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Does state spending on mental health lower suicide rates?
Using recently released data on public mental health expenditures by U.S. states from 1997 to 2005, this study is the first to examine the effect of state mental health spending on suicide rates. We find the effect of per capita public mental health expenditures on the suicide rate to be qualitatively small and lacking statistical significance. This finding holds across different estimation techniques, gender, and age groups. The estimates suggest that policies aimed at income growth, divorce prevention or support, and assistance to low income individuals could be more effective at suicide prevention than state mental health expenditures.Download Info
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Alyssa Appelman Comedian Joel Chasnoff shared a bit with us at the KOACH Kallah in February. Of course I'm going to ruin the delivery, but the idea was that we all grew up knowing, if not always following, the rules of kashrut, and they all made sense to us: no pork, no shellfish and no mixing meat and milk. But when we try to explain those rules to non-Jews, we come off sounding more than slightly archaic ("God only wants us to eat animals that chew their cud and have cloven hooves." "God doesn't want us to boil a kid in its mother's milk." "It's not humane to eat an animal without properly draining its blood.") So how do modern-day Jews justify the laws that separate treif (unkosher) from Kosher? Some people say we follow them out of tradition and I think that's a nice enough sentiment. For people unconvinced by the we-do-it-because-we've-always-done-it spiel, there's always the animal-rights argument, which I'm also fond of. Some argue that it's healthier and more sanitary and some just avoid the rationalizing and say we should do it because God says so. I always liked the idea that we do it because it helps us to build a community. We can bond over the frustrating Kosher section of the grocery store, where clerks have given up hope of understanding the Hebrew calendar and try to sell us Matzah, Hamentashen, Falafel and Hanukkah candles year-round. I've been a vegan for the past five years, and I was an on-and-off vegetarian for years before that. For me, the animal-rights argument has always won. But when asked to explain my decision, I always mention that it helps me to keep Kosher. There's something comforting about the elements of tradition and community that dictate Kosher living. In this issue, we're exploring how those elements contribute to modern day kashrut. Nichole Hellman, from the University of Arizona, shares her own path to keeping Kosher. KOACH fieldworker Mark Greenberg suggests a new technique for explaining kashrut to your friends. Check out this month's Culture Corner, where NYU's Eric Goldberg recalls his trip to Israel, and this month's Campus Updates, where KOACH interns David Kaplan and Shaina Akrish fill us in on what they've been up to. And don't forget to read our joke. Enjoy the issue! [Posted 4/6/08] |


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DAYTON — Key-Ads Inc., an outdoor advertising company that has established digital billboards along Dayton-area highways, hopes to make a similar splash at a downtown Dayton building the company has bought as its new home.
The company plans to invest at least $1.5 million, including a rooftop digital advertising board and a scrolling digital wrap-around sign that could display news updates, after Key-Ads moves into 50 E. Third St. in March, said Nicholas Keyes, its president. The family-owned company, founded in 1955, will leave Harrison Twp. for more space and visibility in the downtown building.
The digital displays are allowed in what Dayton envisions as its "graphic arts overlay district," an area designated for creative enterprises, said Shelley Dickstein, Dayton's assistant city manager for strategic development. The goal is to add a splash to the urban streetscape, she said.
Advocates of Dayton's downtown business district cite Key-Ads' decision and Premier Health Partners' purchase last year of the former Fifth Third Bank regional headquarters building at 110 N. Main St. as signs of recovery, after years in which downtown has lost hundreds of jobs.
Increased downtown office vacancies and the resulting lower prices for purchases and rentals have created opportunities, commercial real estate executives said. But that's also the bad news, they said.
"It's going to be a very slow recovery," said Dave Dickerson, president of Gem Real Estate Group Inc., whose company does annual surveys of the Dayton-area real estate market. "The big challenge for downtown is, we just have way too much supply. The demand will not be there, going forward."
A Gem Real Estate survey released in early 2011 found that 34 percent of downtown Dayton's office space was vacant in 2010, up from 30 percent in 2009. Dayton's suburban market fared better with an office vacancy rate of 21 percent in 2010, up from 18 percent the prior year, Gem reported.
Vacant space remains in the downtown's landmark office buildings, including Kettering Tower and KeyBank Tower.
KeyBank Tower has struggled since its former prime occupant, MeadWestvaco Corp., decided in 2006 to relocate 730 jobs to the suburbs or other states.
This fall, the law firm Thompson Hine LLP moved its 100 employees from the building to the Austin Landing development along Interstate 75, south of Dayton.
That left KeyBank and the Downtown Dayton Partnership as the KeyBank Tower's primary tenants.
Austin Landing and the Interstate 675 corridor, with new development and available land and parking, pose stiff competitive threats for downtown Dayton.
Thompson Hine LLP had been a tenant in what is now known as KeyBank Tower since the 1970s. The firm tried for five years to find new quarters in KeyBank Tower, Kettering Tower and the proposed Ballpark Village development, but couldn't secure the commitments it needed from prospective landlords, said Bob Curry, partner in charge of the law firm's Dayton office.
"We actually tried very hard to stay downtown," Curry said. "But when this last deal fell through, we were in a difficult position and had to make a decision that was in the best interests of our office."
Lower purchase and rental rates have spurred interest among some companies to stay downtown, or at least consider it.
Downtown Dayton Partnership, a nonprofit organization that promotes the district as a place to live and work, operates a site-seeker program to help companies inquiring about downtown space. A total of 71 companies participated in 2011 as of mid-December, up from 20 in 2007, said Sandy Gudorf, the partnership's president.
Her organization's annual survey of employers concluded there were nearly 21,700 downtown workers in 2010, a net gain of 88 jobs. That represents a bright spot after net losses of 432 downtown jobs in 2009, 952 in 2008 and 1,475 in 2007, Gudorf said.
It remains to be seen whether the recovery can continue in a sluggish economy, she said.
