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As growers in California central coastal counties adapt to new water quality control regulations, experiments with polyacrylamide (PAM) compounds suggest a better way to manage nutrient and sediment content in irrigation runoff water.
Trials last year by Michael Cahn, Monterey County farm advisor, indicated that significant reductions in nutrients and sediment leaving vegetable and row-crop fields can be achieved with PAM-treated water through sprinkler irrigation.
Products containing PAM are used widely, from waste water treatment and processing of fruits and vegetables to manufacture of cosmetics and clarification of juices.
Under regulations of the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, Cahn said, growers in the region, which extends from Santa Barbara to San Mateo counties, must have a conditional waiver for irrigation water runoff.
To obtain a waiver, a grower must develop a farm water quality plan, implement some practices for water quality protection, and complete 15 hours of training in farm water quality to help develop a management plan for his operation.
The regulations propose maximum total maximum daily amounts of nutrients and sediments and require implementation of best management practices to minimize impairments to surface and ground water quality.
Soil erosion
"One of the broader issues for our growers in Monterey County is the erosion of sandy-loam, decomposed granite soils that under solid set sprinklers crust easily and have runoff with a lot of sediment," Cahn said.
"They also have high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus that drain into various streams, into the Salinas River, and on into Monterey Bay. We have one of the most important agricultural areas in the world next to very important marine and wildlife sanctuaries."
The regional board is monitoring water quality at many locations along the river to develop baseline data on release of sediment and compounds into the bay.
"In July of 2009," he said, "the board will reevaluate conditions to see if progress is being made to improve water quality. One of the ways growers can show evidence is data from their farm water quality plan. They can use best management practices and keep records to show they are improving water quality."
Cahn said PAM, briefly described, is a polymer molecule that links with suspended sediments in water and causes them to drop out of suspension. "It binds soils together to improve water infiltration and reduce runoff, and it also binds nutrients to soil and keeps them in place."
He said it has been researched extensively on erosive soils under furrow irrigation at the USDA-ARS facility at Kimberly, Idaho. "They found that its granular form took care of erosion problems, reduced runoff, and clarified the discharged water."
Cahn wanted to see if PAM injected through sprinklers common for germination of vegetable crops in the Salinas Valley could have the same effect. "The challenge for us was whether PAM could hold the soil structure as the droplets repeatedly impact the soil."
The test plot trials on cooperating growers' fields from south of Salinas to King City showed that the product Soilfloc 300E, a liquid, water-soluble form, could be injected into the water source for sprinklers at concentrations of from 2.5 to 5 ppm when runoff began. Runoff was analyzed for volume and composition of sediments and nutrients.
Sediment reduced
In a trial near Chualar, results of three sprinkler irrigations showed that "PAM reduced sediment and turbidity levels in the runoff for all irrigations, which corresponded to a 95 percent reduction in sediment loss," he said. He also recorded a significant reduction in runoff during the third irrigation.
"We observed that it dropped sediment, the soil remained in place, and the water leaving the field was essentially clear," Cahn said. Variations were seen according to the soil type and salinity of the water, the product working best at an EC of 0.5 or above and an SAR of less than 4.
However, the trials also showed that PAM, when applied in excessive amounts, causes greater runoff because it increases water viscosity and slows infiltration. For that reason, Cahn is advocating the lower rate.
Since the trials last summer, Cahn has enlarged demonstrations for growers on fields ranging from 2 to 10 acres. "We know this works and now we are concentrating on demonstrating it for interested growers." He is continuing to look for growers interested in conducting demonstrations on their fields.
The most significant runoff in the Salinas Valley occurs with applications made for germination of crops. "Ideally, at this point, we'd like to see growers use PAM with sprinklers up to the thinning stage and then go with drip irrigation. We are not suggesting they use it up to harvest. We are cautioning growers to get approval from their buyers before using the sprinkler method after thinning."
$20 per acre cost estimate
Rough, preliminary estimates of costs of PAM, he said, are about $20 per acre for four applications, including labor and equipment costs. Cost sharing of up to 50 percent is available through the National Resource Conservation Service.
"These numbers need to be refined with ag economists and we need to work more with growers to find out what their real costs are. But there is also a cost for growers to use alternative methods like settling basins for tailwater management."
At the least, he added, use of PAM could reduce the need for larger retention ponds commonly in use now. While the basins do improve water quality by containing the sediment and nutrients, at times, runoff exceeds pond capacity and overflows into streams.
"Although some of the sediment, such as sand and large particles, does settle, clays remain in suspension and bind to phosphorus and pesticides molecules. This water can be used for wetting roads or for preirrigation, but few growers would want to use it on a fresh-market vegetable crop and risk food safety issues," he said.
Cahn said by 1999 nearly one million acres of farmland in the Pacific Northwest were treated with PAM annually. The materials have also been used in the San Joaquin Valley to reduce soil erosion during irrigation.
Funding for Cahn's research was provided by the California Department of Food and Agriculture's Fertilizer Research and Education Program.


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With its colourful world of horse-breeding farms, village tourism, spas, wines, food specialities and various cultural and ethnographical values, the Danube-Tisza Interfluve region provides great opportunities for tourism. Yet, it is the wonderful landscape that frames all the attractions. The true aspect of the landscape and the untouched beauties of nature are to be traced in nature conservation areas.
The Kiskunság National Park Management Centre is in charge of an approximate 284,165 acres of protected area. 123,550 acres of the total amount comprise the nine separated areas of Kiskunság National Park. Several landscape-protection areas, nature conservation areas and what we call 'ex lege' protected areas bulk up to the remaining 160,615 acres of land.
Owing to the outstanding natural values, a number of the protected areas are famous worldwide. The main objective of the Kiskunság National Park is to preserve and maintain the matchless treasure, and also to show it to anyone interested in a way that satisfies both tourists' needs and the topmost aim of preservation.
Within the protected areas there are now numerous tourist trails, study trails and lookouts, all contributing to a unique experience of the Kiskunság. Our exhibition venues offer the opportunity to get aquainted with the natural heritage and cultural history of the region. The main visitors' centre of the Kiskunság National Park, called the 'House of Nature', is situated in Kecskemét. Here information is provided on the conditions and possibilities under which the protected areas may be visited, and on various programmes for visitors.
Our aim with this short introduction is to provide ideas to and suggestions for arranging a memorable programme for those who show both interest and respect for nature.

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Spain, Italy back in bond market firing lineAugust 3, 2012: 7:34 AM ET
Spain and Italy came under renewed pressure in the bond market Friday after the European Central Bank said it would not buy government bonds unless specific conditions are met.
One week after he said the ECB would do "whatever it takes" to support the euro currency, ECB president Mario Draghi said Thursday that governments, including those in Spain and Italy, must first ask the eurozone bailout funds to buy bonds before the ECB will intervene.
The yield on Spain's 10-year bonds jumped as high as 7.43%, before easing back toward 7%. Italian 10-year yields were as high as 6.45%.
Under the vague "guidance" that Draghi offered, Spain and Italy would sign a formal agreement with the European Financial Stability Facility, or the European Stability Mechanism, outlining the terms of an official assistance program.
Draghi said bailout funds should be used to buy bonds "when exceptional financial market circumstances and risks to financial stability exist." But he stressed that any government that benefit from such intervention will be subject to "strict and effective conditionality in line with the established guidelines."
Related: Draghi ties bond market buys to government aid
No country has ever asked the EFSF to buy its bonds, and the ESM is not expected to be fully functioning until mid-September at the earliest.
However, in demanding that the EFSF and ESM take part in any bond buying, the ECB made clear that it will not intervene without assurances that governments will abide by their commitments to cut deficits and boost economic growth.
"If there was one clear message from Thursday's ECB press conference, it was that there will be no unilateral bond buying by the ECB," James Nixon, an economist at Societe Generale, wrote in a report.
The ECB's announcement caught many investors off guard. Draghi had raised hopes for an immediate intervention last week when he first argued that buying bonds fell within the ECB's mandate.
Draghi reiterated Thursday that the "euro is irreversible." Assuming Spain and Italy agree to ask the EFSF for help, he said the ECB "may undertake outright open market operations of a size adequate to reach its objective."
The ECB would focus any such purchases on short-term notes, according to Draghi.
The yield on Spain's 2-year notes fell to a low of 4%, down from a record high above 6% late last month. Italy's 2-year yields were down to 3%.
The big question is will Spain and Italy be willing to agree to the terms of an official aid program with the bailout funds.
Officials in Madrid and Rome have so far been reluctant to access the EFSF, which has backed bailouts, along with the International Monetary Fund, for Greece, Portugal and Ireland.
