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SAN FRANCISCO, July 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Historical Society launches new daytime and evening programs that bring the beauty and history of Yosemite to San Francisco. Throughout the month of July as part of the ongoing exhibition, Yosemite: A Storied Landscape, the California Historical Society will host special event, presentations, educational programs and family events.
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The recent remarkable and revolutionary unrest in the Arab world and particularly in Egypt has created an awkward dilemma for Barack Obama and his administration. Listen to the following words from Obama in Chicago's downtown Daley Plaza in the fall of 2002, when he started (with considerable help from a cadre of white ex-New Leftists and foundation friends in Chicago) his climb into the national political scene as an "antiwar" politician: "You want a fight, President Bush? Let's fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East, the Saudis and the Egyptians, stop oppressing their own people, and suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality and mismanaging their economies so that their youth grow up without education, without prospects, without hope…" (Applause)1
"A Force for Stability and Good"
That was then. Six and a half years later, in the spring of 2009, Obama stood in Cairo after having parlayed his false antiwar imagery[2] into what millions (or billions) around the world had been led to see as an historic and transformational rise to the pinnacle of American and global power. His "fighting" democratic rhetoric in Daley Plaza had been swept into the same historical dustbin as his 2003 claim (to the Illinois AFL-CIO, also in downtown Chicago) to support national health insurance on the Canadian, single-payer model. The "change" and "hope" president had continued the basic United States Middle East policy of sustaining an anti-Iran alliance between Israel and so-called moderate Arab states. These "moderate" governments include Egypt 's atrocious police-state dictatorship and Saudi Arabia 's misogynist theocracy, which is perhaps the most reactionary government on earth. All of these states continued to be lavishly funded by the United States under Obama. Egypt has remained the world's second leading recipient (after Israel ) of foreign aid from Washington , to the tune of $2 billion per year (including $1.3 billion in "military assistance) a year.3
During his much-ballyhooed Cairo speech and trip, Obama refused even to call Egypt's dictator Hosni Mubarak "authoritarian," much less a dictator. He praised the Egyptian government as "a force for stability and good in the region." He claimed to have been "struck" by the "wisdom and graciousness" of Saudi king Abdullah,4 the head of state in a nation that regularly practiced public beheadings. These comments were reasonably taken by many observers to signal a tacit endorsement of torture, martial law, secret police, and worse in the Middle East. Obama eloquently advanced standard platitudes in support of universal human rights and "governments that reflect the will of the people" and that "maintain [their] power through consent, not coercion; [that] respect the rights of minorities, and participate with a spirit of tolerance and compromise; [that] must place the interests of [their] people and the legitimate workings of the political process above…party."5 Obama said nothing, however, about the ways in which the Egyptian and Saudi and other "moderate," U.S.-supported Middle East regimes harshly violated those principles He made no far-reaching calls for political reform, much less for mass popular protest (without which authoritarian regimes have no incentive to change), reflecting his determination to tolerate repression on the part of Middle East allies willing to assist the U.S. on "regional issues" (the American occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. support for Israel and its oppression of the Palestinians, and the U.S. campaign against Iran). President Mubarak and other Middle Eastern authorities likely interpreted Obama's reluctance to seriously advance reform as a green light to crack down on regime critics.
Clash of Religions/Civilizations
It was depressing for many who sought peace in the Middle East to hear Obama's Cairo speech buy heavily into the language of an epic "clash of civilizations" between the Judeo-Christian and Muslim worlds. As the excellent Left analyst Gilbert Achcar notes, "Obama in Cairo exclusively addressed the 'Muslims,' scattering his speech with quotes from the Koran, expressing a view of the world dominated by religion—and only Abrahamic religions at that, forgetting that in his own country there are millions who do not belong to any [sects] of Christianity, Judaism or Islam, not to mention those who refuse to belong to any religion at all.."6
Military Financing Without Conditions
Obama's Defense Secretary Robert Gates – kept over from George W. Bush as a living symbol and agent of core bipartisan continuities in American imperial policy – met with Mubarak and his top military team in Cairo in May of 2009. When he was asked by the media there if U.S. military aid to that country was linked to human rights, Gates answered that the "position of the (Obama) administration is that as an example the foreign military financing that's in the (US) budget should be without conditions. And that is our sustained position." As the Asian Tribune recently reported, Gates' current boss (Obama) has been less interested in the advance of democracy in Egypt than his previous boss (George W. Bush):
"In its first year, the Obama administration cut funding for democracy and governance programming in Egypt by more than half, from $50 million in 2008 to $20 million in 2009. The level of funding for civil society programs and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) was cut disproportionately, from $32 million to only $7 million… the Bush administration slashed economic aid to Egypt in the 2009 budget but kept the funding for democracy and governance programs constant, while Obama cut funding to those programs in an effort to make the cuts more proportional and under pressure from the American embassy in Cairo."
