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Healing Liberalism Through Apparatchiks Anonymous
No time for a new post, since I have to leave earlier than usual for work. However, I think I have time for a repost. I wish I had more time to edit it in light of Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism, but the book is so packed with historical detail that that would be impossible. I'm more of a big picture or wide screen guy anyway. I'll be blogging about it in more detail in the future, but in such a way that it is woven into the Grand Metacosmic Narrative, for Goldberg is dealing with "intrinsic truth," even if he doesn't realize it.
What an excellent question asked by James Lewis at American Thinker, Why Isn't the Whole Left Neoconservative? Leftism is such a discredited ideology, so intrinsically wrong, so at odds with higher human nature, so cruel and unworkable in practice, so retrograde in its results, that one can only wonder at the persistent hold it has on millions of minds around the world.
Some day Leftsim will be rejoined with its twin ideology, fascism, which no one takes seriously anymore (consciously, anyway; as Goldberg demonstrates, the program of the left is indistinguishible from fascism). Why is that? In fact, fascism is not a "right wing," much less "conservative" ideology, but a competing from of socialism. It was the communists who tried to discredit "national socialism" by labeling it "right wing" merely because it wasn't what they wanted, which was international socialism.
In a two-body system, it is impossible to say which body is moving. As I've mentioned before, in many respects, my own "journey" to so-called conservatism hasn't been a journey at all. In reality, I am more or less the same even-tempered American (classical) liberal I have always been. It's just that, over the past 30-40 years, liberalism has been hijacked by the Left, thereby becoming a thoroughly illiberal movement. Bizarrely, liberalism and liberty are now antonymous, for the state can only take with two hands what it gives you with the Finger.
To cite just one example, when I was in college in the 1970's, being liberal meant being tolerant toward homosexuals. But for the Left, if you merely "tolerate" homosexuality, you are a bigot, something they call a "homophobe." No, you must celebrate and even encourage it. You must never suggest to children that certain sexual arrangements are better than others. If my son wants to marry a man or a woman, it should make no difference to me -- just flip a coin, as it were.
Needless to say, I regard such "thinking" as not only devoid of wisdom, but frankly abusive, narcissistic, and unscientific, completely at odds with what we know about both psychosexual development and the soul of man. It is a horror to even contemplate confusing a child in this manner.
Leftism can never be enunciated in any philosophically consistent and coherent manner -- hence the ubiquitous lies and deceit -- and unavoidably truncates the most vital aspects of man's being. Like Lewis, I wonder why my entire generational cohort hasn't evolved in the same way I did -- why there is anyone my age who is still clinging to the magical mythology of Leftism:
"After the Soviet Union crashed and no one could possibly ignore the bloody mess the Left kept making over seventy long years. So why didn't all the decent Leftists just read their Milton Friedman and grow up?" So-called neocons (i.e., former Leftists) merely saw "how wrong they had been. They grew up. My question is: What happened to all the others?"
Amazingly, surveys in such "liberal" places as Canada or Europe indicate that the clueless majority of their citizens regards the United States or Israel as the greatest threats to world peace. Lewis notes that in Britain, a recent BBC survey revealed that "the greatest philosopher of all time is considered to be... Karl Marx? A hate-filled parasitical scribbler who spent his life in the British Museum, stoking the fires that killed 100 million people in the 20th century? What is wrong with British education that the plain facts do not shout out for themselves?"
I think it's the wrong question to ask "what is wrong with British education." Instead, I think we have crossed the line into genuine soul pathology -- not psychopathology, mind you, which may or may not be copresent, but a disease of the human heart. Indeed, I believe the heart must be diseased to embrace such a profoundly inhuman and anti-human ideology. Marxism is not human, but specifically demonic -- even, one might say, the quintessence of demonology, in that it is the last word in fallen man's promethean rejection of reality, whether it is economic reality, historical reality, psychic reality, or suprasensible reality.
One of the most salient characteristics of the Left is that it is peculiarly incapable of learning. In my lifetime, it has been ridiculously wrong about virtually everything, but it is as if facts and reality don't matter. The same people who successfully curtailed nuclear power plants in America are now insisting that we must be "energy independent." The same people who argued that Reagan's tax breaks would destroy the economy enjoyed a quarter century of economic growth. The same Democrat party that accommodated southern and northern racists for decades continues to argue that race is all-important and that government should be engaged in the task of dividing people by race and gender and giving special privileges to some groups. And of course, the international left is now the main repository and champion of mankind's most ancient and vile prejudice, anti-Semitism.
Lewis agrees that "The fact that the Left never, ever learns gives the lie to all its high-falutin' claims of 'idealism,' 'progressivism,' and superior morality." Yes, but why are they never blamed for their failures? Why does the bill never come due? Lewis provides one obvious key: the left "still controls the organs of propaganda.... Thus some 90 percent of our media functionaries are left wingers. A predominant percentage of professors and teachers are, too."
It's the same old Marxist idea: "who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." Lewis points out that "To hold on to their beliefs leftists must shut down any competing ideas, which is precisely what they do. Just take your favorite leftist friends, and tell them some obvious fact they don't want to hear. You can see it working right in front of your eyes: They just won't hear it.... As long as they control the dominant media, our society will keep teetering at the brink of destruction."
One of the greatest conceits of the Left is that they are "intellectually curious," "open-minded," or "reality based," when it would be difficult to find minds more parochial, narrow-minded, and hermetically self-enclosed people than those responsible for the idiotorial pages of the New York Times, or NPR, or CNN, or virtually any MSM outlet.
