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August 6, 1920 - September 26, 2013
Harriman, NY
Josephine K. Clark, an area resident since 1945, passed away Thursday, September 26, 2013 at Orange Regional Medical Center, Wallkill. She was 93.
Daughter of the late Lew Brim and Mary Klanecky Brim, Josephine was born on August 6, 1920 in Sargent, NE. She was the widow of David E. Clark.
Josephine was a retired clerk for Museum Village in Monroe. She was a member of St. Anastasia Church in Harriman and Harriman Engine Company #1 Ladies Auxiliary. She was also a member and former secretary for more than 45 years of American Legion Post #1573 Ladies Auxiliary.
Survivors include her sons: David J. Clark and wife, Josephine of Middletown, Daniel J. Clark and wife, Mary of Goshen, and Douglas J. Clark and wife, Patty of Poolesville, MD; daughters: Donna Lewis and husband, Ronald of Greenville, and Denise Perkowski and husband, Eric of Port Jervis; sister, Barbara Ludtke of Omaha, NE; 15 grandchildren; 23 great grandchildren; and one great great grandchild. She was predeceased by one great grandchild.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, October 1st at Smith, Seaman & Quackenbush, Inc. Funeral Home, 117 Maple Avenue, Monroe. A Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, October 2nd at St. Anastasia Parish Church, Route 17M, Harriman. Interment will follow in St. Anastasia Cemetery in Harriman.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, Tennessee 38148-0142.
Funeral arrangements were made by Smith, Seaman & Quackenbush, Inc. Funeral Homes, Monroe. 845-782-8185 or www.ssqfuneralhome.com.


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In his junior season, Jesse was an All-Big West Honorable Mention selection after leading the Gauchos with an 8-3 record ... His eight victories were tied for seventh in the Big West ... Appeared in 18 games while starting 14 ... In 10 of his 14 starts Meaux went at least seven innings ... Out of the bullpen early in the year, he compiled three saves until he was moved to the starting rotation where he threw two complete games ... His 98 innings pitched were tied for first on the team and seventh in the Big West ... Posted a 4.41 ERA ... Walked just 18 batters, which was ninth-fewest in the Big West ... Went 4-2 with a 4.21 ERa in 10 conference appearances, eight of those starts ... 21 of his 39 strikeouts came in league play ... Was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 44th round of the Major League Baseball Draft ... On April 11 at Cal Poly he threw a complete game only giving up three runs while striking out three and walking none ... Again on the road, this time on May 16 at No. 27 UC Irvine, he threw a complete game only allowing one run, throwing just 84 pitches ... In that game he had 13 groundball outs and induced the Anteaters into hitting into four double plays ... After that performance, he was named as a College Baseball 360 Primetime Performer ... Got the last out on April 16 vs. No. 22 Cal State Fullerton in a 5-2 Gaucho victory that briefly put the team in first place in the Big West ... He had a three-game streak of allowing no earned runs (March 2-14) which spanned 15.2 innings ... Set a career-high in strike outs with seven on February 23 against Westmont.
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Jesse played for both the Yarmouth Dennis Red Sox and the Santa Barbara Foresters ... As a Forester he went 5-0 with a 0.92 ERA in eight appearances, seven being starts ... In 39 innings he struck out 29 while only allowing four earned runs ... Was an All-Tournament pick in the National Baseball Congress World Series with the Foresters.
As a sophomore, Meaux made 18 appearances, including seven starts...Seven starts ranked fourth on the team...31 strikeouts tied for fourth on team while his 18 appearances were third-most...In his seven starts, ERA was nearly a run lower at 5.87...In first two wins - Mar. 7 vs. Loyola Marymount and Mar. 14 at Saint Mary's - he went five innings each time, allowing six combined runs...Five innings count as career-best...Struck out six batters on two occasions, doing so in Feb. 23 start vs. Westmont and again in Mar. 31 start vs. No. 21 San Diego State...Six strikeouts is career-high...Third win of the year came on Apr. 21 at Cal State Bakersfield...Posted consecutive outings without allowing an earned run on Apr. 26 vs. Cal Poly and Apr. 28 vs. Cal State Bakersfield.
Pitched in eight games, including one start...Went 1-0 with a 5.74 ERA in 15.2 innings...Struck out five batters...Lone start came on Mar. 4 vs. Cal Poly...Lasted 3.1 innings, allowing five runs on 11 hits...Didn't allow an earned run in four straight appearances from Mar. 11 through Apr. 15, a span of 9.1 innings...Had best two games against Westmont, pitching a total of six innings while allowing one hit and tallying three strikeouts...Only walked one batter and that came in his first appearance of the season vs. Marist.
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Born August 8, 1989 in Glendale Calif...Majoring in political science at UCSB...Aspires to become a professional baseball player or a lawyer...If he was not playing baseball, he would be rowing for the crew team...Played for the Rochester Honkers in the Northwoods League in the summer of 2008...Roots for the Los Angeles Dodgers...Favorite players are Derek Lowe and Manny Ramirez...Most memorable sports moment came when he pitched at Dodger Stadium...Watches "Baseball Tonight" and "Grey's Anatomy" on TV...Also enjoys watching "Entourage" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm"...Favorite movie is "Grandma's Boy"...Would chose Fabio to star him in a movie...Favorite author is Plato...Favorite read is "Harry Potter"...Favorite aspect about UC Santa Barbara is being close to the beach...Would invite Vince Vaughn and Roger Clemens to dinner if he could...Has one aunt, Mary, and one uncle, Mark, who also attended UCSB...Lists the best player he has ever faced in any sport as Trevor Bell, a first-round pick by the Los Angeles Angels...Has a superstition of putting on his uniform the same way ever time...Has two sisters, Miranda and Rachael...Son of Louis and Leslie Meaux.
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NYT Sees More Danger After 'Christian Extremist' Attack in Norway; Found 'Understanding' for Muslim Bombers of London in 2005
Sunday's front-page, over-the-fold headline on the massacre in Norway (over a story by Scott Shane and Steven Erlanger) was blunt: 'As Horrors Emerge, Norway Charges Christian Extremist – Manifesto Shows Plan of Attack, Fear of Islam.' (Photo credit Jon-Are Berg-Jacobsen/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images)
But while the Times showed no reluctance to identify Anders Behring Breivik, the lone gunman in the Norway attacks, as a 'Christian extremist' in a front-page headline and hinted at more danger from "right-wing extremists" in Europe, the paper previously showed a clear reluctance to identify Islam after the last major terrorist attack on Europe, the deadly July 7, 2005 attacks by Muslim terrorists on subways and buses in London that killed 52. Instead the Times treated the attacks as British Prime Minister Tony Blair's "bitter harvest" for following President George W. Bush into Iraq.
As more information about the London attacks came, a July 9, 2005 story focused on a theory 'that the plot was carried out by a sleeper cell of homegrown extremists rather than highly trained terrorists exported to Britain.' But what kind of extremists? The Times completely left out the words 'Islam' and 'Muslim.' ("Muslim" showed up only in a quote, and without context.)
Erlanger and Shane reached back to the Oklahoma City bombings of 1995, calling killer Timothy McVeigh 'the right-wing American.'
'This is the Norwegian equivalent to Timothy McVeigh,' the right-wing American who bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, said Marcus Buck, a political scientist at the University of Tromso in northern Norway. 'This is right-wing domestic terrorism, and the big question is to what extent Norwegian agencies have diverted their attention from what they knew decades ago was the biggest threat' to focus instead on Islamic militants.
Sunday's report from Berlin by Nicholas Kulish did not shy away from ideological labels either, at least for villains on the right: 'Norway Attacks Put Spotlight on Rise of Right-Wing Sentiment in Europe.'
The attacks in Oslo on Friday have riveted new attention on right-wing extremists not just in Norway but across Europe, where opposition to Muslim immigrants, globalization, the power of the European Union and the drive toward multiculturalism has proven a potent political force and, in a few cases, a spur to violence.
The success of populist parties appealing to a sense of lost national identity has brought criticism of minorities, immigrants and in particular Muslims out of the beer halls and Internet chat rooms and into mainstream politics. While the parties themselves generally do not condone violence, some experts say a climate of hatred in the political discourse has encouraged violent individuals.
The bombing and shootings in Oslo also have served as a wake-up call for security services in Europe and the United States that in recent years have become so focused on Islamic terrorists that they may have underestimated the threat of domestic radicals, including those upset by what they see as the influence of Islam.
