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Am I the only one.....
I have been a KoЯn fan almost all my life and I love the band to death, but am I the only one hoping that the tenth album isn't going to be all Dub step? After hearing "Get Up" I am sad to say that this is going to be the ONLY album I will have to delete at least one song from my computer and depending on how the rest of the album is maybe not even purchase altogether. KoЯn III was like a dream come true for me going back to their roots with that raw KoЯn sound I fell in love with and having Ross come in again and produce it great. I guess I'm just wondering if I'm the only one that feels disappointed in the band with this song. In my opinion this dub step seems like an infection contaminated good music, because the lyrics sound great, but the so called music in that song is painful to my ears. Anyone else with me on this one?
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ohh im sure there is at least one more person...and it isnt me :P
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Not me either......
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ur not alone, i dont care for dubstep stuff. i like get up but i dont know if i could do a whole album, i am a tad bit disappointed they are going in that direction. i hope they can pull it off and i hope it sounds good. if not oh well.
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if u guys heard what jd was playing on the chat once u would know that dubstep can be 'korny' too....i think KoRn should release some other official track other than get up so people can see and stop worrying that its all electro and shit, I was afraid at the beginning too, because it wasnt deff smth I would find out to listen on my own, but I did find out thx to get up mostly that dubstep can nicely contribute to KoRn smth fresh and still keep it korny with their characteristic sound, electronic, industrial music still can be dark, heavy, and ambient hence - NIN
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I enjoyed 'Get Up', but I am not a fan of dubstep.
And I have no problem with Korn having dubstep on the upcoming album, I am hoping it isn't entirely dubstep.
I think that the fans who don't enjoy dubstep should give it a chance.
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Then your eyes roll back.
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I think Korn III was them veering off course, actually, and didn't really appreciate a return-to-our-roots effort at this point in the game--but that's neither here nor there.
Considering their latest CDs have been more electronically heavy (SYOTOS and Untitled, which I love), I have no problem with them evolving and developing that sound more. I think "Get Up" is way more "Korny" sounding than some of the stuff on KIII, truth be known. Maybe I'm alone on that, but that's okay by me.
I didn't get to hear what JD played in chat. But I know when I listen to the little clip of what he played at his DJ set in Tampa, I end up a puddle on the floor. =P I can't freaking wait.
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I thought Get Up sounded pretty good, even though I'm not really a fan of dubstep. I've never even heard of the genre before the song was released. And reading up all the guest dubstep artists that are going to be featured on the upcoming album, it seems that a majority of the songs are going to have dubstep in them, which I am slightly disappointed by. But whatever, I know whatever Korn comes up with is going to be awesome anyways.
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Im not a fan of dubstep, but as a true supporter of Korn wont endlessly bitch about them doing an album influenced by it.
I would have preferred them to experiment some other way, but as long as there still making music, Ill be happy.
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I saw an old documentary about Korn recently. Munky said that they always tried to evolve their music.
And I support their decision even though I dont like dubstep at all.
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I'm not a fan of dubstep because of the crazy structures and repetitive nature of most songs. That said, I love how dubstep elements are used on Get Up and hope that the rest of the album uses them as effectively.
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I'm kinda with you... Lol! I got into KoRn in the mid 90's... Not too excited about this album but its KoRn so I'm getting it anyway and have to give the whole album a chance... Then if I don't like it listen to it a bit more and end up liking at least a few songs. I don't know what exactly going back to their roots means... Because the 1st time they said they did that they really didn't. TALITM was not like their older stuff, it had a lot more from Untouchables, which was a huge change. Though it was a great Album, Untouchables I mean. After Head it seems the creative new noise shit that I love went out and they replaced it with keyboards and the like. So even though its different its much more into what they've been doing since SYOTOS, it has been leading to this!
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Being born in 91 I was raised listening to Korn. I cannot stand dubstep and it feels like they are moving in a direction that i dont particularly want to follow this time. If the whole album is dubstep I am divorcing myself from the band.
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I've said that on a post : "...But I don't know if you noticed that, but if Skrillex wasn't on this song, the sound of KoRn is really good, like an untouchable stuff, somethin' like that... I think with the help of Head KoRn should have made a song really close to that stuff with Skrillex, the inspiration here is back because the band is excited by the sound skrillex (or dubstep style) made, but I think that they could do that without him..."
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yea not a huge fan of dubstep here either. lol but we'll see.
