text: HKSS.com | Community > Discussion Forum > View topic - Car Accident on 405 S freeway in California Home Community Superstars Music | What's New | Help HKSS | Search* Discussions | HKE Chat | Reflections of Life | Virtual Cards | Member Galleries Please excuse our mess. HKSS is currently under re-construction and some links/sections don't work yet. What's New: Latest updates | Member Galleries | Music | HKE Chat | About HKSS.com Community Discussions HKE Chat Reflections of Life Member Galleries Virtual Cards* Play Music Superstars Profiles* Galleries* Reviews Gossip & News Other Privacy Policy Terms of Use Link to HKSS* HKSS.com What's New About Contact* Advertise* Help HKSS Links YesAsia yuenStudios Do you like HKSS? My Watched Topics | My Favorites | My Profile Private IMs Register Log in Help | Stats | Members | Groups Search Forum Car Accident on 405 S freeway in California HKSS.com Forum Index -> Gossip and News View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Mikey_Life is good. Be inspired.Joined: 04 Oct 2003Posts: 1322Location: Fountain Valley, California (USA) Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:43 am Post subject: Car Accident on 405 S freeway in California A woman and a man were in the back seat of a Hummer when they got into an argument. Suddenly, the woman jumped out at 70mph only to be struck by the cars driving behind her. Imagine how the guy driving behind them must have felt seeing someone suddenly jump out and then hit her. This happened earlier today at around 5am or so according to the radio. All major freeways were backed up as people went from the 405S to the 22E to the 5S. The slowdown on the 5S caused a major traffic for the 57, 60, and 91. Ouch. Good thing I know of another way to get to work -- arrived only 30 minutes late vs. 1.5 hours (if I were to have continued on the 5) Michael Back to top mb_rockstarSpecial GuestJoined: 08 Oct 2003Posts: 531Location: Southern California Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject: whoa...that's crazy. did she commit suicide or did she just want out of the car? that's sad.... I drove on the 91w this morning at 9am. It must have cleared up by then._________________"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First HKSS.com Forum Index -> Gossip and News All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Entertainment----------------All EntertainmentReviewsGossip and NewsIdol DiscussionsMusicMoviesTV Shows Non-Entertainment----------------General DiscussionsNew MembersFun and GamesReflections of LifeHobbies, TravelFood and CookingHelp!Websites HKSS.com----------------Announcements/ What's New?Help HKSS.comFeedback/ Contact HKSS.comWishlist You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Back to top Copyright © 1996-2014 HKSS.com™. All Rights Reserved. About | Link to HKSS.com | Advertise | Contact | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use Information and images accessed from this site are protected by international copyright and/or other intellectual property rights. You may infringe these rights if you download, copy, publish, distribute, transmit, or exploit such content without the explicit consent of HKSS.com. > Site design by yuenStudios.com (2006)


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The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is pleased to announce its participation in the World Botanic Gardens Exhibition, on display during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
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Restoring habitats so that healthy native fish, wildlife and vegetation can thrive is a key priority for the City. Over the past 15 years, Redmond has completed 45 stream restoration projects covering 55 acres
Redmond's many restoration projects require continued maintenance. The City contracts with a Washington Department of Ecology Conservation Corps (WCC) crew to maintain restoration sites throughout the City.
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To view local wildlife, like the eagles featured in the above photo, take a stroll around the Sammamish RiverWalk directly behind City Hall!
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Amy Adams is the latest Lois Lane to hit the Superman franchise, making her debut as the intrepid reporter in the summer blockbuster "Man of Steel."
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DISCUSSION: Draft By-Law Amendment – Posting of Quality Assurance Committee SCERPs (Consultation Closed)
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What is the benefit of being so transparent?
Is it to create more work for your 265 staff members or to smear doctors who were randomly targeted by one of your staff members to justify her salary as the college has 3 times more employees than comparable bodies in USA???
Quality assurance committees are meant for educational purposes and not to feel reprimanded.It is supposed to have a positive impact on the practice.I do not feel it needs to posted.
Since the QAC acts only to suggests remedial action as a result of say peer review or other non-complaint issues, it should not be able to make public the remediation procedure. If a complaint had been lodged and the physician found guilty that is a different matter.
If you publish SCERPs imposed by the Quality Assurance Committee it may unduly punish some good and conscientious physicians. A physician could be selected randomly to for a peer assessment and be reviewed by a peer physician who is overly critical. The QAC may invite the physician in for an interview and the physician might be perceived poorly by the committee, perhaps because of his or her anxiety. The committee might ask the physician to attend a course the improve his or her charting.
If the physician attends the course and his or her charting is shown to be improved a year later then the "educational" mandate of the quality assurance process would have been served. But if the SCERP is published, a local newspaper might report it and this good and conscientious physician might be embarrassed and ashamed. This punishment does not fit the crime.
If the physician did not improve after a year and was interviewed again by the committee it would be reasonable to publish any SCERP the committee decides to impose.
I therefore strongly oppose any publication of SCERPs by the college for physicians that are randomly selected for assessment. If the college proceeds with their plan to make SCERPs public then they should establish an appeal process in which a physician could request another assessment prior to the imposition of the SCERP to ensure that the first assessor was not overly critical.
I object to SCERPs arising from the QA Committee being placed on the Public Register. This does nothing to guide the profession or protect the public and can be devastating to the physician undergoing remediation.
This would be inconsistent with QA and QI. Airline industry is leading in this area and they have complete anonimity to ensure full and active cooperation. Any punitive implication will be completely counterproductive to QA and QI program.
There is much talk about education and improving quality of care in a non-punitive manner however this seems to be a step in the opposite direction.
Not sure if the balance between benefit to the public from a QA committee finding and the stigmatization of having a finding listed beside a doctor's name is fair. It could invite vindictive or vexatious complaints; would there be a sunset clause to this? Up for a certain period of time? And given the recent publication in the Toronto Star of a list of OB/Gyns with college findings that seemed to tarnish by association an entire specialty, are you sure this is in the public interest, and far outweighs the potential reputational damage done? I'm not sure it does; I don't feel they need to be posted.
