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I for one believe that their is a lot of discrimination towards atheist. I, coming from a very "christian" school, face the discrimination in silence. I'm curious though. How do you feel about this? Do you think that their is discrimination? Even in schools? Thank you for your answers and have a happy logical day guys. :)
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Sorry for the really slow response. Didn't see this comment and/or wasn't about every day.
Of course, feel free.
Of course, not being a TA maven, I've not entirely mastered the interface yet. So, that being said, I don't think I even know how to check IMs or even see if I have any yet. I'll look into it, but if my reply is slowish, it may be that I'm either slowish in the brain, or lazy in my research... Or perhaps I'm a total jerk and am ignoring ya, but I think 1 or 2 more likely.
I'm very lucky that I can't really associate with your problem. I think it is a geographical hazard of being situated in Tennessee (arguably even the US). In the UK, in my experience, religious people are generally frowned upon and secretly mocked, although discretion is usually expected. This is especially the case among the younger generation (mine), where religion is often treated as some kind of joke: most people put up something absurd under their religious views on Facebook (hockey, pantomime, chocolate etc.), or nothing at all.
Your resistance to their persecution is commendable. It is in places of fanaticism, like much of the US, where the battle has to be fought in earnest. In the UK and Europe, while there are many nominal Christians, the war for secularisation has effectively been won (in my experience). A good place to relocate if it ever becomes too much.
I think that there is probably MORE discrimination in school. School children are horrible, no offense. My best advice is to tough it through it and try to surround yourself with like minded people. You might be able to find people your own age close to where you live who knows? Good luck though and best wishes.
A lot of people here say that you should always voice your opinion at every opportunity, I agree with the idea behind this thought, but we've all been in school and we all know how cruel children can be. They are telling you to be a martyr without considering the consequences. The fact is that while you might be helping the atheist community by speaking your mind, if you do you will make your situation at school drastically worse. Dont let yourself be walked on EVER, but it might not be wise to argue the subject when you dont have to.
I must say I'm a VERY very lucky person to have found so many like minded people who are in almost the same situation as I am. I must say the small part of me speaking out has caused me to find them.
I find that I remind myself not to allow them to walk over my friends and I. Lucky they and myself don't have to speak out that often.
Thank you very much for your comment and I too wish you the best of luck :)
Gosh! Is that ME in that picture?
Next time someone asks "what religion are you?" I'm just gonna say "All of them. I believe in everything. That way I have to get to go to heaven."
you couldn't PAY me to go back to school as a non-believer. in my experience, particularly in the Bible-Belt South, you can't win.
I had a friend in middle school who'd recently moved to the area, and without any shame would tell people she was agnostic when they asked her which Protestant church she went to. and I think it was because she didn't act ashamed (and good for her), but ALL of the girls tore into her. you couldn't go on break after lunch without at bare minimum a dozen girls following us around or yelling in her face calling her a cow, or a monkey, or calling her a piece of shit telling her she was going to hell (I was a Mormon at the time, so they didn't really know what to think of me). none of the teachers did anything about it either, because I think they all fundamentally agreed with the bullies. only when her mother complained at school did a counselor half-heartedly sit the five main offenders down with the two of us and say something to the effect of "maybe we could all be a little nicer". didn't do much, needless to say. high school wasn't much of an improvement.
COLLEGE though, is a different story. I think it's partially because (some) people grow out of that phase when they become adults, and partially from me just not giving a fuck. I don't advertise my lack of religiosity, but I don't hide it either. so when I socialize with people, religion doesn't tend to come up, and they decide whether they like me or not without that knowledge.
during an ethics discussion one day though, the teacher asked where humans get their ethics from. religion was brought up, and to play devil's advocate I asked "what about Atheists?". and this person (who I didn't think much of from the get-go in the first place) laughed and said "nowhere", which a few people chuckled at. I let it go then - but when we all went on break I mentioned in passing how I didn't realize that some people could think so little of me, not being Christian or believing in any god for that matter. THAT caused an interesting reaction. some people's questions allowed me go on to say that I try just as hard as anyone else to be a good person, and that if they couldn't tell I was an Atheist before, then it shouldn't matter anyway. that was seven months ago, and it's never been a problem since. and honestly?, most teachers don't care, and I've realized may even secretly agree with you at the college level, so that aspect hasn't ever been a problem for me.
so I guess the only thing I can say is.... it gets better? lol seriously though, once people are off at public college outside of their comfort zones, you'd be surprised how little peers start caring about which church you do (or don't) go to. good luck!
Two things, I guess it depends which college you attend, I mean University of Co at Boulder or UC Berkley those schools are known for their bohemian attitudes and known to be objective open minded schools, but University of Nebraska or something, maybe not so much.
Secondly we have to remind ourselves that as adults we have grown (hopefully) into tolerance; but for children it is more accepted to be gay now a days then it is to be non-Christian. In my day at least, being gay was considered worse.
I'm thankful I didn't convert during middle school. . .Simply wouldn't have been a good time. I must say that girl was very brave. Braver than I for sure lol I'm glad to hear it gets better in college haha Thank you for your comment :)


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CHICAGO — The amount of time Bally Total Fitness spends in bankruptcy may be less than the amount of time industry observers spent speculating about when the Chicago-based company would file for bankruptcy.
A hearing was scheduled for Sept. 17 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York to confirm Bally's amended plan of reorganization. After confirmation, Bally expected to implement the amended plan and emerge from Chapter 11 by the end of September. The company filed for bankruptcy on July 31.
Michael Scott Scudder, owner of the online consulting firm MSS FitBiz Connection, says that Bally cannot emerge from Chapter 11 that quickly. However, Uzzi Raanan, a bankruptcy attorney in Los Angeles, says the company's aggressive timelines for emergence may be possible. Although Raanan admits he has not followed Bally's proceedings closely, he does know that one of Bally's biggest problems was its debt, which according to court papers was $761.3 million as of Dec. 31, 2006.
"If that's the only issue, if they don't have any labor issues, if they don't have any real estate issues, if they don't have any vendor issues, then it's certainly doable," Raanan says.
Harbinger Capital Partners, which bought more than 400,000 shares of stock from Bally's second-largest shareholder, Liberation Investment Group, proposed the amended plan, which was approved by the bankruptcy court on Aug. 21. Harbinger and Liberation had proposed an alternate plan of reorganization that Bally rejected in July.
The court also approved the investment agreement providing for Harbinger's commitment to make a $233.6 million equity investment in Bally in exchange for 100 percent of the reorganized company's new common stock. In addition, the court approved restructuring support agreements for Bally's senior noteholders and senior subordinated noteholders. It also approved the company's debtor-in-possession financing and exit credit facilities.
In the amended plan, Bally's senior subordinated noteholders would get a cash payment of $123.5 million and about $200 million in new subordinated notes for a 100 percent recovery. Under the former reorganization plan, noteholders would have received 72 cents on the dollar with a combination of new notes, new Bally common stock and rights to participate in a debt offering. Bally's shareholders, which would have received nothing in the former plan, will recover about 40 cents a share, or $16.5 million in the new plan.
