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I am an online student and I have not had any problems to date.
Being a Christian College makes it difficult for one to experience rejection of any kind.
Greek Life:
I'm not aware of any Greek life on our campus.
Local Area:
I love how everyone is really friendly and nice to me
Given that it's a Christian school, most people that attend are, or claim to be, Christians. There are a lot of international students. Political diversity is disappointingly low, however: most people are either Republican or hardcore Republican. There are a few libertarians trying to educate them, though.
Off-Campus Dining:
Cookout: 3 minutes away. Panera and Sheetz: 30 seconds away (right at the end of the tunnel under the railroad tracks). Domino's delivers until 2 AM, and the White Hart Cafe in downtown Lynchburg is where it's at.
Campus Housing:
With dorms, you'd better know exactly where you want to live for the next two semesters or it's gonna suck to be you. You can get lucky like I did and find a room very close to the academic buildings, or you can draw the short straw and have to take the bus to class. Proximity to the academic buildings and dining hall (in descending order): The Hill, the Commons, The Circle, the Quads, South Tower (girls only), East Campus, Annex I and II. Some places on East Campus would only be a 10-minute walk, but others would be closer to 30 minutes--but the bus helps. The Annex is by far the worst place to live as far as proximity is concerned: Annex I and II are hotels about 15 minutes from campus that the University bought years ago. Sleep through your alarm and you could miss half of your classes. In contrast, last year I was in a now-decommissioned Circle dorm about as far away as the Commons, and I could make it to class on time if I hit snooze too many times and only became coherent 5 minutes before class started. Another warning about the Annex: one day we were hit with a snowstorm, and all of the bus lines had to shut down. We ended up canceling classes for two days straight, and a friend of a friend who lived at the Annex was stuck on Main Campus the whole time because she hadn't been able to catch the last bus.
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Class size is usually appropriate. Some GenEd classes can have up to 600 students in a single lecture at the same time, whereas others can have 10-20 students. The best example of this is English 101 and 102. Once a week, 6-8 sections meet for a large lecture, so there can be 100+ people in the same room, but each section meets separately once or twice a week, so there can be as few as 12 students there. Courses so far have been good and fairly enjoyable. I've had several good professors and TA's, a couple of excellent professors, one excellent TA, and one very bad professor. The bad professor and two of the excellent professors were both from the same department, and they each taught one-section classes, so sometimes you get lucky and sometimes you don't.
Overall Experience:
I have yet to take advantage of the on-campus career center, but I've heard good things about it. The university itself recruits employees, and the alumni network is very large and diverse.
The academics here are very good. While there are a few flaws in the system (e.g. not being allowed to test out of certain GenEd classes), it is, on the whole, good. I am studying Industrial Engineering, and there are multiple engineering firms located near Lynchburg that I could intern with, and possibly work for, if I choose to.
Registration process is fairly simple. It's usually pretty easy to schedule classes with many sections around those with fewer sections. If you're too late in registering and the desired section or entire class is full, you can email the professor(s), and they can put you on a wait list or even add you into their section anyway--this happened to me two semesters ago with Calculus I. Workload depends on what classes you're taking and the level of knowledge you have about the subject prior to taking the class. There were some classes that I could have slept through (and on multiple occasions, nearly did) and still passed with an A or a B. Others I attended and took notes in every class session and still didn't do so well. With professors, it's very hit-or-miss. If you can talk to people who have already taken a given class, they can help you immensely: this professor sucks, that professor's great, this TA is really cool, that TA is really boring, etc. Sometimes you get different things from different people (in which case, just pick whichever professor teaches at a convenient time), but if most of the people you talk to say say similar things about a particular professor, you'd better listen.
Campus Quality:
The library is great. It kind of has to be, since LU dropped $50 million on it. DeMoss Hall, the main academic building, is well-built and has a sort of classical look to it. The science and education halls used to be attached to the back of it, but they've been torn down; the new science hall should be open soon, and there are temporary classrooms being used in the meantime. The dorms are modern depending on which ones you're in. The Commons is the newest dorm, just being finished now (summer 2014). Then comes East Campus, followed by the Quads and South Tower. After that there's The Hill, and The Circle comes in dead last. The Circle dorms were constructed as 10 year temporary dorms about 35 years ago, and were just decommissioned at the end of last semester (last class of Dorm 6--never forget). They're being remodeled into the aforementioned temporary classrooms, and will be torn down in a couple of years.
Party Scene:
Liberty's a Christian school, and you can face serious consequences for having alcohol on campus. Not going to comment on that, just fyi and because I can't leave this section blank.
We have 20+ sports teams, including 3 hockey teams, 2 soccer teams, 2 lacrosse teams, and a paintball team. However, they all pale in comparison to football. As much as everyone on campus loves the football team, you'd think it was against the rules not to. Football is the main sport on campus: on game days, every hot spot on campus is nearly deserted--everyone's at the football games. It's tradition to wear as much red (school color) as possible on the Fridays before home games, and everyone who attends the games on Saturdays wears red. The next Monday, it's hard to find a student who wasn't at the game. Baseball's big late in the spring semester, and hockey's big before baseball starts.
Local Area:
Downtown Lynchburg is pretty cool. It's got a lot of nice restaurants and stores along Main Street. Closer to campus, there are a lot of restaurants (including at least one all-you-can-eat buffet), plenty of stores, a Regal Cinemas multiplex, and a smaller theater where tickets are just $2. Wards Road runs right by campus, and there are two tunnels under the railroad tracks (one for pedestrians, one for cars) so that nobody has to cross the tracks--or wait for trains to get off of them. Wards has a lot of the aforementioned restaurants and shops along it, as well as a Wal-Mart and a Sam's Club directly across from campus. There is also a pedestrian bridge over Wards directly across a small parking lot from the pedestrian tunnel, so there's no waiting for stoplights if you're on foot. As far as transportation goes, LU has multiple Zipcars on campus, and the Amtrak station is only about 10 or 15 minutes away.
Health & Safety:
I feel safe walking across campus at all hours of the day. Perhaps that's because I almost never leave my dorm without a knife (out of habit, not necessity), but still. Everyone on our police force must go through actual police training to be hired, and our police officers are always armed. I also take comfort in the fact that once I turn 21 and get my Concealed Carry Permit, I can carry a gun everywhere I go (except in the dorms, of course, due to Virginia law). That might upset some readers and potential students, but for me, it's nice to know that I'll be able to properly defend myself and those around me in the unlikely event of a school shooting.
