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What is it with the bands?
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Bands are great and cool!
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I'm still perplexed that bands here "warm-up" on the track beside the field before the 1/2 time show while play is still going on...the sound is not pleasant and is a penalty for the home team in OH, PA and VA.
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I have to give the Band of Gold from Gaffney a great big pat on the back- they play before the game and all threw the game and even when its over they still play-= last home game the band was behind the stands at the gates playing as we went in- Gaffney's band really adds to the football game and im proud of them for what they do for the team and fans-
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Guests: John Feehery, Dee Dee Myers, Jeff Daniels, Shannon O`Brien
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Enough`s enough!
Let`s play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I`m Chris Matthews in San Francisco.
Leading off tonight: Dirtball. I suppose if you really want to get
down in the mud, if you really want to show how much dirt you`ll get your
hands into, you start calling people spies and traitors. That`s if you`re
desperate and sleazy enough to go after a quiet deputy to Hillary Clinton,
someone who can`t defend herself.
Better yet, you sing out a whole chorus of sleaze with people like
John Sununu saying the president himself ought to learn how to be an
American, with the Republican candidate himself saying how foreign the
president is.
Then to put the cherry on the top of this sundae from hell, you have
Michele Bachmann, with some alleyoop help from Glenn Beck, do her damndest
and charge that the whole U.S. government, including, according to Beck,
John McCain himself, are all part of some crowd taking orders from the
Muslim Brotherhood. Do you believe this stuff?
Well, tonight, we hear the first whistles being blown. Republicans
like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, guys who have served this country in
uniform, people like Ed Rollins, who worked for Ronald Reagan, are standing
up to this crazy, un-American talk. God save McCain and say -- I say and
all those left right and center who say enough`s enough.
I`m joined by MSNBC political analyst and editor-at-large of Salon,
Joan Walsh. Republican strategist John Feehery also joins us tonight.
Let me go to Joan -- or we have John? Who do we got? We got Joan --
we don`t have -- John, how do you explain this cacophony right now that`s
going on, all this talk about people learning how to be an American, the
charges -- Sununu`s up to this. You`ve got the candidate himself on your
side talking about the president being foreign in his thinking.
What`s that angle that we`re getting? Because Bachmann`s sort of the
coup de grace. She`s the ultimate case of this.
JOHN FEEHERY, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Well, let me first, Chris,
disassociate -- mix these two things up or take them apart. Michele
Bachmann`s thing -- absolutely outrageous. I don`t know what she`s up to.
I think McCain was absolutely right.
I mean, you can quibble -- you can have some serious disagreements
with Obama`s foreign policy, but you know, throwing her under the bus I
think is ridiculous. I think it`s dangerous, as John Boehner said. And
the worst thing is it`s a distraction from what the campaign should be all
about, which should be about the economy.
Now, you know, if you`re talking about some of the rhetoric coming
from Mitt Romney and others -- listen, all is fair in love and war when it
comes to politics. They`re saying the same thing about Mitt Romney.
They`re calling him un-American! They calling -- Stephanie Cutter was
calling him a felon! So you know, the...
MATTHEWS: Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute...
FEEHERY: Some of these things...
MATTHEWS: Has anybody questioned his citizenship?
FEEHERY: Well, they`ve questioned, you know, where he`s putting all
his money. They`ve questioned...
MATTHEWS: So there`s no difference between questioning a guy`s tax
returns and question whether he`s an American or not? There`s no
FEEHERY: There`s -- there`s -- no, there`s -- there`s just -- a
difference between the rhetoric of Michele Bachmann, which is horrible...
MATTHEWS: OK, well...
FEEHERY: ... and then rhetoric of -- of...
MATTHEWS: Let`s go on here...
FEEHERY: And then John -- John Sununu said that he -- he apologized
for those comments, and he should apologize because...
MATTHEWS: What did John Sununu say? You`re saying it`s so much
different than what Michele`s been saying. He said he ought to learn how
to be an American. Now, where does that talk come from?
FEEHERY: Well, see, which -- which he apologized for. He said he
shouldn`t have said that, and I agree with...
MATTHEWS: Why did he say it? Why`d he say it?
FEEHERY: I don`t know why he said it. I don`t know why -- but
there`s a lot of...
MATTHEWS: Why does the president...
FEEHERY: ... these people saying...
MATTHEWS: ... the candidate of the Republican Party say the
president`s foreign?
FEEHERY: Well -- well, I think he`s talking about the fact that the
president is trying to import European-style democracy or socialism...
MATTHEWS: Oh.
FEEHERY: ... into America.
FEEHERY: And that`s a policy disagreement.
FEEHERY: ... altogether appropriate to have that discussion.
MATTHEWS: All right. OK. Well, I think it all fits together,
Here`s Ed Rollins, by the way, talking about Michele Bachmann. He
actually ran her campaign for president, most of us remember. Here he is
in an op-ed yesterday. He tore into the congresswoman, calling her charges
against Huma Abedin, who works for Hillary Clinton, outrageous.
Here`s what he wrote. "Having worked for Congresswoman Bachmann`s
campaign for president, I`m fully aware that she sometimes has difficulty
with her facts, but this is downright vicious and reaches the late Senator
Joe McCarthy level. As a member of Congress with a seat on the House
Intelligence Committee, Mrs. Bachmann, you know better." This is Rollins
speaking. "Shame on you, Michele." That`s what he`s saying. "You should
stand on the floor of the House and apologize to Huma Abedin and to
Secretary Clinton and to the millions of hard-working, loyal Muslim-
Americans for your wild and unsubstantiated charge."
Other Republicans, by the way, also called for Bachmann`s charges to
be withdrawn. They called them outrageous, including Senator Lindsey
Graham and Scott Brown of Massachusetts.
Today, by the way, the speaker of the House, John Boehner, was asked
about it. Here`s what the speaker said.
REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: I don`t know Huma,
but from everything that I do know of her, she has a sterling character.
And I think accusations like this being thrown around are pretty dangerous.
MATTHEWS: Well, you might get the idea, Joan, if you`re someone like
Michele Bachmann with her intellect -- you might get the idea this is OK
because you hear the other guys throwing this stuff around, so you go a
little further but in kind.
I disagree with John. I think it`s in kind with what we`re getting
from these other characters. Your thoughts.
JOAN WALSH, SALON.COM, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, let me just
start by saying Michele Bachmann is Joe McCarthy in lipstick, and she`s a
dangerous American.
And I want to start by welcoming John to a zone of decency, where
Senator John McCain took us and Ed Rollins is taking us. And Chris, the
rhetoric in this country right now is so dangerous that I think it`s
important to acknowledge that they have now staked out a lunatic fringe.
They`ve now said certain kinds of comments are beyond the pale.
That`s a good thing and we should applaud that today. And you know
that a however is coming. However...
MATTHEWS: Well, here`s something -- here`s something -- by the way,
Feehery -- I like Feehery a lot. I know what he has to do sometimes,
defend the indefensible. But in this case, he`s saying the right thing.
Michele Bachmann is off the rails.
By the way, here she is finding someone who agreed with her. She was
on today with Glenn Beck.
WALSH: Oh, yes.
MATTHEWS: Beck defended the congresswoman and attacked John McCain,
who he said is marching to the orders of the Muslim Brotherhood. That`s
John McCain being accused of that this time, John.
WALSH: War hero.
MATTHEWS: You got to keep up with your crowd. They`re a little
frisky out there. You got to keep up with them. Let`s listen to Glenn and
GLENN BECK, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: John McCain and all of the elephant
media are falling right in line with the Muslim Brotherhood.
MATTHEWS: Well, Michele Bachmann continued her dangerous and totally
unsubstantiated accusations against Hillary Clinton`s aide. Listen to her.
REP. MICHELE BACHMANN (R-MN), FMR. PRES. CANDIDATE: She is the chief
aide for the -- for -- to the secretary of state. And we quoted from a
document -- and this has been well reported all across Arab media -- that
her father -- her late father, who is now deceased, was a part of the
Muslim Brotherhood. Her brother was a part of the Muslim Brotherhood. And
her mother was a part of what`s called the Muslim sisterhood.
MATTHEWS: I think that document`s something from -- well, let`s just
say the irascible Frank Gaffney.
Anyway, there is absolutely no evidence that her relatives were ever
members of the Muslim Brotherhood. But why let facts get in the way of
your story? She also makes this ridiculous claim about the infiltration of
the Muslim Brotherhood into the U.S. government. Let`s listen to that one.
BACHMANN: The influence today of the Muslim Brotherhood at the
highest levels, from the White House to the Pentagon to the FBI, even to
our United States military, truly is breathless (ph), and people have to
know about it.
MATTHEWS: Well, I could call this a parallel universe, John Feehery,
but it`s, of course, part of the far right, not your right, but it`s out
there. How do you separate this kind of stuff from the mainstream
Republican conservativism?
FEEHERY: Well, Michele -- I was talking to several members of
Congress about this today. And you know, members of Congress look at
Michele Bachmann and they think...
MATTHEWS: There`s four other guys in this besides her.
FEEHERY: She`s -- yes, but we`re just talking about Michele Bachmann.
She`s really pushing the story because there are some other good guys in
part of that letter. But they`re wrong on this.
WALSH: Really?