In the United States the deadly attacks have reawakened memories of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, where a right-wing extremist, Timothy J. McVeigh, used a fertilizer bomb to blow up a federal government building, killing 168 people. That deadly act had long since been overshadowed by the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
Perhaps the most surprising about-turn came in Britain, a country that has long considered itself among the most immigrant-friendly in Europe until a series of coordinated bomb attacks in London six years ago. In one of his most noticed speeches, Mr. Cameron told the Munich security conference in February that the country's decades-old policy of multiculturalism had encouraged 'segregated communities' where Islamic extremism can thrive.
"The events" of 9-11? Also note that while Kulish slapped an ideological label on McVeigh, he did not even acknowledge that the terrorists who bombed London commuter trains in July 2005 were Muslim.
More warnings followed of the danger posed by the "right-wing."
But neither does Norway exist in a vacuum. Its right-wing scene is connected to the rest of Europe through the Internet forums where hate speech proliferates and through right-wing demonstrations that draw an international mix of participants.
By contrast, the 2005 London bombings were treated as somehow understandable in the wake of Muslim anger over Bush and especially British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the invasion of Iraq. Reporter Alan Cowell all but blamed Blair: 'Perhaps the crudest lesson to be drawn was that, in adopting the stance he took after the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Blair had finally reaped the bitter harvest of the war on terrorism - so often forecast but never quite seeming real until the explosions boomed across London.'
Reporter Hassan Fattah, in a July 16, 2005 front-page story, "Anger Burns on The Fringe of Britain's Muslims," found understanding for one of the Muslim terrorists, Shehzad Tanweer: "To the boys from Cross Flats Park, Mr. Tanweer, 22, who blew himself up on a subway train in London last week, was devout, thoughtful and generous. If they understood his actions, it was because they lived in Mr. Tanweer's world, too. They did not agree with what Mr. Tanweer had done, but made clear they shared the same sense of otherness, the same sense of siege, the same sense that their community, and Muslims in general, were in their view helpless before the whims of greater powers. Ultimately, they understood his anger.'
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More than two months after the Boston Marathon bombings, people from around the country are still pulling for the city to recover. And that sentiment extends to sports.
On Friday, the Chicago Blackhawks -- who defeated the Boston Bruins in the recent Stanley Cup finals -- took out a full-page ad in the Boston Globe that began with the words "Thank You."
"Hockey is a tough game," it read. "As impressed as we were by the strength, talent and competitive spirit of the Boston Bruins on the ice, we were deeply touched by what happened off the ice."
Blackhawks officials praised their opponents' good sportsmanship and the hospitality shown by civic leaders and fans during a hard-fought series. Chicago won the Cup in Game 6 in Boston.
"Like the rest of the world, Chicagoans have been reminded in recent days of Boston's strength," the ad said. "Please know we tip our hat to your city's big heart and gracious spirit."
The salute follows another such gesture. Just days after the bombings, the Chicago Tribune sent pizzas to the Globe's newsroom.
Third suspect arrested in Aaron Hernandez case
'Blade Runner' Oscar Pistorius returns to the track [Video]
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Time Warner is eyeing the sale of its publishing division, Time Inc., to Meredith Corp. -- a move that would divest Time Warner of almost all its magazine titles, according to reports in Fortune and the Wall Street Journal.
Under the terms of the current talks, Time Warner would keep only Time, Sports Illustrated and Fortune. Meredith, which owns a number of women's and home lifestyle magazines, would add People, InStyle and Real Simple to its roster, among other titles.
The talks are yet another indication of the sorry state of the print media business, coming in the wake of News Corp's decision to split its highly profitable film and television holdings from its less lucrative publishing holdings.
Last month, Time Inc. announced that it was laying off 500 employees, or six percent of its total staff. This came after a year in which revenues fell by 6.6 percent and operating earnings fell 25.4 percent, according to Fortune.


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Guests: Mark Halperin, Rep. Joe Sestak, Abrahm Lustgarten, Kate Sheppard, Eric Burns, Steve Kornacki
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Taking on the establishment.
Let's play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews in Washington.
Leading off tonight: Countdown to super Tuesday. A big day for
politics, tomorrow is a great day to watch the rebellion left and right.
Voters in four states go to the polls tomorrow, and by tomorrow night,
we may know a lot more about how anti-incumbent voters really are.
HARDBALL will be in Philadelphia tomorrow night for live broadcasts at
5:00, 7:00, and at midnight Eastern, where we will have a ringside seat
for the best race of all, the Democratic Senate primary between Arlen
Specter, the incumbent, and Joe Sestak, the challenger. That
Pennsylvania race is neck and neck. The polls are dead even. And Joe
Sestak joins us tonight from the campaign trail, where he's making an
eleventh-hour pitch to voters.
Also, the gulf oil spill. BP, Transocean and Halliburton are all
pointing fingers at each other now, but where was the government? Are
we seeing the results of a cozy relationship between energy companies
and the energy agencies that are supposed to be watching over them?
And on this fifth anniversary of YouTube, we'll show you some of
the great political YouTube moments that helped end some political
And "Let Me Finish" tonight with a question. You say you want a
revolution? Well, we don't know if it's going to be all right, at least
not for some big-name incumbents.
We start with tomorrow's big political day. NBC's political
director, Chuck Todd—he's also our chief White House correspondent,
and there he is at the White House—and Mark Halperin, a senior
political analyst for "Time."
Gentlemen, I want you to look at the latest polls out of
Pennsylvania. Let's start with that. Five-term Republican incumbent
turned Democrat Arlen Specter faces two-term House member Joe Sestak.
There the are in the pictures. Pollsters trendline gives Sestak the
edge. Muhlenberg's tracking poll has them tied. Quinnipiac's latest
poll out today gives Sestak a 1-point edge.
What do you make of that? It seems to me—let me give you my
thoughts. It looks like an air game versus a ground game. In the air,
you got Sestak with a dynamite ad trouncing Specter, saying he looks
like just a complete political sleazebag, and then you've got a
fantastic—potentially fantastic ground game with lots of street money
in big cities like Philly. Who wins this thing, Chuck?
CHUCK TODD, NBC WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT/POLITICAL DIR.: Well,
I'll tell you this. I'm focused on this double-digit undecided number
in multiple polls that I know about going into this final 24-hour period
before we go because that tells you I think you have an electorate
that's not going to turn out. It's going to be a low turnout. So what
does that mean?
You have Specter, needs a high turnout among African-American
voters in Philadelphia. He's doing well with African-American voters,
but there's not a lot of evidence that the turnout's going to be very
high. Can he win a low-turnout primary, where hard-core Pennsylvania
Democrats, who probably have never polled the lever for Arlen Specter,
are going to be the ones dominating the polls? He needs a bigger
turnout, and when you see double-digit undecided this late, it has you
wondering whether the turnout model is really going to be there.
That said, I tell you, a lot of the Specter folks feel better today
than they did 48 hours ago.
MATTHEWS: OK, let's go to—let's go to Mark Halperin. Your
thoughts on that. It sounds like a slight edge coming out of that
analysis for Sestak. What do you see?
MARK HALPERIN, "TIME": Well, Specter's also got labor unions,
which are obviously big in Pennsylvania. I think the question is, will
the rank-and-file members of the labor unions, like Chuck said,
Democrats who've never pulled the lever for Specter, follow the union
endorsement, the president's endorsement?
The other thing Specter has is, as you both know, a history of
winning elections when he's been written off. This is not an election
that he should win. Sestak has momentum. He's got that dynamite ad on.
And he is by biography and by attitude probably the worst candidate of
the cycle, most out of step with the mood of the electorate. I would
say right now...
MATTHEWS: OK, you...
HALPERIN: ... Sestak will probably win, but I would bet no money
on it because I never bet against a guy like Arlen Specter.
MATTHEWS: OK, let's take a look at the Sestak ad you said is one
hell of an ad, and I agree, one of the great ads ever made, maybe. Here
it is, tearing into Arlen Specter's two-faced (INAUDIBLE), it looks
like. Let's take a look.
REP. JOE SESTAK (D-PA), SENATE CANDIDATE: I'm Joe Sestak, the
Democrat. I authorized this message.
SEN. ARLEN SPECTER (D), PENNSYLVANIA: My change in party will
enable me to be reelected.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For 45 years, Arlen Specter has been a
Republican politician.
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Arlen Specter is
the right man for the United States Senate. I can count on this man.
See, that's important. He's a firm ally.
MATTHEWS: Well, that's pretty darn tough. By the way, I didn't
play the whole ad there. It played that sort of snarky picture of Arlen
there twice, where he says, basically, he's a political opportunist and
admitted being a political opportunist, which politicians all are. He
admits it.
Let's take a look at what Specter said this weekend.
SPECTER: I beat Toomey before. It's going to take a rough, tough
campaign, like I stood up to the tea party gang in the town meeting.
