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Skip to comments.Global warming is just HALF what we said: World's top climate scientists admit...
Posted on 09/15/2013 11:38:14 AM PDT by matt04
A leaked copy of the worlds most authoritative climate study reveals scientific forecasts of imminent doom were drastically wrong.
The Mail on Sunday has obtained the final draft of a report to be published later this month by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the ultimate watchdog whose massive, six-yearly assessments are accepted by environmentalists, politicians and experts as the gospel of climate science.
They are cited worldwide to justify swingeing fossil fuel taxes and subsidies for renewable energy.
Yet the leaked report makes the extraordinary concession that the world has been warming at only just over half the rate claimed by the IPCC in its last assessment, published in 2007.
Back then, it said that the planet was warming at a rate of 0.2C every decade a figure it claimed was in line with the forecasts made by computer climate models.
But the new report says the true figure since 1951 has been only 0.12C per decade a rate far below even the lowest computer prediction.
They recognise the global warming pause first reported by The Mail on Sunday last year is real and concede that their computer models did not predict it. But they cannot explain why world average temperatures have not shown any statistically significant increase since 1997.
They admit large parts of the world were as warm as they are now for decades at a time between 950 and 1250 AD centuries before the Industrial Revolution, and when the population and CO2 levels were both much lower.
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UN out of US now!
Obama got the Global warming hype wrong too.
global warming is a hoax. the media and government have the democrat sheep believing in global warming
government doesn't work and must be abolished except for military and border control.
for 30 years the government has been funding fake studies to create the global warming hoax. the media has been screeching global warming for 30 years. it's all to destroy capitalism, destroy our freedom and our economy . in other words they created the global warming imaginary goblin to scare us into accepting socialism/statism
"We are a bunch of liars and we accept lies as evidence, so you can believe us...."
UN is nothing but a tool of the Left. Getting rid of the b-stards would be a major step toward eliminating Leftist influence around the World, and reestablishing sovereignty to our Nation.
How about we move them to some 3rd world dictatorship hellhole, like Detroit, Ugnada, Cuba, etc.?
Half of zero is still zero. Hah hah hah you phoney scientists you make me sick.
Ever since those emails were discovered a few years ago it was inevitable that this house of cards would fall. It certainly is taking a long time, however.
GlowBull Warming indeed is half of climate change. The other half is GoreBull Cooling.
The democrats are drumming this Global warming BS into our kids in government schools. many people even conservatives continue to send their kids to government schools
Half a bucket of bull shi* is still bull shi*.
"But the new report says the true figure since 1951 has been only 0.12C per decade a rate far below even the lowest computer prediction."
Okay, I am certainly no climatologist but I DO have some small background in precision measurement. I steadfastly refuse to believe that anyone can measure the average annual temperature of the entire Earth with that degree of precision and judging from reports I have seen concerning the location of many temperature measurement stations and the way that certain ones are just thrown out I doubt that they can even come within plus or minus one whole degree per year, let alone .12 degree over an entire decade. At that rate it would take eighty plus years to increase one degree. That has to be signal noise, not measurement.
If anyone cares to educate me on this I am open but otherwise I call BS on the whole thing.
Al Gore made over a quarter billion dollar fortune on that hoax, getting his mitts in BS green companies and getting the government to invest money then dumping the stock then moving on to the next BS company while that one goes out of business, and incredibly the guy is not in jail. $300 MILLION that is how much he worth now! And in only 12 years! That's how much Mick Jagger is worth in over 50 years with the Rolling stones, Al Gore made only in 12. And how many jobs has this Gore cost people? How much more money did me and you have to pay at the pump because of the BS regulations this SOB got passed?
Look at this, another one of his BS predictions proven wrong:
Agree that would be better than what exists, BUT getting rid of them altogether is essential as they will continue to do harm no matter where they are located.
Cease American taxpayer funding of that organization. THAT alone would be a major impedence to their operations.
[A forecast in the 2007 report that hurricanes would become more intense has simply been dropped. . .]
Al Gore used Hurricane Katrina and the IPCC report to become a consultant to the home insurance industry. Insurers used Gore's junk science—in part—to help justify rate hikes.
This is a major reason for the heavy Leftist tilting in academia, and I imagine it may take decades to get most of "these ships" once again going in directions useful to the country and society.
That a person like Jim Hansen could have such a corrupted sway at NASA's GISS, where he for many years was able to peddle his extremist, fake-science AGW nonsense should have scared every rational US taxpayer out the wazoo. There have been little-to-no checks and balances. We were only lucky enough to get secret emails exposing the baddies as peer review was useless, being corrupted from start to finish (see linked article above).
With as large a financial and societal crash as we are likely to experience in the not-distant future, hopefully the uselessness of much of academia will become rightly exposed and its lifeblood of funding will dry up, forcing many in its hallowed halls to find more honest work, even if only selling apples on the street corner.
This is awesome! All my kooky liberal relatives have relied on this science to beat me over the head with the global warming crap for years. I am going to print this out and carry it around with me :-)
The "computers" got nothing wrong, the scientists put garbage data in and got garbage data out.
Know this: If they were able to get all of their strangling taxes and regulations in place, they'd be crowing success and victory over global warming and demanding even more taxes and regulations to finish the job.
It allot easier for them to blame a machine, that they programmed.
To inflate the scare over global warming, the media and the more media-savvy (and dishonest) scientists have only been reporting the Y end of the scale.
The bottom line is that there probably is some amount of anthropogenically caused climate change, but it's nowhere near as dire or catastrophic as you'd think from people who only report worst-case (and improbable) scenarios. Certainly not enough to turn our economy upside-down over.
And created garbage models that run on the computers. Anyone claiming they have included (let alone even know) all the variables involved in the global climate in any model is FOS.
Hard to read any article that commits that many errors in the first two small paragraphs, by deliberate distortion or omission. None of this is new. I did not read the rest of the article; I prefer to eat my meals once, not dozens of times as the scammers are inclined to expect.
(1) This periodic study is anything but scientific. Everyone with knowledge of rudimentary science knows that.Computer models are not science. Further by now everyone knows that the IPCC consists of two groups. The science group and the political group. The political group writes the final report. Dozens of world class true scientists have disgustedly quit the group, unfortunately quietly. The political IPCC chooses what to include and what to omit from the science.
(2) No computer climate model has yet existed that could predict the climate for any ten year period between 1900 and 2010, knowing and inputting the known climate of the previous ten years. In any other discipline, that would clearly be labeled a solid FAIL.
"Authoritative" is in the same category as Clinton's view of the word "is." It certainly is such to the scamsters who promote, massage and promote the unproven science in the final reports. No one else. True scientists, certainly don't.
(3) The "Ultimate Watchdog" is a self-assigned label by the very conspirators who have been proven frauds, unethical and not above "losing (or destroying)" data that was sent to them from worldwide monitoring sources, when the data didn't fit their preconceived conclusion.
I trust that "Ultimate Watchdog" group about as much as I trust Obama's IRS, State Department and NSA.
(4) The word "Experts" has totally lost any rational meaning, when hair dressers, actors, tattoo artists and gay activists are listed among signatories of global warming issues, as "experts."
For some sort of perspective, read and judge the puerile discussion at the following link.
