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For President Obama and Congress to Subsidize Egypt Today Is to Underwrite Murder
Dead protesters litter the streets of Cairo. So much for Secretary of State John Kerry's theory that Egypt's military rulers "were restoring democracy." Unfortunately, the dead will have trouble voting in the new and improved Egypt.
Instead of acting as the regime's enabler, the Obama administration should "reset" relations with Cairo. The U.S. should cut off all aid and withdraw America's ambassador. If Washington has any influence to exercise, it should do so quietly and informally.
U.S. policy toward Egypt has rarely taken the Egyptian people into account. The $75 billion provided in "aid" over the years was mostly a payoff to successive dictators and their military praetorian guards. All that Washington worried about was "stability."
The armed services became a privileged caste, with sons following fathers into the military. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces controls as much as 40 percent of the economy, causing the generals to worry more about personal privilege than national security. Observed the Economist: "combat is perhaps [the military's] least‐developed skill."
However, after the police were unable to quell protests against Hosni Mubarak in 2011, the army abandoned the dictator in an attempt to save the system. SCAF ruled until last year's presidential election, which came down to a contest between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Ancien Regime. Secular liberals demonstrated little support.
The run‐off featured the Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi against Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafik. Many Egyptians viewed Morsi as the lesser of two evils and gave him a narrow victory. Reports circulated—well-sourced but impossible to verify—that SCAF had intended to proclaim Shafik the victor, but backed down after the Brotherhood threatened to expose the vote fraud.
The Brotherhood is no friend of liberty but its membership broadened after the movement emerged from underground, when it was persecuted by successive dictators. Morsi had an opportunity to establish his organization's democratic bona fides. Alas, little good came from his brief term in office. He made few economic reforms, expanded his powers through decree, presided over rising persecution of Coptic Christians, and failed to reach out to disaffected Egyptians who only reluctantly voted for him.
Yet Morsi's opponents were no better. The International Crisis Group criticized them for "Viewing election results as altogether meaningless, demanding oftentimes disproportionate representation in decision‐making bodies; challenging the basic principle of popular will; and yielding to the growing temptation of extra‐institutional means, be it street agitation or calls for judicial or military intervention."
Moreover, the Mubarak state remained largely intact and obstructed Morsi at every turn. The police disappeared from the streets, allowing crime to surge; they even refused to protect the Brotherhood's headquarters from mob attack. Mubarak‐appointed judges tossed out the elected, Islamist‐dominated legislature.
Fouad Ajami of the Hoover Institution noted that "The feloul, the remnants of the old regime, still had the commanding heights of the economy." Anti‐Morsi businessmen and officials may have helped manufacture debilitating electricity and gasoline shortages. After pledging loyalty to Morsi, Gen. Abdul‐Fattah al‐Sisi worked with the Tamarod movement, which organized the massive demonstrations used to justify military rule.
It would have taken extraordinary skill, forbearance, and luck, none of which President Morsi possessed, to have succeeded. Had the opposition simply waited Morsi would have discredited political Islam—democratically. In this way, argued Reuel Marc Gerecht of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies: "The Egyptian military may have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory."
Instead, Morsi's disparate opponents backed SCAF in staging the July 3 coup: the president removed, his top aides arrested, his movement's media shuttered and journalists arrested, the president and others charged with fanciful offenses, and his supporters gunned down in the streets.
Certainly it was an odd way to go about "restoring democracy." David Kramer, Freedom House's president, cited a "significant decline in most of the country's democratic institutions" after Morsi's ouster.
What the al‐Sisi government actually restored was the old Mubarak structure. The military, "long a cancer on Egyptian society," in Gerecht's words, regained its preeminent political role. Gen. al‐Sisi selected a Mubarak jurist as acting president. The regime appointed 25 provincial governors, of whom 17 were military generals, two were police officials, and two were Mubarak judges.
The Interior Ministry reestablished its special departments devoted to monitoring political and religious "extremism." The discredited police, who fought for Mubarak until the end, returned to their posts. Overall, reported the Washington Post: "Egypt's new power dynamic, following the July 3 coup that ousted Morsi, is eerily familiar. Gone are the Islamist rulers from the once‐banned Muslim Brotherhood. Back are the faces of the old guard, many closely linked to Mubarak's reign or to the all‐powerful generals."
Egypt's liberals sought to ride to power atop army tanks. The Coptic Christian minority hoped to shelter for protection behind those same tanks. Yet the Mubarak‐era institutions and officials jailed and tortured liberals and persecuted and oppressed Copts. The latter groups are likely to find that they are nothing more than helpless adornments for Western view.
Unsurprisingly, the Brotherhood resisted the military's demand for abject surrender: stop protests against the coup with no guarantee of meaningful political participation in the future, let alone the prospect that a future election victory would be honored. The movement's only leverage came from being on the street. In fact, the Brotherhood was in a similar position in 1954 when it backed protestors who demanded that the government, recently taken over by Gamel Abdel Nasser, institute democracy and release political prisoners. Nasser promised elections and the demonstrators went home. Nasser then targeted opposition forces, including six Brotherhood leaders who were executed.
The military regime seemed similarly determined to destroy the Brotherhood. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), sent to Egypt as an envoy, said: "You could tell people were itching for a fight."
And Gen. al‐Sisi and his fellow generals chose violence over conciliation. Reported the Washington Post, "Two weeks before the bloody crackdown in Cairo, the Obama administration, working with European and Persian Gulf allies, believed it was close to a deal to have Islamist supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi disband street encampments in return for a pledge of nonviolence from Egypt's interim authorities. But the military‐backed government rejected the deal and ordered its security forces to break up the protests."
The military government acknowledged over 600 dead, and the toll almost certainly was much higher. There were reports of police dressed as civilians shooting to provide a pretext for security forces. Many of the killings appeared to be deliberate. Abigail Hauslohner and Sharaf al‐Hourani reported for the Washington Post: "government forces were unleashing sniper fire that seemed indiscriminate. Along with scores of Morsi supporters, those who were felled included two journalists and the teenage daughter of a prominent Brotherhood leader." Sheriff Mansour of the Committee to Protect Journalists decried the "systematic" targeting of the press: "We haven't seen in Egypt's history this many attacks against journalists."
The slaughter in Cairo sparked more violence nationwide, including Brotherhood attacks on government buildings and Coptic churches. These actions were horrid and wrong, but not surprising: the authorities were killing civilians and the Copts were backing the authorities. Indeed, Coptic Pope Tawadros II had appeared on the stage with Gen. al‐Sisi when the latter announced Morsi's ouster.
In the near future the army has the advantage. Civilian mobs have joined the police and army against protestors. The Brotherhood's resistance, demonized by a captive media largely supporting the coup, has won the group few friends.
However, the movement is well‐organized nationwide. It survived prior attempts suppression. Pollster Shibley Telhami argued that President Morsi overestimated the Egyptian people's Islamic identity, but "now, with their violent repression of the Brotherhood, the generals who ousted Morsi risk underestimating it." After all, the Brotherhood is closer to the average Egyptian than the liberals, secularists, and Christians backing the coup. Argued Gerecht: "the Westernization of the Egyptian poor has been in retreat for more than 40 years."
By suppressing the Brotherhood, killing demonstrators, and closing political space to Islamists the government is encouraging the rise of a more radical and violent leadership. Angry younger members may now challenge more moderate leaders or join more combative splinter groups. Financial Times columnist David Gardner warned: "Driving the Brotherhood back underground, alongside harder‐line Islamist activists still trying to outflank them, is an assured recipe for prolonged bloodshed." Indeed, the head of al‐Qaeda, Ayman al‐Zawahiri, was radicalized when as a member of the Brotherhood he was imprisoned and tortured during a prior crackdown.
Continuing civil disorder is almost certain, with violence "likely to become a constant feature of Egyptian life and politics," warned Eric Trager of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Terrorism may follow, targeting government officials and facilities, Coptic churches, and tourist sites. Islamists fought a similar campaign against the Mubarak dictatorship two decades ago. The International Crisis Group pointed to attacks by Islamic radicals (not the Brotherhood) in the Sinai against government security forces as "equally ominous signs of possible deterioration toward low‐scale insurgency as disenfranchised citizens lose any remaining trust in the political process."
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) worried that Gen al‐Sisi was "going to create an insurgency for generations to come." Iraq offers a frightening, if thankfully less likely, specter for the future. Full‐scale civil war in Algeria following the military's suppression of Islamists on the verge of electoral victory in 1992 also claimed tens of thousands of lives.
In any conflict there will be little room for liberal and democratic values. Nor does Gen. al‐Sisi seem to hold these values. He is said to view himself as a "man of destiny" and Sen. Graham found the general "a little bit intoxicated by power." In 2006 Gen. al‐Sisi wrote a paper while studying at the U.S. Army War College which, reported Trager, reflected "Mubarak's obsession with preventing Western pressure to democratize."
The Obama administration ignored U.S. law requiring an aid cut‐off after a coup because it wanted to preserve its "leverage." Unfortunately, by refusing to end assistance the administration demonstrated that the Egyptian government can do anything, except, perhaps, attack Israel, and the money will still flow. Which means America has no leverage. Only by ending assistance will Washington regain any leverage—still likely to be minimal, with Persian Gulf states having pledged $12 billion for Cairo.