I must agree with all the previous comments. Publishing SCERPs serves no benefit to anyone. Indeed it may foster an unnecessary feeling of resentment and embarrassment for the physician. I think that any well meaning physician would be embarrassed enough, and hopefully grateful enough, simply having deficiencies pointed out by the assessor. I think that once the physician is aware of needed changes to his practice, he/she should be allowed to make those remedial changes. If the changes/improvements are made to the satisfaction of the QAC, then the purpose of the QAC has been fulfilled. If the remediation, in whatever form, has not occurred and the problems persist, then publication of the SECR would not be unreasonable. Thus, there might be an incentive for the physician to make the required changes, knowing that if he or she does not comply, the physician's name will be published. I strongly agree with all replies below, and reply #4 nutshells my thoughts exactly.
The reality is that the CPSO is progressively viewing physicians as piranhas. The attack on methadone physicians, and the patient bill of rights are just a few examples. SCERPs were intended to be educational for a physicians. I, and an increasing number of physicians here in Ontario, believe we need to move away from CPSO self-regulation and to more a a US based model, which would be fair.
The proposed change to include SCERP recommendation by the QA Committee to be published on the registry of physicians goes against the non-punitive nature of QA undertakings.
It will encourage physicians to take an adversarial position ( therefore legal stance ) when investigated by the QA Committee. The truth may suffer and it will not promote honest assessment of the issues in question. It is a regressive step in the name of bigger transparency.
I feel that SCERPS are an important part of quality assurance. However, if a low risk physician is required to undergo an educational program and this is made public it would have a number of potential adverse consequences. This may unduly shame him/her, affect his/her ability to gain employment opportunities or even adversely affect their ability to garner patient trust. I believe the point of this program should be education, remediation and public safety – not physician humiliation!
Making the possible outcome of an assessment punitive would interfere with the objectivity of the assessment as well as deterring from the educational value and mission.
I object to SCERPs arising from the QA Committee being placed on the Public Register. For physicians wrestling with mental health issues, a negative finding could result in the suicide of one of our colleagues. I do not want this on my conscience.
The QAC was developed for educational purposes and any public disclosure of physicians who comply with their recommendations has no benefit to the public.
This group of public consultations is certainly interesting.
On one hand you have the CPSO asking we pay a dinner at Moxie's each for their operations.
On the other hand we have policies that are drafted to embarrass and shame physicians rather than work with them to improve the care they provide. This is along with specialized stylish Fincher-esque photography used on the intro page for this policy, with fun corporate words like "Accountability" drawn up on a window and a faceless tie-wearing guy blurred out in the background. All of this seems like a terrible waste of money for the CPSO in light of recent austerity measures.
I am concerned that this goes against QA's educational nature which is it's strength.
QA Committee supposedly helps physician to improve and provide better service to the patients, To make SCERPs public serves No educational purpose. It just creates more work for the college staffs, is it a means that the college want to hire more staff? Or to justify its huge number of staff ? As suggested by Physician 1 response.
I agree with the previous posts, and strongly oppose any publication of SCERPs by the college for physicians that are randomly selected for assessment. It would do nothing to protect the public – and only provide the public with another avenue for doctor bashing. It is clear to me that the CPSO has, in recent years, developed a severe case of "political correctness'", that representing and supporting doctors is no longer part of its duties, and that we – the members – are on our own.
I don't see this kind of transparency amongst other professionals, like teachers,pharmacists, dentists,etc.
I think this will add more stress to the assessment and the college might have a difficult time find assessors.
It adds a lot of pressure on their role as educators.
I object to SCERPS arising from QA. The Arline industry has it right by providing anonymity. Comments posted online will not protect the public but will devastate careers. The public knows about the CPSO – my disgruntled neighbour threatened to go to the CPSO with a false complaint to get even me. The CPSO can protect the public without posting SCERPS from QA for the whole world to see
The CPSO has stated that it is moving to education as opposed to penalty for physicians who may a deficiency. By making SCERPS public, you are publicly shaming physicians, akin to a discipline committee. I see no need for this if education is the trajectory of the CPSO. Certainly is the CPSO finds multiple deficiencies over time and recommends 3 or more SCERPS, then this should be referred to discipline or higher penalty. However, a SCERP recommendation as a result of a Quality review being public totally defeats the purpose of education for physician, and publicly shames them for no gain to the public.
While the college proceeds with QA transpareny as a benefit to the profession and public it has had negative consequences in the past as the published comments allude to. Hopefully they won't be dismissed as relatively unimportant.
There is well deserved criticism of the process and inter-reviewer variability needs to be fully addressed in all QA processes before proceeding. It is not enough to review this after the fact in a committee. It is not enough to provide training for reviewers or structure for the interview review process.
The reviewers need to be validated.
The stats about any reviewer need to be published.
In the past peers brought real life experience to the review; in the present environment structure will be perceived as more rigid and unrealistic.
The evidence base needs to be established and shared widely within the profession specifically for the type of QA and QA transparency based on diagnosis, procedure,and specialty showing higher adverse outcomes, highlighting patient harm from misdiagnosis.
I agree with previous posts that the QA is to be educational not punitive. I have also been involved in a performance review which initially required remedial work for a physician but when the case was reviewed by the CPSO the physician received a full apology. Mistakes are made in reviews. This is not a program that was built to be transparent for the public.
Re QAC SCERP's
I would heartily agree with previous comments re educational and remedial nature of this process.
Putting the results on the public register strikes me as a punitive measure.
I would also like to comment on the process of QAC. A colleague has recently undergone the 'new' process which seems overly complicated and almost impossible. It appears that a number of other health care professionals or administrative staff need to be responding to the process and examples given are not realistic ie radiologist, lab personnel. If one is a practitioner in solo or small group practice you may not have enough interaction on a detailed medical level with allied health care professionals or colleagues for these folks to know your skill set to fill out an evaluation. It appears the process may be punitive to docs in small group settings and there are still people in small communities in small groups.
The process seems appropriate for cities and large groups only. Has anyone else felt the same way?
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I disagree with including these results in the public register.
From discussions with other health care professionals it does appear that different assessors may come to very different conclusions regarding the same individual. There seems to be some deficiency is quality assurance in house between assessors.