Not without good reason, our friends on the left are keen to repeat President Eisenhowers warning not to let the Military Industrial Complex tail wag or defense policy dog. Oddly, they forget his warning of a Scientific Industrial Complex
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
"A Dec. 12, 2007 BBC article quoted Professor Maslowski and his team of climate researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. explaining how they used a high-resolution regional [computer] model for the Arctic Ocean and sea ice forced with realistic atmospheric data" to make their predictions."
It appears that Maslowski wasn't at all affected by the fact that his a high-resolution regional [computer] model for the Arctic Ocean and sea ice forced with realistic atmospheric data" Was wildly and totally wrong.
Inadvertent tangible proof that the world's most powerful computer can't overcome dogmatic arrogant delusional stupidity.
GlowBull Globaloney Warming.
Their level of accuracy is another matter.
Global warming is a Globalist hoax. The Globalists put a lot of money and effort into the New World Order idea. They aren't going to quit just because this idea was proven wrong.
My impression is that the average new college graduate knows far more about "climate change" than the US Constitution. It's pretty much baked in to the pie now.
You should, on that last. I know a fair amount about thermometry and Thermodynamics, and the fundamental reality is that we have only had satellite temperature measurement to the point where we have anything like a decent world average temperature for a few handfuls of years. I still don't trust the adjusted earth stations, and going back further, the tree ring nonsense is complete flights of fancy, when it comes to helping get global average temps to a tenth of a degree F.
GIGO——garbage in, garbage out (garbage into the computer)
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There is no global warming period . the Earth is getting colder. look up solar cycle 24, and 25
funny the Sun does affect climate.C02 never could affect climate. these socialists created the global warming hoax to destroy capitalism , grow government and enslave us . and you think that there probably is some man made global warming ? you are brainwashed by the media
Global warming and cooling is bogus. Climate change? Well....the climate has been changing for 400 million years....there's nothing new about this.
It's all a gimmick. You buy into some story because you are that naive. You should ask questions...but people get fussy if you challenge their story. Kinda like the inner-Earth crowd of the 1880s, who ran into towns....selling bogus maps to folks for a dollar, and everyone was accepting of the inner-Earth.
I always thought the tree ring stuff was pure hogwash. I have cut a few trees in my life, having grown up on the farm and pulled my end of a five and a half foot long saw from the time I was about ten or so. I have a collection of four chain saws now. I have examined some tree rings while resting from all that exertion and I can understand that they give an indication of rainfall amounts in different years but I never understood how anyone could claim that they gave an accurate indication of temperature other than a connection between drought and high temperatures in summer. It hardly seems to be a basis for the precision they claim. They would be more credible if they just claimed psychic abilities rather than claiming to decipher all that from tree rings.
They'd be more credible if they claimed use of goat entrails.
The fact that CO2 and CH4 trap heat is not an invention of a "socialist" or "the media," it was first recognized by a 19th century British chemist named John Tyndall and has been supported by controlled studies since then, such as comparing oxygen 16/18 relative abundance (a good indicator of evaporation and therefore average temperature) in Antarctic ice cores to C02 levels. What was Tyndall's "socialist agenda" in making this discovery? It has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with physics and chemistry.
People who make statements such as "CO2 cannot cause climate change" sound as ignorant as the extremists on the other side who say that our CO2 emissions will lead to doomsday, and they make convenient targets for Gore and his hysterics because they make global warming critics seem even more ignorant and irrational.
Those who want a truly objective and scientifically informed treatment that deflates the claims of both the-end-is-nigh crowd and those who deny basic chemistry and physics, take a look at Climate of Extremes by Michaels and Balling. Both are climatologists, Michaels is now employed by the libertarian Cato institute. In other words, they have far more credibility on this subject than a lot of the loud-mouths on both sides of the debate.
If your data is off by 1% after 1 computation your result is off by 1.5%. Now with a 1.5% error in the data the next computation is off by 2%, etc, etc, etc. You need really really need exceptionally good data to effectively use a computer model. Plus lots of logic to ensure the data does not go wacko on you. Systems as complex as climate are simply beyond are current ability to model with the desired accuracy. Just look at computer models path/intensity predictions for Topical Cyclones. They are all over the place and generally useless 3 or more days out. And climate prediction is a more difficult problem.
I like to remind people that we are in an Ice Age so a little warming might not be a bad thing. Not that I think we are warming now, in fact I think the exact opposite.
you believe that C02 affects climate. you believe these socialist tyrants in the media, gov, politicians and scientists.
C02 level doesn't affect climate. that's the most ridiculous thing ever.
get a clue
you are a brainwashed low info voter
what are you doing on this site?
the Earth is getting colder .
you and all your fellow democrats are jokes
Since you consider yourself such an expert, in a couple of paragraphs, explain how one may use oxygen isotopes to estimate past temperatures, assuming you even know what an isotope is, and present a rational critique of this methodology. Oh. That's right, you can't. The best you'll come up with is"Isotopes are just media brainwashed liberal Democrats!"
Sometimes I wonder if the dimmer posters on sites like this one are just liberal plants put here to make conservatives look bad.
Don't tell me this, tell it to the numbskull on this thread who insists that CO2 has nothing to do with climate. Perhaps Mr. Media can explain why Venus has surface temperatures that can melt lead if CO2 and CH4 don't influence climate.
I like to remind people that we are in an Ice Age so a little warming might not be a bad thing.
I find the case Michaels and Balling make convincing - that there is a small century plus warming trend, and that it's just as likely to be somewhat beneficial to parts of the world as harmful to others, and that the best data suggest that the effects are marginal.
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Skip to comments.'Pajama People' a Fresh Alternative in Journalism (FR Mentioned in Philly Inquirer)
Posted on 09/26/2004 7:31:13 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
Journalists tend to be liberal Democrats from middle class families with some education, few spend time with blue collar workers, people in the military or people of religious faith.
Bloggers are true to the old journalism adage, 'If your mother says she loves you, check it out.'
On the internet, nobody knows youre anything.
So you have to prove that you are worth reading a believing by providing links to source material or to your credentials and by making sense.
CBS remained clueless. A former CBS vice president Jon Klein sneered at the critics, 'You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing.'
As it turned out, the guys in the pajamas beat the pants off CBS News.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
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Nobody going "Commando"? ;^)
Is it just me or is anyone else having trouble finding this article?
This time the peasants have laptops instead of pitchforks!
Your tagline is GREAT!
It's registration only, I put the password on post #1
I got in, just can't find where the article is. I've looked in Editorials/Commentary but there is no author by this name listed. Am I missing something obvious? (Wouldn't be the first time!)
If my link doesn't work, use the one in the article and search on "pajamas".
Thank you, MNM! It worked...good read.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/9759661.htm or use the search for 'pajamas"
They might want to rethink their strategy.
"(I'm a newbie here, but not to life. Don't even think of imposing your seniority on me.)"
Sic'em, FR has a few "old media" members.
Klein doesn't get it. He's worried about OUR "checks and balances?" What he's witnessing is a paradigm -- a new source of checks and balances has risen to keep the MSM in line, and it is us. WE ARE the checks and balances that they have never had before.
And it would not have happened without Free Republic. Sure, some great bloggers made some outstanding contributions, but how many of us would have been aware of those blogs? It took took the brilliant observation of Buckhead to inspire those bloggers, and then FR served as the great consolidator of information and discussion. Freepers that knew of these bloggers were able to post the content, and then the observations and discussion by tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) went to work, analyzing and dissecting every bit of information. Without FR the exploration and discussion would have been fractured and disorganized.
