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Updated 10:45 PM EDT: ESPN New York's Wallace Matthews has the moving parts of the Jeffrey Loria/Randy Levine conversations that kicked off the trade talk between the Marlins and Yankees about Alex Rodriguez.
According to the source, Loria said in his conversation about A-Rod with Levine, "Alex is Mr. Miami; it would be great if he played here for us."
To which Levine is said to have replied, "You can have him."
Included in there is the bombshell detail that explains the unfortunate Brian Cashman's denial this afternoon. He might be the Senior Vice President/General Manager of the Yankees, but he doesn't make all the deals and some of them they don't even give him a much of a heads-up on.
Updated 4:04 PM EDT: Yankees' Senior Vice President Brian Cashman has denied to MLB.Com's Yankees' beat reporter Bryan Hoch that there have been any A-Rod trade talks with the Marlins.
Cash – whom I like – is, say, incorrect.
I'd also like to point out that the last time Brian Cashman denied something involving me, it was to tell me and a crowd of reporters that my tweet showing Rodriguez receiving post-pitch detail signals from the stands on Opening Day in 2011 was not an issue for the ballclub and the team was just fine with me and had no problem and everything was just fine.
Three months later they threw me out as Bob Wolff's assistant at the P.A. microphone for Old Timers' Day and leaked it to The New York Post.
UPDATE 4:19 PM EDT: I'd also point out that Cashman may not know about any of this – yet. Not two years ago ownership – by his own admission – essentially signed a free agent without telling him. Cashman said the other 29 GMs would have loved to have "their owner force Rafael Soriano down their throat."
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The New York Yankees have held discussions with the Miami Marlins about a trade involving their third baseman in crisis, Alex Rodriguez.
Sources close to both organizations confirm the Yankees would pay all – or virtually all – of the $114,000,000 Rodriguez is owed in a contract that runs through the rest of this season and the next five. One alternative scenario has also been discussed in which the Yankees would pay less of Rodriguez's salary, but would obtain the troubled Marlins' reliever Heath Bell and pay what remains of the three-year, $27,000,000 deal Bell signed last winter.
None of the sources could give an indication as to how serious the discussions have already gotten, but one of them close to the Marlins' ownership said he believed the trade made sense for both sides, and would eventually be made in some form.
Not only are the Yankees one loss away from elimination in the American League Championship Series (and as of this writing, one loss away from an ignominious sweep), but in the post-season Rodriguez is just 3-for-23 with twelve strikeouts, has been pinch-hit for twice, and was left out of one of the Division Series games against Baltimore entirely. He last homered on September 14, and has only one extra base-hit and six RBI in the 24 games since that date.
Rodriguez has become a Gordian Knot for the Yankees. As the roster grows old and the farm system is in a fallow period for position players, the Steinbrenner family wants to reduce payroll, not increase it. And while the precise salary numbers are not known, Rodriguez is scheduled to earn approximately $28 million next year, $23 million in 2014, $22 million in 2015, $21 million in 2016, and $20 million in 2017 – when he will be 42 years old. His physical fragility and declining power now make him just slightly less valuable than the average American League third baseman (by one calculation, Rodriguez's WAR number – "wins above replacement player" – was 2.0, seventeenth best among Major League third basemen, just behind obscure rookie Luis Cruz of the Dodgers).
Nevertheless, paying Rodriguez $114 million not to play for them would seem to be against the new – cheaper – thinking at Yankee Stadium.
But to a Marlins' franchise facing financial calamity after the failure of its combination of splashy free agent signings, a high-profile new manager, and a brand new downtown stadium, a "free" Alex Rodriguez has serious upside. He grew up in the community, owns an incredibly high-priced home there that he has been unable to move, and might be refreshed by both the release from the New York cauldron, and a possible move from third base to first base with his new club. Such a position change would be blocked in New York by the presence of first baseman Mark Teixeira and the club's self-perceived need to rotate the aging Yankee regulars in the Designated Hitter spot.
The degree to which the cauldron was heating up was underscored by a dubious story in Tuesday's New York Post, which claimed Rodriguez was trying to get the phone numbers of two women seated behind the Yankee dugout during Saturday's American League Championship Series opener by utilizing the age-old athlete trick of having autographed baseballs delivered to them.
This followed last week's episode in which tv game show host Donald Trump – tweeting last Wednesday from a team-provided freebie seat in a Yankee Stadium suite – also heated up the cauldron by resuming his online attacks on Rodriguez. Trump invoked Rodriguez's admission of steroid use during his time with the Texas Rangers by using the more generic and damning word "drugs," and admitted he had a personal animus towards Rodriguez dating back to what had also tweeted were "dishonorable dealings with me on an apartment deal."
Trump was sitting in the team suite at Yankee Stadium – on the ballclub's dime as usual – when he tweeted this:
But the "drugs" tweet was only the culmination of a day of off-and-on attacks on Rodriguez by Trump.
For more than a year the club has been aggressively retaliatory towards those – like Trump – who have invoked Rodriguez's admission of steroid use, and others who have been critical of him in any other way. Over the past summer the team suspended team Advisor and Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson for questioning what impact Rodriguez's confession would have on the legitimacy of his career statistics. Later in the season, a Yankees' media relations staffer bypassed a new formal appeal procedure and was heard shouting at an official scorer who had given an error to an opposing player rather than a base hit to Rodriguez. Yankees' media relations director Jason Zillo was described in a 2011 book as being "close" to Rodriguez. In the same book Rodriguez called Zillo a "friend." In 2011, Zillo and the Yankees had similarly tried to squelch stories about the seeming deterioration of the play of Derek Jeter.
Trump's call for the Yankees to "terminate" Rodriguez's contract for "misrepresentation" is not a practical solution in a time with a strong players' union, and given the fact that in the off-season of 2007-08 the Yankees happily kept Rodriguez from leaving for free agency by giving him a new ten-year contract that ensured that his pursuit of the career home run record would come while wearing their uniform. More over, the confession came in February, 2009, and if any claim to void the contract could ever have been made, it would have been then, and not now.
