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The Wealth List chats to family wealth mentor Diana Chambers. Diana manages a private client practice based in Switzerland, with clients in both Europe and North America.
You are a Family Wealthy Mentor – what does that involve?
It means helping people to live well with their wealth and ensure it's a genuine asset; that the wealth enhances their lives and the lives of their children. How do I that? First, I discuss with my clients the impact money has on them and on their relationships. For example, we all know that it can be upsetting when we think someone is pursuing us simply because we have wealth; or when we find ourselves funding friends because they couldn't otherwise afford to join us on a holiday or at an expensive restaurant; or if we're dealing with financial expectations from our family members. I help my clients to figure out how to handle such situations in emotionally intelligent ways. The more comfortable we are talking about money in our most important relationships – with partners, parents, and children – the better. It's a valuable skill, and one that can be learned.
What sort of clients do you have and how do they come to you?
My clients are typically first generation wealth creators, or their children and grandchildren. They have significant wealth and I help them to keep the wealth in its proper place, so the family thrives and the wealth supports each family member to become the best person he or she can be. My clients sometimes seek me out after they've heard me speak on a wealth topic but they come to me primarily through referrals from their other advisors: trust and estate attorneys; investment advisors; private bankers; and family officers.
What are the most common challenges you help them with?
I work with my clients on any facets of their relationship to their wealth. This might mean educational elements to help them race up the learning curve and, with the support of the other advisors on their team, build their Financial IQ: Do they know where their money comes from and how they spend it? Are they savvy in terms of investing and minimizing their tax burden? Do they make smart spending decisions?
But, more importantly, I encourage my clients to develop their Financial EQ, or emotional intelligence. A family whose members can talk openly about money and understand their relationship to it, is likely to be more successful and happier than a family whose members simply possess good Financial IQ skills. I often help my clients – both young and older – navigate their dating relationships. That may lead to me supporting them as they prepare pre-marital agreements with partners who have more or less wealth than them. I also work with my clients as they refine their estate plans and then communicate their decisions appropriately with the family members who will be most affected. Or I might work with the next generation family members to handle burdensome expectations, such as what career path they will take to prepare them to work in, and ultimately run, their family business.
How do you operate with other professional advisors?
I'm collaborative. Each advisor has their role to play on behalf of the client and we all need to be at the table. I don't offer any tax, legal, or investment advice, rather I complement the work of such advisors. I'm often told by advisors that the role I play – helping my clients to become competent, confident wealth holders – makes it easier for them to do their work.
Your book is entitled 'True Wealth: Letters on Money, Life, and Love' – how would you define true wealth?
True wealth is knowing what's genuinely important in life and pursuing and acquiring that without getting pulled off track by material wealth. Financial assets have an important role to play; we should use them to enhance the qualitative aspects of our lives. These qualitative aspects include pursuing meaning and purpose as well as strengthening our relationships, not just with family and friends but more broadly in our communities. Philanthropy is an excellent way to meet both these goals.
In the book, you talk about how we often make unconscious financial choices – how can we get better on this?
Increasing our conscious financial decision-making allows us to direct our lives and legacies, on a moment-by-moment, day-by-day basis. I use the metaphor of a mirror; some of us merely glance at ourselves in passing, but others scrutinize themselves and adjust their clothing to their satisfaction. Money is a great mirror for us as it tells us what we think about some of the big questions of life, such as who and what we love, who and in what we trust, and what the ultimate purpose of our lives is. Getting clear about our relationship to money and the impact it has on the people around us is the first step. Even so, a mirror will tell us what we look like from the front but it can be hard to see our back view. A second step can be to ask close family, friends, or trusted advisors to help us to see our money behaviour more clearly.
Many of your clients have a strong interest in philanthropy – what role do you play in shaping their giving?
In addition to family wealth mentoring, I'm a philanthropic advisor and support my clients to make their gifts in strategic ways aligned with their deepest interests and concerns. These have varied from early childhood education, to the impact of climate change, to Alzheimer's Disease.
Having clarified their vision, values, and goals for their philanthropy, my clients often need help to understand the landscape of the issue they're interested in, and so find their place in it. This may mean digging deeper than what is commonly understood about a topic, understanding the core dynamics, and then arriving at a theory of change about how impact can be made. It means knowing who else is funding in that area and where the gaps are. This was the case in the approach one of my clients is taking to Alzheimer's Disease; we dug deep and discovered that there is a protocol to reverse cognitive decline, even though almost all the literature says that's not possible. So, my client is funding the pretrial to prove this concept, with the potential to change literally millions of lives for good.
Having helped my clients to determine where they want to place their gifts, I coach them to say No gracefully to the many requests they receive that are not in their interest areas, so their giving stays targeted for maximum impact.
What is the most satisfying aspect of your job?
My work is deeply satisfying. I love watching my clients as they grow in their capacity and confidence. One young client who started our work together with no interest in, or knowledge of, finance or investments, subsequently learned about the philosophy of John Bogle, walked into our meeting, tossed a financial magazine on the table, and told me "Diana, I'm a Boglehead." She had come a long way. I know when I've made a difference.
I also love my involvement in my clients' philanthropy projects, as I learn alongside my clients and it is our combined insights that allow my clients to make the difference with their gifting. And I truly value my clients and my relationships with them. I'm privileged to be involved in their lives in such a profound way.
True Wealth: Letters on Money, Life, and Love (Altitude Press, £21) is available on Amazon.co.uk.
Diana can be contacted at: www.dianachambers.com

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How can you make choices in your code, deciding what to do
next depending on the values in your variables? You can use the If
statement, which is the bread-and-butter of Visual Basic conditionals, and which
lets you evaluate your data and execute appropriate code. Here's how this
statement works:
If condition Then
[ElseIf condition-n Then
[elseifstatements] …]
End If
You use comparison operators in the condition here to generate a
logical result that's true or false; for example, if condition
is intVariable > 5, then condition
will be true if the value in intVariable is greater than 5.
If condition is True,
the statements immediately following the Then keyword in the
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the corresponding code (elseifstatements above) is
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statements, or if none of their conditions are True, the
code in the Else statement (elsestatements
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Here's an example to show you how to use the various parts of
this popular statement. In this case, I'm reading an integer that the user types
at the console—using the System.Console.ReadLine
method—and checking it against various values:
Module Module1
Sub Main()
Dim intInput As Integer
System.Console.WriteLine("Enter an integer…")
intInput = Val(System.Console.ReadLine())
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Compare setting. You can also use the String.Compare
method to compare strings.
Also note that you can also use the TypeOf
and Is keywords to check the type of an object in an If
statement, like this:
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'The Rachel Maddow Show' for Tuesday, August 5th, 2014
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August 5, 2014
Guest: Kim Barker, Adam Schiff, Allan Lichtman
STEVE KORNACKI, GUEST HOST: Thanks to you at home for joining us this
hour. Rachel has the night off.
This is the United States Military Academy. It`s probably better known for
the name of the town where it`s located, West Point, as in West Point, New
York. It`s at West Point where they train cadets to serve in the U.S.
Army. It`s an incredibly rigorous and it`s incredibly prestigious four-
year program to go through.
If you can make it through, if you can make it through those four years at
West Point, you really are the best of the best.
The United States was helping Afghanistan to design its own military
academy to train Afghan soldiers to fight in that country`s armed forces.
The obvious model for them was West Point. Afghan army officials actually
visited West Point when they were trying to create their own military
training program, what`s called the National Military Academy of
Afghanistan opened outside of Kabul back in 2005.
And today, it was at the National Military Academy of Afghanistan where a
man dressed in an Afghan military uniform, dressed as an Afghan soldier,
opened fire on people who were supposed to be his allies. That lone
shooter reportedly shot into a group of soldiers with an automatic weapon.
Numbers have been fluctuating throughout the day, but we know that at least
15 people were injured, some of them very seriously.
And we also know that one person was killed. The person was a major
general in the U.S. Army, Major General Harold Greene, who was in
Afghanistan helping to train Afghan soldiers, specifically training Afghan
soldiers for life after the United States fully withdraws from that
When Major General Greene was killed today, he became the highest ranking
officer killed in combat since the Vietnam War. Last officer of that rank
to die in combat was Major General John Albert Dillard Jr. He was killed
in Vietnam in May of 1970 when his helicopter was shot own.
The United States still has almost 33,000 troops serving in Afghanistan.
Current withdrawal plan is for that number to go down to roughly 10,000 by
the end of this year. But as of today, we still have tens of thousands of
American soldiers who are serving over in Afghanistan. And so, today was a
stark and painful reminder that we are very much still a nation at war.
In the past few months, we as a nation have been reckoning with what our
responsibilities are to the men and women who have fought in that war and
who continue to fight in that war even today. We have been reckoning with
our responsibilities to those men and women when they return home. After
all, this is the summer when there have been so many stories, story after
story about how the veterans health administration, the V.A., was faking
wait times, was delaying appointments for men and women back home from
combat, was lying, was covering up to hide the fact we as a country were
not making enough resources available to our men and women in uniform once
they got home from the wars that they have been fighting in our name.