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I did enjoy 'Get Up' but I was a little surprised and taken aback (are they two the same thing??) to hear that the new Korn album will be all dubstep, not sure how I feel about that.
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We shall see........
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Dubstep artists producing Korn =/= Korn doing a dubstep album. "Get Up!" is simply Korn with dubstep elements. "DubKorn". Same structure and time signature as most Korn songs, and just hearing the vocals, it's not pure dubstep. JD also mentioned some of the tracks will have drum n' bass elements, some will have dubstep elements, and "drumstep". Personally I'm glad they're building on the SYOTOS/Untitled sound. "Get Up!" segues very well with "Eaten Up Inside" and that's probably one of the greatest Korn songs. I'll take this fresh direction over another "back to our roots" album, which they didn't play more than a couple live anyway. I do think they should release those three songs they recorded back in October, such as the one with acoustic guitar.
Is this my overture,
or obituary?
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I don't like dubstep. I did like "get up". Guess I can tell you my real opinion of the whole album soon.
Why try to make a point when I can't fit it in your box?
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I'm not too looking forward to this whole new dubstep style album. I've been a huge fan of KoRn since high school and love the majority of their music but the dubstep element is in some ways taking the creativity too far and going a bit in the other direction.
Get Up is good but was very hard for me to get into and now its been around for quite a while since it came out I'm kinda bored and not liking it again.
I want a KoRn album like KoRn III again because that to me really was raw KoRn and was absolutely brilliant to hear live at Download. I did enjoy get up at download but I didnt get as much a feel for it and its kinda hard to enjoy a song with loads of people when most of them haven't heard it and are there for the older classic KoRn songs.


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Thompson found his Corvette through some help from the Corvette Queensland Club. "The owner was a member of the club," he says. "He took me for a run in the car, and then he let me drive it back to his house. I was impressed, as I had never owned a sports car before, let alone a Corvette. By the time we got back, it was dark and not the best light to see a black car. Plus, at the time, I really did not know what I was looking at, but I bought it anyway."
Thompson discovered the Corvette needed some heavy-duty revitalization. "There was oil in the engine gearbox, and the differential was black. The Vette had also been repainted but not very well," he recalls. "It had runs all over the place and orange peel all over it." Thompson's goal was to gradually restore his Corvette slowly, without turning it into an "in-op" in the process. "I wanted to drive it all the time, so I didn't want it off the road," he says.


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The Baltimore Sun takes Athletes of the Week nominations from Friday night until Sunday at 6 p.m. Please provide name, school, class, sport, position, team results and the athlete's accomplishments for the week, with statistics by game, and other supporting information. Coaches also should provide a number where they can be reached Sunday night. You can email your nominations to email@example.com.
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The hard-throwing junior pitcher led No. 2 Reservoir (22-2) to its first state championship, capped by his complete game in Saturday's 2-0 win over North Harford for the Class 3A title. Morris allowed two hits, walked two batters and struck out 11 in claiming the win at Ripken Stadium. He also went 1-for-3 at the plate. In Tuesday's 12-4 semifinal victory over Thomas Johnson, Morris pitched four scoreless innings, striking out nine to record the win in that game as well. He was 3-for-4 with a double, an RBI and three runs scored. Committed to play at South Carolina, Morris went 8-1 this season with a 0.80 ERA. He finished with 90 strikeouts in 52 1/3 innings pitched. Offensively, he batted .385 for the season with 12 RBIs and 15 runs scored. On Tuesday, Morris was named the 2014 Gatorade Maryland Baseball Player of the Year.
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When it arrives next summer, the 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 will be themost powerful and fastest production car ever produced by GeneralMotors, with performance enabled by a new, supercharged 6.2L LS9small-block V-8 engine.
Incorporating the engineering experience already found in the CorvetteZ06's LS7 engine and the new-for-2008 6.2L LS3 of the Corvette, GMPowertain is targeting 100 horsepower per liter for the LS9, or 620horsepower (462 kW), and approximately 595 lb.-ft. of torque (807 Nm);final SAE-certified power levels will be available in early March 2008.
It is, indeed, the ultimate small-block engine for the ultimateCorvette.
"When you experience the LS9 in the Corvette ZR1, the terms performanceand refinement take on a new meaning," said Tom Stephens, group vicepresident for GM Powertrain and Quality. "The LS9 demonstrates anoutstanding performance range, with smooth driveability at low speeds,and surprisingly fierce performance when the customer wants more power."