The guy rushed at me with his fists clenched, and the security wanted to
throw him out and I wouldn't let them. I didn't want the headline to
be, Citizen evicted. I wanted the headline to be, Senator keeps his
cool. He had his fists clenched, and I fought him—verbally, that is.
MATTHEWS: He's unbelievable! That guy is bionic. He's 80 years
old. He'll be 86 in this term. And he ain't quitting. Here's, by the
way, the other big fight in Pennsylvania, the Jack Murtha seat, the late
Jack Murtha. The seat's open. Here's Bill Clinton campaigning for the
Murtha former aide, Mark Critz, the Democrat, last night. Let's watch
Big Bill in Pennsylvania. By the way, they love him in Pennsylvania.
Here he is.
BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: You just
think of every person you will pass between now and when the polls close
Tuesday night. You're going to pass a lot of people. Don't pass them.
He understands how to connect votes people cast in Washington with
lives people live in Johnstown.
MATTHEWS: Mark Halperin, that guy, Clinton, is the greatest pol of
our times. There he is, the troubadour for Mark Critz. Can he pull it
out for Jack Murtha's former aide in Murtha district?
HALPERIN: Well, this is a district where they do like incumbency.
Murtha served the district well in typical Pennsylvania style, bringing
home pork from Washington. Critz was the guy who did that on behalf of
Murtha, and I think he's run a decent campaign. He's kept his eyes on
what the district cares about.
It is still a Democratic district, trending Republican, didn't vote
for Obama, the only district in the country that voted for John Kerry
and then voted for McCain. But I think—I think Clinton drew a big
crowd yesterday. The demographics of the district, I think, are good
enough for Critz that he will pull it out.
MATTHEWS: What do you think? You agree with that?
TODD: Well, I...
MATTHEWS: Chuck?
TODD: It looks like that's the case. This is a big—if
Republicans don't win, it's a big missed opportunity. You know, on
message-wise, I've talked to some Republican strategists, and they've
admitted that they've just not had a good message in going after Critz.
Critz was not the ideal candidate in here. I know a lot of Democrats
here in Washington, at the White House, were nervous about putting a
Murtha aide there, figuring that it was going to make it too much of a
Washington nominee for them, make it harder for them to hold. But the
Republicans have not run the best campaign.
And I'll tell you, you'd compare to where we were in '94 at this
time—it was May of '94, where the first big Republican victory in a
special election on a Democratic-held seat happened in Kentucky. And
this time, you wonder if Democrats can hold a seat like this in this
environment now, you do have to call into question the Republicans'
ability strategically to win the 40 seats they need in the House when
there's a heck of a lot more seats that they have to worry about, rather
than just this one in southwest Pennsylvania.
MATTHEWS: OK. What an interesting race for Murtha's old seat.
Joyce (ph) Murtha, by the way, is out campaigning, the widow of the
former congressman, for Critz.
Let's take a look at the Arkansas race now, fascinating race.
Here's where you have a man, a very ambitious lieutenant governor who
looks like he wants to be president some day, Bill Halter, taking on
Blanche Lincoln, who's a centrist Democrat who voted against health
care. Lincoln's leading the Pollster.com, but she's only—not even
over 50 percent.
Is this just a question of time before she has to face the music
from him, Chuck? It looks—well, let's take a look at the thought
here. Here's—let's listen to her.
TODD: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Last night.
SEN. BLANCHE LINCOLN (D), ARKANSAS: I think there's certainly an
opportunity to be able to come out without a runoff, but I'm certainly
not making any expectations, nor am I taking anything for granted.
MATTHEWS: Boy, this country still has some regional accents and
has a regional style.
MATTHEWS: You wouldn't wear that hat...
TODD: I love the hat!
MATTHEWS: ... in Philly. Chuck, this thought. Seriously, it
looks to me like they have a weird runoff situation down there. Even if
she—can she get 50 tomorrow and end this thing and beat Halter out of
the race?
TODD: Well, nobody you talk to close to the race, close to
Lincoln, close to Halter, close to the White House, close to the
Democratic Party, DSCC, believes she can get to 50. Everybody seems to
agree she's going to be the leading vote-getter, but she seems to be
stuck in the mid, low, high 40s...
MATTHEWS: Yes, I think so.
TODD: ... 46, 47. That said, notice Bill Clinton didn't come in
now. The Lincoln folks want to save him...
MATTHEWS: I think so.
TODD: ... to basically bail her out in the runoff, if she needs to
do it.
MATTHEWS: That's my hunch.
TODD: You know, he's plateaued, and there's—I don't know if
there's enough liberal Democrats in the Arkansas Democratic Party to put
him over the top, even in a runoff. But we'll see.
MATTHEWS: Yes. I completely agree with you. I think the
president's waiting, the former president. Bill's going to come in
there like a sledgehammer.
I'm holding here now—Mark, let's go to the Kentucky race. We
don't have much time here. This is a fascinating race. It's the
(INAUDIBLE) the other side—this is a bookend to the Democrat. This
is an anti-establishment candidate, Rand Paul, son of Ron Paul, the
Libertarian who ran for president, taking on the establishment
candidate, Trey Grayson, who's the love child, basically, of Mitch
McConnell. And it looks like he's going to kill him. Your thoughts?
HALPERIN: I think Paul—just as Specter is the worst candidate
for this cycle, Paul is the perfect candidate for Republicans this cycle
in a state like Kentucky. He's run a very good campaign. I think if he
does win, and I suspect he will, you'll see Mitch McConnell and other
establishment Republicans in Kentucky and around the country rally
around him. He's fine for them as a candidate. I think he'll be a
pretty decent general election candidate.
The worry for them, and I think for the whole Senate and he White
House, is if he becomes a senator, he will be a very independent force.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
HALPERIN: He will make Tom Coburn look...
MATTHEWS: Well, he'll be fun to watch.
HALPERIN: ... like a go-along kind of guy.
TODD: Right.
MATTHEWS: He'll be fun to watch. Chuck, let's take a look at him,
then you comment. Here he is, Grayson, the establishment candidate—
Mitch McConnell, rather, here, making the case for his candidate, Trey
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), MINORITY LEADER: We'll find out maybe
something about incumbency Tuesday in Arkansas and Pennsylvania, where
we have two Democratic incumbents in serious races. We don't have
incumbency on the line in Kentucky. We have two non-incumbents running
for an open seat. One of our senators is supporting one candidate, one
is supporting the other candidate. Whichever one ends up running the
best race, I guess, will be the nominee.
MATTHEWS: What a hedge that is! I got to tell you—Chuck,
here's a guy who was Mr. Republican, picking his favorite candidate and
being Mr. Establishment. All of a sudden now, he's just one of the two
senators out there. Jim Bunning, the guy he kicked out the door, is now
on equal basis with him. What spin that is! It's not even true spin—
TODD: Well, it is. It's also accepting reality. I mean, they're
clinging to this hope that, somehow, Rand Paul supporters won't be
registered Republicans and won't...
MATTHEWS: Oh.
TODD: ... be able to get a Republican ballot. But we'll see. You
know, it does seem as if that the writing's on the wall. McConnell sees
the writing on the wall. Democrats and some Republicans believe Rand
Paul has some stances that he's taken in the past that's going to make
him a troublesome general election candidate.
But I have to say, I agree with Mark on this one. There's
something about this cycle, this environment, that Rand Paul—and
maybe the fact that he doesn't have a—you know, doesn't sit and have,
like, one—have one set of principles that he sticks to, or whatever
you want to call it, one ideology, that it's going to make him
potentially a better...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TODD: ... fall candidate for them than having just somebody who's
a rank-and-file Mitch McConnell Republican.
MATTHEWS: I think he's the big star tomorrow night nationally on
television across the country, and Wednesday when you're back home with
rundown (ph). I think everybody's going to be talking about Rand Paul.
Anyway, thank you, Chuck Todd, Mark Halperin.
Up next, we're going to talk to the hot challenger in that
Pennsylvania Senate race, U.S. Congressman Joe Sestak, who's taking on
city hall in so many ways in Pennsylvania. You got hand the guy guts—
or give him credit for guts. He has taken on the governor, the
president, the vice president, the mayor, everybody, the unions, the
committee people, the machine.
In one minute, by the way, a bit of good news for Democrats across
the country about the mid-terms, a surprising uptick in Democratic
hopes. Wait'll you hear it. Back in a minute with HARDBALL and good
news for the Dems.
MATTHEWS: There's a glimmer of hope for Democrats in a new
Associated Press poll just out. Voters now say they prefer Democrats to
control the U.S. Congress by a margin of 45 percent to 40 percent, a 5
percent spread there. That's a turnaround, a big one, from last month's
AP poll, when Republicans had the edge. So things are moving around.