It is even worse in Europe, where their press is not nearly as free as ours and there is little access to competing views such as on talk radio. As Lewis notes, European thought is absolutely stifled by the Left, which "doesn't see any respectable alternative [to itself]..., since conservatism is constantly and deliberately confounded with fascism." And since these hidebound and intellectually inbred reactionaries live in such an echo-chamber, "if one fairy-tale of Earthly Paradise is seen to crash, another one must instantly take its place." Thus, "the commissars of Post-Modernism and Multiculturalism suddenly rose to power all over the West in the 1970s and 80s. The faithful had to find a new way to justify their idee fixe."
Lewis notes the patent irrationality of this "mental fixedness," and again wonders why they would continue "peddling the same toxins." Why are they stuck?
Again, in my view, this is not a psychopathology but a pneumapathology -- a disease of the soul. Since leftism is a faux religion, you really need something closer to cult deprogramming. This is why conventional psychology is powerless to explain it or to do anything about it.
In a way, it is analogous to addiction, another problem of the soul that psychology is generally powerless to remedy. I don't know if it's the same way now, but when I was in graduate school, I was even taught that it would be unethical to try to treat alcoholism with psychotherapy alone. By far the most successful approach is the 12 step program, undoubtedly because it addresses the underlying soul pathology at the heart of addiction.
Perhaps we need a 12 step program for leftists, Apparatchiks Anonymous.
1. We admitted we were powerless over the intoxicating dreams of socialism, and that our lives and governments had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a power far greater than our own omnipotent little egoic fantasies of total control could restore us to true liberalism.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the Creator and Guarantor of our Liberty.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of the well-intentioned failures and frank evils of socialism.
5. Admitted to the Creator of our Liberty, to ourselves, and in a live phone call to C-SPAN, the exact nature of socialism's wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have the Creator of Our Liberty remove all these defects of ideology.
7. Humbly asked Him to cancel our subscription to the Times.
8. Made a list of all races, genders, and classes our government programs had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all by realizing that these constructs of race and gender are irrelevant to begin with.
9. Made direct amends to such people by switching parties.
10. Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were again tempted to abuse ideology for the purposes of blotting out reality, promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer, meditation, and listening to Rush Limbaugh, to improve our conscious contact with the Source of our Liberty, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other Leftists, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.


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Yesterday (June 28) Buck fired back. Here's what Buck has to say in his defense:
The facts presented in the Denver Post story [here] on June 24th speak for themselves. Ten years ago Assistant U. S. Attorney Ken Buck got caught in the crosshairs of a politically ambitious democrat, Tom Strickland, who became U.S. Attorney in between two unsuccessful runs for the U.S. Senate.
Coming to the office on the heels of the Columbine tragedy, Strickland set out to build a "tough on guns" reputation as U.S. Attorney. As a result, he wanted to go to trial against an Aurora gun dealer even though his democrat predecessor and the senior attorneys in the office would not go to trial because they felt the government could not get a felony conviction.
Ken was among that group. He let it be known that he felt the case could be settled without a trial. He thought justice would be served without an expensive trial. That view put him in the cross hairs of Strickland.
The Denver Post story describes the details of what happened as a result. In the process of urging the parties to plead the case out instead of going to trial, Ken made an unintentional error and U.S. Attorney Tom Strickland went on a crusade to make Ken pay for the mistake.
Strickland charged ahead with the felony prosecution. The case finally ended up about the way Ken Buck had predicted. Instead of multiple felony convictions the government ended up with a single minor paperwork misdemeanor conviction requiring one day of probation.
After Strickland left the U.S. Attorneys office to again run unsuccessfully for the U. S. Senate his successor, John Suthers, was charged with closing the file.
So one-and-a-half years after the fact, Ken received a reprimand from Suthers, who was careful to point out that Ken's "conduct was not intentional." He called it, "an aberration in your professional career."
But don't take Buck's word for it. Dave Kopel, the lead researcher at the Independence Institute and a world renowned Second Amendment scholar, has spoken up for Buck on Colorado Public Television. Here are Kopel's statements:
I think if [the issue] does stick to Buck, he will win the Republican primary and the general election. This is a real gut check for character on the part of Ken Buck, and of Jane Norton, and it strongly shows better character on Buck's part. The victim of the United States Attorney [Tom] Strickland's persecution that the Buck case grows out of is Greg Golyansky. He's been a friend of mine for fifteen years; we're still on the board of directors of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers together.* So I know a lot about this case.
Greg was a pawn dealer. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms brought a case against him. The U.S. Attorney office declined to prosecute. Henry Solano, the Clinton-appointed United States Attorney, agreed with that, said there's nothing here. Indeed, the only witness against him (Golyansky) was a mentally ill homeless drug addict with severe credibility problems.
And then Tom Strickland comes in on the theory that "I'm going to be the big tough U.S. Attorney and prosecute gun cases." And he takes a case that not one single career attorney in the United States Attorney's office in Colorado was willing to prosecute, so he brings in two of his little hand-picked minions who came in with him to bring felony charges against three people.
It was an outrageous abuse of power.
Now Ken Buck violated the protocol by talking about it outside the office. And I agree that was a violation of the U.S. Attorney's protocol.
But when you say, when is a guy going to make a mistake, I like a guy who makes a mistake on behalf of someone who was being unfairly, unjustly, and politically persecuted.
And then for Jane Norton to turn around and say this is some terrible issue against Ken Buck -- well, it just reminds me that Jane Norton's husband was the guy who before Strickland came into office, probably had the worst record in Colorado history of being an abusive, out-of-control, way over the line, United States Attorney, Mike Norton.
You know, and for somebody who cares about Second Amendment issues, you've got on one hand, a guy who said something out of the office he shouldn't have, in defense of a gun dealer who was being inappropriately prosecuted, and on the other side, you've got somebody who's basically saying how swell the prosecution was, and criticizing the guy who properly stood up for the innocent victim of persecution. ...