The only problem that I had was late last semester when I saw that, unlike in the previous semesters, I would not be receiving any financial aid. I fretted for a couple of days before I had a chance to talk face-to-face with a financial aid assistant, who resolved my problem in less than 5 minutes. Turned out to be human error on their end, but everything's great now.
Overall Experience:
I really enjoy going to Liberty University online. I like that I have challenging courses with helpful and knowledgeable professors. I also love the fact that the Bible is integrated into each course at Liberty.
The Liberty Professors that I have had for my Psychology major have been excellent. There were no problems with the application process it can be done online and is very fast and easy.
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The professors are very encouraging and helpful. When you send an email to ask any question, they are quick to respond. The professors also encourage students on a weekly basis to do their best and to keep going. The courses are well prepared and full of useful content. I love the fact I can earn my degree completely online at a Christian school. The classes help me make a connection between my faith and applying it in the business world.
Local Area:
Is so nice location do some of everything
Campus Housing:
I don't live on campus
Liberty has students of different ethnic backgrounds, I see some people with different religious beliefs are mostly Baptist.
Campus Quality:
Everything at liberty it's really nice
It has been great I had a really excellent professors. The school even provide you with free tutoring for online students.
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DV8: Gods & Monsters #1 – #8. Brian Wood (writer). Rebekah Isaacs (artist). Carrie Strachan (colors). Fiona Staples (covers). Jared K. Fletcher (letters). Ben Abernathy (editor). Kristy Quinn (assist. editor). Wildstorm. Full Color, 22-pages/book, $2.99/book.
I haven't been shy on this column about my love for Brian Wood and Rebekah Isaac's DV8 Gods & Monsters mini-series and now that it's over I'm excited to talk about it in its entirety.
The first thing to say is that in the hands of Rebekah Isaacs and Carrie Strachan (colors) this series is, hands down, the best looking and most consistently stunning book I've read in the last year. Add to that the massively talented Brian Wood and gorgeous covers by Fiona Staples and you really have something.
The greatest thing that Wood has done with DV8 is simply to re-introduce and re-invigorate an entire cast of characters and by the end of the series poise them beautifully (well, most of them – damn you Brian Wood!) for any talented writer to pick them up and use them in a new series (hint hint DC). It's no small feat to completely rehab characters practically forgotten in the massive landscape of comics, and Brian Wood does it here with grace and apparent ease. This entire team has been wonderfully explored and developed, updated and made relevant again and I can't think of a team I'd be more interested in seeing in another mini-series or ongoing…and prior to this mini-series I really couldn't have cared less about most of them.
So what's Gods & Monsters about? Well, Wood has done a creative and loose re-imagining and modernization of the Rudyard Kipling short story (and film) The Man Who Would Be King – a story about "civilized" strangers in a "primitive" land, deemed gods by the local population. How each of the DV8 characters (Sublime, Bliss, Frostbite, Threshold, Copycat, Evo, Freestyle, and Powerhaus) react to that role and deal with the responsibility is as different as they are, and it's some nuanced character work throughout the eight issue series. The story itself is told primarily through flashbacks by Gem, one of the main characters that was on the alien planet and is now held in the interrogation room of a space ship as she's questioned about the team's experiences.
One of the things I wrote about in my initial post about Gods & Monsters was how DV8 feels to me like a really fresh take on modern superheroes – they're still in costume, but only sort of, and they're still heroing, but only sort of, and they're dealing with all kinds of complicated issues – it's relevant and significant to me in a way that a lot of superhero comics don't even touch. Additionally, the book is really accessible to both men and women in my opinion simply because it has characters of each gender that are well explored and it doesn't talk down to either group. As an added bonus, thanks to Wood and Isaac's there's no sexism or overt objectification to get in the way of the story, a sad rarity in my experience reading mainstream comics.
I imagine some readers are going to be let down by the ending and feel that "nothing happens" in the series, because of that ending, but I would argue that:
A) A lot happens if you consider character development and growth to be "something happening" – which I do.
B) Wood did this interesting thing where as a reader by the end of the mini-series I found myself in the position of relating strongly the lead characters by giving readers and characters similar visceral reactions to what has just happened. The DV8 characters, at the end of the mini-series loudly lament the pointlessness of what they've been put through – and considering one of them did not come back alive – pointlessness at a very high cost. Emotionally jerked around as characters yet again and tested and proded and judged, they're angry and as a reader if you read the last arc and felt like "nothing really had a point" then you feel yourself heavily relating to their feelings of frustration and pointlessness. But if you sit back and examine what you've been through in life, what you go through every day…much of it feels pointless even though none of it really is. Because if testing yourself and seeing what you're made of through a series of frustrating obstacles is nothing happening…then nothing really happens to anyone, ever. During Wood's story we learned what pushes these characters until they break, how far they will go to get what they want, and what happens when you really release them from all the bullshit they've been through and allow them their own agency with no rules and incredible power at their disposal. It's the same kind of things, albeit magnified, that we learn about ourselves everyday, and I find the parallels fascinating.
It's actually kind of brilliant and nuanced as far as I'm concerned.
Beyond the subtle smart character work Wood is doing, we must talk about the art. Rebekah Isaacs' art is quite simply – a revelation – a breath of fresh air on the comics scene. It's both completely accessible and familiar in its style, yet completely new feeling. Isaacs' has no problem distinguishing characters from one another (a frequent problem in comics) – everything from height, weight, ethnicity, gender, and personal style – are carefully considered and consistently detailed. And can I just say, some of the details, like the hair, are fantastic. Look at this, what detail!:
As I mentioned before, Isaacs and Wood together redesigned each of these characters' looks – updating them nicely in fashion forward, practical, and cool ways, and the updates serve both the story and the overall feeling of DV8, placing them in a prime position to be powerful characters (and books) on the comic scene. However, the real mind blowing work to me was Isaacs' epic landscapes, world building, and battle sequences. Her work has a stunning cinematic quality and it's powerful stuff. It's also perfectly suited for the epic yet pared down personal story that Wood is telling. A story about the fate of an entire civilization and planet, but really a story about individual fears and weaknesses, and maybe a few strengths too. It's a delicate balance to seamlessly blend quiet character moments with vast battlefields and Isaac is more than up to the task.