Despite having provided $75 billion over the years Washington has consistently demonstrated its impotence in Cairo: The administration wanted to preserve the Mubarak dictatorship, urged President Morsi to govern more inclusively, objected to the army coup, urged the military regime to include the Brotherhood in its political roadmap, and opposed the bloody crackdown. Washington has been reduced to begging the military to promote reconciliation and provide a speedy roadmap back to democracy. One unnamed official admitted to the New York Times: "what we say might not be part of their calculus."
To show its displeasure the administration delayed the delivery of F‐16s, which Egypt can live without. The president also announced cancellation of an upcoming joint military exercise, which the Egyptian military might have been too busy to join. Although U.S. officials have placed a hold on some small economic assistance programs, the administration continues to resist ending military aid. "We are continuing to review our posture and our assistance to the Egyptians," said White House spokesman Brian Roberts. Yet even Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations admitted after the crackdown that "it is clear that the U.S. has no leverage at all."
The strongest argument for continuing assistance is to buy, or at least rent, the services of the Egyptian military: don't go to war with Israel, fight extremists in the Sinai, and continue to give the U.S. preferential Egyptian overflight and Suez Canal transit rights. However, the generals won't take on Israel because they would lose, which would wreck the armed services. Israel also could punish Cairo if it failed to control terrorist activity from its own territory.
Cairo has announced that it is "reviewing" its strategic relationship with Western governments, including the U.S. Washington could end up paying a price for doing the right thing, but here it has leverage. The administration could respond to retaliation by ramping up its public condemnation, denying spare parts for existing U.S.-supplied military equipment, blocking loans from the multilateral development banks, hindering Egyptian imports, discouraging tourist travel to Egypt, encouraging allied action against Cairo, and suggesting international criminal charges against Egyptian leaders for their brutal conduct. The generals would quickly find that they also have a stake in the bilateral relationship.
More than Egypt is at stake. James Traub of the Center for International Cooperation noted that "silence has consequences too." Denying political Islam a place in democratic systems will not eliminate the movement, but instead force it to operate in violent ways. Said Daveed Gartenstein‐Ross of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies: "al-Qaeda's narrative is furthered, as Ayman al-Zawahiri's dark predictions about Egyptian politics seem to be proven correct."
The carnage in Cairo mimics that in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. To subsidize Cairo today is to underwrite murder. Sen. Rand Paul (R‐Kent.) asked of his colleagues who voted to continue providing aid: "How does their conscience feel now as they see photographs of tanks rolling over Egyptian civilians?"
President Barack Obama said that the violence "must stop." But the generals cannot back down since a resurgent Brotherhood could exact revenge. And the Brotherhood cannot yield since the regime seems determined to destroy the organization.
Washington's best policy is to support neither side. The U.S. should end all financial and military aid and get out. America should leave this tragic conflict to the Egyptian people.


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AVGN: The Wizard and Super Mario Bros 3
Mike Matei / April 22nd, 2008
April 8, 2010 at 8:18 pm
This is one of my favs. Awesome review, man.
April 25, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Aww why would you destroy a SNES like that? 🙁videogamehunter
May 9, 2010 at 5:48 pm
I just bought this movie and man it suck. Wast of 10$
April 6, 2014 at 1:37 am
I know the comment's old but I actually liked the wizard lol for what it was it was just a fun movie you can watch with friends and just laugh at the cheesiness always get a lol out of hailey going "he touched my breast"Vyncent
May 17, 2010 at 4:23 pm
I didn't know that they made Power Gloves for both hands. Or was one of them on upside down or something at the end?Macphisto
May 23, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Another satanic reference: The music on Lvl 8 uses a tritone, as Black Sabbath´s "Black Sabbath". This harmonic progression is known as "diabolus in musica" (the Devil´s music).Flarsson
June 7, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Thats so true:Osupermark64
June 8, 2010 at 6:33 pm
lol. " Watch your fuckn' language!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"volt28
July 22, 2010 at 2:23 am
Oh this is one of the best video's. I nearly piss myself laugjhing so hard.
June 4, 2013 at 11:06 pm
Once I saved a frog suit and fought Bowzer in it. It was glorious.DarkNeonRain
July 31, 2010 at 2:23 pm
This is the most createtive episode you´ve ever done. I didnt know it had such a demonic presens. Its so good its a sinlolol
August 2, 2010 at 12:49 pm
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SHT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"LOL and what program did you use for super mecha death Christ andthe devil?lolol
August 2, 2010 at 12:50 pm
sorry i misspellled shit.
August 23, 2010 at 8:23 pm
AR34 sound power!angery teen
September 4, 2010 at 6:47 pm
why did you destroyed a perfectly good snesmechasawa
October 4, 2010 at 9:59 am
one of the best
thanks for that !!phoenix252005
October 6, 2010 at 8:23 am
WOW that was epic!! The power of Christ compels you!! The power of Christ compels you!! Crazy man!! Thats why the Nerd is King of all games!!SpeedyEric
October 21, 2010 at 3:41 pm
My favorite review of "The Wizard" is the one from the Nostalgia Critic, because he told more about the movie. Don't get me wrong, I love James perspective on whan he first saw this film when he was a kid.
I played a little over the first level of SMB3, and it's a very fun game.
I absolutely love the Nintendo accessory battle suit, even when it's used in his fight with the Critic.
That's Super Mecha Death Christ, bitch. B)
November 19, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Super Mario Bros 3, my favorite game of all time, no fucking question whatsoever!MadHitz
December 11, 2010 at 11:24 pm
James, if you read this, I have a question: Does it give you pause when you see little 12 and 13 year old kids singing the explicit, curse-filled lyrics to your theme song on the internet? I realize that kids do and say worse things than this on the internet nowadays, but do you ever think about your AVGN character having a little too much influence over younger kids?
December 19, 2010 at 7:45 pm
One of my favorite. Funny, Creative, lot of hard work – quality product.
December 19, 2010 at 8:04 pm
@ MadHitz:
Dear MadHitz, people just watch, what they love to watch, people like to do, what they just love to do. Some people grow up to musicians, doctors, athletes, architects, astronauts and some people will grow up to rapists, killers, abusers etc. Thru all our life we see many different things, from when we're very-very young, till when we're older, than oldness itself. We see love and hate, violence and salvation, we see lot of good and evil. That is life all about – you're inside of a dual universe. every human being have it's own dream, own ideology, based on many factors, but the main factors are level of patience, laziness level and a power of will.
Everyone lives an unique life and every life chooses it's own ways. Wrong ways are always easiest at first, but causing problems later.
We need to trust in our children. We have no other choice.Mad Hatter
February 12, 2011 at 7:51 pm
YOUR MOTHER SUCKS COCKS IN HELL !!!!!! XDPokerfish
February 23, 2011 at 9:15 pm
HOLY CRAP THAT WAS AWESOME!!!damon
April 9, 2011 at 12:02 am
love super MECHA death christ……damon
April 9, 2011 at 12:22 am
smd2ck= suck my d2ck (2 replaces i)Nintendude123
May 9, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Remember when you ducked on the block for 6 seconds. There is actually a glitch that that is used for. if you run to the end of the level, you'll notice that you go behind the black screen at the end. There is a toad house behind there where you can get a warp whistle.
On a side note, this review kicks ass!maaaahkl
July 15, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Hey did you notice the sound Lucas made when he punched in the code on the power glove was the tones from Close Encounters? And also the guy who played the sleazy bounty hunter guy I thought sounded like the voice of Howard from Howard the Duck but when I researched it I found out he was George Lucas' second choice to play Luke Skywalker per Wikipedia. Just a little nerd trivia for ya!
August 10, 2011 at 2:49 am
I've never laughed so hard.ThorAcker
August 21, 2011 at 9:10 am
Great review of both the game and the movie. I can recall being a kid and begging my parent to take me to see the movie, but they wouldn't because they also thought it was an overblown commercial so i had to wait for the video. Seeing Super Mario 3 was crazy and I didn't think it was real
I am surprised that you mentioned the "Armageddon" competition, but didn't shed any light on the Nintendo World Championship that followed. It was one of the biggest things cross the country in the summer of 1990. On you game list you list a Repo Cart so it wouldn't be that big of a deal to review.Dragon_Nexus
August 23, 2011 at 9:49 pm
The first series of the Mario cartoon included characters from the first two games…..so that was kinda where 2 went.
And boy…the cartoons were certainly a lot of '2'.
Looking back on my NES days, I was nothing resembling the game nerd I am now. Know when the first time I heard of Super Mario Bros 3 was? when I tore the wrapping paper off it at christmas. For a game to just suddenly come out of no-where for me now is unthinkable. My mum rocked at buying games, she always bought me the best stuff.ParaChomp
August 26, 2011 at 12:20 am
You forgot Lucas' line "I love the Power Glove, it's so…bad." Well from what you've told us about the Power Glove…yeah.