"The markets got the worst of both worlds," said Nicholas Spiro, director of London-based consultancy Spiro Sovereign Strategy. "No swift action and a clear indication that any bond buying on the part of the ECB will be heavily circumscribed."


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Amsler, B M and Williams, G and Busby, J S (1993) Combining activity based costing and process models to describe the manufacturing organisation. Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems, 4 (4). pp. 10-17. ISSN 0951-5240
Dalcher, Darren (1993) The New Project Management Mindset for the 21st century. In: Proceedings of the 1st British Project Management Colloquium. UNSPECIFIED, pp. 25-33.
Harcourt, G.C. and Hughes, A. and Singh, Arjit (1993) Austin Robinson, 20 November 1897-1 June 1993: An appreciation. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 17 (4). pp. 365-368. ISSN 0309-166X
Hendry, L and Kingsman, B G (1993) Customer enquiry management; part of a hierarchical system to control lead times in make-to-order companies. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 44 (1). pp. 61-70. ISSN 1476-9360
Jornsten, Kurt and Wallace, Stein W (1993) Overcoming the (apparent) problem of inconsistency in O-D matrix estimations. Transportation Science, 27 (4). pp. 374-380. ISSN 1526-5447
Kingsman, B G and Worden, L and Hendry, L and Mercer, A and Wilson, E (1993) Integrating marketing and production planning in make-to-order companies. International Journal of Production Economics, 30. pp. 53-66. ISSN 0925-5273
Lewis, P J (1993) Culture and IS Planning. In: Conference of the British Computer Society Methodologies (Edinburgh) - 1993. unknown, N/A.
Lewis, P J (1993) Culture and IS Planning present new challenges for data analysis and modelling. In: Theory, Use and Integrative Aspects of IS Methodologies. British Computer Society Publications, pp. 137-150. ISBN B0000EHPM9
Lewis, P J (1993) Identifying cognitive categories: the basis for interpretive data analysis within soft systems methodology. International Journal of Information Management, 13. pp. 373-386. ISSN 0268-4012
Lewis, P J (1993) Linking soft systems methodology with data-focused information systems development. Information Systems Journal, 13. pp. 373-386. ISSN 1350-1917
Lewis, P J (1993) Towards an interpretative form of data analysis for the soft systems methodology. In: Systems Science: Addressing Global Issues - Proceedings of a United Kingdom Systems Society Conference (Paisley, Scotland) 1993. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 391-396. ISBN 0306445220
Lewis, P J (1993) An interpretative form of data analysis. In: International Conference of the United Kingdom Systems Society (Paisley) - 1993. unknown, N/A.
Wallace, Stein W and Wets, Roger J-B (1993) The facets of the polyhedral set determined by the Gale-Hoffman inequalities. Mathematical Programming, 62 (1-3). pp. 215-222. ISSN 0025-5610
Wallace, Stein W and Yan, Tiecheng (1993) Bounding multistage stochastic linear programs from above. Mathematical Programming, 61. pp. 111-130. ISSN 0025-5610
Williams, S and Busby, J S (1993) The value of limitations of using process models to describe the manufacturing organisation. International Journal of Production Research, 31 (9). pp. 2179-2194. ISSN 0020-7543
Wilson, E and Worden, L and Mercer, A and Kingsman, B G (1993) Integrating production planning in make-to-order companies. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on managing integrated manufacturing. unknown, N/A, pp. 427-436.
Wilson, N and Kingsman, B G and Hendry, L (1993) A decision support system for the dynamic planning of customer order intake and capacity resources for make-to-order companies. In: Advances in Production Management Systems: Proceedings of the IFIP TC5/WG5.7 Fifth International Conference, APMS '93, Athens, Greece, 28-30 September 1993. Elsevier, London, New York and Amsterdam, pp. 133-141. ISBN 0-444-81598-8
Zografos, Konstantinos and Nathanail, T.G. and Michalopoulos, P. (1993) Analytical Framework for Minimising Freeway-Incident Response Time. Journal of Transportation Engineering, 119 (4). pp. 535-549. ISSN 0733-947X


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By: Dr. Fiona Caldwell
For Pets Best Insurance
Many people enjoy good sushi, which is, of course, prepared safely and is eaten with little risk. But when Fido is scouting the banks of the river on your next camping or fishing trip for raw versions of his or her own 'sushi,' you might be wary, even if you have dog insurance. Some raw fish found in the Pacific Northwest can lead to Salmon Poisoning, an acute and often fatal disease if left untreated.
It is a very regional disease for a very interesting reason. The disease can only happen in areas that have a specific type of small snail called Oxytrema plicifer. The Pacific Northwest, including northern California, Oregon, Washington and southern Vancouver Island in Canada have this particular type of snail. So what do snails have to do with Salmon? Here is the tricky-to-follow life-cycle that can culminate with Salmon Poisoning:
The snail has to become infected with a type of parasite called a fluke. The fluke has to be infected with a type of Neorickettsial bacteria. The larval stage of the fluke containing the bacteria can penetrate the skin of the fish, who are not affected by this and don't become sick. The fish has to be a salmon, steelhead or trout. The dog then has to eat the raw fish, therefore ingesting the parasitic fluke with the harmful bacteria.
Generally about one week after eating the infected fish, the dog will become sick, developing diarrhea in which the parasitic fluke egg is released in the feces, contaminating the ground where snails can pick it up and the cycle repeats itself. Did you follow??
Dogs with this condition generally have a high fever, sometimes over 104 to 105 degrees, and horrible watery, bloody diarrhea. About two thirds of patients will have swollen lymph nodes as well. The bacteria released by the fluke can spread to the liver, lungs, brain, and lymphoid tissues causing damage.
Definitive diagnosis is made by finding the eggs of the fluke parasite in the dog's feces, even though it is not truly the fluke that is causing the illness. A cytology of the lymph nodes can sometimes provide clues to this diagnosis as well. Of course, a history of access to raw fish in the past week is also helpful. Your veterinarian will likely want to run blood work to determine the extent of damage done to organs and the vast majority of patients will need to be hospitalized in order to prevent dehydration and in order to adequately treat. Pet health insurance will undoubtedly be beneficial in order to ensure the pet has the best care possible and treatment doesn't become a financial strain for the owner. Unless treated, dogs can succumb to infection within 7-10 days.
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In order to prevent this potentially fatal disease, Dogs should not be permitted to ingest raw salmon or similar fish as well as smoked raw salmon.
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Guests: Chuck Todd, Chris Cillizza, Michael Steele, Sue Herera, Chuck Todd, Ed Rendell, John Heilemann, Cynthia Tucker, Michael Scherer, Debbie Wasserman Schultz
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: The Bain mutiny.
Let`s play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I`m Chris Matthews up in Boston. You`ve heard of the
Cain mutiny, how a bunch of World War II naval officers overthrew the
ship`s captain? Well, they`re calling what`s happening now to Obama the
"Bain mutiny." Top Democrats Newark mayor Cory Booker, car czar Steve
Rattner, "MORNING JOE`s" Harold Ford, Governor Ed Rendell, each going after
him, saying he`s dead wrong, the president`s dead wrong, to attack Mitt
Romney over his job-killing history with Bain Capital.
We have one of those Democratic officers here tonight, former
Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, along with "New York" magazine`s John
A new RNC e-mail lists six Democrats right now who say they`re tired
of Obama`s attacks on free enterprise -- "free enterprise," that`s how
they`re saying it -- including Governor Rendell.
An excerpt from the Buzzfeed article cited -- reads as follows.
"Rendell joined the chorus of criticism of Obama`s attacks on finance,
whose leaders have written checks to many members of both parties. `I
think they`re very disappointing," Rendell said of the ads attacking Bain.
`I think Bain is fair game because Romney has made it fair game, but I
think how you examine it, the tone, what you say is important, as well.`"
Governor Rendell, big question. Are you with the Obama campaign as
it`s being run right now, or are you against it?
Well, either/or, you know? Right now, I`d like to see the president -- I
think he`s done a good job, Chris. And you and I discussed it. I`d like
to see him emphasize the terrific things that he`s done for the country
under different circumstances.
And the ad itself -- of course he has a right to go after Governor
Romney`s claim that he`s a job creator because of his work at Bain. That`s
the main thrust of his rationale why he should be elected president,
because he`s a businessman and he knows how to create jobs. Well, he
didn`t create jobs, he created wealth, and let`s examine it.
I think the media has a responsibility to take all the deals that
Governor Romney did at Bain, look at them, and were they net job creation
or net job loss? Governor Romney said back in `94, 10,000 jobs created.
He said in the Republican primaries 100,000 jobs created. And now he`s
saying tens of thousands of jobs.
