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The problem with the legislation is that 1) it will cost a lot of money to enforce (what government program doesn't?) 2)Anyone that thinks it will keep guns away from idiots is living in another world. 3) The stricter the gun control laws in an area, the more gun violence there is (e.g. Chicago and Washington, DC). It will do the opposite that that the law is supposed to do.
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For decades I've been hearing the mantra from the NRA: "Gun's
don't kill people, people do". The logical conclusion, if one accepts
this theory, is that we should do more to keep guns out of the hands of the
wrong people. This proposal seeks to keep guns out of the hands of the wrong
people. I would think that the NRA and its supporters would jump at the chance
to actually do something to show that they want to reduce gun deaths.
The opposition to the idea of expanded background checks confirms for me the obvious: The NRA and its supporters have no desire to reduce the number of gun deaths in this country. Selling guns and ammunition is their bread and butter, and they really don't care how many people die.
- 6:20 a.m. April 15, 2013
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Universal Background Checks may not entirely remove the threat, but it will
reduce the threat and that is a good thing. For example, in states where
universal background checks are mandatory, women are 38% less likely to be
murdered by an abusive husband. Not 38% less likely to be murdered by a gun,
but simply 38% less likely to be murdered.
No gun law anywhere can stop violence or murder, but background checks do help. As a gun owner I cannot see any logical argument which would explain why background checks are bad.
- 6:42 a.m. April 15, 2013
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@JSB, in the area where I live, elementary schools that require school uniforms are much more likely to have low standardized test scores than elementary schools that don't require uniforms. Merits of school uniforms aside, that correlation doesn't imply that the uniforms are responsible for the students' test performance. For similar reasons, it would be foolish to assume that because there is a correlation between gun violence and gun control laws, somehow the gun control laws would be responsible for the gun violence. Like the school uniforms, gun control laws are generally an attempt to address an existing problem. Whether they work or not is a different question--and one we'll have a hard time answering given current constraints placed on the Centers for Disease Control.
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Can anyone explain to me what is wrong with background checks? Why do republicans oppose background checks so much? If we have background checks are they worried they won't be able to buy guns anymore?
- 7:23 a.m. April 15, 2013
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I can explain why Republicans are opposed to background checks on gun purchases. It is very simple. The NRA wants to do all it can to sell guns. The NRA is funded and supported primarily by gun manufacturing companies. The NRA is a bully when it comes to any legislation that could slow gun sales. Using their bullying tactics, they frame their arguments around protecting the Second Amendment. The NRA has saturated America with the unfounded fear of criminals and, in the process, has saturated America with guns. As more and more guns are sold in the U.S. the more likely they will end up in the hands of a "nutcake" who decides to kill people. When this happens, the NRA quickly states the problem can be solved with more guns. Selling guns is the NRA's goal and any legislation that slows that is opposed. It is a shame that Utah's Senators and Congressman are so gullible.
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More than 90% of Americans support background checks for all purchases or
transfers of guns. Currently, there are no background checks for 40% of such
transactions. These occur in private sells, at gun shows and over the Internet.
A little over a week ago, a felon just released from prison killed his grandparents that night. Then Michael "Chadd" Boysen located gun shows in the Northwest on the Internet. Law enforcement took him into custody before he could reach a show and buy a gun. (The Boysen family is LDS, so some readers may have heard about this example of why we need background checks for all gun sales.)
The research shows that states with background checks, such as Pennsylvania, don't allow felons and the mentally ill with violent inclinations to buy guns. There is no evidence that any gun control laws cause higher rates of gun violence.
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If there are 300M guns in America's private hands, that means there are a lot of guns and people that have multiple guns. Registration is done not with background checks and if there were 15,000 violations in the past year and only 44 were pursued, that is not going to improve by having a new law. We have seen that many inspectors in the various OSHA, EPA, FBI, state and local authorities have hasn't stopped the problems in those areas of responsibility. Individuals have rights and if government gets too overpowered with laws that can be used in different applications, it can be a dangerous place to live, with laws and not a lack of laws. Government isn't to be the end all of our existence. They are there for the safety and welfare of society not to govern everything you do. How many times you turn on water, flush the toilet, each unhealthy snacks, drink too much soda by the size of one drink and not how many 12 ounce cans you drink, etc. We know smoking is unhealthy along with drugs and alcohol but those are still allowed. People make money on guns, training and ranges.
