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Obama's Worst Speech Ever: "We've Added Enough New Oil And Gas Pipeline To Encircle The Earth"
Obama expedites southern leg of Keystone pipeline and embraces fossil fuels. Does this make him more or less likely to okay the northern leg post-election?
Once upon a time, Obama said future generations would remember his ascendance as "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."
In a Cushing, Oklahoma, speech today, Obama made clear future generations would remember him for something quite different:
I've come to Cushing, an oil town — (applause) — because producing more oil and gas here at home has been, and will continue to be, a critical part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy. (Applause.)
Now, under my administration, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years. (Applause.) That's important to know. Over the last three years, I've directed my administration to open up millions of acres for gas and oil exploration across 23 different states. We're opening up more than 75 percent of our potential oil resources offshore. We've quadrupled the number of operating rigs to a record high. We've added enough new oil and gas pipeline to encircle the Earth and then some.
So we are drilling all over the place — right now….
Obama will, I've said, be remembered for a "failed presidency" simply for failing to seriously fight for a climate bill. And this speech certainly guts any possible claim for a climate legacy.
Ironically, as Brad Johnson notes over at TP Green, Cushing is "ground zero for climate disasters in the United States." In the last five years, "Cushing alone has been hit by disastrous drought, severe summer storms, ice storms, and wildfire."
Obama will have precisely one more shot to restore his legacy and, more importantly, to give the nation and the world a fighting chance to beat catastrophic climate change — the debt deal that is cut right after the election (see "Bipartisan Support Grows for Carbon Price as Part of Debt Deal"). In the meantime, all we can do to divine his intentions is to listen to what he tells the American people. It ain't pretty.
So how do we divine his intentions on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline? Read his lips:
So we are drilling all over the place — right now…. That's not the challenge. That's not the problem. In fact, the problem in a place like Cushing is that we're actually producing so much oil and gas in places like North Dakota and Colorado that we don't have enough pipeline capacity to transport all of it to where it needs to go — both to refineries, and then, eventually, all across the country and around the world. There's a bottleneck right here because we can't get enough of the oil to our refineries fast enough. And if we could, then we would be able to increase our oil supplies at a time when they're needed as much as possible.
Now, right now, a company called TransCanada has applied to build a new pipeline to speed more oil from Cushing to state-of-the-art refineries down on the Gulf Coast. And today, I'm directing my administration to cut through the red tape, break through the bureaucratic hurdles, and make this project a priority, to go ahead and get it done. (Applause.)
Now, you wouldn't know all this from listening to the television set. (Laughter.) This whole issue of the Keystone pipeline had generated, obviously, a lot of controversy and a lot of politics. And that's because the original route from Canada into the United States was planned through an area in Nebraska that supplies some drinking water for nearly 2 million Americans, and irrigation for a good portion of America's croplands. And Nebraskans of all political stripes — including the Republican governor there — raised some concerns about the safety and wisdom of that route.
So to be extra careful that the construction of the pipeline in an area like that wouldn't put the health and the safety of the American people at risk, our experts said that we needed a certain amount of time to review the project. Unfortunately, Congress decided they wanted their own timeline — not the company, not the experts, but members of Congress who decided this might be a fun political issue, decided to try to intervene and make it impossible for us to make an informed decision.
So what we've said to the company is, we're happy to review future permits. And today, we're making this new pipeline from Cushing to the Gulf a priority. So the southern leg of it we're making a priority, and we're going to go ahead and get that done. The northern portion of it we're going to have to review properly to make sure that the health and safety of the American people are protected. That's common sense.
But the fact is that my administration has approved dozens of new oil and gas pipelines over the last three years -– including one from Canada. And as long as I'm President, we're going to keep on encouraging oil development and infrastructure and we're going to do it in a way that protects the health and safety of the American people. We don't have to choose between one or the other, we can do both.
Unfortunately, it is simply impossible to have unrestricted development of oil and gas "in a way that protects the health and safety of the American people" — see Ken Caldeira: Natural Gas Is 'A Bridge To A World With High CO2 Levels' and "An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Global Warming Impacts: How We Know Inaction Is the Gravest Threat Humanity Faces."
I used to be pretty confident that Obama would not approved Keystone after the election (assuming he is reelected — if he hasn't, the point is obviously moot, since Etch a Sketch guy will certainly approve it). Now I'd say it's anyone's guess.
As Bill McKibben wrote:
It's hard not to wonder if those cynics might be right, now that he's going to Oklahoma to laud the southern half of the project just as Transcanada executives have requested.
True, the most critical part of the pipeline still can't be built — thanks to Obama and 42 Democratic Senators, the connection to Canada remains blocked, and hence that remains a great victory for the people who rallied so fiercely all fall. But the sense grows that Obama may be setting us up for a bitter disappointment — that his real allegiance is to the carbon barons.
Now a very wise political analyst I know wrote me, "I believe that the more he does on the Cushing leg, the easier it will be to block the Alberta leg." He is a glass-is-one-third full guy.
How about you? Do you think Obama will ultimately approve the rest of the pipeline or not?
62 Responses to Obama's Worst Speech Ever: "We've Added Enough New Oil And Gas Pipeline To Encircle The Earth"
It is hard to tell what he will do. Making speeches like this at ground zero of climate disasters does not help Democrats use areas like Cushing to educate the public on climate change and move towards serious policy solutions. Also, Obama does not have a chance in Oklahoma, so why piss off the environmental community?
On another note, a running theme on this blog , which I have wholeheartedly embraced is that the president has not used his bully pulpit to push for serious policies to deal with climate change, in particular climate legislation. That is clearly a true statement.
There are, however, other important relevant question: Does the president's use of the bully pulpit really work? Can it actually be counterproductive? I had never questioned that it does work, but some recent work in political science suggests that it doesn't. Here is an interesting article by Ezra Klein from the New Yorker —
I have not yet read the political scientists that Klein is drawing upon. It would be interesting to invite a guest post from a political scientists on these theories because they are very relevant for what you and many of us have been calling for on this blog, namely, that the President use the bully pulpit on climate change.
My feeling has always been that he put off the final decision on a new route until 2013 so he could avoid a fight with environmentalists during the campaign season. I always thought President Obama was in favor of the pipeline extension. That is why it took such a strong boot to the arse to get him to postpone. However, I think if property owners, ranchers and farmers, along the new pipeline route continue to protest, President Obama may side with them. In either case we will still be getting Canadian tar sand oil.
Its going to be another 15-20 years before an President makes the kind of speech we at CP want to hear. As much as we all want to see immediate action on climate change its just not going to happen. Obama is a just another cog in the plutocracy that has evolved over the last 3 years, he has for the most part sold us out.
Yes the weather is becoming increasingly bizarre- but on my local News Channel all they talk about is ice cream stands opening a month early.
Mike Mann in an interview recently says that change will come- but its going to take far more time. Many of us do not want to wait- unfortunately we may have no other choice.
"It is hard to tell what he will do."
Indeed. Judging from this speech he is not concerned about climate change at all.
Political scientists have no way to determine cause and effect from policy announcements and public opinion polls that are designed to capture overall voter support. Variable timelines and embedded issues of trust make an attempt at a study a fool's errand. Like Economics, Political Science isn't.
Considering the stakes, playing politics with the survival of sentient life is pretty gross anyway. This is one more reason why we need a leader with inner strength. Vetting by the 1% in both parties appears to have prevented this from ever occurring. They had too much trouble with apostates like Roosevelt and Kennedy.
Maybe the strategy is this: Compensate for the foreign oils and have the military use less.
How Much Energy Does the U.S. Military Consume http://www.dailyenergyreport.com/2011/01/how-much-energy-does-the-u-s-military-consume/
However not mentioning climate change and alternative energies and energy efficiency in an energy speech nowadays is mind boggling. Especially though when done by the largest consumer of energy.
Exceptionally disappointing.
