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My Week With Marilyn is a British drama that depicts the film shooting of the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl. This week in the life of Marilyn Monroe is based on a book by Colin Clark who actually got to spend a week observing the blonde bombshell. My Week With Marilyn is directed by Simon Curtis while the screenplay was written by Adrian Hodges. This telling movie stars the lovely Michelle Williams as the vivacious Marilyn Monroe and Eddie Redmayne as Colin Clark in the lead while Julia Ormond, Kenneth Branagh and Pip Torrens play supporting roles. Sir Oliver struggles to meet Marilyn's many demands and gets angry when she comes late for rehearsals and reading sessions. Marilyn Monroe has a fight with her husband, who returns to the United States leaving her to finish her film schedule. Alone, Marilyn invites Colin into her crazy world where she battles with her inner demons that arises from her being so famous and beautiful.
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While the world struggles to contain an epidemic of epic proportions, the boys find a way to make money off of it.
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The Department of Homeland Security realizes they have an epidemic on their hands.
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South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone discuss guinea pigs, costumes, and the making of Pandemic 2.
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Season 12: Pandemic
Homeland Security tries to figure out where "Peruvian" is.
Part 1: The Process
Director of Animation, Ryan Quincy, and Supervising Animator, Jack Shih, walk you through the conceptual creation and the challenges met while animating Pandemic II.
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abiotic | nonliving parts of the environment |
autotroph | an organism that produces its own food; the source of energy for all other living things on Earth |
biome | large groups of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms; examples include the tundra, taiga, temperate forest, chaparral, tropical rain forest, desert, temperate grassland, tropical savanna grassland, and polar and high-mountain ice |
biosphere | all of Earth's ecosystems, collectively; the biologically inhabited portions of Earth, including all of the water, land, and air in which organisms survive |
biotic | the living parts of the environment |
decomposer | an organism, generally a bacterium or fungus, that consumes dead organisms and organic waste |
ecology | the study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment |
ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things that interact in a specific area; a subdivision of the environment |
heterotroph | organism that cannot make its own food; a consumer |
limiting factor | any factor in the environment that limits the size of a population |
niche | the specific role played by an organism in its ecosystem |
population | all the individuals of a single species that live in a specific area |
scavenger | a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
secondary succession | a type of change that occurs when a disturbance empties an existing habitat without destroying the soil |
Carrying Capacity | the largest population of single species that an area can support |
Homeostasis | the ability of an organism to maintain a stable internal environment even when the external environment changes |
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We are excited about the summer God has planned for you! Fundraising is an important part of the training experience for many reasons. There is the obvious, in that it provides the finances to make the program possible, but there are also less obvious reasons. Support-raising is a journey of faith that helps to shift your trust from the concrete securities around you to God as your provider. Many people walk away from the support raising journey amazed at the route God took to provide. The thought of raising $$$ can be intimidating. But, remember, just as God has led you to be part of this program, He will also provide the finances to make this experience possible—be confident of that! Every person on staff at Kingdom Building Ministries understands the journey you are about to embark upon. We all live on faith; responsible for raising our support as well. Know that you have the prayer support of our entire staff team as we will pray specifically for you during our staff prayer meetings.
Some key things to remember when planning your support raising strategy are creativity, persistence, and prayer. While we do believe that God will provide your need, we know that part of God's plan is for you to be actively involved in this process.
As a first step in the fundraising process, we highly recommend sending a support letter to EVERYONE you know. This may seem a bit awkward, but we have seen that often the people we least suspect to join our support team can sometimes be our most generous supporters. Who are we to decide whom the Lord may choose to make this all possible? Listed below are detailed steps to accomplish this first step:
...with the name of ANYONE you think might have even the slightest interest in supporting you with prayer and finances. We suggest you need 125-150 people on your list! Consider these groupings as you develop your list:
Family Members (immediate and distant)
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Teachers/professors, only those you personally know
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We've created a response form for you to send along with your support letter. There are three forms on one sheet of paper included in this packet.
Write your name on each of the forms, photocopy them as needed (using a different color than your letter), cut them out, and send one with each letter.
Be sure to also enclose return envelopes with your letter, addressed to Kingdom Building Ministries. If you mail your letters in #10 envelopes (standard), you can then place addressed #9 envelopes inside, to be used for your supporters' responses.
Remember that everyone likes to hear from YOU—yourself! Be sure to hand sign EACH of your letters, and we would suggest you write some sort of personal note at the bottom of each letter.
In every case possible, be sure to share with people personally (i.e. verbally). Whether it is through one-on-one appointments, phone calls, presentations over coffee, sharing with a Sunday school class, etc. A personal contact increases the probability of gaining a donor by almost 50%!
Designate a certain amount of time after you mailed the letters for follow-up (2-3 weeks is ideal). Contact all those who you have not received a response from and simply ask them if they received your letter, if they had questions, and whether they are interested in joining your support team.
Once a person has given towards your summer, be sure and keep them updated as to how much support you have raised and how much you have left to raise. You would be amazed to know of the number of people who give a second and third time because the person in need kept them updated on their progress.
In addition to sending a support letter, below are other creative ideas successfully used by past students in their support raising journey:
Ask your employer (or a friend's employer) to consider donating a portion of a day (or an evening's) proceeds to your training experience! (Chick-fil-a will often consider this opportunity.)
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Host a spaghetti or chili dinner, share about the ministry opportunity God has led you toward and ask people to consider joining your prayer and financial support team.
Personally host (or ask a friend/family member to host) a garage/yard sale with proceeds donated to your training experience. (You may want to let shoppers know about how the proceeds are going to be used and place "suggested donation" as the price of your items.) Be sure to ask all your friends and family to donate anything they don't need to your garage sale!
Ask your pastor or small group leader if you could have permission to share about this training/mission opportunity God has called you toward with your church or group members.
Organize/participate in a bike or walk-a-thon.
Get a job. (Let your potential employer know what you are working to raise money for.)
Sell pizza or candy.
Ask your friends or church group to help you put on a car wash.
Design a t-shirt and sell it!
Do temporary odd jobs for a donation: raking leaves, shoveling snow, babysitting, window washing, garage cleaning, etc. Again, be sure to let people know what you're going to do with the money you earn.
Hold a bake sale.
Hold an auction with donated items
Sell items on Ebay or Craigslist
Utilize Facebook to get the word out! One option is to organize a Facebook group and add friends so you can communicate with them about what God is leading your toward and invite them to participate in prayer or financial support!
No doubt you get the idea! We are praying for you in your efforts. Be sure to let us know if you have any questions or concerns. We have seen God faithfully provide for many students and believe and are praying with you that God will provide for you!