I had a heck of a time. Finally clicked the editorials link in the left side bar, then scrolled down to the pajama people editorial, clicked and accessed it without putting in a registration code.
I also do not see FR mentioned at all in the online version.
Great line! LOL!
The MSM has alway had things their way because there was no effective way to voice disagreement with their pontifications.
That is why JimRob's forum is so brilliant. We all can give a piece of our minds, even though some of us can't afford to lose them!
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And .. much to the media's chagrin, I'm sure, was the fact that the first guy to discover the fraud of CBS's documents was A LAWYER on Free Republic.
The Lamestream Media falls all over themselves praising Michael Moore, who on his best day looks like hell. They also praised the hippies who took over the 'Rat Convention in 1972, the Anarchists who protested our convention this year, and every other group of leftwingnut freaks, geeks, and losers.
Yet they try and demean us pajama-wearers in flyover country who actually work for a living or stay home and raise a family. And they wonder why their candidates lose votes and they lose rating points? The Lamestream media in general and Rather in particular are getting exactly what the have long deserved.
Thank you for your support! But how do you keep your sanity in Massachusetts? I mean you're going to have to live with Kerry as senator for the next two years!
Free Republic gave me instant proof of my sanity. From that point, my general makeup kicked in to let me better tolerate this cuckoo's nest of a state.
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I am glad to finally see the whole quote in full- I kept missing it here on FR.
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Kim can wear her pajamas at my place any old time...
Bloggers are true to the journalism adage: "If your mother says she loves you, check it out." On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. Nobody knows you're anything. So you have to prove you're worth reading and believing by providing links to your source material or to your credentials and by making sense.
My caption for the excellent cartoon at #4:
"The News Anchor Has No Pajamas! (Who's going to tell him?)
After logging on to http://www.bugmenot.com , I typed "pajama people" into the Philly paper's search window and it came up right away.
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Dear Mr. Klein: Average people sitting in their pajamas watch CBS news. However, if you insist on insulting your audience, we will turn the channel to another station who will appreciate our attention. Thank you most kindly, Average Joe & Jill Voter
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To access the BIOS, you'll need to restart your computer and press a specific key at the start of the boot process. This key is generally displayed on-screen during the boot process. For example, you may see a message that says "Press <DEL"> to enter setup" or "Press F2 to access the BIOS." Press the required key at the correct time and your computer's BIOS will appear.
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Use the arrow keys to navigate through the BIOS. To select something, press Enter. You'll generally see a list of the keys you can use at the bottom-right corner of your screen.
Locate the boot order screen that lists the boot devices. This may be on the Boot tab itself or beneath a Boot Order option.
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Note that "USB drive" doesn't appear as an option in the list, even though our computer has USB ports. If we connected a USB device to the computer before starting our computer and accessing this screen, we'd see the USB drive option in the list. Some computers display the USB drive option even when a drive isn't connected, while some don't.
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is it just me, or is anyone else ANNOYED with the 3/4 page pop-up car ad that comes up each time you change a page on this site? If causes text to constantly shift around and, even though I've closed it six times, it STILL keeps popping up? No wonder AdBlock is so popular on FireFox… wish I had it at work as I could skip that crap entirely. Advertising will be the vice that killed the web because publishers DO NOT KNOW when to stop. They aren't satisfied with the complete right hand column full of ads… NOOOoooooooooooo they just pop them on top, bottom, EVERYWHERE. Pretty soon, ads will be more than content and I'll switch the whole damned thing off.
I'm not getting the ad you're talking about. I DO get it on my yahoo page(s) But just once. It IS annoying, if you're getting it every page turn here I suggest you use a different browser maybe? I agree with you mostly, I have quit going to a few sites because the ad space totally overwhelms the content space.Thankfully thats only a small percentage of the places I visit though. I don't begrudge HTG making some money, if they didn't ……. I would hate to think of a morning without my coffee and Geek comic! :)
But thats neither here nor there actually as this comment section is for the article itself. While I'm way past needing this particular information I think the article was spot on. I can remember (sorta…. blush :)) the trepidation I felt the first time I had to change my boot order. Wish I would have had this then!
I keep coming back here and I'm stuck with a browser IT is forced on us at work…
Man , that bites……….
Good article.I know a few people who've mucked up their BIOS.
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Not getting 'em in Chrome.
Good article for newbies to BIOS. I remember how I was when I first went there, somewhat as I do now when I go to Registry: extremely careful about making any change.
or you can download chrome and use adblock (without plus). The moment you install and click few skips you're done. All the ads will go away without you filtering them. I mean all of them such as google ads pop-up ads and the rest except for russian websites ( you're probably english anyway it won't matter to you). Go to chrome you won't have to update flash any more it's built in.
Browser wars can happen any-time anywhere. Be vigilant!
Regarding the article…
Don't be afraid to look at the BIOS. That is how you learn. Even though many BIOSes have warnings about how you can mess up your system, the settings are actually rather straightforward, and 99% of the time, changes can be reversed easily. If you are worried that you may mess something up, you can always exit without saving changes after poking around.
I did not experiance any pop ups on this site, I have my internet settings tuned up pretty good and I also use Windows Defender as a tool. The key with defender is to update all the stuff. It is simply used as a guard dog and I have been pretty happy with it. I have been working on a computer that continues to run the the memory scan in sytem recovery. It was already having a problem loading windows but I used to have some options and now none.I cant get it to do anything else.
the error message comes up, (\windows\system32\winload.exe) a boot error that may be corrupt or missing.. I am un able to get into the bios to change settings. Any suggestions? Windows 7 laptop
I have another computer that is a Dell CPU With Windows xp. I can not get into the bios either because it is blocked by a "supervisor password needed". diolouge box. I dont have a password set up in the set up -before windows installs. I am unabe to attempt anu data input because it is not allowing me that function on the keyboard, and I have tried several keyboards. I have also tried several boot discs and beleive that it is not reading my cdrom to boot up. I think the drivers dont get installed /loaded. not sure what to do.. When I attempt to enter set up… again I do not have key board functions.
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The Easton Velocity V9 Hockey Sticks are co-headlining the new Easton Velocity stick line alongside the V9E. The V9 uses the Traditional Taper Profile that was found on the Mako II sticks. After years of researching how hockey players score, Easton's V9 stick optimizes velocity through puck position, blade angle and energy transfer. The HyperToe™ Technology aids in this process because the stiffened toe and softened tapered section allows players to load even more energy into their shot, thus resulting in a lightning quick shot release with insane velocity.
The Velocity V9 looks to build on the success accomplished by the Mako II sticks. The V9 uses a Traditional Tuned Taper that was also used in the Mako II's, offering a great balance of power with a quick shot release. Working hand in hand with the taper is the all new HyperToe™ blade construction. The middle of the blade has been softened while the toe has been stiffened due to the addition of extra internal support ribs to provide a big jump in stiffness. This allows the middle portion of the blade to slightly flex, functioning like the shaft to provide even more velocity while the toe remains extra stiff for excellent accuracy. Easton continued to improve on the previous Mako II blade with the new Segmented Blade Core that utilizes Airex foam. This foam is aerospace quality that provides an even better puck feel and increased responsiveness.
