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The Honorable Patrick LeahyJuly 11, 2002
Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy This week marks the first anniversary of the reorganization of the Senate Judiciary Committee following the change in majority last year. This past year has been a busy one for this Committee. This is only one of the scores of measures this Committee has reported to the Senate in the last year. They range from important hate crimes legislation to bills augmenting the Violence Against Women Act to those seeking to improve competitive conditions and intellectual property matters to immigration matters to those on the issue of identity theft and significant law enforcement matters. These are in addition to the work of our members in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on what became the USA PATRIOT Act. Today, I hope the Committee will complete its consideration of a most important legislative initiative we began years ago, the Innocence Protection Act. I want to thank Senator Specter, Senator Feinstein and Senator Biden to work with us to broaden our consensus and thank all of those who have been cosponsors of S.486 and our House companion measure for which Bill Delahunt and Ray LaHood now have 240 cosponsors. Senators Feingold and Durbin have been extraordinary cosponsors who have helped improve and strengthen the bill from the outset. During the last year have also conducted a number of important oversight hearings regarding the Justice Department, the FBI, the Civil Rights Division, and the INS. I regret that the Attorney General canceled his commitment to appear before the Committee at a hearing that had been scheduled for today, but hope to have an oversight hearing with the Attorney General before the end of the month. He has not yet appeared before this Committee this year. In addition, there are a number of other, discrete but important oversight matters on which we are working in a bipartisan manner. We have also had a record year in considering this President's nominees. Partisans have perpetuated an untrue and unfortunate myth that the Democratic-led Senate and Judiciary Committee have blocked the President's nominees. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Democratic-led Judiciary Committee has had a record-breaking year fairly and promptly considering President Bush's nominees. In addition to the dozens of high-ranking Justice Department officials for whom we held hearings and our work in connection with more than 185 Executive Branch nominees, we have had a record year with respect to judicial nominees. In this, our first year, we held hearings for 78 of the President's nominees. That is more hearings for this President's district and circuit court nominees than ever held in any of the six and one-half years that preceded the change in majority last summer. In particular, we held more hearings for more of President Bush's circuit court nominees,16, than in any of the six and one-half years in which the Republicans controlled the Committee before the change in majority last summer. For that matter, we held twice as many hearings for Court of Appeals nominees than were held in the first year of the Reagan Administration when the Senate was controlled by Republicans and five times more than in the first year of the Clinton Administration when the Senate was controlled by Democrats. Those are the facts. Under Democratic leadership, this Committee has also voted on more judicial nominees, 74, than in any of the six and one-half years of Republican control that preceded the change in majority. We voted on almost twice as many circuit court nominees, 14, than the Republican majority averaged in the years they were in control. In fact, this last year we voted on more nominees than were voted on in 1999 and 2000 combined and on more circuit court nominees than the Republicans allowed in 1996 and 1997 combined. We have achieved what we said we would by treating President Bush's nominees more fairly and more expeditiously than President Clinton's nominees had been treated. By many measures the Committee has achieved almost twice as much this last year as Republicans averaged during their years in control. The Senate has confirmed more circuit and district court judges, 57, than were confirmed during 2000, 1999, 1997, 1996, and 1995, five of the prior six years of Republican control of the Senate. There are another 16 judicial nominees on the Senate Executive Calendar. The delay in the votes on these nominees has been due to the delay in the Administration's fulfilling its responsibility to work with the Senate in the naming of members of bipartisan boards and commissions. I congratulate the Majority Leader for overcoming this impediment and for his patience and determination in achieving some movement on these matters. I understand that he hopes to be able to resume voting on judicial nominations as soon as this Friday. Had the Administration not caused this delay, I am confident that the Senate would have confirmed more than 70 judicial nominations before today, far outdistancing any Republican total for any preceding year. Nonetheless, we were able to overcome the other obstacles created by the Administration and proceed to confirm 57 judicial nominees in our first 10 months in the majority, a record outpacing any Republican total in any 10-month period in which they held the majority. We have also addressed long-standing vacancies on circuit courts caused by Republican obstruction of President Clinton's judicial nominees, by holding the first hearing for a Fifth Circuit nominee in seven years, the first hearings for Sixth Circuit nominees in almost five years, the first hearing for a Tenth Circuit nominee in six years, and the first hearings for Fourth Circuit nominees in three years. We have accomplished all this to address the vacancy crisis in the federal courts caused by Republican obstruction during the prior six and one-half years. We have reformed the process for considering judicial nominees. For example, we have ended the practice of anonymous holds that plagued the period of Republican control, when any Republican Senator could hold any