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The Joker is The Product of Clown World…
Joker is Controversial
Only because the events are REAL that nerve is struck
The Ultimate Origin Story
Of two halves of the Product of a city gone mad… Scratch that a world gone mad…
The Joker is the real victim: He is a product of a world gone mad.. A clown world.
He is a product of a system that beats you up and spits you out an example of what happens when you mess with crazy and it messes back.
He is no different than all of us.. Just a few steps close to going right over the edge… Joker is just a man that doesn't know how to handle life.. Serious vs Hilarious As they say
there is a thin line between sane and insane.
When the world expects you to believe its a circus what do you expect… Clowns are made the heroes… And sanity suddenly is the villain.
His followers are basically Antifa though. Violent mask wearers who hold signs that say resist. Yet he didn't do it as a movement they used it as an excuse.
JOKER deserves the Best picture. It may just well get it… You see i feel the joker is in all of us… He just acted on what deep down a lot of us would really want to do in reaction to a world that beats us down and breaks us at times.
This is why this movie is so controversial because it is REAL… It really strikes a nerve.. Just like the 3 guys killed in the movie does. It started a movement..
This movie has that potential… But honestly, it should be taken as a wake-up call to serve good and not give in to an evil nature instead… I believe Thomas Wayne wanted to do good by the city… Notice how the clowns were like the leftists… Thomas was like Trump… The joker wasn't political but a pawn of the situation. If a few decisions or events had changed it could have been Bruce in the joker's shoes and Authur in Bruces…
This was the making of a joker… Like the punchline what do you get when you take a mentally deranged person with no help and nothing else to lose and mix it with a society and environment like Gotham which doesn't care and then you decide to screw with this man?
The answer you get is you GET What You Deserve… Hahahahahahaha All jokes aside…
What did you think of the movie? If you are one of the ones that are complaining and trying to ban it… my Question…
Gotham is Burning… That's Life… Send in the Clowns for The Joker is the real victim
What do you think?
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New Border wall in 'smuggler's gulch' is working according to CBP agents
Justin De La Torre stated a steep, open canyon between San Diego and Tijuana has been used for decades by immigrants to smuggle drugs into the U.S. from Mexico.
"It has an anti-climb feature, it's made of steel, it also has a concrete base that prevents digging from underneath, and now we're able to control this area with the new infrastructure."
According to California Border Patrol agents, new infrastructure in an area known as "smuggler's gulch" is making a difference.
President Trump moved to replace the fencing along the San Diego border earlier this year as his administration sped up moves to build taller, stronger border reinforcement.
"This is a smart, strategic, see-through steel barrier — not just a simple concrete wall,"
said the president.
"It will be deployed in the areas identified by border agents as having the greatest need, and as these agents will tell you, where walls go up, illegal crossings go way down."
Numerous wall construction projects are underway across the Southwest border, including projects in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. — CBP (@CBP) August 25, 2019
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MSNBC's O'Donnell retracts unverified Trump-Russia story, makes on-air apology
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell on Wednesday night retracted a story that directly tied President Trump's finances to Russia and made an on-air apology for running the unverified report. "Last night on this show, I discussed information that wasn't ready for reporting," O'Donnell said. "I repeated statements a single … See More source told me about the president's finances and loan documents with Deutsche Bank. Saying 'if true' — as I discussed the information — was simply not good enough. I did not go through the rigorous verification and standards process here at MSNBC before repeating what I heard from my source. Had it gone through that process, I would not have been permitted to report it. I should not have said it on-air or posted it on Twitter. I was wrong to do so."
High-profile Democrats fail to qualify for primary debates in September
Several struggling Democratic presidential candidates have failed to qualify for the next round of primary debates scheduled in September. Those missing the cut include U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, billionaire climate-change activist Tom Steyer, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock and self-help guru Marianne Williamson. To appear on stage in Houston next month, they had to hit 2 percent in at least four approved public opinion polls while securing 130,000 unique donors.
Hours ahead of a midnight Wednesday deadline to qualify, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York announced she was dropping out of the race. In an interview on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Gabbard complained that the Democratic National Committee lacks "transparency" in the debate qualification process.
Omar hit with FEC complaint, accused of paying alleged lover's travel expenses with campaign funds
The conservative, Virginia-based National Legal and Policy Center filed a complaint against Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Wednesday, alleging that the lawmaker used campaign funds to illegally reimburse her purported paramour for personal travel expenses. The complaint also charges that Omar failed to itemize travel reimbursements as required by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 — and that the travel expenses increased during the same month that Omar's alleged affair with married Washington, D.C., political consultant Tim Mynett, 38, heated up. Omar has denied that she had an affair with Mynett, and her attorneys have dismissed the FEC complaint as a baseless "political ploy."
Dorian takes aim at Florida
Hurricane Dorian moved out over open waters early Thursday after doing limited damage in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and forecasters warn it could hit Florida over the weekend. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Dorian was expected to strengthen into a dangerous Category 3 hurricane as it stayed well to the east of the southeastern and central Bahamas over the next two days. The forecast called for the storm to pass near or over the northern Bahamas on Saturday and close in on Florida by Sunday afternoon.
DHS bars Dem staffers from visiting border facilities after 'rude' and 'disruptive' behavior
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has barred Democratic staffers from the House Oversight Committee from visiting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a planned trip this week after committee staff allegedly were "disruptive" and refused to follow instructions during their last trip. Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., had sent his staff to visit border facilities for "oversight inspections" last week and planned to send staff again to view Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and CBP centers.
DHS has revoked access to CBP facilities for the upcoming visit, citing staff behavior that "interfered" with law enforcement operations — including refusing to leave one site after their scheduled window, skipping some tours and being "rude" to officers. A DHS official said that ICE visits will still be allowed the rest of this week, but with a two-hour time limit.
Uber driver bitten in Georgia attack that left car damaged, woman arrested
A Georgia woman was arrested after police say she was caught on camera attacking an Uber driver — by biting him and trying to damage his car.
Tasheena Campbell, 26, was taken into custody Aug. 20 — days after the incident in which she allegedly attacked driver Yasser Hadi in midtown Atlanta on Aug. 18.
A video uploaded to Twitter of the attacks begins with a woman — identified by WAGA as Campbell — sitting on the hood of a car, breaking off a windshield wiper. Bystanders and Hadi encourage her to stop, before the woman throws a punch at Hadi.
The woman hops off the car and enters the vehicle through the driver-side door while Hadi tries to stop her. "Get out my car!" he shouts, as he pulls the woman out to the ground. The woman tries punching the Uber driver — before biting him, prompting him to scream.
Tasheena Campbell, 26, was charged with battery and criminal trespass following the incident. It's unclear what sparked the altercation. Hadi said Campbell appeared out of nowhere and randomly attacked him.
"She's acting weird, she's acting wild, and she's on the car hitting it, telling me I need to die, to kill me," Hadi told WAGA of the encounter. "The pain, I said, "God, just let her take my flesh, I don't care. I want her to go away from me."
The Uber driver said the situation is "horrible."
"She's hit me in my job, my health and my financial pocket money, it's hard," said Hadi, noting he doesn't have insurance. "I'm in a bad situation. I wish people see this and help." Campbell was arrested and charged with battery and criminal trespass, according to online records from the Fulton County Jail. She was still in custody as of Thursday.
Kentucky mother Andrea Knabel, a volunteer who searches for missing people, reported missing
A Kentucky mother of two who searches for missing people has now seemingly disappeared herself.
Andrea Knabel, 37, was last seen leaving a relative's home in the Audubon Park neighborhood of Louisville around 1 a.m. on Aug. 13, according to Missing in America, the organization for which she volunteers.
