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Torture Remains Official US PolicyWritten by Stephen Lendman Subject: Police State
by Stephen Lendman
International law is clear and unequivocal. Torture is illegal at all times, under all circumstances with no allowed exceptions.
It violates constitutional protections. They include the 8th Amendment's guarantee against "cruel and unusual punishments."
Treaties America signed prohibit torture and other forms of ill-treatment. They're binding under the Constitution's Supremacy Clause.
It states:
"….all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."
Earlier Supreme Court rulings condemned force and other forms of ill-treatment amounting to torture. They include harsh interrogations, threats, sleep and food deprivation, prolonged isolation, whipping, slapping, beatings, and other forms of abuse.
Laws prohibiting torture are jus cogens. They're higher, compelling laws. No nation may pass legislation permitting it. No courts may justify it. Jus cogens prohibitions allow no immunity from criminal liability.
On April 16, The New York Times headlined "US Engaged in Torture After 9/11, Review Concludes," saying:
The Constitution Project's (CP) "sweeping, 577-page report says that while brutality has occurred in every American war, there never before had been 'the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after 9/11 directly involving a president and his top advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain and torment on some detainees in our custody.' "
It's "indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture."
CP's report is titled "Task Force on Detainee Treatment." It followed "two years of intensive study, investigation and deliberation."
It was undertaken "to provide an accurate and authoritative account of how the United States treated people its forces held in custody as the nation mobilized to deal with a global terrorist threat."
"The events examined in this report are unprecedented in US history."
"In the course of the nation's many previous conflicts, there is little doubt that some US personnel committed brutal acts against captives, as have armies and governments throughout history."
Nothing matched post-9/11 policies. They were authorized at the highest levels of government. Bush, Cheney and others around them did so.
"Despite this extraordinary aspect, the Obama administration declined, as a matter of policy, to undertake or commission an official study of what happened, saying it was 'unproductive' to 'look backwards' rather than forward."
Crimes of war and against humanity were committed during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. Extraordinary renditions began on Clinton's watch.
Courts, including the nation's highest, largely looked the other way. Instead of condemning war on terror lawlessness, they did little judicially to stop it.
On June 11, the Supreme Court denied certiorati for seven Guantanamo detainees. Doing so violated the Constitution's Article 1, Section 9, Clause 2. It states:
"The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public safety may require it."
CP's report said it's "indisputable" that America practices torture. The nation's highest officials bear full responsibility. What began earlier continues. Torture is globalized. Snatch and grab is policy.
In Afghanistan, dozens of abductions occur monthly. Imprisonment and torture follow. Guantanamo represents America's public face. It's the tip of the iceberg. It symbolizes US lawlessness.
Dozens of "black sites" operate globally. They do so extrajudicially. They do it out of sight and mind. "Enhanced interrogation techniques" became code language for torture and other forms of abuse.
Suspects are snatched and disappeared. Foreign governments are complicit. What began under Clinton intensified under Bush. Obama continues the worst of his practices.
CP discussed the following topics:
• Detention at Guantanamo
• Afghanistan
• Iraq
• Washington's Post-9/11 "Legal Process"
• Rendition and "black sites"
• Medical professionals' involvement in detention and interrogation practices
• True and false confessions - most are forcibly extracted
• Effects and consequences of US policies
• Recidivism
• The Obama administration
• The role of Congress
Guilt at the highest levels of government is shared. They include the executive, congressional and judicial branches. The CIA and Pentagon are complicit. Torture and other forms of abuse became official policy. It remains so extrajudicially.
America crossed the line. CP called doing so unjustifiable. It violated fundamental rule of law principles. It damaged the nation's standing. It's legally, morally and ethically compromised.
It "reduced our capacity to convey moral censure. (It) potentially increased the danger to US military personnel taken captive."
On April 14, Samer Naji al Hasan Moqbel explained his ordeal. "Gitmo is killing me," he said. He's been there 11 years and three months.
He threatens no one. He committed no crime. He hasn't been charged or tried. He never should have been abducted in the first place. He should have been released long ago.
Military officials said he was a "guard" for bin Laden. Samir called saying so "nonsense." He thinks his captors no longer believe it. "But they don't seem to care how long I sit here, either," he explained.