[Buck] got a letter of reprimand, and he made a mistake. But you say, when somebody makes a mistake, what was behind it. Was he trying to take unfair advantage of an innocent person, or was he standing up for the innocent person. And I think that's a good sign. Especially with prosecutors, who usually have so much unbounded power, that a guy, when he made what may be the only professional error of his life, made it on the side of due process and fairness.
Westword's Patricia Calhoun also shares skepticism toward Norton's attack:
As the Post piece reveals, the case had major flaws -- and none of the senior attorneys on the staff wanted to prosecute it. Still, Buck was the one who talked to the other side, earning a rebuke and an ethics class assignment. And ultimately, he left the U.S. Attorney's Office, returning to public life a few years later for a run in Weld County.
But in this election season, when mavericks are looking mainstream and going rogue looks like a winning direction, Buck's move may wind up winning points -- particularly among Second Amendment-loving Republicans -- and coming back to slap Norton.**
This election was Jane Norton's to lose. And she may have just lost it.
* As noted in the linked piece, I also know Golyansky.
** Buck cited both Kopel and Calhoun in his own own piece.


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Despite threats of rain and brutal humidity, Mizner Park Amphitheatre was packed Thursday night for Steely Dan's show. And it was worth it: On this night of the "Mood Swings" tour, the band was hotter than the weather.
1. When I saw the Dan two years ago at Mizner Park, they were good but not memorable. On Thursday night, it was like a different band altogether: They played harder, hotter and funkier, practically burning down the house on numbers like "Show Biz Kids" and "Josie."
2. Of the 17-song set, the bulk of the numbers came from "Aja" (5 of 7 cuts) and "Countdown to Ecstasy" (5 of 8 cuts). No disappointment, unless you're a "Katy Lied" fan.
3. Jazz professionals make all the difference: The touring band is packed with some of the best New York players, such as drummer Keith Carlock, pianist Jim Beard, lead guitarist Jon Herington and a fever-hot four-piece brass section. They can execute all the shifting chords and changes in the Steely Dan catalogue, and everybody was given a sweet, solo spot throughout the evening.
4. Donald Fagen is suave. I dug his smooth, cool-cat walk-on followed by the Dan's three female backup singers, the Borderline Brats. The man is pure jazz, '50s hepcat division. And I love the way he throws his head back when he's singing, like he's channeling Brother Ray.
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Colston has said he will be ready to play in the first postseason game at the latest, but we'll get a better sense of the progress those players are making later in the week. The Saints will release an injury report after their first practice of the week on Wednesday.
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New Orleans was without Thomas, Jenkins, Shockey, RB Reggie Bush and FS Darren Sharper against Seattle on Nov. 21. They were all inactive that day, PK Garrett Hartley missed a 27-yard field goal and QB Drew Brees threw two interceptions in the second half, but the Saints still won, 34-19, at the Superdome and never gave up the lead they gained early in the second quarter.
The team would obviously rather not go into a playoff game with some valuable contributors being hampered or held out because of injuries, but they've overcome health issues throughout the season and having done it once already against the Seahawks can only boost their confidence.
They'll be the ones traveling across the country to play in a hostile environment this time — and the Seahawks are tough to beat at home — but keep in mind that the Saints went into the Georgia Dome, where QB Matt Ryan had gone 19-1 as a starter, and they defeated the Falcons in Week 16 in a Monday-night battle.
Could all the injuries and a jarring level of crowd noise catch up with the Saints and play a big role in them getting knocked out in the first round by the league's first 7-9 division champion?
It's possible, but it's more likely that the defending Super Bowl champions won't let injuries and the difficulties of playing at Qwest Field be the things that stop them from advancing. The Saints can be at less than 100 percent and still handle the Seahawks.
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Natural High gala makes a big Sunset Splash with 'Soul Surfer' Bethany Hamilton in La Jolla
Chuck Schindler, principal at Rancho Buena Vista High School; RBV students Eric Barrios and Samuel Moore receive Youth Leadership Awards; Shannon Garcia, a RBV assistant principal, receives the Local Educator of the Year Award; and Devin Vodicka, superintendent at Vista Unified School District.
The 12th annual Sunset Splash gala to benefit Natural High/Sundt Foundation was held Oct. 6 at Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines. Following a reception, auction and dinner, the program honored pro surfer Bethany Hamilton, author of "Soul Surfer," and star of "Natural High 6." Hamilton is known for surviving a shark attack in which she lost her left arm, but made a return to professional surfing. She wrote about her experience in the 2004 autobiography "Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board," which was the basis for a 2011 feature film.
Other awards presented include:
• Youth Leadership Awards to Rancho Buena Vista High students Eric Barrios and Samuel Moore.
• Local Educator of the Year Award to Shannon Garcia, a Rancho Buena Vista High assistant principal.
• Teacher of the Year Award to Justin Prati from Pleasant View Middle School in Columbus, Ohio.
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Review: 2 PHP tools rise above the rest
You'll find no shortage of heavyweight PHP IDEs, but few are uncluttered, focused, and smoothFollow @peterwayner
These problems were all solvable, but I think you need to be working on a bigger PHP project before the overhead of an IDE becomes worth it. The ability to search through all of the files and deploy quickly are more useful when you have a lot of files associated with a complex application.
A couple of the IDEs -- Zend Studio and PhpStorm -- seemed to bear this weight better than the others. Zend Studio, from the creators of PHP, is best for developers already familiar with Eclipse. PhpStorm, a simpler option, is a clean and polished tool that focuses on PHP.
