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Well commences the I'll stick pulls everybody Miami's Alonzo Lon Chris Evans and Patrick Brown. Zach is all today because he's doing his on day job real jobs which just happens to be on the weekend he's Lyle running. Sound or something firm. So the Wesleyan as he works for some the Wesleyan. So you'll now be what does that hey you were with us and we're glad to. To have you here on the Saturday a beautiful Saturday day we just walked across the street number we indeed there is a bit windy and if yes OK yep royal American make it hard to seek kite flying in weather yes. Jimmy kite out your beard doesn't fly like my Internet it it does get pushed around by the window doesn't yet I can and it actually kind of tugs on my face when it happened so it's. It's a little bit it's an odd sensation in the infidelity has a reselling the worst flows flies up in front dives on I guess now as a but it's getting here. But the way it is if we may now we may have a shot of happening new audience tonight because. The NCAA. This could go what is going on right now I don't know well loser and yeah. Well there is that 250 if you have Villanova went in the whole thing well you find out. Listening or watching. Basketball anymore because you've done. So you're listening to us. But I'd. I know I'm gonna talk about this and second about my experience covering the NCAA tournament and at the well and rebuild but I can tell you there are a lot of people here. Armed waiting for the games tomorrow and around the doubting green bill or orchestrate in this area and Amy welcome. He may be tuning in trying to figure out you know 20 listen this yes you will listen to this. This is the nerdy show on radio the ones that turn yacht wouldn't talk movies we're gonna talk especially scifi movies weren't middle of doing our size five bracket we only got through part of first round. Last week we're gonna continue warned. And I got a saying. That I consider Villanova losing the same as independents day going down last week you know I still struggling with that I. I can understand that I don't think it was quite deadly and have said but it definitely wasn't upset. And there probably will be some more today so to new release Starr on Napa pretty early probably later on. In this hour if you wanna be a part of the show 80347. 1063. Judges like oh era. I had sort of clarify you think you can be beaten by saying that that Independence Day losing last week is as big as Villanova losing today. You think that independent stake have gone all the way to the final. I think it had possibilities but there again this is opinion in this is how much a movie means to you an idea. I know how our our entire brackets dislike last year with a superhero thing this is this is. Our feelings about. What is this has nothing do with you know how much money to make us all these movies pretty much that we have on this list. Made a ton of money this is about how much did means to each individual and the vote ends up. Okay didn't win prayer Ed that's that you're entitled to your opinion I just wanted to clarify the doubts that meant as wanna make sure that I just it okay. So I'm trying to get through it but I'm sure won't be the only time that I'm disappointed people no offense non debtor very disappointed right now. Welcome and I'm sure he would just like the basketball. Tournament that that our our bracket as interest more upset yes it deadliest month latex line 71307. So make sure you check that out before we talk about my experience yesterday because it might have been an experience of life time. On. I have something needed Beauty and the Beast came out yesterday. And if you want to see it none of us did a wonder review under my wife and my daughter went to see it and I have friends that went to see my wife and daughter had different. Opinions on the movie and I'd like to hear what yours or interesting. And country's busiest and foam but. I'm forgive you and I appreciate you calling it only give you what I think our opinion is right here on the upstate Costco and his dad Beauty and the Beast. You know that's a much better explanation than magic. Yes it doubly as edges makes a lot more sense an I can speak for myself. When I say that we hear is the obstacles to not condoned. Eating mushrooms but you know I look unless they're what are your dad dragon yes yes or any any of that kind of thing. I'll be hilarious yes now. Then that's my opinion of our opinion of a beating BC here's the thing you know there's an entire audience out there who have never seemed little kids that haven't seen. The cartoon that I saw 101000 times in the main reason I'm not seen because nor Angela Lansbury has dirt is Angela Lansbury there is no Beauty and the Beast. Okay aside. But there are a lot of I'm told that a lot of kids are out there are a lot of parents taking their kids to see it and this is a direct. It's just. They may live action when there's not there isn't just a little little dialogue change but pretty much it's the same movie does it surprise you. Given how powerful Disney's marketing department is that kids these days have not seen the animated feature and it came out twenty something years ago. Yeah I kinda does. Questions you. Patrick news RNC and taxed again. By the way. Zach even though he's not with well I wondered if he was going to be he just tested dead Chuck Berry is dead at ninety wow now we need to look down Emma Olivia by that right now none deathly here are just material right there. On Patrick did you see Beauty and the Beast as a kid yes. OK I guess so by and Patrick is just turned 23 right yes. And if you want me series to a bomb so there and so there you go so so Patrick casino and I wondered kids younger than him if they have because. But it's Disney I mean. Did you see fantasia when you're a kid it was out way before you were born on to on Chris yes and so you know. These things are passed down right dislike the and that's kind of where. And this is did we eat our generation kind of grew up on those animated films Little Mermaid I remembered a Beauty and the Beast Aladdin was fantastic lion king of course. We you know that was new when we were kids. Mid may be a little left for your time want to but. But I mean he'd had you know. I remember seeing things like sleeping beauty which just came out way before I was born right senator white salmon course now. Cinderella. And we saw those things because. Because they they meant something to our parents and I'm just surprised that that parents that grew up with. Beauty and the Beast Little Mermaid etc. Are not handing that stuff down to their kid is another question does he live action does it kill the enemy I you know I ate. I actually has speculated that haven't seen them the new line action movie but I speculated that it is not going to be nearly as good as the original. Animated version as I agree and in fact idea of the trailer that they released a couple weeks ago that was. Basically just opening number even a portion of the opening number. It it it drag you didn't have the same kind of pacing the animated filmed it. So I'm hoping I I hope you know for dizzy sake and the sake of a generation of of children you know to be exposed to too good stories like that. Did that that it does well that and he is a good movie but I just speculate that it's not going to be quite the movies at the animated version all right. Because I don't normally follow the outline an up or down anyway since we're talking about movies couple other movies things an wanna talk about. Power Rangers comes out next week. I know two people in this room we're really excited about going and seeing them I don't know about the third. By the way there are a variety of news sources that are they're reporting check buried dead at age ninety. Most of them seem to be. Local stations like no. Vick well here's BBC actually went BC and ABC news both legendary rock enroll songwriter Chuck Berry dies at ninety. All right so there you go and lived a long life and has it as a way. An Aussie grassy using Al music wise. All right so we're tumble Power Rangers I'm looking forward to going see empowering had a conversation or at the Rangers donuts yesterday. I know how do you know they were Power Rangers they actually they were. They were they were seen Patrick stay doughnuts that we're in green instead of regular donut collared. That makes and but Evan became to Power Rangers box that's the doctor -- about it numerous this data doughnuts actually I have to say donuts taste better than regular don't know in fact they don't even look any better they they did that they would all over the green yet the Clinton likes not it on Israel says it didn't. It was not appetite here Stacey this is like not looking doughnut mix it looked more like still don't know specially glazed yes. Well I noticed they had Hayward grasp of reality. That's grass no excuses and I'm trying to take the high road here guys out for the first on number Wragge oh which you're all right so anyway I. Rangers coming out on next week would afford to go on CNN I had a conversation with with the when my buddies on FaceBook earlier in the day and my concern. Is as swords still and he mentioned that he was concerned about go door and but I think Rita looks awesome Zorn I mean Cranston I'm not so sure about. Are we seeing the Power Rangers themselves here's the here's my concern now if you watch the show it. Any time in your life since been on for quite a bit. It is you know that there is hand to hand fighting between Power Rangers and whoever the the party's opponent but yeah what's basically say thank. I hope that the martial arts part. Is more realistic and an idyllic it would have to be I mean a whole bunch of flips and offer trampoline a net type of thing and it is George looked anything like transformers I think we're good. I'm because I think transformers. Put the standard out of whites. Necktie giant robots should look like right exactly so as long as they look some somewhat similar to that I think Roque and I'm looking forward to the movie. I hope it's either really generally bad. And he now I'm in the same boat as you yeah I just an egg it doesn't have to be perfect it just has to give me the nostalgia doctor I don't wanna come up they're gone hand. You know come oh to come out going house to house were I Specter go on men to sucks I can't wait