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New Yorker: 'Has Obama Already Given Up On Climate Change?'
The New Yorker examines the President's latest budget and find it "represents a major dodge on climate change." Hence columnist Ryan Lizza poses the headline question, "Has Obama already given up on climate change?"
Sure Obama has been talking a good game on climate in the second inaugural address and State of the Union:
But the budget released this week makes it clear that Obama's surprising appeal to Congress was an empty piece of rhetoric. The phrase "climate change" appears twenty-nine times in the new budget, but there is no new plan for Congress to take up in Obama's otherwise ambitious legislative blueprint. There are some worthy energy initiatives that could achieve modest reductions in emissions, but the budget is silent on what Obama will do to aggressively reduce carbon pollution by the biggest emitters, like power plants and automobiles.
If rhetoric cut emissions, we'd be carbon free already. But only action does.
Still, it is not as if Obama has the power to act:
It is not as if Obama doesn't have the power to act. On many issues the President is at the mercy of Congress. He can't reform gun laws or the immigration system, or rewrite the tax code, without coöperation from the House and Senate. Climate change is different. Obama's Environmental Protection Agency, backed by the force of a Supreme Court ruling, has the authority to reduce carbon pollution through regulation. In 2010, when White House negotiators were trying to pass cap and trade, they presented reluctant senators with a promise (some called it a threat): pass a comprehensive bill to deal with the problem or the E.P.A. would move forward on its own. Three years later, the Administration has still not acted on that ultimatum. And, ominously for those who care about tackling climate change, Obama's new budget proposes to reduce funding for the E.P.A. by 3.5 per cent compared to the current year.
Oh, well, it's not as if team Obama is delaying action:
The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that it would delay issuance of a new rule limiting emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from new power plants after the electric power industry objected on legal and technical grounds…
"We are continuing to work on the rule," said Alisha Johnson, the E.P.A. press secretary. "No timetable has been set."
No worries. It's not like we're in a hurry or anything (see Study: We're Headed To 11°F Warming And Even 7°F Requires 'Nearly Quadrupling The Current Rate Of Decarbonisation'). It's not like inaction is incredibly costly (see IEA warns, "The world will have to spend an extra $500 billion to cut carbon emissions for each year it delays implementing a major assault on global warming").
It's not like delaying the rule for limiting emissions from new power plants delays the far more important rule for limiting emissions for existing power plants. Okay, well, it is like that, but it isn't like Obama told the nation in February "If Congress Won't Act Soon To Protect Future Generations, I Will." The New Yorker also cites that remark and concludes:
Nothing in his new budget follows through on that promise. And if that doesn't, what will?
88 Responses to New Yorker: 'Has Obama Already Given Up On Climate Change?'
"Still, it is not as if Obama has the power to act:"
He could if he declared a state of emergency.
I wonder at what point will extreme climate impact reach a level where this will occur.
I think we are not as far off as we think… If the trend of the last couple of years persists…
uh, 'already' ? Obama gave up on making /congress/ do anything years ago. Almost certainly before the affordable care act passed. In other places, where Obama has direct official control over purchasing and funding, he has made steps in the right direction – but they have always been small, and always limited to areas of total control. Whoever wrote the headline is years behind the curve. I suppose it's significant that his budget proposal does not contain any placating gestures about climate, but, really, who is still fooled by such gestures? Other than the headline writer, that is.
Obama seems to be waiting for the poll numbers to push him out in front of the issue, just the way he "evolved" his position on gay marriage.
Delay–allowing time and generational change to do its work–was a good strategy for gay marriage; it avoided a backlash that could have crippled the movement and had bad fallout for other issues.
Climate change is different in scale and character. It involves the survival of Western civilization and of whole species, of which one could be humans, in the most extreme scenario.
Above all, rope-a-dope, trying to wait for the populous to slowly "acclimate" to the idea that climate change is an emergency, is as preposterous as it sounds, and profoundly unfair. Outside of people on websites like this, few recognize the urgency. It's too abstract.
I'm looking out my window. It's a glorious spring day. That climate disruption could be imminent and alter the weather of the entire planet forever appears deeply counterfactual. It just doesn't seem possible.
But Obama must know. The CIA and the Pentagon must have done some scenario analysis. I'm hard-pressed to believe there isn't some contingency plan for that coming summer the ice disappears and the jet stream does the Superstorm Sandy Meander for months on end, resulting in a massive crop failure.
Obama, or someone in leadership, has to create the awareness, not passively wait for it. I grant that this is an almost impossible task. The challenge is bringing the vested interests and the deniers on board, or getting around them, or neutralizing their resistance. But he is the leader, not the manager. He has to help figure out a way to lead.
That's our task: to think of ways to pre-empt the backlash or counteract it, and pass those ideas up.
McKibben is taking the civil disobedience route. That's good.
I think small sit-downs with the CIA or the Pentagon, a key scientist or two, and the deniers is a possibility.
It looks like the already current majority is once again getting the brown end of the stick. Does not bode well in a presumable democracy IMO.
Obama seems to think he was doing us climate people a big favor by talking about it in his SOU address. We're now back where we started.
There have been many indicators in the last four years that the transition from W Bush was seamless.
Now, he's a lame duck, and could easily effect the "change" he mouthed so much to great applause in 2008. The explanation that makes the most sense comes from left wing paranoia: No presidential candidate will get campaign funding unless he promises to play ball with the oil companies and the 1%, especially the bankers.
The best explanation apart from Obama the marionette is that he fears the capital destruction of rapid phasing out of fossil fuels. This will have to happen anyway, and the sooner the better. Capital destruction is nothing compared to environmental and climate destruction, and in this case will lead to cleaner, more efficient, and more labor intensive capital. That's what the big boys don't want.
It's becoming increasingly apparent that the climate tribes can be managed, and effectively ignored. The media could awaken the people here, but they're bought, too.
We need climate warriors, not supplicants.
"Has Obama Already Given Up On Climate Change?" There's an implied assumption that he was once interested. Wishful thinking!
"But Obama must know. The CIA and the Pentagon must have done some scenario analysis." My guess is that they've done/are doing far more than 'some'. The fact that we have heard nothing from them is extremely ominous, in my opinion.
and exactly what would a state of emergency achieve?
elaborate please.
Hey Prez, are those solar panels on the White House yet? Have you even picked a company to provide them?
Yup. My thoughts exactly. Like immigration, gun control, gay marriage, he's waiting for the "political stars to be aligned". I never got the impression that he is an out in front leader. Even his earlier background as a "community organizer", "mediator", "conciliator" suggests he prefers to take the middle road on all sides of most issues and bring all sides together. "Given up" is too strong a pronouncement. But we need to keep the pressure up, such as with 350.org since this is what he responds to.