We were failing to take care of our veterans. The president vowed to fix
the problem and it is a testament to the genuine nationwide urge to help.
It is testament to the bipartisan, really to the nonpartisan desire to keep
veterans issues and veterans needs above the divisive politics that plague
every policy issue in this country.
It`s a testament to all of that that Congress has now actual passed a bill
to address the V.A. backlog. It`s one of the last things they did, one of
the only things they did before they skipped town for their August recess
last week. And President Obama is set to sign that bill into law on
Thursday of this week.
We are currently at war, and as long as we are sending people to fight in
wars, there is a real palpable energy in this country, a genuine desire on
the part of the people of this country to find a way to help. To find a
way to support the people who volunteer to fight in our wars. As a
country, most of us, millions of us, tens of millions of us, want to help.
And today, investigative reporting site ProPublica published a bombshell
story about a group that purports to be a charity, a charity that helps
those soldiers that fight our wars, a charity according to this reporting
from ProPublica is taking that desire of everyday Americans to do right by
our men and women in uniform and cashing in on it. This group, the
supposed charity, is called Move America Forward.
They claim to do a lot of things to help the troops like send care packages
to service members overseas. Quote, "Move America Forward is a military
charity and the nation`s largest grassroots pro-troop organization." For
just $24.99, you can buy the small pack care package for the troops. For
just under $1,000, you can send a care package to the whole battalion.
If you put your e-mail address and credit card information, you can join
the Move America Forward monthly smiles club. They`ll send a care package
for you every month. In that way, you don`t have to remember to do it.
You just give them your budget, give them your credit card information,
they`ll take care of the rest for you.
Well, today, ProPublica reported over the past five years of doing this,
Move America Forward has raised $8 million from well-meaning Americans.
And of that $8 million, $2.3 million of it, nearly 1/3 of every dollar
raised is going to pay one guy and his company. Nearly 1/3 has gone to pay
this charity`s chief strategist.
And about those $24.99 care packages, well, here`s an e-mail that according
to ProPublica went out to the Move America Forward e-mail list back in
April of last year, from someone named Lacey, Move America Forward`s
contact over in Afghanistan.
Quote, "I received 60 packages that you sent. We got them yesterday and
already got them on our Chinook today out to some dust-off guys who have
been eating MREs for a month now." Accompanying Lacey`s e-mail was this
helpful picture of the care packages. Supposed to be a great thing, right?
Except anyone could claimed to have delivered care packages to troops using
that photo because it was a stock photo. It was taken in 2004 of soldiers
unloading supplies during a resupply mission, more than a decade ago.
But Move America Forward used it, anyway, made it look like it was one of
their care packages that were being delivered. The care packages that all
those well-meaning Americans shelled out their own money to pay for.
ProPublica found example after example of Move America Forward doing this
exact kind of thing.
Also in 2013, the group sent this e-mail to supporters. They were going to
adopt a battalion of marines in the Fifth Regiment who were serving on the
front lines in Afghanistan, except the marines that Move America Forward
said they needed the fund-raising dollars to adopt actually weren`t in
Afghanistan at that time. They were in Okinawa, Japan.
ProPublica also revealed bizarre examples that went beyond Move America
Forward using the stock image and claiming it as their own. According to
ProPublica, the group also used images of other charities and tried to pass
off the charitable work in the photo as their own. They sent out an e-mail
including a picture of soldiers holding Double Stuffed Oreo cookies.
We think that was the picture in the e-mail from Move America Forward. But
the Oreos in the e-mail were actually sent by Operation Oreo. It`s a
project of a church in Georgia. Had nothing to do with Move America
Forward at all.
Move America Forward tried to raise money by saying in a partnership with
Walter Reed Army Medical Center. According to ProPublica, there was no
partnership with Walter Reed.
This group gets a lot of big names to raise money for them. They hold a
big event every year where people like the former vice president of the
United States and his daughter, governor of Texas, and a host of other
major Republican figures vouched for this group. They vouched for Move
America Forward. For the idea of everyday people who want to support our
troops doing so by giving money to this group.
There`s example after example after example in this ProPublica story today
of what seems to be very shady behavior on the part of this charity that if
these allegations are true is capitalizing on America`s genuine desire to
help our troops.
At the center of this, according to ProPublica, is Move America Forward`s
chief strategist, a guy who`s raked in roughly a third of all the money
they`ve raised over the last five years, and his name is Sal Russo. And if
what ProPublica is reporting is true, that Russo is taking a genuine
grassroots impulse to do good and twisting it into a scheme to bring in big
bucks -- well, we`ve been down this road with him before.
The Tea Party movement, wherever you think of its politics, sprang from a
genuine raw grassroots energy building at the start of the Obama
presidency. A lot of it had to do with the simple fact we had a Democrat
in the White House. Some of it had something to do with the economy
collapsing, with all the anxiety that that produced.
There were a lot of reasons the Tea Party emerged back in 2009, but at its
core, it really was a ground-up phenomenon, a grassroots phenomenon. And
there were, and there still are, some crafty people on the right who saw in
that energy, in those feelings, in those emotions that conservatives were
experiencing, they saw in that an opportunity to cash in, an opportunity to
make money, to harness the Tea Party movement for their own gain, and for
their own glory.
One of the people who`s been most effective at making money off the Tea
Party brand has been Sal Russo. Russo`s a founder of the group Tea Party
Express. In 2012, they vowed to defeat President Obama. All they needed
was a small donation from Tea Party loyalists, from people who believed in
the cause.
But, again, just like Move America Forward, one of the single largest
expenditures Russo`s PAC seems to have is Russo and his associates who keep
millions of the donations they raise in the name of defeating the president
or stopping socialism in America.
We keep looking at our current political system in this country and we keep
wondering why it`s broken. But in the story of the Tea Party Express, and
now the story of Move America Forward, we may have part of the answer.
Think about it.
We keep looking at the Republican Party. We keep wondering why it`s not
heeding the lessons of its 2012 defeat. Why after receiving just 29
percent of the Latino vote, why after party leaders actually started to
speak up and say that maybe it was time to address the issue of
immigration, to stop sending such a hostile message to such a large and
growing segment of the electorate. Why two years after that all happened,
why people were talking like that, why two years later, Republicans are
actually farther than ever from moving on immigration reform.
We keep wondering why in the face of an America that`s only growing more
diverse the Republican Party seems to be retrenching, seems to be looking
inward, seems to be becoming even more conservative. They keep hearing
that they`re in danger of losing again in 2016 and losing again and again
until they change, and yet the message of the last two years is that they
don`t care.
And we keep wondering why this is. And here, maybe, is part of the answer
-- because look at a group like the Tea Party Express. Look at all that
money it`s raked in. Look at all the influence it`s accrued on the right.
Look at all the prominence its leaders have attained for themselves.
And it`s hardly like that`s the only group like this. It`s hardly like
that`s the only group of the Tea Party era that`s been -- that`s emerged.
We`ve actually been in this era a whole new batch of conservative leaders,
a whole new batch of conservative authors and media personalities,
conservative celebrities I guess you could call them.
All of them tapping into that same grassroots sentiment, talking to those
everyday conservative Americans and telling them we`re the ones looking out
for you. You don`t like Obama, you can`t trust the GOP establishment, just
stand with us. We`re the voice of purity. We`re the voice of principle.
And when you`re playing that game, when your goal is to make money or to
sell books or become a media personality, or some kind of political
celebrity -- well, if that`s your goal, it doesn`t matter if your party
wins or loses elections, whether the Republican Party is expanding and
adjust to the evolving realities of who or what America is.
In fact, if that`s your game, if that`s your goal, maybe you`re even better
off if your party loses. Maybe you`re even better off when Republicans
lose. Isn`t that how the Tea Party got started in the first place? Of
course, it`s one thing to profit off of people`s political rage. It`s not
thing altogether to profit off people`s genuine goodwill -- their genuine
desire to help members of the military overseas.
We reached out to Move America Forward for comment tonight. We didn`t hear
The Tea Party Express told us the following, quote, "ProPublica creates a
false impression that there is an inappropriate relationship between Move
America Forward and Tea Party Express. It strings together unrelated facts
and then implies there is something wrong. We are quite careful of keeping
and complying with all appropriate state and federal election and tax
Joining us now is Kim Barker, reporter from "The New York Times" who wrote
about Move America Forward for ProPublica.
Kim, thanks for joining us.
It`s really an extraordinary story.
KIM BARKER, THE NEW YORK TIMES: Well, thank you.
KORNACKI: So, I`m just curious, take people through what the status is
right now. So you found the $2.3 million out of the $8 million or so --
BARKER: It wasn`t exactly hard to find. It was in their 990s, their tax
KORNACKI: So, it`s just sitting there. So, has anything happened now as a
BARKER: Not so far. I mean, regulatory agencies are pretty slow-moving
beasts. We`ve seen that with the IRS and A.G.`s offices across the country
that don`t exactly read a story in the newspaper or online and say, OK,
we`re going to go do something immediately.
