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At The North Face, a customer who can afford $599 for a ski jacket tends to regard the brand's satisfaction guarantee as a given, not an extra. "We have an expensive line," notes vp of global product Joe Vernachio. "People perceive us as a quality brand, and we know inherently that the warranty goes into that perception."
As chief marketing officer for the 102-year-old Freeport, Maine-based retailer L.L. Bean, Steve Fuller has had the opportunity to watch how the brand's legendary guarantee (Bean will take back any item, for any reason, anytime after purchase) has operated over his 20-year tenure. Echoing Vernachio, Fuller explains that "the satisfaction guarantee is the very foundation of this brand."
He recounts the company's founding legend of how 90 of the first 100 hunting boots that Leon Leonwood Bean made in 1911 were returned after their rubber soles fell off. On the verge of bankruptcy, Mr. Bean took them all back, refunded customers' money and went back to market with a better boot. To this day, the company continues to use returned products as a kind of R&D lab.
"We go through returns with a fine-tooth comb," Fuller says. "It's common for us to take a bundle of returned jackets and look to see if there's a common failure point"—one that can then be corrected on the production line.
Of course, the idea is to avoid the pile of returns in the first place, and here's where the challenges of the satisfaction guarantee enter the picture. "If you have that guarantee and you stand behind it," Fuller concedes, "it puts tremendous pressure on your product development."
Not everybody wants that kind of pressure. While companies like Lands' End make it clear they'll exchange or refund any item at any time for any reason ("Whatever. Whenever. Always."), reading the fine print of other retailers' return policies reveals varying efforts to hedge the bet a little.
For example, Briggs & Riley luggage will repair any broken or damaged luggage free of charge, even if an airline was at fault, but "naturally, our warranty does not cover cosmetic wear or cleaning," its website stresses. If a customer doesn't happen to like his Acuvue contact lenses, Johnson & Johnson will refund his money—so long as at least 75 percent of a packet of lenses hasn't been used. And while The Snugg, a popular brand of smartphone and tablet cases, promises a lifetime guarantee, it only applies after the product has been registered, does not include clips or swivels, and is voided if the damage was caused by a force majeure, such as a flood or an earthquake.
Small loopholes, granted, but the disqualifiers of other retailers are so big they beg the question of why they even bother to pledge anything.
Take, for example, the lifetime guarantee on Rainbow brand leather sandals, which does not include wear to the sole, torn straps, damage from dog chewing, "skateboard abuse" or, of all things, "any damage as a result of the sandal coming into contact with moisture."
There's a reason for such disclaimers: those consumers who would seek to take advantage of such a policy.
"There are people in Eastern Europe—or maybe Eastern Ohio—who are crooks, who'll exploit the system," Solomon points out. He cites the textbook example of the shopper who buys a gently used shirt on eBay for a few bucks, then returns it to a store for an $80 credit. The ethically challenged consumer ("Those people," as L.L. Bean's Fuller calls them) remains the No. 1 risk of the unconditional guarantee—and everyone interviewed for this story admitted to having to deal with them. "We'll always get those people returning the boots after having them 10 years or buying them secondhand," Bogs' Cook says. "It's an obvious abuse of the policy."
Diane Beecher, CEO of The Brand Consultancy, observes that while upscale brands tend to have customers less likely to abuse guarantees, mass retailers—Kohl's, for example—slap conditions on their policies to keep too many people from returning lightly worn goods. "Liberal return policies are a great traffic generator," Beecher says, "but make for some interesting return scenarios with recently used socks and jeans with scuffed knees but no flaws."
But perhaps surprisingly, those who would seek to exploit satisfaction guarantees are comparatively rare. In the two years Vernachio personally oversaw the warranty department of The North Face, he can recall but one case in which someone was clearly "trying to get a free garment out of us"—and Vernachio went ahead and let him have it. He explains, "I'd rather be taken advantage of than take the risk of accusing a customer, which doesn't get us anywhere."
Naturally, eating a loss is part of the satisfaction-guaranteed game. And it may not even turn out to be a loss.
"It's OK to let a customer slightly take advantage of you from time to time," Solomon says. "It's OK because you're talking with them, and anytime you're talking with them, you could sell them something else."
Fuller agrees. "The small minority of people who abuse [the guarantee] ignores the vast majority of people who get it, and the benefit of treating customers the right way is that they'll reward you—they'll always come back," he says.
It is safe to say that Roy Pearson won't be going back to Custom Cleaners—and not just because he never got his pants back. The judge ruled that a "reasonable consumer" would not consider $54 million to be fair compensation for a bungled alteration job—even with satisfaction guaranteed.


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I've been trying to find a way to turn on the pages links so I can see a pages Navbar on the side. This is just a test blog, but my friends running this group insist on this Newspress theme. Does anyone know if I'm just driving the software wrong, if any "widgets" or things need to be added, or if it's actually the Newspress theme?
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Re: weight lifting...why such different views on it in boxing???????
I'm going to post my personal experience with it, but keep in mind this is just me. I was a fast little kid, running a few miles a week would easily have kept me down near 115 lbs or less if I didn't make an effort to keep muscle on by eating/ cheating on cardio at that time. figting at 118 I was always fast, but I didn't feel that strong or impact resistant. So I took some time off, lifted, gained a little muscle to about 125-128 lbs, and still felt quick, felt more punch resistant, had endurance, and felt stronger than most of the guys at the weight. At that weight I was lifting regularly, just stopping two weeks before any competition.
