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With our culture in full collapse and our constitutional freedoms in tattered ruins, Republican luminaries tell us to be good sports and let the butchers of our values enjoy their prize. We are in no position to thank God for our country at this time if we are thus collaborating in her demise.
Barbara Bush thinks that we should "get on with it". Republican leadership thinks that we should salute the other side's collectivist banner since they won the game. Bobby Jindal and Newt Gingrich think that Mitt Romney should stop insulting the vast numbers of "citizens" who voted for Obama because they enjoy freebees. Not since Nikita Krushchev declared, "We will bury you," have Americans had to listen to so much "lie down and die" talk. In fact, Krushchev later explained that he meant "your own working class will bury you." If he had substituted "your chronically dependent class", he would have nailed it.
For we have been buried. The United States of America, as a coherent society, is dead. But not every last one of us who believes in common decency, objective truth, honesty, responsibility, hard work, self-control, self-sacrifice, and devotion to a supreme moral power has yet been smothered in the tsunami of societal collapse. We still have a little time to make lifeboats out of driftwood.
This isn't a game, Mrs. Bush. Fighting for one's life is not a game. When a rival team beats your son's high school on the field of play, then you throw up your hands, smile, and watch the kids congratulate each other in good sportsmanship. But when someone breaks into your house, knocks your son senseless, and runs away with the money that would have sent him to college or been much of his legacy, you don't say, "Well played, Burglar!
Or maybe a Republican of Bush/Rove/Christie ilk really would say that: i.e., a member of the Judas Party to which Mrs. Bush has generously donated one husband and (so far) two sons. After all, the poor stiff whom the burglar bludgeoned would be Mrs. Bush's butler, no significant cash would actually be kept anywhere outside of a state-of-the-art vault, and the burglar's haul would end up being invested in some shady sort of trafficking that would eventually profit the Bush portfolio. It was the Republicans, let us recall, who originally tampered with Allen West's district, and it was the Republican House that refused to back West this past week against an election so patently fraudulent that any red-blooded American would be rioting in the streets. That House might have seated West by special vote and undone a flagrant, overweening, contemptible outrage practiced by the Florida Democrat mafia… but its leadership decided instead to shake hands across the aisle. Chris Christie might have denied our Czar-in-Chief the opportunity to use New Jersey's tragedy as an electioneering photo-op… but he instead placed his state above his country (translation: his own political launching pad above the survival of constitutional government).
One might almost be forgiven for concluding that this election cycle turned out just the way the Republicans wanted—that Messrs. Boehner and Cantor have for years been itching to rush over to the other side. Socialism isn't really so very bad for business, you know: not if you're a very, very big business. It utterly annihilates your smaller competition. It gives you access to state bail-outs and state support. You can continue shifting your plant and labor to China and India while a complicit government propaganda machine drapes you in the Stars and Stripes.
A border guard lies dead—and uncounted innocents in Mexico, including dozens of children, have been murdered—thanks to Operation Fast and Furious; but Eric Holder is back for a repeat performance, and the story that never really lived in the mainstream media is now ice-cold. A U.S. ambassador and his heroic defenders were hung out to be slaughtered by this Administration… and that story, too, grows colder by the minute. This president could walk up to Ann Coulter in a roomful of reporters and splatter her brains all over the carpet with a Glock… and the scribbling sycophants would paean his marksmanship. He is our first sort-of-African-sort-of-American president, he doesn't give a crap about private property (except in private, among his cronies), he believes that hard work means taking what you can however you can, he ties those who honor truth in knots of their own naiveté, he shoots hoops and sings the blues, he views tradition as a heap of tiresome bullcorn, he smokes weed, he's cool with free love… why, he is the minted facsimile of the New American. He is everything that will live (for a while, until the monster begins devouring her young) after we of the old America all die. He is the anti-president of the anti-America, and we shall most certainly have at least four more years of him now.
This isn't a game, Mrs. Bush. Justice has been raped over and over before our eyes, the rule of rule lies in shreds, decency has been chased deep into hiding, free speech is menaced with arrest and jail, grandmothers are being sent to cheap graves on cheap pain pills, small business are being pounded to dust by arrogant bureaucracy, dollars are being flung into the economy like rolls of toilet paper, debt is being multiplied like the speed of a nose-diving jet, children around the world are being vaporized from week to week as a megalomaniac wages a private war with high-tech play things… and your advice is to get over it. The fruit of your ancient wisdom is this: to be a good sport.
This isn't a freakin game, Mrs. Bush.
Approximately half of our "fellow citizens" are now our inveterate enemies. They oppose our essential values more rabidly, in many cases, than do fundamentalist Muslims, the ruling despots of Red China, or other desperate characters around the world in whose resistance we are supposed to volunteer our sons and daughters for military service. The greatest enemies we paleo-Americans have in the world are the neo-Americans who spit, trample, and defecate day by day on everything we hold dear.
We, to them, are racists, bigots, sexists, homophobes, hypocrites, cretins, Neanderthals, Luddites, various other words whose meanings they are too insanely self-righteous to analyze, and many more four-letter words whose meaning is merely a collective middle finger. They, our "fellow citizens", are liars, cheats, frauds, traitors, louts, thugs, brats, punks, narcissists, exhibitionists, sociopaths, antinomians, sybarites, fantasists, blockheads, slaves, and fools. At what point, Governor Jindal and Mr. Gingrich, should one refuse to shake hands with a terminally adolescent obscenity-machine who urinates on one's shoes, snitches one's wallet, and screams in one's face? What does it take to make you guys mad? How far do you think you can bend over in your efforts to "understand" their side until you fall into their sewage?
This is war—and war is not a game. Those of us who feel morally obligated to allow ourselves—and, more importantly, our principles—to drift meekly into oblivion as we live out some sort of quietist faith should by all means pray over their turkey this Thanksgiving as if nothing were happening; for, to them, nothing ever really does happen. Life is a passing illusion… a bus stop on the way to death and new life. May their passage be swift.
For the rest of us, Thanksgiving should be a day of shame, and a day of new resolution. We have squandered what God has given us, and as of this moment most of us continue to evade the unpleasant reality that burns our eyes even through their closed lids. These people, these New Americans among whom we live and breathe, are enemies of truth, and those who compromise with them make a cowardly pact with lies—a one-sided promise of indefinite appeasement whose terms are more loathsome and squalid than falsehood itself.
Some specific recommendations for fighting this new kind of war: don't allow your children to work in or for this government. Don't let them wear the uniform of the United States. They may well be ordered to commit acts that will haunt them throughout their lives, and their commanders will very likely not stand behind them if their disgrace becomes international news. On the contrary—they will become scapegoats offered to the wolves.
Support and encourage a strong state resistance to dictatorial top-down policies. I personally should like to see state militias raised to protect international borders: I would willingly pay higher taxes to chase drug cartels out of the Southwest. When Holder & Co. command us to desist… well, I should like to see just how they handle our giving them the bird. Our national guardsmen will not shoot their fathers and brothers just because Holder & Co. order them to: not just yet, they won't.
If you are the owner of a small business, hold out with what you have for as long as you can. Don't try to expand and prosper in spite of everything: don't offer this regime any propaganda fodder in its ongoing effort to sell an idiot populace on the "recovery".
Arm yourself. Police may or may not come to your aid in the near future. In Cleveland, police refused to respond to the calls of election observers being illegally bustled out of polling places. Buy a gun. If Eric Holder should ever take it away, buy a black-powder muzzle-loader, or even a bow and arrow. Obtain whatever you can to dissuade psychopathic hooligans from kicking in your window and plundering your home like a bunch of pirates boarding a galleon. Die hard.
Keep having children. Our new rulers want you to die, ideologically and demographically. Don't play along. Make vibrant families, and feed them on peanuts and spuds from the back yard, if you must.