I`ve gotten a lot of feedback from people saying that they found the story
very surprising and, in fact, Move America Forward did give out a much
longer, lengthier response to what was in the article to a conservative
online Web site, talking about how the fact that a lot of what we alleged
was true, but then trying to explain it away, saying it was small things,
saying that, you know, they did pay for the rent for the entire office,
covered PACs and various political consultancy firms. That`s because they
used more of the space. And then, you know, basically dismissing most of
the arguments we made.
KORNACKI: So, how -- you mentioned it wasn`t that hard to dig this up. I
still give you great credit for doing this.
BARKER: I mean, that was addition. Journalists don`t do that very well,
but in terms of everything else -- I mean, I had looked at the PACs last
year, so I`d done a story in March of 2013 just taking a look at the self-
dealing of the PACs. I was not the first journalist to do this.
KORNACKI: So, you were looking back at the Tea Party Express, the
explicitly political arm and --
BARKER: Yes, I wanted to look at the self-dealing. The idea of creating
PACs, spending money from the PACs on yourself.
I think whatever you want to say about the politics of the Tea Party, or of
any other political group, people who give to these groups really firmly
believe in it, and a lot of these folks are retired. A lot of them are on
fixed incomes and they`re very passionate about these causes.
And so, I talked to these people about giving money and how it was spent,
and they were fairly upset. And so then after I wrote that story, I got a
lot of feedback from people who knew Sal and suggested looking at Move
America Forward.
And I just sort of kept that in my back pocket. Of course, I was on all
their mailing lists.
And then, in late November, I saw the e-mail they sent out about Larry
Draughn who`s in my story. He`s a marine veteran. And he lost his legs
over in Afghanistan.
And they used a story about him referring to him as a double amputee and
saying that he was a hero in Ohio for rescuing some stranded motorists and
basically said, look, look at this hero, look what he`s done for this
country, now give money to Move America Forward.
So, then, at this point, I started slowly in my spare time looking at this
charity and asked my father to sign up with an e-mail account for, you
know, just Move America Forward. Do nothing else with it and to see what
happened with that e-mail address.
Fairly soon, you had the PACs using the e-mail address trying to raise
KORNACKI: So, there`s --
BARKER: Yes, which any non-profit expert will tell you is not allowed.
KORNACKI: So, what I`m curious about, too, your story last year, your
reporting on sort of how the Tea Party Express was making a lot of money
off of its sort of the membership.
BARKER: Sure.
KORNACKI: The Tea Party Express -- tonight is primary night. The Tea
Party Express is playing an active role in some Republican primaries going
on tonight. It seems like your story last year surprised a lot of people
but they kept on kind of plowing ahead.
BARKER: Nobody does anything.
KORANCKI: Is there a sign when you look at all those conservative leaders,
they have gotten to vouch for them on this in terms of this military
charity? Do you think this is going to change things in a way that that
didn`t last year?
BARKER: You know, that`s a really good question and I don`t know. I think
it goes back to what you were saying earlier in that everybody wants to
support the troops. I mean, I was over in Afghanistan on and off for years
as a reporter. I embedded with them. I know to a certain extent what it`s
like to be over there, although nothing like what they went through.
And I think there`s this instinct in America to want to support people over
there. I can see politicians saying, oh, here`s this charity that wants to
support the troops. Why not help?
Hopefully, this will make them think maybe twice about it. I hope it makes
everybody think twice about giving to any charity, to take a look at it, to
see how exactly they`re spending their money, because this charity is
certainly not alone.
KORNACKI: Right. Great reporting, really.
BARKER: Thank you.
KORNACKI: It`s an incredible piece. If people haven`t read it, I
encourage them to find that ProPublica.
Kim Barker, reporter with "The New York Times" who wrote this piece for
ProPublica, thanks for being with us tonight.
Lots more ahead, including the annoying facts that have gotten in the way
of Republicans favorite Obama conspiracy theory, and they are facts that
are delivered by other Republicans.
Stay with us.
KORNACKI: So you might have heard that Congress is off on vacation and
they`re going to stay on vacation for the next five weeks. When they
finally come back in September, it will only be for ten days of work then
they`ll two on break again for the rest of the midterm election campaign.
But when they cam come back for the short ten-day session in September,
House Republicans have one thing they definitely plan on taking up,
Benghazi. Trey Gowdy, he is the head of the newly formed House Select
Committee on Benghazi. He said the first public hearing will with sometime
in September and it`s going to feature more witnesses than ever before.
When that select committee was announced this past spring, there was a lot
of criticism, especially from Democrats. One reason was there had already
been a lot of hearings and investigations on this same issue. There had
already, in fact, been seven separate congressional probes into the attack
on the diplomatic mission at Benghazi, an attack that killed four
There have been seven investigations. There actually have been eight if
you include the State Department`s independent accountability review board.
And in terms of Benghazi being a major political scandal, all these
investigations have found that there`s just no there, there. They did find
fault with the State Department`s inadequate security, but in terms of the
Obama administration trying to cover it all up or bungling it in some
glaring, obvious way, there`s just no evidence for any of that.
So, that`s why when House Speaker John Boehner announced the formation of
yet another investigation into Benghazi, a lot of people asked why. And
now comes this, after two years of investigation, another committee, the
House Intelligence Committee, has now apparently also found, quote, "no
deliberate wrongdoing by the Obama administration."
Speaking to the "San Francisco Chronicle," one of the committee`s
Democratic members, Congressman Mike Thompson, said a forthcoming report,
quote, "confirms that no one was deliberately misled. No military assets
were withheld. No stand-down order of U.S. forces was given."
Another Democrat on the intelligence committee, the ranking member, backed
up that report with a press release to announce the findings. That
committee, the intelligence committee, voted unanimously last week,
Democrats and Republicans voting together, they voted unanimously to
declassify and release that report.
Now, we`re still waiting for the release, but so far, Republicans on the
committee haven`t mentioned the report or its pending declassification.
Not a word on a report that took two years to put together and that they`ve
joined Democrats in voting last week to declassify.
There was no mention on the House Republicans` home page for all things
Benghazi. No mention of this at all. This is a site where they have
linked every report and scrap of information about the Benghazi
investigation so far. But there is nothing there about this new House
Intelligence report that apparently is coming out soon. Nothing from the
committee`s Republican chairman, Mike Rogers.
And over at FOX News, which has exhaustively detailed every hint of
Benghazi trouble for the administration, we haven`t heard a peep from them
on this new report, either.
This is not the first time that a Republican-backed finding on Benghazi has
found, well, nothing. Just a few weeks ago -- a few months ago, excuse me,
the Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee came out and
said he was satisfied that nothing more could have been done by the
military to protect the diplomatic mission in Benghazi.
So, now, we apparently have yet another report set to conclude that there`s
just no big scandal when it comes to Benghazi. But Republicans aren`t
talking about that. They are talking about going full steam ahead be their
new select committee on Benghazi when Congress comes back in September,
investigation they earmarked $3.3 million for.
So, when are we going to get to see this report, and will it? Will
anything ever be enough to put a stop to all of the conspiracy theories
about Benghazi?
Joining us now is Congressman Adam Schiff of California. He`s a member of
the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Select
Committee on Benghazi.
Congressman, thanks for joining us tonight.
So, the bottom-line question to start with, when are we going to get to see
this report?
REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D), CALIFORNIA: Well, I hope soon. It will depend on
how quickly the CIA can declassify it. I have to say, though, that this is
much in the CIA`s interest to declassify because it largely concludes the
CIA had adequate security, acted properly during the events, that there
were conflicting intelligence reports and threat streams coming in, but no
advanced notice of a particular tack and certainly no intent to deceive
people in its initial and flawed assessment of how that protest or non-
protest began.
So, I think it`s in the agency`s interest to see that the classified
probably unlike the Senate report, so they may act on with it some speed.
KORNACKI: You, obviously you know your colleagues on this committee,
Democratic and Republican, very well. You guys have been looking at this
for two years. You guys voted, as we said, unanimously, to declassify this
Obviously, we know in the air, sort of in the conservative talk radio,
whatever, you hear lots of conspiracy theories about Benghazi. But do you
think the Republicans on this committee, your colleagues who you work with,
do you think when this report comes out they will speak up and say, you
know what, guys, we looked at it, there`s nothing to this. Do you expect
them to say that based on your conversations with them?
SCHIFF: No, I don`t expect them to say that. GOP members of the select
committee still think there`s more to be found here, there are some hidden
facts, or that if they served on the Government Reform Committee, didn`t
have access to what another committee learned that maybe there`s
information that they can collate a different way.
But as you pointed out, Steve, what we found out after a pretty exhaustive
investigation in the Intelligence Committee, is that in terms of all the
conspiracy theories about there being a stand-down order, the state
department interfering with the military rescue or military assets not used
or deliberate intent to deceive on talking points. Basically this report
says, no, no, no, no, no.
