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Guests: Ian Simpson, Carl Bernstein, John Dean, Jon Ralston, Rick Tyler, Wendy Murphy
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Mano a mano.
Let`s play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I`m Chris Matthews in Washington.
"Let Me Start" with today`s big stand-off, President Obama and former
governor Mitt Romney each making his case to lead the country the next four
Obama showed us a choice between his economic policies and Romney`s.
He says that his policies are based on tax fairness and a bigger commitment
to education, energy, infrastructure. He wants people trained for jobs.
He wants government to put people to work. He wants the financial big --
shots on Wall Street regulated in the interests of the people.
Obama says his opponent, Romney, would just give us a rerun of what we
got from W., tax cuts for the big corporations and wealthy people, the
pullback of regulation on Wall Street. Romney`s basic argument today is
that he`ll do what big business thinks ought to be done.
Let`s hear from former governor Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania, author of
a great book, "A Nation of Wusses"...
MATTHEWS: ... and former Republican national chairman Michael Steele.
Both are MSNBC analysts.
Gentlemen, we brought on the heavyweights today, if you don`t mind me
saying so, to address this question. Well, today, President Obama, as I
said, clearly tried to turn this election -- this is the key word -- into a
choice, not a referendum on how the economy`s doing, a choice between two
candidates to lead the country for the next few years, a choice between his
policies that pulled us back from the brink and Mitt Romney and his allies
in Congress.
Let`s listen.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Governor Romney and
Republicans who run Congress believe that if you simply take away
regulations and cut taxes by trillions of dollars, the market will solve
all of our problems on its own. If you agree with that, you should vote
for them.
I believe we need a plan for better education and training and for
energy independence...
OBAMA: ... and for new research and innovation, for rebuilding our
infrastructure. And if you agree with me, if you believe this economy
grows best when everybody gets a fair shot and everybody does their fair
share and everybody plays by the same set of rules, then I ask you to stand
with me for a second term as president.
MATTHEWS: Well, here`s the question. He doesn`t want the American
people to say, How do you feel? How`s the economy doing? They want to
say, What do you think of the two programs of the two candidates?
Well, think it`s a smart strategy, if the president can do it. I think he
did a good job today structuring -- he went real quick through the -- what
he inherited and what the economy looked like when he became president, the
progress it`s made.
And I thought he did a very good job in Ohio, Chris, of emphasizing
the manufacturing comeback, half a million new manufacturing jobs in the
last 27 months, best manufacturing growth since `95.
And then he went to the future and compared his plan to Romney`s. And
I think in the end, that`s what the American people are going to care
about. They`re going to hear all the charges about records in the past,
president`s failed, Romney wasn`t a good governor, all that stuff.
They`re going to be interested in what are the plans of the candidates
to get us out of this. And I think the president has a more viable plan, a
plan that can jump-start the economy more quickly, and a plan that has a
chance to work. The Romney plan, as he pointed out -- Bill Clinton said
it`s the Bush tax cuts on steroids.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
RENDELL: And I think that`s a very good...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
RENDELL: If he can make the election about the contrast for the
future, I think he`s got a real good shot at this.
MATTHEWS: Well, you know, I guess the question is, Michael, whether
he can win with the argument, I started in a hole, a real mess I was given
here in `88 -- in 2008.
MICHAEL STEELE, FMR. RNC CHAIR, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Right.
MATTHEWS: This guy wants to basically rerun exactly the same policies
of tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation of the financial sector, getting
rid of Glass-Steagall, all that stuff.
STEELE: Right.
MATTHEWS: And my question to you, and it`s a tough one -- give me the
profound differences between the presidential candidate Mitt Romney and
former president George W. Bush when it comes to economic policy. What`s
the difference between the two of them.
STEELE: Chris, that is an irrelevant comparison...
MATTHEWS: Well, not when it`s my question for you.
STEELE: But I`m not answering that question simply because...
MATTHEWS: I know why!
STEELE: ... it`s irrelevant...
MATTHEWS: And everybody watching knows why you won`t answer it.
STEELE: Well, I`m being very honest about it because, again, you`re
doing exactly what Obama wants us to do, and you`re a good sycophant for
it, and that`s looking backwards.
MATTHEWS: Well, that`s pretty rough!
STEELE: You want this -- you want this...
MATTHEWS: What do you call a guy that refuses to answer a question?
STEELE: Hold on!
MATTHEWS: Is he a sycophant for the other side?
STEELE: You gave the governor the time. Let me have the time.
MATTHEWS: Yes, but my question...
STEELE: This isn`t about...
MATTHEWS: I preceded his time with a question. I preceded your time
with a question. My question to you is, give me the differences between W.
and Romney.
STEELE: You give me the differences between Mitt Romney and Barack
Obama. That`s what this election is about. This is not about George Bush.
Why are we talking about George Bush? We`re talking about Barack Obama and
his policies that have not created the jobs, that has kept unemployment
stagnant, that still has some 10 to 15 million people unemployed, looking
for work, who have just given up.
What I heard today -- and the governor`s right. The first part of his
speech sounded -- began to set the narrative, but then the latter half or
even two thirds of it fell off...
STEELE: ... into this sort of defensive mode...
STEELE: ... and that`s what the people are going to focus on, that
split vision between these two candidates running for the presidency of the
United States.
MATTHEWS: Right.
STEELE: It has nothing to do with George Bush...
MATTHEWS: Well, here`s my...
MATTHEWS: Let me try one more time. If you bought a house and you
discovered it had termites and you found out the electricity didn`t work,
and every time you plugged the toaster in, you got a short, and by the way,
there was a fire because of the bad electrical system.
STEELE: Right. Right.
MATTHEWS: And everything was wrong with that house. Wouldn`t you
blame the guy you bought the house from?
STEELE: Well, yes, and the person...
MATTHEWS: Well, that`s what we`re doing!
STEELE: Right. No, no, no!
MATTHEWS: That`s what we`re doing here!
STEELE: Excuse me! Excuse me!
STEELE: Excuse me! Hold up! There`s a new owner in the house. His
name is Barack Obama.
MATTHEWS: Yes...
MATTHEWS: ... buying a lemon. Let me go to the governor...
STEELE: I`m sorry!
MATTHEWS: ... I`m just moderating this.
MATTHEWS: I want to ask a question.
STEELE: Are you going to give this analogy...
MATTHEWS: Why bring up W.? I want to ask the governor the same
STEELE: All right. Go ahead.
MATTHEWS: Let him make the case.
RENDELL: No, and I think Michael has a point. But I think you bring
up President Bush, and actually, the last 60 years of economic growth in
this country because the prescription that Governor Romney is putting forth
before the American people is the same thing that President Bush tried to
It`s not that we`re blaming President Bush, it`s just that`s the --
it`s the same formula. The formula didn`t work. It plunged us into a
significant recession.
And if you look at the last 60 years, Chris, the highest 10 years of
job growth were when the marginal tax rate on the rich was at 50 percent or
more. The lowest five years of job growth were when we were in the 30s. So
there`s no correlation between that and job growth.
MATTHEWS: Yes. And the reason we`re bringing back W. is because --
because the suggestion`s being made over and over -- and I understand why
your candidate`s doing that -- Romney is suggesting he`s a fresh start.
And I would argue -- the argument on the other side is he`s not a fresh
start, he`s a rerun.
And if you keep suggesting Romney hasn`t tried yet, we will say, Yes,
but his plans have been tried. And you deny that`s relevant. I think it`s
STEELE: I know. I don`t deny that that`s relevant. I think he is a
fresh start. I think he does have a prescription that`s going to look in a
different direction...
MATTHEWS: No, no!
STEELE: ... and move a different direction...
MATTHEWS: So he`s different than W.
STEELE: The one thing -- the one thing...
MATTHEWS: How`s he a fresh start?
STEELE: The one thing I did not hear from this president today was
what he was going to do about spending. He went off on a litany of things
that we should be investing in, more spending, more spending, more
spending. That is the crux of our nation`s problem right now! We`re
spending money we do not have. We are mortgaging the future, and I think
Romney has a legitimate prescription for addressing the spending side of
this equation, which a lot of folks on the left don`t want to address.
RENDELL: Well, wait. Let`s examine that, Chris...
STEELE: That`s what this big debate`s going to be about.
MATTHEWS: What`s Romney going to cut? Has he laid that list out yet?
RENDELL: Michael, in fairness...
STEELE: Well, look, I mean, there were no specifics from either of
these candidates today.
