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In the 2003 session, the Minnesota State Legislature enacted a right-wing agenda that significantly altered the character and identity of the state. Our elected officials cut and cost-shifted more than $4.2 billion out of the budget while denying any tax increases that would have softened the damage done to programs that assisted people across the economic spectrum but were particularly crucial for the most vulnerable and needy. As a result, thousands of teachers were laid off, tens of thousands of people were priced out of access to health insurance, and hundreds of thousands of the state's poor, elderly, and disabled are now living under more brutal conditions than they were a year ago.
The Pawlenty administration justified these actions by claiming that the state's enormous deficit was the result of a "spending problem." With numbing frequency, Pawlenty disingenuously noted that last year's biennial budget was about to rise by 14 percent. But nearly all of that increase--a billion dollars' worth--was a one-time accounting anomaly stemming from a deal then-Rep. Pawlenty helped broker that had the state take over the funding of education (without any means to pay for it) so that local governments could cut their commercial/industrial property taxes.
The real reason for the state's red ink can be gleaned from a story in USA Today, using data compiled from the National Conference of State Legislatures. It shows that while Minnesota ranked 20th in the nation in the percentage increase of its state spending from 1997-2002, it cut taxes by a much larger percentage than any other state during that same period. The largest tax cut, again enacted with Pawlenty's staunch support, occurred just as the nation was plunging into a recession. The $4.2 billion deficit, then, would more accurately be described as a "tax-cutting problem."
Even the draconian cuts to social programs absorbed only half of the deficit. At that point, the fiscally sound course of action would have been for the governor to reverse the tax cuts responsible for the shortfall. But because he and his fellow Republicans were in thrall to the Taxpayers League of Minnesota, Pawlenty chose instead to tap into one-time dollars like the tobacco settlement fund and the budget reserve, to raise fees, to cost-shift duties on to local governments, and to engage in fanciful accounting such as the assumption that there would be no inflation over the next two years.
Consequently, less than three weeks after the close of session, Moody's Investors Service--"the most thorough of the bond houses, and the one we always paid the most attention to," says former Republican Governor Arne Carlson--downgraded Minnesota's bond rating from AAA to AA1, a move that will cost the state millions of dollars in interest on future borrowing. Former finance commissioners from both parties have written that, as a result of last session's fiscal irresponsibility, the state could face another billion-dollar deficit when assembling the 2006-07 biennial budget next year.
In this context, the upcoming session, which begins this Monday, February 2, could be viewed as the lull before the storm. It is an off year between the setting of biennial budgets. Current economic forecasts indicate that the state is facing only a $185 million shortfall in revenues, a margin that continued economic growth might erase by the time legislators convene next month. Despite a change in leadership, the DFL majority in the Senate is showing even less willingness to argue for a tax increase than they did a year ago, when they eventually rolled over and let Pawlenty and his party conduct their budget blitzkrieg.
This is not to say there won't be heated policy debates at the Capitol on boilerplate issues such as health care, education, the environment, and the bonding bill--particularly in the House, where all 134 members are up for reelection in November. But the defining legacy of this year's session most likely hinges on two issues that cut across party lines and could saddle taxpayers with enormous costs in future years, without repairing any of the damage to the state's network of social services: building stadiums and increasing sentences and civil commitments for violent sexual offenders.
Pawlenty has played stadium politics with an adroit mixture of shameless cynicism and plausible deniability. As a state representative, he was a consistent opponent of public funding for stadiums. As a candidate for governor, he made a point of contrasting his anti-stadium position with his DFL opponent Roger Moe's record of advocating for a new Twins ballpark. His refusal to budge from his no-new-taxes pledge despite the obvious and enormous suffering it would cause many Minnesotans was the principal drama of the 2003 session. And yet now, despite his continued insistence that no general state tax revenue should be expended, the governor has inexorably greased the skids for passage of legislation that would enable the construction of at least one new stadium, and perhaps two.
With painstaking deliberation, Pawlenty has stoked momentum for public funding of new baseball and football stadiums that would benefit the billionaire owners of the Twins and Vikings. He appointed former state Sen. Roy Terwilliger, a die-hard stadium booster, to chair the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, and sent the message that the MSFC should drop its long-standing position that the Vikings ought to settle for a Metrodome renovation. He ostentatiously met with Vikings owner Red McCombs, a confab that clearly galvanized enthusiasm for a new stadium within the Vikings organization. He created a 19-member stadium steering committee, overwhelmingly packed with stadium advocates--including, ironically, his old nemesis Moe--and chaired by his closest political ally, former finance commissioner and current chief of staff Dan McElroy, to review proposals for both football and baseball stadiums.
These maneuvers are all well conceived politically. The steering committee's solicitation of proposals from local governments both creates a bidding war and shifts the terms of the public discussion. As Sen. John Marty (DFL-Roseville) notes, the format "is setting up this debate about where [stadiums] should be built, which distracts people from thinking about how they can be built--specifically where the money will come from." In addition, by expanding the stadium discussion to include the Vikings as well as the Twins, Pawlenty has made it more likely that funding only one ballpark will be viewed as a palatable compromise.
Pawlenty has continued to claim that stadium advocates shouldn't presume state assistance will be available to them. None of the ballpark boosters have taken him seriously. The only three proposals (out of 26 submitted) that met the steering committee's guidelines all include at least $100 million in state financing, and much more from regional and local government revenue sources. Explaining why he has shifted from steadfast opposition to a position of "leadership" on the stadium issue, the governor says sports franchises improve the "quality of life" and make the state more "competitive and appealing" for residents. That's tough to swallow coming from a man whose last budget specifically cut state funding for welfare mothers with disabled children.
The contrast between Pawlenty's 2004 largesse and his 2003 penury is not the only reason Pawlenty's stadium push feels audacious. The Vikings have an ironclad lease to play at the Metrodome through 2011, meaning that, even with the inevitable delays in stadium construction, state lawmakers can wait at least a couple more years before their inaction would run the risk of losing the franchise to another city. As for the threat of the Twins moving or being contracted, Twins owner Carl Pohlad and Major League Baseball have cried wolf so many times that no one listens anymore.