Key-Ads paid $375,000 for its new home, a two-story building that formerly housed a law firm. Mark Fornes Realty Inc., a commercial realty agent that handled the transaction, had tried to sell the building for four years. Its price had dropped steadily from the original listing of about $1 million before Fornes became involved, said Mark Fornes, a partner in the firm.


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Two firefighters were injured in a fire Tuesday morning at a residence that may have housed a methamphetamine operation in Conneaut, Ohio.
One firefighter suffered a possible fractured arm when he slipped on ice while moving a hoseline, according to a report from The Star Beacon (http://bit.ly/YYYiwo). Another firefighter suffered a minor wrist injury.
Two occupants of the house face possible arson charges because the chemicals and products used in making the drug endangered first responders. The suspects both suffered burns in the fire.
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Medical savings account
This article needs attention from an expert in Taxation or Medicine. (February 2009) |
A medical savings account (MSA) is an account in which tax-deferred deposits can be made for use as medical expenses.
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Medisave (Chinese: 保健储蓄) was introduced in April 1984 as a national medical savings system in Singapore. The system allows Singaporeans to put aside part of their income into a Medisave account to meet future personal or immediate family's hospitalization, day surgery and for certain outpatient expenses.
Under this system, Singaporean employees contributes 6-8% (depending on age group) of their monthly salaries to a personal Medisave account. The savings can be withdrawn to pay the hospital bills of the account holder and his or her immediate family members.
In China[edit]
In December 1994, China began a pilot study of medical savings accounts in the cities of Zhenjiang and Jiujiang.[1] China has planned to expand the program.[1]
In the United States[edit]
The United States has two medical savings account programs:
- Medical savings account (started 1993, still prevalent in California)
- Health savings account (created 2003, supersedes MSAs, more widely available)
See also[edit]
- ^ a b "Medical Savings Accounts: Lessons Learned from Limited International Experience". World Health Organization. 2002.
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Glenn Beck says "I'm with her!" referring to Debra Medina on TV! (video)
Submitted by rucdelaspook on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 22:32LOL!! Right after labeling her an anarchist, fascist, 9/11 truther (and said her supporters were Nazi!?)... What a joke...
This is the ending of his show today:
(around 3:50)
"This woman actually is about state's rights, about property rights, she's actually, she's down here, i'm with her on this" (He puts her with Obama and the Neocons... but wait, wasn't he with the people, on the BOTTOM of his circle?)
Is there any way we can cut this and add it to the clip of when he first puts her on the board? Add this to the list of beck hypocrisies...
And don't buy into it... I've never seen a more pathetic reversal... (and for you political cartoonists out there, can anyone do an image of beck at a fast food place reaching, STRETCHING, for the container of soft drink straws? ;)
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My simple view on Beck/Media-Figures
You get "ONCE CHANCE" that's it.
Media Figures need to be held at excruciatingly high standards -- they are never beyond reproach/flogging/firing.
This is the one area where absolutism is important. Of course I'm not talking about minor slips of phrase -- I'm talking about when they burn their base (like Beck did with RP in 2008).
One Chance because what they say and do effects our subconscious mind -- Television and Video have a direct feed into our subconsciousness. You can't just let anyone in there -- especially not a deceptive, anti-individualist, lying "Judas Goat"
One Chance and you are Gone! You can appologize and we'll accept it; however, you must step off the national stage.
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Worship or loathe.. why?
Ron's advice and example needs to be followed here. Have a couple close friends in your inner circle, but low expectations of others, especially groups. And work with people who don't share all your beliefs. GB is a rodeo clown and he definitely sandbagged Medina and he's covering his bets with what he's done in this video... who is surprised by this? We have an ambitious tv entertainer acting in his self-interest. We can use that. We will use that. Ron will use that, Rand too I'm sure. Don't make this about good and evil, trust, betrayal, euphoric highs and desperate lows.. your energy is too valuable. If somebody helps me sell liberty, she's got value that day. Don't need to like her or who's buying, just need dollars then votes then reps in Congress then action to bring troops home, cut govt spending and revive liberty.
10-15 million more voters need to believe in non-interventionism (liberty) at home and abroad to change America. Minds changed on Syria. Minds changing on privacy. "Printing money" is part of the dialogue. Win minds through focus, strategy.
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Is Beck
Freedom - Peace - Prosperity
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My $.02
Beck's mercurial nature is frustrating but such is any work in progress. He seems to take 2 steps forward and one step back.
I say cheer him on when he's with us and rip him when he's not. Net/net I think he is a positive force against progressives. He's going to surpass O'Reilly soon. Of course, all that could change next week!
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"I say cheer him on when he's
"I say cheer him on when he's with us and rip him when he's not."
ummmmmmmm LOL!! Yaaaaaaa........judas goat can burn in the fiery lake of hell forever more imo.
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I say.....
boo that ass hat off the stage.
Beck=false prophet and gate keeper.
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Also know that Beck
Also know that Beck constantly switches back and forth and creates confusion - that's what he does!
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I'm sorry but I just cannot
I'm sorry but I just cannot stand to watch or listen to him anymore. To see somebody who sold his soul to the devil like that - there's just something about it that turns your stomach.
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Link to Medina for Governor poll here
Here: http://www.myfoxhouston.com/
If dailypaul hasn't hit this yet I like the results, she's
up 11% WITHOUT OUR HELP !!!
Just one last kick in the nuts, then a final deathblow
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That's awesome! I didn't
That's awesome! I didn't feel right about voting since I don't live in Texas. I feel it would give a false poll result, so I'm happy to hear she's up 11%!
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Also you notice
These media punks don't want to talk to Debra about Governing Texas, or the race, or anything that matters.