Stop going to movies, and stop buying anything connected with Propa-Tainment Complex. Stop patronizing mainstream news media. Stop rewarding them. This is a war, for crying out loud: you're not being asked to stick your head out where bullets are whizzing past—only to desist from debasing your family's values by lapping up the saccharine poison dumped in overflowing troughs before you.
Home-school your kids, or at least put them where they will be raised to prize inner worth rather than skin color and gender, to admire temperance rather than debauchery, to express individualism through eloquent artistry rather than through grotesque counter-conformity, and to handle new knowledge with humility rather than to assume themselves elevated above their parents by a headful of progressivist cant.
Know your faith—know it intimately rather than by word of mouth. Do not suppose that the message of Christ is to smile and be pleasant as truth is violated, innocence undermined, justice trampled, taste brutalized, and free will fettered. Your faith means nothing if you merely look on at one atrocity after another, tacitly participating in the slaughter of each new victim through your "principled" refusal to raise an objection. The pangs you feel in watching the butchery of honor, truth, and decency are not those of the New Man fighting down the Old Man's belligerence. They are the deep inward bite of moral cowardice. If your spiritual advisor constantly eggs you on to feed this worm with your soul… get another guide.
Use less of everything—give yourself more power by making yourself less dependent. Always remember that our enemies, both Democrat and Republican, need us to grow ever more dependent. Pull in the opposite direction. Find medicines online or by word of mouth that treat your ailments (as your ancestors did) and take such good care of yourself that even the doctor sees you rarely. Be as free as you can: become tough, so that you may be free.
I thank God this week—and every week—for the undying certainty within me that there will always be more of us than of them. The only way we lose, in the long run, is if we defeat our own cause. Please recognize, as a first step in this all-or-nothing struggle, just who your enemies are. Some of them are standing right beside you, with their arm around your shoulder.


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Cranberry Apple Cider
Cranberries and apples are a great flavor combination. In the past, I've made a cake and stuffing with this dynamic duo that both turned out wonderfully. I usually make a large pot of hot apple cider for Thanksgiving, but I thought this year it would be fun to add fresh cranberries to the drink.
The tartness of the cranberries is a nice foil to the apple cider spices. And the color is a glorious crimson, which is perfect for the season. I couldn't think of a better cure for the absolutely freezing weather we've been having here (which in the Bay Area means a 65°F daytime temperature). Don't laugh; last night it got down to 40°F!
Yields: 8 servings1 (12-ounce) bag fresh cranberries, (3 cups)
2 quarts apple juice
1/8 teaspoon salt
10 cloves
2 cinnamon sticks
2 Red Delicious apples
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1 cup superfine sugar (or granulated sugar), as needed
1/2 teaspoon cherry extract (optional)
1 tablespoon lemon juice, freshly squeezed
Fresh cranberry juice: Wash the cranberries. Pick out and discard any bad ones (discolored, shriveled or bruised). In a saucepan, place the cranberries and a stick of cinnamon. Add 3 cups of water. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat to a gentle simmer. Cook, uncovered, for about 20-25 minutes, until the cranberries have burst. Stir frequently to prevent the cranberries from sticking to the bottom of the pan. Allow to cool a little and blend the mixture. Filter through a double-layered cheesecloth lined strainer and gather as much juice as possible. Discard the fruit pulp. Add the superfine sugar and cherry extract (if used) to the juice.
Apple cider: It's not necessary to peel or core the apples. Quarter them and stud the pieces with cloves. Place them in a large pot. Add brown sugar, the other cinnamon stick, the apple juice and salt. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat to a gentle simmer. Cook, uncovered, for about 20-25 minutes, until fragrant. Add the lemon juice. Filter the apple cider through a fine mesh sieve or fine muslin cloth.
Assembly time: Add the cranberry juice to the apple cider. Warm the cranberry apple cider when you're ready to serve. Adjust the sweetness if necessary.
Ladle the drink into mugs. Decorate with fresh cranberries, apple slices or cinnamon sticks.
I used Red Delicious apples for their very sweet flavor but you can use any other kinds, such as Granny Smiths for a more tart flavor or Gala apples for a less tart / sweeter flavor.
Count about 1 part of sugar to 3 parts of cranberry juice, then sweeten it more (if needed) when serving. I added 3 tablespoons of brown sugar.Published By: on November 18, 2009.

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Wieseltier, Shapira keynote conference on Zionism
Schusterman Center and Israel Institute cosponsor event drawing scholars from around the world
Leon Wieseltier says he's tired of hearing that Zionism has become obsolete. The literary editor of The New Republic was one of two keynote speakers at the two-day conference "Zionism in the 21st Century: Contemporary Perspectives From and About Israel."
Conference participants included faculty and doctoral students from Brandeis and neighboring universities. The event also functioned as a reunion for some 60 alumni of the Schusterman Center's Summer Institute for Israel Studies, which prepares faculty to teach multidisciplinary courses on Israel at the university and college levels. Representing various cohorts of the decade-old program, these scholars traveled from as near as Connecticut and Wyoming, and as far as Brazil, China, France, Denmark, Hungary, Israel and the Ukraine.
"Zionism can't be made obsolete," says Wieseltier. "For me, it is a primary exercise in Jewish self-understanding…a very inclusive approach to the entirety of Jewish history."
With the realization that Zionism is still a significant force in politics, law, art and culture, the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies convened over 100 scholars from around the world for the two-day conference, cosponsored by the Israel Institute, which took place Feb. 17 and 18, defying Sunday's snowstorm.
Professor Ilan Troen '63 P'14, director of the Schusterman Center, says the goal of the event was to "examine how the lessons of the past and the realities of the present may impact on the role Zionism might play in Israel's complicated and conflicted future." Troen is also the Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies at Brandeis, and co-chaired the conference with colleague and fellow Brandeis alum, Donna Robinson Divine '63 P'01, Morningstar Family Professor in Jewish Studies and professor of government at Smith College.
Troen opened with one of the central questions framing the conference: "How do we, as college professors, teach about Israel? What lessons have we learned from the past and present as we go forward and learn what Zionism is about?"
Session speakers and commentators sought to answer this question in multidisciplinary sessions spanning literature, music, politics, law, economics, and religion. They expounded on issues of orthodoxy and ultra-orthodoxy in the state, the place of the Holocaust and the kibbutz in Israeli historical memory, the possibilities of creating a secular and cultural Zionism, tensions with Palestinians inside Israel, and the place of Israel in a volatile Middle East.
The session "Economics and Land" shed fresh light on the dilemmas of achieving a more equitable distribution of wealth in a remarkably successful economy and access to land in a state whose legitimacy is challenged.
Shay Rabineau, a Schusterman graduate fellow who will complete his doctoral degree this year, considered the Israel National Trail (INT), which exemplifies a secular, as opposed to religious, model of staking a claim on the land. The project has marked and mapped more than 1,000 kilometers of hiking trails, including in disputed areas like the Golan Heights and the West Bank.
"Trail marking is a primal way to claim territory," says Rabineau. "It transforms space into place."
Co-presenting with Rabineau was Troen, who has written and taught extensively about the concept of competing narratives. Troen analyzed collective historical claims to the land, invoking concepts of peoplehood, nationhood, and indigenousness. He argued that these notions are selectively applied and manipulated to serve political agenda and spur conflict in the charged global dialogue on Zionism and Israel's legitimacy.
A panel on Israel's Relationship with its Neighbors and the Palestinian Arab Citizens aroused similarly passionate exchange. Elie Rekhess of Northwestern University asserted the necessity of dismantling the 1948 paradigm, citing the challenge of how to maintain Israel's nature as a Jewish and democratic state as the central problem facing Israel this century. Asher Susser, of Tel Aviv University, discussed the disintegration of Middle East state powers in the wake of the Arab Spring – a deeply problematic term, according to him – and how it has created a situation dramatically different from what Ben-Gurion predicted. The rise of political Islam and the breakdown of the Arab state have led to sectarian civil war, tribalism, and non-state actors.
