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"Those people are not coming to Europe to live; they are coming to die".
After Friday November 13, 2015, we are living in a different reality. The reality of a switched off Eiffel tower, evacuated Hanover stadium, shut down Brussels subway, and tanks on the deserted streets of the capital of the European Union. The people in the West are struggling to live a normal life in surreal circumstances, their minds pulsating with a flashing diagnosis: It's Jihad, Europe!..
The fifteen lost years: 2000-2015
The escalating real and imminent danger to millions of Europeans did not strike the West out of the blue. It was all building up starting from the 9/11 attacks in New York and is a part of the existing strategy of radical Islam from the end of 1980s on. The success of the 9/11 attack had been a major and victorious landmark of this strategy, major encouragement to the forces of darkness.
But contrary to common sense and despite existing information about the radical Islamists' plans and the list of their mounting activities, the Islamization of Europe – and the West, still in progress – was allowed to happen, both by the dangerously blinded Western leadership and by a largely naive public.
It is irrelevant to blame the special services for this. With all their shortcomings and occasional failures, the special services, especially the strong ones of the UK, Germany and some other Western European countries – France included - as well as the able special services of Canada and Australia - work day and night, with good results information-wise. The problem is what the special services are allowed - or not allowed - to do by their political bosses, by their countries' leadership. And here is the core of the problem with regard to really fighting a war on terror.
Soon after the 9/11 disaster, from 2003 on, as the experts were realizing how little had been done in practice to prevent the spread of militant Islam, several senior analysts tried consistently to wake up the Western leadership to very real risks of the steady process of the radical Islamist penetration into Western societies – see my article on the issue "Europe: A Dangerous Place to Live". This analysis has been widely cited in many books and dissertations on counter-terrorism, both in popular and professional publications. At the time of the analysis' publication, its headline was widely perceived as 'a bold metaphor'. Just 12 years on, this line has become a very much-used statement in the media, a development that I deeply regret.
Further on, alerted by radical Islam's swamping Europe, my colleagues and I continued thoroughly examining the origins, realities and implications of the process that resulted in the report: Islamization of Europe: The Origin, Process, Objections and Implications, presented by myself at the Institute of World Politics in Washington DC in early 2013.
I have never been so depressed in my professional life as I became while working on and upon finishing that paper. The reality of the danger posed by radical Islam all over the world, in particular, in Europe and the West in general was so graphic – and so meticulously documented - that it did not leave much room for hope that it would not erupt. It was almost three years ago. But again, nothing was done to act and to prevent Europe's blood-baths.
If General al-Sisi would not have come to rescue his country, the nucleus of the Middle East, from living according to the Middle-Ages dictum of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Jihad in Europe would have started in 2013, according to the detailed documented data gathered by the leading anti-terror experts. Still, general al-Sisi is regarded as a 'dictator' by many Western decision-makers.
Meanwhile, President Obama is steadily promoting one of his favourite aides, Rashad Hussain, to top positions in the US Administration, such as the US Special Envoy and Coordinator at the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications. The aide in question has been asserted by the US law-enforcement agencies as having strong links to the Muslim Brotherhood. And he is just one of several key operatives of the Muslim Brotherhood who are consistently welcomed by the current US Administration.
Following the publication of the paper on the Islamization of Europe back in early 2013, my good and responsible colleagues at the European Parliament - there were some of them then, although in the minority - were alarmed and intended to call a serious policy-making seminar at the European Parliament to tackle this looming acute threat. The seminar was to issue a policy paper on that vital matter. The seminar never happened, neither was drafting a policy paper ever discussed officially. The reason fpr that non-action was the blatant unwillingness to touch the issue on the part of European bureaucrats of the second and third echelon. And, unlike myself and my good and brave friends and MEP-colleagues, they seemed to be frightened by the threats they received.
As recently, as in the July 2014, I published a new analysis, Hate is All Over the Islamicised West - explaining the motivation of the radical Islamists based in Europe and warning of the imminent danger of a possible Jihad explosion there. This is the one of those cases when it feels really bad to turn out to be correct.
After working on the matter for over twenty years, I have to emphasize that after the shock of the terror attack on US soil on 9/11, the last fifteen years which could have been utilized to prevent the explosion of violence in Europe have been lost by the Western community.
Jihad in Europe: Here and now
What has triggered the explosion of Jihad in Europe right now? Who made it possible? Who practically invited it to happen?
As shocking as it sounds, some of the key Western governments and the general ineptness of the Western leadership towards militant radical Islam were an essential pre-condition of the unfolding siege of Europe.
Despite all alarming information gathered by the BND and MAD, the German counter-intelligence service, presented to the German Chancellor, in early September 2015 frau Merkel had made a mistake of her life. The calibre of that mistake is unprecedented in the newest European history. It literally has put the lives not only of over 80 million of Germans but of 750 million of Europeans at jeopardy of terrifying scale.
Just prior to Merkel's infamous statement opening the borders of Germany to Syrian refugees, several very senior German law-enforcement officials were either fired, or pushed towards abrupt and premature retirement, including the very senior federal prosecutor and several other top law-enforcement officials who sharply disagreed with Merkel's extremely dangerous policy of opening Germany's, and effectively, European borders to the stream of uncontrollable immigrants from the Middle East.
It is no secret - and has never been a secret - that among the multi-million strong stream of refugees there are far too many Islamist radicals with their own agenda and purpose in coming to Europe. One simply had to be honest about it. Maybe, Merkel has been in office too long. It is a known phenomena that top politicians who are in office for an extended time lose focus and become detached from the reality. The tragedy of her fatal mistake is that she virtually took all Europe hostage for the sake of the militant and violent strangers being invited to invade. Remember those sugary selfies of celebrating Muslim males on German soil with Frau Chancellor? She even did free PR for them.
With her September 2015 suicidal political adventure, Merkel switched on a similar decision-making among the leadership of the EU Commission, the ultimate masters of the old continent nowadays. If Germany would choose another way of handling the refugee issie, the EU leadership would follow it accordingly. As the result, the entire continent with its 750 million citizens has been literally forced by their own governments into a living nightmare.
There are many shocking videos and TV footage of the refugees invading Europe that we have been seeing daily for a several months now. These facts have been summarized by some as the 'forced collective suicide of Europe'. This is an invasion, and one has to be totally blind to call it anything else.
As with other invasions, this one has been orchestrated and carried out down to the smallest detail, and the special services in every country has full details of this aggressive migration which began and received much help from Turkey. The German Chancellor, caught red-handed, metaphorically speaking, with the most blatant misjudgement, has tried hard to influence her Turkish counter-part to size down the multi-million stream of refugees, to no avail. This is now a win-win situation for Turkey and its president Erdogan, and a lose-lose one for Merkel and the entire Europe.
How could an experienced politician become so utterly irresponsible, so dangerously unreasonable, so openly blind? Experts have several several explanations for Merkel's blow to humanity. It includes her strong desire to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize - she is idealistic enough to value the prize as it was valued by many of us in her youth; it also includes her very pragmatic intention to get to the top of the world's power by being nominated as the next UN General Secretary. Those who are familiar with the inside story of Merkel's rise to power, are not surprised by any of it for a minute.
Her fatal blindness is also attributed to her wish to believe in those good – in general – sides of the character of the suppressed believer (she is the daughter of the pastor in DDR, mission impossible for both her father and herself) who did not have many chances to apply those good principles in the very hard world of power. Whatever she meant to, she failed catastrophically. The worst part of it is that the prize for a mistake of one individual will be paid by millions, and has already claimed 130 lives in Paris. And she still does not get it, publicly, at least.
Even after the fact that the Chancellor cortege had to make a U-turn on the way to the Hanover stadium after receiving precise information on the imminent attack at the very last moment, Merkel did not utter a word on the character of the averted multiple attack on German soil although German authorities received from their French colleagues five names of Islamic terrorists, all of whom migrated to Europe at different times.
According to the German media (Der Spiegel, Die Welt and the others), there is no question that Angela Merkel will lose the elections next year; she is hearing demands to resign now, and there is a rapidly growing number of sympathisers with this steadily intensifying call.
The tragedy of a full-scale jihad in Europe is that it is not just the German Chancellor, or the totally incompetent leadership of the EU Commission who have literally brought the plague to their continent by themselves. Apart from the UK, the leadership of vast majority of Western European countries have played a terrible role in bringing despair and open and imminent danger upon their own citizens.
And even after the carnage in Paris, defiant in his support of the Islamic cause, President Hollande had the guts to state that 30,000 more Syrian refugees will be welcomed to France. When lunacy is a private hobby, it is an individual's right; but when an individual happens to be on duty, and the duty happens to be presidency over the French Republic, it mean 66 million French citizens are to be forced to share the lunacies of their leader.
Among the price of those lunacies are costumes and chemical warfare equipment stolen in Paris, and imposed heavy military presence at the Paris water supply facilities, with the French prime minister Valls' warning to the French public about possible chemical or bacteriological attacks by the terrorists. Islamic radical terrorists.
There are live military exercises of the British Royal Marine commandos on UK ferries as there is a reason to believe that the ferries might become the other subject of the attack – by the Islamic radical terrorists. There are also controlled explosions on the packed by people malls in Kent - for the same reason.