nominee from his home state, his own circuit or any part of the country for any reason without any accountability. We have returned to the Democratic tradition of holding regular hearings, every few weeks, rather than going for months without a single hearing. It would certainly have been easier and less work to retaliate for the unfair treatment of the last President's judicial nominees. We did not. We have been, and will continue to be, more fair than the Republican majority was to President Clinton's judicial nominees. More than 50 of Clinton's nominees never got a vote, many languished for months and years before they were returned without a hearing. Others waited years - not just a year, but up to more than four years - to be confirmed. Those who now pretend that the Democratic majority in the Senate caused a vacancy crisis in the federal courts are ignoring the facts. Under Republicans, court vacancies rose from 63 in January 1995 to 110 in July 2001, when the Committee reorganized. During Republican control before the reorganization of the Committee, vacancies on the Courts of Appeals more than doubled, increasing from 16 to 33. In one year of Democratic control, and despite 45 additional vacancies caused largely by the retirements of many past Republican appointees, we have reduced the number of district and circuit court vacancies. Vacancies continue to exist on the Court of Appeals, in particular, because a Republican Senate majority was not willing to hold hearings or vote on more than half - 56 percent - of President Clinton's circuit nominees in 1999 and 2000, and was not willing to confirm a single circuit judge during the entire 1996 session. Republicans caused the circuit vacancy crisis, and it has taken a tremendous effort to evaluate and have hearings for 16 circuit court nominees in less than a year. We are hard at work evaluating the records of the few remaining nominees who have not yet had hearings. While we have moved as quickly as possible to evaluate all of the nominees, the Senate is not, and should not be, a rubber stamp. If this President is successful in filling all of the vacancies he inherited due to Republican obstruction as well as the new vacancies that have arisen on the circuits, Republican appointees will constitute the majority, and often a two-thirds majority, on 11 of the 13 appellate courts below the Supreme Court. Such a takeover would affect the next 20 years of judicial decisions coming from the Courts of Appeal. The President and his advisors know this and, aside from the few relatively moderate nominees we have been able to confirm quickly, they have also chosen a number of people with records of judicial activism or out-of-mainstream ideology, including several young men in their thirties and early forties for many of these lifetime appointments to the federal bench. What the President and his advisors have acknowledge they are doing is nominating ideologically conservative judicial nominees to stack the 5th, 6th, and D.C. Circuits with judicial activists of their choice. That is part two of the Republican strategy. In part one, several Republicans in the Senate prevented many of these vacancies from being filled in the first place, so that whatever balance there might be, or might have been, on those courts is missing. They kept off well qualified moderate nominees, not chosen because of any litmus test or ideology. They did so to provide a Republican President with the opportunity to load the bench, especially the appellate court bench, with right wingers. Advice and consent does not mean giving the President carte blanche to pack the courts. The ingenious system of checks and balances in our Constitution does not give the power to make lifetime appointments to one person alone to remake the courts along narrow ideological lines, to pack the courts with judges whose views are outside of the mainstream, and whose decisions would further divide our nation. We have worked hard to balance these competing concerns over the past year: how to address the vacancy crisis we inherited while also not being a rubberstamp and abdicating our responsibilities to provide a democratic check on the President's choices for lifetime appointment to the federal courts. These are the only lifetime appointments in our system of government, and they matter a great deal to our future. In 1801, when Thomas Jefferson, the first President who was not a member of the Federalist Party was elected, he faced a similar situation. The Federalists in Congress had passed, and the lame duck President Adams had signed, a bill creating a number of new seats on the federal courts. President Adams then appointed a number of Federalists who have been called "midnight judges." One of the first things President Jefferson did was to get that law repealed and to refuse to sign the appointment papers of some of those judges. That is part of the story of the famous Supreme Court case, Marbury v. Madison. Thus, it took only 12 years of our new nation for an effort to pack the courts to occur. It took the first transition in political parties for one to give in to the temptation to try to stack the deck and affect the outcome of cases through the appointment of judges. The best-known attempt to pack the courts, occurred during the administration of President Franklin Roosevelt. President Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court with justices of his choosing, to get more votes on the side of cases he wanted to win, was rejected by Congress and the American people. If one thoroughly examines the types of nominees this President is sending us, one might conclude that we are facing the challenge of a similar type of court packing today. The Senate Judiciary Committee is working very hard to analyze all of President Bush's judicial nominees fairly, one by one. We have already had 21 hearings on 78 judicial nominees, including 16 circuit court nominees. We are planning another hearing for next week. In the meantime, Republicans have been unfairly critical that not every nominee has yet had a hearing or been confirmed. Some have asserted that there is some sort of "honeymoon" period for Presidents in getting confirmation