So the Obama campaign has a right to say to the American people, This
guy says he`s a job creator, it isn`t so. And that is a legitimate
question. It`s like when I ran for governor, I said I was a great mayor.
My opponents had the right to say, Well, education in Philadelphia wasn`t
so hot, was it? And I had the right to answer that.
MATTHEWS: Yes, but the problem is...
RENDELL: What I`ve said...
MATTHEWS: ... we`re now at a chorus -- Governor, you`ve been thrown
into a chorus now by the Republican National Committee because you, after
Cory Booker said that the Obama campaign ad was nauseating, you jumped in
with the adjective -- you were -- well, you actually said you were
disappointed in the ad campaign.
RENDELL: Well...
MATTHEWS: Are you disappointed in the ad work being done on behalf of
President Obama and his campaign?
RENDELL: I`m disappointed in virtually every political ad right now
because they`re all negative. They`re all slam. No one talks about the
good things we`ve done in politics. And it`s one of the reasons there is
so much voter dissatisfaction and so many voters who don`t have confidence
in the government.
But is this a fair topic? Of course it is, Chris. And you`ve said it
on many occasions, too. Would I make the ads a little different in tone?
Sure, I would. But this deserves a full examination of whether Governor
Romney is a job creator.
I think when the president said yesterday he created wealth, not jobs,
I think that has a great degree of accuracy. But I`d love to see the way
we run campaigns in America totally changed.
MATTHEWS: OK, John Heilemann, you cover this campaign. You`re
looking at "Game Change" again here, perhaps. It looks to me like the
Republicans have got what they wanted. They want an articulate spokesman
against the president. Now they`ve got them in Cory Booker and others,
including they`re using Rendell right now. They`re using people like Steve
Rattner, the car czar, who gets a lot of credit for the president`s number
one accomplishment, you might say, in reindustrializing America.
They`ve got some really good people here seeming to be making their
case that Mitt Romney and his role at Bain is not fair game.
JOHN HEILEMANN, "NEW YORK" MAGAZINE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well,
I`m not sure -- yes, Chris, certainly, they`re using these -- they have
talking points on this. And look, the bottom line is that private equity
is a bipartisan profession. There are a lot of people who are Democrats,
rich Democrats, who are in private equity. Steven Rattner is a good
example of someone like that. And it`s not (ph) reasonable to think that
someone like Steven Rattner is going to defend the notion and the role of
private equity in the market economy. And you`re going to find Democrats
all over the country who do that.
And I think Ed Rendell is making the point -- it`s very tricky, this
argument that the president`s trying to make because it`s clear that it`s
fair game. There`s no doubt that when Mitt Romney cites this as his main
credential as a job creator, the Obama campaign is going to rightfully look
at it. He doesn`t talk about his record in Massachusetts. There`s a
reason for that. Because his record as a job creator in Massachusetts as
governor is not very good. So he cites Bain.
HEILEMANN: The Obama administration goes after that. But it`s the
case that a lot of Democratic donors and a lot of former Democratic
officials have gone into private equity. And so they`re not going to find
people who are just unequivocally applauding the president when their
profession`s being attacked and -- and the Romney people have seized on
MATTHEWS: Well, they`re not...
MATTHEWS: You`re being kind to these equity people because they`re
not only not applauding the president, they are trashing his campaign,
calling it "nauseating" on "MEET THE PRESS."
Let`s take a look at the ad that you`re talking about when people like
Cory Booker say they`re nauseated by it. Here`s the ad he`s talking about.
Apparently, it`s been out there right now. It`s the only one they`re
talking about. Let`s listen.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was a steel worker for 30 years. We had a
reputation for quality products. It was something that was American-made.
And we weren`t rich, but I was able to put my daughter through college.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Having a good-paying job that you can support and
raise a family on is hugely important.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That stopped with the sale of the plant to Bain
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was like a vampire. They came in and sucked
the life out of it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was like watching an old friend bleed to death.
MATTHEWS: What`s wrong with the ad, Governor?
RENDELL: Well, the vampire stuff is a little strong. And when I said
the tone of the ad -- the other stuff is very legitimate because Governor
Romney put on ads during primaries about workers that Bain helped
supposedly get their jobs. So this is fair game.
And I think the Obama campaign should have stayed with that, should
have stayed with the fact that under Bain, X amount of companies that they
invested in went bankrupt. That`s not the case for a lot of private equity
firms. It is for some but not the case for all.
There is plenty good grounds factually, but "vampire" -- that got me
as a little off in tone. But again, I think what John said is right. This
is the central issue in the campaign, and this is...
MATTHEWS: Right.
RENDELL: ... Governor Romney`s claim to why he`s going to be a good
president. So it`s got to be examined.
MATTHEWS: Well, let`s take a look at...
RENDELL: It`s just got to be.
MATTHEWS: Let`s take a look at the president. Here I think the
president was forced to actually define exactly what he`s talking about
here. And what he`s exactly saying is a guy like Romney shouldn`t be out
there saying, I`m the perfect candidate for president because I ran Bain.
Here he is making that case yesterday in his press conference. Let`s
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The reason this is
relevant to the campaign is because my opponent, Governor Romney, his main
calling card for why he thinks he should be president, is his business
experience. And when you`re president, as opposed to the head of a private
equity firm, then your job is to not simply to maximize profits, your job
is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot. And so if
your main argument for how to grow the economy is, I knew how to make a lot
of money for investors, then you`re missing what this job is about.
MATTHEWS: Let me go to John. It seems to me that there were not --
we`re not arguing about nuance here. Here`s a president who`s put together
a campaign in difficult economic circumstances. He`s inherited a pile of
crap in terms of the economy. He`s trying to do a good job. He`s brought
the economy back a bit. But he`s not going to let somebody come in off the
bench like Romney and say, I`m Mr. Clean. I`m going to fix this economy
based on my record at Bain.
So here`s what he does. This is about the top 1 percent. This is
about the Buffett rule. This is about the rich. This is about guys like
Romney. OK, that`s the coloration of it, but it`s also about whether a guy
like him is a guy who -- even with his sleeves rolled up the way he rolls
them up -- is not the guy to fix our economy.
Governor, my concern here -- let me go back to John Heilemann on the
outside the campaign. My concern is that this idea that he has to be so
fine-tuned now and so careful about the sensitivities of people like
Rattner and the rest of them, and Cory Booker and the guys who depend on
their pals on Wall Street -- if he`s got to be so dainty and tiptoe through
the tulips to make his point, he`ll never make it! Give him some elbow
room to make the point that these are not the heroes of our time, these
guys. These equity guys are not come out and save the country!
HEILEMANN: Well, look, Chris...
HEILEMANN: Welcome to the Democratic Party. I mean, the Democratic
Party is a party that`s based -- that`s based in Wall Street. It`s not
like they`re -- there`s -- the president has...
MATTHEWS: I know.
HEILEMANN: I mean, that`s just how -- that`s just how it is.
MATTHEWS: But these rules of engagement -- these rules of engagement
the governor is setting are so careful -- don`t offend anybody. Don`t
disappoint us. Be careful not to...
RENDELL: Well...
MATTHEWS: Governor, you have run negative ads.
RENDELL: Chris, do you like "vampire"?
MATTHEWS: Everybody runs negative ads. The idea -- you said you
don`t believe in negative ads. Give me a break! You guys all run negative
ads, don`t you?
RENDELL: No, Chris...
MATTHEWS: I`m sorry, Governor.
RENDELL: (INAUDIBLE) my campaigns, I ran very few. But hey, Chris,
do you think a "vampire" is a good way to describe what they did, what Bain
did? I don`t think they`re vampires, but I don`t think they`re job
And I`ll tell you one thing. And John, correct me if I`m wrong on the
facts here. Ampad was closed down and the investors took $100 million out.
And I understand the workers lost part of their pension and almost all of
their health care.
Well, couldn`t they have taken $80 million out and saved some of that
money to give to the workers a little pension and health care relief as
they`re going -- as they`re losing their jobs? I mean, isn`t that a
legitimate question about where your values are?
HEILEMANN: Of course it`s a legitimate question. And I think, look,
what -- the case is that there are -- and I`ll cite Steve Rattner on this
point. There were a few instances where Bain -- and I know the Obama
administration -- the Obama campaign has all of them -- where they behaved
in a way where it seems like there is a case that could be made where they
were -- where they -- where the workers were harmed in a way that is
atypical of private equity. So you`re going to hear about those cases.
It`s not the majority of what Bain did, but it`s -- they`re real
cases, and those obviously are the cases that the president and his team
are going to focus on and they`re going to hit them really, really hard.
