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Duricrust, surface or near-surface of the Earth consisting of a hardened accumulation of silica (SiO2), alumina (Al2O3), and iron oxide (Fe2O3), in varying proportions. Admixtures of other substances commonly are present and duricrusts may be enriched with oxides of manganese or titanium within restricted areas. Thus, siliceous, ferruginous, and aluminous crusts constitute duricrusts proper. Encrusted layers of calcium carbonate, gypsum, and salt, however, are often considered forms of duricrust.
The term duricrust (Latin durus, "hard") was first applied in Australia to layered materials at or near the Earth's surface, such as laterites, bauxites, and quartzites. These crusts are not of themselves landforms but represent the chemical alteration of the upper parts of plains and other features of low relief. In this sense, they are soils of an extreme type.
Classification of duricrusts
Two partial classifications use compound names ending in -crete to indicate the kind of cementation, or in -crust, to indicate the basic chemical content. Both classifications are defective, although the working distinction between silcrusts and ferricrusts is useful. A more serviceable classification adapts and extends the nomenclature developed by soil scientists in Africa. The type boundaries that fall within duricrusts proper must be considered transitional.
Representing the end-products of weathering, denudation, and soil formation, duricrusts occur mainly on erosional platforms such as pediments or as cappings and residuals on stream divides. The crusts usually form parts of deep-weathering profiles that may be as thick as 120 metres (400 feet). Alternatively, they occur at the bases of cliffs and scarps, in river terraces, or on valley bottoms, usually near to and lower than residual cappings. Except at the wasting or developing edges of crusts, the thickness ranges from about 0.5 metre to at least 12 metres. This contrasts with the platelike weathering rinds as thick as 15 centimetres (6 inches) that are often associated with cavernous (alveolar) weathering, particularly in arid areas.
Distribution of duricrusts
Duricrusts are concentrated in intertropical to subtropical areas, with notable extratropical extensions, especially in South Africa and Australia. They normally are absent from equatorial rain forests. Many are fossil crusts, in the sense that they relate to past climatic, biologic, and geomorphic environments and are not forming under present conditions in these areas.
Other types of crust are associated with subhumid to arid climates, although not necessarily with the arid climatic zones of today. Crusts of calcium carbonate (calccrusts) and calcium sulfate (gypcrusts), up to 4 m thick occur in basins of inland drainage, where they form initially as evaporites (see evaporite). Alternatively, calccrusts form as surface to subsurface soil horizons, or zones, at and near the extreme end of the calcium-rich soil range. Gypsum-rich horizons, common in many desert and semidesert soils, seem not resistant enough to erosion to become crusts. Calcsilitic crusts, which result from the silification of calccrusts or other surficial limestones, have been little studied in this context. Salcrusts (salt crusts) form in depressions along desert coasts or wherever saline groundwater emerges, but unless they crystallize into rock salt these crusts also lack resistance to erosion and can be ephemeral.
In Australia, India, Africa, and South America, the main expanses of duricrust tend to mantle pediments and plains in varying states of dissection, although some crusts occur in valleys in terrain of high relief. Allitic crusts yield commercial bauxite. Detrital and valley-floor duricrusts occur in all these countries, chiefly adjacent to the margins of residual caps. These crusts include economic reserves of manganese ore in western Africa and silicified terrace gravels in southern Australia. Possible combinations of terrain, weathering, erosion and dissection of duricrusts and continued or renewed duricrust formation are highly complex. Additionally, some duricrusts now lie buried beneath continental (nonmarine) sediments.
Rough limits to present-day ferricrust formation are the 500- to 700-millimetre (20- to 27.5-inch) isohyet (contour of equal rainfall values), below which iron is not readily mobilized, and the 1,200-mm isohyet, above which dehydration is unusual. High mean annual temperatures, on the order of 20° to 25° C (68° to 77° F), also are necessary. Duricrusts that occur beyond the indicated limits are generally fossil (related to former climatic regimes), and many within these limits also are fossil. Ages determined by stratigraphic or radiometric methods are as great as 50,000,000 years in western Africa and more than 23,000,000 years in Australia, but duricrust formation is occurring today in some places. Phenomena related to fossil crusts include the deep weathering of the southern Piedmont area of the United States and of massifs in western and northwestern Europe during the Paleogene and Neogene periods (between 65.5 million and 2.6 million years ago), and the early Cenozoic formation of residual bauxite at latitude 65° N in Siberia.
Factors involved in duricrust formation
The formation of crusts involves great loss of weathered material. A generalized example from the tropical weathering of a nepheline syenite (intrusive igneous rock) shows a reduction of silica (SiO2) from 55 percent in the fresh rock to 5 percent in the duricrust, but an increase of alumina (Al2O3) from 1 percent to 45 percent, of iron oxide (Fe2O3) from 5 percent to 23 percent, and of combined water from 1 percent to 25 percent.
The circulation of nutrients between plants and soil in tropical forests involves excess uptake by the plants, and this in turn promotes deep weathering. Within the deep-weathering profile, silt-size material is broken down or leached out. Clay minerals tend to be dispersed and moved downward, especially where high rainfall and vigorous plant growth lower the electrolyte concentration. The remaining oxides tend to aggregate into forms in which spheroidal microstructures are common.
Mechanisms that are capable of promoting dehydration and hardening of ferricrusts, whether before, during, or after stripping of the overlying soil, include the destruction of forest and lowering of the water table, both of which can occur in several ways. Aside from clearance by humans, forest destruction, for example, may be caused by climatic change and downcutting by fluvial processes.
Silcrust formation requires the selective concentration of silica, a fact that has led some experts to consider silcrusts as the lower parts of ferricrust profiles. The distributional contrast between silcrusts and ferricrusts is clear, however, and the transition between the types is well documented. Silcrusts often, but not invariably, result from the silicification of sandstones and quartzitic conglomerates. They occur in areas that are currently drier than those with ferricrusts, but the fossil nature of many, plus the deep-weathering profiles to which they usually belong, presumably indicate humid climates at the time of formation and inhibit direct reference to existing controls. Like ferricrusts, silcrusts are usually taken to have originated below the ground surface, possibly under a layer of erodible, fine material.
