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President Obama's appointment of Democratic adviser John Podesta, an opponent of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline, to the White House could foretell a rejection of the controversial Canada-to-Texas pipeline, environmental groups said Tuesday.
Podesta, former President Bill Clinton's chief of staff and the man who headed Obama's transition team, is leaving the top post of the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank, for a new White House role focusing on climate change.
Obama has vowed to lead an active White House on the issue — the president said in June he would rely on his executive authority to push climate-friendly policies while Congress remains gridlocked.
Environmental groups characterized the move as a victory, suggesting it showed that the White House might be crafting a strategy to defend a potential rejection of the Keystone pipeline, which would ship crude oil from Canada's tar sands to Texas.
"If one was reading the tea leaves from a distance, this seems like a very good sign," said Jamie Henn, spokesman with climate advocacy group 350.org. "I can't imagine a way that [Podesta] would recommend President Obama should build the pipeline."
Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, applauded the appointment, noting that Podesta "knows the danger of our reliance on dirty fuels like tar sands."
The office of Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., one of Keystone's strongest Capitol Hill boosters, said Podesta's appointment spelled trouble for the pipeline.
"John Podesta is a very astute political strategist and lobbyist, and he's also on record opposing the [Keystone] pipeline. That of course raises red flags that the Keystone decision will be made on political grounds rather than on its merits, despite the will of Congress and the American people who support the project by a large majority," said spokesman Don Canton.
But Keystone opponents shouldn't be chalking up a victory, despite Podesta's personal leanings on the project, said Daniel J. Weiss, who leads the energy and climate program at the Center for American Progress.
"Podesta opposes #keystone but he will be an honest broker," Weiss tweeted Tuesday.
Podesta's arrival shouldn't equate to Keystone's death knell, said Michael Whatley, executive vice president of the Consumers Energy Alliance, a collection of oil and energy-consuming businesses.
"Doesn't change one thing. The Keystone XL pipeline is still in the country's interest," he said.
Keystone has been in administrative limbo for more than five years. The State Department is finalizing an environmental review, which will be used to decide whether the project is in the national interest.
The pipeline's supporters say it would bring jobs and strengthen energy security by bringing crude from Canada. But detractors say it would devastate the climate by facilitating production of carbon-rich oil sands, adding that jobs creation would be negligible and saying much of the oil sands are destined for export.
Obama also has questioned Keystone's effects on jobs and whether the oil sands it would transport would remain in the United States. Still, he has waffled on the decision, which pits his vocal environmental backers against some union supporters and an energy industry that has been critical of White House policies.
Whether adding Podesta, a vocal opponent of the thick, carbon-intensive oil sands that Keystone would haul from Alberta to the Gulf Coast, to the president's inner circle will push Obama toward nixing the pipeline is not clear.
What's fairly evident is Podesta's opposition to the pipeline.
In a June 2010 speech titled, "'Greening' the tar sands," Podesta said policymakers need to shift away from fossil fuels because they boost greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change.
"We need to do our best to absorb the weight of that fact and incorporate it into our decisions," he said in the speech.
Under Podesta's leadership, the Center for American Progress openly advocated for a Keystone rejection.
"At a time when the United States should be doing everything in its power to reduce carbon dioxide pollution and speed the transition to cleaner fuels, the Keystone XL pipeline would be a step backward," the think tank said in August 2011 when it criticized the State Department's preliminary findings that Keystone would not significantly exacerbate carbon emissions.
The State report is currently at the center of the Keystone debate. Obama said in June that he would nix the pipeline if it "significantly exacerbates" carbon pollution, which the draft report said it wouldn't do.
But State's internal watchdog is looking into green groups' claims of bias by the outside contractor who conducted the review, as it had previously worked for Keystone builder TransCanada Corp.
Henn acknowledged that Obama could use that report, if it comes out of the State Department largely unchanged in its final version, as political cover to approve Keystone.
