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In Crawford,Tx an 11 year old girl was gang raped by 18 adult men. I call them adult men because I'm sorry, if you are a young man(age 16) and you willingly rape an 11 year old girl, you are now an adult.
What makes me angry is the fact that there are honestly people playing the race card. An 11 year old girl has been brutally raped, and people are just so selfish and self-important that they just HAVE to remove the responsibility that is firmly on the correct shoulders, and put it on the girl's shoulders.
An 11 year old.Because when a rape/molestation occurs, we blame the victim. It's an easy course of action, right? Because one little girl could not only turn on a group of 18 men, but sit there and allow herself to be treated in such a manner.
"But, she was dressed like an older woman. It wasn't their fault they thought she was older."
WTF?! She's 11, not 21. Yes, if you slap makeup and mini-skirts on an 11 year old.....
She'll still look like a little kid, or more kid than adult. There is a roundness in the face, a narrowness of the hips which should be a hint "This girl is not fully mature physically, walk the eff away."
But, I'll give the people this. Alright, so she looked older than her real age.
So, when does it ever appear to be a great idea to take ANY woman who dresses "unseemly" and do something like that to her?
Here's a hint: Never.
If the thought occurs to you or to even to your friends "Hey, it's a ho...let's all have our way with her.", please, just walk away. Because unless a grown woman(that is a woman who is 18 and older) gives consent to EVERY person there, it's rape.
Maybe, as an ex-friend said, my views on child rape/sex and rape in general are harsh, but if consent was not given(or not capable of being given in the case of the mentally infirm or children) then it's rape.
Plain and simple. What really disgusts me is that an actual town is being ripped apart by this, because many of the family(and friends) are more worried about the rapists being "affected negatively" or "harmed" than the hell that's been unleashed on that little girl.
Because it is very much hell they've unleashed on(and in her). If any of them have STDs, she will have them because of the tears in her vagina(and other mucus lined places) leave her open to that. The fear that she will have of Black men in general will be so bad, she might attempt ways to avoid them. Her view on herself will change, mutate even, to that view that her molesters held: that she is just her vagina, something to be used and then thrown away. She is a disposable girl.
When and if she goes to school, she will be bullied because people rather lash out at the victim instead of help. Those who will try or want to help, will have a long road ahead of them. She might regress a bit in behavior. Night terrors, panic attacks, and fits of rage will be a daily problem. And daily she'll have to wake up with that loathing inside of her. She may say or hint at the storm within, or she might silently suffer through it.
Her view on men in general will shift, causing her to believe they are to be feared and hated. I could go on and on, but those personality changes and such will depend on how she was and how she is now.
Her only salvation will be medical care, therapy(group and individual), and love/patience/understanding from family and friends.
I would love it if the newspapers and news stations would stop painting her as some type of lolita. She was 11. The way she was dressed, I am sad to say, did nothing to affect her rapists. It is only a method of justification so they can sleep at night. Rapists don't go after a woman or a man from horniness, they go after them because they appear weak. And like the predator they are, they attack, not caring what happens.
And I would love it even more if the Black parishners would stop sitting here and acting so damned shocked. Child molestation and rape occurs everywhere, from the barrio to the penthouses. They all depend on someone being victimized and people keeping secrets. Yes, it is awful that a minority is being known for harming someone, but you know what? That was THEIR action that THEY have to take responsibility for. Not the entire black "race". So get over yourselves please.
And that Quarnell X guy? He disgusts me. To sit there and blame the victim doesn't make you a man. It makes you an idiot facilitating a group of cowards. So excuse me if I don't call you "brother".
And the woman in Florida who wants to enforce a dress code because the 11-year "dressed like a 21 year old prostitute" needs to slow her roll. First, dressing like a "prostitute" does not mean "please rape me" it might mean "I don't have fashion sense" or "I really think I look cute!" but not "rape me". I don't know if you get off on blaming the victim....
But stop it.
It's easy to blame the victim, even if she looks like she "deserves it". But rape is rape. And no woman or girl should be told she was to blame, she brought it on herself, or that she deserved it. To look in a person's eyes shows a lack of compassion and character that is on par with Pol Pot.
It's interesting that I'm making a Pol Pot reference in a subject like this, but I feel strongly about it.
Because that type of crap happens all the time.
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No, I don't think your reactions to rape are too strong. I read the article about this too and the language implied that the men were somehow victimized..."how could they be drawn into this" (as if they had no control, "this will haunt them all their lives" (those poor victims) "where was the girl's parents" (oh, now her parent is to blame?) and mentions of how she dressed.
I don't know anything about the race card in this case. I do know that the "race card" has been played in cases of Muslims gang-raping non-Muslims..."it's a racist lie" and all that.
More importantly, even if she does dress like an adult, um, it's not legal to rape an adult either!
The article I read was in the freaking New York Times. To include the quotes from this victim-blaming town, it should have been an editorial about how this girl was brutally raped and the town is more concerned about the trauma that the rapists went through. It's a sad commentary.
It's good to know we have no control over our actions. Some day when I finally snap and go on a killing spree, I'm going to make all of my targets pedophiles. I'll be no more able to control my desire to murder than they are able to control their urges. Here's to you sex offenders! Enjoy waht little life you have left. If only we had free will I'd be able to keep myself from murdering all of you, but no such luck.
John C., I've known men who were raped nine ways from Tuesday - usually by other men, but sometimes by women. I have known plenty of men whose lives were destroyed by rape - made worse, because they did not have anyone to turn to for support and the shame of not being able to stop it from happening. Old people, infants and small children are often the victims of rape. Were they just being too sexy too?
