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We at Conservative Heritage Times have been inspired by the TAC symposium to do one of our own, although one with more of a paleo edge. I'm actually not sure symposium is the best characterization of this. It is a virtual symposium I suppose. But I'm going with it because we are blatantly riffing (not ripping :-)) off TAC's effort.
Not all the people here would be best described as paleoconservatives, and some would not claim that label, but the attempt was to try to get people who might be considered part of the paleo/traditionalist sphere. I asked CHT's own contributors, plus people I know (both actually and virtually) whom I thought would represent a broad cross section of the paleo/traditionalist sphere, plus some of our regular commenters. Other of our regular commenters volunteered their services.
In order to avoid the appearance of favoritism, I have arranged the contributions in alphabetical order by first name. I am still expecting some more to roll in. They will be added in their appropriate alphabetical order as they do. Please check back frequently and please promote this on Facebook, Twitter, with you email contacts, etc. Thanks, enjoy and discuss. The endorsements commence below the fold. ~ Red
Alan Cornett
As most traditionalists readily acknowledge, neither major nominee offers us much hope. We need a return to Constitutional integrity, fiscal restraint, vigorous federalism and a non-interventionist foreign policy, a return not offered by our two major parties.
Thus I understand fully why a conservative might refuse to vote for Mitt Romney. His dedication to even what commonly passes for conservatism is dodgy at best. A Romney administration will be an ongoing frustration. No one need have any illusions about that.
But the active dangers of Barack Obama are vast and varied: Obamacare, kill lists, drone strikes, etc. However, the tipping point is this administration's corrosive assault on religious liberty. That convinces me to mark my ballot for Mitt Romney. I believe Romney to be seriously religious. His religion might not be mine, but he would not pursue the active restrictions and edicts Obama embraces. There is also the chance that Romney's nominees to the Supreme Court would keep an overturn of Roe v. Wade in play. And if there is an answer to the current presidential cult of personality Mitt Romney is it.
In past presidential elections I have frequently voted third party. In fact, I have only once voted for a presidential winner. My vote for Mitt Romney is not enthusiastic, but rather strategic and defensive. I hope to promote protection for religious liberty and the life of the unborn.
If our nation is to be saved, it will spring from religious revival and cultural renewal, not the Oval Office.
Alan Cornett is an evangelist in Athens, Alabama, and is a former assistant to Russell Kirk. You can follow him on Twitter (@alancornett), and he blogs (not about politics) at pinstripepulpit.com.
Bill Greene
Even at this late date, I am one of those strange "undecided" voters. I still haven't made up my mind for whom I'll be voting for President. However, I have made up my mind on who I'm not voting for: Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. Despite all of the outrageous rhetoric from supporters of both candidates, there's simply not a dime's worth of difference between them on almost every major issue that this country is facing — they are both big-government statists who ultimately believe that their form of government intervention is better than the other guy's form of government intervention. Neither will truly cut spending. Neither will stop getting us involved in useless and unconstitutional wars overseas. Neither will put a halt to the ongoing onslaught against our personal rights to life, liberty and property. And neither will deal with the actual source of nearly every fiscal and monetary problem this country faces: the private banking cartel known as the Federal Reserve. So, I can't vote for either one of them, unless I'm willing to give up every political conviction I hold dear.
I know of no reason why political treason
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In 2004 my wife and I acquiesced to the "lesser of two evils" premise and voted for George W. Bush. A little over a year after that election we discovered Rep. Paul, Austrian economics (which greatly aided me professionally in interpreting the real estate bubble), and the distinction between traditional conservatism and sundry mutations. We came to deeply regret our support for Bush and vowed never to repeat that kind of mistake.
I have taken a beating from single-issue Republican friends who reduce this election to the pro-life concern. While we fervently believe in the sanctity of life and seek to live out that paradigm at home and church, we have no confidence in the Republican candidate or the party itself. Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on this issue several times over the past 20 years. Meanwhile, Republican majorities in Congress during the '90s and early 2000′s failed to bring forth legislation to restrict the Supreme Court's jurisdiction over abortion "rights" and return the matter to the states.
The president's primary constitutional duties pertain to foreign policy. Given that Mitt Romney has surrounded himself with neoconservative advisors, and listening to his campaign rhetoric (especially his speech at VMI), we can only conclude that he is, at the very least, willing to continue commitments to aggressive overseas interventionism.
On the economic front, Romney has no commitment to sound money, nor does he criticize central bank policies. Perversely, there is a possibility that either candidate, if elected, could benefit from a mild economic upswing stemming from Fed money-pumping. But this, too, like all credit-induced cycles, would correct at some point.
That President Obama is not an option for us is an understatement. But we are continually disappointed by a GOP that professes unencumbered market process and limited government with its lips but denies these points in practice. And neither does it offer a viable alternative to the sitting president. But Ron Paul's impact will be long felt, and several of his young congressional protégés offer hope that a governmental philosophy of ordered liberty, constitutionalism and limits will live to fight another day.
Chuck Hicks is a real estate appraiser, consultant and teacher in North Carolina. A student of economics for over 30 years, he is a born again proponent of the Austrian school. He sometimes comments at CHT.
Jerry Salyer
Decision 2012: Rootin' For Putin
Every single time the US chattering class gets sanctimonious toward Russia, I find myself sympathizing overwhelmingly with the Russians. This says less about any naive delusions of mine regarding Russia's leadership than it does about my loathing and contempt for so-called "American values": The radical Democratic wing of liberalism takes the breaking up of my people's religious tradition and historical memory as an end unto itself, while the Republican wing of liberalism sees in such "creative-destruction" a necessary means of promoting finance capitalism. For someone who wants an actual home for himself and his family there's no meaningful choice whatsoever to be found in the American system.
Of course I'm not claiming Russia's rulers actually do their duty, much less that they do it well; I am saying that however unscrupulous, Machiavellian, and power-hungry they may be, they are at least vaguely aware of what their duty is: To preserve the nation. This stands in stark contrast to Western rulers, who feel it their duty to destroy their respective nations so as to make way for a Brave New World.
In other words, Vladimir Putin is not really detested among our elite for his sins but for his redeeming qualities. As we live in an age of liberal hegemony, Putin is hated for not being yet another groveling overseas yes-man for the Beltway establishment; as we live in an age of absurd militant tolerance, Putin is hated for not renouncing the very notion of a particular Russian identity; as we live in an age of Alan Alda, Ashton Kucher, and the metrosexual android from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Putin is hated for appearing somewhat like a man.
That last is worth emphasizing: The New York Times can't stand Putin not because he's a corrupt man, but because he's a corrupt man.
As for his KGB ties, the outrage is hardly due to the KGB's role in promoting godless Marxist revolution. The real offense is that the KGB played a role in Russian nationalism — one of the few sane features of the Soviet mind and empire.