Joe, I take your point but we all need to be a little careful here. As you know if we can't change the balance of power in the US House and improve in the Senate President Obama can go nowhere with climate change legislation. We first need to get him reelected. I have been on your side of this issue for over a decade and I have come recognize in the past year that for most people to really get behind climate change mitigation they first need to feel like they have some sense of energy security. Sounds strange but I think it is real. If domestic production helps move climate concerns forward then we need to have domestic production.
Obama will only do the right thing if we protest and raise hell, like the OWS movement is beginning to do now. This is obviously better than having a republican in office, but it does not speak well for obama. We have to understand that freedom is a constant struggle, and it is not just on foreign battlefields, it is in the public forum at home. We can not just vote for someone and hope they do the right thing, we must keep the pressure on them. Wall $treet does it to their politicians, we must do it to ours. Wall $treet uses money, our capital is free speach.
This strategy is such an absolute lose-lose-lose-lose situation for Obama that I can't believe anyone in the White House suggested it. That is:
–His expanding domestic production and/or transport isn't going to lower gasoline prices one bit, so he either won't get credit for having done it, or he'll be accused of pandering;
–Because gas prices won't drop, the Right will still accuse the President of being incompetent in that arena anyway;
–Big Oil will happily suck up the extra profits from the increased capacity and use them to fund pro-pollution candidates on the Right;
–And environmentalists will be angered because Obama reneged on a campaign pledge (not for the first time).
In short, then: he didn't do enough to appease anyone on the Right–but his efforts at appeasement will cost him on the Left.
(Now, if Obama turns out to be a master political chess player, my analysis is moot. But I don't see it at this point.)
Honestly, I sometimes wonder just what it will take for the message to get through to people on "my side" of this issue (which includes everyone here, for the record).
All elected officials who plan to be re-elected are first and foremost politicians. Every. Last. One.
That means they often do things that really upset their base in the general election, and for the incumbent, the general starts much earlier than it does for challengers embroiled in a primary race.
I've been saying it for months and getting a ton of hate mail over it, but that doesn't change my view of the situation: KXL, the whole smash, will be built. I detest that as much as anyone here and for reasons we can all recite, but we have to get over the self-indulgent thinking that Obama "can't" do X or Congress "must" do Y. (Notice how often you see that kind of absolute language thrown around as if it makes sense.) Obama, Senators, House Members, Governors, etc., right down to your local town council members, will almost always do what they must to get re-elected. And in a country that thinks cheap gasoline is their Constitutional right, anything that appears to them to lower prices is a Good Thing. And it doesn't matter in the least if their judgment is wrong; this is politics, where perception is king and facts are mere speed bumps.
Someday we will
tell our grandchildren
what ice was.
He's taken both sides of every issue – he doesn't really stand for anything.
…"Under the guise of his "All of the Above" energy strategy,.." Well Obama has sure given the Ecocidal fossil "All of the above", just when does green energy get its chance at the plate? There is not much left to give the fossil folks, they got most of the Money already! Stop profits on pollution already!
The Lorax may speak for the trees, however humanity cries out for a sustainable future.
Wow Lou your comment should be framed and highlited, spot on.
In answer to Joe's question – Yes Obama will approve the XL when the time comes.
He approved the two other tar sands pipelines previously just months into office (after all that good climate change action campaigning) in summer of 2009 (Keystone 1 and Alberta Clipper).
He stacked (crony capitalism'ed) the approval process for a slam dunk (having TransCanada's prime consultant write the environmental impact statement for the State Department) – this was going to be approved before, it was only press reports of this corrupt process and Nebraska's protests (and the 350.org folks) that stopped up the works.
When the Canada leg comes up for approval next year, he'll do so – just as he said he was for this pipeline when he had to cancel it.
President Obama has never made a choice where he chose climate change over US oil security – there's no reason to think that is going to change.
From a strategic standpoint, its clear Obama made the choice to go with U.S. oil security when he came into the White House and climate change became a nice to have if delivered to his desk by the house and senate.
As Lou has said – they are all politicians and being on the wrong side of approving the XL has and is hurting Obama and his election campaign (the GOP has seen to that very effectively).
JMHO, but if Obama had gotten up there today and said he was going to quash the XL because of climate change and stuck to it with gasoline where it is and where its trending for the summer – Obama would get our votes but Mushy Mitt would be in the White House in 2013 courtesy of what the GOP would do to him.
I'm very disappointed in Obama. He's just a corporate Democrat. No transformative change agent he.
America is not concerned with climate change, and Obama is determined to be a reflection of his country. Unfortunately, for all Obama has done, he's not been a major risk-taker especially when it comes to anything green. This is evident from the phony fossil-fueled counter-balance we have to add to anything green we do (i.e. increase solar and wind, BUT ALSO increase coal and oil because hey, we need all the energy we can get). His campaigning for the end of oil subsidies is welcomed, but I don't think it's necessary to also campaign on the other hand for more oil.
The main issue is, however, that Americans do not know about the real dangers of climate change, and are not exposed to doomsday scenarios that would likely create a wider-incentive to act. In fact, it seems like any time we mention getting off fossil fuels or pushing for green energy, we have to use some other reason (the re-branding) i.e. it will create jobs, it will help us to compete with China more, it will grow our economy, etc, but the biggest incentive for these things is the reality of climate change, and it's simply not being talked about by gov't officials.
Will Obama approve the pipeline after re-election? I think deep down Obama cares about climate change, and with the threat of a 1-term presidency removed, I think he'll disapprove it. But who knows for sure. I think Obama's current move to praise the pipeline is purely political. People are angry about gas prices, and this summer if they rise to potentially 5 dollars a gallon, people aren't going to be very pleased with a president who they perceive as helping to raise gas prices by not approving oil projects.
I don't know why anyone would have had any optimism that Mr. Obama would do anything else then represent the system. He was elected on a huge wave of financial industry money and one of the first things he did was put L. Summers in as the Director of the White House United States National Economic Council – a sure sign of compliance with the powers that be. He is a good politician – he plays both sides of the street. I think he is just going to do what is necessary to reassure the average American that will be plenty of gas, reassure the oil industry that he 'has their back' and assure the environmentalist that these industries are to be well-regulated. The system is the system and will continue to act according to its internal prerogatives.
correction; that's 32 years not 3 years.
It's smart politics and smart energy strategy. We can't get off oil overnight, and blocking a pipeline isn't going to help speed up that process. Meanwhile, requiring tougher emissions standards from automakers and keeping oil prices down in the short term helps everyone.
I don't think this has any bearing on the president's decision for the northern leg of Keystone XL. The oil will be sold to China, and the environmental risks probably aren't worth it.
I am getting more than a little tired of people who say that Obama can't do anything because of the Republicans in congress.
Really? It was the Republicans in Congress that prevented him from not making this speech?
Giving another donation to the Green Party.
I agree Mark. Obama has to get re-elected and, if possible, Dems need to retake the House and retain nominal (if not filibuster proof) control of the Senate, in order to have any chance at a rational, public energy policy. On the plus side and for a variety of reasons, demand in America is down, efficiency is up, oil imports are down – a major national security goal for generations. The US continues to invest in green energy and infrastructure to the extent that is not blocked by republicans. Without solid control of the legislative process in Democratic hands, that is about all that will happen. And Klein's piece the other day on the ultimate power of the bully pulpit rang true.
Also, anyone who thinks that President Obama even has the option of presenting "reasonable arguments" to the American people has been asleep for the past 15 years. Republicans have mastered control of the feckless New York Times-led mainstream media.
Here we go again. Let me start by saying that I am about as progressive as one gets, and I voted for Obama. But just because I like him, just because I voted for him doesn't mean I stop thinking.
You have to look beyond the man to the policies, and Obama's presidency gets an 'F' in my book. Just ask yourself what your comments might be on this thread if you swapped out Obama and put George W. Bush in his place.