Meanwhile, the tide elsewhere is clearly turning against the public funding of baseball stadiums. In just the past month, angry legislators who ponied up hundreds of millions of dollars to construct Miller Stadium in Milwaukee are demanding a public audit of the Brewers franchise; in St. Louis, one of the nation's most avid and loyal baseball towns, a Cardinals ownership group long stymied in its quest for public moneys agreed to build a new ballpark with mostly private funds.
The DFL majority in the Senate is unlikely to act until Pawlenty gets a stadium bill passed by his Republican colleagues in the House. Some think that will only happen if the governor agrees to fund it with revenues from the expansion of gambling through a racino at Canterbury Park. The House passed racino legislation during the last session, claiming that it would generate $100 million for the state's coffers every two years. Pawlenty has explicitly stated that he is opposed to the racino option. But his desire for a stadium, or two, might be strong enough to change his mind. If so, it is sure to set off a heated debate over funding priorities. The cost of keeping violent sex offenders locked up is at the top of the list.
In contrast to his carefully calibrated approach to stadiums, Pawlenty has been defensive and prone to rash remarks on the subject of sex offenders. The flash point for his outbursts was the discovery that Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., a Level 3 sex offender released from custody by the Minnesota Department of Corrections last May, is the prime suspect in the November abduction and probable murder of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin. But his ire has been further fueled by criticisms from Attorney General Mike Hatch, whom many regard as Pawlenty's likely opponent in the 2006 governor's race. Hatch has charged that Pawlenty's budget cuts compromise the state's ability to assess and confine the most violent sex offenders.
After the Star Tribune reported in June that state officials were looking for ways to put 190 sex offenders in less restrictive settings, Hatch responded that cuts in the state budget may have been a motivating factor. Pawlenty angrily denied that any change in policy was being considered. But in subsequent testimony at a legislative hearing, a former clinical director for the sex offender program said she resigned because proposed changes to it seemed driven partly by cost concerns. She added that she was ordered by state forensic director Dr. Michael Farnsworth to identify 40 patients who might be released under state supervision. Three months later, Farnsworth resigned from his post, for reasons he claims were unrelated to the controversy.
When Rodriguez emerged as the suspect in Sjodin's disappearance, the governor went ballistic. He talked about reinstating the death penalty not only for murderers, but for those who commit violent rape and attempted murder, a proposed expansion of capital punishment that has already been ruled illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court. He said the officials who released Rodriguez into the community "guessed wrong" and should be disciplined, a presumption of guilt that had his spokesman hurriedly replying later that day that the governor had indulged in a "poor choice of words." He suggested that average citizens be allowed to tap into the computer system used by state officials to monitor released sex offenders equipped with ankle bracelets (a measure that is not only of dubious law enforcement value, but could make the state legally liable for any acts of vigilantism that might occur as a result).
Pawlenty also made some substantive changes in state policy. Most notably, he has instructed county attorneys to track down 145 high-risk sex offenders who have been released from Minnesota prisons since 1997 and review their case files in conjunction with the Department of Corrections and the Attorney General's office to determine if they should be civilly committed to a treatment facility. If the county attorneys do not recommend commitment, Pawlenty adds, he is giving Hatch the authority to overrule them. A similar review system will be used on 94 sex offenders who have completed or are about to complete their prison sentences. This backlog has occurred in part because Pawlenty responded to the Star Tribune story and Hatch's criticism of his lax commitment standards by ordering the corrections department not to release any high-level sex offenders without a court order.
Irked that he wasn't consulted about these enormous additional responsibilities, Hatch said he would bill the counties $5,000 for each commitment case his office reviews. But the suddenly swamped county attorneys will have enough trouble coming up with overtime pay for their own personnel as they struggle to comply with Pawlenty's request. It doesn't help that last year's state budget cuts eliminated $590,000 that was specifically earmarked to reimburse local governments for their assessment of sex offenders.
With the Sjodin tragedy still vivid in people's minds, and with the highest statewide officeholder from each of the two major parties feuding over perceived lapses in public safety, it's a foregone conclusion that legislators will create longer prison sentences and increase the state's capacity for the civil commitment of sex offenders during this session. But as always, the devil will be in the details.
For example, as part of his bonding bill, the governor has already proposed borrowing $109 million to add 851 beds at the state prisons in Faribault and Stillwater, and another $3 million to plan for a 150-bed expansion of the treatment facility in St. Peter, where most of Minnesota's civilly committed sex offenders are housed. If Pawlenty puts prison-bed construction on a fast track while dawdling in the planning stage of the treatment center expansion, his bonding priorities may prevent him from following through on the legislative policies he has proposed in his crime bill to isolate violent sex offenders from the public.
Unless he has sent Hatch and the county attorneys on a wild goose chase, the tougher, more thorough case review Pawlenty has ordered on Level 3 sex offenders who have been released since 1997 will likely result in a large increase in civil commitments. The ranks of the committed will continue to soar if the legislature approves Pawlenty's proposal to require the Department of Corrections to seek civil commitments on any Level 3 sex offenders who are scheduled for release.
At the press conference where Pawlenty announced his crime bill, Human Services Commissioner Kevin Goodno estimated that the number of civil commitments will rise by as much as 50 percent a year. Yet at a Senate hearing early last week, Corrections Commissioner Joan Fabian said that the state's two treatment facilities for sex offenders are already close to capacity.
Where are these dangerous offenders going to be treated? The state can't keep them in prison, because they've already served their sentences. And the traditional solution of releasing inmates convicted of lesser crimes in order to make room for new arrivals obviously doesn't apply here. Of the 200 offenders committed to treatment in St. Peter or Moose Lake since the program began in 1994, only one has ever been released--and he's now back inside after violating his parole.