For example why would a physician who practices in California be used as a 'peer' for an Ontarian doctor as happened to a colleague? How could someone practising in such a different health care system be a valid person to 'judge' a physician in Ontario. This makes no sense. Unless it is crystal clear that all assessors are interchangeable it would be one person's opinion becoming public record for a physician in contrast to most other public records decisions being made by committee.
Absolutely not to a fee increase. Fees are a huge bone of contention already. Doctors are already disheartened by the lack of respect from government. Don't compound it.
If you really need the money, then go for a decent fee increase. $25 is the equivalent of a slap in the face.
Am also opposed to posting of QAC SCERPs. I have been a peer assessor for almost 20 years.
Transparency, you say? Humiliation, more likely. Thought this was supposed to be an educational experience. Are we now heading more towards punishment? A number of doctors get into trouble in their later years as their skills diminish or their judgment falters. 40 years of good service to the profession should be worth something. Let them improve with dignity. If they can't , then, it's time to retire.
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Having sat on the board (council) of one of Ontario's Regulatory Colleges my objection to publishing SCERPS stems from that excellent and enlightening experience.
So many of 'we' the public neither know what a Regulatory College is,nor understand the public protection mandate.
A SCERP – taken out of context – would do a disservice to both College and physician.
Is this just another policy to pander to the physician-hating public, in an effort so the College maintains its "self-regulated" status?
I have licenses in the other jurisdictions and none subject their members to random audits, much less to publish the results on the internet as now you want.
All you are doing is scaring good doctors out of Ontario.
Every year you come out with more policies to keep pandering, which require more money to administer. But unlike a gov-run licensing body, you see an endless pot of cash, which is why you keep raising the fees unilaterally. What is the end point? what will it be like in 5-10 years? A camera in every doctor's office? Every complaint put on the internet? And an annual fee of $5000? At the rate you keep churning out policies, these things are not really unrealistic. As physicians, we have no unions and OMA does nothing to fight back against anything, the only we can do is leave Ont or leave the profession, which many are doing or considering in these toxic times.
This profession is doomed.
Audits are not much more than an exercise in record keeping. Physicians nowadays spend 1/2 their time documenting and the other 1/2 actually treating patients. With these policies the College wants to change that into 2/3 record keeping and 1/3 treating patients.
All this while the ministry keeps cutting our fees. So basically the College, like a proxy of the gov, intimidates doctors into increasing the standard while the gov itself cuts our fees. It's like a pressure crunch from both sides.
I discourage my kids and everyone else from entering this god-forsaken profession, in this province that views doctors as slaves with no union or other employment rights.
I do not agree – it is of no value except increasing the staff of the lovely CPSO that will lead to another CPSO fee increase.
public humiliation,before finding guilt. how is this possible in a democratic country?
One word, NO.
In case I did not make myself clear, NO.
as in NO, NO, NO.
Anyone have difficulty understanding that?
The response to the proposal should be NO, NO, NO.
Professional Association of Residents of Ontario (PARO)
Response in PDF format.
Dear Staff at CPSO,
I do wholeheartedly approve of your idea to the proposed by law amendment which would allow the CPSO to add QAC SCERPS results from moderate to high risk situations be added to the doctor's profile on the Public Register.
I hope that this happens very soon.
FAIR (Fair Association of Victims of Accident Insurance Reform)
Response in PDF format.
College of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists of Ontario
The College of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists (CASLPO) applauds the College of Physicians and Surgeons' (CPSO) commitment to transparency. However, we have some reservations about making public a Specified Continuing Education or Remediation Program (SCERPs) issued by the Quality Assurance Committee. Our reasons are twofold. First, one of the most effective means to protect the public is to promote a robust and supportive Quality Assurance process. Truly effective Quality Assurance requires member commitment to all facets of the process. If members consider the process potentially punitive, compliance might become an issue adversely affecting quality. Second, if the Quality Assurance committee is seriously concerned about the member's practice, it has the ability to refer that member to the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee (ICRC) with allegations of professional misconduct as per Schedule 2 of the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991, Section 51(1) (b.0.1).
CASLPO is in full support of making public SCERPs issued by the ICR Committee.
Member of the public
Response in PDF format.
Ontario Trail Lawyers Association
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There is the temptation to come up with some dopey football metaphor when trying to describe Rooney Mara, but she is so much cooler than that.
If you don't get the gridiron reference, the 28-year-old actress's dad is part of the family that owns the New York Giants — the Maras — while her mom's maiden name was Rooney — as in the owners of the Pittsburgh Steelers — and where she got her first name.
While Mara was never destined for the NFL — she doesn't really even watch games — she has a go-for-broke intensity in her acting, something director David Fincher saw when he chose the then-little-known actress to star in the American version of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" as the asocial martial-arts expert and computer hacker Lisabeth Salander.
This year, she has already turned in one eye-catching film performance in Steven Soderbergh's "Side Effects" as a slightly off-kilter character, and this week she delivers another in "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," David Lowery's dark thriller. In November, she's in Spike Jonze's highly anticipated "Her," and sometime after that,an untitled Terrence Malick project, which she shot at the end of last year.
"When choosing a project, the director is really at the top of my list. It's very important to me because that's the person I have to give myself over to, the person I have to be willing to trust and follow and believe in," says Mara, explaining why she wanted to do the noir romance "Saints" with the young American writer-director Lowery. Mara had seen an early draft of the script and liked what she saw.
Some critics have compared Lowery's style on "Saints" with longtime auteur Malick.
"The experience of working with the two of them could not be more different," says Mara about the directors. "They're both very poetic and maybe they share a similar aesthetic. I think maybe both of them like the silence and space between sentences, but other than that, they're so different. David's voice stands on its own. I think it should be regarded in its own right."
Dressed in her customary black and white, Mara is reserved but friendly as we talk. In "Saints," set in Texas in the 1970s, she plays a young lover named Ruth. When her boyfriend, Bob (Casey Affleck), commits a crime, the two end up in a shootout where she wounds a deputy (Ben Foster). But Bob takes the fall and goes to prison, while the pregnant Ruth goes free and eventually raises their child. That part serves as a prelude for the rest of film, which involves Bob's escape from prison as his attempt to get back across Texas to Ruth as she waits, unsure of her feelings, while the deputy pines for her.
Mara and Affleck spend little screen time together as the film cuts between the characters' lives.
