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Don't Let The GOP Disparage Our Economic Achievements
When President Obama took office, the economy was on the verge of collapse and losing 800,000 jobs per month. By the time of the general election in 2012, the economy was creating 100,000 jobs per month and the unemployment rate dipped just below 8%. When that occurred, many prominent Republicans were in denial and alleged that the Obama Administration was "cooking the books."
During the 2012 campaign, Mitt Romney promised to reduce the unemployment rate to 6% by the end of his first term. Since his defeat, the unemployment rate has fallen below Romney's stated goal and is now 5.3%. In addition, the economy has been creating over 200,000 jobs per month over the last 1.5 years. If this kind of economic growth had occurred during a Romney Presidency, the GOP would be holding ticker tape parades for him.
Now that President Obama has met and exceeded Romney's goal of a 6% unemployment rate, the GOP has begun to disparage the clear economic progress this country has made since the dark days of 2008-09. The Republicans have cherry picked two obscure statistics never mentioned before January 20, 2009 in an attempt to convince the American people that the U.S. economy is still in poor shape.
As a starting point, the GOP has moved the goal posts on the unemployment rate. The 6% unemployment rate promised by Romney is the one measured by what is called U3. This measure - which has been in place since 1994- doesn't count so-called "discouraged workers" who have been out of the labor force for over 6 months.
Before Obama was elected, the GOP touted the U3 measure as the gold standard for measuring unemployment. During the Bush years, former Reagan Administration Treasury Department official Lawrence Kudlow wrote columns celebrating the so-called "Bush boom" and and would cite the U3 measure of unemployment in his columns. As we know, Romney relied upon the U3 measure when he promised to reduce unemployment to 6% by January 2017.
Now that the economy is creating the most jobs since the Clinton Administration, the GOP has suddenly begun to talk about the U6 measure of unemployment. This statistic includes so-called "discouraged workers" in it's calculation and the U6 unemployment rate is currently 10.5%. What the GOP doesn't mention is that U6 unemployment has steadily declined since it peaked at 17% in 2009.
The U6 unemployment measuring stick isn't the only obscure economic statistic that the GOP became obsessed with beginning at high noon on January 20, 2009. We've also been hearing from them about the labor participation rate (LPR.) The GOP likes to tell us that Obama is a failure and the economy is doing poorly because the LPR is at it's lowest rate since 1978.
The Republicans' talking point on the LPR is disingenuous because they don't give us any of the historical and demographic context regarding the LPR. The LPR steadily increased between the 1970s and 2000 due to the entry of women into the labor force.
The LPR peaked at 67% in 2000 and began to decline that year largely due to the retirement of the baby boom generation. By the time Bush left office in 2009, the LPR had been reduced to 65%.
Since Obama took office, the LPR has continued it's decline. At the present time, the LPR is around 63%. What this means is that the LPR has declined at the same rate during the Obama Administration as it did during the Bush Administration.
According to government economists at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the LPR would have declined no matter who was president, and independent of the state of the economy. You won't hear about that on Fox News and AM radio!
The Republicans' discovery of these heretofore obscure economic statistics is part of a P.R. campaign aimed at winning the next election. The GOP wants to convince the American people that the economy is worse now than it was in 2009 so they can be returned to power.
Our opponents also don't want the American people to remember their own terrible record on the economy the last time they held all of the levers of power in Washington, D.C. The GOP is counting on collective amnesia - they hope the American people will forget that President Obama inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and had to pull us out of the ditch.
Our job as Democrats is to refresh those hazy memories because the propaganda of the GOP depends upon the voters having bad memories. We need to be proud of our record and run hard on it. If we don't mention it, nobody else will.
The stakes next year couldn't be any higher. Are we going to hand over the country once again to the GOP and its policies that ruined our economy before and that will destroy the hard earned progress that we've made since 2009? I'm confident that if we do our job, the voters will make the right choice and vote for continued progress by electing a Democratic President and Congress.
Ricketts' Lavish Funding Of Death Penalty Referendum Sets A Troubling Precedent
Governor Ricketts faced a difficult first legislative session in which most of his major policy priorities were simply ignored and where three high profile vetoes were overridden by bi-partisan majorities. Ricketts was criticized by members of his own party for failing to engage the Unicameral in the early stages of the session and for hiring an inexperienced legislative liaison staff.
The Governor's most visible and embarrassing defeat was when the Senators voted to repeal the death penalty over his veto by a 30-19 margin. This development provided further evidence that the death penalty is on it's way out in the U.S. and even garnered international attention. It's not every day that a red state legislature votes to abolish capital punishment.
The death penalty was abolished in Nebraska because it is an expensive and wasteful government program that simply doesn't work. The Lincoln Journal Star recent reported that the cost to prosecute a death penalty case in Kansas is more than three times as expensive to pursue as a non-capital case. This same article also found: "Between 1973 and 2007, Nebraska taxpayers paid for 103 cases in which the prosecution sought the death penalty. Thirty-one of those cases led to a death sentence, more than half of those were reversed, and three have ended in an execution, none since 1997."
Governor Ricketts responded to this embarrassing political defeat by heavily funding Nebraskans for the Death Penalty, which is pursuing a petition campaign to put capital punishment on the ballot next year and to restore this archaic and useless government program. Thus far, Ricketts and his billionaire father have contributed $200,000.00 out of the $244,000.00 this group has raised to date.
The lavish funding of this death penalty ballot campaign sets a troubling precedent because we have a situation where a billionaire Governor and his super wealthy father are funding a referendum to undo an historic vote in the Unicameral - including the votes of 16 Senators from his own party. Apparently, if Ricketts can't get what he wants out of the legislature, he and his father will drop hundreds of thousands of dollars into this campaign (or a future campaign.)
I fully expect the Ricketts family to spend whatever takes to restore the failed capital punishment system and attempt to win a political victory for the Governor. The television ads will be slickly produced and most likely deceptive in nature. I fully expect to see images of the likes of Nikko Jenkins and other heinous criminals in a shameless attempt to scare Nebraskans into bringing back the death penalty.
These huge donations from the Ricketts family are also troubling because they are not for middle class tax relief, a better health care system, better roads, and a better education system. Instead, the money is being spent to restore a failed and immoral government program.
What we need to do as Democrats is to volunteer for campaigns and if we can afford it, make some financial contributions. It's not enough anymore to simply show up and vote in every election cycle. Good government isn't free and doesn't come easy. That means we need to get involved in the political process or even step up our already existing activism.
Would The Founding Fathers Be Tea Party Republicans Today?
Since the July 4 holiday is approaching, I've been reflecting on the Founding Fathers and their monumental contributions to this great country. That made me begin to think about the right wing Republican claim that the Founding Fathers would be Tea Party conservatives in the 21st century.
