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Joined: 02 Jan 2007
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Location: East Coast, USA
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:07 am
Post subject: Montreal, Quebec - places to stay and places to eat!
Hello all -
My other half and I are planning an April trip to Montreal and need some tips, if anyone out there has them. Questions:
Any thoughts on good places to stay? We are on a budget, but have always found great little spots across Europe and the States and hope that we might find something in Montreal as well.
Any thoughts on places to EAT? Again, the budget is a consideration, but I would love to splurge on a few meals here and there - snacks and qucik meals are also considerations.
Finally, any thoughts on where to SHOP (in a food-oriented C-Z kind of way...)? We will be driving, so have the ability to carry more on the way home, and although I know that I "can't bring back cheese and other food across the border" I am willing to eat it all before we hit customs if need be and if it is good enough... (or else I know a few good places to hide it!) Runny cheeses and delicate pateries being a household favorite and all...
many thanks!
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:08 pm
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While Montreal is only 2 hours away we never got into the habit of visiting I'm afraid! However any visit must include a trip to the Atwater Market, 2 stories of butchers, cheese stalls, vegies etc.. Just give it a google and you'll find it easily.
Also a fascinating blog, wonderfully written and beautifully presented that may be of great help to you is
If you scroll alllllllllllllllllll the way down yu will find the archives section. This blog covers everything from burgers to gourmet restaurants. You will enjoy the read and will definitely pick up some good leads!
Vivant Linguae Mortuae!!
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Location: Oakland, CA
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:44 pm
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Hi Sallyann,
Lucky you! I would counsel you to check the US customs web page before you go so you know what you can bring back. When we were in France a couple of years ago, we brought back a lot of cheese. A little cheese store on Ile St. Louis in Paris vacuum sealed it all for us, in order to get through the Ag & customs screening.
Keep us posted about your trip!
L'appetit vient en mangeant. -Rabelais
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Joined: 16 May 2006
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Location: california
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:55 pm
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Sallyann, several years ago we went to Quebec in February for the Winter Carnival and stayed at a lovely little hotel in Vieux Quebec just down the street from Le Chateau Frontenac. It's called the Hotel Marie-Rollet, and the website is
It may be just what you are looking for. It's charming, well-located, and affordable. We loved it, and the owners (at that time, Diane and Gerald) were very welcoming and helpful. I don't know if they are still there.
We were in Quebec too long ago for me to make any reliable recommendations for restaurants or shopping, but we'd return to the Hotel Marie-Rollet in a minute.
Have a wonderful trip. I envy you your visit to this beautiful place.
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Joined: 26 Aug 2005
Posts: 16
Location: Dallas, TX
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:35 pm
Post subject: I just heard about this...
Just this morning I heard a story on NPR about a new restaurant in Quebec! What a coincidence! It's called "Robin Hood" (Robin de Bois en français).
It's a not-for-profit restaurant where all the proceeds go to charitable causes. The entire wait staff is made up of volunteers and many Canadian celebrities are on a waiting list to participate. You can make reservations either to eat or to be part of the wait staff.
Here's a link (in French) for the restaurant site:
And here's a link to an article (in English) I found on it:
Have fun!
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Joined: 07 Aug 2006
Posts: 25
Location: Quebec City
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 1:48 am
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Are you going to Montreal only or to Quebec city as well?
In Montréal
there's this nice little fondue restaurant called Alpenhaus it's located on St-Marc's at the corner of Ste-Catherines. I love the place, when I go to Montreal I try to go there.
There are many restaurants on Crescent St. as well.
If you're looking for a pub type atmosphere there's always Peel Pub on Peel St. I haven't been there in ages though so I can't say really what it's like.
In Quebec city
now I can help you. Good restaurants:
Cochon Dingue
, there are 3 in the city but one is located in the Petit Champlain in the lower city. It's bistro type fare, steak-fries, mussels, sandwiches. I love it. And it's not expensive.
The Cosmos
which is located on Grande-Allée serves great burgers, pizza, pasta and much more.
Le Casse Crêpe Breton
has the best crêpes, it's a very small restaurant and sometimes you have to wait but it's really worth it.
Le Charbon
for great steak
for mexican food
Caramba 1155, de la Chevrotière Quebec City
Chez Victor
is a fancy burger restaurant you'll find practically any kind of burger there.
La Grolla
for fondue and raclette
La Piazzetta
for thin crust pizzas
Chez Temporel
is a very secluded little place that pretty much only the locals know about, the food is good, not a wide selection, it's visited by alot of artists.
25, rue Couillard, Vieux-Québec
If you're looking for upscale restaurants there is the Laurie Raphael, Il Teatro, Michelangelo, L'Astral, the restaurant in the Chateau Frontenac, etc.
There are lots of restaurants on Grande-Allée and rue St-Jean
Regarding lodging there is this hotel abotu 5 minutes from downtown it's not expensive and it's nice.
Or else your best bet to get rooms for lower prices is to look at the B&Bs.
