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THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Two presidential candidates with deep Georgia roots – one a long-time survivor of a personal life made public, the other newly wrestling with its consequences – created an oasis of scandal-free discussion Saturday with a one-on-one debate over how to shrink the federal safety net.
Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich greeted each other with a friendly embrace and for 90 minutes avoided every opportunity to disagree with each other's plans to reform federal spending.
Not a word was spoken of Cain's weeklong battle against charges that he was the object of sexual harassment complaints while head of a Washington lobbying organization in the 1990s.
The only allusion to Cain's troubles came when the former U.S. House speaker asked his rival what had surprised him most in his run for president.
"The nit-pickiness of the media," Cain replied. "I did not realize the fly-specking nature of the media — especially when you rise in the polls."
In a session with reporters afterward, Cain was friendly until a reporter attempted to raise the topic of the sexual harassment complaints. Cain interrupted him, and called for a "good question." "We are getting back on message. End of story," he said, before being urged out of the room by aides.
In the debate, Cain and Gingrich agreed on shifting Medicaid, which provides health care to the poor, to a block grant system that would allow states to set their own standards and create their own programs.
Both agreed that young Americans should be offered the chance to establish private retirement accounts as an alternative to Social Security, as proposed by President George W. Bush.
When Cain said the privatization of Social Security would also require his "9-9-9" plan – which includes a 9 percent national sales tax – Gingrich demurred, announcing he would "sidestep the great temptation" to discuss the controversial proposal.
The only return jab came when Cain — running as a businessman in no need of government experience — declared that politicians always underestimate the costs of federal programs.
The debate, a $200-a-ticket fund-raiser for the Texas Patriots PAC, a tea party group, was intended as an antidote to crowded, televised debates that have featured a large GOP field reduced to 30-second sound bites. The two-man event was conceived this spring when few considered Cain and Gingrich viable contenders.
But a poor start by the campaign of Texas Gov. Rick Perry has allowed Cain to emerge as Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's chief contender less than two months before the Iowa caucuses.
Gingrich is also rising. A Washington Post/ABC News poll that last week put Cain in a virtual tie with Romney also showed Gingrich with double-digit support for the first time since he restarted his campaign in June.
For Cain, a debate format inspired by the famed 1858 confrontations over slavery between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas was a refreshing end to a tumultuous week. His campaign had been overwhelmed by the revelation of sexual harassment complaints lodged against him when he was president of the Washington, D.C.-based National Restaurant Association.
The organizers of Saturday's debate declared the topic off-limits.
"Rather than being distracted by all the gossip, we want to know about the issues that are really important," said Julie Turner, president of the group.
Even without the ban, thrice-married Gingrich wasn't the man to raise the issue. He was the only GOP rival to forcefully defend Cain last week as the victim of a media-driven "witch hunt."
Despite the respite from an uncomfortable topic, the debate was considered yet another test for Cain, a businessman who prides himself on his non-politician status and his ability to speak without a TelePrompter.
Until Saturday he had avoided going into detail about many of his views and proposals. But Cain held his own, and was stumped only once, when a moderator, during a discussion of Medicare, asked the former radio talk show host his opinion on "defined benefit plans with premium support."
"You first, Newt," Cain said.
There were no references to other Republicans in the contest. The duo preferred to target President Barack Obama, who Gingrich said was "about as criminal as Bernie Madoff in what he tells the American people."
But Cain had the last word, with a final question for Gingrich. "If you were vice president of the United States, what would you want the president to assign you to do first?" he asked.
Gingrich said former Vice President Dick Cheney had taught him to avoid hunting.
Several times, Cain and Gingrich made reference to their friendship, which dates to Gingrich's 1995 appointment of Cain to a tax reform commission. And their shared geography was noted by many.
But in fact, their time in Georgia never overlapped. Gingrich was an early presence in a nascent Republican party in the state, starting with a failed 1974 run for Congress. But after his party lost control of the House in 1998, Gingrich resigned from Congress and became a legal resident of Virginia.
Cain was raised in Atlanta, but left after graduating from Morehouse College in 1967. He returned in 2000. Most Republicans first became aware of him four years later during an unsuccessful race for the U.S. Senate, which he lost to incumbent Johnny Isakson. Cain then launched a talk-radio career.
But the two candidates share more than red clay and a desire to remake the federal government.
Gingrich and Cain – and Romney and Perry, too — face skepticism from women voters. In a Quinnipiac University poll released last week, President Barack Obama led all likely GOP challengers, but his lead expanded among female voters surveyed. Romney did best, picking up the support of 38 percent of women.
The numbers imply that, though it was barred from the Texas debate, the issue of personal behavior is likely to remain a factor as the GOP race gets down to brass knuckles.
"There is a real division here between evangelical and social conservative men, and evangelical and social conservative women. The men are much more likely to be forgiving. The women are not," said Richard Land, who heads the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
It is not a universal opinion. Julianne Thompson is a co-founder of the Atlanta Tea Party Patriots. She was at a Gingrich event in Gwinnett last week and considers herself a personal friend of Cain, and said she would be watching the debate on C-SPAN on Saturday night instead of the Alabama-LSU football game.
She considers both Gingrich and Cain to be "excellent" candidates.
"I think we're at the point that we don't have the luxury of connecting just on social issues. I think that's what a majority of tea party supporters think," she said.
Thompson noted that, as a converted Catholic, Gingrich has gone through the process of confession and contrition. She considers the charges against Cain unproven, but faults his campaign staff for bumbling its response.
"I am looking at who Herman Cain is in 2011," she said.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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November 5th, 2011
10:27 pm
[...] is a roundup of reviews and recap.For Gingrich and Cain, it's a friendship and a contestPolitical Insider: Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and an oasis of scandal-free debate in TexasPreviously….Click here to watch the live web feed video on CNN. For cell phone and smart phone [...]
November 5th, 2011
10:30 pm
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November 5th, 2011
10:35 pm
Cain lost the senate primary to Isakson but Isakson wasn't the incumbent as you stated. He was a representative from the 7th district. Isakson replaced Gingrich in that district.
November 5th, 2011
10:44 pm
Is it just me, or did Hermain Cain seem a little under water matched up against the former Speaker of the House? What does everyone think?
POLL: Who won the Cain/Gingrich Lincoln-Douglas Debate in Texas?
Vote: http://www.wepolls.com/p/4694819
November 5th, 2011
10:49 pm
The real shame is Shame of Georgia doesn't know the difference between there and their. What a clown.
November 5th, 2011
10:52 pm
You seem so disappointed that your favorite biased unsubstantiated topic was only brought up by a member of the media.
Yea, that topic IS uncomfortable – for the biased liberal media which is the party caught with its pants down.
And the negative reference to skepticism by women voters is more than balanced by Obama's skepticism by men – your glass half empty reference is bias.
November 5th, 2011
10:57 pm
Herman Cain held his own against Newt Gingrich. I like either Cain-Gingrich OR Gingrich Cain for 2012. How refreshing to have the candidates stick to the issues and not try to tear each other down; and how refreshing to have a moderator who did not try to pit the candidates against each other. I wish all of the debates were like this.
November 5th, 2011
11:06 pm
Let us talk about the ideas for a minute:
1: Block grant Medicaid to the states just like Welfare was in 1996. Great idea.
2: Personal accounts for SS for younger Americans. Great idea.
3: More choice to Medicare and stop the dang fraud in the program: Great idea.
What does Obama propose for these three programs? Tax the rich and spend more money.
No Doubt who wins this argument and has real ideas to help the economy.
November 5th, 2011
11:33 pm
Nice ideas by both. I have found it interesting all week that the 'alleged' incident by Mr Cain, not proven just alleged, would be pounced on not just by the media, most of whom are philandering idiots themselves, but the democrats…the party of Kennedy, Hart, Clinton, Gore, Edwards…a regular Hall of Fame of philandering socialist/fascists. How about we call it even and stick to ISSUES !!!
November 5th, 2011
11:51 pm
Forget about calling it even – let's have Mr. Jim Galloway blog 2 – 4 times a day for a week about this:
November 6th, 2011
12:00 am
Shhh (it's a spoof)
November 6th, 2011
1:11 am
I hope we can look past Newts marriage issues and get behind the smartest, most qualified, best debater by far of this field.
Can you imagine one of the other republican candidates debating Obama?
I didn't like Clintons White House escapades but I'd vote for him in a minute over Obama or any other republican candidate except Newt.
November 6th, 2011
1:15 am
Block grants to the states,loser pays law,innovation by the states,voter id law,all Rick Perrys ideas.Cain has no originality whatsoever.
November 6th, 2011
1:25 am
Perry can't come across intelligent enough. I'm afraid he'd get destroyed by Obama.
Also, there is an obvious reason that no other candidates showed up to go head to head against Newt and that is because they know they would look foolish. He wont do that to Herman and he knew that he wouldn't.
November 6th, 2011
1:30 am
That would be Newt
November 6th, 2011
2:00 am
Anyone but Obama, did you mean like Congressman Foley amd Senator Craig? or like Governor Sanford and Governor Schwarzenegger?