From a progressive point of view, Obama has been a disaster. One of the main reasons is that Democrats have thrown their critical thinking out the door regards Obama, where they would do nothing of the kind were it a Republican doing the exact same thing.
Regardless of the future of Keystone, the tar sands will be developed.
President Obama evidently cares nothing about climate or environment issues, only about playing the politics of the issues. The idea that Obama will not approve the entire pipeline is comical. Of course the pipeline will be approved. Obama cares about being elected, other than that Obama is a true Republican conservative on policy.
I am tired of the game of Obama the conservative Republican pretending to be a Democrat.
And here I thought I voted against the "Drill Baby Drill" guy in 2008.
Silly me.
Per New York Times, Obama is in real trouble here, just lost a lot of votes with his Oklahoma shenanigans. He has plenty of access, but presumably that includes deniers as well, and being a lawyer he is unable to separate the wheat from the chaff. It's unfortunate, as the alternative is much much worse. Personally, makes me want to spit or something worse!"
I also remember he likes it hot which doesn't help.
Oddly, NYT highlighted this excellent factual on tar sands oil from National Geographic, worth remembering and publishing as often as possible:
"Current tar sands extraction is incredibly energy intensive. The material is mined, not pumped. It's then baked to about 900 degrees to separate out the hydrocarbons which then get shipped elsewhere for further refining. And that's the high quality stuff. 80 percent of tar sands reserves is low quality that must be heated in the ground in order to produce it. The point: a gob-smacking lot of energy must be plowed into the ground to get energy out of tar sands. The ratio of energy return on energy invested is in the single digits. This is abysmal compared to traditional oil extraction rates. No surprise that tar sands takes dirty energy to a whole new level."
I did not know that true Republican conservatives are in favor of the Affordable Care Act, ending DADT, ending the war in Iraq, stronger EPA regulations, providing family planning and health care services for women, unions, subsidies for solar, subsidies for wind, subsidies for alternative fuels, Wall Street reforms, banking regulations, to mention just a few issues I always thought the true "Republican conservative" vehemently opposed. I will have to start paying closer attention.
It is really disappointing to read so many excuses that are being offered to explain Obama's failings. It makes me think of the peace Nobel prize he was offered in the hope of … Can't he be judged by his actions? He will not stand neither for peace nor for dealing with climate change. The guy is unable to take a stand that will not bring him votes. By shifting evermore to the right, the GOP simply moves further to the right, and US citizens as well as mankind all lose. Please denounce what needs to be denounced.
Re Ezra Klein's piece – didn't Joe have a post here a little while back showing that public concern about climate was driven by attention from politicians and the like?
Not a big EK fan here. I've not read the article but I bet it comes down to how to define "bully pulpit." Think if FDR had not, prior to Pearl Harbor, bothered to discuss the dangers of Nazi triumph.
Yes, encircle the Earth the way a python encircles its victims.
Thank you President Obama for you courage … err no that's not it … your honesty …. err, no, not quite right … your … let's see … ah, I've got it, your political expediency while the world burns. Yes, that's it.
I have very little patience with this argument that Obama can do nothing — we need a leader who will be a compass, not a weather vane. One who will shape polls not be shaped by them.
As George Lakoff points out, and as Joe has noted many times, repetition creates its own reality, particularly when it's framed in the language of values.
Obama, by being mute on the issue, is less a victim of bad poll numbers than he is a progenitor of them.
And the fact is, we don't have the luxury of time. The effects of what we're doing to the climate are already devastating and each year that goes by pushes us further into the realm of the irrevocably bad.
Be careful, you say?
Yes, be careful political expediency for the short term doesn't doom us for the long term.
Simply getting re-elected without a mandate to do that which must be done is useless. It gives us a kiss-your-sister victory.
It may be that no politician with the skills, ideals and passion to lead can make it through the system, but that doesn't mean we should ever be satisfied with the mediocre cast of clowns we get.
In short, winning with the wrong platform — the least bad platform — isn't a great deal different than losing when it comes to global warming.
I agree completely. Time to look at what Obama has actually done, and I do not care for what has been done at all.
Right, the trustworthy New York Times, of Judith Miller fame. And so many people here still read it, as though it doesn't insult their intelligences on a daily basis. And Americans actually think the NYT is "liberal". It's the best newspaper we have in the US, and it's utterly terrible.
Everyone here complaining about President Obama simply does not understand what he's up against – staggering widespread public ignorance and a media that only reinforces and exacerbates it, and ignores or distorts ALL progressive ideas. I'm sure he knows more than any of us do about the full power of his opposition, and I think this awareness probably explains the actions he takes that are "disappointing" to liberals.
How many people here complaining about him have read his book Dreams From My Father, which he started writing during his final year at Harvard Law?
The impression I got from reading that book in '05 is that the guy is as progressive as anyone who ever had any shot of becoming president of the United States ever was. He's smarter than me and probably most of you, definitely most people in general. I think the power of his political opposition (including their media enablers and cheerleaders) is unprecedented in US history. I trust that he's doing the best he can, and he deserves the full support of any serious progressive.
I know, right? How did we miss that?
In that case, I think we should all just support and vote for the Green Party presidential candidate this year instead of Obama. I'm sure that's the path to progress.
In the absence of any serious fossil carbon control policy, you're probably right. But there would be obstacles to it (see today's article). The pipeline is the preferred method of freeing up Canadian bitumen/it's refined product, and facilitating it's sale on the global market. It would be better from an accelerated climate change perspective if that process were slower and more costly.
Spot on. The endless Obama apologist comments on here are pathetic. If it were John McCain doing all these things, I doubt the comments would be saying "Well, he is a politician, and politicians will do what they have to do to be elected."
This is the #1 climate blog and the usual readers/commenters, including the editor himself, are ready and willing to re-elect the guy who is paving the road to a climate disaster. And their only defense is that the speed limit on Obama's road is 70 while Romney's road would be 75.
Joe said, "How about you? Do you think Obama will ultimately approve the rest of the pipeline or not?"
Well, gee, Joe. I could talk to some Very Wise Political Analyst and see what probabilities their 11-dimensional analysis comes up with… or I could take a look at what Obama's past actions are are judge for myself.
Obama increased offshore drilling, increased gas drilling, adopted the GOP's "all of the above" talking point, dropped smog standards, shielded BP and low-balled the spill rates during Deep Water Horizon, and now just fast-tracked the approval for a portion of Keystone XL.
If he were a self-admitted conservative Republican oil man, would this question be so goddamn controversial? Would you need to consult your Very Wise Political Analyst to answer it?
It's not hard at all. He will serve his owners, the rich kleptocrats who have promoted him from the beginning. The USA is a plutocracy with a very tattered 'democratic' facade. Only servants of the real power, that of money, float to the top.
What-even for Obama?
The great cleverness of 'Plan Obama' was to have the wolf, (the third GW Bush term and possibly a fourth) in the sheep's clothing of the first African-American President. Quite brilliant, really, and, as Obama has gotten away with more and more betrayals of the 'Hopey-Dopey' crowd, his audacity has grown, and his masters' predilection to grant him a second term has grown, too.
I don't want to be "pathetic" in your eyes, so as I asked Frank, who is your candidate and what is his or her platform on this issue? And, while you are at it, please assure us that you've been out there on the streets, and have seen a broad spectrum of America, so you are confident of both the candidate's electability and effectiveness of the policy enactments you desire.
Obama's pre-Presidential posturing was all a confidence-trick. He was designed to neuter the 'progressives' by sucking them into his 'Audacity of Hype' crusade, then betraying them at every step. Partly this is designed to discourage as many leftish voters as possible from voting in your voluntary system, and we saw the success of that policy already by November 2010. November 2014 should deliver a real low turnout, save for the Tea Party senile delinquents, and Obama can 'lame, lame, duck' his way to that cosy job they have waiting for him at Goldman Sachs.
