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|Australian, American and Chinese soldiers training together in the Northern Territory, in early May 2015
It could never happen again, we are told, Australians would never tolerate such large deployments, and the subsequent death tolls.
And yet, the chances of Australia being drawn into a full-blown conflict between China and the United States may have never been higher.
At least, that's the message some are trying to get out. It's not so much a warning, as a 'Well, You Better Get Used To This New Reality' PR campaign. Is the public already being softened up for another World War? One that would draw in Australia?
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The source was anonymous. But the mouthpiece has a measure of credibility. High profile military analyst and former US Naval War College lecturer John Schindler tweeted last week: "Said a senior NATO (non-US) GOFO to me today: 'We'll probably be at war this summer. If we're lucky it won't be nuclear.' Let that sink in."
The warning comes as Europe engages in some of its biggest ever war games — right on Russia's front door. It's a deliberate ploy, intended to remind Moscow of the consequences of its duplicitous invasion of Ukraine.
Half a world away, the "w" word was mentioned again yesterday. This time in an editorial by a Chinese state controlled paper. Said the Global Times: "If the United States' bottom line is that China has to halt its activities, then a US-China war is inevitable in the South China Sea."
It came as China's government effectively declared a "no fly zone" over the disputed waterway after warning the US over its "provocative" aerial reconnaissance of several islands.
China is maintaining its stance that its aggressive construction work on disputed islands in South-East Asia is no different to building highways or public facilities anywhere else on the mainland. Such is its determination that these disputed territories are its own.
Combined, the increasingly threatening talk is causing many to take notice: High-profile US Billionaire investor George Soros told the World Bank last week: "If there is conflict between China and a military ally of the United States, like Japan, then it is not an exaggeration to say that we are on the threshold of a third world war."
Last month, a number of Baltic State defence ministers issued a statement condemning Russia's activities, once again declaring its old Cold War enemy their "biggest threat to security".
Russia retaliated by highlighting the deepening relationship between neutral Finland and Sweden with NATO was a "special concern".
Some 18 warships and submarines took part in the oddly named exercise, "Dynamic Mongoose". It involved 10 NATO members and the otherwise neutral Sweden.
It came just weeks after NATO members — including Britain — sent tanks and troops to conduct live-fire exercises with Estonia: Once again an act designed to send a signal to Russia — keep your hands off the Baltic States. The tiny Baltic state separated from the former Soviet Union in 1991.
This week saw the launch of a third major NATO military exercise: Combat jets from the US, UK, Germany, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands have gathered in Finland, Norway and Sweden for extensive Arctic combat drills over 12 days.That country is, of course, the United States. And Australia is the United States most loyal military ally. If the US starts a war with China, Australia starts a war with China.
Russia has not been idle in its response. It has teamed up with ally China to conduct war-games in the Mediterranean Sea. The 10-day operation ended last week after the two world powers boldly displayed their warship muscle in the equivalent of Western Europe's backyard 'swimming pool'.
Yesterday, Chinese officials responded to US military overflights and a probing visit by one of its warships.
"For a long time, the US military has been conducting close-in surveillance of China and the Chinese military has been making such necessary, legal and professional response — why did this story suddenly pop up in the past weeks?" Senior Colonel Yang Yujun commented yesterday.
"Has the South China Sea shrunk?"
"Some people have been intentionally and repeatedly hyping this topic. Their purpose is to smear the Chinese military and dramatise regional tensions. And I'm not ruling it out that this is being done to find an excuse for certain country to take actions in the future."
Don't expect any fightback from PM Tony Abbott, or most of the Australian Parliament if it comes down to that. Abbott would revel in the media opportunities of such a vast and deadly conflict.


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Review: Acer's Iconia W700 Windows 8 tablet
During the rise of the iPad and Android tablet devices, there were a trickle of Windows-based slabs, but since the October release of the more touch-friendly Windows 8 operating system, it's turned into a flood.
Aside from Microsoft's own tablets, Surface RT and Surface Pro - the first PCs the company has ever made on its own - it's interesting to see how companies like Dell, Lenovo and HP interpret Windows 8 in deciding what makes a tablet, what makes a laptop and what kinds of devices can straddle those two categories. Acer, for instance, introduced two Windows 8 tablets. The lower-end model is the W510, which sells for about the price of an iPad (about $550-$750). According to reviews, it's not very powerful.
On the other hand, the model I test-drove, the Acer Iconia W700, is a beast. It runs on a powerful Intel Core i5 processor, has a gorgeous high-resolution screen and includes enough accessories to make it a laptop in everything but its actual form.
The $1,000 tablet comes with a small Bluetooth wireless keyboard (which doesn't clip on to the tablet the way keyboards for the Surface tablet do), a bulky faux leather protective case, an ugly but effective beige docking cradle/ stand and even an adapter to connect the device to an external monitor or projector.
The bright, gigantic (for a tablet) 11.6-inch screen is very responsive, and the tablet runs not only touch-friendly apps designed for Windows 8 but pretty much any older Windows software you'd care to throw at it, even graphics-intensive games. It has HD cameras on the front and back as well as physical volume buttons and a USB 3.0 port.
If it were just a laptop, it would be a bit on the pricey side, but not a bad purchase at all.
As a tablet, however ... it's problematic. It's thick and weighs more than two pounds, which doesn't seem like much until you compare it with Apple or Android-based tablets that weigh a fraction of that. If you drop it on your foot, expect a bone to break. The dock and case only add more bulk and weight. You'll feel like you're carrying around a phone book. And there's no nice way to carry everything together. The case, keyboard and stand don't fit together at all; a laptop bag would be necessary, or an owner would need to choose what to leave behind while taking the tablet out of the house.
The W700 feels like buying a sports car to drive around town and then hitching a trailer to it because you frequently have to haul around lumber. Sure, you could do that, but pretty soon you'll realize that it's perhaps not the most elegant way to get things done.
Which brings us to the question: Who is this for? If it's going to stay on your desk, why not just get a comparable (and likely cheaper) laptop? If you need a tablet because you travel a lot, there are sleeker, lighter options. And for the price of this device, you could buy a mid-range Windows 8 laptop and an iPad or iPad Mini and still be carrying fewer items than what goes with the W700. On the other hand, it has excellent battery life (more than six hours, which isn't great for a tablet but excellent for a laptop) and is fast, capable and responsive. It's a good first Windows 8 effort from Acer and I hope a sign of even better things to come.
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Sinking teacher morale generally accompanies sinking student achievement.
In 2007 the educator Michelle Rhee was charged with a mammoth task: turn around public education in the District of Columbia, which included some of the most troubled school districts in the country. Though D.C. ranked third nationally in education spending, their students were some of the lowest performing, with less than 10 percent of D.C. eighth-graders reading at grade level.
