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A 19-year-old contestant for the "American Idol" singing competition faced scrutiny from judges and celebrity commentators after revealing he is a virgin who has never kissed a girl, Cybercast News Service reports.
Bruce Dickson, a show contestant from Bostrop, Texas, at the American Idol Dallas auditions was asked to share something interesting about himself. He told the judges he had never kissed a girl.
"What?" Randy Jackson asked. "On purpose?"
"On purpose," Dickson said. "On my wedding day, that will be my first kiss."
Jackson's advice to Dickson after the judges sent him packing: "Go kiss some girls." Simon Cowell, eyebrows raised, told him: "Avoid Ryan (Seacrest) on the way out." Seacrest himself ended the segment featuring Dickson with these words: "Maybe next year he'll come back less a boy and more a man."
Dickson told Cybercast News Service "A real man would rather wait than just do whatever with whoever."
Sarah Preston, a writer and editor for Playboy's web site, spoke about Dickson's decision on Thursday on the "Fox Report" television show, asking how he could compete in the contest without "sex appeal."
"I'm not belittling Bruce's Christian beliefs, but I do think being in tune with one's own sexuality goes a long way in being confident with yourself," Preston said. "Confidence is key, especially for 'American Idol.'"
"These kids become sex objects, thrust into the spotlight," she continued. "And while I know they're all trying to stand out, especially during the audition period, using your Christian beliefs and the fact that you've never kissed a girl is not going to bode well for you while trying out to be America's next big sex object," Preston said.
Dickson responded to some of the criticisms. "I respect women and don't think of them as a sexual object, and I'm the freak?" Dickson said to Cybercast News Service.
Dickson, the second eldest of six children, said his parents had challenged their children to practice abstinence.
"It wasn't anything they forced on us," Dickson said. "It was something they talked to us about. Something they taught us the importance of."
Dickson wears a key around his neck, while his father wears a matching heart, which he wears for Dickson's future wife. The jewelry signifies Dickson's promise to remain abstinent until marriage.
The American Idol contestant won admiration from Jason Burtt, national director of the teen abstinence organization Silver Ring Thing. The organization promotes events and distributes rings for children to wear to symbolize their commitment to chastity.
"What we are all about is supporting kids like Bruce," Burtt told Cybercast News Service. "Most kids are mentally pushed through the media and pop culture that everyone is doing it.
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Dickson is working on a demo album and could return to audition for the next season of American Idol.
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OAKLAND — The battle-weary Oakland school system will soon have a fresh, new face.
Late Thursday night, after hours of deliberation, the school board unanimously decided that Tony Smith, 42, will be the district's superintendent of schools — the first permanent, locally chosen leader since the 2003 state takeover. He starts July 1.
"We all agreed that Tony is the best choice for Oakland," said school board president Noel Gallo. "What Oakland needs now is someone who can reach into all circles, not just to talk about the issues, but to get people to work together."
Smith is the deputy superintendent for instruction, innovation and social justice in the San Francisco Unified School District, and he led the 800-student Emery Unified School District as it emerged from state receivership in 2004 until late 2007. He is also an Oakland resident with ties to local organizations and institutions, such as UC Berkeley, where he earned his doctorate. Board members said they believed he would be able to galvanize a broad base of support for the district.
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Smith will soon be an Oakland public school parent. His oldest daughter, who is 6, will attend Crocker Highlands Elementary School in the fall.
As the news of Smith's appointment trickled out Friday, people responded, by turns, with great enthusiasm, skepticism and hope for the future of a school district that has experienced a revolving door of central office leadership, including three state-appointed administrators.
"He's hungry, he's young, and he's from Oakland, which makes me think he's going to stay," said Brian Rogers, director of the Rogers Family Foundation, which supports local schools. "The excitement is higher than I've seen it in Oakland for a long time."
Smith will need all of the energy and passion he can muster. The district is working to close a multimillion-dollar deficit in the face of additional state cutbacks. Academic progress has stalled at many of the district's high schools, and students drop out of the system in droves. Less than half of last year's high school graduates were eligible to attend a state university. A recent transcript audit showed dramatically different course-taking patterns between students of different racial groups.
Smith has said one of his goals is to address such systemic inequities — including the distribution of school fundraising proceeds, a controversial topic he raised at a Wednesday night candidates' forum. "The disparity in fundraising by school is pretty significant," he said afterward.
School board member Jumoke Hinton Hodge said the board chose Smith, in part, because he is passionate about education and willing to take risks to change the status quo.
Betty Olson-Jones, president of the Oakland teachers union, said she was hopeful about what Smith's selection will mean for the school district, although she wished he had been a classroom teacher. "Tony Smith said all the right things," she said.
During an informal meet-and-greet Wednesday in an Oakland Technical High School classroom, Olson-Jones asked Smith about his views on No Child Left Behind, the landmark education accountability law enacted in 2002.
"I think No Child Left Behind has been soul-stripping for students and for teachers," Smith responded to Olson-Jones and the others gathered around him. In San Francisco, he added, "We define student achievement as engaging high achieving and joyful learners. … There are metrics for joy, as silly as that sounds."
Pat Williams, an active Oakland parent who attended the Wednesday night forum, said Smith struck her as thoughtful and dedicated. She said she hoped he would prove to be a highly visible leader capable of making difficult decisions.
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Alexandra Grant, a 17-year-old Oakland Technical High School student, cheered when she heard the news. She and other student leaders from across the district met Smith at the town hall meeting and, she said, they were impressed by what they saw.
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It went unsaid in the Ravens' defensive huddle. The proof was on the scoreboard and in the number of times defensive players jogged back onto the field in the first half after having little more than a moment to grab a drink of water and touch base with their position coach.
Joe Flacco was struggling, the running game was going nowhere and even normally-reliable kicker Justin Tucker was missing wide right. If the Ravens were going to avoid a demoralizing loss to the Cleveland Browns in their home opener, it was going to be because of the same unit that was picked apart by Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos just 10 days earlier.
The defense responded Sunday, holding the Browns scoreless in the second half as the Ravens did just enough offensively to grind out a 14-6 victory in front of an announced 71,098 at M&T Bank Stadium.
After getting shut out in the first half for the first time since last season, the Ravens (1-1) scored two second-half touchdowns: a 5-yard run by Bernard Pierce and a 5-yard touchdown pass from Flacco to rookie Marlon Brown. They then let the defense do the rest and the result was the beleaguered Browns punting on four of their final six possessions and getting stopped on fourth down on their other two.
"You all want to play phenomenal defense. You all want to play great at home," said rush linebacker Terrell Suggs who had one of his team's five sacks. . "We know when [Flacco] gets in his flow, he's Joe Cool, he's never rattled. When he gets in his flow, he's going to be special and he's going to do some great things. It's just all the time, the defense has to do its part and hold the levees until Joe can start opening it up."