Don Kornstein, interim chairman and chief restructuring officer of Bally, calls the court's approval of the amended plan "a significant accomplishment and marks the beginning of a new era for Bally Total Fitness."
"We look forward to executing this plan in partnership with Harbinger and emerging promptly from Chapter 11 protection as a stronger company," Kornstein says.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bally announced the appointment of William G. Fanelli as senior vice president of finance and corporate development and principal financial officer. Fanelli has been with Bally since December 2006 as its senior vice president of corporate development.
The company also announced that it terminated interim executive agreements with Tatum LLC relating to the employment of Ronald G. Eidell as Bally's senior vice president and chief financial officer, and Michael Goldberg as vice president and corporate controller.
Bally also announced that Kornstein will get a $3 million bonus if the reorganization is completed, but any performance bonus for Kornstein and other Bally executives would be eliminated under a modified 2007 incentive plan approved by Bally's board, according to the filing.
Other executives in the company, including Fanelli; Marc Bassewitz, senior vice president, secretary and general counsel; and John Wildman, senior vice president, sales and interim chief marketing officer; will receive bonuses ranging from $158,375 to $375,000.
Bally's apparent quick re-birth comes under dire circumstances, Raanan says. Reorganization for any company is difficult, he adds. Seventy-five percent of companies who file for bankruptcy don't make it out of Chapter 11 protection. Plus, Bally, like other companies, is under a credit crunch.
"Money is just more difficult to get right now," Raanan says. "It's possible that you have lenders who are willing to give Bally money, but they're not willing to do it in certain terms anymore."
With the amended plan in order, Bally can force the hand of creditors, Raanan adds.
"It's what we call a 'cram down.' They can cram it down someone's throat, so to speak," Raanan says. "I don't see a problem with [Bally's quick bankruptcy process], if all they're doing is essentially using this to force certain creditors to be reasonable."


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DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co will open a fourth U.S. information technology center as part of its plan to bring that work in-house and improve the automaker's efficiency and productivity.
GM said on Wednesday it would hire 1,000 people, including software developers, database experts and business analysts, to staff the center near Phoenix, Arizona. It will be the last of the four centers in the United States GM previously said it would open.
Last summer, GM, a pioneer in outsourcing information technology, said it would reverse that trend with plans to expand vastly the number of in-house IT experts over three years.
At the time of the announcement, GM outsourced some 90 percent of its IT services and provided 10 percent of that work in-house, an approach that had been the model at the Detroit company for most of the last three decades. The U.S. automaker said it planned to flip those percentages.
"We're actually ahead on the (IT) innovation centers," GM Chief Information Officer Randy Mott said on a conference call. "It doesn't mean that we don't still have a long way to go because we do, but these are kind of the key ingredients to allow us to do that."
In January, GM said it would open a third center near Atlanta, joining Austin, Texas, and Warren, Michigan, as part of the company's strategy.
Mott said the company chose the various locations based on the availability of talent, a lower cost of living and a high-tech industry presence. He said GM would not be hampered by not opening a location in Silicon Valley, California.
"There's not a lock on innovation there," he said of Silicon Valley. "It just happens to be a collection point. There are high-innovation centers outside of there."
Mott, a former Hewlett-Packard Co executive, outlined his plans last June to GM's IT employees, which then numbered about 1,500. GM currently employs almost 5,500 people on its IT staff and that number will rise to about 9,000 when the transition is complete, Mott said on Wednesday.
GM, which has not disclosed the cost or savings of its strategy, is targeting 30 percent to 35 percent of the hires being recent college graduates, who add a high level of energy, he said.
Last October, GM said it would shift 3,000 people over six months to its payroll from HP, which has long handled IT work for the automaker. Mott said most have joined GM and the rest of the shift will be completed by April 1.
In the two months prior to that, GM had announced plans to hire 2,000 workers to staff new IT centers in Texas and Michigan. The Arizona center will be located in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler.
Effective April 1, Mott said GM will open a temporary center in Arizona and begin hiring. The new, $21 million center, which GM will lease, is expected to open by the first quarter of 2014.
GM also said last summer that as part of its plan it would shift from 23 data centers worldwide to just two, both in Michigan. It opened one in Warren, and is still looking for the second location. Mott said the second location could be in Milford.
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Where are all those pictures of me and my father?! I can't seem to find a single on my laptop. Tons of me alone, several with my mom and I…but dad? It's a shame – guess we have never relied on my mom to take a decent picture of my dad and me together.
I am determined to find a picture of us together.
It's hard to sometimes put into words what you'd like to say to your dad. My father and I, we aren't the expressive kind. We put 'love' at the end of emails but don't generally say it to each other. It's understood. We talk often – now that I'm done with university and have entered the corporate world, we will even be living under the same roof for the next two years, a big change from the last five where I only visited on alternate weekends.
He's been a big part of my life. Being an only child, I'm adored, naturally, but its always been more than that. The protection, the advise, the understanding, the sacrifices, the support, the belief, the trust, the pride – a mixed package of both great and not-so-great qualities that I won't list here. He's not perfect. No one is. But I wouldn't want it any other way – thank you daddy. For everything.
Some day I will find my Prince, but my father will always be my King.
I'll end this with a few beautiful quotes:
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. – Pope John XXIII
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. – Sigmund Freud
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. – Charles Wadsworth
A truly rich man is one who's children run into his arms when his hands are empty. – Unknown
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be like my daddy. – Unknown
The colors of the world may constantly change, but dad's love remains the same. – Shelly Bauzon


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If you're using a system with an N/ KN edition of Windows 8 then you'll probably already have noticed that it's missing Media Player, and a few related technologies. And at first this may not seem like a big deal, as you can always install some other media player instead.
But, unfortunately, it may not be as simple as that.
Some software packages make the mistake of assuming that these Windows technologies are always there, and as a result, won't work properly on N or KN editions (some programs fail to install, others might crash or simply not perform particular tasks as they should).
There is an easy solution, though, and that's just to install this Media Feature Pack for Windows 8. In one step you'll add Media Player and its supporting layers to your Windows 8 installation, and hopefully any third-party media related tools and applications will then work exactly as they should.
An easy way to restore normal media tools and technologies to Windows 8 N and KN editions


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The collection
The departmental library was created in 2002 after the merging of the Prehistory and Roman Britain and Medieval and Later Antiquities departments. The collection covers the Palaeolithic period around the world, the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron ages in Europe, the Roman occupation of Britain, Byzantium, the Early and Late Medieval period in both Britain and the continent and the European decorative arts from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. The department also includes the museum's Horological and scientific instruments collections.