It doesn't hurt that Isaacs has the sublime Carrie Strachan on colors. Using a natural muted palette for the alien planet and its inhabitants and a bright saturated modern one for our twenty first century "heroes". The two palettes should not look so in synch, but in Strachan's hands it's all beautifully cohesive.
Fiona Staples gorgeous covers are stunning and smartly featured a single DV8 character (except #5, which featured two characters, and #8 which featured the group) on each cover. It was a tiny bit of brilliance for a series trying to rehabilitate some long overlooked characters to give each of them such a spotlight, and when the covers look that good, it's a particularly great idea.
Overall, if you haven't been reading DV8 Gods & Monsters, and realize it's time to rectify that there have been several full series sets selling on ebay if you can't find it at your local comic shop, I've also found at least the first five issues easily on Amazon. If you're dead set on waiting for the trade, then put it in your calendar now as it's scheduled to release in April 2011. But can you really wait that long to see more pages like this?
I'd love to just leave it at that, but I can't help but wonder what the plan is here? DC/Wildstorm has gone to all this trouble to put such an amazing creative team on this book (a rarity these days – for a creative team to start AND finish a series) to rehabilitate a totally forgotten property. And not only to rehabilitate but to poise them perfectly to be picked up into a new series…only to have nothing happen with them at all? Of course there could be some master plan here that I'm missing…but from outside as a fan it just looks like a lot of time money and effort pumped into a great project that could easily continue and now will just fall back into obscurity…? Of course there's nothing wrong with having an awesome mini-series just to have it, but as someone that's often disappointed with my pull list and that is culling it constantly… it seems a shame to so successfully reboot a franchise and then just do nothing with it. Reboots are attempted and fail in massive numbers…now we've got a well-received reboot success…and no plans for the future? It bums me out. So rarely do I find superhero comics I like as much as I have like this one and now I find out I'll just have to be satisfied with what I've already got, instead of giving someone more money to see more of this. A missed opportunity for both of us it seems.
In the meantime I urge everyone to check out the other work of these exceptional creators – both what's out now and coming soon: The prolific Brian Wood of course has his excellent series' Northlanders and DMZ, both from Vertigo, and has a 4 part mini-series called New York Five with artist Ryan Kelly coming up from Vertigo in January 2011 as a follow-up to his 2007 Minx book, The New York Four. Additionally, the exceptional Demo Volume #2 will be collected in March 2011. Rebekah Isaacs is doing the art for a new mini-series with an intriguing hook called Magus forthcoming from 12 Gauge Comics in December 2010. You can read a preview of Magus #1 here. As a double bonus the covers for Magus will be by Fiona Staples – look how gorgeous the first one is (see right).* You should also check out North 40, which will release later this month and has lovely interior art by Fiona Staples. North 40 was not a perfect series, but I really enjoyed it overall and it's worth a look. Carrie Strachan has been everywhere, doing gorgeous colors on a variety of books (including Justice League: Generation Lost, Fringe, Victorian Undead, etc.) so keep an eye out.
*Update: As per Rebekah Isaacs in the comments section – only the first cover of Magus will be by Fiona Staples, future covers will have Rebekah Isaacs art – which is still a great great thing. Thanks for the clarification Rebekah!
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Yes, you have been raving about this, and yes, I have ignored its presence in the apartment. This review has pushed me through to actually reading the thing.
Hi Kelly!
Thanks so much for all your support and kind words over the course of the series. I'm thrilled you enjoyed it so much and your thoughtful analyses were always a joy to read. Your support of female-friendly comics and female creators is invaluable to the online community and I hope the bad apples out there won't ever make you think twice about your contribution.
I also wanted to say thanks for the shout-outs for Magus! But I have to be the bearer of some bad news… because of time constraints, Fiona only did the cover to issue 1. I'm doing the remaining covers for the series. It was incorrectly attributed a few times online before, so I just wanted to clear it up for Fiona's fans. Obviously, in a perfect world we would have her do all five covers and about a million beautiful variants!
@Adam: You should definitely read it. I'll leave them out for you.
@Rebekah: Thanks for coming by, I'm glad you've enjoyed the reviews…it's hard to find a book that I enjoy this much, especially one that works within "superhero constraints", so really THANK YOU for giving me such a great book to talk about. I am a huge fan of not only the great book you've all put together collectively, but of all of you on your own as well – keep doing what you're doing and I'll keep reading – and talking about it.
The bad apples have many times made me think twice about what I'm doing – but people like you – and a lovely email from a fan of both yours AND mine – makes it all worth it.
Thanks for the clarification – I've added an "update" to the post.
Hi Kelly,
I'll have to file this week's column to read at a later date. I read your early review of the series and that got me interested. I'm waiting for the tpd of course, so I'll have to wait until April at least to read this column! (I'll have to settle for 1979 Semi-Finalist for all my Kelly Thompson fixes this week. (Withdrawals are rough! lol)
@Keith: For what it's worth there are no major spoilers in the column. There's one thing that could be perceived as being a "big" spoiler (fate of a character), but I don't speak specifically about it/who, and if you looked at any of the covers for the series, it's pretty obvious what it is…but I'll leave it up to you!
This looks fantastic.
This is a mini that shines on every level. It is not just very accessible, postmodern or post-postmodern or whatever, a text that can be read at different levels, convoluted but not overly, but is effortlessly and skillfully told.
Rebekah Isaacs' multifaceted dexterity aids it and aids it well…and isn't she one of a kind storyteller.
Its gender-neutral handling of characters (a skill still being polished, even in First-Worlds?) adds to its strength.
Having so far read his Demo series beside Gods and Monsters, having convinced myself to begin a long series of his, I cannot help but remark by the: Man! Wood Be King (insert could after!) at everything he takes up. The blurb is handy and both Rebekah Isaacs and Fiona Staples are worth the investment.
You really shouldn't try to lose your head over B. Wood, so much. (besides I think he's married)
He's only human, he's not perfect.
Do you happen to know when the final issue of NORTHLANDERS is going to be?
'Sublime, Bliss, Frostbite, Threshold, Copycat'
Is this for real?
