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Restarts will be at independent truck stops, Pilot Travel Centers, All American Travel Plazas and franchises at TravelCenters of America and Petro Stopping Centers. Five of the reopenings would be in Texas and five more in Pennsylvania.
A manager for one store where Idleaire is scheduled to restart, Sapp Bros. of Salt Lake City, said she was told May 17 her location would have electrification available in four weeks.
Thomas O'Brien, who heads TravelCenters of America, said in a May 10 conference call with stock analysts that he expected Idleaire equipment to eventually be removed from TA locations.
Tennessee-based Idleaire, the major provider of shore power at truck stops, closed Jan. 29 after its owners the previous 18 months did not find a buyer.
The operation had served 150,000 truckers and more than 1,000 fleets using its 131 locations in 34 states.
— Jill Dunn
A SIGNIFICANT PORTION of the strong demand for truck production in the first half of 2010 was due to fleets taking advantage of build slots for power units with pre-2010 engine technology, pulling demand from the second half of the year, says FTR Associates. ACT Research Co. forecasts significant demand for new equipment in 2011. The firm pointed to a growing North American economy and rapidly tightening capacity in the truckload sector as factors leading to increased demand.
U.S. TRUCK TONNAGE ROSE 7.5 percent in March from a year earlier, the fourth straight year-over-year monthly increase, the American Trucking Associations said. The increase was the biggest since January 2005. For the first quarter, tonnage gained 4.9 percent over last year's first quarter, says ATA.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION announced $49 billion in highway funds is available to state departments of transportation for federal projects through the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act.
THE TRUCK DRIVER who crossed a median and crashed into a van on March 26 on Interstate 65 south of Louisville, Ky., killing 10 people and himself, was talking on a cell phone and may have been speeding, according to a state police accident report. The Louisville Courier-Journal obtained the report that says the truck's driver, Kenneth E. Laymon, was distracted and did not have his tractor-trailer under control. n
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Holidays for Piano and Strings (Volume 2 - Violin 3). Arranged by Leonard Slatkin. For String Orchestra (Violin). Easy Music For Strings. Grade 2. 12 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.4490925).
ISBN 1423486390. 9x12 inches.
The newest series from Hal Leonard for young players brings the unique talents of "America's Conductor" Leonard Slatkin to school orchestra programs. His latest holiday collection is once again a great opportunity to feature student pianists with their school string orchestra. Always fresh and inventive, Leonard's arrangements bring a new style of holiday programming that's interesting and educational, and has great appeal to players and audiences.
This volume includes: A Czech Christmas; Festival of Lights; O Holy Night; O Tannenbaum; Of Kings and Ships; Of Kings, Saints and Pigs; Singing Angels; Sleigh Ride; Three Lights; Watchmen at Coventry; Pastorale.
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Will be responsible for Registering patient for ER, Private Referral, Maternity, Direct Admission and ER Admission. Follow through on all daily inpatient functions. Verify all demographic information as well as insurance information through various insurance websites. Pre-registration for all elective procedures and obtain pre-certifications. Requirements: Must be able to work efficiently and independently in a fast paced environment. Excellent interpersonal skills with attention to detail, must be able to multi-task. Insurance experience required. Meditech experience a plus.
Per Diem position to cover hours as needed on the day shift, 3rd shift and weekdays/weekends. No guarantee of weekly hours worked, no benefits with this position.
Full-time, 40 hrs./wk. Responsible for the implementation and training of advanced clinical physician systems, such as Dragon Voice Recognition, Meditech EMR, physician electronic signature and remote access systems. Create and maintain all training materials and documentation, work with IT staff and clinicians to ensure compliance with CMS Medicare/Medicaid Meaningful Use Objectives, serve as contact point and provide clinical support to clinicians, diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve system issues and problems. Job Requirements: Bachelors Degree in Nursing, Health Care, Computer Science or Management Information Systems preferred, sound understanding of clinical workflows, current clinical best practice, patient care initiatives and industry standards regarding patient safety. A minimum of 2 years experience as a nurse in a healthcare environment, previous experience in a clinical setting is desirable. Prior computer system knowledge is required with working knowledge of Meditech and Health Information System EMR. Advanced understanding of computer operations, hardware and software is needed. Exellent oral and written communication skills, problem-solving abilities, must be a team player who can work independently.
Part time weekend day position 8 hrs./wk. (4 hrs. Saturday and Sunday).
Will be responsible for providing verbal and written explanation of observation to all observation status admissions within 24 hours of admission. Will also be responsible for facilitating appropriate level of care assignment and discharge planning in the Emergency Department. Qualifications: RN with a BSN and Connecticut State License, as well as 3-5 years of Case Management experience. Knowledge of Milliman Care Guidelines preferred.
Performs various duties assisting in the treatment and nursing care for the pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric patient based on a fundamental knowledge and utilization of the nursing process and in accordance with established hospital policies and procedures. Qualifications: Must be a graduate of a Certified Nursing Assistant Program; State of Connecticut Certification required. Prior acute care experience preferred. Skills: BLS; basic computer skills including the ability to enter information pertaining to patient care per hospital policy. Familiarity in working in Windows environment; knowledge of medical terminology; demonstrated working knowledge of a computerized medical information management systerm; demonstrated positive interpersonal skills; demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and project a positive image; good written and verbal communication skills required.
M2 West - (#775-14C): 24 hrs./wk. 3:00pm -11:30pm including every other weekend (on: 2 & 4) and every other holiday (on: Good Friday / off: Memorial Day).
M2 West - (800-14C): 24 hrs./wk. 3:00pm -11:30pm; every other weekend (2 & 4) and holiday (off: Labor Day)
M2 West - (801-14C): 24 hrs./wk. 7:00am -3:30pm; every other weekend (2 & 4) and holiday (on: July 4th)
M3 West - (#300-PD): Per diem position to cover hours as needed within the Dept. No guarantee of hours worked / no benefits with this position.
South 3 - (#788-14C): 24 hrs. /wk. 3:00pm - 11:30pm, including every other weekend (on: 1 & 3) and every other holiday (off: July 4th / On: Labor Day)
(#776-14ST) Per Diem position to cover hours as needed within the Department. No guarantee of weekly hours worked / no benefits with this position. The Surgical Technologist is an individual with specialized education who functions a a member of the surgical team in the role of the scrub person. He / she handles the instruments, supplies and equipment necessary during surgical procedures. Will have an understanding of the procedure being performed and anticipate the needs of the surgeon. Will have the necessary knowledge and ability to ensure quality patient care during the operative procedure and is constantly on vigil for maintenance of the sterile field. Surgical Technologists work under medical supervision to facilitate the safe and effective conduct of invasive surgical procedures. Qualifications: Must be a graduate of an accredited Surgical Technologist program; Certification is required with 2 years experience preferred with a heavy concentration on orthopedics; current BLS Certification required.