Fought that way (ams only) for a few years. Then I was training in the gym with a good workout partner without really competing, and I felt very strong, was doing so much weight stuff, never felt limited, and my weight never really got above 130. Then I left all that when I had a travelling job with my wife's family, couldn't work out in the gym, couldn't lift, but I had a fresh supply of blue collar illegal mexicans to spar with on our set up crew for three years. there was no lifting, but I was so much faster than those guys, I felt like lightning. then I quit, visited my old sparring partner and destroyed him with my speed, he said I seemed faster than ever. At that time I had gotten fatter and was about 136 lbs, but felt just as quick.
I went back to lifting, and about four months after that I saw one of the guys I had sparred from my old job, who I had outsped so easily even though he was young and pretty fast. When we squared up, I realized two things: I wasn't quicker than him anymore after just three or four months of lifting. I saw the openings, I had my foot speed to control range, but my upperbody mechanics were simply not responding as well.
I know for a fact it wasn't years off, I had an easier time with my old experienced boxing sparring partner with three years away from lifting or serious training than I ever did when we were working out together, and then just a few months later struggled to out-time a guy I had always been faster than, because the lifting really had bound me up, and I needed to use timing and strength in the session to dominate.
So you can still be fast with lifting, but I do think it can SIGNIFICANTLY decrease reaction time and increases oxygen requirements, especially if you are a guy who relies on his speed.
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Microstation 95 for Linux
Product: Microstation 95 for Linux
Manufacturer: Bentley Systems, Incorporated
Retail cost: $3995.00
Reviewer: Bradley J. Willson
My first test for any application is the installation process. If I can install the package without reading the documentation, that is a good thing. If I can use the software within minutes after setting up, I consider that another good quality. Finally, if I can use the application without reading the documentation, I consider it a truly intuitive application.
Microstation 95 met or exceeded most of my expectations in each of these three areas.
As a consultant, I get numerous opportunities to fix things, but as a product reviewer, I get to see if I can break something. Microstation survived the "Can I Break It" test and gets four and a half stars for its performance.
Microstation 95 is a commercial-grade CAD application for architectural, engineering, construction, geographic information systems and mechanical design professionals. Microstation 95 provides the 2D and 3D environment tools necessary to design and add detail to a drawing quickly and efficiently. Furthermore, it provides network connectivity for work group environments and a database server with connectivity to numerous Unix- and DOS-based database applications.
Microstation 95 looks and acts like a typical Microsoft compatible product, with familiar drop-down menus, button pop-up tips and hypertext help. It offers the option of a Windows or Motif-style interface. The Windows option is true to form, even to the extent of using the same names and parameters found in the Windows Control Panel "Colors" option.
I chose the Motif configuration, because it is more flexible than the Windows option. There are no discernible performance or feature penalties for using either interface. Active windows are handled in the same manner as in MS Windows with one notable exception: if one window is too large, it will not arrange the windows to fit the screen, prompting the user to adjust the window size instead.
The toolbox buttons display tool tips, which are helpful because not all of the button graphics are clear as to their function.
Immediately after receiving the Microstation 95 review kit, I loaded the CD and installed the software. Upon executing setup.exe, I encountered an error that had to be resolved before I could continue. Adding a symlink to libncurses.so.1.9.9e fixed the problem, and the installation resumed. The installation prompted me with the customary questions: "Where do you want it?" and "How much do you want to install?"
The user preferences and system configuration are taken care of from within the running application. Overall, the installation is fast, easy and straightforward. The process takes about 30 minutes to complete and the package uses a miserly 50MB of the hard drive.
The only documentation provided with the evaluation copy is in the form of the help files and a Microsoft Windows-based sampler CD. This did not present any major problems, because the interface is generally easy to understand. I did call the company's toll-free number to inquire about tech support, only to find that a call to the tech support people would cost me a long-distance call—not what I wanted to hear.
To compare an application like Microstation 95 to mainframe CATIA may seem unfair at first, but in reality, I find Microstation 95 to be more flexible and more agile in its execution. In the short time I had to review Microstation 95, I was impressed with its capabilities, speed and efficiency in comparison to its mainframe cousin.
I chose to use the tutorials to both learn the system and to judge its suitability for the task. I found the examples to be very informative and a great way to push the test envelope. I learned quickly to turn off the automatic save on exit feature, so I could return to the example later and try new torture methods on it.
The true test came when I began rendering the examples. At each level of display, the load requirements increased and the display performance declined. What surprised me was Microstation 95's speed. I am accustomed to waiting several minutes for a simple shading operation in CATIA. I was not expecting to see a complex model rendered in less time, but that's what happened..
The AccuDraw and SmartLine features enhance productivity by producing intelligent elements that are easily placed and modified. Bi-directional associative dimensioning makes detailing fast and easy. CATIA offers similar functions, but Microstation makes them more readily available to the user.
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There's a setting in the options panel that allows me to connect my Facebook and Twitter accounts with the game. I assume this will allow you to post about your achievements in-game. Is this correct? Does this unlock any other functionality that might be useful to gameplay?
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No one was home when smoke was seen billowing through the
eves and guttering of their house about 12pm yesterday by
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"I was walking home from town and thought the smoke was way
too low to be coming out of a chimney before I realised the
house was on fire," she said.
"I was trying to wave down traffic for at least two minutes
before a lady pulled over and we called 111."
Three fire engines rushed to the scene to find the couple's
cat trapped inside the extensively smoke damaged home, caused
by a fire found near the door of a bedroom.
Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade deputy chief fire officer
Graeme Baker said firefighters entered through a sliding door
with breathing apparatus on before extinguishing the fire.
The cat was brought outside by a firefighter and looked after
by St John ambulance staff. The cat died soon after.
Mr Baker said it was too soon to say what caused the blaze.
"It's an unknown what caused it at this stage, we have got
fire investigators from Timaru and the local fire safety
officer down there too. Police are also down there checking
the house out," he said.
