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Because Non-PII does not personally identify you, we may use, and share with Quiet House Subsidiaries, Licensed Hotels, Affiliate Organizations and other third parties, Non-PII for any purpose, including to facilitate your ongoing access to and use of our Site, to best tailor our services to suit personal interests and/or to analyze visiting patterns. We and our service providers may collect Non-PII from sources such as environmental variables, including computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, OS version, Internet browser and Internet browser version.
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Let me see if I've got this straight:
Here we are in the smoldering ruins of an economy recently wrecked by Wall Street greed, in a country where for 30 years almost all income growth has been concentrated among the richest 1 percent of Americans (See graph to right). Rising populist anger, massive long-term unemployment and record home foreclosures serve as counterpoints to soaring corporate profits, while the Supreme Court rules that corporations are people and can spend limitless amounts of money trying to elect candidates willing to serve their interests.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party defends massive tax breaks for the wealthy while blocking aid to the unemployed, fights bitterly against regulations designed to prevent a repeat of the Wall Street meltdown, blocks legislation that would at least require corporate and special interests to identify themselves when they
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Book Review.
Miracles, Inc.
T.J. Forrester
Simon & Schuster, 272 pages, $15
Gina Webb / For the AJC
Noir meets Holy Roller in T.J. Forrester's fast-paced, hard-boiled debut novel, the story of a young carnival worker whose brush with religious greatness lands him in the biggest limbo of all: a 6-by-10 on death row in Florida, where he's awaiting execution.
Not for tax fraud or sexual misconduct, but for murder.
Flashback to 1997: Born-overnight-but-not-again, Vernon Oliver makes a living as a slacker stagehand for a two-bit traveling tent show where he learns the tricks of the trade — including how to usher the sick far from the stage so the trained actors can be healed. Despite his high I.Q. and off-the-chart SAT scores, 20-year-old Vernon is content with the job, saving up for the day he and his girlfriend, Rickie, can buy the Harley he wants and a beach house for the two of them.
Until the night his glamorous boss taps Vernon for a shot at greatness: "Televangelism, " she says. "You have the looks. You have the charisma. The rest we'll teach you."
A tragedy in Vernon's past has cured him of faith, but with a talent for fast-talking — "I could quote enough Nietzsche to bore someone into a coma, solve mathematical problems so beautiful they'd make Pythagoras cry"— and his dreams of easy money, he's perfect for the job he claims to despise, as coolly manipulative as the sexy, shrewd Miriam, owner of the organization he'll work for: Miracles, Inc.
No one but a champion cynic could play the role Vernon invents: the "Biker Preacher, " roaring into the arena dressed in a biker T-shirt and motorcycle boots astride his coal-black Harley — Jim Morrison channeling Jerry Falwell — a macho, coked-up Holy Roller who makes a fortune off the afflicted while laughing up his sleeve.
That was years ago. When we first meet Vernon in 2007, 11 years into his life sentence, he sits in a solitary cell, the monotony broken by visits from his lawyer, letters from his steadfast fans, a view of the cemetery outside his window, and the screams of the condemned as they're dragged past his cell. With plenty of time to ponder life and death and what's beyond the grave, he's no longer the brash know-it-all who thought anyone hoping for a miracle was a fool.
Now, he's the one who needs a miracle.
But when Vernon's lawyer suggests he get the ball rolling by writing a tell-all about his fall from grace, the former master of smoke and mirrors rebels against his lawyer's injunction to "create sympathy in the reader" by sentimentalizing his past.
Instead, he writes a matter-of-fact, gritty account of his life, unceremoniously exposing the masterminds, the seminary-trained frauds and the backstage hucksterism that make up the world of Pentecostal televangelism — the one whose ranks he joined so unquestioningly back in the days when he "didn't want morals to get in the way."
Forrester deftly weaves Vernon's past into his present, alternating between his increasingly grim hours in prison and the story that explains how he got there. At the heart of it all is the Rosebud of Vernon's childhood: his beloved sister, Lucy, who died at age 7 despite the incessant prayers he offered up in her behalf. A thorny relationship involving the mysterious, psychotic Rickie and his boss-turned-mother-in-law heightens the suspense. As Vernon's execution date closes in, his tough-guy exterior shows signs of cracking, and the one promise he's sworn he'll never break could be his only way out.