Yes, someone is to blame when rape happens. The rapist and no one else. Babies and small children do not do anything in the least sexy. IMO, boys and girls are raped at about the same rate, however, IMO shame keeps boys from reporting it as often as girls do. Nature does make a person a rapist. Rape is a crime of power and aggression not excess of sexual desire. It is from a desire to completely dominate the other person.
Besides, if your tastes run towards women, there are plenty of willing women out there. From what I can see, women are more willing than ever to have casual sex. I don't really get all this "hooking up" stuff, but there are women out there who have sex like in the old days (back in the 80s) as readily as we used to say "yes" to would you like to dance? I don't get it, but that's the way it is. She may not be pretty, or slim, or young or wealthy or if you're really not much yourself, especially clean, but they are out there. All women really want is to be treated nice - younger women may want money, etc, but once a woman is headed down the slope (of not being so pretty and young) and she isn't a millionaire, she hasn't held together like Demi Moore, or she wasn't treated that great by that Tom Cruise type or he dumped her for a younger, prettier model, she just wants to be treated nice. If a guy of a pleasant personality and a holding a job can't find a woman, he just needs to expand his possibilities and he will find someone. I don't buy that nature drives men to rape at all. We're not dogs, we can control ourselves.
Nature certainly doesn't drive people to rape children, elderly people and infants. And yet, they are often the victims of rape - probably even more often than adult women, because they are so helpless. An adult woman can fight back or might even carry a gun or other weapon. It's rare to find the baby or old granny who knows and is able to execute tae kwan do. I know more people who have been raped as children than as adults. Rape is the fault of the rapist. End of story. It is never, ever not in a million years the victim's fault.
Nature says when you got to go, you got to go, do people normally whip it out and pee in public? Would it be okay if they did? The need to use the bathroom is a strong, biological urge and yet almost 100% of people do not drop trowel in public. Animals do all the time. It's a strong biological urge. Millions upon millions of years of evolution say when you have to go, go, and yet people control this and they teach their children to, as well.
People can control their biological urges and IMO the vast majority of them do. You wouldn't pee on someone's couch, don't rape them either. It's as simple as that.
Also, John D (and I have to admit I'm adding this now because I started my last response after I had only read half of your last post), I don't quite think it's accurate to say that our behaviors are a result of our feelings. I think it's more accurate to say that our behaviors and feelings are a result of how nature operates. Sometimes thoughts precede actions, and sometimes actions precede thoughts. I do think they are intertwined phenomena, but assuming that thoughts cause actions is, I think, the fallacy that people make in believing in freewill. They believe our control over reality is one sided; that a thought originates in their head and becomes reality through their actions. But thoughts don't just appear in our heads out of nowhere; they are the results of our experiences.
I can't simply decide that I will behave in a completely novel way; that thought has to come from somehwere; that behavior has to come from somewhere. It has to be caused, and since I am not the maker of reality, it would not have been caused by me.
Grace, that really wasn't a good point at all. Women don't rape men for their attire partially because of the physical strength disparity, but mostly because women do not have the samed programmed reactions for sex that men have. It has never been an evolutionary imparative for human women to be sexually aggressive. What would be the point of evolving that mechanism in a creature that cannot procreate for at least nine months at a time? It's a really silly assertion you just made.
Hypothetically, if a bunch of women and a bunch of men went around topless, which do you think would cause the bigger reaction? It's a no-brainer to answer that, obviously, but why? It's because men are full of testerone, and other mechanisms which have evolved to make them react more strongly. You are trying to assert that laws should be equivalent for men and women because men and women are the same, but we are obviously not the same, and realistic laws would have to reflect that.
As for you, Noah, you are misinterpretting, or jsut not reading thoroughly. No one here has said that the rape was the girl's fault. I'm actually saying it's nobody's fault. There are causes to why it happens, but there is not blame to be placed because humans are just machines that operate according to principal. The girl had no real choice of how to dress, just as the men had no real choice of whether to rape her. I know that sounds horrific to most people, but until you can explain how human thoughts interrupts causality, and is not just a result of it, I'll be sticking to my logic.
John D, your logic does not hold water, to me. How can determinism not be absolute? Do you not think that every interraction has an equivalent reaction? Do you think energy and matter are just created and destroyed at random? There is no evidence for that, and humans have been looking for it for a very long time, because it is the crux of whether or not we have freewill, which most people would liek to believe we do. However, there is plenty, plenty, plenty of evidence that things act causally; that every effect has a cause, so how is it that human thoughts and actions could defy that principal. None of our actions are motivated by us. They are motivated by nature, of which we are made, and which may have existed infinitely longer than us. All my words, thoughts and actions are causally pre-determined. The precursors to them have existed for much longer than I have, if not forever. Whether or not I ever rape a girl is already determined. And I may hope that I never do, but I will not be able to change whether or not it happens. If the movements of nature add up to me raping a girl, I will have no more choice about it than she does. It's the same for everybody, and everything they do or don't do. I think people are only able to hate and place blame ebcause they don't really understand that 'every effect has a cause' means that we don't have control over our actions. We are not the prime mover, only parts already in motion.
Wow...just wow. I've never understood rape in general, but the idea that an underage girl could be in any way responsible?
I'd put a bullet in these men if the 11 year old was consenting to the sex. There is a HUGE difference betweeen a 16 year old girl having sex with her 19 year old boyfriend and what I would consider statutory rape, but rape is rape.
