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Guests: Steve Kornacki, Jonathan Martin, Karen Finney
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Relieved of command. Let's play HARDBALL.
Good evening, I'm Chris Matthews, in Philadelphia. A giant in the
U.S. Senate has been taken down. Arlen Specter, the longest-serving
senator in Pennsylvania history has gone down to defeat at the hands of
Congressman Joe Sestak. Sestak swept practically the entire state
today, ousting the five-term Republican who switched parties and tried
to win his sixth term as a Democrat. It's a win for the gutsy
Democratic challenger and a defeat for the state's Democratic
The other big news out of Pennsylvania will make Democrats smile,
Democrat Mark Critz has won the seat once held by his old boss and
fellow Democrat Jack Murtha. A win by Republican Tim Burns in that seat
would have signaled real trouble for the Democrats nationwide coming
this fall.
In Kentucky, the tea party candidate, Rand Paul, son of Ron Paul,
easily defeated the establishment Republican, Trey Grayson, who had the
backing of, among others, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
Paul will face state Attorney General Jack Conway, who managed to edge
out Lieutenant Governor Dan Mongiardo in the Democratic primary.
In Arkansas, the other leg of the stool tonight, another incumbent
in trouble, Senator Blanche Lincoln has been forced into a primary
runoff with Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter. And in Oregon, Senator Ron
Wyden easily won the Democratic primary. He'll be the front-runner
obviously in a state like that, which is heavily Democrat.
Let's begin with NBC News political director Chuck Todd and MSNBC
political analyst Howard Fineman of Newsweek.
Chuck, the message out of Pennsylvania tonight, let's start with
the Senate race, is what? Let's take a look, the victor is clearly Joe
Sestak now, what's the impact nationwide?
CHUCK TODD, NBC POLITICAL DIRECTOR: Well, look, I think the bigger
story as far as Washington is concerned is what happened in that special
election. And not that Democrats held serve, it's that they did so
fairly decisively in that special election. I mean, look, we can talk
about Sestak-Specter, and the fact is there's clearly this sort of anti-
whatever you want to call it, we can call it anti-establishment, anti-
Washington, that's percolating, that's out there.
We really haven't seen something like this taking place in both
parties. Mind you, Chris, if Blanche Lincoln goes on to lose this
runoff in three weeks from now, which at this point is—you look at
how close this is, a lot closer than folks thought, we're going to have
more Senate incumbents lose primaries or not get renominated, counting
Bob Bennett, than we've seen in 30 years.
The last time there was this sort of tumult in both sides was in
the '78-'88 era of both political parties when you had splits in the
Democratic Party and splits in the Republican Party. And we're seeing
that play itself out a little bit.
But I think the big sort of national lesson and the hand-wringing
that is going to take place in Washington over what happened in that
special election, because Republicans, this has got to feel like Charlie
Brown and the football for Lucy. This was set up for them. They went
for the big kick. They thought they'd get this victory. They would
have incumbents and Democrats running scared all over the country, and
it didn't happen.
MATTHEWS: And how many Democrats have won in a row now in the
TODD: In competitive specials, I think we're up to seven. Now the
streak is probably going to come to an end this Saturday in Hawaii, of
all places, but that's because there are two Democrats on this ballot
for the empty House seat there, and only one Republican.
But in these competitive specials, you know, the Democratic
campaign structure on the House level is simply right now superior to
the Republican campaign structure. Environment favors Republicans, but
what we learned tonight is a good campaign can overcome a bad political
MATTHEWS: And we've got a good organization, you're saying, on the
other side—the Democratic side. You see Chris Van Hollen of Maryland
is a good chairman.
I'm sitting here with Howard Fineman, my fellow Pennsylvanian here,
savoring the impact, lots of impact here, a lot of sadness on the part
of long-time Specter voters, in fact, long-time Specter—people who
liked the guy, even though they were on the other political party for
all of those years.
Here's Congressman Joe Sestak in his victory speech tonight. Let's
REP. JOE SESTAK (D-PA), SENATE CANDIDATE: This is what Democracy
looks like, a win for the people over the establishment, over the status
quo, even over Washington, D.C.
MATTHEWS: A bit of Howard Dean there. Howard?
HOWARD FINEMAN, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, maybe a little too
much Howard Dean, because he has immediately got to become the consensus
candidate of the Democratic establishment. He should be reaching out to
Arlen. He should be talking to Ed Rendell, the governor. He should
become instantly not the insurgent but, in a Democratic state, now he
has got to flip to being the establishment candidate.
But he's smart enough to know that this is a year when politics as
usual of any kind is difficult to maintain. I agree with Chuck about
Pennsylvania 12, about Johnstown. But keep in mind the guy who won was
not an incumbent. Yes, he was the guy that was Murtha's guy, but he was
not the incumbent. He ran really close to the ground about bringing
jobs to that area. That's what you have got to do to survive.
I would caution the Democrats not to take too much comfort from
Pennsylvania 12. I know they're going to be spinning it that way, but
that was the ultimate New Deal Democratic district where they're used to
the Democratic Party, bringing the big government programs in there. I
think it would have been Armageddon for the Democrats had the
Republicans won that seat.
So I don't think they should be crowing too much about it, the
basic feel of this is that there are 58 Democratic seats exposed in this
upcoming election, and only three or four Republican seats in the House.
MATTHEWS: I agree, Arlen—I mean, Howard. I've been saying—
well, I'm looking at Arlen up here on the screen. I've been saying for
a couple days now, I don't know if you agree with me or not, Chuck, but
had the Democrats lost that home seat, that home game in the 12th, Jack
Murtha's seat, they would be looking at a 40-, 50-seat loss this fall.
TODD: At least, at least.
MATTHEWS: Well, let's look at Specter first, then we'll get back
to the 12th. Arlen Specter—go ahead, let's do Specter first, and
then back to you, Chuck. Everybody was watching Specter's result, how
do you take a defeat after 30 years of victory? Here's how. Let's
watching him.
SEN. ARLEN SPECTER (D), PENNSYLVANIA: It has been a great
privilege to be in the United States Senate. And I'll be working very,
very hard for the people of the commonwealth in the coming months.
MATTHEWS: What a career, Chuck. You know, I grew up here and back
when he ran the second time for D.A. in 1969, he had one of the great
campaign slogans of all time. He and basketball great Tom Gola running
for controller. He was running for D.A. with the slogan—you know,
Elliott Curson and David Gard (ph) take credit for this. Here it is:
"They're younger, they're tougher, and nobody owns them."
Here he is now at the age of 80 facing defeat. What a career.
What a career. Your thoughts, Chuck?
TODD: Well, look, it is, and you have got—this guy has touched
everything in many ways, the "magic bullet" theory in the JFK
investigation to the Anita Hill hearings, one of his more famous moments
as a sitting senator, to the fact that he came in—you know, what's
interesting here is, remember, he got elected in the Reagan landslide in
1980. That's how he came to the U.S. Senate.
Another tumultuous year, an anti- -- at that time that was an anti-
Democratic year, certainly an anti-Washington year, tough economic
times. And he gets ousted 30 years later in arguably what is a very
similar political environment.
FINEMAN: Something else we'll say, Chris. In talking to voters
here in Philadelphia today, as I went around the polling places, the
people who liked Arlen Specter, one of the things they said about him is
this guy has been in Pennsylvania politics for 40 or 50 years, nobody
ever accused him of taking a dime...