I man killed himself and others, it is tragic but Debra is preoccupied with big problems in TEXAS GOVERNMENT. We all see the writing on the wall, we don't make a 180 degree turn and soon we are cooked. Perry has driven this state into the ground. These reporters want some stupid bullshit they can use to try and derail the "Medina Express" Because she's kicking ass and taking names and they know it. You wont be seeing any more polls soon if at all.
I'll bet 60,000 people have early voted in the last 4 days
I believe that's a WE WANT A REAL CHANGE VOTE. My cat could have done a better job of governing Texas than Perry has. My cat is frugal, always chooses the cat food on sale or she has a coupon.
Just one last kick in the nuts, then a final deathblow
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Just posted this at the Dallas Morning News
The article: Medina says Austin plane crash reflects hopelessness some feel about government
Now Debra is a heartless Tea Party Terrorist, Jesus Christ these people in media are slime !!!
Don't notice him dragging Rick Perry out about the man he had executed not so very pong ago!! For Perry that was deliberately heartless, he is true scum.
Here's my message:
Jesus did any of you people know this man personally. Who knows what a persons motivations are. What he did was horrible and sad. Were any of you privy to this conversation between this writer and Debra Medina ? No one is endorsing terrorism. Debra Medina doesn't endorse terrorism.
If people in the tea party movement wanted violence
I'm sure that would have been evident by now. God you people are surely quick to jump to conclusions.
Where were you people when the Congress and the Senate were giving $TRILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS TO THESE BANKS ? Where are you on auditing these criminals, have you called your Congressman or Senator ? Are any of you familiar with CAFR, look it up that ought to give you something to howl about. We're being screwed to the wall by Washington and the state. Texas did great without property taxes for a long time. Texas did better without the FED and definitely the IRS. The poster is correct, this money doesn't go anywhere but into the pockets of these banks. Where is your indignity when Rick Perry is selling out the state to Spain, specifically CINTRA. Where is your indinity when Kay Bailey is handing the banks a blank check current account deficit is $25 TRILLION DOLLARS PEOPLE, go to Bloomberg and verify it. The United States has killed, bombed, mutilated 3 million people in Iraq and more are dropping everyday. That's on you, you people come unhinged over a loon in a plane, take a look at bodies of men, women and children piled up like cordwood, rotting in the sun so some oil company can steal some oil. Some of you are shills no doubt. There career politicians are selling us out piece by piece. And we have human trash in this state that will pick apart a good and decent person over something they know nothing about ? This feign at indignity is disgusting. More BS from the mainstream because Rick Perry is a criminal and so is Kay Bailey. Their records reflect what they are and they cannot defend themselves. They are as disgusting as some of you are. I'll tell you this if Texas doesn't make a 180 degree turn we are done. Wake up people. Vote Debra Medina for Governor, time for a REAL CHANGE.
Just one last kick in the nuts, then a final deathblow
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She said "I grieve for him."
This woman keeps saying the wrong things. To say she's grieving for someone she doesn't know who tried to commit mass murder is insane. She keeps shooting herself in the foot.
"We should remain tolerant -- people who disagree with you or look different or who have different views -- we have to allow freedom of expression." -Ron Paul at CPAC
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My point is
WE DON'T KNOW THE STORY PEOPLE. What does it take to understand that the mainstream media is not friendly to the public, they DO NOT WORK IN YOUR BEST INTERESTS. Jesus once bitten twice shy. That includes Debra Medina ? Does anyone here have evidence of this mans intentions. If the media wrote that I (riceowlex of the Dailypaul.com) was in reality Jesus Christ, would you all fall down and kiss my feet. Some of you would. TAKE ALL THAT YOU HEAR WITH A GRAIN OF SALT, TAKE ALL YOU HEAR FROM THE MEDIA WITH A POUND OF SALT. Stop getting sucked into every nuance these people throw out there. God there were emergency medical people on the scene as well as a friggen fire truck, BEFORE this happened. Supposedly the FBI was there on the spot. WTF people. He conveniently left a manifesto. Debra didn't shoot anything. We don't even know what she said, we weren't there to hear it.
Just one last kick in the nuts, then a final deathblow
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Important missing videos
This clip alone is misleading. Watch what happened before this clip.
Beck compares Medina to a flat-earther
Beck compares Medina to Van Jones and anarchist/fascist?(8:50)
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the 'anarchist' vid was posted on a different forum. I'd add them in, but I've lost editing authority (I can't fix the bad grammar in the top...)
And to anyone who might feeling something other than anger, betrayal, or annoyance with beck, I ask that you re-listen to his interview with Debra. Remember what you felt like once the 'interview' was over?? Keep that fire fresh.. it's a good motivator! ;)
Beck must go DOWN.
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I endured the pain of watching this....
and I think it shows that he is getting LOTS of HEAT from the 912 movement and the Tea Party people. This is good news. When he got his marching orders to promote Perry, I'm not sure he quite understood what he was getting into and he literally stepped in the cow paddys crossing the field.
He has LOST the trust of a HUGE portion of his former supporters and this will affect his contract. Good to see that the backlash has been so huge.
Thomas Jefferson: "Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever."
Viva La Revolucion!
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Here's an idea
THE MAN IS A PROFESSIONAL LIAR, QUIT LISTENING TO THE SOMB#TCH. Call him and tell his audience how you feel about the loser and hang up. Call his sponsors and tell them he's a lousy somb#tch and they should drop him. Vote with your wallet and STOP LISTENING !!!!!
Just one last kick in the nuts, then a final deathblow
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Your darned right its a mild
Your darned right its a mild reversal, but I dont care. I will continue to plot to have him removed from all media in Texas and give his sponsors crap.
When he has her on his TV Show (in studio) and proclaims that he was set-up by her opponents, and offers a sincere apology (I'm sorry, not I apologize) then I will back-off! NOT UNTIL THEN... He was USED and it was HIS FAULT... PERIOD
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I agree HonorGod
No second chances for anyone who would sell out our coountry and our freedom for the mighty dollar. Glen Beck in my opinion is the worst type of traitor, the kind with a fishing pole reeling people in, only to cook them for dinner.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must. like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.-Thomas Paine
The R3volution requires action, not observation!!!!
