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Posted: 12-06-2012, 08:02 AM
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Time to fill up the Ram, with the 35g tank. I always let it go down to fillup light. the 120.00 doesnt bother me that much since she is semi-retired, the challenger gets most of the miles now. I took the truck out the other day to drive thru the puddles after picking up the kids. The challenger doesnt like those puddles!
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I drive a lot and have to get a full tank every other day during the week
Posted: 12-06-2012, 12:00 PM
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Last fill up was $67.81 (21.81 gallons) with the price at $3.10. It's down to $3.09 as of yesterday. I generally do not let it get that low - usually I fill up when it gets to half a tank. Doesn't hurt as much. It's down to $3.05 where my son goes to college. At one point it broke through the $3 point to $2.97 but went back up.
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Posted: 12-06-2012, 08:20 PM
Post #46
Hell, I've given up paying at the pump. I just pump, then walk in to pay, at least we can still do that in Alberta. I hated hitting the $100, then putting another $7-$10 in, seemed a waste of another transaction. Worst fill up I had was coming back from BC, filled with 94 and 2 Jerry cans, came to $218.
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Posted: 12-06-2012, 08:50 PM
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Kroger has their double points reward going on till the end of Dec. Filled up Tuesday for $2.49 a gal. Thats stilling using 93oct.
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Posted: 12-07-2012, 08:29 AM
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Anybody remember when gas was $1.50/gal? My first job was at a gas station and this old guy came in and said "wait a few years and gas will be $1/L ($3.79/G)" I figured it would never get that high, now I'm happy when it goes down that low!
Posted: 12-07-2012, 12:45 PM
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Posted: 12-07-2012, 01:00 PM
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That 28.827 Gallons here in the UK would have cost you $230.61.
Petrol here is $8 per gallon and diesel is $8.40 per gallon. This is why my truck runs on LPG which is $4.32 per gallon. I`m thinking you guys have it quite good! Enjoy it while you can because it can only go one way.
Posted: 12-07-2012, 03:02 PM
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No, It can def go down, if the gov lets us access our own oil!
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Posted: 12-07-2012, 03:25 PM
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Average about $75 to fill a shortbed at a quarter is tought, but a grand to fill the home heating fuel tank is @^$*( up. $35 a day for the generator (for 11 days) during Sandy was no joy, added to the fact I had to go to pennsy to avoid 2-4 hour lines.
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Posted: 12-07-2012, 09:12 PM
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At any rate prices are down to $3.08 this evening.
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Posted: 12-10-2012, 12:02 AM
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geezz....I pay $120.00 every week.....lol :P
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Posted: 12-10-2012, 09:47 PM
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Gas went down to $3.21/Gal here tonight. Should have seen the idiots lined up at the pumps & out on the streets!!! (act like they haven't paid for fuel so "cheap" in their lives???)
Was nice to see diesel was up to $3.79/Gal though! Good 'Ol Diesel!!! Make it cost more, because it's just SO MUCH MORE Efficient! Supply & demand my balls. Didn't see one diesel "coal roller" in that station waiting to fill up! Alot of Fuel Efficient four bangers, though. They celebrating $0.06 price drop and for what? Maybe 10-12 gallons? They saved $0.60-$0.72 at the most?
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Posted: 12-11-2012, 08:17 AM
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Posted: 12-11-2012, 08:26 AM
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Where ya at in long island. Im goin up there soon to help the family. My aunt and cousins live in long beach, on one of the canals.....boyd street.
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Posted: 12-11-2012, 08:54 AM
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im about 20 mins north of long beach. i used to pass boyd on my way into LB. i hope your family made out okay, it was like a warzone down there, totally unreal.
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When the video montage of failure from 2011 plays back in my head, there's one game in particular to which I keep returning. There were worse blowouts by far in terms of runs surrendered, but I think that a lot of the story is told by Felix Pie horribly misplaying a ball as an aghast Jim Palmer cries on the MASN telecast, "It's a day game! Play deeper!"
This was not an unusual occurrence throughout the year, as Felix misplayed a lot of balls in his time as a defensive replacement and occasionally as the starting left fielder. One game in particular stands out because of who else was playing, though. The date was August 21, the opponent was the Angels; a day game in Anaheim. Starting for the Orioles was Brian Matusz, and the 7-8-9 hitters were Pie, Craig Tatum and Blake Davis, who went hitless on the day.
On the day, the O's would commit three errors - two by Davis, one by Tatum - and Pie would misplay two balls that probably should have been ruled errors. Davis was playing third base despite having a total of 28 professional games under his belt at 3B. The O's offense scored a single run off of Angels starter Jerome Williams, who hadn't started an MLB game in four seasons. At the time, I could only express my rage about this game by proclaiming the O's to be on a disaster bus, which I attempted to represent with crude MS Paint art.
What's noteworthy about this game is that the Orioles' worst pitcher and worst position player to get any kind of consistent playing time featured prominently. Matusz made 12 starts on the year and ended with a 10.69 ERA. Pie appeared in over half of the Orioles' games despite batting .220/.264/.280 and occasionally not seeming to realize the properties of a batted baseball when fielding.