September 6, 2011 at 2:04 pm
This episode was fucking amazing!!!! keep it up AVGN!!!!packetreaver
September 11, 2011 at 4:26 pm
BEST EPISODE EVER @[email protected]EivindYuNilsen
September 11, 2011 at 5:41 pm
Oh, nice, its a new comment poster <3SeanYip
September 14, 2011 at 6:42 pm
You got a point there, what's with all the references to hell?Elyjaah
September 21, 2011 at 2:31 am
We need more Super MECHA Death Christ.Elyjaah
September 21, 2011 at 2:32 am
We need more Super MECHA Death Christ 2000 BC 4.0 Beta.SuperSonic
October 8, 2011 at 3:15 am
My favorite video keep it up. One mistake I found though was during the review of The Wizard you mentioned that in the tournament Mario Bros. 3 was a game nobody had played yet. Not true. It actually came out in Japan the year before the movie. The same year Mario Bros. 2 came out. Read about it on Wikipedia. That was one thing that pissed me off about Nintendo during the 80s and 90s how they often kept North American gamers waiting longer for new games and systems than the Japanese. The NES included. It came out in Japan in 1983 but not in North America until 2 years later. The Super NES and Super Mario World same thing. They came out in Japan in 1990 and North America 1 year later. But that seems to have stopped since the N64. Only the N64 was also internet compatible but in Japan Only. We had to wait for the GameCube and PS2 before we had that feature. That's Bullshit.
January 6, 2012 at 1:35 pm
he means that no one in the states has ever played it yet. the movie was probably not released in japanOdieMikes
January 14, 2012 at 3:54 am
Actually, did you ever hear of the SNES Catapult? It's in the Nintendo Power episode. Internet stat-tracking for the Super. Check it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBANDAVGN_monster_fan
October 15, 2011 at 11:41 am
gotta love super mege death christ with his 2.0 bataMorganBenjaminPartridge
November 17, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Super MECHA Death Christ is the best animated character of all the ones you use.djsmaximus
December 10, 2011 at 10:33 pm
Was that "Butt Trumpet" playing the last song in the battle?
December 25, 2011 at 8:11 pm
YAR MOTHER SUCKS COCKS IN HELL!AquaLeaf
January 7, 2012 at 3:49 pm
i just thought if he really destroyed some of the stuff……. either he has another version just like it or he put it back together……. must have been fun to do thoughAquaLeaf
January 7, 2012 at 3:52 pm
also who voices jesus robot tank assault thing…….AquaLeaf
January 7, 2012 at 3:52 pm
also who voices jesus robot tank assault thing…….smackthepudding
January 18, 2012 at 6:56 pm
i didnt know it was a flute
i thought it was a magic taco or candy bar
February 29, 2012 at 12:09 am
@smackthepudding Yea, toad calls it a flute when you visite his shop on world 1 level 3Donrex1943
January 22, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Pentagrams aren't evil… inverted pentagrams are. Regular pentagrams are Wicaan and represent earth, water, fire, air, and spirit. The inverted pentagram is satanist and represents Lucifer himself.
January 23, 2012 at 8:29 pm
@Donrex1943 That's incredibly off, and by the way pentagram is only the upside down. The regular one is called a Pentacle. Don't pretend like you're a scholar, it's annoying.GustavoUchoa
January 25, 2012 at 3:52 pm
This is just the best fucking video. Even though i've never heard of The wizard (and i am kind of a cinephile). And thanks to you i don't have to try all those doors in that damn castle, i could never remember which one was the right one.acrylicbased
January 27, 2012 at 11:03 am
I always feel bad for the Super Nintendo I guess they can't melee like they used to. Is that black NES a custom job or a special release?
February 10, 2012 at 9:19 am
@acrylicbased um melee?monkeykage
January 31, 2012 at 2:20 pm
power = p
that what it means
April 2, 2015 at 10:57 am
He knows that; it was a joke, man.timatkins5
February 9, 2012 at 6:22 pm
Holy shit, the kid who played Lucas, "the bad ass" was sentenced to 10 years probation for child molestation in 2004!
February 10, 2012 at 9:18 am
@timatkins5 No [email protected]#*ing way!!!!
February 10, 2012 at 9:26 am
@smackthepudding @timatkins5 For sure, I was checking Imdb because I thought the actor might have been a very young Ryan Reynolds, and that turned up.senna4ever
March 8, 2012 at 7:18 pm
@timatkins5 I wonder if he used the power glove?dcondon58
February 16, 2012 at 11:22 pm
BEST. ENDING. EVER.AngelTorres
February 22, 2012 at 10:16 pm
February 22, 2012 at 10:19 pm
hey if u speak inglish then yo ned to se this video if yo don´t then go hell
February 27, 2012 at 1:22 pm
@AngelTorres Doesnt seem like you speak english at all. Hell awaits.windowlicker79
February 27, 2012 at 10:17 am
I really hope Super Mecha Death Christ is in the AVGN movie!
March 13, 2012 at 3:02 pm
You and I Both…JohnnyJones
February 28, 2012 at 9:54 pm
you know the guys who would do doom and quake used this to get quick movement in their games look up exploring the IDmuckspreadmadness
February 29, 2012 at 12:19 am
I know its only going on march, but I just picked out this years Halloween costume !! The angery super Hero nerd.GeekySwede
March 4, 2012 at 7:50 am
I am very curious about that black NES at 15:00 🙂 Is that just a custom NES or part of one of the many NES bundles?
March 9, 2012 at 5:26 am
@GeekySwede Might be a Famicom.
March 14, 2012 at 9:37 am
@RandyRigg Total random. The Famicom looks nothing like the NES, unlike that, and the cartridges are differently shaped.RandyRigg
March 14, 2012 at 2:02 pm
@Freddy Fiorentino I just paused it and yeah that's def. not a famicom.Isaiah Fuller
March 26, 2012 at 4:41 pm
@GeekySwede It looks like it was spray-painted to me. The shiny part isn't shiny etc.Senna4ever
April 29, 2012 at 1:25 pm
I wonder how many times James said "Califoooooooooooooornia" when heading out to make the AVGN movie?deadclick
May 12, 2012 at 9:45 pm
i love the power glove…………..its so bad.Jessyfaulkner
May 13, 2012 at 2:05 am
November 16, 2012 at 8:51 pm
I ran into my first advertisement on here…what were they thnking?!?!David Whitton
December 21, 2012 at 2:13 am
The people only said 6 once in the tournament scene in The Wizard, not 3 times. They were counting down to when the first round was over.
January 10, 2013 at 4:54 pm
The tanuki suit can turn to stone because its based off the tanuki of japanese mythology, the raccoon dog, which can transfprm into things like stone statues. They way it flew was by distending its balls and flapping them like wings and using them to glide! The more you know.Georgi Konstantinov
February 3, 2013 at 4:43 pm
FUCKERRR! …. FUCKERRR!Thomas Mahouski
March 18, 2013 at 4:34 pm
Im pretty sure your movie is gonna leave out what we all really want to see too… freakin video games
May 1, 2013 at 3:41 am
tell me where to send a video of me singing the song and i will do what i can 🙂
May 28, 2013 at 5:11 pm
I liked the Wizard. I know it's just a big movie length commercial, but so are all the Transformers and GI Joe movies. In that regard, it's a good movie.
June 3, 2013 at 8:46 pm
LOL In case you really don't know what the P in P-wing, P-bar, etc.
It means Power PS. Nintendo should of called POW!
June 3, 2013 at 8:49 pm
Damn! I knew I should Have looked what I Wrote over! God… well at
least you know its power.Slyjay
June 8, 2013 at 4:20 am
Really enjoyed this one James. Thanks. Didn't realize all the evil references! lol. Have to tell my gf about this one! We love this game. 🙂Charles Ware
August 25, 2013 at 10:32 pm
The girl from "The Wizard" is Jenny Lewis..who was also in the movie Pleasentville, and ALSO is a musician…was in the band Rilo Kiley, and put out a few solo records as well. I've seen her live…she's pretty great.
September 26, 2013 at 3:47 pm
James I don understand way pepepel are copying your theme and I just got on the web WAHT THE FUCK!!!
October 1, 2013 at 3:20 pm
Did you receive many emails by angry Christians?Kellan Mackenzie
October 1, 2013 at 9:26 pm
One of my favorite episodes. I'm rewatching them all! Can't wait for the movie, James!
October 23, 2013 at 1:58 am
12 jumps for Bowser I can do it in exactly 3
November 8, 2013 at 1:06 pm
I like how Jesus says fucker so muchMarcel Strametz
November 10, 2013 at 9:12 am
This is awsome 😀
December 1, 2013 at 4:05 pm
YEAH!!! WHAT!???….FUUUCK!lance2011
December 29, 2013 at 12:57 pm
The only thing about Super Mario Bros 3 I always hated was this. In the cartoon we had Fire/Raccoon power in one of the last shows; but we could never do that in the game.Omochao
February 9, 2014 at 12:11 pm
Did that SNES really get torn apart? D: Otherwise, really epic, esp the ending!
July 13, 2014 at 1:29 pm
Yes, he really did tear it apart. It was a fan donation that was already broken internally, and the outer casing went that funny yellow color that they sometimes do, to the point that the plastic was crumbling away. I was horrified when I first saw it happen too.SQUADxOPxNANO
February 26, 2014 at 6:47 pm
Def one of my favorite episodes. Great job James.
June 18, 2014 at 8:15 am
WTF am I watching? :O
June 20, 2014 at 12:37 am
This is The First Assembly of The Holy Kirk, and the mission of my new nerdy religion is to seek comfort, wisdom, and maybe something about ourselves and our future by spreading the enlightening words of the 79 stories charting the adventures of the star ship Enterprise. All who wish to join my online discussions say "Live Long And Prosper" as a comment. This may be what Trekkies might need to be complete, and be enlightened on the deeper meanings that each episode contains.