"That back story was an important ingredient to this film because we had to pack in as much as we could to be able to float the rest the film on that," Mara explains.
"I think Ruth in her early life is a fiery, stubborn, sassy character and she's very nostalgic for what she used to be like. But then she became a mom and is torn between the two sides of herself."
Mara considers herself lucky to have had so many good roles the past few years. Fincher first cast her in "The Social Network." Before that, her biggest splash had been in the 2010 remake of "Nightmare on Elm Street." Then "Girl" made her a star, and she followed it with "Side Effects," "Saints," and "Her."
When we talked earlier in the summer, the actress was taking something of a break since finishing Malick's film in November. (When asked what she plays in the movie, she laughs a little and says, "I don't really know how to describe it.")
Partly the time off was because she had done four films in a row, and partly because she hadn't found another good role.
"It's definitely a struggle to find interesting roles for women," she says. "While there are so many great scripts, the female roles aren't that great in a lot of them."
The actress added that she was looking at some material to develop for herself.
In the meantime, though, she has since signed up for the Stephen Daldry-directed "Trash," which is the story of three young boys who discover something mysterious and dangerous in a city dump in an impoverished Third World country. Another go at the sullen Lisabeth Salander in "The Girl Who Played with Fire" is still a possibility, but that project remains in limbo.
Mara recently did a Calvin Klein fragrance commercial directed by Fincher — shot in black and white, naturally. (The actress once cracked that wearing only black and white made it easier for her to dress in the morning.) Set to "Runaway" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the ad finds her laughing and looking joyful, something she hasn't done much in films. Not surprisingly, the actress says she was more influenced by dramas than comedies when she was growing up.
Fincher, by the way, cast Mara's older sister, Kate Mara, for a key role in his Emmy-nominated "House of Cards." (Many, including me, thought Kate deserved her own Emmy nod as the best supporting actress in a drama.) Rooney is quick to note that while she mentioned that Kate might be right for the role to the filmmaker, "she auditioned for it and got the part herself."
Though raised in a football family, Mara — who also has two brothers — says it wasn't a prerequisite to like the sport growing up.
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Valentine's Day 2013 just got a little weirder: A$AP Rocky and Danny Brown are now booked, along with Russell Brand, to sit down and talk to Kathy Griffin on next Thursday's episode of her Bravo chat show. The four will sit as a panel to discuss modern pop cultural issues, like what's happening on Teen Mom and whether or not so-and-so should have worn that to the Grammys.
The match-up might seem weird—and it is, for sure—but it comes from kind of a pure place. Last summer, during an interview with Noisey, both A$AP and Brown said they'd sleep with Griffin—though A$AP did, at one point, admit he thought she was "the lady from Family Guy." Griffin responded that she was flattered and that she would gladly "pull a train" (ugh) on the duo. Fans will have to wait until next Thursday to see if that happens, but with the additional machismo and greasy animal magnetism that Brand brings to the situation, how could it not?


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ARLINGTON — An Arlington-based horse rescue operation has agreed to change its bookkeeping practices and how it solicits donations as part of a settlement with the state Attorney General's Office after a yearlong investigation into the group's fundraising practices.
People Helping Horses has agreed not to misrepresent how it spends donations and to routinely audit its finances, the state Attorney General's Office said Friday. The group also has agreed to implement financial controls and provide management training for its executive director and other executive-level employees.
The agreement also prohibits former Executive Director Gretchen Salstrom from being involved with the nonprofit in any capacity. She also is barred for a decade from leading a nonprofit in Washington.
Investigators allege that Salstrom misused donations for her own personal use.
"Gretchen Salstrom was helping herself to money intended to help horses," state Attorney General Rob McKenna said.
Salstrom allegedly used donations to pay for her own horse and dog-breeding business and used the nonprofit's credit cards for "questionable" travel and entertainment expenses, according to state officials.
Salstrom and the group entered into agreements that settle the allegations in complaints filed by the state Attorney General's Office. Salstrom doesn't admit any wrongdoing as part of the consent decree filed in Snohomish County Superior Court.
She has agreed to pay $5,000 for the state's attorney costs. People Helping Horses was fined $50,000. The state agreed to suspend the fine if the group complied with the agreement. The nonprofit faces up to $25,000 in fines if it violates the terms of the consent decree.
An investigation was launched in December 2011 after the state Attorney General's Office received a tip from a concerned citizen.
Investigators learned that People Helping Horses had raised more than $1 million in 2010. They reviewed the group's fundraising practices. The investigation determined that the organization violated the Charitable Solicitations Act, state officials said.
The group claimed it offered a therapeutic riding program for kids with health problems even though it ended the program, said Sarah Shifley, an assistant attorney general who handled the case.
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Getting a college education is one of the most important investments you'll make in your life. But with the increasingly high costs of tuition, figuring out how to pay for your education can be discouraging -- or just downright scary.
Along with aid from the U.S. federal government, you'll want to check out the variety of grant and loan repayment programs available from the state of Nevada.
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President Barack Obama's most loyal donors returned with big contributions to the nonprofit formed to boost his second term agenda.
Organizing for Action raised $8.2 million between the beginning of April and the end of June, bringing its year-to-date fundraising total to $13.1 million.
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The group was boosted by two massive $500,000 donations from Chicago media mogul Fred Eychaner and biotech entrepreneur David Shaw. New York-based author and Demotic megadonor Amy Goldman gave a quarter million to the group.
Eychaner was the largest Democratic donor in 2012, while Shaw gave $1.9 million to Democrats during the 2012 cycle.
Other major donors to the Obama campaign returned to the fold with major donations, including architect Jon Stryker, philanthropist Barbara Stiefel, and entrepreneur Frank White.
Other big Obama for America and Democratic donors like Steve and Amber Mostyn, Jeffrey Katzenberg, George Soros, James Simons, and Anne Cox Chambers still have not donated to the new group.
Overall, the group collected 8 six-figure donations, and 29 five-figure donations in the second quarter.
An OFA official highlighted the group's grassroots fundraising prowess — built on the back of the Obama campaign's 30-odd million strong email list. "In just our second quarter, OFA more than doubled the number of donors that have stepped up and taken ownership of the future of this organization. 98% of OFA's contributors have been from small dollar donations with an average contribution of $55 making this truly a grassroots funded operation," the official said.