To "Take Some of The Passion Out"
Jon Alterman, a State Department Middle East advisor under George W. Bush, offered an interesting perspective on the unchanged bipartisan and imperial continuities beneath and beyond Obama's trip to the Arab world. As Alterman explained in matter-of-imperial-fact terms at a forum in Washington, "Our policies are a reflection of our interests and our alliances and while they may change moderately from administration to administration, the underlying interests are simply not allied with the policies that many Muslims around the world would like to see the United States pursue. We're going to have to agree to disagree, and that's the first task for the President—to frame U.S. policy in a way that takes some of the passion out of the widespread hostility for the United States [emphasis added]." 7 Obama's real task, Alterman felt, wasn't to change U.S. policy in the Middle East . It was rather to take the dangerous sting out of how those policies were perceived across the predominantly Muslim and Arab region. It was about public relations and re-branding.
2011: The Mubarak Brand Spoils
Here we are a year and a half later. The alienated, drastically under-employed and hopeless Arab and Egyptian youth that Obama claimed to care for in 2002 have led an epic outpouring of protest that challenges the power of the arch-authoritarian governments the U.S. continues to bankroll and militarily equip under Obama. Contrary to the president's religion-focused clash- of- civilizations rhetoric, the struggles in Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt and elsewhere are not being waged by and for Muslim extremism but in the name of the modern, secular- democratic values that Washington claims to support and embody (notwithstanding its captivity to its own unelected and interrelated dictatorships of money and empire).
Nothing could be more disingenuous than U.S, Scretary of State Hillary Clinton's response last week when
CNN's Candy Crowley asked her if the administration was on the side of Mubarak or the protesters.Clinton said she was for a "third choice," the "Egyptian people" – as if the millions engaging in a mass popular uprising were not legitimate Egyptians. "We are on the side, as we have been for more 30 years," Clinton added, "of a democratic Egypt that provides both political and economic rights to its people." But Mubarak's U.S.-funded Egypt has brought neither: roughly 40 percent of the population struggles to get by on less than $2 a day, and political dissent has been regularly crushed by Mubarak's dictatorship.
Asian Tribune reporter Daya Gamage notes that the U.S. arrangement with the Mubarak regime allows the Egyptian armed forces to "purchase military equipment either through the U.S. military or directly from U.S. defense contractors, and it can do so on credit. In 2006, the GAO noted that Egypt had entered some defense contracts in advance of—and in excess of—its military assistance appropriations." Gamage notes that leading U.S. military firms profit handsomely from the relationship, helping minimize the relevance of official human rights rhetoric: "American defense contractors overwhelmingly benefit from this aid arrangement. Contractors including BAE Systems, General Dynamics, General Electric, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have all done business with the Egyptian government through relationships facilitated by high-powered Washington lobbyists….So, who's worried about human rights, good governance and justice in Egypt?" 8
So why would the empire's new clothes Barack Obama and his administration now be pressing Mubarak behind the scenes for a rapid exit?9 Insofar as Obama now appears to be cautiously willing to appear to partially side with the people in the streets in Cairo and Alexandria, the primary administration motive is of course imperial-strategic. It's all about "taking the passion" and sting of out real and potential opposition to the Superpower headquartered in Washington. It arises from the fear that the American and Obama brand will be irrevocably poisoned in Egypt and the Middle East if the U.S. appears to have stayed closely tied to the end with a doomed and vicious dictator. At the same time, the administration is certain to strictly qualify any support it might be seen as giving the people in the Arab streets for fear of helping reinforce a new wave of democratic national independence across the oil-rich Middle East, whose petroleum reserves are seen by American planners as too critical for U.S. power for them to be controlled by the region's actual residents. The White House is in a classic dllemmna, walking the tightrope strung between its rhetorical attachment to "universal human rights" and the United States' longstanding imperial ambitions. As Nicole Colson and Alan Maas note on Socialistworker.org: "The U.S. can't afford a revolution against Mubarak that leads to more revolutions. But it also can't afford to be seen as defending a tyrant if his downfall is inevitable anyway….That's why Omar Suleiman, Mubarak's loyal intelligence chief and now vice president, is so important for the U.S. The deal that U.S. officials are cooking up would put a 'caretaker' government in power under Suleiman and two military officials" (http://socialistworker.org/
But then, American foreign policy has never supported democracy overseas for other than contingent, highly qualified and temporary reasons. Beneath its claim to represent and advance universal democratic values, Washington has long sponsored, protected, and equipped authoritarian and dictatorial regimes that it has seen as favorable to the U.S. corporate sector's economic interests and the American military's related global designs. When those regimes collapse under the weight of popular rebellion the U.S. never really wanted to see, Washington does the best it can to identify itself with and divide and control and co-opt the opposition and contain the change within policy and political contours consistent with U.S. global hegemony.10 Think Cory Aquino and Reagan and recall Jean Bertrand Aristide's Washington-controlled return to Haiti under Bill Clinton. And remember Obama's substantive complicity in the business-military coup that overthrew the democratically elected president of Honduras (Manuel Zelaya) in the same month that the president spoke in Cairo . Obama opposed that coup in his official words; his actual deeds were a very different thing. The trick for the White House is to try to identify itself with an illusion of change that cloaks the persistence of the old imperial relationship. That's what's happening right now with Washington and Egypt as the Obama administration realizes that the Mubarak brand has spoiled and needs to be pulled from the shelf to be replaced with a new and improved product standing in the same relationship of imperial dependency.
