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Tom Friedman's Worst Column Ever
Sometimes, Tom Friedman writes a column that is such complete baloney it makes you want to retch. Rather than risking soiling my shoes, here is a point-by-point rebuttal to Friedman's opus du jour, titled: "Sorry, Kids. We Ate It All."
Friedman's column swallows whole the budgetary malarkey of the corporate Fix-the-Debt lobby and its Wall Street sponsors. Namely, the reduced horizons of the next generation are the result of the gluttony of old folks—and of unions.
But what makes this piece especially appalling (and emblematic) is that the hero of Friedman's piece is one Stanley Druckenmiller, a hedge-fund billionaire who has appointed himself as the Paul Revere of deficit reduction to warn America's college students that The Seniors Are Coming. In passing, Friedman discloses that Druckenmiller is also "a friend." So on top of the absurd logic of the piece, Friedman is guilty of a conflict of interest—using the most valuable real estate in American journalism to do a favor for a chum.
But I digress.
From the column:
[I]f current taxes and entitlement promises are not reformed, the cupboard will be largely bare for today's Facebook generation. But what are the chances of them getting out of Facebook and into their parents' faces — and demanding not only that the wealthy do their part but that the next generation as a whole leaves something for this one? Too bad young people aren't paying attention. Or are they?
Wait! Who is that speaking to crowds of students at Berkeley, Stanford, Brown, U.S.C., Bowdoin, Notre Dame and N.Y.U. — urging these "future seniors" to start a movement to protect their interests? That's Stan Druckenmiller, the legendary investor….
Let's start with the backward economics analysis. Whether the next generation thrives or stagnates has nothing to do with Social Security and seniors "on average" getting too good a deal, and everything to do with whether equitable economic growth can be restored. Cutting the deficit will only slow growth.
The issue has everything to do with student debt, but oddly that's one debt that the Fix-the-Debt ideology, of which Druckenmiller is a key player, never discusses.
As for seniors getting too good a deal, two-thirds of the elderly rely on Social Security for at least half their income. Nearly half of all unmarried or widowed seniors rely on Social Security for 90 percent of their income.
Some seniors, of course—Mr. Drukenmiller's cohort—are making out like bandits. Here's a variant on a Bill Gates joke: Stanley Druckenmiller and I walk into a bar. On average, we're billionaires. But the average retired American is not the one described in the Friedman column.
Contrary to this sort of propaganda, the economic-injustice problem in America is not about generations. It's about class. Specifically, Stanley Druckenmiller's class. But Druckenmiller, approvingly quoted by Friedman, blames the diminished horizons of the young on "current spending on my generation" as if he had anything whatever in common with the people reliant on Social Security.
His remedy, also endorsed heartily by Friedman includes:
raising taxes on capital gains, dividends and carried interest—now hugely weighted to the wealthy and elderly—to make them equal to earned income taxes; making all consumers more price sensitive when obtaining health care; means-testing Social Security and Medicare so they go to those most in need; phasing in higher age qualifications for entitlements and cutting corporate taxes to zero, so the people who actually create jobs will have more resources to do so.
However the minor cuts in capital income (the bait) are offset by cuts in corporate taxes, the real game plan is to slash social insurance—which won't do anything for the recovery and will hurt a lot of people barely in the middle class.
Here's the best single line in the column. Whatever the outcome of the debt crisis negotiations, Friedman writes,
But there's one outcome from such negotiations that I can absolutely guarantee: Seniors, Wall Street and unions will all have their say and their interests protected.
Savor that for a moment: Seniors, Wall Street, and unions. Uh, which one of these things is not like the others?
Half of seniors would be destitute without Social Security. Unions represent less than 7 percent of the private-sector workforce and even the wages of union workers are in decline. Unions are being pummeled by the savagery of Republican governors, the ferocity of corporate union-busting and outsourcing campaigns, and the failure of the government to enforce the Wagner Act.
And Wall Street? Oh, them. Well, Wall Street is more profitable than it was before the collapse. The top 1 percent collects 97 percent of the benefits of restored growth, and it dominates political debate. Its paladins like Druckenmiller even instruct the rest of us on why it's salutary to cut what's left of social insurance, and have Tom Friedman to do their PR. Poor Wall Street.
Seniors, Wall Street, and unions. That's a bit like putting in the same power category the Red Sox, the Brandeis baseball squad, and the Brookline High J.V. (They all play ball, don't they?) Or maybe China, Uruguay, and Malta (all U.N. members.)
Friedman's guaranteed prediction, of course, is already wrong. Obama (he who will never negotiate against himself) has pre-shrunk Social Security by putting a slower cost-of-living adjustment in his own budget, and deeper cuts in Social Security and Medicare are targets one and two of the upcoming "Grand Bargain" (promoted by Druckenmiller & Co.) that will be the basis of a deal to reopen the government.