The Democrats have to hope the economy keeps showing some signs of
improvement in order to minimize their losses come November.
We'll be right back with Joe Sestak.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. The marquee event of tomorrow
night's primaries is the Democratic fight between Senator Arlen Specter
and his challenger, U.S. Congressman Joe Sestak. Late today, I spoke
with Congressman Sestak about the race and also about his opponent.
Congressman Sestak, you're running against an incumbent who is 80
years old. He'll be 86 during this term, if he gets reelected. He told
me the other night he may run for reelection at the end of that term.
Is age and seniority an issue of this campaign?
REP. JOE SESTAK (D-PA), SENATE CANDIDATE: Age is definitely not an
issue. And Arlen Specter lost his seniority down in Congress when he
switched parties. The issue is this. He's been there for 30 years,
advancing a Republican agenda. I respect the man, but I disagree with
his political approach where he's willing to switch a party in order to
keep his job.
Look, I'm sitting in Philadelphia. You know it pretty well, Chris.
We lost 100,000 jobs here the last 30 years. Fourteen percent of its
population walked away. It's time for a real change down there in
Washington, where you're willing to do what's right and not worry about
your electoral prospects. That's what this election's about.
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about Arlen Specter, your opponent, again
because he is the issue in this campaign, many say. Do you believe that
he would vote the Democratic line if he were reelected, or would he
switch and go back to voting somewhere off to the right?
SESTAK: I think Arlen Specter is a literally flight risk if he
were ever to win this primary. And worse, he will lose to Congressman
Toomey. There's no poll where he's gotten 33 percent of the general
electorate in order to support him for reelection—in fact, I'm tied
with Congressman Toomey—where he loses by about 12 points.
And even more importantly, I really believe in Democratic
principles out of conviction. And yet, like when John F. Kennedy once
said, sometimes the party asks too much, I was willing to stand up for
what's needed for working families and those who want to work, when the
party establishment in Washington, D.C., was wrong. And that's what's
going prevail in the end.
MATTHEWS: He told me the other night that he has a promise of
seniority, that he'll have his full seniority restored, so that it would
be as if he had always been a Democrat for these 30 years. Is that
SESTAK: Well, he may say that, but you saw the Democratic
senatorial caucus. After Majority Leader Reid promised it to him, they
all voted it away from him. Look, there's only two or three senators
that are more junior than he is. My first year, I'll be more senior
than he is.
And at the end of the day, Chris, I don't even believe it's about
seniority. I think it's about being a public servant. I think you can
do what you have to do down there if you're willing to work in a
principled way, principled compromise, and not a compromise of
principle. No. Those senators down there aren't about to give up their
seniority to Arlen Specter after this is all over.
And I think Majority Leader Reid probably said it best, from what I
understand, in his biography: Arlen Specter is always there with us when
we don't need him. These people right here in Philadelphia need someone
who's a warrior ready to fight for them, not just vote for change but
actually ready to fight for it down in Washington.
MATTHEWS: You're up against city hall—the mayor, the president,
the vice president, the governor. How do you beat them?
SESTAK: I went out and I spoke with the people. They've lost all
trust, all faith in Washington, D.C. There's absolutely no way that I
believe—and I don't ever hear them saying that they're going to vote
the way someone else tells them, certainly not Washington, D.C., that
slammed them into this savage recession.
You know Pennsylvanians. We're pretty independent-minded. When I
go in a church, a VFW post or into a diner, no one ever asks me, Who
endorsed you? They always say, What are you going to do for us?
Look, I'm willing to lose my job over what's right for them. And
Chris, I'm not running simultaneously for my congressional seat. I want
to demonstrate it really is about public service again, about helping
them. That's what's happening up here, is Arlen Specter, your time—
we appreciate it, but your time has come and it's gone. We really do
need a new generation of leadership, you know, with this president, who
actually believes principle matters and politics will follow principle.
MATTHEWS: So, it is about age. You keep saying a new generation
of leadership. And you're running against a guy who is going to be 86
during this term. And you keep saying it's not about age.
Well, what's it mean to say a new generation, then?
SESTAK: It's a group of men and women down there in Washington,
D.C., that Massachusetts said it very well by when they voted. Pox on
both your houses down there, you politicians who have been there and
believe it's about deal-making where my Democratic establishment started
to get off track when they thought that, with political calculation, we
could pass a health care bill with that deal for Arlen Specter.
No. If we had had real leadership in the Senate, I believe,
alongside this president, shaping the bill, we would have done so much
better to have kept the trust of the public. No, it is about people who
have been there far too long and have learned the ways of Washington.
Well, come on up here. This is a state that's the second oldest
state in the nation, half the job creation in the last 30 years of the
national average. There's a better way, and they know it. And I intend
to bring that new generation of leadership, energy, new ideas, and
willing to lose my job over what's needed for them, Chris. That's the
MATTHEWS: We have primary challenges all across the country
tomorrow. We have got one in Arkansas. We have got one down in
Kentucky, both in the Democrat and the Republican primaries. Why do you
think the primary challengers are looking so strong? What is it that
makes incumbents look weak in both parties?
SESTAK: Chris, people have been hurt.
I went into one of the counties during the summer, when I went to
those 67 counties. And I spoke to you as I was in the midst of them.
And I was talking to them to see whether to get in when the
establishment told me to sit down.
And I remember a farmer who said to me when I asked him how the
recession was, says: "Not too bad. I was hurting so much already."
Do you think anybody really believes that, the way Washington has
operated, particularly over the last decade, that they are going to
trust someone from down there who has been there and has been bred in
Washington politics? No way.
Look, Chris, I have got to earn their trust. And I know it's going
to take time to regain it, much like when I joined up there in the
Vietnam era. We had to regain the trust. Wrongly, the military had
lost trust then during the Vietnam era. Rightly, I went to Congress,
and it had lost trust. I want to bring that back, because that's the
gravest ill of all, I think.
If you have got the trust of your sailors in the military, you have
got the trust of the working families, those who want to work, you can
do things for this nation by doing things for them. That's what I want
to do.
MATTHEWS: You know, you're running against the organization in
Philadelphia, the party organization. There's going to be a lot of
street money out there tomorrow. A lot of people, committeemen and
committeewomen are going to have money. They're going to be out there
working all day long for the party with an official ballot with the name
Specter right on it.
How do you beat them, when you have got labor guys and labor women
and committee people, local pols, almost all of them backing Specter?
How do you expect a voter to go out there and walk through that
committeeman's face, walk through those signs, walk through those
official ballots, ignore them all, and vote for Joe Sestak?
How does that happen in a big city environment?
SESTAK: That machine you talked about, let's take right here in
Philadelphia. People are wondering, what the heck did the machine do
for them to protect them from what happened? What did it do?
You know, I think there's a lot of good men and women there. But,
at the end of the day, when I talk to labor, I'm talking to the working
families. I understand what the establishment did in Washington, D.C.,
from the top of the labor and—and those who are—Vice President
Biden. They made a deal and they're trying to keep their end of it.
But, you know, I have gone to over 650 events since 1 January. I
was in this church behind me just a couple weeks ago. We have gotten
out and about. And, you know, there's something different on this
election, Chris. It's different.
They're going to be making up their independent minds. Look, I
still know I have got to earn that trust that' been lost down there, but
I'm going to do it. And I'm going to do it by being a public servant,
not a politician. I'm going to work hard with this president. I am.
But, at the end of the day, I'm certainly not a yes man. And I am
going to earn their trust by coming back and making sure they know what
I'm going to do. But, tomorrow, you're going to see that we're going to
And the we, it's the people here in Philadelphia and across this
great state of Pennsylvania, who lost their jobs are holding onto them
and want to be the focus of Washington, D.C.'s policies again.
Congressman Joe Sestak, you're a tough man. You have got a lot of
guts. Good luck tomorrow in the primary. It's going to be one
humdinger tomorrow in Pennsylvania. Thank you for joining us on
HARDBALL tonight.
SESTAK: Thanks for having me on, Chris.
MATTHEWS: And tomorrow night, HARDBALL will be live all night at
the Loews Hotels on Market Street in Philadelphia. If you're in Philly,
come on down and join us as we want to await the winner of the big
Specter/Sestak fight and the other races in Kentucky and Arkansas across
the country.
Up next: Dick Cheney is no King Midas. Everyone he endorses seems
to lose.
Stick around for the "Sideshow." It will be fun.
You're watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Now to the "Sideshow."
