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What would JFK and RFK say?
As I write this, the Democratic National Convention is getting underway in Denver. It will be an intense week of speeches, workshops and symposia about the issues facing American today, among them our energy and climate security.
While climate change is arguably the most complex problem the community of nations has faced, it isn't the first time an American president has grappled with issues of global and moral consequence. John Kennedy led at a time the world seemed only a few minutes away from nuclear annihilation, and when Russia threatened to dominate space. Bobby Kennedy opposed the Vietnam War and confronted the issue of civil rights around the world.
What might they say if they were addressing the Democratic National Convention today? The following is compiled from their speeches decades ago. (All are from JFK except where designated):
Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man…no problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
I am an idealist without illusions. The United States has to move very fast to even stand still. The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer; but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
I believe we possess all the resources and talents necessary. But the facts of the matter are that we have never made the national decisions or marshaled the national resources required for such leadership. We have never specified long-range goals on an urgent time schedule, or managed our resources and our time so as to insure their fulfillment.
A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough, compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough. But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect is character; we cannot alter its inevitability. (RFK, speech to U.S. Senate May 9, 1966)
I look forward to a great future for America — a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor perhaps in our lifetimes on this planet. But let us begin.
— Bill B.
15 Responses to What would JFK and RFK say?
Well, here some denialists running for congress comment of climate change:
Just for comparison. :-(
This is FANTASTIC – we need so little, just the confidence to back this type of approach — and if this can coem form dead Kennedys — great! We can all help to make wise climate change resource decisions – read the emergency triage response to current climate change crises at
So do you think, Johnnie, that the current batch of politicians can make better decisions by a combination of JFK's insights and the application of climate triage as you suggest (I followed the link to http://www.climatechangetriage.net – it looks great)?
JFK was definitely an inspiring who could see what was possible and motivate people to reach out for it. Here is an intriguing excerpt from a speech he gave on September 13, 1962 titled The Space Challenge:
No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you will, the 50,000 years of man's recorded history in a timespan of but half a century. Stated in these terms we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them advanced man had learned to use the skins of animals to cover him.
Then about 10 years ago under this standard man emerged from his cave to construct other kinds of shelter. Only 5 years ago man learned to write and use a cart with wheels.
Christianity began less than 2 years ago. The printing press came this year and then less than 2 months ago, during this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power. Newton explored the meaning of gravity.
Last month, electric lights and telephones and automobiles and airplanes became available. Only last week did we develop penicillin and television and nuclear power.
I am with JFK – nuclear power deserves to be placed alongside penicillin and television as one of the marvelous developments of the 20th century.
JFK would surely recognize the immense potential and challenge us to solve any remaining problems and move forward with great speed. That is especially true in a world threatened by global climate change; there is no way that he would have marginalized a power source that has demonstrated emission-free, reliable, affordable power.
Oops – poor editing. In my last comment I meant to say that "JFK was an inspiring leader…". Somehow I left out a key word.
Sorry Bill – I just noticed that you were the writer of this post, not Joe.
JFK wasn't using current information when he praised nuclear.
Here's what Joe has to say on the "affordable" issue….
Nuclear power is likely to find a place in history along side of fishing with dynamite.
Works, but….
Joe is not using current information either – he is quoting others who are attempting to predict future costs. That is always a risky evolution best approached with a lot of caution and study.
Currently operating nuclear plants are producing electricity for an average production cost of just 1.76 cents per kilowatt hour. A good portion of their capital costs have been paid off, they all have decommissioning funds that are substantial and growing, and they all pay about $8-10 million per year towards long term fuel storage costs.
Competitive fossil fuels have increased in price substantially compared to the baseline cases used in the studies that Joe quotes.
Buffett may have abandoned his plans in Idaho – one of the least interesting electricity markets in the country due to its small size and low average retail price – but there are a lot of very competitive energy producers like NRG, Constellation, FPL Group, Dominion, Amarillo Power, and Entergy that are moving forward with nuclear plans.
There are also some small venture funded companies that are working hard to build plants that can be manufactured and delivered to sites so they can take advantage of the economy of series production.
Economics and cost estimation are, at best, guesses, and there are plenty of opinions. Mine happens to differ from Joe's, though we do agree on the importance of emission free electricity production to avert the possibility of catastrophic climate change.
Come to think of it – why are we arguing about cost? Joe is an advocate of concentrating solar thermal energy production with enough storage to make it baseload. What kind of cost estimates do you have for that kind of system?
What's more current that Florida Light and Power's October 2007 cost estimate for building new nuclear? That's what an owner of existing nuclear calculates it would cost them to build a couple of new reactors.
Current costs of power from existing nuclear have no relevance to what power would cost from a new facility.
You might want to check to see how many of your listed companies are actually "moving forward". And if any of them are actually likely to build anything. More likely they're just keeping some staff employed and burning through funds.
Small venture funded companies – probably eating up sucker money.
As for thermal solar, it's getting built. Real time. With private, non-governmental money. I'd say it penciled OK.
Storage will come when we have a need. First we have to build enough so that there is some surplus to be stored.
Bob wrote:
"As for thermal solar, it's getting built. Real time. With private, non-governmental money. I'd say it penciled OK."
Really. Are you telling me that there are no renewable portfolio standards that mandate the use of certain types of energy sources, no production tax credits (at least for facilities that get under contract before the PTC expires at the end of this year), no local incentives, no California state government subsidies for solar, and no DOE funds being spent to enable solar facilities to be constructed?
Sure, there is private money involved, but there is also a lot of assistance.