Yes, please do color me un-American, for actually, no, I don't lie awake at night lamenting the shortage of gay pride parades in Moscow. Nor do I lose much sleep fretting that, in the event "we" fail to take a strong stand, feminist punk bands throughout the world might lose their Soros-given right to bust into churches and shriek sacrilegious obscenities at the altar. Nor do I patriotically yearn to see Pushkin and the balalaika finally and irrevocably supplanted by Coca-Cola and Lady Gaga.
With the Cold War over it is now the United States which aggressively pushes a warped and satanic ideology throughout the world, while Russia — whatever her flaws — now stands in the way. If I had Vladimir Putin on one hand and anybody acceptable to the posthumanist American political class on the other, that decision would be as easy as choosing between Don Corleone versus the invaders from H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Though neither Obama nor Romney could be described by any serious, honest person as possessing a vast intellect, the rhetoric of each is cool and unsympathetic, and ultimately alien.
Jerry Salyer writes for Front Porch Republic.
Kevin Thompson
This was the most difficult election choice I have made since I began voting. I can honestly say I was not sure which way I was going to go until I was actually in the booth. I had narrowed it down to two candidates: Mitt Romney and Virgil Goode.
My conscience will not allow me to cast my vote for the President. His extreme stance on abortion is something I must oppose with every fiber of my being. His redistributionist economic philosophy is nothing I could ever support.
Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party is a candidate who intrigues me. I had the privilege of chatting with him in person once and I used to be a regularly invited guest on his blogger conference calls. By far, Governor Johnson has the best resume of all the other third party candidates. He is bright, bold and charismatic. He is a great communicator well capable of explaining a message of fiscal sanity. However, I was greatly disappointed when he switched his position on gay marriage. When I asked him about it (while he was still the GOP) he assured me that while he supported marriage equality personally, he believed this was best handled on the state level. Once he began his bid for the Libertarian Party nomination he suddenly thought this was a national issue. I also cannot agree with his pro-choice views either.
As for the rest of the third party candidates, only Tom Hoefling of America's Party stands out as someone I could vote for. However, I can't take Tom as too serious of a candidate as he has little chance to even make a decent third party showing.
So that leaves two campaigns – Romney/Ryan and Goode/Clymer. This was tough. As I already stated, I didn't make up my mind till I actually made into the booth. I decided to go with Romney/Ryan. Let me explain…
I like Virgil Goode. I had the honor of meeting him last week when he took time out his busy schedule (the day of the Free and Equal debate) to speak to my students. He was engaging and stuck around to answer every question the students had, even when short on time. He was a gentleman and made his case very well. I love his consistent 100% pro-life record. He has been a champion of conservatism. However, I do not share his views on immigration. The idea of a moratorium on green cards goes way too far in my opinion. I also had to take into consideration the fact that ultimately Congressman Goode will be unlikely to even capture 1% of the vote. He wasn't even on the ballot in my state (Illinois).
As for Governor Romney, I don't like the man. In fact, I don't even trust the man. I lived in Massachusetts while he served as Governor. I was not impressed then. I remember his repeated assertions that he was indeed pro-choice. I remember his statement about being more pro-homosexual than Ted Kennedy. I remember his failure to stand against an activist court as he ordered those under him to begin implementing gay marriage. Flip flop after flip flop enshrines him in my mind as a political opportunist. So, why in the world would I cast my vote for this man? I didn't. I voted for Paul Ryan.
I'm going to admit it, I love Paul Ryan. I've had the privilege of meeting him many times. I've had the chance to speak with him and question him on several different occasions. I am highly impressed with this young man. First of all, he is 100% pro-life – no exceptions. My liberal, feminist friends exploded on Facebook once his selection was announced. That alone might have won my vote! Fiscally, Congressman Ryan is the best qualified to bring us back from jumping into economic abyss and destruction. No, his budget does not balance for several years in the future – but it is a start. His roadmap has been called draconian and heartless even by moderates. I believe it's the best option we have at the moment that has even a chance of getting passed.
I would love to correct everything wrong with Washington all at once. I love Governor Johnson's plan to balance to budget tomorrow, but it's not going to happen. What took years to get off track will not be completely fixed in one election. I no longer buy into the idea that it's all or nothing. This approach has not brought the all it has promised and has only left with a bunch of nothing.
Am I voting for the lesser of two evils? No. I am voting for the lesser of five evils. There is no perfect candidate. Each candidate is a sinner before God and imperfect before men. I understand the argument that the GOP is not Constitutional enough and is at best leading us to the same fate/destination as the Democrats are trying to lead us, but just a bit slower. I voted for Mitt Romney in order to at very least give our country a little more time before get there. Maybe in that time we will come to our senses as a nation and begin to seriously consider returning back to a purely Constitutional platform. We're not there yet, we need more time. As for the life issue, I voted for the candidate who can do more for the unborn than the others can. Voting for the candidate who has at least a shot of saving some babies is better than voting for the candidate who has no chance of saving all babies. I would hate to think there will be some children murdered in the womb because I voted for the guy who couldn't get anything done.
I voted my conscience. I voted for Romney/Ryan. I urge you to vote for which ever candidate your conscience allows you to vote for, even if that differs from my candidate.
Kevin Thompson teaches Bible and Civics at a Christian School in Beloit, WI and also is the host of the KevCast podcast (www.blogtalkradio.com/kevcast). He blogs at www.kevinjthompson.info.
There really is no way I could in good conscience vote for one of these two awful candidates. I have almost nothing in common with either of them. Their policies would be dreadful for people like me. Many people I know in Southern circles are not voting in this election; they feel they do not have a good choice. Even if we had a better choice, many have lost faith in the US political system. They saw how Justice John Roberts sold them out on Obamacare. They saw how Bush II sold them out on immigration. Some of them even remember the amnesty that Ronald Reagan, the supposed conservative champion, gave to two million illegals. They've known nothing but constant war, massive Third World immigration and continual growth of government their entire lives. Many people I know do not believe any of this is going to change not matter who is elected. Instead of getting incolved in US party politics they are focusing on their families and communities and strengthening alternative institutions which will support our values and speak for our people and culture.
Michael Cushman is the founder and editor of Southern Nationalist Network.
Peter Gemma
Part of my therapy as a recovering Republican is to vote for the Constitution Party candidate, Virgil Goode. I have made a career out of working for conservative GOPers, but I realize that's not enough. A few stalwarts in the House and Senate are terrific, but the Republican ship of state is adrift, and a few strong brave sailors can't reverse its course.
In my state of Georgia, Gary Johnson is on the ballot, and Goode is a certified write-in. Write-in votes in Georgia are not counted unless the candidate is a certified write-in candidate, so I see no point in casting a write-in vote for Ron Paul or whoever. My intent in voting for Goode is to repudiate the two party duopoly system and endorse the Constitution Party as an idea. It is not to endorse Goode in toto.
Red Phillips blogs at Conservative Heritage Times and is a regular columnist for EtherZone.