FEEHERY: I think that you have to be really, really careful on these
types of attacks. And that language she`s using is so eerily parallel to
what Joe McCarthy said. And you`ve just got to be -- you know, you got to
know your history. And you cannot make these accusations without some real
hard proof. And you know, to demonize someone like Huma I think is a huge
MATTHEWS: Well, you know, Joan and I were talking at dinner the other
night -- I mean, I think I brought this up. You know, you can`t turn on an
American television show, a sitcom, if you will, without at least one of
the characters, young characters, being from background from South Asia or
the Middle East. They`re sort of part of our culture now.
WALSH: Right.
MATTHEWS: But now to single out people, not in a happy way, welcoming
them to our culture, but to single them out as dangerous, the way this
character has done, this congresswoman -- and I think Ed Rollins has a
point. This is something that has to be addressed on the floor of the
House. She has to come out and say, I take this back.
Anyway, the Romney campaign (INAUDIBLE) you have any thoughts on that,
Joan, since I brought it up with you? I got another point to bring up
WALSH: Well, yes, I do think they need to denounce it on the floor of
the House. And I don`t -- I don`t agree with the John. You know, I don`t
know who he`s referring to, but you know, Trent Franks, who signed the
letter -- he`s a birther. Louie Gohmert is crazy. I mean, there are some
crazy people -- Lynn Westmoreland -- who are joining her.
So it`s not -- you know, it`s easy because she is a little bit kind of
a crackpot -- I said it -- to demonize her, but she`s got some company.
And I also think that this works because the president has Muslim
family members, stepfamily members, and that they -- that this is a part of
a code about this president, about Huma Abedin, who`s a wonderful, loyal,
MATTHEWS: Yes.
WALSH: ... American servant, that really needs to be denounced. But
it is only possible -- I agree with you, Chris. It`s really only possible
because the mainstream of the party thinks it`s fine to demonize our
president as un-American.
MATTHEWS: I still think Michele is a special case. I agree with
WALSH: She is.
MATTHEWS: We had Michele on this show, Congresswoman Bachmann -- it`s
probably where she really made her bones politically. She came on this
show and said we have to have an investigation by the U.S. government into
the members of Congress who are un-American. And it`s an incredible -- she
runs in a strange part of the world.
Anyway, the Romney campaign committed a major distortion, by the way -
- we`ll get back to the candidate here -- to make the president sound anti-
business. Take a look at this ad. I think it`s misleading. Everybody
watch, and then we`ll watch the real thing it was taken from.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: If you`ve been
successful, you didn`t get that on your own. You didn`t get there on your
own. I`m always struck by people who think, Well, it must be because I was
just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be
because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something.
If you got a business, that`s -- you didn`t build that. Somebody else made
that happen.
MATTHEWS: Well, let`s look at this. Let`s take a look at the actual
president`s statement here. Here, let`s take a look at this, the
president`s statement.
OBAMA: If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some
help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped
to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you
to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you got a business,
that -- you didn`t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
MATTHEWS: John Feehery, the way I heard that, he`s talking about the
bridges and the roads -- "You didn`t build that." He didn`t say, You
didn`t build your own business. He said "that." And then the next
sentence (INAUDIBLE) someone else made that happen -- "that," not "your
The reference is clear, and that commercial makes it look like he`s
saying, Oh, you didn`t build your business. Somebody else did. He`s
talking about the roads and the infrastructure without which you can`t make
a business work. That`s all he`s saying. Your thoughts.
FEEHERY: Well, my thoughts are that the president made a lot of those
comments -- all those comments that were quoted in the ad. But the big
thing is, it`s not about the ads, Chris. It`s about...
MATTHEWS: Well, is the ad accurate?
FEEHERY: It`s about -- yes, the ad is accurate enough, far more
accurate than most...
MATTHEWS: Accurate enough?
FEEHERY: ... far more accurate than most of the Obama ads!
MATTHEWS: Oh, come on! You`re...
MATTHEWS: This is pathetic!
MATTHEWS: This is flackery!
FEEHERY: Let me -- let me...
MATTHEWS: John, this is flackery!
FEEHERY: ... make this one point...
MATTHEWS: This isn`t truth!
FEEHERY: Let me -- let me...
MATTHEWS: You couldn`t take a lie detector test on what you just
FEEHERY: Could I -- could -- could I make -- could I make this one
MATTHEWS: No, not if you`re going to make that point again.
MATTHEWS: This is a distortion!
FEEHERY: Let me -- let me make this point...
FEEHERY: The point is this, Chris. The ads don`t matter. The
economy is what matters...
MATTHEWS: OK, good.
FEEHERY: ... and the president has done nothing for the economy, and
you know that!
MATTHEWS: OK. That`s a pretty good argument...
FEEHERY: You know that!
MATTHEWS: Joan, John says it`s not about the dishonesty of the Romney
campaign. Go ahead. Your thoughts.
FEEHERY: Well, and...
WALSH: It`s about -- it`s about the economy, which the stimulus did
bring back from the brink. You cannot say that this president has done
nothing for the economy, John. That`s just not true.
And there is a fundamental point in the ad and in the president`s
speech that we need to debate going up to November, and that is the
Democratic vision that we had help getting into the middle class. My
family did. Chris`s family did. Your family did, John. We had -- we had
-- we built roads. We educated people.
WALSH: We had a commitment to public universities. We had the GI
Bill. Government created the middle class, and now, Republicans are acting
like if you got there, you did it all by yourself. That`s just not true.
FEEHERY: Joan, I`m from Chicago. Listen, the government did just as
much to take away from hard-working-class families as they did -- than they
did to help build roads. There`s a lot of corruption in a lot of
government that people are rebelling...
FEEHERY: ... about and they`re sick and tired of it!
MATTHEWS: OK, well, all I can tell you is I wouldn`t have gone to
college when I went if I didn`t get government loans from the National
Defense Education Act. I got a full fellowship from the National Defense
Education Act, as well. If these acts didn`t go through, I wouldn`t be
educated. I wouldn`t be here.
WALSH: Right.
MATTHEWS: So I know that part. But I did work, too. I agree with
that part.
WALSH: Right. And we`re all -- we all worked.
MATTHEWS: I think we all worked. OK, thank you, Joan.
WALSH: People all -- people work, too.
MATTHEWS: John, I know you know when you`re wrong, your voice gets
real high.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, have a nice weekend.
Coming up: Throw Momma from the train! President Obama says that`s
just what Mitt Romney plans to do with Medicare. The president today took
the Medicare issue to where it matters most politically. That`s the state
of Florida.
Also, running against Romney. We`re going to talk to the woman who
ran against him for governor of Massachusetts, Shannon O`Brien. What`s it
like, and what did she learn? We want to know that.
Plus, Jeff Daniels, star of HBO`s great new series "The Newsroom,"
joins us live tonight in our newsroom, the real thing this time.
And the oddest of odd couples, Newt and Snooki. I never heard of
Snooki, but they`re face to face the other day. We got to watch that one
in action. He wanted to talk about animals again. More -- here it is.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) Newt, Snooki, Snooki, Newt.
SNOOKI: I know!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What a deal.
SNOOKI: What up?
MATTHEWS: More to that in the "Sideshow."
This is HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Well, let`s hear it for "Game Change." The HBO movie about
the 2008 election has been nominated for -- get this -- 12 Emmy Awards.
Among the nominees, Julianne Moore, of course, for her portrayal of Sarah
Palin, the great Woody Harrelson, who played Republican strategist Steve
Schmidt, Ed Harris for his portrayal of the candidate himself, Senator John
McCain. They all deserve it.
The movie, of course, was based on the best-selling book by two
HARDBALL regulars, I`m glad to say, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.
Congratulations to all, especially the creators of that great story.
We`ll be right back.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What are you doing to my momma?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Making a wish! What the hell do you think I`m
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Help!
MATTHEWS: Whoa! Throwing momma from the train. Welcome to HARDBALL.
That famous scene from the 1987 movie "Throw Momma From the Train" may well
be the movie equivalent of what life as a senior would be like in a Romney
presidency. The Ryan budget plan, which Romney supports, would decimate
Medicare, a point driven home with some exaggeration by this famous, well,
ad. Let`s listen to this ad.
MATTHEWS: Strong images there, wouldn`t you say? Well, today in
Florida, President Obama opened a new front in his fight against Romney,
making sure voters know Romney would end Medicare as we know it --
basically, that he`d throw momma from the train.
But let`s listen. This is serious business. This is not just comedy
here. Romney`s plan is the Ryan plan. The Ryan plan gets rid of Medicare
and replaces it with some kind of a voucher program, which could put you in
a precarious position if you have health needs. Let`s listen.
OBAMA: He plans to roll back health care reform, forcing more than
200,000 Floridians to pay more for their prescription drugs. He plans to
turn Medicare into a voucher program. So if that voucher isn`t worth
enough to buy the health insurance that`s on the market, you`re out of
luck. You`re on your own.
One independent nonpartisan study found that seniors would have to pay
nearly $6,400 more for Medicare than they do today.
MATTHEWS: Well, Dee Dee was former White House press secretary to
Bill Clinton and a contributing editor to "Vanity Fair." Eugene Robinson
is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for "The Washington Post" and an
MSNBC political analyst.
By the way, Eugene, if I got a Pulitzer Prize, I would never stop
saying it forever.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, thank you for coming. And I don`t think I`m going
to get one obviously.
But let`s talk about this. Gene, let`s get through the analysis here.