RENDELL: I`d agree with that. They were both speeches...
MATTHEWS: Let me give you Michael`s argument. His argument is this
president, who wants to be president, rather, is basically a Republican...
STEELE: You got it right.
MATTHEWS: ... with same supply-side attitudes as the president we
just saw four years ago. He says he doesn`t have to say what the guy wants
to do and he doesn`t have to say how he`s different than W. He doesn`t
have to tell us anything about Romney except...
STEELE: No! Wait a minute!
MATTHEWS: ... we have to give a new guy a hot.
STEELE: So is Barack Obama going to tell us how he`s different from
Bill Clinton? Because Lord knows...
MATTHEWS: No. I think...
STEELE: ... Bill Clinton can spend money...
MATTHEWS: ... he wants to be like Bill Clinton.
STEELE: ... like a drunken sailor!
STEELE: That`s my point. He -- if you`re looking at...
RENDELL: Michael, two things...
MATTHEWS: ... these two administrations...
STEELE: ... it`s vastly different in how they approach spending.
RENDELL: Two things, Michael. Two things. The president did say in
his speech that he has a plan to cut $4 trillion out of the deficit, and
that was the big deal that he and Boehner were trying to put together...
RENDELL: ... and we couldn`t do it.
STEELE: All right.
RENDELL: And the president and Boehner will admit the president had a
$4 trillion-plus deficit reduction plan on the table. That`s number one.
And he reiterated that today for sure. And number two, on the flip side of
the coin, Governor Romney cuts all these taxes, which blow a big hole in
the deficit, and really hasn`t specified in any degree what he`s going to
cut to make up for that hole.
MATTHEWS: Let`s go back to the president. Here`s President Obama
STEELE: And you...
MATTHEWS: ... saying what Romney is offering is nothing more than a
Republican retread of the failed economic policies of the past. I say
rerun. See, we differ on some things here.
STEELE: Oh, you do!
MATTHEWS: Let`s listen.
OBAMA: The economic vision of Mr. Romney and his allies in Congress
was tested just a few years ago. We tried this. Their policies did not
grow the economy. They did not grow the middle class. They did not reduce
our debt. Why would we think that they would work better this time?
MATTHEWS: How did you think he did today?
RENDELL: I thought he -- he did a very good job in framing
everything, very effective. But he didn`t say anything that he didn`t sway
in the jobs bill speech in October. Same stuff. But he did much better
job of framing it, putting it in context and giving a little flow to it.
MATTHEWS: Now, you`re with me. Or I`m with you, rather, because
you`re the -- out front on this. I think he has to have a major pitch
(ph). I think Michael`s going to disagree with this because he thinks
spending`s the issue. I think investment`s the issue. You`ve got to
build. And he -- why we`re behind...
STEELE: With what?
MATTHEWS: ... everywhere in the -- well, we`re behind...
STEELE: With what?
MATTHEWS: ... everywhere in the world in terms of what we have as
public sector development. We don`t have it.
STEELE: What are you building with, Chris?
MATTHEWS: We don`t have the highways.
STEELE: What are you building with? Where`s the money coming from?
What are you building with?
MATTHEWS: You build with...
STEELE: Do you know how much it costs to build?
MATTHEWS: You build with the decision that the business is not making
right now, that the consumer`s not making.
STEELE: Oh, my gosh!
MATTHEWS: If both of them are not spending, somebody has to or this
economy will go completely stagnant.
STEELE: We`re sitting with trillions of dollars...
RENDELL: And it is true...
STEELE: ... on the shelf...
RENDELL: Michael, it`s true that...
STEELE: ... because this economy is too weak to grow...
RENDELL: Michael...
STEELE: ... because the investor class will not invest in the
policies that this president has put forth! It`s that simple!
RENDELL: Michael, though, you have to look at...
STEELE: Yes, sir?
RENDELL: The last three Republican presidents, President Reagan and
the two President Bushes, to get out of the recessions that they dealt
with, they both significantly increased government spending, all three of
them. And that`s a fact. Government spending went up, and that helped us
get out of the recession. Every economist says...
STEELE: And they also cut taxes! And they also cut taxes, which is
why we have deficits.
RENDELL: And let me tell you, President Obama has said he`s got a
plan to take $4 trillion out of the deficit. Now, if you take $4 trillion
out of the deficit and you invest a half a trillion dollars in investment
and infrastructure...
MATTHEWS: I want to talk to politics for a second because...
STEELE: Sure.
MATTHEWS: ... it`s the elephant that hasn`t talked yet in this room,
we haven`t talked about. You know, I talked to a financial expert today
who told me all about it. He has a lot of clients who are CEOs. They`re
pretty much admitting they`re not going to -- as you say, not going to
invest until this president`s gone. They`re holding back.
Now, you can argue whether that`s punitive or smart business, but if
the basically refuses to invest, if the consumer doesn`t have the
confidence that comes with that, the government then pulls back, as you
advise now, we will have an economy which has basically decided to have an
unending recession because if business not spending and government`s not
spending and the consumer`s not spending, we are dying economically. And
that`s what you want us to do because that`s...
STEELE: No, it`s not, Chris.
MATTHEWS: ... the way to get another president.
RENDELL: It`s not. I mean, it`s not what we -- what I want us to do,
nor does it -- is what Republicans want us to do.
MATTHEWS: You just said so!
MATTHEWS: ... bragging about the fact business won`t spend. You
don`t want the government to spend.
STEELE: No, I`m not bragging about...
MATTHEWS: Who is going to spend?
STEELE: I mean, stating a fact is not bragging, Chris! You just said
the CEOs that you talk to have been saying the exact same thing. So this
is not...
MATTHEWS: It`s punitive.
STEELE: ... rocket science, nor is it confusing. It`s not punitive!
MATTHEWS: I see.
STEELE: Chris, would you make a bad investment if you know it`s a bad
investment? No. You don`t see the policies...
RENDELL: Michael, what about -- what about...
STEELE: Can I -- can I just finish...
MATTHEWS: Let me as governor -- let me ask the governor. Is business
out there -- out there -- out there taking financial investments to help
this president get reelected? Nobody`s putting any money out...
MATTHEWS: Two trillion dollars they`re sitting on!
RENDELL: And Michael, you`d agree Warren Buffett`s a pretty smart
guy. He says it`s a great time to invest, and he`s going to increase by a
billion dollars...
STEELE: Well, God bless Warren Buffett.
RENDELL: ... the money that his company is investing. So he`s a
pretty smart guy and...
STEELE: ... because Warren Buffett`s got the leverage to do that, but
a small business owner does not necessarily have that leverage.
RENDELL: And President Obama...
STEELE: And the final point...
RENDELL: ... has cut taxes on small business owners 18 times,
STEELE: And all of this stuff -- well -- well, maybe he needs to cut
it 19 because no one`s feeling it and no one`s believing it. And the final
-- and the other point that I think it`s important to make, for all this
blubber that we heard today coming out about what he`s going to do -- he
had the opportunity in his grasp to do Simpson-Bowles and he blinked!
RENDELL: Wait, wait!
RENDELL: I can`t let that go.
STEELE: When the president gets serious, then the small business...
RENDELL: You can`t do Simpson-Bowles...
STEELE: ... community will get serious, too!
RENDELL: ... without the Republicans -- Michael, you can`t do
Simpson-Bowles without the Republicans...
STEELE: Yes, you can!
RENDELL: ... agreeing to raise revenue.
STEELE: The president can come out and said, This is my plan!
RENDELL: Michael...
STEELE: He can come out and say, This is my plan, and he didn`t do
RENDELL: Michael -- Michael, you know you can`t do Simpson-Bowles
unless the other side agrees to raise revenue. Boehner couldn`t sell it to
the wacky right wing.
STEELE: It`s not what you can -- it`s not necessarily what you can do
at times...
STEELE: ... it`s what you`re willing to do, and he wasn`t willing to
MATTHEWS: We have an interesting set of vocabulary words used here
for the first time. I`m a sycophant. The president speaks in blubber.
Thank you for that elevation of our discussion!
MATTHEWS: It was a bad day, actually, for your crowd, Michael Steele,
so I understand why you got a little overexcited tonight. Governor
STEELE: It wasn`t a bad day, it was a good day.
MATTHEWS: ... well done. Well done -- author of a great new book, "A
Nation of Wusses." We`ll talk about that a couple times whenever -- we`ll
never stop talking about it. Thank you.