Sorry, Kids. We Ate It All. As Tonto once reportedly said to the Lone Ranger: What you mean, "we"? Those who've been eating it all are Mr. Druckemiller's crowd.
Which, lamentably, includes Tom Friedman.
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Wed, 2013-10-16 13:12
I am not defending Friedman, but there is a mistake in your analysis. The unions are fully invested in Wall Street, and therefore shoulder as much responsibility as those who manage their funds.
If the unions were to divest from Wall Street, like we did from South Africa, that a radical transformation could occur, but in this case, we cannot go back to reinvesting through the financial markets.
Bottom Line: investing is slavery through proxy. If you can get unearned income, then someone must be laboring without getting paid. In the case of the unions, and the middle-class generally, they have become slaves of themselves, attempting to collect interest with one hand while paying it with the other. This doublethink is not politically or financially viable.
Therefore, some degree of complain against the unions is warranted. They have the power, but are not acting wisely.
Of course, the rich deserve criticism, too. They could pay more to employees and vendors, rather than being obsessed with making more profit when they already have too much.
As far as the kids go, they are getting mis-direction from all sides.
Mo Freedom
Thu, 2013-10-17 15:31
Interest & dividends are earned. People pay interest to lenders to compensate them for the use of their money (& for putting their money at risk, because many lenders don't get repaid). Dividends are distributions of profits paid to corporations' owners (i.e., their shareholders).
People are free to loan to others and take risks with it, or not loan it. People are free to invest their money in corporations to provide them with start-up money or money to expand and thereby take risks with their money, or not. Where's any slavery in that?
Without borrowed or invested capital, business startups & business expansions would be severly limited. Business startups & business expansions create jobs. Those jobs allow the middle class to buy homes, feed their families, & help pay to educate their kids. And the property taxes from their homes help pay for schools & teachers.
Plus, government would be nothing, could do nothing without the taxes that businesses & their employees pay. The taxes that businesses & their employees have paid have created & sustained every government job, program, & project in America. And without those businesses & the employees they hire & the taxes they pay, every government job, program, & project in America would end.
Wed, 2013-10-16 13:48
A CEO, a union worker, and a non-union worker walk into a bar. There is a tray containing a dozen cookies with a sign saying "TAKE ONE. THIS IS ALL UNTIL TOMORROW." The CEO takes one to eat, and stuffs 10 in his pocket. Then he says to the non-union worker, "watch out, those unions are after your cookie."
I disagree with "stevec" about investment income being AUTOMATICALLY EVIL. This is the philosophical line used by REAL socialists (as distinct from the Americans CALLED "socialist" by the right wing extremists). Investing for a profit is moral, but taking TOO MUCH of the profit and not paying the workers who help create the profit is NOT moral. Unions and average Americans invest in Wall Street securities in order to save and have their savings grow. But any intelligent worker knows that the little bit earned by his or her investments, while good for the future, is not a substitute for getting a bigger paycheck and/or benefits NOW.
Wed, 2013-10-16 13:58
H.L. Mencken speaks for me here (although he was obviously not so unlucky to live at the same time as Tom Friedman, and was referring to Warren G Harding): He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.
Wed, 2013-10-16 19:31
Wed, 2013-10-16 22:21
I do not see it the way other people see it. Since Clinton was President, and I found it could be done, I have contributed a small amount every year to the Bureau of the Public Debt and told them to use it to pay the debt. So the way it breaks down financially is like this:
Contributions for payment of the national debt, 2008-20012
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and all other Democrats plus
Mitt Romney, the Koch brothers, and all Republicans
- $6,000,000,000,000.00
Independent voter Robert B. Winn
+ $160.00
I also informed the President that I would accept nothing from him or his corrupt political party from a thread to a shoelatchet. Actually, Abraham said that to the King of Sodom, but it seemed appropriate to the present situation.
Tom Genin
Thu, 2013-10-17 14:39
So the author believes the problem is that America doesn't have "equitable" growth? Laughable.
After WWII, America produced 88% of the world's goods, now it's 8%. Is that equitable? Why can't we get back to 88%? Well, if we level every other industrialized country, that would be a start.
The US benefited from having a vast, untouched industrial base that could be converted to consumer goods at the very moment that every other major industrialized country was decimated, coupled with customers dying for products, both in the US, due to profits from such goods, and abroad, due to the fact that any stoves, refrigerators, cars, and TV's they had lay in ruins.
And couple the aforementioned American creation of wealth when the government promoted such a thing, instead of deriding it.
The ignores America's stagnant economy on 35% Corporate Tax rate, high taxation, insurance, regulation, health insurance, labor, etc., etc. etc. And only IF the Democrats would be in charge things would be SO much better. Laughable, you are in charge, we'll never see overwhelming growth, you're killing us.