The homeowners rushed home from work to find their home
extensively smoke damaged. They were visibly upset, consoled
by friends and neighbours.
"Obviously they are pretty cut up about it, it's not a
pleasant experience so understandably they were upset," Mr
Baker said.
He said they were contacting their insurance company.
Authorities are expected to have a better idea of the cause
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Skip to comments.2005: The Splintering of the Democratic Party
Posted on 02/03/2005 9:04:20 AM PST by Publius
The year 2005 will mark the 72nd anniversary of the New Deal, the seminal event of the modern Democratic Party. Democratic policies and rhetoric all hail from that era of Big Government protecting the American people from Big Business. As long as the party held to its roots in economic equality, it prospered. When it marched boldly into the quicksand of social change, it alienated the Great Middle of American politics and lost its way.
Now the signs are all in place for another great Democratic debacle, but with one major difference. This time, the Democrats are headed for the ash heap of American political history.
New England is where American political parties go to die. In 1814 Alexander Hamilton, guiding light of the Federalist Party, had been dead for a decade. While Hamilton would have argued vehemently against a new war with Britain, preferring instead to resolve differences through diplomacy, he was astute enough to understand that certain arguments stop at the waters edge. When the ragtag remnants of the Federalist Party, then holed up in New England, organized the Hartford Convention to discuss secession, Hamilton must have turned somersaults in his grave. Once Andrew Jackson routed a British invasion at New Orleans, the Federalist position smacked of treason, and the ragtag remnant was annihilated in the next election.
In the 1850's, with founder Henry Clay dead, the Whigs lost their way over slavery. While even the Great Compromiser might have found it impossible to square this particular political circle, the temporizing of the Whigs made them toothless in the face of people who were absolutely sure of what they believed. It took only a few electoral cycles for the Whigs to be replaced by the Republicans.
The Roots of the Democrats Dilemma
In 1964 Lyndon Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater in a popular and electoral vote blowout. One thing that can be disastrous for a political party is for it to get everything it wants. Following the election, the Democrats felt they had decisively won the argument, and Goldwaters defeat cleared the way for the enactment of Johnsons Great Society programs. Medicare and the war on poverty quickly became law, although poverty clearly won over time. The Democrats had achieved the goals set during the Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy years. What was left?
In the late Sixties the Democrats made the error of turning to social change in that era it meant race and promptly alienated a key group of voters later to be known as Reagan Democrats. Ethnic blue collar Democrats were liberal on economic issues and had agreed that the situation in the South was intolerable, but there was no such consensus on de facto segregation in the North. When the courts went beyond the law and ordered busing to promote racial balance, the future Reagan Democrats became angry. Thanks to the rising tide of Black Nationalism and the violence of urban insurrections, sympathy with the problems of black America began to wane.
In the Seventies the Democrats invested their energy in promoting social change via the courts, this time in the area of sexual liberation. At bottom, liberals were trying to change the social attitudes of Americans by judicial fiat to infuse them with the proper revolutionary fervor and they failed to see that the resistance of the Great Middle was but a desire to de-politicize the affairs of daily life. As a rule, social attitudes change at their own natural speed and do not require a political party to push them along. The Democrats forgot this and ceded the Great Middle to others.
As Reagan shifted the Great Middle to the right, the Democrats spent the Eighties in a state of shock and denial. Looking at the Democratic Party, Americans saw a collective of Americas misfits and malcontents, and the result was disastrous. The Democrats had jumped on the bandwagon of social change and had forgotten the economic issues that had made them the majority party. The institutional party had become totally disorganized and obsessed with process while the nominating electorate was dominated by left-wing ideologues. Upset and bewildered, the Reagan Democrats made a new home in the Republican Party.
After the Dukakis debacle in 1988, Mark Russell posed the question, "Why do we expect our generals to be serious men and our brain surgeons to be serious men, but we expect our presidents to be game show hosts?" In 1992 the Great Game Show Host slouched onto the scene. Bill Clinton emphasized economic issues and fudged the social foolishness that had gotten his party into so much trouble in the past. Clintons pitch was simple: Guys, we can take a stand for our beliefs and go down in flames, or we can go back to basics and win.
Once elected, however, Clinton discovered that in running for office from the center, he lacked the political capital to enact any genuine liberal programs. His first major expenditure of political capital was NAFTA, a Republican initiative. A few months into his presidency, Clinton realized with horror that he had become an Eisenhower Democrat. Having sold the party to the lobbyists of K Street to raise enough money to compete with the Republicans, Clinton had robbed his party of its soul. The left wing ideologues took note but kept silent lest they lose the perks and privileges of power. Their day would come, they thought.
Congressional Democrats, ideologically at odds with the president, felt they had the luxury of not marching in step with Clinton and didn't fear him the way they would have feared an experienced operator like Lyndon Johnson. Thus, his health insurance initiative crashed and burned, and Republicans went in for the kill. The post-Watergate reforms had the effect of locking the Congress of 1974 in place for twenty years, but Clinton's failure to produce the promised changes brought in a Republican Congress for the first time in forty years.
Internally, the two parties are very different. The Democrats function like a federation of state parties while the Republicans have always been a top-down organization. This gives the Democrats an edge when they don't control the Executive. Republicans, without the Executive, seem lost. They need a leader to snap them to attention and send them marching in step. Newt Gingrich took that role and made his troops the force of change in the Nineties, but in provoking a government shutdown Gingrich failed to understand the role of entitlements in the American psyche. People had come to expect certain things from their government, and they didn't want anything to get between them and their government checks.
Having lurched too far to the left with Hillary Care, Clinton positioned himself as close to the Great Middle as he could. Unwilling to show the ruthlessness required in politics, the Republicans nominated Bob Dole even when it was obvious months before the convention that he couldn't win. Frustrated by their inability to defeat the slickest president in modern times, the Republicans grasped at a straw held in the mouth of a White House intern.