to talk about it one or the other yet. I. There there's parts of the movies that has me excited. But the same time Mike are they gonna do a modern day like it looks like a modern day teenage version of it but like. Is the dialogue going to be like a teenage version or is it actually going to be like a movie. While the from what I've seen it's hard to tale yeah it really is hard to tell on because if it didn't know any of the I think I'm glad I'm not seeing how much and now we not seen them much because of purposefully holding back because that's all there as we were not on an ounce we said we've talked about a before the art of making a trailer you know there's there's a fine line that you have to walk between. Putting enough information in the trailer to make it interesting to get to motivate people to go see the movie and giving too much the way they also held out like this suits. I remember in the first regular. They showed it at that they show like at the begins a slight transformation we never saw the full suit right in the second trailer which gotten like two months ago released I think. I was a year I as I can say I've seen ads recently running on television it that. The show. The full faces yet I think was like. Two months ago whenever first got released every one was Pont has got to see that new suits right in the seats pay homage to the old ones but with the modern twist. Yeah it's W me interest seem accented the majority of us are gonna go while it sounds like all of us from trying to negotiate and will be a report on that next week. Pond but speed the Power Rangers did you know that. One of the Power Rangers who was. Arrested a song no well he he went ahead in the admitted to murder on how he's been arrested is Ricardo. Medina who's now 38. Yellow Rangers is that. Now remember which and I think it was a red ranger. Yeah police are Medina was charged with first degree murder January 2016 salute so he's been in jail for awhile and he sort of hearing that when he said it was in self defense but now all he has changed his plea to murder. And investigators said that starter who was his roommate force his way and medina's room in Medina grabbed the sword he kept by the door and stabs Sutter multiple times before calling 911. But now. He says that he grabbed the sword and he killed in the wasn't self defense he just killed bomb. So. It here's the thing you know. Everybody knows somebody well we all know people who collect swords and things like that and you think. What are you doing that all it's very decorative that type of thing. All I'm saying is don't make these people angry and you know the fact that he's power ranger you're gonna kill somebody is sort probably not the way to go. On because you're on now you know I'm not I don't think they're guilty because it's so you know depending on which iteration of the Power Rangers some of them had sorts. So it just. It it's horrible news it really is. But when I first or Othello is a joke did you when you first heard I like I remember not rail is onion type style I remember. Hearing the story come out about a year ago I think you mentioned it and and and wondering whether it was. True you know wondering I mean this is before we had a term fake news but but wondering you know if there was actually any veracity to this story did. Did the and it turns out there is so. Our right to the movie news of trying to figure out how to do this because I really wanna get the bracket on the Daytona got on so work kind. Going through these kind of click coming I'm gonna break you and we take the break up only do this okay and we may come back to these later catching onto things that you don't always show waited on nose cause we really need to expound. One is event a movie has just been announced and uninteresting and. A lot of people were not happy about this because they think it's gonna take away from Spiderman homecoming. And oh I think he -- -- yes and I knew I could see that this is Phyllis Conn 2018. And I think there's still bad taste in people's smiles because of what venom was like and Spiderman three ethical onto us and on which I really didn't had a little problem with blood a lot of people were unhappy about it so. Venom coming out what to think. Odyssey and I mean down me too yeah I Agassi until I I can't imagine it taking much away from Spiderman homecoming analysts they're actually. In theaters at the same time yeah and her not all right one more thing. The matrix is being re booted yes but. It's not a reboots. And you know people which would have a different context for that animate our eyes then they actually played this article. Put up an explanation was difference between reboot to remake and a reboot is defined by those in the industry as a complete re branding of a specific time or IP. A remake is defined as a complete retelling of the same story. And characters. That the studio buys the rights to. On according to a couple stories I read is. Neo more fears all those guys are not going to be an armed. The they think that it's going to be like reward it's going to be a story that's going on Tuesday but in a different part of the world consider how many people were in the nature. Well let's see that was that and really was what I wanted to see at the end of the matrix when that when the matrix first debuted I remember it's. It may top my list of the movies that I've seen most times in theaters. I think he was I don't know five or six times in the theater that would see it which is saying something because I was in college it's time and had no money yeah but heads. But I remember thinking at the end of it that. That the wage. That story had ended left it open ended in terms of neo becoming a superhero in the matrix and that you could you could do frankly as many as many movies as you wanted. With him just. Being that you know being the super powered. Entity inside the matrix. Well they did they bring up they went in a different running on it and matrix sound if you saw oh yes I really like Indian Wells is several discipline similar to that how was a way how was different yes and you know what was going on in the main story as tough and for those of our listeners who don't know the enemy tricks was a collection of animated. Short stories set in the matrix universe by a variety of of a well known enemy producers. And so they're there were. There were several that that Ira I know I recognize their work. And and it's really really fascinating. The collection of of stories and that's that's something that I think they can do that's kind of what I was expecting with. The in the way that that makes rescinded as you can just tell any number of stories in that universe now it has been created. Yeah I can't what odds I'm looking forward to it and ons I mean are they gonna come up with something McCain the bullet time is it going to be a new. Thing that they come up with this is the same people bill I don't know. We'll find out are we come back from a tub while my NCAA experience yesterday briefly and then rulers get into our site five brackets we can try to get through the first round today. And welcome aboard all the Villanova people want nothing to do with sports anymore sorry I'm so don't talk a little bit about it no we'll just take you away is somewhere distant. Since your bracket is busted you're listening to be a staples right no 1063 W Lordi. What about a deal staples Alonso Chris and Patrick here. Hey I wanna remind you that next week is South Carolina comic con really looking forward to that. We're probably not gonna get to go till Sunday but he goes on Saturday and Sunday. So if you're looking for. If Durbin took time check it out I mean it's not the TV can be patient sooner it's here it's pretty cheap to get and and if you wanna see people were cons plane or if you used to collect comic series think you're not collect them again or just won't go see artists actually drawl stuff. My chance to get some autographs and some famous people including. The guy who. Played Darth Vader and wrote Warren which rob came more in Rafah border lands his Ronald thing came on Schoen and announce that and also barred from stranger things is going to be there so I mean if you ever want to see what. Barbie looks like up close plus a ton of artists who have caused players like crazy. The party had told my wife soon can we wanna say this and I told her when we don't she was to go to. To keep her mouth closed and you may think are you saying to true wife tossed must know but when she sees something she's an all of it. Her jaw drops and you know and it's it's it's awesome wonder there really is. And I think I'm just master clenching my teeth when I see something like that. And this sort of thing if you're offensive views even if you just go see combo movies or something like that you'll love the saying and you know if you turn around you're looked in also and there are some dude dressed as a claim on next do you. Or a storm troopers every color happened yes yes I mean that's sort of thing happens at those kind of things and it's amazing to see. Other creativity of people locally and people who come from you know other states to something like this. How they. You know use their own artistic. Hands or whatever and mix suits and make this kind of stuff and it looks so real it really does. The make up the the clothing all that kind of stuff we used to have someone who were most here. Who doesn't goes to all the cons and so check that out next week and you probably will see us there. More than likely Sunday all right speaking of experiences yes today. The NCAA tournament came to Greenville to the well. And as most of you know where or if you're just tuning in for the first time. I also worked for ESPN upstate and so at a press pass was able to go to the NCAA tournament. And lucked out in a way that. People would not believe but if you're my FaceBook friend just take out Alonso word if you're not and become my friend. Or follows on the upstate pulse on FaceBook but anyway I'm my own personal FaceBook page I have picture. On Ellison to me of where we were sitting. Me in and my buddy Greg McKinney use on the huddle. On ESP in upstate. With me RP's exit host I'm with him so anyway. We are right on the court and this one of those things where you give press passes and you're able to go. Places a lot of people don't get to go and he had to go into the bowels of the arena and