KORNACKI: So, what --
SCHIFF: And -- yes?
KORNACKI: You say they don`t expect they`re going to be satisfied.
They`re going to be -- have they given you a sense of what they might find,
some kind of unifying theory at the end of this?
SCHIFF: No, there isn`t. And that is why the formation of this select
committee was so controversial, because there have been multiple reports,
bipartisan reports, nonpartisan reports like the State Department when you
mentioned. So, they have I think in large part the select committee is
still in search of a mission.
You know, one hearing we are going to have in September is something I
recommended the chair if we`re looking for something constructive to do and
not retread the same old ground, let`s look into how we are a couple years
later in implementing recommendations of that accountability review board
in making our facilities around the world safer. That`s something that
requires continual monitoring to see how we`re progressing.
We are going to do that. I think that`s constructive. But once we get
beyond that, Steve, I`m not really sure where we can add value. And I`m
concerned that I think the chairman of the committee is going to be under
enormous pressure to produce something. To warrant the creation of the
select committee, to warrant the millions they`re spending on it, and that
may be very hard to do without simply spinning whatever results we come up
with like crazy.
KORNACKI: And do you -- just to give us a preview of how you think those
committee hearings are going to go, what role do you see yourself playing
as a Democrat on that committee, given what you`ve just said?
SCHIFF: Well, look, I didn`t think the committee was formed. I wasn`t in
favor of participating on it. Now, we made the decision, which I respect,
to do that. So, I view my role as trying to make something constructive
out of this, trying to not only allay the concerns that some have about
what may have gone on by things like the publication and declassification
of the intelligence report, but also looking at things that haven`t been
examined already or at least haven`t been recently examined, like, how are
we doing in making our securities more secure?
Now, the two most important questions, you know, I think for people are,
where are we in the hunt for those who are responsible? And how are we
doing in protecting our people going forward?
On the first question, we want to make sure we`re not interfering with the
criminal investigation. So there`s a limited amount we can do there.
But on that latter question, I think there`s room for us to be productive.
But I think we have to resist the effort to politicize this by simply
dragging in high-profile witnesses that really can`t necessarily contribute
in an effort to either sway the midterms or motivate the base or those
improper purposes.
KORNACKI: All right. Congressman Adam Schiff of California, thanks for
your time tonight. Appreciate that.
SCHIFF: You bet.
KORNACKI: Despite calls from the back benches of Congress, including one
just today, it`s still extremely unlikely that President Obama will be
impeached, but he will be sued.
Tonight, we mark the anniversary of something truly historic -- the
original smoking gun in political scandals which tells us all about today`s
president, today`s Congress, and how far we`ve come probably in the wrong
Stay with us.
KORNACKI: They say that being president ages you faster than anything
else. People who entered the office with a full head of dark hair go gray
after one term -- in the case of Bill Clinton, go white after the second.
It`s true across party lines. It`s true throughout history. Just look at
Dwight Eisenhower on day one and then in his last days. Presidents Reagan
and Bush too.
Two terms takes a toll on our nation`s leaders. Their neophyte, naivety,
and youthful good looks are quickly exchanged for lower expectations and
visible signs of stress.
But there is one leader who has defied the ravages of leadership. One
leader in Minnesota who maintains his hope and his youthful optimism even
after two full terms in a shocking defeat in his bid for a third. And now
for him, it`s on to the first grade.
The best story in American politics is coming up.
KORNACKI: I want to show you two front pages. Two front pages from the
same newspaper, "The New York Times", the paper of record. Two front pages
from the paper of record that were published about 40 years apart, each one
from the day after the same thing happened.
Take a look at the one on the right. It`s from last week. It`s from last
Thursday. You can see what the paper of record thought the biggest most
important stories happening in the world were that day last Thursday.
There`s one about a terrorist who spent a lot of time in the U.S. before
launching an attack in Syria. There`s one about Arab leaders grappling
with Hamas. There`s even one about thrill seekers performing acrobatics
off of giant rock formations in the Utah desert that posed a question, are
they spoiling the pristine beauty of a national park?
And then, if you look all the way down at the bottom of the front page last
Thursday, where they preview some of the much less important stories that
are inside the paper that day, the stories that were not deemed front page-
worthy, if you look all the way down there and you squint really hard, you
can make this out. "House votes to sue Obama."
Quote, "In a party line vote, the House of Representatives approved a
measure to sue President Obama for overstepping the powers of the
presidency." And then if you want to know more, it tells you to turn to
page A-15, where the story ran in the newspaper of record last week when
the house sued the president of the United States. Page A-15.
And it made sense. I mean, after all, the lawsuit is about Obama`s
decision to delay implementation of the employer mandate portion of the
Affordable Care Act. It`s not exactly something that has the masses all
fired up. And in fact, it`s not something that has even -- has even had
Republicans that fired up. They`re, after all, strongly against the
Affordable Care Act, the employer mandate.
But they voted to sue the president anyway. The reason isn`t a mystery.
To make their base happy, and more to the point, it`s to keep their base
from demanding something that party leaders absolutely don`t want to do --
impeach the president.
We should be clear, House Speaker John Boehner has clearly said he has no
plans to pursue impeachment. None. We should also say that Democrats have
been somewhat mischievously pushing the idea that he will, anyway. They`ve
been raising a lot of money by doing this.
But the reason Democrats have been able to push this idea is that
Republicans keep speaking up and talking about it. Just yesterday, Walter
Jones of North Carolina became the latest Republican congressman to call
for the president`s impeachment.
What Jones said was revealing. He said he`s actually against the lawsuit.
He voted against sawing Obama last week because it`s going to spend
millions of dollars. Why spend that kind of money, he asked, when
impeachment is an option? Use the Constitution, Jones said. That`s what
it`s there for.
Again, Walter Jones is not about to get his way on this, but that`s the
point. That`s why Boehner came up with this lawsuit idea in first place.
It`s a political instrument. It`s a piece of red meat for the right. It`s
something to give them that`s not as politically risky, that`s not as
politically damaging to the Republicans as impeachment would be.
And most Republicans aren`t like Walter Jones. Most Republicans are going
along with it. That`s why when that vote to sue Obama was held last week,
it only made page A-15 of "The New York Times." That`s why it wasn`t
treated as a defining constitutional showdown. Everyone got what it was.
What it is. It`s a political stunt.
So, now, let`s take a look at that other front page, because it`s about the
same basic story, Congress suing the president of the United States. But
holy potatoes, look at that headline -- top of the page, giant print, all
the way across the page, all capital letters, a huge deal -- easily the
most important thing happening anywhere that day.
As you can see, it`s dated July 27th, 1973. And right at the top of the
story, the Senate Watergate Committee, quote, "In an unprecedented action
voted to go to court next week to secure the recordings." This was a
congressional committee voting to sue President Richard Nixon.
Again, same basic story as last week, a lawsuit from the legislative branch
against the president. But just a world of difference in what it meant. A
world of difference in what it really was.
Today is actually the 40th anniversary of what that lawsuit helped pave the
way for. It was this same day, this exact day, August 5th of 1974, when
one of those recordings mentioned in that article came to light. And it
smothered out the final flickering embers of the Nixon presidency. It`s
known as the smoking gun tape.
It`s the tape that had Nixon plotting to cover up the Watergate break-in
three days after it happened, the tape that finally, definitively,
irrefutably answered that famous question that was at the heart of
Watergate -- What did the president know and when did he know it? That
tape, the smoking gun came out 40 years ago today. And it is why Nixon
became the first and only president to resign the office.
RICHARD NIXON, FORMER PRESIDENT: This was the final blow, the final nail
in the coffin, although you don`t need another nail if you`re already in
the coffin, which we were.
Resigning now was the option I didn`t want to do, above everything else,
personally. I`m a fighter. I just didn`t want to quit.
Also, I thought it would be an admission of guilt, which, of course, it
was. And also I felt that it would set a terribly bad precedent for the
future. I hope no other president ever resigns under any circumstances.
KORNACKI: That is from an interview that Richard Nixon did with a former
aide back in 1983. It was nine years after leaving the White House. It`s
an interview that`s being released this week by the Nixon Library.
So, that`s what suing the president helped lead to 41 years ago. Think of
what prompted that lawsuit back in 1973, the headline in "The New York
Times." The Senate committee had heard gripping testimony from John Dean,
Nixon`s White House counsel, and who testified before the committee that
the president, himself, had been personally involved in trying to cover up
the break-in, in orchestrating a plot to pay off participants for their
silence and to on instruct an investigation of the FBI.
The committee had also heard testimony about illegal wiretapping, about
money laundering, about illegal dirty trick schemes being drawn up in the
office of the attorney general.
And then, with the president denying all of it, they found out that it was
probably all on tape. They heard from a White House aide who had helped to
set up a system that recorded basically every conversation that Nixon had.
That aide was named Alexander Butterfield.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Butterfield, are you aware of the installation of
any listening devices in the Oval Office of the president?