Mo Freedom
Thu, 2013-10-17 15:16
Thomas counsels the young to orchestrate a huge take back from today's older generation.
What Thomas suggests is that the government renege on its promises & commitments to one generation in order to give more to the next.
Well, one day, today's generation will be the older generation. When that happens will the next generation rebel & cut back on the promises & commitments government made to today's youth?
Because if Thomas's suggestion is acted upon, it makes it more likely that tomorrow's generation will pull the rug out from today's youth to provide more for themselves.
When people provide for themselves (instead of providing for the generation ahead of them), notice that the conflict of interest suddenly goes away & the possibilities of getting railroaded by the preceding generation diminish considerably.
Just some things for the venerable Mr. Friedman to consider.
Thu, 2013-10-17 15:46
Thu, 2013-10-17 16:13
Thank you so much for writing this column. I am continually outraged by the Big Lie about the mean old people taking away the poor kids' futures. I am sick of Friedman and his "I'm the globalist celebrity intellectual making you anxious about the future" brand promotion. Those of us of a certain age know how vital SS will be to our survival as the years go by. Okay, Tom, you're a RICH baby boomer, good for you. Screw the rest of us. This campaign against the elderly and the unions reminds me of his hysteria a few years back re the "fossil fuels crisis." His solution? Massive taxes at the gas pump to "alter behavior." Yes, Tom, let's teach that single mom working at McDonald's who can barely make ends meet that she's an energy hog. I agree, she should have less money to buy her kids' clothes. A message I would send to 20 year-olds: If you let them start slashing SS and Medicare now, there will just be LESS for you when you retire, because once the deficit hysterics get going, they won't stop until those systems are privatized. The best defense of young people's SS in the future is to hold the line against the "entitlement" jihadists now.
Thu, 2013-10-17 16:49
My generation (who are now seniors) made promises to ourselves concerning free medical care and a nice jucy pension when we reached retirement. We did bother to pay for these things we just built an obligation into the law and then put the costs on our children (then unborn). Now the children are grown and they ask themselves why they should be bound to honor this agreement in which they took no part. It is a valid question. They were not even born when we sold them into bondage. Of all the immoral and greedy schemes for self enrichment that humanity has dreamed up, this has got to take the cake. It is diabolical. The young are too stupid to realize what has been done to them and by the time that they realize that their lives have been blighted it will be too late to get back the money and resources they have lost. I myself was too young back i the 60's and 0's to realize what was really happening but it is clear a glass to me now. I feel sorry for those who paid in all ther lives thinking that they were paying for their retirement. They were not. The money they paid was stolen by the government and frittered away on wars and welfare and other "socal projects" that seems cool at the time. At the present we can't even point to a single worthwhile thing that the money was invested in. If a the managers of a private retirement fund, e.g. TAA-CREF, had treated the contributions of clients in this fashion, the trustees would all be in federal prison. One cannot fritter the savings and then expect someone who is not even born to come along and save the day! Surely this is pretty obvious. Like Jacob in the bible we have stolen our patrimony.
Thu, 2013-10-17 21:55
While not as old as you I presume but by no means a Generation X I can tell you I do not plan on any assistance from the government when I retire (if I retire). I am not bitter by this either and I still feel its my obligation to help as many as I can by contributing my taxes as a viable income earner. I od not think this was malicious intent when these programs were originated but as time has gone on I have witnessed many changes, GW's changes to Medicaid and Medicare comes to mind for one, that have led us to this point.
My point is oftne times when you look at something with hindsight you forget that there was a reason no matter how poor as to why things evolve the way they do. My major worry is will I be around when a government shutdown is caused by a spike in interest rates or some other fiscal calamity and not by a bunch of Tea Party blowhards. The best analogy I cna offer is this -- at current levels of Federal government revenues we are earning a 40k a year job with a million dollar house to pay for (3 trillion in revenues with 126 mil in unfunded liabilities -- this is before the ACA). I think any sane person would realize this is a recipe for disaster! And keep in in mind this 40k in yearly income is short by approximate 7k a year to pay for its current obligations. The numbers are truly tragic and unnerving. I hope for the best but expect the worse but I am glad I do not run my personal affairs as shoddy as this.
Thu, 2013-10-17 19:40
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Thu, 2013-10-17 21:42
Well I read this article before this blogger posted this article and I think he did a number of injustices to his analysis.
In the article Friedman does stipulate that SS Medicare etc... are needed and viable. I drew from my own comprehension that Friedman felt there is some need for restraint.
Personally I agree with Friedman that their is at minimally a pause for concern. The amount of unfunded liabilities is staggering. In addition SS has solvency issues due to the inclusion of disability benefits paid at its expense. I cannot fathom why disability wasn't a separate self funding entity. Both are needed programs but what is disabilities motive for clamping on fraud and scrutinizing for need while it robs from SS coffers?