I don't think that assuming Obama (or any other pol) fears defunding is a paranoid thought. Seems pretty straightforward: effectively threaten to defund the powerful first by destroying their capital, and they do what all threatened entities do–fight.
Defunding a campaign for office falls squarely within the democratic process, however distorted it is now by the sheer amount of money.
If we want to risk being called paranoid, we can speculate about the role "conservative" attitudes and "values" play in this situation, and the virulent hostility toward the federal government they breed.
That set of attitudes gave us the Civil War and then survived it. States' rights is still as it has ever been: a sanctimonious excuse to tell people to butt out while one group exercises power over others. Personal "freedom" is the freedom to dominate. There's a beief that God ordained the existing social structure, and religion is used to justify all kinds of Old Testament, white, patriarchal entitlement and control.
The Old Testament justified slavery; glorified war and personal violence; put forward the idea of a chosen people, sanctioned to kill heathens and violators of God's order; sanctified eye-for-an-eye justice; glorified hierarchy and blind obedience.
So now we look at the Second Amendment and the idea that it was instituted as a safeguard against "tyranny."
How would the president bypassing Congress to impose regulations that permanently diminish the oil and coal industries, which just happen to be located largely in Appalachia and around the Gulf of Mexico, not look like the very "tyranny" they speak of?
The point of the budget was to include compromises so that an agreement could eventually be reached with Republicans. That's why he includes cuts to social security and Medicare. Going all out on climate change would have undermined Obama's strategy. I guess the question is: Why are we even still hoping the US government is going to do something?
I gave up on Obama in 2010.
We can and will move forward without his help. He might eventually catch up, or maybe not.
As Mr. Obama presides over the most rapid upward redistribution of wealth (QE to the n) in US history, so he presides over climate inaction as the Arctic summer ice disappears. What a legacy!
It would mean that he would have more flexibility and precedent to enact Presidential directives and designate monies.
Executive Order #1)
Instant freeze on all new public lands and offshore leasing for fossil fuel exploration & development
Executive Order #2)
No HUD/FEMA mortgages to be issued on homes that fail an energy conservation inspection; Also, even if they pass the inspection no HUD/FEMA mortgages to be issued based on appraissals that do not factor in the realistic price of energy over the life of the loan.
Executive Order #3)
Train the underemployed as Deep-Energy Retrofit personnel, and turn 'em loose in town across America. Cheaper than simply giving out aide.
Does everyone has to explain to you what life is about?
We simply cannot go on with "business as usual," and now is the time to transition to clean energy innovation and jobs. This means moving the subsidies from fossil fuels in this new direction.
For a well-informed layman's short course on how best to address global warming, see the excellent PowerPoint presentations by award-winning scientist, Prof. Emeritus Dr. Eric Grimsrud, at http://ericgrimsrud.com/short-course_281.html
Yes,we cannot afford spending what little time there is left trying to squeeze a flush out of stacked political deck. We don't have to wait for the KXL decision to know that Obama is not an honest dealer.
Define it as you like, the climate movement has no publicly recognized leadership or credible authority. Incremental direct actions don't suffice. Big green organizations pursuing independent campaigns has not been effective.
The most effective move to clarify the issues for the public and take Obama to task for his undermining inaction, IMHO, is for a broad alliance of leading organizations to facilitate a major, all-media State of the Climate address to the nation by climate scientists…supported by leaders in policy, business & finance, the military, mayors, congress, communities and all the other stakeholders whose voices need to be heard.
Such a bold move to take control of public discourse might light up Obama's imagination about what's possible to do politically, but the main objective would be to step around his prevarications (and the lies form industry) and deliver the truth to the public, to the voters.
This would require a grand alliance, inspired collaboration, and, importantly, a convening organization. It would mark a serious willingness –outside of government– to defend the science and the urgency to act. It would make it impossible for the MSM to avoid it's obligation to front-page the issues.
The President is actually, willfully acting against climate progress. We lead or we fail.
How does he face his children? Surely they teach about climate change at a fancy school like Sidwell Friends. I think they even have energy and environment-saving projects. How does he face them in light of the future that his own agencies predict?
Joe, – What's clearly happening here is that Obama, or the White House, is softening up the public for a major let-down. Instead of coming out straight and telling us that he's not going to do anything for climate change, he's trying to lower our expectations in advance so that we don't feel too let down when he eventually tells us he has nothing, he's got nothing, he's a tool of the fossil fuel empire and he won't speak unless they tell him what to say.
This is not the Obama that America voted into office, but it's increasingly apparent that it's the Obama that America is learning more terrible things about every day. He appears unable to grasp the nettle and do things within his power, regardless of Congress, to help save humanity from total oblivion within a couple of centuries. If he wanted to, he could act, but it looks like he's just not prepared to do anything meaningful. If this goes on, he will go down in history as the worst president the United States of America ever had.
I watch him closely and all I see is an idiot actor delivering his lines with absolutely no conviction, no interest in the outcome, like a ventriloquist's dummy. It is pathetic, and scary too, because action on climate is so incredibly important now, we are heading fast into the abyss from where there is no return. Why doesn't he do something? Doesn't he want to be remembered for being good, honest, principled, magnificent? Or is he happy to settle for the big payout when he goes off into retirement, never to be mentioned again in polite company and written out of the history books as a complete and total failure, the worst president the US has ever known? Those are his choices, and it looks like he's picking the worst of them, damning himself and his beautiful wife and family to bad press for the rest of their sorry wasted lives.
Coilin MacLochlainn
Matt Owens at Fairfax Climate Watch has a petition with the White House to get Obama to address climate change.
It took five years for this 'scoop' to penetrate the obdurate skull of the New Yorker hack. Not bad. Of course, at Fox Noise and the other outlets of the Murdoch Sewer Empire, the cranial carapaces are thicker yet-so dense that there is no room left for brains. Weird..or what?
I agree. That silence, of the wolves, is one of the reasons I think that the power elite are allowing this crisis to occur. Of course one must then wonder why, as it is plain that climate destabilisation and ocean acidification will be impossible to 'ride out', but perhaps they are just insane.
No capitalist economy is, has ever been or can ever be, a 'democracy' in other than sham form. A law of nature as ineluctable as gravity or entropy.
That is Plan Obama. Talk a great talk, lots of noble rhetoric, head held slightly to one side, looking aloft, at the peroration, as if receiving Divine Wisdom, Guidance and Blessing all at once. Or perhaps, given Obama's prodigious self-regard, exchanging such gifts with the All High. Then, back to mundane reality, and there are Hope Fiends to be disappointed, yet again, also integral to the Plan. Suddenly all the lofty words and thoughts evaporate as a mist of forgotten dreams under the cruel sun of obligation, the duty that every puppet owes his puppeteers, who, if he turns out a naughty marionette, can cut his strings as swiftly and unflinchingly as the Moirae.