As chancellor of the Washington, D.C., school district, Rhee was given carte blanche to implement any reforms she wanted. She started by firing teachers, who had long enjoyed considerable job security. When all was said and done, Rhee had let go 241 of the worst performing teachers in the city.
Now, more than four years later, the idea that firing bad teachers will make schools better is catching on. States like Idaho, Tennessee and Florida are all in the process of implementing reforms that would make public school employment contingent on some measure of teacher effectiveness.
These reforms are based on a simple philosophy: If we want students to perform in a global economy, we need effective teachers. This philosophy is supported by a 2007 McKinsey report on education, which found that the best schools in the world are those that do not allow ineffective teachers to remain in the classroom.
On the surface, the idea makes sense — why would you allow a bad teacher to keep teaching? The problem is in determining what makes a teacher effective, and who makes that decision. Opponents of this approach argue that if public school teachers, who often already feel underpaid and under-appreciated, had to work under the specter of possibly being laid off every few years, it would hurt morale and make it even harder to recruit new teachers. Since California made it easier to fire ineffective teachers, for example, the number of graduates seeking teaching credentials fell by 29 percent.
Despite these potential drawbacks, Sen Aaron Osmond (R-South Jordan) drafted a bill that would make it easier to remove ineffective teachers. Under current law, after three to five years in the classroom, Utah teachers achieve what is known as career status. After they have reached this point it becomes extremely difficult to fire them. Because the process can take months, many principals are hesitant to attempt it. For this reason, Sen. Osmonds proposed that the state establish one-year provisional contracts for new teachers and three to five year contracts for more experienced educators. Shorter contracts would mean that administrators have more flexibility. Teachers who dont measure up would be shown the door.
After discussing the potential legislation with thousands of teachers and members of the community, Sen. Osmond decided to reevaluate the proposal. The overwhelming response was that teachers feel they are under attack, and eliminating long term contracts could do further harm to their morale. But the problem remains that allowing bad teachers to continue in their positions will hamper any other attempts at education reform.
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American students rank 29th in math, well below average and behind developing economies like Latvia and the Slovak Republic, according to a 2003 Program for International Assessment study. Eric Hanushek, senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institute, calculates that by firing the least-effective teachers, American students' scores would increase and make them competitive with top performing countries like China, Japan and Finland.
"Modest changes at the bottom," he argues, "have enormous implications for the nation."
And having a better-educated population would lead to economic growth, he says. Implementing a program that fires the bottom 5 percent of teachers over a 20-year period would yield GDP that is 1.6 percent higher, he says. "In terms of the U.S. economy in 2005," Hanushek says "1.6 percent [amounts] to $200 billion."
The implications
Mary Purzycki, a popular biology teacher at Park City High School, is precisely the kind of person schools hope to recruit. She worked for seven years as a biologist a federally funded research lab at Harvard, Brown and Princeton before making the transition to teaching. While she found fulfillment in her work, it was contingent on grant money, meaning that periods of plentiful work could be followed by months of unemployment. Purzycki found teaching attractive because it was an opportunity to teach kids about something she loved with the added benefit of job stability.
For people like Purzycki, traditionally teaching has had appeal because it has been seen as a stable, long-term career choice. If this benefit is diminished, educators argue, recruiting highly qualified candidates with other professional options may become even more difficult. The average teacher begins with a salary of around $30,000. By contrast, graduates in math and applied science command salaries starting at $60,000, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Mike Kelley, director of communications for the Utah Education Association, worries that increasing the stakes of teacher evaluations and placing more power in the hands of administrators could hurt teachers.
"Sinking teacher morale generally accompanies sinking student achievement," says Susan Black. an education consultant and contributing editor for the American School Board Journal.
Rating effectiveness
The idea that making it easier to fire teachers will improve the quality of instruction rests on the assumption that administrators are capable of measuring teacher effectiveness with accuracy and neutrality.
The newest studies on teacher evaluations suggest the fullest picture of an educator emerges when a variety of data and viewpoints are used. For example, Measures of Effective Teaching, a study published by the Gates Foundation, suggests teacher evaluations should include: student progress reports, classroom observations by experienced teachers and administrators, a teacher's content knowledge, student and parent evaluations of the instructional, and teacher reflections on the work.
"We also need evaluations that recognize where a teacher is in his or career," says Mary McConnell, an education consultant who serves on the Deseret News Editorial Advisory Board. Learning to be an effective teacher is a "process that takes time," she says, "which means that new teacher evaluations should focus more on mentoring and identifying areas for improvement than on determining continued employment. As teachers gain experience, however, they should be held to a higher standard."
Though on the whole many teachers agree with these recommendations, some are troubled by the idea of using student performance as part of a measure of their effectiveness as a teacher. Studies show that most of the factors that influence student performance — such as socio-economic background and parental involvement — are beyond teachers' control, says A.J Duffy, president of the United Teachers of Los Angeles, a teachers' union.
Proponents of using student performance as part of a measure of teacher effectiveness suggest it is possible to assuage these concerns just by using more sophisticated mathematical models. The Gates Foundation recommends using value added models. These models are designed to measure not absolute outcomes, but how much students progress over the course of a year. This means that they do not penalize teachers for their students' baseline performance. Rather, the teacher is judged on how a student improves over the course of the school year.
Whatever measure of effectiveness is settled on, it is imperative that teachers are included in the discussion, says Kelley of the Utah Educators Association.
For his part, Osmond wants to include teachers in the conversation. "We want to incorporate feedback from teachers while staying focused on finding ways to improve the effectiveness and timeliness of the (teacher) evaluations."
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Professor co-authors book on what the implications of redefining marriage could families and society. By Brandon Vogt – OSV Newsweekly, (13 January 2013)
Robert P. George is a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University. He is an expert on marital law and a strong advocate of traditional marriage.
Along with Sherif Girgis, a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University, and Ryan T. Anderson, a Heritage Foundation fellow, George is the co-author of a new book titled, "What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense" (Encounter Books, $15.99). It's based on their renowned academic paper on the same topic that appeared in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
George recently spoke with Our Sunday Visitor about the book, his work and the main arguments surrounding same-sex marriage.
Our Sunday Visitor: In the book, you say the entire marriage debate hinges on one question: What is marriage? Why is that question so important?
Robert P. George: Advocates of redefining marriage to include same-sex relationships appeal to the principle of equality. We cannot, however, understand what equality does and does not require without first determining what marriage is.
Marriage laws will always draw distinctions between the types of relationship that count as marital and the types that do not. Appeals against the distinctions they draw based on claims about equality will in every case depend for their validity on whether the distinctions are arbitrary. Whether the distinctions are, in truth, arbitrary or non-arbitrary will turn on a judgment of what marriage is.
