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A short list of newsworthy events in which one person, or country, might want to ask forgiveness from another
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Poland from Israel
In the spirit of Yom Kippur, a time when we ask forgiveness from our loved ones and friends and beg forgiveness from Hashem, we compiled a short list of newsworthy events in which one person, or country, might want to ask forgiveness from another.
It's been a while since we've seen a piece of legislation as outrageous as the Polish Holocaust Law, a bill that in its original form criminalized intimation of Polish guilt for the Holocaust and banned the use of the term "Polish death camps."
True, the majority of Poles may not have collaborated with the Nazis, who occupied Poland from 1939 to 1945, but there were undoubtedly many incidents in which Poles took part in the slaughter. An estimated 200,000 Jews were murdered at the hands of their Polish neighbors in the Holocaust, the massacre at Jedwabne being the most notorious of its kind. Those pogroms weren't the product of the Nazis' Final Solution, but rather of a very old, entrenched anti-Semitism that waxed and waned over the centuries.
After Poland passed the law in February, a wave of condemnation ensued, especially from Israel and the United States. In June, the Polish government announced amendments to the bill, most principally one that decriminalized criticism of Polish state. So now, anyone claiming that the Polish people bear responsibility for the Nazis' crimes will not be jailed. But according to Yad Vashem, the compromise that Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu reached with the Polish government still enables Poland to present a distorted narrative of the Holocaust.
Furthermore, according to Yad Vashem, other clauses in the amended, updated law make it possible for government organizations, like the Polish government's Institute of National Remembrance, to lodge complaints against anyone "harming Poland's good name" — a completely amorphous new legal standard. Unlike the criminal sanctions, complaints of this kind will be considered a civil legal matter, with perpetrators subject to fines. That's significant when you realize that under Polish civil law, the onus to prove innocence is on the defendant, not the plaintiff. That means that defendants must pay for their own defense in court.
It's a pity that in 2018, instead of learning from the lessons of the Holocaust, there are still people rewriting history for their own political-nationalistic purposes.
North Korea from Mike Pompeo
It's anyone's guess whether the United States will convince North Korea to give up its nuclear program in exchange for a lifting of international sanctions. But for now it looks unlikely. The North Koreans, who sent President Trump an encouraging letter in March, have in recent weeks returned to their threatening rhetoric and halted the dismantling of their missile sites.
For North Korea, before they pay the ultimate price — dismantling nukes — they first want the prize: annulment of sanctions. The problem is, that's not how business works, certainly not with Donald Trump. The upshot is that Kim Jong-un and company have wasted a lot of precious time for US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, who's been a frequent flyer on the Pyongyang-Seoul-Washington shuttle the last six months.
Donald Trump from John McCain
After Senator John McCain died on August 25, the White House flew its flag at half-staff, as is customary when a US senator passes away. But the next day, the White House raised the flag again, angering veteran's groups who said the flag should be left at half-staff until the senator's burial.
Observers instantly saw a political message: President Trump and Senator McCain had a rancorous relationship, and the president was making sure he had the last word.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, McCain, a former presidential candidate, did not endorse Trump. And Trump, for his part, had insulted McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, in a deeply personal way. "He's not a war hero… I like people that weren't captured," Trump said in July 2015.
In fact, Trump's remarks about McCain could be seen as the first instance in which the president used offensive, intemperate remarks about someone else, a habit that has continued for the last three years. Beyond Trump's obligation to apologize to the McCain family, it seems that an apology is in order to everything McCain represents — namely a style of bipartisan politics that respects the political opponent and engages in fair debate.
Washington Journalists from Sarah Huckabee Sanders
The White House Correspondents Dinner is an annual opportunity for the Washington press corps to roast the political class, and in particular the occupant of the Oval Office.
Given his unpopularity with the press, President Trump hasn't appeared at either of the two dinners during his tenure. This year, he sent his White House spokesperson, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in his stead.
Sanders, the daughter of former Republican governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, endured a cruel ribbing from comedian Michelle Wolf, who made fun of Sanders's weight and appearance in front of an audience of hundreds. The cruel tirade shocked even calloused journalists, most of whom agreed that a line of civility had been crossed.
Disappointingly, the day after the dinner, the president of the White House Correspondents Association, Margaret Talev, expressed "regret" that the program did not reflect well on the writers' group but failed to offer an apology to Sanders. At a time when public trust of the press is at an all-time low, the skewering of Sanders, and the failure to apologize, doesn't build much credibility. (Originally featured in Mishpacha, Issue 727)
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Healthy Living and Eating
Living Healthy, Eating Properly and Living Longer! We have hundreds of books, articles, blogs, etc. available to us on the subject of living healthy and eating properly. However looking at the statistics in North America we cannot detect anything that would indicate that anyone is actually heeding the advice. Granted, some of the info out there is complicated and confusing, but some of it contains good and useful info,some of it has too much and lots of useless info, and some of it is outright wrong and could be harmful. Like everything today, we must be able to sort out the good and useful information and discard and disregard the others. First I would like to state here: we would hardly need a doctor or medications. Look at wild animals as an example, there are hardly any sick ones out there! WHY? well, they live and EAT HEALTHILY! For the most part we do not, in our modern world, have much influence over our environment like contamination, pollution etc., and nobody could come and suggest that living in a big city is becoming to our health. Other than moving to a pristine location there are other things we can control to help us live healthier. REDUCE STRESS: now here we can actually learn to cope better, train ourselves to be more patient, exercise, yoga to mention a few. then comes FOOD and DRINK, all the stuff that we put into our bodies! Let us use some logic here: The way we eat and what we eat has changed very drastically in the last few thousand years. BUT folks, our body and digestive system did not change. We all know about evolution and adaptation ( Darwin) and it takes many thousands of generations to 'accomplish' any changes, works well for insects and other critters with short lifespans, but our bodies and the digestive system did not have enough time to adopt to our modern ways of eating. We are stuck with a body and a digestive system that is thousands of years behind our modern eating habits and we are better off if we start catering to the system we actually have! So let us try to imagine what our ancestors a few thousand years ago ate and how they ate. Originally all they had was wild fruits and something we could regard as vegetables. If we ate only fruits and vegetables RAW, we would get sick a lot less, and let us not kid ourselves, we actually can, and some of us do and have less health problems. Eventually grains got added, and then meat. But all was consumed raw until we learned to manage fire, and...it went downhill from there, most enlightened nutritionists today will say: "the worst thing that happened to food was cooking". Now, let's look at the way HOW they did eat that stuff: When they had berry season in one area (for example), everybody ate berries, every day for weeks or more sometimes. Now, that is easy for a digestive system to cope with, like our stomach needs to produce only very specific digestive "juices", enzymes etc. When they had a kill of some animal, they were eating meat, sometimes for days, again, very specific digestive "items". But they did not have hors d'euvres and/or soups first, then meat and carbohydrates together, and then something else all together for desert, they did not mix all sorts of different food stuffs as we do today in a normal meal. And that is a part of our problem, the mixing or combining of foods. WE ARE MAKING THE WRONG COMBINATIONS! Let us assume for a moment that we are not vegans or vegetarians, and that we do eat meat. Ok, it is the meat we should eat first, just the meat by itself, definitely without carbohydrates, so our stomach can "focus" and get all the right and specific digestive juices ready, especially Hydrochloric Acid. Meat is one of the most difficult, from our stomach's point of view, one of the most labor intensive foods to digest. The carbohydrates need to be eaten separately, at least 35 to 45 minutes later. We can however, combine proteins and carbohydrates with raw fruit or vegetables, we call this "life food" and it comes complete with its own digestive enzymes. Easy to see that vegetarians are in many ways better of. So very important: EAT YOUR FOODS IN THE RIGHT SEQUENCE AND THE RIGHT COMBINATION! It is obvious that organic foods are preferred, even though some changes to the US government's regulations as to what can be called ORGANIC partially eliminates our possibility to rely on labels, best to know some producers. It is a known fact that the average person in North America eats too much, especially too much at one time. Eat small meals more often, six times a day is good, snacks are best from fruits, nuts etc. The foods to stay away from of course are all the prepared meals, the processed stuff, read labels and buy food without or at least with a minimum of chemicals. The worst food stuffs are simple carbohydrates; they, together with low fiber intake, are the main cause of the diabetes epidemic we are currently witnessing. The other big problem are soft drinks especially the ones that contain artificial sweeteners (low or no sugar) very health threatening. In future articles we shall look at some of these items in more detail. Summary 1) live in the healthiest environment you can 2) learn to cope and deal with stress 3) eat little often 4) eat proteins and carbohydrates separately 5) combine only with raw life foods 6) stay away from simple carbohydrates 7) stay away from soft drinks, especially the ones with artificial sweeteners.
