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Hemp Is Not Pot: It can jump-start our GREEN economy
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We can make over 25,000 things with it. Farmers love it. Environmentalists love it. You can't get high from it. So why is it still illegal?
While Uncle Sam's scramble for new revenue sources has recently kicked up the marijuana debate – to legalize and tax, or not? – hemp's feasibility as a stimulus plan has received less airtime.
But with a North American market that exceeds $300 million in annual retail sales and continued rising demand, industrial hemp could generate thousands of sustainable new jobs, helping America to get back on track.
"We're in the midst of a dark economic transition, but I believe hemp is an important facet and has tremendous economic potential," says Patrick Goggin, a board member on the California Council for Vote Hemp, the nation's leading industrial hemp-farming advocacy group. "Economically and environmentally, industrial hemp is an important part of the sustainability pie."
With 25,000 known applications from paper, clothing and food products – which, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal this January, is the fastest growing new food category in North America – to construction and automotive materials, hemp could be just the crop to jump-start America's green economy.
But growing hemp remains illegal in the U.S. The Drug Enforcement Administration has lumped the low-THC plant together with its psychoactive cousin, marijuana, making America the planet's only industrialized nation to ban hemp production. We can import it from Canada, which legalized it in 1997. But we can't grow it.
"It's a missed opportunity," says Goggin, who campaigned for California farmers to grow industrial hemp two years ago, although the bill was vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, citing the measure conflicted with federal law.
Considering California's position as an agricultural giant – agriculture nets $36.6 billion dollars a year, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture – Goggin's assessment is an understatement. Especially if extended nationwide.
"Jobs require capital investment, which isn't easy to come by at the moment, and we need hemp-processing facilities, because the infrastructure here went to seed. But this is a profitable crop, and the California farming community supports it."
Just how profitable? According to Chris Conrad, a respected authority on cannabis and industrial hemp and who authored Hemp for Health and Hemp, Lifeline to the Future, the industry would be regionally sustainable, reviving the local economy wherever it was grown.
"Hemp will create jobs in some of the hardest-hit sectors of the country – rural agriculture, equipment manufacturing, transportable processing equipment and crews – and the products could serve and develop the same community where the hemp is farmed: building ecological new homes, producing value-added and finished products, marketing and so forth," he writes in an e-mail from Amsterdam, where he is doing research. "Add to that all the secondary jobs – restaurants, health care, food products, community-support networks, schools, etc., that will serve the workers. The Midwestern U.S. and the more remote parts of California and other states would see a surge of income, growth, jobs and consumer goods."
In America, industrial hemp has long been associated with marijuana, although the plants are different breeds of Cannabis sativa, just as poodles and Irish setters are different breeds of dog.
While hemp contains minute levels of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana (compare 0.3 percent or less in Canadian industrial hemp versus 3-20 percent for medical marijuana), to get high you'd have to smoke a joint the size of a telephone pole.
Still, the historical hysteria caused by federal anti-marijuana campaigns of the 1930s, which warned that marijuana caused insanity, lust, addiction, violence and crime, have had a long-term impact on its distant relative.
Doomed by the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, which in effect criminalized cannabis and levied high taxes on medical marijuana and industrial hemp, hemp cultivation wasn't technically disallowed.
However, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the DEA's predecessor, said its agents couldn't differentiate between industrial hemp and marijuana, a stance the DEA maintains today, so fewer farmers were willing to grow it. The exception came during World War II, when the armed forces experienced a severe fiber shortage and the government launched an aggressive campaign to grow hemp.
But after the war, hemp production faded away, and the last legal crop was harvested in 1957. Marijuana's propaganda-fuelled history, one filled with lurid stories, one-sided information, slander and corporate profiteerism, is too lengthy to address here, but hemp has never managed to remain unscathed.
Considering today's economic crisis and the combined threats of peak oil and global warming, there is increasing pressure to move toward sustainable resources before everything goes up in smoke. If there was any time to revisit hemp, it's now.
"Industrial hemp is the best gift a farmer could have. It's the ideal alternative crop," says Gale Glenn, on the board of the North American Industrial Hemp Council. Glenn, now retired, owned and managed a 300-acre Kentucky farm producing burley tobacco, and she immediately launches into hemp's benefits: It's environmentally friendly, requiring no pesticides or herbicides, it's the perfect rotation crop because it detoxifies and regenerates the soil, and it's low labor.
"You just plant the seed, close the farm gate and four months later, cut it and bale it," she says.
And there's more. As a food, hemp is rich in essential omega-3 fatty acids; the plant's cellulose level, roughly three times that of wood, creates paper that yields four times as much pulp as trees; hemp is an ideal raw material for plant-based plastics, used to make everything from diapers to dashboards.
In fact, Germany's DaimlerChrysler Corp. has equipped its Mercedes-Benz C-class vehicles with natural-fiber-reinforced materials, including hemp, for years. Even Henry Ford himself manufactured a car from hemp-based plastic in 1941, archival footage of which can be found on YouTube, and the car ran on clean-burning hemp-based ethanol fuel.
This leads to the most compelling argument for hemp: fuel. Hemp seeds are ideal for making ethanol, the cleanest-burning liquid bio-alternative to gasoline, and when grown as an energy crop, hemp actually offsets carbon emissions because it absorbs more carbon dioxide than any other plant.
As the world rapidly depletes its reserves of petroleum, America needs to create a renewable, homegrown energy source to become energy independent. Luckily, unlike petrol, hemp is renewable, unless we run out of soil.
"As a farmer, it's frustrating not being able to grow this incredible crop," says Glenn. But if Glenn did try to grow it, the American government would consider her a felon guilty of trafficking, and she would face a fine of up to $4 million and a prison sentence of 5 to 40 years. Because no matter how low its THC content, hemp is still considered a Schedule I substance, grouped alongside heroin.
It's exactly this war-on-drugs logic that has kept serious discussion of hemp off the table.
"I've met with senators over the last 13 years, and I've been to the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) four times, and I'm always amazed by what they tell us – that industrial hemp is by far one of the most superior fibers known to man, but since it's a green plant with a five-point leaf, you'll never grow it in America," says Bud Sholts chairman of the the North American Industrial Hemp Council and former economist for Wisconsin's State Department of Agriculture.
Sholts' research into sustainable agriculture convinced him of industrial hemp's value, and he has been lobbying for it ever since. "We're overlooking something huge."