Mobilization, migration, and concentration of ions
Soil-formation processes of selective concentration of oxides of iron and aluminum, and in some circumstances of silica, include ion exchange as a most important factor. Although not yet completely understood, this involves the exchange of ions held by negative charges with other ions in the electrolyte (soil solution). Ion exchange is influenced by the fit of ions into a mineral structure. Relevant processes include hydration (adsorption of water), hydroxylation (adsorption of H+ and OH- ions), oxidation (combination of oxygen, with loss of electrons to weathering agents), and reduction (depletion of combined oxygen). Ion exchange is controlled by the cation exchange capacity (CEC) expressed as the amount of exchangeable cations in milliequivalents per 100 grams clay at pH 7. Low CEC values are typical of kaolinitic clays and of actual or potential duricrusts.
Soil water will separate into oppositely charged ions, H+ and OH-, and the CO2 of the atmosphere and soil will yield HCO3- and free H+ ions in solution. These products promote displacement of some metal cations, especially those in mineral silicates, largely by H+ ions that combine with OH- in removable solutes. The H+ ions are small and highly charged in relation to their size and can readily enter many crystal lattices; OH- ions neutralize the small charges of Na+, K+, and the larger charges of Ca++ and Mg++. Positive charges in soil particles are partly related to hydrous oxides of iron, aluminum, and manganese. Negative charges, increasing with falling pH, are neutralized by positive ions, among which Al(OH)2+ is one of the more significant. Negatively charged colloidal SiO2 and colloidal Al2O3 and positively charged Fe2O3 probably interact at high concentrations of H+ ions to form clay minerals. Among these, the most stable are the one-to-one layer silicates of the kaolin family, in which each silicon–oxygen sheet is condensed with one aluminum hydroxide sheet.
At least part of the ion-exchange process involves organisms and organic substances. Chelating agents, complex amino acids, and allied compounds inactivate ions of aluminum and iron and hold them firmly in lattice structures. The ions then behave as if they were not present, except when acidity markedly decreases and they are redeposited. Manganese and silicon can be similarly treated. The combined processes of solution and eluviation (soluviation) and of chelation and eluviation (cheluviation) appear to act powerfully in the formation of oxide-rich plinthite prior to duricrust formation. In the mobilization and fixing of iron, as in the general production of organic acids, bacteria also play a part. Some act to form soluble iron, others oxidize soluble ferrous iron (Fe(OH)2) to insoluble ferric iron (Fe2O3); and soil microorganisms, including bacteria, are specifically involved in the production of a number of prominent chelating agents.
Rock type, terrain, and water table fluctuations
Duricrusts occur on a wide range of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks, including granites, basalts and gabbros, arenites, and argillites. There is only the roughest of tendencies for duricrust chemistry to be controlled by bedrock chemistry, even in similar climates, although nepheline syenites characteristically weather into allitic (aluminum-rich) crusts, basic igneous rocks into ferritic (iron-rich) to tiallitic (titanium–aluminum) crusts, and arenites and argillites, in some areas, into silitic (silica-rich) crusts. Ferritic crusts are more highly indurated, more variable in structure, and less strongly hydrated than aluminous crusts. Although structures in silitic crusts vary from pea-sized nodules to blocky and massive, with natural, subsurface erosion pipes at lower levels, these crusts are not hydrous.
Profile drainage is influential; ready leaching and alkaline to neutral conditions favour removal of silica and concentration of aluminum and also of titanium if available. Nearness to the water table promotes concentration of iron, whereas poor site drainage and acidity possibly favour accumulation of silica. Known distributions, however, suggest geographic contrasts between ferricrust and silcrust formation rather than lithological control, which appears to be effective only in transitional belts.
Terrain requirements for duricrust formation include gentle slopes or situations where groundwater can supply oxides of iron and manganese or both of these. Well-preserved fossil crusts on pediments or plains with maximum slopes of 8° to 10° (and average slopes of 2° or less) suggest feeble lateral movement of groundwater and relative enrichment of crusts by leaching. This contrasts with the active translocation responsible for the absolute enrichment of crusts at the base of scarps and on valley floors. Also indicative of groundwater action are the light-coloured and mottled zones of many deep-weathering profiles; the former are regarded as the result of kaolinization in a reducing (de-ionizing) environment, and the latter from seasonal fluctuation of the groundwater level. Incapacity of these zones to supply the iron content of numerous crusts confirms relative enrichment.
Effects of climate and time
Calccrusts, gypcrusts, and salcrusts are referable to dry climates, but duricrusts proper, at least in present and late Holocene occurrences (the Holocene Epoch began about 11,700 years ago), are referable to humid tropical climates, probably with seasonal dryness, coincident wet and warm seasons, and soil temperatures averaging 25° to 30° C (about 75° to 85° F). Under these conditions, 50 percent or more of the original rock volume can be lost during weathering, but the preservation of structures in some profiles indicates downward thickening rather than overall diminution.
A span of 30 to 50 years will convert a drying ferallitic clay to a ferallitic duricrust; but extrapolation from known values suggests that up to 15,000,000 years may be required to form really deep-weathering profiles. Such time spans seem to be well within the range of duration of humid tropical forests in the Paleogene and Neogene, however.
Climatic change presumably is responsible for the presence of duricrusts in equatorial areas that now receive more than 1,200 mm mean annual precipitation. The former northward extension of aridity in Africa, with Kalahari sand extending 1,600–3,000 kilometres (1,000–1,900 miles) beyond its present limit, is well documented. Similarly, former climates of the current humid tropical type are probably responsible for the presence of fossil crusts outside the tropics and for relict Paleogene and Neogene deep weathering. Such climates seem explicable in terms of reduced pole-to-Equator temperature gradients.
Although dehydration and hardening of duricrusts are often called irreversible, this is not true over the long term. Apart from disaggregation of eroding caps, residual ferricrusts can be attacked by renewed soil-formation processes, which remobilize iron and produce red-yellow soils called lateritic podzolics in older classifications.
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Europe faces a significant job challenge. At an average of 11 percent, unemployment remains stubbornly high while labor force participation, at 58 percent of the working age population, lags behind most other regions of the world. This means, that only every second person in working age currently has a paying job across the region. Addressing the job challenge requires multifaceted labor market policies. We argue however that reducing the tax burden on labor, which remains high across the region, holds the promise of improving labor market outcomes. Such tax cuts could especially target low-wage workers, which often face the highest marginal tax rates and very elastic labor demand and are therefore most likely to be priced out of the formal labor market.