First, what may be the most all-out, all-American, hot dog, apple
pie and I love my gun U.S. of A. political ad ever made.
DALE PETERSON ®, ALABAMA AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER CANDIDATE: I'm
Dale Peterson. And I'm after the Republican nomination for Alabama
agriculture commissioner.
I have been a farmer, a businessman, a cop, a Marine during
Vietnam. So, listen up. Dorman Grace brags on his Facebook page about
receiving contributions from industries he would regulate, bragging
about receiving illegal money on Facebook. Who on earth would support
such a dummy? And why?
We're Republicans. We should be better than that.
I'm Dale Peterson. I'll name names and take no prisoners. Give me
the Republican for ag commish, and let's show Alabama we mean business.
MATTHEWS: Well, that ad will make, at the very least, make Mr.
Peterson, the guy with the gun, the most well-known candidate for
agriculture commission.
Anyway, next: with a wink and a smile. Florida independent
candidate Charlie Crist just announced that he will be keeping donations
given to his campaign when he was a Republican.
Well, Crist took a shot for that during the opening of his new
campaign headquarters this weekend. The key here, Crist's wink right
after he responds to that heckler. Check out that wink.
GOV. CHARLIE CRIST (I), FLORIDA: This is the people's campaign.
And the purpose of this campaign is to give the people the voice that
they deserve.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What about their money back?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What about that?
CRIST: What about that?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, what about the guys who gave you money
when you were a Republican?
CRIST: I'm going to keep it.
MATTHEWS: Did you like that little wink to the camera? Watch
here again.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, talk about enjoying the moment. Maybe he's got
something, you know, the independent rascal?
Now for the "Big Number."
Dick Cheney has just endorsed Meg Whitman for governor out in
California. So, is this a boost for her campaign or an albatross?
Let's take a look at Cheney's record so far in these midterms.
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, loser. Senator Bob Bennett, loser. Trey
Grayson in Kentucky, likely loser tomorrow, which means, as far as
endorsements are concerned, if things go as expected tomorrow, Dick
Cheney will be zero for three, provided Trey Grayson loses his primary
race tomorrow. Dick Cheney will be zero for three in endorsements so
far—tonight's kiss-off to the Republican Party establishment, our
"Big Number" tonight.
Up next: Nearly a month after the Deepwater Horizon rig blew up,
spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, why do we still not know what
caused this disaster or how to stop it?
You're watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
We are going to get tough in a minute. I have never focused on an
issue like this one.
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
We continue to see more fallout over that disastrous rig explosion
and oil leak down in the Gulf of Mexico. The chief electronics
technician of the Deepwater Horizon rig told "60 Minutes" that there
were known problems with the blowout preventer in the weeks leading up
to the accident.
An Associated Press investigation shows that the Minerals
Management Service didn't live up to its own inspection policy. And,
today, the top government official who oversees offshore oil drilling
for the Minerals Management Service announced his retirement.
So, how much fault lies with the BP and the other companies
associated with the rig, and how much blame lies with the Minerals
Management Service of the government for lax oversight?
Kate Sheppard sits with me now. She's an environmental reporter us
"Mother Jones." And Abrahm Lustgarten is with ProPublica.
Abrahm, let me ask you this question, first of all. I have a hunch
that the reason they don't want to fix this mess down there is because
they would admit who did it if they fix it. Nobody is down—if this
was a nuclear bomb ready to go off, we would be down there. I'm so—I
don't even want to talk about it. I get so mad at this oil company.
Why aren't they fixing it, first of all?
ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN, PROPUBLICA: Well, I think they're doing the
best they can, honestly.
I mean, drilling at the bottom and operating at the bottom of the
ocean or 5,000 feet down maximizes the—the technological capabilities
of the oil industry. It's been likened to space exploration. And I
think it's quite similar.
So, at this point, they—they may want to hide blame, but at this
point I don't think there's much motivation not to fix the problem, if
they know how to do that.
MATTHEWS: Really?
You know, I have a suspicion—I will go back to it again—I
don't think they're doing their best. I don't think there's—the
government is doing its best. Why doesn't the president go in there and
nationalize that industry and get the job done for the people?
KATE SHEPPARD, "MOTHER JONES": Well...
MATTHEWS: There's a national interest in this, not just a BP
interest. We're letting BP fix a national problem.
SHEPPARD: Well, I think the national problem really began years
ago, months ago, when we—when we didn't actually properly oversee
these industries, when BP said that they could drill safely at a mile
below the Gulf, and we took them at their...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MATTHEWS: But I just heard it right there. If it's so dangerous
to go down there, if it maximizes their capability, why didn't they tell
us that when they went down there?
SHEPPARD: Well, they clearly didn't tell us that. And MMS and the
government let them.
MATTHEWS: Oh, it's totally safe to do it, until it isn't safe, and
then it's our problem. Look at that.
LUSTGARTEN: Well, BP definitely has a track record for
underplaying the potential disasters that they could face. And they
definitely downplay the risks in all of their operations, whether that's
in Alaska or here in the Gulf. And that—you know, that's part of
what's happening here now.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let me ask you. I want to test you, Abrahm. What
went wrong here? Let's just start with that. Do you have a clear idea
of where the blame lies, not who did it, but what was not done that
should have been done to prevent this blowout?
LUSTGARTEN: The picture that seems to be emerging is—sounds
familiar. It's one of rushing to cut costs and—and skipping steps
where possible.
I think what we heard last night about rushing to replace the
drilling mud in the drill tube and replace it with seawater, which
allows the gas to flow out, is definitely one significant factor.
We have also heard a whole lot about the cementing process, which
has been problematic across oil and gas drilling areas on land and
offshore. If the cement doesn't cure properly or if it's too thin or if
it—if it has cracks in it, then that, too, allows grass to seep up
through it and that pressure to build up lead to a blowout.
MATTHEWS: My brother, who has been in the oil pipe industry for 30
years, told me that the day it happened. He said, the problem is, they
didn't put mud in, drill mud in, drilling mud in, to jam it into the
hole there. They put seawater in by—they did it just for cost
saving, is that right, or speed, or why would they make a shortcut like
that, Abrahm?
LUSTGARTEN: That's what we are hearing—that's what we are
hearing now, as of—as of last night. And I—and I talked to some
experts very close to BP today who were saying that those kind of—
that that kind of shortcutting, the replacing the drilling mud with
water, could lead to somewhere between $5 and $10 million in savings
right there.
MATTHEWS: Well, is that a criminal act, do you think?
LUSTGARTEN: It's hard to say. I think it's something the
Department of Justice will be looking at, and if you look at some of
BP's other disasters as an example, and that they have gotten felony
convictions—felony convictions in several of their past incidents.
MATTHEWS: Yes. In China, it's a more brutal society—a more
brutal society, Kate, but they execute people for this, major industrial
leaders that commit crimes like this, failure like this.
SHEPPARD: Well...
MATTHEWS: This is a serious, serious problem.
SHEPPARD: Look...
MATTHEWS: It is not over. It continues to destroy a part of our
planet, basically, part of our habitat, our American habitat. And
everybody just sits and watches television every night, and say, oh,
well, that's interesting.
And these guys are still drawing their paychecks, still making
their profits. The oil industry has been ballooning in profits this
year, and nobody is doing anything about it, except—what are we, the
Vatican observers now? We just watch?
SHEPPARD: Well...
MATTHEWS: It is maddening that our government is—everybody
says, capitalism is great. Unbridled free enterprise is great. Look at
SHEPPARD: You're absolutely right.
MATTHEWS: This is great, isn't it?
SHEPPARD: We have let BP get away with self-regulation. At the
same time, we have MMS officials who said, you know, you're right; we
weren't testing the blowout preventers. We're weren't going through and
doing these environmental analysis that you're supposed to do in case
something like this happens. So there's a failure of the government.
MATTHEWS: Let's draw on the government. You start, Kate. Back in
1973, investigated the oil pipeline industry on land, 220,000 miles of
pipeline. One inspector for the federal government, because the federal
government believed in self-regulation, industry self-regulation. It
looks to me the way we are looking at this, you guys, is that we still
count on the industry to prevent the problem and to fix it. Is that the
way we look at it as a country?
SHEPPARD: That's absolutely clear. Not only to prevent it, to
self-regulate on that end, but now we are leaving it up to them to fix
this. And we're basically still letting BP run the show down there.
MATTHEWS: When is it going to stop? When is the president going
to blow the whistle? When they fill up the Gulf of Mexico with oil?
When is the president going say we no longer are watching and waiting
and seeing how BP is doing? They put straw down there the other day.
SHEPPARD: I think BP is trying everything. It's not like the
government has people out there who know how to fix this problem either.
