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All the President's Lies
It seems a long time ago now, but May 1 was a big day for the president--Victory in Iraq Day, even though he could not say so officially without putting U.S. occupation forces on the wrong side of still more international laws. But the occasion was designed with all the martial preening of a victory celebration and then some. The White House announced that Bush would close the day by delivering an address to the world from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln just off the coast of San Diego. And he would arrive on board in a Navy Viking jet.
This bit of gaudy theatrics was attributed to the president's desire to avoid a post-docking ceremony that would delay the sailors' homecoming. Afterward, when someone pointed out to Ari Fleischer that the carrier was within helicopter range of shore when W made his fighter-jet entrance, Fleischer essentially shrugged and said, The president really wanted to ride in that plane. According to the Washington Post, Bush also took a course of "underwater survival training" in the White House swimming pool to prepare for his odyssey.
That afternoon the president's plane broke through the clouds and glided to a tailhook landing with the whole country watching on television. Bush, grinning like a kid who got a real F-18 for Christmas, emerged in a camouflage flight suit and gave a thumbs-up to the cameras. But if it looked at first like the sequel to Ferris Bueller's Day Off, there was also more than a whiff of Triumph of the Will in that Flight of the Valkyries entrance, especially with Karl Rove's own film crew on hand to shoot the opening scenes of the Campaign 2004 biopic.
Then Bush swapped the jumpsuit for a business suit and ran an exultant rhetorical victory lap, during the course of which he proffered boast after boast that happened to be untrue. The shooting war is over and we won... We've defeated an ally of al Qaeda... The Iraqi people are liberated... We are rebuilding Iraq... We are in control of events in Iraq... Iraqis are celebrating the U.S. presence... We don't do business with countries that harbor terrorists...
Not only were these contentions false; they were already known to be so by anyone who had made a point of keeping up with the international English-language press, including a growing though still small number of internet-prowling Americans. The administration's May Day pageant was strictly for the undifferentiated mass of folks at home, that majority of Americans who had gotten their news from TV and later told pollsters that Saddam was behind 9/11 (70 percent), or we'd already found WMDs in Iraq (33 percent). Needless to say, misapprehensions like these were not failures of the Bush information plan, but successes.
But now the extent and gravity of the White House's lies are beginning to look manifest even on television. One regular guest on the news-chat circuit, former Nixon counsel and jailed Watergate conspirator John Dean, recently wrote, "In the three decades since Watergate, this is the first potential scandal I have seen that could make Watergate pale by comparison. If the Bush administration intentionally manipulated or misrepresented intelligence to get Congress to authorize, and the public to support, military action to take control of Iraq, then that would be a monstrous misdeed.... To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked. Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be 'a high crime' under the Constitution's impeachment clause."
All very compelling, except for one thing. With the Republicans in control of both houses of Congress, who's going to impeach him?
Lately the American press has demonstrated uncharacteristic spunk, dating to the White House's early July admission that the State of the Union uranium claim was false. The very first question--when did they learn this?--opened the floodgates, and incriminating details began swirling around Bush and Tony Blair alike. Before last week's triumphal shootout with Saddam's sons stole back the headlines for a day, the Bush gang had faced nearly three solid weeks of embarrassing revelations. Signs of open derision sprouted in the American press corps for the first time since September 2001. The heat on both sides of the Atlantic grew so intense that David Kelly, a member of Blair's intel staff and the source of a BBC report that Blair pressured his people to doctor intelligence, apparently killed himself.
Contrary to appearances, this is not some great spasm of reportorial enterprise we're witnessing. It is a window on the latest front in the administration's wars: the CIA versus George W. Bush et al. Every embarrassing leak to emerge so far has the Agency's fingerprints all over it; most involve matters only the CIA and the White House would know about. The White House humiliated the CIA in numerous ways while building Bush's case for war--ignoring the advice of its analysts, pressuring director George Tenet to sign off on the uranium claim when he had already stricken it from another Bush speech three months earlier, sticking him with the blame when the lie was exposed, and later, in a bit of blatant illegality, outing an undercover CIA agent--and now it's time for the Agency to settle a few accounts.
But if the tone of media reports and of political chatter has changed dramatically this month, it still leaves the past year to account for, all the months of numb collaboration in whatever the Bush administration chose to say or do to lay the foundations for an invasion. The most striking thing about the present age is not that a White House has lied and overreached itself in pursuit of its aims--hardly unique in the annals of the presidency--but that almost no one seemed to mind. No one who counted, that is; no one in a position to make his or her voice heard.
It's been said that this administration crucifies dissenters, and recent events bear that out. Valerie Plame, the CIA agent whose cover was blown recently by Bush officials speaking through columnist Bob Novak, is the wife of former Iraq ambassador Joseph Wilson. It was Wilson who traveled to Africa in 2002 at Dick Cheney's behest. He reported back at the time that the uranium story was bogus, and told the world he'd done so in a New York Times op-ed earlier this month. When Illinois Senator Dick Durbin brought up the Plame affair, the White House charged that he was discussing classified information publicly and tried to ride him off the Senate Intelligence Committee. On a more bizarre note, Bush flacks contacted their chief cyber-spokesman, Matt Drudge, to say that ABC reporter Jeffrey Kofman, who had broadcast a withering report on troop morale in Iraq, was both gay and Canadian. (Laugh if you like, but their not-so-funny point was that Americans should not be listening to anyone whose loyalty to the fatherland is in question.)
But however vicious the president's posse is capable of being, the truth is that until recently Bush rarely had to flex those muscles. He has owed his success to the pliancy and corruption of supposedly democratic institutions from the start. Most Americans still think the episode in Florida came down to the swinging chads on a relative handful of disputed ballots, but the real tipping point came earlier when brother Jeb's secretary of state, Katherine Harris, hired a company to vacuum the state's voter rolls of any convicted felons registered in error. The resulting purge of mostly poor and black voters did not confine itself to felons, however; it also accidentally-on-purpose expunged from the rolls thousands of prospective Democratic voters with no criminal records at all. The second great outrage came when the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to hand Bush the White House, a vote from which two of the pro-Bush justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, should have been forced to recuse themselves on the grounds that members of their families had worked for the Bush campaign.
Neither the press nor the Democrats focused on these aspects of the Florida episode, obviously, and the administration has met the same spirit of accommodation on practically every front, no matter how outrageous its demands. When Bush wanted his open-ended mandate for war, Congress obliged. When Dick Cheney intervened to suppress a more ambitious investigation into the events of September 11, no one complained. When Seymour Hersh reported in May that the administration had prepped for war by throwing away the findings of the U.S. intelligence apparatus in favor of the anecdotal testimony of handpicked Iraqi defectors fed to the administration by its stooge Ahmed Chalabi, the mainstream media left it alone. No peep, either, when the White House intervened a few months ago to suppress portions of Congress's eventual 9/11 report, which was finally released late last week after seven months of editing and stonewalling by the administration.
