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Up front I will admit I have not read Brunonia Barry's very popular novel The Lace Reader yet, so this novel was my first go with Barry's writing. (I do own The Lace Reader and will get to it, likely, in the fall.) This book presented an interesting problem for me: it was highly readable and had enough compelling moments to keep me moving forward yet the overall work fell very flat for me mostly because of writing style and issues with, what I feel to be, poor editing. When I finished the novel I went in search of reviews, curious about what others are thinking about the story. I kept encountering phrases such as: "masterfully woven"; "all the elements of a great book club book"; "engaging storytelling"; "another big hit". Clearly, according to the many gushing reviews I read, I had missed the boat of greatness with this novel. And yet…I don't think I did.
I have an appreciation for several facets of The Map of True Places. I thought the characters of Zee, Finch and Melville to be well written and the relationship between Zee and her father, Finch, believable, particularly through the worsening of his Parkinson's disease. The inclusion of historical details about the shipyards of Salem and the boat Friendship were very interesting too. The problems for me, as I have already mentioned, had mostly to do with editing. It seems to have been sloppily done. Pieces of writing are repeated, nearly word-for-word, only a couple of pages later giving the sense of being hit over the head with details so we don't forget. Dabblings in the mystical arena along with the use of coincidence did not endear me to the novel.
Here is the book description from the publisher, William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins:
Zee Finch has come a long way from a motherless childhood spent stealing boats—a talent that earned her the nickname Trouble. She's now a respected psychotherapist working with the world-famous Dr. Liz Mattei. She's also about to marry one of Boston's most eligible bachelors. But the suicide of Zee's patient Lilly Braedon throws Zee into emotional chaos and takes her back to places she though she'd left behind.
What starts as a brief visit home to Salem after Lilly's funeral becomes the beginning of a larger journey for Zee. Her father, Finch, long ago diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, has been hiding how sick he really is. His longtime companion, Melville, has moved out, and it now falls to Zee to help her father through this difficult time. Their relationship, marked by half-truths and the untimely death of her mother, is strained and awkward.
Overwhelmed by her new role, and uncertain about her future, Zee destroys the existing map of her life and begins a new journey, one that will take her not only into her future but into her past as well. Like the sailors of old Salem who navigated by looking at the stars, Zee has to learn to find her way through uncharted waters to the place she will ultimately call home.
The book description offers readers a trifecta of intrigue, mystery and transformation. It is unfortunate The Map of True Places doesn't deliver more resoundingly. While certainly quaint, this isn't enough for me to feel rewarded or emotionally invested in Barry's second novel.

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This Emery High volleyball team has spent the season so far establishing their identity as a team that plays together and plays focused throughout the entire match. As last week's games show, they still have work to do. Emery defeated North Sevier 25-23, 25-20, 17-25 and 25-19. Emery then lost to Uintah 18-25, 8-25 and 19-25.
After playing well against Union the week before, Emery still showed signs of good play against North Sevier at Salina before coming home and not looking very good at all against the Utes.
Coach Kris Bell, "It is a good thing that this was a pre-season match. This was not what we are trying to do. We need to stay focused and we need to keep doing the good things that we have been working on and doing."
Against Uintah, with Markette Tanner serving, Emery scored the first six points of the first game, still led 12-10 before it all came apart. Uintah tied the score at 13-13 and led 16-13. Uintah got to a 21-15 lead and then won the game.
In the second game, Uintah led 5-4 before the Utes scored 16 of the next 17 points to put the game away. Emery kept the third game close at 8-10 before Uintah gradually pulled away for an easy win.
Against North Sevier, Emery played evenly with the Wolves until they grabbed the lead at 19-16 and then won the close game that opened the match. In the second game, North Sevier trailed the entire game and lost by five.
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Albert Pujols, even after seeing the news, and talking to Josh Hamilton himself, still was in disbelief late Thursday night at his St. Louis-area home.
The Los Angeles Angels, for the second consecutive year, stunned everyone by landing the top free agent hitter on the market.
A year ago, it was Pujols who signed a 10-year, $240 million contract with the Angels.
NIGHTENGALE: Angels pull coup with Josh Hamilton
This time, it's Hamilton, who agreed Thursday to a five-year, $125 million deal.
"I was shocked, I won't lie to you,'' Pujols told USA TODAY Sports. "We talked this afternoon. He's really pumped up. So am I. He's going to perform and help our organization. We're blessed and excited to have him.''
The Angels spent more than $300 million last year on the free agent market and still missed the playoffs. Yet, Angels owner Arte Moreno dipped back into the market and came up with the biggest prize.
"It speaks highly on the organization,'' Pujols said. "It shows how badly the Angels and Mr. Moreno wants to win and bring a championship back to Anaheim. That's huge. Signing Josh is going to have a big, big impact on the lineup.
"It's a scary lineup. But we still have to perform.''
Pujols said he had no idea that the Angels were even pursuing Hamilton until he got a call Thursday morning from his agent, Dan Lozano. He told him that Hamilton was coming to Anaheim. Pujols couldn't believe it. He had to see it for himself.
MORE: Hamilton joins Pujols in Anaheim
He turned on the TV. Tuned into the Internet. And made a call himself.
Yes, they now have the West Coast version of Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder, who led the Detroit Tigers to the World Series.
"He's a great guy to be around,'' said Pujols, who met Hamilton in the Area Code Games in the lead-up to the 1999 draft. "Now, I'm blessed to have the opportunity to be on the same ballclub as one of the best hitters in the game.