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The main reason the NRA and many others are opposed is that we are very worried about a federal database with names of all gun owners. Confiscation will be the inevitable result. I don't want my name on a federal registry which will be there as long as I live.
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Who's going to do the background checks?
ATF? How much will the (worthless)background checks cost us? I assume this is the SAME ATF that watched assault rifles be taken to Mexico for drug lords? Do we REALLY trust the ATF to keep our personal information confidential?
How much "mental illness" can I have before I lose my 2nd amendment rights? Aren't my medical files/diagnosis supposed to be confidential?
Even if (a big if) the Senate passes background checks, the House for sure won't go along.
The sooner the whole gun control debate stops, the sooner people will QUIT buying all the guns and ammo they can get their hands on.
Isn't that what the gun control crowd wants?
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1 has the unique argument of the day - stop any and every attempt to regulate gun sales and ownership, and that will cause people to stop wanting to buy them. Has this little anti-marketing ploy actually worked for anything else? What could we try it with? Somehing that doesn't kill or wound people, perhaps?
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"The main reason the NRA and many others are opposed is that we are very
worried about a federal database with names of all gun owners. Confiscation will
be the inevitable result."
This argument is made a lot, but there's a huge gap between registering weapons and confiscation, based on a number of large assumptions that are anything but clear. Can anyone explain all of the "inevitable" steps that lead to confiscation?
"I don't want my name on a federal registry which will be there as long as I live."
Do you pay federal taxes? Have a SSN? Own a passport? Ever served in the military? Ever been fingerprinted by federal law enforcement? Registered with the Selective Service? A 'yes' answer to any one of these questions means that ship has sailed.
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@The Skeptical Chymist
Before we has all these gun laws, and background checks,
everyone had guns,
children even took them to school,
and they did not have all these problems,
So clearly, to any reasonable person, it is the person.
We need more education in morals, values, and principles, more help for those with mental problems,
not more laws and regulations that only hurt the good guys.
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There's a pattern here. In a close vote,-the liberals will get their way.
- 9:56 p.m. April 15, 2013
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Res Novae,
If you don't think background checks will lead to a registry of gun owners, oyu are incredibly naive.
- 10:15 a.m. April 16, 2013
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Will some one please explain to me why in other countries where there are fewer guns there is less gun violence and why is that bad?
- 10:04 p.m. April 16, 2013
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"If you don't think background checks will lead to a registry of gun
owners, you are incredibly naive."
We have had background checks for many years now for gun sales by licensed gun dealers.
Has there been a "registry of gun owners" from those checks?
There are lots of things that are possible that will never happen.
I think it is naive to think that Americans would collectively allow guns to ever be confiscated.
I give the American people much more credit than that.
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About two weeks ago, we came four votes away from the United States Senate giving our Constitutional rights over to the United Nations. In a 53-46 vote, the senate narrowly passed a measure that will stop the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.
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I'd love the part about a concealed carry permit being acceptable in all 50 states.
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It'll move in at least one of the following sections: cleavage/all-girl/older women.
This entry strictly confines itself to the Big Boob Bangaroo formula. The performers uniformly sport the requisite double D cups, and some of them are darn hot. It should be noted, though, that the cast does vary quite a bit in age, often leaning towards middle age.
There are four 20-minute (or so) segments of one-on-one with an emphasis on double-headed dildos and latent labia-licking. It's pretty tame stuff with a definitive lack of lesbian lust. Oddly, the boobs are largely neglected during the endless foreplay. The Kayla Cam/Kami Andrews hot tub scene saves this lazy effort from forgettable filler status.


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The Original Names Of 10 Huge Hollywood Movies
Tom Cruise's new movie "Edge of Tomorrow" is out in theaters now; however, it was almost called "All You Need is Kill."
The sci-fi film is based on a novella of the same name by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.
Warner Bros. decided to change the name partly because of negative buzz around the word "kill" in the title.
It's not the only big movie that has undergone a name change.
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Reichert's ANWR Vote
On Monday, U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert voted for drilling in ANWR. But he was one of about 25 House Rs who helped kill ANWR drilling in the House Budget Bill just last month. Paper trails like this oughta haunt Reichert now.
To quote Goldy over at HorsesAss, what's Reichert going to tell his constituents: "I voted against drilling in ANWR before I voted for it." ?