In retrospect Rush Limbaugh was right. Neither Congress nor the American people would countenance the removal of a president for offenses related to illicit sex. To most Americans in the Nineties, Bill Clintons behavior was not outside the mainstream. By couching the 1998 election as a referendum on impeachment, Gingrich misread the situation.
Talk to ardent partisans about the 2000 election, and youll get two very different versions of reality.
A Republican will tell you that the networks called Florida early and suppressed Republican turnout not only in Florida, but nationwide. Some will accuse the networks of collusion with the DNC in attempting to steal the election for Al Gore. A partisan Florida Supreme Court attempted to keep the theft in motion, but the US Supreme Court honored the Constitution and stopped it in its tracks.
A Democrat will tell you that Al Gore won the national popular vote and the vote in Florida. Bush was selected illegally by a partisan US Supreme Court when his father called in some IOUs. The election was stolen, plain and simple. Bush lost and took up residence in Al Gores big white house.
But the events of September 11, 2001 changed everything.
War, Disconnection and Marginalization
The Republicans were now in power in time of war. With Afghanistan out of the way and Iraq on the table, the Democrats found themselves in a quandary.
The Democratic Party had played a key role in the creation of the United Nations, and there was a strong belief that being a responsible player on the world stage meant not engaging in unilateral action, but working through the UN to gain the support of world opinion. This is the origin of the global test. Had not Jack Kennedy gone to the UN first during the Cuban Missile Crisis? With most of our traditional European allies opposing regime change in Iraq, Democrats were split on whether to authorize an invasion. The initial success of that invasion coupled with the guerilla war that followed furthered splits in the party. The perception of lukewarm support of the war effort on the part of Democrats led to losses in the election of 2002, and the partys left-wing nominating electorate was on the warpath for peace.
At the center of this difficulty is a problem unique to liberals a willingness to accept the adversarys viewpoint if it puts their country in a bad light. Liberals call it being objective, but it is really a lack of faith in America and a lack of faith in traditional American ideals. While fine in peacetime, it is deadly in war.
At their core, these ideals are not American, but UNeesian, to invent a word. To UNeesians, patriotism is a vice. To UNeesians, America doesnt have the right to lead because its hands are dirty, courtesy of slavery, Vietnam or some other flaw in its past. To UNeesians, America, like Israel, is a source of evil in the world.
In time of war, social issues take a backseat. One of the key UNeesian objections to the war in the Middle East is the belief that the money should be spent on something else. Spend it on government-run health insurance, government-run schools or government-run Amtrak, but dont spend it on war. Thats immoral. Spend it on social change. But there comes a time when people become weary of social change and want stability, particularly freedom from attack by foreign religious fanatics.
Nothing bothers UNeesians more than a muscular United States working to mold the world into a place reflective of its traditional values. To UNeesians, these traditional American values are suspect. They remember Vietnam, but not World War II. And when they root for the enemy, as many of them did in the case of Iraq, they step over the line crossed by the ragtag remnants of the Federalist Party in 1814.
Trapped by Ideology
In 2004 the Democratic Party could have run against the Republicans from the right, a technique used successfully by Jack Kennedy. This would have meant taking the war against terrorism to a new level, to include racial profiling and securing our borders. Ordinary Americans not associated with Big Business would have jumped to join a party willing to militarize and seal the borders. This would have led to a stand in favor of economic nationalism, which would have brought many of Patrick Buchanans troops into the party.
But the Democrats instead argued that terrorism was a nuisance and that the US should apply a global test to military action, thus giving Europe and the UN a veto over Americas defense. From its Democratic wing came a hint that America got what it deserved on September 11. Economic nationalism, racial profiling and sealing the borders went against the grain of the partys UNessian values. Further, without that vast army of illegal immigrants in the nations workforce, the declining birthrate would put the sacred programs of the welfare state in actuarial jeopardy.
Socially, the Democrats pushed for a continuation of the sexual revolution when people were tired of being confronted by sex every time they turned on the TV. After forty years of sexual liberation, people wanted a break from overt sex, particularly from the same sex variety. A key issue for Democrats in 2004 was the recognition of gay marriage by fiat via the courts which is not a priority for the vast majority of Americans who are not gay. This has led to the beginnings of an exodus from the party by Hispanics and blacks.
For an economic program, the party has not changed its stance in forty years, arguing for programs that even Lyndon Johnson could not push through Congress. When looking at an economic platform, the Democratic Party can suggest only more socialism. They succeeded in getting a new entitlement prescription drugs for the elderly and they still hope for some form of government-run health insurance, but the party has failed to answer the question, Do you want the people who run Amtrak to take out your appendix? When it comes to economic ideas, even the Mainstream Media admitted 25 years ago that it was the Republicans who had all the good ideas.
The Future of the Democrats
The New Deal coalition has been fraying ever since George Wallace cracked the Democratic Party in 1968 over race. Failure to defend the country and manage the economy has haunted the party at each election. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton defeated Republican incumbents only because of a failing economy.
In 2004, the Democrats nominated a New Englander who was deep in his partys mainstream but was out of step with the rest of the country. In reporting for duty, John Kerry hoped to elide his partys ideological marginalization, but since his defeat the rest of the party has stridently spoken out, raising disturbing questions:
Much of this conflict has played out in the race for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee, soon to be Howard Dean, another New Englander. Clintons decision to sell his party out to the Grifters of K Street still rankles. But Deans belief in going directly to the people via the Internet would have credence only if the Deaniacs were more connected to the mainstream. Deans supporters on the Internet, however, are among the most radical people in the Democratic Party. This will only exacerbate the differences between the partys factions.