(#738-13R) 40 hrs./wk. Monday - Friday. This is a dual role combining management and advanced practice (APRN). Manages and mentors personnel by recruiting, interviewing and selecting appropriate staff. Quantifies care and provides for appropriate work force; evaluates and counsels staff; develops dept. goals consistent with hospital goals and mission; assures compliance with regulatory agencies. Function as an APRN in conjunction with the infusion center; functions and responsibilities to be outlined in collaborative agreement with a Medical Doctor. Qualifications: State of CT RN License required; BS or BSN preferred; holds a current APRN license in the State of Connecticut; 2-3 years management experience; 2-3 years experience in acute care and 2-3 years clinically relevant experience.
Will maintain a clean, sanitary environment for patients, visitors and staff. Duties include cleaning dishes, pots, equipment and floors; trash removal and other duties as directed by supervisor. High School graduate preferred or equivalent; must have good communicationcskills and be able to speak, understand and write English; customer service skills a must; must have an understanding of regulatory and sanitation practices and policies; prior food service experience helpful.
24 hrs/wk. Hours are typically 1:00pm - 7:30pm with rotating weekends and holidays.
Per Diem position to cover rotating shifts as needed. No guarantee of weekly hours worked, no benefits with this position. General cleaning, sweeping, mopping of floors, shampooing carpets, stripping & waxing floors, climbing ladders, bending and lifting up to 50lbs. Prior floor care experience required.
Per Diem position. To cover hours as needed in the Department. No guarantee of hours worked, no benefits. Will prepare tissue specimens, fine needle aspirations, embedding, cutting, staining and slide preparation of surgical tissue for diagnosis. Performs secretarial and other duties as directed by the Histology Supervisor and the Pathologist. Requirements: At least 60 semester hours of academic credit with 12 semester hours in both Biology and Chemistry required. Knowledge of histology techniques and procedures; minimum of one year experience in a CAP accredited laboratory required. Meditech Pathology Module exp.; Histologist Certification by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists preferred.
Will promote meal assistance to all patients on a daily basis including meal selection, service and retrieval. Accurately services food and beverages to patients in accordance with patient's diet prescription. Provides the highest quality of service to customers at all times. H.S. graduate preferred with good communication and customer service skills a must; prior healthcare food service experience; ability to be cross-trained; ability to use Health Touch software and tablet computer; knowledge of basic diet information; must successfully complete training.
22 hrs./wk - Available 7 days. 6:00AM-7:30PM, 24 hrs one week (three 8hr. shifts); the next week will be 20 hrs. (two 8 hr shifts and one 4 hr. shift)
Per Diem position to cover hours as needed within the Dept. No guarantee of weekly hours worked / no benefits with this position. Will provide skilled office support to Radiologists and Technologist with heavy phone interaction; will burn imaging on CD's along with document scanning; will perform Quality Assessment on report, pull/file patient film; patient registration, order entry, insurance verification and collection of co-pay's. Will utilize a network of computerized systems including Meditech, Powerscribe and Stentor; will provide quality service to patients, physicians and techs. Requirements: High School graduate or equivalent with experience in an Imaging Office or similar medical setting; medical terminology / imaging procedure terminology with excellent communication and organizational skills required.
Will perform various technical duties in the disciplines of Clinical Chemistry, Hematology, Blood Bank and Microbiology. Operates both automated and manual testing instrumentation. Evaluates quality control and verifies all patient results prior to release. Contacts physicians to report critical results in accordance with laboratory policy; performs various computer operations in Meditech computer system, including patient registration / order entry, automated and manual result entry, quality control entry and patient result reporting. In addition collects blood specimens in all areas of the hospital and Milford Medical Laboratory if required. LG 35-37.
(Generalist) 40 hrs. / wk. on the day shift. Skilled at or trainable in blood bank.
(Generalist) Per diem, various shifts as needed.
40 hrs. /wk. Monday - Friday 7:30am - 4:00pm. No weekends or holidays. The Office Coordinator is responsible for the smooth and effectiveoperations of the clerical, billing, admission / registration and patient scheduling aspects of the Wound Care Center. Financial tracking of revenues is an important aspect of the position. Qualifications: High School graduate with an Associate Degree in Busines Administration / Systems preferred. Previous office experience preferred, Medical Coding or Front Office in a healthcare facility preferred; computer literacy required to include Word and Excel. Positive interpersonal skills - friendly and personable a must.
Collects blood specimens at the Hospital, Milford Medical Lab, Patient Service Center's (Out labs), Physician Office Collection Stations and Nursing Homes. Delivers specimens to the Laboratory. Travels to nursing homes and remote collection stations as required. Registers patient in Meditech if required. Order-enters all requested patient testing. Receives all collected specimens into Meditech. Generates and processes Meditech Collection Batches at the appointed. Collects STAT's; using the Meditech generated specimen labels. Processes all specimens and requisitions, insuring that the documentation and the specimens are distributed as required. Answers general Laboratory telephones and performs other clerical duties as required. Phlebotomy experience is required; valid CT drivers license with good driving history required.
Per Diem position to cover hours as needed within the department. No guaratee of weekly hours worked, no benefits with this position.
Primarily to provide first assist on a variety of surgical cases including general surgery, gynecology, orthopedic, thoracic and vascular. Also will have patient rounding and ED coverage responsibilities and call rotation. A Connecticut PA or APRN and at least 1 year of surgical experience are required. Experience in internal medicine is a plus.
Per Diem position to cover hours as needed at the Walk In Facility as well as the hospital when required. In addition to diagnostic imaging procedures, must demonstrate competency in venipuncture, with the ability to collect blood specimens; other functiuons as requested by area supervisor. Must be a graduate of an accredited school of Radiologic Sciences. Minimum of 3 years radiology experience preferred; must have current ARRT & CT State License, CPR certification and venipuncture experience preferred.
Per diem position to cover hours as needed in within the Dept. No guarantee of hours worked; no benefits with this position. Includes weekend coverage and one holiday. Primary Function: Performs optimal diagnostic imaging procedures in a hospital environment. Must have the ability to manipulate and operate x-ray equipment to include fluoroscopy unit, both portable and fixed. Demonstrates competency in all imaging exams including operating room procedures and trauma work with the knowledge and expertise of all job responsibilities in various clinical settings using various imaging equipment. ARRT registry or registry pending and CT State License Required.
Greets, screens, and directs patients and visitors to various hospital departments and services, issues visitor passes and covers the switchboard during meal times and and breaks. Switchboard coverage is required. Qualifications: Must project a positive and professional image of Milford Hospital at all times. Clerical, reception and switchboard experience needed. Excellent communication skills with basic computer knowledge required. Must be able transport patients /visitors in wheelchairs, pull or push and lift objects less than 20lbs; must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time.
Per Diem position: to cover hours as needed vacation, sick and holiday hours). Primary hours of coverage will be evenings, weekends and holidays. This position also provides switchboard coverage for meals and breaks.
Dietitian will construct and coordinate individual patient nutritional plans to fulfill department objective of providing optimal nutritional care. Requirements: Bachelor Degree in Food and Nutrition; must be registered with and certified with the State of Connecticut. Hospital experience is required.
Per Diem position - to cover hours as needed within the Department every other weekend.
Emergency Center
(#791-14R) - 24 hrs. /wk. 11:00pm - 7:00am. ACLS required; PALS required; Emergency Nursing experience required.