Throughout "Miracles, Inc." Forrester lampoons the foundations of belief and how its exploitation plays out in matters of hope and faith. But he also plays a sly shell game, as in this passage where Vernon complains that the profiteering queen of Miracles, Inc. insists on building far too many free clinics and schools in Africa:
"I thought we'd gone overboard with charity work, that one or two clinics were enough of a smokescreen, but Miriam continued to spend more and more, claiming it was good business. She didn't fool me; my mother-in-law liked helping the less fortunate. Sometimes, I wondered if that hadn't been her motivation all along."
It's possible Vernon may have possessed a genuine flair for healing due to his burning sense of loss after Lucy's death, or that his devoted fans may have been blind to his tricks — or both. Rickie could have had the "miserable childhood" Vernon assigns her, but it looks pretty decent compared to the daughter of one of his prison guards, or his own sister, both of whom suffered and died before they were out of elementary school.
"Miracles, Inc." would be a fairly straightforward run — comic, occasionally touching, gleefully grotesque — if not for these hints of irony and ambivalence Forrester drops at every turn that leave us, in the end, wondering who and what to believe.
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Are Neil Young and Crazy Horse viable at this point?
I <3 Spicy Pie confirmed
They could be announcing the date wristbands are shipped.
Bowie, YYYs, TVOTR confirmed.
Guys, it's out!!!
Worst headliners I've ever seen but the undercard is looking fucking amazing! Violent Femmes Jurassic 5 Lou Reed holy shit!
I saw that too, I thought I was crazy there for a minute
A small version of it was just on the front page and I refreshed before I got a good look, thinking it was going up, and now it's gone. GAH!
Wait, so kroq hasn't announced anything, I get out at 9 pm -- there may yet still be hope for me? I'm not fucked?!
And this just happened.
Darkside - 1/26
Robert DeLong - 1/30
Scuba - 2/7
Pusha T - 2/20
Four Tet - 3/7
Kraftwerk - 3/19
Coachella - W1
I was the only one who saw the lineup?
The stone roses . blur
red hot chili peppers
still getting interesting white flashes when refreshing the front page
i went to coachella and showed me the lineup then back to the blur video when i refreshed again,
Yeah Yeah Yeah, postal service, passion pitt, two door, tegan and sara, of monster, etc etc


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Last Night's SF Mayoral Debate; What Issues Do People in Different Neighborhoods Care About?
Rachel Gordon and John Coté of the Chron called last night's mayoral debate at the City Club, "a relatively witty, sometimes lively and fairly interesting debate." You know…
KCBS has posted video of the entire event; watch it below, in four parts. Ha ha ha! Like you're really gonna do that…
No but really, the election's in a month, and you still don't know who you're voting for, let alone the names of like half the candidates, do you? Better get informed.
Or if you've had enough of one-way communication, tell KQED's Public Insight Network what you want from San Francisco's next mayor.
You can also read what people from around San Francisco have told KQED News reporters are the issues they really care about, at our Dear Mayor… web site. We went to the Bayview, the Mission, Pacific Heights, the Richmond, and the 'hoods of central San Francisco to find out what problems each area's residents are most concerned about.Related
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Eliza's green cookies
Episode #12
This will not be the last time we will talk about electric cars, electric bikes, real end-to-end eco balances, simplification of facts, actionism, etc. We will talk about all this broadly within the next months and years… This is only a first explicit feel of my opinion about the electric cars policy, which quite a few countries and companies are currently pushing in order to look innovative, green, and clever.
My gut feeling tells me that electric cars will not save the world in the way they are being positioned right now, although politicians and industry are trying to sell us another story…
Keeping our focus on individual transportation is not a long term solution, even with electricity coming from the greatest renewable sources.
What about, for example, the primitive focus being set on highways and freeways and even more autobahn lanes and parking lots?
Would you like to live in a big Autobahn world!?
And then we have the great electric bikes, which can be helpful in some cases, no question, but I would rather prefer a world where people are not afraid of exercise and sport!
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Offense, offense, offense. We certainly are hearing a lot about offense here on Arrowhead Addict. Todd Haley, an offensive coordinator, is a hot name for the Chief's head coaching job. The Cardinals are on a big roll in the playoffs. Can an offensive dominant team win the Super Bowl? Sure, it can and does happen. The old adage is that defense wins. Let's put some of this to the test. Let's look at what happened to the top ten offenses and defenses in terms of making the playoffs. In honor of the Cardinal's run, let's choose this year.
Here are the top ten offenses this year, as measured by total offense.