November 6th, 2011
8:38 am
What a refreshing change! I truly enjoyed watching this debate, and hope that others in the campaign can come together to do the same. The debates thus far have been nothing more than liberal moderators prompting bickering responses, working hard to get the candidates to knock each other out, so sick of that! On top of that, how can you possibly know a candidates stance on any subject when they only have 30 seconds to respond? No possibility for in depth responses on how they would solve our problems. This forum give us real insight into each persons solutions.
And NO SNIPING, you can have a campaign without mud slinging, only problem is the media hates that, they need to see blood, then condemn the candidates when they get their wish!
November 6th, 2011
8:51 am
Save your money. These two clowns will be eaten alive by Obama. Get ready for 4 more years. Vote Romney.
November 6th, 2011
8:57 am
Centrist: What value does the contents of the link you supplied have, even if it is a spoof ?
As I posted earlier, I'm not looking to elect "Jesus Christ" to the presidency, but honesty and integrity are importent factors. Newt doesn't have it; time will tell for Mr Cain.
November 6th, 2011
10:25 am
Road Scholar,
Centrist and CD dont reallly care about integrity, read their posts. Cain would never be able to handle being a worl leader and Gingrich has an ego the size of his wife's diamonds.
November 6th, 2011
10:30 am
Neither of these two has any chance of winning the GOP nomination and neither deserves to win anything.
Cain is a political illiterate who has never been elected to so much as a library board who somehow thinks bossing and harassing people in a pizza chain qualifies him to be president. His campaign is mostly about feeding his ego and putting himself in a position to make more money off books and appearances. His comment about China developing nuclear weapons when they had them in 1964 and were still doing open atmospheric testing in the mid-70s makes him look like a fool.
Gingrich is in it for the same reasons to make even more money and have a little influence. He long ago ceased to be a political force and his utterly nonsensical to the point of being offensive comments make him look like a fool as well. The comment about the US becoming an atheist society dominated by sharia law is the latest gaffe. This is just stock right wing hatred of secular people and fear mongering demagoguery . Believe it or not Newt there are fine citizens who are atheists who care about this country and its future as much or more than you do….and we are not all serial adulterers. To hear this hypocrite lecture us about morality is really a bit much.
November 6th, 2011
11:08 am
More Breaking News On The Great Debate That Nobody Care For Or Watch…….C-Span said today that the Viewers were few in fact only One Husky Dog that 1/2 Governor Sara Palin own watch..They also said that 2 Tea Party members watch but drop off when they misplace the Channel Clicker and ended up watching the LSU and Alabama Game claiming that Herman Cain cause Alabama loss by trying to return a Punt without a Brain..
November 6th, 2011
11:18 am
Gingrich and Cain will not be the nominee, but Cain will get closer to the spot than Gingrich. However, Sens. Isakson and Chambliss should be worried and here's why. Herman Cain now has enough name recognition and firepower to challenge one of those guys for the Senate and win. In my opinion, it would be a smart move because whatever he does in the Senate would be heavily watched by the media and put Georgia on the map unlike our two current senators who are relatively unknown outside of this state. Then again, it could all backfire.
Cain lost in 2004 to become Georgia's senator, but now his chances are greater if he decides to run in the future.
November 6th, 2011
11:23 am
Centrist Jim has the Sunday paper delivery screwed up.Something more for you to whine about.
November 6th, 2011
11:45 am
The Idiocracy Party Candidate-Herman Cain
The scene in Idiocracy, the Mike Judge movie, where the US president is at the podium and being booed, but then he reaches back and pulls out a huge machine gun and fires a rapid blast into the ceiling and then says to the stunned silent audience "Right, that's what I thought".
That is a metaphor for Herman Cain. He's the GO candidate. I know the man from listening to him as a radio talk show host well before the present 'dillema' and I can tell you, Herman Cain speaks AM…and he is the first candidate of the Idiocracy party.
This party must be taken seriously, they are people too, but we on the Left have a huge divide to cross to reach these other people. Just like in Idiocracy they have been convinced by corporate backed spokespeople that whatever makes the corporations the most profits is good and should be supported. In today's world the corporate microphone is AM RADIO-COX-WABC.
The spokespeople are, Hannity, Limbaugh, Boortz, Levin, Savage, Ingram, Beck etc. Twenty hours a day, five days a week, corporate fantasy reality; Idiocracy.
We must reach out with with basic facts about our nations fiscal history. That is our best argument. These folks, who are good people at heart, have been presented with a fake version of US history, especially concerning financial matters.
I present a basic version of our recent fiscal history in my masthead under the title…at the top of the page here. Let me repeat it and please write your own version and plague the media with it! It's our only hope.
-From 1940-80 the wealthiest Americans paid between 70% and 90% in income taxes and that's how we built…the American Dream. Between 1940-80 we fought and paid for WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, we built our US Interstate Expressway system, Roads, Electrical Grid, Telephone, our main Bridges and Tunnels; we Made every Car we Drove and we wore just the Clothes we Sewed and WE WENT TO THE MOON SIX TIMES-AND WE PAID FOR IT ALL!-
November 6th, 2011
12:05 pm
Normally, I don't waste my time reading the political drivel of the AJC. However, this morning I was looking specifically for reports on the Cain – Gingrich debate that was broadcast last night. Thus far I have found a grand total of zero articles that have focused on the debate choosing instead to focus on the "alleged" harassment issue surrounding Herman Cain for the past several days.
The news media as a collective and the AJC specifically could have benefited greatly by providing real reporting to their readers and perhaps might even have attracted a few new subscribers. Instead they focus on the same worn out smear tactics that the public is so weary of. Time for the news media to get its collective heads out of its anal orifice before its to late.
November 6th, 2011
12:45 pm
Idiocracy-Herman Cain
The scene in Idiocracy, the Mike Judge movie, where the US president is at the podium and being booed, but then he reaches back and pulls out a huge machine gun and fires a rapid blast into the ceiling and then says to the stunned silent audience "Right, that's what I thought".
That is a metaphor for Herman Cain. He's the Get er Done candidate. I know the man from listening to him as a radio talk show host well before the present 'dillema' of his frighteningly viable candidacy for president and I can tell you, Herman Cain speaks AM and he is the first candidate of the Idiocracy party.
This party must be taken seriously, but we on the Left have a huge divide to cross to reach them. Just like in Idiocracy they have been convinced by corporate backed spokespeople that whatever makes the corporations the most profits is good and should be supported. In today's world the corporate microphone is AM RADIO-COX-WABC and the billionaire Koch brothers who Cain refers to as his 'brothers from another mother'.
The spokespeople are, Hannity, Limbaugh, Boortz, Levin, Savage, Ingram, Beck etc. Twenty hours a day, five days a week, corporate fantasy reality; Idiocracy. Herman Cain was trained in their ranks as an AM talk radio host in Atlanta where he had his own show and often filled in for Neal Boortz until as recently as a year ago.
This is the easy answer party and easy answers appeal to a nation who still feel lost and on the ropes financially, too tired from working harder than ever to make ends meet to take the time to analyze the history and complexities of our weak economy. And tragically, many of these people are too exhausted and frustrated to take the time to even notice that the bill of goods in the Idiocracy party platform is just the same old conservative economics we've suffered through for thirty years. Even Democrat president Clinton was, in the words of Alan Greenspan 'a great Republican president, economically' because he signed Republican sponsored legislation to gut welfare and unbridled free trade which perhaps no other Democrat president in history would have signed.
This is a frightening moment for America. We are on the cusp of nominating a complete charlatan to run for the presidency in one of our major parties. It's easy to say 'it doesn't matter, he can't win the general election' and hopefully that's true, but this could get scarier before it's over. In a nation which is already all too much like Idiocracy, where people seem to no longer have any historical compass to guide them, what might happen?
The Idiocracy party has already succeeded in re-starting the conversation about taxation, from scratch, on their AM machine. 'Why have any taxes at all?' that's a good place to start, they say. And 'Why should any person, no matter how poor, not pay the exact same tax as a billionaire?' sounds good huh? What if some high profile rich young athletes like the ring of their taxation being cut to 1/4 what it presently is and they step forward as Heroes for Herman in an ad campaign? It's queasy to contemplate.
We must reach out with with basic facts about our nations fiscal history. That is our best argument. These folks, who are good people at heart, have been presented with a fake version of US history, especially concerning financial matters. The truth is that one can easily trace America's economic glory days, from 1940-80, to far higher taxes on the most wealthy with that federal revenue being spent to modernize our nations transportation and technological infrastructure, public education etc. And the reverse taxation policies we've endured since 1980 have shown us opposite results. But AM Idiocracy says 'No, we are just failing because we didn't lower the taxes on the rich enough'.
We on the Left have our work cut out for us…
I present a basic version of our recent fiscal history in my masthead under the title…at the top of the page here. Let me repeat it and please write your own version and plague the media with it! It's our only hope.
-From 1940-80 the wealthiest Americans paid between 70% and 90% in income taxes and that's how we built…the American Dream. Between 1940-80 we fought and paid for WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, we built our US Interstate Expressway system, Roads, Electrical Grid, Telephone, our main Bridges and Tunnels; we Made every Car we Drove and we wore just the Clothes we Sewed and WE WENT TO THE MOON SIX TIMES-AND WE PAID FOR IT ALL!-
November 6th, 2011
12:53 pm
I just don't understand the conversative's love affair with two faced politicians like Cain and Gingrich.