Labor taxes in the EU (including new EU member states) absorb on average about 40 percent of total gross labor costs, surpassing the already high 34 percent average in the OECD zone. Labor taxes drive a wedge between the wages a firm pays and the wages that workers receive. High labor taxes discourage employers from creating formal jobs while workers face weak incentives to increase labor supply. To gain a better understanding of how labor taxes affect employment we looked at evidence from a panel of 40 OECD and EU countries, including new EU member states, over the period 1995-2012. Specifically, we tried to find out how differences in total labor taxes affect employment in proportion to working-age population. We controlled for other factors that may affect employment, such as economic growth, but also differences in economic structure and the quality of labor market policies and institutions through "fixed country effects". The empirical results are highly significant and clearly show two points (Table): First, economic growth very strongly and positively affects employment. Second, higher labor taxes (understood as the difference between the total labor cost to the employer and the worker's net take-home pay) are associated with lower employment. This effect is particularly strong in new EU member states - more than three times higher than for the rest of the sample. For these countries we found that, on average, a 1 percent reduction in labor taxes in proportion to total labor cost is associated with a 0.23 percent increase in the employment rate.
But this does not mean that taxes should necessarily be cut across the board. A closer look at labor tax structures shows that, within countries, the tax burden on labor (the so-called "tax wedge") varies with taxpayers' income (Figure). This is because the base for social security contributions is subject to minimum and maximum income thresholds while taxable personal income is often subject to deductions and progressive taxation. The figure also takes into account income from social assistance cash transfers that may be received based on income level and withdrawn if wage income surpasses a certain threshold. As a result low wage tax payers, face steeply increasing marginal tax rates when they participate in the formal labor market. For example, in Romania, the marginal "tax wedge" at very low income levels (below 10 percent of the average wage) can be as high as 100 percent, which means any additional wage income earned is taxed away in the form taxes or withdrawal of social assistance benefits. Under these circumstances workers face weak financial incentives to enter employment.
Perhaps not surprisingly, Ireland which has a lower overall tax wedge with a particularly low burden for low income workers, experienced stronger labor market outcomes-at least prior to the global economic crisis with higher employment growth (1.1% compared to 0.7% EU average, 2000-2007) and lower unemployment (4.3% compared to 9% EU Average, 2000-2007).
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2010 is shaping up to be a busy year. Among the several things I have to announce is a career change. See, I'm currently employed by unemployment, having lost nearly all of my freelance gigs in 2009. In the next few weeks, though, that's gonna change, assuming everything proceeds as planned.
Here's the announcement: I recently agreed to become the bar manager of a new restaurant. My hobby is about to become my profession.
The restaurant is called Cook & Brown Public House (there's a website, but it's pretty skeletal right now), and it's opening on Hope Street in Providence in late February. The owners are a young couple, Nemo and Jenny Bolin. Nemo's worked at Craigie St. Bistro, No. 9 Park, and similar places in the Bay Area. His sous chef just finished a stage at Gramercy Tavern. Nemo envisions a menu that changes daily, sourced from local, seasonal ingredients. They'll be breaking down primals and whole animals, and Nemo's planning to work with Farm Fresh RI's farm-to-chef program, which supplies local produce to restaurants.
For the bar, he envisions a small cocktail menu, also with a seasonal focus, using house-made tinctures, syrups, bitters, and sodas. As bar manager, I'll stock the bar, create cocktails, hire a backup bartender, talk to suppliers, and take care of the more mundane aspects of running a bar.
(As an aside, I've been wanting to tell Camper English how closely I've followed the discussion on his post, "Why Can't I Get a McDonald's Hamburger at Chez Panisse?", but until recently, I couldn't say much about the new gig. I've been thinking a lot about how to serve people who ask for cosmopolitans, rum-and-Cokes, Bud Lights, and so on.)
You may be thinking, I don't recall Dietsch mentioning ever working in a bar. You're right, I haven't. I haven't actually worked in food service in any capacity since college, too many years ago. So, why me? How'd I catapult to the top? Nemo subscribes to Danny Meyer's theory of hospitality–that most of the battle is about hiring people who have it, and then training them on technique, so his idea (and time will prove him right or wrong) is that he'd rather bring in someone passionate about cocktails and then let that person grow into the job of bar management.
I'm lucky in a way. The Cook & Brown space will be fairly small, seating about 50-60 people. We're hoping that a good night, when we first open, will see about 50 plates of food go out. Even if all 50 guests order cocktails, which isn't likely, I'd be mixing about 50 drinks a night. Some of you who tend bar do that in half an hour or less. Realistically, I'll probably only mix half that number a night, when we're starting. So I don't expect to get weeded.
I know this market, and I've dined in other local restaurants that cater to it. You don't often see drunken people misbehaving at them. I'm sure it happens, but this won't be some dive or college bar. So I shouldn't have to break up fights or cut people off on a regular basis.
I know this job will be about more than mixing drinks and offering bon mots in a cool setting; I don't want anyone to think I'm naive. I'll have chapped hands daily from all the running water, and they'll probably get cut up even more often than I already expect. The hours will be long and seem longer as my 41-year-old back and feet adapt to a torso that's upright all day.
The hardest part is that I'll be away from my wife all day. When the restaurant opens, I'm committed to being there every day it serves customers, for the first few weeks, until I know the bar, the clientele, and the food. At that point, I'll bring someone in to cover a shift or two a week so I can have a break.
But for Jen and me, our lives will change. She'll still leave the house before 7 every morning to get to Boston, and she'll still come home just before 7 every night, but the difference is, I won't be here. This will affect her blog, and she'll weigh in on that herself soon, but more importantly it'll affect our marriage. Luckily, she has a standing invitation from the proprietors to come up to the restaurant and have a meal and a couple of drinks. They want her to be part of the family, and they want the restaurant to be part of the community. Jen's such a strong proponent of the local food scene that just having her on hand could be good for business.
And this change will affect this blog as well. One thing I'm seriously hoping to do is document the process of opening a new place, from the p-o-v of a newbie. Taking this on is a challenge, but since I am so passionate about it, I'm hoping it'll be a fun one. At times, it seems pretty intimidating, but there's one thing that stays in the back of my head. I'm unemployed now, and my benefits are close to running out. It's been a hard year as I've applied and applied for jobs with no result. I have very, very little to lose here, and potentially a very lot to gain.
Here's to the start of an exciting ride, and I hope you all have a great 2010.


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Twitter employees will get their first chance to cash out next week, as nearly 10 million shares of the social network become eligible for sale.
The lockup period for 9.87 million shares owned by non-executive Twitter employees ends on Saturday, making these available for sale on the open market.
But analysts are not worried, mainly because that's a tiny portion of Twitter's 545 million shares outstanding.
"Stocks are usually weak into lockup expirations, but I think this one is relatively small," Wedbush analyst Shyam Patil told MarketWatch. Topeka Capital's Victor Anthony also noted that the "relatively small lock-up" should not create too much pressure on the shares.
