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The Man From God Only KnowsbyAdrian Leverkuhn©
The Man from God Only Knows
Part I of the Blackwatch Saga
(c)2009 Adrian Leverkuhn
In the immediate aftermath of the Drug Wars, politicians within the Northern Tier turned away from the long held position to simply "go after" traffickers. Long, contentious experience with underfunded treatment programs and overcrowded prisons - coupled with the fractious Islamic ascendency after the Secession Wars - left liberal politicians helpless and at a loss to halt their precipitous slide in the standings; neo-conservative forces made huge gains in elections and after a fourteen year hiatus the leader of the ConIsmus party took the premiership away. On a platform of immigration reform and a promised new round of 'get tough' laws against drug users, conservatives swept aside liberal opposition groups and returned to power with a broad electoral mandate.
The first round of ConIsmus Reforms, the so-called Corupus Iurus Civilis, delivered great power into the hands of Law Enforcement. Police officers on the street were given the power to place any person suspected of being in the Northern Tier illegally into one of several newly constructed detention facilities. Little was said at the time though it was widely known; those who were so detained would never be released, would never be seen or heard from again. The facilities so created became known as Manzanars, and their ranks swelled with tens of thousands from the 'Southern Tier' who were caught fleeing the Drug Wars. Rumor had it that most died from forced labor, but reporting on conditions inside the Manzanars was forbidden after a few feeble attempts by frightened i-reporters.
The second element of the first round of reforms was more controversial from the start: police officers were given the power to summarily execute any person found in possession of or using any form of illegal narcotics, along with broad new powers to search for these compounds.
Drug use fell precipitously the first few months after the Reforms went into effect, the number of people caught trying to sneak into the Northern Tier dropped to a trickle. ConIsmus politicians sneered at their liberal brethren, corporate journalists soon lauded the neo-conservatives for rescuing the new republic and reinstituting law and order, but soon rumors surfaced that the police were using their broad new powers to intimidate or eliminate anti-reform agitators and perhaps not a few liberal politicians; even a complacent media couldn't ignore these dangerous new developments.
Wary ConIsmus politicians rushed through a second set of reforms; these simply modified existing code to include an element of due process. A new class of law enforcement officer was created: the Justinian. Though nominally a police officer, Justinians had to have served as a lawyer for a minimum of five years before appointment; the Justinian's job was to go to the scene of all arrests for narcotics use or illegal immigration and verify that the arrest was valid before certifying a suspect for summary execution or internment. And there was one other stipulation attached to the creation of the Justinians: all would be biologically female.
And from this simple twist of fate a tale comes to mind...
Part I
Aurelius Krul-son sat behind an arcing row of tables in the front row of a small classroom; he yawned and wiped a smeary tear from his cheek while other cadets filed-in and took their assigned seats. A fresh spasm tore through the muscles in his neck and he rubbed taut cords of tortured tissue until the pain subsided, then shook his head again as another yawn came for him. He put his hand out and grabbed the edge of the table as he winced through another spasm, this one deep in his back and shoulders. He felt awful, wanted more than anything in the world to go back to the dormitory and sleep for a week. It was not to be, he knew, not with Codex exams less than a week away. He shook his head to clear away the fog, wished once again the PT instructors would back-off from these recent late-afternoon runs.
He opened his notebook – Institute-issued and graded weekly for neatness – and took out a couple of pencils from the attaché case that lay by his feet on the concrete floor. Other cadets did the same as the clock rolled around to 2000 hours, then a door beside the whiteboard opened and the week's instructor – one they had never seen before – walked into the classroom.
Krul-son caught his breath when he saw her.
The instructor was very short, not particularly slender but by no means overweight, yet she exuded an obvious self-confidence that was positively buoyant; more important and certainly more to the point he thought she was sexy, consciously sexy, like she enjoyed projecting authority through the overt appearance of sexuality – and that made her a very rare bird indeed. She walked up to the podium before the class and laid out her materials on an adjoining table, then grabbed a marker and strode over to the board and began writing:
'Sinn August-dottir; District Attorney's office; law of search and seizure.' Her words, like her clothing, were carefully structured, precise; the lettering and punctuation left by her fine-boned hand was clipped and neat. At first all Krul-son noticed was the curve of her hips, but soon the wedding band on the third finger of her left hand caught his attention, yet even so his eyes wandered back to her exciting form.
She turned to the class and nodded to someone in the rear of the room; Krul-son dared not turn around and it was in any event unnecessary. The Commandant of the Regional Institute would be there in her immaculately starched whites, checking to see how this latest class of rookie police officers responded to their new instructor. She would, as was her custom, leave after the first few minutes of class; meanwhile, the instructor took up a remote and lowered a screen behind her and began reading off the highlights of what she planned to cover during their first morning session.
Krul-son diligently began copying every word she said, ignoring the wedding band he saw on her left hand as best he could, all the while trying to wipe away his impure thoughts with the rigorous rules of procedure that dripped like cool honey from the instructor's icy lips.
Lunch was always the same: protoplast steak and soy-carb noodles, a four ounce cup of enhanced water, three supplemental capsules of hormones and iodine. Krul-son sat at his assigned table, in his assigned seat; he looked up from his tray from time to time and squinted at the clock on the far wall, then at the radiation monitor. Everything in the dining room was white – the harshest white imaginable: the walls were white; the clock on the wall, the tile on the floor; everywhere he looked it was as if all of them were afloat on a sea of endless white. Everyone in the room... every one of the cadets, every instructor, was dressed in the same blistering white, and all but one had pure white skin. The sole exception was Misogi Kibata, an exchange cadet from the Asiana Confederation; her skin was perhaps a bit darker than his own – if at all – but it was her shocking silver hair that commanded the most attention. She was startlingly beautiful despite the radiation burns on her right arm. For some reason the latest regeneration sprays had great difficulty repairing irradiated flesh.
Halfway through the meal he looked up and noticed Sinn August-dottir walk into the room with the commandant; to Krul-son she seemed almost grimly determined to keep a private joke suppressed and out of sight for as long as possible. The two women walked through the crowded dining room and on into the private dining room reserved for high-ranking visitors.
'Naturally,' thought Krul-son. His eyes retained the passage of her legs, the soft arcing lifts of her hair, the twinkle in her eyes.
"What did you say?" Pol Dienison said.
"I didn't say anything," Krul-son said defensively.
"I beg to differ. You said 'naturally'; I heard it quite clearly."
"I'm sorry. I must have been daydreaming again."
Dienison shook his head while he snorted. "Your daydreams are as tired as your eyes, Aurie," Pol said consolingly.
"I am tired," Krul-son whispered defensively before he yawned. "I feel like I haven't slept in days."
"Perhaps that's because you haven't slept in days. If you'll think about it for a moment, you might recall none of us has."
"I wonder if they are making us tired for a reason," Aerrik Aerriksonn interjected.
"To what end?" Greggor Tarkusson replied defensively.