Still, he said Podesta's addition made that seem a less likely route, noting the ex-Clinton aide is a skilled politico who might have been brought on board to smooth a path for rejection while trying not to anger the Republicans, centrist Democrats and industry, energy and labor groups that support Keystone.
"I think that perhaps one of the things the White House is worried about is how it can say no to Keystone and not take too much of a political hit from the right," Henn said. "I think that they're probably figuring out a way to say no to the pipeline and say yes to something else."


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To those who in the dark days following the WW1 hero-happy public he was a guerrilla genius, the Galahad of World War I. To his military superiors he was a popinjay. To the Arabs he was Sheikh Dinamit, the spirit of the wind who led them to victory over the detested Turk. To Biographer Richard Aldington he was a cad and a bounder—sado-masochistic, hemi-homosexual, selfpublicizing charlatan whose actual role in the Arab revolt was small and whose subsequent career as a technician in the R.A.F. was merely a theatrical gesture of humility. To Winston Churchill he was "one of the greatest beings alive in our time," a man of vast abilities who could write (Seven Pillars of Wisdom) as well as he could fight. He was a genuine soldier-scholar notwithstanding all accusations of his self-publicity.
Such men are the stuff of legends, and since his death in 1935 the legend of Lawrence has inspired scores of books. Produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean, the men who made The Bridge on the River Kwai the best war picture of the '50s, Lawrence of Arabia is a cinema colossus that takes four hours (including intermission) to see, took 15 months to film, cost more than $10 million, employed 1,500 camels and horses, 5,000 extras, six famous performers (Alec Guinness. Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy) and it made a star out of a comparatively obscure young man (Peter O'Toole)
The script, written with considerable address by Playwright Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons), foreshortens but does not falsify the story as Lawrence told it. Sent to Arabia to scout the forces rising in revolt against Constantinople, Lieutenant Lawrence (O'Toole) impetuously leads a party of picked men across a notoriously impassable waste that is known as "the sun's anvil," and seizes the seaward-sighted cannon of Aqaba from the rear. Stunned, the Turkish garrison surrenders. Startled, General Allenby (Hawkins) offers the young hothead guns and gold, and before long Lawrence and his Arabs are blowing up Turkish trains and garrisons from Medina to Damascus. Then Allenby strikes north from Aqaba, and Lawrence leads 3,000 tribesmen in triumph to Damascus.
Lean is a gifted director who works with confidence at epic elevation, and in Lawrence he also works with a sensitivity to form and color that he has never shown before—it is as if the desert, like a gigantic strap of white-hot steel, had burned away a northern mist that has always obscured his vision. Time and again the grand rectangular frame of the Panavision screen stands open like the door of a tremendous furnace, and the spectator stares with all his eyes into the molten shimmer of whitegolden sands, into blank incandescent infinity as if into the eye of God. It is a mind-battering experience, an encounter with an absolute, and after it too much of the film seems merely human.
The actors, however, survive the encounter. Guinness as Prince Feisal is finely serpentine, and Quinn is magnificent as the venal and violent Sheikh Auda abu Tayi, a great black hairy camel of a man who sucks up gold as a camel sucks up water, and then spews it out with a roar of patriarchal pride: "I am a river to my people!" But it is O'Toole who continually dominates the screen, and he dominates it with professional skill, Irish charm and smashing good looks. They are the looks of a healthy young lion: large strong animal mouth, blazing blue eyes, big graceful head overgrown with a golden mane. (Lawrence by comparison was something of a mouse: his coloring was drab, and he stood scarcely 5 ft. 5 in.—a full head shorter than O'Toole.) In his performance, O'Toole catches the noble seriousness of Lawrence and his cheap theatricality, his godlike arrogance and his gibbering self-doubt; his headlong courage, girlish psychasthenia, Celtic wit, humorless egotism, compulsive chastity, sensuous pleasure in pain. But there is something he does not catch, and that something is an answer to the fundamental enigma of Lawrence, a clue to the essential nature of the beast, a glimpse of the secret spring that made him tick.
