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It's 1952, and Jasper isn't allowed to ask questions or make a fuss. He's lucky to even have a home and must keep his mouth shut and his ears open to stay in his uncle's good graces. No one knows where his mother went or whether she's coming back. Desperate to see her again, he must take matters into his own hands. From the farm, he embarks on a treacherous search that will take him to the squalid hideaways of Detroit and back again, through tawdry taverns, peep shows, and gambling houses.
"Wonderful historical mystery!"
It's the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant and Honourable Phryne Fisher is dancing and gaming with gay abandon. But she becomes bored with London and the endless round of parties. In search of excitement, she sets her sights on a spot of detective work in Melbourne, Australia. And so mystery and the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse, appear in her life. From then on it's all cocaine and communism until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.
"A series that just gets better"
It is a society that is, officially, a paradise. Superior to the decadent West, Stalin's Soviet Union is a haven for its citizens, providing for all of their needs: education, health care, security. In exchange, all that is required is their hard work, and their loyalty and faith to the Soviet State. But now a murderer is on the loose.
"Terror from all sides."
Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life. But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self-imposed retirement. There's a dead body in the woods, and the police are on the wrong scent. Lady Hardcastle makes some enquiries of her own, and it seems she knows a surprising amount about crime investigation...
"A nice cozy read!"
The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt that leads him into increasingly more alarming territory.
In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees when a young woman literally stumbles into him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes - and match him wit for wit. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern 20th-century woman proves a deft protégée and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective.
"A fabulous new take on Sherlock Holmes"
London, 1940: Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat of a Blitz looms larger by the day. But none of this deters Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, but her gender qualifies her only to be the newest typist at No. 10 Downing Street. Her indefatigable spirit and gifts for codebreaking, though, rival those of even the highest men in government, and Maggie finds that working for the prime minister affords her a level of clearance she could never have imagined....
Georgie, aka Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, cousin of King George V of England, is penniless and trying to survive on her own as an ordinary person in London in 1932. So far she has managed to light a fire and boil an egg... She's gate-crashed a wedding... She's making money by secretly cleaning houses... And she's been asked to spy for Her Majesty the Queen.
"Happy addition to a difficult genre"
In 1558 the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, high principles clash bloodily with friendship, loyalty, and love.
On the eve of the bloody Battle of the Somme, a group of English officers having a last drink before returning to the front make a promise to each other: if they survive the battle ahead - and make it through the war - they will meet in Paris a year after the fighting ends. They will celebrate their good fortune by racing motorcars they beg, borrow, or own from Paris to Nice. In November 1919 the officers all meet as planned, and though their motorcars are not designed for racing, they set out for Nice. But a serious mishap mars the reunion.
"A wonderful historical mystery!"
It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when 16-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends as Weldon puts a bullet through the rear window of Clyde's stolen automobile. Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland and his sergeant, Hershel Pine, escape certain death in the Battle of the Bulge and encounter a beautiful young woman named Rosita Lowenstein hiding in a deserted extermination camp.
"Outstanding Addition to the Holland/Texas Saga"
Gaius Petrius Ruso is a divorced and down-on-his-luck army doctor who has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. After a 36-hour shift at the army hospital, he succumbs to a moment of weakness and rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla, from the hands of her abusive owner. And before he knows it, Ruso is caught in the middle of an investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar.
"Great listen"
It is the summer of 1950 and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw.
Victorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland Yard has only 12 detectives - known as "The Murder Squad" - to investigate thousands of murders every month. Created after the Metropolitan Police's spectacular failure to capture Jack the Ripper, The Murder Squad suffers rampant public contempt. They have failed their citizens. When Walter Day, the squad's newest hire, is assigned the case of the murdered detective, he finds a strange ally in the Yard's first forensic pathologist, Dr. Bernard Kingsley.
"Enjoyable annoying book"
When listeners last heard Maisie Dobbs, it was 1938, and the world was on the brink of war. Maisie herself was on a dangerous mission inside Nazi Germany, where she encountered an old enemy and the Führer himself. In In This Grave Hour, a year has passed, and Maisie is back home in England - yet neither she nor her nation is safe. Britain has just declared war on Germany and is mobilizing for the devastating battle ahead.
In 1914 collisions between motor cars and horse-drawn carriages are an everyday occurrence on the streets of Paterson, New Jersey. But when an out-of-control driver smashes into a buggy driven by Constance, Norma, and Fleurette Kopp, their lives change forever. Constance, the oldest, demands payment for the damages but quickly realizes that she is dealing with a madman.
"Slice Of Life From Another Time"
Widely recognized as the master of the historical spy novel, New York Times best-selling author Alan Furst takes listeners back to the early days of World War II for a dramatic novel of intrigue and suspense.
"Best Alan Furst novel!"
New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history - and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul's client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the lightbulb and holds the right to power the country?
"Great Story!"
Bavaria, 1776. When Albrecht Dürer the Much Much Younger's frog prints go missing, he knows exactly where to turn for help. Gretel (yes, that Gretel), now 35 and still living with her gluttonous brother Hans, is the country's most famous private investigator, and she leaps at the opportunity to travel to cosmopolitan Nuremberg to take on the case. But amid the hubbub of the city's annual sausage festival, Gretel struggles to find any clues that point toward the elusive thief.
"Entertaining Mystery"
Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up dead in the pub, face-down in his beef and mushroom pie. Once again, it is up to Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, to solve the case.
In the year 13 BC, a famous Roman man has died. Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, a member of the triumvirate that ruled Roman along with Marc Antony and Octavian, is found dead in his bed by his wife, Junia Secunda. Although Lepidus was an old man, it appears that he did not die a natural death. He was murdered. Wishing to know who killed her husband, Junia sends to Rome for an investigator named Patroclus Numitius.