He remains because Yemeni prisoners aren't sent home. "This makes no sense," said Samir. "I am a human being, not a passport, and I deserve to be treated like one."
He's aged 35. He wants to go home and see his family. He wants one of his own. Conditions are "desperate," he said. Detainees are suffering horrifically. There's no end in sight to their imprisonment.
He and around 130 others are hunger striking for justice. He's being force-fed. He described the ordeal. He's bound hands and feet to his bed.
An IV is forcibly inserted into his hand. He spent 26 hours this way "tied to his bed." He was denied permission to go to the toilet. He wasn't allowed to pray.
He'll "never forget the first time they passed the feeding tube up (his) nose. I can't describe how painful it is to be force-fed this way," he said.
"As it was thrust in, it made me feel like throwing up. I wanted to vomit, but I couldn't. There was agony in my chest, throat and stomach. I had never experienced such pain before. I would not wish this cruel punishment upon anyone."
"I am still being force-fed. Two times a day they tie me to a chair in my cell. My arms, legs and head are strapped down. I never know when they will come. Sometimes they come during the night, as late as 11 p.m., when I'm sleeping."
"During one force-feeding the nurse pushed the tube about 18 inches into my stomach, hurting me more than usual, because she was doing things so hastily."
"I called the interpreter to ask the doctor if the procedure was being done correctly or not."
"It was so painful that I begged them to stop feeding me. The nurse refused to stop feeding me."
"As they were finishing, some of the 'food' spilled on my clothes. I asked them to change my clothes, but the guard refused to allow me to hold on to this last shred of my dignity."
He hopes because of what all detainees suffer, "the eyes of the world will once again look to Guantanamo before it's too late."
The Times gave Samer op-ed space. Two days later, its own editorial followed. It headlined "Indisputable Torture," saying:
CP's report confirmed it. It's "the fullest independent effort so far to assess the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and at the CIA's secret prisons."
Defending or denying it doesn't wash. A detailed appendix includes dozens of legal cases. They provide clear evidence that Washington prosecuted similar treatment or denounced what other countries commit.
CP's assessment "is a good step in (the right) direction," said Times editors. A separate 6,000-page Senate Intelligence Committee report remains classified.
"The next step should be its release. There is no excuse for further delay."
Current and former Times editors have much to answer for. They've been far less than forthright on torture. Harvard JFK School of Government students explained. Their paper was titled "Torture at Times: Waterboarding in the Media."
It's cruel and inhuman punishment. It's indisputably torture. Harvard students called it:
"....the practice of intentionally inducing the sensation of drowning in the victim."
It's "achieved in a number of ways, including but not limited to (1) placing a cloth or plastic wrap, (2) pouring water directly into the mouth and nose of the victim, (3) placing a stick between the victim's teeth and pouring water into his or her mouth, often until the victim's stomach becomes distended, then forcing the water back out of the victim's mouth, and (4) dunking and holding the victim's head under water."
They documented how America's four largest broadsheets covered the practice over the past century. They included the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, USA Today (because it's the nation's most widely circulated newspaper), and The New York Times.
From 1901 - 1925, Times editors, columnists and contributors seldom called it torture. They did so in 11.9% of their articles.
From 1931 - 2002, they affirmed or implied torture in 81.5% of them.
From 2002 - 2008, they did so twice. It reflected 1.4% of published columns or commentaries. Neither one discussed America.
Bush administration torture was sanitized. Occasionally it was called "harsh" or "coercive." The word "torture" was systematically avoided.
It wasn't admitted or denounced. It continues under Obama. It remains official policy. Don't expect Times editors to explain.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at email@example.com.
His new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity."