Around 1:30 a.m., she used her cellphone to call her friend and ask for a ride, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. Several security cameras are located in the neighborhood, but many weren't active when she was in the area.
A friend of Knabel's told WAVE the single mother "was upset and she needed a ride" — and was too trusting of other people.
"Obviously she was trying to get ahold of people, maybe she got in the car with the wrong person," said Maricia Kidd, who has known Knabel for 30 years. She noted Knabel's car was recently totaled in a hit-and-run accident and said she'd been laid off at work.
"Here she is helping to locate people and she comes up missing herself," said Tracy Leonard, a private investigator and friend of Knabel. "She's just a super great girl. She helped me locate a missing teen about a year and a half ago."
The group's founder, Nancy Schaefer Smith, said that Knabel, a "dedicated member" of Missing in America, is the first volunteer ever to disappear like this.
"She is loved by so many people," Smith told the Courier-Journal. "It's all hands on deck. She's my girl…We're going to find her."
Knabel is described as a white female with light brown hair. She weighs between 190 to 200 pounds and is around 5 feet 7 inches tall. She was last seen wearing a "light color tank top and white shorts."
Anyone with information is urged to contact Leonard at 502-618-9337 or Smith at 502-500-3026, or the Louisville Metro Police at 502-574-5673.
Pennsylvania man's 'gunlike hand gesture' toward neighbor was a crime, court rules
A Pennsylvania court ruled Tuesday that making a "gunlike hand gesture" is a crime after a man-made the hand motion during an argument with his neighbor — an act which reportedly made several nearby residents nervous and prompted a call to police.
Stephen Kirchner, 64, made the gesture toward his neighbor in Manor Township in June 2018, according to surveillance video. Kirchner, walking alongside a female neighbor, "stopped, made eye contact with [the male neighbor] and then made a hand gesture at him imitating the firing and recoiling of a gun," according to court documents.
The action made one neighbor feel "extremely threatened" and he called 911. Another neighbor said she saw Kirchner "put his finger up like he was going to shoot [the neighbor]", "insecure," prompting her to call 911.
Kirchner and the female neighbor Kirchner had been walking with previously had issues and confrontations, sparking the neighbor to install six security cameras on his property. At the time of the incident in 2018, the female neighbor had a "no contact" order against the neighbor who felt threatened, court documents indicate.
Kirchner was issued a citation for disorderly conduct following the incident. He said in district court he made the "gunlike" gesture after his neighbor gave him "the finger with both hands."
The 64-year-old was found guilty, but appealed, arguing the hand gesture didn't "create a hazardous or physically offensive condition." Kirchner said he didn't mean to cause public alarm, and there wasn't really any harm done to the neighbor or others.
On Tuesday, however, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania found the gesture "served no legitimate purpose, and recklessly risked provoking a dangerous altercation."
Kirchner was ordered to pay a $100 fine and court costs.
New photos taken of a North Korean shipyard suggest the country could be building a submarine that could potentially be capable of launching a nuclear missile.
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#StraightPride in Boston in Danger of being Blocked by Mayor in Tricky way:
The Boston Police and their FBI liaison told them yesterday that if Antifa or any militant LGBT groups block out parade they will let them. Then they will let the clock run out on our permit so their speakers can't speak on the stage they paid thousands for. If anyone did this at the LGBT parade they would immediately be thrown in jail. It is outrageous. Everyone should call Boston City Hall today at 617-635-4500 to complain. Mayor Walsh is a Fascist.
Puerto Rico prepares for Dorian's wrath
Puerto Rico is bracing for a possible direct hit from Tropical Storm Dorian on Wednesday as forecasters say it has shifted in its path and could strengthen into a hurricane. The storm is expected to pass over or near western and central Puerto Rico, with landslides, widespread flooding and power outages possible. President Trump declared an emergency Tuesday night and ordered federal assistance for local authorities.
New photos taken of a North Korean shipyard suggest the country could be building a submarine that could potentially be capable of launching a nuclear missile, a report early Wednesday said. The photos show vessels and cranes that could be used to haul a missile out to sea for launch, according to experts at a Washington-based think tank, NBC News reported. The satellite photos seem to confirm North Korean state media reports from July about a newly built submarine. "There is no conclusive evidence at the moment that this is a near-term certainty," an expert said of a possible missile test. Once a submarine is built, it would take at least a year before it's ready, according to an expert.
DC consultant's alleged affair with 'Squad's' Omar detailed in divorce papers
The wife of a prominent Washington political consultant has filed for divorce, claiming her husband made a "devastating and shocking" revelation that he was having an affair with freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. Beth Mynett, 55, submitted divorce papers in Washington, D.C., Superior Court on Tuesday, saying her husband, Tim Mynett, 38, informed her earlier this year that he was having an affair with Omar.
The news of the divorce filing, first seen in the New York Post, comes just over a month after it was reported that Omar had separated from Ahmed Hirsi, her husband and father of her three children, and moved into a luxury penthouse in Minneapolis.
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is settlement talks over opioid cases
State attorneys general and lawyers representing local governments said Tuesday they are in active settlement talks with Purdue Pharma, the maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin that is facing billions of dollars in potential liability for its role in the nation's opioid crisis. Purdue has been cast by attorneys and addiction experts as a main villain in the crisis for producing a blockbuster drug while understating its addiction risk. Purdue Pharma and its owners are reportedly looking to settle more than 2,000 opioid cases in a deal between $10 billion and $12 billion.
NYPD arrests slump in wake of the firing of officer accused in Garner case, report says
The firing of NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who was involved in the fatal arrest of Eric Garner in 2014, appears to have already had an effect on the Big Apple, with the number of arrests dropping sharply compared to 2018 and cops warning of plummeting morale among New York City's finest. Just between Aug. 17, when Pantaleo was fired, and Aug. 25, arrests dropped by 27 percent compared to the same period in 2018, the New York Post reported. NYPD cops made 3,508 arrests compared to 4,827 a year earlier, according to the Post.
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New optimism in US-China trade war felt on Wall Street, Asian markets
Struggling 2020 Democrats fume at DNC over debate criteria crackdown
Epstein accusers expected to speak at hearing
Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $572M in opioid case, setting up more trials and possible legal settlements
Miley Cyrus stuns at MTV VMAs with emotional first performance since Hemsworth split
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New optimism in US-China trade war felt on Wall Street, Asian markets
Asian shares traded mostly higher on Tuesday, following a rally on Wall Street. Traders are cautiously optimistic again about the potential for progress in the costly trade war between the U.S. and China. Japan's benchmark Nikkei rose 1.2 percent, Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose at first but reversed course and was down nearly 0.2 percent and China's Shanghai Composite was up 1.1 percent. U.S. equity futures were searching for direction Tuesday morning.
Monday's rally on Wall Street got its start early after President Trump said his negotiators had received encouraging calls from China on Sunday, though China's foreign ministry denied knowledge of any such calls. At the end of the G-7 summit, the president stood firm and defended his handling of the trade war with China and said his approach was seeing results.
Struggling 2020 Democrats fume at DNC over debate criteria crackdown
With the deadline to qualify for next month's third round of Democratic presidential debates closing in, the Democratic National Committee is facing an angry chorus of criticism from the candidates not likely to make the cut. At issue is the DNC's criteria for the contenders to take part in the prime-time showdown, including contributions from 130,000 individual donors and reaching at least 2 percent in four qualifying polls. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado were among the candidates complaining about the DNC's process.
While the criticism is not new, this time around the national party committee is specifically being attacked over the dearth of qualifying polls. Critics say this is unfairly preventing candidates close to qualifying from actually making the stage. Bullock, who also needs a miracle to qualify by the end-of-Wednesday deadline, argued that "these DNC debate rules have turned this primary into the 'The Hunger Games' — each step of this seems to be all about getting donors."