In fact, Twitter employees looking to share got a bit of a lift this week. The company's stock was on track to post a gain of more than 5%. The stock was last trading up 1.5% late Friday.
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And Twitter could potentially take a hit around May. That's when most of nearly 475 million shares, or 87% of Twitter's outstanding shares, that had been restricted at the time of the microblogging site\'s initial public offering in November, will become eligible for sale.
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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) - Columbus Blue Jackets coach Gerard Gallant gave Marc Denis a rare start in consecutive start. It turned out to be a good decision.
Denis made 36 saves during the game then added two more clutch stops in the shootout to lead Columbus to a 2-1 victory aagainst the Calgary Flames on Wednesday night.
The shootout was over quickly thanks to goals by Jaroslav Balastik and Rick Nash, the first two Columbus shooters, and Denis' stops on Tony Amonte and Jarome Iginla.
``I'm a big fan of the shootout right now because I'm 2-0 and I've stopped all five shots I've seen,'' said Denis, who has won his last five starts. Especially gratifying to Denis was clinching the win with a stop on Iginla.
``I was glad I could face one of the best players in the NHL 1-on-1 to decide the game, that's a thrill right there,'' said Denis, who had been alternating starts with rookie Pascal Leclaire the past month. ``That's why the shootout is such a big deal with the fans and that's why I think the players are fans of it too.''
Nikolai Zherdev scored for the Blue Jackets, winners of nine of their last 12.
Iginla scored the lone goal for Calgary, which has lost four of their its last five and had its six-game home winning streak snapped. It was the Flames' second straight shootout loss.
``It doesn't feel good losing two in shootouts,'' said Iginla. ``We just couldn't find that second goal in regulation tonight.''
Iginla had a great chance to win it overtime but with Denis down and unable to reach the rebound of Iginla's initial shot, the Flames captain fired the puck off Denis' pad.
``Denis made a good save on that one in overtime,'' Iginla said. ``Obviously I probably should have chipped it up. It would have been nice to see that one go in.''
Calgary also had a power-play in overtime when Columbus forward David Vyborny was penalized for tripping giving the Flames just their second power-play opportunity of the game. However, the Flames could not convert the 4-on-3.
``It was a good test for us tonight,'' Columbus' Sergei Fedorov said. ``We were a patient team, we stayed with the program, and we played well defensively.''
Zherdev tied the game 1-1 at 16:43 of the second period, taking advantage of a pair of bad breaks for the Flames.
Defensemen Robyn Regehr and Rhett Warrener were both whistled for delay of game penalties 6 seconds apart for accidentally shooting the puck over the glass. With 6 seconds left in the two-man advantage, Zherdev was set up at the faceoff dot by Rostislav Klesla and he one-timed a low slap shot inside the near post before goalie Miikka Kiprusoff could slide across the crease.
``I don't think they were careless,'' Sutter said about the penalties. ``They were under pressure and if it hits one inch down then its out of the zone and they were both trying to ice the puck.''
Back home after a five-game road trip, Calgary started fast jumping out to a 1-0 lead 5:26 into the first period. Iginla raced down the right wing and zipped a wrist shot from 30 feet out into the top corner.
Notes: Calgary C Jason Wiemer made just his second appearance in the last 12 games. He started in place of C Steve Reinprecht, who was sent to Phoenix for goalie Brian Boucher and left wing Mike Leclerc in a four-player trade after the game. ... Six Flames remain that have played in all 53 games. The only member of the Blue Jackets to hold that distinction is RW Trevor Letowski... Missing his second game in a row for Columbus was D Bryan Berard, who is battling the same back injury that sidelined for seven games in December... Calgary D Jordan Leopold hasn't scored since Mar. 7. 2004, a span of 67 regular season games. Adding in the 2004 playoffs, the slump worsens to 93 games.


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The European Commission has released a short statement in response to the allegations that the US National Security Agency has been spying on EU premises.
These are disturbing news if proven true. They demand full clarification.
As soon as the media reports about alleged spying and eavesdropping on EU premises and delegations were made known, the Commission asked the European External Action Service to immediately raise the matter with the US authorities in Washington DC and in Brussels to verify the veracity of these reports.
Baroness Ashton, High Representative and Vice- President of the Commission, who has competence on these issues as they concern external relations matters relevant for both the EU institutions and its MS, issued a statement already yesterday, and has since spoken to Secretary of State Kerry directly.
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Right-Wing Media's Latest Hysterical Lie: The Military Is Lashing Out At Christians
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Conservative media figures are touting a far-right coalition's sensationalist claim that the U.S. military is rife with anti-Christian hostility, ignoring the lack of evidence to substantiate the charge and allowing anti-LGBT hate groups to drive coverage of the issue.
Restore Military Religious Freedom (RMRF) - a coalition of right-wing organizations including Liberty Counsel, the Heritage Foundation, and Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)-designated hate groups the Family Research Council (FRC) and American Family Association (AFA) - is leading the charge with this bogus claim. In early November, RMRF released a video featuring interviews with current service members making sweeping statements about the alleged anti-Christian bias permeating the armed forces. The video listed a few examples of apparent attacks on religious liberty in the military, but those examples don't withstand scrutiny.
Hinting at the real motives behind the RMRF's effort, the video includes a soldier complaining about the new wave of "tolerance" sweeping the military - a not-so-thinly-veiled reference to the repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) policy. For years, the organizations behind RMRF have crusaded against open service by gay and lesbian soldiers, often using vitriolic language. Depicting the armed forces as anti-Christian has been central to the right's attack on the post-DADT military.
Anti-LGBT hate groups decided long ago that their ultimate solution must be the end of open service, but it was a solution in search of a problem. In its Christian persecution narrative, social conservatives have managed to manufacture that problem, despite that it consists of made-up anti-LGBT horror stories. Right-wing media are happy to take the hate groups' bait.
On the November 11 edition of Fox & Friends, FRC President Tony Perkins sat down with co-hosts Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Brian Kilmeade to promote RMRF's campaign. While he didn't cite a single example of anti-Christian retaliation by the military, Perkins asserted that "all evidence would suggest" that the Obama administration is "on a search-and-destroy mission as it pertains to religious liberty." Hasselbeck didn't ask Perkins to back up his claim, but she did make sure viewers knew about RMRF's website:
Fox News Radio's Todd Starnes - never one to shy away from a fake religious liberty controversy - added his voice to the mix in a November 11 column, citing a single lawsuit against a low-level Department of Veterans Affairs employee to argue that the military is increasingly unfriendly for Christians:
There were seven chaplains enrolled in the San Diego program led by Nancy Dietsch, a Department of Veterans Affairs employee with a history of antagonistic behavior toward evangelicals, Wells said.