But then the script does not catch it either. People who knew Lawrence did not catch it. Lawrence himself did not seem to know what it was. Perhaps it did not exist.
(ack: TIME Magazine, Jan. 4, 1963)
So the only way we can justice to the film is not to rely heavily on historic accuracy but enjoy the film on its merits. A book when transformed into film is sure to disappoint many; by the same token biopics also fall foul with who look more than necessary into lives as lived. Something is lost in translation
"The film, which seemed nostalgic upon its release, looks prescient now, as the debate over Western influence in Arabia is written daily in blood". —Richard Corliss
This film made number 5 on the American Film Institute's Top 100 and number 3 on the British Film Institute list. Lots of great directors have since named it as an influence. Lean showed everybody what to do with a wide screen by filling it with desert. In this vast, hot, shimmering space we feel, with Lawrence, alien and alone.
Trivia: In 2001, Lawrence's revised 1922 proof of Seven Pillars of Wisdom was sold for nearly a million dollars by Christies in New York.
From the creators of "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
Director: David Lean
T.E. Lawrence: Peter O'Toole
Prince Feisal: Alec Guiness
Auda Abu Tayi: Anthony Quinn
Gen. Allenby: Jack Hawkins
Turkish Bey: Jose Ferrer
Sherif Ali Ibn El Kharish: Omar Sharif
Col. Harry Brighton: Anthony Quayle
216 minutes
Academy Awards
Won (7)
* Best Picture
* Best Director
* Best Sound
* Best Art Direction
* Best Cinematography (Fred A. Young)
* Best Editing
* Best Original Score (Maurice Jarre)
Nominated (10)
* Best Actor (Peter O'Toole) -he was passed over for Gregory Peck who won for TO KILL A MOCKING Bird
…Supporting Actor (Omar Sharif)
* Best Adapted Screenplay (Robert Bolt)
Peter O'Toole gives a memorable, idiosyncratic performance as the cerebral and scholarly Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence. Neither the script or his performance hides Lawrence's strangeness. The film never states that Lawrence was a homosexual, given to masochism and with a predilection for young Arab boys, but if you choose to come away with that impression, it will let you.
He was the most extraordinary man I ever knew.
( Col. Brighton at Lawrence's memorial service)
Assigned to British Intelligence in the Middle East in 1917, he persuades his doubtful superiors to become an observer to Prince Feisal (Alec Guinness – a David Lean stalwart and at this stage merely an understudying apprentice to Obe-Wan Kenobi). With the help of a dot on the horizon who eventually turns out to be Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif), Lawrence crosses the allegedly impassable Nefud Desert and joins forces with an enemy tribe led by Auda Abu Tayi (Anthony Quinn). This new force defeat the Turks at Aquaba, a strategic port.
So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are.
'El Aurens', in traditional Arab garb, now leads his native forces in a guerilla war against the Turks. But Lawrence now begins to enjoy violence, his dream of creating a united Arab council in Damascus collapses in disagreement and disarray. An exhausted Lawrence returns to England, seeking peace and obscurity.
I pray that I may never see the desert again. Hear me, God.
This movie needs a big canvas, and you should see it on the largest screen possible.
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Actress Zelda Rubinstein, best known for her role as Tangina in Tobe Hooper's classic "Poltergeist," died of natural causes on Wednesday. She was 76.
Have you longed to feel the rancid breath of a giant ape on your face as he leaps over your head to attack a rampaging Tyrannosaurus Rex? If so, you're in the luck. Filmmaker Peter Jackson has helped Universal Studios relaunch their "King Kong" theme park ride, which will open its doors this summer. Remember to pack your banana hammock.
The first trailer for Capcom's upcoming live-action adaptation of "Dead Rising" has appeared online. It's cheap, it's ugly, and it's extremely violent. In other words, I'm giddy with excitement.