I will not dispute that there is hesitation for investments in new nuclear power. The people who do not like to compete against new nuclear power plants have helped to establish a very long and arduous review process on top of what is already a complex technically demanding construction project. The long lead times required add huge risk and cause widely varying cost estimates because they have to predict future events and potential delays. Money most definitely has a time value and investors always seek to ensure that they get a return commensurate with the risk that they take. If they can, they also seek government support to hedge the bets. That behavior is not limited to nuclear investors.
The thing that I do not understand, however, is why people who believe that the world is facing a crisis focus so much on criticizing the cost of nuclear power instead of trying to figure out if there is a way to solve the problem. If they were brutally honest with themselves, they would admit that imposing delays and threatening protests and legal action certain do not help reduce the cost or minimize the financial risk.
Going back to the theme of the post – JFK, a true leader, recognized that going to the moon was a costly proposition and that there were still aspects of the trip that were completely unknown at the time that he made his famous promise. However, he listened to his scientific and engineering advisors who told him that they knew enough to solve the problems along the way.
I can tell you, without writing a book here, that there are plenty of us in the nuclear field who have reasonable solutions to all of the remaining issues, including cost, associated with building and operating nuclear power plants. All we want is a fair opportunity to show them to you.
France gets 80% of its electricity from nuclear. Nuclear power plants are being built in Europe and China even as I write. The reason they can't be built in the US and the reason they are so expensive is because of the environmental regulations involved in building one. The fear mongering green lobby and the media that gobbles it up, long ago put a stop to any new nuclear power plants.
The chicken littles that are running around scaring the be Jesus out of everyone with global warming doomsday predictions are the same crowd who won't let us build any new nuclear power plants even though everyone knows that nuclear power puts no greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
If you guys really want to score some points with mainstream America and the rest of the world you will quit being two face hypocrites and lobby for the clean, renewable energy of nuclear fission.
Discloser: I am a life long Democrat and until recently considered myself a liberal. I don't think I can say that any more as I am disgusted with my parties hypocrisy with regards to energy and I am also disgusted with the media's one sided fear pushing of the whole global warming issue.
Jamie Fagan
Rod Adams wrote, "Sure, there is private money involved, but there is also a lot of assistance."
There is plenty assistance for all sorts of energy in the US, including coal and petroleum.
Please consider http://www.earthtrack.net/earthtrack/library/SubsidyReformOptions.pdf I cannot vouch for the accuracy of that report, but it wouldn't surprise me if true.
It cites an estimate of $49 to $100 billion dollars of energy subsidies in 2006. Most of these were for things that are causing problems:
Oil and gas got 52.4%
Coal got 15%
Total fossil was 66.2%
Nuclear got 12.4%
Ethanol got 7.6%
Other renewables got 7.5%
Conservation got 2.1%
Other got 4.2%
How backwards is that! Conservation should have gotten 50%. That would have made a larger difference in all of the others than the money they got.
Rod Adams wrote, "I can tell you, without writing a book here, that there are plenty of us in the nuclear field who have reasonable solutions to all of the remaining issues, including cost, associated with building and operating nuclear power plants. All we want is a fair opportunity to show them to you."
Isn't that what the nuclear industry is trying to do in Norway? Going well, isn't it?
Jamie Fagan, I don't see Democrats or environmentalists blocking nuclear in this country anymore. I see cost blocking it. Amory Lovins, in testimony before Congress probably overstated it to make his comments zingier, but there is still some truth to them:
"Far from undergoing a renaissance, nuclear power is conspicuously failing in the marketplace, for the same forgotten reason it failed previously: it costs too much, and it bears too much financial risk to attract private risk capital despite Federal subsidies approaching or exceeding its total cost. … Only central planners buy it. … They have attracted no private risk capital despite U.S. taxpayer subsidies that can now total 13 billion dollars per nuclear plant, roughly its entire cost, which exceeds the market cap of any U.S. utility save one. … The U.S. can have only as many new nuclear plants as taxpayers are forced to buy. Heroic efforts at near or over 100% subsidization will continue to elicit same response as defibrillating a corpse: it will jump, but it won't revive."
Oops, I meant Finland, not Norway:
Quoting from the Bloomberg story:
"Olkiluoto-3, the first nuclear plant ordered in Western Europe since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, is also more than 25 percent over its 3 billion-euro ($4 billion) budget."
"If Finland's experience is any guide, the 'nuclear renaissance' touted by the global atomic power industry as an economically viable alternative to coal and natural gas may not offer much progress from a generation ago, when schedule and budgetary overruns for new reactors cost investors billions of dollars."
"The U.K.'s Sizewell-B plant, which took nearly 15 years from the application to build it to completion, opened in 1995 and cost about 2.5 billion pounds ($5.1 billion), up from a 1987 estimate of 1.7 billion pounds."
"Landtman now says the reactor might be fully completed in 2011. The initial target was mid-2009."


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WHAT: A public meeting will be held to discuss plans for improvements on Florida Avenue. The meeting will be held at Fletcher Library located at 823 N. Buchanan St., Little Rock, Ark. on Monday, Aug. 11 at 5:30 p.m. This project is located in Ward 3.
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you could acually do something other than just stand there.. or maybe it's just my computer..
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Pointless movie. Pointless to watch. Pointless to review, yet I did it anyways...
Although I'm not a fan of these cam = flash type of submissions, this one was a tad different.
The camera angle was far different than most that I've seen. The soft, subtle lighting effects caused by the window in the background gave a hint of atmosphere that still left me wanting more. The music and sound in the movie were an interesting choice. Sound quality was rather good, although I have seen better. The song brings me back to my childhood when my mother used to dance around the house dusting while listening to some demon run radio station on Sunday mornings.