It seems like it`s fair. It`s tough. The advertising, over the top, you
might argue, but it`s fair in this sense. Romney has bought into the Ryan
plan. Ryan gets lots of kudos for guts, but his plan does do what the
president says it would do, right?
EUGENE ROBINSON, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, yes, it does. It
would turn Medicare into a voucher program.
It is fair to say, in my view, that it would end Medicare as we know
it. It would create something else that would be called Medicare, but it
wouldn`t be the program we know. This is pretty much a fundamental
question, I think, whether you make Medicare into a voucher program, or you
keep it as an entitlement.
And I believe the polls show that most people want to keep it the way
it is. They don`t want it to be a voucher program.
MATTHEWS: Yes. Well, they love it.
ROBINSON: And it`s perfectly fair game.
MATTHEWS: Gene, you and I know people on Medicare, our parents, aunts
and uncles and some of our older brothers. They love it, because for the
first time in their life, they get something for the all the work they did.
Dee Dee, let me ask you about this. Everybody says cut the budget,
cut spending. And it`s a good idea. We have a big deficit. Or how about
just cutting the deficit through different taxation policies? But the
minute you get to the reality of these cuts, and here we are. You like the
Ryan cuts, you like him cutting things?
Well, here`s what he`s cutting. Medicare. Go ahead and explain it.
Defend it. I think that`s the problem that Romney`s going to have between
now and November.
DEE DEE MYERS, FORMER CLINTON WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Right.
And the broader question that you just raised is, we have a deficit,
we have a debt. These have become problematic and everybody agrees with
that. And then you get into the details of who`s ox are you going to gore
and whose are you going to protect in order to do something about that?
Are you going to go after the most vulnerable, as the Ryan budget
does? It cuts not only Medicare, but also things like education and other
important spending that helps the most vulnerable, or are you going to
provide tax cuts for the rich or will you preserve some of those programs
in order to try to move towards a society where everybody has an equal shot
and everybody has a chance?
These are -- they`re going to say that, oh, the president`s trying to
scare people, but this isn`t just an important issue. It`s central to the
philosophical differences, the philosophical divide that separates Barack
Obama and Mitt Romney. So you`re going to hear a lot about it, and on top
of that, of course the research shows that it is pretty effective with
MATTHEWS: Well, let me ask you about the realities here, as again,
Gene, it`s good to talk the fact you`re going to be a different kind of
president than Obama, and then you have to explain what that means. You`re
not just a relief pitcher coming in, in a difficult part of the game.
You`re coming in with a totally different approach. It seems to me if
he`s going to cut taxes further for corporations, he`s going to keep the
Bush tax cuts for the wealthy all the way through and make them permanent,
he has to come up with some cuts on the other side or he`s going to
increase the deficits.
And it looks like these are the cuts. This is what`s going to pay for
the extension of the Bush tax cuts and the corporate tax cuts.
ROBINSON: Absolutely.
And Mitt Romney has not spelled out precisely what he would cut. When
he talks about reforming the tax code, he hasn`t spelled out what loopholes
he would close, for example. You want to close -- you want to start taxing
health benefits? Do you want to end the mortgage interest deduction?
Those are the big things that you could do with the tax code that
would bring in more money. So you got to be specific. And I agree that
you can`t run all the way to the White House by just saying I`m going to do
it right, without spelling out how you`re going to do it.
MATTHEWS: Let`s take a look at these.
MATTHEWS: Go ahead, Dee Dee.
MYERS: I was going to add that it`s also important to note that the
Ryan budget doesn`t balance the budget any time in the foreseeable future.
In fact, it adds hundreds of billions of dollars of additional debt.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
Well, let`s take a look at these new polls. Now, these are really
tricky and it is why I keep saying to myself you can`t predict this
election. Here we go.
The "New York Times" and CBS News poll, and we get the FOX News and
National Public Radio poll even, and they show Romney actually with a
margin of error ratio here 47-46 for Romney, according to "Times"/CBS 45-41
Romney -- actually Obama -- according to the FOX poll, 47-45 Obama.
What do you make of these, Gene, when you put them all together? I
see nothing but within the margin of error here on all of them.
ROBINSON: That`s certainly what these polls show.
And, look, if you take the run of the last few months worth of polls,
it`s either a margin of error race or Obama is slightly ahead. That`s what
the polls tend to say. And I think that`s probably right. And it could be
that way all the way to Election Day. Or something -- events might cause
it to break one way or the other.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
ROBINSON: But, right now, you would have to say it`s a close race.
MATTHEWS: So what happens if we don`t have a war with Iran or Israel
doesn`t have a war we get involved with, with Iran, Europe doesn`t come
apart, and the unemployment rate stays about where it is and the growth
rate stays about where it is?
Are we looking at election night like this, which is basically within
the margin of error, in other words, another hell to pay 2000, where we
wait all night and still have a disputed election?
Pick it up, Dee Dee. That`s what I`m looking at. I`m looking at
election where either guy wins so narrowly, we will be screeching for the
rest of our lives about the Pennsylvania voter I.D. requirement, where all
these old people had to go have -- suppose the election turns on one state
like it did last time in Ohio in 2004, and it`s because of some new voter
I.D. law that made it impossible for older people to get to the polls?
What are we at then?
MYERS: That`s entirely possible and it`s also impossible that there
will be some intervening event less than say a war with Iran or something
that will begin to define these things.
And sometimes, there`s a cumulative drip, drip, drip. One of the
things people were saying about the polls today was it showed that the
Obama attacks on Bain weren`t really landing. They weren`t really changing
the dynamic of the race.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MYERS: And truth is it`s really too soon to say what the cumulative
effect of the arguments, not just the specifics of the Bain, but the
arguments more broadly about what does it say about Romney`s priorities and
his character?
In 2004, the Bush people or their agents who weren`t working for the
Bush people started the attacks, the swift boat attacks in May. and John
Kerry led during the entire run of those ads, which was May through the end
of August. You didn`t start to see his favorables kind of shrink until
after that, but the cumulative damage from these ads was very clear.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MYERS: You don`t know what the cumulative effect of the attacks on
Romney or, vice versa, the attacks -- if the economy remains bad, and
people just decide they have had it -- I don`t think that`s going to
MATTHEWS: I do believe -- excuse me, we got to go.
Dee Dee, do you believe they`re now accusing the Democrats of swift
boating? They`re using the word or being Nixonian with their enemies list.
MYERS: How dare you use our tactics against us?
MATTHEWS: They have no irony, these people.
Anyway, thank you, Dee Dee. Have a nice weekend. Thank you, Eugene
MYERS: Thanks. You, too. Bye.
MATTHEWS: Up next: in this corner, the former Speaker of the House
Newt Gingrich, in this corner, Snooki. That can only mean one thing. The
"Sideshow" about to come.
And this is HARDBALL, the place for politics.
CONAN O`BRIEN, HOST, "CONAN": Bush made some news yesterday in his
interview when he praised Mitt Romney. And I was shocked by how quickly
they made his Romney endorsement into a campaign ad.
This was fast. Take a look.
GEORGE W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Yes, I`m
interested in politics. I`m -- you know, I`m a supporter of Mitt Romney.
I hope he does well.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I`m Barack Obama, and I
approve this message.
MATTHEWS: Well, former President Bush`s first Romney endorsement of
course came back in May. As a set of elevator doors were closing on him,
the former president, he said to a reporter, "I`m for Mitt Romney." That`s
how grand that was.
Anyway, moving on with the "Sideshow," Newt, meet Snooki. No joke.
That`s exactly what happened in last night`s "Tonight Show." The former
speaker of the House wound up on the couch next to the star of "Jersey
What could they have possibly bantered about? Well, between books,
parties, strippers and alcohol, let`s just say a lot of ground was covered.
JAY LENO, HOST, "THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO": Newt, Snooki.
Snooki, Newt.
NICOLE ELIZABETH "SNOOKI" POLIZZI, "JERSEY SHORE": I know.
NEWT GINGRICH (R), FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: What a deal.
POLIZZI: What up?
GINGRICH: Congratulations on having two "New York Times" bestsellers.
POLIZZI: Thank you. I`m trying to be like you.
GINGRICH: No.
LENO: So how about Jionni? Will he have a big bachelor party? Will
there be wheeled-out strippers and things like that?
POLIZZI: Oh, yes, Jionni -- yes.
LENO: Yes. Yes.
POLIZZI: I feel like the guy should have strippers. You`re going to
be married to the same girl your whole life, so enjoy it.
LENO: Yes.
POLIZZI: Did you have strippers?
LENO: Did you have strippers at your...
GINGRICH: No.
LENO: No?
POLIZZI: No?
LENO: Do you drink, Newt, by the way?
GINGRICH: Sometimes.
LENO: Yes. Yes.
POLIZZI: Good for you.
LENO: When was the last time you just got wasted? Was there a time
you just...
GINGRICH: Thinking about coming on this show.
LENO: Thinking about coming on this show.
MATTHEWS: Well, Newt tweeted before the interview that he hoped
Snooki lived -- or actually liked zoos and animals. We know that story.
They didn`t quite get to that one, however.
They got to it here, though. He loves that stuff.
And we have heard this question more than a few times about some of
Mitt Romney`s potential running mates. Are they just too dull? Well, Tim
Pawlenty went on a new level -- went to a new level to show some flash in a
FOX interview just yesterday.