Since the countdown to war began last fall, there has been exactly one prominent and categorical dissenter in the entire U.S. Congress, the 85-year-old West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd. "This is no small conflagration we contemplate," he declaimed on the Senate floor one month before the invasion. "This is no simple attempt to defang a villain. No. This coming battle, if it materializes, represents a turning point in U.S. foreign policy and possibly a turning point in the recent history of the world.
"This nation is about to embark upon the first test of a revolutionary doctrine applied in an extraordinary way at an unfortunate time. The doctrine of preemption-- the idea that the United States or any other nation can legitimately attack a nation that is not imminently threatening but may be threatening in the future--is a radical new twist on the traditional idea of self defense. It appears to be in contravention of international law and the UN Charter. And it is being tested at a time of worldwide terrorism, making many countries around the globe wonder if they will soon be on our--or some other nation's--hit list. High level administration figures recently refused to take nuclear weapons off of the table when discussing a possible attack against Iraq...
"Frankly, many of the pronouncements made by this administration are outrageous. There is no other word. Yet this chamber is hauntingly silent. On what is possibly the eve of horrific infliction of death and destruction on the population of the nation of Iraq--a population, I might add, of which over 50 percent is under age 15--this chamber is silent. On what is possibly only days before we send thousands of our own citizens to face unimagined horrors of chemical and biological warfare--this chamber is silent. On the eve of what could possibly be a vicious terrorist attack in retaliation for our attack on Iraq, it is business as usual in the United States Senate. We are truly sleepwalking through history."
Ask any pundit why the Bushmen have had their way so easily and you will hear the story of Karl Rove's towering presence. Rove, the man half of Washington calls "Bush's brain," is one of the most formidable party bosses the city has seen since the days of towering Democratic figures like Lyndon Johnson and Jim Farley. He is an absolute master of the mechanics of party politics, a ruthless enforcer of marching orders, and an utterly audacious competitor. It is no exaggeration to say that Rove inspires fear and fealty throughout Republican ranks; his White House is by all accounts the most leakproof of the modern era.
Whether he is the über-media manipulator he's made out to be is less sure. Either way, however, it was not the residue of Rove's genius that put the Bush agenda over the top, but the utter acquiescence of America's most cherished democratic institutions--the opposition party and the free press. Bush and Rove will likely go down in history not as master propagandists but as ruthless operators in the right place at the right time: the first White House of the modern era bold enough to flout "checks and balances" altogether and charge through the bankrupt, tissue-thin lines of the Democratic party and the American news media without incurring serious consequences. When future historians comb through the muck of the Bush era, there is no telling what, if any, documentary evidence they will find (this is a crew schooled in the art of concealing its tracks), but they will surely be dumbfounded by the gap between the Bush administration's public conduct--radical in scope, aggressive in its means, beset by international opposition and by open lies, manipulations, and gaffes--and the paltry, token resistance it engendered in the domestic press and the American political establishment.
If the failure of the Democratic Party in responding to the Iraq war and the so-called war on terror has seemed especially glaring, it's only because the issues involved are so momentous that one can scarcely fail to notice the lack of dissent. But it's nothing new. The national Democratic party began retooling itself along more explicitly business-friendly, proto-Republican lines in the shadows of the Carter years, and from the start of the Reagan era onward, it has never put up serious resistance to any major Republican initiative. Neither has it cast an inquisitive eye toward any fermenting Republican scandal, from Iran-Contra to Enron to Saddam's WMDs. Apart from Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who have both called for an investigation into who leaked Valerie Plame's identity to Bob Novak, the Democrats have clucked a bit without really seeking to do anything. Just last week Bill Clinton phoned Larry King to say that all presidents make mistakes and everyone was being too hard on W. The previous Friday, Hillary Clinton had appeared on Bob Costas's HBO talk show saying the same thing. She still believed invading Iraq was the right thing to do, and she was going to reserve her judgment about the other questions surrounding Bush's conduct--until 2008, I'm guessing, unless she can be enticed to join the Democratic ticket next summer.
It's only fitting that the Clintons should come to Bush's rescue. Even during the ostensible interlude of the Clinton years, it was still the Republicans who set the social and fiscal agenda, which the president always embraced with a feigned reluctance. Most famously, he stole their welfare reform proposal and managed to get all the credit for it, which was one reason the right despised him so. A neat political trick, but it made little difference to the country: It was just eight more years of Republican rule in sheep's clothing.
At the moment the Republican party is controlled by a gang of neo-conservatives who want to build American empire by nakedly militarized means, for the express reason that there is currently no one to stop us and we ought to keep it that way. The Democrats are ruled by neoliberals who want to achieve the same imperial goals by gradualism and finesse, through systems of international trade and law dictated by U.S. corporations and the U.S. government. They are not opposed to military interventions, but they are certainly more circumspect about them than the current White House (who isn't?). So the great debate over America's new and precipitous policy of preemptive war was no debate at all. It more closely resembled a fretful lovers' tiff.
Which it was. A few weeks ago the UK magazine New Statesman featured a profile of George Soros, the billionaire currency trader who has become a vocal critic of the Bush crew. "Soros," wrote Neil Clark, "may not, as some have suggested, be a fully paid-up CIA agent." But, he continued, "that his companies and NGOs are closely wrapped up in U.S. expansionism cannot seriously be doubted. So why is he so upset with Bush? The answer is simple. Soros is angry not with Bush's aims--of extending Pax Americana and making the world safe for global capitalists like himself--but with the crass and blundering way Bush is going about it. By making U.S. ambitions so clear, the Bush gang has committed the cardinal sin of giving the game away.
"For years, Soros and his NGOs have gone about their work extending the boundaries of the "free world" so skillfully that hardly anyone noticed. Now a Texan redneck and a gang of overzealous neo-cons have blown it."
Soros is emblematic of the only kind of establishment critic Bush has had here in the U.S.: the ones who wonder if preemptive invasions are the right way to go at the thing. But they have no quarrel with his larger aims. Despite the few lonely cranks who, like Byrd, still call the U.S. Congress home, there is nothing like an anti-imperialist wing in either party or in U.S. media.