The Yankees presumably are not happy with Trump's tweets. But they are less so with Rodriguez's vanishing adequacy. And if the Marlins provide an escape hatch – even an escape hatch costing them either $96,000,000 (if they were to swap Rodriguez for Bell) or $114,000,000 (if they just give him away, or obtain low-cost players or prospects in return for him) – the Yankees are prepared to ignore the business consequences to offload a formerly great player who with each week seems to turn into simply a more and more painful headache.
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3 for 23 sounds awful…until you compare it with 1 for 30…and nobody is insisting that Girardi bench Cano. The Yankees are failing as a team, but A-Rod gets the lion's share of the blame.
WAR is a cumulative stat and he missed time with an injury. Not really a great point.
As Mr. Trump knows so much about baseball, I think he should lobby for Cashman's job. I think he is looking in the wrong place for the cause of Alex's poor play, though. I don't think it's drugs, but because he wasn't really born in this country. If he can find Alex's long-form birth certificate, THEN the Yankees could terminate his contract. They'd then have no choice but to instantly fire Cashman, hire Trump, and sit back and watch as his business and baseball acumen results in twelve straight championships.
I am not sure what you mean by this post, but it seems that you may be suggesting that A-Rod is actually older than what he and everyone else is saying he is.
Besides this point above (which a lot of international players are accused of doing), A-Rod WAS BORN IN NEW YORK CITY, so I have no idea what you mean by this: "I don't think it's drugs, but because he wasn't really born in this country. If he can find Alex's long-form birth certificate, THEN the Yankees could terminate his contract."
You sound VERY ignorant and slightly racist, at best, Steve. Check your facts and understand who you are talking about FIRST!
(and if you were going to use the excuse, 'but he played for the Dominican Republic in the World Championships'…it's because both of his parents are Dominican, and therefore he was granted Dominican citizenship)
I hope you're kidding. He was referring to the birther crap that Trump associates himself with. Pretty sure that was sarcasm.
Whoa, Chris. Breathe, big fella, breathe. Okay… better? Now reread the post.
oh another birther check this time out tax dollars will not have to pay for it
One factor not discussed here is A-Rod's 10 and 5 rights. He can shoot down any trade, and given how much he loves wearing the Pinstripes, I doubt he'd approve the trade, even if it WAS to his hometown. Accepting the trade might be seen by some as A-Rod admitting "failure to perform" in NY, which the fragile Rodriguez would not want to risk.
To blame everything on A-Rod is an attempt to shield Girardi, who should get most of the blame. This is an homer-or-nothing, aging team of superstars who have had bad numbers all year. They score half their runs on the home run, and are terrible in certain hitting situations. Girardi is totally reactive, and he's jumping on the bandwagon of bashing A-Rod. Didn't the Yankees know A-Rod would get old when they signed him thru age 42? Jeez… The Boss is gone, but the stupidity live.
This don't even sound right. I agree with most on here, Yankees inability to hit is bigger than A Rod. This is not the 1st time they embarrassed themselves in the post season. But as with most media talking heads it goes back to his contract. Giradi, no Tony LaRussa by any stretch, should have seen this coming with whole team. You watched us play HR or bust all season, leave RISP constantly, now want to tinker with lineup? How about we trade him to Marlins, from players to be named later.
he has full no trade rights – just like Tex, CC and Jeter.
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Or they can just call the Dodgers. They like taking on ridiculous contracts. Hey Cashman…use your "MAGIC" and call LA!
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As a Brooklyn Dodger fan,living in Fl.4
Over 20yrs. I can say that The Marlin Franchise is a blight on MLB.The owners have
Proved to b failures for going on 30 yrs. 1st
W Expos. They r not capable of owning a Dairy Queen. They ignored reason&built new stadium in worst possible county. All of the$&young families are in P Beach county.
It is 60+ miles fr Dade where stadium is built.
Keith,if u look at every player2 wear a Marlin uniform since they first played in 1993?
You will find many many potential and HOF ers who were traded as soon as they cost more than $1mill. Start w Trevor Hoffman&
On and on Triple crown winner Cabrera.
Someone in MLB will force AROD to Miami, his home bcuz the ownership r morons.
I'll bet that the Marlins will b gone from the state in the future. They cannot draw audiences from Dade County. Broward and
PB county R the northern most counties that have $ Dolphin stadium and those who would
Support team. They can never compete by
Holding onto good players. Hanley Ramirez traded, total BS.
I wish it were 1952 again. Brooklyn 32,000
Making lots of $. Now 55 years since Dodgers left, they build Barclay center just where the Dodgers wanted new stadium.
AROD is hall of famer, Trump is a dumb asshole who shots off his mouth. Don't blame
AROD blame the bottomless pit of $ fr Yankees the reason so many hate them. They
Buy the winners so many times. They gave him ridiculous 2nd 10 yr contract and I hope he gets every penny.
The decline was a long time coming when you first noticed the ball guy behind home plate shooting signals to the players concerning pitches and it ended up in the NY Daily News and MLB had to decide what to do about it.
The thought I had is that A-Rod is just a glimpse at the declining Yankees, maybe even the indicator light on their dashboard, to wake up and sense that there is something definitely declining in the dugout. I've watched these games, always stunned at the lack of hits aside from Ibanez, who did the unbelievable feat of 2 homers at the most dire of times. But really Girardi cannot put all the water carrying on Ibanez when the other players are not producing. I don't know the stats but how many players were left on base throughout this season? And how many times do I have to see Jeter hit into a double-play when someone is on first? It may be time to shake up the team but I don't think rearranging the roster is going to do it. They may have to trade A-rod which leads to my second thought.
I think the problem is the no-trade clause in his contract. By definition "these no-trade clauses are limited, where a club may be limited to trading the athlete only at certain times, or only to a certain team or geographical area".(Wiki) Just by arrogance I believe he would stay or insist on staying with the Yankees even though he is not doing them any favors. Maybe he hopes to get better next season.