Or, he will play to the voters, which, after all, have an average IQ of 99.
As i mention above, you have to factor the entire picture, which includes the biggest emitter.
Judging by your tone and hyperbole, I don't think we're going to agree on this anytime soon unfortunately, but let me suggest an alternative explanation to yours-
It's a mistake to think that if we could just get "the right truly progressive man or woman" in the White House, things would be so much better. And it's a mistake because it's not true: our democratic system is significantly more dysfunctional than even you realize. Facts supporting the implementation of progressive policies are next to useless to any president, in term of generating public support (much less support IN CONGRESS). This is because the entire mainstream media has, does, and will allow Republicans to lie about the facts and keep the public ignorant and misinformed on the issues. President Obama is an very smart guy, and he's trying, so what he has accomplished and is trying to accomplish is about the best that ANY PRESIDENT could do. Our severely dysfunctional democracy also means that there are huge political pitfalls for President Obama on any number of issues, which he must avoid – and should avoid – unless you really think President Mitt Romney would be just as good as President Obama.
And since you mentioned Goldman Sachs, I take it you haven't read Obama's first book which I asked about, or you'd know he turned down a job at a Wall Street investment bank after college to work as a community organizer in Chicago. But yeah, you're probably right – even though he could have sold out decades ago instead of pretending to help poor people as a community organizer, Barack Obama was just so determined to help the rich that he went through the whole public service, become President route just so that he could do it on a much grander scale.
"I don't want to be "pathetic" in your eyes" – You could start by dropping the condescending comments.
"Who is your candidate and what is his or her platform on this issue?" – To me the best candidates are Rocky Anderson or Jill Stein. As for their platform, I'm not going to do your homework for you.
"And, while you are at it, please assure us that you've been out there on the streets" – I have in fact protested in the streets. Can you say the same?
"And have seen a broad spectrum of America, so you are confident of both the candidate's electability and effectiveness of the policy enactments you desire." Most of Rocky's and Jill's policies poll with solid majority support.
Now it's my turn to ask you a question. How will re-electing the current President benefit the earth's climate? Please be specific.
Steve says:
I don't want to be "pathetic" in your eyes […]
[…] the policy enactments you desire.
Steve, these two snippets highlight exactly what's so morally bankrupt about your 'thinking'.
Do you realize that, if a close friend of yours falls ill or dies, you don't react by asking 'how will this affect Obama's chances of re-election'?
Do you realize that we, as citizens of the world, exist in our own right — and not as mere pawns in your oh-so-epic struggle to send votes to Obama?
Do you realize that climate change is a problem because it can cause real harm, suffering, and death — and not because it can cause certain politicians to gain or lose votes?
Do you even realize that?
— frank
So in your view, the Obama administration had no choice but to send Tim DeChristopher to jail, because The Republicans Made Him Do It?
— frank
While your comment basically ignores my main point, and I'm not totally familiar with the details of DeChristopher's case, I think it should be noted that (1) the Obama Administration had absolutely nothing to do with his arrest, which happened during the Bush administration, and (2) we do have a legal process and a judicial branch that is supposed to be independent of the executive branch, and I'm not sure how easy (or wise) it would have been for President Obama to personally try to stop a pending prosecution. From what I have read about Tim DeChristopher, he sounds like a very brave guy who certainly does not deserve to be in prison.
But I'm curious to know: Do you think that President Obama has accomplished anything worthwhile at all?
It's the Dems – not the GOP – in Congress that are essentially forcing Obama to support the pipeline. It's one thing to stand up to big oil and the GOP, but if you add your own party it's too much. He had to call Senators just to beg them to support his rejection; next time he may have to veto a bill, and perhaps be humiliated with an over-ride. The environmental movement, millenials and donors did an amazing job to get the denial when the Administration wanted to approve this. We won a great battle, but we are losing the argument about oil, even among moderate and "progressive" Dems. The visit to Cushing was a low point, without doubt, but this isn't all about Obama.
I think those of us who voted for candidate Obama in 2008 can agree he gave us Oil Change we can believe in.
Whether Obama approves the KXL pipeline in a second term depends on what we do, just as it did the first time around. If we whine about him while the oil industry advocates for its interests, he'll approve. If we organize as well as we did the first time, we have a chance.
And he'll need allies among his party. Even the President can't go it alone. Is there a Dem besides Henry Waxman and Bernie Sanders who has come out unequivocally against the pipeline?
I'm not sure how easy (or wise) it would have been for President Obama to personally try to stop a pending prosecution.
What, given that this is exactly what Obama did with torturers in the CIA?
Please stop giving excuses for Obama's failures.
Do you think that President Obama has accomplished anything worthwhile at all?
That was never the issue. The issue is that people such as you think that Obama can do no wrong.
— frank
Oh well, I have some obvious typos and screwed up complex sentences in that one (specifically concerning state programs in light of possible preemptive federal interference), but I think most people will see the point… got to get to work.
I agree, I've been unbelievably disappointed by both parties. I feel like we should punish them for all this BS and take all of our votes away to somewhere else. Exactly why I'm voting 3rd party this year, someone I actually agree with. Thing is they don't get much mainstream media so share who you like with your friends or they wont know the other better options we have.
My man, you said '15 to 20′ years in your post…I really don't know what world people are living in nowadays…it would be sad if someone said this who has no clue about climate change, but I don't know how someone who is on here can make an insane comment like that…that 15 or 20 years you are referencing started back in 1990 or so…now we are creeping up on that 2015 to 2020 timeframe where analysts have been saying for years is the beginning of IRREVERSIBLE climate change…basically we are here now and there isn't anymore '15 or 20 years'…stop doing like all these psuedo-environmentalists and acknowledge the truth: this should have been started DECADES before and now, it is too late…thank you
IMO, a leader can be judged from where he/she has taken a nation or tried to take a nation. A leader is not satisfied with managing the status quo, in effect forfeiting his/her responsibilities to time and future generations. He/She seeks to pursue a vision of something better and takes concrete steps and significant risks to try to translate that vision into reality.
When it comes to climate change, the chronic absence of leadership in the U.S. persists. Ironically, an ambitious program to diversify the nation's energy supply could be justified on multiple grounds beyond climate-based ones:
1. Geopolitical realities concerning locations where fossil fuels are disproportionately concentrated: The costs of maintaining an adequate balance of power and readiness to assure access are high. Given the United States' long-term fiscal path, those costs will force tough trade-offs in the future, especially as the U.S. economy becomes relatively smaller globally.
2. Supply-Related Risk Exposure: A lack of energy supply diversity exposes the nation to the consquences of supply disruptions and resource nationalism. Such shocks typically play out with price spikes and reductions in economic activity. In turn, reduced economic activity leads to less income growth than might otherwise have occurred, higher levels of unemployment, and overall lower standards of living than would otherwise have been the case. The longstanding bipartisan commitment to the status quo has constrained the nation's strategic flexibility to deal with such shocks, much less avoid them.
3. Most new industries yield sizable learning and experience benefits that signficantly lower their average costs over time (yielding higher profits for companies and improved welfare for consumers). Nations that achieve breakthroughs or early entry in such industries often gain a sustainable competitive advantage on account of those learning/experience benefits. Given the paramount importance of energy to economic activity, the nation or nations that achieve breakthroughs in new energy will likely leverage those breakthroughs into faster economic growth and greater job creation than the laggards who tried to perpetuate the status quo.
Today, the U.S. lacks the kind of bold leadership required to dare reach beyond the narrow vision of the status quo. Words to the contrary and political atmospherics mean almost nothing in the long-run. Today's choices shape tomorrow's outcomes. Concrete actions, credible investment, and risk-taking build the future. The choice to do nothing/maintain a business as usual course leaves a nation a prisoner of developments beyond its control. By remaining a bystander, a nation merely locks itself into the status quo and its limitations, even as the world around it changes.