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Rotational grazing, tire-based water systems on tap at June 24 Beef/Forage Field Day JONESBORO, Ark. – An interactive tour of rotational grazing fields and a step-by-step how-to on tire tank watering systems are among the activities on tap Monday, June 24, for the Delta beef and Forage Field Day at Arkansas State University Farms. |
May 15, 2013 |
UpStream Art on display during Rogers Third Friday festivities FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – One of the most unique public art projects n Arkansas is one that adorns storm drains across Bentonville, Fayetteville, Rogers and Springdale. Staring this Friday, art lovers will have a chance to see all of these sometimes-whimsical, but always educational, 2013 Upstream Art pieces in one place. |
May 14, 2013 |
UpStream Art on display during Rogers Third Friday festivities JONESBORO, Ark. – Arkansas' cotton, rice and corn growers are making a late-inning rally after a spring-long rain-and-cold delay that kept them from planting their crops. Next Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Sign-up begins May 20 PINE BLUFF, Ark, -- The next general sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) will begin May 20 and end June 14. GAP and GHP Certification Food Safety Training May 23 PINE BLUFF, Ark. – A Food Safety Workshop emphasizing Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Good Handling Practices (GHP) Certification for fruit and vegetable producers is scheduled for Thursday, May 23, at the S.J. Parker 1890 Extension Complex Auditorium on the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) campus. The workshop begins at 9:30 a.m. with registration. The first session begins at 10 a.m. |
National conference helps growers find new markets LITTLE ROCK – A conference aimed at helping the nation's farmers and rural communities find new markets and expand economically will feature a keynote by Doug O'Brien, USDA's deputy under secretary of rural development. Wheat growers should hold that itchy sprayer finger LONOKE, Ark. – Yes, those are stink bugs in your wheat field. No, you probably shouldn't start spraying just yet. |
May 10, 2013 |
An ecological lifesaver: Grassed waterways FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Many landowners are interested in preserving the wildlife on their land. The water quality of the runoff flowing from their acreage is also a matter of concern for landowners. Arkansas works to stay ahead of a fruit-robbing fly FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A tiny fly may be the greatest threat that cobbler season in Arkansas has ever faced. Spring is for strawberries, but winter may be, too FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – May may be National Strawberry Month, but imagine biting into a ripe, juicy Arkansas strawberry – in the middle of winter. |
Have fun a second time at Arkansas Outdoor School's 'Greatest Hits Camp' LITTLE ROCK – So what did you do this summer? If you attend the 4-H Arkansas Outdoor School this year, your answer could be making a battery out of lemons, earning an American Red Cross First Aid certificate, or cooking and surviving in the wild. And if you vote on one of these as your favorite activity of camp, you just may get to do it again. Photo Opportunity - Youth Nutrition Garden Program Come meet the second and third graders at Martin Luther King Interdistrict Elementary who are part of the Nutrition Garden program and join them for a tour of the garden. They will be harvesting and planting. |
May 8, 2013 |
Mississippi rising again, minor flooding inside levee on Ark side [CORRECTION] HELENA-WEST HELENA, Ark. – The National Weather Service has a flood advisory in effect at Helena with the Mississippi expected to crest just short of flood stage on Sunday. Taste Arkansas-grown goodies at Horticulture Field Day May 30 HOPE, Ark. – Mouth-watering honey and biscuits, desserts and veggies. Who knew a Horticulture Field Day could taste so good? Happy fish, sea monkeys help bring storm drain message home in NW Arkansas FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Happy fish, sea monkeys, flowers and local landmarks are all part UpStream Art 2013, the second year of a public art campaign to show that storm drains carry runoff directly into nature and not to wastewater processing. |
'Giddy up-and-whoa' spring grows question marks in Ark tomato country WARREN, Ark. – Cool days, cold nights and smatterings of warm sunshine have raised a few question marks in the tomato fields of southern Arkansas. Bumpers College Awards Diploma to First Online Graduate in Latest Online Master's Degree Program FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – When a Lonoke County extension agent walks across the stage to accept her master's degree diploma May 11, she will be the first graduate of a new online degree program offered by the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the University of Arkansas.
May 7, 2013 |
Hay moisture and how to measure it FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Making good hay is not a guessing game – especially where moisture levels are concerned, said Dirk Philipp, assistant professor for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. |
Caramelized sugars may taste good, but mean lower protein in hay FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A little moisture in hay is normal, but higher levels will mean higher heat levels in the bale leading to destruction of proteins in the forage and at high enough temperatures, the storage barn, said Dirk Philipp, assistant professor for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. |
May 3, 2013 |
Corn takes a bath in Craighead Co., flood warnings issued JONESBORO, Ark. – Rising water in eastern Arkansas on Friday prompted flood warnings, a highway closure and submerged corn, rice and soybeans in two counties. Freeze not expected in Ark row crop country, but cold, wet weather causing headaches LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas' row crop farmers will be keeping a wary eye on the thermometer Friday and Saturday as a front that has already brought record lows and snow to the state, fills the air with its coldest punch yet for the young month of May. It's May. It's Arkansas. It's snowing. WINSLOW, Ark. – Hello snow. Goodbye zucchinis. Friday's snowfall in northwest Arkansas was a record setter. Never before had snow been recorded in May in Arkansas, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures dropped steeply with the snow and a freeze watch was posted for Benton, Carroll, Madison and Washington counties through Saturday morning. |
Birds and windows: A bad combination, but not always a sad ending LITTLE ROCK -- It's one of the signs of spring: That unnerving "thunk" when a bird flies into your picture window or storm door. It can be an upsetting experience, but the outcome isn't necessarily going to be as bad as it might look and there are steps you can take to help prevent those collisions. Taking care of your latchkey plants SEARCY, Ark. -- If you and your family are going on vacation, chances are that you're not bringing your houseplants along. If you're not there to water them, who is? College funding changes for 2013 high school grads LITTLE ROCK – This year's high school graduates maybe done with exams, but with changes to Arkansas' lottery scholarships and college loan interest rates, they'd better be cramming for the financial challenges ahead, said Laura Connerly, assistant professor for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. |
May 2, 2013 |
Climate Prediction Center sees wetter days ahead for SW Ark LITTLE ROCK – The Climate Prediction Center on Thursday projected a wetter summer for southwest Arkansas, an area where moderate drought continued clinging stubbornly. |
Number of Ark rabies cases rises to 84 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Pope County continued to lead the state in the number of reported rabies cases with 12, while the statewide total for animal rabies reports rose to 84 from 55 a month ago, the Arkansas Department of Health reported Wednesday. |
May 1, 2013 |
Receding drought leaves deadly touch among Ark trees HOPE, Ark. – Drought may be receding in Arkansas, but its deadly touch will be felt in landscapes and forests for years to come, said Jon Barry, extension forester for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. |
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Sunday, February 10, 2013
Menu Planning - February 10
Here we go again - another week of menus:
Sunday - pizza (italian sausage, onions, mozzarella/piave cheese) - this was supposed to be Friday's dinner, but we went away for the weekend..so we saved it for tonight
Monday - hominy/chick peas with braised collard greens
Tuesday - vegan chilaquiles
Wednesday - hominy/chick pea patties with fish (this will be a Mexican theme with cilantro/lime/red onion) For the patties, it will be the leftover hominy/chickpeas from Monday mixed with scallion, egg, cumin and cilantro formed into patties and pan fried -- pretty much improvising here).
Thursday - Valentine's Day dinner: prime rib with creamed spinach (one of our few forays into the "serious" meat world; the creamed spinach is Deborah Madison)
Friday - veggie wraps (cream cheese, shredded cucumber and shredded carrot, raw spinach, and whatever else we throw into a tortilla wrap) with terra chips (not a "real food" but a "fun food" for Friday :))
I am hoping to post a few more times this week - there have been many chilly winter runs and 100% in ab month!
2 comments:
- Mommy Run Fast said...
Ooh, what a great idea for Valentine's dinner... might have to surprise my husband with some sort of beef or steak... his favorite! Have a great week!
- Jess said...
Oh, I love prime rib, but even more so, I love making soup from prime rib. It's awesome with gnocchi.
And when I say "I," I mean Jerry. :) - 10:47 AM
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Attention all Rotax Class Drivers and teams. There is an official update for the all of the Rotax classes concerning carburators for the 2013 Season. This will include the Rotax classes for the Gold Cup click on more for the details. Read More |
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We have received some updates and rule changes for the 2013 Rotax classes for the Gold Cup and US Rotax Max Challange series classes. Please see the following links for the tech bulletins http://www.gorotax.com/rules-and-regulations.html general rules for the USRMC http://www.gorotax.com/images/downloads/2013-Rotax-MAX-Class-Structure.pdf http://www.gorotax.com/images/downloads/2013-Rotax-MAX-Age-Structure.pdf Read More |
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Bicyclists who have outgrown their bikes can head to Forest Elementary School later this month for a group sale that will help The Forest Elementary PTC raise money.
