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Match-winner Gareth Bale emphasised the importance of points rather than performance after Wales beat Andorra 2-1.
Real Madrid star Gareth Bale has told his Wales team-mates to forget the Andorra artificial pitch controversy.
Gareth Bale says it was well worth spending time "in limbo" last summer as he waited to join Real Madrid from Tottenham.
Gareth Bale has warned there is more to come from his partnership with Cristiano Ronaldo after lifting the Super Cup.
Gareth Bale says Real Madrid are targeting an even bigger trophy haul this season.
Barcelona forward Lionel Messi is worth almost twice as much as Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, according to a study.
Chris Coleman says Wales have to learn to play without star players Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey.
Gareth Bale has told Real Madrid they have still not seen his best as he looks to build on a fairytale first season.
Wales boss Chris Coleman has urged Gareth Bale to make himself available for his country as often as possible.
Wales winger Gareth Bale has pulled out of next week's friendly against the Netherlands due to "a leg muscle injury."
Real Madrid chief Florentino Perez has suggested that the club may not look to make a 'Galactico' signing this summer.
Gareth Bale admitted he had realised a dream by helping Real Madrid claim UEFA Champions League glory.
Gareth Bale could be in line to be the next Wales skipper for next month's friendly against Holland in Amsterdam.
Real Madrid duo Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale are available to play in Saturday's Champions League final.
The world's most expensive player talks Champions League, World Cup and idolising Ryan Giggs.
Gareth Bale has praised Cristiano Ronaldo for his support since joining Real Madrid last summer.
Tim Sherwood believes any chance Tottenham had of finishing in the top four disappeared with the sale of Gareth Bale.
Danny Lennon's future remains in doubt after St Mirren's directors delayed a decision on whether to hand him a new deal.
Gareth Bale focused on his 'journey' at Real Madrid and not the expectation which accompanies his record transfer fee.
Gareth Bale saluted Cristiano Ronaldo after the Ballon d'Or winner fired Real Madrid to the UEFA Champions League final.
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Saverio Tommasi's aim is to favour true communication and sharing among peoples, so
as to build together the foundations of a world with more justice and less war, where
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In addition to Italian, at the moment we are able to offer at least some parts of the site in professional translations into French and English.
Saverio Tommasi is committed above all to freedom of information and non-paying access to knowledge. This site is not so much a shop-window for his own theatre work as an instrument for discovering and sharing thoughts and projects, data and information, in order to build a better world.
Good evening to everybody, my name is Saverio Tommasi.
I hope you forgive me for my bad english.
I decided to translate some parts of this website in english because I believe in the importance of free information even outside the borders of my nation, Italy.
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ON HIS PLAY: I was very pleased. Me and Matt, we connected very well. That's what we have been doing in training camp. He throws me balls and I try to make plays. Everybody can make plays.
ON BEING ANXIOUS: I wasn't anxious because I've got a lot of veteran guys around me. They kind of calmed me down. Tony Gonzalez talked to me. He said, 'Just do what you've been doing. Come out here and play football.' I had a little talk with him. I talked with Matt Ryan as well. He just said play football, too. They calmed me down.
ON THE OFFENSE: I thought we did a good job offensively. The first drive I don't think we executed the way we wanted to, but after we knocked off some of that rust. . . I thought we did a great job of capitalizing on the short field. On the third drive, I felt that we were into a little bit of a rhythm.
DID JULIO PASS HIS FIRST NFL TEST?: Yeah, I thought he did a good job tonight. I think he had two catches. I thought he was on top of the game plan. The condensed game plan that we had. He was on top of that and didn't make any mental errors. He ran some good routes. I thought, all in all, he did a nice job. He did a nice job on that reverse, being a ball carrier. If he continues to progress, he's going to do a great job for us.
ON HARRY DOUGLAS' TD CATCH: Harry ran a great route. That was kind of the key there. He kept his speed up and broke toward the post. He really made a good catch in between two guys. . . That's a good sign for us.
ON ERIC WEEMS' 17-YARD CATCH: He ran another good route. They had a two-high coverage and he kind of got in there behind the backers and in front of the safeties and made a nice catch in traffic. He got the ball down. He got hit quick. It wasn't really a great throw, but he made a really good catch. That's going to be big for us if the fourth and fifth guys can come up with some of those plays throughout the year. It's going to make our offense all the better.
ON HIS DAY: I think it went pretty good for it to be the first real live action that we've had. I was so excited to get out there and just to be able to play against somebody different.
ON HIS PUNT RETURNS: Great blocking. Those guys were holding them up at the line of scrimmage and were giving me a free chance to catch the ball. I just set up the blocks. I have to credit the blocking. It's more than just me out there.
ON HIS TD CATCH: It was a great throw by Matt. He put it right in there between the two defenders. Once I saw the coverage they were playing, I knew he was coming to me. I just wanted to make sure that I made the play.
ON THE SAFETY: He bite up a little bit. Once I saw him do that, I knew Matt was coming to me. He threw it like a missile. He did thread the needle and that allowed me to make a play.
ON THE EXPLOSIVE PLAYS: It's really big. You notice that the great teams in the NFL make a lot of explosive plays. It doesn't necessarily have to be bombs down the field. It could be runs where we block down the field that become big plays. I know Julio had a big play. He a 4- or 5-yard drag route and turned it up field for a big play. There are a lot of different ways that you can become explosive. It's one thing we've been preaching all offseason and one thing that we will get better with.
ON THE FIRST-TEAM DEFENSE: We did pretty good. We wanted to get off to fast start and I think we did a good job both offensively and defensively.
–D. Orlando Ledbetter, The Atlanta Falcons beat blog
August 13th, 2011
12:35 am
First !!
August 13th, 2011
12:36 am
Julio looked good and so did the first string of both sides of the ball but if we have a cb or safety go down we are in trouble.. I wish there was some magic pill to give ownes but wow he got burnt bad.
August 13th, 2011
12:45 am
Owens should not make the team. Julio is a beast! There should be another position battle. Sam baker vs. Jose valdez. Can't wait to see Ray edwards with abe
August 13th, 2011
12:48 am
Love hearing several players giving credit to their teammates and deflecting praise rather than crowing about their own achievements. That shows the strength and character of the Falcons locker room these days. Guys crediting blockers, receivers crediting the QB, the QB crediting receivers. Nobody whooping it up too much over something they did in a pre-season game. D-Led, when you get a chance, I'd like to hear a little about how Garrett Reynolds did starting in place of the departed Dahl. And do you think Franks might be overtaking Owens for the nickel CB job? And where does Walls fit into that puzzle?
August 13th, 2011
3:52 am
Its no contest between Owens and Franks – CUT OWENS NOW – He's terrible. Not just looking at this preseason game, but look back at last year – Green Bay destroyed him . Even Smith was hesitant to use this idiot against GB last year, but had no choice.
Look on the waiver wire. Gees Us.
August 13th, 2011
6:16 am
I have to go along with the crowd on this one, Owens needs to be traded to another team. He is still snake bit from last year's Green Bay game. It is a must for CB's to be able to block it out and move on, Owens plays not to screw up and ends up doing just that. Owens being traded for a middle round draft pick is the best answer at this point. i see we have the real deal now in uniform 98! that Matthews DE is going to be so much better than Anderson! Who knows, he may be our answer to replace Abe at DE in a year or two, and probably will get some reps during the regular season if he continues to shine! By the way did any team sign up Anderson? what a first round bust!