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After five seasons and 62 episodes of meth, murder and mayhem, ôBreaking Badö came to a bloody end Sunday night with science teacher-turned-crime lord Walter White dead, and his former protege, Jesse, on the run.
The AMC series wrapped things up in a riveting, brilliantly conceived 75-minute series finale titled
written and directed by ôBreaking Badö creator Vince Gilligan. It was an episode that had Walter (Bryan Cranston) more or less ending things on his own terms and the show cementing its legacy as one of the greatest TV dramas ever.
This is how it went down:
Walt headed to meet with Todd and his depraved uncle Jack at their compound, where he appeared to be walking into a trap. But, as usual, Walt was one step ahead of the game. He had rigged that infamous M-60 in his trunk to be a remote-controlled killing machine. After he tackled Jesse to get him below the firing line, Walt triggered the M-60 to pop out of the trunk and light the place up like Fourth of July.
The result? A neo-Nazi bloodbath that left all of the gang dead except for, as fate would have it, Todd and his uncle.
The beleaguered Jesse got his revenge by choking Todd to death with the chains that had held him captive. And Walt, quite fittingly, put a bullet in the head of the man who had so coldly killed his brother-in-law, Hank.
That left Walt and Jesse to face off one last time.
Walt slid a pistol across the floor to Jesse, giving his one-time partner a chance take his life.
ôDo it,ö Walt ordered. A trembling Jesse, however, dropped the gun and told Walt to do it himself before fleeing the scene.
But the man infamously known as Heisenberg didnĺt need to pull the trigger. With his gut already spewing blood from a stray M-60 bullet, he took a wistful stroll through the meth lab he helped design, where he collapsed to the floor moments before the cops arrived.
As for that fateful vial of ricin? Walt had used it to take out Lydia by sneaking it into her drink.
Earlier in the episode, Walt assured that his family would be taken care of in his absence by forging a deal with Gretchen and Elliott to put what he had left of his drug money Ś $9 million-plus Ś in an irrevocable trust for his son. He made sure that the Gray Matter tycoons wouldnĺt back out of the arrangement by telling them that he had hired hit men to trail them. It was yet one more masterful Walter White lie.
Walt, knowing he wasnĺt long for the world, paid a final heartbreaking visit to his wife Skyler, now living with Holly and Junior in a tiny apartment. He gave her the lottery ticket numbers Ś the GPS coordinates Ś that would lead the cops to where Hank and Gomez are buried.
And then he made a startling admission to Skyler about his life of crime. No, he didnĺt always carry out his heinous deeds with his familyĺs best interests at heart, as he had so often asserted. He did it for himself.
ôI liked it. I was good at it. And I was really ... I was alive,ö he said.
ôBreaking Badö was a television rarity Ś a show that went out in its prime. Ratings have been higher than ever for this final season, and just last week the show earned the Emmy as prime timeĺs top drama. And as ôVarietyö noted, Sundayĺs finale was perhaps the most anticipated scripted TV event of the social media era.
Some random observations:
Ľ The song playing over the final shot of Walt lying in a pool of his own blood was Badfingerĺs ôBaby Blue,ö which opens with the line: ôGuess I got what I deserved ...ö Perfect.
Ľ As distasteful as it might sound, Iĺm sure cheers went up in living rooms all over America when Jesse killed Todd. It was the finaleĺs most cathartic moment, with the guy who had suffered so incredibly taking out the ôdead-eyed Opie,ö who we had come to loathe.
Ľ Walt to Elliott: ôIf weĺre going to go that way, youĺll need a bigger knife.ö A beautiful line.
Ľ Loved the one bit of humor in a mostly somber/melancholy episode: Badger and Skinny Pete as our so-called ôhit men.ö
Ľ Walt caressing Holly in her crib one last time. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Ľ It was the kind of finale that was able to satisfy two camps Ś fans who believed Walt should pay for his sins and those who wanted him to go out a so-called ôwinner.ö Both things happened. In the end, Waltĺs thirst for power had rotted his soul. He had nothing and died alone. But, taking the current circumstances into account, he went out the way he wanted to.
ĽIf you could complain about anything regarding the finale, itĺs that perhaps it was too neat Ś how everything fell into place so precisely and so orderly. I really felt that when Todd and Uncle Jack so conveniently survived the massacre. Still, itĺs a minor complaint. And it does nothing to diminish the legacy of ôBreaking Bad,ö which ranks right up there with ôThe Sopranosö and ôThe Wireö as one of the greatest TV dramas ever.
Ľ Vince Gilligan appeared on ôTalking Badö immediately following Sundayĺs episode, and he will be on Monday nightĺs edition of ôThe Colbert Reportö to talk about the finale. Quite a difference from ôSopranosö creator David Chase, who essentially went into hiding after that showĺs finale.
Ľ- Um, so weĺre just wondering: Did Huell ever make it out of that motel?
What did you think about the finale? Did it live up to your expectations? Surpass them? Where would you rank ôBreaking Badö among TVĺs hall-of-fame shows?
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The Fire Emblem series of strategy RPGs comes to the GBA. Prince Roy of Etruria must set out to defend his father's kingdom and defeat the dark forces of Bern. He'll ally with many countries and recruit characters of different classes who will assist in top-down, turn-based strategy battles similiar to those found in Advanced Wars. Make use of their unique skills to succeed in mission goals set out before you each battle.
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Fire Emblem: The Sword of Seals' gameplay is very similar to that of Fire Emblem 7: Blazing Sword's. Both games have the same fundamentals as many other Fire Emblem games: the player (known as the tactician in the game) must command a small army around a square grid battlefield and fight enemy units by taking advantage of their environment and the Weapon and Magic Triangles. As you get farther in the game, you recruit new individuals, all of which have different strengths and abilities, and the dexterity to level up. There are also many weapons to equip your characters with, as well as different types of terrain to fight on, each with their own special effect. Furthermore, when certain characters level up enough, with the help of a certain item, they can change class, and gain new permissions and strengths.
This game is also known as Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi in Japan.


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(AP) Three months ago, Mark Dantonio was in and out of the hospital,
trying to recover from a heart attack.
Now his Michigan State team is fresh off a Big Ten title,
preparing to play on New Year's Day against the defending national
The Spartans have been one of the country's biggest surprises in
2010, stunning Notre Dame with a fake field goal in one of the
season's top plays, then going on to capture a share of the
conference championship. They've won with both flair and grit, and
on Saturday the seventh-ranked Spartans will face 15th-ranked
Alabama in the Capital One Bowl.
Dantonio was an assistant on Alabama coach Nick Saban's staff
when Saban was at Michigan State during the late 1990s.
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Tonight on Bill Maher's show something I'd read earlier in the day fell out of my mouth. Bill brought up Huckabee's statement about the Confederate flag…
"You don't like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag. If somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell them what to do with the pole. That's what we'd do."
…and I said:
"Does he pray to Jesus with that mouth?"
Credit where credit is due: I read that on John Aravosis' blog earlier today. Things were moving so fast on Maher's show I didn't think to credit John, and Americablog. But… better late… on my blog… than never, right?


