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What about..
..my MegaCD (original, not 2) and 32X - does it support these, iirc the latter needs an aux connection on the rear of the unit whereas the former requires a massive connection on the bottom of the unit.
Check this out: you can still buy new Sega Mega Drive consoles. These ones are a fraction of the size of the original and come with more than one built-in game. Relive those 16-bit days and dig out old Genesis cartridges from the storage box in the loft. They may need a good blow first, but it will be worth it. Megadrive …
..my MegaCD (original, not 2) and 32X - does it support these, iirc the latter needs an aux connection on the rear of the unit whereas the former requires a massive connection on the bottom of the unit.
is to find two Lethal Enforcer guns.
And a CRT Telly!
Wouldn't they only work with a CRT TV, not the modern LCD's?
I'll stick with my Mega Drive II complete with 60hz/full-screen toggle jutting out the side.
See title. Looks like an interesting piece of kit, but I still have my Mega Drive 2, 32x extension and all, so I haven't really investigated.
Why not put a HDMI connector on it? Also the MegaDrive had stereo sound! That thing only has one connector.
Because then it wouldn't cost £35.
This product is hardly aimed at hardcore gamers, hungry for the highest quality possible. As with most things from Firebox (including remote control helicopters, Y-front styled hand gloves, Universal remote controls with integrated bottle openers and Wi-Fi bathroom weighing scales), it's for very single men with far too much disposable income!
They should do a special bundle offer of one of these with 3 bottles of cheap-brand Vodka. for £49.99; I'm sure they'd go down a storm with the target market.
This will more than likely be a clone of the megadrive (it may well be 'on a chip' but it'll still be a clone) therefore it's using the original graphics chip, which will be outputting in analogue rgb / composite. To get hdmi you'd either have to re-design the graphics chip so it natively outputs digital, or sit a hdmi upscaler after the analogue graphics chip (which is what is happening in your telly). Given the idea of these things is to keep the cost down, what's the point? Either way you'll just be upscaling crap. I'm not too convinced there would be much of an advantage over using RGB scart and letting the telly do the job.
Just fail.
Why dont we all just start using tweeters as subwoofers...
This review from last year:
...claimed it had terrible sound emulation; does anyone know if this is a fixed version?
These things tend to have compatibility issues with plenty of games. For example I've yet to see one of these that can run Contra Hard Corps without all sorts of scrolling glitches. They're usually alright running the built-in games (barring the usual minor sound, colour and timing inaccuracies) but with other games it's hit or miss depending on how well they've cloned the original hardware.
Meaningless without Wonderboy 3.
Alex Kid in Miracle world!
of the other Megadrive clones out there, presumably with the same innards, have real problems with compatibility. These officially licensed? Otherwise you'd be better off on ebay or with an emulator imho.
The sound is terrible! So bad I'm scared to turn it on.
The in-built games work fine, but cartridge-based games are poorly emulated (for some reason) and you will experience regular glitches - if they load at all!
Got a similar item for Christmas, but a handheld.
Obviously can't load cartridges but has a tiny screen, and more games including Alex Kidd and Sonic 3.
You can get an original for a lot less and ebay and it will have superior graphics and sound quality. It would be worth it only if they fixed the sound and provided digital video output (HDMI).
This is a Mega Drive:
Nice hardware, but apart the videogame fetishism, what's the point of it?
You see, I have a Mega Drive emulator loaded to my Nintendo DS, and ROM's can be found on the interwebs by the bucketload. I can play virtually anything I want, wherever I want. What good an actual console would make?
I loved my MD, but the sad truth is, today it serves me better disembowed.
Bring back MD version of SS Lucifer, a superb platform puzzler by UK's Codemasters!
Best. Game. Ever.
AtGames have been selling these for months (years?). I've seen some very poor reviews with video of slow running games and jittery audio to back them up.
...Landstalker. Nothing further need be said.
Isn't it always?
There's been a few variation on the handheld Megadrive consoles - aside from the standard one which has been floating around for a year or two, there's also a version which has twenty built-in games, six buttons (i.e. perfect for later games such as SF2) and an SD card slot. Sound emulation is poor and compatibilty looks to be a bit hit-and-miss, but it's quite cheap (£38 on Ebay).
It's a shame noone seems to have figured out to hack it - it runs on a generic 32-bit SoC, so in theory, you could boot up an OS on the machine and/or emulate other systems such as the ZX Spectrum...


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The threat comes from a developer who bought a home at 1825 Santa Cruz Avenue for $1.5 million, which he plans to rebuild and sell as a Louise Street property for $5.5 million. (No other house on Santa Cruz has commanded more than $4.5 million). To do so, he intends to build a new driveway through the green space, a structure that violates the long-established tranquility of our cul-de-sac. He claims he is restoring his "historical access," but more than 60 Louise Street residents dating back to 1948 have sworn that no driveway ever existed.
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The families on Louise Street have collectively lived here for more than 300 years. The developer bought his house a year ago. A vote for abandonment will protect the green space in perpetuity. A vote against it will give the developer his driveway. This will increase his profits but destroy what we most cherish about our street. If a single developer can do that despite his neighbors' unanimous opposition, the basic fiber that binds our community together is becoming perilously fragile.
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Posted: 09 April 2009 at 11:37am
I used to do my wudu in reasonable time, but recently it is taking me much longer due to uncertainty.
It is taking me almost an hour to do wudu and a long time to just wash my feet because I am not satisfied that every inch of skin is washed thrice. Because of this, i miss some prayers and this is also the problem with ghusl (especially making sure that every single hair has been washed thrice). What can i do to reduce this time to do wudu and ghusl?
What is the minimum requirements for wudu/ghusl according to hanafi?