Anchor Bay recently announced they have acquired the rights to Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo's "After Life," a new horror/thriller starring Christina Ricci, Justin Long, and Liam Neeson. When this thing will see the light of day is still anybody's guess.
What do 18 year-old female werewolves do for fun? For starters, they use pocket knives to severe the heads of lost dogs. Time permitting, they boil the skulls.
I'm no parent, but I'm pretty sure strapping your baby to the wall with duct tape isn't in the instruction manual. Neither is documenting the event with your digital camera.
When you're hanging out in the parking lot at the local mall, the last thing you expect is to be savagely attacked by a wandering cobra. Destro was not immediately available for comment.
1977 - Freddie Prinze commits suicide at the age of 23.
I've been following Jeong-won Shin's 2009 South Korean horror/comedy "Chaw" for several months now, despite the fact that, overall, I'm not really a huge supporter of the "animals run amok" genre. The reasons for my bizarre fixation are probably buried somewhere deep within the complexities of my DNA, remnants of our primitive, cave-dwelling past. I can imagine my ancestors running wildly through forests, their hearts pounding, hunted by large, pig-like creatures with a hankering for human organs.
Sam Mendes talks to MTV about his adaptation of the graphic novel "Preacher", including when we can expect it and whether or not there will be a sequel.
Buried in this interview with Brett Easton Ellis is news about "Silent Hill 2", weird huh? The news is that, according to Ellis, Roger Avary (writer of the original SH film) will be jumping behind the cameras for the sequel. Originally Avary had said that he wouldn't write the film unless the director of the first Christophe Gans returned, but if this news is true it looks like he may have changed his tune.
For serious, people, how many trailers for "Blood: the Last Vampire" have I posted about now? I know a lot of you are anticipating this title, I'm just wondering if this isn't overkill at this point.
Paul Scheer joins the cast of "Piranha 3D". Scheer (Human Giant, Best Week Ever), brings even more comedic talent to a film that's already looking silly as hell. Is it possible that they'll overshoot the "camp" mark and ruin it? Either way, I know I can' wait to find out!
Tons of behind the scenes photos from "Saw VI", including head shots of all the new cast members and some nice BTS shots. Enjoy.
When you're hanging out in the American South, and you see a sign that says "Tresspassers will be shot. Survivors will be reshot!!, it's probably the truth. I wouldn't risk it.
Orangutang makes a ladder and climbs out of its exhibit.
A man in Taiwan had his penis bitten off by a snake while he sat on his toilet. So yes, folks, it CAN actually happen. Sleep tight!
1982: During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Fernandez Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, decided that the Pope must be killed for being an "agent of Moscow."
The Pang Brothers, who apparently have already directed two Chinese language sequels to their film "The Eye", are prepping a third sequel to be titled "The Child's Eye" (get it), to be shot in 3D. Have any of you guys seen either of the first two sequels?
FOX has picked up the French horror film "Martyrs" for remake, pretty much ensuring that there will not be a good ending to this story. The original "Martyrs" is about a little girl found by cops, who it's revealed was held hostage for years in an abandoned slaughterhouse. There are no signs of abuse or sexual misconduct, but as they start to unravel the mystery of what happened to her, something even stranger starts to appear.
I don't usually report on "Twilight" news, but this tidbit was too interesting to pass up. It seems that Juan Antonio Bayona is in the running to direct the third film in the franchise. Bayona, a Guillermo Del-Toro protege, is the director of last year's "The Orphanage". Even if he did get the job, he'd obviously still be dealing with the source material, and the conveyor belt nature of it all, considering they've already pegged a June 30th, 2010 release. Keep in mind this is the THIRD film, not the second one, which hasn't even started yet.
I'm still really excited for "The Haunting in Connecticut", Lionsgate's late March release, but I'm not super psyched about this clip featuring a bird attack. Why? Well, I'm mighty sick of all the old ghost movie cliches, and the "animal goes apeshit" one is just about as old as they come.