Family Childbirth Center
(#296-PD-13R) Per Diem Position - To cover hours as needed on the unit. No guarantee of hours worked / no benefits. Connecticut RN licensure and a minimum of 5 years experience in Labor and Delivery is required. Fetal monitoring Certification and NRP Certification is preferred.
SurgiCenter / PACU
(#807-14R) 24 hrs/wk. with a flexible shift between 6:00AM-7:00PM Monday - Friday. Includes weekend and holiday call rotation. SurgiCenter / PACU experience is preferred. ACLS and PALS required
(#297 PD) Per Diem position to cover hours as needed within department. No guarantee of hours worked. No benefits. Coverage needed for Monday - Friday, 7:00AM-7:00PM, 8 hour, 10 hour or 12 hour per diem shifts available. Two years of OR experience required.
(#PD280-12R) Per diem position to cover hours as needed within the department. No guarantee of hours worked / no benefits. Coverage needed for Monday - Friday, between 7:00AM-5:00PM., per diem shifts available. ACLS required for moderate sedation administration. Two years of experience required.
(#796-14RPD) #797-14PD; 798-14RPD) (3) Per Diem positions available to coverhours on the 2nd shift - 3PM-11:30PM as needed. No guarantee of hours worked / no benefits
Diagnostic and Treatment Center
(#773-14PD) Per Diem position to cover hours as needed in the unit. No guarantee of hours worked / no benefits. CT RN licensure; GI experience and critical care experience preferred; ACLS required.
(#803-14R; #804-14R) (2) Per Diem positions available to cover shifts as needed. No guarantee of hours worked / no benefits
Must be a graduate of an AMA approved program for Respiratory Care, either a one year Technician program or a two-year Therapist program. Must be credentialed by the National Board of Respiratory Care as a Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) and licensed by the State of Connecticut. A minimum of one-year prior experience required.
(2) Per Diem positions to cover hours as needed within the Department. No guarantee of hours worked / no benefits with this position.
Per Diem position to cover rotating shifts as needed. Duties include general cleaning, sweeping, mopping and vacuuming of floors, trash, linen and medical waste removal; climbing ladders, bending and lifting up to 50 lbs is required.
Duties include general cleaning, sweeping, mopping of floors; trash, linen and medical waste removal; climbing ladders, bending and lifting up to 50 lbs is required.
30 hrs. /wk. 3rd shift, 11:00pm - 7:00am; 1 day during the week 11:00pm - 5:00am; every other weekend (11:00pm - 7:00am) and holiday.
(2) 40 hrs./wk. 1st shift 7:00AM - 3:30PM including every other weekend and holiday.
Will provide a variety of tasks related to cleaning, decontamination, assembly, packaging, sterilization and distribution of instruments and supplies required by medical, nursing and paramedical personnel. Qualifications: Must be a High School graduate or equivalent; Graduate of Sterile Processing Program. Certification with CBSPD or IAHCSMM is required; SPD experience and/or surgical experience preferred.
(#760-14T) Per Diem - No guarantee of hours / no benefits.
Full time, primarily working with surgical patients. The successful candidates will be first assist on a variety of surgical cases, including general surgery, gynecology, orthopedic, thoracic and vascular; will have patient rounding and E.D. converage responsibility as well as call rotation. Must be a licensed P.A. or APRN in Connecticut and have at least one year of surgical experience; experience in internal medicine is a plus.
16 hrs./wk. Schedule would be Friday and Saturday 12:00 midnight to 8:00AM; following weeks schedule would be Monday and Tuesday 12:00 midnight to 8:00AM. . Office /telephone experience needed; Switchboard experience a plus.
Will transport patients to the Diagnostic Imaging Department from all areas of the hospital. Will assist technologist in providing optimal patient care. Will transport patients by wheelchair or stretcher and transfer patients from beds, chairs and imaging tables. Training and knowledge of Universal Precautions; understanding and acceptance of possible exposure to blood and bodily fluids; knowledge and safety standards regarding oxygen equipment, I-med, monitors and catheters; ability to move / lift a minimum weight of 100 lbs on a toutine basis; ensures comfort, dignity and confidentiality of patients and ability appropriately respond to the patient needs during transport. Minimum of 1 year patient care and/or hospital experience preferred.
Per Diem to cover hours as needed; no benefits; no guarantee of hours worked.
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1Vanilla Bean, split and beans scrapped
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Hand blend all ingredients just until combined. Refrigerate until ready to use
Candied Peaches:
Halve peaches and remove seed
Heat Skillet with ¼ c Butter and ¼ c Brown sugar until boiling
Place peaches, flesh side down and cook on high 3-4 minutes or until crust forms
Top warm peaches with Ricotta Cream and sprinkle with Maple Granola
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1c. Dried cranberries
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Row Three's TOP TEN FILMS of 2009
Welcome to the big list post for 2009! As it takes a while to get the Row Three wheel a turnin' for something involving nearly all the contributors in these parts, we are a little bit late to the list game (that was strange to type, considering it is only January 8th, but such is the way of online list-making), and even then some releases were not seen by many of us (from Crazy Heart to The Lovely Bones, both of which are 2010 releases in Canada), but we decided to plant the flag in the ground anyway. Judging from the pleasing variety of films considered below, it was a varied year, with very few consensus titles and those (A Serious Man, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Inglourious Basterds for instance) from reliable auteur filmmakers playing to their strengths. Intense and sophisticated childrens films (Fantastic Mr. Fox, Up, Coraline, Where The Wild Things Are), intelligent science fiction (Moon, District 9, Mr. Nobody) and films about people coping in hard financial times (The Girlfriend Experience, Up In The Air, Precious, Collapse) are but a few of the themes to emerge in hindsight. We hope you enjoyed past year as much as we did (we celebrated Row Three's second birthday – with no fanfare – in November) and here is hoping that 2010 holds forth the same sort of variety and daring in the multiplex (District 9, The Hurt Locker, Where The Wild Things Are) and in the arthouse (Enter The Void, The White Ribbon, Antichrist).
Each writer had his/her own criteria for putting this list together. Aside from a couple of festival screenings, most of these titles were released in one form or another (From wide release to direct to DVD and video-on-demand) in North America at some point in the calendar year 2009.
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10) Star Trek / Push / Knowing
The sci-fi triple threat. Though not exactly mastperpieces, I can't help but admire each of these films for what they accomplished. Star Trek successfully breathed new life into a dying franchise; Push came and went with little fanfare but this unlikely super hero story has a grittiness to it that is missing from most major blockbusters; and Ebert knows what's up. Knowing may have its problems but there's a lot to love in Alex Proyas' newest offering. It may not be Dark City but it's in the ballpark.
9) Cole
8 ) Fish Tank
7) The Girl
6) The White Ribbon
5) Downloading Nancy
4) The Hurt Locker
3) Polytechnique
2) Two Lovers
1) Redland
- – honorable mentions: Inglourious Basterds, District 9, The Box, Moon, In the Loop, I Killed My Mother
10) Avatar
Yes it has a simple story that has been told before but 99% of the movies put out suffer from this. I found the character compelling and I cared about what happened. You add that to a beautiful looking movie you have something special. If this had not been called a game changer I believe more people would be less critical of it.
