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Convincing yourself to quit smoking – The influence of personal beliefs on smoking
June 5th, 2011
A study published in Addictive Behaviors showed that thinking actively about quitting smoking cigarettes allows people to smoke less!!!
In the experiment, participants from one group of smokers were asked to think about reasons to quit smoking and write them down on a piece of paper. Participants from a second group of smokers were asked to read pre-written anti-smoking arguments.
Both groups of participants were then asked to wait up to 30 minutes while the experimenter prepared a task unrelated to the actual experiment. Individuals who generated their own arguments against smoking abstained from smoking cigarettes longer than those who read pre-written anti-smoking arguments.
The results of this experiment suggest that self-generated information has a greater influence on smoking behavior (at least in the short-term) than information that is simply read.
Many anti-smoking campaigns try to "educate" people out of smoking cigarettes. They provide a great deal of information on the potential health hazards of smoking and try to convince smokers to quit. This approach can be dangerous as smokers might feel as though they are being attacked and react defensively. The truth is, many smokers already understand the consequences of tobacco use. If anti-smoking campaigns could find a way to develop personal beliefs against smoking, smokers might have an easier time not lighting up.
Müller, B., van Baaren, R.B., Ritter, S.M. (2009) Tell me why…the influence of self-involvement on short term smoking behavior, Addictive Behaviors, 34(5)
Brittany Murphy dead at 32 – Anemia, pneumonia, and yes, drugs…
February 4th, 2010
Toxicology update
Well, it seems the toxicology reports are in and Brittany's death was, at least partially, caused by her taking of multiple prescription drugs. Still, it seems that she was trying to medicate a host of conditions brought on by her underlying anemia and pneumonia. It's sad to think that this death could have likely been prevented had she simply taken better care of herself and gone to seek emergency care rather than loading her body with those pills. Unfortunately, this seems to be another in a string of medically preventable deaths… Sad.
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Brittany Murphy, the actress from "Clueless," and "8 Mile" died last night at Cedars-Sinai in Beverly Hills at the age of 32. Brittany has been rumored to be suffering from severe eating disorders, and recent pictures seem to support that notion. Given that she apparently died from cardiac arrest, I'm wondering if drugs (even prescription drugs) played a role in the death as well… I'll keep updating the story as more becomes available.
My heart goes out to her family and friends. Certainly a loss suffered far too early.
UPDATE: According to the police report, a number of prescription drugs were discovered in Brittany's bedroom including (read past the list for my take on this):
- Topamax – While TMZ reported this drug to be used as anti-seizure medication, it is also used to reduce weight-gain associated with the use of many other prescription drugs on this list. Lastly, it is considered to be a mood stabilizer.
- Methylprednisolone – An anti-inflammatory that may be used to treat bronchial infections
- Prozac – A commonly prescribed SSRI anti-depression med.
- Klonopin – A benzodiazepine anti-anxiety prescription medication that is also used to help with insomnia. Like most benzos, the probability of overdose is low if used properly, but overdose would lead to cardiac arrest.
- Carbamazepine – Another anti-convulsant mood stabilizer often used to treat bipolar disorder. This prescription drug can be very dangerous when combined with other medications due to its actions on GABA and extensive alteration of Sodium channel activity. It is also a bipolar med.
- Ativan – Once again a benzodiazepine that is often used to treat anxiety and insomnia.
- Vicoprofen – A pain reliever that includes an opioid (it sounds like vicodin for a reason).
- Propranolol – Prescription med used to treat hypertension and as an alternative, less habit-forming anti-anxiety drug.
- Biaxin – An antibiotic.
- Hydrocodone – Same as Vicoprofen, an analgesic (pain reducing) prescription drug.
What do I think killed Brittany?
With 2 benzodiazepine medications, 2 opiates, and antidepressant, and a drug that is made to lower one's heart pressure, it's no wonder that Brittany was found not breathing. I'm going to wait until the final toxicology report to draw a definite conclusion, but from this list, it seems highly likely that a dangerous combination of these prescription drugs was taken, which resulted in Brittany's heart stopping. Even when taken at their prescribed strengths, these medication, when combined, can form a lethal cocktail.
You should ALWAYS check with your doctor regarding interactions between different prescriptions you're taking, especially when those medications haven't all been prescribed by the same physician!
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Kiha replied to cheero's topic in Vanilla Wow General DiscussionWish I could get one of those adorable saber mounts But for those interested in the cub: http://puu.sh/dtx54/903a127ade.jpg For size comparison: http://puu.sh/dtxNW/cd1370aa17.jpg Annoyingly drops below the ground in Orgrimmar all the time. Also give more cat pets please
/run --CastSpellByName("Bloodrage") /run _,_,c=GetShapeshiftFormInfo(3); if not (c) then CastSpellByName("Berserker Stance") elseif UnitMana("Player")<10 then CastSpellByName("Bloodrage") else CastSpellByName("Intercept") end Not thoroughly tested, just a few pops standing still in town. Also not even sure if it is what you want, but this is just cleaned up version of what you posted. This should probably do the same, but bit faster. But guess if you were having problems with it not using bloodrage below 10 it still might here. Can always try and change it to <=9, though that most likely will have the same effect. Or even change around the whole thing with if rage>9 then intercept else bloodrage.
/run --CastSpellByName("xyz"); Make that the first line with the spell's cd you want to see. Works for me with tracking my stealth cd.
Spammable vanish/stealth Macro
Kiha replied to k9zker's topic in RogueFirst guess is that you get error containing a bit of this: "...'end' expected near '<eof>'" Which says it all, should be easy to figure out. Game is crying for closure.
Create healthstone/use healthstone macro
Kiha replied to Hawksworth's topic in UI & Macros/run local f for i=0,4 do for k=1, GetContainerNumSlots(i) do d=GetContainerItemLink(i,k) or "" if strfind(d,"Major Healthstone") then UseContainerItem(i,k) f=1 end end if not f then CastSpellByName("Create Healthstone (Major)()") end end 238/255 chars, no addons needed. Replace Major with any rank you wish, or remove in total for normal healthstone. Works for my lock.
Sorry, misread. Thought it would work fine since I just copy pasted from ingame working macro. For some reason it's capitalizing the 'b', same in post above. Simply replace ( with ( in and it should fix it. Or change '_,f,b' to '_,f,B'
Like I said, never used SuperMacro. But think I forgot the end in it, you can try with /run if not buffed("Prowl") then cast("Prowl") else cast("Pounce") end /run c=CastSpellByName; for i=1,5 do _,f,b=GetShapeshiftFormInfo(i); if ( then if strfind(f,"Bear") then c("Enrage") elseif strfind(f,"Cat") then c("Tiger's Fury") end end end And if something errors, it would be helpful to know what kind of error.