This raises the inconvenient and certainly unpopular matter of the offenders' constitutional rights. Minnesota's sex offender commitment program has consistently survived court challenges because the commitment process has been judicious, because there are programs and facilities specifically designed to rehabilitate sex offenders, and because there is at least the theoretical chance that offenders will eventually be released back into the community. By contrast, if the corrections department makes blanket commitment referrals for all Level 3 offenders, if lack of space prevents offenders from being housed in a treatment facility, and if no offender ever gets out, then there is a good chance that the program could be declared unconstitutional by the courts. It is the duty of Pawlenty and state legislators to ensure that the program is operated in a manner that prevents that from happening.
Because neither party wants to be viewed as "soft on crime" in the wake of sustained public outcry over Sjodin's disappearance, and because there are only so many ways you can be "tough on crime," their legislative proposals are very similar. Both are in favor of ankle bracelet monitors to track sex offenders out in the community who are not deemed to need commitment. Both propose longer sentences for those who commit violent crimes. One difference is that while Republicans are advocating mandatory life in prison without parole for those who commit heinous sexual assaults where cruelty or a vulnerable victim is involved, Democrats favor more "indeterminate," case-specific sentencing so that someone who has committed a brutal rape doesn't feel he has nothing to lose by killing his victim.
Both parties also seem disinclined to support Pawlenty's call for a reinstatement of the death penalty. The governor's repeated claim that he will raise the issue of capital punishment during the 2004 session may be no more than a bone tossed to his more rabid supporters. As the reigning king of austerity budgets and no-tax pledges, Pawlenty is surely aware of the staggering annual costs borne by states that have the death penalty, estimated to be $51 million per year in Florida, $90 million in California, and $2.3 million per case in Texas. Executing prisoners requires funding for the long, complex gauntlet of trials and appeals featuring myriad expert witnesses and psychological evaluations. To institute capital punishment here would either provoke a substantial tax hike or push the state further into the red.
Pawlenty and other state lawmakers will have enough trouble finding money to fund their more modest anti-crime legislation. Hiring parole officers and buying equipment to operate the ankle bracelet monitoring program is expected to cost $17 million per year. At least another $10 million in annual funding will be required to staff the growing prison population. Meanwhile, it costs the state $314 a day to house each sex offender who has been civilly committed to a treatment facility, nearly quadruple the price of housing each prison inmate. We've already proposed putting the principal and interest costs for the construction of 851 new prison beds on our tab; the cost of building 150 beds at St. Peter isn't far behind.
At this point, nobody can accurately predict how much money will be spent this session to commit, incarcerate, monitor, and assess violent sex offenders. Nor can anyone be sure just yet where the money will come from. But we do know that next month's economic forecast is not apt to reveal a surplus in state budget revenues. And we know that the legislative leaders in both parties say they are not inclined to push for any increase in taxes. Short of an exotic funding scheme like the racino, that leaves cutting the budgets of other state programs. And indeed, that is what Pawlenty has already said he'll do, if necessary, to generate funding for his proposed anti-crime legislation.
Not too long ago, Minnesota enjoyed a reputation for innovative, prevention-oriented government programs that rooted out problems before they could overwhelm us. That spirit has been eclipsed by the politics of fear and hoarding. When the 2004 legislative session begins on Monday, it's a decent bet that it will be characterized by an expensive obsession with keeping the bad men away from our door, while ignoring the conditions that turn good boys into bad men in the first place. By now, it's common knowledge that a significant number of chronic and violent sex offenders were themselves the victims of chronic and violent abuse as children. Yet last year, Pawlenty and the state's Republicans slashed state funding for violence prevention grants, battered women's shelters, crisis nurseries, parenting time centers, Head Start, Early Childhood Family Education, childcare subsidies, School Readiness, health and development screening in the schools, Youthworks, Way To Grow, children's mental health screening, at-home infant care, and literally a dozen or more other worthy programs in the same vein.
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Hi I am a mom of a 5 year old little girl who is my world. My husband and I decided to start trying to have another baby after always saying that we would. Of course here I am 26 weeks pregnant with a little boy. My daughter is excited about being a big sister, and can not wait for him to get here. However I am the total opposite. I was shopping this weekend and saw a bunch of women with babies, and it made me sick to my stomach. The thought of going through these baby fases again just makes me want to cry. I don't feel like I have a bond with this one, and I don't want to take any time away from my baby girl. I am a worry wart and i don't know if i don't want to bond with this one because I am worried something will go wrong. anyone else ever had these feelings before?
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I walk along holding your 2-year-old hand, basking in the glow of our magical relationship. Suddenly I feel a kick from within, as if to remind me that our time alone is limited. And I wonder: how could I ever love another child as I love you?
Then he is born, and I watch you. I watch the pain you feel at having to share me as you've never shared me before.
I hear you telling me in your own way, "Please love only me". And I hear myself telling you in mine, "I can't", knowing, in fact, that I never can again.
You cry. I cry with you. I almost see our new baby as an intruder on the precious relationship we once shared. A relationship we can never quite have again.
But then, barely noticing, I find myself attached to that new being, and feeling almost guilty. I'm afraid to let you see me enjoying him, as though I am betraying you.
But then I notice your resentment change, first to curiosity, then to protectiveness, finally to genuine affection.
More days pass, and we are settling into a new routine. The memory of days with just the two of us is fading fast.
But something else is replacing those wonderful times we shared, just we two. There are new times – only now, we are three. I watch the love between you grow, the way you look at each other, touch each other.
I watch how he adores you – as I have for so long. I see how excited you are by each of his new accomplishments. And I begin to realize that I haven't taken something from you, I've given something to you. I notice that I am no longer afraid to share my love openly with both of you.
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people bond with their babies at different times, and it may take you longer-that's perfectly normal and fine, and it's normal to be worried also. I couldn't imagine loving anyone as much as i loved my daughter and was so afraid I wouldn't bond with my son when he was born. You would be amazed at how your heart is just able to to grow to love to beings more than anything, that's why I'm not as worried with the third, because I know it will happen again. I sometimes get those "oh no" feelings when I think of the baby phases again - I've been through it twice and told myself I was done. Then decided to change my mind and now I'm 34! I don't always "feel" like starting all over again, but I know when the baby comes it will all be worth it and you won't believe how much you get even more blessed with another baby.