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- Improved stability and better life expectancy of blade-stiffness
- Uni-Carbon construction with 3k carbon weave
- Micro-Bladder construction process
- Gives players a more consistent feel for the puck from heel to toe
- Flex: 75, 85, 100, and 110
- Length: 59.5"
Comments: This is a great stick, a definite upgrade from my S19. I like the weight and balance better on the V9. There is less weight in the blade than on my S19 and the texture pattern on the V9 gives a good fee through a glove. I'm probably going to pick up a few more of these before the next run of sticks from Easton.
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9 And Abram said, Lord God, how wilt thou give me this land for an everlasting inheritance?
10 And the Lord said, Though thou wast dead, yet am I not able to give it thee?
11 And if thou shalt die, yet thou shalt possess it, for the day cometh, that the Son of Man shall live; but how can he live if he be not dead? he must first be quickened.
12 And it came to pass, that Abram looked forth and saw the days of the Son of Man, and was glad, and his soul found rest, and he believed in the Lord; and the Lord counted it unto him for righteousness.


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Drew Brees, co-chair of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition, is the 2009 Super Bowl MVP-winning NFL quarterback for the New Orleans Saints. In his 12-year career, he has been elected to seven Pro Bowls and four All-Pro teams, named 2004 Comeback Player of the Year, 2006 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year, 2008 and 2011 NFL Offensive Player of the Year, 2010 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year, and Super Bowl XLIV MVP.
He attended Purdue University where he earned a bachelor's degree in Industrial Management from the prestigious Krannert School of Management while lettering in football from 1997-2000. He and his wife, Brittany, and the Brees Dream Foundation have collectively committed and/or contributed more than $17 million to charitable causes and academic institutions.Full Bio
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- More than $11 million contribution to charitable causes through Drew Brees Dream Foundation.
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- I wear the number 9 in honor of Ted Williams, left fielder for the Boston Red Sox.
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This is going to be about sage arts.
As we all know, you have to be still to use sage arts or have someone (the frogs) help you. We all know that the only way now for Naruto to use the sage arts to it's full potential is to summon the two elder frogs. So now, it is hard to say that one of the frogs will die since he needs them to use sage mode.
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We all know that mechas are damn sexy. So why not add to the sexiness by lathering them up in delicious gravy, or any other sauce of your choice?
Really, this could be a fun way of getting to know all about one another!
The machines don't have to be manned; the key thing is that they are mechanized tools of battle. Lather them up in any sauce, dressing, whatever! Go with what you want, but just keep it PG-13.
Guess I'll start with my original choice:
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We all know global warming is occurring, and from individual's to corporations we can all make a contribution to containing, and eventually reversing climate change, and save a bit of cash along the way as well. Seems like a win, win deal to me. But now the urgency has grown, a colleague of mine forwarded on an article about the price of beer. The price of beer I hear you ask? From the AP release
Jim Salinger, a climate scientist at New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, said climate change likely will cause a decline in the production of malting barley in parts of New Zealand and Australia. Malting barley is a key ingredient of beer. "It will mean either there will be pubs without beer or the cost of beer will go up," Mr. Salinger told the Institute of Brewing and Distilling convention.Now considering the fact, to borrow a quote the folks over on Goats, that
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In the November council meeting they discussed raising culinary water rates for those connections that are outside of city limits. This has been a continuous topic at Castle Valley Special Service District meetings although a change will not be made at the present time.
The council received much input from the citizens in attendance at the meeting. The council was appreciative of all those who commented and took no action at the current time.
The council discussed the hiring policy, vacation and sick leave policy and employee benefits for full-time employees. They discussed the amount of time that employees are allowed to accumulate for sick leave and vacation time. The council compared policies of other communities and policies of the county.
The council approved the meeting schedule for 2010. The meetings will continue to be held on the third Wednesday of each month.
The zoning administrator reported on the Helmer property. After receiving three bids as requested by the council, the city awarded Nielson Construction the bid and they removed the structures on the property and cleaned up the lot. This lot violated city code and state code. The city council would like other properties that are in violation of code to come into compliance and instructed the administrator to continue his efforts.
Councilman Travis Larsen wants the city to continue sending out letters encouraging property owners to clean up their property. He is also meeting with residents that leave vehicles and trailers on city streets too long.


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Report from the President
Jacqueline Salit, President of IndependentVoting.org, hosts a bi-monthly national conference call, updating independents on the latest developments of our growing movement.
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Independent groups
CUIP is motivating, training and supporting an activist network of independent leaders who are building throughout the country.
AL, Independent Alabama
AR, IndependentArkansas.org
AZ, Independent Voters of Arizona
CA, IndependentVoice.org
CO, Coalition of Independent Voters In Colorado (CIVIC)
DE, Independent Party of Delaware
FL, Florida Fair and Open Elections
GA, Georgia Independent Voters
GA, iMove
ID, American Independent Movement
IL, United Independents of Illinois
KY, Independent Kentucky
LA, Alliance of Louisiana Independent Voters (ALIV)
MA, Massachusetts Coalition of Independent Voters
MD, Maryland Independent Voters
MD, Independent Movement of Maryland
MI, Michigan Independent Voters
MO, Missouri Independents Stand Together (M.I.S.T.)
MS, Committee for Open Primaries
NC, North Carolina Independents
NH, New Hampshire Independent Voters
NJ, New Jersey Independent Voters
NM, New Mexico Open Primaries
NV, Independent Voters of Nevada (IVON)
NY, NYC Independence Clubs
OH, Independent Ohio
OR, Independent Voters of Oregon (IVOO)
PA, Independent Pennsylvanians
RI, Independent Voters of Rhode Island
SC, Independence Party of South Carolina
SD, South Dakota Voice of Independents
TX, Lone Star Independents
UT, Utah League of Independent Voters
VA, Virginia Independent Voters Association (VIVA)
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This is an exciting and challenging time for independent voters and for the independent movement. Independents are now 43% of the electorate. Polls show that 41%
of college students consider themselves indies as do 35% of African Americans under the age of 30.
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"This revolt, merely the latest world event shattering the worldview of so
many, had many moving parts.
Here are several that I see."
Read Revolts, Reforms and Divides: An Independent Look at the 2016 Presidential Election by Jacqueline Salit.
"Throughout the campaign, many Americans—whether they voted for you or not—expressed their urgent wish to see our political system put in the hands of the people, not the special interests, be they financial, partisan or ideological. We believe that reforming our political system and revitalizing our democracy is key to
our nation's profound problems. "
Sign the letter here.
Learn more about the campaign to
Open Our Democracy here.
Independents Call on Colorado Governor to Speak Out about Partisan Rewrite of Ballot Initiatives by State Legislature. Gwen Ballard of CIVIC (left) penned a letter to CO Gov. Hickenlooper with Jackie Salit urging him to confront Colorado Legislative Council's "maneuver to rewrite the Blue Book's information on Initiatives 98 and 140" and effectively derail their popular support.
Read the letter here.
In "How the Three B's (Bernie, Barack and Bloomberg) Abandoned the Political Revolution" Jacqueline Salit writes "Sanders, Bloomberg and Obama were all leaders in movements, independent movements, movements that directly challenged — and in some cases defeated — the partisan status quo...Those three leaders — Bernie, Barack and Bloomberg, the Three B's — could have used the chaos of this cycle to advance a new majoritarian, transpartisan, and multi-racial electoral coalition, one that is pro-reform and breaks with the endless regress of winning-at-all-costs. But they didn't."