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New reports released by Defra, detail plans that will bolster efforts to bolster climate changes that are to be implemented by the Big Six.
The report was released a couple of days after heavy storms crossed north Scotland, bringing down two turbines and power cables leaving thousands of homes without electricity.
The government, yesterday released the climate adaption plans that detail how the biggest energy companies intend to make energy infrastructure to be more resilient to the impact of climate forces, this includes frequent storms in winter.
The reports, requested by Defra, confirms that the biggest energy companies are progressing well in preparing for climate risks, such as, floods, extreme storm and heat waves.
The report also warns that further investment will be required in the future for adapting the UK�s energy infrastructure so that it can cope with the predicted climate change situations of hotter and drier summers as well as wetter winters that will be milder.
Lord Taylor, minister of Defra, on a visit to E.ON�s power station in Enfield, has urged utilities to increase their climate change adaption and also to take steps for improving resilience.
The country�s energy supply is extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change, such as, droughts, floods, heat waves, difficulties with cooling, in recent times we�ve seen the effects of flooding in a substation when it knocks out power to thousands of businesses and homes.
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The Constitution of the United States
The Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The Preamble declares that" We the people" are the authority for the Constitution (unlike the Articles of Confederation, which derived their authority from the states) The Preamble also sets out the purposes of the Constitution.
Article I (Legislative Branch)
The first part of the Constitution, Article I, deals with the organization and powers of lawmaking branch of the national government, the Congress.
Section 1.Legislative Powers All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section 2.House of Representatives Clause1: Composition and Election of Members. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature.
Each state has the power to decide who may vote for members of Congress. Within each state, those who may vote for state legislators may also vote for members of the House of Representatives (and, under the Seventeenth Amendment, for U.S senators) When the Congress was written, nearly all states limited voting rights to white male property owners or taxpayers at least twenty-one years old. Subsequent amendments granted voting power to African men, all women, and everyone at least eighteen years old.
Clause2: Qualifications. No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
Each member of the House must be at least twenty-five years old, a citizen of United States for at least seven years, and a resident of the state in which she or he is elected.
Clause3: Appointment of Representatives and Direct Taxes Representatives [and direct Taxes] (Modified by the Sixteenth Amendment) shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, [which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other persons.] The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each State shall have at least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to choose three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
A state's representation in the House is based on the size of its population. Population is counted in each decade's census, after which Congress reapportions House seats. Since early in the twentieth century, the number of seats has been limited to 435.
Clause4.Vacancies. When vacancies happen in the representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
The executive authority is the state's governor. When a vacancy occurs in the House, the governor calls a special election to fill it.
Clause5. Officers and impeachment The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment.
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Politics and the English language
Now, let's see if I've got this straight …
Voting isn't "democracy."
Terrorists are "insurgents."
Darfur isn't "genocide."
Kofi Annan is a "scapegoat."
Social Security isn't a "crisis."
Iraq is a "quagmire."
Gitmo detainees aren't "enemy combatants."
Right. Got it.
Posted by Rodger on January 31, 2005 at 03:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
The wretched of the earth
I always used to take the term "ink-stained wretch" as a badge of honor.
I still do.
Posted by Rodger on January 31, 2005 at 10:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
"Voting isn't democracy"
Ryan at Cigars in the Sand has put his finger on the latest mainstream media meme: Voting isn't democracy.
To wit:
The election is badly hampered from the start by its illegitimate lineage. It was spawned after an American-led military invasion, incubated in an American-led military occupation and administration, designed by a mildly credible condominium of Iraqi and U.N. officials working—literally and figuratively—under the gun of the United States, and administered by an interim Iraqi administration that has "Made in Washington" stamped all over it. (San Francisco Chronicle)
We know that the elections in Iraq aim for democracy, but it is not held in such an atmosphere. (Al Sharq, Qatar)
We can be certain that many people will deny [the election's] legitimacy. (Patrick Clawson, Institute for Near East Policy)
In a country like this with zero respect for human rights, no colonial experience of rule of law, no Magna Carta, how are you going to build a democracy? (Unnamed "Western official," quoted in The Los Angeles Times)
The election cannot bring the Iraqis democracy because all the conditions are missing, because freedom can't prosper on the battlefields. (Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germany)
To me, all this sounds uncannily like the "not a mandate" nonsense we heard from the MSM back in November.
Or, to put it another way: If it's good news for President Bush, then it can't possibly be good news.
To quote Ryan again, it's "like saying that the best college basketball team didn't win the NCAA championship. It may be true, but they are wearing the rings. Wanna see my purple finger?"
Hmmm … voting isn't democracy. Will someone please explain that to the lady in the photograph above?
UPDATE: Ryan emailed me this additional example of the meme, from an op-ed by Samuel Issacharoff in The Philadelphia Inquirer: "By itself, today's election in Iraq is a milestone. But it is not the key to the country's democratic legitimacy." Yep, it's definitely a virulent little bugger.
Posted by Rodger on January 31, 2005 at 12:09 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Votes of no consequence
Above are the results of recent online polls on the websites of Aljazeera and Time magazine.
The the outcome of the first is unsurprising; the second strikes me as more than a bit curious.
Are Time readers actually more pessimistic about democracy's future in Iraq than the fans of Aljazeera?
At any rate, the results prompt a poll of my own.
UPDATE: Baghdad Dweller is curious about this Time poll too. (The numerous comments to the post are heartening, however, and well worth a read.)
Posted by Rodger on January 30, 2005 at 12:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Knock the vote
Abu Musab al Zarqawi isn't the one who's singing the blues about the historic election just ended in Iraq.
Here are some other dissident voices of note.
Sunday's election is not a cure for the violence and instability. Unless the Sunni and all the other communities in Iraq believe they have a stake in the outcome and a genuine role in drafting the new Iraqi constitution, the election could lead to greater alienation, greater escalation, and greater death—for us and for the Iraqis.
Iraq elections will take place as scheduled not because this is the ideal option to restore the country's security, stability and political process, but because it suits the interests of certain local and international forces.
No matter how the voting turns out, the prospects for genuine democracy in Iraq are increasingly grim. Unless there is a major change in course, Iraq is on track to become another corrupt, oil-rich quasi-democracy, like Russia and Nigeria.
Yes, I know how it's all going to be played out. Iraqis bravely vote despite the bloodcurdling threats of the enemies of democracy. At last, the US and British policies have reached fruition. A real and functioning democracy will be in place so the occupiers can leave soon. Or next year. Or in a decade or so. Merely to hold these elections—an act of folly in the eyes of so many Iraqis—will be a "success."