"I don't know. See how we handle stress, maybe." Aerriksonn shot back, his eyes bloodshot, his food untouched. "I don't know. Why get us up the middle of the day for a run, then to class on an empty stomach?"
They all turned back to their plast steaks, sipped at their water, savoring the precious liquid. Moments passed in silence, each afraid to contemplate the possibilities that lay under Aerriksonn's question.
"I think Aurie has the hots for our new instructor!" Dienison chimed in from out of nowhere.
"What!?" Krul-son jerked away from the insinuation. "No way!"
The other cadets chuckled, smiled at Aurelius for a moment. Tarkusson looked at the clock, mentioned the time; they rose and took their trays to be recycled and formed-up for prayer, then turned to the flag and saluted as they recited the simple pledge of allegiance:
'I pledge my life to God, and to the Republic He hath founded;
His Word lights the path to Justice as He guides us to Life Everlasting.'
They broke formation and walked across the cool concrete to the classroom building.
Krul-son found he could not take his eyes off the instructor all afternoon; her words seemed to hold him and caress him even though plainly there was nothing personal about search and seizure law. When her legs appeared briefly from behind the table he craned his head and took in the shape of them, fought to control the stiffness that grew from his belly, that threatened to spread through his body like a wildfire.
At one point he flinched when Dienison's elbow slammed into his ribs; he jerked to attention only to find that the instructor – along with everyone else in the classroom – was looking at him. There was understanding in her eyes, but something else was there as well. What was it? Mirth? Sorrow? Pity?
She walked from behind the instructor's table and stood before him.
"What are you looking at so intently, Cadet?" she said.
Krul-son struggled to contain the embarrassment that lurked within, waiting to engulf him; he fought to maintain the presence of mind he knew was being measured by those watching outside the room.
"I ask your pardon," Krul-son began, "but I was lost for a moment."
"Lost?" she replied.
"Yes. So sorry." He looked down at his notes, dreading what must surely come.
"How so?"
"You said that when a citizen is in the public eye there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. But what about things that may not be visible?"
"Such as?"
"Perhaps something not so readily apparent. Something inside a coat pocket, say, or inside a backpack? You are saying we have the right to search inside those items as well?"
"Of course! Any container or article of clothing which might reasonably be used to conceal prohibited items may be searched! Were you not paying attention?"
"Yes, Ma'am, I was. But are you saying that probable cause to search is overridden when there is no reasonable expectation of privacy? That when a citizen is in public we may search them at any time, without cause, for any reason? In effect... for no reason at all?"
"Effectively, yes, that is so." Her eyes bore into his.
"Oh." He was fascinated by the complex emotions that swirled in them.
"Oh?" She said dismissively as she walked back to her place before the entire class. "Oh? Is this not clear to you all?" Hands on hips, she stood now and looked around the room. "This provision was at the very core of the First Reforms. If you'll recall your basic history, the fourth amendment of the original constitution, by mandating a prohibition against all 'unreasonable' search and seizures, effectively made it impossible for the police to do their jobs. Lawlessness and runaway drug use ensued, society fractured when promiscuity and immorality replaced God as the focus of their lives. God's punishment was swift and vast, was it not?"
There were murmured assents around the room. No one doubted His wrath.
"Well," she said, looking directly into Krul-son's eyes, "I am glad I was able to clear that up for you." She smiled at him and for some reason a shiver ran down his back.
The weekend's 'ride-along assignments' were posted before dinner on Fritag evening; Krul-son gasped when he saw he had been assigned to ride with the instructor from the DAs office, and stunned when he learned later that morning at dinner that Sinn August-dottir was a Justinan. Cadets had almost never been allowed to ride with, let alone talk to a Justinian one-on-one, and he wondered why he had been chosen. He ate that morning in silence while his tablemates regarded him with a wariness that bordered on awe.
They had two hours of free-time after dinner on Fritags and the cadets from Krul-son's pod usually gathered on the commons patio to gripe and commiserate with one another; they arrived that evening exhausted and with four ounce bottles of water hoarded over the week. They sat in silence, watched the sun rising, and though each longed for bed the need to talk, to spill all the stress that had built during the long week, was overwhelming. The nervousness each felt about Krul-son's scheduled ride-along was all too readily apparent, as well.
The four of them sat side-by-side, their backs resting on the warming patio wall, lost in thought as the sun rose above the distant, hazy horizon. There was not a tree in sight, for none remained in these latitudes. The Institute had been built on what had once been verdant parkland; now every direction you looked you saw a vast, unremitting cityscape spreading into the shifting seas of a vast desert. The sun rose into an almost perpetually cloudless sky; only a thin veil of permanent hi-altitude smog kept people from being roasted alive if they remained out in daylight too long, and only if their filters remained effective. Though they were all in their twenties each could just remember when things had been different...
Krul-son looked at the reflective domes being built over the more affluent sections of the city and wondered when the poorer sections would be covered. Far across the valley he could just make out the entrance to one of the new underground cities being carved from the guts of a mountain. How many would live there? Would it be habitable in time?
"You know," Dienison said, "I think I understand the reasoning behind the Reforms as well as any, but it makes me uncomfortable to be able to disrupt lives so arbitrarily."
"I know what you mean," Aerriksson said, "but there really wasn't been an effective alternative. Who would advocate returning to the old ways?"
Each of them shuddered; each had bad memories of growing up during the depression and resource wars that followed the secession movement and revolution that killed-off the First Republic. No one wanted to see a return to the anarchy that swept the land as drug cartels pushed deeper into the homeland, as first police officers then the National Guard were swept aside by a drug-crazed tide of blood-thirsty immigrants. Only full scale military intervention had restored order and the remaining people had been more than happy to sweep aside the remnants of a wholly ineffectual government.
"Sometimes I think of quitting," Tarkusson said after a long pause.
"What would you do?" Krul-son said as he looked at his podmate.
"I don't know. Perhaps go north. I hear there are still trees there, and water. And farms... I have heard there are farms. Perhaps one could find a job there?"
"I have heard we are not welcome there," Dienison replied, lost to the irony in his words. "They built a wall some time ago. Besides, how would you get that far north?"
"I don't know. It was only a thought, really."
"Some thoughts are better kept to one's self, Greggor."
"I know, Pol, I know; but this does not seem like such a good way to live."
"It is what it is," Aerikksonn said. "Soon it will be our job to protect this way of life."
Krul-son was uncomfortable, wanted to change the subject: "The Codex exam next week will be miserable."
"Why?" Pol said. "We've been studying the material now for a month!"
"Alright, wise-ass..." Aerriksonn cut in, "... what does section 21.03 describe, and what is the range of punishment?"
"Section 21.03," Pol said as he turned to his podmate. "Theft of Water from Public or Private Land. The actor, with wanton disregard for the public good, appropriates water from any source, either man-made or natural, for their own use. Punishment: less than one liter, 500 credits and 500 days in detention; more than one liter but less than ten liters, forfeiture of all property, twenty years detention; ten liters or more will be adjudicated on site by Justinian, the range of possible sentences imposed may include summary execution if deemed warranted by the Justinian and approved by the Tribonian."