Luckily, farmers are practical folk whose pragmatism ensures their survival, and they have championed industrial hemp, which they see as a potential economic boon, by pushing for it through their state legislatures, where it has become a bipartisan issue.
To date, 28 states have introduced hemp legislation, including Arkansas, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Maryland, North Dakota, New Mexico, Virginia, Vermont and West Virginia. Fifteen have passed it, and seven have legalized hemp production, according to Vote Hemp.
Yet in cases like North Dakota, the DEA still insists that federal law trumps the state's and farmers need a DEA-granted license before growing. This is exactly what happened to David Monson and Wayne Hauge, two North Dakota farmers given state permission to grow but who have been waiting a while for their federal licenses – in Monson's case, since 1997.
"Here we are in 2009, and it seems like we're still taking baby steps. We're a little closer, but I'm not making any predictions," says Monson, who also happens to be a Republican state representative.
Monson lives only 20 miles from the Canadian border, where fields of profitable industrial hemp have been growing since 1997, and he believes it's a simple case of "if they can grow it, why can't we?"
"The profit potential is there. Practically and economically, it makes sense to raise it," says Monson. "I truly believe as a farmer that hemp is good for farmers, it's good for the environment and it's good for state of North Dakota. And for that matter the whole nation."
As the law currently stands, to legalize hemp production, all the DEA has to do is remove hemp from its Schedule I drug list, a process that does not require a congressional vote.
Now that the Obama administration has announced an end to medical marijuana raids, hemp advocates are hopeful the move could open the door for hemp, because the president voted for a hemp bill while he was in the Illinois legislature.
The DEA follows the government's lead, and the government, which does not want to be seen as being soft on drugs, has been notoriously skittish tackling drug policy reform. If Obama told the DEA to move forward aggressively and issue all pending research, commercial and agronomic licenses, farmers like Monson could grow hemp tomorrow.
"Politically, I liken the situation to pulling bricks out of a dam," says Vote Hemp's Goggin. "There are now so many leaks, the dam's getting ready to burst. We're working hard for a shift in policy, but at the moment, Washington doesn't consider this a top issue."
While industrial-hemp advocates are becoming hopeful that policy change is in the winds, they caution that the industry still requires a massive, coordinated effort to develop.
"I'm hesitant overselling hemp and touting it like the magic beans that will save the economy or the planet," says Tom Murphy, national outreach coordinator for Vote Hemp. "Industrial hemp is an answer but not the answer. It has a great deal of potential – but it doesn't have any potential if you can't grow it."
Conrad, who believes in American ingenuity to find creative solutions using hemp, says, "Only the scourge of prohibitionism can see to it that our economy and environment rot into sewage. It is up to the good, hard-working and honest people to end cannabis prohibition and start the process of rebuilding the planet and our global and regional economies."
Dara Colwell is a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California.
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Environmentalists to battle Navy proposal on Whidbey
Environmentalists to battle Navy proposal
By Justin Burnett
Examiner Staff Writer
Whidbey Island environmental groups opposed to the Navy's plan to expand its Northwest training operations say they will take their objections to the highest levels of government.
Representatives from Orca Network and the Whidbey Environmental Action Network have agreed to team up and send their comments not only to Gov. Christine Gregoire and Washington's Congressional delegation, but also to President Barack Obama.
"I think we need to kick it right to the top," said Howard Garrett, president of Orca Network's board of directors.
WEAN cofounder Marianne Edain said attracting presidential or congressional attention may be a long shot, but could end up being worth it. She pointed out that the Navy answers to both branches of government.
"The president and Congress have ultimate power over the military," she said.
The Navy is planning to expand operations in its Northwest Training Range Complex, an area encompassing about 122,400 nautical miles of air, surface and subsurface space stretching from Washington to northern California. The complex has been in use since World War II.
The proposal, which ranges from increasing missile and sonar testing to dumping depleted uranium, has attracted the attention of more than just local environmentalist groups.
Following federal Environmental Policy Act requirements, the Navy prepared an environmental impact statement to examine how the expansion might affect wildlife and the environment. The Navy held six public hearings on the matter and accepted public comment from late December to mid-February.
But as concern over the plan began to grow, and more people learned about it, an increasing number of people complained that the public comment period was too short for a document of more than 1,000 pages. Even large, well-informed environmental groups such as People for Puget Sound said they felt caught off guard by the Navy's proposal.
Although the Navy extended the comment period to mid-February, complaints in Oregon spurred six of the state's seven-member Congressional delegation to send a letter to Navy Secretary Donald Winter requesting another extension of the comment period.
Navy Environmental Public Affairs Officer Sheila Murray the Navy has extended the comment deadline three times – a first for the Navy.
"This is unprecedented," she said. "The Navy has never done this before."
Murray said the Navy's willingness to extend the deadline has been based primarily on the public interest generated by the plan. The new deadline is set for April 13. So far, more than 1,000 comments have been submitted.
That includes a 59-page document submitted by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental watchdog group. The NRDC document was endorsed by 20 other national and local groups that are against the Navy's plan.
According to Heather Trim of People for Puget Sound, the environmental impact statement does not adequately address potential impacts to Puget Sound.
"This is an area that's already stressed," Trim said.
The Navy's increased activities could have serious implications on endangered species in the region, such as salmon and orca whales. That makes the Navy's proposal more than just a local issue, she said.
"It really has national implications." Trim said.
Garrett agreed, noting that the proposed training activities could cause significant harm to orca populations. He said that he appreciates the Navy's need to train and be prepared, but he does not believe it should come at the price of the environment.
"It's a clear case of social values that are in conflict," he said.
Garrett said his hope is that the Obama administration shares his outlook, and will place a higher priority on the environment and resolving international conflict through diplomacy than on the military.
While the impact statement will be reviewed by the US Environmental Protection Agency, Murray said the assistant secretary of the Navy makes the final decision as to whether to proceed with the training expansion proposal. The decision is expected sometime this fall.
Comments can be mailed to Naval Facilities Engineering Command Northwest, Attn: Kimberly Kler, 1101 Tautog Circle, Silverdale, WA 98315-1101. Submit comments online at www.nwtrangecomplexeis.com. The deadline is April 13.
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take on Zeitgeist: The Addendum (IMPORTANT)
1) Is the Federal Reserve Engaged in Acts of Economic Warfare Against America?