So what would be the solution? Quite a quandary, but the first I suggest is Girardi change his tune towards his players and stop pampering them. Also he should learn how to coach a little more efficiently unless he knows he does not have the personnel to do as much as he needs to get the job done. Yard sale for sure!
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I could care less about the Yankees.
You think Cashman's going to fess up and spoil the upcoming blockbuster A-Rod for Bell trade? He's not stupid enough to do so. Hell, even Loria's dumbass stepson knows that you have to deny everything until it's official.
Arod's 10 year contract was executed in late 2007, or perhaps early 2008. The New York Yankees Partnership is organized under the laws of the State of NY.
The following comment assumes the Arod 10 year contract were made under and in accordance to NY's state laws.
I'm surprised that Mr. Trump did not realize that the statute of limitations regarding fraud (misrepresentation of a material fact) have in fact, expired.
The State of New York has a 2 year window in filing a civil action "attempting to void a written contract based on fraud, commencing with the date when the prospective Plaintiff became aware of the fraud.
From what is publicly available, the latest date that the Yankees could claim when they became aware of the fraud would Feb. or March 2009. That is the date Arod publicly announced his drug use. This confirms that the Yankees had no knowledge of Arod's drug use while negotiating his contract shortly after Arod's exercising the "opt out" clause of his contract during the 2007 World Series.
Basically the Yankees "ran out of time" to sue Arod for fraud. The suit would have to have been filed with 2 years of Arod's own admission of drug use (assuming that is the time when the Yankees first became aware of Arod's drug use).
In essence, any claim of action on behalf of fraud based upon Arod's misrepresentation would have to have been filed no later than 2 years after the press conference by Arod, admitting to his drug use.
HOWEVER, if Arod's contract was signed under the laws of FL, it is a total different set of rules.
I believe the Yankees would have up to 4 years to file from the date of their knowledge of the fraud.
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trump, what can you say about him, fool comes to mind especially every time he opens his mouth, all trumps celebrity comes not from his business acumen but his ability to make a fool out of himself, america does need to be entertained and he certainly does that although being taken seriously isn't in the equation.
Marlins Stadium is far from a home-run hitters paradise. A-Rod still has a shot at Bonds but it'll demand 30hrs a year. Given that he has veto power, (and I'm SURE the Yankees want him out) I'd guess he'll opt for a more hitter friendly home than Miami.
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Someone explain to me why the Yankees would PAY all the money but give him up to the Marlins, where he MIGHT do some damage; rather than keeping him on the bench, if they have to pay the money ANYWAY.
Seriously. I don't get it.
This is not true. It was something that was jokingly discussed before the season. The Marlins do not need an old, lazy, selfish, steroid using first baseman.
The women are hotter in Miami as well as being more receptive to A-Rod's particular type of macho charm. Plus, nobody cares what happens there anymore since Cuba now allows anyone (who is not important) to leave and come to the BIg Island. So Alex, waive your 10 and 5, open your own club and enjoy your millions and all the chocha.
Why would anyone give what this Communist SLOberman credence for anything he has to say? Fired from everywhere he's worked he needs to fade back into obscurity and irrelevance where he's always been.
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I beg your pardon Yankee Fan but the rest of the MLB Fan universe can't understand why NY'ers rag on ARod so much when it was Cashman & old George who offered him the 10 year, no trade, outrageously expensive deal at age 32 in the first place.
Roids or no Roids, the rest of MLB Fan base thought in 2008 as now that it was too risky. Obviously, their criticisms back then have come to fruition. Lastly, pinning the blame for the weak offense on ARod is as valid an argument as saying the Yankees ban on facial hair has negatively affected the psyche of their players. GMAB Yankee Fan your entire team is too old and tired not only ARod.
Trump is a typical Republican a hole. But I hope Alex is traded. Time to end this soap opera. I'll just root for him on the Marlins. Yankee fans forget that A-Rod was the hero of 2009 and he was a 30/100 guy every year until last year. Girardi– put A-Rod and Grandy back in the lineup!
can Donald perform without drugs ? I doubt it..
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A rod to the Marlins, how low can it go. I really don't feel any ptiy for A rod. He should have stay inh Seattle and not gone for the stupid fat contract. He would have been a star in the Seattle for just as long but he got greedy and know he paying for it. He should retire before this trade goes through,
a rod is one of only 8 players in the history of baseball to hit 600 plus home runs he is getting on with age but in the reg season he is a big plus to the line up he sells tickets and i would love for him to retire as a yankee and go into the hall of fame with the yanks hat on, none of the players did well come on who hit the ball no one look at mantle he drank and chased women all over town just like the babe he will snap back just get off his back cause you dont know what you have until its not there no more to trade a rod will come back to bite the team in the ass a few more years and he will retire.
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Six months later, Wayne returned to the Meadowlands, this time at the smaller, indoor Izod Arena for another radio station show. Tha Carter III had already sold upward of two million copies, a truly absurd figure in these new economic end-times. He had nothing to prove by then, and he proved nothing. Co-headliner Jay-Z refused to take the stage with Wayne for their planned "Mr. Carter" moment, reportedly disgusted with him for no-showing their Boston show together the night before. Wayne's new backing band of session-musician hacks cluelessly soloed all over the skeletal boom of the backing tracks, inexplicably squeedling "A Milli" into stomp-rock anonymity; the rapper himself looked listless and slurry, as though he'd rehearsed his set enough to leach out all the unstable electricity of his Summer Jam appearance, but not enough that it'd actually be any good. When Jay took the stage later that night, he mopped the floor with Wayne.