The library is formed of over 42,000 monographs, including the department's Special Collection of pre-1850 publications. In 2010 the department created a new serials library to house our 600 runs of journals and periodicals. This part of the collection is particularly strong in European and British regional archaeology, with some publications going back to the eighteenth century.
Using the library
The Britain, Europe and Prehistory departmental library is a reference, non-open shelves service. We will gladly assist students and researchers interested in publications not available from their regular libraries. We are based in the museum's White Wing, access via Room 2. The Palaeolithic section of the library, however, is held alongside the collections at Franks House, our outstation in Shoreditch (London).
Users should send their enquiries or book their appointments through our Students Rooms, allowing at least 14 days for a reply.
Unfortunately, our collection is not accessible via Inter-library Loans (ILL).
Important notice: Users should be aware that the library is currently undergoing a process of retro conversion of the holdings; this means that not all our monographs are fully recorded at the museum's OPAC. We are working to see the project finished by mid-2018.
Photocopying and digital images
Whilst we allow photocopying of printed material for research and private study with non-commercial purpose it is the responsibility of the reader to ensure that this does not infringe copyright law. We provided a declaration form and charge 10p per photocopy (A3 and A4). The same guidelines apply for digital photography.
Please refer to BM Images for professional photography of objects in the museum's collection.
Exchange of publications, internships and volunteering projects
The Britain, Europe and Prehistory departmental library is very keen on regular exchange of publications with other museums and/or libraries that publish on our topics of interest as explained above.
Possibilities for interns and volunteers appear in the library all through the year. Projects are open to anyone with an interest in Librarianship, art or archaeology and offer a good insight into the everyday running of a research library. Even though no experience is needed, knowledge of cataloguing rules (MARC21, AACR2, LCSH) and/or European languages is greatly appreciated.
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A couple weeks ago I showed you this great recipe for Cheesy Bacon Ranch Bread and it was so yummy but if you know me, the whole time I was thinking about how I was going to change the recipe. My wheels were turning with each bite I shoved in my mouth. So the next week I made three more and considering one member of the house is counting her calories, one doesn't like cheese, that only leaves The Fireman to eat two loaves of french bread. In the next two weeks I will show you the other ones I made. They are perfect for Super Bowl parties. See...I am thinking about you!! This happened to be The Fireman's favorite. I made it for The Tortured Teenager while she was home this Christmas. She agrees, it's a winner. The beauty of this is that there is nothing to this recipe. Literally! So maybe you dont want to share this while I want you to.
Cheesy Jalapeno Bread
recipe adapted from The Country Cook
1 loaf of french bread
1 package pepper jack cheese
1 cube of unsalted butter (ok buy salted but I watch my salt intake)
1 tsp garlic powder
yep thats it!
Take a bread knife and carefully slice the loaf into slices without slicing through the bottom
then slice lengthwise again without slicing though the bottom. it may look like it is is squished but once you add the cheese it'll pop back to life
This is when I transfer the loaf to a large amount of foil big enough to wrap it in.Now take the pepper jack cheese and stuff into each slice.


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Sicarii (Latin plural form of Sicarius "dagger-man"; in Modern Hebrew rendered siqariqim סיקריקים) is a term applied, in the decades immediately preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, to an extremist splinter group[1] of the Jewish Zealots, who attempted to expel the Romans and their partisans from the Roman province of Judea.[2]
The Sicarii carried sicae, or small daggers, concealed in their cloaks, hence their name.[3] At public gatherings, they pulled out these daggers to attack Romans or Roman sympathizers, blending into the crowd after the deed to escape detection.
They were one of the earliest forms of an organized assassination society or cloak and daggers, predating the Middle Eastern assassins and Japanese ninjas by centuries.[4][5]THE ORIGINAL SICARII WERE FIGHTING FOREIGN OCCUPATION BY FOREIGN INVADERS.
Jerusalem, at least the Old City and the Temple Mount, has been a Palestinian political demand ever since it was liberated from the illegitimate Jordanian occupation in June 1967, despite the fact that it was never the capital of anything throughout Islamic history, and was not even the regional capital of Palestine after the Muslim Conquest in 627 CE. The capital was Ramle, 30 kilometers to the west from Jerusalem. And so, we ask: Why is Jerusalem holy to a religion that was established and developed in the Arabian desert, today's Saudi Arabia? How did Jerusalem win the status of "the third holiest site in Islam" despite the fact that it does not appear even once in the Qur'an? Why, did only Sunni Muslims, traditionally, consider Jerusalem as a holy city while Shi'is do not?
To understand why this is so, we must trace the evolution of the idea of the holiness of Jerusalem in Islam. According to the Qur'an (Chapter 25, Verse 5) the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, was harshly criticized by the members of his tribe in Mecca for bringing them a religion which was nothing but "Asatir al-Awwalin" (the legends of the precursors), meaning the religious narrative of the Jews and the Christians, because many of the stories that appear in the Qur'an are copies of stories from the Bible. Apparently Muhammad learned these stories from his very close friend, a Jewish Rabbi from Yemen named Ka'b. The criticism of Islam, as a copy of other religions made Islam appear illegitimate, so in order to get a "seal of approval" Muhammad tried to convert three Jewish tribes who lived in a desert oasis called "Khaybar", which was situated near the city of al-Medina. To please them, Muhammad legislated that the direction of prayer for Muslims was determined to be Northward, towards Jerusalem, for some 16 months. But the Jews remained loyal to Judaism and did not embrace Islam and therefore Muhammad waged war against them, slaughtered the men and took the women, including Safiyya, the daughter of one of the tribal heads, whom he took as a wife. After he eliminated these Jewish tribes, he was no longer interested in their direction of prayer, so he abandoned Jerusalem and turned the direction of prayer Southward, towards the city of Mecca. He later conquered Mecca, burned the idols that were within, and consecrated the city.
In those days Muhammad had a group of supporters in the city of al-Ta'if, which was located at a distance of a two-day walk from Mecca. When Muhammad walked to Ta'if and back he would spend the night in the village of "al-Gi'irrana", and Islamic tradition has it that near the village were two mosques, "The Nearby Mosque" ("al-Masjid al-adna") and the "Distant Mosque", ("al-Masjid al-Aqsa"), and that he would pray in one of them before setting out on his day-long journey, either to Ta'if or back to Mecca. The Qur'an (Chapter 17, Verse 1) tells a story that one night a miracle occurred to Muhammad; the Creator took him to the Distant Mosque in order to show him His miracles. The people of that generation understood this passage literally, because they knew that "al-Masjid al-Aqsa" was near the village on the way to Ta'if. Muhammad died in the year 632, without ever having visited Jerusalem.