Hope this helped.
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:46 pm
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Hi There,
I wrote a big long reply last week and it seemed to work fine, but now it's nowhere to be found! I'll try again, but this time it won't be as detailed...if you're interested in any of the things I suggest and can't find info by googling, then let me know and I'll see what I can do.
Overall, Montreal is a fantastic city for eating. You can find really good food at all price points. I've lived here for almost 7 years now and love good food. I'm on a bit of a budget so haven't tried many of the fancier places but I do read a lot about food so...here's what I've got.
A couple of other references to try:
Gourmet did a whole issue on Montreal a couple of years ago - March 2006, I think.
A couple of websites: An Endless Banquet and Montrealfood. Both are full of info on eating in this city.
Restaurants: you will notice a bias toward the Plateau area, especially St. Laurent blvd. It's my neighbourhood, so it's what I know best.
For a splurge:
Toque: is supposed to be the best restaurant in town. Unfortunately, I've never been.
Laurie Raphael: has just opened in Montreal. I've been to the one in Quebec City and it was one of the best meals I've ever had.
Au Pied de Cochon: I've heard so much about this place. Anthony Bourdain loved it.
Less splurge-y:
Le Colombe: Montreal has a number of places where you can bring your own wine, which means you can get really good food without paying big wine markups. This one is amazing.
Meat Market: amazing sandwiches, in a trendy atmosphere (ingredients like marinated grilled chicken, caramelized onions, chipotle mayo)
Santropol: huge sandwiches in a hippyish atmosphere (on thick whole wheat bread, with tons of flavoured cream cheese & veggies). Really cool patio in the back, when it's warm.
Scratch Kitchen: weirdly located inside a bar called Copacabana, on St. Laurent, they have great indian/ thai-ish food (the grilled salmon is my very favourite)
Beauty's: for brunch, if you don't mind the lineups (or if you get there early enough to avoid them) it's an institution. Blintzes, latkes, lox & bagel platters, plus all the usual.
Cash & Curry: Malasian-type food in a funky, friendly, tiny place.
Montrealers love their bagels. Chewier & tastier than NYC ones, in my mind anyway. The two best bagel shops are St. Viateur & Fairmount. I prefer Fairmount.
Montrealers also love their smoked meat. It's similar to pastrami, I guess, but different. The way to eat it is on rye with mustard, fries and pickle on the side, and a cherry coke. The most famous place to get it is Schwartz, on St. Laurent. The Main, which is across the street, is less crowded and almost as good.
Amazing chocolates at Chocolats de Chloe, on Roy St. It reminds me of the shop in the movie Chocolat. My favourite is the fleur de sel.
You will find great pastry shops...there are a couple of chains that are very good: La Premiere Moisson, Au Pain Dore, Patisserie de Gascogne. All of these actually have a lot more than just pastries.
I love the almond croissants from Kouign-Amann (hope I've spelled it right) and it's actually named for a pastry, which David Lebovitz has blogged about. Yum!
There's a bakery/ deli/ lunch place I've been meaning to go to, in the old port, called Olive et Gourmando.
For shopping you have to go to the Jean Talon market! It's even better in the summer when people sell produce straight from the farms, but has a lot of permanent stores with gourmet-type stuff, including a cheese store and one that specializes in Quebec products. There's also the Atwater market, which I think is more upscale and less international.
That's all I can think of for now. Hope it helps. Enjoy Montreal & bon appetit!
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:19 pm
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Here's an interesting article from the San Francisco Chronicle about what you can and can't bring into the country. It also references a US customs document - "What to Know Before You Go." - which might be helpful. I am looking into these same issues right now as we prepare to head for Paris!
L'appetit vient en mangeant. -Rabelais
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Joined: 20 Jan 2008
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Location: Ottawa
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:07 pm
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I haven't been many places in Montreal (a crime, since I only live a couple of hours away), but a couple of friends and I are planning a weekend there next month. We're hoping to go to a Brazilian BBQ restaurant that my friend says is fantastic - $30 for all you can eat, mostly different kinds of grilled meat. It's called Le Milsa:
I'm also very eager to get to "Au Pied de Cochon," after having read Bill Buford's article on chef Martin Picard in the New Yorker a couple of months ago. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to try the foie gras poutine - the idea is kind of simultaneously fascinating/terrifying/disgusting.
And, if we can manage it, we might do Schwart'z Deli for some smoked meat sandwiches for lunch.
We're calling it our "meat weekend."
Looks like I'm going to have to plan a few more weekends there, though, to go to all the places suggested by others in this forum!
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:18 pm
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Hi Brendan! Nice to have more Ottawa representation here at Chocolate and Zucchini! Bienvenue!!
Vivant Linguae Mortuae!!
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:23 am
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Thanks David! Glad to be here - both in Ottawa and on C&Z.
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:07 pm
Post subject: Visiting Montreal
Hi there! We live mostly in VT but have a condo in Montreal and are here weekends and this year all year.