Jan. 30 is here at last, and the light is at the end of the tunnel, again. By my estimate, Iraq's election day is the fifth time that American troops have been almost on their way home from an about-to-be pacified Iraq. The four other incipient V-I days were the liberation of Baghdad (April 9, 2003), President Bush's declaration that "major combat operations have ended" (May 1, 2003), the arrest of Saddam Hussein (Dec. 14, 2003) and the handover of sovereignty to our puppet of choice, Ayad Allawi (June 28, 2004). And this isn't even counting the two "decisive" battles for our nouveau Tet, Falluja.
Patrick Basham (The Cato Institute):
[The elections] are premature and ill-advised … and therefore they are going to primarily serve the purpose of disenfranchising the Sunni minority, which will, I fear, create a situation in which an initial election may produce a stillborn democracy.
Flawed is altogether too mild a word to describe this Sunday's Iraqi elections. Crazy might be a better fit; how else to account for an exercise in democracy in which candidates are being urged to keep their identities a secret, and not to move around outdoors? The violence continues apace with no signs that it will decrease before the voting—or after the voting, for that matter.
Pepe Escobar (Asia Times):
The US administration of George W Bush, parts 1 and 2, has introduced to the world the concept of election at gunpoint. The guinea pig: Iraq, on January 30. The rules: candidates must be anonymous (otherwise they will be killed). Voters cannot go out and vote (otherwise they may be killed). Even if they wanted to vote, they wouldn't know where, because the location of the polling stations will be known only the night before the election.
There is no democratic process in Iraq. Iraq is occupied by 150,000 U.S. troops. The Baath and other parties are proscribed from participating in elections or holding public office. In a real democracy, voters are free to choose from any party. In a real democracy, a foreign occupation force does not exert any political influence whatsoever. And in a real democracy, people aren't afraid to venture out into the streets, risking rape or kidnapping in order to vote. You can't have democracy without basic security, period. So this is not democracy.
You know, I really wish Iraq were having an honest, safe, real election. But that isn't happening, and that's a shame. Even if you were and are opposed to this war, as I am, you would wish the Bush people would do things right just for the simple reason that it would help our standing in the world. But they can't even do that. Instead, we get a made for the media moment, then the cameras will go away and it will be 9/10 all over again, ripe for the next Bin Laden and ready for another Republican president idling his time away on vacation.
On the one hand I'm really excited that Iraqi people have been able to start the path to a potentially democratic political system, on the other hand I'm really upset that this will embolden neoconservatives and will be seen as a confirmation of their dangerous plans for the world.
Armando (The Daily Kos):
This Election is simply, in my estimation, an exercise in pretty pictures. Why? Because Elections are to choose governments, not to celebrate the day. Are the people elected capable of governing Iraq at this time? Without 150,000 U.S. soldiers? Or even with them?
Mark Plattner (American Samizdat):
There has got to be some word coined for the Sham that is a Farce wrapped up in and stinking of Bullshit that is this election.
In the democratic symphony, elections are but a single note. An election that produces more of the same, or possibly even worse, will mean neither success nor victory.
No one in the United States should try to over-hype this election. It is hard to say that something is legitimate when whole portions of the country can't vote and doesn't vote.
As Alice Miles wrote last week in The Times (London), "There is a shocking tendency … to be more interested in the failure of elections in Iraq than in their success …. People will risk their lives going to the polls in areas of Iraq this weekend, and some parts of the media—in other countries as well as in ours, I assume—have already written off those efforts as worthless, the elections as fatally flawed. What blinkered arrogance."
UPDATE: From the National Lampoon's "Iraq the Vote" website …
Baghdad Dweller comments: "There are people really pissed off because we Iraqis can vote and we voted and we will keep voting. Look at those losers who designed buttons, posters and bumper stickers to discourage the Iraqis … In your faces, you trolls. We did it."
UPDATE: Greg Djerejian, Michelle Malkin, Arthur Chrenkoff, Rand Holman and Hugh Hewitt all remark on the deafening silence coming from the left side of the blogosphere. In general, the MSM seem to have done better than their pajama-wearing counterparts in answering Soxblog's challenge.
Posted by Rodger on January 30, 2005 at 10:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
MSM mash notes
Most bloggers on the right tend to view the mainstream media with as much trust as you'd accord a pit bull with a string of foam trailing from its mouth.
As a result, most of us respond to the MSM in one of two ways: outright hostility or avoidance.
But, despite the best efforts of the Bolsheviks to burn it down (to use Hugh Hewitt's memorable phrase), the MSM will probably be with us, at least through the end of 2005 and quite possibly for some time after that.
What's more, not all of its editors and journalists necessarily have big political axes to grind (at least not as manically as, say, the ones at The New York Times or CBS).
This being the case, may I offer a modest suggestion—one I believe has as much, maybe more, transformational potential as congressional hearings over Memogate.
Mash notes to journalists.
Some of these folks—particularly at the local/regional level—do have their heads screwed on right and are generally doing a pretty good job of getting out the news that people need. (And even some of the diehard liberals do lapse into sanity from time to time.)
So why not let them know when they get it right?
Post an item on your blog, drop them an email, send them a valentine in the mail next month—or, better still, all of the foregoing.
Most local journalists are woefully underpaid and underappreciated. And most of the mail they get is critical. (In many cases, you really have to wonder why they do it.)
Anyway, I think you might be surprised by the response you get. And, if B. F. Skinner taught us anything, it's that behavior that's rewarded tends to produce more of the same.
Which is more powerful in the long run: The stick? Or the carrot?
Think about it.
UPDATE: The Power Line guys are writing favorable things about the Iraq election coverage of Geraldo Rivera, Christiane Amanpour, The New York Times and even Aljazeera—with a few disclaimers, of course. Captain Ed even offers a tip of the hat to the Gray Lady. Hmmm … could they possibly have taken my advice here yesterday? (Nah … but it's heartening to see nonetheless.) Joe Gandelman—who does occasionally read this blog and is never stinting with a kind word—also commends the Times for its election coverage.
Posted by Rodger on January 28, 2005 at 11:42 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
More Friday dogblogging
(Sorry. No more catblogging. It's too much trouble when you don't own a cat.)
Posted by Rodger on January 28, 2005 at 01:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
American justice
This story from the AP wire caught my eye:
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — When two men walked into a popular country store outside Atlanta, announced a holdup and fired a shot, owners Bobby Doster and Gloria Turner never hesitated. The pair pulled out their own pistols and opened fire.
The armed suspect and his partner were killed. The owners won't be charged, according to local officials, because they were acting in self-defense.
"I just started shooting," said Gloria Turner, 56. "I was trying to blow his brains out is what I was trying to do."
Shoats Grocery & Package near Crawford, 70 miles east of Atlanta, is a well-known spot where locals stop for breakfast biscuits or lunch. Gloria Turner said the two men who came there Monday had something else in mind.
She was rearranging boxes of soda by the store's front door when a man wearing a wig walked inside, the fake hair draped in front of his face.
"I asked him, 'Can you see to walk?"' Turner said. Then she noticed a second man behind him wearing a mask. He announced a holdup.
One man grabbed Gloria Turner and pushed her toward the register. She said the other kept his gun on her 62-year-old husband, who also goes by the name Shoats.
She said she tried to open the register, but one of the men told her she wasn't moving fast enough and tried to shoot her husband. He missed—and his gun jammed.
At that point, Bobby Doster pulled out a .380-caliber handgun and shot one of the suspects. Gloria Turner then went for a 9 mm pistol she keeps near the register.
"All hell broke loose," she said. "I was trying to shoot and dial 911 at the same time."
Both suspects took cover behind the store's meat counter as the owners opened fire. Gloria Turner said she doesn't know how many bullets were fired, or how many times the suspects were hit.
Police arrived about five minutes after receiving Gloria Turner's call; the suspects died a short time later at a hospital.
