text: What Is The Deadliest Machine Of All-Time? (Heavyweight Division, Round 2)Sean Fallon5/20/09 12:20pmFiled to: Question of the DayDeadliest movie robotsman vs machineMan v. machineMachines behaving deadlyqotdRobotsMachinesMoviesTelevisionHeavyweight division81EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Megatron walked away with a victory over Mechagodzilla in Round 1 of the Heavyweight Division, but today he faces a formidable opponent from Marvel comics—the Sentinel. Which Robot Is Deadlier?(online polls)Stay tuned for Round 3 of the Humanoid Division Battle later today. Cast your votes and feel free to suggest a new opponent in the comments. Advertisement Advertisement This tournament poll of the world's deadliest robots was proposed to us by our friend PW Singer, author of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century which we covered last March. Stay tuned for more of the tournament, more from Singer, and for more scary-ass robots wreaking havoc on fleshy humans and metallic adversaries alike.Machines Behaving Deadly: A week exploring the sometimes difficult relationship between man and technology.Reply81 repliesLeave a reply


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Maison Fleurie, A Four Sisters Inn Accommodation & Rooms
- Free full breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
Main amenities
- 13 smoke-free guestrooms
- Outdoor pool
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Lobby fireplace
- Concierge services
- Free newspapers in the lobby
- Limited hour front desk
- Tour/ticket assistance
What's around
- V Marketplace (0.1 mi / 0.2 km)
- Gordon Gallery (0.2 mi / 0.4 km)
- Vintner's Golf Club (0.5 mi / 0.8 km)
- Yountville Park (0.6 mi / 0.9 km)
- Napa Valley Balloons (0.7 mi / 1.1 km)
Maison Fleurie, A Four Sisters Inn Accommodation & Roomsfrom ZAR 2,758
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- Deluxe Queen Guest Room
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Hotel size
- This hotel has 13 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 3 floors
- Check-in time 3 PM-8 PM
- Check-out time is 11 AM
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- One child (5 years old and younger) stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Pets not allowed
Extra people
- Rollaway beds available, charges may apply*
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free self parking (limited)
- Free nearby parking
Other information
- Smoke-free property
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In the hotel
- Free full breakfast daily
- Free reception
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Outdoor pool
- Spa tub
- Golfing nearby
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Number of buildings/towers - 3
- Fireplace in lobby
- In-room accessibility
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Bathrobes
- Iron/ironing board
- Down comforter
- Turndown service
- Premium bedding
- In-room massage available
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Cable TV channels
- Free newspaper
- Free WiFi
- Free local calls
- Daily housekeeping
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- Maison Fleurie Four Sisters
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- Maison Fleurie Four Sisters Inn Yountville
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- Maison Fleurie - a 4 Sisters Inn
- Maison Fleurie - a Four Sisters Hotel Yountville
- Maison Fleurie - A Four Sisters Inn Yountville, Napa Valley, CA
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Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
This property does not have elevators.
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Recent reviews
Excellent 4.2 /5 from 25 reviews
I love this B&B. The staff was helpful and friendly. Breakfast was fantastic. The room was gorgeous. The other patrons were very nice. The hot tub and pool areas (separate) and secluded with flowers and greenery all around. It was the finest place I have stayed in years, perhaps even the nicest B&B I have ever stayed. I will be back on my next trip to the Napa Valley.
This was the smallest room I've ever stayed in
We booked through Hotels.com. They checked us in only after 3 PM. It was the smallest room what I slept in all my life, just a queen bed , no chairs in the room or any furniture @ all, just a little space to move around the three sides of the bed. By no means would qualify for a 4 stars accommodations
Staff was very nice. Moved the breakfast and wine/cheese hour! My only complaint would be that the bed was a little softer than I would have liked. Great bed and breakfast!
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This gorgeous Mediterranean jewel is located not far from the magnificent Center of Calpe. You're actually less than a kilometer away from the urban center. On the other side, you have to travel the identical distance in order to reach one of the most beautiful beach in Spain. Now, you have it. This property comes with a flawless location. Undoubtedly, the walking distance to the beach and the urban center are the most important advantages of this property worth remembering. Here's more. You only need to walk for a couple of minutes in order to reach the gorgeous Peñon de Ifac Nature Park. In other words, you have plenty of interesting locations to focus your attention to.
This is a relatively new building, having in mind that's been built in 2015. With 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms you can expect to rediscover the very meaning of the word – luxury. We shouldn't forget to include the eye-catching golf courses you can easily reach in a ten-minute car ride. You can invite a small army of your friends and loved ones with no need to worry where you're going to put them or how you're going to entertain them. Rest assured that this fantastic luxury property isn't going to wait too long for its new owners. That's why you should hurry and acquire it as soon as possible.
Calpe, also spelled without the 'e' as Calp, is instantly recognizable for the mighty Penon de Ifach, the huge rock which rises 332 meters out of the Mediterranean Sea. This has stood guard over the town and witnessed its transformation from sleepy little fishing village into tourist magnet.
Calpe is best known for its fine sandy beaches and great quality fish restaurants. There are two stunning beaches to choose from, one either side of the mighty rock. Both beaches have beautiful long promenades and a great selection of bars and cafes. The fish restaurants are to be found mainly around the marina and the town centre has some excellent local shopping facilities, including a large street market.
The Rock of Ifach, which has been compared to the Rock of Gibraltar, was declared a nature reserve in 1987 and now provides a safe haven for a variety of birds and unusual flora and fauna. For the energetic, there is a fantastic walking route which goes through a tunnel in the rock and takes you right to its very tip!
Places of interest and ideas for things to do in Calpe / Calp
• The Town Centre: great shopping district.
• The Tourist Information Office: for more information about the town and its museums including the Collectors Museums, Comic Museum, Fiesta Museum, Archaeological Museum, Ethnological Museum and the Casa de la Senyoreta Museum.
• The Beaches: long sandy beaches.
• The Marina: small marina beside small rocky beach.
• The Market: large Saturday morning
• The Nature Reserve: the Rock of Ifach Park with a fantastic walking route.
• The Salinas: salt lake, great for bird watching.
• The Scenic Drive: to Moraira along CV746 with lots of possible stopping places for admiring the views!
Ideas of places to visit in Calpe / Calp
• There is enough to do in Calpe to keep you busy for a whole day. The museums are worth a visit and old town is lovely to wander around. Then there is the beach to relax on and a great range of restaurants to dine at, many of which offer freshly caught fish dishes.
• Enjoy the hustle and bustle of the busy street market on a Saturday morning and, after a stop at the Salinas to admire the Flamingos, head inland to the beautiful town of Benissa with its superbly restored historic quarter for some tranquility.