Flacco went 22-of-33 for 211 yards and one touchdown, an uneven performance under unique circumstances. Flacco learned about two hours before the game, after he had just completed his initial warm-up on the field, that his wife, Dana, had just given birth to the couple's second child in New Jersey.
Flacco never considered missing the game and after taking the final kneel down, he rushed off the field and got changed so he could rush to New Jersey and be by his wife and new child's side later in the evening.
"Anytime you have a child, it's one of your best days," Flacco said. "The game didn't go exactly how we wanted it to, but that's how we've won football games around here. We're able to win like this, and sometimes you have to do it an ugly way."
The Ravens' 11th straight victory over the Browns (0-2) certainly was ugly at times and it also could be costly in the long run. Pro Bowl running back Ray Rice went down without being touched because of a hip injury early in the fourth quarter. The initial diagnosis was a strained left hip flexor but Rice's status for next Sunday's game against the Houston Texans is uncertain.
Defensive end Chris Canty (groin), rookie linebacker Arthur Brown (pectoral) reserve cornerback Chykie Brown (knee) also suffered injuries.
On offense, the Ravens gained 122 yards and scored zero points in the first half and they again struggled to hold onto the ball and extend drives. Tucker's two first-half misses — from 44 and 50 yards — were one fewer than he missed all of last season. Before getting injured, Rice lost his fourth fumble in the past six games and averaged just 2.8 yards per carry. On defense, there were still breakdowns in the Ravens' secondary, including one that resulted in a 53-yard completion to tight end Jordan Cameron on the Browns' first play from scrimmage.
But the Ravens, who had their Super Bowl XLVII championship banner uncovered in a brief pre-game ceremony, survived, thanks to a second half commitment to the running game and a pass rush that supplied consistent heat on quarterbck Brandon Weeden and his backup, Jason Campbell who played one series after Weeden was knocked out late in the fourth quarter with a thumb injury.
"When Joe put up points, it was like sharks. It was blood in the water and we pinned our ears back," said Ravens defensive tackle Arthur Jones, who had a sack and three tackles after being sidelined the past couple of weeks with an irregular heartbeat. "We know that any time we put up points and the clock is rolling down, it's time to perform. It's time to get after the quarterback."
The Ravens limited the Browns to two first-half field goals by former teammate Billy Cundiff and then didn't allow anything over the final 30 minutes, holding the Browns to just 85 yards of total offense, and a 2-of-8 performance on third down.
This after the Ravens allowed 510 yards of total offense and seven touchdown passes to Manning in a 49-27 loss to the Broncos on Sept. 3. Of course, nobody needed a reminder that the Browns are not the Broncos.
"I felt like it was a boxing match," cornerback Lardarius Webb said. "The guys hung in there. The defense kept on fighting. In the end, it shows you how to face adversity. We were down for a moment and we just kept fighting. In the end, the offense came through for us."
Pierce said that the offense sat down at halftime and ultimately decided that it needed to establish the run early in the third quarter.
On their first drive of the second half, the Ravens went 80 yards on 12 plays to take the 7-6 lead on Pierce's touchdown run. Flacco converted three third downs with completions, including threading the needle on a 23-yard pass to Torrey Smith (seven catches for 85 yards. But the Ravens ran the ball on nine of their 12 plays on the drive.
"Nothing mattered — doesn't matter what down and distance it was, doesn't matter was play was called," said Pierce, who finished with 57 yards on 19 carries. "We just have to run the ball, so we all got together and got it going."
In the second half, the Ravens produced 174 yards of total offense and went 7-of-9 on third downs. On the possession that ended with Flacco finding Brown for the 5-yard touchdown pass, the quarterback hit Brandon Stokley for 16 yards on third-and-10, and Brown for 18 yards on third-and-8.
"They've got confidence in Joe," Harbaugh said. "We've got a veteran offensive line that can kind of keep everybody understanding that everything is not going to happen right away, and you can't panic. You do have to keep playing and we did a good job of that."


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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) -- Another fast start, another easy win for Oklahoma. Sam Bradford threw touchdown passes to four different receivers, Chris Brown ran for three scores and No. 6 Oklahoma routed Texas A&M 66-28 on Saturday.
DeMarco Murray, Matt Clapp, Ryan Broyles and Juaquin Iglesias had TD catches and Bradford had a touchdown run for the Sooners (9-1, 5-1 Big 12), who set a single-game scoring record for an opponent at Kyle Field.
Oklahoma was just as dominant as last week when it beat Nebraska 62-28 and slipped from No. 4 to No. 6 in the BCS standings.
With Texas Tech and Oklahoma State left on the schedule, the Sooners still have chances to impress the voters. They left nothing to chance against the overwhelmed Aggies (4-6, 2-4), building a 38-14 halftime lead and tacking on 28 more points in the third quarter.
"You know how the BCS is going right now," said Brown. "You just can't win by a nail-biter, unless it's a very great team you're playing against. You can get up on a team 35-0 in the first half and feel like, well, the game's over. Not with us. We want to keep pouring it on."
The Sooners have scored 231 points in four games since a 45-35 loss to Texas.
Oklahoma led A&M 66-21 when Joey Halzle replaced Bradford early in the fourth quarter. By then, Coach Bob Stoops felt like the Sooners had earned enough style points.
"There are still sportsmanship issues that you do your best to handle," he said. "I just think that's important. We played hard, let it go for three quarters. What did we have? 62 points?
"You just have to choose sportsmanship over BCS points. To me, in the end, it's the right way to play it."
Oklahoma's high-scoring offense has overshadowed the second-best defense in the Big 12. Stoops said this was that unit's best performance of the season, holding A&M 278 yards, forcing four turnovers and getting four sacks.
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Cyrus Gray scored on a 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown and set an A&M record with 261 kick return yards. But receiving lots of kickoffs was bad news for the Aggies, who mustered only 26 yards rushing and dropped to 2-5 at home.
"Going into this ballgame, I thought they were the best football team I had seen on film and they confirmed that by far," said A&M coach Mike Sherman. "To say what the difference is, I mean, they were a hell of a lot better than we were."
The Sooners have always struggled at Kyle Field and an unranked A&M team beat No. 1 Oklahoma 30-26 here in 2002. But Oklahoma had no problems in this one, piling up 653 total yards on 74 plays -- an 8.8-yard average.
Murray rushed for 123 yards and Brown ran for 117 against the Big 12's second-worst rushing defense. Bradford completed 22 of 33 passes for 320 yards and tied a school record with his eighth 300-yard game of the season.
"His accuracy, his poise, running the whole show out there, you couldn't ask for anything else," Stoops said. "The guy's as flawless as they come."
So were the rest of the Sooners.
Oklahoma outscored its first nine opponents 180-27 in the first quarter and needed only 90 seconds to score on the Aggies.