As Orioles fans, we lament the parade of scrubs we see shuffling through the field, at the plate and on the mound from year to year. We also tend to think that we are unique in this suffering. I had a similar moment as I pondered the Pie-Matusz combo of failure from that desolate August game. Do good teams fans ever put up with this? Do the Yankees have an annual bullpen scrub like Josh Rupe who pitches 14 innings before being DFA'd? Do the Phillies have someone like Josh Bell taking up 65 plate appearances in the middle of the season? I wondered, then remembered I could find out for myself. So I did.
I can make the assertion that Pie and Matusz were the worst on the Orioles at what they did because that's what Fangraphs' Wins Above Replacement (WAR) number proclaims. WAR is one of those stats that gets a lot of hate. It's not meant to be the be-all, end-all tool for comparing the performance of two different players. For the purposes of this exercise, I hope you'll bear with me even if you don't like newer baseball stats. All we need to know about WAR here is that I am assuming if a player had a negative WAR, he did not play well.
If you're interested in a little bit more behind the theory of WAR, let's first keep in mind that the idea is that a 0.0 WAR player - a replacement-level player - is equivalent to the production that any team should be able to call up from AAA and plug in to the lineup. For a position player, it factors in defense (UZR) and baserunning as well as the hitting contribution. As well, there is an adjustment for position: it's harder to find a decent catcher than it is to find a decent first baseman, so you get more credit for being a decent catcher. For a pitcher, WAR factors in innings pitched and FIP (which itself comes from a pitcher's K/BB rates).
That said, let's return to our question: do we Orioles fans suffer the scrubs more than good teams do? To get at the question, I compared the O's plate appearances by players with 0.0 or less WAR to the same for the eight playoff teams in 2011. With pitchers, I compared the O's innings pitched by players with negative WAR to the same for the eight playoff teams. The idea is to see to what extent the Orioles employ these scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel type players in comparison to actual good baseball teams.
Team | Players <= 0 fWAR | PA by <= 0 fWAR | Worst Player | Worst Player's fWAR | Total Neg. fWAR |
Orioles | 13 | 1670 | F. Pie | -2.1 | -4.2 |
Brewers | 7 | 178 | E. Almonte | -0.6 | -2.1 |
Cardinals | 6 | 165 | C. Patterson | -0.3 | -0.8 |
Diamondbacks | 9 | 700 | M. Mora | -0.5 | -0.8 |
Phillies | 10 | 1998 | R. Ibanez | -1.3 | -3.8 |
Rangers | 5 | 295 | A. Blanco | -0.3 | -1.2 |
Rays | 6 | 573 | R. Brignac | -1.1 | -2.8 |
Tigers | 6 | 924 | M. Ordonez | -1.0 | -1.9 |
Yankees | 7 | 834 | R. Pena | -0.9 | -2.2 |
Two quick notes. One, I specify less than or equal to 0.0 fWAR because Vladimir Guerrero and his .290/.317/.416 with clownish baserunning sits at 0.0 WAR. He was paid $7.5 million for production equivalent to if most teams called up their best AAA hitter and had that player do nothing but DH for the MLB minimum salary. Two, for the NL teams I excluded all pitchers, although for the most part, if a pitcher ever got on base at all he gets a positive fWAR: Milwaukee's Yovani Gallardo added 0.9 WAR at the plate with a slash line of .221/.254/.324.
The Orioles had the most players without a positive contribution, and the worst total negative value from those players. Fully half of the O's negative value was Pie, who had the second-worst WAR among all players in MLB - the worst was Adam Dunn. What's surprising is the O's aren't the worst culprits, though there's a clear distinction as only one other team of the nine we look at hear had over 1000 PA by players performing at a scrub level. Whether due to contract obligations (Ibanez), desperation (Eduardo Nunez on the Yanks), or poor talent evaluation, all teams have to play scrub players now and again, but for the most part the good teams are lucky/good enough where they don't have to do it for long.
By the way, of the 13 Orioles who had 0.0 WAR or less, only three remain on the 40-man roster: Chris Davis (-0.3), Ryan Adams (-0.3) and Josh Bell (-0.6). Of course, Davis is ticketed for the starting 1B job, but the others should not see playing time if they are not good. In theory, anyway.
Team | Pitchers <0 fWAR | IP by <0 fWAR | Worst Pitcher | Worst Pitcher's fWAR | Total Neg. fWAR |
Orioles | 10 | 264.1 | B. Matusz | -1.0 | -3.7 |
Brewers | 5 | 62 | D. Herrera | -0.2 | -0.6 |
Cardinals | 11 | 259.1 | R. Franklin | -1.2 | -4.0 |
Diamondbacks | 5 | 152.2 | A. Galarraga | -0.8 | -2.3 |
Phillies | 4 | 105.2 | D. Herndon | -0.6 | -1.2 |
Rangers | 8 | 109.2 | C. Eppley | -0.4 | -2.0 |
Rays | 6 | 165.2 | A. Sonnanstine | -0.8 | -2.1 |
Tigers | 10 | 184 | A. Oliver | -0.3 | -1.9 |
Yankees | 4 | 37 | S. Proctor | -0.7 | -1.1 |
Turns out that the eventual world champion Cardinals had more negative-value pitchers than did the O's and had more total negative value. The early-season immolation of Ryan Franklin was a big factor, and the Cards struggled to find some consistency internally, which is part of why they ultimately traded for Mark Rzepczynski and Octavio Dotel from the Blue Jays. Neither of those players was on St. Louis at season's start and both made a positive contribution in leading them into their unlikely championship run.