- New Orleans
- Denver
- Houston
- Arizona
- New England
- Atlanta
- New York Giants
- Green Bay
- Philadelphia
- Carolina
Here are the top ten defenses this year, as measured by total defense
- Pittsburgh
- Baltimore
- Philadelphia
- Washington
- New York Giants
- Minnesota
- Tennessee
- Dallas
- Tampa Bay
- New England
At first glance, the samples could be read as roughly equivalent. Fifty percent of the top ten offenses made the playoffs and sixty percent of the top ten defenses did. However, let's go a bit deeper. Twenty percent of the top five offenses made the playoffs while eighty percent of the top five defenses made the playoffs. The most striking aspect of this list is that the top three offenses failed to make the playoffs entirely. On the other hand, the top three defenses were all playing in the conference championships.
Offense is fun to watch. To win, defense carries the day. We can all place our bets wherever we want. I am going to place mine on the side that shows consistent winning, the defense.


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Hotel in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania . . . Everything You Need
A pleasing array of complimentary amenities and oversized rooms make the Wingate by Wyndham Mechanicsburg/Harrisburg West the top lodging choice of business and pleasure travelers to Pennsylvania. We are minutes to Harrisburg and Carlisle and a 30 minute drive to Hershey and Gettysburg. Start your morning with our complimentary hot buffet breakfast and enjoy free high-speed Internet access throughout our hotel. Superior comforts at our Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania hotel also include indoor pool, heated spa, fitness room and free 24-hour Business Center.
- Convenient Mechanicsburg, PA Hotel . Our hotel is 7 miles from Pennsylvania's capital city, Harrisburg, 10 miles from Carlisle and 20 miles from Hershey and Gettysburg. Visit historical sites, get in on sports action and experience exciting adventures, within minutes from our hotel. Explore Pennsylvania attractions like the Battlefields of Gettysburg, Messiah College, Ski Round Top, Williams Grove Speedway, Carlisle Events Car Shows, Army War College, Army Heritage Museum and Roundtop Mountain Resort . Enjoy an easy trip from Harrisburg Airport, which is 18 miles away.
- Lifestyle Amenities That Make A Difference. Great days start with good mornings. Begin with a delicious complimentary breakfast of eggs, sausage patties or bacon, waffles, French toast, danish, bagels, muffins, breads, cereals, oatmeal with toppings, milk, fresh fruit (apples, oranges, bananas), juices and coffee. That's just the start of the many amenities we're delighted to provide for you. Enjoy the Cracker Barrel restaurant next door, fitness center, indoor swimming pool and whirlpool, guest laundry and valet service. Refresh yourself with free coffee, juice, and hot chocolate all day long. We happily accept government per diem rates and children under 18 are always free.
- Spacious Hotel Rooms in Mechanicsburg . Surround yourself in the plush comforts of our beautifully oversized guestrooms features a separate living and sleeping area with lounge chair and ottoman, pillow-top mattresses and 32" HDTV screens. Enjoy comforts of home including coffee makers, microwaves and refrigerators. Wired and wireless high-speed Internet access is always complimentary at our hotel. Starting in 2013, some of our rooms are pet-friendly.
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The Gramercy Park Hotel currently sets the bar for New York cool -- hence the celebrities in the lounge and the paparazzi on the sidewalk. It offers ultra-luxe but small rooms done up in high Boho-chic style, a gorgeous gym, an acclaimed Italian trattoria, and a great rooftop bar. True, even guests sometimes feel excluded from the glamour-fest in the bar. But the place is utterly unique.
The Waldorf Towers occupies the top floors of the iconic Waldorf Astoria hotel in Midtown East. It is an exclusive boutique with 117 classic, individually decorated rooms, some of which have a rich history of famous guests and long-term residents. Most amenities are shared with its sister property -- including the great (but pricey) restaurants, high-end Guerlain Spa, and beauty salon -- but the hotel has its own lobby, fitness center, elevators, and concierges. Some rooms have underwhelming decor for the price, but for a more personalized stay with a little more luxury than at the Waldorf Astoria, the Towers is still a great pick.
This virtually flawless 88-room TriBeCa hotel (opened in 2008 by Robert de Niro, among others) offers large, homey rooms, breathtaking design, and very attentive service. Even better: free Wi-Fi; free minibar snacks; and free Wii video games by request. Better still: an underground pool; Shibui Spa; premier gym; and the homestyle Italian Locanda Verde restaurant.