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My series of the top five players in Tampa Bay history wraps up with No. 1.
By now, it's no secret that spot is filled by Derrick Brooks.
I also gave Warren Sapp and Lee Roy Selmon, two Hall of Famers, strong consideration for the top spot. Neither of those would have been bad choices. But, in the end, I decided Brooks was the best player in franchise history.
My logic was that Brooks was the most instrumental player in turning the Buccaneers from a laughingstock to a regular playoff contender and, eventually, a Super Bowl champion. Sapp also had plenty to do with that, but I gave the nod to Brooks for several reasons.
Brooks had the longer career in Tampa Bay. He also had more of an impact off the field – and still does. Off-field things don't count in Hall of Fame voting, but they do in my top five.
Brooks was named to the Pro Bowl 11 times. He was the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year in 2002 and the Walter Payton Man of the Year in 2000. He also was a member of the NFL's All-Decade team for the 2000s.
Brooks was elected to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot in February. He'll be inducted in August. His resume speaks for itself, but it should include one final line.
Brooks was the best player in Tampa Bay history.


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UPDATED 10:14 PM (WBKO) -- Bowling Green Commissioner Bill Waltrip has served the city of Bowling Green in different areas for decades now.
Monday night, Waltrip told WBKO he won't seek re-election later on this year.
Waltrip was first elected to the Bowling Green City Commission in 2010.
Prior to that he worked on bowling green's police force for about 30 years serving as Chief for four years.
Waltrip said he will never forget his first night as city commissioner.
"How humbled I was at the fact that we have a process that elects people to vote, to take a leadership role in the community that way, and how nervous I was. I'd been in city government for over 30 years, but just humbled by that. That was really a highlight for me," said Bowling Green City Commissioner Bill Waltrip.
Waltrip said his decision not to run for a third term was a long thought out process.
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Waltrip told me this evening he has not slammed the door on another run in the future, but it won't be this term.
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Bill Waltrip has announced he is not seeking reelection. Waltrip was elected to the city commission in 2010.
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I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma (MM) August of 2004. My doctor had checked for more than a year to find why I was anemic. When he could not find why, he sent me to a hemo-oncology clinic. They found that it was on the border line and opted to observe for 6 months. I was given thalidomide for one year. In 2006, I was given a bone marrow biopsy after which I was told to prepare for a stem cell transplant (SCT). The transplant lasted for 4 1/2 years. In Oct 2011 I started treatment again and in April 2012 I had the 2nd SCT. In 11/12 to 6/13 I did the 3rd cycle of treatment. The 4th cycle started in 10/13 to present. My treatment since 2011 has been Revlimid, Velcade and dexamethasone.
Comment from: Becky Craze, 65-74 Female (Patient) Published: October 15
I started down the path of MM (multiple myeloma) about three years ago. In May I went to Ohio State to check into a stem cell transplant and they are projecting that in the next two years I will need one, but my local oncologist says it won't be that long. So far I have been able to dodge chemotherapy but I am going for blood work every 6 weeks now. The last M-1 spike was 4.8 and judging from past progression my doctor thinks it will be 5.2 this time.
Comment from: Myeloma, 25-34 Male (Patient) Published: October 07
I am a 25 years old male with multiple myeloma diagnosed in early 2013. Since then I had 8 long months of chemotherapy then I had auto stem cell transplant which also involved heavy dose of chemotherapy. It has been 4 months since auto stem cell transplant during this period my protein counts have been high and keeps going up my doctor is also confused what needs to be done next to control this aggressive disease.
Comment from: 65-74 Male (Patient) Published: February 06
I had a fall at work which I did not consider serious but eventually saw my GP about as I was always tired - sleeping for hours- and had pain in my ribs and left leg; the latter I put down to the fall. The GP misdiagnosed the pain as nerve damage and prescribed a large dose of anti-inflammatories which shut down my kidneys (already damaged by the myeloma) and nearly killed me. Blood tests revealed the myeloma and the fact that my kidneys were functioning at about 10%. I have had several courses of chemo (Velcade) and I am, at the moment, stable with about 26% kidney function. I also have lumbar plexoplathy and have suffered a heart attack. So it is sometimes difficult to know which of my ailments is responsible for which symptoms.
Comment from: John, 55-64 (Patient) Published: July 07
I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma 8 years ago. I had fractured spine requiring fixation. I am on lenalidomide and cyclophosphamide 10 and 50 mg weekly. My protein levels are still rising.
Comment from: Joseph1946, 65-74 Male (Patient) Published: February 20
Prognosis means, ultimately, "how long do I have?" But that question is not a valid use of survival statistics, which should be used primarily in assessing the best treatment for the stage that is presenting. This is because it is based on dead people. You are not dead, so you are not included. I was diagnosed with Stage III-B MM, type lambda, (- B means with kidney damage)with 90% marrow plasma cells, in March of 1993. I had a three-year remission with my first chemo of intermittent high-dose dexamethasone. After three years, when a small amount of Bence-Jones protein was found, I enrolled in a clinical trial "Intensification of Stem Cell Transplantation," in November of 1996, and have had no detectable disease since that time. I still monitor, but now at six-month intervals. Prognosis? Anything is possible, even for late stage MM like mine. When people ask me what I do, I tell them that I "rewrite medical statistics."
