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The fake populism from those pushing the anti-science disinformation of the plutocrats and pollutocrats
A favorite attack line of conservatives and/or disinformers is that progressives are elitists who supposedly "espouse their intellectual superiority." The goal of this disingenuous attack is so that they can push the Big Oil, Corporate Polluter agenda and appear to care about the middle class, while putting the screws to them, and so they can undercut the credibility of all 'experts,' especially scientists, whose work is crucial to preserving clean-air, clean water, and a livable climate.
The attack is particularly laughable coming from elite disinformers who themselves treat the American public with so much disdain by lying non-stop to further an agenda that will enrich the rich and put the screws to pretty much everyone else.
Remember, perhaps the main reason the country has failed to act on climate change is the immoral, but brilliantly successful, disinformation campaign funded by Big Oil and billionaire polluters — the pollutocrats (see "From promoting acid rain to climate denial "" over 20 years of David Koch's polluter front groups") — and embraced by the elite conservative media, pundits, and politicians.
Now, those pollutocrats are pulling the strings of the Tea Party, in order to give a populist, grass-roots gloss to their corporatist agenda. Frank Rich makes this point in his Sunday piece, "The Grand Old Plot Against the Tea Party":
What made the Tea Party most useful was that its loud populist message gave the G.O.P. just the cover it needed both to camouflage its corporate patrons and to rebrand itself as a party miraculously antithetical to the despised G.O.P. that gave us George W. Bush and record deficits only yesterday.
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News and Wall Street Journal have been arduous in promoting and inflating Tea Party events and celebrities to this propagandistic end. The more the Tea Party looks as if it's calling the shots in the G.O.P., the easier it is to distract attention from those who are actually calling them "" namely, those who've cashed in and cashed out as ordinary Americans lost their jobs, homes and 401(k)'s.
So it is beyond ironic for anyone to call 'elitist' those who are trying, however ineffectively, to actually provide accurate information on climate science and give America a fighting chance to regain leadership in the clean energy industries that will be one of the biggest job creating sectors of the economy.
That doesn't stop NY Times reporter Peter Baker from parroting the standard right wing attack in his piece, "Elitism: The Charge Obama Can't Shake." Of course, who does the NYT quote to prove his case:
"Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now, and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time, is because we're hard-wired not to always think clearly when we're scared," he told a roomful of doctors who chipped in at least $15,200 each to Democratic coffers. "And the country is scared, and they have good reason to be."
The notion that voters would reject Democrats only because they don't understand the facts prompted a round of recriminations "" "Obama the snob," read the headline on a Washington Post column by Michael Gerson, the former speechwriter for President George W. Bush "" and fueled the underlying argument of the campaign that ends Tuesday. For all the discussion of health care and spending and jobs, at the core of the nation's debate this fall has been the battle of elitism.
Mr. Obama's remark that autumn evening played into a perception promoted by his critics that he is a Harvard-educated millionaire elitist who is sure that he knows best and thinks that those who disagree just aren't in their right minds. Never mind that Mr. Obama was raised in less exalted circumstances by a single mother who he said once needed food stamps.
Uhh, yes, the attack is "promoted by his critics" — along with the claim Obama is socialist or a fascist or a Muslim or someone who wasn't born in this country — or a Joker-style anarchist. Seriously, the speechwriter for the President who did the most to enrich to rich at the expense of the poor and middle class, who created the largest income gap in many decades, is calling Obama an elitist? And the New York Times uses that attack to justify an article on the front page of the widely read 'Week in Review' section?
Obama isn't an elitist — he is just painfully bad at messaging. Indeed, in recent weeks he has been consistently ignoring the first rule of political messaging — don't talk about process! Don't talk about why you have failed to deliver your message effectively — deliver your damn message effectively already! The media just love to trash presidents who talk process, rather than substance. The fact that Obama doesn't know this — and that his advisers won't put a stop to it — is embarrassing.
It shouldn't be any surprise to a great speech-maker like Obama that "facts and science" aren't winning the day. They hardly ever do — "argument" does. That's what the Greeks figured out 2500 years ago when they invented rhetoric. Indeed, that was specifically why they codified the rules of rhetoric.
The specific reason "facts and science" aren't winning the day is that the plutocrats and pollutocrats have spent hundreds of millions of dollars spreading lies — and have their own media outlets that provide billions of dollars worth of coverage of those lies — whereas Barack 'no narrative' Obama and progressive politicians hardly spend any time explaining what he's done or why, so much so that even The Onion noticed (see Democrats: "If We're Gonna Lose, Let's Go Down Running Away From Every Legislative Accomplishment We've Made").
The disinformers try the same faux populism when they claim, as the discredited Anthony Watts recently did:
Screaming "hell, high water, global boiling, climate disruption, etc " while at the same time saying "you're too dumb to understand it" looks to be an epic "failure to communicate".,
I have never met a climate blogger who wrote or even thought that Americans were too dumb to understand what's happening to the climate and why. There's nothing terribly complicated about it. Indeed, it would be absurd to hold such a view — since Americans consistently support much stronger action on climate and clean energy than their leaders, including "cap-and-trade." And indeed, as Jon Krosnick, senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, has found in poll after poll, "The vast majority of Americans know global warming is real."
If we even had simple majority rule in the Senate, we probably would have had a climate bill last year — and we certainly would've had one if there were voting strictly based on proportional representation. But the super majority in the Senate allows a minority backed by the pollutocrats to thwart the will of the people. And their superior messaging strategy and greater financial resources allow them to convince a great many people that this was an okay thing to do.
It is certainly true that most polling suggests that Democrats and independents understand climate science better — but that isn't terribly surprising since conservatives get much of their news from media outlets that are run by and/or parrot the pollutocrats. Yes, I think it is appropriate to be disgusted with politicians who flip flop on basic issues of climate science and climate action rather than tell voters the facts:
- McCain drinks the Kool-Aid [iced tea?] and becomes a climate conspiracy theorist
- The dumbing down of Carly Fiorina
- Flashback: Carly Fiorina said cap-and-trade "will both create jobs and lower the cost of energy"
- NY Times slams "alternative reality" of GOP deniers: "They've disappeared in a fog of disinformation, an entire political party parroting the Cheney line."