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I want to see Ron Paul do a Hulk Hogan-esque Come Back
on Glenn Beck.
As Glenn pounds "wrong side" libertarianism down the American-Gullet Ron Paul slowly rise up (under constant blows) shaking -- then gives Glenn a power-slap and a rocket launch off the ropes. RP then runs to the opposite rope to meet Glenn's return-rope lauch with a flying elbow in the center of the ring.
It doesn't end there!!
RP then does the left-ear listen to the crowd (us) then the right-ear listen -- We scream (like Glenn's Trees in the Forest) "Pile Driver Pile Driver Pile Driver"
Then RP hoists Glenn overhead and drives his head into the matt.
*double bicep kiss* and returns to congress.
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haha, would love to see that.
haha, would love to see that. Hulkamania 4 ever :)
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Right after the Pile Drive? Before the double-bicep kiss?
Oh hell yeah -- Great Suggestion!!
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Becks' neck is on the line here
Beck mentions Debra Medina in his vague reference to being in a lot of trouble with people in Texas, then he moves her flannel-board face to a more favorable position on his chart while mouthing the words, "I'm with her on this one".
That was no apology, not by a long shot.
Worse yet, check out Bunkys' comments on the Ninth and Tenth Amendments starting at 5:11, especially at 5:38-54, and then compare what he says it says, with how it actually reads.
* Ninth Amendment – Protection of rights not specifically enumerated in the Bill of Rights.
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Sloppy workmanship or crafty showmanship? Probably both.
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He wants to be in the Westminster dog show!
That's because even he knows he is a punk a$$ b--ch.
And by the way, I think I'm going to add him to my Frank Luntz F U list.
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Obama's Show Trials
Why prosecute a terrorism suspect if life imprisonment is the only possible outcome?
In October a federal judge threw out a key witness against Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the former Guantanamo inmate who is accused of participating in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The witness, who was identified through Ghailani's coerced statements, was supposed to testify that he sold the defendant the TNT used to blow up the embassy in Tanzania. But U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan concluded that the testimony was too closely tied to information the CIA had obtained from Ghailani while holding him at a secret prison where he says he was tortured.
Conservatives who think terrorism suspects should never receive civilian trials said the exclusion of this testimony showed they were right. So did civil libertarians who argue that the federal courts are perfectly capable of handling terrorism cases. But whether or not the system is working, Kaplan's ruling suggested it is ultimately irrelevant.
"It is appropriate to emphasize," Kaplan wrote, "that Ghailani remains subject to trial on the pending indictment, that he faces the possibility of life imprisonment if convicted, and that his status as an 'enemy combatant' probably would permit his detention as something akin to a prisoner of war until hostilities between the United States and Al Qaeda and the Taliban end even if he were found not guilty in this case." Barring a formal surrender by Al Qaeda, these "hostilities" will continue indefinitely, so detention for their duration amounts to a life sentence—the same punishment Ghailani is apt to receive if he is found guilty.
If Ghailani is convicted, in other words, he will be imprisoned for life, and the same thing will happen if he is acquitted. Even with the benefit of the Fifth Amendment's ban on coerced self-incrimination and the exclusionary rule, Ghailani has zero chance of regaining his freedom. So what exactly is the point of the trial?
In a New York Times op-ed piece published after Kaplan's ruling, Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith, an assistant attorney general during the Bush administration, noted that "trials are perceived to be more legitimate than detention." But Goldsmith, who favors military detention of suspected terrorists, added that "a conviction in a trial publicly guaranteed not to result in the defendant's release will not be seen as a beacon of legitimacy."
Asked whether Ghailani will be returned to military custody if his trial does not turn out the way the government wants, Attorney General Eric Holder dodged the question, saying, "We intend to proceed with this trial." Holder's coyness was not really necessary, because the administration already has publicly stated that it reserves the right to detain terrorism suspects who are acquitted.
"If you have the authority under the laws of war to detain someone," Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson told the Senate Armed Services Committee in July 2009, "it is true irrespective of what happens on the prosecution side.…If there's an acquittal…we would have the ability to detain him."
One reason for nevertheless going through the motions of a trial, Goldsmith suggested, is the possibility of capital punishment. But the Justice Department is not seeking the death penalty in Ghailani's case, and in any event President Barack Obama claims he can kill suspected terrorists without permission from a court.
Under his policy of "targeted killings," Obama can authorize the summary execution of anyone he unilaterally identifies as a member or accomplice of Al Qaeda, including American citizens. Since this administration, like the last one, views the entire world as a battlefield in the war on terrorism, that means enemies of the state can be killed anywhere at any time—except, presumably, if they have been taken into custody and are being prosecuted in federal court.
Which suggests a third option for Ghailani, in addition to life imprisonment upon conviction and indefinite detention upon acquittal. The government could simply let him go—and then kill him.
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Thank you for reminding them that Obama has done nothing wrong. We at the government are the law, and therefore cannot break it.
Morality does not apply to us. It is not wrong for us to take people and confine them for as long as we want without justification, it is only wrong if a non government employee attempts to do so.
Thats why its kidnapping when you do it, and an arrest , detention, etc. when we do it.
Jury trials put too much power in the hands of non government persons, a huge mistake.
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So what exactly is the point of the trial?
There's a fierce moral urgency at work here. Its immoral to hold somebody indefinitely without trial.
Much better to hold them indefinitely after they've been acquitted.
Change we can believe in.
I have a friend who is a constant reminder of why Republicans are not us, and never will be. He was outraged that Obama was holding this show trial. Not the fact that it's a show trial, but the fact that we're being so soft on terrorists like this.
Of course, "So you think Obama should be allowed to hold anyone he wants as a terrorist forever without trial?" is a nice counterargument to have.