Epstein accusers expected to speak at hearing
Up to 30 of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged victims could take a judge up on his invitation to speak at a hearing Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman, who presided over the sex trafficking case prosecutors brought against Epstein, scheduled the hearing after prosecutors asked that he toss charges against Epstein because of his death. Epstein, a previously convicted sex offender, died Aug. 10, his death ruled a suicide as he apparently killed himself rather than face sex trafficking charges. Berman said he would give prosecutors, Epstein's lawyers and any alleged victims a chance to speak.
Since the hearing was scheduled, it was revealed that Epstein signed a will just two days before his suicide putting over $577 million in assets into a trust fund. The will, filed in the Virgin Islands where Epstein maintained a residence, was expected to make it more difficult for dozens of accusers to collect damages. Tuesday's hearing comes amid a report that video footage from at least one camera in the hallway outside Epstein's jail cell is too flawed to be of any value for investigators.
Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $572M in opioid case, setting up more trials and possible legal settlements
An Oklahoma judge found Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies liable for stoking the opioid crisis in the state and said the company must pay $572 million, far less the $17 billion that the state was seeking. Judge Thad Balkman, of Cleveland County District Court in Norman, Oklahoma, is the first judge to rule in the opioid cases brought to trial by thousands of state and local governments against opioid manufacturers and distributors. His precedent-setting ruling was being closely watched as 2,000 other pending suits await to be heard before a federal judge in Ohio in October. J&J said it plans to appeal Balkman's ruling and that the decision was "flawed."
Miley Cyrus stuns at MTV VMAs with emotional first performance since Hemsworth split
Miley Cyrus made a huge statement during an emotional performance at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards. The pop star took the stage Monday evening at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. to perform her latest single "Slide Away," which many believe to be about her 10-year relationship with estranged husband, actor Liam Hemsworth.
Cyrus wasn't the only star making a statement at the VMAs. Taylor Swift called out the White House after she won the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards' top prize — video of the year — for her LGBTQ pride anthem, "You Need To Calm Down."
A complete list of winners from the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards.
Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award: Missy Elliott
Fashion Trailblazer Award: Marc Jacobs
Video of the Year: Taylor Swift, "You Need to Calm Down"
Artist of the Year: Ariana Grande
Song of the Year: Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus, "Old Town Road (Remix)"
Best New Artist, presented by Taco Bell: Billie Eilish
Best Collaboration: Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello, "Señorita"
Push Artist of the Year: Billie Eilish
Best Pop: Jonas Brothers, "Sucker"
Best Hip-Hop: Cardi B, "Money"
Best R&B: Normani ft. 6lack, "Waves"
Best K-Pop: BTS ft. Halsey, "Boy With Luv"
Best Latin: ROSALIA & J Balvin ft. El Guincho, "Con Altura"
Best Dance: The Chainsmokers ft. Bebe Rexha, "Call You Mine"
Best Rock: Panic! At The Disco, "High Hopes"
Video for Good: Taylor Swift, "You Need to Calm Down"
Best Editing: Billie Eilish, "Bad Guy"
Best Art Direction: Ariana Grande, "7 Rings"
Song of Summer, presented by Samsung: Ariana Grande & Social House, "boyfriend"
Best Power Anthem: Megan Thee Stallion ft. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign, "Hot Girl Summer"
Best Group: BTS
The impact of Harris' move was almost instant: Biden lost some of his lead in the polls while Harris' numbers climbed."In response to Senator Biden about the Affordable Care Act, it's important you understand our 'Medicare for all' plan has actually by the architect of the Obama Affordable Care Act been described as one of the most effective ways to bring health care to all," Harris said at one point during the debate."Go easy on me, kid," Biden said, in an apparent reference to the clash between the candidates in Miami last month.Kamala Harris seemed to prove in Miami in June that she was ready to take the offensive against 2020 Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden."Senator Biden, your plan will keep and allow insurance companies to remain in status quo, doing business as usual," Harris said later."Kid?" came the one-word response from Ian Sams, Harris' national press secretary."Fact check: @JoeBiden is not a 'Senator,'" Bates wrote on Twitter.KAMALA HARRIS 'GOT IT WRONG' IN 'SAD' ATTACK ON BIDEN, FORMER US SENATOR SAYSFox News' Joseph A. Wulfsohn and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this story.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPPrior to the debate, Biden had greeted Harris on the debate stage in Detroit.In June, Harris aggressively went after Biden on the debate stage in Miami, criticizing him for comments he had made about his ability to find common ground during the 1970s with segregationist senators with whom he disagreed, and over his opposition decades ago to federally mandated school busing.The references to Biden's days representing Delaware in the U.S. Senate appeared to irk Andrew Bates, the "rapid response" director for Biden's campaign.So after Biden referred to the 54-year-old U.S. senator as "kid" on Wednesday, it probably didn't seem like an accident to some when Harris referred to the 76-year-old former vice president as "Senator" at least twice during Wednesday's debate in Detroit.
Presidents aren't required by law to release their tax returns. Nevertheless, between 1974 and 2012, every president but Gerald Ford has made a voluntary release of the tax returns they filed while in office. Ford released no complete returns, but released 10 years of summary data including gross income, taxable income, major deductions, and taxes paid.
This tradition of voluntary tax return disclosure ended in 2017, when President Trump declined to release any personal tax information. Trump has offered various reasons for keeping his returns private, but he has frequently insisted that he won't make a release while his returns are being audited by the IRS.
2. Are all presidents' tax returns audited by the IRS?
Since 1977 the Internal Revenue Manual has required that every tax return filed by a sitting president or vice president be subject to an audit. According to IRS officials at the time, the new policy was established "in the interest of sound administration" and in light of "everything that has happened in the past."
While Trump may be unwilling to release presidential tax returns currently under audit, that's a prudential decision, not a legal one. There's no legal bar to releasing returns that are under examination. In fact, every president from Jimmy Carter through Barack Obama released tax returns that were "under audit," since those returns — generally released publicly within hours of being filed with the IRS — were slated for automatic audit under the IRM.
3. Do presidents release tax returns covering every year they are in office?
Not exactly. Typically, presidents have released tax returns that they filed while actually holding office. That means the first return filed and released by a new president has covered the year before his inauguration. Similarly, returns covering the last year of a president's final term haven't typically been released since they were filed after that president had left office.
Typically, presidents have released tax returns that they filed while actually holding office. President Bill Clinton is the exception to that rule, since his joint returns filed after his presidency were then released by Hillary Clinton when she made her 2008 bid for the Democratic nomination.
4. Why did presidents begin to make voluntary disclosures of tax returns in 1974?
The tradition of voluntary tax return disclosure began with a scandal. In 1973 journalists discovered information suggesting that President Richard Nixon had taken large, hard-to-defend deductions on his individual tax returns. After months of media speculation (based chiefly on documents that came to light in an unrelated court case), someone at the IRS leaked information from the president's returns confirming that he had paid just $792.81 in federal income taxes for 1970 and $878.03 for 1971 — despite having an income of more than $200,000 each year.
To help quell the ensuing uproar — which occasioned Nixon's oft-quoted insistence that "I am not a crook" — the president decided to make a public release of his tax returns for 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1972. That tax disclosure was the first made by a sitting U.S. president. (While running for president in 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower disclosed a few key elements of his tax history, but no complete returns.)
Ford, Nixon's vice president, didn't release complete tax returns after taking office in the wake of Nixon's resignation. Ford released a nine-year summary of his tax data when running for president in 1975 and 1976. But starting with Carter, every president through Obama has made an annual disclosure of the tax return he filed during each year in which he held office.