What kind of Satanic luck is involved with the Yankees having only 37 innings thrown by negative-value pitchers? Even random panic bullpen scrub callups weren't bad for the most part. It's astounding.
One thing that sets apart the Orioles here is that four of their negative-value pitchers were starters. Of the ten pitchers, three remain on the 40-man roster: Matusz (-1.0 fWAR), Jason Berken (-0.5), and Kevin Gregg (-0.3).
Not surprisingly, between the Orioles and playoff teams, the O's are the only ones who were bad in both the pitching and hitting categories here. Teams with high absolute values in one were generally good in the other, and the rest were pretty balanced.
These are things where teams can improve on the margins, particularly in the case of bench players, who are subject to less volatility than relievers. One problem with the Orioles, too, is that their scrubs weren't necessarily bench players: Pie appeared in half the team's games. Guerrero sat in the cleanup spot nearly the whole season.
As far as the bullpen goes, any team can be struck by a random Rupe in April, but the good teams can quickly DFA that guy and try the next guy who ends up better. It takes a bad team like the Orioles to ride 31 games from Jeremy Accardo when he ends up with a 5.73 ERA. And only a team as bad as the Orioles would keep throwing Matusz out there when he looked terrible.
The O's had a total of -7.9 fWAR between their hitting and pitching scrub-level players. This is indicative of tremendously poor organizational depth; the Orioles tried numerous players both hitting and pitching and many were bad. After a while there was no one better to try. Has Dan Duquette's tinkering made any improvement here? Endy Chavez ought to be an upgrade over Pie; just like that, the biggest negative is wiped out. As for the rest, we can only hope the marginal players and AAA replacements this year are better than last year's, and only time can tell for that.
In any case, none of these are sexy moves, as we all know. Supposing the Orioles got back 4 fWAR just from replacing negative-value players with zero-value players, and supposing 4 fWAR meant 4 wins (which is no sure thing in any case) then they'd still only have 73 wins. It's one way to help stop the bleeding, though, especially when most all of the moves made on the margins were inexpensive.
The real ticket to the top will be having a few great players and the rest decent-to-good, but that is a battle for another offseason. For now, we can hope for some small improvements and hope that they augur better things for the future.


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TESTIMONY OF Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to testify today. My name is Roger Clegg, and I am president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a nonprofit research and educational organization that is based in Falls Church, Virginia. Our chairman is Linda Chavez, and our focus is on public policy issues that involve race and ethnicity, such as civil rights, bilingual education, and immigration and assimilation. I should also note that I was a deputy in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division for four years, from 1987 to 1991. My career at the Justice Department began, however, five years before that, when I was first hired to a nonpolitical slot there, in a different office. Then I held several positions as a political appointee, but I went back to nonpolitical status when I was Assistant to the Solicitor General. I finished my service at the Department as a political appointee, including my four years as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division. Overview Mr. Chairman, as you know, I have to submit my testimony--reasonably enough--in advance of when the head of the Civil Rights Division, Mr. Wan Kim, will be questioned by the Committee, but I am going to assume--based on similar hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee last November 16, a House Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing earlier this year, news accounts, and my own experience in Washington, including my time at the Civil Rights Division--that the Division's record will be criticized in three basic ways. These are the same criticisms that are always made during oversight hearings of the Division. First, some members of the Committee will say that the Division is not bringing enough of the kinds of cases they would like. Second, and conversely, some members will argue that the Division is bringing too many of the kinds of cases that they do not like. And, third, some members will say that the hiring process and other ways in which political appointees deal with career lawyers has become wrongly politicized. The fact that the criticisms are not new does not make them false, of course, but recognizing this helps to keep things in perspective. Since Congress appropriates money for the Division and wants it to enforce the laws it has passed, it makes sense for the members to keep on eye on what sort of job the Division is doing--so long, of course, as the oversight process does not become so onerous that it actually prevents the Division from doing its job. If the members don't agree with the way the Division is interpreting the law, or don't like the enforcement priorities it has set, they can certainly argue with the Division leadership about these matters. But ultimately the call is, of course, the Executive Branch's. And the questioning at hearings like these should be civil, as befits conversations between two coequal branches of government. There will inevitably be differences of opinion about how to interpret laws and what the Division's priorities ought to be. There is nothing sinister about this. I have to say, Mr. Chairman, that when I read the transcript of last fall's oversight hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, I discerned a distinct lack of civility in some Senators' questioning of Mr. Kim. I hope that this doesn't repeat itself at this week's hearings. Legitimate Changes in Legal Interpretations and Enforcement Priorities There will be legitimate differences of opinion--among members of the Committee, between members and the administration, and between political and career lawyers in the Division--about how to interpret the civil rights laws. Judges don't interpret the laws the same way; neither do government lawyers. And, of course, outside groups like mine will sometimes be critical of the Division. I have criticized the Division during the Clinton administration, and I have criticized it during the Bush administration. Many of you think the