No. Pretty soon he starts actively getting in the way. All in Plan Obama.
Well said, but total oblivion is not centuries away-it is mere decades away.
You can't give up on something you never really intended to address in the first place. Civil disobedience is the only recourse now.
From the National Community Action Foundation:
Three years ago, the Administration was pushing for $6.5 billion in funding for weatherization. The program was a poster child for the green economy, a shining example of a career path for entering into the field of energy efficiency, energy conservation, and healthy communities. Congress settled on $5 billion funding for the program. Despite early hurdles the Weatherization network, primarily Community Action Agencies, met most of the goals of the program. To repay these efforts, the Administration requested $135 million in their FY 2013 budget.
This year, the Budget provides $184 million for the Weatherization Assistance Program. Although this figure is 20% lower than 2008, WAP funding, the year before ARRA [Recovery Act].
Obama may be just plain scared, fearing violence if he steps out too far, and thinking it would make no difference, because things are too far gone.
So, he may think, why accelerate the crisis? Why appear to precipitate chaos, when nature will deliver the chaos soon enough? At least, with time, he can hope for a miracle.
I don't think he's in the pocket of the vested interests. He can't figure a way to outmaneuver them without triggering the very social crisis he might hope to prevent.
The old solar panels that were yanked off of the White House roof by Ronald Reagan are still around. The college that now owns them would be glad to donate them back to the White House.
I don't know about the New Yorker piece, but this post fails to lay out what one might have expected or hoped for of significance in the budget. I agree that the EPA reductions are a bad thing. But the real issues that Obama has control over are Keystone and the regulation of existing power plants. Does this budget affect those? If so, how?
Is it even relevant whether the President writes a budget or not? ME
President Obama remains perfectly mute on the subject in lieu of his announcement to approve the Keystone XL pipeline
Just as with a declaration of war there will be no going back when the transition starts.
And, nothing is too big to fail.
It's better than the alternative, the Ryan budget. Can a compromise be reached so that the deficit is addressed? I think that is what this is about. Obama doesn't like his own budget. Why would we like it? A budget we liked would be dead on arrival.
So Obama is a deadbeat. Ignore him as best we can. Work for individual congressional candidates where it makes a difference. De-elect the know-nothings.
And when that fails?
You could be right. I don't think of Obama as an evil establishment puppet. However, I do think of him as vetted in some sense — by the Powers That Be at Harvard, if nowhere else. Certainly no one will be able to muster the financial support to win the presidency who really wants to take on the oil companies, insurance companies and so on. If such a candidate did arise, and was actually closing in on the presidency, it is doubtful he/she would live long.
Also, in fairness to Obama, you have to realize that even most climate scientists still don't "get it" when they talk about the climate crisis. Most are still referring to 2ºC as some kind of realistic target, even though it's pretty clear, especially after the big Arctic meltdown, that a rise of even one degree is two high.
But Obama wouldn't necessarily know that. Less than a year ago, most observers figured we had a decade or two to get our act together to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Little half steps such as the auto fleet fuel standards would be enacted in time to make a difference. Very few foresaw that we were already at the brink, and certainly no one has told Obama.
So rather than thinking of him as just another corporate shill like Inhofe, I think of him as just another fool in the hill. After he leaves office, he'll watch things fall apart and ask why his advisors didn't tell him to take meaningful action when there still might have been time for it to make any difference.
Yes. According to the U.S. Constitution, the President must submit a budget to Congress every year, and that is the official budget that is debated and voted on. Paul Ryan's budget is just a proposal — it has no legal status, though aspects of it can be offered as amendments to the President's "official" budget.
Thanks Philip, ME
For some unaccountable reason, probably pig ignorance, I had a vague idea it was the House, ME
And he does that by ruling out all options that might be considered victory, before the fight even starts, and then surrendering to the Republicans at the first sign of any second-rate success.
This is a pretty common tactic for mainstream journalists: make some old story seem fresh by pretending nobody knew about it until they came up with the idea. I have the greatest respect for Bill Moyers but he used to pull this all the time on PBS: reporting stories Pacifica Radio had been reporting for a year, and others had sniffed out a year before that. It has to do with having different audiences. Mainstream America, meaning that part of North America owned by white people who aren't Canadians, hasn't got a clue. But you can't tell it that; it just ticks people off.
The only thing that surprises me is that even people here somehow hung onto the idea that Obama might do something liberal in any realm and at any time after his first week as a Senator.
Of course the only answer is civil disobedience. That's been clear since the first worst president in history, Bush the Lesser. (as opposed to our current president, Bush III, aka Herb, as Molly Ivins no doubt would call him if she were still around.)
As recently posted on Climate Progress it is good that US companies representing nearly one-half $trillion in business understand the gravity of the situation.
They seem to have a hint that in many instances they will have to make difficult decisions to cannibilize their markets to transition to industries that understand the life-and-death importance of working intimately with the natural world that supports us; and that we must partake the chaotic journey through undiscovered country driven by creative destruction to a place we as of yet we know not where.
And, most likely we will still prevail.
This provides substantive conceptual agreement and support to The President and Congress that we most move forward combatting climate change at wartime speed.
As it is spring in New York City — and America — and the rollout is just beginning of the world's largest bike share which is early-stage net zero transit — many years in the making and a most meager example of many more important things to come.
3 Ways to Unlock Climate Finance
Playing golf while the planet burns.
Obama recognized the Climate Change scam long ago as did everyone that has one working brain cell. He moved on the gun control as it may be better to keep attention off of the most important thing that he is failing hugely – Economy and Foreign Policy.
It's kind of obvious by your post that you're including yourself as a member of the one working brain cell group.
"How does he face his children?" And, how do the GOP leaders in Congress face their grandchildren? I don't buy the crass political explanations at the expense of close family. The only scenario that makes any sense to me is that they have been informed by the CIA and Pentagon that we have gone over the climate cliff, and it is beyond repair, so action would be meaningless.
I don't buy the 'insane' explanation. Whenever I see a scenario that appears completely irrational, and our response to climate change fits that model, I ask myself 'what is the scenario that would make these chaotic events appear rational'. What would your 'rational' scenario be?
I would achieve some clarity… for that is what were in.
For one, it would achieve some clarity and acceptance of reality… for that is what were in.
Obama is a woos.
I feel the missing solar panels on the White House roof make a better and more important issue than they look at first sight. One, it's a clear promise not kept. Two, carrying it out is undoubtedly within the President's executive powers. Three, panels would a highly visible sign of commitment and a down payment on "If they won't act, I will."