"I'm sure everybody is pretty excited and shocked. It's going to be awesome.''
Hamilton likely will bat behind Pujols in the lineup, but either way, Pujols says, is fine with him.
"Those are the decisions for our manager (Mike Scioscia),'' Pujols said. "I'm pretty flexible. I just want to win. I'll do whatever they want.''
Pujols struggled the first month of the season after joining the Angels but predicts that Hamilton's transition will be easier, particularly since he already switched teams and switched leagues earlier in his career when traded from Cincinnati to Texas.
"I talked to Josh about going through free agency this year,'' Pujols said. "I told him it's something you need to pray about, and God will tell him where he wanted to be. Josh is a smart guy, he's a great player, he'll perform well. He's been through this situation before, so he'll be fine.
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Maybe everyone quit drinking.
Pftthhttt... As if
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Went out to dinner with family last nite...
Couple of Sam Adams 'winter'... Quiet NYEve this year.
Did dinner with friends last night as well, had a few bud lights and ended up getting home 2 hours past my bed time of 8 o'clock
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Skip to comments.More Americans Now Commit Suicide Than Die in Car Crashes as Miserable Economy Takes Its Toll
Posted on 09/22/2012 10:38:53 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
$56 million suicide prevention programme launched as study reveals more Americans take their own lives than die in car crashes
Suicide is a bigger killer than car crashes, according to an alarming new study.
The number of people dying from suicide has drastically increased, while car accident deaths haven lessened, making suicide the leading cause of injury death.
Suicides via falls or poisoning have risen significantly and experts fear there could be en more going unrecognised, specifically in cases of overdose.
'Suicides are terribly under-counted,' said Ian Rockett, author of the study, published on Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health.
'I think the problem is much worse than official data would lead us to believe. We have a situation that has gotten out of hand.'
He added that his goal is to see the same attention paid to other injuries as has been paid to traffic injuries.
The results were compiled using National Centre for Health Statistics data gathered from 2000 to 2009.
Researchers noted a 25 per cent decrease in car accident deaths, medicalxpress.com reported, while deaths from falls rose 71 per cent, from poisoning 128 per cent and from suicide 15 per cent.
Higher automobile standards were credited for the traffic deaths drop, with harsher penalties for underage drinking and failing to wear seat belts named as contributing factors.
Previous research has suggested that suicide rates go up during recessions and times of economic crisis.
'Economic problems can impact how people feel about themselves and their futures as well as their relationships with family and friends,' Feijun Luo of CDCs Division of Violence Prevention told Bloomberg.
'Prevention strategies can focus on individuals, families, neighborhoods or entire communities to reduce risk factors.'
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Did Thelma and Louise count as suicides or car crashes?
It counted as "women drivers". :^)
Incidentally, I don't believe the stats on this.
Electing Obama was national suicide.
Hussein can be called the "First Suicider".
Succinct and well said.
Yep, these stats sound bogus.
No, no, no,
We obviously need yet another bloated government program to deal with this......Crisis....
Never let a crisis go to "waste" when it comes to people "wasting" themselves....
Suicide Prevention ... November 6
If this demographic is rising, they invariably vote 'rat almost exclusively.
"There's only one rational solution: Outlaw Suicide! /sarc "
They already did, if you fail they arrest you!!!
Give him a ride in a hearse, and he'll vote demoncrat for eternity.
Suicide is increasing in the Obama nation? Considering that Obama is as the angel of death, a demon of desolation...
He's the ideal head of the RAT party, a veritable Satan's workshop of plague, perversion, and profanation.
A good first step in prevention would be to vote Obama out in November. That would have a more dramatic effect on these numbers than any combination of individual strategies.
Maybe it's just that car crashes are down because no one can afford gas any more. /s
Concise meme point. Note the source is not American, AGAIN.
Yep.. 0bama is the Jack Kevorkian of America.. problem is... we the patient didn`t want to be put to death..
Make it a capital offense. /s
My understanding has always been that there is a direct correlation between the price of gas and the traffic fatality rate.
You all laugh when the military is having an epidemic of suicides. If anything, suicide is under-reported. Especially among the elderly.
I love sarcasm, but just can't do it in regards to despair, Satan's most prized weapon.
In the Soviet Union they had a lot of psychiatric cases. They would help you to think better. Doesn't Obamacare include psychiatric health?
Hope and Change
There's no rationale for known suicides to be up only 15%, but greater increases in things like poisoning (from increasingly bizarre drug use?) and falls (more elderly, more drug use, etc.) to be attributable to suicides.
Harold and Maude both voted for Obama
>> Hope and Change
Your Hope has been Redistributed. Here's your Change.
Depends who does the stats. We have 'tresspasser incidents' every week, lately. And they usually choose rush hour!
Poisoning and falls are a separate category of accidental or unintentional deaths, not suicides. Probably due to an aging population, greater use of prescription medications, maybe more older folks living alone etc.
I prefer to call it "obamacide". That is basically what voters will be doing if they put "him" in for another 4 years. "Nobody sees the wizard. No way, no how."
Helping keep mankind warm for 65 years.
Obviously suicide. The victim repeatedly stabbed himself in the back before jumping off the bridge.
They will also shoot you to keep you from doing it yourself....
They won't say why, but it's partly because of leftists, motivated by size envy, have forced more Americans into smaller cars.
'Suicides are terribly under-counted,'
I often wonder what the real story is when I read an obit in the local paper like this...