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Calories 5339 Calories from Fat 2345
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Total Fat 260 g400%
Saturated Fat 103.5 g517.7%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 1837.6 mg612.5%
Sodium 5525.7 mg230.2%
Total Carbohydrates 45 g14.9%
Dietary Fiber 3 g11.9%
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Protein 633 g1266.8%
Vitamin A 10.5% Vitamin C 21%
Calcium 19.8% Iron 364.2%
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What's emerging for Election Day is a common front against the dumbed-down demagoguery that's now epitomized and led by John McCain and Sarah Palin.
A large margin of victory over the McCain-Palin ticket, repudiating what it stands for, is needed — and absolutely insufficient. It's a start along a long uphill climb to get this country onto a course that approximates sanity.
McCain's only real hope is to achieve the election equivalent of drawing an inside straight — capturing the electoral votes of some key swing states by slim margins. His small window of possible victory is near closing. Progressives should help to slam it shut.
Like it or not, the scale of a national rejection of McCain-Palin and Bush would be measured — in terms of state power and perceived political momentum — along a continuum that ranges from squeaker to landslide. It's in the interests of progressives for the scale to be closer to landslide than squeaker.
As McCain's strategists aim to thread an electoral-vote needle, it cannot be said with certainty that they will fail. Who can credibly declare that an aggregate of anti-democratic factors — such as purged voting rolls, onerous requirements for voter ID, imposed obstacles to voting that target people of color, inequities in distribution of voting machines, not counting some votes as they are cast, anti-Obama racism and other factors — could not combine to bring a "victory" resulting in a President McCain and a Vice President Palin come Jan. 20, 2009?
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Under these circumstances, the wider the real margin for Obama over McCain, the less likely that McCain can claim sufficient electoral votes to become president.
Progressives are mostly on board with the Obama campaign, even though — on paper, with his name removed — few of his positions deserve the "progressive" label. We shouldn't deceive ourselves into seeing Obama as someone he's not. Yet an Obama presidency offers the possibilities that persistent organizing and coalition-building at the grassroots could be effective at moving national policy in a progressive direction. In contrast, a McCain presidency offers possibilities that are extremely grim.
Some progressives, as a matter of principle, have come to a different conclusion. They're eager to cast their votes for a presidential candidate (Ralph Nader or Cynthia McKinney) who can't win.
Of course people's votes are entirely their own, to do with as they see fit. But the right to do something is distinct from the wisdom of doing it.
Last week, a mass email from the Nader for President 2008 campaign began by telling supporters: "Ralph Nader is at 5 percent in The Show Me State — Missouri. And he's moving up. That's according to the most recent CNN/Time Missouri poll." The celebratory tone of the message was notable. Nader was polling at 5 percent in a crucial swing state — where polls showed that McCain and Obama were in a dead heat. No wonder, on the same day as the email message, McCain spoke at rallies in suburbs of St. Louis and Kansas City.
Nader's potential effect on the election may be too small to increase the chances of a McCain victory. But from all indications, even if McCain and Obama were tied in polls across the country, the Nader campaign would be proceeding as it is now. What does that tell us about the logic of pressing forward with a vanguard approach even if it might serve the interests of right-wing forces that most progressives are straining to roll back in this election?
From the 1960s through the '90s, Ralph Nader had an unparalleled record of fighting for progressive reform. But the 2008 campaign of Nader and running-mate Matt Gonzalez has a frozen-in-time quality. Their campaign makes an electoral argument that focuses largely on Democrats, not Republicans. Much of Nader's pitch for votes is centering on the charge that Democrats are as corporate and compromised as ever — and in many ways he's right. But he ignores the reality that Republican leaders keep getting worse and more right-wing; they are clearly more dangerous than many assumed a decade ago.
The historical trend is clear: Bush-Cheney have been further right and more reckless than even Newt Gingrich, who was further right than Ronald Reagan, who was further right than his Republican predecessors. And Palin speaks for herself.
My former co-author Jeff Cohen puts it this way: "Focusing on Democratic corruption is not the problem. The problem is developing an electoral strategy that fails to acknowledge how increasingly extremist Republicans are. It reminds me of that George Carlin joke: 'Here's a partial score from the West Coast — Dodgers 5.' An electoral strategy has to assess the current positions of BOTH teams."
At this point, is an Obama victory a cinch? Maybe not. Consider this New York Times reporting published on Oct. 24: "Pollsters say there has never been a year when polling has been so problematic, given the uncertainty of who is going to vote in what is shaping up as an electorate larger than ever. While most national polls give Mr. Obama a relatively comfortable lead, in many statewide polls, Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain are much more closely matched. Even a small shift in the national number could deliver some of the closer states into the McCain camp, making an Electoral College victory at least possible."
In fact, it's possible that Obama could win a clear victory in the popular vote while McCain manages to claim enough electoral votes to move into the White House. Crucial to such an outcome would be Missouri (which, as the Times notes, "has been a bellwether in every White House race during the last century except 1956"). Is taking that risk worth the satisfaction of getting a couple percent of the vote for Ralph Nader for president in 2008?
The Nader campaign actually seems to be gunning for swing states in the stretch drive of the campaign, as if to maximize the chances that the Nader-Gonzalez ticket could be a factor in how the electoral votes end up being divided. Last week the Nader campaign announced that, beginning on Oct. 28, "Mr. Nader will make his final rounds campaigning in traditional swing states Florida, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania."
All year, the Nader campaign has been asking rhetorical questions such as (in the words of an Oct. 22 press advisory): "Why is it that so-called liberals and progressives continue to support Democratic candidates like Obama whose campaign slogans and rhetoric do not match their stated positions and voting records?"