"Our biggest problem now is not the strength but the weakness of our Arab neighbors," said Susser.
Session chair Shai Feldman, director of the Crown Center for Middle East studies, insisted that the new regional reality demands a change to Israel's policy on the Palestinian issue.
Keynote talks by two important figures framed the first day's sessions. Dr. Anita Shapira, author of the National Jewish Book Award-winning "Israel: A History" (Schusterman Series in Israel Studies, published by Brandeis University Press) and an Israel Prize laureate, inaugurated the program. Her address on the "Changing Images of Ben-Gurion" illustrated the power current events exert on our ever changing interpretations of the past. Shapira is Professor Emerita and chair of the Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel at Tel Aviv University.
The first day came to a close with Wieseltier's impassioned talk on the "Stubbornness of Zionism." Dr. Kathy Lawrence, scholar of 19th-century American literature, introduced the renowned thinker, writer and speaker, who won this year's prestigious Dan David Prize for his contributions to the field of ideas as a public intellectual.
Wieseltier is a long-time friend of Lawrence and her husband, Brandeis University President Fred Lawrence, who was unable to attend.
"Fred would feel really good that the Schusterman Center's work has brought Brandeis ever closer to Israel," Kathy Lawrence said. "It's an epic in Brandeis history to have Leon Wieseltier here."
Papers deriving from the conference will be published in a special issue of Israel Studies, the leading multidisciplinary journal in the field, published by Indiana University Press and co-sponsored by the Schusterman Center and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in affiliation with the Association of Israel Studies.
"It's very appropriate that this conference happened at Brandeis, which was which was founded in the same year as Israel," said Divine. "We can only return what is given to us by continuing to study issues like Zionism and Israel with integrity and academic rigor."
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Liberal democrat Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts states on NPR that he might support a amendment to the Massachusetts constitution defining "marriage" as between a man and woman.
Sunday, February 29, 2004
Liberal democrat Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts states on NPR that he might support a amendment to the Massachusetts constitution defining "marriage" as between a man and woman.
As someone who covers the FCC for a living, I can assure you that the pressure for a crackdown on broadcast indecency did not originate in the White House. In fact, critics have accused Michael Powell of being too lax. The main driver of tougher enforcement, at least on the FCC, has been Democratic Commissioner Michael Copps, a former aide to S.C. Sen. Fritz Hollings. In the Congress, there's been bipartisan support for a crackdown coming from the likes of Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Fred Uption, R-Mich. The White House has not been at the forefront of this issue.
-- Jeffrey Bartash
So Sterns claim that it is "facist right wingers" that got him kicked off six station is just plain wrong.
Hussein's Regime Skimmed Billions From Aid Program under the noses of the UN.
As Instapundit puts it "[The UN overseers] are either lying, or dumb as rocks. The story barely touches on the most interesting aspect of this -- Saddam's use of this money to purchase opposition to American war efforts from politicians and governments. For that matter, the UN has a lot of explaining to do."
Just heard on the news, former NYC mayor & liberal democrat Ed Koch has come out supporting President Bush in the 2004 presidential election.
This caught my eye since I went New Paltz College, and got an actual degree, unlike some of my classmates with their degrees in underwater basketweaving.
The first homosexual marriages in New York State are being conducted in the village of New Paltz.
"Someone explain to me how I can demand, with a straight face, that Dixiecrat Trent Lott or Jew-baiter (and MBNA shill) James Moran be punished when she isn't, or how I can give moral - as opposed to political - standing to those who only bust one side for the same crime." -- Kevin Drum
Saturday, February 28, 2004
"Professional gay person Rosie O'Donnell has married her partner to protest President Bush's support of the Federal Marriage Amendment. . . and to remind people she's still, technically, famous." -- Wonkette
A bit of humorous fun. Yeti using Penguins for batting practice.
Friday, February 27, 2004
A rally by College Republicans from Connecticut College in New London, CT was broken up Friday night by Campus Safety officers, who told them they had no permit. The students were rallying peacefully in front of the Olin Science Center, near the main entrance to the school. The students were showing their support for President Bush, and encouraging others to be excited about and supportive of the President.
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Ralph Peters in the New York Post
Far from the crude babykiller of campus legend, the American soldier has proved that he is as humane as he is competent, as creative as he is valorous, and as optimistic as the best traditions of his - or her - country. Our troops have tracked down war criminals, turned the tables on ambushers, faced countless roadside bombs - and built schools, created jobs, picked up garbage and set an example that even those Iraqis anxious for us to leave will not forget.
The American soldier has an immeasurably greater impact than American bombs.
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
"If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, John F. Kerry's mind must be freaking enormous." -- Tim Blair
In Jan. 1996, commenting on the federal government shutdown, [Massachusetts democrat Senator] Kerry called the House Republicans 'legislative terrorists,' who used federal workers as pawns and disrespected them. Asked about his terrorist comment, Kerry explained, 'Terrorists hold hostages, and the Republicans are holding the government hostage'..
I'm ranting again.
-- Les
Monday, February 23, 2004
The time was 1:02 p.m., less than four hours after terrorists steered American Flight 77 into the Pentagon's southwest wall.
Rumsfeld at first had dashed to the impact site. In his shirt and tie, he helped transport the wounded.
According to LGF, "The last two sentences tell you everything you need to know about Donald Rumsfeld."
They are right.
"I give the effort (rebuilding of Iraq) overall real credit."
"It is a good thing Saddam Hussein is no longer in power. It is a good thing we are democratizing the country."
Wow! That's Senate Minority leader democrat Tom Daschle!
In the same interview, he "praised the Bush administration's war and nation-building work in Iraq and said he has no serious concerns about the lack of weapons of mass destruction."
No Freedom of Speech in Boston either:
Protesters at this summer's Democratic National Convention in Boston may be confined to a cozy triangle of land off Haymarket Square, blocked off from the FleetCenter and convention delegates by a maze of Central Artery service roads, MBTA train tracks, and a temporary parking lot holding scores of buses and media trucks.
Under a preliminary plan floated by convention organizers, the "free-speech zone" would be a small plot bounded by Green Line tracks and North Washington Street, in an area that until recently was given over to the elevated artery. The zone would hold as few as 400 of the several thousand protesters who are expected in Boston in late July
According to Joshua Muravchik in the liberal Washington Post:
The litany of weapons systems that [democrat Massachusetts Senator] Kerry opposed included conventional as well as nuclear equipment: the B-1 bomber, the B-2, the F-15, the F-14A, the F-14D, the AH-64 Apache helicopter, the AV-8B Harrier jet, the Patriot missile, the Aegis air-defense cruiser and the Trident missile. And he sought to reduce procurement of the M1 Abrams tank, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, the Tomahawk cruise missile and the F-16 jet. Time and again, Kerry fought against what he called "the military-industrial corporate welfare complex that has relentlessly chewed up taxpayers' dollars."
Sunday, February 22, 2004
Oh my! A liberal gets it! There is a glimmer of hope for the left in this country after all.
Here is a money quote:
In 2001, New York was burning and we were afraid. Today, there are American flags flying in Baghdad and our enemies are afraid.
I don't have access to all the documents, but I must entertain the possibility, the possibility that the Bush Doctrine is working. We have been relatively safe since 9-11. Iraq is a hot zone, but there have been no major attacks on U.S. soil. Why? Because the people who finance terrorism are afraid of us.
We will be hit again, okay? That fear has limits, and Bush is pissing a lot of people off. But tyrants around the world are making compromise noises because we have put the fear of God in them. And if Kerry wins this election, all of that progress will be rolled back.
Europe will love us. The UN will praise us. The Arab world will breathe a huge sigh of relief. And money will start trickling back into Al Qaeda's coffers. The bad guys will tighten their grip on their respective populations, and the price we have paid will have been paid for nothing.