Five years after Muhammad's death, Jerusalem was conquered without a battle, when Bishop Sophronius opened its gates to the formidable army of the second Caliph, 'Umar bin al-Khattab. Sophronius took the caliph and his entourage for a tour of the city, and included in his entourage was Ka'b, Muhammad's Jewish companion. When they arrived at the entrance to the Temple Mount Ka'b removed his shoes, apparently because of the passage "remove your shoes from your feet" because the place was holy. Caliph 'Umar saw this and asked him the meaning of his actions, and Ka'b answered that it was because of the holiness of the place. Caliph 'Umar became angry with him, scolded him and accused Ka'b for trying to insert Jewish concepts into Islam, and insisted that he put his shoes back on immediately because the place was not holy at all. The great Islamic historian, al-Tabari, tells this anecdote and we can derive from it the interpretation that Jerusalem in the year 627 CE – even though it was under Muslim occupation – was not considered by them to be a holy place.
Thirty years after the death of Muhammad, the Umayyad Caliphs transferred the capital of the Muslim Empire from the Hijaz to Damascus, incurring the wrath of the Meccans who were loyal to Muhammad and his legacy. In the following generation, because of the looting, plundering and booty that the Muslims perpetrated upon the empires of Persia, Byzantium and many other places, Damascus became a city of wealth, permissiveness, gala celebrations, debauchery and drunkenness, and there was no abomination that the people of Damascus left untouched. It's low moral status caused the people of Mecca who were faithful to the legacy of Muhammad, to declare the residents of Damascus to be heretics. Finally, in the year 682, under the command of Abdallah bin al-Zubayr, the Meccans organized and rebelled against the Caliph, and prevented the residents of Damascus from coming to Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage.
There are those who see a relationship between the rebellion of Abdallah bin al-Zubayr and the disturbing events that occurred two years earlier, in the year 680, when the army of the Umayyad Caliph Yazid bin Mu'awiya eliminated the greatest of the rebels, Husein bin 'Ali, in the city of Karbala', which is in the south of Iraq. Husein bin 'Ali was the grandson of Muhammad; his mother was Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad, and his father was 'Ali, Muhammad's cousin and the fourth Caliph, whose supporters are the Shi'ites, even today. However, the fact that Husein was a member of the Prophet's family didn't help him to escape an awful fate: he was decapitated and his head was brought to Damascus in order to show the Caliph that the leader of the Shi'ite opposition had been eliminated. The Caliph put the head on his desk for a month, so that everyone who came to his office would "see and fear". It is thought that Abdallah bin al-Zubayr, the rebel from Mecca, was one of the Shi'ite supporters, and that this is the real reason that the people of Damascus, who lived in the shadow of the Caliph, Husein bin 'Ali's murderer, were prevented from taking part in the Hajj pilgrimage.
Whether because of the debauchery of the residents of Damascus, or because of the cruelty of the Caliph towards the grandson of Muhammad, the people of Mecca, armed Bedouins well versed in the ways of war, blocked off the routes of the Hajj pilgrimage from the people of Damascus and its surroundings. But while Mecca's political and military rebellion continued for eight years, it was still necessary to make the yearly Hajj pilgrimage, a basic commandment of Islam, and so Caliph Yazid bin Mu'awiya searched for an alternative location for the Hajj. The alternative place to do the Hajj had to have an aura of holiness, one that would allow the Caliph to declare it as a place of pilgrimage instead of Mecca.
At that time, many Jews and Christians converted to Islam, at least outwardly, in order to escape the burden of the heavy tax that was imposed upon them. Because of their conversion to Islam they carried in their hearts and in their mouths the exaltation of Jerusalem, the Holy City, and this is how the idea of Jerusalem as a holy city entered into Islam. The Caliph decided that Jerusalem will be the place for pilgrimage, but he needed support from the Islamic writings to enable him to paint his decision in an Islamic color. That is why that passage in the Qur'an that speaks of the miracle of Muhammad's night journey to the "Distant Mosque" was taken, and a new exegesis was attached to it: that the al-Aqsa mosque is located in Jerusalem, and that Muhammad was brought to Jerusalem during the night and ascended to the seventh heaven. During his ascent, the prophets of the previous religions – Judaism and Christianity – joined him: Adam, Jesus, Johannes, Seth, Joseph, Aaron, Moses, and Abraham. In heaven, next to Allah' throne, they prayed behind Muhammad, and this indicates that they accepted his sovereignty over themselves and that Judaism and Christianity pass the baton of leadership on to Islam. All of this is under the Throne of Glory, that is, that the coronation of Islam over Judaism and Christianity is a matter of Allah's magisterial decision. Islam, according to this story, came to the world not to live side by side with Judaism and Christianity but rather to replace them.
In order to better establish the validity of the transfer of the Hajj to Jerusalem, the Dome of the Rock was built in the center of the Temple Mount, so that the circumambulation can take place around it. It was built with eight walls, apparently to signify that it is double the holiness of the Ka'ba in Mecca, which has only four walls. In addition, many "Hadith" (oral tradition) pieces had been forged, attributed to Muhammad, which implies that the sanctity of Jerusalem is greater than the sanctity of Mecca.
Then, after eight years of Abdallah bin al-Zubayr's rebellion, the Umayyads succeeded to transfer the Hajj back to Mecca, at which point the tales about Jerusalem were dropped. Salah al-Din (Saladin) brought them up again in the 12th century, when the Muslim commander wanted to rouse up his fighters in preparation for the battle with the Crusaders. After Jerusalem was liberated, it's high status was again abandoned, mainly to avoid undermining the hegemony of Mecca and Medina.
The story of Muhammad's night journey to Jerusalem is very important to Islam, because it gives Islam legitimacy as a valid religion, a religion that was not intended to coexist in peace with other religions, but rather to replace them, to destroy them and to build itself upon their ruins. Therefore Arabs "Islamized" the important figures that appear in the Torah and in the Bible, built mosques on top of synagogues, churches (in Ramle, Damascus, Istanbul, Cordoba, Temple Mount in Jerusalem and more), and monasteries, and formulated laws to denigrate Jews and Christians. The yellow patch is a Muslim invention of the ninth century. Many of the Islamic concepts of philosophy and religious law are taken from Jewish and Christian sources.
According to the Islamic approach, the Jews, and after them the Christians, distorted and falsified the holy writings, so Allah became angry with them (according to the Qur'an, Chapter 1, Verse 7), removed the prophecy from them and gave it to Muhammad; According to Islamic approach, Judaism and Christianity have lost their meaning as religions. Moreover, these religions have no holy places, and Jewish or Christian claims of ownership on any holy site are false and invalid according to Islam. So the Muslims are not at all impressed by the Jewish claim that Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish kingdom, whether during the First or Second Temple period, because of this simple claim: David and Solomon were Muslims! And it's no wonder: according to the Qur'an (Chapter 3, Verse 19) "Allah's religion is Islam", and so, Islam has Islamized the G-d Himself.