5. Which presidential returns are available in the presidential tax returns archive? Do you have them all?
The archive includes returns disclosed by every president from Nixon through Obama, with the exception of Ford. (Since Ford released only summary tax data, the archive includes a summary.)
The archive doesn't include any complete presidential tax returns filed by Trump, because he has opted not to release them. However, it includes Trump's Form 1040 for 2005, which was leaked to the DCReport.org website and later published widely. In a statement, the White House confirmed the accuracy of key figures from this 2005 partial return.
The archive includes returns filed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Those returns weren't released during either president's lifetime, but were later made available by their respective presidential libraries.
6. Which vice presidential and candidate tax returns are available in the archive
The archive includes returns filed by Vice Presidents Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, and Mike Pence. For Cheney, all but one of the returns (filed jointly with his wife) are incomplete, consisting of only a Form 1040. In 2001 the Cheneys released only a press statement summarizing their 2000 return. Returns filed by Pence were released while he was running in the 2016 election. Because Pence has released no returns since taking office, the last return available in the archive is for 2015. Like Trump, Cheney has cited ongoing audits as an explanation for his refusal to release later returns. Returns filed by Vice Presidents Walter Mondale, George H.W. Bush, and some by Al Gore aren't in the archive. The returns, however, were publicly released by those officials while they held office. They are unavailable now, and we hope to add them to the archive eventually.
For primary candidates and major party nominees, we have returns (or return portions) covering the 2012, 2016, and 2020 election cycles.
7. How many tax returns do candidates typically release?
The number of returns released by presidential candidates varies widely, from a low of zero (Donald Trump) to a high of 33 (Jeb Bush). There is no "typical" or "standard" number of released returns, since disclosures have varied dramatically even within an election cycle.
Even the number of returns released by major party nominees has differed widely.
Jimmy Carter
|0 (summary data)
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Walter Mondale
Ronald Reagan
Michael Dukakis
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Robert Dole
Al Gore
George W. Bush
John Kerry
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
John McCain
Barack Obama
Mitt Romney
Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump
|Sources: Contemporaneous media coverage; Julie Jennings, "Memorandum: Federal Tax Returns Disclosed by Selected Nominees for President and Vice President Since 1916," Congressional Research Service (Jan. 30, 2019); Ryan Kelly, "Chart: Presidential Candidates' Tax Returns," Roll Call (Oct. 21, 2016).
Disclosures have also varied considerably in their completeness. While all major party presidential nominees through the 2012 election released complete (or nearly complete) returns, several candidates in 2016 chose to release only their Form 1040, omitting other required elements of their tax returns, including various schedules and forms.
8. What happened to the tradition of voluntary disclosure?
The voluntary tradition of tax return disclosure — by candidates, nominees, vice presidents, and presidents — was strong until 2016. President Trump's decision to keep his tax returns private was the most serious challenge to this tradition, but it wasn't the only one. The decision in 2016 by several candidates in both parties to release incomplete returns was a break with the usual practice of full disclosure. Moreover, while numerous candidates opted for a partial release in 2016, Cheney had already set a precedent for limiting annual disclosures to just a Form 1040.
9. Can Congress compel disclosure?
Whether Congress can compel disclosure of presidential (and vice presidential) tax returns remains to be seen. A law enacted in 1924 empowers key leaders of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees to request tax return information from Treasury, including individual returns filed by just about anyone. Such a request doesn't necessarily involve public disclosure of the requested information, and indeed, the law requires lawmakers to treat that material confidentially. But the law also gives lawmakers a procedure for making that information public should either committee decide, after a formal vote, that disclosure is warranted.
The Ways and Means Committee is seeking tax returns filed by Trump, as well as returns from several of his businesses and related audit and administrative materials developed by the IRS. To date, Treasury has declined to provide that information, and the standoff seems likely to find its way to a courtroom sometime soon.
The law requires lawmakers to treat tax return information confidentially. But the law also gives lawmakers a procedure for making that information public should either committee decide, after a formal vote, that disclosure is warranted.
In a related development, the House passed legislation in March that would require presidents, vice presidents, and major party nominees for both offices to publicly disclose 10 years of tax returns. The legislation is awaiting action in the Senate.
10. Where else can people find presidential tax returns?
Tax Analysts maintains the largest database of publicly available tax returns released by American national politicians.
In theory, tax returns released by specific presidents and vice presidents should be available in the various presidential libraries scattered around the country. In practice, it can be difficult to retrieve those returns, because their sensitive nature often causes them to be flagged for special security screening. Getting that screening done can take considerable time, given staffing shortages at presidential libraries.
The story for candidate and nominee returns is even worse. Because those returns have typically been released by campaigns, not government agencies, official archiving practices don't apply. Some released returns can still be found online through various news organizations, which occasionally host returns on their own websites.
For the most part, however, candidate returns tend to disappear from public view once the voting is done; technically public, they become effectively private.
He also defended the private option in the Harris proposal, saying, "it puts in place strict requirements for any private insurance company who wants to offer a Medicare plan, including on cost, quality access and services."Biden deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield, noting that Harris was one of the first senators in 2017 to co-sponsor Sanders' "Medicare-for-all" bill, charged on Monday that the Harris plan would result in "a Bernie Sanders-lite Medicare for All and a refusal to be straight with the American middle class, who would have a large tax increase forced on them with this plan."And, former Vice President Joe Biden's team called the Harris plan a "have-it-every-which-way approach" that "both backtracks on her long-promised – but then-hedged – support of Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All legislation."The campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont slammed the Harris proposal, saying, "call it anything you want, but you can't call this plan Medicare for All."Biden's lead over his rivals deteriorated following what was seen as a less-than-stellar debate performance.DETROIT, MI – Hours after White House candidate Sen. Kamala Harris unveiled her plan to push the country towards a government-backed "Medicare-for-all" health care system over the next decade, the California Democrat faced incoming fire from two of her top rivals for their party's 2020 presidential nomination.Her campaign spotlighted that the Harris plan would allow private insurers to offer Medicare plans. The system – implemented over ten years – would build on the popular Medicare Advantage system while allowing Americans to choose between the government-run public plan and government-backed certified private Medicare plans to reach universal coverage.Sanders is slated to appear in Tuesday night's debate, standing center-stage with Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and eight other rivals.Late last week, Biden again singled out Sanders for being honest about the ramifications of implementing the single-payer health care plan, but he once again questioned Harris' truthfulness.HARRIS UNVEILS HER 'MEDICARE-FOR-ALL' PLAN ON EVE OF DEBATESA few hours later, Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir teed off on the Harris proposal, accusing the first-term senator and former California attorney general of "folding" to the health insurance industry.Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams returned fire, arguing the criticism from the Sanders campaign was "so factually inaccurate I don't even know where to begin."Harris and Biden are to be standing side-by-side center-stage on Wednesday night, during the second of the two debates.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPHarris – in announcing her plan Monday morning – emphasized that unlike Sanders' single-payer proposal, hers would not completely eliminate the private insurance currently used by hundreds of millions of Americans. However, two new national polls from Fox News and Quinnipiac University indicated the former vice president retained a large lead over his 2020 primary rivals."This plan is centered around privatizing Medicare, enriching insurance executives and introducing more corporate greed and profiteering into the Medicare system. Further, we can't wait 10 years to fix a dysfunctional health care system," Shakir charged."One idea put forward by Senator Sanders, for example, is increasing taxes for families making as little as ,000 a year," her campaign spotlighted as they released their candidate's plan. "She believes that hits the middle class too hard, so she would not raise taxes on families making under 0,000 to help pay for this plan," her campaign highlighted."I find that people will say they're for 'Medicare-for-all' but they're not going to tax the middle class because we don't need to do that. Come on. My point is, this is a fantasy world here," Biden emphasized.The former vice president, the front-runner among 2020 Democrats and the only top-tier contender who has not supported a single-payer "Medicare-for-all" system, repeatedly has taken jabs this month at Harris over a lack of straightforwardness on how she'd pay for her plan.Harris has seen her poll numbers rise since the first round of debates, when she went on the attack against Biden, as she criticized recent comments by the former vice president spotlighting his ability to find common ground during the 1970s with segregationist senators with whom he disagreed, and over his opposition decades ago to federally mandated school busing.The Harris rollout and the pushback from the Sanders and Biden campaigns came on the eve of the second round of primary debates featuring the Democrats.THE LATEST FOX NEWS 2020 DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY POLLThe Harris campaign also highlighted that unlike Sanders' plan, hers would not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for her "Medicare-for-all" system.The Harris plan appeared to stake a middle ground between Sanders' "Medicare-for-all" proposal and the public option to enhance ObamaCare that Biden has proposed.Health care has been a top issue with Democratic primary voters while "Medicare-for-all" has been very popular with the progressive base of the party. Public opinion polling has indicated that a majority of Americans would support such a plan if it allowed them to choose between a government-run public plan and certified private options.THE LATEST FROM FOX NEWS ON THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
Papadopoulos specifically requested the Department of Justice look at the dollar bills given to him due to the department's probe into the origins of the Russia probe, with Papadopoulos being used as a reason to start an investigation. The money is believed to be supplemental evidence as the Justice Department is getting closer to acquiring transcripts of recorded conversations between Papadopoulos and an alleged informant of the FBI — Stefan Halper.