Cyclists can set their price and sell their reasonably-working bicycles, Burleys, trailer bikes, tandems and trikes in the parking lot of Forest Elementary, 1375 Fifth Avenue, between 4 and 7 p.m. April 27 and 8 to 9:30 a.m. April 28.
You do not need to bring a bike to buy one. Come and browse after 11am.
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Advocate Lutheran General Hospital will sell helmets for $10 a piece between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. April 28. Organizers encourage bicyclists to bring their own helmets that need adjusting.
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Luxottica Group, owner of the Ray-Ban brand – the global leader in premium eyewear – is excited to announce to have been awarded last night two Gold Lions in the category PRESS LIONS in the sections Clothing, Footwear and Accessories and Photography for the RAY-BAN LEGENDS Communication Campaign.
Rolled out in April, RAY-BAN LEGENDS tells the history and the spirit of 75 years of Never Hide: the courage to be yourself and freely express your beliefs and personality. Since its birth in 1937 and up to the present day, Ray-Ban has been honouring the values of authenticity and uniqueness which best represent the DNA of the legendary brand.
Icons and legends of the past, present and future: this is the key message of RAY-BAN LEGENDS. Shot by photographer Mark Seliger in California at the end of January, the campaign frames seven legendary moments (one per decade), each inspired by a real life and particularly iconoclastic figure. Every character wears a Ray-Ban Icon. Each image evokes a specific story and is epitomized by the chromatic tones that are faithful to the relevant decade (black and white, sepia and, naturally, colour).
Sara Beneventi, Ray-Ban Brand Director stated: "We are enthusiastic about these awards. It's an important recognition for the brand and for its lovers. Since it was born, Ray-Ban has been authentic, genuine and real and most importantly, true to itself".
"It's an honour to win these awards in such an important year in Ray-Ban's history and an important acknowledgment of a team of amazing talents that invested their passion and creativity into making this campaign what it is. We can't wait to see what the future holds and will continue to work to creating messages worthy of this brand" said Erika Ferszt, Luxottica Group Media Advertising & Digital Director.


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This week I delivered some big shop orders and breathed a great sigh. It's always a little stressful sending out packages for me--our hard work all wrapped up in a bundle and shipped on a wing and a prayer that it will get across the country or the sea and safely to it's destination. Here's where they went and where you can find bonbons this season:
We sent some beautiful silverwork chains and the new corsage/pendants from our Spring Collection to Coincidence in Tokyo again and are excited that Ships in Japan took our money clips for their men's department this season!Oh and the sweet Vittoria Bergui and her sleek shop Terra in the gorgeous Ligurian seaside town of Alassio has some new things for the holidays-she's been carrying bonbons for the past two years so I think I need to visit soon, don't I? And another new shop for us is Miho (sorry I don't have their website yet!), a boutique department store in Taiwan!
~And in NYC, Only Hearts...one of my favorite boutiques! I hand delivered their order to the shop on Mott Street ...they took the perfectly romantic holiday collection of vintage lockets and gold-dipped whistles which go perfectly with their own line of cozy sexy lingerie out of which I want it all (I was soo close to buying myself a new nightie). I'm hoping they get shopped out so we can deliver more!
And then of course there's the brightest star in Park Slope's fantastic shopping scene, Cog & Pearl, our oldest and most faithful carrier of all things Bonbon and purveyor of beautiful things. They have a big selection of bonbons and they've been putting out a little more each week...we just sent them the THIRD delivery this month! We design a lot of one-of-a-kind pieces for them which you won't find anywhere else but the best part? You don't have to live in NY to buy from them--they have a gorgeous website that I just noticed features our pheasant necklace front and center!! woohoo! And I'm about to drop off a few more new pieces this morning to Self+Therapy on Grand Street (just off Bedford Ave.) in Williamsburg--they have some great new pieces-keyfobs and money clips and our infamous heirloom collection grace the beautiful shop/spa, where you can also pick some gift certificates for a massage--I think I'll buy myself one...{sigh}. (Also, read Tamika's wonderful post today on the self+therapy blog---it's a perfect love song about giving!)


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Wonderful news for the Offaly town – a top banjo festival is headed its way...
, 25 Sep 2012
So it's a place full of music history and exceedingly venerable (by American standards anyway). After the launch, Niall will be performing a number of showcases at the International Bluegrass Music Association, and as part of the European Bluegrass Music Association, and also hosting a showcase with a bunch of great bands at the famous Ernest Tubb Record Store, across the road from Jacks (26). After that he'll be trawling round the country heartlands of Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina for the best part of October. No shows are planned for Kentucky itself, but there are a few spare days when he'll be able to go and look at Bill Monroe's Blue Grass State.
Closer to home, Friday 28 September sees the Quicksand Band take to the stage of Upstairs at Whelans for the launch of 'That Voice', the second single to be released off their Gavin Glass-produced debut album Approaching Rain.
The band formed in 2008 in Dublin. Having played in various forms over the years, the lads grouped together to record what was originally a solo project for lead singer Justin Corr. The resultant sounds and vibes coming from that session paved the way for the launch of a new band, with Phil Clarke joining Justin on lead vocals and guitars, Shay Cosgrave on drums and Eoin Melinn on bass.
The EP Ten Gallon Drought (the product of those early sessions) was launched in 2008 and received a warm reception from fans and critics. The follow-up Ten Gallon Drought Part II was launched the following year.
During 2011, they headed into the studio with Gavin Glass. They have developed a unique style and approach to music with songs that bear the influence of country, folk and rock but with a very contemporary edge. Their live performances have gained them a large fan base, drawn to their compelling, exciting and honest material.
Downstairs in Whelans on the same evening, Session Americana will be bringing their show back to Dublin. Their approach to making music is refreshing. Strip out the egos, strip out the big production and just play some great songs, gutted to their bare essentials and performed with a real genuineness of spirit and emotional authenticity.
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Please plan to attend to talk about the future of TBK, elect members of the Board of Trustees and approve our 2013-2014 budget. TBK will also bestow two very special awards at the 164th Annual Meeting.
The Rabbi Laurence A. Kotok Tikkun Olam Award is presented to Rhonda and Earl Gurell.
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Ha. Well. If you've taken a look at my profile, you can clearly see nothing is posted. I've deleted my past ficwad account in order to start new and fresh. I've been going through quite a lot (medical, emotional, school problems, etc.), and I'd given up on writing. By deleting the old and starting with a new one I figured why not try again? Yes I haven't written anything yet, but I'm working on something for Music and Words. If you haven't checked that out, you should.
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The New York Jets released RB Terrance Ganaway and QB Matt Simms on Friday evening as they move towards a 53-man roster. After announcing 14 cuts this afternoon, the Jets are now down to 59 players.
Ganaway, a rookie out of Baylor, holds one important distinction for the Jets:
The Jets waived the only player that scored a TD for them in the preseason: Terrance Ganaway.
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Simms, the son of former Giants quarterback Phil Simms, was signed as an undrafted free agent back in May. He didn't play much during his senior year at Tennessee, throwing just 62 passes in a backup role.
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Los Angeles, California
Panel E.J. Dionne, The Brookings Institution Melissa Rogers, Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs Cal Thomas, syndicated columnist Jim Wallis, Sojourner's Magazine Steve Waldman, Beliefnet
E.J. DIONNE, JR. Thank you all for coming. For me, this is a great reunion. An old and very dear friend of mine who teaches at USC, Ron Garet is here. We have so much expertise in the room that I think the panel should get down, and a number of you in this audience should get up here. I also want to thank my friend Jim Warren from the Chicago Tribune, the only person other than people on this panel who has attended both of these at both conventions.