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According to my understanding the minimum is 1 time and maximum is 3 times (not minimum 3 times).
Moreover we should prioritize everything in our live, in the case of salat and wudhu. Salat have higher priority compare to wudhu, that's why if we have no water we can do tayamum. So you shouldn't miss salat just caused by want to perfect the wudhu.
In my understanding wudhu can be as short as 5 minutes even less.
You may want to think about this:
The perfect salat is with wudhu, ruku, bow down, clean quite place, facing qibla etc. But in a certain condition you may pray without ruku or bow down (when you not capable such as sick, on the vehicle), even you don't need to face qibla when you are in moving vehicle (bus/plane etc).
From this we understand that salat is one of the most important part on Islamic faith and should be put in the highest priority, so we have to do it no mater what, if you can do it perfectly with wudhu, clean quite place, facing qibla etc that's the best, but you can not sacrifice salat just because you are lack of the "normal" requirement. If you can not stand you can do with sit, you can sit you can do with laying down combine with hand movement, can not move your hand, use eyes movement and so on, after you can not do anything (die) then somebody will pray for you.
However even salat is one of the most important aspect, if while you are praying your house burnt, you should run right away, not wait till you finish salat, because your life and savety more important.
Again: prioritize, do the best that you can and moderation.
Edited by semar - 09 April 2009 at 3:09pm
The Prophet said: "Do not eat before you are hungry, and stop eating before you are full"
"1/3 of your stomach for food 1/3 for water, 1/3 for air"
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Originally posted by aabb
It is taking me almost an hour to do wudu and a long time to just wash my feet because
Allah bless you; you should spend one hour on prayer rather wudu.
You are under serious attack of whispering "Waswasa", just throw it boldly. Set the challange for wudu to one minute; and do it; without worrying that it is accpted or not. Only way out, i guess.
Shatan also wants you to waste alot water also , probably definately you wash more than three.
Why do you need to wash your limbs more than thrice? If you wash more than thrice because of doubt, this is satanic misgivings through which Shaytaan tries to frustrate you. Do not wash more than thrice. After a few days, these satanic misgivings will vanish. If you are washing more than thrice merely for extra purity, this is a waste of water.
Whatever the case may be, washing more than thrice does not invalidate the wudhu.
And Allah knows best
Mufti M. Kadwa
To encourge your speed; see below answers regarding importance of Takbir-Oola and Rakkat.
1)- If there is certainty that the salaah with congregation will be missed , then in this case it will be permissible to perform a minimal wudhu to ensure that salaah with congregation is attained .
لو خاف انّه لو صلى سنة الفجر بوجهها تفوته الجماعة و لو اقتصر فيها بالفاتحة و تسبحة فى الركوع و السجود يدركها فله ان يقتصر عليها لانّ ترك السنة جائز لادراك الجماعة
Radul Muhtaar Pg 58 Vol 2 [ H M Saeed]
2)- If it is certain that salaah with congregation will not be missed then a further three situations arise:-
a) If by making a complete wudhu Takbir-Oola is missed but the first rakaah is attained , then in this case a complete wudhu should be performed .
ان ظنّ انّه تفوته التكبيرة الاولى فالتثليث افضل . و اذا فاتته التبيرة الاولى فقط , لم تفته الصلاة بالجماعة اجماعا , حتى لو كان يدرك الامام راكعا , و يحصل معه الركوع حيث لا تفوته الركعة فاتيانه يسنّة التثليث افضل من ادراكه اوّل الركعة , لانّ ادراك التكبيرة مع الامام فضيلة لا سنّة
Nihaayatul Muraad Allama an-Naablusee Pg 114 [ Darul Beiruti]
b) If one commences wudhu at such a time wherein , if the complete wudhu is performed , the first rakaah of the salaah will be missed , however if a minimal wudhu is performed the first rakaah of salaah will be attained , then in this case it is preferable to perform a minimal wudhu and attain the first rakaah.
ان ظنّ انّه ان ثلث الوضوء تفوته ركعة من الصلاة مع الجماعة يترك التثليث
Nihaayatul Muraad Pg 114
c) If wudhu is commenced at such a time wherein the first rakaah has already finished and if a complete wudhu is performed there is relative surety that salaah with the congregation will be attained , even if it is the last rakaah , then in this case it would be preferable to perform the complete wudhu.
انّ من ادرك ركعة من الظهر مثلا فقد ادرك فضل الجماعة و احرز ثوابها و كذا لو ادرك التشهد يكون مدركا لفضيلتها على قولهم لانّ المدار هنا على ادراك فضل الجماعة و قد اتّفقو على ادراكه بادراك التشهد فيأتى بالسنّة اتّفاقا
Radul Muhtaar Pg 56 Vol 3 [HM Saeed]
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Assalamu Alaykum,
does profanity break wudhu??
Edited by Young-Muslim - 15 June 2009 at 1:56pm
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Originally posted by Young-Muslim
Assalamu Alaykum,
does profanity break wudhu??
Profanity is bad. But it doesn't break your wudhu, it doesn't break your fast too.
The hadith already covered what the things break wudhu such as having gas, pee-ing, poo-ing, having sex, sleeping etc, we don't need to add anything.
Edited by semar - 05 March 2011 at 11:59pm
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Mashallah thats good news, thank you semar
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peace!i've posted a reply elsewhere on trusting in allah at times of doubt in ones faith and he would send you signs to reaffirm our faith. well the proof is in the pudding. and a sign has been given. this post. coming from the past as a reaffermation. i myself have been asking the same questions {even today} as been asked here { concerning wudu }. allah be praised for the enlightenment on this subject in such a timely way! leland
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It shouldn't take an hour to perform your wudu, even performing it sunnah and being careful to cover everything. For starters, washing for an hour- as one brother mentioned- uses a lot of water (not good) and takes up a lot of time that could be better spent in prayer or doing good works.