I feel obliged to note that, had this incident occurred in one of the "civilized" countries of Europe, Bobby Doster and Gloria Turner would, at this moment, be either (a) in police custody; or (b) dead.
But I guess that's just the price you have to pay for being a responsible member nation of "the new global consensus."
UPDATE: This seems to have caught more than just my eye. Peaktalk writes that the fact the owners weren't charged "pretty much sums up the difference between an American and European approach to dealing with crime." Daily Pundit comments: "It sounds to me, just from the brief account, like the store owners, Gloria and Bobby, were practicing fairly good 'gun control,' particularly on a couple of fast-moving 'targets.' An outstanding expression of Second Amendment rights, I'd say." James Joyner at Outside the Beltway echoes the thought: "It's been said that gun control is being able to hit your target." Walt at Truth, Lies & Common Sense notes: "We have a heard of a "robbery gone wrong" where innocent people died. I may be a little insensitive here, but I think this is an example of a 'robbery gone right.'" Acidman at Gut Rumbles writes: "I like stories with happy endings." As Glenn Reynolds would say: Indeed.
UPDATE: Lee Bowman—an American who has lived in England for two decades now—sends this link to a story by Richard Munday from The Telegraph: "While American 'gun culture' is still regularly the sensational subject of media demonisation in Britain, the grim fact is that in this country we now suffer three times the level of violent crime committed in the United States."
UPDATE: Here's a follow-up letter to the Athens, GA, Banner-Herald (free registration required) from Andy Totten:
I applaud the courage displayed by Bobby Doster and Gloria Turner during the attempted armed robbery of their Oglethorpe County store Monday by two teenage street thugs.
Doster and Turner demonstrated the only logical way to deal with criminals who are willing to kill for a few dollars. Their actions not only saved themselves, but also put an end to the criminal careers of two teenage hoodlums who likely would have committed more violent crime in the future.
There will be no lengthy trials, no excuses, no plea bargains for these teenagers, because they chose the wrong people to victimize.
Posted by Rodger on January 27, 2005 at 11:55 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)
FBI unfazed by lasers
Remember all the hoopla a while back about people shining lasers into airplane cockpits? Then they arrested that guy in New Jersey, and suddenly the incidents stopped?
Well, actually, the incidents didn't stop. Only the news coverage did.
From yesterday's Washington Post:
Over the past month, pilots have reported more than 30 incidents of laser beams being trained from the ground into their aircraft, prompting warnings from federal authorities and new reporting guidelines. One of the incidents occurred in Anne Arundel County, where a man is charged with shining a laser beam at a police helicopter on New Year's Eve.
A UPI story today adds, "According to federal authorities, there have been about 400 reported instances of hand-held lasers being aimed at aircraft since the early 1990s."
Which would indicate the incidents have jumped from an average of two or three a month to 30 in a remarkably short time.
But not to worry, the article goes on:
Jack Hess, acting assistant special agent in charge of counter-terrorism for the FBI, said the apparent increase in incidents in the last month might be caused by new reporting requirements [which only went into effect on January 19] in which pilots must report every laser encounter.
"There are more incidents being reported, but we're not sure if there are more incidents," Hess said.
Yeah, that's the ticket. Whew. I feel much better now.
Posted by Rodger on January 27, 2005 at 05:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Peggy Noonan: still pouting
As I mentioned earlier, The New Republic described John Kerry as a case of "sour grapes" for his scowling performance at Condi Rice's confirmation hearings last week.
But—despite the stiff competition from the stiff—this month's Sour Grapes Award goes to Peggy Noonan for her two recent columns on the Bush inaugual.
Last week, you may recall, she landed the first blow.
After the typical Noonan digressions about fire alarms in the night and milling around in a hotel lobby (flashing her pedicured tootsies at Warren Buffet and James Baker), she finally got to the point—namely, that the speech promised more than the Bush administration could reasonably deliver over the next four years.
Leaving aside the fact that nearly every inaugual in history has overpromised (Kennedy: "a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle … against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself."), it's hard to know what "realistic" objectives Bush could have offered—reforming the tax code? fixing Social Security?—that would have been in any way inspirational to his audience. Personally, I thought that encouraging freedom abroad (especially in the Middle East) and an "ownership society" at home were fairly concrete and realistic goals, but maybe I didn't listen to the same speech.
Noonan rightly took a lot of heat for her column, and she's back this week trying to bolster her sagging arguements.
But—as her old boss Dan Rather should have learned by now—standing by a bad story just tarnishes your credibility that much more.
Words have meaning. To declare that it is now the policy of the United States to eradicate tyranny in the world, that we are embarking on the greatest crusade in the history of freedom, and that the survival of American liberty is dependent on the liberty of every other nation—seemed to me, and seems to me, rhetorical and emotional overreach of the most embarrassing sort.
Words do have meaning, of course. But, as I noted at the time, those words aren't even close to the ones Bush actually said.
When the Declaration of Independence was first read in public and the Liberty Bell was sounded in celebration, a witness said, "It rang as if it meant something." In our time it means something still. America, in this young century, proclaims liberty throughout all the world, and to all the inhabitants thereof.
Being a beacon of hope to the rest of the world is something the United States has done by quiet example (often too quiet) throughout its history. Making the spread of democracy an explicit part of our foreign policy is a comparatively new wrinkle, but certainly not one that's out of line with American values (for what for other objective did we fight the Cold War?) or traditions (didn't Presidents Wilson and Kennedy once say something about this too?).
If that's overreach "of the worst sort," then what's overreach of the best sort?
Noonan goes on:
If in the next 30 months he can stabilize and fortify Iraq, helping it to become a functioning democratic entity that doesn't encourage terrorism; further gird and undergird Afghanistan; keep the U.S. safe from attack; make our alliances closer; make permanent his tax cuts; and break through on Social Security, that will be huge. It will be historic. It will yield a presidency that even its severest critics will have to admit was enormously consequential, and its supporters will rightly claim as leaving a lasting legacy of courage and inspiration. We don't need more than that—it's quite enough. And it will be quite astonishing. Beyond that, don't overreach. Refrain from breast beating, and don't clobber the world over the head with your moral fabulousness.
Okay, Peggy, then let's try writing that speech together, shall we?
My fellow Americans … we have much to accomplish in the next four years.
But we have infinitely more to gain.
If we live up to the greatness … the promise … inherent in each of us … then I see a world very different from the one we live in now …
I see a world where the newly-liberated nation of Iraq has been stablized and fortified … where it has become a functioning democratic entity that doesn't encourage terrorism.
I see a world where the freedom of another newly-liberated nation, Afghanistan, has been further girded … and undergirded.
I see a world where America's vast and productive homeland continues to be safe from terrorist attack.
I see a world where America and its allies work more closely togther.
I see a world where America … the symbol of democracy to many around the globe … has made its tax cuts permanent and reformed its Social Security system … for the betterment of all …
Boy, I don't know about you, but that sure gets me in a lather. Makes me want to roll up my sleeves and get down to the job.
In all seriousness, what Noonan seems to want isn't an inaugural address at all but a state of the union speech, complete with bullet points and a plug for the new website (www.americasagenda.gov) where you can find all the specifics. (We'll have one of those, but we'll have to wait until next month.)
What she really wanted, I suspect, was to have been given the opportunity to write the inaugual herself, and I have no doubt she would have done an acceptable job of it.
Except that the final product would have ended up very much like the one Mike Gerson and George Bush actually wrote. Because that's what the President deserved and what most Americans rightly expected from a second-term inaugural.
So, Peggy, why not just tell your readers that?