She's 11 years old. If you don't like her clothes, blame her parents, not her. She lives in their house and abides by their rules. As for genetics, men go around topless all the time. Flashing their gleaming, sexy muscles around for everyone to see. And yet, you very seldom hear about these men getting raped - by women or other men.
Somehow the vast majority of gay and straight men and women manage to control their animal urges. And there are laws on women's attire. As a woman, I can't go topless whenever I want like men can. I can't just work out in my yard topless. I can't go to work topless. But men can go topless whenever they like and never have a moments concern about being arrested.
And what about those pants men wear? Oftentimes, when a man bends down, I can not only see some crack, I can see whole bottom. Now, I do not actually find this sexy, but if I did, would it be okay for me to just, you know, take full advantage, because he was showing me his bottom? I mean, he came to my house to work on xyz and he exposed his bottom to me. Obviously, he was sending out a message.
Men go around wearing their pants hanging down with a significant amount of underwear showing. Again, not something that I find sexy, but if I did, would showing me their underpants be a sign they were willing to have sex with me? Because I never show my underpants to anyone unless I'm doing laundry or I have a plan.
By the logic that people cannot control their animal instincts, construction workers should get raped all the time. After all, they go around topless in public where anyone driving by can see their sweaty, half naked (sometimes more if they are wearing ill fitting pants) bodies.
It's just as illogical to say what women (or little girls in the case of 11 year olds) cause rape by what they wear as it is to say that men also deserved to be raped because of what they are wearing or not wearing.
And John, you're right that my arguments here do not hold with what I have often said in other posts. Monica, to fill you in briefly, I am an absolute determinist, which means I beleive in fate, and that it can't be changed by something called "choice," which I think is an invalid concept. I think humans, and everything else, do only what they can do according to the laws of nature, and nothing else. As a result, I do not think humans are responsible for what they do.
However, I sometimes comment on things as if there were such a thing ass choice and moral responsibility because I want people to see how illogical the system is and that, under scrutiny, it breaks down. In this case, I am arguing the counter-perspective of men in society, feeling violated by women, who are complaining of feeling violated by men. To me, it's flipsides of the same coin: the violations of men become the violations of women, become the violations of men, etc etc. But most people cannot see it that way because they cannot understand other people's motivations. I do not think men want to harm women and women want to harm men, but I think it happens, and if you want to purport that we all have choices about it, then you have to be willing to look at addressing both sides of the problem, not just yours and this 11 year-old girl's.
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While it is unlikely that the escalating violence in Gaza will be placed into proper context by United States media, who report on it in the context of Israel's blockade and occupation of Palestinian land, it is also just as unlikely that there will be any meaningful coverage on how Israel justifies bombing civilian infrastructure in Gaza.
Israel decimated the Gaza City office of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, who was elected in the legislative elections in 2006 but later dismissed by President Mahmoud Abbas. He has continued to exercise authority and is a head of state yet, if one saw the headline at the New York Times they would not see a headline explaining how a Gaza Prime Minister's office was bombed. They would see one that read, "Israel Destroys Hamas Prime Minister's Office."
The Times reported spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mark Regev, stated, "Government buildings had been targeted because Hamas 'makes no distinction between its terrorist military machine and the government structure…We have seen Hamas consistently using so-called civilian facilities for the purposes of hiding their terrorist military machine, including weapons."
Under this concept, it is hard to see how Israel would not be able to justify hitting any part of Gaza and killing any person inside or nearby that infrastructure. Saturday morning, according to Haaretz, Israel's air force targeted Gaza's police headquarters, other government buildings and a mosque in Rafah. It also is impossible to see how a cease-fire can be brokered if Israel is going to destroy the offices of political leaders elected in disputed or undisputed Palestinian elections.
The United Nations' fact-finding mission in 2009, after the Gaza conflict that year that left over 1400 Palestinians dead, did not accept Israel's concept of Hamas "supporting infrastructure." The mission found it "particularly worrying" as it "appeared to transform civilians and civilian objects into legitimate targets." This made it possible for Israeli political and military leaders to make it seem like in order to respond to Hamas it had to carry out "disproportionate destruction" and create "maximum disruption in the lives of many people as a legitimate means to achieve not only military but also political goals."
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…As far as attacks on buildings are concerned, the Mission examined the Israeli strikes against the Palestinian Legislative Council building and the Gaza main prison…Both buildings were destroyed and can no longer be used. Statements by Israeli Government and armed forces representatives justified the attacks arguing that political and administrative institutions in Gaza are part of the "Hamas terrorist infrastructure". The Mission rejects this position. It finds that there is no evidence that the Legislative Council building and the Gaza main prison made an effective contribution to military action. On the information available to it, the Mission finds that the attacks on these buildings constituted deliberate attacks on civilian objects in violation of the rule of customary international humanitarian law whereby attacks must be strictly limited to military objectives… [emphasis added]
This indicated Israel had committed a "grave breach of extensive destruction of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly."
It believed four years ago that it was acceptable to strike the office of Ismail Haniyeh. This was a statement the government made claiming it did not need to distinguish between military and civilian targets:
…While Hamas operates ministries and is in charge of a variety of administrative and traditionally governmental functions in the Gaza Strip, it still remains a terrorist organization. Many of the ostensibly civilian elements of its regime are in reality active components of its terrorist and military efforts. Indeed, Hamas does not separate its civilian and military activities in the manner in which a legitimate government might. Instead, Hamas uses apparatuses under its control, including quasi-governmental institutions, to promote its terrorist activity…
Because Israel considers the democratically elected Hamas to be a "terrorist organization," Gaza technically has little in the way of structures for administrative or traditional government functions that could not be characterized in some way as part of Hamas' "terrorist organization." And so, that is why it is not a war crime to Israel to hit an office where he met Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil the day before.
