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|22nd September 2006, 08:57 AM
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Defy me will you!
Hello Dave 'n friends, (and foes)
I stumbled across your site and saw your infamous words "I defy anyone to show me any principle of logic which supports this statement." on the page at http://www.dave.co.nz/space/moon-hoax/logic.html. And so, I will do just that.
To quote in full...
"""Think about it logically the Russians were ahead of the Americans for most of the space race but they pulled out and never made it to the Moon. They must have known it was impossible".
I defy anyone to show me any principle of logic which supports this statement.""
Well, the first thing to do would be to rewrite his informal statement into standard syllogistic form. I know that he didn't write it in this form, but I believe what he wrote has the same meaning, and that it would be intellectually dishonest to condemn his presentation of his argument for failing to meet logical standards while ignoring whether the actual intended meaning of his argument does. Thus, as a syllogistic string, his argument should look like the following.
Premiss #1 If it were possible to put a man on the moon, the Russians would have done so.
Premiss #2 They didn't.
Conclusion #1 It must have been impossible to put a man on the moon.
Premiss #3 If one claims to do the impossible, they are lying.
Conclusion #2 If one claims to have put a man on the moon, they are lying.
Premiss #4 The US goverment claimed to put a man on the moon.
Conclusion #3 The US government was lying.
When examining this, keep in mind that logic can't tell us whether any premisses are true, it can't even tell us if our conclusions are true. They ONLY thing it can tell us is whether our conclusions are NECESSARILY true IF our premisses are true. (You might want to reread that, it's a very important point to understand if you wish to be a logician). When that is the case, that our conclusions must be true if our premisses are true, then we are being logical.
With this argument if you accept the premisses, you must accept the conclusions. I demonstrate...
The first part of the string is a modus tollens argument, which logicians have defined as valid. It follows the format of "If P then Q. Not Q, therefore not P."
In this case it goes "If it were possible to put a man on the moon, the russians would have done so. The russians didn't do so, therefore it was not possible to put a man on the moon."
The second part takes the conclusion from the first argument and adds a new premiss, forming a modus ponens argument, which is also valid. It follows the form of "If P then Q. P, therefore Q." In this case it goes "If one claims to do the impossible, they are lying. It was impossible to put a man on the moon, therefore anyone who claimed to do so was lying." (Note that in this case I reversed the order of the premisses, which is a perfectly valid thing to do)
The third and final part of the argument has the conclusion from the second part and adds one more premiss to it. Again, it's in modus ponens form, "If p then q, p therefore q". This time it goes "If one claims to have put a man on the moon they were lying, the US govt. did so, therefore the US govt. was lying."
The entire argument is logically sound. That means that in order for it's conclusion to be wrong, one or more of the premisses leading to it must be untrue.
Now before you start attacking the first premiss as being untrue, I want you to go pause for a minute and think about what you just did. You called the reasoning to an argument faulty because you didn't like it's conclusion. Shame on you. Go to your room! And don't come out until you can say you're sorry!
And when you do apologize for that, and admit it was evil of you to suggest that an argument was illogical simply cause you didn't like it's conclusion, then we can talk about whether premiss #1 is true. Personally, I think it isn't.
A couple other things before I end this.
In the "Logical deductions" portion of the page you make reference to the Holmes maxim "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." as being one commonly used by moon hoax believers. I assume that means they are claiming that if you prove it impossible for the US space program to have gone to the moon, than the only other option is that they faked it.
You claim this fails ON LOGICAL GROUNDS because of two reasons.
"1. The theory makes no realistic effort to find or eliminate all other possible explanations."
Again I want to mention that logic only tells us if our conclusions follow from our premisses. If we accept the premiss as true that NASA couldn't have put a man on the moon, what explanations other than they faked it need to be "found" or "eliminated"? Anything that is more likely than they faked it, assuming they didn't go?
"2. Even if other explanations could be eliminated, there is no logical process which leaves a hoax as the only remaining possibility."
This is self-contradictary. Either you've eliminated the other possibilities and there's only one left or you haven't. There's no "even if you eliminate all the other possibilities you haven't narrowed it down to one".
In the "Burden of Proof" portion you ask "Whose responsibility is it to prove that the moon landings were real?" You follow this with a claim that "There is a principle which states: The person proposing a theory has the burden of proof."
That principal, whether it is held by logicians or not, (I've never heard of it, but it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of the new-fangled internet logicians have subscribed to it), is wrong. Outside of a courtroom, there is no such thing as a "burden of proof". In a logical debate, (the only kind you should try to have), people should present all of the evidence they have for and against any conclusion, whether it's the one they believe or not. Then they should look at the evidence with a detached mindset, and see what it says is most likely true. These "burden of proof" debates in which people argue over whether or not they should be required to support their beliefs with any evidence is anethema to logic.
Your statement further down the page says "When evaluating a theory, don't just ask if the conclusion makes sense based on the evidence provided. Ask whether the logical process has been correctly followed."
Um... if the conclusion "makes sense", (or more properly definitively follows), based on the evidence provided, the logical process HAS been correctly followed. In a rather belated interest of brevity I'll end here.
PS - please don't feel angered or attacked by this. My intent is to educate, not to mock or instigate.
|22nd September 2006, 11:35 AM
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I would never feel angered by rational debate. Thank you for your input, there is lots to consider there. I wish I could do you the courtesy of a decent reply but right now I'm very busy and I can't afford the time to go over your message in detail. I will do so as soon as I can.
|24th September 2006, 06:59 PM
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First of all, I suppose I interpreted the writer's logic a little differently, i.e.:
Premiss #1: The Russians were ahead of the Americans for most of the space race.
Premiss #2: The Russians pulled out of the space race without explanation.
Conclusion: Landing on the Moon is impossible.
I think I'm correct in saying that this is logically unsound. However my challenge was to show any logical process which would support what the writer was saying, and I accept that you have indeed provided a valid logical argument which does so.