Read the whole thing, plus the comments.
"The Clinton administration's feckless attempts to get Osama are, to my mind, a huge neon warning about what might happen if John Kerry becomes president." -- Liberal Andrew Sullivan
Why would John Kerry try to take his voting record in the Senate off table unless he thought it is a negative for him.
Once again, there is a canidate real Liberals can vote for.
Soviet Style Democracy In Iran
Most voters who turned out appeared to be diehard conservatives or religious people who had been told it was their duty to vote. Others said they wanted the official mark on their identity card showing they had voted. There have been rumours recently that proof of electoral participation would ease government job or university applications. "My only reason to vote is not to get into trouble taking exams. I've been picking names from the list at random," said Fereshteh, a 20-year-old woman outside a north Tehran polling station.
Saturday, February 21, 2004
Those who dislike his policies have made a cottage industry of calling him stupid. But this reveals their own stupidity. Stupid men don't become fighter pilots, attend Harvard Business School or successfully declare and conduct a worldwide war against terrorism. They don't have the vision to understand that seeding democracy in the backwater that is the Middle East is the best long-run strategy for winning the war and ridding the world of the most dangerous threats to peace and order.
Mona Charen on John Kerry
As a young man, Kerry embraced a view of his country as an outlaw nation. His close colleague at VVAW Al Hubbard spelled America with a "k." Kerry has never repudiated that stance, but has played it this way and that depending upon how the political wind is blowing. If antiwar fervor is the order of the day in Massachusetts, then he is the war protester who described Vietnam as an "obscene memory." If the tide turns and war service begins to seem politically useful, he is the hero of the Mekong Delta, proudly displaying his framed medals on the wall.
But his voting record tells the real story. Kerry took pride in trying to thwart Reagan's muscular anticommunism in Central America during the '80s. He supported the nuclear freeze. He opposed the first Gulf War.
He made a huge contribution to defaming the Vietnam War and creating the myth of the American soldier as monster. From his subsequent history, it seems that he came to believe in it.
Friday, February 20, 2004
Thursday, February 19, 2004
I can't help but think some people admire totalitarian regimes not because they want to live in one, but because they want to be in charge of one.That's pretty much my own theory.
-- Les
Flying The F-102 In The Texas ANG
Retired Col. Bill Campenni was one of President Bush's squadron mates. The Texas ANG had the F-102, and probably wished it didn't. According to Campenni, "The F-102 was underpowered and, unlike modern fighters, had a split front view through the canopy. It literally had a bar down the center, so you'd have one eye on each side of the bar. It also had a built in altimeter error of up to 500 feet, which made it interesting when you were at 500 feet out over the ocean at night." Flying and training in the '102 was a dangerous job that required a lot of smarts and flying skill.
Bob Harmon is another of Bush's former squadron mates. At the time, Harmon was an instructor pilot. He remembers Bush as a "young, affable guy" and an above-average pilot, very good for his level of experience. "We flew together two or three times a month." It was dangerous duty. Harmon said that a couple of pilots were killed in F-102 accidents while Bush was there.
The first American jet fighters to be deployed to Vietnam were F-102s of the 509th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. When Lt. Bush signed up for fighters and joined the 111th FIS, he stood ready to deploy to Vietnam, as did every other Air National Guard pilot. In fact, he tried to volunteer for Vietnam.
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Being a resident of the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts, just a quick note on the scandel surrounding the junior senator from the Commonwealth.
What he does with his private life is own damn business. Just keep in mind, it was Bill and Hillary Clinton's horse in the race, Wesley Clark, who leaked the story first, to a room full of reporters. Not Matt Drudge or any Republican operative. Drudge just reported that several major news organizations were developing the story. Like a lot of his scoops, it was leaked to him by a member of one of those news organizations who felt the story was being pushed under the rug.
If you support gay marriage, drug legalization, and legal abortion -- but you also support the war -- then you're a "conservative," I guess. -- that is the conclusion of Instapundit
What is up with Haiti? Didn't Bill Clinton send in a bunch of US troops there about 10 years ago and spend 100s of millions of US taxpayer dollars to create a stable government there?
I think we should create an investigative committee to get to the bottom of this scandalous waste of taxpaper money!
Haiti did not present any threat to US security. Why were US troops there in the first place?
Monday, February 16, 2004
Strategy Page on the President's service record:
President George Bush joined the Air National Guard in 1968, went to officer training school and flight school and was on active duty for 23 months, and in the National Guard for four years. For those serving in Vietnam, there was a two percent chance of getting killed (it was much higher for the infantry, who were about ten percent of the troops in Vietnam, but took over 80 percent of the casualties.) Bush flew the F-102 fighter, one of the more dangerous aircraft to fly during the 1960s (one fatal accident per 40,000 flight hours). Bush took on a one percent chance of getting killed by volunteering for flight training in such an aircraft. It would have been much safer to enlist and get a job maintaining the F-102.
Sunday, February 15, 2004
Wretchard at the Belmont club wrote:
Yesterday at Fallujah, Islamic terrorists "staged simultaneous morning assaults on three police stations, a civil defense base and the mayor's office". In the future many observations will be made of this battle: that the Al Qaeda timed their assaults to coincide with US unit rotations through Iraq; that they chose the moment when the baton is passing from US soldier to Iraqi policeman. But if the Iraqi nation goes on to live another hundred years, it will remember this:And that ladies and gentlemen is how you build -- or rebuild -- a nation.Officers from the 82nd Airborne Division stationed a 10-minute drive away could hear the battle clearly. They offered help but the Hammad said it wasn't needed. The Americans did provide additional ammunition and weapons, including light machine guns. After the battle, soldiers at the civil defense base proudly displayed a light machine gun and a pair of rocket propelled grenade launchers they had captured from the attackers.
That when dying and bleeding, beset by the flower of terrorism, with pistol to set against automatic rifle and grenade, the Iraqi police did not ask for help from 82nd Airborne. They asked for ammunition.
Friday, February 13, 2004
Last night, on Hardball, Chris Matthews was calling for someone who served with President Bush in Alabama to come forward.
Lies and dirty tricks from the left. No surprise here.
Glenn Reynolds says "THE BOSTON GLOBE REPORTS that the Bush AWOL story is collapsing, as a key witness turns out to have lied."
Read the whole thing. He makes some interesting observations between this and another political story.
Wonkette sez:
Just in case you think Kerry's not getting enough head, NPR sucks long and hard: "This is a John Kerry I'd never known before: affable, funny, relaxed. . . So what gives with this transformation? Sure, he needs the media more now. But here's my theory: Kerry has, for better or worse, the natural temperament of a leader, a loner in charge."
Thursday, February 12, 2004
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Found over at Ipse Dixit
I am sure you are aware of both of these stories: 1) Gore claiming Bush has betrayed the U.S. with the war in Iraq, and 2) the discovery of a letter from a senior Al-Quida official basically saying that the U.S. is thwarting their efforts so much that the terrorists must try to start a civil war in Iraq (i.e. the U.S. is actually doing a good job in Iraq, not that the mainstream news outlets would have the guts to admit it).
This just strikes me as another example of Gore's impeccable timing of when he opens his mouth his foot is shoved back into it.
Before you start off, yes, Senator Kerry has an outstanding combat record.
After that, his record is not very good on the defense of the United States of America.
As for his protests against the Viet-Nam war, that was his right as an American.
He did it properly as well, he protested against the government that sent the military there, not the military implementing the government policy.
What Jane Fonda did, i.e. travelling to North Viet-Nam to give aide & comfort to America's enemies during a time of war, was treason.
Senator Kerry did himself no service by associating with her.
A letter to the editor from one of Bush's squadron mates, in his defense.
Read the whole thing. Unlike the rantings of Michael Moore, it is the word of someone who was there at the time.