Todays Democratic Party is made up of K Street Grifters, government workers, the remnants of the union movement, UNeesians, political correctness fanatics, Greens, homosexuals, liberal women and blacks. As Michael Barone has pointed out, blacks are the glue that holds the party together. But as they join the Great Middle, make some money and move into a nicer neighborhood, black Americans start thinking like Republicans, even if they cant say so publicly. Bill Cosby speaks for many middle class blacks who are tired of the antics of their poorer brethren in the cities.
This hodgepodge of factions is not geared to occupying the same political party.
These factions have only one thing in common an insatiable appetite for more government, an appetite not shared by the majority of the American people.
On occasion in American history, concepts like Left and Right become blurred, parties run out of steam and ideas, and a wing of one party wraps around a wing of the other party. Sometimes one party will even splinter. Then the two parties re-form when a new issue arises. The Nineties, like the 1850s, represents a time when one party ran out of steam and ideas, and everybody noticed it.
The Democratic Party is now restricted to Americas cities and to the suburbs of certain states. It is almost absent from Americas heartland. Its values are out of step with the Great Middle. It has forgotten its economic roots and become lost in the swamps of social change once again, vehement in its insistence on forcing that change down the throats of a reluctant nation.
The center cannot hold.
The Democratic Party will splinter like the Whigs. Soon there will be at least three parties on the left: the Green Party, the Labor Party and the Reparations Party. The Grifters of K Street will merely change their spots, as many of them have done since the 2002 election, and switch allegiance to the Republicans now that they control the federal faucet. Americans once represented reasonably well by the old Democratic Party, like Zell Miller, will reluctantly pull up stakes and find a new political home.
It will be another twenty years before a new set of issues emerges that permits a true second party to coalesce. The Republicans may well be running the store for decades.
Bump to me.
Publius, I commend you for a job well done. It actually held my interest and would spark all sorts of side commentaries by my liberal friends.
Nicely done!
Excellent analysis,
Great insight here
Are Democrats Americans or UNeesians?
Are they citizens of America or citizens of the world?
Do they truly believe that Bush is Hitler and that this country is no better than Nazi Germany?
Are they seriously considering emigrating to Canada? Or France?
Whose side are they on, anyway?
The answer to these questions is straightforward:
Their words are poison and their actions are treasonous. They are not merely betrayers of America and all that it stands for, they are also traitors to humanity.
It's time we started treating them as such.
Print it off and pass it on to your liberal friends. Here in Seattle, we can't seem to run out of liberals!
Excellent and on point.
Is it time yet for that "stout, hempen rope" you've talked about in the past? (At least it's a useful way of using hemp.)
Not according to "Time". I just read an article predicting, yet again, the fall of the GOP.
Bump for lunchtime read...
I hang out on a couple of liberal sites. I will be posting it there. Thanks.
"Time" is just whistling past the graveyard. The last time the party on top splintered was 1912, when TR took the early progressives out of the party. We have nothing like that movement going on now.
Post it at DU. That will get their bile flowing -- along with their drool.
Thanks, many of my thoughts have been in the same direction, now they have been written.
Stiff hempen is needing some use.
I also think that leftist democrats have taken over the party and alienated mainstream America; from gay marraiage to reparations.
It's a foregone conclusion at this point in time that the Democrats have no chance of winning at the national level campaigning on their true agenda; America is a slightly right-of-center country and has been for quite some time. However, the Clintons are proving themselves to be far smarter than I had given them credit for before. They fully understand that if they're to succeed they need to lie their way into power, and that campaign is already beginning in earnest. And they don't need to fool the entire country, they only need to fool a relatively small percentage of the people in order to pull it off.
In the end I don't think she'll be able to pull it off, but it's entirely within the realm of possibility that she could, and there are a lot of things that could still go wrong for us if we're not careful. It would be a big mistake for us to begin underestimating our opponents, because not all of them are as buffoonish as Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer.
What makes the New England connecton so toxic is that New England is the most European part of America. That is the theme with Kerry and Dean. An open desire to turn America into a part of Europe. With its bicycles and pre-automobile street grid and laid back ways and static economy and abundance of cultivated entertainments and disinclination by the Red Sox to do something as gauche as winning, Boston feels something like Frankfurt.
Another party is coming. The Perot economic nationalist/protectionist cultural conservative constituency is still out there. And it seethes every time it hears Bush talk about "jobs Americans won't do". And it will take from both Dems and Repubs.
Hillary is running to recreate the Perot movement. And it is still out there waiting for a leader.
Clinton sold them out over NAFTA and Kerry had the economic nationalism of someone with a rich European wife and 7 mansions. They are waiting to be led.
As a rule, social attitudes change at their own natural speed and do not require a political party to push them along.
Social change has been going non-stop ever since the Black Death took down feudalism. Even the Marxists agree on that one. Social change eventually takes down entire institutions, such as monarchy.
But unless a social situation is truly oppressive, like slavery, people resent those who would force social change they aren't ready for. That's why gay marriage has people so upset.
Great essay. Thank you.
Given the multiple boxes the Dims have locked themselves into, I don't see how they get back in the majority any time soon.
Did you misspell "sphinctering?"
The only place 'Rats have accomplished anything remotely liberal since 1976 and the infamous 94th Congress is in the Courts. Legislatively, they have been dead for thirty years.
When was Perot the Texan anti-gun ?
And isn't the Democratic party running from gun control as an issue ?
Pro-abort ? Most of the country is of two minds. They accept the right to life argument on moral grounds but the NARAL argument on socioeconomic grounds. It's not all black and white. If it were one side would have won already.
Try making sense.