"John Doe, age 40, died at his home this week..."
Beautiful scenery ruined by a crappy suicide story.
***There's only one rational solution: Outlaw Suicide! /sarc ***
Reminds me of a line in the movie A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM with ZERO MOSTEL.
A young man tries to commit suicide and is warned by Zero..."It's against the law in ROME to commit suicide! The penalty is death!"
I wonder how many fatal single car accidents are actually suicides?
Like this illustration of a young man 130 years ago in the POLICE GAZETTE?
And Obama couldn't care less.
Wow it took 25 comments before someone didn't treat this as a joke. Both my Mother and my Uncle commited suicide but neither was recorded as such, so yes I think suicides are underreported.
Right—and this guy is trying to use increases there to overstate his case re: suicide.
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Skip to comments.IRS targeted Dr. Ben Carson after Prayer Breakfast speech
Posted on 10/03/2013 10:23:14 AM PDT by jazusamo
Just months after he gave a speech earlier this year that challenged Americas leadership in President Obamas presence, Dr. Ben Carson was targeted by IRS agents who requested to review his real estate holdings and then conducted a full audit without finding any wrongdoing.
I guess it could be a coincidence, but I never had been audited before and never really had any encounters with the IRS, Dr. Carson said in an interview Thursday with The Washington Times. But it certainly would make one suspicious because we know now the IRS has been used for political purposes and therefore actions like this come under suspicion.
Dr. Carson is a world-renown neurosurgeon whose rise from poverty and a single-parent home, and his medical work with pediatric patients was celebrated in a movie called Gifted Hands.
He has electrified the conservative world with speeches and columns since his February National Prayer Breakfast speech in front of Mr. Obama, in which he decried the moral decay and fiscal irresponsibility of America in recent years. He writes a weekly column for The Times.
Dr. Carson first hinted at the problem earlier this week during a speech in Alabama when he made a vague reference to having his first encounter with the IRS earlier this year.
Dr. Carson told The Times that IRS agents contacted him in June less than four months after the speech and requested to review his real estate holdings. After finding nothing that concerned them, the agents then informed him they were conducting a full audit of his finances, and then asked to go back an additional year to review his records, he said.
They finally ended the review in August after finding no problems, Dr. Carson said.
They told me everything was in good standing and left, he...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Lois Lerner.
Voltaire - "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."
Yep, thou shalt not ruffle "the Won."
"Punish your enemies."
The Obama admistration has turned the IRS into the Won's personal Gestapo.
Just call 1-800 **** ***
Hitler sending out his message to the recalcitrant believers.
This even improves his standings. I think that other liberal groups have tried to get some dirt on him a while back and were not successful. He is now cleared to run for President. Run Ben Run.
The IRS = Obama Brownshirts
Add up the following:
1. Very pervasive secret surveillance
2. Selective enforcement of the law
3. Huge build-up of ammo & arms, then repeated lying about the reasons
4. Personal destruction of common citizens who ask questions or criticize - plumbers, clowns, doctors
5. Initiating emergencies, then aggressively moving to profit from them
6. IRS openly functions as the extension of one political party against adherents of another
Note that HITLER did not close Normandy Beach, but Obama did. Then he sent more officers to enforce that than he sent to Bengazi.
"The USA is not an occupied country BECAUSE _____________"
Fill in the blank.
I'd guess there were more than a few that were very ticked they couldn't nail him on something.
Shocker? In time they'll pick off every person on FR.
Communist Police State terror
Dzherzinsky pioneered all of it, Alinsky wrote it down
"IRS openly functions as the extension of one political party against adherants of another."
And enforcers of obamacare.
must die for her crimes against the Republic. She must not be permitted to conduct such criminal activities and continue to live
FDR targeted Huey Long along with a list of others for the IRS to investigate. Huey was killed before he could run against FDR but Frankie wasn't taking any chances.
The only way around this problem in the future is to make IRS agents personally responsible for such abuses, no matter who ordered them to obey.
Lots of SS soldiers ended up dangling from a rope, even though they were only following orders. So IRS employees need to be given a deal: If you refuse to improperly audit someone, you might be fired; but if you obey, you might end up in federal prison. If not immediately, then after that corrupt supervisor is long gone.
Something along those lines is needed. Until the politics is taken out of the IRS this type abuse will continue.
This is harassment. The left is using the power of this agency to target those who don't toe the leftist line. Especially Black people, because they won't go to the plantation.
Of course nothing will come of this. No outrage. No scandal. Business as usual
Dr Carson, you are truly a great person.
From my years in Government I have come to the conclusion that all government employees from the lowest to the highest and no matter what service is involved especially law enforcement and political clerks must be held to the same societal standards as the ordinary citizen is. I know there are cases that are given public review, but these are for show as much as for social justice. Many public employees hide behind the so called 'public service immunity' but this has to be eliminated so that any such public employee knows from the git-go that honest and open service is a way of life.
Until and unless Lois Lerner is put in a Federal Prison, that is evidence enough that we are under Dictatorship.
Thanks, what a great story.
Great that your BIL got the refund and it's very difficult to believe that was a coincidence, happy to hear it backfired on the Rats.
My sister and brother-in-law were also chosen (one of every 15 families) to fill out the laborious, long-form 2010 Census inquiry under threat of a big fine.
The first effort to control public servants was done by Napoleon Bonaparte, who set up a special court, by which any citizen could assert misbehavior on the part of a public servant. It was one of several very modern ideas he created, including major legal reforms, and allowing women to inherit and own lands and properties on their own.