So let's have a "raise that roof" campaign!
You know, ME, maybe I'm wrong. I was thinking about this last night, after I posted my comment. I know the Constitution requires the President to give the State of the Union address, and I thought the budget was required as well. (The House generally finalizes and approves the budget.) I'll check it out, and apologizes if my assumption, from high school civics 50 years ago, turns out the be wrong.
Ah, here's the real answer: I was partly right, partly wrong. The President is required to present a budget, but not by the Constitution per se:
(from http://www.answers.com/topic/does-the-constitution-mandate-a-federal-budget)
Although the Constitution does not require the president to present an annual budget, in 1921 the Budget and Accounting Act became law and laid the foundation for the modern budget process, which includes the president's budget. More recently, the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 established a timetable for the annual budget process, which is kicked off each year by the presidential budget submission. The Budget Act specifies that the president's budget should be presented to Congress on or before the first Monday in February, which generally coincides with the timing of the president's annual State of the Union Address.
Additionally, the Constitution says this about the Bugget:
All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
So you were right about that, but the process has been modified to have the budget initiated by the executive.
So who's the Pig Ignorant American this time around?
Having read various responses to my enquiry about what a state of emergency would achieve, I feel it is time to pitch in a few suggestions of my own now…
first, we are looking at climate change in isolation—like always, when in fact we are faced with climate change, overpopulation and energy depletion more or less at the same time.
whichever hits first will exacerbate the other two
Berating Obama for not declaring a 'state of emergency' reveals the truth, that most people are afflicted with their own version of tunnel vision. Obama isnt stupid, this isnt a problem that can be fixed by politicians. Neither can it be fixed by insulating homes and turning down thermostats.
There are just too many of us.
The USA is going to get 120m new mouths to feed in the next 40 years, already 14% are on food aid–who is going to feed them? Prayer farms?
a state of emergency wont gropw more food, or pump more oil.
and even if it could, the extra food/oil would give everyone a few more years of false security while more people had more babies.
so declare a state of emergency that stops babies being born—another form of insanity, it can't be done.
so we go on multiplying and expecting politicians to deliver miracles just because they were voted into office.
Again, it cant be done.
our overbreeding is going to stop, and voting for presidents of any colour isnt going to change that.
it is going to be unpleasant, I suggest we get used to that idea.
From a psychological perspective this makes the most sense to me.
The idea that we can make a difference on the future is admirable, however, many of us are becoming more and more fatalist – as Joe would say – as business as usual trucks on.
We're working with very little info. My guess is that the people who have some real data, such as the CIA and the Pentagon, have told him what you have suggested: we are over the cliff. If, in fact, that is the case, what's the point of stirring the pot? How can we get our hands on what the real experts know?
Nice to see this question in Mainstream Media (to an extent), although it is about 4 years too late…since he unlocked the tar sands back in late spring of 2009. Excellent points made throughout Joe…I wish they couldn't be made.
The way forward, it would seem, is in spite of the administration as Bill McKibben as detailed – the Administration's lack of progress on doing things they could easily do (whether its the truly easy solar panels on the White House, or the XL or the newly delayed EPA regulations or previously defanged or eliminated ones) and lack of communication to make this an issue "on the radar screen" is truly disgraceful, considering whats at stake.
You could be very right Philip, but there's a problem with the "he hasn't been told" theory – his science advisor (Holdren) knows the score intimately (he was sounding the alarm about the arctic ice cap melting out early before the first election way back when) – commented about it publicly.
No worries mate and thanks. I know it was designed to be complicated and boy, did they do a good job, ME
Very true Superman1. It would seem the climate scientists are the experts on the climate – but within the administration and those other areas of government you highlight, there's no information.
Hopefully we'll find out after 2016…just for the record if nothing else.
I have often wondered if (another theory) he was told shortly after getting into office that despite the new oil shale production tech, world oil production will start declining within a decade (possibly rapidly) devastating the economy, our battery tech isn't ready for a conversion to plugins at this point – so he pitches climate change over the side and goes for all in energy policy with as much local oil production as possible (approved first tar sands in 2009) and natural gas while tightening mpg ratings ect,.
Faith that Mother Nature will get the general population ever more tuned in to the necessity and immediacy needed to act on climate change, bringing about success (in time is another question) with this last lever to force action on climate change.
It's all we've got at this point, so we have to make it work.
Phillip I think this is something that has changed in the last decades (since Nixon I believe).
Previously the President would present the budget and then the House would work with and modify it. That was changed after the Watergate scandal I think.
Now the President can present a budget, but the House can completely disregard it (as it normally does) and create their own from scratch. Probably not a good change in hindsight but it is the way it is now.
Solar cells on top of the White House would probably be the most meaningless gesture possible. It would be the ultimate sign of weakness – that is why they are not there.
We have been hearing the same thing for decades, and it has not panned out for a reason.
"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
-Richard Feynman-
That the ruling global elites, who we know have long discussed and planned global population reduction, have decided on a Malthusian option, driven by ecological collapse, to be rid of the billions of 'useless eaters' that they fear and despise.
Precisely. The pattern is plain by now and doesn't vary much.
Although I might dream of Obama tackling growth addiction head-on, that ain't gonna happen. No one is even talking about it yet!
Obama is a smart guy, and knows that solving massive problems means…. taking the first steps. You are awfully quick to diss my list of instant-executive orders.
Note that Apollo 11 didn't just land on the moon. Apollo 10 first orbited the moon. Long before that, the prez set the nation's sights on that target, and that rousing speech is part of our cultural mythos.
Where o Where o Where's Obama?
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Way down yonder in do-nothing land!
Sorry pyeatte, but if you are ignorant of the rapid collapses in so many biospheres, the rapid destabilisation of the global climate, the rapid acidification of the oceans, the spread of anoxic 'dead-zones', the biodiversity crisis that represents a sixth great extinction event, the general toxification of the planet through multiple pollution crises etc, then you are really a bit too ignorant to be making pompous pronouncements, and you are definitely not fit to abuse Feynman's reputation by using one of his quotes, out of context, to promote your silly denialism.
Actually that is how we will know of the escalation. Because climate change calamities can only be controlled if they are ignored and relabeled as weather events. So the next Frankenstorm like Sandy will be a freak storm, and in 6 months, everyone will forget. This will buy them a few more years. Enough to plunder more from selling carbon fuel.
Media will stay the same, even tighten up. Already the stories on US based web sites differs greatly from European sites. Mostly video. Expect to see more difference No need to control text, cause nobody reads it. Just video.
Mark E
The Apollo program is a blind alley in terms of human endeavour, though many in government and science point to it as an example of what man is capable of.