NEIL CAVUTO, FOX NEWS: You are considered at least by the Romneys, we
are told -- sir, this could be wrong -- safe, reliable, steady as she goes,
nothing too flashy, dare I say dull.
TIM PAWLENTY (R), FORMER MINNESOTA GOVERNOR: Now, if you goad me into
it, I will shows my tats.
PAWLENTY: I am not as flashy as some, but compared to some others, I
think I am right in there.
MATTHEWS: He`s going to show us his tats?
Is it this bad you have to talk like this? Anyway, I think it`s going
to be Pawlenty, by the way. That`s my pick. He`s going to be the running
Finally, Will Ferrell -- Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis are
promoting their soon-to-be-released movie "The Campaign." And they will be
joining us here on HARDBALL to talk about the importance of my role in that
movie. Just kidding.
Last night, they announced the Cubs lineup at Wrigley Field. Here
they go.
WILL FERRELL, ACTOR: Batting third and playing first base,
ironically, he`s not Italian, number 44, Anthony Rizzo.
ZACH GALIFIANAKIS, ACTOR: Batting sixth and playing catcher, in his
spare time, he`s an accountant at a styrofoam cooler company, number 18,
Geovany Soto.
FERRELL: And pitching today`s game with a record of 6-8, he leads the
league with 450 strikeouts, number 29, Jeff Samard-zi-zi-jabada.
MATTHEWS: That`s Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis playing HARDBALL
coming up here soon. They were in the Second City right then.
Up next, you have seen him on HBO`s "The Newsroom" as Will McAvoy,
cable news anchor. In a moment, he will be here, a real cable news show,
to talk about his show. Jeff Daniels joins us live here in a minute.
You`re watching HARDBALL, the place for politics.
AMANDA DRURY, CNBC CORRESPONDENT: I`m Amanda Drury with your CNBC
"Market Wrap."
Well, the Dow gains 34 points, the S&P up by three and the Nasdaq
adding 23 points. After the closing bell, Internet giant Google reported
earnings that beat estimates, but revenue was light.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is out with its first quarterly loss as a public
company. On the economic front, weekly jobless claims rose by 34,000 last
week. And existing home sales were weak in June, falling 5.4 percent, but
sale prices were still up over a year ago.
That is it from CNBC, first in business worldwide -- now it`s back
over to HARDBALL.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
Jeff Daniels is the star of Aaron Sorkin`s great new HBO show "The
Newsroom." He plays a cable news anchor who suddenly goes from a
dispassionate, disengaged news reader to someone who inserts himself
forcefully into the middle of the political debate.
Take a look.
JEFF DANIELS, ACTOR: The health care law hasn`t taken effect yet.
TARP was signed into law by George W. Bush. Name me the freedoms that you
had the day before President Obama was sworn in that you don`t have today.
What is someone supposed to do with a bleeding Mexican? What state,
what city, what county in this country is in danger of falling under Sharia
law? Tea Party candidate Allen West. Tea Party candidate Michele
Bachmann. Tea Party candidate Tom Graves, Tim Griffin, Sean Duffy, Jeff
Duncan. No, ma`am, pregnancy rose over that period.
The largest demographic of Americans living in poverty are children.
Abolishing the minimum wage would create jobs. You know what else would?
Slavery. The public school system has failed you, as did three of your
college professors. It`s going to come down, as it always does, to who
shows up.
MATTHEWS: Well, Jeff Daniels, thank you for joining us.
I just have to ask, why do I like this guy so much? This guy...
MATTHEWS: Why do I love him?
DANIELS: I don`t know. He`s just -- you know what, Chris? He`s sick
and tired of the same old same old. He`s sick and tired of being marketed
and spun to.
And he`s just going, you know what, we`re going to cut through it all
and bore in on the truth. And regardless of what he finds, that`s what
he`s going for. And so...
MATTHEWS: You start off like -- almost like a Jerry Springer, not
that -- I like Jerry Springer personally, but he`s a guy that puts on the
left and the right. They engage in a dogfight. He enjoys it. He`s not
really that interested in the truth or in news or anything, except making a
DANIELS: Exactly. He loves the money. He loves the ratings. He
loves -- he loves being loved. His friends are people on the other side of
that lens. And he`s very comfortable there. He`s got a great living.
He`s got a great salary, and -- but he`s not being the journalist that he
could be and at a time when he could be doing something to serve the
country, to serve his own newscast and career, he gets pushed by Mackenzie
McHale, his executive producer, into doing just that.
MATTHEWS: You know, what`s really real about it, and I`ve been
talking to all my producers about we all work together all day, is that
it`s like that. You get a sense that what gets on the air is only the tip
of the iceberg, that what`s gone on all day among you and your EP, you have
to work together, there`s a little conflict there sometimes. It`s working
together with another ego, you and the EP, putting the show together. And
then with all the other producers doing their thing, the conflicts, the
arguments, the great synergism or lack of it is going all day.
I understand that would be a great show and you`re putting it on.
DANIELS: Yes. It`s interesting for me having done the whole first
season now to -- you know, you guys know -- whether it`s you guys or over
on FOX or CNN, it doesn`t matter.
MATTHEWS: It does matter.
DANIELS: It does matter, but you guys know that if you cover a
certain subject in a certain way, your ratings are going to spike up. If
you back off it, if you don`t cover that subject, your ratings are going to
go down. And that discussion has had.
When we did a screening in New York recently that you attended, there
were a lot of journalist, a lot of producers, guys who have been in the
field for decades and they said, I hope to God that you guys are dealing
with those of us who fight the fight every day, to try to hang on to the
ideals of journalism -- and you see it.
I mean, it`s not like we`re out trying to whitewash all of cable
news. We`re trying to shine a light on the people that are really trying
to tell the truth and get out the truth every day.
MATTHEWS: Well, that`s our fight every day to get the facts straight
because you don`t have a corrections page in these kinds of programs, you
got to get it right live. Here`s an example, by the way, of Aaron
Sorkin`s, I think, brilliant dialogue. It`s a scene from next week`s
DANIELS: Make you cry, they don`t themselves experience emotion.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The way you experience emotion when you watch
DANIELS: One scene, one line, once in a while (ph).
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Jersey scene?
DANIELS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everybody cries at the Jersey scene.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Jim?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I never saw it.
DANIELS: You haven`t seen "Rudy"? What were you doing when everyone
else was living their lives?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My homework.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My homework.
I didn`t believe I`d be the only one to say that. I thought I have
the safety of the mob.
DANIELS: Listen up, because it`s Rudy`s last chance to dress for a
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I shouldn`t have started this.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: NCAA rules only allow a certain amount of players
to be in uniform.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And the list goes up, Rudy`s name was left off
it. And the list for the last game goes up, Rudy`s name was left off of it
DANIELS: Four years of futility. First, he`s got to make the grade
to get in to the school.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He`s going to make the practice squad.
DANIELS: He`s getting creamed by guys twice his size, but doesn`t
care, because it`s all about the team. And all he wants is he just wants
to be on the list to dress for a game.
MATTHEWS: Who`s that really good looking young guy playing Martin on
that scene? I keep coming across him, Jeff.
DANIELS: Some kid we hired off the street.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, it`s my son. Here he is, I love that picture.
He`s doing great.
Look, I`m going to ask you about how you think, you must have --
besides doing a good acting job, but I love Emily Mortimer and the rest of
your crew -- what do you think you can get done if you run four or five
years like "West Wing"? What do you think will change in my business, our
business here in MSNBC? What will change?
DANIELS: Maybe a more engaged -- I don`t know about your business,
but I do know that maybe the people watching you and others will get more
engaged. I mean, you use the word disengaged for Will McAvoy.
I think the country`s disengaged. I think for a lot of reasons. We
have the attention span of a gnat and we`re instantly gratified and can`t
seem to focus.
And this country is too important. This is an election year. There
are too many things going on that matter, and programs like this and others
are dealing with that and yet, you talk to people and you feel like
sometimes they`re not paying attention.
If "The Newsroom" drives people from 20-somethings on up to paying
attention more, to being engaged more, to getting more informed, then I
think we`ve done a good thing.
MATTHEWS: You know what I love about this show, people argued about
it, some don`t like it, those who do like it, that`s more of the people --
they all say I can`t wait until next week.
DANIELS: Yes, we love the haters, we love the lovers, as long as
they have a Nielsen box in our TV, we don`t care.
MATTHEWS: The buzz is big. Thank you very much, Jeff Daniels.
Remember, by the way, "The Newsroom" is on Sunday nights on HBO.
Up next, running against Romney, Shannon O`Brien ran and lost to Mitt
Romney 10 years ago. But she learned a lot and she`s going to share with
us in a minute the stuff that might help President Obama right now.
And this is HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Yet another indication of just how close this presidential
election night might be. Let`s check the HARDBALL scoreboard.
A Quinnipiac poll shows that Mitt Romney has caught President Obama
in Virginia. The two are tied 44-all in that incredibly close state. Back
in March, the president led Romney by eight in the state of Virginia, 50-
42. Now, it`s even.
MATTHEWS: We`re back.
Running for recollection against Mitt Romney is no easy feat and the
techniques he`s employing right now against President Obama are one he`s
honed in past elections. One former Massachusetts candidate knows exactly
what it`s like to face against Romney, Shannon O`Brien, a former state
treasurer of that state was Romney`s Democratic opponent in 2002 race for
governor. She lost by five points after winning a four-way Democratic
primary. She knows Romney`s playbook. She joins us right now.