I think that there`s -- there`s just no way in which this isn`t going
to be at the center of things. And Chris, you know, I don`t know what the
rules of engagement are, but I think it is -- it just points to the
difficulty of the president`s position.
The president is simultaneously trying to run a populist campaign and
also, he`s looking at a situation where he`s probably going to get out
spent in this election and is trying to raise a ton of money. They`re
trying to convince people in the Democratic Party to write big checks to
the Democratic super-PAC. He`s in a -- it`s a delicate position. It`s the
nature of money in our politics now that you can`t be Huey Long anymore.
You can`t just be a full-throated populist, and there`s going to be
MATTHEWS: Well, then...
HEILEMANN: ... in the Democratic Party...
MATTHEWS: ... what does the Democratic Party stand for?
HEILEMANN: ... who are going to object. That`s how it is. Oh, I`m
not -- I`m not...
HEILEMANN: He`s in a box. He`s in a box.
MATTHEWS: Look, here`s the problem. This well, this electoral week
in this campaign, which is just getting started, Governor, started with a
guy who`s selling himself on national television as a surrogate for the
president, who waved a copy of the surrogate notes he was going to use, and
then basically said the president was nauseating him with his advertising
campaign, was basically saying that he fires people, so does Romney. We`re
the good guys. We have to fire people to get things done, basically
challenging the president on everything he`s been saying.
I`m telling you, this is a problem. And I`ll tell you, the
Republicans are having a joy week over this. That`s my concern. And
they`re getting an easy one. This is like a turnover in sports. This is a
RENDELL: Chris...
MATTHEWS: Go ahead.
RENDELL: Can I suggest to you, you`re right, and you know, Sawyer
(ph) was right when he said that we don`t belong to any organized party.
We`re Democrats. But also, think about this. Think about this. We didn`t
have anyone, say, associated with us, that nothing we said during the
primaries matter because it`s going to be an Etch-a-Sketch moment and
everything`s going to be wiped away and then we can tell voters a whole new
different story.
Look, in the end, you and I know and John knows this election`s coming
down to the acceptance speech at the convention and the three debates.
When it`s as close as this is, those are going to be the seminal things
that decide it. No one`s going to remember Cory Booker, Ed Rendell, Harold
Ford or even -- what`s the guy`s name on Etch-a-Sketch? I`ve already
forgotten his name.
HEILEMANN: Eric Fehrnstrom.
RENDELL: No one`s going to remember us. Right. In the end, it`s
going to be those debates and...
MATTHEWS: All I know is...
RENDELL: ... the acceptance speeches.
MATTHEWS: All I know is -- remember Zell Miller a few conventions
ago, who turned south on the Democratic Party and he gave that spitball
speech? Cory Booker`s working for his job.
Anyway, thank you, Ed Rendell. Thank you, John Heilemann. Coming
RENDELL: See you, Chris.
MATTHEWS: ... where are the Democratic surrogates who should be out
there supporting Obama? How come we only hear from the mutineers, only
hear from the loyalists? Where are they? We`re going to find out.
The latest, by the way, NBC/"Wall Street Journal" poll -- who are the
voters who are going to decide this election? Wait`ll you hear who they
are. These are a strange group of people. By the way, Republican money
men think they`ve figured a way to hit Obama the hardest, very interesting
what their plan is. We figured that one out.
"Let Me Finish" tonight with the central question of the Obama
campaign. Are top Democrats going to back him on the central issue of this
campaign, economic fairness, or not?
This is HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: New poll numbers from Pennsylvania. Let`s check the
HARDBALL "Scoreboard."
According to a new PPP poll, President Obama has a comfortable lead in
the Keystone state over Mitt Romney, 50 over 42, an 8-point spread there.
Obama carried the state in 2008 by 10 points.
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL, and it`s been hardball tonight.
President Obama yesterday, by the way, succinctly indicted, I think,
Romney`s rationale for running. But where are the Democratic troops out
there saying the same thing? Where are the real surrogates out there
hitting Romney, not the (INAUDIBLE) sort of sabotage the operation?
Let`s go to an expert, the chair of the Democratic National Committee.
She`s down in Florida. Actually, she`s a Florida congresswoman from
Florida, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Thank you. I haven`t seen much of you lately. Where -- where have
you been the last couple months? Have you been out on television?
REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (D-FL), DNC CHAIR: Oh, I`ve been out
there, but I also had my twins (INAUDIBLE) this past weekend, so I`ve been
busy being a mom, too. And you know...
MATTHEWS: I`ve been missing you. We want you -- we want you for our
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: I`ve been there. I`ve been there.
MATTHEWS: ... selfishness reasons. But also, I like to see the
partisan combat.
I want to show you something right now. It`s what I think a surrogate
should be doing. Now, we know this guy isn`t always on message, but when
he is, he`s pretty good. Here`s the veep, Vice President Joe Biden,
attacking Mitt Romney`s rationale for running for president in New
Hampshire today. Let`s watch the veep do surrogate work. Here he is.
JOSEPH BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: He says he`s
better qualified to be president and commander-in-chief because of his
business experience.
BIDEN: That`s why he should be -- well, it`s not an irrational
argument if you -- but depending on the business and your success in the
(INAUDIBLE) job is legitimate. It`s legitimate. But folks, making
money regardless of the consequences for the workers, the companies they
acquire or the communities that get wasted, is another question. Folks,
making money for your investors, which Romney did very well, is not the
president`s job. The president has a different job.
MATTHEWS: Well, there you have it, Congresswoman, Madam Chairman, it
seems to me, not an A-plus performance, but a decently good performance
echoing the president`s argument that Mitt Romney`s not an evil person, he
may not be a vampire, but to claim that his work as head of Bain was
somehow a great preparation for the presidency is not true.
Now, why don`t we have the whole cabinet out there doing it? Why
don`t we have Democratic governors, senators and members of Congress? I
would have thought an orchestra leader would be important here, somebody
pointing out, You now -- you do Saturday, you do the women on Saturday, you
do the minorities on Monday, but let`s get this thing with an orchestra
sound to it.
And all I hear is a solo act from the president, broken now by these -
- well, they`re not purposely saboteurs, but they sabotaged this whole
operation this week.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Chris, we`re fortunate that we actually have a
very broad and deep surrogate operation in which we have many different
kinds of leaders across the country -- political leaders, elected
officials, community leaders, organizational leaders -- who are out there
as spokespeople on behalf of the president of the United States and making
the case for his reelection.
And that`s because they believe in his candidacy, they believe in his
record of accomplishment.
MATTHEWS: Who are they? But I don`t hear them.
MATTHEWS: Which Cabinet members? Which members of the Cabinet are
out there speaking for the president politically and for his reelection?
Who is out there giving speeches for him?
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Secretary Sebelius is one of those Cabinet
members. Now, remember, there are some Cabinet members that are restricted
and unable to advocate on behalf of the president, like the attorney
general and the secretary of state, the secretary of homeland security.
So you won`t see those Cabinet officials out there, because they are
appropriately doing their jobs. But you do see Secretary Sebelius,
Secretary Salazar. You have the secretary of commerce, the secretary of
You have -- I was just down in South Florida with Ambassador Susan
Rice, who came down to talk with the Jewish community, and she wasn`t down
to talk about the president`s candidacy, but about his record of
accomplishments and support for Israel.
So, we have internal surrogates who are making the case for the
president, and then we have a number and widespread outside surrogates,
like Governor Ted Strickland, for example, the former governor of Ohio, and
Governor Rendell is certainly a surrogate for us, and myself, and a broad
number of members of Congress, Congresswoman Donna Edwards.
There`s a very long list of surrogates for the president, and they
have been out there repeatedly.
MATTHEWS: You know, I don`t see it.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: I`m not sure how you`re not seeing them.
MATTHEWS: I watch a lot of television. I watch a lot of television,
Congresswoman, and I got to tell you, it looks like a solo act.
The president had to go out and explain his position yesterday in a
press conference. When he was being assaulted by all those mutineers this
weekend, by Rattner and by Cory Booker and Ed Rendell and all those people
making those critical comments, I didn`t here anybody jumping to his
defense. Did you?
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Chris, I think there are times when it`s
appropriate to put a surrogate out there, and there are times when
President Obama believes that there is no one better than the president
himself to stand up and make the central case that because Mitt Romney has
been repeatedly saying that his central qualification for the presidency of
the United States is his record at Bain Capital, I think it`s entirely
appropriate for the president to make sure that voters and -- voters in
this country understand that that is not a qualification for president.
And if he is representing that he is, then a close examination and
close scrutiny of that record is entirely appropriate.
Thank you very much, U.S. Congressman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair
of the Democratic Party.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: You`re welcome.