see how all the media people do and they all kind of in no cliff together. I had no idea. I know is right that radio and TV your clique ish and you know I was able to see that. These are things that I'll talk about here are probably not over there. No I observe people that's what I like to do all like to welcome to remind me now say a word anybody dumb listening now watching and no offense to the majority of the TV people out there but the majority of the TV people seem to be a little bit snooty when it comes to radio people. And you know I kinda knew that but actually seen it in person it was kind of you know confirmation. You know night actually I talked to Vince about that OECUP. Yeah I talked to Vince about that because offense has been you know on TV and radio and talk to Bob about it too because he's the right TV and radio. To meet for the most part because there are some cool TV people for the most part the radio before the coolest. The radio people are the most down to earth. The majority of some more little bit Heidi and full of themselves when they're in a certain situation on the go into it is but certain people come in my arm but. TV people just kind of looked down and knows that you're a little bit we have audio and Judy that's right and there again maybe here's a look at them because I've pony tail RA NN mail us on the do that to everybody is kind of playing golf they think you're cute done right well that could be me and I can blame America's is absolutely true. Armed but Moroccan Tony tell yesterday and here's just I'm gonna mix a few observations before we move on this has nothing to do with the GameStop does behind the scenes stuff Ari as. As a dog with a pony tail and maybe you do this as a guy with a long beard. When you go into a place like this I'm looking for someone who also has a pony tail. I wanna know that the hippie nation is represented by not just me so a guy walks by instinct suit jacket. Putting tell all of the mind and good to know one of mine is here. And I'm not alone and I understand I I don't necessarily go looking for them but I do we tell us yet you notice that's the thing he noticed and so that was pretty cool in the fact that got them again. Sit where we sat right on the court. I don't know so the biggest college basketball that a more than NBA fan. But on different experience and at some point. When North Carolina was planned I'm looking at the stands in the bios and is completely full I'm sorry the well is completely full. All accords will be our Oscar wellness arena was four. Of people and you're sitting down there in the middle had gone and this is so cool look at all these people here watch in this. And just to be a part of it are two more things before we take our next break. The food providing yes the media gets provided food. And the film was pretty good this supper that we had yesterday. Was basically build your own. Burrito so the other toward Syria and how like chicken had veggies they have so most familiar on the other side yeah cats and fish. But I don't trust fish in a place like that possible to a fish place it's a stud just think it to. Cash could possibly be a bad move sure com. Can I just don't wanna die because they finish. At a media thing. So. I'm may de Brito and then I come back I'm sitting down and other media you force and around me so which I knew. And I asked a question what's the difference between debris don't soft taco. Any Al looked to me like album immediate. Do you guys would not think that because I would give you an answer yes and you know I talked to my family about my daughter so much. I think the difference between a soft taco burrito is folds. Yes because if you have a larger to you and it's open it's a soft taco yet if you hold it four times. Does it take four or is three enough to make delivery Phil Reid is enough although frequently is firstly it like fast food places and if fourfold. I think he's not. And yes see this is the conversation because as an observation it's something that I noticed that I'd never really thought about before and I think. Other people don't think that way they're being around people who don't think that right and also because your folding the burritos that the tortillas self has to be larger. Yes or you have less but yet but that yet even then. All right last thing. I'm leaving and the media elevator very very slow guy comes out the dumpster full of trash bags went on falls off I'm like. Novak you lost one. Dude you lost line he's keeps on Golan and there's other media guys Raza -- or shrug my shoulders and Al shrugged her shoulders that to me was like a moment. I desperate act it's it may sell where there is this really cool another moment by like. All right. And he could you may or may not be listening now I don't know it's I social and listening and know and I know this person out there to about the stand behind me. Before I got on the elevator. And they've got and he got him with me and I don't even on the elevator once this one are supposed to but there's only three places to go and things and I didn't know which one would take me where I needed to go. I'm Mike you impossible America's I don't know where he's like. You have now played down that now is like OK you have Bush's when on the head now to. And as we're standing there and I looked over and I seal it is which I know I don't know him but I talked to him several times he's been on show with. Rust he's been on the huddle with us on ESP and he's a former voice of the Clemson Tigers he's a big time these these sports guy in the area. And he was standing there and it's like I belong. And you'll arrive at her and I almost. There is community by the way yes I was can at gap and and a almost made fun of his make up. But I didn't do that now because I thought that would have been a poor taste even though I'm sure he. Would've understood because it's me I almost did it. It was nice to make a Russell time when he would be on on fox with the make up and I do because it was such a cool moment it was and it wasn't like you know. When you meet someone who's a celebrity. It's like you're on you feel like you're on the same level with them and you just kind of you know to Chad no it's not small caucuses two guys wanted to shout. And want to get out and there yeah yeah and both of us wanted to get out of there so that was a very cool moment all right. We go to break we come back we start to bracket. Continuing to bracket you're listening to use the upstate pulls right here of 1063 WR debug away. Welcome back to the upstate calls Chris Evans here's an it would Alonso and Patrick exactly is off actually working today. I don't loser now and I could neediest it wouldn't you rather be here doing this. I guarantee you he would rather be here doing their best. Anyway. Texas it sending messages to the common sister tyra blank text line if you wanna get into the conversation text this at 71307. Texas has what did you think was fake news I missed it doesn't when we're talking about the than the Power Rangers actor who was arrested for murdering somebody with a sword. I mean there's there's nothing about that headline that doesn't. Suggest maybe it isn't true but it turned out it is true. And and and apparently he's just there recently pled guilty to the end to the murder charge. Another Texas says hey guys I like my mushers on pizza. By the day. By the way the obedient obese promo was hilarious well thank you very much we we yeah we do try. Texas has have you seen the fifteen minute Power Rangers are re imagining featuring Katie sack off and jeans Vander Beek Google Power Rangers 2015. It's awesome and by the way I have seen it and I knew I had it's bloody it's a very adults Dan it's it's pretty awesome and really well you're an agreement with texture there. You get of that conversation 71307. All right so Florida I would who just think a lot of our existing and know they made one Freud dragon balls eat too. It was like the light of the new hope the other several different ones yeah and there's also some of the size that we watch the vs sites they did an entire night wings series which isn't bad either it's really surprisingly good editing. Four and really good graphics for like YouTube theory yes definitely. All right so. Let us continue with our first round bracket we wanna get through this entire thing today on the show that's what we're gonna jump to an early. And if we have time for other stuff we will we always have time for your phone calls and text. 803471063. Tex lines of 1307. OK let's give it to its all right the first one today that we're talking about. Is weird science. Now. We love the static class and emotionless Frankenstein off right but how can you not bullets a scifi New York that has science in the title. In the end and it was on several lists and this is one of my favorite movies from the eighty's so gruesome and put on here and I'm thinking it's going to be that's fine. On. Anthony Michael Hall back in the day when he was in sixteen candles unions in breakfast club dues in this. He was and everything then you've got a pop faced an ugly. Went away for awhile they got that. What was that show called. Yeah Russia. Eight it was simply obscured. Based on these are coming yes Stephen King thing. Where he was a psychic of some sort yes yes and Texas if you know when who's it. What showed a loss of 1307. He also was in that man. Huge Batman who's a reporter. Did know that you sleazy reporter he got I think he. Was kidnapped your idol Michael Keaton bad no you know nook and all of those little. The ones with the Batman begins yet who's in he was as a news especially on the what would you know the Joker in it I think I can't think if you got I think he may have got kidnapped in that. Maybe this thing is about anything in my whole he looks no different does say yes and he gave in his youth when he was doing sixteen candles and weird science. It senator senator. That eight it's it's difficult to recognize him. As who he would now stores where science goes down. Desert they ask Dexter yes and and it was good series to Kelly the Brock and we're science as a teenager. Oh my god this yes and does she was awesome actually was honored students golfer while far cock what she really has to us bomb was he really yeah exactly go lack of that well done to Suzanne Suzanne one of the under -- is with him I think and they have an affair and and he got married