So, the key question is: What is marriage? Yet this is the question that those seeking to redefine marriage seek desperately to avoid. They hold to the unquestioned assumption that marriage, properly understood, is simply an especially intense emotional bond, and that the marital relationship is merely a form of sexual-romantic companionship or domestic partnership. This assumption underwrites their claim that distinguishing "same-sex" from "opposite-sex" partnerships in defining marriage is arbitrary and therefore a form of invidious discrimination.
The assumption, however, turns out to lack credibility. It cannot be squared with the history of our law and practice of marriage, or with aspects of marriage that remain, to a considerable extent, uncontroversial.
For example, it cannot make sense of why marriage is necessarily a sexual partnership, as opposed to a partnership that could just as well be integrated around other (nonsexual) shared interests, activities or objectives (a love of tennis or literature, a shared commitment to a political or religious cause, or whatever).
Nor — quite crucially — can it make sense of why marriage is a union of two persons, and not three or more (triads, quadrads, etc.) in polyamorous sexual partnerships.
What can account for, explain and justify these features of marriage is the traditional understanding of marriage as a conjugal union. This type of union is a multilevel (bodily as well as emotional) sharing of life that is made possible by the sexual-reproductive complementarity of man and woman. It is oriented to, and would naturally be fulfilled by, the spouses' conceiving and rearing children together.
OSV: Some people wonder why the government even concerns itself with marriage. Why does it regulate this type of relationship?
George: Marriage is critical to the success of any society because it is the way that mothers and fathers are united to each other in a relationship uniquely apt for the project of child rearing. Now, obviously, law and the state have a profound interest in successful child rearing. Every other social good depends on that.
So, although the state did not invent marriage — marriage, properly understood, is a pre-political institution — the state rightly and necessarily recognizes marriages, distinguishes marital from nonmarital forms of relationships, and supports, regulates and promotes marriage in the hope of sustaining a vibrant marriage culture.
This explains why, historically and across cultures, governments have formally recognized and regulated marriages, even though they have not done that for ordinary friendships, relationships among siblings or purely religious sacraments and ceremonies, such as baptisms and bar mitzvahs.
OSV: How would legally recognizing same-sex marriage weaken the marriage relationship?
George: Marriage properly understood is not exclusively about procreation and child rearing, though that is what grounds the state's profound interest in marriage. But it is always linked, if indirectly, to those human goods and purposes. Marriage, as a conjugal union, is the kind of relationship that is oriented to, and would naturally be fulfilled by, the spouses' having and rearing children together. Where a marriage is not blessed with children, it remains a marriage because being in a relationship of this nature is intrinsically good and fulfilling; it is not merely instrumentally valuable as a means to successful child rearing.
So, the law has always recognized consummated marriages as valid and perfected marriages, even where the spouses know that their sexual congress will not give them children. And the law has always treated all marriages, including the marriages of infertile spouses, as bound by the norms that shape and structure marriage as a conjugal union: sexual exclusivity and fidelity, and the pledge of permanence.
When the law abolishes the conjugal conception of marriage and replaces it with a counterfeit, the rational basis of these norms will be lost, and people's belief in them and willingness to abide by them will erode as the norms make less and less sense to each generation. They will seem more and more like mere relics of a bygone age when marriage was understood differently.
Initially, of course, habitual ways of thinking and sentimental attachments will cause some people to continue to think of the norms as valid and binding, but that won't last.
Is this conservative "scaremongering"? Hardly. Candid activists in the same-sex marriage movement say essentially the same thing. Writer Victoria Brownworth, for example, acknowledges that redefining marriage "will almost certainly weaken the institution of marriage."
The difference between Brownworth and me is only this: She thinks weakening marriage by redefining it would be a good thing, something that would liberate people and free them from constraints and "hang ups."
I think it would be a catastrophe for children, for families, for communities and for the larger society, all of whom depend for their well-being on the health and vibrancy of the original and best "department of health, education and welfare," the marriage-based family.
- Read 'Openers: Finding good answers in the same-sex marriage debate' here.
- Read 'Rebuttals to arguments for same-sex marriage' here.
Brandon Vogt is a Catholic writer and speaker who blogs at BrandonVogt.com. He is also the author of "The Church and New Media: Blogging Converts, Online Activists, and Bishops Who Tweet" (OSV, $13.95), which you can find at www.churchandnewmedia.com. He writes from Casselberry, Fla.
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Most applications for disability are denied in the first stage. Therefore it is worth considering the value of having the advice and services of an attorney from the very beginning. When serious illness is affecting a person's ability to work, it may also impact the energy available to wage a battle with the Social Security Administration.
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The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) allows you to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify communications and data, as well as create and manage the keys needed for these tasks. It is a full, open source implementation of the OpenPGP Standard (RFC2440) and is integrated into many Linux applications ranging from clipboard applets to instant messaging clients. These applications make it easy to use GnuPG for digital security in the GNOME desktop environment.
The applications we introduce in this article use GnuPG almost transparently, and you can get by without knowing too much about encryption or digital security. For the sake of the security of your data, though, you should make yourself familiar with these topics. Some good starting points include:
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- A Lesson in Encryption, Part 3
The first thing you need to do to prepare to use GnuPG for digital security is to set up GnuPG keys. Once you've done this you can use them in the GNOME desktop applications that support GnuPG for secure messaging, email, text and files.
Let's start with Seahorse, a GnuGP GUI written for GNOME that you can use to set up and manage your GnuPG keys. Most Linux distributions include it in their repositories, so installation is as simple as selecting and installing it. During installation it adds plugins for gEdit, Nautilus, and the Epiphany Web browser as well as a panel applet.
To run Seahorse, look in your Applications menu for Passwords and Encryption Keys. Click on the Key -> Create New Key menu and select the option to create a new PGP Key. Enter your name and email address at a minimum. The default settings Seahorse provides for other options during key creation are usually OK for most people. You will be prompted for a passphrase for your private key during this process. Choose a secure passphrase, and do not forget it! If you lose your passphrase you won't be able to use your private key to decrypt or sign data. Once you have entered your passphrase, click OK and your key pair will be generated for you.
Once you have a key pair you can share your public key with your friends by including it in your email signature or placing it on your Web site or blog. Get your public key signed by your friends, and sign theirs, in order to build a web of trust.
At some stage you will want to publish your public key to a key server. To do so from Seahorse, choose Remote -> Sync and Publish Keys.
Once you've set up your GnuPG keys, your GNOME desktop is ready to become your digital security workstation. To use GnuPG with the applications listed below, the process is generally as follows:
- Select the data you want to sign, encrypt, verify, or decrypt.
- Choose the key or keys you wish to use for the process.
- If you're using your private key, supply your passphrase.
Text editor
Seahorse installs a plugin for gEdit that allows you to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify plain text. To enable the GnuGP plugin for gEdit, choose Preferences from the Edit menu. Go to the Plugins tab, select the Text Encryption plugin, and click OK. Then you can select the text you want to encrypt, decrypt, or sign and choose from the encryption options under the Edit menu. Once done, you can copy and paste your encrypted or signed text to other applications.
