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Sunday, August 29, 2010
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BRING OUR WAR $$ HOME speech for rally at VFP 25th, Portland 8/29/10
Thank you. I feel grateful to Veterans for Peace for their 25 years of organizing, and for bringing us all together here today. I feel grateful to all of you for making time and space in your life to be here today.
I am the daughter of a veteran, granddaughter of two veterans. My grandfather who was among the first troops to enter Nagasaki after the nuclear attack on that city and its civilian population never spoke of it. My other grandfather who lay injured on a battlefield in France in November of 1918 told my father, who passed it on to me and my siblings: "There are no good wars. Don't believe them when they say so. War is not the solution to anything." No one in my generation of my family enlisted; no one in the next generation of my family has enlisted either. Thank you to the veterans with the courage to tell the truth.
I feel compassion for all the hurting, confused citizens who know there's something wrong and don't know what to do about it. That's what I'd like to speak to you about today.
I think the U.S. as a whole is suffering from traumatic stress disorder. How can we attack and destroy whole countries without feeling the effects? We are traumatized by violent video games, gunmen attacking school children, domestic violence. We're all trying as best we can to cope, many by looking away.
Here in Maine a coalition of activists responded to our collective trauma by adopting the Bring Our War $$ Home campaign. Nearly every active peace group in the state has contributed energy to this effort by now. The campaign was originally planned to last 3 months, but by tax day in April it had already gathered so much momentum that we saw that we should carry on.
Many similar efforts are underway to call on Congress to stop funding wars and instead fund education, jobs, health care, green energy and infrastructure repairs. Let a thousand campaigns bloom! Ongoing budget crises at the national, state and local levels afford us a special opportunity to reach out to our fellow citizens.
I speak to you as fellow activists. I love to march with you and it always lifts my spirits. But the job ahead of us is to reach out to our neighbors and co-workerswith a message that speaks for them.
The central strategy of the BOW$H campaign is the local resolution. The City of Portland passed one 7-1 this year, calling on their representative in the House to redirect funding. Other towns voted the resolution up or down, or voted to table it – but in every case, the effort to bring a resolution opened a space for conversations.
My husband Mark Roman and I traveled around Maine this month photographing some of the many elementary schools that were closed this year due to budget shortfalls. Most closings saved between $200,000 and $400,000 for the school district in the coming year. That is between 5 and 10 minutes of the cost of war and occupation in Afghanistan.
Nearly all the schools had new, colorful playgrounds built with primary school children's needs in mind. Parent organizations raised the funds to build them, knowing the cash strapped school districts never would. Now the kindergarteners are bused almost an hour each way to attend larger schools in the district, leaving their playgrounds behind.
In some towns the schools are shuttered. The town that owns them can't afford the heating and insurance costs to keep them open for the many community activities that have been held there for years.
These harsh conditions create an opportunity for us, activists. A person whose 5 or 6 year old grandchild now rides the bus far away each day knows there is something wrong. A parent who worked to build a playground that now stands idle knows there is something wrong. In the barrage of mass media disinformation, they are bewildered and confused about where exactly the problem lies, and what the solution might be.
Here's why I think the BOW$H message is so powerful at this point in history.
"Bring" is an active verb. It's a demand aimed at the branch of Congress charged with minding the purse strings. It's a demand that can be made by anyone: a child who lost her school, a voter who writes to her representative, a school board trying to make ends meet.
"Our war $$" is a noun with two modifiers. The money IS ours, because we pay it out in income taxes. Maine taxpayers have now contributed over $2.5 billion to fund the wars in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The lie that we have exited from Iraq is spun by the mainstream media a hundred times a day. 50,000 combat troops are renamed, and private contractors will guard an embassy the size of Vatican City. Does this sound expensive?
"War $$" means money that is used to kill people. It does not mean money that we are morally obligated to offer for the rebuilding of infrastructure we destroyed in our scramble to control global energy resources.
Yesterday I saw an article by Adil Shamoo, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who was born and raised in Bagdhad. He cited a report on world cities published by UN-HABITAT, an agency of the United Nations. Prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the percentage of the urban population living in slums in Iraq hovered just below 20 percent. Today, that percentage has risen to 53 percent. Half the population in Iraq who want to work are unemployed. Iraq today – America tomorrow?
War $$ have made us all poorer.
"Home" is the best word in my message today. "Home" is where the grandmothers have nurtured the human race for millions of years. Home can be temporary or last a lifetime. It is mobile. It's where we are fed. It's where the heart is.
Finding words to communicate with our neighbors is the opportunity I leave you with. Simple, direct words that refute the lie of mainstream media that war makes us safe, and that building weapons of mass destruction makes good jobs and prosperity. It's a teachable moment right now, my peaceful friends. Let's make the most of it. Please join me in raising our voices so loud they will hear us all the way in Washington:
Bring our war $$ home!
Bring our war $$ home!
Thank you.
Lisa Savage
CODEPINK Maine Local Coordinator
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- Ms. Sherrie said...
I couldn't agree more with your message. The healthcare and education needs of all American people could be met with a small percentage of the trillions of dollars we spent in recent wars. Where do the average American's priorities lie? How can the average American make ethical decisions when they are informed by a biased media? Thank you for speaking up.
- August 29, 2010 at 5:32 PM
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Major E. has sent us a copy of his letter to the editor of the Washington Post regarding its story on Bill Roggio. Major E. writes the Post:
I am disappointed in your piece about Bill Roggio. It had bias and errors that should have been obvious to any of the many editors and fact-checkers with which your newspaper is blessed.
I spent eight months on the ground in Iraq as part of a roadside bomb task force and have actually learned to go to blogs first for real news about Iraq because of their effort to report reality, rather than preconceptions, whether driven by political agendas or elitist disdain. I find it incredibly frustrating that someone who wants to report from the ground in Iraq and respects the views of the troops, is labeled a propagandist — as was insinuated about Roggio. How about taking a more thorough look at "real journalists" like Eason Jordan or Linda Foley?
I will close with the same words that I have shared with the 15 or so audiences I have had with civic groups to share experiences and photos in an attempt to balance with a bit of reality the relentlessly negative coverage that too many media outlets have unleashed upon the public in the last couple of years: "Things are much better in Iraq than the media would like you to believe."