"They were looking to make a conspiracy case, using me with this fake information to then hurt Trump…what they were trying to do is fabricate a conspiracy among the Trump campaign and President Trump using their own people,"
Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos is going to Greece to return ,000 given to him for reasons he believes constitute as entrapment. Papadopoulos claims the money is marked bills, and was given to him in a plot by the Obama-era FBI and CIA to charge him with a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The money aroused suspicion with Papadopoulos, prompting him to turn it into his lawyer where it has been stored in a safe.
"All my work was actually dedicated to undermining Russian influence and interests throughout the world
yet I find myself somehow as Patient Zero of a Russian conspiracy, and that was the moment when I realized how dominant and how manipulative PSYOPs (psychological operations) are,"
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George Papadopoulos, a former member of the foreign policy panel to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, poses for a photo before a TV interview in New York, New York, U.S., March 26, 2019. REUTERS/Carlo Allegr
Papadopoulos was approached by a man named Joseph Misfud in 2016, who told him about Russian knowledge of dirt on Clinton. Papadopoulos then urged a Department of Justice investigation into the Obama-era FBI's role in starting the Russia probe and fueling the "collusion hoax."
Nonetheless, the incident was used to highlight a lack of coordination between the White House and the intelligence community with Coats often being the bearer of bad news. President Trump was vocal about his disagreements with Coats, reportedly telling him behind the scenes to stay quiet about threats of Russian meddling and even calling him out publicly in certain settings.
"Can you give me an example, other than Donald Trump, where the Justice Department determined that an investigated person was not exonerated because their innocence was not conclusively determined? …You can't find it because, I'll tell you why, it doesn't exist."
On Sunday, President Trump announced Republican Representative John Ratcliffe will take over as Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Ratcliffe has long been considered to be a Trump ally, but apparently made an impression during his interrogation of Robert Mueller. He had this to say during the hearing:
The latest change at the DNI could be a sign that the president is looking to downsize the department altogether in order to concentrate on information sharing efforts. Coats is expected to leave the department on Thursday, August 15th with the president saying an active director will be named in the near future.
There's another shake-up in the Trump administration, with the latest move likely having a trickle-effect throughout the rest of the government.
The Texas congressman was already a rising star in the Republican Party after winning his election with more than 70-percent of the vote in the 2018 midterms. Ratcliffe was facing off against other high profile officials for the job, including chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford. He also challenged Fred Fleitz, the former Chief of Staff for National Security Adviser John Bolton.
Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas., asks questions to former special counsel Robert Mueller, as he testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Ratcliffe will now be elevated to a post where the current official, Dan Coats, has often been at odds with the president and his administration. Perhaps the most memorable event during his tenure was his response after learning President Trump invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House. When asked about the invitation he laughed and acted as if it were a joke. Coats later said he meant no disrespect to the White House and admitted the exchange was somewhat awkward.


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Walter E. Washington Convention Center
801 Mt Vernon Pl, DC
Time: Friday-Sunday
Cost: $40 for Friday or Sunday, $55 for Saturday, or $80 for all 3 days; children $10
Stars of screens big and small, popular comic book creators, and thousands of their fans will descend upon the DC for a weekend-long comic book and sci-fi blowout of epic proportions. Prepare for an atmosphere that you won't find anywhere else in DC this spring (think cosplay, or lots and lots of costume-clad fans).
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Grounds of the Washington Monument
17th St and Constitution Ave, DC
Time: Saturday 10-4:30
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One of the most highly-anticipated events of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, the entire family can watch expert kite fliers from all over the world participate in a stunt kite-flying event, kite ballet, and various high-flying spectacles in the sky. Make sure you bring your camera and a kite of your own!
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Scripture reading: Psalm 130; Philippians 3:4-14
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Liturgist: Mary Baumel
Sunday's scriptures call us to look forward rather than backward, and to envision God's future instead of focusing on our past. The new things that God can do in Christ Jesus are perceived through the eyes of faith—eyes that are guiding us into God's future. The psalmist cries out from the depths, noting that if God marked iniquities, none could stand. We are asked to wait for God, hoping and trusting in God's steadfast love. For us, this means turning our eyes forward, trusting in the promise of "new things" and new life that arise from God's Easter miracle. Hope in the midst of despair is a powerful gift, a challenging call, and a healing balm.


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It was during summer holidays of 1982 that my father brought home a puppy. We weren't sure about his gender then. He had feathery white furs all over and big black beautiful eyes. Initial days at our place, he walked through all the rooms as if he was searching for his favorite spot there. My mother kept a bowl of milk before him and we all waited to see him take his first meal with us. His face showed no response as she pushed the bowl before him. My sister opened a packet of biscuits and placed before him, yet there was no acknowledgement from his side. My Dad went to the kitchen and brought a piece of fried fish and laid out in front of him but couldn't evoke any response.. The puppy just walked away from the buffet spread before him and we noticed him banging his head on the wall. He took a turn and went to the opposite direction and again banged on the corner of our bed. It was then that my Dad screamed that the puppy appears to be blind.
We were feeling sorry for the poor thing but nothing could be done as my Dad had brought him from a friend of his who was shifting to another town. We named him "Jimmy". After few days of hesitation, Jimmy was getting used to the atmosphere in our home, the location of doors, the furniture and other hindrances which blocked his way during his majestic tour inside our premises. He had begun to roam around easily without banging his head anywhere and that was a huge achievement.
Jimmy was closest to my sister or we thought so as she was the one who spent maximum time around him, feeding him with whatever she could lay her hands on. She bathed him every weekend and combed his furs and applied a "bindi" on his forehead. Jimmy was getting comfortable day by day and he no more loved sleeping on the floor or the small rug my mother allotted him. He was seen lying on my sister's bed or the sofa. He had access to all the bed rooms and occupied anybody's bed except mine. I was allergic to all kind of pets. For the same reason I was not very comfortable with him sharing my bed. I never touched him nor let him come close to me. Jimmy used to sit at the same place where all of us were present, whether it's a movie time in the drawing room or chatting away in the kitchen.