• Have a day of enjoying the scenery. Follow the clearly marked walking trail through the nature reserve that protects the Rock of Ifach. Take the CV746 scenic road to Moraira and have a wander along the seafront to the marina.
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Anyone found a way to enable Flash / Amazon Instant Videos on Jelly Bean?
On my old phone I used to have Ice Cream Sandwich and side loaded Flash 11 with Dolphin. Flash Content, including Amazon Instant Videos, ran seamlessly.
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Adobe stopped supporting it on mobile devices. If you already had it with ICS and you upgraded to JB it would still work. It is no longer available in the Google Play Store. If you can find an old apk you could try installing it.
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"I read a lot of mixed reviews before coming here. I thought the room was very clean and was plenty of space. I stayed 9 nites. I noticed ESA used to include pots & pans, but no longer. Since a Dollar store was across the street, I didn't mind picking up ice trays, tupperware, etc. I needed some t..."
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The trailer for the "RoboCop" remake – that purists have been fearing since it was announced – has gone live.
Joel Kinnman, of TVs "The Killing", plays the Detroit police officer with a heart of, um, metal (This Robocop actually does resemble the classic character a lot more than those first images might have had us believe) with a name-filled supporting cast, including Abbie Cornish, Samuel L.Jackson, Michael Keaton an Gary Oldman, backing him up.
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Just as Honda is shifting its sports car line-up from petrol engine to hybrid cars, SPOON has been struggling to find a way to tune hybrid cars. SPOON CR-Z is their first tuned hybrid car. Through development, they had found lots of blackboxes in the components related to electric motors, making hybrid car tuning a more difficult task compared to traditional petrol engine cars. So first they have thought of taking off the electric motor and swap the engine to K20, but the conclusion was to leave the electric motor as it is. It is obvious there will be more hybrid cars coming from Honda in the future, and it was time Spoon needed to face it and find a way to deal with it. Development is still going on, but in one of the latest HotVersion videos, SPOON CR-Z succeeded to beat stock condition Civic TypeR Euro (FN2) driven by Keiichi Tsuchiya. Their tuning method was simple - besides the electric motor, they had done everything they always did with petrol engine cars. Take unnecessary things off from car and make it light, tune intake/Exhaust parts, and equip with ground-hugging suspension system. [Spec] - Weight: 995kg (stock CR-Z 1,130kg) - Rev Limit: 7,500rpm (stock 6,300rpm) - horsepower: 145ps (stock 114ps/6000rpm) - Torque: 16kgm (stock 14.8kgm/4800rpm) - Engine Compression Rate: 10.8 (stock 10.4) ///// * are prototype products as of August 2010 ///// Venturi Big Throttle Tail Silencer N1 Type Spoon ECU Spoon Suspension Kit L.S.D. Kit (1.5way) *Spoon Close Ratio Gear Set Sub Frame Rigid Collar Kit *Engine Room Tower Bar Carbon Fiber Hood Roof Turbulator *Aero Door Mirrors Spoon Bucket Seat Spoon Short Shift Knob Momo Steering Wheel Brake Pads *Brake Rotor (15inch) *2-Block Brake Caliper Tires: BS RE-11 205/45R17 Wheels: CR93 Spoon Racing Rims (yellow) [SPOON CR-Z Products] http://www.spoon.jp/eng/products.php?md=crz [SPOON CR-Z Photo Gallery] Carview Japan: http://www.carview.co.jp/green/report/road_imp/spoon_crz/196/photo/1/
SPOON's stock S2000 Type S (AP2)
They've only changed the wheels and Exhaust, and other parts were totally in stock condition. I asked if they're going to do anything with this car in the future, but they seemed to have no plans yet. Perhaps one day, this can will turn into one of their race cars. Honda has stopped production of S2000, but SPOON SPORTS has a will to continue further product developments and perform races in the next dacade with this car. So this is how they prepare for the future. New wheels from Spoon: http://www.spoon.jp/eng/list.php?md=all&cid=7&page=2
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My first test drive on Honda CR-Z. Because the ride was so comfortable, and with 120ps engine, it's not a sports car... But I totally agree this is a "SPORTY" car, or more than that. It's fun just riding it all around, even on low speed. I liked it a lot! Color: Dark Pewter Metallic Mission: AT (CVT)
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Pat Welsh was born on February 11, 1915 in San Francisco, California, USA as Patricia Anderson Carroll. She was an actress, known for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Waterloo Bridge (1940). She was married to Tom Welsh. She died on January 26, 1995 in Green Valley, Arizona, USA.
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Most members leaving the meeting seemed to be broadly supportive of the leadership's bill, none openly opposed it.
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Well, again, I would argue that young people think this because it is broadly true.
Adderall—and, broadly, study drugs and the mystique surrounding them—is at its annual high-water mark this finals season.
I think that Professor Quiggin and I are broadly in agreement: this sort of stuff happens in markets.
At whatever height they form, clouds may be broadly considered as of two species only, massive and striated.
And then he was at her stirrup, smiling up at her broadly and cordially.
In this book the career of a student in a London Medical College is traced in a broadly humorous manner.
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In this book an attempt has been made to trace the same ideas in the last period of European history, broadly speaking since 1870.
Old English brad "broad, flat, open, extended," from Proto-Germanic *braithaz (cf. Old Frisian bred, Old Norse breiðr, Dutch breed, German breit, Gothic brouþs), of unknown origin. Not found outside Germanic languages. No clear distinction in sense from wide. Related: Broadly. Broad-brim as a style of hat (1680s, broad-brimmed) in 18c.-19c. suggested "Quaker male" from their characteristic attire.
"woman," slang, 1911, perhaps suggestive of broad (adj.) hips, but it also might trace to American English abroadwife, word for a woman (often a slave) away from her husband. Earliest use of the slang word suggests immorality or coarse, low-class women. Because of this negative association, and the rise of women's athletics, the track and field broad jump was changed to the long jump c.1967.
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We often hear that "apartheid was a heresy", yet what exactly made this a heresy is at times lost in our church discussions. For those of us in the Dutch Reformed Church this might be partly because nowadays we are looking at a tennis game between a group in the church who find heresy everywhere, and another who cannot work with the concept of heresy at all (I'm rather drawn to the second one, so if this post relate to the current conversations on heresy I'm responding to myself).
Russel Botman share the story of how their class of theological students became convinced that apartheis is indeed a heresy. Jaap Durand was the lecturer in systematic theology, and challenged his students:
"You have been quite explicit about the legal, sociological, psychological, and political science reasons for your judgment on apartheid. I want to challenge you to find the theological essence of the judgment on apartheid."