As soon as the Royalists were restored to power they abolished most of these reforms, though they kept the new Code Napoleon legal system.
Obama is a mean, petty, spoiled brat with the maturity and emotional development of a two year old. Cross him and incur his wrath. I'm glad Dr. Carson is exposing him for what he is.
Here's an editorial I just posted on this same subject.
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Skip to comments.Endangered species alert: 45% of RINOs vanish in a single year
Posted on 11/30/2006 4:11:28 PM PST by dangus
The 2006 election was tragic for conservatives who did lose several key races. But the losses were downright devestating for RINOs (Republicans In Name Only.)
The following is a list of the RINOs, who scored under 60% as graded by the American Conservative Union, and how they fared in the last election:
SENATE: Linc Chafee, RI: defeated. Olympia Snowe, ME: no contest. Sue Collins, ME: re-elected. Mike DeWine, OH: defeated.
HOUSE Christopher Shays, CT: re-elected. Mike Castle, DE: re-elected. Sherwood Boehlert, NY: defeated. Jim Leach, IA: retired. Mark Kirk, IL: re-elected. Nancy Johnson, CT: defeated. Wayne Gilchrest, MD: re-elected. Scott McInnis, CO: previously retired. Jim Ramstad, MN: re-elected. Robert Simmons, CT: defeated. Tim Johnson, IL: re-elected. Jim Gerlach, PA: re-elected. Tom Davis, VA: re-elected. Schwarz, MI: defeated in primary. Charlie Bass, NH: defeated.
It's worse than that, even. Also ousted were Jeb Bradley (ACU score: 60), Mark Foley (63), Mike Sweeney (72), and Clay Shaw (71).
This is not to say that there weren't some painful conservative losses, such as Northup, Hostettler, Sodrel, Chocola, and Taylor. But the losses to the Republican Party struck largely at the "centrist" wing. Where's the media decrying the loss of so-called centrists, like they did in 1994?
Quite a few RMSPs took it in the shorts, some of the gals have survived but not after some delay in doing the vote totes and one or two still may face a mandatory recount due the small margin of victory.
The problem is that more RINOs are waiting in the wings.
Leach was defeated.
Don't they use the horn of RINO's for an aphrodesiac? ;-)
Many of them are nothing more than Progressives masquerading as Republicans, imo.
keyword RMSP
Rick Santorum belongs on the tragic defeat list. A great conservative senator who made one mistake.
Funny they don't mention J.D. Hayworth.
We took Schwarz out in the primary and replaced him with a conservative.
No centrists, no majority ever again. We'd better hope some RINOs can win in those marginal districts in 2008.
Whoever wrote this is delusional in the implication that republicans cannot survive without conservatives (small 'c' intentional), when in fact, the opposite is certainly more true.
Keep thinking this way. Those who do are beginning to sound like all the apologists for Communism when they tried to explain it's failures. How many of you remember this argument:
"Well, of course Communism is a viable system, it's just that we haven't found the right Communists to run it all yet..."
Substitute "Consrvative" for "Communist" and that pretty much sums up the tone on FR, amongst the "REAL" conservatives (i.e. those who can't define conservatism, and can't tell you how a republic is supposed to operate, except that they know they don't like the way this one works, and who believe that what's good for Pastor Bob is good enough for them!), and the "Conservative" think tanks/organizations ever since Nov 7, 2006.
Snowe was re-elected not Collins. Snowe, running against
a moonbat's moonbat won with over 70% of the vote. Collins does not run until 2010 or 2012
So these candidates that lost were true Republicans.
RINO should be attached to people like Tancredo who is truly just a Republican in name only since he is conservative, wants a smaller government, and won't kowtow to big business' wish for exploitable illegal labor.
Funny they don't mention J.D. Hayworth.
Yeah, it was -- one of the few real Americans left in the Congress....a major loss.
Agreed. I may be in the minority here, but thinking that we can have a Republican majority without any 'RINO' is delusional.
I call them the Main Street Garbage.
RINO should be attached to people like Tancredo who is truly just a Republican in name only since he is conservative, wants a smaller government, and won't kowtow to big business' wish for exploitable illegal labor.
True. The terms Republican and Conservative are mutually exclusive in MANY cases. As this whole tragedy brought to a head....maybe things had to get bad, before they get better?
Oh B.S.! No Rinos, NO DEFEAT! The reason why Repubs lost is exactly because of the rino factor. kowtowing to DBM/dems, putting factions together to defeat conservative ideas. All rinos need to be squarely defeated or move to the ass party and repubs need to either condone a conservative agenda and IMPLEMENT it, or stay in the minority.
Must be the 'thin skin' 'liguini spined' variety of RINO's.
Forgot to mention these RINO's have no horns.