I agree with a lot of what "stak" says above. Unfortunately, with the US dollar almost at par, it's not quite the bargain it was even 2 years ago.
Definitely check the Gourmet issue on Montreal: March 2006. The editors said that they had done several city issues (New York, Paris, San Francisco…), but Montreal was the most fun!
EAT: We have a brief restaurant list of our own here:
Otherwise the best restaurant site is Endless Banquet:
See "The List: A-M and N-Z" at left.
STAY: There are loads of B&Bs throughout the city, but the most pleasant place to stay is probably the Plateau. Over a hundred listed here:
But do check the location before booking!
SHOP: For cheeses either Hamel or the newer Qui Lait Cru (a nice French pun) at the Jean-Talon market. We've never had a problem bringing things through customs, since they ask only about fruits and vegetables.
There's a big Italian supermarket nearby on St. Laurent -- Milano, since the market is in Little Italy. Good snacks in the market, too, especially on weekends, and the best ice cream in town!
Pastries: Gascogne 237 Laurier W (Jeanne-Mance) 514- 490-0230
Kouign-amann 322 Mont-Royal Est (Henri Julien) 514-845-8813
Le Fromentier 1375 Avenue Laurier Est (Lanaudière). (514) 527-3327
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I've had really good luck staying in charming apartments in Quebec City. They're not always completely modern in terms of amenities or room service, but I like the quaint buildings & locations offered through
. They're a booking service - the locations are usually privately owned by a local B&B.
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Anti-Bullying Case: Students Ordered To Hit 6-Year-Old, Police Say
A kindergarten teacher who allegedly forced students to strike a boy accused of being a bully will lose her job, according to the suburban San Antonio school district where officials say the actions took place. According to reports, as many as 24 students were ordered to strike the boy.
The teacher had reportedly been asked by a colleague at Salinas Elementary about the best way to discipline six-year-old Aiden Neely, after "other students had perceived the boy as being a bully," according to the AP. That resulted in the boy being sat down in a chair, to allow students to file past and hit him.
Citing a Judson Independent School District police report, The San Antonio Express-News reports that "the second teacher took Aiden into her kindergarten classroom and told her students to hit him in order to 'teach him why bullying is bad, instructing them to 'Hit him!' and 'Hit him harder.'"
The incident allegedly took place last month; the story emerged this week as the boy's parents spoke out, and the police report of the incident was submitted to the county district attorney.
And all of the facts are not yet clear: While the police report suggests that the slaps were halted after six or seven children struck Aiden, the boy's mother says her son told her he was hit by all 24 students.
Aiden's mother, Amy Neely, tells the Express-News that her son "had friends in that class and some of his friends didn't want to hit him but the other teacher told them to." Citing police, the paper reports that "many of the students involved said they were too afraid not to hit Aiden."
Neither teacher has been identified; both were placed on paid administrative leave on May 18 — apparently after the first teacher reported the incident, two weeks after it occurred. She will be eligible to return to the classroom this fall. The second teacher, who organized the incident, will not be allowed to work for the school district, officials say.
"This kind of activity just can't go on," district spokesman Steve Linscomb tells KHOU TV. "This teacher is a relatively young teacher and just needed to be re-educated and reminded what needs to happen in the classroom in order for it to be a safe learning environment."
Young Aiden evidently admitted to his mother that he had been acting up in line before he was taken into the other classroom and punished. But she says that neither the school nor the teachers ever informed her of any problems with his behavior.
Amy Neely is calling for criminal charges against the teacher who incited the slapping.
"For the one who did it, I want her teacher certificate gone," Neely tells San Antonio's FOX 29 TV. "I don't think she should be able to be around any children, in any capacity."


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Commentary: House GOP Not Passing Senate Bill Continues Lansing Tradition Of Underfunding Pension System
Last summer, House Republicans refused to pass a Senate plan ending ability for government to create new unfunded liabilities
Last week, Michigan taxpayers were informed that the state fell $290 million short of making the "annual required contribution" that pension officials estimate is needed to catch up on unfunded school employee pension promises.
The news came in the official Michigan Public School Employees' Retirement System's 2012 financial statements.
This comes just six months after House Republicans failed to enact a Senate-passed bill that would have closed this system to new employees. That transformational reform would have contained the underfunding problem and eventually eliminated politicians' abilities to create new unfunded liabilities.
This underfunding has practically become an annual Lansing tradition: This will be the eighth year out of the past 10 that the state has put in less than the actuarially-recommended amount.
Every year state officials and actuaries estimate how much money needs to be set aside to cover another year's worth of pension promises made to current employees in MPSERS, which is by far the state's largest government-employee retirement system. In addition, these officials must also figure out how much needs to be set aside each year to pay down unfunded liabilities generated by past underfunding, currently standing at $22.4 billion.
The estimate they made to pay for earned benefits and catching up on unfunded liabilities in 2012 was $1.74 billion, yet only $1.45 billion was actually invested — a $290 million shortfall.
