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I learned something today. It isn't just children that need to cope with trauma; not just kids who remember things differently as time blurs and consoles. For months now, whenever discussions turned to the war, I've told people that Elie was down there forever...at one point, I think I said more than a month...maybe even 6 weeks.
I've been following my blog back in time, reading each day how it was a year ago. The war ended on January 18th...that I remember. Elie came home a few days later...that too I remember...just in time to join us for his brother's bar mitzvah.
Today, I read the entry for December 31...It was called "Drat, I lost it" and while reading it, I realized that even on December 31, he hadn't get been called down. I knew the time was close...very close...
Rockets have landed today in Beersheva again, Sderot, Ashkelon, Netivot, Eshkol region, several kibbutzim in the area and, for the first time, Gedera. Today, in light of the missiles that hit Beersheva last night, the city decided to close schools for the day. And a great miracle happened - no one was hurt when a missile slammed into a school. There was great damage to the building, but buildings are nothing. It is the people that cannot be replaced, the children that we revere.
I've watched as the news detailed each missile attack. I went into class today, giving someone my phone and one simple request, "if Elie calls, interrupt the class."
I didn't call Elie in the morning because I don't know if he was on late and might still be sleeping. I didn't call him during my breaks, nor into the hours of the afternoon. Mostly, it was because I feel like we're all waiting. It's like when you know a woman is nearing the end of her pregnancy. The last thing she needs is for people to call her each day to ask her if anything is happening. And yet, that's what it feels like. I don't know when, if, or where the army will take my son. I haven't talked to him every day in a week since he was in training.
Then, I felt he needed it and now, now I know it is me. I need to hear that he's still waiting to move, and not already in danger and he just needs to do what he's doing. All in all, though people are asking me how things are, I think I'm handling it quite well, writing all the time, calming others far and near. First, because there's nothing to handle - he's not even there. Second because to a much larger degree, all things are in Greater Hands than mine and thirdly, as strange as this sounds, human nature is to try to get accustomed to new situations, to make them normal.
While there is nothing "normal" about your country being at war or people living under the constant threat of violence, you find a way, somehow, to accept and lessen the tension. Of course, it all might come back in seconds when you hear a siren or get beeped on your telephone, but you find that 10 minutes can pass, and then 15, and then 30, when you don't feel that sense of panic. So, I was cruising along today, feeling pretty good. I wrote to one mother trying to make sure she was calm; passing on all the things others were saying to me. Other than that one comment about bringing me the phone if Elie called, I was doing just fine.
During the breaks, I didn't stay and talk to those taking our course, but rather went right to the computer. More rockets throughout the south, damage and some injuries but in all cases, it could have been so much worse. There could have been fatalities; there could have been children in the school that was hit. Azoun wasn't in the news. I can handle this, I thought to myself proudly as I finished the class and wished everyone a good weekend until we meet again next week.
And then, I lost it.
It's the last day of the financial year; the last chance to deposit money into various employee accounts and still get the tax credit. I faxed the papers to the bank and to the insurance agent and then had to deal with calling each to confirm. I live in a wonderful city of about 35,000 people and yet for all that it is a city, it's also got a small town closeness to it. I know everyone at the local bank, and most know that Elie is a soldier.
"How's your son?" asked the woman over the phone.
"He's OK," I answered slowly.
"Is he there?" she continued.
"No, at least I don't think so. I spoke to him yesterday. They might send his unit down, but I don't know when."
"He should go in peace and come back in peace and be safe," and then a minute later, "I sent you the fax confirming the transfer."
I thanked her, got off the phone and just lost it. My eyes filled with tears. God, I want to see him and I want him to call me and tell me he's fine and I don't want to listen to how many rockets have fallen and how many people are living with this constant fear that the next missile will hit them. I don't want to hear another country telling us that WE should stop, when it is them.
They should stop. They shouldn't shoot missiles at 700,000 people. Fine - our weapons are accurate and almost always hit what they are aimed at, while their weapons are incredibly inaccurate and rarely hit anything, never mind what they hope it would hit. They may hit open fields most of the time, but when they don't, they are aimed at people. They hit a school today. They hit a kindergarten last night. They've hit malls and cars and homes and people. Tell THEM to stop and we won't have to stop them. Tell THEM to talk and not fire. Hold THEM accountable. Force THEM to recognize the sanctity of life and stop glorifying death.
So, I sat there in my office for a few minutes, letting all these thoughts fill my head. I turned from my computer, my connection to all that is exploding, and looked out the windows at the black clouds hovering overhead and there, to the side, where the two walls of windows that grace my beautiful office meet. It's my photo gallery, two pictures of each of my children and between each pair of pictures, a note that my youngest daughter wrote to each, promising them that she loves them more than anyone else. She's still too young to understand the illogical nature of that concept; each note remains true. She loves all of us more than anyone else.
What an amazing country we live in. The transfer is made, the employee papers filed, rockets are exploding, and the woman at the bank offers a blessing that my son should be safe.


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"helloworld" with Maxine JVM on Mac
By sundararajan on Sep 17, 2009
Last night, I listened to this nice podcast on Maxine JVM from Software Engineering Radio. Maxine is a Java Virtual Machine implemented in the Java programming language.
I wanted to try out Maxine on my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.5.8. I followed these steps to try it out:
- Get the Maxine sources
hg clone https://kenai.com/hg/maxine~maxine maxine
- Setup the environment
export JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home export JUNIT4_CP=<full-path-of junit-4.4.jar>
- Build Maxine
cd $MAXINE_HOME/bin ./max build ./max image
- Run the "helloworld"
./max helloworld
Wow! Maxine VM printed "Hello World!". Now, it is time to explore Maxine's inspector and other cool stuff ...

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Spring Training Day 2
On Tuesday, I had yet another choice to make. The Royals were playing the Indians at 6:00 and the Royals minor leaguers would be playing at 6:30. I figured that I would be able to see the big club play 162 times starting in about a week, so I would primarily focus on seeing the prospects.
I started at the main stadium to catch some batting practice at the cages, which are a very cool feature, because they are right inside the stadium and the guys are about 3 feet away taking BP. I wanted to get a look at Ankiels ankle to see if he would be ready to go. I am certainly no doctor, however he looked like he was fine to me. He was taking full swings and not easing up at all. I watched his ankle closely and when he turns to rotate his body, he rolls up on the outside of his foot. I don't know if that is how he injured his ankle, but it looks like It would certainly cause some stress.
The Major League Game
I grabbed my seat for the start of the game so I could watch at least the first inning or so before heading off to the back fields. I guess the Royals were intent on helping me out, since they scored 5 runs in the first and let me see everything I wanted to see.