I'm just going to give a brief introduction to who are we and why we are here, to paraphrase General Stockdale from that debate. I want to thank Steve Waldman of Beliefnet, which is co-sponsoring this debate, this discussion really, with the Brookings Institution. We're talking here about our book, What's God Got To Do With The American Experiment. Melissa and Cal and Jim all have essays in that book, and Steve assures me Beliefnet is a very, very interesting web site that has a lot of fascinating stuff on religion and public life. And Steve just told me that it was, in fact, his venture capitalist that arranged the Democratic ticket this year to increase interest in the subjects of religion and politics. So, he'll explain, his job will be to explain how he pulled that off.
You could imagine the question posed in the title of this book as provoking two legions to mass against each other. You know, in one view, one side would declare that it's America's pluralistic and secular Constitution that has promoted freedom, diversity and oddly the very strength of America's religious communities. That being independent of the state and having our Constitution has been religion and freedom's finest friend.
In the other account, you would hear people say that freedom itself is rooted in a theistic, some would say Judeo-Christian commitment to the inviolable dignity of the human being. Our own Declaration of Independence says that this belief arises from the law of nature and nature's God, and that a belief in God places a healthy restraint on the human tendency to deify political systems or political leaders.
Now, this argument is as old as our republic. This book won't settle it, and we certainly won't settle it today. But I think Alan Wolfe had it right as to why we keep arguing about this as a nation. Alan has an essay in the book. And he declares that 200 years after the brilliant writings of Madison and Jefferson on the topic, Americans cannot make up their minds whether religion is primarily private, public, or some uneasy combination of the two. And I think it's precisely because of these ambiguities that arguments about God and religious faith are always involved in our democratic discussion.
I also think it's worth pointing out that we Americans, almost all of us, can be quite inconsistent in our views of how and when religion should influence politics. Many who welcome the prophetic role of the churches in movements to abolish slavery, promote civil rights, and secure social justice are skeptical of applying religion's prophetic voice to matters such as abortion, sexuality and family life. And many who welcome this second set of commitments can be just as wary of crusades rooted in a social gospel.
I think we're at a very exciting moment in our public life where I see us in a kind of third stage in our national discussion. We began in a period where we had religious freedom, but in a country that had a predominantly Protestant ethos. In the 1960s barriers began to fall, and that predominantly Protestant ethos was challenged. John Kennedy was elected president. The civil rights movement challenged prejudice. Restrictive covenants against Jews began to fall. We became a much more tolerant and open country.
But as a result of the court decisions, many religious people began to feel that religion was being squeezed out of public life to a much greater degree than was healthy either for religious freedom or for our republic.
So, I see us in a third stage, where we are trying to preserve the gains of that second stage, while protecting the free expression of religion.
The other thing you're seeing, obviously, in this campaign is a big discussion of Charitable Choice. Both Gore and Bush have endorsed versions of it. I'm hoping we can have a discussion today. I'm very sorry that Bill Galston from the Gore Campaign was unable to join us. Bill is one of the most articulate defenders in the Democratic Party of the Charitable Choice idea, and I was hoping he and Melissa might have a useful exchange. Melissa has a great essay in the book criticizing Charitable Choice under the wonderful title, a short title, "The Wrong Way To Do Right." So I'm hoping we can have some back and forth on this notion.
And obviously we are having a big discussion about what kind of public expression of religion we want in our public life. Before I close and introduce the panel, I want to share Greg Easterbrook's wonderful line from his book, Beside Still Waters, about the ambiguities we have in our attitude toward politicians who talk about religion.
Greg wrote, "if a politician or a celebrity stands up to mumble about being blessed by the Lord, and speaks in a manner unmistakably vacuous, and intended for public consumption, nobody minds. If the same person says with conviction, 'I really believe my faith requires me to do this or that,' that expression will be condemned as inappropriate." So I think this uneasiness in our discussion is well captured by that.
The other line from the book that I'd like to share, because I think it can provoke so much discussion on both sides of where the author is, Pat Glynn in the book writes: "Religion does its real work in politics not by arousing moral indignation, but by awakening the individual conscience. The distinction is a subtle, but important one. A moral indignation drives us to condemn others, conscience prompts us to question ourselves."
And so, in that spirit, no one on the panel will defend their own position. They will only question their own position.
Let me introduce the speakers in the order that they'll be speaking. Melissa Rogers is the general counsel of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs. She was previously the associate general counsel of the Baptist Joint Committee. She worked for a DC law firm. She went to Baylor and received her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. And she's the author of a long list of things that I won't mention, but she's free to quote any of them she wants.
Jim Wallis, many of you know, is an author, a preacher, and an activist. He's editor-in-chief of Sojourner's Magazine, which many of you know. He is also the convener of Call To Renewal, a new national federation of churches and faith-based organizations working to overcome poverty. He has also organized the day here at the Shadow Convention on Poverty.
Cal Thomas is a well-known syndicated columnist, a conservative writer. He is the author of a much discussed and acclaimed book, Blinded by Might: Can the Religious Right Save America? And he has a great essay in this book that kind of reflects on his work, and on reactions to it. Let's see, we have three returnees from the Republican Convention, and he gave a very powerful and provocative talk there, and I'm very grateful that Cal is with us.
And finally, our co-sponsors of the event, Beliefnet. Steve Waldman, he's the chairman and editor-in-chief of Beliefnet. He was the national editor of U.S. News and World Report. He was a senior advisor to the Corporation for National Service, and he is the author of a much acclaimed book, and I'm one of the acclaimers, I wrote a review of the book. Whenever you review a friend's--we weren't really friends at the time, but I became his friend after I wrote the review--it really is a great book. It's a book about the passage of the National Service law, and it really is one of the best books we have now about how a bill becomes a law. And it's a very exciting book. So, we're glad that Steve is with us.
And so, without further ado, Melissa, people can feel free to speak sitting down, or speak standing up, however people are more comfortable. This is a pluralistic panel.
MELISSA ROGERS Thank you, E.J., and good morning. I'm glad to be here with all of you.
I want to take just a few minutes to address the issue of the ways in which religious groups and the government can cooperate to provide social services. This is obviously a hot topic in the election, and we believe that there are many forms of potential fruitful cooperation between the government and religious organizations.
Let me just name a few. For example, houses of worship should consider spinning off a separate organization that would be organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code, to get technical with you. These organizations that are separate from the mother church body could receive tax funds for their secular social work. Now, because the government can't advance religion, these secular services that are tax funded should be separate and clearly independent from any religious activities that take place at that organization. And because the organizations are tax funded, they should be prepared to have to play by the rules and regulations that come along with receipt of tax funds. Many organizations are currently operating in this capacity, and many more are considering spinning off a separate organization that can receive tax funds for these purposes.
Another way in which religious organizations and the government can cooperate on social services is they can cooperate by communicating. Religious organizations and the government, I think, in the past have mistakenly not communicated about what they're doing to serve people in need. Now, the excitement about faith-based organizations stems, I think largely, from the fact that churches are uniquely situated in their communities oftentimes. They understand their communities. They are wonderful incubators and motivators for all kinds of helpful social service projects. So folks are drawn to these organizations, and that makes sense.
The way that I think the government should interact with these houses of worship and other groups that are thoroughly religious in what they do is, for example, to share information about programs, to communicate about needs and services, to make referrals when appropriate. Churches may even choose to play a role in volunteer, government-organized, after-school programs and the like, and that can make very good sense. So this communication is a very important role.
Another way that government and religious organizations can cooperate in this realm is that the government can encourage enhanced tax incentives for charitable giving. For example, there's the charitable giving tax Relief Act that's currently pending that would allow non-itemizers to get credit for some of the charitable giving that they give each year. And this, in turn, would allow taxpayers to direct their money to the religious group, or the other charitable group of their choice, with no regulatory strings attached. And I think this is quite appropriate in this booming economy to look for ways in which we can make sure that this charitable giving is directed and given credit by the government.