/run --CastSpellByName("Prowl") /script i=1;m=0;while(UnitBuff("player",i)~=nil) do if(strfind(UnitBuff("player",i),"Ability_Ambush")~=nil) then m=1; end;i=i+1;end; c=CastSpellByName; if(m==1) then c("Pounce");else c("Prowl");end Works for me, doesn't need SuperMacro, shows cooldown. It just grays out once you enter prowl With SuperMacro I guess something along the lines might work, not sure since I've never used it. /run --CastSpellByName("Prowl") /run if not buffed("Prowl") then cast("Prowl") else cast("Pounce")
Tranq Shot Message Only When Fired Macro
Kiha replied to Swiftdeus's topic in UI & Macros/run local st = GetSpellCooldown(48,"spell") if st==0 then if CastSpellByName("Tranquilizing Shot"); SendChatMessage("your msg here","yell") end Maybe, I dont have access to a hunter with tranq. Should cast and send message if not on cd/gcd. Used something similar for my kick macro years ago Also assuming from previous post 48 is slotID for tranq, prone to change on respeccing. If not sure about slotID enter it in, you'll get spellname /run sN = GetSpellName( slotID,"spell" ); DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Spellname= "..sN)
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Kiha replied to Nyali's topic in RogueJust get ezdismount, or try with .dismount Used this for a long time until I made it into a function /run m,i,ub,p,st=0,1,UnitBuff,"player","Stealth" while ub(p,i)do if string.find(ub(p,i),st)then CastSpellByName(st)elseif string.find(ub(p,i),"Mount")then m=1 end i=i+1 end if m==0 then UseContainerItem(x,y) end With x,y being bagId and slot, starting at 1 top left.
Mana gems macro
Kiha replied to Grogak's topic in UI & MacrosThis works for me, though I tried the same thing earlier and it would always use the Agate first. So it might act up a bit /run local c=function(a) local d a="Mana "..a for i=0,4 do for k=1,GetContainerNumSlots(i) do d=GetContainerItemLink(i,k) or "" if strfind(d,a) then UseContainerItem(i,k) end end end end c "Ruby" c "Citrine" c "Jade" c "Agate"
Sorry, my bad, run /run icon= GetTrackingTexture() DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(icon); Will give you icon name as well, makes me feel like an idiot to not have thought about this before. In this case INV should be all capitalized. Just make sure to change the to .
I think it's GetTrackingTexture()=="Interface\\Icons\\Inv_Misc_Flower_02" Icon names is quite easy to get, just find the correct icon on wowwiki and look at the file name or adress bar. Capitalize letters and done.
/run if (GetTrackingTexture()=="Interface\\Icons\\Ability_Stealth") then CastSpellByName("Track Humanoids") else CastSpellByName("Track Hidden") end; Inb4 using textures like this is usually for building UIs, not macros.


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Baked Lumpia Rolls
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 20 mins
These Filipino appetizers are awsome! I make these at least four times a year and have to double for my family - good luck if you're a guest!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 lb ground lean pork
- 1 medium carrot, chopped fine
- 1 medium onion, chopped fine
- 1 (8 ounce) can water chestnuts, drained and chopped fine
- 1 (8 ounce) can bamboo shoots, drained and chopped fine
- 8 garlic cloves
- 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
- 2 teaspoons soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- wonton wrapper, 1 package
- 1 large egg
Dipping Sauce
- 1⁄4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1⁄2 cup distilled white vinegar
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons water
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch, mixed with the water
- 2 -3 teaspoons freshly grated ginger
- In a large bowl combine the pork, carrot, onion, water chestnut, bamboo shoots, garlic, ginger, soy sauce and pepper.
- Stir mixture until thoroughly combined-at this point you can cover and stick in the fridge over night.
- I lay out about 10 wrappers at a time, roll the meat mixture into cigar shapes about finger thickness-be reasonable-and the length of the wrapper.
- Roll, brush ends with beaten egg and finish the roll to seal.
- Place seam side down on a cookie sheet and repeat until done.
- Bake in a preheated 450 degree oven, turning once for around 20 minutes.
- They should be cooked through and the wrappers are golden brown.
- Serve hot.
- You can make these ahead of time and keep cooked lumpia in the fridge for up to 3 days, or frozen up to 4 weeks.
- To reheat (thaw if frozen) bake on baking sheet in a 450 oven for 10 minutes-turn rolls once.
- Dipping sauce----------------.
- In a 3 quart saucepan mix together the brown sugar, vinegar and soy sauce.
- Stir over high heat until sugar dissolves.
- Mix the cornstarch/water and add to the sugar mixture and stir until mixture boils.
- Remove from heat and stir in ginger.
- Makes 2/3 cup and you can double.
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Wow! I loved these, as did everyone else at my party. The sauce was the best part for me, tangy and sweet. Another great recipe, Thanks. I chopped everything in my little food chopper and grated my ginger with my microplane zester and it was a breeze. My fiance was very excited, he said "Honey, you made eggrolls!" It's something I've never tried to do, next up, fried rice!
This is the second time that I have made & reviewed this recipe. This time I used ground turkey - they are very good but the pork is better. It is so easy to keep some of these in the freezer and just pop them out and into the oven when company comes. The sauce is fabulous and only takes a few minutes to make. I like to make it a few hours in advance to let the flavors blend but have also made it in the last minute and it is still very good. I have served this sauce with my pot stickers and also Empanadas - very versatile, tasty sauce. I think of you Diana and thank you every time I serve them. My freezer stays happy when I have a tin of Lumpias in it!
Baking the Lumpia Rolls was good. But the 8 cloves of garlic was too much. I cut it to 3 cloves and still very strong on the garlic. Next time will cut to 1 clove for this recipe.I love garlic but not to overpower the taste of the lumpia. I use 1 large carrot to give it some sweetness. The sauce using 1/4 cup of brown sugar was too sweet. So I cut the sugar down to 1 tablespoons and used 4 tablespoon rice vinegar, 2 tablespoons of soy sauce.4 tablespoons of water.This will be tandy & sweet. Been making egg rolls for 40 years. This sauce will not overpower the Lumpia just give it the right flavor to enjoy.


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Rudhramadevi trailer: Anushka Shetty, Allu Arujun's historical film makes Rajinikanth's Kochadaiiyaan look like Avatar
After waiting for so long, I can't believe this is what I get in the name of period film
A period film is not an easy film to make. With the amount of time and money spent to make the sets, the costumes and the look of the film authentic, historical films usually tend to be made on a very high budget. Usually Indian filmmakers try to steer clear of this genre, and after watching Anushka Shetty-Allu Arjun-Rana Daggubati's Rudhramadevi trailer, I know why! Touted to be one of the most awaited films of the year, and often compared with SS Rajamouli's Baahubali, Rudhramadevi seems like an assault on my visual senses. Click here to read more
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's interview with Sir David Frost: Politically correct and irritatingly diplomatic
The former Miss World's tête–à–tête with international host David Frost is worth a watch if you are in mood to listen to a vapid conversation
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If you think that no other age group is more vulnerable to loneliness than the elderly, go check your backyard. The mammoth rise of the internet and emergence of various social media platforms have left many young Indians - some as young as 14 - socially isolated, lonely and, eventually, in the grip of chronic depression that can take their lives.
Not just leading to suicidal tendencies, the feeling of being lonely can make you sick, very sick if not addressed clinically and socially well in time.
According to Dr. Samir Parikh, director, (mental health and behavioural sciences) at Fortis Healthcare in the capital, loneliness can be a trigger to self-suicidal ideation in young people. It can also affect their overall well-being.