Clipboard encryption panel applet
Seahorse also installs a Clipboard Text Encryption applet that you can add to your panel to allow you to copy text to the clipboard, encrypt it, and paste it into another application. This is one way to use encryption with Web-based email clients. To enable it, right-click on a panel and click Add to Panel. Select the Clipboard Text Encryption applet and click Add. After that, whenever you cut or copy text, you can click on the applet and encrypt or sign the text in the clipboard. If it is already encrypted or signed, clicking on the applet allows you to decrypt or verify the text.
File manager
You can add menu items for encrypting and signing data to the Nautilus File Manager by using another plugin provided by Seahorse. These menu items can be found both under the Nautilus Edit menu and in the context menu when you right-click on a file or folder. To use them, select the files or folders you want to operate on and select Edit -> Encrypt or Edit -> Sign. GnuPG will create a new file with a .pgp extension for any files you encrypt, and with a .sig extension for any files you sign. Your original, unencrypted file will remain unencrypted.
To verify the signature on a file with a .sig extension, right-click and select Open with Verify Signature. To decrypt a file with a .pgp extension, right-click on it and select Open with Decrypt File. On older versions of the Nautilus plugin, you may not automatically see this last option. If you don't, select Open With -> Open with Other Application, and click the Open with Custom Command option, entering
seahorse-tool -d in the text field that appears. After you have done this you should see Open with seahorse-tool when you right-click on an encrypted file, and clicking on this option will decrypt the file for you.
Web browsers
The Epiphany Web browser benefits from yet another GnuPG plugin provided by Seahorse. With it you can encrypt and sign text in text fields on Web pages. You need to have epiphany-extensions installed so that you can enable the Seahorse extension for use from the Tools -> Extensions menu. This will enable right-click context menu encryption options when you are within a text field. You can also directly encrypt and sign text fields within Web pages using Firefox with the FireGPG add-on. To use it, right-click on a text field and select from the encryption options available under the FireGPG submenu. These tools make it easy to use GnuPG with Web-based email applications such a Gmail or Yahoo! Mail.
Evolution comes with support for GnuPG built-in. Thunderbird supports GnuPG through the Enigmail add-on, which is a comprehensive front end to GnuPG in its own right. The Balsa and Claws email applications also support GnuPG.
Instant messaging
Psi is a cross-platform Jabber client that supports encrypted communications using GnuPG. Gabber, another Jabber client, also uses GnuPG. Pidgin (formerly Gaim) also has an encryption plugin and the OTR plugin, which also encrypts instant messaging communications, but neither uses GnuPG.
GnuPG on other platforms
When sharing your signed or encrypted data, you may be sharing it with people who do not use Linux as their principal operating system. Fortunately, GnuPG is implemented on Windows and Mac OS X too, and there are a number of applications and plugins which allow people on those platforms to use GnuPG and its data protection capabilities on their desktops.
The GNOME desktop provides a number of useful applications which have built-in or plug-in support for GnuPG, making the job of applying digital security to desktop tasks easy. What's more, most of the GnuPG-enabled applications listed above have equivalents in KDE which offer the same or similar functionality. The Linux desktop is well placed to provide the tools required for securing data and communications in the digital world.


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Saunders named new T-Wolves president, part owner
Minneapolis, MN – The Minnesota Timberwolves have named Flip Saunders as the team's new president of basketball operations.
Saunders, who also took a minority ownership stake in the team, is replacing David Kahn after the club chose not to exercise the option on his contract.
"We are thrilled to have Flip back with the Timberwolves organization," team owner Glen Taylor said in a statement Friday. "Flip is one of the more experienced and creative minds in basketball. He knows what it takes to win in the NBA and we are confident that he will do what is necessary to lead us to a return to our best days as an organization."
Saunders, 58, served as Minnesota's head coach for parts of 10 seasons from 1995-2005 and oversaw the most successful era of the franchise's history. The Timberwolves won at least 50 games four times during that period, including a franchise-best 58-24 record in 2003-04, a season that ended with an appearance in the Western Conference finals.
The club got off to a 25-26 start the following season, resulting in Saunders' dismissal. He wasn't out of work long, however, landing the head-coaching job with Detroit. Saunders led the Pistons to three consecutive Central Division titles from 2005-08, and he most recently spent two-plus seasons as Washington's head coach.
"I'm excited to be back with the Timberwolves and want to thank Glen Taylor for this opportunity," Saunders said in a statement Friday. "My goal is to help the Wolves achieve the success that we experienced during my first tenure with this organization. We have a strong nucleus in place and will look to add assets that will allow us to make the playoffs and eventually compete for an NBA championship."
The Timberwolves failed to make the playoffs in all four seasons Kahn was in charge.
Kahn's tenure was also marked by several questionable decisions in both the draft and free agency. He chose guard Jonny Flynn, now out of the NBA, over Golden State star Stephen Curry with the sixth pick in the 2009 draft, while also missing on Syracuse forward Wesley Johnson with the No. 4 overall selection in 2011. Kahn also gambled on the chronically injured Brandon Roy, who appeared in just five games this past season after coming out of retirement to sign with the Timberwolves.


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Lol that's a funny one droffats. Be careful taking advice of someone who claims to give the real story. Although there are some good points in that reply. Yes the screamer is built to jump for sure.
The screamer is also easier to jump which I made apparent.
But from my rides on it, well it's not for me.
You need to try both and see how they feel.
C kites do not pull you on the beach anything close to the edge. Short power throw? What has that got to do with apparent wind build up. Now he's moving into bullshit land and I started to wonder if he's even worth listening to!
but again some good points. the smaller edges do way more than jump and race. For me they are an awesome free ride kite.
Again get on both. The screamer has been driven a lot by Internet hype by riders who are obviously stoked, the edge is true and tried. The hype didn't match the reality for me. Not saying this isn't the kite for you though.
If I wanted to be ripped off the water intensely myself I'd be using a C or C hybrid, not a screamer.


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Family adjusts to Noonan's Syndrome
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Troy and Eileen Schmidt's living room seems normal for a family with small children. Toys were the primary decorations on the carpeted floor, including die-cast semitrailers and fluffy stuffed animals.
The family kitchen table reveals a different story. Standing erect on the table is a 10-inch mirror. The mirror is a tool for their 2-year-old daughter Ruby.
One exercise instituted by a food therapist from Moundridge is for Ruby to watch her reflection with food. The Therapist's goal over the past month has been to get Ruby comfortable with food. Another exercise is to have Ruby paint with food.
"Get her used to the texture," Eileen said. "Get her to start putting more things in her mouth."