The first thing I noticed was that I was seeing the battle of 5th starters. Talbot for the Indians and Davies for the Royals. Every single team is "concerned" about their 5th starter, but I was reminded that it could be worse. Davies had his fastball hitting 93 consistently and an off sped pitch at 82. Talbot was sitting at 89 and 83 respectively. Both guys didn't command the ball particularly well, but Talbot was all over the place walking 3 Royals, which in itself is quite a feat. The bottom line is that Davies looked better than Talbot and is a perfectly fine 5th starter regardless of some of the chatter you hear.
I also wanted to get a look at Aviles and Kila. Aviles absolutely crushed a ball to the wall with Dejesus on second and Podsednik at first. Dejesus scored and Podsednik was hustling right behind Dejesus, he was looking to get a sign from the third base coach and wasn't getting one. He was clearly motioning to the coach asking whether he should score or not and finally stopped at third. It would have been a close play for Podsednik at home, and stopping him in Spring Training is probably the right call, but it was just odd that the coach was not decisive in the situation and made Podsednik ask for the sign. I wanted to see Kila hit, but it was kind of perfect to watch him walk. Kila also saved a double play by picking a throw from Yuniesky out of the dirt. Brayan Pena's home run was a bomb and afer him came Yuniesky Betancourt, time to hit the minor league camp.
Minor League Camp
The Royals and Rangers minor leaguers were playing a rare night game and had four simultaneous games going on. The games weren't posted, so big thanks to Adam Foster at Project Prospect for giving me the details about the games. The first thing I saw was a huge crowd at one of the fields. I moved over and realized Neftali Feliz was pitching for the Rangers. He had pitched the previous day in the Rangers v Rockies games, so I was pretty shocked to see him. I got to see Ernesto Mejia face off against Neftali which was extremely entertaining. Mejia is a big dude and really held his own versus one of the best pitching prospects in the MLB. He ended up striking out, but he fouled off some of Feliz's sick curve balls and probably saw 10 pitches in the AB.
I moved over to the field that the A ball team was on and saw Tim Mehlville pitching. I moved in behind Adam Foster and jotted down the radar gun readings for Mehlville. His fastball was 89 or 91 mph pretty consistently and he occasionally hit 93 and 94. However, his command was less than spectacular. I don't recall seeing a single ground ball hit off of him, while there were plenty of fly balls due to leaving the fastball up. His curveball on the other hand was extremely good and he commanded it better than his fastball. He seemed to change speeds with the curve quite a bit as well going anywhere from 72 to 79 mph. Mehlville is still young and can certainly improve. I was impressed with what I saw, but he will need to work on his fastball command to become an elite pitcher.*
*Special thanks to Adam Foster for pointing some of these things out to me and letting me use his radar gun. www.projectprospect.com is a great site. Check it out.
Earlier in the day I had a chance to see Cheslor Cuthbert take fielding practice with Buck Coats, Kurt Mertins and Malcom Culver. Cuthbert seemed to be the best fielder in that group. He didn't miss a single ball, while all the other guys did. He exhibited very good range and good instincts. It was only one practice, but I was impressed with his fielding.
Hosmer didn't get on the field at all in the games I saw and there was some talk that he is maybe coming off of a slight injury. I didn't get a chance to talk to him or confirm this. He was the bat boy in the A ball game and seemed to be moving around fine, so if he is injured it doesn't seem serious.
There was one other player who impressed me: Patrick Norris. He played CF for the A ball team and showed great speed on the bases, threw a guy out at home and played with some good range in the outfield. He is a switch hitter who pulled the ball with a quick bat from the left side and poked one the opposite way from the right side. It is of course a small sample size but I liked him a lot. He doesn't get much love around the prospect rankings, and that is probably for a good reason. But I will be keeping my eye on him this year.
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So it's a sad story... But I love this forum, and I've been exceedingly touched by the holidays this year, and I wanted to share. In July my wife and I decided to separate, and since have decided that a divorce is the next logical step. It's been very difficult, but it is what's best for she and I to be happy in the future. The saddest part of it is that we have a one year old son together who I went from seeing every day to only seeing about 3-4 days a week. It has left me feeling very empty and broken hearted.
The first time I left him with his mom was really tough. I went to my dad's where I'm staying in the meantime, and basically sat and balled for about two days. The second time I knew I couldn't just sit around and blubber, so I had to come up with a game plan to help me heal and though nothing would ever replace my son, I needed something to at least distract me from how much I was hurting.
That's where holiday entertainment comes into play. Obviously I'm slightly obsessed with Christmas, seeing as how I'm on here all the time, it's not difficult to understand, so I decided to bring some of my holiday movie collection with me to my dads and try and raise my spirits and it worked! That first weekend I watched Christmas Vacation, Jingle All the Way, and Home Alone. Even though I still missed my son, it made me feel a lot closer to him because these were movies we had watched together.
So now every Saturday night after his mom picks him up I put on some of my favorite holiday movies and relax and I'm not nearly as devastated as I was previously.
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If vergo has it, i bet Law will use his room techniqe to aid smoker and we get a nice fight (i hope a full fight).
because if vergo's has smokers hart it's also game over for smokey
The childeren situation is hard to predict.
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oy yeah someone predicted that caribou will be saved by his brother
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South Carolina Business Owners, Residents, Community Leaders Share Ideas on Creating Jobs at USDA Forum
The U.S. Department of Agriculture sponsored a Presidential Roundtable Forum on job creation for South Carolina at Clemson Research and Education Center in Columbia today, bringing together about 60 community leaders to brainstorm solutions to high unemployment numbers and the impact on rural areas.
"This forum provides an opportunity to share ideas on creating jobs and economic opportunities," said Vernita F. Dore, state director of USDA Rural Development in South Carolina. "Government can help lay the groundwork for economic growth, but the best ideas for continued growth and job creation often come from local communities. We need the best ideas to share with the Obama Administration.
The roundtable included business owners, residents, state and local officials, union members, non-profit organizations, community leaders, economists, educators and others interested in job creation and economic stability.
"The primary purpose is to put South Carolinians back to work," said Dore. "We all know that unemployment in our state is one of the highest in the nation, and this forum brings the opportunity to change that. It gives us the chance to remind rural America about the many programs that Rural Development has to address this economy's problems."
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Caramel Pie Crust
11⁄3 cups self-rising flour
2⁄3 cup oil
1⁄3 cup water, maybe more
2 cups sugar, divided
1⁄2 cup flour
3 egg yolks
2 cups milk
1⁄2 stick margarine
1 tablespoon vanilla
3 egg whites
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix flour, oil and water until dough forms. Roll out and place in pie plate. Bake until lightly browned.