Even if the full amount had been set aside, taxpayers (and school districts) would mostly likely still find themselves further underwater given the politically-determined, "rosy scenario" investment return assumptions used in these estimates and projections. Under laws enacted by past politicians, virtually all of the state's investments are assumed to grow at 8 percent annually.
Despite a good year in the market — pension investments gained 13.5 percent in fiscal 2012 — the average annual return since 1997 has been 6 percent.
Another unrealistic assumption involves expected growth in total school employee wages. Overestimating future payroll growth means not enough is deposited today to keep the system fully funded. Total wages of employees in the MPSERS have yet to get back to their 2004 peak of $10.4 billion, let alone grow at 3.5 percent per year.
(Average compensation has grown rapidly since 2004, but total compensation has not.)
Last year, the House and Senate enacted some useful pension reforms, but these are unlikely to fix the underfunding problem. In part this is due to the unrealistic assumptions that led to the current crisis.
Experience has shown that defined benefit government pension systems don't get funded — they get underfunded.
There's just one way to assure an eventual end to such underfunding announcements: Close the defined-benefit pension system to new employees, which is the very opportunity House Republicans let slip through their fingers last year. Had they embraced that opportunity, new school employees would still be granted a generous defined-contribution system, which these days is standard practice everywhere except government.
See also:
Pension Study Consultants Have History Defending Expensive Pension Plans
House GOP Hides Behind Rigged 'Study'
GOP Fumbles: On Verge of Giving MEA Huge Pension Win
The State Is Already Addressing 'Transition Costs' in School Pension Fund
Commentary: Shifting School Employees to a 401(k) Is the Most Important Thing


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No More Bling Please, Says Sonia Gandhi
Above all, keep it simple. Just like Indira.
This was Sonia Gandhi's style tip to a crowd of fashion students gathered in Rae Bareli, her home constituency.
"In the recent years, I have noticed a trend in Indian fashion to overdo, to over-embellish clothes. Sometimes a single garment will have zardozi, beads, sequin, patchwork as well as crystals," complained Mrs. Gandhi, speaking at a function organized by the National Institute of Fashion Technology on Wednesday.
"Apart from completely overshadowing the wearer, such garments are very uncomfortable to wear and they lack in elegance. In my view, fashion does not mean opulence," added Mrs. Gandhi, wearing a patterned yellow sari and a dark, matching blouse.
Despite her Italian origins, it's very unusual to hear the Congress party president, known for her reserved personality, talk about fashion. Let alone be so specific in her advice.
Encouraging students to look beyond bling, she kept her focus local, urging them to work with traditional craftsmen and weavers.
"Adding more and more ornamentation to garments is very easy, but that does not add up to fashion," noted Mrs. Gandhi, who argued that the secret to "a garment that is timelessly stylish and elegant" is to work on "the right color combination, cut and proportion."
Her fashion icon? Her mother-in-law, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, whom she described as having an "innate sense of fashion."
"The simplicity of her elegance was admired all over the world," said Mrs. Gandhi, admiringly. In public, the late Prime Minister was typically seen wearing saris in natural fabrics and simple prints paired with monochrome blouses. This is a style that has famously also been adopted by Sonia's daughter, Priyanka.
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Pep Boys PBY, +0.08% shares rose 1.4% to $10.67 on light volume after the reporting first-quarter earnings of 3 cents a share on revenue of $538.8 million.
Analysts surveyed by FactSet estimated earnings of 5 cents a share on revenue of $541.6 million.
"Our core service business remains solid and we expect tire sales trends to improve in the back half of the year," said Pep Boys Chief Executive Mike Odell in a statement. Tire price weakness had hurt fourth-quarter results.
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It just depends what kind of pain you can take.
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Ok. So what do you want for your daughter?
Law school?
A loving husband, kids and a home of her own?
How about sitting on the podium as she is sworn in as governor of a state?
Does anything you hope when you look at your little girl include whips, chains, and sado-masochism, including anal sex?
Do you want your 15-year-old daughter being counseled (at tax-payer expense, I might add) on the ins and outs of "kink." Do you want her young mind warped to the point that she views sex as something where the question is how much pain can you take?
If you have a son, do any of your hopes for him revolve around sick relationships based on hurting his wife or girlfriend? Do you like the idea of your son in chains while a dominatrix whips him?
If the answer to these questions is "no," then I have a couple of follow-up questions for you. Why are you sending your son or daughter to public schools where they will be taught these things in sex education classes? If you haven't demanded to see how your Congressperson voted on funding for Planned Parenthood, why not?
The Live Action videos below show a Planned Parenthood counselor, complete with the comforting medical symbolism of scrubs and stethoscope, counseling what she thought was a 15-year-old girl. This counselor goes into detail with this young girl about how to go about engaging in sado-masochistic sexual behavior, including anal sex with her 17-year-old boyfriend. The counselor even coyly mentions the possibility of sending a friend in to a store to buy "sex toys" for these underage kids.