Yea, i have to re-think about A.C. Green being rookie of the year, he doesn't have a QB to get him the ball in Cincy, the Bengals better ease off the hard talk with Carson Palmer and get him in to camp, sweet talking to him and treating him like a real person goes a long way. He should come back and play and pad his numbers by passing to Green, if for no other reason. We all know how it is to be a dysfunctional franchise when the Smiths ran the Falcons. Only reason i am blogging this is that i am for all Dog and Tech players.
August 13th, 2011
8:43 am
28 Points. That's a lot of points to give up to a struggling team like the Dolphins. A couple of cast-off QBs throw 3 TD passes. We obviously have some guys in camp that shouldn't be in the NFL……including some players from last year's team.
First team offense looked good. Will get better.
Defense needs depth.
August 13th, 2011
9:17 am
I think we need depth in the secondary, but we are pretty deep on the d line and at LB. So much so, that we might have to cut some good players. Biggest surprises of the night
Emmanuel Stephens and Bear Woods.
Woods lead the team in tackles and seemed to be all over the field
Stephens was a surprise. He constantly applied pressure all night and ended the night with 5 tackles and a sack.
August 13th, 2011
9:26 am
Pre-season, first game, who really cares ? Now if we are in the 3rd pre-season game with the team not getting it done then I'll be interested and concerned.
My favorite teams are off to a slow start this season (Atlanta and Denver). But what the hell at least my expectations are in check, especially after seeing neither of them really being aggressive for a number of quality free agents.
If Philadelphia can be unbelievable active in free agency what happened to Atlanta and Denver? It's not as though they have an abundance of quality players especially on the 2nd and 3rd strings.
I still have too believe in TD and Smitty… but I must admit, I'm really nervous about this season. Just look at what Tampa Bay and New Orleans did to up-grade their teams. It's not like Atlanta dominated either one of them. And Denver.. who knows what's going on there?
Well let the season begin!
August 13th, 2011
9:36 am
Watch out for tampa bay. When we play them it may be the best games of the year.
August 13th, 2011
9:47 am
Agreed. Tampa was firing on all cylinders last night.
I still don't get you guys saying we got off to a slow start. Um, the team that takes the field dominated both sides of the ball. ATL's starting defense held MIA to 7 plays for 5 net yds, had 2 INTs & gave up no 1st downs. The Falcons 1st team offense was up on the 1st team Miami defense 17-0 when they left the game. Ryan had a 122 QB rating. Turner averaged 5.3 yards per carry. Most of our receivers averaged over 15 yards per catch. Jones averaged 21.5 yards per catch and 12 yards per carry. I would say that was a pretty fast start. Everything after that was Smith evaluating players who are on the bubble. Notice we went straight to the third string guys.
August 13th, 2011
10:13 am
I predict a 3rd place finish behind NO and Tampa Bay. Our secondary is laughable. This years GB will be 48-28 instead of 48-21 due to the upgrades on O. Sheesh.
August 13th, 2011
10:20 am
The starters looked good on both sides of the ball IMO. The backups/reserves? Not so much…
August 13th, 2011
10:45 am
I think I saw Peria Jerry playing deep into the 4th quarter. The coaches must think his knee is OK and he needs reps like Reynolds? How did he look to you? Did he rotate with the 1st string in the 1st quarter?
August 13th, 2011
11:39 am
No depth.
August 13th, 2011
11:48 am
Just like your inane observations….
August 13th, 2011
11:53 am
@don't feed the aints troll, you make a great observation the falcons did go straight to the 3rd string QB. I have to admit I am concerned over Christopher Owens future with this team. His situation is very similar to Chaveous Jackson's situation last Pre-season. Personally, I like Dominique Franks and Rafael Bush.
August 13th, 2011
12:04 pm
I THINK FOR THE 1st GAME FALCON LOOKED GOOD JONES PLAYED GOOD , HE COST A LOT BUT I BELEAVE HE IS GOING TO BE WORTH THE PRICE. MATT LOOK VERRY SHARP ALSO I LIKE THE PLAY OF 0F QB JOHN PARKER WILSON FOR NO #2.DEFENANCE LOOKTO BE BETTER THE LAST YEAR.
August 13th, 2011
12:09 pm
Thanks Sly. Yes, I agree that we would be much better off signing a 3rd CB off waivers. I just don't know how we are on the cap. I am good with Grimes (who is proving that despite his size, he is one of the better DB in the league) and Robinson (who didn't get a lot of INTs last year but played the pass well). They aren't flashy, but they are more than solid. I would feel better about having a proven nickle DB, but I also think that having Edwards on the line is going to take some pressure off Owens and Franks. I would take Franks over Owens simply because Franks helps you in the return game as well and Owens isn't much better if at all in coverage.
August 13th, 2011
12:12 pm
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August 13th, 2011
12:29 pm
Good point DFAT
August 13th, 2011
12:43 pm
your backups were truly incredible last night. they were able to put up a whole 6 pts. and only letting the dolphins score a scant 28. the rest of the nfl is surely quaking in their boots at that field of depth and talent
August 13th, 2011
1:41 pm
No mention of Kerry Meier who was 2nd in avg yards per completion………….great go up and get it catch.
Steve Largent in the making, just a little taller and faster. You might want to get on this bandwagon DOL or you'll be hanging on to my coattails…………….lol…..!!!
August 13th, 2011
1:42 pm
August 13th, 2011
11:48 am
Just like your inane observations….
Excellence in simplicity waynester, I love it!
August 13th, 2011
2:08 pm
sid – it still doesn't change the fact of "no depth"
August 13th, 2011
2:14 pm
All you guys need to learn football the preseason is so we can find dept, behind the starters and back-ups we are fine calm down this is first preseason game.
August 13th, 2011
2:25 pm
I was liking the play of number 17, Harven was it,(sorry bad with names). He made a good catch at the side line and almost got to the td by Parker. He seems to have good potental.
August 13th, 2011
2:25 pm
August 13th, 2011
2:08 pm
sid – it still doesn't change the fact of "no depth"
Hey waynester, isn't this where I say to hiramhick "just like your inane comments"
August 13th, 2011
2:41 pm
sid – you have to ask waynester what to say? that aps is really something isn't it?
August 13th, 2011
2:42 pm
The Falcons were brilliant in looking at all personnel, they played almost twice as many personnel as did Miami, especially UFA's. Maybe Miami felt like they needed the win for their program confidence.
August 13th, 2011
2:43 pm
I agree with Dominic. As much as I hate the vanilla schemes without result preseason, it was good to hear Smith's team re-directing praise and generally behaving like the class act that they've become. Nice too to see them celebrating with each other rather than prancing around the end zone like self centered clowns. Smith is making the Falcons into a respectable organization, though I do wonder if Owens is one of those practice perfect players whose game breaks down under pressure. Come to think of it, Christopher didn't do very well when pressured by his girlfriend earlier this year…
August 13th, 2011
2:43 pm
hiramhick, did you see a question mark anywhere…………..
August 13th, 2011
2:46 pm
hiramhick, you need to quit riding on STB4's coattails, think for yourself man.
August 13th, 2011
3:53 pm
same to you about riding waynesters coattails. hers a question mark …? … so the answer would be yes!
August 13th, 2011
5:09 pm
It's amazing how someone can claim a team that won their division with a 13-3 record, and finished ahead of the 2nd place AINTS, lacks depth. When you consider how AINT FANS have been whining and crying about how they were side tracked by injuries last yr, it would appear they are the ones lacking depth.
They finished the season and went into the playoffs dragging their collective butts, which resulted in the monumental, record setting humilation of a loss to the SeaHawks. We're talking about the NFL's 4th ranked DEF giving up 41pts to the NFL's 25th ranked OFF, and losing to the worst, and 1st playoff team in NFL history with a losing record That embarrassment ranks right up there with their other NFL record in futility, which is going 25 consecutive yrs without a winning season.