— Caleb CulbertAaron1375
June 23, 2014 at 3:51 am
That Wizard movie is annoying shit…"California" is it just me or does anyone else find him whining about California annoying as fuck! And I don't care how awesome he is at games, there is no fucking way he is going to know about that warp zone!Blake Lanford
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Men at Work: Stevens Alumni Continue Careers into Their 80s and 90s
Stevens alumni continue to inhabit the workforce, including graduates from the 1930s and 1940s. Several of these working alumni agreed to share the story of their careers with Stevens.
70 years of gadgets
At age 93, Kaz Wysocki '41 has worn a lot of hats in his life. He's a former three-term mayor of Hackensack, N.J. He's been the owner for the past 66 years of a successful family business, PMC Industries, in Hackensack. He's a car enthusiast who at one time owned 30 European cars. But perhaps the best description of Kaz Wysocki is the one he gives himself: a lifelong tinker of gadgets.
As a young teenager, Wysocki liked to work with electronics and enjoyed taking radios apart and putting them back together. He even built a few radios from scratch. "You have to remember,'' he says, "in those days, in the 1930s, the radios weren't portable, they were big pieces of furniture that cost a lot of money. So if they broke or stopped working, people panicked. I got a reputation around the neighborhood as someone who could fix them, and I made a little bit of money - $1 or $2 – to fix them. Sometimes it was just a simple fix of a replaced bulb,'' he says.
On this rainy morning, while sitting in his office at PMC Industries, Wysocki reflects on his career, more than 70 years long and still going strong. It was those "gadgets'' that interested him early on which led to his career. His father, John, started a machine repair shop, Progressive Machine Co., in 1919, and as a boy, Wysocki worked alongside his father, repairing all kinds of machines that were considered modern for the time. John Wysocki, who emigrated from Poland in 1910, recognized that his son had a gift with technology and repairs and began asking customers about a college where his son could develop that skill. Repeatedly, John Wysocki was told of Stevens, and plans were made for the teenager to attend the small engineering school in Hoboken.
During his time at Stevens, and for a few years after his graduation in 1941, Kaz Wysocki was a junior engineer for Hazeltine Corp., a designer of electronic circuits and innovator in radio and color television. Wysocki's job was in research in television and ultra-high frequency communications for the company, which was founded by former Stevens professor Dr. Alan Hazeltine. Another area Wysocki was involved in was radar equipment and military projects, such as the "Identification Friend or Foe'' (IFF) military detection and identification systems, something he enjoyed. But after John Wysocki suffered a heart attack in the mid-1940s, Kaz Wysocki faced a difficult choice: continue his burgeoning career at Hazeltine in Long Island, N.Y., or return to New Jersey to run his father's business. He chose the family business and turned it into PMC Industries, as he began to direct activities toward the manufacturing of special machinery. Soon, a packaging machinery division was established. One of the first machines he created was a nail polish capper, which allows the nail polish screw cap and a brush inserter on the same frame. Today, the company is known for its specialized field of closure applying machinery and his machines are in companies around the world.
Just listen to Wysocki's career and life and it's obvious the man likes to keep busy. When his children were much younger, he complained about the way the school system in Hackensack was being run. So what did he do? He ran for a school board position and won. And when he didn't like how some things were being handled in Hackensack, he again didn't just complain, he ran for mayor and, before he knew it, had won a four-year term three times, serving from 1961-1977.
And those European cars? Wysocki explains that he owned DAF cars -- unusual, small cars produced in the Netherlands for a time in the late '50s. Wysocki began collecting them, and, true to his nature, learned from hands-on training how to restore them, since many repair shops in New Jersey had never seen them, much less knew how to fix them. He has a photo album of the 30 or so DAF cars he once owned before selling many to museums and other collectors.
So it's easy to see why being busy – and working with his hands – has kept him young at heart. And he has no plans to hang up his proprietor hat anytime soon. He still goes into his office every day, but only stays about four or five hours, as his son, Peter, and grandson, Pete, are involved with the main part of the operation. Wysocki proudly points out that Peter and Pete represent the third and fourth generations in this family company. The longtime tinker, the man who loved gadgets, now walks with a cane, takes a few extra minutes to get from place to place and talks of health ailments in the past few years, but he says he feels strong and enjoys going into the office each day.
Wysocki is confident that working has kept his mind sharp. "What would I do at home? I'd go crazy,'' he says. "Working keeps me alive.''
It's a sentiment that is echoed among other octogenarian and nonagenarians contacted for this story. The desire to work is not fueled so much by finances, but by a sense of having something to do and feeling like they still have something to contribute.
On the job at 95
C. Basil Dearborn '39 is semi-retired from Dearborn Construction Company, a custom-made home building business he founded more than 50 years ago and is now based in Old Tappan, N.J. At age 95, Dearborn is personable as he explains how he handles company paper work from his home office while other employees and subcontractors handle the more physical side of a construction company. He still drives a car and just recently, he said he mowed 10 acres of grass with a ride-on lawn mower on his family's property. "I'm a little slower than I was before, but I can get around,'' he says, joking that he does drive to job sites "to make sure the guys do it right.''
Dearborn says his Stevens education really helped him in the home construction field. "Of course, we took a lot of civil engineering courses at Stevens, and electrical engineering is needed when building a house. It was a very diverse education and it's definitely helped me,'' he says.
Another nonagenarian alumnus who works every day is Lou Beffa '40, a licensed stock and bond broker with VBC Securities, Clifton, N.J. Beffa describes himself as "someone who is in his 95th year,'' as he'll turn 95 in April, and he, like Wysocki, works about five or six hours a day in a field that he enjoys. He admits he will probably have to retire completely in the next year or two. "But I'm in good health and I find the work interesting. I love it and it's worked out pretty good,'' he says. He credits the courses at Stevens with contributing to his successful career. "Stevens was a great start for me, no doubt about it. I learned so many problem-solving skills.''
Making embroidery since 1946
It's hard to believe that Joe Schneider '46 is 88 years old. During a recent visit, the owner of A. Joseph Schneider Embroidery Co. in Guttenberg, N.J., could be seen climbing up the steps of the embroidery machines in his factory to fix broken threads at the needles or empty bobbins. Bells go off when something is not right with the machine and Schneider has to fix the mistake by hand for the machine to continue the eyelet embroidery or lace work. He laughs as he says the climbing is his workout and what keeps him in shape. It's an impressive display of athleticism as this octogenarian does this climb up and down repeatedly during a two-hour visit.
Schneider has been the owner of the self-named shop since 1953, when he officially took over the business from his aunt and uncle, but he began working at the company soon after graduation in 1946. He's in the shop, a small brick building on Bergenline Avenue, every day, for several hours a day, as his schedule varies with each job order he gets. He has one other full-time employee and a part-time "mender,'' a woman who comes in to correct any mistakes on the fabric the machines may have caused. The factory produces eyelet embroidery and lace which is then sold to other embroidery companies to be put on clothing and textiles. Schneider, who believes in producing quality work, tries to have very few mistakes for her. "I don't produce cheap work,'' he says, "and I hate to waste yarn.''
Guttenberg is located in North Hudson, which was once the "Embroidery Capital of the World,'' as many embroidery factories were located in this section of New Jersey. But, things have changed, and Schneider's shop is one of but a few left in North Hudson. Schneider admits that things have slowed down considerably since its heyday, but he still gets orders.
"I have to like this business to stay here all these years,'' he says. "I work because it gives me something to do.'' He rhetorically asks what he would do at home. "I'm not a big TV person,'' he says.
The rewards of work
Charles L. Scott '41 is a partner with his wife and two sons in Scott & Scott, a family law practice in Elkton, Md. But his interests are not strictly law these days. Scott, 92, serves as a trustee for the Columbus W. Thorn, Jr. Foundation, a non-profit philanthropic group which lends money to Cecil County (Maryland) students to pay for college expenses. He's held the trustee position since 1982 and the foundation hands out about 160 student loans annually.
"It's not full-time per se,'' Scott says, "but it's as full-time as I want it to be, maybe five or six hours a day. I go over applications. It's not stressful and that's what I like. I don't need the stress at my age.''
The job has many rewards, he says. "(The foundation) performs a valuable service in the education field in Cecil County and we get thank you letters all the time from the students,'' he says.
Thurston LeVay '43 has been with QB Instruments, a scientific glassblowing company in Monrovia, Calif., for more than 65 years, the last 50 or so as president and owner. At almost 91 years of age, he still puts in a full eight-hour day, beginning at 7 a.m. He's quick to point out that his age "is just what my birth certificate says'' and it doesn't reflect what he feels. And just ask him about retirement. "When I get old, I'll start to think about retirement,'' he says in his booming voice.
"I'd retire if I wasn't enjoying what I do, but this keeps me going,'' he says. "I like to think that I'm making interesting contact with people and that I'm helping.''
One of the embroidery machines in Schneider's shop dates back to 1912, and was in the shop when his uncle purchased the business in 1917. Occasionally, a needle will need to be replaced, but it still runs consistently. A second embroidery machine was purchased by Schneider about 1958. That, too, also runs. It seems like the motto in this shop, and for these alumni, could be, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it.''


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To engage students about the topic we are about to cover I show this video. The reason I chose this video - its spectacular animated graphics that draws in students and shows them "both sides" of the bacteria story.
The objective of this lesson is for students to gain a better appreciation of bacteria (a prokaryote), and in particular it's importance to our everyday lives (i.e. the food we eat). Students, as well as many adults, see bacteria through a negative lens which portrays them as disease causing agents that must be vanquished immediately.