"Loneliness can affect you physically and psychologically - draining people and leaving a huge vacuum in their life, thus putting them at suicide risk," Parikh told IANS.
Although in some cases, forming communities and groups on social media can be helpful but the social media can never be a substitute for the real human experience, he added.
"Total social isolation in young people can lead to depression, increases chances of Alzheimer's later in life and chances of death by suicide or increased physical ailments," Dr. Madhuri Singh, a leading psychiatrist from Nanavati Super Specialty Hospital in Mumbai, said.
In the virtual world, such lonely souls will, in fact, drift further away from the real interaction which is a must for the healthy functioning of mind and body, she added.
The rise in internet and smartphone addiction among children is fast becoming a worrying trend for Indian parents.
"I recently came across 14-year-old Tanay who was admitted to the psychiatric ward at the hospital as he could not switch off his mobile and was addicted to the social media. He was treated for screen de-addiction or else he could have suffered a serious mental disorder," Dr. Sandeep Govil, consultant (mental health and behavioural sciences) at Saroj Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi, noted.
Are you a green tea lover? Read this carefully as the cup packed with anti-oxidants and other health benefits may adversely affect your fertility and development in case of frequent use, warn researchers.
In experiments over fruit flies, the team from University of California-Irvine discovered that excessive consumption adversely affected development and reproduction in fruit fly populations.
According to them, one should avoid high dose of green tea or any natural product as nutraceuticals such as green tea, while growing in popularity, are largely unregulated.
"While green tea could have health benefits at low doses, our study and others have shown that at high doses, it may have adverse effects," said Mahtab Jafari, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences.
"Further work is needed to make any definite recommendations but we suggest that green tea should be consumed in moderation," she added.
For the study, Jafari and colleagues investigated the effects of green tea toxicity on the development and reproduction in fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
Embryos and larvae were subjected to various doses of green tea polyphenols.
Increasingly searching for love online during festive season seems to be a new fad in the town! Yes, you read it right. If you are wondering what festivals have to do with people searching their matches, read on.
According to dating app Woo, the youth increasingly searched for love online this festival season, with a massive surge in the number of downloads and sign-ups.
"Woo experienced three times the number of regular sign-ups and two times the number of regular match-making on its app during the holiday period last festive season," its chief executive, Sumesh Menon, told IANS.
During the season, the app registered around 1.7 million downloads and helped make around 17,000 matches every day through it, he said.
The numbers are staggering for the fact that it usually takes months to match the number of downloads that happened during the festive holiday season, says a tech expert.
Asked about any specific reason behind the surge, Menon, also the co-founder of the app, said: "We collected some users' feedback when we noticed the numbers climbing and it seems that the festive mood plays a big role helping people think of finding their love. That, along with getting time off work during the holiday, has driven the surge in usage numbers."
New York:The Neanderthals, who appeared about 200,000 years ago, are quite distinct from modern humans in the manner in which their faces grow, finds a new study.
The results add to an old but important debate concerning the separation of these two groups.
"This is an important piece of the puzzle of evolution. Some have thought that Neanderthals and humans should not be considered distinct branches of the human family tree," said paleoanthropologist Rodrigo Lacruz, assistant professor in New York University's College of Dentistry (NYUCD).
"However, our findings, based upon facial growth patterns, indicate they are indeed sufficiently distinct from one another," he added.
To reach this conclusion, the team set out to understand the morphological processes that distinguish Neanderthals' faces from modern humans - an important factor in understanding the process of evolution from archaic to modern humans.
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Chocolate Cake
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|2⁄3 Cup (10.67 tbs)
|Unsweetened cocoa powder
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|Sweet butter
|1 Pound (At Room Temperature)
|2 1⁄3 Cup (37.33 tbs)
|12 Large
|Unsweetened chocolate
|11 1⁄2 Ounce, melted
|Cake flour
|2 1⁄2 Cup (40 tbs)
|Baking soda
|1 Tablespoon
This is delicious, and will stay fresh and moist for up to 6 days. The key to this cake is the double hit of chocolate, a cocoa-powder fudge, and additional melted chocolate. This cake will bake at 300 degrees for a long time- it is dense and requires a slower oven. Make sure the fudge mixture is at room temperature before you add it to the rest of the recipe.
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees. Butter the baking pans and line them with parchment. In a small saucepan, bring the water to a boil. Pour the boiling water into a bowl and add the cocoa powder and the vanilla, whisking vigorously until the mixture is smooth and no lumps remain. Set aside and let mixture cool to room temperature. In a standing mixer, cream the butter on medium speed for 3 minutes. Add sugar and mix for another 3 minutes, or until the batter is light in color and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time. Stop the mixer and scrape down the sides with a rubber spatula. Add the melted chocolate and mix on medium speed for 1 minute, until all the chocolate is incorporated. Sift the flour and baking soda together. Reduce the mixer speed to low, and alternate adding the flour and the cocoa mixtures. Pour into the prepared pans. Bake an 8-inch cake for 60 to 70 minutes at 300 degrees; a 12-inch cake may take two hours. This cake is dense and bakes more evenly in a slower oven. Test for doneness with a skewer inserted in the center of the cake- it should come out clean.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 9529 Calories from Fat 5469
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 629 g968.1%
Saturated Fat 371.6 g1858%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 3513.1 mg1171%
Sodium 5114.8 mg213.1%
Total Carbohydrates 976 g325.4%
Dietary Fiber 152.6 g610.3%
Sugars 483.8 g
Protein 208 g416.7%
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Why Polamalu is ranked 9th: In most seasons, Polamalu would be a top-five player. The reason he isn't up that high is the fact he didn't play at an elite level in 2011 and he's a 31-year-old player with mounting head injuries. Some could make the case that Polamalu wasn't the best safety on his team last season, although he still made the Pro Bowl and All-Pro teams.
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Democrats & Media Try To Shift Obamacare Opinion with Shaky one-day Gallup Poll
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
As many are undoubtedly already aware, the polling outfit Gallup, as well as all Democrats and establishment media, have been pushing a one-day poll done on Monday, March 22, 2010, the day after the House of Representatives' historic passage of Obamacare, to "prove" that American opinion simply shifted overnight to support Obamacare by a 9 point margin, 49%-40%. Anyone who has seen Gallup boss Frank Newport interviewed or read a Gallup release is well aware of the left-leaning nature of Newport's views. As will be described in detail below, this over-reliance on a one-day poll, taken on perhaps the most positive media day for the Obama Administration ever, appears to be an attempt by the Democrats and the establishment media to actually shift public opinion in America in favor of Obamacare based on a poll that is dubious at best.
The Obama Administration, Democratic politicians and the establishment media have been harping on the one-day Gallup poll showing Americans approved of the House's actions by a 49%/40% margin since Tuesday and up to and including today, as Gallup trumpets favorable polling to Obama on its front page asking whether Obamacare was a "good first step" or not and cable networks continue to discuss the Monday poll. Amazingly, the media and the Democrats continue to trumpet these one-day results from Monday nearly a week after the poll was taken while Gallup fails to do any further polling on this issue. This conduct clearly begs the question: why not continue the polling on Tuesday and Wednesday to do a proper three day sample? Perhaps the left-leaning Gallup obtained the results it and its left-wing allies wanted on Monday and feared a dilution of the outlier results obtained on Monday with additional days of polling, which, of course, would have enhanced the accuracy and reliability of the polling overall.