The New York Times wants it both ways:
"Mr. Bush said repeatedly that he went to the United Nations seeking a diplomatic alternative to war. In fact, the United States rejected all diplomatic alternatives at the time, severely damaging relations with some of its most important and loyal allies." - New York Times editorial. February 9 2004.
"Yesterday's unanimous vote at the United Nations Security Council sends the strongest possible message to Baghdad...This is a well-deserved triumph for President Bush, a tribute to eight weeks of patient but determined and coercive American diplomacy…Only if the council fails to approve the serious consequences it now invokes -- generally understood to be military measures -- should Washington consider acting alone." - New York Times editorial, November 9, 2002.
Liberal Andrew Sullivan on Wes Clark:
The sole rationale for his candidacy was his military record - a record which ended in his being fired for being unstable in the Kosovo war. But what amazed me even more was how many otherwise sane Democrats seemed to take him seriously. "You're really scared, aren't you? I can see it" was the refrain from many liberal friends. Yes, I was scared. Not that he was a formidable figure bestriding the political scene like a colossus. But that he was a nut-case who had a shot at becoming the nominee of a serious political party. Now he can go back to what he was planning all along: raking in the usual lobbyist dough. See you at the Palm, Wes.
Greenspan Cites Impressive Economic Gains. More good news for the Bush Economy.
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
Further evidence of American cruelty at Gitmo:
"An Afghan boy whose 14-month detention by US authorities as a terrorist suspect in Cuba prompted an outcry from human rights campaigners said yesterday that he enjoyed his time in the camp," the Sunday Telegraph reports. Mohammed Ismail Agha, 15, was released last week:
In a first interview with any of the three juveniles held by the US at Guantanamo Bay base, Mohammed said: "They gave me a good time in Cuba. They were very nice to me, giving me English lessons."
Mohammed, an unemployed Afghan farmer, found the surroundings in Cuba at first baffling. After he settled in, however, he was left to enjoy stimulating school work, good food and prayer.
"At first I was unhappy. . . . For two or three days [after I arrived in Cuba] I was confused but later the Americans were so nice to me. They gave me good food with fruit and water for ablutions and prayer," he said yesterday in Naw Zad, a remote market town in southern Afghanistan close to his home village and 300 miles south-west of Kabul, the capital.
The paper notes dryly that "his words will disappoint critics of the US policy of detaining "illegal combatants" in south-east Cuba indefinitely and without trial."
A couple of interesting notes:
From the Wall Street Journal Editoral page:
The far more intriguing story here is why Mr. Kerry is playing this Vietnam-service card. This is the same John Kerry who declared in 1992 that Bill Clinton's draft-avoidance record should be out of political bounds. His precise words, defending Mr. Clinton against an attack from fellow Democrat Bob Kerrey at the time, were that 'We do not need to divide America over who served and how.' Why does he now want to assail Mr. Bush for service that was far more extensive than Mr. Clinton's?"
"The transparent answer is that the Senator is trying to use his Vietnam biography as a political shield against his national-security voting record. ...
"We rather doubt this gambit will work, and it shouldn't. A candidate's service history is one window on his character, but far more important is his judgment on the major security issues of his time. In Mr. Kerry's case, he has taken the dovish side of nearly every foreign-policy debate since he entered public life.
"After fighting in Vietnam, he returned to lead the protests against that war and urge the U.S. withdrawal that turned Indochina over to Communist rule for a generation. He was in favor of the nuclear freeze movement in the 1980s that would have frozen the Cold War in place with a Soviet advantage. He denounced the invasion of Grenada in 1983, though he now cites it as an example of a use of force he favors. He also opposed U.S. support for anti-Communist movements in Central America in the 1980s that helped bring democracy to Nicaragua and elsewhere.
"These policy instincts have held even after the Soviet collapse vindicated the Ronald Reagan strategy that Mr. Kerry opposed. The senator voted against the first Gulf War, arguing that Saddam Hussein could be contained without force. But in 2002, he voted to give this President Bush the power to disarm Saddam, only to oppose a year later the $87 billion to finish the job. We'd argue that these votes say more about the policies and judgment of a future President Kerry than does his Navy career."
The Washington Times points out democrat campaign funding irregularities:
A fund-raising committee run by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has been fined $21,000 for improperly accepting donations over federal limits.
The political action committee, Team Majority, was one of two PACs that Mrs. Pelosi used to support candidates during the 2002 campaign. She stopped raising and donating money through the committee more than a year ago, after complaints that she was using the multiple PACs improperly to exceed limits.
The fine, paid in October, was reported in Team Majority's year-end campaign finance records, released recently. The case still is open, and the Federal Election Commission would not comment, the Associated Press reports.
Monday, February 09, 2004
Read this
The Campaign of Hate and Fear by Orson Scott Card
Sunday, February 08, 2004
Reasons for war...
I'm shocked to find out that in perfect 20-20 hindsight, our reason to go to war in Iraq was on par with our reasons to unilaterally invade Serbia, Bosnia & Kosovo!
Andrew Sullivan says Clark is really out there.
I'd support Kucinich over Clark if I had to. Clark is simply too crazy to be president of the U.S.
Friday, February 06, 2004
"Vanity Fair" writer Christopher Hitchens says:
I wasn't-I certainly wasn't for [President Bush] election the first time round. I didn't want Albert Gore, either, and I'm glad it wasn't Gore, by the way. One has to face that fact. I must say I'm a bit of a single issue voter on this. I want to be absolutely certain that there's a national security team that wakes up every morning wondering how to take the war to the enemy. I don't have that confidence about any of the Democratic candidates
Thursday, February 05, 2004
Micky Kaus points out that big government, big spending Republicans Presidents are not a new thing:
Remember that the silliest excesses of big government, including the double indexation of Social Security benefits, occurred not under a Democratic president but under Nixon.
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
So Janet Jackson flashed a tit on national TV. Doesn't she show her breasts whenever she has an album coming out to boost sales?
The FCC is looking into this, but are still ignoring the multimillion annual undeclared donation to the DNC called the "West Wing".
Monday, February 02, 2004
GUN PERMIT APPLICANTS ARE INCREASINGLY WOMEN, according to this report from the Nashville Tennessean:
Since 2000, the percentage of gun-carry permits issued in the state to women has risen steadily from about 10% to almost 20% of those issued so far this year.
No one is exactly sure why. The reasons given vary from a growing interest in sports shooting among women to the belief that men — who are the majority of gun owners — rushed in to get gun-carry permits when they became more easily available in 1996, while women gradually gained interest. . . .
While the number of women getting permits may be slowly leveling off after rising for a couple of years, several women contacted said they had recommended getting handguns to their female friends.
Americans 65 and up are more likely to own a gun than any other age group..
-- Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for pointing this out.
Liberal Andrew Sullivan on democrat John Kerry:
A "pompous, do-nothing, faux-populist, Establishment blow-hard with the Vietnam obsession." and a "resume without a cause"
Sunday, February 01, 2004
Stephen posts a link to my HRC quotes over at Calpundit
I am suspicious of anyone who writes a law containing over 230 points at which my doctor can be sent to jail for treating me--as Hillary's nationalized healthcare law did.
I am wary of the idea of hey-presto I'm your "Co-president."
I worry about the mentality that hires a staffer who says, regarding the presidential executive order, "Stroke of the pen. law of the land...pretty cool." (Paul Begala)
And, yes, this attitude toward the power of government is the SAME one that thinks that the clearly unconstitutional parts of the Patriot act are just fine, and McCain-Feingold doesn't limit free speech.
Stop. Them. All.
Meanwhile...here's a very flavorful overview of quotes about Hillary. The one from Maureen Dowd is a peach.