The growth in this area promises to be in cloud deployment systems. There's a big explosion of cloud hosting tools that marry smart servers with load balancers and better instrumentation. More often than not, they lock out the developer and require all new code to be pushed to the server via Git or perhaps Subversion. Some of the most prominent examples are PHP Fog, Cloud Control, Orchestra, and Microsoft's Azure, although the list is growing longer and longer.
It would not be much trouble to add a Web-based editor to these services, and I can see that coming down the road. eXo's Cloud IDE lets you edit PHP files, although you can't really run them easily. You need to push stuff in and out with Git. The service also includes some nice hardwiring to the platform-as-a-service centers such as Heroku, Cloudbees, Cloud Foundry, and OpenShift, though the links aren't as simple as they could be.
For now, the IDEs promise to offer sophisticated development options for people who are creating big stacks of code. When you need to search through multiple files and track sophisticated data structures, the step-by-step debugging provided by an IDE becomes worth the effort to set up and maintain. But as the tools become more tightly integrated with the clouds, I'm looking forward to lighter-weight ways of wrangling the code.
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Abu Qatada is deported from Britain to Jordan
Abu Qatada has finally left Britain to face terror charges in Jordan after nearly a decade long legal battle to deport the radical cleric.
Abu Qatada has finally left Britain to face terror charges in Jordan after nearly a decade long legal battle to deport the radical cleric.
With reports that Abu Qatada will leave the UK early on Sunday, it looks like Theresa May has finally won the battle to deport him.
Infuriating politicians, the Court of Appeal said it was not relevant that terror suspect Abu Qatada was regarded as "extremely dangerous".
Yvette Cooper MP, Labour's shadow home secretary, welcomed the news that Abu Qatada had been deported to Jordan.
She said: "This is extremely welcome - it means Abu Qatada can stand fair trial in Jordan for the serious terrorism charges he faces there, so justice can be done.
"There have been continual delays in the legal process both in this country and in Europe that have been deeply frustrating for all Governments. We must ensure that delays like this do not last for so long in future and that the system is reformed to make it faster.
"The Government has done the right thing by continuing to pursue this until Abu Qatada could finally be deported. The Home Secretary has been right to get further guarantees from Jordan and we should welcome the series of agreements from the Jordanian Government too."
Home Secretary's tenacity and determination are what has got rid of #AbuQuatada our judicial system has questions to answer for sure
Pleased that my constituents can now finally be assured that #AbuQatada will not be retunring to #Harrow - #PostAbuQatada
Theresa May deserves huge credit for finally removing Abu Qatada. Now we must change the law so future cases don't take so absurdly long
Radical cleric Abu Qatada has arrived in Jordan after being deported from the UK, a prosecutor said.
The Prime Minister said he was "absolutely delighted" that Abu Qatada had been deported to Jordan.
He said: "This is something this government said it would get done and we have got it done and it's an issue, like the rest of the country, that has made my blood boil.
"That this man who has no right to be in our country, who is a threat to our country, and then it was so long and so difficult to deport him. We've done it. He's back in Jordan and that's excellent news."
The Prime Minister has said that deporting radical cleric Abu Qatada was a "priority" for the government.
His plane left RAF Northolt at 02:45 BST to take him to his home country of Jordan, which he has not visited in 20 years.
Deporting Abu Qatada was a priority for this govt,there was a clear plan+a right and stubborn refusal to bow to what many thought inevitable
Read more: Abu Qatada leaves UK after a near decade-long battle
Radical cleric Abu Qatada was deported from the UK to Jordan to stand trial on terrorism charges today.
His plane left RAF Northolt at 02:45 BST to take him to his home country, which he has not visited in 20 years.
Read more: Abu Qatada leaves UK after a near decade-long battle
Abu Qatada has left Britain after a near decade-long battle to get him out of the country.
Home Secretary Theresa May said: "Abu Qatada was deported today to his home country of Jordan to face terrorism charges.
"His departure marks the conclusion of efforts to remove him since 2001 and I believe this will be welcomed by the British public."
Abu Qatada has been deported from the UK to Jordan to stand trial on terrorism charges after nearly 10 years of legal disputes.
Radical cleric Abu Qatada has boarded a plane at RAF Northolt prior to his deportation. The plane is due to to leave the UK imminently.
Abu Qatada has been described as al Qaeda's spiritual leader in Europe, the most significant extremist preacher in the UK and "a truly dangerous individual".
Since the September 11 attacks, Qatada has challenged and thwarted every attempt by the UK Government to detain and deport him.
Here is a timeline of key events in his long-running battle against deportation.
Read more: Timeline of Abu Qatada's long running battle against deportation


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MultiTex Travels, a travel accessories manufacturing and marketing company announces the launch of their new multi-purpose Travel Packing Cubes on Amazon! Each set comes with a free brand new bonus shoe bag for the customers all over the world. The new multi-purpose travel packing cubes comes in a set of four with different sizes. These are uniquely designed packing cubes cubes, and customers can choose colors as per their preferences.
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9:10 PM EDT, September 29, 2010
Can anyone be a proper judge of art?
That's the basic tenant of ArtPrize.
Last year and again just a few days ago, Kendall College Professor Deb Rockman has spoken out on the topic and her comments have created a conversation.
A lengthy USA Today article on ArtPrize from earlier this week was mostly focused on the economics, but at the end local artist, professor, and author Deb Rockman is quoted about the notion of letting the general public vote on an art award.
Rockman said:
"It's great that they have such an an interest, but they often don't have the base of knowledge to make an informed judgment."
While the big ArtPrize award voted on "American Idol-style," there are juried awards, like the international category, voted on by experts like Rockman.
During a Q and A session that is part of the ArtPrize Speaker Series, Rockman and the other international judges talked about her criteria for judging based on years of formal training.
"What is the relationship between the use of materials and meaning," said Rockman. "Craft, how well is the piece made?"