The group claimed more than 230,000 total donors. The group is organized as a nonprofit group and is not legally required to disclose its donors.


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Rush Offense: -20.6% (31st)
O-Line Adjusted Line Yards: 3.80 Yards (25th)
O-Line Adj. Sack Rate: 8.2% (28th)
Analysis: Let's put some things in perspective. For as tough a time as the Jets have had this season, it hasn't looked like this. Jacksonville has had their 10th overall pick from just a year ago go down with a torn labrum in his non-throwing shoulder and been placed in IR. In his stead, former Dolphins QB Chad Henne has come in and sparked the offense. Still, with a substandard line and a hampered rushing attack because of a year MJD has been dealing with injuries, it's been tough sledding for the Jaguars. Their air attack has loosened things up in recent weeks specifically with the exploits of the now injured Cecil Shorts (concussion) and more recently first receiver picked in 2012, Justin Blackmon.
As a gameplan for the Jets, the weak line play will be to the Jets defense's favor. Knowing that the Jets should be able to provide some pressure up front and then force Henne to make some plays into the Jets solid secondary. The Jets might place Cromartie on Blackmon to prevent the deep pass, something Henne and Blackmon have been getting in sync on recently and then Wilson would take whoever plays the second receiver spot, be it Shorts, Shipley or Kevin Eliott. Still, the Jets are going to have to keep an eye on Marcedes Lewis, whose rise seemed to start in his 2009 matchup against the Jets as he's one of the leagues better pass-catching Tight Ends. Lewis only has four touchdowns on the year, but it's the more than 50 targets and almost 400 yards that's more the concern for me. He's a great possession receiver for a faltering Jags offense and can get some first downs for the team at times when the Jaguars need them.
Oh hey, just for kicks, go to the F.O. quarterback ranking page. Reminder these rankings come from all objective data - regressional statistics that standardize playing against good and bad teams. With 32 teams in the league, you'll notice Henne is hovering at replacement level (30th) while Gabbert was playing below replacement level (37th). Oh and where's Sanchez stacking up? Just above Gabbert at 36th ... hmmm ...
Pass Defense: 22.7% (27th)
Rush Defense: 3.9% (26th)
Defensive Adjusted Line Yards: 4.54 Yards (32nd)
Defensive Adj. Sack Rate: 3.8% (32nd)
Analysis: The 28th best, the 27th best, the 15th best, then the 26th best. That's the slate of defenses that remains to the Jets as they head into their game this weekend against the Jags. With four games remaining and serious questions about what the Jets will attempt to do this offseason, what better showcase for a franchise quarterback than against a set of teams such as these?
Somehow, and somewhat remarkably the Jets offensive run blocking has gotten really good in recent weeks, shooting up to the 5th overall run blocking unit in the league at this point in time. Part has been the group's cohesion, part has been the Jets commitment to the run, and part has been that the running backs are starting to play with some life, most notably Bilal Powell who seems to be pushing Shonn Greene for carries at this point. The Jets offensive line and running backs should have no trouble in attacking and besting this run defense and for that reason I know the Jets offense is going to have a good outing. The Jets will likely play a run-heavy attack against the Jaguars and throw when they need to - essentially dialing back Mark Sanchez to get him comfortable and confident in running this offense again.
Mark Sanchez should have all the time he needs in throwing the ball. No team is worse at rushing the quarterback than the Jaguars. Jeff Cumberland (or if Keller plays) should have a harder time against this unit, but Kerley and Stephen Hill might trade some big catches against this team as they struggle with consistency and health in this secondary.
Special Teams: -0.6% (21st)
Analysis: This unit is just a hair worse than the Jets unit has been playing at this season, so maybe that's some form of consolation. The Jags are great at field goals, but suffer dreadfully on kickoff coverage and in their punt return game. The Jets are going to have to do their best to gain as many yards on the Jags as possible in those two facets of special teams to make up for their deficiencies in their own field goal and punt coverage units.


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Sept. 1, 2010
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara women's cross country team was selected to repeat as Big West champions in a preseason poll of the league's coaches. The Gaucho men's squad was tabbed to finish third behind Cal Poly and UC Davis.
The UCSB women's team will be seeking its second consecutive league crown. In 2009, the Gauchos won their third title in the last four seasons. They return a solid core of runners including: Crystal Reed, Amanda Moreno, Breanne Strenkowski, Andrea Jacobs and Megan Petkovic. All five finished among the top-10 at the 2009 championship meet.
Santa Barbara received six of nine first-place votes and 78 points in the poll. UC Davis picked-up the other three votes and finished second with 72 points. Cal Poly was third with 66 points while UC Riverside and Long Beach State were fourth and fifth respectively.
The Gaucho men's team was picked third behind Cal Poly and UC Davis. The favored Mustangs were a unanimous choice to retain their championship. They had 64 points in the poll while UC Davis had 52 and UCSB 42. UC Riverside were picked fourth and fifth respectively.
Both UCSB teams open the 2010 season on Saturday in the annual Lagoon Open. A 5k race of alumni and members of the community will kick things off at 9:30 a.m. The women's 5k race between the Gauchos, Cal Poly and open runners will go off at 10:30 a.m. and the men's 8k, also with UCSB, Cal Poly and open runners, is scheduled for 11:00 a.m.
Anyone interested in running in an of the three meets are encouraged to contact Keli Kadota at email@example.com or (805) 893-3722.


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Shooters set inside the human body are nothing new, and neither is using the Robotron-style control scheme I complained about so loudly when I played Super Stardust HD. Thusly, when I found out that Nucleus on the PlayStation Network used the two-analogue-stick control scheme and took place inside a human...I was less than impressed. Please, I cried to the heavens, let these knock-offs stop!
The problem is that the game isn't a knockoff, and while the $10 shooter is reminiscent of many other games, it does enough to set itself apart to be worth looking at. However, if you're not a fan of pants-wetting frustration, you may want to sit this out; they've set the difficulty level much higher than similar shooters. The game gleefully offers a few training modes, then plows into you with some rather unforgiving enemies.