In a microwave-safe bowl, combine 11⁄2 cups sugar, flour, egg yolks, milk and margarine and mix well with a whisk. Microwave for 2 minutes, take out and whisk again. Microwave for 2 more minutes, remove and whisk again. Microwave 1 more minute or until mixture is thick.
In an iron skillet, brown remaining 1⁄2 cup sugar as brown as you like, but don't let it burn. Pour browned sugar into the filling and beat well with a mixer. Add vanilla and beat again. Pour mixture into baked pie crust.
Beat egg whites with sugar and vanilla until peaks form. Spread over top of pie, sealing to the edges. Brown in the oven.
Baked Reuben Casserole
5 slices rye bread, divided
3⁄4 pound shaved corned beef, divided
1 cup sauerkraut, rinsed and drained
3⁄4 cup chopped dill pickles
1 teaspoon caraway seeds
4 cups shredded Swiss cheese, divided
3 eggs
11⁄4 cups milk
1⁄4 cup prepared yellow mustard
1⁄4 cup Thousand Island salad dressing
Cut 3 pieces of bread into cubes and line the bottom of a greased 11×7-inch baking dish with them. Cover with half of the corned beef. Make additional layers in this order: sauerkraut, pickles, caraway seeds, 2 cups cheese, the remaining corned beef and the remaining cheese.
With a whisk, beat together eggs, milk, mustard and Thousand Island dressing until well mixed. Pour over casserole. Let stand while oven is heating to 350 degrees.
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McAlister's Deli Manager Mike Verrell, right in photo, presents a $5,000 check to Mayor Tim Kent on behalf of McAlister's owner, David Blackburn of Nashville.
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Skip to comments.1960's Michigan Coed: William Ayers 1965 Gang Rape [WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE]
Posted on 10/15/2008 7:30:59 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDeeEdited on 10/15/2008 7:49:56 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
I read occasionally of former Weatherman Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, both now not only accepted, despite their bombing campaign against America in the 1960s and 70s, but successful , establishment educators whose opinions on social issues are taken seriously. Every time I see Ayers name I shudder with fear and rage and realize that I will never be able to erase the mark he left on my life one evening 40 years ago.
It was at the Undergraduate Library at the University of Michigan on a Friday night in November 1965. I was a sophomore and was living in a sorority house -- Alpha Epsilon Phi. I was walking down the stairs to leave the library. Billy Ayers was standing on the first floor and started talking to me.
I thought he was cute. There seemed to be jovial kind of instant connection between us. As I am writing this now I think he must have noticed me before , boys were attracted to me in those days , and planned to try to pick me up. As we struck up a conversation, Ayers told me very quickly about his leftist activism as if he knew this would intrigue me. In fact, I had made attempts to join SDS and the anti Vietnam War Movement on campus during my freshman year but had been put off by what hustlers the young male activists were. They talked in lofty ideological abstractions, but they also used their political sophistication as a lure for young women who wanted to be on the right side of the great social issues of the day. I picked up on that cynicism early and so spent much of my freshman year at Michigan trying to figure out how to act. I was politically idealistic back then and believed in Tikkun Olam -- that we had to do something to make the world better.
My freshman year at Michigan I attended the Teach-Ins and the campus demonstrations against the Vietnam War and studied hard for my Chemistry exams once a month. At the same time, I decided to pledge a sorority, partially just to prove I could and partially because young womens options for campus living arrangements were still quite limited in those years.
Despite the caution Id learned about young ideologues on the make, I was charmed by Bill Ayers and by his savvy talk of politics and the childrens school he was involved with. He asked me to go to a party with him and I did. I have a vague memory of the house where the party was and the people there. I think he got quite drunk and I suppose I drank too. I remember walking home with him. He was very open about himself and told me he was one of 5 children and that he was from Chicago and that his father was rich.
I felt comfortable with Bill. Throughout my life I had always had a friendly buddy-kind of connection with certain boys and felt that I was developing such a connection with him.
I remember going back to his attic apartment -- he describes it in his book Fugitive Days. He had a roommate -- a black man who was 23 and married with children. There was a couch, a table, a stereo and a sink in the room. There were two beds Ayers and his roommates on each side of the attic wall. I slept with him there.
I came there a few times afterward to talk and to listen to his LPs. I especially loved Glen Yarboughs album Come Share My Life. I met Bills roommate who also worked at the childrens school. I also met Bills younger brother Rick. Bill was a year older than I and his brother was a year younger. He spent a lot of time at Bills apartment.
Bill Ayers apartment was around the corner and a half a block away from the sorority house. The more time I spent there, the more out of place I felt with my sisters. Sometimes I would stop by just to keep from having to go back to a place I had begun to think of as boring. I guess it was one of those evenings -- maybe on the way back from the library, maybe just to get out of the sorority house, I dont remember exactly. What I do recall is that when I was getting ready to leave Ayers told me I couldnt go until I slept with his roommate and his brother. At this point Bill and I had slept together just once. I was sexually inexperienced, having had only one serious boyfriend with whom I had recently broken up.
At first I thought Ayers was joking. I got up; and went to the door. He moved quickly to block me at the doorway. He locked the door and put the chain on it. I went to the couch and sat down and told him that I had no intention of having sex with his roommate and his brother or him. He said that I had no choice but to do as he said if I wanted to get out of there. He claimed that I wouldnt sleep with his married roommate because he was black -- that I was a bigot. I had gone to school with black kids and had them as friends all my life. I couldnt believe he was saying that to me
I felt trapped. I had to get out of the situation I was in and because he was so effective a guilt-tripper, I also felt I had to prove to him that I wasnt a bigot. I got up from the couch and walked over to the black roommates bed and put myself on it and he f***** me. I went totally out of my body. I floated beside myself on the outside and above the bed looking at this black stranger f*** me angrily while I hated myself.
After that I had to go lie down on Bill Ayers bed for his brother to ***** me. Rick Ayers was a decent person, unlike his brother, and couldnt go through with it He started and stopped and let me go. I also thought I had to let Bill ***** me but at that point he unbolted the door and I left.
I remember going back to the sorority house and talking to my best girlfriend and telling her what had happened. But there were no words yet to describe it. There was no term date rape yet in our political vocabulary. The notion of a psychological rape was not on the table.
I was a mess and felt it was my fault for letting it happen. I was ashamed. Back home at the end of the semester, I got my parents to send me to a psychiatrist. What had happened affected my ability to trust in a relationship with a man and I didnt have a close relationship again for a long time.