A string of strange deaths in 1932 leads Bourke Cockran, Jr., and his lover Mattie McGary to uncover a plot by Nazi scientists to conduct lethal experiments on American twins in order to create a master race. They confront an international conspiracy connecting Wall Street to Washington, DC; from Long Island's fabled Gold Coast to the marble corridors of the Barlow Palace in Munich, headquarters of the fast-rising Nazi Party; and finally to a sinister clinic hidden deep in the Bavarian Forest.
In September 1873, medium and actress Sybil Ingram is looking forward to her new life as the wife of dashing violinist Roderick Brooke. But their plans for marriage are interrupted by a cry for help from Julia de Lioncourt, Roderick's former lover, who implores him to come to Paris to rescue her from a blackmailer, Danton Fournier. When they arrive in Paris, the bewitching beauty proposes a daring plan: Sybil will take Julia's place in a new melodrama while Julia, her alibi thus secured, recovers the letters from Fournier's home.
In this Edgar Award-nominated mystery, John Maddox Roberts takes listeners back to a Rome filled with violence and evil. Vicious gangs ruled the streets of Crassus and Pompey, routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike. So the garroting of a lowly ex-slave and the disembowelment of a foreign merchant in the dangerous Subura district seemed of little consequence to the Roman hierarchy.
Washington City, 1862: The United States lies in tatters, and there seems no end to the war. Abraham Lincoln, the legitimate president of the United States, is using all his will to keep his beloved land together. But Lincoln's will and soul are tested when tragedy strikes the White House: Willie Lincoln, the love and shining light in the president's heart, is taken by typhoid fever. But was this really the cause of his death? A message arrives suggesting otherwise.
As World War II rages across Europe and the Pacific, its impact ripples through communities in the heartland of America. A farm girl is locked in a dangerous love triangle with two Germans soldiers held in an Illinois POW camp. Another German, a war refugee, is forced to risk her life spying on the developing Manhattan Project in Chicago. And espionage surrounds the disappearance of an actress from the thriving Jewish community of Chicago's Lawndale.
The Revengeful Child of Dachau Prison is about a child who grows up to become David Adelman, a US Navy SEAL. He receives a diary written by his father, who died in Dachau Prison during World War II. The diary turns out to be a request for revenge for the brutality that the prison's SS guards subjected David's father and others to. After wrestling with this strange request from the grave of his father, David decides to honor his father's request. This leads him to travel the world and kill 15 SS guards with the FBI and Scotland Yard on his trail.
When Fredericka Wing arrives in South Sutton, Massachusetts, a tiny New England town, it seems an ideal place for a working summer vacation. She plans on managing Miss Hartwell's bookstore while working on her own writing. She never dreamed she would find a body in a hammock in her own backyard. Someone brutally murdered Catherine Clay, an heir to the Sutton fortune. And more violence follows. Together with Peter Mohun, a professor at a local college, Fredericka sets out to discover the murderer's identity.
Travelers is the story of Trudy's friend Jeremy Smitherlin as he finds himself functioning as the adult in his home because his parents have emotional and physical illnesses. Jeremy first appeared in The Dream Bucket as the slimy boy who dipped Trudy Cameron's braids into his ink well.
London, 1859. After years of fighting for Queen and country, Jack walks back into his mother's East End gin palace a changed man. Haunted by the horrors of battle and the constant fight for survival, he longs for a life to call his own. But the city and its people have altered almost beyond recognition, and Jack cannot see a place for himself there. A desperate moment leaves him indebted to the devil - intelligence officer Major John Ballard, who once again leads Jack to the battlefield with a task he can't refuse.
Who or what is responsible for the gruesome deaths of members of the secret society known as the Order of Osiris? Dr. Armiston, an irascible, confirmed bachelor who believes in medicine, not mysticism, is certain the deaths are only tragic accidents. The members of the Order of Osiris suspect something more sinister is at work.
"Great story telling"
Following a humiliating fourth season in London, Lady Elizabeth Fraser is on her way back to her ancestral country estate when her train careens off the rails and bursts into flames. Though she is injured, she manages to drag herself and her unconscious mother out of the wreckage, and amid the chaos that ensues, a brilliant young railway surgeon saves her mother's life. Elizabeth feels an immediate connection with Paul Wilcox - though society would never deem a medical man eligible for the daughter of an earl.
Late December, 1818: As Captain Gabriel Lacey prepares for his upcoming wedding, his former neighbor, Marianne Simmons, comes to him about an actress friend who's gone missing. Lacey agrees to help look for the actress, little realizing that the search will pit him against men who think nothing of abduction, assault, or sending incendiary devices to the innocent.
The men onboard HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the Terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape.
Young Gincy Tate's father is murdered before he can fulfill a contract to supply the Army with remounts. In order to pay his debts and save the ranch, she must make the sale in his place. Afraid the lien-holder, whom she suspects of being the murderer, will foreclose before June 7, 1883, she tells no one Morris Tate is dead. Instead, she says he is here, there, or elsewhere. Gincy hires two cowboys to help trail the herd to Fort Spokane.
When Depression-era private eye Maggie Sullivan is invited to dine with a millionaire, she doesn't expect the first course to be a gun in her face. It draws her into a gold-plated web of theft, revenge, double crosses, and murder. A big-time swindle has made fools of some of the city's wealthiest businessmen. The man behind it has vanished. When Maggie begins asking questions, he reappears - dead in the river. But she's already learned too much. Someone's out to silence her too.
An international crisis threatens to plunge the world into war at the dawn of the 20th century, but the British Foreign Office finds itself blinded by the bizarre deaths of crucial agents and informants as it struggles to stave off the coming conflagration. For help, they turn to an unconventional outsider, Inspector Jenkins of Scotland Yard, who soon finds himself on the trail of a mysterious man with a deadly black box and a host of devoted accomplices.
