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Guests: Jim Goldman, Howard Fineman, Steve McMahon, Todd Harris, Lisa DePaulo, Richard Wolffe, Michelle Bernard, John Larson
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: A wild week in Washington.
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Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews in Washington. Leading off tonight:
A week to change history. In Ohio today, President Obama kicked off the most crucial week of his presidency. White House advisers are predicting passage of the historic health care bill by Saturday. House Democratic leaders agree, but emphasize the work of getting a majority vote is still to be done. They're working around the clock to get the 216 votes needed for passage. Will they or won't they?
And while Democrats are pulling out the stops in this final drive for health care, the Republican leader of the House says he will do all he can to throw up roadblocks. So who's got the moral and political high ground on this? Let's ask our political strategists from both sides of the fight.
Plus: Remember her? That's John Edwards's mistress. Her name is Rielle Hunter, and she's just posed for "GQ" and talked all about her affair with the former presidential candidate, their child, and how Edwards thought he could reconcile his relationship with her and still win the American presidency.
Also, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Israel's decision to build more housing units in Arab East Jerusalem insulting to the U.S., and Israeli prime minister Netanyahu shows no signs of backing down. We'll get to the difference in U.S. and Israeli policy and what the president's next move should be.
And finally, in "Let me finish" tonight, I'll say that elections ought to matter. Obama won. His program ought to be enacted or at least get a vote.
Let's start with the final push for health care and the president's speech in Ohio today. U.S. Congressman John Larson of Connecticut's the chairman of the Democratic Caucus. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Larson, Congressman, thank you. I want you to help—it will build your case, but I want you to talk about it. Here's president Franklin Roosevelt talking about health care reform in 1944. Let's listen.
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all, regardless of station or race or creed. Among these are the right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health.
MATTHEWS: "Regardless of station"—I love the way they talked in those days. And here's Presidents Nixon—President Nixon's no left-winger—and Bill Clinton in clips from Michael Moore's documentary "Sicko." Let's listen to both these presidents make their case for a national health care plan.
RICHARD NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The purpose of this program is simply this. I want America to have the finest health care in the world, and I want every American to be able to have that care when he needs it.
BILL CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I am announcing the formation of the president's task force on national health reform, chaired by the first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
MATTHEWS: Boy, were they young. Well, there you have it, Roosevelt, Nixon and Clinton all making the case for national health, and here we are on the verge perhaps of doing it. Will this effort this time succeed, Congressman?
REP. JOHN LARSON (D-CT), DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS CHAIR: Absolutely, Chris. And I think you started off—I mean, the history of—if you're in this business, if you're serving as a member of Congress, if you don't get a chill listening to this and knowing at this moment in time, we have the opportunity on behalf of the American people to accomplish what Roosevelt, Truman, Nixon and Clinton wanted to do and on behalf of the American people.
Every week I go home, contrary to what you hear—there's an awful lot of concern and fear that exists out there, to be sure. But remember what Roosevelt also said about fear and what he said immediately after that, It's the warm courage of national unity, knowing that we have this commonweal opportunity here before us to bring the American people together and do so in a way that uplifts the people by providing them with basic coverage and service, by making sure that they can't be denied claims.
MATTHEWS: Right.
LARSON: This is a great moment to be in Congress.
MATTHEWS: You know, I wonder one thing, watching this, if we haven't gotten caught up in the trees and forgot the forest of history that we're facing here, a real history that's about to be made if this bill passes. And I guess my question has to do with that. How did it happen? How did we get caught up in a year, more than a year, of arguing over procedure?
LARSON: Well, was it von Bismarck that said two things shouldn't be observed, sausage being made and a bill becoming law? When you have a bill that's put together by committees the way that it has, the extraordinary work that's been done—Chris, we've devoted more time in our caucus alone than we have in the previous years' caucuses combined just in the area of health care. And so this is an important issue to people, et cetera.
And I think your analogy is somewhat right. We've been doing a lot of forest in the trees stuff here. And instead of getting back to what the American people care about—and what they want to see now is something you've been advocating, an up-or-down vote on this issue. Enough with the process. Enough with everything that's going—they want a vote up or down on this issue.
MATTHEWS: Will there be a vote on the Senate bill, or will there be this vote on the rule, the Slaughter solution, whereby you don't actually vote on the Senate bill as members, come the end of the week, but you vote on a rule which deems that to have passed the House...
LARSON: Self-enacting (ph) rules have been used since 1948. And whether that's the route we take or not, there's at least three, possibly four options that we can take. But again, I don't think the public cares much about the options we take. They want to see us act. And by whatever course it takes, we will have this bill on the floor this week and we will vote and enact this legislation on behalf of the American people.
MATTHEWS: Well, I don't know what to make of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, but she's a member of Congress from Minnesota. I always thought Minnesota was a liberal state. Apparently, it has changed, it seems, certain parts of it. She says—she's telling her people—we'll have a clip later in the show, in the "Sideshow," where she's actually advocating a sort of a tax revolt. If the bill passes the House by this method and the rules—using a rule, rather than a vote, on legislation per se, she says people shouldn't pay the tax that's involved with this bill. In other words, she's urging a tax revolt and thinks—I don't know if she's going to be there like an H&R Block guy standing next to you when you go before the IRS. But she says that people can violate the tax law if it's passed by this procedure. Your reaction?
LARSON: Well, God bless Michele. I wish her well in this. I think the American people, though, are—the kind of revolt that the American people are looking forward to is one where they can throw off the yoke that insurance companies have had over them, where they can get away from the nonsense of preexisting conditions, where they can't have their insurance policies rescinded on them.
The president was eloquent today out in Ohio. I think it's getting back to those basics and elevating this discussion to real people and what happens in their lives, Chris. That's what people say back in Augie and Ray's in East Hartford when I go there.
MATTHEWS: Well, let's go. Here's the president in Ohio today. Let's listen.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: They want us to look and see what is the best thing for America and then do what's right. As long as I hold this office, I intend to provide that leadership, and I know these members of Congress are going to provide that leadership.
OBAMA: I don't know about the politics, but I know what's the right thing to do! And so I'm calling on Congress to pass these reforms, and I'm going to sign them into law. I want some courage!
MATTHEWS: You know, Congressman, I've never seen the Republican Party so narrow in its appeal. It's basically come out and said disinvest in America, watch your pocketbook, don't do anything, don't have any government. It's forgotten eight years of sort of spendthrift behavior by President Bush. It is like the guy in the—in—in—what's that movie, "Casablanca," where the guys says, I can't believe gambling's been going on here. It's like they've discovered this sort of narrow Republicanism.
What do you make of that in Connecticut? What do you make of the fact the Republican Party now isn't a party of grand conservatism anymore, it's a party of this narrow little nasty "Don't do anything" party?
LARSON: Well, you know, I think it's sad for the country. You know, coming from the Northeast, as you know, Chris, having worked for Tip O'Neill, you know, you know the relationship with Silvio Conte. You know the history here. You know, the "Grand Old Party" has become the party of no and obstructionism.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
LARSON: And I think the public sees through that and—but I think it's vitally important that Democrats not lose sight of the fact that we've got to connect with people that are really hurting out there, that are feeling the loss of $17 trillion in wealth from 2007 to 2009, that are worried, are concerned about their families, their futures and their jobs. And we've got to do everything within our power, putting this behind us, getting health care passed, demonstrating that we're on their side I think elevates us. And the president in his speech—I'm glad to see that he's got it back. He's into his Robert Cray (ph) mode.
LARSON: He's a strong, strong persuader.
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about the key problem I've got with the way this bill's been sold. Back in the '30s...
LARSON: Sure.
MATTHEWS: ... when we had the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt
came along and made a very simple argument to the American people. He
said, Look, some people are going to be able to survive past their earning
years. They're going to live lives—years and years, women especially,
well past when they can make a living. So we ought to have insurance for
them. It's called Social Security. And back then, people didn't live past
much past 65, so it was a good investment. Lots more worker bees than retired bees.
Now, in the '60s, Johnson went along and said, basically, Let's do that for health care for older people. Fine. So we understood the basic transfer. Worker bees help out people after they've retired, OK? Why hasn't the president been equally clear in this one, where people who have a little more income are going to help that 30 million people get some kind of subsidies so they can have health care, as well? Does that sound too socialistic?
Why hasn't he made that clear moral argument, We've got to help people, get them out of the emergency room, give them some self-respect, primary care, take care of themselves, be self-reliant to an extent, and be responsible, but we can't do that as long as they're showing up for three or four hours, waiting in the emergency room? Why doesn't he make that case instead of getting into the weeds?
LARSON: I think he is making that case. But you're right, Chris. To the extent that we said to people all along—and I think it was both strategic and the right call (ph) to say, If you like what you have, you can keep it. If you like your doctor, you can still see him. But in that premise, we didn't embrace the commonweal arguments that both Roosevelt and Johnson did.
