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Article two in the adoption series
by Dr. Art Martin
Some parents want to have a family and can not find a child to adopt in the US so they adopt children from Eastern Europe, Asia and third world countries. Most of these children have been traumatized by birth rejection, parents who could not take care of them, living conditions, wars, natural disasters and so on. Many of them have been living in orphanages or passed around to family members or people who would take care of them. Some may have been homeless children.
What was going to be happiness and joy of having a family turns into a major disaster. It feels like a hornets nest you can't get away from. Adoption can prove to be a horror story where you can not walk out or stop it. The story goes on and on until the parent either breaks down or goes into depression thinking they have failed because they are not able control their child. This does not happen in every case. It depends on the amout of trauma the child hyas been subjected to.
The story of Justin Hansen is just one of the published stories. Some of the 15 known Russian children who were adopted by well meaning parents were killed in the US since 1996. What would cause a parent who wanted a family trying desperately to support and provide affection resort to such behavior? It is a real tangled net which the psychological, medical and criminal justice field do not have the slightest idea why parents go off the deep end. I have talked with many of these parents in sessions. They become so frustrated as the turmoil in the family becomes worse and more intense so many times they resort to violence in attempt control their child. Parents tell me stories of how they freak out because they can not handle the conflicts any longer. They are angry at themselves for bringing a hornets nest into their family. When they look back at it in retrospect after we have removed the hornets nest, they have a hard time realizing how the behavior they acted out was them. What do you do when you can't cope any longer? When we get into a survival mode we will act out behavior which we would not normally do.
You can see why Justin Hansen's adopted mother reacted the way she did. It was her survival or his. She knew if she had to deal with him any longer she would do physical harm to him. So she had to get him out of her life. The only problem is the psychological and legal system in this country does not understand the desperation and fear mothers are feeling so they treat it as criminal matter. The criminal justice system needs to wake up and understand why normal people go off the deep end.
Many people do not believe a baby can think or understand what is happening around them so we can do anything we want and it will not have any effects on them. Frederick Laboyer, a French doctor wrote a book entitled Birth Without Violence. In his book he described all the birthing methods which cause trauma to babies. He also interviewed many mothers and prospective mothers to find out what their feeling and awareness about how they view a baby's ability to understand what is happening to them. He was appalled to find that most mothers and prospective mothers did not think a fetus or a baby was affected by their actions or the activity around them. In his research he found that many of the childhood conflicts and behavior problems had their root causes in the first six months of the child's life.
The main conflict I have found in children with reactive behavior is they do not trust anyone. They have been rejected and abandoned at birth or in the first year of their life so they feel there must be something wrong with them. It is interesting to note that this same behavior happens with children who were born into a family who raised them from birth. The mothers attitudes and beliefs about birthing a child is so critical it will control their behavior throughout the child's life no matter if they are from their family of origin or adopted. With all of the people I have worked with in the last thirty years including children, I have discovered 70% feel they were rejected before they were born. It is not conjecture on my part. This information comes directly from the data base in their subconscious mind. Reactionary behavior is not primarily in adopted children. I found it is in all types of families due to parents not understanding how to handle children and lack of unconditional love in the family. It is exaggerated in adopted children because they were rejected by their birth mother after birth and many times did not get to an adopted family until they were four years old. During this time many traumatic experiences could have happened.
We are very closely attached to our mother for the first five years of our life. If we get separated or rejected by our mother it becomes very traumatizing to a child. If our mother did not want the child she gave birth to, this is the first traumatizing experience. If she abandoned her child after birth this becomes another traumatizing experience. In the US most babies are put out for adoption in the first two months which is a better solution but it still causes rejection by the birth mother.
Each situation where the child feels abandoned or unwanted sets up another traumatic experience. As these experiences build the child becomes fearful that nobody cares for them. They begin rejecting themselves building up a mind set that they have no value and can not trust anyone. In some children I have worked with I have found behavior patterns where the child is trying to fail in school to prove to their parents they should not have adopted them because they have no value. The child does not know this consciously so they are frustrated at failing but they can not seem to do anything about it. The parents begin blaming themselves and sometimes even sending the child to private school or hiring a tutor. This does not stop the failure programs because the comprehension of the subject is not the cause. A deeply imbedded program such as this can not be addressed in today's therapy systems because they have no method to understand this pattern. As a result they do not have any clues as to what the root cause of it is. We can only access this from the child's Subconscious Mind. It will tell us the truth and the root cause of the pattern. Once we know what the pattern is we can delete it and release it. This can accomplished easily. The method I use is Neuro-Kinesiology. We use the persons arm to indicate yes and no answers by pushing the arm down. Strong up is yes, weak down is no. (this method is described in my book "Your Body Is Talking Are Listening).
Adopted children have been rejected by their birth mother and possibly many other people so they will not allow adopted parents to get close to them until they feel they can trust them. This may seem to be simple but it is hard to understand. It is not the child's problem at all. It is the parent's problem. The child can not feel this trust until they know the parents have the ability to provide support, unconditional love, acceptance, approval, validation, acknowledgement, trust and respect for them. The catch in this is if the parents do not have these qualities in their core being they may not know it but the child will sense it and react by pushing the parents away. The only way to solve this is to recover the unconditional love program the parents lost when they were a child. When they do, it is like magic, the child will be attracted to the parent and the fear is gone. The law of attrition will not work until we remove all the fear, anger and resentment from the child. I have seen these miracles happen right in from of my eyes. I have had mothers tell me "you have given my son or daughter back to me." Life changes dramatically as the fear of intimacy and fear of commitment is gone. The resentment and anger are gone too.
Adopted children do not know why they are acting out nor do they know how to stop the behavior. Many times they have so much repressed anger and resentment they act out this anger without even knowing why. Very few psychologists understand how the human mind can go off base so far without being able to act rationally. When we feel threatened we go into auto pilot and the back up programs which are installed in our mind to protect us put us in survival mode. In this operating pattern we do not have any ability to think rationally. The psychological field describes this as Radical Associated Behavior. (RAD). Granted a person disassociates from normal behavior and acts out. What their mind is directing them to do is get any form of attention and acceptance at any cost. This becomes an attitudinal behavior which they resort to when they feel rejected. This program is locked in to their mind's data base so it activates very easy and causes them to react out over and over again.
I have had phenomenal results working with mothers and children who act out of control. He has been able to accomplish this is a few sessions.


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Plant natural products
Workpackage H: Tools for engineering plant natural products
Plants produce a rich and diverse array of natural products. These compounds have important ecological functions, providing protection against pests, diseases, ultraviolet-B damage and other environmental stresses. They are also exploited as pharmaceutical drugs, agrochemicals, within the food and drink industry, and for a wide variety of other industrial biotechnology applications. Although plants are potentially a tremendous source of diverse and valuable natural products, identifying the pathways for the synthesis of these compounds is more complicated than in microbes because the genomes are larger and more complex. However advances in sequencing technology coupled with the recent discovery that the genes for natural products pathways are in many cases organised in operon-like clusters within plant genomes; now makes it possible to access the genes and enzymes of specialised metabolism in plants far more readily and so to harness and exploit metabolic diversity using synthetic biology approaches.