For that reason, Bush's putative opponents and watchdogs have had no place to stand, practically or philosophically, so long as what he was doing could be spun as a success on the evening news. If a majority of the people continued to think his war was a success, who was going to be first to call it a failure? But poll numbers and recent invocations of the q-word (quagmire, see: Vietnam) prove that far fewer people now deem the war a success. Bush got the briefest of news-cycle bounces from tracking down Uday and Qusay, but it won't change the situation on the ground in Iraq. The bad news will continue to dribble in. The war is not going well, which means the rules of engagement between the Bushmen, the Democrats, and the media are shifting.
Over half a century has passed since the last time an American president undertook to shift the whole footing of U.S. foreign policy and American empire in quite so radical a manner. When the Truman administration began the military buildup that ushered in the Cold War, it was as untroubled by facts as the Bush administration. Afterward, as Gore Vidal tells it, "[Dean] Acheson wrote, cheerfully, 'If we did make our points clearer than truth, we did not differ from most other educators and could hardly do otherwise.' After all, as he noted, it was the State Department's view that the average American spent no more than 10 minutes a day brooding on foreign policy."
But Bush has it better than Truman in one regard. For purposes of managing public opinion, "the news" now means TV news, where surveys say 75-85 percent of the public gets most of its meager daily allowance of information. There are six major TV news operations in the country now--five, really, since NBC and its Microsoft-branded cable version are two of them. Control what they've got to say and you possess the equivalent of a state-run news agency with all the (rapidly diminishing) cachet of a free press.
And it's never been simpler to control what the networks have to say. And, though they matter less, the same can be said of most of the newspapers most of the time. "The press in this country," wrote James Wolcott in the June Vanity Fair, "has never identified less with the underdog and pandered more to the top pedigrees. The arrogance of the Bush administration is mirrored in the arrogance of the elite media, which preens even as it prostrates itself."
Part of the growing worthlessness of TV news derives from economic pressures, the same ones that have turned network entertainment divisions into production lines for reality TV shows, a spoon-fed and mostly spurious programming phenomenon driven mainly by the minuscule cost of these shows versus old-school sitcoms and dramas. In the broadcast news departments and at the cable networks, the age of austerity has meant cutting back on the resources devoted to newsgathering: reporters, foreign bureaus, production personnel. The change has wrought a predictable transformation in the mindset of the working broadcast journalist. As the distinction between informing and entertaining fades to the vanishing point, so does any notion that TV news might exist for purposes beyond pleasing the viewer. Gathering the news has become a matter of getting the best live shots, telling a tidy and gratifying "human" story, making the heroes look like heroes and the correspondents look like models. Critics of behemoth corporate media have always fretted about the top-down pressures on journalists to watch what they say, but it's hard to imagine that most contemporary network journalists have a single thought in their heads that might distress their bosses. (When they do, though, they are hauled straight to the woodshed, as MSNBC's Ashleigh Banfield learned after telling a campus lecture audience that TV news did a poor job of covering numerous aspects of the war.)
Money is also one reason why there is no news on the cable news networks during the evening time slots, when the greatest share of viewers tune in. It's far cheaper to lard the schedule with talking heads who earn their keep finding ways to restate what official sources have already said. The format is a great boon to the White House. It serves to do the heavy lifting required of any serious propaganda campaign, which is sheer numbing repetition. More felicitously still, the ranks of prominent opinion-makers on TV, radio, and the internet are dominated by tub-thumping carnival barkers of the right such as Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, and the Fox ensemble, who set the agenda for the (also right-wing) chat-show "liberals" chasing their fumes.
The most consequential player in the rightward lunge of TV's chattering classes is of course the visionary Fox News chieftain and old Nixon/Reagan hand Roger Ailes. As Michael Wolff wrote in New York magazine last spring, the most important factor in Ailes's triumph is not the network's open right-wing politics but its success in crafting a persona that appeals to the confused and vaguely disaffected as well as the hardcore right. Fox has fashioned itself the voice of the beleaguered, commonsensical little guy who rightly suspects that he's not getting the whole story.
The right now owns the entire American political apparatus--the federal government, the putative opposition party, and the lion's share of news media. Thanks in considerable measure to Ailes, it controls the most charged political symbols as well, from the flag to that most cherished marker of American citizenship, the role of victim. Fox News and all the other right-wing pundits thrive by assuring their audiences that they are the real unfortunates, oppressed by problems as varied as big government, liberal media, taxes and the bottom-feeders they serve, car-pool lanes, and France. Ann Coulter, whose public descent into complete hysteria can be spectacularly entertaining on the right night, is only the best known of a whole battalion of right-wing ravers penning book after book about the abuse of conservatives and conservative values by mobs of elite liberal thugs--no, traitors.
Demographically speaking, Fox and the other children of Ailes get to have it both ways, sucking up to the right-thinkers and to those who simply feel bewildered and powerless. What's the competition to do? While neither CNN or MSNBC has embraced Fox's brassy, jingoistic trappings, they have followed Fox's lead where it counts most, by installing flocks of right-wing commentators and giving short shrift to any hint of dissent or disorder concerning Bush administration affairs.
Finally, an interesting and little-known fact: Fox News is currently under investigation in the UK (where it appears on cable systems) for violating British broadcasting's "due impartiality" rule with its ceaseless pro-Bush, pro-war drumbeat. The head of one English journalism organization, Julian Petley, described the basis of the complaint: "Murdoch would like to do with British television news what he has done with newspapers, which is to force people to compete on his own terms.... [I]f we allow into Britain the kind of journalism represented by Fox, that would [amount to] a form of censorship."
Recently John Dean published another essay on the White House's conduct. "The African uranium matter," he wrote, "is merely indicative of larger problems, and troubling questions of potential and widespread criminality when taking the nation to war. It appears that not only the Niger uranium hoax, but most everything else that Bush said about Saddam Hussein's weapons was false, fabricated, exaggerated, or phony. Bush repeatedly, in his State of the Union, presented beliefs, estimates, and educated guesses as established fact."
The public grows restless as well. Events in Iraq were already past the administration's grasp when the lies scandal broke. Thanks to television news, most Americans do not yet realize the extent of the troubles there, but they do know that they are bored and disappointed with this war. It's costing a lot in dollars and lives, it isn't good television anymore, and meanwhile the economy only grows worse. ("If American elections were decided by foreign policy," a friend reminded me recently, "our history would be entirely different. The economy and other domestic issues decide elections--much to the dismay of the pundit class, I know, but for a fact, nevertheless.")