9) Watchmen
8 ) Bronson
7) New York Lately
6) 9
5) Red Cliff
4) The Hurt Locker
3) Drag Me to Hell
2) Inglorious Basterds
1) Ink
- – honorable mentions: Black Dynamite, Moon, Ponyo, Zombieland, Fantastic Mr. Fox, A Serious Man, Rough Cut
10) Up
It's not the best Pixar film by any stretch, but when it works it's a moving and entertaining adventure that still impresses. The opening 15 minutes are incredible, reducing many to tears before the film had really got started. The rest of the film struggles to recapture this and turns a bit silly at times, but it's still better than most.
9) Vampire Girl Vs Frankenstein Girl
8 ) Paranormal Activity
7) Where the Wild Things Are
6) District 9
5) Lake Mungo
4) Avatar
3) A Serious Man
2) In The Loop
1) The Wrestler
- – honorable mentions: The Disappeared, The House of the Devil, Star Trek, Zombieland, The Forbidden Door (AKA Pintu Terlarang)
10) (500) Days of Summer
Finally someone makes a solid romantic comedy told from the male point of view without devolving into Apatow-esque immaturity. From JGL's winning performance to spontaneous musical numbers, I was delighted from start to finish.
9) Up
8 ) Broken Embraces
7) Fish Tank
6) Where the Wild Things Are
5) An Education
4) A Serious Man
3) Up in the Air
2) I Killed My Mother
1) Inglourious Basterds
- – honorable mentions: Black Dynamite, Sin Nombre, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Loved Ones, Moon, In the Attic, The Girlfriend Experience, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Drag Me to Hell
10) The Limits of Control
Jim Jarmusch's deliberate ode to architecture, form and patient viewing is bumped into masterpiece territory by the wonderful cinematography of Christopher Doyle and the handsome (dude can WEAR a suit) figure of Isaach De Bankolé.
9) Mr. Nobody
8 ) The Hurt Locker
7) The White Ribbon
6) Up In The Air
5) Fantastic Mr. Fox
4) A Serious Man
3) Mammoth
2) Inglourious Basterds
1) Enter The Void
- – so many honorable mentions (any of these could be #11): Where The Wild Things Are, Antichrist, Symbol, In The Loop. Agora, Deliver Us From Evil, The Road, Moon, Collapse, The Informant!, Drag Me To Hell, The Class, House of the Devil, Soul Kitchen, The Sky Crawlers (viewed in 2008 released in 2009), Tokyo Sonata (viewed in 2008, Released in 2009) Ponypool (viewed in 2008, released in 2009), Vinyan (viewed in 2008, released in 2009), Splice, My Dog Tulip, Summer Hours (viewed in 2008 released in 2009), Public Enemies, An Education, The Girlfriend Experience, Black Dynamite, District 9, Visage, Grace, Three Monkeys, Valhalla Rising, Stingray Sam, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- – Wish I would have seen:Love Exposure, Funny People, Mary and Max
10) A Serious Man
Yet another top tier film from The Coens; adding one more notch in their ever expanding belt of fantastic cinematic yarns. Retreating to their childhood, Joel and Ethan have put together a story based on hypothesis, superstition, karma and religion all tangled within everyday suburban life of the 1950′s. With tragically fantastic performances, it's just one more piece of evidence proving The Coens are the greatest story tellers of our generation.
9) Up
8 ) New York Lately
7) Fantastic Mr. Fox
6) The Class
5) Antichrist
3) TIE: Inglorious Basterds
3) TIE: Broken Embraces
2) The Girlfriend Experience
1) Where the Wild Things Are
- – honorable mentions: *Mr. Nobody, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, An Education, Drag Me to Hell, Surveillance, New York I Love You, It Might Get Loud, Ink, The White Ribbon
10) Freeter's Distress
9) Up
8 ) Star Trek
7) (500) Days of Summer
6) Up in the Air
5) Visage
4) Micmacs à tire-larigot
3) A Serious Man
2) The Hurt Locker
1) Inglourious Basterds
- – honorable mentions: Aruongaku, Adventureland
10) The Loved Ones
9) Fantastic Mr. Fox
8 ) Adventureland
7) Love At The Twilight Motel
6) Micmacs
5) Soul Kitchen
4) L'Enfer D'Henri-Georges Clouzot
3) Best Worst Movie
2) Up
1) Black Dynamite
- – honorable mentions: Castaway On The Moon, Ashes Of American Flags, Iron Maiden: Flight 666, Grace, I Love You, Man, Air Doll, The Headless Woman, Black, Perrier's Bounty, Inglourious Basterds, The Misfortunates, Five Hours From Paris, (500) Days Of Summer, The Cove, Away We Go, Funny People, Star Trek, The Box.
Add this all up and you got some bad-ass perpetrators and they're here to stay…
- Without a doubt the best year of film, period. My honorable mentions would make a solid parallel top ten for any other year.
10) The Fantastic Mr. Fox
9) Funny People
8 ) Rip! A Remix Manifesto
7) A Single Man
6) Dear Zachary
5) Wendy and Lucy
4) The Limits of Control
3) Away We Go
2) Mammoth
1) Collapse
- – honorable mentions: The Cove, The White Ribbon, AntiChrist, Star Trek, Gran Torino, We Live in Public, The Hurt Locker, Hunger (saw 2008), Inglourious Basterds, Where the Wild Things Are
10) Broken Embraces
9) Micmacs
8 ) Fantastic Mr. Fox
7) Up
6) Mammoth
5) Up in the Air
4) Where the Wild Things Are
3) The Hurt Locker
2) A Serious Man
1) Inglourious Basterds
- – honorable mentions: Adventureland, Drag Me to Hell, Moon, Star Trek, In the Loop.
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Push! Nice!
Why does it not surprise me that only one of my picks made the top 10 consensus list?
why do people not like the Road more? Is it just because the book is so strong in people's mind.
It stayed with me for days and is among the top echelon of my favorites this year.
I can do that too, John. :p How about this: if next year's list isn't a perfect composite of our two lists, we turn the site into a circa 1997 GeoCities site clone?
Mike, I agree on not trying to project ten years into the future and guess what I'll think. It's a fun thought experiment, but it doesn't really enter into my valuation. I've used that timespan a time or two in recent comments not because I'm projecting my critique that far into the future, but because it's a nice round number and I know that the films I loved (and hated) ten years ago aren't the ones I love and hate now. Ten years is a good time span for revaluation.
As far as focusing on what you feel now…what I feel right when I walk out of a film is often just as dependent on whether the sun's shining when I leave the theatre or if it's raining or if I spent the last five minutes dying to go the bathroom or if there was a group of annoying teenagers near me. My attempts to think through a film over the next weeks are attempts to mitigate those biases.
Awesome consensus list! I wonder were Children of Men exists in this list extravaganza, and although on the cusp (2000) Almost Famous?
And did anyone note that GLORIOUS BANNER!!!!
That banner is VERY sweet.