This is evidenced by the plethora of anti-bacterial products at our local stores. As a life science teacher it is my objective for my students to appreciate all forms of life, even unicellular forms, and their contributions to our lives.
The directions that I give students are to write down ten observations as they watch the video. I have students focus particularly on the text that is overlaid throughout the video. After the video has ended we have a whole group discussion on some of the observations students made.
Some possible teacher guiding questions:
1) According to the video how many sides are there to bacteria?
2) What have been some of the benefits of having bacteria both in the past and in the present?
3) Why do you think people are scared of bacteria?
4) Are bacteria alive?
Teacher Note: Depending on maturity of class you might want to stop video at areas you want to emphasize especially if it's a class that becomes easily distracted. In addition asking clarifying questions is a good way of checking for understanding. Area I would emphasize is the point in the video where bacteria go from being portrayed from being pathogens to beneficial organisms to our survival.
In this part of the lesson students use their prior knowledge of bacteria to read a text dealing with bacteria. The purpose of this is section is for students to generate ideas and explore questions and possibilities regarding the significance of bacteria in our lives. This activity requires students to read the text and determine the central idea or conclusion of text by providing an accurate summary of the text (RI-7.2). In addition student are required to engage in a collaborative discussion with their group members on the texts they have been assigned to read, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly (SL-7.1).
1. Students are grouped in teams of 4, for collaborative group work.
2. Each group receives a set of Four Articles About Bacteria dealing with the following topics:
3. Depending on the maturity of the class, you might allow students to choose which article they want to read and report on to the group, or you may choose it for them. In my class I assign students group numbers (#1-4) which allows me to say "All #1's will read the text on health and disease .."
4. Students are given 5 minutes to read their individual article and write down 5 facts from their article using individual summaries handout. Students then use those facts to write a summary of their article. ( 5 min)
5. After the 5 minutes have passed each student has 1 minute to share with their group members what their text was about. Other students are instructed to put pencils down and focus on the reader. (4 min)
6. After each group member has presented their text, the group is then instructed to write a summary of all 4 articles, including a descriptive and informative title that encompasses the spirit of all four articles using Group Presentation handout. Students are given poster paper and markers to create their team poster. Students are given 10 minutes to create their poster. (10 min)
7. Groups present their poster to the rest of of the class. (10 min)
The purpose of this part of the lesson is to clarify any misconceptions of bacteria and answer any questions that might have come up during the explore activity. In particular this is where students are introduced to the concept of prokaryote, as unicellular living things (MS-LS1). In particular the understanding that prokaryotes do not have a nucleus and membrane bound organelles is vital for comparing and contrasting them with the more complex eukaryotic cells.
1. Before I play the animation I handout a KWL chart which I use to assess students prior knowledge and any misconceptions. I also use this to assess questions that students might have regarding bacteria.
2. I use an an animation from BrainPop which does a great job in discussing complex topics such as bacteria and prokaryotes, making them accessible to all learners. BrainPop requires a paid subscription. Other similar choices are found at Cells Alive, Smart Site (University of California), and Interactive Concepts in Biochemistry.
3. To check for understanding of animation I have students complete a True/False handout.
4. Students complete The L part of the KWL chart.
The purpose of this part of the lesson is for students to focus on prokaryotes and to establish the relationship between prokaryote and bacteria. It's imperative for students to understand that prokaryotes and bacteria are not two separate things but that bacteria is an example of a prokaryote. In the next series of lessons in this unit we will begin to study the more complex eukaryotes which are descendants of the more simple prokaryotes.
1. Students complete a Prokaryote Coloring page which requires students to read and find evidence (RI - 7.1) to answer included questions.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to tie in everything they have learned into one logical claim, supported by evidence from a variety of sources. (W-7.1).
1. Students complete Exit Slip and turn it in at end of class or complete it for homework.
Note: The objective of this exit slip is to begin having students practice developing an argument through the use of claims and evidence. This skill will be emphasized throughout the semester since it's a focus skill at our school.


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UFO Update (33)
Posted by dandare on March 15, 2008
We start this update with a fun object…….
"the Abduction Lamp" . It is still at the concept stage at the moment, but could have potential.
Following on from the pheonix lights article, i wrote about recently…. at azcentral.com it discusses "Retooled documentary takes look at Pheonix Lights" (posted 13th march,2008); Also, azfamily.com "still explaining Pheonix Lights 11 years later" (posted 13th march,2008).
At lovefm.com "Belmopan residents report sightings of UFOs" (posted 12th march,2008), in which "a few residents in the Belmopan area saw some bright lights over the hills in the direction of the University Heights area last night. We were told that the unidentified objects were bright fire ball like lights that came on and off for about 30 seconds at a time" (extract from article).
In the UK, the halifaxcourier.com seems to maintaining the bragging rights in "Unexplained light above Halifax helps make west yorkshire UFO hot spot" (posted 14th march,2008). The survey was done by Virgin media (in the virgin media files, under UFOs)…
For those not in the UK, this is owned by Richard Branson…….
I'm sure some other local newspaper, will be claiming its the UK UFO hotspot, before long though….
Staying in the UK, the lutontoday.co.uk mentions "Plenty more UFO sightings to report in Luton area" (posted 13th march,2008).
It mentions "Since last week's article about mystery lights in the skies over Luton and Houghton Regis, this newsdesk has been inundated with readers sharing their own experiences.
From witnesses, sceptics and self-professed UFO fanatics, here is a selection of the responses…." (extract from article).
In the Islingtongazette.co.uk (posted 11th march,2008) "MOD inquiry into Archway UFO mystery" , covers the sighting from a year ago, and what has happened since… It says
"Now the Gazette can reveal that top level government agencies looked into the phenomenon – which many believe was nothing more than floating Chinese lanterns.
The Gazette sent a Freedom of Information request to the Ministry demanding to see every document relating to the Archway incident, as well as a total cost of the investigation" (extract from article).
In turkey, at toplumpostasi.net "UFO" (posted 12th march,2008) it mentions
"The sighting of a UFO this week has excited the Turkish media with pictures appearing in both tabloid style and more serious broadsheet papers this week. The flying object was spotted in the Karaköprü area of Şanlıurfa province towards 4am on Wednesday morning" (extract from article).
It goes on to mention a turkish ufo video (no link is given to it though, so i cannot comment on it)….. however, it does mention past ufo sightings in the country, which is of more interest.
Although the group siriusufo.org is talked about, but to me, it is not a reliable source of information on this topic. To be fair, the article is critical of sirius, saying that it is more interested in getting people to go to the ufo museum, than anything else. The article was done by Fazile Zahir…..
elpasotimes.com has "Police say object was blimp with lights" (posted 13th march,2008).
"A supposed UFO spotted floating over Socorro on Wednesday night was a blimp with lights around it, a Socorro police dispatcher said" (extract from article).
(not related to articles, although it looks more like me, on the night shift)
nugget.ca (north bay nugget) talks of "Fire balls likely meteors, astronomy researchers say" (posted 13th march,2008). It mentions "Dave Roscoe, president of the North Bay Astronomy Club, mused Monday the sightings may have been debris from a U.S. spy satellite shot down Feb. 20.
And he said Tuesday in an e-mail the website http://www.heavens-above.com is reporting it's not unrealistic for such debris to re-enter the atmosphere three or four weeks after it broke up. Roscoe said the site also indicates this area passes through the path of re-entry once or twice a day.
Edwards, however, said debris would be moving at a much slower pace than fast-moving fire balls witnesses have described. And he said a meteor is a much more likely explanation" (extract from article).
In the new scientist "Swarm of meteorites may solve Peru impact mystery" (posted 12th march,2008)….. when it hit, there were claims it was a crashed alien craft by some…. not me, i hasten to add.
It is an interesting article, well worth a read.
"Mysterious lights appear in WA sky" (posted 1oth march,2008), "THE mystery behind the lights which appeared over WA skies early this morning has been solved. The Perth Observatory says the lights were caused by a meteorite building up in the atmosphere" (extract from article). Looks more like its meteorite updates week….. than ufo updates.
Robbie Williams now, "[…]…is planning to splash out £2.5 million on an alien observatory" (extract from article) from stuff.co.nz entitled "Robbie wants close encounter" (posted 15th march,2008).
The Associated Press has, "House for sale: non-earthlings welcome" (posted 15th march,2008).
Also of interest:- "UFO book authors to present findings" (posted 10th march,2008).
This entry was posted on March 15, 2008 at 3:52 am and is filed under "Flying Saucer", are we alone?, extraterrestials, fireball in peru 2007, IFO, meteorite, news, newspapers, out of this world, pheonix lights, science, ufo, ufo cover up, ufo updates, ufo's. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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In july of 2004 I had Gallbadder attack and need an operation. Never know it was my gallbadder until I got to the Hospital on 8/14th/04 For one month I was walking around my body being poisoned. On 8/9/04 was in the Scranton Library. Logged on to Alien Dave. When I had logged off I heard a weird Voice come back to me. The next day was in Wilkes Barre 8/10/04 on 8/12th was in Hazelton. I was homeless at the time living in a tent On Friday the 13th was feel a little sick . Sat/the 14th,got up at 8am,came out of my tent to find a roll of dead Mosquites on my tent. When to the Hazelton,Pa. Hospital 3 days later had an operation that saved my life. I known it was the voice that lead me to see what was wrong with cause I had 2 dreams about aliens. ACShokey


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03 June 2012
By Keith Johnson
The rising Hispanic population in the
United States may come as good news to some Latinos,
but others recognize that the Zionists who helped
facilitate this epic demographic shift are also
exploiting it to employ a "divide and conquer"
strategy that may ultimately undermine their efforts
of achieving self-determination.