I don't think it's fair to say that I dismissed the logic simply because I don't like it's conclusion. I think I had genuine cause to dispute the logic as I interpreted it. When the logic is re-written as you have done, I cannot dismiss it and I accept that (without any apology).
I guess if I wish to refute your logical conclusion, my only option is to refute your premiss "If it were possible to put a man on the moon, the Russians would have done so." Do you agree?
In regard to your extensions of the argument, I do not dispute any of what you said.
Regarding the Holmes rule, my point was that it is not actually valid to use this as a tool of logic in the first place. It irks me that people use the Holmes rule as if it was the foundation of all logic. To quote myself, "The underlying problem is actually the use of the Holmes Rule at all. Although it sounds very logical, this maxim is only useful in a limited number of situations...".
Regarding the "burden of proof", what I wrote in that section stemmed from a discussion with a group of lawyers. I followed up with some (very casual) research and found that this principle is generally accepted in legal and scientific circles. Perhaps I was wrong to include this in the page about logic but it just seemed the best page to dump it (you will note that I never claimed it was a principle of logic, just a principle). Again, I will reconsider the way I have worded this section.
In fact I will reconsider the whole page in light of what you've said. I can't do it right now but I will make every effort to revise it as soon as I can. Naturally I will remove my logic challenge now that it has been met.
I would like to thank you again for your detailed message. It certainly is a breath of fresh air to see someone embracing critical thinking. In this day and age it's easy to become disillusioned with the amount of dribble that passes for arguments on the Internet.
Finally, I have a question. Some time ago I had an idea for a website which would serve to independently examine the logic of various arguments, writings, claims, etc. I envisaged it as a public service to counter the rampant lack of critical thinking in our society. It would work something like this:
- Members of the public submit material to be judged, for example, a politician's speech justifying a war or a church leader's reasons why Intelligent Design should be taught in science.
- A moderator approves worthwhile submissions and rejects frivolous rubbish at their discretion.
- A panel of logicians rate the material on it's logic, providing comments and perhaps an overall score (tacky but scoring has appeal).
I have the resources to set the site up and I have some good ideas about how it could be run and promoted, but I lack the expertise to do the actual logic testing. What the site would need is one or more people such as yourself who are well-versed in the application of logic. Do you think that you, or anyone with your skills, would be willing to participate in such a project? It's possible that there could be a modest income for panelists but we'd need to proceed on the assumption that it is voluntary.
Thanks again.
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The mere word ACORN is politically toxic, and even some of the most liberal Democrats in both chambers of Congress have voted to cut off funding. The ACORN backlash has also put Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a jam within her own caucus. She can't look weak regarding corruption in a liberal organization – and the moderates her caucus who are vulnerable in 2010 are being targeted by Republicans back home regarding ACORN funding. But Pelosi also has her political antennae tuned to the concerns of the Congressional Black Caucus, which has tried to rally some support for the housing and low income outreach ACORN performs.
An ACORN staffer said the Congressional Black Caucus is still supportive of the group, but while standing outside the CBC Foundation's Legislative Conference on Wednesday, Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.), said ACORN's actions on the video were "very disturbing." He said he thinks ACORN does a lot of good in urban communities, but he took a hard line.
"We want to make sure no taxpayer dollars are going toward the activities reported. Period," said Meek. "And until we know, I'm in support of stopping it all until we know it's not widespread."
An ACORN government relations staffer said offices have been "pleasant, cooperative and both sides recognize this is a temporary storm."
ACORN officials say this recent PR and lobbying blitz is less about ensuring the continued flow of federal funding and more about correcting the public perception of its activities, after undercover videos showed staff members offering advice how to run a brothel and evade taxes.
The public relations effort is not limited to the Hill. ACORN announced last Wednesday that it would suspend its free tax clinics nationwide. Lewis and former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger are joining in on the PR campaign in Washington, reaching out to reporters Wednesday afternoon, holding a conference call saying they will take this investigation seriously.
"My name is on the line and so is the name of the firm so we will call them as we see them ," said Harshbarger, who is a senior counsel at Proskauer Rose LLP.
Leading Democrats are also trying to slow the ACORN implosion, vowing to examine charges closely before formally ending the group's federal funding. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) has called for the Congressional Research Service to investigate all claims and report back immediately.
Conyers, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee met one-on-one – sans staff members – with Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a long-time ACORN opponent on Tuesday, to negotiate a possible congressional investigation.
Democrats have long brushed off criticism of ACORN – Conyers once vowed to investigate, then reversed that promise. But these videos portraying a fake pimp asking for tax advice, however, were hard to ignore. They have been a viral sensation in Washington and nationwide — even prompting comment from President Barack Obama during his Sunday television blitz. James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, conservative filmmakers, posed as an aspiring politician and his prostitute girlfriend ,who said planned to use brothel earnings to fund a future political campaign. ACORN employees were shown in the video giving advice ranging from burying the money in a tin can in the backyard to registering fictitious company names to legitimize the enterprise.
But while politicians and pundits publicly dump on ACORN, there are a few very dim glimmers of hope for the group
House Democratic leaders are making no promises that the defunding measures will actually make it into the final version of the housing appropriations bill. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) says he would wait for "the facts" before making any determinations. And Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday sent a letter to Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) and other Republicans, saying he would not ask committees to investigate ACORN, as it could distract from issues such as health care overhaul, cyber threats and the war in Afghanistan.
A Pelosi aide said the speaker is not focusing on killing ACORN funding, but rather an investigation into the group to reveal who in the organization should be held responsible. The aide noted, however, that Pelosi is "leaning toward" ending federal funding.
Republicans, meanwhile, plan to keep offering amendments to appropriations bills to ensure that ACORN does not get funding and the videos do not drop out of the public consciousness.