Sherlock Holmes looks on idle and infuriated from the sidelines while evil has Whitechapel in the grip of fear, evil which bears the infamous name of Jack the Ripper, a name set to raise the hackles on people's necks for generations to come. A fearful officialdom has declared Sherlock persona non grata but is suffering the wrath of public opinion for its failure to bring the murderer to justice.
After battling the likes of Dracula, a mummy, and wolves with allies such as Zorro, Van Helsing, Arsène Lupin, and many others, he hopes to retire, but the events are still implanted inside his mind. But things are far from over and he has one last case to solve.
The Carolinas, 1699: The citizens of Fount Royal believe a witch has cursed their town with inexplicable tragedies -- and they demand that beautiful widow Rachel Howarth be tried and executed for witchcraft. Presiding over the trial is traveling magistrate Issac Woodward, aided by his astute young clerk, Matthew Corbett. Believing in Rachel's innocence, Matthew will soon confront the true evil at work in Fount Royal....
"Dark, Twisted Period Piece with GREAT Characters!"
Nothing is simple when you're 35th in line for the British crown, least of all marriage. But with love on their side and plans to elope, Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her beau, Darcy O'Mara, hope to bypass a few royal rules....
"Delightful book"
At the end of her first unsuccessful season out in society, Lady Georgiana has all but given up on attracting a suitable man - until she receives an invitation to a masked Halloween ball at Broxley Manor. Georgie is uncertain why she was invited, until she learns that the royal family intends to marry her off to a foreign prince, one reputed to be mad.
"Fun, light prequel"
With its posh clientele in the country for the summer, Georgie's housecleaning business has fizzled. So she tries hiring herself out as a dinner and theatre companion. But her first client has quite the wrong idea. To avoid further scandal, Georgie's shipped home to Castle Rannoch, where her summer plans include honoring a promise to Her Majesty to keep Castle Rannoch's divorcedhouseguest from seducing the Prince of Wales.
"The joy continues!"
The Queen of England has concocted a plan in which penniless aristocrat Lady Georgie is to entertain a Bavarian princess and conveniently place her in the playboy prince's path, in the hopes that he might finally marry.
But queens never take money into account. Georgie has very little, which is why she moonlights as a maid-in-disguise.
"More Royal Fun!"
Lady Georgiana Rannoch, 35th in line for the British throne, knows how to play the part of an almost royal - but now she's off to Hollywood, where she must reprise her role as sleuth or risk starring in an all-too-convincing death scene...
"Good but not her best"
While my beau, Darcy, is off on a mysterious mission, I am once again caught between my high birth and empty purse. I am therefore relieved to receive a new assignment from the queen - especially one that includes lodging. The king's youngest son, George, is to wed Princess Marina of Greece, and I shall be her companion at the supposedly haunted Kensington Palace. My duties are simple: help Marina acclimate to English life, show her the best of London, and, above all, dispel any rumors about George's libertine history.
"Queenie Must Die!"
As 35th in line for the throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch may not be the most sophisticated young woman, but she knows her table manners. It's forks on the left, knives on the right - not in His Majesty's back….
"Enjoyable light murder mystery"
Anglo-American journalist John Russell lives in Berlin and is approached to do some work for the Soviets. He reluctantly agrees and soon becomes involved in other dangerous activities, like helping a Jewish family and an idealistic American reporter. When the British and the Nazis notice his involvement with the Soviets, Russell is dragged into the world of warring intelligence services.
"Review for the whole series"
Lady Georgiana Rannoch has once again been called into service by Her Majesty the Queen. This time she's sent to Nice on a secret assignment that's nothing to sneeze at: recover the Queen's stolen snuff box. As much of an honor as it is to be trusted by Her Majesty, an even greater honor awaits Georgie in Nice - as Coco Chanel herself asks Georgie to model her latest fashion. But when a necklace belonging to the Queen is stolen on the catwalk, Georgie has to find two priceless items-and solve a murder. How's a girl to find any time to go to the casino?
"Lots of good fun"
In AD 664 King Oswy of Northumbria has convened a synod at Whitby to hear debate between the Roman and Celtic Christian Churches and decide which shall be granted primacy in his kingdom. At stake is much more than a few disputed points of ritual; Oswy's decision could affect the survival of either Church in the Saxon kingdoms. When the Abbess Etain, a leading speaker for the Celtic Church, is found murdered, suspicion falls upon the Roman faction.
"Interesting new (for me) series & great narrator!"
Molly Murphy is starting to think the cards are stacked against her. She's determined to be a private detective, but hampering her investigations is the fact that she's finding many places in turn-of-the-century New York City where women are not welcome, something that's as frustrating to her fiery Irish pride as it is to her rapidly emptying pocketbook. Then two business opportunities pop up simultaneously. An aristocratic family in Dublin fears their daughter has fled to the New World with her unsavory boyfriend, and they hire Molly to track the two down and send the young woman back home.
"The Third Installment is as Good as the First!"
It's wintertime in New York, and for the first time since Irish immigrant Molly Murphy started her early-twentieth-century detective agency, she is completely snowed in with work. While she's proving to be quite the entrepreneur and is very much in demand by some of Broadway's brightest stars and Fifth Avenue's richest families, she has to grudgingly admit that if she's going to work more than one case at a time, then she's going to need some help.
"Another Fun Adventure"
Irish immigrant Molly Murphy and her New York City P.I. business are in the midst of a sweeping influenza epidemic and a fight for women's suffrage that lands her in jail. Her betrothed, Police Captain Daniel Sullivan, finds her, but he hardly has time to bail her out, what with Chinese gangs battling for control of a thriving opium trade. The only consolation Molly can take from her vexing afternoon in the clink is that it made her some new friends among the Vassar suffragists - and brought her a pair of new cases.