Many factors point towards a conclusion that this one-day Gallup poll is an outlier at best or an manufactured result at worst, as every other poll released since the House vote has shown Obamacare remaining unpopular with Americans, clearly contradicting the one-day Gallup results. For instance, Quinnipiac did a poll over two days, March 22 and 23, demonstrating that Obamacare remained quite unpopular with Americans, with 49% opposing and only 40% in favor (the exact opposite of Gallup's findings). That same Quinnipiac post-Obamacare poll showed President Obama at the low of his Presidency for approval, 45%, which is "President Obama's worst grades so far, tying his 45 – 46 percent approval February 11." It certainly defies belief that Obama himself would be less popular overall (45%) than his signature initiative which has been his primary focus for his entire Presidency so far (49%, according to Gallup's one-day sample). Indeed, today Gallup itself shows Obama's approval is down to 48%, again casting doubt on the legitimacy of their one-day poll on Obamacare approval.
Another post-Obamacare poll which casts serious doubt upon Gallup's one-day polling results is from Bloomberg News, which noted in its release of a March 19-22, 2010 poll that the final day of polling, the same day in which Gallup's one-day poll was in the field, showed "Americans remain skeptical" of Obamacare with "no meaningful movement of opinion the final night of interviewing, after the vote was taken":
Americans remain skeptical about the health-care overhaul even after the U.S. House passed landmark legislation that promises to provide access to medical coverage for tens of millions of the uninsured.
At the same time, most say the government should play a role in ensuring everyone has access to affordable care, a Bloomberg National Poll shows. A majority also agree that health care is a private matter and consider the new rules approved by Congress to be a government takeover.
The poll found the percentage of Americans who favor the almost $1 trillion 10-year plan remained at about just four in 10 following the House vote on March 21 to send the bill to President Barack Obama, who signed it into law today.
The poll of 1,002 adults was conducted March 19-22 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent. There was no meaningful movement of opinion the final night of interviewing, after the vote was taken.
Of course, the Bloomberg and Quinnipiac findings received little to no attention from the establishment media or Democrats, who were busy pushing the one-day Gallup poll in every possible medium. Also, Rasmussen polling, which was nearly alone in correctly calling the New Jersey Governor's race for Chris Christie (R-NJ) and came within one point of calling the exact final results of the 2008 Presidential election, found that by a 55%/42% margin Americans want Obamacare repealed, with independents favoring repeal by a massive 59%/35% margin:
Just before the House of Representatives passed sweeping health care legislation last Sunday, 41% of voters nationwide favored the legislation while 54% were opposed. Now that President Obama has signed the legislation into law, most voters want to see it repealed.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, conducted on the first two nights after the president signed the bill, shows that 55% favor repealing the legislation. Forty-two percent (42%) oppose repeal. Those figures include 46% who Strongly Favor repeal and 35% who Strongly Oppose it.
In terms of Election 2010, 52% say they'd vote for a candidate who favors repeal over one who does not. Forty-one percent (41%) would cast their vote for someone who opposes repeal.
Not surprisingly, Republicans overwhelmingly favor repeal while most Democrats are opposed. Among those not affiliated with either major party, 59% favor repeal, and 35% are against it.
Apparently Gallup would have us believe independents support Obamacare by a 46%/45% margin, despite Rasmussen's findings, from a more reliable two day sample, that independents favor repeal by a whopping 24 point margin (59%-35%). Finally, CBS News did a two-day poll after Obamacare's passage which showed Obamacare underwater by a 42%/46% margin and finding that "nearly two in three Americans want Republicans in Congress to continue to challenge parts of the health care reform bill." Obviously, when 2/3 of Americans desire continued GOP resistance to the implementation of Obamacare, it is spurious to claim that Obamacare has magically transformed overnight into a popular piece of legislation.
Despite four other pollsters directly repudiating the results of the one-day Gallup poll showing Obamacare favored by the public by a 49%/41% margin, the establishment media continues to this day to trumpet the one-day Gallup poll to "prove" that Americans now support the Obamacare package. Epitomizing the establishment media's extraordinary over-reliance upon this one-day Gallup poll, national newspaper USA Today used its entire front page above the fold on Wednesday to push the idea that Obamacare has suddenly become popular, literally overnight, based on the single day of Gallup polling. Of course, USA Today makes no mention of the contradictory Bloomberg results in its "objective" report on Americans' views on Obamacare on Wednesday. It appears that the establishment media and Democrats are attempting to push low information voters who are not paying close attention into supporting Obamacare by bombarding such voters with the message that Obamacare is now favored by most Americans.
Further, the Obama Administration has happily pushed the Gallup poll as hard as it could, with senior White House spokeman Robert Gibbs going so far as to tweet out a link to the poll while saying this:
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, amid the glee of the healthcare bill signing Tuesday, tweeted @PressSec "In the polling obsessed town of Washington, DC this will give the nattering nabobs of negativity something to chew on" with a link to a story about the USA Today/Gallup poll that said 49 percent vs. 40 percent saw passage of the bill as "a good thing."
Gibbs wrapped the Obama Administration up into the "credibility" of the one-day Gallup poll despite having specifically slammed Gallup's polling as unreliable on a day to day basis several months ago, calling such daily fluctuations "meaningless" then:
The White House lashed out at the Gallup Poll on Tuesday after the survey's daily tracking numbers showed President Obama's approval rating dropping to a new low of 47 percent.
Asked for a response to Monday's tracking poll, which placed Obama's approval numbers among the lowest of any recent president in December of his first year in office, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs mocked the reliability of the widely respected polling firm.
"I tell you, if I was a heart patient and Gallup was my EKG, I'd visit my doctor," Gibbs said. "If you look back, I think five days ago, there was an 11-point spread, now there's a 1-point spread. I mean, I'm sure a 6-year-old with a crayon could do something not unlike that. I don't put a lot of stake in, never have, in the EKG that is the daily Gallup trend."
He added: "I don't pay a lot of attention to the meaninglessness of it."
For the White House, it appears, Gallup's daily one-day samples are "meaningless" and comparable to what a "6-year-old with a crayon" would do, unless, of course, that one-day sample supports the Obama Administration. Then, as Gibbs tweeted out after the publication of the full, front page USA Today story on the Gallup numbers, Gallup's one-day sample should be treated as irrefutable truth that "will give the nattering nabobs of negativity something to chew on." Such explicit hypocrisy and doublespeak from the Obama Administration has gone completely un-noted in the past week by the media, and it falls to a tiny centrist blog such as this one to point out the objective facts surrounding this matter.
Indeed, most pollsters agree that one-day polls are less reliable than samples taken over several days because of the natural variability of the polling sample obtained in any given day, which of course is smoothed out by having multiple days of polling. ABC News, another left-leaning pollster, explains this "night to night variability" in its polling experience:
Our practice is informed by the fact that, in all our polling, we see night-to-night variability in party ID that appears to represent trendless sampling variability rather than actual changes in partisan self-identification.