MATTHEWS: So good.
FINEMAN: ... of getting rich off of his office. And believe me,
in Pennsylvania, you should be sainted if you don't over that period of
time. So whatever else we say about him, this is a guy who took his job
seriously, who worked really hard and studiously as a senator, and was
never corrupted by money in this state. And that's quite an achievement
in Pennsylvania.
MATTHEWS: Let's go down to Rand Paul, on the other side where you
have another establishment candidate defeated, Trey Grayson, who was
sort of anointed by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. Here's
Rand Paul, the upstart, the hero, I must say, of the tea party people,
the son of Ron Paul who ran for president last time. Here he is
delivering his message on behalf of the tea party. Here he is sort of
accepting the crown from them, let's listen.
RAND PAUL ®, KENTUCKY SENATE CANDIDATE: I have a message, a
message from the tea party, a message that is loud and clear and does
not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
MATTHEWS: Chuck, what do you make of that dramatic statement? I
mean, he's not just running to—well, take the government, he has to
get elected this November in Kentucky against what looks to be a
stronger than expected Democratic Party. Because Conway, who is a
pretty slick politician, has won that the primary out there against
Mongiardo, what do you make of that fight coming up with him? Can he
win as a tea party guy per se, or is he going to move to the center?
TODD: I think you look at the state of Kentucky, you look at its
political make-up, you look at its recent politic history, and it's hard
to sit here and say that Rand Paul can't win. You know, obviously Mitch
McConnell went around town and said Rand Paul can't win, he's going to
put this seat in jeopardy.
I don't know, in this political environment, you know, we had years
where we called it the year of the woman, the year of this, the year of
that, this one feels like the year of the ornery guy that's going to
show up in Washington and just sort of, quote, "tell it like it is."
Sestak in a Pennsylvania, possibly Rand Paul.
But, you know, the other thing that's intriguing me about what
happened in Kentucky tonight is Rand Paul did something Mitch McConnell
has never down in the state of Kentucky, Rand Paul has earned more votes
in a Republican primary, turned out more Republicans in a Republican
primary in the history of Republican politics in Kentucky.
This was Mitch McConnell's party, it's not Mitch McConnell's party,
it's Rand Paul's party as far as what you look like tonight.
MATTHEWS: Wow.
TODD: And I'll tell you, you start to look, and Mitch McConnell is
going to have to look over his shoulder now inside his own party,
because here politically he has put himself on the line in Kentucky a
number of times recently and he has actually come up short, this most
recent one being Rand Paul.
And then you look at some Republicans quietly criticizing his
legislative strategy that he has gone at the Obama administration, we
can just look at financial regulatory reform, it was his decision not to
do amendments, and, you know, we can go through this in detail.
But not to do amendments in committee, go to the floor, and what
happened? They have got a bill that's going to come out that is less
favorable than one possibly to them, as far as they're concerned—the
Senate Republican caucus, than they could have gotten if they played the
committee game.
FINEMAN: ... having worked in Kentucky as a reporter, and then
having covered McConnell going all the way back to when he was county
judge, let me tell you what I think is going to happen there. There's a
unity lunch or breakfast on Saturday. Mitch McConnell is going to
embrace Rand Paul. He already was doing it tonight.
MATTHEWS: Will Jim Bunning be there?
FINEMAN: Jim Bunning probably won't be there. McConnell is
nothing if not a survivor, nothing if not adaptable. I agree with
Chuck, there's a lot of buzz about McConnell's leadership. But I would
say that McConnell's instinct for the jugular, that he's a great ground
level politician, with Rand Paul's outsider status, is going to make a
pretty tough combination in Kentucky. Kentucky went by...
TODD: If they work together.
FINEMAN: ... 16 points for John McCain. For...
MATTHEWS: Does he want him to win?
FINEMAN: Oh, they'll work together, Chuck.
MATTHEWS: Does he want him to win?
FINEMAN: Does McConnell want Rand Paul to win?
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Does he want it?
FINEMAN: Oh, yes. Why? Because he wants as many votes as he can
get for Republicans in the Senate.
MATTHEWS: OK. I got you.
FINEMAN: And Mitch McConnell was Rand Paul 30 years ago when Mitch
McConnell started out, coming out of South Louisville and the anti-
busing movement in Louisville.
MATTHEWS: OK. This is fascinating. This is a night of the
younger guy taking on the establishment, beating the establishment in
both parties...
TODD: Hey, Chris?
MATTHEWS: ...beating Specter on the Democratic side, the new
Democrat—yes, Chuck.
TODD: Really quickly, who would have thought that Ron Paul would
be the Republican presidential candidate with more influence on the
Republican Party in 2010 than any of those other guys that we covered in
'08. Not Fred Thompson, not Mitt Romney, not John McCain, but Ron Paul?
Godfather of the tea party movement?
MATTHEWS: Ron Paul, who Rudy Giuliani mocked in every debate.
FINEMAN: OK. The reason for that is—the reason for that is,
whether by intention or by accident, Barack Obama and the Democrats'
program of big programs and big spending has given the tea party types
and the libertarians that Ron Paul represents their reason for living.
The politics of Obama has revived and amplified Ron Paul. That's what
has happened so far.
MATTHEWS: Yes. I think every election is a vote, whether you like
the way things are going, you vote yes, if you don't like the way
they're going, you vote change. Change won tonight. Thank you, Chuck
Todd. In every vote, change won tonight. Thank you, Chuck Todd.
Except out in Oregon. Anyway, Chuck Todd and Howard Fineman.
Coming up, much more from Philadelphia on Joe Sestak's big win over
Arlen Specter. Gutsy Joe Sestak he beat everybody, the mayor, the
governor, the party chair, the president, the vice president, the
unions, he beat everybody, and now he's the Democratic candidate in the
What do tonight's results say about President Obama's political
machine? You just heard it. You're watching HARDBALL, on a big primary
night, only on MSNBC.
SESTAK: Now I want to say something about someone who is truly
courageous. Arlen Specter. He has devoted his entire life to public
service, and he and his lovely wife Joan deserve our thanks for that.
PAUL: The tea party movement is huge. The mandate of our victory
tonight is huge. What you have done and what we are doing can transform
America. I think America's greatness hinges on us doing something to
save the country.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. So what are the big lessons
learned tonight? And what do tonight's results say about President
Obama's political muscle? We're here with NBC News Andrew Mitchell and
Steve Kornacki of Salon. I want to start with Andrea.
It seems to me that democracy works. I always tell people when
they complain about politics, well, you get to pick these people, and
they only serve until the end of their term, and then you can pick
somebody else. You know, and that's what they seem to have done this
ANDREA MITCHELL, HOST, "ANDREA MITCHELL REPORTS": Yes. And I
think that youth trumps age here in this race. We'll have to take a
look at the breakdown in the tea party vote in Kentucky and see whether
there is an age demographic there. But clearly here...
MATTHEWS: Your voice is the voice of a...
MITCHELL: My voice is...
MATTHEWS: ... Julie London, seasoned political observer here.
MITCHELL: It's not from anything but too much cold and not enough
tea, I guess. But the fact is,the tea party and that reaction there,
and the anti-establishment reaction here, clearly people were ready for
So you could argue that that is an Obama kind of vote, except that
the president, of course, endorsed Arlen Specter and the non-change.