because. He was married and no one knew. Interstate you know I feel like we can do a whole hour of Blake ridge ugly famous guys myriad of really hot women. You have really till honesty during glee comes two months ago can also is is a martial artists who doubts about. But he's ugly thing about weird science is but he's got a point Chelsea's aren't me. I think about recites you'd look for a minute room PS I went and and we would make eye contact we good. Not now when it would be like just give a slow done to death of one of those via this the appoint a non. You don't wanna do too much causing you'll like Jeanine in almost looked like that you do all right so. The other thing about whereas science Robert Downey junior was an. And he was a bad guy. I did not remember that yes is Milan. I see in him as he challenges the other kid who was in a bunch of movies and drops the the IC on top of their heads. How they also tried to get it then try to get Lisa away from them leases killing the Bronx I can't read. The man the girl they don't need and that's when they they forget to hook up the doll and they make a a missile in the middle of the house. Also. The nearly departed. Bill Paxton. And what my favorite role for him as Chet was an Emily so I am guessing that Patrick is never seen it. And I'm guessing that Patrick hadn't seen the movie is going up against and that movie would be Logan's run. Okay. I IE I have nothings in Mellon in trying to IE. I know it only my reference I am not actually seen the movie I've seen actually as pressure I've seen clips of the movie in other things like in. You know Britain and the silly news report that lake in reference to the mid yes it was it was a pretty good movie yes those little kid when I saw it doesn't stand out to me the way to where science does. Mom so you know my vote's going to be my vote is weird science. Patrick you can abstain if you want to GMC new ones I'll vote weird science yeah I'm gonna go weird science as well all right I have Zacks votes and Zach voted Logan's run well good for him. Larry one but Zach is wrong RID tickets. And he doesn't know when he'll finally all right. Or does it maybe he's listening on the tune in have waltzed supposedly working our. Duke was who has on this actually let's take a break and we come back we'll get to one more movie before we really get into the next are you listening to the F staples. Right or 163 Debbie Doherty by the way if you agree or disagree wit if weird science winning over Logan's run less known attacks line 71307. Welcome back into the F staples we are. Smack dab in the middle of our son fiber on our techsters are on it tonight. Texas says the Steven Seagal movie with Kelly Le Brock was hard to kill all okay all right. At stake for given a straight here's the thing I think all seems adult movies or just the same movie he guesses the same movie it's just depends on if you accept exactly homegrown terrorists or if you have the you know international terrorists I think that's. Exactly except executive decision. Where I am I'm convinced that what happened is the producers went to Kurt Russell says hey we wanna make a movie was you would Stephenson Dolly said okay I'll do for ten million dollars. It is it OK and they went to Stephen seagull and said. Hey we wanna make a movie would you incur Russell paid ten million dollars duties and OK for the first five minutes and so that's the biggest. Thank you know phones you up a fight let's jump back and real quick. Let's go to first movie I have not seen this blow that it is the martian. 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Harbor Place Fundraiser a Major Success!/
Chris Donnelly, Director of Community Relations for Champlain Housing Trust visited the Renaissance School in December. The school families donated a total of 927 personal care, food and clothing items for Harbor Place, the temporary housing residence located in Shelburne. This is the second year The Renaissance School has collected donations for the shelter, and we are planning to make this an annual community out-reach activity for our students. The Fifth Grade class counted and graphed all of the donated items and assisted in bringing the many boxes and bags to the school entry-way for transport.


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Another excellent blog…(We Hunted The Mammoth)
Are women turning against feminism? Over on The Spearhead, WF Price sets forth the proposition that "the younger generation of women [is] rejecting 'feminism' in stronger terms than I've ever witnessed in my life."
His proof for this? A Tumblr blog called Women Against Feminism, featuring a couple dozen photos of women holding signs denouncing feminism. Or what they think feminism is, anyway.
Some of these women are fairly articulate about the source of their hostility against feminism: they're traditionalists who don't like being judged for their choices:
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YORK, Maine — Albert V. Martin, 75, of Thistle Road in York, died Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, at York Hospital, following a period of failing health.
YORK, Maine — Albert V. Martin, 75, of Thistle Road in York, died Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, at York Hospital, following a period of failing health.
Born May 7, 1927, in Brooklyn, N.Y., he was a son of John and Harriet Martin and attended schools in New York. He and his wife made their home and raised a family in York for many years.
Al came to Maine as a beneficiary of the Fresh Air Program, and was taken in by Maine State Trooper Sherman Clark and his wife, Ann, who became his foster parents. They instilled in him early in life the importance of community service, leading him after his service in the U.S. Navy to begin a career in law enforcement. He served the town of Kittery as a patrolman, rose up through the ranks to sergeant, assistant chief and to chief of the department. He also served his community as a member of the Kittery Volunteer Fire Department, and was a Mason and a member of the Kittery Lions Club.
Al enjoyed time spent on Mousam Lake with friends, memorable hunting trips with the Melhorns and O'Sullivans, and trips with his wife to casinos in New England.
He is survived by his loving family, his wife Eleanor (D'Errico) Martin of York; son Timothy Martin Sr. and his wife, Barbara, of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; daughter Lynn Lane of New Jersey; grandchildren Timothy Martin Jr. and his wife, Amanda, Christian and Shane Martin, Alexandria and Ashley Shapiro, and Brittany, Jack, Kirsten and Brian Lane; foster sister Elaine and her husband, Nelson Paine, and their children, Cameron and Brandon Paine and Anne Andrews.
SERVICES: Friends may visit with Al's family from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, in the JS Pelkey Funeral Home, 125 Old Post Road, Kittery. A funeral will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Friday in the First Congregational Church of Kittery Point, United Church of Christ, 23 Pepperrell Road, Kittery Point, with the Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Gallagher officiating. Care for the Martin family has been entrusted to the JS Pelkey Funeral Home.


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3rd Annual CUNA Finance Council CFO Forum
December 5-6, 2018 in Nashville, TN.
The CFO Forum will bring credit union senior financial executives together to discuss challenges and opportunities facing our industry today. Find out what other credit union financial leaders are talking about in an open forum environment driven from attendee input. The CFO Forum provides an excellent opportunity to network with industry peers.
Forum Rates: CUNA Members - FREE / Non-CUNA Members - $1,195
The CUNA Finance Council is proud to offer CPE Credits for the
CFO Forum. This session is eligible for 6 Credits in Finance.
Day One:
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
|5:30-7:00 pm
|Networking Reception
Meet all of your fellow CFOs
Day Two:
Thursday, December 6, 2018
|8:00-8:30 am
|Networking Breakfast
|8:30-8:45 am
|Welcoming and Introduction
Steve Arbaugh, CUNA Finance Council Chair
|8:45-10:00 am
|Emerging Risk
Stuart M. Richter [bio], Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP
Andrew J. Demko [bio], Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP
Stuart and Andrew will identify and discuss the current litigation and regulatory risks facing credit unions. They will offer ways to avoid or at least mitigate these risks, including changes to business practices, updated disclosures and the risks and benefits of using an arbitration clause.Q&A
|10:00-10:15 am
|Networking Break
|Round Table Discussions
Topics will be determined by survey results sent to attendees a few weeks prior to forum.
|Noon-1:00 pm
|Networking Lunch
|1:00-2:30 pm
|Small Group Discussions
During the small group discussion, attendees will have the opportunity to examine specific topics with credit unions of similar asset size. Each of the small group discussions will be facilitated by one of our executive committee members.
|2:30-3:00 pm
|Round Table Discussion: What Keeps You Up at Night?
Do you have sleepless nights? Come prepared to share with the group the issues you have at your credit union that keeps you awake at night.
|3:00-3:15 pm
Thank You and Parting Words
Steve Arbaugh, CUNA Finance Council Chair
The unique collaboration of the credit union industry allows this to be a great opportunity to learn ways to take your organization to the next level and develop yourself professionally. The best take away will be the contacts you have made and network you have extended. Contact information of attendees will be provided to encourage future networking.
Emerging Risk
Stuart M. Richter, Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Los Angeles, CA
Stuart is the chair of Katten's class action and multidistrict litigation practice. In his 30+ year career, he has handled over 100 consumer class action cases. His practice is focused on the financial services industry representing banks, credit unions, collection agencies, and other consumer and small business lenders
Andrew J. Demko, Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Los Angeles, CA
Andrew J. Demko concentrates his practice in litigation matters with a particular focus on consumer class actions and entertainment and media.