But in his speech today out in Ohio, you saw where the president was, and that's exactly the kind of appeal that he's going to have to the American people and I also—also think, before our caucus, as we vote on this very historic and momentous occasion this week.
MATTHEWS: Thank you very much. U.S. Congressman Larson, John Larson from Connecticut, who remembers the Rockefeller Republicans, the moderate Republicans...
LARSON: Exactly.
MATTHEWS: ... that used to work alongside of you for positive government, that are now missing from the fold. Thank you very much for joining us. Congressman Larson...
LARSON: Thank you, Chris.
MATTHEWS: ... the chairman of the Democratic Caucus in the House.
Let's go to "Newsweek's" Howard Fineman, who always helps me by putting things together. And I did make, I think, which is to me the fundamental observation I've made—they don't want to sell it clearly because it sounds like we're giving money from people who have a little more than average to people who have less than average. And that didn't—maybe the polling on that didn't work. But that's why people can't quite trust this bill. They go, Wait a minute, what's going on here? Who's paying and who's getting? And in—instead of saying the people a little better off helping people a little worse off, which is what really is going on—I guess they were afraid that wouldn't sell.
HOWARD FINEMAN, "NEWSWEEK," MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, the common...
MATTHEWS: The commonweal argument.
FINEMAN: The commonweal idea—he used the word commonweal...
MATTHEWS: A hybrid.
FINEMAN: ... the notion of the warm courage of national unity—times have changed even since Nixon. And as Bill Clinton found out...
MATTHEWS: Nixon sounds like a socialist!
FINEMAN: Yes. Well, Ronald Reagan happened in between. The war in Vietnam happened in between. Watergate happened in between. The country's trust in the idea of the commonweal...
MATTHEWS: I shouldn't say Nixon sounds like a socialist. He sounds like what people call socialist...
FINEMAN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: ... which is government doing something.
FINEMAN: Right. Yes. That's exactly right. But the distrust of government that developed in the '60s that was basically adopted by Ronald Reagan...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: ... taken from the hippies by Ronald Reagan...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: ... OK, and the anti-war people—that is still an important thing today. There is no warm courage of national unity on this because people, as much as they distrust the insurance companies, also distrust the government.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: Let's face it. They distrust the government. So Barack Obama's swimming upstream on that. You've heard a lot of argument from him about how evil the insurance companies are because—what polling shows is what works is attacking the insurance companies, more than raising the flag of...
MATTHEWS: ... devil you know. It's not—it's not...
FINEMAN: It's not the devil you already know.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: Now, for the base of the Democratic Party, I can assure you that if and when this bill passes—and I think it is going to pass—the first thing Barack Obama is going to say to the base of the Democratic Party is 30 million people. People who weren't covered...
MATTHEWS: Yes. Because they're Democrats.
FINEMAN: ... are going to be covered.
FINEMAN: ... either were or are or will be Democrats. That's the key number for him, 30 million. Plus regulating the insurance companies.
MATTHEWS: But he can't say it now because the people voting now are very skittish...
FINEMAN: Exactly.
MATTHEWS: ... as all congresspeople are now...
FINEMAN: That's right.
MATTHEWS: ... unless they come from poor districts in the big cities...
FINEMAN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: ... are skittish about threatening the middle class.
FINEMAN: And for the reason that Congressman Larson said, $17 trillion of national wealth has been lost, a lot of it lost by the middle class. They know their insurance rates are going up, but those who have insurance through an employer desperately want to keep that insurance.
MATTHEWS: I know.
FINEMAN: They're afraid of any change. They've become conservative.
MATTHEWS: Well, I'm like that...
MATTHEWS: ... plan here, you know.
FINEMAN: So...
MATTHEWS: And nobody—I'm serious! Nobody wants to lose that!
FINEMAN: That's why Obama is...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: That's what he's arguing against as he tries to get over the finish line with this.
MATTHEWS: Yes. Greta. Howard, you're the best.
FINEMAN: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: By the way, do they have the abortion thing figured out or not?
FINEMAN: No, but they're waiting to the very end. They're leaving Stupak and company alone for right now. They're going to try to get it other ways. They're hoping in the end that Stupak's 12 end up not being 12...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: ... but 5 or 5. They can live with 5 or 6.
MATTHEWS: And if not?
FINEMAN: Well-...
MATTHEWS: If it's 7 or 8, what do they do?
FINEMAN: If it's 7 or 8, that's right on the margin. Look, Barack Obama's going to be in the vicinity of the Capitol, OK, on the last day or so.
MATTHEWS: Right.
FINEMAN: This is going to look like the Chicago, you know, city council or the old Kentucky legislation that I used to cover. It's going to come down to the last minutes of begging, pleading and arm-twisting.
MATTHEWS: OK. So as they say in basketball, he's not going to shoot from downtown. He's bringing the ball down.
FINEMAN: It'll be in the paint in the end.
MATTHEWS: Always there with a metaphor!
Coming up: Republicans putting up every roadblock they can to stop the Democrats' final push, which (INAUDIBLE) -- this is going to be one wild week. But what can they actually do to stop it right now? Can they stop the president from bringing the ball down the court, to use the metaphor of basketball. I'll not use it again. We'll move on to other metaphors. I did like the word "paint," though. That's (INAUDIBLE) right under the basket.
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. It's down to the week for President Obama to get health care reform done by Saturday. In the final six days, what does he have to do to get it done? And what can Republicans do to stop them? Boy, is it simple right now. That's the question for the strategists. Couldn't be clearer. Steve McMahon's a Democratic strategist and Todd Harris is a Republican strategist.
I want to ask you first, then you respond. Jim Clyburn was on this weekend on "MEET THE PRESS," and he said, Don't have the votes yet, but we'll get them.
STEVE MCMAHON, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Right.
MATTHEWS: How's it look?
MCMAHON: Well, I think that's absolutely where it is right now. You know, Howard Fineman was just on, talking about the Stupak 12. And the question, I guess...
MATTHEWS: Those are people that are pro-life.
MCMAHON: Pro-life. And the question is, Are there 12 of them? And will they vote against this bill if the abortion language is not fixed, which it will not be, or are there six or eight of them? I think there are probably six or eight, and I think Nancy Pelosi is going to get the votes.
MATTHEWS: What do you make of that issue? Because somebody pointed out in the paper today, the debate over abortion rights, like oftentimes big debates in this country, occurs within the Democratic Party. They have the loudest fights. What do you make of that?
TODD HARRIS, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Well, I think it could potentially—and I'm on the record on this show saying I think the bill is going to pass, but I do think that this could sink the entire bill.
It is not—and it's not just the abortion issue. There are—the National Republican Congressional Committee is targeting 50 to 60 Democrats in swing districts. These are people who either voted no in November when the bill came up or voted yes and are now wavering.
And those members are getting targeted with mail, with phones, every single way they could possibly bombard those districts. They are getting targeted to turn the heat on against those members.
MATTHEWS: But these guys are already dead, as far as you are concerned. Once you voted for health care, you guys can kill them on that issue. So, how can you kill them twice?
HARRIS: Well, we think that they're vulnerable.
MATTHEWS: How do you threaten a guy if you killed him?
HARRIS: Because the White House is saying, you have to vote yes.
That's your only way out of this. We have got to get this bill passed.
MATTHEWS: Sure.
HARRIS: And what we are saying is, it doesn't really matter which way you vote.
MATTHEWS: You're dead already.
HARRIS: We think you are dead already.
MATTHEWS: Well, see, you are laughing.
MATTHEWS: But why should a Democrat worry about what the Republicans are saying if they have already got them in the short hairs whatever?
MATTHEWS: I mean the crosshairs.
STEVE MCMAHON, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Anybody—anybody who voted yes on this bill the first time has to vote again the second time, because if you flip-flop...
MATTHEWS: Well, tell him the argument, so he can hear it.
HARRIS: I know what the argument is.
MCMAHON: If you voted yes, you are wearing that vote. And whatever bad stuff is...
MATTHEWS: The ads are cut.
MCMAHON: The ads are cut. And they are going to be run, and voting no the second time just makes you an unprincipled flip-flopper. It doesn't do anything to take away the first yes vote.
And, you know, you are talking a little bit ago about courage. And, really, what—that's what this comes down to. These are people who vote in Congress to send young men to go to war to die for their country.
MATTHEWS: When was I talking about courage?
MCMAHON: No, you and Howard were talking about—and President Obama today was talking about he needs a little courage from Congress right now..
MATTHEWS: Oh, yes.
MCMAHON: ... to do the right thing. These are people who vote to send people to war.
MATTHEWS: I wasn't talking about that, by the way. The president was.
MCMAHON: And there are people who, frankly, if some of them lose, but the country gains health care reform for everybody, that's what they are there for.
MATTHEWS: You are talking—you are actually—you're actually talking a member of Congress into voting for something that will cause him or her to lose their seat.