Of course anyone can vote. And it's a topic nearly every artist has an opinion on.
Like Janice Arnold, who created the Chroma Passage on display at the G.R. Art Museum. She sees ArtPrize as an opportunity.
"If we're going to expect people to view our art seriously and appreciate it," said Arnold. "Then we need to educate them."
And Chris LaPorte just upstairs, creator of Cavalry, American Officers 1921. He says a lot of the general public have offered some insightful comments, but he understands Rockman's point of view.
"You can have a feeling about how your car is running or not and a mechanic who knows the nuts and guts of it can generally articulate more accurately what might be wrong with it," said LaPorte.
Rockman had no comment for FOX 17 News, but said she stands by the quote in USA Today.
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Support the struggle for human rights in Georgia prisons
by Ikemba S. Mutulu
The state will make every excuse to deny this systematic pattern of abuse and corruption in the prisons. They will try to criminalize our protests as riots and our self defense against their brutality as unprovoked attacks on them.
So it is vital for loved ones and supporters on the outside to witness as much as possible, get as many first hand accounts as possible and report it to the people.
And we on the inside must continue the struggle, educating one another and doing what is necessary to make our voices heard. The young brothers there said, "Know your rights." And I would add, "Know your worth."
Send our brother some love and light. Write to: Marritte Funches, 37050, P.O. Box 1989, Ely NV 89301.
Message from a prisoner in Georgia
by Zak Solomon, Concerned Coalition to Respect Prisoners' Rights
"As salamu alaikum. Brother, I am known as a Freedom Fighter. I am a Muslim incarcerated in the Georgia prison. I am at one of the prisons that were locked down in December. Many injustices are happening here.
"Since the beatings of inmates with hammers by corrections staff, another approach by staff is taking place. Instead of the staff themselves beating inmates, they are allowing the so called gang bangers and so called thugs to do it and then they compensate them in some fashion, as well as protect them from disciplinary action.
"If you would like to contact me about this, please feel free to do so. I am working with as many outside organizations as possible. For the safety of my life and fear of retaliation by staff, please keep my identity and phone info confidential. As salamu alaikum."
After discussion with members and affiliates of the Concerned Coalition, it seems that the best response we can take at the moment is to call Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, at (404) 656-1776.
Deal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Deal) is an anti-immigrant former prosecutor and has little concern for the prisoners' rights or their safety. Short of going out to Georgia, shutting down his phone lines appears to be the most effective way to let him know the world is watching.
If you are willing to help organize the call-in campaign, please reply to Zak Solomon, firstname.lastname@example.com. No in-person meetings will be required. Please share this information.


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The Florida Panthers just lost their starting goaltender, and it doesn't look good.
Veteran netminder José Théodore had to be helped off the ice early in the first period after stopping a scoring chance by the Carolina Hurricanes. He didn't seem to be hurt by any sort of collision. Instead it looked like he tweaked either his right knee or his groin while extending himself to stop the shot. He immediately collapsed to the ice and couldn't put any weight on his right leg as he skated to the locker room.
His backup, Scott Clemmensen, immediately allowed three goals (thanks in part to some awful defense from his teammates.) An awful start for the Panthers on Saturday night.
Here's the official update on Theodore's status:
#FlaPanthers official update: Jose Theodore won't return, lower body injury.— George Richards (@GeorgeRichards) March 2, 2013
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Sims 3 Support by Cedega
The Wine-based commercial software Cedega offers with its new 7.3 release support for the latest version of Sims.
This doesn't happen often in Linux. Part 3 of Sims has only just been released and thanks to Cedega it can be played already. Usually it takes a while before popular games can be played on a free platform. Among the numerous top games Linux gamers are still waiting for is Unreal Tournament 3, the action game that officially appeared towards the end of 2007.
Now here's the catch. Game fans will not only have to pay for the game, they'll also need a subscription with Cedega and a Nvidia FX card, which according to Cedega is the only one to run problem free. For ATI cards with proprietary drivers the software company is making no promises and other drivers get support solely from the Cedega community.
Along with the support for Sims, Cedega 7.3 comes with various bugfixes and has solved problems with the keys for City of Heroes and unwanted advertising banners in Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3. Its also a little faster. The software uses a modified Wine to get the Windows games to run on Linux. At the moment, the new Cedega can be tested on the SPORE Creature Creator.
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Former Savannah-Chatham police detective
Trina Mayes pleaded not guilty to seven counts of making false statements
Mayes entered the plea to her attorney during
an arraignment before a Chatham County Superior Court judge Thursday morning who
said he was looking at August to set a trial date.
The indictment, returned by the Chatham
County grand jury in February, charges
Mayes with making false statements to investigators during the probe into
allegations of corruption and misconduct within the department.
The allegations
surround Mayes' alleged involvement with convicted felon William Lamont
"Rocky" Sellers, as well as making false statements to Chief Julie
Tolbert and City Manager Stephanie Cutter in an appeal hearing to try to keep
her job.
Mayes, 34, who was also indicted under her
maiden name of Trina Katrice Williams, remains free on a $6,500 bond.
Mayes next court appearance will be a motion hearing on July 1.
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12:40pm Saturday 29th December 2012 in News By Greg Fountain, Ex-Reporter/Photographer
Aspiring apprentices at Penryn College were given some top money making tips with a twist recently by a reality TV star from Helston.
The Penryn Interact team, part of the Rotary Club's youth arm, met former "Apprentice" contestant Naomi Lay for a presentation and talk ahead of a charity challenge based on the popular BBC show.
Naomi is the daughter of the Rotary's district governor Stephen Lay and she featured on series three of the programme, which aired in 2007.