Richard Spencer
Normatively-speaking, participation in any election, any group decision-making in fact, is an implicit endorsement of (or at least acquiescence to) the legitimacy of both the group involved, as well as the decision to be made. I do not endorse the legitimacy of U.S. federal elections nor do I endorse this regime-system. As such, one's participation must be done with an eye toward something other than the "best choice." It would be participation with an eye toward effecting an end unrelated to the ends of the de facto group. For instance, if I secretly entered Iran and voted in an election, I obviously would be doing so in order to affect the election's outcome, with little regard to the best interests of Iran in se.
I must face facts, right? All of the parties in this election are regime parties. That is, there is not only no significant difference between them practically; there is no difference at all between them in principle. They are both parties of modern political liberalism, meaning that they ground political legitimacy exclusively in terms of the social contract, pluralism, democracy, etc…. Alasdair MacIntyre, philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame, has said that, "[c]ontemporary debates within modern political systems are almost exclusively between conservative liberals, liberal liberals, and radical liberals. There is little place in such political systems for the criticism of the system itself, that is, for putting liberalism in question." My political opinion constitutes a critique and rejection of liberal republicanism, from 1776 onward. Thus, there seems to be no true, good faith political position for me to hold here.
If however one is a secessionist desiring one's subgroup secede from the larger group, obviously hoping that conditions for the subgroup become as galling/bad as possible so as to facilitate development of the subgroup's will to secede, is a reasonable attitude to hold. A vote to save the de facto group would be counter-productive in fact.
I am a Southern nationalist. I wish for the liberal system to crash, and for significant, real change to occur. Real dissent. I am not resolved as to which candidate would push things more quickly in such a direction. This, unfortunately, boils down further as to which of the two parties and their candidates represents the more offensive, and/or draconian choice, thereby spurring the hoped-for real regime change. While Barrack might be the obvious choice, there is reason to believe that a Romney victory could prove more problematic in terms of real living conditions (e.g., the plutocratic option where I can't afford my health care, and the schools are just mindless worker production factories corrupting my kids.), and certainly the more disappointing. History teaches us that disappointed expectations cause more revolutions than mere squalor.
There are those with whom I would find kinship and sympathy, who consider the situation under the American system very grave, even threatening, but would also consider my outright rejection, to be abhorrent and even a little crazy. Yet, what is really perplexing is their critical attitude. It represents a cognitive dissonance. These people believe in the group, the system, and the associated modern American democracy, as core values; but then they paradoxically believe that voting any other way than they do is utterly condemnable. Treasonous even. How they are able to balance these two positions in their minds is a mystery.
The following logic is undeniable: If a member of a group believes the group's leadership is fatally flawed, given the direction the leadership has taken the group, but other members of the group believe that the leadership would be fatally flawed going any other way; the group itself as such is the problem. It isn't really a polis, even if it is held together for the time being in some way. In such a situation, there are only two possible long term resolutions: Either there will be separation, or one side or the other will eradicate the other. Barrack and Romney do not elect themselves. Neither the government, nor any particular politician hates you. Your neighbor hates you.
Either they must go, or we must.
I tend to think that Republican policies tend to erode community and tradition in the long run more than do Democratic ones. The Democrats after all do recognize community (just not ours), the proper purpose of the economy, and their progressive projects tend to flop or backfire (unlike those of the Republicans). Nonetheless, the Democrats do represent an overtly leftist revolutionary vanguard in their changes in law and academia. Thus I tend to support them, as the best-positioned to strengthen the will of my people to opt away from the status quo, to opt away from the middle ground, and seek a separation.
Robert Salyer is a lawyer in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Any sane voter needs to demonstrate their distain with the fraud of the Democratic and Republican two party monopolies. With this in mind, casting a protest vote is the only option if a citizen wants to engage the electoral system.
The three candidates that deserve consideration are:
LIBERTARIAN PARTY – Gary Johnson
CONSTITUTION PARTY – Virgil Goode
AMERICAN THIRD POSITION PARTY (A3P) – Merlin Miller
Running for president does not translate that all of the above will be on your state's ballot.
In New York State, the election commission is an adjunct of the Democrats and Republicans. As long as the electoral system is controlled by this duality, the people will never have an effective chance to vote into office real Patriotic Americans.
Write in votes are routinely discarded in many districts. Therefore, if you want your vote counted, you will need to select from candidates who are on the official list.
BREAKING ALL THE RULES is a paleo-conservative advocate. BATR urges voters to review the issue positions of any candidate you regard qualified.
The one issue that will not be on the ballot is whether you give your consent to federal government authority. If that referendum were on the ballot, a NO vote would be the only choice.
SARTRE is the publisher of BREAKING ALL THE RULES and a regular columnist at EtherZone.
Don't vote, it's for your children's future.
It is a truism that most Americans including those on the conservative and, indeed, paleo-right do not understand American politics.
This is proven by the fact that they continue to vote.
Voting is not a political action.Voting is an affirmation of citizenship, for some. For others, a feelgood gesture engineered partially by the satellite media, but also by hordes of hacks who get paid to write about politics in hackneyed fashions of yesteryear.
Voting is not even a political gesture. The minds 90% of Americans are putty in the hands of the satellite media. It matters not how the remaining 10% may choose to vote.
Voting is a pathology. It allows the 10% minority to feel as though they had accomplished something, when all they have in fact done is aid in the continuance of their own demise.
What is to be done?
Even the most informed political junkie, on the Paleo-Alt-Right doesn't understand the basic mechanics of the American political system. This assertion was proven by their dismal performances in the deliberative assemblies held in every state, earlier this year. Or perhaps those who did understand our political system simply decided to stay home, and not waste their precious time on an exercise in futility, but the point remains that most Americans, those on the Paleo-Alt-Right included, cannot function in a deliberative assembly, the most rudimentary form of any political organization in American politics.
The answer.
I recommend that instead of voting, readers should resolved to go through the archives of William Robert's late-show, Become Vocal Local, and spend the next four years, gaining a basic understanding of American politics, law and sociality so that four, two, or even one year from now, they will have learned enough to make intelligent political decisions for themselves. Only then, when we have put abstractions and illusions aside, and replaced them with concrete theory and action, can we advance to a successful future.
Rundown on the Parties.
Republicans-Romney may well be the next Reagan. Is the U.S. ready for the devestation another Reagan might cause?
Libertarians-A vote for Gary Johnson is a vote for Bob Barr is a vote for Wayne Root is a vote for Ron Paul…is a pattern starting to develop here?
Constitution Party-The Constitution Party will never amount to anything, not because of its platform or what it stands for, but because the Constitution Party is run by old ladies of both sexes.
Democratic Party-Obama will be remembered as a fairly conservative president. He has governed as a moderate Republican. Don't believe me? Wait until Mitt and Paul get married during their 2016 re-election campaign.
Savrola is a Missouri-based freelance writer and political consultant. He also has a day job. Several, in fact. He is a frequent commenter at CHT.
Sean Scallon
Our own Sean Scallon already contributed an entry to TAC. It can be seen here.
I'll vote for Merlin Miller and Virginia Abernethy. Miller's solutions are based on common sense, not bound by simple ideology. Ideology unfortunately sells a great deal better than does common sense.