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Review: 'Stranger by the Lake' an irresistible French thriller
Despite the sunshine, gentle breezes and placid waters, something wicked this way comes in "Stranger by the Lake," French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie's tantalizingly erotic fable of love, passion and death.
Though Guiraudie's work often circles around the complexities of sexual urges among gay men, he's never gotten as close to reality as he does in this film. At the same time, the writer-director casts a wide metaphorical net to examine that most fundamental human connection. Though the sex is fevered and explicit, the camera roaming over bodies with abandon, the questions raised are more abstract. "Stranger" is also a Class-A thriller — murders, mysteries and fear mingle alongside the men.
The setting is a lake in the French countryside, specifically the side of the lake that is a popular cruising spot. Towels, shoes and naked bodies are scattered along the shore, a mix of regulars and newcomers. Trees ring the lake as well, a respite from the sun and shelter for the sex that is more of a draw than the water.
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In the years since that first lethal wave of AIDS in the 1980s, the link between sex and death in gay-themed films has become a constant. While Guiraudie incorporates the familiar condom debate — to use or not — he sets up a variety of risk factors for the coupling couples, including a possible serial killer.
The film centers on Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps). He's young, handsome and a constant presence at the lake as he searches for companionship as well as sex. Henri (Patrick D'Assumcao) is the middle-aged loner who keeps his distance from the crowd, content to observe and engage in the occasional philosophical contemplation of love with the younger man. Michel (Christophe Paou) is the mysterious, magnetic one who seduces and discards lovers without a thought. Which makes him irresistible; Michel can have his pick.
With the stage set and the players in place, Guiraudie moves in for the kill. We witness it alongside Franck. It is near the end of the day; the place is deserted. Franck is about to emerge from the trees when he spots two swimmers in the middle of the lake. At first it looks like playful dunking, but only one man walks away.
It will be a few days before the body is found. By then Franck is drowning too. Michel has chosen him, and the passion Franck feels is overwhelming, blinding. Because they are both late to leave the lake each day, they become prime suspects in the case.
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As the sense of danger rises and the risks to the men escalate, so does the intensity of their relationship. It makes for very physical performances, from Deladonchamps and Paou in particular, who are aggressively and frequently intertwined.
In Deladonchamps' hands, Franck becomes like an adoring, and adorable, puppy, friendly to everyone he encounters, innocent until that is taken from him. Paou in contrast radiates menace and sensuality as Michel.
But it is emotional resonance that elevates the film beyond the ordinary. No doubt this contributed to Guiraudie's win of the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard director prize last spring.
The filmmaker constructs a growing sense of dread with the calculated precision of a classic horror movie. Like watching some unsuspecting teen reach for the basement door, you want to scream "no" every time Franck reaches for Michel.
The undertow Franck feels is not left hanging in the air. Henri does his part in analyzing the risks Franck is taking. The police inspector weighs in as well, questioning why no one can produce a name or a phone number for the men they are having sex with. Though the question is "Don't you care?," the tone doesn't come across as moralizing so much as musing.
Guiraudie has created a closed universe to pick apart the realities of cruising. The action never moves away from the lake, never follows any of the men home into whatever makes up the rest of their lives. Even day and night become defining elements, setting up an internal rhythm: cars pulling into parking spots each morning, Franck walking to the shore towel in hand, greeting the men he knows, deciding where to sit, whether to swim, whom to have sex with, how long to stay.
As the light leaves, so do the men, their cars, their stories. "The Stranger by the Lake," however, lingers on, menacing, magnetic, impossible to resist.
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MPAA rating: Not rated.
Running time: 1 hour, 37 minutes, French with English subtitles.
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Have you ever noticed how many different types of bees there are in your garden? There are around 4000 native species of bees in the U.S.! In the home garden alone you might see small blue mason bees, green iridescent bees, black bees with wings like stained glass, leaf-cutter bees, and bumblebees. They are all important for crop pollination, and fascinating to watch in action. If you would like to support your local bee population, and "hire" more bees to work inside your garden, be sure to avoid using pesticides, and plant a wide variety of bee-friendly flowers and flowering herbs, such as the varieties in this collection. "Bee" sure to plant some near your vegetables to draw more bees to pollinate your crops.
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Annual. What could be more soothing than curling up at bedtime with a good book and a cup of chamomile tea made from flowers fresh from your garden? The flowers can also be dried for floral arrangements, pressed for crafts, or woven into charming wreaths, and their edible petals can be tossed into salads. In the garden, chamomile attracts beneficial insects and pollinators.
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Husband of woman stuck on board Carnival ship details conditions
Crippled ship expected to dock Thursday
Thousands of people are stuck inside a crippled cruise ship, enduring deplorable conditions.
Toilets are overflowing, there's no air conditioning, and food is running low.
The husband of a Sacramento woman stuck on the Carnival Triumph on Wednesday described what life is like on board that ship.
More than 3,000 people were expecting a tropical getaway.
What they got was an adventure they'd rather forget.
When Steve Peery's wife, Cindel Pena, boarded the Carnival Triumph, he wished her a wonderful time on her college reunion trip, but "wonderful" wouldn't describe this voyage.
"Monday night was the last time I got any information from her, and it was a text basically saying, get me off this ship, it's getting bad and scary," Peery said.
Before their communication came to halt, when passengers lost cellphone reception Monday, Pena described the conditions on board the ship that is now being towed to port in Mobile, Ala.
"She was worried because the ship was leaning, and she didn't understand why it was leaning," Peery said. "There was nobody telling them anything about what was going on."
Things only seemed to get worse.
"I get another text saying there was feces and everything on the ground in the bathrooms, and they were given baggies to go to the bathroom in, and if they had to go to the bathroom, they could do it in the showers," Peery said.
The CEO of Carnival cruise lines made a statement.
"Every action we are taking is to get our guests home as quickly as possible, and to make them as comfortable as they can be," CEO Gerry Cavil said.