Secondly the work force is and will continue to decline as a percentage of population. This budget crisis marked for the FIRST TIME that SS would of not taken in enough revenues to pay for its outlays -- Hence the looming October 31st deadline was the real scary date. This is a trend that will continue to escalate as our seniors reach retirement age.
I was curious as to why Friedman lumped in corporate taxes as a means to solve this potential fiscal nightmare. I would of preferred more substance instead of "yes this is what is needed" in regards to corporate welfare. But having lived in Maryland, Illinois and New York I have witnessed firsthand what I believe to be over zealous regulations and taxation that has starved off economic growth. New York state in particular has ranked near last in economic growth for 50 years now and by the new definition of insanity you would think Albany would realize something is amiss.
Irregardless of whether my above argument holds any weight I think the author of this blog should some self restraint. This type of dialogue is exactly why we have had to endure the last 17 days of an absent Federal Government. I think we all should be able to agree that it is time to call such articles out for the cancer that they are. If you wish to refute Mr. Freidman's work at least have the decency to behave a little better than a ten year old while deconstructing it.
Thu, 2013-10-17 23:09
Fri, 2013-10-18 12:50
My fond hope, as I approach retirement age, is that the members of the "youth vote" pay through the nose and live lives with a much reduced standard of living because of tax rates of 70% to pay for all of the income redistributing programs for which they voted in their oh-so-enlightened youth.
Yes, the smug, self-righteous, morally vain 19-25 year olds,and the 18 year old children who overwhelmingly voted for Barack Obama deserve to pay the piper for the collectivist, redistributive policies he pursued.
The little dopes thought we could insure 30 million people who couldn't or wouldn't pay for their own health insurance and costs would go down! And believed that the program would lower the deficit? Ah, the quality of the union and Democrat-run government schools. Teaching Left-wing dogma and ignoring critical-thinking skills.
So committed to an intentionally vague goal of "social fairness". Cheering the view that, "everybody's better off when we spread the wealth around." Adamant that huge numbers of "kids" should have their college education subsidized by other people. It will be well-deserved when it's their money that is being spread around.
Oh, they were SO in favor of socialized medicine. But now that they see how expensive their health insurance is, and that it won't even help most of them because their deductible is so high, they're ducking the system! They'll pay the $95 penalty and sign up if they get seriously sick or injured.
Even the 25 and 26 year old "kids" who stay on their parent's policy will get a big surprise when they find out that keeping you on their policy is so expensive that many of those parents won't be able to afford it! And if the parents say they can stay on the policy if they pay the extra premium, they'll have one of Obama's "teachable moments". You mean it costs extra to have an additional person on your policy? And it's even more expensive if the "child" is over 18?
These young hypocrites will opt out of Obamacare rather than have THEIR income spread around. Maybe they'll understand why so many young people opted not to buy health insurance before Obamacare. Back when individual liberty was still in fashion. But as Michelle told you, "Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual."
There was a time when anyone who said such a thing would never have been elected. When the president wouldn't dare - and wouldn't even think of - telling us how to live our lives. Of course, he did promise he would be, "fundamentally transforming the United States of America". Well, he's doing that alright.
So they won't be able to afford vacations to Hawaii or that boat they dreamed of. Or replace their 16 year old car. And life in an apartment as opposed to a single-family home will be well worth it, because their happy to spread their income around to achieve "fairness".
Yep. I have no sympathy for the arrogant, inexperienced ignoramuses who imposed massive debt and taxes on the rest of us. Pay up kids. I'll be aggressively consuming my share of fairness. And my kids will need you to subsidize their college education. After all, spending your salary on my grandkids is more important than spending it on yours!
So pay up kids. I'll be drawing $6,500 per month from my 35 years of investing. Plus about $2,900 per month in Social Security. And since my two rental properties will be paid off in four years, I'll start earning income from them. It'll sure be great to have you subsidizing my health insurance. It's an entitlement ya know. I'll be paying into it. And I can't be turned down! Boy my wife and I will sure take advantage of that benefit. Before and after every cruise. If I get injured on my boat.
Spreadin' your wealth around is sure gonna be good for me!
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Michael Harvey was an engineering draughtsman until Eric Gill's Autobiography inspired him to become a lettercutter.
From 1955 until 1961 he assisted Reynolds Stone carving inscriptions. In 1990 he carved the great frieze of artists' names and other inscriptions in the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. From 1957 he designed book jackets for leading publishers in England and Holland. In the mid 'sixties his first typeface, Zephyr, was launched by the Ludlow company in Chicago, and in 1990 the Monotype Corporation brought out his first type family, Ellington, followed by a sans serif version, Strayhorn. He has designed five fonts for Adobe Systems: Studz, Andreas, Mezz, Conga Brava and Moonglow. In 2001 he joined forces with Andy Benedek to form Fine Fonts, a digital foundry.