Wow, you must be quite the ladies man to have no idea how many corpses you've had sex with during your 16 years working at a morgue. One would think he could at least ball park it.
Man suffers burns to his chest, face and both arms after falling into the deep-fryer at the KFC he works at.
I always thought that Australia was a beautiful place that I would love to live some day. Then I read stories like this one, about about a couple waking up next to a six foot tall kanagroo, and I think I'll take a pass.
1669: After a series of premonitional earthquakes near Mount Etna, the largest volcano in Europe spectacularly erupts, destroying the Sicilian town of Nicolosi and killing 20,000 people.
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Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11) - A new product line could be coming to General Electric's Appliance Park according to the company's CEO.
State lawmakers were invited in to the facility to see how new, energy efficient appliances are bringing Appliance Park back to life.
It may look like a water heater, but its new technology may bring 400 new jobs, a new product line to Appliance Park and the promise from GE's CEO of a future in Louisville.
It was state incentives that will bring the hybrid water heater to Louisville from China and the promise of more energy efficient smart appliances in the near future.
They are called demand response appliances. For the consumer it means saving money on the utility bill. In the future, energy will cost more during peak hours and GE is putting energy monitors on appliances to keep the costs down.
If energy conservation is GE's future then Appliance Park's future is no longer built on its past.
GE is working with the state on different incentives before making an announcement about the new product line.


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Kayaking Among Schools of Moon Jellies in Alamitos Bay, California
Still your kayak on a warm summer day and you'll see them—a thriving colony of moon jellies in a far back corner of Long Beach's Alamitos Bay. First one, then a dozen, hundreds even if the tides have washed in plenty of zooplankton (the jellies' favorite food). Go ahead and touch them. They're like a softening gelato, only more velvety. And they're harmless. Ask at the kayak rental if the jellies are out. If not, take a map and go anyway. You won't want to miss the million dollar mansions lining the Naples canals (or the herons, egrets, and other creatures that also make the kayak-accessible wetlands their home).


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The iPad has caused the rest of the world to make pads. Big pads, small pads, cheap copycat pads, pads with keyboards, pads that are also laptops, pads that work with other stuff and pads that defy description. From what I can tell, none of them are any better than the iPad, but a lot of them are just plain bad pads. This Dell spins the pad part around to become a laptop. That would be fine if it didn't make it so fat. There were two Italian gentlemen looking at this Dell and I'm pretty sure they kept saying whatever "fat" is in Italian.
And the Galaxy tablet from Samsung is only slightly bigger than the iPhone. It's amazing how many people say to me, "Isn't the iPad just a bigger version of the iPhone?" And I guess I would answer back, "At least it's bigger." My advice to anyone looking to buy a tablet is to buy an iPad. And to anyone looking to get a keyboard for their iPad, buy a 15-inch Mac Air. Getting a keyboard for your iPad just makes you look like you can't afford a real computer. Continue reading


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Capitol View Commentary: Friday, April 27, 2012
By Pat Nolan, Senior Vice-President, DVL Public Relations & Advertising
April 27, 2012
It appears the 107th Tennessee General Assembly is not quite ready to go home.
A budget dispute between House and Senate members over how much, if any, of the "extra" $200 million in revenue the state now has should be spent, delayed final actions and an expected adjournment. The spat between the two houses got serious on Friday when both sides started taking financial hostages cutting out pet programs of leaders of both parties in the other chamber, including cuts for extra money set to go locally to Nashville's Radnor Lake.
If cooler heads prevail, things could get worked out by the end of today (Friday) through a conference committee of both houses. But it also could also well be that lawmakers may have to come back to Nashville one more time and finish their business beginning Monday. They could also work through the weekend as well.
As usual, the final days of the General Assembly have been much like an annual screening of that Clint Eastwood classic movie "THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY." That's particularly true given the theme of "gunfights" that dominate both that motion picture and our most recent legislative session.