OpenPlant is generating genetic toolkits for synthesis and modification of plant natural products.
Pathway discovery and engineering
The Osbourn lab has developed strategies for discovery of new plant natural product pathways and chemistries based on genome mining for biosynthetic gene clusters (Nützmann et al. 2016; Medema & Osbourn 2016). The HyperTrans system for rapid transient expression of genes of interest in tobacco leaves is enabling rapid functional characterisation of new enzymes and pathways. The Osbourn lab has been focussing on developing this system for triterpene metabolic engineering and has recently generated gram-scale quantities of purified triterpene analogs, levels that are ample for both structural determination by NMR and for screening for bioactivity. The triterpenes have numerous potential medicinal, agricultural and industrial applications, and the ability to engineer 'designer' molecules optimised for particular purposes using this platform opens up unprecedented opportunities for production of high-value compounds. Aymeric Leveau (Osbourn lab) and Christian Boehm (Haseloff lab) have also been awarded an OpenPlant Fund grant for a project entitled "Engineering Marchantia polymorpha chloroplasts for the production of high-value specialised terpenes". More information coming soon.
The O'Connor lab recently engineered the pathway for the iridoid alkaloid strictosidine from Madagascan periwinkle into yeast (Brown et al. 2015). OpenPlant researcher, Benjamin Lichman (O'Connor lab), is currently discovering additional enzymes in this pathway to generate more "building blocks" for this work. He has generated a proteome database for trichomes of iridoid-producing plants and is searching this for new candidate pathway enzymes. In a hunt for novel iridoid biosynthesis enzymes, Benjamin is identifying enzymes involved in nepatalactone biosynthesis, the key bioactive ingredient in catnip and catmint (Nepeta sp.). In work on a different class of plant natural products, Don Nguyen (previously O'Maille lab) has engineered enzymes from the Asteraceae family into yeast to generate oxygenated sesquiterpenes (Nguyen et al., 2016).
During his time as an OpenPlant post-doc in the Martin lab, Yang Zhang, now a Principal Investigator at Sichuan University College of Life Sciences, used the HyperTrans system in the characterization of a new pathway for synthesis of root-specific flavones in Scutellaria baicalensis (Zhao et al., 2016). S. baicalensis is used in Chinese traditional medicine to treat fever, lung and liver complaints. Recent evidence suggests that other specialised flavones are important tumor suppressors.
Regulation of biosynthesis
The Martin lab have developed vectors for transient induction of gene expression in tomato fruit, and a reliable protocol for inoculation of fruit for optimised gene expression. The Golden Braid compatible vectors are based on the HyperTrans vectors, but have been modified to improve fruit expression using the E8 promoter as well as vectors for expression driven by the 35S promoter.
Two sets of tomato introgression lines have been developed from crosses of the cultivated tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, with a wild tomato relative, Solanum pennellii, and the wild nightshade Solanum lycopersicoides. RNA-seq data from these introgression lines are being screened for Expression Quantitative Trait Loci (eQTLs) affecting expression of genes encoding enzymes of monoterpenoid biosynthesis. Candidate transcription factors are being identified from those intervals showing strong eQTLs.
Jie Li (Martin lab) and Greg Reeves (Hibberd lab) have been awarded an OpenPlant Fund grant for a collaborative project called "Hot tomato: complementation of the capsaicin biosynthetic pathway to engineer spicy tomatoes". More information coming soon.
Several biosynthetic gene clusters for natural product pathways have been identified in thalecress (Arabidopsis thaliana ) (Field and Osbourn, 2008; Nützmann et al. 2016). Physical clustering of genes may enable pathway regulation at the level of chromatin. Hans-Wilhem Nützmann (Osbourn lab) has used a suite of A. thaliana lines affected in chromatin modification to investigate this, and has shown that the histone 2 variant H2A.Z is required for cluster expression (Nützmann and Osbourn, 2015). Wider investigations into chromatin-level regulation of biosynthetic gene clusters in A. thaliana , maize, rice and oats has revealed a role for Polycomb in cluster repression. Building on this, we have shown that the Polycomb repressive mark histone 3 lysine 27 trimethylation hallmark associated with plant biosynthetic gene clusters can be used for pathway discovery (Yu et al, 2016).
Brown, S., Clastre, M., Courdavault, V., O'Connor S.E., 2015. De novo production of the plant-derived alkaloid strictosidine in yeast. Proc Natl Acad Sci 112(11), p3205-3210. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1423555112.
Field, B. and Osbourn, A.E., 2008. Metabolic diversification – independent assembly of operon-like gene clusters in different plants. Science 320, p543-547. DOI: 10.1126/science.1154990.
Kemen, A.C., Honkanen, S., Melton, R.E., Findlay, K.C., Mugford, S.T., Hayashi, K., Haralampidis, K., Rosser, S.J., and Osbourn, A., 2014. Investigation of triterpene synthesis and regulation in oats reveals a role for β-amyrin in determining root epidermal cell patterning. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 111(23), p8679-84. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1401553111.
Medema, M.H. and Osbourn, A., 2016. Computational genomic identification and functional reconstitution of plant natural product biosynthetic pathways. Nat Prod Rep. 33(8), p951-962. DOI: 10.1039/c6np00035e.
Nguyen, T-D., Faraldos, J.A., Vardakou, M., Salmon, M., O'Maille, P.E. and Ro, D-K., 2016. Discovery of germacrene A synthases in Barnadesia spinosa: The first committed step in sesquiterpene lactone biosynthesis in the basal member of the Asteraceae. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 479(4), p622-627. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.09.165.
Nützmann, H.W., Huang, A., and Osbourn, A., 2016. Plant metabolic clusters - from genetics to genomics. New Phytol. 211(3), p771-789. DOI: 10.1111/nph.13981.
Nützmann, H.W. and Osbourn, A., 2015. Regulation of metabolic gene clusters in Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytol. 205(2), p503-510. DOI: 10.1111/nph.13189.
Yu, N., Nützmann, H.W., MacDonald, J.T., Moore, B., Field, B., Berriri, S., Trick, M., Rosser, S.J., Kumar, S.V., Freemont, P.S., and Osbourn, A., 2016. Delineation of metabolic gene clusters in plant genomes by chromatin signatures. Nucleic Acids Res. 44(5), p2255-2265. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw100.
Zhao, Q., Zhang, Y., Wang, G., Hill, L., Weng, J.K., Chen, X.Y., Xue, H., and Martin, C., 2016. A specialized flavone biosynthetic pathway has evolved in the medicinal plant, Scutellaria baicalensis. Science Advances 2(4), e1501780. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501780.