Still, Wayne had a big 2008: He pretended to play guitar behind Kid Rock at the Country Music Awards. He brushed chalk off his shoe in Mark Romanek's mini-masterpiece of a LeBron Nike commercial. He had a son. He sold more copies of one record than anyone else, in any genre. And he became the most divisive figure in recent rap memory. Wayne does not carry himself in a manner befitting a rap star. His delivery isn't an ice-grilled snarl—it's a freewheeling back-of-the-throat gibber. He doesn't hammer away methodically at his subjects—he slides haphazardly between them, chasing down digressions and vividly distracting himself. He scored his biggest-ever hit with a miasmic robo-trance ode to head (that'd be "Lollipop") and his biggest car-radio banger with an unhinged chorus-free rant over a beat that's all maddening, world-swallowing repetition (that'd be "A Milli"). He was all rupture, no control. And no matter how thrilling his best moments were, even vocal admirers had to contend with scores of clanging dud moments like that Izod Arena show.
Even Tha Carter III, the album at the center of this whole mess, is a work of staggering heights and maddening inconsistencies. Wayne spent upward of two years putting the thing together, recording tracks at a frantic rate and then letting them slip out into the world, seemingly scrapping everything and starting over whenever a fresh batch "leaked" to the Internet. All the while, he churned out a constant stream of guest appearances and mixtapes, frying his brains over hundreds of all-night weed-and-codeine-driven recording sessions. By the time the album hit shelves, a few interviews indicated that Wayne wasn't entirely certain which songs were actually on it.
And yet the album's best moments still boast a ferocious sort of psychedelic clarity. On paper, this is a textbook focus-grouped major-label hodgepodge, replete with girl songs and club songs and street songs. But every facet of the album comes animated and atomized by Wayne's absurdist drug-gobbling persona. The bit on "Playing With Fire" where a baby Wayne wields a cleaver and stares down his mother's abusive boyfriend raises goosebumps every time; add to that the manic free-association of "A Milli," the wounded empathy of "Tie My Hands," the antic goofiness of "Dr. Carter," and the glorious swells of "Let the Beat Build."
But there's also plenty of bullshit. Like, for instance, "Mrs. Officer," a one-joke track that gets old immediately, thanks to that indefensible wee-ooh-wee-ooh-wee hook. Or the gleefully obnoxious circus-music beat for "La La." Or the seven-minute spoken-word rant that ends "Don't Get It." My favorite moment of the album doesn't even come from Wayne himself: It's the masterfully dead-eyed verse from B-list guest Fabolous on "You Ain't Got Nuthin." When Wayne shows up later in the song, his stammering croak falls flat. Tha Carter III is a sprawling mess, and it clangs nearly as often as it clicks. Anyone defending Wayne in 2008 had to contend with a cavalcade of bad ideas.
But those bad ideas were always inextricable from the whole. The album revealed Wayne as a restless mind, rifling through concepts and subgenres with ADD frequency, ending up with something powerful more often than we had any right to expect. And the amazing part of it is that the masses followed him down all these different rabbit holes, turning the album into the sort of hotly discussed blockbuster moment that music never, ever produces anymore. In 2008, the only people who rivaled Wayne in terms of widespread water-cooler fascination were political candidates, Heath Ledger, and maybe, maybe, Michael Phelps. That's a beautiful thing.
And ultimately, the real legacy of Tha Carter III might not even be the album itself; it'll be the challenge it presents to anyone attempting rap stardom in the future. We'll get plenty of shallow attempts to duplicate its success, of course. Chumps like Yung Berg are already ruining their voices attempting to replicate Wayne's distinctive raspy yip, and producer Bangladesh is already ripping off his own "A Milli" beat for clients like Beyoncé and Busta Rhymes. But I can't wait to see who responds to the album's challenge on a basic, fundamental level. The old model doesn't work anymore. You can't just hire a phalanx of superstar producers, cobble together a few singles and a bunch of filler tracks, and call it a day. Old-model stars like 50 Cent and Nelly already seem helplessly, hopelessly out of date; any rapper hoping for Carter III–level success is going to have to let himself be weird. And so Kanye's icy electro lament, 808s & Heartbreak, ranks as the first real post–Carter III rap album, a sideways bugout move that would've been unthinkable a year ago and still seems pretty bizarre today. If we're lucky, we'll get a few more of those.
As for Wayne himself, it is my great hope that he'll live to see the end of 2009.
This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on January 21, 2009


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Skull and Bones and Geronimo
Goyathlay (one who yawns) was born in June of 1829 to the Bedonkohe band of Apache near Turkey Creek, a tributary of the Gila River, in New Mexico. He was raised according to Apache tradition and married a woman from the Chiricahua band of Apache when he was 17 years old. They had three children.
In 1832, a secret society known as Skull and Bones was founded by certain privileged male students at Yale University.
On March 5, 1851, 400 Mexican soldiers from Sonora attacked Goyathlay's camp, killing Goyathlay's mother, wife and children. Goyathlay and the other men were elsewhere at the time.
Although he was never a chief, Goyathlay soon became a ferocious military leader. In one battle, he repeatedly attacked Mexican soldiers with a knife, ignoring an onslaught of bullets.
The Mexicans gave him a nickname, after St. Jerome. They called him Geronimo.
Geronimo refused to acknowledge the United States Government. He fought U.S. and Mexican Armies for more than a decade.
To his people, he was renowned for his "power" because he was blessed with profound spiritual knowledge and protected by Usen, the Apache high-god. He had the ability to walk without leaving tracks and was metaphysically gifted (telepathy, telekinesis). Wounded many times by bullets, he always survived.
In 1886, Geronimo was finally captured after numerous daring escapes and sent to prison in Florida.
Later, he became famous in his old age. In 1904, he appeared at the World's Fair in St. Louis and rode in President Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade the following year.
Geronimo died on February 17, 1909.
There is a windowless building on the campus of Yale University called the Tomb. It houses the secret society known as Skull and Bones. It's basically a private club for young men of privilege, many of whom go on to become captains of industry, Supreme Court justices, cabinet officers and presidents.
Only 15 new seniors, called Neophytes, are chosen each year to become Bonesmen. They are sworn to a lifetime of secrecy and must go through a series of rituals to become a member.