MCMAHON: John Kennedy wrote a book a long time ago...
MATTHEWS: I know, but...
HARRIS: It—it's...
MCMAHON: ... called "Profiles in Courage," and that is what is going to be required right now.
HARRIS: It's not...
MATTHEWS: Do you think—you think that argument could ever be made by a politician to another politician?
MCMAHON: I think President Obama was making it today in Ohio. He doesn't know how the politics...
HARRIS: And he's not on the ballot in 2010 either.
MCMAHON: He doesn't know how the politics are going to play, but he knows what the right thing for this country is.
You played all the tape of all the presidents who have asked...
MATTHEWS: No, I think that's...
MATTHEWS: I played that because I want people to know the stakes here.
Todd, Richard Nixon was for an employer mandate to require every guy or everybody who owns a business to provide health care for their employees. What do you think of that?
MCMAHON: Well...
MATTHEWS: What did you think of Nixon's idea?
MCMAHON: He thought he was a socialist.
MATTHEWS: Keep the government out of it. Just have the business pay for the—you have to have insurance. That's the deal. Just like you have to have insurance to drive a car, if you are going to run a barbershop, you have got to have insurance.
HARRIS: Look, there are...
MATTHEWS: What do you think of Nixon's idea?
HARRIS: I think Nixon's idea is not relevant to the debate...
MATTHEWS: So, you don't want to address it?
HARRIS: No, it's not that I don't want to...
MATTHEWS: Was he a socialist?
HARRIS: No, I don't think he was—of course, he wasn't a socialist.
MATTHEWS: But he's more dramatic than Barack Obama.
HARRIS: Well, certainly not more dramatic than talking about sending young men off to war.
There are certain elements of this bill that both sides can agree on. And I don't think that this is a debate about courage. It is a debate about arrogance, because the White House knows that the average voter in this country does not support this bill. They are getting it shoved down their throats. And there are a lot of Democrats in swing districts who are going to pay the price for it.
MCMAHON: Let's stipulate that the Republicans did a good job framing this bill and getting people to a point where they have questions about it.
But a lot of the people who oppose this bill—and Joel Benenson wrote a great piece in "The Washington Post" over the weekend—oppose it because it does not go far enough. So, if you take those people away and you add them to the people who support it, you throw in the historical nature of this, it is a pretty tough thing to...
MATTHEWS: Here's the Republican line on health care. We have been hearing it, but here it is elsewhere. Let's listen.
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM ®, SOUTH CAROLINA: If they do this, it is going to poison the well for anything else they would like to achieve this year or their .
REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH), HOUSE MINORITY LEADER: I'm doing everything I can to prevent this bill from becoming law, plain and simple.
MATTHEWS: That guy is Dan Aykroyd, I'm convinced.
What do you make? He's basically saying, "I'm going to throw every roadblock" they can think of, the Republican Party. Do you think that sells to the American people, that you have an election, and one party wins, and they promise to do health care, and the other party says, yes, I know we lost, but we're going to screw them?
HARRIS: Well...
MATTHEWS: Do you think that sounds like a positive thing for America?
HARRIS: Look...
MATTHEWS: I know the other guy won, but we're going to screw him.
HARRIS: Barack Obama certainly did not run on the health care platform like he's been promoting right now. So, it...
MCMAHON: Yes. Yes, he did.
HARRIS: No. No, he didn't.
MATTHEWS: You know, if John Boehner played golf the way he plays politics, the other guy would have—it would be his turn to hit the ball. He would be running around in front of them, throwing stuff around, throwing the pin around, trashing him. That's his idea of...
HARRIS: Well, if the guy getting ready to swing is a really bad golfer who is going to hit the ball right into your face, then people will probably be pretty happy about that.
MCMAHON: Here is a memo—here is a memo to Democrats out there. Any time the Republicans are on television, telling you what's best for the Democratic Party, take it with a grain of salt.
MCMAHON: These are people who say that they are going to throw up roadblocks, like they haven't been throwing up roadblocks ever since Barack Obama got here.
MATTHEWS: What does that mean? What does that mean, take it with a grain of salt? I have never understood that phrase. What do you mean, take it with a grain of salt? What does that mean?
MCMAHON: Well, take it with a whole—take it with a whole shaker of salt, because they are not being honest.
MATTHEWS: I just never know what these things mean.
HARRIS: Stipulated, Steve. But here is a memo for the American people. Any time the White House and congressional liberals say that they know what's best for the American middle class, take that with a shaker of salt.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let's catch—let's do a little look at the Sunday shows, because here it is, Monday, and this is the starting gun. This was the—this was the revelry for this week that is happening. What a week it's going to be.
Here's the administration line on health care reform on the Sunday shows. Let's listen.
DAVID AXELROD, SENIOR WHITE HOUSE ADVISER: I believe it is going to happen this week. I think we are going to have a vote. And the American people are entitled to an up-or-down vote.
ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Whoever sits here this time next week, you all will be talking about health care reform not as a presidential proposal, but as something that will soon be the law of the land.
MATTHEWS: You know what? I thought Axelrod was better than the president this weekend. That will get him in trouble, but he really was. He was a mensch. He was human—human. I'm from Philly. And he really seemed to make the case.
You don't think you have lost the moral high ground here? How would you like to be a person who says, I don't want working people to have health care; I want them to just take their chances in the emergency room; to hell with those people; if they can't pay, live with it?
HARRIS: You sound like Alan Grayson. I don't know of a single Republican who says anything remotely close to that.
MATTHEWS: Maybe that's a crude way of putting it.
MATTHEWS: What is your position...
MCMAHON: No.
HARRIS: Look, our position...
MATTHEWS: The 30 million people without health care, what are you saying to those people? Forget it?
HARRIS: Our position is that there a lot of things that both parties can agree on, and we ought to start by passing those.
HARRIS: Both parties get to claim...
MATTHEWS: There's one thing you don't agree on.
MATTHEWS: This party wants to insure the 30 million people that don't have health care, and you don't.
HARRIS: No, no, no, no. What we don't agree is on a 2,300-page, trillion-dollar bill that's not going to solve the health care crisis in this country.
MATTHEWS: How long was the Social Security bill?
HARRIS: I have no idea how long...
MATTHEWS: Neither do I. Why are we talking about this number?
MATTHEWS: Anyway, thank you, Steve McMahon.
Thank you, Todd Harris.
MATTHEWS: How long was the bill that took us to the war in Iraq? I don't know. It doesn't matter. We went to war.
Up next: Congresswoman Michele Bachmann—she's—well, she's hard to figure sometimes—wants to stop health care reform, and she's going to the extremes, calling for Americans not to pay their taxes. Will she be with you when the IRS man comes? Will she stand next to you in court? That's the question I'm going to ask.
The logic behind her—coming up in the "Sideshow."
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MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Now to the "Sideshow."
First: March madness.
At a weekend rally in Minnesota, U.S. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann said Americans should defy health care legislation depending on how it gets passed in Congress. In particular, she took aim at a proposal that would allow the House to fix flaws in the Senate bill through a procedure that avoids voting on the Senate bill itself.
Here she is.
REP. MICHELE BACHMANN ®, MINNESOTA: Mark my words, the American people aren't going to take this lying down.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No!
BACHMANN: We are not going to play their game.
AUDIENCE: No!
BACHMANN: We are not going to pay their taxes...
AUDIENCE: No!
BACHMANN: ... if you want us to pay for this, because we don't have to. We don't have to. We don't have to follow a bill that isn't law.
MATTHEWS: Wow. Well, I wonder if Congressman Bachmann will make herself available to appear in court on behalf of the people she's now encouraging to violate the law.
Next: horsing around.
J.D. Hayworth, John McCain's right-wing primary challenger, is sounding the revelry over gay marriage. Yesterday, he told a Florida radio station—quote—"The Massachusetts Supreme Court defined marriage as simply the establishment of intimacy. Now, how dangerous is that? I guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse."
That was J.D. Hayworth thinking.
Anyway, I think the word they used in Massachusetts was intimate, not affectionate.
Bringing up the connection between horse and rider in this debate really doesn't show a lot of common sense or human understanding. You can be for or against same-sex marriage, but we are talking about human love here.
Now, for the "Number."
How many Americans say they can still achieve the American dream in their lifetimes? Well, according to a poll by Xavier University, 67 percent. Times are tough but hope springs eternal -- 67 percent, two-thirds, say the American dream still possible for them, tonight's—well, that's a pretty big number for us.
Up next: The woman who had John Edwards' child, Rielle Hunter, is breaking her silence. We have got the reporter who interviewed her for "GQ." That's Lisa DePaulo coming here next.
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Rielle Hunter, who has a child with former presidential candidate John Edwards, had been one of the few people involved in this story who hadn't done an interview. Now that's changed with her exclusive interview in "GQ" with Lisa DePaulo.