"She's been very, very critical of Christians," Wells said in a telephone interview. "Instead of teaching anything dealing with faith issues, she's dealing with a holistic, humanistic approach. It's the idea that the spirit comes from within."
The VA did not return telephone calls, but they did release a statement to NBC San Diego. The VA said the two men were "bullying other classmates and refusing to honor other faith groups."
Wells said the chaplains were subjected to anti-Christian bigotry.
"And that would be putting it mildly," he said. "A lot of these so-called liberals are very liberal with their own ideas, but when it comes to somebody else's ideas, they don't want to hear it.
The allegations against Dietsch hardly prove systematic discrimination against military Christians, and if past charges of VA bias against Christians are any guide, it's perfectly plausible that the suit is just another ginned-up controversy that distorts Dietsch's actual actions. The RMRF video, for instance, pretended that the VA had "banned" Christian prayer at military funerals in 2011, when in reality, a department official had merely instructed employees to make sure that services reflected "the religious preferences, if any" of veterans' families.
RMRF's use of such easily-debunked claims didn't faze the rabidly anti-LGBT radio host Janet Mefferd, who celebrated RMRF's video on her November 12 show. Mefferd cited two stories featured in the video: the accidental, never-enforced "ban" on religious materials at Walter Reed Medical Center, and the disciplining of a soldier who - in violation of rules prohibiting issue advocacy as a representative of the military - marked his promotion with Chick-Fil-A sandwiches and a celebration of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Both stories, Mefferd stated, were clear signs that the country is "on the verge of totalitarianism":
In anti-LGBT activists' fantasy world, an inclusive military has moved the country another step closer to re-education camps and purges, with Christian soldiers being kicked out of the military and replaced with gay ones. Instead of calling out these paranoid delusions for the ridiculous horror stories they are, Fox News would rather treat them as legitimate fears worthy of serious, uncritical attention.
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Facebook released quarterly earnings for the fourth quarter of 2012 Wednesday evening. Despite solid growth, the price of the stock tumbled in after-hours trading. It opened trading Thursday morning 6.7% lower than the close Wednesday.
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Revenue in the fourth quarter of 2012 totaled $1.585 billion, up 40% from the previous year. Expenses were also up -- an increase of 82% from Q4 in 2011. Despite the year-over-year jump in expenses, net income in the fourth quarter totaled $64 million. That's according to generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP. The non-GAAP net income was $426 million, which translated to $0.17 per share profit, 2 cents above analyst expectations, according to the Market Insider report on CNBC.com.
Most of Facebook's revenue comes from advertising; in the last quarter of 2012 it represented 84% of the company's total revenue, or $1.33 billion. Payments and other fees make up the rest, according to Facebook.
So Why Did its Share Price Fall?
Despite the positive earnings report, the share price faltered. It may have been the result of being too successful.
"Expectations had become quite lofty, if you will," says Josh Olson, technology analyst at Edward Jones. "Despite having a very fundamentally strong quarter, ad revenue grew 41% year-over-year and accelerated off the previous quarter; mobile advertising grew nearly 100%. It was about $152 million in Q3 and was around $300 million in Q4 -- a lot of that had been priced in and it failed to meet expectations."
A second reason for investors' cold feet may have come from Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
In the earnings call Wednesday evening, Zuckerberg announced plans to expand the company in 2013, which could bring profits down over the coming year.
"We made the decision to continue to grow our headcount quickly in 2013, particularly in product development. This will likely cause our expenses to grow at a faster rate than we expect to grow our revenue this year. This means that we aren't operating to maximize our profits this year," Zuckerberg said. A transcript of the call was posted on Morningstar.com.
On the call, Zuckerberg indicated that "operating expenses would increase about 50% and that was higher than expected and resulted in some downward earnings revisions for 2013," says Olson.
"That being said, we view the investment as positive. They are seeing strong demand for social advertising and are investing to support this demand. We view the investment in the business as a positive signal," he says.
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Village Voice Editor Leaves to Pursue Scientology Full Time
Village Voice editor-in-chief and anti-Scientology crusader Tony Ortega announced today that he's leaving the alt-weekly, which he'd edited for five years. What is he doing? What else: writing a proposal for a book about Scientology. As he writes,
In 2011 and 2012, I published 465 blog posts about Scientology — and many of them contained multiple stories.
That's not a blog post. That's a cry for help. If you replace "Scientology" with "the Masonic rituals leading to Prince William's coronation as anti-Christ," I have read that sentence many times on Blogspots linked to by UFO message boards. We all have our obsessions, but the obsession of the Voice's editor-in-chief should probably be the city of New York, not a Florida-based cult (about which the biggest stories of the last two years have been broken by other publications anyway).
Meanwhile, the Voice's music editor, the great Maura Johnston (formerly of Gawker Media's former music blog, Idolator), is also leaving the paper. I guess that guy James King is still around to write unfunny self-aggrandizing racist blog posts?


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge refused Wednesday to block key parts of a closely watched Alabama law that is considered the strictest state effort to clamp down on illegal immigration, including a measure that requires immigration checks of public school students.
U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn wrote in a 115-page opinion finding some parts of the law that conflict with federal statutes, but others that don't. Left standing at least temporarily are several key elements that help make the Alabama law stricter than similar laws passed in Arizona, Utah, Indiana and Georgia. Other federal judges already have blocked all or parts of those.
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said most of the law was still intact and the state will enforce it. He planned to work with the state attorney general's office to appeal those parts that the judge blocked. The judge's previous order blocking the entire law expires Thursday.
"With those parts that were upheld, we have the strongest immigration law in the country," he said. "I believe that all sections of our law will be upheld."
There are three separate lawsuits against the Alabama law, including the main challenge from President Barack Obama's administration. In all, Blackburn's orders temporarily blocked several parts of the law until she can issue a final ruling. Those measures would:
— Make it a crime for an illegal immigrant to solicit work.
— Make it a crime to transport or harbor an illegal immigrant.
— Allow discrimination lawsuits against companies that dismiss legal workers while hiring illegal immigrants.
— Forbid businesses from taking tax deductions for wages paid to workers who are in the country illegally.
— Bar illegal immigrants from attending public colleges.
— Bar drivers from stopping along a road to hire temporary workers.
— Make federal verification the only way in court to determine if someone is here legally.
The judge could still allow any or allow of those sections to take effect after further litigation.
