping. Thanks george76.
One of the prime suspects in the 1970's killing of San Francisco Police Officer McConnell or O'Donnell.
So is his wife, marxist terrorist Bernadine Dohrn, the other top Weather Underground leader.
Obama sure has some interesting friends and associates, doesn't he?
Check out article.
It gets worse. Click on the link at # 19.
Thanks, Brown Deer.
Billy, billy , billy!
Get up on that podium and relate your fascist diatribe as much as possible.
Sooner or later poetic justice will run its course.
Got Iron?
People like Ayers who seek to reshape society, in part by indoctrinating children, are a significant threat to our children's future, but we won't hear the pundits talking about that.
I wonder if he's on the no-fly list.
Ayers speaking at a Hugo Chaves "Education Forum" in Venezuela:
"We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution..."
This and more he's openly posted online for years: Ayer's Blog
That's disgusting! Unfortunately, sociopaths with no conscience often wind up in positions of power. They are driven to that by their narcissism, and aided by their lack of true ethics and compassion. We need much better safeguards in society against people like this. Academia tends to be a haven for them.
And murder has no statute of limitations.....
Here's one of the comments :
whatthebeepny a year ago
It is disturbing to put the pieces together between Bill Ayers and Obama. Obama's Harvard Law School education funding is linked to Ayers. In 1987 Bill Ayers solicited Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour-a.k.a.Donald Warden-to raise money for Obamas Harvard education.Mansour is an orthodox Muslim, a black nationalist, an outspoken enemy of Israel, and mentor to Black Panther Party founder Huey Newton and his cohort, Bobby Seale. At the time Mansour associate Percy Sutton was raising money for Obamas education, Mansour was the top financial advisor to mega-billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of the Saudi royal family. See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
FBI agent , Larry Grathwhal reports from inside Weather Underground Org. In a meeting with 25 WUO members, they planned education camps to reeducate an estimated 25 million people; if the people couldn't be reeducated, ie they remained die-hard capitalists, they said they would have to be eliminated, killed. "They were figuring out the logistics of eliminating 25 million people, and they were dead serious." —1982 documentary, "Nowhere to Hide."
Well, there are real educators, and then there are government school teachers.
The New York Times would be harder on a Republican jay walker than on a democrat rapist... They have their standards - and that means a 'high level of butt kissing' when it's one of their own.
Just wait until they run Ayers for president. Or maybe Jarrett/Ayers.
Their relationship is much deeper than any have publicly let on. Their collaboration on "Dreams from my Father" is in indicative of this.
well said.
Thanks for posting this. This man is an unrepentant domestic terrorist, cop-killer, bomber of the Pentagon and rapist. He is one of the keynote speakers at the 2013 Annual meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators, a group of which my late father was a distinguished, long time member, past president and honoree. In his delirium on his death bed, the thing he was most concerned with was that everything was well with ATE, that he had done all he could to ensure their goals and continuity. This was a group our family grew up in, traveling to the annual meetings as our summer vacations. I always liked the people and respected them. I suppose most of the members I knew as a boy have passed on and perhaps that's for the best because I have a hard time imagining they would want Ayers as their speaker. What's on the egenda next year? Perhaps they could get Jerry Sandusky to lecture on sex education. Here is contact information for ATE: ASSOCIATION OF TEACHER EDUCATORS
David A. Ritchey, Ph.D., CAE, Executive Director
Mail: P.O. Box 793
Manassas, VA 20113
Office: 11350 Random Hills Dr., Suite 800
Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: (703) 659-1708
Fax: (703) 595-4792 firstname.lastname@example.com
"We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution..." >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
We share the belief that the 2nd amendment allows ordinary citizens to destroy those who would destroy the US Constitution.
Eff you Ayers!
They'll probably have armed guards at the doors and require to see your school employee photo ID and ban all recording devices.
William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn Weather Underground
Guilty as sin, free as a bird, America is a great country. William Ayers, 1981
I dont regret setting bombs. I feel we didnt do enough. William Ayers, September 11, 2001
Ayers is now mainstream Barack Obama, 2001
Ayers is now a respected member of the Chicago intelligentsia Barack Obama, 2008
7 October 1969 Bombing of Haymarket Police Statue in Chicago, apparently as a kickoff for the Days of Rage riots in the city October 8-11, 1969. The Weathermen later claimed credit for the bombing in their book, Prairie Fire.
8-11 October 1969 The Days of Rage riots occur in Chicago in which 287 Weatherman members from throughout the country were arrested and a large amount of property damage was done.
6 December 1969 Bombing of several Chicago Police cars parked in a precinct parking lot at 3600 North Halsted Street, Chicago. The WUO stated in their book Prairie Fire that they had did the explosion.
27-31 December 1969 Weathermen hold a War Council meeting in Flint, MI, where they finalize their plans to submerge into an underground status from which they plan to commit strategic acts of sabotage against the government. Thereafter they are called the Weather Underground Organization (WUO).
13 February 1970 - Bombing of several police vehicles of the Berkeley, California, Police Department.
16 February 1970 Bombing of Golden Gate Park branch of the San Francisco Police Department, killing one officer and injuring a number of other policemen.
6 March 1970 Bombing in the 13th Police District of the Detroit, Michigan. 34 sticks of dynamite are discovered. During February and early March, 1970, members of the WUO, led by Bill Ayers, are reported to be in Detroit, during that period, for the purpose of bombing a police facility.
6 March 1970 bomb factory located in New Yorks Greenwich Village accidentally explodes. WUO members die, including Ayers girlfriend, Diana Oughton. The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officers dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey. The bomb was packed with nails TO INFILICT MAXIMUM CASUALTIES UPON DETONATION.
30 March 1970 Chicago Police discover a WUO bomb factory on Chicagos north side. A subsequent discovery of a WUO weapons cache in a south side Chicago apartment several days later ends WUO activity in the city. 10 May 1970 Bombing of The National Guard Association building in Washington, D.C..
21 May 1970 The WUO under Bernardine Dohrns (Ayers current wife) name releases its Declaration of a State of War communique.
6 June 1970 The WUO sends a letter claiming credit for bombing of the San Francisco Hall of Justice; however, no explosion actually took place. Months later, workmen in this building located an unexploded device which had apparently been dormant for some time.
9 June 1970 - Bombing of The New York City Police Headquarters.
27 July 1970 - Bombing of The Presidio army base in San Francisco. [NYT, 7/27/70]
12 September 1970 The WUO helps Dr. Timothy Leary, break out and escape from the California Mens Colony prison.
8 October 1970 - Bombing of Marin County courthouse. [NYT, 8/10/70]
10 October 1970 - Bombing of Queens traffic-court building . [NYT, 10/10/70, p. 12]
14 October 1970 - Bombing of The Harvard Center for International Affairs [NYT, 10/14/70, p. 30]
1 March 1971 - Bombing of The United States Capitol . [NYT, 3/2/71]
April, 1971 abandoned WUO bomb factory discovered in San Francisco, California.