Teaching, lecturing and writing have been other aspects of his work. He taught part-time in English art colleges since 1961 and until 2001 a course, Letterforms, at the University of Reading. He has published six books on the lettering arts, and has exhibited widely. In 1991 he was appointed to the Royal Mint Advisory Committee, which, under Prince Philip's chairmanship considered designs for new coins and medals.
He was awarded an MBE for services to art in 2001.
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Throne with Lions and Worshipper
A man kneels before the throne of a now-missing god, presumably Hor-pa-khered (meaning "The Child Horus"). The god's throne rests on the figures of two striding lions, which support the god and protect him from all potential enemies. The inscription on the base requests that Hor-pa-khered grant life to the dedicator of this statuette, Pen-kheper-re.
- Medium: Bronze
- Reportedly From: Saqqara, Egypt
- Dates: 664-332 B.C.E.
- Dynasty: Dynasty 26-Dynasty 30
- Period: Late Period
- Dimensions: 3 1/16 x 3 7/8 x 2 9/16 in. (7.8 x 9.8 x 6.5 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Special Exhibitions, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
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- Accession Number: 37.418E
- Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Throne with Lions and Worshipper, 664-332 B.C.E. Bronze, 3 1/16 x 3 7/8 x 2 9/16 in. (7.8 x 9.8 x 6.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.418E. Creative Commons-BY
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- Catalogue Description: One small bronze throne on a rectangular base. The throne is supported by two striding lions, one on each side. In the rear is another support (papyrus column?) On the pedestal beneath the throne is a winged scarab. At the end of the base opposite the throne is a kneeling male figure. Rising from the pedestal is a [sketch] shaped strip of metal for containing a foot rest. Four rectangular squares exist for insertion of (?). One side of the base and the front contain hieroglyphs. Condition: Good brown patina. Rough casting yields an irregular base in rear. Throne seat is soldered on separately (crudely done and cold hammered). Very dirty, but otherwise in excellent condition.
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This aluminum rack offers a generous platform that measures 10" long and 14" wide at the front tapering back to 10.5" wide at the rear.
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Tampa Bay Lightning (31-16-5) at Toronto Maple Leafs (27-21-6), 7 p.m.
(SportsNetwork.com) - While the Tampa Bay Lightning are being sparked by an undrafted rookie, the Toronto Maple Leafs have struggled in net over back-to- back losses.
Trending in opposite directions, the Bolts try to extend their winning streak to four straight on Tuesday night while the Leafs hope to avoid a third setback.
The Lightning have been without one of the league's scorers in Steven Stamkos since mid-November but have managed to stay in the hunt in the Atlantic Division. They are just two points behind Boston for first place in the Atlantic and have won three in a row for the first time since a five-game run from Dec. 15-23.
Rookie Tyler Johnson keyed a 5-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday, notching the first hat trick of his career. The 23-year-old American has four goals and four assists over a five-game point streak as well as 16 goals and 34 points in 52 games on the season.
"It's one of those things that you have to be lucky to get it," Johnson said. "Tonight was a good night for me and I couldn't have done it without my linemates. I was just happy to be in the right spot."
Victor Hedman had three assists for a second game in a row, Ben Bishop made 25 saves and Martin St. Louis had an assist to push his point streak to 10 straight games. The veteran has eight goals and six assists over the run and on Saturday reached 599 assists for his career.
Tampa Bay will play its next four on the road and has won nine of the last 11 as the guest.
The Leafs return home following a four-game road trip, winning the first two of the stretch to push their overall winning streak to six straight before a 7-1 setback in Dallas on Thursday. Jonathan Bernier was lifted in favor of James Reimer during the game, but Reimer didn't fare much better when he got the start on Saturday in Winnipeg in a 5-4 overtime setback.
The Morweena, Manitoba native yielded three goals on 18 shots through 28 minutes of work, while Bernier yielded two goals on 14 shots in relief. That included the game-winner to Dustin Byfuglien 2:44 into overtime.
"It's the kid's (Reimer) hometown and he's played really well," Toronto coach Randy Carlyle said on his decision to start Reimer. "That was our plan when we mapped out the week."
Phil Kessel scored with 1:33 remaining in regulation to force extra time. his 27th tally of the season. That is tied for fourth in the NHL and he also had an assist.
Dion Phaneuf and Troy Bodie also scored and defenseman Tim Gleason, acquired earlier this season from Carolina, netted his first goal since Dec. 18, 2011 with the Hurricanes.
James van Riemsdyk had an assist to give him a career high-tying 40 points for the Leafs, who trail the Lightning by seven points in the standings.