On THE ROAD, I too enjoyed it quite a bit but not enough to put it on my list. And I don't have the book to blame because I didn't care for it all that much either.
And I didn't mean anything by the fact that only one of the films on my list made the consensus list. It's just funny that a similar thing happened last year. It always surprises me that as much as we may agree throughout the year, when it comes down to our favourites – we're all very different.
Props to Andrew for having the best list…or at least the one most similar to my own.
Dear John,
How do you "have no interest in the Black Freighter"? It's a part of the story just the same as the rest of it. Plus, it's pretty shweet. Watch the director's cut with the black freighter interwoven. It's well done, I do think.
While I still have plenty to watch this year (Fisk Tank, Precious, Crazy Heart, A Single Man, The Hurt Locker, The Girlfriend Experience), here is my tentative top ten of 2009:
10. Funny People
9. An Education
8. Where the Wild Things Are
7. The Road
6. Ink
5. A Serious Man
4. Moon
3. (500) Days of Summer
2. Up in the Air
1. Inglourious Basterds
My top five, I feel very, very strongly about. The others, I could see getting bumped off or reshuffled when I watch what I have remaining to watch.
Agreed that as a film, the showy confidence of Inglourious Basterds (as in "oooh, this part is Awesome!") is pretty infectious.
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'Biggest Loser' Winner: 'I Worked My Tail Off'
EW: You are truly the biggest loser!
DANNY CAHILL: Yes, no one has ever lost that amount of weight. What's crazy was that the record was 214 pounds by (season three winner) Erik Chopin and Rudy beat him, and then I beat Rudy! That was two records set in one night. This season, Rudy and I have been a great, friendly, competitive team. We love each other, we push each other, so it's only fitting that we both set the record the same night.
Before you started The Biggest Loser, when was the last time you stepped on a scale?
Oh, I have no idea. I didn't step on a scale for forever because I was scared to! I didn't know how much I weighed, and when I'd go to the doctor's office, I'd be on the scale and say, "Oh, it's because I'm wearing shoes" or "I had my wallet in my pocket." I mean, I was scared.
When you stepped on that scale tonight and it read 191 lbs, were you surprised?
You know, the number was a surprise because I thought it was going to be less than that. I worked hard the last two weeks. I didn't get on the scale because you know what, I knew I had a number I need to get and I'm just going to get it. So I worked as hard as I could and I didn't worry about the scale or the number. I knew what I was doing and I knew what I needed to do. If you do the work, the results will happen.
Because this season was so successful, the show invited scrutiny from the New York Times over whether such a rapid weight loss program was unsafe. Was it? Did you take the weight off safely?
I did nothing unhealthy. I ate right and I worked my tail off. I did nothing unhealthy. It was a natural weight loss and you can't get any healthier than that. I was a couch potato about to have a heart attack seven months ago.
Can you answer the question we're all secretly wondering? What's going on with the excess skin under your T-shirt? Are you wrapped in five yards of elastic that's holding it all in?
I've got some skin and you know what? Those issues will be taken care of in time (he laughs). When you weigh 430 pounds, and you had a stomach as big as I did, you're gonna have some skin. But that's okay, because you know what? I can run a marathon now, thanks to The Biggest Loser.
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Way to go Danny…I'm so proud of you!!!
Great job….congratulations!!!
Thanks for asking the SKIN question…
It's really great that he was able to take the weight off - but I do wonder what happens to all of that!!
loser. =)
Well, of course there's going to be extra skin. With moderate weight loss, the skin would probably shrink back down to the needed size, but seeing as how Danny is now less than half the man he used to be, I imagine there's going to be a bit of surgery in his future. You know what though? Good for him. After losing 240 pounds, I think he deserve to have that little bit of work done. If I could afford it, I'd pay for him to get it done.


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Conservatives Are Waging a War on Empathy -- We Can't Let Them Win
By George Lakoff, AlterNet. Posted June 1, 2009.
The Sotomayor nomination has given radical conservatives new life. They have launched an attack that is nominally aimed at Judge Sotomayor. But it is really a coordinated stealth attack -- on President Obama's central vision, on progressive thought itself, and on Republicans who might stray from the conservative hard line.
There are several fronts: Empathy, feelings, racism, activist judges. Each one has a hidden dimension. And if progressives think conservative attacks are just about Sotomayor, they may wind up helping conservatives regroup.
Conservatives believe that Sotomayor will be confirmed, and so their attacks may seem irrational to Democrats, a last gasp, a grasping at straws, a sign that the party is breaking up.
Actually, something sneakier and possibly dangerous is going on.
Let's start with the attack on empathy. Why empathy? Isn't empathy a good thing?
Empathy is at the heart of progressive thought. It is the capacity to put oneself in the shoes of others -- not just individuals, but whole categories of people: one's countrymen, those in other countries, other living beings, especially those who are in some way oppressed, threatened, or harmed. Empathy is the capacity to care, to feel what others feel, to understand what others are facing and what their lives are like. Empathy extends well beyond feeling to understanding, and it extends beyond individuals to groups, communities, peoples, even species. Empathy is at the heart of real rationality, because it goes to the heart of our values, which are the basis of our sense of justice.
Progressives care about others as well as themselves. They have a moral obligation to act on their empathy -- a social responsibility in addition to personal responsibility, a responsibility to make the world better by making themselves better. This leads to a view of a government that cares about its citizens and has a moral obligation to protect and empower them. Protection includes worker, consumer, and environmental protection as well as safety nets and health care. Empowerment includes what is in the President's stimulus plan: infrastructure, education, communication, energy, the availability of credit from banks, a stock market that works. No one can earn anything at all in this country without protection and empowerment by the government. All progressive legislation is made on this basis.
The president wrote of empathy in The Audacity of Hope, "It is at the heart of my moral code and it is how I understand the Golden Rule -- not simply as a call to sympathy or charity, but as something more demanding, a call to stand in somebody else's shoes and see through their eyes."
President Obama has argued that empathy is the basis of our democracy. Why do we promote freedom and fairness for everyone, not just ourselves or the rich and powerful? The answer is empathy. We care about our countrymen and have an obligation to act on that care and to set up a government for the protection and empowerment of all. That is at the heart of everything he does.
The link between empathy and democracy has been established historically by Professor Lynn Hunt of UCLA in her important book, Inventing Human Rights. Hear her speak here.
The link between empathy and progressive thought is spelled out in my book Moral Politics and in my new book The Political Mind, just out in paperback.
In describing his ideal Supreme Court justice, President Obama cited empathy as a major desideratum. Why? Because that is what our democracy is about. A justice has to take empathy into account because his or her decisions will affect the lives of others. Before making a decision you have to put yourself in the shoes of those who your decision will affect. Similarly, in judging causation, fairness requires that social causes as well as individual causes be taken into account. Empathy forces you to notice what is crucial in so many Supreme Court cases: systemic and social causes and who a decision can harm. As such, empathy correctly understood is crucial to judgment. A judge without empathy is a judge unfit for a democracy.