of their first choices for the courts. Of course, the Constitution provides for no such abdication of responsibility for a President's first few lifetime appointees or his last. To support this extra-constitutional theory, Republicans assert that the last three presidents had a 100 percent confirmation rate on their first 11 circuit court nominees. When they say this, they conveniently leave a few details out. First, it took previous Senates more than a year to confirm eleven circuit court nominees of past Presidents. We have only had a year and the Senate has already confirmed nine of this President's circuit court nominees and four more are awaiting a vote by the full Senate. President George W. Bush has said previously that he would choose judges in the mold of two ideologically conservative activists, Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas. No judicial nominees should be rubber-stamped by the Senate, not even a President's first few choices. All nominees for these lifetime positions merit careful review by the Senate. When a President is using ideological criterion to select nominees, it is fair for the Senate to consider it, as well. Federalist Society credentials are not a substitute for fairness, moderation or judicial temperament. When a President is intent on packing the courts and stacking the deck on outcomes, consideration of balance and how ideological and activist nominees will affect a court are valid considerations. The high dudgeon expressed by Republicans about the order in which we have been considering this President's circuit court nominees is especially unwarranted in light of the objectively unfair way they treated President Clinton's circuit court nominees. Some of the vacancies we inherited date back to 1990, 1994 and 1996. Partisans conveniently ignore the Republicans' terrible record of obstruction when complain that a few of President Bush's nominees nominees have not yet had a hearing. Those nominees chosen without consultation with both parties in the Senate and, in particular, those who do not have home-state Senator support do not get hearings, according to long-standing Senate tradition. Republicans have tried to measure our achievements by standards they never met but surely even they are not now suggesting overriding the long-standing Senate tradition of consent or blue slips from both home-State Senators on which they themselves insisted. I have tried to work with the White House on judicial nominations. I have gone out of my way to encourage them to work in a bipartisan way with the Senate, like past Presidents, but in all too many instances they have chosen to bypass bipartisanship. I have encouraged them to include the ABA in the process earlier, like past Presidents, but they have refused to do so even though their decision adds to the length of time nominations must be pending before the Senate before they can be considered. At the beginning of this year, this past January, I again called on the President to stop playing politics with judicial nominations and act in a bipartisan manner. Just last month I sent a detailed letter to the President on these issues. My efforts to help the White House improve the judicial nominations process, met with a perfunctory acknowledgment or receipt, which I ask unanimous consent to place in the record at the end of my remarks. Unfortunately, this letter about the most constructive response to any of my many efforts efforts that I have received from the White House. Republican statements on judicial nominees regularly rely on superficially appealing but misleading statistics to gloss over the types of nominees they are choosing for our federal courts. For example, they complain that Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton got 97, 95 and 97 percent, respectively, of their first 100 judicial nominations confirmed. What they conveniently fail to mention is that it took two full years for President Reagan to have 89 of his judicial nominees confirmed, and well into year three to reach the 100 mark. Similarly, the first President Bush had only 71 judicial nominees confirmed after two full years, and it took well into year three to reach 100 confirmations. We are moving quickly, but responsibly, to fill judicial vacancies with qualified nominees we hope will not be activists. Partisans ignore these facts. The facts are that we are confirming President Bush's nominees at a faster pace than the nominees of prior presidents, including those who worked closely with a Senate majority of the same political party. We have accomplished all this during a period of tremendous tumult and crisis. The Judiciary Committee noticed the first hearing on judicial nominations within 10 minutes of the reorganization of the Senate, and held that hearing on the day after the Committee was assigned new members. Today is the one-year anniversary of that first hearing for Judge Roger Gregory. We held unprecedented hearings during the August recess last year and proceeded with a hearing two days after the 9-11 attacks and shortly after the anthrax attack. We will hold our 22nd hearing for judicial nominees next week. We are doing our best to address the vacancy crisis we inherited. We have a record of achievement and of fairness to be proud of on this anniversary. ------------------- STATEMENT OF SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY, CHAIRMAN Today this Committee is doing something that I have urged for a long time: We are marking up a version of S.486, the Innocence Protection Act. The legislation before us, the Leahy-Specter-Feinstein-Biden-Durbin substitute amendment to that bill, is not a cure-all for the criminal justice system, or even for the capital punishment system, but it is a very good bill. It reflects careful thought, and principled compromise, concerning the key reforms necessary to protect the innocent, and about the needs of law enforcement and States' rights. If we can pass it out of Committee today, and bring it to a vote this year, that will be a significant victory, not just for the many of us who have worked on it, but for American justice. Over the past year, this Committee has held four hearings on the flaws