It seemed like he knew the time when each member of our family returned from work or school. We used to wonder when he refused to enter the house without having all four of us inside. When my father was away on official trip, jimmy used to lie down under my mother's bed as if keeping a watch on the surroundings. We never saw him with his mouth closed. The tongue was always popping out and he grew to be a healthy and handsome dog.
We were a family of five now and he accompanied us in our trips to ancestral homes, a few hundred kilometers away, in our ambassador car. Jimmy was given special treatment at our grand parents' place due to the reason that he was a very well behaved dog. My Dad never addressed him "dog" and he was one amongst us in all aspects.
Jimmy watched almost all special events in our life including our good times and bad times. My sister got married and I got admission in a reputed college in the city. My Dad was a Government employee and used to commute by a scooter. The Sunday of October 1992 turned our lives completely. My Dad went out to get some household things and was returning home when his scooter skid. He breathed his last on the spot leaving us in despair. We had lost our guardian and was completely under shock as my Dad was only in his early fifties and was healthy.
Few months on, we tried picking up the broken pieces and started moving ahead in life. Now the family had only me and my mother in addition to Jimmy. One night after dinner me and my mother tried hitting the bed that jimmy came and started licking my mother's feet. He was wagging his tail continuously and licked her feet. After some time my mother got irritated and shouted at him to go away. Tired to the hilt, we slept off soon.
The milk man's bell woke my mother who went to collect the milk from our gate. She noticed that jimmy was asleep but the posture in which he was sleeping made her disturbed. His two front legs were laid straight facing my mother's bed as if he was thanking her. She went besides him and called him by name. Seeing no response, she touched him and found that the body was cold. The Veterinary doctor who came to check him up confirmed his death last night.
Jimmy had spent more than 10 years with us and his last moments with my mother proves that animals do have thinking power. Even a person like me who used to hate pets is reminded of his generosity, even decades after his death. I strongly believe that animals also understand emotions and they do have power of understanding,
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Amenities & Facilities
Casa Grande is an upscale residence located in Tebet, South Kuningan. Although Tebet is mainly a residential area, Casa Grande is at an advantage as it is quite close to the business district. Due to that, the neighborhood is nearby hotels, shopping centers, high rise office towers and embassies. As a result, this area plays an important role for foreigners as it garners a huge community of expats from the surrounding areas and allows them to easily find a community in a new city.
Just like most of the residences in South Jakarta, Casa Grande has a private entrance to Mall Kota Kasablanka - An upscale mall that is popular amongst the people of Jakarta. This mall is a one stop shop for all your needs. It is a perfect combination of luxurious high end and high street brands such as H&M, Zara, Kate Spade, Michael Kors and much more. It also has restaurants serving Local and International cuisines, supermarket and various entertainment facilities. There are also several other malls in the proximity, within a 15-20 minute car ride, you could reach Kuningan City, Lotte Avenue Mall and ITC Kuningan.
Restaurants & Bars
Due to an increasing population of expats around the area, International cuisines are readily available. Mall Kota Kasablanka is known for its quality restaurants. From scrumptious Dim sums served in Imperial Kitchen to delightful sushi served at Genki sushi, the choices are never ending! You could also head on to the food court that serves affordable dishes from cuisines around the world! With a 20 minute walk from the residence, you can reach Epicentrum - an outdoor space with restaurants serving variety of affordable cuisines and a mall.
There are several bars within the mall itself. However, if you are looking to venture out in the city, Basque is a popular nightclub/bar amongst expats. Hause rooftop is on the rise to become a popular bar/restaurant as it is nestled away from the hustle and bustle of the central business district. Loewy and Bauhaus is a bit further away but surely worth the time!
There are clean sidewalks around the residence. By walking, you could go to Epicentrum which is an outdoor space with restaurants and a bowling alley. However, if you are looking to go somewhere further, it is highly recommended to use car as a primary method of transportation. With increase in popularity of ride sharing companies, going around town with mobile applications such as Grab or Gojek has been easier and more affordable than ever. With a mere $1-$3, you can reach the offices in the central business district in no time!
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The eye is a very sensitive organ of our body and its proper functioning is very important. If the light does not get focused on your retina then the person suffers some eyesight problems like myopia and hypermetropia. In the case of myopia, one loses the short slightness vision and they cannot see anything which is available nearby. In this case, people cannot read or write anything, and they cannot watch the television or work on the computer with blur vision. There are various types of treatments available for myopia such as eyeglasses, laser eye surgery, and contact lenses.
Eye glasses are widely used because people can easily wear these all the time and they do not need to change their spectacle frequently. People who wear glasses should ask themselves questions like; do you really feel comfortable with your heavy eye glasses? Are they fashionable? Do you carry your odd eye glasses with your fashionable dress? These are the common problems that you will face with the eye glasses.
On the other hand, laser surgery can correct your vision initially and it is really impossible to perform surgery several times. Plus, this is painful, and you need to get yourself admit in a hospital for few days. Myopia treatment lens are the best policy to deal with this disease and you can easily wear such lenses all the time. This process becomes unnecessarily expensive.
What Are The Causes Of Myopia?
As stated that myopia is a short sightedness problem and more than 30% people in US are suffering from this eye problem. In this case, you can find the objects clear which are close to you and you cannot see the objects from a distance, or you can find them blur. According to the scientific researches, myopia is an inherited problem and according to such researches, people working on the computer more than six hours in a day can suffer from myopia. Apart from that, people who are using their eyes on stressful activity such as reading and writing for long hours can suffer from myopia.
Why Would You Use Myopia Treatment Lens?
In the case of myopia, you need to wear the eye glasses with minus power or concave lens. Such lenses will move the images from the distance to your retina and clarifying the images. Eye glasses can also provide you blur vision sometime and you need to change your glasses recurrent times depending on the power you require. Basically, you will not be able to wear such heavy glasses all the time and this is the reason that you find major issues in future. Myopia treatment lens are the best way to treat myopia because you can wear such lenses all the time. Plus, you will get clear vision with such lenses.
Myopia is also known as near-sightedness and myopia treatment lens come with concave shape. Before you choose such lenses, you need to check the following things:
Anti-reflective coating: myopia treatment lens is coated with anti-reflective properties that will remove the obstacles between your retina and objects. You will get more clear vision with such coatings.
Ortho-K: such myopia treatment lenses are mainly made with the gas permeable properties and these lenses not only prevent your present myopia problems such lenses can also control the myopia disorder for the children.
Implantable lens: people who are suffering from severe myopia can use implantable lenses. You can use such lenses throughout the day and you do not need to spend any amount on their maintenance.
If you suffer from myopia, you need to consult with an optometrist. They will examine your eyes and prescribe you the proper myopia treatment lens. If you have sensitive eyes, then you cannot wear such lens and you need to wear the eye glasses in this regard.


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He says, "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." – Psalms 46:10 (NLT)
Life can be very hard and it is never easy to see the face of God in the midst of a storm. Often times that is when we seek Him the most, and we have a false sense that when things are going well that we don't need Him as much.
That is my inspiration for this piece. I found this pattern here.
It also reminds me of a song by a band called StorySide B. They were a great band and had a tragedy strike when they were on a cruise and Ron – the bass player died of a sudden heart attack. The band tried to stick together but ultimately kept their booking committments and disbanded shortly after. Here is their video for their song Be Still.


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Bump To Birth
The riches - some might say the excesses - of the Marian tradition have their origins in three theological insights of the early church: Mary is Virgin, Mary is Mother of God or Godbearer (Theotokos), and Mary is the New Eve. In patristic theology, none of these titles is an optional extra - all of them are central to the doctrine of the incarnation and the meaning of salvation.