The answer he then provides is that "apartheid has as its point of departure the irreconcilability of people of different race groups." Apartheid assume that people are inherently irreconcilable, while the gospel assume a radical reconciliation which transcend all borders.
We might want to revisit this idea that arguing from a belief of the inherent irreconcilability of people is nothing but a heresy, since this continue to be such a common idea. Is this not what underlies every statement that two groups of people will "never be able to find each other"? If we normalize the divisions in society by saying that "our cultures differ too much", "there will always be conflict", are we not assuming that people are inherently irreconcilable?
Socially I think there are two ideas which we are holding to in order to keep this heresy going. The one is the belief in some kind of essential group identity. White people will always be white people, always act like white people, and always want to be part of a group of white people. The other is that conflict between groups of people that are different are inevitable and natural. Yet neither of these are true.
Groups are fluid, change over time, merge with others, die out, have individuals abandon that group, and are joined by individuals who it would be inconceivable in another context. Religions as a social group provide a good example, or nationalities, but cultures, ethnicities and the way the world are constructed as races are not essential and eternal either. Secondly, even where we do belong to different social groups, conflict and strive is not inevitable. Groups of people find amazingly creative ways of living in harmony together.
Yes, group identities are strong and will form us over generations, sometimes over thousands of years. But they are not permanent. Conflict do exist between different groups, but it is not inevitable. Reconciliation is difficult (and true reconciliation should be difficult, if it isn't difficult we might want to suspect that we are not yet totally honest with each other), but always possible. So let's start watching the language of "never" and "impossible" when it relates to reconciliation.
This does not imply that we will sort out our divided legacy in this country in one generation, or even in my lifetime. But it does mean that I will reject every movement which support an irreconciled society, or which work with the assumption that we are inherently irreconcilable, and trying is therefore worthless. Let's agree to end that kind of talk.
Because it is all about Sunday morning 9 o'clock
January 14, 2013
It has become quite a popular quote in some church circles to remind that church is not about Sunday morning 9 o'clock. Your life from Monday to Saturday is where the real church happens, so we say. But what if that is wrong. What if it is all about Sunday morning 9 o'clock? What if everything that I've been reflecting on over the past 5 years on this blog (emerging churches, missional conversation, public theology, liberation theology, theology and racism) should not be a call towards the Monday-to-Saturday-real-life, but rather a radical call towards Sunday morning 9 o'clock.
On the ticket of it-is-not-about-Sunday, some of my friends has quit the church-on-Sunday's system. They left that behind, since if the logic that it's not-about-Sunday, but about my life from Monday to Saturday is correct, then why not take it to its logical conclusion and just end Sunday morning 9 o'clock (or whatever your equivalent of the central gathering of a community of faith is, whether Sunday evening 6 o'clock, or Wednesday evening 11 o'clock). but for most people however vaguely committed to the Jesus-story there remain a Sunday morning 9 o'clock, or equivalent event (perhaps not weekly, perhaps not in a church building), which give some kind of explicit form to their faith commitments, even though they, to some extend rightly, identify their whole of life as the place of faith.
The dark side of underplaying Sunday morning 9 o'clock is that we can use Monday to Saturday as a tool to divert the gaze away from the problematic nature of Sunday morning 9 o'clock's gathering of a community of faith, and so underplay the very important symbolic moment which Sunday morning 9 o'clock remain, a moment which publicly reveal that which is real, and in this revelation is actually calling the church's (and is this perhaps more than merely the church's) bluff… or at least should be.
The form this might take is the following: "Even though we are a white middle-class community gathering on a Sunday morning, that is not our real identity. Our real identity is to be found Monday to Saturday, where members of this community of faith are through their work building relationships across racial lines, and in our outreaches building relationships with the poor". Sunday morning 9 o'clock is therefore not our real identity, and the exclusivity revealed in this gathering should not be seen as central to the identity of those who are gathered. The church is therefore not simply a middle-class white Afrikaans community, since Sunday morning 9 o'clock is not a true revelation of who we are.
But what if Sunday morning 9 o'clock does indeed reveal our true identity. Does our choice for who should help us in heating pews on Sunday morning not reveal our relational commitments in it's truest form? Perhaps not on an individual level, in the sense that I only choose my friends and romantic partners from those who attend church with me (although this remain common in some church circles), but rather more generally, in the sense that those who I join on a Sunday morning reveal the broader class, racial, ethnic or cultural group into which I commit myself relationally. I also do not wish to argue for simple causality (as in that the church is the reason why I have bound myself to this network of people), but rather that we need to notice that this particular commitment to a community of faith does indeed reveal our "true identity".
Is this not perhaps in part why transforming religious communities is proving to be so extremely difficult? Not only in South Africa! Follow the North American discourse on race, look at how church from similar traditions remain separate when immigrants to Europe prefer their own communities rather than joining the existing church. On an even superficial reading of the Christian tradition we know this to be problematic, which is why we have a very long history of attempting to theologically justify this phenomenon. A mission policy which dictated that it is "more effective", "better" or "biblical" for "each group" to have an "own church" was one brutal way in which we did this (an approach which has resulted in extreme shame as we had to acknowledge that this was built on racial ideologies masked as theological convictions), but why should a reinterpretation of Monday to Saturday necessarily be exempt from similar biases?
Don't get me wrong, the theology which made Sunday morning 9 o'clock into the absolute symbol of religiosity need to be challenged! Insisting that Monday to Saturday (or perhaps just Monday to Sunday) should indeed be the place where faith finds its primary expression – in how we conduct business, where we choose to buy our homes, the schools we choose for our children, the way in which we do our shopping, the political convictions we have – is indeed an important shift (although not a new revelation, but rather something which we have a centuries long history of attempting to do). And using a small religious life as a way of diverting the gaze from how we continue our ruthless exploitation of others beyond our religious life might be on of the most important insights the church need to face in our day. But what about the opposite?
What if we use our public lives which is lived in a more diverse environment, or even our acts of charity across class divisions (to approach the Rollins parable used in the above link from another angle), to keep the critique out of our most intimate spaces. For us as religious leaders the most intimate space might be the church itself, and we might use the above kind of argument to divert attention from the very obvious symbols of exclusivity which our churches remain, while for members of faith communities the gathering on a Sunday morning is symbolic of our most intimate relations, and we therefore need to divert the critique away from this, even using some nice Christian notions like participating in development work or living out our faith from Monday to Saturday as tools in immunizing the local community of faith against critique.