Blackburn, who was appointed by Republican President George H.W. Bush, heard arguments from opponents including the Obama administration, immigrant-support groups and civil libertarians before it was supposed to take effect Sept. 1. The Justice Department contended the state law encroaches on the federal government's duty to enforce immigration law, and other opponents argued it violated basic rights to free speech and travel.
The judge Blackburn said federal law doesn't prohibit checking students or suspects pulled over by police. She also refused to stop provisions that allow police to hold suspected illegal immigrants without bond; bar state courts from enforcing contracts involving illegal immigrants; make it a felony for an illegal immigrant to do business with the state for basic things like obtaining drivers licenses; and make it a misdemeanor for an illegal resident not to have immigration papers.
Immigration became a hot issue in Alabama over the last decade as the state's Hispanic population grew by 145 percent to about 185,600. While the group still represents only about 4 percent of the population, some counties in north Alabama have large Spanish-speaking communities and schools where most of the students are Hispanic.
Alabama Republicans have long sought to clamp down on illegal immigration and passed the law earlier this year after gaining control of the Legislature for the first time since Reconstruction. Bentley signed it, saying it was vital to protect jobs of legal residents.
Agricultural leaders fear those parts of the law could cost farmers money this autumn by scaring away Hispanic workers who are vital to harvesting crops statewide.
"There are some sweet potato farmers in this state it's really going to hurt. I don't know how they're going to get their crops out," said Jeremy Calvert, a farmer in rural Bremen.
Zan Green, a tea party activist in metro Birmingham, said she was happy with the decision, saying citizens of foreign countries have benefitted for years through welfare, entitlements, education, medical care and child tax credits.
"''Judge Blackburn's ruling is the beginning of removing the enormous financial burden of illegal immigration from the backs of Alabama citizens," she said in a statement.
Both supporters and critics say it is the nation's toughest partly because of the section that would require public schools to verify the citizenship status of students and report statistics to the state. Illegal immigrants wouldn't be barred attending public schools, but opponents contend the law is designed to decrease enrollment by creating a climate of fear.
In a statement on behalf of 150 United Methodist pastors who signed a letter opposing the law, Revs. Matt Lacey and R.G. Lyons said church leaders were "pleased to see some of the harsh and far-reaching elements of the law have been struck down."
"We feel that many of these elements, written by members of the State House and Senate who campaign on Christianity, are not representative of the message of Christ who welcomed the stranger despite country of origin or status," they said.
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Jefferson Starship guitarist Mark "Slick" Aguilar has recently been diagnosed with Hepatitis C and is currently in need of a liver transplant. His band has helped set up a PayPal account where fans can donate and help Aguilar raise funds for the transplant. A message on their Facebook page says, "Mark 'Slick' Aguilar needs a liver transplant asap! Insurance only covers so much and there are many additional costs. Please help if you can, every little bit makes a difference." Fans can click here to donate.
Aguilar's resume includes stints with Wayne Cochran, Buddy Miles and David Crosby as well as KC & the Sunshine Band. He joined Jefferson Airplane singer Marty Balin's solo group in 1985 and participated in the Airplane offshoot KBC Band in the '80s. Since 1992 he has been a member of Jefferson Starship.


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Remember that Mists of Pandaria beta test I told you all about yesterday? My invite came last night, and this morning I got a chance to create my first female Pandaren Monk. Watch her come to life before your very eyes!
Of course this is a beta test, so anything you see in the video is subject to change, except for my utter adoration for anything involving red pandas. Once my Monk hits Northrend it's on, baby.
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Here is a build by my little brother (the younger of the two ) he has been building up his collection of tan and made this scene:
More pics here: http://www.legocreator57.tk/tan-gatehouse.php
He would appreciate any comments or suggestions
friskywhiskers wrote:Looks Great! I love the gatehouse, it's got a great design. BTW, if your bro is interested in tan bricks, I've got a decent amount of excess. Pm me if he would want to buy/trade for them!
Ryclen wrote:It's a very nice job. I like the stalls, and the SNOTed roofs.
Mark of Falworth wrote:Your brother did a great job!
He should join Loreos!
Legonardo wrote:Great little MOC your brother has there SC, how old is he?
he is good, tell him to keep it up!
Eklund wrote:I like the front, I see he likes log bricks just like you. The market inside is also nice. One thing I would have done differently would have been making the roof of the internal building sloped, but great job overall!
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I'm getting into podcasts now that I have a phone with Google Listen on it. I'd love to hear about geeky podcasts other folks are listening to. They don't have to be explicitly feminist, but I'm having a hard time with finding ones which don't sound like a particularly vile IRC channel read out loud, rape jokes and drunken hosts and all that. They don't necessarily need to be explicitly feminist, but yeah… women friendly is a good minimum bar. I'll start off in the comments.
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UPDATED: Rush Limbaugh's Misogynistic Comments Roundly Condemned
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A growing list of groups and individuals have denounced Rush Limbaugh in the wake of his vicious attack on Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student who testified before Congress recently about the problems caused when women lack access to contraception. The popular right-wing radio host has unleashed a torrent of misogynistic comments directed at Fluke over the past few days, calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute," and demanding: "If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it, and I'll tell you what it is. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch."
A number of prominent figures -- including Republican and Democratic members of Congress, as well as the president of Georgetown University -- are condemning Limbaugh for his remarks:
House Speaker John Boehner
Boehner Spokesman: "The Speaker Obviously Believes The Use Of Those Words Was Inappropriate." CNN reported:
A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner on Friday said the top Republican condemns a controversial comment made by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh but also disagrees with those who launched fundraising efforts over the remark.
"The speaker obviously believes the use of those words was inappropriate, as is trying to raise money off the situation," Michael Steel, Boehner's spokesman, told CNN. [CNN.com, 3/2/12]
NRSC Vice Chairman Carly Fiorina
National Republican Senatorial Committee Vice-Chairman Carly Fiorina: Limbaugh Comments Were "Insulting" And "Incendiary." On CBS News, Fiorina stated:
FIORINA: That language is insulting, in my opinion. It's incendiary and most of all, it's a distraction. It's a distraction from what are very real and important issues. You know, the Senate had an important vote yesterday. There are some who are calling this a vote on a woman's right to choose and a women's access to contraception. I think that's fundamentally backwards. This is a vote about protecting the conscience clause, which used to have broad bipartisan support. That's a hugely important issue in this country. So those kinds of comments are completely distracting. [CBS News, 3/2/12]
Sen. John McCain
Sen. John McCain: Limbaugh's Comments Are "Unacceptable In Every Way." In an interview on CBS' This Morning, Sen. John McCain told Charlie Rose that Limbaugh's statements were "unacceptable in every way":
McCAIN: [Limbaugh] has influence, because he has a strong conservative base. I know that. But those statements were unacceptable in every way and should be condemned by everyone no matter what their political leanings are. [CBS, This Morning, 3/5/12]
In an appearance on CNN's Starting Point, McCain called the remarks "totally unacceptable, totally and completely unacceptable." McCain added: "There's no place for it."