Concur. But She lacks the political instincts to pull it off, possessing a tin ear for opinions not shared by Herself. She has no patience with people less brilliant than Herself.
This is why there has been discussion in Congress about a constitutional amendment that would open the way for Arnold to run for president -- but would also repeal the 22nd Amendment and give Bill another shot at the top. Congressional Democrats don't share Her exalted opinion of Herself and think Bill has a better chance of regaining power for the party.
The key to why a splintering is so likely is that the Deaniacs are so far out of the mainstream that they will drive moderates away in droves. Zell Miller merely said he was still a Democrat, but one who was supporting Bush. The next defectors will not make that distinction.
It remains to be seen whether many of your predictions and analysis are spot on, but they are thoughtfully arrived upon and I'm book-marking it.
And when was your new hero, hillary, pro-2nd amendment. She isn't, oh BTW, Perot's wife was on the board of Texas planned parenthood.
Try making sense.
Uh I ain't the one trying to sell the snake oil that hillary is the new conservative savior.
Excellent writing, Mr. Publius. Very educational and helpful for this granny who's never really studied politics, just knows integrity matters, and is means is.
Fill us in on their responses.
You mean Teddy Roosevelt cleaned house of the " Progressives " or did he take them with him ?
TR took the Progressives with him when he bolted the Republican Party in 1912. Once the Bull Moose Party showed that it was a flash in the pan and the Republicans nominated Harding in 1920, the Progressives settled in with the Democrats.
There is some truth in there, but it was more the cultural revolution of the 1960s than race that drove such voters away from the Democrats. The later economic malaise also had a lot to do with the making of Reagan Democrats. It's certainly true that the races were more divided in the 1960s and 1970s than today, but a lot of the tension over busing had to do with the autocratic, top-down imposition of the thing. Attitudes might have been different had things been done differently. Divisions between the parties, though, weren't quite so clear on this issue: it was Nixon who brought in many of the quotas and affirmative action programs that he campaigned against.
On occasion in American history, concepts like Left and Right become blurred, parties run out of steam and ideas, and a wing of one party wraps around a wing of the other party. Sometimes one party will even splinter. Then the two parties re-form when a new issue arises. The Nineties, like the 1850s, represents a time when one party ran out of steam and ideas, and everybody noticed it.
True, though it's not always easy to know who was right and who was left. We've taken our cue from the Cold War, and now that it's over and the struggles over communism don't dominate political debates, it's always not so easy to see who's who and what's what in terms of ideology. Prior to that the conflicts of the Progressive era or the New Deal provided frameworks for sorting things out ideologically. Where Theodore Roosevelt saw Hamilton as a far-sighted progressive, Franklin Roosevelt deplored Hamilton and preferred Jefferson. We're in a similar period of sorting things out now so questions about what Washington or Hamilton, Jefferson or Jackson, Lincoln or TR were ideologically aren't as easy to answer as they once were.
The Democratic Party is now restricted to Americas cities and to the suburbs of certain states. It is almost absent from Americas heartland. Its values are out of step with the Great Middle. It has forgotten its economic roots and become lost in the swamps of social change once again, vehement in its insistence on forcing that change down the throats of a reluctant nation.
True, the Democrats are very out of touch on social issues, but how different are states that they carried like Minnesota or Michigan from Iowa or Ohio, which the lost? The strange thing was their thinking that Kerry could actually win. 49% of the vote against a wartime President and for someone who was so obviously a regional candidate with little national appeal wasn't a terrible showing.
You may be right about the Democrats dying or turning into something very different, but this last election wasn't enough proof. It was unique in pitting a liberal from the most liberal part of the country with a conservative from one of the most conservative parts. Neither Bush I v. Dukakis or Reagan v. Mondale or Nixon v. Kennedy was anywhere near as clearcut a contest of regional loyalties. The big test will come when they nominate someone from outside the Northeast.
Yet there was also something typical about the election as well: from 1860 to 1932 the Democrats were locked into the South, and the Republicans controlled the rest of the country, so far as Presidential elections were concerned. Who won depended on swing states like New York and Illinois, Indiana and New Jersey. After forty years of Democratic domination (1932-1972) and a Republican era (1972-1992) we may have come full circle to a system characterized by Democrat control of one region (the two coasts) and Republican dominance in the rest of the country. In a way, it's a return to where we were in 1880 or 1920.
Apparently you are locked into the past.
Gun control as an issue is gone. Ended. Finished. It is an issue on which urban Democrats have accepted that they are outvoted by the rest of the country.
Abortion ? A quarter of the electorate is NARAL all the way. Another quarter is Right to Life all the way. In the middle, flux. Stasis. A lot of hypocrisy, too. That is because, as I taught you, people talk right-to-life but when their own kid gets pregnant they want that socioeconomic escape hatch of abortion.
In 1992 Perot didn't get the hard core Right to Life vote. But he was still the frontrunner in early spring. Bush lost because he was reduced to the Right to Life vote. So there is plenty of room for another Perot party. After all, they won in 92 because most of Perot's supporters broke for them after Perot dropped out of the race. When Perot dropped out Clinton moved from third of three to first of two.
Let's not lose sight of the fact that Iraq was a mess and the absence of WMD's led to many people feeling lied to. Without these factors Bush would have won in a landslide.
No, I don't do this for a living. I work a regular job like everybody else.
Click on "Publius", and it will take you to my FReeper home page.
Pliny would be proud.
One foot note. A very powerful faction with nowhere else to go is the Plaintiff's bar. War against them has been formally declared.
Huh? Perot didn't join the race until late Spring 92 and then dropped out, when he said that clinton was gaining momentum, and then Bush came back into the lead, and all of the sudden perot got back in and was on CNN saying "Larry"(this is before FR, Fox News, and the internet blogs, BTW).