The A3P answers Huntington's question of America's identity while acting for the whole, for all American citizens. The "pro-white" policies are merely an end to affirmative action and illegal immigration and a reduction in legal immigration.
If a voter is making a protest vote, he ought to make it count.
Weaver is a blogger at Conservative Heritage Times.
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Michael Cushman – "Instead of getting incolved in US party politics they are focusing on their families and communities and strengthening alternative institutions which will support our values and speak for our people and culture."
May God bless your endeavors.
C Bowen (Hawthorne)
Tactically speaking in the hypothetical, if there was chance that Johnson could, numerically, be the difference in a Romney loss in your state, or maybe just county, would you have an obligation by your moral logic to vote Johnson? (This includes broadcasting your position to friends, fellow travelers and family, and obviously, your wife votes the same as you…of course.)
Perhaps I am missing something as I am closer to Rich Spencer's position, but not as hipster–I bother to vote on local issues and make sure my neighbors see me there–but to the extent localism is important (as CHT and AmConMag suggest) one has to have a grasp of their county.
Otherwise, it's still just about 'you.' Whatever you do or don't do in the booth is between you and God and reflects on the fate of your eternal soul–the French, for example, have included a None of the Above sort of vote in their elections which was used this past round. (American's don't want to count the "left blank" vote.)
I did not get into this material in my …Destruction post, but in the interest of getting ahead of AmConMag, some insights into the local lay-out as instructing how to vote, and less of this posturing, is better, or at least, more authentic, reading.
That said several really solid write ups here from some solid folks. SARTRE published something of mine a lifetime ago, and wasn't sure if he was still going.
I wrote in Ron Paul. I did it before I knew it would be counted in CA, but it will.
I'll vote for Merlin Miller and Virginia Abernethy. Miller's solutions are based on common sense, not bound by simple ideology. Ideology unfortunately sells a great deal better than does common sense.
The A3P answers Huntington's question of America's identity while acting for the whole, for all American citizens. The "pro-white" policies are merely an end to affirmative action and illegal immigration and a reduction in legal immigration.
If making a protest vote, a voter ought to make it count.
robert m. peters
I shall vote against the evil of two lessers: Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney, although greed suggests that I should vote for Romney since what little pension which I might get might just last under Romney until I die, assuming I reach the average familial age of my clan. Of course, it is safe voting against Romney in Louisiana since he will carry the state because the waning but still majority of European stock are scared to death of Obama. Although I do not share Dr. Ron Paul's libertarian views, he was the last Jeffersonian who had a voice, ever so small as it was, on the national scene. If I could write him in, I would.
I'm OK with people thinking they can't in good conscience vote for either candidate, even though it's not a view I share. the fatalistic tones though, not so much. unless y'all get some perverse joy out of this "everything's going to hell" attitude.
c bowen
Good post…I just think it's better writing to explain the local politics in relation to the voting thing.
Matt Weber
For me, it was a toss-up between Goode or Romney. Goode would be the vote for principle. He's obviously the most acceptable candidate in that area. Washington State is safe for Obama, so it doesn't really matter who I vote for and I might as well vote on principle. However, a third-party vote isn't much use unless it is going to affect the nearest major party in some way, and I don't see 2012 as the year in which this will happen. 2004 or 2008 would have been better years for it, and I would have definitely voted third party then (I didn't vote at all those years).
Romney, on the other hand, brings little to the table other than a general sense of competence and maturity that Obama lacks. I don't think president Romney will be any good on abortion or immigration, but then again Obama is so awful on issues like these that even the lackluster Romney is a vast improvement. Romney has a 50% chance of appointing a decent Supreme Court justice, whereas Obama has a flat 0% chance. Foreign policy is one area that Romney gives almost no hope other than the hope that he isn't as stupid as he sounds.
In the end, I decided that it wasn't worth worrying too much about and voted Romney in a probably futile attempt to turn Washington a little more purple. Spiting some lefties is about the only enjoyment I'm going to get out of this, so I'm taking it.
I would join Weaver in voting for Merlin Miller if he were on the ballot in my state.
I have to vote against the Marxist African. The only way to vote against him is to vote for Romney.
Chris Hewlett
I voted for Romney three weeks ago. The battle must be waged against the foe directly in front of you – BO and his destructive liberal agenda. If Romney gets lucky and wins then we start attacking him. US interventionism around the globe I think is destined for reduction regardless because there is no increasing wealth in the country.
Many things will have to be cut.
I'm not sure I'll be cheering victory amid an economic depression though.
Ah, apparently I can't vote for Miller either – in my state.
President and Vice-president are unique. I suppose I'll be voting Virgil Goode…
Having no more respect for the United States election system than Professional Wrestling's legitemacy, I will instead go fishing.
I still have some control over fishing.
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I will be voting for Gary Johnson. I live in California and was planning to vote for Virgil Goode but due to legal issues he is not on the ballot. I would cast a write-in vote however I have reason to believe that write-ins get under-counted (that's if any of our voters are accurately counted). I suspect that Chuck Baldwin (who I voted for in 2008) got 6,000 write-in votes instead of 3,000. There was confusion whether or not you had to write-in both Chuck Baldwin and Darrel Castle. Voting for Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Jill Stein, and Rocky Anderson are all votes for unconstitutional federal government, increased social welfare system, and expansion of state intervention. Although Jill Stein and Rocky Anderson are better that the duopoly I can't support an expansion of government. Although Gary Johnson is wrong on abortion, he supports the constitutional position that issues not stated within the Constitution belong to the states and the people. We need a shift to state and local government.
Some people have stated that they will not vote because their vote will not count however this may not be true in local or state elections. My local Ron Paul meet-up has evolved into a Liberty Club with over 10 people running for local offices including city council, water board district, college district board, open space authority. We need to be active in our own communities.
Lastly we must uplift the nation in prayer and commit to the spiritual battle rather than just focusing on the political one.
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Cyberwar is breaking out all over
Costly and dangerous attacks on government and corporate computer systems are soaring. The Pentagon alone wants $4.7 billion to combat them.
History may remember this week as the moment when the shadowy concept of cyberwar between countries went public.
On Monday, the U.S. government directly accused China of attacking computer systems belonging to the U.S. government and its military contractors.
Growing numbers of cyberattacks against the U.S. military have prompted the Department of Defense to boost its requested funding to combat these infiltrations. USA Today reports that the 2014 defense budget released last month contains $4.7 billion specifically for cybersecurity operations, both defensive and offensive, up from $3.9 billion in the previous budget.
And given the open nature of the Internet and our growing dependency on new technologies, concerns over online security -- for government, businesses and consumers -- have soared in recent years.
On the corporate level, cyberattacks continue to grow in both volume and level of sophistication, and they've made electronic security an executive-level consideration.
Information technology security's "rise from being a functional area to a board level concern is maybe the fastest I've ever seen," Thomas Sanzone, the senior vice president of consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, told The Wall Street Journal earlier this year.