Let me be honest: I wanted Gerson's job. Wanted it so bad I could taste it. But I didn't get it. My stablemate here at The Wall Street Journal, Bill McGurn, wound up with it instead. And I'm pissed about it. Really pissed. Particularly given the fact that I actually took a leave of absence to write all those convention speeches for second-stringers like Rick Santorum to support the President. McGurn didn't do that, did he? Didn't think so. Bet McGurn couldn't come up with "slipped the surly bonds of earth" on a couple hours' notice either. And how many books about speechwriting has Mr. Editoral-Writer-in-Chief published? Hmmm … let me count. That would be none. And yet you gave him the job, because … hmmm … the President prefers his chief speechwriter to have a penis? Would that be it???
No, on second thought … I'll just write another column about how badly Bush's inaugual address sucked and let it go at that.
UPDATE: My friend James Fredrick Dwight at Soxblog has similar suspicions: "It does seem as if the impulse behind Peggy's repeated savaging of the Inaugural may well be professional jealousy." Read the whole thing.
UPDATE: Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom adds some important perspective to the Noonan story: "I happened to be watching FOX for the Pres's inaugural speech, and Noonan was on the panel that reacted to it. Her initial reaction was that the speech was "breathtaking", though it did overreach slightly in a couple of spots toward the end. The next day, she penned a column that foregrounded those overreaching problems (as she perceived them) and forgot, suddenly, about all the "breathtaking" portions she had commented on earlier." Aha.
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7pm | Friday 5 August 2016 | Cubitt Square, Stable Street, King's Cross, London, N1C 4AB
Muziektheater Transparant
Tête à Tête is delighted to return to King's Cross for the Cubitt Sessions, a free, outdoor live performance series featuring six days of brand new and improvised pop-up opera.
Produced by Aventura Musica and Muziektheater Transparant co-produced by JazzLab Series and Opera Days Rotterdam. With the support of Flagey.
Secrets is a music theater piece formed entirely with secrets, anecdotes and thoughts entrusted to us anonymously by everyday people.
What are secrets?
Why do we need them?
Why can't we keep them?
How often have we heard, or said to another person: "Can I let you in on a secret? I'll die if I don't share it, but you mustn't tell anyone!". I asked myself if secrets only really exist from the moment they are "voiced" to another person in a kind of "ritual of complicity", this pact of trust which is doomed to be broken repeatedly, and what would happen if we asked people to allow us to give a voice to their private stories? The answer came in the form of over 130 anonymous gifts, many of them from Senior citizens who were unable to come to the places where we had left "Secrets" boxes, but who dictated their stories to others whom they trusted. We also opened a secure website where people could write their stories. From first kisses, to feelings of guilt, loss and rage, to unique fetishes, all the stories are at once individual and universal, because one can relate to all of them on some emotional, intellectual or spiritual level. Each secret has a specific rhythm and musicality and we create a musical setting for each secret with respect for its own character. The secret itself tells us how it wishes to be "voiced"… Claron McFadden
While composing the music for Secrets, various worlds and ideas converged. The Massot-Florizoone-Horbaczewski trio has been working together for nine years now. We only play our own music, which usually has been written for the trio especially. Three musicians and five instruments – tuba, euphonium, trombone, cello and accordion. We soon found that we were not so much writing for the instruments as for the group as a whole. The cello plays parts for tuba, the tuba and accordion counter voice and the accordion does a cello trick. There are no drums or bass, which calls for a rhythmically strong composition. This is also the case when Claron's elastic voice joins us; only then we also have text to take into account. Words. But also 'meaning'. We are relatively inexperienced in this field.
We were presented about a hundred 'secrets'. Michel Massot and myself wrote most of these compositions. Marine Horbaczewski was responsible for two compositions. Because we were already composing, we combined some secrets with a composition or a budding idea. In other cases we revised texts – as not every teller of secrets is necessarily a great writer – and then put them to music, word for word.
It is not our goal to solely create mysterious music or to play only sad songs. As the programme evolved towards completion, we composed in different styles, rhythms, and harmonies to end up with a varied programme. The instrumentation, helped by Claron's voice – is specific enough to allow us some room to stylistically wonder about. Not everything is composed. Usually, we write three or four parts. Sometimes a second part will be the basis for an improvisation, sometimes nothing but the harmony is the grid for 'spoken words'… Sometimes we improvise without a composition and sometimes we don't improvise, but interpret the composition. But the music is always lively, elastic anditleavesroomforinterpretation,variationandimprovisation. TuurFlorizoone
This performance of Secrets was adapted to be performed outside and shortened a little. A trailer of the performance with projections can be seen here.
For more information about Secrets, see Muziektheater Transparant
For more about producers Muziektheater Transparant, visit: http://www.transparant.be/en
To view the full programme for King's Cross' Cubitt Sessions, visit: https://www.kingscross.co.uk/event/cubitt-sessions
Photos from our Cubitt Sessions are available below, © Claire Shovelton 2016.
Composition Tuur Florizoone, Michel Massot and Marine Horbaczewski
Concept, Vocals Claron McFadden
Dramaturge Tobias Kokkelmans
Chromatic accordion Tuur Florizoone
Tuba, Trombone Michel M
Cello Marine Horbaczewski
Claron McFadden (°1961) After her studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester New York soprano Claron McFadden became a big name in both the Baroque as the traditional and modern repertoire. In the opera world she is a much sought-after soloist, but she also participated in several projects that combined other art forms. She is known for her unique interpretation of contemporary music. In 2006 she was awarded the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts and she has been nominated for a Grammy Award. www.claronmcfadden.com
Trio Massot – Florizoone – Horbaczewski With accordionist Tuur Florizoone and tuba player Michel Massot we find two inspired improvisers, born performers and refined composers on stage. Their dialogue with cellist Marine Horbaczewski creates a sober and controlled craziness. The unlikely combination and the abundant timbres of the tuba, trombone, accordion and cello build seductive, poetic miniatures. Their elegant repertoire of own compositions
and free improvisation hovers between contemporary classical music and jazz.
Tuur Florizoone (1978) is known for his soundtrack for the film Aanrijding in Moscou (2008) and his groups Mixtuur and Tricycle. He also plays in the trio Oliver's Cinema of the Dutch trumpet player Eric Vloeimans and performed with Philip Catherine, Jean Louis Matinier and Jo Lemaire, amongst others. Tuur teaches jazz accordion at the Conservatoire de Liege.
Michel Massot (1960) is a classically educated musician who, for over twenty-five years, has been demonstrating to the world how a tuba wants to be played. Michel was a hit in jazz ensembles like Trio Grande, Rêve d' Éléphant, Kris Defoort's Dreamtime, Mäâk's Spirit, Trio Bravo, La Grande Formation and the French big band Tous Dehors. Furthermore he performed also with Louis Sclavis, Han Bennink, Evan Parker, Kenny Wheeler, Rabih Abou Khalil, Ictus and lots of other artists. Currently he teaches free improvisation at the Conservatoire de Liege.
Marine Horbaczewski (1981) combines her classical training in the cello with an urge for free improvisation and exploration on her instrument. She collaborated with Richard Galliano, Ivan Paduard, Garrit List and founded the group Wang Wei.


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There was a guy in a bar one night that got really drunk, I mean really, really, really drunk. When the bar closed he got up to go home. As he stumbled out the door he saw a nun walking on the sidewalk. So he stumbled over to the nun and punched her in the face. Well the nun was really surprised but before she could do or say anything he punched her again. This time she fell down and he stumbled over to her and kicked her in the butt. Then he picked her up and threw her into a wall. By this time the nun was pretty weak and couldn't move. So then he stumbled over to her, put his face right next to hers and said. "Not very strong tonight, are you Batman?"
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A nun arrives at the local bar
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John was sitting outside his local pub one day, enjoying a quiet pint and generally feeling good about himself, when a nun suddenly appears at his table and starts decrying the evils of drink.