But that doesn't really matter, since that is all water under the bridge, and the country has a person who you despise in office, GW Bush.
Dude I think you all in hillary's basement are misinformed and delusional if you all think you can bring back a second coming of perot like candidate, especially with the gift of the invention Al Gore gave us all, the internet.
I know you must find it threatening to be reminded that your sort of 'free trade at all costs', OBL ideology has the financing of the K street hustlers but not the support of most Americans. That is why NAFTA was disastrous for the New Democrats because it drove away Joe Sixpack and Kerry lost because an economic nationalist agenda could have easily swept the suffering Rust Belt.
And you fail as ever to see the salient point. Perot was leading in the polls until he dropped out of the race. And not because of fear of Clinton because Clinton remained third of three. Because he just plain didn't want it bad enough. After all, people who run for president these days have been running their entire lives. When he reentered the race he saw that most of his support had gone to Clinton after Sistah Souljah. His agenda of economic nationalism is a winner. Every voice of elite opinion, all editorial boards of all major publications, every mainstream economist, all living ex-Presidents supported NAFTA. But it still barely passed because Joe Sixpack smelled a rat. After illegals, after outsourcing, after obscene trade deficits the ground has shifted. Maybe "free trade" is just textbook theory and textbooks need to be adjusted. Ricardo's point about England not trying to create a protected, subsidized wine industry was one thing. Watching your capacity to make advanced industrial goods migrate overseas is another.
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A day-to-night guide to staying fit and healthy.
Photo: Dan Saelinger
1 p.m.Get Your Vitamin D
Before you finish eating lunch, take your daily dose of vitamin D, which helps maintain bone health and may even protect against hypertension and cancer. D also happens to be an essential nutrient that about one-third of Americans don't get enough of, according to a report from the National Center for Health Statistics. Why should you take it with lunch? Blood serum levels are the best indicator of the vitamin D concentration in your body, and when researchers at the Cleveland Clinic had people take a vitamin D supplement with their biggest meal of the day, the subjects' serum levels shot up nearly 57 percent. "Vitamin D is fat soluble," explains study coauthor and endocrinologist Angelo Licata, MD, PhD. "It needs fat to be absorbed properly, and since you're more likely to consume the most fat in your largest meal, your body will be better able to put the vitamin to use." Just make sure your lunch contains mostly healthy fats like olive oil and nuts.
4:30 p.m.Be Creative
When researchers asked a group of students who considered themselves "morning people" to solve creative-thinking problems in the afternoon when they were less focused, they got 42 percent of the questions right—9 percentage points better than the group that answered them when more alert. "The best time for thinking creatively is often when you're not as focused," says lead study author Mareike Wieth, PhD. "Distractions may help you approach a problem differently, leading to more novel solutions."
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"My best friend, Sherlock Holmes, is dead."
So begins the final episode of the second season of PBS's "Masterpiece Mystery" presentation of "Sherlock" (8 p.m. Sunday, cable channel 3).
Watson (Martin Freeman) is tearfully speaking with a therapist when the episode opens, but after the credits, we scoot back three months, finding Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) at the top of his game.
Also riding high, though, is Sherlock's nemesis Moriarty (Andrew Scott) who, though he's caught attempting to steal the Crown Jewels, is working a long con against Sherlock.
It's delightfully fun, especially when Sherlock takes down a pushy journalist and when he contemptuously shows off while testifying against Moriarty. There's an especially clever smash cut during his testimony that had me roaring. And Scott's Moriarty is a phenomenally smarmy mirror image of Sherlock: "Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain," he rightly notes.
The episode is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Final Problem," in which he appeared to kill Sherlock, though with a series as successful as this, death seems unlikely to last.
Also on:
- The CW's "Nikita" (7 p.m. Friday, cable channel 11) wraps up its second season with a death, but the series will be back in the fall.
- Paula Deen explores the buttery depths of her family history on NBC's "Who Do You Think You Are" (7 p.m. Friday, cable channel 5).
- Sam and Dean (Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles) try to take down Dick Roman (James Patrick Stuart) in a final battle as the eighth season wraps on The CW's "Supernatural" (8 p.m. Friday, cable channel 11).
- NBC's surprisingly strong "Grimm" (8 p.m. Friday, cable channel 5) brings in Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as a woman in black in the first season finale.
- Disney previews a new animated series, "TRON: Uprising" (8:30 p.m. Friday, cable channel 32), set between the original film and the 2010 sequel. The series starts airing on Disney XD on June 7.
- Mick Jagger does his first hosting gig and third musical gig on the season finale of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" (10:35 p.m. Saturday, cable channel 5). Rumor has it that this may be the last season for such favorites as Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis and Andy Samberg.
- Lady Gaga voices herself on the season finale of FOX's "The Simpsons" (7 p.m. Sunday, cable channel 13).
- The late Whitney Houston is honored on ABC's broadcast of the "2012 Billboard Music Awards" (7 p.m. Sunday, cable channel 8).
- Arsenio Hall or Clay Aiken? One will be named the winner on the finale of NBC's "The Celebrity Apprentice" (8 p.m. Sunday, cable channel 5).
- Tom Selleck comes back for an eighth go-round as police chief Jesse Stone on CBS's "Benefit of the Doubt" (8 p.m. Sunday, cable channel 12).
- Theon (Alfie Allen) tries to hold down the fort on HBO's "Game of Thrones" (8 p.m. Sunday, cable channel 661).
- Selina (Julia Louis-Dreyfuss) becomes obsessed with her nicknames on HBO's "Veep" (9 p.m. Sunday, cable channel 661).
- Christmas time is here on AMC's "Mad Men" (9 p.m. Sunday, cable channel 38).