Shannon, thank you so much for joining us. I just want to put this
to you. Take a couple of minutes.
You`re sitting at dinner with President Obama. He invites you
upstairs to the White House. He says, I need some time with you. Tell me
what I need to know when I face this guy in a debate.
What do you say?
SHANNON O`BRIEN, RAN AGAINST ROMNEY IN 2002: I think the most
important thing is to really focus on his values because I think that for -
- you know, it`s almost 20-some-odd years now that Romney has been running
for higher office and I think it`s really the values that are lacking there
and I think that`s what they`re trying to do. I think that`s what this
whole thing about Bain is and his record at Bain. It`s what I tried to do
in 2002 -- is really talk about values.
There`s a difference between someone who cares about middle class
people, who cares about investing in the infrastructure and the educational
system so that all people have a chance to do well. That`s what I`d tell
MATTHEWS: What would you say to make it relevant to people? How
does the president make it relevant to people that he was a swashbuckling,
even ruthless business guy who made a huge amount of money quickly because
he was willing to push the edges, pushed the envelope, maybe cost people
their jobs, lots of them.
How does that affect the average person right now? I`m asking you
how to tell the president what to do in this kind of a debate. How is it
relevant he may have been an SOB as a business guy? Relate it.
O`BRIEN: Well, I guess that`s your characterization. The point I
tried to make 10 years ago is when you have someone focused on personal
profits rather than looking at the real stories of people. You have to
have empathy. I think that was one of the things we`ve seen in the
beginning of the campaign, is I really think that there is a lack of
empathy on Mitt Romney`s part.
I mean, the whole story about the race cars and some of these other
things, that -- you know, he kind of knows these people when he`s trying to
seem like a regular guy, I think that he does lack empathy.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
O`BRIEN: And that lack of empathy leads not only into his business
practices but more importantly for the people of this country, the lack of
empathy will lead into how he invests in the future for the majority of the
people in this country.
MATTHEWS: OK, let`s now, one of the biggest issues in the campaign,
at least right now, which is what role he played in outsourcing all those
jobs overseas, basically costing Americans their jobs by sending those jobs
overseas? The discussion we`re having now is about Bain, and what he did
at Bain Capital, and whether he oversaw the company`s migration towards
outsourcing. This is critical on the campaign right now.
You hit him with that line of attack in 2002, 10 years ago, in the
Massachusetts governor`s debate. Let`s watch you in action against Mitt on
the very issue of Bain Capital and outsourcing.
O`BRIEN: The fact is you were still signing documents as CEO of the
company while you were away. And as a matter of fact, in the summer of
2001, when you were leaving the Olympics, you actually made a statement in
the paper that in the summer of 2001, you were relinquishing control of
your position within Bain.
And so, apparently, you hadn`t relinquished beforehand.
MATTHEWS: Did that help you in the campaign? Did it mean much to
voters? Did you nail him for having been responsible at least technically
for costing all those jobs?
O`BRIEN: I didn`t nail him because he basically said I was not
telling the truth. And ultimately, at that point in time, it was -- you
know, we were getting outspent close to 3-1 in those final weeks and months
of the campaign. So, trying to make that point wasn`t as easy.
And I also think it was more difficult for us because people had
heard some of this before. I think they kind of understood it, because Ted
Kennedy had raised some of the same issues in the 1994 election. It worked
for Ted Kennedy, but I think people were maybe giving him a pass or, you
know, or what -- I don`t really know.
But I don`t think it was at effective. But I think now it`s more
effective for an audience, a national audience of people who really haven`t
seen that sort of set of values or that hypocrisy, if you will.
MATTHEWS: He seems to enjoy the formality of a debate, Mitt. He`s a
formal guy. It seems to be my advice -- what do you think of telling the
president you`ve got to loosen this up a bit? You got to be a little fast
and loosen your debate style.
If you get formal like him, very stiff like he does, he wins on that
platform. Obama.
O`BRIEN: The thing I`ve noticed and I think -- again, during my
campaign and other places, I think he has a very tough time when he`s
MATTHEWS: Yes.
O`BRIEN: The times where he`s made most of his mace takes is going
off message. I think the more President Obama can actually have a
conversation and get him to go off script and to engage him on a personal
level, I think that will perhaps benefit the president.
MATTHEWS: I`m with you completely, Shannon O`Brien, so much. I
completely agree, because if this is just a battle of rehearsed lines,
Romney could win this thing. He`s pretty good. He could memorize as well
as anybody can.
O`BRIEN: I think Obama is going to have to show his heart versus
Romney`s heart. And ultimately, that core -- that set of values and that
empathy, and I think that that`s going to be ultimately this comes down to.
And Bain is just setting the table for that.
MATTHEWS: Well, call up David Axelrod and get an appointment. It
sounds like you know what you`re doing.
Thank you very much, Shannon O`Brien of Massachusetts.
When we return, let me finish what we just talked about the show this
segment before about his new show, "Newsroom" and how it really connected
with me who`s here every night.
You`re watching HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with this. "The Newsroom", the hot,
new HBO show that`s gotten all the buzz these days started with a talk show
host like me denying this is the greatest country in the world. He quotes
all kinds of statistics about math scores and the health facts and I get
the point.
Here`s what I think -- I think if you watch the kind of movies and TV
shows Aaron Sorkin has created, from "A Few Good Men", to "An American
President", to "West Wing", and "The Social Network", and "Moneyball," you
find a common string. It`s people trying to improve on what they`ve
inherited. They`re never trying to match up to what came before. They`re
trying to break through to something better, smarter, truer -- something
that`s not just state of the art but powerful deserves to be.
Well, every day on this show, HARDBALL, we, the producers, and try to
come up with not just what happened today but what it says, not just the
news and the analysis, but a new way of presenting it. We`re determined
never to do this week what we could have done last week, never to look like
any other show. And that includes the shows you`re loyal to right here on
this New York.
This is why people are watching "The Newsroom" on HBO because they
don`t know where it`s going. What they`re captivated with is the
determination to take us somewhere new and better. It`s what happens here
every day -- the give-and-take between executive producer and host, the
effort of all the producers to do something really good. All this day-long
struggle and, yes, clash of views to get something on that informs,
exposes, and ignites.
And in the words of the guy who started this kind of show, the great
Martin Nagransky (ph), sharpens the issue. Let`s walk away and tell others
as exactly as possible what the arguments are all about, what this country
of ours -- as least the interested, attentive people -- have on their minds
about where we`re headed.
So, I salute Aaron Sorkin for humbly suggesting this country can work
harder at being what they it claims to be while at the same time being in
his creative efforts exactly the sort of person that makes us so
wonderfully close to being as good as we say we are.
And that`s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
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The 5 Commandments of Sautéing Food
How-tos, Tips, and Tricks
"Food should start cooking the moment it hits the pan, not gradually while the pan warms."
Sautéing is the Way and the Truth when it comes to giving foods a golden, crispy crust and a juicy, tender interior. But there's more to pulling it off than food-to-pan contact. Behold, the commandments of proper sautéing.
1. Honor Thy Pan Choice
You want something wider than it is tall, which encourages fast evaporation, in a size that can fit your food in a single layer without overlaps (the foods on top will steam-cook) or too much empty space (the fat will burn).
The exception: Greens or foods like mushrooms which will cook down in volume as they release moisture. Those you can keep loosely mounded in the pan and add more as you go. Lastly, avoid nonstick pans—the slippery surface will stop a good brown crust dead in its tracks. (But my food always sticks to the pan, you say. Shhh. I'm getting there.)
2. Thou Shalt Pre-Heat Aggressively
To get a good sear, food should start cooking the moment it hits the pan, not gradually while the pan warms. (This will help prevent it from sticking later.) First, heat the pan over a medium-high flame—a little lower is fine for white meats or thick cuts, fish, and vegetables that have already been blanched—before adding the fat; then again for a moment afterwards.
Good signs: You see the fat rippling or hear it foaming (Hark! This pan is ready!). Bad sign: You see smoke or smell the fat burning. In this case, turn off the heat, pour out the fat, and start over. Not sure you're in business? Dip an edge of the meat into the pan and listen for the heavenly sound of a sizzle.
3. Thou Shalt Go Easy on the Fat
Use only enough oil or clarified butter to keep the pan lubricated. (Any more than that takes you into pan-frying territory.) If you tip the pan and see more than a teaspoon or two of fat drip to the side, be a good cook and pour some out, would ya?
4. Dry Thy Food Well
Be sure there's no excess moisture or marinade when you add it to the hot fat. You've heard water and oil don't mix—seriously, listen.
5. Be Present, But Do Not Hover
The tension of holding a spatula can be more than you can bear (it's the human condition). You just want to nudge, flip, lift, or stir something. But, to quote my culinary school chef-instructor, unless you're Rachael Ray, you don't need to stand there stirring or flipping for the camera.
Instead, let the food develop the color and crust you want on one side before shifting it at all. When it's done, it should naturally release from the pan. In the case of meat or larger foods, flip only once.
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As you may have heard, the U.S. federal government shutdown has been brought to an end (at least for this year). We can probably expect that immigration-related operations by the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will pick up slowly, with some delays as workers who were furloughed get back to the piles on their desks.