Comment from: tim, 45-54 Male (Patient) Published: June 11
I'm 45 years old and found out two months ago that I have multiple myeloma. I went to the hospital for neck pains and my c-2 vertebra was fractured. I have been doing radiation and chemotherapy. I'm at stage 3 and they have me scheduled to have a stem cell and a bone marrow transplant. To be honest I'm very scared about this because it has not been a very comfortable ride so far. I'm a single father and really hate for my kids to see me weak and down.
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Mentoring in language and culture on-line
Brown, T. Pascal; Panko, Mary
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Citation:Brown, T.P., & Panko, M. (2000, June). Mentoring in language and culture on-line. Paper presented at Ed-Media 2000 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Educational Telecommunications, Montreal.
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A mentor can 'stimulate the construction of the student's autonomy' (Freire 1998), empower people to think more positively about themselves and increase their network of contacts (McKenzie 1995, Jeruchin and Shapiro 1992). But few professional or non-qualified migrants with English as a Second or Other Language (ESOL) have a mentor who can support and guide them into work, assist in extending their network or help them improve their English language skills. Many also are not unable to enrol in classroom based English language course for a variety of reasons. Therefore there is often a delay, sometimes of many years, in their communicating in English and finding fulfilling employment. One possible solution is the World Wide Web where a virtual mentor can be established to support migrants to fulfil their social and employment aspirations. This paper reports on an internet site that mentors, and teaches language and culture, to ESOL members on-line. Issues of design heuristics are also raised.
Keywords:mentoring, ESOL, online, virtual mentoring, online learning
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How's all that new outreach going, GOP? Not that well, it seems.
This week, Nevada Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey gave meaning to that old political saying, "A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth." Speaking on a conservative talk radio show about the Republican Party's chances in 2014, Hickey said:
"Probably where we had a million voters turn out in 2012; we'll have like 700,000 [in 2014]. A lot of minorities, a lot of younger people will not turn out in a non-presidential year. It's a great year for Republicans!"
It's a great year for Republicans-- when people don't vote! Particularly those young people and minorities, so never mind them! Really, just a great job rebranding there, GOP, I think you've nailed it.
Of course, it's amusing when a politician accidentally reveals the truth like this, but it points to a serious problem in our democracy. The Republican assault on the right to vote in this country is moving full steam ahead, with bills introduced in 31 states just this year. It's clear at this point that no amount of accidental truth-telling is going to embarrass them into stopping this attack: they've had slip-ups like this in the past, but they still keep pushing to make it harder for people to vote. We can't wait for them to start feeling ashamed of their position, because that's clearly never going to happen. It's up to us to actively defend the right to vote, wherever it is under attack.
At the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington this Wednesday, Reverend Al Sharpton made the case that people of color are facing a new generation of Jim Crow-type laws. "Jim Crow had a son," Sharpton said, a son who writes voter suppression, Stand Your Ground, and stop-and-frisk laws. His name? "James Crow, Jr., Esquire."
At Rosa Park's funeral in 2005, Sharpton made similar comments:
The one we've got to battle is James Crow, Jr., Esquire. He's a little more educated. He's a little slicker. He's a little more polished. But the results are the same. He doesn't put you in the back of the bus. He just puts referendums on the ballot to end affirmative action where you can't go to school. He doesn't call you a racial name, he just marginalizes your existence.
A case in point of the slicker, more polished push for policy that disproportionately harms people of color is the assault on voting rights in North Carolina. The Institute for Southern Studies released the results of an investigation yesterday finding that mega-donor Art Pope has played an important, if largely hidden, role in making restrictive voting laws in the state a reality. Whether through funding conservative think tanks disseminating lies about voter fraud or by financially backing Republican elected officials involved in pushing the sweeping anti-voter law, Pope's influence in bringing about what The Nation described as "the country's worst voter suppression law" is clear.
At PFAW, we often write about the danger of individual Americans' voices being drowned out by the roar of moneyed interests in our democracy. Through organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council, corporate lobbyists can quietly help get Stand Your Ground and voter ID laws on the books. Art Pope's support of North Carolina's draconian voting law shows one more example of why the struggle to protect individual voices and votes in a democracy being flooded by the money of wealthy special interests is an uphill battle – but a battle unquestionably worth fighting.
Back in April, two Alaska House committees approved a bill that would require voters to show a photo ID at the polls – a particularly damaging measure in a state where many rural communities don't even require photos on drivers' licenses. Now, the Anchorage Daily News is reporting that there is a familiar face behind the measure. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the driving force behind voter suppression and anti-immigrant measures around the country, reportedly coordinated with Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell to push the bill in what looks like an effort to damage Democratic Sen. Mark Begich in his 2014 reelection bid. (Treadwell denies that he worked with Kobach on the bill, which he says he opposes.)
Alaska Natives say a photo ID rule would be a roadblock to voting in the Bush. A decline in turnout there, with its traditionally heavy Democratic vote, could affect the 2014 reelection hopes of U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, a Democrat running in a Republican-leaning state. One of his potential rivals is Alaska's top election official, Republican Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell.
Treadwell says he doesn't support the voter ID bill, but Kobach says Treadwell was instrumental in getting him involved in promoting the Alaska legislation.
In an April statement to reporters that didn't mention Kobach or Kansas, Treadwell touted the cross-checking as having found 14 people suspected of "actually voting in both Alaska and another state" in 2012. Treadwell threatened to prosecute the voters if the allegations were confirmed.
Alaska elections director Gail Fenumiai recently said 12 of the 14 voters cited in Treadwell's April statement were wrongly identified as duplicate voters and actually voted only in Alaska.