The Schmidts never had to worry about Noah wanting to eat, even though they said their 6-year-old son prefers to graze on food. For most of her life, Ruby has eaten through a tube, with specialized liquid food pumped directly into her stomach. She eats this way about five times a day. Each time, she suffers coughing and gagging spells. Troy and Eileen said it will be at least a year before she can start eating by mouth.
She has gotten used to the coughing. When eating on Saturday, she started to cry as she coughed. The tears were not from discomfort but were induced when Noah stole her sippy cup.
Ruby has always associated eating with discomfort. Even as a newborn, she would fall asleep halfway through a feeding. Later, severe acid reflux made it impossible for her to keep food down. Acid reflux is one of the effects of Noonan's syndrome, an autosomal dominant congenital disorder.
The entire Schmidt family has had to get used to the effects of the disorder.
Ruby has spent more time in hospitals and doctor's offices than some people experience in 50 years. She has had three surgeries: in June 2011 she had the valve between her stomach and esophagus widened and a mic-key button installed, in September 2011 she was formally diagnosed with Noonan's syndrome and had a heart catheter surgery to balloon open an artery, and in May 2012 she had tubes put in her ears to drain fluid and prevent infections.
She is on four different medicines that are liquefied and pumped through the mic-key button: a beta-blocker, an acid reflux medicine, nose drops, and an allergy medicine.
Before the mic-key button was installed, Troy and Eileen would have to thread a neogastric tube through Ruby's nose multiple times a day.
Heart problems are the most serious effects of Noonan's Syndrome. It was not diagnosed until Ruby registered a heart rate of 180 beats per minute just sitting down in July 2011. Normally, Ruby's heart has to beat faster to push blood through narrow valves. She also has a hole near one valve. A second heart catheter surgery is planned when Ruby reaches 40 pounds to repair the hole. She may never be able to participate in intense activity, like swimming or sports.
The syndrome also affects sinuses. Ruby has a high palette — the roof of her mouth extends to her sinus cavity. This has resulted in ear difficulties — she had about four infections in a short period in 2012 — and caused her nose to run constantly.
Ruby weighs a little more than 23 pounds. Eileen said some infants weigh as much at 6 months. Ruby's endocrinologist suggested hormones for weight gain. Her pediatric cardiologist quickly nixed that idea because Ruby's heart could grow too quickly.
The first of these events, starting with Ruby at 6 months in April 2011, were a shock to Troy and Eileen. Before Ruby was born, people asked the couple if their baby was a boy or a girl. They would respond that they did not care as long as their child was healthy.
"That's what everybody hopes and prays for," Troy said.
Once the health of their child was in question, it became the focus of their lives. Both have had to take multiple of unpaid days off work for hospital visits to Children's Mercy in Kansas City. Any extra money the couple earns — not paying for food and bills — go to expenses related to Ruby.
"Without insurance we would be broke," Troy said.
Doctor's visits, medical supplies like replacement mic-key buttons, plastic tubes, and syringes, and the high-calorie liquid food are covered by Troy's insurance from Marion County. Gas and hotels are not. The majority of Eileen's paycheck from Prairieland Partners goes to day-care, a necessity with both parents having to work.
The fundraiser by Strassburg Baptist Church about a year ago was a big help to the family. Troy said they still have some of the money left, all though the sum is dwindling.
The family trips to Kansas City have had an impact on Noah too. Usually, Noah is left with either set of grandparents in Marion. On a few occasions, he has cried and expressed concerns for his sister.
But, those trips to Kansas City are reducing with the Schmidts scheduling as many appointments as they can at one time.
The Schmidt's try to live as normally as they can. They still live to go out to eat as a family. It was unnerving at first when the wait staff would approach the family during one of Ruby's coughing spells.
Ruby has been accepted at day care. Initially, the other children wondered why she did not eat with them.
Recently, she acted as an emissary for the day care child establishment. When a new child was introduced to the group, Ruby brought him toys as a sign to join the group.
"As far as we're concerned, both of our kids are as healthy as they're going to be," Troy said.
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text: Rob Kardashian has been charged with petty theft and battery.The reality TV star was charged with one count of each misdemeanour after allegedly attacking a photographer and stealing her equipment in an altercation in Los Angeles in March.The criminal charges come shortly after the alleged victim, Andra Vaik, filed a lawsuit for alleged robbery and assault over the row, which was sparked by her taking a shirtless picture of him as he worked out at the gym.Andra's lawyer said last month: "While this case is still in the preliminary stage, it is clear from our investigation that Robert Kardashian's violent behaviour and his use of force towards Ms Vaik were completely unjustified."Rob ? who's been struggling with his weight ever since breaking up with British singer Rita Ora in December ? insists the paparazzo was trespassing on private property in order to get a shot of him.He says he was justified in snatching the memory card out of the camera, with eyewitnesses backing up his claim the photographer was lying in wait in her car in the garage at his West Hollywood gym.Andra filed a robbery report at the time, despite the 26-year-old star insisting he'd pay her back.-Bang Showbiz


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WASHINGTON (AFP) – A Mississippi farmer who made global headlines two weeks ago when he woke up in a body bag at a funeral home died on Thursday aged 78, local media said.
Walter "Snowball" Williams passed away in the early hours, the Clarion-Ledger newspaper in the state capital Jackson reported.
"Well, they came and got him again around 4:15 am," said Williams' nephew Eddie Hester, quoted by Jackson television station WAPT. "I think he's gone this time."
Williams, who entered a hospice in February because of congestive heart failure, was first pronounced dead on February 27 after nurses and a coroner detected no pulse.
He was transferred to a funeral home, only to start rustling inside a body bag — prompting duly astonished staff to summon an ambulance to take him back to his hospice bed.
Williams, a father of 11 with six great-grandchildren, said he had merely fallen into a deep sleep, but family members felt God had given him extra time for a reason.
"You'd be surprised how many people this has touched in more ways than we can ever put our hands on," daughter Mary Williams told the Clarion-Ledger.
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Whether you ended up with multiple Salesforce orgs through mergers and acquisitions, separate brands or divisions, or through organic growth: at some point your organization is going to need to determine what is the right approach to multi-org consolidation. Here is an overview of 3 approaches to consider.
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I really enjoyed this book because there were many different mysteries connected to the one mystery of what Primo Cell is doing. I was on the edge of my seat in the parts when Molly was in the tight situations. These situations were nerve racking and suspenseful. As I read this book it made me feel as if I was really there experiencing the terrifying Primo Cell, because there was so much description. The most special thing about this book is that it feels real, but is something that can never happen. My favorite part of this book is when Molly's close friend tells her how powerful Primo is. I could just feel the fright in Molly's heart.
I recommend this book for 6th to 8th graders because it has many difficult words that younger readers might not understand. People that like a lot of suspense and mystery, I think, would really enjoy this book because Molly faces many mysteries that keep you guessing.