Gallup, of course, did not release its methods in weighting, or not weighting, the data it obtained for its one-day poll on Obamacare's approval. However, the application of simple logic indicates that the day after the passage of a massive legislative package which has been a "dream" of Democrats for nearly a 100 years, the sample obtained would skew towards Democratic voters whose enthusiasm was surely spiking. Conversely, independents and Republicans, who both strongly opposed the Obamacare package before its passage, would have been more likely to avoid any pollster calls on Monday as the depressing news sunk in that the Democrats managed to ram through the massive legislative package. This type of self-selection bias, on perhaps the most favorable media coverage day of the Obama Administration ever, is again ignored by every mainstream media report on the Gallup poll.
Finally, as is obvious to anyone who was watching the news or reading newspapers or websites on Sunday night and Monday, the establishment media has been in full celebratory mode regarding the passage of Obamacare, with newspaper headlines screaming in 6 inch print about the "historic" nature of the passage of Obamacare as finally completing the century-long "dream" for such legislation. Monday was perhaps the most positive media day ever during the Obama Administration, with the possible exception of Inauguration Day. Regardless, such overwhelmingly positive, saturation coverage of the Sunday night passage of Obamacare by the media undoubtedly had an effect on those polled by Gallup on Monday. Despite this, Gallup chose to only poll on that one day, and thereafter the Democrats and establishment media have focused solely upon this one-day outlier poll while ignoring all other polls which explicitly contradict its findings, four of which are noted above.
It remains to be seen if this gambit by the Obama Administration and the establishment media to shift public opinion in favor of Obamacare via the use of the dubious one-day poll taken on perhaps the most favorable media day ever for the Obama Administration will work. In the history of the United States, never before has any poll, let alone a one-day poll, been afforded such prominence in reporting across all media sources and in repeated use by a national political party. What is certain is that the media is ignoring the other polls which all contradict the Gallup results, and the facts on the ground, such as today's overflow crowd at the tea party rally in Searchlight, Nevada, and the million folks who signed up to oppose Obamacare within 11 days on a Facebook page, continue to indicate strong opposition to the Obamacare package, notwithstanding the preferences of the Obama Administration and the establishment media.
Tea Party Kicks off Tour as 20,000+ Rally in Searchlight, Nevada as Reid Supporters Attack Throwing Eggs; UPDATE: AP Admits Huge Crowd, Omits Reports of Reid Supporters Attacks; Breitbart testimony added; UPDATE #2: Politico reports 20,000 in attendance, debunks Palin smear, reports claims of Reid supporter attacks; 2008 Obama Violent Quotes Added
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
Building upon a tide of rising of discontent throughout America regarding the recent historical passage of the gigantic Democratic comprehensive health reform plan known as Obamacare, tea party activists held a rally in the hometown of Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) today with at least 20,000 gathering to hear headline speaker Sarah Palin. In what many are terming a "conservative Woodstock," Sarah Palin spoke about the need for the federal government to cut its bloated budget and to rollback the massive Obamacare package, a desire held by many across America and perhaps everyone in the crowd today judging by the cheers. Palin's key moment came when discussing Democratic control of Congress, when she stated that Americans should say in November 2010 that "You're Fired".
The establishment media, of course, is working to delegitimize and smear the tea party movement in the wake of the passage of Obamacare, with the AP clearly putting out this narrative before today's rally:
Organizers predict as many as 10,000 people could come to tiny Searchlight, the hardscrabble former mining town where the Senate Democratic leader grew up and owns a home. But a light turnout or disruptions could lead to questions about the emerging movements' credibility and direction.
The rally that's been called a conservative Woodstock takes place just days after the historic health care vote that ushered in near-universal medical coverage and divided Congress and the nation.
The vote was followed by reports of threats and vandalism aimed at some Washington lawmakers, mostly Democrats who supported the new law.
Police don't expect problems but the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is sending dozens of uniformed and plainclothes officers to patrol the crowd.
The AP, of course, fails to mention that the senior Jewish politician in America, GOP House whip Eric Cantor (R-VA), had a bullet hit one of his Virginia offices (as confirmed by Richmond, VA police). Considering the massive turnout today, clearly exceeding the estimates of organizers, Americans now know that the tea party is far from finished and perhaps still building strength after the passage of Obamacare. Live reporting from the scene on cable reports that the main highway into tiny Searchlight, Nevada is hopelessly jammed with other folks trying to make it to the rally while a mile long line to enter the rally area, as all available parking on the scene is occupied and folks are parking in town and having tour buses drop them off near the rally and heading in on foot.
Despite the establishment media's claims that the tea partiers are an violent, angry mob, today's event was marred only by attacks from supporters of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), as about 35 Reid supporters lined the street leading into the rally and threw eggs at the passing traffic, including the Tea Party Express buses. Such conduct is clearly a threat to the safety of those traveling on the street and a sign of the extremism rising on the left, despite what the media may report. Further, other Reid supporters actually attacked conservative media personality Andrew Breitbart, throwing eggs at him and threats of violence according to those on the scene:
Supporters of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid staged a counter-protest today in Searchlight, Nevada, the Senator's hometown. Reid supporters gathered just down the road from the launching point of the Tea Party Express tour, and when Breitbart happened upon them, he was met with threats of violence. At least one protester threw an egg at Brietbart, missing him. Eggs were also thrown at the Tea Party Express bus.
We expect the establishment media to ignore these violent acts and threats of violence by Reid supporters directed at tea party activists, as such incidents do not fit into the establishment media's narrative of tea party "extremism". At a minimum, the media should demand answers about what Reid campaign officials organized the 35 Reid supporters to show up on the side of the street and whether the highly dangerous tossing of eggs into a motorway was sanctioned by such officials, and if not sanctioned, what did Reid's people do to stop it, if anything.
Indeed, the level of enthusiasm necessary to pack a town of only 500 registered voters like Searchlight with 10's of thousands of people is unlike anything seen in America in many decades. Considering that President Obama's approval has again begun to decline, dipping back under 50% after a brief post-Obamacare bounce, the conventional wisdom of the establishment media and all Democratic politicians that the passage of Obamacare would lead to a substantial jump in Democratic fortunes appears to be collapsing, one rally and one poll at a time.
UPDATE: The Associated Press this evening filed a story about the tea party rally today in Searchlight, Nevada, and as expected, did not report the fact that Reid supporters pelted passing cars and tea party buses with eggs from the side of the motorway and threatened Andrew Breitbart, as documented by Breitbart's radio appearance later in the day. Considering the AP's reporting of the phantom racial slurs in DC that no one in America has any video or audio evidence actually occurred, despite the presence of many network cameras and folks' video phones that day in DC, it is unsurprising that the AP refuses to report the Reid supporters' conduct. Amazingly, the AP did report on the Reid supporters' presence in the area, but did not report on their activities of throwing eggs at passing vehicles or their threats of violence towards conservative activist Andrew Breitbart:
Reid supporters set up a hospitality tent Saturday in the parking lot of a Searchlight casino, about a mile from the tea party rally. The Senate leader planned to spend part of the day at a new shooting range in Las Vegas with National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre.