BUT those who call out political leaders whose job it is to be informed on crucial issues of the day, particularly the single most important issue of the century, are not calling voters dumb — much as the disinformers desparately want to push that smear. I repeat, on this issue, most voters, particularly Democrats and independents, are considerably wiser than the collective wisdom of the U.S. Senate.
The rest of this post is going to be an extended excerpt from my 2008 post, Why scientists aren't more persuasive, Part 2: Why deniers out-debate "smart talkers." Scientists — and technocrats like Obama — must understand the elitist frame that the opposition desperately wants to shoe-horn them into, a narrative the media is all too eager to repeat, as the NY Times shows.
Public debates are typically won by the person or group who presents the most compelling and persuasive character. If I can convince you I'm an honest, straight talker, you'll believe what else I say. If can't, you won't. This fact was very well understood by the masters of persuasive language from ancient Greece and Rome through Elizabethans like Shakespeare and by skilled debaters like Lincoln and Churchill, as we will see.
Debates are not usually won on factual or policy merits, in part because listeners aren't in a position to adjudicate sometimes subtle differences between complex positions "" what exactly was the difference between Clinton's health care plan and Obama's? and what exactly is the difference between carbon dioxide emissions and carbon dioxide concentrations? "" and because those who are undecided on an issue are typically skeptical of all advocates, especially self-style "experts." They assume everybody exaggerates to defend their position. In any case, if I don't convince you I'm honest, my stated positions can't possibly matter.
Here's why (those who appear to be) straight talkers beat smart talkers every time, ending with a discussion of the 2004 election.
A core strategy of rhetoric is to avoid seeming like a smarty-pants, to avoid appearing like Carter Dukakis Gore Kerry a highly educated (i.e. elite), wonkish speaker, but rather a plainspoken man of the people.
Shakespeare "" a master of rhetoric who knew more than 200 figures of speech like all middle-class Elizabethans (why do you think they called it grammar school?) "" understood that very well. That's why he has Mark Antony say in one of the great debate speeches of all time, his famous "Friends, Romans, countrymen" response to Brutus in the Roman Forum: "I am no orator, as Brutus is, But-as you know me all-a plain blunt man."
Is it coincidental that the only ones to use the word "rhetoric" in the 2004 presidential debates were George Bush and Dick Cheney? In the Vice Presidential Debate, Cheney said to his Democratic rival, Senator John Edwards, "Your rhetoric, Senator, would be a lot more credible if there was a record to back it up." In the final debate, Bush twice repeated almost verbatim the same accusation about Kerry: "His rhetoric doesn't match his record," and again "His record in the United States Senate does not match his rhetoric." This was only a small salvo in the Bush team's war on Kerry's language.
It is a mark of wily orators that they accuse their opponents of being rhetoricians. Winston Churchill, who wrote a treatise on the use of rhetoric in political speech at the age of 22, himself once opened an attack on his political opponents, saying "These professional intellectuals who revel in decimals and polysyllables"¦."
Returning to the Roman Forum, Marc Antony says
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
To stir men's blood: I only speak right on;
I tell you that which you yourselves do know;
So Antony is a man of the people, just reminding them of what they already know. Antony was, in fact, a patrician, like Bush. Indeed, Antony was a student of rhetoric, but his repeated use of one-syllable words lends credibility to his blunt sincerity. It is a mark of first-rate orators that they deny eloquence.
Lincoln was a "plain homespun" speaker, or so goes the legend, a legend he himself worked hard to create. In a December 1859 autobiographical sketch provided to a Pennsylvania newspaper, Lincoln explained how his father grew up "literally without education." Lincoln described growing up in "a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods"¦. There were some schools, so called." He offers one especially colorful spin: "If a stranger supposed to understand Latin, happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard." No fancy talkers here. Lincoln modestly explains the result of the little schooling he had: "Of course when I came of age, I did not know much." And after that, "I have not been to school since. The little advance I now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity." All this from a man who in the previous year had proven himself to be one of America's great orators in the Lincoln-Douglas debates and who during the course of his presidency would demonstrate the most sophisticated grasp of rhetoric of any U.S. President, before or since.
Lincoln opened his masterful February 1859 Cooper Union speech echoing Shakespeare's Antony: "The facts with which I shall deal this evening are mainly old and familiar; nor is there anything new in the general use I shall make of them." (In Antony's own words, "I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.") These are the words of a man who had memorized Shakespeare from William Scott's Lessons in Elocution, a treatise that included Antony's famous speech.
Does this sound a little familiar [the late Michael Crichton from a climate debate discussed in the 2008 post]:
I myself, uh, just a few years ago, held the kinds of views that I, uh, expect most of you in this room hold.
If you want to switch people's viewpoints, pretend like you once held their views. It is a twofer. First, you can pretend you're just like one of them. Second, you draw people into the narrative, since they become intrigued about how someone who used to believe as they did now believes differently. Classic storytelling "" you need to create a hook for the listener early on or they will tune out.
Returing to rhetoric, the master orator who denies eloquence was such a commonplace by the sixteenth century that Shakespeare resorted to it repeatedly. Consider his King Henry V, a master of oratory, who delivered the most famous pre-battle speech in the English-language:
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother"¦
After the British triumph at Agincourt, King Henry V woos Katherine, the daughter of the French king. Yet, even though Kate's hand was one of Henry's conditions for peace, the master of rhetoric still treats us to his tricks.
When Kate says she doesn't speak English well, Henry says he's glad, "for, if thou couldst, thou wouldst find me such a plain king that thou wouldst think I had sold my farm to buy my crown." He's just like a farmer, a man of the people. He adds, "But, before God, Kate, I cannot look greenly nor gasp out my eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation; only downright oaths, which I never use till urged, nor never break for urging." Like Antony, he disingenuously denies eloquence. The reason orators use this trick: Being blunt and ineloquent means they must be honest and steadfast.
Here is Bush in his Orlando campaign speech on October 30, 2004:
Sometimes I'm a little too blunt-I get that from my mother. [Huge Cheers] Sometimes I mangle the English language-I get that from my dad. [Laughter and Cheers]. But you always know where I stand. You can't say that for my opponent"¦.
For a blunt language-mangler, that's surprisingly old-school "" very old school "" rhetoric.