Here is the Dowd quote in Question:
"Everyone is fed up with the creepy dynamics of this warped marriage. We have lost all hope of getting any shred of authenticity from either Bill or Hillary -- unless it's the authenticity of the deluded. They have chosen tactics over truth with such consistency that it's impossible to accept anything they say." -- New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.
"Biological changes over time" is when John Kerry discovers he needs Botox." -- Glenn Reynolds


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The Stooges
- Iggy Pop
- Ron Ashton
- Scott Ashton
- James Williamson
- Dave Alexander
The Stooges were punk before punk existed.
In a time when hippie idealism was popular, the Stooges threw down the gauntlet in the form of provocative, high-octane rock and roll.
The Stooges created punk-rock well before the genre even had a name.
The leader of the Stooges, the legendary Iggy Pop (born James Newell Osterberg), has been hailed as the "godfather of punk." Between the work of the Stooges—especially the albums The Stooges (1969), Fun House (1970) and Raw Power (1973)—and the subsequent solo career of Iggy Pop, the punk-rock sound and sensibility were devised and defined for all time. This high-energy quartet has been reviled and revered, but there's no denying the contributions they have made as prototypical punk-rockers.
A pre-Iggy Jim Osterberg grew up in a trailer park near Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was the drummer in a mid-Sixties high-school band called the Iguanas (from which he derived his famous alter ego, Iggy). He formed the Psychedelic Stooges in 1967 with brothers Ron and Scott Asheton, with Dave Alexander joining on bass. Shortening their name to the Stooges, they played alongside fellow Ann Arbor anarchists the MC5. They were uncompromising and controversial—a blunt contrast to the late-Sixties ideals of peace, love and flower power.
There was brutal power in the Stooges' basic garage-blues riffs, pounding beat and lyrical references to boredom, nihilism and self-loathing. The Stooges were signed to Elektra Records. Produced by John Cale (late of the Velvet Underground), the Stooges' self-titled debut, recorded in two days, included such brute-force statements of punk disenchantment as "1969" ("Another year for me and you / Another year with nothing to do") and "I Wanna Be Your Dog." The followup, Fun House, derived its name from the farmhouse outside Ann Arbor where the group lived, practiced and partied. If anything, Fun House was even harder-hitting than the debut, including such stripped-down, incendiary rockers as "Down in the Street" and "Loose," and closing with a howling, free-jazz number called "L.A. Blues."
Guitarist James Williamson joined in 1971, when the Stooges were at a low ebb, sidelined by drugs and disinterest. The timely intervention in 1973 of David Bowie, a professed fan, resulted in the Stooges signing with his management company (MainMan) and recording the classic Raw Power, released on Columbia Records. Bowie himself mixed the record, emphasizing its blistering primitivism. One of the most untamed and powerful releases in rock history, Raw Power—kicked off by the anthemic and often-covered "Search and Destroy," a punk-rock manifesto—barely cracked Billboard's Top 200. Yet it received belated recognition from the punk generation. Raw Power was remixed (by Iggy) and re-issued in 1997, and was expanded into a deluxe edition in 2010.
Beyond Raw Power, the lineup of the Stooges with James Williamson went largely undocumented on major labels. However, there have been numerous small-label, gray-market and bootleg releases of studio and live Stooges from that time period, attesting to the group's feral appeal. The most notorious of these was Open Up and Bleed, from a tape of a chaotic Detroit show in which a proud but self-destructive Iggy regaled hecklers with taunts and insults. It is among the most anarchic, impolite and over-the-top live shows ever recorded.
Reflecting on that dissolute era, Iggy told Mojo magazine, "We could have been the American Stones. But we messed up big-time. It was free-fall. We didn't stop till we hit the bottom."
In 1977, after the Asheton brothers exited and the Stooges fell by the wayside, Bomp Records released Kill City, credited to Iggy Pop and James Williamson. That same year, Iggy Pop kicked off his solo career with another helping hand from David Bowie. With Bowie producing and co-writing material, the solo albums The Idiot and Lust for Life both appeared in 1977. They came in the midst of the first wave of punk-rock bands from New York and London, all of them heirs to the Stooges' pioneering work of nearly a decade earlier. The Idiot became the highest-charting album of Iggy's career, reaching Number Seventy-Two.
Iggy became a prolific solo artist and something of an exemplar and elder statesman to the punk-rockers who followed in his tracks. He released three potent albums (1979's New Values, 1980's Soldier and 1981's Party) for the Arista label in the late Seventies and early Eighties. Moving to A&M, he reunited with Bowie for 1986's Blah-Blah-Blah. While his early life exhibited its share of irresponsibility and reckless risk-taking, the adult Iggy Pop—a fortunate survivor who turned 40 in 1987—invested thoughtfulness and commitment in his later work. Signing to Virgin Records, he issued a string of solid and artistically fearless solo albums that included Instinct (1988), Brick by Brick (1990), American Caesar (1993), Naughty Little Doggie (1996), Avenue B (1999) and Beat 'Em Up (2001).
Iggy reconvened the Stooges in 2003, recording four new tracks—all co-written with the Asheton brothers—for his solo album Skull Ring. The re-formed Stooges headlined the Coachella festival in April 2003 and performed a homecoming show in Detroit in August. The reunion stuck, and the reunited Stooges—with bassist Mike Watt subbing for Dave Alexander, who died in 1975—recorded a full album, The Weirdness (2007), produced by Chicago noise-meister Steve Albini. The Stooges toured extensively, to the delight of punks and hard-rockers everywhere.
Iggy elaborated on reigniting the fire with the Stooges nearly thirty years later: "Part of the process was figuring out, 'Gee, well, who are the Stooges? What finally sifted down was [that it's] the two brothers. They were the original band with me. [It] was the three of us before there was ever a bass player or a gig. Also, they're the only two musicians that ever threw in their lot with me before I was somebody. That sort of bond is not duplicable or for sale or anything."
When Ron Asheton died of a heart attack in January 2009, the Stooges might have died along with him, but another integral former band-mate, guitarist James Williamson, was recruited to keep the legacy alive. (Incidentally, after parting ways with Iggy in the mid-Seventies, Williamson went on to become a computer-industry executive with Sony Electronics.)
The Stooges have not only directly or indirectly influenced every punk-rock band, but they have also had an impact on the edgier groups of the grunge and indie-rock eras. You can hear echoes of the Stooges' dissonance and attitude in everything from Sonic Youth to Nirvana. In short, they have helped insure that a large corner of the rock world remains energized, unkempt and off-limits to sellout. True to the "never say die" spirit of punk, the resurrected Stooges continue to exhibit undiminished perseverance and tenacity.
Inductees: Dave Alexander (bass; born June 3, 1947, died February 10, 1975), Ron Asheton (guitar, bass; born July 17, 1948, died January 1, 2009), Scott Asheton (drums; born August 16, 1949), James Newell Osterberg a.k.a Iggy Pop (vocals; born April 21, 1947), James Williamson (guitar; born October 29, 1949)


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AUGUSTA - The Georgia Southwestern tennis teams lost by matching 9-0 scores at Augusta State on Sunday morning in Peach Belt Conference action.
The Hurricanes faced their second-straight Top 20 opponent in a span of 24 hours.
Jake Koonce and Evgeniy Vinogradov played well against the fourth-ranked pair in the southeast of Victor Cabellos and Victor Guimaraes, dropping an 8-5 decision at No. 1 doubles.
Matt Vansant had the closest match in singles play at No. 4 where he lost to Romain Brunie, 7-5, 6-3.
Tennis Match Results
Georgia Southwestern vs Augusta State
Feb 17, 2013 at Augusta, Ga.