I graduated in 1968 and went to Europe for the summer and came back right before the Democratic Convention. I worked for McCarthy in the Indiana primary. Wherever I went over the next few years, I carried with me the shame and guilt with me. I felt it had been my fault for not putting up more of a struggle against Ayers.
I started a PhD program in clinical psych at Yeshiva University in 1969. I was also working part time for a branch of the University of Chicago Institute for Social Research which was in the same building. I was there in a room with other employees one day sitting around a big table and coding questionnaires for a research study on Head Start when we heard a huge explosion. Soon after we discovered that it was a bomb that went off in the brown stone on 10th street which killed three buddies of Bill Ayers, who was now one of the leaders of the WeatherUnderground, a terrorist cult. One of the victims was Diana Oughton, his girlfriend at the time. I had known her: a kind soul who had worked at the Fresh Air Camp for troubled kids before she got mixed up with ever so persuasive Bill and the other Weatherman terrorists. When I found out she had been blown up, I thought how like him to send his girlfriend to make the bomb rather than do it himself.
I eventually moved to Israel, married and had a family. But for a long time I felt as if I existed in a time warp in relation to events in the US that were a continuation of the 1960s. In 1994 I returned to the States for my 30-year Mumford High School reunion. I was in NYC visiting a friend and asked about the Weathermen. He told me that Billy and Bernardine Dohrn had come up from the underground and resumed middle class life - including the radical politics - without being prosecuted for their crimes.
Later I read about Ayers and his book Fugitive Days on the Internet. This was just after the terrorist attack on 9/11 and he was entirely unrepentant for having been a terrorist himself. I would do it again, he told the Times when he was asked about having set a bomb in the Pentagon. I also discovered that he was a Distinguished Professor of Education at University of Illinois Chicago campus. I think that freaked me out more than anything. That a man so cruel and conscienceless could attain such a position enraged me. I contacted him by email through the Universitys website. He wrote back that he didnt remember me.
I was in Detroit in November 2001 and bought his memoir at Book Beat at Lincoln Plaza in Oak Park. I looked to see if there was some hint in it of what had become the defining event of my life. Nothing. But why should he remember me if he has convinced the world to forget, or is it forgive -- that he set out to launch a bombing campaign to blow up America?
JERUSALEM Speaking out as William Ayers becomes an increasingly controversial figure in the presidential campaign, a woman charges the former Weather Underground radical locked her in his attic apartment when both were college students and intimidated her into having sex with his brother and his black roommate.
The woman, Donna Ron, told WND Ayers declared to her during the 1965 incident at the University of Michigan that if she didn't sleep with his roommate, it would mean she was a bigot and a racist.
"Distinguished Professor" eh?
Abby Hoffman and the Chicago 7 were harmless in comparison to Bill Ayers and his followers.
Bill Ayes is not running and neither is George Bush. These arguments are a distraction and can easily be brushed aside by Obambi by claiming he had no knowledge or that Ayres has "reformed". Hit Bammy on the Banking crisis, his support from Fannie and Freddy, Franklin Raines, ACORN, and his present vote on reform.
That's not rape.
Hey Barack - thats a real sweetheart of a community organizer you hang around with there. Being a terrorist/rapist/marxist sympathizer should serve you well as head of the new USSA.
I remember a leader of the SDS saying the only position for women in the "Movement" was prone.
I read this quite awhile ago on Frontpagemag.com and introduced the link into a thread on Ayers. No surprises here. The mindset is the same, and it is 100% Obama's mindset, not to mention his campaign's. There has been an unerasable undercurrent in this campaign from the beginning, that has taken root in the millions of mushminds that make up his supporters: Obama's election is a referendum on race: you've got one last chance, bigoted White America, to prove you're not racist by electing the Messiah, Obama, and that PERFECTLY lines up with Ayers' directive to Donna Ron. This is perversity of the highest order, and it is now ENTIRELY what defines the Left in this country. I should know , I was on the Left between the ages of 16-22, totally immersed in the folly of Leftist conceits, yet always skeptical, and it was that independence of thought that got me out of it.
"community organizer"
Is that what they called gang rape in the 60's?
Was she threatened physically? What about telling Ayers to stuff it? She couldn't walk over to the door, unlock it, and leave? I'm not saying what he did was right. It was something wrong, but it doesn't sound like rape to me. She says herself she wanted to prove she wasn't a bigot. She complied. It was slimy, but based on the details she provides, I don't think that's rape.
Yeah, I've been fascinated with the topic of the degradation and humiliation that Leftist men heap upon their women - and I was fascinated with it even as a teenager, years before I realized the Left/Right distinction.
It's one of the primary reasons that GOP boys can't "score" with DEM girls - at least not without adopting DEM tactics: If you're nice to a DEM girl [which is kinda the standard operating procedure for whitebread hayseed GOP loser boys], then they think something is badly out of whack with you.
You can't gain any traction [so to speak] with Leftist chicks unless you really rub their faces in the mud, which most GOP boys are just too nice - and, let's face it, too humane - to be able to stomach.
I remember that comment as well. There is a remarkable scene in Forrest Gump that illustrates the hypocrisy of movement leadership against women.
And then there is always "I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loves." John Lennon. And autobiographical.
You have to admit, the left's not getting better.
I wish more people here possessed the common sense that your post does. Thank you.
McCain cannot mount a comeback in this election on the back of Ayers and the Weathermen. It simply will. not. happen.
And the next RINO that gets elected will leave them there, allowing them to implicitly set policy and accepting their input into the policy he makes himself. At least judging by recent experience.
While Ayers is a sh*thole for this, he didn't force her, he just guilted her into it.
I suppose it's a form of rape, but more likely regret.
Either way, he is a sh*thole.
If you don't vote for Obama, you're a bigot and a racist.
To any men who can read this. Compulsion in sex is rape. I have 3 daughters. If any man ever rapes one of them they can expect a few grams of steel through the head at around 2,200 fps. Just saying. You commit crimes like this you will pay with your life and soul.
Bill Ayers, Feminist.
Actually, the male SDS/Weathermen were among the worst with respect to the treatment of women.
The more I read about this guy, the more he sounds like a psychopath.
Maybe. Doesn't pass the smell test to me.
Kidnapping and rape.
Who cares whether they gain any traction in the MSM. We already know who they are.
The point is we know and we don't need these thugs in mainstream society.
This is just another story that will never gain traction in the MSM.
The sad truth about Obama that no one seems to grasp is any person who can vote to allow a new born baby to die without any help to survive after a botched abortion is unable to really have any healthy feelings towards anyone.
This man Obama has at his very core hate for human life.
Known these days as Obama-speak.