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So yes, I know most of you are aware there are many, many challenges within life. Whether it is a personal struggle through a tragedy, or an internal battle trying to distinguish between what type of peanut butter is best for your family (yes, we are a Jiff-only family)-challenges are everywhere. But for us as a couple, both Travis and I have experienced some crazy weirdness and struggles throughout the last few weeks.
We have been "on the go" since June 10th. (Yes, we're STILL on the go as I sit and write this) We have faced challenges of several kinds while also reaping blessings along the way. Shall I start the journey within this post? Why yes, I shall! HA!
Our traveling and "on the go" lifestyle began in early June with us traveling to Virginia to visit a friend I hadn't seen in 4 years. (We met at Liberty Univ. while taking a class together for a week. She lived in Savannah at the time, but she and her husband moved to VA a few years ago). What fun it was to meet up with her again, officially meet her husband, and have Travis meet both Jen and Shawn with their twin babies!!!! What a blessing it was to stay a few days and catch up/meet/and just have fun together! I can't tell you how many things we have in common between the husbands looking similar to one another to both couples knowing how to play Dutch Blitz! It's the little things, people that keep relationships going! 🙂
We came home from VA to begin a week of Vacation Bible School at our church where both Travis and I were "crew leaders", and at the same time had Travis's 12 year old nephew staying with us for a few weeks. VBS was a challenge for both Travis and I as we both felt like pulling our hair out for various reasons, but mainly for some taxing behaviors from one or two kids we were responsible for, including our nephew! This VBS week was a complete whirlwind as we were forced to call T's brother and his wife to pick their child up because of some behaviors we were seeing and could NOT have the scary behaviors in Niagara Falls, which we were planning on taking him to the day camp we were working with the following week.
The following week found us in Niagara Falls, working with Hope Club of Niagara Falls, NY- a ministry run by some of our dearest friends. (I'm planning another post about Niagara Falls in the near future to further explain this amazing ministry). But needless to say, the week was FILLED with planning and teaching the love of Jesus to some 150 kiddos from the surrounding community. Travis and I were in charge of the Bible lessons, and let me tell ya, I think we learned more sometimes from the lessons as we needed to be reminded that Jesus is continually directing our purpose as individuals and as a couple!
And finally, as our community in NW Ohio was cleaning up from 90 mph winds during a storm Friday, we were headed home to stop for a brief night to wash clothes, repack, and check out the local damage from the storm, and attend a friend's husbands visitation, we headed out to Iowa to visit Travis's family while leaving my parents staying at our house because they had no power for 80+ hours.
Soooo, now you have a slight picture of the little whirlwind of business and some challenges we have been experiencing within the last month. We still sit here in the 100 degree humidity in Iowa, but there have been some good times to finally get to relax a bit. But even through the relaxation, God has been reminding me in various ways that He is still needed each and every day. (Why do we tend to forget this little important nugget of Truth!?!)
Several weeks ago Travis and I began leading a discussion group/study at our church on the book Radical by David Platt. A-MAAAAZING book. It's truly a must read for any Christian who desires to learn more about how Jesus has directly called each of His followers to be disciples. Eyes are opened differently after reading the authors commentary on what it truly means and takes to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. Our purpose is challenged, and our life-calling is surrendered.
I've been personally re-reading a favorite book of mine- Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall & Denver Moore. And like always, am completely challenged in ways I tend to forget about…This book follows a wealthy southern couple and at the same time follows a poor homeless black man. It's a true story and totally worth the time and the tears to be reminded how God moves in ways we don't understand. But one gem of a lesson in the book happens to be one of my favorite quotes: "The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or somethin in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless-just workin our way toward home." -Denver Moore
It's important for us to remember that no matter our wait to learn of our life-purpose or even as we wait to hear anything about our adoption, we must not just sit…we must be working our way toward Home-toward heaven, and live each and every day as purposefully as possible- even through its challenges and craziness. Are we up for THAT challenge????


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- the oldest part of the house and the area where Tarquinius meets his clients when he's in port
- the library which serves as a repository for the scrolls Traquinius brings home and/or has copied for the family collection. Unlike many ancient Romans, Laura Calluria and Tarquinius actually read the scrolls they amass, as apposed to just collecting them for prestige and snob appeal.
- a guest bedroom where a weary traveler can lay his/her head for the night
- the back garden - a placed of quiet repose, and horticultural curiosity as well as a source of fresh culinary herbs and vegetables for the kitchen.
- adjoining the atrium, this small open garden area is surrounded by most of the house itself.
- along the front of the building next to the front door - this is where Tarquinius has some of the more upscale items available for sale retail. Wholesale transactions are usually processes at the warehouse.
- the dining room
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CAPHC Applauds First Ever Provincial Pharmacare Program for Children and Youth
On Thursday April 27th, the Ontario government tabled their 2017 Budget. The Canadian Association of Paediatric Health Centres commends the government for its commitment to launch a universal drug coverage program for children and youth, the first of its kind in Canada.
Many families in Canada struggle with the affordability of prescription drugs, often foregoing filling prescriptions in lieu of other financial priorities for the family. Eliminating financial barriers to accessing prescription medications is an important step in supporting families as they manage their healthcare needs. When the program rolls out on January 1, 2018, it is expected that that there will be no income restrictions, no deductibles, and no co-payments, which will further reduce potential barriers to accessing this program.
Significantly, the announcement also indicates that medications under the Exceptional Access Program will also be included in the list of more than 4,400 medications. This will include drugs used to treat cancer and rare diseases, which are of particular importance to Canada's children's hospitals where many of these children and youth are seen.
"Despite access to universal healthcare, having a sick child or a child with a chronic illness presents a number of financial challenges for families in Ontario. This program will potentially contribute to lessening some of the financial burdens that these families face" says Dr. Peter Fitzgerald, CAPHC Chair.
CAPHC is encouraged by the leadership of the Ontario government to provide first dollar coverage for prescription medications to over four million children and youth in Ontario. CAPHC is hopeful that other provinces will follow Ontario's lead to consider similar programs in their jurisdictions.
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Coming in Hot: a Central Park Proposal via Vancouver
A Central Park Proposal
Words + Pictures by Angela Cappetta
Some people are planners, others like to do things at the last minute. Such is the case with Marc. He called me 36 hours before deciding to whisk his gal to New York City for a Central Park Proposal. He convinced her she was joining him for a work trip. She bought it.
On the down low, Marc and I quickly settled on a location. It would be the iconic Central Park pond with the historic Plaza behind them. I hid in a bush.
It get's better. Upon discovering me, a curious New Yorker walking her goldendoodle asked me why I was hiding in the bushes—classic. I hurriedly explained myself to her satisfaction. Then she directed foot traffic around the area so I'd have an unobstructed view.
Just like the way they flew in, they strode through the park, side by side, coming in hot. He coaxed her into jumping a fence for a picture. Then he took a knee.
Gasp, ring, joy.
The rest, as they say, is history.


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Wexler's barbecue is not the pits
Barbecue purists will cringe. So be it. Wexler's, which features the cooking of talented Charlie Kleinman, has taken barbecue out of the pit and onto oversized white plates.