November 6th, 2011
12:54 pm
@Beat Obama, I am right there with you. IF people could just get over Newts personal life and realize that he is the most intelligent candidate, we would have a GREAT President. And then if it were a Newt/Cain ticket, I think America could finally get straightened out. GO NEWT!
November 6th, 2011
1:04 pm
It is a very sad testament to the principals of the entire conservative base that the Republican candidate, Herman Cain is being supported and promoted for the job as the leader of America's people.
An arrogant CEO who pays off "false accusers" of sexual harassment. A pusher of junk food in a country that is waaaaay too fat and unhealthy already. A provider of minimum wage jobs that provides no health insurance. An individual who serves the "shareholder" before serving the American people. An American individual who pushes smoking cigarettes against the backdrop of "an American anthem" song. The message is clear form Cain, fast food, cigarettes, minimum wage jobs, no healthcare, sexual harasser who pays off victims…. and an outright liar.
Way to go Republicans!
And Gingrich? Enough said…..
November 6th, 2011
2:34 pm
This was a "debate" between two old fools. Yes, Gingrich is a fool. If only he were HALF as intelligent as he thinks he is! Herman Cain, on a good day, is limited. The Republicans need to run an intelligent, articulate, moral person with good ideas about saving the WHOLE country, not just selected parts.
As for Perry, he is an idiot, too. Imagine him in the WH? And Romney could never win, with his "religious baggage," no matter who goes on the ballot with him.
Republicans need to run someone with more going for him/her than "Not Obama."
November 6th, 2011
3:01 pm
@catlady November 6th, 2011 2:34 pm
I CONCUR CATLADY – Republicans need to run someone with more going for him/her than "Not Obama."
November 6th, 2011
3:07 pm
The GOP Candidates (Cain, Gingrich, Perry, Paul, Bachman, Romney):
*A circus
*Woefully inadequate
*Using God as an obstructionist against the people
November 6th, 2011
3:28 pm
@Gail November 6th, 2011 12:54 pm YOU SAY – if it were a Newt/Cain ticket, I think America could finally get straightened out. GO NEWT!
May Heaven protect us from these demons (Cain and Newt)!
*Newt has the tongue of a dog.
* God cared about thoughts, feelings and effort. ABEL did his best — gave his best -and THAT is what was important to God. CAIN spent all of his efforts justifying what he was doing and Cain didn't really sacrifice anything at all.
November 6th, 2011
3:36 pm
@Beat Obama November 6th, 2011 1:11 am
If Newt was so smart he would not be a HAS BEEN. He has been trying to climb the ladder in politics for years. How is that working out?
Newt has too much package! He can talk the talk but can he walk the walk?
Newt could not pass the smell test (morals and ethics)!
November 6th, 2011
4:08 pm
"Rather than being distracted by all the gossip, we want to know about the issues that are really important," said Julie Turner, president of the group.
Is it not important that there are sexual predators among you? Sweep it under the rug for now until it comes back to BITE you in the butt. Maybe when Cain is president he might sexually harass or sexually assault someone – THEN IT WILL BE TOO LATE!
We must face the truth that there are sexual predators among us.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — An explosive sex abuse scandal and allegations of a cover-up rocked Happy Valley after former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, once considered Joe Paterno's heir apparent, was charged with sexually assaulting eight boys over 15 years. Among the allegations was that a graduate assistant saw Sandusky assault a boy in the shower at the team's practice center in 2002.
November 6th, 2011
4:35 pm
Since the Tea Baggers and talk shows took over the republican party, it has been all extremeism. If we don't have a canidate who can attract independents, we are toast.
November 6th, 2011
4:36 pm
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November 6th, 2011
4:40 pm
He was NOT qualified for President of the US!! Mr. Cain IS more QUALIFIED for the President of the US than OBUMMER!!!
OBUMMER was ONLY a "community organizer"… In many opinions, OBUMMER has NOT been able to organize the White House in his 2 1/2 YEARS!!! He SHOULD GO, be in the PAST!
November 6th, 2011
11:56 pm
Gingrich is soon to run away with the republican nomination and the then the
general election. It is inevitable, as the guy is unique in his experience, vision, and ambition
to correct the ills of this nation. When you think about past presidents and their desire to leave
a lasting legacy and couple that with Newt's historical understanding of such things, you will
realize that he is going to be amazing for this country. He will likely go down at a top three
president of all time. I am pretty excited. But if you got to hate, go to http://www.nationalsponsor.com to vote for your favorite candidate, not that it will change the
fact that Newt is the next president.
November 6th, 2011
11:57 pm
what the heck?
November 7th, 2011
2:54 am
What a joke. A completely inexperienced candidate who wants to leave everything to his advisors (think czars) and grow the fed power with an additional tax. Along with a longstanding ESTABLISHMENT republican at a "TEA PARTY" debate? Will the real tea party please stand up? I could be wrong, but this was probably nothing more than a fundraiser and in no way promoted the core values the modern tea party was founded on. "Anybody but Obama" is not acceptable to those who are just as fed up with the Progressives in both parties.
November 7th, 2011
5:30 pm
I'm amazed at the so called "victims" of Herman Cain's "sexual harassment"…strange…in all his years before becoming candidate for president, these ladies NEVER came out before now…and the repulsive Gloria Allred shows her pompous "mug" again right behind her…what a "Shylock"…Mr. Cain has been on the airwaves countless times and anyone could've called and made these claims then and had this guy removed and "shamed into oblivion"…I'm sorry, but I just don't believe it…money can buy ANYBODY if enough is offered…and I for one do not believe that there isn't so "good democrat money" out there buying these people…and if (according to the democrats at the time) such behavior (sexual harassment or misconduct) it wasn't germane in the life and actions of a SITTING PRESIDENT (Mr. Clinton's women: Ms. Flowers, Ms. Jones, Ms. Willey, et. al.), then please pray tell why it is germane now in the life of Mr. Cain, as ONLY a CANDIDATE? The hipocrisy of all of this is sickening…and for God's sake, 15 YEARS AFTER THE FACT (if it even is one)…COME ON!!!! GIMME A BREAK!!!
November 8th, 2011
12:21 pm
[...] Rick Perry has been trying to hone his message on jobs, taxes and the economy. Newt Gingrich joined Cain for an amiable discussion of entitlements and government spending before a friendly audience. [...]
November 9th, 2011
2:09 am
[...] Gingrich: Gingrich has surged in the polls lately. He met with Herman Cain for a one-on-one debate in Texas this week, where allegations of sexual harassment were strictly off the table. Together, they [...]
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Lara Logan, the chief foreign correspondent for CBS News, was sexually assaulted in Cairo after the news of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation broke. The joy and excitement turned to violence in Tahrir Square when Logan, who was working on a story for 60 Minutes, was surrounded by a mob and assaulted. Logan survived the attack and is in the hospital recovering, but the news has sent a chilling message to journalists, particularly women, everywhere.
Logan is no stranger to the peril of working abroad in dangerous places. She has covered floods in Mozambique, land invasions in Zimbabwe, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for CBS over the last decade. Just one week before the attack, Logan and her crew were detained by the Egyptian authorities and treated brutally.
Some might say Logan is very brave. Others might say she is very foolish. As the mother of two children who undoubtedly need their mommy, she puts her life on the line every day in order to get the news to us at their expense. Is it worth it? In an interview a few months ago, Logan said:
But basically it is in my blood to be there and be in the street to listen to people and make the best story I can. But at the same time, I am also aware that I can put my family in a very difficult situation.
She isn't the first female reporter to be in this position. British journalist Christiane Amanpour, who has made a name for herself reporting in some of the most dangerous places on Earth, is also a mother. In 2000, she gave the keynote address at the Murrow Awards Ceremony and she had this to say:
Before my son was born I used to joke about looking for bullet-proof Snugglies and Kevlar diapers. I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent. But now, like every working mother, when I think of my son, and having to leave him, and I imagine him fixing those large innocent eyes on me and asking me, Mummy, why are you going to those terrible places? What if they kill you? I wince. I know that I want to say, that it's because I have to, because it matters, because Mummy's going to tell the world about the bad guys and perhaps do a little good.
In a world where moms are told more times than not that we ought to stay in the kitchen, stick close to home, and keep ourselves safe, Amanpour and Logan are doing the opposite. They are purposely going into harm's way to serve a greater good and they are paying dearly.
Any mom who has had a career has to choose at times between her work and her child. It's the way the world is set up. Obviously, Amanpour and Logan are extremes, but the story is the same. We moms are expected to be super human and to do things that no one expects of fathers.
Television journalist Bob Woodruff is a father and no one questioned his decision to be in Iraq when he was critically wounded by a roadside bomb. Anderson Cooper was attacked in Egypt and though he isn't a father, no one mentioned the way he looked or suggested it as the reason he was targeted. The fact is, the pressure on moms -- and women in general -- is far greater than that on men. Men are supposed to be the ones reporting the news, while women need to guard their own safety. The judgment has been so severe, that NPR has been forced to remove comments on their site.