From the fourth century, Mary's virginity has been increasingly interpreted as a sign of sexual purity, with the implication that there is a fundamental incompatibility between sex and God. However, for the early church, the doctrine of the virgin birth attested first and foremost to the divine origins and nature of Christ, so that it represented the vertical, God-human dimension of the incarnation (see Campenhausen 1964). To quote Ambrose of Milan (c. 339-397) in his Exposition of Luke (2.15), "[a] virgin giving birth is the sign of a divine mystery, not a human one" (Ambrose in Gambero 1999: 192). Mary's virginity is therefore primarily a theological symbol, or, according to Manuel Miguens, a theolo-goumenon. Miguens argues that this does not mean that its significance is purely symbolic, since "God's real interest in Christ's birth, and coming in general, is by far more aptly and efficaciously signified by a genuine and factual intervention than through a narrative which has to fabricate an imaginary event where, after all, the message remains highly conceptual and dialectical" (Miguens 1975: 162).
But while the doctrine of the virgin birth was primarily theological in the early church, Mary's virginity also had anthropological significance since it symbolized the transformation of the human in Christ. The redeemed person has escaped the cycle of sex, procreation, and death, and therefore the virginal body is a potent symbol of resurrection and eternal life. Gregory of Nyssa (c. 330-c.395) writes in his treatise On Virginity (ch. 13) that when death came to Mary, he "dashed his forces against the fruit of her virginity as against a rock, that he was shattered to pieces upon her, so in every soul which passes through this life in the flesh under the protection of virginity, the strength of death is in a manner broken and annulled" (Gregory of Nyssa 1994: 359-60).
Mary's virginity therefore represents the supernatural intervention of God into the human story, and the consequent transformation of the finite human into a divinized and immortal being. This idea is beautifully expressed in the Orthodox concept of theosis: "The human vocation is to fulfil one's humanity by becoming God through grace" (Clément 1997: 76).
The patristic understanding of the virgin birth poses a challenge to modern interpretations, both liberal and conservative. Liberals tend to interpret the conception of Christ as typical of mythological couplings in which a human mother is impregnated by a divine father and gives birth to a hero or a god (see Hamington 1995: 58; Ludemann 1998; Baring and Cashford 1993: 563). But the first Christians formulated the doctrine of the virgin birth as an explicit refutation of pagan ideas of divine sexual procreation.1 René Girard is more faithful to the early Christian vision than many theologians, when he interprets the virgin birth as a refusal of sexual violence and an affirmation of the essentially peaceful nature of the incarnation. Girard claims that "[t]he birth of the gods is always a kind of rape" (Girard 1987: 220), and he contrasts this with the fact that "all the themes and terms associated with the virgin birth convey to us a perfect submission to the non-violent will of the God of the Gospels" (Girard 1987: 221).
Conservatives share with liberals the tendency to endow the virgin birth with sexual connotations, thereby losing sight of its primary theological significance. Balthasar posits a "suprasexual (and not sexless) relationship between the incarnate Word and his Church" (Balthasar 1988-98: II, 412). In his elaborate metaphysics of sexual difference, this relationship is personified in the relationship between Christ and Mary, and there is an implicit suggestion that the conception of Christ is a transcendent act of divine copulation between an essentially masculine God and an essentially feminine creature.2 But to suggest this is to deny the theological insight that Mary falls pregnant by the power of God acting through the Holy Spirit in an entirely non-sexual way, which introduces something new and unheard of into the human story Justin Martyr (died c. 165), refuting comparisons between the virgin birth and the sexual procreation of the gods in his "First Apology" (ch. 33), writes of the Spirit which "when it came upon the virgin and overshadowed her, caused her to conceive, not by intercourse, but by power" (Justin Martyr 1996: 174).
The tendency to interpret the conception of Christ exclusively in metaphors of heterosexual intercourse is undermined even further when one considers that for the early church, particularly the Syriac Church, the Holy Spirit by which Mary conceived was sometimes understood as feminine. Consider, for example, Ode 19 of the second-century Odes of Solomon, which uses startling gender metaphors to describe Christ's conception and birth:
The Holy Spirit opened her womb, and mixed the milk of the two breasts of the Father. . . .
The womb of the Virgin caught it, and She received conception and gave birth. . . .
And she did not need a midwife
Because He [God] delivered her.
Like a man she gave birth by will.
(Quoted in Harvey 1993: 125-6).
Such "queering" of the conception of Christ renders it inherently unstable so that it defies any fixed positioning within the bounds of human reason and gender constructs. As theological symbols become more literal in gendered and philosophical terms, they lose this capacity to unsettle intellectual theories about the relationship between God and humanity in Christ.
If the virgin birth represents discontinuity and transformation in the story of creation, the motherhood of Mary represents continuity and integration, so that it affirms the fullest possible identification of Christ with the human condition from the beginning. Mary's motherhood is the horizontal dimension of the incarnation, incorporating Christ into the historical, social, and material realities of life in all its contingency and finitude. To quote Athanasius (295-373), in his Letter to Epictetus (7), "[t]he nature which came forth from Mary was human, according to the divine Scriptures, and the body of the Lord was real; real, I say, since he existed like we do. Moreover, Mary is our sister; for all of us surely have our origins in Adam" (Athanasius 1998: 573; in Buby 1996: III, 106).
In the earliest Christian defenses of the incarnation, Mary's motherhood represents the supreme challenge to those who argue that the divine cannot identify itself with the inherent corruption of the flesh. The fact that God was born of a mother affirms that the flesh is good and created by God. Tertullian (c. 155-c. 225), in his characteristically polemical style, gives a graphic account of the gestation and birth of Christ which is, as far as I know, unique among Christian writings on the incarnation. His treatise On the Flesh of Christ culminates with a challenge to his opponent, Marcion: "You detest a human being at his birth; then after what fashion do you love anybody?. . . Well, then, loving man [Christ] loved his nativity also, and his flesh as well" (Tertullian 1870: 164). Augustine (354-430) uses a similar argument against his opponents with less vivid imagery. He acknowledges that Christ could have been born without a woman, but says, "Suppose I am not able to show why he should choose to be born of a woman; you must still show me what he ought to avoid in a woman" (Augustine 1991c: 21). He continues by imagining Christ saying:
To show that it's not any creature of God that is bad, but that it's crooked pleasures that distort them, in the beginning when I made man, I made them male and female. . . . Here I am, born of a man, born of a woman. So I don't reject any creature I have made, but I reject and condemn sins, which I didn't make. (Augustine 1991c: 22)
The motherhood of Mary, therefore, is symbolically significant for two related reasons: first, it affirms the full humanity of Christ, and secondly, it affirms the inherent goodness of the material world and human flesh - including female flesh - as created by God. Gradually, particularly since the Counter Reformation, these insights have been lost to Catholic Mariology. Instead of a fully human mother who incarnates the fully human God, Mary has become a transcendent feminized principle identified with a transcendent and disembodied Christ (see Boss 2000: 26-72; Beattie 2000: 150-9). From the seventeenth century, depictions of Mary in art tend to show her without the child in her arms, an image of idealized femininity divorced from the reality of the flesh. Related to this, the emphasis on Mary's virginal purity has lost its early significance as a symbol of the redeemed flesh free from the corruption of death, and has come instead to signify a body uniquely set apart and preserved from the taint of the flesh itself, especially the sexual female flesh symbolized by Eve. Such shifts in the theological imagination distort the very heart of the Christian faith, for they deny the significance of Mary for the incarnation as a symbol of reconciling peace between the Word and the flesh, the body and God, creation and the Creator.