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Jake Berry
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James Jacob Gilchrist Berry[1] (born 29 December 1978) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rossendale and Darwen, having won the seat at the 2010 UK General Election, defeating the sitting Labour Party MP Janet Anderson by a majority of 4,493 votes.[2][3]
Personal life[edit]
Berry was born in Liverpool and educated at Liverpool College before studying for a Law degree at Sheffield University.[1] He trained at Chester College and in the City of London before becoming a solicitor in 2003.[1][4] He worked for a number of legal practices,[1] specialising in housing and development law.[4] He married Charlotte Alexa in 2009[1] and currently lives in Helmshore, Rossendale.[5]
Parliamentary career[edit]
Berry was elected in the 2010 General Election as MP for Rossendale and Darwen. He won against incumbent MP Janet Anderson, who held the position for eighteen years, in an 8.9% swing to the Conservatives. Berry overturned a Labour majority of 3,616 to win by 4,493 votes.[3][6]
In 2010, he was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Grant Shapps, the Minister for Housing and Local Government at the Department of Communities and Local Government, following Shapps to the Cabinet Office in 2012.[3][4]
In April 2013, the Prime Minister asked Berry to join the Number 10 Policy Unit,[7] headed by Jo Johnson. His roles in this position include advising the Prime Minister on housing, regional growth and local government. He is also the Prime Minister's spokesperson for the north-west.[citation needed]
Having grown his moustache for the Movember charity appeal in November 2013, Berry claimed he had been compared to the television detective Magnum, and an 1970s porn star.[8] Berry sponsored legislation, the Local Government (Religious etc. Observances) Bill, which gave councils the right to hold religious prayers at the start of meetings.[9]
In the 2015 general election, Berry was returned as MP for Rossendale and Darwen, with an increased majority of 5,654[10]
- ^ a b c d e f Berry, James Jacob Gilchrist, (Jake)', Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011 ; online edn, Nov 2011 accessed 30 November 2012
- ^ Jake Berry MP, Westminster Parliamentary Record. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ^ a b c Jake Berry, www.parliament.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ^ a b c Jake Berry, Conservative Party website. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ^ "Statement of Persons Nominated". Rossendale Borough Council. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
- ^ "Conservative gains in Lancashire". BBC News. 7 May 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2010.
- ^ Winnett, Robert (24 April 2013). "David Cameron recruits Boris's brother for Number 10". The Daily Telegraph (London).
- ^ "Movember MP Jake Berry 'looks like 1970s porn star'". BBC. 28 November 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- ^ "Local Government (Religious etc. Observances) Bill 2014–15". UK Parliament. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- ^ http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/darwen/12938480.Jake_Berry_retains_Rossendale_and_Darwen_seat_for_Conservatives/?ref=rss
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This confuses Mac Vim's scrollbar, and I quite don't like these tildes.
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As jamessan said, you can't disable them. The scrolling behavior isn't specific to MacVim, either — it works the same way in the terminal and in gvim:
Instead of seeing this as a problem, what you should do is learn to see this as part of Vim's flexibility. For example, you can use the zt command to scroll the current line to the top of the screen, regardless of where in the file it is. This can make it easier to write macros that do some work and then scroll back to where you were. The commands <C-E> and <C-Y> are made simpler because of this, as is the
If you must, retrain your brain to think of Vim's scrollbar as mapping to which line is on top, instead of which screenful is visible.
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You can't disable them, but you can change your colorscheme such that the NonText highlight group is colored the same as the Normal highlight group. However, this affects more than just the end of document tildes.
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The following were among the most active stocks in the Turkish market. Symbols are in parentheses.
Emlak Konut Gayrimenkul Yatirim Ortakligi AS (EKGYO TI), the state-run property developer that began trading on the exchange yesterday rose 24 kurus, or 12.6 percent, to 2.14 liras. The exchange said today it will include Emlak Konut on the National 100, National 50 and National 30 indexes from Dec. 9. The shares were the most traded on the exchange for the second straight day.
Sinpas Gayrimenkul Yatirim Ortakligi AS (SNGYO TI), a real estate developer, rose 4.7 percent, or 10 kurus, to 2.25 liras . The stock was upgraded to "overweight" from "neutral" at HSBC Holdings Plc citing a "turnaround in a weak performance throughout 2010 with the help of new in-house financing schemes" in an e-mailed report today. HSBC raised its price estimate for Sinpas to 3 liras from 2.08 liras.