I can tell you from my historical research that claim is flatly wrong and is quite frankly an insult to the Founding Fathers. I don't think those great men would want to have anything to do with today's Republican party which in the words of prominent political scientist Norm Ornstein is "an insurgent outlier—ideologically extreme, contemptuous of the inherited and social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise, unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition."
Just how accurate are the Republican claims about the Founding Fathers? Did they truly believe in limited or smaller government? Were they scornful of compromise and unpersuaded by empirical evidence? I think the answers will surprise our conservative Republican friends.
One of the greatest Americans - if not the greatest - was George Washington - our first President. Washington was very close to Alexander Hamilton and Hamilton was Washington's most influential adviser. Hamilton was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, one of the authors of the Federalist Papers and the first Treasury Secretary.
The historical record indicates that Hamilton was no advocate of limited government and would be rejected with contempt by right wing Republicans if they were familiar with his actual record and views. As Treasury Secretary, Hamilton clashed with the small government conservatives of his day in advocating for a national bank, government assistance to manufacturers and the encouragement of immigration.
Washington's successor - John Adams - was certainly no advocate of small or limited government. While he was President, Adams signed into law the infamous Alien and Sedition Act which among other things restricted speech that was critical of the government. Under this act, the Adams Administration criminally prosecuted several journalists and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
During the Adams Administration, Jefferson and Madison were very critical of the Alien and Sedition Act and wrote several pieces in response to that law which extolled the virtues of small and limited government. That's where one will find many of the passages cited by present day conservatives when they make the case the Founding Fathers would be Tea Party Republicans today.
Once Jefferson and Madison took power, they were not hesitant to use the power of big government to achieve their ends. (Madison served all eight years of the Jefferson Administration as Secretary of State and was Jefferson's hand picked successor.)
During the debate over the Louisiana Purchase, the advocates of smaller government took the position that the federal government lacked the power to acquire land and demanded that the Constitution be amended to give the federal government that power. Jefferson and Madison liberally construed the Constitution and took the position that the Louisiana Purchase fell under the treaty powers of the Constitution and submitted the Louisiana Purchase for it's eventual ratification by the U.S. Senate.
Jefferson and Madison were responsible for one of the greatest power grabs in U.S. history during Jefferson's second term. At that time, the Napoleonic Wars were raging in Europe and both the British and the French navies were seizing U.S. ships in the Atlantic Ocean. Both the British and the French wanted to deprive each other of the benefits of trade with the U.S.
In response, Jefferson and Madison convinced the Congress to pass the Embargo Act of 1807 - which made illegal any and all exports from the U.S. In other words, during Jefferson's second term, the federal government banned businesses from selling goods to foreign countries. This exercise of federal power pales in comparison to any exercise of power by the federal government since President Obama was inaugurated. If today's conservatives had been around in 1807, they would have called Jefferson and Madison "communists" and "socialists."
The embargo on foreign trade ultimately proved to be a failure and did immense damage to the U.S. economy. It was eventually lifted in 1809 shortly after Madison became our nation's fourth President.
These episodes from early American history that I cite here aren't exhaustive. There are many other examples that would clearly indicate that the Founding Fathers wouldn't be right wing ideologues today. Instead, the Founding Fathers were intelligent, practical, realistic and willing to compromise to get things done. They wouldn't be right wing, Tea Party Republicans in the 21st century.
I think you can say the same things about modern day Democrats that I've said here about the Founding Fathers. We Democrats are willing to consider all practical measure to create a better country. We are more than willing to compromise to achieve our goals. For example, the ACA is based upon a Republican health care plan that was hatched by the Heritage Foundation and first implemented by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts.
As Democrats, we need to re-claim the Founding Fathers. We can't allow the Republicans to claim some kind of monopoly on the great men who founded and established our country against great odds. This attempt by the radical right to appropriate the Founding Fathers is merely a public relations attempt to give political cover and legitimacy to their extreme policies.
On a final note, we here at the Nebraska Democratic Party wish everybody a happy and safe 4th of July holiday as we celebrate the 239th anniversary of our great country's independence.
Will Ricketts Stand By And Do Nothing If The Supreme Court Blows Up Obama Care?
Currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) is a case that could potentially blow up the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and cause more than 6 million people to lose their health insurance policies. A group of radical right wing libertarians have filed a challenge to the ACA based upon an alleged drafting error in the law. These radicals claim that subsidies for the purchase of health insurance are only legal in the 16 states that have set up their own exchanges. If the five Republican appointees on the SCOTUS - who enjoy the benefit of taxpayer financed health insurance - invalidate the subsidies being paid out to those who purchase insurance on the federally established exchanges in the other 34 states, the consequences for millions of newly insured people and the overall economy would be catastrophic in nature.
The radicals who have threatened to cripple the U.S. health care system by judicial fiat have advanced the novel theory that Congress deliberately agreed to withhold subsidies for the purchase of health insurance from people living in states that refused to set up a state-run health-insurance exchange and currently have a federally run insurance exchange. When Dave Heineman was Governor, he refused to set up an insurance exchange even though the stakeholders in Nebraska wanted a state based exchange As a result of Heineman's lack of leadership, Nebraska currently has a federal insurance exchange.
The lawyers for the plaintiffs in the King case argued that Senator Ben Nelson insisted that tax subsidies be withheld in states that refused to set up their own exchanges. The former Nebraska Senator rejected those claims in a letter filed with the Supreme Court which stated: "I always believed that tax credits should be available in all 50 states regardless of who built the exchange, and the final law also reflects that belief as well." In other words, one of the most important arguments made by the challengers to the ACA has been called incorrect by the very same senator relied upon by these litigants.
If the five most conservative members of the SCOTUS adopt a fraudulent reading of the legislative history of the ACA, the consequences for millions of Americans would be disastrous. Approximately 6.4 million people would lose their tax credits and could experience an average increase of 255% in their health insurance premiums. Most of those effected would have no choice but to drop their insurance coverage.
The damage from an adverse SCOTUS decision would not be limited to those losing their insurance policies - it would also cause serious damage to the health care industry and even the overall economy. According to experts at the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation: "A reasonable assumption is that (spending on) healthcare by people who lose their existing subsidies will drop by at least half. That would represent about $7.5 billion in spending on hospitalizations, doctor visits and prescriptions, depending on the baseline estimate." Some experts have even said that a decision withholding subsidies from millions of Americans could cause a death spiral in the health insurance industry and much higher premiums for all Americans.
A "victory" by the plaintiffs in the King case would have an equally harsh impact in Nebraska. According to the Kaiser Foundation, approximately 57,000 Nebraskans would see their premiums soar and most likely be forced to drop their coverage. Consumers in Nebraska who would lose their subsidies would see their premiums increase about 265% according to this report. As Brad Ashford chief of staff Jeremy Nordquist said: "If the Supreme Court does strike the insurance subsidies, it's a significant loss for Nebraska families."