Andrew has substantial experience in a variety of complex disputes at the trial and appellate levels. He has represented clients in class actions involving all types of consumer financial services products, as well as class actions involving media and technology, securities, employment, and products liability. He also has significant experience handling class actions on appeal, including successfully petitioning the Ninth Circuit for permission to appeal class certification decisions pursuant to Rule 23(f).
Prior to joining Katten, Andrew was an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Susan H. Black of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. During law school, Andrew was an executive editor of the Notre Dame Law Review and president of the Business Law Forum.


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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Warriors of the Red Planet Update
Here is a sneak peek of a page:
This is a typical page. The header pages have a full page illustration with a pull quote.
Layout is far from final. The way I work I set up everything into templates, so if I change the design in one place it can be updated everywhere painlessly. My goal is to have at least 1 illustration per page in the Monsters section, hopefully more time permitting. This will be a fairly heavily illustrated book when it is done.
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Sounds great, Thomas. Will WotRP be available at either GaryCon in late March or NTX RPG Con in early June?ReplyDelete
That looks very slick Thomas. I'm looking forward very much to WotRP.ReplyDelete
Looks wonderful. I too am anxious to get the final work.ReplyDelete
Thomas, this is looking amazing! I'm also a big fan of the genre. If you need any help at all with artwork, I'd love to help out.ReplyDelete
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Amazing artistry but I am not a fan of this style. Too clean and cartoony for me. It looks like something created on a computer.ReplyDelete
I am actually shocked this product chose to go this with this sort of art direction. Definitely not to my tastes but I am still hoping the rest of the product meets my expectations.
Hopefully this isn't taken as an insult. I can still recognize the quality of the work, it's just not to my tastes.
This looks great. The art is professional-grade. the lay-out is user-friendly. The text appears readable--which is a wonderful thing that certain larger-scale publishers never seemed to quite figure out.ReplyDelete
>Too clean and cartoony for me.ReplyDelete
you can please some of the people some of the time, but...
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Christmas greetings 2016
Greetings from the Chills and I, here in New Zealand, to all our friends, fans and families!
We hope you all have a wonderful festive season and a happy new...
Well, OK.
Let's face it.
2016 has been a year full of "surprises" to put it mildly!
And 2017 is shaping up to be another year when we (most of us generally open-minded and kind people) are just going to have to toughen up.
History is showing (once again) how ruthless, willfully ignorant and downright dangerous the powerfully elite can be and, while we must all take care of our own and our immediate environments, we have also been learning the hard way that we must be far more pro-active on a global scale in the immediate future if we are to avoid some truly disastrous decisions being made for us.
So I am thankful that there is still the freedom of expression and joy of communication through music that we can share.
For The Chills 2016 was yet another exciting year with touring and the ongoing promotion of 2015's 'Silver Bullets' album.
The two New York shows and the return to Europe for a quick second tour were definite highlights.
Plans for next year include shows already booked in New Zealand (some with special friends!) while other gigs further afield are being finalised.
We have also recently completed some fine new recordings (more on that at the appropriate time!) and I am underway writing towards the next album which is already exciting!
And, on a more personal note, I have received the most amazing Christmas present in the form of confirmation that I have been accepted for a course of a new and very successful drug to get rid of the Hepatitis C virus which has plagued me for nearly two decades.
This should mean you get many more years of life and music-making out of me than had been previously predicted!
So we hope you will all stay safe, come along for the ride and...
Stay Chilled!
Love from us all.
Martin Phillipps, The Chills and all our wonderful team.
p.s. And here is a pretty Christmas close-up image of "snowflakes" - which are actually the Hepatitis C virus in action!


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Rep. Andy Barr loves to cheer on the University of Kentucky. He was born in Lexington, went to law school there, and represents it now. He has bet bourbon on the Wildcats during March Madness. He once called himself a "die-hard member of the Big Blue Nation," and his district "home to the greatest tradition in the history of college basketball." This fall, he coauthored a bill honoring the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame with a commemorative coin in 2020.
Barr knows that his football team beat Vanderbilt's on Saturday, telling a reporter and Commodore alumnus, "Sorry about your loss on Saturday." And of course, he knows Kentucky was playing Kansas in a big basketball game on Tuesday night. The question is whether texting Coach John Calipari "good luck" would bother him on game day.
So when the House introduced a tax bill that would take away a deduction for college-sports nuts like himself, you'd expect Barr to huddle with Kentucky Athletic Director Mitch Barnhart, as the congressman said he did on a recent plane ride back to Lexington. But even Barr isn't convinced that the write-off is necessary.
"I understand why they want to preserve the deduction; I get that," Barr said in an interview. "But more Americans are going to be keeping more of their paychecks, and their paychecks are going to be growing."
"That means that more families are going to be able to afford to take advantage of entertainment opportunities like college athletics," he added.
The provision troubling mighty athletic departments—the ones with football coaches who are better paid than their presidents—would eliminate an 80 percent deduction for money paid in exchange for rights to purchase tickets at a college game.
But even sports fanatics in Congress say the deduction is a prime example of why tax reform is necessary, to simplify a tax code riddled with loopholes that affect narrow constituencies—say, football fans—rather than the public.
Andrew Zimbalist, an economics professor at Smith College, says the tax deduction is "ridiculous."
"At the end of the day, the federal government is giving a subsidy to [Louisiana State University] football, Alabama football, or Notre Dame football—or whatever it is," said Zimbalist. "I can't think of any reason to do that; there are a million other things that are more beneficial for the government to be doing."
Some public universities say it would curtail the millions of dollars they receive in donations, since donors would be less inclined to pay for access to buy those seats at the 50-yard line if they can't write it off from their taxes.
Overall, Congress expects to raise about $1.9 billion in tax revenue over 10 years by getting rid of the deduction—a tiny amount for a bill that will cost about $1.5 trillion. But it'll directly affect many major college-athletic programs. Students could face higher fees that pay for such programs, which could become more reliant on university funding, according to some opponents of eliminating the deduction.
While no one knows how many people would stop contributing money, universities do know how much people already contribute. The University of Florida has received $32 million in such contributions, according to Janine Sikes, its assistant vice president for public affairs. In addition to the $37.3 million generated in ticket sales, the University of Texas athletic department generated $32.5 million from "suite and seat-license contributions" during the 2015-16 athletic year, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
For LSU, a "conservative" percentage decline in donations could "mean anywhere between a $3 and $12 million loss per year" for school athletics, according to a university official. He added that the LSU athletic department pays full in-state and out-of-state tuition for scholarship athletes, "does not take one penny of taxpayer dollars or student fees," and has contributed nearly $50 million to the university in the past five years.
"The incentive this tax deduction provides on donations toward tickets to sporting events is a big reason why this self-sufficiency is possible," said the LSU official. "We do not currently have a revenue source and/or immediate cuts that could account for that loss in such a short period of time."
Since the House is expected to pass its tax bill this week, some members are looking to the ultimate negotiations with the Senate, which is also including a provision eliminating the deduction. Barr said he is helping the University of Kentucky "register" its concerns with Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, even though he believes that the tax bill is good for college athletics, whether that write-off stays in or not.
Like Barr, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise is another sports nut. He now drives a scooter with a LSU Tigers sticker on it as he recovers from a gunshot wound suffered while practicing for the annual congressional baseball game. Yet even Scalise is fine with taking away the deduction for the college-sports fan in the pursuit of lower tax rates and higher growth for the broader public.
"The point of this legislation is to cut taxes for working Americans and grow our economy so people can keep more of their own money in their pockets—money they can use for anything they want, whether that's saving for the future, home improvements, a family vacation, seats at football games, or whatever else they choose," said Chris Bond, Scalise's spokesman. "Cutting taxes to spur economic growth and create good jobs is what this bill is all about, and Whip Scalise is looking forward to a good vote on the House floor later this week."


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Bush plans to make Congress vote on Colombia trade pact
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration said Wednesday it will force Congress to vote on a Colombia free trade agreement this year, in effect launching a do-or-die effort to help the closest U.S. ally in Latin America and setting up a contentious debate smack in the middle of a presidential race.
President Bush cast the FTA in urgent national security terms, launching one of his harshest attacks ever on leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, saying Venezuela has "squandered its oil wealth in an effort to promote its hostile, anti-American vision.''