The other three clapped. "Bravo! Well done!"
"See! Watch Tarkusson's movements!" the Commandant said as she bent over the screen. Sinn August-dottir leaned too and watched the four cadets as they talked on the patio.
"You doubt his loyalty?" Sinn said.
"I have watched him at First Prayers. His eyes wander, like his thoughts!"
Sinn pursed her lips. "We have seen this before. Many cadets become distracted after so long at the Institute. What makes you think this is different?"
The Commandant leaned back in her chair. "Did you not hear him speak of fleeing to the North? Is that not enough?"
"What is your recommendation?"
"Public opinion is waning again; respect for the Police is falling too."
"Yes, we know that."
"Perhaps if an officer were to die, was to be killed, in the line of duty?"
"I take it you mean a cadet? Perhaps one on a training exercise?"
"While searching a house for drugs? Yes. That would be ideal."
"I will take this to the Tribonian, perhaps Montag morning. But I feel she will want to run this by the Senatusconsulta."
The Commandant reached back and rubbed her neck. "That would be a mistake, a terrible mistake, Sinn August-dottir. This must be kept away from all eyes, all prying eyes." She twisted her neck from side to side, rubbed a spot below her right ear.
"Are you alright?" Sinn asked.
"Yes. Yes, but..."
"You would like me to stay with you tonight?"
The Commandant stood. "Would you?"
Sinn stood, turned and began unbuttoning the other woman's tunic. Soon her hands ranged over taut breasts and firm stomach before sliding her mouth down into the moist warmth that had been waiting oh so patiently for this coming together all week.
Thor Bergtorson, the regions senior Tribonian, looked at the cadet files once again, then at the new video feed from the Institute. As the regions highest law enforcement officer, no one exceeded his authority other than regions two senators – and they only if they acted in concert. He read one of the files, then looked at The Commandant on his monitor; she had never been able to keep her lust in check, and that one simple fact more than any other had always hindered her police work – and her administrative judgment. And he had never once suspected August-dottir of philandering whilst on duty. He knew her eccentricities, knew them only too well, but what he saw now was clearly a dereliction of duty. He watched the two women writhing on the bed, the Commandant's face buried between Sinn's legs, yet he felt almost nothing – just the faintest echoes of memory. All The Republic's Tribonia, all by edict male, accepted ritual castration as a condition of appointment; only male members of the Senate escaped that fate. Now, after listening to the intercepts of their conversation, Bergtorson wondered if the two really were acting alone, if they really planned to keep him out of the loop. He turned up the volume on the feed and listened to their frenzied passion.


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The sister of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing has been charged in New York City in connection with an alleged threat to bomb her boyfriend's ex, it was reported by the Los Angeles Times.
Ailina Tsarnaeva, 24, of North Bergen, turned herself in today, according to a spokesman for the New York City Police Department, the Los Angeles Times reported.
She is the sister of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings in April 2013. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police, while Dzokhar Tsarnaev is awaiting trial. Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow also now lives in her sister-in-law's North Bergen house.
Tsarnaeva formerly lived in West New York.
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North Bergen police said they hadn't been contacted by New York City police about the arrest and they have had no involvement in the case.
Tsarnaeva came to the U.S. in 2003 with Tamerlan and another sister, Bella. Dzhokhar and their parents, Anzor and Zubeidat, had arrived a year earlier and settled in Cambridge, Mass.
Dzhokhar is charged with setting two pressure-cooker bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The attack, in which Tamerlan also allegedly participated, killed three people and wounded more than 260.
The brothers also are suspected of killing MIT Police Officer Sean Collier a few days later, then getting into a shootout with police that resulted in Tamerlan's death and Dzhokhar's eventual capture.
Idzhokhar Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to 30 federal counts connected to the bombing, including using a weapon of mass destruction. His trial is scheduled to begin in November.
According to the Post, Tsarnaeva's arrest marks at least her second brush with the law, following a 2011 charge tied to a counterfeiting case in Boston.
Prosecutors alleged that she knew the customers who left a fake bill to pay their tab at an Applebee's restaurant in Dorchester, and that she lied to a detective who questioned her.
Tsarnaeva skipped bail after getting busted on an obstruction charge. The case against her was later dismissed, according to a published report.


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Kudos To The Elimination Of Hispanic Navigator
June 27, 2013
To The Reader's Forum: Kudos to the elimination of the Hispanic navigator....
I'm so glad our gov't spends billions on satisfying foreigners who don't speak the language of the country they live in, instead of ...say...putting it toward jobs and cutting edge prosthetics for wounded warriors? Ya.
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Feddie, I get the financial argument. It is flimsy and suspect but one I can respect although wouldn't champion myself.
I am not sure why you would not want to ensure access to every major language. Being English-only, as in France with French-only, creates more problems than it solves. If you are saying the main motivation is to prevent litigation, we know that this is unobtainable based on current precedent. In the US, you can always sue. Again, it makes the your argument superficial.
In regards to 'lazy', I apologize. It was Doggie that made that comment. My mistake.
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Fedup, bravo to you... you are one of the very few that is true and without hidden agenda.
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HenryH, you're starting to resemble GioAllie in your comments. You're reading comprehension must be abysmal or you're having a few too many of something before you logon to this website. I haven't ever posted anything that called Puerto Ricans lazy. Also, you are quite detached from common sense when it comes to making English the official language. Nobody would have to enforce this as it wouldn't even be required to speak English. It would merely prevent lawsuits forcing the printing of government forms in scores of languages. It's been explained numerous times but for some reason you're the only one here who can't quite grasp the concept. You dismiss the tens of millions of dollars wasted as but a mere drop in the bucket when compared to all of the wasted resources by the Obama administration.
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It just dawned on me Lone as I sip my tea, maybe the challenge of our communication is that I've used Latin and Italian in my comments. As you are a staunch English-purist {joke intended} shall I go back and translate those words for you? Would that help with your formation of a counter argument that after 137 posts you've yet to articulate a clear and concise argument for further legislation. Only argument so far has been Feddie's position of 'It costs too much'.
So Lone, just once articulate why a language is required for an effective nation especially when it has not been an issue in that nation's development?
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Feddie, you have to admit you have written some pretty awful things about Puerto Ricans in particular using such terms as 'lazy' as a mass classifier. That certainly is not what my Grandmother would call 'acceptable language' so many years ago when she was teaching me manners. Most would say that is hateful speech but if your Grandmother had a different definition of it, we're open to having you explain that to us.
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Lone, you really need to spend more time with a history book. What war did we fight to not be like 'them'?
Repeat #99 - Why do we need laws to legislate language? Have you ever visited a large city? You know there are whole neighborhoods where you do not even need English to live? These neighborhoods are Garrison Beach, Brooklyn - Russian; Glendale - Armenian; Buena Vista, Miami - Spanish; Chinatown (Chicago / LA / NYC) - Chinese; Deerborn - Arabic; and on and on and on ...