The enabler of the LS9's performance is a new, largepositive-displacement Roots-type supercharger - with a unique four-lobedesign - developed for the engine by Eaton. It is teamed with anintegrated charge cooling system that reduces inlet air temperature formaximum performance. The LS9 represents the first of several new,supercharged small-block engines that will be introduced in GM vehiclesin the near future, each using superchargers of similar design.
"The small-block V-8 once again demonstrates it boundless horsepowerpotential, versatile design and an architecture with proven quality,durability and reliability," said Stephens. "We haven't yet realized thesmall-block's performance potential."
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More than just its tremendous peak horsepower and torque numbers, thesupercharged LS9 makes big power at lower rpm and carries it in a widearc to 6,600 rpm. GM Powertrain testing shows the engine makesapproximately 300 horsepower (224 kW) at 3,000 rpm and nearly 320lb.-ft. of torque (434 Nm) at only 1,000 rpm. Torque tops 585 lb.-ft.(793 Nm) at about the 4,000-rpm mark, while horsepower peaks at 6,500rpm. The engine produces 90 percent of peak torque from 2,600 rpm to6,000 rpm.
Heavy-duty and lightweight reciprocating components enable the engine'sconfident high-rpm performance, while the large-displacement Eatonsupercharger pushes enough air to help the engine maintain power throughthe upper levels of the rpm band.
"The sixth-generation design of the supercharger expands the 'sweetzone' of the compressor's effectiveness, broadening it to help makepower lower in the rpm band," said Ron Meegan, assistant chief engineer."To put it simply, the low-end torque is amazing."
The LS9 is assembled by hand at GM's Performance Build Center, a unique,small-volume engine production facility in Wixom, Mich., that alsobuilds the Corvette Z06's LS7 engine and other high-performance GMproduction engines.
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The LS9's aluminum cylinder block features steel, six-bolt main bearingcaps, with enlarged vent windows in the second and third bulkheads forenhanced bay to bay breathing. Cast iron cylinder liners - measuring4.06 inches (103.25 mm) in bore diameter - are inserted in the aluminumblock and they are finish-bored and honed with a deck plate installed.The deck plate simulates the pressure and minute dimensional variancesapplied to the block when the cylinder heads are installed, ensuring ahigher degree of accuracy that promotes maximum cylinder head sealing,piston ring fit and overall engine performance.
Nestled inside the cylinder block is a forged steel crankshaft thatdelivers the LS9's 3.62-inch (92 mm) stroke. It features asmaller-diameter ignition-triggering reluctor wheel and a nine-boltflange - the outer face of the crankshaft on which the flywheel ismounted - that provides more clamping strength. Other non-supercharged6.2L engines, such as the base Corvette's LS3, have a six-bolt flange. Atorsional damper mounted to the front of the crankshaft features akeyway and friction washer, which also is designed to support theengine's high loads.
Attached to the crankshaft is a set of titanium connecting rods andforged aluminum pistons, which, when combined with the cylinder heads,delivers a 9.1:1 compression ratio. This combination is extremelydurable and lightweight, enabling the LS9's high-rpm capability.


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Tibet Burns - Cultural Genocide Continues
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China is oppressively successful at keeping a lot of this out of the news:
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Something that the Chinese figureheads and leaders could never do, and something that the Nobel Peace Prize honoured His Holiness the Dalai Lama cannot do in Tibet or China:
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Why is the interest of the press only for that of 'controversy' or worse?...
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It's a sad state of affairs.
And yet for such an inspirational man, and for such an enlightened movement spanning a culturally rich history:
The Dalai Lama visits Hampshire
As part of his eight-day visit to the UK, the Dalai Lama ventured to Aldershot in Hampshire, just a few minutes down the road from the Explore office. Explore staff Michelle Bird, Louise Ponting, Hannah Methven and Jude Berry took the opportunity to go and hear him speak on issues such as peace and universal responsibility.
"It's not every day that the Dalai Lama is speaking just ten minutes away from the office, so when we heard that he would be, we knew we really wanted to be there. ...
For anyone who has met him, you cannot help but be very positively impressed.
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Unfortunately, Tibet is considered part of China by governments all around the world. This is quite a bewildering circumstance in my eyes. If the leader of a country flees during an invasion and sets up a government in exile, how can the rest of the world just take the invading country's word for it? China invaded without provocation and took over Tibet. The Tibetan Government in exile should be recognized as the correct form, and negate all claims China imposes on Tibet.