We are watching a hand-made terror thriller non-stop. We are playing in it, as a matter of fact. Forced to play with our lives, by our idiotic, inept governments.
Just a week after the Paris attacks, the Belgian government which obviously is not in favour of taking any chances, had virtually shut down Brussels trying to detect several terrorists – Islamic radical terrorists – who are believed to be planning an imminent attack. Only after the terror threat was become officially adopted as the highest one for Belgium, did the country's interior minister express his 'wish' to inspect every household in Mollenbeck, the primarily Muslim district in Brussels that has become the terrorist Mecca of Europe. Think about the degree of total administrative dismay in which the capital of the European Union, rather symbolically, has found itself.
It is there, to Mollenbeck, that the UK dangerous terrorist, an accomplice of Jihadi-John, escaped successfully earlier in 2015, after the UK authorities lifted their close 5-year' surveillance of him. The question is not about lifting the surveillance. There could be various operative reasons for that. The question is 5 years of passively allowing a dangerous Islamic terrorist to operate inside a free democratic Western society. This is the fundamental issue of the West's hopeless attitude towards the Islamic terrorists in its midst. Hopeless, blind, and lethal – as everybody is having the pleasure to observe live.
Preconditions: A blind eye turned on reality
In retrospect, the current explosion of refugees on European soil originated from Italy a few years ago when the Italian authorities could not keep their border, an external border of the European Union, intact. For a number of reasons, not the least of them rapidly changing governments, all from left to central left, the Italians were unable to prevent the crushing waves of illegal immigrants to the Italian shore and islands. Illegal is a key word there.
As all special services know, the problem with guarding its border always had been the weakest point in the entire Italian security system. To aggravate the situation, under the leftist governments, the Italian special services had been disbanded and re-structured dramatically, with very negative and long-lasting effects. It disarmed the country's abilities to contain the dangerous elements among the uncontrollable stream of refugees – and 'refugees'.
Using the so-called 'Italian model' for the next wave of immigration, those forces who had been orchestrating it modelled the nightmare which has covered Europe. The 'Italian model' means portraying the illegal invaders as a casualty of humanitarian catastrophe and playing the cards accordingly.
So today we have mushroomed from the original 'Italian shell' to the Greek model', 'Balkan model', 'Russian model' of all those 'refugees'. How very simple and efficient of them. And how certifiably stupid and pathetically irresponsible of us.
The current governments of many European countries are to bear responsibility in creating the conditions for the explosion of the Islamic Jihad in Europe today; and expectedly, the more left those governments are, the worse the security situation there has become with regard to radical Islam.
According to the security professionals, "there is not the slightest coincidence in the fact that among all Islamists from Europe fighting in Syria and elsewhere today, more than half are from France. Moreover, the terrible (security) threat is the fact that they, apart from very rare exceptions, come and go back and forth almost freely. It is not good enough to know a potential terrorist's name. It is just absolutely against rules of security to let those who did fight in the Middle East on the side of militant Islam to be allowed back to the country which contains their European or any other Western residence. It is insane" - many top counter-terrorism experts, like Eric Stakelbeck and Morten Storm have said time and again. In vain.
And it is no coincidence that Belgium has become the centre of the Islamist jihadists today – the Belgian special service is pathetically small and under-resourced.
We cried with France over 130 and possibly more victims of the carnage in Paris, but we have to be crystal clear on the understanding that it is this Hollande government that had been repeatedly warned to stop appeasing an incredible amount of French radical Islamists and start to do something real against them to protect French citizens. They bear full responsibility for fatal siege of Paris. For five years they followed one of the terrorists – why? until the 13th November attack?
All serious experts on radical Islam, people like Morgen Storm who infiltrated the highest command of Al-Qaeda and has studied Islam for ten years non-stop, are telling the Western authorities: "Those people are not coming to Europe and the West to live. They are coming to die". Why on earth did Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande, and all the rest of the Western leaders not have the sense of responsibility to listen? Western European leadership has failed in its most important duty, that is, to provide security and safety for their citizens.
But how can even the best intentions to limit Islamic radical threat be realistically carried on when the current government of Greece is enthusiastically letting all the hordes coming from the Middle East and Africa to get into Europe without bearing any responsibility for flooding the continent with hundreds and thousands of potential terrorists?
According to the MI5 officially aired calculations, 'every two in a hundred of current migrants are connected with ISIS.' Not aired publicly, but far more precise data shows 'at least 10% of entering Europe immigrants from the Middle East and Africa are connected to ISIS/" Does the Greek government care who they are letting into Europe en masse? Even if they know, the best one can expect from them and their services is information to their colleagues on some of the suspects. Post-factum, as happened in the case of the Paris attacks.
The Scandinavian countries are known for lenience towards the Islamic radicalism threat in general, but now they also went too far on that extremely dangerous path. Norway simply disarmed their policemen – as they had produced an assessment that "the security situation has been improved now" – supposedly, after Breivick's shooting spree a couple of years ago. The assessment and the decision on disarming the police occurred in mid-November 2015, in the midst of the non-stop flow of refugees into Norway, day and night. How one can be so fundamentally stupid?
In Sweden, the leftist government is doing everything in its power to welcome and accommodate young strong males from the Middle East to such an extent that the friendly Danish leftist government has decided to close the border with its sister country in order to handle the non-stop ocean of refugees - somehow. Only after that, facing an overwhelming amount of refugees, the Swedish prime-minister admitted publicly in his interview to The Financial Times that they, the government, were 'naive' in their assessments. It is nice of him, to emphasise their good will, but it is not the whole truth. The Swedish line towards Palestinians and the other terrorists – Islamic radical ones – is fairly consistent and aired regularly by their super-partisan foreign minister Mme Wallstrom. She even proudly wears the Islamic Crescent pendant on her neck, and did so publicly after the Paris attacks – note the photos available.
Finland, too, is trying to regulate the uncontrollable stream of refugees coming from Sweden, but not with much success. Additionally, the Finnish premiere who is a good and believing person, but one without much experience in international policy, and who did act spontaneously and emotionally, prompted by tragic personal reasons, and publicly invited the refugees to his house, literally to his house. What better PR scheme to get potential terrorists on to European soil?
Analysing the activities of Western European leaders with regard to handling the refugee crisis in 2015, one just cannot help being totally taken aback by their ability to do everything in their power to put their own citizens in danger. Mortal danger, for the record.
The trans-Atlantic dimension
And what can we, law-abiding citizens of the Western world, hope to get by way of support to the largely lost European governments in their never -really-started-fight against international terrorism looking across the Atlantic Ocean? The most depressing picture of all, it must be observed.
We have the American president who, on top of all his long and astounding record of appeasement of radical Islam in the world does-not-matter-what, did 'not want to speculate on who was behind the terror' carnage in Paris where the perpetrators were screaming Allah Akbar! madly.
In amazingly revealing interview the very morning of the November 13th attack, the same president with all his trade-marked aplomb confided happily to the old friend of Clintons, George Stephanopolus on his ABC TV show that in the opinion of the president of the USA, he 'did not think that ISIS has been gaining power', but rather to the contrary, 'we did contain it'. As Michael Freund noted, during his statement on the carnage in Paris, which claimed the death of at least one US citizen, USA President Barack Hussein Obama did not use the following words at all: "Muslim", "Islam", "Jihad", "Islamic State". In the West we live in a giant theatre of the absurd.
And of course, the same president is pushing hard to get his program to accept up to 100 thousands Syrian refugees into the USA during two months despite of healthy negative response to that by over 30 states of the country.
From one side, I do think that it is responsible decision of the current US Administration. They indeed, did create such a chaos in the Middle East, that the US should bear a primary responsibility for the refugees from the region. But from the point of view of the US citizens, it is the same suicidal games as frau Merkel has initiated in Europe. We have some luck to live under masochistic leadership, it shall be stated.
No wonder that more than a half of the American public is sharply against that recent 'Christmas gift' to them from their president. Maybe, US democracy is stronger than the European one, and common sense will prevail there? – one hopes in overwhelming despair.
The change of political guard in two other big and important countries across the Ocean certainly does not add anything positive to the prospects of security and safety of the West. After two terms of steady, friendly, human, decent and stable conservative government in Canada, the voters there decided to change it all in favour of youngish inexperienced political demagogue Mess Trudeau Jr. One of the very first steps has has made is to announce of acceptance of 'at least' 25 000 Syrian refugees into the country 'before the end of this year'. And how many are planned for next year? one wonders.
The first statement of the Canadian prime-minister elect was the one on withdrawing the Canadian jets from the US-led coalition trying to fight ISIS. His first decision after the Islamic jihad started in Europe was to fly up to 900 Syrian refugees into Canada and agree up to 900 Syrian refugees – and ' refugees' – daily. Such a devotion to Islam demonstrated by its recently elected leader. But it comes as no surprise for the experts. The devotion of Justin Trudeau to Islam is well known and well enough documented. It poses serious questions, too.
Coming in the same worrisome motion, in the case of Australia it was the country's former prime minister Tony Abbot who did come forward with an adequate statement while the recently changed liberal Mr Thurnbull did not utter a word about what has happened in Paris, thus in Europe, thus in the world.