We have a linga franca but not a national language. We should never legislate culture. Language does not divide culture.
Keep trying Lone. You can't have your cake and eat it too, meaning you cannot legislate culture yet tear down government. Tell me, how are you going to enforce the use of English? You are being impractical and anti-business.
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Emelye, although I don't know you, I'm sure you're a good person and the world would probably be a better place if everyone were like you but you do seem to personify the typical Liberal/Progressive in that anyone who shares your opinions/beliefs is reasonable and all those who differ are bigots, haters and xenophobes. Would you agree with someone who referred to yourself as "heterophobic"? I think not. And no, I'm not angry about this tendency to elevate the opinions of those who agree with you as it's only symptomatic of human nature.
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Feddie, I called up business associates in Germany and the Netherlands today. We discussed immigration and borders. As they put it, you can pretty much move anywhere you wish and within a short period of time achieve citizenship if you wish. Exceptions are Switzerland and Norway which are not in the EU but allow people to flow through their country and have easy access to employment. Challenges remain with the Balkans and Turkey. However, labor flows freely and employment is not restricted. The European Neighborhood will soon be extending to Israel (if it is not already) and the souther caucuses are in talks with the EU about similar participation.
Although certainly not my utopian ideal, it is a far cry from our militarized southern border.
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Emelye, thanks for the comment. Kind of you. Funny, I tend to be far more conservative than the Peanut Gallery. I, like you, am content that no one with an objective viewpoint will offer it as they will be shouted down via the use of abstract fallacy. I suspect that many who continue to chirp away lack in critical skill sets and do not see the conflicts with their own ontology.
In the end, I respect their right to disagree and I could accept their view point if it were well reasoned. However, the prevailing opinion is well entwined in xenophobia. Sad the effort is not put into joining up our community. Differences and finding common understanding make us stronger.
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Doggie, so your rebuttal is to repeat the question? Do you know what the EU is? How can you simply repeat the question without offering why my position is not valid? Quid pro quo my dear Pet.
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When I look at the Like/Dislike in this discussion thread I find that pretty much all fair minded and rational people have left the room. The prejudice and irrational have chased almost everyone else out except for HenryH. Kudos to you, sir, for answering the xenophobia with calm reason and fact in the face of insult and personal disparagement.
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How's it bogus Feddie? The free flow of labor to support economic purposes is clearly evident. As a matter of fact, it is a central aspect to the EU policy.
And, with all due respect to my long departed grandmother, Germans are not xenophobic or racist, eh? Did I miss something in the past 100 years?
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Although he was never guilty of breaking any German laws, he was denied work after eight years in Germany. This is their nation's law intended to preserve their society according to the wishes of their citizens. Now, I ask you, does this make Germans racists, xenophobes or haters. WHY should a country be forced to allow anyone in the world to reside within their borders and among their citizens? Especially when those coming have no common language nor religion and then, to top it off, rather than assimilate the immigrants insist that society change to accommodate their beliefs. I join with Lone on this point, please give me examples of countries that adhere to these policies.
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C'mon HenryH, someone as intelligent as yourself is fully aware that your examples of mobile populations moving across porous borders in E. Africa and Europe is a bogus analogy to our "open border" policy. First off, E. Africa is comprised of nomadic populations and weak central governments with foreign intrusions checked by tribal interests, none of which apply to America. And using European cross-border travel is equally bogus. While travel is certainly easier across borders EU members, the border crossings do not confer citizenship nor do they allow unrestricted residency. A more pertinent example that refutes your position is as follows. I have a Bosnian friend who came to this country in the late 90's. Due to the Bosnian economy being decimated by their conflict with Serbia, he had to go to Germany to work in a steel mill in order to support his family. His family was not allowed to live in Germany with him. They were required to stay in Bosnia. Cont.)
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OK, Doggie. Much of Eastern Africa has mobile populations with porous borders. Then, there is the EU with people moving easily between these countries. Those are the easy ones. With in the former USSR, there is a de facto use of southern labor especially in Moscow. Lip service is paid to keeping these people out of 'Mother Russia' but again, Russia, like the US, needs the cheap and flexible labor. So those are the ones I've seen personally.
So, you see no trouble calling a group of people lazy? I doubt you have one ounce of compassion for anyone. I'm disappointed such a person would live in our community. I really hope you find a way to drop that chip on your shoulder.
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Doggie, with your last post, can you honestly say you are not with prejudice? For a PR resident to learn English is as easy as it is for you to learn Spanish. Neither is the prevailing language.
Additionally, the Median Income in PR is $19,370 as compared to $41,432 for our County. If you remove fuel, heating and over priced education, very quickly our median income looks very comparable to PRs. Lazy has nothing to do it. Feddie is going to say I am attacking you. So be it. You give our community a bad name.
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Why would either change to Puerto Rico's status matter? Clearly, people living there are not going to loose their US citizenship. Also, if we cast aside PR, what about Guam and the Virgin Islands? What about the other administered territories around the world? Again, Lone, where is the argument? Where is your definition of benefits and change of the status quo?
Articulate your position and provide reasoning. To offer a fait accompli without defined benefit is nonsensical.
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Lone, now answer the second part. Go away from the defined border crossings and look. The northern border is largely unsecured. Also, bad guys don't introduce themselves and declare their intentions.
All I want for you Lone is that you critically review the world around you. If you think the security theatre at the Peace Bridge will keep you safe, you are all too willing to give up your freedom.
I'm not going to go one about your last comment but all I would say is that I would be very sad to live your vision of our country. It feels very Orwellian.
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Houston, well stated. Ignore the Dislikes. They know not what they do.
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Lone, what do you have against Puerto Rico? How will legislating English change anything? How will it affect those who receive benefits which you seem to so strongly dislike as people and as members of our community? Your argument does not add up.
Additionally, you are a supporter of Snowy and his band of merry TEA men? How does adding more laws align with such a position? Are we going to have 'language' police? You are aware they do have those under the Taliban and the across the Arabian peninsula? Seems like you are advocating similar.
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Lone and Doggie, when was the last time either of you crossed one of our national borders be it air, land or sea? Have you been to the St. Lawrence River or the Rio Grande and looked at the 'security'? Have you driven the any of the coast system in the South to view that security? Did you see any?
The fact is that terrorist will not and do not sneak into the Country. They are well organized. 'Security theatre' only seeks to placate the masses into a false sense of security. The only security we have is an open society and engaged public. We cannot keep out those who wish to harm us.
Again Doggie, before you scream 'leftie', do reflect upon your political platforms.
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I am saddened when I see people so viciously opposed to others.We are the melting pot of the world, we are supposed to be proud of that. Instead we sit by and make our country look like a melting pot of hate and oppression. Would you even offer a thirsty Hispanic a glass of water?
The former Navigator was located at a charity and the costs were covered by donations, as I understand it. So who is it hurting? If the money to fund the project isn't coming from the government or your pocket why do you care so much? The majority of the people that use that service are from Puerto Rico and they are American citizens too. If nobody helps them learn English how will they get jobs? or perhaps you think it is better for them to not learn or get help and continue on welfare because they don't speak the language? And make no comparisons with Swedish or Italians... Those were very different times, back then this was a Boom Town. Now we have nothing to offer but welfare... Get a grip.