Governor Pete Ricketts could avoid harming thousands of Nebraskans by committing to setting up a state based insurance exchange in the event the five Republicans on the SCOTUS gut the ACA. Unfortunately, Mr. Ricketts is showing his usual lack of leadership and has said that that it would be "premature" to discuss how the state might respond if health insurance tax credits for working families are struck down by the court.
Nebraska State Democratic Party Chair Vince Powers responded to Ricketts in a strongly worded statement that said: "That is a dereliction of his duty. It is the Governor who is "premature" in supporting the end to tax credits, without any plan in place for families to keep their insurance. It is the job of the Governor to lead with solutions, not jeopardize families by making them more vulnerable with no alternative plan."
On the federal level, the Republicans in Congress - like Ricketts - lack an alternative plan in the event the SCOTUS destroys the American health care system. This is because the Republicans in Congress are are deeply divided on how to respond to an adverse SCOTUS decision. Many Republicans are being pressured by the Koch brothers to oppose any ACA fix and just allow the U.S. health care system to collapse. Other Republicans like Ben Sassehave proposed plans that would continue the subsidies through the 2016 elections and then would completely repeal the ACA in January 2017.
The reality is that a bad ruling by 5 unelected justices could be rectified with a one sentence bill that mandated that all qualified consumers could qualify for a subsidy regardless of whether insurance was purchased from a state or federal exchange.
The five Republicans on SCOTUS would be utterly reckless and irresponsible if they threw out the ACA after it has provided coverage to 17 million formerly uninsured Americans and reduced medical inflation to it's lowest level since the 1960s. The very legitimacy of the SCOTUS would be destroyed and it would go down as one of the most infamous judicial decisions in American history.
Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne said it best: "Here's a hypothetical for you: First, the Supreme Court issues a ruling that installs a conservative president. Then, he appoints two conservative Supreme Court justices who then join with three of their colleagues to make mincemeat of the greatest achievement of a progressive president elected by a clear majority. If such a thing happened in any other country, would we still call it a democratic republic?"
Ricketts' Reign Of Error Continues
New Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts recently finished a legislative session that some Republican insiders (justifiably) termed an "embarrassing start." Two prominent Republican lobbyists who spoke to me on background were both highly critical of Ricketts' handling of the legislative session. One lobbyist said the Senators perceived Ricketts' approach as "heavy handed" and another told me that the Ricketts Administration only got engaged with the Unicameral very late in the session.
Ricketts' failed legislative session isn't the only thing that has called into question his competence and ability to serve as Governor. His recent attempt to purchase an execution drug not only creates concerns about his ability to govern - it even raises questions about his election year claim that he is an experienced and savvy businessman.
The Nebraska Governor recently authorized the purchase of execution drugs that have been deemed illegal by the FDA from a shady middleman in India. Ricketts purchased these drugs even though the FDA warned him that that the agency will seize Nebraska's shipment. Moreover, Ricketts paid seven times more than what the drugs usually cost and purchased enough drugs for 300 executions - even though there are only ten people on death row. Ricketts was clearly taken to the cleaners by the seller of the drugs.
Ricketts' mishandling of the Unicameral and attempted purchase of illegal drugs aren't the only areas which have caused some to doubt his ability to effectively serve his constituents. Some of the Governor's hires have further called into question whether he is up to the job of Nebraska's chief executive.
As it turns out, Ricketts' new economic development director who came out of the Walker Administration in Wisconsin - Brenda Hicks-Sorensen - has become embroiled in a scandal in the Badger state. Apparently, Hicks-Sorenson was involved in Wisconsin's decision to award a $500,000 loan to a company that has since defaulted on that loan. It is probably no coincidence that the company involved in the scandal was a significant Walker donor.
What makes this controversy even more disturbing is that Hicks-Sorenson worked in the Walker Administration as vice president at the scandal ridden Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation before being appointed by Ricketts as director of the Nebraska Department of Economic Development. Unfortunately, Walker's economic development policies in Wisconsin have proven to be a failure. Currently, Wisconsin ranks dead last in business start up activity. Moreover, Walker's Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation has handed out millions of dollars in uncollectible loans and tax breaks without requiring the recipients to create any jobs.
Ricketts made another ill considered hire when he appointed Courtney Phillips as CEO of the wasteful and grossly mismanaged Department of Health Human Services. This was another poor decision by the Nebraska Governor since Phillips had previously served as the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals in the Jindal Administration in Louisiana.
Like the Walker Administration, the Jindal Administration is known for it's incompetence and fiscal irresponsibility. The Louisiana Governor financed a big tax cut for the wealthy by cutting spending for the poor and middle class - including an $800 million cut in Medicaid spending. The Louisiana legislature recently closed a $1.6 billion budget deficit with a controversial tax increase on the poor, middle class and small businesses.
Platte County Democratic Party Chair Tom Havelka said it best: "It is too bad the Navigator on the Titanic is dead. Otherwise Ricketts would have hired him. The same goes for the Air Defense Officer from Pearl Harbor. Two of the most inept agencies in State Government today are Wisconsin's Economic Development Council and the Louisiana Department of Health and guess where Pete Ricketts sought to find people to lead? In the Rickets Administration competency will not be tolerated at any level"
Ricketts' hire of officials from Wisconsin and Louisiana tells us what governors he admires and the direction he wants to take Nebraska if he gets a compliant legislature in next year's elections. The independence displayed by Democrats and moderate Republicans in the Unicameral have saved Nebraska from a self inflicted budget meltdown and a dysfunctional state government. We must work hard next year to preserve the independence of the Unicameral. Otherwise, Ricketts and the Radical Right will ruin our state and turn us into Wisconsin and Louisiana. We can't let that happen.
Barack Obama: How Good A President?
One of the common talking points on the right is that Barack Obama is the "worst President in history." (This talking point is rather ironic in light of the fact that many of the people saying it voted for George W. Bush two times.) Just who are the worst Presidents in American history? What made them so bad? How does President Obama's record compare to their records?
Franklin Pierce is widely considered to be one of the worst Presidents because he signed into law the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. This law was highly controversial because it blew up the hard fought Missouri Compromise of 1820 which had barred the introduction of slavery into the territories. Because the Kansas-Nebraska Act made it possible for the southerners to take their slaves into the territories it significantly inflamed an already simmering controversy over slavery.
Pierce's successor - James Buchanan - is also considered to be one of our country's poorest Presidents. Buchanan further inflamed sectional tensions by maneuvering behind the scenes to help create a pro-southern majority in the infamous Dredd Scott case and by relentlessly pandering to the interests of the southern slave holders over the "Bleeding Kansas" debacle. The 15th President sided with a pro-slavery government in Topeka which had clearly stolen the election in which it was "elected." Once the southern states began to leave the union, Buchanan took the position that he lacked the power to stop them and stood idly by while his pro-Confederate War Secretary allowed the Confederates to loot federal military arsenals to arm themselves.