ALEXANDER BUTTERFIELD, FORMER NIXON WHITE HOUSE AIDE: I was aware of
listening devices, yes, sir.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you aware of the installation of any devices on any
of the telephones, first of all, the Oval Office?
BUTTERFIELD: Yes, sir.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What about the executive office building of the
BUTTERFIELD: Yes, sir. The president`s business telephone at his desk in
the executive office building.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What about the Lincoln Room?
BUTTERFIELD: Yes, sir, the telephone in the Lincoln Sitting Room and the
KORNACKI: That was a reason to sue the president of the United States.
Here was a committee that had heard all sorts of serious, criminal
allegations leveled against Richard Nixon and his administration by a
former top aide. But it was that aide`s word against Nixon`s. There was
no way to prove what anything he was saying was true, unless those tapes
came out.
Since Nixon had no interest in releasing them, the Senate Watergate
Committee sued him, sued to get those tapes out. And that was the start of
the drama that played out for the next year, that committee. Then, a
special prosecutor and a federal judge, all demanding that Nixon turn over
the tapes. And finally, Supreme Court demanded that, too, which is how the
smoking gun tape finally surfaced 40 years ago today. And three days after
that, Nixon was gone as president.
There`s a new NBC News/"Wall Street Journal" poll out tonight that puts
Congress` approval rating at 14 percent. And we`re using to seeing numbers
like that now. For years now, the public has been almost unanimous in its
hatred of Congress.
And maybe this is part of the reason why. Look at those two front pages
again. Look at the front pages about the same thing happening, about the
Congress suing the president.
In one of them, it`s a hugely important, ultra serious event. It has
gravity, it has meaning. There are real stakes. When the Senate Watergate
Committee sued Richard Nixon, it mattered.
In the other one, the one from last week, it`s just an afterthought. It`s
the fine print at the bottom of the front page. Just another empty,
meaningless stunt from the House of Representatives using a tool that used
to mean something as a chief stunt to keep the GOP base from doing
something really crazy.
There are a lot of reasons why no one likes Congress these days, but those
two front pages explain one of them perfectly. Congress has diminished
Joining us now is Allan Lichtman. He`s presidential historian at American
Professor Lichtman, thanks for being here tonight.
So, I`m curious for your thoughts on where Congress has sort of come and
where the meaning of impeachment or suing the president has gone -- how
it`s evolved -- because when you look back at Watergate, what strikes me so
much is Democrat and Republican, the people on this committee, the people
in Congress, were agonizing over this. The every decision they made seemed
like the most serious thing in the world to them, and then I look last week
at this House vote to sue the president, seemed like just a routine thing.
ALLAN LICHTMAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN: Look, Watergate was really
serious. I`ll say that twice. Why did Richard Nixon so desperately want
to cover up the break-in? The break-in, itself, wasn`t all that
But that was the tip of the iceberg. He didn`t want the Congress, he
didn`t want prosecutors delving into all the other corrupt actions of the
Nixon administration, some of which you outlined -- illegal wiretaps, other
illegal break-ins, the use of the IRS against political enemies, illegal
cash contributions, quid quo pros with corporations, and illegal war in
Cambodia that caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.
This was the sordid underbelly that Richard Nixon was trying to protect.
Watergate was a serious attempt to corrupt our government. Let`s also
remember the dirty tricks designed to fix our political system.
And we need to keep this legacy in mind because on the one hand, we don`t
want to take seriously frivolous lawsuits like John Boehner is pressing
which the courts are going to quickly dismiss and the public sees it for
what it is.
But on the other hand, there are serious threats to our government today --
the quashing of whistleblowers, the enormously extended surveillance
program over American citizens that we need to be careful about.
KORNACKI: But I guess I wonder, has the concept -- for instance, you know,
we talked about Democrats right now. They`re sort of stoking the
impeachment fires within the Republican Party. They`re raising money off
of it, almost saying bring it on because they don`t see it as a threat.
I just wonder, when you look at what the idea of impeachment meant, it was
the most serious undertaking that any Congress could ever start to move
into back during Watergate. Has impeachment lost its meaning because of
how casually lawsuits and impeachment talks are thrown around these days?
LICHTMAN: I think it has lost its meaning a bit. As you point out,
Democrats and Republicans on the Judiciary Committee agonized over
impeaching the president, despite having strong evidence of multiple,
impeachable offenses -- certainly the impeachment of Bill Clinton. That
did not, unlike Watergate, involve the corruption of our government, but
was seen as a political maneuver, has cheapened impeachment.
That word should not be thrown around by either party. Obama has done
nothing that approaches a high crimes and misdemeanors that would merit
You know, they talk about executive orders. Obama has been modest in his
issuing of executive orders, per year issuing far fewer executive orders
than Presidents George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, or Bill Clinton. He`s
issued fewer than 200. Franklin Roosevelt issued more than 3,000. And the
same Republicans who are criticizing the imperial presidency are also
shouting why isn`t the president taking unilateral action on border
It`s all just a lot of political hypocrisy.
KORNACKI: Yes, delaying the employer mandate and fire bombing the
Brookings Institution seem like not quite on the same level.
Anyway, Professor Allan Lichtman, presidential historian at American
University -- thanks for your time tonight. I really appreciate it.
LICHTMAN: My pleasure.
KORNACKI: It`s election night in some of the countries. Some of the
results will not surprise you. But one of the results probably be your
favorite story of the day. That`s coming up.
KORNACKI: The most watched primary election conscious tonight is in
Kansas. It`s where Republican Senator Pat Roberts faced fairly stern
competition from a 41-year-old radiologist named Milton Wolf for the
Republican nomination for Senate.
Roberts went to Washington back in 1981 as a congressman. He`s currently
seeking his fourth term in the Senate. He`s come under heavy criticism in
this campaign for not actually spending a lot of time in Kansas anymore.
Polls closed at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time in Kansas.
The vote counting appears to be going slowly, but with 14.2 percent vote
reporting, Roberts is surviving, although not impressively, but just around
50 percent so far.
Another significant Republican primary tonight is in the third
congressional district in Michigan where incumbent Tea Party favorite
Justin Amash is trying to hold his place in the November ballot. He`s
being challenged by Republican establishment-backed candidate named Brian
At this hour, with 29 percent of the precincts reporting, Amash is ahead
with 56 percent of the vote.
And meanwhile, in Michigan`s 11th district, first term Republican
Congressman Kerry Bentivolio has been officially defeated. His loss to
seat in Congress with 63 percent of precincts reporting. His Republican
challenger Dave Trott is 32 points ahead.
Congressman Bentivolio, you`ll recall that Bentivolio was voted into office
in 2012 shortly after Congressman Thaddeus McCotter abruptly resigned from
office. Bentivolio was the only other Republican left on the primary
ballot back then. It`s a Republican district, he won the primary, won the
general election. But tonight, he has lost his seat.
Stay tuned for final results, assuming they are settled tonight.
In the meantime, stay tuned for a much less celebrated election result, but
inarguably the best in the country this year. That story, next.
KORNACKI: Yes, it is another election night in America, which is why we
get to use that theme music. And tonight, there are results from a special
election in Minnesota that may cure what bothers you about American
politics. The town of Dorset, Minnesota. The population: somewhere in the
25 range. It has just thrown out its two-term mayor.
That`s right. Incumbent Mayor Bobby Tuft has lost his seat to challenger
Eric Miller. It was a landslide. Miller won 100 percent of the vote,
something about 100 percent of the vote may seem fishy. And fishier than
that, Dorset`s mayoral election is openly bought and sold every year.
Here`s how it works. On the first Sunday of August, thousands of people
descend on Dorset, Minnesota, in order to sample its restaurant. And while
they`re in town, they`re allowed to vote in the mayoral election. It cost
$1, you write in the name of the person you want elected on the ticket.
You can buy as many tickets or votes as you want to and they draw a name
out of the bucket and that person becomes Dorset`s new mayor.
That`s right. They endorse -- they elect a new mayor in Dorset by raffle.
And for the last two terms, they elected Robert Tufts. He loves fishing
and eating ice cream and like any seasoned politician, he doesn`t get
pinned down on specifics.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What`s your favorite flavor?
ROBERT TUFTS: Chocolate and vanilla strawberry, cotton candy kind, and
rainbow sherbet.
KORNACKI: Bobby Tufts was 3 years old when he first ran for office. And
still, his obvious appeal was not enough to defeat new mayor, Eric Miller,
who is 16 years old. Miller now assumes all of the strictly ceremonial
duties of the top elected official in town. And every dollar spent to
elect him will go to the Ronald McDonald Foundation.
And so tonight, we salute the end of the political career of Bobby Tufts,
and we wish him well in his career after politics, which unlike politicians
who leave office for the riches of the private sector, will begin with
elementary school.
Anyway, that does it for us tonight. We will see you again tomorrow.
Now, it`s time for "THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O`DONNELL."
Lawrence, good evening.