This. However bad what Obama is doing is the conservatives are actually all over his shit for being too soft here...
It's not a matter of being soft, IMO, but of using civilian courts for military crimes. The indefinite detention after even a not-guilty verdict would set a hideous precedent, too, one that could be then used on us.
No, these dirtbags need to be tried in a military court.
What's the military crime? Blowing up or destroying civilian property is a civilian crime. Taking up arms against an invading force isn't a crime. If we were invaded, taking up arms to fight back is a right, not a crime. But I guess that depends on who wins. If China invaded and we took up arms and fought back and China won, I guess we would be war criminals too. But I don't think we would get a civilian court in China either.
Nor should we.
Destroying private property is also a war crime if done within the context of a war, as is targeting non-combatants. And, as I'm sure you know, AQ declared war on the US several years prior to 9/11.
yes, i do. what the f' do you know about the prosecution of terrorists, terrorism, espionage, war, combat, any of it? from your comfortable little house, you portend to tell the world of military experts how to conduct this effort? we are being way too soft on terrorists, and only clueless progressives think otherwise.
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I have to admit, if there is anywhere I'm disappointed in Obama - feel like a sucker falling for the Hope - it's this legal wasteland of the War on Terror.
I really thought with his background, rhetoric, and the unique nature of modern Executive power to shape the evolution of it, Obama would be somewhat of an effective antidote to the Shrub and Darth Vader.
I was totally wrong. Its not just the Darkness continuing unabated legally, but in everything from closing Gitmo to the NYC show-trial disaster there is management incompetence and second-guessing everywhere. Its not Darth Vader anymore, now its just his intern.
I honestly don't mean to pile on here, but I am puzzled as to how so many people thought they were getting something "different" than what they ultimately got with Obama. His background matches perfeclty with his actions so far (IMO). His rhetoric has always been meaningless (not a unique thing amongst politicians). So no, I'm not surprised at what he is right now, which is an utter failure.
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It's all about branding. People fall for it all the time.
I don't think Bush fans and Obama fans in 2008 would have believed Obama would be like Bush.
I had made mistake of calculating he'd both serve his core political markets, and that - what with his 'Constitutional Law Professor' shtick - he actually had read the thing.
obama is, and always was, a joke. an orator with the right pigment for the moment, armed with a teleprompter and a suspect reference to harvard. this "smartest guy in the room" rap is just absurd, started by acolytes that wouldn't know smart if it ran them over.
"Which suggests a third option for Ghailani, in addition to life imprisonment upon conviction and indefinite detention upon acquittal. The government could simply let him go—and then kill him."
Didn't we try something like that with bin Laden?
His background matches perfeclty with his actions so far (IMO).
Precisely. Exactly what in his history led anyone to believe his rhetoric?
It's to his shame that he was either so uninformed about these war criminals and their disposition or just simply demagogued the issue. Either way, it reflects badly on Obama and his administration.
1. Can non-state conglomerations of people be said to wage war?
2. Can a single person, then, be said to wage war?
3. What logical impediment would there be to charging someone who punches a federal marshal as a war criminal? Intent? If the intent was to overthrow the state, he is a war criminal, and may be held indefinitely? And if it were a personal grudge, he would be a regular criminal and allowed a standard trial?
One person in NYC with a baseball bat is a problem, but one person with a W87 on a little red wagon going down the street in NYC is a world power no matter the political condition of the individual.
Its not the measure of people, its the measure of the entropy they can make.
It seems that you are saying that one person alone can be said to wage war, and that whether or not one person is seen as a regular criminal or a war criminal is measured by the force that that person uses (or could potentially use). What is that level of force? Who determines it? By what procedure is that determined?
Many prisoners of war have nothing more than firearms when they are captured. If one person alone can wage war, why can't the United States declare that anyone using a gun during a crime is in fact a war criminal and detained indefinitely?
I'm not advocating one perception or another; you could equally construct an absurd one-person nation as a legal entity and explore laws of war relative to that polity.
I'm just saying its a semantic term - war vs. crime. If anything, war is the legalized criminality of states to kill and appropriate things from people as an institutional imperative.
Its like that with belief systems. When does it stop being a cult and start being a "faith" or "religion" that compels peculiar legal exceptions and accommodation of its crazy ideas from wider society? You look at the belief systems of Mormons, Scientologists, and Catholics: When taken literally, they're all batshit-crazy drug trips. Yet each are accorded different tolerance (and credibility) based on how old they are, how big their membership roll is, and how much money they have.
Same thing with "crime" and "war." The "illegality" of one versus the "legitimacy" of the other is just a game of numbers. But when the criminal can rack up numbers of victims that are on the scale of war, it blurs that distinction for people and society outside of their control (can't ban membership in a body-count). Which is why we get shit like Homeland Security to criminal acts that are on the scale of a war.
It used to be that the shining example of Big Government, doing something right, was our military - no more. The military has become a playground for Liberals to try social experiments; both to our troops and the enemy.
Liberals are pacifists and hate the military - that goes for our fearless leader Obama too.
How long before we have to have the enemy combatants acknowledge their Miranda rights before we blow their heads off? Just you wait - pacifists will do this at some point.
In the mean time the pacifists will drag the enemy combatant back the US soil, award him US constitutional rights, pay for the finest lawyers to defend him, and then try him in Traffic Court.
Libs can't be put in charge of ANY national security - they are pacifists at heart just like Dear Leader Obama.
Even so, progressives become sexually aroused when they watch ME run up the death toll.
Used to be our military was "good"? Nowt since we did away with the citizen military. Since then it has become nothing more than another tool for our "imperial elite oligarchy" to beat up on the world for their own power and privilege.
Of course, like in all empires, the "mercenary military" is now applying the same techniques previously reserved for foreigners to the home population. Not for nothing does the Pentagon have more resources for producing propaganda for Americans than the rest of the federal government combined. Your "trust" in the most pervasive part of our "big government" is touching.