Which is of course true.
But any journey where you only bring back souvenirs and photographs is called a vacation.
Others point to the effort expended to win WW2,
or the first solo flight across the Atlantic
or the wright brothers
I could go on, but you get the drift.
Clever stuff, but all those had a common thread, without which none of them would have been possible
That is exploding chemicals.
The Wright brothers and the Apollo program both used the same propulsive force to get clear of gravity. More complex technology obviously, but the same force
Humanity in general has used the same forces to grow food, expand population and burn yet more fuel to overheat the planet, which is where we are right now
we need those energy forces to sustain our infrastructure, Without that our lifestyle falls apart, and no 'emergency measures' are going to stop that
'growth addiction' means fuelburning and that is what keeps everybody employed. You cannot make anything without heat input
our 'economy' is like riding a bike, stop and you fall off.
unfortunately we are all addicted to wheels
My advice to President Obama :
1. Switch the Tuesday morning meetings with the "kill list" agenda, to some time other than Tuesday morning; Maybe once a month would be sufficient;
2. Use Tuesday mornings to work on a new "kill CO2 emissions" list instead.
Also there are the experts with world backing that wondered if they would be allowed to just leave the US after being so bold as to say the current state of feedback mechanisms within the US at the White House. They at first thought to be so bold as to tell the truth to all of the audience. Just looking at probable scenario.
Hopefully this critique of The President's inaction will create the case that serious and urgent action on accelerating climate change is long overdue.
The Achilles heel of capitalism or corporate obstructionism, regardless of whether they have bought the government, is informed consumers boycotting products. That is seems to me is the only way forward. Even the most rapacious of shareholders will demand positive change if profits are disappearing.
The White House has the bestest storm shelter. And the new Presidental Library will probable have the second bestest storm shelter for if some weather event happens while they are looking at the postage stamps used on the letters from the scientists.
Problem is, you mention population control to the right they think you are the satanic abortionist from hell, or hate Catholicism, or don't want to be fruitful and multiply. Mention it to the left, and your a racist because the burgeoning populations are in the "developing" world.
Of course, that's not everybody on the ideological spectrum, but its a majority. Nobody talks about it anymore…
Reality is not very kind to scripts; perhaps a wrench might be thrown into the gears of atmospheric apocalypse:
1). Huge global depression brought about by Chinese real estate bubble and endless Wall Street "finalization";
2). Series of E-5 twisters turn Major East-or West-cities into hives of glass shrapnel;
3). Vicious trans-species virus becomes communicable via humans and by rapid mutation
resist any efforts to immunize–airborne black death crashing global economy;
4). Climate change declared existential threat by military, resulting in coup and
CO2 reduction by gun-barrel reasoning.
In other words, other worst-case-scenarios, might deliver us-albeit temporarily-from bituminous suicide…
NEXT? Let the Joint Chiefs of Staff reiterate that AGW is our greatest threat to national security.
Based on that, spend a sizable portion of the defense budget setting up wind/solar farms to avert the worst consequences.
How? Did WWII procurement officers/procedures wait for the "free market" to choose the best warplanes, tanks and ships? NO. So, let the bidding commence!
Tell the timid souls among us: No three countries could match even half our current navy/air supremacy, so don't crucify our planet on more and more traditional war materials, our iron cross (as Ike called it)
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A new, young dragon under work. I will paint it with fabric paints and attach wings, maybe I put also some more things to it.
Its about 62 cm long and more like "prototype"-plushie.
I have made already a baby dragons [link] with same methods.
Its about 62 cm long and more like "prototype"-plushie.
I have made already a baby dragons [link] with same methods.
Can you send me a pattern please i really wont oh and add instructions on how to make cause i is a horrible sewer
you dont mind if i use the smaller dragon pattern and modify a bit do you ???
Lol I've never tried makin a plushie before, it looks like a lot of fun! I might try it!
do you put wire in the wings?
i love your plushies! what kind of material do you use?
Very thin and flexible fabric
thanks ^^ i've been wanting to make a plush for sometime but i wasn't sure on where to start or what material to use
wow i love it i need a dragon pattern and i seen this one but i dont know if its a good one? so is it?
If you will ever sell this, I WANT IT. ITS EPICLY AWESOMLEY AWESOME.
What fabric do you use to make these? I wanna try to make one even if it will look like I made it while being maced.
little tutorial please?
it's making me think at a fetus....
Neat to see the process!
O.o how...? Can you please send me the pattern you used for this I wanna make one ^^ its sooooo cute
That is sOOOO CUTE!!!
You should totally sell customized ones!
You should totally sell customized ones!
I personally think you should start making these and selling customized ones. I would love to see you try your hand on my dragon character personally. hehe. But these are cute, and the finished products are amazing!
wow thats so kool!!!
These are stunning! Do you take plushie Commissions?
Awww. How cool!
Do mass produce these, I want one!
wow you doing them really well! I liek it
Eee, so cute. I myself, am partial to white Dragons with red eyes. Don't know why... XD
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Skip to comments.Little Falls Man Found Guilty On All Four Counts Of Murder
Posted on 04/29/2014 1:57:58 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
LITTLE FALLS, Minn. (AP/WCCO) The Little Falls, Minn. man who shot and killed two teenagers after they broke into his home has been found guilty of all four counts of premeditated murder. After roughly three hours of deliberation, the jury found 65-year-old Byron Smith guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder for the shooting deaths of 18-year-old Haile Kifer and 17-year-old Nick Brady.
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Sad story but the verdict was justified........
More likely prescription pills OD.
That was their 'thing'. (And stealing.)
No surprise here...This guy was clearly a ding.
Absolutely. This was an easy verdict to find.
How is he guilty of two counts of different degrees of murder on the same persons?
Four counts...two people killed?
What's slightly disturbing in this case, is so many felt what he did was totally reasonable and rational.
It was anything but reasonable and rational.
Where did the audio recording come from? 911?
It would be hard to prove pre-meditated murder in this case unless he had them tied up and subdued, and then decided not to wait on the cops.
Having intruders possibly armed and roaming your house is a threat to life and property.
I am truly shocked at the verdict. What am I missing?
Unless I'm missing something very important here murder one is far,far too harsh.Some time in prison,yah OK....but not anywhere *near* life.I doubt I would have voted for anything more than Reckless Endangerment under the circumstances.
He had laid it all out as a trap for the teens: hid his car, and read a book while waiting for them. He shot them each about six times with a rifle, one after the other. He could have easily captured them or had the police set up a trap but clearly he wanted them dead. That's premeditated murder.
Same way George Zimmerman hunted Saint Trayvon down and killed him.
Where did the audio recording come from? 911?
The killer set up an audio recorder to capture the killings on tape. Classy.