"Excellent story / Narration a bit uneven"
In turn-of-the-century New York City, Irish immigrant Molly Murphy is contemplating giving up PI work for something a little less complicated, less exciting. Molly has had quite enough excitement recently, thank you very much. Especially from the handsome but deceptive NYPD captain Daniel Sullivan, whom she'd like to avoid completely. But when Daniel is accused of accepting bribes and lands himself in the Tombs, the notorious city jail, he begs Molly to help prove he was framed, and after everything they've been through, she cannot turn him down.
Molly and Daniel Sullivan are settling happily into the new routines of parenthood, but their domestic bliss is shattered the night a gang retaliates against Daniel for making a big arrest. Daniel wants his family safely out of New York City as soon as possible. In shock and grieving, but knowing she needs to protect their infant son, Liam, Molly agrees to take him on the long journey to Paris to stay with her friends Sid and Gus, who are studying art in the City of Light.
"A Delight!"
The year is 1703. The place: The Carolina settlement of Charles Town. Matthew Corbett, professional 'problem solver,' has accepted a lucrative, if unusual, commission: Escorting a beautiful woman to a fancy dress ball. What should be a pleasant assignment takes a darker turn when Matthew becomes involved in a murder investigation.
"SPOILERS! Still love Matthew Corbeett"
Molly Murphy's beau Captain Daniel Sullivan may be out of jail on bail, but he's still a ways from clearing his name, and his foul mood has Molly in search of a little breathing room when providence steps in in the form of a proposition from New York City's renowned theatrical impresario Tommy Burke. America has been very good to Tommy, and now that he's getting on in years, he'd like to pass some of that good fortune on to his family back in Ireland.
"Such a Fun Series!"
Irish immigrant and private detective Molly Murphy is thrilled to have a ticket to see world-famous illusionist Harry Houdini. But before he can even take the stage, the opening act goes horribly wrong—and the sensational Signor Scarpelli's lovely assistant is sawed in half. In the aftermath, Scarpelli accuses Houdini of tampering with his equipment. Who else but the so-called Handcuff King could have got a hold of his trunk of tricks, which he keeps under lock and key?
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Captain Picard receives a hail from Captain Donald Varley of the USS Yamato, informing him that Varley's ship has begun to experience system failures during a risky trip into the Romulan Neutral Zone. Varley, an archaeology buff like Picard as well as an old friend of his, believes he has discovered the fabled planet of Iconia. The Iconians were credited with advanced technology and Varley fears that the Romulans may use that technology against the Federation. As Varley explains further, the transmission is lost and the Yamato explodes due to a warp core breach, with a loss of all on board.
With the logs from the Yamato now downloaded into the ship's computer, Picard seeks out Iconia, which does indeed lie within the Neutral Zone, to discover what destroyed the Yamato and to keep Iconia's technology from the Romulans. En route, La Forge analyzes the logs for any clue as to how the disaster occurred. When the Enterprise arrives at Iconia they detect a probe launched automatically from the surface. La Forge is informed, but has discovered that the Yamato also detected such a probe. He races to the bridge and urges Picard to destroy the probe, which Picard does. La Forge has discovered that the probe transmitted a program to the Yamato, and that program (which is incompatible with Federation computers) tried to rewrite the computer systems of the Yamato, causing a warp breach. A copy of the "virus" has now infected the Enterprise, having been carried with Varley's logs. Fortunately, only a small portion of the logs are infected, slowing the spread of the virus.
Detecting an energy source on the surface of Iconia (which was a victim of orbital attack from its enemies), Data, Picard and Worf beam down to the facility. They discover a teleportation "gate" which seems to allow instantaneous interstellar travel, and this gate is operated within a facility for launching orbital probes. When he tries to access the facility's computer, Data is infected by the virus (as he is an android) but is able to tell Picard how to destroy the base. Picard also has Worf vaporize his tricorder so that no knowledge of the Iconian technology can be captured by the Romulans.
With the Enterprise's systems down, Picard is trapped in the crumbling base. He is forced to use the Iconian gate to escape, but arrives on the Romulan warbird, which is also infected by the virus. It is in an unstoppable auto destruct mode due to computer error.
Data eventually "dies" when his systems shut down because of the virus. A short time later he reawakens. La Forge surmises that Data's main memory core could not be accessed by the infiltrating virus, as it is protected. La Forge then uses the same technique to clear the Enterprise's memory: the ship is shut down and rebooted from its protected main computer core.
The crew beams Picard back off the Romulan ship and the Enterprise crew informs the warbird's captain on how to fix their computer, and Riker orders Data to engage the warp engines in case the Romulans fail to fix their warp core in time. The episode ends with the Romulan ship apparently successful, as it powers its systems back up, and engages its engines.
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As summer approaches, BBQ grills across the country ignite. Outdoor cooking is a great family activity because it not only gets you outdoors and in the elements, but it's also a great time to teach children basic fire-building and cooking skills.
Not to mention, it's an opportunity to play with fire, eat steak, and enjoy the beautiful weather.
If you're like me, however, you like to incorporate DIY and survival skills into almost everything… even grilling. One way to do this is to build your own grill.
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Dig a depth of 10 to 12 inches of dirt from the area you've just marked off. Build a frame which you'll use to build the base. Create a mix of 1/2 gravel and 1/2 sand in a wheelbarrow and shovel this mix into the bottom of the trench. Make sure the mixture is level and firm to create a solid sub base. Then mix the concrete and place a few inches of it in the trench. Make sure it's level. Then lay the rebar in the middle and finish pouring the concrete. Double check to make sure it's level. Smooth the top and cover with wet burlap. Allow to cure for 48 hours before continuing work. Do not remove the frame for eight days.