in our nation's capital punishment system, which have repeatedly landed innocent people on death row. I believe that the members of this Committee have listened to the evidence carefully, and I am hopeful that we have reached a broad consensus, spanning Republicans and Democrats, those who support and those who oppose the death penalty. One of Congress's most important responsibilities is to turn this sort of strong bipartisan consensus on fundamental principles of justice into practical legislation. So I am delighted today to recognize my colleagues who have worked hard and long to do just that in the area of capital punishment reform. First, I want to commend and thank Bill Delahunt and Ray LaHood, the lead sponsors of the Innocence Protection Act in the House. Their commitment to this legislation has been truly outstanding. I also want to thank their cosponsors - there are now 240 cosponsors of the House bill - as well as Gordon Smith, Susan Collins, and all the other cosponsors of S.486. I am especially grateful to all the Members of the Committee who have worked with me on this effort. Senator Feingold is an original cosponsor of S.486, and a powerful voice in the national debate on capital punishment. Senators Kennedy, Durbin, Cantwell, and Edwards are also cosponsors of S.486. Senator Feinstein has worked with me for the past year to find common ground on DNA and counsel provisions that would enable us to move forward together. Senator Specter brought his experience as a prosecutor to bear in crafting a bill that complements the Innocence Protection Act; several of his proposals have been incorporated in the substitute amendment. We also benefitted from Senator Biden's vast experience in the criminal justice system, and I welcome his cosponsorship of the substitute amendment. Now let me turn to the specifics of the substitute amendment before the Committee. Title I of the substitute amendment ensures that post-conviction DNA testing will be available in appropriate cases, where it can help expose wrongful convictions. It establishes the procedures to be followed in the federal system, and it requires States to adopt comparable procedures as a condition of receiving federal funds for DNA-related programs. In addition, it adopts the view of two federal judges - Judge Luttig of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Weiner of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania - that inmates have a constitutional right to access biological evidence for the purpose of DNA testing. Title II of the substitute amendment addresses the counsel issue. It establishes a grant program for States to improve the systems by which they appoint and compensate lawyers in death cases. States that authorize capital punishment may apply for these grants or not, as they wish. If they accept the money, they must open themselves up to a set of controls, which are designed to ensure that their systems truly meet basic standards. If a State does not wish to participate in this program, then the money will be used to fund one or more organizations in the State that provide legal services in capital cases. The remaining provisions of the substitute amendment relate to compensation of the wrongfully convicted, and loan forgiveness for prosecutors and public defenders. I thank Senator Durbin and Senator Kennedy for working out the details of the loan forgiveness program, which will help State and local prosecutor and public defender offices to recruit and retain the most talented young lawyers. Those familiar with the original bill that I introduced, S. 486, will notice several key differences in the substitute amendment, which address the concerns of prosecutors and States. In essence, the substitute amendment tightens requirements for DNA testing to screen out frivolous applications, and seeks to improve counsel systems through more of a carrot than a stick approach. We will finally put an end to the sleeping lawyer syndrome, but in a manner that is respectful of state prerogatives and that does not interfere with the 1996 changes to habeas corpus law. As I stated at the outset of my remarks, the substitute amendment is a product of both careful thought and principled compromise. In many - not all - respects, I prefer the original S.486. For example, my understanding of States' rights does not call for a completely hands-off approach to habeas corpus when some States have consistently failed to provide indigent defendants with competent lawyers. But the issues this bill addresses are too important to play partisan gridlock games with. The bill before the Committee reflects a principled consensus on the most basic essential reforms; it raises no serious constitutional or law enforcement concerns; it will improve criminal justice in America considerably; and it may well save innocent lives. I am therefore proud to sponsor it, and I hope we can send it forward today with strong bipartisan backing. # # # # # |


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Cod Sandwich
Recipe courtesy of Robert Irvine
Recipe courtesy Robert Irvine's eat! Robert Irvine's nosh, All rights reserved 2012
- Restaurant: Impossible
- Cod:
- Vegetable oil, for frying
- Eight 2- to 3-ounce cod medallions, cut on bias
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon seafood seasoning
- 2 cups egg wash (equal parts milk and whipped eggs)
- 2 cups Japanese breadcrumbs (panko)
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Sandwiches:
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 4 soft kaiser rolls
- 1/4 cup tartar sauce
- 2 cups shredded iceberg or Bibb lettuce
- 8 pickles, sliced lengthwise
For the cod: Preheat vegetable oil in a deep-fryer to 375 degrees F. Then bread each medallion of fish with flour mixed with seafood seasoning. Tap off excess, and then dip in egg wash and finish in breadcrumbs, ensuring to coat evenly. After breading the fish, drop in the preheated oil and cook in batches until golden brown, flipping during the process. This should take 2 to 3 minutes. After frying, remove the fish from the oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper and place on paper towels. Allow the fish to drain excess oil.