Historians also widely regard Herbert Hoover as one of our worst Presidents. Hoover stood by during the Great Depression and did nothing to aide the unemployed and to shore up the banking system. Instead, Hoover pursued an austerity policy of tax increases and budget cuts to balance the federal budget. Hoover's refusal to intervene to mitigate the worst effects of the Depression was based entirely upon his laissez-faire ideology. He believed it was the responsibility of the private sector and charity - not the federal government - to assist those who were unemployed and suffering.
The U.S. suffered it's most serious economic crisis since the Hoover Administration during the Presidency of George W. Bush. That's one of the reasons why a consensus is emerging that Bush was one of the worst Presidents in U.S. history. Bush inherited a projected 10 year surplus of $5.5 trillion from President Clinton and turned it into a record annual deficit of $1.4 trillion by the time he left office. Moreover, Bush mismanaged two wars and presided over an economic and stock market crash during his last year in office. The economy was in a state of free fall by the time he left the White House.
A significant portion of President Obama's tenure has been consumed with cleaning up the mess he inherited from Bush. Fortunately, the country is now much better off than it was 6.5 years ago thanks to President Obama's leadership.
The economy was losing 800,000 jobs per month in December 2008 and it has since been creating over 200,000 jobs per month over the last 1.5 years. In May alone, the economy created 280,000 jobs. This is the best job growth the U.S has experienced since President Clinton's second term. Obama has created more jobs in his first six and a half years in office than were created by the last two Republican Presidents combined.
George W. Bush also bequeathed to President Obama a health care system in shambles. During his two terms in office, Bush stood idly by and allowed 8 million Americans to lose their health insurance policies. Since the implementation of the ACA in late 2013, 17 million formerly uninsured Americans have gained health insurance coverage. In addition, medical inflation is seeing it's slowest rate of growth since the 1960s.
We've also seen a similar dramatic turn around on the fiscal front. Obama inherited from his predecessor an annual deficit of $1.4 trillion which was 9.8% of GDP. By 2014, the deficit had been reduced by nearly 2/3 to $484 billion or 2.8% of GDP. It is the fastest deficit reduction in U.S. history since the late 1940s.
President Obama's record on spending and taxes stacks up well when compared to his recent predecessors. In Obama's 7th year in office, federal taxes as a share of GDP equal 17.7% and are lower than year seven for Reagan (17.9%), Clinton (19.2%), and Bush43 (17.9%). Obama is projected to spend 20.9% of GDP in 2015 - less than Reagan's 21% in his 7th year.
The bottom line here is that President Obama has an impressive list of domestic accomplishments and has built a successful Presidency. Any allegation that he is the "worst President in history" coming from the right is nonsensical - at best. If a Republican President had compiled this list of accomplishments, the usual suspects on the Right would want to name everything after him and put his face on Mount Rushmore.
It is important that we Democrats message President Obama's impressive record. As Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman said: "Progressives are much too willing to cede history to the other side. Legends about the past matter. Really bad economics flourishes in part because Republicans constantly extol the Reagan record, while Democrats rarely mention how shabby that record was compared with the growth in jobs and incomes under Clinton. The combination of lies, incompetence, and corruption that made the Iraq venture the moral and policy disaster it was should not be allowed to slip into the mists.'..There's a reason conservatives constantly publish books and articles glorifying Harding and Coolidge while sliming FDR; there's a reason they're still running against Jimmy Carter; and there's a reason they're doing their best to rehabilitate W. And progressives need to fight back."
If we are to win the 2016 elections, we Democrats need to run on our accomplishments - as well as talk about our vision for the future. If we don't mention our achievements, voters will believe that our elected officials haven't accomplished anything and will consider voting for the Republicans. We can't count on the media to point out our accomplishments. We have to do it ourselves.
The stakes in next year's elections are very high. We can either continue to make progress in moving our country forward or we can go back to the policies that wrecked the economy in 2008. Are we going to hand over our country once again to the people and policies that crashed our economy before and or are we going to build on the policies that have improved our country? That is the choice next year. Now let's get to work!
Unicameral 2015 - Our Ideas And Values Won
The conventional wisdom in January was that - due to Ricketts' election and GOP gains in the unicameral - right wing Republicans were going to dominate the 2015 legislative session and do to Nebraska what they did to Kansas. However, in that very same month, a well placed source at the Capitol told me that some of the Republicans elected in 2014 were more moderate than expected and we might be in for a pleasant surprise in the Unicameral.
As it turned out, my source was correct and the 2015 legislative session proved to be one of the more remarkable and historic legislative sessions in recent years. Time and again, measures advanced by the conservative wing of the GOP wing were rejected by a coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans. Partisan legislation aimed at further cementing the GOP advantage in Nebraska - like the electoral vote and the voter I.D. bills - were rejected early in the session. Moreover, Governor Ricketts' signature property tax cut measure didn't even advance out of the Revenue Committee.
What made this session especially remarkable was that Progressive changes were enacted into law over the objections of the legislative chamber's most conservative members and the vetoes of Governor Ricketts. It was the triumph of moderate, bi-partisan ideas over rigid ideology.
The first setback for Ricketts and the radical right was the override of the Governor's veto of a gas tax increase that would annually fund $75 million worth of infrastructure repairs and maintenance. This is pro-business and pro-agriculture legislation because small business owners and farmers need good roads. That's why several senators from small towns and rural areas rejected the no new taxes orthodoxy of billionaire front groups like Americans For Prosperity.
Perhaps the most visible victory for the coalition of Democrats and enlightened Republicans was the repeal of the death penalty which was enacted over Ricketts' veto after the Governor put on a full court press to maintain the current law. Nebraska became the first conservative or red state in over 40 years to repeal it's death penalty. It is clearly an historic accomplishment.
The death penalty repeal is a victory for fiscal conservatism. Nebraska taxpayers squander millions of dollars on fruitless litigation every year aimed at the execution of the prisoners on death row. This litigation is wasteful and futile because the State hasn't executed anybody since 1997 and it is doubtful anybody else would ever be executed again if the law is restored.
The session ended with the override of Ricketts' veto of legislation that would authorize drivers licenses for the "Dreamers" – young people brought to this country illegally when they were children. The Governor vetoed this legislation even though it was supported by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce, the Omaha Chamber of Commerce and the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce.
One can explain Ricketts' setbacks in the legislature by his unbending adherence to the orthodoxy of the Tea Party. A highly placed and reliable Republican insider once told me that Ricketts is no moderate and is a "true believer"conservative As Dave Domina aptly said: "Nebraska's new Governor marginalized himself with extreme positions this week. Governing requires consensus forming, not stubbornness."
Ricketts' surprising losses can also be chalked up to just inexperience and simple incompetence. Ricketts and his team have no prior governmental experience. Running a government is entirely different than running a business - it is a different breed of cat altogether.