Ross Hancock, from the college, said: "The Interact Club are running a new initiative after Christmas when the students will be split into teams and given £20 each from the Rotary Club of Penryn.
"They then have to use it to make as much money as possible for charity over a period of time.
"The initiative has been launched with an 'apprentice'-type spin on it, so the ex-contestant's speech aided to inspire the teams.
"The district governor was most impressed with the 'interact' leaders and the way the club has been set up and managed," he added.
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From legendary rock musicians like Lars Ulrich to classical composers like Carl Nielsen, Denmark's music scene is as varied as it is innovative, and the capital hosts live music events almost every night of the year. Whether you want to check out the hottest new bands, enjoy a night at the opera or dive into the moshpit at one of Europe's largest music festivals, this is the music lover's guide to Copenhagen.
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Denmark's Biggest Viking Market in Ribe
March 10, 2014
From spear-wielding warriors charging through the streets to stalls heaped with traditional handicrafts, Ribe is a hive of Viking activity each spring, as it hosts Denmark's biggest Viking Market. As Denmark's oldest town, Ribe's Viking history dates back to 869AD and with regular train and plane links to Copenhagen, the historic town draws visitors all year-round to step back in time at its top attraction – the award-winning Ribe Viking Center.
Romantic Things to Do in Copenhagen
February 10, 2014
The Danes might not be known for their grand romantic gestures, but Copenhagen's stylish venues and top-notch cuisine provide plenty of choices for an unforgettable date-night. Here are a few ideas for romantic things to do in Copenhagen.
Island of Bornholm, Denmark
January 27, 2014
Stranded in the Baltic Sea, the island of Bornholm might be closer to Swedish shores, but the small island is still one of the most popular of Denmark's many islands, with many Danes opting to holiday on its sandy beaches and regular flights and ferries connecting it to mainland Denmark.
Christmas Market Tours in Copenhagen
December 10, 2013
If you visit Copenhagen (Denmark) during Christmas, you will experience a mecca of Christmas Markets and booths. Tivoli, which is the world's oldest amusement park, will be beautifully decorated with lots of lights during this time of year.
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It was King Erik Klipping who spearheaded (or rather, demanded) the trend for Denmark's Kro Inns, decreeing that royal staging posts be placed each mile along the country's roads, to provide food and shelter to the King's men en route. It's a tradition that has stood the test of time, and today, many of the traditional Kro Inns can still be found dotted along the modern highways or tucked away in more remote countryside locations.


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The Tunisian Foreign Minister, Rafik Abdesslem, visited Gaza last week to give a speech. Abdesslem, who spent many years in exile studying international relations at the University of Westminster in London, is an intellectual with little adult experience of the rougher side of the Middle East.
His speech condemned Israel, of course, while not mentioning that the Gazans had launched many rockets over the past few days – a few of them, for the first time, hitting the major centers of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. As foreign policy intellectuals do, he sought to put events into a geopolitical framework. He pointed to what he believes is the underlying truth of the time: "Israel should understand," he said, "that many things have changed and that lots of water has run in the Arab river."
In the two pioneer countries of the Arab Spring, Islamists have been elected as the major political force, and provide the government. As Rami G. Khouri pointed out in his column in Lebanon's Daily Star, these new governments "more accurately reflect the sentiments of their citizens vis-à-vis the Palestine issue… which will increase the political pressure on Israel." Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi and Tunisia's President Moncef Marzouki are Islamists, with (especially in the first case) a well-documented detestation of the Jewish state. They are constrained to be cautious, but their decision to send high-level emissaries to Gaza – more are scheduled to go – gives the Hamas government there both a shield and an encouragement. Were an Egyptian killed in a bombing raid, the resulting outrage could mean, writes Eric Trager in The Atlantic, a breaking of Egyptian diplomatic relations with Israel, even a renunciation of the peace treaty. The "Arab Street" would be roused.
The "Arab Street" is a phrase still much used in news bulletins everywhere: yet a conversation in London this past week made me question its usefulness. Olivier Roy is one of the world's most feted observers of the Middle East, a habitué of the most prestigious foreign policy centers and an advisor to French governments. In a talk at the European Council on Foreign Relations, he presented a view of the Arab world that went beyond the crudely assumed predictability of Arab Street militancy. Instead he talked about a series of movements in Arab societies that do not immediately inspire optimism, but give some hope of better.
He questioned the view that sees the major movement in these societies as that of Islamization. If this were the case, he asked, why were the revolts of 2011 led by secularists – with the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood and others so lagging in their response? "The first demonstrators didn't want power," Roy said. "They wanted elections. They wanted democracy of some sort."


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Why women go bad
Daddy Oh
To make a sweet lady sad
Is a sour offence.
— Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida 111, 1
IT really is a sour offence to make a sweet, innocent, pure, faithful lady sad. And in many cases, when women get sad, they also get bad. That's right, women have a way of lashing out when they think that they are wronged. Then they hit the man where it hurts the most, right in his you know where...his ego.
She knows where to go to get back at him, for she cannot fight him physically, so she uses the weapon she has at her disposal, that of infidelity. At least, that's what some experts say about women's behaviour, that it is linked to something else, to wit, there is an opposite and equal reaction.
That theory may work well in the science laboratory, where you have test tubes, pipettes, burettes and Bunsen burners. But when it comes to the complexity of women, there is no scientific theory that can figure out exactly why they do what they do, or even when and where they will do it. So for every action there is a reaction, but in a woman's case, it's not necessarily equal, for it may come with a force that may knock your socks off.
So why do women go bad? Who's to blame? Or are they just bad because they want to be bad? We'll explore that, right after these responses to Women prey for men.