Assuming Roggio continues to report with the same realism that led the US Marine Corps to respect his abilities, his work will support it as well.
Major E.
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Roggio's response to the Post story is here. The column by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Jack Kelly criticizing the Post's coverage as "the journalistic equivalent of a drive-by shooting" is here. The Post has yet to respond to Roggio's points in print or to run any corrections.
In a related message to us, Major E. writes:
It is not the newest story, but I have been busy putting together some submissions to Black Five for the MilBlogger anthology.
I love that the Corps is bringing Roggio out there. Our side has a long way to catch up in the war of information. Getting reality out is something our side needs to do better — way better.
A good model is the way LTC Kurilla of Deuce Four invited Michael Yon to join his unit. Because of it, the success in Mosul will be part of history.
If reporting the Stryker Brigade's successful planning and execution of its 2005 counter-insurgency campaign, it would have been ignored and forgotten. He did a lot of other things right, but my sense in working with his unit was that one of his great strengths is how he grasped the importance of the entire spectrum of information operations.
Check out Black Five here as well as the other milblogs on the blogroll of Hugh Hewitt.


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(AP) NEW YORK - A batch of weak economic reports sent stocks lower Thursday. The worst of the bunch was a regional manufacturing index that sank for the second straight month.
The Philadelphia branch of the Federal Reserve reported that manufacturing in the Northeastern U.S. slumped this month, pulled down by drops in new orders and shipments. Economists had expected no change in the index. It was the worst reading since last August.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 251 points to close at 12,574. The Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 30 points to 1,326. The drop in the two stock indexes wiped out their gains for the week. The Nasdaq composite finished down 71 points at 2,859, down 2.4 percent.
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Benchmark U.S. crude, on a steady slide since May, hit a low of $79.82 per barrel in morning trading.
Material and energy companies, whose fortunes are closely tied to economic swings, led eight of the 10 industry groups within the S&P 500 index lower. Utilities and telecommunication companies, which are considered defensive investments because of their reliable cash flows and rich dividends, edged higher.
The market got off to a weak start after the Labor Department reported a small drop in the number of people applying for unemployment benefits. Figures for the previous week were revised higher. Those are bad signs for the job market because they indicate that companies are still laying off workers.
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Latest Monthly Jobs Report: Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) Statement
The latest monthly jobs figures were released this morning and show that the U.S. manufacturing sector gained 37,000 jobs in March 2012.
Overall, the U.S. gained 120,000 jobs in March, and unemployment was 8.2%, (down 0.1%).
Data for manufacturing:
472,000 manufacturing jobs gained since the start of 2010. 120,000 manufacturing jobs gained in 2012.
Said Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) Executive Director Scott Paul:
"It's clear from this jobs report that manufacturing is playing an outsized role in driving the economic recovery in America. The policy lesson should be clear: investing in manufacturing will pay off with more and better jobs for American workers. President Obama was right to focus on manufacturing in the State of the Union and budget proposal. Now we need Congress to act."


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Module Lwt_switch
module Lwt_switch : sig..end
Lwt switches
Switch have two goals:
- being able to free multiple resources at the same time,
- offer a better alternative than always returning an id to free some resource.
For example, considers the following interface:
type id
val free : id -> unit Lwt.t
val f : unit -> id Lwt.t
val g : unit -> id Lwt.t
val h : unit -> id Lwt.t
Now you want to calls f, g and h in parallel. You can simply do:
lwt idf = f () and idg = g () and idh = h () in
However, one may wants to handle possible failures of f (), g () and h (), and disable all allocated resources if one of these three threads fails. This may be hard since you have to remember which one failed and which one returned correctly.
Now we change a little bit the interface:
val f : ?switch : Lwt_switch.t -> unit -> id Lwt.t
val g : ?switch : Lwt_switch.t -> unit -> id Lwt.t
val h : ?switch : Lwt_switch.t -> unit -> id Lwt.t
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let switch = Lwt_switch.create () in
lwt idf = f ~switch () and idg = g ~switch () and idh = h ~switch () in
with exn ->
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raise_lwt exn
type t
Type of switches.
val create : unit -> t
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val is_on : t -> bool
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val turn_off : t -> unit Lwt.t
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exception Off
Exception raised when trying to add a hook to a switch that is already off.
val check : t option -> unit
check switch does nothing if switch is None or contains an switch that is currently on, and raise Lwt_switch.Off otherwise.
val add_hook : t option -> (unit -> unit Lwt.t) -> unit
add_hook switch f registers f so it will be called when Lwt_switch.turn_off is invoked. It does nothing if switch is None. If switch contains an switch that is already off then Lwt_switch.Off is raised.
val add_hook_or_exec : t option -> (unit -> unit Lwt.t) -> unit Lwt.t
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"The Eclipse 2011 Pro provides the ultimate in worldwide power wave performance. Inspired by the progressive and technical riding of Levi Siver, the sail is designed to deliver quick and stable power and easy handling in a huge variety of wave and freestyle conditions. Major advancements in materials and components truly make the Eclipse 2011 a wave sail without limits."– goyasails.com
On the Beach
The most obvious change on this year's Eclipse is the addition of the new lightweight scrim X-ply. This has given a weight saving over last year's model of 0.3kg (nearly 10%), which is fairly substantial.
There are a few other changes, with this year's sail including carbon fibre within the kevlar stretch control to ensure an even, more stable foil. There's also a new 'Poly Clew' outhaul system that offers a choice of upper or lower eyelet position. Choose high for lift and power, or low for flexibility and manoeuvrability.
The Eclipse includes a recommended trim system, which works very well. Although only one set is marked on the sail, be aware that you can work a little either side of this to accommodate personal preference.
The luff length (407cm) is fairly moderate within the group, while the boom length is second longest in test.
On the water
There's no doubting that the Goya is a powerful sail. It has quite a full and stable set to it, which gives great low-end performance (the best in test in fact) with a very solid pull. Changing the clew eyelet position from top to bottom does make a difference to the feel of the sail, but generally we felt the Eclipse seemed to work best using the upper position.
In the hands the sail is slightly lighter than last year's, but it's still one of the heavier feeling in test. The fullness and power are partly responsible for this feel, but so is the longer boom. It does feel slightly bigger on the water than the other sails, but the upside is that you can use a slightly smaller sail than others might be on.