And, you know, this was really a reaction against the Democratic
establishment in Pennsylvania. People are angry. People are
frustrated. They want something different.
MATTHEWS: Young man, could this be that President Obama engaged in
the old politics when he brought Arlen aboard as a survivor, the kind of
deal you would have imagined years ago in old politics, yes, we need
another vote, bring that guy aboard, he's in trouble?
MATTHEWS: It didn't smack of the new breed to me.
STEVE KORNACKI, SALON.COM: It really is sort of the disparity
between what works in the Senate, which is a very much behind-the-scenes
world, it's a clubby world, it revolves around deal-making; and what
works in the game of, you know, sort of mass consumption politics where
you can't look like you're all about deals, you can't look like you live
in the back room world.
MATTHEWS: That ad killed him, didn't it?
KORNACKI: Well, it did, but, you know, it...
MATTHEWS: The ad that showed him saying, I like the deal, it kept
my Senate seat.
KORNACKI: Absolutely. But, you know, I look back at this, and the
story line that seems to be emerging is, you know, it was a great
comeback win for Sestak. But when you look at these polls going back a
year now, you realize Arlen Specter was never really actually over 50
percent in this thing.
MATTHEWS: Yes, but he was always 20 points ahead.
KORNACKI: It was just that nobody really knew anything about Joe
Sestak. And they really didn't know there was a race. And when people
found out there was a race, I think this might have been really simple.
People said, you know what, there's Arlen Specter and there's the other
guy, and I'm with the other guy, because I'm not with the deal-maker.
MATTHEWS: You know, it's funny, we watch this same pattern—I
feel like Jack Germond sometimes, because I see the pattern all of the
time. They always say don't look at the early polls, they don't mean
nothing, as Jack Germond used to say.
And number two, whenever you see an incumbent who is not popular,
the below 50 percent, as you say, it does take some time, but then it
does happen when the other candidate, man or woman, gets his or her ads
on the air, you begin to see the voters say, well, now I've got a
choice, and they go with the new guy.
MITCHELL: And you went out today, and we were out the last couple
of days, people did not know really who Joe Sestak was, but they knew he
was not Arlen Specter, he was different. And so I think a couple
things: Ads really made a difference. Specter's negative ad against
Joe Sestak was a mistake. It was too negative.
MATTHEWS: Hitting him for being relieved of command.
MITCHELL: Yes, it, first of all, as you pointed out earlier today,
he told a lot of people who didn't know it that he was military. And
this is a very pro-military state. A lot of veterans in this state.
Secondly, the Joe Sestak ad against Specter, which you just you
pointed out, which did take things out of context, as Specter tried to
say, but that message never caught up with the original message, which
was that he was not authentic, was a deal-maker. And that does not fly
right now.
MATTHEWS: Here he is, by the way, on the issue which I think has
been sitting out there for a year-and-a-half now, Arlen Specter was a
Republican in this state, I think in his heart he has always been
somewhat of a Democrat in many ways.
But he became a Republican for obvious reasons, he needed a chance
to get ahead, and he saw in the Republican Party. But 45 years of
seeing a guy say I'm an R, a Republican, here he is, Joe Sestak, saying
something about that tonight. Let's listen.
SESTAK: When I went to Congress just a few years ago, after 31
years in the wonderful United States Navy, I found too many career
politicians are a bit too concerned about keeping their jobs rather than
serving the public, rather than helping people.
In the Navy, we're held accountable for our actions. and we should
expect no less, no less from our politicians in Washington, D.C.
MATTHEWS: So he's not a politician, he's saying, Arlen Specter is.
And the proof is...
MITCHELL: Career politician.
MATTHEWS: ... he did anything to keep his career, right?
KORNACKI: Well, yes, and I've been trying to figure out for the
last couple weeks, as it sort of became clear where this was heading for
Specter, how he could have threaded this needle. Because if you look at
the one end, if he stayed in the Republican Party, you know, stayed
true, stayed loyal to the party, the people had come to associate him
with it, he was going to lose tonight.
This was going to be a bad loss to Toomey on Specter's part.
MATTHEWS: Fair enough.
KORNACKI: So he goes to the Democratic Party, and he opens himself
up to all of the charges that Sestak just so masterfully exploited.
It's sort of a radical proposition. But I've been thinking for the last
week that the best course for Arlen Specter would have been to run as an
independent. And there's an example right now, if you look at the
MATTHEWS: In what state?
KORNACKI: If you look at the early polling...
MATTHEWS: They don't have independents in this state.
KORNACKI: In Pennsylvania, no, believe me, I'm familiar with it, I
come from New York, another state, you know, not too kind to its
independents. But if you look at what's going on in Florida right now,
and I know it's very early, but if you look at what happened with
Charlie Crist going independent, he has marginalized Kendrick Meek, the
Democrat, for right now, who has now fallen to 20 percent in the polls.
I wonder if it was so cute, Specter going Democratic, he had to
suddenly, you know, embrace card check, he had to suddenly embrace all
of these things he had never been for before. If he had gone
independent, he could have had the moral high ground.
He could have said this really isn't just about survival, this
isn't just about calculation, this is about me being fed up with
politics. In that argument, I give it maybe a 15 percent chance of
MATTHEWS: Seem me smiling?
KORNACKI: I give it a 15 percent chance...
MITCHELL: Not here.
KORNACKI: ... of working.
MATTHEWS: ... and I know this state pretty well. This state is so
this state likes the big lever, straight D, straight R.
MATTHEWS: Andrea, respond to what his theory was. What do you
think of his theory, could he survived third party?
MITCHELL: Not here, not here. Not in Pennsylvania. That said, I
mean, the party machine took a big hit today. This was also a defeat
for, like it or not, what Arlen Specter did with the stimulus bill was
$10 billion for NIH, for cancer research.
The governor, the mayor today were talking about that. This was
somebody who brought home the bacon and some very, very important
projects. But people didn't care about the fact that they were losing
seniority, losing a big appropriator. They just wanted something fresh,
something different.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let's talk about the president of the United
States, everybody cares about him one way or the other. He's running—
it seems to me, his true north is about 50 percent. It wobbles back and
forth, but it ends up, for some reason, about—I think that's about 40
percent of the white vote and the minority vote, that explains his 50
So it's a little wobbly for a general election re-election
candidate. Does tonight help him or hurt him? I think the question
is, it's almost like a steering wheel that has lost its control. Does
he have any control over local elections any more?
KORNACKI: No, I don't think so. But I...
MATTHEWS: Does he have any power to control an election? Really,
it's—that's a tough question.
KORNACKI: I—but I never thought—you know, the one example
that I can think of, it's sort of modern in the last 20 or 30 years in
politics where a politician who is not on the ballot can come in and
positively affect a race, I really have, I think, only seen it once
where the numbers really measurably moved.
And it was Rudy Giuliani in New York City, six weeks after 9/11,
coming in for Mike Bloomberg, and positively moved the numbers. I've
seen them negatively move the numbers all the time when they're not on
the ballot. But I think...
MATTHEWS: Andrea, do you think he has got any clout?
MATTHEWS: Does the president have any clout?
MITCHELL: Yes.
MATTHEWS: OK. Ha!
MITCHELL: Less clout tonight.
MITCHELL: But—but they won...
MATTHEWS: I think it's...
MITCHELL: But they won the 12th district here. They won...