I am a bit surprised, but a lot of evidence was excluded in this trial. I think a more correct verdict would have been manslaughter. Just my two cents worth.
The two deceased teenagers were going to either die from some irate homeowner, or spend a lot of time in jail as they were involved in multiple felonies with no signs of remorse, nor showed any intention of reforming their behavior.
As for Byron Smith, he seemed to be a bit unbalanced in his plan of action. He had no need to go so far as to execute the perps. Still, he may have been indeed scared for his life and behaving under extreme duress during the actual events. He does belong in jail, however.
After you are shot and lying on the ground begging for your life and your killer pulls another gun and shoots you under your chin, I hope to have the opportunity to remind him that he was reckless in ending your life.
Yep. It was cold and calculated murder. He killed them after they were no longer a threat to him.
He shot them both and after he determined they were unarmed, he killed them. Then he waited a day to call the cops. You think THAT is reasonable?
Maybe not totally *rational* but totally *understandable*.Ninety nine times out of a hundred the outcome in a scenario like that is that the law abiding *homeowner* is murdered by the *teenage punks*.
It *was* totally rational for the homeowner to *fear* that one or both of the punks were armed and fear can,*totally* understandably,lead to irrational acts.
If I ever decide to start breaking into dwellings I'm gonna assume that the residents will be *very* fearful.And if,in their fear,they use their Smith & Wesson to shatter my aorta I'll know that I had it coming.
If I told you what you're missing you'd be quite offended, so I won't.
Unless you're in some brutal war zone where ya can't take prisoners, ya don't execute those who are clearly down, severely wounded and no longer a threat.
I'm not losing any sleep over any idiot in this fiasco.
Might I politely suggest you research this event before "understanding" anything this man did once the 2 were incapacitated and presented no further threat to him.
Well,ya know...in my 60+ years on this planet I've never been present in a dwelling...or *any* structure for that matter...without the consent of someone who was legally empowered to grant me permission to enter and remain.So your scenario has never popped up in my life.
But who knows...Osama Obama just might do enough damage to this nation's economy that I might be forced to begin breaking and entering.And if I do I'll always entertain the possibility of a *really* bad outcome for me.
Let me guess the composition of the jury.
"Before retiring from the U.S. State Department, Smith worked on technical security issues for American embassies, such as building layout and alarms."
He may have thought he swim away since he was "almost a cop" in his former job.
Never mind. I thought the guy had shot them when he was in imminent danger of death or severe injury. Appears that is not so.
Not THIS scenario! The homeowner was waiting for them, the kids were unarmed, and the kids were subsequently executed by the homeowner who had everything carefully planned........
How anyone, including you, could actually defend this act is beyond my comprehension........
"He may have thought he swim away since he was "almost a cop" in his former job. "
- Huh?
So why was it necessary to bring up Obama as a ridiculous attempt to support the killing of these two kids?
You can do better than that......
"About 10 minutes later, Kifer came downstairs. More shots are heard on the recording.."
The article states,as quoted above,that Keifer "came downstairs".Was he carried downstairs? Did he use a walker? An electric wheelchair? Where's the evidence that he was "incapacitated" as he was coming down the stairs? If,by chance,I should ever find you in my house without my permission I promise you that I will assume that you're a deadly threat to me and mine and will act accordingly.And,in the opposite situation,I'll expect you to take the same attitude.And we both know that you,understandably,will do *exactly* that.
Now he'll have time to reflect on what he did.
Had he simply unloaded into the perps I would agree with you. The problem is he walked up to the girl and shot her in the head point blank. That indicates that he no longer felt threatened by her but decided to kill her anyway. At that point the killing became revenge instead of defense and all the preparations he made (moving his car, setting up the recorder, moving the male's body so the female couldn't see it from the stairs) look like premeditation of that revenge killing.
On top of all this, what I have read indicates that he never tried to claim he killed them in the heat of the moment, only that he felt threatened and was therefore justified.
The first shots he fired were fatal, and he chose not to call 911, which is murder in the second degree.
He then followed up with deliberate killshots, which is murder in the first degree.
Wow, you have perfect omniscience.
I guess you, like Byron Smith, also have the right to play God.
From Post #31:
"If,by chance,I should ever find you in my house without my permission I promise you that I will assume that you're a deadly threat to me and mine and will act accordingly.And,in the opposite situation,I'll expect you to take the same attitude.And we both know that you,understandably,will do *exactly* that."
*That* is how can defend it....largely defend it,that is.As I suggested earlier I could probably vote guilty on a charge that would get him 6 months in the can...or a few years probation but *nothing* more.
Cops do it all the time. It's called speed traps.
Where's the evidence that he was "incapacitated" as he was coming down the stairs?
She was not incapacitated as she started down the stairs.
It was after she was shot in the gut and fell to the bottom of the stairs that she was incapacitated.
Then he walked over to her and fired two more shots into her chest as she was lying collapsed at the bottom of the stairs.
Then he rolled her onto a tarp.
Then he moved her off of the carpet.
Then he went into the next room and got another weapon.
Then he leaned over her while she was gasping for air, and fired a round underneath her chin while he whispered "b!tch" in her face.
It was all the activity after she was gutshot that happened while she was incapacitated.
Like I suggested, you might want to inform yourself about this case.
Kifer is the girl...and as was determined, he laid a trap for them...shot them in the lower torso as they came down the stairs...once he had them both incapacitated, he executed them...one in the face and the other in the chest and under the chin.
Sorry, but laying in wait is premeditation...
His actions were neither reasonable or justified once they were down...he executed them and left them to lie for a day before calling police.
The important part of that sentence came *after* my having referred to Osama Obama....
"Let me guess the composition of the jury."
I am uncertain as to what you are implying. Morrison County is nearly 100% white, with a population who are mostly descendants of Germans, Poles, and French Canadians. There may be some others who could have been on the jury, such as a Native American of the Ojibway/Chippewa Tribe. But, basically the folks in Little Falls area are a typical rural Midwestern group of people.
Summary execution?
A number of details.
He parked his truck several blocks away and turned off all his lights, because he was sure the intruders only entered homes they were certain were empty of people. He also bought tarps to use as shrouds before he moved his truck.
He rearranged the furniture in his basement so he could fire from concealment, and he stayed in his hiding place with his cameras, food, drink, and reading material for at least six hours.
While he was waiting he had audiotape running, in which he could be heard practicing what he would say to the police and to his lawyer.
He had the intruders under video surveillance before they entered the home, and watched them for a long time searching for valuables, which he had already secured down in the basement.
He did not call the police.