Throughout the twentieth century, powerful Zionist
interests have sowed the seeds of multiculturalism to
create a more generic society. Now, as we sink deeper
into the twenty-first century, those seeds are
starting to bear bitter fruit.
According to a study conducted by the National
Policy Institute "As a percentage of world
inhabitants the white population will plummet to a
single digit (9.76%) by 2060 from a high-water mark of
27.98% in 1950."
So what does that mean for the demographics of the
United States?
The US Census Bureau projects that, "The
non-Hispanic, single-race white population is
projected to be only slightly larger in 2050 (203.3
million) than in 2008 (199.8 million). In fact, this
group is projected to lose population in the 2030s and
2040s and comprise 46 percent of the total population
in 2050, down from 66 percent in 2008."
"Meanwhile, the Hispanic population is
projected to nearly triple, from 46.7 million to 132.8
million during the 2008-2050 period. Its share of the
nation's total population is projected to double, from
15 percent to 30 percent. Thus, nearly one in three
U.S. residents would be Hispanic."
Both the National Policy Institute and US Census
Bureau base their projections on trends and
assumptions about future childbearing, mortality and
net international migration. However, they fail to
factor in a predictable future that could further
dilute both America's White and Hispanic demographics.
I'm talking about a future where millions of displaced
Arabs, Persians and Africans are relocated to the U.S.
after being forced out of their native homelands to
make room for Eretz Yisrael: an expansion of the
Zionist empire from the Nile River to the Tigris and
The manufactured "Arab Spring" launched the
beginning of the end for those living in this region,
where old tired dictators are now being replaced by
even more brutal Wahhabbi regimes with close ties to
the Qataris and the House of Saud. It also set the
stage for mass sectraian warfare that will continue to
balkanize each existing nation into smaller
fractionalized sub-entities. This may very well lead
to a cataclysmic war in the Middle East (probably
sparked by a Saudi led conflict against Iran that will
be postured as a Sunni vs. Shiite war), which could
ultimately leave the Islamic world in shambles.
Once the Middle East/North African (MENA) region is
littered with millions of corpses, the ruins of
demolished cities, and the wardering hordes of
battered bodies, the Zionist entity will step in to
clean up the mess and trimphantly raise their flag
over their newly "reclaimed" homeland.
Then begins the ethnic cleansing—à la Palestine!
That's not to say that the Zionists won't allow a
few of the indiginous to remain. Eretz Yisrael
will still need caddies to carry golf clubs at their
country clubs in Cairo. They'll still need card
dealers for their blackjack tables in Baghdad. And
they'll still need strippers to entertain Rabbis in
Damascus. But what is to become of the millions of
refugees displaced during and after that war?
Make no mistake, my friend, the United States is
one of the intended destinations for these exiled
masses. As the Middle East is transformed into a
Jewish utopia, America will degenerate into a third
world cesspit with no dominant majority—Hispanic or
That's why it astonishes me that the very same
Americans who decry Middle East immigration also
support these unnecessary wars waged on behalf of the
Zionist state. History shows that Israeli expansionism
is directly responsible for sending large numbers of
Arab refugees to American shores.
The first major migration occurred as a result of
the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, which displaced 750,000
(out of 1.3 million) Palestinians from their ancestral
homeland. Though most relocated to neighboring
nations, 80,000 "officially" emigrated to the United
States from 1948 until 1966. More would have come were
it not for restrictive immigration laws.
That all changed with the passage of the
Immigration and Nationality Act, championed by Jewish
Zionist Senator Jacob K. Javits (R-NY), who
triumphantly proclaimed "Open the flood gates" when it
was signed into law in 1965.
Is it a mere coincidence that less than two years
after this new immigration policy came into effect, an
Israeli act of aggression would spark the largest ever
wave of Arab immigration into the United States?
In 1967, Israel's Six Day War motivated a massive
Palestinian exodus that marked the beginning of a
series of Israeli engineered conflicts that has since
sent nearly 800,000 Arabs to American shores. That's a
tenfold increase from any previous wave of Arab
immigration prior to 1967. However, that number only
represents Arab immigration from 1967 to 2000 and is
based on data released by the U.S. Census Bureau in
2003. At that time, the Census estimated the U.S. Arab
population to be 1.2 million, up 38% since 1990 and
double the number in 1980. Since then, the Arab
population in the U.S. has risen to 1.7 million. Of
those, the number of refugees is undetermined.
Aside from the Six Day War, other conflicts
contributing to this influx include the 1975 Lebanese
Civil War, Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the
Iraq/Iran War (1980-1988), both Palestinian Intifadas
(1987-1993) and (2000-2005), the 1991 Gulf War, and
the Iraq War (2003-2011)—all of which were assisted,
engineered and/or outright perpetrated by Zionist war
America is also host to tens of thousands of
refugees from a number of African nations like
Somalia, Libya and Sudan,whose homelands have been
rendered unliveable as the result of U.S.
"humanitarian" interventions. This exodus is bound to
continue as U.S. forces extend their reach into Uganda
and other regions of the dark continent.
The current population of the MENA region is
between 381 million to 523 million inhabitants. A
significant number of these reside in what Eretz
Yisrael intends on "reclaiming" as an expansion
of its Jewish homeland. Using Palestine as a model
(where more than 80% of the indigenous population has
been expelled since 1948), Israel's ethnic cleansing
could potentially displace 100 million non-Jews
currently living in this territory.
Considering that the United States has one of the
most lenient immigration policies in the world, it is
not far fetched to envision a future where tens of
millions migrate to America. This not only poses a
potential sustainability crisis in the U.S., but also
exposes Arabs and Africans to a society that is
becoming increasingly hostile towards Islam.
The Zionist strategy is a dual-edged sword. While
so-called "liberal" Zionists promote open immigration
and the demonization of white Americans as racists and
xenophobes, so-called "conservative" Zionists promote
closed borders and are spearheading the Islamophobia
movement that postures Arabs as enemy insurgents
intent of wiping out white Christian culture and
replacing it with a fictional version of Sharia law.
In effect, both sides of this false left/right
paradigm are setting the stage for a "Clash of
Civilizations:" a war that will not likely be waged in
the Middle East, but rather in Europe and on American
soil—with the net result of wiping out the last
vestiges of Talmudic Judaism's sworn enemies:
Christians and Muslims.
Meanwhile, as eviction notices are served
throughout the MENA region, Zionists continue to
peddle their multiculturalist doctrine in the United
States and Europe. Though they preach tolerance to
others, they themselves view Arabs, Persians and
Africans as refuse that blights the landscape of their
precious Jewish homeland.
For example: Barbara Lerner Spectre is one Zionist
Jew who left America several years ago to make Aliyah
(migration to Israel). In 2000, she founded Paideia—The
European Institute of Jewish Studies in Sweden, which
is funded by the Swedish government to promote
multiculturalism and "the revival of Jewish
culture in Europe." According to their website,
"Paideia is reviving a European Jewish voice long
silenced by Communism and post-Holocaust trauma – a
voice that can contribute to a culturally rich and
pluralistic Europe."
Lerner says, "I think there is a resurgence of
anti-Semitism because at this point in time Europe has
not yet learned how to be multicultural. And I think
we are going to be part of the throes of that
transformation, which must take place. Europe is not
going to be the monolithic societies they once were in
the last century. Jews are going to be at the center
of that. It's a huge transformation for Europe to
make. They are now going into a multicultural mode and
Jews will be resented because of our leading role. But
without that leading role and without that
transformation, Europe will not survive."
This is the height of hypocrisy coming from a
citizen of Israel: a true monolithic society where
racial segregation, bigotry and xenophobia define its
very existence. This is a place where ethnic cleansing
has left the Palestinians with less than 20% of their
original homeland; where Jews are discouraged from
marrying non-Jews; where Palestinians may be required
to take a "loyalty oath" that recognizes Israel as a
Jewish state before being allowed citizenship; and
where foreign-born Jews are subsidized for migrating
to Israel, while Palestinians are not even allowed the
"right of return" to the place where they were born.
And this racism is not confined to Palestinians.
Recently, the Zionist entity has responded to the
Sudanese refugee crisis by beginning construction on a
massive prison in the Negev desert to indefinitely
house blacks seeking asylum in Israel.
Yeah…so much for racial tolerance, right?
Here in the United States, this hypocrisy is just
as blatant. In 2010, following passage of Arizona's
highly controversial immigration law, the
Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) Regional Board Chair of
Arizona, Miriam Wiseman, stated, "As a nation of
immigrants, we must endeavor to embrace the diverse
groups that make ours the most enviable and
pluralistic democracy in the world. By engendering
fear, encouraging discrimination and fanning the
flames of hatred, SB 1070 serves to divide rather than
unite us. Arizona can do better."
Again—Zionist Jews, like those from the ADL, have no
problem casting aspersions on those who promote
reasonable immigration as xenophobes and racists.
However, it's a different story when it comes to their
defense of Israel.