The new Governor's struggles didn't go unnoticed among members of his own party. The right wing Leavenworth Street blog took several potshots at Ricketts' ineptitude and inexperience. Moreover, the GOP friendly Omaha World Herald reported that: "Several Republicans who have been around the State Capitol for years privately described it as an "embarrassing" start for the governor."
The results from the 2015 session of the Nebraska legislature clearly reflect Democratic values. However, as I've said before, no victory over the radical right is ever final in nature. These people are relentless and never give up.
Already, Ricketts and his band of supporters in the legislature are talking about financing a campaign to put the restoration of the death penalty on the ballot for a vote in 2016. Moreover, sources have been telling me for months that Ricketts plans to invest heavily in the 2016 legislative races in the hopes of creating a Tea Party legislature that would finance tax cuts for the wealthy by cutting education and assistance for the most vulnerable in our state.
My message to you my Democratic friends is to enjoy these victories while you can but be prepared to get back to work no later than the fall to elect more Democrats to the Unicameral in 2016. If we are to avoid the fiscal train wreck that occurred in Kansas, we will all need to work hard for our slate of legislative candidates. The future of our great state depends upon us.
Who Lost Iraq?
In recent days, Ramadi has fallen to ISIS even though the so-called "elite" Iraqi army units defending this city greatly outnumbered the attacking forces. Needless to say, the GOP went into it's tired "full outrage" mode and blamed the recent setbacks and the rise of ISIS on President Obama. The message from the GOP appears to be that the U.S. should have maintained U.S. ground troops in Iraq on an indefinite basis and should even send American ground troops back to that faction ridden country.
What the GOP doesn't tell anybody is that U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq at the end of 2011 due to a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) that then President Bush signed in the closing days of his Administration. This 2008 SOFA required all U.S. troops to pull out of Iraq by the end of 2011.
Republicans continue to argue that somehow President Obama could've convinced the Iraqis to re-negotiate the Bush SOFA to allow the continued presence of a so-called residual force of 10,000 U.S. troops. Once again, the GOP is not telling us the entire truth. The Iraqis would've allowed U.S. troops to stay in Iraq only if we had allowed them to be subject to the jurisdiction of the Iraqi courts. Can you imagine the outrage from the Right if a U.S. soldier was hauled into an Iraqi court?
Even to this day, the Iraqis don't want to see the return of U.S. troops. Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi recently said that: " (F)oreign troops are out of the question....Not only is it not necessary," he said, "We don't want them. We won't allow them. Full stop."
The Republicans are engaged in a furious blame game over Iraq because they don't want the American people to remember how the Iraq war got started and the gross mismanagement of that conflict by then President Bush and a GOP controlled Congress. The reality is that the Iraq war was one of the greatest foreign policy blunders in U.S. history that according to Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz will ultimately cost the U.S. taxpayers $3 trillion.
As we all know, the Bush Administration's case for war was based upon Saddam Hussein's alleged fearsome arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. The GOP would like you to believe that we got into that war due to some kind of honest intelligence mistake or mix up. However, the reality is very different. A bi-partisan Senate Intelligence Committee investigation in 2008 found that: "The (Bush) Administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when in reality it was unsubstantiated, contradicted, or even non-existent."
The Iraq war cheerleaders also doesn't want anybody to recollect the Bush Administration's lack of a realistic plan to stabilize Iraq after the over throw of the Hussein regime and it's overall inept management of that conflict. Despite credible warnings that Iraq would be difficult to govern, the Bush Administration invaded Iraq with an insufficient force and was taken by surprise by the insurgency.
The tragic history of that conflict has taught us that the very idea of invading Iraq was terribly misguided because it risked creating all kinds of unintended consequences. As Daniel Larison of the American Conservative said: " More than decade of conflict in Iraq has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, injured countless more, displaced millions, driven millions more into exile, and has brought about the complete ruination of an entire country. The war empowered sectarians and jihadists, and exposed the country's religious minorities to an unending nightmare of persecution. Only a fanatic could look at the devastation wrought by the Iraq war and its aftermath and conclude that the world is better place because of it."
What we need to do as Democrats going forward is not to let the voters buy into the GOP revisionist history of the Iraq war. The propaganda and talking points of the modern conservative movement depends heavily upon people having poor memories of past events. As Democrats, we need to constantly refresh those memories and constantly remind the voters that the GOP national security legacy is disastrous. A failure to do so could result in the Republicans returning to power in 2016 and a repeat of the disastrous Iraq war. We can't afford to allow that to happen.
Is Jeff Fortenberry A FIscal Conservative?
On May 12, an Amtrak train crashed in Philadelphia killing eight people and injuring over 200. After this tragic accident, a furious blame game broke out in Washington with the Republicans denying responsibility even though they had voted to cut funding for Amtrak for many years before the crash. Instead, the Republicans chose to blame the train's engineer since the train was traveling more than 100 mph around a curve that was supposed to be taken at only 50 mph.
As it turned out, this tragic crash could have been prevented if the Republicans in the Congress had invested in positive train control technology which is designed to automatically slow or stop a train to prevent the kind of accident that occurred in Philadelphia. Robert Sumwalt, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, stated that positive train control was: "not installed for this area where the accident occurred, where the derailment occurred. Based on what we know right now, we feel that had such a system been installed in this section of track, this accident would not have occurred."
The Republicans compounded their penny wise, pound foolish approach the day after the accident when the GOP controlled House Appropriations Committee voted to cut Amtrak funding and other infrastructure investments over the objections of the Democrats on the committee. As a matter of fact, these same Republicans even rejected an amendment to invest in expanded use of positive train control.
One of the Republicans in the majority on the House Appropriations committee who voted down these vital investments in our railroads was Representative Jeff Fortenberry. The Nebraska CD1 Congressman justified his vote on so-called fiscal responsibility concerns. Mr. Fortenberry told the Omaha World Herald that: ""There's a balance between trying to get the fiscal house in order — reduce debt and eliminate deficits — with delivering smart, effective government. And that makes for hard decisions. Let's just be honest about it."
What Fortenberry didn't tell the World Herald or the voters is that he has no qualms about the debt and deficits when he is voting for tax cuts for special interests and the wealthiest Americans. So far this year, Fortenberry has voted to add over $500 billion to the deficit in voting for measures that would benefit big corporations, special interests and the super wealthy.
Earlier this year, the Lincoln Congressman voted to repeal the estate tax. This tax cut would only benefit the top .02% of income earners and would add $269 billion to the deficit. In a recent World Herald article, the Republicans couldn't find one farmer who had to sell even a portion of his farm to pay the estate tax. The Farm Bureau has also admitted that no farms have ever been sold to pay the estate tax.
The estate tax cut repeal which largely benefits wealthy heirs like Paris Hilton isn't the only deficit financed tax cut that Mr. Fortenberry supported in 2015. In February, Fortenberry voted for a series of so-called "tax extenders" which will increase the deficit by $300 billion over the next ten years. These cuts will benefit large corporations and other special interests. Despite his so-called concern about the deficit, Fortenberry and his party bosses passed no spending or revenue offsets.