Looks like 'The Man Who Would Be King' done with Mortal Combat characters. (also the writting looks to be on a videogame level)
I dare you to read this before the excellent film or good novelette!
I dare you!
I was really on the fence about getting this series – despite loving Brian Wood despite reviewers and bloggers like Kelly loving it, it just didn't seem like the overly violent, disgustingly sexual, Ellis DV8 I fondly remembered from my teens – with Bliss sexing people to death, Threshold having sex with his mother figure, a whole issues about characters trying to buy crack, and that weird old Bob guy who kept making people kiss the stump of his severed mannequin head.
But with that art?
Damn – I no longer care if it lines up with Ellis' Gen13 by way of Larry Clarks Kids.
That is a good art team.
That linework and colouring are magic.
There better be a trade!
@Tom Fitzgerald: Does Northlanders have a "last issue"? As far as I know it's still an ongoing.
@funkygreenjerusalem: Well, assuming nothing goes wrong, the trade releases in late April 2011.
Ms. Thompson: I'll change my last name if you'll e-marry me!
Ms. Thompson: I'll change my last name if you'll e-marry me!
Did you learn nothing from Steve Lieber's 'If you wouldn't say it to your cell mate, don't say it on the internet' lesson?
Who's Steve Lieber? Just kidding. That Whiteout series rocked. The movie, too.
Nice post..i also enjoyed the mini very well, Brian wood's storytelling is amazing and i like how he revived the characters and gave them more characterization that made me enjoy and not forgetting Rebekah Isaac's art which was just gorgeous. And like you said my only problem is what is next? It seems all the good comics are just either being canceled or just a short mini with no future plans for it. Hopefully that wont be the case of DV8
@Tom FitzPATRICK. So sorry about the name snafu Tom. Ironically when I was typing the comment I thought "oh, that's not right…it's not Fitzgerald…" and then I forgot all about it and neglected to fix it. Apologies!
Yeah Kelly, you really want to get that name spelled right when you fill out the restraining order…
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In the dying throes of the 18th century, the French came up with a decimal-based way to measure stuff, the "metric" system. In the years since, most countries adapted to this system as enthusiastically as they'd greeted what the French did for toast, potatoes and kissing, until today, more than 200 years later, every industrialized country on earth has adopted the metric system as its official method of measuring.
Every country except the United States, that is.
There must be something to this fishing thing, or we wouldn't do the things we do to do it.
Fishing, like certain diseases, gets into your blood. It infects all kinds of people, those who do it for fun, those who do it for food, and those who do it for money. I've heard commercial fishermen say that if they couldn't make money fishing, they'd pay to be able to do it. In years of poor salmon runs, many of them do end up paying.
There must be something to this fishing thing.
When fishing opportunities are limited, you can always make fish.
One way or another, people have been making fish since early Man drew them on the walls of caves. We did it back then for the same reasons we do it now, because fish are beautiful, mysterious and fascinating. Because fish are as agile and graceful as birds, able to hover, climb, dive and even fly.
Author's note: This column previously appeared in the Clarion on Dec. 3, 2004. In the intervening 10 years, my old friend Marlin Miller passed away, but everything else in this story, from the coffee at the Golden Griddle to the locals' affection for pink salmon — "humpies" — continues unabated. This is a timely tale because 2014 is a "humpy year,"one of those every-other-year happenings during which astonishing numbers of pink salmon swim up the Kenai River to spawn. — LP
Earlier this week, while mining the Internet for material to use in this column, I learned that earthworms are now considered an invasive species in Alaska.
I'd never considered it before, but earthworms aren't native to Alaska and other places that were under glaciers during the last Ice Age. Since then, whatever plants and animals that learned to live in these places did so without help from worms.
The salmon I cooked for dinner Tuesday night earned a thumbs up and a "Mmm-mmm!" from the in-house food critic, so I thought I'd share with you how it came to be.
It began with a frozen fillet, the front half of a silver that tried in vain to swim up the Kenai River in late September. I chose the front because that part of a salmon is the fattest and most tender. I save the tail sections for when being tender isn't as important, such as for smoking, spreads and patties. It's all good stuff, but the thicker parts work best for broiling, pan frying and oven-roasting.
In the past 10 or 15 years years, I've found myself thinking more and more about my dad.
The old man was a meat fisherman to the bone. When I was a kid, his baitcasting rod was a True Temper, a 5-foot long, solid, square shaft of tempered steel. Dad dragged in a lot of poundage with that rod without breaking it, a testament to the rod's hardiness and to the U.S. steel industry of the 1930s.
A friend recently told me that he might sell his boat next year. He was doing so, he explained, so he would no longer have to do all the trailering, the launching, the maintenance and the worrying about it.
I wasn't surprised to hear this, but it was sad news, nonetheless. Another reason he's contemplating selling his boat is that he's barely able to get in and out of it anymore, but he didn't have to tell me that, so he didn't.
You rarely find "fishing buddy" listed as a necessity in a how-to article about fishing, but a buddy is every bit as necessary as tackle or technique.
After years of thinking that fishing was my favorite pastime, I now realize that I was mistaken. My favorite pastime actually is eating.
Who knows where it all began? Some of my passion for food is probably hereditary, and some learned. Whatever, I'm definitely a foodie. Have been ever since I was born, in 1937.
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This guy is terrible and has literally no boxing IQ to work off of.
Typical hype job who has some athleticism and speed to get past the bums but no further than that in my opinion.
Then he says things like this:
"I like to think of myself as something of a pioneer [for signing with Golden Boy]," said Ogogo. "I met with a few different promoters but when I met [CEO] Richard Schaefer he captivated me - and I told him that I wanted to become a superstar.
"After the Olympics I had a little break and then went back to the ring in Sheffield and did some training. But then I sat on the apron, looked around and thought I don't want to do this for another four years, I want something different.
"The Olympic Games was so good and I want more of that; I want to be involved with the big names, the glitz and the excitement, and hopefully I'll get back to the boxing ring towards the end of April."
...And you just know that Boxing is all wrong for him especially at some sort of higher level.
I will look forward to making some good money against him when he steps up to a reasonably solid opponent.
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Obama's Climate Hypocrisy: We Need People In DC 'Willing To Speak Truth To Power … To Take Some Risks Politically'
Some days the president seems to have no clue about what his own administration has and hasn't done on climate change.