MATTHEWS: Coming up, "Dirty, Angry Money." Sheldon Adelson, by the
way, says he`s -- well, he`s giving the Romney campaign maybe $10 million.
There`s talk he might give an overall $100 million. I guess the casino
business is doing really good over in Macao. What`s he going to do with
this money, and why is he giving it? That`s interesting.
Also, some gruesome testimony, more of it, must I say, at the Sandusky
trial. Could the trial empower other victims of child sex abuse to come
forward? Could this have a good -- a silver lining, people will talk now?
And 40 years after Watergate, two of the biggest figures in that case
join us tonight here live, Carl Bernstein, one of the great investigative
reports who broke this story, and counsel John Dean, perhaps the most
famous whistleblower in history.
Finally, Starbucks or Dunkin` Donuts, football or baseball? A new
survey tells you -- you can tell what your politics are by the answers to
those couple of questions.
This is HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: We`ve got new poll numbers from a pair of battleground
states. Let`s check the HARDBALL "Scoreboard."
First to Nevada, where a new PPP poll has President Obama up 6.
That`s good for him, 48-42 in Nevada. Out in Michigan, another poll shows
a closer than expected race, however. A new poll from the Democratic
outfit Baden Foster (ph) for presidential preference has Obama with a 1-
point lead. That`s not a big one in a state he needs.
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: "Dirty, Angry Money." Back to HARDBALL.
If the 2012 election had a slogan, it may well, turn out to be
"Brought to you by Sheldon Adelson." The billionaire casino mogul from Las
Vegas has already given -- catch this -- $35 million to Republican super-
PACs, is likely to give a lot more.
His latest donation, $10 million to the super-PAC supporting Mitt
Romney. It`s called Restore our Future. But people close to Adelson say
he may give whatever it takes to make sure that Barack Obama gets
reelected, (SIC) maybe 100 million bucks he`s coming for this guy. And
unlike you and me, he might really have that capability. He`s worth $25
billion. This is chump change for him.
Adelson has a lot of money to give away, and Romney knows it. Last
month, he met with Adelson for nearly an hour. Wonder what they were
talking about? Do you think? Anyway, the question is, what does Adelson
expect to get from all the money he will put behind Romney? Perhaps that`s
the small question compared to the power of these guys to buy
advertisements that really make effective changes in how we vote.
John Ralston`s a columnist for "The Las Vegas Sun" and host of "Face
to Face" on the ABC affiliate out thee in Vegas. And Rick Tyler`s a former
Newt Gingrich spokesman who advised the pro-Gingrich super-PAC Winning our
Future. That group was a major beneficiary of Adelson`s money.
Let me talk to John Ralston for the state of play here. You know, it
is amazing, if you think about putting these stories together, the casino
operators -- I mean, you get -- this candidate for president, the
Republican candidate for president effectively now, Mitt Romney,
genuflecting at the altar of Donald Trump. And then you see him taking
money in scads from this other fellow we don`t know so well, Sheldon
Adelson, who`s worth $25 billion. Casino Jack. I mean, Casino Don.
Casino -- it`s unbelievable, what`s going on here.
Why -- what does that say out in Vegas that these guys who make money
at the craps table are now running the presidential election of the leading
Republican in the country?
JON RALSTON, "THE LAS VEGAS SUN": Well, I do have to say, Chris, I
think it`s unfair to Sheldon Adelson to compare him to Donald Trump. He`s
worth a lot more than Donald Trump, and he is actually a person of
MATTHEWS: Yes.
RALSTON: Now, what is that -- what is that substance?
He has a few things he really cares about, as you know. Israel is one
of them and he and Newt Gingrich got to know each other over that issue
back in the mid-`90s. He has fought the union here. He`s one of the few
Strip casinos out -- owners out here who that has fought the casinos -- the
And, listen, as you mentioned, he has got $25 billion. He`s going to
do whatever he wants with that money -- $100 million is not unreasonable.
I don`t think we`re going to see all that money, Chris. He is quite
enamored of Karl Rove. And I bet that Karl Rove has convinced him to give
a lot of money to Crossroads GPS, which, as you know, does not have to
disclose donors.
MATTHEWS: So we won`t know how much?
RALSTON: I think could be -- it could be $100 million.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
RALSTON: I will tell you, I love the stories that say people close to
Sheldon Adelson. Nobody knows what Sheldon Adelson is going to do except
for Sheldon Adelson.
And there`s another big difference with Trump, Chris. He does not
like the attention. He really does not. And I think that`s one reason why
-- he told me weeks ago he was going to give one more contribution to a
super PAC. He said, it`s a small amount of money, maybe not to you, but to
MATTHEWS: I know. What a comment.
MATTHEWS: One of our producers figured out that for a guy of his
wealth, giving away this kind of money in the tens of millions is like
giving away $30 for a person who makes an average income.
It`s really just change to him.
Let me go to Rick Tyler, who knows how these super PACs works.
You know, when a super PAC like the one you were working with goes to
somebody who is a big one, big game hunting I might call it, I suppose,
getting the big guys to give, what kind of conversations occur between
candidate and giver?
RICK TYLER, FORMER NEWT GINGRICH AIDE: Well, in the case of super
PAC, not a lot of conversations, Chris.
But in general, donors and candidates have to find common ground. I
know with Sheldon Adelson, who is a deep believer in a pro -- or a very
hawkish stance on Israel to protect Israel, and that`s really where Newt
Gingrich came behind.
But watching Sheldon Adelson, the guy grew up in Dorchester,
Massachusetts, started throwing newspapers at 12 years old, and for 66
years has built up from nothing what he has. Why shouldn`t he be able to
take his money and participate and educate people...
MATTHEWS: Well, I guess it comes down to -- fair enough. It`s legal.
The Supreme Court, which is run by conservative Republicans now, said it`s
OK. It`s legal.
My question is, is this the kind of the kind of democracy that people
fight for in war? Is it what our founding fathers had in mind, that people
with a huge amount of money could put on television something they don`t
know anything anybody and influence people by the millions just because
they have got the money?
That`s my question. Does it bother you that they have so many more
votes effectively than the average citizen? Does it bother you?
TYLER: No. Chris, it does not bother me that you get on television
every single night and influence people with your opinion no, not at all.
MATTHEWS: Well, I didn`t pay to get on. I`m not running
advertisements. And, by the way, people can agree or disagree with me.
But these ads are not arguments. They are advertisements, relentless
saturation advertising campaigns that you cannot escape. Right?
TYLER: You can escape and you don`t have to watch.
MATTHEWS: You have got to turn off the TV.
I was in Iowa. Look, you`re so much smarter than me. Rick, you know
this. You guys run Dresden bombing campaigns. You cannot escape. Look
what happened to your guy Newt when that money was turned on against him by
Mitt Romney.
You had him crying out of the campaign. He was finished because that
kind of money talks. You know it does. Tell me it didn`t run your
candidate out of the race.
TYLER: Sure.
MATTHEWS: Didn`t it?
TYLER: Look, advertising is very effective.
MATTHEWS: Didn`t it run your guy out of the race?
TYLER: But what`s the -- it may have.
But what`s the alternative? I think the founders were correct in
terms of shutting down political speech. This is political speech. The
last thing we want to do is regulate political speech. Now, I would say
let`s have the money go directly to the candidates and then we get rid of
this third-party sort of shell game and then I think people, look, the
candidates can be a lot more responsible with the money.
MATTHEWS: I may be right. I know I`m right. You know I`m right,
too, but we will have a conversation off the air.
TYLER: I know you`re right.
MATTHEWS: And you know I`m right, because the power of money to
destroy Newt Gingrich -- not that he didn`t deserve it -- but he was
destroyed by big money.
Let me go back to Jon, who`s covering this.
What is the sense about Adelson? Now, he`s pro-hawkish on Israel.
That`s no -- there`s nothing wrong with that. That`s a point of view. It
comes down to the question of power and cynicism. How can you get up and
vote, you get out of their house, you take a shower, you put your clothes
on, you get up and you plan to go vote, but all the time you know that the
huge amount of money that`s going into politics today is making us a little
like those old Latin American countries where -- in the old days, when
there was about five families that ran the place?
Are we going toward that?
RALSTON: Well, listen, I think it`s right to worry about it, but I`m
not so sure Rick is completely wrong, in the sense that I think the biggest
problem is the transparency issue and the fact that he`s contributing so
much more money than we know to Crossroads GPS perhaps and in other ways.