For example, they're required to stand naked in the presence of other Bonesmen and recount their entire sexual history. Upon acceptance, Neophytes are shoved to their knees and knighted by a Bonesman tapping a sword on the Neophyte's left shoulder and saying, "By the order of our order, I dub thee Knight of Euloga."
Outlandish ceremonies are commonplace in the Tomb. In one ritual, a woman holds a knife and pretends to slash the throat of another person lying down before her, as Bonesmen yell and scream at the Neophytes. In another ceremony, Bonesmen wear devil costumes and pretend to perform satanic acts of torture on Neophytes who are also required to lie in a coffin at various times.
Death seems to be one of the major themes in the Tomb. There are more than a dozen skulls and several coffins scattered throughout the premises. Wall paintings are replete with scenes of death and destruction.
Also on display is a glass case containing one of their sacred treasures -- a bloodied knife and the skull of Geronimo.
Prescott Bush was a Bonesman. He and other members of Skull and Bones dug up Geronimo's grave at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, when stationed there in 1918 during World War I, removing the skull and some other bones.
Prescott Bush is the father of former president George H. W. Bush and grandfather of former president George W. Bush, both of whom were also Bonesmen at Yale.
On February 17, 2009, the hundredth anniversary of Geronimo's death, his great-grandson, Harlyn Geronimo, filed a lawsuit in Washington DC claiming that members of Skull and Bones stole the remains of Geronimo decades ago. The descendants want the remains turned over to the family so he can be reburied near his birthplace in New Mexico's Gila Wilderness.
Bonesmen are young men from wealthy and powerful families. In their circle, they can do no wrong. They have a lofty opinion of their position in society and strive to keep it that way. They refer to the rest of society as "barbarians." In their elite world, you're either a Bonesman or a barbarian.
Their antics are infantile, sadomasochistic and downright disgusting. It's a secret society that lusts for dominance and worships death. Its members are ambitious men of wealth and power who help other members reach positions of wealth and power.
The purpose of their satanic behavior within Skull and Bones, no doubt, is to compromise the dignity of its members to ensure a lifetime of loyalty to the society. Once a Bonesman, always a Bonesman.
These are the true barbarians.
In 2004, George W. Bush and John Kerry were the two presidential candidates. Both had been members of Skull and Bones at Yale, although not at the same time. Neither would answer any questions about the secret society.
All 44 presidents of the United States are related by blood. For example, Obama is a distant cousin of George W. Bush. This bloodline of influential, wealthy families controls international banking, which in turn controls governments and the media.
The world is being methodically manipulated by a group of powerful people in high places whose ultimate goal is a One World Government with them in control. And the robotic masses go along with it because they buy into the programming of the educational system and the media. The greed-heads at the top, who want to control the world, feed off the greed-heads below, who always want more than they need or can reasonably afford.
Geronimo yearned to be free. It cost him the lives of his mother, his wife and his children, and eventually cost him his freedom.
In February of 2009, one hundred years after his death, Geronimo still yearns to be free.
The sordid fellows of Skull and Bones have chosen to display Geronimo's remains in their private meeting quarters. If there is any justice in this world, they will turn over Geronimo's remains to his family, offer an apology, disband their insidious secret society of human depravity and exorcise the Tomb of its demons, preferably by an Apache Holy Man.
Quote for the Day -- "I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust." Geronimo
Bret Burquest is a former award-winning columnist and the author of four novels. He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a dog named Buddy Lee and the spirit of Black Elk. His blogs appear on several websites, including www.myspace.com/bret1111
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Having a local library that can meet the growing needs and demands of the community is a quality of life issue that should be supported by local voters. We urge all those voting in the May 20 election to vote yes on both measures.
The need for a new library is well documented as the community has clearly out-grown the facility which was originally constructed nearly three decades ago. During that time, the local population has increased almost four-fold to 17,000 people and the aging facility has been unable to keep up with the growing population. At 20,000-square-feet, the proposed new library would quadruple the 5,000-square-feet available in the existing library. And once the new library is constructed, the current facility would be used as a community center. Many other benefits for library patrons, such as increased parking, will also result from the passage of the ballot measures.
It is true that there will be an additional cost to local taxpayers 14 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation if the new library is approved, but that would only be about $3.50 per month for the owner of a $300,000 home. A small price to pay to ensure we have a library capable of serving our community and those who call it home.
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Attention flamers, vicious posters and other reputation-savaging knuckleheads who hide behind the anonymity of chatroom walls while tossing grenades at others:
Phil Mickelson is fighting back.
In a move that could bring unintended light to a very personal issue, Mickelson filed suit in Canada to learn the identity of a person who has been ripping him on the Internet.
According to the Courthouse News Service, Mickelson alleges in the complaint that "the postings suggest that plaintiff has an illegitimate child, that his wife has affairs and other similar vexatious statements that are absolutely untrue and, simply put, vicious.
Mickelson has long been dogged by wild and absurd rumors, and his wife Amy has even been known to make jokes with friends about them.
But nobodys kidding around this time.
Mickelson sought and was granted by San Diego Superior Court the right to subpoena Yahoo! for information about the identities of two screen names, "Fogroller" and "Longitude," and Yahoo! responded with Fogroller's Internet protocol address, which is registered to a Videotron subscriber, according to the Courthouse News report.
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Sometimes it looks as though you just can not make ends meet on the amount that you make … maybe you have problems with debt, maybe you need to purchase a new vehicle for the household, or maybe you simply can not afford to take the vacation or do the home improvements that you want. Regardless of what you need the extra money for, the answer that you're seeking might just be a home owner personal loan.
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If you think that a home owner personal loan might be the sort of thing that you're looking for to help you accomplish your goals, then the information below should help you decide whether or not you should apply for one of these loans.