29 August, 1971 - Bombing of the Office of California Prisons . [LAT, 8/29/71]
17 September 1971 - Bombing of The New York Department of Corrections in Albany, NY [NYT, 9/18/71]
15 October 1971 - Bombing of William Bundys office in the MIT research center. [NYT, 10/16/71]
19 May 1972 - Bombing of The Pentagon . [NYT, 5/19/72]
18 May 1973 - Bombing of the 103rd Police Precinct in New York
28 September 1973 - Bombing of ITT headquarters in New York and Rome, Italy . [NYT, 9/28/73]
6 March 1974 - Bombing of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare offices in San Francisco
31 May 1974 - Bombing of The Office of the California Attorney General.
17 June 1974 - Bombing of Gulf Oils Pittsburgh headquarters .
11 September 1974 Bombing of Anaconda Corporation (part of the Rockefeller Corporation).
29 January 1975 - Bombing of the State Department in (AP. State Department Rattled by Blast, The Daily Times-News, January 29 1975, p.1)
16 June 1975 - Bombing of Banco de Ponce (a Puerto Rican bank) in New York . September, 1975 Bombing of the Kennecott Corporation .
October 20, 1981 - Brinks robbery in which several members of the Weather Underground stole over $1 million from a Brinks armored car near Nyack, New York. The robbers murdered 2 police officers and 1 Brinks guard. Several others were wounded.
1981 Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country, Ayers said when interviewed by David Horowitz. September 11, 2001 I dont regret setting bombs. I feel we didnt do enough. Ayers is quoted in a New York Times article.
Ayers has nothing to fear. His enemies are law biding citizens. He knows that... We don't go around shooting people.
Did you know all of the school shooters were democrats - or their parents were democrats ( if too young to vote).
Did you know Chicago gang members came together last year to help elect democrats... and that it's gang member responsible for the child slaughter going on in Chicago?
Did you know most prison inmates are Democrats?
Bill Ayers, the liberal bullies, and criminals are safe - thanks to democrats... It's traditional Americans who are under siege.
Teachers are democrats... they probably look up to Ayers.
That would be "indoctrination". Not education. Too bad he wasn't in the apartment with his girlfriend when someones joint hit the go button and blew themselves up. Then the radical left wing extremists could have had a statue built in his honor. (Which we could have p'd on.) I seem to remember something about "maybe having to kill 25 million" to set up his little utopia. Did the list of book include prairefire? If he were to judged by that he certainly wouldn't be allowed to own firearms.
I can count to zero.
If this is not enough reason to ABOLISH all Government Schools, then what is?
And yet the pundits continue to promote government schools and tell us there is no political agenda in the education industry.
So many people do not know or remember Ayers bloody past.
Had is girlfriend and cohorts not blown themselves up he would have been a (in)famous mass-murder.
I would say the vast majority of people and espeically those 55 and younger - even lawyers and other professionals - do not know of his work or how his girlfriend at the time of her death died.
Good thing for the officers at Ft. Dix that their bomb making skills were lacking.
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Low reimbursements are the top reason physicians say they turn away beneficiaries who use TRICARE Standard, the military's fee-for-service insurance option, or TRICARE Extra, the preferred provider option, according to TRICARE health care provider surveys.
Access to health care for these two groups of beneficiaries could become an even bigger challenge thanks to the convoluted deficit-reduction deal hammered out last weekend between the Obama administration and leaders in Congress.
The Budget Control Act of 2011 establishes a two-step process toward reducing deficit spending by $2.4 trillion over the next decade. Step one directs Congress to cut discretionary spending by $917 billion to include $350 billion from defense budgets base on priorities set by a roles and missions study.
Step two has Hill leaders establishing a 12-member committee of lawmakers, to be divided evenly between Democrats and Republicans. They are to identify an additional $1.5 trillion in reductions from entitlements and tax reforms.
This bipartisan committee is to report out legislation agreed to by at least seven of its members by Nov. 23 to produce the required cuts. The full Congress then must vote on the recommendations by Dec. 23.
With Republican leaders already vowing to assign to the committee only lawmakers rigidly opposed to revenue increases of any sort, including any tax bump for the wealthy or loophole closing for corporations, and Democrats vowing to protect Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, the likelihood of stalemate seems quite high.
That's where the risk surfaces regarding access to health care for beneficiaries who rely on TRICARE Standard or Extra. If the committee of 12 can't agree or the full Congress votes down their plan, the Budget Control Act inflicts its own formula: automatic cuts of $1.2 billion, half to come out of future defense budgets and the other half from entitlement programs.
"The deal includes an automatic sequester on certain spending programs to ensure that — between the Committee and the trigger — we at least put in place an additional $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction by 2013," a White House fact sheet on the arrangement explains.
The arbitrary cut "would be divided equally between defense and non-defense programs, and it would exempt Social Security, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, programs for low-income families, and civilian and military retirement. Likewise, any cuts to Medicare would be capped and limited to the provider side."
This last sentence, underlined and made bold in the White House fact sheet, ignores the likelihood beneficiaries still would be hurt as more doctors, feeling underpaid, turn away Medicare and TRICARE patients.
Any cut in Medicare provider fees would tighten access to care for TRICARE beneficiaries too because, for the past 20 years, TRICARE physician fees, by law, have been linked to fees allowed under Medicare. If Medicare reimbursements are slashed, doctors who accept TRICARE Standard and Extra patients feel the same financial pain.
Retired Air Force Col. Mike Hayden, deputy director of government relations for Military Officers Association of America, said TRICARE users clearly have reason to worry if the 12-member committee fails to reach a deal.
"Anything that lowers payments to providers will negatively impact beneficiary access to both TRICARE and Medicare," Hayden said.

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Allegheny County Parks Department currently has plans to round up the Canada geese who live in North Park sometime late this summer when they are molting and are unable to fly, and gas them, or kill them by some other method. They are doing this in response to complaints about geese feces in the park.
First of all, the geese should be able to stay in the park just as much as any other animal who lives there. Canada geese choosing to take up residence in public parks and suburban and urban areas, instead of migrating, is a direct consequence of their own natural environment being rapidly decimated. Wild animals are struggling to exist as more of the natural area is clearcut and torn down, and replaced with artificial landscapes and manicured lands. Humans need to find a way to peacefully coexist with all wildlife, including Canada geese.