Division has been too conservative; well, I think it has not been conservative enough. I am including with my statement today a paper that I delivered at a political science conference last year at the University of Virginia, comparing the enforcement policies of the employment antidiscrimination laws at the Civil Rights Division during the Clinton and Bush administrations, respectively. I noted there, in particular, differences I saw with respect to disparate impact lawsuits and challenges to what I call "affirmative discrimination"--a.k.a. reverse discrimination. The Clinton administration was more aggressive--so aggressive, for example, that it was fined over $1.7 million for overreaching in one matter--in bringing disparate impact cases (which is too bad, since the theory on which such cases depend is misguided, and they often result in more rather than less discrimination), and with only one possible exception never challenged affirmative discrimination (which is also too bad, since the civil rights laws ought to be interpreted to protect all of us from discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, or sex). But the Bush administration has, nonetheless, brought and continued to litigate some disparate impact lawsuits, and it has not been terribly aggressive in challenging affirmative discrimination, so it has not been perfect either, at least by my lights. There will also be differences of opinion--again, among members of the Committee, between members and the administration, and between political and career lawyers in the Division--about how to set law-enforcement priorities. The lack of enthusiasm that the Clinton administration had for challenging affirmative discrimination had to do, I suspect, not only with a difference of opinion in how it read the law, but also with a belief--misguided in my opinion--that fighting such discrimination was just not as important as other items on its agenda. The Bush administration's greater care in bringing disparate impact cases may reflect, again, not just a difference in how it reads the statutes, but also in a belief that, say, human trafficking is a more pressing problem than, say, a fire department's alleged overemphasis on one kind or another of physical conditioning. In addition, even without differences in law-enforcement philosophy, the Division's priorities will change over time. Congress will pass new laws. Lawbreaking will become more common in some areas, and less common in others. For instance, the Bush administration has spent much time enforcing the Help America Vote Act, which was just passed in 2002. New statutes often require a great deal of enforcement attention, to educate those affected to its requirements. The administration has spent more time, proportionately, enforcing the foreign-language ballot provisions of the Voting Rights Act than the Division did several decades ago. This probably reflects the fact that we have many more jurisdictions and voters affected by those provisions now than we did back then, because of increases in immigration. I say this, by the way, even though in my opinion those provisions of the Voting Rights Act are misguided as a policy matter and unconstitutional as a matter of law. The Division is also spending a lot of time enforcing laws that prohibit discrimination against servicemen and servicewomen; this is also unsurprising, since there will probably be more such cases in a time of war than in a time of peace. An article in The New York Times last week (June 14) discussed the greater emphasis being given religious discrimination cases in this administration. [link: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/washington/14discrim.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin] But that article concedes that the cases being brought are meritorious. "The department has prevailed in many, if not most of the cases in which it has become involved," has "successfully argued ... [against] improperly suppressed religious expression," and "has, in effect, duplicated in the religious arena its past success in cases involving race and national origin." And here again, it should be noted that one of the statutes the Division is enforcing in this area--the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Person Act (passed in the summer of 2000 by unanimous consent and signed by President Clinton that September)--was new when the administration took office, which means it is unsurprising that the Division has given its enforcement special priority. Likewise, the article noted the increase in human trafficking cases--which it called "a favored issue of the religious right"--but the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which makes it easier to prosecute criminal misconduct involving human trafficking and which the Clinton administration had pushed for--is another recently enacted statute, passed just before the November 2000 presidential election. Some people have criticized the Division for concentrating proportionately fewer resources than in years past on bringing cases that allege discrimination against African Americans. But accepting arguendo that there has been such a decline, one must bear in mind, first, that the Division now has many more laws to enforce, and, second, that discrimination against African Americans is less pervasive now than it was in 1964. To give just one example, we would hardly expect a southern city to discriminate to the same degree in its municipal hiring today--when African Americans have much more political power and may even constitute a majority of its city council and other municipal offices, including mayor--as when the government there was lily white and black people were disenfranchised. I'm not saying that antiblack discrimination has vanished; it hasn't, and there will always be bigots, of all colors, in a free society. But anyone who thinks that antiblack discrimination is the same problem in 2007 that it was in 1964 is delusional. I hasten to add, Mr. Chairman, that of course none of this means that the Division is free to interpret the law in bad faith, or to set enforcement priorities, for partisan political purposes. But charges that the Division is doing so are serious indeed, and should not be made lightly. For Congress to do so, without strong evidence, is itself irresponsible, in addition to being demagogic. The examples that I've seen cited to date--invariably involving two cases under the Voting Rights Act--are unpersuasive; your hearings last fall, I think, showed as much, but let me briefly cover this ground again. The first is a case where the Justice Department