And think of it this way as well- wudu is not meant, in a practical sense, to be a detailed disinfection of your body. It is meant to get you clean to a degree and and in a state of mind conducive to concentrating on your prayers. If you want (or need) a serious washing, just do ghusl and be done with it- with that you'll have no question about everything being clean, and you'll get it done in far less than an hour!
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KRASSNER: In your capacity as Tea Party protector, you must be aware of the blatant disconnect between its plea for small government and its desire for social issues to be controlled by the government.
BREITBART: I don't know what you're talking about.
KRASSNER: I'll give you a few examples related to my own experience. One would be abortion rights. During the 1960s, when abortion was still illegal, if a woman was a victim of botched back-alley surgery and went to a hospital, they were required to call the police, who would not allow a doctor to give her a painkiller before interrogating her. I ran a free underground abortion-referral service and was subpoenaed by district attorneys in two cities, but I refused to testify. Two, marijuana decriminalization. My position is that as long as any government can arbitrarily decide which drugs are legal and which are illegal, then anyone behind bars for a nonviolent drug offense is a political prisoner. I started smoking pot in 1965, and I still do, only now it's medical. And three, gay rights, from "don't ask, don't tell" to same-sex marriage, which is not the slightest threat to heterosexual marriage. I mean, take Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, John Edwards, David Vitter—please! In 1979 I covered the trial of Dan White for The San Francisco Bay Guardian. He had killed progressive mayor George Moscone and openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk.
BREITBART: Dan White was a Democrat, and Harvey Milk was a libertarian.
KRASSNER: I'll put those labels aside, though. When White was sentenced to only seven years for a double political assassination, I got caught in the middle of a postverdict riot at city hall. I was beaten by two cops shouting homophobic epithets—it made no difference to them that I was straight—and as a result I now have to walk with a cane. Anyway, how do you react to the conservative movement's inconsistency about less government in their lives?
BREITBART: I don't know what evidence you're offering that the Tea Party is focusing on any of those issues. The Tea Party is a bizarre amalgam of independents, conservatives and libertarians who have surgically excised the social issues from the table, and the people in those crowds have diverse opinions on all the things you mentioned. I happen to be pro-marijuana, certainly marijuana decriminalization, but I'm not asserting myself and my social views in this current environment. If you can't see and if the media don't want to see that the Tea Party is about financial restraint and has nothing to do with social issues—nothing, nothing, nothing—to the consternation of the social conservatives. I've had rifts and schisms with social conservatives over my stances on these issues. They can call me a libertarian if they want. I don't care what labels they call me. But the Tea Party is abused by the mainstream media, which misinform the public of what their rights are. Their rights are specific to the expansion of government and the inability to rein in budgets. And by spending money on things that don't work, we're putting our children in economic peril, period. It has nothing to do with marijuana, it has nothing to do with abortion, it has nothing to do with gay marriage. There are gay people in the Tea Party. There are people of all different social stripes within the Tea Party who have a singular focus on restraining government debt and applying constitutional principles.
KRASSNER: When Who's Who in America invited me to fill out a form for inclusion in the book, where it asked for my political affiliation I wrote "Independent Dupe," and that's how it has me listed. It's interesting to see how in America the free-enterprise system has become intertwined with democracy, and in the process socialism has become a dirty word.
BREITBART: It is a dirty word.
KRASSNER: It's revealing that Norman Thomas ran for president six times as the Socialist Party candidate, and though he was defeated in each election, over the past several decades every one of his platform planks has been adopted by both Republican and Democratic administrations. The laws they passed just weren't labeled socialist. Now, I have no economic ideology, but I realize there is something wrong with capitalism. I realized it as I read the business section all those years before the recession was officially declared. I noticed day after day these news items about hundreds of employees being let go by different corporations, and yet their shareholders were pleased because the value of their stocks went up. There's something wrong with that. In the insurance industry especially, greed became a preexisting condition.
BREITBART: Well, I think I lean more toward being an independent conservative, in that I see problems with the Republican Party, with its lack of consistency in its point of view and its unwillingness to fight for conservative principles. I controversially support people like Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Allen West and Rick Perry, people who are either sort of in the Tea Party sphere or in the more independent sphere of the conservative movement, who feel less represented by the Republican Party. I've come to appreciate the emancipation of that independence. If anybody came to me with a scandal that involved blatant wrongdoing by a Republican, I would be blissful to report it. But when the mainstream media are so naturally left of center, people can go to ABC, CBS and NBC with those types of stories and they will get maximum coverage. So people end up coming to me only when they have stories that perhaps hurt liberals or Democrats, because they know that if they go to ABC, CBS or NBC the door will be closed on them. I wouldn't recommend that a person who knows of a scandal involving a Republican come to me, because they can simply go to The New York Times and it will be exposed. But somebody should test me, because I would be happy to report on corruption within the Republican Party. I would like to think that my team, the people I relate to ideologically, hold themselves to a higher standard.
KRASSNER: Do you mean that if somebody sent you photos of Rick Perry that were like the Anthony Weiner photos, you would publish them?
BREITBART: No doubt. Would I have the same level of enthusiasm? No, because I expected nothing from Anthony Weiner, and I respect Governor Perry. But he has further to fall. It would be more disappointing and more worthy of exposure, because he's supposed to represent a higher standard.