Late last month, the ADL's Abraham H. Foxman
denounced Jewish critic Peter Beinart for advocating a
one-state solution that would allow Palestinians equal
voting rights. In an article, entitled "Peter Beinart:
is Right, but for the wrong reasons," Foxman writes,
"…if Israel were to hold on to all the territory,
the demographic challenge would emerge in full force.
Even if one takes seriously those who argue that the
number of Palestinians living in the West Bank has
been exaggerated (and most Israeli demographers
disagree with that assessment), the ratio of Jews to
Arabs in one-state would be near the 50 percent mark
and would make the concept of a Jewish and democratic
state, the hallmark of Israel through its history, a
practical impossibility. A truly Jewish state can
exist, as it does now, only with an overwhelming
Jewish majority."
Fortunately, this double standard has not gone
unnoticed by some in the Latino community. In a
February article for the Huffington Post, entitled
"Latinos Won't Be Fooled by AZ's New Pro-Israel Bill,"
Chicano-Jewish writer Garbriel Schivone calls out the
bipartisan hypocrites who championed Arizona's
recently passed "Supporting the Nation of Israel"
resolution bill: "Generally, The Democratic and
Republican parties and their constituents are in
uninterrupted harmony on the issue of Israeli border
security and preserving Israel's predominant Jewish
character, writes Schivone. But when it comes to
American liberals of various stripes, many are firmly
rooted in the immigrant rights movement."
Elsewhere in the same article, Shivone writes,"In
regards to maintaining Israel's ethnic Jewish
majority, American bipartisan support likely also
resounds in agreement (like most of Israeli society)
around Israeli immigration policies that prompted the
government's current construction of a $1.5 billion
'border fence'–across Israel's own southern desert
borderlands–to keep out 'illegal' migrants, mostly
from North Africa. After all, as Prime Minister
Netanyahu warns, the invading 'flood' represents 'a
concrete threat to the Jewish and democratic character
of Israel.'"
Hopefully, anti-Zionist activism will take root in the
Hispanic community. One optimistic sign that it
already has—took place on May 12, 2011, when Latino
members of the Esparanza Peace and Justice Center took
part in distrupting a shameful pro-Israel sermon by
John Hagee, pastor of the Cornerstone Church in San
Antonio, Texas. Courageously, the group stood their
ground until Hagee's secret police took them into
custody and had them charged with criminal trespass.
In typical fashion, Hagee's bloodthirsty crowd of
fanatical pro-Zionist nut-jobs salivated and cheered
as the protestors were led away (kind of reminiscent
of the Jews who screamed "crucify him" as Christ was
marched to his death).
Of course, Zionist Jews are quick to denounce any
anti-Israel activism (regardless of the ethnic group)
and have already formulated a diagnosis to explain the
Hispanic problem. Last February, Allen Elsner, an
Executive Director for The Israeli Project (TIP)
stated that Hispanics are relatively hostile towards
Israel because they are ignorant of Middle East
Affairs and are influenced by traditional anti-Israel
Catholic views. Perhaps Elsner was responding to the
Latino revolt against John Hagee's church, or maybe he
was reacting to a March, 2011 survey conducted by the
Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU), which
concluded that nearly 50% of Hispanic Americans
believe that the U.S. is too supportive of the state
of Israel.
When the results of this survey were released, FFEU
president Rabbi Marc Schneier threw a fit because all
Latinos were not in lockstep with the murderous
Zionist agenda. According to Haaretz, "These
findings are a wake-up call to both communities," says
Schneier. "We need to understand how real
anti-Semitism is within the Latino community and how
we can counter it as well as find more effective ways
to communicate the value of Israel to bolster Latinio
empathy for the Jewish state."
"This is truer then ever as Latinos now number
more than 50 million in the U.S." Schneier added. "One
out of 6 Americans is Latino. It therefore behooves
the Jewish community to reach out and foster an
alliance with this significant ethnic group."
Rabbi Schneier should know better than anyone that the
Jewish community has been reaching out to "foster
an alliance with this significant ethnic group"
for many years.
Though they may have encountered some resistance
from segments close to the Catholic Church, Zionists
have made major inroads with weak-kneed Hispanics who
have fallen victim to the poisonous influence of
Christian Zionism. In a December, 2011 article for the
Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), Pastor Carlos
Ortiz, national coordinator for Christian's United For
Israel, is quoted as saying, "There's an
excitement, a passion to support Israel…just because
we believe what the Bible says… We believe in the
Bible. And the Bible says that we are blessed by
blessing Israel and that it's our job to bless
The article goes on to say, "A growing number of
Hispanic believers take that job seriously. CUFI,
America's largest pro-Israel group, has seen a major
increase in Hispanic members over the past few years.
'We let them know that Israel is in danger," Ortiz
said. 'And that there's imminent danger from countries
like Iran. So we're trying to teach them.'"
Over the years, numerous Jewish organizations have
worked diligently to influence Hispanic organizations
and keep them in line with the Zionist agenda. The
most prominent of these is the American Jewish
Committee (AJC), which founded the Latino and Latin
American Institute in 1995 for the purposes of
furthering "American Jewish relations with the Latino
community in the U.S. and countries across Latin
The American Jewish Committee's Project Interchange
regularly sponsors Latinos on trips to Israel and has
an intimate relationship with members of The National
Council of La Raza (NCLR), a group that has been
described as a radical left wing organization that
allegedly supports continued mass Mexican immigration
to the United States in hopes of achieving the
re-partition of the American Southwest as a new state
called Aztlan. This is a charge that NCLR adamantly
denies. On its website, the NCLR states that it
"has repeatedly recognized the right of the United
States, as a sovereign nation, to control its borders.
Moreover, NCLR has supported numerous specific
measures to strengthen border enforcement."
The NCLR can more adequately described as a
Hispanic NAACP, and its clear by their funding
mechanisms that they are anything but a grassroots
organization that puts the needs of Hispanics above
the agendas of its wealthy donors: The Ford
Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The
Open Society Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation,
Citigroup and Walmart.
One Hispanic with longstanding ties with the NCLR
is Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, an Obama
appointee, and a strong supporter of Israel, who
visited the Zionist state in 1986 (sponsored by the
AJC's Project Interchange) and again in 1996. In 2009,
Sotomayor also participated in a U.S.-Israeli forumn
on immigration.
Another Hispanic woman, Cecelia Munoz, was Vice
President for the Office of Research, Advocacy and
Legislation at the NCLR before serving three years at
the White House as director of intergovernmental
affairs. In January, Obama appointed Munoz as his top
domestic policy official.
In March, the ADL sponsored 14 influential Latino
media executives, publishers, editors and reporters
from New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington, D.C.
on the ADL Latino Media Executives Mission to Israel
to "give Spanish-language media executives a
fuller understanding of Israeli society, culture,
politics and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
Zionists have taken a prominent role in Hispanic
television and other media venues. A prime example is
Univision, the leading Spanish-language television in
the United States, which is owned by Israli-American
businessman Haim Saban. Since taking control in 2006,
Saban has used the media outlet as a political tool to
spread neo-conservative propaganda that supports a
strike on Iran.
Latinos who think that alliances with the Jewish
community will help bring them into a position of
racial dominance in the U.S. should take time to
analyze the two-faced nature of Zionist infiltartors.
In his 1993 book, "A Durable Peace," Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Palestinian
statehood would inspire Hispanics to reclaim parts of
the American Southwest. He writes, "The United
States is not exempt from this potential nightmare. In
a decade or two the southwestern region of America is
likely to be predominately Hispanic, mainly as a
result of continuous emigration from Mexico. It is not
inconceivable that in this community champions of the
Palestinian Principle could emerge. These would demand
not merely equality before the law, or naturalization,
or even Spanish as a first language. Instead they
would say that since they form a local majority in the
territory (which was forcibly taken from Mexico in the
war of 1848), they deserve a state of their own. 'But
you already have a state — it's called Mexico,' would
come the response. 'You have every right to demand
civil rights in the United States, but you have no
right to demand a second Mexico.' This hypothetical
exchange may sound far-fetched today. But it will not
necessarily appear that way tomorrow, especially if
the Palestinian Principle is allowed to continue to
spread, which it surely will if a new Palestinian
state comes into being."
Again–Zionists are working all sides of every
group. But in the end, it is their own self-interests
that they are advanacing.
For more information of Zionist intrigues into the
Hispanic community, I suggest you read my article,
entitled Newt Gringo Wants Your Brown Babies, which
explores the Republican party's efforts to tap into
the Latino market, their support of open immigration
policies, and the grooming of the half-Hispanic George
P. Bush for the office of President.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
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Tougher competition awaits Woods at Match Play
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[February 20, 2013]
MARANA, Ariz.
(AP) -- Tiger Woods should not expect his next match to be as easy as his last one.
For starters, President Barack Obama was his partner three days ago at The Floridian, which is not to suggest the president had to carry the 14-time major champion. Secondly, Woods won't be competing against a Houston businessman (Jim Crane) and outgoing U.S. Trade Representative (Ron Kirk), but Charles Howell III, who gave Woods fits as a teenager in the 1996 U.S. Amateur.
Woods is a three-time winner of the Match Play Championship who has a 33-9 record in this tournament alone.
And even he knows it won't be easy.
"The whole idea is just to beat one guy at a time," Woods said. "That's the thing. There are times where I've played well in matches and I've lost, and other times where I've played poorly and advanced. It's pot luck in these 18-hole sprints like this. As I said, it's imperative to get off to a quick start and get up on your opponent early. It's just so hard to come back in 18-hole matches, and hopefully, I can do that conceivably for all six."