I would like it to just be more transparent. But if I could point out
one of the great ironies that is going on here, when Mitt Romney talks
about the great threats to America, besides a second term for Barack Obama,
he talks about two things, a nuclear Iran and what? The economic might of
China. He`s worried about China.
Where has Sheldon Adelson gotten all his money from to...
MATTHEWS: From Macau.
RALSTON: From Macau, which is in China...
TYLER: Yes, but it`s coming here.
RALSTON: I just think that`s just such a great irony of this.
And, listen, because of what the court decisions say, you can`t really
stop Sheldon Adelson from spending the money. I`m not sure you would.
But we should know, with the Internet, as it exists, real-time
reporting. When he gives $10 million to Crossroads, we should know it the
day that he does it.
MATTHEWS: By the way, Jon, you`re on television. We just told
everybody that.
By the way, thank you so much, Jon Ralston. Print isn`t as powerful
as TV, but we did get the message.
I never thought of myself the way that Rick Tyler -- to have all this
influence in how people vote. I don`t think it works that way. I think
people make up their mind, they listen to people like me, they argue with
the television, by the way. They don`t just listen to it.
Anyway, thank you so much, Rick, for coming on.
MATTHEWS: Please come back.
TYLER: Thanks. Appreciate it.
MATTHEWS: Up next, do you think there`s a gaping hole between
Republicans and Democrats in this country? It`s not just politics, but
also TV, sports, cars, even coffee choices. Wait until you find out how
people decide on different coffees will tell you what their party is. This
is fascinating research. And it`s coming up in the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Time for the "Sideshow."
How did a Jerry Maguire throwback wind up in a town hall meeting
earlier this week?
Well, remember the scene where Tom Cruise as Maguire in the movie is
down to his last client, and he`s hanging in the balance? Here it is.
TOM CRUISE, ACTOR: I am out here for you. You don`t know what it`s
like for me to be out here for you. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing
siege. God help me. Help me, Rod. Help me help you. Help me help you.
Help me help you.
MATTHEWS: Help me help you.
Anyway, apparently, one Republican governor thinks he does a great
Maguire. Who?
GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), NEW JERSEY: I`m coming to Haddonfield today
because I need your help. Anybody watch "Jerry Maguire"? You ever seen
the movie "Jerry Maguire"? Remember that great scene in the locker room
where Jerry Maguire is talking to his only client he`s got left, right?
And he looks at him and he says, help me help you. Help me help you.
Help me help you.
That`s what I`m here to say today. Help me help...
MATTHEWS: Well, that`s a tough audience from the looks of those
faces. Anyway, it looks like he rehearsed that a bit, the governor did.
Well, New Jersey has until the end of this month to reach a budget
deal. Christie has warned his Cabinet to start prepping for a government
Next: The White House has quite the love fest going right now with
veteran actress Betty White. Earlier this year, the president participated
in her 90th birthday celebration with a video message. And this week, we
got a snapshot of her visit to the White House before a speech at the
There`s more. Now she`s featured in a video for the president`s
summer jobs initiative.
BETTY WHITE, ACTRESS: Well, my first job was actually -- I was during
a guest shot on a talk show on television. It was when television first
started. We did a little interview.
And it taught me that whatever else I did for the rest of my life, I
wanted to stay in that business. I`m 90, and I`m still in that business
and loving it.
MATTHEWS: Well, the actress says she very much favors President Obama
in the upcoming election. I guess it couldn`t hurt having her behind you.
Anyway, also, think your go-to coffee joint or the sport you prefer or
the TV show you watch is just a matter of your personal preference? Well,
a new poll by the neuro-insight firm Buyology -- with B-U-Y as part of that
spelling -- says no.
It may determine whether you`re a Democrat or a Republican. Well,
starting with the morning cup of joe, Democrats tend to go to Starbucks.
Republicans, they go to Dunkin` Donuts. Sports, NFL for Democrats, Major
League Baseball for Republicans. And when it`s time for a new car, this is
very interesting. Democrats would like to own a jeep. Republicans would
go for a BMW as their most desired.
Anyway, TV channel, Democrats -- TV channels, Democrats chose Animal
Planet. Republicans went for the History Channel. Wow. And one last
nugget from the poll. HBO and Showtime were found to be two of the most
polarizing brands, with both favored by Democrats.
Up next The prosecution is getting close to wrapping up its case
against former football coach Jerry Sandusky of Penn State, who faces 52
charges of sexual abuse. Lots more graphic information just came in today
in that trial. Will Sandusky take the stand in his own defense? We`re
finding that out.
That`s ahead.
You`re watching HARDBALL, the place for politics.
SUE HERERA, CNBC CORRESPONDENT: I`m Sue Herera with your CNBC "Market
Investors bet on action from the Fed, sending stocks higher late in
the day. The Dow surged 155 points. The S&P gained 14, the Nasdaq up 17.
Jobless claims unexpectedly rose by 6,000 last week, the fifth gain in
six weeks. Meanwhile, consumer prices fell 0.3 percent in May. That was
the biggest decline since December of 2008. And Nokia plans to cut 10,000
jobs globally. It also warned of a wider-than-expected quarterly loss.
Its shares slid 2 percent.
And that`s it from CNBC, first in business worldwide -- now back to
HARDBALL and Chris.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
Well, the prosecution appears to be close to wrapping up its case in
the trial of former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky today, who`s denied of
course the 52 criminal counts he faces of sexually abusing young boys over
a 15-year period.
Well, one value of this trial, many people think, and its immense
media coverage has been the importance of shedding light on stories of this
sexual child abuse, unveiling not only the heinous details of the alleged
crimes, but also the fear victims have of coming forward, of saying what
happened, telling even their families, or much less tell the police.
Well, Wendy Murphy`s a veteran sex crimes prosecutor. And Ian Simpson
is covering this case for Reuters up in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.
Let`s get the latest before we hear from Wendy.
I know you have got a real point of view, Wendy. I want to hear it.
Ian, today in the trial, was it just more of this gore of this
incredible use of prepubescent young boys for sexual enjoyment or whatever?
IAN SIMPSON, REUTERS: Well, today was the last prosecution witness.
And he gave graphic testimony about sexual abuse at the hands of --
alleged sexual abuse at the hands of Jerry Sandusky, mainly in the basement
of Sandusky`s home over a three-year period, and that he had met Sandusky
through Sandusky`s charity, the Second Mile.
And -- but in the prosecution`s cross-examination, he said that -- he
admitted he had continued to go to football games with Sandusky for years
after he had actually broken off this relationship.
MATTHEWS: Well, let`s go back to Wendy on that question because
you`re used to these kind of cases.
What kind of a defense is that, the kid was afraid to blow the whistle
and continue the relationship? He may not have had the lead-in to.
Sometimes, kids do what they`re told to do.
Your thoughts -- or your -- actually your experience, Wendy. Thank
WENDY MURPHY, FORMER PROSECUTOR: Yes.
I mean, not only that, Chris, but, sometimes, if you`re a little kid
and this happens and you don`t have a context to understand how cruel and
abusive it is when you`re little, you actually can develop real affection
for your abuser. Lots of the victims in this case testified, I liked the
guy. He was good to me. I had no father.
This guy pegged the kids well. He picked kids he knew he could keep
quiet because he was grooming them. He was affectionate to them, buying
them stuff, in exchange for which every once in a while he was sexually
violent towards them. And they stayed quiet in exchange. That`s very
common. So, I don`t think that`s at all a defense.
If anything, it sort of helps proves the prosecution`s case, because
that`s how victims are when they are young and being abused by someone they
care deeply for and trust and admire and look up to.
MATTHEWS: Let me go back to Ian.
The graphic nature, without going into all the details, it seems to
get worse. The prosecution seems to be setting this up so we hear worse
horrors after worse horrors. Without getting into details -- people can
use their imagination -- these were rapes of every possible way of these
kids. They`re 12 years old. It`s hard to think of the imagination of even
the most sexual perverted person would they allow this kind of stuff to
enter into their heads, this guy was doing it, according to the testimony
IAN SIMPSON, REUTERS CORRESPONDENT: Yes, that`s the allegations of
the accusers and it`s horrific crimes and one of the alleged crimes. The
thing that important to remember is that these cases were normally, it`s
usually a one small child or a small boy against a man.
And in this case, these are men, ages 18 to 28. They`re eight of
them and one after the other, hearing this in this courtroom and often
hushed courtroom, the cumulative effect is devastating.