Kobach told the Daily News it was he who suggested to Treadwell that Alaska get involved in the Kansas project. "I personally talked to Mead Treadwell, your lieutenant governor, and encouraged him to join, and he did so," Kobach said.
And his testimony on the photo ID bill, Kobach said, was the result of a conversation with Treadwell.
"I spoke to Mead about it at one of our national conferences -- he mentioned that you guys were considering a photo ID law," Kobach said. "I said I'd be happy to share some of the experiences we've had in Kansas."
Treadwell, who said he doesn't support the Alaska bill because of the difficulty for Bush residents to get photo identification, said he didn't recall talking to Kobach about it.
As the Daily News explains, a photo ID bill would be especially damaging to Alaska Natives living in rural communities where DMVs are hard to access and where many towns don't even require photographs on drivers' licenses:
Photo ID measures are controversial across the country. Advocates say they help prevent fraud. Opponents say they make it more difficult for particular groups of people to vote: the elderly, students and the poor who don't own cars. In Alaska, the situation is compounded by the difficulty of getting to a Division of Motor Vehicles office in a regional hub like Nome or Bethel from a small village. Alaska doesn't even require a photograph on a driver's license in dozens of Bush communities.
Democratic activists say photo ID bills have the effect of disenfranchising more Democratic voters than Republicans. In his annual address to the Alaska Legislature this year, Begich criticized the bill as making it more difficult for Alaska Natives and Hispanics -- two traditional Democratic groups -- to vote.
The sponsor of Alaska's bill, who has acknowledged that he drafted the measure using materials from the corporate-funded conservative group ALEC, had odd words of consolation for those concerned about the suppressive impact of the bill: at least it wouldn't be as bad as Iraq!
Rep. Bob Lynn, an Anchorage Republican who is prime sponsor of the voter ID bill, said he wasn't trying to disenfranchise anyone. He dismissed opponents as complainers who should be happy they don't face the kind of obstacles voters do in places like Iraq.
"Terrorists have threatened to kill anyone who voted, but they voted anyway, and then these voters put ink in their finger to prove they had voted -- evidence that could have gotten them killed. Now that's a hassle, to say the least. Needing a photo ID to vote in Alaska wouldn't even come close to that," Lynn said when his State Affairs Committee first heard the bill in February.
WASHINGTON – The Republican National Committee released a report today reviewing its losses in the 2012 election cycle and laying out a roadmap for the future of the party. People For the American Way Vice President Marge Baker released the following statement:
"This report highlights what we already knew: that the Republican party is out of touch with America. Instead of addressing the party's anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-worker policies that voters resoundingly rejected in 2012, today's report calls for a complete gutting of campaign finance reform – in essence calling for even more big money to be poured into our elections. If the Republican party were listening to Americans, they would know that the country supports finding systemic solutions to the problem of unregulated money in our political system. The answer is certainly not to gut the regulations we already have in place. Instead, we need to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC and related cases so that we can create more effective regulations to get big money out of our democracy.
"The GOP report's recommendations on voting rights also underscore a continuing focus on keeping certain voters from the polls. After an election cycle overflowing with examples of discriminatory voter suppression efforts aimed at historically disenfranchised communities, the report recommends an ongoing focus on so-called 'ballot security training initiatives.' This is simply another phrase for the same voter intimidation tactics used in the name of preventing supposed 'voter fraud.' It's baffling that the GOP thinks it can improve its image with people of color while still working to block their access to the ballot box.
"This report is yet another example that the GOP's 'soul-searching' hasn't gotten them very far. It's time to refocus our efforts on getting the big money out of elections and the voters into the voting booth."
WASHINGTON – Today the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Shelby County v. Holder, a case challenging Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. People For the American Way Foundation released the following statement:
"The right to vote is one of the most fundamental rights we have as Americans," said People For the American Way Foundation President Michael Keegan. "The Voting Rights Act, especially Section 5, has been a central part of safeguarding that right for nearly fifty years and continues to play a vital role in protecting Americans from disenfranchisement. The 2012 election cycle provided far too many examples that threats to voting access – in the form of voter ID laws, restrictions on early voting, and inequitable distribution of resources leading to excessively long waiting times for certain communities to vote – are alive and well. If we want a functioning democracy, everyone has to have access to the ballot box.
"The 15th Amendment of the Constitution is very clear on this issue: the right to vote cannot be denied on account of race, and Congress has the power to protect that right as it finds appropriate," Keegan continued. "When, after a comprehensive analysis, Congress voted overwhelmingly to reauthorize Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in 2006, it was simply doing its job. For right wing Justices on the Supreme Court to substitute their own political judgment would be a radical and unwarranted step and send a chilling message to millions of Americans who are seeing more and more burdens placed on their right to vote."
"Voting discrimination is deeply rooted in our country's history," added Minister Leslie Watson Malachi, Director of the African American Ministers Leadership Council at People For the American Way Foundation. "It's stunning to me that some say this law is no longer needed, when in the past election cycle we witnessed and fought attempts to make it harder for communities of color to vote all across the country. The right to vote remains fragile for many Americans, and the Voting Rights Act is an essential tool in protecting that right."
For more information on the Voting Rights Act, please refer to the new PFAW Foundation report from Senior Fellow Jamie Raskin outlining the legal case for why the VRA is still necessary, or the new Huffington Post op-ed from Minister Leslie Watson Malachi describing the challenges that people of color still face at the ballot box nearly half a century after the VRA's passage.