President Obama has described Justice Sotomayor in empathetic terms -- a life story that would lead her to understand people who live through oppression and deprivation and what it does to them. In other words, a life story that would allow her to appreciate the consequences of judicial decisions and the causal effects of living in an unequal society.
Empathy in this sense is a threat to conservatism, which features individual, not social, responsibility and a strict, punitive form of "justice." It is no surprise that empathy would be a major conservative target in the Sotomayor evaluation.
But the target is not empathy as it really exists. Instead, the conservatives are reframing empathy to make it attackable. Their "empathy" is idiosyncratic, personal feeling for an individual, presumably the defendant in a legal case. With "empathy" reframed in this way, Charles Krauthammer can say, echoing Karl Rove, "Justice is not about empathy." The argument goes like this: Empathy is a matter personal feelings. Personal feelings should not be the basis of a judicial decision of the Supreme Court. Therefore, "justice is not about empathy." Reframe the word "empathy" and it not only disqualifies Sotomayor; it delegitimizes Obama's central moral principle, his approach to government, his understanding of the nature of our democracy, and progressive politics in general.
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How We Talk About the Environment Has Everything to Do with Whether We'll Save It
By George Lakoff, AlterNet. Posted May 20, 2009.
EcoAmerica is soon to make public a report on the framing of the environment called "Climate and Energy Truths: Our Common Future." The New York Times, on May 1, 2009, ran a front-page story on the report by John M. Broder called "Seeking to save the Planet, with a Thesaurus." It amounted to a belittlement of the report.
Broder quoted Drexel University Professor Robert J. Brulle as saying that "ecoAmerica's campaign was a mirror image of what industry and political conservatives were doing. 'The form is the same; the message is just flipped,' he said. 'You want to sell toothpaste, we'll sell it. You want to sell global warming, we'll sell that. It's the use of advertising techniques to manipulate public opinion.'"
The story missed most of the main issues, but at least it was on the front page. Broder, a fine environmental policy reporter, did his best with a very limited understanding of framing. I am glad that Broder and the Times saw that the issue is significant enough for the front page.
This is an attempt to make better sense of that story.
Framing is Understanding
How the environment is understood by the American public is crucial: it vastly affects the future of our earth and every living being on it.
The technical term for understanding within the cognitive sciences is "framing." We think, mostly unconsciously, in terms of systems of structures called "frames." Each frame is a neural circuit, physically in our brains. We use our systems of frame-circuitry to understand everything, and we reason using frame-internal logics. Frame systems are organized in terms of values, and how we reason reflects our values, and our values determine our sense of identity. In short, framing is a big-deal.
All of our language is defined in terms of our frame-circuitry. Words activate that circuitry, and the more we hear the words, the stronger their frames get. But if our language does not fit our frame circuitry, it will not be understood, or will be misunderstood.
That is why it matters how we talk about our environment.
But the frame circuitry in our brains doesn't change overnight. Just using the language of scientific facts and figures does not mean that the significance -- especially the moral significance -- of those facts and figures will be understood. That moral significance can only be communicated honestly and effectively using the language of value-based frames, preferably frames already there in the minds of the public.
What makes this hard is that there are two competing valued-based systems of frames operating in our politics, one progressive and one conservative. Parts of the conservative framing system is actually at odds with a realistic understanding of the environmental problems facing us.
For many years, the powerful conservative Republican messaging system in the country has communicated a greatly misleading picture to the public, successfully getting their frame-circuits established in the brains of a large proportion of the public. Meanwhile, the environmental movement and the Democrats have done a less-than-sterling job of communicating the reality of what we all face.
Luckily, a large proportion of the public has versions of both conservative and progressive value-systems in their brains, applying to different issues. Many Americans are conservative on some issues and progressive on others. It would be nice if political value systems were not involved here, but they are. The good news is that it may be possible to activate a realistic view of our situation by using the fact that many swing voters and even many Republicans are partially progressive, from the perspective of the value-systems already in place in their brains. If we are to talk about the environment effectively, we need to make use of this neural fact to bring about a true understanding of our situation through honest communication.
Read the whole article here.
By George Lakoff
December 13, 2006
As the 110th Congress prepares to take office, the post-election tug-of-war for the soul of the Democratic Party continues, with DLC folks spinning the election as a victory for centrism and others pointing to the role of economic populism.
The tug-of-war began on November 7, as Rahm Emanuel sprang to the podium in front of national TV cameras to announce a victory for centrism. Two days later fellow centrist James Carville called, unsuccessfully, for the resignation from the DNC of Howard Dean. Dean's 50-state strategy had been crucial in the Democratic victory. Carville and Emanuel are veterans of Bill Clinton's administration. They appear to want a centrist Congress and a centrist DNC in preparation for Hillary Clinton's presidential run.
The struggle to explain the election continues because it may well affect how Congressional Democrats will decide to act. Economic populism or centrism? The truth, I think, is both more complex and more interesting — and brings progressive values to center stage.
Framing has been part of the controversy. Framing has been about the deepest progressive values, ideas, and principles, future progressive policies, and the enterprise of accurately framing reality. Centrists, because of their concern with moving the party to the right, away from progressive values, have falsely framed framing itself as being mere messaging and spin.
It is time to return to accurate framing, beginning with the election itself.
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By George Lakoff
October 27, 2006
THE Bush administration has finally been caught in its own language trap.
"That is not a stay-the-course policy," Tony Snow, the White House press secretary, declared on Monday.
The first rule of using negatives is that negating a frame activates the frame. If you tell someone not to think of an elephant, he'll think of an elephant. When Richard Nixon said, "I am not a crook" during Watergate, the nation thought of him as a crook.
"Listen, we've never been stay the course, George," President Bush told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News a day earlier. Saying that just reminds us of all the times he said "stay the course."
What the president is discovering is that it's not so easy to rewrite linguistic history. The laws of language are hard to defy.
"The characterization of, you know, 'it's stay the course' is about a quarter right," the president said at an Oct. 11 news conference. " 'Stay the course' means keep doing what you're doing. My attitude is, don't do what you're doing if it's not working — change. 'Stay the course' also means don't leave before the job is done."
A week or so later, he tried another shift: "We have been — we will complete the mission, we will do our job and help achieve the goal, but we're constantly adjusting the tactics. Constantly."
To fully understand why the president's change in linguistic strategy won't work, it's helpful to consider why "stay the course" possesses such power. The answer lies in metaphorical thought.
Metaphors are more than language; they can govern thought and behavior. A recent University of Toronto study, for example, demonstrated the power of metaphors that connect morality and purity: People who washed their hands after contemplating an unethical act were less troubled by their thoughts than those who didn't, the researchers found.
"Stay the course" is a particularly powerful metaphor because it can activate so many of our emotions. Because physical actions require movement, we commonly understand action as motion. Because achieving goals so often requires going to a particular place — to the refrigerator to get a cold beer, say — we think of goals as reaching destinations.
Another widespread — and powerful — metaphor is that moral action involves staying on a prescribed path, and straying from the path is immoral. In modern conservative discourse, "character" is seen through the metaphor of moral strength, being unbending in the face of immoral forces. "Backbone," we call it.