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U.S.: We'll Defend Allies Against North Korea
After the Pentagon acknowledged North Korea's capability of launching missiles on ballistic missiles, Secretary of State John Kerry issued a warning, promising the U.S. will defend its allies in the region if necessary. Patrick Chovanec and Alastair Gale discuss. Photo: AP.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... we all ... in that ... that North Korea ... will not be accepted ... as a nuclear power ... the rhetoric that we hearing from North Korea ... is simply unacceptable ... by any standard ... the United States will if needed ... defend our allies and defend ourselves ... bad news U S Secretary of State John Kerry speaking in South Korea a short time ago ... tensions remain high on the Korean Peninsula as a new U S intelligence assessment about North Korea's nuclear capabilities ... adds to worries that morning and welcome to the New Saab I'm Ralf Winkler ... The Weston's the Defense intelligence Agency has concluded that the reclusive nation may have developed a nuclear device small enough to melt on a ballistic missile ... Asia expert and managing director of Silvercrest asset management at chick show panic joins us now good morning ... thanks so much for coming and we also had Alastair Gale and soul ouster thanks so much ... morning ... ok lemme start with you at trach ... out ... first off the defensive view that the new assessments ... aam ... how capable ... are the North Koreans it of delivering nuclear ninety answer is we don't know one estimate from the DNA is that their moderately confident ... that they think they have ... and ... a nuclear capability ... that is not necessarily reliable ... um no that's one estimate remember the DNA got it wrong about Iraq having nuclear weapons ... so I don't see that the disparate images to use the there's a lot of uncertainty ok ... ok else there ... the U S comments ... a change the mood in South Korea they've been fairly still like as usual there has changed at all ... the ... this of course would be a concern to people in South Korea the sun ... the suffering defense this case as distorting the study didn't think that ... will stop this ability ... um ... people here in Seoul and ... the concert is really ... the coolest spot and so ... much stuff it with conventional weapons ... but the mother can beat the ... device onto a war that is ... the second so that it's not so ... much that is to separate named Patrick ... so what ... this team is again more of the same a lot of bluster meeting attempts ... at ... either extortionate for foreign aid or just to demonstrate the Kim Jong UN to find is ... in control ... and the good you've argued that the danger ... is that he could miss calculate what he mean ... look um ... you know there's been a number provocations Company series provocations from the North Koreans ... over the past few years ... shelling and South Korean island seeking a South Korean naval vessel ... and that it may become un clear to them exactly where the red lines are I think art is likelier to kids is also seeking comment aam and in the sink young inexperienced leader and ... 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I think if there was ... a sense that studied the financial situation than that ... that is to be repeated every anywhere that would be considered himself ... is there a passion for making is there any prospect that ... the U S fiscal situation ... could be Turin situated we would have to pull back on our commitments ... are defensive capabilities in Asia ... well it's been this whole getting to Asia that there has been beat the ... elements of the US foreign policy over the past year or so ... and they have been some questions raised by U S allies in the region about whether ... the nine states when it backed that up ... with money ... in any remains to be seen but I do think that he and the US has real commitments to the beach in an expected to lead us to back them up took a ... package of anything so much for joining us ouster Caylin soil in Seoul think you so much

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Seattle Stories
Weaving Women's Words: Seattle Stories showcases thirty women, born in the early 20th century, who made their homes in the Seattle Jewish community.
Born in places as far-flung as Greece and Alaska, our narrators witnessed the upheaval of the Great Depression, World War II, the civil rights movement, and the feminist revolution. Their stories of their lives as homemakers and educators, activists and musicians reflect the changing expectations, opportunities, and challenges this remarkable generation of Jewish women faced.
Pictures and stories of significant objects in the lives of the Seattle women, from a piece of artwork created in Auschwitz to the blades used to make traditional gefilte fish.
Discover aspects common to the different Seattle women's life experiences and shared qualities that characterize their long and fulfilling lives.
Commentaries on Seattle Stories
Reflections on the stories of this remarkable community of Jewish women by their families, historians and filmmakers.
How to cite this page
Jewish Women's Archive. "Seattle Stories." (Viewed on February 23, 2019) <https://jwa.org/communitystories/seattle>.


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Congratulations, you're a dad. Or about to become one. Or thinking about becoming one. Now all you have to do is figure out what the hell you're doing. Don't worry, quit crying, and keep reading
Yes, fatherhood is terrifying. Have you seen a new father lately? He looks like he just escaped from Gauntánamo. We'd like to tell you not to worry, that it's all hype. But the fact is: Sleep deprivation is real. A whole new universe of pressures and priorities is about to emerge. You'll wake up in the middle of the night doing college-tuition computations. You'll wonder if you've taken your last trip to Europe (or for that matter, to bars). But mild torture and low-level dread are only the smallest fraction of the experience—like, did we mention unparalleled life affirmation? Sheer joy? A renewed sense of purpose? The subgenre of women who find you, the new dad, sexy? There's a lot you don't know about fatherhood before you become a dad, and the vast majority of it is good.