Tuesday is the first of four meetings between the Leafs and Lightning this season. Toronto has won five of the past seven encounters overall and three in a row at home.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
The capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev presents an important test for federal and state authorities: Can the United States resist the temptation to violate the civil liberties of people suspected of engaging in acts of terrorism? In some important respects, we seem to have avoided the systematic civil-liberties violations of the Bush administration. But when it comes to informing Tsarnaev of his Fifth Amendment rights, Obama is buying into the myth that ordinary police process is inadequate for dealing with domestic terrorism.
It is not clear what the Obama administration will do with Tsarnaev, who has not been read his Miranda rights and who is engaging only in written communication from his hospital bed. But U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz has cited a "public-safety exemption in cases of national security and potential charges involving acts of terrorism" and indicated that Tsarnaev will be interrogated for at least a 48-hour period without being informed of his constitutional right to a lawyer and to avoid self-incrimination.
To his credit, the president appears determined to try Tsarnaev in a civilian court. It says something about the debased state of American political discourse that this should be something for which he deserves credit, but the administration has already been attacked for not going far enough. For a glimpse into the contemporary Republican mindset, one need look no further than the statement issued by Sens. Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and Kelly Ayotte and Representative Peter King, who argue that Tsarnaev "clearly is a good candidate for enemy-combatant status." While the Obama administration has abandoned the term, it would mean that Tsarnaev would not be accorded ordinary due-process rights but could be arbitrarily detained and denied a civilian trial. (Graham also informed Washington Post Republican stenographer Jennifer Rubin that the Boston Marathon bombings are "Exhibit A of why the homeland is the battlefield" and advocated more drone surveillance.) The fact that we can be confident that Obama will resist these extreme claims, and that Tsarnaev will not be indefinitely detained without charges, denied a fair civilian trial, or tortured represents a non-trivial improvement over the previous administration.
But in another respect, Obama is clearly following the precedent set by George W. Bush. The administration has apparently decided not to read Tsarnaev his Miranda rights, a decision ominously praised by the Republican statement as "sound and in our national-security interests." The basis for the president's decision appears to be the "emergency public safety" exception to the Miranda rule, which may well have justified Tsarnaev not being read his rights immediately after capture. In New York v. Quarles, the Supreme Court allowed the police to ask an identified rapist who had used a gun and had an empty shoulder holder the whereabouts of his weapon without reading him his Miranda rights. This exception was narrowly confined to immediate threats to public safety. If the authorities wanted to ask Tsarnaev whether there were any live bombs still remaining in the Boston area before reading him his rights, this would plausibly be permitted under Quarles. But to question him for two days about plots that may or may not exist and about which he may or may not know anything about quite clearly would not.
To permit the questioning of Tsarnaev for 48 hours before reading him his rights would not so much fall under the existing emergency exception to Miranda as constitute a new exception for the purposes of national security—one that would swallow the Miranda rule whenever the state is dealing with someone who could plausibly be labeled a "terrorist." To accept this would be a step toward creating the legal "chaos" that Thurgood Marshall warned about in his Quarles dissent. Why should domestic "terrorists" in custody on American soil be subject to different rules? How is a "terrorist" defined? Could this logically apply to other suspects who pose an ongoing danger to society as well?
Aside from creating a new exception to the rule, there is another way the government could do an end run around Miranda. As Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy notes, Miranda does not bar coercive interrogations per se; it just says that any information obtained from them (including any interrogation where a suspect in custody has not been informed of his or her rights) is inadmissible in court. Because there would seem to be enough independent evidence to convict Tsarnaev even without a confession, the government could just interrogate him and exclude his statements to investigators from the evidence at trial, thereby avoiding testing a new Miranda exception.
To apply Miranda in this narrowly technical manner, however, would be wrong. The Fifth Amendment's prohibition against compelled self-incrimination and the Miranda rule designed to enforce it are not just random legal technicalities; they reflect a commitment to the principle that coercive interrogations are wrong. In a high-profile case such as this, demonstrating a commitment to the underlying principles of the Fifth Amendment—which require even those suspected of horrible crimes to be treated with basic dignity, including being informed of their rights like any other criminal suspect would be—is particularly important.
Creating a precedent where people labeled "terrorists" are not entitled to the same treatment as other criminal suspects is particularly dangerous because it reflects the Bush administration's belief that there's a zero-sum tradeoff between civil liberties and public safety where terrorist acts are concerned. As Slate's Emily Bazelon explains, this is generally a false choice. Among other things, information obtained in coerced interrogations tends to be unreliable (which is one reason the framers included a prohibition on compelled self-incrimination). There is no reason to believe that an interrogation conducted with respect for the defendant's rights is less effective than an interrogation conducted without the Miranda warning. It's hard to imagine that Tsarnaev, an American citizen who has presumably seen a police procedural before, would be willing to provide two day's worth of valuable information without the Miranda warnings but would refuse to say anything if informed of them.