Henry urges Kate to "take a fellow of plain and uncoin'd constancy, for he perforce must do thee right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other places." Because he is not a clever orator, he must be an honest and constant man. Then Henry compares himself to an imaginary rival: "For these fellows of infinite tongue, that can rhyme themselves into ladies' favours, they do always reason themselves out again." In short, the other guys are flip-floppers and liars. They talk smarter than I do, but that's exactly why you can't trust them.
This is precisely why the deniers like Stott and Crichton love to repeat the global cooling myth, love to say, as Crichton has one of his fictional environmentalists climate in State of Fear, "In the 1970's all the climate scientists believed an ice age was coming."
This clever and popular attack tries to make present global-warming fears seem faddish, saying current climate science is nothing more than finger-in-the-wind guessing. This attack appeals especially to conservatives who want to link their attack on climate scientists to their favorite attack against progressive presidential candidates "" that they are flip-floppers. It been debunked time and time again "" see "Killing the myth of the 1970s global cooling scientific consensus" and "Another denier talking point "" 'global cooling' "" bites the dust."
Consider Bush's stump speech in Wilmington, Ohio the day before the election, discussing his September 2003 request for $87 billion in Iraq war funding and Kerry's vote: "And then he entered the flip-flop Hall of Fame by saying this: 'I actually did vote for the $87 billion right before I voted against it.' I haven't spent a lot of time in the coffee shops around here, but I bet you a lot of people don't talk that way." In Burgettstown, two hours later he said, "I doubt many people in western Pennsylvania talk that way." In Sioux City, Iowa, a few hours later, "I haven't spent much time in the coffee shops around here, but I feel pretty comfortable in predicting that not many people talk like that in Sioux land." And in Albuquerque, he said, "I have spent a lot of time in New Mexico, and I've never heard a person talk that way."
Sarah Palin, in her stump speech, makes an almost identical criticism of Obama: "We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco." He is not one of us. He's two faced. Yes, it may seem laughable coming from the Palin-McCain team, but even laughable works when it uses the tools of rhetoric "" Palin here is using antithesis– placing words or ideas in contrast or opposition, one of Lincoln's favorite rhetorical devices: "with malice toward none; with charity for all." And she is placing Obama into a very old narrative about liars, flip-floppers, and Democratic candidates for President.
Kerry's self-defining and self-defaming quote-"I actually did vote for the $87 billion right before I voted against it."-has the powerful elements of eloquence. Sadly for Kerry, this is the precise reason it stuck in the mind. It has the repetition and sound of two memorable figures found in famous political quotes, antithesis, ("voted for" versus "voted against"), and chiasmus, words repeated in inverse order (in this case, "I .. vote for" and "before I voted"). Little wonder it was ripe for exploitation through repetition and sarcasm.
President Bush in 2004 had everything down cold that we expect from a master rhetorician: The repeated simple words, the repeated phrases, and the message that his opponent is inconsistent and inconstant because he's too clever by half and doesn't talk the way you and I do. Yet at the same time, Bush managed to leave the impression that he himself is rather slow and inarticulate. Ironically, the (all-too-many) Democrats who attacked Bush as being stupid merely gave him a free pass on all his lying and made him seem more genuine and credible to many voters.
Why did Kerry flip flop? Bush had a simple answer. The President told every audience that Kerry's most revealing explanation "was when he said, the whole thing was a complicated matter. My fellow Americans, there is nothing complicated about supporting our troops in combat." Rhetoric retains the power to move real people. In a 2005 post-election analysis, Journalism professor Danner quotes one Dr. Richardson-Pinto saying to him at Bush's Orlando rally: "It doesn't matter if the man [Kerry] can talk. Sometimes, when someone's real articulate, you can't trust what he says, you know?" And Richardson-Pinto is a doctor, someone whose credibility depends on being articulate.
So, yes, being smart, talking smart, and using big words may impress some in the audience "" but most likely only those who already agree with you. It may cost you credibility with the very people you are trying to reach.
I fully understand that many scientists don't want to spend the time needed to learn how to be persuasive to nonscientists. Indeed, Part 1 discusses how scientists are punished for being popularizers. But it is a skill that can be acquired, not really more difficult than differential equations. In any case, if you won't spend the time, or don't want to be known as a popularizer, then simply turn down public debates. This is not an amateur's game. The stakes are way, way too high.
I fear that because Obama is a good speechmaker, he thinks he's good at messaging and won't let anybody tell him otherwise. Well, he isn't. He's bad at messaging, dreadful even. That doesn't mean he didn't make consequential policy mistakes. He did. The stimulus was clearly too small — see Krugman sets the narrative straight: "We never had the kind of fiscal expansion that might have created the millions of jobs we need."
But when your messaging is this bad, you can't tell how much of your failure is due to bad messaging or bad policies. And, of course, your opponents get to define you, rather than you defining them, which is the key to victory. Unless Obama brings on board someone who understands messaging a lot better than David Axelrod or is given the gift of an unelectable opponent, like Sarah Palin, he is going to struggle mightily to be reelected.
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This post is the most emphatic, dramatic, cogent and in-your-face reason why thinking and caring Americans must support Democratic candidates (good, bad or indiffent) now and in the future. There are dangerous minds out there in the corporate world who have not an scintilla of interest in the working class. We Americans are being taken over by a machine as powerful as that which threw the world into World War II.
John McCormick
"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
e e cummings
US poet (1894 – 1962)
For me, what I took away from this was a message about power and authority. If you are feeling unwell, you are *reliant* on the doctor who can then speak in techo-jargon and things you may not understand. But you are reliant on their aid and expertise and the 'smart talk' is a symbol of that, and you trust that they are acting in your best interest.
The mistake coming from climate science is that they are adopting the 'doctor's mantle', and describing and prescribing to people who haven't approached them for aid. This is one aspect of the 'science-policy gap', and I'd be interested if Joe Romm has ever examined or discussed the science-policy gap.
In my neck of the woods it is common for right-wing political parties to raise the fear of run-away crime (generally home invasions), and to then declare themselves 'tough on crime' and should be voted in. This is an old tactic but similar in effect to the doctor scenario. The average person is made to feel at risk from crime and the conservative party offers the aid and solution.
The inverse is occurring in America; climate science is being portrayed as a scam and a threat to the average person and their way of life (power costs, etc.), something is being imposed on them that they did not feel the need to seek aid and help for in their life.