These AINT FANS are prime candidates to appear on that ESPN commercial, if it ever appears again, where people who don't have a clue about what they're talking about are shown talking out of their rear ends. However, we also have some Falcon fans doing the same thing.
August 13th, 2011
6:06 pm
You forgot to quote Owens "Was that my man" and "Was I suppose to checking him".
August 13th, 2011
6:30 pm
If any of you truly understood football you would know that pre-season is just for the process of finding depth. i bet half of you never played football.
August 13th, 2011
7:36 pm
I said it before and I'll say it again…cliff Matthews was a steal for us in the 7th round. This guy knows how to get after the passer. He reminds me of a young Abe coming out of USC. I certainly hope Sam baker gets it together before the season starts. He wasn't bad, but needs to tighten up some. Keepers so far: walls,bush,priest,woods,Matthews,Jackson,Stephens,fenaroli,Tripp,harvey
August 13th, 2011
7:38 pm
my name says it all
August 13th, 2011
7:56 pm
hey nes, knock off the crack man, it's AJ Green, and not ac green. the other was a laker, stoopid!
August 13th, 2011
8:29 pm
Pre – Season games are such a yawn.
Will A.J. Green finally get that signature 1,000 yard season?
August 13th, 2011
8:59 pm
Falcons will be nice this year. Check out my NFL team rankings.
August 13th, 2011
9:07 pm
Well, great to see the Falcons have some guys with strong, flexible necks. A lot of them looked like their heads were on a swivel as they watched Dolphin players dash past them. If even one of our starters gets hurt, we won't win another game. Those 2nd and 3rd string Miami QBs looked like Bart Starr reincarnated.
August 13th, 2011
11:08 pm
attention all you know it alls, sports agents, ajc sportswriters and uga dog poops…guess who was the bills leading rusher tonight? Spiller? nope
try Nesbitt who averaged 10 yards per carry
August 14th, 2011
12:38 am
Michael Cunningham's Blog is closed again…
Eagles 47, Falcants 18
August 14th, 2011
1:28 am
Mich–ael Vi–ck
August 14th, 2011
1:30 am
Michael Cunningham's Blog is closed again… Why?
Answer: Grandad and Troll Drmaryb
August 14th, 2011
1:37 am
YO MAMA, wow i am sorry about not remembering it is AJ Green, accept my apology for not being perfect, i am getting up in age is the only answer i can give you! have a nice weekend!
August 14th, 2011
7:21 am
I didn't see anyone get to Miami's QB like the bell ringer that John Parker got.


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"I got enough things to be scared of in my life," the Orioles manager said dismissively of the death-defying rides. "We got one-run games. I get on the roller coaster every night, and they don't put the bar down."
As a result, they enter September not only with a strong shot at breaking the franchise's 14-year streak of losing records but as a serious playoff contender. The wider baseball world, which seemed to assume the Orioles would go poof for most of the year, is taking notice.
"I think people are finally starting to understand what a great story is developing in Baltimore," said ESPN analyst Tim Kurkjian, a former Orioles beat writer.
Kurkjian has heard the same question on a series of radio and television appearances in the last week: How are they doing this?
"My answer is that I have no idea," he said. "But that's what makes this such a good baseball story."
There is no better question about this year's team, because even a careful analysis of the numbers leaves one grasping for explanations.
Asked what he would opine about the team if he were still an analyst on ESPN, Showalter said, "I would love it, because all the numbers and stuff they crunch up there, we lean against all that. I was talking to [ESPN analyst] John Kruk the other night and he said, 'We can't explain it.'"
The Orioles don't put a high percentage of runners on base. Their patchworked starting rotation is below average at preventing runs. The team's most established players, save for Adam Jones, are posting middling seasons by their own standards. Even Jones has tailed off in recent weeks.
The club hasn't been lucky with injuries. Its young starting pitchers, thought to be the key to the season, have frequently been dispatched to the minors or relegated to the bullpen.
"They ran out of bullets a month ago," Kurkjian said in assessing the club's talent. "And yet they've played even better since then."
Many have drawn comparisons to the 1989 Orioles, who stayed in contention until the penultimate day of the season after losing 107 games the year before. That team's slogan was "Why Not?" Showalter said his players, confronted with expert opinions dismissing their chances, like to respond, "Says Who?"
At its most basic level, baseball, like any sport, is about outscoring the opposition. The Orioles had been outscored by 46 runs overall through Wednesday, putting them in the company of the lowly Kansas City Royals and San Diego Padres, far below any other team in playoff contention.
Baseball historian Bill James devised a statistic called Pythagorean winning percentage that projects team records based on the difference between runs scored and runs allowed. James found that the statistic is more predictive of future performance than a team's actual record. By this measure, the Orioles should have been 60-69 through Wednesday, not 71-58. The difference between their actual and projected records is one of the greatest in history, according to Baseball-reference.com.
The Orioles take pride in shrugging off such analysis.
"We hear about how terrible we're supposed to be from the national media, according to the stats they choose to care about," said All-Star closer Jim Johnson. "We only care about the wins and losses. They can tell us how bad we are at fielding, how bad we hit with runners in scoring position. All that stuff. We don't care."
What the Orioles do well, better than any team in recent baseball history, is win close games. The common wisdom among baseball's statistical acolytes is that teams should break even in games decided by one run. An excellent or poor record in these games is regarded as a sign of good or bad luck, respectively.
Well, the Orioles were an almost-unfathomable 24-6 in one-run games through Thursday. (Next best in the league were the Cleveland Indians at 15-7.) The Orioles are even better, 12-2, when games go to extra innings.


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(ABC NEWS) -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent lap band surgery in February to control his weight.
Christie, whose persona as a notoriously outspoken Republican in the otherwise blue state of New Jersey, has long fought to control his weight.
A top Chris Christie aide tells ABC News that the governor kept his lap band surgery such a secret that even most of his top advisors didn't know he had the procedure.
Christie is in the midst of a run for reelection and reported this week raising $6.2 million in campaign cash. A successful reelection for a Republican in the Northeast would make him a stronger potential presidential hopeful. A slimmer figure might quiet questions about his health and his ability to compete in an exhaustive national campaign.
Christie underwent the surgery – a one-day out-patient procedure – on February 16 (the Saturday of President's Day weekend). He checked into the hospital under a pseudonym and told only his family and his chief of staff, who he told shortly before undergoing the surgery.
Christie's other top aides only found out about the surgery Monday.
Related: FDA Considers Lap Band Expansion
Another adviser to Christie told ABC News he has lost "more than 30 pounds -- so far."
The governor, at the White House Correspondent's Dinner 10 days ago, looked a bit smaller to people who talked with him. But his aides declined to talk about the weight-loss procedure at the time, apparently unaware that it had already taken place.
Christie opened up about his weight problem in a July 2012 interview with ABC News and stressed then that he was "trying" to lose weight, a battle he's waged for 30 years.
"It's something that's not easy. If it were easy, I'd already have it fixed," he said in July of 2012.
"Barbara I've had more diets and lost and gained back more weight than I'd care to count," he told ABC's Barbara Walters in December of 2012.
Watch: Chris Christie as One of Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating People of 2012
Christie told Walters it would be "ridiculous" for people to say his weight should keep him from the oval office. He pointed to the 18-hour days he put in when New Jersey was hit by Hurricane Sandy.
In July of 2012 Christie said he had never considered gastric bypass surgery because it's "too risky." Both gastric bypass and Lap Band surgery are variations of a bariatric surgery. Gastric bypass is a much more invasive procedure that involves surgically reducing the size of the stomach, among other things. Lap band is just like a band or belt that restricts how much the stomach can expand.