decided that a Georgia photo ID statute did not violate the anti-racial discrimination protections of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Now, it is frequently asserted or reported, as proof of the untenability of the Division's decision, that--as a recently Washington Post article said--"The Georgia photo ID statute was struck down by a court." But the court struck it down, not under Section 5 and for its racial impact, but under other laws and not because of its racial impact--in other words, on issues not before the Division. And the case is still being litigated. The second case involves redistricting in Texas. Here again, the Justice Department's action was based on Section 5, a different statute than the one the Supreme Court ruled on, which is Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The rationale for the court's ruling under Section 2 involves a criterion that is not considered under Section 5; in all events, the Court's ruling was close (5-4), and most of the challenged plan was upheld. On the Section 5 issue, the position that the Division took was exactly right, as I explained in a National Review Online article last year [link: http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/blum_clegg_thernstrom200601240829.asp]. Relationship between Political Appointees and Career Staff This brings us to, and overlaps with, the relationship between political appointees and career lawyers (since in the Georgia and Texas cases the political appointees went against the recommendations of some--though not all--of the career lawyers). Here, too, I think it ought to be easy to agree on some basic boundaries. On the one hand, no career lawyer should be penalized for partisan political reasons. What's more, most of the time political appointees should be eager to draw upon the institutional memory and expertise of the career staff. I know that I usually was when I was a deputy in the Division. On the other hand, our government is a democratic republic, and the Executive Branch is accountable to the American people. Elections have consequences. That means that the President and his appointees have the responsibility and the right to run the Executive Branch--to set its priorities, to make the call on how to interpret the law (consistent with decisions by the Judicial Branch, of course), and even to decide which lawyers will best serve the Division's interests by most intelligently, enthusiastically, and resourcefully litigating its cases. The picture that is frequently painted, moreover, of political hacks (ignorant of the law and interested only in winning political elections) overruling disinterested, white-lab-coat-wearing career lawyers is, to put it mildly, misleading. Political appointees, in my experience, are frequently at least as knowledgeable about the law as the career people whom they supervise (and, again, I have been on either side of the table); conversely, the career lawyers are frequently at least as partisan and ideological in their orientation. When there is friction between the two, I would not jump to the conclusion that it is the fault of the political appointees, or that they are showing an unprofessional lack of respect to the career lawyers, rather than vice versa. Nor is it surprising--and it certainly doesn't prove illegal partisan hiring--when more conservatives are hired in a Republican administration and more liberals are hired in a Democratic administration. For starters, one would expect more conservatives to apply to Bush than to Clinton, and more liberals to apply to Clinton than to Bush. And while partisan bias is a no-no, looking for philosophical and policy compatibility is not. In the desegregation era, would Bobby Kennedy have wanted to retrain Jim Crow-loving applicants, or would he have given an edge to individuals passionately committed to destroying a separate-and-unequal status quo? Likewise, there's no reason why this administration should prefer not to hire lawyers whose briefs will have to be rewritten and who really aren't interested in working on, for instance, religious freedom cases. With regard to hiring policy, by the way, I should note that the New York Times article I mentioned earlier said that "from 2003 through 2006, there was a notable increase of hirings from religious-affiliated institutions like Regent University and Ave Maria University." But the table that is included with the article shows that this "notable increase" was from zero per year at these schools to, occasionally, 1 per year (and, in only one instance, 2 hires); meanwhile, hires from Harvard were in double digits throughout most of the Bush administration--the only school that could claim that, and an actual increase from the Clinton administration. Conclusion Finally, Mr. Chairman, I must observe that, in my opinion, a big part of what's going on here is that disgruntled liberal lawyers are trying to influence policy by making miserable the lives of their conservative bosses or former bosses. It is no coincidence that some of those liberal lawyers leading the charge against the political appointees now have recently left the Division to work for liberal Democrats in Congress and organizations like the People for the American Way. Their targets are not political hacks; the average political appointee is, in my experience, a better lawyer than the average career staffer. In all events, the liberals are not white-lab-coat professionals (the Clinton administration's Civil Rights Division had to pay over $4.1 million in penalties for sloppy lawyering--see attached letter from the Justice Department to Representative Sensenbrenner). Thank you again, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to testify today. I would be happy to try to answer any questions the Committee may have for me. by Roger Clegg [paper presented at the University of Virginia "Policy History Conference" in June 2006] Introduction and Scope There are two federal agencies that enforce federal employment discrimination law through lawsuits. (In addition, the Department of Labor, pursuant to Executive Order 11,246, requires private companies contracting above a certain dollar amount with the federal government to refrain from discrimination and to have "affirmative action" programs.) The Justice Department's civil rights division brings lawsuits against public employers (state, county, and municipal governments and the like, including fire and police departments, for example); the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brings lawsuits against private employers (so long as they have at least 15 employees).