MATTHEWS: Yes, I know. That was Bill Clinton going in. That was
a big win. We didn't say that. We're going to talk about that later in
the show. Bill Clinton went in for Critz in the 12th, he won the big
one. This president—our president went in, it didn't help Arlen.
MITCHELL: Again, it's Scott Brown.
MATTHEWS: I know, he didn't help against Scott Brown. Anyway,
Andrea Mitchell, thank you, Steve Kornacki. We'll have much more on
tonight's primaries. Ahead, we've got a great election night coverage
coming up.
Up next, another conservative family values law-maker, a little
side show here, falls victim to a—you don't fall victim to a sexual
affair, I think you have something to do with the perpetration of one.
in this case, there's a twist, by the way. This guy is big on
abstinence, so is his lover, apparently. They mutually agreed on that
You're watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC. This is so weird, this
MATTHEWS: Ha! Back to HARDBALL. Now for the "Sideshow."
First, talk about deja vu, yet another conservative law-maker known
for his tough stance on family values has admitted to an extramarital
affair. This time it's eight-term Republican congressman Mark Souder of
Indiana, who announced his resignation in a statement Tuesday night.
The kicker here, Congressman Souder actually made a Web show video
with his mistress, an aide in his district office about a 2008 House
hearing on abstinence-only education. Check it out.
TRACY JACKSON, FORMER SOUDER STAFFER: You've been a long-time
advocate for abstinence education, and in 2006 you had your staff
conduct a report entitled "Abstinence and Its Critics," which discredits
many claims purveyed by those who oppose abstinence education.
What did you think of this hearing?
MARK SOUDER ®, FORMER INDIANA REPRESENTATIVE: Well, I personally
feel I should have probably abstained from the hearing. When I was
chairman of the committee of which Waxman was part—the chairman was
part of my subcommittee, we did an abstinence program on how to make
them work better, and how to make any kind of program work better.
JACKSON: Not to prove that they failed.
SOUDER: And his program is how we can repeal abstinence programs.
MATTHEWS: While they sold abstinence, I guess they weren't buying
This next item straight out of the right field. Who does Rush
Limbaugh hold responsible for the oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico?
Well, he's holding the Sierra Club, and other, what he calls,
"greeniacs." See if you can follow his logic.
RUSH LIMBAUGH, HOST, "THE RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW": When do we ask the
Sierra Club to pick up the tab for this leak? Everybody is focused on
BP and Halliburton and Transocean. Let me connect the dots here for
you, the greeniacs have been driving our oil producers off the land,
from offshore to way offshore to way, way, way out there offshore.
And obviously, it's going to be a much more expensive, problematic
proposition to get oil from that depth than elsewhere.
MATTHEWS: Wow, so Rush would rather have the environmentalists,
not BP, pay for the damages? We'll have the executive director of the
Sierra Club, Michael Brune, on HARDBALL later today, that's Wednesday,
to answer to that wild one, that whopper.
Now for tonight's "Big Number." A look ahead to November today, we
saw the anti-incumbent mood come out in full force. Can Republicans
ride that wave to overtake or re-take the House? According to odds-
makers at intrade.com, Republicans' chances now are 44 percent and
rising. Republican chances are about even or almost to take control of
the House of Representatives, 44 percent, still on the shy side, but
getting there. Tonight's "Big Number."
Up next, our coverage of tonight's primaries continues from
Philadelphia, (INAUDIBLE) where Arlen Specter has gone down in defeat to
Joe Sestak. It took him a while to do it, but he has done it. Sestak
has won. You're watching HARDBALL, live from Philly, only on MSNBC.
SESTAK: Let's remember we don't just vote for change, we fight for
change. And let's remember that our president needs someone down there,
more down there, because while John F. Kennedy didn't have it quite
right when he said one man can make a difference and every man can try,
it does take a number of men and women to try.
Let's come together and let's prevail in November, and let's have a
public servant that will always be beholden to you and accountable to
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
That's Congressman Joe Sestak, who defeated five-term, 30-year
incumbent Senator Arlen Specter tonight who was a Republican for 45
years, had been in elected office. Sestak made the case that Specter
was an opportunist and ran a devastating ad in which George W. Bush
praised Senator Specter, that ad made a big difference up here.
Also in Pennsylvania, Democrat Mark Critz has won that special
election way out west—in western Pennsylvania, over Tim Burns the
Republican. That's Jack Murtha's old congressional district—the late
Jack Murtha, the only district in the country, by the way, in which John
Kerry won it in 2004 but then McCain won it in 2008. In other words, it
switched against Obama. And that raises real questions about the
Republican Party's ability to win back the House, you might say, in
November, at least they don't look as strong as they might have if they
had won.
Down in Kentucky, a big victory for the tea party folks as Rand
Paul beat the establishment Republican Trey Grayson by a nearly 2-to-1
margin. What an upset and a triumphant upset. Paul will face state
Attorney General Jack Conway, who narrowly, very narrowly defeated
Lieutenant Governor Dan Mongiardo in the Democratic primary.
And in Arkansas, a totally race situation. Democratic Senator
Blanche Lincoln, a centrist Democrat, has been forced into a primary
runoff three weeks from now. Lawrence O'Donnell is an MSNBC political
analyst, and Jonathan Martin writes for Politico.
If you had to write an essay about tonight with your personal take,
Lawrence, the topic you would begin with would be what?
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, it would be an
anti-incumbent essay, Chris. There was nothing worse Arlen Specter
could bring to the ballot box than 30 years of experience in Washington,
30 years' experience in the Senate.
And also, this is a terrible upset for the White House political
strategy team betting on Specter as they did. Joe Sestak, I think, has
saved the White House from having Arlen Specter as the nominee. Sestak,
to me, looks much stronger going into November than Specter would have.
And so they've got some more strength in Pennsylvania as a result of
And holding on to that seat, though, the special election, Chris,
in many ways that is the big news of the night. That is a real setback
for Republican momentum that everyone assumed was out there in
congressional races.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let's get back to Sestak's victory. Did you get a
sense, as we went to the polls this Tuesday up here, that the White
House was laying back? That they weren't really trying, they didn't
send the president in? Joe Biden came by the other day, spoke at his
daughter's graduation, getting a masters degree at the University of
Pennsylvania, but didn't do any campaigning, that they sort of separated
themselves and let Sestak win in the end? they didn't want to be part
of any last minute effort to stop them?
O'DONNELL: Yes, they definitely got wise to what was happening in
time to save the president from any big embarrassments like he had in
Massachusetts, going up there on the final weekend against Scott Brown
and really losing badly.
JONATHAN MARTIN, POLITICO: And Jersey...
O'DONNELL: So they—you know, yes, exactly. So they did the
right thing in the end, it was—definitely the right thing to do was
to pull back in that race.
MATTHEWS: Yes, (INAUDIBLE) Jon, did you think that makes—you
know, there is this term I heard from David Gregory that I had forgotten
because I hadn't heard it since the election: "transactional politics"
as opposed to "relationship politics."
A lot of us grew up with relationship politics. You make friends,
you stick with them, you go down with them until the last dog dies.
That's Bill Clinton-style politics. This transactional politics, where
you cut a deal, OK, we want your 60th vote, we want your vote for the
stimulus bill, and them our deal is not going to last forever.