And: "Why do we progressives continue to delude ourselves that we stand for core, liberal values and then work for candidates who demonstrate that they have no commitment to these values?"
This fall, the answers to these largely valid questions revolve around a truth that trumps many others: A McCain-Palin administration would be such a disaster that we want to do what we can to prevent it.
When I've spoken to dozens of audiences during the two months since the Democratic National Convention (where I was an elected Obama delegate), there's been an overwhelmingly positive response when I make a simple statement about Obama and the prospects of an Obama presidency: "The best way to avoid becoming disillusioned is to not have illusions in the first place."
Looking past the election, progressives will need to mobilize for a comprehensive agenda including economic justice, guaranteed healthcare for all, civil liberties, environmental protection and demilitarization.
The forces arrayed against far-reaching progressive change are massive and unrelenting. If an Obama victory is declared next week, those forces will be regrouping in front of our eyes — with right-wing elements looking for backup from corporate and pro-war Democrats. How much leverage these forces exercise on an Obama presidency would heavily depend on the extent to which progressives are willing and able to put up a fight.
It's a fight we should welcome.
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FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno promoted Col. Mark J. O'Neil, 10th Mountain Division (LI) deputy commander - operations, to brigadier general in a late morning ceremony Monday in front of historic LeRay Mansion at Fort Drum.
Odierno, the 38th chief of staff of the Army, took a brief moment away from his demanding work schedule to preside over the ceremony and to highlight O'Neil's career.
In his speech, Odierno highlighted not only the magnitude of the promotion itself but of the reasons promotions to the general officer ranks are so rare.
"Less than one percent of all colonels in the Army get selected for promotion to brigadier general," he said. "It is something that is incredibly difficult to attain."
Odierno also spoke about the considerable changes that those who attain the rank of a general officer can expect to see in their lives as a result of the additional responsibility that comes with the office.
"When you put that star on your shoulder, it does change your life," Odierno said. "It changes how people see you, and it is a burden of responsibility, but it is also one that we give to the very best."
O'Neil was deployed every year from 2002 until 2011, when Odierno selected him as his aide de camp. Odierno said he felt the deployments were crucial to O'Neil's selection for the rank.
"That's an incredible burden and an incredible sacrifice," Odierno said. "And it gets to really saying why Mark O'Neil is being promoted."
Immediately after the publication of the orders, Odierno pinned on the initial stars that represent O'Neil's new rank. Afterwards, O'Neil's Family and parents joined in pinning on his shoulder boards and helping him don his new headgear.
Odierno emphasized the fact that promotions are Family affairs that involve both a Soldier's Army Family and their actual Families by stressing the need for their support while progressing through the ranks.
In his remarks after his promotion, O'Neil thanked Odierno for his attendance as well as the mentorship that he credits with his success. He also acknowledged that he has been fortunate to have been given the opportunities he has had throughout his career.
"My story continues to be one of extraordinary opportunities and extraordinary people," O'Neil said. "I am thankful for each of you that have helped to shape my life."
O'Neil was commissioned as an infantry second lieutenant upon graduating from Norwich University in 1986. He has served for more than 27 years, commanding at every level.


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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - University of Oklahoma President David Boren says an increase in tuition and fees next school year is likely.
Boren said Wednesday that the amount of the increase won't be known until the Legislature announces its appropriation for higher education. He said the increase will be less than 10 percent.
Funding cutbacks are expected statewide as the state faces a $1.2 billion budget shortfall.
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Lucky for you that it wasn't China. You would have disintegrated into a cloud of toxic rust long ago.
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I have great respect for Japan. They may have lost WWII, but they've been coming up with wonderful and amazing gadgets every six months.
How's that for getting even?
What happened was that not only did we help pay to rebuild Japan's industrial base into a top-of-the-line (for the time) manufacturing center, they were also quick to adopt management practices that American corporations initially ignored.
They picked up more then that, they jumped ahead of us in Quality practices, Statistical control and many other things that we finally had to adopt to remain competitive.
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Was 2000AD really 1420 years ago?
It has been found that the Japanese were much closer to winning than was previously thought. If Japan had spent more time in one area—aircraft they would have had superior fighters and bombers to deliver the a0bombs they had successfully created and detonated in the Gobi desert.
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Rocco Palmo highlights [1]Archbishop Burke's latest speech [2]on the responsibilities of Catholics in the public square. As Rocco notes, the talk seems to be a direct response to Cardinal Sean O'Malley's defense of his decision [2] to give a public funeral to Ted Kennedy, and Cardinal McCarrick's decision to preside over the burial service.Taken together, O"Malley's and Burke's talks seem to outline the state of the debate.. Nonetheless, I was troubled by one particular aspect of Burke's speech, which struck me as going further rhetorically than he has gone before.If there has always been the danger of giving scandal to others by public and seriously sinful actions or failures to act, that danger is heightened in our own time. Because of the confusion about the moral law, which is found in public discourse, in general, and is even embodied in laws and judicial pronouncements, the Christian is held to an even higher standard of clarity in enunciating and upholding the moral law. It is particularly insidious that our society which is so profoundly confused about the most basic goods also believes that scandal is a thing of the past. One sees the hand of the Father of Lies at work in the disregard for the situation of scandal or in the ridicule and even censure of those who experience scandal. (emphasis added).Am I wrong, or is Burke here implying that McCarrick and O"Malley were influenced by the Devil himself in making the decisions they made? If so, this strikes me as quite a new level of accusation by one brother bishop to another. Maybe not absolutely, as my friends who study early Church history tell me. But quite new for us.
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Cross-national gender differences in behavior in a threshold public goods game: Japan versus Canada
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Can you say blame the victim? Why is KC even prosecuting a teenage prostitute?
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BA8 - Game of Thrones by shozeWatch
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Great art!
ooh cool, I like that style nice composition
Nice drawing!
I love this pic John has the SAME expression of the actor's ;D
Very good scene, they are ready to fight undeads .
suuuwwweeeett!!! rushed?? i really dig the energy here!