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September 12, 2011: The 10 year anniversary of America losing its freaking mind (live show)
Host Benjamen Walker is joined by the journalists Jonathan Kay and Petra Bartosiewicz and they take listener calls. Jonathan Kay is the author of "Among the Truthers" a book about America's growing conspiracy theory movement and the people who believe in them. Petra Bartosiewicz has been writing about the FBI's hunt for terrorist networks and sleeper cells. Her soon-to-be-published book is called "The Best Terrorists We Could Find," an investigation of terrorism trials in the U.S. since 9/11.
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Listener comments!
Mon. 9/12/11 6:16pm
Now, we're getting somewhere!
Mon. 9/12/11 6:24pm
I'm glad to hear people talking sensibly about this peculiar brand of insanity.
Mon. 9/12/11 6:27pm
Hagbard Celine:
Great show today!
Mon. 9/12/11 6:32pm
Do pre-terrorists have to take a TSAT?
Mon. 9/12/11 6:33pm
"Pre terrorist":
Isaac is a Jewish name. That's all I need to know.
Mon. 9/12/11 6:35pm
Ben Ladin was known to be revengeful.
Mon. 9/12/11 6:37pm
Why don't you do a story about GLADIO and Sibel Edmonds. If you want to understand what is going on you could start there.
Mon. 9/12/11 6:38pm
How about a "kernal" of thermitic material...
Mon. 9/12/11 6:40pm
how did the "terrorists" get the jet interceptors to fly out over the Atlantic at sub supersonic speed rather then fly to NY or DC?
Mon. 9/12/11 6:41pm
One of the believers in nonsensically complex conspiracy theories is here! I was wondering how long it would take.
Mon. 9/12/11 6:44pm
"Thermitic!" Ha ha. They LOVE their "thermite," as if fire + massive quantities of jet fuel isn't enough to bring down a poorly-built skyscraper.
Mon. 9/12/11 6:46pm
The Mossad demolition crew jumping gleefully on top of the moving truck on 20/20, laid the charges that weekend when Marvin and Neil Bush's security company shut off the electrical and security cameras while the crew laid charges. Assistant FBI director Chertoff personally escorted them out of the country (along with the Bin Laden family). Chertoff is the offspring of a very high Mossad , and enjoys dual-citizenship in the US and Israel..
The Elites who created and perpetrated the criminal acts of 9-11 are of the opinion that infinite money can clean and coverup ANYTHING..(and they have infinite money because the Banksters own the Fed and the Treasury's printing presses.).
Mon. 9/12/11 6:52pm
FROOTLOOPS ahoy! Ring those phones!
Mon. 9/12/11 6:53pm
Weird But True:
If you go far enough way-left or far enough way-right, they start to sound kinda similar.
Mon. 9/12/11 6:53pm
@Mordred All true that Brother.
Mon. 9/12/11 6:54pm
Don't forget that the Bush clan is ruled by the Lizard People from Mordor.
Mon. 9/12/11 6:54pm
doubters! Study GLADIO, Sibel Edmonds and Operation Northwoods.
Mon. 9/12/11 6:56pm
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Mon. 9/12/11 6:57pm
911 conspiracy brings A LEVEL OF COMFORT and suggest that the the 911 disaster was a result of gross incompetence across the board. ... The FBI is an intrapment institite. Period.
Mon. 9/12/11 6:57pm
Incompetence over malevolence.
Mon. 9/12/11 6:57pm
Brass Knuckles:
You guys are ruining all the fun with this talk about facts.
Mon. 9/12/11 6:58pm
@oogoo, I think you mean that it gives comfort by suggesting it WASN'T a result of gross incompetence across the board. If so then I agree totally.
Mon. 9/12/11 6:59pm
It seems that virtually all homegrown terrorists' schemes originate not with Moslems who hate our freedom but with an FBI that does. "Remember the Washington Metro bombing plot?" MoJo asks. "The New York subway plot? The guys who planned to blow up the Sears Tower? The teenager seeking to bomb a Portland Christmas tree lighting? Each of those plots, and dozens more across the nation, was led by an FBI asset."
Mon. 9/12/11 6:59pm
yeah exactly IKE... sorry for miss spells too
Mon. 9/12/11 7:00pm
The Times ran this story a few days after one of the spies sent 24-year-old Shahawar Matin Siraj, a.k.a., the "Subway Bomber," to prison for 30 years. Indeed, without the informant, Siraj probably would never have suffered arrest, much less conviction: "he was not linked to a terror group like al Qaeda nor did he have any explosives. The case hung on the undercover work of [Osama] Eldawoody, a naturalized Egyptian who spent nearly two years posing as a like-minded radical Islamist."
He might as well have been named Elder Goody: he was more than twice as old as Siraj, and he presented himself to the younger man as a Moslem mentor. He flattered Siraj, whom an uncle described as "not too bright.... He's not dangerous, he just talks," and showered him with attention, then suggested blowing up the subway station at Herald Square, one of the system's major terminals; after all, US soldiers were raping Moslem girls back home: didn't Siraj want to avenge their innocence?
After months of such cajoling, Eldawoody's prey finally succumbed. His wire caught Siraj's agreement on tape.
And so a young man with no criminal record, no association to terrorists other than Eldawoody (who "worked" for some of the world's most ruthless, the NYPD), and no weapons or other means of fulfilling his mentor's plot languishes in America's gulag. Not surprisingly, "some Muslim leaders remain convinced that [Siraj] was entrapped."
Eldawoody and his entrapment aren't an aberration. They are as common as dirt when it comes to American "terrorists" – so common we might ask whether there would even be any American terrorists were it not for the government's ginning them up.
Mon. 9/12/11 7:00pm
Oh gosh, now that ScottC has agreed with Mordred's creepy "Israelis are to blame for everything" concept, he crosses the line (IMHO) from kook to... well, you get my drift.
@ogoo, thanks, it's all good.
Mon. 9/12/11 7:01pm
Stoner #3:
We never landed on the moon either. I'm not letting you dudes smoke any of my weed. Total bummers.
Mon. 9/12/11 7:06pm
Hell, even the Israeli people are rioting against their fascist government, don't glom the issues into a convenient cospiracy blob to toss aside..
Governments have always used false-flags to achieve an agenda..Waterboarding and torture is now used by so-called "Western Civilization "security agencies NOT to extract information, but to get false confessions for propaganda to fuel their imperialism..
Mon. 9/12/11 7:07pm
hmmm... steel (and aluminium) building, aluminium airplane... where could mixed aluminium/iron residues possibly have come from? Argument from personal incredulity calcifies into willful ignorance?
Mon. 9/12/11 7:09pm
Old Lawyer Trick:
When you know that the person you are advocating for is guilty, 1. blame the system, and/or 2. scapegoat someone else if possible. Maybe the suckers will buy it.