MATTHEWS: They were all about 11 or 12 at the time of these
incidents, these alleged incidents. What was Sandusky`s response when he
watches this and hears it?
SIMPSON: Well, he sits hunched forward for the most part at the
defense table. His back to the spectators. You can`t really see his face,
but he is focused on the witnesses.
Today, he was -- he kept his eyes on the last witness, which had very
graphic testimony. And at the end of the testimony today, the witness was
asked to point him out in the courtroom, the witness turned his head away
and said I can`t -- I don`t want to look at him.
MATTHEWS: The witness didn`t want to point him out?
SIMPSON: He pointed him out, but he said, I don`t want to look at
MATTHEWS: Yes, but he wasn`t shaking his head in disagreement with
the testimony, was he?
SIMPSON: He did not.
MATTHEWS: To express kind of disagreement?
SIMPSON: No, he has never done that. He has been hunched forward --
sometimes chin on hand looking intently at the witnesses or the evidence.
Never expressing and occasionally turning to his lawyers.
MATTHEWS: Wendy, thanks for coming on. I want you to take a moment,
more than a moment. Make the point -- I made it last night, you`ll make it
better, that the one good thing about the graphic nature of this coverage
is finally we know how horrible this behavior was, criminal behavior,
felonious behavior.
For years, the press would write it in the most delicate way. I know
maybe I`m grosser than most people, when you write molested, I don`t know
what that meant. I don`t know what those words mean. Now I know exactly
which this guy did.
I do like that aspect. What would encourage boys, young girls who`s
ever been a victim of this, to say yes, I know that happened and now, I`m
going to tell somebody about it because now I know it`s a crime. Go ahead.
WENDY MURPHY, FMR. SEX CRIMES PROSECUTOR: Yes, and it also makes
kids feel comfortable that they`re not the only one. They often think that
they`re the only ones.
Millions of kids are sexually violated in this country every year.
Only a handful come forward because most of them really don`t understands
or don`t feel powerful enough to speak out. A crime like this, especially
with so many victims and it`s on international television, can be very good
for all of us. Not just the kids who we need to come forward but so the
jurors don`t feel it`s so horrific and disgusting they really can`t accept
the reality of it.
I`ve had a lot of trials where juries told me after the fact, you
know, I almost voted not guilty because I found the behavior so disgusting
I`ve never heard anything like it. So, I figured it can`t possibly be
We need to be get comfortable with our discomfort, that`s the only
way we`re going to protect kids, and that means saying outloud, oral rape,
anal rape. This is not sex. Anybody who`s covering this story or talking
about it or writing about it who uses the word "sex" should be ashamed of
This is never sex when it`s a child. It is always the language of
violence that we should be using. Needless eroticism and storytelling
makes it harder for us to understand how devastating and vicious this
behavior is, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Well said. Thank you, Wendy. You said it better than I
did. Wendy Murphy, a prosecutor who knows what she`s talking about.
Ian Simpson, thanks so much for the reporting today.
Up next, it`s been 40 years since Watergate. Two of the biggest
figures in that case, both of them from the good guys side, join us
tonight. Carl Bernstein will be with us, along with former Nixon White
House counsel, John Dean. They`re both coming here in a minute.
Stay tuned. This is HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Well, global confidence in President Obama has slipped
since he fist took office. Take a look at this. In traditional allies,
Europe and Japan, confidence in the president remains strong although it
has dropped a bit in Russia and the Muslim countries, confidence in the
president has never been high and yet it`s down now.
And finally, look at China, six in 10 Chinese had confidence in Obama
in 2009. Now that number is down to four and 10. We see some friction
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: We`re back.
You know, believe it or not, this Sunday, the 17th of this month, is
the 40th anniversary to the day of the infamous moment in American history,
the break in. There it is in D.C.
"The Washington Post" reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward broke
the story with the help of their enormous source, Deep Throat. They
covered this story and made it a major American event because they exposed
it so well.
Carl Bernstein is with us from New York.
And John Dean`s probably the most famous whistleblower. He was a
counsel to President Nixon during that time. He provided the key
testimony, which was never really challenged ever in the Senate Watergate.
He has I think a photographer mine, I don`t know how you remember all this
Carl, let me ask you -- thanks for coming on.
First of all, we`re going to start with John. Here`s a tape
recording of you talking to President Nixon or him talking to you,
discussing what`s famous about the cancer on the presidency when you really
got to understand that he was masterminding, if you will, the cover up.
Here he is talking about blackmail that he`s willing to pay to the
Watergate burglars keep them quite. Let`s listen.
RICHARD NIXON, THEN-U.S. PRESIDENT: How much money do you need?
JOHN DEAN, NIXON WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL: I would say these people are
going to cost a million dollars over the next two years.
NIXON: We could get that.
DEAN: Uh-huh.
NIXON: You, on the money, if you need the money, I mean, you could
get the money let`s say.
DEAN: Well, I think that we`re going -
NIXON: What I mean, is, you could -- you could get a million dollars
and you could get in cash. I know where it could be gotten.
DEAN: Uh-huh.
NIXON: I mean, it`s not easy. But it could be done.
MATTHEWS: John Dean, I`m always -- that`s a long time ago. It`s 46
years ago. But what was the reaction when you heard the president of the
United States talk casually about the fact he had a fund -- he`s grabbing a
million bucks out of a safe somewhere and having it at his disposal.
That`s going on in politics to some extent today, this huge amounts of
money rolling in.
It obviously not unmarked bills like with Nixon, but what do you
think when he heard him say the president could help with you with the
cover up?
DEAN: I`d gone in there to convince him authorize. To warn him
we`re obstructing justice. Hopefully, that he would slam his fist down on
the desk and end it. I was getting all the wrong reactions including when
I pulled out of thin air it cost a million dollars. That`s $5 million in
today`s dollars.
I learned later and we all know what he did after that conversation
was he went to the corner of the Oval Office where Rose Woods had her
secretarial suite, opened the door and picked up on the microphones from
the recording system and he asked in essence Rose how much they had in
their slush funds. They didn`t have a million dollars but he knew where he
could get the rest of it.
MADDOW: Wow. Carl Bernstein, congratulations I guess on this weird
anniversary. It`s not exactly getting married 40 years ago but it`s
something. You and Bob Woodward broke this story. When you think about
it, you wrote that great takeout this Sunday, the five-part series about
all the Nixon wars going on against the press, against the truth, against
the Democrats, against everybody, what`s it mean today to you? What`s the
message for people watching this show right now?
CARL BERNSTEIN, THE DAILY BEAST: It`s important to understand what
Watergate was. It was not about a burglary. It was not about the
Watergate. It was about from the beginning of the Nixon presidency,
Richard Nixon directed a massive campaign of political espionage and
sabotage against all of his opponents.
It was criminal. It was illegal. It was breaks-in.
We hear on his tapes Nixon saying he wants to break into the
Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., so he can blackmail his
predecessor Lyndon Johnson. I want the safe cracked, he says. I want a
break in so he can blackmail his predecessor.
This is a kind of criminality unique to the president of the United
States. It marked Nixon`s presidency from beginning in 1969 when he first
used these illegal means to undermine the anti-war movement. Then the
Democrats, the press -- wiretapped the press.
Then at war against history and against the system of justice, the
cover up. There`s this line, you know, the cover up is worse than the
crime. Not in this case. Really, these crimes were enormous and
egregious. It`s why he was removed from office.
And now we have a much better sense 40 years later from these
additional tapes and memoirs of the participants of just how brazen and
corrupting of democracy this was and this president was.
MATTHEWS: John Dean, you were on the inside. You weren`t corrupted
in the end. You were able to break free.
But why did so many people -- I`m not saying this is like Nazi
behavior or anything like that, but why did so many people go along with
Nixon, people like Halderman and people that were in many ways mixed bags
like Ehrlichman. Why did so many people go along with this stuff?
I mean, G. Gordon Liddy was a strange guy anyway. But why would they
all do what he told them to do?
DEAN: Well, I think what happened is, it was done for the president.
Bud Krogh, was running the plumbers, has said, you know, I really believe
the president had this power. Today I don`t. But he at that point did.
When I heard for example about the Brookings, I was the one who flew
out to California and told them they were insane and to call this thing
off. As a result of that, I was never clued in on a lot of these
Bud and I have talked in the years since. He said you know, I think
if we talked it through, we`d have come out at the right place. One the
problem was never discussing it but rather, the need-to-know basis of that
White House.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
DEAN: So it was -- there were multiple reasons with multiple
MATTHEWS: You`re a good story tellers. I appreciate it.