Yesterday the Missouri House of Representatives gave first-round approval to a proposal requiring voters to present valid, government-issued photo identification in order to vote. As it did in a failed attempt in 2012, it includes both a constitutional amendment permitting a requirement for voter identification (which would be placed on the 2014 ballot) and legislation restricting the types of identification that can be shown at the polls. This change would have a disproportionate impact on African Americans, the elderly, low-income people, people with disabilities, and students, who are twice as likely to lack the required ID.
Reverend Isaac McCullough of St. Louis, MO, a member of People For the American Way's African American Ministers in Action, issued the following statement:
"Faith leaders in my state worked hard in the months leading up to November to get our communities to the polls. It is disheartening to see that some of our Representatives yet again want to discourage, rather than encourage, people from voting. Suppressive voter ID laws fall especially hard on people who are already marginalized, threatening to keep many Missourians from the polls in future elections. That's not what our democracy is supposed to be about. As faith leaders, we have fought hard to protect the right to vote – and we are not about to give up that fight anytime soon."
In his State of the Union address last night, President Obama used his bully pulpit to ensure that the critically important issue of voting rights is securely on the agenda in 2013. Calling it "our most fundamental right as citizens," the President announced the formation of a non-partisan commission focused on improving our country's system of voting.
One woman who was undoubtedly pleased to hear this news was 102-year-old Desiline Victor of Miami, seated in the House visitors' gallery, who had waited in line for hours to cast a ballot in November's election. President Obama noted that the country should follow her determined example: "As time ticked by, her concern was not with her tired body or aching feet, but whether folks like her would get to have their say," he said.
After all, that is the issue at the core of a working democracy: whether folks get to have their say.
Leading up to the election, our affiliate People For the American Way Foundation's leadership programs witnessed and stood up to efforts across the country – ranging from unnecessary registration obstacles to early voting restrictions – to suppress the votes of those who have traditionally been disenfranchised: communities of color, low-income communities, and youth. In the past two years alone, more than 65 suppressive voter ID bills were introduced in 34 states.
That's why it is important that President Obama made it clear last night that he is serious about addressing the problems in our election system. With increased access to early voting and an end to discriminatory voter ID laws, we can ensure that all Americans "get to have their say" at the polls.
Out of State Money Floods Contests in 2012
Washington, DC – Today People For the American Way Foundation unveiled new state-by-state fact sheets detailing outside spending in U.S. Senate and House races in 21 states. Each report analyzes the outside spending totals from Super PACs, dark money groups, and out-of-state spenders in the down ballot federal races from the 2012 election cycle. The fact sheets reveal that, on average, a majority of outside election money in these states came from Super PACs. And in every case, a vast majority came from organizations registered outside of the state.
The release of the "Outside Spending, Outsized Influence" reports coincide with the weekend marking Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the third anniversary of Citizens United v. FEC to draw attention to the dual threats of voter suppression and unlimited corporate and special interest money in politics. The reports – a partnership between PFAWF and U.S. PIRG – are part of the Money Out/Voters In campaign. As part of that campaign, People For the American Way Foundation, its affiliate People For the American Way, and other organizers across the country are hosting "Day of Action" events in more than 76 cities in 33 states this weekend. Members of People For the American Way Foundation's African American Ministers Leadership Council will be leading Money Out/Voters In events in Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia.
"Last year's elections were far and away the most expensive in history," said People For the American Way Foundation Executive Vice President Marge Baker. "A major reason was the influx of outside, special interest spending in the wake of the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. FEC decision. When big money floods our elections, it dwarfs the ability of individual Americans to have their voices heard. Just as important, when politicians push laws to suppress the vote, we turn back the clock on decades on progress to expand and improve our democracy. We need to pursue the full range of remedies to address the problem of too much money in politics, including amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United, and we need to stand up against the growing threat of voter suppression. This weekend we are joining with allies across the country to call for a democracy that gets Money Out and Voters In."
The states featured in the reports are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin.
For links to each report, please visit: http://www.pfaw.org/issues/outside-spending-outsized-influence-big-and-s...
For more information about the Money Out/Voters In campaign or the Days of Action, please visit: http://www.moneyout-votersin.org
Washington, DC – This week People For the American Way joined with ally organizations to mark Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the third anniversary of Citizens United v. FEC with events drawing attention to the dual threats of voter suppression and unlimited corporate and special interest money in politics. Under the banner of Money Out/Voters In, organizers are hosting "Day of Action" events in more than 76 cities in 33 states on and around the weekend of January 19.
Additionally, two reports highlighting new data on spending in the 2012 election season were released today. A report by Demos and the U.S. PIRG Education Fund provides a wide-ranging analysis of the role of money in the 2012 elections, and a report by the U.S. PIRG Education Fund and the Center for Media and Democracy examines the role dark money nonprofits and shell corporations played in 2012.
"Voter suppression and unlimited corporate and special interest money in politics serve as barriers to full civic participation, transparency, and accountability," said Marge Baker, Executive Vice President at People For the American Way. "Both stand in the way of democracy. We are excited to come together with our allies on this important weekend to signal our intentions to confront the multi-faceted assault on the voices of everyday Americans in our political system."
"Big Money over Voters, or Voters over Big Money. The Kochs and Roves have made their choice, and they're in it for the long-term. Now We, the People are rising up to announce our choice: Money Out, Voters In," said Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen. "With the actions on January 19, a growing movement calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, a guarantee of voting rights and a restoration of our democracy is announcing that we're in it for the long haul also, and we aim to win."
"We are facing a dual attack on our democracy – everyday voters are being disenfranchised while corporations are being hyper-enfranchised," stated NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous. "We need to fix the fundamentals of our political system if we want to get down to solving our long-term problems."