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Hill conservatives have rejected all 3 climate-saving strategies, an approach that would doom your children and grandchildren and the next 50 generations to untold (and purely preventable) misery. Absent a positive message, all conservatives can do is try to scare the public with lies about how climate action is somehow unaffordable (see "MIT Professor tells GOP to stop 'misrepresenting' his work and inflating the cost to families of cap-and-trade by a factor of 10").
Progressives know the reverse is true — or should (see "Why even strong climate action has such a low total cost — one tenth of a penny on the dollar"). Raising the cost of carbon pollution is an essential strategy for averting the incalculable economic and human harm from global warming impacts. So it is especially disheartening to see so many Senate Democrats endorse the GOP's polluter-appeasing message, as guest blogger Brad Johnson explains in this post first published at Wonk Room.
Ever since President Obama introduced a budget that included his cap-and-trade plan to invest in a green economy and make work pay instead of pollution, conservatives have falsely attacked it as a $3100 light-switch tax, despite their lack of an alternative plan. On Tuesday, the Senate bowed to the barrage of propaganda and passed two amendments to the budget that imply any move to clean energy is a risky tax on consumers. On Wednesday, the Senate explicitly preserved the filibuster for green economy legislation (67-31 vote), even if "the Senate finds that public health, the economy and national security of the United States are jeopardized by inaction on global warming" (42-56):
Amendment No. 749, introduced by Sen. Boxer (D-CA): Requires that green economy legislation does not "increase electricity or gasoline prices or increase the overall energy burden on consumers, through the use of revenues and policies provided in such legislation."
Passed 54-43; Bingaman (D-NM) and Byrd (D-WV) joined every Republican in voting against; Gillibrand (D-NY) and Kennedy (D-MA) not voting.
Amendment No. 731, Sen. Thune (R-SD): Requires that green economy legislation does not "increase electricity or gasoline prices."
Passed 89-8: Bingaman, Cardin (D-MD), Corker (R-TN), Durbin (D-IL), Feinstein (D-CA), Menendez (D-NJ), Udall (D-NM) and Whitehouse (D-RI) voted against, Gillibrand and Kennedy not voting.
Amendment No. 869, Sens. Whitehouse (D-RI) and Boxer: Allows non-filibusterable budget reconciliation for green economy legislation, if "the Senate finds that public health, the economy and national security of the United States are jeopardized by inaction on global warming."
Rejected 42-56: Begich (D-AK), Byrd, Cantwell (D-WA), Dorgan (D-ND), Feingold (D-WI), Hagan (D-NC), Landrieu (D-LA), Levin (D-MI), Lincoln (D-AR), McCaskill (D-MO), Murray (D-WA), Nelson (D-NE), Rockefeller (D-WV), Stabenow (D-MI), Webb (D-VA) joined every Republican in voting against, Kennedy not voting.
Amendment No. 735, Sen. Johanns (R-NE): Prohibits the use of reconciliation in the Senate for green economy legislation.
Passed 67-31: Baucus (D-MT), Bayh (D-IN), Begich, Bennet (D-CO), Bingaman, Byrd, Cantwell, Casey (D-PA), Conrad (D-ND), Dorgan, Feingold, Hagan, Klobuchar (D-MN), Kohl (D-WI), Landrieu, Levin, Lincoln, McCaskill, Murray, Nelson, Pryor (D-AR), Rockefeller (D-WV), Stabenow, Tester (D-MT), Warner (D-VA), Webb joined every Republican in voting for, Kennedy not voting.
The budget language affected by these amendments calls for green economy legislation that "would invest in clean energy technology initiatives, decrease greenhouse gas emissions, or help families, workers, communities, and businesses make the transition to a clean energy economy."
Of course that legislation will affect electricity and gasoline prices in some way — any plan to end our pollution Ponzi scheme will. There's no way to write energy legislation that guarantees prices don't go up, just as there's no way to write legislation that guarantees prices don't go down. However, thanks to President Bush, we do know what happens without clean energy policies — electricity and gasoline prices skyrocket, polluters profit, pollution rises, and the economy tanks. And we also know that the sun, the wind, and efficiency are free. Conservatives want to maintain the Bush-Cheney policy of letting oil and coal companies write our laws, demolish our economy, and ruin our planet. Unfortunately, it seems there are few in the Senate who are able or willing to stand up against them.
We need a plan for a green economy, not political gimmicks without answers.