Super awesome. Super, super awesome.
Have a great vacation!
Have a great vacation!
Nice work!
I love it !!
Really cool style indeed. Love the look on Jon's face, i feel like he actually does that face a lot in the show.
Great composition and style here, I'm really diggin' this one
Digging the illustrative style on display. it's got personality.
nice work here for a rushed piece.


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Released: Sep 01st, 2005
Running Time: 106
Company: Black Widow Productions
Cast: Elizabeth Del Mar, Reese (I), Ava Ramone, Jessica Dee, Charlie Laine, Others
Critical Rating: AAA
Genre: Gonzo
A good choice for Jessica Dee fans.
Is it really too much to ask for directors/editors to not leave the off-camera instructions to the talent in the final cut of their project? This laziness, along with some poor editing in general, severely hurts the masturbation scenes with Ava Ramone and Charlie Laine. However, the two girls do their best to pull things off anyway. There's perhaps a little too much acting on Ramone's part, but Laine is sexy as hell with her various toys.
Fortunately, there are also three boy/girl scenes, but Elizabeth Del Mar and Reese just go through the motions, and it's especially hard to believe Del Mar's sincerity.
Reese accidentally choking on penis immediately before taking a load in her face, is an intense eye-opener, but its' the first pairing with Jessica Dee that saves the production. Her oral skills are impeccable, her fucking is energetic, and she looks damn good getting it from behind.


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Skip to comments.Most of Torontos lingerie football team quits in dispute
Posted on 10/21/2011 10:22:28 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Team star Krista Ford and other members of Toronto's lingerie football league are taking their ball and suggestive undergarment sets and going home.
Twenty-two of the team's 26 players abruptly quit this week after a dispute with management about roster cuts. Krista wrote about the decision on her Facebook page:
Hey everyone! I am really sad to let you all know that I have left the Toronto Triumph, along with many of my teammates. It was one of the hardest decisions I've had to make thus far, however, I had to stand up for what I felt was right. Unfortunately, it cost me the greatest sport in the world. [She also played frisbee golf? -- CC]
Lest you think Krista wasn't serious about the lingerie walkout, she then quoted Malcolm X. "A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything," Krista wrote. That's actually based off an old Alexander Hamilton line, meaning not only is Krista using the civil rights movement as a basis for hanging up her shoulder pads and bras, but the American revolution too. One can only assume she's keeping the Civil War in her back pocket for when things get really heated.
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
Awww,what a shame! Now how about starting a team in which good-looking men are running around in their tighty-whities?(As long as they are clean and still white!)
I guess it back to the sidewalk for those "ladies"
They let their panties get into a wad
Who, What, When, Where, Why, Chris. These are the things that go in the lead. After wasting 45 seconds to read your putative column, I still have no idea why the putative athletes walked out. This might be excusable if your writing was any good, or you at least had a few pictures, but alas, neither of those ingredients were there either.
The lingerie football league is like Yoohoo. Remember Yoohoo? On the drawing board it's like the perfect kids' drink. It's two things you can't resist: chocolate and soda. And ... it sucks. Similarly, how can a sport that combines scantily clad women and football even theoretically be improved? [OK, there's the one obvious thing...] Anyway, no, just like Yoohoo, Lingerie Football actually combines two great things and produces one really craptastic result.
Glad to see that in Chris they've found the right man to cover that beat.
Easy now I love YooHoo. That is my one secret vice I still have. A cold YooHoo, and some chocolate chip cookies. MMmm, mmm.
Works for those of us who love chocolate milk, but can't take the milk part.
They keep the stuff so darn expensive, there must be others of us out here.
Been to one game, sharing tickets with my Father-in-Law who one them at a Kiwanas charity auction. It was the stupidest thing I ever attended.
One, adding lace trim to sweaty work-out shorts and T-top does not lingerie make.
And two, The head banging music played between each down gave us a headache 10 minutes into the game.
Won - not one
Been to one game, sharing tickets with my Father-in-Law who WON them at a Kiwanas charity auction
No. You are the only one; that's why it's now over $1000/bottle. It's the Dom Perignon of pop. Except it's awful. Please stop drinking it so the poor kids in China who have to bottle the stuff can make lead painted toys or something useful, or at least something less harmful like melamine contaminated milk.
I still have half a bottle I got at a corner store in 1961. When the car won't start I pour a capfull of it in the tank. My Mom used to use it as a spot remover until it ate a hole in my Dad's coveralls.
Manifestly then, you were not educated in the American public school system, where most states now mandate something at least three times stupider than a lingerie football game for 182 days per year.
It is worth a look at her Facebook page.
The comments are "interesting".
What, no pichers???
Yes, TTIWWP!
Women athletes in lingerie = not guilty.
Wow. Well, among those who have commented on her Facebook message is one........"Anita Leigh."
Sorry, I like living on the edge. Cost be d*mned.
If the little Chinese workers are concocting the formula for my YooHoo, it's time taken away from their ability to make a chemical weapon to destroy the Universe.
So if you're not drinking YooHoo, you're endangering National Security!!
God Bless America!
LOL! (Tongue firmly planted in cheek)
I would be glad to join you if you'll hold it 100 yards from the store entrance. Damn judge.
Solidarity! Don't dis ma sistaz!
o/~ We shall overcoooooooooome... o/~
We have a dream to be judged by the quality of our bootyliciousness rather than the coverage of our uniforms.
Lingerie football is like an article someone posted awhile ago about topless/bottomless housekeepers. Fine to look at and all, but often an excuse to do slipshod work. I fail to see how there can be serious football going on with no protective padding to speak of.
Typo: Hugh.
"o/~ We shall overcoooooooooome... o/~"...
one daaaaaaay!
"Perhaps I've misjudged the integrity of the lingerie football league, and I apologize in advance if I have, but these are women playing a sport in bras and panties with unattached garter straps. The current picture on the front of the league website shows more boob than an issue of Maxim. (That still exists, right?) There are downloadable wallpapers that, if used, would force 13-year-old boys to keep their laptops under their mattress. The whole league is based on the idea of creating celebrity. Football is merely the vessel to get there."