If North Park feels it must remove geese from the park, there are humane, non-lethal methods that are available for doing this that have been proven to be effective, even more so than lethal methods. By killing the geese, the Parks Department is only clearing the space for more geese to move in next year to fill the vacant niche. The only way to effectively and permanently keep the geese away is to make the area uninhabitable or inaccessible to them through a comprehensive organized program, implementing non-lethal alternatives. These alternatives include making the area unwelcoming towards the geese by using forms of habitat modification, using audio devices and scare devices, using repellents, and implementing organized non-feeding programs. An integrated program using a combination of techniques works best and has effectively been used to lower geese populations in different areas. It's important to point out that geese pose absolutely no health hazard to the general public and they are not causing harm to anyone. Many people like seeing the geese and don't find their presence a problem.
Voices for Animals currently has a meeting scheduled on May 24th to meet with the Allegheny County Parks Department to talk about this issue and press for a commitment to a non-lethal geese removal program if one is going to be used. It is important especially right now for everyone to contact the Allegheny County Parks Department and voice your opposition to killing geese in North Park, so that the opposition towards the proposed plan to kill geese is clear before the meeting even starts.
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With the United States Congress still at a record low approval rating, the 113th Congress was seated recently with the newly elected Republican House threatening the unthinkable – to allow the U.S. government to default on its financial obligations.
Republicans are willing to destroy the full faith and credit integrity of the United States, by not voting to pay the country's incurred debt for the past year, if the Democrats don't allow huge cuts to entitlements equal to the increase in the debt ceiling.
The American people need to understand the reality of what the Republicans are proposing, not the lies they are pumping in the media saying if they raise the debt ceiling somehow the President will have a blank check to spend whatever he wants. The debt ceiling has nothing to do with any future expenditures or new government spending. It is all about living up to our obligations to pay the bills that were approved by Congress, including the GOP majority in the House, in the last congressional budget.
Not raising the debt ceiling will deliver a serious blow to the country's credit rating and cancel much economic recovery we have seen in the last three years. Six months from now we could be in the worst economic straits since the Great Depression of 1929. If U.S. markets are trashed, world markets will be hugely affected also. Whether you voted Republican or not, please understand the debt ceiling is not something to be holding hostage or used as a bargaining chip to squeeze concessions from Social Security and Medicare.
Republicans claim they want to cut the nation's deficit. They always use that as their calling card, but what they really want is to lower taxes on corporations and the rich and shrink the size of government at the expense of seniors and the poor. They are after your Social Security and Medicare; two benefits senior citizens have paid for all their lives through payroll taxes. Make no mistake, Republicans want to shred those programs.
The defense budget (read that as war expenses) could be trimmed. The United States has more than 700 military bases all over the world with numerous private defense contractors collecting tax payer's money for who knows what.
Let's not punish the poor, the unemployed or our seniors.


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Debates of Feb. 3rd, 1997
House of Commons Hansard #121 of the 35th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was appointments.
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Saugeen River
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2 p.m.
Ovid Jackson Bruce—Grey, ON
.): Mr. Speaker, on January 10 the Saugeen River flooded, affecting the people of Durham, Ontario in my riding of Bruce-Grey. Thankfully no injuries have been reported but over 200 people from some 100 residences had to be displaced during the worst of the flooding.
There are still 12 people who cannot return to their homes and 10 seniors who have had to vacate their seniors' housing complex.
Despite the adversity, the people of Durham showed great courage during that flood. I want to pay special tribute to the volunteers and the relief workers who offered the victims both the good work of their hands and the comfort of their spirits. Durham Mayor Kris Kennedy is also to be commended for taking swift and decisive action to protect public safety. I also want to thank the soldiers from the Militia Training and Support Centre at Meaford for their work and assistance.
This tradition of neighbour helping neighbour is not new in my riding; in Bruce-Grey lending a hand in times of difficulty is the rule and not the exception.
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2 p.m.
Jesse Flis Parkdale—High Park, ON
Mr. Speaker, I recently had the honour to attend a very special meeting featuring Roger Moore, otherwise known as 007, James Bond. Roger Moore is honorary chairman of the UNICEF/Kawanis campaign to combat health problems caused by a lack of iodine in one's diet.
Iodine deficiency is for the most part a problem in developing countries. It is the source of cretinism, which impairs physical development, and can lead to serious mental disabilities. Approximately 655 million people suffer from goitre and 43 million have preventable brain damage from an iodine deficient diet.
Roger Moore praised Canada for the humanitarian work this country has demonstrated to date. Since 1991 CIDA has contributed $28 million in order combat iodine deficiency disorders, making this country one of the largest international donors for this very important cause.
But governments cannot do it alone. That is why we all wish UNICEF/Kiwanis much success on meeting its objective of eliminating IDD by the year 2000.
The Late André Caron
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February 3rd, 1997 / 2:05 p.m.
Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral Laval Centre, QC
Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for Jonquière, André Caron, is with us no more. On January 10, after a hard fought battle with cancer, he found peace. We will remember this unassuming man for his courage, of course, but also for his profound sense of justice and respect for others. We will remember him for the outstanding rigour and professionalism with which he handled the various dossiers assigned him.
Always ready to be of service, always there when required, he enriched our socio-political thinking through his particularly perceptive reading of the Quebec people.
A man of principle and determination, he spared no time or effort in serving his fellow Quebecers.
Today, the Bloc Quebecois caucus pays a final tribute to André Caron: "André, you were a great Quebecer and we thank you. You example and your memory will guide us on the road to our own country".
The Late André Caron
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2:05 p.m.
Some hon. members
Hear, hear.
The Late André Caron
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2:05 p.m.
The Speaker
Dear colleague, other members will speak in tribute at the end of question period.
Double Vision
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2:05 p.m.
Ted White North Vancouver, BC
Mr. Speaker, I wonder if you have had the chance yet to read a very interesting new book called Double Vision: The Inside Story of the Liberals in Power . I wish there were time to read the whole book into the record, but I will give an example from page 133 which tells the story of the department negotiations with the finance minister leading up to the budget of 1994.
More than once when officials reminded the minister of promises in the red book he yelled: "Don't tell me what's in the red book. I wrote the goddarn thing and I know that it's a lot of crap. Don't be a slave to it".
Well, this book certainly blows the whistle on the government-
Double Vision
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2:05 p.m.
The Speaker
My colleague, I would remind you that we cannot say with someone else's words what we cannot say here in the House ourselves. I would judge that with those words you are coming pretty close. I will ask you to sanitize whatever is in that book if you are going to finish.
Double Vision
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2:05 p.m.
Ted White North Vancouver, BC
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Well, the book certainly blows the whistle on this government and in case you missed the title, it is Double Vision .
Breast Cancer
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2:05 p.m.
Bonnie Brown Oakville—Milton, ON
Mr. Speaker, older Canadian women are encouraged by their doctors to get a mammogram every second year because mammography screening is the best technique we have for the early detection of breast cancer.
Good mammography requires high quality mammographic x-ray equipment, highly trained technicians and qualified radiologists to read the results.
In Canada there is a voluntary accreditation program available to those responsible for mammography units, but after five years of the voluntary program's existence only 37 per cent of these units have passed the standards.