"I mean, see, listen, I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding among people regarding weight and regarding all those things that go into, to people being overweight," Christie said in an interview on "Nightline." "I think folks say — yeah, well he must just not be disciplined, you know, or he must not have willpower — that kind of thing. I guess the best analogy to make is some people drink too much. Some people take drugs. Some people eat too much. See, you can go live every day without drinking. You can live every day without taking drugs. You can't live every without eating."
Related: America's $20 Billion Weight Loss Industry
Besides his weight, Christie said last year that he was healthy.
"My blood pressure's fine, my cholesterol is fine," Christie said. "I'm in good physical shape in terms of those indicators. But I have to lose weight and I get it."
Watch: Chris Christie Talks About His Weight on Nightline
Christie said there are two types of people who approach him about his weight: those who "really genuinely are concerned about me and want me to be around for a long time, and really care about me" and some of the people he sometimes encounters on his Twitter feed.
"There are some people who are just — you know, incredibly nasty and, and ugly and horrible," Christie said. "That's just the way it goes. I mean, you know, people have that kind of prejudice about them. I can't do anything about that."
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When I was in college back in the late sixties, as student riots and massive union strikes regularly crippled the French economy, I recall thinking it was great living here in the U.S., where a free-enterprise economy insulated us from such counter-productive and shameful displays of civic greed. What a difference four decades of ever-expanding government can make.
Last year's riots in Greece, and violent demonstrations in the U.K. – all birthed by the anger felt by students, teachers, union workers and others who have grown increasingly dependent on government subsidies and hand outs, and who now face modest cuts to those benefits – are being played out in America's heartland. Teachers and public-employee unions in the Badger State are angrily protesting Gov. Scott Walker's modest austerity plan that would curtail public-sector union power in some areas, and require those workers to pay a small part of their health care benefit package and slightly increase their contribution to the very generous pension plans they enjoy.
You'd think by the response, the governor was forcing union members to surrender their first-born child to the state.
Yet, even more shameful than the vehement union reaction to these proposals – which includes publicly comparing Walker to Adolf Hitler – has been the cowardly reaction by Wisconsin's Democratic state legislators (Walker is a Republican). Rather than work with the new governor and Republican majorities in the legislature, the Democrats simply turned tail and ran to the neighboring state of Illinois; thereby denying the governor and their Republican colleagues the necessary majority to vote on budgetary matters.
Just how draconian are Walker's proposed measures to help close Wisconsin's burgeoning, $3.6 billion deficit? In fact, not draconian at all. The new governor's first-ever budget proposal would require government workers to contribute a modest 5.8 percent of their pensions, and 12 percent of their health insurance benefits; both amounts below the national average. The proposal also would limit the ability of public-sector unions to collectively bargain; thereby helping to ensure taxpayers are not held hostage to unreasonable demands on their wallets in the future.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Walker is promising no layoffs or teacher furloughs in exchange for passage of these reforms. However, he has warned he will be forced to layoff some 6,000 state workers if action is not taken. The Democratic legislators who fled the state apparently would rather see public employees laid off, than support modest benefit contributions by employed state workers.
Public-employee unions, grown arrogant from decades of ever-more generous benefit packages, are fighting tooth and nail to hang onto their gains. They exhibit no willingness to help shoulder any of the costs the taxpayers at-large have to pay in these rough economic times.
Walker is not alone in recognizing that steps must be taken to rein in such largesse. Even California and New York are entertaining minor reforms to ease the burden that public-sector benefits have imposed on their budgets.
Whether the Wisconsin Governor and his legislative colleagues will prevail in this epic battle remains unclear; and the outcome will have significant ramifications in Ohio and other states that are heavily union-laden, as well as in the nation's capitol. But the battle now being waged in America's heartland offers a focused glimpse into our country's future.
Whether we become another France – a country long held hostage to powerful unions and debilitating social benefit programs – or begin the slow but vital climb back up the ladder from the depths of government entitlements and deficit-spending, may be determined right here, right now, in Madison, Wisconsin.
by- Bob Barr, The Barr Code
February 23rd, 2011
10:56 am
Strange out how Mr Barr attended college and somehow missed those turbulent times of the sixties. From what I remember it was a time of protesting the Viet Nam war. You remember the war which a lot of your present leaders took so many deferments to avoid. The protests where the FBI infiltrated groups and planted false evidence in groups who seemed to have a difference of opinion. Lets not forget the beat down and murders of civil rights workers. Or the killing of those Kent State students. Lets not even discuss the police actions at the national political conventions just to name a few. I suppose it depends which side of the fence you were on during those times whether or not they effected you. By his present article you can see what side he was on. Sort of like the teacher telling students black folks were brought to this country to help the farmers.
February 23rd, 2011
11:00 am
"Public-employee unions, grown arrogant from decades of ever-more generous benefit packages, are fighting tooth and nail to hang onto their gains. They exhibit no willingness to help shoulder any of the costs the taxpayers at-large have to pay in these rough economic times."
If you have to lie to make your case, you have a bad case. Barr is lying. As the conservative newspaper the Orange County Register notes, "Union leaders said they would agree to the higher payments, which are equivalent to an 8% pay cut, to help the state close a $3.6 billion budget shortfall through 2013. The governor, however, also wants public employee unions restricted to only be able to bargain over wages and not hours or benefits."
That's right, the unions have already agreed to the governor's terms on paying more. But he wants to break the unions and won't be satisfied until he's done that. He refuses to take the union concessions and Barr is lying about it.
February 23rd, 2011
11:00 am
No Bob, the State of Wisconsin could afford it if the union agrees to cuts and the tax cuts for businesses, primarily big businesses, go away. This is simply a ploy to kill union bargaining rights, pure and simple. Even the union has stated that they will take the cuts if their union bargaining rights and maintained.
February 23rd, 2011
11:02 am
Teachers do not start at 46k. That average is raised due to masters degrees and 10+ years of service. I have a friend who has a masters degree in education and is currently making less than 40k. I started at 34k. I currently make 36k. Not a lavish lifestyle like you are trying to portray. Not every teacher works in a large city where the average pay is bloated.
February 23rd, 2011
11:04 am
"Not a lavish lifestyle like you are trying to portray. "
Never said it was a lavish lifestyle. Your words not mine.
"Not every teacher works in a large city where the average pay is bloated.'
Since when did Kenosha, WI become a big city?
February 23rd, 2011
11:05 am
"That's right, the unions have already agreed to the governor's terms on paying more. But he wants to break the unions and won't be satisfied until he's done that. He refuses to take the union concessions and Barr is lying about it."
LOL!!!!! I really love ignorant people.
February 23rd, 2011
11:07 am
"I have a friend who has a masters degree in education and is currently making less than 40k."
And I care, why?
"I started at 34k. I currently make 36k."
You made that choice to teach. I couldn't care less what you make as long as my taxes aren't paying for you to whine and cry and protest while lying about being sick.
February 23rd, 2011
11:10 am
You made that choice to teach. I couldn't care less what you make as long as my taxes aren't paying for you to whine and cry and protest while lying about being sick.
I did not go to the protests. Quit assuming. I also have no problem paying in for pension and health care. Its the collective bargaining that this is over. I was giving you examples of pay that are nowhere near the 70k you mentioned earlier.
February 23rd, 2011
11:11 am
"You made that choice to teach. I couldn't care less what you make as long as my taxes aren't paying for you to whine and cry and protest while lying about being sick."
I did make the choice to teach. I love what I do. You had the choice to go into whatever field you were entering knowing far in advance what your taxes were going to.