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Peanut Gallery - How do you square your circle? I see the likes/dislikes and it is if you are not even considering what you are advocating. I know many are supporters of the TEA Party movement which party advocates for fewer laws. My position has been that laws are not required to legislate language. My second point is that it seems there is an association of xenophobia with the author's point of view.
So tell me, you want no taxes and you want a smaller government yet you want to create laws to legislate culture and communication? How are these positions not diametrically opposed?
Feddie has made an argument on cost grounds and it is the only argument thus far which is reasonably plausible to the aforementioned position. Will someone please articulate how your argument holds together and how this is not bias?
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To address the concerns about criminal-illegals, I have not seen Schumer advocate for this position. Although I find him lacking in my representation, I also do not see him outwardly supporting the subversion of the rule of law. Clearly, in the immigration code there is a 'moral character' clause and this is commonly enforced. No one, from what I can see, is advocating otherwise.
In regards to Obama, I don't count the political posturing. I have only used the Census numbers which stand at 12 million in 2010. That number can be broken down state by state. I care not to engage in the political, only the factual, and that there well may be more but according to the Census, for the next 10 years, it is only 12 million.
What's the solution, Feddie? If you expel those 12 million, our agro-economy grinds to a halt. Costs rise. Taxes rise. America needs cheap labor and we allow it exist for our own benefit. The social benefits the population receives is a small sum to the GDP benefit.
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Ok, relying on all you smart people here.
Wife and I both have problems with back, neck etc. Story is, found a chiropractor that has this new thing called Shock Therapy. Emailed to see how much it was for a treatment and got the "you'll have to come in and talk to him as there are different treatments etc." Should have been a red flag. Talks to us both and sends us for xrays. Charged 100 bucks for the two of us. Ok, first visit I get it. Go back for the results. Talks to us about how it's our posture and how he could fix it. Leaves and the manager steps in to talk to us about a treatment programn. It's 6 months and we can save money if we do the plan rather than pay as we go. It's $3,500.00 each...yes EACH!. Ok....wife is thinking, it makes sense and if it does fix us, how do you put a price on health? Get home and we were emailed another bill for another $100.00. Now I'm pissed! I've been to well over a dozen chiropractors over the years with moving etc. Yes, first visit is always a little more, but they atleast give you an adjustment so you feel better. For $200.00 all we got is told how much this is going to cost us.
Ok...sorry for the long winded story ie rant.
I've been searching the net, but not coming up with anything real good. Anyone know of anything a person can do to improve their posture? This guy had a rig (weights) to wear on your head while watching t.v. to improve your neck curve. I know it works as they did xrays of neck, then put the gear on and had you sit for 10 minutes and then xray'd you again while wearing it. Unreal how much your neck came into line.
Anyway. If anyone has anything methods for posture, please let me know.
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Monday, May 6, 2013
Aaron Rodgers QB, Clay Matthews LB Green Bay Packers
Aaron Rodgers is known for his photo bombing of captain photos before games, but he got a dose of his own medicine at a party following the Kentucky Derby by Clay Matthews. The party was Maxim And Maker's 46 Fillies & Stallions Hosted By Blackrock at Mellwood Arts in Louisville.
Tom Brady was also at the Kentucky Derby, and for some reason he hangs out with Kidd Rock. Baw-wit-da-ba indeed.
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The 6-foot, 3-inch tall teen on Tuesday night wrapped the handle of an elementary school zip line around his neck and, Oakland County Sheriff's Sgt. Matt Baldes believes, accidentally cut off the blood supply to his brain.
Oakland County sheriff's officials said the teen died about 6 p.m. Thursday.
According to an 18-year-old female companion of the victim, he wrapped the playground equipment around his neck, which was meant for use by elementary school children, and walked back and forth between two poles propping a zip line before losing consciousness.
As he walked with it around his neck, it "slowly cinched tighter and tighter and tighter," Baldes said. "Once you cut off that blood to the brain it takes 3 to 5 seconds to lose consciousness.
"Then he slumps into the knot; gravity just takes over and chokes him further."He remained unconscious and hanging from the playground equipment for up to 20 minutes, when deputies were able to cut the teen down using bolt cutters.
The Oakland County Medical Examiner is performing an autopsy.
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The time for political gamesmanship is over. The Asian financial markets are the first place that negative reaction begins to the hostage-holding of our national credit by right wing lunatics -- and they have spoken!
If the "tea party" and its allies want to affect national policies on the decrease in our national debt, they need to choose another venue. Rather, they will create a national ire over a ludicrous demonstration of their political philosophy. While I am not necessarily a fan of Marc Morial, he said it right on a national talk show: "the car has been purchased, it is off the lot." This is simply paying for something that we have already purchased, and we all should know that we must pay for it now.
If you do not want us to buy another car, that's fine; but for now, tea partyers, we have a bill to pay.
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It's a superhero world, and we humans can only look up in wonder as they control our movie-loving lives. "Godzilla" "swishes tail and demolishes competition," as Deadline put it. The big ape's estimated $93 million domestic gross -- and, more importantly, his $103 million international take, is huge news for the studio that got wiped out by "Pacific Rim" and "Jack the Giant Slayer." It continues a huge year for superheroes, along with "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" and the upcoming "X-Men: Days of Future Past."
What else happened over the weekend: "Neighbors" and "The Other Woman" continued to perform well, especially for such lousy movies. "Million Dollar Arm" did about $11 million in box office, and Disney is confident it has legs.
What's upcoming: "X-Men: Days of Future Past" opens May 23 and is expected to challenge the Memorial Day record set by "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (almost $140 million in 2007). "Fast & Furious 6" did $117 million last year and "X-Men: The Last Stand" did about $123 million in 2006. (Turns out it wasn't the last stand.)
I'm going to a preview on May 20 with Marc Mohan. He'll write the review, and we'll do a video review, Siskel and Ebert-style, for May 23.
Other movies opening May 23 include "Blended," another Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore "comedy," and "The Double," another movie about a guy who discovers an exact physical counterpart who's smoother with women. Jesse Eisenberg stars.
What else is new:
Tommy Lee Jones' "The Homesman" is a hit at Cannes.
Benedict Cumberbatch, the photo bomb legend, will star in "The Yellow Birds," an adaptation of one of the best novels about the Iraq war.
The Coen brothers are putting together a movie set in Hollywood in the 1950s called "Hail Caesar," about a fixer for the studios.
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Lars von Trier's restless formal experimentation makes him difficult to pin down, but the Dane responsible for Dancer in the Dark and Dogville tends toward an obsession with wretchedness. The results are often insane (the fate of Willem Dafoe's poor penis in Antichrist), sometimes painfully funny (the absurd theater of The Idiots) and frequently just plain stupid (almost everything else he's touched). With Melancholia, von Trier has finally struck on a subject and a story perfectly suited to his fixation on the epically fucked; he has, at last, made a masterpiece.