This is not good enough. We need national standards for quality assurance in mammography. Canadian women need to know that the mammography unit they visit is accredited or certified and meets the highest possible quality assurance standards. Canadian women deserve nothing less.
Community Action Program For Children
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2:05 p.m.
Dianne Brushett Cumberland—Colchester, NS
Mr. Speaker, the community action program for children, CAPC, is a Health Canada program which provides funds to community organizations that deliver direct services to those families that need it most.
In my riding, Maggie's Place is a family support centre that promotes positive parenting and offers programs in budgeting, nutrition, self-esteem for parents and social development for children. These services are essential to the mental and physical well-being of many families in Cumberland-Colchester.
The CAPC program has been effective and efficient in delivering services to low income families and poor children across Canada. It is imperative that we as a government make a renewed funding commitment to this program which is helping thousands of deserving Canadians in the fight against child poverty.
Black History Month
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2:10 p.m.
Jean Augustine Etobicoke—Lakeshore, ON
Mr. Speaker, February has been designated Black History Month. All over the country, people will be honouring the contribution of people of African origin to the development of Canada.
This month we honour the accomplishments of many African Canadians so that young Canadians realize the role that these figures play in shaping equality and in the multicultural nature of this country.
I want to pay special tribute to someone who passed away about two weeks ago, Lloyd Perry. He was a community worker, the Official Guardian of Ontario, someone who belonged to such organizations as the War Amps, who received several awards and several honours as a black Canadian who made several contributions.
At this time, this House should be well aware of the contributions of people like Lloyd Perry and others who have given so much to this country.
Hagood Hardy
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2:10 p.m.
John Nunziata York South—Weston, ON
Mr. Speaker, Canadians were saddened on New Year's Day to learn that music legend Hagood Hardy had died after a courageous battle with cancer at the age of 59.
Canada has indeed lost not only one of our greatest talents but a respected national ambassador. With his music and passionate love for Canada, Hagood proudly and elegantly represented our country to the world.
Over the years, Hagood won the hearts of many not only with his talent but with his grace and humanity. He was a gentleman in the true sense of the word. His contributions to Canadian music earned him three Juneau awards.
In 1992 Hagood was awarded the Order of Canada for both his music and for his endless charitable work. Several days before his death, Hagood displayed his uncommon grace when he treated radio listeners in Toronto to a final live performance of his signature song "The Homecoming".
Despite obvious pain, he insisted on playing, demonstrating the kindness, courage and love of music that led to his national and international acclaim.
1997 Special Olympics
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2:10 p.m.
Maurice Bernier Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead, QC
Mr. Speaker, all this week, the Special Olympics for athletes with mental disabilities are being held in the Toronto area.
This year's Winter Games bring together more than 2,000 athletes from 73 countries in five disciplines: downhill skiing, cross-country skiing, ringette, figure skating, and speed skating. From the first Special Olympics, held in Chicago in 1968, our athletes have always brought honour to us.
I send a particular greeting to the only member of the Quebec delegation, Josée Bournival of Saint-Étienne-des-Grès in Mauricie. I encourage everyone in Canada to follow the progress of our athletes in Toronto.
We wish the best of luck to each and every one of these athletes. They certainly deserve our full admiration and encouragement for their participation in these special Games.
The Government
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2:10 p.m.
Preston Manning Calgary Southwest, AB
Mr. Speaker, I wish to draw to the attention of the House the greatest failing of the government.
When the Prime Minister came to power in 1993, he promised Canadians accountability, integrity and responsibility. Since then, the government has broken its GST promise, mocked the unemployed, botched the Airbus investigation, gagged the Somalia inquiry and stonewalled the tainted blood investigation.
If Canadians, through their House of Commons, are to hold this government accountable for such abuses, they need the tools to do the job. These tools include free votes in this Chamber, unfettered committees, citizens' initiatives, referenda and the power to recall elected officials.
This is the way to fix the system to restore accountability, integrity and trust to our parliamentary institutions.
Lieutenant-Governor Of Quebec
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2:10 p.m.
Mark Assad Gatineau—La Lièvre, QC
Mr. Speaker, last week, Lise Thibault was sworn in as the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec.
Mrs. Thibault is a great Canadian, and a great Quebecer. Her unswerving devotion to her fellow citizens has made her a lady whom everyone respects.
I am sure that all of the members of this House join with us in sending our most sincere congratulations to the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, along with our best wishes as she assumes these new duties.


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To sketchnote Krista's conversation with the Dalai Lama's principal English translator requires many of the same qualities he embodies: attention, compassion, focus, humility, action. No small feat.
Esoteric teachings on reincarnation and consciousness; simple teachings on compassion and ethics. Geshe Thupten Jinpa is a man who finishes the Dalai Lama's English sentences. Meet this philosopher and former monk, now a husband and father of two daughters, and hear what happens when the ancient tradition embodied in the Dalai Lama meets science and life.
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Ms. Tippett, I just wanted to comment on your interview with Thupten Jinpa and share a painting i was working on while listening to your show. As i was sitting in my office studio painting away, your show came on and i was delighted to hear you were doing this interview with the Dalai Lama's english interpreter. I never knew about him until this interview. On the part where you both were discussing meditation; i just smiled. I use painting as a form of meditation. it's something i really enjoy doing, and love being in the moment with..painting allows my ego to be itself on canvas. and while i was listening to the conversation..i knew i was in the right moment, doing the right thing with the intention of eventually sharing my work with those i love. I appreciate your interview with Thupten Jinpa, and look forward to hear many more of your interviews. the painting i was working on is one that had been in the works for quite sometime(and isn't really finished-the link will say it is, but it isn't.) i am donating it to a silent auction being held in Wilmington, NC for Hope from Helen foundation. It looks a little different now that i spent a little more time with it while listening to your show, but just wanted to share. Thank you once again!
I felt the information on meditation was extremely cool. I have just begun to practice meditation myself and of course have been taught the Western way that meditation is just stilling the mind. This is hard enough in and of itself but to be able to meditate into a state of learning/gaining knowledge is astounding to me. I like the idea of using meditation as a way of integrating your knowledge into your personality to become a better person. It was also interesting to know that the Dalai Lama is invloved in the Mind and Life circles that reflect on meditation and it's physical effects as well as mental and emotional. The question of consciousness and how it relates to us on a physical level is an interesting and debatable topic.