KRASSNER: I want to get to the topic of religion. As an atheist and an absurdist, the most absurd thing I could do is to develop an ongoing relationship with a deity I don't believe exists. So as a stand-up comic, before a performance I would say, "Please, God, help me do a good show," and then I would hear the voice of God bellow, "Shut up, you superstitious fool." Actually, I stopped being a militant atheist in the 1960s when I realized that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Christian whose actions I admired, whereas George Lincoln Rockwell, the head of the American Nazi Party, was an agnostic whose actions I disdained. So I no longer care what anybody believes instead of what they do, whether they're kind or cruel to others. I call myself a secular humanist, and you call yourself a secular Jew. I'm curious as to how that informs your views on controversies from circumcision to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For example, as a baby I was circumcised against my will, and now, when San Francisco considers outlawing circumcision, I'm torn between——
BREITBART: Torn between?
KRASSNER: Yeah, that's a poor verb. I'm trapped between——
BREITBART: Ripped apart.
KRASSNER: Yeah, that'll do it. I'm ripped apart between freedom of religion and genital mutilation as a form of child abuse. As for the Middle East, I said to God, "You're supposed to be all-knowing, and so you knew in advance that designating Palestine as the promised land for Jews would have devastating consequences." And I heard the voice of God boom out, "I never promised land to the Jewish people; I only said, 'I'll see what I can do.' " But getting back to what being a secular Jew means to you——
BREITBART: Well, first of all, from first-hand experience, I love my perfectly crafted bell end. [laughs] I think penile sculpture as religion is above my pay grade. I wouldn't equate it with clitorectomies and the depravities you see in Islamic culture and what they do to women for punitive purposes. Given the fact that I have a circumcised penis, it's too damn sensitive, quite frankly.
KRASSNER: I thought it takes away from sensitivity.
BREITBART: Well, if it does, I'm still too sensitive. I may need a shot or an extra cut. Here's how I look at it. I used to be an atheist, and I became an agnostic, and now I exist in a place where I say I bat third on the Judeo-Christian softball team. I've had too many things happen in my life that, as my father-in-law, Orson Bean, says, there's no such thing as coincidences. I'm starting to doubt my doubts. But I would still say I'm an agnostic who, when watching the debate between Dinesh D'Souza and Christopher Hitchens, I'm usually laughing and slapping my knee with Hitchens but rooting for D'Souza. I'm desirous of moving toward the Judeo-Christian side. In the past I took solace in my agnosticism. One reason is that, during my agnostic years—I call them my nihilistic years—during which I lived in a world of moral relativism and not believing in objective truths, I didn't sleep well at night. I was living in a world of moral chaos. The more I started to listen to people like Dennis Prager and rational people who were religious—not fly-by-nights like Tammy Faye Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart and Benny Hinn. When you get past the hucksters and get to people like David Mamet, who now speaks of Judeo-Christianity, and Dennis Prager, it makes a hell of a lot more sense than the nihilism I embraced. I now find myself fighting alongside many Christians and Jews who believe Judeo-Christianity is the backbone of American culture. Until somebody gives me a better replacement than Judeo-Christianity, I'm not going to be part of the team that's trying to tear down that pillar and replace it with nihilism and cultural and moral relativism.
KRASSNER: I know you feel strongly about people succumbing to political correctness. As a performer I'm a living paradox. Irreverence is my only sacred cow, yet I try not to let victims become the target of my humor. There was one specific routine I stopped using in 1970. It called for a "rape-in" of legislators' wives—most legislators then were men—in order to impregnate them so they would then convince their husbands to decriminalize abortion. My feminist friends objected. I resisted at first because it was such a well-intentioned joke, but I reconsidered. Even in a joke, why should women be assaulted because men make the laws? Legislators' wives were the victims in that joke, but the legislators themselves and their laws should have been the target. For me to stop doing that bit of comedy wasn't censorship, it was conscious evolution. It wasn't political correctness, it was simple respect. However, in 1982 the Radical Humor Festival at New York University sponsored an evening of radical comedy. The next day my performance was analyzed by an unofficial women's caucus. Robin Tyler, who said, "I am not a lesbian comic; I am a comic who is a lesbian," served as the spokesperson for their conclusions. What had caused a stir was my reference to the use of turkey basters by single mothers-to-be who were attempting to impregnate themselves by artificial insemination. Tyler explained to me, "You have to understand some women still have a hang-up about penetration." But freedom of absurdity transcends gender difference. "Yeah," I said, "but you have to understand some men still feel threatened by turkey basters."
BREITBART: First of all, there's a difference between political correctness and human kindness. I have a specific definition of what political correctness is, and you sort of touched on it by the reference to a lesbian comedian having to differentiate her cultural identity: "I'm a comic who happens to be a lesbian." That's the problem: Cultural Marxism is political correctness, and political correctness is the translation of Marxist economic theories from the battle between the haves and the have-nots into the battle of the oppressor versus the oppressed. And so, given the oppressor-oppressed model, the oppressed get to maintain a permanent place of judgment against the oppressors, and blacks get to judge whites and say, "You're not allowed to say that," but whites aren't allowed to say to blacks, "Chris Rock, you're not allowed to make that joke at the expense of white people, because you're the oppressor. It's okay for us to make fun of you." This double standard has created a huge quandary in our country—that somehow there's a type of affirmative action whereby one group is allowed to castigate, excoriate, demean and defile the other as some form of cultural reparations. All it does in my mind is exacerbate the underlying social rifts, and I reject it wholly. I love Chris Rock, I love Sarah Silverman, but I also think Sam Kinison and Andrew Dice Clay should be afforded the same rule book. I remember watching back in the late 1980s when political correctness started to take over the comedy world, and the Sam Kinisons and Andrew Dice Clays were marginalized and excoriated for their routines, and today Sarah Silverman and Chris Rock get away with much harsher cultural criticism. I want to exist in a world where comedy functions as an exhaust system so that all members of our society can go into that comedy room, into the Improv, and let it all hang out. When Tracy Morgan is forced to go to a reeducation camp because he's offended gay sensibilities, I don't think it does anyone in the gay community any favors that they show they don't have the ability to laugh at themselves. I love Caucasian jokes, I love Jew jokes. All I can say is, I like equal opportunity offenders. It is not political correctness to be outraged when somebody goes after Trig Palin because he's mentally challenged. That's just pure crudeness and beyond inappropriate. I guess it's sort of like the Supreme Court definition of obscenity—you know offense when you see it, and there is a difference between political correctness and saying something that's just beyond the realm of propriety.