RMSP Elected Members - 2006
** - Not running for re-election/Retired
*** - Re-elected
U.S. Senate
Sen. Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island - Lost -
Sen. Norm Coleman, Minnesota **
Sen. Susan Collins, Maine **
Sen. Johnny Isakson, Georgia **
Sen. John McCain, Arizona **
Sen. Gordon Smith, Oregon **
Sen. Olympia Snowe, Maine **
Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania **
U.S. House
Rep. Charles Bass, New Hampshire - Lost -
Rep. Judy Biggert, Illinois - ***
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, New York - Lost -
Rep. Mary Bono, California - ***
Rep. Jeb Bradley, New Hampshire - Lost -
Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, Florida - ***
Rep. Ken Calvert, California - ***
Rep. Dave Camp, Michigan - ***
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia - ***
Rep. Michael Castle, Delaware - ***
Rep. Thomas Davis, III, Virginia - ***
Rep. Charlie Dent, Pennsylvania - ***
Rep. David Dreier, California - ***
Rep. Vernon Ehlers, Michigan - ***
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, New Jersey - ***
Rep. Jim Gerlach, Pennsylvania - ***
Rep. Wayne Gilchrest, Maryland - ***
Rep. Paul Gillmor, Ohio - ***
Rep. Kay Granger, Texas - ***
Rep. David Hobson, Ohio - ***
Rep. Nancy Johnson, Connecticut - Lost -
Rep. Timothy Johnson, Illinois - ***
Rep. Sue Kelly, New York - Lost -
Rep. Mark Kirk, Illinois - ***
Rep. Jim Kolbe, Arizona - Lost
Rep. John R. Kuhl, New York - ***
Rep. Ray LaHood, Illinois - ***
Rep. Steven LaTourette, Ohio - ***
Rep. Jim Leach, Iowa - Retired **
Rep. Jerry Lewis, California - ***
Rep. Frank LoBiondo, New Jersey - ***
Rep. Jim McCrery, Louisiana - ***
Rep. Thomas Petri, Wisconsin - ***
Rep. Todd Platts, Pennsylvania - ***
Rep. Jon Porter, Nevada - ***
Rep. Deborah Pryce, Ohio - ***
Rep. Jim Ramstad, Minnesota - ***
Rep. Ralph Regula, Ohio - ***
Rep. Joe Schwarz, Michigan - Lost in primary -
Rep. Christopher Shays, Connecticut - ***
Rep. Robert Simmons, Connecticut - ***
Rep. Michael Turner, Ohio - ***
Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan - ***
Rep. Greg Walden, Oregon - ***
Rep. James Walsh, New York - ***
Rep. Curt Weldon, Pennsylvania - Lost -
Rep. Jerry Weller, Illinois - ***
Rep. Heather Wilson, New Mexico - ***
Gov. Robert Ehrlich, Maryland - Lost -
Gov. Linda Lingle, Hawaii - Re-elected
Gov. George Pataki, New York = Retired ***
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, California - Re-elected
** - Not running for re-election/Retired
*** - Re-elected
The reason why Repubs lost is exactly because of the rino factor.
Exactly -- dorks like McCain were a big part of it all. The Repubs abandoned conservatism and that is why they lost. The Repubs win, when they act like the conservatives they once were --- they lose when they don't. That is why the stinking libs are acting like conservatives now, because they know America is basically not a socialist/leftist country and the voting base is basically conservative.
The Repubs need a major overhaul and a return to core conservative values and issues. Then we will be back in control, and we had better win in 2008.
About 1/3 are Conservative Republicans and another 1/3 are Liberal Democrats. The remaining 1/3 is some combination of RINOs and DINOs. When control of the house changes it is the party who loses its 'INOs that loses control. Fools in the defeated party always want to next time run members of the base. When they do that, they stay in the minority.
There are about 17 or 18 battle ground states. There are about an equal number of liberals and conservatives in a battle ground state. The election outcome is deterimined by the swing voters. Swing voters are not ideological. They sometimes vote for conservatives and sometimes vote for liberals. But they mostly vote for their own kind. That is non ideological 'INOs
The moonbat that ran against Snowe used to be a reporter for the local paper. She would cover our planning board meetings when I was the chair. After reading her articles, I would have to ask myself if I went to the same meeting that she was at. Jean Hay is/was a complete nutjob with one agenda.
A couple of errors in this:
Sherwood Boehlert, NY: defeated.
--->Boehlert retired, replaced with a 'Rat.
Jim Leach, IA: retired.
--->Leach was defeated, replaced with an ultraleft moonbat.
Scott McInnis, CO: previously retired.
--->This is a mistake on the ACU website. The scores listed for McInnis are actually for John Salazar, the 'Rat who replaced him.
The fault is in seeing politics as a spectrum from left to right. There is no-one who wants candidates who take weak and flip-flopping positions on any given issue. Rather, voters have certain issues that they agree with conservatives on, certain issues that they agree with liberals on. Also, there are certain issues that voters would get active about if they were vrought to forefront, issues that voters actually base their votes on, and issues that voters don't care much about.
Voters will support based not on simply how conservative or liberal the candidate is, but on whether the voter believes strongly about an issue, and whether the voter believes that the candidate will act forcefully to fulfill the voter's wishes.
Frequently, Democrats can get elected by faking conservative positions, like Mary Landrieu, Bill Nelson, Bill Clinton, Jim Webb, and Bill Casey. Republicans who adopt liberal positions usually lose however: Issues voters feel liberal out cause them to vote Democrat, not Democrat-Lite Republican. All RINO-ism does is reduce the number of reasons to vote conservative, so that those issues are outweighed by reasons to vote liberal. Worse still, when voters see Republicans abandon their core beliefs in moderate areas, it convinces them that Republicans are the party of big government also, and this breeds voter apathy and cynicism about more conservative candidates.
Good to see ya out and about, Common Tator. :-)
"Oh B.S.! No Rinos, NO DEFEAT! The reason why Repubs lost is exactly because of the rino factor...."
No, the reason republicans lost was because it's quite difficult to pretend to be either a republican or a conservative when you spend taxpayer money like drunken sailors.