And some of the pictures that accompany the article are making so much news—or as much news as the words themselves.
Lisa, thank you for joining us.
Have you been upstaged by the photo play here?
MATTHEWS: What—I'm serious about...
LISA DEPAULO, POLITICAL REPORTER, "GQ": Yes.
MATTHEWS: This is a strange thing. We have all been talking about it among the producers this afternoon, about how—well, grotesque this whole thing is.
She is there showing herself as sort of like a sex kitten with the—holding the kid's toys. And, you know, they're—they're playthings, basically, showing—there she is, hanging around with this, hanging around with no clothes on.
What is this about? What—how did she get into this? Did you know this was going to be the deal when did you the interview?
DEPAULO: Well, I guess I'm—you're starting with a different position than I have. I think the photos are fabulous. I think they portray her in many different ways that she is.
I think the photo of her with the baby is gorgeous. And I think she is also a sexy woman. And you know what? It is "GQ." It's not "Newsweek." I—I do think that the photos are great.
MATTHEWS: Well, she doesn't. She said, according to her interview with Barbara Walters, that she was—quote—"repulsed."
DEPAULO: Right.
MATTHEWS: Is that an attempt to get the benefit of the pictures, which you say are, whatever, sexy or whatever and good...
DEPAULO: Honestly, Chris, I...
MATTHEWS: ... and also be seen as somebody who didn't want to be in this situation?
DEPAULO: Right.
Well, look, honestly, she—well, she posed for the pictures. I don't think—it is not like, you know, they came out of a spaceship. But I do think—you know, it is hard today. This thing broke, and—and the blogs had at it.
And, you know, she got ripped to shreds. And I think anybody today, you know, has to have that initial reaction of, oh, my God, what did I do?
I think that, as the days pass, it will be put into a little bit of perspective.
Look, I think they are beautiful pictures. I really do. And, I mean, she's not in a bikini. She's not in a bustier. She's—you know, she's a sexy woman. I mean, is anybody surprised she is a sexy woman? He fell in love with her.
MATTHEWS: Let's talk about what we know from your interview with her, what you have figured out, what's the subtext.
I find it interesting that John Edwards, who was able to come so close
he was a shooting star in American politics back in 2000. He came so high, and then he ended getting the V.P. job, V.P. nomination. And, yet, he had shown very little. He had been a very successful trial lawyer, winning those cases, and had made a lot of money, and was able to win the Senate seat, and then immediately ran for the presidency, and immediately -
and got a lot of people thinking this was the populist hero of our time.
And, yet, we knew so little about him this guy.
DEPAULO: Isn't that interesting?
And she says that at one point, you know, he was vetted as a vice presidential candidate, and there were things in his past that nobody ever knew.
MATTHEWS: Like his name is Johnny. I never knew that.
DEPAULO: How about the Johnny, yes.
MATTHEWS: We have to read an interview with his girlfriend to find out what his name is.
DEPAULO: I love that. I love that.
MATTHEWS: Were you surprised we were getting these little—these little sugarplums of information, like his real name is—it's like Mickey Mantle, whose real name was Mickey.
DEPAULO: Exactly.
MATTHEWS: And his real name is Johnny. I guess Johnny Edwards sounds more like a second baseman than a presidential candidate.
DEPAULO: Yes. You never find out better stuff than the person who is sleeping with someone.
MATTHEWS: Let's talk about the—I want to read something from your piece. And then we will talk about it.
Rielle Hunter says Edwards—that's the candidate for president—was aware of the risks of their relationship and what it posed—quote—
"He, in fact did say to me the first night, 'Falling in love with you could
really "blank" up my plans for becoming president.'"
Well, that's a nice sort of charming come-on line. But the fact is, were you able to tell from your interview with her whether he realized that this wasn't going to sell if it got out? The public has changed in its attitude about things now that we get to know everything. Maybe we haven't changed, but now that we know everything, they can really—
DEPAULO: I so agree with that.
MATTHEWS: It just hurts.
DEPAULO: I mean, I thought there was so much revealing in that one line. I mean, including that he was using the words in love on their first night together. I mean, I just found that fascinating. I think, yeah, he knew on some level every step of the way, absolutely.
MATTHEWS: He knew it would get him in big trouble.
DEPAULO: Sure.
MATTHEWS: And yet—
DEPAULO: Yet, read the rest of the interview. It is quite amazing that she's crazy about him. I think her depiction of him is very, you know, involved in and intensely, you know, interested in her.
MATTHEWS: Why aren't they walking down the streets of New York together right now like, you know, Jennifer Aniston and some guy?
DEPAULO: She is calling Barbara Walters today. I don't know.
MATTHEWS: He's down on a beach in North Carolina, sort of sitting there like Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca," sitting alone on the beach. I don't know. It's none of our business.
Let's talk about the election. I do find these stories interesting, him and the former—still almost former governor of South Carolina—has that public sort of craziness of heading down to Argentina and saying he was on the Appalachian Trail, and then his wife walking out on him. He left their sort of—and I keep thinking of this almost like Murphy Brown in the elevator. She used to say on the show, if you punch the button, you get off.
Why don't these guys get off at this floor? Why isn't he with her?
Why isn't the other guy in Argentina?
DEPAULO: Because there is a better floor, you know. I mean, it is so funny. She addresses this. Like the—this is what—these guys, you know, fall crazy. I mean—
MATTHEWS: Yeah. Well, we are in yucky territory here.
DEPAULO: You are uncomfortable with this, Chris.
MATTHEWS: No, this is not my favorite. I would rather argue about health care. Here we are right now. Let's go to the race about his wife's cancer return. Obviously I know Elizabeth. This is really a very tragic story.
Quote, "I was shocked. I really viewed it as reckless. What's interesting was that she wanted to stay." Here's the girlfriend saying—
I'm sorry, he's saying the wife wants to stay in, and he wanted to get out, and she wanted to stay in.
How do you put that whole thing together? John Edwards, according to his girlfriend, wanted to quit the race because of his wife's health problem, and, I guess, because of the relationship with her. And yet, she says that he said that she said, Elizabeth, in this case, that they should stay in the race. How do you put it together?
DEPAULO: Well, first of all, I mean, this is classic of men in affairs. They tell their mistress things about their wife. Obviously a lot of what she relays are things that Johnny told her. What I think is interesting—I thought you would—it is so funny about her talking about how she—did he ask her advice during the campaign. And the bottom line, she said you know, she really wasn't that interested. And I found that so interesting because we all know all that Elizabeth did to get him through years of politics. She was a real true political partner.
Rielle was not that interested. She said something about how, when he asked her, should I endorse Barack Obama, and Rielle said, you know, I really don't have an opinion on that. I thought that was pretty—
MATTHEWS: You love your job, Lisa.
DEPAULO: I do.
MATTHEWS: Thank you so much.
DEPAULO: I do.
MATTHEWS: You don't find this yucky. It is a fascinating story.
It is about life. We all sort of recognize a lot of it.
Up next—good luck. Congratulations. You always do a great story. Up next, it may be the diplomatic feud between United States and Israel in years. In fact, I think I don't remember anything like this. The Obama administration isn't backing down after condemning Israel's decision to build those housing units in Arab East Jerusalem, which was announced while the vice president was over there. I was over there with the Vice President Biden when this thing happened.
Where's this heading? What can President Obama do about this very difficult situation? This is HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Well, the United States may be facing its biggest rift with Israel in 35 years. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not hold her fire when it came to Israel's announcement that it's going to build more housing units in Arab East Jerusalem during Vice President Biden's trip to the region.
Here's what she told Andrew Mitchell about decision by the Netanyahu government.
HILLARY CLINTON, SECRETARY OF STATE: It was insulting. And it was insulting not just to the vice president, who certainly didn't deserve that. He was there with a very clear message of commitment to the peace process, solidarity with the Israeli people.
But it is an insult to the United States. I mean, the United States is deeply invested in trying to work with the parties in order to bring about this resolution. We don't get easily discouraged, so we are—we are working towards the resumption of the negotiations.
But we expect Israel and the Palestinians to do their part, and not to take any actions that will undermine the chance that we can achieve the two-state solution.
MATTHEWS: On the other side of the argument, Israeli Prime Minister Binjamin Netanyahu rejected any restrictions on settlements in or around what they define as Jerusalem. He told a meeting of his Likud Party, quote, "building in Jerusalem and in all areas will continue in the same manner it has over the last 42 years."
How does this make President Obama look right now to the world?
Richard Wolffe and Michelle Bernard are both MSNBC political analysts.
Richard, you first. I was there with Vice President Biden over there. I know what Arab East Jerusalem looks like. I have some pictures to show. The fact is that when you go there, it has an Arab quality to it. There's a street scene I took. It's Arab populated. It's been Arab populated for centuries. Israel's building there. What's the intention? What are they up to?