Sen. Lisa Murkowski
Sen. Lisa Murkowski: "I'm A Little Bit Disappointed That There Hasn't Been Greater Condemnation Of His Words By People In Leadership Positions." Talking Points Memo reported that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was "stunned" by Limbaugh's comments and that she called them "incendiary." From TPM:
"The comments made by Limbaugh, I was just stunned," she added. "In the end, I'm a little bit disappointed that there hasn't been greater condemnation of his words by people in leadership positions."
Including Republicans? "Everybody," she responded. "What he said was just wrong. Just wrong." [Talking Points Memo, 3/6/12]
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
Rep. Nancy Pelosi: Limbaugh's Comments Were Disrespectful, "Vicious," And "Outside The Circle Of Civilized Discussion." In a joint statement with House Democrats, including Reps. Louise Slaughter, Rosa DeLauro, Eleanor Holmes-Norton, Carolyn Maloney, Elijah Cummings and Diana DeGette, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement condemning Limbaugh's "vicious and inappropriate attacks":
"When Sandra Fluke testified before the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee after Republicans attempted to silence her, she courageously spoke truth to power. As a result, today, she has been subject to attacks that are outside the circle of civilized discussion and that unmask the strong disrespect for women held by some in this country. We call upon the Republican leaders in the House to condemn these vicious attacks on Ms. Fluke, which are in response to her testimony to the Congress. Democrats will always stand up for women's health and women's voices." [Nancy Pelosi's Congressional Office, 2/29/12]
Rep. Carolyn Maloney
Rep. Carolyn Maloney: Limbaugh's Comments Are "An Attempt To Silence People That Are Speaking For Women." Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) told the Huffington Post she was "aghast" at the comments:
"I am just aghast," she told The Huffington Post on Thursday. "If the far right can attack people like Sandra Fluke, women are going to be afraid to speak because they're going to be called terrible words. It's an attempt to silence people that are speaking out for women." [The Huffington Post, 3/1/2012]
Maloney also put out a statement calling Limbaugh's comments "hateful," "despicable" and "a new low in a season of lows."
Rep. Steny Hoyer
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer: Limbaugh's Attack "Was Beyond The Pail, Indefensible, Vicious, And Intimidating To Others." NBC News reported that Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) blasted Limbaugh's attack as "beyond the pail, indefensible, vicious, and intimidating to others who might want to, in a very honest fashion, testify before the Congress of the United States." NBC further reported:
Hoyer said his frustration with Limbaugh goes beyond the issue of contraceptives. In my view, forget about the issue itself, this was an absolutely outrageous treatment of a young woman who had the opportunity to come before members of Congress and give her opinion of importance to women's health," Hoyer said.
"But I will tell you, I have three daughters, and if he had treated one of my daughters that way I would have been even more outraged than I am for Sandra Fluke," Hoyer continued, "To treat people in a way that is so outrageous." [NBC News, 3/6/12]
Sen. Maria Cantwell
Sen. Maria Cantwell: Limbaugh's Comments Were "Very Inappropriate And Should Be Repudiated." During an appearance on MSNBC to discuss contraception coverage, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) said:
There is no call for those kinds of comments. Those are very inappropriate and they should be repudiated by lots of people. This is about something that women have fought for and guaranteed the right to get access. [MSNBC, 3/1/12]
Rep. Judy Chu
Rep. Judy Chu Condemned Limbaugh's "Hateful Rhetoric" And "Filth." Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) released a statement condemning Limbaugh "hateful rhetoric," adding:
What's truly sad is the fact that this man thrives on this kind of filth - it's how he makes his living. While most Americans work hard and want only to have equal access to health insurance as part of their compensation, and while Ms. Fluke wanted only to stand up for those hardworking Americans' right to equal access to health insurance, Limbaugh wants only to distort the truth for his ditto head audience. ["Congresswoman Chu Denounces Vicious Attacks Against Sandra Fluke," 3/1/12, via Asian American Action Fund]
Georgetown University President John DeGioia
Georgetown President: Limbaugh's Comments "Can Only Be Described As Misogynistic, Vitriolic, And A Misrepresentation Of The Position Of Our Student." In a statement responding to what university officials called "Limbaugh's on-air slurs," Georgetown University President John DeGioia said:
One need not agree with her substantive position to support her right to respectful free expression. And yet, some of those who disagreed with her position -- including Rush Limbaugh and commentators throughout the blogosphere and in various other media channels -- responded with behavior that can only be described as misogynistic, vitriolic, and a misrepresentation of the position of our student. [Letter From Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia, accessed 3/2/12, via ReligionDispatches.org]
Democratic Lawmakers
Democratic Lawmakers: Limbaugh Comments Were "Sexually Charged, Patently Offensive, And Obscene." More than 75 Democratic lawmakers signed a letter to House Speaker John Boehner expressing outrage over Limbaugh's comments. According to the letter published by Rep. Louise Slaughter:
"On his February 29, 2012 show, Mr. Limbaugh repeatedly used sexually charged, patently offensive, and obscene language to malign the character of this courageous young woman who has chosen to be the voice for many of her peers," the letter says. "This kind of direct attack on a private citizen is unacceptable. Mr. Limbaugh is as free as any American to speak his mind about the political and social issues of our time, but using his radio show as a means for blatantly insulting a hard-working American with obscene and indecent language because he disagrees with her personal choices is an abuse of the public airwaves." [Letter to House Speaker John Boehner, 3/1/12]
George W. Bush Speechwriter David Frum
George W. Bush Speechwriter David Frum: Limbaugh Comments Were "[W]rong! Appalling!" Asked about Limbaugh's comments in an email interview with Media Matters' Joe Strupp, Frum wrote:
Well obviously it was wrong! Appalling!
I feel sorry for the young woman, the first time you encounter this kind of large-scale personal attack, of course it hurts.