The message of Jesus and Paul seem to be much more radical, and Sunday morning 9 o'clock might be the more important political event, even in our day. As I read both the gospels and Paul it seems like their social experiment, grounded in a particular vision of who God is, was to change the most intimate relations, which was also often found around religious gatherings. Jew and gentile, tax collector and zealot. These were not bound into a spiritual unity, but rather walked the same roads following the same rabbi, or gathered in the same community – or at least that was the ideal.
Most white South Africans have black colleagues, and we tend to at least "muddle through" these relations, and often have good relations. But the unwritten rules remain that I can leave these relations behind Friday afternoon. These relations can remain official. And we can volunteer at a local soup kitchen, but no one expect us to continue sharing a meal elsewhere with those who come to get a bowl of soup. But we perhaps know that the local congregation has a different set of rules. The local congregation to some extend assume that we will share a table at some point, perhaps give others access to our home (through various small groups or Bible studies for example) and that we should cry together when others experience pain.
What if we just started right here, at what seems to be the most difficult. What if CEOs and cleaners, black and white, Zulu and Shangaan, Afrikaans and English, were to sit next to each other on a Sunday morning. To listen to the announcement of the deaths of each others family members. To visit each others homes. Have our kids attend Sunday School together. Drink coffee together while we wait for the Sunday School to end. You know, just typical church stuff, but explicitly crossing the very divides which our particular context keep in place. Obviously we could find new ways of keeping the divisions in place even within one congregations, and a naive focus on the membership list should never be mistaken to relationships which transform our identities, but the very difficulty of doing exactly this might be a reminder that it might be the place where we should start.
Perhaps it is not about Sunday morning 9 o'clock. But as long as Sunday morning 9 o'clock remain a symbol of class, racial and ethnic divisions in a society, we might want to consider that the truth is that it is about Sunday morning 9 o'clock for most of us. This is indeed the place which illustrate who I am in all its obscenity. I am part of this white middle-class Afrikaans congregation. I am not the guy who is nice to my workers or who contribute to a soup kitchen. As a Christian I might actually be doing this exactly in order to divert the critique against this white middle-class Afrikaans congregation of which I am part.
Marikana: week of mourning, lament and searching our hearts
August 20, 2012
For many of us the weekend was spent struggling with the question: how do we worship after Lonmin? I remembered preaching the Sunday after Eugene Terre'blanche was murdered, that Sunday was a difficult sermon, but at least many of us felt like we had some consensus on what had to be said. My sermon focused on reconciliation, and in the sermon I could point to many people from diverse backgrounds who all called for the same thing: reconciliation.
This Sunday was more complex. Do we pray for the police, striking workers, government leaders? Should we pray for an end to violence or for a more just economy? I insisted on Saturday that the ethical challenge facing us is to insist that this event be interpreted in the broader context of a South Africa culture of violence (and other aspects which we might discover allowed this to happen). In the liturgy I believed it was not the time to identity either the police or the striking workers as the root of the problem. Tom Smith suggested that the only thing appropriate for this Sunday's liturgy was lament. To my mind this was correct, and following some guidelines on using the Psalms in liturgical lament, our small church service in the inner-city cried out to God that things are not going well, and we focused on the fact that at times the church pray "Our God, our God, why have you forsaken us".
I reflect on this in order to say that the presidential call for a week of mourning has some overlap with an appropriate Christian response to Marikana. The overlap should be recognized, but the limitations for the church following government into this week's mourning should also be noted. I don't want to downplay the public rituals of mourning that will be visible throughout the country this week. I think those are important, and I support president Zuma's call. But as Christians I believe there should be more to our week (week? and then?) of mourning.
Typically mourning involves an expression of deep sorrow for the death of another, often accompanied with public symbols such as the wearing of black clothes, and in this case flags hanging half mast. According to some reports, Zuma added, and again I want to agree entirely with the importance of this, that part of our mourning should include reflecting "on the sanctity of human life and the right to life as enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic". But I do want to add two things for the church.
First, when entering a time of lament, the church cannot only give expression to deep sorrow. Our sorrow cannot be disconnected from the plea that God will change our society. Our sorrow cannot be disconnected from a process of committing to justice. I don't yet know what justice will imply at Marikana. I don't yet know what exactly justice will mean in the relationship between rich and poor in the coming months and years. But I know that as a Christian I cannot enter into a time of lament following Marikana without simultaneously being formed towards a commitment to participating in the reign of God at Marikana and beyond.
From this I want to add a second aspect which I believe is crucial at the moment. In some way we are all connected to Marikana. Marikana was not merely a once-off event, but it was a mirror of our society. Our time of lament should call us into a time of self-reflection, not merely feeling sorrow for those who suffer, but also asking how we are embedded in what happened. I say this not as a way of pre-empting our analysis, but rather as a call that social analysis involve self-reflection. I don't doubt that we will have to talk about police reform (again!) in the coming months. We will rethink our labour union systems and in particular how they are related to big businesses and political parties. We will have to (again!) fix our eyes on the growing economic inequality. We will ask questions from multi-national companies and wonder how exactly their future in South Africa should look. The list goes on.
But if we are serious about saying that "never, never again", and about going beyond finding a guilty party so that we can go on with our lives, happy that someone will pay the price, then it will require that we also see how we participate in keeping aspects of society which lead to further violence in place. This is not merely the work of social analysis, it is an act of spiritual discernment. This week, I believe the text which should lead us might be "Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting" (Psalm 139:23-24). From such a spirituality we might be able to engage in a process of public social analysis and critique, something which is too important to merely leave in the hands of official committees, but which is too sensitive to allow the continuing throwing around of wild theories which merely implicate our favourite guilty party. We cannot speak of lament if we continue to act as if this tragedy might merely give us the final evidence for what we have been saying all along.
So we mourn this week. But our mourning involve more than sorrow, it involved the prayers "let your kingdom come, let your will be done" and "forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us". Only in this way can be prepare ourselves to insist on and contribute to an uncovering of the injustice of Marikana and a more peaceful future.
Why Lonmin? taking a step back
August 18, 2012
A number of Lonmin posts have made it into my drafts. But I struggle to press the "publish" button.
I've spent some time re-reading parts of my dissertation handed in earlier this year, which focused on public responses to violence (or rather, to a very specific subset of this genre), and it stops my from pressing that "publish" button even more.
There is no shortage of attempts at finding the "true perpetrators" of this horrific event. Unions. SAPD. Sriking miners. Mining bosses. However, there is a sense in which it is just too easy to find a scapegoat. The comparisons to Sharpeville, although undoubtedly problematic, is a reminder that we have to take a broad historic view in interpreting the event. The London-listed company, an employer responding to the death of its employees from thousands of miles away, a reminder that this horrific local event cannot be disconnected from a global interpretation.