I, too, was touched by the message of the Dalai Lama that because we expect acts of love and kindness we do not see them for what they are. Instead we pay attention to the acts of violence because it is shocking to us. It is not normal. It is easy then to become jaded and believe that we are a horrible species. In reality the vast majority of us are not and we need to remember this.I do not read the paper or watch the news. I was once that story in the papers and on the news. I feel blessed to be able to say that I still get shocked at how horrible people can be to one another. This means that I still believe in the basic goodness of us humans
I appreciated Thupten Jinpa's explanation of what we in the West call meditation. I find it much more useful and liberating to refer the various spiritual technologies as mind cultivation. One of the appealing aspects of Buddhism to me is that it doesn't ask me to believe anything. Instead it asks that I do these things, observe, and see what I discover. In that sense, mind cultivation is an empirical process that shares attributes with the scientific method. It investigates with the same rigor the subjective facets of what neuroscience investigates externally.
Beyond that, I really appreciated Thupen Jinpa as a person. Living in Savannah, Georgia I don't often get the opportunity to visit with Tibetan monks, but every couple of years some pass through as part of a tour and spend a week conducting a number of activities. Many of them exude a sense of serenity, equilibrium, and quiet confidence laced with humor and curiosity that creates a space of grace and well being that is palpable when I'm in their presence. I sensed the quality in Jinpa as I watched the video. In addition, he seamlessly integrates a deep immersion in both Eastern and Western disciplines that he articulate in a thoughtful and appealing way. I researched him after viewing your interview, and discovered that it sells him short to view him as "only" the Dalai Lama's translator. He's an accomplished man in his own right, and from the videos I watched of him on YouTube observed he has the capacity to communicate with people of all levels of sophistication, taking complex ideas and explaining them in more simple terms with concrete examples.
I would love to study with him. Thanks for the show.
This morning I have been
This morning I have been listening to your interview with Geshe Thupten Jinpa. Of particular interest to me was the discussion of consciousness. Recently I heard Dr. Eben Alexander, neurosurgen with a strong professional history, speak about his 7-day experience in a coma from bacterial (e-coli) meningitis. He methodically described what his brain function was and was not during those days. With that knowledge, he is convinced that consciousness is active when brain function is not ---- that it exists separate from the organic. In the event you are not aware of it, he has described this experience in a book, Proof of Heaven. I am grateful for your journey and your program.
This morning i was listening to the interview on my i phone via radio VPR, VERMONT. i ENJOYED the show. I am a regular lisener of VPR radio. I appreciae the broadcast of the interview. i keep looking for such inerviews.
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It really fascinates me those
It really fascinates me those concepts of meditation and reincarnation. Although these are not part of Catholic teaching but I think that learning these things can also help a person with regards to his personality . Asian religions really carry with them those "mystical" ideas about life and although justifications presented are refutable if we take it into the context of Christianity, the members of these religions like Christians are also certain of what they believe in. Also, in this broadcast Thupten Jinpa talked about his association with the Dalai Lama. For me, it is very fascinating to interact with the likes of the Dalai Lama that is considered holy in his religion. I think that there is something in him that makes people perceive as holy. As what Thupten said, he has this certain perception of the Dalai Lama because he considers the Dalai Lama "not just an individual person but a representation of the whole institution of the Dalai Lama who inherited all the wisdoms of the successive Dalai Lamas". Moreover, Thupten considers his association with the Dalai Lama as a very very powerful interaction. He pointed out that the Dalai Lama tries to "really reach everybody and there is a kind of deliberate simplification of the message".
I think that all leaders really possess certain similar characteristics such as charisma and this called "powerful presence". Most of all, leaders are good in communicating with people just like Jesus Christ if we are to take in the context of Christianity. Such characteristics are not really learned but inherent in them. We could say it is really their purpose in life. Another notable characteristic is how they would simplify complex things especially on concepts about life. They can present it in a common sense way yet if these were then to be applied one would still be confused. It really amazes me how religious leaders the likes of Dalai Lama can take in all knowledge and see light beyond those information.
Thank you for sharing this interview to the public.


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Mustang Hoofprints: Feb. 21
Hello Mustang fans!
The Gold Rush Raffle is here. This Friday at 6 p.m. in the SMSU Conference the Mustang Booster Club will host the 10th annual Gold Rush Raffle. We have some great live and silent auction items planned for this year's event. You can go to the "Events" tab at SMSUMustangs.com and click the Gold Rush Raffle tab to view the live auction items up for bid this year.
We have some new group trips and individual auction items for you to bid on including a two-day golf trip for four people to a private Minnesota golf course. The package includes lodging, meals, gas and eight rounds of golf. We have also worked with Pepsi of Pipestone, who donated a Pepsi machine decorated with Mustang graphics. The Mustang Pepsi machine would look great in a basement or workshop. These are just a couple of the new items we will have up for auction next Friday evening.
The Gold Rush Raffle Committee has set a goal of raising $50,000 this year, with all the proceeds going to SMSU athletic scholarships. We look forward to an exciting evening of fun, great conversations and stewardship focused on enhancing the student-athlete experience at SMSU. I look forward to seeing you there!
For more information on the Gold Rush Raffle and Mustang Athletics, please go to SMSUmustangs.com.
This Week in Mustang Athletics
The SMSU wrestling team (13-6 overall, 3-5 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference) will be back in action on Sunday at the NCAA Super Regionals held in Waterloo, Iowa, with matches beginning at 10 a.m. The Mustangs will be one of 13 teams to wrestle in the tournament. The top four qualifiers from the Super Regional will advance to NCAA Championships held in Birmingham, Ala., March 8-9. SMSU finished 12th last year and qualified one wrestler (Justin Reinsma at 133 pounds) for the NCAA Championships. Good luck to our Mustang wrestling team and wrestlers as they look to qualify for nationals.
The SMSU men's basketball team (15-12, 12-8) concludes the regular season this weekend with a pair of NSIC road games. SMSU faces the Concordia-St. Paul (9-15, 7-13) on Friday, with the tip off slated for 8 p.m. On Saturday, the Mustangs will battle No. 9 Minnesota State-Mankato (20-4, 16-4), with the game scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. SMSU begins the weekend fifth in the NSIC South Division standings and tied for sixth overall. Concordia-St. Paul currently sits in a tie for seventh in the NSIC South and tied for 12th overall, while MSU-Mankato is tied for first in the NSIC South and tied for first overall.
The Mustangs were ranked ninth in the first NCAA Division II Central Region rankings released on Wednesday. SMSU has a 15-11 record versus NCAA Division II teams, including a 13-10 record versus teams in the region. The Mustangs are one of six NSIC schools to appear in the regional rankings, with No. 1 Winona State, No. 2 MSU-Mankato, No. 3 Augustana, No. 4 St. Cloud State and No. 10 Upper Iowa. The Mid-American Athletic Association has two teams ranked this week, No. 6 Central Missouri and No. 8 Fort Hays State (Kan.), while the Great American Conference has two teams with No. 5 Harding (Ark.) and No. 7 Arkansas Tech.
The top eight teams in the 42-team region will advance to the NCAA Central Region tournament on March 16-19. Automatic bids are granted to the winners of the NSIC and MIAA postseason tournaments, with the remaining six spots awarded on an at-large basis. The GAC does not have an automatic bid this season.