Obama is owned by Ayers. Ayers gave Obama a job where Obama distributed over $100 million to "community groups" rather than to the Chicago School System, even though it was billed as a project to help the school system.
That power meant that these "community groups" sent large numbers of their membership to vote for Obama for State Senate.
Bill Ayers bought Obama's first election win.
Obama owes Ayers his political start, a start that not very far in the past.
Where's the justice?
This is the part that bothers me. Again, what he did was wrong, and probably some kind of crime. But she sounds like she was half-in, half-out. She's obviously a basket case, which is probably why he preyed on her. What does it mean when she says I had to prove to him I wasn't a bigot, so I went and laid down on the black guy's bed?
Worse, I have seen such relationships fail because they could not handle being with a 'nice guy'. The masochism inflicted by liberal white guilt knows no bounds.
Thanks for the kind words. My main concern is that Repubs/conservatives do not understand how important it is to pin the financial crisis on the RAT party. If they succeed in pinning it on us, they will beat us over the head with it for generation. They will use it to promote regulation over the entire ecomony and demonize capitalism.
Yes, there is a core methodology of the left -- guilt them into it. Create guilt about poor people, blacks, women, homosexuals, animals, pregnant women, non-Christians, and play on it to get votes for their side.
Leftist men seem to have very little respect for women. And yet, women flock to them. It's a crazy world.
I have no use for either of these cruel puppies. Nor does America, unless she needs some grease by grinding them both beneath her wheels.
Go figure that "feminists" are mostly Leftists. The more prominant among them love to be beaten by men and laud anal sex. Men like Ayers have been creating such women in America for a generation, and almost succeeded in doing so with Ms. Ron.
She sees the light, and is one of the fortunate ones.
I believe the correct term is 'sociopath'.
Well, if it's not true, Ayers can always sue for defamation.
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That's fine. I'm probably splitting hairs. I don't know what the legal term for what he did would be. Aggravated something-or-other. I still doubt it would be judged to be rape. But I don't really care to debate it on and on.
That's fine. I'm probably splitting hairs. I don't know what the legal term for what he did would be. Aggravated something-or-other. I still doubt it would be judged to be rape. But I don't really care to debate it on and on.
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Due to the drought, the California State Water Resources Control Board this week approved a $500-a-day fine for people who water driveways, sidewalks and landscapes.
Unusual early-season wildfires also scorched the state through the first half of the year, including at least 10 in mid-May that burned more than 20,000 acres.
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On the other side of the temperature spectrum, below-average temperatures have been widespread this year east of the Rockies. Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi and Wisconsin each had a top 10 coldest January-June.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's pseudo- autobiographical first novel. It describes life at Princeton among the glittering, bored, and disillusioned "lost generation" of post World War1 America. Published in 1920, when he was just 23, the novel was an overnight success and propelled Fitzgerald to instant stardom as spokesman of the Jazz Age.
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I think that I enjoyed this book more because of its period than anything. This is not the sort of book I would hand to just anyone and expect that they would like it. Of course this is no great gatsby and is, from what I understand, Fitzgerald's first novel written at age 23. I enjoyed it because I wanted to enjoy it, but don't expect to be wowed as with his true classics. This is about a privledged kid growing up and going through college. Reminds me at times almost like Catcher in the Rye, although Catcher came many decades later. Anyway, there are four or five versions of this on audible and this version has the best narrator. I was very pleased with the production. 5 stars.
"Slow at first, but so worth the read!"
Brilliant and clever book, I love Fitzgerald's work and this book is no exception. The readers voice was hard to get used to at first, but I ended up really loving it.
"A Joy-Ride through Pompous Asseville"
Yes, It was a wonderful listen. A story written by one pompous ass about other pompous asses. Not as good as The Great Gatsby but definitely up there.
It was a short book. I liked the whole journey. I will be buying more of F. Scott Fitzgerald's work and I will read this one again. What I like best is this man knows how to tell and great story with minimal words.
He was perfection. The accent and the attitude. He had it all.
Leave the title. It is perfection. F Scott Fitzgerald picks great titles.
Read it. It is part American history most people don't experience first hand.
"I just let it wash over me."
It's not a book I would normally read, but I just finished "Z", so I just had to see what it was all about. I didn't try to follow the story or look too deeply into any of it, I just let it wash over me and I found myself enjoying the experience. I would not have had the patients to actually read it, but having it read; and read so beautifully, was a truly pleasant experience. I think was the pros, it just flowed...
Over all it was a very nice experience. Can't wait to read Gatsby.
Pretty boring. Its basically a diary of a boring, narcissistic person. Im still not sure why this was so popular at the time. However, I think if you are interested in the author, I think it is an interesting insight into Fitzgerald's mind and youth.
I drive a lot of large landscaping equipment at work and have quite the abundance of listening time on my hands. Drowning out diesel engines
"Clasics: Re-Visited"
This is my second time reading F. Scott's first novel. I first picked it up as an 18 year old Freshman in college on the recommendation of a beautiful and smart young women I was seeing at the time. I related so much to Amory and felt like his life at Princeton so nearly reflected mine. However, wen I went back for the second read through, I found myself much more interested in Amory's love affairs and how they personally related to the women I had dated. Rosalind Connage is so perfectly written. I couldn't even believe it. Fitzgerald's lessons are timeless classics and should be highly recommended to anyone of any age, BUT this book is the PERFECT read for young men who feel like college isn't quite working out for them. I remember so distinctly feeling unfulfilled, uninterested, and unimpressed by school and asking myself "is this for me?" much like Amory. Seeing those questions played out through Amory's life gave me an incredible reassurance that I wasn't alone.
"Fitzgerald as a young man"
It's not my favorite, but I enjoyed it. There were no
I would have to think of books that are tightly focused on one character's development. It reminds me a little bit of
I have not.
Naturally, it is the main character Amory Blaine who remains in sharp focus throughout the novel. Every relationship he has develops his character and tests his character. At times it is painful to find his romantic notions dashed again....but he keeps testing himself, all the while trying out new ideas as if they were new styles in clothing.
I must admit, I
"F Scott is a talentless windbag"
If I could return the book and get it off my phone memory.
Having a plot would be nice. Putting a conflict in the story would be nice too.
It's not the narrator's fault that the story is bad.
I would not have published him at all. The whole first part was pointless and a waist of time.
Don't get this book.
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By PATSY STODDARDEditor
Jay Mark Humphrey from the Emery Water Conservancy gave a water update to the Emery Water Users and Division of Oil, Gas and Mining in their February meeting. Humphrey said there has been a lot of snow. White River is at 111 percent to 150 percent on the Muddy. Every reservoir is expected to fill and spill.