Still, Peery said, "comfortable" doesn't seem to describe the situation.


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This project starts and ends with the beauty of Globalweave's Linen Gauze. The fabric's open weave makes it light and airy to the touch, while its fine linen threads give it strength and durability. Although soft and fluid, this Linen Gauze Wrap perches around your shoulders in a wonderfully voluminous puff, full of charisma and elegance!
The understated beauty of this fabric calls for a modest treatment, and so I used a simple straight machine stitch to finish all the edges. Using a bright neon thread, a thin yellow line travels the hills and valleys of the fabric like a streak of light.
A few straight cuts, some quick stitches and some easy fringe-pulling and you're done. Nothing could be easier… or prettier! – Corinne
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- 1 yard of Globalweave Textiles' Linen Gauze in White
- 1 spool of Mettler's Neon Thread in Sour Apple
You will also need a pair of large, sharp scissors; a pair of small, sharp scissors; and a straight pin.
26 inches wide X 63 inches long
Do not prewash the fabric. The finished Wrap will be handwash only.
Trim one raw edge of the fabric straight along the grain line. Because the weave of the Linen Gauze is so loose, if you cut carefully with a sharp pair of scissors, it is fairly easy to trim right along the line of the weave (but don't worry too much if you don't stay exactly in line).
Once you have a clean, straight edge, cut the other raw edge in the same manner so that the fabric is 32 inches wide.
Cut off the two selvage edges, again following the line of the weave.
Fold the fabric in half so that the two 32-inch sides meet. Press the fold at one end to create a crease. Starting at this crease and following the line of the weave, cut the fabric in half so that you have two 32 by 26-inch pieces.
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Lay the two pieces out flat so that one piece's 26-inch side overlaps the other piece's 26-inch side by ¾ inch. Pin in place. The Linen Gauze is quite slippery and prone to shifting, so use a lot of pins to keep the fabrics straight.
Sew along the pinned line ¼ inch in from one raw edge twice.
Remove the pins and turn the scarf over. Now sew ¼ inch in from the raw edge on the other side twice.
Pull out the threads of the raw edges that run parallel to the two sewn lines. Use the sharp point of a straight pin to help pick each thread.
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Starting in the middle of one side, sew ¼ inch in from all four sides, going around the entire perimeter of the scarf twice. Backstitch at the end of the seam.
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Working one side at a time, pull out the threads that run parallel to the seam lines The threads are woven in groups of three. The first grouping can easily be pulled out together. As you get closer to the seam line, pull the threads one by one until you have reached the line of stitching. Use the sharp point of a straight pin to help pick each thread.
If a thread is partially caught in the stitching, just use a small, sharp pair of scissors to trim the thread so that it is the same length as the fringe.
Continue in this fashion around all four sides and you're done!


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Thanksgiving and two WIPs
Notice how Lily's holding her own bone, unlike the previous two pups *ahem* *cough cough* genius *cough* *sneeze*
Just kidding. I was too grossed out to hold the bone for her (I don't eat meat).
Lily was eyeing the cakes all night so after getting the OK from me, the brother in law gave her some.
Works in progress–the sleeves on my Akoya have been neglected for about a week…they're just so… blegh. I'm working them two at a time in the round which might be part of the problem since I'm constantly having to set them down to pull/rotate/untangle.
The second work in progress is a cowl. I'm knitting it flat and seaming because I didn't like the way the stitch pattern looked vertically. It's basically a bunch of tuck stitches (knitting into the stitch below) that creates a really dense fabric.
Have any of you started knitting/sewing/crocheting Christmas gifts? DOESN'T IT SUCK?! 😉
November 26, 2011 4:57 pm
I started my Christmas presents before the wedding. I crocheted some slippers for my mum and a necklace for my sister. I also did a granny square blanket for one of the nephews. I want to knit a monster for another one of the nephews from a Rebecca Danger pattern and I think that will be the last of the knitting. I have a couple of things I want to sew but just need the time.
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YEAH IT DOES! I'm trying out different things so it doesn't have to just all be knitting! >:x
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on the pull rotate untangle issue, try popping each ball into a ziplock bag, i do this for two at a time socks and just slide the bags back and forth with my feet, much less tangle i find


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17 May 1841 Thomas Brady & Catherine Gibney. They were married in Ireland. They had nine children, all born in Ireland. Thomas & Catherine were my third great grandparents.
23 May 1912 Floyd Bernard Moore [son of Peter Jonathan Moore & Caroline Louise Gruissy] & Anna Slaby. They had four children, all born in Cleveland, Ohio. Anna died 20 January 1924.
26 May 1933 Robert E. Ballard & Vera Victoria Mark [daughter of Thomas Kenneth Mark & N. Regina Gruissy]. They were married in Medina, Ohio. They had one daughter. Vera died 8 June 1995 in Florida.
28 May 1896 Edwin Mark [son of Abraham Mark & Mary Isabella Heffelfinger] & Delpha. They were married in Wayne Co., Ohio. Edwin died 5 Dec 1920 in Ohio.
29 May 1946 Eddie Joe Cutrer [son of Isaac Omer Cutrer & Serena Olivia Lee]& Mary Mae Cantenbury
31 May 1952 David Walter Foss & Olivia Margaret Shaw [daughter of John Rickert Shaw & Mary Jeanette Mark]. They had one son, born in Ohio.


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When Leno asked President Obama what he thought about Indiana's GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock's statement, "I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."
Obama came correct, and no nonsense. He said, "I don't know how these guys come up with these ideas... Rape is rape. It is a crime. And so, these various distinctions about rape don't make too much sense to me, don't make any sense to me."
He goes on to say, "This is exactly why you don't want a bunch of politicians, mostly male, making decisions about women's health care decisions."