BERNSTEIN: John Dean has just used a really interesting word here.
MATTEHWS: Yes, Carl, quickly.
BERNSTEIN: It was insane, because it`s an insane criminality. And
that`s really what we hear when we listen to those tapes is a kind of
insane criminality. In Nixon`s idea that if the president says it`s legal,
it`s legal. And that`s --
MATTHEWS: He said that, didn`t he?
BERNSTEIN: Hey, Carl, thank you so much. We have it on record --
thanks to you and Bob Woodward and Ben Bradley and "The Washington Post".
And thank you, John Dean for -- I think you are the world`s most famous and
important, I should say, important whistle blower.
When we return, let me finish with a big lesson we haven`t learned
from Watergate -- the millions of dollars of dirty angry money flooding
into politics at this moment.
You`re watching HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with this back wash of Watergate.
We thought, those of us who lived through this scandal, that it was about
something bigger than a break-in, of a bugging of one side by the other.
We thought, too, that money was the root of corruption. Politicians with
unlimited trunks of hidden money, unreported and unknown except by a few,
that could be used for anything they wanted to.
"We can get the money," that`s what President Nixon said when he was
told the Watergate burglars were asking for money, money to keep them
aboard the operation, to keep them from jumping ship and spilling the beans
to federal prosecutors. They were asking for hush money, to use the terms
we all came to know so well.
Well, now, four decades from the night of Watergate, the exact
anniversary of the break in is this Sunday, we see ourselves surrounded by
unlimited money in politics. Thanks to the unlimited money pouring into
the presidential campaigns, where we see ourselves in the same world that
powerful people giving overpowering amounts of money to politicians.
What do they want for this money? Access? Support for their causes?
They`re paying to get someone elected. Why are they paying to get
them elected? It`s a question we have to ask, again and again.
We could get the money. It`s not something we like the sound of.
That`s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
"POLITICS NATION" with Al Sharpton starts right now.
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The New York Police Department released this video of suspects wanted for questioning in an assault Saturday that is being investigated as a hate crime. Columbia University assistant professor Prabhjot Singh, who is of Sikh faith, said he was walking in Harlem when a group began kicking and punching him.
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Wall Street Week Ahead: Stocks may face pain, though buyers remain
By Ryan Vlastelica
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors may crave a quiet market this coming week to digest the recent volatility in stocks and rehash Sunday's Super Bowl, but the prospect doesn't look likely.
The catalysts that drove the Dow and the S&P 500 to their worst monthly performances since May 2012 have not gone away. The retreat from emerging markets - and stocks in general - appears to have more room to run as the factors that helped propel the market to record highs in mid-January aren't providing enough support.
Calls for a market correction have become louder, with the S&P 500 down 3.6 percent from its all-time closing high and the Federal Reserve's announcement on Wednesday that it will keep trimming its monthly bond buying.
More than 80 S&P 500 components are set to report earnings next week, but the myriad issues surrounding emerging markets remain at the forefront for investors.
"Bad news in any area of the globe is bound to make sentiment less positive in others. This isn't an issue of contagion, but there will be influence," said John Chisholm, chief investment officer of the Boston-based Acadian Asset Management, which has an emerging market equity fund with $1.2 billion in assets. "There's plenty more instability ahead."
While countries such as Turkey and South Africa have taken steps to stabilize their currencies, the trend has remained negative for those assets.
The CBOE Volatility Index (^VIX), a measure of investor anxiety, rose 34.2 percent during January to end the month at 18.41, after wrapping up 2013 at 13.72. The VIX remains below the long-term average of 20, however, and has not traded above 19 since October.
For the month of January, the Dow fell 5.3 percent and the S&P 500 lost 3.6 percent - marking their worst monthly percentage declines since May 2012. The Nasdaq fell 1.7 percent in January, its worst month since October 2012.
It's tempting to believe that U.S. stocks are a salve for this pain. But the reality is that when emerging markets swoon, U.S. stocks decline as well, just not as much.
Goldman Sachs analysts wrote last week that when MSCI's emerging markets index (.MSCIEF) falls at least 5 percent, the S&P 500 (^GSPC) tends to fall by half of that. The MSCI index has dropped 11 percent since an October peak of 1,047.73.
"Our EM strategists believe some EM equity markets have further to fall, and that they require significant current account rebalancing before bottoming," Goldman Sachs analysts said in a note about their outlook on emerging markets.
The effect on U.S. companies is harder to discern. Goldman estimated that S&P 500 companies derive 5 percent of their profits from emerging markets, with some sectors more affected than others.
Among the companies with large emerging markets exposure set to report earnings next week are General Motors (GM) and Yum Brands Inc (YUM). Yum, in fact, gets more than half of its sales from the "BRIC" nations - Brazil, Russia, India and China. Yum's stock lost 11.2 percent in January, while GM shares dropped 11.7 percent.
Both stocks, along with the shares of other internationally exposed companies, have underperformed the S&P 500 since the Fed first said it would cut back on its stimulus on December 18.
Demand in China has been particularly sluggish, which affected Apple Inc's (AAPL) results, as the company's iPhone sales were worse than expected, and Wal-Mart Stores (WMT), which closed some locations in that country, as well as in Brazil.
Some are still looking to buy, though.
"We'd need to see more significant hits from overseas exposure before we start paring away our allocation to those names ... GM is doing well because of its EM exposure," Acadian's Chisholm said.
With half of the S&P 500 companies having reported earnings so far, almost 70 percent have topped earnings expectations, above the long-term average of 63 percent, according to Thomson Reuters data. Two-thirds have exceeded estimates on revenue, above the historical average of 61 percent, though companies have generally been meeting or beating lowered expectations.
"While there are equity risks, there's very little risk from a bear market standpoint," said Jim Dunigan, chief investment officer of PNC Wealth Management in Philadelphia. "That markets have held on as well as they have shows that equity appetite still exists."
Whether there is conviction behind the buying is debatable. The three busiest days for the market in terms of the S&P's E-mini futures contract, the most heavily traded equity futures contract, were Wednesday, Monday, and last Friday, January 24 - all of which were selloffs.
Still, investors keep pouring money into stock market funds, with $10.24 billion added in the week ended January 29, according to Thomson Reuters' Lipper service. This marked the sixth straight week of net new cash.
The S&P 500 is about 0.5 percent above its 100-day moving average, a level that could provide support against further losses. According to the most recent Reuters poll of analysts, the benchmark index is expected to end the year at 1,925 - about 8 percent away from current levels.
Dunigan, who helps oversee $127 billion in assets, said that stocks remain "the best house in a bad neighborhood," especially with U.S. interest rates low.
"When you look at the alternatives, fixed income continues to look risky, and cash doesn't help you," he said. "Unlike other asset classes, equities will still get boosts from contributions like buybacks, merger activity and capital expenditures."
(Wall St Week Ahead runs every Friday. Questions or comments on this column can be e-mailed to: ryan.vlastelica(at)thomsonreuters.com )
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A class action lawsuit marching through the courts could dramatically change the economics of college sports and the status of amateur athletics in the U.S.
The suit — led by former UCLA and NBA forward Ed O'Bannon and joined by former college and pro stars Bill Russell and Oscar Robertson — targets the NCAA with antitrust violations and seeks revenues from live and taped TV broadcasts of college football and basketball games as well as profits from merchandise licensing fees on video games and clothing.
Just this week, a federal judge in Oakland, Calif., allowed the two year old lawsuit to go forward over NCAA objections. A trial is scheduled for July 2014.
Television broadcast revenues of college sports have soared to nearly $2 billion a year. College sport merchandise licensing revenue — from items like T-shirts, caps, jersey, shoes and video games — was estimated to be $4.6 billion in 2012.
The plaintiffs say they, as well as current and future college athletes, should be compensated for use of their images in all media and want a trust fund set up for payouts once an athlete leaves school. (Read more: Cold Weather Super Bowl Could Be Financial Boon)
The NCAA, the nonprofit governing body of college sports, argues the athletes are or were amateurs and have no standing to be paid since they waived their marketing rights when they entered college.
Analysts contend the lawsuit has the potential of permanently altering the status of college sports and could end up with collegiate athletes being paid.


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One of the hardest things about being a right-wing candidate running for office must be how no famous musicians besides Ted Nugent and Dee Snider are ever willing to loan you their music to inspire or rev up a crowd. On the upside, this gives these candidates — candidates like Mitt Romney, for example — the opportunity to crowd-source campaign songs, not only making them true politicians of the people, but also discoverers of true, unadulterated talent like the man in the video posted above.