Read more at Huffington Post
IndependentVoting.org President Jackie Salit was among 45 respected political leaders, grassroots visionaries, business pioneers, change agents and advocates who spoke at the virtual American Citizens Summit, Aug 1-4, 2016. The event provided an opportunity to hear from MANY passionate and dedicated Americans working to reform our democracy. Click here to hear Jackie's remarks. They begin at 13:30 and run to 38:25
An Important Message from Dr. Lenora Fulani.
The Democratic and Republican Parties will soon gather in conventions to formally select their presidential nominees. They will also fight over the rules for their future nominating process. While Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the presumed nominees, we shouldn't presume anything when it comes to the rules.
Can you start a petition today calling for your state to adopt an open primary?
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Michael Hardy, Esq., General Counsel and Exec. VP of National Action Network Testimony to DNC calls for Inclusion of all Voters in Prez Primary: Regardless of Race, Gender or Partisan Affiliation.
"What we are seeing is a broadening of the traditional voting rights agenda," stated Hardy. "It's time to once again to place fundamental principles of popular sovereignty and full participation in our electoral process upfront in our platform if we are truly to be Democrats and if we truly want to fight to be a proud Democracy."
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Q&A with Jacqueline Salit, President of IV.org, and author, Independents Rising on the 2016 Presidential
Q. Where are independent voters going to go in November? Who will they vote for?
A. Before we talk about the choice that voters will make in the Presidential election in November, we need to talk about how much independent voters have shaped the election so far. Their impact has been huge in three ways..." Read more
Statement by Catana Barnes on the Nevada Caucus. My name is Catana L Barnes. I am an independent voter and the president of Independent Voters of Nevada, I would like to caucus for Bernie Sanders but the state of Nevada and the Democratic Party of Nevada require that I give up my independence to do so.
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You say you want a revolution, Bernie? Lots of Americans do. And they're not all Democrats. Jackie Salit's latest OpEd in the Huffington Posts takes a look at independent voters role in the Iowa caucus, the presidential primaries and beyond. Read more
Statement by Independent Voters of Nevada Founder Catana Barnes on the Democratic Party Presidential Debate.
"There was a disconnect in last night's debate that independents couldn't help be stung by. The debate took place in Nevada, a state that holds presidential caucuses that are closed to independent voters, even though we are 27% of the electorate here. Bernie Sanders says millions have to rise up, but he won't call for our inclusion. Hillary Clinton says she is a progressive who gets things done, but the partisan structure of elections and Congress make it impossible. What's her plan for reform?"
"Next debate? Let's find a moderator who is at least willing to observe that 2 of the 5 candidates on the stage are or were independents. And let's make sure the candidates have to share their view on why so many in our country - 45% - don't align with any political party and what they plan to do to fix the system in order to include us."
Are Voting Rights for All Voters? Let's Ask Hillary.
Hillary began her campaign kickoff week with a speech at Texas Southern University. Her theme was voting rights... what was missing from it: the rights of independent voters and the need to reform the primary system to make it inclusive and nonpartisan.
The 2015 National Conference of Independents took place on Saturday, March 14th at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. Five hundred independent voter activists attended the day long conference which opened with this musical/visual tribute to the fight for demoracy.
A slide show of highlights can be viewed here.
"Lawyers seeking election reforms told an appellate panel on Tuesday that New Jersey's primary system is akin to the state forcing citizens to choose between two churches to practice religion. An absurd notion, attorney Chad Peace acknowledged in a Philadelphia courtroom." So wrote the Morristown Green in reporting on the cutting edge lawsuit brought by independents and independent voter groups challenging NJ's primary system which excludes 47% of the state not enrolled in a political party. Update: This case has been submitted via petition to the U.S Supreme Court. Read more
Independents' Day. Ebony magazine's June issue carried this piece by Dr. Omar Ali. "We need new alliances," writes Ali "that do not simply organize themselves around either Republican or Democratic ideology but instead focus on the electoral process. A January 2015 Gallup poll shows that 43 percent of Americans self-identify as poiltcally independnt, as do 26 percent of African Americans according to a Pew Research Poll three months later."
African American & Independents Applaud Decision Upholding South Carolina's Open Primaries. A decision by the Richmond, Virginia based Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit affirmed a decision by District Judge Mary G. Lewis from August of 2013, dismissing a lawsuit brought by the Greenville Republican Party which sought to close the state's primary system. Read more
Politics for the People Welcomes Pulitzer Prize Winner Eric Foner.
The Cathy L. Stewart Politics for the People Book Club is currently reading Gateway to Freedom by Eric Foner. This unique book club meets quarterly via national conference call where members interact directly with the author. Cathy hosts the discussion with the author on Sunday, April 19th at 7:00 pm. In the meantime, pick up a copy of the book, and visit the Politics for the People blog for an ongoing exploration, videos and discussion of the book. More info
Our analysis of the 2014 midterm elections was presented by Jackie Salit during her bi-monthly national conference call on 11/6 entitled "Post Election Round-Up: Who Won, Who Lost and Who's Building." Over 140 independent activists from around the country dialed in to hear her report. Listen to a recording of the presentation here.
In "No More Fergusons Means No More Partisan Manipulation," which appears in the Amsterdam News and several African American newspapers across the country, Dr. Lenora Fulani extends this challenge: "I want the Black Community to join me in helping to build the nonpartisan reform movement. We need a nonpartisan political system that encourage, rather than represses, new coalitions and voter mobility. This is how new and effective approaches to poverty, to police/community relations and to developing our youth can become public policy....Join me in building a national Black reformer's network." Read Dr. Fulani's entire opinion piece here
Independent voters in Ohio protested on primary day at the Secretary of State's office in Columbus about their status as first class taxpayers, but second class voters. The protest was part of the Voting Rights are Primary campaign being coordinated nationally by IndependentVoting.org. The Ohio action received coverage on the local ABC station and in The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Independent Pennsylvanians founder Jenn Bullock on the streets of Philadelphia on primary day May 20th where 1 million PA voters are excluded. She spoke with statewide columnist John Finnerty for his piece "Voters Pay for Primaries but Don't get a Say."
Voting Rights are Primary - During the primary phase of the mid-term elections, independent voter groups are protesting their second class status as voters. In Greensboro, NC, students and community members hit the streets.
Protests planned in Philly over exclusion
of independents from primary voting
WHYY 90.9 fm – Tom MacDonald
Group banned from voting to highlight
unfair election practices
Philadelphia Weekly – Randy LoBasso
Independents plan push to change
Ohio's primary system
Canton Repository - Cynthia Carpathios
'Elections Should Be Public Affairs'
NC Independents Protest Voting Rules
WUNC 91.5 - Jessica Jones
Independent voters excluded from
primary election
KOB ch 4 - Stuart Dyson
On March 5, 2014, the EndPartisanship coalition filed a lawsuit in New Jersey federal court demanding that every voter should have an equal and meaningful vote at every stage of the state-funded election process, regardless of their party affiliation or non-affiliation. See Lawsuit to Overhaul New Jersey Primary System (Morristown Green). Pictured are coalition partners with the legal team (l to r): Jeff Martson co-chair of Independent Voter Project; Harry Kresky, legal advisor; Jackie Salit, president IV.org; Samuel Gregory, lead counsel; Chad Peace, legal strategist.