I've put three fairly graphic videos below. None of them are for kids, even though this kind of talk is routinely given to kids as "sex education" and the song is promoted and sold in the venues they watch.
The first video, which is taken from The Young Turks, begins with one member of a panel that is discussing the exposure of young girls to beating through music decrying the situation. He is promptly answered by another panel member who says that the song being quoted is by Rihanna, a singer who was beaten up by her boyfriend and is now back with him.
Frankly, I don't see how that makes this ok. It seems to me that the fact that Rihanna was beaten up by her boyfriend pretty much puts a face to this sickness.
My indignation is struggling with my desire to make a point here. In truth, I would like to just ask people how stupid they really are to allow their children to be exposed to this trash.
I guess, despite how repulsed I feel, that is the question. We can't keep this off the airwaves. We can't keep it off cable television. And it appears that, no matter which political party we vote for, we can't stop our taxes going to pay for it. Our schools aren't doing such a hot job on basic education, but they are very successful at teaching kids to accept and "explore" sexual perversion of every type.
So, what are parents who care — as opposed to those who clearly don't — supposed to do? I've already said several times that I homeschooled my kids. That is one answer, for at least some people. But it's only part of it. As the Planned Parenthood counselor noted, porn sites are easy to find on the internet. If we want to protect our kids, we have to limit their access to the internet and cut off some of the cable channels that go to our house.
Even more important, we have to spend time with our kids. I don't mean time spent driving them from one lesson and one activity to another. I mean time spent together as a family, just kicking back.
Look at the videos below and decide what you think.
Live Action video of Planned Parenthood counselor "teaching" a 15-year-old girl about bondage, domination, sadism, masochism and anal sex.
Planned Parenthood video, once again teaching about "kink" sex.
Rihanna, S&M. Rihanna is the woman in the photo at the top of this post.
In another take on the issue, Joanne McPortland raises the question — which occurred to me as well — as to what kind of burned-out teens are we dealing with that need sex toys and "kink" to supplement their adolescent hormones in providing excitement about sex? It's a valid question indeed.


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Only 28 percent of Americans say the war in Afghanistan has been worth fighting, the lowest number on record and clearly below the least-popular stretches of the Iraq war, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Overall support for U.S. military operations in Afghanistan has dropped 11 percentage points since March, a precipitous fall during a period marked by tension between U.S. officials and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a spring and summer resurgence in Taliban attacks, and the failure of ballyhooed peace talks with insurgents to get off the ground.
The drop in approval was matched by an 11-point increase, to 67 percent, in those who say the war has not been worth fighting.
The numbers come as Congress has moved to cut President Obama's budget request for operations in Afghanistan, and the administration is reportedly leaving open the possibility of withdrawing all troops by the end of next year, when combat forces are scheduled to pull out.
Declining support crosses demographic and party lines, with double-digit drops among men and women, whites and non-whites, Democrats, Republicans and independents.
While Republicans generally remain more supportive than Democrats, their approval has collapsed at a faster rate in recent years.
Fewer than half of Americans — 43 percent — say that the Afghan war has contributed to long-term U.S. security, the first time that number has dipped below 50 percent in the past four years. While a majority of Republicans — 55 percent — see the war's contribution more favorably than other political groups, the current number is down considerably from 70 percent in 2010.
The poll was conducted July 18 to 21 among a random national sample of 1,002 adults. Results from the full poll have an error margin of 3.5 percentage points.
Support for the war was extraordinarily high at its inception, with more than 90 percent saying they supported the U.S.-led effort through early 2002. But a smaller, 56 percent majority said the war was worth fighting in early 2007, when The Washington Post and NBC News first asked the question, just after President George W. Bush announced an additional deployment of 3,200 troops, bringing the total to about 26,000.
That high point of approval was reached again in March 2009, after Obama, two months into his first term, announced a 50 percent increase in the number of deployed troops, bringing the total in Afghanistan to about 53,000.
Although the size of the force continued to increase, eventually reaching about 100,000, support for the war began to slide in 2010 — a year marked by the highest number of U.S. military deaths, the firing of the U.S. commander, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, and the publication of classified documents about Afghanistan by WikiLeaks — and never recovered. By mid-July, total U.S. casualties in the war reached 2,248 dead and more than 19,000 wounded, according to Pentagon figures.
In June 2011, Obama outlined his plan for troop withdrawal, and U.S. forces today number about 68,000, and they have moved into a support role for the Afghan army. Half of those are to be withdrawn by next spring, with the remainder leaving by the end of December 2014.
Slightly more than half — 53 percent — of those questioned in the poll said that most, but not all, U.S. troops should leave Afghanistan in the coming year, while 43 percent said all of them should be removed.
Obama has said he wants to leave a residual force there to assist and advise Afghan forces and to continue counterterrorism operations against al-Qaeda. The size and the mission of a post-2014 force is still under discussion in Washington and the subject of negotiations with Karzai's government.