So what gives? Was she wrong to be there? As a mother, I cannot imagine being in her position. I am leaving my children for a trip to Europe soon and it's physically painful to do so. It's hard to imagine being able to do it if I knew I was going into something so dangerous. That is because I am scared. Plain and simple. I am too scared to do what she does and most of us are, in fact.
Fear is paralyzing and if someone doesn't have that holding them back, then more power to them. Logan has courage and strength, and in the end, if bad were to befall her, her son and daughter would know their mother was undaunted by fear, that she was willing to stand up to the naysayers and put her life on the line for the greater good. That isn't stupid. That is brave, so amazingly brave. She is so much braver than most of us, and rather than piling on her, we should be thanking god that there are people like her who are so willing to sacrifice in order to get information to us.
Lara Logan is a hero.
Do you think she was stupid?
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wow to the comment by erica wellman gallion...you could be killed on your way to work tomorrow, just keep that in mind. i can't even believe that there are articles about this right now! Way to show compassion for human life. atleast let her heal from her injuries. and ya know, after all this, i wouldn't be surprised if she had a change of heart about going places like this to report. but if she doesn't, that's her decision to make. not yours, not mine.
We know absolutely nothing about her personal life. Her husband (or whatever) could fill the role traditionally held by the mother while she goes out and makes the living. Having grown up in a somewhat different living arrangement, it always gets me when people just assume. I came out normalish, thank you very much. I'm sure her kids will too. Its tragic what happened to her, but I wouldn't mind having her for a role model.
And thanks NekoLaw I'm thinking some of these comments are getting dangerously close to blaming the victim, something which I will never approve of no matter what the crime.
so author, what about the rest of her crew? were they fathers, or does that not matter?
She is a mother, she chose to have those babies and those babies need to come first. I understand she loves her job, but I myself changed my profession from a highly dangerous one to a more stable position when I had my kids. Was it a hard choice, nope, kids come first end of the story. There is a difference between Bob and her, she is the mother... how often am I in a court room and hear the words, "you cant take that baby from her, shes its mother" be she a horrid one or not. How many women go around crying and tricking people by saying "My little girl was wrongly taken from me" and people without question believe them because they are the biological mother, or people assume when a mother loses a child be it custody to the father or terminiation of rights by the state "well she has to be on drugs, what is she addicted to". If we are going to give women the notion mothers are more importent then perhaps we should also require them to accept perhaps not quitting a career but finding one more in line with a safe family life.

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The remaining few pieces of non-federal land within Capitol Reef National Park were private lands that were not purchased in the early 1960s or that were part of the1969 expansion. By the end of 1969, long-time Fruita resident Dewey Gifford had sold his house, barn, and 12.28 acres of land for $41,000. [57]
The next tract to be acquired was a former state section purchased outright by ranchers Rulen and Inez Morrell. This section (T26S R5E S36) was desirable because it was strategically placed between Upper and Lower Cathedral Valleys, encompassed the Caineville Wash/Baker Ranch/Fremont Junction road intersection, and included some spectacular monoliths, igneous dikes, and the Gypsum Sinkhole. The National Park feared that the Morrells would sell the land to development interests. [58]
The National Park Service's Utah Land Office initially offered to buy the Morrells' rights for $22,400. Rulen Morrell responded that his grazing interests made his land worth at least $200 an acre ($128,000 for the entire 640-acre section) but that he was willing to "get together on a price." [59]
In May 1972, the National Park Service sent Realty Specialist Lee Garrison to negotiate with the Morrells at their home in Fremont. Garrison reported, "We argued, bickered, and negotiated on every reason we could think of why they should sell to the Park for the appraised price of $22,400. Mr. Morrell is 64 years old and has had two heart attacks in the last six months, and we finally signed them up with a life's estate grazing use of the section." [60]
In the end, Garrison was pleased that he was able to get the Morrells to sell for the appraised value of $35 an acre. [61]
The Bird property and leases, the Sleeping Rainbow Ranch on Pleasant Creek, and a former state section purchased years before by Wonderland Stages were next on the list. Unfortunately, Capitol Reef National Park's enabling legislation had set a $423,000 ceiling on private land purchases -- not nearly enough to purchase all the private tracts. [62] Thus, all land deals were off until 1976, when Congress increased acquisition funds to $2,173,000. [63] The next year, the section owned by Wonderland Stages, a commercial tour guiding service operated by Salt Lake residents John and Stewart Campbell, was purchased for $275,000. This purchase enabled the National Park Service to acquire the historic Behunin cabin, the man-made waterfall, and the abandoned meander of the Fremont River near the eastern boundary. In 1978, Clair Bird's Capitol Reef Lodge and state land leases were acquired by condemnation of taking for almost $400,000. [64]
This left only two private parcels of land within the park: the Sleeping Rainbow Ranch owned by Lurton and Alice Knee, and a .42-acre tract, owned by descendants of Fruita pioneer Amasa E. Pierce, near the junction of Sulphur Creek and the Fremont River.
When Capitol Reef National Monument was expanded in 1969, approximately 300 acres owned by Lurton and Alice Knee at Pleasant Creek became an inholding. This area had been first settled by Ephraim K. Hanks and his family in 1882. They later built the first permanent house in what is now Capitol Reef National Park. After Ephraim's death, his wife Thisbee gained title to 160 acres through the Homestead Act in 1899. From 1916 to 1937, the Floral Ranch passed through several hands before being purchased by Ezra and Levi Bullard of Torrey. [65]
By 1940, the Bullards had wearied of the ranch's isolation, so they sold the Floral Ranch to Lurton Knee and his first wife, Margaret. Knee, who had worked with his brother-in-law Tom Goulding in Monument Valley, investigated the potential of starting his own tourist business near Capitol Reef National Monument. The Knees saw the Pleasant Creek location as perfect for starting a guest ranch and tour business patterned after the Goulding operation. Throughout the 1940s, the Knees struggled to survive by raising a few cows and pigs. (It was during this time that the dilapidated Hanks house on the north bank above Pleasant Creek was burned to the ground by Knee's ranch hand.) After the end of World War II, the Knees began to plan their tourist business, the Sleeping Rainbow Ranch. [66]
By the time the monument encompassed their land in 1969, the Knees had built a house, cabins, and a small, concrete block motel on a knoll overlooking horse corrals and fenced pastures. They had maintained an irrigation canal, spring and pump water system, and had constructed a power/telephone line through the Pleasant Creek Gorge to the west. The Knees' acreage was now up to the approximately 300 acres, with a lease on an adjoining state section, as well. [67]
Lurton Knee later recalled that he actively supported the expanded monument and later park boundary lines, fully aware that the boundary would make him an inholder. He stated in 1992, "I had to debate then on whether to enlarge, go on and make a larger guest ranch out of it or to sell it to the national park, because I knew then I became an in-holder." [68]
Because of the insufficient $423,000 initial cap placed on private land acquisitions in the 1971 legislation, acquisition of the entire Sleeping Rainbow Ranch had to be delayed. Meanwhile, 140 acres of the ranch were purchased for $300,000 in the fall of 1974. [69] When the acquisition ceiling was raised in 1976, the Knees realized that their chance to sell the rest of their property was at hand. They decided to sell their land to a church, thereby establishing a tax-free trust fund that would provide them with steady retirement income. The chosen church would then sell the land to the National Park Service. The other key provision of any deal would be that the Knees and their children would be granted life residency to a portion of the land. [70]
Around 1976, the Knees approached officials at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, with their proposal. The university, in consultation with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, determined that it could not meet all of Lurton Knee's stipulations. The Knees then revised their life estate requirement, dropping their children from the provision, and turned to the more flexible Seventh Day Adventist Church. [71]
In January 1978, earnest negotiations began between the National Park Service and Lurton and Alice Knee. Sherman W. Swenson, National Park Service Chief of the Division of Land Acquisition, spent a day with the Knees hammering out an initial deal. The Knees agreed to sell 235 acres, so long as they could retain 25 acres as a life estate. They would also retain rights-of-way for their spring and pump water system, root cellar, the power and telephone lines, and the rights to water and pasture necessary to keep three horses. Swenson reported, "It is my recommendation that we go along with their requirements. The price is okay. Our only alternative to this is condemnation, and in light of the present climate regarding our use of condemnation, I would recommend against it." [72]
By April 1978, the formalities of a purchase agreement had been worked out among the Knees, the Southern California Branch of The Seventh Day Adventist Church, and the National Park Service. The NPS would acquire the 235 acres for $450,000. In June 1978, an additional $17,805 were paid directly to the Knees for 11.87 acres of their life estate. [73]
Lurton Knee died in the early 1995. Currently, the area is used primarily for trailhead parking by hikers using Pleasant Creek trail, and by four-wheel drive and mountain bike enthusiasts passing by along the South Draw Road.
Archeological and historic surveys of the area have demonstrated the need to protect this impressive entrance to the Waterpocket Fold. The Knees' old guest ranch facility is now under consideration for use as a university-operated environmental education and research center. The area is also a potential location for future park housing or visitor facilities.