The United States, which provides $150 million in military aid or more each year to Israel, has no problem with this concept justifying the targeting of civilian infrastructure. Deputy national security adviser for strategic communication for US President Barack Obama stated, according to Haaretz, "The Israelis are going to make decisions about their own military tactics and operations. What we want is the same thing the Israelis want, which is an end to the rocket fire coming out of Gaza. We wouldn't comment on specific targeting choices by the Israelis other than to say that we of course always underscore the importance of avoiding civilian casualties. But the Israelis again will make judgments about their military operations."
The mention of "civilian casualties" is a token gesture to a Palestinian people the US is willing allow Israel to continue to subject to a blockade in Gaza and policies of apartheid.
Moreover, Haaretz has reported that Interior Minister Eli Yishai said on Israel's operation in Gaza: "The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages. Only then will Israel be calm for forty years." It is hard not to interpret that as a commitment to further devastate Gaza to force it to submit even more to Israeli dominion.

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On Tuesday, I got to witness a church steepl flying through the air, as you can see from the photo there.
It was the new Pius X steeple in Selinsgrove. The previous steeple had been ripped apart in a storm in July, and this week the new steeple finally went up!
It was pretty cool – I think it's hard to imagine how these kinds of things are built when you don't see them being done -steeples are such big, towering things, we kind of assume they've just always been on top of the building.
So anyway, we got to witness the crane lift the new steeple on top of the building, but before that, we got a look up inside of the new steeple.
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I'm a Canadian immigrant living in the US. Some of you may have concluded this from reading Dan Ernst's introduction of me a couple of weeks ago, but it bears repeating because I think it affects what I think and what I say, especially as I begin to turn my attention in these guest posts to the history of American lawyering and lawyers. Now of course nationality is not destiny, and certainly not everything of mine that you have been or will be reading on this blog is driven or informed by my national origin and/or residency status, but ultimately I do think those things are relevant. Because of who I am, I'm unlike many of my fellow laborers (labourers?) in this particular vineyard of legal history. Not being American, I'm an outsider looking in.
This is part of what Susan talked about in her own context. American lawyers are not any kind of vulnerable group facing debilitating discrimination, but yet I sometimes share Susan's sense of awkwardness in dealing with my own subjects of study. Being a foreign lawyer who's lived in the US for the past 25 years I can relate, but I still do not and cannot identify. There are parts of the American lawyering experience (such as those informed by extreme views of exceptionalism, constitutionalism and/or originalism) that I just don't get, and probably never will. I will always struggle with those as I try to explain them and understand their lawyerly champions and proponents. Race too (at least in the African-American context) challenges me as an area of examination in American lawyering history because, while it's hardly been irrelevant in Canada, it simply has not been as fundamental to the shaping of the Canadian experience or mentality. I will always consider myself at a disadvantage when trying to appreciate the historical plight of African-American lawyers and their struggles to liberate their brothers and sisters from legal and social oppression in this country (much of it, of course, orchestrated by white American lawyers).
At the same time, I think being a Canadian immigrant constitutes a strength that draws me to topics and situations that are often ignored in the standard historiography of American lawyering, such as that is. Reflecting the relatively high profile of indigenous "First Nations" peoples in Canada, I'm naturally drawn to the meager but still remarkable historical record of indigenous lawyering in the United States, both before and after the Trail of Tears. I'm interested in white lawyer in-migrations (from Europe and Canada) and out-migrations (to Canada, Europe, and even Central and South America) that to this point have been underplayed or not considered as interconnected events. As a cultural and perhaps even biological heir of the Loyalists, I'm particularly interested in American lawyers from the 18th century through the 20th who experienced war, loss, and exile north of the border and elsewhere. As an expatriate of a nation whose people still like to think of themselves as peacekeepers, I'm fascinated by the longstanding militarism of American lawyers both at home and abroad. As someone who came into the American "melting pot" from the Canadian "mosaic" I'm intrigued by the ongoing but underemphasized implications of ethnicity in American lawyering, and how the ethnic background of white American lawyers (English, German, Irish, Canadian, Italian, Russian, Jewish etc.) shaped their concerns, attitudes and initiatives over time. Coming from a (Con)federation of powerful provinces, I'm struck by the deep historical regionalism of American lawyering that in my view transcends in both significance and subtlety the North-South and/or East-West divides we tend to limit ourselves to today. Being a citizen of a county whose political spectrum (even now) is left-shifted as compared to the contemporary United States, I'm impressed by the many "lost" American lawyers who campaigned tirelessly for labor and working people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but whose efforts and contributions were largely erased from remembered American legal history after the 1920s and, even moreso, the 1950s. Finally, coming from a national legal educational system that was never as dependent on one law school and one instructional model, I've been almost relieved to recover in the dusty and literally disintegrating records of the forgotten US correspondence law schools (circa roughly 1890-1925) a legal pedagogical counterculture that was, to put it bluntly, far more visionary (not to mention profoundly democratic) than anything Christopher Columbus Langdell ever came up with at Harvard Law School.
Here, then, are potential topics for more posts over the next 10 days or so as I enter my guest blogging home stretch. In writing them, I hope I'll bring to the table (and this blog) the benefits of a different national perspective on the history of American lawyering and lawyers. My intent is not to "singe the king of Spain's beard" (or Uncle Sam's, for that matter), but rather to fill in some historiographical gaps. It's the same intent I bring into my classroom when I talk to my American law students. If I'm lucky, "teaching while Canadian" will turn out to be a help, not a handicap!