If you're sick you 'appeal to authority' for treatment; if authority tells you to stop smoking, or wear a seatbelt, authority is more likely to be rejected. This is a key element in the debate and one the deniers have rhetorically latched onto.
Finally, if you actually read this Joe Romm, I would be interested if you could write about the science-policy gap or point me to where you have discussed it, thanks!
How can we speak bluntly and plainly about global warming, Joe, the most complex science there is? SO long as we make it about the science, then we are always vulnerable to the elitist charge.
Three suggestions, two tame and one very bold and risky.
Two Tame: Redirect what the Deniers are denying.
redirect denial of human caused climate change to: the Deniers are denying the HUMAN SUFFERING that extremes of climate cause. Whatever causes the climate extremes, the extremes cause suffering. Shift the political question from, Why don't you believe in global warming?
TO: Why don't you care about people? The "human suffering" line of questioning takes one right to "moral character" – the GOP meme-weapon that destroyed liberalism turned around and deployed against them.
Second, Denialists are denying human aspiration. Denying the American patriotic pulse for a better world by settling for business as toxic usual. Reframe "business as usual" to "denying the great American aspiration to a better world." Denying the idealism and optimism that made this country. The Deniers are denying Americans a chance at a healthier, happier world. We can do better than a toxic world. We can do better than destroy the planet. We can do better than trash god's creation. Life on earth is about as nasty, brutish and SHORT as it has ever been, and a handful of humans 200 years ago decided they could do better than the meanness of tyranny, and so can we, their descendants.
Such messaging takes us to the deep aspirational heart beat of our nation. Against the drumbeat of planetary doom is the heart beat of Americans who have always aspired to a better day.
The Risky Bold
I believe that almost all the elitist frame woes in environmentalism come down to one thing: that we cannot use the word "life" because of the political baggage of "right to life" it carries.
"Life" is the simple, plain and blunt word for what all the environmental science is advocating for. If you define "life" as all life on Earth, then environmentalists are the actual pro LIFE movement — pro aliveness, pro the conditions for life, pro ALL Life. The U.N Earth Charter calls us to act on behalf of "the unborn." While we may not want, or perhaps should, cast ourselves as the real right to life movement, certainly we can shake up the frames a bit and re-brand ourselves as "right FOR life," on the side of what is right for life itself?
If Democrats and Progressives re-branded all environmental and energy policy as making the CHOICE FOR LIFE, it would dissolve the two opposing frames of the right to life movement into a single new environmental frame. Choice For Life as the new environmental and energy 'brand' would force the opposition to explain why they are NOT MAKING THE CHOICE FOR LIFE. Why they are AGAINST life. Turn the tables on them and use their meme-missile that brought down liberals against them.
Yes, I know and appreciate the downside, opening the floodgates to GOP Religious Right attacks and anti-abortion deals and feminist outrage. I said it was risky, and it is. But one could argue that if we steal and re-work the pro-life frame as what environmentalists are actually for, it helps expose the religious right as pro-birth. Creating the conditions for a child to THRIVE – health care, education, and a non-toxic world of clean energy — is what a real, "long term commitment" to the life of a human being is all about, with "long term commitment" evoking the moral 'marriage' meme that would further confound and confuse the GOP.
Again, I appreciate that this is very high risk politically, but, given the rules for Rhetoric and framing that we need simple, plain and blunt, then we have to find some way to get the word "LIFE" on our side because it is the simple, plain, blunt word for what we are, in fact, FOR. We dance around it, now, with everything from Gaia to carbon, but Rhetoric demands we use the regular word that humans use for what we're talking about when we're talking about climate: life.
Throw CHOICE FOR LIFE into the next two years of Obstructionist Overkill, and even if we could not get any decent legislation passed, we would at least have the very sweet victory, indeed, of watching the opposition be tongue tied after all these years.
If governments were doing their jobs then the fossil fuel industry would have been nationalized awhile back.
In fact it is the only sane solution still.
Its time for Gov and sane people to step in and ramp up activity to reduce CO2 emissions to Zero in the shortest possible period.
It is time to concentrate the majority of research effort, resources and money to reducing CO2 concentration.
We are literally fighting for our survival here. The quicker we get going the better.
Here is a link to a post I made linking to an article in similar vein
'It ain't over till the fat lady sings'….it is said….
Hark at the silence ;-)
Gibbs has done horrid PR work for Obama. Obama needs help to communicate effectively but his insiders do and say the wrong things. Gibbs rhetoric has effectively split the Democratic party making them all look bad.
When the communications director creates wedges in his own party, the party is in trouble.
A thought-provoking post. In particular, the first half dozen of your paragraphs. And within that, the nugget of a phrase "corporatist agenda".
Sorry if I'm wrong, but you haven't, it seems to me, talked much about the effects of the "citizen's united" supreme court decision on the hopes for climate action.
Also, given the bit about the middle class being 'put the screws to' … are you re-casting the "Tea Party extremists" (as you've labeled them in your right-hand side list of links)? Are they now victims of the agenda just like the rest of us?
How do you explain to a nation that they're being sold a bunch of bull without implying that they're stupid?
JR – it looks like your sentence
"So it is beyond ironic for anyone to call those who are trying, however ineffectively, to actually provide accurate information on climate science and give America a fighting chance to regain leadership in the clean energy industries that will be one of the biggest job creating sectors of the economy."
dropped a key word—the word being "elitist."
As I figure it, the sentence should read as follows:
'So it is beyond ironic for anyone to call "elitist" those who are trying, however ineffectively, to actually provide accurate information on climate science and give America a fighting chance to regain leadership in the clean energy industries that will be one of the biggest job creating sectors of the economy.'
BTW, I've always thought the "elitist" charge was preposterous—more or less a way of condemning progressives and their liberal leaders for actually knowing something compared to the dumbed-down majority (or at least large minority) of know-nothings in this country.
Since the 1950s and 60s, you will recall, a favorite tactic of the reactionary Right has been to brand educated liberal leaders (who include or included Adlai Stevenson, John Kennedy, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama) as "elitists" and "intellectuals" out of touch with "ordinary" people. The charge didn't work in the cases of LBJ and Bill Clinton because these men had carefully cultivated a down-home, Southern-drawling, no-nonsense political style that made them seem a bit more like ordinary Joes than they really were. Plus, Bill Clinton had that special charm, making his impact more gutsy than cerebral.