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Sadly. more in what little news occasionally manages to sneak out:
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There isn't much attention being paid to these acts of protest by other countries, and that is just unfortunate. The whole goal is to bring awareness to the problem, but other nations choose to act blind to it all. Unfortunate.
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Optimistic view of new leadership of China in regards to the Tibet issue by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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Optimistic view of new leadership of China in regards to the Tibet issue by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
... The Nobel peace laureate said there had been a stream of visitors to Dharamsala from China, among them people who told him they had connections with senior Communist Party leaders.
"We don't know who is who ... everything is a state secret, so it is difficult to say," he said, but added that some officials in China now appeared to agree with intellectuals that a new approach to Tibet is needed.
"These are very, very encouraging signs," he said.
"No formal talks, but there are sort of signs among the Chinese officials or top leaders." ...
That is all still a very brutal turgid and political 'game' by the controlling Chinese. Yet... Here is to good hope for a more peaceful, cooperative and realistic new Chinese leader soon coming to power over the intransigent 'old guard'...
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This has been a subject close to my heart for years. If I could shake two hands, it would be the Dalai Lama and Richard Gere.
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The pain is unbearable. I fear the solution will take far too long.
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Two cousins self-immolate August 27th The story goes on to quote some who explain why these acts of protest have not triggered world-wide shock and awe, thus leading to pressure on China to impose changes in the Tibet Region.
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China building a theme park outside Tibet's capital
Just outside Tibet's capital, Lhasa, the Chinese government is building a $4.7 billion theme park that critics describe as a fairy tale universe that trivializes Tibetan culture and glosses over the nation's troubles.
[Stephanie Brigden, director of the London-based Free Tibet campaign] said the park's theme, intended to showcase harmony between China and Tibet, is insulting when so many Tibetans "have felt that their only recourse is to set themselves on fire, underlying that it's far from a harmonious situation."
Oh China, stop trying to gloss over an important situation as per usual and actually look at what you're doing. It's hard to believe they'd be doing this especially when China is always worried about the opinions of outsiders...this little step sure doesn't make China look good, that's for sure.
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More sad news as the cultural genocide continues:
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US hints at joint engagement with EU over Tibet
DHARAMSHALA, December 13: In what could be seen as a further push for establishing an international mechanism on the crisis in Tibet, US cited Tibet as an area where the EU and US can partner on "common strategic engagement."[...]
This is a hopeful step in the correct direction if true
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Sadly, the arrogant hardline imperialist Chinese clampdown continues under the new leadership:
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Sadly, the arrogant hardline imperialist Chinese clampdown continues...
Tibetans guilty of murder for 'inciting immolations'
A Tibetan monk has received a suspended death sentence and his nephew 10 years in jail...
... Tibetan activists had said the men were forced to confess to the charges.
Nearly 100 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2009, many fatally, in apparent protest at Chinese rule.
Most of the self-immolations have taken place in ethnic Tibetan areas outside Tibet. ...
... The sentences are believed to be the first since a legal ruling stipulating that anyone aiding immolations would be charged with murder.
Activist groups and the Tibetan government-in-exile say the self-immolations are protests against tight Chinese control of the region and religious repression.
But Beijing says Tibet as a region is getting wealthier and that Tibetans have [Chinese] religious freedom [and the native Tibetans are getting poorer and displaced].
China's leaders blame the Dalai Lama for inciting the self-immolations and encouraging Tibetan separatism, a charge he strongly rejects.
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China denies Canadian envoy permission to visit Tibet
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the sad thing is that this will continue until oil or gold or some other
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Challenging the Myths of the Libertarian Right
The emergence of Rand Paul as a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination marks an important turning point: Extreme libertarianism has entered the mainstream of American politics.
This shift has been coming for 30 years, a period of growing attacks on government as "the enemy" combined with extolling the laissez-faire idea that the free market can solve all our problems.
These attacks have not emerged out of thin air. Billions of dollars have been spent by corporations, foundations, and wealthy individuals to fund a large conservative policy and media infrastructure on the right, led by think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, and the American Enterprise Institute.
In recent years, though, the right has moved even further to the right, as more base Republican voters have embraced libertarian ideology and deep-pocketed funders like the Koch brothers have put more resources behind promoting this extreme worldview. Meanwhile, a new generation of young libertarian politicians—including not just Rand Paul, but Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan, and others—has put a polish on positions that once were considered fringe.