Update: Matt Yglesias comments on the filibuster votes:
This is good for Republicans, since it helps them achieve their goal of destroying the planet. And it's good for Democrats, since it helps them achieve their goal of pretending to try to avoid the destruction of the planet while ensuring that, in practice, the planet is destroyed. And Senators Johanns was born in 1950, so he'll almost surely be dead by 2050 (along with countless residents of flood-prone areas of the developing world) so it's basically all good.
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I'm forced to wonder, given the obvious lack of backbones, if our senators are actually not human and are exercising terraforming to change the planet's climate more to their species liking.
What is the way forward when the Senate takes such deeply cowardly and immoral actions. The level of pandering and refusal to seriously engage with the major challenges of the present and future is breathtaking and horrifying at the same time.
This is why the low priority the polls show about warming is important. Very, very few legislators are going to vote for higher energy prices if their voters don't see it as something critical.
I think were soon at a stage for marshal law here. After all, this is a major national disaster.
First of all, I agree that the assertion that green policies are economically damaging is false.
But even if electricity prices were increased by green economy legislation, that does not imply higher electricity BILLS for customers. This is a fact that is admittedly difficult to come to grips with at first.
Statistically, higher electricity bills, on a state-by-state basis, are correlated with lower electricity consumption, but not higher electricity bills. Why?
If you have a second, please take a look at these charts I put together last week (I've never linked to anything in a CP comment, hope this works!)
Price of residential electricity vs. annual residential consumption per capita in 2007: http://i42.tinypic.com/2r2pzwo.jpg
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The first chart supports the logical assumption that higher electricity bills lead to lower rates of consumption. There are some aberrations to be sure, but the trend is clear.
The second chart shows that as electricity prices increase, electricity bills as a % of income are not statistically impacted in either direction. Bills hover between 1% and 2% of income, regardless of the price, and the trend line is almost exactly flat.
Progressive energy efficiency standards, as Joe has written about many times, reduce the demand for electricity consumption to the point that lower consumption outweighs relatively higher prices. California is a good example. In 2007 California paid the 8th highest retail rate for residential electricity in the United States, at almost 15 cents/kWh. Yet their per capita consumption was so low that they also paid the lowest bill in the country as a % of their annual incomes (well, they tied for lowest, with Colorado & Wyoming).
Don't forget the Obama Administration/EPA:
And why does he have to be about dictating policy. I fear we are at a stage where it will have to come to this.
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But after campaigning against Bush's environmental record, Obama must be careful that he not be seen as dictating policy from the White House.
The clear message is that the United States Senate believes that American utility customers should not be burdened with the cost of CO2 mitigation. Maybe later, once the economy improves? Looks like an embarrassing stumble for the Green Team. Joe was right when he warned of premature action here.
Sen. Boxer's amendment says that revenues (presumably from auctions and fines) will go to offsetting the additional cost to consumers from rate hikes due to the revenue collection. So money is collected from the utilities, then paid to consumers, then paid to the utilities. Nothing will be done to mitigate CO2, but some money will be shuffled around.
The utilities will in effect buy licenses to profit from pollution as usual and make the utility customers assume the cost, reimbursed by the US government, so we can pretend that something is being done about global climate change.
What would happen to cap auction revenues remains the sticking point for future legislation. I hope the revenues can be put into a dedicated fund for transmission lines and CO2 mitigation technology development and deployment, instead of a consumer reimbursement fund.
I suppose, in the end, we wanted things to end in a heap this year from congress (so we can try to get something better – if at all – next year, counting on Obama doing something with China on this). But that still seems like seriously wishful thinking (that we'd get the numbers next year for any climate bill that isn't a total greenwash/sellout piece of legislation – that won't do the minimum needed).
All that said, its very sad to see by how much our elected officials continue to fail us with regards to this threat – we totally can't count on them. It seems the EPA is the only hope we've got in the US and we'd better pray the Admin here doesn't horse trade the EPA's power away to our coal/oil black democratic/republican representatives for something (which they've hinted at). In the end the EPA may be all we end up having to count on for much of this decade.
Am I missing something? Europe has aggressively implemented cap and trade, wind, solar etc and have not reduced co2. Why should any American politician believe that mandating the same in the US would have any different result other than shipping more jobs out of the country?
[JR: They haven't been aggressive, in fact, but they have reduced CO2.]
Stimulus package spending on energy and water, 48.9 billion
Energy efficiency and renewable energy, 18.5 billion
Modernizing electric grid, 17.4 billion.