Back in the 1960s, the British-born eco-philosopher Alan Watts made the interesting point that the American Revolution, which abolished the aristocratic ideal that for centuries had dominated the social and political order of Europe to establish the idea that "all men are created equal" and that "every man in his castle is King"—in effect, that we are all equally superior—can easily be stood on its head to yield the result, "we are all equally inferior." He cited a number of instances to show that something of this kind was in fact happening in America.
Looked at in that light, the angry charge of the Far Right that today's educated and generally well-spoken progressives are "elitists" more or less boils down to the complaint that "you're not as inferior/ dumb/ stupid/ idiotic as we are!!!"
Well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The truth has at last been spoken. Could we have a lot more of that? And fast? We need it, like, ten years ago.
Don't look to the Democrats for salvation.Like all mainstream political parties in the West they are totally beholden to the real rulers-the holders of money power. And in a market capitalist plutocracy only one interest is axiomatic, and it trumps all others-profit maximisation. The fossil fuel industry is the richest, most influential, in planetary history, and,like all capitalist enterprise (with some very few exceptions) it is run by psychopaths with no human empathy (although they can fake it plausibly),no sense of guilt or shame and no inhibition on lying, threatening or inflicting violence to achieve their ends.
As long as your sham 'democracy' is practised in a market capitalist system,it will be corrupted by business. The mass of voters contains many (an increasing proportion, in my opinion)creatures who are borderline psychopathic,or worse, brainwashed by incessant Rightwing propaganda in the entirely business owned media into habits of greed, envy and antipathy towards numerous demonised groups. They hate scientists because of intellectual envy, despite, as Dunning and Kruger pointed out, risibly overestimating their own intelligence. And they have been conditioned, in crude Pavlovian fashion, to see anthropogenic climate change not as a matter for rational debate, which they are insufficient to engage in, but as an ideological contest against the demonised 'Left'. There can never and will never be any accommodation with these creatures-their hatred and resistance and fervour will only grow,even after the reality of accelerating ecological collapse become unarguable. This is 'faith-based' science, and the factsare irrelevant.
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text: "...this was the gold from our mining: 'Thou mayest.' The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin (and you can call sin ignorance). The King James translation makes a promise in 'Thou shalt,' meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word timshel—'Thou mayest'—that gives a choice. For if 'Thou mayest'—it is also true that 'Thou mayest not.' That makes a man great and that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win."Here is the choice each of the characters in East of Eden face—as does, ultimately, every human being. No matter how deep-rooted the sin, there is always a chance for redemption. In the authoritative Orthodox Jewish translation from The Chumash: The Stone Edition the passage in question reads: "Surely if you improve yourself, you will be forgiven. But if you do not improve yourself, sin rests at the door. Its desire is toward you, yet you can conquer it."


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Magdalena Pedro Martinez is not only one of the greatest talents amongst the artists who work in the traditional Black Pottery of Oaxaca, but also the most beautiful of spirits. Her mission is to preserve the ancient traditions of her native Oaxaca by concentrating her artwork primarily on beautiful sculptural images of traditional dress styles (or trajes) from the eight magical regions of Oaxaca.
Both Magdalena and her husband, Raul, are medical doctors, but Magdalena remains firmly committed to her art form. As a Master Artist, she has traveled extensively to demonstrate her art at the most prestigious locations, both at home in Mexico and here in the United States. Her work is highly sought after by collectors around the world and it is our great honor to be able to share her artwork with you.
Hailing from the village of San Bartolo Coyotepec, which is famous for highly polished and hand-formed pottery, Magdalena has been surrounded by the ceramic art since her birth. As a very young child, she was given clay to play with by her parents, highly respected artists Anotonio Eleazar Pedro Carreno and Glafira Martinez Barranco.
Although many publications credit her as truly beginning to focus on her artwork at the young age of nineteen, Magdalena cannot remember a time when she was not working with clay. Later as a teenager, she would sell her artwork to help finance her educational goal of becoming a medical doctor. Although successfully achieving that goal, her yearnings to preserve the traditions of her native Oaxaca never dissipated. Magdalena would rely on the stories of her grandparents and the beauty of the traditional dress found throughout the diverse regions of Oaxaca to serve as the inspiration behind her work. There is such minute detail in her work, with a sculptural approach, that sets Magdalena apart from the more commercial black pottery that is commonly seen from Oaxaca.
Magdalena begins by forming the head of the piece with careful precision and ultimate attention to detail and then proceeds to the torso. The limbs are then crafted with the final touch being the incredible accents of the dresses, the beautifully minutely crafted jewelry, and other adornments like pineapples, that are commonly used in the traditional dances of Oaxaca. Beautiful floral patterns are commonly used to decorate the dress of the sculpted figure which accurately and respectfully represents the fine hand-embroidery used throughout Mexico on the traditional dresses. Magdalena uses tools that she has modified or hand-crafted for her specific needs in order to achieve a fine level of minute detail in each piece. She hand-burnishes each piece with a quartz stone or other tiny pointed tools for the smallest areas and creatively leaves other areas with a rich matte black finish. Magdalena has recently taken on the task of preserving many traditional dress techniques found throughout the country of Mexico, seeking to broaden the successful approach to the rest of her beautiful country that is so rich in tradition.


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Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful… More Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in the shape of Paris' annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Neither Modigliani, nor his dearest friend and rival Picasso have ever entered the competition, believing that it is beneath true artists like themselves. But push comes to shove with the welfare of his child on the line, and Modigliani signs up for the competition in a drunken and drug-induced tirade. Picasso follows suit and all of Paris is aflutter with excitement at who will win. With the balance of his relationship with Jeanne on the line, Modigliani tackles this work with the hopes of creating a masterpiece, and knows that all the artists of Paris are doing the same.
Consensus: Nearly everyone is miscast in this disjointed and slow-moving portrait of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.
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Thanks to writer-director Mick Davis, the film, like its subject, dies young.
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A film of vitality, with imagery as haunting and romantic as it is intense.