The SMSU women's basketball team (4-22, 2-18) will be on the road to conclude the regular season this weekend, playing Concordia-St. Paul (19-5, 17-3) on Friday, with tip off scheduled for 6 p.m. The Mustangs will head to MSU-Mankato (20-4, 16-4) on Saturday, with the contest beginning at 4 p.m. SMSU is coming off two losses last weekend against Wayne State and Augustana.
Both the women's and men's basketball teams will begin the first round of the Sanford Health NSIC Basketball Tournament on Feb. 27, with the rounds one and two played at the high seed. Last year, the SMSU men's basketball team won the Sanford Health NSIC Tournament Championship in Rochester.
The SMSU wheelchair basketball team is 13-13 overall and is scheduled to play at the National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Tournament played on March 7-10 in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
The SMSU tennis team fell to Augustana College (S.D.) 9-0 last weekend in NSIC action. The Mustangs (0-3, 0-2 NSIC) suffered a pair of losses over the weekend, both to teams that finished first and second in the NSIC. SMSU will take off a week before taking on Northern State and St. Cloud State March 1-2.
The SMSU baseball team went 2-2 in its first four games in the Metrodome versus Upper Iowa and the University of Mary last week. The Mustangs loss the season opener last Thursday to Upper Iowa, 6-4, while mounting an eighth-inning comeback to win Game 2 7-2. Last Sunday, the Mustangs battled the Marauders, winning Game 1 7-2 before losing 4-0 to conclude last week's non-conference play. SMSU will continue non-conference play on Wednesday, Feb. 27, with a doubleheader versus Concordia-St. Paul in the Metrodome.
The SMSU softball team was scheduled to go to Edmond, Okla., this weekend to play five games against Central Oklahoma, West Texas A&M, Missouri Southern State and Emporia State. Due to poor weather conditions throughout the Midwest, the trip was cancelled.
I would like to wish all of our Mustang teams the best of luck this weekend!
Go Mustangs!
Congratulations to Charlie Ehlers, who provided the correct answer to last week's Mustang Hoofprint's Trivia Question: Who were last year's winner(s) of the $5,000 top prize at the Gold Rush Raffle? Last year's Gold Rush Raffle winners were Kari Ehlers and Kurt Hovalt, who split the $5,000 cash prize.


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HAI 2014 Excellence Winners Include Gray, Aaron
Helicopter Association International (HAI) announced the winners of its 2014 Salute to Excellence Awards, and will recognize industry leaders during Heli-Expo. This year's winner's include the following: Archie Gray, senior vice president of aviation services at Air Methods Corp. for the Bell Helicopter Lifetime Achievement Award; Chuck Aaron for Pilot of the Year; the crew of Rescue 912, 103 Search and Rescue Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force for the Sikorsky Humanitarian Award; Chris Horton, the manager of flight operations for Prescott, Arizona's Guidance Aviation is the recipient of the 2014 AgustaWestland Safety Award; Howard Ragsdale for the Airbus Helicopters Golden Hour Award; Donald Shinnamon for the MD Helicopters Law Enforcement Award; Alan Nowak, Joshua Ricciardi, Gabriel Meza, and Nathan Rathe, Stephen Fiduk and Robert Murphy for the Excellence in Helicopter Maintenance Award; and Dr. Gordon Jiroux, president and CEO of Universal Helicopters, Inc. for the Flight Instructor of the Year award.
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87-year-old tells story of yearlong phone scam
Florence Folbrecht shares story to help community avoid same mistake
Florence Folbrecht remembers 1950 Stoughton like it was yesterday. However, remembering yesterday is the 87-year-old's biggest challenge these days.
She has lost tens of thousands of dollars over the last year to a telephone scam, and has had trouble recalling the details to tell Stoughton police how it happened.
"I thought I was helping people," she said recently in an interview at her dining room table, her phone perched just above her shoulder. "I don't remember (the details of the calls). I just know I shouldn't have done it."
Folbrecht sent the money to a foreclosed home in Phoenix. Authorities tracked the phone number that called her to an out-of-business auto body shop in Detroit. There are no leads to follow and her family assumes the money is lost forever.
"She and my dad worked all of their lives to get what they got and I was like, 'How dare you? How dare you do this to somebody like that?'" Florence's daughter, Sharon Folbrecht, said. "She doesn't like to talk about it and she gets angry a little bit. She said, 'Haven't you ever made a mistake in your life?'"
Florence raised three of her siblings, two of her own children and a nephew in addition to hiring numerous Stoughton residents to their first jobs at the restaurant and gas station she and her late husband once owned. She sold real estate until she was 80 years old, specializing in selling younger homeowners their first residences.
She's sharing this story to help her community once again.
"I didn't think I'd tell everyone because they'd think, 'How stupid could you be?'" she said. "And that's the truth, that I was stupid. I just felt that I was helping out a worthy cause. I have to be more inquisitive than I was."
After the incident, Sharon and her brother got a financial power of attorney over their mother's bank accounts. It's checked twice per day. However, Florence's adult children decided against taking the advice of the Stoughton police to change their mother's phone number.
"She feels isolated. So if you took that phone number away, how's she going to get her calls from her friends?" Sharon said of the phone number her mother has had since she moved to Stoughton 63 years ago. "All we can do is keep a close eye on that account. That's all we can do. Is he going to call her again? I hope not, but it's a very strong possibility.
"(Still), I'm not going to take all her freedom away by taking her phone number away. I just can't. My brother and I talked about it and we just can't. I think it's too hard to do that," Sharon said.
The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington has identified financial exploitation as the crime of the 21st century and developed a guide for older Americans on how to protect themselves.
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After hearing Lance Armstrong's pick-and-choose confession to Oprah Winfrey, the only thing that really upset me was the fact that the U.S. Postal Service invested $280 million in the U.S. Cycling Team.
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Skip to comments.US to release Pollard in exchange for 'talks' continuing (hostage negotiations)
Posted on 03/23/2014 11:20:40 AM PDT by Nachum
If any of you had any doubt that Jonathan Pollard is anything other than a hostage being held by the United States, this should dispel them: The US is reportedly considering releasing Pollard as an incentive for Israel to go through with the release of 'Israeli Arab' terrorists at the end of this week in order to keep the 'peace talks' going.
The talks, which began last summer, were supposed to have concluded at the beginning of April with a framework for negotiations, to be written by Secretary of State John Kerry. But PA chief Mahmoud Abbas has made it clear numerous times that he will not concede on the Palestinian's core demands an Israeli withdrawal from all of Judea, Samaria, and much of Jerusalem; free immigration of the descendants of Arabs who fled Israel in 1948 into Israel; and no recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.
Under such conditions, Netanyahu has told diplomats, there is no way he could get an agreement with the PA approved by his government.