Most of the energy and water money will be spent after 2011.
Ok the department of energy, which I assume this article refers to is getting 24.3 billion.
No money for cap and trade in this budget but…..
The Atlantic, Mark Arbinder
On cap-and-trade, one can make an argument that a downpayment in the budget would have been helpful to the administration. But the political reality is a standalone bill — which would include, as the President himself hinted last night, money to account for regional differences in energy production and measures protecting Americans from spikes in electricity bills — would have a better chance at passage. So far as I can tell, other major difference is that where the White House provided guidance about how to fund and structure a 10-year $684 billion health care reserve fund; Congress provides for a similar facility, but does not specify gross savings — the White House was more specific. Under both proposals, appropriations committees will be tasked with coming up with legislation that nets to zero. That's kind of exactly what the White House had hoped for. A minor difference: the farm-state senators won't go along with the President's agriculture subsidy cuts.


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Of all world cities, Rome offers visitors some of humanity's most compelling architectural history: Layer upon layer of buildings that illustrate antiquity in its heyday through the passage from paganism to Christianity.
The San Clemente church encapsulates centuries of this turbulent history and offers a one-stop lesson in much of the history of Western art and religion.
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If I hear one more person accuse the Obama campaign of practicing "Chicago-style politics," I'm gonna kick all his nephews off the park-district payroll. I'm gonna send some precinct captains over to straighten him out. Mitt Romney and his surrogates don't understand what Chicago-style politics means. No one seems to have told them that it's been gone for 25 years. And they don't get that Barack Obama, in his Chicago days, never had anything to do with it.
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Jacob Weisberg is chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate Group and author of The Bush Tragedy. Follow him at http://twitter.com/jacobwe.
Chicago-style politics, in common parlance, refers to the 1950s-1970s era of the Richard J. Daley machine. If you want to read a great, short book about that world, I recommend Boss by Mike Royko. The strength and durability of the Daley machine was its ethnically based patronage network, a complex system of obligations, benefits, and loyalties that didn't depend on televised communication with a broader public. It was a noncompetitive system that in its heyday had a lock on urban power and the spoils that went with it....
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Mozilla Labs has announced a new workgroup dedicated to the open Web. Ajax experts Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, cofounders of Ajaxian, are the driving forces.
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NEW YORK — How do you top a winter in which you've made fun of Oprah Winfrey to her face, gleefully butchered a classic Simon and Garfunkel song during a telethon and made a guest appearance on Kanye West's mega-selling CD?
If you're Chris Rock, the next stop is Broadway.
"I always look for everything," says the comedian, sitting at a table at the theater-district hangout Sardi's before rehearsals of his new gritty play by Stephen Adly Guirgis.
"You want to give your audience something funny or something good — that can be anything. It can be a play, it can be a movie," he says. "Hey, I was on Kayne's record! That's funnier than probably anything I've done in a couple of years. You know what I mean? How can I be funny this year?"
The answer now is "The Motherf----- With the Hat," a play that Rock describes as "'The Honeymooners' with drugs." It's about a man on parole and trying to live clean with his volatile girlfriend, who is far from sober. Rock, making his Broadway debut, plays the man's drug counselor.
"Honestly, it was the best thing I read all last year. It was better than every movie script, every book — it was better than everything," he says. "I read a couple of other plays and thought, 'This is easily the best one I've read.'"
Director Anna D. Shapiro, who won a Tony Award for "August: Osage County," says Rock is working hard to meld with fellow actors Bobby Cannavale, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Annabella Sciorra and Yul Vazquez.
"The day is filled with a lot of laughing and hard work and generosity, and all of that is because of who he is," she says. "He's refining a skill he already has. He understands the technical demands of that now every day better and better."
Rock, 46, is just the latest comedian to be drawn to Broadway this season, joining Robin Williams, Ben Stiller, Jim Gaffigan, Dane Cook, Colin Quinn, John Leguizamo and Kathy Griffin.
"People want to work, man," Rock says. "They don't make Sydney Pollack movies any more. They're not making 'Marathon Man' any more. So if you want to act — if you want to be in something of substance — and you're not 19, it's hard."
Rock says acting on stage isn't too far from his roots doing live stand-up or acting in films such as the recently released "Grown Ups" and "Death at a Funeral." He compares it to a gentler version of his three years aboard "Saturday Night Live."