The good news is that rising libertarianism is being met with rising pushback. The financial crisis and a prolonged economic downturn have spotlighted the dangers of deregulation and a hands-off approach to an economy that so clearly is not working for ordinary Americans.
Over the next year, Demos aims to sharpen and amplify the growing challenge to libertarianism. In concert with one of our strong supporters, Gordon Gamm, we are launching a concerted effort to critique and discredit libertarian ideas.
The Gordon Gamm Initiative (GGI) will have two components. The first is a series of reports that will look at key libertarian ideas and unpack them in ways that show how shallow and unworkable they are. Demos won't be able to counter every bad economic idea being promoted on the right. But we can and will take on some of the central myths of libertarianism.
The most dangerous of these myths is that the free market alone can ensure a stable and productive economic system. In a paper to be published this fall, Demos Distinguished Fellow Robert Kuttner will credit business and the market for its creative force of economic growth. But the paper will make a strong argument that excessive reliance on the market to perform economic activities not only leads to inequality; it also leads to economic inefficiency and inevitable economic crashes. Using historic and current examples, Kuttner will show how wrong the libertarian prescription is for America and why we need a proper balance between government and the market.
Demos will also critique the "market knows best" philosophy by looking at the financial sector, where libertarian ideas have been applied in ways that produced disasters like the crash of 2008, but also, every day, produces deeply distorting effects on the economy. While Wall Street is supposed to serve Main Street by mobilizing capital for productive purposes, deregulation has led to the opposite: Wall Street has been extracting wealth from the real economy to serve its own ends. This fall, Wallace Turbeville and Kuttner will publish a report showing how tighter regulation of Wall Street is a key to both stabilizing and growing the U.S. economy.
Finally, Demos will directly counter another dangerous libertarian myth, which is that market actors can self-regulate, and be trusted to safeguard the public interest without oversight from government. Nearly every day brings evidence that contradicts this myth, with an unending stream of news stories of how corporations do harm to workers, consumers, investors, or the environment in pursuit of the bottom line. But too often the bigger picture lesson of these abuses is not hammered home: namely, that we need active government oversight of the private sector, and we need to protect and strengthen the safeguards Americans have put in place over the years to insure the health of food and drugs, the effectiveness of safety systems in the workplace, and financial regulations that balance the interests of consumers and the public against the needs of business.
In the coming year, Demos will publish a paper by Distinguished Senior Fellow Michael Lipsky that makes exactly that broad point. The paper will show that effective, calibrated regulation improves our health, our well-being, our safety, and our lives. Regulation also helps businesses by guiding them to compete in ways that enhance the value of their products, and clarifies the rules under which they must operate. Lipsky will contrast these outcomes to the negative consequences of deregulation.
The second component of the GGI will be an ongoing, continuing effort to spotlight the failures and myths of libertarianism, responding to new political and policy developments in the run-up to the 2014 election, where libertarian ideas and candidates are sure to figure prominently. We will produce a weekly blog on PolicyShop that will highlight the failures of libertarianism day in and day out.
We are convinced that the Gordon Gamm Initiative at Demos will contribute significantly to public understanding of the deep flaws of libertarian, free-market fundamentalism, and will make a consistent case that there is a better way that is much more productive for our economy and our country.
So, stay tuned, and stay connected.
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Wed, 2013-08-21 16:11
Lying is not unusual for Republicans, here is an instance:
"Indeed, Speaker Boehner suggested that all of the $800 billion of additional revenue in his initial December 3 [2012] offer could be raised by limiting tax expenditures rather than by raising tax rates." -- from the CBPP paper Tax Expenditure Reform, Feb 2013. Later in the paper we learn that $1,072 is the total amount of tax expenditures. So Boehner is saying "we" can eliminate 75% of all tax expenditures. Not at all likely. I suspect this is a bald lie from his lips. Not only that but he proposes to lower the highest marginal tax rate from 39.6% to 25%, and still balance the budget (on the backs of poorer Americans receiving charitable assistance such as Medicaid and tax expenditures such as EITC, food stamps, etc.). Again, not likely. My point is that the Republicans make such outlandish proposals that they should be publicly humiliated. Democrats and others should confront Republican Senators, Congressmen and women with the absurd nature of their proposals. We need a book of basic questions to show their hypocritical stance. I hope this effort mentioned in the article will create a groundswell of informed opposition, because informed criticism is lacking. I live in a Tea Party Congressional district, the level of informed opinion is nil.