The civil rights division took at similar position in its brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in United States v. State of North Carolina (filed July 14, 1998) (asking for an order that the state department of corrections "seek to hire and promote women roughly in proportion to their representation in the pool of applicants qualified for hire or promotion"). Bibliography/Selected Works Cited Terry Eastland, Ending Affirmative Action: The Case for Colorblind Justice 109-115 (1996). David Rosenzweig , "Firefighter Hiring Quotas Ended," Los Angeles Times, April 9, 2002. Editorial, Indianapolis Star, October 13, 2005. Roger Clegg & Clint Bolick, Defying the Rule of Law: A Report on the Tenure of Bill Lann Lee, "Acting" Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (February 1999). Testimony of Roger Clegg, Feb. 25, 1998 (emphasis in original), available at http://judiciary.house.gov/legacy/222323.htm. Roger Clegg, Disparate Impact in the Private Sector: A Theory Going Haywire (2001) (National Legal Center for the Public Interest monograph) (drawing from Roger Clegg, "The Bad Law of 'Disparate Impact,'" Public Interest (Winter 2000)). Roger Clegg, "Distorting 'Equal Opportunity,'" Regulation, Summer 2001, pp. 44-45. Roger Clegg, "Do the Right Thing," Legal Times, February 19, 2001. Roger Clegg, "Tripped Up," Legal Times, February 18, 2002. Roger Clegg, "Marching Orders," Legal Times, April 29, 2002. Roger Clegg, "Lee's Record at Justice," Washington Times, August 24, 1999. Roger Clegg, "Leeway on Bias Cases," Washington Times, November 28, 1999. |


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Just being thriftyPosted Saturday, July 25, 2009, at 10:41 AM Buy used, fix and barter...
Now I see the wisdom. The other day my Kirby broke. The hose that feeds the trash into the bag had torn a hole it in it. We managed to fix it by cutting off the bad spot and re attaching it. I have found myself fixing or modifying things around the house to extend the life of them. What are some of the things that you are doing to be thrifty and help extend the life of some of your things? When I was a child we did not throw away the TV set, we went and had the tubes tested and bought new tubes.. I used to poke around in the dumps and find all kinds to treasures, much to the dismay of my mother. I still look for treasures at yard sale and the Goodwill. Some I can resale, some I keep. We are putting up a privacy fence that formerly was used in a school in east Tennessee, we paid 500.00 for the lot on Govdeals.com. That same amount would have cost double had we bought it new. I am looking for ways to save for school supplies and clothing. Last year, when the ridiculous dress code came in effect, I went to Franklin and bought all my child's polo shirts at the Goodwill. Our Goodwill here had been wiped clean. What are you doing to save? Have you started a garden and are canning this year? (I hate cooking so that would not be me...) I get used everything books, clothing and cars. I just bought a fantastic Volvo for a great deal. It just needed some TLC. Tell me your ideas for saving. Do you barter, buy used or save and repair? I look foward to your responses! Comments Showing most recent comments first [Show in chronological order instead] I agree with bear - resentful parent is too used to running to the department store about every little thing. I won't mind wearing their old clothes either; with that attitude all their stuff is probably still new when they throw it out! -- Posted by picaboo170 on Wed, Aug 5, 2009, at 9:58 AM
resentful parent: no prob man i work two jobs, i just refuse to pay retail for anything.. Keep buying ... I'll get it eventually. -- Posted by 4fabfelines on Tue, Aug 4, 2009, at 5:29 PM
It seems that Resenful Parent has a issue. Like most of America, she is spoiled. I can only echo the reply of 4fab. I am a Maint Engineer. I am very thrifty and can repair most anything. Resentful parent, please post your unwanted broken stuff that your going to discard on craings list. I will come and get it. I suppliment my income on the stuff that people are to lazy to take the time to repair. If you post your stuff, I can count on another IRA being opened for my retirement. -- Posted by bear on Tue, Aug 4, 2009, at 5:21 PM
No problem I got a Nice set of new Calvin Klein sheets the other day at the Goodwill. (5.99) Don't mind if I do wear your old ones!(clothes not sheets..) I fill my retirement investments up and everything i have is paid for. Oh if this blog pisses you off, read the next one! -- Posted by 4fabfelines on Tue, Aug 4, 2009, at 5:04 PM
Yeah, thanks, but I don't have all day to fix every little thing that breaks around my house so it can work for a little longer and I can avoid the responsibility of just replacing it because I have a job and work and receive a paycheck (as opposed to just a check, unlike a disgustingly large portion of Bedford County residents) and so I can afford to replace things when they break and buy the replacements new because I work hard, manage my money properly, and live within my means. Enjoy wearing my old clothes, though. -- Posted by Resentful Parent on Sat, Aug 1, 2009, at 12:45 AM
We need to leave this subject open for a long time Lesa. I have a feeling we're gonna be needing each other's tips and skills. Thanks for bringing this up. My motto is re-use, recycle and don't buy it new if you can find a better deal. Again, thanks to all for sharing. -- Posted by ridgeroamer on Fri, Jul 31, 2009, at 9:03 AM