Obama can keep the Boss and Beyonce. Mitt has his own music man. A music man who, by the way, happens to be a self-proclaimed bible prophet.


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By Beau Smith
If I had to do them every week, I'd lose what little mind I have left. During my days as Vice President of Marketing for Eclipse Comics, Image Comics, McFarlane Toys and IDW Publishing, I spent half my time in an airport, plane or hotel doing conventions and meetings. As a freelancer, not so much. I can pick and choose the shows I do now, mainly because I'm on my own tab and not the bottomless company credit card that used to fit so perfectly in my wallet.
This past weekend I was a guest at the Pittsburgh Comicon in Monroeville, Pa. I've done this show many times in the past and it's always been one of my favorites. The show is big enough to entertain, yet cozy enough to rekindle old friendships and start new ones. I did both at this year's convention.
The con was in a different expo hall this year and not only was the hall brand new, it was well laid out and well lit. Stan Lee was the Guest of Honor and, needless to say, he packed the fans in and had an immense line at all times. On Friday night, Stan was dining a couple of tables over from us and even then his line of adoring fans was non-stop. It's good to be Stan.
The weather in the Pittsburgh area is lovely this time of year and we were blessed with sunny skies and comfortable temps throughout the entire weekend. At the show Sgt. Rock writer/artist- Billy Tucci and I were teamed up together as always. Our tables of testosterone were connected and we welcomed fans and friends to our Viking-like setting to share words of iron and thoughts that were impure. Our table manners were nonexistent and no one complained – to our faces.
Billy entertained everyone with his north of the border charm and spent most of his day doing wonderful sketches and commissions for folks. Of course sketches of Sgt. Rock were top of his To-Do list, but it was fun to see him also draw Catwoman, Captain America, Batman, Wonder Woman and of course, his own creation, Shi.
Seated on my other side was Marvel artist Khoi Pham. Khoi is well known for his work on Incredible Hercules and Mighty Avengers. It was the first time I had met Khoi and we ended up having a very good time discussing football and other manly topics. Khoi did some really fantastic sketches for fans that were eye-popping. He's a good guy and somebody you really need to meet at your next convention.
This was the first time my wife, Beth, had attended a convention with me in many years. Needless to say, I was on my best behavior. I had to limit my eyeballing pretty women attached with my usual caveman comments. I restricted myself to having only one fistful of beer at a time instead of the usual "I lost count". Beth had a very good time meeting some of my long time amigos in comics that until that weekend she had only heard legendary tales of from me. We dined with long time friends Terry and Robyn Moore on Saturday night and they hit it off like they all went to school together. I think they were all making fun of me when they knew I couldn't hear them. (I get that a lot.)
Of course I blame the dinner MC, Billy Tucci, for starting that. Beth closed down the lobby that night in a serious discussion with Tucci and Mike Soloff. Seems those boys got a small taste of the wide range of topics that are tossed around here at The Flying Fist Ranch on a regular basis. Young Sgt. Travis Miller told us tales of his time spent in Iraq and Afghanistan. No matter how many newspapers you read or how many TV newscasts you watch, you don't get the real story until you've listened to a veteran who has been there.
The guests for the show were a true list of talent. I'm proud to say that most of them are long time friends of mine as well. If you attended, you had the opportunity to meet such comic book creators as: Adam Hughes, one of the hardest workers in comics, Joe Jusko, Ron Frenz, Darryl Banks, Talent Caldwell, Ramona Fradon, Gary Friedrich, Dan Fraga, Mike Grell, Jamal Igle, Scott James, Sean McKeever, Pat Olliffe, Gary Reed and loads of other incredibly talented folks. They were the friendliest creators at the friendliest convention.
I pride myself on being able to uncover new talent. In the last 22 years, I've found some real gems that have gone on to fame and fortune. The 2009 Pittsburgh Comicon was no exception. I was lucky enough to talk to and get a signed copy of the self-published, all-ages book The Many Adventures of Skipper the Overweight Bunny by twelve-year-old artist/writer Bethany Barbis. In fact, my issues even had a personalized sketch in it. Guys like Jim Lee should do the same. (Meaning give me a free sketch.) The book is a wonderful read for young and old alike. I think it's a perfect book to read to your young ones that aren't yet old enough to read for themselves. The art is clear and clean and there's a special bit of wit with each page. Get on the Bethany Barbis bandwagon now and tell them Beau sent you.
If you were ever a fan of the X-Men or Teen Titans anytime in your life, but just lost interest when things got too "event-full", then you may want to invest some reading time into The Uniques by Comfort Love and Adam Withers.
The Uniques has all the passion that once fueled X-Men and Teen Titans, only with a modern slant on young superheroes that you just haven't seen yet. These smart, enhanced teens from The Pryde Foundation-Advanced Foster Home and School For Orphaned, Abandoned Uniques is a new take on teen super heroes. The art matches the characters, there's mood, great camera angles, dialogue that is directed to perfection and a story you don't want to end. Jump on the Uniques web site and check this out. I have spent some time with Comfort and Adam; they are smart, creative people that know the big picture for the future of comic book stories. I would not doubt if we're all working for them one day soon. Comfort and I had spoken last year at Pittsburgh Comicon and here a year later she is already seeing a bigger future for comics than some of the folks that have been in the business for decades.
It was a pleasure to once again talk to good guy Jonathan Hodges, the editor of The Serial Squad For those of you that haven't read The Serial Squad, it's a very stylistic, pulp superhero comic book that pays homage to the comic book golden age that should never be forgotten. With Alex Toth-influenced art by Paul Schultz and a fast paced action script, Schultz proves that you can still put a new spin on the super hero genre.
To be honest with you, I could easily write another 2,000 words telling you about all the stuff that went on at Pittsburgh Comicon this year, but Instead, I'll show you a gallery of photos that from the show and try to give you a feel of what it was like to be there. Maybe I'll even see you there in 2010. I'd like that.
Your con-attending amigo,
Beau Smith
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The Parallel Bible. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments translated out of the Original Tongues: being the Authorised Version arranged in parallel columns with the Revised Version (Oxford University Press, 1885). Amos. https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1006,
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Amos was among the earliest of the Hebrew prophets to have a biblical book named after him. he taught that God's justice extends to all men regardless of their nationality and that all men are expected to pursue justice. Because Israel and Judah were increasingly falling under the influence of evil ways, Amos predicted the destruction of the two kingdoms by plague and locusts. The destruction did indeed take place, though it was not by plague or locusts but by the conquering armies of the Assyrian Empire.
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1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the *earthquake.
2 And he said, The Lord will *roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
3 Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Damascus, ∥and for four, I will not ∥turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from ∥the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from ∥the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the Lord.
6 ¶ Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of *Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they ∥carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord God.
9 ¶ Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not †the brotherly covenant:
10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
11 ¶ Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and †did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and ‡he kept his wrath for ever:
12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
13 ¶ Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; Edition: current; Page: [973] because they have ∥ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the Lord.
1 Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he *burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord.
4 ¶ Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the Lord, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
6 ¶ Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because *they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same ∥maid, to profane my holy name:
8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of ∥the condemned in the house of their god.
9 ¶ Yet destroyed I the *Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
10 Also *I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord.
12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, *saying, Prophesy not.
13 Behold, ∥I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver †himself:
15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
16 And he that is †courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.
1 Hear this word that the Lord hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will †punish you for all your iniquities.
3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion †cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people ∥not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, ∥and the Lord hath not done it?
7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he Edition: current; Page: [974] revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
9 ¶ Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the ∥oppressed in the midst thereof.
10 For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and ∥robbery in their palaces.
11 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
12 Thus saith the Lord; As the shepherd †taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and ∥in Damascus in a couch.
13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God, the God of hosts,
14 That in the day that I shall ∥visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Beth-el: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the Lord.
1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ∥ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lord.
4 ¶ Come to Beth-el, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after †three years:
5 And †offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for †this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.
6 ¶ And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: ∥when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
10 I have sent among you the pestilence ∥after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, †and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew *Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.Edition: current; Page: [975]
13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the ∥wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, The God of hosts, is his name.
1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
3 For thus saith the Lord God; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
4 ¶ For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
5 But seek not *Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.
6 Seek the Lord, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el
7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8 Seek him that maketh the *seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that *calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:
9 That strengtheneth the †spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: *ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted †pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take ∥a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
15 *Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.