Paul Street (www.paulstreet.org) is the author of many articles, chapters, speeches, and books, including Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008); Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007; Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New York: Routledge, 2005); Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008); and The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2010). Street is currently completing a book titled Crashing the Tea Party, co-authored with Anthony DiMaggio. He can be reached at [email protected]
1 U.S. Liberals, "Barack Obama's Stirring 2002 Speech Against the Iraq War," October 2002, at http://usliberals.about.com/
2 For a comprehensive critique of candidate Obama's antiwar credentials, see Paul Street , Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics ( Boulder , CO : Paradigm, 2008), Chapter 4: "How Antiwar? Barack Obama , Iraq , and the Audacity of Empire."
3 Daya Gamage, "$2 Billion-a-Year Military Aid from U.S. to Egypt at the expense of human rights/democracy," Asian Tribune, February 4, 2011 at
4 Michael Brull, "Obama Just Updated U.S. Double-Speak," New Matilida, June 11, 2009, at http://newmatilda.com/print/
5 "The President's Speech in Cairo : A New Beginning," June 4, 2009 at http://www.whitehouse.gov/
6 Gilbert Achcar, "Obama's Cairo Speech," ZNet, June 6, 2009, at www.zcomm.org/znet/
7 Jon Alterman quoted in Michael Scherer, "Obama Seeks to Win Muslim Hearts and Minds," Time, June 3, 2009, atwww.time.com/time/nation/
8 Gamage, "$2 Billion-a-Year Military Aid."
9 Helen Cooper and Mark Landler, "As an Ally Balks, the White House is Said to Press for a Rapid Exit," New York Times, February 4, 2011, A1, A8.
10 For a classic, far-reaching radical analysis of Washington's role in the management and containment of change in developing (formerly known as Third World)in connection with popular rebellions against dictators the U.S. previously backed, see William I. Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy – Globalization, US Intervention, and Hegemony (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1996)


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Ed Schultz Falsely Claims Santorum's 'Phony Theology' Charge an 'Attack on the President's Faith'
As NewsBusters reported Monday, media outlets across America are cherry-picking a lengthy speech by Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum to accuse him of impugning Barack Obama's religious beliefs.
Not surprisingly, MSNBC's Ed Schultz joined the hit parade (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
As the segment began, Schultz said, "Rick Santorum ramped up his radicalism this weekend big time. In addition to comparing President Obama to Hitler, Santorum said he wants the federal government out - I mean out - of public education. And on Saturday, he said this about President Obama's agenda."
Schultz then played the same exact snippet of Santorum's speech to the Columbus Tea Party that media outlets have been dishonestly airing for days:
RICK SANTORUM: It's not about you. It's not about your quality of life. It's not about your job. It's about some phony ideal, some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology. No less a theology.
After playing video clips from other Santorum speeches, Schultz said, "But by Sunday, Santorum had developed a new explanation for his theology comment."
A video clip of Santorum's interview with CBS's Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation followed:
SANTORUM: I wasn't suggesting the president's not a Christian. I accept the fact that the president is a Christian...I was talking about the radical environmentalist. That's why I was talking about energy, this idea that man is here to serve the Earth as opposed to husband its resources and be good stewards of the Earth. And I think that is a phony ideal.
When the clip ended, Schultz said, "Phony's a good word directed at the wrong person. I'm not buying a bit of it. You heard the tape. Santorum said President Obama was imposing a theology not based on the Bible. That is a direct attack on the President's faith."
Actually, Schultz's viewers didn't hear the tape. They heard six sentences out of a 41 minute speech.
Here's what Schultz dishonestly withheld from his viewers:
SANTORUM: The price of fuel right now, they're talking maybe by the summer we're looking at $5 a gallon. Why? Why? Because this president systematically is doing everything he can to raise the price of energy in this country. He's shutting down all sorts of opportunities for us to drill for oil. He's now trying to infuse not science when it comes to the environment, not environmental science when it comes to drilling wells for oil and gas in Pennsylvania and North Dakota and other places that use hydraulic fracking.
He's trying to do again what he tried to do with global warming. Instead of using climate science or global science he uses political science. And political science in this case is suggesting that a technology that has been successfully used to drill hundreds of thousands of wells in this country, hundreds of thousands of oil and gas wells, all of a sudden now that's a dangerous technology. Why? Because it could lead to lower energy prices. That's the dangerousness of this technology. It doesn't fit his pattern of trying to drive down consumption, driving to drive up your cost of transportation to accomplish his political science goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
This is what the president's agenda is. It's not about you. It's not about you. It's not about your quality of life. It's not about your jobs. It's about some phony ideal, some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology.