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Teaching [American Lawyering History] While Canadian
I'm a Canadian immigrant living in the US. Some of you may have concluded this from reading Dan Ernst's introduction of me a couple of weeks ago, but it bears repeating because I think it affects what I think and what I say, especially as I begin to turn my attention in these guest posts to the history of American lawyering and lawyers. Now of course nationality is not destiny, and certainly not everything of mine that you have been or will be reading on this blog is driven or informed by my national origin and/or residency status, but ultimately I do think those things are relevant. Because of who I am, I'm unlike many of my fellow laborers (labourers?) in this particular vineyard of legal history. Not being American, I'm an outsider looking in.
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I enjoyed very much reading this blog, but I find it revealing that there is no mention of bilingualism and bijuralism and nothing about the role of these two phenomena in shaping Canada's legal cultures. Admittedly, how this may affect our understanding of U.S. legal cultures is not obvious. Conciously or not, however, this gives the impression that, in Canada, most people who take linguistic rights and the specificity of the civil law seriously come from a minority. I hasten to add that in my opinion, the francophone majority in Quebec is often oblivious to bilingualism and anglophone civil law scholarship, just as the anglophone majority in Canada is often oblivious to bilingualism and francophone common law scholarhip. Take the Constitution Act, 1982 and Federal Legislation: both lingusitic versions are official, which means that, if worse comes to worse, the legal norm is expressed in two divergent or even contradictory ways. But the Canadian Bar Association feels confident that a unilingual anglophone justice of the Supreme Court of Canada has the requisite qualifications to interpret federal legislation, however incompetent he\she may be in French, whereas the Quebec Section of the same association disagree with such a position (if memory serves me well). All this to say that linguistic minorities, and the civil law tradition, are often a blind spot of Canadian Legal Scholarship (many works on "Canadian law" skip over Quebec's private law od the legal literature in French).
Here are some questions that these concerns bring to mind in the U.S. context: has there ever been any linguistic rights issues? Did the Civil Law play a more important role there than in England (see the literature on Story, Kent, the codificaiton debate, State rules derived from former Spanish colonies)? How did the U.S. react to attempted secessions abroad after the War of Secession? (The Supreme Court of Canada has clarified the conditions for secession in Reference re Secession of Quebec, [1998] 2 S.C.R. 217)?
Michel Morin, Droit, Université de Montréal
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OTTAWA - The Harper government's massive budget implementation bill cleared its first major legislative hurdle Monday without further attempts by the NDP to delay the vote.
The Conservatives used their majority to give the bill approval in principle by a vote of 149 to 132. It will now be sent to the Commons finance committee for more detailed examination.
New Democrats tied the House of Commons in procedural knots last Wednesday in a bid to put off the vote and pressure the government to split up the 425-page bill into more manageable chunks.
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Once the bill returns to the Commons from the finance committee, the NDP, the Liberals and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May are all vowing to introduce potentially hundreds of amendments that could tie up the bill for days or weeks.
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The Conservatives and even the Liberals criticized the NDP last week for creating a parliamentary circus that would do little to delay today's vote to give the bill approval in principle. Although they agree with splitting up the bill and are equally opposed to its contents, the Liberals complained that the NDP tactics prevented eight MPs from speaking during debate on the bill last Wednesday.
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As I am at the beach this week, I thought I'd share a few of my favorite beach quotes:
"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea." - e.e. cummings
"It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea---whether it is to sail or to watch it---we are going back from whence we came." - John F. Kennedy
"At the beach, life is different. Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun." - Unknown
"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea." - Isak Dinesen
We have gone to Folly Beach, SC, (one of the beaches in Charleston) since I was a child. For the past three years, we've not been able to find a house large enough to accommodate our brood, so we have moved our vacations to Topsail Island, NC. We like it here, too, but my heart will always be in Folly! Pat Conroy often sets his books in the Charleston area, so I had to include this one:
"Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies. You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes."
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New engine brings more power.
Sports Cars
Editor: Sam Moses
$27,900 Base Price MSRP
$41,185 As Tested MSRP
Model Lineup: Nissan 350Z 6MT ($27,900); Enthusiast 6MT ($29,600); Enthusiast AT ($30,600); Touring 6MT ($32,700); Touring AT ($33,200); Grand Touring 6MT (36,100); Grand Touring AT ($37,100); Roadster Enthusiast 6MT ($35,550); Roadster Enthusiast AT ($365050); Roadster Touring 6MT ($37,900); Roadster Touring AT ($38,900); Roadster Grand Touring 6MT ($40,250); Roadster Grand Touring AT ($41,250)
Standard Engine: 3.5-liter dohc 24-valve V6
Engine Options: 3.5-liter dohc 24-valve V6
Standard Transmission: 6-speed manual
Transmission Options: 6-speed manual; 5-speed automatic
Basic Warranty: 3 years/36,000 miles
Assembled In: Tochigi, Japan
Model Tested MSRP: Nissan 350Z Roadster Grand Touring 6MT ($40,250)
Standard Equipment: automatic temperature control; 4-way power driver's seat; 4-way power passenger seat; power windows, mirrors and keyless-remote, central locking; 240-watt, AM/FM/CD/MP3 RDS Bose stereo with six-disc, in-dash changer, 6 speakers plus subwoofer and Bose AudioPilot noise compensation; tilt steering with integrated gauge cluster; cruise control; HomeLink universal transceiver; switchable, auto-dimming rearview mirror; trip computer; oil pressure gauge; voltmeter; cross-drilled aluminum pedals; dual-illuminated visor vanity mirrors; leather-appointed steering wheel, shift knob and heated seats; vehicle security system; vehicle immobilizer; bi-xenon, HID headlamps; seal-tight windows
Options As Tested: Carpeted floor mats ($90); Convenience Net ($50); aluminum kick plates ($110); carpeted trunk mat ($70)
Standard Safety Equipment: dual-stage, frontal airbags; seatbelts with pretensioners and load limiters; passenger side child safety seat tether anchor; ABS with EBD and brake assist; tire pressure monitor system; side-impact airbags (Roadster); Vehicle Dynamic Control (most models)
Optional Safety Equipment: Vehicle Dynamic Control; seat-mounted side-impact airbags, side-curtain airbagsDestination Charge: $615
The new 3.5-liter V6 engine is used in all seven models of the 350Z. Something like 80 percent of the parts in the engine are new for 2007. On paper, the 2006 engine was rated 300 horsepower. For 2007 the output has been raised to 306 hp, but the increase is more than 6 hp because beginning in 2007 there's a more stringent industry standard for measuring horsepower, as determined by the Society of Automotive Engineers.