Hi Tony,
As you rightly pointed out, men will prey on women and some women become the bait to catch the man. Some of these women are prepared to be the sugar mommy for the trophy man. I guess it works both ways. To slightly mangle the words of Billy Shakespeare, "A piece, is of the nature of a conquest, for then both parties nobly are subdued and neither party loser."
Hey Tony,
What makes you think that most women are prey for men, just helpless minnows waiting around in the pool until some angler drops his bait and reels her in? Far from it, my son, as women only want men to think that we are prey and they are hunters. We have been doing this to them for centuries, until you men now actually believe that you are hunting us. The reality is, we know who we want, we choose our hunters, we reject who we don't want, keep who we like, and throw back the trash.
Of course, there are some licky licky women who may fall for men's guile, but even they play the men, and get what they want. So who is hunting whom, who chases whom, who catches whom? Ha, it's a big joke.
So the perception is that men are bad, men are dogs, men are philanderers who will make a pass at any woman they encounter and no one is off limits. They will even take on their friends' wives, if the opportunity arises. Men are scum. But hey, hold on a minute. If these men are so bad, who are they bad with, other men? Well, a few may go that route, but the majority of men all over the world, of whatever race, religion or creed, will be bad with guess who? Other women.
Yes, for every man who is bad, there is a woman he is bad with. And yet, men still get the cursing and the tongue-lashing and the horrible tales that are told about them. "All men are bad and is only one thing on their minds and it's badness."
Well, based on statistics, women are bad, too; not all, mind you, for in the same way that not all men are bad, neither are all women. But Lord, when they're bad it causes so much pain to the men. Is this because they've whipped the men at their own game? What might be true is that a man may be bad just because he's bad. Just like the scorpion, it's in his nature and he can't help himself. At least, that's the theory of some sociologists.
I'm not here to dispute that. But what is also true is that a woman's complexity makes her do, well, complex things, in a very complex way. She may be bad, yes, a fallen woman, a candidate for a scarlet letter, or even to be tarred and feathered as fallen women were subjected to in days of yore. But there is a reason why she chose that route, knowing the inherent risks and danger that lay ahead. The common perception is that women aren't bad simply because they are bad. Tarrus Riley's song, A good girl gone bad, may shed some light on the issue. Why does a good girl go bad?
Comedian Flip Wilson used to say, "The devil made me do it," whenever he did anything wrong and was caught in the act. So in the same vein, some women who are bad are said to be possessed by some evil force.
"Is must something get into her why she so bad. She couldn't just get up one day and decide fi bad so." Whatever the reason, when a woman bad, she bad nuh yaws. Bad nuh yaws, what a colourful expression from our ancestors. I'd really like it clarified. What is yaws in this context anyway?
I have been seeing a trend in the letters sent to the advice columns. They're all from wives who have cheated on their husbands and are now seeking advice, if not forgiveness and absolution. One wrote to say that she has a husband and a lover, but it hurts physically when she has sex with her husband.
Another wrote that when her husband is away on his regular and frequent business trips, she sneaks her young lover into the house. Her concern is that the neighbours may have seen him leaving the house and may carry news to hubby.
There have been so many letters of this ilk I began to think it was an epidemic of women gone bad. Is this a new trend in women: they being so liberated or just plain bad? What could drive an otherwise respectable wife to badness?
Call in the experts, and who knows better about women's affairs than women who are having affairs? They were candid as they spoke, but a few had tinges of remorse. Others relished their badness and said that the men got what they deserved. Mercifully, those were in the minority.
As simple as you take it, some women turned to another man just because hubby stopped showing interest in her. "He never saw me anymore, never looked at me like he used to... I was just furniture to him." As a result, the first guy who started to look at her and complimented her, got her attention... and more.
That being said, it wasn't just a look-grab-and hop into bed thing for, after all, she was a married woman. But the lack of attention from hubby, then the constant attention and affection from the other man, simply wore her down. "I felt pretty again, desirable, wanted, needed. Do you know what that feels like after all this time of neglect?" Now she's labelled bad, a fallen woman, and vilified even by her friends who knew what she was going through with her husband.
Another reason is anger, coupled with revenge. They say that hell hath no fury like a woman spurned. Well, hell hath no comparison to a woman out for revenge. Many women have gone bad because their husbands stepped out of the field of fidelity first.
One lady wrote that when she found out what her man was doing she was so hurt, but that quickly evolved into anger which blossomed into revenge. Oh sweet revenge, a meal best served cold, they say, but in this case, hot, hot, hot! She had sex with his best friend, which was really hot, burned him, hit him where it hurt most. Now she's called all sorts of names, labelled unfit, and drummed out of the regiment.
Hubby, of course, has all the sympathy, even from her female friends who said, "After is just a likkle piece de man take. She shudden sleep with him best friend. Damn bad."
One lady actually told me that she stepped out of the marital mosaic because her husband got old. Not only did he get old physically, but his outlook on life aged drastically. "He just stopped living and acted like he was waiting to die. He got old. I still have life left in me and want to enjoy it." Translate 'enjoy' to men sex with another man... or men.
Statistics have shown that more older couples are stepping out than ever before, and that means men and women who seek the pleasures of the flesh from others. It's even more so between couples where the man is much older than the woman. "I tried to ignore the 20-year age difference, but it eventually got to me," said this lady.
One other reason that women go bad is simply because they are bad. Oh yes, some women are just like men... bad men. They simply cannot be confined by the shackles of fidelity, so they step out. Many exude the aura of respectability, shine with the veneer or decency, yet are so hot that they have to quench their thirst with other lovers.