To illustrate the last point, consider the case of another terrorist who killed and was captured in the United States. In 2009, Scott Roeder culminated a long campaign of harassment and violence against abortion provider Dr. George Tiller and his Wichita, Kansas, clinic by murdering the doctor. Roeder was part of a movement that has committed many more acts of violence on American soil in the last 30 years than Islamic terrorists. But Roeder was read his Miranda rights in a timely manner and then given a fair trial in front of a jury of his peers. This is how it should be, and Tsarnaev should be treated in the same way. There's no reason that acts of "terrorist" violence cannot be appropriately dealt with while adhering to both the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights.
Mon, 2013-04-22 09:44
Speaking of "enemy combatants", when do we get to send Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon and numerous Wall Street frauds, say, to Egypt for rendition? Their terrorism almost KOed the world's economy, yet they're still walking around and also hiding on their boats. They call their boat hideouts "yachts".
Mon, 2013-04-22 13:33
Tue, 2013-04-23 13:00
Tue, 2013-04-23 14:35
Murder is not a reason to strip a citizen of his rights, even if the murder is committed with homemade bombs at a large event. Last I checked, Timothy McVeigh was subject to a public trial and entitled to his full rights as a citizen of this country, and that bombing was an actual attack on the organ of civil government, and was much worse in terms of injuries and fatalities. You're probably just a troll, but I feel the need to point out that there's no text in the Constitution saying "None of this applies if you're Muslim".
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IOWA CITY, Iowa Fans will have to get used to a few changes when it comes to Grant Gambrall returning to the University of Iowa wrestling lineup.
First, they will hear the AC/DC classic "You Shook Me All Night Long" over the his odd choice of entrance theme's last year, which was the tame "Lion Sleeps Tonight." Secondly, Hawkeye fans will have to get used to the returning All-American at 197 pounds.
In just his second match of the year, Gambrall scored a 7-3 victory over Taylor Kettman at 197, helping top-ranked Iowa to a 38-4 win over University of Northern Iowa Thursday night in front of 7,078 fans at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Gambrall suffered a concussion before the season and was hampered by its lingering effects. He won his only previous match, which was Nov. 25 at the Iowa City Duals.
The move appears to be permanent, attempting to solidify an unproven spot in the lineup.
"Yeah, I do," Gambrall said about the move to 197. "That's the plan."
One that seems to be initiated by Gambrall.
"That's up to Grant," said Brands, affirming Gambrall will be at the higher weight for the Midlands Championships on Dec. 29-30. "Right now, that's what we're seeing."
Gambrall, who placed third at the NCAA's at 184 last year, scored three takedowns and didn't allow an offensive point to give the Hawks (5-0) the first of nine wins.
It was a positive to be back on the mat and competing in front of the home crowd.
"I'm still not at the level I'd like to be at obviously. I need to be a lot sharper and a lot more dominant, but it felt great to get back out there," Gambrall said. "Nothing better than wrestling in front of a bunch of fans at Carver."
Gambrall appeared to get stronger as the match progressed, scoring five points, including two takedowns, in the final period. He pushed through the mental wall.
"It's just something you get from practicing as hard as we do," Gambrall said. "Even when maybe you haven't been working out as hard as you would have liked to or as long as you'd like to, you still get that mental aspect when you're wrestling for the Hawks and battling in that room every day and able to push through things when it's not feeling the best. It's not about how you feel. It's about taking care of business."
Gambrall said the injury caused his weight to jump over 200 pounds. It affected his decision to drop down to 184. His conditioning needs improvement.
"Right now, there's work to do," Gambrall said. "I don't think I'm too far off. Tonight maybe was as representative what I'm capable of even right now."
He was a welcomed site to his teammates.
"I think he did a good job," said Matt McDonough, a former Linn-Mar state champion who earned a 10-1 major decision over former Cedar Rapids Kennedy state champion Cruse Aarhus at 125. "It says a lot for how fast he's come back and doing things right and being about wrestling hard and not letting up."
The Hawkeyes dominated after Gambrall's victory. Iowa reeled off five major decisions, leading 23-4 and owning a 21-2 advantage in takedowns during that stretch.
It was capped by red-shirt freshman's Josh Dziewa's debut in the lineup. Dziewa was the latest to fill the 149-pound slot for the Hawkeyes, and claimed a 14-6 win over Clay Welter.
"It was nice to get an opportunity," Dziewa said. "Go out there and do what I do."
He was in control, scoring a five-point move early and building a 12-2 lead after two periods. He held on to the major decision, despite giving up two third-period takedowns
"A little spark there, maybe," Brands said. "We want to see who's going to come out and score points and hold up. He did one but we have work to do in the other."