I know it's sacrilege to some, but in my mind this is the ultimate compliment to one of the most satisfying and primitive forms of cooking. Kleinman has found a way to incorporate the taste of fire into just about everything on the menu, even salad - he smokes the cipollini onions in Little Gem salad with corn bread croutons ($9).
Kleinman, who has worked at Fifth Floor, where he earned a Michelin star, and at Fish & Farm, is turning his creativity to what the restaurant calls "barbecue-inspired Southern Comfort food." The chef nods to tradition, but the end result is pure and clean.
Smoked short ribs hark back to the Lone Star State's love of beef. The meat is removed from the bone and sliced before being placed on a manicured bed of mashed potatoes, surrounded by rich mahogany barbecue jus and a few turnips for interest.
The barbecued salmon ($12) - actually, fairly traditional smoked salmon - paves two thick coins of fried green tomatoes. It's garnished with beet-red rings of pickled shallots and squiggles of creme fraiche creating an innovative blend that successfully melds smoke and surf.
The interior of Wexler's, too, looks about as far away from a barbecue shack as you can get. The restaurant is located in a handsome brick Financial District firehouse that previously housed Zare and Les Amis. A long black sculptural installation glides down the center of the ceiling, exiting above the doors and serving as a canopy for the entrance. It's meant to evoke the waves of black smoke, but to me it looks more like the charred spine of a brontosaurus, which isn't a bad image, either.
The bar, which seats 11 diners on metal stools, takes up the bulk of the dining room, surrounded by wood-topped tables to seat 25. Red metal chandeliers hang from the ceiling near the corners, and the white walls and sculptural mirrors lend a clean, modern feel.
Bartenders know their stuff, and can mix exceptional cocktails, including a nightly special that on one visit was a whiskey sour ($9) made with smoked lemons. Bourbon and barbecue has always seemed like the right pairing to me.
Of the seven appetizers, only two are smoke-free: a refreshing salad ($13) with flecks of cool Dungeness crab, nectarines, Fresno chiles and frisee; and a creamy pastis-scented oyster stew ($11), with two sticks of what tastes like corn custard crusted in cornmeal.
Kleinman riffs on Scotch eggs ($11), replacing the traditional ground sausage with a fine chop of burnt ends, surrounded by a sweet tea gastrique. It's a signature dish, and just about everybody orders and loves it. However, on my visit it was overcooked so the outside coating fell away when cut, leaving the egg lonely and naked.
There's also an exceptional barbecued quail ($10) arranged on cole slaw elevated with creme fraiche, Champagne vinegar and splashes of poppy seed oil. The chef even smokes chicken liver mousse ($10), serving it with a dollop of green tomato chutney and caramel-sauced corn. In both cases, the innovative twists don't distract from the natural goodness of the appetizers.
Every main course has been kissed by fire. Kleinman pairs molasses-glazed black cod ($17) with smoked sweet 100 tomatoes, roasted fennel and ginger compote; and serves slow-smoked sturgeon ($21) with parsnip puree and chunky corn bread cake with smoked lobster.
There's also a chicken breast ($16), probably the moistest I've had in recent memory, paved with rye-poached peaches and poised on a bed of baked beans. The plate of pork ($19) is a chef's selection - on my visit a brined pork chop smoked on the rack, cut and quickly seared, and served with candied yams, mustard greens and mustard jus. At lunch, a pulled lamb sandwich ($12) is brightened with watermelon vinegar.
The kitchen doesn't ignore vegetarians, either, offering a lunchtime smoked carrot plate with collards ($10) and a "farmer's cookout" ($14) for dinner, with smoked eggplant chili, corn on the cob and Texas toast with smoked garlic butter.
Fortunately, Kleinman shows restraint and doesn't repeat the theme at dessert (all $6), but that doesn't mean his offerings are devoid of innovation. He puts aged Gouda in the crust of the excellent sour cream Japanese pear pie; dulce de leche, fleur de sel and a hefty jigger of bourbon in the banana creme pie; and salty pretzel pieces on top of his chocolate fudge pie. He also does what he calls an "inside-out root beer float" with house-made vanilla soda, Humphry Slocombe root beer ice cream and whipped cream.
Aside from Kleinman, the other major player is owner Matt Wexler, who looks like a model out of InStyle, what with his Justin Timberlake straw fedora pulled down over his ears. He's not opposed to busing a few dishes and shaking up cocktails when things get rolling.
At times there can be long gaps between courses, but customers don't seem to mind much; it's a place that makes people relax, with a casual vibe and waiters who are efficient but not officious.
Kleinman and Wexler are a good team, offering a unique take on a familiar genre. I've had plenty of great down-and-dirty barbecue in my time, but it's equally refreshing to give thumbs up to the bump up.
568 Sacramento St. (near Montgomery), San Francisco
(415) 983-0102 or wexlerssf.com
Lunch 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday; lunch and dinner 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, until 11 p.m. Friday; dinner 5:30-11 p.m. Saturday. Full bar. Reservations and credit cards accepted. Difficult street parking; easier at night.
Overall: Rating: THREE STARS
Food: Rating: THREE STARS
Service: Rating: THREE STARS
Atmosphere: Rating: TWO AND A HALF STARS
Prices: $$$ (Expensive; most entrees $17-$24)
Noise rating: Noise Rating: FOUR BELLS Can talk only in raised voices (75-80 decibels)
Pluses: Interesting and excellent takes on barbecue. Smoked chicken liver mousse, short ribs, pork chop, smoked sturgeon and chicken star; try the inside-out root beer float for dessert. Excellent service.
Minuses: .At times there can be long waits between courses.
Rating: FOUR STARS Extraordinary Rating: THREE STARS Excellent Rating: TWO STARS Good Rating: ONE STAR Fair Noise Rating: BOMB Poor
The wine list
It's a small restaurant, but Wexler's has more than covered every base - three draft beers, eight bottles; 17 wines by the glass and more than 50 bottles; five teas; three Barefoot coffees; and a list of small batch spirits producers.
What's surprising is there's no cocktail list, although the waiter announces one or two daily cocktail specials - on one visit it was a whiskey sour made with smoked lemons ($9). However, if you look behind the bar you'll see a row of metal mint julep cups. The house mint julep ($9) is worth ordering, as are all the cocktails.
As far as wine, the list has an average mark up and a few little-known gems such as the 2006 Grand Traverse Semi-dry Riesling ($32) from Michigan. We can joke about Midwestern wines, but this is a really good match for the food.
General manager Ed Puccio has made an effort to find reasonably priced wines - most on the list are under $50, including the 2007 Rancho Sisquoc Flood Family Vineyards Pinot Noir ($36) from Santa Barbara. To go with the smoked foods, there are also many lush varieties such as the 2005 Carol Shelton Wild Thing Zinfandel ($48).
If you bring your own wine, corkage is $15, with a two bottle limit.