In December, the Ponemon Institute, a security research firm, released the results of a survey of nearly 700 info-tech security employees, mostly supervisors at large organizations.
Eighty percent of those polled said laptops and other mobile data devices, such as the Apple (AAPL) iPhone, pose a significant security risk to their organization's networks, mostly because of popular third-party applications from companies like Google (GOOG) and Adobe (ADBE). And 58% of those polled said their organizations fend off more than 25 malware attempts or incidents each month.
One of the main issues, according to John Villasenor, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and a professor at UCLA's department of electrical engineering, is the three-way struggle among convenience, security and privacy when it comes to how corporate computer systems are designed.
"A lot of cybersecurity is simply making sure that employees are aware of sensible practices . . . with respect to cybersecurity issues," he told MSN Money. "You could have the most sophisticated technology solutions on the planet, but if your employees aren't exercising good judgment, then that can create cybersecurity exposures that can undermine technology solutions."
Villasenor notes some business sectors, such as the financial industry, have been working for years to keep online transactions secure. And Celso Guiotoko, the CIO of Nissan Motor (NSANY), recently told The Wall Street Journal that his company has invested more in cybersecurity because "the level of targeted attacks is increasing."
But hackers have other ways to defeat large corporate cyberdefenses, including infiltrating smaller businesses and using them as unguarded access points into a major corporations' systems.
"Small businesses retain very valuable information for hackers, like customers' credit card numbers, intellectual property and money in the bank," Vikram Thakur, a principal security response manager for Symantec (SYMC), told CNNMoney. "Small companies are lucrative victims, too. That's making the target on their back even bigger."
Another problem is the wide range of people -- and presumably organizations -- looking to hack into sensitive computer databases.
"You've got everything from people who will just very casually try and get into some systems to, one would presume, some groups that are extremely capable," Villasenor says. "There's a range out there."
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Prep Time: 15 min
Cook Time: 1 hour 30 min
Difficulty: Easy
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon fine salt
5 eggs
3 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
3 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1/2 lb (2 sticks) butter, plus more for pan
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together. Add sugar, a little at a time. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl and add to mixer alternately with milk, starting with the flour and ending with the flour. Mix in vanilla. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
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This is the best pound cake I have ever had. I have made it several times and I always get compliments.
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I enjoy baking this is I first time making a pound cake will let you know it turn out when my family taste it Thanks Paula.
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First time ever making a pound cake, it turned out perfect. Everyone loved it. Didn't last long was gone the next day.
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paula!! love your cooking i think you are one of the best cooks ever i love your show and your family! you guys have so much fun cooking together. your sons are the best they love bein in the kitchen with mama lol!!! gotta try that pound cake for my sunday dinner love you paula you did it again!!!
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iam going to try this! noy a good baker, but iam going to try! love you paula!
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Need a diabetic friendly version. Otherwise,delicious.Give it a 10 rating.
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Paula on the pound cake do you have to use the shortening can you use 3 sticks of butter.
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I love your cake recipes, but I really need a pound cake recipe for a border line diabetic which uses either a sugar substitute or less suger.
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Paula, Been watching you and your show from the begining and I think you are just wonderful...keep up the good work the two of you look great and love you cooking.
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I don't have a tube pan...can it be done in another pan, maybe a loaf pan??
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Would you happen to have and old one for gramma's old fashion spice cake I can't find a good one.....Thank You
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A soggy crowd at Marinette Marine's shipyard cheered on Saturday, as the R/V Sikuliaq hit the chilly waters with a splash.
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Federal stimulus dollars funded the nearly $140 million contract with Marinette Marine that brought this ship to fruition.
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The Evansville IceMen have announced on this date that center Todd Robinson has been granted permission by the organization to leave the team late in this 2012-13 season and join the Allen Americans of the Central Hockey League in the latter team's quest for CHL's post-season championship.
In making the announcement, Evansville Team Owner and Club President Ron Geary extolled his captain and expressed his great appreciation for two extraordinary years of the "T. Rob" era that catapulted the Evansville IceMen into the center of the pro hockey world and elevated the city of Evansville and the Tri-State area into the status of the new "Hockeytown."
"We have enjoyed two great years of having Todd as such an integral part of our organization. He has been the focal point of many truly tremendous thrills for us and our terrific fans through his extraordinary on-ice talents and leadership. His enduring legacy in our team history will be one of being a player and leader for all occasions. In his first season, Todd was the major spark in leading us to a strong second place finish, our first-ever post-season playoff berth while becoming the first IceMen player to win the league scoring crown. However, it was in his second season with us where he was supremely tested and rose to the head of the class, again, with class. Todd led us unwaveringly through uncommonly inordinate adversity as our captain of the IceMen nation. As Todd moves on as our season comes to a close, we recognize what a great opportunity this is for Todd to win another championship and wholeheartedly send along our very best wishes and the very best of continued success."
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Illinois-based Jupiter Aluminum has the paint line it salvaged from an idled steel corrugating plant in Beech Bottom up and running, creating jobs where a year ago there were none.
It's a bellwether moment for the Brooke County community that's finally seeing economic opportunity after years of decline.
"It's no longer a ghost town," Beech Bottom Mayor George Lewis said. "What a difference a year can make."
Beech Bottom's rebirth started in November 2012, when Los Angeles-based Hackman Capital partnered with the Business Development Corporation of the Northern Panhandle to acquire the former Wheeling Corrugating plant from bankrupt RG Steel.
Hackman's forte is acquiring old industrial sites and selling equipment and materials left behind. The company saw enormous upsides to the corrugating plant but balked at assuming the environmental liability. At the same time, the BDC wanted title to the property so it could be redeveloped and become revenue-generating again.
Hackman purchased the 650-acre property from bankruptcy and immediately sold it for $200,000 to the Business Development Corporation of the Northern Panhandle, which assumed the environmental obligations associated with the industrial site. Hackman, meanwhile, retained the rights to the building and equipment.
Together they've marketed the property, inking the warehouse deal with Jupiter along with staging yard deals with three other companies — Sheehan Pipeline, Profoam and Integrity Kokosing.
"It's evolved more than I ever envisioned," said BDC Executive Director Pat Ford. "I was hopefully optimistic when we bought it; it was the right thing to do to put that plant in local hands. But when you start managing the day-to-day operations of an asset of that nature, you really don't have time to envision what it could be.
"You get caught up with cleaning it out, providing infrastructure to the site, getting it in position to where you could properly market it."
Ford said there's a lot to be said for the property, which includes about 150 prime acres.While there's currently no barge loading facility, the acreage fronts the Ohio River, so adding docking facilities wouldn't be difficult. It's also centrally located to the Marcellus and Utica shale plays and is within 250 miles of major metropolitan areas in the U.S. and Canada, a fact not lost on companies serving the oil and gas industry.
Jupiter's decision to lease an 111,000 square-foot space for operations, though, was pure luck.
"They were looking to buy a paint line at auction," Ford said, "but they decided to keep the facility here. The stars were aligned for us — it's not like we had a vision for all of this.