What the West has on its hands now with regard to its leadership is that, except the current leadership of the UK, there are promising combinations of bad and even worse leaders - those who are unable to comprehend the threat posed by militant Islam, and those who support Islam in general and appease it, including the militant part of it.
Turning to Israel
Ironically, French, Russian, German and the other counter-terror officials, and many international experts on the field are turning to Israel for its expertise, understanding and knowledge of radical Islam. In the recent cased of the terrorist attacks against Russia and France, it was the Israeli intelligence that provided crucial information and did help both Russian and French authorities.
More and more often one can hear nowadays in both public commentaries and quiet professional talks that "Israelis has to be contacted", "We shall use the Israeli models and approach", " We should ask Israeli colleagues for help". How really dramatic life is: Israel has gained its knowledge and experience with an incredibly high price. Israeli citizens are attacked and murdered almost daily. Unlike the world-swiping passionate sentiments for the victims in Paris, most of the very same Western media that has done such a good job on the Paris attacks and German and Brussels would-be-attacks, are either distorting the truth about Israel being under the siege of the Palestinian terror, or ignoring the very fact of it.
Still, Israel and its people did show exemplary solidarity with France ,showing to the world once again, and not for the sake of a demonstration, on what moral principles the Jewish state is based and lives on.
Europe and the Western world are not as we knew it, after radical Islamic terror zapped Paris on the night of November 13th 2015, and threatened Germany and Belgium immediately after that. "We are at war", – saythe citizens of Europe, – "We are under attack".
The fact is that the attack has just started. Jihad has exploded into the face of the Western world and in the very heart of it. They have no intention of stopping or to slowing down. And the leaders of the West have to start to fulfil the most essential of their duties - to protect the right for life of the citizens of free, not yet quite Islamisized world.
Dr Inna Rogatchi is writer, scholar, political analyst, and senior adviser on the international affairs. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed film The Lessons of Survival, and her forthcoming book is on Personal Reflections on the Holocaust in the Modern Times. More on Inna Rogatchi and her work – at The Rogatchi Foundation – www.rogatchi.org, and Rogatchi Films – www.rogatchifilms.org


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For a team that went 19 years between NCAA Tournament appearances, the Aggie fan base certainly got spoiled quickly. Billy Gillispie came to Texas A&M from UTEP and raised the Aggie basketball program from the Dark Ages. Six consecutive trips to the tournament after nearly two decades of life in the basketball abyss will do that to one of the most passionate fan bases in the nation. Donations to the program started flowing in and new facilities were built to attract recruits from nearby hoops hotbeds (Houston and the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex). Legendary basketball programs took notice and became interested in Aggie basketball coaches. After two coaches made the decision to leave College Station for greener basketball pastures, the Aggies are heading towards what is likely their second consecutive season without an appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
There are plenty of arguments that can be made for why the current state of the program is one that is struggling to get big wins and struggling to get fans inside Reed Arena. One reason is the lack of depth on the current roster. The Aggies are muddling through their first SEC season with only 8 scholarship players. Current head coach Billy Kennedy has made public remarks about the talent on the roster being nowhere near the level he expected when he took the job in Aggieland. Most people will point to the talent Billy Gillispie inherited when he arrived at Texas A&M as a reason he was able to see such early success. What Coach Gillispie actually inherited was a talented Sophomore in Antoine Wright and two complete question marks in Freshmen Acie Law IV and Marlon Pompey. The stories of Acie and Gillispie not seeing eye to eye are not a secret to anyone that has followed the Aggie basketball program. Rather than leaving the team like he had intended to, Acie stayed with Coach Gillispie and developed into a point guard that the Aggie faithful will never forget. Players like Joseph Jones, Dominique Kirk, and Chris Walker all developed as players under Coach Gillispie. There was talent on the roster, and it was developed to the level that begin to spoil Aggie fans.
Aggies and college basketball fans alike can look at the record of the current team and not see any cause for concern. A 12-6 record isn't the worst thing that could be happening. If you've watched enough games over the past two seasons, it should be clear that something is just off. It's kind of like that feeling when you board an airplane and then you get the first sign of bubble guts just before takeoff. Things might work out and things might be okay, but deep down you know it's all over. I'm not saying this season is over for Aggie hoops. There are plenty of games left to play and then the SEC tournament that could be fascinatingly bad. The Aggies are one Elston Turner going bananas against Kentucky away from being in the bargain bin of SEC basketball. This year's team didn't have massive expectations on its shoulders, but everyone needs to understand that the SEC is a really bad basketball conference this season. The one point loss to Alabama contains no moral victories. They are a very beatable team with the roster the Aggies have. I'm not even going to discuss the loss last night to a terrible LSU team. Those games serve as eye-openers for fans to figure out where this program stands. In the age of advanced analytics and trending data, it can often be relieving to go back and look at information to put your mind at ease. Other times it can open up a can of worms that you wish you never opened.
Judging a coach on his year one records and performance hardly seems fair. After all, coaches often bring in an entirely new staff and new system. In their second seasons at the helm of the Aggie basketball program, Billy Gillispie and Mark Turgeon had an average RPI win of 146 and 135, and an average RPI loss of 40 and 39 respectively. In his second season, Gillispie had four wins over RPI Top 60 teams. In Turgeon's second season at A&M, he had 7 wins over teams in the RPI Top 60. Gillispie's worst loss in year two was to an RPI of 110. Turgeon's worst loss in year two was to an RPI of 119. Neither had another loss in those seasons worse than an RPI of 89. Of Gillispie's 9 losses in year two, 6 were two teams ranked in the top 20. Mark Turgeon had a similar efficiency in year two with 5 losses to teams ranked in the top 20 of his 10 losses. These were two pretty special seasons for the Aggie basketball program with one being their first trip back to the tournament, and the other being a team that could have made a strong NCAA run (be honest, we didn't stand a chance against THAT Connecticut team).
A little past the halfway point of year two under Coach Kennedy, the Aggie basketball program is far below the standard that most Aggie fans grew accustomed to. The average RPI win for Coach Kennedy is 193. Eight of the team's twelve wins came over teams ranked 144th or worse with 5 being ranked 276th or worse. Perhaps a more telling trend is that the average RPI loss of this year's team is 80. The Aggies have two losses this season to teams ranked 150+. Despite what happens from this point on this season, that is the statistic that the tournament selection will have underlined, circled, and highlighted. The highest rated win this season came against Louisiana Tech. The Aggies rank in the bottom third of the nation in points, rebounds, and assists per game. In all of the wins and losses this season, Aggie fans have been looking for improvement. There have been flashes of it, but nothing remotely consistent enough to be considered promising. Does blame fall to the players on the roster or the coach? This question is one that I wish I never tried to answer.
Billy Kennedy was a hot prospect to replace Mark Turgeon, who abruptly left Texas A&M for Maryland late in the off-season. Much of the promise that surrounded Coach Kennedy was derived from his last two years at Murray State. Kennedy took over an absolutely awful Racers team and eventually had them winning more games than any team in school history. A run to the NCAA Tournament caught the nation's attention. Taking a look at the last three seasons of Kennedy's tenure at Murray State was interesting. The average RPI win during his last three seasons at Murray State were 239, 222, and 204. The Racers had 24 wins over teams ranked in the RPI 150+ during the 2009-2010 season that ended in a tournament appearance. 17 of those wins came against teams ranked worse than 209. Of his most successful seasons at Murray State, the 2009-2010 season had the worst ranked strength of schedule (SOS). Looking at the information during these seasons can be intriguing for basketball fans. Did Coach Kennedy and his team get hot when the Ohio Valley Conference was in a slump? Is it the roster or the coaching causing the bad results against higher RPI ranked opponents and a tougher SOS? There was talent on last year's roster, but why did they have even worse results than this year's team? There are a lot of questions that can be asked about the progress of the team through year two for Coach Kennedy.
I absolutely love being an Aggie. I love that we passionately stick by our teams through thick and thin. That is one of the things that makes being an Aggie so amazing. You become part of a family that spans every known boundary with open arms. You can still be a good Aggie and not be happy with how one of the teams is performing. That's just a part of being an alumnus. You donate your hard earned money to the athletic department you can't live without. Aggies should expect greatness from our basketball team. Texas A&M has one of the largest student bodies in the country, some of the best basketball facilities in the country, and two of the best basketball recruiting cities in its front and back yard. Aggies basketball fans would be happy if they were seeing progress and trends that gave them faith of the program getting back to being a perennial tournament team. Without more than hoping for a miracle this season, the fans are left wondering if this program is heading in the right direction with the best navigator for the job.

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I finally got all the photos I took in the UK sorted out. I'll be posting them in fits & starts over the next few days. Here's the first batch.
The first thing I did in London, besides checking into my hotel and grabbing a much-needed shower, was meet up with some UK Web folk. I was so tired from the trip, that about the only thing I remember is this neat trick they showed me. If you fold a £10 note just so, grafting the upper half of Charles Darwin's head onto the bottom half of Queen Elizabeth's head, you end up with John McEnroe.