February 23rd, 2011
11:12 am
Also, most teachers work longer than 8 hour days and take classes during the summer. So the 180 days a year point is moot.
February 23rd, 2011
11:14 am
Since when did Kenosha, WI become a big city?
4th largest city in Wisconsin.
February 23rd, 2011
11:20 am
Everyone, and I mean everyone, seems to be missing the main point here. Several states including Wisconsin are going bankrupt. What happens then? They will try to pass the buck to the taxpayers in other states via the Fed. The political fallout could easily rip this country apart at the seams.
The taxpaying citizens of the United States are in grave danger of completely losing control of government. When that happens, your rights and freedoms will be controlled by a "boss-class" to be doled out as it serves their interests.
February 23rd, 2011
11:28 am
Did you hear the sound bite of the female teacher in WI who chimed in with this gem- 'First, he (Hitler) got rid of the unions, then the jews…' No wonder kids, who are being taught by idiots in public schools like this lady, don't stand a chance.
Unions are $ucking the marrow from the bone of this country…the times of taxpayers footing the bill for unions and illegals is over. We are broke and we cannot afford to stay on this track anymore. Those union bus drivers making six figures with 6+ weeks paid leave per year should have never gotten to this point.
February 23rd, 2011
11:39 am
The gorilla in the corner that many don't seem to understand is that campaign funding from the Dems' wealthiest, most reliable, and most consistent source (labor unions) is at stake. This is an all out union effort. The head of the AFL-CIO is heavily involved, the President is heavily involved (yes – he may be behind he scenes – but he is heavily involved), and unions both public and private from all over the nation are heavily involved. Wisconsin Dems/unions have already agreed to the modest give backs in pension and health care payments. It is the collective bargaining and other provisions they are desperate to protect. They not want any precedent set anywhere that would impact their power to blackmail, coerce, and extort concessions by striking and withholding essential public services – which is exactly how the states have, over the years, gotten into this financial predicament. Public employee unions should never have been given the right to strike in the first place, but the Dems all over the nation made that possible, and now that horse is way out of the barn, and is going to be tough to ever coral it again — as we are seeing. But even more importantly, the state takes the union dues out of the paychecks of public workers, gives it to the unions, who then pass the money straight on to the Dems. Wisconsin public employees currrently have no choice in this. If you are a cop, fireman, teacher, bureaucrat, highway mainteance worker, etc. the money is withdrawn for you. It is not voluntary. The new Wisconsin law makes it voluntary, and you have to re-up for it every year. The possibility of that choice has the Dems in Wisconsin and every where else terrified. How ironic coming from the party of "choice." But that is another whole essay. If this catches on in Wisconisn, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, California and other public union bastions, it will be a Dem disaster. Desperate measures for desperate people. The Dems have run away in Indiana, and will probably do so when the time comes in other states – who have to balance their budgets since they don't have a printing press like the Feds have. The use typical union tactics, shouting down people, screaming, marching, demanding, being pubic nuisances. So far, and to their credit – the time tested method of union thugs beating up reporters people who disagree with them has not been used yet. They scream that "this is what democracy looks like!!" No, actually it's not. Democracy occurred in the peaceful November elections when the voters of Wisconsin elected a majority of Republican legislators and a governor who campaigned on balancing the budget and taking these kinds of measures. By fleeing the state and hiding out, the Dem legislators are obstructing the democratic process and conducting a de facto shut down of the state government. But, in their twisted world, choice is no a universally applicable virtue, and shutting down government is fine when they do it for their own selfish reasons. The silver lining for the Pubs and Independents who created the tsunami that devastated the Dems in November of 2010 is that this spoiled brat shameful behavior is going to help create an even larger tsunami in November of 2012.
February 23rd, 2011
12:04 pm
Very good article, and very informative. It's a shame that these union workers have gotten so use to their huge pensions, that they pitch a fit like a 2 year old when an 'inconvenient' change comes their way. Get use to it people. The rest of America is having to reduce their personal budgets just to live every day. You are no better than the rest of us. Your labor unions are there to help you to not be taken advantage of…NOT to help you take advantage of everyone else, which has been the habit due to the labor unions having a powerful voice and powerful influence. In my days, that's what we called a 'bully.' Get real, and join us in helping our country, instead of adding to the problem.
February 23rd, 2011
12:12 pm
It is not about the money. Its the collective bargaining being taken away. The union has agreed to the funds being used. They want the bargaining rights.
When this passes everyone in Wisconsin should be expecting property tax raises.
February 23rd, 2011
12:23 pm
Hey Bob, maybe I missed the memo. The Union actually agreed to take the pay cuts he proposed. He refused to accept it because he wanted to try to strip Unions of power by passing anti-union laws.
It's about more than balancing the budget.
February 23rd, 2011
12:27 pm
"I did not go to the protests. Quit assuming. I also have no problem paying in for pension and health care. Its the collective bargaining that this is over. I was giving you examples of pay that are nowhere near the 70k you mentioned earlier."
I posted a fact from a Wisconsin teachers website, ma'am. Couldn't care less if you have no problem paying in. You should pay in from your own money and stop wasting taxpayer dollars over it. Collective bargaining is nothing more than demanding raises year in and year out.
Bottom line: Pay for your own damn retirement.
February 23rd, 2011
12:27 pm
"I did make the choice to teach. I love what I do. You had the choice to go into whatever field you were entering knowing far in advance what your taxes were going to.'
Then again, your taxpayer dollars don't pay for my salary.
February 23rd, 2011
12:29 pm
"Also, most teachers work longer than 8 hour days and take classes during the summer. So the 180 days a year point is moot."
Please post a link to back up that claim.
February 23rd, 2011
12:30 pm
"4th largest city in Wisconsin."
LOL!!!!! Yeah, Kenosha is one big city!
February 23rd, 2011
12:30 pm
Kenosha, WI = 98,187
There are more people who attend UGA football games on a single Saturday. Try again.
February 23rd, 2011
12:31 pm
Kenosha, WI = 98,187
There are 83,222 in Rockdale, Co. Try again.
February 23rd, 2011
12:33 pm
Yep, and these morons are the ones teaching school in Wisconsin.
February 23rd, 2011
12:34 pm
"It is not about the money. Its the collective bargaining being taken away. The union has agreed to the funds being used. They want the bargaining rights."
If it's not about money, then why are unions/teachers talking about how poorly funded their jobs are?
"When this passes everyone in Wisconsin should be expecting property tax raises.'
Got something to back that up?
February 23rd, 2011
12:35 pm
There are two groups of people in this country – those who are net taxpayers and those who are net tax consumers. Who know which group you belong to. Everyone says that the struggle is between the rich and the poor, the have's and the have-not's. The reality is that when the real battle begins, it will be between those who have used the power of the state to take from others for their benefit, used the power of the state to exclude competition from their markets, used the power of the state to protect their monopoly on service or goods delivery, or used the power of the state to provide the funding mechanism for their employment and the rest of us.
My greatest fear is that the rest of us, thanks to the tireless efforts of the govnerment, may no longer outnumber the others. But fundamentally all governments rely on the consent of the masses. We need only withdraw our consent. It collapsed the Berlin wall and the Iron Curtain, it collapsed the government of Mubarack, and it can restore freedom and liberty to this country once again. A solid and committed withdraw of support. It is already well underway.
February 23rd, 2011
12:43 pm
Several protesters in Wisconsin made the comment that the first thing Hitler did after taking power was to get rid of the labor unions. What this person failed to mention is that he also got rid of private schools and guns. Hitler was no fool. He knew that he needed the government-controlled education system to further his cause and to indoctrinate the children. He also knew that an armed populace was a huge threat to his plans as well.