MATTHEWS: Let`s bring in Michael Scherer, who covers the White House
for "TIME" magazine.
I think, Michael, you agree with me about what looks to me a patent
failure on the part of the Obama administration to put together a really
good surrogate operation.
MICHAEL SCHERER, "TIME": It`s been a complaint from early on.
I heard it the end of 2009 from the White House. I heard it the end
of 2010 from the White House. It was one of the reasons they actually
brought in Bill Daley, that they have long wanted better surrogates, people
with more gravitas who could go on TV for them.
Daley is out. They have never been able to pull it together. They
went through a couple of commerce secretaries. The congresswoman is right.
They do have some people out there. Ted Strickland I think has done an
excellent job for them. They have some internal people who have been doing
a good job for them.
But you have a few things coming together here. First, the president
in his first year of his administration was the administration. He was out
there every day. And they didn`t realize until the end of that year that
they needed other people to take the heat off of him.
Two, I think the White House and the president himself has long kind
of looked down on this cable news chatter, this on-air warfare that
happens. They never prioritized it. They took a long time to respond to
Glenn Beck. They took a long time to really wake up to the Tea Party.
And so it never really has had the same priority that other White
Houses have had. And, then, third, I think you saw it just there with
Governor Rendell. You have now a situation in which the gravitational pull
of the president, the leader of the Democratic Party, has been diminished.
You have politicians and ex-politicians out there who are looking out for
their own brands who don`t want to sign on to what`s going to be a very
vicious and negative campaign.
They don`t want to tarnish themselves. Cory Booker is doing that. Ed
Rendell is out there doing that. And that creates a problem for the
campaign going forward.
MATTHEWS: Well, whose job is it to orchestrate surrogates, to recruit
and orchestrate them?
SCHERER: Well, everybody does it.
It should be the White House normally, but right now the campaign is
controlling that. The DNC controls it. But, yes, I think your point is
also well-taken here for another reason. The Obama campaign this year is
playing money ball. They playing for little, incremental wins, ground
game, things like that.
So, these sort of failures matter. It`s hard for them to argue that
even though this is not something that people are going to be really
remembering on Election Day, their ability to build this narrative will
matter on Election Day. And the little things matter. That`s the drumbeat
you constantly hear coming out of Chicago.
And my guess is that over the next several weeks because of this
blowup, they get their stuff together. They do have people out there.
Antonio Villaraigosa in Los Angeles has done good. Strickland I think has
gone very good. And there`s other inside the campaign that they will be
MATTHEWS: Yes, I agree with you completely.
SCHERER: You will see people getting a talking to before they go on
air. Obviously that didn`t happen with Booker before he went on "Meet the
Press," but I would be surprised if the campaign allows anybody to go on
again without sitting him down and saying, you have to understand the
stakes here.
MATTHEWS: Yes, I think, Michael, and the point you`re making and a
bigger way of saying it, perhaps, is that you don`t really look like you`re
commanding the United States and leading the whole country unless you seem
to have people out there working for you and speaking for you.
It doesn`t send the signal of a leader; it sends the signal of a solo
act. And I think the president often looks like a solo act, and I don`t
think that is good. Thank you.
MATTHEWS: Michael Scherer, thank you for joining us so much.
SCHERER: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: Up next -- great piece, by the way.
Up next, which potential Romney running mate says he would disconnect
the phone if he knew he was getting the call? That`s next on the
"Sideshow." This is HARDBALL, the place for politics.
JIMMY FALLON, HOST, "LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON": Today, President
Obama tossed around a football at Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears.
Yes, Obama told Biden to go long. Then he hopped into his car and drove
MATTHEWS: That`s pretty good. Back to HARDBALL.
You`re watching the "Sideshow," obviously.
Let`s go right to the GOP clown show, back to it, rather. Yesterday
was Donald Trump saying -- quote -- "Let them go at it," encouraging pro-
Romney PACs to launch ads linking Obama with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Well, Trump has got company.
SARAH PALIN (R), FORMER ALASKA GOVERNOR: I thought so in 2008 and
that`s why I went rogue, if you will, and disagreed with some of John
McCain`s advisers when they said no, a lot of these issues like past
associations and Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers and those that helped shape
Obama`s world view needed to be off the table and not discussed.
I disagreed then. I disagree now. Barack Obama back in 2008 was an
empty vessel. It`s not too late to change course, and this next go-round
understand what has filled up that vessel. Who are these people? Who are
the radicals, the Marxist professors that he said he would like to -- he
would hang out with and some of his friends and associations?
MATTHEWS: I think her briefing papers have the weight of a comic
Anyway, there you have it. That`s Sarah Palin, the so-called game
changer, calling for a more thorough vetting of President Obama. I would
put vetting in her case more to use.
Now let`s catch up with the veepstakes. See if you tell which of
Romney`s potential running mates for V.P. is behind this nugget. This
person was asked yesterday if they had been contacted by team Romney about
the vetting process.
The comeback? Quote: "Of course not. If I thought that call was
coming, I would disconnect the phone."
Who said that? Well, actually, it was second-term governor, the man
from Indiana, Mitch Daniels.
Up next: the state of the presidential race and whether the Obama
campaign`s attacks on Bain Capital and Romney`s way of making money are
hitting pay dirt. According to these numbers, they are. We have got new
numbers from the NBC/"Wall Street Journal" poll that make the Obama case.
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
Who is going to decide this year`s presidential election? It`s a
pretty fundamental question. Well, according to the latest NBC/"Wall
Street Journal" poll, while many people have made up their minds --
practically everybody has done that -- and is firmly committed to either
Barack Obama or Governor Romney, there is a small group of voters out there
who say they`re unsure or unimpressed with either of the candidates.
As Peter Hart, one of the top pollsters, summed it up, never has so
much money been spent by so many to persuade so few.
And we`re talking about a handful of voters there, basically. What do
we know about these people in the very political middle? Well, they`re
overwhelmingly -- they overwhelmingly think the country is headed in the
wrong direction, and yet while their views of Obama are mostly negative,
Mitt Romney scores much worse.
Could it be that the Bain attacks are working or that they`re on
target at least? Will people who are so disaffected by the state of the
country want to vote for someone who is worth a quarter of a billion
dollars and who has made his fortune by firing people?
Chuck Todd is an NBC News political director and chief White House
correspondent, and Chris Cillizza is managing editor of PostPolitics.com
and as MSNBC political analyst.
I think this is just fascinating, Chuck. I know you have been talking
about this with some others, our producers. And this small group of hard-
core people who I almost think of them as Ross Perot people, they don`t the
way people run this government. They don`t like people maybe in general.
They have had a hard life, but they really don`t like the cut of the jib of
Mitt Romney at all either.
CHUCK TODD, NBC NEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR: Let me explain what we did.
These are -- every month, we have this 7 to 10 percent that`s
undecided. And so what we did is we pooled all of the undecided from about
three or four straight polls so that you get a larger number of folks and
you can figure out who they are.
Well, boy, did we figure out who they are. They`re -- as you pointed
out, they`re very negative on the president, very negative on Mitt Romney.
But here`s the person that they`re not negative on. That`s Ron Paul. And
so when you described them as Perot types, that`s exactly what they are.
These are the no-B.S. voters. They`re sort of burned out on the B.S.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TODD: They want to -- they want to -- they -- they don`t want to
tinker with Washington around the edges. They want to massively demolish
this place. And that`s what you see in here. They think the country is
more on the wrong track than the rest. They think the president is doing a
worse job than the rest. They have a worse view of Mitt Romney`s image.
So you`re -- it`s -- it`s this whole thing. These folks, though, Mitt
Romney, I would argue, may need them more. These folks strike me as people
that may not vote, and that`s what should be a scary thing if you`re Mitt
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TODD: He needs them more than Obama might need them.
MATTHEWS: Now, let me ask you this. Who do they hate more? Who do
they distrust more, the government bureaucrat with the classic attache case
with the peanut butter sandwich inside that Wallace (ph) used to talk about
coming to bother them, or do they distrust the big shot efficiency expert
from the corporate guy that comes in and takes over their company, dumps --
cans guys like them and makes more money for the people who have invested?
TODD: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Who do they hate more, if you put it that?
TODD: That`s a good question.
And I think that that -- if you answer that question, then you would
find out where these undecideds would move. I think that that`s -- that`s
the Hobson`s choice for these people, if you will, frankly, Chris, because
they don`t like the way government...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TODD: They feel government intrudes on them. They don`t like a lot
of those things, but they don`t -- as you pointed out, they mistrust.
Maybe they have been -- I have always half-joked a lot of your typical
Ron Paul supporters is a highly educated I.T. type of guy, and they don`t
trust the CEOs and -- anybody with the title of COO, CFO, or CEO either.