The next day was comprised mostly of the Net Media conference, although I did get away for a bit to take in the sights: the gardens in front of Buckingham Palace, a queue of conjoined London double-deckers, an English phone booth (located near the Westminster tube stop), and the statue of St. Paul (shot #2) at St. Paul's Cathedral (the handiwork of Christopher Wren was all about London, everywhere I went).


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In the latest volley in a longstanding dispute over the financial health of Connecticut hospitals, state budget director Benjamin Barnes on Monday questioned Bristol Hospital's plans to build a new medical office building and recruit staff, noting that hospital supporters had recently warned that state funding was needed to avoid compromising the community's health and access to care.
In a letter to hospital President and CEO Kurt Barwis that was copied to legislative leaders and e-mailed to reporters, Barnes asked for assurances that, "your earlier pleas for those dollars were based on the full fiscal reality that your organization was facing and not just part of a public relations campaign to obtain more taxpayer funded expansions of your hospital."
And, Barnes wrote, "The obvious conclusion is that Bristol Hospital is using state government money in the form of Medicaid supplemental payments to finance construction of new facility expansions."
Bristol Hospital responded Monday night with a statement calling Barnes' letter inaccurate and said it "presents unfounded allegations and innuendo about the connection between state Medicaid funding and the project," which it said would be fully funded by a private developer.
And Barwis said that hospitals are actually in effect subsidizing the state's Medicaid program, since it pays them less than the cost of care. State figures show Medicaid paid Bristol Hospital 71 cents for every dollar of cost during the 2014 fiscal year.
Barwis added that, while the building project won't be funded with Medicaid payments, its progress was in question because the state has paid the hospital only about $800,000 of nearly $5.2 million in Medicaid supplemental funding it is supposed to receive under the current state budget. That threatened to cause a cash-flow problem as the hospital paid for the due-diligence work involved in planning the building project, which is intended to bring together primary care and specialist physician offices currently scattered throughout Bristol, he said.
"In order to keep providing services, if [the state doesn't] make these payments, we're going to have to reallocate any of the initial costs that will ultimately be taken care of by the developer into subsidizing the state Medicaid program," Barwis said.
Barnes' letter came one month after he announced that the state was suspending approximately $140 million in state and federal funding for hospitals in response to a growing budget deficit, and follows years of contention between Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration and health care executives over the financial health of hospitals and the adequacy of state payments they receive.
The funding suspension, which prompted an outcry from legislators and hospital officials, appears to have been resolved, at least for now. The money, known as Medicaid supplemental payments, is meant to repay a portion of the $566.1 million hospitals are expected to pay in state taxes this fiscal year and fund a pool of money for small, independent hospitals, including Bristol. Legislators last week passed a plan to address the deficit that did not rely on withholding the hospital supplemental payments, and a spokesman for the governor's budget office said the money would be released.
But the tension between the Malloy administration and hospitals continues.
Hospital officials have argued the administration has been relying too heavily on hospitals to address state fiscal challenges, including by imposing a hospital tax in 2012 that now nets the state more than $400 million. (By taxing hospitals and redistributing the money to the industry, the state can generate federal matching funds. In its first year, the state returned $50 million more than it collected from hospitals to the industry. But since then, the amount hospitals receive back has dropped. This year, they are expected to pay $566.1 million and receive $164 million back.)
Malloy administration officials note that hospitals now receive more than $2 billion in payments from Medicaid and the state employee and retiree health plans, far more than a decade ago. They say hospitals have benefited from the federal health law, since it reduced the number of people without health insurance. And they cite high earnings by hospital systems and executive pay among hospital leaders, suggesting that hospital officials who raise concerns about funding want state taxpayers to subsidize excessive salaries.
Hospital officials say the focus on executive pay is a red herring. They say the increased state payments to hospitals has been the result of delivering more care to people with Medicaid – a program that has grown substantially since the health law passed in 2010 and paid an average of 63 cents for each dollar of hospital costs in 2014, according to state figures.
In recent months, the Connecticut Hospital Association has run ads blunt in their description of the governor's policies toward hospitals.
"Malloy's risking your care with his years of drastic taxes and cuts," the narrator said in a recent ad, which urged viewers to tell the governor to stop cutting hospitals, because "lives depend on it."
Hospitals have also filed scores of administrative appeals challenging Medicaid rates, which Barnes has described as a precursor to legal action. A Department of Social Services hearing officer recently rejected most of the state's requests to dismiss the appeals.
And hospitals have urged supporters to write to legislators and the Malloy administration to stop cuts to hospital funding.
In his letter to Barwis Monday, Barnes noted that he had received "hundreds of identical e-mails" from "Bristol Hospital partisans" saying that state funding cuts could compromise the health of the community and access to care.
"President Barwis, I have led organizations through financial difficulties. I am doing so now, preparing plans to curtail services, lay off staff, and renegotiate pension and benefit agreements," Barnes wrote. "I had assumed from the dire tone of the e-mails, the television ads, and your frequent public statements, that Bristol Hospital would be going through the same gut-wrenching process. Instead, I learn you are hiring, building and expanding with taxpayer money while the state of Connecticut is making difficult choices about cutting services and laying off state employees."
Barnes also questioned the need for another outpatient facility in the area.
"It is hard to imagine a region better equipped with medical facilities than Hartford's western suburbs, with hospitals and outpatient facilities in Bristol, Farmington, New Britain, and Waterbury, not to mention Hartford's three hospitals," Barnes wrote.
Barwis said those statements don't accurately characterize the situation. He noted that the hospital had laid off workers last year and withheld raises.
The recruitment efforts are meant to fill open positions created through turnover when staff were hired by competitors, he said, not new positions.
And the building project is not an expansion but an effort to consolidate multiple physician offices into one location to replace facilities that are antiquated and make it difficult to recruit physicians who can meet the community's needs, Barwis said.
Hospital officials have said the building project reflects concerns about access to care that community members cited during a recent needs assessment.
Bristol Hospital's margin was 0.96 percent during the 2015 fiscal year, according to data from audited financial statements released by the state Office of Health Care Access. The hospital took in $1.3 million more than it spent. The margin for its parent company, Bristol Hospital & Healthcare Group, was slightly lower – 0.63 percent.


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Akc Dachshund pups 4sale in Ny. Champion bred.Quality reputable Breeder. 8454019530
Akc Dachshund pups 4sale in Ny. Champion bred.Quality reputable Breeder. 8454019530
For all the people who continue to text me
Or "HOW MUCH?"
Despite all the warning on the website NOT to text...
Can I just say that we are dealing with Lives? Lives that I have raised, and loved, and nurtured. Lives that I witnessed take their first breath. ( possibly a life that I have saved) Their first bite, their first steps. While I understand that the exchange between us revolves somewhat around the awkwardness of cost please allow me a moment to say a few things here.
I always ask a budget. ( your budget is not your income it's simply what you are willing to pay for your puppy) I do this because I don't want to show you something that's not within that budget and break your heart. I know that that is a hard feeling. It's not a tactic or anything other than to accommodate you. It lets me evaluate if I am willing to even maybe lower one for you in some cases. It can also save us both a lot of time. So please be honest. I get 10 calls a day. 8 will say they have no budget and then finish with they can't afford The puppies. This is exactly why I ask first—-And then my heart aches.
Secondly this is going to be our first impression of each other. My first impression of the person I am trusting to love and honor my baby for the rest of his or her life. That is why I require an interview. Do you really want my first impression of you to be —a one word question?
("price?") In an email or a Text?
Honestly! Would u go to an adoption center and do that. I would hope not. I don't one word you (" budget?" ) I try to talk to you.
Are we so far gone as a society that we can't take the time to do a proper interview? To become educated on the breed and to let the breeder know where their puppy will live? It's not everyone. I get many clients that are fantastic with this and our bond is wonderful because of it. I just think people might want to give the process the proper RESPECT it deserves when inquiring please. Even if you can't afford my puppy I will go the extra mile to try and help find you one that you can. These are lives! Not objects. They have personalities. I need to ensure a proper fit! If you can't follow simple directions then how confident can I be in your ability to care for a life? A precious life that I have a responsibility to. Please RESPECT the process and Call! A simple phone call may very well change your life! We love our angels & it's important that you make a great 1st impression! Thank You!
The price breeders really pay
Let's talk:
These foods are quite costly in the end.
Royal canin
$60 a bag that lasts 2 weeks on 1 pregnant dog, Less on a nursing mom who needs more calories royal canin $60 a case of 24 (1 can 3x a day is 8 days) when the pups are old enough around 3-4 weeks they get 1 can 3x a day each - on a litter of 4 here is the break down
dry food mom pregnancy 270
dry food nursing 250
can mom pregnancy 473
can mom nursing 480
4-pups can when old enough 480
When you add up the nuvet vitamins, and vaccines , health certificates, detergent, and wee wee pads- IF nothing goes wrong it averages about $2500 per litter.
That's on an easy litter.
That doesn't include feeding Mom all year, vaccines,frontline, heart worm etc. increased cost of heating for puppies and ac in the summer
Let's Talk about Good Lines
It can cost anywhere from $8-$25000 to champion a dog with handling fees of $20 a day for months, entry fees, grooming, travel, food, etc... Import fees for fresh blood can cost $5000-25000 per dog after full show rights , shipping and broker fees at customs and breeder Tax fees are paid!( pet families don't get hit with this tax)
These are old Vet prices that increase every year!