Basically, this is a problem we have never confronted before, a spill
this size at this far down in the ocean. No one really knows how to
address it. That's the biggest problem.
MATTHEWS: I guess I'm confused. Let me ask you, Abrahm, we go
down, we dig a hole, we put a pipeline in, but we can't stop up the
pipe. Is it as simple as that?
LUSTGARTEN: It's as simple as that except that it's a mile under
water, with immense pressures, in a very remote location. There's
problems with these kinds of wells on land, in places where they are
practiced by the thousands every year. And so here, in this particular
location, it's just exceedingly difficult. And the problem is similar
to one you would see on land, but accessing the well and dealing with
it, and whether you use the jump shot method or any other technology has
proven impossible.
MATTHEWS: Maybe we should take the BP executives and the board
down there a mile and have them sit down there until they fix it. Maybe
they'd come up with something. The idleness of the mind here—they
have all of the money in the world, and all the brains in the world to
make the money on the oil, ballooning profits for quarter after quarter,
ballooning profits—we're just sitting and watching it—and now
we're watching them take their time solving this.
You're very compliant here for environmental watch dogs, Kate. I
don't understand you guys. You seem to understand their predicament.
It's a mile down. Well, they went down a mile to get the oil.
SHEPPARD: The problem was we shouldn't have allowed them to do
this in the first place. We should have said you can't drill safely a
mile down; you shouldn't be able to drill at all. That's where the
problem starts. At this point, no one really knows how to address it.
That's the problem.
MATTHEWS: Yes. It's that you're though?
LUSTGARTEN: More or less. I think accountability is a big factor.
I think if you force the companies, before they go and drill in deep
water, like in the Gulf, to have proven solutions for this kind of
situation before they go and drill, you would be in a lot better
situation now. I think if the fines when there were violations were
significant enough to actually serve as a deterrent, companies like BP
would be much more motivated to be confident in their solutions and be
confident in their technology before they go in.
They invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the technology to
make sure they get the oil out. They aren't going to make a whole lot
of mistakes around that. But they tend to cut short the solutions for
an emergency situation like this.
MATTHEWS: Millions of people in the American right who sit around
and say there's no such thing as mankind destroying his environment
through climate change or whatever, there's an example of what we're
doing right now. We can destroy our habitat on this planet, and it's
the only one we got.
Anyway, thank you, Kate Sheppard. Thank you, Abrahm Lustgarten.
Up next, it's the fifth anniversary of the website Youtube. And we
have the top five political game changing Youtube videos, a light
heartedness. I'm not in the mood for it, but it should be wild.
In one minute, by the way, a shake-up in the McCain campaign out in
Arizona. This is HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Senator John McCain is shaking up his campaign. Senator
McCain's campaign manager and deputy campaign manager are both out, as
he fights off a primary challenge from former U.S. Congressman J.D.
Hayworth. The Arizona primary will be held August 29th. Something is
going wrong out there for John McCain. HARDBALL will be back in a
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. Youtube celebrates its fifth
anniversary today. It might seem hard to believe that the video sharing
site has only been around for five years, especially considering the
impact it's had on politics. To mark this anniversary, we picked some
of favorite Youtube political clips.
Alex Burns is deputy political editor at "Politico." And Steve
Kornacki is at Salon.com.
Gentlemen, let's watch now one of the more interesting ones. This
Youtube clip, which we'll show a portion of, played into some
perceptions of candidate John Edwards. Let's watch.
MATTHEWS: Is that fair to have "the West Side Story" music playing
for this guy, Steve?
STEVE KORNACKI, SALON.COM: Everything's fair right now with John
Edwards, in hindsight. I remember when that video first came out. I
think it was probably about 2006, 2007, if I remember right, when he was
gearing up for his second presidential run. It was around the same time
he bought that gigantic house and all the gates, and the 37 rooms and
whatever it was.
I remember sort of defending the guy and saying, well, you know,
sure, this kind of makes him look like a narcissist, and kind of makes
him look like vanity and all that. I'll take it all back now.
MATTHEWS: Steve, you use that word narcissist. Alex, hold on your
guns. Look take a look at this one that captured another candidate for
president, Barack Obama. This clip was recorded by a blogger at what
the presidential candidate at that time, Barack Obama, thought was a
private fund-raiser. Well, it went viral on Youtube. Let's watch.
OBAMA: You have small towns in Pennsylvania, like a lot of small
towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years, and
nothing's replaced them. They've gone through the Clinton
administration and the Bush administration and each successive
administration has said that somehow these communities are going to
regenerate, and they have not. So it's not surprising, then, that they
get bitter and they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people
who aren't like them.
MATTHEWS: There you have it, Alex. There was the president—he
wasn't president then. He almost wasn't president because of that
comment—seeming rather snooty towards regular people, saying they
cling to their guns and their religion because they don't get what they
want from D.C.
ALEX BURNS, "POLITICO": Chris, you heard candidate Obama in that
clip sort of playing the role of sociologist in chief, talking about
voters in a very important primary state in a way that you can imagine
plenty of folks saying behind closed doors, as the president did at that
time, not expecting it to get out. You can draw a straight line between
that clip and the reason why Barack Obama is not campaigning in western
Pennsylvania in the special election for John Murtha's seat. He is just
not welcomed by many, many voters as a result of sentiments like that
MATTHEWS: Yes, a lot of people remember that they got their
religion long before Barack Obama came along. And they loved the Second
Amendment well back then, too. Let's take a look at one we had a role
in. Here's Texas State Senator Kirk Watson. He was mayor of Austin.
He was a big surrogate for President Obama in his campaign. We went
after him a bit. I asked him if he could name what Barack Obama had
accomplished as a senator. Here's his answer as it was.
Let's listen.
MATTHEWS: You're a big Barack supporter, right, senator?
KIRK WATSON, TEXAS STATE SENATOR: I am. Yes, I am.
MATTHEWS: Name some of his legislative accomplishments. No,
senator, I want you to name some of Barack Obama's legislative
accomplishments tonight, if you can.
WATSON: Well, you know, what I will talk about is more about what
he's offering the American—
MATTHEWS: No, no, what has he accomplished, sir? You say you
support him. Sir, you have to give me his accomplishments. You have
supported him for president. You're on national television. Name his
legislative accomplishments, Barack Obama's, sir.
WATSON: I'm not going to be able to name you specific—
MATTHEWS: Can you name any? Can you name anything he's
accomplished as a congressman.
WATSON: I'm not going to be able to do that tonight.
MATTHEWS: What did you make of that, Steve? He's the surrogate
they put on for us that night. They recommended we put him on our
program that night to speak for the presidential candidate. I said,
what's he done? It was a show stopper.
KORNACKI: I'm guessing that's the last time they offered him up as
a surrogate anywhere. That was—I don't know if the failure was on
the campaign's end, not equipping him with talking points, because it
had only been basically the entire message of the Clinton campaign that
Barack Obama didn't have any experience, didn't have any
accomplishments, or if it was a failure on his part—this is what I'm
guessing—to read the talking points that he was given, and to
anticipate that that question might be asked. I can't have sympathy for
MATTHEWS: Well, here's another one where a guy was tongue-tied on
our program, before we get to the biggest one of the year, the last five
years. We want to hold that one. Here's one where a talk show host, a
good guy, I think, Kevin James—I asked him—he had been using the
word appeasement, saying that President Obama was going to be an
appeaser, blah, blah, blah. I asked him to just name what was
appeasement historically? What's he talking about? Here he is. Let's
MATTHEWS: Tell me what Chamberlain did wrong. What did he do?
KEVIN JAMES, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Neville Chamberlain was an
appeaser, Chris.
MATTHEWS: What did he do?
JAMES: Neville Chamberlain was an appeaser, all right?
MATTHEWS: What did he do?
JAMES: His policies—the things that Neville Chamberlain
supported energized, legitimized—energized, legitimized and made it
easier for Hitler to advance in he ways he advanced.
MATTHEWS: I've been sitting here for five minutes asking you to
say what the president was referring to in 1938 in Munich—
JAMES: I can't know.
MATTHEWS: You don't know, thank you.
MATTHEWS: He just didn't know. Anyway, here's the biggest Youtube
in five years. Here it is, George Allen. Let's listen.
GEORGE ALLEN, FMR. SENATOR FROM VIRGINIA: This fellow over here
with the yellow shirt, macaca, or whatever his name is. Welcome. Let's
give a welcome to macaca here. Welcome to America and the real world of
MATTHEWS: Alex and Steve, your five second comments on that each?
Alex first.