Not even close to Santorum attacking the President's faith, is it?
But that's what Schultz said, and what media members have been reporting all around the country for days.
At this point, there really is only one conclusion: Obama's supporters in the press are engaging in a coordinated attack against this presidential candidate and they don't care about the facts or the truth.
If there's any other conclusion to draw from all of these media outlets cherry-picking exactly the same sentences offering exactly the same false opinion of them I'm all ears.
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How dare you question the
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:06pm.
How dare you question the president's faith! is 2012's How dare you question his patriotism!!
Santorum's right when he talks about the president's theology. It IS a theology.
It's a theology that makes a god of the earth. All things: man's convenience, man's comfort, even man's sustenance, at whatever cost, must take a back seat to what environmental worshippers claim is good for "the planet."
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Let's analyze some facts
Submitted by stage9 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:12pm.
Obama is the only Christian I know who while claiming to be a Christian denounces Christianity.
But why throw around empty rhetoric, let's just look at the facts shall we?
The Bible makes it clear that a man that has sexual relations with another man as with a woman, this act is an abomination.
What Christian legislation has Obama sought to undertake to support this theological truth?
1) Obama signs DADT repeal:
2) Obama supports repeal of DOMA
3) Obama Administration calls for ban on sodomy and bestiality in Military to be repealed
The Bible says that the shedding of innocent blood will not go unpunished.
1) Obama reaffirms his abortion support
Our Founders understood that rights were UNALIENABLE, meaning God-given, and that no government had the right to take them away.
1) Obama forces contraception on religious institutions:
2) Obama appointee opposes religious freedom
If Obama is a Christian, he's the most anti-Christian Christian I've ever seen.
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
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Hope you're sitting down.....
Submitted by GregE on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:15pm.
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Sorry, Greg...
Submitted by NC Cop on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:41pm.
That opinion leaves a lot to be desired. Basically, he's saying that Obama knows a lot about the bible and knows how to quote it well. That doesn't make him an avid Christian. If I learn everything there is to know about the Koran and quote it at the appropriate time, does that make me a Muslim?
I noticed the professor didn't address how this "most Christian" president sat in the church of a racist hate monger for over 20 years. Interesting.
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Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 12:02am.
keep in mind, Satan knows every word in the Bible, too.
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⇒ Yes he does
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 1:46am.
And like his servant, knows how to twist those words into something not said.
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They WILL BE KNOWN by their FRUIT!
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 12:16am.
Thanks for that Stage9! His actions and statements; fruit they are... poison apple anyone? So pretty!
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
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It's Ed Schultz.
Submitted by GregE on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:13pm.
.......Mr "I'll cut off someone's sentence midstream if it helps push my agenda even if letting it finish would clearly be the opposite of my sinister intent."
Before Ed... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRksFWeNmgw
After Ed... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmkmIHtA1yQ
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I guess these intellectuals
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:31pm.
just aren't all that smart. I mean they can't seem to get their collective (ugh) hands around the idea that one's theology today is taken to mean more than only religious belief. How surprising with all that Ivy League Schooling,
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Why did you say Ed "falsely claimed" something about Santorum
Submitted by CO2Maker on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 12:08am.
Why "falsely"? That's just wasting an unnecessary, redundant adjective. When Ed "I hope my face doesn't freeze this way" Schmutz claims anything about a Republican, it's going to be a falsehood.
Ed's like the guy in the old joke: "Hello," he lied.
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The President's "faith"? What faith?
Submitted by lgeubank on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 1:35am.
The President doesn't have a faith, unless it's "Hate America and whites," as preached by Jeremiah what's-his-name. He just trades on Christianity and capitalizes on it, to manipulate the people, just as everything else he says is for purposes of manipulating the people and getting his way.
He's a real low-life tin-horn dictator, a hypocrite, an Elmer Gantry, and a Mussolini for Dummies.
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The Irrelevance of Obama's Religion
Submitted by berlet98 on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 3:48am.
The Irrelevance of Obama's Religion
According to Islamic law, if your father is a Muslim, so are you, and once a Muslim, always a Muslim.
That fact has become relevant in the campaign for the Republican nomination for the presidency ever since Sen. Rick Santorum called into question Barack Obama's religion when Santorum alleged the president was motivated by "some phony theology, not a theology based on the Bible" and also referred to Obama's "radical Islamic policies."
First of all, let's stipulate that religion has no place in American politics–with one important exception: If someone has misstated his religion and misled the electorate, the issue becomes not one of religion but of truth and honesty.
Barack Hussein Obama's Muslim father, Barack Hussein Obama, Senior, conferred his Islamic middle name, derived from Hussein Ibn Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, on Barack Hussein Obama, Junior. At least in the eyes of Islam, our president is a Muslim, although he has said that "Hussein" is an African name and that he is a Christian.