MARTIN: Right. Well, here's the transaction, and this is sort of
the White House case, in April of last year, they got someone that
ultimately became the 60th vote that got them the health care bill that
they passed. So, look, at the time it was a smart bet.
Now ultimately they were stuck with somebody that was going to have
a tough time, given this environment, that I think they saw that a
couple of weeks ago. That's why Obama never came back. That's why
Biden never came back. And that's why you saw this sort of distance...
MATTHEWS: Well, he came back four days ago, but not this last—
not over the weekend.
MARTIN: But not in the final days. And clearly Specter wanted
Obama to come back, especially here in Philadelphia. That didn't
happen. So I think you did see the White House pull back some. So, you
know, some liberals are unhappy about the DSCC being involved, the White
House being involved for Specter.
But again, at the time, April of '09, it did make some sense to get
him to change parties.
MATTHEWS: Well, let's check—let's go back to Arkansas, which is
a tough state for the Democrats, Lawrence, you know it well. I don't
know what your views are, but let's find them out. It seems to me it's
a state where, despite the popularity of the Clintons over the years
(INAUDIBLE) what the president, when he was governor, won five straight
or six straight elections down there, it's tough on a presidential
level, it's still a bit of Dixie, John McCain won down there by 20
points over Barack Obama, an African-American, it may have been a
factor, to say the least.
And then you also had—but Blanche Lincoln figured that she could
survive as a senator by voting against cap and trade, by voting against
health care. Did she go too far away from the party, to her own
detriment and possible demise in this coming up—what is now going to
be a runoff in three weeks, Lawrence?
O'DONNELL: Well, it certainly looks that way now. And it's hard
to see how she would come out ahead going one-on-one with Halter. All
of the other vote would have to break for her in order to do that. It's
hard to see how that would happen.
And this is a new world, Chris. This is a new world in which
elements of the party that normally would be ineffective in a place like
Arkansas, the left side of the party, can come in there with a surge of
money, raised through the Internet, low dollar figures, and really
change the battlefield down there dramatically.
This is a tremendous victory for the left side of the party, going
to a state where everyone thought they were unwelcome, and really
pulling off a big upset there.
MATTHEWS: I agree.
MATTHEWS: Is it Pyrrhic, though? Is it Pyrrhic for the fall? Can
they win a general election from the left?
MARTIN: No, look, it's going to be...
MATTHEWS: Are you sure they can't?
MARTIN: It's going to be tough in Arkansas, at least, for either
Lincoln or Halter to win this fall. But Lawrence is right, this is
probably the biggest win of the night for liberals, along with that
special in Pennsylvania too, because not only did they hold Lincoln
below 50, but it's a very, very tight race, much tighter than we
Here's the challenge though going forward. That third candidate in
the race in Arkansas was a very conservative Democrat. It my may be
tough for Halter to get some of those votes in the runoff.
MATTHEWS: OK. I think it's going to be very close. The question
is whether—to be fair, whether Blanche Lincoln was going to be win
the general either way. And so maybe they didn't pay a big price.
It is right, you are so right, Lawrence. a big victory for the
Democratic progressives winning down there in a tough state where it
looked like they were not going to do so well. It looks they may well
win the runoff in three weeks.
Thank you, Lawrence O'Donnell. As always, thank you, Jonathan
Martin. Up next, back to tonight's primaries and what lessons we can
apply to the midterm coming up—the midterm in November. It's going
to be dicey for the Dems, according to Intrade. The betting in Dublin
is getting awful close to 50-50 for the Dems losing control. I guess
they're not quite up to date on what happened in Cambria County tonight.
This is HARDBALL, live in Philadelphia on primary night, only on
MATTHEWS: We're back with Newsweek's Howard Fineman and Democratic
strategist Karen Finney, and both are here with some final thoughts, the
lessons learned tonight.
Please both of you don't say, well, those were local factors, you
can't draw any national conclusions. Karen, don't do that to me. Don't
say, "all politics is local," like my old boss did. I want you to say,
all politics is national and here's why. You first, Karen, then Howard.
What's the big picture reason why the president lost with Corzine,
Deeds, Coakley, all of these big losses, and now with Arlen, his new
love, all going down to defeat in a matter of months? What's going on?
KAREN FINNEY, MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR: I don't it's—I think the
MATTHEWS: Big picture.
FINNEY: I think the American people are saying, if you're not
going to pay attention and listen to us, then you don't get to speak for
us. And I think that is less of a partisan message and less about Obama
than it is an anti-incumbency message.
I think people are—I don't know if you remember the old "MASH"
episode where, you know, Hawkeye starts basically a riot in the mess
hall, saying, we want something else. And I think that's what—that,
to me, is the big lesson for both parties. You had better be able to—
if you're an incumbent, you had better be able to answer the question,
what have you done for me lately?
MATTHEWS: Ooh.
FINNEY: How about that?
FINEMAN: Well, let's step back for a minute, Chris. Most of the
American people...
MATTHEWS: Why don't we step into that? That was pretty good.
FINEMAN: OK. Most of the American people still think the country
is headed in the wrong direction, OK? By 2-to-1. The unemployment rate
is hovering near 10 percent. In a state like California, it's 12.5
percent, some counties 20 percent.
Barack Obama came into power as the guy who said, no more business
as usual. So he shouldn't be surprised if the voters are still saying,
no more business as usual if the conditions on the ground have not
changed that much.
So, you know, he understands this politics because this is the kind
of politics that got Barack Obama elected, OK? Now he's seeing the
other side of it. Is it all aimed at Democrats? I don't know. But the
fact is that the Democrats have the White House. They have huge
majorities in the House and the Senate. So they are going to feel the
brunt of this no more politics as usual thing.
In the old days, they might have been able to wire it for Arlen
Specter, even though he's 80 years old, even though he has been in the
House for 30 years, et cetera, even though he's a Republican, they may
have been able to wire it.
The machine might have been able to wire it. But machines don't
wire anything any more. Barack Obama's candidacy and presidency stood
for that. He went up against Hillary Clinton. He went against the
insiders. He said, I'm the new thing, this is continuing.
The politics that got him elected is continuing to this minute.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let me ask you about two groups of people and how
they did tonight. One is the netroots people, the progressives, the
people that—many of them watch this network quite loyally, the
netroots people that really want to see change. They tend to be
younger. They tend to be digital. They supported Bill Halter down in
Arkansas heavily. So did the SEIU.
On the other side of the political equation, the tea party crowd,
the symmetric—the doppelganger of that crowd, they both won tonight,
it looks to me. Is that a fair assessment?
FINNEY: No, absolutely. But, again, Chris, I think what you're
hearing from both sides of the spectrum is, we will not be dictated too
about who we're going to support. If you think back to New York 23,
where you had sort of the backlash in the—initial backlash, frankly,
in the Republican establishment, where local Republicans said, you don't
get to tell us who our candidate is.
I think Martha Coakley, a big part of her problem, she assumed that
it was going to be her seat, and voters said, no way, you don't get to
just decide it's your seat, we get to decide. And similarly, I think
the galvanizing support that you've seen from the left, for Bill Halter,
they also are pretty strongly supportive of Joe Sestak. And similarly
for the tea party. Same idea, we get to decide.
MATTHEWS: Karen, I need some time to thank you and—Howard
Fineman and Karen Finney. Thank you, Karen, especially. And, Howard.