Scofield Reservoir will be undergoing repairs so it cannot be filled all the way. Water will be released early from Scofield to accommodate the water which will enter the reservoir during runoff. Millsite will probably also see an early release.
Electric Lake is expected to spill. An early release from Joe's Valley is also predicted. At the Skyline Mine this year there has been 20.1 feet of snow and 12 feet of that since Jan. 1. This snow contains 17.5 inches of water.
Humphrey reported they are still doing cloud seeding. The machines would only be turned off after the snow reached 140 percent. Humphrey was asked by Susan White who conducts the meetings, if he would report on how the cloud seeding works at the May meeting. He said he would do that.


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Leafs sign Jonathan Bernier to two-year deal
Cam Charron
July 05 2013 07:55PM
It wasn't a particularly good afternoon for Dave Nonis, but Nonis finished it off during the evening landing about the right price for goaltender Jonathan Bernier, at a manageable term.
TOR signs Jonathan Bernier to two year deal worth a total of $5.8M. CHI signs Nik Khabibulin to one year deal.— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) July 6, 2013
When searching for comparable players after the trade was made, I determined that goaltenders in Bernier's situation landed salary cap hits of about $2.7-million. Bernier lands $100k above that. With the two-year term, there isn't a lot of risk on the deal, although still a lot of questions as to why the Leafs decided that they had to spend to upgrade a goaltender that was named almost unanimously the Maple Leafs' MVP this past season by our readers at TLN.
Reimer never took to Nonis, as the Leafs general manager has spent his entire term in Toronto looking for an upgrade and eyed Bernier this whole time. In a vacuum, I guess it should be seen as a positive that Toronto is paying less on their goaltending than any team but the Philadelphia Flyers. The term will carry Bernier to his UFA years, so there isn't a salary cap issue if Bernier doesn't improve on his career .912 save percentage now that he'll get some regular minutes as a starter.
Mirtle is a little more pessimistic:
Only backup or tandem goalies with cap hits higher than $3.4-million are Fleury, Brodeur, Hiller and Halak, all of whom signed as starters.— James Mirtle (@mirtle) July 6, 2013
I'm not sure where I stand there. In a vacuum, the Bernier deal could have been a lot worse, and the $500k in salary retention will only cost the Leafs this upcoming season.
I guess while I'm not overly enthused about Bernier, I think this deal could have been a lot worse. Those drops in the bucket already cost the Toronto Maple Leafs Mikhail Grabovski, but we've fretted enough about that $500k.
As things are winding down, I'm starting to move into the acceptance stage. At the very least, the team will be exciting to watch if they manage to win some games.
The Leafs did manage to have great possession numbers in 09/10 despite having Bozak and Orr on the roster. In the end, a large part of possession comes down to defense which might be fine if Gardiner is able to play against tougher competition and the Gunnarsson/Phaneuf pairing can rebound. Who knows? Maybe a prospect like Percy has a huge breakout season like Hamonic just did.
Obviously lots of "what-ifs", I'm just trying to see the other side of things at this point.
Cam, what do you think it will take to sign kadri, gunnar and franson? I've commented with my concerns a couple times and while trying to be the optimist today...we're in tight after the big signings and the bernier deal. My shot in the dark totals them around 7-8m collectively leaving us with around 3.5m to sign 3 more players or likely promote.
Maple Laffs are a joke, No good players want to play in Canada, the reason American based teams have won the last 20 Stanley Cups and will at least win another 20 more in a row.
I need to actually make an account so I can be distinguished from the troll Habs fans like the one above haha
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Mr. Michael J. Metrinko
Mr. Michael J. Metrinko is a retired Foreign Service Officer with extensive experience in the Islamic world, a region with which he has been dealing for almost 40 years. He was a Peace Corps volunteer for 5 years in Turkey and Iran, and State Department assignments took him back to Turkey and Iran, as well as Poland, Syria, Yemen and Israel for another 14 years. Mr. Metrinko was a member of the Tehran Embassy staff taken hostage in 1979 and spent 14 months as a prisoner in Iran. His assignments in Washington DC, included 2 years as Deputy Director of the Iran-Iraq Desk and 3 years as an Office Director in the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, where he had oversight responsibility for refugee programs in Europe, South Asia, and the Middle East. Mr. Metrinko returned to active government service after the events of September 11, 2001, with assignments to Yemen, Iraq, and 4 years in Afghanistan at U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) and at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. His last posting was as the Advisor on Parliamentary Affairs for the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, where he spent more than 1 1/2 years dealing directly with the new Afghan National Assembly. Mr. Metrinko now serves as Ministry Reform Advisor at the U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, based at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.
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Bangladesh, on the northern coast of the Bay of Bengal, is surrounded by India, with a small common border with Myanmar in the southeast. The country is low-lying riverine land traversed by the many branches and tributaries of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers. Tropical monsoons and frequent floods and cyclones inflict heavy damage in the delta region.
Parliamentary democracy.
What is now called Bangladesh is part of the historic region of Bengal, the northeast portion of the Indian subcontinent. Bangladesh consists primarily of East Bengal (West Bengal is part of India and its people are primarily Hindu) plus the Sylhet district of the Indian state of Assam.
The earliest reference to the region was to a kingdom called Vanga, or Banga (c. 1000 B.C. ). Buddhists ruled for centuries, but by the 10th century Bengal was primarily Hindu. In 1576, Bengal became part of the Mogul Empire, and the majority of East Bengalis converted to Islam. Bengal was ruled by British India from 1757 until Britain withdrew in 1947, and Pakistan was founded out of the two predominantly Muslim regions of the Indian subcontinent. For almost 25 years after independence from Britain, its history was part of Pakistan's ( see Pakistan ).
West Pakistan and East Pakistan were united by religion (Islam), but their peoples were separated by culture, physical features, and 1,000 miles of Indian territory.


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|Posted by Valab on October 27, 2002 at 18:42:10:
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ok, thanks anyway
: : Hi,
: : Background: I use well water that is treated with a standard water softener. I have a family of 4 and the water soften gets recharged every other night; I go through about 40 lbs of salt a week. The water pressure various between 40 and 60 psi (depending upon whether the well pump is pumping) which is fine for my household needs.
: : Problem: From time-to-time the water quality delivered to the tap is not the best. I have a minor problem with rust and I think that the rust is of the dissolved type rather than actual rust particles. Also, there is the occasional sulfide smell.
: : I've checked into expanding the water softening system to include a large carbon filter and possibly a green sand other similar 'anti-rust' device. These additions are really expensive though, somewhere in the $800 range for the carbon filter alone.