Such women do exist, and they talk about sex just like men do. The irony is, many are not built like sexual bombshells, but look more like plain Janes. But don't let that fool you, they have the raging libido of a heifer in estrus and enjoy a variety of lovers. In contrast, many women look 'bad' but really are not. "I'm not bad, I'm just built that way," said the sultry Jessica Rabbit from the movie, Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Those hot honeys in plain wrapping are the ones to look out for. Dem bad nuh yaws. What is true, though, is that if an ugly woman cheats on you, that must be the most unkindest cut of all, as Shakespeare would say. What an injustice, what a travesty, what an insult. Ugly as sin, but bad nuh yaws!
So, those were just a few reasons why women go bad, supplied to me, of course, by bad women who think that their actions are justified. Pray that you have a good woman, or your corner is dark. More time.
Footnote: Uniforms always depict discipline, and with discipline so much can be achieved. I've always liked the colourful uniforms of our Jamaican schoolgirls, and most are appealing and eye-catching. But I must make special note and big up the uniform of the young ladies of Westwood High in Stewart Town, Trelawny, who still wear their cute Jippi Jappa straw hats.
I learned that they are the only school in Jamaica to still wear that headgear. I saw them on TV a few weeks ago and it brought back memories of when I first saw a group of them in Kingston years ago. What a beautiful sight to see dozens of those young ladies in their neatly pressed uniforms and smart Jippi Jappa hats. Westwood girls, it's a pleasure to see you maintain your tradition and to know that you take pride in your heritage.
Congrats to Paul Williams of Seido Karate New York, and Shekeema Cunningham of Future Leaders, for capturing the Grand Champion trophies at the Annual Seido International Karate Championships. Discipline, again, in action.


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Although no major belts were at stake because of sanctioning issues, Martinez kept his reputation as the top middleweight in the world with a late surge at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. He decked the game but outmatched Macklin twice near the end of the 11th round, then Macklin's corner asked referee Eddie Cotton to stop it before the 12th round began.
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Mike Smith stopped 24 shots in his return to the Phoenix lineup and earned his fifth shutout of the season as the Coyotes beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-0 on Saturday night.
Martin Hanzal and Shane Doan each had a goal and an assist, Mikkel Boedker and Boyd Gordon also scored, and Oliver Ekman-Larsson had two assists for the Coyotes, who won their third straight.
Phoenix jumped ahead of Columbus and Edmonton into ninth place in the Western Conference, two points behind St. Louis and three behind seventh-place Detroit.
Smith hadn't played since sustaining an upper body injury on March 21 when he was run over by Vancouver defenseman Alexander Edler.
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Party-goers all across Chicago will be out celebrating the New Year and some may be feeling the pain from that on New Year's Day.
That notion has made room for Chicago's first hydration clinic, designed to re-hydrate you after a long night of partying.
"It's common in the medical world," explains Dr. Jack Dybis of the Revive Hydration Clinic. "A lot of EMT's, paramedics, people in the military are very aware of this."
Revive Hydation Clinic just opened in the River North neighborhood. Although they don't endorse over indulging yourself at New Year's celebrations, you may now have an option for relief the next day.
"We do have a walk in policy, but we'd rather people call ahead because we don't want them when they're already feeling miserable," says Dr. Dybis. "We don't want them waiting around in a waiting room or standing around feeling miserable. We'd rather have them come in, get served and get on with their day."
The way it works is you meet with a doctor, determine what type of treatment you need and you are given an IV with fluids, vitamins and other anti-oxidants.
Dr. Dybis says depending on your body type and necessity for fluids, will determine how much you need to receive.
"You'll feel the difference within a half an hour, especially with the vitamin B, if you're coming in and feel beat down, a little bit," Dr. Dybis explains. "We gave Sam vitamin B and that's going to, he's going to continue to feel energized throughout the day."
Sam Fakhouri came in feeling flu-like symptoms today.
"I was a little stuffed up. I started feeling scratchiness in my throat, I was definitely feeling a bit dehydrated and now I'm started to feel a little bit better," says Fakhouri. "I'm more awake and I can already notice that some of my symptoms are being alleviated."
The price for a session is around $99. The goal is to expand to clients as not only a hangover cure, but cold and flu relief as well.


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ORONO — The Maine State Society of Washington, D.C. has given retired University of Maine professor Harold Borns its 2007 "Big 'M' Award," recognizing Borns' "accomplishments and achievements in (his) profession, (and) for service to Maine and its citizens."
Borns, who retired from the UMaine faculty in 2005 after 50 years as a UMaine professor, traveled to Washington, D.C. to receive the award on Dec. 8.
The Maine State Society is 113 years old and has some 1,000 members. It serves to connect Maine people who live and work in the Washington, D.C. area. The organization has presented the "Big 'M' Award" 43 times since the award was created in the 1960s.
Borns, who is a professor emeritus of glacial and quaternary geology, founded the Institute for Quaternary Studies, now known as the Climate Change Institute, as UMaine's first interdisciplinary research institute. He has taught some 1,500 UMaine students and advised dozens of graduate students at UMaine, where he earned the university's Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award in 1984. In 1960, Borns became the first UMaine researcher to receive a National Science Foundation competitive grant. Thirty-one other grants have funded research projects, including the 2006 production of "Maine's Ice Age Trail: Downeast Map and Guide," a self-guided geological tour of Hancock and Washington counties.
Borns' research has taken him to six continents, and he has spent 28 field seasons in Antarctica, where a glacier is named for him. Borns is a fellow in the Explorer's Club and the Geological Society of America. He is also a recipient of the Congressional Antarctic Service medal.
"Hal is a remarkable scholar whose teaching, research and public service have earned him a place as one of the pre-eminent professors in UMaine's history and a well-known scholar nationally," UMaine President Robert Kennedy wrote in a letter that was part of the Dec. 8 award ceremony. "His vision, creativity and remarkable commitment to the university and the state continue to inspire us all."