And good night, Mrs. Fineman, wherever you are. When we return—
Howard's mom. When we return, the highlights from this big night
tonight. You're watching HARDBALL. That's an old—"good night, Mrs.
Calabash," in the old days of Durante. Only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL on this big primary night in my
hometown. It's great to be home. And what a night it has been
politically. Here's a look back at some of today's and tonight's
MATTHEWS: We're back, and with the news, the Associated Press has
projected Rand Paul as the winner of the Republican primary for the
Senate in the state of Kentucky.
PAUL: I have a message, a message from the tea party, a message
that is loud and clear and does not mince words, we've come to take our
government back.
CANDIDATE: We saw the numbers coming in, and we figured out what was
going to happen. I looked at the girls and I said, you're going to have
your daddy around a bit little more.
PAUL: People say to me, what can one man do, what can one senator
do? What I say to them is, it's more than just me, it's you, it's a
nationwide movement. And what I say to Washington is, watch out, here
we come.
KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST, "COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN": And
Andrea Mitchell is now reporting, I'm being told at this hour, two top
Specter supporters telling NBC News Specter cannot overcome this margin.
MATTHEWS: People care about how—you care about your politics,
everybody who votes cares about their politics. To be so casual about
it, to say, oh yes, I switched parties because I didn't want to lose, it
reminds me of the guy who puts on the woman's dress to get in the life
OLBERMANN: The Associated Press has just called this race for Joe
SESTAK: This is what democracy looks like. A win for the people
over the establishment, over the status quo. even over Washington, D.C.
SPECTER: And it has been a great privilege to be in the United
States Senate and I'll be working very, very hard for the people of the
commonwealth in the coming months.
OLBERMANN: For the special election to fill this seat right now,
Republican Tim Burns has now conceded to the Democratic Mark Critz in
the special election in Jack Murtha's old district, the 12th district,
Mr. Critz was formally an aide.
MARK CRITZ (D-PA), HOUSE CANDIDATE: You know, we all worked so
hard through this campaign. And we stuck to our message, it's about
Johnstown. It's about western Pennsylvania. It's about jobs. It's
about the economy. That's what we've been talking about. That's what
people want to hear. And that's why we run.
You know, the voters of this district won a great victory tonight.
But it's bittersweet. you know, because we wouldn't be here right now if
Jack Murtha hadn't been taken from us too soon.
RACHEL MADDOW, HOST, "THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW": Blanche Lincoln has
won in the Democratic Senate primary in Arkansas. But it looks like
that there will be a runoff.
SEN. BLANCHE LINCOLN (D), ARKANSAS: Let me tell you, he thought
people were going to write us off, they thought they could write us off,
well, guess what? They've got another thing coming.
LT. GOV. BILL HALTER (D), ARKANSAS: You know, this is a great
outcome for us and our team. These folks are excited. As we've
discussed, they're going to take five hours off to celebrate, and after
that, everybody is getting back to work. We're going to finish this in
21 days.
MATTHEWS: In 21 days, we'll do it all over down in Arkansas.
"COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" starts right now.
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This paper shows the inappropriatedness of approximation procedures for welfare rankings across suboptimal policy strategies. On the grounds of a simple general equilibrium model, we find that even commonly accepted techniques are not suitable to achieve accurate welfare orderings. This result points to a non-universality of these methods, since we unveil welfare reversals when we compare them with the implications of the corresponding Ramsey problem. We believe that the spurious outcomes originate from restricting the approximations to only first and second-order moments. The order of approximation needed to obtain accuracy obviously depends on the underlying type of general equilibrium model and on its parameter values. But this creates uncertainty about the correct degree of approximation adopted by researchers in order to obtain clear welfare insights. Therefore, we strongly recommend that normative analyses should rely exclusively on the exact optimality conditions delivered by the Ramsey problem. Nonetheless, we are able to propose approximation methods in order to characterize macroeconomic fluctuations triggered by small disturbances.
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What's in your wallet? Another 'estrogen'
A bioactive chemical cousin of BPA turns up on money and in receipts
Two small investigations over the past 18 months turned up U.S. greenbacks tainted with bisphenol A, a hormone-mimicking pollutant. One of them also detected BPA on paper currencies from 20 other nations. Now the authors of that second report have turned up BPA's cousin — bisphenol S — on many of those same banknotes in addition to 13 other types of papery products.
Owing to the near ubiquity of BPS in paper, human exposure is likely also "ubiquitous," these chemists at the New York State Department of Health conclude.
BPS also behaves like an estrogen, according to data from an unrelated new study.
When a flurry of experiments demonstrated that BPA — an ingredient in plastic foodware and food-contact materials — could function like the body's primary female sex hormone, manufacturers began hunting for less bioactive alternatives. After its search, the largest U.S. maker of thermal-receipt paper switched to BPS from the BPA it had relied upon in its thermal "ink."
Structurally, the two bisphenols bear a strong similarity, which may explain why manufacturers have been able to functionally swap one for the other (at least in some applications). It now turns out that their biological activity is also oh-so similar.
Depending on which of two assays it used, a research arm of the European Commission now finds that BPS is either comparable to BPA in its estrogenicity or about a tenth as strong. For perspective, the body's natural hormone is roughly 10,000-times as potent as BPA in activating estrogen-sensitive genes, explain the researchers in the August Toxicology in Vitro.
Their new potency tests were conducted in isolated cells growing in a dish. So it's hard to translate the new findings into effects that might be expected if BPS were ingested or passed through the skin, explains Susanne Bremer of the EC's Institute for Health and Consumer Protection in Ispra, Italy. Cellular effects of hormonal substances tend to rely on the docking of those compounds with little locks — called receptors — on a cell's surface. But this "is just the molecular initiating event," she says. Any "additional effects at the cellular, tissue and organ level will finally lead to the observed effect."
Where and how those initiating effects occur can alter the nature, speed and apparent potency of an estrogen mimic.
For instance, a report last December found that BPA — at concentrations close to human exposures — risks desynchronizing contractions in heart tissue. Unlike effects that usually commence when BPA is carried by an estrogen receptor from a cell's surface to its nucleus — where genes can be activated — the mechanism of heart rhythm disruption appeared to take place especially quickly and at the cell's surface. That might explain, the authors said, why BPA, normally weaker than estrogen, rivaled the natural hormone's potency in heart cells (SN online: 12/19/11).
Bremer won't speculate on whether BPS might also do this, because "we have not analyzed these effects."
Prompting her team's new investigation was the EC's move last year to halt use of BPA in plastic baby bottles. "We wanted to understand whether BPS, if potentially released from baby bottles, would have a similar effect as BPA," the cell biologist explains.
But human exposure to BPS goes well beyond plastics. In fact, thermal-receipt paper appears to be a primary source of human exposure to BPS. Kurunthachalam Kannan's team at the State Department of Health and State University of New York at Albany reports this observation in the June 19 Environmental Science & Technology.
The compound showed up in all 91 receipts printed with thermal inks that Kannan's group collected in the United States as well as all 20 that it sampled from Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Concentrations ranged from near the limit of detection up to 22 parts per thousand — a very high level — and tracked the type of BPA levels previously seen in thermal papers.
In the new study, where BPS was high, BPA tainting was low, consistent with a recent swapping of one for the other.