"If the actions pursued by the Federal Reserve were being masterminded by Al-Qaeda, they would be denounced as acts of war. In World War II, such actions were deliberate acts of war. Targeting the economy for destruction by flooding the money supply with counterfeit currency is, by any measure, a threat to any nation."
2) Meet the World's New Reserve Currency: The Chinese Yuan
"Surely, the present financial malaise which has its roots in Wall Street and at the Federal Reserve, has demonstrated that the dollar must be replaced as the world's "reserve currency" and that America must be deposed as the de facto steward of the global economic system. Leadership implies responsibility and the US must be held to account for its failings. It's time for a change."
3) Zeitgeist: The Addendum
"Zeitgeist: Addendum, attempts to locate the root causes of this pervasive social corruption, while offering a solution. This solution is not based on politics, morality, laws, or any other "establishment" notions of human affairs, but rather on a modern, non-superstitious based understanding of what we are and how we align with nature, to which we are a part."
If people's beliefs are invested in lies and delusions, how will they know the truth when they hear it? And how do you inform people when they refuse to believe the truth?
IT's TIME FOR an ECONOMIC COLLAPSE!
Over the weekend I had the opportunity to watch '"Zeitgeist: The Addendum"
- the follow-up to the "Zeitgeist" video. Though the 2-hour video is
freely available on their web site, I purchased the DVD for $7.00 (which
includes postage) and after watching it – purchased an additional 10
copies for friends and family. Even if you haven't yet seen the initial
"Zeitgeist" video – be sure to check out the sequel for a superb
behind-the-curtain look at how and why the current monetary system is in
reality a crime against humanity. And though I still believe that
technology is the product of a cosmic virus infecting our program – after
watching "The Addendum" – I can now see a theoretical cure for the
contamination. But the bottom line is still the same: All the old corrupt
institutions need to totally collapse before any new spiritual programming
can begin. And the only way to insure this result is for everyone to stop supporting these activities by refusing to pay taxes.
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Fact... Al religious blivers r stereotype, to them its either God or Satan, good or evil, right or wrng, blah or bleh... Wel except for the bhudha religion, they dnt blive in evil
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That point I take, but so is the general society - morals are divided into good or bad @emm0emm so i dont see i as something exclusive...and im not religious. i just like to think that no choice is absolute or correct, its all relative. take being in love for example. nobody is exclusively in love with one person, no way, people love other people but choose to stay with one and exclusively call them boyfriend/girlfriend. i believe you have the rights nd wrongs which guide your decisions? if not, the 'religion' called law will do it for you...


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On CNN, Bernie talks about President Obama's recent debate performance
"The truth of the matter is, Mitt Romney right now is the head of a right-wing extremist party called the Republican Party. And if the president cannot differentiate himself clearly from right-wing extremism, we have a lot of problems as a nation and he has a lot of problems as a candidate running for re-election."
Sen. Sanders: Voters must defeat right-wing extremism (Portsmouth Herald)
September 23, 2012
By Suzanne Laurent PORTSMOUTH — The lower level of South Church was packed with an enthusiastic crowd as U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., rallied for the re-election of President Obama. Sanders said he preferred the town meeting style of campaigning to the "negative ads and sound bites being thrown at people." Before he spoke, two […]
Romney digs deeper over hidden video comments (MSNBC)
September 18, 2012
On MSNBC's Ed Show, Bernie responds to comments Mitt Romney made at a private fundraiser in a video recently leaked to the press.
Romney's wrong economic answers (Editorial by Sen. Sanders)
September 5, 2012
By Senator Bernie Sanders Given Mitt Romney's business record as an outsourcer and tax avoider, and his desire to continue the failed economic policies of George W. Bush, President Obama should be 20 points ahead in the polls right now, not struggling to stay even. At a time when the wealthiest people are doing phenomenally well, Romney's plan to […]
Obama calls Romney speech 'cow pie of distortion' (MSNBC)
May 25, 2012
Bernie & MSNBC's Ed Schultz talk about Mitt Romney's economic "plan."
"What Romney's economics is about is 'trickle-down' economic theory. That's what George W. Bush practiced for 8 years & we lost during that time 600,000 jobs, median income went down, the rich got richer, & poverty increased."
The Early Word: Effect (New York Times The Caucus Blog)
May 10, 2012
By Ashley Southall It was the pressure of rapidly building speculation that led President Obama to announce publicly on Wednesday that he supports same-sex marriage, but the political impact is a wild card, since Mr. Obama's re-election prospects in November will still hinge on the economy's performance, Jackie Calmes and Peter Baker write. Mr. Obama's […]
Wall Street asks President Obama for 'healing speech' (MSNBC)
May 2, 2012
Bernie talks about Wall Street with MSNBC's Ed Schultz.
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New jobs added but not enough to satisfy GOP (MSNBC)
April 6, 2012
Bernie joins Ed Schultz on MSNBC to talk about Republican obstructionism on the economy.
"If you're asking me, are the Republicans prepared to do whatever they can to torpedo the economy in order to defeat Obama, I think the answer is pretty clear. They have shown that time and time again."
Sam Hemingway: 'Pool reporter' reflects on the cocoon that's always around the president (Burlington Free Press)
April 1, 2012
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The final episode of Lindsay Lohan's eponymous and fraught-with-drama reality show for OWN offered a HUGE reveal. The struggling actress confessed that she had a recent miscarriage.
The final episode of Lindsay Lohan's eponymous and fraught-with-drama reality show for OWN offered a HUGE reveal. The struggling actress confessed that she had a recent miscarriage.
Lindsay Lohan's alleged handwritten list of alleged lovers leaked earlier this year, with haters wondering if it was legit. Well, Li Lo herself has confirmed that it is, in typical raspy-voiced yet coy fashion.
Last night (Feb. 17), a massive roster of A-list stars kicked off Jimmy Fallon's debut as the new host of 'The Tonight Show.' However, it looks like they didn't believe the comedian could land the gig.
Another day, another drama for Lindsay Lohan. The latest? She's accused of being the mastermind behind a beatdown of her nemesis Paris Hilton's little brother, Barron. Yikes!
HAS LINDSAY LOHAN FALLEN OFF THE WAGON?: Oh no, has LINDSAY LOHAN fallen off the wagon a mere three months after leaving rehab?