Murray broke a 70-yard run on the Sooners' second play from scrimmage and Bradford scrambled for a 15-yard touchdown with 13:31 left in the quarter. Oklahoma scored on its first possession for the ninth time in 10 games.
The Aggies went three-and-out on their first series and Murray caught Bradford's 35th touchdown pass of the season with 8:05 left in the first quarter.
On Oklahoma's next series, Bradford found Jermaine Gresham for a 23-yard gain to the A&M 22 and Brown scored with 5:44 remaining in the quarter. The 49-second possession was Oklahoma's 13th touchdown drive this season that lasted under a minute.
"We felt everything we did was right," Bradford said.
The Sooners outgained A&M 238-13 in the quarter. Sherman gathered his team for a fiery pep talk before the second quarter began.
"We were at a point where the game was getting out of reach," Sherman said.
And it was -- Bradford threw a 28-yard TD pass to Clapp with 14:27 left in the half to make it 28-0.
Gray returned the ensuing kickoff 67 yards to set up Jerrod Johnson's 20-yard touchdown pass to Jamie McCoy. Johnson dived into the end zone with 5:11 left in the half to cut Oklahoma's lead to 28-14.
The Aggies were barely stemming the tide.
Broyles took a short pass from Bradford, evaded five A&M defenders and got to the 5, setting up another touchdown for Brown. Oklahoma got the ball back with 34 seconds left and Stevens kicked a 42-yard field goal on the second-to-last play of the half.
The Sooners had 423 yards and 18 first downs in the half.
Johnson threw his first interception in 213 attempts, tying the Big 12 record, in the third quarter when Oklahoma linebacker Keenan Clayton picked off a pass.
Brown's 28-yard TD run with 8:39 left in the third quarter pushed Oklahoma over 50 points for the sixth time this season.
Stephen McGee replaced Johnson with 6:23 left in
the third quarter. McGee, a senior, won the starting
quarterback job in the fall, but he's missed all but
one play in the last five games with a shoulder injury.
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Dave Sittler of the Tulsa World: "So much for the preliminaries. It's time for the main event. And Oklahoma left little doubt here Saturday afternoon at Kyle Field that it's more than ready to rumble. The No. 6 Sooners (9-1, 5-1 Big 12) routed Texas A&M, 66-28. It wasn't the mother road, but this rout 66..."
From the College Station Eagle: ""With the big ol' linemen they have, it's hard to move those guys and that's what football is all about," A&M linebacker Matt Featherston said. "You got to whop somebody to make a tackle." A&M's special teams helped out the offense with Gray's 67-yard kickoff return in the..."
Mike Jones of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "OU's 66-28 win was a stunning break from tradition. "I was pleased that we put it all together and played as soundly as we did," Stoops said. He should be, regardless of how much of a fist the Aggies are able to make these days. No. 6 OU scored more points on the..."
John Rhode of the Oklahoman: "The Iowa-Penn State score was announced at Kyle Field and was greeted with a huge roar from the 4,000 or so OU fans on hand. If we're to believe Stoops' players, they're not particularly concerned with all the buzzes around them. Several Sooners insist they didn't..."
Tim Griffin of ESPN: "This team might be better suited to challenge the Sooners than any other -- particularly if it can play like they did Saturday night against Oklahoma State. It made history as only the second team since 1965 to win against a top 10 team after beating a No. 1 team the week before..."
From the College Station Eagle: "A second-quarter stalemate kept the home fans interested, at least, but with each Sooner touchdown in the third quarter more and more bleachers were exposed. Not even an animated team huddle by Mike Sherman at the end of the first quarter could stop the Sooners, who..."
John Shinn of the Norman Transcript: "OU coach Bob Stoops didn't seem amazed by his team's third straight romp, but he was impressed. "I think it's the team. It isn't just the offense, it's all of it together," he said. Sam Bradford threw for 320 yards and four touchdowns. DeMarco Murray and Chris Brown ran for..."
John Hoover of the Tulsa World: "On his 21st birthday, Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford threw a party. Some 85,603 Texas A&M fans arrived early Saturday to watch Bradford play pin-the-football-on-the-receiver and spin-the-defender. He hit the Aggies over and over like a big maroon..."
Chuck Carlton of the Dallas Morning News: "Scoring more points than any visitor ever has at Kyle Field in a 66-28 victory over Texas A&M on Saturday might be a good start. Oklahoma (9-1, 5-1 Big 12) has produced 186 points in its last three games. Questions about the BCS are inescapable for the Sooners..."
Jeff Walker of CBS: "Following the Red Raiders' 56-20 win over No. 9 Oklahoma State on Saturday, all that stands between Tech and its first Big 12 South Division title is the second-hottest team in the conference -- No. 6 Oklahoma. The division title includes a trip to the conference championship game..."
Jake Trotter of the Oklahoman: "The running attack continued to hum Saturday, igniting the sixth-ranked Sooners to a 66-28 victory over Texas A&M before 85,603 at Kyle Field. Murray led the way with seven carries for 123 yards, as OU totaled a season-high on the ground with 328 yards. Chris Brown..."
From the College Station Eagle: "OU redshirt freshman Travis Lewis had 12 tackles, his fourth double-digit tackle game of the year. He now has 105 tackles on the season, which ranks second all-time for Sooner freshmen behind Brian Bosworth's 133 in 1984. OU running back DeMarco Murray, who rushed for 124 yards, had..."
From the Houston Chronicle: "The Sooners (9-1 overall, 5-1 Big 12) continued making their case as perhaps the nation's most powerful team in the last quarter of the season. The Aggies (4-6, 2-4) trailed the Sooners 21-0 after one quarter and 38-14 at halftime. OU added four touchdowns in the third quarter..."
Clay Horning of the Norman Transcript: "Once again, OU is a juggernaut with the best quarterback in the nation, a buffet line of receivers to throw to, even a bevy of dangerous tailbacks to hand the ball. The defense hasn't merely stiffened, but is now scoring points of its own. And it's getting turnovers the way the very..."
Guerin Emig of the Tulsa World: "The biggest mismatch of Oklahoma's football season — the Sooners' offensive line versus Texas A&M's front seven — played out Saturday at Kyle Field. "We knew we could take advantage of their young defensive line, and their linebackers weren't too physical," OU right guard..."
From the College Station Eagle: "Sam Bradford rifled a 37-yard touchdown pass to Juaquin Iglesias with 6:23 left in the third quarter. At that point, the Oklahoma Sooners set a record for the most points ever scored against Texas A&M at Kyle Field. They went on to claim a 66-28 victory. "I'm not looking for that," Oklahoma coach..."
Jake Trotter of the Oklahoman: "Alexander had two tackles and as a perpetual menace to the Texas A&M backfield. For his efforts, Alexander was named one of the defensive players of the game. The Sooners, however, lost another defensive end to injury. Stoops said after the game that senior Alan Davis suffered..."