Fighting for Voters without Parties (the Daily Record)
Group Sues the State to Open Primaires to All ( NJ.com)
Suit to Overturn Primary System (NJhills.com).
October 19 - Book Club for Independents Hosted by Cathy L. Stewart.
The Cathy L.Stewart Politics for the People Book Club is currently reading the book Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by Danielle Allen. Cathy will by joined by the author on the next P4P book club call on Sunday, October 19th at 7:00 pm. In the meantime, pick up a copy of the book, and visit the Politics for the People blog at for an ongoing exploration, videos and discussion of the book. More info
IndependentVoting.org president Jackie Salit was a panelist at USC Schwarzenegger Institute's annual conference on Government and Leadership. She joined: Kathay Feng, Executive Director of California Common Cause; John C. Fortier, Director of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Democracy Project and Dorothy Siemon, Vice President of AARP's Office of Policy Integration for this conversation focused on political reform moderated by Bonnie Reiss, Global Director of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute.
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to the
Presidential Commission on
Election Administration.
"We, the undersigned, are independent voters from
all 50 states. We are deeply concerned that
America's political process is in a crisis
and that serious attention must be paid to it...
Independents testified at Sept. 4th, 2013 Philadelphia hearing of the PCEA. (From left to right: Dona Sauerburger, Steve Weiss, Kevin Soubly, Miriam Chaponniere, Norma Van Dyke, Brandi Martindale, Stephen Richardson, Nancy Ross, Jenn Bullock, Steve Johnson, Joe Ferraro, Greg Moohn). Commission co-chairs Ginsberg and Bauer confer in the background.
The Daily Beast published this op ed below by Harry Kresky and Jacqueline Salit where they take a look at the state of democracy in America, the President's recent effort to address its shortcomings and what independents are doing about it. Read more.
Independent Voters Applaud GOP Retreat from Effort to Close South Carolina Primaries.
IndependentVoting.org, a national association of independent voters and a defender of South Carolina's open primary system, cleared an important hurdle last Friday, when the South Carolina Republican Party withdrew from a lawsuit to close the state's primary elections. Read more.
The 2013 National Conference of Independents took place on Saturday, February 16, 2013 at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. Over 400 independent voter activists attended the day long conference which opened with this video tribute to their work publicizing the need for nonpartisan structural reform of America's political process in local and national media over the last 2 years. CSPAN coverage here. Slide show here.
A Post Election Independent Analysis
Obama and Independents:
The Micro, the Macro and the Forest
By Jacqueline Salit
Top Two Open Primaries Initiative in Arizona.
Congratulations to Arizona's Open Elections, Open Government Coalition for filing over 365,000 petition signatures (259,000 required) with the Secretary of State to put a top two nonpartisan election initiative on the ballot. Despite it's defeat in the election, the initiative was quite controversial and a precursor for things to come. The initiative survived a legal challenge after the state supreme court overturned a lower court ruling, saying that the citizen initiative is in compliance with the Arizona Constitution and should move forward to the November ballot.
Independentvoting.org submitted an Amicus Brief. The Arizona League of Women Voters , one of the initiators of the suit, had published a "Pro/Con Report," which was largely a "con" statement. Independentvoting.org director of national organizing Nancy Ross and lead counsel Harry Kresky and Ted Downing of Arizonans for a Top Two Primary responded to the report in an Open Letter to the League.
Listen here to Independentvoting.org President Jackie Salit in an interview with Communications Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy on Top-Two Proposition: What Nonpartisan Elections Could Mean for Arizona.
Beyond Red vs. Blue
Independents are not Moderates. Pew Research Center released a survey last month which was encouragingly called "Beyond Red vs. Blue." Encouraging, that is, for the growing number of Americans eager to find a way out of the partisanship which has come to dominate public policy making at nearly every level of government. Read more
Did Independents Make a Mark in Iowa?
By Jackie Salit, Huffington Post. Click Here.
Jackie Salit appeared on "FOX & Friends" where she gave an independents perspective on the budget negotiations.
Salit's view that the budget crisis further exposes the need for structural political reforms, have recently been echoed by Mickey Edwards in The Atlantic and Fareed Zakaria in the Washington Post .
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Yes, in that graphic, every single one of those families makes a six figure income, the lowest being $180 thousand, and yet because of the new tax hikes imposed by Obama, they all appear as though he ran over the family dog.
The median household income in the U.S. between 2007-2011 was $52,762, but the American people are all supposed to shed tears for those that make between three to twelve times as much? Seriously, how out of touch do you have to be to think that? Of course, this is the same outfit that supported a guy who thought making $250k qualified as "middle income".
This is also further insulting considering right wingers bitch endlessly about government workers like teachers supposedly living high on the hog.
I have to say though, the most puzzling thing about that comic: why is that minority couple who hasn't had their taxes increased also depressed?
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FERRON-Jesse George Conover, age 93, returned to Heavenly Father on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 in Price, Utah, following complications from a fall. George was born on April 3, 1918 in Ferron, Utah to Jesse Maurice and Ione Stevens Conover. He married Margaret Johnson on March 24, 1940 in Provo, Utah. They were sealed in the Manti LDS Temple for time and eternity on Sept. 30, 1953.
George was raised in Ferron. He attended Utah State University and served in the Army Infantry during World War II. He spent his life cattle ranching and working in the local coal mines. He especially loved his cattle and his horses. George was active in civic organizations. He served as the Lion's Club President, served on the Ferron City Council three terms, and has been a life long member of the American Legion. George was an active member of the LDS Church. He served in numerous callings. His favorite calling was as a missionary with his dear wife Margaret as his companion. Together they served two Stake missions and three full time missions (Louisville, Ky.; Kirkland, Ohio; Palmyra, N.Y.). He had a deep testimony of the doctrine and he loved the scriptures. His family was the central thing in his life. He enjoyed world travel, especially the trips with his extended family.
George is survived by his wife of 71 years; son Paul G. (Kathleen), Ferron; daughter Catherine (Curtis) Steele, Price; son Sterling J. (Janet), Hana, Wyo.; 20 grandchildren and numerous great and great-great-grandchildren.
Preceded in death by his parents; sisters: Maurine (Joel) Jensen; Kathleen (Grant) Richards; and Ione (Richard) Scow; one grandson Gordon Paul Conover; two great-granddaughters and one great-grandson.
Funeral services were held Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 at 12 noon at the Blue Hills/Millsite LDS Chapel (35 West 200 North, Ferron, Utah). A viewing was held from 9:30-11:30 a.m. prior to the service at the church. Interment was in the Ferron City Cemetery.
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There are two folding tables set up in the lobby of Miami's Caleb Centerone for each side of Russell Simmons. The gaudier table is a promo vehicle for Def-Con 3, Simmons's new energy drink. It's staffed by two young and cheery women, notably white in the heart of black Brownsville, Miami. They're chatting up a smattering of neighborhood folk, the parents and the grade-schoolers and the high school seniors who've straggled in for a glimpse of Simmons, entertainment mogul and president-for-life of hip-hop America.
The second table is, theoretically, more to the point of this October eventvoter registration. Simmons's Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) has set a goal of signing up 2 million new voters, one or 10 or 100 at a time, for the 2004 presidential election.