Wed, 2013-08-21 18:56
Mr. Rapaport, you can fool some people all the time, and all people some of the time, but you will not fool everyone all of the time.
You can try to argue against the philosophy of libertarianism, but if you don't even understand the philosophy to begin with, you will fail. And judging by the above article, you seem critically deceived as to what libertarianism actually is.
For starters, I would suggest you actually research what the libertarian position is on incorporation. I'll give you a hint...incorporation is firmly anti-libertarian. A reduction in state power necessarily also results in a reduction of corporate power, since they depend on each other. Ideally, corporations, products of state privilege, would not even exist in a truly free market.
Thu, 2013-08-22 02:23
I am an FDR Democrat.
Pres. Barry Obama is not.
I have the greatest respect for Dr. Kuttner.
I have no respect for a Democratic Party organization that embraces the Obama Administration's bottomless bailout of its Wall Street allies--and endless war in the Middle East.
If Democrats who know better continue to play ball with Wall Street's Obama--many disgusted progressives will be voting for Rand Paul--who is at least pro-civil liberties and anti-war.
That would be a change many could believe in.
PS--Paul's idiotic draconian budget cuts mirror Obama Administration proposals.
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A quick look at history reveals free-market capitalism without regulations or oversight leads to: monopolies (Standard Oil and Robber Barons anyone?), pollution (DDT, The Jungle, and Love Canal e.g.), suppression of workers (Labor movement circa 1910), rampant gambling on Wall Street (1929), and so on. I shake my head in wonder as today's citizens and politicians have obviously not had an American or even World History course. They seem to think our government (which is us) just does "this stuff" to be mean, and labor unions sprouted from the earth unbidden to destroy American corporations. Thoughtful analyses you describe may be valuable, but until voters get another taste of 1865-1920 free-market capitalism run amok, I seriously doubt viewpoints and voter choices will change. I've become a fatalist.
Sun, 2013-09-15 05:23
I find it extremely disturbing that this caricature of libertarianism continues with little refutation. With so much information literally at our fingertips, too many people must be either unashamedly dishonest, or have some serious reading comprehension problems.
"The emergence of Rand Paul as a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination marks an important turning point: Extreme libertarianism has entered the mainstream of American politics."
The President can legally kill American citizens or imprison them forever, in secret, without any due process. This doesn't worry any liberals, but for some reason the anti-war and pro civil liberties Paul is 'extreme'.
That's besides the point - This 'article', is so outside of honest discussion it almost reads off as satire - to those that aren't consumed by partisan quackery at least.
"Meanwhile, a new generation of young libertarian politicians—including not just Rand Paul, but Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan, and others—has put a polish on positions that once were considered fringe."
Rand Paul? He leans heavily libertarian, that I can understand. But Paul Ryan? The man who believes in a warfare state and corporate bailouts is a libertarian? Ted Cruz also isn't a libertarian.
All it takes is an honest half hour of research online to understand what libertarianism is. There is no libertarian 'right' or 'left'. Aboslutely zero libertarian ideals were in place as policy during the 2008 crash - in fact - never in the history of mankind (except for maybe some drug legalization in Europe) for the crash to be blamed on it - additionally - it was libertarians who tried to warn everyone about what was going to happen - Peter Schiff and Ron Paul - both were laughed at.
Do you have to sacrifice your views to agree with me? No. You just have to stop being a douche bag and argue honestly - with integrity - so that we can all have coherent disagreements. Corporations do not fund the libertarian party - they fund the democrat and republican parties. Why? B/c corporations receive no special privilege in a libertarian society - no bailouts, subsidies, limited liabilities, no personhood and no monopolies.
"This shift has been coming for 30 years, a period of growing attacks on government as "the enemy" combined with extolling the laissez-faire idea that the free market can solve all our problems."
The free market cannot solve anything, only people can. Libertarians believe that government has a legitimate duty to protect property rights - and property rights include first and foremost YOUR BODY.
To call Paul Ryan a libertarian is so utterly ridiculously beyond belief it's beyond insane. There's no way someone can be this stupid - I think this is deliberate disinformation to get people to view libertarianism as some 'extreme' form of the right (utter nonsense) b/c democrats do not want a party that actually values personal liberty competing with them. The very rise and presence of libertarianism condemns all the phony hypocrites on both the left and right, and this 'piece' is just one little cog in a desperate damage control machine destined to fail.