Congressman Fortenberry likes to tell us that he supposedly cares a lot about the deficit. However, his votes this year for tax cuts for the wealthy and the special interests indicates those cares aren't real. Mr Fortenberry - like many Republicans - is a faux deficit hawk.
Fortenberry's lack of concern about spending and the deficit is shared by many other Republicans in Washington. Every GOP President beginning with Nixon has left behind to his successor a larger deficit than the one he inherited. Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt and George W. Bush doubled it. Eisenhower was the last Republican President to balance the budget back in 1955.
As always, there are two Jeff Fortenberrys. The Nebraska version presents himself as some kind of moderate who is in tune with the interests of his constituents. The D.C. Fortenberry - the real Fortenberry - is an extremist who votes with his party bosses and the special interests who finance his campaigns. Simply stated, Fortenberry isn't working for Nebraska - he is working for the the special interests and the most extreme members of his party. The people of Nebraska CD1 deserve better than Mr. Fortenberry.
If You Want to Live Like a Republican, Vote Democratic
Harry Truman said that: "If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic." Why would Truman say such a thing? Does that hold true today? Those are good questions because the perceived conventional wisdom among many pundits in the mainstream media and the GOP is that Republicans are better for the overall economy than Democrats because they are allegedly more business friendly. However, as in many other instances, the conventional wisdom is wrong. The history of the American economy over the last 54 years demonstrates that the economy performs much better for all Americans when a Democrat occupies the White House.
A 2012 report from Bloomberg News Services shows that between the advent of the Kennedy Administration in January 1961 and April 2012, non-government payrolls in the U.S. increased by almost 42 million jobs under Democratic Presidents, compared with 24 million for Republican presidents, according to Labor Department figures. Bloomberg indicated that between January 1961 and April 2012, Democratic presidents accounted for an average of 150,000 additional private-sector jobs per month over that period, more than double the 71,000 average for Republicans. In other words, almost two-thirds of private-sector job growth in the past five decades occurred when we had Democratic Presidents.
What about the stock market? Has it performed better when we've had Republican Presidents since the Republicans promote themselves as the friendliest party for Wall Street? The answer to that question is a flat no. Many people will probably be surprised to find out that stock investors do much better when Democrats occupy the White House. From a dollars- and-cents standpoint, it's not even close.
Another 2012 survey by Bloomberg News service indicates that between January 1961 and February 2012, $1,000 invested in a hypothetical fund that tracks the Standard & Poor's 500 Index (SPX) only when Democrats are in the White House would have been worth $10,920 by early 2012. A $1,000 stake invested in a fund that followed the S&P 500 under Republican presidents, starting with Richard Nixon, would have grown to $2,087 on the day George W. Bush left office.
These positive economic trends that occur during Democratic Presidencies have continued since Bloomberg issued these reports in 2012. In 2013, the economy created 183,000 jobs per month. That job growth accelerated in 2014 when the economy created 224,000 jobs per month - which was the best year for jobs gain since 1999. That robust jobs growth has continued into 2015. Thus far, the economy has created 200,000 jobs per month this year.
The accelerating growth in jobs since 2012 has been paralleled by the rise in the Dow Jones. On February 1, 2012, the Dow Jones closed at 12,716. By May 8, 2015, the Dow Jones had grown to 18,191 - an increase of nearly 50%.
Another way to compare the economic records of the two parties is simply to look at the job creation records of the last four Presidents. They are as follows: Barack Obama - 7,400,000; George W. Bush – 1,282,000; Bill Clinton – 22,647,000; and George H.W. Bush – 2,637,000. In other words, you will need 4 Bushes to match the job creation record of President Obama and 10 Bushes to match Clinton.
What this means is that all of the silly predictions by the Republicans of economic doom and gloom have been wildly off the mark. Lest we forget, in 2010, John Boehner predicted that President Obama's policies would cause "Armageddon" and "ruin our country." When he announced for the U.S. Senate in 2013, Ben Sasse prognosticated that the ACA would cause America to "cease to exist." It is incredible that the press still takes the Republicans seriously on the economy.
The Republicans have continued to complain about the economy and have disparaged the recovery that they predicted would never happen. The latest from the GOP is their lament that President Obama's policies have allegedly increased inequality and only assisted the top 1%. As Bert Harris - one of my loyal readers - said: "My favorite is the right's new focus on income inequality. Cut taxes for the super rich, fight against unions and minimum wage increases, eliminate programs that help low and middle income families,and then lament the growing income inequality that results from these policies. It's like clear cutting the forest and then complaining about the lack of trees. No shame. "
The Republicans running for President are all promising to bring back the failed policies of the Bush Administration that produced the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover and crashed the economy in 2008. Marco Rubio has proposed a huge tax cut that would largely eliminate taxes for the super wealthy and increase the deficit by $2.4 trillion. Jeb Bush has said that he: "Never disagreed with his brother and he's not going to start now." As Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker cut taxes for the wealthy and has left his state with a record $2 billion deficit.
The choice next year will be between the middle class economic strategy of the Democratic Presidents or the trickle down economics of the Republican Presidents. If you look at the evidence, the choice is clear. As Democrats, we need to tell the voters again and again about our economic successes and how they match up against the Republicans. Once we get that message out, I'm confident that we will win in 2016.


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Topeka, KAN. (WIBW)--Topeka police are investigating a drive-by shooting that occurred in the Highland Park area Sunday night.
They responded around 8:40 after multiple calls from neighbors claiming they heard gun shots in the area. Once on scene, were told police found a lot of bullet holes in a town home in the 2300 block of S.E. Bellview.
Crime scene investigators were on scene searching for clues as there appears to be no victims from the incident.
Gunfire was also reported in the Chesney Park area around 8:20 Sunday night. Officers found a few shell casings at the intersection of S.W. 19th and Clay. A fight reportedly occurred there a short time earlier that resulted in a man suffering head injuries.
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I have been trying to avoid all the gun craziness but in a moment of weakness...
Remington 870 XCS MAR MG 12 18 CYL BLK for Sale at Buds Gun Shop $739.00
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I have been trying to avoid all the gun craziness but in a moment of weakness...
Remington 870 XCS MAR MG 12 18 CYL BLK for Sale at Buds Gun Shop $739.00
That's nice man. I like the "speed feed" stock.
Excellent choice !!!
The best home defense tool, in my opinion.
You can't go wrong with an 870...ever.
Seems a little pricey, but I could be way off base considering I havn't been paying much attention to shotguns for a while now.
Other than that, Remington 870's are excellent shotguns, no doubt about that.
I too question the price tag, and I'm not a huge fan of the speed feed stocks, but an 870 no matter how its dressed is a nice partner to have.