Late Wednesday, President Obama gave a speech to a Democratic fundraiser for the House that tried to rewrite history and shift any blame for climate inaction away from his failed leadership and failed messaging.
Obama actually ended his remarks on what is needed to achieve climate action by saying:
But the most important thing that it's going to take is people in Washington who are willing to speak truth to power, are willing to take some risks politically, are willing to get a little bit out ahead of the curve — not two miles ahead of the curve, but just a little bit ahead of it. And that's why your presence here is so important.
The donor's presence is important to "support the prospect of Nancy Pelosi being Speaker once again." At a second event, Obama even went so far as to say, "If we're going to deal with climate change in a serious way, then we've got to have folks in Congress – even when it's not politically convenient – to talk about it and advocate for it."
Apparently the President is unaware that it was his own White House that shut down any serious talk of climate change by his Administration, by environmental groups, and even by Congress — see "Team Obama Launched The Inane Strategy Of Downplaying Climate Change Back In March 2009."
And, of course, the Congress did pursue serious climate action when it wasn't "politically convenient" — during the nadir of our recent economic collapse — when the House, under the leadership of then-Speaker Pelosi, passed the Waxman-Markey bill. Then leading Senators spent months trying to put together a deal.
But the President never gave one single national speech on the subject, he didn't lead, and he wouldn't twist arms in the Senate on climate the way he did on health care (see "The failed presidency of Barack Obama, Part 2").
To repeat, it is just bizarre that the president would say the key thing is to elect a Democratic House who can speak truth to power and take risks politically, given that when he had a Democratic House (and as Democratic a Senate as he is ever going to see), he didn't speak truth to power and he wouldn't take risks politically.
And his other remarks on climate in the home of Tom and Kat Steyer in San Francisco are even more head-exploding when examined closely:
And something that I know is near and dear to Tom and Kat's hearts, and to Nancy's — we've got more work to do in terms of dealing with climate change and making sure that we've got an economy that is energy-efficient, that is productive, that is cutting-edge, and thinks about not just the energy sources of the past, but also the energy promise of the future.
And the thing that I'm going to have to try to work to persuade the American people a little more convincingly on is this notion that there's a contradiction between our economy and our environment is just a false choice — that if we invest now, we will create jobs, we will create entire new industries; other countries will be looking to catch up, they will be looking to import what we do. We will set the standard, and everybody else will have to adapt.
But — and I mentioned this to Tom and Kat and a few folks right before I came out here — the politics of this are tough. Because if you haven't seen a raise in a decade; if your house is still $25,000, $30,000 underwater; if you're just happy that you've still got that factor job that is powered by cheap energy; if every time you go to fill up your old car because you can't afford to buy a new one, and you certainly can't afford to buy a Prius, you're spending 40 bucks that you don't have, which means that you may not be able to save for retirement — you may be concerned about the temperature of the planet, but it's probably not rising to your number-one concern. And if people think, well, that's shortsighted, that's what happens when you're struggling to get by. You're thinking about what's right in front of you, which is how do I fill up my gas tank and how do I feed my family.
And so part of what we're going to have to do is to marry a genuine, passionate concern about middle-class families and everybody who is trying to get into the middle class to show them that we're working just as hard for them as we are for our environmental agenda, and that we can bridge these things in a way that advances the causes of both. And that's going to take some work.
"The politics of this are tough," Mr. President? That's the big insight you shared with the mega-donors.
First off, the politics of everything are tough! The politics of the stimulus bill, the politics of the financial oversight bill, and the politics of health care reform. And yet, those three all happened.
Second, and more important, the President is apparently completely unaware that his White House organized the entire climate messaging in his first term around the economic issue, around debunking the false choice — and that public opinion polls make clear that piece of messaging worked.
In "Revealed: the day Obama chose a strategy of silence on climate change," the UK Guardian quoted Betsy Taylor (and others) about the big March 2009 messaging meeting convened by the White House:
"What was communicated in the presentation was: 'This is what you talk about, and don't talk about climate change'." Taylor said. "I took away an absolutely clear understanding that we should focus on clean energy jobs and the potential of a clean energy economy rather than the threat of climate change."
The message stuck. Subsequent campaigns from the Obama administration and some environmental groups relegated climate change to a second-tier concern.
The Guardian story explains, "The White House, after studying polling and focus groups, concluded it was best to frame climate change as an economic opportunity, a chance for job creation and economic growth, rather than an urgent environmental problem."
I and others, such as the WashPost's Ezra Klein, explained at length why this was only half a message (see "Can you solve global warming without talking about global warming?").
But the President seems to have no idea that his team got everyone pushing a climate bill to focus on the economic message, on the economic benefits to the middle class of climate action — and that polling makes clear it worked at the time:
- Swing state poll finds 60% "would be more likely to vote for their senator if he or she supported the bill" and Independents support the bill 2-to-1 (9/09)
- New CNN poll finds "nearly six in 10 independents" support cap-and-trade (10/09)
- Voters in Ohio, Michigan and Missouri overwhelmingly support action on clean energy and global warming (11/09)
- Overwhelming US Public Support for Global Warming Action (12/09)
- Public Opinion Stunner: WashPost-ABC Poll Finds Strong Support for Global Warming Reductions Despite Relentless Big Oil and Anti-Science Attacks (12/09)
- It's all about Independents — and Independence (1/10)
- Yale: When asked whether they "support or oppose regulation of carbon dioxide … as pollutant," 73 percent said yes, with only 27 percent opposed, including 61 percent of Republicans (2/10)
- Memo to policymakers: Public STILL favors the transition to clean energy (3/10)
As you can see if you click on those links, most of those explicitly polled on the question of whether the public thinks the climate bill would create jobs, foster new industries, and be good for the economy — including key middle class groups such as independents and swing voters — overwhelmingly said yes.
Obama's remarks last night would seem to confirm that it was David Axelrod who mismanaged the messaging decisions without discussing the matter at length with the President. Even so, the president cannot be unaware of his general silence on the issue and his leadership failure at the key moment. The speech is a disappointment for anyone expecting serious leadership on this issue from Obama in his second term.
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"Speak truth to power" has become a mainstream term, yet it has an origin worth revisiting.