(Newman Tennis Center)
Singles competition
1. Victor Cabellos (ASU) def. Evgeniy Vinogradov (GSW-M) 6-2, 6-4
2. Jan Labas (ASU) def. Jake Koonce (GSW-M) 6-2, 6-1
3. Victor Guimaraes (ASU) def. Joseph Bjerregaard (GSW-M) 6-0, 6-4
4. Romain Brunie (ASU) def. Matt Vansant (GSW-M) 7-5, 6-3
5. Gustavo D'Ascenzi (ASU) def. Stephen Moore (GSW-M) 6-2, 6-2
6. Gustav Anderson (ASU) def. Valentin Demande (GSW-M) 6-3, 6-3
Doubles competition
1. Victor Cabellos/Victor Guimaraes (ASU) def. Evgeniy Vinogradov/Jake Koonce (GSW-M) 8-5
2. Jan Labas/Romain Brunie (ASU) def. Chris Eastwood/Tommy Cangelosi (GSW-M) 8-1
3. Kenneth Guy Mooney/Maxime Coulomb (ASU) def. Joseph Bjerregaard/Matt Vansant (GSW-M) 8-4
Match Notes:
Georgia Southwestern 1-3, 0-2 PBC
Augusta State 2-1, 1-0 PBC; National ranking #9; Regional ranking #4
Carly Cangelosi and Victoria Ondo dropped a heartbreaker at No. 1 doubles, losing 9-8 to Victoria Lindqvist and Liv Pettersson.
ASU controlled the singles side as well. Cangelosi picked up four games in the second set of her match with Pettersson at No. 2 and Mollie McGowan won four in the opening set of her match at No. 6 to post the top performances for GSW.
Georgia Southwestern vs Augusta State
Feb 17, 2013 at Augusta, Ga.
(Newman Tennis Center)
Singles competition
1. Victoria Lindqvist (ASU) def. Kalie Douberly (GSW-W) 6-1, 6-1
2. Liv Pettersson (ASU) def. Carly Cangelosi (GSW-W) 6-1, 6-4
3. Roberta Oliveira (ASU) def. Victoria Ondo (GSW-W) 6-2, 6-1
4. Maria C. Pimentel (ASU) def. Ginny Jones (GSW-W) 6-1, 6-2
5. Julie Fontaine (ASU) def. Taylor Jones (GSW-W) 6-1, 6-2
6. Lissa Murakami (ASU) def. Mollie McGowan (GSW-W) 6-4, 6-1
Doubles competition
1. Victoria Lindqvist/Liv Pettersson (ASU) def. Carly Cangelosi/Victoria Ondo (GSW-W) 9-8
2. Roberta Oliveira/Julie Fontaine (ASU) def. Kalie Douberly/Taylor Jones (GSW-W) 8-1
3. Lissa Murakami/Maria C. Pimentel (ASU) def. Ginny Jones/Mollie McGowan (GSW-W) 8-4
Match Notes:
Georgia Southwestern 2-3, 0-2 PBC
Augusta State 2-1, 1-0 PBC; National ranking #45; Regional ranking #9


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Department of Revenue News Release
March 06, 2014Cassville License Office contract awarded
JEFFERSON CITY - The Office of Administration, in conjunction with the Missouri Department of Revenue, has awarded the management contract for the Cassville License Office to Rebecca R. Brown of Cassville. All license office contracts in Missouri are awarded through a competitive bid process.
Brown has operated the Cassville License Office since 1981. The Cassville License Office will remain at its current location at 700 Main St., Suite 1.
In fiscal year 2013, more than 43,000 transactions were conducted at the Cassville office, generating $143,675 in agent processing fees.
All local license offices are overseen by the Missouri Department of Revenue, but each is operated by an independent agent.
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Five Things E-Cigarettes Won't Tell You
The cigarettes of the future could be safer, cheaper and less taboo than the smokes of the past. But there are things that the e-cigarette industry won't tell you. MarketWatch's Thomas Bemis discusses five of them. (Photo: AP/Resound Marketing)
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In the rush to privatize America, nothing may symbolize the destruction of the notion of democracy and the public commons -- up until now -- as much as the takeover of Detroit by an "emergency manager," Kevyn Orr, appointed by Tea Party Michigan Governor Rick Snyder.
Detroit had long ago been abandoned by the auto companies that once made it among the most vibrant and economically energized cities in the United States. It's been declining in population at the same time predatory lenders are foreclosing on what remains of the depleted housing stock, that which hasn't fallen into rubble.
So it's a bit shocking to read on Michigan Live (mlive.com):
The [Detroit] News reported this week Ernst & Young is the highest-paid consultant, pulling in $6.6 million to analyze the city's cash flow. Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's former law firm, Jones Day, has been paid $1 million, though the firm is already writing off billable expenses it won't collect from the city.
How high could the bill go? An expert quoted by the News estimated the total bill for bankruptcy-related fees will be far higher. Expenses could "easily" top $250 million, Jim McTevia of McTevia & Associates, a turnaround firm in Bingham Farms, told the News.
Here's the kicker: the judge overseeing the bankruptcy appointed a $600 an hour attorney, Robert M. Fishman, to "monitor" the city's bankruptcy fees.
In the background of this takeover of a duly-elected municipal government by the state, one of the key issues behind the seizure of the city government is the issue of pensions owed to Detroit public workers. In a recent Truthout article, "Pinching Pensions to Keep Wall Street Fat and Happy," Dean Baker spoke to the canard of the war on pensions that we are seeing waged by the Koch brothers crowd across America:
These workers could be forgiven for laboring under the illusion that they would see the pensions for which they worked. These obligations were actually guaranteed under the state's constitution....
Contracts with Wall Street types always seem to draw more respect than contracts with workers. Folks may recall that when AIG was bankrupt and effectively a ward of the government, we were told by the Obama administration (where Emanuel was then chief of staff), that it had to pay out $165 million in bonuses to its senior staff. Many of the AIG employees, who had taken the company into bankruptcy, pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars from these bonuses.
By contrast, the pensions for Detroit's retirees average just over $18,000 a year. That means many AIG executives got a larger bonus from their bankrupt company in 2009 than Detroit workers will collect over their whole retirement.
With the Detroit bankruptcy, it is time for the Wall Street crowd to feast on the carcass, including the pensions that are necessary for the survival of Detroit public workers who literally earned their retirement funds.
Meanwhile, the citizens of Michigan be damned as Wall Street, according to Bloomberg News, is now considering cities and school districts in the entire state a credit risk primarily due to the handling of the Detroit bankruptcy:
Investors' insistence on a yield 14 times higher than the AAA benchmark on $92 million of Detroit school notes is the latest example of municipal-bond market contempt for Michigan after the city's record bankruptcy....
Snyder said after Detroit's bankruptcy that he expected bond buyers would be "sophisticated investors" and separate the city's situation from other municipalities, such as the independent school district. Orr said in an interview last month that it would be a "reduction to the absurd" to think other cities should be punished as a result of Detroit seeking court protection.
The yield penalty on the school notes, which investors including Gary Pollack at Deutsche Bank AG's private-wealth unit said is among the biggest in years, shows Snyder and Orr were wrong.
Last week, the finance authority sold revenue bonds for Ypsilanti Community Schools, about a half-hour drive from Detroit, with 10-year debt yielding 4.29 percent, data compiled by Bloomberg show. That's about 1.33 percentage points more than benchmark munis. Similarly rated revenue bonds averaged an interest rate just 0.59 percentage point more than AAA debt.
The Ypsilanti sale came after three other issuers in the state -- Genesee County, Battle Creek and Saginaw County -- postponed offerings because proposed interest rates were too high.
So Tea Party Governor Snyder, who began taking over cities by fiat beginning with Benton Harbor awhile back, is causing hardship around the state with his effort to, in essence, privatize democracy -- and sell off public assets in a bankruptcy fire sale -- in primarily minority-dominated cities.
If you want to know the bottom line of the contempt and indifference toward the citizens of Detroit, one just needs to read an August headline in the Detroit Free Press, "Hedge funds seeking to capitalize on Detroit's bankruptcy."