18 *Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.
19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
20 Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21 ¶ *I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not ∥smell in your solemn assemblies.
22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the ∥peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
24 But let judgment †run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 *Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?Edition: current; Page: [976]
26 But ye have borne ∥the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts.
1 *Woe to them that ∥are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named *∥chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
3 Ye that *put far away the *evil day, and cause the ∥seat of violence to come near;
4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and ∥stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
5 That ∥chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
6 That drink ∥wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the †affliction of Joseph.
7 ¶ Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
8 *The Lord God hath sworn by himself, saith the Lord the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with †all that is therein.
9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, *Hold thy tongue: for ∥we may not make mention of the name of the Lord.
11 For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with ∥breaches, and the little house with clefts.
12 ¶ Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the ∥river of the wilderness.
1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed ∥grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord God, forgive, I beseech thee: ∥by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
3 The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord.
4 ¶ Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord God called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
5 Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
6 The Lord repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.
7 ¶ Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord Edition: current; Page: [977] stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
8 And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
10 ¶ Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words
11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
13 But prophesy not again any more at Beth-el: for it is the king's ∥chapel, and it is the †king's court.
14 ¶ Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of ∥sycomore fruit:
15 And the Lord took me †as I followed the flock, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
16 ¶ Now therefore hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, *and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
17 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
3 And the songs of the ‡temple †shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth †with silence.
4 ¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
5 Saying, When will the ∥new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may †set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and †falsifying the balances by deceit?
6 That we may buy the poor for *silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
7 The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.Edition: current; Page: [978]
11 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the ∥lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and ∥cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
2 *Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and *I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
5 And the Lord God of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that ‡dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
6 It is he that buildeth his ∥†*stories in the heaven, and hath founded his ∥troop in the earth; he that *calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth The Lord is his name.
7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the *Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will †sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least †grain fall upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
11 ¶ In that day will I raise up the *tabernacle of David that is fallen, and †close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, †which are called by my name, saith the Lord that doeth this.
13 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that †soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop ∥*sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.
Zech 14 5
Jer. 25. 30. Joel 3. 16.
Or, yea, for four.
Or, convert it, or, let it be quiet: and so ver. 6, &c.
Or, Bilathaven.
Or, Betheden.
2 Chr. 28. 18.
Or, carried them away with an entire captivity.
Heb. the covenant of brethren.
Heb. corrupted his compassions.
[1611 omits he]
Or, divided the mountains.
2 Kin. 3. 27.
ch 8 6.
Or, young woman.
Or, such as have fined, or, muleted.
Num. 21 24. Deut. 2. 31 Josh 24. 8
Ex. 12. 51.
ch. 7. 12.
Or, I will press your place, as a cart full of sheaves presseth.
Heb. his soul, or, life.
Heb. strong of his heart.
Heb. visit upon.
Heb. give forth his voice.
Or, not run together.
Or, and shall not the Lord do somewhat?
Or, oppressions.
Or, spoil.
Heb delivereth.
Or, on the bed's feet.
Or, punish Israel for.
Or, ye shall cast away the things of the palace.
Heb. three years of days.
Heb. offer by burning.
Heb. so ye love.
Or, the multitude of your gardens, &c. did the palmerworm, &c.
Or, in the way.
Heb with the captivity of your horses.
Gen. 19. 24.
Or, spirit.
ch. 4. 4.
Job 9 9. & 38. 31.
ch. 9. 6.
Heb. spoil.
Zeph 1. 13
Heb. vineyards of desire.
Or, a ransom.
Ps. 34. 14. & 97. 10. Rom. 12. 9.
Is. 5. 19. Jer. 30. 7 Joel 2. 2. Zeph. 1. 15.
Is. 1. 11. Jer. 6. 20.
Or, smell your holy days.
Or, thank offerings.
Heb. roll.
Acts 7. 42.
Or, Siccuth your king.
Luke 6. 24.
Or, are secure.
Ex. 19. 5.
Or, first-fruits.
Ezek. 12. 27.
ch. 5. 18.
Or, habitation.
Or, abound with superfluities.
Or, quaver.
Or, in bowls of wine.
Heb. breach.
Jer. 51. 14.
Heb. the fulness thereof.
ch 5. 13.
Or, they will not, or, have not.
Or, droppings.
Or, valley.
Or, green worms.
Or, who of (or, for) Jacob shall stand?
Or, sanctuary.
Heb house of the kingdom
Or, wild figs.
Heb. from behind.
Ezek. 21. 2.
[1611 Temples]
Heb. shall howl.
Heb. be silent.
Or, month.
Heb. open.
Heb. perverting the balances of deceit.
ch. 2. 6.
Or, chapiter, or, knop
Or, wound them
Ps 139. 8, &c.
Jer. 44. 11.
[1611 dwelleth]
Or, spheres.
Heb ascensions.
Ps. 104. 3.
Or, bundle.
ch. 5. 8.
Jer. 47. 4.
Heb. cause to move.
Heb. stone.
Acts 15. 16.
Heb. hedge, or, wall.
Heb. upon whom my name is called.
Heb. draweth forth.
Or, new wine.
Joel 3. 18.


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Healthcare Library
What You Should Bring To The Hospital
The arrival of your new son or daughter is a time of excitement and joy. It's often a hectic time as well, so it can be difficult to remember to pack everything that you need to bring to the hospital.
About a month before the baby's due date, you should make sure you have the following items. Pack as many beforehand as you can. Use the following checklist as a guide to getting organized for the big event.
Items For Mom
Note that your hospital will supply you with a gown, slippers, disposable underwear, and basic toiletries. While it's nice to have your own clothes with you, labor and the first few days postpartum is a notoriously messy time, and you may not want to bring out your brand-new lingerie.
- Nightgown and bathrobe
- Slippers
- Bra and nursing bra
- Breast pads
- Socks (several pair)
- Underwear (several pair)
- Hair ties, "scrunchies"
- Toiletries: toothbrush, toothpaste, hair brush, lip balm, lotion, deodorant
- Comfortable and loose fitting clothing to wear home
Items For Baby
- Going home outfit for baby
- Receiving blanket
- Warm clothing to wear home/heavy bunting or blanket (if cold weather)
- Baby socks
- Baby hat (especially for cold weather climates)
- Baby car seat. (Call the Auto Safety Hotline at 1-888-DASH-2-DOT for more information on the safety rating of a particular model.) A car seat is required by law and should be properly installed in your car before you go to the hospital.
Items For Labor Coach
- Stopwatch, or watch with a second hand for timing contractions
- Phone list of contacts to announce birth to friends and family; cell phone, phone card, calling card, or change for calls
- Snacks and drinks for the coach, and, if allowed by the hospital, for you
- Massage rollers, massage oils to relieve back pain due to labor
- The object you've chosen to use to focus your attention during labor (the "focal point")
Items For Hospital Staff
- Health plan insurance card
- Hospital admissions papers (you may have to be pre-admitted)
- Pregnancy medical file; over-the-counter and prescription medication information
- Birth preferences
- Your pediatrician's name and contact information, so the hospital can let the office know your baby has arrived
Other Important Items
- Money for parking
- Camera, still or video or both, film, batteries, videotapes
- Books, magazines
- Music (portable music player; favorite tapes, or CDs)
- Inspirational items such as rocks, crystals, lockets, and photographs.
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EXPO Milan: Austria Pavilion as air factory
The World's Fair will be held from 1 May to 31 October 2015 and explore the theme "Feeding the Planet. Energy for Life". More than 140 countries and organisations will present their vision for the future of our planet at the Expo 2015 in Milan.
One of the most original projects in Milan is likely to be Austria's contribution – breathe.austria – a pro-active climate concept which demonstrates the beauty and the power of nature. The concept will be realised as a forest with around 60 trees with heights of up to 12 metres, creating a refreshingly cool microclimate with excellent air quality with an array of shrubs, bushes, mosses and lichens.
The focus is on the environmental performance of the 560m² forest, which works like an air factory: in a single hour it produces enough oxygen for around 1,800 visitors. In addition, dye solar cells are used to generate power: energy is produced from light on the principles of photosynthesis. The Austria Pavilion is an impressive example of how to develop forward-looking solutions to global problems by combining natural and technological processes.
The unusual design will also be reflected in the catering provided by top Austrian chefs, who will be cooking up delicacies from the best the forest has to offer.
The Austria Pavilion will also serve as a meeting place for companies from all over the world.
Virtual tour through the Austrian Pavilion