: : My question is, would putting one of the relatively inexpensive home-depot type inline filters help with our water quality? If so, would it be best to add the filter(s) inline before or after the water softener? Also, would adding such a filter(s) decrease water pressure to the tap?
: : thanks for your help!
: The odor probably is caused by bacteria. Carbon is not to be used on water of unknown microbiological content. So test the water for Coliform bacteria, check the softener drain line connection for a cross connection potential and sanitize the softener first. Some will suggest shocking the well if bacteria is found. Before you do that gather all the information on potential problems shocking can cause.
: My advice as to any treatment is that you need to identify the odor and its cause, then select suitable equipment. You also need a raw water test to determine your iron, hardness, manganese, pH, sulfates, chlorides and TDS content. Then have the softener set up for the raw water quality and clean the resin or depending on the age replace it. If you can�t clean it you will have to replace it. The salt use is dependent on the salt dose and a number of other things.
: You really should call a water treatment dealer to accomplish all this because in my opinion it is not a DIY�re thing.
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By PATSY STODDARDEditor
The Emery County Commissioners opened bids for the recorders office for locating and establishing section corners. Five bids were received and are being considered for the project. The recorders office will consider all bids and report back at the next commission meeting. The bids ranged from $17,985 to $62,200. The recorders office has a grant from the state to help establish section corners.
The next bids were for the architect for the Emery County Food Bank project. The bids are for predesign through construction. Three bids were received for the architect. The bids will be evaluated and brought back at the next meeting. Bids included James O. Chamberlain, architect for $22,850; Ron Jones, architect, for $24,000 and Eaton architect for $28,000. The food bank building will be constructed on the site where the current food bank building is located. It is hoped construction will begin before fall on the project.
The commission voted to reject a resolution to participate in multi-county appraisal computer assisted mass appraisal system. Commissioner Gary Kofford said the legislators wanted a uniform appraising system for the class 1 and 2 counties. Then they came back and said all counties should be on it, but it is another unfunded mandate from the legislature which would cost $183,000 upfront in 2012 and an ongoing cost of $18,000 yearly. Kofford said they talked to the Emery County IT department and they can supply the needed information to the state already without this system. Commissioner Jeff Horrocks said, "This is a lot of money and we're not sure we need it." The county will stay with their own program and County Assessor Kris Bell said she agreed with the move.
The commission approved Eugene Swalberg to the Emery County Travel Bureau.
The commission presented a plaque which will hang in the Aquatics Center for an award in excellence in architecture for the new pool. The award was won by Wentworth, Naylor and Lund architecture for design and function.
The commission signed a cooperative agreement between the Emery County Weed and Mosquito Department and the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands for $7,500 for weed abatement along the Green River corridor. The weed and mosquito department bought a boat and tank and have been spraying along the river.
Another contract was approved with the Bureau of Land Management for removal of salt cedar and Russian olive along Fullers Bottom in the amount of $10,000 for this work along the San Rafael River.
A property tax exemption was made for a property in Green River owned by the Friends of Green River.
A contract was approved between the state of Utah and Emery County to provide a bailiff and security for the district court. The state pays the county $12,500 each year for this service.
The purchase of a pump and transducer was approved for the softball complex in Huntington. The county will pay for it and Joel Dorsch from the recreation district board will install it. As money becomes available they would like to replace the watering system on one field each year. The county is helping out the recreation district for the costs of the pump and transducer for $2,500. Horrocks said, "The district has their own funding, but we don't want to see the ball complex deteriorate, we will give this money for the pump and transducer, but don't make a habit of it."
County Clerk, Brenda Tuttle said she has a problem with spending county monies for the rec. district as they have their own funding.
The commission approved a contract with Sunrise Engineering for building inspection work in the county. "We met with the cities and towns and they want to talk to their councils. In the meantime we needed a contract. Sunrise started inspections for us on May 11. We need something in place. All old permits will be inspected at $25 each plus mileage. New permits will be a 75 percent 25 percent split. Sunrise will do plan checks and will complete inspections within 24 hours after the call is made," said Kofford.
In the commission reports, Horrocks reported a Disney movie will be filming in the area and using local people as stand-ins. The movie crews have been staying in Green River, bringing money into the area.
Horrocks attended meetings with the Utah Association of Counties and there is a group that wants to repeal the transient room tax. This tax comes directly into the county where the motel rooms are rented and a small portion goes to the state. There are ongoing discussions and UAC has plans to protect that tax.
The CRIK information center is open in the CEU museum in Price and provides tourist information to tourists who want to visit Emery County and surrounding areas. A part-time position was advertised for and 25 people applied for the job at the Pioneer Museum. Interviews for that position will take place next week.
Kofford reported the county road department has been working on the Little Wild Horse Canyon road. They met out there on the road with Karl Ivory of the BLM and other representatives. There is concern the road repairs might be encroaching on cactus habitat. It was determined the county is working within the disturbed portion of the road. The road is scheduled for a double chip seat in August to stabilize the road and for dust control. Before that can be done a NEPA must be done on the road. Kofford hopes that doesn't delay the project. The Moore Road phase 7 is complete now with asphalt. Phase 8 will be a chip and seal in July on the entire length of the Moore Road from the junction on SR-10 to the junction at I-70. The Lila Canyon road is underway and Nielson Construction has six blades on the job getting that road constructed. Nielson Construction also received the contract for the UDOT project at the Horse Canyon intersection as well.
A project is being worked on near Emery for the diversion dam and settling pond on the Muddy. Part of the structure has been poured and work will continue through the fall.
A hearing was held with the BLM on the coal leases at Bear Canyon Mine. The BLM decided the leases may be left in place and the new owner may move forward.
Sheriff LaMar Guymon reported on the joint Emery/Carbon counties Emergency Preparedness Fair on June 18 from 4-8 p.m. at the Spartan Center. Vendors will be there from both counties. Ron Mosher a state representative for Homeland Security is the guest speaker, the earthquake lady, will present earthquake preparedness. There will be a special video presentation on the Crandall Canyon mine disaster. Nielson Construction will sponsor free hotdogs and hamburgers. Sheriff Guymon encourages everyone to attend this event.
Kofford thanked the sheriff and the volunteers for putting together the preparedness fair.
There is a site showing at the metal building at the sheriff's office for contractors wishing to bid on the project there to install a weight room, training room and office work space for the ambulance supervisor and workspace for the radio communications specialist Bret Mills. The bids for the project will be opened on June 22.
There is a project at the Huntington airport being advertised now to move the office building and parking lot. A site showing will be on June 3 there at the airport and the bids will be opened June 14.