MATTHEWS: Yes. I think I know some of these guys.
Well, here are some interesting numbers in terms of people who say
they`re unsure how they want to vote. Take a look at it. By a huge
margin, they think the country is on the wrong track. You pointed that
out, Chuck -- 71 percent say that. Asked what they think of the president,
27 percent give a positive rating. That`s one in four, a little more than
But asked about Mitt Romney, 9 percent, Chris Cillizza, 9 percent
likes the looks of this guy.
CHRIS CILLIZZA, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes.
I mean, Chris, look, I think Chuck is right. These people are called
disaffecteds for a reason, because they`re not just necessarily disaffected
with Democrats, disaffected with Republicans. They`re disaffected with the
But what that 9 percent number does suggest is that if the Obama team
-- I think it`s a big if -- but if the Obama team can accomplish their
goal, which is, this is a choice between what Barack Obama has done and
will do versus what Mitt Romney says he will do, if they can make 2012
election a choice, then Mitt Romney, to these undecideds, these disaffected
voters, isn`t all that appealing a choice.
If they can`t make it a choice, though, Chris, if it`s a referendum,
essentially, look, you have two choices. Barack Obama is A, Mitt Romney is
B. If you don`t like A, your only other option is B. That`s how Romney
ends up winning among these undecided voters.
Look, he`s not going to go from 9 percent favorable to 55 percent
favorable. His favorable numbers are never going to be great. He just has
to convince them he is a viable, incredible alternative if they want to
fire the guy who is currently in office.
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Quickly, does it surprise you, Chuck, that
this marriage equality issue, the issue of gay marriage or same sex
marriage, seems to have, just going to the numbers here, no impact on the
voters, it seems. No changes in here.
CHUCK TODD, NBC NEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR: Not only that, but how
about the second question we asked which said if you would be in favor or
would approve of same sex marriage being legalized in your state, and what
was interesting there is we asked it in a four-part question, that they
would push for it, they would be highly supportive of it, they would favor
it but not push for it, not be supportive -- you know, not try to actively
get it passed, and then you have the ones that say, well, I would oppose it
but I wouldn`t actively try to see it repealed.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TODD: And then you have folks -- and when you look at the balance,
you see the shift. It`s a passive shift toward approving gay marriage.
And so, put it this way, any state that passes it, you`re not going to --
it`s going to be hard to see outside of the religious -- more religious
based Southern voter and Southern states. You`re not going to see states -
- people want to see rights taken away, if you will.
MATTHEWS: I agree. Chris, Mitt Romney still has some major
obstacles in this poll. It comes to it with some blocks of voters you
might say in the NBC/"Wall Street Journal" poll, look a this -- 34 percent
lead among Hispanics for the president, 15 percent lead, what a gender gap,
if you will, for the women. People have told me, if the president can hold
that 15 percent among female voters, women voters, out there, he`s going to
CILLIZZA: Yes, I think they`re right. If you go back and look at
the math, Chris, you`re usually -- again, the margins are relatively slim
here, but I think anything above about 13 percent, the map just becomes
difficult. If women -- look, women have been a majority of the electorate
since 1980, if they continue to be a majority, 51 percent, 52 percent, 53
percent of the electorate, if you`re losing that big a chunk by 11, 13, 14,
15 or higher, the math just becomes -- the numbers don`t add up at some
Now, I think if Romney can get it down to 10, nine, maybe even 11, he
could win. The reality on both sides, Chris, but especially for Mitt
Romney -- Mitt Romney is not winning this election -- I would be stunned if
he did -- with 52 percent, 53 percent, 54 percent of the popular vote. If
he wins, I think he`s winning with 50.7, 51.3.
CILLIZZA: The country is just divided that -- particularly with
Romney and his path, it`s just hard to imagine either popular vote wise or
even in the electoral vote that he wins some sort of sweeping majority.
The numbers don`t add up.
TODD: I don`t know if I agree with that.
I think if Romney wins -- I think he`s got -- I think Romney`s key
here is the larger argument, right? If he wins the larger -- in order to
get to 50, he`s got to win the larger argument that somehow he`s going to
make the economy better. So, if he does that, I think suddenly getting to
52 and 53 becomes easier, that there`s not much big margin there.
MATTHEWS: I`m with you.
TODD: I think the hard part for him is winning the initial argument
and getting there.
MATTHEWS: This will surprise people -- I`m with Shelly Gawiser, our
numbers guy, who we all listen to at MSNBC on election night. It`s too
early to call.
TODD: There you go.
CILLIZZA: We`re all with Shelly Gawiser, aren`t we?
MATTHEWS: I have no idea -- I have learned it`s too early, not too
close, because it could well break this campaign. We don`t know. It could
break in the fall, I think.
Anyway, thank you, Chuck Todd. Thank you, Chris Cillizza.
CILLIZZA: Thank you.
Up next, the Republicans seem to have decided that the partisan
personal attacks, the real nasty stuff against the president doesn`t work.
So, they`ve got this new line of attack being forged by Mr. Nice, Karl
Rove, who seems to be nice, at least in this case, or seem to being nice,
is the smart move.
This is HARDBALL -- the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Four years ago, Colin Powell crossed party line and
endorsed Barack Obama for president. That was a big deal. This morning on
the "Today" show, Powell praised Obama`s presidency, saying he`s stabilized
the financial industry, rescued the auto industry, and led us out of the
biggest downturn since the Great Depression.
But Powell stopped short of endorsing Obama -- at least for now.
COLIN POWELL, FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: I don`t want to throw
my weight behind somebody. The beautiful part of being a private citizen
is you can decide when you want to throw your weight if you want to throw
your weight. I`m still listening to what the Republicans are saying
they`re going to do to fix the fiscal problems we have, to get the economy
moving. And I think I owe them that to the Republican Party. I owe that.
MATTHEWS: People love this guy.
Anyway, General Powell keeping his power dry in this war.
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: We`re back.
You`ve heard it from Republicans before, President Obama is a
socialist. He`s not an American. He wants to destroy the country.
Well, Karl Rove`s super PAC, Crossroads GPS, has decided that`s
exactly how not to win this coming election. Swing voters apparently don`t
like those kinds of attacks. So, Rove`s groups is spending 10 million
bucks on a new ad campaign in 10 states across the country that instead
says in effect, the president has tried and failed.
Michael Steele is an MSNBC political analyst and former RNC national
chair, Cynthia Tucker is a syndicated columnist and visiting professor at
the University of Georgia.
Anyway, here`s the Crossroads campaign that will begin airing
tomorrow. It`s going to run, as I said, in swing states across the next
three weeks. Big money behind it, $10 million. It`s aimed at people
disenchanted with the president.
Let`s watch, Karl Rove`s money in action.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I always loved watching kids play basketball.
I still do, though things have changed. They can`t find jobs. And I can`t
afford to retire. And now, we`re all living together again.
I supported President Obama`s agenda but he spent like our country`s
credit card had no limit -- $4 billion deepener debt everyday. How will my
kids pay that off when they can`t get jobs?
Tell President Obama, cut the job killing debt and support the new
majority agenda at newmajorityagenda.org.
MATTHEWS: Michael, what do you make of that ad pitch?
MICHAEL STEELE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: I think it is a very good
ad pitch. It cuts right to the core of what Romney and the Republicans
ultimately want to talk about, and that is the economy, the strain and
stress of debt on our ability to create jobs, to get a job. And I think
it`s at -- I think it`s done very well.
It`s obviously appealing to women, who are a major decision makers in
most households, as well as you just talked about in the last segment
Chris, in terms of voting.
So, it`s a direct appeal. It`s a softer approach, lower tone,
focused on a core concern that voters have out there. And I think it`s
very well done.
MATTHEWS: Well, as you write, Obama beat McCain by 13 points among
women back in 2008. He`s doing just as well now, leading by 15 points,
according to the new NBC/"Wall Street Journal" poll out today. It`s a
group Romney can`t afford to lose by double digits.
Let me go to Cynthia, because there`s a couple of factors there,
without getting too nasty about a white woman here, apparently a single
white woman, no mention of spouse or partner of any kind, no male around
the house there, that`s the group he is really going for, it seems to me.
If you want it target what he is targeting.
CYNTHIA TUCKER, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: I agree completely, Chris.
Republicans tend to do well among married women. But they don`t do nearly
well among unmarried women. I am not sure that ad wants to be clear about
whether this woman is married or not. I think it is intentionally
ambiguous but leaves the viewer plenty of room to decide, she`s not
married. She says, "I can`t retire".
MATTHEWS: Right.