Within its comfortable wind range the Eclipse is excellent. It gets you onto the plane quickly, keeps the power low down in a manageable position, and doesn't feel too dissimilar to last year's model – perhaps just a little lighter in the hands and a little more springy and forgiving in feel. It's great for jumping thanks to the power and drive, while being very good for riding as well. As the wind increases and you start to get overpowered, the pull position shifts back a bit and starts to make the sail harder work. Our heavier Clones (over 80kg) had less of a problem than the lighter ones, but the characteristic is evident nevertheless. It's not unmanageable, it's more like the sail just has too much power at the top end. Applying more downhaul and outhaul helps a bit, but the top end is still more limited than some of the other sails on test.
So, at the top end you can flatten the sail off to some extent, or simply change down a little earlier, but either way the lower and mid range of the Eclipse does make amends for the slight lack of comfort at the top end. The pull position is generally pretty centred, the power delivery moderate, and the sail errs on the grunty / more powerful side of this group.
Overall Impression
The 2011 Eclipse is a power sail. At the bottom end it is unrivalled within this group for power, drive and early planing. At the top end it can get a little back-handed when fully wound. Overall, however, the Eclipse is a great all-round wave sail that offers a solid and stable power, fantastic jumping performance, and balanced handling within its comfortable wind range.


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Chris Mooney | May 18, 2011
By Chris Mooney • Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - 10:29
It is no secret that many in the climate science world are critical of Fox News. The prevailing view seems to be that the conservative network, although claiming to be "fair and balanced," is in fact quite biased in its treatment of this and other issues.
The opinion isn't without foundation. It's not just Fox's coverage itself (see image at left, courtesy of Media Matters): Last year, Media Matters exposed an internal email from Washington bureau chief Bill Sammon, commenting on the network's coverage of global warming and seeming to demand a misleading treatment of the issue. The email told reporters they should
…refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question. It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts, especially as this debate intensifies.
Given that warming is indeed a fact, it's little wonder that when it was released, this email drew a lot of attention.
Clearly, there's much concern about Fox coverage. But many critics of the network seem unaware of what may be their best argument: the existence of several public opinion studies showing a correlation between watching Fox and being misinformed about one or more public policy issues.
These studies tend to take the same basic form. First, they survey Americans to determine their views about some matter of controversy. Inevitably, some significant percentage of citizens are found to be misinformed about the core facts of the issue–but not just that. The surveys also find that those who watch Fox, or watch it frequently, are more likely to be misinformed.
Here are five such studies—and note that this list may be incomplete. This is just what I've come across so far:
1. Iraq War. In 2003, a survey by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland found widespread public misperceptions about the Iraq war. For instance, many Americans believed that Saddam Hussein's Iraq had been involved in 9/11, or that it possessed weapons of mass destruction prior to the U.S. invasion. But not everyone was equally misinformed: "The extent of Americans' misperceptions vary significantly depending on their source of news," PIPA reported. "Those who receive most of their news from Fox News are more likely than average to have misperceptions." For instance, 80 % of Fox viewers held at least one of three Iraq-related misperceptions, more than a variety of other types of news consumers, and especially NPR and PBS users.
2. Global Warming. In a late 2010 survey, Stanford University's Jon Krosnick found that "more exposure to Fox News was associated with more rejection of many mainstream scientists' claims about global warming, with less trust in scientists, and with more belief that ameliorating global warming would hurt the U.S. economy." Notably, there was a 25 percentage point gap between the most frequent Fox News watchers (60 %) and those who watch no Fox news (85 %) in whether they think global warming is "caused mostly by things people do or about equally by things people do and natural causes."
3. Health Care. Earlier this year, the Kaiser Family Foundation released a survey on U.S. misperceptions about health care reform. The survey asked 10 questions, and compared the "high scorers"–those that answered 7 or more correct–based on their media habits. The result was that "higher shares of those who report CNN (35 percent) or MSNBC (39 percent) as their primary news source [got] 7 or more right, compared to those who report mainly watching Fox News (25 percent)."
4. Ground Zero Mosque. In late 2010, two scholars at the Ohio State University studied public misperceptions about the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque"—and in particular, the prevalence of a series of rumors depicting those seeking to build the mosque as terrorist sympathizers, anti-American, and so on. The result? "People who use Fox News believe more of the rumors we asked about and they believe them more strongly than those who do not." Respondents reporting a "low reliance" on Fox News believed .9 rumors on average (out of 4), but for those reporting a "high reliance" on Fox News, the number increased to 1.5 out of 4.
5. 2010 Election. Late last year, the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) once again singled out Fox in a survey about misinformation during the 2010 election. Out of 11 false claims studied in the survey, PIPA found that "almost daily" Fox News viewers were "significantly more likely than those who never watched it" to believe 9 of them, including the misperception that "most scientists do not agree that climate change is occurring."
It's important to note that these studies do not prove causation. In other words, they do not prove that watching Fox makes people believe incorrect things. After all, it could be that those who are more likely to believe the incorrect things listed above are also more likely to watch Fox, to seek out Fox, etc. The causation could go in the opposite direction.
Still, the evidence above is striking.
Faraday replied on Permalink
Mooneys Biased Reporting
Okay Mooney, let's see if you're an actual scientist or just a political hack.
Please list the common scientific misconceptions perpetrated by left-leaning news media. Here's an example to get you started: Left-wing Creationism (http://www.isteve.com/Darwin-Enemiesonleft.htm)
My guess is that you aren't even aware of your ignorance and biases.
Faraday's appaling ignorance
The so-called "Left-wing creationism" of which you (perhaps you are the pro-eugenics racist and white supremacist Steve Sailer himself) whine is a typically grotesque far-right distortion of reality. Those very few who espoused something remotely similar to "left-wing creationism" (a ridiculous misnomer) were, in fact, reacting (and admittedly sometimes over-reacting) to the crackpot racists and eugenicists of the 19'th century "social Darwinist" set who were later seen as a driving force towards Nazi genocides and eliminationism. "Social Darwinism" was then and remains today a primary Right-wing "justification" of the tremendously damaging economics of laissez-faire capitalism. (And are today being represented by the likes of Steve Sailer, his pet eugenicist Professor Linda Gottfredson, the spectacularly despicable Pioneer Fund, and, sadly, even the New York Times eugenics-enabling crackpot-libertarian John Tierney).