Let's talk vet bills. A c section can cost $3500-6000 depending on the circumstances.( You can expect this to be cheaper by location that is why puppy mills thrive where they are)
Time - lost days hours nights holidays bottle feeding school events, family reunions, dr appointments, that's all just part of the job. Countless hours on the phone helping clients who may never call back or leave a review for your time!
This job hemorrhages time, money and emotion. Responsible Breeders who breath life into puppies who are born dead (Noone's fault just nature)are the very same people hated by animal rights activists. Responsible Breeders who spend up to 2 hours performing CPR are accused of killing animals. Responsible Breeders who sacrifice thousands of dollars on pups who have a 10 percent chance are the same people accused of abuse. Responsible Breeders who take in unwanted dogs from irresponsible BYB who have no idea what they are doing & rehabilitate these poor blind, deaf, double dapples, blind dogs with PRA, disabled dogs with IVDD, bald itchy suffering dogs with CDA—
We do it! We take money from our programs to fund these side projects and rescue these animals and we are told that we are the problem. Trolls visit our pages and post adopt don't shop on our walls! They hate us. Responsible Breeders are stereotyped in with the absolute worst that humanity has to offer! Puppy mills and back yard breeders. Filthy scammers. Conning innocent people out of their hard earned income! Making them more afraid to purchase from us! This is why I send you my license on my wall with my name address and business when in doubt. Every day we must prove our selves. In the end word of mouth is everything!
This is why it is so important to leave a positive review. Even if you don't buy. So that people know who they are dealing with. Let that persons time have meaning. This is why a reputable breeders puppies will most of the time cost a lot more than a BYB. This is why sometimes prices fluctuate. A larger litter may mean we can afford to discount. A c section litter may mean we can't. Prices are set in advance because we can't predict the outcome.
It's not like a used car when you negotiate. It's our time, blood, sweat, money and tears. It's hours of love, sacrifice and heart 💜. I don't think people realize what they are really asking.
Over The last few months I've decided to break the silence and open up about what it's really like. I've taken most of you on my journey. Some of you have laughed , cried and prayed with me. Rejoiced during the good, and felt that crushing blow after weeks of no sleep with Squiggy and Hope.
I am hoping that this can change the stereotype and show people that Trusting your breeder is so much more important than if your puppy is red or black or dapple!
It's better to buy a puppy from a breeder you trust then get one for free from one that you don't. That decision may cost you so much more in vet bills and heart ache years later.
I want people to see that there is a bigger picture!
When you walk in a pet store thinking you are saving one life you enable an enterprise to kill thousands. The big picture is lost. When you purchase from a reputable breeder you are saving a lot of lives! Because we save lives. Because we donate our time and money to those organizations that hate us. Because our puppies will never end up there. Because we advocate against them. Because we speak out and educate! Because the money used in your sale helps another puppy when needed. It puts responsible owners and healthy dogs into the world and out of shelters.
There is no Shopping here. Here we are completing families. Does it cost a lot to do. Yes. It cost me a whole lot to do. And it's worth it. To do it right! It's when people are greedy and cruel and give us all a bad name that it's harder to stay above water. But I have to believe that being better and always doing the right thing matters!!!
I have to believe that. That's my big picture. That's something that I hope everyone who reads this takes away from this message. It's hard to find a quality puppy under $1850 because the average litter cost almost that. But we are trying. The vets are increasing prices. I personally give all my puppies all the supplies so that you don't walk into a place that can give you any diseases. This isn't cheap too. A dachshund specific training book, bed, food and water bowls, shampoo, food, leash, collar, harness, treat jars in some cases a car seat . 2 sets of vaccines and bordatella. It's so hard to get the prices lower for people. And with BYB letting people in their door I have to worry about Parvo walking into mine. So we can't let anyone in to play with the puppies anymore. It risks everything. We have to quarantine the puppy for 2 weeks if you don't take it. So because of this a lot of us don't let anyone come w/o a deposit that can treat the puppies. We have no time for a no- show. Any more of our time can't be free. We need that deposit to know you will show up and you will take your puppy. I personally have never had anyone not take them but if u don't you can roll it over into another so it's not entirely a loss for you. We try to be fair.
We are letting strangers into our homes in a day and age when ARA are knocking on our doors and gunning us down! They are less likely to do this with a paper trail! Of course we need a deposit first. But thanks to scammers -people are afraid. The best thing I can tell you is FaceTime your puppy when in doubt! Ask for the license on the wall. Only go to a licensed reputable breeder! And read the reviews! This is why—— circling back—- leaving reviews are so important!
I hope this helps 1 person not get scammed
I hope this helps 1 person understand
I hope this helps
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Do you really need a tornado to be transported to another world? Maybe. It certainly helped add to the theme last night when thunderstorms brought funnel clouds through Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, uprooting trees just a block or two away from the start of the third annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, which just so happened to be kicking off at The Bell House with a show themed "An Evening of Comedy From 1986."
Mirman says the festival is a joke, but one in which he and his organizers have committed to fully. Each year they provide fun things for audiences to enjoy, both free and available for purchase. A merch table last night offered traditional items such as posters and free guides, but also "Industry Rocks" (rocks engraved with names of real-life comedy industry people, for $15), velvet Eugene paintings ($25) and more. Inside the venue, audience members could feast on free roasted duck, set up on a table beneath a banner that read "Eugene's Pee Your Pants Comedy Villa." At the door, each audience member received 3-D glasses to watch Mirman's 3-D "welcome video."
As for the show itself, Mirman introduced Tony V with the credits he would have had in 1986, and Tony joked about his small role in the 1986 movie, One Crazy Summer. The "best impressionist" Sandy Gorman followed, played by Larry Murphy in a white wig, holding a giant phone and wearing a suit jacket with the sleeves rolled up. Among his impressions: Jack Nicholson, Ronald Reagan, Marlon Brando and Robert DeNiro on a party line. Mirman next brought out Teddy Ruxpin. Yes. The stuffed teddy bear that can talk. Mirman sat the Teddy Ruxpin on a stool in front of the mic and walked off, letting Ruxpin spew forth a filthy NSFW stand-up routine. Ron Lynch opened his set by reading off notes of how a stand-up should act, then noted that the rolled-up sleeves really was a trend in stand-up back in the 1980s.
"How did that happen? Who was the first? How many of you have no idea what I'm talking about?"
In a special treat, Lynch played the cassette tape that Louis CK sent him back around 1986 as an audition to get booked in a club Lynch ran in the Boston area. Afterward Lynch mocked him, which prompted Louis CK himself to appear in a cameo that delighted the crowd. Lynch closed with his classic bit from the future in which a Disney-engineered robot explains what stand-up comedy was all about.
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While you were wondering if Sarah Silverman and Demetri Martin would get renewed, Comedy Central announced today it had ordered seven additional episodes of its new animated series Ugly Americans. The cable network have the series a huge promotional push, and it has been rewarded with an average of two million viewers for its first month of episodes on Wednesday nights following South Park.
The series follows Mark Lilly (voiced by Matt Oberg) through a New York City populated by all sorts of creatures who need to be integrated into the melting pot of America. The main voice cast includes Kurt Metzger, Natasha Leggero, Randy Pearlstein, Michael-Leon Wooley, Larry Murphy, Devin Clark, Pete Holmes and Julie Klausner. Several cast members from SNL also have lent their voices to episodes in the debut season.
The second batch of episodes will air in October. Here's a timely clip with a timelier Larry King joke. Roll it.
If Eugene Mirman could pull off his own comedy festival, then what would he have in store for the release of his first book, The Will to Whatevs? We had to take the first B75 or F train we could get to the Bell House in Gowanus Brooklyn to find out last night for ourselves (why do I refer to myself in the first-person plural? not relevant). A sold-out crowd watched what turned out to be two hours of comedy and a full set by GnR tribute band Mr. Brownstone, and before you ask, why Mr. Brownstone, note that Eugene's brother joined them on guitar for "Knocking on Heaven's Door," with Eugene and David Cross taking over one of the microphones, and Todd Barry and Cross' girlfriend Amber Tamblyn joining them all onstage.
Of course, it wasn't all rock and roll. After all of that, Sarah Vowell took over the turntable with a more leisurely mix of tunes.
But first, Mirman welcomed the crowd with a multimedia presentation about his new book (related: read my interview with Mirman about The Will to Whatevs). John Hodgman took the stage and immediately apologized for being sick with the cold/flu bug that has circled New York City. Although that's not how Hodgman caught it, as he claimed instead: "I got sick hugging Al Gore last week at the TED conference." If that wasn't odd enough for you, Hodgman talked a bit more about the personalities who show up to talk hot topics at TED each year, and revealed that he once tried stand-up comedy at one of Mirman's shows. "Eugene was nice enought to let me come up and insult his profession, and now he has insulted mine," he said. And now that they're competitors in the book world, Hodgman decided to plug his own book and read from it.