Ever since 9/11, polls have attested to the breadth of the president's public support. Now we're seeing how shallow it was all along. Two weeks ago, a Zogby poll indicated that for the first time, more people opposed than supported Bush's reelection. If you are the Bush administration, the joy of a credulous, kept-in-the-dark populace is that they will believe practically anything you tell them; the danger is that, should events begin to spin out of your control, they are just as liable to believe anything your newly emboldened critics tell them.
Can Bush weather it? It's always instructive to read the transcripts of the daily White House press briefings, which offer a barometric reading on current media/administration relations. Lately they have been remarkably antagonistic on both sides, and the animus is personal. The administration has made reporters look like fools. And the White House, for its part, is visibly outraged that its word is no longer taken at face value. This is a recipe for protracted, open ugliness. Keep in mind that Bush's and Rove's tactical instincts are less Machiavelli than Genghis Khan. They are bullies and bludgeoners. Bush's spontaneous taunt to Iraqi guerrilla forces ("Bring 'em on!") seems to go for everyone in the world except Kim Jong-Il and the House of Saud.
More and more, the Soros critique of Bush's foreign policy--he makes the game too obvious--goes for domestic appearances too. A long time has passed since the Democrats and the Republicans had any serious or prolonged disagreements, which is doubtless part of what Rove meant when he told the New Yorker's Nicholas Lemann, "I think we're at a point where the two major parties have sort of exhausted their governing agendas." What Rove seems not to see is that it's precisely in the absence of real politics that the appearance of debate and disagreement is most vital. In their unstinting imperiousness, the Bush crowd is exposing the sham for all to see.
One of the larger questions looming at the moment is how far the CIA wants to carry its current info-war against the Bush gang. Now that Congress's heavily redacted and emended 9/11 report is going public, watch the papers for additional disclosures about the White House's handling of pre-9/11 warnings about imminent attacks. Keep a particular eye on Walter Pincus of the Washington Post, the dean of CIA-insider American journalists. It was a Pincus story, published on June 12, that set the ball rolling by reporting that an anonymous official--later revealed as Joseph Wilson--had given the CIA a negative report on Niger uranium. More recently he has written that the Agency also advised Bush before the war that a besieged or deposed Saddam could pose greater risks than he did as leader. If the coming days and weeks bring leaks of a what-they-knew-and-when-they-knew-it nature about the White House and 9/11, it's probably fair to assume that the CIA is not out merely to humiliate Bush but to destroy him. At least we can be sure that the president, never a very industrious student, has learned one thing during his time in the White House: He knows why none of the numerous presidents who hated and feared J. Edgar Hoover ever dared show him up in public.
If the furor over lies keeps up, the president's men will only make it worse on themselves through their secretive, peremptory, capricious ways. A take-no-prisoners policy seems already in effect from the look of things. We see what they have already tried to do to Joseph Wilson, Dick Durbin, and Jeffrey Kofman, but the air of paranoiac retrenchment runs much deeper than that, as I lately learned firsthand. When City Pages contacted the White House for copies of photographs to accompany this story, the flack who fielded the request demanded to know what it was about, and later declined the request. A small thing, but it was the first time in my cumulative 10 years or so at the paper that any agency or office of the federal government has flatly refused to provide public materials on the grounds that it didn't like what we might do with them.
It's been evident for some time that only Bush could beat Bush in 2004, and he is already part of the way there--accent on part. Never forget that the White House still has two formidable assets in the ever-shrinking American public memory and the Democratic presidential field.
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Illa Mae Chalek, 89
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Illa Mae Chalek, 89, of Roswell, Ga., a former resident of Kenmure in Hendersonville, died on Monday, March 24, 2008.
She was born in March 1918 in Huron, S.D.
She was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 66 years, Col. William D. Chalek.
She attended the University of Tulsa, Okla., and the Julliard School of Music. During World War II, she and her late husband were prisoners of war.
She is survived by her son, Fred Chalek, of Roswell, Ga.; and two grandsons.
She will be laid to rest with her husband in a private ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Paralyzed Veterans of America, 801 Eighteenth St., NW, Washington, D.C., 20006-3517.
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Ingrid said something like, "Don't try to knit tight or loose, just knit and let the yarn and needles decide." (Not an exact quote) That is very good advice. You said,
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Dorothy Dunning rallies national advocates to protest adoption law
Dunning, at center, flanked by supporters on Monday.
On Monday afternoon, about 25 of Dorothy Dunning's supporters gathered in the atrium of the Hennepin County Government Center. At one point, the crowd launched into a modified version of the spiritual, "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around."
"I'm not going to let foster care turn me around," they sang. "I'm not going to let child protection turn me around... Keep marching up to freedom land."
On March 27, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that two young girls should be adopted by the foster parents they have lived with all their life, and not by Dunning, their biological grandmother. But despite the verdict against her -- and her dwindling options -- Dunning continues to fight for full custody of the girls, now ages two-and-a-half and three-and-a-half.
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Monday's rally kicked off what one speaker referred to as a "national protest" with the two-pronged mission of raising awareness for Dunning and lobbying for a new law that would create a clear relative preference. As Minnesota's law stands now, in contested adoption cases, judges should consider the relatives first, but beyond that, give them no preference.
Lennox Abrigo, the president of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the National Action Network -- the civil rights organization founded by Rev. Al Sharpton -- learned of the law when he read the court's decision on Dunning's case, and decided to start working to change it.
"What we would like to do is to talk to the legislators in Minnesota about addressing that law," Abrigo explains. "We think that custody should be awarded still by best interest, but with priority to the family."
Abrigo flew to Minneapolis for the rally, and in May, Dunning will return the favor, joining him in D.C. to meet with legislators. "The state of this now is that we need a political approach," Abrigo says.
When he addressed the crowd, he outlined four steps to that approach. First, he said, Dunning plans to file a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her case. Second will be continuing public advocacy -- i.e., rallies and protests -- and third and fourth, lobbying legislators to change the law. In addition to looking at the best interest of the child, Abrigo says, "the law should say that the best interests of the biological relatives trump the best interests of the foster parents."
Lennox Abrigo, president of the D.C. chapter of the National Action Network, speaks, with Dunning at left.
"Here in Minnesota, we are taking a stand to begin a national protest against this redistribution of our children," Abrigo told the supporters. "During slavery, one of the primary methods of destruction was separating children from their families. We are very, very disturbed to see that this principle of dividing the black family continues."
Even as Dunning plans more protests -- the next one will happen on Thursday at the State Capitol -- she is close to exhausting her legal options. Though she will file for another appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court grants just 1 percent of petitions.
Still, she remains determined to adopt her granddaughters. "We're going to get a national investigation happening here," Dunning says. "Ain't nothing signed in stone."