And of course since his plans were to control the economy, he couldn't have organized labor messing with those plane. Even FDR, another great fascist leader, once wrote to the head of a labor union that while he supported organized labor, such collective bargaining was completely unworkable in govenrment employment situations for many of the reasons we see going on in Wisconsin. Yes, even FDR was against government employee collective bargaining. Here is a link ot one of many hundreds of sites with the documentation:
February 23rd, 2011
12:45 pm
"Yes, even FDR was against government employee collective bargaining. "
I already posted his statement about unions.
February 23rd, 2011
12:52 pm
There SHOULD be restrictions placed on the labor unions, to keep them limited in their powers in demanding raises and such, at least to a specified percentage equal to the average worker's pay in the entire State, private or public (or slightly above average for the highly educated fields). But with seemingly no restrictions, it's no wonder with programs like this going on around the nation, that we are going bankrupt. There comes a time when responsibility should kick in, but when we elect those into office who want to be responsible and desire to do the best possible thing to help, and we stand against their decisions, then we accomplish nothing but chaos, not responsibility. This is where responsibility SHOULD kick in.
February 23rd, 2011
12:54 pm
"There SHOULD be restrictions placed on the labor unions"
Yeah, but without unions, Democrats wouldn't have any money.
February 23rd, 2011
12:59 pm
Well, first…I didn't say get rid of them altogether…because I think if controlled properly, and honestly, they could be a good thing for all workers of America, but secondly, for your comment "Yeah, but without unions, Democrats wouldn't have any money."…would that necessarily be a bad thing???
February 23rd, 2011
1:01 pm
Hey Bob, did ya hear that the President will no longer defend that horrible piece of legislation that you crafted?
February 23rd, 2011
1:04 pm
On the other hand, if the Dem's money was reduced through this avenue, it would mean a couple of things…1. Our taxes wouldn't be forking out so much due to the labor unions and 2. this same tax money that helps these unions, of which portions of that goes to the Dem's, would not be indirectly helping out the Democrats too…
Just a thought…
February 23rd, 2011
1:06 pm
I was being sarcastic. I'm all for getting rid of unions and couldn't be happier to see Democrats lost their money.
February 23rd, 2011
1:07 pm
It's great to see the Democrats lose money and run from their own states. It shows the rest of the country just how effed up unions really are.
February 23rd, 2011
1:15 pm
I agree with you LA. I'm inclined to believe that if something's causing a problem to my budget, that I'm going to do what I can to change it, or even eliminate it altogether, to keep the problem from persisting. That, I feel, is only a natural reaction that anyone would take to their own personal budgets. Why do these people think that the government is any different?
By the way, I knew you were being sarcastic…I just wanted to say it anyway.
February 23rd, 2011
1:20 pm
Buh bye, unions.
Providence plans to pink slip all teachers
The school district plans to send out dismissal notices to every one of its 1,926 teachers, an unprecedented move that has union leaders up in arms.
February 23rd, 2011
1:22 pm
Yep, and the greedy union members seem to think that "taxing the rich" is the solution which PROVES that they don't understand why people are pissed off and hate unions. Some WI teacher actually said on live TV, that taxing rich people would fix the problem.
I guess you can't fix stupid.
February 23rd, 2011
1:36 pm
Bob, you're 0-2, pal. 'civic greed'? that's some clever language? but let's say it does exist within the public sector unions – would you concede 'corporate greed' has as much influence on unbalanced state budgets? are not tax incentives, bailouts and subsidies a manifesttion of greed in the 'free enterprise' system? or, is wealth the result of altruism? and speaking of 'free enterprise' system, the right to "bargain' (collectively, or independently) is included in the 'free' (FYI – the United States is a plutocracy – 'the free market' is a card trick – the house always wins. so, somebody needs to tell Governor Walker he needs to lay off the 6,0000 employees and be done with it.
February 23rd, 2011
1:43 pm
"would you concede 'corporate greed' has as much influence on unbalanced state budgets?'
What corporate greed?
"bailouts and subsidies a manifesttion of greed"
Spell check is your friend. What bailouts has Wisconsin given out?
"somebody needs to tell Governor Walker he needs to lay off the 6,0000 employees and be done with it.'
Couldn't agree more. There are MANY unemployed teachers that would love to fill those jobs.
February 23rd, 2011
1:44 pm
Joe the Plutocrat – There is no FREE MARKET in america. The only thing you are blaming is corporatism/merchantilism/crony capitalism or whatever name you want to give it, but it is not FREE MARKET Capitalism.
When the governor advocates elminating government provision of services and allowing a free, competitive market to provide education, fire, security, trash, charity, then we will know that he is serious about REALLY fixing the state budget problems.
February 23rd, 2011
1:45 pm
DawgDad, you obviously never took my advice an looked up PLUTOCRACY in the dictionary. what is with the "America is in danger" warning? the "boss class" (plutocrats) have been running the show for years. plutocracy in action.
February 23rd, 2011
1:45 pm
Yep. So true. I mean…at one time when I didn't know any better, I thought that taxing the rich would be a great idea, because I thought "he's rich, and I'm not. He can afford it." But then a certain someone I've been listening to lately on talk radio put it into perspective for me. Many rich people got rich, because they worked hard to get there. Yet they are still just as American as I am. They are still my equal. So how right would it be to tax him more, and leave me out of the equation, when I'm just as much an American as he is? All men are created 'equal', right? And if, my own construction company in which I own, happens to do great, should I be punished with higher taxes if I ever became rich? Absolutely not! I don't own anything large right now, and as a matter of fact, I have no employees, and work out of my home, but if I were to get into that position of being rich, it would not mean that it's justification for getting taxed more! As it stands, I'm already taxed on so much, and as I learn more, I find that there is more added on that I didn't know about before. And sometimes there's so much taxing going on, that a person would think that it would be better to just work for someone else, rather than own their own business. But this mindset of taxing the rich is just crazy, because an honest person who's rich, wouldn't have anything left by the time the government was done, if they continue to add taxes to them. Sorry for getting off the main topic here, but I just got started, and just wanted to finish my thoughts out.
February 23rd, 2011
1:46 pm
Watch out. Joe the Plutocrat likes to tell us all how smart he is. He once claimed to be a psychologist yet he misspells half of his rants.
February 23rd, 2011
1:48 pm
What' really ironic is that people like Obama go around talking about the "evil rich" yet they themselves are rich and many of them don't even pay taxes. Heck, several of Obama's staff got caught evading taxes.
Gotta love the people who fall for their lies.
February 23rd, 2011
1:50 pm
"you obviously never took my advice an looked up PLUTOCRACY in the dictionary."
MANY people don't take your advice, Gump.
February 23rd, 2011
2:00 pm
You came to France But you had understood nothing, you're right to be returned on your campaign
February 23rd, 2011
2:02 pm
Patriot, I think we're on the same page – see my 1:45 to DawgDad – I 'call it' PLUTOCRACY. what dimwits like LA fail to understand is; "bargaining" is an essential component of a "free market". LA, yeah slick, I guess you're right. there has never been a lobbyist in the Wisconsin capital building. the Milwaukee Brewers, Green Bay Packers, University of Wisconsin Athletic Department (Big 10), Miller Brewing, or any of the dairy farmers in Wisconsin never got a subsidy. tax break or incentive. this is all the work "greedy teachers". I'll tell you what I told somebody yesterday, my dad is a retired teacher in NJ (same issues). he never went on strike, never took a day off, and he accepted his pay and benefits. if the ghosts of Wisconsin (or NJ) negotiate a short-sighted or bad deal, then RENEGOTIATE THE DEAL. laying this all at the feet of "unions" is infantile. with whom did the union leadership "collectively bargain"? again, if you want to fantasize about democracy and free markets, have at it. a plutocracy by definition includes public (unions and politicians) and private sector (lobbyists, corporations).