In the case of Immigration Court proceedings, however (which are run by the Department of Justice), things are already moving quickly. While court hearings that were scheduled for today (October 17, 2013) in non-detained cases will not go forward, anyone with a hearing set for tomorrow, October 18, 2013, needs to be there! If you haven't heard from your attorney about this, give him or her a call.
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Dear sister.
It's a terrible picture and poor print but it shows just what my condition is. How do you like my Carnegie hat. Some dip hey.
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Tommy Wilkins has always loved Christmas. Not just because he loves to dress up as a very naughty elf, but because it seemed as if Christmas was the time of year when everyone was happy and went out of their way to make others happy. So with that thought in mind, Tommy sets out to make this Christmas the best Christmas that the Tate pack has ever had.
But it seems as if one thing after another goes wrong. First, there's no Santa Clause in the decorations and Tommy has to... bribe... Ton into agreeing to play Santa. Then Richard sprains his ankle practicing a dance for the big Christmas show. Michael's fingers are broken when he goes to help Richard and now he can't sign the words to the Christmas carols. And Alex loses his voice and won't be able to sing. Tommy really wanted to give the Tate triplets a fabulous first Christmas, but it seems like all the forces of the Earth are plotting against him and he's just about to throw in the fabulous bejeweled rainbow towel when Calvin, one of the cowboy pack members, shows up with his mate. His very abused, very skittish, very deprived mate, Maurice.
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Would it surprise you to know that the second major plank of the communist takeover of any society is to develop a heavy progressive income tax? In the United States, this has manifested as the illegal Sixteenth Amendment, the Social Security Act of 1936, Joint House Resolution 192 of 1933, and various state 'income' taxes. While most Americans assume that communism is dead, it by far remains a serious threat to our Constitution especially since Obama, his cohorts, and 80 members of Congress are openly declared and visibly acting communists.
In this post, we continue our series called "Letters to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)"–a series of letters to a hypothetical IRS agent– with a look at letter number 5. The purpose of these letters is to give the taxpayer some comprehension of the mentality of anyone who would be a tax collector…and to give the taxpayer some legal ammunition to use against the unlawful collection of income taxes and the search and seizure of property committed by the thugs from the IRS.
What we have covered so far:
- In letter No. 1, the stage was set for the confrontation of an IRS agent who determines he/she must search your records; a search from which you are protected under the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution. This letter was concluded in a session of Revolution Radio, which carried Red Beckman–the author of the letters–and Terry Dodd in an interesting and informative discussion.
- Letter no. 2 continued the 'therapy' for the IRS agent and discussed the research that determined the Sixteenth Amendment was unconstitutional, not only because it was never ratified, but it was never a bill, only a resolution, and congress as well as the state legislatures suspended their rules to consider the resolution! This letter was presented in a further discussion on Revolution Radio, and included a fun discussion of 'how to have fun with an IRS Audit' and some interesting historical notes.
- Letters 3 and 4 were presented on Revolution Radio on Wednesday April 11, and once again we were joined by Red Beckman and Terry Dodd. Of considerable interest and fact is that by our consent, individuals, churches and the public generally accepted this illegal income tax. Our Republic is supposed to function by consent of the governed, and all laws of government are subject to our petit and Grand Jury votes. When you point one finger at government, three point back at yourself. It is essential that we understand what has happened as no movement forward will occur unless we the people realize that we failed the Constitution, it did not fail us. An interesting story from I Kings 12 was presented as evidence for what happens when the people realize they've been had.
In letter no. 5, the therapy continues for the IRS agent, who should be at this point seriously considering turning in his badge. Don't steal my apples!
Dear Mr., Mrs., Ms., and Dr. I.R.S. Agent:
It is time for another session of therapy and another dose of medicine. The effort and time which I have invested in your behalf should indicate my continued concern for you.
One of the surprises in this process is your inability to recognize how crazy IRS agents have become. The IRS would like to blame fellows like myself for the growth of the tax protest movement. I don't have to recruit taxpayers to become tax protestors! You, as an IRS agent, will enlist more tax resisters than I ever could. How do you think I got involved? It was agents just like yourself who were crazy enough to think I would be terrorized when they came around. When that first happened, I didn't know my history too well, but there was one thing for sure, the IRS had punched my mad button. I've been mad ever since and the more I get informed, the angrier I get.
If you were not psychotic, you would mix some common sense with a little history and discover how foolish you have been. This great Nation was founded by a tax protest which became a Freedom Movement. We had men who protested the taxes King George levied against them. The tax collectors for the king lashed back. The tax collectors were determined to show the people who was the master and they used some very harsh and cruel actions to enforce their demands. As the government of King George attempted to intimidate the people, more and more recognized the danger and joined the tax protest. As the tax protestors researched history, they learned the nature and danger of bad government. At some point, the tax protest became a Freedom movement and a political force.
Today in these United States of America, there is a political force which is dedicated to freedom and it was IRS agents who recruited the men and women who are involved. King George and his tax collectors had a mental problem back in the seventeen seventies. They too had a mental disability and they did not have the capacity to learn a lesson from history. The Freedom Movement is now a political force because our government now consumes over half of the wealth created by the people. Our founding fathers objected and fought a revolution against the King when the tax rate hit fourteen percent. History tells us no Nation has survived when the people lose more than one-third to government. Your learning disability has robbed you of common sense which should tell you how precarious your position is. The tax protestors you have recruited are now dedicated to freedom and they will not back off or disappear until they have won back the freedoms our forefathers fought and died for.
You, as an IRS agent, represent the forces that would destroy the freedom guaranteed to 'we the people' by the Constitution of the United States of America. There are other forces which are involved, but we do not have as close a contact with them. The Supreme Court Judges are not out meeting the taxpayers as you do, but they are as guilty as you of committing crimes against the taxpayer. When I was a small boy of five years, I was playing with a group of larger boys who game me their permission to pick some apples that were inside the fence. I then gave the larger boys some apples because they were so kind to give me permission to go through the hole in the fence and pick the apples.
We fellows had a real good thing going for us until my mother caught me eating an apple and she asked me where it came from. I quite well remember the lesson I learned from that experience. The fellows who gave me permission to go through the fence had no authority to give that permission.
You IR$ agents are the little fellow who has been given permission by the Supreme Court to steal my rights and freedoms. When I went through the fence and stole the apples, it was my decision to go through the fence. I made some mental adjustments because I wanted the apples. The paycheck you get as an IRS agent has helped you make the mental adjustments to excuse and justify your theft of wealth from the people. The pain I suffered as my conscience was bruised by my mental gymnastics is the same as you have experienced. When my mother confronted me with authority, my mental weakness was exposed and now it is time for you to be confronted with authority.
The larger boys had no authority to give me permission to go through the fence to steal apples. The fence, nor the apples, were their property. You IRS agents love to recite Supreme Court decisions as your authority. The Supreme Court has supposedly given permission to IRS agents to search and seize my private papers and records. These black-robed big boys have given you permission to go through my fence onto my property to steal my apples. You have been eating my apples and of course the Supreme Court is now eating my apples too. It isn't me who has exposed your theft. My mother was the authority that exposed my weakness. The people found out about my theft of their apples when I was sent by my mother to confess. The Freedom Movement is the force which has exposed the same of the IRS and the Supreme Court. Where did the black-robed boys get the authority to give you permission to go through my fence to steal my apples? The answer is very simple. The got the authority from the same source as the lads who gave me, a five-year-old, permission to steal the apples so many years ago. I adjusted my fiver year old mind by thinking about the apples I was going to get. You will commit all kinds of crimes against your fellow man for a paycheck.
IRS agents steal property, bank accounts, close businesses and never allow the taxpayer a day in court. How can this be when the law which you swore to uphold says "if there is controversy of over twenty dollars, the right to trial by a Jury shall be preserved" (7th Amendment)? You have no right to take any property without due process (5th Amendment). What is due process? The Supreme Court is not the authority on what due process is. The Seventh Amendment tells us what due process is. If you want more than twenty dollars from me, you must sue me at the common law and let a Jury of my peers decide if you can have my apples.
Now let's get back to the Freedom Movement. These are the people who know what the Constitution means and how it is being violated by the big fellows in black robes and the little fellows with IRS badges. You little fellows took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution the same as the big fellows. You don't know anything about what the Constitution says except what the big fellows have told you. Now you had better listen to someone else. That someone else is a strong political force and their goal is to make you and the big boys leave our apples alone.
We will pay you some apples if you render proper and lawful services. If our government performs its proper function we have no quarrel. WE pay our light bills, telephone bills and we pay for our roads when we buy gas. We have no problem with Constitutional taxation, but, when you wish to steal from us to give low interest loans to our enemies, that changes the picture. Millions have now pushed the mad button as they are charged unbelievable high interest and the Russians borrow our tax money at low rates. Young people cannot buy a home so the carpenters are out of work. Few can afford to buy a car so the auto worker is out of work. The politicians too have joined the fellows in the black robes by passing laws in violation of the law which governs them. They have given permission to steal apples so they can have apples to trade for votes at the next election.
Let there be no mistake as to the intent of the Freedom Movement. It is a political force committed to government limited in its power by the law (Constitution). We want our Congressmen, Senators, Presidents and Judges to obey the law. If they obey the law we will pay lawful taxes. When tax-consuming public servants ignore the law and give each other permission to steal my apples, they have gone too far.