Someone also has written in the book that E.J. edited noting that there could even be the formation of what they have called a United Way for religious outreach, that will allow a place to bring together this money that is given in a charitable sense and directed out to all of these religious groups that are doing such fine work. And, indeed, the United Way could look towards corporations and foundations to ensure that they are doing their part to aid these institutions that are working so well. They have not, corporations and foundations in the past, done enough to give to religious organizations, and the government can help in encouraging that type of giving as well.
I must say, however, as a church state lawyer and a Baptist, there is one form of cooperation between religious organizations and the government that makes me nervous, and that is largely represented by the specific legislative scheme called Charitable Choice. Now, Charitable Choice is often thought of as a general term that basically describes any kind of interaction between the government and religious organizations. That's not the case. Charitable choice, instead, is a specific legislative scheme that first became law in the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, and it is geared specifically toward allowing churches and other groups that integrate religion into all their work to receive tax money directly. Now, Charitable Choice is, again, a hot topic because, as E.J. mentioned, both presidential candidates have endorsed it in recent speeches. But I think it's time that we temper our enthusiasm for this with a dose of realism and reflection. And, in that vein, let me just raise three quick questions that Charitable Choice raises for me, and I think are worth considering.
The first question is, if churches and other thoroughly religious organizations are the most effective, which is what people often say, then they, it would make sense, would receive the most tax money. Given that fact, how can the government avoid either one of two undesirable outcomes. First, how can the government avoid advancing religion which, of course, is unconstitutional. If the group is a church or another group that integrates religion in all that it does, how can the government send a tax subsidized grant or contract there and not end up advancing religion? Now advancing religion perhaps in the abstract doesn't sound so bad, but it concretely impacts Americans in that it forces taxpayers to subsidize religion, and this is something that our founders got very excited about. In fact, Charitable Choice accomplishes precisely what the founders rejected when they resisted tax-funded churches.
Also, the government, when it advances religion, has a problem. It can't advance all religions in this country. There are too many of them. It has to pick and choose when it sends out government grants and contracts. And our government doesn't do a very good job when it comes to picking and choosing about religions. It's a very big mine field for the government.
On the other side of the coin, the other undesirable outcome that I'm concerned about is this: if the government faithfully tries to ensure that it is separating out sacred from secular in a church or another faith-drenched institution, how is it going to avoid becoming excessively entangled with religion?
As my chapter in the book indicates, one of the main reasons I'm concerned about Charitable Choice is because shekels come with shackles, and I'm afraid there will be regulation. That will invade the church and change what the church is and the way it works and result in really weakening religious autonomy.
A second troubling question for me, and these are just a few. I'll get to the others later, hopefully, but let me just give you one quick note of background. Under current law, a religious organization may discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion. So, for example, a Baptist church can use its tithes and offerings to hire a Baptist minister rather than a rabbi, and that makes perfect sense. But Charitable Choice, however, takes this concept from its fairly noncontroversial context in the privately funded context and plugs it into a very controversial context, and that is tax-funding. So, under Charitable Choice, a taxpayer could be turned away from a tax-funded position because he or she isn't the right religion, or does not hold the right religious beliefs as defined by a particular tax-funded religious provider.
So, my legal question is, is tax-funded religious discrimination constitutional? The courts are going to have to wrestle with this. But more fundamentally my question is, is tax-funded discrimination fair and right?
Finally, Charitable Choice for me creates a lingering sense of unease when I hear that essentially getting religion produces positive social outcomes, less crime, less dependency on the government, for example. But what gives religion its power is that it is a force of the soul, answering to a higher authority. It is much more than defining government dependency down. It is much more than a cog in a bureaucratic wheel. It is answering to God's agenda, and not to the government's. So, I worry, as we begin to talk about harnessing religion's power for the government, that in the end it is religion itself that will be harnessed. And this is no idle fear, I think, because when churches receive tax money, I think they'll be a lot less apt, for example, to criticize the one who is paying their bills, the government in this case.
So, it is clear that we must care for the least of these, and I think that government can join us in doing so in many instances, and cooperative arrangements. So I urge the candidates to cooperate creatively to serve those in need with religion. But I also urge them to be very careful to preserve religious liberty for all of us.
Thank you.
E.J. DIONNE, JR. Thank you very much. As I said, Melissa and Bill are two of the most articulate people I know who agree broadly on an awful lot of things, and have differences on this.
We've got a couple of people in the audience, Steve Monsma is one, and Father Joe Hacala, who is an advisor to Secretary Cuomo at HUD, whom I suspect share some views with Melissa, and disagree with her in some areas. I want to encourage you folks to join the conversation. And I'm also glad we're in the spirit of the convention because of that word scheme, I like that.
Thank you very much.
Jim Wallis.
JIM WALLIS Good morning, everyone, and thank you, E.J., for convening us, and for raising these issues as you do so well in the national media better than anybody else in my view. So, thank you for convening this.
We've had so many venues--we've been talking about this in Philadelphia and LA--it's obviously a hot question. So, let me just make a couple of comments that may hopefully spark some more conversation. I did tell a story in Philadelphia that is a favorite of mine that does, I think, fit here again. My wife is an Anglican priest, and when preachers marry other preachers, it's a great deal because they get a lot of new stories, and preachers always need new stories. So this is her story.
A colleague was nervous about his first Sunday school class. He was going to be a priest. And he wanted the kids to like him, and so he was being very hip, and casual, and cool, and they were sitting there, and he said, okay, kids, what's gray and furry and gathers nuts and climbs up and down trees? The kids looked puzzled, and a little boy raises his hand and he calls on him. And the kid is struggling with his answer. He says, I know the answer is supposed to be Jesus, but it sure sounds like a squirrel to me. There are no easy religious answers to hard questions.
And I like to begin sometimes with that when we talk about this question, what the role of the FBOs, we've become an acronym now, we are no longer churches, we are FBOs, faith-based organizations. It's a dangerous thing when you become an acronym, but we are. What is the role, what is the approach going to be a very important question, what will shape it? I don't know what the outcome is, but I've heard rumors the Democrats are downplaying the role of FBOs in the platform conversations. If that proves to be true, I would like to suggest it's a very big mistake. It's a very big mistake to ignore the emerging role of faith-based organizations. And I would suggest that on the liberal left-side, there is still this fear of religion and spirituality.
And I teach a course part-time up at Harvard called Faith, Politics and Society at the Kennedy School. And I was up there one night and had a conversation with a number of very smart, sort of Harvard-liberal, left, progressive Democrats, all of whose names you would know, so I won't mention who they were. But I gave a talk on religion and public life, and the first question was this from a very smart person whom you all would know. He said: Jim, what about the Inquisition?
And I said: Well, I was against it at the time. And I'm still opposed to it. Now, if you don't want me to raise Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge every time you talk about national health insurance, why don't we move on to a serious conversation.
As incredible as that question is, I still find a lot of that in very sophisticated circles, and I hope the Democratic Party doesn't listen to that kind of nervous, fearful voice about religion.
What will the role be? Well, there are choices out there. I want to suggest that Marvin Olasky, whose voice is being heard in the Republican Party on these questions, has a very different voice from Stephen Goldsmith, who was on this panel in Philadelphia, the former Mayor of Indianapolis. Now, will Olasky or Goldsmith finally have the decisive voice in a Bush administration, if there is one? That is a very important question. They have very different approaches. Olasky's view is, you devolve social policy from the federal to the state and the local, then remove it altogether from the public sphere and have it be done by churches and charities. Now he says he doesn't quite believe that because, of course, he wants to be a player, but he does believe that, in my view. His books talk about that, that is his view. Steve Goldsmith is talking about a partnership, and he's done that, I think, in a brilliant way in Indianapolis, where everyone, I would say, does their share, everyone does what they do best. There is a positive role of governance here in partnership with faith-based. I think how that turns out is going to be a very fascinating question.