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Running Time: 72
Director: Ernest Greene
Company: Twist Productions
Cast: Sindee Coxx, Lisa Ann, Ernest Greene, Alexis Payne
Critical Rating: Not Yet Rated
Genre: Specialty
Picture a stunning brunette wearing nothing but a metal collar with matching ankle and wrist manacles, sheer thigh high stockings and long black gloves. Meet Lisa Ann, a fucking vision. Her inclusion in this video (her first screen appearance, according to the boxcover) makes it not just worth watching, but imperative for her fans.
We first see Lisa Ann getting lightly whipped by Master Ernest Greene in a sequence even her beauty can't save. It's fortunate for everyone that he's got to leave town for the weekend, and places Lisa Ann and cute blonde Sindee Coxx in the very capable hands of Mistress Alexis Payne. Bring on the torture toys!
Sindee sports a black strap-on that can spurt a white substance at Alexis' command. The stuff shoots out in disproportionate profusion to "the real thing," but what the hell, Lisa Ann looks great drenched in it. Her moment comes later, when she's positioned on her back with her legs in the air. Sindee paints Lisa with pink shaving cream, shaves her with an electric razor, and administers a douche.
Sindee's got some good times of her own ahead, most notably when she's blindfolded and spread-eagled on a black platform with red candles burning around her. It's at this point that one fully expects Lisa and Alexis to burst in changing "Hail Satan" clad in hooded robes, but luckily they show up in fetish gear to rub oil all over her nude body and blanket it with candle wax. Lisa Ann fingers Sindee to one of many faked "O's," and of course a variety of whips appear throughout the vid.
Lisa Ann and Sindee perform a rote girl/girl involving a Lucite vibrator with two control boxes. It's kind of hard to tell what's going on since the camera keeps focusing on their backs and ankles. Both girls fake it again.
Although the sound isn't great – it fades in and out – and the verbal domination is a bit light, the three girls are extremely attractive and the "training" is sufficiently hot enough to merit a recommendation.


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April 16, 2001 -- Don't invite Wayne King to a party if television's Crocodile Hunter is on the guest list.
King, the curator of herpetology -- the scientific field that studies amphibians and reptiles -- at the University of Florida's Museum of Natural History, is no fan of Steve Irwin, a.k.a. the Crocodile Hunter.
It's nothing personal, just professional: King cringes every time the high-energy, fast-talking Aussie stalks and then grabs snakes, including some of the world's most venomous. It's bad enough that the snake is terrorized, but King is convinced that sooner or later, someone will imitate Irwin's tail-grabbing antics and suffer a deadly bite.
"If they watch that idiot Irwin, they are going to try it," King says. "Irwin is telling people that they can have this fun, too. I hope his ratings go down."
King and other herpetologists know that handling snakes is no laughing matter, and certainly nothing an amateur should attempt. With somewhere between 30 and 40 venomous snakes slithering around America -- and with spring marking the unofficial start of hiking season -- most people don't have a clue about which are dangerous and which aren't, much less what to do if they're bitten.
Snakes are found almost everywhere in America. But snakes are cold blooded and favor warmer climates. The farther north you live, the fewer the snakes. So while there are six varieties of venomous snakes in Florida, New York has only two -- the timber rattlesnake and the copperhead. Perhaps the deadliest in America are the Eastern and Western diamondback rattlesnakes.
Each year, 5,000 Americans are bitten by venomous snakes, resulting in about five deaths. A surprising number of those bites, King says, are to hands and arms, which usually means the person was trying to handle the snake. And that makes sense since snakes are shy by nature. It's unusual to stumble upon one even in the most remote areas, he says.
"An awful lot of people go bird watching, hunting, camping, and hiking and never see a snake," King says.
There are several things you can do to avoid getting bitten by a snake in the wild. For starters, if you see a snake, back away and walk around it.


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American English: /fɔrθˈkəmɪŋ/ British English: /fɔːθˈkʌmɪŋ/
Translation of forthcoming in Spanish:
- 1 1.1 (approaching) (usually before noun)(event)his daughter's forthcoming wedding
próximola boda de su hija, que tendrá ( or tendría etc. ) lugar pronto or dentro de poco tiempoExample sentences1.2 (about to appear)
- We had played our rugby to gain the lead, and then, with one eye on the forthcoming cricket season, we had declared.
- June was due to appear in the forthcoming production of 'The Odd Couple' in September.
- They insisted that Wales would appear prominently in their forthcoming yearbook of regional statistics.
de próxima aparición(film)forthcoming books
a estrenarse próximamenteediciones en preparación
- 2 (available) (predicative) no explanation was forthcomingno dieron ( or dio etc. ) ninguna explicaciónthere is no help forthcoming from that sourcepor ese lado no cabe esperar ninguna ayudaExample sentences
- The chairman promised funds would be made available but none were forthcoming.
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Get-well wishes to Mel Tillis, following heart surgery this past weekend in Nashville.
"He's doing fantastic and is expected to make a full recovery," according to his daughter Pam Tillis.
"In typical Mel Tillis fashion, he's already cutting up and cracking jokes with the nurses. Your thoughts and prayers are appreciated."
Reba McEntire was honored for her commitment to Rodeo Houston by having a scholarship named for her.
The $18,000 award will go to a worthy student through the organization's educational fund.
George Strait also has a scholarship given in his name.
Reba played her 26th Rodeo Huston performance on March 6, 2014.


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Self-Reported Discrimination, Diabetes Distress, and Continuous Blood Glucose in Women with Type 2 Diabetes
- Julie A. WagnerAffiliated withDivision of Behavioral Sciences and Community Health, MC3910, University of Connecticut Health Center Email author
- , Howard TennenAffiliated withDepartment of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center
- , Richard FeinnAffiliated withQuinnipiac University
- , Chandra Y. OsbornAffiliated withDepartments of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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We investigated whether self-reported racial discrimination was associated with continuous glucose levels and variability in individuals with diabetes, and whether diabetes distress mediated these associations. Seventy-four Black and White women with type 2 diabetes completed the Experience of Discrimination scale, a measure of lifetime racial discrimination, and the Problem Areas in Diabetes, a measure of diabetes distress. Participants wore a continuous glucose monitor for 24 h after 8 h of fasting, a standard meal, and a 4-h run in period. Higher discrimination predicted higher continuous mean glucose and higher standard deviation of glucose. For both mean and standard deviation of glucose, a race × discrimination interaction indicated a stronger relationship between discrimination and glucose for Whites than for Blacks. Diabetes distress mediated the discrimination–mean glucose relationship. Whites who report discrimination may be uniquely sensitive to distress. These preliminary findings suggest that racial discrimination adversely affects glucose control in women with diabetes, and does so indirectly through diabetes distress. Diabetes distress may be an important therapeutic target to reduce the ill effects of racial discrimination in persons with diabetes.