The Soho House New York -- not to be confused with SoHo, the neighborhood -- is a members-only club that caters to the film and media industries. The Meatpacking district locale also has 30 luxury hotel hotel rooms -- Small, Medium and Big -- that are open to the public. Despite the impressive cuisine (an improvement from days past), food still takes a slight backseat to the hip party scene; alcohol is pervasive in and out of the rooms, from the late-night cocktail scene, to the fully stocked minibars (with fresh lemon and limes), to the "One While Changing," where guests receive a personal in-room visit from a bartender between the hours of work and play. Throw in the infamous rooftop pool and terrace -- which some consider worth the price alone -- the Cowshed spa, library, and free Wi-Fi (for those who attempt to get work done), and it's clear there's not another hotel in NYC quite like it.
When it opened in 2010, this W hotel brought the suit-focused Financial District with a dose of cool. It's a sleek hotel, and its biggest assets are its stylish lobby lounge (with huge wrap-around terrace) and its proximity to Ground Zero (which means perfect views of the Freedom Tower). Other features include a nice fitness center (with great views), a small business center, meeting rooms, and a restaurant by the well-regarded BLT chain. Many tourists would prefer to be in a hipper, quainter, or more central neighborhood, but the hotel is close to Wall Street, Trinity Church, Battery Park, the ferry to the Statue of Liberty, and of course the 9/11 Memorial. Travelers who like the idea of a hip hotel in the Financial District can also consider Gild Hall, about a 10-minute walk to the east.
This stylish urban boutique hotel in New York's Garment District is located in a historic building that was once a tea salon and hat factory. The property's past inspired its present industrial-chic design, and small details such as decorative milliner's tools pay homage to the building's former function. In the lobby, cool white stone and Gothic arches are contrasted against colorful contemporary art, while in the rooms, a minimalist black-and-white motif is warmed up by the oak hardwood floors. Features include a fitness center, a lobby bar (named for the historic tea salon's owner), Parker & Quinn bistro, and a cool rooftop bar. The location is within walking distance of popular sights such as the Empire State Building, Bryant Park, and Herald Square.
This gorgeous new 141-room boutique has joined other high-end hotels and restaurants that have revitalized the once-gritty Lower East Side neighborhood, which is known for its raucous late-night activity. For well-heeled hipsters looking for downtown action, the cool design, attentive staff, fitness center, and pool combine to make this a very fine place to crash after a night out in skinny jeans.
Centrally located near Madison Square Park, The Nomad (which shares its name with the surrounding neighborhood north of Madison Square Garden) is a luxurious, impeccably designed hotel with attentive service but limited features (there's no spa or business center). The hotel's focal point is its eponymous bar and restaurant, featuring five separate-but-connected spaces that sprawl along the ground floor. Guests can order cocktails in the cozy, book-lined Library or order brunch in the sun-filled Atrium room, though they should be prepared for price tags that match the high level of style. The 168 guest rooms are luxurious (there are Sferra linens, Frette towels, and robes), and successfully evoke a bygone era with Persian rugs, old maps, and antique-looking fixtures. Hip travelers who are willing to sacrifice luxury (without sacrificing a popular scene) should consider the Ace Hotel just around the corner, which offers more amenities -- multiple bars, a popular coffee shop, and more common space in which to socialize -- at an often lower price.
This Upper East Side boutique hotel, a sister to the world-renowned Hotel Plaza Athenee in Paris, possesses a deep-rooted commitment to service, luxury, and sophistication. Rooms are sumptuous, with classic European decor and gorgeous bathrooms. The bar and restaurant are intimate and romantic, serving excellent fine-dining fare and cocktails, while the spa and fitness center provide charming spaces to relax and rejuvenate. Above all, though, is the hotel's dedication to service, made evident from the outset with a sit-down check-in, and continued throughout guests' stays by the excellent Clefs d'Or concierges. It is no wonder that both Princess Diana and Elizabeth Taylor have called the Plaza Athenee home.
An elegant, historic hotel across the street from Central Park, the Pierre offers a taste of grand old New York to those staying in any of its 189 small but freshly renovated guest rooms. The large staff is white-glove formal, but service is not without the occasional glitch -- and the hotel lacks the on-site amenities of some of its by-the-park luxury competitors, like the Plaza and the Four Seasons.
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A year ago Mark Levin encouraged anyone having to deal with the NLRB to sue them and challenge their authority in the courts because of Obama's unconstitutional recess appointments. And apparently someone did and now the Federal Appeals court has rule the appointments were unconstitutional:
AP – President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill vacancies on a labor relations panel, a federal appeals court panel ruled Friday.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said that Obama did not have the power to make three recess appointments last year to the National Labor Relations Board.