First little sister Ali and the Orange Oprah tried riding Lindsay Lohan's coattails to fame. Now Lohan's estranged half-sister, Ashley Horn, is using her name to get her own name out there. And she's also using a scalpel.
Today (Aug. 29) on Twitter, celebrities spent the entire time talking about, well, each other. Whether they were gushing about a fellow star's awesomeness or making jokes with or about them, Twitter was full of celebrity interactions -- and sadly not enough Throwback Thursday pictures.
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Lindsay Lohan's public contrition tour began Sunday night when her much ballyhooed interview with Oprah aired on the media mogul's cable network. And during the sit-down, taped just four days after LiLo's most recent stint in rehab, the actress finally admitted to being an addict.
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Lindsay Lohan's little sister Ali Lohan, 19, looked really different when she was snapped moving into LiLo's new NYC pad yesterday (Aug. 9).
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Okay so I'm basically going to go from work to family dinner and am going to have no time and since its technically thanksgiving on the east coast I'm going to say this now
I am truly thankful for all of you angels in my life.
You all that sent me messages when I was in a funk
All of you that I met at the grove and then after
All of you that stuck with me when other people decided to give up on me
Thank you for not giving up on me and for making me feel like I'm important like I matter
Because before you guys I felt like I didn't matter and you all have shown me that I do and that I'm loved, even though I deny it most of the time because I'm stupid.
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Designed by USC architect professor Doris Kim Sung, the "Bloom" installation is made with 14,000 pieces of thermobimetal — two thin sheets of metals, each with different expansion rates, laminated together. When the temperature rises, the metal sheets curl up. When it gets cooler, the sheets flatten out.
A sun-tracking instrument indexing time and temperature, with a shape alluding to a woman's Victorian-era under garment, "Bloom" stitches together material experimentation, structural innovation, and computational form and pattern-making into an environmentally responsive form. Made primarily out of a smart thermobimetal, a sheet metal that curls when heated, the form's responsive surface shades and ventilates specific areas of the shell as the sun heats up its surface.
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The Republic is the third major expansion for Crusader Kings II, released on January 15, 2013, alongside with patch 1.09.
It makes seven existing merchant republics playable: Venice, Amalfi, Genoa, Pisa, Gotland, Ancona, and the Hansa, as well as custom-created republics from non-ironman mode saves. The player plays a Patrician - the head of a merchant family.
The DLC allows the player to play as a Patrician in a merchant republic, but all the other changes were rolled into the free patch.
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- New patrician elective succession law: Patrician families compete for the coveted position of Doge and the leadership of the Republic. It is possible to compensate for lack of age and Prestige by investing money in a campaign fund.
- Losing the election is not game over, thanks to the family palace holding.
- Events related to feuds with other Patrician families and plots to seize Trade Posts from rivals
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Isabella is finally reunited with Gerard, but how he reacts is hardly what she was looking for. Heartbroken, Bella is taken into care by-who else?-Gerard's little brother.
"Still got that damn trucker's mouth, MI-CHAEL!" I fired back jokingly, calling him by his full name, exaggerating the second syllable, which he hated.
"Who the hell is THAT?!" One of the boys behind Mikey said. I recognized from a couple of their videos that it was Frank, the one guy you'd probably peg as the most emo-looking in the band. Despite that, he was pretty cute anyways.
"This is Isabella, or Izz, as I call her, or Bella, as Ger calls her. You can call her either, I guess. Izz, this is Frank." Mikey told him, then me.
"I'd rather call her HOTTIE," Frank commented. "Dude, she's your friend? Why the fuck didn't you tap that shit?!" I laughed out loud.
"I'm standing right here, you know," I said.
"Dude, it ain't like that, she's like...my sister!" Mikey said to Frank, but I could see he was blushing.
"You got one smokin' sister, man," Frank replied. "If you ain't goin' for that, I will."
I giggled, and stepped towards Frank. I put my arm over his shoulder, and pulled him tight against me. "I'm all yours, babe," I giggled again.
"Holy shit, Mikey, I fucking love this chick!"
"Okay, so now that I'm 'fucking loved'," I said, and turned to the other two guys. "You must be Ray," I pointed to the guy with the wild curls sprouting from his head in every direction. "And you must be Bob," I pointed at the darkish-blonde guy, wearing slippers and pajama pants.
"Right you are," Ray replied with a smile. He was a plain looking guy, except of course for the hair, but he seemed like an extremely likeable person. Same for Bob, who gave me a big smile and a polite "Nice to meet you."
"It's awesome to finally meet you all," I said.
I was startled by Gerard's sudden voice in the room. "Well, now that we've gotten through all that shit, can we go back to the costume check?" I could feel his eyes boring a hole into my backside, knowing he meant that he didn't want to talk anymore.
"Yo, you don't have to be an ass, Ger," Mikey shot at him.
"Well, for some of us this ain't a damn picnic, some of us aren't excited to see the Jersey slut, back from the past," he said. My jaw dropped. I could feel the tears welling up on my eyes, and I shot him a hateful look.
"Dude, shut the fuck up! She isn't a fucking slut!" Mikey yelled.
"Oh, stay out of this shit. The skank knows what I mean." He gestured towards me. Another name. The tears were falling now, slipping down my face. It was just like high school, with people saying things to me and making me feel like the world hated me.
"YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE! FUCK YOU, YOU BASTARD!" I screamed. I pushed away from Frank. I ran away, far from Gerard and his terrible comments.


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I wrote a post not long ago on what to say when a friend miscarries, based on input from CafeMoms. And I read a Motherlode post this week on grieving a miscarriage that echoed some of the same sentiments moms expressed -- like, why can't people stop saying "you can try again"?
The post on grieving after a miscarriage actually came out of another, earlier, Motherlode post on the guilt of secondary infertility and what lengths women will sometimes go to (surprising even themselves) to conceive a baby.
The blogger mentioned in the secondary infertility post -- Kelcey Kintner of The Mama Bird Diaries -- has two children and wants a third. She suffered miscarriages in the process of trying, and says of the experience:
"Two miscarriages nearly crushed me. There was so much possibility in those two perfect lines on the pregnancy stick and then so suddenly and so cruelly, it was all taken away. My girls never even knew I was pregnant. But I did. And my husband did. And both times the loss felt devastating."