You have been doing a good job recruiting people for the tax protest. Once these tax protestors get informed, they become part of the Freedom Movement. Anyone in the Freedom Movement will spend ten dollars to keep you and your apple-stealing buddies from getting one dollar in illegal taxes. Your entire IRS code is null and void and you will soon see the day when those boys in the black robes are forced by their master to admit they were wrong. They have been caught with the stolen apples by the owners. What will the Grand Juries do when they investigate your activities? Will they indict you for your crimes? What will happen when the Grand Jury investigates the U.S. Supreme Court? The Grand Jury is made up of twenty-three sovereign individuals who have the authority and the jurisdiction to investigate all public servants. Have Supreme Court Justices protected the IRS from the authority and power of the Constitution? If the Supreme Court has defended government from the Constitution, they are in violation of their oath. Is the Constitution stronger today than when it was ratified by the States? The Constitution is being destroyed by those it was designed to control and govern. The Constitution is being mocked and spit upon by those who swore to uphold and defend it.
This Nation was founded by brave men. Our government was created by law which was to bind and control public servants. The rights of 'we the people' were not given to us by our government. Our rights are God-given and the only rights our government has are defined in the Constitution. "We the people' gave certain of our God-given rights to our government to protect, and if government goes through the fence and steals our apples, it becomes criminal.
Why am I saying all of this? Remember, your medicine was a combination of different elements. Ridicule, fear, satire, humor, truth, and logic were some of the ingredients. I was recruited to become a tax protestor by the IRS and now I have graduated to the Freedom Movement. Now it is my patriotic duty to help as many others to become informed as I possibly can. To make all of that medicine work properly in your life, we must inform the people who get called for Grand Jury and Jury duty. These are the people who will inject massive doses of fear into your mind if you do not take the cure. If every angry individual in this country was registered to vote, and knew how much power they have on a Jury, we would have no more problems with the IRS or the Supreme Court. All of these letters are designed to help other taxpayers to know their rights and how to protect them. If the taxpayers learn how to protect each other, the cure of your mental problem will be a sure thing.
To close this session of treatment and therapy, let me remind you that I pay for all services rendered by government. I refuse to pay for foreign aid, abortions, no-win wars, welfare fraud, and pay increases for Congressmen during recessions or depressions. That is just part of the list; I will not burden you with the rest. If the IRS is not audited as required by law, then you yourself should know that you are working for an illegal entity. Are you a patriotic American or are you only interested in your paycheck?
Hope this letter will help speed your recovery.


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DUMPED Rio Tinto boss Tom Albanese – who once declared Australia a high-risk country for business – took home more than $30 million during his five-year tenure as chief executive.
Mr Albanese, who was axed from the top job on Thursday, will depart the Anglo-Australian mining giant after nearly six years in the role.
In 2010, Mr Albanese hit the spotlight when he said the federal government's proposed resource rent tax posed a bigger sovereign risk for the company than any of its projects in developing countries. "From my own perspective, this is my No. 1 sovereign risk issue on a global basis," he said during the dispute between the government and mining companies over the proposed 40 per cent profits tax.
Ultimately, it was a coal project in a developing country – Mozambique – that cost Mr Albanese his job.
The 55-year-old American will leave Rio without a bonus for the third straight year. He will not receive any lump-sum payment or short-term performance bonuses for 2012 or 2013, the company said. But he has a lifetime pension at the equivalent of $722,000 a year and holds 252,285 shares in Rio valued at $16.7 million.
Mr Albanese was paid a base salary of about $10.6 million in total over the five years, with unexercised share options from 2003 to 2009 worth $16.2 million.
In addition, his 2009 performance share plan, which could vest next month, has a current indicative value of $2.4 million.
A 2010 share plan award comprising 119,230 options would see Mr Albanese pocket another $6.7 million.
Investors have reacted positively to chairman Jan du Plessis' dumping of Mr Albanese. In London over Thursday night, the company's shares listed there initially fell by as much as 5 per cent but recovered to close just 0.5 per cent down.
On the ASX on Friday, Rio shares closed 2.7 per cent higher at $66.35.
UBS resources analyst Glyn Lawcock welcomed the elevation of 63-year-old Australian Sam Walsh to the position of chief executive, calling him a "safe pair of hands" who was the "logical successor" to Mr Albanese.
He said the scale of the $3 billion impairment of the former Riversdale coal assets in Mozambique "raises questions about the due diligence process and was the primary driver of the need for management accountability".
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Although several artists have been depicted in music games like Guitar Hero in the past, Gwen Stefani's No Doubt is having some trouble with its own likeness in the newly released Band Hero game from Activision.
According to a court filing obtained by the Los Angeles Times, the band sued Activision over a feature in the title that provides gamers with the opportunity to have band members perform another artist's songs.
The lawsuit specifically takes issue with the ability for gamers to have No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani perform the Rolling Stones' Honky Tonk Women. The suit claims that it "results in an unauthorized performance by the Gwen Stefani avatar in a male voice boasting about having sex with prostitutes," the LA Times is reporting, citing documents filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday. The suit also claims that No Doubt objected to the "Character Manipulation Feature," but Activision refused to remove it.
For its part, Activision says that it's not at fault. The company wrote in a statement cited in several publications, that it has a "written agreement" with No Doubt that justifies the use of its likeness in various features in the game.
"Activision has a written agreement to use No Doubt in Band Hero--an agreement signed by No Doubt after extensive negotiations with its representatives, who collectively have decades of experience in the entertainment industry," the company said in a statement. "Pursuant to that agreement, Activision worked with No Doubt and the band's management in developing Band Hero. As a result, Activision believes it is within its legal rights with respect to the use and portrayal of the band members in the game and that this lawsuit is without merit.
"Activision is exploring its own legal options with respect to No Doubt's obligations under the agreement."
No Doubt is asking for unspecified damages, as well as "a preliminary injunction and a permanent injunction against distribution of the game and for Activision to recall existing copies," the Times is reporting.


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Baylor pounds Iowa State 71-7
Baylor pounds Iowa State 71-7
Bryce Petty threw for 343 yards and two touchdowns, Antwan Goodley had 182 yards receiving and two scores, and No. 12 Baylor tied a school record with its 10th straight win, beating Iowa State 71-7 on Saturday night.
The Bears, who came in averaging 70.5 points in four home games but were slowed in a come-from-behind win at Kansas State last week, led 37-0 at halftime and narrowly missed its first shutout win in the Big 12.
Baylor (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) matched its 10-game winning streak from 1936-37.
Iowa State (1-5, 0-3) was without quarterback Sam Richardson while Baylor pulled away in the second quarter. The Cyclones had nine first downs and three turnovers.
The Cyclones scored with 47 with seconds left on a 27-yard pass from Grant Rohach to DeVondrick Nealy. Corey Coleman returned the ensuing kickoff 97 yards to give Baylor its fourth 70-point game this season.


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Who do you want to be the new president of UVA?
38 comments
I think a good choice for the next president would be Teresa Sullivan.
I second that ! I'll bet the question of the week for the BOV is - How are donors feeling about our decision ?
from Virginia Business
"The real issue here, in terms of how it will impact fundraising, is how will the donors react to the resignation? Are they okay with it? I know there are some concerns within the faculty about the decision, but how are the donors going to react?"
Yes, I think the next president should be Teresa Sullivan. And Dragon Lady should not be reappointed to the BOV.
Definitely Teresa Sullivan - and as to the BOV, changes need to be made by Gov. McDonnell.
Not that two-faced, double-dealing, underhanded, lying douche-nozzle, Kiernan.
Hillary Clinton fo shor!
Theresa Sullivan is the best qualified, and should remain at the helm. BOV's members appointments should be revisited.
Peter Keirnan
Jerry Lewis for sure. A proven fund raiser
Welcome back, Ed Ayers!
I think the Board should do another nationwide search and pick Teresa Sullivan. I hear she is available.
Don Draper
It should be given to someone rich white and attractive. Maybe they drink too much. Maybe they have anger issues. This would be indicative of the student body and most appropriate. That last lady was just plain butter face no wonder she did not last!
Lil blondie in the photo is my kinda girl. DIRTY
Lance Armstrong.
Get over it.............. UVa is bigger than any one person.
Barack Hussein Obama with Rosie O'Donnell as Veep.
It is time to modernize how the board of visitors gets selected. Cronyism at its worst. Many rich people with little knowledge of higher education. Dilletantes. Egotists. Ugh.
I'd suggest Larry Summers. Perhaps he'd like to return to academia after having received a vote of no confidence from the faculty as president of Harvard. He might get along fine with the BoV. Sorry for the gallows humor.
Ms. Dragas has assured us that we'll be so thrilled with the next president, that all this turmoil will be forgotten. Since the BoV is so business-oriented, and they're looking for "strategic dynamism," may I suggest that they appoint Donald Trump? I hear he has a house in the area now.
If UVa is too large for any one person, then I recommend 1) RUSH , there are 3 of them.
2) staff of Cavalier Daily, they could take turns, and they know alot , for undergrads
3) Hold a lottery everyday, and the winner takes the next day.
4) hold a raffle too.
5) sell to highest bidder for 6 month stretches.
overhaul the BOV. it should be representative of both academia, medicine, business and community members. the entire process needs changing.