Mon. 9/12/11 7:18pm
Was across the street from WTC that day and heard 5 or 6 distinct explosions, and the presence of thermite yeah a big problem contributing to theories. Who loaded the explosions for WTC 7 and how? Its hard to accept that we simply failed miserably. A false flag for the invasion of Iraq. Yeah absolutely.
but does that mean the act was created here, or more simply that the powers that be didnt give a shit... or did we simply live thru a collective wish fullfillment?
Mon. 9/12/11 7:19pm
OK @Mordred, you have a point about Israelis rioting against their hard-right govt., but I still don't think Mossad is capable of absolutely anything whatsoever, even if they're not as wildly incompetent as the W. Admin. And imperialist misadventures don't require massive conspiracies to initiate.
And tying Mossad to 9-11 still smacks to me of borderline anti-Semitism. (Apropos of -- well, not much -- I'm not even Jewish.) I mean, I could *almost* believe that Cheney planned it, but Mossad too? That's a real stretch.
@oogoo now you lost me. Distinct explosions mean nothing -- lots of jet fuel and fire and collapsing girders can do that, no problem.
Mon. 9/12/11 7:24pm
@Ike The US CIA has a long history of partnership with the Mossad and Saudi security agencies..They cashed i with both on 9-11 for "The New World Order", increased surveillance and totalitarian power for the new police state, and to justify OilWar Imperialism...Moslems are the scapegoats for the imperial Warmachine..
Mon. 9/12/11 7:30pm
Sounds like a goofy fantastical thriller about darkness reaching into the highest levels of govt. But reality? No. Too much incompetence to pull anything like that off without any leaks. And justifying oil-based imperialism is not that difficult.
You sound a bit like a (possibly moderate) Muslim who doesn't want to believe that people calling themselves Muslims did anything so terrible. Y'know, "no, MY people could NEVER do that! It's a PLOT!" But every type of religion and culture has its horrible mass murderers and misdirected violent lunatics.
Mon. 9/12/11 7:32pm
Agreed Ike lots of plausible explanations. They just fell. at the time the were built the could not sustain a plane collision of the largest planes flying. Israel is realitively small and has experience a very focused late neoliberal economy and has wonderfully revolted. Will it change anything. Doubtful. The fact that powerful capital interests do not care to protect their population, or simply feel death is collateral damage is explicit in Wealth of Nations bedrock for the MIlton Friiedman delusion. That we're imperialist is explicit. It aint a conspiricyy. Is a stated goal.
Mon. 9/12/11 7:33pm
Don't get me started on the Rothschid's creation of Israel for Eternal War and war profits..My religion is punk rock and beer..
Mon. 9/12/11 7:36pm
LOL, stick to punk rock and beer then, and enjoy! I'm just pointing out that the "Muslim street" fans the flames of these theories because they cringe to think that any of "their people" could've done such things, just as we cringe to think the FBI has done such horrible things to people, and many Fox News types refuse to believe it.
Mon. 9/12/11 7:45pm
False flag attacks are the "black theater" states have used for centuries..
Mon. 10/17/11 4:13pm
that guest guy was terrible. could he have been any more 1 dimensional in his incredibly patronising, illogical and circular reasoning? and Benjamin, might i say, slightly cowardly and condescending perhaps to completely dump on those "crazy pot smoking...insert worn out stereotype here..." conspiracy theorists, and not allow one on the show to counter the other guy? were you scared the crazy might rub off on you? of course the "conspiracy" rabbit hole is full of idiots, charlatans and info-tainers, but so is corporate media, ever watch fox news?? or read the NY times ;) it is a rather large leap though to start to suggest that there is *no* truth in 9/11 truth. the official, government, corporate military industrial complex version of events which has been the constant echo chamber for 10 years, makes zero sense, has huge gaping holes in it and rightly gets shot down, this show did nothing to answer or even acknowledge any of those real, genuine questions, and actually imho some rather glaring mistakes were stated.
if anyone is curious about some serious investigations of false flag terror, forget Alex Jones and Jesse Ventura, and go read some Webster Tarpley. mordred knows his shit!
btw, no steel frame skyscraper has EVER collapsed due to fire, never ever happenned anywhere. the towers WERE designed to withstand jumbo jet impact. and the buildings could not have powderised in 10 seconds the way they did if it was just a "collapse". lots of things to think about, no one has all the answers, and it probably isn't worth spending too much time on because as we all know, it's the type of subject you can easily get quite obsessed with, but ya know, try to keep an open mind ;)
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I'm developing a bit of a theoretical framework in my head about people who are used to making horrifying generalizations about groups of people and their behaviors. It's sort of a Dunning-Kruger effect for bigotry. The theory is that the more horrible you are, the more you lose the capacity to understand your own horribleness.
Let me lay this out in general terms before I get specific. Let's say you're "a little bit racist." Over a long period of time where you casually drop slightly racist remarks into your conversations all the time, occasionally people will call you out on this behavior, i.e., "Hey man, that's kind of racist." Cognitive dissonance being what it is, you start building defense mechanisms against the people who call you out. "Geez, there sure are a lot of oversensitive people in the world," you think to yourself. "They call things racist that aren't even racist!"
Most likely you hang out with people who share your points of view, who are likely to be more racist than the general public, and the window of acceptable speech appears to drift in the direction of more racism. But because you're already used to regarding people who react badly to racism as "hypersensitive," when you get even more of those negative reactions you just shift further in the direction of blaming them.
"What the hell?" you'll eventually write. "When did the world get so blasted sensitive and politically correct? I can't even make jokes about lynching a nigger without the thought police jumping all over me!"
Such appears to be the case with the Men's Rights subreddit, an incredibly vile community of proudly self-congratulatory misogynists who are regularly featured on Shit Reddit Says and Man Boobz. It's also, apparently, a regular hangout for TJ Kincaid, the self-styled "Amazing Atheist."
If you're not familiar with him, I forwarded a video about how much he hates feminism to Godless Bitches, who then did an excellent job of picking it apart in episode 2.2.
This morning I woke up to find that my wife Lynnea had been kept awake from an early hour with Someone Is Wrong on the Internet Syndrome, after discovering a MensRights thread TJ started via Shit Reddit Says. I'll be posting her compiled explanation of what went down, but first here's my summary, and you'll see why I was motivated to come up with this Dunning-Kruger effect on bigots.
TJ, going under the handle "terroja," made a casual wisecrack about raping another poster named Lorrdernie with his fist. The MensRights subreddit being what it is, his fellow posters thought that was awesome. Then it somehow became even funnier when he was informed that Lorrdernie was in fact a rape victim.
Never one to give up on a good joke, TJ then says:
"I think we should give the guy who raped you a medal. I hope you fucking drown in rape semen, you ugly, mean-spirited cow."