When the first teen came down the basement stairs, he fired at him from cover. After he went down, he walked over to the gutshot teen and said calmly: "you're dead" and then fired a killing blow. Then he wrapped him up in a tarp and hid his body in the next room, went back to his hiding place and waited for the girl.
When she came to the top of the stairs and called the boy's name, he shot her and she fell down the stairs. He walked up to her and calmly said: "Oh, so sorry about that." Then he shot her twice more in the chest.
Then he wrapped her up in a tarp while she was still breathing.
He went into the next room and got a new weapon, and then took a minute to place a gun under her chin and whisper abuse to her before he finished her off.
Then he made himself some dinner, watched some TV and went to sleep. The next morning he got up, went about his usual routine and asked his neighbor if he knew a good lawyer.
His neighbor called the police, not Smith. He just sat there with bodies in his house for over 24 hours.
Byron Smith was convicted by the evidence he himself had gathered with his recording equipment. This recording established a timeline for each shot he fired and proved that he not only ambushed those kids but he then executed them as they lay wounded in his home. But not for the recorded evidence, he could have sworn that they came down the stairs together, they pointed an object at him he thought was a gun, he feared for his life, he fired until he ran out of bullets, and he could have stuck to that story with no one alive to contradict it.
Mr. Smith committed several crimes here and he was stupid enough to record himself doing it, so in my humble opinion he fully deserves the sentence he received.
But he made the prosecution's job supremely easy.
Sven,Ole,Lena, and the Lindbergs.
You obviously know absolutely nothing at all about the case but ignorantly make statements
that continue to support this fact. Listen to him in his own words during questioning. Read the accounts of the situation before making any further statements. To do otherwise simply keeps you ignorant of the facts of the case.
Ill go one further...the next time a cop responds to a b/e and the perp is subdued and the cop puts a shot into the skull of said perp I expect u to fully defend that cop. The perp broke the law right? Deserves what they got?
The verdict should have been either one or the other, but not both. The judge's instructions were faulty. It can't be both. The jury was supposed to determine guilt or not guilty, and if guilty, degree of guilt. They punted. Ergo, prima facie there is reasonable doubt about guilt. This is eminently appealable.
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10. Add remaining sieved ingredients and mix to form cookie dough.
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Scripture: 2Chronicles (NIV) 20:29 The fear of God came on all the surrounding kingdoms when they heard how the LORD had fought against the enemies of Israel.
30 And the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was at peace, for his God had given him rest on every side
Observation: Israel's enemies had a problem. If they were going to defeat Israel, they would have to defeat Israel's God. Israel's God was not made out of wood and stone like their gods. He did not have to be carried around like their gods. Israel's God fought for Israel. They could not attack Israel because they could not defeat Israel's God. Israel had peace.
Application: It is good for people to hear about what God is doing in my life. It can be a testimony to help them to trust God for what He can do in their lives. It is good for me when people hear what God is doing in my life. Some will rejoice with me and be willing to help. Others will see that hindering me is really working against what God is doing.
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Morning Meeting
Morning Meeting is a
regular part of our preschool day. It's primary purpose is to be a time of
community building. We have a special group meeting area in our classroom
at our big rug. The rug sits in front of the large dry erase board in
my room. Each child has his or her own spot to sit at the rug. My rug has
pictures around the edges so it makes it easy for me to direct the children
is they are not on their spot. I a\can simply say, "Joey sit on the
bike" and Joey knows he needs to go back to his spot, it is very
Here we gather to
"greet" each other and carryout other components of the morning
meeting. Our greeting consists of either a hello song, a hand shake, or a
name game.
We choose a "star
student" every day. I have all the kid's names written on "Star
Student Stickers." The kids do a "drum roll" and then I just pull one
out each day. When we get through everyone we start again.
That student is like the
special helper for the day. For example, they get to be the line leader,
and go first to wash hands for snacks.
At the
start of the week we have a "letter" in the mailbox. (I use the
blue Step Two mailbox.) In it is our spotlight letter. I just put a letter
from a bulletin board set and then we add it to our "Word
Wall." This is our modified version of "Letter of the
Week." We talk briefly about the letter and what it's sound is and
what it looks like. However, most of our letter learning happens in the
context of our daily activities and doesn't just focus on one letter, but
on the letters that are most meaningful to the children... For example,
like the letters in their names.
Then we read the
morning message. Our morning message usually informs the students about
our day or asks a question for them to think about and share their responses
with each other. I like to use this as a way to engage the children in
activities that help them learn more about each other. I might ask
questions like, "What is your favorite color?", or "How
many letters are in your name?"
The second half of our week the star student gets to find
the letter bucket for the spotlight letter and we look at all the things
in the bucket that start with that letter. (We have the alphabet buckets
that Lakeshore Learning sells.) Here we are really focusing on
"hearing the sounds" of the letter and discriminating it from
other sounds. Often the children will call an item something different but
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Kloppenburg 153;Bradley 264
Hruz 358
Daniel Rettler 381
Kathy Pasch 269;Andy Gleason 261; John Minlschmidt 279
Greg Leisgang 222;Jeff Crooks 158;Kurt Peterson 198
Melissa Heins 344
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The following items will now require a green label you can purchase from the Clerks office for the following items: $15 per monitor &TV (must be under 32"); $10 per computer, lap top and printer/scanner/fax machines; $5 per VCR/DVD and mouse/keyboard.
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Definición de by en inglés:
1.1After a passive verb: the door was opened by my cousin Annie damage caused by fire
through the agency of, by means of, under the aegis of, using, utilizing, employing, with the help of, with the aid of, as a result of, because of, by dint of, by way of, by virtue of, via, through
4Indicating a deadline or the end of a particular time period: I've got to do this report by Monday by now Kelly needed extensive physiotherapy
no later than, in good time for, at, before
5Indicating location of a physical object beside a place or object: remains were discovered by the roadside the pram was by the dresser
next to, beside, next door to, alongside, by/at the side of, abreast of, adjacent to, cheek by jowl with, side by side with;
near, close to, hard by, nearest to, neighbouring, adjoining, abutting, bordering, overlooking;
connected to, connecting with, contiguous with, attached to
5.1Past and beyond: I drove by our house
past, in front of, beyond
7Concerning; according to: anything you do is all right by me she had done her duty by him
according to, with, as far as … is concerned, concerning
So as to go past: a car flashed by on the other side of the road he let only a moment go by
past, on, along, beyond
sustantivo (plural byes)
variant spelling of bye1.
by and by
- Before long; eventually.Sinónimoseventually, ultimately, finally, in the end, as time goes on/by, one day, some day, sooner or later, in time, in a while, after a bit, in the long run, in the fullness of time, at a later time, at a later date, at length, at a future time/date, at some point in the future, in the future, in time to come, in due course
by hokey
- NZ informal An exclamation used for emphasis or to express emotions such as surprise, anger, or distress: by hokey, it will have been worth itMás ejemplos en oraciones
- By hokey, we mean to hold this government accountable one way or the other.