RICHARD WOLFFE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: The Israelis say this is a neighborhood that everybody knows is going to end up as part of Israel. The truth is that you cannot make this kind reality on the ground when your biggest ally is trying to restart a peace process that has been dead for a decade or more.
So it's not just about the embarrassment. What it comes down to is politics here. Do you believe Netanyahu was being worked over by his right-wing minister, who authorized this stuff? Or do you think that, you know, this is some kind of conspiracy? Because everyone enjoys beats up on Barack Obama and Israel right now.
MATTHEWS: In Israel.
WOLFFE: In Israel. The end result here is—look, in the end, for the Obama administration, they can be independent mediators. They have to show they're angry with the Israelis. They have to have trust on both sides. Right now, there is no trust.
MATTHEWS: The United States, in this context, isn't just an independent mediator. We support a two-state solution. That's US policy under two administrations now, including George W. Bush, who was a huge friend of Israel. The Clintons, it is US policy, Israeli policy. Is Israeli policy, based on their behavior, a two-state solution, or is it to hold out and foot drag?
MICHELLE BERNARD, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: I don't see anything that definitively says that Israeli does not want a two-state policy.
MATTHEWS: The people may want it. But does the government want it?
BERNARD: I don't see anything that says that the government doesn't want it. If you believe that this was a problem, it was bad luck. The minister of the Interior did something very, very silly, which is what I personally believe. We haven't seen the prime minister or anyone else in the Israeli government come out and say, we don't want a two-state policy.
It shows, quite simply, is whenever they do have peace discussions, clearly Israel has decided that the part of East Jerusalem that they are building is going to be part of Israel. It's not going to be part of the Palestinian Authority. Doesn't mean that there won't be a two-state solution. But this area that we are talking about clearly is going to be part of Israel.
MATTHEWS: The question is, are we ever going to get anywhere with this? The question is, if there's never going to be a deal that will include giving the Arabs some piece of Jerusalem to call their capital, is there any other alternative here?
WOLFFE: There has to be a deal for it because there's actually something bigger going on in the region, which everyone cares more about, which is Iran. If Israel wants to have united international action against Iran, it has to take the Palestinian situation off the table. The Palestinians have to take their own situation off the table because otherwise they'll have no state. So there is a long term interest, even a medium, short term interest, to get this done.
MATTHEWS: I think you said this to one of our producers and I want to check this with Michelle. Unless Israel can build something of an anti-Iran coalition—admittedly will be difficult. The Arab countries don't love Israel. But they have to get together in a common interest, the Sunni countries, Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority have got to get together and face down this Shia crescent that's developing in Iran and in Afghanistan, et cetera, right?
BERNARD: Absolutely. No disagreement from me there whatsoever. But the Palestinian Authority has to come to the table and President Obama needs—President Obama, you know, he has this image right now that he has not been strong enough in forcing negotiations. He has to go to the table with the Palestinians and the Israelis.
MATTHEWS: Brutal question. I may not like the answer. If Dick Cheney were vice president, would this so-called silly accident that occurred this week, where they announced building of housing units in the face of the peace process, have occurred? Would they have made that silly little mistake with Dick Cheney on the ground?
BERNARD: No.
MATTHEWS: So then it wasn't a mistake?
BERNARD: No. I do believe—I do believe it is a mistake. But I believe—
MATTHEWS: Would they have committed that mistake if Cheney had been walking into the country in.
BERNARD: I think the government, from the top down, would have been looking much closer and what harder.
MATTHEWS: That's the Obama problem. What do you say?
WOLFFE: Wouldn't have tried to embarrass Cheney. If they had, the Bush administration would not have tried to embarrass the Israelis in return.
MATTHEWS: What would they have done?
WOLFFE: They would have said, Israel can do whatever it likes, and the Palestinians need to give up terrorism and come to the table, security first. That was the debate we had for eight years.
BERNARD: Cheney would not have made the statements the vice president made. Some people actually thought that the vice president made a gaffe and were aghast in thinking, how on Earth could he say something so strong against the United States government's closest ally without thinking about it first? Was it a gaffe or did he really intentionally—
MATTHEWS: Are you talking about the vice president's condemnation?
That was cleared at the White House. This is administration policy.
BERNARD: I'm not arguing that it's not. But I'm telling you there are people who will ask was this a gaffe because it was so strong?
MATTHEWS: The language that has been used—not not been used since Donald McHenry in 1980. It was very strong language. You're right. Thank you, Richard Wolffe.
I'm trying to take the position of the Israeli middle. Ehud Barak would be my true north. Do you agree?
WOLFFE: Yes, but that's not the middle in Israel anymore.
MATTHEWS: Richard Wolffe, thank you. Michelle Bernard, we have to talk more about this.
When we return, I'm going to have thoughts about this historic week coming up as President Obama makes the final push for health care reform.
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MATTHEWS: Let me finish with this: I care about this country, this democracy of ours. I want it to work. I want elections to matter. I want them to be dramatic, exciting, noisy, and I want the results to count.
When a party fails in our form of government, it ought to be dumped. It ought to be out of the job long enough to get the message. When a party wins an election, on the other hand, it ought to be able to do what it promised to do in the election.
When Ronald Reagan won back in 1980, beating Jimmy Carter, he came to Washington and pushed through a 25 percent cut in federal income taxes, and a big change in where the government spent money, more on defense, less on social programs. The Democrats didn't throw up road blocks in Reagan's way. On his biggest test, he got a simple up or down vote. That' show he enacted a historic change in this country's economic policy.
And you didn't hear months and months of complaints about it. His use of reconciliation was viewed as simply a dramatic, new, aggressive use of an existing procedure.
The point is, Reagan promised something in the campaign and was able to deliver. The opposition spoke against it, but didn't set up road blocks.
The time has come for the US Congress to make the same decision on this president's program. The Republicans have had their say. So has the president. It's time to vote, up or down, up or down. Does anyone, least of all Republican, think Ronald Reagan would not have called his major campaign promise for an up or down vote if he were in the position President Obama is in now?
After months of debate, the issue has come down to this: not whether you're for or against Obama's health care plan—that's for the individual senators and members of Congress to decide. But whether you are for or against elections mattering in this country. Obama won promising to do something that he's doing.
If he makes history later this week, it will be the history he promised to make. In this greatest of democracies, elections ought to matter.
That's HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us. Catch us again tomorrow night at 5:00 and 7:00 Eastern. Right now, it's time for "THE ED SHOW" with Ed Schultz.
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Brandon Pettigrew isn't leaving Detroit.
The free-agent tight end has signed a four-year contract with the Lions, the team confirmed Friday morning.
The contract reportedly is worth $16 million, with $8 million guaranteed, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Pettigrew drew plenty of interest on the open market, with the New York Jets, Oakland Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs among the teams who inquired about the veteran.
With the shallow tight end market picked clean, re-signing Pettigrew became a priority for Detroit. The combination of Pettigrew, Calvin Johnson and newly signed receiver Golden Tate can provide the Lions with an explosive passing game. (We still expect them to add a receiver in a deep 2014 NFL Draft.)
It also comes at a price, as the Lions are paying a ton of money to those receiving targets.
It's not a surprise that Pettigrew, who has expressed his willingness to be both a blocker and pass-catching tight end, earned $16 million on the open market. It's slightly surprising the Lions would make that deal given the money already tied up on offense and needs still looming on defense.
Coming off his worst season since his rookie year, Pettigrew caught just 41 passes for 416 yards and two touchdowns in 2013. He should be a good chess piece for new offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi.
Pettigrew's blocking prowess was cited often during the courting process. While he clearly was the best blocking tight end on the Lions, his ability is a matter of perspective. The gentlemen over at Pro Football Focus didn't grade Pettigrew out well at all. He ranked as the website's No. 55 overall tight end in 2013 (out of 63). He graded negatively in every category except pass blocking and penalties. His run blocking ranked near the bottom as well.
Lions fans often became frustrated with the veteran's propensity to drop passes, and some of his red-zone targets were taken last season by rookie Joseph Fauria. However, it's clear from the contract that the Lions' front office felt it needed to bring the veteran back to solidify the position.
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Victory! Today, for the first time ever, the Supreme Court of the United States confirmed that profit-seeking corporations can hold a religious view under federal law. The landmark 5-4 ruling favors Christian-owned companies Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood.
In the ongoing battle for religious freedom in America, this is a huge victory for Christians who seek to steward their lives and businesses in accordance with their deeply held convictions and biblical worldview.
While the context for this ruling was set within the onerous Obamacare mandate requiring companies to offer abortion-inducing drugs in their employee health plans, the implications for this ruling have much broader religious liberty implications for you and me and the companies that we support as Faith Driven Consumers.
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Developing Local Talent in Technology
Instanbul is known for many things—impressive architecture, mouth-watering cuisine (in my humble opinion), rich cultural history, and so much more. That's why I was particularly thrilled when I learned Cisco's Middle Eastern Diversity and Inclusion (MEDI) group hosted a Developing Local Talent in Technology Workshop (DLTT) at the world's third oldest technical university that focuses on engineering sciences, Istanbul Technical University.