A disaster movie hiding a Bergmanesque character study, Melancholia investigates the farthest, darkest edge of depression, that point at which a besieged mind begins craving obliteration. Because von Trier never met a bummer vibe he didn't want to beat to death, psychic suffering is here imagined on the largest possible scale, with the earthly tribulations of a select few humans mirrored by an impending collision of cosmic proportions.
Von Trier begins at the end, with surreal eschatological visions rendered in extremely slow motion: Birds fall from the sky, and a woman sinks into a golf course's pristine lawn as two planets, one of them our own, move in for a potentially cataclysmic meeting. The two hours following this grandiose prologue hitch a ride to what might be Earth's final minutes with Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), fragile sisters beset by complementary bouts of crushing depression and mounting panic. Justine is a mess who manages to sabotage her lavish wedding with her sadness, while Claire's nurturing instinct morphs into bitterly obsessive worry over Melancholia, a newly discovered planet on course to barely miss crashing into our wet rock.
A planet called Melancholia hurtling toward Earth at 60,000 mph while a Wagner plaint plays the entire species off and Kirsten Dunst scowls? Ridiculous, I know. But listen: There really are soul-searing kinds of sadness that can stretch minds to cruel and impossible limits, and perhaps such states can only be comprehended with the help of something as absurd and terrifying as a new blue planet rising on Earth's horizon. What is certain is that von Trier brings us perilously close to understanding the horrible shape of utter disconsolation. It hurts to watch. It should. R.
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As a lifelong resident of Tuscola County and a Caro-area farmer, I care about Michigan's future. I work in a land-based industry that doesn't have the luxury of packing up and moving when the going gets tough. I'm here for the long haul.
Edward (Ned) Canfield understands the opportunities and challenges facing our state's agriculture industry. That's why I'm supporting Ned Canfield to serve in the Michigan House of Representatives representing the 84th District.
Aside from his connection to agriculture, Ned Canfield is always willing to listen—interested in learning about friends, neighbors, patients and his community. He and his wife, Cheryl, have been active members of the community for more than 20 years. Their kids attended Unionville-Sebewaing Area Schools and they have always been good, honest people.
As a doctor, Ned was disappointed with new health insurance laws restricting the time he spent with patients. When others stood idly by watching the changes take effect, Ned Canfield took a leadership role serving on the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan board. He will use that same leadership and experience to represent our community.
Ned Canfield is a physician, husband, father, veteran and small business owner ready and willing to serve the residents of Huron and Tuscola Counties.
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The unofficial halfway point of the major league baseball season is upon us and the Boston Red Sox are on top of the American League.
Tops in their division, tops in their league and at the top of the MassLive.com American League Power Rankings.
That's not how most people predicted things would turn out, but that's where the Red Sox sit right now.
The first half of the 2013 baseball season saw a lot of unusual things happen.
What's a bigger surprise? The Red Sox at the top, or the Toronto Blue Jays in dead last in the AL East?
What about the Detroit Tigers? Picked by most to run away with not just their division, but the title of league's best team, Detroit enters the break clinging to a one-and-a-half game lead over Terry Francona's Cleveland Indians.
Out west, the Los Angeles Angels are in year two of the Albert Pujols era. Unfortunately, it hasn't been much better than year one was. The Angels are 11 games out of first place. The Oakland A's and Texas Rangers are at the top of the division separated by a mere two games.
No. 1, Boston Red Sox (58-39): First Place, AL East. Last week, No. 1
All things considered, finishing a 10-game west coast road trip during which the team lost one of its best relief pitchers for the remainder of the season with a 5-5 record isn't the worst thing in the world.
The Red Sox hit the break with the league's best record. Boston lost the final two games of the road trip in Oakland, but even those two losses had silver linings.
Boston got a very good start out of struggling Jon Lester on Saturday and then got an even more impressive start from rookie Brandon Workman who spun over six innings of no-hit baseball before leaving the game tied 2-2.
The Red Sox get four off days this week before kicking off the second half with a seven-game home stand. Their opponents? How about three games against arch-rival New York, followed by four against the second place Tampa Bay Rays.
No one said winning the division would be easy.
No. 2, Oakland A's (56-39): First Place, AL West. Last week, No. 2
In 2012, the Oakland A's were a nice story. They beat up on teams with higher payrolls, better known players and bigger markets to win the AL West.
This season, Oakland continues to win a lot more games than they lose.
Oakland overcame some injuries to key players back in May and hasn't stopped winning since.
The A's rolled into the break having won four of their last six games against the two best teams in baseball -- two against Pittsburgh and two against the Red Sox.
The A's hit the road after the break, traveling to Los Angeles and Houston to take on divisional foes.
Oakland is a team that knows how to win. They won last year, and they look well positioned to repeat that accomplishment in 2013.
No. 3, Tampa Bay Rays (55-41): Second Place, AL East. Last week, No. 5
The hottest team in the American League heading into the All-Star break is the Tampa Bay Rays. They've won 14 of their last 16 games. Are they a team that has turned a corner and is now one the league's best?
Two of the last 16 games were against the Detroit Tigers. The other 14 were against the White Sox, Twins and Astros, three teams who have a combined record of 109-169.
Tampa has been beating the teams that they should beat. The easy ride comes to an end after the All-Star break. Tampa hits the road for 10 games against divisional foes Toronto, Boston and New York.
If they're still winning games at the same rate, then Tampa can be taken very seriously as a contender.
No. 4, Texas Rangers (54-41): Second Place, AL West. Last week, No. 3
The All-Star break came at the perfect time for the Rangers.
Ace Yu Darvish is on the disabled list. The Rangers have lost four of their last five.
They're only two games back from the division leading A's, but their momentum is heading in the wrong direction.
The pitching staff is injured, but the offense has struggled as well. Perhaps that's why the Rangers decided to sign former Boston Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez to a minor league contract.
The Rangers are involved in a real dogfight for the AL West crown, and right now Texas is playing shorthanded.
Texas has a seven-game home stand coming out of the All-Star break. That's good news. The fact that the visiting teams are tough opponents such as the Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees could pose a problem.
No. 5, Detroit Tigers (52-42): First Place, AL Central. Last week, No. 4
The record isn't that bad, and the team is in first place, but the Tigers first half still must be considered a disappointment.
There were bright spots.
Miguel Cabrera is in the midst of another triple crown-calibre season.
Max Scherzer and Anibal Sanchez both had Cy Young caliber first halves. Austin Jackson was great, but he wasn't healthy.
The team isn't dominant because the bullpen is shaky and the fielding is below average.
Detroit had a 4-3 week leading up the break. But after the break, the Tigers hit the road.
If the Tigers are going to run away with the Central, they could start immediately after the All-Star break when they travel to Chicago and Kansas City, two divisional foes who the Tigers should be able to beat.
No. 6, Baltimore Orioles (53-43): Third Place, AL East. Last week, No. 6
The biggest story in Baltimore, maybe in all of baseball, is slugger Chris Davis and his 37 home runs.