The case should be closed but isn't for a variety of reasons.
The president has said that his Kenyan father denied abandoned his Islamic faith before he abandoned his family. He was raised–in part–by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham Obama, an atheist.
Much of his upbringing was provided by his maternal grandparents after his mother married another Muslim, Lolo Soetero, took her son with her to live his formative years in Muslim Indonesia where he attended a Wahabi school in Jakarta and ultimately turned young Barry over to her parents while she pursued her education and career.
All that abandonment had to have warped her child but none of the above proves Obama is a closet Muslim or a religious hypocrite who followed in his father's footsteps by turning his back on Islam.
The president's collegiate life is still cloaked in mystery although it is known that he had Muslim roommates and travelled to Indonesia during his years at Columbia University and subsequently visited his father's Muslim family in Kenya. And, of course, he fondly wrote of dreams inherited from the Marxist father he resented for dumping his family but, again, none of that proves he is really a Muslim and not a Christian.
Antagonizing America's only ally in the Mideast, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=13822.)
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Just exactly how much more Muslim ass does B. Hussein Obama...
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 4:51am.
...have to kiss before you all finally figure it out?
The only people who still believe this fraud to be a Christian are complete idiots, who haven't the foggiest clue as to what a Christian actually is in the first place.
And I can tell you now, it ain't friggin' Barack Hussein Obama.
Andt just wait until you see what the mullah Dear Ruler has planned for his "October Surprise."
I'll give you all three guesses as to what that is going to be, and I doubt anyone will get even close.
Vote for the American in November
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Bambi is obviously a "good Christian."
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 8:02am.
Why, he said himself, that he sat in the Reverend Wright's church for 20 years, 20 FREAKING YEARS, and didn't hear anything that the Rev said!
So exactly when and where did he learn about Christianity? Maybe while he was listening to "the most beautiful sound on Earth," that "call to prayer" screaming cat-fight noise of a adhan from the top of some tower each morning? Maybe from his atheist mom, or his commie grandparents? Maybe from his step father? Perhaps while attending the Islamic school?
I guess his conversion to Christ will forever remain a mystery along with everything else that we don't know about this Manchurian Candidate.
If anyone is ever allowed to write the history of Barack Hussein Obama in the future, this could go down as the biggest fraud in the history of the world, and WE are the ones who let it happen.
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Nb, We're so f'cked it isn't even funny anymore
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 9:07am.
The Kenyan Muslim comrade Dear Ruler has a $1 billion + war chest, almost total control of the MSM, and is working to buy the votes of the 99.5% of the net tax consumers, and has the support of the stoopid sheeple, 49.5% of which no-longer pay federal income taxes.
Yet so many "conservatives" are still deluded into believing we still have a chance if we only vote repub(e)lican come November.
(And yes, I really said BULLS*H*I*T!)*
*And grow the Hell up, wienies, because if the term bullshit offends you, then you are a wuss, and probably headed for some form of government slavery - sooner than you think.
We have been voting "republican" for 40+ years, and about the only brick on the road to Hell that they have helped the dems lay that we have managed to pull up is the 55 mph speed limit - and that was due to most Americans voting with their right foot.
I'm guessing today they would all cave like Boehner & Co., and we would all be driving government-issued golf carts at 12 mph.
But what would one expect from a nation of sheeple who will allow their children's lunch to be confiscated by a government goons, as well as allow thier children to be molested at airports all across America.
It's all over but the crying.
Vote for the American in November
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More power to the sheepdogs, Dave.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 11:18am.
Rock and roll.
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On full auto if---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 12:36pm.
you catch 'em bunched up. :o)
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I know what you are saying Dave!
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 11:29pm.
I am seeing to some degree that the biased news is setting more and more people against Obama and his ilk. It is getting so crazy that even liberals are getting pissed at what is happening. We won't forget this treason and I hope the media all go out to lunch permanently. The level of treason again is just hard to take. They have no clue and are busy selling out America and what it stands for. No respect for our founders and what they stood for. What made America great; a God fearing, generous nation.
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
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Obama and his religion
Submitted by Steve Cakouros on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 2:54pm.
Obama has no faith. In his world, governed as it is by pragmatism, religion is not an end but a means to an end. It gets you elected.
I have never seen it to fail. Those who use the name of Christ in order to feather their nest in any way always pay a price for their duplicity.
Obama will be no exception to that rule.
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ODON — Charles Anthony "Tony" Anderson, 56, of Odon, died Dec. 26 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes.
He was born July 29, 1956 in Monroe County to David C. and Leatha V. (Pate) Anderson. He married Doris (Hughes) Anderson on Jan. 14, 2008, and she survives.
He was a driver for the Amish and enjoyed fishing, camping and loved his dog Angel.