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Mark Steyn: One justice enacts 'comprehensive marriage reform'
Wednesday, June 26th 2013 – Just another day in a constitutional republic of limited government by citizen representatives:
First thing in the morning, Gregory Roseman, deputy director of acquisitions (whatever that means), became the second Internal Revenue Service official to take the Fifth Amendment, after he was questioned about awarding the largest contract in IRS history, totaling some half-a-billion dollars, to his close friend Braulio Castillo, who qualified under a federal "set-aside" program favoring disadvantaged groups – in this case, disabled veterans. For the purposes of federal contracting, Mr. Castillo is a "disabled veteran" because he twisted his ankle during a football game at the U.S. Military Academy prep school 27 years ago. How he overcame this crippling disability to win a half-billion-dollar IRS contract is the heartwarming stuff of an inspiring Lifetime TV movie.
Later in the day, Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., alleged author of the Corker-Hoeven Amendment to the immigration bill, went on Hugh Hewitt's radio show and, in a remarkable interview, revealed to the world that he had absolutely no idea what was in the legislation he "wrote." Rachel Jeantel, the endearingly disastrous star witness at the George Zimmerman trial, excused her inability to comprehend the letter she'd supposedly written to Trayvon Martin's parents on the grounds that "I don't read cursive." Sen. Hoeven doesn't read legislative. For example, Section 5(b)(1):
"Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall establish a strategy, to be known as the 'Southern Border Fencing Strategy.'"
On the other hand, Section 5(b)(5):
"Notwithstanding paragraph (1), nothing in this subsection shall require the Secretary to install fencing."
Asked to reconcile these two paragraphs, Sen. Hoeven explained that, "when I read through that with my lawyer," the guy said relax, don't worry about it. (I paraphrase, but barely.) So Sen. Hoeven and 67 other senators went ahead the following day and approved the usual bazillion-page, we-have-to-pass-it-to-find-out-what's-in-it omnibus bill, cooked up in back rooms, released late on a Friday afternoon and passed in nothing flat after Harry Reid decreed there's no need for further debate – not that anything recognizable to any genuine legislature as "debate" ever occurs in "the world's greatest deliberative body."
Say what you like about George III, but the Tea Act was about tea. The so-called "comprehensive immigration reform" is so comprehensive it includes special deals for Nevada casinos and the recategorization of the Alaskan fish processing industry as a "cultural exchange" program, because the more leaping salmon we have the harder it is for Mexicans to get across the Bering Strait. While we're bringing millions of Undocumented-Americans "out of the shadows," why don't we try bringing Washington's decadent and diseased lawmaking out of the shadows?
Just when you thought the day couldn't get any more momentous, the Supreme Court weighed in on same-sex marriage. When less-advanced societies wish to introduce gay marriage, the people's elected representatives assemble in Parliament and pass a law. That's how they did it in the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, etc. But one shudders to contemplate what would result were the legislative class to attempt "comprehensive marriage reform," complete with tax breaks for Maine lobstermen's au pairs and the hiring of 20,000 new IRS agents to verify business expenses for page boys from disparate-impact groups. So, instead, it fell to five out of nine judges, which means it fell to Anthony Kennedy, because he's the guy who goes both ways. Thus, Supreme Intergalactic Emperor Anthony gets to decide the issue for 300 million people.
As Spider-Man's Uncle Ben so famously says in every remake, with great power comes great responsibility. Having assumed the power to redefine a societal institution that predates the United States by thousands of years, Emperor Tony the All-Wise had the responsibility at least to work up the semblance of a legal argument. Instead, he struck down the Defense of Marriage Act on the grounds that those responsible for it were motivated by an "improper animus" against a "politically unpopular group" they wished to "disparage," "demean," and "humiliate" as "unworthy." What stump-toothed knuckle-dragging inbred swamp-dwellers from which hellish Bible Belt redoubt would do such a thing? Well, fortunately, we have their names on the record: The DOMA legislators who were driven by their need to "harm" gay people include notorious homophobe Democrats Chuck Schumer, Pat Leahy, Harry Reid, Joe Biden, and the virulent anti-gay hater who signed it into law, Bill Clinton.
It's good to have President Clinton's animus against gays finally exposed by Anthony Kennedy. There's a famous photograph of him taken round the time he signed DOMA, at a big fundraiser, wearing that black tie and wing-collar combo that always made him look like the maître d' at a 19th century bordello. He's receiving greetings from celebrity couple Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche, who'd come out as gay the week before and, in the first flush of romance, can't keep their hands off each other even with President Happy Pants trying to get a piece of the action. For a man motivated only by a hateful need to harm gays, he's doing a grand job of covering it up, looking like the guy who decided to splash out for the two-girl special on the last night of the sales convention. Nevertheless, reacting to the Supreme Court's decision, President Clinton professed himself delighted to have been struck down as a homophobe.
In his dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that "to defend traditional marriage is not to condemn, demean or humiliate those who would prefer other arrangements, any more than to defend the Constitution of the United States is to condemn, demean, or humiliate other constitutions." Indeed. With this judgment, America's constitutional court demeans and humiliates only its own. Of all the local variations through which same-sex marriage has been legalized in the past decade, mostly legislative (France, Iceland) but occasionally judicial (Canada, South Africa), the United States is unique in its inability to jump on the Western world's bandwagon du jour without first declaring its current vice president and president pro Tem of the Senate, Senate majority leader, chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, and prospective first First Gentleman raging gay-bashers. As the Paula Deens of orientation, maybe they should all be canceled.
There is something deeply weird, not to say grubby and dishonest, about this. In its imputation of motive to those who disagree with it, this opinion is more disreputable thanRoe v. Wade– and with potentially unbounded application. To return to the immigration bill, and all its assurances that those amnestied will "go to the end of the line" and have to wait longer for full-blown green cards and longer still for citizenship, do you seriously think any of that hooey will survive its first encounter with a federal judge? In much of the Southwest, you'd have jurisdictions with a majority of Hispanic residents living under an elderly, disproportionately white voting roll. You can cut-and-paste Kennedy's guff about "improper animus" toward "a group of people" straight into the first immigration appeal, and a thousand more. And that's supposing the administrative agencies pay any attention to the "safeguards" in the first place.
As I say, just another day in the life of the republic: A corrupt bureaucracy dispensing federal gravy to favored clients; a pseudo-legislature passing bills unread by the people's representatives and uncomprehended by the men who claim to have written them; and a co-regency of jurists torturing an 18th century document in order to justify what other countries are at least honest enough to recognize as an unprecedented novelty. Whether or not, per Scalia, we should "condemn" the United States Constitution, it might be time to put the poor wee thing out of its misery.
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