So how does it work? You're a "remote unit," which is pretty much a jellyfish-looking ship that can "squirt" to boost around the level. You also have your standard gun, which you can upgrade via pickups, as well as a limited tractor beam. The beam allows you to grab clumps of cells, which you can then push, pull, and swing (using the face buttons on the Sixiaxis) into other clumps to make walls and barriers. This construction mechanic is important in the survival levels, where plagues of virus cells attack you unendingly. You know you're going to die, but in order to succeed and unlock another level, you need to kill a certain number of baddies to get the high score. Oh, and the background is black and the enemies are a velvet red in the early levels. Have fun with that.
Other levels have you trying to collect a set amount of pickups, or you may be asked to herd cells into a moving bin while being attacked. These challenges change at every level, making the game deeper than most shooters of this kind. The boss battles against the nucleus cells are also fun, and change up the game play enough so that you rarely get bored.
What you will get is frustrated when you are swarmed with virus cells, or when you used your protein-bomb (ahem) at the wrong time, forcing you to build up another one while rapidly losing your health. This is not a game for the easily flustered. I found the tractor beam mechanic great though. Setting yourself up a little fort of cells to use a shield is fun, and manipulating your level like that adds a much-needed layer of depth to the shooter. The collection levels also give you a nice breather.
Nothing spectacular going on here when it comes to graphics, but the deceptively complex play and varied levels make up for it. Feel like a man? You won't by the time you're done, but you'll at least have fun in the meantime. Another win for Sony's PlayStation Network.


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Leftist refers to someone on the Left side of the political spectrum, such as a particularly liberal member of the American Democrat Party, or a progressive, socialist, Democratic Socialist, or Communist. A Leftist supports collectivism, more government control of the economy, direct government control over social policy (although there were some leftists, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, and Noam Chomsky who adhered to a purely anarchistic view of the world), including federal control over education at all levels, lower military spending, censorship of religion, a living constitution, same-sex "marriages", a more unisex society, globalism, transnationalism, feminism, the homosexual agenda, taxpayer-funded abortion, and censorship of Christianity in public places.
- 1 Origins
- 2 19th century Europe
- 3 United States
- 4 Modern leftists
- 5 Decline of leftism
- 6 Leftism and the use of mockery rather than reasonable argumentation
- 7 See also
- 8 References
- 9 External links
French Revolution
See also: Secular left and History of atheism and French Revolution
During the French Reign of Terror of the early Enlightenment, the Left attempted a de-Christianization movement to replace the "reactionary" worship of God and replace it with the worship of national patriotism, or the Patrie. Many churches were closed and either converted into Temples of Reason,[1] or otherwise demolished outright under the order of Jacobin leader Maximilien de Robespierre under the pretense that their design was "undemocratic."[2] The Left even formed a new calendar secularizing Christian holidays. This calendar was short lived though and was never accepted in the rural, more religious parts of France. In addition, it was also stated that the Left-wing had some origins in the Book of Revelations when Jesus transfigured people on his right and left as sheep and goats, respectively.
19th century Europe
Karl Marx (May 5, 1818[3] – March 14, 1883) was a bourgeois[4] political pamphleteer,[5] polemicist[6] and propagandist,[7] credited as co-founder (with Friedrich Engels) of communism[8] and specifically of Marxism. Although Marx always considered himself an economist,[9] "the Marxist system as a whole is not regarded as economics by the mainstream," according to Don Ross, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics.[10] Ex-Marxist[11] economist Thomas Sowell agrees:
|[T]he Marxian contribution to economics can be readily summarized as virtually zero. Professional economics as it exists today reflects no indication that Karl Marx ever existed... [T]he development of modern economics has simply ignored Marx. Even economists who are Marxists typically utilize a set of analytical tools to which Marx contributed nothing... In professional economics, Das Capital was a detour into a blind alley...[12]
William Coleman of the Australian National University actually goes so far as to identify Marx as an "anti-economist."[13] Ross concurs, labeling Marx "the most influential anti-economist of all."[14] Even Michael Harrington, a well-known Marxist,[15] in his book, The Twilight of Capitalism, devoted an entire chapter to Marx "The anti-economist."[16] Nevertheless, men and women of zeal, often well-meaning but without understanding[17] of economics, ravaged the 20th century reifying Marx's anti-economics—in the process killing more people than all the century's wars combined.[18]
Anarchist thinker Mikhail Bakunin critiqued prominent leftist theoritician Karl Marx in 1873 with these words,
- "..if the proletariat is to be the ruling class, over whom is it to rule? ...the peasant "rabble" who, as it is known, does not enjoy the sympathy of the Marxists who consider it to represent a lower level of culture, will probably be ruled by the factory proletariat of the cities. Or, if this problem is to be approached nationalistically, the Slavs will be placed in the same subordinate relationship to the victorious German proletariat in which the latter now stands to the German bourgeoisie." [19]
It should be noted that Bakunin was also a leftist, and in fact, the only difference he had from Marx was the exact extent that they should get rid of government. In addition, he also declared regarding anarchism: "Let us put our trust in the eternal spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unsearchable and eternally creative source of all life--the passion for destruction is also a creative passion!"[20] Richard Wagner also noted of Bakunin that "The annihilation of all civilization was the objective on which he had set his heart…. It was necessary, he said, to picture the whole European world - transformed into a pile of rubble."[21][22]
United States
- Main article: American liberalism
State planning
In the United States men such as Eugene Debs, Maurice Hilquit and Norman Thomas believed they could, by a gradual series of alterations in the structure of society, create a truly democratic world in which all people would enjoy not merely freedom, but prosperity. They believed this could not be achieved under the system of private property and profit. They advocated a gradual acquisition by the State of all the great utilities, transportation, communication, and basic industries such as coal, oil, and steel.
The dream of a cooperative commonwealth in which all would share equally in the prosperity created by an economic system owned by the people was the vision of Socialists. This in theory would end poverty, ignorance and crises. The idea was to nationalize banks, railroads, all means of transport, mines, and a few basic industries, but leave some factories, stores, farms, entertainment industries, etc., in the hands of private owners. The government would assume responsibility for making the economy work, for the well-being of all the citizens, their protection from the hazards of life, poverty, sickness, and old age. To make the whole economy work continuously without occasional boom-bust cycles, the government would create economic planning boards staffed by a bureaucratic class which would continuously study and observe the functioning of the economic system and make plans covering production, prices, distribution, financing, profits, wages, hours, etc. Thus there would be Planned Capitalism, with the State responsible for the planning and for ensuring the carrying out of its plans through great government bureaus armed with the necessary powers to enforce compliance.