He is survived by two sons, David J. Anderson of Indiana, and Anthony Jacob Strahl, Fayetteville, NC., one daughter, Ton-ya Renee of Anderson, one stepdaughter, Christina Rose Hughes of Odon, three stepsons Darrell Scott Chaffin of Henderson, Ky., Donald Wayne Chaffin of Odon, and Danny J.
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He was preceded in death by his parents, one stepsister, Janie Young, and one adopted brother, Bob Anderson.
Funeral services will be at 12:30 p.m., Saturday, at the Produce Building (across from Dinky¹s), with burial to follow in Stoll¹s Cemetery. Home ministers will officiate.
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The reviews are in: Comfort Kits are a hit. That is the universal response from the children and families in New York City who have received the Sept. 11 Comfort Kits being distributed by Mercy Corps.
Afghanistan: New camp for Afghan refugees opens October 24, 2001
A new camp opened today to provide shelter and immediate assistance to Afghan refugees who are crossing into Pakistan. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) established the camp near the Chaman border crossing, in collaboration with the Government of Pakistan and aid agencies.
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Drag artist Trevor Ashley's pantomime for Christmas 2012 lampooning the musical Annie has been attacked as transphobic and sexist.
Transgender activists in Australia have criticized Sydney Opera House for a pantomime called 'trAnnie' which they say is transphobic and sexist.
Australia's most globally-famous cultural institution is planning to stage the panto later this year, despite publically apologizing and saying it is not intending to disrespect trans sensitivities.
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Could it be free-agent OLB Connor Barwin?
Perhaps, but we continue to hear Houston will do everything it can (within reason) to re-sign Barwin, despite his disappointing 2012 production. One thing is assured: the offer from the Texans that Barwin rejected last offseason has shrunk.
After FS Glover Quin, a candidate to be the first Texan slapped with the franchise tag since Dunta Robinson if the two sides can't reach a long-term agreement, Barwin remains the top priority to re-sign. Defensive coordinator Wade Phillips needs at least three outside rushers and, even with Whitney Mercilus showing real flashes in the second half of his rookie season, Barwin plays the run well and is a great presence in the locker room.
Expect the Texans again to be quiet on the free-agent market — outside of trying to lock up a few of their own core players. Finding a playmaking wideout again ranks as the No. 1 offseason priority, but there simply aren't the resources to go after someone like Pittsburgh's Mike Wallace or Green Bay's Greg Jennings. Instead, the Texans are likely to target a wideout to pair with Andre Johnson early in the draft.
If Barwin signs elsewhere, adding an outside linebacker in the draft will be the highest priority after receiver. If the Texans find a way to re-sign Barwin, backup nose tackle — veteran Shaun Cody is likely on the way out — will be an area the team looks to bolster.
We also hear the Texans should fare well in terms of compensatory draft picks, what with Mario Williams and Joel Dreesen both producing in Buffalo and Denver, respectively, and the Texans not depending a lot on free agents this past season. It shouldn't come as a surprise to see the Texans awarded the highest compensatory pick possible (a third-rounder), we hear.


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The other day I got an email from a woman who asked, "I'm 31. Is it too late to begin a fitness program?" Only in our youth-worshiping North American culture could such a question even be asked. In most other cultures in the world, the concept of aging equaling inactivity does not exist.
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HALLETTSVILLE - Marilyn F. Rice, 60, of Hallettsville, passed away April 30, 2013. She was born on June 19, 1952 in Hallettsville. She confessed Christ at an early age and was a member of Richardson Chapel United Methodist Church of Hallettsville, where she played piano from the age of 12. She graduated from Hallettsville High School in 1970, and attended Prairie View A&M University. After college, Marilyn moved to Houston, where she worked as a Revenue Agent with the IRS for 30 years. While working for IRS, Sister Marilyn (as she was affectionately known) started a Gospel Radio program on Texas Thunder Radio, which ran for 18 years.
Sister Marilyn was an active member in the Kairos and Emmaus ministries, served on the District Council on ministry, and helped with the Victoria District of the UMC youth summer camping program. She answered her calling into the pastoral ministry and became pastor of Henson Chapel and Evans Chapel in Gonzales, TX.
Marilyn is survived by: her mother Ladell Hogan of Hallettsville; twin sister Marian Hogan of Hallettsville; brother Allan Hogan of Elgin, TX; and half-sister Janet Watson of Los Angeles, CA.
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The median home value in Audubon, NJ is $170,400.
This is
higher than
the county median home value of $145,000.
The national median home value is $170,100.
The average price of homes sold in Audubon, NJ is $170,400.
Approximately 70.21% of Audubon homes are owned,
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If you see a property you're interested in, contact a Audubon real estate agent to arrange a tour today!