In one of the numerous small land transactions within Fruita prior to the National Park Service's arrival, a small parcel of land, only .42 acres, was somehow overlooked. This situation may have arisen from of the inaccurate, confusing manner in which the various individual orchard farms were identified. Another reason may be that the tract was located within the Fremont River floodplain immediately downstream from the junction of Sulphur Creek. Thus, either the spring run-off or the numerous flash floods descending the Fremont River or Sulphur Creek drainages would occasionally inundate this tiny piece of land. [74]
When the National Park Service began purchasing the private Fruita inholdings in the 1940s and 1960s, this small parcel was overlooked once again. It was not until the late 1970s or early 1980 that some National Park Service official realized that there was a gap between acquired lands. The National Park Service set out to find the last legal owner and his or her heirs of the property and then offer to purchase the land at its appraised value. [75]
By the end of 1980, the Sixth District Court in Wayne County had validated the National Park Service's findings that tract 01-161 had last belonged to Amasa E. Pierce, who died in 1933, and that there were 22 living heirs. [76] The next task for the National Park Service was to track down those heirs and have them either convey their interests in the land to one family member willing to sell, or come to some other consensus as to how the land was to be disposed. The appraised value of the .42 acres was calculated at $2,000. [77]
At first the closest living descendent, daughter Romania Pierce Tanner, countered with an offer to sell the land for $2,500. However, she was unable to get all the other heirs to agree to this. Then, some of the descendants of Amasa Pierce offered to sell the land to the National Park Service if half the amount could go to a park memorial to their grandparents. Superintendent Derek Hambly advised the family that the proposed transaction was against National Park Service policy. The heirs then suggested that an additional room at the visitor center or some kind of picnic shelter honoring all the Fruita pioneers might be possible. According to Pierce family spokesman Leah P. Johnson, this offer was also denied by park management. Accordingly, the heirs decided that they would simply take all the money and divide it among themselves. [78]
The National Park Service then offered to pay the $2,500 asked by Romania Tanner, but this was dropped "because 19 heirs could not agree on conveying their interest." [79] While the heirs were trying to reach an agreement, the Secretary of the Interior issued an order in early 1981 that stopped all land acquisition attempts until further notice. Thus, the sale of tract 01-161 was postponed indefinitely. [80]
There were no new developments on the tract for seven years. Then, in June 1988, two Pierce family descendants, Max and Blaine Tanner, went to Fruita to inquire about possible uses or sale of their land. By this time, failure to pay back taxes on the land (added to the Wayne County rolls upon its discovery in the early 1980s) had almost eliminated the Pierce descendants' claims. Four distantly related family members, including Max and Blaine Tanner, paid the required $450 in back taxes. While this payment kept the Pierce claim viable, at least all future negotiations would involve only those who had paid the taxes. [81]
During this June 1988 meeting, the Tanners told Chief Ranger Poe they wanted to put a cabin or camping trailer on the site for recreational use. Poe explained that this would be in violation of National Park Service policy. Poe also pointed out that since virtually the entire land was within the Fremont River's immediate floodplain, it would simply be easier for everyone if they would sell out. [82]
In June 1989, Max Tanner notified the National Park Service that the remaining owners of the Pierce property were now willing to sell for $6,000. Tanner dismissed the argument that the land was of little value because its location, and stated that it had great potential for development once minor problems of access were overcome. [83] This "minor" problem was the fact that the Tanners would have to get an easement over national park land from Utah 24 -- an easement that the National Park Service was not about to grant. Richard A. Young, Rocky Mountain Region Chief of the Land Resources Division wrote Tanner a curt response. Young stated flatly that the National Park Service was not willing to negotiate on its latest offer of $1,000, less than half what the land would have sold for in 1980.
Max Tanner responded that his family had decided to use the land as a vacation site and that they would be willing to pay for the necessary easement. [84] This offer was also summarily rejected, this time by Homer L. Rouse in the capacity of Acting Regional Director. [85]
As of March 1995, the status of Amasa Pierce descendant's property, tract 01-161, is not resolved. As long as the National Park Service is able to control access to the site, it can not be utilized for anything other than a walk along the river.
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Psionic Shielding
What is Shielding?
Shielding, in psychic terms, is a form of protection from outside influences such as psychic attack and empathic overload. A shield is a layer of energy that you surround yourself with and that allows you to regulate what energy will affect you and how.
How do I make one?
The simplest form of shielding is a simple boundary shield. To make one, imagine your skin becoming full of energy, and imagine energy coming out of the top of your head and pouring down your body. Wherever this energy touches your energized skin, it solidifies. It turns into a solid shield of energy that can protect you. There. You have now made your first shield (albeit a weak one ). What other types of shields are there?
Lots. The most interesting in my opinion are the combat shields. These shields are defensive/offensive shields that are used in a psychic combat situation. There are also camouflage shields, which although very hard to master, render the user invisible or at least hard to find to other psychics. Shields can be used for many different things; I store my constructs in my shields. But you have to know what type of shields to use when. A boundary shield (like the one above) would be useful if all you wanted to do was prevent yourself from being empathetically overloaded.
To do this, as you make your shield just "program" your shield/imagine it filtering out all empathic signals as you make. For a mirror shield that would block out all energy signals and send them away, imagine this as you create it. I tend to almost mentally "talk" to my shield when I program it. Intent is almost everything. Almost. For more advanced shields, however, there is a factor of the structure of the shield as you create it.
Cool. But can you have more than one layer?
Of course. If you make yourself a combat shield, it would actually be far wiser to have several shields on top of each other, each to do a different job. This will constitute a shield system.
What are the main factors affecting shields?
Concentration and energy. Amount of energy, that is. Some shields require less concentration and more energy, some more concentration and less energy, etc. An absorption shield would require a lot of concentration but not so much energy; you'd have to program it to
- Detect incoming signals
- Perceive whether they are hostile or friendly
- If hostile, the signals must be caught and depatternized
- And must finally be absorbed into the shield
All this would take quite a bit of concentration and programming skill. Also, there is the skill factor. The more experienced you become with working with a particular shield type, the less concentration is required for it. Kind of like the computer game Diablo - the more experienced you get with a spell, the less it takes to do that spell.
Any last tips?
Once you've made your first shield, keep it up 24/7. Regenerate it several times a day. Once you can actually feel your shield on you, this means you've put enough energy into it. Now try something slightly more complicated, or try upgrading your shield, but using the skin-charging method I described above.
An Introduction To Psi Shielding
Once again, it is useful to define one's terms. In a field where very little has been openly discussed until recently, it is natural that there should be some variety in the words used to express the concepts, varying according to tradition and physical location. In this context, "Shielding" refers to the construction and maintenance of psychic, psionic, and/or magical defenses around one's person, most often within or along the 'edges' of the aura. Much as felis concolor is known in various regions as 'cougar', 'puma', 'mountain lion', 'panther', 'mountain varmint', 'gentleman longtail' and so on; so too are Shields also known as 'personal wards', 'bubbles', 'force-bubbles', 'force-fields', 'barrier-shields', 'psychic defenses', 'shells', 'cocoons', et cetera. Many of these terms may also refer of other kinds of defenses depending upon the usage at the time.
How important Shielding is depends upon one's situation. Obviously, anyone unfortunate enough to be embroiled in psionic combat needs thorough knowledge and a high level of skill in several kinds of Shields. People with a natural tendency toward telepathy or empathy, but otherwise secure, can probably get away with learning two or three.
Because many telepaths and empaths need to Shield almost continuously, they get lots of practice, but are likely to favor the less fancy forms that maintain themselves. Those who find themselves the victim of a psychic vampire generally tend to something in between these two groups. Everyone else involved in psychic or magical activities probably ought to learn at least one Shield, but is most likely to use it only on an as-needed basis. The mind has rudimentary Shields that occur naturally, and these seem to be sufficient for the average person in a normal situation.
Shielding is sufficiently standard a skill that practically any book on how to do magic or psionics, and most on psychic development, includes instruction on at least one method. There is little agreement on exactly when to start learning it. (Personally, I figure it ought to be taught in kindergarten, but I must admit to being seriously biased in this matter.) This little article is about psionic Shielding, simply because that is what I know, being neither mage nor witch. If you can produce a psi ball, you can make at least a simple psionic Shield. Once you can do a basic one, the rest is just practice, study, and playing.
Start with choosing your favorite method of making a psi ball. Next, consider exactly what you want your Shield to do. An example of a nice, basic, Shield intention is to "keep unwanted thoughts and energies from passing through from the outside, and keeping all but deliberate Sendings within". Now, form a psi ball while concentrating on our 'intention'. Put lots of energy into it. Allow the psi ball to grow, first enveloping your hands, then gradually your whole body, and a goodly amount of your aura as well.
Add more energy until it feels nice and strong. At this stage, visualize a shell forming around the edge of the ball, which is probably no longer round, but might be. Visualize the shell as being made of something strong that makes you feel safe inside it: it could be bullet-proof glass, bright light, titanium steel, diamond, thick bark,...whatever feels right to you. Make sure your shell is big enough not to make you feel claustrophobic. When its shape, size, and material all feel right to you, will it to stay put without further attention until you choose to dispel it. If you want to, you can state these intentions aloud, or even make it into a little rhyming ditty; or it can be entirely mental.