The unanimous decision is an embarrassing setback for the president, who made the appointments after Senate Republicans spent months blocking his choices for an agency they contended was biased in favor of unions.
The ruling also throws into question Obama's recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Cordray's appointment, also made under the recess circumstance, has been challenged in a separate case.
As I was going through the ruling I noticed that Landmark Legal was one of the litigants which means this is another victory for Levin and his team. I'm sure we'll be hearing more about this later today. You can read the full ruling here (PDF).
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"Give me my scallop shell of quiet,
My staff of faith to walk upon;
My scrip of joy, immortal diet;
My bottle of salvation;
My gown of glory, hope's true gauge,
And thus, I'll take my pilgrimage."
A contemplative reflection on life as pilgrimage, the verse above was written by a warrior, sea captain, courtier, explorer, lover, husband and twice-dweller of the Tower of London, where eventually he and his head parted company because he supported the wrong candidate for kingship after Queen Elizabeth I of England died.
Many said that Walter Raleigh was a pirate as well, but he himself would more likely have said that he was simply liberating Spanish contraband for Queen Elizabeth — his patron, protector and sometimes his punisher — as when she sent him to the Tower of London the first time for marrying one of her ladies-in-waiting without asking the Queen's permission (The story was that she rather fancied Sir Walter herself).
Eventually she let him out and Raleigh explored the coast of Virginia, brought back to England tobacco from the natives, rode the high seas in search of Spanish treasure and found time to write poetry as well. People of his own time saw him as quite the rascal, but he saw himself as a pilgrim. Indeed, the scallop shell mentioned in the poem was more than just a symbol for quiet faith — pilgrims wore it to show that they were baptized Christians on pilgrimage when they walked the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Today, some churches use a shell in baptism to indicate that the baptized person is beginning a lifelong pilgrimage in the company of Jesus Christ.
The fact is that many of us are at least as complicated as Raleigh, if not as talented, adventurous or fond of famous people as he was. Wild and crazy people can be strongly prayerful, as was the great Anglican priest and preacher John Donne, who, in his youth, wrote some very naughty poetry indeed — and after the death of his beloved wife, some of the greatest poetic prayers every written, including the sonnets, "Death, be not proud" and "Batter my heart, Three-Personed God."
If we expect the people with us on this pilgrimage called Life to be consistent, we will be a long time waiting. As one of my high school teachers was fond of saying, "Don't stand on one leg until that happens."
God is not in the business of fulfilling our expectations, and neither are our fellow humans. Wasn't that always the case with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ? The tax collectors and sinners who came to listen to him made the good folks grumble. "Look who this man spends time with, even eats with!"
Jesus points out to the good people that a shepherd who loses a sheep searches it out, and rejoices when he or she finds it. A poor woman who has lost a coin celebrates joyously when she finds it. God wants all of us in God's sheepfold, and especially those of us who have made mistakes in our lives. People said Raleigh was a hypocrite when he wrote poems about life as a pilgrimage. He wasn't any more of a hypocrite than most of us "good" churchgoing folk. He was a complicated human being.
If we could be good all the time, we would be saints when we were young. However, it seems that for most of us the journey to union with God is long, and there are detours, sometimes many of them. We wonder if we will ever meet God in the promised heavenly kingdom.
The Ghanaian/British musical group "Osibisa" sings a song about our challenging journey; it is called "Woyaya." It is one of the best songs of pilgrimage I know. I sang it for my dear stepson as he made his way out of this earthly life in an ICU in North Carolina recently:
"We are going. Heaven knows, where we are going — Yet we know within.
We will get there. Heaven knows how we will get there — We know we will.
It will be hard, we know and the road will be muddy and rough, But we'll get there. Heaven knows when we will get there — We know we will."
That certainty — what the apostle Paul called "knowledge in the inner being" — results from regular prayer and scripture reading, and from asking for the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Both Hebrew and Christian scriptures are full of the accounts of the long journeys of people who loved and worshipped God — and made serious mistakes on the road — but kept on traveling. Life is hard, unpredictable and full of sorrow. It is also miraculous, beautiful and offers unlimited opportunities for love. We share the road with saints and sinners— mostly, if we are honest, sinners (ourselves included). May the Holy Spirit, in all things, guide, direct and rule our hearts. We will get there.
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The manner in which American firms flew terrorism suspects to locations around the world, where they were often tortured, has emerged after one of the companies sued another in a dispute over fees.