From the Houston Chronicle: "OU beat A&M so bad it's hard to imagine the Aggies climbing back into the same league as the Sooners any time soon. The difference in talent level was, to say the least, palpable. The Aggies close out their regular season with road games at Baylor and Texas -- and then Sherman needs to get..."
Guerin Emig of the Tulsa World: "His team led 35-14, but Oklahoma's Jimmy Stevens might as well have been attempting a game-winning 42-yard field goal with three seconds left in Saturday's first half at Texas A&M. The pressure was that severe. "I thought, 'If I make this, I still keep my season alive..."
From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "Mike Sherman took a frightening look Saturday at the long climb ahead. His efforts to return Texas A&M to the national prominence it enjoyed two decades ago when he first came to Aggieland as an assistant aren't dependent solely on his own team's progress. Not when you play in..."
Jake Trotter of the Oklahoman: "Oklahoma's two remaining opponents, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State, made it into the Top 10 with better-than-average defenses. Their worthiness will be put to the test. The Sooner scoring machine continued its Big 12 tour Saturday, demolishing Texas A&M 66-28 at Kyle Field..."
Jake Trotter of the Oklahoman: "In the third quarter, Franks scooped up a fumble by Texas A&M quarterback Stephen McGee running the option and raced 39 yards for the score, which put Oklahoma ahead 66-21. "Dom is an excellent athlete," coach Bob Stoops said. "We had a guy on the quarterback and a guy on the..."


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U.S. National Transportation Safety Board investigators are saying that an air medical helicopter that crashed in South Carolina on Sept. 25 did not have safety features recommended by experts. Three people—pilot Patrick Walters, 45, flight nurse Diana Conner, 42, and paramedic Randolph Claxton Dove, 39—died in the crash, which occurred at around 11:30 p.m. near Georgetown, S.C. While NTSB's investigation is ongoing, weather has been identified as a factor. Board Member Robert Sumwalt noted that the Eurocopter AS350-B2, which had just dropped off a patient at a Charleston hospital, was flying through two severe thunderstorms when it went down. "There is nothing we have found so far to indicate there was anything wrong with the aircraft prior to the accident," said Peter Knudson, NTSB spokesman, adding that the helicopter did not have a flight voice recorder. The crash happened one day after the NTSB published a series of recommendations designed to improve air EMS safety.


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The US economy added more jobs in July than Wall Street economists had expected, giving an early-morning boost to the stock market Friday following the Dow Jones Industrial Average's 512 point tumble on Thursday.
But the gain was short-lived. By noon Friday, the Dow appeared to resume its freefall of the day before, dropping more than 220 points – a downward swing of nearly 400 points after gaining 164 points at the opening of trading. Then news that Italy had agreed to fiscal reform – European fears had fueled Thursday's fall – resulted in a sharp rally on Wall Street on a day of extreme volatility.
It could have been worse if the economy had actually lost jobs.
"If the numbers had come in on the soft side, it would have been a very dark day," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics.com in West Chester, Pa.
Despite the glum financial markets, some economists said the job gains were at least a brighter light for the economy. According to the Department of Labor, the nation added 117,000 jobs last month. The government also revised slightly upward the job gains for May and June.
The relatively modest increase in jobs, however, indicated that the economy is growing slowly.
At the same time as the economy added jobs, the unemployment rate in July dropped to 9.1 percent from 9.2 percent in June. But, the main reason for the slight drop was a reduction in the number of people who say they are looking for work. "It highlights how soft the job market remains," says Mr. Zandi.
The better-than-expected jobs numbers gave Zandi hope that the US economy would dodge a recession next year.
"The overarching message is that we will skirt a recession," he says, "unless we get nailed by something off our radar screen."
However, some other economists think it might be too early to rule out an economic downturn. One of those is Nigel Gault, chief economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Mass. who raised his probability of a recession from 33 percent to 40 percent on Friday.
"The economy is running pretty close to stall speed," he explains. "When you are that weak, you run the risk of a downward spiral of confidence and activity. It does not take much of a shock to go from stall speed to outright recession."
Although Mr. Gault says it was a relief to get a better jobs report in July, he thinks the August numbers are likely to be worse since they will reflect the uncertainty that built up during the debate over raising the debt ceiling.
"I would be surprised if we sustain the uptrend," says Gault.
In Washington, the White House reaction was somewhat predictable. In a statement on Friday, Austan Goolsbee, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, called for bipartisan action in a number of areas such as extending the payroll tax cut, which expires this year, and extending unemployment insurance benefits.
On the opposite side of the political fence, in a statement, House Speaker John Boehner said the July jobs numbers show "Washington spending, taxing and regulating is devastating our economy."
In some past recessions, one of the leading indicators is the temp job industry, points out Roy Krause, CEO of SFN Group, a major supplier of temp labor, based in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. For example, prior to the Great Recession, the temp job industry contracted for over a year before the economy actually was officially declared in a downturn. That is because businesses often lay-off their temporary workers before they give pink slips to their permanent staff.
"That is not what is happening now," says Mr. Krause, adding the industry is still growing at about 7 percent. Last month the industry added 3,000 jobs, after dropping 11,600 in June.
Krause says he is optimistic because corporate profits are still strong, companies have large stockpiles of cash, and they are buying back their own stock because they view it as a good investment. Last month, the Department of Labor says private business added 154,000 new jobs.
In fact, Krause says it appears business is not shelving its normal plans to add workers in the third and fourth quarters for back-to-school sales and holiday sales. "Maybe they won't be expanding or growing as fast," he says. "But, with economic growth at 1.5 percent to 2 percent, we're not in a recession.
Over the past year, the health-care sector has remained one of the brighter segments, adding 299,000 jobs, according to the Department of Labor. Last month, health and personal care stores added 9,000 positions as part of a gain of 26,000 retail jobs in July.
In July, as the auto industry recovered from a part shortage due to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, it also increased employment, adding some 24,000 positions at a time when it would normally be seasonally reducing its workforce, according to the Department of Labor.
However, the government sector remained a drag on the jobs market with a net reduction of 37,000 jobs. However, that should improve next month since 23,000 of those jobs were due to the shutdown of the Minnesota government, which is now back at work.
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This week, President Obama traveled to Mexico and Costa Rica to reinforce the deep cultural, familial, and economic ties that so many Americans share with Mexico and Central America.
President Obama arrived in Costa Rica on Friday — his first visit to the country — and participated in a bilateral meeting and joint press conference with Costa Rican President Chinchilla's, as well as a working dinner. During the press conference, the Presidentspoke about the friendship and economic ties between our two countries:
Costa Rica shows the benefits of trade that is free and fair. Over the last few years, under the Central America Free Trade Agreement, our trade with Costa Rica has doubled, creating more jobs for people in both of our countries. Our partnerships are creating more opportunities for small businesses and entrepreneurs, including young people and women. As I told President Chinchilla, the United States will continue to be your partner as Costa Rica modernizes its economy so that you're attracting more investment and creating even more trade and more jobs.