In the context of a metaphorical war against evil, "stay the course" evoked all these emotion-laden metaphors. The phrase enabled the president to act the way he'd been acting — and to demonstrate that it was his strong character that enabled him to stay on the moral path.
To not stay the course evokes the same metaphors, but says you are not steadfast, not morally strong. In addition, it means not getting to your destination — that is, not achieving your original purpose. In other words, you are lacking in character and strength; you are unable to "complete the mission" and "achieve the goal."
"Stay the course" was for years a trap for those who disagreed with the president's policies in Iraq. To disagree was weak and immoral. It meant abandoning the fight against evil. But now the president himself is caught in that trap. To keep staying the course, given obvious reality, is to get deeper into disaster in Iraq, while not staying the course is to abandon one's moral authority as a conservative. Either way, the president loses.
And if the president loses, does that mean the Democrats will win? Perhaps. But if they do, it will be because of Republican missteps and not because they've acted with strategic brilliance. Their "new direction" slogan offers no values and no positive vision. It is taken from a standard poll question, "Do you like the direction the nation is headed in?"
This is a shame. The Democrats are giving up a golden opportunity to accurately frame their values and deepest principles (even on national security), to forge a public identity that fits those values — and perhaps to win more close races by being positive and having a vision worth voting for.
Right now, though, no language articulating a Democratic vision seems in the offing. If the Democrats don't find a more assertive strategy, their gains will be short-lived. They, too, will learn the pitfalls of staying the course.
George Lakoff, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow at the Rockridge Institute, is the author of "Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision."
George Lakoff and Evan Frisch
September 11, 2006
Language matters, because it can determine how we think and act.
For a few hours after the towers fell on 9/11, administration spokesmen referred to the event as a "crime." Indeed, Colin Powell argued within the administration that it be treated as a crime. This would have involved international crime-fighting techniques: checking banks accounts, wire-tapping, recruiting spies and informants, engaging in diplomacy, cooperating with intelligence agencies in other governments, and if necessary, engaging in limited "police actions" with military force. Indeed, such methods have been the most successful so far in dealing with terrorism.
But the crime frame did not prevail in the Bush administration. Instead, a war metaphor was chosen: the "War on Terror." Literal — not metaphorical — wars are conducted against armies of other nations. They end when the armies are defeated militarily and a peace treaty is signed. Terror is an emotional state. It is in us. It is not an army. And you can't defeat it militarily and you can't sign a peace treaty with it.
The war metaphor was chosen for political reasons. First and foremost, it was chosen for the domestic political reasons. The war metaphor defined war as the only way to defend the nation. From within the war metaphor, being against war as a response was to be unpatriotic, to be against defending the nation. The war metaphor put progressives on the defensive. Once the war metaphor took hold, any refusal to grant the president full authority to conduct the war would open progressives in Congress to the charge of being unpatriotic, unwilling to defend America, defeatist. And once the military went into battle, the war metaphor created a new reality that reinforced the metaphor.
Once adopted, the war metaphor allowed the president to assume war powers, which made him politically immune from serious criticism and gave him extraordinary domestic power to carry the agenda of the radical right: Power to shift money and resources away from social needs and to the military and related industries. Power to override environmental safeguards on the grounds of military need. Power to set up a domestic surveillance system to spy on our citizens and to intimidate political enemies. Power over political discussion, since war trumps all other topics. In short, power to reshape America to the vision of the radical right — with no end date.
In addition, the war metaphor was used as justification for the invasion of Iraq, which Bush had planned for since his first week in office. Frank Luntz, the right-wing language expert, recommended referring to the Iraq war as part of the "War on Terror" — even when it was known that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11 and indeed saw Osama bin Laden as an enemy. Fox News used "War on Terror" as a headline when showing film clips from Iraq. Remember "Weapons of Mass Destruction?" They were invented by the Bush administration to strike terror into the hearts of Americans and to justify the invasion. Remember that the Iraq War was advocated before 9/11 and promoted as early as 1997 by the members of the Project for the New American Century, who later came to dominate in the Bush administration. Why?
The right-wing strategy was to use the American military to achieve economic and strategic goals in the Middle East: to gain control of the second largest oil reserve in the world; to place military bases right in the heart of the Middle East for the sake of economic and political intimidation; to open up Middle East markets and economic opportunities for American corporations; and to place American culture and a controllable government in the heart of the Middle East. The justification was 9/11 — to identify the Iraq invasion as part of the "War on Terror" and claim that it is necessary in order to protect America and spread democracy.
What has been the result?
Domestically, the "War on Terror" has been a major success for the radical right. Bush has been returned to office and the radical right controls all branches of our government. They are realizing their goals. Social programs are being gutted. Deregulation and privatization are thriving. Even highways are being privatized. Taxpayers' money is being transferred to the ultra-rich making them richer. Two right-wing justices have been appointed to the Supreme Court and right-wing judges are taking over courts all over America. The environment continues to be plundered. Domestic surveillance is in place. Corporate profits have doubled while wage levels have declined. Oil profits are astronomical. And the radical rights social agenda is taking hold. The "culture war" is being won on many fronts. And it is still widely accepted that we are fighting a "War on Terror." The metaphor is still in place. We are still taking off our shoes at the airports, and now we cannot take bottled water on the planes. Terror is being propped up.
But while the radical right has done well on the domestic front, America and Americans have fared less well both at home and abroad.
What was the moral of 9/11?
To Osama bin Laden, the moral was simple: American power can be used against America itself. This moral has defined the post 9/11 world: the more America uses military force in the Middle East, the more damage is done to America and Americans.
The more Americans kill and terrorize Muslims, the more we recruit Muslims to become terrorists and fight against us.
The war in Iraq was over in 2003 when the US forces defeated Saddam's army. Then the American occupation began — an occupation by insufficient troops ill-suited to be occupiers, especially in a country on the brink of a civil war, where neither side wants us there.
The number of lives lost on 9/11 is currently listed as 2973. As of this writing 2662 Americans have been sent to their deaths in Iraq, a Muslim country that did not attack us. At the current rate, within months more Americans will have been sent to their deaths by Bush than were murdered at the hands of bin Laden.
9/11 was a crime — a crime against humanity — and terrorism is best dealt with as crime on an international level.
It is time to toss the war metaphor into the garbage can.
The war metaphor is still intimidating progressives. To come out against "staying the course" is to be called unpatriotic, weak, and defeatist. To say, "no, we're just as strong, but we're smarter" is to keep and reinforce the war metaphor, which the conservatives have a patent on.
It is time for progressives to jettison the war metaphor itself. It is time to tell some truths that progressives have been holding back on. What has worked in stopping terrorism is just what has worked in stopping international crime — like the recent police work in England. What has failed is the war approach, which just recruits more terrorists. In Iraq, the war was over when we defeated Saddam's army. Then the occupation began. Our troops are dying because they are not trained be occupiers in hostile territory on the cusp of a civil war.
Bush is an occupation president, not a war president, and his war powers should be immediately rescinded. Rep. Lynn Woolsey's resolution to do just that (H.R. 5875) should be taken seriously and made the subject of national debate.