Grieving the loss of a baby is such a personal and difficult thing. Cafe Cynthia wrote about moms naming a miscarried baby -- for some, this is a way to grieve, honor the loss, and move on. Then of course comes the question of if and when to try again.
To share and connect with other CafeMoms who have been through the experience, consider joining the groups:
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If you've experienced miscarriage, how did you grieve the loss, and what helped you move on?
I didn't miscarry but lost my son when he was 1 day old, I carried him full term...
I spent my time with my daughter who then was 18 months old... I talked about it a lot, cried when I felt like it but tried to do the normal daily things.
i was always told and this kinda makes sense to bury the things that you had bought for that child maybe that will help the greiving process.
I had a miscarriage between my oldest son & daughter. Every year for almost 12 years, on the date of the miscarraige & on her due date, I would just cry. I never got to hold her & tell her how much I loved her. When my dad passed away in 2005, I finally had peace. It sounds weird, but when he died I knew that he would be with her to take care of her now & I could stop worrying. Now on the anniversary of my miscarriage & my dad's death, I just muse about what kind of michief they are getting into up there :)
We lost our first baby at 12 weeks. It was a missed miscarriage, no symptoms or anything. At our 12 week appt. we didnt find the heartbeat. It was devastating. Its been almost a year since we lost our daughter, and I am 9 weeks pregnant. We are getting close the the time of when we lost our first one, and are praying this was stays with us. Its been a incredibly painful year, but God has done some amazing things in our lifes, and this baby will be our little miracle :)
I just had a miscarriage last weekend (early Saturday morning to be exact) at 12 weeks. I guess I haven't really thought much on it. I've been trying to rest but otherwise life has gone on as normal around here.
I suppose the difference is that I wasn't trying to get pregnant and was kind of devestated to find out I was having another baby. Not to say I wasn't upset to miscarry. I had just gotten used to the idea of another baby (would have been our 5th) and then started spotting.
Maybe I need more time or to actually let myself think about the loss. Right now I just don't dwell on it. Obviously it wasn't meant to be and there was nothing I could do to stop it. I guess I'm still in shock. I never thought I would be one of the miscarriage statistics after having 4 uneventful pregnancies.
the ONLY thing that helped me was time. my ex husband told me [verbatum] "get the fck over it" we ended up divorcing over the matter mostly because he told me it was an oops the first time and it would never happen again, meaning he never wanted kids with me. just when i started to get over it and move on with my life without a child, without a marriage i ended up pregnant with my son. but so many people said so many things that were so mean and hurtful and yea they may not have meant it that way but i would have just rather them keep their mouths shut and have the support of my husband.
i jst miscarried like a week ago and I feel horrible. I have dreams where I am still pregnant and its rough because I feel like I have failed as a woman. I try to think positive since I have 2 little ones already but its hard to move past it right now.
I lost my first born in 1993. I heard the You can try again line many times. Wow, what do you say when that person tries and tries and tries and has 7 miscarriages? Well that was me. I still don't know how I got through it all. I just knew I was supposed to be a mom. The last miscarriage almost killed me and DH and I decided we were going to go another way with our life. When I went to the DR to figure out my birth contol options I was pregnant again. 9 months later I had my healthy wonderful and beautiful little girl. 2 years after that we had another.
I don't know how I got through it. Passion for wanting to be a mom maybe? Burrying a baby and having 7 miscarriages in 10 years....maybe I was just too numb? Whatever it was, I am glad I did it. The two little ones that I have now....I would do anything for them.
It took a long time to get over my mc in 2007. I was 3.5 months along and started spotting. When I called the Dr. they didn't seem worried let alone cared. They told me over the phone that I was "probably having a miscarriage." That was it. They told me to make an appt in three weeks!! A friend took me to the ER anyways. It was confirmed I was mc'ing. Two days later I went through horrible contractions and lost a lot of blood at home. This went on for hours. My husband was not supportive at all. He sat in the room and watched TV. I finally told him to leave. I laid in bed screaming through the pain. That night it went away and I thought it was over....but it wasn't. As I was in bed the next afternoon it all started again...this time I "passed" something I NEVER want to see again....my baby. Seeing him/her was the harder than the physical part of it all. After finding a NEW DR that cared what I was going through it got easier. I was really hurt that my husband was not emotionally supportive. I dont' even know that I got a hug out of the whole thing. In fact, I remember the night I was at the ER, he was out at Applebees with his Dad having dinner after golf. He called to see how it was going and then asked me to meet him at Applebees when I left the ER. I felt so empty and alone. Nov 7th of 2007....I got that beautiful two lines again!! My daughter is now 9.5mo old and is amazing!
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The riots in Ferguson, Missouri, have spawned a heated and, one hopes, productive debate about the "militarization" of the police. While one can argue about the tactics and weaponry used by police, however, there's little debate about the necessity of cops being armed. The real problem is the thousands of agents in federal regulatory bodies who likely have no business being armed at all.
According to the Wall Street Journal, in 1973 there were 507 federal criminal investigators, excluding those in federal departments with explicit law enforcement duties such as Treasury, Justice, and Defense. By 2011, the ranks of armed federal agents in civilian regulatory agencies had swollen to 3,812. In 1973, the forerunner to the Department of Health and Human Services had exactly one armed investigator. Today, HHS has 686 criminal investigators—more than any other agency. Even the Peace Corps now has four criminal investigators in-house.
Of these thousands of investigators, a great many are armed. The Department of Education, Railroad Retirement Board, and dozens of other federal agencies have their own SWAT teams. In May, the Department of Agriculture put in a request to procure .40 caliber submachine guns. The hazard here should be obvious—as Homer observed millennia ago, "iron by itself can draw a man to use it." And sure enough, in recent years we've seen a spate of uses of force by regulatory agencies.
Last October, the EPA examined the paperwork of a family-owned mining operation in Chicken, Alaska—population seven—by showing up in flak jackets and M-16s, provoking outrage among members of Congress. Thanks to a recent regulatory change, the FDA is no longer required to get a court order before seizing food it deems unsafe. The result has been multiple armed raids on sellers of raw milk, including a health food store in California and an Amish farmer in Pennsylvania—twice. In 2011, a SWAT team from the Department of Education kicked down a man's door at 6 a.m., handcuffed him, locked his three kids in a police car for hours, and ransacked his house because his estranged wife was suspected of student loan fraud. A federal SWAT team raided the studio of an Atlanta deejay in 2007 in an attempt to enforce copyright laws, though the suspect was apparently uninvolved in any commercial piracy. And so on.