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"Depression and Natural Remedies" exposes therapies which address specifically depression with an accent on phytotherapy. This book explains in detail issues that can trigger depression and recommends the most efficient forms of remedy. Plants have been employed in healing since ancient times. Human physiology responds best to herbal remedies as they have the highest compatibility with the body with the advantage of little to no side effects. Traditional Chinese Medicine, for example, has a comprehensive approach which considers the person as a whole, whether healthy or ill. Psychology and counseling are themselves considered alternatives. These days the world confronts difficult diseases mainly due to lifestyle and diet. Conventional medicine has not always produced a viable solution to solve them. But, many forms of alternative medicine such as herbal medicine have successfully secured a place in the future. These therapies are known for their wisdom to understand the cause of diseases and to perceive the individual holistically. If we paraphrase the ancient Greek of Ascleposis of Thessaly we can say that at the beginning of any therapeutic interventions should first stand the word. The next step would be the treatment with plants. If this is not enough, a chemical pharmaceutical agent can be employed. Only when the previous methods did not work the last step is the "knife", the surgery. In case of chronic diseases, for example, there is no medical act outside the word. The "word" means clinical interview and counseling. A comprehensive clinical interview gives you information about the cause of disease and helps establish the correct diagnosis. Nowadays this order is not always respected. This book demonstrates that the reconsideration of ancient treatments and remedies based on naturally occurring substances like plants is undeniably beneficial and improves overall health. The therapies discussed in this book can be used as an alternative to contemporary methods of treatment or as a complement to such approaches. As discussed at length in this book, these herbal remedies treat not only the body, but the soul also by bringing the patient closer to nature and the traditional and spiritual values. The book's intention is to inform and create awareness about different useful remedies for depression. It is not intended to promote a certain treatment. The reader has the responsibility to opt for the right path of treatment.
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Let us put this to rest once and for all. This is not a struggle between radical Islam and the West. It is between radical Islam and the rest of us, Muslims and non-Muslims. Freedom is not a Western value. It is a universal value.
If the answer to this question is "no," a case can still be made that the cable news network is on track to rival Fox News in promoting the worst Islamophobic stereotypes. The latest controversy involving an interview with Reza Aslan raises serious concerns about CNN's willingness to tap into and reinforce widespread prejudices against Islam in order to generate ratings.
Ben is talking about Muslims who aspire to the same things that all people of genuine good will aspire to, aspirations widely shared by most Americans. Hard work. Raising a family. Giving to charity. Practicing our faith. And the opportunity to do so free of judgment -- certainly free of fear or violence.
As Election Day approaches, the backers on both sides of the ballot initiative for legalizing Medical Marijuana in Florida, otherwise known as Amendment 2 are really getting fired up. It's a battle of wits, money, compassion, money, politics and money and of course, the people who are donating the money.
As the fight against ISIS/ISIL continues, and so do our campaigns to fight terrorism around the world, we are bound to be reminded that we are not in a war against Islam. But why is it that when I turn on the news, listen to people discuss Islam or look at images of Muslims in popular culture, it damn sure feels like we are.
It feels good for many people to look at Islam without looking at the bigger picture of geopolitics and foreign policy, but doing so allows us to repeat the same mistakes, while focusing intently on only part of the problem.
What Bill Maher, Sam Harris and many others like them fail to realize is that religion as it is practiced is a product of a wide array of factors, the official texts being only one of them. People of any faith are more shaped by the norms of their cultural context, interpreting their religious texts to comport with those norms rather than the other way around.
While Maher's points were vastly generalized and his analysis incomplete, there was still some validity to them. In modern America, we are so wed to the ideas of fairness and sensitivity that we can sometimes become blind to the obvious.
There are indeed a myriad of unique problems within the Muslim world, which is in a deep crisis. Yet, there are also countless Muslim leaders, intellectuals, clerics, philanthropists, and others, facing these problems, and trying to stand-up to illiberal phenomena in their communities and societies.
Liberals by and large tolerate if not applaud Bill Maher's broadsides at the institution of religion itself, but parsing out which is better than the other destroys his credibility on what was considered to be a well-rounded condemnation on the concept itself.
Bill Maher's been busy telling the world about the poor treatment of women by Muslims, bringing up female genital mutilation or FGM as evidence. And Reza Aslan did an admirable job correcting his many misconceptions.
I am a big fan of Nicholas Kristof so I was disappointed by his argument with Sam Harris and Bill Maher and his defense of his position in his New York Times column today. Kristof thinks he's defending the moderate; in fact, he's empowering the fanatic.
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For all of the great work Bill Maher does by adding an unapologetically liberal voice to sensitive topics, his recent heated debate with actor Ben Affleck and author Sam Harris has put Bill at odds with many liberals. The biggest problem with Bill's stance is that he seems content to shout into the wind.
I detest religious extremism, but what I detest equally is funding this plague and pretending the billions in weapons we give to Islamic fundamentalists isn't the primary reason that ISIS and other terrorist groups exist.
On October 3rd, Ben Affleck finally said what a lot of us have been hoping someone would say loud and angry enough to make Maher listen.


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Are Savory Donuts a Good Thing?
Dunkin Donuts has announced it plans to sell savory (read: not sweet) shredded pork donuts at its stores in China. While Americans love sweets for breakfast, that's not the norm in much of the world. Regardless: Does this sound good to you? Is it just the logical conclusion to the McGriddle phenomenon? ...
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I worked in Taiwan this summer, and in their congee (kind of like oatmeal) they would put shredded pork. I can't say I was a fan of the shredded pork, and always found the brown sugar the camp I was at had to add to my sweet breakfast! Though the Asians I worked with found this such an odd thing!
I live in china right now and I have two things to say: One, where are these Dunkin Donuts Stores? I have never seen one but I kind of want Donuts now.
Also, Chinese breakfast is weird. I was explaining to a chinese friend of mine that I don't really eat breakfast here because Chinese breakfast food was like our lunch food and not appetizing to me in the morning, and her response was "What do Americans eat for breakfast? Do you eat hamburgers?" So I have a feeling "shredded pork donuts" would go over very well in china.
lots of chinese bakeries in my city--buns (like little pastries) are super-popular, and you can find sweet & savoury kinds. you can findshredded pork buns right next to the coconut sugar buns!
p.s. my city is toronto, btw :p


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Theater Review: Breathing new life into Nunsense'By Jim LoweNorthern Stage photo
The Little Sisters of Hoboken from left, Amanda Ryan Paige, Lisa Raggio, Sandy Rosenberg, Emily Stockdale and Charis Leos are raising money to bury fellow nuns killed by tainted vichyssoise.
Nunsense, Dan Goggins spoof of Catholic nuns, premiered in 1985, becoming the second-longest running off-Broadway musical.
Since that time, it has spawned a movie, six sequels and three spinoffs and now is relegated largely to community theater.
Along comes Northern Stage to reclaim it for the professionals opening a thoroughly entertaining production of this somewhat dated but terribly fun musical Friday at Briggs Opera House in White River Junction.
Northern Stage, Vermonts largest budget professional theater, has been in turmoil since parting ways with its founding artistic director, Brooke Wetzel Ciardelli, last fall, and its subsequent productions clearly reflected that. (Race, the only exception, was actually produced by Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany, N.Y.)
Nunsense marks Northern Stages first entirely successful production since Ciardellis unfortunate departure.
Nunsense is a charming musical, with just a touch of bawdiness. The plot centers on a benefit cabaret presented by the five remaining Little Sisters of Hoboken to pay for the burial of the other members of the order all killed by tainted vichyssoise.
In short, its an excuse for a song-and-dance series of Catholic jokes, but it is fun.
Catherine Doherty, Northern Stages producing director, is an expert at this kind of musical comedy, milking it for all its worth. But she also delivers the silliness with polish and split-second timing and a first-rate cast, excellent singers and dancers all.
Sandy Rosenburg, Sister Mary Regina, the mother superior, performed with a rich Irish brogue and a wry wit. Charis Leos, a natural comedian, was a riot as Sister Mary Hubert, who, as number two, is always undermining the boss.
Lisa Raggio was nearly poignant (not easy in this kind of musical) as Sister Robert Anne, who fought her way out of the streets of Brooklyn and into the convent. Amanda Ryan Paige is charming as Sister Mary Amnesia, who is constantly mixing things up. And Emily Stockdale gives Sister Mary Leo the innocence of the novice she is plus a little unexpected fun.
Joel Mercier, the music director, led the excellent pit band in the effervescent score, with excellent choreography by John Jacob Lee. The slick set was by Carl Tallent, lit by Ben Fichtorn, with costumes by Anna Winter, all resulting in a most polished production.