Equity is calculated as the value of your house minus the amount remaining on your mortgage … the more you've paid the mortgage, then the more equity you have built up in your house. This equity can be used as collateral for a loan, with the upper limit of how much you can borrow being slightly less than the amount of equity that you have stored in your house. Determine how much equity you have, and then see whether or not it is enough to cover the amount that you're willing to borrow with your home owner personal loan.
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Equity futures are mostly flat to down a little in the overnight session, DOW and S&P activity are shown below:
The dollar and bonds are roughly flat overnight, both oil and gold are down some more. Oil is back into the $75 range and gold is approaching the $1,080 support level, there's more support for gold about $1,050, then again at the $1,000 level. We are definitely seeing deleveraging of the speculative plays.
Amazing how fast it comes off, isn't it? More than 400 points on the DOW and 44 on the S&P gone in just the past couple of days. Pretty bearish action overall, the volume is much heavier on these down moves than on the up moves. Remember, volume confirms price. There was, and still is, a historic divergence in place with volume shouting that the primary direction is still lower.
Yesterday Obama got up and supported "the Volcker Plan" whose stated intention would be to limit commercial banks to staying only in banking and out of the hedge fund and speculation business! That would be terrific and should have happened a looooonnnng time ago. This is the very reason our markets have been completely taken over by them and their massive computers. But the worst part is that they have been using YOUR money to trade against YOU. So YES, absolutely, commercial banks have NO business speculating and levering up.
Now the real questions are; do they mean it, can they implement it, and if they do, are there going to be so many loopholes that it effectively means nothing but allows the Administration to look tough once again? Well, we need simply look at the past year and what is a clear trend is Obama standing up and delivering a beautiful oration with the correct principles, but then the action never materializes. Again, the timing of the announcement yesterday on the same morning as Goldman's earnings was absolutely orchestrated to play the public. I DON'T ENJOY BEING PLAYED, do you? In fact I'm sick of it.
Since everyone has probably seen the mainstream twist on the proposals, I want to share an alternative perspective from Business Insider:
Big Banks Have Already Figured Out The Loophole In Obama's New Rules
John Carney
Jan. 21, 2010
Big banks have already begun poking the holes in Obama's new rules—holes they expect their banks to pass through basically unchanged.
The president promised this morning to work with Congress to ensure that no bank or financial institution that contains a bank will own, invest in or sponsor a hedge fund or a private equity fund, or proprietary trading operations unrelated to serving customers for its own profit.
But sources at three banks tell us that they are already finding ways to own, investment in and sponsor hedge funds and private equity funds. Even prop trading seems safe.
A person familiar with the operations of one big Wall Street bank said it expects that new regulation will affect less than 1% of its overall business.
The key phrase is "operations unrelated to serving customers." The banks plan to claim that much of the business in which it engages is related in one way or another to serving customers. Even proprietary trading, for instance, can become related to customer service if it is done through internal hedge funds in which some outside clients are permitted to invest.
One insider at a bank pointed to JP Morgan Chase's ownership of the hedge fund Highbridge Capital. It is thought that under a strict "no hedge funds" rule, Highbridge would have to be sold off. But under the rule proposed by the Obama administration, Highbridge can be retained by JP Morgan because outside clients are permitted to invest in it.
A still more devious way is to have a banks own employees be the customers who are invested in the internal hedge funds. That way trading operations can remain closed to outsiders while the regulatory requirement of relating the trading to customer service is met. Goldman Sachs is rumored to be considering this approach. (Goldman isn't commenting on the regs right now.)
"This thing is about showing the public that Obama is standing up to Wall Street. So the rhetoric is heated. But the implementation will require far less change than people think right now," a person familiar with the thinking at the upper echelons of one of our largest banks said.
"The market is getting this wrong by selling off the megas," a person at another bank said.
So, there are many who believe that it simply will not come to pass and then there are those who believe if it does come to pass you can drive a truck through the loopholes. The power structure of America is simply turned upside down, again, until that is changed we will continue to pay the price for it.
It's difficult to know what's real and what's Memorex in these markets, that's for sure. That's why technical analysis is so important. Forget what they are telling you, what is the volume pattern telling you?
Then there's the possibility that if Obama is really going to support Volcker and really lets him get in there and close up the loopholes, then the banks with their money and computers will just flip the direction of their bets changing the direction to down to pressure Obama until he shouts "Uncle." It works nearly every time, and it's worked that way throughout history every time the bankers get in charge of creating this nation's money. Again, this is why what's so important is WHO controls the quantity.
And yesterday a huge decision was handed down by the Supreme Court that got very little play in the media. Hmmm… wonder why? Could it mean more money for them? Hmmm.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations may spend freely to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on their participation in federal campaigns.
By a 5-4 vote, the court on Thursday overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said corporations can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to pay for their own campaign ads. The decision, which almost certainly will also allow labor unions to participate more freely in campaigns, threatens similar limits imposed by 24 states.
It leaves in place a prohibition on direct contributions to candidates from corporations and unions.
Critics of the stricter limits have argued that they amount to an unconstitutional restraint of free speech, and the court majority apparently agreed.
"The censorship we now confront is vast in its reach," Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his majority opinion, joined by his four more conservative colleagues.
However, Justice John Paul Stevens, dissenting from the main holding, said, "The court's ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions around the nation."
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor joined Stevens' dissent, parts of which he read aloud in the courtroom.
The justices also struck down part of the landmark McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill that barred union- and corporate-paid issue ads in the closing days of election campaigns.
Advocates of strong campaign finance regulations have predicted that a court ruling against the limits would lead to a flood of corporate and union money in federal campaigns as early as this year's midterm congressional elections.
The decision, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, removes limits on independent expenditures that are not coordinated with candidates' campaigns.
The case also does not affect political action committees, which mushroomed after post-Watergate laws set the first limits on contributions by individuals to candidates. Corporations, unions and others may create PACs to contribute directly to candidates, but they must be funded with voluntary contributions from employees, members and other individuals, not by corporate or union treasuries.