When writing on this last year, two aspects which I (following others more knowledgeable) considered key to understanding violent crime (and for the moment I'll refrain from commenting on which part of the event should be considered as "crime", and simply insist that we focus on violence in general) in South Africa was the culture of violence established over decades, a culture tied specifically to the mining industry in South Africa, and the effect of economic inequality on violence. I summarized it in the following words:
Although final answers to why South Africa has such a high level of violent crime is difficult, no coherent explanation can be given without recognising that it is not a post-apartheid phenomenon. We have to connect it to a long history of violence in South Africa. South Africa has been exceptionally violent throughout its history of colonialism and apartheid. Extensive (often foreign) military power was utilised in the control of indigenous groups and the use of the police as an excessively violent force during apartheid is well documented. Urban violence connected to gang culture can be seen from the late 19th century around mining cities (particularly Johannesburg), with pass laws, migrant labour and the criminalisation of black labourers creating a constant flow trough prisons, many times the place where a violent culture was strengthened rather than defused, contributing to a culture of urban violence. Although developing later and to a smaller extent than in Johannesburg, a gang culture and a growing culture of violence also developed in other mining towns along with migrant labour and the cycling of African and Coloured males through prisons. […]
The history of colonialism and apartheid further affects the continuing problem of violence and crime through the peculiar levels of economic inequality in South Africa. It has been recognised internationally that economic inequality (rather than merely poverty) leads to higher levels of violence and crime. While this might at times be attributed to the fact that crime is a more effective road to generating income than the legal route of participating in the economic sphere, or at times the only possible option available to someone, this does not provide a sufficient explanation, since much of the violence and crime in South Africa do not lead to any economic gains. Rather, the psychosocial effects on the excluded individual and group, such as feelings of exclusion, resentment and anger, can sometimes translate into violence.
This is not sufficient, but sets the tone against which I would want to start thinking through the events of the past week.
This event must result in a thorough analysis of violence in South Africa, both historically and geographically broad, forcing us to go beyond finding a scapegoat to crucify. Our scapegoats tend to merely continue the stereotypical analysis which reflect the South African public discourse, with the choice of blaming unions or police or striking miners or multi-national companies seldom coming as a surprise.
Yes, many moments around Marikana contributed to this horrific event, many small signals found in the bodily movements of strikers and police, many split-second decisions. But the event was in the making for decades. It is an event resulting more from decisions made slowly, at times when its implications might not have been clear, and decisions made unconsciously, the implications of which we have to take note of in hindsight. While police, lawyers and courts will slowly work through the event in the months and years to come, and while this is indeed necessary, the ethical challenge facing us lies in insisting that such a focused analysis cannot provide us with a way forward. We have to take on the broader challenge of transforming the South African culture of violence and exclusionary economic systems (or whatever the other insights is that we come to when doing our analysis as broad and as deep as possible) which provide the background against which specific incidents erupts.
Am I a racist?
May 24, 2012
The article started appearing on my timeline last night sometime. I use facebook's subscription options generously, which helps me to see that which I actually want to see. This allow me to bypass most of the blatant racist rhetoric on news24 comment sections.
It's an article which I usually would have skipped, were it not for the friends who shared it. I know these people. They are not the right-wing type. Many of them aren't even the "good-ol' middle-of-the-road, let's love our neighbours and not get involved in all this political mumbo-jumbo Christian"-type. Many of them are active voices for the acceptance of Belhar. They are people for whom church unity is non-negotiable. They are the people whom I want to spend the future of this church with. So when they share an article titles "I am a racist", particularly if 3, 4 or more of them start sharing the same article, I follow the link.
My father had a fascination with etymology. He has one of those "Etymological dictionaries" next to his computer, and like to check random words in it. My Greek lecturer told us etymology cannot really provide you with the meaning of words (if I remember that class correctly), since meaning is constructed by how words are used in the present, not by finding some pristine untainted past meaning. Nonetheless, sometimes etymology is interesting. And when someone claim that, mostly due to the actions of the ANC, "the word racist has lost it's original meaning and now only get's used to describe a white person doing something a black person doesn't like", one have to wonder about etymology and the meaning of words.
What exactly is this "original meaning". Truth be told, few people walk around with etymological dictionaries wondering about the "original meaning". And I doubt that the author is actually concerned about the fact that the word 'recently' started moving away from its Nazi roots, insisting that 'racism' should remain used only as it was originally intended: as a system of scientific thought which had the intent to proof that those of European descent were superior due to biologically reasons.
Truth is that, although this kind of scientific racism was active in South Africa, that was never the most dominant approach and sometimes actively rejected (read Samual Dubow's brilliant analysis on this topic). Apartheid and Nazism might show certain similarities, but they were not the same.
But I don't think that the "original meaning" the author refers to is apartheid either. Making racism and apartheid synonymous (something which is not uncommon in South Africa), imply that racism is a legalized system of classification and exclusionary laws privileging those who are categorized as "white". Is that the problem, that we dare use "racism" in any way apart from such a definition?
Many who are comfortable with the author's thoughts, will shout out against DJ's and FHM models who dare call someone a "kaffir". Although derogatory names is obviously not the same as a legalized system like apartheid, we easily recognize their use as "racism".
Here is our problem, I think: Beverley Tatum tell the story of the response of a white teacher when she was asked how it would feel if someone called her a racist: "She said it would feel as though she had been punched in the stomach or called a "low-life scum."" We have found a general consensus that racism is wrong. In particularly more liberal circles (and I think also most Church circles regardless of theological position), we have found a general consensus that racism is not only wrong, but that it is like calling someone a "low-life scum". For those white people who actively oppose Nazism and apartheid, who like Obama and Mandela, who might even have had a black person sleep in their guest bedroom (or even been in the Black Sash and written the first article on the death of Steve Biko) to be called a racist is like being punched in the stomach. But we don't know what the word mean.
The author doesn't really define racism. Or does she? It seems like the author concern racism to be any kind of action which someone doesn't like in which the one doing it clearly stated that aspects of these categories which we call race influence this action. So if a company states that they will hire a black person rather than a white person, because they want to get their BEE scorecard right (not a very good reason in my mind, I would prefer if people do stuff for ethical rather than legal reasons, but let's leave that for today), then it is "racism". When UCT set different standards for entry into courses depending on race, then that is racism (honestly, the comparison between the white student who had 8 distinctions and was refused and the black student who barely passed is getting a bit old, the UCT example is somewhat more realistic). I do believe the author would agree that if someone actively states that they refuse to hire black people that would also be racism.
But if me and my black boss, who frequently travel together, and have both read one or two books on racism in the past, point out patterns in how security personnel at airports treat us differently, can we call it racism? The personnel are mainly black, and most probably not aware that their is a pattern where he has to show proof of identification more often than I have to.