For the sandwiches: Heat a nonstick pan over medium-high heat until warmed. During heating, with the softened butter, spread 1 tablespoon evenly on the top and bottom of 1 bun, and then toast in the pan until browned, about 2 minutes. After the first bun, reduce the heat to medium and repeat the process with the remaining buns.
To build the sandwiches, stack the bottom bun, spread tarter on the bottom bun, then add some lettuce, fish, pickles and finish with the top bun. Repeat with the remaining sandwiches.


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We found this stuffed in our mailbox today, most likely becase the Pride Parade is this weekend and part of it runs down our street (we live in the "gay district" here in Houston). The letter starts out unassuming and just gets worse and worse, not to mention the horrific grammar, and is not the hard work of our official neighborhood watch. I'm bothered by the substance of the letter and still don't quite know what to do, if anything, apart from contacting GLAAD in regards to the defamation (esp the bit about "KEEP YOUR CHILDREN SAFE")
This isn't a common thing, is it?
Didn't read the post yet: But, I just saw the hair on the scanned copy, thought it was my sister's hair on my screen, and tried to wipe it off.
Edit: All the broken English confuses me.
haha, I did the exact same!
And that is really hard to read, due to the bad grammer and spelling, as you pointed out. It sounds to me as if the person who has written the letter is extremely paranoid... some of its contents could be taken to be offensive as well.
I really don't know what to make of that O_O
I like the part about Fox news ending the parade if laws are broken. I'm guessing whoever wrote this makes their living by stealing the neighbors disability checks.
It's always interesting when somebody tries to influence your opinion and can't be assed to put in punctuation, eh?
Like, they won't make allowances for anybody else or think about their rights, but they have the right to FREE SPEECH and NO BEER because of something that might have happened in the passed......
Burger! Anybody that will play Mine games ought to have their gunpowder taken away!
De basssstiddds!
FREE SPEECH is great but NO BEER can get tae..
I don't even know what that said. It's like it was playing mine games on me...
That's pretty disgusting. I wonder if there's a way to trace its source - absolutely contact GLAAD if they haven't been contacted already or better yet, call news stations before the eloquent author of the letter does and beat them to a story.
Didn't know Pride was this weekend incidentally, hopefully i can squirrel away a little time to get into the city and check it out. Stuff like that letter wouldn't fly here in Berkeley, but then again after Prop 8 very little would surprise me
...and what the hell are the Rights of a FREE Speech Discriminate?
I guess I should say before I go to bed that this looks like it was written by one person and not by some neighbourhood committee.
I know plenty of people who have dyslexia or some other disorder, but none of them that I know who admit to having the problem, would make up a flier like that and have it printed without having it proofread by someone else.
Look for the guy who has no friends....
I guess you could put up a counter letter, or a parody of the original.
Jamen jag tror att han skäms, och har gömt sig. Vårt universum det är en av dom otaliga spermasatser som Herren i sin självhärliga ensamhet har runkat fram för å besudla intet.
Freedom of speech....
unless youre a homosexual. :|
i also laughed pretty hard at the crack dealer part, this is pretty ridiculous
Sounds to me like someone that doesn't like gays and is looking for any reason to call the cops on them. I guarantee you it was probably written by the old guy in town that feels that it's his obligation to keep the neighborhood "safe". Probably the same guy that calls in noise violations on any building holding more than 4 teenagers, and yells at skateboarders on sight
Another thread about the gay thing?
Yes, it's okay to be gay. Yes, a lot of homophobia is rooted in bat shit insanity. You are all hereby awarded your diploma in stating the obvious.
This thread is now about posting cool pictures from GBLT parades:
i wish there was an opposite button to thanking a post.
My head hurts... and the reason is in a LAW Book somewhere? My mine has been abused...
Going along the lines of Prom, you could correct all the grammatical errors in it and send it back.
Anybody whose spelling and grammar is that bad should have their Rights of
a FREE Speech Discriminate repealed.