KRASSNER: Wouldn't you apply that standard to Rush Limbaugh when he made fun of Michael J. Fox?
BREITBART: No, I wouldn't. Rush was making a political point.
KRASSNER: Which was?
BREITBART: From what I recall, and I think it was proved to be true, he chose not to take the medicines that calm his symptoms of Parkinson's so that when he did his ad, he was shaking more than he ordinarily would in order to rev up the volume of the issue, to pour oil on the fire over the issue of stem cells—to create the perception that if you are for stem cell research, you're for stopping this shaking. That was my perception of it. Accusing Hollywood and liberals of using emotionalism to push an intellectual argument is incredibly fair game.
KRASSNER: I understand that the epiphany that caused you to make a political right turn occurred while you were watching the hearings about Clarence Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court. You were genuinely convinced that the treatment of him was racist. I thought he was lying when he testified under oath that he had never discussed the subject of abortion, because in response to a question by Senator Hank Brown, Anita Hill testified that she had disagreed with Thomas in a discussion about Roe v. Wade. But then-senator Joe Biden quickly interrupted her, saying, "That is not the subject of these hearings."
BREITBART: I was upset because it was clear the left and the Democrat media complex—that's my description for the natural alliance of the Democratic Party, liberal interest groups and the mainstream media—chose to put on a show trial by accusing Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment and then had absolutely nothing to back it up. The pretense of this show trial was clearly abortion rights, but they were willing to embarrass him as much as possible, and the mainstream media allowed this to go on without challenge. He's sitting there and they're asking him whether or not he's rented pornography starring Long Dong Silver, and the point is? The point is, I guess, to make this conservative look like he's a hypocrite because he enjoys sex. But if the whole point of Roe v. Wade is a right to privacy, these people invaded his privacy and publicly embarrassed him by flaunting what they found out about his private life. I found it to be utterly hypocritical. To watch cads and manslaughter and human sexual harassment machinery like Ted Kennedy sitting in judgment of him was beyond the pale. And one year later, to watch the same crowd that had i believe anita bumper stickers, that had said the threshold for sexual harassment is so low that if you mention you see a pubic hair on a Coke can it's sexual harassment—for those same people, the same Democratic Party, the same Democrat media complex to anoint Bill Clinton as their standard-bearer, I couldn't take the hypocrisy. I was writhing in pain. It didn't mean I immediately went to the supermarket and signed up to become a Republican. I just started to challenge the media narrative that was being handed to me, because I saw how disingenuous that complex was.
KRASSNER: As a Supreme Court Justice, Thomas has declared that the Constitution gives states a right to establish an official religion, that prisoners have no constitutional right to be protected from beatings by guards, that a school official is allowed to strip-search a 13-year-old girl to look for two extra-strength ibuprofen pills, that a key part of the Voting Rights Act giving blacks political power in the South should be struck down, that an American citizen could be held as an enemy combatant with no charges and no hearing. He announced a decision that threw out a verdict in favor of a black man who had been convicted of murder and nearly executed because prosecutors hid evidence that could have proved his innocence.
BREITBART: I don't know the answers to these things. If you had given me this detailed information, I could have come back with my detailed response. This is like the Sarah Palin "gotcha" question on Paul Revere. I'm not able to answer this because you are coming to me armed with data, and I don't have the ability to see whether there is a rational argument to defend it or not.
KRASSNER: Well, it's all a matter of record. Recently a campaign-finance watchdog, Protect Our Elections, asked the FBI to investigate Clarence Thomas and his wife, Virginia, seeking his disbarment. It alleges that he falsified his financial disclosure forms, that he engaged in judicial corruption by receiving $100,000 from Citizens United during his nomination and then in 2010 ruled in favor of Citizens United without disclosing that fact or disqualifying himself, and that he engaged in judicial insider trading to enrich his wife by providing her with information about that decision prior to its issuance, which she then used to launch a new company to take advantage of that decision.
BREITBART: Do you believe in innocent until proven guilty?
KRASSNER: Do I believe in that? Yes. [chuckles] Okay, you know that Eliot Spitzer was nailed for spritzing around with a call girl in the same Washington, D.C. hotel room where he had just written an opinion piece for The Washington Post about the subprime loan disaster. He wrote, "Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which the federal government was turning a blind eye…. When history tells the story of the subprime lending crisis and recounts its devastating effects on the lives of so many innocent homeowners, the Bush administration will not be judged favorably." In fact, the reason Spitzer had flown to Washington was to launch a campaign to attack the Bush cabal and the arrogant corporations that empower them. There was speculation that this was the real motivation for Spitzer's arrest. And then blogger Joy Reid wrote a few months ago that Clarence Thomas "has never been held to account by the Justice Department, Congress or the media for 20 years of false financial-disclosure forms related to his wife's six-figure salary from a Tea Party organization dedicated to undoing health care reform, an issue Thomas will almost certainly be called upon to rule on…. But what's interesting about the media's latest obsession [Anthony Weiner] is Breitbart's timing. This is a guy who understands news cycles and how to manipulate them, hence his veritable role as CNN's assignment editor, replacing Matt Drudge. Did the timing of the [Anthony Weiner] 'scandal pic' release have something to do with Breitbart's obsession with protecting Clarence Thomas?"