And if I continue to have a sense of fear when I get the impression that I'm trailed by a black person in Sunnyside, but I don't even recognize when I'm trailed by a white person in Hatfield, is that racism?
And if I have different emotions when looking at photos of white squatters than I would have when looking at black squatters, is that racism?
And if I find myself listening more intently to the white speaker than the black speaker, somewhere deep inside myself assuming that the white person know what she/he is speaking about, assuming that they did their research with the required precision etc, is that racism?
And if police (also black policemen) just have a tendency to assume that black people was responsible for a crime, and therefore end up finding more of the black criminals because that is where they look, is that racism?
And when a global economic system and educational system is structured so that is "just happens" that white people tend to have more capital, more businesses, more degrees, is that racism?
One response in a context such as this is to refuse any talk about racism. To insist that any reference to race is not allowed. The article took a different route. Irritated with the difficulty of discussion this topic, the difficulty that we don't understand what is meant by the term, and the perception that it has become a "political card", or a vague reference used when no other critique can be brought into an argument, the author attempt to make it absurd by presenting certain situations which would then be "racist" under this absurd understanding. Perhaps its just another attempt at saying: "let's stop all this talk about racism, it's absurd" (although their is a message in the article that the biggest problem or racism today is reversed racism against white people, not an uncommon thread in white rhetoric).
Given the fact that their is no real biological grounds for grouping people into the races we do, and even less grounds for pointing out qualities which is inherently connected to these biological markers, some prefer to say that we should rather just stop any reference to race. It doesn't help us to speak about race at all (says these voices that heard some vague Marxist critique on the topic somewhere).
I believe two things should guide us:
First, what we have as "races" today is something that was constructed historically over the long period of time. Its development is complex, and is intertwined with class, gender, culture, language and many other aspects. I am stuck with constantly being given an interpretation of what it would imply to be "white". I find myself in a community which consist primarily of those who reinforce this same racialized ideas. To break with it is not impossible, but will take generations of hard work on various levels: on our minds, on our societal structures, on the language we use, on the images found in the media, on the habits deeply ingrained on an unconscious level.
Second, we will have to learn to use the word "racism" responsibly, and to define what we mean when we use it. I think it is am important word. It is a word which remind us of a history to which we never want to go back to. But it is a dangerous word. It is a word that can be misunderstood. And it is a word which the popular use of has lead to various reductions, various attempts at scapegoating while portraying others as innocent.
What is racism? Racism is that which cause me to see that which I identify as "white" as more important, more correct, more trustworthy or more moral, than that which I identify as "black". Racism is that which cause those who are identified as "black" to suffer more through the structuring of society than those who are identified as "white".
Am I a racist?
The image which help some of us, is to say that I am a racist like a recovering addict.
I am a recovering racist. I struggle with the ideas I have internalized. I struggle with turning a blind eye towards, justifying, or even supporting policies and systems which end up harming black people more than white people. I struggle with assuming that a white life is worth more than a black life. I struggle with sometimes revolting when I see black and white people in romantic relationships. And my struggle at times become most visible when I want to convince myself and the world that "I am not a racist". I don't have a problem.
So I am a racist. A recovering racist. It's a painful process. And sometimes I need a support group where I can share my struggles, because without this, I find myself either denying that I'm struggling with this, or making jokes or absurd statements about this.
out of the grave and into life
April 8, 2012
The gospels give us two groups of narratives which provide us with a glimpse onto the resurrection. There are those narratives when people find the empty grave, and those where the resurrected Christ meet them. See for example Luke 24: First a group of women come to the grave, finding it to be empty, with messengers from God announcing that they shouldn't look for the living among the dead, after which Peter run to the grave, confirming that it is indeed empty. Then two people are walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus, and are met by a stranger, a stranger whom they discover to be the resurrected Christ, just as this Christ disappear from their sight.
Modern debates about the resurrection, to my mind, don't seem to focus on any of these narratives, but rather construct, from all sides of the popular debates, a new narrative not told by the writers of the gospel: the narrative of what happened inside the grave.
Take any construction of two sides to a popular debate on the resurrection, call them "conservative vs. progressive" or "fundamentalist vs. liberal" (both constructs of tensions in the church which I believe oversimplify the reality of real communities of faith) and you generally find a debate raging on: "could a body come back to life?" The question of what happened inside the grave. From various theological and scientific presuppositions we speculate on the missing narrative, the narrative inside the grave. Did the blood miraculously start to flow again? Was the body stolen? Was there a 'spirit' or 'ghost' which rose out of a dead Jesus? Did this Jesus simply take the blankets of from his body and face and walk out?
These are not modern questions, but have been the subject of speculation for many centuries, and particularly in the first centuries of the church. But the gospel writers refuse to answer the many questions. The gospel writers, as authors of their books, have the power to reveal information hidden to the characters. They sometimes reveal information on what Jesus was thinking, or what he prayed when no one else was with him, so they are willing to present the reader with information which no one could actually know (in the technical sense which we modern people like to connect to the word 'know'). But when it come to the grave, they don't dare walk onto that ground.
So we are left with two narratives: The grave is empty. The resurrected Christ has appeared to Peter, the woman at the grave, the travelers to Emmaus.
Are we allowed to dare walk into the grave, attempting to guess what happened? I would say yes. I say yes simply because I don't think anything is out of bounds. Simply because I think that the God which we find in the Bible is fine with our questions, our attempts at sense-making, our attempts at giving a coherent or rational (sometimes both, sometimes these two seem to exclude each other) argument for our beliefs, or the tradition within which we live.
But I do think we miss the point if our debates and conversations about the resurrection end up as a technical conversation about what happened within the grave. The grave is empty. That's it. That's enough. That's what the gospel present us with. The resurrected Christ, the one with whom we have been resurrection (following the (post)-Pauline writings in Collosians), has appeared to his followers, and this changed their lives.
I want to dare say that if we move our conversations out of the grave and into life, away from what happened in the grave and into what should happen to those to whom the resurrection Christ appeared in their lives, we might find a conversation which both bind us together and lead the church into becoming salt and light. This, to my mind, is a conversation we are in dire need of. What is the implication of the resurrection for the economy, the ecology, for a world in which death, not life, is the reality which face a very large proportion of this planets inhabitants. If our belief in the resurrection don't translate into a belief that the death facing us can be overcome (and leaving people to die because we believe that they will go to heaven is not believing that death has been overcome, but rather a firm belief that death has won, that opposing death is impossible), then I struggle to call it faith in the resurrected Christ.