The biggest problem with becoming a dad these days, besides the stinging realization that you're not the center of the known universe, is that no one tells you how to do it. We're not like women, who seem to be in a lifelong training course for motherhood and who have a vast mommy-industrial complex of books and shows and magazines and expert friends at their disposal. The only experience we've had with fatherhood was through our own fathers—which, if you haven't noticed, ain't exactly the model for how things work anymore. In the intervening years, mom/dad lines have blurred. Your participation in the daily life of your child is no longer merely interesting; it is required. You're expected to know everything, only no one has ever taught you anything. But we're here to tell you, knowledge is available. There are ways to avoid certain pitfalls. Ways to make yourself invaluable. Certain bits of technology you'll want to avail yourself of. Some hardships you'll want to commiserate over. We figure you can learn it all in the short essays below—give or take a decade.
You will Find Other Moms Hot
Generally speaking, of course. You will probably feel a little weird about it, too, but you'll think it. A lot. Maybe it's because your wife gave birth to your child, which was the most miraculous and beautiful thing ever, and you should totally tell her that, especially when she complains about her boobs. More likely it's because your social circle now lurches like an unmoored Venn diagram, careening into so many other parents' circles. Moms are suddenly everywhere. They're at the park and at teh day care in the morning and pushing carts around Babies "R" Us, and they're usually both a little disheveled and shiny with maternal hormones, the combined effect of which is almost exactly like your pre-baby wife after two margaritas. Your kid will babble at her kid, and you'll translate it in that goofy baby-talk way—"Say bye-bye to the pretty baby!" and then you'll smile at each other, and it will all be very...sweet. And because your perspective on everything has changed, sweet is now the first component of sexy, which is why, when she walks away, you will reflexively check out her ass.
And all those girls—young and flirty—you used to think were hot? You will realize: She is someone's daughter. You don't want some old guy—some married father—slobbering over your daughter twenty-five years from now, do you? No, you don't.—Nick Bishop
You'll get a Do-Over on Childhood
There's this little secret they don't tell you about fatherhood: You get to do childhood over. With the slightest whiff of an excuse, Daddy is permitted to drop all chores/work/paying of bills and can suddenly be found stuffed in a woven basket in the laundry room playing hide-and-seek. Or maybe Daddy has assumed the character of Lou the Leprechaun or Marlo the Panda or Captain Krell, the very naughty pirate who is in constant battle for treasure against three wee pirates, staying in character, wearing scarves and an eye patch on a rainy Sunday for, oh..up to eight hours.
Is this normal?
"Yes, this is very normal," says childhood expert Michael Paterniti.
The thing about doing childhood over again is that you get to do it a little better this time, with a little more awareness and invention. There are going to be occasions when it is incumbent upon you to hide in that woven basket in the laundry room or do that crazy jig because it's just what the moment calls for—and because being a kid, however briefly, is the most perfect, edifying way to be at all.
Take last night, for instance. After putting the kids to sleep, I did the dishes, took out the recycling, and before heading to bed at ten, caught sight of the last toy left out, a recent birthday present for our youngest: a remote-control motorized car. Who doesn't love a motorized car?
"No one," says childhood expert Michael Paterniti.
You could make it turn under tables, run over action figures, and smash into walls. You could jam a couple of bendable guys into the front seat, and soon they were racing from the kitchen to the living room to save the president of the United States from radiation poisoning, Polonium-210 in his chipped-beef sandwich.
They made it. The day was saved. It was after midnight before I got to bed.—Michael Paterniti
You Will Not Become a 24/7 Entertainer
Beware the baby-industrial complex. It's real. It's insidious. It will fuck you up! Like its military counterpart, the BIC exists to move product, whether it's the Baby Einstein/Wiggles/Clifford stuff—or the vast literature warning parents against that stuff. The difference is that with the BIC, the real menace isn't in the product in conditions you to buy. It's the conditioning itself.
And what does the BIC condition you to do? Panic. And in turn, to fetishize both your children and your child rearing. How does it do that? By turning parenting into a science. By convincing you to distrust your own intuition and to invest yourself only in the kind of knowledge about your infant that can be acquired through...videos, books, flash cards, and games. By selling you on the notion that, say, some sugar-crusted, patently crappy Baby Einstein arrangement of a Beethoven symphony has been "reorchestrated in a way that's appealing to babies."