On the Democratic side, will the ACLU and those people who want to downplay this issue win, or will Andrew Cuomo, and what Joe Hacala is doing, forming partnership with faith-based organizations in a very significant new way in the Democratic Party, will that hold sway? I think that's a critical issue.
Secondly, this whole question about Lieberman. I read a column this week about Lieberman and I think it is a significant thing, not just because he's Jewish, but because he's so devout about his faith, and the fact that I think he is a cultural conservative, but yet he has a 100 percent voting record with the Children's Defense Fund. That's interesting. You have a Democrat who is willing to challenge Bill Clinton on his personal morality as a public issue, even says that public officials should be held to a higher standard, imagine that as a point of view--or that it's not quite true that it doesn't matter what your personal life and morality is. As long as your policies are good, that's all we care about. That's been the Democratic view. He challenged that, which I'm very supportive of. And then he challenges Hollywood and all the sleaze in Hollywood and yet he has a voting record with CDF that is 100 percent.
Now, I think it's interesting that the faith based question could open up new political conversation in this country. We have a straight jacketed series of options. We have liberal on everything--personal issues, family issues, cultural issues, social policy, economics, and race. Then we have conservative on everything--same set of issues. Then we have a new option, which is Libertarian, which is fiscally conservative but liberal on all the social questions. Yet, there is an unarticulated option that I think Lieberman imperfectly, albeit, represents, which is cultural conservative on personal, family, moral issues, and yet a progressive social voting record, at least as far as CDF is concerned. That is an interesting political option, and one that I think conflicts with both political orthodoxies.
I live in a neighborhood where there are 80 percent single parent families. You cannot overcome poverty unless you deal with family breakdown, unless you deal with the re-weaving of the web that holds families together and helps kids not to fall through the cracks. Now, conservatives are right in saying that marriage is an anti-poverty measure. All the data shows that. The liberals are right in saying there are structural policy issues. The Bible talks about kings and rulers, and princes, and landlords and judges behind held responsible. Those families in my neighborhood, good family values or not, have to have a living family income. They have to be able to have policies that allow them to buy their own home. There are structural issues and there are cultural issues. The faith based question could help us to break through these old debates in some new kinds of ways.
Finally, I think this is why I like Cal Thomas' book so much, I recommend it to all of you--Blinded By Might--which is not a book that tells us to withdraw from politics, even though people say that's what he's saying. He's asking how to influence politics, how religion best impacts the issues we care about. Is it by taking over political power, or by changing the context, the climate of the political debate. And the metaphor I always use is simply this, that in an election year especially we have these politicians with what I call the wet fingered politicians syndrome. They get it by doing this all the time, licking their finger and putting it up in the air, seeing which way the wind is blowing.
And we think that by replacing one wet fingered politician with another that you can change the country, but you can't--never have, never will. You can't change a country by replacing one wet fingered politician with another one with a wet finger, you change a country by changing the wind. Change the wind and the politicians will quickly conform. Our job is a morally independent political movement, spiritual movement, trying to change the wind.
Now, in the middle of--I've been saying all week, and I'll close with this--the most unanswered, the most critical, central, moral question in American politics is what is this prosperity for. One in five kids is still poor in the face of unprecedented prosperity. That means our moral underpinnings are in total disarray, one of three children of color. Now, until that issue becomes a hot topic of conversation, not at shadow conventions, but at real conventions, then the church will have had its impact on this political culture. That's going to be the question, not photo-ops at the White House, not who is now on the inside of the White House, whoever wins, but whether we see concrete reductions in child poverty, for example. That's what religious people ought to be, in fact, insisting on.
E.J. DIONNE, JR. Jim reminds me of a wonderful line from CS Lewis, where he was talking about the relationship between Christianity and politics, and he said most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says, we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party. And it's a lot to reflect on. In some ways it feeds right into what Cal wanted to talk about.
CAL THOMAS Thanks, E.J. This has nothing to do with this morning's topic, but since it was on my mind and I already wrote about it, anybody find it rather curious that the Democrats picked Harold Hill character to follow Clinton's speech last night, the slick Willy of River City, Iowa, who can deal with his troubled friend with the wave of my hand, this very hand? That's great.
E.J. DIONNE, JR. He turned out to be a good guy.
CAL THOMAS After his conversion, yes. But, we didn't get to that last night, he was trying to sell trombones to the people of River City to keep their kids out of the pool hall, with a capital T, and that rhymes with P, and that stands for pool. As you can tell, I'm a frustrated entertainer.
Well, I'd like to share a little column I wrote that appeared in most of my papers, with the exception of the LA Times, for a continued censorship exists over there, on Sunday that is relevant to what I want to address briefly today. I called it "My God Can Beat Up Your God."
The Gore campaign is keeping an early promise, one an aid made that the Democrats were not going to allow Republicans to steal "the God vote" in the upcoming presidential election. Thirteen times last Tuesday in Nashville God's name was invoked by Vice President Gore once, and his running mate, Senator Lieberman twelve times. Some of the same commentators who were aghast when Governor Bush in response to a question during the primaries said the greatest philosophical influence in his life was Jesus Christ were strangely silent, or unconcerned, by Lieberman's invocation of Jehovah.
The reason has nothing to do with God and everything to do with politics. Liberals, including those at the major networks, approve of the policies of Gore-Lieberman, and for all they care the two can worship trees, which I've noticed some liberals do, especially in California. If it takes a favorable mention of God to advance the Democratic agenda, that's fine with them. But, when a Republican speaks well of the king who said his kingdom is not of this world, that's another story, because liberal Democrats oppose most of the Republican agenda.
The Washington Post, a newspaper I read every day, along with my Bible so I know what each side is doing, rarely overreacts when religious liberals baptize political discourse, and politicians, but has suddenly become concerned that God is getting too much attention in this election season. In a Wednesday editorial last week, the paper warned against "a bidding war on religion, in which the question becomes which side is more devout". Well, all politicians, of course, whatever label or brand, like to claim or think that God is more favorably disposed to their policies to those of their opponent. Lincoln may have had the best idea about this when he said he wasn't so much concerned if God was on his as whether he was on God's side.
Democrats have only recently plunged into the religious quagmire. In both the '92 and '96 elections Bill Clinton and Al Gore sometimes misquoted the Bible, but few journalists called them on it, preferring to critique Dan Quayle's spelling skills and Pat Buchanan's mean-spirited culture war. President Clinton once told a group of black pastors in Maryland it was "the will of God" that his crime bill be passed by Congress. He did not say whether God was amenable to any amendments. Reverend Jesse Jackson has often invoked religiosity to make political points. In trying to get more government money for the homeless Jackson has claimed that the Virgin Mary and Joseph were without a place to live, which isn't true. During the Monica Lewinsky scandal Jackson engaged in spiritual damage control, when he delightfully mixed metaphors saying of President Clinton's extramarital wanderings that adultery is "only one string on the guitar, there are nine other commandments".
Republicans, of course, are guilty of the same use and abuse of God. Commenting on the Democrat's 1992 platform President Bush said, "they left out three simple letters, G-O-D". And President Bush once cited his "favorite Bible verse" to a group of religious broadcasters saying it is John 16:3, he meant John 3:16, but it was clear to some who heard him that he seemed to be attempting to gain favor from Evangelical Christians by tossing them a religious bone. One of Bush's more famous trespasses on religion came when he reminisced in an interview about being shot down in World War II. "I thought about mother and dad and the strength I got from them, and God, and faith," and then he quickly added, lest any ACLU lawyer be offended, "and of course the separation of church and state." Imagine at 20 years old parachuting into the water you're thinking about these things.
Now, if a candidate speaks of God and Jesus changing or directing their lives that certainly is one thing, and perfectly appropriate. But, if they seek to enlist the creator as a campaign surrogate, that's something that should be avoided. When one falls into such temptation one brings God down into human level, and aligns him with temporal things which are passing away. Better to allow God to instruct us directly, not through politicians who might properly be suspected of having an agenda. Didn't God warn us that "my ways are not your ways"? Even less may his ways resemble those of earthly princes and kings.