A small number of these people who reacted vehemently against the pro-racist and pro-eugenics "social Darwinism" (who actually rejected Darwin's actual writings and instead focused on ludicrously pseudo-scientific "re-interpretations" of Darwin's ideas) descended into their own brand of pseudo-science that posited one or another view of "human exceptionalism" (quite like the right's pseudo-religious/pseudo-scientific "American exceptionalism"). They did not claim religious "creationism", but instead essentially argued that the "blank slate" view of human social learning and plasticity elevated our species beyond being limited in any way by genetics.
This view fell strongly into disfavor in the following decades until the recklessly anti-rational and anti-scientific dogmas that many have termed "postmodernism" reared its mystical, metaphysical head, particularly in academic social science faculties of the late 20'th century. This development was largely prompted by grossly misinformed emotional reactions to sociobiology and then to evolutionary psychology, neither of which actually makes the claims that the postmodern critics reacted to with such horror.
Fortunately, postmodernism in science is effectively dead, thanks far more to liberal scientific and philosophical criticism and debunking than anything the Right had to offer!
Faraday, your notion that postmodernism can be equated with modern political liberalism or the "left wing" is just as ludicrously false as the claim that the Right or political conservatism can be equated with racism, white-supremacy, or eugenic eliminationism. Yes, some social science academics went wildly astray, just as some conservatives do indeed espouse racism, white-supremacy, and eugenic eliminationism, as Steve Sailer steadfastly does.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Yes…..left wing creationists. They definitely are the left wing majority and therefore are just as prominent and deserving of attention as Mooneys aforementioned studies. Could you detect any sarcasm there?
You can't take every fringe group into account. There are billions of people with billions of views, let's concentrate on the ones that actually affect society ok?
Faraday replied on Permalink
Read the Article First
The left-leaning news media refuses to discuss the basic science of human biodiversity, with significant implications for society.
While I might share the political views of Mr. Mooney, it is intellectually dishonest to cherry-pick the data showing how conservatives can have scientific misconceptions, while ignoring the evidence showing that liberals also have scientific misconceptions.
anonymous replied on Permalink
more lol
What are you talking about? Why don't you just acknowledge the obvious. That fox misleads its viewers with right leaning stories and emotional dialogue. Its atrocious sometimes. The fact that some left wing medias omit "the basic science of human biodiversity" (some proof please?) does not in any way omit the studies presented here by actual scientific investigators. I guess scientists are part of the left wing media too, along with the Nature and Science journals as well.
I do my best to be "fair and balanced" in my criticisms, but every time I try to watch fox news I find myself getting angry at some point. I truly feel that some of the contributors and journalists there are either out of touch with actual reality or are simply extremely politically motivated.
Faraday proudly defends racism and eugenics
If one searches for the phrase "human biodiversity", one quickly learns that Steve Sailer (he of the notorious hate-based eugenics- and racism-promoting personal web site isteve.com as well as the notorious hate-based eugenics- and racism-promoting "The Human Biodiversity Institute" hate antithinktank and who may well be posting here as Faraday) took that term from old-style Right-wing racist eugenics pro-genocidal infamy and gave it new, even more despicable life in Right-wing neo-racist neo-eugenics pro-genocidal infamy.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has declared that Sailer's sites are hate sites.
To learn all you need to know about Sailer and his monstrously hate-fueled pseudoscience of "human biodiversity", see:
(See section about V-DARE).
You were saying, "Faraday"? Who's being intellectually dishonest?
Adam R. replied on Permalink
scientific misconceptions
"…the basic science of human biodiversity…"
BZZZZT! Crackpot alarm! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Sailer
Applegate replied on Permalink
Confirmation bias
Ever heard of "confirmation bias"? It is the well-known tendency of researchers to find exactly what they are expecting to find. In biomedical research a great deal of effort goes into preventing this through study design, because human health and well-being depend on it.
Here we have researchers who lay out a series of misconceptions, create questions to test who has these misconceptions, and what news source might be responsible. But does the hypothesis presuppose the result? Are they opinion-free misconceptions? Are the questions loaded? Is the result analyzed fairly without cherry-picking? And are studies that do not confirm the hypothesis reported?
Homeboy replied on Permalink
Why don't you go read them and find out before you post asking questions about them. Do you expect the authors of the original articles to come tell you the answers, or do you think they expect you to read there findings yourself and come to your own conclusions?
Applegate replied on Permalink
Look for yourself. #1 They
Look for yourself.
#1 They decided to only examine the origin of three "misperceptions":
Evidence of links between Iraq and al-Qaeda have been found
Weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq
World public opinion favored the US going to war with Iraq
These are either opinion or loaded questions. Liberals would say no to all, and conservatives would say there is some evidence for them. A conservative researcher would treat the contrary of these assumptions as misperceptions.
#2 The strongest correlates with Fox and misperceptions were for:
Trust what scientists say about the environment
Addressing global warming would hurt the U.S. economy
The first is clearly opinion and the contrary to the second is far from a fact, "green job" fantasies notwithstanding.
#3 This survey actually confined itself to facts. This compared people's understanding of the final 2000 page healthcare law. It is doubtful that anyone in America has read it. The confounding factor is that as the plan was being considered, there was much discussion (probably a lot on Fox) of more socialistic features that never made it into the final law. Some of their questions that were often answered wrong were about whether these features were in the law. Not surprising that listeners to liberal news outlets may never even have heard of them.
#4 The title of the study is:
CNN and NPR promote more accurate beliefs; Belief in rumors associated with opposition to the NYC mosque and to mosques in general"
Clearly this is not an unbiased study that came up with an unexpected finding. Their "rumors" were allegations that have yet to be proven, not allegations proven to be false.
#5 While they concluded that: "This suggests that misinformation cannot simply be attributed to news sources, but are part of the larger information environment that includes statements by candidates, political ads and so on" they went on to say that the least informed people tended to watch Fox. But again the "misinformation" was often opinion: "most economists" or "most scientists" think, or "economy is getting worse". They didn't note, but did report, that viewers of Fox were more likely to get two fact-based "perceptions" right than viewers of other news outlets.
Figures don't lie, but liar figure.
I don't happen to disagree that Fox has a conservative bias. But CNN, MSNBC, and NPR have a conspicuous liberal bias. I don't see why a lone voice for conservatives should be so frightening to liberals who are bathed in a surfeit of like-minded propaganda.