- We'll surely all die of skin cancer in the years to come, but by hokey, it will have been worth it.
- By hokey, she gives an excellent analysis of his article in this morning's Post.
by and large
- On the whole; everything considered: mammals have, by and large, bigger brains than reptilesOriginally in nautical use, describing the handling of a ship both to the wind and off itSinónimoslargely, mostly, mainly, to a large extent, to a great extent, to a great degree, on the whole, chiefly, generally, in general, predominantly, substantially, primarily, overall, for the most part, in the main, principally, in great measure, preponderantly, first and foremost, for all intents and purposes, basically;usually, typically, commonlyon the whole, generally, in general, altogether, all things considered, all in all, taking everything into consideration, for the most part, in the main, as a rule, overall, usually, normally, ordinarily, almost always, customarily, habitually, typically, mainly, mostly, basically, chiefly, predominantly, principally, substantially;on average, in most cases, on balance, to all intents and purposes
- 5
by way of
- see way.
1Alone: she lives in the apartment by herself
alone, all alone, on one's own, in a solitary state, singly, separately, solitarily, unaccompanied, companionless, partnerless, unattended, unescorted, unchaperoned, solo
informal by one's lonesome
British informal on one's tod, on one's lonesome, on one's jack, on one's Jack Jones
2Unaided: the patient often learns to undress by himself
unaided, unassisted, without help, without assistance, by one's own efforts, under one's own steam, independently, single-handed(ly), solo, on one's own, alone, all alone, off one's own bat, on one's own initiative
Old English bī, bi, be, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bij and German bei.
Palabras que riman con byally, Altai, apply, assai, awry, ay, aye, Baha'i, belie, bi, Bligh, buy, bye, bye-bye, chi, Chiangmai, Ciskei, comply, cry, Cy, Dai, defy, deny, Di, die, do-or-die, dry, Dubai, dye, espy, eye, fie, fly, forbye, fry, Frye, goodbye (US goodby), guy, hereby, hi, hie, high, I, imply, I-spy, July, kai, lie, lye, Mackay, misapply, my, nearby, nigh, Nye, outfly, passer-by, phi, pi, pie, ply, pry, psi, Qinghai, rai, rely, rocaille, rye, scry, serai, shanghai, shy, sigh, sky, Skye, sky-high, sly, spin-dry, spry, spy, sty, Sukhotai, supply, Tai, Thai, thereby, thigh, thy, tie, Transkei, try, tumble-dry, underlie, Versailles, Vi, vie, whereby, why, wry, Wye, xi, Xingtai, Yantai
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Be'er Sheva Eritrean Yelled "Allahu Achbar" During Terror AttackSaturday, October 24th, 2015
The Eritrean man, Haftom Zarhum, who was shot and killed by a guard during the Be'er Sheva terror attack on October 18, and subsequently attacked by a mob, reportedly yelled out "Allahu Achbar" during the attack, according to the police investigation and witness accounts, Israel Channel 1 reported.
While Islamic terrorists almost always scream "Allahu Achbar" when they are trying to slaughter Jews, Muslims are also known to say it in times of emotional stress.
If accurate, it would explain why the guard mistook the Eritrean man for the terrorist during the attack.
Four people were arrested for beating up Zarhum after he was shot, thinking he was the terrorist.Jewish Press News Briefs


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Washtenaw County High Schools Some Of Michigan's Best By Taylor Pinson • May 19, 2015 courtesy AAPS / Ann Arbor Public Schools The US News and World Report has placed several area schools on its 2015 list of Best High Schools. Cinema Chat: Mad Max, Cinetopia, All Or Nothing, And More! By David Fair & Russ Collins • May 14, 2015 Michigan Theater / michtheater.org Listen Listening... / 9:46 Issues Of The Environment: Pipeline Safety Legislation In Michigan By David Fair • May 14, 2015 Michigan House Democrats If you look at a map of the pipelines that run through the state of Michigan, it resembles a spider-web. They are everywhere, and more on planned and more are being constructed as we speak. As we learned in 2010 when a pipeline burst and polluted portions of the Kalamazoo River system, protection of our waterways may be lacking in some areas. 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City Of Ann Arbor Police Chief To Retire In July By Patrik Holubik • May 7, 2015 Chief of Police John Seto has announced his intention to retire. Cinema Chat: Tomorrowland, Wild Tales, Hot Pursuit, A Year In Champagne And More! By Patrick Campion & Russ Collins • May 7, 2015 courtesy photo / michtheater.org Patrick Campion and Russ Collins on what's playing downtown and around town: Listen Listening... / 9:47 Issues Of The Environment: Making Your Living Spaces Greener, Safer, And More Sustainable By Patrick Campion • May 6, 2015 Wendy Lawrence, nationally-published freelance author from Ann Arbor, discusses how to make a home eco-friendly, green and safe for kids, and what resources are available to parents in Washtenaw County. Listen Listening... / 9:18 Issues of the Environment for May 6, 2015 'Philadelphia' To Bring Laughter To Ann Arbor By Patrik Holubik & Lisa Barry • May 5, 2015 Local, live theater is one of the many benefits of living in Washtenaw County. 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Cole was tried in that position in an early Europa League game last year from memory. He looked clueless.
Left back (in the dressing room) sadly for me but I can understand the need to use the squad for tomorrows game and lets be honest we need to get Cole in the shop window for January.
I'd like to see Morgan get a start and perhaps yesil too if he's ready. Assaidi as well, again if he's ready.
Some tough decisions for Rodgers
I think I may have contradicted myself slightly saying how important the game was and then naming half the under 21's in my squad! I agree with Colin's sentiments that these guys will always be unproven until given a chance to prove themselves, I hope BR is true to his word and lets these guys see if they can claim one of the attacking spots for there own like Sterling seems to have already done. The reason I put so many in is because I really couldn't decide between Ngoo, Morgan, Yessil or Pacheco (the later would perhaps fill a different role though). Maybe even Suso can do a job in an attacking role. Who would want to be manager eh! Your quite right, in reality we will start with more proven players, likely Borini and Assadi, although i'm not sure how 'proven' they are.
Re Cole, I think that attcking midfield spot is up for grabs if Gerrard is going to play further back, as on Saturday. Shelvey impressed in flashes but looked wasteful so why not give Cole a go there. Probably better there than on the left these days.
The way things are at present, do you think you can beat Young Boys?
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I wouldn't srgue much with that side Hobs.
Is Cole fit again after his convenient hamstring problem?
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