Not serious...or series, even.
I know what their audience is creating, and it isn't celebrity.
That too. ;^)
But maybe Yoohoo is the chemical weapon designed to destroy the Universe. In which case, you would be my canary in the coal mine. Could you ping me every other day or so? Just so I know when to start hitting the bottled water supply...
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You're right about the passion - it's just about the only thing that defines a football player nowadays. Robbie is Liverpool through and through, and even if he isn't as mobile he'll get fit enough to make the most of his footballing brain which is invaluable; just look at the deciding goal against Bolton and his setting up goals for Cisse for proof. I hated the fact that Thommo & Houllier conspired to eject Robbie at the absolute height of his powers for no good reason other than what seemed to be a personality clash. I hope it was one in the eye for both of them.However as far as Owen is concerned, I would say that club football is a means to an end for him which is of course the England starting 11. He has admitted as much and don't think that he would be staying at Newcastle for much longer if a better club came in for him. I feel we should look at Bellemy, Bent and Defoe (sorry but I haven't seen Kuyt play) but also trust Rafa on this. I think that if he felt pride/compassion about having his fellow countryman Morientes in the team then he will have been burned by his lack of progress in the Premiership and won't be as soft next time.


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Hadrian's Wall Path
Key information: Hadrian's Wall Path
- The Roman Empire's British frontier still runs across northern England.
- Follow the Wall as it snakes through superb hill and moorland scenery.
- Historically enthralling: with well preserved stretches of wall, towers, forts and camps, you can almost hear the legionaries tramping along the wall.
- One of Walkopedia's favourite walks.
- While crowding in places will detract form the full magic, you can screen quite a bit of it out.
- Visit Hillwalk Tours' website for more information on this walk.
Walkopedia rating(Top 100)
- Walkopedia rating90.5
- Beauty30.5
- Natural interest14
- Human interest17
- Charisma34
- Negative points5
- Total rating90.5
- Note: Negs: popularity
Vital Statistics
- Length: 135km: the best sections can be walked in 2-3 days
- Maximum Altitude: N/A
- Level of Difficulty: Variable
Hadrian's Wall is so exciting that it is hard to sort the gush of information and images that wells up when you try to explain its fascination. It is one of Walkopedia's highest-ranking walks. Where to start?
Roman Britain's northern frontier had long been troublesome, with constant low-level fighting with the barbarian picts to the north. By 122AD, the Empire was close to overstretch and the emperor Hadrian decided to withdraw from the Antonine Wall in the Scottish lowlands, building a strong permanent frontier along the hills and crags to the north of the Tyne valley. The wall ran for some 76 miles between Newcastle and the Solway Firth, the majority of it stone some four meters (14 feet) high with deep vallums (ditches) on each side. It was, amazingly, completed within sixteen years (some say less).
There were mile castles every Roman mile, and regular forts, such as Housteads and Chesters, along the wall, with big camps such as Vindolanda a few miles behind.
The wall is in very mixed condition: some stretches, for instance Housteads to Steel Rigg, are in fantastic condition (actually, restored in the nineteenth century) and are deeply evocative. Other sections are almost invisible.
The wall survived well for some 1,000 years, 700 of them after its abandonment by the Romans. It was then heavily pillaged for building materials until the twentieth century. The antiquarian John Claydon, who lived in the area, effectively saved much of what is left. In 1987, a central section from Housteads to Chester became a World Heritage Site.
The wall runs through magnificent scenery in many places, snaking along a series of volcanic rock ridges with extensive views across hill farms, moorland and lakes.
The combination of extraordinary history and great natural beauty makes for thrilling, inspirational walking on the best sections.
Unfortunately, much of the wall east of Housteads is close to the busy main road, which inevitably dissipates some of the magic. While many people walk the whole of the Hadrian's Wall Path, most select a few sections, the best sections being arguably between Chesters fort and Walton near Carlisle.
A joy of walking the wall is the profusion of great places to stay inns and B&Bs - and you can have your luggage taken from place to place, leaving you with just a day pack and your excitement.
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Housteads to Steel Rigg, 6.8.09
After the wettest UK July in more than 100 years, I couldn't believe my luck: a clear sky was peppered with puffy little clouds, heat tempered by a gentle breeze. Perfect walking conditions.
This stretch of Hadrian's Wall is one of the most enjoyable walks I have ever made. While its scenery may not match the Himalayan, and it was a bit overpopulated the day I was there, it was captivating nevertheless: gorgeous, wide views out from abrupt cliff-faces over the high farmland, moors and small lakes to the.....READ MORE
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Name: tk77mann
Posted on: 22/07/2010
My wife and I walked Hadrian's Wall Path from sea to sea, actually extending our walk to Tynemouth, England this past June (2010). This was the first recreational walk we have done, and we really enjoyed the week. We are now looking for another weeklong trip and hope it will be as fulfilling as Hadrian's Wall. We walked from west to east, which most Hadrian's Wall walkers do not do. This direction kept the wind to our back most of the time, which was very nice. It did not rain and it was very warm during our week walking, which is unusual for northern England. A cold, wet rain blowing hard could have been very possible, and most unpleasant, if we had been walking east to west. Why 75% of folks walk east to west is still a mystery to us. (The Romans did build the wall east to west, but that was over 1900 years ago so this should not influence today's walkers, in my opinion.) This walk is mainly through farm fields and pastures, so walkers need to be ready to be fairly close to sheep and cows. These animals are supposed to be very neighborly except during calving time and except for bulls, and we had no issues with the local animals. Tour operators will convey your baggage from B & B to B & B, which was very nice. We are middle aged and not having to haul backpacks allowed us to make this fairly arduous walk. Also, a lot of the B & B's have restaurants associated with them, and cook in the New British cooking style. Their cuisine is fantastic in many cases, and much better than the cooking we knew from England of 20 years ago. The nine crags which are on this walk are steep so I strongly recommend using hiking poles. (The Romans used the steep crags as part of the wall's defensive strategy.) Poles make upward climbs easier, and add balance for the equally steep downhill portions. We did not encounter any rain to speak of, but climbing up and down wet hillsides without poles would have certainly been riskier and less enjoyable. I highly recommend Hadrian's Wall Path to folks who would like to see the countryside and historical past of friendly northern England.