I am suggesting a conscious discussion of the war metaphor as a metaphor. The very discussion would require the nation to think of it as a metaphor, and allow the nation to take seriously the truth of our presence in Iraq as an occupation that must be ended. You don't win or lose an occupation; you just exit as gracefully as possible.
Openly discussing the war metaphor as a metaphor would allow the case to be made that terrorism is most effectively treated as a crime — like wiping out a crime syndicate — not as an occasion for sending over a hundred thousand troops and doing massive bombing that only recruits more terrorists.
Finally, openly discussing the war metaphor as a metaphor would raise the question of the domestic effect of giving the president war powers, and the fact that the Bush administration has shamelessly exploited 9/11 to achieve the political goals of the radical right — with all the disasters that has brought to our country. It would allow us to name right-wing ideology, to spell it out, look at its effects, and to see what awful things it has done, is doing, and threatens to keep on doing. The blame for what has gone wrong in Iraq, in New Orleans, in our economy, and throughout the country at large should be placed squarely where it belongs — on right-wing ideology that calls itself "conservative" but mocks real American values.
Metaphors cannot be seen or touched, but they create massive effects, and political intimidation is one such effect. It is time for political courage and political realism. It is time to end the political intimidation of the war metaphor and the terror it has loosed on America.
George Lakoff is a Senior Fellow at the Rockridge Institute, the author of Whose Freedom? and Don't Think of an Elephant!, and Professor of Linguistics.
Evan Frisch is Rockridge Institute's Technology Strategist and responsible for expanding our capacity to empower the progressive community online.
© 2006 The Rockridge Institute, www.rockridgeinstitute.org
It is impossible for me, as it is for most Americans, to watch the horror and suffering from Hurricane Katrina and not feel physically sore, pained, bereft, empty, heartbroken. And angry.
The Katrina tragedy should become a watershed in American politics. This was when the usually invisible people suddenly appeared in all the anguish of their lives -- the impoverished, the old, the infirm, the kids and the low-wage workers with no cars, TVs or credit cards. They showed up on America's doorsteps, entered the living rooms and stayed. Katrina will not go away soon, and she has the power to change America.
The moral of Katrina is mostly being missed. It is not just a failure of execution (William Kristol), or that bad things just happen (Laura Bush). It was not just indifference by the President, or a lack of accountability, or a failure of federal-state communication, or corrupt appointments in FEMA, or the cutting of budgets for fixing levees, or the inexcusable absence of the National Guard off in Iraq. It was all of these and more, but they are the effects, not the cause.
The cause was political through and through -- a matter of values and principles. The progressive-liberal values are America's values, and we need to go back to them. The heart of progressive-liberal values is simple: empathy (caring about and for people) and responsibility (acting responsibly on that empathy). These values translate into a simple principle: Use the common wealth for the common good to better all our lives. In short, promoting the common good is the central role of government.
The right-wing conservatives now in power have the opposite values and principles. Their main value is Rely on individual discipline and initiative. The central principle: Government has no useful role. The only common good is the sum of individual goods. It's the difference between We're all in this together and You're on your own, buddy. It's the difference between Every citizen is entitled to protection and You're only entitled to what you can afford. It's the difference between connection and separation. It is this difference in moral and political philosophy that lies behind the tragedy of Katrina.
A lack of empathy and responsibility accounts for Bush's indifference and the government's delay in response, as well as the failure to plan for the security of the most vulnerable: the poor, the infirm, the aged, the children.
Eliminating as much as possible of the role of government accounts for the demotion of FEMA from cabinet rank, for Michael Brown's view that FEMA was a federal entitlement program to be cut, for the budget cuts in levee repair, for placing more responsibility on state and local government than they could handle, for the failure to fully employ the military, and for the lax regulation of toxic waste dumps contributing to a "toxic stew."
This was not just incompetence (though there was plenty of it), not just a natural disaster (though nature played its part), not just Bush (though he is accountable). This is a failure of moral and political philosophy -- a deadly failure. That is the deep truth behind this human tragedy, humanly caused.
It is a truth that needs to be told, starting now -- over and over. There can be no delay. The Bush administration is busy framing it in its own way: bad things just happen, it's no one's fault; the federal government did the best it could -- the problem was at the state and local level; we'll rebuild and everything will be okay; the people being shipped out will have better lives elsewhere, and jobs in Wal-Mart!
Unless the real truth is told starting now, the American people will accept it for lack of an alternative. The Democratic response so far is playing right into Bush's framing. By delaying a response for fear it will be called "partisan," the Democratic leadership is allowing Bush to frame the tragedy. And once it is framed, it is hard to reframe! It is time to start now.
Hurricane Katrina should also form the context in which to judge whether John Roberts is fit to be chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. The reason is simple: The Katrina Tragedy raises the most central issues of moral and political principles that will govern the future of this country. Katrina stands to be even more traumatic to America than 9/11. The failure of conservative principles in the Katrina Tragedy should, in the post-Katrina era, invalidate those principles -- and it should invalidate the right of George Bush to foist them on the country for the next 30 years.
John Roberts, as chief justice of a conservative court, would have enormous powers to impose on the nation those invalid principles. Do not be fooled by the arguments of "strict construction," "narrow interpretation" and the avoidance of "judicial activism" that will be brought forth in the hearings. What Roberts is brilliant at is the use of "narrow interpretations" to have maximal causal effect. Narrow interpretation, in his hands, can serve the purpose of radical conservative judicial activism.
Consider a small example, the Case of the Hapless Toad. The Constitution empowers Congress to regulate "commerce ... among the several states." This clause has been interpreted by the Court to make it the constitutional basis for much of civil rights legislation and all major environmental laws.
Over the past decade, the Court has been diminishing the powers of the federal government over the environment by limiting the scope of that clause, even limiting the application of the Clean Water Act. A completely narrow interpretation could eliminate all environmental laws (e.g., clean water and air, habitat protection) and threaten our civil rights. Roberts has written in favor such a narrow interpretation.
The case concerned a developer who wanted to build a large housing tract in California that would destroy one of the last remaining breeding grounds of the arroyo southwestern toad, threatening its continued existence. The U.S. Courts of Appeals on Washington, D.C., upheld the right to life of the toad species under the Endangered Species Act. But Roberts, in a July 2003 opinion, wrote that the Interstate Commerce Clause, on which the Endangered Species act is based, should not apply to "a hapless toad that, for reasons of its own, lives its entire life in California."
Such a narrowing would threaten the legal basis of the Endangered Species Act. Anti-discrimination legislation is also based on the Interstate Commerce Clause. What about discrimination wholly within one state? Were Roberts to apply a similar narrowing criterion, much of anti-discrimination law would go out the window.
The point is simple. Narrow interpretations can have massive causal effects and be a form of radical judicial activism in the conservative cause. After the Katrina Tragedy, we cannot afford a radically activist Chief Justice with the same philosophy that has failed America so badly. The ultimate moral and political issues apply in both cases. John Roberts as Chief Justice would be a danger to our democracy and possibly to our very lives.
George Lakoff is the author of Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate (Chelsea Green). He is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley and a Senior Fellow of the Rockridge Institute.
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