It all starts Wednesday at Dove Mountain, the first World Golf Championship of the year.
Rory McIlroy is the No. 1 seed and will play Shane Lowry, a longtime friend and former partner on the Irish team that won the European Team Championships in 2007. In a similar match, former U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell (Northern Ireland) plays three-time major champion Padraig Harrington (Ireland).
The toughest challenge might be the weather, with a front expected to move across the high desert overnight and bringing temperatures so low that light snow is possible. At best, it figures to be frigid for the morning matches as the sun is beginning to climb over The Ritz-Carlton Club at Dove Mountain.
"No one likes to play in adverse weather," said Ian Poulter, playing for first time since Hawaii, when the tournament took four days to start because of 40 mph wind.
Woods said he would be used to the wind and cold because that's what he dealt with in Florida with the president.
It was the second time Woods has played with a sitting U.S. president -- he once played with former President Bill Clinton at The Alotian Club in Arkansas.
"Playing with Mr. President was pretty cool," he said. "He's just a wonderful person to be around."
Woods doesn't use "Mr." with hardly anyone. In fact, he has a nickname for most people in golf. He'll shorten the surname ("Poults" for Poulter, "Stricks" for Steve Stricker) or simply add a "y" to their name ("Rosey" for Justin Rose). And what name did he use for the leader of the free world?
"Partner," Woods said with a smile.
He sounded surprised to learn that Obama played left-handed, and when asked to describe the president's best shot, Woods said that "he hit a few."
"He's a pretty good athlete, and we all know he played a lot of hoops," Woods said. "He's a lefty, but to see him out there hitting shots ... he hit it well, and we didn't play under the easiest conditions. It was blowing harder than this, and it was a little bit cooler than this. So we played under some tough conditions, and as I said, he hit the ball well. He's got amazing touch. He can certainly chip and putt."
[to top of second column]
That's the key for anyone in match play.
Luke Donald has one of the best short games in golf, which explains why he won two years ago in the most dominant performance in the 14-year history of this event. Donald is the only player to have never reached the 18th hole in any of his matches.
As for the fickle nature of match play?
Donald didn't even make it out of the first round last year against Ernie Els.
Woods is coming off a four-shot win at Torrey Pines three weeks ago, after opening his 2013 season by missing the cut in Abu Dhabi.
He took an entire week off from golf, and then resumed practicing to get ready for a busy part of his schedule leading up to the Masters. This is the first of three straight tournaments for Woods, a stretch in which he would have a mathematical chance of going back to No. 1.
All 64 players in the field are so close in ability that there is no such thing as an upset in this event, not like a Grand Slam tennis event or the NCAA basketball tournament.
Howell is the No. 63 seed, though his stock has been improving. He began the year with three straight finishes in the top 10, which enabled him to go from outside the top 100 in the world and qualify for this elite tournament.
Woods and Howell were partners at the Presidents Cup for all four matches in 2003, and Woods used to practice with him when he lived in Orlando, Fla. They first squared off in the quarterfinals of the 1996 U.S. Amateur, which Woods won on his way to a record third straight title. Howell has made a lasting impression over the years.
"You'd see him out there on the range and the putting green just grinding away," Woods said. "His work ethic has never changed, never waned. He's out there working all the time. He's trying to get better. I admire guys who put in that kind of work. It's not easy to do, and he's implemented some swing changes over the years, but his tireless work ethic is something we all look up to."
No one has played fewer rounds this year than McIlroy and McDowell.
Wednesday will be only the third competitive round in three months for McIlroy, who missed the cut in Abu Dhabi and has not played since then. McDowell returned from his long winter break last week at Riviera and missed the cut by one shot.
"I don't feel like I'm a guy that needs to play his way into form," McIlroy said. "I think I just practice, and if I feel like I'm confident on the range and hitting it well and playing well in practice rounds, then that'll translate into shooting good scores on the course."
Scores aren't necessarily important at Dove Mountain. This week is only about having a better score than the opponent.
Press; By DOUG FERGUSON]
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Legendary Boston U. hockey coach Jack Parker retires
- Jack Parker leaving at the end of this season%2C his 40th at the school
- He has amassed 894 wins%2C third all-time in NCAA ranks
- Terriers have three NCAA titles in his tenure%2C most recently in 2009
BOSTON (AP) — Jack Parker had been at Boston University about three years when, unable to convince his bosses to give him a raise, he decided to drive down to Yale to interview for the opening there.
Before he could get to New Haven, Conn., he pulled off the road and canceled.
"I knew very early on that this was the job for me," Parker said Monday, announcing his retirement after four decades on the Terriers bench in which he has almost 900 wins and three NCAA titles.
"Forty-eight of the last 49 years I've been reporting for duty for BU hockey, and that's enough," said Parker, who also played for the Terriers and was an assistant coach for four years. "It's been a great run, and I had a great time doing it."
In a wood-paneled club room in a sparkling new arena he helped build, Parker finally said a sort of good bye to a hockey program that has been synonymous with his name. The third winningest coach in NCAA history — his 894 wins, so far, are the most at a single school — Parker will step down after the postseason and move into a fundraising job.
"I always thought of BU as a family," Parker said to a crowd that included his actual family along with dozens of current and former players, including NHL and Olympic stars. "I've got two daughters and 226 sons."
Michigan has a great hockey program, with nine NCAA titles, but no one in Ann Arbor doubts that the football team runs the show there. Down the Green Line in Chestnut Hill, Boston College is the reigning national champion in hockey but there, too, it skates in the shadow of the revenue sports.
BU has no football team and a mid-major basketball program that hasn't won an NCAA tournament game since 1959. It is here that Parker set up shop, establishing at this end of Commonwealth Avenue a powerhouse that has sent 66 players to the NHL in his tenure.
"It's a privilege to play at a place like this," said former Terrier Mike Grier, who played 14 seasons in the NHL. "I think Coach let everyone know that. That's why he made sure everyone conducted themselves the right way."
Despite a graduation rate and winning percentage any major football or basketball program would envy, BU hockey was tainted last season when two players were accused of sexual assault just two months apart. The ensuing university investigation pointed to a "culture of sexual entitlement" on the team; the players, both NHL draft picks, were suspended.
Parker said Monday that he might have retired last season if not for desire to see the program through the scandal. "We had a lot of adversity to face, and I'm glad I had that experience as well," he said, adding that he didn't feel like it tarnished his legacy.
"The people I'm most concerned about know what BU hockey's all about," he said.
To Parker, it is about Travis Roy, who in 1995 was paralyzed 11 seconds into his first shift but remains friends with the coach and an active supporter of the program. Parker said the injury was the worst part of his career — but the way the BU community responded was the highlight.
"That was a huge part of my life. I'm really close to him — he's like family, and he always will be," said Parker, who spoke with Roy by phone Monday morning; the former player was in Florida on vacation and couldn't attend. "I'm closer to Travis than any of my players, and he played the least amount of moments for me."
Parker said he decided to announce his retirement on Monday, at the end of the regular season, to give his current players some notice without turning the season into a farewell tour. "That's not me," he said.
Instead, he will remain through the postseason; BU (18-15-2) heads into the Hockey East playoffs against Merrimack this weekend, giving Parker a chance to join Ron Mason and Green Line Rival Jerry York at Boston College as the only coaches in NCAA history to win 900 games.
"We've got games to play, and we've got practice tomorrow," he said. "I don't feel like I'm no longer the coach. It probably won't hit me until October."
After the season, Parker will remain with the university as an adviser to the president, helping with fundraising. It's a skill he demonstrated when he helped build Agganis Arena, which opened in 2005, as part of what athletics director Mike Lynch said was an athletic facilities overhaul that cost $250 million.
Parker will also consult on the selection of a replacement.
"I'd like to say it's the best job in the country, primarily because of the guy to my left," Lynch said. "And it hasn't been open for a very long time."
Other than that, and attending BU games with his grandchildren, Parker joked that he will "probably follow Mike Eruzione around." The former BU captain, who scored the game-winning goal against the Soviet Union in the "Miracle on Ice" game, was one of four BU players on the 1980 U.S. team that won Olympic gold.
"It will be really different looking down the bench and not seeking Jack there," said Eruzione, who was also in attendance. "I remember taking such pride in being a Terrier because I knew what being a Terrier meant to Jack."
In all, Parker has sent 23 players to the Olympics and 66 to the NHL, including Tony Amonte, John Cullen, Chris Drury, Mike Grier, Shawn McEachern, Rick Meagher, Jay Pandolfo, Keith Tkachuk and Scott Young.
"He's been a mentor and coach to so many young men over his many years," university President Robert Brown said. "That's been an important part of his legacy."
Heading into the Hockey East playoffs, Parker has a 894-471-115 record with 21 Beanpot titles and NCAA championships in 1978, 1995 and 2009. York, who played against Parker while growing up in the Boston area and has opposed him in the Hockey East, the Beanpot and the NCAA tournament, wished him well.
"We've competed against one another and we've coached against one another for a long, long time," the BC coach said. "One of the greatest attributes about our relationship is that, although we've been in a competitive situation for such a long duration, we still maintain a unique personal relationship. From recruiting to coaching against one another in big games, we've maintained respect for one another. I'm grateful for that."