"We bought it at the right time and it was the right place and because of that, one year later we're fortunate to have tenants that collectively have put probably $15 million in investments into the overall site. that's both inside the building and out in our yards."
To date, Ford said they've also created nearly 700 jobs, about 30 of them long-term positions at Jupiter. Sheehan alone hired 600 people, half of them local, for a pipeline project. Though that contract is done, the company extended its lease and is looking for additional opportunities in the Marcellus and Utica regions.
Ford, though, said it's not just about jobs.
"It's also stimulated investment in the residential market and the commercial market," he said. "You can see businesses opening right across the street. And they've done so much from a civic standpoint — from filling the shelves of the food pantry every week to improving the local housing stock for families in need and repairing local churches.
"Sheehan even bought backpacks for every student in the local elementary school. The spinoff benefits of a successful venture ... we weren't anticipating it, but clearly they've improved the quality of life. Not only has it been great for Beech Bottom, it's been great for Brooke County, and it's really put the Northern Panhandle on the map nationally."
Lewis admits that a year ago, most people in the community feared Hackman intended nothing more than to gut the plant, raze the building "and leave the empty ground sit there."
"So when we found out Hackman was going to let the BDC develop it, it was a breath of fresh air for (us)," he said, adding the Hackman-BDC partnership has been "good for the economy, people here in the village are going back to work."
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Ah, Queen Victoria, the stiff-upper-lipped little woman whose long rule oversaw the British Empire's growing power in all things industrial, political, military, cultural, and scientific. She was a controversial monarch whose assassination was attempted some dozen times in her life. The first attempt, though few know it today, came on the eve of her ascension to the throne when a foul demon (yes, demon) infiltrated her bedroom and attempted to slice her into little pieces. Young Victoria, as told in author A.E. Moorat's new biography Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter, is not too surprised that there are demons—she has received an excellent education, after all—but it does come as something of a shock that she, as queen, is to be the lead demon hunter of the land. Still, Victoria is determined to be a successful ruler in all areas, and willingly begins training under the Protektorate, a motley crew of warriors in possession of all manner of demon-slaying skills—and in Victorian England, demons come in all sizes and shapes. As Victoria learns the proper way to behead a zombie, defeat a werewolf, and tackle other evil spirits, her mind occasionally wanders to daydreams of handsome Prince Albert. Trying to balance the desires of the heart with the demands of a demon-ravaged kingdom is certainly a trial, but no one is better suited to meet the challenge than the new Queen Victoria. There's enough gore here to thrill raving horror fans, enough historical detail to satisfy devoted Anglophiles, and plenty of dashes of humor, romance, and satire to tie it all together in a neat little bow—and then, of course, good old Vicky will come along and lop its head off.
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The Florida Lottery is taking advantage of the event-packed winter season by setting up shop at major events. The sweepstakes, which helps fund education, took a sales booth among the glittering yachts at the recent Miami Boat Show and gave browsers the opportunity to purchase their favorite lottery games, according to its website. Coincidentally, the lottery reported record statewide sales on the show's final day.
"Twenty-one Florida Lottery games had sales of more than $1 million last week," said lottery Secretary Cynthia O'Connell in a press release. "This is good news across the board."
Indeed it is good news, but perhaps it's not a surprising notion to think that the idea of luxurious days at sea would prompt a person to take a chance in the lottery. But scientists were recently fascinated to find it also works the other way around: buying a lottery ticket — even in a yachtless environment — will cause some people to have the kind of materialistic thoughts that can diminish their self control and eat away at their overall happiness.
"It's natural for lottery buyers to dream about winning big and to think about how to spend," says Hyeongmin (Christian) Kim, an assistant marketing professor at Johns Hopkins University. "But happiness doesn't come from possessing a lot of materialistic stuff."
The problem with mental visions of material goods is that they're usually pretty concrete. Rather than fill our heads with abstract thoughts of, say, a general category involving luxury items, those of us buying lottery tickets wind up thinking pretty specifically — Bertram yachts, BMW cars and Prada bags, says Kim. Concrete thoughts — which cause many people to seek immediate gratification — are known to undermine self control.
"Some examples include impulsive buying and excessive debt," says Kim.
Kim performed a series of experiments. First, he assembled a group of subjects and instructed the members of one half to each buy a lottery ticket with a $1 million jackpot. Afterwards, when asked to write their thoughts, the ticket-holders reported more materialistic feelings and strong preferences for small, but immediate, rewards than the other group.
In order to defer instant enjoyment in favor of bigger rewards later we need self control. People with lots of it make more money, are better off financially and physically, and are happier than those without self-imposed limits, says John Tierney, author of Willpower, Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength. Willpower, however, is like a muscle in that it gets fatigued over time but can be strengthened with simple exercises and diligent monitoring.
People who find overspending is a problem should set goals and track their progress — a job even better accomplished when it's outsourced to a computer program, says Tierney. Mint.com is great for alerting over-spenders it's time to stop while RescueTime.com will let you know you're on-line shopping when you should be working, he says.
"People with good self-control conserve their willpower," says Tierney. "They go on the offense instead of the defense."
That means they avoid temptation and minimize the number of shopping decisions they have to make each day, says Tierney. Chronic over-spenders should carry only cash and avoid stores. Actual shopping should be done with a strict list.
Beyond those steps, you can build up your willpower when at home doing tasks that are simple but familiar. Sitting up straight, speaking in complete sentences and the decision to ban curse words from your vocabulary are all activities that require your concentration, says Tierney. And increased focus on one area can spill over to more discipline in finances, work and even music.
"It's why religious people have more self-control," says Tierney.
Meanwhile, regardless of where it comes from, materialism makes people miserable, says James A. Roberts, a professor at Baylor University. That's because people are social creatures — happy when they're members of tight-knit families or surrounded by close friends. Being overly concerned with acquiring new clothes or cars, however, separates us from other people. It causes us to compete with them or compare our stuff with their stuff.
"It works in the opposite direction of everything we are as humans," says Roberts.
What's more, materialism will always leave us unsatisfied thanks to the evolutionary work of adaptation. While evolution helps humans adjust to changing climates or environments or even new physical conditions, such as blindness, it means we become quickly accustomed to everything we own, says Roberts.
"Adapting is what helps us to survive as a species," says Roberts. "So whatever new level of wealth we get doesn't make us happier, it just raises the baseline."
But excessive spending can raise the level of debt we have, says Ellen Siegel, a certified financial planner in Miami. If thoughts of materialistic items have lowered your self control and racked up your debt, Siegel suggests you line up all your credit cards and start paying off first the one charging you the most interest. How much money should you put toward this?
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The Financial Literacy Compendium
Published on - April 2nd, 2009 (by J.D. Roth)
It's April once again, which means it's also Financial Literacy Month in the United States. Because basic financial literacy is imperative, Get Rich Slowly will devote the next few weeks to covering the fundamentals of personal finance. If you have a topic you'd like me to write about, please let me know. To begin, however, here's my annual collection of financial literacy resources I've provided in the past.