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The Ladies of Tokyo Auto Salon (EXCITING GALLERY #1)
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The following is Part 1 of a two-part gallery & coverage set. Part 2 is here.
The Ladies of TAS 2015:
Of the record-breaking 309,649 people that attended the 2015 Tokyo Auto Salon from the 9th to the 11th of January, a rather substantial portion of them were rocking camera kit that costs more than I made last year. But they were not there to shoot the bold, anti-automotive establishment designs from KRC Modified, or the beautiful tread patterns on Toyo's new semi slicks - they came for the other staple at car shows: Sexy Ladies.
Intellectually, I'm not too sure I agree with the practice of parading beautiful women around as objects of lust secondary only to the cars themselves, but sports cars are not about thinking with your brain and so...I don't really know where i'm supposed to go with this.
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The Rides of Tokyo Auto Salon (BIG-ASS GALLERY #1)
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OMG ! Paridhi insults Gopi in Saath Nibhana Saathiya
The episode begins with Gopi Modi convincing Paridhi. Paridhi fumes with anger and refuses to listen to her. Gopi still tries her best to calm Paridhi down. But the latter says that she wanted a better bride for Sahir.
She asks everybody why she wasn't informed about Sahir's wedding.
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" A life is not lost when it is known to future generations "
George Gauld Connection (family web page with outline descendant trees & surname lookups)
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Fifty years is a mighty long time,
Some people would say.
With Love and a happy life,
The years have swiftly passed away.
The golden years are wonderful years,
Time for our children and time to rest,
Time for more reading and reflections,
And realized how much we are blessed.
Fifty years have so many changes,
In our World, in many ways;
So we ponder, which is best --,
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So a book of memories, takes us back
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These photos are from the 1868 family bible of George Gauld & Catherine Bonner who were married December 13, 1868 in Lachute, Argentuil, Quebec.
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Elusive surnames:
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The favour of a reply is requested on or before July 21, 2000 by snail mail, e-mail or phone.
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2015 has been a very important year for Dakota Johnson. The actress – daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith and grand-daughter of Tippi Hedren – achieved success after starring in 50 Shades of Grey.
Since then Dakota walked on the most prestigious red carpets clad in the most marvellous creations of renowned designers. Today, timed with her birthday (the star turned 26 yesterday), we want celebrate her style with a selection of her most gorgeous looks.
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Annals of Thoracic Surgery | Year: 2010
Background: Patients with T4 non-small cell lung cancers with limited involvement of mediastinal structures can undergo resection, with acceptable long-term survival. Computed tomography has not proven to be reliable in determining the operability of locally advanced lung carcinoma. This study evaluated the ability of video-assisted thoracoscopy alone and with endothoracic sonography to determine operability. Methods: Computed tomography showed a close contact of the tumor with mediastinal structures (T4) in 155 patients. Staging was expanded with video-assisted thoracoscopy, followed by thoracoscopic ultrasound. Lateral thoracotomy with hilar and mediastinal dissection was considered the gold standard in determining operability. Results: Thoracoscopic ultrasound, compared with thoracoscopy alone and computed tomography, had the highest sensitivity (94.1% vs 75.2% vs 43.6%, p < 0.001) and specificity (98.1% vs 57.4% vs 37.0%, p < 0.001) for determining operability. Computed tomography, thoracoscopy, and thoracoscopic ultrasound were falsely negative in 57 (36.8%), 25 (16.1%), and 6 (3.9%) patients and falsely positive in 34 (21.9%), 23 (14.8%), and 1 (0.6%). False-negative results for operability by thoracoscopic ultrasound were found only in tumors involving the left atrium (3.9%). Conclusions: Estimation of operability in locally advanced lung cancer can be improved with video-assisted thoracoscopy and ultrasound. More than one-third of patients classified as inoperable by computed tomography were able to undergo complete resection. © 2010 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Source
Comparison of direct and indirect alcohol markers with PEth in blood and urine in alcohol dependent inpatients during detoxication
Winkler M.,University of Ulm |
Skopp G.,University of Heidelberg |
Alt A.,University of Ulm |
Miltner E.,University of Ulm |
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International Journal of Legal Medicine | Year: 2013
The importance of direct and indirect alcohol markers to evaluate alcohol consumption in clinical and forensic settings is increasingly recognized. While some markers are used to prove abstinence from ethanol, other markers are suitable for detection of alcohol misuse. Phosphatidyl ethanol (PEth) is ranked among the latter. There is only little information about the correlation between PEth and other currently used markers (ethyl glucuronide, ethyl sulfate, carbohydrate deficient transferrin, gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, and methanol) and about their decline during detoxification. To get more information, 18 alcohol-dependent patients in withdrawal therapy were monitored for these parameters in blood and urine for up to 19 days. There was no correlation between the different markers. PEth showed a rapid decrease at the beginning of the intervention, a slow decline after the first few days, and could still be detected after 19 days of abstinence from ethanol. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Source
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Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery | Year: 2011
Purpose of Review: This article reviews literature on the scientific background of functional electric stimulation of the immobile larynx, the status of animal pacing trials, and first clinical attempts to establish laryngeal pacing. Recent Findings: Impaired vocal fold motion is seen following recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis and is a result of inadequate or synkinetic reinnervation. The term vocal fold paralysis should only be used after verification using laryngeal electromyography. A variety of animal trials give clear evidence supporting the feasibility of laryngeal pacing as a new dynamic approach for the rehabilitation of patients with bilateral vocal fold motion impairment. Laryngeal pacing has become clinically applicable with minimal invasive electrode insertion and newly designed stimulation circuits. Summary: Laryngeal pacing seems to be on the right path to open up a dynamic rehabilitation of the bilaterally motion-impaired larynx. © 2011 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Source