The chemists also identified BPS in 87 percent of the 52 banknotes it sampled, representing 21 countries. Of course, greenbacks came up positive. In fact, the only nondetects were the currencies from Egypt, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates. The suspicion by Kannan's group: Most BPS contamination of money occurs when banknotes rub against receipts (perhaps in your wallet) or through a transfer from our fingers of the powdery BPS-residues picked up while handling thermal paper.
BPS also showed up in business cards, napkins, toilet paper, food cartons, mailing envelopes, magazines and brochures. The only sampled products free of the contaminant (although this was based on small sample sizes) were paper towels and computer-printer paper.
Based on the miniscule concentrations seen in most non-thermal papers, Kannan's team says the likely source in these is a recycling of BPS-inked thermal receipts into other types of paper. In fact, when these researchers calculated likely human exposures, thermal receipts were off-the-charts high compared to every other type of paper. After accounting for contamination levels and the likely exposure people have to various paper types, Kannan's group concluded that thermal papers accounted for at least 7,600 times more BPS exposure than the next most contaminated paper type.
Last year, I reported that the Environmental Protection Agency had developed a BPA Alternatives in Thermal Paper Partnership. Industry leaders and other members of this group have been reviewing toxicology data, hunting for more benign alternatives. BPS is among the alternatives under study.
A draft report detailing the Partnership's findings was due to be publicly released this spring. Last month an EPA spokesman would only offer that its release was still anticipated "in coming weeks." As of today, the first day of summer, the partnership's website still lists the document as unavailable. That suggests the July target for a final report is similarly optimistic.
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Happy __ Birthday, Judy
Because tomorrow is Judy's birthday, and because I am headed to Phoenix to watch a granddaughter in Alice in Wonderland (she is young Alice), I wanted to post this tonight, as this is an event not to be missed. This is one of my favorite photos - Judy calmly (?) reading to Steve and me. Life was good! May the day be full of fun and may this next year be better than the last year. I am thankful for you, for your laughter, as well as for the serious moments, and for sweet memories. Happy Birthday, Judy.
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- Judith said...
Thank you sweet sister. Have a great trip. I hope you take lots of pictures of the "Star". And that you will share!
- April 22, 2010 at 11:20 PM
- Steve Blood said...
Happy birthday. This will have to do as there are no movie clips of Carey Grant saying, "Judy, Judy, Judy." (since he never said it) My imagination dried up, but my brotherly love has not. Hope you have a spectacular day.
- April 23, 2010 at 6:33 AM
- Judith said...
Oh, Steve. Who could ask for more?
I have your forever love and a loyalty that endures all. I am blessed.
- April 23, 2010 at 8:09 AM
- Elizabeth said...
Everybody is on the ball for Judy's birthday! Happy, happy day and coming year, Judy. There has been a lot happening, proving that life gets more interesting as we grow older. You are special to each one of your siblings (to say nothing of others int he family.) Like Mother, you, too, know when to cut to the bone of a matter and see it clearly. That is a real talent! Thanks for sharing! Love you lots.
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WASHINGTON – The grounder was hit sharply, and Brian Dozier couldn't come up with it. If the Minnesota Twins second baseman makes the play, the inning's over. He didn't, and the first of five Washington Nationals crossed the plate in the fifth inning.
"That's an error, and we just missed the ball," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "I know they gave it a hit, but this is the big leagues folks. That's an error. That's two steps to his right."
That was just one of the flubs in the field for the Twins in a 7-0 loss Sunday in the first game of a doubleheader. Not that they mattered much against one of the National League's top pitchers.
The Twins managed just two hits in seven innings against Jordan Zimmermann (9-3), who is tied for most wins in the majors. Minnesota managed only three hits for the game and failed to get a runner past second. Chris Parmelee accounted for two hits with a double and single.
"He was pretty good," Gardenhire said of Zimmermann, whom the Twins were seeing for the first time. "He was throwing the ball really well and we kind of missed a few plays out there and didn't get too many hits."
The Nationals, who hadn't scored more than three runs for seven straight games, scored a pair in the fourth and sent 10 hitters to the plate in the fifth as they chased Minnesota starter Scott Diamond (4-5), who lasted 4 2-3 innings, allowing 10 hits and seven runs, including six earned.
"I thought I was executing pretty well. Curveball was better than it's been. I was able to throw some pretty good changeups," Diamond said. "I'm really frustrated with the way it went and how it all played out in those last couple of innings for me. Nothing to really hang my head about. Just come back and continue to stay aggressive."
The runs in the fourth came with two outs when Anthony Rendon hit a sharp grounder to shortstop with men on second and third. Pedro Florimon made a nice diving stop, but first baseman Justin Morneau failed to come off the bag to field the late, off-target throw, allowing both runners to score.
"I think Morny knows he's got to come off the bag and keep that one there and we talked about that afterwards," Gardenhire said. "He didn't know if he had a chance to still get the runner, but he's got to make sure we stop that ball."
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I know people will get offended(and I get it), but I guarantee King signed off on it. I mean this is the same guy who gave the ok to use his mothers death in an angle before, and was the king of doing ungodly things in Memphis to gain heat.
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Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz have banned computers, cell phones and gadgets from their bedroom in a bid to keep their marriage healthy.
The British actors wed in 2011 and now live together in New York City, where they are currently starring in a Broadway play together, and Craig has now opened up about how they keep their relationship going.
The "Bond" star reveals the couple has banned technology from the bedroom.
He tells the New York Times, "It's a good fight to have, as far as I'm concerned. … There's nothing technological allowed in the bedroom. If the iPad goes to bed, I mean, unless you're both watching porn on the Internet, it's a killer. We have a ban on it. … It's a complete anti-aphrodisiac."


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Two aid workers from Germany's GIZ are now nurturing start-ups in the Ethiopian capital - from a text messaging service for job seekers to bamboo ramps for skateboarders.
The offices of start-up hub iceaddis appear lifted from the set of a science fiction film and deposited in the leafy confines of Addis Ababa University.
Despite the futuristically edgy look of rust-red colored transport containers stacked asymmetrically atop each other, iceaddis remains deeply rooted in the surrounding local communities. The prefix "ice" stands for innovation, collaboration and entrepreneurship.
Iceaddis encourages young Ethiopian entrepreneurs to invent and develop affordable and sustainable products and services.
"We provide a space where you can go a little crazy, experiment, play around with that prototype and see if you might actually be able to turn it into a business," said 38-year-old Oliver Petzoldt, one of iceaddis' co-founders.
This is the key to successful product development wherever your location may be, but many products often never get off the ground for lack of experimental opportunity, Petzoldt explained.
Iceaddis runs workshops covering a range of eclectic creative endeavours, from how to build mini skateboard ramps out of bamboo to how to develop mobile apps using the Android system.
The mobile phone as the key to the future?
Telecommunications is still in the hands of a state monopoly in Ethiopia and the country is governed by an authoritarian regime. State-owned Internet and mobile phone networks remain notoriously unreliable. However, apps could play an increasingly bigger role as Internet penetration, currently low by African standards, deepens, and the networks gradually improve.
Ethiopia, which has a population of some 85 million, currently has 20.3 million mobile subscribers. As elsewhere in Africa, many of them sign up and start with smart phones.
Newly created apps could also be marketed to users in other African countries with better established telecommunications networks.
Producing something flashy is not the priority, rather supporting communities by turning ideas into viable businesses.
One business idea nurtured by iceaddis is MoSera, which provides an SMS-based job portal for Addis Ababa's daily laborers.