The phrase has been traced back to a letter written by Bayard Rustin. Rustin knew that as a black, conscientious objector, labor and civil rights organizer and gay man, he himself was too controversial to lead from the podium, so Rustin instead coached Martin Luther King Jr. It has been said that Rustin organized the formidable logistics of the March on Washington from 3×5 cards in his hip pocket.
Rustin would not have stopped at the word "willing."
Those who are merely "willing" to speak truth to power are holding back from the ethical requirement to do so.
"…at our fingertips…beyond our reach…"
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Not surprising when you realize the statements are coming from someone fighting global warming with an all-of-the-above energy policy.
I'm surprised the Steyers hosted this fundraiser instead of focusing their efforts on actual climate leaders, such as Waxman, Inslee, and Sanders. Maybe that would shake up the president, since his conscious donors should have abandoned him a while ago.
Democratic leaders, including Boxer and Sanders, have prepared a new climate bill. The response from Obama has been zero, just as in 2009. And with another Interior chief from the oil industry, it's clear that we will keep drilling, mining, and burning as fast as we can.
We will only succeed in slowing global warming when a president does things that enrage the oil industry. He would be back where he started anyway, since Koch and Exxon prefer Republicans. It's time our leaders addressed the fact that the oil, coal, and gas industries are proactive in poisoning and heating the world. That makes them enemies of the people, and when they encounter a supplicant like Obama, they lick their chops.
The fundraiser was for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee not for Obama personally, who won't be running again, and was for the purpose of keeping Dem incumbents and electing more House Dems, important because the intransigence of the House is a major problem. Obviously Steyer held it because he got to talk privately to Obama. I'm sure that with his commitment to the issue he is helping Markey as well.
This is President Obama on issue after issue. Yesterday Obama was quoted in the New York Times as talking to Republicans about cutting Medicare benefits.
President Obama says one thing and does another almost non-stop. The President will surely approve the pipeline.
Whether it's Wall Street, economic policy, Health care, climate change, campaign reform … Obama talks progressive in the months leading up to the election, then governs as a right of center politician. He's devoid of courage or conviction.
It's time to stop listening to his words and instead, look at his deeds — a watered down health care program, a useless banking "reform," and a continued war …
Hard to know what to do.
"The speech is a disappointment for anyone expecting serious leadership on this issue from Obama in his second term."
He demonstrated what kind of leader he is on the climate issue in his first term. I expect nothing serious to happen during this term. No mention of Keystone in this speech. Obama is a political animal and if he really thought that climate action would win seats in the House or Senate or help boost another Democrat into the White House he would be more aggressive. Despite all those polls from 2010 or earlier, if Obama thought that climate action would get people out to vote on election day he would be more aggressive. He does know that immigration reform will bring the votes. He is hoping that gun safety legislation will bring the votes. He is pretty sure that championing gay rights is a winner. He believes talking about raising the minimum wage will stir up some interest. But he believes that climate action must always be linked to an economic boost and jobs and energy efficiency. He does not believe that climate action will actually bring people to the polls. I tend to agree. It is easy to answer a question about climate change on the phone but will it really bring voters out on a cold day in November? I'm not sure and it looks like Obama isn't sure either.
Joe Romm wrote: "The politics of the stimulus bill, the politics of the financial oversight bill, and the politics of health care reform. And yet, those three all happened."
And there are plenty of progressives who are every bit as disappointed with what "happened" with those three, and with Obama's role in those outcomes, as you are with Obama's lack of leadership on climate.
God help us if Obama "achieved" with climate legislation what was "achieved" with health care "reform" — we would have an individual mandate requiring each and every American to buy gasoline and coal.
Obama is not doing the policy "our way" (even though that in itself is a medley of opinions), but I could cut him some slack for doing it another way if, and only if, the US cuts greenhouse gases overall and fast enough.
He's broached energy efficiency – is that something that could get bipartisan support, and is it a big enough wedge to be an honorable legacy?
I'm not convinced that it is, but I'd like to see a list of the do-ables for the next three years, and see what adds up.
PS I hate it when Obama or anyone else uses the words "climate change" interchangeably with policy to minimize it.
It is sheer nonsense for Obama to say we need people to "advocate" for climate change. NOOOOO! Quite the opposite.
Great piece but as usual some caveats/questions/concerns..
First, well financial regulations that in practice didn't have teeth, progressive analysts and watchdogs say…maybe that's why they didn't find it too "tough" to pass those..
But I do wonder though if part of it isn't that what polls say Americans think, are quite a separate affair from what Obama is told privately to "please don't talk about the dangers or Koch will fund massive attacks on me for voting with you, Mr. President" I doubt Obama is not smart enough to see the cost of not talking about the dangers (the other half) of climate change. But he judges that the costs are even higher of talking too much about it – and not always the costs to him, but the costs to the "moderate" (conservative) Democrats and others whose votes he needs…because they beg him to "tone down" such speeches so as not to get the (massively funded) Fox/Limbaugh/Palin etc machines against not just Obama but against their congressional re-election. In that sense one can "sympathize" with Obama, but then again, Joe is ultimately right in that, even if Obama's short term calculus is correct, well, if we "win some battles but lose the war" on climate, thanks to that calculus, well we're kinda screwed – big time.
I'd advocate for Climate Preservation.
"the politics of this are tough"
When the going gets tough the tough get going!!!!
Latest weekly Mauna Loa CO2- (as of 3/24) – 397.92. Highest ever. Get ready to say goodbye to the '300's'….maybe forever (at least in terms of human history), though, of course, they'll come back around for a few years during the winter lower CO2 seasons. Sniff. I'll miss the 300's, they are all I've ever known (I am 49)
Re: "[Obama] is devoid of courage and conviction"
I share your frustration and your general point. And the wording you
use is used widely. But I think it's the wrong framing. To say he is
devoid of courage and conviction is a way for progressives and others
to frame things so it convinces us the problem is one of a person
(it's not) and of personality (it isn't that either).
Now I'm not saying
that if Ralph Nader was president the actions would be identical [assuming
even identical congressional Democrats and Republicans for him to work
with, identical right-wing Limbaugh, Beck etc]" but not nearly, nearly
as different as we sometimes like to convince ourselves. And the
reason is NOT "OMG, Nader too is a liar without convictions" no, it's
the system, the rules of the games, including many factors, of which
campaign financing is only one (important but only one). We need to focus our attention on changing that system, not wringing our hands over "lack of courage/conviction" over and over and over again with Clinton then (candidate) Gore then Obama I and now Obama II, we progressivse can sound like a broken record. Let's fix what's really
broken, the system – political and our economic system , and the mass media system too, among others.