But for Simmons, business is politics and politics is business, so it's essential that while he hawks voter registration he also hawks his latest product. He's been barnstorming the country with a unique, if mixed messageregister to vote, and buy Def-Con 3 while you're at it. This is his 17th stop; given the allegations of voting-rights violations that dogged Florida last time, maybe it should have been his first. On stage, Simmons, the founder of Def Jam records and Phat Farm clothing, is humbly sharing a mic with elder statesman KRS-ONE, ally Benjamin Chavis, and a guy who says he's rapper Lil Flip's older brother.
At a summit in Philly, with the assistance of LL Cool J, Will Smith, and DMX, Simmons signed up 11,000 new voters. In Detroit, the event drew an estimated 17,000.
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Simmons's effort to convert the Miami faithful is not going as well. He stares out into Caleb's cavernous auditorium, where only one fifth of the seats are taken. Which doesn't mean the few who came aren't glad to see him. "I think you'd make a great politician," a beaming older woman tells him before he takes the stage. "A congressman, a president."
Dapper in Phat Farmwhite polo shirt, shorts, baseball cap, and sneakersSimmons is gracious, answering questions with his Zen-like calm. "Why aren't there any girls or young people?" asks a young woman in the audience. This would be a good time for Simmons to blast the rapper Trina, a local favorite, who has apparently stiffed him. Instead, when the mic comes Simmons's way, he apologizes and promises to do better next time.
That a raunchy rapper like Trina would be central to political activism is a demonstration of synergy, Simmons-style. "When Puffy says register to vote, maybe people will do it," says Simmons. "The most important thing we gotta do is make it cool to show up at the rallies, make it in style to pay attention."
Simmons has spent his life enumerating the ways that hip-hop's energy can be converted into dollars. Now he's trying to convert that energy into a social movement capable of reinvigorating the slumbering black left. A kingmaker in the making, Simmons has given money to all the presidential candidates except John Edwards and Joe Lieberman. While he is a nominal supporter of Al Sharpton, he confesses an affinity for Howard Dean. It's hard to think of a better ally for the governor of ivory-white Vermont than young black America's most formidable potentate. At 45, Simmons is the patriarch of a generation that couldn't pick Julian Bond out of a police lineup.
But for Simmons, the road from Wall Street to K Street has proven to be a slow one-laner fraught with potholeshard going for a guy who has always lived like a Jaguar speeding down the autobahn. The goals of HSAN are far-reaching and wide-eyed with ambition. The only in-house organizing experience belongs to Chavis, who's as respected for organizing the Million Man March as he is derided for driving the NAACP into debt.
Simmons's value as an activist hasn't yet been proved. After all, hip-hop's idea of social justice seems to begin with the unabridged right to bling. But his approach isn't without merit: If the people care only about Bennifer, then let's bring Bennifernot Lil Flip's big brotherand hope the people will follow.
Democratizing the hip-hop nation won't be fast, cheap, or easy. Young people, regardless of race, tend to have little time for the responsibilities of citizenship. Only 32 percent of all adults between the ages of 18 and 24 turned out for the 2000 ballot, according to census figures, and just 45 percent bothered to register in the first place.
Some would say tackling the problem is not a job for Simmons, given that his methods reflect the worldview of a guy who made his fortune peddling brands. In 2001, Simmons got on the slave reparations bus, pitching atonementand his clothing line. "Isn't it time for change?" read the Phat Farm billboards. "Economic justice now. Reparations now. It's an American justice issue."
Traditional activists bring their ideology to the battle; Simmons brings his business plan. "Look, kids couldn't spell reparations," he says. "We talk about it in a different light than some people. But I'm helping to create a dialogue. . . . It's just part of the way we do business, as well as the way we live."
Listen in as Simmons and his brother Run, one third of Run-DMC, are chowing down on takeout from Subway and talking up the social benefits of Simmons's new energy drink, Def-Con 3. "We were going to give away 20 or 30 percent of the proceeds," Simmons says, sitting in his New York headquarters. "I decided to give away 100 percent, at least for a period of time, to develop the hip-hop summit. We want to register a lot of voters, and that shit is expensive."
Simmons talks with his mouth full. Meticulously groomed, he somehow still wears the cloak of the disheveled. His cadence is rough and abrupt; words issue from him with the grace and elegance of an avalanche. But it's his candor, even his fondness for profanity, that allows him to spin you, even if he isn't trying to.
A natural broker, he knows how to give ground without really giving it. Last fall, Simmons came into conflict with Farrakhan would-be Malik Zulu Shabazz over Simmons's nonsupport of the 2003 Million Youth March. According to Simmons, Shabazz had threatened to "expose" him.
"You can't expose me, nigga!" says a suddenly animated Simmons.
Then: "I love a lot of what you have to say."
But: "A lot of what you have to say, I don't necessarily think is my struggle."
Finally: "Everybody has their own struggle."
Ask about Phat Farm, and he'll lean forward incredulously and, in a semi-nasal tone, declare, "I still got the hottest clothing company in the business, and it's a lotta niggas with clothing companies."
Is he hotter than Sean John? "Well, I don't wanna compete."
But: "My numbers are bigger. My growth is bigger."
Yet: "I think, I don't know. There are stores we're not hot in."
Finally: "But overall, we're doing better business. I think our overall numbers are the best."
His Clintonesque combo of straight talk and compromisehe's comfortable enough to speak his mind, but malleable enough to seemingly concede a pointhas won Simmons allies and friends that run the gamut from Louis Farrakhan to Bobby Shriver. "He's a very dynamic individual," says Roc-A-Fella Records CEO Damon Dash. "He's got friends in fashion, in music, friends in the political world, and then overall he's just a nice guy. Russell is the type of guy who if he asks you to do something, you just do iteven if you know nothing about the issue."
Throughout our conversation, Simmons quotes from his yoga teachings. When he talks about his transformation to being an activist, he credits his wife, his kids, his age ("I'm old"). But as much as anything he credits yoga, which is all about the sort of odd marriageslike, say, your mouth to your kneesthat Simmons has specialized in executing.
"You wanna go to yoga with me?" he asks, breaking from an evaluation of yoga teachers with the Reverend Run.
"Yeah, sure," I reply.
"I'm gonna take him to yoga with me," he says to one of his PR people. Then he picks up the phone to grab one of his personal assistants.
"What's your name again?" he asks.
"I got a big nigga named Ta-Nehisi that I'm gonna take to my six o'clock yoga class," he tells his assistant.
Simmons began his forays into social enlightenment by launching the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, in concert with Benjamin Chavis, in July 2001. By then, Simmons had left his footprints all over the entertainment world. Briefly recapped: He got his start by founding Rush Management and handling the careers of Kurtis Blow and Run-DMC. In 1984, he partnered with Rick Rubin to form Def Jam.
Between Rush and Def Jam, Simmons would leave his imprint on everyone from Eric B. and Rakim to EPMD to Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. He started Phat Farm, Def Comedy Jam, and Def Poetry Jam. By understanding that niche products don't have to be, Simmons made millionsand had a blast along the way. "I didn't make 'Rock Box' thinking, 'Oh, how much money is this gonna get me,' " says Simmons. "I made 'Rock Box' thinking this is a lot of fun and niggas is gonna bug out when they hear this. And, so they did. I enjoyed it. They sent me money. The money didn't matter."