Dispelling the Shield is a simple matter. The method I use most often is to visualize the shell dissolving into what look like 'pixels' which gently collapse to the ground and are absorbed back into the Earth, while intending to release the Shield. This is often called 'dropping' one's Shields. Don't take the 'drop' part too literally, however. Letting a Shield collapse too quickly or too violently can result in a truly monstrous headache, and occasionally knock you senseless.
Visualize it rolling up like an automatic garage door, or rising open, or dissolving into nothing, or fading out...whatever you like. Just be sure the process is nice and gentle. As in the casting of the shell, a spoken component is optional. Likewise, you can incorporate physical gestures, if you want to.
Another common form of basic Shield is cast by, after going through the preliminary preparations, visualizing the protective energy forming a bell-shape or dome of thick glass or light around oneself. The dome may be called into existence whole, or gradually 'grown' around oneself. If you favor more solid-seeming construction, picture building the barrier, bit by bit, of bricks or stones, or sheets of metal being welded together.
As you can see, the construction of a Shield can have many variations. So can the Shield's programmed intentions. Rather than simply blocking negative energies, you can tell your Shield to absorb them to fuel itself. Or, you can make the outside mirrored, to send the negative energies back where they came from. For combat, it can even 'fight back', but that is a specialized application outside the scope of this article. Combat Shield configurations are certainly not for everyday use.
There are other specialized applications. For example, there are times when avoiding notice is desirable. Concentrating on diverting unwanted attention, on being totally uninteresting, while casting the Shield is often very effective. In fact, go ahead and concentrate on not being seen at all. I am not the only one who has used this to avoid physical attack.
On the other hand, sometimes giving the impression of being more capable than you are is the way to go, the way some animals puff themselves up to scare away an enemy. "Tell" your Shields to give off an 'aura' of strong, graceful self-assurance. There is no need to be cocky or obnoxious about it. the idea is to avoid a fight, not provoke one. No matter how good you are, there's always someone better.
If you happen to be 'into' visible psi balls, you may find it amusing to make your Shields visible, too, sometimes. They can glow, or take on any color or appearance you happen to feel like. Use your imagination. Most of these nifty special effects take a lot of effort and energy, so you probably will not want to use this variation often, nor for very long periods of time.
Among friends, extending a bit of a tendril from your Shield to brush gently against your buddy's Shield is a friendly hello. It is a little like a cat rubbing his cheek against his person, in effect if not in exact meaning. Just how friendly a greeting this is probably varies from place to place, and it is far from universal, so check local customs first, if there are any. Snuggling your mind, and therefore your Shields, up against someone else's is a greeting that goes rather beyond a friendly 'hello'.
In an emergency, it is quite possible to Shield another person's mind, in much the same way that you can Shield your own. This is a relatively advanced variation, and outside of combat itself very rare this is an unusual sort of situation: and exhausted and overloaded empath in the city, for example; or a telepath in poltergeist difficulties in the midst of his or her own personal tornado. Shielding someone else is a possibility of which you should be aware. However, it is unlikely that you would ever be in a position to require its use.
Common and Not-So-Common Shields
The best offence is a good defense. We've all heard this cliche associated with things like sports or martial arts, but it applies to the world of psionics as well. The most fundamental way of protecting oneself against the outside world is a shield. Just like psi balls, they can be programmed to do an unlimited number of tasks, ranging from simply stopping negative energy from entering your body, to interpreting different types energy and responding to each on an individual basis.
The average psion doesn't have a dictionary of hundreds of shields in their head for different situations - we each have a small database of regularly practiced shields that can be "tweaked" slightly to fit a given scenario. I, myself, use roughly three different types of shields on a given day, but also have a few advanced shields in mind "just in case".
The most common shield I use is referred to as the Bubble Shield.
Bubble Shield
Bubble Shields are easy to make and can hold up against everyday annoyances. I primarily use them for blocking "normal" humans' empathetic projections. Regulating how solid the shield is dictates how much empathetic information I receive from my environment. I've personally had trouble using them for blocking telepathic information, but keep in mind, my telepathic experiences are very limited. Bubble Shields are also useful against humans who subconsciously leach energy from others. Basically, in those situations, your shield has to only be more powerful than the person's next to you. The "leach" will generally go for the easy target and not even bother with you.
I use two techniques to create Bubble Shields (though sometimes I do outlandish things just to spice it up little ).
- The first is a simple visualization of a shell building from the ground to up, around your body, and finally meeting up over your head. Eggshells and plastic bubbles are typical visualizations.
- The second generates the shield from inside the abs, and expands it until it's around the entire body. This is useful for pushing energy off of you, while the first might trap it inside the shield.
Unfortunately, you can't just learn the Bubble Shield and be set for life. If you engage in any psychic combat, you'll find that your Bubble Shield doesn't amount to crap. A focused attack can go right through or shatter it, depending on the attackers skill and objective. Reconstructing and maintaining it during a fight isn't worth the effort. As mentioned above, the Bubble Shield is very basic.
It's great for everyday problems, but for more serious events, it's wiser to make a better type of shield, than trying to hold together a small Bubble Shield. One shield I'd like to discuss has a specific purpose. I invented it a year or so ago when I nearly got hit by lightning a couple times in a row, and still use it every time there's a storm outside. It has no formal name as far as I know, but I call it the Diffuse Shield.
Diffuse Shield
As implied above, I use this shield for fending off lightning. It started when I was first dabbling in energy manipulation. The first time, I was home alone at night, and it was storming pretty heavy out. I was playing around with psi balls and throwing them around, when I bolt of lighting hit within 30 yards of my house. I didn't see it directly, but everything lit up (and I mean EVERYTHING - I was blinded for about twenty seconds), and my entire house rattled and vibrated. I was scared shitless, of course, so I stopped practicing psi balls until the storm was over. Thinking it could have been a fluke, I didn't worry about it after that.
After a couple of similar experiences, I didn't take any action until the last time (I think almost a year ago exactly). I was outside, and it wasn't storming at all. There were clouds above, but no rain and no lightning. I suddenly heard a "click click click" sound and looked up. For some reason I dove into the garage (I don't remember seeing anything), and the lightning nearly hit me again.
As before, everything shook and our house was rattling like crazy. Being nearly hit while it wasn't even raining made me think it wasn't just a "coincidence". I didn't know exactly how the lightning was targeting me, but I figured that I must be giving off a different charge (of some sort) than my surrounding environment. To solve this, I kept my internal charge the same (whatever it was), but made a shield to "diffuse" my charge into my environments charge.
Any energy I emitted would be the same as my environment, but my energy would still be the same. I assume it's worked because I've yet to have another experience like that, but I do have to create the shield every time it starts to look like it's going to rain. Of course, I'd rather do that than get struck by lightning, so I don't complain .
The technique is simple and the shield can be created in about the same amount of time as a Bubble Shield. First I create a thick Bubble Shield (not necessarily strong, just thick). Then I push some parts out to form a spike, and some parts in to form a spike. When I'm finished, it's similar to a furry ball - the spikes becoming so thin they're like fibers. It's made very "loose" and the fibers flow around freely. (I apologize for the cheesy animation , it's much easier to visualize than it is to draw).
I've yet to find another use for this shield other than the one stated. It'll fall apart in an hour or so (depending how you program it), and I can't think of any way it would be useful in a combat situation. Nonetheless, it's served it's purpose: I've yet to be struck . If you find yourself in a situation similar to mine, give this shield a try.
While the Diffuse Shield is made for a very specific purpose, the next shield I'm going to discuss can be used for a variety of applications. It's commonly referred to as the Mirror Shield because of its ability to bounce incoming energy in the opposite direction.
Mirror Shield
To be completely honest, I have little experience with this type of shield. I've used it on occasion while "sparring" with people, but I usually like creating something more complex (mainly because the Mirror Shield is kinda boring, in my opinion ). Despite my lack of interest, it is a popular and useful shield.
The technique is predictable given the name of the shield, but I'll go over it to be complete. Create it as you would any other shield, but program it to reflect incoming attacks. This can be accomplished by a nice "mirror" visualization or a slick silver color. There are some pitfalls to this shield that can trick-up a newbie.
The first is to make sure you create it so you can send energy out through the shield. It's no good if you go to attack and your attack bounces off the inside and nails yourself. Another is to make sure you make it's on the outside of all your other shields. The reason for this is that if you create it inside a Bubble Shield, for example, and the attacker breaks through part of the Bubble Shield, the energy will bounce off, and hit the Bubble Shield again on the way out. Two hits with one stone.
Though I personally don't find this shield "fun", it is very useful. A skilled psion can easily fend off a series of attacks with this one shield. The next shield is another simple concept, but a little harder to construct, in my opinion. I call it the Marshmallow Shield, though I'm not sure if that's the formal name .
Marshmallow Shield
The Marshmallow Shield is a thick, gooey, and sticky type of shield. Its primary purpose is to absorb attacks and hold them there for later. It can be programmed to de-patternize the simple attack or just spit it back out. It's hard to break because of its nature, but at best it can slow down a skilled attack.