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You know the old wartime warning, "Loose lips sink ships"? Well, one of these years politicians are going to figure out that when it comes to the SS Ship of State, it's actually sealed lips — or at least the struggle to keep them sealed — that generally put the torpedo though the bow.
The Prentice government hit the ground running in its first seven days. In a series of astute decisions — dumping scandal-plagued planes, keeping the Michener Centre open, dropping ill-advised pension bills and costly licence plate changes — the government reversed some egregious policy failures and corrected major political mistakes. Of course, the public mood on most of these issues was not hard to read, but Premier Jim Prentice's decisive actions are refreshing, an encouraging start.
That must be the most remarkable downtown street sale Edmonton has seen in recent years. Without knowing the price, city council on Monday approved the sale of an entire block of 103rd Street, a public road, to the Katz Group so it can build a parking lot underneath.
When 120 world leaders (minus our own prime minister) meet Tuesday to discuss climate change at the United Nations, they can have no doubt this is the moment for strong leadership. Ordinary citizens by the tens of thousands rallied Sunday in the People's Climate March in New York while across the globe, including in Edmonton and Calgary, hundreds marched with a message for this week's UN Global Climate Summit.
There are surely many moments when Canadian seniors, channelling their inner Rodney Dangerfield, feel they get no respect. They may want to look to Japan for inspiration, which includes among its national holidays an annual "Respect-for-the-Aged" Day.
It speaks volumes — whole ironic libraries, in fact — that it took Prime Minister Stephen Harper's consent to break a logjam holding up a private member's bill to rebalance power between Parliament and the prime minister. The story of Michael Chong's grandly named Reform Act 2014 becomes even more absurdly surreal when you realize that in its new, watered-down form, its impact will at best be illusory.
Don Scott has his work cut out for him. Among the tough assignments laid out for Alberta's new advanced education minister in his mandate letter from Premier Jim Prentice is to work "with post-secondary institutions to create and implement a plan for long-term stable and predictable funding."
Premier Jim Prentice has announced that he has made the "philosophical decision" to permanently ground the Alberta government's fleet of planes. Practically speaking, the decision removes a Boeing 747-sized political liability — one that has cast a shadow over provincial politics and Progressive Conservatives for so long that it has taken on the feel of a perpetual black cloud. Just when you thought the latest storm tied to the fleet's questionable use was about to peter out, another "Air Tory" lightning bolt would hit, damaging political reputations and public confidence.
It is a strange twist in modern Alberta politics when those who keep a keen eye on provincial affairs have to turn to each other at a start of a cabinet swearing-in ceremony and ask: "Who on earth is the guy sitting in the front row?" In a host of cabinet surprises from Alberta's new premier Jim Prentice, most striking Monday was the decision to propel a pair of unelected men to two of the most powerful posts in his pared-down cabinet, naming former Edmonton mayor Stephen Mandel as health minister and former Saskatchewan cabinet minister and Calgary Board of Education chairman Gordon Dirks as education minister.
Not so terribly long ago, we lived in a Downton Abbey kind of world. In fact, while they might not have been able to afford schools of scullery maids, even middle-class people like doctors and merchants could afford a cook and maybe a menial domestic to keep the household running.
Count on the British to try to trump exciting archeological news from the colonies. In the same week as Canada announced the thrilling discovery of one of the Franklin expedition's Victorian-era ships in the frigid Arctic waters, a team of European researchers revealed a host of secrets about Stonehenge, the world-famous cluster of ancient rocks arranged on England's Salisbury Plain.
Imagine heading to the grocery store with a shopping list that included milk, cookies, bananas and a roast chicken, only to be told, at the checkout, that you could only buy those four items if you also purchased a host of foodstuffs you did not want or need.
The haunting sonar image unveiled proudly by Canada's prime minister Tuesday of one of the Franklin expedition's two missing ships is a triumph for research, exploration and science. Finding the well-preserved wreck of either HMS Erebus or HMS Terror (we still don't know which) in the Victoria Strait near King William Island thrills for a host of reasons.
Albertans understand the value of a buck. This may be the most prosperous province in Canada, but Albertans work hard for their money and don't like to see it squandered. That is why it was no surprise Monday to learn councillors are hearing from unhappy Edmontonians after an auditor's review revealed the city's decision to move photo radar in-house cost $47 million more than expected since 2007.