BURNS: That election just completely turned on a dime after that
clip. Senator Allen, after that hit the Internet, resonated around the
blogs on shows like this one as well, he just could not shake questions
about his relationship to the black community, to I think minorities in
general. It defined the race.
MATTHEWS: Steve, if it hadn't been for viral, if it hadn't been
for Youtube, would he be a senator now?
KORNACKI: Senator. Remember, he was the early front-runner for
the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. He lost his career because
of that.
MATTHEWS: Technology brought him down, besides the comment. If he
just said to a friend reporter, I'm sorry, it would have been a bad
week. Thank you, Alex Burns. Thank you, Steve Kornacki.
When we return, I'm going to have some thoughts about tomorrow
night's big primaries across the country. You're watching HARDBALL,
only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with a tat on tomorrow's election.
We've got three big ones, all of which will gauge the level of anger out
there, the amount of tough, edgy abuse people are ready to lay on the
political establishment. Ground zero is Pennsylvania, where Joe Sestak
is commanding a PT vote against Senator Arlen Specter's fleet of
destroyers. Those destroyers are manned by all who have an interest in
Specter's six three election, his pal, the governor, the vice president,
the president, the mayor, the unions he's been backing for decades, the
center city lawyers, the judges, the people who want to judges, and,
most importantly, the Democratic city committee that Specter used to
work around and now is working with.
Down in Arkansas, we've got a hot race between an incumbent
centrist Democrat, Blanche Lincoln, and a very ambitious lieutenant
governor, Bill Halter. Lincoln was already dicey this year, which is a
tough year for most Democrats, but especially southern Democrats. This
Lincoln/Halter tussle is a contest that only makes sense if you know how
angry the grassroots are. They're angry because they're not getting
what they want on health care and labor issues from Democrats like
Lincoln. What they want is obedience to the progressive labor agenda.
In Kentucky, you've got to love it, Rand Paul, son of the
libertarian Ron Paul, is dominating in a race against the state's
Republican establishment of Mitch McConnell. If Paul wins, it is going
to really stick it to McConnell and the regular Republicans. It will be
a big win for Jim Bunning, who had to skip a reelection effort because
McConnell put the screws to him.
So there you have it, a real trifecta for those wanting to kick
but. If Sestak wins in Pennsylvania, it means Democrats are as angry at
the establishment as Republicans are. If Paul in Kentucky and Sestak
win, it means both sides are going for change. If Halter in Arkansas
and Paul and Sestak win, bet on an outright revolution.
That's HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us. Right now,
it's time for "THE ED SHOW" with Ed Schultz.
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In the wake of Friday's shooting, Reuters posted this instructional video on how to survive workplace violence from the Department of Homeland Security.
The video offers practical tips, instructing workers to lock doors behind them, silence their cellphones, and as a last resort, do everything they possibly can to take the shooter down.
"Your survival may depend on whether or not you have a plan," the narrator says. "The plan doesn't have to be complicated. There are three things you could do that make a difference: run, hide, fight."
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Broncos head coach John Fox talked about how eager he was to see a healthier Peyton Manning next season, but keeping his quarterback that way might be more difficult given the current state of his offensive line.
Four of the five projected starters on the Broncos line will spend the offseason rehabbing: Pending unrestricted free agent and possible franchise tag recipient left tackle Ryan Clady's coming off shoulder surgery, joining center J.D. Walton (ankle), right guard Chris Kuper (ankle) and right tackle Orlando Franklin (toe). Of the starters, only left guard Zane Beadles emerged from 2012 unscathed.
It's not that the Broncos don't have time, but it will be harder for Manning to build continuity without those guys around through the preseason work.
Of course, the financial decision with Clady will be trickier, but Fox seemed confident his contract status wasn't a problem.
"There are two parts of the NFL: there's business and there's football," Fox said. "That's the business side; I don't really get too much involved with that. I know we want Ryan, and that Ryan wants to be a Denver Bronco. The business part will work itself out one way or another, and we'll see where that goes moving forward."
Fox said he was encouraged by Manning's progress, and thinks his quarterback will be stronger this year, after spending so much time rehabbing after neck surgery.
"Even as far back as almost this time a year ago, his type of injury—a lot was made of the neck and the surgeries and all those things," Fox said of Manning. "The reality is that it is kind of a nerve situation and it takes a while for nerves to grow. He's getting better every day. I think he'll be health-wise, even better this year."
How long he can stay that way remains to be seen.


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Pay cash for your next home or get a mortgage? Some wealthy home buyers are choosing both.
It's called delayed financing, in which buyers pay cash for a home and then take out a mortgage soon after closing. Rarely used even two years ago, experts say it has picked up over the past 12 months.
"It was an extremely unusual phenomenon, but it's going on quite a bit now," says Jack McCabe, an independent housing analyst in Deerfield Beach, Fla.
The practice is growing mostly in affluent coastal housing markets, including New York and San Francisco. And it all boils down to competition. Sales of million-dollar-plus homes are on the rise nationwide, while inventory remains limited. All-cash buyers have a better chance of standing out from competing bids and getting the home at a lower price since their offer isn't contingent on financing.
After the deal is done, these buyers also want to regain some liquidity. So they get a mortgage and, in some cases, stash this money in investments that might have higher returns than what they pay in mortgage interest. Other options: They might use it to purchase another property or to simply bolster their cash cushion.
In July, William Martin and his wife closed on a 6,500-square-foot home in Diablo, Calif. Sensing that there was a lot of buyer demand for it, the couple gave a competitive offer: all cash, at slightly above the $1.785 million asking price. Those funds came from a mix of savings and money from his father-in-law and a friend, who were paid back a few months later when the Martins got a delayed-financing mortgage from Fremont Bank, a community bank in San Francisco. "That's what helped me make the decision to go forward with the purchase from the beginning," Mr. Martin says.
Delayed financing is similar to a cash-out refinance -- in which a borrower with a mortgage also takes equity out of the home. But cash-out refis may require waiting a few months or longer to execute, says Keith Gumbinger, a vice president at mortgage-info website HSH.com. Rates and fees can also be higher, partly because of the extra legwork involved transitioning from an existing loan to a new one. Conversely, buyers who apply for delayed financing can be considered as early as the day after they become the new homeowner, since they own the property free and clear.
Still, not all delayed-finance options are alike. Some lenders, including Wells Fargo and Fremont Bank, say they charge the same interest rate and fees on this mortgage as they would if the borrower applied while buying the home.
Other lenders charge a rate somewhere between a regular mortgage and a cash-out refi rate, which can be higher. National lender EverBank says its delayed-financing rates are often about one-eighth of a percentage point higher than regular mortgages. Community bank Grand Rapids State Bank, based in Grand Rapids, Minn., says rates can be 10 to 30 basis points -- or 0.10 to 0.30 percentage point -- higher than on a regular mortgage. Noah Wilcox, the bank's president and CEO, says the higher rate often influences buyers to sign up for the more affordable purchase mortgage upfront. "When you talk about $1.5 million, that can add up quickly," he says.
Here's what to consider regarding delayed financing:
- Loans types vary. For delayed-financing applicants, many lenders provide a regular mortgage, but some offer pricier alternatives, like a home-equity loan or a home-equity line of credit. Their rates average 6.44% and 5.06%, respectively, according to HSH.com. In contrast, rates on 30-year private market jumbo mortgages average 4.03%.
- Limits on equity withdrawal. In many cases, homeowners will need to keep at least 20% to 25% equity in their home after withdrawing funds. Separately, the lenders mentioned here offer loans that run into the millions via delayed financing. But some lenders don't, instead capping out at lower limits set by the government. That's $417,000 in most parts of the country but can run up to $625,500 in some pricier metro areas. By keeping to those limits, lenders can try to sell these loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
- Thorough underwriting. In most cases, lenders check applicants' credit scores and tax returns -- and they also ask for copies of statements that show where the funds to buy the home came from, a copy of the wire transfer, and the receipt for the home purchase. Lenders say they do this partly to screen out buyers who might try to hide money or who are involved in transactions that help sellers evade taxes on the sale.


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In the ongoing effort to save money amidst the oil price slump, rig owners have taken to "cannibalizing" parts like motors and drill pipe from stacked rigs, according to Reuters.
To make repairs on the 800 some drilling rigs active in the U.S., equipment is being scavenged from the 1,100 rigs which were idled due to the price crash. The practice has become so widespread during this downturn that services companies and others are saying that even if prices were to make a significant rebound, it would be over six months before drilling and production would increase, an idea which has quelled concerns about another surge of activity driving prices down again.
As reported by Reuters, in a stable and high oil price environment, spare and replacement parts are typically purchased new from companies such as National Oilwell Varco (NOV) and Premium Oilfield Technologies, a small operation which makes equipment and spare parts for drilling rigs active in North Dakota to Texas.