Dad, you gotta fight the powers that be. It won't be easy, because the pressures parents come under to buy the things for their kids that will allow those kids to "keep up with the Joneses" are powerful. But fight you must. You gotta reject the BIC's contention that every moment of your baby's first years is monumentally consequential and must therefore be programmed. Stuffed. With "learning." (The kind of learning, of course, that can only be acquired through...well, you get the idea.)
'Cause guess what: Your kid doesn't need to be entertained 24/7. You want to be a father who helps his kid's imagination flourish? You want to be a father rather than a droid—and fatherhood to be fun rather homework? One of the best ways to develop a child's imagination is to stop micromanaging that child, to leave that child alone, to put a huge hole in the daily schedule devoted to: NOTHING. No videos. No books. No stuff.
And no you.—Andrew Corsello
You Will Start Referring to Your Wife as "Mom"
It's going to happen. Try to catch yourself. She's going to say it first, or maybe you will. (She will.) The first time, it will be a little joke. Just between the two of you, once lovers and now parents, a seismic identity will shift both of you will note is oddly thrilling.
You'll be sitting there patting Baby on the back, coaxing a belch. He'll belch. You'll say, "That's my boy." She'll look at you. Her eyes will light up with adoration. A dad. She loves seeing you be a dad, a love that's so different from the lover love she's by now used to. So she'll compliment you. She'll tilt her head and say, "Good job, Daddy." Daddy. Okay, she just called you daddy. Are you listening? Because if you're really listening, maybe you'll catch yourself. Catch yourself! Resist the temptation to right then and there to say, "Thanks, Mom."
If you don't resist the temptation (you won't), then forgive yourself and try to move on. Try not to say it again. It was a joke. One joke! It will never be funny again; it will only get creepy. You'll be at the mall, pushing Baby, and she'll be, "Daddy, look at these shoes!" And you'll be, "Aw, Ma, don't you have enough shoes?" The slope is slippery and steep. Pretty soon it's "Mom, are we going to have sex tonight or not?" Mom. You are calling the person you sleep with "Mom." It's bad. It's a little sick. It's certainly sickening. All your friends will hate you.
So let's review: Catch yourself. Resist. Forgive. Move on.—Jeanne Marie Laskas
Your Wife Will Go a Bit Crazy
The time will come when she will go dark. Very dark. You should be prepared for the moment when you look at her and think, I don't know you. You scare me. Please give my wife back to me, pod lady.
Picture a woman sitting on her sofa. She has not showered in some time. She's working on two hours of sleep. She's staring at the TV, and she has your baby in her arms, and while she knows that TV is something to be avoided, she's also hoping that your baby will be intrigued enough to focus for a while on these four Australian men—the Wiggles—so that she, your wife, might close her eyes for thirty minutes. Is that so much to ask for?
The Wiggles, she's pretty sure, do not have penises. They are grown men who wear bright shirts and sing a song that goes Fruit Salad / Yummy, yummy and who each have cute idiosyncrasies. Like Jeff (purple shirt), he's always sleepy, and Anthony (blue shirt) loves to eat. She's watching them, and the baby gets quiet, but doesn't fall to sleep as she'd hoped. Instead, her mind drifts to an image of her former self, a woman who believed she knew how to be sexy, who believed she could get the attention of any man she wanted. And she begins to do this with the Wiggles. She's thinking about the sex she used to have and looking at these four Australian castrati and wondering, If I had to fuck one of these guys, which one would it be? She'll consider this for a while, and she'll come to a decision. When she confesses this to you later, do not ask her which one she would choose to fuck. (It's not sleepy Jeff, that's all you need to know.) Instead, give her some sympathy. You may be tired yourself, but she's fantasizing about screwing the Wiggles.—Tilly Porter
Dear New Dad Who Used to Be My Friend,
The problem isn't that you talk about Ferberizing and diaper rash. Okay, a little bit that's the problem. But it's more that you forgot how to have a normal conversation. I don't want things to be like the old days. I just want you to remember that not everyone has the same priorities as you. Please stop telling me how exhausted you are. Please stop with the soliloquies on how bad other people's parenting is. And please stop telling me how uncool you are all the time. "I'm not cool! I'm a dad who goes to sleep at eight!" I know that. And just so you know, you weren't cool to start out with. That's not why I liked you. I liked you because you were a good friend. And now it's like you're talking to me over this divide. "YOU'LL UNDERSTAND LATER," you say loudly, like I'm a non-English-speaking cabdriver. I'm childless, not retarded. And while we're at it, one more thing. Talking to you when you're at home can be like talking to one of those smackheads you see on the street who have the nods. Huge, really long, awkward pauses, punctuated by other pauses and idle saliva swallowing. Just get off the phone if you have to—that's fine—but don't make me sit there while you have a narcoleptic episode. Anyway. Please recite this back to me whenever I have kids.