Many of you have never heard of Sal Lupo. A few of you may have seen Lupo try his hand at stand-up comedy in New York City at the Greg Johnson and Larry Murphy show and in Boston touring with Eugene Mirman, but it turns out this taxicab driver from Canarsie has a much deeper backstory that involves the CIA, and he's putting it all on film in The Untitled Sal Lupo Project. This trailer is rated NSFW for profanity, mild violence and nudity. (Via Purns)
Eugene Mirman has announced the planned lineups for his crazy-yet-true-because-it-is-Eugene-after-all comedy festival named for him, taking place Sept. 25-28 in Brooklyn. Mirman pretty much has it covered -- most of his usual and unusual suspects will appear over those four days and nights at two venues, Union Hall (where Mirman already hosts the popular Tearing the Veil of Maya showcase on Sundays with Michael Showalter in Park Slope) and The Bell House (a new joint the Union Hall folks are opening nearby).
Time Out NY playfully hinted at what a Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival might look like, with hints from Mirman himself.
Want to see who's scheduled to perform?
Jon Benjamin showed this video at last Friday's last "Greg Johnson & Larry Murphy" show at Rififi, and it debuted online overnight. Too soon? Regardless, just watching Todd Barry and Larry Murphy in this shirt is humor enough...but is that stunt hair? Enjoy!
Why would anyone mourn a venue that's essentially a dive bar with inconsistent air conditioning, horribly horrible bathrooms, a movie screen that had a massive tear in it (until, ha-ha, this past week!) for a place that still had a sign outside boasting it was Cinema Classics, and really, all of the fun that the East Village had to offer? Then again, the independently-produced comedy community of New York City has been through this before, whether it was last year at Mo Pitkins or years ago with Luna Lounge. So there we were, after an abrupt email sent out in the wee hours yesterday morning, trying to figure out if it really would be the final hours for comedy at Rififi. Spoiler alert: It was.
While rumors flew about what made July 30 the last night for Rififi (a month-to-month lease that finally found someone willing to pay the increasingly high East Village rents seemed to be the leading speculation), the indie comedy scene hastily recast the weekly Gelmania show originally scheduled for this Wednesday night. The hosts from Thursday's Totally J/K (Joe and Noah) and Friday's Greg Johnson and Larry Murphy Show certainly would be there. So, too, would many others come to pay final respects. The Whitest Kids U Know, Andy Blitz and Todd Barry showed up as spectators. The final bill would see Joe Mande and Noah Garfinkel take over first-half hosting duties, with one final "List of Nothing" and a joke Mande had uttered earlier in the day via Facebook, that the current Rififi owner would be fleeing on Thursday and taking all of the Glade air-fresheners with him to "Molester Town." Gabe and Jenny (Gabe Liedman and Jenny Slate) returned to host the second half. The final schedule will show that Adam Newman, Pete Holmes, "John McCain," Baron Vaughn, John Gemberling, Slightly Known People, Hannibal Buress, Tom McCaffrey, Chelsea Peretti, Greg Johnson and Larry Murphy, Jon Glaser, John Mulaney, Leo Allen and Eugene Mirman took part in this last Rififi effort. There was a one-woman lip-synch effort to Les Miz with Pez, or is that called Pez Miz? Mirman shouted out requests to Glaser to "do some oldies!" Mulaney even used the opportunity to try new jokes! The show began auspiciously late (?) at 9:11 p.m. and lasted past midnight, with Mirman taking the stage at 12:01 a.m., getting all rock 'n' roll by play-real trashing the stage, and Leo Allen rejoining him onstage for some last-minute banter that was odd and appropriately poignant for the occasion.
Among the quips I quoted...
"Rough week, first Bennigan's, now Rififi!" -- Pete Holmes
"I like how the owner never learned our names," Jenny Slate said. "And we had a show here for two years," Gabe Liedman replied. "Well," Slate said, "He only knew me by who I was sleeping with."
"So, Rififi's closing...ninth time's the charm, right?" -- Tom McCaffrey
"I only saw the last episode of Seinfeld, if that makes you feel any better." -- Chelsea Peretti
"I could stand up here and tell jokes that I've told 5,000 times on this stage, and I think I might." -- Greg Johnson
"Greg Johnson and I tried to save Rififi once." -- John Mulaney, adding that they discovered at a city meeting that, at that time, Rififi didn't even have a license to host live events such as comedy. Rut-ro!
"I like Rififi because you could do things that you thought were funny, but most audiences would disagree vehemently with you." -- Leo Allen
"When you leave, take a door with you!" Eugene Mirman said, then made some banging noises on the ceiling. "Oh, wait. The neighbors will complain...to the next landlord."
I have video of the final 13 minutes of the show, after the jump. You may think it a bit anti-climactic, but remember, comedians and fans didn't really have much of a chance to plan this out, even though we all knew this night would be coming sooner or later. Perhaps all of those false closing rumors of Rififi made some believe the dive would never change hands. This night proved us wrong. So now where does this scene hang out and perform now? Suggestions and thoughts encouraged in the comments. Don't be shy.
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Last year, I remember walking into Rififi and seeing a flyer for The Greg Johnson and Larry Murphy Show that had several quotes, but they all referred to the club, and not the actual show. I offered them one: "The most consistently funny and daring show in the city." They went on to win an ECNY Award (is that a thing?) and this past Friday, well, I saw something that really lived up to my quote. After the intermission.
Here is what I saw...all after the intermission...
Guest Host Patrick Borelli had a video presentation about awful book covers (that he plans on incorporating into a one-man show at some point). Alien bears!
Fred Armisen (yes, Fred Armisen of Saturday Night Live fame) played a yet-unnamed character who is a piano-playing lyricist with a wig, a white jacket, and lyrics that make no sense.
Rick Shapiro followed Armisen onstage, and, being Rick Shapiro, kept his emotions unchecked as he rambled on about this, that, and the other thing, and mostly the other thing. "Not everyone's cup of tea," he acknowledged at one point. But always worth watching.
Then Eric Andre took the stage, and proving it's possible, made Shapiro seem tame. That's just how Andre rolls. Also, he showed us his directorial debut, which may be the most retarded thing I've ever seen on video. And by retarded, I mean, Andre might be mentally retarded. Or I am, for watching it.
But the show wasn't over. Still enough time for Larry Murphy to present his Puppets N Such, his ventriloquism act that had everyone in stitches.
That's not a show I think you'll see anywhere else in this city, or any city. All after the intermission.
If you're reading this, it's a Sunday morning, and probably not the time you're thinking about seeing a comedy show. Unless you have kids. And then you may want to hear about a limited-time production called The Wizard's Lounge, which offers performances today and next Sunday at 12:30 p.m. at the UCB Theatre in New York.
Billed as "part PeeWee's Playhouse and part Harry Potter," the hourlong show built for small children is the work of comedians/animators Matt Hall and Patrick Borelli, with wizards, knights, odd guests, riddles, magic orbs and more. They're helped by a cast of comedians that you'd normally see producing comedy for adults and adults who feel more like kids on Saturday night instead of Sunday morning, including Brett Gelman, Jenny Slate, Jon Benjamin, Jon Glaser, Larry Murphy and Leo Allen. But there they were last Sunday, performing for an audience at the UCB that consisted almost entirely of small children (ages ranged from toddlers to around 8) and their parents. Last week, Gelman helped open the show and warm up the kids as Samuel Squire. Hall hosted as Dr. Carl Manteesean, Wizard's Order 3rd Class. His sidekicks included Prince Mando, who, turned into a raven, was played by the voice of Glaser, and Wrangleswift the Sleepy Knight, played by Borelli. The knight is on hand to protect the show from getting taken over by the bad, evil wizard (played last week by Allen), except his sleeping fits meant he'd need the kids to wake him up early and often. Over the course of the show, Hall used animated displays to lead the children through a series of riddles and games that alternated between silly and slightly educational. The show also would see several drop-in guests, including Lady Flufferton (Slate) to play a version of the memory game, and the Rollin' Yogi (Benjamin) to display his "magic" talents of perception.
With kids in the audience, you always/never know quite what to expect (and I know this all too well from a year I spent working as a professional clown at birthday parties and company picnics in Seattle back in 1997). Last week, the performers realized they had to watch their language even more than simply avoiding profanity when one of the children in the audience blurted out in reply: "Stupid is a bad word!" There were giggles all around. Also the kids really latched onto Glaser's raven and his sales pitch for his potential nightclub, "The Bird's Nest," and somehow picked up on it themselves as a natural callback throughout last week's show. The kids loved Buzz the bee's song last week, yet hated it the week before. And the kids did manage to hold off throwing their magic orbs until properly cued, at which point Allen's evil wizard hat made for a surprisingly easy target. All in all, the show did offer laughs for both children and adults alike. It still felt like a work in progress, though, as I mentioned earlier, most of these performers are probably more used to dealing with subversive college-age crowds than innocent and attention-starved children. They told me afterward that if all goes well this week and next, they may decide to mount the show again later this year. It'll be interesting to see how it develops as both the performers and the audience get more and more accustomed to the framework of the show.