The truth will set you free,
but first it's gonna piss you off!
That's pretty bad, I mean, it's all dicks in holes, right? Or other things in holes, but whatever floats your boat...
I bet that gay pride parade would be awesome to draw.
I'm going to offend someone I know, but what do you expect living in Texas, or America for that matter?
Yeah, yeah, the whole world's got crazies... I have a feeling, though, that if there were a gay pride parade here in Bratislava, and someone wanted to protest it, it would be some elderly man, active in the Catholic church, who would at least know how to write well, and would use the popular Catholic arguments, instead of sensationalist, absurd drivel like "save the children!!!"
I was playing a mine game yesterday - mine sweeper. It wasn't very exciting but I didn't think I was doing anything wrong. And what's that bit about gays blocking your driveway without permission? Sex should always be consensual (or was I wrong to treat that as a euphemism?)
Gay sex in your driveway is a good way to block it at least!
Pride in Manchester UK always has a particular church that prays for rain during the August bank holiday weekend. So far the past few Prides have been very sunny. Guess god isn't listening, or maybe he's just more sensible than his fans.
I wish there was a straight pride day so i could dress up in gaudy costumes and prance about! ^^
LOL @ the thinly veiled hate in the original post. Speaking about THE LAW in capitol letters when they are really saying "we dun want them godless faggets and dykes in this here god-fearin' town!".
Well I would hate to think that the Pride marchers were out to discriminate against my right to FREE SPEECH. But I know that's really what they're up to isn't it? ISN'T IT??!!
Meh - sounds like the work of a crackpot... and a barely literate one at that. Definitely forward this to GLAAD and the march organizers, they should know about it if they don't already.
"Change is a virtue my friend... if you want to escape, all you have to do is make up your mind."
John Cale / Bob Neuwirth
Here be SKETCHIES...
looks like the letter was written by some kid, with pretty shallow views on homosexuality.
JessiBean while the content of that letter is rather shocking, it does not appear to be the work of anything organized, I would personally just disregard it as bullshit from some narrow minded person.
pride marches are good fun to watch! the ones in manchester are huge! its like an all day street party
Stuff like this isn't too common, it's more just that the people who take a disapproving stance on homosexuality have a bit of a track record of acting... well, like this. It does tend to gain more attention than someone with a more educated, thoughtful view. Hysterical opinion usually does.
My city is having it's first pride event next month. Curious to see how it will turn out. The part I live in is pretty narrow-minded.
I love mine games!
Personally, I dislike stuff like this.
I'm not against homosexuals having certain rights, etc. But, it really gets me going when people start this type of junk. Why? Because....I can't agree with either side, really.
There are several places that I have lived that had a pride parade, and it was all cool, until the haters showed up....Then all hell would break lose.
Look, I'm not a fan of these parades, but I don't see anything wrong with them. I won't go, and as long as they don't inhibit my ability to get the places I have to go...it's all good...let them party. But, I do think we should start a straight pride parade. I mean....what's good for the goose is good for the gander!!
Of course, I won't be appearing in anything pink!!! LOL
You can't do that. It would be considered a hate crime in the US. Only certain groups have rights nowadays.
Besides these type of functions tend to create even more deviations of America's increasingly multicultural society. This is an exercising of the right to peaceably assemble, but it always gets me how people want to create a gentler us/them mentality and culture and simultaneously expect nothing but complete compliance or agreement from the other cultures. This goes for all 'clubs', societies, what have you..
But, more power to those of you interacting in such functions. I do think you should be wasting less time parading around like pixies, and more time actually organizing petitions, protesting, filing for legal redress, etc.
Case in particular - Gay marriage. Marriage is a religious function/function of belief. Therefore if a religious institution chooses to wed same-sex couples, it can't be denied that practice by the government as it is a factor of inalienable rights you are born with. Even is marriage is to be a state factor or turns back to roots outside the state; I don't see any reason two adults capable of taking care of themselves should be denied marriage to one another.
However, your major road block in that is state involvement in marriage. Not to mention everybody is under the impression they're given rights by the government, majority rule/vote or the constitution. People shouldn't beg and plea for rights, they should assert them.
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The county's comments are specifically aimed at impacts to grazing and the local ag-based economy that would result from a "critical habitat" designation on over 7 million acres of public and private land rangewide if "the bird" is listed as endangered by federal authorities.
The county had submitted a first round of comments on the proposed ES listing for the bird. Those comments also focused on economic impacts to communities, and also on administrative problems with the fed's listing proposal.