Get it?
After the ShitRedditSays brigade poured in to point out that this comment does, in fact, make him a horrible person, he proceeded to post a whiny, self-pitying video log about how much they hurt his feelings, and how it's futile to argue with feminists.
I wish I could tell you I'm making this up.
What follows is Lynnea's trace of the thread from its inception. I understand that it's been pulled now, but much of it has been preserved with screen shots.
So, TJ, The Amazing Atheist has had a violent clash against feminists. Summary: He, under the handle "terroja", deliberately tries to trigger a rape victim by telling zir that zhe deserved/deserves to be raped that he would rape people, and then winges about being called out on his cruel behavior.
Here's a screenshot displaying the thrust of the things he said.
ShitRedditSays posts detailing the comments can be found here and here but they can be tough to wade through. [Note, on the ShitRedditSays (SRS) forum, as joke flair, positive comments display a negative sign in front of them. Posts on other reddit forums have numbers displayed normally.]
You can also easily scroll through all the things that TJ has said here, although the comments will be displaced with time.
A reddit user named ICumWhenIKillMen (full title: ICumWhenIKillMen ~not even joking~ acquitted by the misandrist court system) uses the ShitRedditSays forum to draw attention to a reddit post where users bravely state that disabled people do not deserve the title of "hero".
TJ, fails to receive any support for his comment "I love how the whiny feminist morality brigade upvotes a user named 'ICumWhenIKillMen'" on the original post, so he creates a new post with the same name in the MensRights forum to draw attention to the original reddit post. (The MensRights forum is famously misogynist, as can be seen by this month-spanning SRS post.) He adds the clarifying comment, "Personally, I have no problem with whatever username a person wishes to select. But for those uptight cunts who devote a significant portion of their lives to bemoaning the prevalence of misogyny to then openly celebrate the misandry that they claim doesn't exist displays hypocrisy on a level beyond the ability of any rational person to fathom or justify." – Link
The ShitRedditSays forum notices TJ's attempt to garner misogynist support, and both explains the name and calls him out for caring more about the name than the content of the poster.
Choice first-reponse quotes that support feminism:
"…Its not "our" fault these roles were started long ago and pointing the finger to women isn't going to fix the problem…" –WhyDoIHavetoSayThis
"…I suspect much of this sort of thing is largely a result of patient, polite explanations about the way men behave – especially on the Internet – haven't really been effective. After awhile, a sense of futility sets in…" –HowlingStatic
"Hey keep calling other human beings "cunts" I heard it really helps convince them that your logic is sound and they are mistaken" – thewalking
One of the moderators of ShitRedditSays even chimes in:
"Look stupid. What we are doing there, as everyone here in this room now understands, is we are using an exaggerated form of the rhetoric and the implied values of Reddit to satirise the rhetoric and the implied values of Reddit. And it is a shame to have to break character and explain that. BLEARRRRRRRGHHHH" [link from original poster] –ArchangelleDworken
Of course, this probably wouldn't have happened if TJ hadn't replied to the criticism with hatred right from the bat:
"I don't 'get' satire. God, I'm such an AMAZING atheist. smug" –AFlatCap
to which TJ replies:
"I'm going to rape you with my fist." [along with another post that got self-deleted] –terroja
AFlatCap compares TJ's "triggering" language to the dictator Yahweh (the majority of the post being a comparison to Yahweh), to which TJ replies first that he doesn't believe in "triggering" language (link1, link2), and that he will "make you[Lorrdernie] a rape victim if you don't fuck off." then replies immediately, "That was a joke, by the way. Did it trigger you? I hope it did." (link1, link2)
When Lorrdernie replies that he/she is actually a rape victim, TJ goes all-out trying to trigger Lorrdernie:
"Yeah. Well, you deserved it. So, fuck you. I hope it happens again soon. I'm tired of being treated like shit by you mean little cunts and then you using your rape as an excuse. Fuck you. I think we should give the guy who raped you a medal. I hope you fucking drown in rape semen, you ugly, mean-spirited cow. Actually, I don't believe you were ever raped! What man would be tasteless enough to stick his dick into a human cesspool like you? Nice gif of a turd going into my mouth. Is that kind of like the way that rapists dick went in your pussy? Or did he use your asshole? Or was it both? Maybe you should think about it really hard for the next few hours. Relive it as much as possible. You know? Try to recall: was it my pussy or my ass?" –terroja
Lorrdernie remains strong against TJ's attempts at triggering, but TJ continues to berate Lorrdernie:
"No, I'm not mad. I'm just trying to trigger you. It's not working, I guess. So, I guess the whole triggering thing is bullshit after all?" –terroja
"BTW, you have to admit, when I told you that I hope you drown in rape semen, you got a little wet, didn't you? It's okay. We're friends now. You can share." -terroja
"Then imagine the rapists with muscle, dumb ass. It's your sick fantasy, not mine, you daft cunt." –terroja
"I don't believe in triggering. So, what I did was, in my mind, completely harmless. And you weren't triggered. So, what was the real harm? You realized I was joking. I even stated that I was. So, for that joke, I deserve to be stabbed? I mean, do you not see how fucked up that is? Are you even a human being?"-terroja
"I am aware of the pretense offered for your violent tendencies towards me. Also, I'm pretty sure I could rape you without getting killed if it was really on my agenda. I mean, you didn't kill the first guy, right?" –terroja [Note: Lorrdernie had already pointed out that his/her rapist was a female.]
He simultaneously replies to other people on other threads with denial of the patriarchy, slurs, and insistence that he's anegalitarian, and that he's not a woman-hater because he's engaged to a woman.
Towards the end of the rape thread, veerserif makes a long post shaming TJ for his actions. "…I now know that, apart from being misguided, intentionally ignorant, and quick to resort to pathetic excuses, you are also a purposefully hurtful person with no sense of empathy, and no sense of remorse…" –veerserif
to which TJ replies that he's hurt by this reaction, not because of his impact on other people, but because of the impact on himself:
"…I cant believe someone out there feels such genuine, seething hate for me…" –terroja
Unable to fight against the reddit backlash, he creates a video whining about the feminists who mistreated him so terribly:
"…Literally my existence pisses them off. I'm a white, male who doesn't believe in the patriarchy. So, that alone is enough. The fact that I actively go after them, well, that's just the cherry on the fucking Sunday. (sighs for a while) Man, man, man…Why do I do this, to myself?…" -excerpt from the transcript by throwingExpectations.
Meanwhile, here are some other fine blogs that have taken the subject and run with it:
- Pharyngula
- Camels With Hammers — Daniel recommends that you voice your opinion on this by unsubscribing from the channel if you are subscribed.
- Blag Hag
- Lousy Canuck
- Crommunist
- Natalie Reed
- The X Blog
- Manboobz
- Almost Diamonds


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