BREITBART: Who is alleging that I timed Congressman Weiner's publicly tweeting his junk? He is the one who instigated it by his behavior on Friday night, May 27. It's such an illogical question that it speaks to a fevered conspiratorial mind-set that I think dominates the left. Nobody, including Weiner, contests that he tweeted that thing on Friday night. How could I have preordained or have had preknowledge that that would occur? It goes beyond being illogical; it's wishful thinking.
KRASSNER: But you have to admit it was great timing.
BREITBART: Did it time with Congressman Weiner attacking Clarence Thomas? Yes, it did. That would be called a coincidence, and there's no logical or metaphysical way to make the argument that I was able to convince him to mis-tweet a picture of his erect penis to a woman in Seattle with whom he'd had online communications.
KRASSNER: Since you pressured Anthony Weiner into publicly apologizing to you for pretending you'd hacked his Twitter site, I would think that, conversely, you owe an apology to Shirley Sherrod. You publicized, out of context, a two-and-a-half-minute clip of her talk before the NAACP in which she told about the time 24 years ago when she didn���t help a farmer as much as she could have because he was white, which resulted in a scared administration hurriedly forcing her to resign as the Georgia director of rural development. But you insist that she wasn't your target, that the NAACP was, for applauding what she'd said. Well, I've watched the entire 43-minute speech, and they did not applaud.
BREITBART: They nodded and they murmured.
KRASSNER: They nodded and they murmured?
BREITBART: Yes. Look, if you heard somebody give that speech to a white audience, talking about how they'd stuck it to a black farmer, and the audience was going along with it and audibly applauding—and by applauding I mean affirming the narrative. When she was talking about how "I took him to one of his own" and "I didn't give him the full force of what I could do," they were like, "Uh-huh," just like it was church. They were nodding in agreement. The whole point of this was, the week before, Ben Jealous of the NAACP was going on ABC, CBS and NBC to defame and defile the Tea Party, claiming it was racist based on the false narrative that the N-word had been hurled at congressmen André Carson and John Lewis. And I had proof, not just through the $100,000 reward that went unmet. Nobody came to me with any evidence that it had been said once, in a group of 400 people. There was no audio or video that showed it had happened even once, let alone 15 times. I was also able to produce four videos from the exact moment the incident allegedly occurred, and they prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the incident didn't happen, that it was made up. Yet Ben Jealous of the NAACP resurrected that falsehood as a means to propagandize against the Tea Party, to politically destroy it, to try to make it appear to be racist when it is not racist. So the Thursday before the Monday when the two videos and the 1,400-word article came out, I said, "Ben Jealous, you can go to hell. You're trying to split this country on the schism of race. How dare you?" I said, "I have evidence that shows your group acting in a racist manner." And I stand by that. If the NAACP gets to go on ABC, CBS and NBC and falsely claim that the Tea Party is racist but doesn't have any audio or video evidence and is able to propagate a provable falsehood, I said, "Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones." So when you have a video of an NAACP-sanctioned event at which Shirley Sherrod is getting nods and then murmurs of approval, it is far greater evidence of the NAACP acting racist than anything the left and the NAACP have been able to collect of the Tea Party behaving racist. And my point stands—those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
KRASSNER: But getting back to Sherrod's speech, after making her point that it wasn't about black and white, it was about haves and have-nots, that she had overcome her own racial prejudice stemming from the fact that when she was 17 her father had been killed by a white man, later in the video she says, "What we have to do is get that out of our heads. There is no difference between us. The only difference is that the folks with money want to stay in power, and…whatever it is, they'll do what they need to do to keep that power." And that's when they did applaud.
BREITBART: But they had reacted in a positive fashion that caused the NAACP to acknowledge it and say it was going to investigate the audience's behavior at the point in the actual speech that I had pointed out. On day one, Sherrod blamed the NAACP. She said it had gotten into a battle with the Tea Party, and the NAACP said it was going to investigate the audience for its behavior. I had hit the target perfectly and shut up the NAACP. It could no longer go on ABC, CBS or NBC, because it had been exposed. But when Sherrod said to the administration, "But I helped the white farmer," they still stood by the firing. If that is such an important crux, that she was allegedly fired because she discriminated against a white farmer, why is it that they stood by the firing even after she said she'd helped the white farmer? The two-and-a-half-minute video includes the redemptive part of the narrative. Who is my number one defender on that, not once but twice? Chris Matthews on MSNBC, a guy who does not agree with me on anything, said to Joan Walsh and Howard Dean, "I've looked at the video. Breitbart included the part where she talks about 'It's not about black versus white, it's about rich versus poor.' " In addition, my 1,400-word piece, which everybody ignored, mentions the NAACP 17 times and Sherrod four times. It says, "Eventually her basic humanity informs her to help the white farmer." The redemptive part that you just talked about is included in the video. Chris Matthews defends me on that critical point.
KRASSNER: Just to balance Chris Matthews, ironically Glenn Beck discredited you on Fox News and said you needed to apologize. You responded, and this is the quote: "Next thing I know, I'm under complete attack without the support of Glenn Beck, who I thought was somebody I could count on. He threw me under the bus." And it wasn't the Merry Pranksters' bus. Maybe Beck should apologize to you.