I would say HECK NO! That is way to much money. I just bought a mossy 500 home defense for like 220$ . I also priced 870s at around the same.
Saw one the other day here in Northern KY for $275. I will admit it was just a standard tactical with the synthetic stock and 18" barrel. It didn't have all the bells and whistles that one does but still...that's a big price jump.
That is one nice 870, especially with the corrosion resistant finish. Paying almost 800 dollars for a pump shotgun would be hard for me to do though.
You didn't do all that bad on price, the Marine Magnums are not the same guns as the Express line, they are built along side the Police Magnum's and Wingmaster's, much better quality.
I guess the price isnt all that bad considering what it is. OD is right though, you cant really compare the express or the Mossbergs to the higher end 870 models. They are in two different leagues.
I just rebuilt and painted mine for under $300. Sorry for the crappy picture, I'll try to take a better one when I get time.


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I was looking for something as described "perfect for a winter warm up" as we just had a foot of snow dumped on us. This was just what I needed. The only change I made was that I don't like the flavored syrups as they're huge in sugar, so I used pumpkin pie spice (which is essentially the same as gingerbread flavor) I had in the cupboard. I mixed it in with my frothed milk, made the rest of my latte as prescribed and wallah, one deLICIOUS Latte! Thank you Sue for this lovely drink on such a cold and blizzardy (?!) mornin'! LA


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For the second consecutive year, the Skyline volleyball team pulled off the HOPL double— winning the league regular season going undefeated, then also taking the end-of-season league tournament.
It couldn't have gone much better for the Lady Thunderbirds Saturday at Norwich as they plowed their way through the HOPL tournament flawlessly, winning 6 matches in just 12 sets to capture the championship.
"We had a great day! This was by far the best we've played all season," observed T-Bird head coach Summer Younie. "We played aggressive the entire day. We attacked the ball well and played great defense."
Scores from the matches were as follows: 26-24, 25-13 over Attica; 25-9, 25-13 over Stafford; 25-19, 25-8 over Attica again; 25-12, 25-10 over Cunningham; 25-8, 25-12 over Pretty Prairie; 25-10, 25-12 over Burrton.
It is apparent from the scores that Skyline was in control the entire tournament. The Thunderbirds' front line was dominant, with 3 players each collecting over 30 kills on the day: Taylor DeWeese had 33, Kaitlyn Stark 31 and Alyssa Swonger 30. Janessa Davis chipped in 24 kills.
Serving was also a strength for Skyline in the tournament: Stark had 12 aces, DeWeese and Shelby Bender each had 8. Mycha Owens and Kamryn Stark each added 6 aces.
"I couldn't be more proud of how the girls played," concluded Coach Younie.
Next up for the Lady T-Birds is senior night on Tuesday October 22 as they host a triangular with Macksville and Word of Life. Skyline will also host a 2A sub-state next Saturday October 26.
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Hermes Un Jardin sur le Nil
167 reviews
71% would repurchase
Package Quality: 4.2
Price: $$$$
Package Quality: 4.2
Price: $$$$
on 10/8/2015 10:04:00 AM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
I absolutely adore the lemon in this fragrance. Sweet but fresh. A definite must for hot, summer days. Stays longer too than other citrus colognes. I will always have this in my collection.
on 8/9/2015 7:06:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Cool
Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Blue
I don't know why but this smells absolutely horrid on me - my mom described it as cat pee. Just another reminder to always test a scent before buying!
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on 5/1/2015 10:12:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Hazel
I've always been one to collect perfume and although I have a few tried and true favorites, I love discovering new ones.
My mom bought me this one as a gift and it was definitely love at first scent.
It is light, breezy and fruity. A summery, beachy smell that makes me happy. It's isn't cloyingly sweet, lasts long subtle and pretty. I will be buying it again when I run out and I love that it isn't a scent that many have discovered.
on 7/14/2014 3:45:00 AM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Warm
Hair: Blond, Other, Fine
Eyes: Blue
The top notes are a gorgeous mango enriched with bright citrus and soft lotus floral in the background. The drydown is honeyed, balmy, a little waxy. The whole thing is dreamy, beautifully done and I can tell its expensive, as its complex and well rounded. However, the drydown is a but is a bit to cloying/amberish for me - what a shame! Lasting power is average, around 4 - 5 hours on me. If you want a longer lasting one from the series try Un Jardin sur le Toit, that lasted me all day.
on 5/8/2014 12:44:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
I absolutely love this perfume. I do not have a sophisticated nose and I have no idea about the base notes but I love how it smells both in the air and on my skin. Minus one lippy because it doesn't last much more than half a day so I have used my bottle so quickly! Still worth it for me because I am very fussy with perfumes and absolutely hate anything vanilla or especially 'girly' smelling.
on 4/28/2014 3:55:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Dry, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Hazel
I'll start off by saying, this perfume doesn't last long on my skin (maybe 3 hrs., tops) and it's extremely expensive, which is disappointing. It's very green, grassy and crisp. I didn't get the tanginess that's mentioned in the description, but that's ok. I also don't get a clean smell either. To me, clean means soapy. This is far from soapy. It's very fresh, like freshly cut grass. If you don't like sweet or floral perfumes, this would be perfect for you. I like them all.
Update 5/5/14: I had to take off another lippy. I'm just so frustrated this doesn't last longer. Also, since the temperature has gotten hotter outside, the dry down has become off-putting. I had my co-worker wear it for a day to see if it was just me, and the exact same thing happened to her...it dissipated so much, and the grassiness started to smell like bug spray. Grrrr...I'd really like to take it back to Sephora and get something else.
on 9/24/2013 11:16:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
This perfume was really exciting for me because I was able to smell some of the wonderful notes that people here talked about (even better on the second application), and it was a scent that really did change and evolve over the course of the day. It was also very different from anything else I have tried at this time.
It had the pleasant green fruit, grapefruit, and mild citrus aroma right at the beginning, but that mostly faded with drydown. I was in the car for drydown the first time I wore it and while I was enjoying the smell, I kept noticing a different (but still very pleasant) perfume smell and wondering if I somehow smelled it from someone else in another car! Of course it was me. This scent morphs into a pleasant powder scent on me and remains there for most of the duration. This is probably the same as the clean, soapy, or fresh shower smell that others noticed. The other notes only peek out now and then after the drydown until it is almost gone, and then the powder scent becomes less noticeable. I'm not sharp enough or familiar enough with perfumes to describe the last faint scents it gives up. I wish it lasted a bit longer. I had two applications to get through the full day.