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We also sincerely thank the students and faculty of the Alternative High School, the Beecher Road School Social Action Committee, Woodbridge Library employees, Woodbridge Child Day Care Center, Amity Teen Center, Amity High School #5, PTSO, employees of Woodbridge Town Hall, Cub Scouts Pack 902, Christ Episcopal Church, Daisy Troop Girl Scouts, One of a Kind Foundation, Amity High School SADD Group, Bailey, Moore, Glazer, Schaefer & Proto, LLP, and patrons of Woodbridge Town Library for their generous contributions of holiday food baskets. We thank the Children's House of Montessori for hats, mittens and scarves items. Thanks also to Progressions Salon for sponsoring a sock drive and the Boy Scout Troop 63 for bountiful donations of non-perishable food for the holiday food baskets and emergency food closet.
In addition, we would like to thank the many residents who donated toys in the collection box at the Woodbridge Library for TEAM, Inc. Also, to the many individuals who donated, we are grateful. On behalf of the Staff and Members of the Human Services Commission, we wish everyone a very, Happy and Joyous New Year.
Mary Ellen LaRocca
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One Education, a spin-off of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, has teased a design for a computer that can upgrade its major components forever while requiring little more skill than is necessary to connect LEGO bricks.
The thinking behind the "XO-Infinity" (depicted above) is that one computer should last for a child's entire lifetime, but that kids' needs change as they age so the computer should change too.
As the thought bubble about the new design says, "Younger children are drawn to the tactile tablet experience, whereas older children need to compose reports and regularly enter increasing amounts of text".
The outfit also thinks schools will appreciate the chance to use one device, configured to their desires.
"A school may be more comfortable with a mobile style OS, making an Android supporting CPU module the perfect choice," says the blurb. "Other institutions could benefit from a more powerful experience, which is why x86 CPU modules exist, capable of running a full Windows or Linux desktop."
The components it's hoped will get the modular treatment are the battery, camera, screen and radio, all of which will plug in to a "core" module.
Beyond a statement that "Modules conform to open standards, already in use by a variety of major manufacturers" there's no mention of how the proposed device will integrate its components.
One Education says it will deliver a prototype this year, along with a crowdfunding campaign. ®
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Today: The secret war in Pakistan, Howard Dean on the new health reform compromise, and Rick Warren would like you to believe that he is less awful. He is not.
Heavy Medal
Rachel started us off with a look at President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance – a delicate trick when you've just escalated a war. Sort of like giving a wedding toast just after you've announced your divorce.
Rachel noted that the situation gets well beyond awkward when you take our nation's secret war in Pakistan to account.
Noah Shachtman of Wired.com's Danger Room blog dropped in to make you realize that there are actually phrases more upsetting than "we're running a secret war". So thanks for that, I guess.
One More Thing:
Obama reportedly ruffled a few Nobel feathers by skipping some traditional events, like lunch with the king, dinner with the Nobel committee, and — What?! — a concert with Toby Keith.
Which President were they trying to make comfortable again?
Oh, I see: If you're not careful with the online translation software, "We'll put a boot up your ass" becomes "We hope to feed and shoe your livestock" in Norwegian.
Uganda Be Kidding Me
Rachel gave us the joyous news that Rick Warren finally found time in his busy schedule to ask Uganda not to go through with the plan to kill off or imprison all of its gay people.
His video message is pretty amazing. Warren makes sure to cover his ass about failing to step up for what's right days ago and say that homosexuality is wrong before he finally gets around to the actual compassion for others part.
He say there and on his Twitter page that the reason he didn't publicly do the right thing early on was that he was doing some super-duper top secret stuff to help defeat the bill all along, so aren't we all big meanies for misjudging him?
Since Rachel opened the segment with footage of him lying and lying and then for a change of pace doing some lying, I'll hold off on ordering my "I heart Rick Warren even when he makes me cross" T-shirt.
You'd think such a terribly holy man would have trouble with lying, maybe blush or stumble or something, but there he is, glib and comfortable, just prevaricating away like he doesn't know videotape exists.
Yes, it's better to have released a belated, gays-are-still-bad-but-please-don't-kill-them video than to have done nothing at all.
But since we've already seen that he and his pals love to talk about tolerance in forums that they think will be seen in the states and change up to a very different kind of rhetoric when they get back to Uganda, you'll have to excuse me if I don't build up any calluses patting him on the back.
Optional Illusion
Rachel walked us into the swirl of controversy over the latest Senate health care reform compromise.
It continues to be either the worst thing ever, bought and paid for by the insurance companies, or a surprisingly progressive workaround that will save us all.
Former Governor of Vermont Howard Dean dropped by to try to explain things well enough to coax everybody out from under the bed.
Ms. Information
Rachel brought us the strange case of Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, who disappeared during a pilgrimage to Mecca.
The Iranian government says it's "quite clear" that the United States and maybe Saudi Arabia abducted him. What? No one even suspects the Norwegian fireballs?
Come on. It's not like we have clandestine agencies that are known for abducting people and whisking them away to secret foreign pris — oh, dear.
Rachel also pointed us towards a story on Astrotruth.org that examined an image from an American Petroleum Institute pamphlet. Apparently petroleum products are loved by a very diverse group of people. So diverse, in fact, that they sometimes have faces and hands of different races.
That is one powerful example of working together and getting along.
They also used the same stock photo that the coal industry used to show some Faces of Coal. Does anyone want to tell the energy industry lobbyists that sometimes stock photo searches produce more than one page of results, or is it more fun this way?
And just because shady financial practices nearly caused our economy to collapse and make us go all Tank Girl doesn't mean we should be so radical as to try to regulate the financial industry. Madness! Just tell them that we are very disappointed in them and trust that they have learned their lesson.
Fortunately, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R), the Great Orange Hope, is on the case.
Boehner met with 100 corporate lobbyists to lead the charge against financial regulation, which Rachel helpfully dramatized with scenes from 300.
Oh, Rachel. Any excuse to show men with their shirts off.
The Law Against Terror
I really hope there's a follow-up on this next segment. There's a lot more that I want to know.
It's intriguing as it is, though, and manages to inspire equal parts "Gracious, that's scary," and "Phew! Good catch!"
Five young men from the Washington, D.C. suburbs have been arrested after they ran off to Pakistan to try to find a terrorist organization to join.
Doesn't anybody listen to heavy metal music and phone in prank pizza orders anymore?
Cocktail Moment
In a Very Special Cocktail Moment, Rachel announced the winners of MaddowQuest, who combed the show's website and video archives to find three hidden balloons in more than a year's worth of clips.
The bragging rights went to devoted, intrepid, and just a teeny bit nutball Maddow fans Allie Feiwell (@mallieable) and Elizabeth Rockett (@erockett98). Congratulations, ladies!


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On March 4, University of California Berkeley (Cal) played a basketball game against the University of Southern California (USC). With Cal in contention for the PAC-10 title and the NCAA tournament at stake, the game was a must-win.Click here for the whole thing.
Enter "Victoria."
Victoria was a hoax UCLA co-ed, created by Cal's Rally Committee. For the previous week, "she" had been chatting with Gabe Pruitt, USC's starting guard, over AOL Instant Messenger. It got serious. Pruitt and several of his teammates made plans to go to Westwood after the game so that they could party with Victoria and her friends.
On Saturday, at the game, when Pruitt was introduced in the starting lineup, the chants began: "Victoria, Victoria." One of the fans held up a sign with her phone number.The look on Pruitt's face when he turned to the bench after the first Victoria chant was priceless. The expression was unlike anything ever seen in collegiate or pro sports. Never did a chant by the opposing crowd have such an impact on a visiting player
It's not too surprising both that they tried it and that it was successful. After all, getting the opponent's goat is a long standing tradition for the fans of the home team (it's part of the "home team" advantage). And we're talking about a 20 year old guy here, and an athlete at that. So, there's probably a mismatch between testosterone and that little voice in the back of the head that says "Now wait a minute, Jack. This could be a hoax -- what do I really know about this person?".
Still, it is pretty funny. Someone should make a MasterCard commercial out of it.
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The arrival of the holidays means that it's time to start putting your holiday wish lists together (and making sure to check them twice). While shopping for yourself has its obvious benefits, finding genius gifts for your best friend is arguably more satisfying. After all, winning the gift game with a thoughtful present for friends and loved ones that they can actually use solidifies the reason you're in each other's lives in the first place — you know them, inside and out.
My best friends put up with a lot throughout the year. They are there for me through the many highs, and of course, the lows. That means when the holidays come around, my goal is to show them how much I love them and how much they mean to me by getting them a gift that they'll actually want (and that I love, too, so I can borrow it later on). I find that it's really easy to get a gift for your bestie because you know each other better than anyone else. Whether your best friend is a homebody, a jet setter, has a cute little dog that they love, or enjoys fashion and beauty, you can definitely find an absolutely brilliant best friend gift that they'll appreciate.