Luis Salvador, 55, an unemployed fire sprinkler fitter, drove down from Las Vegas to support Reid, who he said has done a lot for the state and doesn't deserve the protest brought to his hometown.
"You don't come to a man's house and start creating a ruckus," said Salvador, a registered independent. He and several others taped signs saying "Nevada Needs Harry Reid" to the side of a truck near the highway that runs through town.
Another Reid supporter, Judy Hill, 62, said she doesn't understand the hatred of Reid. The longtime Democrat from Searchlight said she thinks people just don't know the man she calls a friend.
"They listen to the rhetoric. I think he's very misunderstood and under-appreciated," she said.
It is beyond question that this AP reporter, Michael R. Blood, had access to the internet and could have, and probably did, read the release of the tea party organizers which reported the violent activities by the Reid supporters. The AP's Blood could have easily talked to Breitbart or listened to his radio appearance, or talked to Levi Russell, who issued the release for the Tea Party Express describing the violent conduct of the Reid supporters, and then interviewed others who were on the tea party bus that was attacked. However, the AP's Blood chose not to pursue this angle of the story, as it would have been damaging to the Democratic Party, which the AP has sworn undying fealty to in all of its reporting, apparently.
Sadly, this cover up of the violent activities and rhetoric of the Democratic Reid supporters, as testified to by Andrew Breitbart, is just another chapter in the biased and slanted reporting of the establishment media, explicitly demonstrating the double-standard employed by the establishment media of always downplaying or omitting any untoward activities by liberals while inventing or exaggerating any untoward activities by conservatives. Indeed, reporter Blood seems somewhat perplexed that there was no violence amongst the tea party's 10,000+ crowd, saying that the event "appeared peaceful".
Further, the AP's Blood makes a curious point in reporting on Breitbart's speech:
Conservative columnist Andrew Breitbart disputed accounts that tea party activists in Washington shouted racial epithets at black members of Congress amid the health care debate, although he didn't provide any evidence.
"I know you're not a racist group," he told the crowd.
Unmentioned by the AP's Blood is that the Democrats did not "provide any evidence" that any tea party protester "shouted racial epithets at black members of Congress" other than their own "testimony" in front of the cameras. Indeed, also unmentioned by AP's Blood is the fact that Breitbart offered a $10,000.00 donation to the United Negro College Fund if anyone could produce any audio or video evidence of the use of any racial epithets:
If we let them get away with Saturday's stunt — using the imagery of the Civil Rights era and hurtful lies to cast aspersions upon the tea party whole — then they really will have won the day.
It's time for the allegedly pristine character of Rep. John Lewis to put up or shut up. Therefore, I am offering $10,000 of my own money to provide hard evidence that the N- word was hurled at him not 15 times, as his colleague reported, but just once. Surely one of those two cameras wielded by members of his entourage will prove his point.
And surely if those cameras did not capture such abhorrence, then someone from the mainstream media — those who printed and broadcast his assertions without any reasonable questioning or investigation — must themselves surely have it on camera. Of course we already know they don't. If they did, you'd have seen it by now.
Rep. Lewis, if you can't do that, I'll give him a backup plan: a lie detector test. If you provide verifiable video evidence showing that a single racist epithet was hurled as you walked among the tea partiers, or you pass a simple lie detector test, I will provide a $10K check to the United Negro College Fund.
Of course, no such evidence has been forthcoming or produced because, in all likelihood, the claims of racial taunts by Democrats were simply spurious claims made to distract the American public from the content of the massive Obamacare package and to smear those who oppose it. Recall the story a few weeks ago that Democrats were planning ways to bring down the tea party movement, by perhaps turning one of its leaders into a "mole" and smearing the rest as extremists:
Big Government has learned that Clintonistas are plotting a "push/pull" strategy. They plan to identify 7-8 national figures active in the tea party movement and engage in deep opposition research on them. If possible, they will identify one or two they can perhaps 'turn', either with money or threats, to create a mole in the movement. The others will be subjected to a full-on smear campaign. (Has MSNBC already been notified?)
Big Government has also learned that James Carville will head up the effort.
Obviously, there is no love lost between Obama and the Clinton machine. It may at first seem odd that Clinton would rush to Obama's defense, but the tea party movement poses a threat far beyond the immediate goals of the Obama Administration.
The tea party movement could evolve into a new political realignment, one founded on a belief in limited government and less government interference in the economy. The Progressive agenda, which has been painstakingly built up over the last three decades, could be left in tatters.
As the Clinton's know, "politics ain't beanbag." Expect the counterattack soon. Don't say you haven't been warned.
The avalanche of Democratic claims this week of racial slurs and hysteria about "threats" appear to be the very "counterattack" of the Democrats against the tea party that was predicted by Breitbart. Nancy Pelosi and company strolled down the middle of the tea party protest hoping to get a you-tube moment of a screamed slur or even a physical confrontation – but the tea party protesters simply didn't provide any such video moment to the Democrats. Because of this lack of evidence, the Democrats have been forced to go out on a limb and, in our view, falsely assert that slurs were made that no one managed to get a recording of, despite the rolling cameras of multiple networks and hundreds of camera phones during the walk up to Capitol Hill. It is truly a sad day in America when the establishment media reports as fact claims made by Democrats about racial slurs for purely political reasons without any evidence whatsoever to back them up.
The AP did, however, grudgingly admit that a giant crowd of tea party supporters descended on tiny Searchlight, Nevada:
At least 9,000 people streamed into tiny Searchlight, a former mining town 60 miles south of Las Vegas, bringing American flags, "Don't Tread on Me" signs and outspoken anger toward Reid, President Barack Obama and the health care overhaul.
Organizers had said up to 10,000 people might come; around 1 p.m., police estimated the crowd was between 9,000 and 11,000.
Note that the first paragraph excerpted above, near the top of the article, uses the low estimate, and only later in the article, near the end, does the AP's Blood admit that "police estimated the crowd was between 9,000 and 11,000" which was what organizers had hoped for. Of course, earlier in the day, before the rally, AP's Blood had this to say, trying to set up his ability to write a hit piece on the tea party after the rally:
Organizers predict as many as 10,000 people could come to tiny Searchlight, the hardscrabble former mining town where the Senate Democratic leader grew up and owns a home. But a light turnout or disruptions could lead to questions about the emerging movements' credibility and direction.
Of course, as Blood reported, the turnout was heavy at the rally and the rally "appeared peaceful". One might expect Blood to write a story reporting that the tea party showed its building "credibility and relevance" after the passage of Obamacare, considering the rousing success of the rally; one might also expect the AP's Blood to report upon the press release of the Tea Party Express claimed Reid supporters were engaged in violent acts against the passing tea party buses from the side of the motorway, throwing eggs, or the threats of violence against Breitbart. Sadly, AP's Blood was not there to report objectively on the facts of what happened, he was there to write a hit piece on the tea party – which, fortunately, he was unable to do because of the indisputable success of the rally today.