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Three story Office Building on the Eastside of Audubon Located on the Corner of the White Horse Pike and Lafayette Road.This property offers aprox 2300 sq feet of space on the three levels great for professional use with high visibility.There are three full baths one on each level of the dwelling and can accommodate multiple users.There is also a large two car detached garage that can be rented or used for your overflow.Good parking exist on Lafayette Road along with the private driveway parking spaces.Come check out the many options that this property offers !!!
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It's not your imagination -- MGM Resorts International (formerly MGM MIRAGE) is one of the world's largest gaming firms. The company's more than 15 partially or wholly owned properties include some of the biggest names on the Las Vegas Strip, including MGM Grand, The Mirage, and the Monte Carlo, as well as Luxor, Bellagio, and Mandalay Bay. MGM Resorts also owns or has a stake in other casinos in Nevada, as well as in Michigan (MGM Grand Detroit) and Mississippi (Beau Rivage). Internationally, it operates in China and Dubai. The company changed its name from MGM MIRAGE in 2010 to better reflect its family of hotel brands and its expanding global presence.
Geographic Reach
MGM Resorts owns a little more than half of its assets in China, through its 51%-owned MGM China, which completed a $1.4 billion IPO in 2011. MGM Resorts is also developing Bellagio, MGM Grand, and Skylofts hotels in Dubai that are expected to open in 2013. A joint venture hotel in Shanghai is also set to open in 2015. Despite these plans, the company still earns the majority of revenues from its Las Vegas operations. Analysts fault MGM for its US-heavy portfolio, and for entering the Chinese market relatively late in the game compared to rivals such as Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts.
The company has two reportable segments that are based on the regions in which it operates: wholly owned domestic resorts and MGM China. MGM Resorts currently operates 15 wholly owned resorts in the US. MGM China's operations consist of the MGM Macau resort and casino.
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MGM Resorts spent about $139 million on advertising during fiscal 2012. The company advertises on the radio, television, internet, billboards, and in newspapers and magazines in selected cities throughout the US and overseas. MGM Resorts also use direct mail and social media to reach out to past guests and potential customers. The company advertises through regional marketing offices located in major cities.
Financial Performance
In fiscal 2012 the company's revenues spiked by 17% compared to fiscal 2011. The increase came from increased gaming revenues and a bump in business at the company's Las Vegas Strip resorts.
Cash flow decreased in fiscal 2012 due to increased use of cash in investing activities. During the year the company had capital expenditures of $423 million related to the room remodel at MGM Grand and Spa Tower at Bellagio. The company also spent money on various resorts for restaurant remodels, entertainment venue remodels, and theater renovations.
Despite the large increase in revenues during fiscal 2012, the company posted a loss of $1.8 billion, caused by increases in operating costs, interest expenses, and charges related to debt.
The company's MGM China is also partially-owned by private Macau casino developer Pansy Ho. Before MGM China's 2011 IPO, New Jersey regulators issued a report declaring Ho an ''unsuitable'' business partner for MGM, because of allegations her father Stanley Ho has had ties to organized crime. The government finding jeopardized MGM Resorts' license for its Borgata casino in Atlantic City, and MGM must sell its 50% share in the New Jersey property in 2013 in order to maintain its joint venture in Macau. (Borgata is also a joint venture; Boyd Gaming owns the other half and operates the resort.)
Founder Kirk Kerkorian owns more than 20% of the firm. Tracinda Corporation owns about 18% of the company.
Company Background
MGM Resorts was formed when MGM Grand acquired Mirage Resorts in 2000. The company shot to the top of the gaming world in 2005 when it acquired rival Mandalay Resort Group for $7.9 billion. However, Harrah's Entertainment surpassed MGM Resorts after it merged with Caesars. (Harrah's later changed its name to Caesars Entertainment.)
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If location is everything, then the should not even be on the books. This almost dollhouse-like restaurant sits in a very small square in Wilton, a pocket park village cradled by a ribbon of a brook, railroad tracks and a tree-laden lane of comfortable Colonials. For people driving down from Trumbull or even from nearby Greenwich, the Schoolhouse seems like a bit off the beaten track to go for dinner, but the place draws customers like bears to the honeypot. If a restaurant consistently serves good food at fair prices, the people will come, period, no matter how isolated or how far away or how humble the place may be. Good food in the middle of nowhere will always trump mediocrity in any restaurant on Main Street anywhere.
That's the case with the Schoolhouse, celebrating its fifth anniversary this year. Chef/owner Tim LaBant, a 37 year-old who has repeatedly reaped accolades for his cooking, describes his food as "American." An appellation that has become increasingly popular, "American" is obviously a synthesis of many cuisines. In the hands of a talented cook like LaBant, it is an uncommon creativity in the subjective interpretation of these cuisines. He worked in kitchens of well-known chefs of Asian and French food before he launched his catering career a number of years ago. Catering is still a huge part of his business, while the restaurant allows many more people to experience his food just as it comes out of the kitchen.