I am the queen of bargains as my husband calls me. I don't go to the grocery store with a list. I go to to buy all the sales. I especially LOVE buy 1 get 1 free. I try to go on the day the sales come out. Kroger is on Sat. Foodlion is on Wed. I stock up when things are on a great sale. Example-my favorite toothpaste was on sale. Reg price $2.50 on sale for $1. I bought 15 tubes. I saved $22.50 and I don't need to buy toothpaste for a year :)I like to do the samething with paper towels and toilet paper. When they're buy 1 get 1 free I buy as many as I'm allowed then I go back the next day and do the same. Then I have enough paper for a several months and save huge. I also LOVE Goodwill. The 1st Sat of the month the whole store is 50% off woo hoo. I also LOVE craigslist. We remodeled our house. I bought all my kitchen cabinets on craigslist all brand-new $400 compared to $3000 Lowes wanted HA not me. I just bought the best dishwasher ever made on craigslist for $20 top of the line Maytag. and many many many more but I think I've worn out my welcome. God Bless and happy savings. -- Posted by UltraConservativeAmerican on Thu, Jul 30, 2009, at 5:07 PM
I barter to save money on http://www.barterquest.com. It's a great trading site where you can swap almost everything: goods, services & real estate. I love it. -- Posted by barterlove on Mon, Jul 27, 2009, at 8:18 AM
I don'tknow about you, but I wish they had a Target here in town. UGO has some good deals sometimes on cleaning stuff. Found some Cascade gels for 5.95 they are usually 9.00 something. I scan the marked down meats at Walmart and Kroger. Got some ground turkey , which we love for .99 cent a pack last month. -- Posted by 4fabfelines on Sun, Jul 26, 2009, at 9:37 AM
Good Sam, Good Will, yard-sale items esp. toys our boys are sure to destroy, Save a lot, and United Grocery help with snacks and some grocery items. I very seldom go to WalMart. We save and save and repair what we can and take one good trip every summer. -- Posted by countrymom on Sat, Jul 25, 2009, at 9:27 PM
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I do not expect Barack Obama to condemn the Tea Party's racist elements, any more than I expect Ben Jealous to lead the war in Afghanistan. But I do not expect him, or his administration, to make the work of the NAACP harder, to contradict them for doing that which the administration can not. I do not expect them to minimize those elements, thus minimizing the NAACP's fight, and then accede, to people who are pulling from the darkest, vilest reaches of the American psyche.This is nuts. The first sentence doesn't make any sense--not even if you stipulate that the war in Afghanistan is something other than an excercise in abject mass murder, which I won't, because it's an exercise in abject mass murder. The second sentence is even crazier, for exactly that reason: that the insane death-worshipping, Mammon's-teat-suckling, Molech-praising, blood-drinking reptiloid in the White House should somehow work in concert with the Nice-Liberal rump NAACP in order to bring about peaceonearthgoodwilltomen is plainly not . . . let's use the Liberal's favorite word . . . plainly not realistic.
Look, Ta-Nehisi, the "darkest, vilest reaches of the American psyche" aren't contained within the windy confines of infamous Coelacanth, Andrew Breitbart's skull, nor yet within the raucus but underpopulated tea-party clubs, but in the administration of Barack Obama.


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Here at Whale Wednesday, we generally talk about the amazing life of whales… while they are alive. But like everything in nature, cetaceans pass on. And good thing, too, if you are a boneworm.
These strange, tiny creatures feast on the bones of mammal carcasses on the sea floor. Bobbing along as microscopic larvae until they come in contact with a whale or elephant seal, they then latch on, sending root-like structures into the bones and feathery arms into the water. The bacteria in these roots break down bone protein, while the feathery appendages draw in oxygen. And that's not the strangest part.
All boneworms start off male, but as they sexually mature, become female. However, if a male larvae lands on a female boneworm, he will become a male worm, though remain microscopic in size. He will then go on to fertilize the females eggs, which will result in all-male larvae. And the cycle begins again.
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Since I missed Whale Wednesday yesterday, I'm making up for it today with an update on an adorable Canadian cetacean.
As you may or may not recall, a beluga whale was born at the Vancouver Aquarium this summer. Now she needs a name, and the aquarium is asking for submissions. Here's the rub: the name must be from the Inuit language, Inuktitut, reflecting the beluga's Arctic origins. So that means no "Britney" or "Bathsheba" submissions, people.
I just submitted "illaqtuq" which, I just learned, means "laugh." Belugas have that great high-pitched twitter, after all. And it could be shortened to "Illa." Pretty good, huh?
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It's been a while since we started the Whale Wednesday weekly feature, and I don't think beaked whales have ever gotten their day in the spotlight. Today's the day, then, for this mysterious group of cetaceans.
The BBC reports that researchers from Duke University observed the largest group of Arnoux's beaked whales -- around 60 -- ever recorded, off the coast of Antarctica.
Male beaked whales have tusks that emerge from their lower jaws, and in general beaked whales are deep divers. Of the 21 known species of beaked whales, only a few are well-known, including the Cuvier's beaked whale and the Baird's beaked whale.