- And Hannah (Lena Dunham) goes home for her parents' 30th anniversary on HBO's "Girls" (9 p.m. Sunday, cable channel 661).
So, what are you watching?


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You know those holiday evenings when you can't be bothered to go to a restaurant, but end up doing so because there isn't anywhere nearby that does really good takeaway food? Your sense of regret and despair is what Peperwortel extinguishes with a cornucopia of tapas from all over the world!
This rather unassuming place was in a perfect location for where we were staying (a really nice and quiet bit of town away from all the excesses of other Amsterdam tourism). It has a fabulous selection of food from all over, but done in a great way that it all goes together, no matter what you have. We ended up having a vegetarian selection of a number of things including ratatouille, cows-cous and, by a long way, the best chimichanga that I have ever eaten. Ok, I haven't been to Mexico, but in the same way that the Dutch take the English language and speak it more proficiently than the English, I have the feeling that Paperwortel does the same thing with food. Because I was so overwhelmed by the chimichanga, I have completely forgotten what else was on offer apart from an enormous lamb kofta which was tempting me away from a meat-free selection like some sort of gastronomic siren.
Service was great (very patient whilst my family spent more than enough time choosing what they would have) and gave us the option of warming everything up in their array of mini-ovens that they have ready for just such a demand. Our order also came with a generous helping of sour-cream, gratis.
I cannot recommend this place highly enough and, if anyone does go there on the back of this review, if you could obtain the recipe for that chimichanga from the chef (by foul means or fair) I would be eternally grateful!
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Jordan Johnson, Soppa Doiron, Luis Roque and Jay Slaughter round out an impressive team of grads from Lakes High School.
They spend most of their Tuesday nights shooting hoops in the gym at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Lakewood. But a recent night of basketball turned into something much more than fun and games.
Leo Castro runs the games. The young people come in, say a quick prayer with him and hit the court. That routine changed last week when Castro, 48, suffered a heart attack and collapsed.
"Then he just stopped breathing completely,"Johnson said. "Jay and Soppa ran outside, he was on the phone with 911. I started doing compressions and then got up to look around the church to see if anyone was here, and then he took over for probably the next 10 minutes or so."
The group was relieved when the EMTs got there and zapped Castro with a defibrillator.
"They did that like three times and said they finally got his pulse back and they took him out on the stretcher and they left and we all went out to the center of the court and said a prayer for him," Johnson said.
Castro was eventually able to meet up with the group to thank them for saving his life.
"Yeah, they're responsible, ultimately, for keeping me alive," Castro said. "These guys are great kids. I'm really proud of them and happy that they saved my life, really."
Castro said when gets back on the court he's going to be in much better shape.


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UAFS picked up wins at No. 1 doubles and No. 4 singles on Friday afternoon against St. Edward's, but the Lady Lions couldn't pull off the Heartland Conference win, falling to the No. 41 Hilltoppers 7-2 at Arlington Tennis Center in Arlington, Texas. The tandem of Lindsy Pearce and Annie Tarwater beat Marissa Williams and Anjali Sampath 8-5 at No. 1 doubles, and Madison Carr beat Laura Galvan in a three-set thriller 6-3, 5-7, 10-6 at No. 4 singles to account for the Lady Lions' wins.
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Released: Dec 01st, 2006
Running Time: 150
Director: B Scow
Company: Vivid Entertainment Group
Cast: Kurt Lockwood, Nick Manning, Trent Soluri, Sara Stone (I), Samantha Ryan, Lux Kassidey, Marcus London, Chloe Dior, Christian (I) (TS-friendly performer), Missy Monroe
Critical Rating: AAAA
Genre: Feature
A fine showcase of Vivid's newest eye candy, Lux's Life is meant to play like a reality show, based around the newcomer's first porn experiences. Kassidey's behind the scenes experience is full of insightfully candid dialogue, a few gags and a bunch of steamy g/g scenes.
Kassidey gets things started with a solo scene and then is soon joined by Samantha Ryan, Kassidey's porn cherry popper. Ryan also does a solid romp with Kurt Lockwood, based around a play on the cliché pizza delivery guy scene. Kassidey should certainly make a nice addition to Vivid's gaggle of hotties.
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Retailing: A fun couples romp with a stellar cast of Vivid beauties.


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Its all in the eye of the beholder and can be interpreted in different ways. But, If you go back to last season's Rams game debacle and how Singletary's bouncing back in fourth of QB's was handled, which led to his firing with 1 game left, sparked a change.
As a fan I can see that this meant enough with the Bull s**t . I remember the NFL and fans talking so much s**t about Singletary's firing with 1 game left, but that right there was a statement saying I'm done with the bull s**t and I need to start looking for a Head coach right now, not next week or the week after , but right muthaf**king now.
To me, that's what changed the atmosphere and If I were a player on the team, I would've taken that move with a sense that something good was gonna happen.
Whether or not the 49ers make it to round 2 of the Playoffs or get to the Divisional round or get a bye doesn't matter. What matters is that SF is relevant again. And each game, Opponents will dread going into a game with this team.


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Style #:26117283 Grasse Institute-educated perfumer Anne McClain founded her handmade fragrance line MCMC, in 2008. Raised in the US and Japan and an avid traveler, McClain's great sense of adventure and appreciation of other cultures informs her way of thinking and her desire to capture fleeting memories. This second iteration of her Humanity Fragrance Project - which is inspired by volunteer trips around the globe and is meant to evoke a feeling of compassion through its scents - took shape on a trip to Cambodia, where McClain fell in love with the people, local ingredients and landscape. The limited edition glass bottle is handmade at Brooklyn Glass, and is based on the shape of an anatomical heart - a symbol for compassion.