And it's destructive too, because on the merits - should religious institutions be allowed to follow their consciences in providing health services- Georgetown U is in the right [Media Matters interview, 3/2/12]
Reason Senior Editor Jacob Sullum
Reason Senior Editor Jacob Sullum: "[I]t Was Stupid and Sexist, Obviously." In a phone interview with Strupp, Sullum said of the comments: "I don't really listen to his show much. He is deliberately inflammatory, it was stupid and sexist, obviously, all he knows about her is that apparently she has sex." Sullum also said that Limbaugh "wouldn't say that about a man who had sex, it is gratuitously sexist." He later called the comments "outrageous, deliberately outrageous" and "needlessly inflammatory." [Media Matters interview, 3/2/12]
Conservative Columnist Kathleen Parker
Washington Post Columnist Kathleen Parker: Rush Limbaugh's Criticisms Of Sandra Fluke Are "Vile", "Revolting", And "Deserve Our Contempt." Asked about Limbaugh's comments in an email with Media Matters' Joe Strupp, Parker wrote:
Rush Limbaugh's vile remarks about Sandra Fluke were repugnant on their face. But there's another dimension to his behavior that deserves our contempt. He has a huge platform to express his views and decades of experience, yet he attacked a young woman half his age in the most revolting terms, sexualizing his criticisms of her. It is simply appalling that he would use his enormous power and status to demean a relatively defenseless young woman who was merely voicing her opinion as he does every day. I can't imagine what kind of people found his comments entertaining, but I hope they are few. [e-mail to Media Matters, 3/2/12]
Fluke: No Woman Deserves To Be Disrespected In This Manner." Fluke herself issued this statement, saying she "will not be silenced":
"I thank the thousands of women and men, including members of Congress, Georgetown University students and faculty, and total strangers of all political stripes across the country who have offered kind words and support following recent egregious personal attacks.
"We are fortunate to live in a democracy where everyone is entitled to their own opinions regarding legitimate policy differences. Unfortunately, numerous commentators have gone far beyond the acceptable bounds of civil discourse.
"No woman deserves to be disrespected in this manner. This language is an attack on all women, and has been used throughout history to silence our voices.
"The millions of American women who have and will continue to speak out in support of women's health care and access to contraception prove that we will not be silenced." [Statement of Sandra Fluke, 3/1/12, via Media Matters]
Sen. Scott Brown
Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA): "Rush Limbaugh's Comments Are Reprehensible. He Should Apologize." From a March 2 Twitter statement by Senator Scott Brown (R-MA):
[Twitter, 3/2/12]
Washington Post Editorial Writers
Washington Post Editorial Writer Charles Lane: In 30 Years Covering Politics, "I Can't Remember A More Hateful Outburst From A Public Figure That Was Less Possible To Justify." From the March 2 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier:
CHARLES LANE: I think we should not talk so much about the politics of this and just talk about it on a human level. I have been covering politics and stuff in Washington for 30 years and I can't remember a more hateful outburst from a public figure that was less possible to justify by any political disagreement. What Rush Limbaugh said was really unworthy of decent political discourse. [Fox News, Special Report with Bret Baier, 3/2/12, via Media Matters]
Washington Post Editorial Board: Republican Leaders "Have A Responsibility To Repudiate" Rush Limbaugh And His Comments. From a March 2 post by the Washington Post Editorial Board entitled "The GOP can no longer avoid its Rush Limbaugh problem":
In a democracy, standards of civil discourse are as important as they are indefinable. Yet wherever one draws the line, Rush Limbaugh's vile rants against Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke crossed it. Mr. Limbaugh is angry at President Obama's efforts to require the provision of contraception under employer-paid health insurance and the White House's attempts to make some political hay out of the policy. His way of showing this anger was to smear Ms. Fluke, who approached Congress to support the plan, as a "slut" seeking a government subsidy for her promiscuity.
What we are saying is that Mr. Limbaugh has abused his unique position within the conservative media to smear and vilify a citizen engaged in the exercise of her First Amendment rights, and in the process he debased a national political discourse that needs no further debasing. This is not the way a decent citizen behaves, much less a citizen who wields significant de facto power in a major political party. While Republican leaders owe no apology for Mr. Limbaugh's comments, they do have a responsibility to repudiate them -- and him. [Washington Post, 3/2/12]
Musician Peter Gabriel
Musician Peter Gabriel Blasts Comments As "Unfair Aggressive And Ignorant." After reportedly learning that his music has been used during broadcasts of The Rush Limbaugh Show, the following update was posted on the Facebook page of musician Peter Gabriel:
[Facebook, 3/5/12]
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The United States seeks to have active and dynamic relations with our Caribbean neighbors. Beginning with their participation in the Summit of the America's in Trinidad and Tobago in April 2009, which included a meeting with Caribbean leaders, President Obama and Secretary Clinton have promoted a strong partnership between the United States and the Caribbean countries in order to tackle the common challenges our citizens face, whether it is improving security, fostering economic prosperity, or addressing climate change. This June, National Caribbean-American Heritage month, Secretary Clinton traveled to Montego Bay, Jamaica to meet with Caribbean leaders and announce several Caribbean country grants on renewable energy and a new initiative with the University of the West Indies on climate adaptation. Secretary Clinton also launched the Caribbean Idea Marketplace Initiative. The Caribbean Idea Marketplace is a business competition platform aimed at fostering collaboration between local and global Caribbean diaspora entrepreneurs to develop and expand innovative projects that will generate employment and economic growth. And, today the U.S. Department of State is pleased to host our third Diplomacy Briefing Series -- this one focused on U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean.
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Soccer Player Makes Diving Save, Slides Groin-First Into Goalpost
There are times in sports where giving that little bit of extra effort is a good thing but don't tell that to one Polish soccer player who took one for the team while saving a goal.
Polish defender Lukasz Piszczek of the reigning German Bundesliga champion Borussia Dortmund was the last line of defense during a recent game against Hanover 96. A Hanover striker appeared to have an easy goal as the Borussia goalie was out of the position. As the shot is almost certain to go in, Piszczek makes a diving save with his leg.
Sadly for Lukasz, the save comes at a price -- his slide sends him groin-first into one of the goalposts.


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Veronique de Rugy and Tad DeHaven of the Cato Institute attack the Bush administration's domestic spending policies, claiming that "Bush spends like Carter and panders like Clinton." Although this is surely an exaggeration, there can be little doubt that Bush has been more liberal than conservative when it comes to fiscal policy, and that this phenomenon cannot fully be explained by citing the war on terrorism.
The Cato Institute is a libertarian-oriented think tank, so it is natural that its analysts would be among the first conservatives to express serious disillusionment with Bush. I suspect that they will not be the last.
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