With a particular emphasis on philanthropic and community outreach, MEDI hopes to increase technology awareness and enhance both technical and soft skills for local talent with the DLTT workshops. During this five-day workshop at Istanbul, 100 participants from education sector, public enterprises, and private companies were divided evenly into four groups. Each group focused on one track from DLTT's curriculum each day. Imagine spending an entire day learning from network industry experts and discussing relevant topics of interest with like-minded peers on one of the four tracks—IP Telephony, Wireless, Network Security, and Professional Development. Three to four local Systems Engineers and Global Cisco volunteer instructors were assigned to each technical track on a rotational basis.
MEDI has been hosting workshops like this since 2009, so it's little wonder how students and Cisco volunteers from all over the world who participated in DLTT responded to this well-put together and highly interactive program.
Fan Gu, one of the Cisco volunteers who taught Network Security at DLTT-Turkey, said
"It was a great life experience for me to meet these smart students, make lots of good friends, and visit this beautiful city! Hope our efforts will drive our students to the next career level!"
Nihat Burak Aksar, a student of DLTT-Turkey, said
"I found [the] IP telephony section interesting and [I'm] trying to learn more… some of us will get coaching support for our career in Cisco and [the] network world. I would be extremely happy if I get a chance to get more experience from Cisco trainers."
Erkan Bayar, another student of DLTT-Turkey, said
"All of our instructors were very optimistic and eager to teach us something. Therefore, I listened carefully and took notes because everything they said were golden words for me."
I wasn't there to witness the event, but after hearing about it and watching this video documenting the five-day event, I sure wish I had been there.
If you're as interested as I am as to what MEDI has in store next, check out their Facebook page for the latest updates. Their next DLTT workshop is in Indonesia from February 6-11, 2012. So if you're in the area, check it out!
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The devil in Massachusetts: a modern enquiry into the Salem witch trials
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The new issue of Self-Publisher's Monthly is out! Why am I excited? Well, not only am I a contributing editor to this fine publication, but every month, you are treated to a plethora (yes, I said plethora!) of fine articles on the art of publishing your own work.
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|2007-11-01, 16:35
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Just call me Ojisan
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: U.K. Hampshire
The dubbing of Lucky Star
This thread is for the discussion of English Voice Actors in the R1 release of Lucky Star.
Please do not use this thread to whinge and whine that you do not like any sort of English dub. No one is forcing you to listen to the dub so if you do not like it then simply listen to the Japanese track and turn the subtitles on.
Please remember these simple rules when critiquing a VA's performance or reading another forum member's critique:
|2007-11-01, 16:44
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Cape Suzette
Except for the Gundam series I've never known Bandai to pull off a good dub (Love Hina... what a mess that was), but i am thankful that Bandai is bringing Lucky Star to the US. I really don't know the VAs of Bandai too well so i really can't give a good opinion about who should play who. I just hope they pick the VAs carefully.
|2007-11-01, 16:58
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
I've only encountered a handful of dubs that didn't have me sticking icepicks in my ear. All the companies tend to pull from the same pool of VAs. They all have the VAs "almost" cold-read their lines separately in isolation (unlike in Japan where the VAs practice extensively and mostly read as a group for better emoting results). The results *sound* like people reading in a studio and in isolation.
Therefore I really don't care *which* company licenses it -- it'll be really iffy whether I like the dubs and since they'll almost certainly use a couple of VAs I can't stand....
... I'm better off with the original language and dealing with the subtitles (though those have mixed results as well... I'm going to be interested in seeing how they handle the puns and proverb references).
I will say a few recent dubs of various series have been passable... but it only takes one atrocious VA to tip the apple cart for group effort.
|2007-11-01, 17:53
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One PUNCH!
Join Date: Dec 2005
|2007-11-01, 17:58
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
It'd be so great if they found and employed the girl from this clip : http://youtube.com/watch?v=T8btXrQ2Ujw
I've never heard anyone getting so close to the original hirano aya's performance and propably never will... To bad, that my wish is so impossible to happen
|2007-11-02, 16:36
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Good-Natured Asshole.
Join Date: May 2007
Age: 30
Kagami should be pretty easy...western VAs seem to have no problem sounding dramatic. Konata, on the other hand...would be insanely difficult. First, you need this really nasal childlike intonation with equally childish speaking pace. Hirano Aya, even if you hate the fandom surrounding her, does win as an impeccable seiyuu in her own right for carrying this out so perfectly. I am of the belief that no western VA (in this business, at the least) can pull this off nearly as well. There simply aren't enough of them in the western industry.
|2007-11-03, 17:11
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Wannabe Konata Izumi
One of the many things I consider so unique and likable about Konata is her voice. It's got this sleepy nasal childlike intonation to it, just like you said. It was this voice, and not Haruhi, that made me like Aya Hirano so much that I was willing to stay in long lines just to go see her panel and attempt to get her sig (I went to AX mostly because Aya's the seiyuu of Konata, not primarily because I was a Haruhi fan). That voice is very hard to pull off, but she's done it consistently throughout all the episodes. I will give major props to someone who can pull it off as well as Aya. It doesn't help that Konata is my most favorite anime character of all time, and with my favorites I'm usually tough to judge on how people perform her.
I also hope that there's chemistry too between Konata and Kagami. Although not as evident in early episodes, their banter was one of the most enjoyable parts about the show.
|2007-11-04, 14:51
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Bloody Hell...
I figured with the massive amount of Haruhi references that only Bandai would pick it up, and I was hoping it wouldn't come to this. Yes, I hate dubs, but some have managed to not make me want to slap the voice actors and the casting director (Air). I'm not a big fan of the Haruhi dub - it's barely within tolerance (save the dubbing of the song God Knows, which is a travesty on its own), so I can't imagine Bandai's going to pull a sparkling gem out of their talent pool for this casting. Some of them might go okay, like Kagami, but Konata... unless someone is entering the business and making Lucky Star debut that can pull it off, I cant' think of anyone already working that can properly do Konata.
That said, yes, I don't have to watch the dub (I'll at least sample it), but I would at least like to have the comfort that it's being done right.
|2007-11-04, 14:51
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
The comedy duo format will probably make or break the dub ... what are the odds they'll have the two VAs chosen actually work together in the recording sessions? (probably zero).
As long as the video quality is good and they actually bother to do decently translated subs (with footnotes), the dubs could be in "Murloc" for all I care --- but that's just my own personal needs.
|2007-11-04, 15:06
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Silent Warrior
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Netherlands
Age: 33
In the end who cares really. Aren't most of you(read:all of you), going to switch on the japanese track and turn on the subs after rofling 5mins how bad the dub. There are some cases where dub do sound good enough. LS is just one of those series you can't dub right. No matter how good the VA is tbh.
|2007-11-04, 17:28
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- Former WWE Diva Stacy Keibler has been doing media appearances to promote her new reality show Supermarket Superstars, which will air Monday nights at 10pm against RAW. Keibler said reports of her and George Clooney breaking up due to her wanting to get married and start a family are not true. She added she's not all concerned about marriage or family life. She will be appearing on Jimmy Fallon this Friday night.
- The Rock tweeted about the success of his show, The Hero, on TNT:
"TNT execs just called thrilled #TheHero is a big success. 3 reasons: Quality show. People overcoming. Rock runs around in tight ass t-shirt."
- Courtesy of WrestlingDVDNews.com, here is the cover photo for this year's Money in the Bank, releasing on August 13th:
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Daniel DiMaio, MD, PhD
Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Genetics and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Therapeutic Radiology; Deputy Director, Yale Cancer Center
Departments & Organizations
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Therapeutic Radiology: Radiobiology
Center for RNA Science and Medicine
HPV Working Group (Niccolai Lab)
Molecular Virology: Virology Laboratories
Yale Cancer Center: K12 Calabresi Immuno-Oncology Training Program (IOTP) | Virus and Other Infection-associated Cancers | Yale CTAP
Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Biochemistry, Quantitative Biology, Biophysics and Structural Biology (BQBS) | Microbiology | Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development
Office of Cooperative Research
The DiMaio laboratory is studying the molecular mechanisms of how two groups of tumor viruses, human papillomaviruses and polyomaviruses, enter cells, with a particular focus on identifying the cellular proteins that mediate virus entry and intracellular trafficking and determining their molecular mechanisms of action. In addition, it is using viral transmembrane proteins as a basis to develop a class of artificial small transmembrane proteins with a variety of biological activities, including the ability to form tumors and confer resistance to HIV infection. Some of these proteins are the simplest proteins ever described and their study will reveal new features of protein action and the basis for specificity in protein-protein interactions.