Oh, and did I mention that I'm not a conservative?
Titus replied on Permalink
have a conspicuous liberal bias
As an ex Brit I would add the BBC.
I agree with Applegate and I to am not a conservative. I voted labour in UK.
Phil M replied on Permalink
"I agree with Applegate and I
"I agree with Applegate and I to am not a conservative. I voted labour in UK."
Standard denier tactics. You have already said you vote conservative a few posts ago.
Titus replied on Permalink
I said I have voted for both. My last vote was for labour.
Please retract and correct this statement with a balanced comment.
anonymous replied on Permalink
And NuLabour were more OldTory than the tories
And NuLabour were more OldTory than the tories. You're a conservative and a denialist and I can't see any reason why someone would have to retract a statement pointing it out.
Unless you hate to let people speak freely.
Titus replied on Permalink
Your tiresome
And when folks miss speak I'm at liberty to point that out.
Unless you hate to let people speak freely.
You seem to make a habit of pointing at speck in someones eye and totally miss the plank in your own. Your tiresome (I'm speaking freely).
Phil M replied on Permalink
"I said I have voted for
"I said I have voted for both. My last vote was for labour."
Well, to tell you the truth, there is right leaning factions in Labor/Labour/Democrats & your language is very right leaning. I doubt you were ever a centrist like you make yourself out to be & besides, a few posts back you said you now vote conservative.
Titus replied on Permalink
I'm right leaning as I've said
And I vote for both parties. Never said, or even thought of myself as a centerist.
As a US citizen I refuse to affilate with either party. I suppose you could lable me as a floater if you must.
anonymous replied on Permalink
As a us citizen, how did you vote for Tony Blair?
"Titus. +0; Mon, 2011-05-09 17:35; My last UK vote was labour
Titus (not verified)
My last UK vote was labour for Tony Blair"
On http://www.desmogblog.com/climate-change-and-well-informed-denial
Titus replied on Permalink
Because I'm a UK Citzen
It's called dual citizenship.
I last lived in the UK in late 90's. Been in US ever since.
Hence "my last UK vote was labour for Tont Blair".
anonymous replied on Permalink
See, denialists change their message to suit
See, denialists change their message to suit the occasion.
"Oh, I'm a USian"
"Oh, I'm a Brit"
You've said that you voted for both parties. That means you must have been in the UK for more than 15 years.
You change your desires to fit whatever story makes best reading.
Liars and con-men do the same.
Titus replied on Permalink
You really are a bore
You really are a bore. You stride around this site beating up on folks with tirades and abuse.
You are very bad news for your cause. I recommend you keep your month shut and leave the communication to others better suited.
FYI. I was born British and voted many times in UK. Sheesh what an idiot you are.
anonymous replied on Permalink
You really are two-faced, aren't you?
When you want to be American, "I'm an american". When you want to be a foreigner "I'm a brit". When you want to be a conservative, you are, and when you don't want to be one, "I've voted for labour!".
You change your story to fit your needs.
Like I say, liars and con-men do this.
Which are you?
Titus replied on Permalink
Your an IDIOT
Are you SOOOOOOOOOO stupid that you cannot see or accept a simple fact that I was born and raised in the UK. Voted Conservative and Labour. Moved to the US in late 90's and now a US citizen and am not affiliated to any political party.
You are the biggest heap of sh……..t I have ever communicated with.
anonymous replied on Permalink
You're the dumb one
Thinking you can get away with changing your story without someone bringing you up on it.
Then again, you have a Mission From God, and lies are a necessary Evil to aid you in that Holy Mission.
So "con-man" is the answer, I conclude.
Titus replied on Permalink
My story has been totally consistent
You are just too stupid and blinded by your idealolgy to see.
The pile of shi…..t is starting to smell.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Yup, when you're losing, you have to start swearing
Because all you've got is gut feeling.
Lies, damned lies and titas. Who isn't a denialist, he just never seen any data he agrees with that shows AGW.
anonymous replied on Permalink
What happened to the Christian?
If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
You have heard that it was said, "Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you (Matthew 5:43-44).
Looks like you'll be left here when the others have left for better pastures:
Which is a bugger for the rest of us.
(PS how are you liking the character assassination. Seems like you're OK dealing it out, but hate it for yourself. Hypocrite. Con-man. Denier)
Titus replied on Permalink
You ask:
"PS how are you liking the character assassination. Seems like you're OK dealing it out"
Yeah. And thanks for all the training over the past few weeks. My education and understanding have risen more than my expectations.
You've been agreat mentor and inspiration. Thanks………
anonymous replied on Permalink
coming from a fundie, that's a laugh...
from a xian fundie! Bwahahahaha!
anonymous replied on Permalink
I never said you were affiliated to a party.
I never said you were affiliated to a party. So take that lie back and apologize.
Titus replied on Permalink
I never said you did. Just a statement.
You are becoming an even BIGGER heap of cr…….p by the minute.
anonymous replied on Permalink
I am bad news for your cause.
Because your cause requires blind faith in the Hidden Truth. Problem is, you find out that it doesn't exist when you turn the light on.
Rather like a bogeyman, in fact.
You've denied you were a denier. That was proven false from your own mouth. You've denied you're conservative (which in America isn't a tory party member) but that's been shown false from your own words too.
And now you've been chopping and changing on your identity.
Merely a short step each way. Which is the road to hell.
Titus replied on Permalink
You're babbling has gone beyond comprehension
You're babbling has gone beyond comprehension.
How can I respond to anything you say now I have shown your comments to be a cataclysmic heap of dung.
I'll take pity as I think you are suffering shell shot from defending your faith for so long. I recommend you quit for a while and seek some rehab.
Titus replied on Permalink
Typo change
Read: 'Shell shock'.
Phil M replied on Permalink
"Yeah. And thanks for all the
"Yeah. And thanks for all the training over the past few weeks. My education and understanding have risen more than my expectations.
You've been agreat mentor and inspiration"
Titus. This is why anonymous & myself get so frustrated with your comments.