BREITBART: I agree with that. I was able to find out why Beck threw me under the bus. He had used so much of my content to build up his name, and why was he throwing me under the bus? Well, it's pretty interesting, because the president's team fired Sherrod too quickly, without due process, because they were fearful it was going to be on the Glenn Beck show. So when Beck went on TV to talk about it for the first time, he took the stance "I didn't touch this because I knew there was something wrong with the video. I saw the video in my office, and I knew something critical was missing, so I didn't go with it." Well, wondering why he would state that given what Chris Matthews had to say on the issue, we found out later that he didn't do it on the TV show, but he did do it earlier in the morning on his radio show, before more information started to come out that granted greater context. He was the one who cut the two-and-a-half-minute video into 15-second clips that isolated and eviscerated Sherrod and removed the NAACP angle entirely. So he screwed the pooch on his radio show, then found out that she had been fired based on the administration's fear that it would be on the Glenn Beck show, so he went on his TV show and pretended he had not touched it on his radio show. He was doing damage control for Glenn Beck's brand, period.
KRASSNER: I've said that "truth is perceived through the filter of an agenda," and you've said that "truth has no agenda." I'd like to apply our slogans to the ACORN scandal that you produced, which, because it was believed, resulted in Congress defunding the agency. But a Congressional Research Service report commissioned by the House Judiciary Committee says that ACORN didn't violate any federal regulations in the past five years, that there were no instances of individuals who had been improperly registered to vote by ACORN employees, that the undercover video makers who allegedly caught ACORN employees breaking the law may themselves have violated state law in their filming operation. The Brooklyn district attorney, Charles Hynes, announced that his office had found no criminal wrongdoing by ACORN. Another law enforcement source said that James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles had edited the tape to meet their agenda. Former Massachusetts attorney general Scott Harshbarger's report states, "The videos that have been released appear to have been edited, in some cases substantially, including the insertion of a substitute voice-over for significant portions of Mr. O'Keefe's and Ms. Giles's comments, which makes it difficult to determine the questions to which ACORN employees are responding. A comparison of publicly available transcripts to the released videos confirms that large portions of the original video have been omitted from the released versions." And California's then attorney general, Jerry Brown, said, "The evidence illustrates that things are not always as partisan zealots portray them through highly selective editing of reality. Sometimes a fuller truth is found on the cutting-room floor." O'Keefe admitted he was out to make a point and to damage ACORN. In the sensational San Diego video that featured Giles discussing prostitution by underage girls 13 to 15, human trafficking from Mexico and cheating on taxes in the U.S., the ACORN worker acted as if he would help them. But when they left, he immediately called the police with the misinformation he had solicited from this couple of propagandists. And so the question is, did you ever share the fact that he called the police with your readers?
BREITBART: There's so much propaganda in that collection of data that I don't even know where to begin, but I'll start at the beginning. When Hannah and James came to me with their edited video—which is what all news services do; they take raw footage and create a narrative that allows the story to be told so one doesn't have to watch hours and hours of footage—I said, "Even though ABC, CBS and NBC truncate time and selectively edit video and we just trust implicitly that they're telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth and not manipulating the narrative, you're going to be held to a higher standard, not just by the public but by the mainstream media, which is going to challenge you by virtue of your avowed conservative politics." So when they came to me with those videos, I said, "If I'm going to help you get this story out, I'm going to ask that we simultaneously release the full transcripts and the full audio so nobody will be able to claim that words were put into these people's mouths and that the context of your edited videos makes it perfectly clear that you did not manipulate the situation." For you to cite Scott Harshbarger as a resource when John Podesta and Andy Stern of SEIU were the ones who hired Harshbarger to allegedly investigate ACORN's behavior on the case.… I said immediately, "You're going to tell me that John Podesta's going to investigate ACORN? They're going to investigate James, Hannah and me and come up with an 'independent investigation' to place us on the defensive." And that's precisely what they did by looking at the selectively edited videos. And to come up with sound bites such as "selectively edited" doesn't mean anything, because we provided the full content for everyone to see from day one. Congress voted to defund ACORN because those who looked at the full tapes and the full transcripts saw there was no explanation other than absolute insanity that so many people in so many offices would offer service with a smile when a pimp and a prostitute walked through the door stating that they wanted to create an underage-sex-slave operation. Political hacks like Scott Harshbarger and Jerry Brown are apparatchiks whose careers are dependent on organizations like ACORN. I would think that your skepticism of government and government officials would cause you to go, "Wait a second. Let's look at the full tapes." I have said to Harshbarger, Brown, Podesta, Stern and Media Matters, "Let's sit down once and for all and watch, in front of an auditorium of people, for all the world to see—we'll film it—the full, unedited videos. And at the very end, you're going to tell me that the selective editing changed anything?" It's laughable garbage, and I am willing to put my name and my reputation on all of those ACORN videos.
KRASSNER: Okay, Andrew, thanks very much for this.
BREITBART: I thought it would be funnier.


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Mariah Carey is currently sporting a "very fashionable" sling after suffering a fall on the set of her new music video this past Sunday (July 7). The on-set mishap sent her to the hospital for a dislocated shoulder.
Two days after the accident, which occurred during the video shoot for the "#Beautiful" remix, Carey tweeted out a light-hearted photo of herself in the hospital to let fans know that she was recovering just fine.
dislocated my shoulder on the remix video with Jeezy, sporting a very fashionable sling for the next couple of weeks! http://t.co/TWrQttimTU—
Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) July 09, 2013
Her husband Nick Cannon, who directed the shoot, appeared on the Today Show to give a few more details about the extent of her injuries.
"It was pretty serious," he said. "Not only did she dislocate her shoulder, she actually cracked a rib and … she chipped her shoulder bone."
Cannon added that the accident was a result of an on-set slip, explaining that Mariah was wearing a "nice, beautiful gown, heels on and everything, and was kind of on this platform and reached and slipped and fell on her whole side."
Despite the injury, Carey will still perform with the New York Philharmonic this Saturday (July 13) on Central Park's Great Lawn for the 2013 MLB All-Star Charity concert. The show will benefit those affected by Hurricane Sandy.
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BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC, a subsidiary of BellSouth Corporation now owned by AT&T, will pay $120,000 to two former employees to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2010.