1. For The Bestie Who Loves To Relax
Bath Bombs Gift Set, $22, Amazon
Why not give your friend the gift of an awesome pampering night? They'll appreciate that you noticed they deserve a night of relaxation.
2. For The Beauty Queen
Herbivore Botanicals All Natural Pink Clay Exfoliating Mask, $26, Amazon
A great bath is only made better by a great face mask. And this one is filled with ingredients like French pink clay, rose petals, chamomile, and rosehip seed oil to soothe and nourish skin.
3. For The Wannabe Green Thumb
Succulent Planter, $23, Amazon
If you know someone who wishes they had a green thumb, get them a succulent planter, so they can create a little garden in their home.
4. For The Glamorous One
Druzy And Gold Cocktail Ring, $68, Amazon
An accessory is always an awesome gift. This multi-piece ring is gorgeous, and it'll go with any dressed up or paired down look.
5. For The Nostalgic Friend
Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 Instant Camera, $64, Amazon
An instant camera is a gift that doesn't stop giving. Your bestie will be able to create (and capture) memories for a long time.
6. For The Movie Lover
Luckies Of London Smartphone Projector, $20, Amazon
If your friend spends their free time hunched over a laptop while binge-watching their favorite movies and shows, give their neck a break! This smartphone projector takes what's on their phone and blows it up to eight times that of the phone screen. It's silver screen magic, any time they want.
7. For The Aspiring Chef
Compact Kitchen Tool And Bowl Set (Nine Piece), $35, Amazon
If you have a friend who loves to spend time in the kitchen, get them a colorful set of tools to help make throwing dinner parties easier.
8. For The Writer
Ink Bound Personal Journal, $20, Amazon
This beautifully bound notebook is perfect for your bestie who loves to write and is constantly inspired by the things around them. It fits easily into a purse or backpack, so they can jot their notes down on the go.
9. For The One Who's Always Shining
Kate Spade New York Gold Glitter Water Bottle, $21, Amazon
Because even a water bottle deserves to shine, especially when they belong to your bestie.
10. For The Best Friend Who Loves Games
This One Time I…, $25, Amazon
If you have a friend who loves to play games and appreciates a fine sense of humor, this card set is perfect for them. Plus, it will make a great drinking game.
11. For The Decorator
Concrete Succulent Planters, $29, Amazon
There is usually one person in your group of friends who has the coolest apartment. They love to decorate with simple yet chic items, and these planters are perfect for them.
12. For The Animal Lover
Merry Products Striped Pet Teepee, $77, Amazon
You love your best friend and her dog, so give a gift that both of them will enjoy.
13. For The One Who's Delighted By Adult Beverages
Areaware Liquid Body Flask, $45, Amazon
This pretty flask makes it easy to take six ounces of your favorite drink on the go.
14. For The One Who's Always Working
15. For The Entertainer
Hand Painted Slate Drink Coasters (Set of Four), $32, Amazon
Let your friend entertain in style with these pretty rose gold coasters.
16. For The Music Lover
Libratone TOO Portable Bluetooth Speaker, $149, Amazon
This compact, splash-proof Bluetooth speaker is perfect for your friend that loves to rock out wherever they may go.
17. For The Bookworm
Kindle Paperwhite E-Reader, $90, Amazon
A Kindle is the best gift you could get for the bookworm in your life. They'll love how easy it is to read on the go.
18. For The Adventurer
Fjallraven Kanken Daypack, $59, Amazon
Every adventurer needs a good daypack that can carry their stuff. This colorful backpack is a perfect option for them to carry their essentials.
19. For The Whimsical One
The Pineapple Tumbler, $28, Amazon
This adorable pineapple tumbler is the perfect cup for a delicious cocktail. Either remove the stem to drink, or flip that over and place your cup on top of it for a fun way to enjoy a beverage.
20. For The Homebody
NEST Fragrances Reed Diffuser, $44, Amazon
If your best friend loves to spend time at home, they should be hanging out in a room that smells good. This 'Vanilla Orchid & Almond' reed diffuser will make their home smell incredible.
21. For The Bestie Who's Glued To Their Phone
Sonix Cell Phone Case, $35, Amazon
Millennials love to be on their phones, and there is always one who spends more time on it than the rest (I'm the guilty one in my group). Give them a cute cell phone case, so at least their phone will look cute while they're glued to it.
22. For The Long-Distance Friend
Umbra Zig Zag Photo Collage Display, $32, Amazon
If you have a friend who moved away, a really cute idea would be to fill this zig-zag photo display with photos of all your friends, and give it to them. That way, they can be reminded of how close you still are, even though you don't live near one another anymore.
23. For The Colorful Chef
Cuisinart 12-Piece Printed Color Knife Set, $26, Amazon
I have one friend who has the brightest apartment in the world. Everything is super colorful, and this knife set would brighten up her kitchen even more.
24. For The Fashionista
URPower Compact Garment Steamer, $22, Amazon
This compact garment steamer is easy to hold and small enough to pack in your suitcase. It quickly and effectively steams wrinkles out of your clothing — which is something your fashionable friend definitely cares about — and it even comes with a two year warranty.
25. For The Eco-Friendly Friend
Soma Sustainable Pitcher & Plant-Based Water Filter, $40, Amazon
This completely sustainable water pitcher is a great alternative to plastic, if you have a friend who is really into being eco-friendly. It holds 10 glasses of filtered water.
26. For The Best Friend Who Loves Being Active
Misfit Ray Fitness And Sleep Tracker, $64, Amazon
A fitness tracker is an awesome gift for your best friend who loves to stay active. This one is super stylish, and you don't even have to charge it.
27. For The Cuddle Lover
'The Snuggle Is Real' T-Shirt (Sizes: S-2XL), $25-$26, Amazon
Nothing wrong with a Lazy Sunday, and this shirt's the unofficial uniform of those who treat every day like it's Sunday.
Bustle may receive a portion of sales from products purchased from this article, which was created independently from Bustle's editorial and sales departments.


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Dialogue As Dissent: Religious Leaders Speak Out on Capital Punishment
Two bishops, an imam, a rabbi, a reverend, and the president of the Hindu Temple Society of North America walk into the Kennedy Center. This is not the beginning of a micro-aggression laden joke, but rather the beginning of an innovative panel, Deadman Walking: Religious Leaders Dialogue on the Death Penalty, that aimed to display unity across faiths and political affiliations in the midst of an unprecedentedly polarized time in American public discourse. The religious leaders had gathered to discuss their shared ambition to abolish the death penalty.
The religious leaders are not alone in their opposition. Since its zenith at approximately seventy-five percent of the population in the mid-1990s, support for the death penalty among both political liberals and conservatives has eroded by 20 percentage points according to Gallup. Although support for the death penalty is markedly higher among conservatives, as 72% of self-identified Republicans still support capital punishment, the majority of Americans now oppose the penalty according to some polls and significantly more perceive the penalty as unfair.
Numerous states have seen repeated bipartisan campaigns to abolish the penalty – nineteen have succeeded, and four additional states have effective moratoriums on capital punishment. Still, the majority of states and the national government still have and use capital punishment. Nebraska abolished the death penalty legislatively in 2015 but brought it back via referendum last year. Other states, such as Washington, have seen numerous failed attempts to abolish the death penalty. California's November referendum result in favor of the death penalty was a particularly strong blow to those opposed to capital punishment. And the wide-reaching return to power for the Republican party, with President Trump, who once took out full page ads to advocate the death penalty for the now-acquitted Central Park Five in New York's four largest papers, and a staunchly pro-capital punishment Vice President Pence at its head, has also given pause to some anti-death penalty advocates including those interviewed for this article.
Many more anti-death penalty advocates hope to continue business as usual. Karen Clifton, of the Catholic Mobilizing Network, a group for organized Catholic opposition to the death penalty, is optimistic about the chances of her group's efforts under the Trump administrations.
"Our main focus is always to mobilize Catholics around the issue of the death penalty and help them to be informed participants in this debate," said Clifton. "With support for the death penalty at an all time low, Catholics have more opportunity than ever to proclaim the Church's pro-life message."
Clifton also pointed out that last last year experienced the lowest number of executions in nearly three decades and that the vast majority of those executions, sixteen out of twenty, took place in only two southern states – Texas and Georgia.
Marc Hyden of Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty is also not particularly concerned about the effects of the current political climate on his coalition's work to end capital punishment.
Hyden asserts that nothing has changed for him, and cautions against looking at some polls as they can be misleading. Many national polls do not tell respondents that there is an alternative to the death penalty. Hyden points to polls in North Carolina, Kentucky, and Oklahoma which show that most people would repeal the death penalty if they knew they could replace it.
Hyden also pointed out that although President Trump and his then-nominee for Attorney General, Jefferson Sessions, are both pro-capital punishment, so were President Obama and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Both Hyden and Clifton agree that effective anti-capital punishment reform takes place at the state and local level more often than not, and both maintain that their respective groups, Catholics, and conservatives have strong reasons, including inefficacy, cost, and pro-life religious tenets, to oppose the death penalty to an even greater extent in the future.