Here is the definition of denialism:
"•Denialism is driven by ideology where the need to maintain the belief takes precedence over the evidence. A denier has decided their position in advance and looks through the data with the aim of confirming their pre-existing beliefs, ignoring the rest of evidence. A denier is not motivated by the desire to improve our understanding; many appear motivated by the desire to promote confusion and doubt about climate change. They are often linked in this case to the fossil fuel lobby or vested interests. "
It's you all over Titus. You have come here with a position decided in advance. You have chosen to come to not a science blog on AGW, but a blog discussing the PR. You have decided to avoid putting any serious questions to actual scientists & instead come to a blog discussing PR & have declared it's all a faith, a religion etc.
Despite numerous attempts at addressing your questions, you stay on message. Which means it's confirmation bias. You are not here to promot any understanding, you are here to promote confusion & your position is very clear to us & has been decided well in advance.
So we don't believe you & get really frustrated hearing you say you were looking for some sort of training, education or understanding. You aren't, it's a lie & we see through it.
Since you say you are not a political creature, what would it take for your position to change on AGW?
Titus replied on Permalink
"Yeah. And thanks for all the
The training was in the art of tirades and hurling abuse. Never done that on a blog before. Anonymous is a past master and I've been in awe at his teaching.
First off I would recommend you distance yourself from the likes of him. He does your cause great harm.
Secondly I have focused my comments on the PR because that is your failure. You cannot bully your audience into blindly following you. You have a difficult product because it is not doing what you expected. Joe public is asking questions and you are falling apart at the seams.
Ask Joe to fly in your plane and you're seeing the result. "Hey you're taking me to 35k ft. without a parachute?". "Not me" I say.
And you call it denial!!
Forget it. Your cause is toast.
anonymous replied on Permalink
titas cracks within two hours
yet he still insists on slagging off the real scientists and then goes all "tone troll" when they're not 100% polite.
What a moron!
You cracked. You have nothing other than your hate inculcated through your dual religion that YOU are the center of creation: Ayn Rand greed and fundamentalist Xian ego-stroking.
If there is a god, he doesn't answer prayers, he just gives consequences. And you're going to hell in a handbasket.
Your vitriol shows how thin your skin is and how you MUST go on the attack. Pathetic
Titus replied on Permalink
How do you dream up such stuff?
If I'm interpreting your comment correctly I read that you are basically saying you have thrown in the towel.
I graciously accept your defeat.
Please do your religion (BTW: that's what this site has confirmed for me) a favor and remove yourself from promoting their cause. Do you think you will convince anybody with your behavior?
You are a liability.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Ah, projection.
So you give up, titas?
Well done. Accepted.
anonymous replied on Permalink
remember, you're the one who believes in the sky daddy.
You're the one with the religion, titas.
AGW exists, the science is on as firm a footing as the semiconductor theory that makes your computer work.
But you hate that.
It interferes with your religion.
Titus replied on Permalink
Semiconductor theory supports decades of explicit engineering, quality controls and regulatory processes. It has decades of successful development and investment and is now an everyday commodity in 10x1000,s of products and has performed exceptionally well and many times exceeded research predications.
AGW is the same you say? PULL THE OTHER LEG. You should have quit early when I accepted your defeat for the first time.
anonymous replied on Permalink
And AGW is supported by nearly 2 centuries
And AGW is supported by nearly 2 centuries of explicit testing, quality controls and regulatory processes.
It has over 50 years of successful prediction and is now an everyday accepted science.
Your leg doesn't have to be pulled. I'm stating the truth.
An inconvenient one to you, because your faith requires that AGW be false, no matter what evidence there is for it. Denial.
Titus replied on Permalink
This is a change of emphsis for me
On #3: I'm usually listening to believers tell me about the big oil money that supports AGW deniers.
Now I can identify the big health care providers that support health care reform. Kaiser is probably the biggest integrated health care system in the world. They provide a system of insurance and care. They have the basis for rolling out a national health care system (like UK). In my experience of being a Kaiser member (through job benefits) I can truly say this is scary. Give me options of independent competitive insurance and care any day. There is so much that can be done without this politically controlled, big lobby supported sledge hammer approach. Watch out - BIG HEALTH CARE is here.
Phil M replied on Permalink
"In my experience of being a
"In my experience of being a Kaiser member (through job benefits) I can truly say this is scary. Give me options of independent competitive insurance and care any day. There is so much that can be done without this politically controlled, big lobby supported sledge hammer approach. Watch out - BIG HEALTH CARE is here."
Not conservative my arse. I've lived in the U.K also & now live in Australia. Both have free health care systems along side of private. Obviously if you can afford private, then private is a quicker & often better service, but not always. Quicker yes. I've been treated in public & private hospitals before & think the public health system is fantastic.
The problem with private health care is, the majority can't afford it.
Titus, you keep declaring you are not conservative, but your language, demeanor, morals & general ideology is very right wing, bordering on Libertarian. You fool only yourself.
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"I don't happen to disagree
"I don't happen to disagree that Fox has a conservative bias. But CNN, MSNBC, and NPR have a conspicuous liberal bias."
So what CNN, MSNBC or NPR personalities have a far left leaning leaning & extreme left leaning views that counter the far right leaning Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Bill O-Reilly to name a few or organized conservative rallies?
"Oh, and did I mention that I'm not a conservative?"
You know what they say about if it looks like a duck & quacks like a duck.
Why the passionate defense then?
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Defense? I'm defending
Defense? I'm defending "confirmation bias" in the cited studies, not an ideology. To ideologues, everything is about ideology. They bend the scientific process to their needs.
Ironic that you should consider libertarians to the right of conservatives.
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"Ironic that you should
"Ironic that you should consider libertarians to the right of conservatives."
Maybe I should have been more specific. You obviously are refering to left libertarianism, where as i am refering to right libertarianism or libertarian-conservatism.
Now to my question to you:
"So what CNN, MSNBC or NPR personalities have a far left leaning leaning & extreme left leaning views that counter the far right leaning Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Bill O-Reilly to name a few or organized conservative rallies?"
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Do you really think that a
Do you really think that a single conservative news outlet comes close to balancing the daily waterboarding of liberal values that comes from almost all other media and even from teachers in school? Or do you not realize that liberal values are thoroughly inculcated into the American culture now?
I once saw a talk on CSPAN by someone in the teachers union castigating American teachers for their failure. As proof, she pointed out that despite teachers having a primary role in forming you minds, many still vote Republican. She had no clue how fascist that statement was. To her indoctrinating children with liberal political beliefs was as natural as teaching them to read. But don't let them learn how to think.