"For more than a year, my administration has worked with both parties in Congress to seek a path to bring (the Colombia) agreement up for approval,'' Bush told the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. "We continue to stand ready to negotiate a bipartisan way forward. But time is running out, and we must not allow delay to turn into inaction.''
"The Colombia agreement is pivotal to America's national security and economic interests right now, and it is too important to be held up by politics,'' Bush said. "There needs to be a vote on Colombia this year.''
Officials said the plan is to send the FTA to Congress as soon as the first week of April to ensure a vote before Congress adjourns for the year on Sept. 26. Lawmakers have a maximum of 90 legislative days to pass or reject a free trade deal — no ammendments allowed — once the text is presented to Congress.
"That means that members of the Congress must be ready to move forward with the agreement when they return from the Easter recess,'' Bush said.
Forcing action on the Colombia trade deal is sure to set up a showdown with Congressional Democrats, who say Colombia must first show more progress on protecting labor leaders. Presidential hopefuls Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have vowed to renegotiate the free trade deal with Mexico and Canada known as NAFTA, in contrast to Republican Sen. John McCain, a strong backer of free trade.
Clinton reiterated her criticism Wednesday, though her statement did not mention Colombia. "In fact, the reason we so desperately need to take a timeout from new trade agreements is to put a stop to the Bush Administration's reckless and destructive trade policies,'' she said in a statement, "and to chart a new course on trade policy for the 21st Century that is genuinely pro-worker and pro-American.''
House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi said forcing a vote would violate "established protocol.''
"Any deviation from this normal procedure for the Colombia FTA could prove to be counterproductive and would work against both countries' long-term interests,'' Pelosi said.
But Bush Administration officials said Congress needs to move.
U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said the administration has already agreed to bolster labor and environment provisions in the Colombia pact and had made more than 300 contacts with Democratic lawmakers. "Every time we act on something that is seen as a pre-requisite,'' she said, "we get another pre-requisite.''
Congress did approve a similar Peru free trade agreement at the end of last year but the Colombia pact has run into strong opposition from the AFL-CIO and human rights groups, which say too many killers of union activists have gone unpunished.
U.S. and Colombian officials say violence is down dramatically under conservative President Alvaro Uribe, who last week was locked in a furious showdown with Venezuela and Ecuador over a military raid into Ecuador that killed a top Colombian guerrilla leader.
Officials said the administration believes it can garner the 218 votes needed to pass the Colombia trade deal in the House, as many lawmakers have indicated they would only decide their vote when it became imminent. Trade pacts usually have an easier time passing in the Senate.
The administration has taken dozens of lawmakers to visit Colombia in an effort to showcase economic and political advances there. They also argue that Colombia already enjoys U.S. trade preferences that allows it to export duty-free to the United States while U.S. products pay high tariffs to enter Colombia.
There has been some talk that Pelosi could block the Colombia trade deal by passing a rule that overrides the so-called trade promotion authority that forces a yes-no vote on free trade agreement.
Schwab said doing this would go against an understanding between the executive and legislative branches going back decades. Her words appeared to presage the bitter debate that lay ahead.
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This jam is now over. It ran from 2015-10-19 07:00:00 to 2015-10-26 07:00:00. View results
For the past couple of months, I've been making bite-sized horror text games at BiteSizedHorror.com. I love making short, scary text games. It's a real challenge to create an atmosphere with just a few words. And I wanted to challenge other people to do it, too.
The jam starts on Monday at midnight (Pacific Time). At that moment, a word will be posted/tweeted/emailed. That word has to be included in your game at some point.
It ends the Sunday before Halloween at midnight. So, it starts Sunday night, and it ends Sunday night. During the week, you should make your game, tweet about it using #BiteSizedHorrorJam, or do whatever you want.
So, here are the rules:
1. You have to make the game during this week until Sunday at midnight, the 25th of October.
2. It must be a horror game!
3. It must be a text game!
4. It must have less than 666 words.
5. It has to include the special word: MONSTER
Use Twine! It's a wonderful tool. It's a lot easier than you think, and there's a bunch of guides to help you online. (Here's a great one!)
You can also use any other tools, code, libraries, etc. that you like. Twine is a great tool for beginners, but anything and everything is encouraged.
I really love two games by Liz England: growth and itch. There's also this one by Rachel Ponce called Tiny Lights. The reason I started making tiny text games in the first place was Porpentine's Twiny Jam, where all three of those were posted. You should check that out for inspiration (even though not all the games are horror).
The jam is scored on three qualities: Scariness, Uniqueness, and Overall Quality. So, the rubric is biased toward unique games and scary games. Keep that in mind!
Everyone who enters gets the prize of having made a game. The person with the highest average score above gets bragging rights. In addition to bragging rights, they will receive a prize pack containing Stephen King's Danse Macabre and an Amazon Gift Card of $25.
Nathan Meunier has donated 3 Steam keys to his newly released game, This Book is a Dungeon. It was made in Twine! They'll be given to the people who win in each of the three categories.
David Szymanski has donated a Steam key to his game, The Music Machine, to the highest overall scorer.
And Brandon Li has donated 5 copies of the iOS version of Indefinite to the Top 5 overall scorers.
Other prizes may be announced during the jam! If you would like to contribute a prize, please send me an email at g karber @ gmail (dot) com.
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From "accident" to "tragedy"
Today's the day that a Multnomah County grand jury will hear the story of the death of "Jim Jim" Chasse, an unarmed, mentally ill man, at the hands of Portland police on September 17. In theory, criminal charges could be brought against the officers involved in the killing, but let's face it, given the history of how these things go in the Rose City (and we get at least a couple of them every year, it seems), the odds against an indictment are 1,000,000 to 1.
Already the only guy who would be pushing for criminal charges, District Attorney Mike Schrunk, is using words that don't sound very prosecutorial. From yesterday, in LocalNewsDaily.com:
He predicted that 12 to 15 witnesses could be called to testify, adding that his office had invited Chasse family attorney Tom Steenson to submit the names of anyone the family thought should testify.Catch that? It's not an "incident," not a "homicide," not an "event." Already it's a "tragedy." You can almost hear the justifications ready to roll out. Just as you could when the medical examiner called the death an "accident," despite the statements of the eyewitnesses who said the police needlessly brutalized Chasse.
"It's a tragedy and we want to present all the facts to the grand jury," said Schrunk.
I wonder if Schrunk's got another killer cop defender coming in as an expert witness, as he has in the past. I wonder if the original police story of why they chased Chasse down -- "strange behavior" and "possible public urination" -- will morph into something different.
Of course, we'll never hear most of what goes down today. Grand jury proceedings are secret, and although the eywitnesses will get their say, they won't be around when the police and the medical tech who let Chasse die get on the stand. You'll never hear their story in their own words. Defenders of the police in these cases always say, "Don't rush to judgment. Wait until all the facts are known." The problem is that they never are.
Barring the unthinkable -- an indictment -- the only way the officers will have to answer tough questions in public will be if the Chasse family sues the city and the case goes to trial. If the officers were in the wrong, the city will offer the family a big bucks settlement to go away quietly. It would be a great gift to the residents of Portland if they didn't.
We need to watch the mayor like a hawk on this one. Former police chief, commissioner in charge of the bureau -- even if no crime was committed, it appears that some fundamental principles of community policing were disregarded in this case, and he ought to have to answer to the public for that. Reporters Maxine Bernstein of the O and Jim Redden of the Trib can hold his feet to the fire -- if they dare.


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Ohio's Republican Senate candidate, Rob Portman, goes extremely off-message talking about the GOP's health care reform plan:
"I will tell you, I don't think there is a Republican alternative at this point," he said. He said he reached that conclusion after talking to Senate leaders and lawmakers about the GOP's position. "There isn't one," he said.
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When Mortgage Fraud is Rewarded: Lessons from the Great Depression Part XVIII. Charity for Financial Deviants.
California is now 7 weeks late on bringing forward a budget. Having a late budget of course isn't something new to the sunny state. However, should we pass Friday of next week with no budget we would break a world record for our state in terms of tardiness of a budget. There has been a bit of silence after the proposal of reducing 200,000 state workers to minimum wage. The Governator has taken it to the courts against State Controller John Chiang who is refusing to follow the order. In typical California fashion this will be settled in the courts Judge Judy style.