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Rock has had an interesting few months. He teamed up with Tracy Morgan to sing "Scarborough Fair" on "Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert for Autism Education" and had a hilarious cameo on West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy."
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Rock knows what he's in for on Broadway, having seen such shows as "Fences," ''God of Carnage," ''Rock of Ages" and "Race." He has grown a goatee for his new part and says he likes being able to sit down and discuss the work with the playwright.
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'Rubicon' - 'Caught in the Suck': Cruel to be kind, in the right measure
On Friday, I wrote a kind of mid-season review about how "Rubicon" has managed to overcome the usual pitfalls of shows built around elaborate mystery plots. Many of those observations will be familiar to those of you who've been reading these weekly episode reviews, but I wanted to put them all together in a form where people who had perhaps dismissed the show after an episode or two could read them.
Because of the time I spent on that, this week's episode analysis will be a little shorter than usual. Spoilers for tonight's episode coming up just as soon as I become a pajama disaster...
"Believe it or not, I'm Will Travers' guardian angel." -Kale
What is Kale Ingram up to, exactly? Ed tells Will to absolutely not trust him and seems terrified when Kale turns up at the park where he hangs out. He rats out Maggie to Will, and though he offers explanations both pragmatic (Maggie was on the verge of becoming useless, if not counter-productive, as an asset) and sympathetic (better to nip this in the bud in time for Will to perhaps get over it one day), there's also a sense from Arliss Howard's performance that Kale takes some pleasure in playing puppet master. And though he keeps claiming to be helping Will, he's barely been more than a sounding board. (Like I wrote on Friday, a lot of their conversations play out like Jack trying to get Juliet or Ben to explain what The Others were up to at the start of "Lost" season three.)
Kale's ambiguous role is useful for storytelling purposes - if he sits Will down and explains everything (assuming he even knows), then we hit a narrative dead end - but also because Arliss Howard is so much fun to watch. Howard's been a Hey, It's That Guy! going back more than 20 years (probably to "Full Metal Jacket"), but this is the first time I've gotten to watch him in such a prominent role for such an extended period, and it's a pleasure. I love the complete ease with himself that he gives Kale and the way that works perfectly alongside James Badge Dale's twitchier performance. These two are ostensibly on the same side of this investigation, but they're approaching it very differently. For Will, this is personal - these people murdered his father-in-law and mentor - while for Kale this is more about philosophy and patriotism. He'll work this, but he won't make himself crazy over it.
With Kale's prodding - and an assist from Ed that, predictably, makes him cuckoo-bananas again - Will gets further into the story, in that he finds out how far Atlas McDowell's reach extends, but he still has no idea what they're actually doing, and we have only slightly more. It's fair to assume at this point that Spangler, James Wheeler and company are the Atlas McDowell decision-makers, but when they gather to talk about "our interests," it's unclear whether they're just in this to profit off other nations' misery, or if Spangler's patriotic zeal is genuine, and he's using the company as kind of a shadow government. But after expressing remorse about the Somalia situation, and being too defensive about what Katherine Rhumor knows, it looks like Wheeler might be the next "suicide" on the Atlas board, and he knows it.
I'm still not sure whether the Yuri/George/Tanaz storyline has anything to do with the conspiracy, or if it's just there to make the characters and the world of API more interesting, but Miles and Tanya's field trip was a fine sequel to the B-plot from "The Outsider," where they and Grant had to decide whether the government could/should assassinate Kateb. Stuck together in their undisclosed location and forced to spend day after day watching a man be tortured - which Miles, at least, believes to be completely useless - forces the two to finally open up to each other. For the second week in a row, Miles admits that his family is gone (and this time to someone he deals with on an ongoing basis), while the impending results of her drug test force Tanya to admit her problem.
Towards the episode's end, Spangler takes on a paternal manner as he prepares Tanya for rehab and assures her, "You are going to be working here a long, long time." Given the effect we've seen this place have on the people who work there - and given how frequently this episode deals with atrocities committed in the name of some greater good - maybe Tanya would have been better off just getting fired over this. And you can see that she's not entirely sure this is a good outcome for her.
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The Wind in Your Hair, Your E-Mail on the Dash
By MICHEL MARRIOTT
Published: September 9, 1999
I'VE made the 16-mile trip from my apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side to a favorite restaurant on City Island in the Bronx dozens of times. Yet a recent drive there over the asphalt spaghetti of parkways and interstate expressways was, thanks to the latest injection of digital technology into our lives, like no other.