Obama just does not quite grasp the risk involved here. He knows the detail, but just fails to see what the outcomes are going to be.
What would it take to get him to realize the gravity of the situation?
Apparently, Obama does not actually believer that there both global warming can be addressed while addressing the economy at the same time. And why is the middle and lower class hurting so badly, anyway, when those at the top are prospering more than ever. If there is a tradeoff, go after them.
But he's not fighting climate destabilisation, is he? That's the point, and the lesson of the last five, and the next three, years.
Obama's task for the next three years is to not just do nothing, but to kick sand in the face of environmentalists from time to time (eg Keystone) to get them mad enough and disillusioned enough not to turn out in 2010. It has been cleverly managed, the Obama sell-out. You get a President who has reneged on virtually every pledge and strong indication that he made in order to rope the Hope Fiends, but who is made to look less like a Bush clone by the antics of the Tea Party Mad Hatters and the FoxNews dementors. The Bosses get what they want, but the pretense of 'democratic choice' remains. After Obama goes to his cozy 'consultancy' at Goldman Sachs, and Murdoch gives his several million for his 'memoirs', a la Tony Blair, in 2016, a new Bush will keep things ticking along, or perhaps we'll be blessed by Hilary Clinton.
That is his unchanging modus operandi.
Joan, I admire you calm, sensible, knowledgeable contributions, but if after five years of Obamanism you are not yet prepared to recognise the truth of what Obama is, ever was and ever will be, then I regret to say that, in my opinion, you are seriously deluded, no doubt due to over-generousness of spirit and unflinching optimism.
A year ago, NREL came out with a report on zero-net energy low-income housing project in Lafayette, Colorado.
Back in the day, the political will behind other public works came from the dandy combination of construction jobs and human services. Is this so hard?
He claims he is. Stimulus money for renewable energy, improved efficiency standards for cars, telling Congress if they don't act he will. He just neglects to add up the emissions from his policies. The emissions no doubt would add up to another inconvenient truth.
All the polls like this one show a majority of Americans support building Keystone. I wonder if the Arkansas tar sands oil leak will weaken the support.
Here is a site listing the accomplishments of the five most environmentally friendly presidents. Read and compare.
Can the big O even hold a candle them, let alone light it?
All true, but I think a lot of us were led to believe — perhaps naively — that Obama would at least challenge the system. We didn't necessarily expect him to win, but we thought he's take it on.
Instead, he burrowed into it.
My remarks were actually tongue in cheek, as there's a lot of American humor based on saying something like, Honey I don't care how you fix the sink as long as it works, or Honey I don't care what dress you wear, as long as we get there on time.
I might have as well have said, I don't give an expletive how he does it, as long as the administration shows us evidence of US cuts in greenhouse gases overall and fast enough.
But I do care how they do it – don't want to leave a mess.
Keep things ticking along for a while. Somehow I think climate change is an actor in this play.
Paul, my opinions on what exactly makes Obama so reluctant to take a meaningful stand on Climate Change are still evolving, but right now what makes sense to me is to think that he's simply exhibiting, at the presidential-level, what psychoanalysts call being in a state of 'disavowal'. As you note, he surely understands the basic facts of global warming. But it's as if he spends 15 minutes a day attending meetings reviewing those facts, and the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of each day doing his damndest to ignore these facts and continue to push the traditional views of what his Administration should be attending to. I think a large swath of the US population is in this state of disavowal as well: they know the dangers of Climate Change at some level of consciousness, yet they continually ignore those facts and run up their carbon footprints as if they have no such knowledge. Well, Obama is exhibiting this same disavowal writ large, you could say. He simply is not able to entertain the idea that on his watch there has to be not just some serious talk of what everyone has to give up—but that actual policies need to be enacted that entail some loss in order for the longer-term good for all to be achieved. He simply is unable to continence the idea that he won't be able to push those policies that he thinks will make the nation, and especially the middle class, much better off economically right now. As with any other person in disavowal, consciously acknowledging this reality is—and my fear is that it will always be—simply too painful for him to engage in. For him personally, it would simply shatter his imagine of who and what he is, and so be too large a loss to contemplate. I hasten to add that I'm not claiming this is the only way to view his behavior. And I would not disagree that, given that he's the POTUS, it's perhaps closer to being merely descriptive than analytic, much less prescriptive. [It's not exactly like we can drive by the White House and usher him to some sessions with a good psychoanalyst.] Obviously as well, the implications for Obama being in this state of disavowal are incalculably larger than for any other person. And therein lies the tragedy, of course.
Nicely said, Mulga. Whatever happened to Superman1? I miss being harangued for the inadequacy of my advocacy.
Sorry Joan-I'm a bit tired and emotional today, and am a little dim at the best of times. It went over my head, I fear.
Deported back to Krypton, perhaps? Or what's left of it. He probably burned himself out, I suppose. A man's gotta know his limitations.
Have to say that during the lead up to the election, I was shocked and angry when Democratic fund-raising literature asked me to rank the top 10 issues and climate change was not even a choice, but North Korea was. The only energy-related issue was framed as "energy independence." Seems that now the president is spending is capital and efforts on gun control. Maybe it's just the cool spring which again seems to be turning into a drought in my part of the Midwest. Then we have news media who are not knowledgeable enough to go against the ridiculous "no warming in x years meme.
Not a problem. It's great to get feedback. Hope your day goes better.
By the way, my worldview isn't based on optimism. It's about maximizing what we can do.
I come from a long line of folk who did various things like organize humanitarian relief in WWI and WWII, run stations on the Underground Railroad in the 18th and 19th centuries, etc. activities that pushed back at the paradigms of the day.
"We don't know how to give up," is a saying of one of my indigenous neighbors. That works for me.
Pre-election Obama in the Superman Costume poster hinted that expectations were too high.
Remembering being terribly disappointed what little President Jimmy Carter did for clean energy, sustainable development and the environment . . .