President Obama today attended a forum on Inclusive Economic Growth and Development at the Old Customs House in San Jose. Speaking with business leaders, the President addressed the issues of security and economic growth before taking questions:
I've been interviewed several times during the course of my travels both in Mexico and Central America, and I've emphasized that although I understand why there's been a great focus over the last several years on security issues — security is important. It's very hard to create a strong economy when people are personally feeling insecure. There's been a lot of emphasis on immigration, and I understand why that is. Obviously it's of great importance to this region and to the United States. We shouldn't lose sight of the critical importance of trade and commerce and business to the prospects both for Costa Rica, the United States, and the entire hemisphere.
The United States considers our trading relationships with CAFTA countries, with Mexico, to be of enormous importance. When you look at the scale of business that's being done currently, it's creating jobs in the United States, it's creating jobs here. And what we want to do is to find ways that we can continue to enhance that relationship, how we can get ideas from this region and find ways in which we can improve and foster small business development, medium-sized business development, make this entire region more competitive.


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An American teacher was shot and killed today in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, a year after U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed during an attack at the U.S. consulate there.
Ronnie Smith was gunned down this afternoon while jogging, Peter Hodge, the headmaster at the International Benghazi School, where Smith taught chemistry, told ABC News. Smith was 33, he said.
"Why they would pick on him, there's no reason for it," Hodge said. "The students themselves -- obviously shocked, upset, crying, helping each other, supporting each other."
Smith, who had worked at the school for about a year and a half, was a "really nice, sociable friendly teacher," adored by colleagues and students, Hodge said.
"Whenever we needed help, he would help us with whatever we need –- advice, studies, anything," Abu Baker, 16, whom Smith tutored, told ABC News. "He was an amazing guy. He was really funny. He had the most amazing sense of humor."
The White House said President Obama was briefed this morning on the killing, and the State Department said it had been in touch with Smith's family. The FBI is investigating the incident, although it is unclear whether Smith was targeted because he was American.
"We are following events closely, and at this point no individual or group has claimed responsibility," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters today. "We look to the Libyan government to thoroughly investigate this killing."
Smith was shot after a black SUV apparently pulled up behind him, Hodge said. Libyan television today broadcast images of Smith's body.
Smith's students and others shared their memories and spoke of their despair using the Twitter hashtags #ThankYouSmith and #MrSmithMemories.
im not gonna say things happen for a reason or everything's gonna be okay because this is not okay we lost an amazing teacher and friend (1)— yomna ? (@yzentani) December 5, 2013
he was special and he always will be. we all considered him as one of our closest friends and his death has affected us greatly (2)— yomna ? (@yzentani) December 5, 2013
Smith's wife, Anita, and young son Housea lived full-time in Benghazi but had returned for the winter holiday a few days ago, Hodge said. Smith, a fluent Arabic speaker, was expected to join them at the end of this week, he said.
Smith left school today for a couple of hours to go for a jog, Hodge said. Fitness was important to Ronnie, and he shared that with his Libyan students, often leading exercises with them after school, he said.
But today he was alone on his run through the neighborhood near the school when he was killed, according to Hodge.
"I think it was an opportunist, someone who just happened to see him there," he said. "There's no way they could have known he would be there at that time."
Three other Americans were teaching at the International Benghazi School, which has 650 students from kindergarten through high school--the majority Libyan, Hodge said.
The expats have generally felt safe in Benghazi, Hodge said.
Smith, Hodge said, was in the country because he believed in the possibility of change there and in the lives of the children he taught.
"He was dedicated. He always put the students first," Hodge said. "He wanted to make a difference. And he did."
Since Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was toppled in 2011, the security situation in Libya has deteriorated, with armed militias controlling large swathes of the country.
"It's a very good situation as far as education is concerned," Hodge said. "It's a very sad situation as far as security situation is concerned."
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So addressing the question above, why ARE you still tanking?
Do you ever stop to think about it? Maybe wonder about the purpose and reason for why it is that you do what you do? Maybe you should take an afternoon to consider it, you know, head over to a nearby beach and sit on a rock outcropping and listen to the waves go in and out while the sun goes down and ponder why it is that you're choosing to tank in a virtual environment with pixelated monsters and rewards.
Or, you know, you could not.
I think that's it's a question that we all eventually face.
It usually comes at one of those "I'm so tired of doing this," phases that most of us go through if we've been tanking for a long time.
Eventually, you start to wonder why you put yourself through all that hassle to be the best tank you can be for a whole bunch of strangers when you look around the raid and it seems (to you) that almost nobody else is putting in even half of the effort that you are.
Tanks usually end up feeling more responsible for the raid than they actually are. It's like the position of safeguarding their virtual lives saddles you with the feeling of responsibility that you're not sure you wanted but now that you have it, you'll be damned if you drop the ball.
So you do your research, figure out the boss fights and how to min/max your gear, reforgings and talent trees to give your raid the best chance of success. You learn to be a leader, learn to explain what it is you need and when you need it to your raid or party. You spend your time trying to figure out what the best way to transmogrify your gear is so that your raid feels more comforted by your presence and feels confident in you as their meatshield (I recommend the tier 4!).
You do all this because you care. You do it because you feel like you owe it to someone to be the best you can be when you're tanking.
Or you do it because you find it fun and amusing.
Or you do it because you want that extra challenge, that little frisson that responsibility can give you.
So, why are you tanking?
You should ask yourself this question.
And if you come up with an answer, you should let me know, share with the rest of us.
There might be those among us who feel like they don't have an answer and you can help them regain their lost faith by sharing yours.
That can be your good deed for the day.


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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Latest contenders for the November elections: Scottsville businessman Denny King, who ran unsuccessfully for Albemarle School Board in 2003, announces his intent to elbow out two-term Supervisor Lindsay Dorrier, who plans to seek re-election. And Charlottesville attorney Jennifer McKeever kicks off a run March 6 for one of three seats up for grabs on City Council.
Best news for Jefferson School: Charlottesville announces the Jefferson School General Partnership and the appointment of 12 members, including City Councilors Kendra Hamilton and Julian Taliaferro, former mayor Bitsy Waters, and attorney Steve Blaine, who will lead the fundraising and chart the course of preservation for the historic school.
Best news for Hampton University: The journalism school of the student newspaper-confiscating college wins re-accreditation by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Media following staff resignations and interference by the university administration.
Gustiest: March 5 winds cause at least six brush fires and down lines on Earlysville and Georgetown roads.
Worst fire: Two young men are killed in a Farmville house fire early March 3: Byron Jamerson, 21, a 2003 Albemarle High graduate, and Ed Cunningham, a Longwood University senior from Appomattox.
Worst weekend shooting: March 2 gunfire on Prospect Avenue leaves a 17-year-old boy wounded and police looking for a dark-colored SUV.