YES, thank you. That is my president. And yeah, it's really sad that this is something that even needs to be said, but it's where we are as a country, and so it needs to said often and loudly.
Unsurprisingly, Romney is still supporting Mourdock, which I think tells you more about Romney than it does about that idiot. Actually, it tells you everything you need to know about the whole disgusting shebang.


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Calls for firing Michael Brown are understandable. Aptly described as "the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA" by columnist Maureen Dowd a few days ago, he's an easy and appropriate target.
President Bush met with Brown last Friday and publicly told him: "You're doing a heck of a job."
In the grisly wake of the hurricane, Brown's job performance cannot be separated from Bush's job performance. To similar deadly effect, the president has brought to bear on people in New Orleans the same qualities that he has inflicted on people in Iraq — refusal to acknowledge basic realities, lethally misplaced priorities, lack of compassion (cue the guitar), and overarching arrogance.
The Bush administration is guilty of criminal negligence that killed thousands of people last week.
Estimates of the death toll in New Orleans are now in the vicinity of 10,000 people. Whatever the number, many would be alive today if the federal government had given minimal priority to evacuation of those who had no way of exiting the city.
Now, key issues involve accountability and decency.
We should force a genuine national debate on whether George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are fit to be president and vice president of the United States. They should be held accountable.
And we should insist that the country deserves to be governed with decency.
Last Saturday, a headline on the front page of the New York Times summarized a nationwide outlook: "Across U.S., Outrage at Response."
But unless it finds avenues for full expression, outrage is apt to dissipate or implode. The many people across the country who are sickened by the Bush administration's actions and inaction — before, during and after the hurricane — need adequate and immediate ways to respond.
Donations to charities for relief efforts are necessary but insufficient. Traditional political structures offer labyrinths with many twists and turns of cooption. Only independent political activism has a chance to prevent conventional political wisdom from reasserting itself.
Yes, Bush has undergone fierce media criticism during the past week. But it's notable that you could watch wall-to-wall network TV coverage, listen to dozens of hours of NPR News, and read countless daily newspapers — and never hear or see a single reference to the idea that Bush and Cheney should not remain in office.
Could a broad-based grassroots movement heighten political pressure to the point that Bush and Cheney might feel compelled to resign? Even under the most optimistic scenarios, the odds are very long. But demands for their resignation should become part of the media landscape.
Still in effect, the conventional mode in media and politics is to complain without calling for sufficient action. The public discussion of the government's response to the hurricane has got to be widened.
Most pundits and politicians are saying that the Bush administration's behavior in connection with Hurricane Katrina was unacceptable. But failure to demand full accountability sends a message of tacit acceptance.
A grassroots upsurge, encouraged by coalitions working together without reference to political party or ideology, is desperately needed. People should insist that what has happened is literally unacceptable. If a president abdicates his basic responsibility to such a terrible extent, then he should be forced to abdicate his throne in the Oval Office.


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by Casey Cappello
In the fall of 2004, the Chestnut Hill Rotary Club organized an initiative to paint the railroad trestle that crosses over Germantown Avenue near Cresheim Valley Drive. The simple goal of repainting the abandoned trestle turned into an art contest, which turned into the Cresheim Trail Project.
Nearly ten years later, the Cresheim Trail Project is now a formal committee, working toward the goal of opening a seven-mile trail that spans two counties. Nearly 10 years later, however, the train trestle remains unpainted.
"Mt Airy USA decided to hold a contest to pick the artwork for the bridge – I just wanted it painted," said Carl Shaifer, a longtime Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill resident and Rotary Club member.
Shaifer is the man responsible for encouraging the Rotary Club to gain access to the trestle to have it painted. Even though he only wanted the trestle to be painted, he fully supports the trail project and, up until his recent "retirement" from the Rotary Club, he invested a considerable amount of his time and emotions for close to 10 years.
Shaifer wanted the trestle painted because it no longer functions as part of an active rail line. As he sees it, the bridge serves as an important, historical gateway between Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill. In its present state, the trestle is not much more than an eyesore collecting dirt and rust.
The art project for the train trestle began through the simple effort of the Chestnut Hill Rotary Club to beautify a decaying structure.
There were 20 participants in the 2004 contest for the trestle artwork hosted by Mt. Airy USA. The winner, Stacy Levy, was chosen by a committee. Levy's artwork is a sculpture made of glass and scraps of metal that depicts a forest scene.
"It is one of the best sculptures this city might see, and it's sitting somewhere gathering dust," Shaifer said.
The local artist's sculpture is not on display because the Cresheim Trail Committee cannot gain lawful access to the trail or the train trestle. Both the trail and the trestle are owned by the Philadelphia Electric Co. (PECO) because it is part of a right-of-way used for power lines.
Members of Mt. Airy USA and the Rotary Club decided that since legal access to the bridge is required, the entire trail that the bridge is a part of should be cleared and made available to the community.
In 2008 a feasibility study of the trail was conducted by Bob Thomas of Campbell Thomas Architects. Thomas has been working since the 1970s on planning, designing and building trails throughout the Delaware Valley. He has been a fervent supporter of the Cresheim Trail Committee since its inception.
The feasibility study cost approximately $40,000. According to Thomas, half of the study was funded by DCNR, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the other half by matching contributions from public and private entities. The grant for the study came from DCNR and was given to the Foundation of the Rotary Club of Chestnut Hill, and matching funds were raised by the Cresheim Trail Committee.
The Cresheim Trail Committee sees the trail as a crucial asset to the community for several reasons. The trail will connect two neighborhoods in Philadelphia – Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill – with three suburban neighborhoods in Montgomery County – Springfield Township, Laverock and Penn Oak – and the construction of the trail will provide a boost for the local economy.
"The concept of any community-based trail should be to bring people together – to bring together the youth, the elderly, families, small businesses, and so forth," Shaifer said.