"Our reports found clear evidence of what the vast majority of Americans already understand: political power in America is concentrated in the hands of an elite few," said U.S. PIRG Democracy Advocate Blair Bowie. "It's time for our leaders in Washington and across the country to take concrete action to build a democracy in which every citizen is truly a political equal. It's time we make good on the promise of government of, by, and for the people."
"Getting big money out and more voters in are two critical fronts in the ongoing fight for true political equality in America," said Demos Counsel Adam Lioz. "We all deserve a meaningful voice in shaping the decisions that affect our lives, and we won't stand for being blocked by red tape at the polls or drowned out by millionaires and billionaires in the public square."
"Big, secret money is corrupting our democracy. This was the most expensive election year in the world and one of the least transparent in decades, with nonprofit groups having more influence than ever before while keeping CEO and corporate donors secret," said Lisa Graves, Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy and a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department.
"Since the Citizens United decision three years ago, voters have been clear in their disdain for this decision," said Common Cause President Bob Edgar. "The big question is whether our elected representatives will listen to those voices. Our goal is to build a wave of grassroots support so strong that they cannot ignore it."
For more information about the Money Out/Voters In Days of Action, please visit http://www.moneyout-votersin.org.
Groups supporting the Money Out/Voters In effort include 350.org, African American Ministers in Action, Campaign for America's Future, Center for Media & Democracy, Citizens For Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Coffee Party, Common Cause, Communications Workers of America, Consumer Action, CREDO Action, Demos, Free Speech for People, Friends of the Earth, Global Exchange, Hip Hop Caucus, League of United Latin American Citizens, Move to Amend, MoveOn, NAACP, National People's Action, National Women's Health Network, Oil Change International, Organic Consumers Association, People For the American Way, Public Citizen, Rootstrikers, Stamp Stampede, Sierra Club, Story of Stuff, U.S. PIRG, United for a Fair Economy, United Republic/Represent.Us.
If you were casting a ballot in South Carolina last Tuesday, your wait to vote may have been four hours. In Florida, it might have been seven. If you were voting in Hawaii, you may have gone to one of the nineteen polling places that ran out of paper ballots. President Barack Obama noted in his victory speech that many Americans waited in long lines and, as he stated, "we have to fix that."
Just nine days after Election Day, Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) has taken a first swing at that fix. Coons proposed a bill yesterday that would reform many of the country's election procedures. His proposed legislation, the Louis L. Redding Fair, Accurate, Secure and Timely (FAST) Voting Act of 2012, would provide federal grants to states that make voting faster and more accessible. The bill includes provisions for same-day registration, early voting, and reducing how long voters must wait at poorly-performing voting facilities.
As Sen. Coons noted in a statement: "Long lines are a form of voter disenfranchisement, a polling place running out of ballots is a form of voter suppression, and making it harder for citizens to vote is a violation of voters' civil rights." And these problems at the polls tend to disproportionately affect African American and Latino voters.
The Washington Post points out that it is less a matter of fixing a voting system but more an issue of fixing thousands of voting systems. They note that with Congress, states, and local officials all playing roles, there is no single entity that oversees voting in the country. This may complicate the process of developing solutions.
Nevertheless, it is welcome news that national leaders are focusing on this issue. It was inspiring to see millions of Americans willing to spend hour after hour on line to vote, many of them likely knowing that the lines were an intentional result of plans to prevent them from voting. Every single voter on Election Day should be confident that their ballot will be cast in a timely manner and that their voice will be heard. Anything less is undemocratic -- and unacceptable.


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Purchased premium theme called Disillusion > Responsive One Page WordPress Theme.
Installed here.
I want the background of the tabs in the nav to each be a different colour while active. And I want the text in each tab to change to that colour upon hover.
home = #3FA9F5
about = #7AC943
news = #FF7BAC
locations = #FF243F
contact = #FF931E
I'm messing around right now but only managed to figure out how to change the background...
When not selected or hover, I want the background of each tab to be #FFFFFF and the text to be #000000.
Sorry this is probably easy but I can't figure it out. Would love some advice! Thanks.


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New Blizzard MMO not likely to be announced until 2012, says Pardo
Blizzard's EVP of game design Rob Pardo has just revealed at Blizzcon a reveal of the company's next MMO is not likely to happen until 2012 at the earliest.
Speaking with Geoff Keighley, Pardo also said the 50-strong development team was playing with prototypes internally.
Not much else was said.
Justin and Nathan are currently on the hunt in Anaheim for news. Stick with us.
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Wunderbar, Wunderbar
LOCATION West 57th Street
RENT $672.36 [rent stabilized]
SQUARE FEET 700 [studio in pre-war, 36-unit elevator building]
OCCUPANT Douglas Jabara [singer]
You're eating a sandwich! Do you mind? I just sang through Carmen. My neighbors? They love it. They say, Open this door. Oh, you sound really good today. The ones that come are like the elderly people. There are two architects down that hall, a director-choreographer on the right. He's the one who hired me to sing in CatsOld Deuteronomy. I said, Oh boy, I don't dance. He said, Don't worry. You just sit on a tire. This was in Hilton Head. Want some fudge? I just came from the Poconos.
Eating fudge! It's like we're on vacation. Exactly. I'm always on vacation. I read all these books about feng shui. I've been here 15 years now. It got so cluttered. The fudge is good, isn't it? Ever go to the Poconos?