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Molecular Diagnosis and Therapy | Year: 2012
Acute kidney injury (AKI) represents a common disorder in hospitalized patients, and its incidence is rising at an alarming rate. Despite significant improvements in critical care and renal replacement therapies (RRT), the outcome of critically ill patients with AKI necessitating RRT remains unacceptably dismal. In current clinical practice, the diagnosis and severity classification of AKI is based on a rise in serum creatinine levels, which may occur 2-3 days after the initiating renal insult and delay potentially effective therapies that are limited to the early stage.The emergence of numerous renal tubular damage-specific biomarkers offers an opportunity to diagnose AKI at an early timepoint, to facilitate differential diagnosis of structural and functional AKI, and to predict the outcome of established AKI. The purposes of this review are to summarize and to discuss the performance of these novel AKI biomarkers in various clinical settings.The most promising AKI biomarkers include plasma and urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL), urinary interleukin (IL)-18, urinary liver-type fatty acid binding protein (L-FABP), urinary cystatin C, and urinary kidney injury molecule (KIM)-1. However, enthusiasm about their usefulness in the emergency department seems unwarranted at present. There is little doubt that urinary biomarkers of nephron damage may enable prospective diagnostic and prognostic stratification in the emergency department. However, comparison of the areas under the receiver-operating characteristic curves of these biomarkers with clinical andor routine biochemical outcome parameters reveals that none of these biomarkers has a clear advantage beyond the traditional approach in clinical decision making in patients with AKI. The performance of various biomarkers for predicting AKI in patients with sepsis or with acute-on-chronic kidney disease is poor. The inability of biomarkers to improve classification of 'unclassifiable' (structural or functional) AKI, in which accurate differential diagnosis of pre-renal versus intrinsic renal AKI has the most value, illustrates another problem. Future research is necessary to clarify whether serial measurements of a specific biomarker or the use of a panel of biomarkers may be more useful in critically ill patients at risk of AKI.Whether or not the use of AKI biomarkers revolutionizes critical care medicine by early diagnosis of severe AKI and individualizes the management of AKI patients remains to be shown. Currently, the place of biomarkers in this decision-making process is still uncertain. Indiscriminate use of various biomarkers may distract clinicians from adequate clinical evaluation, may result in worse instead of better patient outcomes, and may waste money. Future large randomized studies are necessary to demonstrate the association between biomarker levels and clinical outcomes, such as dialysis, clinical events, or death. It needs to be shown whether assignment to earlier treatment for AKI on the basis of generally accepted biomarker cut-off levels results in a reduction in mortality and an improvement in recovery of renal function. © 2012 Springer International Publishing AG. All rights reserved. Source
Trends in epidemiology and treatment and outcome for head and neck cancer: A population-based long-term analysis from 1996 to 2011 of the Thuringian cancer registry
Guntinas-Lichius O.,Jena University Hospital |
Wendt T.G.,Jena University Hospital |
Kornetzky N.,Jena University Hospital |
Buentzel J.,Suedharzkrankenhaus Nordhausen |
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Oral Oncology | Year: 2014
Introduction The objective of this study was to examine patterns of care and survival in a population-based sample of patients with head neck cancer (HNC) who were treated in Thuringia, a federal state in Germany, between 1996 and 2011.Methods Data of 6291 patients with primary HNC from the Thuringian cancer registry were used to evaluate for patient's characteristics, tumor stage, incidence, and trends in treatment and overall survival (OS).Results The distribution between stages I-IV did not change significantly during the observation period. Crude incidences of HNC increased significantly between 1996 and 2011 from 13.77 to 20.39 (relative risk [RR] = 1.34; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.25-1.45). This increase was mainly driven by a significant increase of oropharynx cancer (from 3.29 to 5.85; RR = 1.67; 95%CI = 1.49-1.88) and cancer of the oral cavity (3.41-5.90; RR = 1.5; 95%CI = 1.33-1.69). The relative frequency of multimodal therapy increased (RR = 1.42; 95%CI = 1.3-1.55). The use of cetuximab increased (RR = 473.32; 95%CI = 51.57-4344.51). The 5-year and 10-year OS for the entire cohort was 49.1% and 34.1%, respectively. The multivariable analysis has proven that male gender, age ≥60 years, therapy without surgery, and TNM stage were independent significant negative risk factors for OS (all p < 0.0001).Conclusions OS did not improve during the study period. Incidence of oral cancer is significantly increasing. Although modern treatment strategies have been included in routine HNC care over the time, outcome has not improved significantly. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Source


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Jonathan SteinJun. 19, 2007 9:31 AM
Remember this video of Mike Gravel staring into your soul and then throwing a rock in a lake? It had a companion that consisted of (1) Gravel gathering twigs, and (2) a fire made of those twigs burning for seven minutes.
Weird and inexplicable, right? That's what I thought too until I found on MSNBC, via Wonkette, Gravel explaining the videos in brazenly cantankerous fashion.
"What people like you don't understand which I think is hilarious is this is a metaphor," Gravel said Monday, lecturing guest host David Shuster during an appearance on MSNBC's "Tucker."
You didn't understand two videos that looked like they were made by two dudes who got hopped up on acid, read a bunch of Foucault, and decided to make a crazy dreamscape campaign video? Listen closely to Mike Gravel: this means you're dumb.
Anyway, here's the explanations for the spots. Of the rock one, Gravel says, "The point of the spot is not the rock but the ripples it leaves in the water." Gravel is making waves. That doesn't explain the several minutes of staring directly into the camera, but whatevs.
Of the fire spot, the candidate says, "Branches are what people acquire in the way of wisdom... And then he reaches down and acquires a little more experience, a little more wisdom. Reaches down, picks up a little more wisdom. And then goes out and starts a fire."