Devin Friedman
Dear Childless Friend with Whom I Now Have Trouble Relating,
First, let me just say that I understand how sleep cycles and fevers and baby slings—and the superior tone with which parents discuss these things—are all very tedious business. I grant you all that (and so much more). And yet the reason you feel like I sometimes talk to you across a divide is because I'm talking to you across a divide. There's no way to say it without confirming all your negative opinions about me, but your concerns, unless we're talking actual life/death stuff, they're pretty trivial. It's okay. A life where your biggest worries are whether your girlfriend appreciates you enough or what it might signify that your boss didn't reply to your e-mail or how you really want to find something meaningful to do—that's a life to be envied. And I do. There are plenty of moments where I'm jealous of your freedoms. But also, seriously, you're messing with me, right? That grave tone you're talking in when you're telling me how depressed you are about your birthday coming up—that's bullshit, isn't it? Because if it's not, man, you need to figure out some way to get the hell outside yourself. And that's what a kid does for you more than anything else, helps you put your worries into proper proportion. Even as I'm saying this, I can hear the snickering: Another parent acting like he's received the wisdom of the spheres. What an ass-wipe. But honestly—it's really stressful to renovate your apartment? C'mon. Stop.
Joel Lovell


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At this time of year the stores get more crowded and you hear Christmas music where ever you go. It is also the annual time of year the Raptors chances of being a playoff team realistically go up in smoke. While technically with the East being as horrible as it is the Raptors still mathematically could be alive for a long time in the playoff race realistically it is hard to imagine.
Back to back records in futility with losses to Denver and Golden State make you believe this to be the case. The Raptors gave up 72 bench points to the Nuggets while after a change to their starting line-up only produced 16 from their bench. A promising start would get washed away by the play of a bench that was far from acceptable. The change of adding Tyler Hansbrough to the starting line-up and Amir Johnson coming off the bench has amounted to re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
If that Denver loss was not bad enough for you the Raptors out did themselves last night in Oakland. Again it was a positive beginning with the line-up change only to see it eventually go down in flames. The Raptors shocked many by going out and lighting up the Warriors. They built a huge lead after one quarter and even built on that to a point where the Raptors led by 27 points. The Raptors would get blitzed in the fourth quarter and go on to lose this game by 9 points. You really have to work to give up a 36 point swing in the span of a quarter and half of action. This is also another Raptors record of failure as it is the biggest lead the team has surrendered in their history.
Many are calling for the head of coach Dwane Casey at this point. While a game like that is one that I think ranks right up their as one that can get you fired I doubt we will see that happen anytime soon. After all the Raptors most likely will be making the shift to rebuild mode sooner than later. Casey's contract ends at the end of the year and I doubt the Raptors will be in a rush to find his successor. When you consider his calling card is suppose to be on the defensive end these last two games are object lessons in how he is failing in that regard. I am not sure why that is in terms of the players not buying into the system or just not capable of its execution. Given the fact they have at brief points looked solid on the defensive end it could be assumed it is the first suggestion of not buying into it.
It may not seem like it at the moment but this may be looked back on as blessing that the Raptors imploded like this. Masai Ujiri has all the ammo he needs to start the deconstruction of this team now without the strange optics of being first in a division while doing so. The Raptors around this time last year went on a 7 game losing streak that basically ended any hope they had. This year it is a four game losing streak that could grow to that number as well. The Raptors most realistic shot at a win in the next three games comes up on Friday as they take on the Suns. Lakers could have Kobe Bryant Sunday as he is rumoured to return on Friday. As they come home licking their wounds they will face a Spurs squad that is one of the best in the NBA. If you think it will get better as the holidays draw near you might want to check the schedule. The Raptors hit the road prior to Christmas break and play Dallas, OKC and Spurs again just before Santa comes to town.