FOUR STARS = Extraordinary; THREE STARS = Excellent; TWO STARS = Good; ONE STAR = Fair; NO STARS = Poor
$ = Inexpensive: entrees $10 and under; $$ = Moderate: $11-$17; $$$ = Expensive: $18-$24; $$$$ = Very Expensive: more than $25
ONE BELL = Pleasantly quiet (less than 65 decibels); TWO BELLS = Can talk easily (65-70); THREE BELLS = Talking normally gets difficult (70-75); FOUR BELLS = Can talk only in raised voices (75-80); BOMB = Too noisy for normal conversation (80+)
Prices are based on main courses. When entrees fall between these categories, the prices of appetizers help determine the dollar ratings. Chronicle critics make every attempt to remain anonymous. All meals are paid for by The Chronicle. Star ratings are based on a minimum of three visits. Ratings are updated continually based on at least one revisit.


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Clayton, N.Y. - Military families with wounded warriors and anglers with a passion for fly fishing will be able to learn more about Project Healing Waters at the Clayton-1000 Islands Gun & Sportsmen Show August 16-17, 2014 at Cerow Recreation Park Arena, 615 East Line Road, in Clayton, NY.
The nonprofit Project Healing Waters began at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC in 2005. Wounded soldiers returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan learned how to tie fishing flies and were paired with volunteers on fishing trips to promote physical and mental healing.
Donations cover all the costs for fly-tying supplies, fishing gear and trips. There are no administration costs.
The project now works with active duty, retired military, combat veterans and veterans with non-combat injuries and conditions. There are more than 100 Chapters across the U.S.
Trent Myer leads the current outreach for the Project Healing Waters (PHW) Chapter started at Fort Drum in 2008. The fly-tying classes Myer offered in Afghanistan may be the first Project Healing Water learning opportunities offered at a foreign location.
'I worked with battle-stressed soldiers, teaching them fly-tying as a way to relax and focus. The fine motor skills needed to tie flies are good for traumatic brain injury recovery. The task helps you concentrate and compartmentalize your thoughts to focus on making the fly,' Myer says.
Stateside, Myer works with volunteers and angling groups across New York state to develop on-water fishing opportunities for PHW participants. Among the groups hosting PHW are the DeBruce Fly Fishing Club in Livingston, NY; Douglaston Salmon Run in Pulaski, NY, and the venerable Beaverkill Trout Club in Livingston Manor, NY. The Fort Drum Chapter sent three soldiers on a three-day tour to Montana earlier this year.
'Being in the water is good for improving balance and strength; fly casting exercises the upper body; and being on the water is good for the soul,' Myer says.
Myer and PHW participants will be available at the Clayton-1000 Islands Gun & Sportsmen Show to talk with visitors about their passion for angling and how fly-tying, building fly rods, and flyfishing can help the healing process for America's warriors. Donations will be accepted.
'The Clayton-1000 Islands Gun & Sportsmen Show is a great opportunity to let veterans know we are available and all free and to provide the public with opportunities to support our military men and women,' Myer says.
Among the new vendors at the 2014 show will be an 18th century flintlock weapons restorer and Thousands Islands Armory which opened in LaFargeville, NY, in October 2013.
Show hours are 8:30 am-5 pm Saturday, August 16 and 9 am-4 pm Sunday, August 17. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for military with ID; children under 12 enter free. Route 37 Building Supply, Wellesley Island Building Supply, Greg Henry Construction, and Surefine Market of Clayton are the 2014 show sponsors.
Cerow Recreation Park is at 615 East Line Road south of the Village of Clayton. For show information, contact Tom Neely, 315-482-4596, or Bud Baril, 315-686-2832.
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When President Obama entered the chamber at the start of last night's state of the union address, he made a beeline for Timothy Geithner and gave him a hug. The Treasury secretary looked like he needed it, as one Twitter wag remarked: "People talk about how presidents age in office, but Geithner looked like he drank from the fake Holy Grail last night." That was probably because Geithner had spent the day up before a hostile congressional committee, grilling him over the circumstances surrounding AIG, the giant US insurance company that teetered towards collapse, and whose rescue was orchestrated by the New York Federal Reserve while Geithner was its president.
The details of what happened from September 2008 onwards involving AIG and the NY Fed are complex, but ultimately the Fed sent more than $180bn in taxpayer-backed assistance to AIG after the Fed (under Geithner) agreed to buy back rotten financial transactions that AIG had sold. These contracts, known as credit default swaps, were exactly the sort of toxic assets that were at the heart of Wall Street's financial crisis from 2008 onwards. Yet the Geithner-led New York Fed agreed to buy this rubbish at a fantastically generous 100 cents on the dollar – meaning that taxpayers paid off AIG's trading partners for taking out their trash. It then attempted to keep a lid on the bailout and the identity of the Wall Street firms that got the big cheques.
Now, AIG's creditors would never had got anything near that good a deal even if AIG hadn't been about to implode, and Geithner's attempts to justify the deal are, at best, incoherent. Up before the House oversight committee on Wednesday, Geithner even said he took "full responsibility and great pride" in his decisions. But Ed Towns, the New York Democrat on the committee, provided the most accurate metaphor for what happened: "The taxpayers were propping up the hollow shell of AIG by stuffing it with money and the rest of Wall Street came by and looted the corpse."
The AIG affair has tied the albatross of the Wall Street bailout around Geithner's neck. It has all the worst elements: the fantastic sums of taxpayers' money, the sweetheart deal for Wall Street's bonus babies, the accusations of a cover-up and the taint of back-room deals. It should be made clear that there is no evidence Geithner was involved in any wrongdoing or cover-up, and Geithner strongly denies (with good grounds) any personal involvement or culpability. But by now, that isn't the point. Geithner symbolises the cosy club of Wall Street that both caused a crisis and then engineered its own rescue with other people's money.
That would probably be reason enough for Obama to seriously consider jettisoning Geithner as the face of his administration's economic policy. But Geithner's tenure has been shaky from the very start, from the point at which he confessed to a two-year period where he avoided paying taxes. Since the Treasury secretary is also in charge of the IRS, that's a very bad signal. And Geithner has subsequently lived down to his reputation: he's a wooden speaker who is rarely allowed out in public by the White House. And that is tying the administration's hands behind its back.
Given the state of the US economy, what the administration (and arguably, the country as a whole) needs is a Treasury secretary who can also be a cheerleader. It's significant that Obama himself is left to do the heavylifting on selling his administration's economic policies. But instead of a Treasury secretary touring the country delivering pep-talks and listening to the needs of businesses and workers, it gets an invisible man and less-than-inspiring headlines such as "Geithner denies involvement in AIG disclosures."
In his state of the union address, Obama said the worst of the economy's storm had passed. In that case, it's time to thank Geithner for all his hard work and bid him farewell. For all the huffing and puffing in Congress about blocking the renomination of Ben Bernanke as Fed chairman, a better place for a clean start for Obama's administration would be a fresh face next door at 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue.