Homeland Security is a good example. Go read about the beginnings of the Bulag in the USSR - we now have the same phenomenon. Curiously enough, the Gulag was initially founded and managed by jews - who killed over 10 million people in the USSR. Now why is Homeland Security filled with so many zionists whose first loyalty to the US is doubtful?
We can all agree that Obama has totally mishandled the handling of captured terrorists. They should have been give short sweet military trials and incarcerated or executed at Guantanamo bay. What else is new. If Obama were not an extreme left wing ideological incompetent we wouldn't be stuck with 9.8% UNEMPLOYMENT! Yet we are!
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Time to put the bong down Jimmy. You're paranoid and delusional.
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1 | After seven months the Philistines take counsel how to send back the ark. |
10 | They bring it on a new cart with an offering unto Beth-shemesh. |
19 | The people are smitten for looking into the ark. |
21 | They send to them of Kirjath-jearim to fetch it. |
1 Samuel 6:15 (King James Version)
And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.


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The mother of one of the Pottawatomie County teens found shot to death in Texas breaks her silence.
The body of Dillian King was found Wednesday, following a botched home invasion. King and Kenneth Chaffin took off from Bethel Acres earlier this week with an arsenal of stolen weapons.
They tried to break into a home in north Texas, exchanged gunfire with the homeowner, but investigators say it appears the teens took their own lives. Now, a grieving mother has more questions than answers.
Karen Jones is a mother heartbroken and in disbelief. She admits her son, 18-year-old Dillian King, has gotten in trouble over the years.
"He got tatted with a gang sign. I don't know what all he did there because he ran away," Jones said.
But she says he was trying to turn his life around. He'd gotten his GED, and on Monday, she gave Dillian a ride to a job interview.
"I told him, 'Good luck, I love you,'" Jones said.
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That's the last time she saw her son. Dillian took off with his friend, 17-year-old Kenneth Chaffin. Monday night, police say Chaffin stole his parents' truck, nine handguns, six rifles and up to 2,000 rounds of ammunition.
Wednesday, outside a home in Ellis County, Texas, investigators found the truck and the bodies of King and Chaffin. The homeowners said the teens were trying to break in, one dressed in camouflage with a gun strapped to his back.
"He's never hurt anybody, not even animals. That's why I don't understand," Jones said.
After an exchange of gunfire, investigators say the teens shot and killed themselves.
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"I think they realized what they were doing," Jones said.
Dillian's mother is left to wonder about the life that could have been for her son.
"He always hugged my neck," Jones said. "And he loved to fish. He seemed so free when he was out at the lake."
Dillian's mother said they own several guns, but nothing from their home was stolen. The parents of both teens say they have no idea what led the two to Ellis County, Texas.
News 9 is told the Texas homeowner was hit with a bullet and is recovering right now from minor injuries.
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Advantages: Scary as hell
Disadvantages: It runs out of steam two thirds of the way in
Put Halloween or A Nightmare On Elm Street on for me, and I'm completely fine. Increasingly devoid of scares, and so familiar to me that I could recite them word for word, I have no problem sitting through those old senseless slasher films. However, put me in front of the new breed of psychological horror that have been doing the rounds in the wake of such gems as Hostel and Saw, and I spend more than half the film with my eyes behind my hands. Insidious is just that type of psychological horror that cranks up the tension rather than delivering quick jolts, and is all the more terrifying for it.
Opening with an eerie montage of the film's main set, the tone is quickly set for the horror that follows. The Lambert family (Josh and Renai) have just moved into a new house with their 3 kids. It becomes apparent fairly quickly that something isn't right though as Renai Lambert becomes more and more ill at ease in the house. When their son Dalton slips into an unexplained coma, things take a disturbing turn for the worse. His body appears to be housing some evil being who appears round corners and along corridors of the house. Renai and Josh turn to his mother Lorraine and a bizarre medium who comes complete with a duo of ghostbusters for help, as a terrible secret from Josh' past comes to surface.
Insidious is utterly terrifying for its first hour. Relentlessly atmospheric and chilling, most of the horror takes place at the new Lambert house. The last act lets the film down though, as things become slightly camp and down right daft. The explanation for Dalton's descent into the subconscious is a prize one, but when the characters of Elise and her two jokey pals are introduced, the potentially excellent premise is frittered away on one-liners and set pieces that are, frankly, laughable.
Patrick Wilson does a decent job as the straight faced lecturer Josh, who seems incredulous to his wife's claims that something is haunting their house. It is Rose Byrne though who gives it some welly though, as she goes between fragile wife and overprotective mother. Although this should be nothing more than a scarefest, because there are children at the centre of the horror, you find yourself more sympathetic to the adults. A somewhat spooky appearance from Barbara Herschey, who seems to be taking a masterclass in being scary, enhances proceedings, but it's still not enough to save the film from a woeful ending.
The direction of the film is virtually flawless, it is the hokey script that lets it down as things head towards its climax. Director James Wan is no stranger to horror having already directed the original Saw film, as well as producing most of its sequels. In his hands, the scares are plentiful. It just seems that the focus shifted halfway through the script to chuck up too many surprises, not enough scares and some weirdly out of place one-liners from two characters who make the film feel like a youtube parody.
Definitely one of the scarier films of the past couple of years, its just a shame they didn't see it through to the end.