The "guns in parking lots" and "guns in trunks" bills continue to be front and center in terms of controversy. The week began with the House Republicans, split between their gun rights and property rights supporters, huddling behind closed doors and screwing up their political courage to vote secretly against moving any of the bills.
That so enraged one gun lobbyist (John Harris of the Tennessee Firearms Association) that he dispatched an angry e-mail to supporters calling for the political "crucifixion" (he said later he just meant it symbolically) of GOP leaders like Debra Maggart for seeking to delay these bills for further study and compromise. Indeed Maggart, always known as strong and steadfast social and fiscal conservative, has primary opposition this summer as do an unexpected number of GOP lawmakers.
"Crucifixion" is one of those political words such as "Nazi" or "Hitler" that almost always has a big backlash, and sure enough, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle where so outraged at this kind of attack on one of their own, the gun bills were soon banished to a summer study session and death for this session (although gun bill supporters were still threatening to mount a 2/3 vote in one or both of the houses to resurrect the bills once again and force a floor vote).
That appears less likely with each passing hour, but until lawmakers are gone "sine die" don't count anything out. After all, Democrats seeing some opportunities to score points for their fall campaigns tried to stir the pot, leading efforts to bring the gun bills up to the floor to make Republicans go on record and choose sides on how to vote. But they didn't get near enough votes to do so in either house.
The final hours of the session often leave both lobbyists and lawmakers wishing they hadn't said what they did. Take for example, Representative Jeremy Faison during a debate this past week on a bill regarding bullying and harassment.
"I will submit to you today, that they (several recent teenagers who took their lives) didn't commit suicide because of somebody bullying them, they committed suicide because they were not installed the proper principles of where their self esteem came from."
So "blame the parents" or "blame the victim", huh? Fortunately after reflecting about that bit of stupidity and the outcry it created, the Representative has apologized.
And so it's time (maybe more than past time) for lawmakers to go. They have new constituents to meet to try and get re-elected. And, besides, the state needs to spruce up the Capitol. A building permit has just been issued by Nashville officials for $9.3 million of interior rehab work on the Hill including plumbing, heating, cooling and electrical upgrades. There's no word on whether the 108th General Assembly will see an upgrade on the level of discourse and wisdom from those who toil there when lawmakers return in January, 2013.
Nobody knows Capitol Hill and state government better than Tom Humphrey of THE KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL. As Dean of the Capitol Hill Press Corps, I can't think of a better guest for INSIDE POLITICS to come on and analyze what has happened and what lies ahead at the end of a legislative term.
I also have as a guest NewsChannel5's Jennifer Krause. Her recent investigative story about "ghost voting" among member of the Tennessee House of Representatives has raised a lot of eyebrows and some serious questions about voting procedures on the Hill. We show her report on the show so I urge you to watch it or go to the newschannel5.com website and watch for yourself. It is nothing short of stunning.
I won't say over the years I've never seen members cast roll call or other votes for each other, but it appears to have become almost routine with even House leaders such as the Speaker Emeritus involved along with many others
It will be interesting to see with this coming to light right at the end of the session if this issue grows any legs and forces changes in voting such as in the U.S. Congress where members have to use a special electronic card to cast their votes.
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This story stopped me in my tracks.
Following a link I found on Facebook, courtesy of the Steve Gill Show, I came to a story by Allahpundit (April 26) that reports the first projections by Republican political guru Karl Rove on this fall's presidential election between likely GOP nominee Mitt Romney and Democratic President Barack Obama.
Remember you need 270 votes to win. Believe it or not, Rove sees the race right now as Obama 284 to Romney 172, leaving 82 electoral votes in toss-up states.
Wow! Can that be right? The article's author wonders, asking in particular about the survey listing South Carolina as a toss-up? He wonders: "Maybe this is Rove's knowing his map will get attention and using it to scare conservatives into donating and GOTV volunteering." By the way, Tennessee is listed in the Rove survey as only "leaning" towards Mitt Romney. Could that be correct?