"You should be ashamed of yourself young man! Drinking is a Sin! Alcohol is the blood of the devil!"
Now John gets pretty annoyed about this, and goes on the offensive.
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"My Mother Superior told me so."
"But have you ever had a drink yourself? How can you be sure that what you are saying is right?"
"Don't be ridiculous–of course I have never taken alcohol myself"
"Then let me buy you a drink – if you still believe afterwards that it is evil I will give up drink for life"
"How could I, a Nun, sit outside this public house drinking?!"
"I'll get the barman to put it in a teacup for you, then no one will ever know."
The Nun reluctantly agrees, so John goes inside to the bar.
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Wed, 8 December 2010
Chris Voigt of the Washington State Potato Commission spent 60 days on a 20-potatoes-a-day diet. He is our guest today on the Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore. Chris Voight believes that potatoes are an unfairly maligned food. Working in the potato industry, he decided to make a very public gesture to demonstrate...
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As the world warms, spring is arriving earlier, but the timing is not consistent everywhere
We have already known that climate change is causing early onset of spring on Earth. Now the latest study has revealed just how ahead of schedule spring is in a location.
Researchers say that the start of spring weather varies from one location to another. Every 10 degrees you move north from the equator, spring arrives about four days earlier than it did a decade ago. In cities like Los Angeles, New Orleans or Dallas springtime will likely arrive about a day earlier than in ten years ago.
These cities are located in southern to mid-latitudes. But if we go to the farther north, in Seattle, Chicago, or Washington DC, the spring might be arriving four days earlier.
Spring may come far ahead of schedule in some places. For example, people living in the Arctic might welcome spring as much as 16 days earlier.
"This study verifies observations that have been circulating in the scientific community and popular reports for years," said lead author Eric Post, a polar ecologist in the UC Davis Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology. "Yes, spring is arriving earlier, and the Arctic is experiencing greater advances of spring than lower latitudes. What our study adds is that we connect such differences to more rapid springtime warming at higher latitudes."
Researchers analyzed 743 previously published estimates of springtime arrival across the Northern hemisphere spanning 86 years. They also looked at the rates of Northern Hemisphere warming over the same period and latitude and found a strong link between earlier spring and locations at higher latitudes.
The study is the most comprehensive analysis yet of springtime advance, or what researchers call phenology.
While changes in the timing of spring may not seem a big deal, they can affect human health and could bring many types of diseases. Flowers blooming earlier can also unsettle the pollen season as they force birds, bees, and butterflies to arrive much earlier than anticipated.
"Advancing spring phenology constitutes one of the most well studied and oft-cited examples of ecological response to recent climatic warming." Authors wrote in the study.
"Examples of earlier onset of spring events span a broad array of life history traits and taxonomic groups, including plants, invertebrates, amphibians, birds, and mammals across most of Earth's biomes."


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Yesterday morning Kass came to me with a very bad stomach ache, she said that she's been kinda having flu like symptoms since last Wednesday which she thought were just from the juices she'd been drinking or heat and it had come and gone since then. At first I thought it might be caused by the new natural supplements, but she had started the supplements on Friday and her symptoms had started on Wednesday. So I decided to let her stay home from school and rest. As the day went on her symptoms worsen, more trips to the bathroom, worse stomach pain, fatigue, nausea.... So I gave her the medicine she has for nausea and some flu medicine to help with the stomach
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After another 7 hours in the ER and we are home at 3am in the morning. We are exhausted! Please pray for our little girl that she starts feeling better so we can put her back on her treatment and continue her road to recovery.


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They had on various 'experts.' Only one person -- who probably had more knowledge of biology -- was skeptical.
But supposedly -- and we're talking 2029 for some of this -- we'll live longer because of integrating computers in our bodies. We'll inject computers the size of red blood cells into ourselves -- nanonytes that will allow us to fight off emerging biological viruses. We'll download our memory. And basically, all live beyond 100 and then beyond that.
Where will all these non-dying people live because the earth won't have enough space?
Moon colony!
I don't mind a lot of that and think about it a great deal.
But live forever?
When I was younger, I was all for that -- like me teens and my 20s. But now?
I don't think I'd want to live forever. And that's before you bring in all the nonsense in the world. Having lived through two personality cults -- one right after the other -- in the US, I'm really not eager to live through many more.
And as awful as Bully Boy Bush's devoted were, they turned out to be nothing compared to the Cult of St. Barack.
Those people are nuts. Bully Boy Bush's cult was much more mild.
Which is not to say that they weren't nutty. They were. They were nutty and harmful and scary.
But you could stand your ground.
If I wasn't a Black woman, I doubt I could. I have White friends who work in left and lefty offices and stores and they have to go through the whole day never saying a word against Princess Barry because if they do, they'll be attacked as racist or some other crap.
At my office, all Black, no one cares for Barack anymore. No one makes excuses for him. No one rushes to pretend he's well meaning and really, really cares.
We know he does what he wants and does so intentionally.
So none of us are stupid idiots like Tom Hayden! (Be sure to read Mike's "Size Queen Tom Hayden" from last night.)
But there are so many whores like Tom Hayden out there and so many people who don't give a damn that someone's murdered if they're from Pakistan or Yemen. Murder someone like that in the Drone War and a large portion of Americans seem to be a-okay with it.
Sometimes I'll be asked by people who've just woken up to Barack how I found the courage to tell the truth about him all along and how hard that must have been.
It wasn't easy and there was a lot of hatred and anger tossed my way. But it wasn't the end of the world and I think a lot of other people could have stood up that didn't.
I also think it's true that someone like C.I. did so much more than I ever did. I spoke out online and at work and at home and that sort of thing.
Imagine, it's the height of Barack Is A Saint! It's early 2009. And you walk into a left group to tell the truth about Barack. C.I. did that. And there were times when she got booed. And Kat will tell you that she never lost it, she never let it silence her or backed down. Kat will tell ou that C.I. turned it around and always managed to win the crowd over. There were times when Kat or one of the others would be like, "I'm not speaking." They couldn't face this nonsense. And I don't blame them. But C.I. was always up to it.
And she doesn't talk about it but would on the road with Kat, Wally and Ava. And they would ask her about it and she would say stuff like, "Try speaking out against the Iraq War before an audience in March 2003. You do what you have to and you get through."
And that really is that whole point.
Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Chaos and violence continue, rumors about affairs with a visiting pop star circle Baghdad, another US service member is dead from the Iraq War, Iraqis get ready for the Summer Olympics, and more.
Carl Hill III is the latest US service member to die from the Iraq War. KFMB reports (video):
Marcella Lee: 26-year-old Army Specialist Carl Hall III was from Harbison Canyon near Alpine, where his parents still live. Hall was injured back in November 2011 when his convoy was hit by an IED. Hall sustained injuries to his head and more than 40 shrapnel wounds to his leg but doctors were able to save his leg with multiple surgeries. Hall was brought back to recover in North Caroline. His parents say he was doing well and was able to enjoy the birth of his son. But ended up dying due from complications related to his injuries.
Elizabeth Hall: It was the miracle of just him being able to come home. I was there when his son was born so he seen his son born, so he was there for that. His son was born February 23rd so he had the four months with spirit and that was pretty much what was keeping him going.
Services for Carl Hall IIII will be tomorrow, ten in the morning at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetary. Because his death is apparently from injuries received during Operation New Dawn, the Pentagon will include him in the count for that period of the Iraq War. Those who die of injuries received will be included in either Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation New Dawn based upon when they were injured.
IEDs were the topic of Fresh Air (NPR-- link is audio, text summary and transcript) Monday. The Gross Terry spoke with Iraq War veteran Brian Castner about his just-released-today book The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows.