Can't think of a worse thing to do for America than to allow corporations to spend unlimited funds on campaigns! This is 180 degrees out. Again, the power structure is already upside down, this only cements it there and makes it far worse. Of course individuals cannot compete with the money these large special interests are able to generate. There is NO balance of power, and that statement is true right through the judicial system.
Notice that they limit contributions to PACs, but meanwhile corporations and other large special interests are spending unlimited funds on lobbying and in support of political campaigns. This is making people slaves to these interests instead of making those entities work for the people. The very purpose of corporations and allowing capital to concentrate has been lost.
Freedom of speech? Are corporations and other business entities really people with the same rights in that regard? We need to find some type of balance in this matter, and I believe that the political reforms suggested in Freedom's Vision would help to balance that structure out fairly without putting onerous restrictions on business, and in fact the other provisions would greatly help and support business by clearing out large portions of the debt that is choking our economy.
With a large percentage of earnings from gambling in the marketplace, the negative implications for the big banks of Volcker's proposed limits really hit the financials yesterday. Many think this is overdone. Here's a 6 month chart of the XLF, you can now see what looks like a double top in place and note the very heavy volume on the sell off yesterday:
Remember, the large banks are still riddled with bad debt and they are still hiding toxic derivatives all over the place that have been mispriced via deceptive accounting practices and mark to model. Well, if that's all they have, it isn't much is it? Oh yes, they still have very wide spreads to arbitrage, but how can they take advantage of that when all their potential customers are already saturated with their poisonous debts? People don't want and can't service more debt, and the banks look at them and finally realize that you can't just give debt away to just anybody.
And yet the pundits are telling you there's never been a better time to buy the banks, that they are a steal, a bargain.
A general pattern is emerging with earnings coming out. Some are strong and are beating estimates, these are mainly tech companies and financials with their gambling profits and mark to fantasy accounting. The trend here is that on the beats they are being sold hard anyway. This is another indication of topping behavior. The other trend is that things in the REAL non high tech world are NOT doing well. Cargo and transportation is down below the levels of last year. GE reported a beat, but sales fell 10% year over year and "fourth- quarter net income attributable to GE fell 19 percent to $3.01 billion, or 28 cents a share, from $3.72 billion, or 36 cents." GE is actually up about 3%, one of the few companies to actually increase on their down 19% "beat."
Now let's look at a discretionary consumer item, Harley Davidson Motorcycles. Here is where we find the debt saturated citizen motoring into the proverbial debt wall. Remember that Buffett just threw big money into Harley last year. How are sales? "Sales fell 40 percent to $764.5 million." Forty percent! After falling off a cliff the year before that? No wonder I am getting so many emails spamming me about their sales. "The loss of $218.7 million, or 94 cents a share, compared with net income of $77.8 million, or 34 cents, a year earlier." Again, this is the real economy here not one that is marked to any model and a drop in sales of 40% in one year says it all.
Can't you just see the psychology at work? Isn't this exactly the psychology that played out during the Great Depression? A 50+% retrace, oh we're saved, ohhh what's happening, oh it's only a correction, 10 to 20% is healthy, see it's coming back, well maybe just another couple percent correction, not to worry it's coming back, ahhh what the heck just happened?
Wave C During the Great Depression:
It's called debt saturation, it's what occurs at the peak of a credit (debt) bubble when incomes are no longer able to support even more credit. The banks managed to super saturate the entire globe with debt.
It's simple from here. If they want this debt backed money game to continue, then they must let enough debt default through deflation that they can then do it all again. If they are not smart enough to allow deflation to continue, then they are simply ushering in a new money system. That is obviously the path we are headed down just observing their actions and the math at play.
So what's going on technically right now?
In the very short term, like 60 minute time frame and down, the oscillators are all oversold meaning that we could see some sideways or bounce to work that off. However, that's going up against what looks like it could be a wave 3, possibly of wave 1 down of C down. Here's a 60 minute chart of the SPX, you can see that we have just fallen beneath what was support back into the area that was the sideways zone where we spent so much time. That means the volume support in this area is heavy:
Here is a 3 month daily snapshot of the SPX at the close yesterday, it was sitting right on support after having convincingly broken down from the megaphone pattern I had been showing. Note, too, that it closed just above the 50dma and the bottom Bollinger as well:
The DOW actually closed below the 50dma and below the lower Bollinger, a place that means we probably need a break to give the Bollingers and oscillators time to catch up to the action. Note the fresh sell signals on the daily oscillators and the heavier volume:
Here's a 6 month chart of SPY, the S&P 500 ETF. Yesterday's volume was the heaviest on this chart. If you draw a horizontal line from yesterday's close back in time, you will find that we are now already back to the same price level we were at in mid November:
And here's a chart of the VIX. Note that we closed above the upper Bollinger yesterday and are continuing to push it up today. Very bearish action, remember this follows the VIX market sell signal we received, that was a very important clue, wasn't it? Those who were long and did not listen are paying the price:
Events are unfolding quickly. More deleveraging in Europe, Portugal being the latest to have their debt come under heavy pressure as the waves continue to propagate from Dubai, Greece, the Baltic States, etc. Those who were thinking we were in the clear, simply were not logically keeping their eyes on the debt and on the math thereof.
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Socioclean is Retarded (it's satire!)
I was introduced to a new service for social media called Socioclean. The basic premise of this service is that it crawls through all your Facebook updates and pulls out anything with any offensive content with a link to delete it. Bad words, sexual comments, anything that it thinks is racist, drug or alcohol related, or just offensive generally, it pulls.
On the plus side, the application is really easy to use. You just sign up for the service and then give permission from your Facebook account and it goes through everything for free. It generates a report that's easy to read, but this is also where a lot of questions come forward. The search is not intelligent, it rates everything the same regardless of whether the context makes it offensive or not.