Representative Chris Stewart, a Republican from Utah, has proposed a remedy to the problem of zealous and violent federal enforcement entitled the Regulatory Agency Demilitarization Act. The bill would freeze weapons purchases by civilian agencies, who would then have 90 days to justify their need for "specialized units that receive special tactical or military-style training," along with detailing the weapons they possess, the cost of maintaining such units, and the circumstances under which they have been deployed. Agencies would have to issue such reports annually. The bill would also negate a 2002 law that empowered 60 inspector general offices to arrest suspects.
Stewart's bill has 28 cosponsors, and industry groups such as the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance—perhaps wary of being on the business end of a .40 caliber submachine gun—are supportive. "If agency officials face a situation in which armed backup is truly called for, they can go through the proper procedures to have support from the Department of Justice," they noted in a July 29 press release.
Stewart's bill is a sensible way to begin to limit what seems to be too much regulatory enforcement at gunpoint. Surely the growing ranks of armed federal agents are one of the least defensible aspects of our runaway administrative state. When the Founders wrote the Second Amendment, they considered all Americans as potential members of the militia largely as a response to the fact that the crown had empowered special militias who often served their own aims rather than the public interest. It should not be surprising that when federal agencies have largely unchecked power to impose their will with their own little militias, it leads to abuse. It's an abuse that shouldn't be hard for Congress to stop.
President Obama blasted gun violence in a Tumblr event today at the White House. He said that it's "off the charts" here in America.
"This is becoming the norm," he said. "We should be ashamed."
Here's the pool report:
Pres Obama, in response to a question that Karp said was submitted a few days ago from a tumblr user about mass shootings, declared that as president "my biggest frustration so far is that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps" to curb gun violence.
He cited the failed effort to toughen background checks.
Pres Obama, in response to a question that Karp said was submitted a few days ago from a tumblr user about mass shootings, declared that as president "my biggest frustration so far is that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps" to curb gun violence.
He cited the failed effort to toughen background checks.
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Bill Kristol, with Donna Brazile, S.E. Cupp, and Jeff Zeleny, yesterday on ABC's This Week:
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Former New York City mayor is pledging to spend $50 million this year to push gun control, the New York Times reports. For this and other deeds (such as taking on obesity and smoking), Bloomberg believes he's going to heaven.
On Wednesday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder are scheduled to make a joint appearance at Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore, MD. The purpose of the visit is to hold a roundtable with students on "Solutions to Enhance School Climate/Improve Discipline Policies and Practices" and to make an announcement, accompanied by "civil rights advocates and local community members."
Chuck Schumer will introduce legislation to make it illegal to make guns with 3-D printers, according to the Huffington Post. He's expected to introduce the bill in the Senate next week.
The FBI is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the return of 2 rifles that were, as O'Ryan Johnson of the Boston Herald reports, "stolen from an FBI SWAT emergency response vehicle."
The National Football League recently "issued a rule to deny entry to any off-duty police officer who brings a concealed firearm to one of its stadiums …" And, as Eric Katz of Government Executive reports, it is being challenged by the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association which represents "more than 26,000 federal workers from more than 65 agencies."
Steve Hayes, with Brit Hume, Mara Liasson, and Charles Krauthammer, last night on Fox News:
In its story on yesterday's ballot measure on repeal of a controversial law in Colorado, the Los Angles Times reports:
Organizing for Action, the group that was President Obama's reelection team, sent out a fundraising pitch to supporters that features the 1999 Columbine High School shooting.
"My son, Daniel, was a smart, quiet kid. He'd just become a straight-A student, and he was overcoming his shyness as a new member of the debate team," the pitch, signed by Tom Mauser of Littleton, Colorado, reads.
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress declared independence. George Washington declared that day that "The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves....The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army." A useful reminder for us, in a week when we rightly celebrate a Declaration, a document embodying a great idea, that speech needs to be backed up by arms, and that all still depends on the "courage and conduct" of our armed forces.
Yesterday, millions of Americans received an important email (subject line: "This is important") from no less a personage than the vice president of the United States. Here it is:
Reports surfaced earlier this week that the webpage of Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) appears to have been purchased and hosted by City of New York.
With an email today from the daughter of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the group formerly known as the Obama reelection campaign, Organizing for Action, is reigniting the fight over guns in America.
"My mom, Dawn Hochsprung, was the principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut," the email from Erica Lafferty begins.
"Six months ago today, she was shot and killed in her school, along with five of her coworkers and 20 of her students."
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This location is in the Paradise neighborhood in Paradise. Nearby parks include Paradise Valley County Park, Paradise Park and Paradise Pool.
Nearby schools include Doris French Elementary School, Christian Montessori Academy and Explore Knowledge Academy.
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Nearby coffee shops include Dunkin' Donuts, Starbucks and Cuba Café. There are 12 restaurants within a 15 minute walk including Mr.Chop Chop Restaurant, THAI ROOM RESTAURANT and KFC.
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The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science is pleased to announce an exhibition featuring cyanotype prints of flora and fauna specimens from the museum collection by Marietta Patricia Leis. The exhibit opens Saturday, April 26th and runs through Sunday, August 31st.
Visitors not only get to see Leis's beautiful prints, but the work also showcases many specimens from the museum collection that are not on permanent exhibition and, thus, not always available to be seen by the public. Drawing on her extensive travel experience, the exhibition will also include botanical images from the Portuguese Island of Flores. Fish, coral, a bald eagle, and a whooping crane are among the fascinating specimens that were carefully selected and reproduced through the amazing cyanotype process.


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Some area Universities are reacting to the Chamber of Commerce's decision to lead an alcohol sales election petition. When the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce announced in August it would lead an alcohol sales petition drive, several members of the religious community, including the Lubbock Area Baptist Association, were upset with the Chamber's decision.
That decision is why Lubbock Christian University President Ken Jones resigned his position on the Chamber Board. However, LCU says they still have a good relationship with the Chamber of Commerce. "We feel like the Chamber does some good things in Lubbock. We continue to be a part of it, although we don't agree with this particular issue," said Warren McNeil, the Assistant Vice President of University Relations.