BRIAN CASTNER: You become numb to it eventually, but I would never call it business as usual. And in fact, the post-blast mission is one that only really developed as the war went on. When I initially went through EOD school, there was no section of the training that was called post-blast investigation. And in fact on my first trip to Iraq in 2005, the first time I did one, and I got tasked, and they said go out and do an investigation, I had to ask, well, what does that even mean? What do you want me to look for? So as the war developed, and as the IEDs, the improvised explosive devices, became less just an obstacle to clear and were more a focus of the war, our career field developed those skills as we went.
GROSS: So what kind of evidence would you look for at the site of an IED explosion?
CASTNER: Anything that would tell you how it was made, what the target was, if there was a key identifying feature that would link it to one bomber or another, or one group or another. So that's anything from the color of the wire used to connect the battery to the blasting cap, to getting an explosive sample of the type of explosives used, to collecting the VIN number on the car, to getting DNA samples of the people who were there so maybe you could identify which one the bomber was.
GROSS: But this isn't like going to, like, a crime scene after the fact, where you're slowly getting evidence and putting it in plastic bags. You are going to the site of explosions, and there are screaming people all around you, and you're going through body parts, basically, like looking for evidence of what happened in the explosion. And take one of those experiences, for us, and just describe what the experience was for you.
CASTNER: Right, so you get the call, and you're at your home base, at the FOB, and sometimes we wouldn't even need a call, you would see the towers of black smoke rising from downtown Kirkuk. And you know the call is coming, so you go and get ready. And you get out there as fast as you can, which is usually about 20 to 30 minutes after it went off. And we actually didn't want the Iraqi police or U.S. forces to clean up. We needed everything there to be able to sift through. And in fact that would be the most frustrating part, is you would show up, and the loved ones would already be picking up bodies or pieces of bodies, and they're already loading on the destroyed car onto a flatbed.
And it's bad enough that you're out there doing this but they're getting in the way of you doing your job. And so extremely quickly, we could be there for 10 minutes because the longer you're there, the more chance you have to get shot at or have a mortar dropped on your head or something. So you get out, and as quickly as you can, starting at the burned-out car and then working your way out. You just look for everything you can, and sometimes, in fact, you're looking for pieces of ordinance that haven't exploded. An artillery round will kick out, and it'll be in somebody's house a block away, and you need to grab that and make sure you dispose of it so nobody gets hurt.
Violence continues in Iraq. Alsumaria notes that 1 person was shot dead in Kirkuk Province today. KUNA notes that death and reports that another Kirkuk shooting left a police officer wounded. All Iraqi News notes an Anbar Province home bombing claimed the lives of 2 Iraqi soliders and left three more injured. In addition, IANS reports a Baquba roadside bombing claimed 1 life and left two people injured, a Muqdadiyah truck bombing injured four people, two sticky bombings "outside Baquba" left five people injured, a Baghdad attack on a mmilitary officer left his driver dead and a Mosul roadside bombing claimed 1 life and left two people injured.
Meanwhile Kitabat notes that some form of poisonous gas at Lake Habbaniyah in Anbar Province is killing the fish and producing a foul smell. A fisherman states that everything in the lake region dies: shrimp, fish and birds that eat the fish. Currently, it's suspected that the gas is sulfur. In August 2009, Duraid Adnan and Timothy Williams (New York Times) were claiming Lake Habbaniya was part of a "beach season" though the lake's water was described as "muddy" and they noted people drive "their cars right onto the sand, pulling up next to the water." The US base Al Taqqadum was located there. And, at Militaryphotos.net, you can find video posted of Lake Habbaniya: "The vehicle graveyard at Lake Habbaniya is one of seven established during 2005 when it was decided the costs of shipping wrecks back to the US was prohibitive. The vehicles shown have suffered hull breach, internal fire, structural failure, or are classified as 'beyond economical repair'." Whether it's sulfur or something else, there's a good chance it didn't occur naturally but resulted from pollution. All Iraqi News reports a fire broke out in central Baghdad today, a landfill which further threatened surrounding structures because of the failure to clean surrounding areas and everyone using it as a dumping ground.
Dumping ground? Like the political crisis? Monday we noted:
Al Rafidyan reports that Moqtada al-Sadr has criticized the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate for their June 29th festivities which included bringing in performers who, his opinion, promote debauchery and immorality. More than likely his remarks are directed at Madeline Matar who a Lebanese recording artist (click here for Alsumaria's article on her in Arabic and note the photo). She is said to have arrived at the Baghdad concert in a presidential motorcade. You can click here for her Facebook page.
Could there be more to it? Could the "presidential motorcade" have hinted at a sex scandal for Nouri?
All Iraqi News reports Nouri's spokesperson Ali al-Dabbagh insisted today he was being verbally attacked with rumors and stated he had spoken to both Moqtada and Nouri to assure them that the concert was just a concert and that he had no inappropriate relationship with Madeline Matter. He insisted he has told all of his friends that this was just a malicious smear against him.
Why is Ali al-Dabbagh having a meltdown in public? He's been a spokesperson for some time and, if Nouri believes him, there shouldn't be any problem. His intense denial might indicate that there is something more here including that he might be covering for Nouri.
Were that to be the case, Nouri might end up taken out the way most politicians are today -- not with bullets but with sex scandals.
Currently, Nouri al-Maliki is trying to hold onto his post of prime minister by offering up a Reform Committee. Mustafa Habib (Niqash) addresses some of the issues this raises:
Firstly, there are problems that have to do with agreements between the feuding political blocs about which positions certain high ranking politicians would fill; this included discussion of the vacant seats in certain important ministries, that al-Maliki was occupying in the interim.
Another involved the powers of the federal court and yet another had to do with relations between the Iraqi Parliament and the Iraqi Cabinet, or executive branch; relations were strained with Parliament and ministers often coming to different conclusions. And finally there was the problem of how to balance the demands of the Iraqi Constitution with all of the above.
Despite what appear to be good intentions, there is no doubt that al-Maliki's opponents do not trust him any more than they did before. There has been plenty of press coverage and public relations work on al-Maliki's behalf but the parties who wanted to oust him don't think he is serious about the alleged reforms.
"This call for reform is nothing more than a political manoeuvre and an attempt to gain more time," Hani Ashour, an adviser to the opposition Iraqiya coalition, told NIQASH. The essence of the current political crisis is the fact that al-Maliki has not honoured the Erbil agreement, under which he formed this government."
The so-called Erbil agreement was formulated in Erbil to end a nine month dispute over who should run the government following disputed 2010 elections. It gave al-Maliki the right to form a government if he met certain conditions and gave his electoral opponents certain high powered jobs; basically it was a power sharing deal.
The fact that al-Maliki has done almost nothing to honour that deal doesn't give his opponents much faith that he will change now.
Nouri and Moqtada are two of the main political players in Iraq. Other main players include KRG President Massoud Barzani, Speaker of Parliament Osama al-Nujaifi, Iraqiya head Ayad Allawi and President Jalal Talabani.
Jalal, of course, fled the country due to the political crisis. He stated he had to have an emergency procedure. That ended up being knee surgery. All Iraqi News reports that Luis Ayala, Secretary-General of the Socialist International, phoned Jalal to congratulate him on his successful knee surgery. Ayala conveyed his hope that Jalal would be able to join the Socialist International in September.
Let's move over to President Massoud Barzani. Al Rafidayn notes Barzani's plan to establish a National Security Council. Aiyob Mawloodi (Kurdish Globe) reports:
In a ceremony held in Erbil last Sunday, July 8th, the Kurdistan Region's National Security Board was established.
In the ceremony, attended by the Region's President and a number of top ranking KRG officials, the long awaited Kurdistan Region's National Security Board was announced.