on 7/31/2013 12:36:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Other, Olive, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
This is a fragrance you have to really try on and wait for the dry down. If you just spritz on tester paper or just do an air spray and judge, you will have the impression that it is just very green and citrusy. Actually, this perfume was in the men's section of the Duty Free when I traveled to Europe, so you get the idea. I don't really smell the fruity bit like some mentioned, and I know some find this just citrusy and green. And that was the impression I got as well. But as I waited 3 hours in the airport for my next flight, when I smelled the drydown, my god, it was sexy. I don't know how to describe it. It doesn't smell fruity on me, but a fresh woodsy, sexy scent - a more masculine version of Victoria's Secret Romance, which I loved, without too much spice, but feminine softness. Agad. It smells so good on me. I would maybe try the tester bit before purchase cause it is expensive- I think 81 euro for the 100 ml (at the duty free). Unfortunately, the scent doesn't last very long. Maybe 2 -3 hours. And the spray cap leaks a bit when sprayed. Really annoying.
on 5/3/2013 1:59:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm
Hair: Black, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Blue
Got this as a free sample with an order i purchased online. Its a fresh, zingy citrus sort of smell, sits nicely on my skin. I only wish the smell would last longer!
on 5/1/2013 5:06:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
As with other Jean-Claude Ellena scents so far, this grows on me with each wearing. This one has the good aspects of fruit notes--fresh, juicy, tasty, summery--without the bad ones (cloying, over-ripe). And a definite thumbs-up for the spicy wood/frankincense base. I'm considering getting more.
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Sys Admins are superheroes of the IT infrastructure of an organization. These are the professionals who design systems that work, monitor and maintain IT infrastructures for performance, gather and assess information to identify and fix potential issues, as well as detect and manage security concerns. The list is almost endless. As jacks of all trades, they do a little bit of everything and end up contributing a lot to everything.
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Billed as the most important gathering of IT leaders, telco operators, cloud administrators, app developers, and OpenStack contributors focused on the future of cloud computing, OpenStack Summit Austin hosted over 7,800 attendees this year. Clearly enjoying what Gartner calls the slope of enlightenment, does this year's record-setting attendance signal mainstream adoption for OpenStack? And if so, what do enterprises need to accelerate their adoption? Let's examine some key findings.Read more
Storage service design is a popular topic around NetApp IT these days because of the huge impact it has had on our IT operations. We've written a series of blogs on our three-tier service catalog, which offers storage as a service that is predictive and easily consumable. We use a data-driven model that looks at performance and capacity together to identify, manage, and deliver the appropriate level of storage service.Read more
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A half century from Jerome Roith helped Casual Nomads beat Thespian Thunders by 74 runs.
Roith (54) and captain Richard Ferrer (44) were the mainstays of the Nomads innings which ended on 171.
The father and son team of Andy (3-12) and Nick Landesberg (3-20) kept TT on the back foot as they were dismissed for 91.
Ferrer said: "We looked 30 runs light at tea but some fabulous bowling - particularly from Andy Landesberg (3-12) and his son Nick who took five between them - saw us home with plenty to spare."
Belmont & Edgware were beaten by one run in a nail-biter against Wycombe House.
With a number of key players missing for BECC, a team containing three members of the GB Junior Maccabiah team took to the field.
Jonny Feigenbaum and Stuart Davis opened the bowling as they have done many times in the past. he bowling was tight and runs hard to obtain.
Due to a minor injury, Jon Evans was brought into the attack early and once stand-in keeper Michael Blasebalk stood up to the wicket runs dried up and the first wicket fell.
Israel have dropped all-rounder Isaac Massil for the European Championships Division Three clash against Spain.
A stalwart of the national team, who won bronze at the Maccabiah Games last month, Massil has been omitted to give opportunities to younger players.
Captain and coached by Herschel Gutman, Israel have named their youngest-ever squad. All-rounder Gabi Schachat, player of the tournament at last year's ECC Under 17 Championships, as well as Maccabiah starlet Nir Dokarker have been included in the senior squad for the first time.
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Occupation: Retailer
Team supported: Yorkshire
Role: Bowler
Nickname: Ziffy
Previous clubs: Casual Nomads and New Rover, Leeds
Status: Married to Debby with three boys — Sam, Henry, Alex
Likes: Leeds United, commitment, passion and determination, visiting Israel
Dislikes: Arsenal, Chelsea, laziness and untidiness
Cricket hero: Fred Trueman
Favourite ground: to play: Headingley, to watch: Lords
Favourite kosher restaurant: Reubens
Salford will meet South Manchester Maccabi in the NJCL Twenty20 final after the teams came through their semi-finals in contrasting style.
Salford overcame Manchester Maccabi by 25 runs. The team's depleted ranks were bolstered by some newly transferred faces from Sedgley and after winning the toss, captain Daniel Paul elected to bat on a dry, flat looking pitch.
Defending champions MAL picked up maximum points after claiming an easy win over Chigwell.
With bonus points almost as crucial as a win in this Maccabi Sunday League clash, Chigwell won the toss and elected to bat.
Given the amount of rain during the week it was no surprise that the outfield felt heavy, but the pitch was dry and hard.
Yoav Lebens and Tony Wise bowled well with the new ball, picking up two wickets each within the first nine overs, to leave Chigwell 28-4 and struggling.
A good all-round display from Jon Evans was not enough as Belmont & Edgware were defeated by 40 runs in their latest Middlesex Sunday League clash.
Evans claimed 4-29 with the ball as Bharat Olympians posted 194-8. Having won the toss, the Olympians were initially restricted by Maccabiah bowler Saul Weitzman and Gideon Restan (1-16).
The brakes were kept on when Wienburg (1-24) and Neil Myeroff took over. At 66-2 off 20 overs, it looked like Belmont were definitely in the driving seat.
A young London Maccabi Vale 2nd team put in a determined display as they were beaten by 70 runs against Middlesex Sunday League Division Three leaders SKLP
With seven teenagers in the team, six of them under 15, this was always going to be a challenge against the top-of-the-table side.
Winning the toss for a the 10th time in 11 attempts this season, LMV elected to field first.
Sunday saw a 10th win in 12 matches for MAL, as they took on GWR Trailfinders in a friendly in West Ealing.
Having been inserted, on a good-looking track and with the weather set fair, MAL looked to set a good total.
At the end of the 11th over with the score on 70-1, with Matt Shorts and Mark Landau going well, a total of upwards of 250 looked on the cards.
Both fell in quick succession, for 37 and 20, to leave MAL at 75-3. Jamie Breslaw and Yitzi Hill stabilised things with an enterprising stand of 53 in 11 overs before Hill was stumped for 22.
South Manchester stormed into the semi-finals of the NJCL Twenty20 with a 168-run victory over an eight-man Bury & Whitefield.
The big-hitting Akiva Lieberman took eight balls to reach his retirement figure of 30, while Maccabiah rugby silver medalist Mike Filson took nine balls. South smashed 71 runs from the five powerplay overs.
Bury did well to restrict them to 192 as it looked like 250 was on the cards.
In reply, Bury notched up the required 10 runs an over of the first over but were eventually were bowled out for 34. Only Zevi Saunders (13) reached double figures.