The US, therefore, is considering various creative ideas to make the deal more appealing, the report said. Among them is an idea Netanyahu himself proposed releasing Jonathan Pollard, who has been in an American prison for nearly three decades on charges of spying for Israel. The diplomats said that it was not clear Obama would agree to such a condition.
Actually, this report doesn't even mention the possibility of 'Israeli Arabs' being among the terrorists released. It just says that Israel doesn't want to go through with the fourth terrorist release at all. Hmmm....
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Never happen.
so...Obama wants even MORE IslamoNazi terrorist murderers released..... anyone not understand yet just who he works for?
Every time an administration gets the idea to release Pollard, the intelligence community puts its foot down. They are so serious about it that they would be willing to destroy a presidency to prevent it.
Ruthless doesn't even describe it.
If push comes to shove, I would not be surprised if they killed Pollard to prevent his release.
Can't we just trade Pollard for Ambassador Stevens ?
He's a traitor, plain and simple.
With an Israeli hater in the White House like Obama, the Israel lobby better lay off trying to free this traitor, who should have been shot.
The only friends Israel has now is the average American. When it get them angry, they will lose all support for their country when Iran starts its attack.
Um... I think they already did.
Every time an administration gets the idea to release Pollard, the intelligence community puts its foot down. They are so serious about it that they would be willing to destroy a presidency to prevent it.
Ruthless doesnt even describe it.
If push comes to shove, I would not be surprised if they killed Pollard to prevent his release.
I don't get the hostility towards Pollard.
Pollard did wrong: He did the crime — and he has done the time. Now let him go to Israel, where he wants to be.
He was not giving intel to an enemy, as many others have done (and, at times, as I understand it, received lesser sentences).
It has been stated before that Pollard was given a very heavy sentence for what he did — heavier than the minimum sentence required.
Question are you and the "intel community" equally upset with Clinton for permitting missile tech to be given to the ChiComs. (Last I heard, he is not in prison.)
Talk about selective indignation.
Once you give intel to someone, even a "friend", you have no control of where that intel will wind up. I've heard some of the intel he gave to Israel, eventually fell into the hands of the ChiComs.
Makes we wonder if the Blind Sheik is still in U.S. custody. Wouldn't surprise me if he wasn't.
Once you give intel to someone, even a "friend", you have no control of where that intel will wind up. I've heard some of the intel he gave to Israel, eventually fell into the hands of the ChiComs
I have to agree with your logic, and I do not doubt that what you heard is true.
Nonetheless, it does not abrogate any of my arguments, as trials determine intentions. There is no indication whatsoever Pollard's intention was to give anything to the ChiComs.
Also, you failed to address the small matter of Bill Clinton, who remains scot free to this day.
Pollard should have been released 10 years ago.
Another slow Sunday at Mossad headquarters?
This gets floated anytime someone wants Israel to give up land and sovereignty
Democrats have promised the release of Pollard in exchange for Israeli concessions before and reneged at the last minute (Clinton at Wye River). They are not to be trusted.
I have no idea about the particular quirk that makes them so enraged at Pollard; what matters is that they are. Whenever it is proposed, they always send in their heaviest hitters, whoever has most pull in Washington, so it is no joke.
I would guess that whatever he did, it was a lot worse than what he was punished for; but both the US and Israel will not publicly say what that was.
Importantly, this would not be a first. In past, Israel has carried out some staggering espionage operations in the US that were so extraordinary that they were hushed up by both sides, such as the theft of nuclear weapons klystrons; and the enigmatic, but large scale effort by Israeli "art students" to penetrate the US DEA.
In the klystron case, it was a brilliant operation, and the unnamed man who was the ringleader was captured and sentenced to life in prison in an almost secret trial, after he plead guilty. This was not done casually, as it was a key element to the entire Israeli nuclear program.
In any event, I still think that, for whatever reason, the US intelligence community will again be adamant about Pollard.
And Obama doesn't see this as an obstacle.
John Kerry reversed months if not decades of American policy on Israel in testimony before Congress yesterday, arguing that insisting on Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state is a mistake.
He spied for Pakistand, and he spied for material gain.
He sought drama, and ya know what? He got it.
We should deeply honor him by never letting him go, and we should make his stay as unpleasant as possible.
I pray he rots in prison, and dies there.
If there was any good reason to release Pollard, this is the worst.
Appease Israel into appeasing arabs, talk about lose lose dialogue for a couple.
Only Obamabot communists would come up with a farcical language and acceptable reason for our suicide.
shooting seems a little harsh
"shooting seems a little harsh"
OK, how about "seriously, painfully, wounding"
Thank you for the explanation and heads-up. You clearly know more about this than I do. Hell, I have no idea what a klystron is.
However, when one considers that Bill Clinton permitted the give-away of missile tech to the ChiComs without spending so much as one hour in prison, it makes whatever Pollard did begin to assume less than mythical proportions.
Okay: I will say it: The CIA, etc, is riddled with anti-Semitism. I find some Jews loathsome, to be sure, but i certainly do not hate Jews in general, no do I hate Israel. Our spooks seem to be eaten up with hatred for Jews and Israel. (Probably makes them stupid, too.)
i may be wrong, but... somehow I doubt it. ;-)
Klystrons are essential to nuclear weapons. They are the timer which sends electrical charges to the explosives that combine the nuclear material creating a critical mass. The more accurate the timer, the less nuclear material you need and the smaller you can make the bomb, and the missile that carries it.
Even the Soviet Union could never master creating high grade klystrons, so their nuclear weapons and missiles were perhaps twice the size of ours, and used a lot more nuclear material, yet on a per unit basis produced far less yield. Their gigantic Tsar bomba and others got around this by using a lot of nuclear material.
In any event, in perhaps one of the most brilliant intelligence operation of the 20th Century, Israel sent a team of top notch operatives to the US, who hacked our nuclear logistics computer system, and redirected some 200 high grade klystrons to the east coast, where they were put on board an Israeli aircraft and flown to Israel. Since they had everything else they needed, this meant that overnight they had 200 nuclear missiles for their Jericho missile installation.
As a final note about Pollard, consider the case of the Israeli Mordechai Vanunu, who was kidnapped from Italy, and spent 18 years in prison, is frequently rearrested, and cannot ever leave Israel. Just for talking about their nuclear program.
Pollard should dance at the end of a rope (with Hansen and Ames dancing by his side). Slick Willie belongs in prison, so does his beastly wife. That the execrable clintons are not in prison doesn't excuse releasing Pollard.
Pollard should dance at the end of a rope (with Hansen and Ames dancing by his side). Slick Willie belongs in prison, so does his beastly wife. That the execrable clintons are not in prison doesnt excuse releasing Pollard.
While i disagree with your view of what Pollard deserves, I will gladly credit you for being at least somewhat consistent, by consigning the same putative penalty to Hansen and Ames.