KeywordsDiabetes Glucose Women Discrimination Racism Diabetes distress
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- Self-Reported Discrimination, Diabetes Distress, and Continuous Blood Glucose in Women with Type 2 Diabetes
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Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Volume 17, Issue 2 , pp 566-573
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- 2015-04
- 10.1007/s10903-013-9948-8
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- 1. Division of Behavioral Sciences and Community Health, MC3910, University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Ave., Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
- 2. Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA
- 3. Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT, USA
- 4. Departments of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA


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I recently installed a Cannon wireless printer for temporary use, the drivers of which set nearly all my COM ports to be constantly in-use (an occasionnal bug noted in the ReadMe after installation with no fixes - thanks Canon idiots!).
I have now deleted the printer and drivers but the ports (COM 1-2,4-13 & 15-32) constantly show up as (in-use). Note that they don't appear like this directly in device manager, but do if I try to re-assign a COM port on some hardware (Device Manager -> Port Settings -> Advanced).
I have tried deleting the ports in Control panel -> Print Server Properties but I get the error message 'Selected ports cannot be deleted. The request is not supported'.
I have also tried to delete the ports through Print Management, but here I get the error 'The selected port cannot be deleted. This operation is not supported.'. If I try to configure the ports I get the error 'The selected port cannot be configured. Operated could not be completed (error 0x00000057).
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Being in a plane crash is terrifying. Now, we see just how terrifying.
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Beauty is in the eye of the license plate holder.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em? Not quite.
In honor of the polar vortex currently wrapping its ice-cold hands around the country's throat, we thought it would be fun to take a trip to a summertime favorite: the amusement park.
Get ready to have your emotions played like a flute.
Babies can have trouble staying focused.
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Megachurches in New England
Grace Chapel, as it turns out, has had a lot of collective experience with recovery and redemption. In 1987, former senior pastor Gordon MacDonald publicly admitted an adulterous affair. Although MacDonald was not in a pastoral position at the time of the affair or his admission, he returned to Grace in March 1993 for a time–a move that prompted dozens of members to leave. Those who remained drew closer. Elizabeth Clark joined Grace the same year MacDonald came back. "He was open and humble," recalls Clark. "As a new Christian, I found that amazing." Clark was equally struck by the reaction of the congregation: "There was so much forgiveness. It spoke to me on a personal level."
That sense of acceptance and communal embrace propelled Clark deeper into Grace, so much so that it's now the hub of her life. Her husband participates in "Celebrate Recovery," and she leads a women's Bible study. The couple co-leads one of the small worship groups that meet in individual homes, and most of their friends attend Grace.
Not everyone finds the same easy fit. Karen Tokmakoff, who began going to Grace in 1999, left after several years because it started to feel restrictive. "There's so much mystery involved in faith and in the working of the Holy Spirit," she says. "I believe my job is to love my neighbors the way Jesus would, but I wasn't comfortable with the notion that I was supposed to go out and save them." Of her new church in a nearby town, Tokmakoff says, "I feel more freedom to be who I am," even though the scope of what it offers is more limited.
Megachurches, in particular, do tend to provide ready community in a welcoming, if supersized, environment. Cafés are customary, as are bookstores, gyms, and common areas furnished with overstuffed chairs and couches, where members gather long after the service has ended. Throughout the week, in addition to self-help groups and Bible studies, there are classes in art, drama, music, or household and fiscal management. Some churches have funds to help members through financial crises. The message is implicit: If you're one of us, we'll take care of you.
Ready-made community may be one reason why immigrants figure prominently in many evangelical congregations. Those with established religious ties in their countries of origin tend to build their own churches. According to Boston's Emmanuel Gospel Center, recent counts, for instance, showed some 400 evangelical Brazilian churches in Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, along with 15 Cambodian ones. Immigrants have also been drawn into existing churches: St. Matthew Trinity Lutheran Church in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, has reached out to the thousands of Liberians who live in the Ocean State, for example, and Faith has a sizable first-generation Latino population.
Jack Davis, a professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, says the sense of community experienced by evangelicals in the region is intensified by their relative scarceness. "There's a feeling of being an outsider and a minority," he says, with respect to the dominant Catholic religious presence and general secular culture. At the same time, evangelicals in the Northeast differ from those in other parts of the country because they're less conservative. In general, they identify more with New England culture than with a Southern evangelical one, says Andrew Walsh: "The [cultural and political] evangelical package is unfamiliar to them. Most of them are not active religious-right types. They are, by and large, people who accept religious pluralism and think of religion as private." For this reason, large national denominations have approached the Northeast "gingerly," Walsh says.
The region's younger evangelicals, in particular, tend to hold political views not typically associated with born-again Christianity. When Mike Mancini, who describes himself as pro-choice and unopposed to gay marriage ("It's just a piece of paper to ensure rights," he says), undertook his initial, marathon reading of the Bible, he discovered a mandate for social justice that underscored his own beliefs. "[Social justice] should be a priority of every Christian," he says, "and liberal politics line up with that."
On the national stage, evangelical politics have shifted in recent years. If the old stance zeroed in on individual morality, the new focus seems to be on broader issues: the environment, global poverty, human rights. The environment, and global warming in particular, has received particular attention of late. The Evangelical Climate Initiative, along with a statement signed by 86 church leaders, was released in February 2006, and in March 2008, 44 leading Southern Baptists issued a statement urging that denomination to be more aggressive in its response to environmental issues. Stewardship of the Earth, in Christian parlance, has become a rallying point for those who want a break with the religious right.
At the church level, the trend seems to be to step aside from politics and to focus on the individual, addressing issues like economic hardship and emotional distress in a personal way through hands-on teachings. This people-not-programs approach dovetails with an intention to draw individuals in one by one. As one Web site puts it: "Grace Chapel is an upbeat, energetic place that allows you to be you. Whatever your background, religious or not, wherever you are on your spiritual journey, committed or simply curious–you are welcome at Grace Chapel."
That's not to say that New England's evangelical churches don't proselytize. They do, and sometimes vigorously so–often through outreach by individual members, although the approach tends to be more subtle than the in-your-face witnessing of old. At the corporate level, Grace Chapel will, for example, issue open invitations to its holiday services through newspaper ads or mailed postcards, says Executive Pastor Bill Burke. "We'd rather show what we believe than actively convert," Burke says. "The idea is to invite people in and to be who we are while they're here. We want new members, but we don't want to go about it in a forceful way."