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The French company Tucson set out with a simple goal. Build a sportbike under 100kg (220lbs), by using the inspiring Aprilia 550cc v-twin motor, found in the SXV and RXV motorcycles. See how they did it, with pictures, after the jump.
I have had dustbin fairings on the brain lately, and yesterday's story about golf ball dimples on motorcycle helmets isn't helping things. From a pure design perspective, there is something I enjoy immensely about streamlining — I think its the sleek lines and low-slung bodywork that hugs the asphalt, looking for any edge over the wind. Despite being something of motorcycling's past, there is something futuristic about a well-designed dustbin. The streamlining designs that have been catching my fancy lately though are modern takes on an old-school aesthetic and method for cutting through the wind. The first concept to catch my fancy, as such, is the BMW Apollo Streamliner by Turkish designer Mehmet Doruk Erdem.
While we tend to think of helmet safety in terms of crash protection, another aspect, usually overlooked, is considerably important: wind noise. I can tell you as someone who makes his living off riding motorcycles, I am deathly afraid of losing my hearing from bike and helmet noise, and thus always wear earplugs while riding. I have yet to see a helmet on the market that truly eliminates wind noise to a level that can't cause hearing damage, and of course that comes with a trade-off for ventilation. When given the choice, I'll take the helmet that breathes, and keep my earplugs at the ready. Louie Amphlett, a recent product design graduate from the University of Brighton in the UK hopes to have a solution for me and my ears though: a helmet with golf ball dimples on its shell, which he calls the Lenza One.
Tragic news comes to us today from Colorado, as racer Carl Sorensen died during today's practice session for the 93rd Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. With the motorcycles on the top section of the mountain, Carl crashed in a fast left-hand turn, known to have a bump on the racing line, near the summit. Familiar with the PPIHC race course, Carl finished last year's hillclimb an impressive 16th overall, and 10th in the competitive "Open" class on his Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R. For this year's race, he made his move into the middleweight class, riding on a Ducati 848 Superbike. An avid motorcycle racer, Carl is survived by his wife and son, and will be sorely missed by all his family, friends, and racing compatriots. Our hearts and thoughts go out to all of those affected by Carl's passing.
The motorcycle world is still processing Honda's decision to make a road-going version of its RC213V MotoGP race bike, and whether you think its price tag overwhelms, or its spec-sheet underwhelms, the Honda RC213V-S is a testament to the engineering that HRC is capable of producing for its racers. KTM has a similar philosophy afoot. Though Stefan Pierer has made it clear that there will be no successor to the KTM 1190 RC8 R street bike, the company will be making a track-only customer version of its own MotoGP race bike: the KTM RC16. As we get closer to 2017, we will learn more details about the company's 1,000 V4-power GP bike, and its customer counterpart as well, which is due in the second-part of 2018. For now, we get word that it will cost a mere €140,000.
The operation of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca could be set to change hands, as Monterey County officials have confirmed that they are in negotiations with the France family's International Speedway Corporation (ISC) to takeover operations at the rack track. ISC should be a familiar name to NASCAR fans, as the corporation not only built Daytona International Speedway, but the company's primary business is owning and operating NASCAR race tracks (roughly half of the NASCAR season takes place on an ISC-owned track). Owning 13 tracks in all, ISC could add another if its deal with Monterey County goes forward, supplanting the nonprofit Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula (SCRAMP), which has operated Laguna Seca since its inception in 1957.
The "Monty" is the latest build from XTR Pepo, and as you can tell from the styling, this is the work of the same mind that brought us the Radical Ducati. Pepo has since branched out from Ducatis though, taking on other brands, so it shouldn't surprise us that the Monty started life as a 1978 Laverda 500 Alpino — the name being a nod to the Laverda Montjuic, which was based off the Alpino, and affectionately called "Monty" in-short by its owners. While there are a number of Laverda parts in the build, if you look closely at XTR Pepo's Monty, you will see the swingarm from a Suzuki Bandit, front forks from a Ducati Monster, a GSX-R600 clutch lever, and Honda CBR600RR footpegs — all in the name of continuing of XTR Pepo's motorcycle pick-and-pull build style.