As chair of HSAN, Simmons has directed the group to take on everything from blocking cuts in New York's education budget to curbing file-sharing and preserving freedom of speech. He's been criticized for adopting a veneer of activism even as he protects his own interests, but his real goal is to influence electoral politics. To what end is hard to say. Through the lens of HSAN, hip-hop activism is as amorphous as the music and culture it springs from. Its leadership planned it that way.
"We universally represent all of hip-hop. We didn't say we're only going to work with artists who do good videos and good lyrics," says Chavis. "We represent all of the artists, from gangsta hip-hop to gospel hip-hop. It gives us the ability to help encourage all of the artists to seek a path that is constructive and not self-destructive."
Chavis and Simmons reject the idea that one of hip-hop's biggest problems is itself. "Rap is a mirror image, and all of it is not pretty," says Chavis. "What hip-hop does is take the negative and flip the script. 'Dog' is now a term of endearment. 'Pimp' has become a term of endearment. 'Bitch' and 'ho' have become terms of endearment. It's hard to take the dictionary of the oppressor to understand the dictionary of the oppressed."
"That's bullshit," counters Bakari Kitwana, author of The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture. "I think if we can't be self-critical, then that will be the death of hip-hop. It's just backwards. Just because we all love hip-hop, we shouldn't defend something that is indefensible." Kitwana is working with other grassroots hip-hop activists on the National Hip Hop Political Convention, slated for June in Newark. Its aims are similar to HSAN's, although the group will be pushing the hip-hop generation to be more introspective, to look to themselves for solutions.
HSAN's platform assumes that the hip-hop community's biggest problems originate from outside. But how's a guy nicknamed Joey Crack supposed to fight the Rockefeller drug laws?
"The challenge is that artists are artists and activists are activists. If you connect the two," says Melanie Campbell, executive director of the National Coalition of Black Civic Participation, which hopes to work with Simmons, "then you have a strong element and it will have real impact. But if you're just using entertainers who may not be socially conscious and are just doing PSAs, that doesn't work."
Public Enemy frontman Chuck D sees a more sinister hand in HSAN's unwillingness to critique its own. "These guys got the dick of the radio and record companies in their mouth," he says. "How you gonna be on the industry's payroll and speak out?"
Chavis and Simmons see no conflict in HSAN being partially funded by the music industry. "We get a very small percentage from the record companies, but we want more," says Simmons. "We're not compromised on what we've received. We can only be compromised by what we do. And I challenge anyone to say we've compromised on any issues."
Challenge accepted. Randy Credico, an activist against New York's harsh Rockefeller drug laws, says he has watched Simmons not only compromise on an issue but compromise himself. Last year, Simmons entered the Rockefeller fight with legislators in Albany. "We had been continually organizing, and he came in late," says Credico, co-founder of Mothers of the New York Disappeared. "But we continued because I thought he was going to get involved in a long process of organizing. But he got involved for his own self-interest; he wanted to put himself in the forefront."
Not that Simmons's work was useless. "We were amazingly close," says Anthony Papa, Credico's founding partner. "The star power, the publicity, getting the issue out there to the general populationgetting Russell involved was a dream come true."
HSAN officially got on board by joining the Countdown to Fairness, a coalition of activists, politicians, and entertainment figures. The group held its kickoff rally on May 8, an event Papa characterizes as "20 people standing in the street." In June, with Simmons pulling in the likes of Puffy, Jay-Z, and Mariah Carey, the group held another. This time it was 20,000 people standing in the street.
Two weeks later, Simmons was holed up in Albany with Governor Pataki, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno for seven hours trying to carve out reform legislation. For many, Pataki working legislation with the politically green Simmons seemed a ploy to keep more informedand less manageableactivists out of the loop.
According to Deborah Small, public policy director for the Drug Policy Institute, the deal Simmons worked on would have helped only a minority of those convicted. A month later, Pataki would propose legislation from his session with Simmons, who promptly endorsed it. The activists, however, balked, effectively breaking the coalition.
"The agreement included provisions that were poison pills. I didn't feel the language was such that we ever could have accepted it," says Small, who broke with Simmons but has since reconciled. "Russell thought the pills could be taken out in negotiation. . . . To the extent that [Pataki] manipulated Russell to come out and endorse his proposal, he did a disservice to Russell and made it impossible to reach an agreement."
The point was moot anyway. The "agreement" Pataki induced went nowhere, raising serious questions about the difference between star power and real power.
Today, the state attorney general is investigating whether Simmons should have registered as a lobbyistSimmons maintains he wasn't one. Meanwhile, Rockefeller reform is no closer. "Where's the movement now? It's constipated," says Credico. "We're starting all over again. We learned a lesson: You don't bring in celebrities who have big egos and are ill-informed."
Simmons hardly sounds stung. "God bless 'em," he says of his critics. "I'm just glad they're talking about it. [Credico] called the other day, talking about we should stay out of it."
But: "I'm not staying out of it. I'm going to do the best I can for those people in jail. The prisoners don't want me out of it. I don't think."
Then: "I'm not saying who's right and wrong."
Finally: "I want to get something done."
This is what can happen when you make a deal with Russell Simmons: You learn there are rods of titanium more limber than you. This becomes obvious to me 15 minutes into a yoga class with Simmons at the Jivamukti Yoga Center, base camp for Hollywood types (Sarah Jessica Parker, Madonna) looking to connect with their inner selves.
Toward the end of class, everyone is doing headstands. Most of the students are thin white women who look like they might have been made to do yoga. Simmons is not particularly thin, white, or womanly (though he has claimed to be a lesbian trapped in a man's body). But when it comes time for headstands, he shoots his body into the air with the deftness and ease of Rakim over "Schoolboy Crush."
Yoga, with its premium on compromise and surrender, is the perfect art for Simmons. If only we can release our self-doubt, we can begin to do wonderful thingslike marry our mouth to our knees, hip-hop to sports drinks, celebrity to activism.
Simmons hopes he can add a coolness factor to social insurgency. "The most important thing we gotta do is make it cool to show up at the rallies, make it in style to pay attention," says Simmons. "At the hip-hop summit in Philly, we had tremendous success. It was the place to be. LL Cool J was there, Wyclef was there, Damon Dash was there. But no one could get in unless they registered to vote."
Fair enough. But Simmons's populist chic doesn't square too well with the history of progressive activism. Malcolm was anathema to mainstream black America, and finally to even the fringe Nation of Islam. Forty years later, it's easy to quote Malcolm and put him on a postage stampnow that we've killed him. Martin Luther King Jr. was ultimately abandoned by the civil rights establishment for his stand against poverty and war. Today he has a national holiday, and even conservatives have to honor himnow that he's no longer here to shame them. Ditto for the Black Panthers. Everybody says their dad wore a black beretnow that J. Edgar Hoover isn't alive to tap their phones.
Progressive vision almost always lacks mass appeal. While possibly enjoying a bit of rebellious sheen, prophetic insight is decidedly uncool; it involves the sacrifice of family livelihoods, the sullying of reputations, and, at worst, death. Only the afterglow is romantic. Everybody says they would have fought with Nat Turnernow that none of us are slaves.
To his credit, Simmons isn't claiming messiah status, and only his most bitter critics doubt his intentions. "In yoga, you practice ahimsanonviolence," he says. "When I breathe, I compromise someone's air space. For that reason I don't eat any animal or any animal product.
"But," says Simmons, pointing to his bomber, "I'm wearing leather. I do the best I can. You know what I'm saying? Everybody does the best they can."
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