Wayland Baptist University does not have that relationship with the Chamber anymore. Recently, the University severed ties with the Chamber of Commerce because Wayland Baptist Leaders say they disagree with decisions the Chamber made regarding alcohol. "It was becoming increasingly difficult to separate the Chamber's advocacy for the referendum, and read it as anything but support for the expansion of alcohol sales in Lubbock," said Wayland Baptist University President, Paul Armes.
The Chamber would not comment Thursday on the issue, but when NewsChannel 11 talked to Chamber leaders about tensions with the religious community back in August they said they don't support alcohol sales, just Lubbock citizens' right to vote on the issue. "There's a large sector of our community that will make this a religious debate, but again we will not counter that debate because ours is not a religious debate. Ours is a constitutional privilege that is gained by folks that want to vote on particular issues, and we want them to have that vote," said Chamber of Commerce President, Eddie McBride.
Wayland Baptist University leaders said the University may rejoin the Chamber after the alcohol sales election is over.
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Hi, saw you on the topic 'Koontz's best' commenting on the 'Odd Thomas' audio books I think! Anyway, I like to check what books Dean Koontz fans are reading at the moment and how many they own (that also goes for Stephen King fans too), I hope you don't mind......Anyway, I noticed that you're reading Intensity - This was the first Koontz book that I read, back when I was 17 (now 30), and it got me back into reading quite regularly again, ever since Intensity I have been quite a big Koontz fan. Enjoy the book, it's brilliant and is definately on my list to be re-read (at some point).
Many thanks, hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Domlancaster (U.K.)
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Hi there! We were blessed last week that the worst of the storms passed either to the north or the south of our community. We had a couple of tornadoes in our county, but they were several miles away from where I live. We did get ping pong ball sized hail, and lots of my friends, neighbors, and co-workers are dealing with either property damage (roofs and siding), car damage (dents and broken windows), or both. Our cars were under a car port so we didn't have that worry. However, our outside lights were busted and will have to be replaced. Our closest public library branch is in an area that was hit particularly hard, and the building sustained significant damage from the storm. It's closed indefinitely. I've driven past it a couple of times and noticed plastic covering most of the roof. Inside it looks like many of the shelves are covered with plastic and they're running industrial-sized fans.
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yes i have read alot of dean koontz. i enjoyed them but i never liked the endings. lol i have forgotten the names.
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hello tabitha6. yes i like james patterson. i like alex cross, but my favorite is the womans muder club. right now i am reading tick tock, it is pretty good. i am starting to like michael bennett. have a good day. hope to hear from you soon. kathrynward
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Another Tennessean! What part of the state are you in? I'm in East TN, near Knoxville.
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Dear Leader,
Yes, I thought I'd write an open letter to you all, Alex, Iain, Tavish and Annabel. Not that I suppose you'll have time to read it but hey ho – I find it cathartic.
I do hope you get the chance this evening to turn off the phone, kick off your shoes and settle back with a wee malt or similar and watch your collective performance on the BBC's Politics Show's live leaders debate. I'll warn you now to have the bottle to hand, cos it ain't pretty.
Because – heaven help us – we have a few more of these artifices to get through before polling day, I thought it might be helpful to pass on a few tips that might just improve the tone and temper of proceedings:
- when a question is asked, it is the usual form to answer it. Now I know as politicians you've spent years perfecting the art of not answering a question but please. Can't we move on a little and try a different tack, one that doesn't make the viewer grind his or her teeth in exasperation?
- when the lady interviewer asks you a supplementary or even the same question a second time in the hope of eliciting an answer, it is rude to talk over her. Worst of all, having a wee pop at her really doesn't play well with the viewing lieges. They just feel sorry for her and think of you as a brute. You most of all, Annabel.
- getting into a squabble about who is going to pay themselves the least is pretty unedifying. No one thinks MSPs and Ministers are going to starve because they've frozen or cut their salaries and all you do is remind the rest of us that you earn a packet. Gives us another reason not to like any of you, see?
- if all four of you talk at once no one can hear anything. I would have thought this was obvious.
- let's reprise this little exchange: "how tough is it going to be for families?" – Salmond: "it's going to be tough"; Gray "it is tough" but "how tough?" "people know how tough"; Scott "people know how difficult"; Goldie "we know there are challenges". Now, can any of you suggest how we could have made that a little more meaningful for the viewer?
- Annabel and Tavish: sitting on the outside is never easy but god knows, you both should be used to being on the fringes by now – don't shout across the room at each other, either endearingly or abusively; it doesn't make for nice telly
- Alex and Iain: acknowledging each other's presence wouldn't make either of you come across as weak – in fact, you'd come across as expansive and statesmanlike, heck folk might even like you a bit more
- when asked to say something nice about each other, please do; I've met all of you at various times and you all have redeeming qualities – again, the poor viewer/voter out there would warm to you for being human
Finally, please don't listen to anything your most ardent activists and apparatchiks say about today's little shenanigans. All of them, to a man and woman, will say how well you did, how you scored the most points, how you wiped the floor with the opposition. But you have their votes and adoration. Their view counts nane.
It's voters what count. And given that only 50% of the population voted last time round, you might want to ponder that taking your Holyrood bar-room brawl tactics into their living rooms today will have encouraged a few more to sit on their hands and polling cards this year. If ever, in the sma' dark hours, you get to wondering about the reasons for the disengagement and disillusionment of voters in Scottish politics today, you might want to take a long hard look in the mirror and then hit the replay button.
The answer is staring you in the face.
Yours sincerely,
the Burd
P.S. If you think I'm being a little harsh on you all, pop over to Lallands Peat Worrier to read his opinion of the debate… though I'd refill your glass first.
And the winner is… the verdict on the first Scottish leaders' debate
Twitter was on fire, the live online thingy at STV nearly melted, and at various points, my brain froze trying to keep up with it all, while actually listening to what was being said.
Yes, folks, welcome to the Scottish election leaders' debates, the first of which was on STV tonight. And for each debate – yes I am that much of an anorak – the burd will be making special awards in a range of categories. Feel free to add your views, especially if you disagree, and even your own awards…
Overall winner - that would be Alex Salmond. But then most of us expected that. It was a good performance, though he only reached top gear once, on the session on tuition fees and why higher education should be free. He appealed on the values of aspiration, fairness and society and sounded like a leader. His answer to the question on why he would make the best First Minister was spot on, focusing not on himself but on the SNP's team, record and vision. However, he lost us on the detail of apprenticeships and jobs, and tried to cover too much ground with his explanation of the al-Megrahi decision. And while he kept his tendency to smugness and smart Alexness under wraps, his body language towards Iain Gray won't have gone down well with some viewers.