Last night at Union Hall (Park Slope, Brooklyn!), a three-for-one nighter, with Eugene Mirman hosting Tearing the Veil of Maya with guests that included Reggie Watts, Zach Galifianakis and Tim Minchin, followed by Sara Schaefer's Name That Tune live game show, followed by a viewing party for the second season premiere of Assy McGee, voiced primarily by Larry Murphy, on Adult Swim.
Quotable: "I'm glad this is going well. I want my stuff to be Merchant Ivory, but it's more Merchant Ivory Wayans." -- Zach Galifianakis
Best team name of the night: Nobody Puts Jerry Orbach's Eyes in the Coroner
Pictured above (captured digitally by Eugene Mirman): Patrick Borelli, H. Jon Benjamin and Larry Murphy as The Perfect Storm: Gloucester's Premier Trance Band and Music Sensation!
Larry Murphy voices all of the main characters for Assy McGee, the animated series about a unique detective for the Exeter, N.H., police department. The show begins its second season on Adult Swim on Sunday night (well, early Monday, 12:30 a.m.). Murphy is quite the character. In fact, if you see him live, you could say he's just as animated and funny onstage as he is doing voiceover work. You can catch him every Friday night at Rififi for the ECNY Award winning variety show, The Greg Johnson & Larry Murphy Show. Let's learn a little more. First question, please!
Where does each voice for Assy McGee originate?
Most of them are very bad impersonations. If they were good ones you would know who I was doing. Others are based people I've known.
Do you go through the stereotypical actor's questioning of "what's my motivation" for each character?
I hope I never asked that "Acting Question" about "Motivation." Generally whoever you might be asking that of is looking to you to provide the answer. If something is written well it usually tells you what to do just fine.
How did you decide how a talking, walking ass would talk?
Before I auditioned they specifically asked for a voice that was out of breath. I just kept thinking about the fat, sweaty, boozy Police Captain Orson Welles played in Touch of Evil. Not necessarily the voice but the character Hank Quinlan. The guy was tremendously disgusting. Unfortunately that answer comes across as extremely pretentious when you're talking about an animated ass.
How do you keep all of the voices straight when you're in the studio?
I never really think about that one although if it's been awhile I occasionally might need to hear a voice I previously recorded again. Also it's good to have a director listening who keeps you honest and lets you know when you lose it.
Were you a big fan of Looney Tunes as a child?
I think I watched my share of cartoons but mostly I lived in my own little world as a child.
Then what influenced you or steered you into voiceover work?
I think in a lot of ways I sort of fell into it. I certainly didn't have any plan. I was doing sketch stuff with Brendon Small at the Comedy Studio when he got Home Movies. I did a voice in one episode and it was a running joke for awhile that I never did any more episodes on his show because I didn't pony up the money to join the Union. I was still very much working what I thought was a real job. Eventually the folks at Soup2Nuts came back to me for something else and eventually I got wise and joined the Union.
Were there other voice actors that you studied or looked up to growing up?
When I was a kid I don't think I understood that was a thing you could actually do. Ironically the first time I took notice of anyone's voice in a thing was Jon Benjamin as Ben in Dr.Katz (which was also produced by Soup2Nuts). He was so damn funny. I remember I watched the credits thinking "Who is that guy?" He's one of the funniest people I know and I'm extremely fortunate I get to work with him on stuff now.
Most people in New York only see you as a live performer, but even
then, you use your talents to give voice to some absurdly hilarious
characters (Sal Lupo, Marlon Brando, Puppets n Such).
Where did the idea for Puppets n Such come from?
I saw these two puppets, a fireman & a cop at a Toys-R-Us when I was buying Christmas gifts for my nieces & nephews and told my wife I had to buy them. She's used to that sort of thing. They sat quietly for several months before I figured out why I needed them.
Are you a fan of ventriloquism?
Fan? Hmmmm not quite but I really liked the movie Magic starring Anthony Hopkins. Netflix that.
When will we see the autobiographical sketches from Marlon Brando again?
Soon I hope. I've always been a fan of Brando and got really inspired after rereading this biography by Peter Manso. It just became to me the most unintentionally funny biography ever written. I'd really like to make some videos of that character if anyones willing to fly me to Fiji.
Has it always been part of the plan to have a different co-star each time?
No. That was no plan. I think I just happened to ask several different talented people to help me do the sketch. It's quite a bit to ask of another performer come to a show with you so he can help you do a staged reading of your poorly written three-act play in which he gets shit on by Marlon Brando and Marlon Brando gets shit on by some seagulls.
And finally...Do you have an HIV-positive, Native American dad? (Pictured?)
No Comment Comic's Comic. Tell Patrick Borelli to expect a call from my attorney.
See Larry Murphy live and on TV!
Tonight: The Greg Johnson & Larry Murphy Show, 8 p.m. at Rififi, with special guests Zach Galifianakis, Demetri Martin, Jesse Popp, Jon Friedman, Kumail Nanjiani, Dave Rosinsky and Kenny Zimlinghaus.
Sunday: Assy McGee viewing party, 11:30 p.m., Union Hall, Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Monday: Assy McGee season two premiere, 12:30 a.m., Adult Swim (Cartoon Network).
Here's a clip! Most likely NSFW.
And you thought Rififi was done when Invite Them Up left the building? No. Instead, Brett Gelman has taken over Wednesdays and assumed the title of President of Comedy. His "inauguration" took place last night. In a cockroach outfit.
Let me try to explain.
Perhaps Gelman himself said it best in his opening remarks. "This is not just a celebration of me. It's a celebration of all of us celebrating me as the new president of comedy," he said. "This is a show people are going to be lying about -- saying they were at it."
As First Lady, Jackie Clarke. In dog ears. Putting down Gelman at every opportunity.
The first show included Anthony Jeselnik. A very strong joke writer, except for that one joke about jail rape, which is far too cheap and easy. Jon Daly appeared as Shirtless White Bill Cosby, with a voice that wavered between spot-on Cosby (circa 1982) and British. Here is a short clip.
I have a theory that Gelman and Daly have a standing bet to see who can be the most ridiculous figure in the comedy world, and that they're both winning, which makes me hope and pray that their Comedy Central pilot, "The Scariest Thing on Television," gets picked up for a full season. The network announced it yesterday as part of its development slate. Gelman said last night that they just finished work on the pilot yesterday, coincidentally, and are hopeful about its prospects. In it, Paul F. Tompkins stars as anthology series host Julius Darkshaft, taking us "through his vault of hilarious morality tales and gorefests."
But back to last night's show.
Larry Murphy made a guest appearance as working-class man Gene Shirley. Andrea Rosen was funny and more than slightly raunchy (ask her about her eye). MC Chris rapped! About Boba Fett! There was a final three-way scene so perverse that even Clarke had to describe it as: "This is just like a Troma film." And, lest I forget, Bobby Tisdale came onstage to pass the torch of Wednesday nights, and with it, perform the comedy presidential inauguration.
Wait. You wanted to know how it ended? I guess you really did have to be there.
Before we move on to other issues in comedy, let's reflect one more time on Monday night's ECNY Awards celebrating the New York comedy scene.
If you think the cinematography in Cloverfield was shaky, check out this short video I shot moments before the ceremony began at a front-row table with Greg Johnson and Larry Murphy, who host the Friday night all-star comedy showcase at Rififi (at least through February). Note to self: Why do I sound out of breath? Am I that out of shape?
Here is a much more professional video that kicked off the ceremony, shot and edited by Drink at Work's Carol Hartsell.
And here is one of many lovely photos taken at the event by actor/comedian/photographer Tracey B. Wilson:
I Eat Pandas' Glennis McMurray seems more than pleased to answer the red carpet questioning from Brooke Van Poppelen and Danny Leary. Her beau, presenter Matt McCarthy, has an expression that says, you better watch out what you ask my lady friend, lady friend. More photos after the jump, including one of Nate from The Apiary, whom more than a few comedians were surprised to see actually existed (at least that's what they said when he won his ECNY) Yes, bloggers are real people. Sometimes. More photos, after the jump!
Over the years, I've witnessed some of the uglier facets of comedy contests as both a participant and as a judge. Last night, however, I saw the sunnier side at the ECNY Awards (please don't call them the Emerging Comics of New York anymore) ceremony at Comix in New York City. Even before the showcase started, you could see something special happening. Comedians got dressed up. There was a red carpet. Small, to be sure, but still there and still red with correspondents talking to a camera in footage that presumably will wind up on the Internet. A very festive air. And so nice to see a scene -- or at least a distinctly unique scene -- come together in celebration of the art of comedy. Host Jon Friedman said they changed the name of the awards KFC-like to just ECNY to show they were rewarding all sorts of comedy, not just the emerging kind. At the same time, though, it would've been nice to really see all of New York comedy represented in the room. When the ceremony ended, several comedians had to turn around and go back to their table because they didn't have their proper receipts on hand for the door guys. We spent the night in a traditional comedy club with traditional item minimums and rules, and yet we could've used a few more traditional club comedians. Maybe next year?
Anyhow. I was saying how nice the night was, right?