Republicans lost because the images of our fellow citizens drowning in sewage while all levels of government failed them are too powerful to forget.
Republicans lost because they have embroiled the country in a war which they apparently are quite content to NOT fight, and to not fight it by the Marquess of Queensbury rules of engagement that brought us the disaster of Vietnam (complete with some of the same cast of characters partly responsible for that deabcle, i.e. Rumsfeld).
Republicans lost because "vote for me or the Terrorists will get you" wears thin on the public when it's repeated 700 times a day for five straight years, wothout anything else of import to break the monotony.
Republican slost because while the economy has "created 5 million new jobs", the majority of those new jobs are at Wal-Mart, Kinney Shoes and Burger King. Those jobs that aren't entry-level-minimum-wage-types are the sort in which a BA and an internship just won't cut it anymore. Taxes may be lower, but wages are falling. Wall Street may be up, but the spectre of massive numbers of foreclosures in on the horizon. Economically, the republicans themselves have done little to protect the American worker, and everything to protect the CEO and the ol' campaign coffer.
Republicans lost because even with a veto-proof majority they caved oin entitlement reform and saddled us with another $100 billion boondoggle that will ensure the Flower Children won't have to pay for the medication to soothe their Chronic Dry Eye, embarssing genital herpes outbreaks or soothe their enlarged prostates later in life. This, incidentally, will be the SINGLE RICHEST GENERATION OF RETIREES IN HUMAN HISTORY.
Republicans lost because those who consider themselves "Conservatives", with all that implies, acted exactly like democrats; free-spending, scandalous, arrogant, larcenous, out-of-touch, and believing the peasants will shut up and take it all from them simply because "the alternative is worse".
There, I hope this helps straighten you out.
That is correct, but the number of "RINOs" can be decreased. What we have to realise is that "RINOs" are in charge of the RNC, most state, and county Republican Party orginizations.
What is the solution?
If we want the Republican Party to return to what it once was, we conservatives need to be in control of the Party at all levels.
The moderates, and liberals who once ran the county party here have been replaced, those of us they called "right wing nut cases," now hold all the offices.
I tried to make clear the fact that I wasn't saying "good riddance." Note my introduction: "The 2006 election was tragic for conservatives who did lose several key races." Even so, I think RINO-ism hurt real conservatives:
* CONRAD BURNS was a solid conservative on most issues, except immigration. Even many liberal sources felt that charges of corruption related to Abramoff resonated especially strongly with Burns because of statements he made which appeared out of touch. A stronger stand on certain conservative issues, like immigration, may have helped him win.
* RICK SANTORUM lost the election when he pulled out every stop to help Arlen Specter defeat Pat Toomey in the 2004 Republican primary. Specter rewarded the hard work of Bush and Santorum by leading a frontal assault against the nomination of "conservative" judges. Pennsylvania voters decided Rick Santorum was simply an empty suit, and not a real conservative, even though I believe this conclusion was tragic.
* GEORGE ALLEN lost his election on sheer incompetence. Slow, unbelievable responses made the "macaca" issue metasticize to dominate the entire race. Webb succeeded in making the general election seem like an open Republican primary election between a racist boob and himself.
I can't really address Talent's loss... I only know that his approval ratings practically never reached 50% his entire term.
"The Dems now think that there negative strategy finally paid off and now any politician (with few exceptions) who wants to have a job will need to follow the polls to try and survive."
Cannot diagree with this, however, I believe there's a second part to this that needs to be looked at very closely:
It's not as if republicans (of all stripes) acted in any sort of repsonsible manner to begin with. On the "Disgust-Meter" we can start with the slimy tactics of Tom DeLay (allegedly rigging re-apportionment to engineer a majority), move on to the criminal arrogance of Trent Lott (the American public has no right to know what we put in a spending bill), and finish with the unmitigated gall of John McCain (Campaign Finance Reform = tenure for elected politicians).
I seriously believe that many felt that with veto-proof majorities in both houses of Congress, the bully pulpit of the White House, and the ability to pack the Supreme Court (gee, that's really worked out well so far, hasn't it?) as if they were invincible. Perhaps even going as far as to believe that with the public distracted by terrorism and "Dancing with the Stars", the President wrapped up in the war, that no one would seriously look at what Congress was doing. If they did, a simple "hey, we're fighting terrorists here, you Commie" should have been enough to shoo serious questioners off.
Pride goeth before the fall, does it not?
Nice cute, clean, mathematically symmetrical theory. Pundits love it. Alas, there is no evidence it's true.
Elections are decided by who gets off their butts and votes and who stays home. No one changes their minds. Sorry to spread heresy among your easy theories.
You're kidding, right?
Conservatives win even in traditional democratic strongholds when they know how to lead, instruct and stay connected with the common people. Reagan did it on a grand scale, but there are hundreds of Brent Schundlers out there who can do it locally. The key is to get them past the party machinery who prefers to choose from within the inbred country club crowd.
Oh, and thanks for the tagline compliment!
This isn't a catastrophe but it's still pretty bad. Primaries are the time to deal with RINOs. Screwing up generals guarantee socialists and/or "blue dogs".
I don't trust the bark or the bite of these dogs.
"Republicans lost because even with a veto-proof majority"
We never had a veto-proof majority. With regards to the Senate, we'd have to have had well past 60 Senators. We haven't had that many since 1909.