Summary: Insidious is terrifying in all the right places, it just fails dismally when it adds too much story


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Book Description:This is a life, in stories, of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (1700-1760), the founder of Hasidism. The Baal Shem Tov, or the Besht, as he is commonly called, led a revival in Judaism that put love and joy at the center of religious life and championed the piety of the common folk against the rabbinic establishment. He has been recognized as one of the greatest teachers in Jewish history, and much of what is alive and vibrant in Judaism today, in all denominations, derives from his inspiration. Abraham Joshua Heschel, who was descended from several illustrious Hasidic dynasties, wrote: "The Baal Shem Tov brought heaven to earth. He and his disciples, the Hasidim, banished melancholy from the soul and uncovered the ineffable delight of being a Jew.">
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New Student Orientation at MVNU! Following those exciting days and through the month of August we visited the dentist, the eye doctor (Ethan is sporting contacts for the first time!), primary care docs, Niagara Falls with Susan's folks, Cook Forest with Jeff's folks, a Cleveland Indians game, a rehearsal dinner and wedding of Susan's niece, Jessica's Graduation Party for family and US friends, a family reunion and more. All of that in addition to beginning our speaking engagements!
This HA we have had opportunity to visit churches in Ohio, West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and New Jersey! It is so great to know that we have Nazarene family members wherever we go. Thank you to all of you who welcomed us with open arms! We will treasure these times for years to come!
The countdown is on as we begin to get all the loose ends tied up, visit a few more friends and family members and begin packing. It has been tough, as expected, coming to grips with allowing our daughter to spread her wings. But, there too, God has been helping us.
Please continue to pray for us as we prepare for our departure. We are trusting in God's faithfulness and provisions to meet all of our needs, including Jessica's, in the coming months.


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Hi, another owl photo from my local camera club evening. But I have forgotten what kind of owl this one is, so if anyone could help and possibly know the name of this owl, I would be very greatful. I think it is a kinda relative of the good old barn owl. Thank you to everyone that posted there very nice comments yesterday.
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Barn owl, male I think due to the slightly darker plumage?
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Looks to me like an Australian Grass Owl - Tyto Longimembris
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Report: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be named TIME 'Person of the Year'
(WIREUPDATE) — TIME magazine will name WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the 2010 'Person of the Year' according to the Drudge Report, citing unnamed sources. Assange ,who was arrested Tuesday morning in England for sex crimes, was leading TIME's online poll.
A spokesperson from TIME magazine tells WireUpdate,"Trying to guess TIME's Person of the Year is an annual tradition and one of the great parlor games in journalism; we certainly welcome people guessing, but we never confirm or deny rumors until we reveal TIME's choice."
The final decision by TIME magazine editors will be announced next Wednesday.
Assange was taken into custody at around 9.30 a.m. UK time after he appeared at a London police station by appointment. He was wanted in Sweden on accusations of sexual molestation and rape, unrelated to his work for the controversial whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks which brought diplomatic hurricanes to the United States this year when it began releasing classified documents it had obtained.
The organization's first big scoop was on April 5 when it released a classified video which showed a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack in Iraq which left several civilians killed, including two unarmed Reuters journalists.
Later, in July, WikiLeaks released the so-called 'Afghan War Diary', more than 92,000 documents with sensitive details about the ongoing war in Afghanistan. It was one of the largest leaks in the history of the U.S. military, but also exposed the names of Afghans who have provided information to NATO. The Taliban pledged to kill those informants, although no such violence was ever reported.
Then, in late October, WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 U.S. Army field reports of the Iraq War between 2004 and 2009. It led to several revelations, including new reports of civilian deaths. It was the biggest leak in U.S. military history.
But especially its latest release has been sending shock waves around the globe since WikiLeaks began releasing some of the 251,287 U.S. diplomatic cables it claims to have. As of Tuesday, however, only 960 cables were released.
But in recent days, Assange's personal life has begun to overshadow the release of the documents amid increasing calls to arrest him over the allegations in Sweden. Last Wednesday, Interpol issued a 'Red Notice' which helped spread the arrest warrant globally.
But others have questioned the motives of Swedish authorities to issue the arrest warrant, saying it is an attempt to destroy Assange's image and to put him behind bars. Assange himself has also denied the accusations on multiple occasions, although he admitted to having consensual sex with two women within several days of each other. "The charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing," he said on August 21.
Assange questioned the timing of the charges when speaking with media organizations and said he had been told to expect 'dirty tricks' from the Pentagon, including 'sex traps' to ruin his reputation.
And while few details about the cases have been released by officials, the British newspaper the Daily Mail in late August obtained a copy of the women's police statements.
The statements showed that the women had met with Assange and both had unprotected sex with him during the course of several days. They later met each other and discovered that they had both slept with him while not using a condom.
After this discovery, the women walked into a police station together to report the events. According to the documents, the women feared that they had received a sexually transmitted disease (STD) from Assange. And especially one of the women was anxious about the possibility of HIV and pregnancy.
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Bob Holzman, Director of Safety & Security at The Madeira School, has seen a lot during his 35 years on staff and worked for five Heads of School.
Multiple generations of girls came, learned, and went on to conquer; national celebrities and political figures passed through the campus gates, sometimes with secret service agents in tow (more on that later); and an unforeseen scandal forever changed the school.
Holzman, 66, recently announced that he would be retiring Tuesday. He plans on spending more time with his grandchildren in Virginia Beach, as well as with his wife. In the long term, they are considering a move to New Mexico. "Basically anywhere where I don't have to look at snow," he says.
It would be a rough loss for McLean if he goes. In addition to his constant presence behind the white fences that line Madeira's 450 acres on Georgetown Pike, Holzman has become a fixture in the McLean community, serving on the McLean Police Citizens Advisory Committee, and working with local police and fire squads to ensure the safety and welfare of all McLean residents.
In person, Holzman gives the impression of tirelessness, and strikes anyone who doesn't know him better as a stern and commanding figure. He routinely notes the hour in military time, and refers to all Madeira girls as "young ladies."
In 2008, Holzman received Madeira's prestigious Virginia W. Peddle Community Service Award. Patricia Terrell, Executive Assistant to the Head of School, wrote in her nomination of Holzman that, "If anyone eats, breathes, and sleeps The Madeira School, it would be Mr. Holzman. He's made the welfare of this community his top priority. He manages to secure almost 400 acres and over 400 people and keeps his good humor in tact."