Senior U.S. military officials have suggested that the residual force should number about 10,000 to 12,000, although larger numbers have been proposed, and some administration officials would like to see it as small as 5,000. Talks that began with the Afghan government last year have been bumpy, with Karzai first stopping the formal negotiations until the United States fulfilled a pledge to turn over all of its prison facilities and prisoners in Afghanistan.
Last month, Karzai again suspended the talks to protest an abortive, U.S.-backed attempt to open a Taliban negotiating office in the Persian Gulf country of Qatar. Although formal negotiations have not yet resumed, working groups have continued to discuss the parameters of a deal. But administration officials did not dispute recent news reports that complete withdrawal, or a "zero option," was on the table.
Meanwhile, amid government and congressional oversight reports of ongoing Afghan corruption and misspent U.S. funds, House and Senate committees considering Obama's 2014 budget request cut substantial portions of Afghanistan support spending.
Public support for the Iraq war sank to its lowest point — 33 percent — in November 2011, just a month before the final U.S. troop withdrawal.
Clement is a survey research analyst with Capital Insight, the independent polling group of Washington Post Media.


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The economy in the United States is in a collapse. The Capitalist system does not work anymore; banks have become more powerful than our politicians. The government now has a policy based around
Fear and Greed. The rich are getting
richer and more powerful, while the great masses of America wallow in poverty.
Must we continue to exist in this passive state, only living to serve the rich and powerful? Or do
we, the great masses, stand up against the policies of Fear, and Greed, and
God? We must break the bonds that
separate us, we must pull down the centers of Greed and Fear and we must pull
down the houses of God.
These borders are created to separate us into individuals where we can be controlled easier.
We must stand up, against the tyranny of the centers of Greed, and Fear, and God; quoting John Adams: "People should not fear
government, government should fear people."
Once we stand up to Fear, to Greed, to God, we will become united!
This being said, I advocate the collapse of the Capitalist system and the foundation of the United Socialist Federal Republic, in which
the government will exist to serve the people.
Capitalism is Dead. We must put
it out of it's misery and move on toward Socialism.
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Hiram, I think you explained much of the passivity of the American LOWER CLASS. If they (we?) can't stand to admit that they are destitute, powerless, and that legal remedies offer little hope, they will not struggle for themselves. We lust after stuff. We identify with the rich, famous, and powerful. We pretend to believe the myths that hard work will make us rich, that anyone can be president, and in American we have a system of Justice. In fact, it is considered in poor taste for anyone to say that he is poor. To admit to be low class is unheard of!
Sounds like Star Trek.
How so?
Do you mean the technological advancements? or the Classless society?
It is true... we could be far more advanced than we are now.
Not finishing the Apollo program was probably the start of the flattening of the curve.
Borders are a huge issue. I feel we need to be consistent in our decision making process. If international borders are open for corporations, then they must be open for people also. If we want to "protect our cushy western lifestyle" with borders, then our corporations should be held to them as well. It is NOT a free market if corporations can be mobile in search of cheap labor, but labor itself not mobile. That is a captive/slave market, not a free market.
To me that is the fundamental difference between the European Union and NAFTA. One Europeans have open borders for all, only money has open borders in North America.
Our Western economy is struggling because corporations are outsourcing labour and selling our resources off instead of hiring our own citizens. Yes we have tons of "professional" MDs in Canada, cheap, from the Arab world, and you got to wonder what kind of medical schools they went to. It's a crying shame. I don't want professionals from other countries. We should be training our own people. To use "professionals" from other countries is simply CHEAP.
It's not a complicated system at all. Corporations rule government, twist all laws and regulations in their favor and profit immensely. This is their ONLY purpose. The purpose of a corporation is to maximise profit. NOT to make people happier, healthier, wiser, calmer, none of that.
It doesn't really need deeper delving, it just requires balls and honesty. Marxism?? I don't really give a shyte about Marxism, the only people who are constantly shreaking about the "threat of Marxism" who simply have not recognised that there are many ways to build a nation. Marxism as it's been experienced in the world has simply been state capitalism, really, I couldn't care less for Marxism. I always vote for green parties, we are slightly socially oriented on some issues and slightly conservative on other issues.
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President Obama says gun control is now a "central issue" of his second term. He rightfully went beyond the 20 first-graders massacred in Newtown, Conn., and spoke about police officers, women, and children shot in everyday violence in America. He said it was a level of violence "we cannot accept as routine."
But the response of many House Republicans was all too routine, indicating they will remain central figures against gun control. A spokesman for Alaska's Don Young said the congressman "will not support an assault weapons ban." Jim Jordan of Ohio said in a statement, "Passing more restrictions on law-abiding citizens will not deter this type of crime." Louie Gohmert of Texas said he wished to God that the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown "had an M-4 in her office."
Not even the murders of 20 children move these politicians. Other Republicans have stayed silent, perhaps waiting like puppets to hear Friday what the National Rifle Association claims will be "meaningful contributions" to prevent these tragedies. One insane contribution is already in from Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, who wrote in USA Today that school administrators should be armed and "blood is on the hands" of politicians who disagree.