With the Honda RC213V-S debuting at Catalunya last week, much has already been said about Big Red's road-going GP bike…especially in terms of how it compares to other halo bike motorcycles that have been 0r currently are on the market. So, in the interest of exploring solely the most basic attributes from a motorcycle's technical specification sheet, we have compiled a spreadsheet to see how the Honda RC213V-S stacks up against its most analogous street bikes. As such, we have compiled the horsepower, dry weight, and cost of the the Ducati Desmosedici RR, Ducati 1199 Superleggera, Kawasaki Ninja H2R, MV Agusta F4 RC, EBR 1190RS, and Yamaha YZF-R1 motorcycles — you can see the easy-to-read chart (after the jump), and make your own comparisons to the RC213V-S.
It's been a while since we heard about the KTM 390 Adventure, the Austrian company's third installment to its built-in-India small-displacement motorcycle lineup. Based off the KTM 390 Duke, the Adventure model has been a long-time coming, ever since KTM CEO Stefan Pierer lit it slip that the dual-sport would be coming, two and a half years ago. It seems now that KTM is getting closer to production, as the folks at CarTrade are reporting that two test models of the KTM 390 Adventure (codenamed KT22) have been sent to India for R&D, presumably as a prelude to Bajaj beginning production on the budget-friednly machines.
The Honda NSR250R is a special machine. When the 249cc, tw0-stroke, 90° v-twin GP bike with lights first hit the streets of Japan, it cost roughly $7,500 in hard-earned American dollars — a tidy sum back then, especially for a 300 lbs machine that made 40hp stock. A coveted item for motorcycle collectors and discerning track riders a like, you can pick one up for over $10,000, the limited-production road-going version wasn't terribly different from the 250GP World Championship bikes that factory teams were racing. A topical reminder, if we do say so ourselves… So how do you improve upon such a great machine? Ask the folks at TYGA Performance, who have been tinkering with NSR250R sport bikes since they opened in 2000.
Talking to the Varese News, MV Agusta Executive Vice President Giorgio Girelli let slip a number of interesting tidbits about the Italian company — the biggest news of course concerns another company, Cagiva. Acknowledging the circulating rumors about the revival of the historic brand, Girelli was quick to point out that it's not in the company's current plan, but that the possibility was certainly there. Going further about the idea, Girelli suggested that Cagiva would make the most sense as a purely off-road brand, which would compliment MV Agusta's pure on-road offerings.
The French company Tucson set out with a simple goal. Build a sportbike under 100kg (220lbs), by using the inspiring Aprilia 550cc v-twin motor, found in the SXV and RXV motorcycles. See how they did it, with pictures, after the jump.


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Audio systems have come a long way in the last 30 years from when factory-equipped FM was cool and an eight-track was high tech. CDs are the norm today, but fitting an in-dash unit into an older classic or musclecar is impossible without hacking up the dash.
Our '70 Monte Carlo needed some help in the audio department, namely because what was there wasn't working very well, and our singing doesn't sound as good in the car as it does in the shower. The dash was uncut and still had the original AM radio installed. The previous owner, not wanting to cut the dash, had hung a generic stereo below it.
The Monte is not a rare model, it's not an SS or highly optioned, so the thought of cutting the dash to install a new DIN-sized in-dash AM/FM/CD unit entered our minds. After all, it's not as if the dash couldn't be replaced later if we wanted to, and this car is a daily driving so ease-of-use is of the utmost importance.
We then decided that a more interesting and prudent option would be to install Custom Autosound's Secretaudio system. This option offered all the conveniences of a modern audio system and 100 (4x25) watts of power but could be installed anywhere in the vehicle and operated with a wireless remote control or small, wired controller.
Remote-controlled headunits are not new, but what makes this particular system different is that it has a Radio Frequency (RF) remote as opposed to an InfraRed (IR) remote-Custom Autosound offers systems with either remote. The difference is that the RF remote will work up to 40 feet away even if the tuner is mounted in the trunk, whereas the IR remote must be pointed at an exposed LED panel to work.
The install took less than a day, even with doing a few custom touches, and should not be out of the skills of most enthusiasts. The only wiring is for the tuner which consists of a power lead that comes on with the ignition, a battery lead to maintain memory, and a ground. The speakers are just positive and negative to the tuner, and the rest is plug-in cables.
Now that we have some basic tunes, our next step will be to add some more speakers and a couple of amplifiers because we can never leave well enough alone-so stay tuned.