. . . yet James Hansen greatly praised Carter's considerable achievements dismantled by Ronald Reagan when he took office.
While this may one example of historical myopia, President Obama is fully capable of doing a lot more.
Polling is shallow and volatile. The Arkansas leak provides some concrete gut level visuals. Much depends on how Exxon is able (or not able) to clean up and compensate for the damage. But I am surprised at the margin of difference in the polling. It wasn't even close. If I were an elected representative, I wonder should I "lead" or should I "represent" despite my preferred judgement.
Yes, in the lead role as The Grim Reaper.
Will someone explain to me why President Obama gets so much grief and the environmental community that is systematically halting and delaying large-scale solar PV, wind and geothermal projects?
When is the environmental community going to wake up that a great deal could be done if they stopoholic environmentalist community would cut loose the competition to oil, natural gas and coal. But that won't happen because it is too difficult to look in the mirror and change; it's much easier to say its all Obama's fault.
A little reality check is in order.
Take it easy there Philip, don't encourage him. I'm happy to muddle along with my delusions, ME
You'll just have to be a big brave boy David, life is full of ups, and hopefully, one day, downs, ME
Ocean acidification is Papa Death.
Chomsky and Nader, amongst many others, nailed Obama as a confidence-man before he tricked his way into power. It's not just the betrayals, it is the extremity of his reversals, their immediacy, his unapologetic attitude, as if his earlier promises and false impressions do not even any longer exist and his apparent absolute lack of shame or guilt that tell you exactly where Obama lies in the psychological spectrum.
We all have to give up, in the end, when we go on the 'Long Vacation', but, until then, you've just got to keep on getting up and plod along. As Casals said, 'The situation is hopeless-we must take the next step'.
Too late! Too late! He's back!
It's called 'framing the agenda'. In regard to opinion polls, an Australian invention, by creatures who once worked for Howard and now are said to be running Cameron's hate campaign against the poor in the UK, is 'push-polling'. There the polling question is deliberately contorted to push an ideological position, of the Right, of course. You'd possibly get a different answer if the question was, 'Climate destabilisation will kill several billion people by the middle of this century. All those with children, please state whether this situation is, in your opinion, good, bad, or inconsequential'.
Yeah, I knew such a super-sized, carbonated ego couldn't resist it, ME
All 3 were in service to short term economic growth. Which is why they passe.
He could advocate for BOTH health care reform and climate by asking people to walk or ride bikes….
…. and eating a lot less petro-grown food, thereby losing weight and reducing more than one kind of emission, all at the same time.
Since we *know* nothing grows forever….
And we have a pretty good idea that unchecked climate change will bring down the economy anyway…..
This order or priorities is delusional. What good does it do to grow the economy a little now, only to have it implode later?
Food First!
Obama should make the priority the security of our ability to grow food the old fashioned way (sweat not petrol). Lose the option of falling back on labor to feed ourselves and then we are well and truly lost.
Because the enviro execs take salaries doing what the members want, and most members are NIMBY's
They are happy in their Polarfleece made in Asian sweatshops and driven to REI by deisel.
So don't you try to mess with the countrysie where they like to bike, because THEY are environmentalists!
They should all read more Gandhi.
"…how Exxon is able (or not able) to clean up and compensate for the damage."
Ha ha ha! Good one.
I do get tired of people not noticing that Jimmy Carter did his very best for the environment. His failure is an indicator of what happens to such people. Obama is much more savvy, but how he can reconcile his pig ignorance of global warming facts when he has daughters is beyond me.
The denial line is very skillful, but you'd think somebody would have clued him in.
Too bad he's a lawyer – I can't help thinking he's hobnobbing with Revkin, as you can't see any daylight between their positions. Compromise is no longer an option, but they don't realize how bad things are.
Your right Susan, Carter was one of the great presidents concerning the environment. He knew how to talk to Congressmen and get things done.
Nixon was another great environmental president but his term got stained with war and watergate.
Obama is just another politician, can't be trusted. While America burns, floods and the people become destitute, he smiles and keeps on doing the back door thing. His big achievment might be a negative to XL, what is taking so long. Afraid to say no or dragging it out hoping we will go away?
The reality of a staged, sham, Potemkin 'democracy' like the USA (and all capitalist states) is that no-one gets to even approach political power if they threaten the total control and prerogatives of the real rulers, the rich. Much time and effort is expended pretending that 'the people rule, decide etc', but once elected the President is a quasi-monarch, and the Congress serve their owner/contributors entirely. It is, in fact, an elected dictatorship, with the legal oversight effectively neutered by decades of brazen political appointments based on the judge's ideology. The MSM is entirely Rightwing, the Internet, now a threat, will soon be defanged, almost certainly in the interests of the eternal 'War on Terrorism' and all decisions in the USA and the West as a whole are made by tiny cabals of the rich and their trusted consigliere. Nothing will or can be done over the constellation of crises, ecological, economic, social and geo-political while power resides in the hands of the current elite.
You forget the generalised, ineradicable and progressively worsening misanthropy of the Rightwing ruling elite. They hate, viscerally, anything that makes life better for the rabble.
Obama plainly thinks that the money he is expecting to harvest upon retirement will protect him and his daughters when the days of horror and bitter regret are upon us. I'm convinced that the elite, whose hubris is substantial, all think along similar lines. It will just be the 'useless eaters' dying, so who gives a stuff, and get the butler to fetch another magnum of the Bollinger.
I don't think Obama's quite that bad. Just got in the habit of being "the most important man in the world" and can't seem to see how science works and how the lawyerly habit will not help him understand it better.
So that's who Superman1 is, after all!


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Just got back today and my time at the monastery was probably one of the best experiences of my life. I loved it and I can't wait to go back. It's really wonderful to have time to leave the stresses of the world behind for a few days and spend the days in prayer. I went to the Dormition Monastery in Rives Junction, MI and stayed for two nights. I was pretty sad when it was time to leave .
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I have a service that automatically creates a log file with a timestamp in the filename on startup. Thus, I don't need logrotate to rename/copy/create files, but what I do want is that logrotate shall keep just the three newest of those files (and optionally compress them). Can I do that somehow?
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I do not think that it can be done exactly as you want. In case you want to still use logrotate first you need to specify how often logrotate will rotate your log (daily/weekly/monthly/yearly). You can set it like this:
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