So it will take much more from Obama than appointing Vice President Joe Biden to come up with gun-control proposals. It will take the strongest Oval Office leadership this side of war. In my mind, it is war when annual firearm deaths are 10 times more than the 3,000 Americans killed in 9/11, and nearly five times the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
It will take Obama to find his inner John Howard. The former prime minister of Australia immediately pushed for gun control after a lone gunman armed with automatic weapons massacred 35 people in Port Arthur in 1996. In a written message to the nation he said, "Many law-abiding citizens may be affected by the government's tough proposals. But I believe that unless we act now in the wake of the latest tragedy involving such a tragic loss of life the opportunity for effective uniform gun control laws will be lost. The ownership, possession, and use of firearms is a conditional privilege, not a right."
In less than a month, Australia banned military-style assault rifles and shotguns. Pointedly, Howard proclaimed, "This country, through its governments, has decided not to go down the American path . . . We have done something that will send a signal to people all around this country that ours is not a gun culture."
Australia also conducted a gun buyback program that slashed by nearly half the number of gun-owning households. A 2010 study done by researchers at the Australian National University and Wilfrid Laurier University found that firearm homicides dropped by 59 percent and firearm suicides dropped 65 percent between 1995 and 2006. Australia's homicide rate today is one quarter of that in the United States.
Every time there is a massacre in the United States, newspapers call Howard for comment. After the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech, he said Australia "showed a national resolve" that the gun culture of the United States "would never become a negative in our country." After this summer's movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado, Howard told the Sydney Daily Telegraph, "If I hadn't done something, I would have been squandering the moral authority I had as a newly elected prime minister. There's no point in having that much cash in the electoral bank without using it."
The newly reelected Obama now is in Howard's position, with plenty of electoral bank notes and moral authority, and with no more elections in his future. In a sense, Howard cheered Obama on, telling the Daily Telegraph that gun control "will be difficult but it can be done.'' Obama must now take Howard's path of leadership. If he stays on the old American path, he will squander not just this moment on gun control, but the moral authority for the rest of his presidency.
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – Sept. 3, 2019 – Cleveland® Golf, where scoring matters, is proud to announce the release of Frontline. With a radical new weighting brings the center of gravity forward, Frontline provides a revolutionary process for engineering a putter. Frontline launches in North America on Sept. 13, 2019.
"We are very excited about Frontline because it is a completely new approach to putter design," said Jacob Lambeth, Research and Development Engineer at Cleveland Golf. "By pairing an extreme center of gravity with an improved speed optimized face, we've designed a putter that uniquely maximizes directional and speed consistency. Combined with slick black cosmetics, great shapes and hosel options for different stroke types, Frontline really is the whole package."
With Frontline, the challenge was creating a putter that's powerful enough to counteract miss-hits and provide consistently straighter putts. The foundation of Frontline is Tungsten Forward Weighting, which places two Metal Injection Molded (MIM) tungsten weights in the face of the putter.
For decades, most mallets have weights in the rear of the putter to increase stability on off-center impacts, but this design places the center of gravity in the back of the putter. Frontline does the opposite, bringing the center of gravity forward for more accuracy on the greens.
Frontline features Cleveland's Speed Optimized Face Technology (SOFT), which normalizes ball speed across the face for consistent distance performance on every putt. Every model in Frontline features an individualized SOFT pattern to help mitigate speed and distance loss, especially on off-center strikes.
Frontline offers three different mallet options that include Cleveland's 2135 Technology to help with proper alignment when standing over that critical putt. Finally, Frontline offers two different hosel types to help provide a superior fit: single bend and slant neck. The single bend option is ideal for straight stroke types, while the slant neck option fits best for golfers with a slight arc stroke.
Key Innovations Inside Frontline:
· Forward Weights: With Tungsten Forward Weighting and the center of gravity positioned closer to the face, Frontline provides better stability through impact for straighter, more accurate putts.
· Speed Optimized Face Technology: Cleveland's proprietary Speed Optimized Face Technology normalizes ball speed across the face, ensuring consistent distance performance on all your putts.
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Frontline comes standard with the Lamkin SINKFit Pistol Frontline grip and is available in 33", 34", and 35" length options. The Frontline 4.0 blade MAP is $179.99, while the three different mallet models (Elevado, Cero and Iso) MAP is $199.99. The Frontline Elevado, Cero and Iso feature single bend or slant neck hosel options.
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I'm new to reviewing, but here goes.
I haven't seen much about the Ardmore line, never mind the Ardmore 3. It is part of taylormades TP series, and absolutely is worth a look. I recently bought one of the black copper series, and it is awesome.
The look:
It is a smaller, more compact version of a mallet. It reminds me a bit of the odyssey 7 series, but more its stubby awkward cousin. The flanges on the back look like they'd be for scooping a ball up, but this feature does not work very well. Most of the details come in the form of red accents, giving the putter a hot rod feel. The grip is a new superstroke pistol grip, with increased volume in the palm. It makes for a very relaxed hold on the club.