It's hard to take this oddball movie seriously, right down to the undisguised streetwise-American accent of Andy Garcia as the Italian Jew Amedeo Modigliani.
No one expected a documentary, but serious art-history students may feel let down.
Modigliani is slow, shamefully cliched and disjointed as a cubist portrait.
The best and maybe the only use to be made of the catastrophic screen biography Modigliani is to serve as a textbook outline of how not to film the life of a legendary artist.
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Staff Writer | February 27,2013CHESTER — The District Environmental Commission approved a land use permit for a Dollar General Store in Chester today.
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We love this pesto! I used pistachios in place of cashews (I didn't have any cashews). This is a terrific recipe, thank you! I will make this often.
I had a lot of arugula to use up before it all goes to seed, so this recipe was very helpful. I'll try using some salt the next time I make it. I wasn't sure it was at its best.
Terrific! This is a really interesting twist on pesto, and I'm really surprised there aren't any other pesto recipes on Recipezaar that call for arugula, because its absolutely delicious. The recipe is a good basic formula for pesto, although it does make a thick paste, and if you would like it thinner you will probably want to experiment with adding more olive oil. The real star in this, though (as it should be) is the arugula. The spicy bite of the arugula goes wonderfully with the other flavors and is absolutely delicious on pasta. I have more arugula left over and I think that I am going to make more of this with it because it is absolutely delicious! Thanks, ekives.


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Articles published on January 10, 2012
Asia stocks up as confidence in US economy grows
The Associated Press
Around the region for Jan. 11, 2012
Bob Denny: When is it going to get better?
Barbour pardons nearly 200, including killers
The Associated Press
Burglars take Tebow jersey during break-in
The Associated Press
Bud Byrd: Progressive vs. regressive
Back Nine: Tebowmania continues
By Pat Dooley Columnist
Company announces low-cost DNA decoding machine
The Associated Press
CDC: Young adults down 9 drinks when they binge
The Associated Press
Commissioners approve $160,000 salary for Drummond
By Christopher Curry Staff writer
County may push legislators opposing proposed state airboat law
By Christopher Curry Staff writer
Claims bills top Fla. Senate's first-day agenda
The Associated Press
Commissioners approve Drummond as interim county manager
By Christopher Curry Staff writer
Don't be shy, try chai
By Suzy Cohen Columnist
Eastside hoops wins with D
By Richard Burton Correspondent
EU leaning to block NYSE-Deutsche Boerse merger
The Associated Press
Eisenhowers want memorial redesigned
The Associated Press
Ford unveils new sedan in effort to revive Lincoln
The Associated Press
Florida bounces back with big win vs. Georgia
By Kevin Brockway Staff writer
Family to sue owner of bus where FAMU student died
The Associated Press
Gainesville rolls vs. P.K. Yonge
By Larry Savage Staff writer
Geithner in Beijing, faces uphill struggle on Iran
The Associated Press
GPD: Disabled man, 78, beaten, stabbed in home invasion
By Karen Voyles Staff writer
Google search gets more personal, raises hackles
The Associated Press
Gators now need to prove they can win on road
By Pat Dooley Columnist
Gainesville man accused of collecting unemployment while working
Staff report
Gators come home to Georgia
By Kevin Brockway Staff writer
High court weighs policy against curse words on TV
The Associated Press
Hawthorne's stolen bleachers sold to recycling center
By Karen Voyles Staff writer
How're you doing with those New Year's resolutions?
By Michael Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet Oz, M.D. Columnists
Internet address expansion set despite 'worries'
The Associated Press
Investigators: Union County couple beaten for nearly an hour
By Karen Voyles Staff writer
L.A. court seeks more info in Honda hybrid suit
The Associated Press
Los Angeles council tentatively OKs porn condom ordinance
The Associated Press
Litke: Tebow is still giving NFL whiplash
By Jim Litke AP Sports Columnist
Lindzi survives cut on 'The Bachelor,' week 2
By Rick Allen Staff writer
Letters to the Editor for Jan. 10, 2012
Man is arrested in Tampa double slaying case
The Associated Press
Mo. teen pleads guilty to killing 9-year-old girl
The Associated Press
Man robbed after playing basketball
Karen Voyles Staff writer
Nintendo gives 2nd glimpse of Wii U game machine
The Associated Press
Nintendo gives 2nd glimpse of Wii U game machine
The Associated Press
NC panel: Sterilization victims should get $50K
The Associated Press
Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner
Occupy Florida greets opening of Legislature
The Associated Press
Pease has been hired as new offensive coordinator
By Pat Dooley and Robbie Andreu Staff writers
Phoenix Rising graduation is Thursday
Staff report
Romney adds to lead in race for GOP delegates
The Associated Press
Stocks close higher on hopes for earnings, Europe
The Associated Press
School Board settles on new zones, name for new elementary school
By Jackie Alexander Staff writer
Scott's theme is cooperation in speech to Fla. lawmakers
By Lloyd Dunkelberger and Zac Anderson Tallahassee bureau
Sheriff: Food dispute led to Ohio murder-suicide
The Associated Press
Scott offers some encouragement to UF, higher education
By Nathan Crabbe Staff writer
Superintendent Boyd on the mend
Jackie Alexander Staff writer
Time running out for homeowners to do short sales without tax penalty
By Fred Hiers Staff writer
Tide is No. 1 in AP poll
The Associated Press
UF Student Senate OKs election code revisions
By Andrew Wyzan Correspondent
Violent home invasions becoming more common
By Cindy Swirko Staff writer
With many of its students impoverished, Terwilliger is not complaining
By Jackie Alexander Staff writer
What blood pressure numbers are too low/high? Do calcium pills cause kidney stones?
By Michael Roizen, M.C., and Mehmet Oz, M.D. Columnists
Winning the kid vs. veggie wars
By Michael Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet Oz, M.D. Columnists
Images of the Day
With his family behind him, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, campaigns at McKelvie Intermediate School in Bedford, N.H., on Monday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward, left, and Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow at the Steelers 29-23 loss on Sunday in Denver. (AP photos)
Alabama coach Nick Saban celebrates with his team after the BCS National Championship college football game against LSU on Monday in New Orleans. Alabama won 21-0.


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Chicago. "1/25/57 Grimes case -- Mrs. Minnie Duros." We'll let the Shorpy Detective Squad fill in the blanks. 4x5 acetate negative. View full size.