And that hug from Obama last night? British football fans are well aware that a team's manager is closest to getting the axe the very moment that the club's owners express their 100% support.


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Memorial Day on Miami Beach ends with big crowds, 153 arrests
An estimated 200,000 people packed South Beach through Memorial Day on Monday, capping a holiday weekend marked by dancing in the streets, teeny bikinis, overwhelming police presence and traffic gridlock.
There were 153 arrests through Sunday, an uptick from 115 from the previous year – perhaps due to larger crowds. Most arrests were for misdemeanors, though there were two felony arrests on Sunday for battery on a police officer.
"There have been no major incidents. It continues to be a relatively peaceful and enjoyable event for everybody," Miami Beach Police spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez said.
The weekend is known as Urban Beach Week and attracts people from across the country for a lineup of parties and concerts.
The city's handling of the event, which draws a mostly black crowd, has been criticized by civil rights groups for its heavy police presence. About 500 police officers worked the weekend, with the entirety of the Miami Beach force involved, as well as agencies from around Miami-Dade County.
Rodriguez pointed to the agency's social media accounts, which featured smiling event-goers posing with officers, as a symbol that the tone has changed.
"I think those pictures speak for themselves," he said. "There's been a big shift, I think, in the community."
In 2011, the weekend was marred by a police shooting that killed Raymond Herisse and wounded four bystanders. More than 100 rounds were fired as Herisse's car barreled down a packed Collins Avenue. The Miami-Dade state attorney's office found the 12 officers involved in the shooting were "legally justified."
Big crowds during the weekend follow a banner-year trend for tourism on the Beach this year — but that's not entirely good news for city officials who are working on ways to manage the impact.
In March, a swell of Spring Break revelers caught the city by surprise, and a fight on Ocean Drive shut down the iconic street.
The city got another hit from Floatopia, when thousands descended on the sand with inflatable rafts during an impromptu event organized through social media. Partiers left the beach strewn with trash and lifeguards had to make more rescues than normal.
The chaos has prompted Miami Beach city commissioners to wrestle with new ways to regulate high-impact events. That has proven difficult since they are largely unofficial gatherings, organized by no one in particular and spurred by social media. Among the commissioners' proposals: giving the city manager power to shut down busy streets more easily, imposing $100 parking rates for non-residents and banning tents on the beach.
"We're not a sleepy beach town nor do we pretend to be," Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Grieco said. "But at some point there's a line that you have to draw when it comes to having open arms and needing to ensure public safety and quality of life."
When it comes to Urban Beach Week, the city is planning an air show during the same weekend next year. Grieco said the city already has a signed agreement for 2017. He called it a way to remember what the holiday is supposed to be about.
"This is Memorial Day weekend. It is nothing else. To call it anything other than Memorial Day weekend is pretty much disrespectful to anyone who died serving in the military," he said.
Miami Herald reporter Joey Flechas contributed to this report.
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What does anyone think of vintage Barbies? I have a good collection (yay, thrift stores!) of older Barbies and their clothes. I know one of them is Fashion Queen Barbie, and two are definitely Twist n' Turns, but the others have almost no hair (the work of a young hairdresser, no doubt) and I can't tell what they are. I'll post pics if you want to see.
I don't really have a vintage Barbie, but I found a reproduction of the first ponytail Barbie in the "Solo In the Spotlight" outfit for a few bucks at a flea market. I've made a couple outfits for her and always assumed that I probably wouldn't be able to afford real vintage clothes. Surprisingly enough, though, I've found that you can sometimes find the old outfits for pretty reasonable prices if you don't get hung up on completeness (all the little shoes and jewelry and doodads). I found the "Suburban Shopper" dress at a yard sale for around $4, minus the hat and with a funky stain that I was able to remove--it looks really cute on her!
Oh, and I'm not an expert at the vintage dolls, but I can take a swing at ID'ing if you want to post picks
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I have a good amount of experience with VIntage Barbie, so post pics and between Grungie and I, I'm betting we can have them all IDed.
I'm pretty good with vintage Barbies, too. I have a few. I'm sure Bubbles and Grungie can ID everything, but I'd like to see what you have, too.
In fact I'm going to go start another thread on the topic, so I don't hijack this one with my blather. ahaha
Regarding vintage Barbie I've got one #3 ponytail, two TNT Staceys (one with a ponytail and one with a flip), one Malibu Barbie, and one Hair Fair head on a Francie body. I also have two reproductions (35th Anniversary Midge and Astronaut Barbie), and I treat them like real vintage dolls because they've got the overall look. I'm by no means an expert at identification, but like Grungie I'm willing to take a stab at it.
I adore the vintage Barbie's! I should post some pictures at some point.
I have some of the Barbies I played with as a kid that are vintage. I also have some of my Mom's old Barbies from when she was a kid.
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I have some of the Barbies I played with as a kid that are vintage. I also have some of my Mom's old Barbies from when she was a kid.
It might be worth doublechecking to see if we're using terms the same way. Vintage, in Barbie collector terms, generally means pre-1972, and encompasses the ponytail and mod eras. To be honest, even though the Malibu era isn't really offically considered vintage, people treat it that way, so that'd push the cutoff date for 'vintage' forward to 1976 being the final year (as the Superstar dolls came out the following year.) I'm in no hurry for them to begin considering the Superstar era as vintage. hehe Do you have any pictures of the dolls?
I have quite a few, my current favorite is the 1970 talker who I found at a flea market for a song, and sent off for repair, so she really talks. Squee!
Turns out I happened upon a vintage Allan ('60s) at Goodwill about a month ago. Maybe if he's still there next time, I'll think of buying him. He was in bad shape, covered in a substance and his hair paint rubbed off, with a chunk of his nose missing. :-/
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PHOENIX (Reuters) - Voters of the Navajo Nation on Tuesday approved a controversial change to a requirement that the tribe's top two elected leaders must be fluent in the native language in order to hold office, election officials said.
The long-simmering issue has caused divisions in the largest Native American tribe in the United States, comprising more than 300,000 people, at a time when the numbers of Navajo language speakers are reported to be dwindling.
Over a fifth of the more than 122,000 registered voters on a reservation that spans three states cast ballots in a rare referendum election.
Unofficial results based on reports from all 110 chapters showed that members voted 13,017 to 11,778 to let residents decide, at balloting time, if a candidate for president or vice president was proficient enough in the language to hold office.
The vote focused on the desire by some Navajos to preserve a language central to their culture, beliefs and way of life.
Others cited the changing times, with more people leaving the reservation in search of school and career opportunities.
"This is a good thing for the Navajo people," said council delegate Leonard Tsosie, who sponsored the referendum. "This means that you are not shutting out a group of young people from becoming leaders."
In the past, fluency could be enforced by the courts.
The language debate gained traction last year when a presidential finalist was booted from the general election ballot for refusing to prove his Navajo fluency in a case decided by the Navajo Supreme Court.