Davis and the Orioles have both been very consistent this season. Unlike division rival Tampa, Baltimore has been at or near the top of the AL East all year.
This Orioles team doesn't have the dominant bullpen that the 2012 version had, but the offense, powered by Davis and 20-year-old superstar Manny Machado is one of the league's best.
Friday, the Orioles hit the road for seven games against Texas and Kansas City. The Orioles have shown themselves to be a resilient and consistent baseball team. Don't expect them to fade.
No. 7, Cleveland Indians (51-44): Second Place, AL Central. Last week, No. 8
Cleveland is certainly better than most people expected them to be. Unfortunately, that might not be enough to get them into the postseason.
The Indians are still hanging right near the top of the AL Central. They enter the All-Star break having won four in a row and six of their last eight. All that winning, and the Tigers are still a game-and-a-half ahead of the Tribe in the Central.
The Indians have struggled on the road this season. They're below .500 away from home, which makes a six-game road trip to start the second half of the season a bit daunting.
No. 8, New York Yankees (51-44): Fourth Place, AL East. Last week, No. 7
The Yankees can't catch a break. After waiting over three-and-a-half months for team captain Derek Jeter to fully recover from two ankle fractures, they finally welcomed a healthy Jeter back last Thursday -- for about six innings.
Jeter left his season premier with a strained quadriceps muscle. He missed the weekend series against the Twins and it is hoped that he will return after the All-Star break.
In the meantime, the Yankees lost two of three at home to a Twins team that hadn't won two of three on the road since May 7th to May 9th, when they won three in a row against the Red Sox in Boston.
The Yankees finished the first half of the season in a slump. Forget the two of three to Minnesota. Since June 1st, the Yankees are 20-21, a positively uninspiring and unimpressive under .500 team.
In spite of the mediocrity, the Yankees are still only six games out of first place. That number could change dramatically next weekend when the Yankees make their first trip of the season to Fenway Park.
A couple of road wins against the first place Red Sox could give the Yanks needed momentum. A couple of losses and all of a sudden the Yankees could be facing a steep climb to get back into the playoff hunt.
No. 9, Toronto Blue Jays (45-49): Fifth Place, AL East. Last week, No. 10
The Blue Jays would probably win a "most disappointing team of the first half," poll. After shipping off prospects, trading away their manager and spending some serious cash as well, the Jays are still a sub-.500, last place team.
The only reason their record isn't abominable is because of an 11-game winning streak back in June.
The Jays have had their injuries, but by the All-Star break, every team has dealt with injuries.
The real problem has been, and probably will continue to be, the pitching. The starting rotation just isn't good enough for this team to be a legitimate contender.
The Jays start the second half of the season with a 10-game home stand. If they are going to try to mount a comeback, that's a good opportunity to get it started.
No. 10, Los Angeles Angels (44-49): Third Place, AL West. Last week, No. 9
Just like Toronto, the Angels are a team that features a large payroll, and not nearly enough starting pitching.
Unlike Toronto, the Angels are in the AL West. That's why they're a third place team instead of a last place one. That doesn't mean they're better than Toronto, it just makes their path back into contention a little easier.
They're still going to have to win baseball games. That's going to be a problem as long as the Angles continue to sit in the bottom third of the AL team ERA and pitching stats.
Look for the Angels to get better production from disappointing bats such as Josh Hamilton and Albert Pujols in the second half. That will drive the team to more wins. But unless the pitching improves, it won't get them to the playoffs.
No. 11, Kansas City Royals (43-49): Third Place, AL Central. Last week, No. 11
This was supposed to be the season the Royals made the postseason, or at least vigorously competed for a playoff spot. Instead, it is beginning to look like just another disappointing, sub-.500 year in KC.
The Jays and Angels have underperformed because of bad pitching. The Royals have gotten the pitching, but its the bats that have let them down.
Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas have both had weak 2013's. Overall, the Royals rank in the bottom third of the AL in runs scored, team slugging and team on-base percentage.
Playing in the weak AL Central has allowed the Royals to climb to third place and stay within striking distance of first place Detroit, just eight games back.
The Royals start the second half at home, against the Tigers. That would be an ideal time to start a second-half comeback.
No. 12, Seattle Mariners (43-52): Fourth Place, AL West. Last week, No. 12
If you're looking for a team that could have an interesting second half, Seattle might be a good place to start.
The Mariners have a decent crop of young players who have already arrived in Seattle. They've got more help down on the farm, and they've got some very marketable major league trade pieces in Raul Ibanez, Michael Morse and Kendrys Morales.
All of that won't be enough to get the Mariners back into playoff contention this season. It might make 2014 one to remember in the pacific northwest.
No. 13, Minnesota Twins (39-53): Fourth Place, AL Central. Last week, No. 13
The Twins are finally beginning to see some encouraging signs. Just like Seattle, the Twins won't be mounting a second-half comeback to compete for the playoffs. However, if you were lucky enough to see the throw that rookie Aaron Hicks uncorked at Yankee Stadium last Friday, then you can understand why the Twins are optimistic about the future.
Minnesota doesn't just have some exceptional young talent in the majors, they've got some potential future stars in the minors as well. Miguel Sano and Byron Buxton are both names worth remembering.
None of the players just mentioned are pitchers. If the Twins really want to compete in the next few seasons, they're going to need to get some arms.
They've got tradable players such as Justin Morneau who might be able to help land them a pitcher.
The Twins look like they could have a playoff-caliber offense by opening day 2014. They're going to need to add an arm or two though.
No. 14, Chicago White Sox (37-55): Fifth Place, AL Central. Last week, No. 14
The White Sox have already started to sell off players on their roster who can net them major league prospects. The Matt Thornton trade was the first of what will likely be several deals made between now and the end of July.
In addition to Thornton, the White Sox could end up dealing Alex Rios, Adam Dunn, Jesse Crain, Matt Lindstrom, Jake Peavy, John Danks and maybe even closer Addison Reed.
That's the best path for Chicago GM Rick Hahn to follow. Not only is the current White Sox squad old, and not all that good, but the minor league system is one of baseball's weakest.
The current White Sox team was built primarily by signing free agents of trading young prospects for established veterans. The results haven't been good.
Chicago will be one of baseball's most active teams between now and August 1st. They won't win many games, but they might be able to set themselves up for future success.
No. 15, Houston Astros (33-61): Fifth Place, AL West. Last week, No. 15
The Astros are more like the Twins than the White Sox. They've got a well stocked minor league system, and it wouldn't surprise anyone if the team were able to make a few deals this month to add even more young talent.
In the meantime, the Astros continue to be one baseball's worst teams.
That doesn't mean there won't be some good news.
Top pitching prospect Jarred Cosart made his major league debut last week, and took a no-hitter into the seventh inning.
The team also locked up second baseman Jose Altuve with a four-year contract extension
That's the type of good news that Astros fans have been waiting for, and with their minor league system filled with top prospects such as Carlos Correa, George Springer, Mark Appel and Delino DeShields Jr., there should be even more good news on the way.