Louisville, Kentucky, 1969. O.J. Stivers Elementary on Westport Road, AKA "The Cardboard Penitentiary." I've got those great plaid pants on, front row, to the right of the school sign. I'm not pleased to be there. View full size.
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San Francisco, 1921. "Sonora Fire Dept. (Tuolumne County) REO trucks at Engine Company No. 15 firehouse, California Street." Our second look at No. 2 and our first look at No. 1. 6½ x 8½ inch glass negative. View full size.
Columbus, Georgia, circa 1956. "Boys Club picnic." RC Cola outlier on the left, and he's armed. 4x5 acetate negative from the News Archive. View full size.
Meanwhile, back in circa-1958 Oakland: "Accident, 26th at Valdez." A sailor suddenly very much in his element exiting a Chevrolet with a flooded engine. 4x5 acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.
Chicago circa 1964. "Marina City." The high-rise apartment towers on the Chicago River, and a compendium of balcony-decorating ideas. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1937. "Children's Hospital Rotary." The young man hooked up to a Cambridge Instrument Model X900 Thingamambob. Medical technology experts please weigh in. Harris & Ewing glassneg. View full size.


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"Honestly, it didn't sink in until about 30 minutes before the ceremony kicked off. I did not want to accept the fact this unit and all the wonderful soldiers that we were fixing to be separated. It has been the most rewarding job in my 21 years in the Army."
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"When one rows, it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship."
"We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony. Our temple of worship is there where outw"
"He performs worship ceremonies, applies the ceremonial tilak mark to his forehead, and takes his ritual cleansing baths; he pulls out his knife, and demands donations."
"I have made up my mind for us not to be part of the opening ceremony since it will finish late. All of Team Fiji are there but we need to focus on the purpose of us being here."


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Definición de Flemish en inglés:
Relating to Flanders, its people, or their language.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Cipriano was the great 16th century Flemish composer Cipriano de Rore, who spent more-or-less his entire career working in Italy.
- John, Duke of Berry, younger brother of Philip the Bold, was an enthusiastic book collector and attracted Flemish artists to his court.
- The leaders of the invasion spoke French but the soldiers were Flemish, Welsh, and from southwest England.
1 [mass noun] The Dutch language as spoken in Flanders. It is one of the two official languages of Belgium.
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- Those residing in northern Belgium speak Flemish, which is derived from Dutch and German.
- The site appears in a choice of languages - French, German, Dutch and Flemish - as well as English, representing countries were Portakabin has major outposts.
- My father went directly from being a buck private in basic training to Master Sergeant in an intelligence position because he could speak French, Flemish, and German.
2 (the Flemish) [as plural noun] The people of Flanders.
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- And it is true of most non-immigrant national minorities, like the Québécois, Flemish, or Catalans.
- There is no such thing as plagiarism in politics and this is where the experience of the Basques, Catalans and Flemish over 25 years may be helpful.
- The left section comprised mainly of Bretons, the central section were Norman under Willliam's command and the right section was made up of the French and Flemish.
Middle English: from Middle Dutch Vlāmisch, related to Vlaanderen 'Flanders'.
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Hi, I'm Noa, a fashion and textile designer.
I split my days between teaching Fashion Design classes and designing sewing patterns and tutorials for accessories (which I guess is a also a form of ...
Hi, I'm Noa, a fashion and textile designer.
I split my days between teaching Fashion Design classes and designing sewing patterns and tutorials for accessories (which I guess is a also a form of teaching).
I also provide printing on leather services for fellow designers (if that interests you - drop me a line!)
These are all my ways to making our world a more colorful place.
There is really nothing like that wonderful feeling that comes along with making something beautiful with your own two hands (You know what I'm talking about, don't you?!).
I hope you'll enjoy my sewing patterns as I put much thought into making them as simple and clear as possible.
Thank you for your time, now go create something beautiful!
Sewing pattern for a leather Smartphone Case.
This case has an inner pocket for cash/credit card, for whenever you want to travel light. The cover flap and strap secure and protect your phone inside your bag or pants pocket.
* * Easy pattern to make pattern - with only two seams * *
You can use colorful leather or Pleather to make many of these cool phone cases as gifts for your loved ones.
The download PDF file includes an actual sized case pattern for printing, as well as clear and detailed sketched instructions on how to make this phone case.
The basic pattern fits a 2 3/4"x5"x3/8" (7x13*1 cm) phone, like Nexus 4, Samsung Galaxy S3, iPhone 5 etc.
*BONUS inside: Sketched instructions on how to adjust the basic pattern to custom fit to your own phone measurements.
The PDF pattern is a total of 11 pages including colorful photos.
Please note that this sewing pattern is for personal use only. It is not intended for commercial purposes or large scale manufacturing. Please do not share, resell, copy or transfer.
Thank you and have fun with it!


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I am connecting to my work VPN from home. It is EXTREMELY SLOW. network admin and sys admin see no issues on the VPN side. IE, it is working properly from them when they are on the vpn and the bandwidth usage is low.
I believe there is something weird with my home internet connection that is causing this issue but I don't know what it could be because I have not changed any settings. (VPN used to work fine with no issues at all before).
I tried rebooting, reconnecting to vpn, resetting my home internet. I did a speed test on home internet and download was 15mbps, and upload was 1.7ish. I am mainly looking for advice on what I could look into to try and diagnose the problem.
When i did a traceroute while on the VPN, it should all the repsonses within 40-50ms so that seems normal. My ISP is at&t and my at&t router is 3801HGV.
I am connecting to the vpn by just using Windows 7's "add vpn connection". Security options are: Type of VPN: automatic. Data encryption: Require encryption. Again though, i have changed no settings on VPN or wireless since it starting being slow...
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Birth Control Health Center
Only 'Wonder Man' Can Resist Male Contraceptive Shots
"Adverse effects are inherent to these compounds, but they were not really serious," Nieschlag asserts. "There was some increase in body weight, and some complained of nightly sweating, but this was a dose question. We think in later studies we can adjust the dose on an individual basis to minimize these effects."