Candidate Chris Deschene finished second in the primary, but his candidacy was challenged by two losing candidates, who said he lied about his language proficiency.
The dispute delayed the November 2014 election until April. Legislative efforts to undo the removal were unsuccessful.
New president Russell Begaye had strongly supported retaining the fluency requirement, saying it was important for leaders to speak the language.
A spokesman declined comment on the vote late on Tuesday.
The language has a prominent place in U.S. history, with a group of 29 Navajo code talkers developing an unbreakable cipher based on it to help Allied forces win World War Two. The last survivor of the original group died in New Mexico in June 2014.
The Navajo Nation sprawls over 27,000 sq miles (71,030 sq km), across the states of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.
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Established in 1977, the J.M. Tull School of Accounting was one of the first in the nation to be distinguished as a separate professional school within a business college. We are committed to teaching and research that advance the accounting discipline and prepare future leaders for business and academe. The Tull School and its people are epitomized by the constant pursuit of excellence in all dimensions of accounting education.
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Our students rank No. 1 nationally in first-time pass rates among large institutions for all parts of the CPA exam. They have received both state and national honors for their work.
Strong international recognition for faculty research productivity – ranking 4th among all private and public schools in publishing in the top academic accounting journal, The Accounting Review, during the past five years (2010-2015).
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BBA — Accounting
Degree earned: Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting
If you're a current undergraduate accounting major at UGA and are interested in pursuing a graduate degree, you are eligible to apply to the 5-year BBA/MAcc program during your senior year.
The 5-year program allows you to satisfy requirements for both the BBA and MAcc degrees concurrently.
MAcc — Master of Accountancy
Our Master of Accountancy (MAcc) program is consistently ranked among the best programs in the nation and will equip you with the hard accounting skills needed to succeed as a CPA or in a senior financial position.
PhD — Accounting
Research in the J. M. Tull School of Accounting focuses on issues of importance to the accounting and business community, such as the impact of accounting information on capital markets and on the behavior of decision-makers within firms.
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I love accounting because it has taught me to be detail oriented while still allowing me to be creative within a framework. I naturally gravitate towards the big picture, but the accounting department has given me the training and the tools necessary to sharpen my analytical skills. Throughout my time as an accounting major I have had incredible professors, who have challenged me to grow not only as a business student, but as a young man as well. I'm incredibly thankful for my time at Tull, Terry, and the University of Georgia.Eli Yarborough
There have been several times throughout my career where I have leaned on the skills and experiences I gained while earning my MAcc degree at UGA. The MAcc program developed my business writing and research skills and gave me great experience with teaming and presenting.Matt Johnston
I'm pursuing an accounting degree because it's the language of business, and with such a valuable key, I will be able to open many doors.Jaqueline Santos Leme
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Happy Baby
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Friday, February 15, 2008
The wii
Well, I havn't had much to say lately. I think it's because Brad got a new gaming system called the "wii". I'm not huge on nintendo games, but I gotta say this thing is so much fun! It's actually hands on and very active unlike most games out there.
Miles gets a kick out of watching us jump around the living room. We recorded it because Brad said I look ridiculous when I play so he wanted me to see for myself. It was pretty funny watching it, so I thought I'd share.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Our little baby is growing up!
This week was full of firsts for Miles. He is growing up so fast! Can you believe he is already 4 months old? In addition to rolling over, we tried our first solids this week! It was so fun to try something new, even though the end result was on his bib and not in his mouth.
He also had a huge laugh fest with daddy! It was so funny. He has never laughed like this before. The most we could ever get out of him was a small "aha".
Check out this video and see for yourself. Very cute!
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'
Miles rolled over for the first time today! He started out on his back and moved to his side. (he had never done this before). So I ran and grabbed the camera and only caught the last couple seconds of when he actually flipped. Yay for baby!
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Sunday, February 3, 2008
Red Hair?
Is seems like of all the pictures we've been taking of Miles lately he has red hair. What do you think? I know Uncle Steve has red hair and I also know it's not in Brads family. It must be the Baker running in him!
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"What do you do if you are the New York Times and 20 people show up to the white-supremacist rally that you had been breathlessly billing as further proof of the normalization of hatred in the Donald Trump era? Expand the definition of "white supremacist" to cover a large portion of the American electorate and its representatives."
Category: Media Bias
Quote of the Day
"…Hillary Clinton has revealed herself to be frail, medicated, and probably duplicitous about her health. We also hear reports that she's a drinker with a bad temper. Suddenly, Clinton looks like the unstable personality in this race. Who do you want controlling the nuclear arsenal now?"
Round Up Post
Confirmed: Couric's Crew Violated Federal Gun Laws Not much of a surprise here. We knew she was a lying far left extremist pretending to be an actual journalist.
Seven Awesome Conservative Lifehacks
Our Dear Leader wants to jack the federal gas tax through the roof.
Public Employees Unions Facilitate Corruption Another statement that shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention.
A peek at the what the coming race war the far left is promoting
The democrats are building a wall around their convention center. Yes, the hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds, as the Fake Indian squatting in the seat of a Massachusetts senator points out.
Hillary Clinton Sent Information Marked Classified Yes folks, Hillary Rodham Clinton has broken federal law, and should be brought up on charges. Let's see if our Dear Leader will pay attention to the Rule of Law this time…
Let's not forget the Clinton University scandal the MSM/DNC isn't talking about.
Trump & Sanders
You hear the MSM/DNC slamming Donald Trump over and over again because of his stance on immigration, both legal and illegal.The silence of the same "out raged", so-called reporters regarding Bernie Sanders (Socialist-VT), is deafening. Sanders is actually more hardlined on immigration, both legal and illegal, than Trump, yet he gets a pass.
It could be because with HRC and her criminal behavior regarding classified material is sucking up all the air time. That probably isn't it. What little coverage it getting on most "News Organizations" is limited to recycling the Clinton Campaign press releases on the subject. Check out the stories NPR is pushing on the subject for an example.
What I really think scares the dedicated leftists with press credientials is both Trump and Sanders are rising the polls with what they consider an "extremist view." That the U.S. immigration laws should actually be enforced.
That is a message that is polling really, really well with Americans of both parties, especially those in the likely voter category.
Communist China hacks the US government
In case you missed extensive main stream media coverage of this story, here is a quick summary: "…the personal data of some four million federal employees who sought security clearances over the past 30 years had been compromised. Now the president of the American Federation of Government Employees, J. David Cox, has informed OPM in a letter that his organization believes "the Central Personnel Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former federal employees.""
In other words, the US got pwoned by hackers in the employ of the Communist Chinese government.
The United States is loosing the Cyberwar big time and our Dear Leader really doesn't seem to care.
Update: The number of Americans who had their personal information stolen from the OPM now at 25.7 million.
NPR joins the "War on Women"
I caught a bit of the NPR Sunday Quiz/Talk show today. One of the hosts was mocking one of the Republican presidential candidates' comment about having a "rotating First Lady" if elected. The candidate in question is unmarried.