Time will tell (and these projections will grow and move and oscillate all the time between now and this fall). But there is also another projection the Obama campaign will like as the general election campaign begins to finally focus and heat up. Again from the Allahpundit article of April 26, Mark Blumenthal of the Huffington Post has his first electoral map projections as Obama 298 to Romney 170. Ouch! Somebody's going to need one heck of an Etch-A-Sketch to redraw those numbers!
While in the article I've mentioned there are questions raised about exactly which states will go for who in November, the general thrust seems to be (and I have heard this privately from many GOP insiders) that Romney may have a greater uphill fight than may be apparent in looking at the national polls which show the race all but a toss-up with the President holding a slight lead.
But Democrats shouldn't get too confident. It's still the economy, stupid! I think next week the new jobs report comes out. This one will be critical to see if the increase in jobs bounces back or stalls again as it has done the last two years after showing significant growth. Following those numbers alone along with gas prices could tell you a lot more about the November elections than any pundit's projections.
Recently, U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) came to Chattanooga to endorse two Congressional incumbents who represent that general area. That would be Scott DesJarlais and Chuck Fleischmann.
Tennessee Senator Bob Corker was at the same event at the Chattanooga Golf and Country Club. According to an on-line article from THE CHATTANOOGA TIMES FREE PRESS (April 20), Corker also endorsed DesJarlais. The article continues: "But after the event, the former Chattanooga mayor wouldn't say whether he'll endorse Fleischmann, the Scenic City's first-term congressman who is facing two well-known deep-pocketed GOP challengers (Weston Wamp and Scottie Mayfield)."
"I'm basically not involved in the 3rd District race right now and haven't been, Corker said, adding that scheduling conflicts prevented him from speaking at Fleischmann events. "We weren't able to pull them together just because of either House votes or Senate votes."
But reporters persisted: "Asked point blank if he felt Fleischmann is a better candidate than his two high-profile opponents---Corker walked away. "I'm just –you know you all are doing a great job," Corker told reporters.
So firmly with his friends, Senator Corker obviously feels like many GOP leaders across the state do these days. That is trying to figure out how to stay in a nice safe place and out of the line of fire in what appears to be the most interesting and hotly contested congressional race coming up this summer in Tennessee. Already there are charges and reports of campaign tire slashing going on down there, so you can see what I mean.
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La Presse and The Star Tribune report that Blair Mackasey has been granted permission from the Minnesota Wild to interview with the Montreal Canadiens for their vacant job for general manager.
Mackasey, the Wild's director of player personnel, has worked in Minnesota for six seasons after joining the club from Hockey Canada.
While with Hockey Canada, Mackasey was responsible for all player evaluation and player selections for Canada's National Junior Team Development and Selection Camps as well as Canada's Men's Under-18 Program. He worked with Canada's management and coaching staff in player evaluations for the 2006 Men's Olympic Hockey Team.
During his four seasons with Hockey Canada, he won back-to-back gold medals and two silver medals at the World Junior Hockey Championship.
Mackasey was also a scout for the Phoenix Coyotes and spent three seasons as a head coach in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) with the Granby Bisons and the Drummondville Voltigeurs.
The Canadiens began their GM search after the firing of general manager Pierre Gauthier on Mar. 29, with owner and team president Geoff Molson and newly-appointed advisor Serge Savard leading the hiring process.
Others rumoured to be in the running for the job include Tampa Bay Lightning assistant GM Julien BriseBois, Chicago Blackhawks assistant GM Marc Bergevin, Maple Leafs assistant GM Claude Loiselle and Quebec Remparts coach/GM and former Canadien Patrick Roy.
TSN.ca previews what to expect out of the NHL's 30 teams as we count down to puck drop. Check daily for team previews and updates on each Canadian franchise leading up to Oct. 8.
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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory. A grim indictment that led to government regulations of the food industry, The Jungle is Sinclair's extraordinary contribution to literature and social reform.
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