Borrowing from fascism
In the 1920s Benito Mussolini had adopted the Planned Capitalist State and gave it the name "fascism". Adolf Hitler adopted the same idea and called it National Socialism. Mussolini and Hitler both realized that a system which imposes a vast complex of decrees upon a people while subjecting them to confiscatory taxes to support the immense activities of the government cannot be operated except by an absolute government that has the power to enforce compliance. Prior to World War II, this type of system had spread all over Europe. For nearly 70 years all the countries in Europe, with Germany in the lead, had been experimenting with the idea of the welfare state, the State which attempts to provide its people with jobs and protection from all the hazards of life.
This system is the direct opposite of classical liberalism. It is the negation of the classical liberal philosophy which for decades has been fighting to emancipate the people from the tyranny of the all powerful State. During the New Deal this doctrine became known in America as "liberalism". Liberals did not admit that it implied the restoration to the State those very powers which had been stripped from the State as the means of giving people freedom. They called it the Planned Economy. But it was and is fascism by whatever name it is known. Incrementally the government must be made stronger, and the rights of the citizens reduced.
Modern leftists
Modern leftists in the United States have come under increasing criticism as advocates of thought control.[23] Author David Limbaugh cites, "Consider the subjects of evolution, global warming, special rights for homosexuals and abstinence education. Consider efforts of the Left to silence conservative talk radio. Consider the mainstream media's arrogant denial of its transparent liberal bias, pronouncing itself to be above politics and inherently objective and its critics somehow skewed....Consider the leftist refrain that red state conservatives do not merely possess a different world view, but are not part of the 'reality-based community.'"
Decline of leftism
See: Decline of leftism
Decline of the secular Left
See: Decline of the secular left
Leftism and the use of mockery rather than reasonable argumentation
See also: Atheism and mockery
In a BloombergView article, Stephen L. Carter wrote about the Left:
|But the left has work to do, not only on policy and organization but also on attitude. Too many of my progressive friends seem to have forgotten how to make actual arguments, and have become expert instead at condemnation, derision and mockery. On issue after issue, they're very good at explaining why no one could oppose their policy positions except for the basest of motives. As to those positions themselves, they are too often announced with a zealous solemnity suggesting that their views are Holy Writ -- and those who disagree are cast into the outer political darkness. In short, the left has lately been dripping with hubris, which in classic literature always portends a fall.[24]
Historically, atheists have skewed towards the left side of the political aisle (see: Atheism and politics and Secular left and Atheism and communism).[25][26][27][28][29]
Although the secular left is known for ridiculing religion since at least the time of French Revolution (see: Atheism and mockery), the secular Left is known for its humorlessness when it comes to others mocking of its ideology (See also: Atheism and humor and Atheism and intolerance and Atheist hypocrisy).
See also
- ↑ John Hall Stewart, A Documentary Survey of the French Revolution (Macmillan, New York, 1963).
- ↑ Operation Parricide: Sade, Robespierre & the French Revolution
- ↑ Birth Certificate of Karl Marx, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Collected Works, Vol. 1 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), p. 635
- ↑ Francis Wheen, Karl Marx: A Life (W.W. Norton & Company, 2001) ISBN 0393321576, pp. 8, 278
- ↑ George Bernard Shaw, "Trotsky, Prince of Pamphleteers," The Nation (ISSN 0027-8378) Vol. 1922 No. 30 (June 7, 1922), pp. 560-561, reprinted in Brian Tyson, ed., Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews: Volume Two,1884-1950 (University Park, PA.: Penn State Press, 1996) ISBN 0271015489, pp. 440-450. Cf. Terrell Carver, The Postmodern Marx (University Park, PA.: Penn State Press, 1998), p. 160
- ↑ Chris Matthew Sciaberra, Marx, Hayek and Utopia (SUNY Press, 1995) ISBN 0791426165, p.6. Cf. Michael Grenfell and Cheryl Hardy, Art Rules: Pierre Bourdieu and the Visual Arts (Berg Publishers, 2007) ISBN 1845202341, p.17
- ↑ Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, The Cambridge Modern History (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1910), p. 758. Cf. Milorad M. Drachkovitch and Sidney Hook, Marxist Ideology in the Contemporary World: Its Appeals and Paradoxes (Ayer Publishing, 1973) ISBN 0836981545, p. 113
- ↑ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings (Barnes & Noble, 2005) ISBN 1593081006, p. vi
- ↑ Charles H. Powers, Making Sense of Social Theory: A Practical Introduction (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010) ISBN 1442201193, p. 115
- ↑ Don Ross, "Economic theory, anti-economics, and political ideology," p. 10
- ↑ "'I was a Marxist when I went to the University of Chicago, and I was still a Marxist after I took Milton Friedman's course. ... But just one summer as an economics intern in Washington got rid of all of that.' Sowell worked in the Labor Department, in the Wage and Hour Division. He was interested in whether minimum wages helped the poor by raising their pay or hurt them by denying them jobs. He found that the personnel around him were interested in other things: namely, the preservation of their own jobs, and the perpetuation of government programs." Jay Nordlinger, "A Lion in High Summer," National Review, Vol. LXIII, No. 3 (February 21, 2011)
- ↑ Thomas Sowell, Marxism: Philosophy and Economics (Taylor & Francis, 1985) ISBN 0043201717, p. 217.
- ↑ William Coleman, Economics and its Enemies: Two Centuries of Anti-Economics (London: Palgrave as Macmillan, 2002) ISBN 1403941483, p. 234. As economics concerns human prosperity and thriving, "anti-economics" may be understood as an anti-human project of death and destruction.