February 23rd, 2011
2:02 pm
I've thought about that, and yet I've not heard anyone in the media talk about it. Wonder why that is? It doesn't make sense for rich Democrats to push for taxing the rich, when it's just gonna turn around and bite themselves in the rear. It not only makes no sense, but if they actually had pushed it through, then I believe we would have heard more stories of tax evasions, but from the same people who pushed it through.
It's just hard for me to believe that people actually ARE that stupid, and/or really believe that WE are that stupid. Do they not realize that pretending to have so much ignorance is highly unprofessional? I mean really?
February 23rd, 2011
2:08 pm
"the Milwaukee Brewers, Green Bay Packers, University of Wisconsin Athletic Department (Big 10), Miller Brewing, or any of the dairy farmers in Wisconsin never got a subsidy."
U of Wisconsin is a public school that gets taxpayer dollars. They are not a private corporation. The other "corporations" as you call them, are not bankrupting the state. Miller is owned by Coors.
"my dad is a retired teacher in NJ (same issues). he never went on strike, never took a day off, and he accepted his pay and benefits.'
Good for him. Not sure what that has to do with the greedy unions in Wisconsin.
"laying this all at the feet of "unions" is infantile. "
If it's "infantile" then why are the unions the only ones crying?
"again, if you want to fantasize about democracy and free markets, have at it. '
We're a republic.
"a plutocracy by definition includes public (unions and politicians) and private sector (lobbyists, corporations)."
Unions make up 12% of the workforce. Not sure where you get that unions make up a large part of this country.


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The Minnesota Vikings start their season with 2 divisional road games, last week they lost to the Detroit Lions and this week they travel to Soldier Field to take on the Chicago Bears.
Date: September 15
Start Time: 1:00 p.m. ET
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Stadium: Soldier Field
TV Info: FOX
Live Stream: Direct TV NFL Ticket and NFL Game Rewind following the game
The most interesting part of this game will be the battle of turnovers. Last week the Vikings, led by quarterback Christian Ponder turned the ball over 4 times. Last season the Chicago Bears led the NFL with 44 take aways.
"You have to be exceptional to win those games when you finish minus in the turnover ratio," Minnesota coach Leslie Frazier said, via ESPN. "We haven't shown that we are exceptional to be able to do that. We will get better."
"Turnovers on the road — at home as well, but on the road in particular — are tough sometimes to overcome," Frazier said.
The Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler managed to stay upright last week after lots of sacks last season.
"I thought no one got frustrated early on with us and the way we were playing," Cutler said. "We stuck to the game plan. The fourth quarter — that's when you've got to win ballgames in this league."
New coach and quarterback guru Marc Trestman seems to be helping the Bears turn things around.


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I enjoy Jim McClellan's speeches. Hell, I enjoy Jim McClellan's company. First of all, he has a finely developed sense of humor, which he likes to turn on himself. More important, Jim has this talent for distilling huge numbers of facts and ideas into simple truisms. Finally, like Zelig, he had this talent for appearing at so many critical junctures of railroad history the past half century. He was present at the development of what became Santa Fe's Super C, the fastest freight train ever. He was present at the creation of Amtrak and later of Conrail. He was the brains behind Norfolk Southern brilliant (and savage) attack on the purchase of Conrail by CSX, an attack that succeeded in getting NS more than half of Conrail.
Jim has been retired from NS for about a decade, where he ended up as VP of corporate strategy, but that mind of his keeps churning. And it was on full display at this week's annual meeting of the Lexington Group, in Peoria, Ill. Rather than give you a traditional report on his talk, I'll just offer you his sound bites. Ladies and gentlemen, the world according to Jim McClellan:
"A simpler network runs most efficiently."
"You make money by running big trains and keeping them in motion."
"When railroaders talk merger, they don't pull out their financial statements. They pull out their maps."
"Railroads used not to think of themselves as profit making enterprises. They thought in terms of public service. Santa Fe and Seaboard Coast Line stuck with passenger trains way beyond the time they knew they shouldn't be in that business, because they thought it their duty."
"The goal of regulation [in the Interstate Commerce Commission era] was fairness, not efficiency. It was a convoluted, complex, and inefficient system. There were too many routes, too many railroads, too many junctions. In the end, the system was unsustainable."
"Penn Central: Two drowning men clinging to each other."
"Two railroads are all you need for competition. This idea once seemed radical."
"The most important event in railroading in the Midwest during the 1970s was the liquidation of the Rock Island Lines. It sent shock waves through labor. Ten thousand jobs went poof."
". . . and Canadian Pacific acquired the Delaware & Hudson. God knows why they bothered."
"Unit trains concentrated traffic on a few main lines, as did intermodal traffic."
"Marketing guys now have to deal with what it really costs to run a railroad."
"The decline in coal traffic is good for railroads. It will force them to find new markets. Railroads don't like to do that, because they don't have enough intelligent sales people."
"There are a million ways to make railroads more efficient. But none of them are easy. It will require lots of singles, rather than home runs."
"Transload and intermodal give customers a whole lot of alternatives to poor carload service."
"Transcontinental mergers? I think not. The threat of reregulation is serious. And the economics of such mergers are not compelling. We're down to about ten junction points between major railroads and they run well. The railroad network today is pretty efficient, rather than Balkanized."
"Railroads thrive on density and velocity."
That's it, folks. Wish you could have been there. But for those who were not, you now have the best of McClellan. — Fred W. Frailey
They are all terrific! My favorite is "There are a million ways to make railroads more efficient. But none of them are easy. It will require lots of singles, rather than home runs." The trouble is keeping people from thinking "we've arrived! No more improvement is needed."
The only one I'd take exception to is: "You make money by running big trains and keeping them in motion."
He left NS before they figured out "you make money by keeping the cars moving", not so much trains and train productivity. Equipment costs tend to swamp everything else, so reducing handlings and dwell are where it's at - at least in the realm of recent history.
Rail Pundit can only second Fred's comments on the estimable Jim McClellan. Though retired going on a decade, he still ranks as one of, if not the best, strategic thinkers in railroading. His triumph on the Conrail transaction was masterful, even moreso because in almost every other rail combination it has been the lawyers who ran the strategy, something for which they really are not suited. In the Conrail battle, NS had the good sense to let McClellan develop the strategy.
I love what he said about Penn Central.
And he whupped CSX's butt; he knew that Pennsy was the big prize, not the Central!
hey, I guessed the coal, PC and true-transcon answers ahead of time and got 2 out of 3!! I blamed the PC debacle on PRR's financial shennanigans. NYC was in bad shape, but drowning PRR (& the NH which was forced on them of course) pulled NYC down even faster. I said getting the railroads off coal would be like getting an addict off his drugs, close enough. And transcons, never. Regarding PC, never forget that it hurt the other NE RR's too, RDG lost their 2nd largest interchange (Williamsport with NYC) due to PC, diehard RDG fan here.
One of my goals in life is to hear a presentation by Jim McClellan. I missed him at Sandhouse Gang and didnt know of the LIvingston Group (not a member) in Peoria. Ouch.
I'm glad I was there Thursday hear him in person. But being able to read this summary is better because now we have a record. :D
Including last Thursday, I have had the privilege of attending several of Jim's presentations. I have also had many fun conversations with Jim over meals and, of course, favorite beverages. It was always a treat to exchanges stories of the times in the 1960s and '70's when we and most other railroaders were in the struggle to keep the lights on.