But the wonder of this reconciling peace lies not in Mary's virginity nor in her motherhood, but in the juxtaposition of the two. It is here that opposites meet and the ruptured world of the fall is restored to a state of integrity and wholeness beyond our human capacity to comprehend. In the words of Irenaeus (c. 130-c. 208) - in Against Heresies (3.19.3) -"The Lord has given us a sign 'as deep as Sheol and as high as heaven', such as we should not have dared to hope for. How could we have expected to see a virgin with child, and to see in this child a 'God with us' (Isaiah 7.11, 14)" (Irenaeus in Clément 1997: 36). In an era of genetic engineering and in vitro fertilization, it is perhaps impossible for us to appreciate the significance of the term "virgin mother," but for the pre-modern mind it marks a shift beyond a conceptual world of binary opposites (either/or), to a conception which is literally impossible because it takes place in the excluded middle of both/and. Gregory Nazianzen (c. 330-90) declares (Oration 45, For Easter 9): "What a strange conjunction! What a paradoxical union! . . . [H]e occupies the middle ground between the subtlety of God and the density of the flesh" (Clément 1997: 88). In this paradoxical union, either virgin or mother becomes both virgin and mother, and in this reconciling movement the world is transformed from within by the divine presence through the refiguration of language around the poetry of faith. Between the virgin and the mother we encounter the Other, who comes to us as one of us if we ourselves remain within that space of wonder which we call faith.
The title New Eve has multiple associations which are also complex and diffuse, and which introduce a third term - that of woman - into early representations of Mary's virginal motherhood. New Eve refers both to Mary and the church in early Christian thought, but my concern here is with its Marian associations.3 In patristic typology, a connection was made between Luke's account of the annunciation, and the Genesis story of creation. From this point of view, Mary became identified with the virgin earth of Paradise from which the Second Adam was created, and as the first woman of the new creation she also became known as the New Eve in relation to Christ, the New Adam. In Irenaeus's theory of recapitulation, Mary's identification with Eve signifies that all of creation from the beginning has been redeemed in Christ, in such a way that there is an "intercircling which traces back from Mary to Eve" (Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 3.22.4).
Such typology gave rise to a series of associations between Mary and Eve which have, in later interpretations, been understood in starkly contrasting terms. The Vatican II document on the church, Lumen Gentium (1964), repeats the patristic aphorism "death through Eve, life through Mary," in a series of oppositions in which Eve remains unambiguously identified with fallenness, death and sin (Flannery 1992: 416). However, once again this represents a distortion rather than a development of patristic theology. At least until the early Middle Ages, the relationship between Mary and Eve was expressed in prismatic images in such a way that Mary represented the redemption, not the condemnation, of Eve. As the New Eve in the story of salvation, Mary is the generic woman who guarantees the redemption of all women. Patristic writings on the Magnificat sometimes interpret it as Eve's song of salvation, so that Eve is the humble handmaid who is exalted in Mary. In a homily which sings the praises of Mary in the context of women's redemption, Proclus of Constantinople (d. 446) preaches (Homily 5.3) that on "account of Mary all women are blessed. No longer does the female stand accused, for it has produced an offspring which surpasses even the angels in glory Eve is fully healed" (Proclus in Constas 2003: 261).
In art and devotion as well as in doctrine, this reconciling image of the redemption of woman has yielded to dualistic imagery in which Mary and Eve represent opposing and irreconcilable images of womanhood as either the carnal, unredeemed female flesh, or the impossible ideal of the virgin mother who is, in the title of Marina Warner's book, "alone of all her sex" (Warner 1985).4 There are abundant images in patristic theology which lend support to such dualisms, but only if one loses sight of the fact that these functioned to develop an understanding of what it would mean to be unredeemed - a question which is only ever asked from the perspective of redemption. Mary is, in the words of Cardinal Newman, "a daughter of Eve unfallen" (Newman 1891: 47; in Graef 1985: 112), and Eve is what Mary would have been, had God not redeemed the world in Christ. This is not a dialectical struggle since the two are not in conflict. Eve is always already redeemed in Mary, and therefore Eve's suffering must be understood as the other face of redemption, not as the face of damnation. Eve represents the creative suffering of the woman who from the beginning lives in the promise of redemption, since the protoevangelium, the first good news of Christ, was given before she was cast out of Eden. God says to the serpent, "I will make you enemies of each other: you and the woman, your offspring and her offspring. It will crush your head and you will strike its heel" (Genesis 3.15).5
It is not difficult to see how these three core theological symbols - Virgin, Mother, and New Eve - gradually led the devotional imagination into complex labyrinths of kinship and nuptial relationships as Christians reflected on Mary's relationship to Christ. Ephrem was the first to call Mary the Bride of her Son (Graef 1985: 58), but such imagery does not become common in the Western church until the Middle Ages (see Balthasar 1988-98: III, 300-18), when Mary's identity increasingly becomes merged with that of the church as Bride of Christ. Although certain verses of the Song of Songs had always been applied to Mary, Rupert of Deutz, writing in the early twelfth century, was the first to give an exclusively Marian interpretation to the whole Canticle. This marked the beginning of a trend in which nuptial Marian imagery became increasingly lavish and widespread, borrowing as it did from the language of courtly love (Graef 1985: 226-9, 245-59). Philip of Harvengt (d. 1183) writes, "[n]ot only does the Mother most tenderly embrace the Son, but also the Spouse the Bridegroom; and he enjoys their mutual embraces as much as she, when he, kissing her, reposes most sweetly between her breasts" (Philip quoted in Graef 1985: 255).
Perhaps unsurprisingly in the face of such devotions, the church has been cautious about using nuptial language in Marian doctrine, and Vatican II documents do not use the word spouse in relation to Mary (see O'Carroll 1990: 333-4). However, the trajectory of Marian devotion from Ephrem to Balthasar shows that such imagery exerts a powerful hold over the Christian imagination. In Balthasar's theology, the relationship between Mary and Christ represents "the creation of an absolute relationship between man and woman that is free of all entanglement in sin: here the woman is both Mother and Bride with regard to the same man, in a real but suprasexual way" (Balthasar 1988-98: III, 327).
I turn now to consider the theological significance of the foregoing, not from the perspective of doctrine but from the perspective of the psychology of prayer and worship. These are, however, not separate concerns, for central to my argument is the belief that the separation between doctrine and spirituality does violence to the holistic and reconciling vision of the early church. The language of theology and the language of devotion should be an integrated whole which finds expression and practice in the liturgical life of the church, which in turn shapes the Christian life both communally and individually around the story of Christ. So with the insights of psychoanalytic theory, how might a theologian interpret these developments in Marian devotion? Are they evidence of repressions and neuroses which have accumulated around the symbols of the Christian faith, which should be replaced by more ethical or "healthy" concepts of relationality? Or are they potentially points of creative instability in the Christian narrative, which can push the imagination beyond the constraints of law and reason, to inhabit a once and future world where everything is possible with God? Space precludes a detailed exploration of these complex questions, so I am going to focus on the psycholinguistic theory of Julia Kristeva (for a psychological analysis of Marian devotion see Carroll 1986). My concern here is more with the analysis of culture than the individual psyche, although as cultural theorists such as Kristeva, Lacan, and Irigaray argue, culture forms the psyche in its image so that the hierarchies and values of the social order are sustained through the psychological structuring of the individual socialized subject (see Grosz 1989 and 1995). To recognize this, and to acknowledge the validity of psychoanalysis, is not to render the theological narrative redundant. On the contrary, it can demonstrate why theology goes beyond the secular discourses of modernity, without ever being free of their influence and interrogation.
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