This last objection of both Clifton's Catholic Mobilization Network and Hyden's Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty – that the penalty contravenes the pro-life tenets of their organizations' morality and religion – is gaining considerable traction in conservative circles.
"Some people believe in a consistent life ethic so from conception to natural death all life should be protected. Others believe that we should only be safeguarding innocents," explained Hyden. "My view is that no matter what kind of pro-life philosophy you subscribe to the death penalty is in violation of that because it's not always right."
Clifton also emphasizes the notion of a consistent life ethic. Her organization partners with numerous other organizations in favor of such diverse topics as immigration reform and environmental protection.
"We are called to maintain a consistent ethic of life, and that must take into consideration not only the vulnerability present at the beginning of life but all the points in life which leave people vulnerable and unable to flourish," Alexandra Carroll, Catholic Mobilization Network's Communications Director wrote in an email. "This includes issues of conflict and violence as well as climate change, immigration and more directly the use of capital punishment."
Capital punishment is also extremely expensive. Clifton highlighted that housing an inmate for life costs approximately $300,000 in most prison systems, but that sentencing a person to death costs millions of dollars on average. Phoebe Ellsworth, Professor of Law and Psychology at the University of Michigan and vice president of the Death Penalty Information Center, is an expert on public perception of the death penalty and the psychology of eyewitness testimony. She explained that many people simply do not understand why the government ties up so many resources in attempting to sentence citizens to death when they could be better spent resolving crimes.
"My feelings on fiscal responsibility in government have also been a driving force. I like government limited in scope," said Hyden. "I can't imagine a bigger power to give the government than one that says you can go ahead and kill your citizens."
A large component of the extreme expense associated with capital punishment results from ineffective prosecutorial methods such as eyewitness testimony. Professor Ellsworth explained that, even though eyewitness testimony is proven to be extremely unreliable, it is still often the most effective piece of evidence in convincing a jury of a person's guilt or innocence. Although the introduction of more reliable DNA evidence has the potential to ameliorate inequities and inefficiencies in the justice system and may, as Ellsworth noted, have lead to decreased support for the death penalty as it exposed an astounding number of wrongful convictions, Carroll, Clifton, Ellsworth, and Hyden all agree that the death penalty is just too flawed to continue.
"Beyond the glaring act of taking a life that is understood as sacred," wrote Carroll, "since 1973 more than 150 people, the current total is up to 157, have been exonerated due to evidence of their innocence."
All four referenced this significant number of exonerations in their accounts. As Hyden sees it, American taxpayers and citizens do not want to see another big, ineffective, and expensive government program especially if it leads to deeply unethical outcomes.
"Americans don't want another big government program that doesn't work," said Hyden.
Carroll, Clifton, and Hyden all point to the punishment's inefficacy as a deterrent as yet another significant way in which the penalty is ineffective and unfair.
"Plagued with racial bias," wrote Carroll, "the death penalty additionally does not serve as a deterrent to violent crime."
All four anti-death penalty advocates are confident that this body of evidence will convince the population beyond a shadow of a doubt that the death penalty should be abolished in the foreseeable future. Ellsworth expects to see an end to the death penalty in the next twenty years or so. Hyden and Clifton both feel that ending capital punishment will be a function of increased education about the adverse effects and anti-life nature of the penalty.
Clifton pointed to bipartisan House Bill 316 in the Texas state legislature as an example of an effective localized measure to make capital punishment less likely and thus bring about its demise. The bill requires that juries are required to be made aware of the alternative of lifetime without parole in cases involving heinous crimes that are otherwise thought to merit the death penalty. Hyden, too, pointed out that this is a particular facet of criminal punishment of which many Americans, including those who comprise juries, are unaware. All have hope that through discussion of the issues consensus and unity will be reached.
"When we have all of the faiths speaking out in unison about the dignity of life and the ability for people to change and to be reconciled," said Clifton. "It's very very powerful when all of the faith leaders speak out in unison."


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Tyra is our Pre-School Director
Tyra has 10 years of ballet, dancing 2 years on the Kettering Civic Ballet under RIta Hoefler.
She began gymnastics at age of 11 as a member of Twigs 1st team under Tom Jones. High School Gymnastics followed at Fairmont West.
At 16 she began teaching gymnastics for Dayton YWCA. She then taught instructional classes and pre-team while managing Twigs on Linden Ave. in Miamisburg for several years. She spent six years in Texas and continued teaching. Once back in Kettering, Tyra taught part time at Twigs for several more years.
After taking a 12 year break to pursue photography, Tyra came to PGA to become Pre-school Director and continue her passion for teaching gymnastics to Preschoolers.
Married 40 years to Bret, she has raised two boys and a girl, and now enjoys motorcycling, gardening and photography.


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LondonEM is proud to be part of the FOAM community, committed to showcasing Emergency Medicine in London in particular. Our aim is to enhance online education and experience of Emergency Medicine trainees across London and beyond. London has a number of world leading emergency departments and major trauma centres which we are keen to shout about. We also have a vast array of postgraduate Emergency Medicine Fellowship opportunities for trainees keen to broaden their EM training or those who just want more strings to their bow.
Our aim is to produce interesting educational blogs with a London angle, as well as provide practical guides and resources for day-to-day EM 'shop-floor' work. We will also have an interesting collection of cases covering the breadth of Emergency Medicine to stimulate our users as well as provide guidance on how trainees can progress with their postgraduate exams, with the help of trainees who have already jumped that hurdle. We are also keen to display our vast EM Ultrasound library of images and cases. In the near future, we plan to develop a library of useful videos and podcasts for users to consume at leisure. The latter will involve invaluable contributions from our keen London medical students and budding EM trainees, who are keen for a platform too.
As anyone who is familiar with the concept of FOAM knows, none of these will be possible without an army of contributors and collaborators, all of whom we thank in advance and are forever indebted to, and will have to adhere to the GMC guidelines on social media and online publications. That said, while we will strive to ensure accuracy and make sure our contents are up-to-date and relevant, it is important that users understand we do not accept any liability and that they consume the materials on the site as one part of a wide library of resource from which they draw their medical opinion and skills.
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KSKHH is bound to have naughty jokes: Neha Sharma
Newbie Neha Sharma is entirely convinced about Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum after shooting for it. However, the pretty girl admits that she had a few reservations before signing on the dotted line.bollywood Updated: Jul 10, 2012 15:15 IST
Newbie Neha Sharma is entirely convinced about
after shooting for it. However, the pretty girl admits that she had a few reservations before signing on the dotted line. When the makers told her about its risqué content, she was in two minds. Not to mention the reservations she had about her parents' reactions on seeing their daughter in a naughty, adult comedy.
"You have to see the film to believe it," says Neha in an animated tone, "Writer-director Sachin Yardi has really pushed the envelope with the humor. In fact we actors sometimes didn't get the jokes despite the fact that they were hardly subtle. Like for example the scene where I say 'mujhe bade achche lagte hain'. I got it after a while but this elderly lady to whom I mouth the line didn't get it long after the scene was shot. Or this age-old joke about 'Rosemary Lelo', which I wasn't aware of. So many of us turned red when we were explained what these meant. I wonder how my mom will react."
"Now that I have done it I am really happy. It's a full-on commercial entertainer that the audience is going to enjoy to bits. I just hope that my parents are 'kool' with the fun and humour", laughs Neha who has also done a small lesbian angle with Sarah-Jane Dias in the film.
Though Neha had convinced herself that the film's genre required naughty jokes and in-your-face one-liners, unlike other actors, she made sure she didn't check the monitor after she had given the shot.
"Arrey, it's very embarrassing to be seeing my own dialogues on screen", laughs Neha, "After canning a shot when everyone from Riteish to Tusshar rushed around the monitor to check how they had done, I stayed away from it. Even when someone called me to say that it was a job done well, I shut my eyes. Guess I won't be able to avoid that while dubbing."
She understands though that being in the show business comes with its own challenges and after being just two films old in the industry, she is coping with its ways and requirements.
"Still, there are boundaries set", says Neha, "See,
... is a sex comedy so there are bound to be naughty jokes. I had my inhibitions initially but I recognize that it's going to be an out-and-out commercial entertainer so fingers crossed. The reaction to the promos has been outstanding!"


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Getting excited for spring weather!
With the spring fast approaching, I am finally getting excited. This means that I will finally be able to put up my old 80m inverted V antenna (for use with my receiver) and my newly built J-Pole. I also have a 2m loop that needs to be installed. This will give me much greater range for VHF / UHF. I also plan on getting on to some more digital modes such as APRS (via RF) and packet.
I finally joined my local club again after about 14 years of inactivity . There's been a lot of interest in digital modes lately and our club has installed two APRS nodes (using scrounged up equipment) and packet is coming back online as well. As you can probably tell, I am quite excited to get back into the hobby.
Also, one must not forget that spring means BASEBALL! Go Blue Jays!
73 for now.