The Nissan 350Z is fast, fun, and pure sports car. It costs about 10 times as much as the original 240Z, which went for about $3500, but in today's dollars that's only twice as much (as calculated by the Consumer Price Index). But you get about 10 times the car, so you're still way ahead.
Improvements for 2006 included upsized alloy wheels, tighter rack-and-pinion steering, bigger brakes, better headlamps, and a higher quality sound system. For 2007, side-impact air bags are added as standard equipment to the Roadster, and two Coupe models get the Bluetooth Hands-Free Phone System with steering wheel-mounted controls.
When you consider components such as a carbon-fiber driveshaft and drive-by-wire throttle, as well as the convenience features that come standard, such as automatic temperature control and a premium stereo, the price of $27,900 for the Base Coupe is compelling. Of course, the other six models escalate in price, to $41,250 for a Grand Touring Roadster with optional five-speed automatic transmission. But they all come standard with that 306-hp engine and six-speed manual transmission.
The 350Z is a true-blue sports car with creature comforts. Its firm ride, abrupt throttle response, and awkward cup holders don't make it a great place to drink coffee and make phone calls on the way to work, but there's a lot of cargo space for a sports car, and it isn't awkward to climb in and out. The excellent optional five-speed automatic makes a civilized commuter car, while still making you happy during a weekend run down a racer road.
The Nissan 350Z delivers more than the promise of its powerful looks. It's a visceral sports car with serious performance that you can live with every day. The Roadster adds wind-in-your hair freedom.
Seven models of the 2007 Nissan 350Z are available: four Coupes and three Roadsters. All come with the 3.5-liter V6 engine making 306 horsepower and 268 pound-feet of torque, and either a six-speed manual transmission or a five-speed automatic.
The base 350Z 6MT Coupe ($27,900) comes standard with automatic temperature control, 160-watt AM/FM/CD with six speakers, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, remote entry, vehicle security system, heated outside mirrors, cloth seats with eight-way manual driver and four-way manual passenger adjustments, leather-wrapped steering wheel and shifter boot, 18-inch alloy wheels, and bi-Xenon HID headlights and LED taillights.
The 350Z Coupe Enthusiast comes with the six-speed manual ($29,600) or five-speed automatic ($30,600) and adds cruise control, traction control, viscous limited slip differential, aluminum pedals, HomeLink universal transceiver, illuminated steering wheel audio controls and electro-chromic rearview mirror.
The 350Z Coupe Touring ($32,700) adds heated power leather seats, a 240-watt Bose CD6/MP3 sound system with seven speakers. Electronic stability control (VDC) is included with the manual. It also comes with the automatic ($33,200).
The 350Z Coupe Grand Touring ($36,100) adds lightweight forged-alloy wheels (18 inches front, 19 inches rear), front and rear spoilers, Brembo brakes, and VDC for both the manual and automatic transmissions ($37,100). These high-performance components came on the 2006 Track model that's been discontinued.
The 350Z Roadster Enthusiast ($35,550) features power seats, a glass rear window with rear defroster, and a rear wind deflector.
The 350Z Roadster Touring ($37,900) adds heated leather seats and the Bose sound system.
The 350Z Roadster Grand Touring ($40,250) adds forged alloy wheels, spoilers, Brembo brakes, and VDC.
Safety features include dual-stage front supplemental air bags, front and rear body crumple zones, and active head restraints (except with Burnt Orange net seats). The Z earned NHTSA's five-star rating for side-impact crash test safety. Antilock brakes with EBD (electronic front-rear braking balance), brake assist and traction control are standard, as is a tire pressure monitoring system. Side-impact airbags are standard on Roadsters, and a package including side-impact airbags and airbag curtains is optional ($620) on the Coupes.
Options include 18-inch chrome wheels ($1660), an aero package ($530), and a DVD-based navigation system ($1800). NISMO high-performance parts are available, including racier shocks, springs, sway bars and an exhaust system.
Walk Around
Not much has changed with the looks of the Nissan 350Z in recent years. But for 2007 there is one distinctive and telltale feature: a big hump in the hood. That was necessary to make room for the new engine, which has a taller cylinder block and longer connecting rods, among other things. The new engine gets more air without any changes to the grille opening, which contains horizontal bars. There are three new colors for 2007: Solar Orange, San Marino Blue and Carbon Silver. The Roadster gets an optional gray convertible top, for 2007, replacing the high-profile blue one; basic black remains standard.