Many modern evangelical churches are modeled on the "seeker church"–among the best known of which are Rick Warren's Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, and Bill Hybels' Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. Beyond their perhaps oversimplified image of targeting the unchurched and the spiritually hungry, seeker churches have for 50 years addressed the problems of everyday life while offering Biblically based assistance. In so doing they've blurred distinctions between the secular and the religious. Indeed, in a mission statement that sounds equal parts religion, motivational-speak, and Big Business, the Willow Creek Association (WCA) offers to provide its 12,000 member churches around the world with "life-changing experiences, tools, and innovations" and to assist them in reaching "their full redemptive potential," which translates at least in part to large-scale congregation building.
Yet Frank Santora, for one, bristles at the label of "seeker church," even though Faith, as well as Grace, belongs to the WCA and Santora makes no bones about wanting to grow Faith as big as possible. To him, the term connotes a watering-down of Biblical principle. He objects also to suggestions by conservative Christians that the portrayal of a loving God equates with a pick-and-choose, feel-good Christianity geared primarily toward marketing and unduly emphasizing pop psychology. Santora's God, he says, wants His people to thrive, and, moreover, Christians should experience his presence directly in their daily lives.
For evangelical pastors, there's a paradox: To facilitate what congregants consider an open, nonhierarchical link to the divine, the pastor himself must have sufficient presence to keep people coming week after week. And commanding the attention of hundreds or thousands of congregants requires more than old-fashioned charisma. Many pastors make frequent, widespread use of artifacts from the secular world: physical props, popular songs, dramas, and video footage from contemporary movies. For inspiration they may go online–creativepastors.org and pastors.com are two popular sites–and most belong to a variety of resource associations such as Willow Creek.
Yet, even though they share a common theology and similar practices, evangelical churches vary widely in terms of their styles of worship and the populations they draw. That style seems foremost to reflect the pastors themselves: extroverted and hip at Faith, for instance; more understated at Grace; exuberant yet somehow formal at Jubilee. In part, what accounts for the seemingly broad, even disparate, constituencies of New England evangelicals is that along with location, the collective personality of a church vectors it toward a given population: Caucasian and Asian suburbanites in the case of Grace; urban African Americans at Jubilee. A pastor's own sensibilities factor in, as well. Faith's former Catholics might be less drawn to the place if Santora–who himself was raised Catholic–didn't understand their perspective.
Perhaps New England is ripe for a new kind of evangelicalism precisely because it's New England. Douglas Hall, president of Emmanuel Gospel Center, argues that the region always has been a hotbed of religious change–beginning with the Puritanism that prompted the first governor, John Winthrop, to inform settlers of Massachusetts Bay that they had taken out a divine "commission" to make their New World society a godly "city upon a hill," visible to the entire world but also a beacon for lost humanity. When Unitarianism began to take hold in America at the end of the 1700s, traditional Christians responded with a flurry of church plantings of their own.


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In the northern part of Lake Garda, near the city of Riva, you will find the impressive horseshoe-form property in a landmark park from the 17th century: 'Villa Angelica'. The property is unique, it offers six different large residential options. ***Garden of Eden object.
We are a family of four staying in Riva for a sailing event that my 15 year old daughter was competing in: Villa Angelica suited us perfectly - we stayed in Umberto Eco which is very comfortable and plenty of room for us with the kids having a room each. We hired bikes and found that the villa is the perfect compromise - close enough to be in Riva in 2 minutes by bike and far enough away to escape the crowds. The garden is very spacious and quiet and a pleasure to sit in and read and enjoy the sun. The owners are perfect hosts - among other things organised pizzas for delivery and baked a gorgeous cake for us. There are good facilities for clothes washing downstairs and a place to park the car. It is also very safe and secure so we never had to even think about locking up the bikes! We will be back and I couldn't recommend it highly enough.
We recently returned from a trip to Europe where we spent a week of the trip at the Villa. We had a wonderful time... Angelica was a fantastic host (we really enjoyed the home made tiramisu ;-). We stayed in Umberto Eco, which was perfect for our family. It was a little tricky to find as the cars navigation system didn't find the address, but luckily Google maps could. Hopefully we'll get a chance to visit again... we loved the villa, Angelica, Riva del Garda, and the surrounding towns in northern Italy.
This was our first trip to the italian lakes traveling in a group of 9 which included 3 young children the Villa Angelica was quite unbelievable and not what any of us had really expected,with a drive from Verona of approximately 1h 45 the apartments where quite spectacular they were very clean and spacious with all the amenities you would expect. we stopped in the newly completed evo apartments on the third floor of this magnificent building the living area with its exposed timber roof trusses and the timber floors really did show the extent to which the owner had restored this building, the gardens were well maintained with the soothing sound of the mountain stream as it passed by the property.the added security of an electronic gated property made us all feel very at ease, the owner of the property a warm and welcoming lady whom couldn't do enough for us even inviting us in to her own private apartments for drinks, you really did feel part of the family.
There was plenty of on site parking and i would recommend the villa suitable for families.
The owner informed us that she would be introducing some english speaking television programs to the mainly dominated German channels and although this was, from our point of view, purely to catch up on news this would not put us off using this property in the future.
The property was situated approx 20 min walk from the town of Riva del Garda and was a most pleasant walk even with young children the town situated on the lake was full of history with beautiful scenery and surrounded by a mountain landscape, the weather, with the exception of one rainy day, was sunny with temperatures reaching the high 30's.
In summery this is a place well worth a visit!
wir sind jetzt schon das 4te mal in der villa und jedes mal äußerst zufrieden. die besitzer familie kümmert sich liebevoll um ihre gäste und hat für alle fragen ein offenes ohr. wer auf ambiente uns super schöne fewos steht ist hier genau richtig. das preis leistungsverhältnis passt excellent. mann hat eine ruhige umgebung und ist zu fuß in ca 15.minuten direkt in der city von riva.
wir können es nur empfehlen.
dietmar und heidi
Wer den Charme und Patina eines historischen Anwesens liebt, aber auf neuzeitlichen Komfort nicht verzichten möchte, ist hier richtig.
Wir waren in der ersten Maiwoche 2016 mit zwei Familien mit zwei kleinen Kindern in der Ferienwohnung Umberto Eco. Die Wohnung ist charmant und geschmackvoll eingerichtet.