- ↑ Don Ross, "Economic theory, anti-economics, and political ideology," p. 10
- ↑ Wayne Price, "Anarchism: Utopian or Scientific?" The Utopian Vol. 5, p. 62
- ↑ Michael Harrington, The Twilight of Capitalism (Simon and Schuster, 1976) ISBN 0671227599, chapter 5
- ↑ "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." Brandeis, J., Dissenting, Olmstead v. United States 277 US 438 (1928)
- ↑ R.J. Rummel, What? Only 35,000,000 Killed in 20th Century War?, Democratic Peace Blog, November 30, 2008. In 1918, Grigory Zinoviev, first head of the Comintern, announced: "To overcome our enemies we must have our own socialist militarism. We must carry along with us 90 million out of the 100 million of Soviet Russia's population. As for the rest, we have nothing to say to them. They must be annihilated." (George Leggett, The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police [Oxford University Press, 1986] ISBN 0-19-822862-7, p. 114) Zinoviev's estimate that the Soviets would murder 10 million people was far too low: Mid-range academic estimates of the number of civilians murdered by Marxists range from 94 million (Stéphane Courtois, ed. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression [Harvard University Press, 1999] ISBN 0-674-07608-7, p. 4) to 148 million. Margaret Cox, The Scientific Investigation of Mass Graves: Towards Protocols and Standard Operating Procedures [Cambridge University Press, 2008] ISBN 0521865875, p. 8; Cf. Rudy Rummel, Reevaluated democide totals for 20thC. and China, H-Genocide Discussion Logs, H-Net (Humanities and Social Sciences Online), Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online (Michigan State University), November 28, 2005; T. Matthew Ciolek, R.J. Rummel: Reevaluated democide totals for 20th C. and China, Asia Pacific Research Online, Internet Publications Bureau, Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies, National Institute for Asia and the Pacific (Australian National University), November 29, 2005
- ↑ Michael Bakunin, Statism and Anarchy, (1873), in Sam Dolgoff, Bakunin On Anarchy, (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972), p. 330.
- ↑ Reaction in Germany, 1842
- ↑ https://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/understanding-tyranny-and-terror-the-french-revolution-modern-islamism
- ↑ Richard Wagner, quoted in Bryan Magee, The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy (New York: Henry Holt, 2000), p. 39.
- ↑ Leftist Thought Control, David Limbaugh, Human Events, 05/04/2007.
- ↑ Trump and the Fall of Liberalism by Stephen L. Carter, BloombergView
- ↑ Atheists & Agnostics in America Tend to be Politically Liberal
- ↑ Marxism. University of Cambridge (2008). Retrieved on 2011–03–15. "The most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution, which brought the Marxist-Leninists to power. For the first time in history, atheism thus became the official ideology of a state."
- ↑ James Adair (2007). Christianity. JBE Online Books. Retrieved on 2011–03–15. "Although the Civil Constitution called for religious liberty, which was extended to Jews as well as Christians, many revolutionaries pushed for the establishment of a new state religion, either the Cult of Reason (atheists) or the Cult of the Supreme Being (Deists). Although the Civil Constitution called for religious liberty, which was extended to Jews as well as Christians, many revolutionaries pushed for the establishment of a new state religion, either the Cult of Reason (atheists) or the Cult of the Supreme Being (Deists). Changes to the calendar eliminated references to Christian holidays, and even the ancient seven-day week, and a list of officially recognized saints included such famous thinkers such as Socrates, Jesus, Marcus Aurelius, and Jean-Jacques Rosseau. A period of political persecution, often with religious overtones, broke out, known as the Reign of Terror. Thousands of people were executed by the guillotine, including many of the original leaders of the French Revolution."
- ↑ William Belsham (1801). Memoirs of the reign of George III. to the session of parliament ending A.D. 1793, Volume 5. G.G. & J. Robinson. Retrieved on 2011–03–15. "Reign of this portentous period, it has been eloquently tenor, and energetically observed, "that the reign of atheism in France was avowed the reign of terror. In the full madness of their career, in the highest climax of their horrors, they shut up the temples of God, abolished His worship, and proclaimed death to be an eternal sleep:-in the very centre of Christendom, Revelation underwent a total eclipse, while atheism, performing on a darkened theatre its strange and fearful tragedy, confounded the first elements of society, blended every age, rank, and sex ,indiscriminate proscription and massacre, and convulsed all Europe to its centre, that the imperishable memorial of these events might teach the last generations of mankind to consider religion as the pillar of society, the parent of social order, and the safe-guard of nations." It is wonderful that, amid the horrors of this dismal period, while "the death dance of democratic revolution" was still in rapid movement, among the tears of affliction, and the cries of despair, "the masque, the song, the theatric scene, the buffoon laughter, went on as regularly as in the gay hour of festive peace.""
- ↑ William Kilpatrick (2012). Christianity, Islam, and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West. Ignatius Press. Retrieved on 2011–03–15. "Actually, it's helpful to think in terms of two Enlightenments: the Enlightenment that cut itself off from God. The former led to the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, the abolition of slavery, and the civil rights movement. The latter led to the French Revolution, the Reign of Terror, the suppression of church by state, and the godless philosophies of Marx and Nietzsche and their offspring-National Socialism and Communism. More recently the abandonment of God has led to the regime of cultural relativism that regards rights as arbitrary constructions. It's this second Enlightenment tradition that Cardinal Ratzinger referred to when he wrote, "The radical detachment of the Enlightenment philosophy from its roots ultimately leads it to dispense with man." Actually this transition happened no "ultimately" but almost immediately. The first instance occurred when Enlightenment worship of abstract "reason" and "liberty" degenerated quickly into the mass murders committed during the anti-religious Reign of Terror in France. "Liberty, what crimes are committed in your name", said Madam Rolande as she faced the statue of Liberty in the Place de la Revolution movements before her death at the guillotine. She was one of the early victims of a succession of secular systems based on rootless notions of "liberty", "equality", and "reason". As many historians have pointed out, the atheist regimes of modern times are guilty of far more crimes than any committed in the name of religion. Communist governments alone were guilty of more than one hundred million murders, most of them committed against their own people."
External links
- The Imploding Leftist Establishment, American Thinker
- V. I. Lenin, "Left-Wing" Communism, An Infantile Disorder (1920) V. I. Lenin, Selected Works, English edition, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1952, Vol. II, Part 2.
- John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.), THE MOTIVATIONS OF POLITICAL LEFTISTS


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