It is for this reason that the Israeli demands for sovereignty over Jerusalem is a contradiction to a very foundational belief of Islam, the belief that Judaism has finished its role in the world. Therefore it is strictly forbidden for a Muslim to allow a Jew to control the place from which Muhammad (according to the Islamic legend) rose up to heaven, and this is why the Palestinians are so insistent about getting their hands on Jerusalem. Jews can live under the auspices and control of Islam, but not to conquer a land that was under Muslim control, and of course not to rule in the city from which Muhammad rose to heaven. Furthermore, control over Jerusalem would give the Palestinians Islamic legitimacy, almost as much as the religious legitimacy that the king of Saudi Arabia has because of his custodianship for Mecca and Medina. And on the contrary, if they surrender Jerusalem to the Jews, they will be accused by many Muslims of betraying Islam.
Muslims who are faithful to their religion know that Islam is not intended to live side-by-side with the previous religions, Judaism and Christianity, but rather to replace them and to be built upon their ruins. And so the battle between Islam and Judaism is a battle between "Din al-Haqq", the religion of truth, which is Islam, and "Din al-Batil", the obsolete religion, which is Judaism and Christianity. But Watching what has been happening in Israel for the last sixty three years causes them to shudder: the Jews have returned to their land and conquered it from the Muslims. Then they conquered Jerusalem, and the next step will be the building of the Temple, and then Judaism will again become a relevant and living religion. What, then, will be the fate of Islam, the faith that is supposed to replace Judaism and Christianity? The return of the Jews to their land and to their city is seen by Muslims as a theological danger much more than a territorial, nationalistic, or political problem.
The unbreakable connection between religion and politics in Islam has turned the theological problem into a political problem, therefore the question of the holiness of Jerusalem in Islam is expressed politically: In the past, Muhammad tried to solidify his religious and political status among the Jews by praying toward Jerusalem, the Caliphs from Damascus artificially made Jerusalem a place of pilgrimage as a result of a political competition with Mecca and Medina, and Salah al-Din used it to arouse his fighters. So too, the Palestinians today have adopted Jerusalem as the seal of religious approval for their state, which is not at all certain to arise. They know that if they dare to leave the site of the Temple in the hands of the Jews, that the Islamic fundamentalists, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda will rise up and accuse them of treason. This is the reason that their spokesmen say again and again, that without Jerusalem as its capital they will not establish a Palestinian state.
The connection between Jerusalem and politics is expressed in another way: everyone knows that the source of the disagreement between the Shi'ites and the Sunnis is the political question of who was the legitimate Caliph in the middle of the seventh century: 'Ali bin Abi Talib, the fourth caliph, or Mu'awiya bin Abi Sufyan, the ruler of Damascus, who rebelled against 'Ali and became the fifth Caliph. Mu'awiya is the first Caliph from the Umayyads, and it was Yazid, his son, who sanctified Jerusalem as an alternative place to do the Hajj pilgrimage. Yazid was also the one who had Husein bin 'Ali decapitated and therefore the Shi'ites – supporters of 'Ali and his descendants – see the Umayyads as their eternal enemies, and their deeds as illegitimate. Therefore, the holiness of Jerusalem was not accepted by the Shi'ites and their third holiest place is the city of Najaf, in southern Iraq, 'Ali's burial site. Today, politics plays a role here as well: the leaders of Iran and the Shi'ite Hizballah can not remain behind when the subject is Israel, so they jump on the bandwagon "To liberate Jerusalem from the impurity of the Zionists", despite the fact that according to Shi'ite tradition Jerusalem has no status as a holy place.
The historical reality of Jerusalem also stands before the leaders of the State of Israel: On one hand – it is the city that is central to the Jewish faith since King David until today, the center of Jewish ritual and religious life, the Jewish capital for approximately 3000 years and the center of the longing, hopes and prayers of Jews from the four corners of the Earth. On the other hand it is the city that Islam has adopted precisely because it is holy to others, and a city whose Islamic "holiness" stems from a problem of Islamic political legitimacy in the Islamic Empire, since the days of Muhammad until our times.
The question that confronts us today is whether Judaism and Christianity will submit to the Islamic religious narrative, which invalidates Judaism and Christianity, and appropriates their holiness, their prophets and their "founding fathers" unto itself, or will they stand up for their rights to be living and thriving religions, that adhere to their holy places and. Or will Jews and Christians behave submissively towards the desert tribes who, after conquering the Land of Israel geographically, have been trying for last 1400 years to overthrow the history and theology of its people.
All to whom Jerusalem is dear must raise their voices and demand that Israel's government not sell off the holy city for the delusion of peace with those who don't see Jews as having any right to their country. Jerusalem is not just another parcel of land or a building that belongs to the State of Israel, but the heart of hearts of the entire Jewish and Christian peoples worldwide. In practice this means that if it is necessary to build a bridge then Israel must build it and pay no heed to those who wish to undermine the Jews' rights and sovereignty.
There will be real peace in the Middle East if, and only if Muslims will recognize the right of Jews to live with full sovereignty in the land of Israel and in its holy, historic capital.


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The Trust "aims to help break the cycle of prison, crime and disadvantage and create safer communities by supporting people to change their lives," according to their website.
Prince William became patron of the Trust in 2012 during the Trust's 50th year anniversary.
Touring the office in Camberwell, William met with staff and some of the ex-offenders the Trust assists. "What percentage are accepting ex-offenders? 60%?" William asked. Case worker, Hughie Solomon commented that only "30% of private landlords accepted former criminals as tenants," according to radio station LBC, 97.3. "Which is terrible really," William commented.
Around 40% of the Trust's staff and volunteers have prior convictions. Those who spoke with William felt he does indeed care and was concerned.
"You can't pull the wool over our eyes," a care worker named Christian told the station. "We have been there, done it and seen it. One thing we can pick up on is if someone is genuine and he is 100 percent genuine," he continued.
"He was engaging, he was asking questions to the staff and you could tell from his body language he was passionate about what we do. He wants to help in any way he can," a volunteer spoke on LBC 97.3
At the conclusion of the tour, William held a lunch with six corporations including HSBC, Barclays and high street shoe repairer Timpson's to discuss garnering more support and involvement in the trust.
William is no stranger to lending support in the plight of the homeless and those in need of 'getting back on track.'
In 2009, he spent a night on the streets of London in a sleeping bag near Blackfriars Bridge to further understand the difficulty of being homeless. "Poverty, mental illness, drug and alcohol dependency and family breakdown cause people to become and then stay homeless," William commented in a 2009 BBC interview.
In 2005 William became Patron of Centrepoint, the charity that was near and dear to his mother's heart. Often when Princes William and Harry were younger, Diana would take them along to her visits to Centrepoint.
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Hamden, Connecticut >> An 88-year-old woman was treated for several injuries after she was attacked by a raccoon she accidentally let into her home and then tried to pet, thinking it was her cat, according to police.
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Police found that the woman was attacked after a raccoon followed her cat into her home through a sliding glass door. The woman had heard a scratching sound outside the door and opened it to let her cat in, Smith said. When the woman attempted to pet what she thought was her cat, the raccoon attacked her, biting her on the elbow, hand, forearm, lip and chin.