Holzman's good humor is evident when he describes his many years spent at the century-old, private, all-girls boarding school as " lots of fun."
Holzman began at Madeira part-time, when the security department's sole responsibility was keeping people in and out of school grounds. But he soon led the charge to reorganize the department, so it was more fully integrated with day-to-day school operations. He also opened the gates, so to speak, for local police and fire teams, which he recognized as integral to keeping the school safe.
"We started a program where the fire department uses the campus for training," Holzman explains. "We ran a drill with McLean responding units where we mocked up casualty victims, as though a building had exploded. It was very successful. Afterward we invited all the units for a picnic."
This activity highlights one of Holzman's major goals of his career. "If Madeira needed assistance, I wanted to make sure we'd get assistance," he says. "It is a very good partnership [between McLean police and fire teams]. If we need help, we holler."
Bill Trapp, who succeeded Holzman as the chairman of the McLean Citizens Advisory Committee, calls his colleague a "dedicated supporter of The Fairfax County Police Department."
"Bob likes to tell how he remembers some of the higher ups in the police department when they were just new officers on the beat," Trapp says.
Holzman's job also required him to work with a more elite squad of security officials. When then-first lady Hilary Clinton delivered a speech at Madeira in 1999, Holzman worked with Secret Service for about four weeks prior to the event. It is the only time he described his job as "stressful."
"The secret service was very thorough," he says. "They needed someone to give them a lay of the land. We found nooks and crannies where they could place agents."
The thing about Madeira, which is partially covered by a forest, is that there are a lot of nooks and crannies. And that, Holzman explains, is the rub. "It's always been a challenge to know who is on the property. We have 450 acres. So there are a lot of ways in."
Under Holzman's leadership, the security team at Madeira always erred on the side of caution when it came to protecting their own. In 2008, Fairfax County proposed that a one-mile long trail be built through Madeira's property, connecting Scott's Run Park to Great Falls National Park. Holzman went to the Board of Supervisors to object, citing safety concerns.
"There is no access to that far part of the property," he says today, underscoring just how important it is to have eyes on all corners of the school.
That includes keeping tabs on another sort of person—the school's girls, who might be less interested in getting in, and more interested in getting out.
"One year around when I first started," Holzman remembers, "a group of young ladies were supposed to be at the spring formal. But at bedtime they weren't found. We spend the evening looking for them."
Eventually someone back on campus gave them up, and the escapees were found in D.C. That taught him a good lesson that he carried with him throughout his career. "The good thing about the young ladies at Madeira is they talk to each other," he says.
And sometimes, things happen that are just beyond his control.
"I worked for Jean Harris for a year," he says, citing the infamous Madeira headmistress convicted of killing her lover Dr. Herman Tarnower, author of the Scarsdale Diet in Scarsdale, New York in 1980. "There was all kinds of shock and horror," he says, describing the aftermath of the scandal. "Lots of, 'no, that can't be.'" When reporters descended onto campus, Holzman helped with crowd control, and to calm the nerves of a truly shaken school. He was, as he still is, the face of perfect calm in the midst of gales.
"Madeira has a motto," he says in response to a question about what he'll take from the school. "Function in disaster. And finish in style."


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This package implements two methods for performing a constrained principal component analysis (PCA), where non-negativity and/or sparsity constraints are enforced on the principal axes (PAs). The function 'nsprcomp' computes one principal component (PC) after the other. Each PA is optimized such that the corresponding PC has maximum additional variance not explained by the previous components. In contrast, the function 'nscumcomp' jointly computes all PCs such that the cumulative variance is maximal. Both functions have the same interface as the 'prcomp' function from the 'stats' package (plus some extra parameters), and both return the result of the analysis as an object of class 'nsprcomp', which inherits from 'prcomp'.
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Youth need to follow Mahatma, say Bollywood celebrities
New Delhi, Oct 2 : On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti Wednesday, Bollywood celebrities like Shekhar Kapur and Anupam Kher remembered the teachings of the Father of the Nation, and rued how much the youth needs to adopt his principles of non-violence.
On Gandhi's 144th birth anniversary Wednesday, celebrities shared their thoughts via microblogging website Twitter. While some hope that the nation continues to follow his ideologies, some wondered what would have been Gandhi's reaction to the current state of the country.
Here's what the celebrities had to say:
Shekhar Kapur: Today let's take Mahatma Gandhi's picture off the wall and put him back in our hearts. Let us not worship him, but learn from what he was telling us.
Yaami Gautam: So many wishes on Gandhi Jayanti. But are we merely wishing each other or celebrating it too, makes me ponder. Jai Hind.
Kunal Kohli: The only thing Gandhiji would say if he saw the state of the nation today would be "Hey Ram" (Oh god!).
Vishal Dadlani: October 2nd. The day a lazy nation takes a holiday in the name of a man who said we should work 24 hours a day. Sorry Gandhiji.
Satish Kaushik: Wishing everyone Gandhi Jayanti...Salute to father of the nation.
Anupam Kher: Two Great Indians born on the same day. Their contribution in our lives is incomparable. Happy Birthday to Bapu and to Lal Bahadur Shastriji. Jai Ho.
Sophie Choudry: Gandhiji's speeches/thoughts are so progressive, relevant, enlightening even today. Wish there were more like him.
Aditi Rao Hydari: Happy to you Gandhiji! (sic) As a nation I wish we followed you, respected your work and remembered you more than we do.
Dia Mirza: Mahatma Gandhi: "Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?" Happy Birthday Bapu.
Isha Koppikar: Happy Gandhiji Jayanti. Sad to see how the youth has displayed pictures and their status (on social networking websites) saying 'Dry Day' and 'stock leke rakho'. He's 'The Father of The Nation'.
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