I have absolutely NO sympathy for the RINOs that lost their positions. Good riddance! I am more than willing to take this teeny-tiny step backwards to get back on track for '08. (And yes, I voted a straight Republican Ticket. Always have, always will, even if it means holding my nose once in a while. A Democrat will NEVER get my vote. Ever.)
And as for the good, solid conservatives who were collateral damage? There's absolutely no doubt in my military mind that they will land on their feet and find good, productive work in the Private Sector like the rest of us. They'll be just fine. :)
I've yet to see a true conservative whine, cry and lick their wounds for more than a long weekend before they pick themselves up, dust themselves off and get on with their lives.
And if they don't? Then we got rid of another useless RINO. :)
They should also include Ken Mehlman as a defeat.
Terminology to results are different things. A "moderate" Republican who tries to attract the right seems to lose more often that not. A "conservative" Republican who is willing to bend and listen to the moderates has a better chance of winning.
First, Talent only had 4 years to nail down support. But fundamentally Missouri is always closely contested. In a Democrat year, it went Democrat. End of story.
Huber is right, conservatives can win and have won and will in the future win in Democrat-leaning districts.
If your "majority" is provided by liberals (oops, "centrists"), what do you expect to accomplish?? Not much, and eventually the voters will get tired of your nothingness and toss you out on the street with little to show for your years in the "majority".
That goes for both RINOs and 'conservative' reps who become fat, complacent, and tone-deaf.
Thanks for posting the list of RMSP members. One minor correction: Rob Simmons of Connecticut actually lost in a close race.
Rick Santorum belongs on the tragic defeat list. A great conservative senator who made one mistake.
Driving is that way too. Sometimes even a little mistake will get you killed. Even though he was one of the better Senators and way better than we'll see in Pa for a while, he did compromise his principles.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I will make note of that and make sure that is reflected in the list next time I repost it..
I had done some of the legwork on election results a couple weeks back but had not posted this list publicly 'til today.
Whoever wrote this is delusional in the implication that republicans cannot survive without conservatives (small 'c' intentional), when in fact, the opposite is certainly more true.
The reality I've seen is Republicans who proudly exhibit conservative ideas and standards do win. The RINO's, or moderate Republicans who try to win too often lose because they tend to turn off the conservative base and voters would rather have a Democrat than a pretend Democrat.
Keep thinking this way. Those who do are beginning to sound like all the apologists for Communism when they tried to explain it's failures. How many of you remember this argument: "Well, of course Communism is a viable system, it's just that we haven't found the right Communists to run it all yet..."
I really don' t understand this. Political philospohy seems to be lost on this comment. The left today exhibits traits for communism, not Republicans. I DO remember this argument. It was used in colleges in the 60's and 70's but my understanding is the duplicity was dropped after that. Communism is NOT a viable system and I know of no conservative who would accept this.
Substitute "Consrvative" for "Communist" and that pretty much sums up the tone on FR, amongst the "REAL" conservatives (i.e. those who can't define conservatism, and can't tell you how a republic is supposed to operate, except that they know they don't like the way this one works, and who believe that what's good for Pastor Bob is good enough for them!), and the "Conservative" think tanks/organizations ever since Nov 7, 2006.
I will admit there are some on FR who go overboard occasionally, and others who are more radical than I am. But, that is not representative of the whole nor the Republican party, nor the conservatives across the country.
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Our new website is ready! It's been many months in the making, the result of a lot of hard work and dedication from a number of people. Our goal, from the beginning, was to create a website that is informative, intuitive and reflective of the quality and breadth of the antiques, fine art and jewelry that we offer. This new site has a brand new "look and feel" and lots of new features.
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On May 22, 2001 Calpine Corporation and Bechtel Enterprises Holdings, Inc., known as the Calpine/Bechtel Joint Development filed an Application for Certification with the California Energy Commission seeking approval from the Energy Commission to construct and operate a 600 megawatt (MW) natural gas-fired, combined-cycle electric generating facility.
The project site is located in the Industrial Corridor of the City of Hayward, Alameda County, California, and would be known as the Russell City Energy Center (RCEC). The proposed 14.7-acre project site is located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Enterprise Avenue and Whitesell Street, directly south of the City of Hayward's Water Pollution Control Facility (WPCF).
The proposed project consists of two "F-Class" combustion turbine-generators (CTGs), two multi-pressure, supplementary-fired heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs), a single 3-pressure, reheat, condensing steam turbine-generator (STG), and a hybrid, wet/dry plume-abated mechanical draft cooling tower. Additional infrastructure includes: a 230-kilovolt (kV) on-site switchyard, approximately 1.1 mile 230-kV, double circuit overhead transmission line (this line would connect the RCEC switchyard to the existing Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) Eastshore substation via PG&E's existing Eastshore to Grant 115-kV transmission corridor); approximately 0.9 miles of an underground natural gas pipeline that would extend from PG&E's gas distribution line 153 to the RCEC site; approximately 100 feet of new domestic water/firewater pipeline from the existing City water main in Whitesell Street; and, approximately 2,000 feet of new industrial wastewater discharge pipeline.
On November 17, 2006, Calpine Corporation and the Russell City Energy Company, LLC, filed a Petition to Amend the Commission's Decision. That major amendment, compliance proceeding (01-AFC-7C) is located at: www.energy.ca.gov/sitingcases/russellcity_amendment/.