This is the sixth year that I'm blogging on the resurrection on resurrection Sunday. Earlier posts can be found here.
more radical than the DA youth poster
February 15, 2012
I didn't follow the tweets and facebook discussions on the DA youth poster 3 weeks ago. Also decided to wait a while with responding, since the hype and emotions around it doesn't necessarily create the ideal space for reflection. First: I don't think they were necessarily wrong to create the poster. I don't think there is anything wrong with what the poster is portraying either. On the contrary, I think the nerve that they touched with the poster need to be examined, and that we can learn a lot by slowly reflecting on our instinctive reactions to the poster. I do however think the poster is naive, and that if a romantic and/or sexual relation between a black man and a white woman is the symbol for the future that they are working for, then we need a new opposition party. So let me explain.
Some responses to the poster had so-called "moderate" voices fall back upon hard-core racist rhetoric. Comments such as "I am a DA supporter, but this is like cross-breeding a goat and a sheep" do reveal the depth of racist formation in South Africa. After a long history of attempting to convince the country that indeed that was some inherent difference associated with a few biological markers (primarily skin colour), it would be naive to think that 18 years of democracy would exorcise these ideas.
But responses on a "lighter" note is just as revealing. Decades after we have found consensus in academia that there is no such thing as "race", that external biological markers are not revealing any internal qualities, we still find "caring" responses about the fact that the children from a mixed-race sexual relation would have no identity, or about the fact that cultures are incompatible. These attempts to justify our discomfort with an image need to be examined, its a deep reminder that we have a lot of baggage to work through.
However, what the poster are best at revealing remain hidden from public discourse. It is the instinctive feelings from those of us who have been trained on politically correct responses. I don't use politically correct in the negative sense here! There is things that we know is acceptable (such as sexual relations between consenting adults regardless of the racial categories in which society place them), and therefore wouldn't voice critique upon, yet continue to struggle with internally, on an emotional level. Deep within ourselves, hidden from the media, twitter or blogs, is the question whether we ourselves would be willing or able to disregard race when reflecting on our possible sexual relations, or those of our children.
I write the previous three paragraphs not as a kind of guilt trip about the deep racism which "others" still reveal, but rather as an attempt at an honest reflection from within the "own" position of white South Africans. To some extent our reactions to the poster does reveal the depth of what a racist past has done to us.
If we are to move beyond this poster, if we are to move towards the future which the DA imagine, then it might help to stop and reflect on where our instinctive responses come from. The relation between sex and race has been important throughout the development of racial notions during modernity. Studying this remain important if we are to de-racialize society, if we want to undo the effects of a system of white superiority. Within a system in which strict biological markers was associated with internal qualities, sexual relations across these racial boundaries create many questions on what the quality would be of the children born from these. The particular fear is that the "pure" white race, with its superior qualities would become extinct when mixed with "inferior blood".
But more is at stake here. Black and white bodies is defined to some extent in relation to sexuality. The black male body being associated with a "sexual predator", always seeking to prey on the white female body, to rape the white female. The black female body is defined as the tempter, responsible for tempting the white male body into unacceptable sexual relations. Furthermore, the black female body is constructed in the gaze of the white male as a sexual object, a body good for the gratification of white male sexual desires, as long as these remain out of sight, since the children born from these relations will be of "lesser quality". In contrast to the black female body, the white female body is supposed to be "pure" (reminding that race and gender cannot be separated). And the white male body? Well, since it is white males that construct identities under a racist patriarchal society, these bodies are possible considered the most perfect beings, in perfect balance. But the modern history of racism is scattered with the untold stories of white men raping black women, to some extent being the act against which many of the above notions is constructed.
I point this out as a reminder that indeed the DA is on to something when they imagine a future where the racialised nature of sexuality no longer determine the social networks of society. On a side note this short reflection should remind us that if they changed the poster around so that it was a black male and white female, they might have found themselves with even more fierce reactions, but let's leave it at that.
However, I found the poster to be deeply dissatisfying. Not merely because it was provocative (sometimes public images need to provoke reaction to stimulate public reflection), but because I find it somewhat conservative… and yes, I did intend this last statement. Let me explain.
The poster seek to reveal the depths of our personal prejudices and fears concerning race, and imagine a future no longer determined by these. This is its strongest as well as weakest point, as one of my mentors sometimes said. While I tried to point out the strength of this image above, the limits need to be discussed as well.
Let's put is this way: while more difficult to portray in a single image, an image imagining a future where schools reflect the reality of the country, and where we don't look twice at this might have been more radical. A future where if I drove past any primary school, the playground would reflect kids exhibiting features which once was used as markers dividing people, and where these markers would no longer determine who is in this school. In short, an image imagining a future where basically every school would consist of a majority of black kids and a minority of white kids, merely because race no longer determine where kids go to school.
Or what about an image of a South Africa where the super-rich no longer dominate in extremely expensive residential areas which exclude the majority. What about an image which imagine a future where my level of education and my position at work no longer determine who my neighbour would be, a future where the vast inequalities no longer exist. While the relation sex and race is indeed very important, and has been an important contribution to maintaining the racist social structure of society, exclusionary economic practices has been as important, if not more. Merely accepting a future where we don't look twice when a white man is in a sexual relationship with a black woman to some extent simply reinforce the existing status quo, a status quo where a small, generally economically secure, white minority mix freely with the emerging black middle class and elite while assuring that the privileged position of some (although the image of exactly who the "some" is might change) remain intact and the majority remain in dire circumstances (the majority in South Africa remaining, and possible remaining for the imaginable future, the Black African population).
While I welcome the challenge the DA Student Organization bring concerning the way in which sex and sexuality has been racialised, and indeed I hope that they would do more than a poster, and contribute to a healthy public debate on the actual complexities involved with their image, the poster still leave me wondering whether they are willing to voice the necessary critique against exclusionary economic practices, internationally, but with its counterpart in South Africa. Will the DASA be willing to imagine a future where we will not allow residential spaces which exclude the majority and which are ecologically unsustainable, schools which are only for the elites while many rural black schools provide horrible education, super-salaries for some while unemployment remain a primary challenge. All these questions has as much to do with race as sex has to do with race, but they force us beyond the questions of personal prejudice. While the sex questions might contribute to renewed challenging of structural racism in the long run (a different argument, but I do think that it is indeed the case), on its own it might just comfort us into believing that racism is merely about not being willing to date a black or white man.