Der Garten ist wunderschön und der neu angelegte Pool ein Highlight. Als Gast fühlt man sich sofort gut umsorgt von den netten Gastgebern, die mit guten Tipps und Hilfe zur Seite stehen. Im Haus gibt's eine Spielecke mit Spielsachen. Unseren Kleinen hat es der wunderbare Brunnen mit den Goldfischen angetan.
Einen Punkt Abzug gibt es für das teilweise langsame Internet und die Dusche, die sich die beiden Badezimmer teilen.
Dennoch vielen herzlichen Dank an die Gastgeber für den schönen Aufenthalt!
The 5000 m2 park in Italian style with its 5 fountains is unique. The late-Baroque fountain monument is attractive - Franz Kafka and other guests have enjoyed their stay in Riva on its steps. The property is in a peaceful location, about 900 m from the lake and the old city and has its own parking space.
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|Notes: Rates are based on 6 guests; add $17 per night, per additional guest
Sep 3 2016 - Oct 5 2016
3 night minimum stay
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Oct 6 2016 - Nov 13 2016
Changeover Day: Saturday
3 night minimum stay
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Zuschlag fuer die 7 Person: €15,00 pro Nacht
Zu bezahlender Service:
Endreinigung € 35,- für die Wohnungen:
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I am no fan of Matt Damon, but I can certainly see Bridges pulling this one off.
At least Paris Hilton is no thespian, although she has dabbled in it a couple of times, she would like to be one though.
Damon be damned. I am going to watch this one.
I plan on seeing it as well.
But this remake is bordering on heresy...
John Wayne IS "Rooster Cogburn"...
(and I am a Big Fan of Jeff Bridges!)
Well after reading the book at age 18 and then seeing the original film with John Wayne some 40 years ago, I guess I'll have to check it out.
The entire cast are liberals. Jeff Bridges LOVES Obama and his old man was a communist. Keep supportin Hollywood and Obama.
What ever.
What ever.
Another example of no creativity in Hollywood. Another remake of a classic. I'm also a fan of Jeff Bridges' work but why can't Hollywood make some films that aren't remakes? Yes I know they do make a lot of films that aren't remakes but there just isn't much in the way of creativity in that silly industry. Pathetic.
If it ain't The Duke, it's a dookie.
I look forward to seeing this version of 'True Grit' Wayne will always be Rooster, but Bridges is a damn talented actor.
I am slightly to the right of Attila the Hun, but If I refused to see films, plays and musicians that were produced anything but conservatives, I would miss out on many of the finest things in life.
Way to stand in there my!
What ever.
It looks stupid and very unclassy.
I balked when I heard there was a re-make of True Grit in the works. But then... finding out that it was the Coen brothers doing it, and I turned 180 degrees on the project. I think they can be trusted with it.
Then you will be able to cheer, as I did with Glen Campbell, when he dies in the movie.
See? Ever once in a while Hollywood does something right.
I cant remember the last time I went to see a film in the theater.
This film looks worthwhile just for the storyline and the film work.
Some of the new movies NEED to be experienced on a big screen. The sound, the action, the need to wiggle past several sets of feet to get to the bathroom... well, not that one, but you need to see at least ONE new 3D movie.
None of the 3d's have tickled my fancy yet.
I'm with you brother. I don't directly or indirectly support communists. But it seems to some, "to be entertained" while being snuffed out is ok.
Yep, the character Woody was playing producing a ATM card during a 70's setting movie...priceless.
I just saw Voyage of the Dawn Treader in 3D. Pretty impressive.
I had never even heard of it.
Is this a remake of the John Wayne, Kim Darby and Glenn Campbell flick? Or is it a completely new one? NOBODY can replace Rooster Cogburn!
The fact that he was given a credit or debit card that had a daily transaction limit was absolutely reasonable for a movie set in the seventies. It is even more reasonable considering that the movie is set in 1980. By 1980 ATM machines where at almost every bank.
Oh yeah............and were they able to keep Bridges sober frequently enough and for long enough periods to actually complete a flick?
The Romans did it with bread and circuses!
Even up to 1985, good luck finding a bank premise ATM in west or east Texas. Or even any rural Texas town.
That was in Del Rio in the 70's...no.
Wayne may have been Rooster, but the rest of the cast waere underwhelming ( save Duvall , but his role was unfortunately small).
There were 2000 ATMS in use in America in 1973...magritte
The movie was set in SW & West Texas. What is your point?
Don't mean to be technical, but the film was set in 1980. Hubby and I got our first Versatel card from BofA in 1981. Not too far off the mark.
Forget the politics of the actors.
I had all the doubts voiced here about a remake, most are horrible, but after watching the trailer I got a pavlovian response of getting choked up. The original version is the only movie I've ever seen that elicits that kind of response from me. Maybe it's because I have two young daughters.
I'm going to take the kids to watch the new version over the holidays!
In the early eighties, I cashed my checks in banks and spent my money in bars from Del Rio to San Angelo. The ATM was as foreign as a penguin crossing a Texas highway.
Like many people, I too was not enthused to hear of remaking True Grit. But when I heard the Coens were going to be doing it, that peaked my interest. I've loved all of their movies, No Country being about the best I've seen in years. There are only a handful of films I will willingly of my own accord make the trek to the multiplex to see. Lord of the Rings was one. This will be another.
Don't mean to be technical, but..."Bank of America Corporation was formed in the 1998 merger of NationsBank Corporation and BankAmerica Corporation."
The 3rd in the Narnia series.
Ok. I never read those.
That was the last one I really had to see in the theater!
LOTR trilogy.
Oh, you should. Very well written. Or, watch the first two, then go and see the third. Well worth watching. Very well done.
Didnt Lewis Carol write those?
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Maybe in New Yawk during that period.
Even up to 1985, good luck finding a bank premise ATM in west or east Texas. Or even any rural Texas town.
Yeah, here in rural North Calif, we didn't have ATMS until the early 1990s.
No, C.S Lewis.
That is what I meant. Doh!
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Good news for Jason Spezza, can be bad news for Sens fans. And no, I'm not referring to the possibility that Dany Heatley might have to return to flank Spezza's left-wing. Instead, (with a h/t to Sens at Land's End) Team Canada has officially announced that Jason Spezza's been invited to their Olympic team's development camp.
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The management group, led by executive director Steve Yzerman, announced on Tuesday that Jason Spezza (Mississauga, Ont./Ottawa, NHL) has been added to the camp roster. Spezza has played for Canada at the IIHF World Championship on five occasions, most recently at the 2009 IIHF World Championship in Switzerland.
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The camp roster now includes five goaltenders, 16 defencemen and 25 forwards. ~ Hockey Canada
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