Get Rich Slowly
This site regularly features articles about basic personal finance skills. Some of the best from the past three years include information on the following topics:
Basic skills
- How to get out of debt
- How to track every penny you spend
- How to pay your utility bills
- How I cut my television bill in half
- How to avoid bank overdraft fees
- 9 ways to take charge of your finances
- The most important money tip
- Budgeting for non-budgeters
- The budget toolbox: 13 tools for building a better budget
- The balanced money formula
- Pay yourself first
Bank accounts
- The best online high-yield savings accounts
- Making the most of your checking account
- How to put your savings on steroids with certificates of deposit
- Current CD rates at online banks
Credit and credit cards
- How to choose a credit card
- Essential credit card skills
- How and when to cancel a credit card
- The anatomy of a credit score
- How to obtain your free credit report
- The extraordinary power of compound returns
- What is a Roth IRA and why should you care?
- How to start a Roth IRA (and where to do it)
- Which investments are best for a Roth IRA?
- An introduction to index funds
- How much does the stock market actually return?
As a general rule, the basics category here at Get Rich Slowly contains information about fundamental financial literacy.
Saving and Investing
In April 2007, I shared a series of videos from author Michael Fischer. Though designed as companions to his book, Saving and Investing, these short pieces stand on their own. Look past the fact that these aren't polished and professional — Michael provides some excellent information. Here are links to each part in the series:
- Introduction
- The power of compounding
- Providers and users of capital
- The difference between debt and equity
- What is leverage?
- An introduction to financial statements
- Why do financial markets exist?
- What is a bond?
- What is a stock?
- What is a stock market index?
- The importance of diversification (also an introduction to diversification)
- What is a mutual fund?
- Types of mutual funds
- The difference between active and passive management
- An introduction to dollar-cost averaging
- The impact of time
- The three enemies of growth
- Coping with high-interest debt
- Getting started
- 5 popular misconceptions about money
Other web sites
There are other excellent financial literacy resources around the web.
- CNNMoney has an outstanding overview of basic personal finance topics called Money 101. Each of the 23 topics includes several pages of information, and many of the subjects include an interactive calculator or tool.
- The Federal government has a website called MyMoney.gov, which is "dedicated to teaching all Americans the basics about financial education."
- The Federal government also provides the Federal Citizen Information Center, which offers free (or cheap) publications on a variety of topics including personal finance. Many of these publications are available in free PDF versions.
- Both Illinois and Wisconsin have sites devoted to personal finance education. These two pages contain a wealth of links to information on many subjects.
- 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy is a site from the American institute of CPAs. It includes many articles on various life stages such as "college", "couples & marriage", "home ownership", etc. A clunky interface, but a lot of solid information.
- Ramit at I Will Teach You to Be Rich has The world's easiest guide to understanding retirement accounts.
- Rhetorical Device offers A brief history of money. This is actual history. It's a short article, but fascinating.
Between the Saving and Investing video series, the GRS basics archive, and the other sites I've linked here, you have a wealth of personal finance material at your disposal. I look forward to writing more about financial literacy during the month of April!
This article is about Basics
Wow, I don't have 7 hours to go through all this content again right now… Maybe tonight! Thanks for the incredible resource.
Wonderful! Bookmarked.
The videos for #20 are no longer available on YouTube. Is there another link to them?
Wow, an amazing compendium of financial literacy. I like to believe I've become fairly financially suave, but I'm sure I'll find some things in this collection that I haven't already learned.
Holy cow. *Speechless*
Can I just give you money?
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A great set of links to read during the weekend! thank you.
Thank you, this is a great group of links! It'll take me days to read it all…
As a new reader of your website, this is a perfect way for me to catch up! I'm particularly looking forward to checking out the investment sections. Thanks so much!
Every time I see a government website, or brochure, on "how to manage your money" I equally giggle with delight and die a little inside.
Why would ANYONE take advice from the government on how to manage money????
From running such a huge deficit, bailouts, etc, they are simply the farthest thing from a credible and responsible resource.
Wow – this is the mother-of-all list of links.
JD, I'm late in posting this, but I want to make a seriously huge announcement here:
I cannot believe how educational your blog has been, how helpful it has been, and how informative it is. I'm not very financially savvy, but thanks to YOUR hard work, I have definitely moved up on the financial learning curve.
I have saved dozens of your posts, noted dozens of books to add to my read list, and have been able to make better decisions, all because of YOUR hard work.
I absolutely cannot thank you enough.


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Another exciting week in Howard County football! Has this season been fun to watch so far or what? Aside from River Hill, which looks like it's been playing Super Tecmo Bowl out there so far, and the handful of teams struggling at the bottom, pretty much any match-up this season could go either way.
Just this past week, we had two one-point games — Atholton over Howard 35-34 and Reservoir over Hammond 21-20 — and a pretty big upset — Mt. Hebron over Wilde Lake, 41-6.
As a result, I actually had to put in some work with the rankings this week, as five of the top ten teams now have a new home. There was none of that copy and pasting last week's results and just coming up with new cute comments to say about each team.
Mt. Hebron gets another well deserved bump, but things actually got tricky with the 6, 7, 8 and 9 spots. What makes it tough is that two of the teams in that grouping nearly beat Atholton, the No. 2 team in the rankings. And 0-3 Long Reach took Mt. Hebron to overtime. What does this mean? Well, I don't see Marriotts Ridge knocking off River Hill anytime soon, but could the No. 9 ranked team beat the No. 2 ranked team under the right circumstances? Absolutely. That's just the way it goes now, so we'd all better get used to it.
This week's most compelling games look like Glenelg at Reservoir and Hammond at River Hill. Long Reach (0-3) at Atholton (3-0) looks like a mismatch on paper, but Long Reach is starving for a win and that makes them dangerous.
(Last week's ranking in parentheses, all games are Friday at 7 p.m. unless indicated)
1. (1.) River Hill (3-0, 157 points scored-16 points allowed)
Last two games: River Hill 105, Opponents 0. The Hawks are averaging more than 52 points per game. Evan Griffin, Stephan Osong and Justin Arn have each scored at least five TDs already, and Austin Altman has thrown seven TD passes. The schedule is about to get much tougher over the next three weeks, though, with games against Hammond (the last team to beat River Hill), Glenelg, which took River Hill to overtime last season, and undefeated Mt. Hebron.
Last week: beat Centennial, 56-0. This week: home against No. 7 Hammond (1-2).
Wins: LR (52-16), OM (49-0), C (56-0). Losses: NA.
2. (2.) Atholton (3-0, 77-71)
After the first quarter at Howard last week, with Atholton down 21-0, I thought we were going to have a mild shake-up at the top. Then Atholton outscored the Lions 35-13 the rest of the way. This team just know how to win, and QB Luke Casey is a weapon. Don't let the 71 points allowed fool you. Once this defense gets it together, it'll be one of the best units in the league.