Name: Greg Locock
Posted on: 20/10/2010
So far as the route goes, the western end from Bowness to Carlisle is for completists only, I could see no sign of the Wall and little of interest. From Carlisle to Walton things cheer up a bit, but you aren't missing much. After that (walking west to east) things improve rapidly.
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Posted on: 27/08/2012
The following is Sue Eales piece on walking here, which was an entry we much enjoyed for our 2011 Travel Writing Competition.
Blisters, Romans and Hadrians Wall
The moment of truth dawned, we stood outside Newcastle Station, looked at each other and smiled, both thinking exactly the same thing- we must be mad. The sky was leaden, a light drizzle was falling and an icy wind whipped round our ears as we shouldered our backpacks and started to walk to the Solway Firth. We had a guidebook, a map, a list of possible accommodation and a lot of trepidation.
Our route out of the city took us down to the Quayside where we then followed the river...
We had to laugh when two fishermen smiled at us, looked at our backpacks and asked in broad Geordie accents if we were going all the way. Needless to say we smiled, hitched up our packs and replied, of course I have to admit that put a new spring in our step.
It seemed to be easy walking, soon we had left the city behind us. After a while we began to loose the lush green fields and began to steadily climb. I was finding this particularly hard work, as I was not particularly fit, soon my legs began to feel leaden and I was struggling for breath. I sat down on a rock feeling that my end had come and quite ashamed that I hadnt managed to complete one day. Fortunately after a brief respite and some chocolate therapy I recovered and reached the top of the hill where a spectacular view awaited. It was as if the countryside had unfolded beneath us and a welcome sign proclaimed that Heddon on the Wall our destination for the day was a mere half a mile away.
An hour later we had secured ourselves a bed for the night at a hostel and were heading to the nearest pub having seen our first sight of the actual wall which made it all seem real to us at long last. Ten miles down already, we thought to ourselves as we went to sleep that night.
All too soon the alarm clock blasted us into Tuesday and realisation dawned, we were going to have to do it again. For a change a clear blue sky accompanied us. Our goal for the day was a village called Wall, a mere fifteen miles away; already the wall seemed to beckon us on.
By mid afternoon I could feel my feet starting to protest at all this prolonged activity so it was a very welcome sight when we found a bed for the night at the Hadrian Hotel. That night we slept the sleep of the dead in a large four-poster bed. Not even the discovery of a large blister on the sole of my foot could detract from the tremendous sense of achievement we felt .
However we didnt have long to contemplate our success before Wednesday dawned and it was time to go onwards again, this time to a village called Twice Brewed, a further twelve miles away. We had plenty of interest to spur us on as we were following a good section of the wall, which seemed to stretch for miles into the distance. It felt a little like being on top of the world with spectacular views all around. To the north you could indulge your imagination and picture raiding parties of Barbarians charging in. To the south there would be all the normal daily activity with local traders and supply columns arriving and departing. On the actual wall were the remains of mile castles or watchtowers at regular intervals so you could imagine Roman sentries on guard. By mid afternoon we reached the remains of Housesteads Fort, which looked as if you could quite happily spend a day exploring it, but we didnt dare linger for too long conscious of the fact we had to find a bed for the night. Our reward at the end of the day was a large glass of beer at an attractive pub in the village of Twice Brewed where not even the discovery of more blisters on my feet could dampen our spirits. Once again we were asleep the moment our heads touched the pillows and slept like babies until the alarm clock summoned us into the next day.
Our destination for the day was Gilsland, a mere ten miles away. Once again it was a clear bright windy day. By mid afternoon the countryside was beginning to level out, the wall was actually disappearing. We were beginning to feel like seasoned walkers by now and chatted quite happily to groups of walkers who had started from Solway. One group that did earn our admiration were three paratroopers who flashed past us going in the opposite direction in the afternoon, we were told that they were literally running the path and planned to complete it in twenty four hours.
By the end of the day we reached the very pretty village of Gilsland and managed to find a bed for the night in the local pub. An hour later we lowered ourselves into a beautiful hot bath in a very palatial bathroom and felt all was right with the world. Our evenings were following a regular pattern by now, a cool glass of beer to start with, followed by supper and then we fell into bed and slept the sleep of the just. Seemingly for about five minutes before there was a persistent ringing in our ears which meant it was time to get up and do it again
Joy of joys the wind seemed to have died down today and we were following an actual footpath now, the wall seemed to have petered out altogether as we headed towards Carlisle.
Journeys end today was Irthington which was a little out of our way, about a mile off our path but it proved well worth the effort as we found a family run bed and breakfast where we were treated like royalty when we said we had walked from Newcastle. That night we sank into a soft feather bed, which needless to say bought instant oblivion.
Day 6 brought the realisation that we were now on the opposite side of the country and nearing our destination, the only trace of the wall was now occasional earthworks. our route at one stage took us over the M6 motorway which made a change from being stuck in a traffic jam on it. When we reached our destination for the day of Burgh by Sands we found we had walked 16 miles. Our bed for the night was again a family run bed and breakfast. We felt somewhat bemused that we were a mere 8 miles from the end of our walk.
Name: cyclonium
Posted on: 14/09/2015
We took a lovely tour of the hadrian's wall path in July this year with a company called Hillwalk (www.hillwalktours.com). Everything was organised perfectly and we have no complaints so I would recommend this company as a self guided tour option for this walk also. You may or may not wish to include this. We are browsing through your website and we hope to walk some more of the routes you have listed in the coming few years - we are planning already! :) Regards, John
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