Some things it found offensive: the "ho" part of "yo ho, a pirate's life for me" (sexual content), talking about vitamin pills (drug/alcohol use), the word "pregnancy" (sexual content), same-sex marriage (sexual content), discussion of melatonin (racist), discussion of my pallor(racist), discussion of a wrongly imprisoned woman (aggressive), and what kind of pot one should use for a recipe (drug/alcohol use). Other phrases one assumes it would pick up negatively "drunk on power", "lottery balls", the name "Dick", "spotted dick", and "Osama's homobortion pot 'n commie jizzporium".
It can't distinguish between me saying that Rush Limbaugh used the word "retarded", which Sarah Palin said was ok because it's satire, and me using the word "retarded" to describe Sarah Palin, which is ok because she said it was satire. It also counts against you any comments by friends on your page, so if you're buddy asks "Wtf", you get a hit for using bad words – I confess it never occurred to me that "wtf" would be considered offensive by someone. And it has no sense of humor "Screw cuss free week" was flagged as "sexual", despite the fact that the entire point is to encourage cuss words. I mean really.
It did not, however, pull up a lot of things that probably were actually offensive in my profile. I talk about religion, atheism, gay rights, feminism, lots of smack about right-wing politics and probably every other link I post is offensive, though it doesn't flag them at all. Any Fox News viewer looking to hire someone is going to be resolutely not impressed with me. But then I foolishly subscribe to the online mantra originated by Elbert Hubbart, "To escape criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
That I received an "F" grade for all the former things and not for the latter makes me question the usefulness of the service, if it really is just using keyword search to determine whether things are offensive it seems to both expand the list and specify context. The site doesn't store your data, meaning it has to run a full new analysis every time you want to look, which is irritating but I suppose a useful safety feature. It does allow you to ignore certain finds, but that doesn't seem to impact the data analysis it gives you, just lets you look at fewer things on your offensive list.
Is this useful? Yes and no. You're going to see a list of things that a third party may find offensive, and it goes all the way back to 2005 for my profile. On the other hand, it misses a lot of things that are offensive, doesn't flag bad grammar, ALL CAPS, or txt spk, and seems to be about 90% things that are only offensive if you're not fluent in the English language.


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Volvo guide for better battery performance
1 Batteries can wear out.
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2. Battery performance is greatly reduced in cold weather.
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3. What can be done to reduce the wear.
- Turn off consumers when not required.
- Turn off the isolator if the vehicle is not being used.
- A full external recharge once a month is recommended.
- Fitting a battery reconditioner can reduce the impact of heavy use on the battery. (Ask your dealer about a Fitted-Price)
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Correct use of rev counter colours.
The engines, in a modern Volvo Truck, have been developed to produce maximum fuel efficiency at low engine revs. The following notes explain how the different coloured sectors should be used to help you get the best from your Volvo Truck.
The GREEN sector represents the rev band where the engine produces the best fuel efficiency and you should aim to drive within this band as much as possible. Change down a full gear when the revs reach the bottom of the green band and change up a full gear when the revs reach the top of the green band.
The BLACK sector on the FM/FH and the BLUE sector on the FL/FE, is where the engine revs need to be to get the maximum braking efficiency from the auxiliary braking systems. To achieve this it may be necessary to change down by one or more gears to maintain the engine revs in these sectors.
The RED sector is where the engine revs should NEVER be as this is where severe engine
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Driving economically.
|verytime you pull away use first gear or first gear low split
|hange down a full gear, but wait as long as possible as the speed drops
|n acceleration, skip a gear when possible. Try the 1-3-5 or 1-3-4 shift pattern
|ote the road conditions. Plan ahead and brake as little as possible
|perate the vehicle within the lower half of the Green band
|aintain yourself and your truck in good working order
|our top speed should be as constant and as low as possible
|yres need to be checked regularly
|dling engines waste fuel
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Think about your own safety first, Alert other road users
Before calling the emergency number gather the following information:
- Number of injured people
- Anybody trapped
- Vehicles with airbags released
- Any leakages / spillages (dangerous goods involved)
Call the emergency number and tell them:
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It is important that you think about your own safety first and alert other road users!
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1. Starting at the front of the vehicle, raise the front grill and check all the relevant fluid levels,
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and check the radiator, intercooler and other coolers for any damage, blockage or leakage.
2. Insert your digital tacho card, enter information and select the correct activity mode. Check
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as you walk round, but you may need help when checking brake lights, indicators and head
lights etc. When the air pressure is up, switch off the engine and exit the cab.
3. Check the screen wash level and clean the side windows and mirrors. Check the offside
wheel and tyre for loose nuts, damage & pressure. Check that the side locker is closed, check
any air tanks for moisture & listen for air leaks. Check the rear wheels, tyres and nuts. Check
the trailer fifth wheel latch safety pin and for correct engagement of the kingpin. Check &
clean the rear lights. Check the security of the mud-wings and battery cover if applicable.
4. Walk down the side of the vehicle/trailer and continue to listen for air leaks whilst checking
any additional trailer coupling mechanisms, superstructure & load security, trailer legs, marker
lights, and the wheels and tyres.
5. Check and clean the rear light clusters, check any vehicle/trailer doors & number plate.
6. On the opposite side of the vehicle/trailer listen for air leaks whilst checking the wheels
and tyres, marker lights, trailer park brake and trailer legs and the superstructure and load.
7. Check the tractor unit mud-wing security, wheels and tyres, any air tanks, clean and check
rear lights and battery cover security if applicable. Climb onto the catwalk and check the
trailer suzies and remember to check the trailer plating certificate and MOT disc validity.
8. Check the side locker, clean the windows and mirrors, top up the washer fluid reservoir if
necessary and check the nearside wheel and tyre.
9. Clean the windscreen and check the lights and front view mirror.
10. Finally, re-enter the cab, put your seatbelt on, adjust seat, steering wheel and mirrors and
carry out a final check of all instruments and controls. Check and reset the blocking valve if
necessary. Switch on the cruise control, if fitted, and as you pull away test the operation of the
brakes. This will also ensure that the cruise control system is tested and ready for operation.