Besides the voices of my wife and 3-year-old daughter in the car, there was a robotic voice emanating from the automobile's in-dash personal computer.
''You have four new messages,'' it said calmly when I asked about the day's events.
''Read,'' I said.
''From news, received August 26th, '99, 7:58 P.M., hijacking in Spain ends peacefully.''
After years of promises and hands-off demonstrations at computer and consumer electronics shows, the talking car is finally falling into the hands of consumers. One of the first, the Clarion Auto PC, is the result of a four-year collaboration between Microsoft and the Clarion Corporation, which makes car audio systems. The computer, which was intentionally designed to fit into the slot in which car stereo systems are installed in the factory, is on the market. And its makers say it can be used in practically any car.
This car system can say a lot more than just ''door ajar.''
The Clarion Auto PC is about the size of a standard car stereo and looks a lot like one, too. While I was driving along, it read aloud short E-mail messages (drawn from the air by way of a special FM radio receiver), real-time weather updates, news headlines and reports on traffic conditions while spinning my CD's at a lowered volume. It even plotted a series of detailed and often stunningly accurate directions to the restaurant, gently guiding me with voice prompts -- in its own oddly abbreviated style -- linked to the computer's optional Global Positioning System receiver.
''In two and a half miles, bear right to on-ramp Cross-Bronx Expr slash 178 Street slash Geo Washington B R,'' it said in a clipped chirp (a voice I chose by adjusting the PC's pitch and tone controls) after leading me to the Henry Hudson Parkway from my apartment building near Columbus Avenue.
Over the years, PC's have become remarkably mobile and compact, moving rapidly from desktop, laptop and handheld to coat pocket and pocketbook. Now PC's are popping up in cars, offering their services while threatening to take away a haven where a driver can sit and essentially do nothing (other than concentrate on the road -- unless the driver breaks that concentration by talking on a cell phone, of course).
''Commuting in your car is the last piece of unconstructed time left,'' said Jukka Rissanen, a Clarion project marketing specialist. He noted that more than 80 million people traveled to and from their jobs in cars in the United States. More than a quarter of them spend more than two hours crammed into cars each workday, with little else to do but listen to their stereos and stare through their windshields.
''It is a huge untapped market for connectivity and productivity,'' Mr. Rissanen said.
The market is untapped largely because the car is one of the few places left that isn't wired. As Mr. Rissanen pointed out, all it would take to extend the office and living room into the car's front seat would be a car-based computer that can, as the Auto PC does, retrieve and read E-mail; dial a number on a cellular telephone, using an address book database; record memorandums, and transfer information through wireless connections from palm-size personal data assistants.
Will that also mean a loss of the freedom that Americans in particular have always associated with the automobile? What will it mean to be on the road but within easy reach of anyone through E-mail -- and, thanks to the G.P.S. receiver, perhaps one day be easily located by anybody?
Jackie Frady, executive director of the National Automobile Museum in Reno, predicted that car-based PC's would become as common as car radios in the near future. ''We are finding that cars are becoming home offices,'' she said. ''I think the car as family transportation to go out for a Sunday drive and have ice cream and a picnic belongs to a day gone by.''
The Auto PC is not the only talking computer rolling down the road. A voice-activated computer system developed by Visteon is already offered with the new Jaguar S-Type. It manages the car's heating and air-conditioning controls and radio and offers hands-free dialing for cell phones. ''We think consumers are looking for a way to optimize their time spent in a vehicle, be it a better form of entertainment or business professionals needing to check up on their E-mail,'' said Lori Markatos, the product team leader for multimedia systems at Visteon Automotive Systems in Dearborn, Mich.
The Visteon computer is installed at the factory and cannot be easily moved into another car. The Auto PC, however, is a 60-megahertz computer (a Hitachi SH3 microprocessor with 16 megabytes of DRAM and 8 megabytes of ROM) that is made for the ''after market,'' which means that it can be installed in almost any car or even removed from a car its owner intends to sell, then reinstalled in another car.


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In a new 10th anniversary edition: "The single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic).
In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.
About the Author
Luis Alberto Urrea is author of widely acclaimed novel The Hummingbird's Daughter and 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction for The Devil's Highway. A member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, Luis was born in Tijuana, Mexico to a Mexican father and an American mother.