Susan Dannenberg, one of the committee's primary planners, said she saw trails as being "community builders."
"Once you have a trail in your backyard you start using it – to walk the dog, to take your friends out on it, you take your family out on it, et cetera," she explained. "And, of course, it [the trail] also connects a lot of schools, a lot of religious organizations, and even colleges as it goes out toward Arcadia. A price cannot be put on the value of community unity and connectedness, but there are also some concrete, financial reasons that support development of the Cresheim Trail."
According to Dannenberg, there are many financial reasons to explain why any community should embrace the conversion of abandoned rail trails for walking and bicycling.
"First of all, there are lots of studies that have been done which indicate housing prices will increase," Dannenberg said. "Also, building the infrastructure for trails actually yields more jobs than something like the construction of highways because with highways an outside contractor is usually brought in, whereas trails are generally built by local companies."
Dannenberg also noted that government funding for trails, such as the Cresheim Trail, is usually done through federal grants, which can lead to confusion for some members of the community.
"People are sometimes opposed to trails and other community projects because they think it will come out of their local taxes," she said. "What a lot of people don't realize is that it's not always tax money from the county level that funds projects like trails – it usually comes from federal grants."
"So, it's actually a very good thing for a local community economically, but it's often difficult to make that understood," Dannenberg said.
Dannenberg also commented on the need for a trail that allows members of Chestnut Hill and Mt Airy to walk and bicycle safely.
"One thing that I've noticed about Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill, is that there are not any good bicycle or pedestrian paths organized between the two communities," she said. "If you want to bike or walk in Chestnut Hill, you have to use McCallum Street, Cresheim Valley Drive, Germantown or Stenton avenues.
"All of them are high-speed roads. "Nobody in their right mind would bike on Cresheim Valley Drive, and yet I see people biking on it all the time. As a walker, when you get to the end of McCallum Street to turn right on Mermaid Lane, there are no sidewalks on Mermaid Lane. So, as I see it, there's this real lack of connection between the two [communities]."
According to members of the Cresheim Trail Committee, PECO has been hesitant to relinquish authority over the trail because it requires a reliable and stable entity to accept liability regarding use of the trail by the general public.
"To my knowledge, PECO has not had any recent contact with the Cresheim Trail Committee," said Liz Williamson, a senior communications specialist at PECO. "I spoke with the legal department, external affairs, and the real estate department – no one in any of those departments is aware of any recent discussions between PECO and the Cresheim Trail Committee."
According to Williamson, PECO only has one concern regarding ownership of the bridge over Germantown Ave. She said PECO wants to be sure that any organization that takes over responsibility for the bridge will be able to properly and safely manage the structure.
"PECO is open to having a conversation with interested parties, whether that results in some sort of leasing agreement, or actual ownership through sale, or PECO donating the bridge," Williamson said. "In general, we are open to conversations with any organizations or municipalities."
According to Williamson, nothing definitive was ever proposed regarding ownership of the bridge and trail. PECO needs a clear understanding of the group and its goals to determine any action.
PECO may not be the obstacle blocking the trail's path to completion, but according to members of the Cresheim Trail Committee, there are plenty of bureaucratic complications slowing forward progress.
Dannenberg, who is a relatively new member of the committee, is highly motivated to get the trail opened, even if it takes several years.
"Lots of other trails in the area have similar (licensing) agreements," Dannenberg said. "I just heard from someone in the Parks and Recreation Department that it took seven years for part of the Schuylkill River Trail to get opened."
"I'm still in the process of figuring out who in City Hall has influence [over these matters], and who I need to speak with," she said.
Dannenberg has a realistic understanding of the bureaucratic process that slows the completion of any civic project, but she is optimistic about that the Cresheim Trail will eventually be completed.
"At this point, there's not much more I can do, other than to continue to build our case," she said. "I want to make sure that we have all the answers to any potential questions when we do get the chance to negotiate."


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Police say they've arrested an Alexandria man in connection with the violent rape of a college student 21 years ago.
Arlington Police say 50-year-old Stevie Brinson was arrested Thursday. Police say that in June they got a hit on new DNA evidence obtained in connection with the Jan. 28, 1992 rape.
According to police, Brinson posed as a maintenance worker to gain access to the woman's apartment in the 2000 block of North Adams Street in Arlington. Then, once inside, he allegedly pulled a handgun and demanded money. Police say he forced the woman into her bedroom, bound her hands and raped her at gunpoint.
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The rise in popularity of novels such as 50 Shades of Grey and its sequels is being blamed for a disturbing slip in the quality of mainstream standards of writing, according to a study by a media think tank at Southampton University.
Dorothy Peel, head of the Media Sciences Unit, parted her pink, moist lips, slipped her hand down towards her midriff, caressed her womanly cleft, and explained the group's findings.
'We studied the trends in word usage, combined with semantic references pertaining to the most popular reading matter over the past 20 years, and found that nationally, writing standards clearly veer towards the popular styles of the day' she breathed.
Ms Peel leaned down to pick up a glass of water, revealing a hint of red lace beneath her flimsy, white silken blouse and continued; 'The worry is that unless schools and colleges do more to re-establish more formal teaching practices, we'll entirely lose the ability to write in a factual and unsensationalist manner'.
Meanwhile, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt gripped Education Secretary Michael Gove in a tender embrace, gazed into his eyes and gently brushed the tip of his tongue against the younger man's lips.
Between panting breaths, Mr Hunt offered his view of the report's findings. 'The UK has long had a reputation for being at the forefront of quality writing. We must make all efforts to ensure that we don't allow the dumbing down of our media in this way'.
Mr Gove shifted his hand to reveal the bulge of his throbbing manhood, straining to be free of the confines of his trousers and promised to ensure that headteachers and staff would be obliged to maintain the very highest literary standards.