The massive vertical bi-Xenon HID (high-intensity discharge) headlamps produce a white light, and the new LED (light emitting diode) taillights provide quicker response for the brake lights than filament bulbs.
The bulging fenders and fastback and short front and rear overhangs give the Coupe its aggressive stance. This taut body layout, coupled with weight savings gained from a carbon fiber-reinforced, plastic driveshaft and an aluminum hood (and on the Roadster, a plastic trunk lid), balance the Z well for responsive handling.
The Coupe's sleek shape helps the Z slice through the air with a minimum of drag: 0.29 Cd on the Grand Touring. The Roadster's cut-off backlight (rear windscreen) isn't nearly as slippery, attaining a drag coefficient of 0.34 Cd. Underbody airflow is managed well, with zero lift on the front, and zero lift on the rear of the Coupe Grand Touring thanks to new diffusers.
The Nissan 350Z cockpit is designed for driving, helping the driver quickly become one with the car. Cloth or leather are good choices in this car. The cloth seats are form-fitting, supportive and comfortable, made of a soft, carbon-fiber colored material that grips the body in the corners. The driver's seat bottom features a mound in the center at the front to restrain the driver from sliding forward under deceleration, known as submarining. Aggressive side bolsters grip the waist to hold the driver in place, especially in the Roadster models, which give the driver a more aggressively bolstered seatback. The leather seats in the Touring model feel firmer than those in cloth, and are available in charcoal, burnt orange or frost. The supportive seats and a driver's dead pedal mean you never feel like you have to hang on.
Our Roadster Grand Touring came with the mesh seats, which are the only seats that lack adjustable headrests. We can't see the tradeoff for ventilation being worthwhile. Also, the leg bolstering dug into the sides of our thighs. We haven't noticed that with the regular leather seats. Once underway, however, we forgot about that initial discomfort. We drove some 700 miles in the Roadster GT, almost all of them on two-lanes while cornering, accelerating and braking hard (we used the dead pedal a lot), and the seat didn't wear on us as much as we expected it to. But we still think cloth might be better than the mesh.
The seating position should be good for drivers with long legs, though the steering wheel felt a little close when the seat was adjusted for the legs of a six-footer. The Roadster boasts an inch more headroom than the hatchback, thanks to the articulation of the top's various mechanicals.
Tilt the steering column and the main pod of gauges moves with it, ensuring a clear view of the instruments for drivers of all sizes. The instruments consist of a big tachometer and flanking speedometer, fuel and temperature gauges. Nestled in three pods on top of the dash are a voltmeter, an oil pressure gauge and a digital trip computer. Reminiscent of the original Z, they look retro-cool, but reading them requires more than a glance.
Two toggles to the right of the steering wheel operate the trip computer, used to check outside air temperature, distance to empty, speed, average mileage, and average speed. It has a stopwatch function (to check out 0-60 times or lap times on a circuit or maybe for running a Monte Carlo style rally), and a tire-pressure monitor. With the Trip Computer, the driver can program a shift light to come on at a certain rpm. The small red indicator on the tachometer begins flashing about 500 rpm before the preset engine speed is reached, whereupon it comes on solid. You can program it for the ideal shift points for acceleration or for fuel economy, then let your peripheral vision pick up the indicator, which might prove more precise than using the seat of your pants. We've seen race cars with this feature (though the red shift light in those is sometimes as big as a golf ball). If you don't like this feature you can turn it off.
The interior of the Z suggests the carbon-fiber tub of a prototype racecar. The material surrounding the shifter and forming the center dash looks like carbon fiber. Likewise, the large expanse of gray material lining the door panels suggests carbon fiber in appearance. The quality of the materials is okay, though some of the pieces would never be allowed in an Audi. It looked austere at first, but grew on us. Stylish interior touches, such as the inside door handles integrated into aerodynamic pods for the side vents, give the Z a racy, modern look; with the AC at work on hot days, the handles chill to fit their frosty look. Passengers often grope for the door release the first time they try to get out, distracted by the big grab handles adorned with genuine aluminum and relieved by the Z's dot motif.
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Driving Impressions
We had one of the best drives of our life in the Roadster GT. Seven hundred miles in two days, almost entirely on isolated winding roads in central California, in beautiful weather. The whole time, we passed just one sheriff in an SUV coming the other direction; and we were careful not to terrorize fellow motorists. We kept an eye out for animals. But the road was otherwise ours, and drove the 350Z as it was meant to be driven: fast, alert, and under control.
Some of the time we had the top up because it was winter and crisp; but it was also sunny so other times we dropped it. Buffeting at high speeds was reduced by the tempered glass deflector between the rollbars behind the seats, and by the racy body fairings tapering back like headrests. Nearing the end of the first day's drive, we looked in the mirror and saw the setting sun reflecting off the rump of the Z, as it twitched on its fat tires around the curves.
There was long series of second-gear twisties, no upshifting at all, just using the gas and brakes hard, keeping the engine between 4000 rpm and 7500 rpm, a rhythmic revving and braking, revving and braking. The 350Z excels at this stuff. The 268 pound-feet of torque peaks at 4800 rpm but begins to come on strong enough to use at about 3000 rpm.