Worst herpes results: Six Virginia horses have tested positive for equine herpes virus, but, so far, the malady hasn't turned up in Albemarle.
Best trip to the dentist: More than 30 local dentists have signed up to provide care to low-income adults through the Community Dental Program, an alliance between the Charlottesville Albemarle Dental Society, Monticello Area Community Action Agency, and the Charlottesville Free Clinic, the latter having received a generous grant from a W. Alton Jones offshoot, the Blue Moon Fund.
Latest Keith Woodard acquisition: The owner of three buildings on the Downtown Mall since 2003 who's clashed with the Board of Architectural Review (which likes 9-story buildings until someone attempts to put one on the Mall) has acquired McIntire Business Park at the corner of McIntire Road and Harris Street for $10 million, according to a Brian McNeill story in the Daily Progress.
Best buddies of the Charlottesville High Orchestra: Dave Matthews Band, John Grisham, and Boyd Tinsley dig deep to help the orchestra raise $320,000 to play at the prestigious Heritage Music Festival in London, as do many other less well-heeled citizens, Matt Deegan reports in the DP. The high school band is within $30,000 of its goal.
Second-best seed for the ACC tourney: Virginia trails UNC to take the number-two spot in Tampa and play the winner of the Duke-NC State game March 9.
Best news for high-def TV owners: Comcast adds nine HD channels for digital cable subscribers March 6, including local stations WVIR, WAHU, and WVAW.
Most like September 2001: The Dow Jones industrial average nosedives February 27, dropping 416.02 points in one day, the largest loss since 9/11.
Longest deliberations: A jury takes 10 days to find VP Dick Cheney's former chief of staff Scooter Libby guilty of obstruction, perjury, and lying to the FBI.
Most miffed donor: William & Mary loses a $12 million pledge because the state-sponsored school removed cross from the Wren Chapel, and the peeved pledger didn't like it one little bit.


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When Charles Woodson returned to the Raiders in May, he said he was hoping to get his old No. 24 jersey from Tracy Porter, who was assigned the number when he signed with the Raiders in April.
Now Woodson has succeeded in getting No. 24. And Porter doesn't sound particularly happy about it.
Porter wrote on Twitter that the No. 24 jersey had been "taken" from him, putting the word "taken" in all capital letters, to emphasize that it was neither given nor purchased.
Well you Raiders fans...your guy has 24. It was TAKEN from me and given to him. #congrats.....too funny how this biz "works"😂—
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Porter did add that he's not mad, but he also suggested that he doesn't think the uniform number situation was handled appropriately.
Not mad at all...it's just the principle and the way it was handled.....said my piece, now back to football.—
♌Tracy Porter♌ (@TracyPorter) July 24, 2013
Woodson is a generous man who has given millions of dollars to charity, so it would be surprising if he were so stingy that he wouldn't give Porter anything for the No. 24 jersey. But that seems to be what Porter is saying.


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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) have signed an agreement to help fight the distribution of child abuse material on the Internet.
The memorandum of understanding (MoU) aims to identify and remove websites with illegal child abuse material more efficiently.
"The AFP works closely with a wide network of international and Australian partners to keep prohibited materials off the Internet," Michael Phelan, AFP deputy commissioner, said in a statement.
"All appropriate measures are taken to ensure that law enforcement authorities are in a better position to stop the exploitation of children and child sex crimes, and this MoU is yet another example of that shared commitment."
ACMA deputy chair Richard Bean said ACMA is one of the most effective frontline agencies to deal with online content which depicts child sexual abuse material.
"Each and every item of child abuse material that is removed from the Internet means a real reduction in the re-victimisation of the children depicted and the number of families inadvertently exposed to deeply disturbing content," he said.
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|Engine Specification
|Cylinder displacement
|1.3 cu.inch / 21.7 cmü
|Power output
|0.8 hp / 0.6 kW
|Maximum power speed
|7800 rpm
|Fuel tank volume
|10.14 fl oz / 0.3 litre
|Fuel consumption
|575 g/kWh
|Idling speed
|2800 rpm
|Spark plug
|Electrode gap
|0.02 " / 0.5 mm
|Transmission Data
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|Knife Length
|23 inch / 59 cm
|Teeth opening
|1.1 " / 28 mm
|Cutting speed
|4050 cut/min


text: A relative weeps during the funeral of French paratrooper Mohamed Legouad, killed this month by Mohamed Merah. Two other French troopers were murdered and four people at a Jewish school. Laurent Cipriani/AP hide caption toggle caption Laurent Cipriani/AP The Two-Way Al Jazeera Receives Video Of French Shootings, Won't Air Footage March 27, 2012 Al Jazeera receives an edited copy of the murders of French soldiers and four people, including children, at a Jewish school. The network has decided not to air the tape and will not share it, saying it doesn't meet ethics standards.


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My uncle used to interfere with me when I was a child. Now, after getting married, I have cut off ties with him and I no longer visit him or his wife and children. The problem is that my grandmother lives with him and now she is incapacitated. I have not visited her for two years because I want to avoid seeing him. What is the ruling on that?.
Praise be to Allaah.
We are very saddened by the situation in which many Muslims
are today, and we hear of things that those who came before us would never
have imagined they would hear. What sort of father or uncle interferes with
one of his mahrams?
If your uncle has repented sincerely from what he did and
regrets it, in this case it is not permissible for you to cut off ties with
him; rather what is required is to uphold ties with him and be on good terms
with him. The one who repents from a sin is like the one who did not commit
a sin, and repentance from any sin, no matter how great, is valid.
But if he is still persisting in his misguidance and
deviation, then it is your right to shun him until he gives up his evil
But your grandmother has nothing to do with what happened and
you have to maintain ties with her and treat her kindly. The fact that you
do not want to see your uncle does not give you an excuse for not visiting
her and upholding ties with her.
It is possible to you to visit her whilst avoiding seeing
him, or to limit your relationship with him to saying salaams to him only,
or you can find times when he is away from home and visit your grandmother
then. Or there may be other solutions that you can think about in order to
uphold your ties of kinship.
See also the answer to question no.
And Allah knows best.


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NCAA Game Night: 3-9-13
Cornell Big Red 4 @ Princeton Tigers 2
(ECAC Tournament: Cornell wins best-of-3 series, 2-0)
D/W Kirill Gotovets, COR: Did not play
Season totals: 22 GP, 0-0-0, +1, 12 PIM
Gotovets was in the lineup on Friday night, but sat on Saturday as Cornell eliminated Princeton.
Harvard Crimson 1 @ Dartmouth Big Green 4
(ECAC Tournament: Best-of-3 series tied, 1-1)
F Brian Hart, HAR: 0-0-0, E, 0 PIM, 0 SOG
Season totals: 28 GP, 4-13-17, +2, 10 PIM
Hart was scoreless a game after scoring the winning goal on Friday. The teams play a series-deciding game on Sunday afternoon.