Many of them do not have Internet access, but they will be able to receive text messages from potential employers via MoSera about offers of work.
MoSera has just finished a successful pilot phase and is about to be launched for use by the general public.
"Hopes are high due to SMS-based businesses being well placed thanks to mobile penetration being on the up," said 29-year-old Markos Lemma, another iceaddis co-founder. Income will come from a tiny fee about one birr (five US cents, four euro cents) added to each normal SMS charge.
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What started out as a hobby for a group of computer graphics and animation enthusiasts turned into a business under mentorship at iceaddis, said 24-year-old Abiy Hailu. He is a co-founder of Mirt Animation, which provides motion graphics for businesses and TV advertisements.
Brainstorming in the iceaddis offices helped the founders identify a niche in the market resulting from a dearth of quality animation drawing on Ethiopian culture, Hailu said.
The young entrepreneur said he also gained a valueable intangible asset from iceaddis - a better understanding of what he is able to achieve.
"Now when I approach media organizations, I am confident about what I am offering," Hailu said.
He did not have that confidence in his vision previously, especially when meeting co-founder Eyoslas Habte in noisy cafes to hash out business plans.
Petzoldt and Lemma initially came to Ethiopia when they were working for Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany's international development agency.
Petzoldt worked with eLearning computer centers while Lemma provided efficiency-enhancing software to businesses.
A 2010 visit to Nairobi-based iHub, one of Africa's most established tech hubs, got them thinking they could pool their respective skill sets to build a similar technology community centre in Addis Ababa.
"Iceaddis was the most exciting program we discovered," said Ben White, founder of Nairobi-based Venture Capital for Africa, one of the continent's prominent networks for start-up founders.
White says iceaddis' has a broader approach than many start-up incubators. " It is not all about mobile services - so many transformative solutions can come from a space like this," he said.
White said Ethiopia cannot yet compete with South Africa or other East Africa countries in terms of Internet and mobile opportunities. But change is inevitably coming, he says, illustrated by Ethiopian companies like Dibsr, an online information sharing platform, which was one of 40 from a pool of 300 applicants selected to participate in DEMO Africa 2013, a prestigious start-up conference in Nairobi.
Vickie Remoe is a young, ambitious media entrepreneur who views Africa's national borders as a spur to corporate success rather than an obstacle. DW meets a determined diplomat's daughter from Sierra Leone. (18.02.2014)
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Bailey passed for 298 yards and four touchdowns in the first half alone, before finishing the game 18-for-25 with 340 yards in a 54-26 win against Buffalo State.
OL Matt Swartling, Doug Murray, Cory Potter, Jason Soltis, Nick Gore, Bethany
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Mosier made his Kingsmen debut by rushing for 202 yards and three touchdowns on only 18 carries as CLU defeated No. 4 Linfield 47-42. In the fourth quarter alone he went for 114 yards and two TDs including scoring runs of 45 and 49 yards, on only six carries.
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WR Clay Wolff, Sr., Chicago
Wolff amassed 172 yards on six catches, including a touchdown as the Maroons knocked off Concordia (Ill.) 56-24. He became the program's all-time leader in touchdown receptions in the process.
TE Kyle Miller, Sr., Mount Union
Miller caught seven passes for 82 yards in a 45-28 win at UW-Oshkosh. Five of his seven receptions went for first downs, including a 27-yarder to the 8-yard line to set up the final score.
DE Shane Wong, Sr., Central
Wong had six total tackles, four of them sacks as the Dutch beat Augustana 28-23. The four sacks combined for minus-25 yards as Augustana rushed for minus-32 on the day.
DT Dan Terhune, Jr., Wooster
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LB Jack Moses, Sr., Texas Lutheran
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CB Joe Lopez, Sr., Cortland State
Lopez intercepted passes on back-to-back possessions, the first of which set up a touchdown drive to give the Red Dragons a two-score lead against Kean in a 24-12 win. He also recovered a fumble and finished with four tackles, two solo.
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Doody had two interceptions, including one inside his own 10-yard line to stop a Bishops drive, and four passes broken up in the Tigers' 21-19 win against North Carolina Wesleyan.
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Smith finished with a career-high 12 tackles, seven solo, in the Little Giants' 21-17 win over Wooster. He also recovered a fumble and had an interception in the end zone to kill a Scots' drive after Wooster picked off a Wabash pass on the previous play. Smith's interception set up the first score of the game for the Little Giants.
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Special teams
K Jesse Garcia, Jr., McMurry
Garcia connected on a career-long field goal from 44 yards out and nailed eight of nine extra points in McMurry's 64-0 win over Texas College.
P Wes Norris, Jr., Redlands
Norris punted five times for a 51.4-yard average as the Bulldogs won 21-10 at East Texas Baptist. The Tigers started at a average field position of their own 27 on the day.
RET Justin Autera, So., Cortland State
Autera returned a kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown and returned a punt 55 yards to the 5-yard line in Cortland's 24-12 win against Kean. He also scored two TDs on offense, one on the ground and one through the air.


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when you pull the "trigger" the spring wich is in armed position springs out in 1/100 of a sec and secures the hook with the CL.not quite automatic .... reactive IMOCaptainArgh wrote:Thanks for the clarification. How does the safety spring work? Does it automatically engage when you deploy the safety or do you have to manually engage it.nikalaitzian wrote:...
you dont loose it cause of the safety spring.I ve activated over 50 times ... the hook was always on the CL.kinda difficult to reattach it when you re on the water.
Sounds fine if it is automatic!
Since the information online is blurry it is tough to tell what the unit actually does. My thought was that when people are practicing unhooked tricks you will never have a CL secure mechanism engaged (donkey dick, spring clip, etc.). However, if you can leave the hook uncluttered for easy unhooking but still not lose the hook in a safety deployment, then they've thought it through.


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26 Feb 2014
(HONG KONG) Dragonair today welcomed the commitment made by Financial Secretary Mr John Tsang to bolster Hong Kong's position as an international hub and enhance its long term competitiveness.
Dragonair Chief Executive Officer Patrick Yeung said: "We are delighted to see the strong emphasis placed on strengthening our position as an international city, and support measures that will ensure the continuity of Hong Kong's economic growth, as well as the maintenance of a highly open market with a free flow of people, goods, capital and information."
"Dragonair carries passengers and cargo to and from more than 40 destinations in Mainland China and around Asia. We welcome government measures that will bolster economic and trade ties with neighbouring cities, and encourage overseas enterprises to capitalise on Hong Kong's position as the gateway to Mainland China and the Asia Pacific market."
The airline also welcomes the Government's support for the building of a third runway as it is the only viable way to ensure the long-term competitiveness of Hong Kong as a whole.
Mr Yeung said: "We look forward to the results of the Environmental Impact Assessment from the Airport Authority, as well as information on financing options."
He also welcomed the Government's acknowledgement that labour mismatch and shortage pose a threat to the development of Hong Kong industries, and that the issue requires remedial measures.


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LINCOLN — Two groups of Vermont students will hit the road this summer with documentary film equipment in hand, as participants in "Conversations from the Open Road," a creative new summer program founded by Vermont educator Mary Simons, in partnership with the Vermont Folklife Center.
Each group will travel to a region of the United States to explore what Simons calls the "stories behind the issue" most pertinent to that region. The program is designed for students age 16 to 19.