Nunsense may be dated, but Northern Stage certainly has fun with it.
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Northern Stage presents Nunsense, the classic off-Broadway musical comedy by Dan Goggin, May 1-19 at Briggs Opera House, Main Street in White River Junction. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 5 p.m. Sundays, plus 2 p.m. matinees Thursday, May 9, and Saturday, May 18. For tickets or information, call 802-296-7000, or go online to www.northernstage.org.MORE IN Central VermontA new VPR poll finds that Secretary Hillary Clinton may have a tough time winning the last 30... Full StoryMONKTON Scientists said around 100 harsh sunflower stems were cut and trampled last week, as... Full StoryAfter pleading guilty in March to felony assault on a federal official, Robert Fitzgerald was... Full Story
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10 Ways The CW's "Riverdale" Cast Will Infuse Classic "Archie" with Scandal & Murder
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Vigilante #5
The second installment of the "Deathtrap" storyline plays its way through the latest issue of "Vigilante," featuring a creative team that is a throwback to 1988.
|April 28th, 2009
Fans of "L.E.G.I.O.N.," "Negation," or any other space-based comic can rejoice, because this is just plain fun.
|April 22nd, 2009
Rampaging Wolverine #1
Four Wolverine stories presented in glorious monochrome.
|April 20th, 2009
X-Factor #42
Madrox travels to the future to join the Summers Rebellion alongside Layla Miller.
|April 20th, 2009
Secret Invasion Aftermath: Beta Ray Bill: The Green of Eden #1
"Secret Invasion" the gift that keeps on giving. This issue focuses on everyone's favorite horse-faced, hammer-wielding substitute thunder god.
|April 18th, 2009
Zorro #12
Zorro's adventures continue to unfold under the pen of Matt Wagner.
|April 17th, 2009
Air #8
Blythe, Amelia Earhart, and Northfield go searching for a device and not much happens along the way. Rather forgettable.
|April 17th, 2009
Godland #27
The book so nice they named it twice. Okay, they didn't, but wouldn't you buy a book called "Gødland Gødland"? I know I would!
|April 17th, 2009
Uncanny X-Men #508
While plots gain little traction, Matt Fraction's characterization skills more than make up for that. Greg Land's art is the same as it always is, so it's a 'love it or hate it' situation there.
|April 17th, 2009
Amazing Spider-Man #591
The second part of the Fantastic Four team-up features Spider-Man unmasked before the Fantastic Four.
|April 16th, 2009
Fables #83
"The Great Fables Crossover" begins not with a bang, but more of a thud.
|April 16th, 2009
Green Lantern Corps #35
The march toward Blackest Night continues and the story becomes increasingly epic.
|April 16th, 2009
Action Comics #876
A year of "Action Comics" without Superman is still getting rolling, but so far it's an enjoyable read.
|April 15th, 2009
100 Bullets #100
The violent tragedy of 100 Bullets comes to an end, ten years after it began, with its creators in firm control over the lives and endings of their characters.
|April 15th, 2009
X-Files #6
The series concludes with the second part of Doug Moench's story of underground creatures that feed on people in the Badlands. On the menu tonight? Fox Mulder.
|April 15th, 2009
Squadron Supreme #10
This series has improved, at least on the artistic side, but it's still a bit of a mess.
|April 15th, 2009
Punisher #4
Remender writes a great Hood and Opena's art is what so many Marvel comics wish they could look like.
|April 15th, 2009
Wolverine Noir #1
Another "Noir" book from Marvel where two genres are combined for no reason other than it might be fun. It's not.
|April 14th, 2009
Sub-Mariner Comics 70th Anniversary Special #1
Marvel continues to celebrate their septuagenarian publishing history with a tribute to Namor, the Sub-Mariner with work from Roy Thomas and Bill Everett, among others.
|April 14th, 2009
Incognito #3
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips take a bad situation and both resolve it and make it worse at the same time. And somehow, it's just the tip of the iceberg.
|April 14th, 2009
Captain America #49
No Cap, no Bucky, just Sharon Carter trapped inside her memories. And it's good.
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(British oesophagus)
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The part of the alimentary canal that connects the throat to the stomach; the gullet. In humans and other vertebrates it is a muscular tube lined with mucous membrane.
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Blarney Stones
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Prep 24 hrs
Cook 35 mins
This is an Irish treat that is wonderful for Saint Patrick's Day, or anytime!
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- 4 eggs
- 1 3⁄4 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 3⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk
- 1⁄4 cup butter or 1⁄4 cup margarine, melted
- 2 lbs confectioners' sugar (7 1/2 cups)
- 2⁄3 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- 6 cups finely chopped peanuts
- In a mixing bowl, beat the eggs, sugar and vanilla until thick and lemon colored, about 4 minutes.
- Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt; add to egg mixture.
- Beat on low speed just until combined.
- Add the milk and butter; mix well.
- Pour into a greased 13x9x2-inch baking pan.
- Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
- Cool on a wire rack.
- Cut into squares.
- Cover and freeze overnight.
- For a frosting, in a mixing bowl, combine confectioners' sugar, milk, vanilla, and salt; beat until smooth.
- Frost the top and sides of frozen cake squares.
- Roll in peanuts.
- Place on wire racks to dry.
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Not only a delicious cake. This is FUN to make. You can divide the frosting and make different colors. for some I put nuts on top, some I rolled on the sides. They taste great! And look SO pretty! Thanks Lauren for posting this!!
my family rated this a 9-Would eat every day! your the only 9 in my zaar cookbook!
This recipe is from www.TasteofHome.com and is listed as a recipe by Bridget Jones of Veyo Utah. Bridget states that in high school she worked for an Irish family who made these every year for St. Patrick's Day. Thanks for posting. :)


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Okey is played with a set of numbered tiles with four different colors. During the game each player has a hand of 14 tiles. On each turn a player draws one tile and then discards one tile. The object of the game is to be the first to form a hand that consists entirely of sets (equal numbered tiles) and runs (consecutive tiles of the same color).
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Even Witches Like To Go Out Dancing
There's a new crop of Australian bands that take inspiration from old blues, but twist the music in a strange fashion. The trend may have started with CW Stoneking (Jungle Blues, Love Me Or Die), who channeled the old bluesmen despite being a young man. Its continued on to Sydney's Snowdroppers, who started out as a house band for burlesque shows and kept that dirty sensibility up with songs like Rosemary , Do The Stomp, and their signature tune Good Drugs, Bad Women (lyrics NSW). Frequent Snowdroppers touring partners Gay Paris add a Southern horror twist (House Fire In the Origami District, My First Wife? She Was A Foxqueen! ) and an antic stage energy. Some of the bands relay on gimmicks, like Adelaide's The Beards, who sing about how you should consider having sex with a bearded man and point out that if your dad doesn't have a beard, you've got two moms. The Beards recently performed at the World Beard and Mustache Championships. Horror-country-rockers Graveyard Train have picked up the torch dropped when Sydney psychobilly masters Zombie Ghost Train (Graveyard Queen) disbanded. Graveyard Train tunes like Mummy, Ballad for Beelzebub , Tall Shadow and Dead Folk Dance combine cheerful Misfits horror theming with stompy country. Most of the singers from this loose scene are joining forces in Sydney this week to pay tribute to Tom Waits.
Ratchet & Clank's Favorite Columnist
Controversial Australian newspaper columnist and television host Andrew Bolt has been found to have breached the Racial Discrimination Act when he suggested in 2009 that "fаіr-skinned Aborigines identified themselves аѕ such fοr personal gain" (official court judgement). Andrew Bolt has responded, along with other writers claiming the ruling will "harm healthy debate" and "stile free speech". Commentary site Crikey has collected other responses and suggests that 'he may turn out to be the courtroom loser who wins the propaganda war'.