No. 5 North Dakota 1 @ No. 10 Minnesota State Mavericks 2 (OT)
F Brendan O'Donnell, UND: 0-1-1, E, 0 SOG
Season totals: 23 GP, 1-6-7, -3, 16 PIM
Brendan O'Donnell was back in the UND lineup and had an assist, but his team lost in overtime to the Mavericks, 2-1. UND will fall one point shy of a shared conference regular season title (SCSU, Minnesota).
No. 2 Minnesota Golden Gophers 5 @ Bemidji State Beavers 1
G Adam Wilcox, MIN: Win, 23 saves on 24 shots
Season totals: 35 GP, 23-6-5, 1.85 GAA, .924 sv%, 3 SO
Just a freshman, Wilcox backstopped the Gophers to a share of the WCHA regular season title as Minnesota beat Bemidji State, 5-1, on Saturday. The Gophers' win, combined with a St. Cloud State loss in Wisconsin, made Minnesota co-champions.
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The following brief comments, largely based on or taken from material in "The First Fifty Years", are intended merely as a reminder, in convenient form, of some of the more important aspects of the Firm's history, growth, and professional standing.
More than 56 years ago, on March 4, 1895, the Firm began the practice of public accounting in a small office at No. 2 Nassau Street, New York City. Its two founding partners, Charles Waldo Haskins and Elijah Watt Sells, had first met two years previously upon being designated as experts to a Congressional Commission created to investigate the operating methods of the Executive departments
at Washington and to recommend such improvements and economies as could be made "without injury to the public service."
The two years of the investigation ended in March 1895. It had been successful from every standpoint. Both the Congressional
Commission (the Dockery Commission) and the public press testified to the ability and high standing of the two experts. The Chicago Daily Record referred to them as "the ablest experts to be found in the accounting profession***."
The Commission's two full-time investigators had previously
had extensive experience in financial pursuits. It was this experience, coupled with their obvious ability and high character, that led to their selection by the Commission.
Charles Waldo Haskins began the public practice of accounting in New York City on his own account in 1886, following a period of private employment. During the next seven years, he held, incident to his professional work, the offices of Secretary of the Manhattan Trust Company and Secretary of the Old Dominion Construction Company, as well as appointments as Comptroller of the Central of Georgia Railway, Comptroller of the Ocean Steamship Company, Comptroller of the Chesapeake & Western Railroad, and Receiver
of the Augusta Mining and Investment Company. He was 43 years of age when he entered into partnership with Mr. Sells. He died 8 years later.


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In a telling interview with the erudite Philadelphia radio program The Angelo Cataldi Show, Barack Obama said he would rather be Dr. J than president. (Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, gave some speech comparing herself to Rocky Balboa while wearing a fuchsia blazer.) Feminist hero Heidi Montag of The Hills announced her endorsement of John McCain, and her on-again boyfriend Spencer Pratt immediately shot back that he didn't think "anyone cares who Heidi Montag votes for." Well shit, Spencer, you know better than anyone that at least as many people care about Heidi's political stances as the fact that John McCain thinks Muqtada al Sadr is the one who came begging for a ceasefire, and that's way more than the number of people who care about the release of some 2003 Bush Administration memo authorizing torture-esque torture strategies, and even that is wayyyy more than the number of people who will sit still long enough to watch Errol Morris' new movie so...where was I? OMG EVILDOERS TRIED TO BLOW UP DISNEYLAND! Glamocracy's Megan and I are soooooo glad they didn't succeed.
MOE: Okay dammit, I can't find that John McCain clip. I'm refusing to take meds today because I've got all this work to do later, and I'm all over the place. On one side of me this woman on Fox News is saying we're not in recession, that the media and a vast Hugo Chavez-led left-wing conspiracy has formulated this whole con to get people to hate business and the free market, and I seriously want to reach into the TV and strangle her. Also, bitch is so young she looks like Enron collapsed before her first Purity Ball. Also, and this is shallow, but the hair: needs a blow out. Who are you, Southern-accented apologist for the plutocracy? Maybe you should spend a little time reading business news before you go on airing your conspiracy theories!!!
MOE: But anyway John McCain went on Letterman and made some funny cracks (and some nine-times-warmed-over ones but no one seems to be clipping those) and meanwhile Barack Obama has been bro-ing down with the sports talk radio guys on Philadelphia's WIP.
MEGAN: Do you mean this clip? The thing I hate about candidates on late night talk shows is that I don't really need to know that they can be "funny" anymore. They're just sort of not.
After Obama spoke about former Sixers legend Julius Erving - Dr. J - being a boyhood idol, Cataldi asked whether Obama would rather be the president or Dr. J.
"The Doctor," said Obama. "I think any kid growing up, if you got a chance to throw down the ball from the free throw line, that's better than just about anything."
MOE: can you ask her to get timestamps if it's too long
MOE: because the clips are really long
MEGAN: So, not that I know anything about basketball, but how soon until a Penna NBA team gives him that chance to throw some free throws?
MOE: The Sixers. Does Pittsburgh have a bball team? I'm thinking. Pittsburgh...Tribune-Review, Steelers, Warhol...can't think of an NBA team. Although if they have one, you know some dude out there in internet world is thinking to himself, "She's kidding, right? TELL ME SHE'S KIDDING." Also, incidentally, Obama, in agreement with Shepard Smith, does not think we need Congress investigating steroids, and he picked three out of the Final Four, although I don't know when that was. But...I feel like this conversation is getting so serious. Could we maybe get a link up in here to bring some levity to this terribly somber conversation?
MEGAN: I think the thing I'm still laughing at is the clip Jon Stewart showed last night of Rep Emmanuel Cleaver telling the oil comps that they approval ratings were lower than Congress's, meaning they were really "down low." I can't believe no one else thought that was funny.
MOE: Oh yeah the John Yoo torture memo, not to be mistaken for the John Woo torture memo. What's torture? You thought it had a pretty nebulous definition right?
The victim must experience intense pain or suffering of the kind that is equivalent to the pain that would be associated with serious physical injury so severe that death, organ failure or permanent damage resulting in a loss of significant body functions will likely result
MEGAN: Oh, God, my replacement CH dude, Spencer Ackerman, sent me something about that this morning. I can't do torture on an empty stomach, and the MSNBC people spent 10 minutes talking about pancakes at the same time.
MOE: I didn't see John Stewart last night. Dumb question: what is the fucking point of bringing in these former CEOs and shaming them in hearings no one watches for no discernible reason? Do they actually ask good questions ever? Can former CEOs even answer questions? What do they even know?
MEGAN: They make the news, Moe!
MEGAN: There's no other reason. Cameras come, their faces end up on TV and they get to be seen unloading on the boogeymen. That's it. There's no other purpose.