NOV said there are currently enough rigs stacked that drill pipe could be cannibalized for up to a year before needing to place new orders. An oilfield services analyst told Reuters, "[Cannibalization] will slow the industry's ability to ramp the rig count back up so it will delay the production response from oil prices."
Although there is no hard data for the extent of cannibalization, the practice has become so commonplace that experts say there is a high possibility that the majority of the 1,100 inactive rigs have already been harvested for parts. Spare parts from idled drilling rigs have become so readily available due to an almost 15-year record high before oil prices began to plummet.
NOV Senior Vice President of Technology and Product Development Grant Almond told Reuters, "Cannibalizing is not an uncommon practice in the industry, and more so on land than offshore, but it has gone up in the downturn because more rigs are being retired or idled now." Most parts are indeed coming from onshore rigs, however, offshore driller Noble Corp, for example, recently used a helipad and the floor from a worker's cabin from a rig scheduled to be decommissioned and repurposed the parts to improve a rig being used by Hess Corp.
Meanwhile, investors have been urging companies to harvest more parts from more rigs to slow the decline of drilling rig daily rental rates. A portfolio manager from Tortoise Capital Advisors told Reuters, "Companies have to continue to scrap idle rigs and do all that they can to balance supply with demand." Although a rebound in orders for new replacement parts is anticipated to follow an uptick in drilling activity, some services providers have taken their business overseas to escape the currently tumultuous U.S. shale markets. To read the full article, click here.


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Van swept away while carrying 6 family members found in flooded bayou
Six members of a Houston family -- including four children -- have apparently been found, still trapped in their van in a bayou, authorities said.
"Unfortunately, it seems that our worst thoughts have been realized," Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said Wednesday.
Andrew Saldivar, a family member, said he found the van late Tuesday after waters began receding in the bayou.
Since then, reality has set in.
"I just seen my grandma and grandpa dead," he said Wednesday morning. "They found them this morning."
Sheriff's divers began recovering the bodies Wednesday morning. Two adults were in the front seat and Gonzalez said he expected the children would be found inside.
The family disappeared Sunday afternoon while trying to drive through a deep pool of water on Green River Drive at Greens Bayou, on the edge of Houston's city limits.
Sammy Saldivar, who was driving, was able to escape the van, but could not rescue any one else, family members said. He was able to slide out through the open driver's side window but could not open the rear hatch to reach the children or his parents.
Ric Saldivar, Sammy's brother, identified the the two adults found in the van as his elderly parents, Bedia and Manuel Saldivar. Both of them suffered from dementia, he said.
Andrew Saldivar said he and his wife had been looking for the van as flood waters went down. He said late Tuesday, he finally saw the top of the cargo van about 800 feet downstream from where the car entered.
He and his extended family--28 people in all--were holed up at the George R. Brown Convention Center after being rescued by helicopter from their Lakewood neighborhood, near Mesa and Tidwell, a quarter mile from where his six family members perished.
Saldivar had been making expeditions out of the convention center to see if the waters had receded. He went with his wife Tuesday night and saw the water level had dropped down about 12 feet.
"I went in the river. I've been trying to get there since Saturday," he said. "We found the waters down. We found them finally when the water went down about 7 o'clock, right around sundown."


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Rose Lee Poulain, age 75, passed away September 22 at her home in Amarillo.
Memorial Services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, September 26, at First Baptist Church Chapel Amarillo with Dr. Howard Batson officiating. There will be a private graveside service for the family at Memory Gardens Cemetery in Pampa, Texas. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S.
Rose was born March 4, 1938 to Christopher Lorenzo Sr. and Rose Lee Walker in Borger, Texas. In 1958, Rose married the love of her life, Raymond Jean Poulain, where they raised their family in Phillips for over 30 years before moving to Amarillo. Rose was a teacher at Phillips ISD for 17 years and retired as consultant for Region XVI Service Center. She was a devout Christian, loving wife and mother and was a member of First
Baptist Church, Amarillo.
Rose is survived by her three children; Jana Chapman and husband Bobby, Lori Potts and husband Jeffery, and Marc Poulain and wife Toni; ten grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; and a brother C.L. Walker of Corpus Christi.
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Ivy Colleges Shunning Bottled Water Jab at $22 Billion Industry
Written by Andrew Theen, Bloomberg Media
Bottled water is coming under attack on college campuses.
More than 90 schools, among them Brown University and Harvard University are banning the sale or restricting the use of plastic water bottles, unnerving the $22 billion retail packaged-water industry in the U.S. The University of Vermont is the latest to join the movement, announcing in January it would stop sales early next year.
Freshmen at colleges across the country are being greeted with stainless-steel bottles in their welcome packs and encouraged to use hydration stations where free, filtered water is available. Brown, which used to sell about 320,000 bottles of water a year in vending machines and campus stores, ended sales in dining halls in 2010. Harvard and Dartmouth College are installing hydration stations in new buildings to reduce trash.
"The product just doesn't make common sense," Sarah Alexander, 20, an environmental-studies major at Hanover, New Hampshire-based Dartmouth, said by e-mail. "Companies are taking something that is freely accessible to everyone on the Dartmouth campus, packaging it in a non-reusable container and then selling it under the pretense that it is somehow better than tap water."
In response to the growing movement, the water industry released a video on YouTube last month poking fun at "Ban the Bottle," an organization that advocates banning one-time-use plastic water bottles. The spot, which features "Star Wars"- like music and flashbacks of antiwar demonstrations, says bottled water is a safe, convenient product that is "one of the healthiest drinks on the shelf" and that its packaging is recyclable.
'Serious Issues'
There "are really serious issues over here, and now you're dealing with bottled water?" Joe Doss, president of the International Bottled Water Association, based in Alexandria, Virginia, said in a phone interview. While "there are anti- bottled-water groups going from campus to campus," Doss said he doesn't consider it "a big threat" at this point.
More than 9 billion gallons of bottled water were sold in the U.S. last year, and the industry is growing 5.4 percent a year, according to Gary Hemphill, senior vice president of the Beverage Marketing Corp., a New York consulting firm. Sales to colleges and universities aren't tracked separately.
The bottling industry may be worried about losing brand loyalty from college kids, said Eric Meliton, an industry analyst with Frost & Sullivan.
"If they lose that access, yeah, you would see a big dropoff on that demographic," Meliton said in a phone interview. College students are "on the go, they've got backpacks and they may not choose to use bottled water."
Saving Money
Reducing or eliminating plastic bottled water saves students money and has the environmental benefit of reducing the need to truck bottles across the country, Niles Barnes, project coordinator with the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, said in a phone interview.
"It's a really tangible, sustainable activity that students can get behind," Barnes said.
Students at Brown, in Providence, Rhode Island, started a campaign in 2010 to reduce bottled water consumption and the school stopped selling it in dining halls that September. Brown holds about 50,000 bottles in reserve in case of a natural disaster or to distribute at graduation or other events, Chris Powell, director of sustainable energy and environmental initiatives, said in an interview.
"There's an environmental impact to the waste" of disposable water bottles, Powell said. "We realized there were alternatives that we could put in place that everybody was agreeable to."
Culture Shift
Dartmouth is trying to "shift the student culture" about purchasing bottled water, said Rosi Kerr, the school's director of sustainability. Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey, promotes a "Drink Local" initiative to reduce plastic- bottle waste.
Some departments at Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Harvard have banned the purchase of bottled water for meetings. Cornell University has a reduction campaign, as does Yale University. The University of Pennsylvania encourages administrative offices to use hydration stations rather than bottled water.
Sitting back and "doing nothing" as environmental groups campaigned to ban bottled water wasn't an option for the water industry, the water association's Doss said. His niece, a student at The College of Charleston, alerted him to an effort on her campus, and he said there is an "active movement" across the nation.
More than a dozen U.S. schools have campuswide bans on the sale of plastic water bottles, according to Barnes.
Sweetened Beverages
Some colleges with a history of activism have rejected bans on packaged water. The University of California, Berkeley opted against the idea on concern it would drive students toward sweetened beverages, said Trish Ratto, a university health services official. So did Columbia University, after students said they'd buy it elsewhere, according to Nilda Mesa, assistant vice president of environmental stewardship at the New York- based college.
Brown philosophy major Terrence George, 21, calls the university's policy an "unwarranted assault" on bottled water.
"The bottled water ban is downright absurd," he said. "I'm buying apple juice and tea every night instead of water. Last time I went to the dentist, I have a few more cavities than usual."
[Original source by Andrew Theen via Bloomberg]