Some highlights: The show opened with a six-minute video montage of the nominees speaking directly to the camera. Well-edited. And made funnier after Joe Mande said it'd be creepy if this montage turned out to be their memorial video. Friedman, not only hosting the show but also an organizer and a nominee for best host, acknowledged the conflict, quipping: "This for me is a lose-lose." Later, when he lost, he immediately asked the other "losers" in his category to play his Rejection Show. Another big laugh line from Friedman: "I was told to be very Seacresty." Scott Bateman provided professional animated videos to list all of the nominees. And most of the award presenters brought it, too. Matt McCarthy, presenting best director, opened the proceedings with a wicked Stanley Kubrick from the set of The Shining. Andres Du Bouchet delivered the opening and closing lines from Act 1 of his upcoming fictional one-man-show (100 and Me Percent?) that went over so well, he almost wasn't joking when he said, "I can tell it's going to be a big hit." The Whitest Kids U'Know went to see a psychic yesterday for help determining the best sketch group winners. Carolyn Castiglia joked: "It's great to see so many comedians get dressed up to get drunk and cry. Usually I do it naked and covered in pizza!"
What else? All of the musical comedy nominees performed during the show. Only Reggie Watts got a standing ovation. And didn't win. Eddie Brill received the first "lifetime achievement award" and really took it to heart, confessing in his speech, "I've never been more nervous." They also debuted a new soap opera parody from A.D. Miles called "Horrible People" that'll begin airing soon online on My Damn Channel. I sat next to Jordan Carlos and Andrew WK. Carlos was nice. WK was nice, but awfully quiet aside from his brief stint as a presenter. The show limited acceptance speeches to 30 seconds, but the show still lasted close to two-and-a-half hours. The afterparty at Comix lasted just as long. At said afterparty, Nate Sloan from The Apiary wanted Todd Jackson from Dead-Frog and I to dish our "hot tips." I'm no Gossip Girl. XOXO.
The winners! Congrats to all, for whatever an ECNY Award is worth, you got one! Hooray!
Best Director: Kurt Braunohler
Best Improv Group: I Eat Pandas
Best One Person Show: Nick Kroll (Fabrice Fabrice)
Best Sketch Comedy Group: Harvard Sailing Team
Outstanding Achievement in Flyer or Postcard Design: The Apple Sisters (Matthew C. Johnson, Keith Huang)
Best Technician: Pat Baer
Best Short Comedic Film: Minesweeper: The Movie (Elephant Larry)
Best Website, Original Content: The Onion News Network
Best Website, News and Commentary: The Apiary
Best Host: Eugene Mirman and Michael Showalter, Tearing the Veil of Maya
Best Variety Show: The Greg Johnson and Larry Murphy Show
Emerging Comic Award: Joe Mande
Best Musical Comedy Act: The Apple Sisters
Best Female Stand-up: Kristen Schaal
Best Male Stand-up: John Mulaney
And for those of you playing the Full Disclosure Home Game, four of the five producers of the ECNY Awards also were up for awards (the exception: Alex Goldberg). Friedman (host) and Carol Hartsell (tech) didn't win. Alex Zalben (sketch) and Nate/The Apiary (website/news) won. I was not nominated. Snub? Jackson joked to me that I was too new to New York City to get a nod and would have to wait my turn, like Barack Obama. I'll take an Obama comparison, so thanks, Todd!
UPDATED/CORRECTED! I cleaned up a couple of things in this post that weren't entirely clear when I first wrote them (thank you, commenters!). Also, if you want to see what I look like, as well as Dead-Frog's Todd Jackson, there is a lovely picture of us taken last night by Rachel Kramer Bussel!
Today is the final day for open voting for the ECNY Awards, which used to stand for Emerging Comics of New York, but now just is ECNY to honor other kinds of comedians, sort of how KFC decided it was much more than merely Kentucky Fried. The awards ceremony is Jan. 28 at Comix. And the show promises to be a hoot. Jon Friedman hosts. Look for live performances and pre-taped magic, and for a sneak peek, I caught up with ECNY's producers as they got some of the nominees on camera. So I got them getting them on camera. Here's a fun snippet with The Apple Sisters...
Who will be getting your votes? Perhaps more importantly, who'll get my votes? I'm on the "Industry Committee," which means not only do I get until Jan. 20 to place my votes, but also that the Industry Committee's votes count for half of the total -- perhaps they got that concept from Dancing With The Stars, in which the judges get 50% of the say, the audience the other 50% through call-in votes. Since I still have some time before I fill out my ballot, perhaps you can help make the case for your favorites or get me to take a second look at someone I may have overlooked.
As it stands, my thoughts are...


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The placement of trans prisoners
Scottish Government position
In response to a parliamentary question by Johann Lamont MSP on how acquisition of a gender recognition certificate (GRC) affects a prisoner's legal rights in relation to accommodation, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice stated that 'Acquiring a gender recognition certificate does not and will not give a prisoner any new legal rights'.
Johann Lamont (Glasgow) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Government whether acquiring a gender recognition certificate gives a prisoner any new legal rights regarding the decisions that are made by the Scottish Prison Service about their accommodation. (S5O-04001)
The Cabinet Secretary for Justice (Humza Yousaf): Acquiring a gender recognition certificate does not and will not give a prisoner any new legal rights regarding the decisions that are made by the Scottish Prison Service about their accommodation.Scottish Parliament, 16 January 2020
Ministry of Justice policy
The Minister's response appears to be at variance with Ministry of Justice (MoJ) policy in England and Wales which states that 'transgender women prisoners with GRCs must be treated in the same way as biological women for all purposes' unless there are exceptional circumstances:
The Gender Recognition Act 2004 section 9 says that when a full GRC is issued to a person, the person's gender becomes, for all purposes, their acquired gender. This means that transgender women prisoners with GRCs must be treated in the same way as biological women for all purposes. Transgender women with GRCs must be placed in the women's estate/AP unless there are exceptional circumstances, as would be the case for biological women.Care and Management of Individuals who are Transgender, updated January 2020, paragraph 4.64.
The MoJ position is based on case law (R (on the application of AB) v Secretary of State for Justice and another [2009] EWHC 2220 (Admin), [2009] All ER (D) 28 (Sep)) which ruled that the decision not to transfer a pre-operative transgender woman to a female prison constituted a breach of rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (for an overview, see here).
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Guidance issued by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in July 2018 is also relevant. It makes clear that the single sex exceptions in the Equality Act 2010 apply differently to a trans person with GRC, compared to trans person without a GRC.
Under the Act, the protection from gender reassignment discrimination applies to all trans people who are proposing to go, are undergoing or have undergone (part of) a process of gender reassignment. At the same time, a trans person is protected from sex discrimination on the basis of their legal sex. This means that a trans woman who does not hold a GRC and is therefore legally male would be treated as male for the purposes of the sex discrimination provisions, and a trans woman with a GRC would be treated as female. The sex discrimination exceptions in the Equality Act therefore apply differently to a trans person with a GRC or without a GRC.EHRC Our statement on sex and gender reassignment: legal protections and language, July 2018
2011 Prison Rules
We also note that the Scottish Government position appears to be at odds with the Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules 2011 (part 13, rule 126) which states:
Female prisoners must not share the same accommodation as male prisoners.
The respective accommodation for male and female prisoners must, as far as reasonably practicable, be in separate parts of the prison.
The need for clarity
In a subsequent social media post, Cabinet Secretary for Social Security and Older People Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP stated: 'SPS risk assessment process in relation to accommodating a trans person takes full account of any risks they may present to other prisoners, to staff and to themselves'.
However this fails to address the key question raised by case law in this area, which is about the extent to which possession of a GRC limits the Scottish Prison Service's discretion.
The Scottish Government's differing interpretation of relevant case law, and the policy's apparent incompatibility with the 2011 Prison Rules both suggest the need for further clarification in this area.


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Ever hold a grudge against someone – a sister or a brother, a parent, a friend? These grudges become so less important when we're facing terminal illness; whether the terminal illness involves a family member, a friend or us. The grudges even become gradually less important when we become ill and it's not a terminal situation. Other larger considerations become more important. Quality time with family, friends, engaging in activities that have meaning for ourselves. If we hold onto anger and pain we can make ourselves sick. There's the story of the man who cured himself of a terminal illness by laughter, by watching movies with a comedy theme for weeks on end. How great would this be if we could do this for ourselves, clearing out all of the old baggage?
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One-year UAE dirham forwards slid to a record deep discount on Monday, reflecting speculation of a revaluation against the plummeting US dollar as Kuwait's currency rose to a record high.
The forward market, which reflects where dealers expect the currency to trade in 12 months, is often used by speculators to bet on a shift in exchange rate pegs such as the dirham's link to the dollar.
The move in the forward market comes after Kuwait let the dinar rise to an all-time high against the dollar earlier on Monday.
"Kuwait revalued yesterday and again this morning. With the euro above $1.57, oil above $110 and the Fed willing to lower interest rates, that's moved all the forwards," said Wike Groenenberg, emerging markets strategist at Citi.
"The UAE is seen most likely to revalue, while Saudi Arabia is the most conservative."
The United Arab Emirates central bank has launched a study into a revaluation of the dirham, and the study is expected to report its findings at the end of 2008, London-based MEED reported late on Friday, citing a bank official.
One-year dirham forwards were trading at -1450/1150.
Saudi riyal 1-year forwards were trading at -900/800, the deepest discount since December. (Reuters)
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