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After 4 visits I must say this is one of the best values in the area. Just a few blocks from most of the Broadway attractions is this beautiful quite spot. The waite staff looks like they all come from Brasil and each one has given our table a level of service that is both friendly and yet totally professional. The food is nothing but perfect. Order either a meat dish or a seafood dish, they all of fantastic. Even just the plain rice and black bean side dish is a masterpiece of flavor. When you add in the fact you are in the middle of New York City and you get a bill for 3 people that totals $108.00 with tax I do not know a better value. Via Brasil!!!
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David Horowitz Is Homeless
The 1960s radical decades ago switched his politics, fleeing the New Left to become a conservative provocateur. Then the right wing left him behind.
In his gestures toward the spiritual, Horowitz drew considerable inspiration and feedback from his daughter, Sarah, the subject of his most poignant and challenging memoir, A Cracking of the Heart (2009). Born with Turner Syndrome, a debilitating illness that impaired her hearing and eyesight, Sarah was a Democrat, a crusader for human rights and social justice, a poet, and an observant Jew. Despite her physical frailty, Sarah stolidly refused the role of victim, while devoting her life and resources to any individual or group she perceived as less fortunate. Sarah died unexpectedly at age 44 in her apartment, the day before Nextbook.org, the previous iteration of Tablet magazine, published the first interview with the activist poet.
Sarah's passions made her one of David's most spirited interlocutors, and at times A Cracking of the Heart serves as an object lesson in political empathy—making it a poignant outlier in Horowitz's oeuvre. In an earlier memoir, he attested to his inability to internalize the monotheistic religious prophets' agreement that all human beings, no matter their trespasses, are incarnations of the divine spirit: "[I] cannot embrace this radical faith. I feel no kinship with those who can cut short a human life without remorse; or with terrorists who target the innocent; or with adults who torment small children for the sexual thrill."
Sarah, who respects her father but harbors little patience for his bluster, hand-writes a response that aims to cut him to the quick. "First, have a little humility," she begins. "You are not smarter than Moses, Jesus and Buddha." She continues by articulating as eloquent a plea for understanding across ideological lines as I've ever heard:
If you see someone in the fullness of their humanity, you see how they are acting out their own confusion and suffering. This does not justify hurtful or evil acts. It doesn't even always inspire forgiveness. But if you see someone this way, you respond more in sadness than in anger. And that is simply a more excellent state of being. Even if you've never had this experience (and more's the pity), respect the experience of those who have.
She did not send her father these words. "Or if she did," he writes, "I failed again to understand them."
While a magazine profile from 2000 describes Horowitz's corner office in "a tony highrise … which affords a stunning view of downtown Los Angeles from the twelfth floor," and mentions a staff of 15 plotting the cultural counterrevolution in a "war room," the comparably spartan David Horowitz Freedom Center I visited on a sunny January afternoon testifies to diminished circumstances. Having abandoned the West Side for modest quarters in an unmarked, nondescript two-story building in Sherman Oaks, the current Freedom Center is decorated with blown-up Horowitz book covers and posters of Islamofascism Awareness Weeks of the past—and not future: As one employee told me, despite a few successful campus campaigns, the brand eventually "got stale."
Other than Horowitz, I counted only three full-time staffers, plus an armed security guard.
David Horowitz does not keep an office at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Instead, he met me in the windowless boardroom, sitting between a framed poster of the Italian Communist philosopher Antonio Gramsci's revolutionary slogan "pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will" and a signed original print of one of the notoriously incendiary Danish cartoons of Muhammad.
Satisfied with my progress on his more sober texts—the ones he said he would prefer to be writing—he handed me a collection of Freedom Center pamphlets—"the ones I have to write." Recent pamphlets that Horowitz has written or co-authored include "Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future," "From Shadow Party to Shadow Government: George Soros and the Effort to Radically Change America," "Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution: The Saul Alinsky Model" (which he called his best-selling book of all time), "Obama and Islam," and "Obama and the War Against the Jews." ("Obama: The Anti-Israel President" is available as a slickly produced, 10-minute DVD.) Each pamphlet costs $3, but the Freedom Center often sells them in bulk.
In 2009, Horowitz wrote a FrontPage column warning his fellow right-wingers not to fall prey to "Obama Derangement Syndrome," calling the new president's speeches "eloquently and cleverly centrist and sober … hardly in the Huey Long, Louis Farrakhan, Fidel Castro vein." He lightly chastised a fellow conservative thinker for getting "swept up in the tide that thinks Obama is a 'transformative' radical." That temperate language has since been tossed out the window. By 2011, he was calling Obama's "the most dangerous administration in American history."