The Governator has benefited from the housing boom in California. Money was flowing in like beer at a frat party. Tax revenues from the housing boom made the state extremely rich during these times. Everyone was spending as if they had a Centurion American Express card and had an infinite stream of money. The Governor's popularity hit a peak in May and August of 2004 around 65% dropped a bit in 2005 then rallied back up to 60%. Currently his approval rating is at:
The trend is also heading lower with grand plans of balancing the state budget via lottery tickets and also his new grand behind closed doors idea of giving money back to subprime lenders! This is why during good times, a rising sea lifts all ships but when things do get tough we see the true colors of a politician. As it turns out, Arnold simply benefited from being at the right place at the right time. Maybe his nostalgia for the subprime lenders to come back and bring in beaucoup money is helping him have a soft spot for these criminal enterprises:
"(LA Times) SACRAMENTO — — One reason California still has no state budget is a closed-door dispute over a tax proposal that could be a multimillion-dollar boon to banks that engage in subprime lending.
The proposal, according to legislative sources and industry lobbyists involved in the private budget talks, was brought to the table by the Schwarzenegger administration at the urging of lenders and other corporate interests. The proponents argued that it would help offset costs to businesses that could result from other tax changes under consideration."
This is literally what our state has come to. We are now going to offer tax breaks for many of the perpetrators of the subprime lending enterprise. Instead of ransacking these places and putting head honchos on perp walks, we are now going to give them money when we as a state have none!
"The plan would allow many large financial companies that are currently enduring record losses to eventually receive tax breaks millions of dollars greater than are currently available to them. Subprime lenders would be among the largest beneficiaries because they experienced a large boom followed by a bust.
Businesses that have had more modest revenue swings might not benefit at all.
"This is all about bailing out the subprime lending industry," said Jean Ross, executive director of the California Budget Project, a nonprofit that advocates for low-income Californians in the state budget process. "They will have checks written to them by the state of California if this goes through."
Absolute idiotic plan. If this is the type of logic these people are using to solve the economic crisis in California this late in the game, we are screwed. No wonder why the Governator now has a popularity rating of 40%. In politics if you preside over good times whether you had a hand in the success or simply were a bystander, you get to ride the blue wave of momentum. It was fun after we beat on Gray Davis and "total recalled" him but now it looks like our budget is about to get terminated.
Rewarding criminal behavior isn't a new phenomenon. In fact, there was so much fraud during the boom that the FBI put out a fascinating study looking at mortgage fraud last year. There finding of course puts California as one of the head perpetrators of fraud:
"(FBI) Mortgage fraud continues to be an escalating problem in the United States. Although no central repository collects all mortgage fraud complaints, Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) from financial institutions indicated an increase in mortgage fraud reporting. SARs increased 31-percent to 46,717 during Fiscal Year (FY) 2007. The total dollar loss attributed to mortgage fraud is unknown. However, 7 percent of SARs filed during FY 2007 indicated a specific dollar loss, which totaled more than $813 million.'
"Subprime mortgage issues remain a key factor in influencing mortgage fraud directly and indirectly. The subprime share of outstanding loans has more than a doubled since 2003 putting a greater share of loans at higher risk of failure. Additionally, during 2007 there were more than 2.2 million foreclosure filings reported on approximately 1.29 million properties nationally, up 75 percent from 2006. The declining housing market affects many in the mortgage industry who are paid by commission. During declining markets, mortgage fraud perpetrators may take advantage of industry personnel attempting to generate loans to maintain current standards of living."
Given that subprime was a direct and indirect cause of this fraud according to the FBI, why would we be rewarding companies that facilitated this fraudulent lending? This makes no sense and when the California budget does finally arrive, I am certain that people are going to be digging through it like a California gold miner.
This article is going to look at the fraud and fraudsters during the Great Depression just to give you a taste of our own dubious economic proposals in getting the economy back on track. According to some politicians there is nothing to get back on track since we are already on a good path. This article is part XVIII in our Lessons from the Great Depression series:
14. Bank Failures.
16. Items That Sold in the Credit Bubble.
17. The All Hat and No Cattle Nation
I've just finished reading John Kenneth Galbraith's excellent book The Great Crash of 1929 that gives a historical account of the events that led up to the Great Depression and also the aftermath. What you can't help to realize while reading the book is how the same charlatans of the past always seem to rear their heads in similar fashion:
"That we are having a major speculative splurge as this is written is obvious to anyone not captured by vacuous optimism. There is now far more money flowing into the stock markets than there is intelligence to guide it. There are many more mutual funds than there are financially acute, historically aware men and women to manage them. I am not given to prediction; one's foresight is forgotten, only one's errors are well remembered. But there is here a basic recurrent process. It comes with rising prices, whether of stocks, real estate, works of art or anything else. This increase attracts attention and buyers, which produces the further effect of even higher prices. Expectations are thus justified by the very action that sends prices up. The process continues; optimism with its market effect is the order of the day. Prices go up even more. Then, for reasons that will endlessly be debated, come the end. The descent is always more sudden than the increase; a balloon that has been punctured does not deflate in an orderly way.
To repeat, I make no prediction; I only observe that this phenomenon has manifested itself many times since 1637, when Dutch speculators saw tulip bulbs as their magic road to wealth, and 1720, when John Law brought presumptive wealth and then sudden poverty to Paris through the pursuit of gold, to this day undiscovered, in Louisiana. In these years aslso the great South Sea Bubble spread financial devastation in Britain."
This is a foreword on the book republished in 1997 during the dotcom bubble. The actual book content was written in 1955. Mr. Galbraith goes on to talk about the additional bubbles in the United States and of course, as most predictions his views on the current bubble were a few years early:
Clearly Mr. Galbraith has much more history with bubbles and realizes the danger in making predictions too early. He recognized that in 1997 we were in a major bubble. The bubble didn't peak until 3 years later only to hit a bottom an additional 2 years later. Yet this gives us a keen insight into the history of previous bubbles like those fueled during the 1920s. Public sentiment takes time to unwind and bubbles sometimes reward fraudsters and sometimes these fraudsters actually become the status quo bringing things into the mainstream:
"Through 1925 the pursuit of effortless riches brought people to Florida in satisfactorily increasing numbers. More land was subdivided each week. What was loosely called seashore became five, ten, or fifteen miles from the nearest brine. Suburbs became an astonishing distance from town. As the speculation spread northward, an enterprising Bostonian, Mr. Charles Ponzi, developed a subdivision "near Jacksonville." It was approximately sixty-five miles west of the city. (In other respects Ponzi believed in good, compact neighborhoods ; he sold twenty-three lots to the acre.) In instances where the subdivision was close to town, as in the case of Manhattan Estates, which were "not more than three fourths of a mile from the prosperous and fast-growing city of Nettie," the city, as was so of Nettie, did not exist. The congestion of traffic into the state became so severe that in the autumn of 1925 the railroads were forced to proclaim an embargo on less essential freight, which included building materials for developing the subdivisions. Values rose wonderfully. Within forty miles of Miami "inside" lots sold at from $8,000 to $20,000; waterfront lots brought from $15,000 to $25,000, and more or less bona fide seashore sites brought $20,000 to $75,000."
This Mr. Ponzi of course is the man who gave name to the "Ponzi scheme" that many use today. He laid the groundwork for many of the criminals today in the housing industry. Yet during the boom he wasn't seen as a criminal but a player in the Florida real estate bubble. Here's a nice picture of the gentleman:
During the boom he was making money hand over fist although if people thought about the economics behind the entire bubble, they would have seen how absurd it was. Of course only until a bubble bursts and people start losing money do they begin questioning the ethics or motives behind a quick and rapid rise in money. I think Mr. Galbraith hits on a particular point of any bubble that is important. The idea of "effortless" riches. That is getting money with the least amount of work. This idea is so powerful that when enough time passes by with no economic crisis, enterprising men and women devise ideas to accelerate the process of acquiring money. Some of the ideas are genuine and some border on the criminal. In our current bubble with mortgage backed securities, CDOs, CDO squared, SIVS, subprime, pay option ARMS, and no money down loans the ideas bordered on the margin of bank robbery.