I'm not sure why you're throwing conservative rallies in there, since I don't imagine many non-conservatives attend or listen.
Phil M replied on Permalink
"Do you really think that a
"Do you really think that a single conservative news outlet comes close to balancing the daily waterboarding of liberal values that comes from almost all other media"
Like I asked before, where is the "liberal media" equivalent of Hannity, O-Reilly & Beck? To someone who watches Fox news & is a conservative, ANTYHING that is left of that is obviously considered Liberal media.
To a centrist or a progressive, it's not viewed as have a Liberal bias like Fox news has with the right.
It's like the ABC here in Australia or the BBC in the U.K. Anything left of the Murdoch press is considered left wing.
"I'm not sure why you're throwing conservative rallies in there"
Ok i will expand on my comment. When have MSNBC, CNN or NPR organized what could arguably be called a Democrat rally with democrat spokes people similar to Glenn Becks rally where he had Sarah Palin speak.
"and even from teachers in school? Or do you not realize that liberal values are thoroughly inculcated into the American culture now?"
Then why is there roughly a 50-50% democrat & republican voting pattern?
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My point exactly. You
My point exactly. You probably don't even think you are on the left. You think of yourself and the mainstream media as centrist. (You should read Liberal Fascism for a good discussion of the true pedigree of the progressive movement in America. Hint: it arose from American fascism.) You have been conditioned that way. The MSM would have you believe that the left of decades ago is now the center. (See the Wikipedia article on "agenda setting" - it is a recognized academic area of study.)
I don't know much about Glenn Beck, but did Fox organize this rally or did he do it as a private person? Do you think he should not have been allowed to organize a rally? Why are you so afraid that some people express views opposed to yours? Are your views so fragile?
"Then why is there roughly a 50-50% democrat & republican voting pattern?" Could it be because at least half the populace sees through the MSM bias? Democrats should have been embarrassed at the conspicuous fawning the MSM reporters did over Obama – actually cheering on camera when it was announced that he won. It was not their finest hour.
I too grew up in a culture that took liberalism as the norm. When I was first able to vote, I voted Democratic - didn't everybody? "When you're young and you're not a liberal, you have no heart. When you are old and you're not a conservative, you have no brain."
Liberals are fans of dissent except with the dissent is from their own ideology. Then it is dangerous hate speech - denial.


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Clemens Ray, "12 Years a Slave"
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When the boat docks and Clemens' master is there to claim him, as it were, he runs away without turning back, despite Solomon's cries for help. "It was so heartbreaking," Chalk says of shooting the scene. "He's bellowing, screaming at the top of his lungs and I was like, 'Don't turn around, just don't turn around.'" He notes that later, Solomon makes a similarly wrenching move in leaving slave Patsey (Lupita Nyong'o) behind when he finally regains his freedom.
McQueen has a gift for capturing terrible stories beautifully, Chalk notes. "Steve's whole goal is just to be honest, and he loves actors, so it's this entire environment of care and freedom."
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Evelyn, "Labor Day"
The Dec. 27 release "Labor Day" follows the unlikely love story between Frank (Josh Brolin), an escaped convict, and Adele (Kate Winslet), the troubled woman he forces to shelter him. But the most shocking moment of all may belong to Smith.
As Evelyn, a neighbor, she badgers Adele into watching her son Barry (a terrific Micah Fowler) for a few hours, not realizing that the fugitive Frank is in Adele's home. The wheelchair-using Barry has cerebral palsy and is unable to speak clearly, but he doesn't miss much. That can't be said for Evelyn. A confrontation between mother and son when she returns to pick him up is a stunner — at a recent screening, the audience collectively gasped in response. (But no spoilers here.)
"When I saw it, the audience gasped too, which was kind of cool," says Smith, an actress who has worked steadily since playing Catherine Martin, a very different kidnap victim, in "The Silence of the Lambs."
She found her way to Evelyn through the clothing, with help from friend and costume designer Danny Glicker. "I definitely don't look good in this film," Smith acknowledges. "And yet the sneakers and the little white socks and that big denim skirt did something to me."
Smith was so freaked out by her character's behavior that she tried to get out of it. "But Jason [Reitman] was very convincing, plus he's the director, so I had to listen to him." She adds that his method of shooting in long takes gave the film the feel of a play. "It felt like you were entering that world. So I just had to leap and do it."
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Ginny, "Inside Llewyn Davis"
Kauders has been acting professionally since she understudied for Harvey Fierstein's play "Torch Song Trilogy" in 1982, yet she may be the only actress on the Internet who has managed to avoid revealing her age — and she won't start now. In the Coen brothers' tale of folk singer Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), who's his own worst enemy, Kauders plays his agent's secretary, Ginny. In two short, hilarious scenes, the tiny veteran actress comes off like a comedic giant. "I lost myself in that part, and you don't very often get that kind of opportunity," says Kauders, who calls the writer-directors "the Coen boys."
She notes that although it's hard work creating a role with only a couple of scenes, Ginny was a joy. "They had written that role so well, as far as I'm concerned, it just talked to me, it told me how to do it." When asked how she prepared for the part, she offered up the advice that Fierstein gave her: Trust the material. "I have followed that all of my career."
Of working with the brothers, she says, "They were very specific about what they wanted. I make it sound like they mini-managed. They didn't do that; they really left it up to you. You knew when they were satisfied." She has heard that the auteurs often like to use the same actors over and over again. "I only hope that it's true, because that was like playing tennis with Billie Jean King. It raises your game."
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Katie, "Fruitvale Station"
"Fruitvale Station" takes the audience through the last day of the life of Oscar Grant III, the young man who was fatally shot by a BART officer in 2009. As tragic as the story is, the film is filled with sweet moments as well, as Oscar (Michael B. Jordan) interacts with friends and family — and even strangers. O'Reilly plays Katie, a woman Oscar comes across in the supermarket he used to work in. He helps her with a recipe, even putting her on the phone with his grandmother. "It gives the audience an opportunity to fall in love with Oscar, even more than we already are," says O'Reilly.
She was invited to play the role by her friend Octavia Spencer, who portrays Oscar's mother, Wanda. O'Reilly took two quick breaks while filming "CBGB" in Savannah to work four days on "Fruitvale" in Oakland.