Now, E.J. asked me to comment a little bit on the selection of Senator Lieberman, who I'm happy to say that I know and I've been on Nightline with . He is a decent family man, has a lot of the trappings that have already been mentioned here that are very appealing to cultural conservatives in both parties. But, I do think the voting record is important.
What do I think of this? Well, I think that Vice President Gore needed a moral covering, and that is a primary reason why he picked Senator Lieberman, so that the Republicans wouldn't have the God conversation to themselves. Now, if Senator Lieberman is able to keep to his agenda, and his philosophy and his beliefs--even independent of some of Vice President Gore's--then I would say that he certainly adds something significant to the ticket that certain cultural conservatives might wish to consider as they consider the entire package of what the Gore-Lieberman ticket is offering.
However, I suspect the same thing is going to happen as happens when anybody who is perceived as being religious becomes a layer at this level of presidential politics--that he will quickly conform, or transform, or reform his positions, not only on cultural issues, but also on political ones like school choice, on privatization, at least partial privatization of Social Security, to be more in line with Vice President Gore--which is what you do. That is just what you do when you are the number two.
Then of course we have the Hollywood problem. We had Tipper Gore and Susan Baker with that marvelous Parent's Music Resource Center, but when now Vice President Gore, then Senator Gore, wanted to run for President in 1988 he quickly abandoned that, because he needed the Hollywood money. Now, Senator Lieberman is out here, it may be today, with Bill Bennett, who has said that he would personally nominate him--wouldn't that be an interesting sight--if he were allowed to do so at this convention. But, the question becomes, will Senator Lieberman, with the great concern of the Hollywood community that has all this money and dumped a bunch of it on Bill Clinton's library and Hillary's campaign, (I don't know if they have any left or not, before the President and Ms. Clinton left town, or I guess they've left town), whether this will continue to be a front burner issue for him? I tend to doubt it.
I think it's a very smart move by Vice President Gore to align himself, again, not just because he's Jewish, but he has demonstrated a seriousness about his faith in the way he practices it. But, the point is we're not electing a rabbi any more than we're electing an Evangelical. We're electing them because of their policies. So I would just--as some of you may know, I was for five years in my little sabbatical, a vice president for communications of Moral Majority--I've seen a lot of the corrupting influence of politics from the inside, the corners that were cut in fund raising, the refusal to speak truth to power, the refusal to hold accountable President Reagan, for example, because we wanted the access, and access becomes supreme to a politician. If you don't have the access you can't send out the fund raising letters saying, "we're having an influence," and therefore people won't send you the money, because why should they send money to people who are not having the influence?
So you don't criticize the leader, because you want to maintain the access and be perceived by your supporters as being a player. So the real enemy, I've tried to tell Norman Lear this, of this too close association between church and state, the real damage is not to the state, as the liberal fund raising letters send out, send us $25 or else Falwell and Helms are going to police your bedroom, and the other side is saying, no, send us $25 or Ted Kennedy will drive your daughter to school over a bridge, it's unbelievable. It's ridiculous, but you compromise your basic religious principles with a too close association with the kingdoms of this world, and you become just another special interest group in the hands of the Republican Party, or the Democrat Party, and you forfeit your primary witness. And that has always and remains the great danger.
E.J. DIONNE, JR. Before I call on Steve I want to tell you that Cal was just as provocative at the Republican Convention, that's why we're glad he's here. And I can't resist saying that that Washington Post editorial actually disproves the thesis, because the so-called liberal press didn't avoid criticizing Lieberman, and only criticize Bush. I actually found that editorial, which I had nothing to do with, very interesting for almost precisely the opposite point. But, we can talk about that if anybody wants to.
Steve Waldman, who is here--one of the many helpful things Steve can do for us today is to reflect on what has been going on on his web site in the last week or so on this subject, because there are some very interesting things going on on Beliefnet this week.
STEVE WALDMAN The reason I claim that we or our venture capitalists had something to do with the selection of Lieberman is that it's had a very positive effect on the traffic to our site. We had in the five hours after the announcement, or actually the five hours after we put up our package at 7:00 p.m. that day, a ten-fold increase in traffic. And I think about 90,000 unique visitors during the 5 hour period came to the site. There was obviously a lot of interest in the Lieberman selection.
And one of the things that E.J. asked me to talk about is what happened on our message board. We are very proud of the content we have on our site, of the columnists and writers that we have there, but at our heart we're a community site, where the message boards and dialogues and things like that are really what bring people back to the site. So people were flooding our message boards to talk about the Lieberman selection. And we were very proud that there was a lot of attention given in the aftermath of that to the really sort of high level of anti-semitic comments that were coming on a lot of message boards throughout the Internet. And we were very proud of the fact that we had relatively little of that, and that our anti-Semites were very articulate. So that's our new motto, the most articulate anti-Semites on the web.
But, nonetheless, first just a cautionary note about what you can't conclude from message boards. Message boards are a little bit like thinking you have a sense of the pulse of America by listening to the people who call into talk radio shows. It tends to be people who are more exercised about something on different sides of it, so it's not an accurate overall measure of things. But, what you can get is the flesh and bones and the nuance on what people are really thinking.
So we started to see that mostly the reaction was very positive, among liberals and conservatives. I think our audience at this point probably tilts more conservative than liberal. And the reaction that you tended to get were basically Democrats were very excited about it, and conservatives were also very complimentary of the selection, and then usually would pivot off to, "but Gore is still at the top of the ticket," or "but Lieberman will be corrupted," or any number of things. But, the basic choice was pretty positive.
To the extent that there was negative--and I do want to talk about it, because I don't want to give the impression that this was the dominant strain on our boards or anywhere else, but I also do think that the polls understate what the anxiety is about Lieberman--I think we're going to have to from now on look at polls in a different way than before the Lieberman selection, because I think there's a little bit of that effect that you saw with black candidates where the black candidate was 10 points ahead right up until the election, and then suddenly would lose, or it would be a very close race. I could be wrong about that, but I think it's just a wildcard that we don't know.
Here's an interesting comment from one user. "The reason I support Lieberman and I'm excited about it is that Lieberman seems to be a righteousness seeker." That seems to be a common attitude among more conservative people, that whether he's Jewish or not, they like the idea that he's religious. The next line in that was, "fake Christians and Jews in Hollywood give this country a bad name around the world. And he's not one of those.
"It's a shame that so many people feel that the far right would be against the Jews. As a right winger, due to my knowledge of the Bible, and a belief in a Jewish carpenter, I know that I am required to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and that the time of the gentiles will come to an end, possibly soon."
This I read as a representative of a small, but significant strain of more fundamentalist thinking that actually has a very strong allegiance to Judaism for Biblical reasons. And I don't know what the overall numbers are, but that is a strain out there and the reaction.
A number of people, mostly Jews, were worried--the most anxiety that we received on the site and in my family were from Jews. Most of the people who thought this was going to be a bad thing, or that something bad was going to come out of it, were Jews who were afraid of the spotlight being shined on Jews, and there was a bit of a generational split there. Most younger Jews did not feel the way a lot of older Jews that I talked to did. One representation of that is "the scapegoat excuse is inevitable for a loss in November. People will say the American people just aren't ready for a Jew in the White House. It was a bold move--this is actually a cynical interpretation of Gore. It was a bold move on our part, the Democrat's part, but it cost us the election." So in other words, a prediction that the Democrats if they lose will scapegoat Lieberman, or will scapegoat Jews.