Best wardrobe - Bernard Ponsonby, hands down winner. The STV political editor showed them all how to do it. Salmond played it safe and it worked. Annabel needs to ditch the beads, Tavish Scott the lurid pink tie, and Iain Gray needs a whole new wardrobe, and make up artist for good measure.
Worst audience contribution - gosh, so many to choose from. There were some good ones: the woman on fuel poverty raised a serious issue, offered some strong facts but forgot to ask a question. And the sweetest member had to be the oul yin with the buttonhole there to woo Annabel. Bless. The audience was dire, to be honest. Far too many plants and partisans, far too many folk trying to be a star, no one offering a killer question. A toss up for worst between the wee lassie who nearly wept making her Oscar-like adulatory exhortation of Salmond for First Minister and the racist who questioned the Tories wanting to make young people pay for university tuition while we give money away in foreign aid. He wins it by a shade and I was disappointed that no one booed him or told him to leave.
Best pantomime moment - they all belong to Annabel, and frankly the whole charade of the flirty matron, alternatively showing an ankle trying to secure a position as a junior coalition partner and scolding those naughty boys, is beyond tiresome. It crowds out the substance – some of it actually quite sensible and principled (which does not mean I agree with it!) – of her answers. Get a new routine, Miss Goldie, please.
Worst omission - no questions, no comment, no discussion about the cuts and our financial situation. Remarkable really. In the next few weeks, it all becomes frighteningly real – job losses, income squeeze, benefit changes, tax hikes, local services closing their doors. And no one so much as furrowed their brows on it. Like I said, remarkable. Surely this issue will feature in, nay dominate the debates to come?
Best exchange - the man who asked about the release of al-Megrahi was brave enough to challenge Salmond, politely, on the first part of his response. Good for him. This whole segment was rounded and rich and reflected well on the leaders. They all argued their positions thoughtfully and passionately. No clear winner but it showed our politicians at their best, for once.
Biggest fail - call me biased, and I am, but I am utterly bemused that a debate largely dominated by the themes of education and youth unemployment only managed a handful mentions of "children". In fact, the ability of the party leaders to talk about issues while scarcely mentioning people throughout the debate was pretty astonishing. People vote, institutions and issues don't, and while children obviously don't have a vote, their parents and grandparents do. Most folk with children in their lives would not hesitate to state that they, and making sure they are provided for and have a secure and promising future, are their priority. So why do they not feature more highly in our parties' priorities?
A few other observations. Whoever coined the campaign phrase, Scotland deserves better, was damned right. Whoever suggested to Iain Gray that he take the fight to Salmond and try to disconcert him in the opening exchanges with a pugnacious approach and aggressive interventions should be sacked. Whoever advised Tavish Scott never to crack a smile nor attempt a joke and to aim for earnest and dull was wrong. Whoever picks the audiences for these things needs to find some real people without party affiliations. The first leader to remember that there is an audience on their sofas and respond not to the host nor the studio audience, but straight down the camera to all those thousands of voters, wins.
However awful this one was, I'll definitely be tuning in next time. See you there?
Respect? My arse!
Whether we like it or not, never mind want it, we're getting it. So much for the sovereignty of the people. Or even the settled will of the Scottish people.
Apologies for the profanity in the title but the news that we are to get five year Scottish Parliamentary terms released my latent Jim Royle. Apparently, the ConDem Government are prepared to gift us five years of the next Scottish Government and group of MSPs because of their "respect" for we Scots and our devolved institution.
And all because they want to move to a fixed term parliament for Westminster – not before time mind you – and doing so would make the UK General Election in 2015 clash with the end of the four year cycle for Holyrood. So the solution? Move over darling, this bed ain't big for both of us.
No matter that the Scottish Parliament four year term is enshrined in the Scotland Act, as is the day on which Scottish elections must be held. No matter too that only a few years ago, the idea of tinkering with this Act was anathema to our politicians. And even had they wanted to, there would be no available Westminster parliamentary time. Amazing what a difference political self interest makes.
The burd can understand why the Scottish parties are going along with the suggestion; there are, after all, bigger fights to pick with Westminster these days. But what is interesting is that no one is suggesting that the Scottish people be asked for their view on it all. I'm not talking about another pesky referendum but even just a wee bit consultation. It's not a perfect mechanism by any stretch of the imagination, but community councils could have been asked for their view through an online survey? Or would that come uncomfortably close to giving the people a say in how long we get stuck with our politicians for?
Apparently Clegg and Cameron making this decision for us is about showing "respect" to Scotland. Clegg was at his most sonorously insincere when speaking about it on the radio the other day and Ms Goldie – glad she has found her voice on something - trumpeted how this was the UK government treating "Holyrood with respect". Indeed, it may be.
But it shows darn little for the Scottish people, whose Parliament this is, after all.
The burd gets the impression oor politicians forget this weeny fact – here's Annabel again: "As a group, we will take decisions shortly over when the date of that election should be". How nice, our political parties in a wee huddle sorting it out amongst themselves. We, the voters, are very much an afterthought and such pronouncements simply confirm what the burd increasingly believes, that elections are far too important to be left in the hands of the politicians.
But let's not get too cynical or upset. Here is a golden opportunity for them to resolve a few other matters pertaining to Holyrood elections. Voting on Thursdays – why? Like many parents I really resent having to use up a day's precious annual leave to facilitate the electoral process. Other countries vote at weekends, why can't we?
How about introducing some methods that make it easy for folk to vote – red button, onlne, by text even – instead of marching us up and down hills to our nearest community centre or primary school (particularly when with all the closures about to happen in the next few years, that will actually be some distance away for many voters). It all might actually, you know, improve voter turnout which would surely be a good thing for democracy?
No, of course not. This would involve putting the needs of the people before those of the political class. And we couldn't possibly have that.
Respect? My arse!


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Youth In Crisis which came out in 2008 was the "It Gets Better" before the "It Gets Better" project. The book tells the stories of 40 LGBT people, from public personas like Nate Berkus, Richard Chamberlin, Tammy Baldwin, Martina Navratilova, Bishop Gene Robinson and Barney Frank to leaders in the community and youth.
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