Katie reappears near the end of the movie, a horrified witness to the shooting. Filming the scenes at the actual station where Oscar was shot was such an intense experience, she says, "It was the first time I really became aware as an actor of being taken over by adrenaline." She was banging her hand on the train door so hard, in character, that she fractured her wrist. "I didn't even realize I was hurting myself until the next morning, when I couldn't move my hand."
From the way she talks about director Ryan Coogler, the injury was worth it. "He is such an inspiring person to be around," she says. "I'll be an extra in the background to be around him."


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An area of the state very near and dear to my heart received some enormous and invigorating sports news officially on Tuesday.
An area of the state very near and dear to my heart received some enormous and invigorating sports news officially on Tuesday.
Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan announced that the team is changing its name back to what it should have always been � the Hornets.
I grew up in Salisbury, N.C. about 45 minutes north of the Queen City.
I grew up a huge Lakers fan, and still am, thanks to my father and one Earvin �Magic� Johnson and the �Showtime Lakers.�
However, my family was not wealthy enough to fly to Los Angeles to see games and dad and I loved going to NBA games, so the Hornets were the product we had.
I cannot lie the games were great to go to, so much fun.
During the 1997-98 season, when I was in the eighth grade, dad went in with two other guys to buy season tickets.
We went to about 16 games that year and saw stars like Grant Hill and Reggie Miller take on the Glen Rice and David Wesley led Hornets.
It was special because it was a classic �My dad and me� type of thing, bonding at its highest capacity.
Not to mention that the, now just a memory, Charlotte Coliseum had awesome Subway vendors and the greatest chocolate chip cookies I have ever tasted in my life to this day throughout the concourse.
I wanted to write this piece explaining how personal of a connection I had to the team growing up, but also to congratulate a man that I feel has failed miserably in basketball since he retired from the game, the great Michael Jordan.
So kudos MJ for listening to fans, grassroots alliances like the facebook page �We BEElieve, Charlotte, take back your Hornets,� yes I am a member, and returning a classic team to a great city.
During the Revolutionary War, British General Charles Cornwallis referred to Charlotte as a �Hornet�s Nest� to him and his army because of the hostile residents they encountered there.
For historical reasons alone, the name belongs, but I will give you more.
The Hornets originally became a team in the expansion season of 1988.
They weren�t very good until drafting Larry Johnson No.1 overall in 1991, still the franchise�s lone top overall pick in its history, and following in 1992 by drafting Alonzo Mourning No.2 overall.
The team�s fan base never got close to a basketball utopia that included a championship, but the franchise had several very good seasons and showings in the NBA Playoffs.
Most importantly, the Hornets, as opposed to the Bobcats, were a team in which the fans of Charlotte considered theirs.
The proof was in the packed house.
From 1990-91 all the way through the 1996-97 season, Charlotte was the Attendance Champion of the NBA.
For seven seasons in a row, not New York, not Chicago, not Los Angeles, but Charlotte had the most fans through the turnstiles of any team in the league.
The Bobcats could not dream of accomplishing that feat.
If you went to a Bobcats game over the years against anyone of any merit in the NBA, the opposing team almost always had more fans.
I once asked around the city after a game at stores and restaurants and such, �why do you not support the Bobcats?�
My most common response, �because they are not the Hornets.�
For Michael Jordan to fully capitalize upon and succeed with bringing the moniker back, he must do something he loves best, with his gambling hobby, and go �all-in.�
Bring back the exact color scheme of purple and teal pinstriped jerseys that defined Hornets basketball.
Paint the seats and court in Time Warner Cable Arena teal.
Even though I do not suffer from automatonophobia (fear of humanoid figures), I can�t stand humanized mascots. However, Hugo was the best of those in his hay day.
Jordan should return Hugo and even Super Hugo.
In doing so, the boss should return the logo to that of Hugo dribbling a basketball with his stinger regally protruding from his posterior.
If he is not willing to go �all-in,� then why even adhere to the fans� wishes in the first place?
In a recent press conference, Jordan stated that he and management of the team are going to do �all that we can to incorporate as much of the Hornets� past as we can.�
So now that the buzz is slated to be back for the 2014-15 season, we as North Carolinians can just sit back, wait and watch to see what all changes are made.
I, for one, fully expect the move to have the city�s sports fans �buzzing� again, just like they used to.
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The Queensland Government has announced plans to declare the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve and the Wenlock River on Cape York Peninsula as Queensland's first ever 'strategic environmental area'.
Premier Campbell Newman said the declaration would protect one of Queensland's most environmentally significant areas.
"There will be no mining on the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve – not now, not ever, not some, not any," said Minister Powell.
In 2007, Australia Zoo was invited by the Federal Government to identify and manage a conservation property as a tribute to Steve Irwin and his legacy. Terri Irwin has been leading the battle to protect the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve from mining since it was dedicated to Steve's memory.
"This is so exciting, it is wonderful news and we are totally thrilled," Terri Irwin said. "With this announcement Premier Campbell Newman has ensured that the important environment on the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve is protected. We are proud to continue to support tourism in Cape York as part of the Premier's four-pillar economy," Terri Irwin said.
"This is a win for Queenslanders, and indeed all Australians. The Wenlock River Basin is one of the world's most environmentally rich ecosystems," Terri said.
"The Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve was set aside in honour of my dad and his legacy, to mark all the incredible work that he achieved during his life for wildlife and conservation. It is the most pristine land on planet Earth and we are just thrilled." Bindi Irwin said.
The Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve is a 330,000-acre property in Queensland's Cape York Peninsula. It is home to a set of important spring fed wetlands which provide a critical water source to threatened habitat, provide permanent flow of water to the Wenlock River, and is home to rare and vulnerable plants and wildlife.
"Today's announcement shows the LNP Government is committed to preserving this ecologically significant part of Queensland for future generations," Mr Newman said.
The Irwin Family and Australia Zoo are excited to see what the future holds for other significant habitat after the Premier announced "This will be the first of many ecologically-sensitive areas across Queensland declared a strategic environmental area".
"Steve always said that the Wenlock was the most beautiful place on earth and now I am so pleased that this spectacular river and its biodiversity will be protected for the future continuing the amazing contribution that one man made to wildlife and conservation," Terri said.
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