One downfall (for me) is that it takes some time to construct properly. The visualization is simple, but it just requires a lot of energy. Basically, you want to picture a thick (probably at least one foot) wall of goo. Use semi-melted marshmallows for visualization. If you construct it in layers (which I do sometimes, to make it easier), you'll want to make sure the layers melt into each other completely - they can be a pain and separate on their own sometimes.
You might want to put some Bubble Shields on the outside and inside of it if you're making it really gooey. It should hold it's own shape for some time, but it might require some maintenance depending on how you make it.
As I stated above - it can take a while to make, even if you are somewhat skilled. It's not particularly good at handling sharp objects, but it's not meant to be used as the only line of defense. Combine it with other defensive shields to provide better protection. After it's made it can be repaired somewhat easily, so you can keep it up for long periods of time.
One shield that can be combined well with the Marshmallow Shield is the Force-Bubble Shield. It takes longer to construct, but provides some of the best protection.
Force Bubble Shield
In my opinion, the Force-Bubble Shield is one of the coolest out there . Just recently I've been experimenting with Force-Bubble Constructs, and the shield version is very useful and holds up against a lot of force. I can be used in combat or in any situation where you need to physically put force on an object. The downside is that it is pretty advanced and takes a lot of time to make (in most cases). Skill in telekinesis is useful.
The visualization is fairly simple but tedious. The one I use is to visualize a bunch of "psi-bricks" stacking up and forming a brick wall around myself. You'll also need some "psi-mortar" as well to stick it all together . Also, to incorporate the idea of force, I visualize a bunch of arrows pointing outwards on the bricks. In physics, force is usually shown by an arrow, so it works well for me (having a somewhat scientific mind). Think of something that means "force" to you and use it. The key isn't necessarily the visualization, but the practice. This shield takes a lot of skill to construct properly.
The Force-Bubble Shield is extremely useful and powerful. While the previous combat shields address the issue of dealing with an attack, the last shield's purpose is to help you not get in situations where you'll get attacked. It's known as the Cloaking Shield, or in some cases, the "Hedge" Shield.
Cloaking Shield
I find this shield the most fun to play with. With it, you can walk up to someone while their looking right at you and scare the crap out of them (yes, that is fun! ). Previous experience with telepathic suggestion will help you with this shield's properties.
To create it, you'll want to form a mental image of what you want to project onto others. You can project yourself as "invisible" or something static (for example, a hedge, box, etc...). Whatever you choose, you should have a clear understanding of what the objects energy is like. You'll want to create a shield that emits this same type of energy. The goal isn't to physically make yourself look like a hedge, but rather to get the attacker to glance over you. Broadcast something like "Nothing to see here, just a hedge".
Another form of this shield would be to emit a "normal" human's energy field. When the attacker sees you, they'll either underestimate your ability, or ignore you completely. Obviously, visualizations of whatever you want to become work well for forming this shield. Remember though, you're not just creating a shield, your clouding the mind of your opponent. This is where telepathy is useful. Incorporate telepathic suggestion and broadcasting into the shield. Visualize your opponent becoming confused.
This isn't an easy shield to make, but it is useful. It doesn't take that long to make, just skill. With anything, practice makes perfect, and this shield is fun to practice .
Shields are essential to psions - from newbie to advanced. One last note: keep in mind that the two shields are better than one. Combine shields and layer them wisely to significantly increase your protection. Any shield can be cracked, but having backups for the backups ensures you'll have time to react to an attack.
Concerning Blocks and Internal Shielding
It is possible to erect Shields inside one's mind, in addition to the more usual defenses around it. This is a somewhat specialized technique, and probably only of limited use. Quite possibly the most obvious application is to keep one's most private memories private when mind-linking; while the most common is the subconscious repression of traumatic memories, as an internal defense mechanism...but the latter wanders into the field of psychiatry, and is well beyond the scope of an article of this kind.
A nice basic internal Shield is a slightly elastic Mirror configuration, with a smooth, glossy surface that bounces would-be intrusions harmlessly off its exterior. Such a Shield would dent inward a little if pressed, but immediately resume its normal form once the intruding thought-form was sent on its way.
Such internal Shields are constructed in the same manner as a regular Shield, and, in theory, any Shield you can construct normally you can make internally, too. In practice, however, the variety of internal Shields is more limited. This is the inside of your mind we're talking about here. In fact, some kinds would be physically inside your skull. You'll feel it any time the Shields touch anything (with a couple of odd exceptions), so you'll want something that's comfortable, right? Heavy-duty, strike-back-on-contact combat Shields could cause problems.
It may be wise to set a time limit when constructing an interior Shield, rather than simply wait until you want to drop it, to deal with dispelling it. Or, better yet, set it so that it will remain for a certain amount of time or until you choose to dispel it, whichever comes first. Otherwise, it is too easy to mess up the setting and have your own thoughts bouncing off it, thus unable to drop the thing, and that would not be good. (Can you tell that I speak from experience here? No need for you to repeat my error....)
A similar sort of block can be produced hypnotically, either in one's self or in another person. I tried a self-induced one out of curiosity, and it formed the sort of default-pattern Shield I mentioned earlier.
Dr. G.H. Estabrooks, in his "Hypnosis Comes of Age"*, mentions the use of a similar-sounding block in 'training' a kind of mind-controlled spy-courier in World War I. He took it a step further, and locked the blocking in place to prevent interference with, or even knowledge of, the block by anyone other than the courier's two handlers....specifically including the courier himself. Whether the block/shield produced no sensation in itself, or whether the courier had been hypnotically commanded not to feel it was not indicated in the article. The courier had been programmed to forget that he'd ever been hypnotized, and he had no idea that he was working as a spy, so it could have gone either way.
In fact, I am only guessing at the similarity in structure between the blocking Dr. Estabrooks' methods produced, and those under discussion here, based on my own experience (self-induced and otherwise) and descriptions of similar phenomena by other people who have experienced them. In the case of such descriptions of blocked memories, obviously the block eventually failed.**
It happens sometimes that blocking, of whatever nature, cracks or shatters after a period of months or years. If you have cause to construct such a block in your own mind ~ or someone else's, for that matter ~ you may want to bear that in mind.


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SNELLVILLE --Eventually, Courtney Gardner was going to need help on the offensive end.
But the Brookwood senior never got it, and the Broncos lost 57-43 to Creekview Friday night in the Deep South Classic semifinals. Gardner had a nice all-around game and her scoring kept the hosts close for the better part of the game, but the Grizzlies pulled away to reach today's 6 p.m. final vs. North Oconee. Brookwood will play Model at 3 p.m. in the third-place game.
The Broncos ask a lot of Gardner, a 5-foot-10 wing who has been thrust into a full-time point guard role with a season-ending injury to freshman point guard Lesley Holbrook. Gardner was her team's only consistent offense most of Friday's semifinal, including a strong second quarter that got Brookwood as close as it could get to Creekview's lead.
Down 18-10 early in the second quarter, the Broncos (8-5) got a 3-pointer and another basket from Gardner, followed by a steal and basket from Taiylor Rinehart to get with 18-17 midway through the period.
But Creekview (10-4) scored the next eight points, two on free throws after a technical foul on Bronco coach Scott Terry, and Brookwood never got closer than nine points just once the remainder of the game --when Gardner made a basket midway through the third to get within 36-29.
The Grizzlies answered again with an 11-2 run that put a damper on the Broncos' comeback plans.
Still, Brookwood fought back behind Gardner, who finished with 18 points, eight rebounds and three assists. She hit a pair of free throws and then assisted baskets by Ansley Jones and Rebecca Walker to get within nine points early in the fourth quarter.
Walker added another basket in the fourth, but the offensive help for Gardner came too late. Walker had 11 points, four assists, four blocks and three steals. Shelby Hunter had all six of her points in the third quarter to help keep the Broncos close.
Creekview was led by 14 points from Lauren Johnson and 11 points from Dee Blankenship.
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Herc Thinks ABC's New CHARLIE'S ANGELS Can Go Straight To Hell!!
I truly love McG's first "Charlie's Angels" movie (the one with Bill Murray, Sam Rockwell, Lucy Liu schooling the nerds to Heart's "Barracuda" and Cameron Diaz' swirly underoos) but was much less impressed with the sequel.
Know what's worse than the sequel? Way worse? ABC's new dim, lazy, woefully unoriginal and humor-challenged TV version, which is overseen by "Smallville" masterminds Miles Millar and Al Gough -- the fellows who also scripted "Shanghai Noon," "Shanghai Knights," "Showtime," "Herbie Fully Loaded," "The Mummy III" and "I Am Number Four."
The pilot they wrote is so bland and listless it convinces me I initially cut "Smallville" too much slack 10 years ago; I'm pretty sure now I stuck with The New Adventures Of Young Clark Kent only because it namechecked my beloved DC Comics characters.
The new "Charlie's" makes me wonder why Drew Barrymore, who produced both the movies and this series, didn't exert more quality control.
This version of "Angels" gives us a young, muscular, shirtless, hottubbing Latino Bosley but can't be bothered to stick "Friday Night Lights" cheerleader Minka Kelly in a bikini.
Bosley, by the way, is apparently SO good with an iPad he can use it to compel surveillance satellites to look inside any hotel room in the world, even those with kidnap victims inside. Why didn't the kidnappers anticipate this? Oh yeah, because it's FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE.