"What does a fire represent?" Gravel asked rhetorically. "Fire represents light, heat, warmth. It's the sustenance of life."
Makes sense, I guess. Except for the part about "branches are what people acquire in the way of wisdom." I always thought those were "degrees."
So, anyway, yeah -- how about Mike Gravel, everybody?
Jonathan SteinJun. 19, 2007 9:09 AM
Quick follow up on the missing emails story. Here's what we know: the White House has been using nongovernmental email addresses, specifically ones administered by the RNC, in order to keep its correspondence out of the hands of investigators and historians. Congress caught wind of these nongovernmental email addresses through an entirely separate investigation, looked into the issue, and found that many of the emails sent through the RNC had been deleted.
Now we find that many, many more have been deleted than previously thought. The White House originally said that about 50 White House officials had RNC email accounts. But Henry Waxman and his supersleuth committee have found that there were at least 88 officials with secondary email addresses, and that emails for 51 of them have been completely lost.
While this shakes ones trust in our government -- what do they have to hide? -- the good news is that this is a potential violation of the Presidential Records Act, and officials scared of being indicted may take immunity in exchange for ratting out their superiors. Eighty-eight officials with nongovernmental emails is a coordinated, deliberate attempt to drive a stake through the heart of open government, and it must have been directed at the highest levels. Further investigation of Rove, anyone?
Jonathan SteinJun. 19, 2007 8:36 AM
One of the problems that hampered reconstruction in Iraq was that the Bush Administration hired young loyalists with no foreign policy experience to do extremely important and difficult jobs. In his book Imperial Life in the Emerald City, Rajiv Chandrasekaran noted that potential employees seeking a position in Iraq were asked explicitly if they voted for George Bush in 2000, and some were even asked for their views on Roe v. Wade. Unsurprisingly, the people hired tried to implement tenets of conservative ideology instead of taking necessary and pragmatic steps.
So why stop now? The new U.S. ambassador to Iraq just complained to Condoleezza Rice in an unclassified memo that employees at the massive U.S. embassy in Baghdad are either too young for the job, are unqualified, and/or are "trying to save their careers" by taking an urgent assignment in Iraq.
"Simply put," wrote the ambassador, Ryan Crocker, "we cannot do the nation's most important work if we do not have the Department's best people." Sorry, Mr. Crocker. If this administration's track record is any indication, you'll be getting Bush-Cheney '04 opposition researchers and Heritage Foundation junior staffers. Good luck trying to protect America's interests in a failed state of our own making -- especially with those folks on your team.
The embassy in Baghdad is America's largest embassy in the world, with a 2007 budget of more than $1 billion and a staff that includes more than 1,000 Americans and 4,000 third-country nationals. It is due for a $1.3 billion remodeling, which would renovate the 100+ acre compound and add a new pool, tennis courts, basketball courts, and the like. Whoops, forget I mentioned that.
Party BenJun. 18, 2007 9:27 PM
Ah, time off, when you can do things you don't usually do, like rent a car and head for the desert and eat fast food and not think about stuff. I'd say the Top Ten this week is influenced by what sounded good on the stereo while driving through the immense, desolate landscape around Joshua Tree, but, turns out this atmospheric electronica and groovy hip-hop really isn't that different from what I usually listen to in my little apartment. Go figure.
10. Stateless "Inscape" (from the self-titled album out tomorrow on K7)
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"How did it get so cold out here?" asks vocalist Chris James in this downtempo number from the UK combo's debut album. Well, here's an idea: maybe DJ Shadow-style beats and Portisthead atmosphere isn't exactly a recipe for turning up the heat, Stateless. Jeez.
9. Blue Scholars "North by Northwest" (from the new album Bayani on Rawkus)
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The Seattle hip-hop duo gives their rainy region some love on this track from their just-released sophomore album. Politically aware hip-hop is kind of uncool right now, and nobody wants to be preached at, for sure. But it's the jazzy, surprising backing beats, reminiscent of Dilated Peoples or A Tribe Called Quest, that keeps the project on track.
8. Maps "Back + Forth" (from the new album We Can Create on Mute)
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Much has been made about how UK producer James Chapman created this electronica-inflected album in his bedroom without the use of computers, laying down everything to good old 12-track tape. I'm not sure if I can tell how this affects the music, but whatever floats your boat, Jim, especially if it helps you make ethereal pop this good. "Back + Forth" ends up sounding a bit like Leisure-era Blur, of all things.
7. People reacting to a first taste of Pepsi Ice Cucumber, now available in Japan
Just say that a few times: Pepsi. Ice. Cucumber. Pepsi. Ice. Cucumber.
6. Bitman & Roban "Answer 2 the Beat" (from The Chicas Project on Nacional)
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This various-artists CD (accompanying the reality TV show) provides an quick fix of contemporary Latin music, most of it united by a mellow, summery vibe. Of course, I gravitate towards the strangest track: a Groove Armada-style instrumental with what appears to be a Speak 'n' Spell doing some lyrical stylings.
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Cameron ScottJun. 18, 2007 6:07 PM
I know: The bar is set high here. Before writing that headline, I asked myself, "Is this dumb thing so dumb that to call the administration a bunch of crackheads for saying it would be an insult to crackheads everywhere?" And I concluded, yes, it is that dumb.
This weekend, U.S. forces killed 7 children in Afghanistan and 100 died there in clashes between NATO and the resurgent Taliban. A new jihadist group continued fighting the Lebanese military from a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. The more radical faction of the Palestinian government overthrew the more moderate Fatah in a five-day civil war in Gaza. The Iranian governmentwhich by the way, is holding four American citizens with no chargesis engaged in a massive crackdown on civil liberties.