The USFWS has scheduled next March for a final determination on the bird's proposed ES listing, which would have significant economic impact for local communities, the commissioners commented.
"The (government's) Environmental Assessment understates the economic effects of the critical habitat designation," begins the commissioners' analysis.
The analysis goes on to show the following impacts to local ag. They are negative impacts which the county sees as understated and under-valued in the USFWS listing proposal:
• Required "consultations" among various federal agencies will delay NRCS (on-farm improvement) programs and reduce enrollments.
• The dollar figure for costs of additional management and consultation on affected lands is not stated in the government's economic analysis.
• The government's assertion that livestock grazing will not be significantly impacted by an ES listing for the bird is wrong. "Potential reductions on 107 grazing allotments out of a possible 310 (over one-third) are significant," the BoCC states. If the bird's ES listing goes into effect, ongoing, costly litigation is a likely result.
• The county's concern is real because allowed animal unit months have been cut in other ES-impacted grazing areas.
• Even more grazing allotments will be impacted by the critical habitat designation, which expands federal endangered species regulation to lands well beyond those actually occupied by the Gunnison sage grouse.
• An ES listing for the bird would have direct impact on ag in Delta and Montrose counties. That impact will affect $52 million in direct sales, not including the economic multiplier of those sales dollars.
• The government's projection of jobs to be lost by an ES listing is understated. It neglects to include ranch owners and their families, and doesn't evaluate the personal economic impact from losing a business.
• The study's stated price of pasture land at $640 per acre is "grossly low," the commissioners state. A more accurate estimate of prices in the area of the Crawford Gunnison sage grouse population is $1,200 to $1,700 per acre, and is a price which can be documented.
• Local government and private conservation efforts on behalf of the Gunnison sage grouse rangewide total an estimated $30 million over the past two decades. These efforts, of which Delta County and private landowners here have been contributors, could end if an ES listing is issued, critical habitat designated, and federal controls imposed.
• "The proposed (USFWS) listing rule ignores (over 90,000) private acres rangewide that are already covered by private conservation easements to protect the bird's habitat." Delta County officials have noted that nearly 100 percent of the bird's habitat here is presently covered by conservation easement processes. The bird's Crawford population is now increasing from these efforts, say Montrose County officials.
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If a third wave of the H1N1 virus sweeps across the Northland, it will find an adult population that has mostly not bothered to get vaccinated. The low rate among young adults is a special cause for concern, public health officials say.By John Myers , February 01, 2010
New flu cases continue to drop in Minnesota
The number of new flu cases and the number of people dying from lingering flu symptoms dropped in Minnesota again last week.By News Tribune , December 12, 2009
With more waves of flu expected, vaccine is valuable tool
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St. Louis County sets H1N1 vaccination clinics for kids
The St. Louis County Health Department recently received a delivery of H1N1 flu vaccine and has scheduled clinics at community sites in Hibbing, Virginia, Ely, Cook, Hermantown and Duluth.By News Tribune , November 18, 2009
Flu shot finally arrives at SMDC
The SMDC Health System has obtained more of the hard-to-get seasonal flu vaccine, landing 13,000 doses that the public will see starting today.By John Myers , November 18, 2009
The vaccine is ready. Are you?
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Obama declares emergency over swine flu cases
WASHINGTON — President Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.By Philip Elliott , October 25, 2009
Our View: Do the math, and get vaccinated
After six long months of H1N1 (swine flu) pandemonium, we finally have a vaccine (for the flu, not the pandemonium).By Abel Gustafson , October 15, 2009
Flu watch: Prevention is the best medicine
Many doctors call my office asking if their patients' fever, cough and other respiratory symptoms mean they have pandemic H1N1 flu, or swine flu. As an epidemiologist and physician specializing in infectious diseases, I can tell you that the majority of flu cases are now due to H1N1. But it doesn't really matter whether it's the H1N1 or seasonal flu. Once you have the symptoms, which are nearly identical, we recommend caring for them the same way.By Timothy Burke, M.D. , October 11, 2009
1 in 3 parents would decline swine flu shot
ATLANTA — As the first wave of swine flu vaccine crosses the country, more than a third of parents don't want their kids vaccinated, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.October 08, 2009
Answers to questions about H1N1 flu
The first round of H1N1 vaccine is meant to arrive this week; possibly today.By Jana Hollingsworth , October 05, 2009
H1N1 precautions at colleges have side effects themselves
At the local colleges and universities, a wide variety of procedures and practices have been implemented in response to the flu pandemic. These measures range from helpful hints to cumbersome inconveniences.By Abel Gustafson , October 02, 2009
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BEIJING, Jan 8 (Reuters) - China's annual consumer inflation likely accelerated to a seven-month high of 2.3 percent in December, a Reuters poll showed, but price pressures are expected to remain benign for the year.