TUCKER: The other thing I think that`s interesting about this ad,
the actress, the actor, says that she voted for Obama before. So this ad
is targeted at women who voted for Obama before but whose finances haven`t
improved as much as they had hoped.
So it`s narrowly targeted, but clearly Romney wants to wrench away
some of those women who voted for Obama in the past but may be open to
voting for Romney this time around.
It`s a good ad. You know, it has a couple of lies in it, as
political ads want to do. But it`s not harsh. It strikes a softer tone.
It`s a good ad.
MATTHEWS: What do you make of the fact that the people behind this
ad don`t want anybody to know who they are, Michael? This is an absolutely
tight secret here in this GPS ad, Crossroads GPS. We`re never going to
know who these people are who put this 10 million bucks together for Rove.
Why do they keep their names secret?
STEELE: Well, that`s true. Well, because they are not required to
disclose that under the law. I think we have litigated this before. And
it`s going to take an act of Congress to change that.
And so, you know, there`s no need for anyone to disclose, you know,
their individual donation necessarily and certainly, you know, that`s a
accumulation of funds that paid for this ad. It`s not one necessarily
donor that paid for this ad.
MATTHEWS: We don`t know that.
STEELE: Well, you don`t know that. But --
MATTHEWS: We don`t know any of that. We don`t know anything.
STEELE: But bottom line, Chris, whether you are talking about GPS or
you`re talking about Obama`s super PAC, it`s the same reality that no one
is going to disclose. When Mr. Burton puts out ads on behalf of Obama, is
he going to disclose who gave -- contributed to that ad? No, he doesn`t
have to.
MATTHEWS: Just the point that the people paying for the ad are not
the single women out there who voted for Obama the last time.
STEELE: We don`t know that.
MATTHEWS: There is no "we" involved in this, Cynthia.
TUCKER: They don`t have the money. No, no, no, they don`t have the
money to fund the super PACs.
MATTHEWS: These are the people voting against Obama with everything
they had last time. These are people that dumped this much last time that
couldn`t beat him or doing it this time.
STEELE: Chris, I get, you`re cutting the angle here, but, you know,
you`re not making any sausage with it. I`m sorry. The reality of it is,
they don`t have to disclose, that you can make whatever assumptions you
want about the donors and who they are. The fact is that money goes into
the pot, the pot is churned, and the ad is produced. That`s the reality.
MATTHEWS: I believe in cleansing effect of daylight, Michael Steele.
Thank you very much.
TUCKER: So do I, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Your own secrecy campaign.
Thank you, Cynthia Tucker.
You can defend the darkness of the fund-raising efforts. I know
you`re a clean guy, but why you defend these people amazes me.
When we return, let me finish with this big question --
STEELE: I agree with you, I think there should full disclosure,
Chris, but guess what? The law doesn`t require that now.
MATTHEWS: I want to know who they are under that rock. I want to
pick up that brick, rock, and see the bugs under there.
Anyway, big question for the Obama campaign: Are top Democrats going
to back him on his biggest issue, economic fairness, or not?
You`re watching HARDBALL -- a place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with this:
The time has come for all good men and women to come to the aid of
their party. Well, that`s, of course, an old typing drill. It can also be
a call to arms to the Obama Democrats these days. He`s raised the banner
of economic fairness. You can`t be more Democratic than that.
He says that Americans should share the cost of government fairly.
That`s what the Buffett Rule is about.
He said that those at the top, that 1 percent, shouldn`t be getting
some special tax deals while others are facing cuts and life and death
benefits. It sounds like FDR, Harry Truman and Bill Clinton all rolled
into one.
So, what`s the objection? Why are some New York-based Democrats
rallying not to the Democratic cause these days but to Wall Street?
Tougher point, does the president have the right to it set the course
of a campaign or doesn`t he? If President Obama stakes out the position
the Democratic Party should fight got fight of economic fairness, why are
people out there saying they should take up the cause of those who make the
most of unfair laws, who benefit from earned income being treated as
capital gains, who benefit from an overall preference that`s given of money
made off money, over money made from making goods and delivering services?"
Well, the question for Democrats, especially the big ones who can get
on television is, where their primary loyalty lies? Whom do they fear
upsetting the most, the leader of their party or the people in the
financial industry who just hate it when Democrats say out loud what they
have long claimed as their party heritage, to look out for the people who
need looking out for the most.
And that`s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
"POLITICS NATION" with Al Sharpton starts right now.
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Garfield Goes Hawaiian is the third segment from the first episode of Garfield and Friends.
Garfield catches a disease called the Hawaiian Cat Flu; every time someone mentions Hawaii or anything from Hawaii, he dances the hula.
Jon gets a call from Liz, who informs him of a disease called the "Hawaiian Cat Flu." Jon is certain that Garfield will avoid it, only to see Garfield dancing the hula. At the vet, Liz gives Jon medicine to cure Garfield and tells him not to mention Hawaii or anything from it, since it causes Garfield to dance. Garfield refuses to take the medicine, even as he continues dancing after hearing anything that has to do with Hawaii.
Jon soon finds opportunity for it when he discovers Silly Animal Stunts, a talent show for pets. At the audition, Garfield's "talent" makes the cut. Just before they leave for the show, Garfield finally decides to take the medicine and after tasting it, he is disgusted. When Jon and Garfield get on stage, Jon brings up Hawaii when he describes what Garfield does. Not knowing that Garfield has taken the medicine, Jon becomes nervous when he notices Garfield not dancing, nor displaying any interest in doing so. Jon tries in vain to make Garfield dance by mentioning numerous Hawaiian topics. Eventually, he does the hula himself, which wins him the $1,000 prize.
Back home, Jon tells Liz that Garfield seems to be cured of the Hawaiian Cat Flu. Liz then notes that there is now a similar disease called the "Alaskan Cat Flu." When Jon wonders what the symptoms are, he sees Garfield in Alaskan attire and driving a dog sled carried by Odie.
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- Receptionist (voiced by Julie Payne)
- Man #1 (voiced by Gregg Berger)
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- Man #2
- Polly (voiced by Frank Welker)
- Dancing Dog (voiced by Gregg Berger)
- Camera Man
- Audience
- The Hawaiian Cat Flu was previously done in the comic strips (specifically, in the storyline that ran for the week of March 18-23, 1985), albeit in a somewhat different fashion.
- Instrumental versions of Hello, Hawaii (Can I Come Over?) are played throughout the episode. Garfield occasionally sings the song as well.
- "Silly Animal Stunts" resembles "Pet Search" (from Garfield Goes Hollywood) in some ways.
- When Polly impersonates Garfield, his voice is similar to how Welker would later portray Garfield.
- This is (technically) the first time Frank Welker voices Garfield.
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- Throughout the episode, numerous Hawaiian subjects are mentioned, including Don Ho and "Book him, Danno".
- One of the auditioning acts (which appears to not be unique) is an octopus who tap dances and knits sweaters to music by Wayne Newton.
- The impressions Polly does during audition are Bill Cosby, Paul Reubens (as Pee-Wee Herman), Jack Nicholson, Bob Hope, Clint Eastwood, and Mr. T.
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Palacio O'Farrill Ceiling
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Patio in Palacio O'Farrill
O'Farrill Restaurant
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The Hotel Palacio O'Farrill is a terrifically grand neoclassical mansion standing on the corner of Cuba & Chacon Streets near the port of Havana. Its owner, Don Ricardo O'Farrill y O'Daly, made his fortune in the slave trade, & owned several large sugar mills. The entrance hall of his house is almost ludicrously impressive, with a toweringly high ceiling, & vast iron-studded polished mahogany doors. Also not to be missed, are two small but elegant black marble seats in the hallway or the idiosyncratically double-scrolled archway leading into the courtyard.
The general aesthetic of the O'Farrill is Cuban colonial; Hibernian it is not, but as if to rectify the situation the colour green has been applied with a liberal hand throughout the establishment. On occasion enthusiasm for the Emerald Isle seems to run amuck, such as in the stinging viridian in the stained glass fanlights & the startling lime-green walls of the sitting rooms in the suites.
The faces of visitors drinking pre-lunch cocktails in the courtyard also acquire an interesting hue from the greenish tinge of the canopy which shades them from the sun. However the restaurant and snack bar break with the chromatic norm, & the latter, decorated in mahogany with terracotta furnishings, proves welcomingly cool relief after a morning of sightseeing in what can sometimes feel like the blast furnace, albeit the very picturesque one, of Old Havana.
A particularly attractive feature of the Palacio O'Farrill building is the way in which the mahogany detailing has been left unpainted, being simply varnished to show the beauty of the wood. Throughout the building there are pieces of good old Cuban furniture as well as numerous reproductions, but the latter are so well made in exact imitation of traditional pieces that the overall impression is one of pleasing visual harmony.