Last week: beat Howard, 35-34. This week: home against No. 9 Long Reach (0-3).
W: WL (14-12 OT), Re (28-25), Ho (35-34). L: NA.
3. (3.) Howard (2-1, 100-56)
The Lions took a hit when RB Brady Curley was lost for the season after reinjuring his knee, but the Lions still have one of the best offenses in the league. QB Austin Blair stepped up last week to rush for 80 yards and a score, taking some pressure off of star Michael Anderson, who has twice scored 3 TDs in a game this year.
Last week: lost to Atholton, 35-34. This week: at No. 10 Centennial (1-2), Saturday at 1 p.m.
4. (4.) Glenelg (2-1, 69-42)
Since a week one loss at Howard, Glenelg has shown what it's capable of by beating two quality opponents 55-14. So far the defense has quietly been one of the best in the league, and we know about the weapons they have on offense (QB Mark Darden, RB Nick Crabill, RB Jared Jacoby, WR David Brookhart, TE Ben Carta...) I see this week's game potentially coming down to the fourth quarter though.
Last week: beat Long Reach, 34-6. This week: at No. 6 Reservoir (1-2).
W: Ha (21-8), LR (34-6). L: Ho (28-14).
5. (7.) Mt. Hebron (3-0, 99-45)
Be careful or you might get a crick in your neck trying to keep up with the Vikings' rapid climb! Is this where they plateau for a while, or will they take the next step into the county's elite? With home games against Marriotts Ridge and Oakland Mills the next two weeks, they have a great shot at improving to 5-0, but then the schedule gets MUCH tougher, with games against River Hill, Atholton, Glenelg, Howard and Hammond down the stretch! Their wins over Reservoir and Long Reach to start the season were impressive, but 41-6 over Wilde Lake? Gadzooks! Right now they've got the second best scoring differential in the league behind River Hill. ATH Zach Nicholas already has six TDs, and QB Malik Gilmore has thrown seven TD passes. I'm sold.
Last week: beat Wilde Lake, 41-6. This week: home against Marriotts Ridge (1-2).
W: Re (26-13), LR (32-26 OT), WL (41-6). L: NA.
6. (9.) Reservoir (1-2, 59-74)
The Gators beat Hammond by the slimmest of margins, but hey, a win is a win. Reservoir gets the biggest bump in the fallout of the Mt. Hebron-Wilde Lake upset because if you look at it, the Gators are the only team in this next group of four to have beaten one of the others. This is a huge game coming up on Friday night.
Last week: beat Hammond, 21-20. This week: home against No. 4 Glenelg (2-1).
W: Ha (21-20). L: MH (26-13), A (28-25).
7. (6.) Hammond (1-2, 57-42)
The Golden Bears might be kicking themselves about last week's 21-20 loss to Reservoir for awhile, but the best elixir would be an upset at River Hill this week. The Hammond D is actually tied for second best in the league, and they have a positive scoring differential (thanks to a 29-0 win over Marriotts Ridge in week one), but two losses in the first three weeks isn't an encouraging sign.


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MOLINE -- The board of the Metropolitan Airport Authority of Rock Island County voted this morning to pay a former employee $550,000 to settle a discrimination claim. The board, in approving the settlement with former director of finance Holly Green, did not concede any liability or fault, and maintained it has never discriminated in employment decisions. The vote to approve the settlement was 5-0, with one commissioner, Jim Bohnsack, voting "present." Two commissioners, Molly Foley and Robert Leibovitz. were absent for the vote, Ms. Green was fired in December, 2011. She filed a charge of discrimination with the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The settlement states the Department of Human Rights dismissed the claims for lack of substantial evidence, but Ms. Green then informed the airport board she planned to file a lawsuit. Ms. Green's attorney, John Doak, said he was not authorized to comment on the nature of Ms. Green's discrimination complaints. "The matter was resolved to her satisfaction and she has no further comment on the matter," Mr. Doak said. The airport authority attorney,Sigrid Zaehringer, said the discrimination claims were a personnel matter covered in the Department of Human Rights complaint, and did not comment further. "The airport is happy to move forward, feels it acted legally and properly," she said, adding the airport is happy with the settlement because it is in its best interest to avoid a lot of time and expense. The agreement also names aviation director Bruce Carter and assistant aviation director Bryan Johnson as respondents in the matter. The airport's insurance carrier will pay the settlement. According to the settlement document: -- Ms. Green and the authority agreed to keep the nature, terms and conditions of the agreement "strictly confidential." Ms. Green may share information with her spouse and children, but must instruct anyone she tells, "of the confidential nature of the settlement, and to obtain a pledge from those individuals to maintain confidentiality." If she violates those terms, she has to pay the authority liquidated damages in the amount of the settlement plus costs to collect the damages. -- Ms. Green agreed not to make any written or oral statement that "disparages, defames, or reflects adversely" on the authority, Mr. Carter, Mr. Johnson, the airport or any of its employees. -- Of the total settlement, Ms. Green will get $366,685, minus all withholding on or before Feb. 28, 2013. The insurance company will also pay $183,315 to the company for which Mr. Doak works, Katz, Huntoon & Fieweger, P.C. -- The payments represent the full settlement of all claims against the authority, Mr. Carter and Mr. Johnson, in connection with Ms. Green's "charge or draft lawsuit." -- Of the money Ms. Green receives, $119,000 is designated as 14 months of back pay. Ms. Green will pay 4.5 percent, or the current percentage required, toward her IMRF employee contribution. The authority will make its employer contribution, which is expected to be $14,875. -- Ms. Green agreed to "fully and forever releases and discharges and agrees not to bring a claim for damages" against the authority, Mr. Carter, Mr. Johnson, under various federal or state acts, including civil rights, Family and Medical Leave, fair labor standards, human rights and whistle-blower. -- Ms. Green agreed to never aid in the prosecution of any claim, demand, action brought by another against the authority arising out of her former employment or her termination of employment. The settlement states the authority made the agreement at the direction of its insurance carrier. "While the (airport authority) and its insurance carrier believe it has acted legally, there is a potential for additional legal proceedings. Those legal proceedings are both costly and time consuming and not in the organization's best interest. Therefore, the insurance carrier and (airport authority) have entered into this settlement." Mr. Carter declined to comment on the settlement after the meeting. Commissioner Bohnsack said he voted "present" because he was only recently appointed to the board and because Ms. Green has an employment relationship with his daughter.
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I want to show you a picture I took a few days ago.
If you look closely, you can see a bunch of cigarette butts laying on the ground under a tree. It's the type of litter many people take for granted, it's only a cigarette butt.
But with a little research, I found those cigarette butts and millions just like them take up to 12 years to break down and disappear. I also found that in most communities, cigarette butts are the most common form of litter.
How many times have you been stopped at an intersection and see someone throw one out the window? Or worse yet, open their car door and empty their ash tray on the ground?
Cigarette butts are a form of toxic waste. They impact wildlife, rivers and streams and our overall quality of life.
Pause and think before you throw one on the ground.
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