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More than 70% of mobile travel site and app users book travel from home, while only 12% are on the go, finds customer satisfaction measurement firm ForeSee. 13% book on mobile from work, 2% from school, 1% from a store and 2% from other locations. 43% of mobile travel site and app users are researching and 23% are booking, according to ForeSee's "Mobile Satisfaction Index: Travel Edition," a survey of 6,000 travel mobile site and app users. 21% are searching for promotions, 10% are checking rewards status and 3% are performing other tasks.
Mobile travelers are fairly satisfied with travel-oriented mobile sites and apps: Overall satisfaction with sites and apps registers 77 on the study's 100-point scale. Foresee considers scores in the 70s satisfactory, scores in the 80s superior and anything below 70 lacking. So scores in the high 70s are okay, but still leave room for improvement, ForeSee adds.
Southwest Airlines provides the most satisfying mobile travel experience, scoring 82. It tops all measured companies and is five points higher than the nearest airline competitor. Trailing behind Southwest in the airlines category are American Airlines at 77, Delta Airlines at 77, United Airlines at 75 and U.S. Airways at 74. The average satisfaction score for airlines' mobile sites and apps is 77.
"Simple is the rule. Customers are attracted to the convenience of the mobile platform and do not want a complicated experience," says Larry Freed, president and CEO of ForeSee. "That's much easier for a hotel company to do because they have fewer moving parts and a predictable inventory. Airlines introduce more variables like seat selection and variable pricing. Online travel agencies have the most difficult challenges because they're dealing with all of these factors."
Choice Hotels International has the second highest score for satisfaction with mobile sites and apps among all companies measured. It reached an 80. In the hotels category, Marriott International scored a 79, Hyatt Corp. 78, Intercontinental Hotels & Resorts 78, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts 78, Hilton Worldwide 77, Starwood Hotels & Resorts International 77, and Best Western International 76. The average satisfaction score for hotels overall is 78, making it the highest-performing category of all measured travel industries.
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Kayak and Travelocity share the top spot among online travel agencies with a score of 78. Expedia and Priceline both register a 76 while Hotels.com and Orbitz score a 75. The average satisfaction score for online travel agency sites and apps is 76.
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The Romans are famous for doing things 'big' – enormous private villas, the largest armies the world had ever seen, huge temples to house countless gods and of course, larger than life personalities. The power, wealth and splendour of Rome are clear to see when you approach the Late Roman and Byzantine displays in the Sir Paul and Lady Ruddock Gallery of Sutton Hoo and Europe, AD 300–1100. Facing you are cabinets full of gold and silver – hoards of tableware from Cyprus and Rome, bracelets and earrings encrusted with precious gems, gold crosses declaring a love of Christ in the most ostentatious way. It's safe to say that the Roman aristocracy liked to show off their wealth, but, for the quantity of gold and silver used to craft the treasures in the gallery, the one that contains the least shines the most.
At the centre of the display is the Lycurgus Cup. A Late Roman diatretum, or cage cup, it was carved around the 4th century AD. Its exact provenance is unknown, but it was possibly created in Alexandria on account of the fine glasswork emerging from Egypt at this time. Decorated on all sides with figures painstakingly carved in high relief, the cup shows the myth of the Thracian king Lycurgus, who enraged the god Dionysus by expelling him from his kingdom and attacking his followers. Needless to say, things didn't end well for Lycurgus, though precisely how depends on who told the story. The version depicted on the cup was told by Nonnus of Panopolis in his 48-book-long epic, the Dionysiaca. Nonnus recounts how Lycurgus attacked a female follower of Dionysus called Ambrosia. To save her, Mother Earth transformed her into a vine which ensnared Lycurgus as it grew. On the cup, Ambrosia lies on the ground in the moment of transformation while the hapless king fights for his life against the emerging tendrils. Dionysus watches, remorseless, while the fawn-legged god Pan and one of Dionysus' followers taunt their victim and pummel him with rocks.
The carving is of exceptional skill and the preservation of the vessel is unparalleled, but the most impressive element of the cup's design comes from an feature that cannot be seen with the naked eye. In reflected light the cup appears opaque olive green, but when transmitted light is shone through the glass, it changes to a rich and vibrant red. The effect is caused by nanoparticles of gold and silver within the glass, so tiny and in such small quantities that only in the last few decades has microscopic analysis with sufficiently high resolution been developed to detect them. As light passes through the glass the gold and silver particles scatter the waves, allowing those at the red end of the spectrum to pass though more easily, causing the dramatic colour change. The cup's modern name is likely to be a misnomer: the original use for the vessel was possibly as a hanging lamp, only being transformed into a cup when the gilt-silver foot and rim band were added in the 19th century. As a lamp, flickering over the dinner table, the optical properties of the glass would be shown to their full effect for all to admire, although admittedly, no one has yet been brave enough to fill the fragile, 2000 year old vessel with wine and observe the effects of light through it when full.
The change of colour from green to red mimics the ripening of grapes, suitable for the Dionysian theme, but whether or not the dichroic effect was deliberate or the fortunate result of contamination in the molten glass is still unclear. Nonetheless, the optical trick of this rare form of glass delighted the Roman aristocracy so much that it attracted the attention of emperors: the author of the 4th-century Historia Augusta reports that the Emperor Hadrian sent 'a cup that changes colour' to his brother-in-law as a gift for his banquets. It would, after all, make a fantastic conversation piece, and if its later life is anything to go by – likely preserved above ground throughout the centuries, on account of its almost perfect state of preservation, acquired by the Rothschild family in the 1800s then bought by the British Museum in 1958 – the Lycurgus Cup has lost none of its appeal.
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