This morning, when asked if he thought the U.S. invasion of Iraq has helped stabilize the Middle East, White House spokesman Tony Snow said, "Hard to say....But it is pretty clear that a lot of people are putting their lives on the line for the cause of democracy in Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. And we support them."
Saner heads would have said something like this: "The Middle East is in flames....Everywhere you look, there's deep trouble Iraq, Lebanon, the Palestinians, the peace process, Iran.
Are they linked? Of course they're linked." Saner heads like Lee Hamilton, who authored the Iraq Study Group report. The report correctly predicted that Bush's surge was a waste of time, money, and lives.
Jonathan SteinJun. 18, 2007 4:09 PM
We've covered Jessica Lynch and her ordeal at some length here at Mother Jones. Now Lynch tells her own story, in Glamour.
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Cameron ScottJun. 18, 2007 12:56 PM
Headline: "Dallas Elects Businessman As Mayor"
Lede paragraph: "Choosing a wealthy retired businessman over an openly gay city councilman, voters elected Tom Leppert as Dallas mayor Saturday by a wide margin."
Cameron ScottJun. 18, 2007 12:40 PM
Now the sh-t is really hitting the fan: In a spate of cases nationwide, defense attorneys are claiming that prosecutors brought charges against their clients for political reasons. Even minor instances of prosecutor misconduct notoriously create a rash of appeals. Given the scope of the Justice scandal, there is likely to be a waterfall of legal filingssome legit. and some far-fetched. For example, Missouri lawyers have referred to the DOJ's habit of charging Democrats with corruption to question a 2006 indictment of a company owned by a prominent Democrat. (The company was allegedly in violation of federal wage laws.) The case sounds fishy, to be sure:
The indictment, which came two months after the owner announced that she was running for political office, was obtained by a Republican U.S. attorney who also has been criticized because he charged workers for a left-leaning political group on the eve of the 2006 midterm election.
But defense attorneys have been known to grasp at straws, and for every legitimate charge of political shenanigans, there will be 10 accusations. The lawyer representing a man charged with child pornography has argued that the case is politically motivated. And attorneys for a prominent county-level Democrat in Delaware forced the Republican prosecutor in the case to respond with an inch-and-a-half thick brief denying partisan considerations before the judge determined that corruption charges against the Democrat were initiated before scandal-ridden AG AG took office.
We're likely to see more of these claims in the future, and judges around the country will be forced to weigh the merit of each and every one. Still further travesty of justice undertaken by the department charged with guarding against it.
Jonathan SteinJun. 18, 2007 10:53 AM
Newsweek has gone hunting through Fred Thompson's eight years worth of Senate records that are stashed in a public archive at the University of Tennessee, and they've come to the conclusion that Thompson is not quite as conservative as his admirers on the right believe. Abortion is a big problem:
On a 1994 Eagle Forum survey, Thompson said he opposed criminalizing abortion. Two years later, on a Christian Coalition questionnaire, he checked "opposed" to a proposed constitutional amendment protecting the sanctity of human life. He struggled with the question of when life begins. "I do believe that the decision to have an early term abortion is a moral issue and should not be a legal one subject to the dictates of the government," he wrote...
[Thompson told the Conservative Spectator], "I'm not willing to support laws that prohibit early term abortions ... It comes down to whether life begins at conception. I don't know in my own mind if that is the case so I don't feel the law ought to impose that standard on other people."
Thompson told a different paper, "The ultimate decision on abortion should be left with the woman and not the government." But Big Fred likely won't have to make like Romney and disavow his previous stance. For all his ambivalence, Thompson maintained a straight pro-life voting record in the Senate. No matter what his personal beliefs, it seems he always knew what was good for him politically.
But what about campaign finance? The McCain-Feingold bill that irritated a number of conservatives and has badly hurt John McCain's fundraising was supported strongly by Thompson. In fact, he helped write the bill.
My response: eh. Thompson will have to flip-flop on that one. It's not like flip-flops are hurting anyone this campaign season -- king of the flip-flops, Mitt Romney, is in the lead. The more damaging claim against Thompson might be that he's too lazy to campaign for president, or serve as one. That's been getting a lot of traction. I mean a lot. Really, like, a ton.
Update: The Thompson-is-lazy links keep on coming. Here's one more. And another. This guy must really not like to work hard.
Jonathan SteinJun. 18, 2007 10:29 AM
The New York Times has an article today that focuses on how John McCain's uncompromising style of politics (until late, anyway) has created the presidential candidate's current fundraising woes.
For example, McCain has repeatedly hit defense contractors for being corrupt and wasteful, instead of using his position on the Armed Services Committee to become chummy with the industry. And he pays the price: his contributions from the military industry are less than half of what Chris Dodd has been able to pull in.
The problem is one McCain should have seen coming. One of his signature pieces of legislation is McCain-Feingold, which sought to limit the power of big money in politics. Now he has to do the big money dance, and no one with deep pockets wants to be his partner. Obama doesn't take money from lobbyists or special interests, so he would seem to be in the same position as McCain. So how does Obama raise so much while McCain is able to raise so little? One might argue that Obama has more momentum and a more magnetic personality. Or one might argue that Obama isn't America's single strongest supporter of a disastrous and badly unpopular war, and isn't alienating his own party over a surprisingly electric issue.
At Swampland, Joe Klein is getting sentimental over McCain's failings, and I can't quibble. I was victim to the same sort of thing when it was revealed in The Hill that McCain almost abandoned the GOP a few years back. I assumed that the news effectively meant the end of the McCain campaign, and I was sad to see McCain go. Klein disagrees with McCain's stance on the war but calls him an "essentially honorable man." I disagreed with McCain's stance on the war and lot of other stuff, but called him "decent." Surprisingly, Klein is taking worse jabs in his comments section than I did in ours.
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