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Pre-Market Primer: Blue Chip Companies Miss on Earnings, Europe Inches Toward Banking Union
By Vincent Trivett Oct 19, 2012 8:45 am
Larry Page had some explaining to do yesterday.
MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL Blue chip earnings misses drove down stock futures this morning.
Futures are signaling that equities will probably trend lower today. Futures contracts on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) slipped 0.16% to 13,465.00, S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) futures dropped 0.22% to 1,488.30. Nasdaq (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC) fell 0.23% to 2,726.50.
A report on existing home sales in the US is expected to show that Americans bought homes at an annualized rate of 4.75 million in September, down from 4.82 million in August. This week, we saw housing starts surge to a rate of 894,000.
A report on existing home sales in the US is expected to show that Americans bought homes at an annualized rate of 4.75 million in September, down from 4.82 million in August. This week, we saw housing starts surge to a rate of 894,000.
Yesterday, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) shares fell after it reported a major drop in earnings as it prepares for the launch of Windows 8. The world's biggest software maker said that profit in the September quarter fell 22% to $4.47 billion, or $0.53 per share. The Windows division took a big hit as customers defer buying new computers or operating system software until the newest version of Windows is available. About four months ago, Microsoft teased customers with the Surface tablet computer. Anticipation of the device, which is priced to compete with the iPad, all but instructed buyers to defer purchases until the holiday quarter.
General Electric (NYSE:GE) earnings also missed consensus estimates. Earnings per share rose 50% to $0.36 . GE Capital profits rose 11% despite weakness in commercial lending and leasing. A drop in wind turbine sales drove down infrastructure orders.
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) shares fell off a cliff yesterday after disappointing earnings leaked out by accident before the closing bell. Trading was halted for several hours yesterday.
Google missed estimates, posting revenue of $11.33 billion and a profit of $9.03 per share. CEO Larry Page noted that Google's mobile business, which delivers ads and media to mobile devices, grew to $8 billion per year, up from $2.5 billion a year ago. The struggling Motorola Mobility unit continues to wear on earnings.
European leaders came to an agreement on banking supervision for the eurozone in the middle of last night in Brussels. By the end of this year, the legislative framework for a banking supervisor will be set up by the end of the year. Even when this is completed, it will still be some time before the regulator could recapitalize banks on its own. Still, Europe's heads, such as Herman Van Rompuy are seeing this as an important step toward a European banking union.
French President Francois Holland welcomed the agreement, saying that the "quicker the mechanism is in place, the sooner recapitalization can take place."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that this is an optimistically fast pace for slapping together a major banking regulator.
"Our goal is banking supervision that's worthy of the name because we want to create something that's better than what we currently have." she said today.
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Tea Partiers and Rootstrikers call for a constitutional convention.
"Excuse me," said the man leaning out the window of his SUV. "Is this the way to Harvard Law School?" With a bald spot surrounded by a crown of gray hair, he looked more alumnus than student. "I hope so," I replied. The cab driver had dropped me off at the business school campus, and I was now trudging down the street toward Harvard Square.
"Get in," the man and his co-pilot, also middle-aged and somewhat lawyerly in appearance, beckoned. I climbed in the backseat. As it turned out, we were headed to the same conference. "We're Rootstrikers!" one of my new friends exclaimed. Together we navigated vague maps of the university's various schools and found our way to Austin Hall, a building that seemed to be a mystery to everyone in Cambridge, including Harvard employees.
This bit of left-right cooperation was in keeping with the theme of the weekend. Rootstrikers, a left-wing group dedicated to the proposition that corporate money has a malign influence on American politics, and the conservative Tea Party Patriots had banded together to organize a Conference on the Constitutional Convention. The progressive left and the populist right would spend two days together studying Article V of the U.S. Constitution.
Article V provides two ways two amend the Constitution. The first is familiar: "The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution…" That's essentially the origin of all 27 ratified amendments, including the Bill of Rights. But alternatively if "the legislatures of two thirds of the several States" request it, Congress must "call a Convention for proposing Amendments."
This unprecedented method of amending the Constitution appeals to those who believe we are living in a crisis as great as the one that faced the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia. On that much, our co-hosts agreed. "From the Tea Party Right to the Progressive Left, there is agreement that something fundamental has gone wrong," wrote Harvard law professor and Rootstrikers co-founder Lawrence Lessig.
Mark Meckler, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, concurred. "With each passing year," he wrote, "politicians seem more and more out of touch with the people they allegedly represent, regardless of their party affiliation." Lessig suggested a solution: "a process to amend the Constitution through the one path the Framers gave us that has not yet been taken—a Convention."
Esoteric as this may seem, it's not a purely academic concern. Conservatives and libertarians have occasionally dusted off this oft-ignored provision of Article V as a possible way of reasserting constitutional limits on the federal government. Congress may not be eager to advance amendments that curb its own power, but an Article V convention called by the state legislatures should have no such compunctions.
In fact, that was precisely the argument Alexander Hamilton made in Federalist 85 to calm Anti-Federalist fears that the central government would grow too powerful. "We may safely rely on the disposition of the state legislatures to erect barriers against the encroachments of the national authority," he wrote. Randy Barnett, a constitutional law professor at Georgetown, wants to test Hamilton's prediction. In an article for Forbes, Barnett proposed a 10-point "Bill of Federalism" to be enacted through an Article V convention.
One of the amendments Barnett advocates would restore the original understanding of the interstate commerce clause, overturning decades of liberal jurisprudence on the subject. Another would give the president line-item veto power, which has been popular in conservative circles since at least the Reagan years. But the proposal most enticing to the right is Barnett's "repeal amendment," which would allow two-thirds of the states to roll back any federal law or regulation. Supporters of this last amendment have President Obama's national healthcare law squarely in their sights.
Progressives are also intrigued by the possibility that Article V would allow them to contemplate constitutional changes that could never clear Congress—an institution they see as too beholden to the special interests. One of the most popular causes at the Harvard conference was a proposed amendment to revoke the legal concept of corporate personhood and overturn the Citizens United decision, which found important parts of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform unconstitutional. "The Framers knew there might be times when Congress is not capable of the proposing the amendments that the country needs," Lessig says.
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The conference started out promisingly enough, though from the beginning Lessig seemed more enthusiastic than Meckler about the prospects of an Article V convention. After a gentle dig from the moderator for his role in reversing Arizona's "clean elections" law, the Goldwater Institute's Nick Dranias got to work emphasizing common ground between the liberals and conservatives in the room.
Dranias said the event reminded him a bit of the old "Spy vs. Spy" cartoon in Mad, where two secret agents would smile at each other while privately planning to stab one another in the back. To prove that wasn't the case here, he asked members of the audience to raise their hands if they supported TARP, the bipartisan $700 billion Wall Street bailout.