The median forecast of 24 economists underscored tentative optimism that a gradual strengthening in domestic consumption in the world's second-largest economy is helping to offset still-sluggish global demand for Chinese exports.
'Cold weather and holiday-related demand have led to a surge in vegetable prices and a continued rise in pork prices,' Barclays said in a research note. China's annual consumer inflation had run at 2 percent in November.
Economists polled by Reuters also predicted China's producer price index likely dipped 1.8 percent in December from a year ago, easing from November's annual factory gate deflation of 2.2 percent.
Producer prices in China tumbled for much of last year, as weak demand weighed on the cost of raw materials.
'The major drag in the near-term lies in the external sector,' said J.P. Morgan's Haibin Zhu in a research note.
Economists said China's benign inflation trend leaves room for Beijing to ease monetary policy further to boost an economy struggling to throw off the drag from flagging export growth.
But wary of any spike in inflation, the People's Bank of China has shied from forceful policy easing.
After cutting interest rates twice between June and July last year, it has abstained from further cuts despite widespread market calls for looser policy.
It has also refrained from lowering banks' reserve requirements (RRR) since May 2012, when it cut the ratio of cash it requires lenders to hold as reserves by 50 basis points to 20 percent for China's biggest banks.
Instead, the central bank has preferred in recent months to ease policy by adding cash through short-term open market operations, a measure that analysts say is more flexible than outright cuts in rates or reserve requirements.
Still, the head of the Development Research Centre, a government think-tank, advised the central bank last week to stimulate economic growth by cutting RRRs this year to free up funds for bank to lend.
The China Securities Journal quoted Zhang Xiaoqiang, vice head of the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top planning agency, as saying last week that China's consumer inflation would run at 3.5 percent in 2013.
China's National Bureau of Statistics will release official CPI and PPI data on Friday.
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Black students allegedly ordered to back of school bus in Montgomery County incident
A group of black elementary students in Montgomery County claim their school bus driver routinely orders them to the back of the bus. School officials are looking into the incident.
Stella Nwaeze picked her children up from Flower Valley Elementary School Friday because she doesn't want them to ride the bus anymore.
"The bus driver has been asking the kids to go to the back of the bus," Nwaeze said.
"When we both just want to sit in the front he just directly tells us to go to the back," said Arinze Ejiofor, a 1st grader at the school.
Nwaeze says she learned of the claims Thursday night, including that the driver allegedly instructed white students to sit in the front.
Nwaeze's daughter says some of the black students do chronically create problems on the bus, but says students like her who don't quarrel also are send to the back.
"There are some black boys that are too loud that keep on shouting … so I think he thinks it's like every black person," Zhinasa Ejiofor said.
A school official says if the allegations prove true, the actions are unacceptable. He says bus drivers are trained in dealing with unruly children, and sending all children of one race to the back of the bus runs counter to that training.
One official said the Latino bus driver likely is not aware of the sensitivity surrounding ordering some people to the back of the bus. School officials say they are working to resolve the issue.
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September 12th, 2011, 07:53 PM | #1 |
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Ox Adjustment
Ok, so this Ox is driving me a bit nuts.
I've been trying to adjust the cable, but i have to crank down the shifter end to the point where its almost near impossible to force the shifter to the engaged detent before it locks in. If I adjust the cable or shifter out a just a hair it doesn't engage. Anyone else have experience with these things? |
September 13th, 2011, 06:50 AM | #5 | |
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If it just won't engage that might be an easy fix with cable adjustment. I'm seriously considering a spool or a detroit and let someone else who likes to dick with this stuff get a good deal on a used Ox :) |
September 13th, 2011, 07:15 AM | #7 |
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September 13th, 2011, 08:28 PM | #8 |
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That's how I do mine too. It's been forever since I've had to adjust mine but is there a cable adjustment at the bell housing where it screws into the cover along with the handle adjustment?
September 15th, 2011, 05:45 PM | #9 |
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Tried this?
http://www.ox-usa.com/ox/Instruction...6/Default.aspx Just click the cable adjustment link. I have had two and when I followed the factory instructions I never had an issue. Good luck! |
September 15th, 2011, 07:19 PM | #10 |
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I fucked with it tonight. I think the thing that slides the shift fork back and forth wasn't fully threaded into the shift fork. I think it works now
Either way it locks...which is the important part for me :) lol |
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