Think about what just occurred in the last decade. Any person with the desire to do so was able to purchase a home with no money down. That is, you were able to take possession of a home, say a $500,000 home with no money down and be responsible for the accompanying $500,000 mortgage as well. No one seemed to care because after all, you were going to flip it next year for $600,000. Such is the delusion that runs deep in the veins of a bubble. I wrote an article last year talking about the Florida Real bubble in the 1920s which looked at a book Only Yesterday from Fredrick Lewis Allen that lays out the entire rise and collapse of that bubble.
Bubbles do burst in fantastic fashion. They end quickly and violently just like California losing 38% of its median home value in one year for a state with 36,000,000 people. Florida burst and the end came quickly. Yet people are reluctant to believe the end is actually here because they are beholden to the mass delusion of the entire game:
"This reluctance to concede that the end has come is also in accordance with the classic pattern. The end had come in Florida. In 1925 bank clearings in Miami were $1,066,528,000; by 1928 they were down to $143,364,000. Farmers who had sold their land at a handsome price and had condemned themselves as it later sold for double, treble, quadruple the original price, now on occasion got it back through a whole chain of subsequent defaults. Sometimes it was equipped with eloquently named streets and with sidewalks, street lamps, and taxes and assessments amounting to several times its current value."
Just look at the massive drop in bank clearings for Miami in three years. The game comes to a drastic end yet it is hard to believe for those who thought they were "investing" but were nothing more than gambling on housing. During the boom times however the stock market soared. Those on Wall Street were revered and simply having a name on your ticket was enough to make it all better.
"He was a director to General Motors, an ally of the Du Ponts and soon to be Chairman of the Democratic National Committee by choice of Al Smith. A contemporary student of the market, Professor Charles Amos Dice of Ohio State University, thought this latter appointment a particular indication of the new prestige of Wall Street and the esteem in which it was held by the American people. "Today," he observed, "the shrewd, worldly-wise candidate of one of the great political parties chooses one of the outstanding operators in the stock market…as a goodwill creator and popular vote getter."
Isn't it ironic that U.S. Secretary of the Treasury is a former Goldman Sachs boy who is placed at such a high level by the current administration? It goes to show that politics from both parties follow very similar paths in history. Yet fear of course is what guides most people as the bull market kept raging in 1928:
"People remained unperturbed when, on September 17, Roger W. Babson told an audience in Wellesley, Massachusetts, that "if Smith should be elected with a Democratic Congress we are almost certain to have a resulting business depression in 1929." He also said that "the election of Hoover and a Republican Congress should result in continued prosperity for 1929."
We all know how that turned out. Even Andrew Mellon during this time was saying, "there is no cause for worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue." Such was the administration at the time. Only difference here, the bubble burst a year too early to play that game and people have been hurting for a few years. The Governator here in California benefited from the housing boom that only burst last year. You need to remember that even in 2007, prices in California were up on a year over year basis. When I think of all the inane comments about "see, prices are still going up" I just can't help to think how delusional and arrogant many of these people were. They are the equivalent of Charles Ponzi in 1925 Florida selling real estate to those that never even planned on living in the lots. He sold a dream that only criminal money ideas being washed into legality can bring forth. Everyone was getting rich.
The FBI study has a nice graphic about an illegal property flipping scheme:
The only way something like this can happen is collusion and criminal mindsets from all parties. The problem is the sliding scale of ethics here. First, a buyer needs to with his own free will sign to buy the home. An agent, has to be shady enough to put someone into a home that is massively overpriced. This overpriced home has to be appraised by an equally shady appraiser. The next step is have a broker who really doesn't give a crap whether the home is "worth" the price since they'll package the loan off and send it to Wall Street. Wall Street doesn't care because they'll sell the notes as a combined package to some unsuspecting investor chasing higher yields. The government doesn't care since they get tax cuts all the way through the process. This permeated all the way to the top and no one really has clean hands except those that did not participate.
This step would have been averted if local lenders were forced to own a piece of the pie. That is really it. There are many ways to "solve" this problem but making local lenders responsible for the note would at least force some due diligence. After all, if you were lending this amount of money wouldn't you spend a day investigating the property and doing a bit of research? This is what is happening right now and why the market is slowing down. Sorry to inconvenience you with the need to verify income and actually see if a home is appraised accurately. The criminal mindset is still hungry for the easy money of yesteryear. They won't be coming back. If you feel so strongly about this system, why don't you lend the money directly to the buyer? There are places like Prosper that offer peer to peer lending many times to subprime borrowers. That way, you can be the subprime lender with your own money if you feel so strongly about this system.
Of course, the Governator's move with his council hungry for more real estate returns is yearning for the money of the decade long boom. Sometimes those in authority don't want the boom to end or to recreate it:
"Some of those in positions of authority wanted the boom to continue. They were making money out of it, and they had an intimation of the personal disaster which awaited them when the boom came to an end. But there were also some who saw, however dimly, that a wild speculation was in progress and that something should be done. For these people, however, every proposal to act raised the same intractable problem. The consequences of successful action seemed almost as terrible as the consequences of inaction, and they could be more horrible for those who took action.
A bubble can easily be punctured. But to incise it with a needle so that it subsides gradually is a task of no small delicacy. Among those who sensed what was happening in 1929, there was some hope but no confidence that the boom could be made to subside."
I highly recommend you read the book if you have not done so. Mr. Galbraith in The Great Crash of 1929 offers an excellent historical read that has many lessons for our own time. If you want to get active contact your representatives:
Contact your local House of Representative member:
Contact your Senator:
Contact your California Legislature:
Let them know how you feel about what a great idea it is for the Governator to give tax breaks to those who benefited the most via subprime mortgage lending. Many are up for reelection this November and rest assured, much of this is going to be made public and those that support such idiotic ideas should and will be voted out. Make no mistake, in California where we have 7.3% unemployment (a 12 year high), a budget impasse that will go in the record books, and a housing market that is down 38% in one year, the economy is the number one issue. Time to get active and let them know that you are aware of history and that these kind of crony capitalist moves and welfare for the financial criminals will not go in silence.
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US Military Supports Jewish Holidays at Sea
Jews in Green highlights the annual push by Kosher Troops to provide "High Holiday package shipments" to Jewish US military personnel around the world.
In the testimonials, there's a telling thanks:
I want to let you know that your Passover packages arrived on the USS Gonzalez yesterday. None too soon! We had a challenging Passover, because many of our supplies did not arrive in time…Our Jewish Sailors…were facing the remaining Passover day without foods Kosher for Passover.
Then your packages arrived yesterday. What a blessing from God for our Sailors! I know how much it meant to them, because my roommate is one of the Sailors who went to bed last night and woke this morning to a special package of Passover foods. My enlisted counterpart and I opened all of your packages and prepared special boxes for each Jew aboard. Thank you for being a part of a miracle for them."
Very respectfully,
Chaplain Autumn Butler-Saeger, LT, USN
The unique thing about this message is that Chaplain Butler-Saeger isn't Jewish. She's endorsed by the Presbyterians. As many stories have told, however, the US military seeks to provide for the religious freedom of its troops wherever they are, and military chaplains do an admirable job of supporting that freedom — even when they don't share the faith of the troops they serve.
Interestingly, Chaplain Butler-Saeger was also credited with coordinating a visit from a Catholic Priest when her ship visited Djibouti.
Brig. Gen. Patrick J. Dolan toured the ship, celebrated Mass, and ministered to the crew.
"Opportunities to have Mass celebrated aboard while on an independent deployer are rare," said Lt. Autumn Butler-Saeger, Gonzalez's Chaplain. "We were thrilled to have the priest here."
Much like Jewish services, Catholic services on ships at sea — particularly those not assigned to a larger group — are often led by lay leaders, as there are no chaplains of those faiths (in some cases, any faith) available.
Chaplain Butler-Saeger is to be congratulated for her proactive protection of the religious liberties of the Sailors she serves.