The violent acts and threats of Reid's supporters will now fade into the memory hole of unreported facts, despite Breitbart's testimony, as the AP story on the rally will likely be the only mainstream media reporting to emerge from today's rally. If tea party supporters had been the ones tossing eggs into oncoming traffic on the side of the highway, or if tea party supporters had been the ones shouting threats of violence, we can be certain that the AP's Blood would have started and ended his story reporting those facts. All told, the biased and slanted reporting of the AP today is yet another example of the partisan and ideological nature of America's media in the 21st century.
UPDATE #2: Politico confirmed in their midnight report that the tea party turnout was indeed massive, as they estimated 20,000 supporters were there:
"When we talk about fighting for our country, let's clear the air right now about what it is that we're talking about," she told a crowd estimated by organizers at 20,000 gathered for a rally in a windswept desert lot about four miles north of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's tiny hometown. "We're not inciting violence. Don't get sucked into the lame-stream media lies."
Palin said "violence isn't the answer." She said "our vote is our arms" and encouraged activists not to be discouraged by the passage of the Democratic healthcare overhaul bill last week, but rather to channel their energies into defeating congressional Democrats who supported the legislation.
Democrats this week accused Palin of exacerbating the already tense atmosphere after last weekend's House vote passing the overhaul by telling her followers via twitter "Don't Retreat, Instead – RELOAD!" and by singling out 20 House Democrats who voted for the health care bill as targets on her website using a map with cross-hair gun sights on their districts.
The targeting phraseology is commonly used by political pros to indicate priority races, but Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) told a New York television station that Palin's presentation was dangerous, given the context.
Even left-leaning Politico cannot stomach the Democratic strategy of claiming Sarah Palin is "inciting violence" by targeting vulnerable Democrats for electoral elimination, noting that such "targeting phraseology is commonly used by political pros to indicate priority races". Perhaps today's rally will be the turning point where the establishment media stops reporting the ridiculous smears of Palin and the tea partiers fed to them by Democratic strategists and instead begins to actually focus on the substance of the massive Obamacare passage the Democrats have just passed into law.
Amazingly, Politico actually reported the egg throwing at passing tea party buses by Reid supporters and the violent threats upon Breitbart:
Conservative talk show host Mark Williams, an official with the political action committee that sponsored the rally, rejected media reports of slurs directed at House Democrats during tea party rallies in Washington before Sunday's vote, which were based on first-hand accounts from reporters and members of Congress.
"That's a crock," he said, alleging that when his group's buses – emblazoned with "Tea Party Express" – drove down Searchlight's main street, they were pelted with eggs by Reid supporters, who lined the sidewalks waving mass-produced placards saying "Welcome to Reid Country."
Williams declared "Thuggery is a left-wing tactic. We denounce it. We will not stand for it."
On the homepage of the Big Government site of Internet entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart, who spoke at the rally, a headline reads: "Harry Reid Supporters Attack Tea Party Bus!… Update: Breitbart Attacked!"
Now that an establishment media source has actually reported the violent, unsafe actions by Reid supporters and their violent threats to Breitbart, perhaps the story will gain some traction. Finally, regarding the claims that the GOP engaged in the incitement of aggression or violence by tea party protesters over Obamacare, perhaps the media should take a trip into the way back machine and review these Obama quotes:
Barack Obama, June 2008: "'If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun"
Barack Obama, October 2008: "I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face."
Has any Republican or tea party leader told his or her supporters to "bring a gun" to a fight with political opponents, or told his or her supporters to "argue with them and get in their face" in reference to liberals? Of course not, because if that had happened, it would be front page news in the extraordinarily biased establishment media.
Vindication: Felony Charges Against ACORN-killer James O'Keefe Dropped by Feds
Friday, March 26th, 2010
In a quiet filing late on a Friday afternoon, federal prosecutors dropped all felony charges against James O'Keefe and several other conservative activists who were charged originally with felonies for their silly attempt to prove that the Louisiana office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) was not answering the phone calls of their constituents:
Federal prosecutors filed reduced charges Friday against conservative activist James O'Keefe and three others who were accused of trying to tamper with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office.
The new charges are contained in a bill of information, which can only be filed with a defendant's consent and typically signals a plea deal. The new filing charges videographer the four with entering a federal building under false pretenses, a misdemeanor. They had been arrested Jan. 25 on felony charges.
O'Keefe, a videographer famous for wearing a pimp costume in a stunt that embarrassed the ACORN community organizing group, has said the group was trying to investigate complaints that constituents calling Landrieu's office couldn't get through to criticize her support of a health care reform bill.
J. Garrison Jordan, a lawyer for another defendant, Robert Flanagan, said his client has "an agreement worked out with the government" but wouldn't elaborate or confirm that the others also have reached a deal with prosecutors.
"I think it's a fair resolution to the charges, and I'm happy with the agreement we've worked out," he said.
The establishment media, led by NBC and its daytime host David Shuster, falsely claimed O'Keefe was engaged in a Watergate-style operation after his arrest:
All four men were charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony.
It sounded like a Watergate-style operation, but federal officials have not yet said why the men wanted to interfere with Landrieu's phones, whether they were successful, or even if the goal was political espionage.
O'Keefe himself at the time had this to say:
O'Keefe said, "The truth shall set me free," as he left a suburban jail Tuesday with Basel and suspect Stan Dai, both 24. All declined to comment. "There will be a time for that," Dai said.
Some particularly idiotic radical leftist commentary after the January 2010 O'Keefe arrest came from Michael Wolff, speaking darkly of "aggressive prosecutors" taking down Glenn Beck for his claimed sponsoring of the allegedly heinous crimes of O'Keefe:
There are the perpetrators, the four young men who attempted to get access to the telephone system of Mary Landrieu, the Democratic senator from Louisiana. Then there is whomever else can be connected to them, by cell phone records, text messages, or email.
These are the little fish. Somewhere, at some remove, with some level of foreknowledge—with enough deniability or not—are the big fish.
The Times' front page piece yesterday, with the thumbnails of the four perps, says little—save that O'Keefe and company were right-wing hot dogs—but is full of anticipation. The Times knows well enough that a break-in, one full of theatrical verve, is unlikely to have happened in a vacuum. Indeed, the subtext of the Times piece is all about James O'Keefe's impressive conservative network.
It's a network full of high-profile mentors. After O'Keefe's audacious bit of political theater exposing the haplessness or recklessness of some functionaries at the liberal group, Acorn—a popular bête noire among conservatives—he was immediately and enthusiastically taken up by the right-wing media.
The right-wing media is an insular but curiously convivial group. It loves its fellow travelers. It loves other right-leaning attention seekers. This is a club for the ideologically pure who are media savvy. The Times piece sketches out some of these connections, including O'Keefe's relationship with Andrew Breitbart, who is in turn connected to Matt Drudge.
The Times does not explicitly draw in Glenn Beck, but the Fox host has done as much as anyone to promote O'Keefe as an example of right-wing talent and personality. The day after the bust, Beck was hurriedly trying to disassociate himself.
Depending on the aggressiveness of the prosecutors involved, we will find out who O'Keefe and company were speaking to. We will find out who was urging O'Keefe on, who O'Keefe was bragging to, and how far up the media chain this really goes.