© 2013 Nigel Hunt
24 hour reception
Air conditioning
Breakfast - buffet
Busy street
Cafe / snack bar
Car rental desk
Conference halls & rooms
Daily newspapers
Disabled facilities
Elevators / lifts
Hotel was recently renovated
International cuisine
Internet on hotel's PCs
Laundry & Ironing Service
Lobby bar
Luggage storage
Malecon max 5min walk
Mastercard & Visa (not USA bank issued) accepted
Nightclub nearby
Nursery services
Old building restored
Post office
Reception staff speak Spanish, English, French, German, Italian
Safety - uniformed security personnel 24hrs
Shoe cleaning
Shop(s) with basic supplies, souvenirs & gifts
Shops max 2min walk
Taxis desk
Telephone - national & international calls
Tours & tourist information desk
TV room/bar (international channels & videos)
Voltage 110/120
The 35 standard rooms at the Palacio O'Farrill have peach walls and green-stained modern furniture. They're comfortable, clean and bright but not grand. Windows tend to be small but still provide lots of light. They have particularly attractive tiled floors, squishy sofas and chairs with green (naturally) upholstery and the bathrooms, although small, are shinily clean and functional. There are only 2 standard rooms with matrimonial beds. The other 33 are twin bedded.
© 2013 Nigel Hunt
110 volt outlets
Air conditioning
Baby's cot (on request)
Balcony (subject to availability)
Bathroom (ensuite)
Disabled facilities
Double bed
Hot & cold water
In-room safe
King size bed
Minibar / Fridge
Room service
Satellite TV
Twin beds
The 3 suites at the Palacio O'Farrill are almost unbelievably grand in terms of space – they're so large and have such exaggeratedly high ceilings that all their furniture looks as if it were dolls'-house sized. The rooms have beautiful inlaid marble floors and are decorated with Cuban antiques; room 201 contains an irresistible piece of nineteenth century mahogany furniture: a baby's cradle, made up with crisp white linen sheets and a tiny linen-covered pillow. Floor-to-ceiling French doors open onto balconies overlooking the street and the bathrooms are tiled in beautiful deep green and grey Cuban marble. Highly recommended for those wishing to indulge their delusions of late eighteenth century Colonial grandeur.
© 2013 Nigel Hunt
110 volt outlets
Air conditioning
Baby's cot (on request)
Balcony (subject to availability)
Bathroom (ensuite)
Hot & cold water
In-room safe
King size bed
Minibar / Fridge
Room service
Satellite TV
More Hotels in Old Havana:
UK Sales :: Audrey :: +44 20 7498 8555 or 0800 298 9555
USA & Canada Sales :: Jeffery or Bastien :: Toll Free 888 361 9555
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Apple Yeast Bread
This is one of the recipes I included in a cookbook I put together after my grown children kept calling home to ask how to make some of their favorite dishes. What a wonderful experience that was, gathering my mother's and my own recipes plus those from friends and family. My daughters and some of their friends did some artwork for it, and we now have a book we are proud to share!
Total TimePrep: 15 min. + rising Bake: 30 min.
Makes9 servings
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 large tart apple, peeled and thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup raisins
- 1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast
- 3/4 cup warm water (110° to 115°)
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour, divided
- 1 large egg, room temperature, lightly beaten
- 1/4 cup shortening
- Pour butter into a 9-in. square baking pan. Mix sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over butter. Arrange apple slices in pan. Sprinkle with raisins.
- In a bowl, combine yeast, water, sugar, salt and 1 cup flour; beat for 1-2 minutes. Add egg, shortening and remaining flour. Beat for 1 minute. Drop dough by spoonfuls over apples. Cover and let rise in a warm place until almost doubled, about 1 hour.
- Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until done. Invert pan on a serving platter.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 282 calories, 9g fat (3g saturated fat), 30mg cholesterol, 297mg sodium, 47g carbohydrate (21g sugars, 2g fiber), 4g protein.
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Dec 15, 2015
Used this as a Christmas present. Quick and easy to make.
Aug 16, 2013
I needed something for a harvest gathering. This fit the bill nicely.I ended up cutting the apples in round slices. When mine was done it looked deceptively like pineapple upside-down cake. The taste was good and not overwhelmingly sweet like pinapple upside-down.This recipe is great! I did add some nutmeg to mine though.I'm gluten free but I had to try it anyway. I'll be looking for a way to make this with gluten free ingredients. Will definitely make again.


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After a while, those discounted prices start to add up..lol. I made purchases from various sites online, I did not leave my home on Black Friday. I can't lie I plan on peeking at some online stores Cyber Monday but hopefully all I will do is peek.
Some Cyber Monday Sales
Tarte -40% off use the code CyberMon9 they have a nice lip gloss set which I will review soon.
GNC- 35% off and free shipping with GNC gold card.
Carols Daughter- $10 off $100 and $5 off $50. (whomp whomp lol) but Free shipping on all orders - YAY
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Aveda -pick 5 free samples and get free shipping on all purchases over $25.00. Use the code PICK5
Drugstore.com - Free shipping on any purchases over $25, they also have many cyber Monday sales.
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Soul Train Awards
I have to say that I watched the Soul Train awards last night and I was not as disappointed as I thought I would be. As you may recall, in years past the once SOULFUL ode to soul music took a turn for the worse. I guess the celebrities were equally annoyed with the award show because they just sopped attending the show. So now someone else (BET) is trying to breathe life back into the Soul Train awards show.
I enjoyed Terrance and Taraji as hosts even though all of their skits were CORNY. Chrisette Michelle didn't disappoint and neither did Fanny mae (Fantasia) as she sang her heart out to Chaka Khan.
Keri Hilson's voice #FAIL
Johnny Gill can always rock the house.
Lisa Wu from Housewives of Atlanta clearly went for the Elvira look so she was a complete #fashion FAIL draped in leather.
I was happy that the show was not filled with performances of men with sagging pants and platinum filled mouths saying "yo shorty" a million times.
The show wasn't great but it was less of a torture session than it had been when it was last televised.
What did you think of the show?
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Yep, there have been enough movies to do something like this. In 2010, Multimedia artist Christian Marclay created "The Clock," a 24-hour long film installation cut together from clips of time passing in movies. This clip, via Boing Boing, was shot HLF Films at an exhibit of the piece. They make this suggestion:
In order to respect the concept of Christian Marclay's work, spectators are kindly requested to play this video at 0.04 pm, local time. If time is passed, please wait for tomorrow or another day same time. Thank you.
That may seem over the top, but bear in mind that this is a very small piece of a massive work, and that the work itself plays in line with local time. It's coming to the SF MOMA on April 6, and I am totally going to go check it out. Though probably not for 24 straight hours.
Everyone doing well? Having a good week? It's already almost Friday. Time flies when you're having fun. Feel free to talk clocks, movies, time, or whatever else, here or over in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum.


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- Income Investing
Groundhog Day: Mortgage REITs Fall Sharply Again
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Someday mortgage real-estate investment trusts will find a floor and halt their protracted decline. That day was not Wednesday. mREITs just kept on plunging, as the Dow established its first three-day losing streak of 2013 and as mREITs remain plagued by the recent rapid rise in interest rates and uncertainty about the Fed's timetable to taper its mortgage bond purchases.
American Capital Agency Corp. (AGNC) finished Wednesday down another 0.7% to $24.49 and is now down an incredible 25.5% since May 2. Annaly Capital Management (NLY) was down 1.8% to $13.04, marking a 16.7% decline since April 30. MFA Financial (MFA) was down 1.4% Wednesday to $8.48, down 8.9% since May 17, and Two Harbors Investment (TWO) was down 1.5% to $10.53 down 13.4% since May 8.
The iShares FTSE NAREITMortgage PLUS Capped Index Fund (REM) was down 1.5% to $13.20, down 14.9% since April 30.


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Answers about Bank Fees
Select from the following questions about bank account fees, ATM fees, and other bank fees.
- I asked the bank to lower the fees on my account. It refused. Can it do that?
- The bank is charging high service / activity / maintenance charges / bank fees on my checking account. Is this legal?
- The bank is charging me a fee to make change at the teller line. Can it do that?
- My bank is charging me ATM fees. Is this legal?
- Can the bank charge for transferring my IRA to another institution?
- I cashed a check at a bank. It charged me a fee because I don't have an account there. Is this legal?


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
Any suggestions on pre-paring myself for the switch, or is it pretty much ground zero rebuild? I have made most of my changes into automated scripts so that hopefully if the DB structures are not too different deployment should go well. But please let me know if anyone else has had an experience good or bad with upgrading from 810 to 1004