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No more blaming the flat stick for a bad round!
If you're someone who has a fairly pronounced arc in your stroke, and struggles with lag putts, I highly recommend this putter. You can't beat the price either, coming in below the odyssey lines, and well below the spider!
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FAIRHAVEN, Mass. (July 8, 2019) – Twenty-two years after the emergence of his original Teryllium-inserted, major-winning TeI3 designs, Scotty Cameron has reimagined and announced the limited release of three new putter models built under the "T22" moniker.
Available in golf shops beginning Aug. 16, the Teryllium T22 Newport and Teryllium T22 Newport 2 offer modernized versions of the TeI3 models first introduced in 1997, while the Teryllium T22 Fastback 1.5 becomes the first Fastback 1.5 designed with a Teryllium insert.
Precision milled in the United States from 303 stainless steel, and given a tactical matte black finish that brings out Scotty's unmistakable "domino pattern" in the back cavity, the new T22 putters are designed to the modern specifications demanded by today's dedicated golfers. An updated Teryllium inlay construction with an improved elastomer vibration dampening membrane combines with Scotty's removable sole weight technology and increased head weight to catapult the entire T22 line into the future:
• Teryllium T22 Newport: First brought to prominence as the putter design trusted to victory at the 1997 Masters, Scotty's new Teryllium T22 Newport pays homage to the overall look, feel and setup of its original design, but with numerous upgrades and improvements – including a stainless steel construction, flat topline, adjustable sole weight, lightly-milled Teryllium insert and new durable tactical matte black finish.
• Teryllium T22 Newport 2: Incorporating decades of design refinements, Scotty built the Teryllium T22 Newport 2 in the spirit of the early models – with the soft feel of his Teryllium alloy inlay, but with the modern shape and sole balancing precision of a modern Newport 2 Tour model milled from 303 stainless steel with interchangeable sole weights and a flatter topline.
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"T22 gave us the opportunity to take everything we've learned over the past two decades and refine the entire look, feel and performance. Like a modern day muscle car, everything looks original at first glance, but each component is brand new. Better milling. Better materials. Better construction. They're made to game."
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Each Teryllium T22 putter features advanced stability weighting with two customizable stainless steel heel-toe sole weights, stepless steel shafts and a custom Limited Release Teryllium headcover and shaft band.
A new black Pistolini Plus grip with copper paintfill was designed especially for the T22 release and features a thicker, less tapered low hand.
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Since I posted some results from Nigeria's legislative elections on Monday, the Nigeria Elections Coalition has updated its site with more numbers and has helpfully organized them into charts. Looking at the current count for the Senate will let us advance some hypotheses to explain the voting patterns:
Senate Elections (86 results out of 109 total seats):
People's Democratic Party (PDP, currently holds the presidency and legislative majorities): 55
Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN): 13
All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP): 7
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC): 6
Others: 5
The results for the House of Representatives are broadly similar, except that so far the ANPP has no seats.
Looking at the results, a few questions come to mind:
- Are we seeing an intensification of "regionalization"? Throughout postcolonial Nigerian history, major parties have tended to have strong regional bases. Since 1999, the PDP has enjoyed national dominance, though regional politics certainly continued. What observers are calling a freer vote than past elections, though, may be allowing underlying regional divisions to emerge more starkly: thus the ACN's gains are concentrated in the South West, its stronghold, while the Northern-based ANPP and CPC are winning seats in the North. Going forward, Nigeria could see regional rivalries become more open.
- Are we seeing the popularity of "progressive" politics? The ACN's victories may represent a form of regionalism, but they may also reflect the popularity of ACN's celebrity Governor Babatunde Fashola. Fashola has made a number of reforms in Lagos State. The ACN also generated excitement by nominating former anti-corruption official Nuhu Ribadu as its presidential candidate (though note that this article says Fashola outshines Ribadu). Of the opposition parties, the ACN has won the most seats in this election, but other parties are attempting to claim the progressive mantle as well – recall what CPC stands for. Opposition victories, then, may speak to a widespread desire for reform that to some extent transcends regionalism.
- Are we seeing triumphs of personality over party? Perhaps we miss part of the story if we look only at how the parties do: maybe individual politicians are winning based on their own skills, networks, and campaigns. After all, many expect President Goodluck Jonathan (PDP) to win re-election, and in fact to outperform his party, despite defeats for the PDP in the legislative races. The governors' races should shed some more light on this question.
All of these are just hypotheses, and I hope commenters will let me know where logic or evidence refutes them.
As we puzzle over results, the presidential vote is fast approaching. Will the ACN and the CPC join forces in an effort to beat Jonathan? Will the elections go to a second round? This weekend promises to be exciting in Nigeria. Whoever wins, hopefully the elections will go smoothly and peacefully.
– Alex Thurston is a PhD student studying Islam in Africa at Northwestern University and blogs at Sahel Blog.


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