When barely anybody did, Dranias pointed to TARP as the kind of issue an Article V convention could address, a subject where left and right are united in opposition to something the bipartisan political class, which dominates Congress, supports. An anti-bailout movement could get the support of the 34 states necessary to call for the convention and the 38 states needed to ratify a constitutional amendment. Dranias contended that conventions could be called to propose amendments on single issues.
And to those who fear a runaway convention—one that goes beyond its initial mandate and puts the whole Constitution on the chopping block—Dranias argued that we already have a "runaway Congress and Supreme Court," which unilaterally amend the Constitution, with fewer checks on their power all the time. "Why should they get to have all the fun?" Dranias challenged audience members to become experts on the Constitution themselves by doing research on the Internet.
But it quickly became clear that some of his fellow panelists did want a convention in which the entire founding document is open for debate. Sanford Levinson—a University of Texas law professor who authored the 2006 book Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Fix It)—said a televised "no holds barred, everything is on the table convention" would be the "ultimate reality show." And that would be a good thing.
Levinson argued that there could be support for this on both the left and the right. "I assume that centrists would have no interest in this," he continued, "because they are defined by their support of the status quo." He dismissed concerns about a runaway convention as driven by a "deep fear of we the people" and an "elite-driven view of politics," which he called "Leninist."
"I really do not believe there is a movement to reinstate slavery," Levinson said by way of reassuring progressives that a constitutional convention need not be reactionary. But for all his advocacy of a more democratic convention, some forms of democracy—or at least some results—did seem to trouble him. He called elections, both as a way of choosing convention delegates and as something that might happen during the convention, an "obvious problem." He worried that they would cause "single-issue groups to take over the convention." He proposed instead that delegates be selected by a national lottery—"a national citizen jury."
Other liberal panelists, such as the University of Virginia's Barbara Perry, admitted they had been skeptical of Article V conventions back when they thought they might produce conservative results, like a balanced budget amendment or prohibition of abortion. But they came to believe that the growth of corporate money's influence on elected officials, polarization between the two parties, and the crash of the global economy had changed political conditions to the point where Article V is now worth considering.
After a lengthy introduction from Lessig in which he was praised in terms once reserved for Thomas Jefferson, Harvard constitutional scholar Lawrence Tribe rose to pour cold water all over the idea. "How do we have a non-runaway convention?" he asked. "Who sets the rules?" Tribe had more questions: "What if the convention decides to have a national popular vote" instead of sending amendments to the states for ratification? "What about D.C. residents? What role, if any, would the Supreme Court have?" He noted that James Madison thought Article V vague, and the Father of the Constitution "was an expert, even if he didn't look at things on the Internet."
Tribe accused advocates of a constitutional convention of "living in two worlds at once": they want to argue the political system is irredeemably broken but then "rely on this supposedly failed process as a backstop to make this safe." Convention supporters believed that a failed political class could replicate the handiwork of Jefferson and Madison.
Even though the Framers had their flaws, Tribe maintained, they at least had the "common ground" of "forming a more perfect union," while the sponsors of the event at which he was speaking had diametrically opposed visions of what they would try to accomplish through an Article V convention. He also doubted that the courts would want to go "anywhere near" anything such a convention did.
Perry countered that she didn't think the Supreme Court would ever do anything like Bush v. Gore—a case Tribe had argued. "You really know how to hurt a guy," he replied. He then allowed that he wasn't inalterably opposed to the states compelling Congress to call a convention, but he would need his questions answered before deeming it advisable.
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University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds, of Instapundit blog fame, delivered the keynote address from the right. Reynolds was ambivalent about his role as designated conservative, preferring to describe himself as a "trans-humanist libertarian." He was equally ambivalent about an Article V convention.
He announced to thunderous applause that Americans are currently governed by the "worst political class in our country's history" and this might be justify a convention. On the other hand, he said, that could be "like saying we have the worst medical profession in our country's history, and I'm ready for my brain surgery now." Reynolds revealed that his students are surprised to learn that constitutional law frequently has more to do with the "postwar consensus" in law and politics than with anything in the Constitution itself.
Perhaps returning to trans-humanist mode, Reynolds likened constitutional law to a computer's operating system, with the remainder of the legal code more closely resembling applications. But he acknowledged the limits of that analogy—which echoed Lessig's popular dictum "code is law"—as it pertained to a constitutional convention. "When I install a new version of Windows," he deadpanned, "millions of people don't die or lose their property."
Reynolds argued that most constitutional amendments were either "reallocations of power" between the federal government, states, and the people or fixes to "procedural bugs." The one exception, the amendment that instituted Prohibition, was also "the biggest disaster." He suggested that a convention should look to amendments that limit federal power by "setting ambition against ambition." One example: creating a legislative body whose chief task would be repealing, rather than making, laws.
Lessig's keynote from the left was a more straightforward call for a convention. He began with a quote from Henry David Thoreau that inspired his Rootstrikers project: "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." The speech paralleled Lessig's own right-to-left trajectory from former Supreme Court clerk for Antonin Scalia to intellectual force behind progressive movements like Roostrikers and Occupy Wall Street. He claimed that a "distinctly American feeling" of "greatness" was being lost in our politics, replaced by a sense that "we've become Britain or Rome or Greece."
"A generation ago, Ronald Reagan rallied the nation to deny a similar charge by Jimmy Carter," Lessig recalled. "I was one of the people so rallied and I still believe Ronald Reagan was right." He mapped out a series of public policies that passed Congress with strong bipartisan support despite not making much sense from a conservative, liberal, or libertarian perspective. He cited the Copyright Extension Act enacted after the death of Rep. Sonny Bono and the deregulation of derivatives while maintaining deposit insurance.
In Article V, Lessig argued, the Framers had given the American people a mechanism for proposing amendments that would never get a hearing in Congress. Lessig's personal cause is moving to a system of small-donation political campaigns, much like that envisioned by minor Republican presidential candidate Buddy Roemer. But the most important thing from Lessig's perspective was giving ordinary Americans a role in the country's deliberative process.
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The conference did not always live up to Lessig's high-minded aspirations. Most of the speakers were there to plead for their own pet issues rather than discuss the merits of a constitutional convention. We heard from a North Dakota state senator who wanted a supermajority of states to approve any increase in the national debt. Someone else made a pitch for proportional representation.
At first, there had merely been disagreements about how an Article V convention would work in practice. But as the weekend wore on, speakers became increasingly hazy about why one should even be called in the first place, when they bothered to mention constitutions or conventions at all.
David Cobb, the 2004 Green Party presidential nominee, delivered a stemwinder against the "corporations that rule us." He claimed he could walk into "any bowling alley" in America and people would agree with him about the need for political solutions to our most pressing problems. Cobb then denounced the United States as a "racist, sexist, and class-oppressive" country—something I would not recommend doing in most bowling alleys.