The engine makes a wonderful sound, a raspy roar, not a deep-chested V8 rumble but more of a junkyard dog don't-mess-with-me bark. You can especially hear it in second gear because it accelerates quickly. It's a unique sound and we can always identify a Nissan V6 accelerating without turning to look. Revving through the gears, it feels like it wants to break through its 7500 rpm redline, which represents an increase of 500 rpm over last year's engine.
We love the six-speed manual. The five-speed automatic transmission is smooth and responsive; and it's neat when the engine blips on its own, with each aggressive downshift (Nissan calls this DRM, Downshift Rev Matching). But with the automatic, the redline of the engine is only 6600 rpm. If you buy an automatic, you're robbing yourself of the joy of hearing the top 900 revs.
The engine belongs to Nissan's VQ-series that has been on Ward's 10 Best Engines" list for 14 consecutive years, and we can see why. The close-ratio six-speed gearbox was meant for shifting, with sixth gear being the big overdrive for better fuel mileage. And by the way, the new more powerful engine gets one or two more miles per gallon than the previous 3.5-liter.
The Grand Touring model gets bigger rotors with Brembo calipers, four pistons in front and two in rear, and larger pads. The brakes are steady, secure, confidence-inspiring. We were using them repeatedly and hard. When we began to smell them, it was time to ease off. What this means is that if you plan on driving your 350Z hard, you need to go with the GT models with these brakes, because the standard brakes won't resist fade well enough.
The GT also uses the lightweight five-spoke forged alloy wheels, 18 inches in front, 19 rear, mounted with 245/40WR18 and 265/35WR19 Bridgestone Potenza RE050A tires. They are super sticky, but there must still have been some slipping, because when we floored it coming out of a turn in second gear, we could see the VDC light flash. But we never felt an intrusion. Could be that the rear brakes were being dabbed, at something like 500 times a second; sometimes we never felt anything, and other times we heard a hiccup out the exhaust, indicating a split second cut of ignition or throttle or something. Driving like this, we appreciated the Tire Pressure Monitor System, eliminating worries at speed of a low tire.
The suspension uses aluminum components to keep down the unsprung weight. It feels pretty stiff, but you can still use the GT as a daily driver and not be uncomfortable, although the more compliant and better-fitting seats than the GT's leather/mesh helps. The GT is stiff enough for a track day "
The Nissan 350Z offers visceral sports car performance at an attainable price. Its rear-wheel-drive chassis is rigid, and the suspension and tires are up for the challenge of hard cornering. The new V6 engine delivers good torque at reasonably low revs, as well as 306 horsepower with a thrilling 7500 rpm redline. The six-speed manual gearbox is racier than the five-speed automatic, so we recommend the Grand Touring models with the six-speed, because you'll probably be driving it hard, and the GTs have better brakes. But either way you get the style and the engine. The interior is the weakest link, but you can get comfortable with a little time spent living with it.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent Sam Moses filed this report from central California; Tom Lankard and Mitch McCullough contributed to this report.
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One fine day, my colleagues decided to try out the food at Nyonya Colors. Located at the lower ground floor of the newly opened Empire Gallery Subang, the food was comparatively cheaper than some of the more swanky outlets there. Nevertheless, it was still considered pricey as I could get the same kind food at any Chinese coffee shop.
First up was the Mee Rebus (RM 8.90).
Honestly, for that price I would expect at least a decent meal. Instead, the gravy did not have enough 'umph'.
For half the price, albeit without the comfort of air-conditioning, I can find a better tasting meal elsewhere.
The Asam Laksa (RM 8.90) did not fare much better.
It was disappointing to say the least. Again there wasn't much 'kick' from the dish.
Honestly, I don't think I would eat at Nyonya Colors again. Carrying the word 'Nyonya Colors' certainly has a lot of expectations to be met as Nyonya food is generally known to be really rich with flavours.
Sadly, this outlet fails to live up to that expectation.
Nyonya Colors
LG29, Ground Floor Jalan SS16/1
47500 Subang Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Tel: 03-5632 2010


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Review: Energy efficiency for the masses?
This review is also available in German.
Since about three months ago, AMD is selling energy efficient versions of the heavily delayed AMD Propus die. The core has lost its massive L3 cache, but AMD decided to increase the L2 Cache to 1MB per core. All cores features 64kB L1 cache for data and instructions. The normal Propus CPUs have a 65W TDP rating, while the energy efficient CPUs have a rating of 45W. The 245 runs at 2.90GHz, while the 240 has to manage with 2.80GHz.
It's time to check if the reduced CPU VCores do have an impact on power-consumption, because energy efficient CPUs come with a price premium. For some reason, the Athlon II X2 CPUs are only specified with 1067MHz but do overclock quite well up to 1600MHz. However, we test everything according to the official specification.
MSI 790GX-GD70 (provided by MSI)
Scythe Kama Angle (provided by Scythe-Europe)
G.Skill 4GB Kit PC3-12800 (provided by G.Skill)
1067MHz CL7-7-7-21 CR1T 1.30V for Athlon II X2
1333MHz CL7-7-7-21 CR1T 1.30V for Athlon II X4
Graphics Card:
MSI R4850-2D1G-OC (provided by MSI)
Power supply:
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 500W (provided by PC Power & Cooling)
Hard disk:
Samsung F1 1000GB RAID-Edition (provided by Ditech)
Case fans:
SilenX iXtrema Pro 14dB(A) (provided by PC-Cooling.at)
Scythe DFS122512LS
Cooler Master Stacker 831 Lite (provided by Cooler Master)
All tests are performed with XP SP3. As 64-bit software is still not very common, we stick with the 32-bit version. We will change to Windows 7 when we swap the graphics card for a DX11 capable one.