MOE: Oh so also, how do you inflict pain commensurate with organ failure, without actually causing organ failure? Also, how do they know what organ failure feels like?
MOE: Is that in the memo? Because that wasn't in the Times story.
MEGAN: You know what's sick? That was my first thought, too.
MEGAN: Like, how does one quantify the pain of organ failure?
MEGAN: And, which organ?
MEGAN: Like, can your brain fail?
MOE: Yeah like ...appendicitis hurt like a bitch, but is that even an important enough organ?
MOE: Appendicitis can't possibly hurt as much as kidney failure, can it?
MOE: And why do paper cuts hurt so much?
MEGAN: Stepping on glass hurts like a motherfucker. Yes, I used to take my shoes off after a night of clubbing in Boston.
MOE: And would it be more or less humane if they could devise some sort of way of artificially instilling deep emotional pain like your first really evil college boyfriend?
MEGAN: Oh, God, I mean, if they did that to me, I doubt I could confess to anything between the crying.
MEGAN: Oh, dude, MSNBC just showed some tennis player muffing a serve and then beating himself about his head with his racket until he bled.
MOE: Oh man I have done that before.
MOE: Maybe not with the bleeding.
MOE: I am to tennis as Obama is to bowling
MEGAN: I'm to bowling like Obama is to bowling and tennis, too. Pretty much all sports with balls I suck at. I can ski pretty well, though.
MOE: Even Wii tennis, which is the really disgraceful thing. Anyway, there's a bunch of shit going on that I feel duty-bound to try and approach today, namely because of this story in the Washington Post about all the lonely unwatched Iraq war documentaries.
Perhaps you can feel it in the strange way that the war is beginning to feel increasingly like a distant, historical event in two very different films. In Ellen Spiro's "Body of War" (co-produced and co-directed by Phil Donahue), video of the October 2002 congressional debate on the Iraq war resolution has that familiar-but-foreign quality of things now slipping into the near past. Politicians hector each other, with faces less wrinkled, hair less gray than they have today. Names that were once so familiar you felt like they were family (what happened to Phil Gramm?) are slipping into the realms of amnesia. The urgency of the threat of weapons of mass destruction — announced by the president and parroted by the Congress — feels odd, too, not just because no WMDs were found but because the very foundations of the war have shifted so many times over the past half-decade.
MEGAN: Phil Gramm retired from Congress and uses his name to bring attention to conservative tax groups. I think he might do some lawyer-y stuff, too.
MEGAN: I mean, I think to a great degree that's why most Americans want to end the war but are easily distracted by the economy and the elections and the sale at the mall to the point where they don't do anything about it other than express their opinion to pollsters.
MEGAN: It's the perfect PR strategy — make sure that virtually nothing changes for the vast majority of people except for those who "volunteered" and no one will care because most Americans are inherent self-obsessed and selfish.
MOE: Okay and five years later McCain gets shit brazenly wrong on the sequence of events that led to... well, whatever is happening in Basra right now, which again, I can describe only in terms of "Shiite majority" and "names I haven't gotten to the point of being to spell without thinking." There is some ceasefire, arranged in Iran with Moqtada al Sadr, and McCain is acting like Sadr was begging for it when really, hello, Sadr is in Iran, what does he care?
MOE: And meanwhile Fox News is reporting something on vicious killer bees.
MEGAN: Also, Sadr asked for it because it makes him look better and gives him more political power.
MOE: And killer Botox
MOE: And killer third graders.
MEGAN: Oh, Jesus, killer bees? Again.
MEGAN: The third graders thing is all over MSNBC. They said the teacher's whole class "mutineed" as though they were on the HMS Bounty.
MOE: And killer swarthy Jamaicans
MOE: Bees!
MEGAN: Wait, so, like, aren't the other killer bees African?
MOE: Okay you know what? I think I am going to have to succumb to the adderall today. All the static is making me despondent. Oh, and we haven't even heard about Hillary's little Rocky stunt! There is this picture on the front page of two guys sitting on a dirt road in Zimbabwe listening to the shortwave radio for news about the elections. It looks pleasant there, and sunny. Not taking meds makes me want to sit on a dirt road and listen to the radio for a little while.
MEGAN: Actually, that would be cool.
MEGAN: Zimbabwe seems like it was a lovely place before Mugabe decided he didn't want to leave office
MEGAN: But it looks like he may actually leave office this time, so maybe we can hope that unlike the opposition leader in Kenya — who beat the Powers That Be and took office in reform but got addicted to power and started a little ethnic cleansing to keep it — the new guy in Zimbabwe will actually be good for the country.
MOE: I'm starting to totally get why Obama would be Dr. J.
MEGAN: No one scrutinizes Dr J's pastor or asks if he's black enough or too black.
MEGAN: I mean, that last part is really awful, now that I think about it.
MOE: Ha ha classic Obama basketball footage. Isn't the Internet grand?
MEGAN: I sat in on an interview yesterday that an interracial radio producer friend of mine conducted with an interracial professor who studies race issues, and they talked about the weird humiliation of calling yourself multiracial, or of being identified more by how you look than how you feel. It was like being in a conversation I had no business being in and it was fascinating.
MEGAN: And the professor mentioned that in surveys (racist) people will talk about how difficult it will be for kids of such unions because they know better than to talk about how the unions themselves make them (the racists) uncomfortable.
MEGAN: Which is an awkward segue to the Hillary backer who says that us white people just like Obama because he's "articulate" because we don't know anything about "articulate" black people. Oh, and the backer is African-American Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver.
MOE: Yeah racism is weird. That's about all I have to say today. I gave my big race speech yesterday.
MEGAN: Ah, well, I'll keep going.
MEGAN: Or not, I am sort of inarticulate in my rage against his statements.
MOE: Wait, also, I want to rant a second about some commenter who hated on me for being an anti-intellectual.
MEGAN: Ok, seriously, there's the laugh line for the day. You're an anti-intellectual?
MOE: Yeah and having something against Beckett.
MOE: I wish Beckett had written a novel from the perspective of a blogger.
MOE: No blogger would have the attention span to read it but the first 10 pages would have us all in tears anyway.
MEGAN: Wait, so, if you don't like Beckett, you're an anti-intellectual?
MOE: I do like Beckett, that's what was confusing.
MOE: Then the commenter admonished me for not reading enough and I was like, LADY, IF YOU CAN'T FUCKING FOLLOW MY SENTENCES TO DETERMINE MY ACTUAL MEANING, MAYBE YOU ARE THE ONE WHO NEEDS TO READ MORE.
MEGAN: You know what, who reads enough?
MEGAN: Nobody reads enough.
MOE: I know a few people. Insufferable ones mostly.
MEGAN: Ok, maybe I do, too, but a very small number of them.
MEGAN: But, really, even those people tend to read a lot in a genre.
MEGAN: I like literature. I like poetry. Big biographies, non fiction thought books? I have to force myself and I already work the rest of the day.


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