Progressive activist George Friday reminded the crowd that many members of minority groups don't share the white majority's warm feelings about the Founding Fathers and the early history of the republic. She suggested that the lack of diversity in the room indicated attendees did not know how to put together a movement big enough for an Article V convention to succeed. White liberals at the conference applauded her implicit criticism of their whiteness, as doing so made them feel good about their liberalism.
Questions from the audience further illustrated the left-right split, with conservatives attacking the Supreme Court and liberals railing against corporations. One bearded Marxist leftover promoted his recent Harvard Crimson op-ed on something called the "New Socialist Constitution" before denouncing Harvard Law for inviting the "states rights-supporting, white supremacist Tea Party Patriots" to campus. Another got up to give a diatribe against electronic voting machines.
An activist from Portland, Oregon made a novel comparison between American democracy and the "ask the audience" lifeline on the TV game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Both democracy and asking the audience work well because the collective knows more than the individual, he reasoned. But the audience often gets it wrong when a contestant biases the outcome by blurting out an incorrect answer beforehand. Similarly, he asserted, democracy short-circuits when corporations spend millions advertising that "The answer is B!"
The Cato Institute's John Samples gently pushed back against the notion that money was ruining politics. He said that polls show many Americans favor less free speech than the First Amendment actually allows. Limits on campaign expenditures might injure people who are neither George Soros nor the Koch brothers. As Samples spoke, a man in front of me seethed. When Samples concluded, the man stuck out his tongue.
Annabel Park, a filmmaker and co-founder of a progressive group called the Coffee Party, expressed a heretical thought: "We are here under false pretenses." She said that rather than trying to get together to support an Article V convention, the disparate groups were really gathered to discover "Can we talk to each other? Do we actually like each other? And what are the implications if we don't?" Park likened it to a first date between progressives and the Tea Party.
Certainly there are many issues around which left-right coalitions can be built: civil liberties, foreign policy, the Federal Reserve, the corporatist intersection of business and government. Even the question of money in politics can raise interest on the right as well as the left end of the spectrum. "It is hard to see how genuine conservatives benefit from removing limits on corporate political expenditures," Tom Piatak argued last year in the pages of Chronicles. "Generally speaking, dissident conservative candidates have been forced to rely on small individual donors because their views are distasteful to the economic elite."
Article V could be another cause around which progressives and conservatives can rally—but opponents of constitutional conventions have been just as ideologically diverse as the Harvard gathering. Liberals like Charles Black and Kennedy speechwriter Theodore Sorensen began writing against invoking Article V after conservatives floated the idea in the 1960s as a way to reverse Warren Court precedents. Conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and the John Birch Society have long warned that conventions could be the death knell of constitutionally limited government—a fast track for the Equal Rights Amendment. The Constitution Party has opposed Article V conventions since its first platform two decades ago.
Attempting to amend the Constitution in this fashion would probably not be as radical as either its opponents fear or its supporters hope. It is difficult to imagine a proposal that could win the support of the 38 state legislatures necessary for ratification but not command a significant following in Congress. But as a preview to a left-right convention called at the request of the states, the Harvard Law School conference wasn't terribly encouraging. An Article V convention could be much like my trip to the conference in the first place. I was able to work with some Rootstrikers to find the convention hall. Afterward, we went our separate ways.
W. James Antle III is associate editor of The American Spectator.


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Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to SO2 rule
Written byLAWRENCE HURLEY & JEREMY P. JACOBS, Greenwire
The Supreme Court opted against hearing a challenge today to U.S. EPA's most recent air regulation aimed at protecting human health from short-term spikes in sulfur dioxide emissions.
In July, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held that EPA didn't act unlawfully in setting a new SO2 standard of 75 parts per billion averaged over an hour (Greenwire, July 20, 2012).
The court didn't rule on another part of the challenge on how the rule will be implemented because EPA hasn't finalized its plans.
EPA maintains the one-hour standard was necessary to protect against short-term exposure to SO2, which can aggravate asthma and cause other respiratory problems. The previous limits are 140 ppb measured over 24 hours and 30 ppb measured over a year.
Several states, including Texas and Louisiana, in addition to some industry groups and individual companies, had objected to the rule, raising concerns about how EPA weighed the necessary epidemiological and other health-related data in reaching its conclusions and questioning the increased use of computer modeling that would be required for implementing the rule, instead of traditional monitoring data.
Only mining company Asarco LLC, which owns one of the last main copper smelters remaining in the United States, sought Supreme Court review, although another mining company, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., filed a brief in support.
Asarco, represented by lawyers from Baker Hostetler, said in its brief that the appeals court, in finding that EPA had the authority to set a standard that allowed for a margin of safety, should have considered whether the new standard was "more stringent than necessary to protect public health."
The company's lawyers argued that the appeals court did not follow the guidance of a 2001 Supreme Court case, Whitman v. American Trucking Associations, in which the court said national ambient air quality standards must be set at a "requisite" level, meaning neither higher nor lower than necessary.
The Obama administration insisted that there was no need to review the appeals court decision, with Solicitor General Donald Verrilli writing that the court had taken into account the Supreme Court's guidance.
Epidemiological studies cited in the final rule "provided strong support from the EPA's conclusion that a standard with a level below 78 ppb is requisite to protect public health with an adequate margin of safety," Verrilli wrote. He also noted that the "requisite" level determination takes into account the need for a margin of safety.
Jeff Holmstead, a former EPA air chief currently at Bracewell & Giuliani, said most observers knew the case was a "long shot" for the Supreme Court. In particular, he said the lower court didn't address the issue of modeling, so the Supreme Court is likely waiting until it does.
"Supreme Court, on that kind of an issue, is almost always going to look for a way to avoid it," he said.
Public health advocates, however, welcomed the court's decision against hearing the case. David Baron, an attorney with Earthjustice, which intervened in the case on behalf of the American Lung Association, said EPA is trying to address SO2 pollution that it has long known has harmful health effects.
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Cox Communications, which is televising Saturday's Butler vs Dodge City football game on its statewide network, will also be providing a post-game fireworks show at BG Products Veterans Sports Complex.
Butler and Dodge City will open the 2013 season with a 7:08 p.m. kickoff. The game is sponsored by Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.
At halftime, there will be a mascot race including the mascots from Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Cox. THey will be taking on a member of our Junior Grizzlies club. If our Junior Grizzly is successful in the race, everyone in the stadium will win a prize!
Be sure to head to BG Products Veterans Sports Complex on Saturday to enjoy the festivities during and after the game.


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Monday, October 31, 2011
Zombies Hunt Runners at Run For Your Life 5k
The web site says:
Run For Your Lives is an apocalyptic 5K obstacle race. You're not just running against the clock — you're running from brain-hungry, virus-spreading, bloody zombies.
Nice! A dozen city tour is already in progress...DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?!?
Or maybe they just bust into song...
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That's so cool! I want to run one of those. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
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Wow Scott, That must be some motivation you have there to run in all those races. I hope that you take time to take in the sights and sounds of each of these places. Nice running.ReplyDelete
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