Masrour Barzani, the head of the Kurdistan Region's Protection Agency was appointed as the Chancellor of the Board.
Dr. Khasraw Mohammed Gul was appointed his Deputy.
In his speech, President Barzani praised the National Security Board for what he described as "their genuine contribution to peace and prosperity" in Kurdistan Region, urging the security forces to do "their outmost to respect human rights" in dealing with security issues.
In the ceremony, attended by the Region's President and a number of top ranking KRG officials, the long awaited Kurdistan Region's National Security Board was announced.
Masrour Barzani, the head of the Kurdistan Region's Protection Agency was appointed as the Chancellor of the Board.
Dr. Khasraw Mohammed Gul was appointed his Deputy.
In his speech, President Barzani praised the National Security Board for what he described as "their genuine contribution to peace and prosperity" in Kurdistan Region, urging the security forces to do "their outmost to respect human rights" in dealing with security issues.
Goran (aka Change) is a third party in the KRG and CIA-backed. Alsumaria reports that Goran is insisting this National Security Council will lead to totalitarianism. Kitabat adds that Goran is stating these are the steps to a dictatorship. AFP notes that some are taking exception to Masroor Barzani -- Massoud Barzani's son -- being named to head the council.
Power is confirmed in many ways. For example, Tim Arrango (New York Times) writes a lengthy piece on Moqtada today that really says nothing -- power. You give a speech on Friday and Nouri's grabbing from it and passing it off as his own at the start of the week -- power. Dar Addustour notes that Nouri spoke today about the need to restore property to its owners and also about the need to distribute the wealth in a manner that would be fair to all Iraqis.
Nouri's State of Law starts an outrageous rumor about you -- power. Alsumaria reports State of Law MP Samira al-Moussawi is insisting that the KRG supplying Turkey with crude oil is part of a scheme that ExxonMobil came up with. State of Law's been whining about ExxonMobil since October and Nouri's been demanding the multi-national corporation cancel its deal with the KRG since November. Hoshmando Othman (Rudaw) observes:
The deal further fueled the existing tension between the Kurdistan Region and Baghdad over the legality of Kurds' inviting foreign companies to search for oil in their region. The 2005 Iraqi constitution recognizes Kurdistan as a federal region run by its regional parliament and government.
KRG takes into consideration two Articles of the Iraqi constitution that allow the
Kurds to conclude exploration deals with foreign companies for natural resources in their own region, but Baghdad still does not recognize the contracts signed between KRG and foreign oil companies, so far numbering over fifty, and considers the deals illegal.
ExxonMobil's move despite the risk of being blacklisted by Baghdad can be seen as an indication of growing Western and other international oil companies' interest in the Kurdistan Region, which estimates its oil reserves at 45 billion barrels, equal to more than 40 percent of that of the rest of Iraq. KRG offers production share agreements to the oil companies while Baghdad limits its offer to service contracts.
Furthermore, the discovery of significant reserves of natural gas - estimated over 100 trillion cubic feet, surpassing Libya's gas reserve - attracted those European companies, which form the Nabucco gas pipeline project that is due to link Caucasus' gas fields to Europe through Turkey. Nabucco is meant to reduce Europe's dependency on Russian gas.
Alsumaria notes Iraqiya MPs held a press conference today in front of Parliament to insist that Nouri stop the mass arrests he's ordered on the outskirts of Baghdad -- Yusufiya and Abu Ghraib and Ghazaliyah mainly -- and that he release the 70 to 80 people that have been arrested.
Nouri has a record of carrying out mass arrests. Sadam Hussein did as well. Dar Addustour reports that Peter Arnett, internationally known journalist, is stating that, following an 18 month investigation, he has learned that Saddam Hussein's son Uday was plotting to overthrow his father and, among the supporting evidence for this claim, Arnett says he has a letter from March 2003 written by a military commander who pledges his support to Uday Hussein.
Uday Hussein was infamous for many things. These days, especially this time of year, he's most infamous for having athletes tortured when their performance did not meet his 'standards.'
On sports, every four years the Summer Olympics are held. Iraq will be competiting this year. They first participated in 1948 and this will be their 13th time participating. Noor Aamer Jassim tells Amelie Herenstein (AFP), "Weapons and ammunitions are all outdated -- all of our equipment is old compared to other countries, Arab and Eureopean. Sports is my life. I hope to win a medal, to see my country's flag raised." She and two other Iraqi women will join with five Iraqi men to compete in the Olympics in London -- "two runners [one is Dana Hussein], a swimmer [Muhannad Ahmad], an archer, a shooter [Noor Aamer Jassim], a boxer, a weightlifer [Safa Rashid] and a wrestler."
7msports has a video report on wrestler Safaa Rashid Mahmud al-Jamaili and sprinter Dana Hussein and notes "Hussein was the only Iraqi to compete at the 2008 Beijing Games and she will represent the war-torn country in the 100m this summer." Abigail Hauslohner (Time magazine) noted Dana Hussein in 2008 and quoted her stating, "Sports can unify the Iraqi people -- no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sports for the country." That year she met with AFP on a track at Baghdad University and explained, "I was shot at here by a sniper in this stadium and I wasn't killed because, thank God, I happened to be running." Li Ziheng (Xinhua) noted:
Dana Hussein, wearing a pair of second-hand track shoes she bought in Jordan by herself, made her debut in the women's 100m heat at the National Stadium as part of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on August 16, 2008. "I have realized my dream of competing at the Olympics, and I am extremely happy to come to Beijing," said the 21-year-old girl, "It does not matter what we will achieve at the Games, the important thing is we are here."
AP noted last March, "In addition to often not being able to even reach an outdoor university field, where Hussein trains during the winter months, she says she has no money to fund her ambition, gets no government support, no access to a gymn to do fitness training has no indoor track to use during Iraq's sizzling summers, and no sports psychologist to advise her how to keep it all together."
Muhannad Ahmad talent and looks should garner Iraq attention in the swimming competition (there's a photo with the AFP story). But it's not been easy for swimmers in Iraq. Alsumaria reports today that police prevent Iraqis from swimming in the rivers and that the pools are a challenge in terms of cleanliness due to power shortages and the fact that the government does not provide fuel for generators used for pools. In Baghdad, Iraqis can pay $4.30 (in US dollars) to three hours of swimming.
Let's note Iraqi women for a second. On Sunday, we addressed the nonsense that the 'great' [illegal] Iraq War brought sports to Iraqi women. Not the case at all. Just because the lie came from a one-time US athlete who is now a brand a corporation flunky doesn't make the lie true. We noted Christine Breenan's USA Today report from April 2004 on Iraq's sports legend Iman Sabeeh (she was a runner). Iraqi community members were kind enough to pass on that the women's vollyball team won the Arab Tournament in 1983 and that Noor Basil and Maysa'a Hussein competed in the Summer Olympics of 2000 in Sydney. They noted Iraqi women like Eman Nouri who holds the country's record in the long jump (5.67 meters, July 13, 1977)
Today in Iraq, women see:
* Decrease in women's presence and participation in media, journalism, and sports
* Decline in levels of health
* Decline in economic level of widows and orphans
* Decline in social rights
* Decline in scientific successes for women
* Decline in women's political participation
* Decline in leadership positions for women
* Increase in unemployment among young women
* Continued practice of customs and traditions harmful to women
* Lack of legislation advocating for women
* Low participation of women in executive and judicial branches
* Decline in women's freedom
* Decline in number of educated girls
* Decrease in the number of women Ministers from 27 to 1
That's the present for Iraqi women as noted in Women's Campaign International's new report [PDF format warning] "Iraqi Future Search." We'll note the report further in tomorrow's snapshot.


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