Education & Training
|Johns Hopkins University (1981)
|Johns Hopkins University (1978)
|Yale University, Biology (1974)
Honors & Recognition
Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (2014)
Honorary ProfessorUniversity College London (2012)
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003)
Graduate Mentoring Award in the Natural SciencesYale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2001)
Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology (2000)
Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation (1993)
MERIT AwardNational Institutes of Health (1992)
Mallinckrodt Scholar Award (1983)
Professional Service
Yale University (2014 - Present) Director, Division of Biological Sciences
Board of Scientific Advisors, National Cancer Institute (2012 - Present)
American Society for Microbiology (1998 - 1999) Chairman, Division S (DNA viruses)


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Saw The Avengers with the family the first night it came out. Loved it. With movies like that, I like to see them early in their run so that the ad previews don't ruin everything.
Because the human brain thinks odd thoughts, there's been some discussion among fans that if you were casting The Avengers, using Texans players, who would be in what role. Got various suggestions on Twitter. Antonio Smith says he'd be Nick Fury:
I could see that. Eye patch characters are usually pretty cool. Also, not too many Avenger characters of color to choose from, unless you count green.
Here's the rest of my own personal Avengers' casting:
Captain America: JJ Watt. Watt's personal mantra, "Dream Big Work Hard" is a sentimental, old fashion Captain American point of view. His story from humble beginnings is very Captain America though I am guessing he was never a frail kid like Steve Rogers.
JJ Watt looks good in the red, white, and blue, and if you were to have a Houston Texan player who would punch Hitler square in the face, I could see Watt being good at that sort of thing.
Strong consideration would have had to be given to DeMeco "Cap" Ryans had he stayed with the team for that spot.
Hulk: Though there were many suggestions for who should be the Hulk, to me it has to be Brian Cushing. Headbutting a guy with no helmet on? Bloody face? There's the Brian Cushing of interviews that seems quiet and reserved, and then there's the guy who shows up in the NFL Sound F/X videos who seems very Hulk.
Thor: Brooks Reed. It's the hair.
Hard not to go with James Casey, as he's been Thor since his days at Rice. But I don't think Casey as a blond works.
Iron Man: Iron Man is the hardest character to cast for me. He's a normal sized dude in a Iron Man costume, and there's not that many normal sized dudes that play for the Texans.
Maybe for Iron Man, I go with Connor Barwin. I think he'd be up for being a billionaire do-gooder who tries to use technology to make the world a better place. And also for kicking ass.
Perhaps The Houston Texans Avengers would be a good theme for one of the On The Nose videos the Texans produce. Sadly, I'm guessing the costumes needed to pull it off don't actually come in the super hero sizes that the players would require.
Do you take issue with my casting? Have anything to add? On Twitter some suggested that I'd be a good Black Widow. Um no. Though I probably wear more black than I should, that would involve depriving myself of most carbohydrates and acquiring various implants and whatnot.
Besides, Texans Chick is a much better super hero character. Tailgating is a very underrated super power.


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The Savoy Hotel/
From what my Facebook feed tells me, summer is already in the air for many of you Americans. For me, it's hit a balmy 45 degrees F two days in a row and I'm ready to cartwheel down the sidewalk in short shorts even though the sidewalk's still encrusted with shin-high piles of dirtsnow on either side.
While walking the dogs this morning in nothing but a heavy wool coat (wheee!) I noticed that construction has finally started on a new SAQ that'll be located a full 1 2/3 blocks closer to us than the SAQ that's currently closest to us. Even better, the new one is clearly too big to be a SAQ Express, which means maybe they'll carry something other than wine and Jack Daniel's.
(The different kinds of SAQs (government-run liquor stores) up here in Quebec are SAQ Express (bodega), SAQ Depot (warehouse) SAQ Signature and SAQ Selection (the difference being?). It's kinda like Gap, BabyGap, etc.)
Anyway, this is good because as I've said lately, what reduced amount of cocktailing I've been doing has been confined to those liquors I already have in the cupboard. Yes, I am lazy and a miser, but if you take away one of those obstacles to my leaving the house and purchasing more al-kee-hall -- i.e., the booze now lives on a shelf a whole 100 seconds closer to me! -- I'll relent.
Exhibit A: Here's a cocktail I would've never seen coming nor given a second glance. Three liquors, all of which we had in the house. It's intended to be served as a layered drink. That and the fact that it's 1 1/2 ounces total means to me that it's more of a shot than a cocktail, but we tried it both ways (layered and mixed) and approve either preparation. It's on the sweet side, but not as sweet as you might think. For some reason I can't contemplate this cocktail without also wishing I had a smoking jacket to don while partaking. (See mixed-into-a-cocktail-glass photo below to see what I mean. It's begging for a fireplace and a pipe!)
The Savoy Hotel
1/2 ounce brandy
1/2 ounce Benedictine
1/2 ounce dark creme de cacao
Pour the three ingredients, in order, into a shot glass. Hold a spoon upside-down over the mouth of the glass as you pour (hitting the backside of the spoon, then the glass) to get the layering effect. Note that the middle and top layers are very similar in color and so you may have to stare hard to actually see whether you've achieved a good and proper layer between them. Alternatively, shake all three ingredients over ice in a shaker and strain into a cocktail glass. In which case, garnish with a lemon twist for a little brightness.


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Time to have a look at September for new science fiction books to order. Here is my pick and a few other books I found interesting. It looks like a good month lots of books I will read as soon as I can unwrap them.
Many of these books are on my 13 SF for the rest of 2010 book list Guardians of Paradise, Out of the Dark, Quantum Thief, What Distant Deep, Dreadnought and The Truth of Valor.
On Order
Author: David Weber
Genre: Vampire Science Fiction | Alien Invasion
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Tor Books 28 Sep 2010
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Vampires and space opera, it sounds cheesy but it is a Weber book so I am in. The first news made this out to be a new series but later reports says it is not.
Expanded from a short story that first appeared in George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois's anthology Warriors, this trilogy kickoff blends elements of military science fiction and dark fantasy. In the very near future, Earth has been targeted for colonization by a galactic empire known as the Hegemony. Deemed "lunatic local sentients" by a survey team that witnessed King Henry V and his troops slaughtering the French at Agincourt, humankind has essentially been written off as bloodthirsty, expendable barbarians. When the Hegemony's henchmen, the doglike Shongairi, show up to conquer Earth, the resistance is beyond anything they had ever imagined, especially when vampires appear to help the humans. Weber pulls off this conceit in audacious style with a focus on military-powered action that will thrill fans of his Honor Harrington series, and he keeps the pedal to the metal right up to the almost unbelievable conclusion.
Series: The Quantum Thief 1
Author: Hannu Rajaniemi
Genre: Space Opera
Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Gollancz 30 Sep 2010
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I read a short story by Hannu, he is a fantastic writer. This promises to be a real good posthuman series.
Jean le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist and trickster. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his exploits are known throughout the Heterarchy – from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to steal their thoughts, to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of the Moving Cities of Mars. Except that Jean made one mistake. Now he is condemned to play endless variations of a game-theoretic riddle in the vast virtual jail of the Axelrod Archons – the Dilemma Prison – against countless copies of himself. Jean's routine of death, defection and cooperation is upset by the arrival of Mieli and her spidership, Perhonen. She offers him a chance to win back his freedom and the powers of his old self – in exchange for finishing the one heist he never quite managed . . . The Quantum Thief is a dazzling hard SF novel set in the solar system of the far future – a heist novel peopled by bizarre post-humans but powered by very human motives of betrayal, revenge and jealousy. It is a stunning debut.
Series: The Hidden Empire/Sidhe 3
Author: Jaine Fenn
Genre: Space Opera
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Gollancz 16 Sep 2010
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Jaine is another author I love. Read my take on the previous books in the Hidden Empire: Consorts of Heaven and Principles of Angels.
Most people believe the Sidhe are long dead, exterminated centuries ago when the males of the race rose up and fought alongside the humans subjugated and enslaved by the female Sidhe. But Jarek Reen knows better: he's discovered, the painful way, that the Sidhe are alive and well, and still screwing over humanity. They've already killed his sister, so he's not surprised when he discovers an old friend and her partner are next on the Sidhe's hitlist. He helps not only to foil the assassination attempt, but also to muddy the scene of the crime, leaving the Angels Nual and Taro sanMalia presumed dead – and free to join his crusade to expose the insidious influence of the Sidhe, and their evil plans to enslave the human race again. Their mission takes them across human-space, from utilitarian hub-points to rich, exotic planets – where they discover that a brilliant vacation spot hides some of the darkest secrets of all. And that's when they discover how easy it is for the hunters to become the hunted . . .
Series: Lt. Leary/RCN
Author: David Drake
Genre: Military Science Fiction
Publisher: Baen
Hardcover: 384 pages
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I ordered this book in November last year. Daniel and Adele has been wonderful companions so far. This is usually uncomplicated enjoyable military scifi.