Okay. Now, this is probably one of the more antisemitic ones, but I'll read it for a reason. "I will not vote for a Jewish vice president, because as a whole Jews have not been accountable for the actions and works of their own peoples. From all stats it appears that a handful of Jewish leaders are responsible for more death than any other group. I present to you Karl Marx, Trotsky, Jacob Schiff, just to name a tiny few. I am very concerned about the U.S. becoming communist or some version thereof. Until Jews can ask for forgiveness and prove that they look out for the best interest of all people, not just their chosen trophies, I would not feel comfortable voting for a Jewish VP." And the reason I read this is this is signed Cal.
CAL THOMAS Not me.
STEVE WALDMAN I was just kidding, I knew that.
E.J. DIONNE, JR. If I could interrupt for just a second, there was a senator who used to get a lot of crank mail, a lot of angry letters from constituents, and he would always write back, Dear Mr. So-and-so, someone is writing me foolish letters and signing your name to them. I thought you'd like to know. He lost the next election for his candor.
STEVE WALDMAN This is an interesting perspective that is not often represented in the debate. At first I thought it was a terrific choice, but I mistakenly assumed that Lieberman was a liberal Jew and classy, the way I thought Jews are. The stereotypes often cut in many unpredictable ways, for not talking the God talk in their public life. In other words, this person liked that about Jews, that they didn't talk God talk in their public life. But, upon doing all the reading I can, and having listened to the press conference when he was introduced, I now realize he is a good candidate for the religious right. I believe he truly does want to bring religion into the public square, where of course the effect is to thumb noses at citizens who happen to be non-theists, and know an insult when it happens. This person says he is not going to vote for Ralph Nader.
And then a very common one that we also got was simply, "I'm dismayed that some of us wish to make fools of ourselves over the Democratic vice presidential candidate's Judaism. Let's keep religion out of politics, folks, it has no business in it." Which is interesting on a web site devoted to religion and spirituality that you would have people--these are people who are obviously very interested in religion, and nonetheless quite nervous and maybe for some of the reasons that Melissa talked about.
So again, these are not representative of the country as a whole, or even necessarily the totality of the board. But, I wanted to just give you sort of a flavor of some of what's out there. I think that to the extent there is an anti-semitic--it's almost too strong a word--but a discomfort, with his Judaism that it's going to take two forms, or you will hear about it in two forms. One has to do with Israel, and whether or not he would be too reflexively pro-Israel, and we did pick up a few instances of that on the boards, and we're starting to hear that. The other, and this is a fascinating one that I'm just starting to hear, it wasn't in the first couple of days, but now we're starting to hear, is he's not a real orthodox Jew because he's willing to make amendments on the Sabbath and things like that. There is now going to be a critique of Lieberman as not really an orthodox Jew, which is a very fascinating one to respond to.
Let me just--I wanted to close by talking about a couple of dangers of this God talk in this campaign, and then finally what I think the kind of key for Lieberman and Gore's success in going forward is. The one obvious thing is that if you hold yourself up as Mr. Morality, as Lieberman has, and Gore has, you're setting yourself up for charges of hypocrisy. And no one can live a life like that. I have no knowledge of anything, but I'm sure there are things in Joe Lieberman's life that don't live up to the absolute pillar of rectitude that he is now being portrayed as, and the more he casts himself as Mr. Morality the more either Republicans or the press will feel that it's fair game to talk about what happened in his first marriage, or something like that.
Second, I think you're starting to get a sense of whether or not the more you talk about God the less people believe you. This is a tricky thing, because it's clearly not true for everyone. Sometimes for a lot of people you can't talk about it enough. Because it's central to the way you lead your life, you want to see that it's central to the way your candidate leads his life, and in his thoughts, and in his position papers, and his speeches as much as possible. But, for other people there is a real sense, as you know, among people who are very devout, who nonetheless view religion as a personal thing, and come to distrust. It's almost like printing money, you know, the more you print of it the less valuable it becomes. And there's a certain sense that maybe the more it is talked about the more it will cheapen God talk.
And finally I guess I would say that I think the key to Lieberman's impact, and whether he will have a positive impact on the ticket and the campaign is not that he's Jewish, but that he's prudish. And this relates partially to what Cal was saying, because I think that the key issue for the Democrats in terms of reclaiming the morality issue is the pollution of pop culture. It's sex and violence on TV and movies, and on the Internet, and Lieberman is in a very strong position to lead the attack on that, and Gore is in a pretty good position, too. Tipper had been strong on that before. As you mentioned, Gore dropped it. And it's going to be a fascinating situation, because you have--this is one of those rare delicious situations where I would say what is in the best interest politically of the party, and I think probably for the country, too, is diametrically at odds with the interests of a primary contributor.
It's really, yes, the Democrats are in the pocket of the trial lawyers, but they kind of go that way anyway. Yes, they're in the pockets of the labor unions, but that's their inclination anyway. Here's one where what the Democrats really ought to do, politically, is just bash the hell out of Hollywood. And at the same time, here we are in Hollywood with them soaking up zillions of dollars in campaign contributions. And I think one of the things I'm going to look at on Wednesday--nd I think it's going to be one of the most fascinating things about Lieberman's speech--is how hard does he hit Hollywood. If he hits them hard, I think that's a very good sign for the Democrats, because I think it's a winning issue for them.
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On 1 June 2012 Goloseevskiy district court of Kyiv city rendered a decision whereby it recognized and enforced the Order of the High Court of Justice Queen Bench Division Commercial Court (Order). As a result, Ukrainian court allowed attachment of Debtor's assets located in Ukraine.
The above mentioned decision can be definitely treated as unprecedented one, since neither Conventions ratified by Ukraine [1] nor international bilateral treaties, providing for recognition and enforcement of foreign court decisions, does not directly provide the possibility to recognize and enforce procedural court decisions (orders, rulings etc). The Code of Civil Procedure of Ukraine [2] does not provide for the mechanism of recognition and enforcement of procedural court decisions as well.
The analysis of the decision gives grounds to highlight the following new trends which previously were not common to Ukrainian court practice:
1) The district court granting enforcement and recognition of UK court order has applied a broad interpretation of the definition of "foreign court decision". In particular, previously Ukrainian courts recognized and enforced final decisions in cases on merits only. In view of above, when an interested party applied with application on recognition and enforcement of interlocutory court decision which was not final in its nature (procedural orders, rulings etc), Ukrainian courts denied in its recognition and enforcement. Thus, Goloseevskiy district court, allowing attachment of assets, has applied a new approach in interpretation of "foreign court decision". Such interpretation can have an important impact since it can be in use not only when reciprocity is applicable to the recognition and enforcement of court decisions, but also when recognition and enforcement takes place on the basis of international treaty.
2) It should be noted that Goloseevskiy district in allowing a UK court order relied upon a reciprocity principle. It is definitely an innovative approach since the reciprocity principle was incorporated into Ukrainian legislation only in 2010 and it is quite a new in terms of both legal doctrine and court practice. It is also worth to note that the reciprocity is presumed under Ukrainian legislation, unless otherwise is proved by the interested party.
3) The district court has also innovatively approached a "jurisdictional issue". In particular, the court defined its jurisdiction on the basis of "assets location criterion" of Debtor rather than on the criterion of "place of Debtor's location".
Overall, the decision of Goloseevskiy district court may be treated as innovative one, since it reveals the new possibilities for the participants to international disputes, especially when one Party has its place of location in Ukraine or its core assets are located there. At the same time, the mechanisms and approaches which were applied by the district court are likely to be examined by the higher courts as to their compliance with Ukrainian law and international Conventions ratified by Ukraine. So, possibility of their approaches still needs to be tested.
[1]Minsk Convention "On Civil, Family and. Criminal Law Issues Legal Assistance and Legal Relationships of 1993; Treaty on Settlement of Commercial Disputes (the Kiev Treaty) dated 20 March 1992, etc.
[2]Main legislative act which establishes enforcement and recognition proceeding in Ukraine.


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