Ken Cuccinelli
"Revisit" (as the snobs say) the decision to dump Pres. Sullivan and rehire her. Then "revisit" the qualifications of the BoV to see if their actions promote UVa or their own interests. The there should be a new BoV hired in on an "interim" basis.
RUSH dammit. They still tour and make big money. Think about the exposure.....""ladies and gentlemen of Tokyo, straight from UVa, lets welcome RUSH!!!"
Big bucks too. Star power, the whole thing!
or maybe Paul McCartney, he still puts on a good show too.
We really need to get past this "academical " thang.
and last, but not least:
Tom Farrell
pros: he has more natural gas than anybody
he is an important business leader and UVa law grad
he can afford to donate his salary to the University
he is chairman of Altria group
cons; he has more natural gas than anybody
he is an important business leader and UVa Law grad
he can afford to donate his salary to the University
he is chairman of the Altria group.
and working on the best obituary of all times.
Tom Farrell?
Does it make sense to promote tobacco companies (Altria) when our health center works hard to encourage people to stop smoking? What would his new policies be? Get rid of the smoke-free campus and medical center and install cigarette vending machines?
We could certainly increase pt volume by encouraging tobacco use, but is that what we really want?
Talk about a conflict of interest!
Does anything really make sense now?
Altria just spent $40 million in California......on advertising.
Colin Powell.
The Dalai Lama.
I probably won't get invited to the party.
Katherine Harris
How about the Three Stooges? or does UVa have them in already Ms. D and the 2 others that voted to remove Pres. Sullivan? Maybe some eye-gouging, face slapping or head-banging is in order to make those see the mistake of their actions.
Oh mother of God.
Barack Obama will be unemployed in 2013.
PS You heard it here, first.
PPS we stoop, we conquer.
I had suggested Bob Gates during the last search. He is very wise man respected by people of all political persuasions with ties to Virginia. He is not getting any younger though. Condeleeza Rice has also been mentioned as someone with obvious star power but some baggage( ie the WMD driven war in Iraq). Who is the President of UC Berkely? They have the samestruggles as UVA but are a research powerhouse.
Tom Czech is a Nobel laureate in chemistry,president of the Howard Hughes medical foundation and was a finalist for the presidency of Harvard. He spent the bulk of his career at the University of Colorado which has an incredibly strong science faculty (5 Nobel laureates and 20 NAS members) and could immediately beef up our science/technology reputation
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The switching of advisors from SEC to state oversight under the Dodd-Frank Act is not "the final answer" to ensuring advisors are adequately examined, SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter told state securities regulators Tuesday.
While it's been nearly a year since Dodd-Frank required that advisors with assets of between $25 million and $100 million under management switch to state oversight in an effort to ensure more advisors get examined, Walter said at the North American Securities Administrators Association's annual public policy conference in Washington that "unless significant changes are made, the SEC cannot fulfill its examination mandate with respect to advisors."
Despite the fact that the number of advisors examined by the SEC dropped after the switch, the former chairwoman said, by just over 8 percent, from 11,600 to 10,600, the "general complexity, and assets under management of the advisors for which [the SEC is] responsible actually increased by 22 percent, from $44 trillion to nearly $54 trillion."
In the advisor exam area, she continued, "those challenges have been magnified by our new private fund adviser oversight responsibilities." SEC staff, she said, estimates that, due to Dodd-Frank, the number of advisors to private funds registered with the commission will increase from 23 percent of all advisors to 38 percent.
Said Walter to state securities regulators: "We all must face the reality that, without future action to address our joint resource constraints in the advisory area, there simply are not enough examiners to go around."
Such action, which she said needed to be "pursued now" by lawmakers, is one of the three solutions laid out in the SEC's 2011 staff report to Congress, which called for the agency to either impose user fees to boost advisor exams, appoint a self-regulatory organization such as FINRA to oversee advisors, or provide a "substantial increase" to the SEC's budget.
However, all three of those options require action by Congress, and industry officials, including FINRA CEO Richard Ketchum, say there's little to no support in Congress to pursue user fees or SRO legislation, at least in the short term. As Ketchum told AdvisorOne in a mid-April email exchange: "Given the lack of consensus on the Hill" regarding an SRO for advisors, FINRA "is not pursuing legislation in either the House or Senate at this time."
While Ketchum says he would support allowing the SEC to assess user fees to boost advisor exams "if it becomes an achievable solution," he told AdvisorOne that he didn't see a consensus among lawmakers to move forward with that option, either.
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee, is said to be planning to reintroduce her user fees bill, but that has yet to occur.
While Walter said in her speech that she wasn't advocating for one option over another, she has voiced her public support previously for an SRO and told reporters after her remarks that any of the solutions are welcome. But deciding which method to employ to boost advisor exams "is such a controversial issue," Walter told reporters. "All of the solutions are going to take time. You can't solve this problem overnight."
Walter added in her comments to reporters that the inability to adequately examine advisors was "the most pointed deficiency" at the SEC.
While President Barack Obama's recent budget request would allow the SEC to hire an additional 250 examiners specifically for advisors, Walter told reporters that number wouldn't be enough to sufficiently boost the number of advisor exams, which now stands at a paltry 8 percent per year.
But a solution to the advisor exam crisis will have to come without Walter at the agency. After her replacement is named, likely in the coming weeks, Walter told reporters that she'd like to retire.
Read SEC Would Use Obama Budget Boost for Advisor Exams on AdvisorOne.


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ANNUAL MANUAL: GIMMESHELTER: Energy Audits: Where are you $$$ going?
Q: We'd like to make sure our home is more energy efficient this winter and in years to come, but where do we begin? How do we know what parts of our house we should improve? And aren't there government incentives for this stuff?
A: Of course, sealing leaks around doors, windows, electrical outlets, and duct work is the obvious place to start, but understanding how much energy you are really using at home is a critical first step to lessening your energy use in the long run.
Household energy use varies widely depending on climate, total square footage, and the number of people living with you. It's estimated that homes built before 1960 spend 20 percent more on energy than homes built after 1960. In Charlottesville, approximately 47 percent of homes were built before 1960.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, here is how a typical household's energy consumption breaks down:
• Heating and cooling 44%
• Water heating 13%
• Lighting 12%
• Refrigeration 8%
• Home electronics 6%
• Laundry appliances 5%
• Kitchen appliances 4%
• Other uses 8%
To know exactly in what areas your home could stand improvement, it's a good idea to get a professional energy audit to assess the energy performance of your home. These typically cost between $250 and $500, depending on the size of your home. Auditors look at your heating and cooling system, water heater, lighting, and appliances to determine exactly where your energy dollars are going.
The entire process takes between three and five hours, depending on the size and condition of your house. After the evaluation is complete, the rater will share with you a list of recommendations for improving your house's overall energy performance. He or she will work with you to identify the most cost effective improvements that can be made to address your home's energy inefficiencies.
While an audit is a good thing to do, it can be cost prohibitive for some households. For the do-it-yourselfers out there who know where the problem areas are and just want to fix them, we are distributing free copies of the Virginia Energy Savers Handbook (put out by the VA Dept. of Mines, Minerals & Energy) at the Charlottesville Community Design Center. The guide is very user friendly and will walk you through many effective household improvements aimed at reducing energy use.
Once you've invested in an energy audit, it's important to follow through with the auditor's recommendations in order to actualize the potential cost and energy savings in your home. Ask your auditor to provide you with a prioritized list of improvements that quantify the length of time it will take to see a return on your investment in household energy savings.
You can also check out common energy-related improvements with cost analysis by the visiting the U.S. Department of Energy's Home Energy Saver website at (http://hes.lbl.gov/hes/profitable.html). The CCDC's new website, SPARK! (spark-change.org), is also a great local resource for learning more about energy conservation, both locally and globally. In fact, the SPARK! program has three Kill-A-Watt meters that it will lend out to people for a week at a time so they can measure how much energy different household appliances are using. Those interested can stop by CCDC at 100 5th St NE on the Downtown Mall or email SPARK! director Eric Gilchrist at email@example.com.
And yes, there are government financial incentives for improving your energy efficiency, both at the federal (visit the Department of Energy's website to find out more: www.energy.gov/taxbreaks.htm) and local levels. Property owners in Charlottesville who are able to demonstrate that a building's energy performance exceeds the Virginia building code by 30 percent are eligible to take a one-time 50 percent property tax deduction. The incentive applies to both residential and commercial properties. You can visit the City's Neighborhood Development Services website (charlottesville.org) to learn more about this incentive program.
Considering an energy audit? Consider these local pros: Airflow Diagnostics: Tom Kavounas, 293-4556. Airflow Home Energy Diagnostics: Jimmy North, 979-4328. Cville Enviro: Russ Edwards, 882-1781. Home Tune Up: Jim Gannon, 263-6521. Think Little Home Energy: John Semmelhack, 409-3970.


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Considering I wasn't the only one who thought yesterday's "toepener" bathroom door handle was simply one of the greatest inventions ever, perhaps other similarly-OCD people will also like the look of Dave Hakkens' Break Soap concept.
The thinking behind the concept is that every time you wish to wash your hands, you simply break off a piece of the soap brick, to avoid contaminating the rest of the bar. Of course, it's not likely as hygienic as a liquid soap dispenser, but I do love this sort of thinking-outside-the-box that we're seeing a lot more of lately. [Dave Hakkens via Core77]


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