(And by the way, the blonde Angel in this new series is the daughter of a fictionalized Bernie Madoff, just as the blonde waitress is in "2 Broke Girls." That jailed Ponzi schemer has really caught the imagination of TV writers!)
(And by the way again, is there any way this version can be better than the "Charlie's Angels" TV remake Carlton Cuse wrote before he got sucked into "Lost"?)
… a much bigger mess than '70s critics ever accused the original of being....this version isn't what anyone's looking for out of either "Charlie's Angels" or just an hour of television.
... Was the clunky script for 'Charlie's Angels' also dug up from some '70s vault? It contains more than a few leaden lines, and any show that asks me to accept Minka Kelly (Lyla from 'Friday Night Lights') as an orphan who grew up to be a tough car thief is asking too much. If I want light entertainment and action-adventure featuring attractive people, I'll switch over to USA Network, where they at least try to avoid making the stories and characters faintly ridiculous. ...
... The devil is in the details of TV's latest uninspired reboot. Acting and writing? Mere afterthoughts in this noisy misfire. Even the casting lacks those essential star-is-born Farrah-mones. It's like a USA Network show after a lobotomy....
... It's unlikely anyone expected much from a revival of that eye-candy progenitor Charlie's Angels; the surprise is that you're getting so little. No one was ever going to mistake the original for, well, Prime Suspect, but it had energy and glamour and a self-aware sense of frothy fun, all of which are missing from this lugubrious update. ...
... ABC has marketed the remake with the slogan "These are not your mother's Angels." And that is certainly true — they are your grandmother's Angels, throwbacks to an era when there was something contrary and cute about a woman with flowing hair and a lethal karate chop. "Prime Suspect" isn't coy or campy, and perhaps because of it, it's a lot more enjoyable to watch.
... The high gloss serio-silliness of the original is as dated as Farrah Fawcett's legendary hairstyle, but that doesn't stop creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar from adopting it ...
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says:
.... viewers have a pretty good idea of what they're going to get: action, attractive women and gorgeous locations -- but not much else. …
... This lousy, third-generation retread of the 1970s original is suitably DOA (dumb on arrival), but also offensively bland in feel. ... Now diluted by present-day TV's cookie-cutter hustle and flow, the real duds are the Angels themselves: Rachel Taylor, Annie Ilonzeh and Minka Kelly. They come off as interchangeable affirmative-action figures who make Farrah and company look like early suffragettes who fought for the jiggle rights we now take for granted.
... The women never sparkle on camera.... Writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar ("Smallville") seem to have generated their script from a Mad Libs exercise. …
… Am I hooked? Definitely not. The underwhelming cast brings nothing to the boilerplate action. Kelly is miscast as a biker chick, and making Bosley a hunk with computer skills fails to add life.…
... instantly dated. … other than Kelly (and, admittedly, this is highly subjective) the casting appears short on the requisite sizzle to make these Angels really fly, assuming they still could. … Sorry, Charlie.
... fails miserably and offensively. ... The writing is atrocious. It's like a spoof that suddenly took itself seriously. That ABC could have made this on the drama side and the yet-to-air "Work It" on the comedy side – far and away the two worst shows of this new season – says a lot about what it takes to get fired in this town. …
8 p.m. Thursday. ABC.
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Sept. 22, 2011, 3:58 p.m. CST
is there one motherfucker in the world who thinks this will be a success?
by lostboytexas
Sept. 22, 2011, 4:02 p.m. CST
by A G
Oh i mean, FUCK THE STAR WARS BLU RAYS AND THE THING REMAKE.
Sept. 22, 2011, 4:02 p.m. CST
Cheryl Ladd was my favorite Angel
by Tacom
Sept. 22, 2011, 4:20 p.m. CST
I demand season 5 on DVD!
by RongoRongoMu
To hell with this new crap. Give me some finger-lickin' good Tanya Roberts in her prime.
Sept. 22, 2011, 4:38 p.m. CST
So is it tied to the original series like the movies or is it a complete reboot.
by thecomedian
How do you fuck up Charlie's Angels? Bad move not tying it more directly into the old show and the movies(though the 2nd one was pretty shitty). They could have brought in Lucy Lui, Drew Barrymore or Jaclyn Smith for sweeps episodes. You've got 2 generations familiar with both of those wildly popular incarnations and you opt for a lifeless "She Spies" rehash instead? Idiots.
Sept. 22, 2011, 4:56 p.m. CST
I think Dr. Smith said it best...
by Master Bruce
Oh the pain, the pain!
Sept. 22, 2011, 5:10 p.m. CST
by Hercules
I noticed no reference to earlier Angels
Sept. 22, 2011, 6:31 p.m. CST
Jaclyn Smith was my first love
by dukeroberts
The 70's show, regardless of how silly it was, is iconic. The movies were terrible and not rooted the same ideas of the original TV show. The original Angels were not super spies. They were private detectives. This new show, despite the absolutely drop dead gorgeousness of Minka Kelly and despite trying to copy the popular movies, could not possibly compete with the original series. And a young, hunky Bosley? Give me a frickin' break.
Sept. 22, 2011, 9:23 p.m. CST
It's Lucy LIU, not "Lui"
by Nasty In The Pasty
And what's with the "magical swirling ass" obsession? Cameron Diaz has NO ASS TO SWIRL.
Sept. 22, 2011, 10:33 p.m. CST
Jaclyn Smith is the most beautiful woman in the history of television. Fact!
by thecomedian
I never got why people were so into Farrah, she was a total skank compared to Jaclyn Smith. Rest in Peace to her though.
Sept. 22, 2011, 10:59 p.m. CST
Rachel Taylor WITHOUT her Aussie accent?
by chromedome
WTF. No need to have her do an American accent. Her real accent would add a lot, and she was really the only reason to maybe watch this show. Fail.
Sept. 22, 2011, 11:42 p.m. CST
The CA movies were utter garbage, but...
by Tarch
the original series has some charm. I agree that the pilot was dull and unbelievable, and the ladies didn't seem to fit their roles. Let's hope that they settle in quick. And though I realize that Victor Garber probably had five minutes to read his lines - and I love Victor Garber - his Charlie was a total flat snoozefest.
Sept. 23, 2011, 9:48 a.m. CST
Saw this last night and OOF was the writing TERRIBLE
by D.Vader
He leaves no fingerprints, no traces. He's a ghost.
Sept. 23, 2011, 9:49 a.m. CST
Saw this last night and OOF was the writing TERRIBLE (2nd try)
by D.Vader
- "He leaves no traces, no fingerprints. He's a ghost." - "Ghosts aren't real. He is. And he's going to pay." ****** - "I didn't know my heart could hurt this bad! She doesn't even have any family we can call!" - "We're her family. She was our sister." - "How's Charlie taking it?" - "He's devastated. Losing an angel is his worst nightmare. Mine too." DERP!
Sept. 23, 2011, 9:50 a.m. CST
And I saw that impossible satellite feed too
by D.Vader
Made me want to throw the remote control at the tv.
Sept. 23, 2011, 10:12 a.m. CST
even hot chix won't get fanboys to tune in
by palewook
not in 2011. we have the net to look at all the eye candy we want, its not 1976. this reboot will only last 1 season.
Sept. 23, 2011, 11 a.m. CST
re: "Bosley, by the way, is apparently SO good with an iPad he can use it to compel surveillance satellites to look inside any hotel room in the world"
by jim
Not only that but he can use it to pretend he is Charlie by sending pre-typed responses to a voice synthesizer over the phone. Anyone else notice whenever they are on the phone with Charlie and he's in the room he has either a phone or his iPad with him? Bosley is Charlie. That's why Charlie's lines are read in that monotone way.
Sept. 23, 2011, 12:02 p.m. CST
Love the original series. Hate those damn movies!
by ZodNotGod
Will check it out. Not every show needs to be pretentious.
Sept. 23, 2011, 12:03 p.m. CST
I'm sick of these idiot writers not knowing the correct words to use...
by ZodNotGod
It's Reboot, NOT remake! The characters are all new creations.
Would be nice if Private Detectives were given their due again.
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The property and home was clean, well equipped, and the views and breezes were as described. The owner was gracious and helpful. We enjoyed kayaking and the boat trip to a lovely snorkeling area. The location was peaceful yet proximal to beaches and hiking trails we wanted to visit. We would certainly return to Whale Watch.
Adventurists Paradise!
My husband and I spent our Honeymoon here and everything about SeaHaven Villa made our stay feel magical! We especially enjoyed the secluded area and almost completely private bays in the area. The snorkeling was amazing, we saw sea turtles, dozens of species of fish, and giant star fish just like the photo above! Star gazing at night in the hammock was unforgettable, and it was so nice coming home to the villa after long days of hiking and swimming on the island to grill fresh fish on the balcony and listen to the sea. This home is equipped with everything you need to have a perfect vacation and we truly could not have asked for more. The owners were wonderful to work with and very helpful, along with the poperty manager, they made everything easy and carfree, just the kind of experience you are looking for when trying to relax! Thank you so much for everything, we can't wait to come back!