At dinner the previous night, Horowitz had even alluded to the specter of "death panels," citing health-care reform as proof that "government now controls human life." He added, "I also believe that there's an element of his radicalism that likes bankrupting the country. I see Obama as a radical like myself. The same Left. Except the worst part. The Billy Ayers part."
When I mentioned the fact that Obama's administration located and killed Osama Bin Laden, Horowitz could only see an improbable and deeply cynical political maneuver: "He understood that he had to protect his national security flank."
Though Horowitz has an obvious partisan imperative to oppose President Obama, and can certainly market himself as the conservative best equipped to root out a secret Marxist master plan, I find his criticism of Obama, the world's most prominent radical son, somewhat confusing. Despite his campaign rhetoric, the president is hardly a utopian, and his administration has repeatedly demonstrated its aversion to radical solutions. On questions of race, Obama, like Horowitz, is publicly skeptical of policies based on entitlement and victimhood.
Horowitz never stops testifying to his own break from progressive idealism, but he sees anyone else as irrevocably tainted by past associations. There is only room for one radical convert, and political sympathy has no place in hand-to-hand combat. But Horowitz can no longer deny that his origin story and its lessons have lost much of their cultural explanatory power. And the story was always the point. Horowitz pieced together a philosophy from the wreckage of personal disappointments and lost illusions, yet he knows that fatalism isn't an easy sell.
"I came out of the left through a lot of pain and a sense of enormous waste," Horowitz said. "I was an emotional powder keg. I had gotten to age 35—and I'm a very hard worker, and had written a lot—everything that I had done was a waste."
This is the part of the story when the apostate sees the light. Horowitz isn't sure he still does.
"Now that I'm older, I see that it's all a waste. I gotta live with that."
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What remains of Revisionist Zionism, the ideology of the late Benzion Netanyahu, is its 11th commandment: Don't be a fool.


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In 1985 Sitka National Historical Park celebrated 75 years as a national monument and national park, an anniversary predating that of the National Park Service itself. Yet its history as a public park goes back even further to its designation by President Benjamin Harrison in 1890. The government's foresight in preserving the historic site is manifest to anyone visiting this gem of green at the mouth of Indian River where a battle was fought and a land lost.
The Tlingit Indians have always called this land home. In a pitched battle in 1804 they withdrew from the Sitka area, leaving it to the Russian fur-traders, who founded their New Archangel on the nearby point, now downtown Sitka. Later, the Tlingit returned to Sitka after agreements tacit and verbal, living somewhat in harmony with the intruders, with occasional outbursts. Americans took over from the Russians in 1867, by which time Indian River had become a destination point for walks and reflection. By the 1880s, park-like developments had been introduced at Indian River park and, after the turn-of-the-century, totem poles were introduced as attractions to visitors.
As this report explains, these resources continue to be management issues: maintenance of a trail, of totem poles, and a memorial site for the Battle of Sitka. The interaction of the community with the park and the Native groups is well detailed in the report; including the 1930s-1950s debate on appropriate site management." An Indian cultural center was established in the park in 1966 to add a new dimension and to show the dynamic, living culture of the Natives of Southeast Alaska.
Shifts in management of the park at Sitka have corresponded with the changing views of historic preservation and park management philosophy. In 1910, the park was a memorial site, but management allowed "development" in the form of hasty reconstructions and displays unacceptable by today's standards. A change in philosophy and a more direct involvement of the National Park Service (which didn't have a ranger on site until 1940) forced the agency to ask questions about the management and even retention of Sitka as a park unit. Archeological evidence relocating the historic fort site and the efforts to involve Natives with the interpretation of their art and culture highlighted the new effort to legitimize the park resources. This thrust as well as international events brought about an expansion of the park and the restoration of the Russian Bishop's House.
In 1972, Sitka National Monument was expanded and redesignated Sitka National Historical Park, which included the Russian Bishop's House. The Russian Bishop's House, the best remaining example of Russian American architecture in the United States and a symbol of the Russian culture's interaction with Native groups, has been restored to its ca. 1854 appearance. The project has been a long, difficult one and is discussed at length in the report.
This office believed that a history of the discussion of these issues and the changing philosophy of 75 years of management would help park managers understand past decisions and help anticipate future concerns. Direct stimulus for this report was the need for information about the establishment of the national monument, which would aid in the adjudication of water rights issues at Indian River. Thus, the Alaska Region contracted with historians William S. Hanable and Joan M. Antonson in 1986 to prepare such a history. They have done an exceptional job. Their history will help other park or historic site managers to see how far preservation in Alaska has come.
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