'As a result', added Mr Gove over the sound of wet flesh slapping on wet flesh, 'the Chancellor will be diverting 30 million pounds into the initiative'.
At a press conference at the Treasury, Mr Osborne, dressed in a blue suit and brogues, agreed.


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George Strait Describes "Every Little Honky Tonk Bar" In New Song
By Nicole Mastrogiannis
February 11, 2019
George Strait is offering up another new song from his upcoming new album, Honky Tonk Time Machine called, "Every Little Honky Tonk Bar," and it's all about everything that happens in honky tonk bars everywhere.
"Every Little Honky Tonk Bar" was written by Strait, his son Bubba Strait and Dean Dillon, and in the song, the country icon describes in detail the scene inside of a honky tonk. He sings in the first verse, "The jukebox plays Hank, 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry'/ Dance floor holds the folks trying to forget who they are/ That's what happens in every little honky tonk bar."
Strait first debuted "Every Little Honky Tonk Bar" during a recent concert in Las Vegas , and explained to fans of how the song came about, "So I'm sittin' around, me and Bubba and Dean Dillon writing, and I'm tired and it's late. We'd written a couple of songs and I'm wanting to go to bed. 'Anybody got anything else?' And Bubba goes, 'Whiskey is the gasoline that lights the fire that burns the bridge.' We go, 'What?! Okay, we'll write that.' So we did."
The "Whiskey is the gasoline that lights the fire that burns the bridge" lyrics are the very first lyrics in the track. Listen to George Strait's new song "Every Little Honky Tonk Bar" below.
Honky Tonk Time Machine — Strait's 30th career studio album — is set to be released on March 29th and in addition to "Every Little Honky Tonk Bar," fans have also previously heard "Código" and "God And Country Music" (which features a guest appearance by his grandson Harvey Strait). The King of Country's new album also includes a collaboration "Sing One with Willie" featuring Willie Nelson which the pair debuted during a Nashville show (marking the first time the two have ever shared the stage), and Strait's version of Johnny Paycheck 's classic "Old Violin."
In a statement, Strait said of his forthcoming new music, "It's been about two years since I've released a record. It was great writing with Bubba and Dean again and creating such a beautiful song with Bubba and Jeff Hyde. Also, it was a very special thing for me to be able to write and sing one with the legend Willie Nelson. I hope everyone enjoys listening to Honky Tonk Time Machine as much as I enjoyed making it."


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Pharrell Williams, the Virginia Beach-born prince of modern pop, spoke to National Public Radio recently. Parts of that interview were broadcast on Morning Edition today, including Williams' response to complaints about the lyrics to the Robin Thicke megahit "Blurred Lines," a song he co-wrote.
Listen to the broadcast version of the interview here. In it, Williams defends the lyrics by saying that they are empowering, even respectful toward women.
"There's nothing misogynistic about it," he said. "It takes the power from whatever 'man' — if you're looking at the lyrics, the power is right there in the woman's hand. That man — me as a human being, me as a man, I'm not your maker, I can't tell you what to do."
In the transcript of the interview posted on the NPR website, Williams speaks in detail about his roots in Virginia Beach.
"It was definitely a mixed community, but I feel like that's what sort of made us, too, you know?" he says. "That's sort of why our interests were what they were, because your environment is a huge influence on what you do or what you don't do. There's definitely a huge effect either way. It was definitely multiculti, so I'm very thankful to Virginia for that as well ...
"We're from Virginia Beach, Va. Wonderful place, but it's not Sunset, you know, it's not Broadway — it's another world. It's Normalville, USA. I have to say, I think it's a part of the main ingredient for what it is that we do. There wasn't a huge outlet there. The city — they didn't necessarily promote that."
He also spoke about his synesthesia, a condition that allows him to associate colors with sound.
"Most artists have it. It's no big deal ... it just means that the visual nerve ending and the auditorial nerve ending are still connected. So they send ghost images to each other."


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In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well—some inspired by a weekly theme and some not, but always songs worth hearing.
The last the world heard of Girls Against Boys was 2002's fantastic but sadly overlooked You Can't Fight What You Can't See, which capped an excellent 14-year run that appeared to be ending. Aside from a pair of one-off reunions for All Tomorrow's Parties in 2006 and Touch And Go's 25th-anniversary party in 2007, the band has been dormant since the touring cycle for that album. Fans had no reason to believe Girls Against Boys would return.
That makes the new EP, The Ghost List—released this week—so exciting: It's five new songs from a group that sounds like it never went away. The band has previewed a couple tracks over the course of the year, first "It's A Diamond Life" back in April and "60 Is Greater Than 15" in July. The latter captures Girls Against Boys well in the space of three and a half minutes: the wash of discordant guitar that gives way to that murky, insistent bass line and Eli Janney's half-sung/half-spoken vocals. Then it segues into a chorus that's almost incongruously poppy, until it becomes obvious that "poppy" is a relative term for Girls Against Boys. No other band makes menace sound so alluring.
While The Ghost List offers a fine return to form, it also only whets the appetite. More, please.


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While Microsoft and Apple are working to bring aspects of tablet computing to the next versions of their computer operating systems, one big computer maker, Toshiba, is going the other way: It is introducing a tablet that emulates a laptop in some key respects.
Unlike other well-known tablets on the market, the new Toshiba Thrive, a 10-inch Android model available this month, sports a full-sized USB port that works with a wide variety of devices and files; a removable battery; and a file manager application like those on PCs. It also includes a full-sized SD slot for flash memory cards and a full-sized connector, called an HDMI port, that can use a standard cable for linking to a high-definition TV.
Some tablets, such as Acer's Iconia, have a few of these features, but I haven't previously tested a tablet with all of them. And they aren't built into the tablet that dominates the market, Apple's iPad.