This series is on my List of Military SF Series
Captain Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy, have been in the front lines of Cinnabar's struggle against the totalitarian Alliance. Now these galactic superpowers have signed a peace of mutual exhaustion– But the jackals are moving in!
The Republic of Cinnabar was on the verge of collapse under the weight of taxes, casualties, and war's disruption of trade. That the Alliance of Free Stars was in even worse condition helped only because it has made peace possible.
Years of war have been hard on Daniel and harder still on Adele, whose life outside information-gathering is a tightrope between despair and deadly violence. Their masters in the RCN and the Republic's intelligence service have sent them to the fringes of human space to relax away from danger.
But the barbarians of the outer reaches have their own plans, plans which will bring down both Cinnabar and the Alliance. The enemies of peace include traitors, giant reptiles, and barbarian pirates whose ships can outsail even Daniel Leary's splendid corvette, the Princess Cecile.
Unless Daniel, Adele, and their unlikely allies succeed, galactic civilization will disintegrate into blood and chaos. So they will succeed— or they'll die trying!
Series: Clockwork Century 3
Author: Cherie Priest
Genre: Steampunk
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Tor Books 28 Sep 2010
Excerpt: Chapter 1
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Boneshaker was wonderful and Clementine arrived this week so I haven't read it yet. But I expect it to be good to.
A grizzly death in the Rue Morgue – a body sliced in half. Milady de Winter hunts the killer, and discovers the body held an incredible secret.
The quest to discover it will take her to the edge of the world and to the depths of her own soul.
Outstanding steampunk adventure from the author of The Bookman.
File Under: Steampunk [ A Ghostly Murder / A Mythical Object / A Worldwide Quest ]
Series: Confederation of Valor 5
Author: Tanya Huff
Genre: Military Science Fiction
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: DAW 7 Sep 2010
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Tanya is really good at characters and dialog making this one an easy choise.
Former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr is attempting to build a new life with salvage operator Craig Ryder on his ship, the Promise. Turns out civilian life is a lot rougher than she'd imagined-salvage operators are losing both cargo and lives to pirates. And when they attack the Promise, Craig is taken prisoner and Torin is left for dead.
When Torin finds out why the pirates needed Craig, she calls in the Marines to get him back-and to stop the pirates from changing the balance of power in known space.
Series: Ragnarok book 1
Author: Patrick A. Vanner
Genre: Military Science Fiction | Space Opera
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Baen
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This is probably a hit or miss kind of thing. It is Patrick A Vanner's first novel in a series of military space opera. I have this thing for female protagonist so I will give it a try.
Captain Alexandra "Alex" McLaughlin is not a woman to be underestimated. Under her petite exterior is a spine of solid steel and a disposition to laugh in the face of impending death. A former member of the Terran Navy's elite force, the Dead Jokers, electronic-warfare pilots with a mortality rate to match that of old Japan's Kamikazes, Alex is a born survivor. But sometimes survival can be a curse.
Humanity is locked in a war of survival with the Xan-Sskarn, an alien race that refuses to acknowledge the rights of "weaker" creatures to live. It is a war that will not end with a peace treaty, but only the complete subjugation of one species to the other. And right now, the alien side is winning.
However, the enemy on the outside is not the only one to be faced. As the battles take on an eerily familiar pattern of no-win scenarios, Alex realized the horrifying truth; humanity has a traitor, and it's somebody close. As each battle brings more death, Alex's ghosts grow and so does her desire for vengeance. There is only one way for this to end, and Alex is just the human to take it there—to Ragnarok
Other New Books of Interest
Author: William Jablonsky
Genre: Steampunk
Paperback: 268 pages
Publisher: Medallion Press
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This one sounds interesting but could be a hit or miss kind of thing.
Ernst, the first man made of clockwork, is hailed as a marvel of late 19th-century automation and gains endless admirers, but when his love for the daughter of his creator is abruptly cut short, his serene existence is shattered. Forlorn, he allows himself to wind down in a willful act of defiant suicide. Now, more than 100 years later, he awakens to a new world and mentor – a well-meaning, if slightly unstable, homeless man. Attempting to piece together the events that brought him to this new home, Ernst tries to let go of the century-old tragedy that still haunts him. This story of science fiction realism delves into the thoughts, feelings, and desires of a character who must deal with the poignant social repercussions of having been built, rather than born.
Author: William Gibson
Genre: Cyberpunk
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Viking 2 September 2010 | Putnam Adult 7 September 2010
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The iconic visionary returns with his first new novel since the New York Times bestseller Spook Country.
Whatever you do, because you are an artist, will bring you to the next thing of your own…
When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry's face was known worldwide. She still runs into people who remember the poster. Unfortunately, in the post-crash economy, cult memorabilia doesn't pay the rent, and right now she's a journalist in need of a job. The last person she wants to work for is Hubertus Bigend, twisted genius of global marketing; but there's no way to tell an entity like Bigend that you want nothing more to do with him. That simply brings you more firmly to his attention.
Milgrim is clean, drug-free for the first time in a decade. It took eight months in a clinic in Basel. Fifteen complete changes of his blood. Bigend paid for all that. Milgrim's idiomatic Russian is superb, and he notices things. Meanwhile no one notices Milgrim. That makes him worth every penny, though it cost Bigend more than his cartel-grade custom-armored truck.
The culture of the military has trickled down to the street- Bigend knows that, and he'll find a way to take a cut. What surprises him though is that someone else seems to be on top of that situation in a way that Bigend associates only with himself. Bigend loves staring into the abyss of the global market; he's just not used to it staring back.
Author: Linden Lewis
Paperback 300 pages
Publisher: Matador 6 Sep 2010
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When Guy Hewson, a young professor of Egyptology, discovers a strange relic, he has no idea of the bizarre sequence of events that will follow. The importance of the unearthed antiquity becomes manifest when the professor is the target of an assassination attempt. He is saved by an old university friend, Justin Bloom, a man struggling to cope with the humdrum routine of his daily existence. Justin is drawn into a scenario that's far removed from his regular family life in Norfolk. As the mystery deepens his integrity is tested by the reciprocated fascination he has for another woman, Abigail Shakespeare, who becomes involved. Eventually, the incredible significance of the relic becomes apparent and a dark secret from humanity's past is uncovered. Whilst Professor Hewson attempts to stay one step ahead of the police and a murderous third party, it's down to Justin and Abigail to avert a reanimated danger threatening all of civilisation. Human Secrets exemplifies a new category of credible science fiction that deals with the lives of a group of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. It is a tale of romance and adventure that questions mankind's place in the past, present and future.
New Releases of Old Books
Author: Paul Anderson
Genre: Alien invasion | Alternative History
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Baen (1st Ed 1960)
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In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in northeastern Lincolnshire. The Wersgorix, whose scouting ship it is, are quite expert at taking over planets, and having determined from orbit that this one was suitable, they initiate standard world-conquering procedure. Ah, but this time it's no mere primitives the Wersgorix seek to enslave—they've launched their invasion against free Englishmen! In the end, only one alien is left alive—and Sir Roger's grand vision is born. He intends for the creature to fly the ship first to France to aid his King, then on to the Holy Land to vanquish the infidel. Unfortunately, he has not allowed for the treachery of the alien pilot, who instead takes the craft to his home planet, where, he thinks, these upstart barbarians will have no choice but to surrender. But that knavish alien little understands the indomitable will and clever resourcefulness of Englishmen, no matter how great the odds against them. . .
Author: Eric Brown
Genre: Space Opera
Paperback: 640 pages
Publisher: Solaris (1st ed 1994)
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Once the Enginemen pushed bigships through the cobalt glory of the nada-continuum. But faster than light isn't fast enough anymore. The interfaces of the Keilor-Vincicoff Organisation bring planets light years distant a simple step away. Then a man with half a face offers ex-Engineman Ralph Mirren the chance to escape his ruined life and push a ship to an undisclosed destination. The nada-continuum holds the key to Ralph's future. What he cannot anticipate is its universal importance – nor the mystery awaiting him on the distant colony world.
Engineman is a thrilling action adventure by the author of Helix and Kéthani. Also in this volume are nine stories set in the Engineman universe, including the Interzone award-winning 'The Time-Lapsed Man.'
Author: Colin Harvey
Genre: Hard Science Fiction | Lost Colony
Cover art: Chris Moore
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Angry Robot Sept 2010 (US) | 1st 2009
Excerpt: Sample chapter
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The planet had fallen off the map. When Karl Altman's spaceship crashed, he had only one question: "HOW THE HELL DO I GET OUT OF HERE?" Rock-hard sci-fi adventure. No-one here gets out alive. When his spaceship crashes on an unknown and forgotten planet, scientist Karl Altman discovers himself hunted by an ancient race. The descendants of a Viking race have reverted to a savage culture of sacrifice, pillage and violence. When Karl falls in love with an outcast girl, he has only one goal: escape. But escape is a distant dream on this nightmare planet.
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