Perhaps the most disturbing thing in all of this is core people that make up this fan base are not surprised in the slightest when things like last night happen. It has become a case of being something we just have come to expect and in some ways accept about this franchise.
Personally, I become more shocked when things go right for the Raptors than wrong. It is mainly based on a history that screams to us that it is the correct line of thinking. My expression to sum up this feeling is "That's so Raptors" and it really is.
Masai Ujiri is the latest to come in and have the unenviable task of trying to change that thinking and establish some basis for hope in the future. Even hopeful things Raptors fans have come to see the dark side of though. As an example DeMar DeRozan despite all of this has really taken his game to the next level. Now instead of rejoicing in this, Raptors fans are already considering he will be the next in a long line of players that will want out of this situation to have a chance to win elsewhere. DeRozan has looked increasingly frustrated as of late despite his own personal success. I think that might be jumping the gun a little to think that DeRozan will want to be elsewhere. History suggests at some time he will but I am not convinced that is sooner rather than later.
If I can offer an advice to frustrated Raptors fans it is to not let all of this consume you. I use to be that angry fan that took these things to heart and allowed it to hang over me like a dark cloud. It will only drive you crazy at the end of the day. Instead I take a much more detached approach and do not allow my emotions to get involved as much as possible. There is a life outside of this and as much as we may deem this to be important it is not in the grand scheme of life. It is much easier to say this the day after on of these terrible loses than it is when you have stayed up to the early morning hours watching the team you cheer for blow a lead that seemed to be impossible to lose.
For those hoping for change and not clinging to the false hope that this team was going anywhere, the time of December 15th and the opening of all contracts and realistically the trading season is almost here. Make no mistake the job of taking apart this team will not be an easy or quick process. Masai Ujiri will be earning the money he was paid when he was brought here because this is going to be a challenging endeavour indeed.
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- AnonymousDecember 5, 2013 at 9:06 AM
Just keep losing for the sake of the brighter future. Being mediocre for past 18 years (except for couple of nice runs with VC) is no longer option. Just keep tankin' baby.ReplyDelete
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One suspect, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was fatally wounded in the gun battle, and his brother, 19-year-old Dzhokhar, escaped, authorities said. The two threw explosive devices at police in their getaway attempt, authorities said.
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CCRI and Navy Prep battled back and forth as the game began with NAPS getting most of their first half points in the paint including 11 points from Enuoma Edinum. However the Knights got 12 from its All-American Desmond Williams (Torrington, CT) to take a five point lead into halftime 28-23. The second half was much different for Navy Prep as they sank seven 3-pointers, four of them by guard Kyle Quintana, to give them a five point lead 62-57 lead late in the game. Once again the Knights' Williams took mover and with 22.6 seconds left got the ball and went to work with a killer crossover and elevated for a 3-pointer while being fouled, sank the shot and with 22.6 seconds left also converted the free throw for the very rare 4-point play narrowing the NAPS lead to 62-61. NAPS made two foul shots to increase the lead to 64-61, Jerome Harris (Hartford, CT) rushed down the court and made a floater with 13.6 left once again cutting the lead to one point 64-63 under ten seconds on the clock, NAPS was able to inbound the ball to Quintana who was fouled with just 2.6 remaining, the hot-shooting Quintana missed the front end of the one-and-one which was rebounded by Williams whose last second desperation attempt missed the mark. A great comeback by CCRI but the Knights fell 64-63.
The Knights were led by Co-Captain Desmond Williams who scored a game-high 28 points with three assists, two steals and a blocked shot followed by Co-Captain Isaac Medeiros (Johnston, RI) who had eight points nine rebounds, twos teals and a blocked shot. Also helping the Knights was Pat Marchand (Cranston, RI) with 10 points three rebounds, Jerome Harris had six points, five rebounds, and three steals and Chris Light (Derry, NH) added five points including a big second half 3-pointer late in the game and three rebounds.