Obviously, leftwing hacks like NBC, Schuster, Michael Wolff and the NYT were completely wrong on this story.
All told, the massive establishment media focus on this case, and the ridiculous media claims that O'Keefe should be jailed for a decade and that his actions were comparable to Watergate, have been proven false. It appears that O'Keefe and the others involved will now plead guilty to a misdemeanour charge of entering a federal building under false pretenses. This plea deal is appropriate, as O'Keefe and the others were doing exactly that by pretending to be telephone company workers in furtherance of their silly scheme to prove Landrieu was intentionally ignoring constituent phone calls over Obamacare.
UPDATE: Hotair points out more of the prior false MSNBC reporting on O'Keefe, now fully debunked today:
Commenters are wondering in the Headlines thread when Edward R. Murrow's rightful heir will apologize for calling this a new Watergate or ace reporter David Shuster will walk back his tweets to O'Keefe right after the story first broke in January that "a) you are not a journalist b) the truth is you intended to tap her phones c) it's a felony d) you will go to prison." (0 for 4!) Answer: Shuster already did, sort of, but I wouldn't look for any more remorse than that from MSNBC. The new storyline, guaranteed, will be that O'Keefe got a break because one of the kids in his crew is the son of the acting U.S. Attorney for Western Louisiana. Never mind that there have already been recusals in the case to avoid any conflict of interest; the "corrupt wingnut" narrative shall not be denied. Long live "Watergate Jr."!


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Ever since the broad market indexes entered into bear market territory and the dollar stopped falling against most of the major currencies, I have been checking the international dividend achievers list for bargains. I came up with the following dividend stocks list, using the followoing screen criteria:
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2) The P/E ratio is less than 20
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4) The dividend yield is equal to or higher than the dividend yield on the S&P 500
This screen selected 38 out of the 97 international dividend achievers in the index. You could check out the list from this link as well.
As usual this list is just a starting point. Before you leap into buying these stocks always check out at least the ten year financials trends in order to determine how your potential investment has performed over time. In addition to that try reading the annual reports but don't get caught up in recent developments which would prevent you from seeing the big picture.
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We sit alone forever,
In the darkness, together.
Her hand in mine gives me hope,
A little bit of strength to help me cope.
We never guessed that they would turn on us.
We thought they were joking,
When they said they were going to push us in front of a bus.
I thought they were our friends.
I thought they would love us until the end.
But they never cared for me or her.
They were backstabbers.
Thanks to them we sit alone in the dark,
Forever, without a single spark.
I now know who we can trust.
Each other because everyone else caused us to bite the dust.
We can't trust our mom or dad,
Or our teacher, Mrs. Chad,
Not the backstabbers or the lady next door.
Only her because she'll never leave my side in this invisible war.
We'll always sit alone together.
In the darkness forever.
Her hand in mine.
Until the end of time.
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If you have an Etsy shop or any other type of business, you know that you have to have some kind of money to cover your on-going expenses, such as Etsy shop fees, supplies, shipping materials, etc. Every business needs to have some sort of cash flow. You also need to get your name out there to ensure you get a stead stream of customers.
Do a Google search for or pick up book on "starting a business" or "raising money for my business" and you will usually get the same advice when it comes to ways of getting money to start or fund your business. Let's take a look at what the usual advice is:
- Ask friends and family – not a bad idea unless they are just as broke as you are.
- Put it on your credit cards – the worst advice anyone out there could give you, especially in this economy.
- Get a loan – may work for some but what about the thousands of people with poor credit, no jobs, and no income who are trying to start a business? No bank will give them a loan.
- Use your own money – there is an underlying assumption that you have some kind of stash in the bank that you've been hoarding or that you have a 401K with enough money that you would just borrow from yourself. My advice is to leave your 401K or IRA alone – don't touch it. Starting a business is risky and there is no guarantee you'll be able to replace the money – then you may face not being able to retire while you can still walk.
- Get a second mortgage or home equity loan – yet another bad idea in this economy.
- Apply for a Grant – not a bad idea, but not with out challenges. You will have to find a grant that fits your project or business and you may need to recruit the help of a grant writer or take a class on grant writing. If you need the money NOW, this may not be an option for you.
- Borrow from your life insurance – don't even get me started on this one, because if you have a cash value life insurance policy – let me tell you that you already cheated yourself and you have the wrong type of life insurance, as do 76% of Americans. Borrowing from your life insurance policy means you have to pay it back at a rate of 6% – 8% AND if you don't pay it back and kick the bucket in the process your family looses that money.
- Find an Angel Investor or take on venture capital – most won't touch you if without a business plan, solid financials and the ability to show that you have already invested a ton of your own money before approaching them. There are some additional drawbacks I won't mention now.
It seems that everywhere you look, you get the same advice. These could be ways of raising money but they won't get you clients at the same time. I'm all for double duty – I want to raise money and get my name out there at the same time. WE ARE ETSIANS! Which means that we tend to think out of the box and come up with creative solutions to most problems, including funding {at least that's an how I think Etsians are in my own mind}.
I've come up with my top 5 creative ways to raise money for your business and get your name out to the masses. Some of the ideas I'm about to share do require a bit of creativity and elbow grease but, you may find that they are better than your run of the mill advice for funding your business. Here they go:
- Get Creative and start a KickStarter Project – Kickstarter has become one of my favorite sites. It's where a large group of people can be a tremendous source of money and encouragement. We all have creative ideas, pick one and develop it into a kick-butt project, not only can you raise money for your project, you'll also gain great exposure.
- Write and Publish an eBook – We all have great skills, why not put it in ink? Write an eBook and offer it up for sale. eBooks are like a big business card. If you offer great content at a very low price, you can easily raise money and get your name out there.
- Find Online Gigs – Check out Amazon Mechanical Turk where vendors list small tasks that computers just can't do. Gigs on this site usually a few minutes to less than an hour of your time. Complete a task and get your Amazon account credited. Once you accumulate $10 you can withdraw. Gigs vary from $0.01 to $20.
- Collect Your Change – I hate doing laundry but the pay off is usually pretty good. On any given laundry day I will gather up to $20 in change dropping out of pants and shirts. My penny jars will usually bank about $50 to $100. Searching through my couches and my car, I can usually score about $5 to $10 in change. You'd be surprised at how much that "small change" is worth. This won't get your name out to the masses but will help you in the $$$ area.
- Have a Yard Sales – Summer is finally here and it's time to destash and sell your stuff. Yard sales are a great way to to clean house and earn some quick cash. While you're at it, why not have a table with items you sell in your shop as well, tagged with your business card. No sense on having a Yard Sale and not getting some new business in the process.
So there you have it. I hope you've been inspired. We'd love to hear your creative ways of raising money and getting your name out, so please share them as a comment to this post.
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Hi there,
Im heading to Thailand in a couple of weeks and was hoping you might have some advice on where to stay on Koh Phi Phi.
I have been to KPN, KS and KT but never to Phi Phi, I will only be there for 4/5days after a scuba trip.
Is it possible to get a "rustic Thai bungalow" near a nice beach but also close to the action in Tonsai. Budget is fine, I dont want a flashy resort just a nature escape with a bit of Thai nightlife and dining. Is this possible?
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