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The crew leaving RECon Tuesday night looked worn out as they sat in the Las Vegas airport waiting for one red-eye or another to carry them home. But they weren't too worn to recap their ICSC experience and what it meant to the future of retail.
Sitting in a Mexican restaurant at the airport at 10 p.m., four agents from an unidentified brokerage discussed their successes and failures over the previous three days, including the fate of some poor Kroger store in Anytown, USA.
But the most telling trend, according to the oldest of the four gentlemen, was the stark honesty of developers this year, who admitted to vast trouble finding capital.
"In all the years I've done this, I've never heard a developer say, 'I'm having trouble with liquidity and I'm selling'" some projects, the agent said.
That mirrored what I've been hearing, although to a heightened degree. Available financing seems to be the greatest concern, even above finding retail tenants, right now.
Miller Canfield lawyer Patrick Lennon of Kalamazoo noted it during his RECon trip this year. Other western Michigan developers on the trip acknowledged the trouble too, and not just for the "marginal" deals claimed thus far to be affected. Even the very strong deals have suffered a lack of banking interest, they said.
Scott Chappelle, president of Strathmore Development Co. in Lansing, which hosted a large booth at RECon, sent me this article to explain the current financing situation.
"This nails it," he e-mailed.
Right now there's a lot of guessing over when the situation ends and the money returns. RECon couldn't answer that question this year, but it did present a lot of interesting leads, including new designs in retail, strongly affected by the green movement.
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So what if the peaches that adorn the top are canned? Many patrons like it that way, and fresh strawberries are available as an alternative. So what if slices of the cake are only available in plastic containers?
Sit down in the shop, take a bit of the dessert in your mouth and, container or not, the cake will transport you to heaven.
Tres leches cake is a staple in the Mexican kitchen for special occasions. It gets its name from the three milks used to make it -- usually whole, sweetened condensed and evaporated. The milk makes it extra rich and sweet and keeps it moist.
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Cox is the first transwoman of color to have a leading role on a mainstream scripted television series.
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According to OSP Sgt. Eric Judah, a Kawasaki motorcycle operated by Dale Albert Glant, 58, of Ocala, Fla. was northbound on I-5 about 4:30 p.m. Friday when for an unknown reason, it left the northbound lanes and drove into the center grass median. Witnesses said he tried to keep control of the motorcycle.
After traveling about 390 feet through the center median the motorcycle crashed before entering the southbound lanes.
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"I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated," Obama said while refusing to retract his initial opposition to the surge.
However, he added, the country has not had enough "political reconciliation" and Iraqis still have not taken responsibility for their country.
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But Obama warned against the current U.S. administration lumping radical Islamic groups together.
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GRANBY – The Select Board has ended the town's accounting service that has been provided by Hampshire Council of Governments.
Granby board members also said they are prepared to take legal action against the HCOG to recover money for services they say were either not provided or resulted in greater than necessary outlays.
The biggest problems with the HCOG, according to selectmen, involves the town having to pay as much as $10,000 more than last year for workers compensation liabilities, due to tardy paperwork filing. And the inability of departments, such as police, to know what is in their accounts, due to no balance sheets provided by the accountant since the fiscal year began on July 1, selectmen said.
In an interview immediately following the Jan. 27 meeting, HCOG Executive Director Todd Ford was asked about the select board decision to terminate the accounting contract. Ford said he had no comment.
But in an email to Granby officials the next day, Ford told them: "I feel the Council of Governments has been placed in a position to fail in the eyes of your Board." He wrote that despite success in other towns, "Granby has been and continues to be an anomaly."
The motion Granby selectmen approved states that with the guidance of the town's counsel Edward Ryan, "We move forward with terminating" the HCOG accounting services contract.
After months of wrangling, the parties had agreed to a $22,500 contract renewal in October for HCOG to continue providing the town's accounting service. About $5,000 had been disbursed to the agency in the current fiscal year when selectmen voted to sever their relationship with the HCOG.
Selectmen's Chairman Louis Barry said the service the HCOG has provided resulted in "a direct financial hit to the town. They owe us money; we may have to go to court to get it."
The chairman said severing the agreement requires a 90-day notice, and that the town's counsel would advise them on that aspect – along with "monitoring what it is costing us to catch up."
The board said it plans to appoint Town Administrator Chris Martin as the interim town accountant, and to hire a part time bookkeeper.
Ford's email to Granby officials, dated Jan. 28, also states: "We have gone through half a dozen bookkeepers, most of whom quit citing the work environment in Granby. (we have just hired a new bookkeeper exclusively for Granby). On at least 2 occasions I learn about your issues with accounting through the newspaper after having them publicly discussed at a board meeting prior to a phone call placed to my office. Software, that we helped you procure at a discount, has been delayed and deadlines have been missed for payroll implementation. I am confused, frustrated and disheartened by these practices."


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The United States Postal Service is beginning to phase out processing of "originating" mail in Saginaw, which means layoffs or transfers for at least 14 employees, says Doris Honeman, president of the American Postal Workers Union 486/487 in Saginaw.
Honeman said the USPS plan to relocate the process to the Michigan Metroplex plant in Pontiac began in 2009, but employees hoped the change would be delayed when a Dec. 13-issued memo stated that the agency "agreed to delay the closing or consolidation of any" post office or processing facility to May 15, 2012.
U.S. Postal Service spokeswoman Sabrina Todd said the directive only applied to 2011 consolidation or closure proposals, which include the possible total closure of the Saginaw Processing and Distribution Center at 1233 S. Washington.
"They're talking that we would lose 126 positions here in Saginaw if they do the closure," said Honeman. "The community doesn't want it to happen.
"They want their mail to stay here and be processed here. We've been talking to congressmen and senators and they seem to be on our side to keep the Saginaw plant open."
The processing of mail that originates in Midland, Bay and Saginaw counties had been handled by Saginaw processing employees, but 23 percent of that work is shifting to Pontiac today, 33 percent more beginning Jan. 25 and the remaining 44 percent on Feb. 8.
Saginaw delivers Lansing mail direct under the current process, but the new procedure requires Lansing-destined mail to travel to Pontiac, get sorted and then ship to Lansing.
"We've sent out test mail and it takes longer," Honeman said, though she wasn't comfortable estimating hoe much time would be added to average delivery.
Officials revealed to employees that the 2009 plan would proceed during a safety session on Thursday.
"They never officially told us anything" before that meeting, Honeman said. "You would have thought they would have notified at least me prior to doing this but they didn't."
Fourteen employees received notices that they can be relocated to another location within 50 miles of Saginaw within the next 60 days.
The problem is, Honeman said, there is no other facility within 50 miles.
She said there is a "no-layoff clause" in the union contract and she expects
the relocation distance will be expanded.
Employees are "worried about losing their jobs, having to go someplace else and possibly having to move," Honeman said. "And that's going to take a lot of revenue out of the city of Saginaw if we do this."