The EEOC charged that two of BellSouth's female employees were sexually harassed by the male manager of the Kennesaw, Ga., call center where they were employed. Immediately upon the manager's arrival at the call center, he began making inappropriate sexual comments in sales meetings. Specifically, in his very first meeting with his sales managers he made sexually inappropriate statements and panto¬mimed engaging in sexual intercourse on the floor of the conference room.
The manager called one woman a "b—h" during a telephone conference with one of his managers, the EEOC said. He routinely and continually talked about sex and asking out women as analogies when giving speeches in sales meetings, and would make sexual comments about the women's attire. The manager would also hug the women unwantedly when greeting them and move his hand down their backs toward their posteriors when he did so.
When the two employees com¬plained, the EEOC said, BellSouth retaliated against them by denying them promotions and demoting them. All this alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employers from subjecting employees to discrim¬ination on the basis of sex and from retaliating against employees who complain about such discrimination. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
The consent decree settling the suit, in addition to the monetary relief, includes provisions for equal employment opportunity training and reporting and posting of anti-discrimination notices. In the lawsuit and consent decree, BellSouth denied any liability or wrongdoing.
"The Commission is pleased that BellSouth agreed to resolve this matter and to take the necessary steps to ensure compliance with the law," said Robert Dawkins, regional attorney for the EEOC's Atlanta District Office. "This is a further reminder that employers must protect their workers from harassment and not punish them when they complain."
BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC is an operating company belonging to Atlanta-based BellSouth Corporation, which in turn is owned by AT&T. BellSouth Telecommunications provides telephone, Internet and related services in the Southeastern United States.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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I've read all your stories and this one is the best. Well done!
Author's Response: Thank you!!
I freaking cried at the end. I couldn't help it. Damn
Author's Response: You're certainly not the only one who had that reaction. I'm flattered that my story affected you so deeply. Thank you for reading it!!
This ending, totally almost cried haha. Love your writings!!!
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Amazing. So, so good. I cried.
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omg i love all your stories from the resilient to the reminder.....but this one really takes the first prize!it's really heart rending and sad (i am a huge fan of sad fanfics!)really nice job btw!!!
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its totally awesome... made me cry towards the end... lovely....
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You still amaze me, brilliant as always. Keep up with that...:)
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this beautifully crafted tale brought tears to my eyes! is simply adore your Draco/Hermione shippings!
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Wow - that was brilliant! Hermione standing up to Kingsley (who I never thought I'd dislike) was very well done. I was almost cheering her on as I read it! The whole scene where she was reunited with Draco and her son was perfectly executed: you managed to write it with such raw emotions and very well paced. I can't fault it! Please write something else soon :)
Author's Response: I absolutely *adore* Kingsley, so it was a bit of a thrill to write him in a way that was intentionally hateful. I'm glad you liked their reunion. I worked really hard on that part and I'm glad it paid off! Thank you so much for reading and reviewing!!
:D I'm skipping! I'm laughing! Finally! You know, you're a miracle worker. You make people FEEL. Like literally FEEL. I've been numb these past few months because of a shitty breakup, and finally, reading this, I feel whole again. :') I really don't know how to thank you.
Author's Response: This review, quite honestly, is more than enough thanks - I'm tearing up! I'm very sorry about your break up (:hugs!:), but I'm glad that I could be part of your healing process, if even in a small way. Thank you so, so much for being such a dedicated reader and reviewer!
The End? I want more :(
Anyway, this story was just awesome! I really hope more dramione fics in the future, you're brilliant!
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AWESOME as per usual!!! Love it :)
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Your writing style is literally amazing. This story was adorable and I enjoyed it immensely! Thank you for writing such amazing stories! I will continue to be an avid reader of yours!
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Wow! I was so completely immersed in this story! The pacing was perfect and the characters believable. This is one of the best stories I have read in a long time.
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This story... wow. This story is simply beautiful. The writing... my God, the writing is captivating and spectacular; the characterization is phenomenal, and this story is simply amazing. I cannot wait for the rest.
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Amazing story! Make me tear up, you write so wonderfully, keep it up :)
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Finally another fic from you. =)
Once again, you've captured my interest in a mere two chapters and I'll forver be waiting for updates!
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I'm really excited for the rest of this story! I do wish you would've explained more how Hermione fell in love with Draco. You explained Draco's story extremely well, I just wish we knew more of a back story for Hermione. The story is really good so far and I can't wait for the rest!
Author's Response: Though it was tempting to include some of Hermione's perspective - how she fell in love with Draco, how her friends handled it - I felt like Draco's story was more interesting and added more to the story I wanted to tell. Thank you so much for reading!!
Hurry home, Hermione!!!! : )
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*mouth drops to floor in aw* Wow. Just, wow. I mean, it was so well written!! UPDATE.
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Del Harris once quit on Don Nelson in the middle of a Mavericks game. Or it might have been Nellie firing his top assistant.
Depends on who's telling the story. The details tend to get fuzzy over time and it has been four years since the high drama occurred during a visit to Golden State.
Either way, it's the kind of episode one might expect from a pair of close friends who also have strong opinions about the game of basketball. Both laugh about the incident now, but Harris actually left the locker room at halftime conceivably without a job.
Who played peacemaker? Mark Cuban. Yeah, really.
Cuban had no intention of letting Harris go then and he feels the same way today. Harris has moved on to the next stage of his professional career by accepting the owner's offer of a lifetime contract as a team consultant.
"I'm really thankful to Mark, and it's quite a thing when you say in terms "lifetime," but being the smart businessman he is, he knows there's not many years left," joked Harris, who turns 70 next month. "Not many owners do something like that, and you've got to love him for it."
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