But their obscurity hasn't made the members of the Ziphiidae family safe from threats. As trawl nets have gone into deeper waters, the enigmatic creatures have become more frequent bycatch victims.
As one of the Duke scientists, Dr. Ari Friedlander, told BBC, "The Arnoux's were a unique and amazing experience. Hopefully this brief glimpse will spawn further work to better understand the species, their distribution and behaviour, and how these animals fit into the larger ecology of the southern ocean."
EU Court Rules Against Italy for Use of Driftnets
In a big victory for our colleagues in Europe, yesterday the EU Court of Justice found Italy in violation of EU law for the country's continued use of driftnets, a fishing gear banned since 2002.
Driftnets, which float freely, sometimes for miles, are a serious threat to cetaceans, sea turtles, sharks and fish in the Mediterranean. Hundreds of thousands of whales and dolphins are killed each year by driftnets.
The day before the decision, Oceana presented its latest report on the use of driftnets in the Mediterranean and stressed that the Court's judgment was an essential step in eradicating the use of the fishing gear.
The Oceana report contains photographs from 2008 of 92 vessels with driftnets on board, 80 percent had already been identified during campaigns in previous years.
Xavier Pastor, Executive Director of Oceana Europe, said, "The judgment is an important milestone in the elimination of driftnets from the Mediterranean. At last we may be moving towards the end of this illegal fishing gear, seven years after the EU banned their use."
Over several years of campaigning in the Mediterranean, Oceana has documented and reported how driftnets, despite the ban, continue to be used, not only in Italy, but also in other areas of the Mediterranean such as Morocco, Turkey, and until recently, France.
Congratulations, Xavier and team!
Whale Wednesday: Talkin' to You
Don't you hate when you're at a party or restaurant, and even without music on, the room grows louder and louder and louder? Until you can barely hear the person standing right next to you? New research shows that sperm whales have evolved to circumvent this cocktail party conundrum.
According to the scientists, whose work will be presented at the Acoustical Society of America next week, the whales are polite conversationalists -- they make a specific effort to keep their calls from overlapping by changing the intervals between their echolocating clicks.
Perhaps humans can try this. It might go something like this:
"Would you - click - like an hors d'oeuvre - click?"
"Yes, one - click - mushroom puff - click - please."
And in other acoustic findings, researchers have discovered the first known instances of male humpback whales singing to one another, similar to songbirds. Whether the whale songs are macho seduction tunes -- like male birdsongs -- is still unclear.
What is clear is that there's a lot we don't know about what's being said and sung under the sea.
Whale Wednesday: Save the Carbon Sinks
There's no shortage of blame to go around when it comes to climate change. Individuals are responsible for poor consumer choices; we drive the wrong cars, use the wrong light bulbs, even wash our laundry on the wrong setting. Even the poor dairy cow shares the blame for having the nerve to burp methane emissions. But Bessie isn't the only creature catching a bad rap. Sperm whales have been criticized for breathing. Yes, breathing. Apparently the carbon dioxide emitted from the roughly 210,000 sperm whales in the Southern Ocean is contributing to global warming, producing in the ballpark of 17 million tons of carbon a year. But new research suggests that we're missing a very big factor in the calculation. It's not just what the whales put out, but also what they take in.
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Whale Wednesday
Happy hump day, everyone. A15-year study of humpback whales in the Southern Hemisphere is providing scientists with new insight into the slow giants' mating habits. Researchers analyzed DNA skin samples from more than 1,500 humpbacks in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans. They found that the highest rate of "gene flow" occurred with whales breeding on either side of Africa, with one or two whales swimming between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans each year to mate. It was the first time a humpback had been recorded travelling between the two oceans. (Now that's what you call a long-distance relationship.) Another interesting conclusion from the study was that the small humpback population of less than 200 in the Indian Ocean, off the Arabian Peninsula, was distinct genetically and unlike other populations did not migrate and therefore was a "conservation priority."
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Whale Wednesday: Baby Blue
More National Geographic love this week, only this time whale-related. Yesterday I went to NatGeo's "Tuesday at Noon" series, which I've been meaning to go to for a while. Every week they show a free short film, this week's was "Kingdom of the Blue Whale," and it followed scientists in their attempts to tag and photograph blue whales in the Pacific. Not only was it a nice break in the day, but I got my blue whale fix -- which, as you may have noticed, I'm mildly obsessed with -- and I was soothed by Tom Selleck's classy narration.
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Whale Wednesday: the Din Down Below
Adding to the clatter about ocean noise comes the first study indicating that whales increase their calls in response to underwater noise. Scientists studying blue whales off the eastern Canadian coast found that the giants changed their calls in response to an underwater seismic survey. On days with seismic surveys, the whales made two-and-half-times more calls than on days without, probably because they have to "repeat information", as some of the communication is lost or degraded by the seismic activity. Sounds a lot like trying to have a conversation on your cell phone while riding the DC Metro. So what do the increased calls mean for the cetaceans? As one of the researchers said, "Our research doesn't say anything about whether this increase in call rate is negative for the animals, but of course it's not positive and it may be stressful."
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