No. My dad has a place up there, so pretty. There were two great things I learned from feng shui. One, throw out the clutter. Two, treat each part of the room as a separate room even though there are no walls. [He indicates the couch where we are sitting.] This is the living room. [He walks to the corner where the bed is.] The bedroom. [He whistles, walks near the piano, holds up bells.] These give you the impression you might even be outside with the cows. Over here is Jabara, Inc.computer, cell phone charger, all my kooky, personal stuff, all the baloney. Photomy buddies from college. I got my degree in biochemistry at Penn, the Ivy League one. I was going to be a doctor. Senior year at the Water Clubmy girlfriend had a party. Where is she? Bay Ridge with kids. No, she didn't make the wall.
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This plate is painted with Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones. I was Curly in high school. Oh, we got it allYul Brynner on a plate. I got every character I ever played on a plate. Almost. [He winds up a miniature covered wagon.] It plays slow-motion "Oklahoma." My family, they're importers, tablecloths from Portugal. My family's huge. The beautiful thing about the Lebanese culture, if somebody's older and they go to your church, they're an aunt. I have 32 aunts.
You're so homey. You have all these packages of cereal. I love storage. That's why I want to have a house. Well, there's going to be one in Italy, probably Lucca, and another in New Jersey with the rest of my cousins so our children can grow up together, and the third is going to be by the water so I can have a big boat, wait, two boats, a fishing boat, strictly for me and cousin Henry, who loves to fish and . . .
You got this apartment years ago because you went to Italy. My mom said, Don't spend the money. Mom, whatever. My buddy Arthur and I are on a bus. Arthur's a big lawyer nowyou see him on Court TV all the time. Arthur's father's in the Colombian Lawyers Association. They're on their annual trip to Italy. We brought a big karaoke tape. So we're singing. Arthur and I put on a show from high school. We were in West Side Story together. We got everybody singing and Big Tony and his wife fell in love with us. Big Tony owned these buildings. He said, If I ever have an apartment that opens up, I'll set you up. A week later I got a call. Want to see a tape? It's the fundraiser for my parents' church. This is Diana McVey singing. [We watch.]
She's in sequins. Why don't you marry her? She's already got someone. [Diana singing: "The hills are alive, with the sound of music . . . " Then Douglas, in a tuxedo, joins her: "Wunderbar, wunderbar, our love is wunderbar."]
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I'm new with python programming and GUI. I search on internet about GUI programming and see that there are a lot of ways to do this. I see that easiest way for GUI in python might be tkinter(which is included in Python, and it's just GUI library not GUI builder)? I also read a lot about GLADE+PyGTK(and XML format), what is there so special(glade is GUI builder)?
Can anyone make some "personal opinion" about this choices?
I have python code, I need to make simple GUI(2 button's-open-close-read-write,and some "print" work) and then make some .exe file (is there best choice py2exe=?). Is there a lot of changes in code to make GUI?
Many thanks


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Rally Poland will now take place on September 13-15, with Rally Croatia moving from June to September 26-28, when the Polish race was originally scheduled to run.
Barum Czech Rally Zlin, which concludes on September 1, begins the dramatic month.
The changes were made at the request of the Croatian motorsport federation, which wished its event to coincide with the country hosting a meeting of the FIA's World Motor Sport Council, and approved by a fax vote among WMSC members.
François Ribeiro, motorsport development director at promoter Eurosport Events, said: "Changing the calendar once the season is underway is never an ideal situation but we must thank the organisers of Rally Poland for their assistance in accommodating a request by the Croatia Rally.
"Even though we have now a gravel event in between two tarmac rallies, the momentum will be high and the ERC will firmly be in the public eye during the month of September.
"While the date of Rally Poland now clashes with the WRC round in Australia, something we had looked to avoid with the FIA, the different time zones and the fact the two rallies appeal to a different competitor base means neither rally should be overly affected."
Revised calendar
01 International Jännerrallye (Austria), Asphalt/snow, 3-5 January
02 Rally Liepāja-Ventspils (Latvia), Gravel/snow, 1-3 February
03 Rally Islas Canarias El Corte Inglés (Spain), Asphalt, 21-23 March
04 SATA Rallye Açores (Portugal), Gravel, 25-27 April
05 Tour de Corse (France), Asphalt, 16-18 May
06 GEKO Ypres Rally (Belgium), Asphalt, 27-29 June
07 Rally San Marino*, Gravel, 11-13 July
08 Sibiu Rally (Romania), Gravel, 25-27 July
09 Barum Czech Rally Zlín, Asphalt, 30 August-1 September
10 Rally Poland, Gravel, 13-15 September
11 Croatia Rally, Asphalt, 26-28 September
12 Rallye Sanremo (Italy), Asphalt, 10-12 October
13 Rallye International du Valais (Switzerland), Asphalt, 7-9 November
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I've installed last week online backup. I tried to backup manually but it wouldn't work then. So I waited a week to see if it would backup as scheduled but apparently it did not.
It keeps saying "backup has never run" on the overview page. When I do a manual backup (database and filesystem), everything is fine but it seems it gets stuck at 100% with a ! message "updating backup journal" and it stays like that until I click away from the page. There's also next to event: errors: 0 and warning:1. When I click event I get "The specified activity no longer exists. There are no events to show" Then on the overview it says " a backup has never run". If I'm on the overview page while it's backing up, then it's backing up forever until I click on another tab.
Same issue if I do the manual backup with only the database, not the file system, except that instead of the !"updating backup journal" I get !" processing backup log". Same event errors and warnings.
The activity log is still empty.
Online backup usage is 18.59 MiB / 100 MiB (18%).
I can't really update wordpress until I'm sure it's backup properly.