Look over the skies of Detroit and you can see the vultures circling.
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Before printing anything from any Windows 8 program or app, be sure to click the Printer's Preferences section to select the grade of paper you're using for that job. If you've strolled the aisles at an office-supply store lately, you've noticed a bewildering array of paper choices. Sometimes the paper's packaging lists its application: Premium Inkjet Paper, for example, for high-quality memos.
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Junk: Keep some cheap or scrap paper around for testing the printer, printing quick drafts, leaving desktop notes, and printing other on-the-fly jobs. Botched print jobs work great here; just use the paper's other side.
Letter quality: Bearing the words Premium or Bright White, this paper works fine for letters, reports, memos, and other things designed for showing to others.
Photos: You can print photos on any type of paper, but they look like photos only on actual photo-quality paper — the expensive stuff. Slide the paper carefully into your printer tray so that the picture prints on the glossy, shiny side. Some photo paper requires placing a little cardboard sheet beneath it, which helps glide the paper smoothly through the printer.
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Lanny narrowly missed out on a place in the American team for Sochi after she fell ill last month and was unable to compete in the final qualifying events.
But she was given a reprieve when her 31-year-old twin sister Tracy, who did make the team, pulled out to let Lanny go in her place.
"Usually I always know what Tracy is thinking, and she shocked me. I didn't see this coming," Lanny said in an interview with NBC on Thursday.
"I was like, 'Tracy, there's no way. This is your spot. You earned this.'
"She was very adamant about me going and she said, 'No, I want you to go.' It was a very emotional moment for both of us," Lanny told NBC's "Today" program.
The two Colorado sisters competed together at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin but only Lanny made the U.S. team for Vancouver in 2010.
Tracy earned her spot on a second Olympic team when she qualified as the fifth-best American, one place ahead of Lanny.
But with only the top five allowed to go to Sochi, Tracy opted to sacrifice her position so her sibling could instead grab the last spot.
"She's having a great year, and I think when you care enough about someone you're willing to make that kind of sacrifice," Tracy said.
"I think right away when I heard she got sick because I knew that the likelihood of her making the team was pretty slim being sick.
"I've trained with her for 15 years right alongside her. I know how hard she works. I know how much she wants it."
Lanny said she was grateful to her sister for giving her another opportunity after conceding her chances of making the team had been all but ruined by illness.
"It was brutal," she said.
"It's hard to explain how you can train so hard for something and luck just wouldn't have it your way. It was disappointing for sure."
And although she is a long-shot to win a medal, Lanny said her sister's gracious act had given her added motivation to try and get on the podium at the February 7-23 Games in Russia.
"I want to do my best for Tracy, and I always do better under pressure," she said.
"So I'm definitely going to push as hard as a I can and just fight that much harder for her."
Tracy said she had no regrets about her decision, which has quickly become one of the rare feel good stories of an Olympics dominated by security fears.
She said she knew how hard her sister had trained for the gruelling sport, which combines cross country skiing and shooting.
"All of us who are training for something like that, that's your dream, that's your goal, that's what you work towards," she said.
"I think I felt so strongly about this, and that outweighed any effort that I wanted to do to go to Sochi."
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Nearly 2,000 sets of Lakeshore Learning Materials' Bristle Builders for Toddlers are being recalled because of potential choking issues.
Product description: This recall focuses on Lakeshore Learning's Bristle Builders for Toddlers playsets. The set was sold with 52 pieces and contained building pieces as well as three animal figurines — a yellow duck with a purple round base, a brown horse with a blue round base and a pink pig with a round green base. The building pieces include different shapes — circle, rectangle, square and triangle-shaped pieces — in different colors and it came with a green 8-inch by 4-1/2-inch rectangle base, which has production number EC559597 printed on it.
Where/when they were sold: These recalled building sets were sold through Lakeshore Learning Materials' Early Childhood catalog and also online at www.lakeshorelearning.com from December 2013 to April 2014 for around $30.
Reason for the recall: The base of the three animal figurines can detach and pose a choking hazard for young children. There have been no injuries reported.
What you need to do: You should immediately take the three animal figurines away from your children and contact Lakeshore Learning Materials for a free replacement.
Company information: You can contact Lakeshore Learning Materials at (800) 428-4414 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. PT Monday through Friday, or go online at www.lakeshorelearning.com and click on "Product Safety" to find out more information.
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Figure out ahead of time what the testing interval will be for a given type of equipment, and stick to that interval. If you don't, then the program will fail as will your equipment. To determine that interval, you must balance a realistic level of access (and required downtime) against the minimum testing frequency that will allow you to detect insulation deterioration in a timely manner.


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When: CrossPoint Presbyterian Church gathers at 10:00 AM on Sundays.
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What do people wear? Most people wear casual dress. However, you may see someone wearing ski clothing or hiking gear (depending on the season).
How long do the services last? An average service lasts about an hour.
What style of worship can I expect? Our worship style is blended, both as to musical style and worship elements. Traditional hymns are often sung, using either the traditional musical accompaniment or a more contemporary arrangement. The worship service includes elements such as responsive readings, recitation of creeds (ancient statements of belief) and praying the Lord's Prayer. But it may also include informal elements like a testimony time and spontaneous prayer by the congregation.
What kind of sermon can I expect? The majority of sermons are expositional rather than topical. In an expositional sermon, the preacher explains and applies a particular part of the Bible rather than focusing on a topic addressed in the Bible. Topical sermons can be helpful, but we believe people are helped more by learning the Bible in a systematic and focused way. A typical sermon generally lasts 30 minutes.


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Blu-ray awareness rising
HD DVD dead...
If you still haven't made the switch from VHS to DVD, then chances are you're not up to speed on Blu-ray either. But research has found that over half of UK film fans are at least aware of the HD format.
The study was conducted by research firm Interpret and questioned people aged between 18 and 54. Although the study was done in January, a month before Toshiba officially abandoned HD DVD, 56 per cent of British respondents claimed to be aware of Blu-ray.
In the US 60 per cent of those questioned claimed to be aware of Blu-ray. But in Germany that figure drops to 49 per cent and to 45 per cent in Japan. Only 30 per cent of French respondents were aware of the format.
Few people appear to have invested in a Blu-ray player yet, with only nine per cent of British and Japanese respondents having bought one. Only four per cent of French and German respondents had splashed out on a Blu-ray player. In the UK, 92 per cent said they had at least one DVD player though.
Jason Kramer, chief strategy officer at Interpret, said the format war may be over, but that "Blu-ray supporters still have a lot to do" in order to spur mass-market adoption.
Kramer hinted that some consumers haven't taken up Blu-ray because they may also need to upgrade their telly to an HDTV. But he claimed that the ongoing digital switchover could cause more people to do so, spurring them to buy a Blu-ray player too.
Fortunately for Camp Blu-ray, UK sales of Freeview-branded hardware rose to 3.8m units during the Christmas quarter just gone.
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Decided to try a Blu Ray disc via 2 channel analog XLR from Marantz to Gen 8. Went in Marantz menu and set to downmix, and to output PCM instead of bitstream, so that the Marantz does the high rez codec decoded to PCM and output over digital coaxial cable. Guess what? Output
PCM stereo audio fine. Actually, with all blu ray players that I've had, you can go in the menu and set the player to output bitstream, or to convert to PCM and output PCM. So if you were to set the player to bitstream, the CB3 HD will them simply decode the bitstream to PCM and output that PCM over digital cable, from the digital out card, to the Gen 8. Clearly there has been a lot of misunderstanding, in that the HDMI authorities have permitted the output of hi rez PCM all along, its just video that will be downsampled out of analog outputs.
The Gen 8 doesn't tell you the bit rate. Either does the Marantz. Neither did the Oppo 83 I no longer own. But my understanding is that when a blu ray player converts bitstream to PCM, that the PCM is output at 96-24.
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