For those who would like to see more, I recommend you go to Jim's web site at beachtrainman.com/speeches.html There you will find the power point pages for many of his presentations. From there go to his "documents" page and his Thomas B Deen Lecture at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board. As special treat, you can follow the links to the video of his lecture. There you will see why Fred, I, and everybody else think so highly of Jim.
I understand that the Deen Lectures date back to 1992. Mr Deen told Jim his was the best ever done.
Did you ride the train down to Havana?
What new markets does Mr McClellen think would be appropriate, now that the coal market is diminishing?
Do any Class I railroads have managers tasked with developing new markets?
bob wilcox: Of course the Class I - all of them - railroads have units tasked with finding and developing new markets. They stopped hauling buggy whips some time ago. If you're looking for an example, just look at the fracking sand that is being hauled into the newly developing oil and natural gas production areas. On a broader level, the development of the domestic intermodal business resulted from railrfoad market identification and development, not that of the customers.who still had to be convinced that they could trust their freight to railroads and still have it delivered where and when they wanted it delivered.
Almost a quarter century ago I was staff to a group that negotiated with NS's Jim McClellan to purchase an old NKP segment that NS was rationalizing. McClellan ate our lunch during those talks (and also our breakfast, dinner, and snacks), but it was good to watch a professional work. Rush Loving had it correct: McClellan really loves railroads and sees them clearly, unlike foamers. His statements from Peoria demonstrate that.
Well done, Fred. I've known McClellan for about as long as you have and we have touched on all these themes as one time or another. Frankly, I worry about my friends running short lines. Too many of them don't get any of this and they go on, head in the sand, thinking the single car business is coming back. It isn't, and these are the reasons why.
Hey Roy,
Thanks to your coordination of bringing Jim to the Union League a few years back with Rush Loving and Dave LeVan, I have my book signed by all 3 - a memorial and fantastic evening!
Keep challenging us to change and lead our short line railroads into the next era.
Remember the time-tested compelling economics of the steel wheel on steel rail....


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Poor Switzerland. It's bad enough that it can no longer promise US tax evaders customers complete anonymity, now there's a chance the faces of those customers–and Swiss citizens–could wind-up plastered on Google's maps.
Less than one week after the launch of Street View, Hans-Peter Thur, Switzerland's federal data protection and information commissioner (FDPIC) has called for the immediate removal of the feature.
As always, Google is "surprised" at the move…
"We have been engaged in constructive dialogue with the organization ahead of [last] week's launch to demonstrate how we protect people's privacy on Street View. And we're ready to do so again or to answer any additional questions."
Then, for good measure, Google tries to undermine the FDPIC's demands with this little factoid:
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Today was Arbor Day, and the Cubs celebrated in style by bringing out the lumber. The Cubs drove in 11 runs on 11 hits and took full advantage of the wind at Wrigley Field.
It's sort of a nice feeling when your starting pitcher can give up five runs and the team still gets a win. I almost forgot what it felt like to watch the Cubs come back from any sort of deficit. Randy Wells went to 3-0 on the season but was in no way flawless today. Then again, with the wind blowing out it was clear it was going to be one of those days. Wells went six innings and gave up five runs on five hits. Most importantly, he didn't walk anyone and struck out eight on the day. Honestly, that's all you can ask of a pitcher on a day like today. Perhaps even more importantly, the bullpen contributed three scoreless innings... a luxury that hasn't been all that frequent this season.
Kosuke Fukudome started the Cubs scoring when he hit a home run to right field, giving him homers in back to back games for the first time in his stateside career. As frustrating of a month as it has been, Kosuke must be sad to see the month of April end as he hit .344 with 5 HR and 16 RBI on the month. I don't know if the power holds up, but if he can continue to make solid contact like he has been doing recently it would really add another dynamic to the club.
The real star of the day has to be one Alfonso Soriano. Some of you may remember him as the most booed player on the Cubs team (making him the only individual in Chicago that may have actually missed Milton Bradley). Today he went 2 for 3 with 4 RBI, three of which game on a game-changing home run in the sixth inning. Soriano ends the month of April with a .292/.358/.900 (SLG being the latter) line. To me the most surprising number on that line is the on-base percentage. At the moment, Fonzie is seeing the ball so well that he has been uncharacteristically patient at the plate. The end result is a fair amount of walks and much better contact when he swings.
Lou shut his critics up when he made Theriot sacrifice himself in the 7th inning (with a one run lead at the time) to set up what would be 3 insurance runs on the inning. Speaking of walks and Soriano, Fonzie drove in his fourth RBI of the day that inning when he took a bases loaded walk from Aaron Heilman (miss him yet?) after Ramirez had also taken a bases loaded walk earlier. To date, I am pretty sure Ramirez leads the league in the statistical category of "percentage of RBI driven in by means of a walk" with 15.3% rate. In the eighth inning Soto and Byrd won somebody $1000 when they hit back-to-back home runs. Happiness all around. HIGH FIVES EVERYBODY!!!!!!!
The Cubs end this April chapter of the season and march into May. To quote the great Marlon Byrd: "We're going to start swinging, it's just going to come around. April's over, so from what I've heard, the Cubs heat up in May. I think it's about that time." Let's hope he's right.


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When you are about to cum during missionary, you pull out, sit on her stomach pinning her arms down with your legs, whip your dick up and down while yelling, "THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!"
This chick was so mad when I did The Exorcist, that she looked possessed.
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A sex act where the the female is on top of the male in cowgirl position. The male then pushes upwards with his pelvis until he is in the classic "The Exorcist" crab walk position. The girl then proceeds to grind upon the mans penis in the air. Often, she will be suspended completely in the air.
I totally performed an exorcism on my girlfriend last night.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.-- Buffalo Bills quarterback Trent Edwards was knocked out of Sunday's 16-13 overtime victory over the New York Jets with a concussion after being sacked early in the second quarter.
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"Tokyo Metro is Japan's largest subway system. Take a ride, and you'll find it hard to miss the catchy posters asking commuters to mind their manners. Since September 1974, every year a new theme and unique monthly designs have been produced, but in recent years perhaps none have been more memorable than the iconic illustrations of graphic artist Bunpei Yorifuji. Beginning in 2008 and spanning 3 years - something rather unusual considering the transient nature of the annual Metro poster themes - the designs were judged a huge success, being replicated and parodied in numerous places across the internet.
Yorifuji's design concepts are very interesting. He studied at Musashino Art University and was influenced by American artist Edward Hopper and Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai. In his poster designs for the 2008 theme "Please do it at home", we see a recurring male character with glasses who is usually the suffering subject. According to Yorifuji, "The glasses obfuscate the emotion and better reflect the discomfort. People don't explicitly express their feelings. So I am having people guess what is going on in his mind.
Indeed, his philosophy that the posters should convey a positive rather than negative message is refreshing. "Typical posters say 'Don't do this' or 'Don't do that,'. I am saying, 'Let's do this,' which I think is more positive." Rather than strict rules or laws, he considers it his task to gently nudge people to be mindful of their surroundings and fellow people. "Japan is a country of gray zones, and recently there has been a move to draw a line to delineate black and white. As a result there has been some resistance. Instead of classifying something as good or bad, my ideal ad displays to people what lies in between."
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very tasty. beets always surprise me with their sweetness.
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Put 1/2 inch of water into a flat bottom bowl, poked holes in the beets and microwaved whole on high for 5.5 minutes. The dill is a must in this recipe - tasted the sauce before and after and there is a huge difference. Peeled and cubed the beets (the better to get more yummy sauce). Very happy with result - instant hit.
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