Ronald S. Swerdloff, MD, is the chief of the division of endocrinology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, director of a World Health Organization collaborative center in reproduction, and director of a Mellon Foundation center for contraceptive development. He agrees with Nieschlag's assessment of the "wonder man."
"In all forms of medication there are people that don't respond -- that usually is of concern, but none of the available contraceptives for men or women are universally effective," Swerdloff tells WebMD. "There will be a failure rate with any form of contraception. In developed countries, the ability to check sperm counts is desired until we get a better understanding about the percentage of men that might be failures. Most studies suggest that the [effectiveness] of this type of approach may be better than any currently available male contraceptive methods."
The $64,000 question, of course, is whether men will use such a product.
"We think it will be acceptable," Swerdloff says. He breaks the question of acceptability into three parts.
Will men be willing to participate in the family-planning process? "All surveys done to date have suggested yes, but most of the approaches to hormonal male contraception are designed for men in stable relationships rather than multipartner males," Swerdloff notes.
Will women trust men to use contraception when they say they do? "The focus on male-directed contraception without a clear-cut indicator of effective compliance means that the groups that will be using this will probably be stable couples where men and women trust each other for every aspect of their relationship," Swerdloff says.
What delivery system will be most appealing? Different formulations of male contraceptives are being studied. These include so-called depot injections that slowly seep into the bloodstream, patches, and implants. "These things are not so clear," Swerdloff notes. "Long-acting depot injections have great appeal where compliance is a concern. It is not selected in general as the most favored way of taking medications. But in a situation where this is chronic use without a disease state, the depot preparations in many people's minds are highly desirable. Ultimately there will be several types of formulations that will come to market: some depot or implantable, some more traditional oral or [patch] types of approaches."


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What would be the easiest way for a non-technical blogger (my father) to insert special characters (namely Swedish characters like ÅÄÖ) when blogging from computers which do not have Swedish keyboards?
Does any one have any idea if there is a plug-in, a core hack or a wysiwyg editor that would do the trick?
The blog is WP 2.0
Thanx for any tips or advise


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KICKERS Kick Hi J Core
- Product type Ankle boots
- Season Spring/Summer
- Ref 42791
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All styles Kickers Kids
The history of Kickers began in 1969 when Daniel Raufast became inspired by the poster for the musical Hair. It was a period where denim fashion was really taking off and Raufast wanted to design a shoe to adapt to this casual new wave. He designed the shoes as if working with jeans and even today every Kickers shoe is stamped with the legendary red tag on the shoe and is colourfully stitched. Kickers' shoes continue to be popular worldwide, are comfortable, and add a touch of retro magic to the outfits of men, women and children.


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13 Day Tours of Scotland from Edinburgh
13 Day Scottish Highlands, Islands and Cities Escorted Coach Tour
Step back in time with this epic tour. Pagan monuments, Roman ruins, majestic cathedrals, medieval castles, geological wonders, famous universities, Highland glens, and Scotland's historic cities and majestic scenery will grip your imagination! This fantastic tour departs on Mondays from mid May to mid September.
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We must all die. But prosperity, good food, and medical advances allow that day, at least in most advanced industrial countries, to be postponed far beyond any time dreamed of by our ancestors. The biblical golden age of threescore and ten has become commonplace. And where advanced old age is not reached, still many older people manage to live with ills that rapidly ended the lives of their parents or grandparents.
Because death has been staved off for so long for so many, achieving the end of life in a "good" death has actually become more ambiguous and more problematic. People linger in states of physical pain and spiritual or psychological suffering, sometimes attached to tubes and monitors, or sometimes abandoned in nursing homes, half-comatose and badly cared for. There is surely something paradoxical in living a life where death comes to seem a far preferable alternative, but which, nonetheless, stands just beyond the grasp of the suffering and dying.
Such are the scenarios that drive the movement for physician-assisted suicide. People who have watched parents, spouses, friends, even children dying so painfully, or who fear such an end for themselves, may become ready supporters of proposals that would allow physicians to legally prescribe lethal doses of drugs with which dying persons might kill themselves. It seems simple enough to execute. Furthermore, it plays into a well-honed...
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Daily use of a state-of-the-art skin-care routine reduces the amount of time a makeup routine takes because clear, healthy, skin requires less makeup to look its best. Before applying your makeup, be sure to prepare your skin. No matter how much of a hurry you're in always take a minute to wash your face with a gentle cleanser, prep skin with a soothing toner and apply a daytime moisturizer.
After that, it's time for makeup!
First, apply a light layer of tinted moisturizer or foundation with sunscreen all over the face. Be sure not to forget your eyelids! The ideal product should include a mineral-based sunscreen of titanium dioxide or zinc oxide. Each is non-irritating and gentle enough for use around the eyes. To save time it's okay to skip the brush and blend with your fingers.
A buildable coverage foundation like Revlon's Nearly Naked Makeup SPF 20 ($9.99) will help reduce the appearance of redness and even out the skin tone over all. Using buildable coverage foundation allows you to get the benefits of concealer without the extra step—simply dot on more foundation over any blemishes or imperfections.
After blending foundation, dust on pressed powder. Check out our list of Best Powders for our current picks (some even have sunscreen!).
Next, dust a sheer bronzing powder over the T-zone for added warmth. In lieu of an all-over eyeshadow, you can also apply bronzer to lids for a neutral eye design. Try either Rimmel's Natural Bronzer ($4.29) or Kat Von D's Everlasting Bronzer ($25) in a shade one or two darker than your natural skin tone.
Follow with a few coats of Volumizing Mascara to emphasize the lashes and wake up the eyes. Two of our favorites are Hello Lashes! 5-in-1 Treatment Mascara ($24.00) by IT Cosmetics or Define-A-Lash Volume Waterproof Mascara ($7.49) by Maybelline—you won't believe how well both of these work.
On you way out the door, finish up with the lip color option of your choice. We like Soft Matte Lip Cream ($6) by NYX Cosmetics or Semi Matte Lipstick ($24) by NARS. Lip color comes down to personal preference but choosing a color that is one to two shades lighter or darker than the natural lip color saves time because the color can be applied without the precision that is required for more vibrant colors.
That's all there is to it! Easy, right? The biggest trick to doing one's makeup in a hurry is having a strategy and key products ready to go. With this go-to makeup routine in mind, any woman can put her best face forward faster than ever before.
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