"That shy mysterious poet Arthur Stace
Whose work was just one single mighty word
Walked in the utmost depths of time and space
And there his word was spoken and he heard
ETERNITY, ETERNITY, it banged him like a bell
Dulcet from heaven sounding, sombre from hell."
- Douglas Stewart
Whose work was just one single mighty word
Walked in the utmost depths of time and space
And there his word was spoken and he heard
ETERNITY, ETERNITY, it banged him like a bell
Dulcet from heaven sounding, sombre from hell."
- Douglas Stewart
Like A Steampunk Iron Man Villain
The headless body of Australian folk hero Ned Kelly has been found in a mass grave. Ned Kelly was an Australian bushranger (outlaw) best known for the suit of homemade armor he wore during his last stand at Glenrowan. Since then Ned Kelly has been an Australian icon, celebrated in films (including one starring Mick Jagger) and song.
Tightening The Net
Telstra and Optus, two of Australia's biggest ISPs, will start censoring the Internet next month. The two companies will block more than 500 websites.
Do The Pop!
Wallaby Beat is a blog dedicated to punk, DIY, powerpop, grillfat (pre-punk Australian hard rock) and NWOAHM from Australia 1975-1984. It follows projects like Do The Pop, Lethal Weapons, and Inner City Sound in documenting Australia's fertile underground rock and roll scene. While those blogs and books are focused on the past, I-94 Bar is documenting the scene as it stands today and interviewing the various survivors.
Blow Up The Pokies
"In life you often look around for someone or something to compare yourself favourably with. The games dealers and supervisors in a casino whose souls are troubled can look to the poker machines and say, well at least we provide entertainment (we're in the hospitality industry, don't you know!). But in reality, that was just bullshit we told ourselves. The machines blinked and made music while they took the money; we smiled and chatted aimlessly while we took it." Former casino worker Greg Jericho has written an exhaustive article about the human and economic costs of poker machines. It comes in the middle of an anti-pokies campaign by Independent Senator Nick Xenophon that is being bitterly opposed by the Australian Hotels Association.
Mortal Kombat has been banned in Australia. In the highest profile censorship incident since last year's butchering of Left 4 Dead 2, the new Mortal Kombat game has been "refused classification by the Australian Classification Board and will not release in Australia". This should galvanize efforts to implement an R18 rating for Australian games, though so far progress has been slow.
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The hostel is very cheap, so of course you can't expect a lot of comfort, but I did not feel comfortable at all! Nearly only rather old men stayed there while I was there, one barely clothed 40 year old guy was constantly leaning against the door of my room phoning, and did not move when I asked. People staying there rather seemed to stay there for a long period, most were no travelers. The staff did not have the hostel spirit. If you come in a big group it's okay, but alone it was weird.
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A battery provides a voltage of6.00 and has unknown internal resistance . When the battery is connected across a resistor ofresistance = 5.00 , the current in the circuit is = 1.00 .
If the external resistance is then changed to = 3.00 , what is the value of the current in the circuit?
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WACO (July 30, 2014) A man who came to the rescue Tuesday in Waco when he spotted a friend whose car had run out of gas ended up at the wrong end of a knife after paying for some fuel to get the stranded motorist back on the road.
The victim, who was not identified, told officers he stopped at around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday to help his stranded friend near the intersection of North 18th Street and Lyle Avenue, police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said Wednesday.
He said he drove his friend to a gas station, paid for $5 worth of fuel, and then returned to the car and helped his friend fill the empty tank, Swanton said.
Afterward the friend told the victim to follow him to the Alon store at North 18th and Lyle so he could get some cash from an ATM to repay him, Swanton said.
But after the suspect was unable to use his credit card to get the cash, he walked over to the victim's car, pulled out a knife and demanded money, Swanton said.
The 35-year-old victim refused to hand over the cash, so the suspect punched him in the face and then drove off, Swanton said.
The victim drove to Waco police headquarters on Pine Avenue to report the attempted robbery.
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Monte Solaro
Bed & BreakfastVia Monte Solaro, 30 - Anacapri - See map
Monte Solaro
+39 081 8382124
+39 081 8382702 (Fax)
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Three reasons to book here:
- Watch the sun setting over the sea from your terrace
- Ten minutes from all of Capri's tourist attractions
- Typical island hospitality, in a family-run B&B
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Monte Solaro - AnacapriGo to the top
Wake up, walk out on to your bedroom balcony, and be greeted by the spectacular sight of the Bay of Naples, Vesuvius, the islands of Ischia and Procida and the shimmering Mediterranean sea surrounding Capri.
Can you think of a better way to start the day?
You're at B&B Monte Solaro in Anacapri, on the slopes of Capri's magnificent flower-strewn mountain. Ten minutes away from the historic center, Villa San Michele and the chairlift which transports passengers to the summit of Monte Solaro...
Close to all of the island's tourist attractions and, at the same time, far from the crowds.
Costanzo, the B&B's owner, will be happy to give you a lift to Piazza della Pace, from where you can catch buses to the Piazzetta in Capri, the Faro, the Grotta Azzurra and Marina Grande
B&B Monte Solaro has just 3, tastefully furnished and air conditioned bedrooms, each with its own terrace and spacious bathroom (one of which has a double hydromassage shower!). Wi-Fi is available throughout the property.
A delicious breakfast of local specialties is served on the large communal terrace facing the sea. In the evenings, the same terrace provides the perfect venue for a romantic sunset aperitif.
Monte Solaro: ServicesGo to the top
- Rooms
- Free Wi-fi
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- Minibar
- Safety deposit box
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Perfect B&B
Absolutely fantastic location, facilities and hospitality from Constanzo and his family. The rooms are comfortable, very clean and excellent value for money. If you like sipping local wine or and... more »
Bellezza, cortesia e tranquillità
Dovendo partecipare ad un matrimonio in Anacapri, ho soggiornato in questa incantevole struttura per due notti. Il B&B si trova in una zona al riparo dal traffico e rumori vari. Vi si arriva tramite more »
Great people, service and rooms
Costanza and his family were very welcoming! We loved the community like environment in Anacapri. We arrived at 9am which was too early for check-in, and we stopped by Bar Columbus. The owners at... more »
Monte Solaro: LocationBack to the top
Piazza Vittoria, the first square to greet tourists arriving in Anacapri, lies just a hundred meters or so from B&B Monte Solaro which, from its position on the slopes of Capri's mountain, enjoys magnificent views out over the historic center of Anacapri and the entire Gulf of Naples, from Sorrento to the island of Ischia.
The chairlift to Monte Solaro, the Church of San Michele and the museum-house of Axel Munthe, are all within easy walking distance.
The Bed & Breakfast is close to the main bus terminal and taxi stands, making travelling to the port of Capri (Marina Grande), the Grotta Azzurra, the Faro (lighthouse), the bay of Marina Piccola and the Piazzetta, extremely straight forward.
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Cavalluccio Marino
- The unique charm of Anacapri
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Il Tramonto - The Sunset
- Watch the sun set, aperitif in hand, from the terrace lounge
- The effortless elegance of a traditional island home
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- Country life on the island of Capri
- Discover the rural traditions of Anacapri
- Personalized tastings and theme dinners featuring the Capri's traditional cuisine
La Giuliva
- The strategic location in the center of Anacapri
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Pittsford murder suspect attempts suicide in jailStaff Report | July 19,2013A Pittsford man awaiting trial in jail on a charge of murdering his girlfriend tried to hang himself in his jail cell, according to a Vermont Department of Corrections official.
Christopher Sharrow, 35, was taken to a Boston hospital after an unsuccessful suicide attempt, according to Al Cormier, superintendent of the St. Johnsbury jail where Sharrow has been incarcerated since his arraignment on July 8.
Cormier said he didn't know which hospital Sharrow was taken to, but he believed he was in stable condition.
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