Head Coach Rick Harris commented after the game: "I told the young men following our tough loss tonight that we have hit a wall. Our goal is to get a little bit better each day and for the last couple of days and games that has not been the case. This is typical in a thirty game regular season. We will find a way as a team to make that happen and look to finish strong as we get into important region games over the last five games of the regular season. Most importantly we hope to be at full strength, as we go as our sophomores go. The loss of Isaac Medeiros on Sunday and Bryan Yarce tonight really showed as it would with any team when elite players go down. No excuses though as we have to all collectively step up and get better and play better as a team.
Also for those who would like to see a replay of the CCRI vs. Roxbury game played Thursday January 24th, if you live in Rhode Island and have Cox Communications the game is available on Cox On Demand in the "Free Zone" here are the instructions for using Cox On Demand: https://www.cox.com/about/value/ondemand_programming.pdf
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Jennifer Lopez returns to the big screen in 'Governess'
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Jennifer Lopez will topline Yari Film Group's romantic comedy "The Governess," with Nigel Cole directing.
"The Governess" was written by Kevin Wade, who also penned Lopez starrer "Maid in Manhattan," and Wendy Braff. Don Roos is polishing the script.
Story centers on a professional thief who, in order to pull off a major bank heist, poses as a nanny to the three unruly children of a wealthy widower. When she starts to fall for the kids and their father, she must decide if she can give up her past for a chance to start over.
Bob Yari will produce along with Sid Ganis, Alex Siskin and Simon Fields, Lopez' producing partner. Shooting's set to begin in Massachusetts in the fall.
"The Governess" has a SAG waiver. David Glasser, president of YFG's sales arm Syndicate Films, will handle international sales.
Lopez is in pre-production on indie project "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits," with Roos directing from his own script.
Cole previously directed "Calendar Girls."
YFG recently wrapped production on thriller "Nothing But the Truth," comedy "The Maiden Heist" and drama "Real Men Cry." Joe Carnahan's "Killing Pablo" is scheduled to begin filming in the fall.


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Unless Congress acts to raise the federal government's debt ceiling, the Treasury Department will run out of the ability to borrow money by October 17. Treasury has said that the cash it now has on hand will run out completely on November 1, leaving the government in essence without money to pay its bills.
So what is the debt ceiling? It's a cap set by Congress on how much the government can borrow in order to pay its debts. And here's why it's important:
Warnings about not raising the debt ceiling have been dire. The major credit rating agencies have said they might consider the U.S. in default if it fails to pay its bills, and many economists have warned that there could be a major slowdown to the economy, with job losses alongside a rise in interest rates affecting a range of products from credit cards to home mortgages.
Other fears are that foreign investment in U.S. Treasurys and the dollar would dry up over worries about lost returns.
Federal debt is the amount of money the government currently owes for spending on payments such as Social Security, Medicare benefits, military salaries, interest on the national debt and tax refunds.
But It is not future debt. The debt limit simply allows the government to finance existing legal obligations that Congress and presidents of both parties have made in the past.
The debt ceiling idea came about in 1917. Before then, Congress had to approve borrowing for each item when the government needed money.
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LAS VEGAS — Former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva underwent succesful surgery after he broke his left leg in a shocking and gruesome finish during Saturday night's main event at UFC 168 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Zuffa, LLC, the owner of the UFC, released a statement Sunday morning saying Silva was taken to a local Las Vegas hospital where Dr. Steven Sanders, the UFC's orthopedic surgeon, inserted an intramedullary rod into Anderson's left tibia to stabilize his broken fibula.
Silva's left leg snapped when he attempted a leg kick on UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman, who raised his leg to block it and checked it with his knee. Weidman was declared the winner via TKO because of the injury, which caused the fight to be stopped.
The Brazilian legend and Redondo Beach resident will stay in the hospital "for a short while" and no further surgery is expected. The statement said a recovery for such an injury could take up to six months.
With Silva turning 39 in April, speculation has already begun whether the man regarded as the best pound-for-pound fighter in UFC history might be done in the Octagon.
"Anderson is deeply touched by the outpouring of support from his fans and the entire MMA community," the Zuffa statement said. "There has been no immediate decision about his future, and he would kindly ask for privacy at this time as he deals with his injury and prepares to return home to recover."
Silva was attempting to avenge his first UFC defeat when Weidman knocked him out in July at UFC 162. Prior to that, Silva had won a UFC record 16 consecutive fights and had defended his 185-pound belt an unprecedented 10 times.