The so-called "Liberal", probably a "Progressive", democrat hosting the show immediately asked if the rotation would be like a rotisserie chicken or a slab of beef on a rotating pedestal, so "slices of First Lady" could be carved off as needed.
It is not surprising that the leftist's first inclination was to equate a woman to a piece of meat. As I have pointed out before, if you want to know what the extremist left is doing, just look to what they are accusing their enemies of. Case in point, the alleged "War on Women" they accuse anybody to the right of Chairman Mao of conducting.
In addition to this "progressive" democrat doing what fascists do, dehumanize their foes, you can add the following to the extreme far left's "War on Women."
- Conservative women who dare to speak at college campuses need to hire bodyguards to protect themselves from the "tolerant and open minded" leftists on campus.
- A CNN Talking Head by the name of Carol Costello, found an attack on Gov. Sarah Palin' daughter humorous
- The coordinated attack, lead by Hillary Rodham Clinton, on every women who dared to speak up after being sexually assaulted (including rape), by her husband Bill Clinton.
- A South Carolina democrat referred to Gov. Haley a "whore."
Feel free to add to the list. There are plenty more examples.
The left's War on Women
As I have pointed out before, if you want to know what the left is up to, just check what they are accusing others of.
Case in point, the so-called "War on Women."
While giving a get-out-the-vote speech at a Florence, South Carolina political event, Democrat gubernatorial candidate, State Senator Vincent Shaheen, told cheering fans of his opponent, sitting Republican governor Nikki Haley, "We are going to escort whore out the door."
A so-called "reporter" at CNN by the name of Carol Costello, got on her high hobby horse in defense of "violence against women" when a football player got caught on camera, but she found the story of Bristol Palin being assaulted a source of humor. The hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds.
This double standard of the left, where they condone, and even support, violence against any woman who does not support their extremist agenda, is not new.
Conservative columnist Mary Katharine Ham wrote the following ten years ago in about her "liberal" friends response to threats of violence against her.
Why did I deserve it? Because I'm conservative, and to my liberal acquaintances, "conservative" is interchangeable with any number of fun words, like racist, homophobe, warmonger, and bigot. Even my best liberal friends have refuse to let go of these one-dimensional definitions despite the fact that a three-dimensional specimen has been disproving all of them throughout our friendship. So much for nuance.
In short, I deserved it because I'm a conservative (wink, wink, nudge, nudge.) And when you're dealing with people as dastardly as conservatives, anything goes.
This same rationale allowed liberal acquaintances to giggle when Ann Coulter was attacked by two young men with pies and shrug as former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris was almost run over. NOW and NARAL would be holding weekly violence-against-women awareness marches if the same had happened to Maureen Dowd and Hillary Clinton.
There was the New York Times' dreams of an assassination attempt on President Bush and Ted Rall's double whammy hit on the mentally handicapped and Bush voters. But then came Condi Rice's appointment to Secretary of State. What a goldmine that was!
Suddenly, racism was an acceptable political tool. Jokes about Mammies and big-lipped caricatures were en vogue. Most of us got the memo that our culture deems these kind of attacks to be about as reprehensible as they get. Liberal cartoonists and commentators got that memo too. But there was no retraction from them, and not a peep from the NAACP or NOW.
Why no outrage? Because Condi deserved it. She's a conservative, you know.
Calling Condi "Brown Sugar" becomes a reasonable criticism because she is a member of the Bush administration. A physical attack on Coulter is a laughing matter because she is a hawk. Tailing a female acquaintance on a dark night becomes a funny joke because she's conservative.
It seems to me that this is not the path to a civil political climate or national healing, both of which my liberal friends want. To me, my liberal friends and acquaintances are folks who are a little too soft on national defense and a little too heavy on the government programs for my taste. They do not deserve physical or racist attacks for that, and I do not laugh when they happen. I wish they felt the same way about me.
Round Up Post
Let's lead with Obama's illegal "Fast and Furious" gun running operation. Read the whole thing, what the Obama White House has been claiming "executive privilege" over is all about the cover up of their illegal activities. This scandal has a large body count, and senior members of the Obama administration, including Valerie Jarrett, should be getting jail time for their involvement.
It's has been obvious for a long time that the so-called "progressive" left is no fan of free speech. They are not just making it part of the official record.
Massachusetts democrat candidate for governor Martha Coakley is such a horrible candidate, that even the far left Boston Globe endorses Charlie Baker, her Republican opponent.
Speaking of far left wing newspapers, the Washington Post admits that not only is voter fraud widespread, it could even be the deciding factor in multiple elections.
More vote fraud
You remember Christina "Tita" Ayala, the Connecticut state rep recently arrested on 19 counts of vote fraud. If you don't, it probably because it didn't get much news coverage. It didn't promote the news media agenda on two counts. First, it was an actual case of vote fraud, which they constantly claim doesn't happen, and she is a democrat.
This wasn't an "isolated incident" either. Let us review some recent news.
James O'Keefe Catches CO Dems Advocating "Awesome" Voter Fraud
"Go F*ck Yourself, Gringo" Says Democrat Operative Caught Openly Stuffing Hundreds Of Ballots
'Calibration error' changes GOP votes to Dem in Illinois county. Let's be honest here, it was perfectly "calibrated" for an election in democrat controlled Illinois. The only error was that someone actually complained about it.
Update: Mr. Reynolds makes the following true statement about democrats, "Remember, you don't just have to beat them. You have to beat them beyond the margin of fraud."
Round Up Post
Joe "Plugs" Biden's son Hunter was booted out of the Navy for failing a mandatory drug test. In this case, he tested positive for cocaine. Hunter was only the Navy for about month before his illegal drug use was detected. He needed, not one, but two special waivers to enter the Naval Reserve in 2013. One for his age (i.e over 40), and one for his prior drug conviction. Waivers are usually given special skills in short supply, not "public relations", which was Plugs Jr's Navy job. It's pretty clear that the only reason he got those waivers was that his dad is our Dear Leader's bullet proof vest. I'm kinda surprised that this story even ran the New York Times. I'm not surprised that they buried the story on page A22 of the print edition. If this had been the son of a senior Republican elected official, this would have been front page, above the fold news. The hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds.
Speaking of Presidents, AoSHQ shows how a President should behave. Here is a hint, it isn't spending more time on the golf course than in intelligence briefings.
Back to one of Barry's many, many scandals. Sharyl Attkinsson is still digging up fresh dirt on the Obama so called "Justice Department" illegally running firearms to Mexican drug cartels.
One of the so called "reporters" at CBS "News" is flaunting her ignorance all over Twitter.
It's good to know American still has real heroes. Example: Veteran stands up for 2nd Amendment at Chicago anti-gun forum
In democrat controlled Los Angeles, CA, police have been sending out patrol cars that collect the licence plate number of every car around them. These "Law Enforcement" agencies have refused to release any information about the data they have collected because, wait for it, every single car seen is under investigation. Really.