Like Acer, Toshiba is trying to differentiate the Thrive from the iPad with a lower price. The base model of the Thrive will cost $430, which is $69 less than the entry-level iPad 2. However, there's a catch: It only has half the memory, 8 gigabytes, versus the base $499 iPad 2's 16 gigabytes. A Thrive model with 16 gigabytes of memory will cost $480, or just $19 less than the comparable iPad 2.
This first tablet from Toshiba is Wi-Fi only. But the company plans a model with cellular connectivity in the fourth quarter.
I've been testing the Thrive for about a week, and found it to be a mixed bag. Its laptop-like features, especially the USB port, worked very well and will be welcomed by users who have yearned for an easier, more standard way of getting files into and out of a tablet.
Like most tablets introduced this year, it is thick and heavy compared with the iPad. Like all Android tablets, it offers only a tiny fraction of the tablet-optimized apps available for the iPad, which claims 100,000 such programs.
And in my standard tablet battery test, its performance was weak, only a bit more than half of the iPad 2's.
The Thrive, which has rounded edges, weighs in at 1.6 pounds. It's 0.62 inch thick, and about 11" long by 7" wide—shaped to optimize viewing of widescreen videos. That means it's best used in landscape mode. Its back, which is rubbery and ribbed, feels comfortable, and snaps off, to provide access to the removable battery.
Extra batteries cost $80 each, and the company offers a variety of colorful replacement backs for $20 each.
The edges offer an array of switches and ports—some hidden behind little covers—including a mini-USB port for connecting to a PC or Mac. There's a proprietary connector for attaching the Thrive to two optional docks. The device includes front and rear cameras.
There are also a couple of optional cases. I found the standard case to be very bulky. Also very bulky is the included AC adapter, for charging the Thrive, that's the size of a small laptop charger.
I focused a lot of my testing on the USB port, which worked very well. In my tests, I was able to successfully connect a variety of small flash drives and access their files, or copy them to the internal memory, using the File Manager app. Toshiba also includes a Media Player, which handles music, photos and videos, regardless of whether they are in internal memory or external storage.
I was also able to easily connect a variety of other devices to the USB port, including a camera, a wired keyboard and mouse. The USB port handled an external hard drive as well, once I converted it on a computer to the only hard-disk format the Thrive recognizes, which is called exFAT.
I was even able to simultaneously use a flash drive and a wired mouse with the Thrive by plugging in a small USB hub—a gadget that's like a power strip for USB devices.
SD Card and HDMI Port
The Thrive can handle SD cards up to 128 gigabytes in capacity—though the largest of these currently cost around $300. In fact, Toshiba justifies the low internal memory on its base model Thrive by noting that users can add memory via SD cards. In my tests of several SD cards, all worked fine.
I connected my HDTV to the Thrive via a plain-vanilla HDMI cable and it played videos, photos and music through the TV without any problems.
Battery Life
The Thrive fared poorly in my standard tablet battery test, in which I set the screen brightness at 75%, leave the Wi-Fi connected and collecting emails in the background, and play videos back to back until the juice is gone. It managed just 5½ hours before shutting down, compared with slightly over 10 hours for the iPad 2 during the same test.
Toshiba claims the Thrive's battery will last up to 11 hours in more general and varied use, and, while I couldn't test such a vague claim, I was able to go a couple of days between charges while doing intermittent Web surfing, emails, social networking, book reading and game playing. But the screen— which sucks power on all tablets—was off for hours at a time during this period.
In general, the Thrive performed crisply, handling almost everything I tried and running numerous programs at once.
However, it crashed multiple times. The tablet spontaneously rebooted once when I removed a flash drive and the popular game "Words With Friends" crashed twice. Several other apps also crashed.
Unlike the iPad, the Thrive will play Adobe Flash videos and websites, but, as with other Android tablets, this capability varies unpredictably. Some Flash videos played well, others poorly or not at all. A couple crashed the browser. And the beautiful Picnik photo-editing website, which depends on Flash, wouldn't work at all.
Cameras and Sound
Both cameras worked OK for stills and videos. But the sound, which Toshiba says is superior to that on other tablets, was tinny on several songs compared with the sound on the iPad.
Trial Software
One more similarity, alas, that the Thrive has to laptops is that it comes pre-loaded with craplets, limited or trial apps you may not want. Its bundled version of QuickOffice, a productivity program for viewing and editing Microsoft Office documents, can only view files, not edit them. A security program works only for 30 days before you must pay for it. A printing program will only print five pages before payment is required.
Bottom Line
The Thrive is a good alternative to the iPad for people who place high value on having standard ports, especially a USB port, and a removable battery. While it suffers from many of the downsides of other non-Apple tablets, it is closer to a laptop, and that will please people looking for laptop features in a tablet.
COMMENTARY: I have been a loyal Toshiba owner for at least twelve years, because they are reliable workhorses when it comes to running all Windows operating systems, Windows and enterprise applications. I like the fact that the Thrive can play Adobe Flash. That's my number one bitch about the iPad. I absolutely love the Thrive's file manager. When will Apple add tht to the iPad? I can live with a battery life of five hours. Besides it comes with a removable battery. I like the USB interface a lot. It's slower than Apple's Firewire, but I can live with it. Sue me. I like the fact that you can run Microsoft Office files, but the inability to edit a Word or Excel files is a bit of a downer, but I could live with that too. iPad can't do that. The fact that the Thrive runs Android 3.1 is a huge plus because there are more than sufficient apps available and the new stuff is really cool.
If I ever buy a Tablet it will be when it can run everything a regular laptop can, something no tablet, including the iPad can do right now. For me, tablets are laptop "pretenders". It's time somebody, Apple, Toshiba, Microsoft, IBM, somebody please, come out with a tablet that runs Windows apps and can hook into the enterprise. What I absolutely love about the iPad is that Jobs' magical device can fly like a boomerang, something no PC can do.
So what is the bottom line? Let's look at a Toshiba versus iPad specification comparison
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