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Total Fat 461 g709.4%
Saturated Fat 163.3 g816.6%
Trans Fat 0.5 g
Cholesterol 1408 mg469.3%
Sodium 1531.1 mg63.8%
Total Carbohydrates 84 g28.1%
Dietary Fiber 16.7 g66.7%
Sugars 25.1 g
Protein 323 g646.8%
Vitamin A 71.1% Vitamin C 107%
Calcium 78.5% Iron 150.2%
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I can't fake what I feel
I can't dream what I see
Cause I can feel you looking at me, and I can see your pain, just like I can see my own
frowns and wounds that were never sewnshut
and a brain that can't shut up, or open my lips.
A feeling held so dear but starting to slip
Away from reality back into the dark
And I'm standing where I stood before facing this arc that we call life
and where does it begin?
the start.
She moved like air around me - her sent cleared my head
her touch warmed my heart - our laughs filled our beds
our texts became serious our look syncronized by fate
the words I love you I had to hold back though I should have let them escape
her smile is infectious every word I was drawn
like a magnetic force we moved together grew together and never looked down
or away from the fact that the magic we long for was in eachother
so i didnt bother to number our days
till the days ran out then i spent every one after counting the days lost
the precious times stopped and my heart ripped out
without saying a word
bleeding infrot of her smiling
because what good was the truth now? With no one to tell
and nothing to see except you and me
do I still think of her?
every damn day.
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Are You Ready For Ulysses S. Grant: All Star Gigolo?
Today sees the release of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the film version Seth Grahame-Smith's popular 2010 novel of the same name. Duh. The vampire flick is getting plenty of buzz of course with our country's fascination with blood-drinkers and the 16th President Of The United States. It's all a match made in pop-culture heaven.
Of course there have been plenty of spoofs in the same vein, including some you can find here. I hope that Gerald Ford: Cyborg Ruster gets a good script one day.
Local comedy collective and video geniuses The Straight Guys have added their own twist to the presidents-as-things-that-you-never-thought-about-them-being genre with a mock trailer for Ulysses S. Grant: All Star Gigolo.
Starring director Joseph Graham, the parody teases the hidden life of Grant as an undercover killer of latently gay Ku Klux Klan members. To be clear, he kills them while having anal sex with them. So everyone wins?
You can watch the video here and also give it a vote of approval on this site. I highly recommend all of the Straight Guys clips, including this one about Will Smith. The Will Smith.
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Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger" Video Will Feature Mick Jagger
No one has moves like Jagger!
Except, of course, Mick Jagger. Maroon 5's hit song "Moves Like Jagger" features fellow Voice coach Christina Aguilera, but a source tells Us Weekly the man who provided the inspiration for the song will also appear in its music video.
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"Making a video for 'Moves Like Jagger' with Christina Aguilera tomorrow!" frontman Adam Levine, 32, tweeted Thursday. The Maroon 5 frontman and Aguilera, 30, first performed the homage to Jagger, 67, on The Voice in June; sources now tell Us that the legend himself will have a part in the hit song's video via archive footage.
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Intuitively believing that attitudes determine behavior, we instinctively infer the former from the latter.
So it is with the demise of Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham Clinton9/11 hijackers attended my mosque — moderate Muslims could have stopped them. Perez wins bid to lead Democratic Party Viral website imagines US if Clinton had won MORE's presidential campaign. Analyses mix examination of Barack ObamaBarack ObamaObama congratulates Perez as new Democratic leader Longtime diplomat criticizes isolationism in retirement speech Manchin: Sanders backers should challenge me in Dem primary MORE's appeal and descriptions of strategic blunders with assessments of Clinton's failure to provide what voters wanted.
One pundit suggested Clinton was defeated because "she turned into the living representation of … [the Washington] establishment and its myopic vision." Another argued Democrats rejected Clinton because "The country is looking for something new and hip and next-generational." Or perhaps it was because voters preferred "inspiration over restoration."
Analysis of this kind is hardly limited to this presidential campaign. Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus prematurely proclaimed "The Death of Environmentalism," based importantly on Congress's 2002 failure to pass stricter Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. After 2000, commentators inferred the centrality of Bush's "likability" from his (disputed) electoral vote victory.
The genius of our Founders as social scientists lay in their recognition that institutional arrangements — the rules of the game, not just attitudes — play a central role determining outcomes and shaping behaviors.
Madison argued in the Federalist Papers that the institutional arrangements he recommended would "cure the mischief of faction." Maintaining that public decisions should not merely reflect "the superior force of the majority," the Federalists elaborated rules and inserted institutions into our Constitution designed to prevent outcomes from reflecting only the will of the majority. To the extent their plans were well-laid, observers should be unable to infer public opinion from political outcomes.
Before returning to politics, examine this process of inference in another realm. Despite the fact that nearly 100,000 Americans are waiting for life-saving transplants, just 35 percent of us are registered organ donors, compared to 99.9 percent of French, Hungarians and Austrians.
Struggling to explain these differences, an analyst oblivious to the role of rules might posit that American values around organ donation differ from those of the French. Attention might turn to the role of religiosity in the U.S. as against European secularism, or to Europe's communitarian values, contrasted with American individualism.
Yet, Gallup finds 95 percent of Americans support organ donation. Attitudes don't differ. Why the difference in behavior?
It's the rules. In France, Austria and Hungary everyone is an automatic organ donor, unless they choose to opt out. In the U.S., potential donors must opt in. Different rules, not different values, produce the differing results.
Rules matter in politics as well. If Democrats had the same winner-take-all delegate selection rules adopted by Republicans, Hillary Clinton would have won the nomination without assistance from Michigan or Florida.
While the calculations are more difficult and the uncertainties greater, it is not at all clear that John McCainJohn McCainDrug importation won't save dollars or lives Dem rep Charlie Crist files for divorce Why the GOP cannot sweep its Milo scandal under the rug MORE would have emerged victorious had the GOP used Democrats' proportional representation system.
No one can dispute the validity of either nomination: Without rules there is no fairness, no legitimate contest, and there is nothing unfair about one set of rules or the other. They are just different. Everyone knew the rules in advance and everybody was bound to play by them.
But the centrality of the rules in determining the outcome makes it difficult to interpret wins and losses as endorsements of some particular version of public attitudes.
If the state-by-state and exit poll results had been exactly the same but today Hilary Clinton were celebrating her nomination because the rules were different, would pundits have concluded voters back the Washington establishment; were looking for restoration, abjuring inspiration; for tried and true, rather than new and cool?
If so, they would be making the same error many are now committing by inferring an array of hostile public attitudes toward Hillary Clinton from the outcome of this nomination battle.
Mellman is president of The Mellman Group and has worked for Democratic candidates and causes since 1982, including Sen. John KerryJohn KerryNew York Knicks owner gave 0K to pro-Trump group A bold, common sense UN move for the Trump administration Former Obama officials say Netanyahu turned down secret peace deal: AP MORE (D-Mass.) in 2004.


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