Judging from some comments I have seen in this forum from time to time, some Pollard haters seem to be strangely obsessed only with him (probably, i am guessing, because he is a Joooo).
Thank you for the tutorial on klystrons, as well as the Israeli gambit to grab some of ours (something of which I have never previously heard).
Also, thank you for the account of the fate of Mordechai Vanunu. Interesting, indeed.
The foul pollard is the only one of the three that has a fan-club clamoring for his release. But go ahead ... play the race card. It serves only to further discredit the pollard fan club.
The foul pollard is the only one of the three that has a fan-club clamoring for his release. But go ahead ... play the race card. It serves only to further discredit the pollard fan club.
You give yourself away: Who ever calls Hansen, Ames, Benedict Arnold, etc, "Foul?"
But you appear to call Pollard that on a knee-jerk reaction.
Of course, i could be incorrect, but, from where I sit, it does appear that you have been outed — card, or no card on my part.
This isn't about me. Try to refrain from personal attacks. They discredit whatever point you're trying to make.
Now, to the actual point: pollard gets press, because for some strange reason pollard has a fan-club clamoring for his release. Ames, hansen, et al. do not. Arnold, of course, is long since dead. So it seems to me that the obsessed ones are the members of the pollard fan club. I'm unclear on the basis for their obsession; nothing I have seen from them remotely justifies pollard's crimes. The pollard fan club can pound sand.
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The Chicago Bears will be travelling to Detroit to take their final shot at a 2012 playoff spot against the Lions at Ford Field in one of Sunday's early afternoon games. Even if the Bears can beat the Lions for the ninth time in 10 games they'll have to wait for the conclusion of the late afternoon Green Bay Packers at the Minnesota Vikings game to find out if they've done enough to put themselves in the playoffs.
The Packers play the Vikings in a game that was flexed into a late afternoon time slot because of the outcome's affect over the rest of the NFC playoff picture.
If the Packers beat the Vikings they wrap up the No. 2 seed in the NFC and push the 49ers into the Wild Card round, no matter what the 49ers do against the Arizona Cardinals at home on Sunday.
If the Vikings can find a way to beat the Packers on Sunday they will not only have the satisfaction of slamming the playoffs door in the face of the Bears, they will most likely knock the Packers into a Wild Card game in the playoff's' opening week, unless the Cardinals can pull off one of the biggest upsets of the season on Sunday.
Because the Bears let a two game lead for the No. 2 seed in the NFC slip away until they had fallen completely out of the playoff picture, the team and its fans find themselves in uncharted territory. They have to root for the Packers to win this Sunday (but only if they can take care of business against the Lions).
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In the final Quality Stats Power Rankings before the finish of the regular season the Packers are No. 3 and the Vikings are No. 18. The Packers have won four straight games since being embarrassed by the New York Giants, including a victory over the Vikings at Lambeau Field in Week 13. The Packers have also won six straight December games against the Vikings since the 2000 season.
Aaron Rodgers has been near or at the top of the Offensive Passer Rating rankings for the past two seasons and torched the Vikings with a 98.0 rating in their last game.
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Statistically there isn't much reason to expect the Vikings to pull an upset on Sunday, but that was the same story last week when they shut down the Houston Texans. The Vikings have won three straight games and have taken over the No. 6 seed in the NFC since the last time they played the Packers.
The last time they played, the Vikings were ahead 14-10 but two third quarter interceptions allowed the Packers to come back and win 23-14.
The key to their success the past three weeks has been to keep the passing simple to prevent Christian Ponder from throwing the ball away, especially with Percy Harvin on IR. The downside to that is the Vikings have fallen to No. 31 in Real Passing Yards per Attempt.
The other key to their success has been to take advantage of their No. 1 rushing attack, led by Adrian Peterson to move the ball down the field.
Adrian Peterson still needs 208 rushing yards to break Eric Dickerson's single-season record and should have an excellent chance to accomplish that on Sunday. The Packers are No. 23 against the run, allowing an average of 4.41-yards per carry and Peterson gained 210-yards in 21 carries the last time they faced each other.
3. The Bears need to hit the Lions early.
The Lions are 4-11 and in a race for a top five pick in the 2013 NFL Draft. Other than getting Calvin Johnson over 2,000 receiving yards for the season they don't have much left to play for this season. Despite that, the Bears are a division rival and the last thing the Lions want is to be the team that allows the Bears to slip back into the playoffs.
Even with that motivation, if the Bears can strike quick and convert first quarter opportunities into points they can turn the Lions' attention to getting away so they can put their disastrous 2012 season behind them as soon as possible.
In Week 7 and coming off their bye week the Bears jumped on the Lions early with 10 points in the first quarter then took their foot off the gas and barely held on for a 13-7 victory.
One of the keys to that win was the Bears' defense forcing three Detroit turnovers from inside their own 3-yard line to keep the Lions off the scoreboard until a Matthew Stafford to Ryan Broyles 12-yard touchdown pass made the score respectable as time was running out.
4. Look to the Bears offense for the source of their late season problems.
The Bears and Lions are virtually even in per game scoring, the Bears average 23.3 PPG against 23.2 PPG by the Lions. Take defense scores out of the equation though and the Bears are scoring an average of 19.1 PPG, an average that would tie them with the Rams for No. 26 in the NFL in scoring.
The Bears were 7-1 in the first half of the season when their defense was on a roll with seven interceptions returned for touchdowns. When the scoring from their defense dried up so did their win streak.
The Bears broke their five losses in six games streak last week against the Cardinals in part because of two touchdowns, a fumble recovery by Zack Bowman in the end zone and a Charles Tillman pick-6, that matched the two TD's that the Bears' offense put on the board.
The Bears' offense has had 16 weeks plus the preseason to figure out what they do best, besides relying on the defense to set the tone. They need the offense to step up and shed the training wheels this week.
5. Seats are heating up for two NFC North head coaches.
Mike McCarthy can sit comfortably and Leslie Frazier's seat has cooled down considerably with the playoff run they've mounted this season, especially when they weren't expected to compete for the playoffs this season.
Jim Schwartz's seat is warming up but he's still cashing equity from the performance of the Lions last year and the playoff appearance that they earned.
The Lions have suffered from undisciplined play that has kept them from winning a number of close games that contributed to their seven game season ending losing streak. That will need to turn around in 2013 for Schwartz to continue to keep his job.
Lovie Smiths seat has heated up to the point where a loss this Sunday to the Lions may finish his run with the Bears. Smith does have a Super Bowl appearance on his resume but it's a rare head coach that can survive a run of six years since that appearance with only one return to the playoffs.
When Phil Emery was hired as the Bears' new general manager last April it was with the understanding that Lovie Smith would be the head coach for the 2012 season. If the Bears are watching the playoffs on television again in January there shouldn't be any restrictions on his ability to make a change.
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