Derek St. John followed with a 3-1 win over NCAA qualifier David Bonin at 157. The two had split in two matches last season. St. John scored a takedown in the opening period and added an escape in the third for the difference.
St. John was riding Bonin in the second when time was called and St. John went to his back and yelped in pain. After trainers tended to his right knee, the matched resumed and St. John remained unbeaten at 10-0.
"Impressive to me," said Brands, noting it was gutsy for St. John to finish on one leg. "You're building toughness there in December. That's a good thing."
Mike Evans closed the meet with a fall over Riley Banach at 165. It was night and day from the way the Panthers (1-3) started, getting a major decision from Ryan Loder at 184 and a 4-0 lead in Doug Schwab's return to Carver-Hawkeye as Panthers' head coach.
Schwab witnessed some fight, but UNI needs more of it.
"You've got to fight every second of every match in every position," Schwab said. "Some of our guys aren't there yet. We concede things to whomever we wrestle. it's tough enough the way it is. If you start giving away points and let guys have easy scores ... it stacks the odds even more against you."
(Individual takedowns in parentheses)
184 pounds - Ryan Loder (UNI) major dec. Vinnie Wagner, 13-2 (3,1); 197 - Grant Gambrall (I) dec. Taylor Kettman, 7-3 (3,0); Hwt. – Bobby Telford (I) major dec. Blayne Beale, 12-0 (3,0); 125 - Matt McDonough (I) major dec. Cruse Aarhus, 10-1 (3,0); 133 - Tony Ramos (I) major dec. Ryan Jauch, 15-5 (6,0); 141 – Montell Marion (I) major dec. Seth Noble, 18-8 (8,0); 149 - Josh Dziewa (I) major dec. Clay Welter, 14-6 (3,2); 157 - Derek St. John (I) dec. David Bonin, 3-1 (1,0); 165 - Mike Evans (I) pinned Riley Banach, 1:10 (1,0); 174 – Ethen Lofthouse (I) won by forfeit.
Takedowns: UNI 5, Iowa 29. Reversals: UNI 0, Iowa 0; Escapes: UNI 22, Iowa 8; Nearfall points: UNI 4, Iowa 13. Penalty points (awarded): UNI 0, Iowa 2. Riding time points: UNI 1, Iowa 5. Total match points: UNI 37, Iowa 86.
Attendance: 7,078.
Referee: Kevin Tann.
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The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.
Football is supposed to be a gentleman's game, played on venerable university lawns for honour, polite applause and a hearty match tea afterwards. Unfortunately for the gentlemen, the rest of the world doesn't see it that way. Football has moved on, to the streets, and now it inhabits a world of pies, chants and jumpers for goalposts. This is a world where a talent for keeping tin cans in the air could make you a local celebrity, and where any polite applause is lost in the roar of pitched battles between fans. This is a world oflife or death.
And if the gentlemen want to try and bend it to their rules again, they're going to have a fight on their hands.
Unseen Academicals
It was midnight in Ankh-Morpork's Royal Art Museum.
It occurred to new employee Rudolph Scattering about once every minute that on the whole it might have been a good idea to tell the Curator about his nyctophobia, his fear of strange noises and, he now knew, his fear of absolutely every thing he could see (and, come to that, not see), hear, smell and feel crawling up his back during the endless hours on guard during the night. It was no use telling himself that everything in here was dead. That didn't help at all. It meant that he stood out.
And then he heard the sob. A scream might have been better.At least you are certain when you've heard a scream. A faint sob is something you have to wait to hear again, because you can't be sure. He raised his lantern in a shaking hand. There shouldn't be anyone in here. The place was securely locked; no one could get in. Or, now he came to think about it, out. He wished he hadn't thought about it. He was in the basement, which was not among the most scary places on his round. It was mostly just old shelves and drawers, full of the things that were almost, but very definitely not entirely, thrown away. Museums don't like things to be thrown away, in case they turn out to be very important later on. Another sob, and a sound like the scraping of . .. pottery?
A rat, then, somewhere on the rear shelves? Rats didn't sob, did they? 'Look, I don't want to have to come in there and get you! ' said Scattering with heartfelt accuracy. And the shelves exploded. It seemed to him to happen in slow motion, bits of pottery and statues spreading out as they drifted towards him. He went over backwards and the expanding cloud passing overhead crashed into the shelves on the other side of the room, which were demolished. Scattering lay on the floor in the dark, unable to move, expecting at any moment to be torn apart by the phantoms bubbling up from his imagination …
The subject matter is football, with a dash of Romeo and Juliet ...exactly what's needed to cheer us all up in the autumnal gloom. Terry has lost none of his ability to raise a laugh.
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Behind the fantasy Terry Pratchett looks at very real contemporary issues and scores many goals. This isn't just football, it's Discworld football. Or, to borrow another phrase, it's about life, the Universe, and everything.
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