LaBant forages into French (the Mornay sauce in the warm asparagus appetizer and the crème fraîche with the chicken and the spoon bread ), Mexican (chili-lime juice with fried calamari), Spanish (gazpacho), Italian (branzino over warm zucchini salad), Native American (corn spoon bread underpinning chicken). He doesn't go in for swirls and whirligigs on his dishes. Nor are there towers to the sky or foam vaporizing before you can even inhale an elusive aroma. What he cooks is just good food that's nicely presented and delicious.
We went to the Schoolhouse on a stormy night, for the Thursday night prix fixe dinner of $40 per person. There are two selections for each of the four courses, so the two of us enjoyed the entire menu. If you opt for the wine pairings on three of the courses, your bill is $65 for each diner.
One of LaBant's fortés is to make bedfellows of ingredients not often seen cavorting on the same plate, like the lobster and julienned nasturtium in the cold gazpacho beautifully tempered with watermelon though a bit more lobster would have added considerably to the lushness of the soup. Watermelon again steps up to the plate, this time cooling the bite of chili and smoky cilantro alongside the calamari. Poached asparagus is cuddled in a creamy sauce enriched with melted Gruyère and earthy morels. The dish is also composed of half of a hard-boiled egg, whose soft yolk is a brilliant golden yellow. This dish is so simple, so elegant, that it sings.
And how about thick peasant bread, tamed by a bit of toasting and brushed with olive oil as a platform for ricotta and sliced apricots? Won't that wow your guests at your next dinner party? Thick slices of chicken breast punctuated by colorful golf-size heirloom tomatoes meet spoon bread silkened by crème fraîche. The branzino is greeted by a felicitous chorus from the vegetable patch: green and yellow squash, peas, lima beans, zucchini blossoms, cucumber and mint. Quinoa also creeps into the mélange.
Corn gets roasted to be churned into ice cream scooped into an sundae glass, layered with crumbled maple corn cake and blackberries, and topped with whipped cream whispering of lavender. Although corn ice cream is not a novelty by now, it's fun to taste the spin the pastry chef at the Schoolhouse brings to this blackberry classic. A bevy of flavors from rosemary maple honey, almond-coconut granola, and cinnamon stick ice cream elevate the fig upside down cake from farmhouse simplicity to an elegant dessert worthy of dinner for the boss. I love its not-too-sticky caramel cloak and the barest hint of orange.
Wines are just as intriguing because one doesn't often get an opportunity to explore unheralded grapes or wineries that produce wonderful products at affordable prices. The viognier from Pie De Palo, Argentina, played some exotic tropical notes against the gazpacho while the tangy Sancerre made a very good marriage with the calamari as well as with the peach/ricotta toast. In the one misstep of the evening, our waiter never served us the alaia from Spain, although we spied glasses of red wine on nearby tables. I decided to let that go because I was still nursing the Sancerre, but I should have spoken up.
The trappings at the Schoolhouse are by no means haute décor, which would have been so out of place. It's easy to imagine the restaurant as the one-room schoolhouse it was in the late 1800s. LeBant has deliberately chosen to keep the building small (32 covers at one seating) and it's easily recognized in a vintage black-and-white framed photograph inside. The white clapboard with its brick walkway, flanking garden beds and cupola (alas, the bell that summoned students to class is missing) is worthy of a Norman Rockwell imprint. The interior, of course, has been updated. It now sports dark chocolate brown paint on upper walls and light-refracting white walls below the wainscoting. There are long banquets decked out in a chevron print under the windows on two sides and linen-napped tables with a posy bouquet on each table.
Since the tables are so close together, you find yourself chatting with the people on either side of you. There was a couple, married 56 years, celebrating a birthday, and on the other side of us, five very happy young moms were toasting their few hours of escape from kids, husbands and chores. The Schoolhouse is so cozy you can come decked out in jacket and tie or in kakis and sport shirt.
Menus change frequently, particularly the Thursday night prix fixe, but half the fun is in the discovery of the unusual. And the other half of the discovery is to savor really good food in a little niche in pastoral Wilton.
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Santa Claus is marshaling his elves to help a cancer-stricken little girl to bring her some desperately needed smiles.
Santa stopped by Bailey Bennett's home in Oak Grove to tell her a little about his special plans. But he also needs your help to make this Christmas extra memorable.
Instead of Flat Stanley, Santa brought Bailey her own "Elf on the Shelf," which she named Peppermint.
"This is Santa's book of good children," Santa told the 8-year-old girl.
She's a little shy, but there's no question she's on that good list. Bailey has earned her place because she's battling stage IV Neuroblastoma, which is an aggressive form of cancer.
Just this month, the family got some heartbreaking news.
"Less than two weeks ago, we were in Cincinnati for a treatment and it didn't actually go through, we didn't get the treatment. They sent us home," Bailey's mom, Nichole Polen, explained. "There's nothing left that they can offer her."
So this Christmas has to be special, and of course, Santa brought presents - like the blanket from his sleigh last year.
Santa told Bailey, "Whenever you're having a tough time, you can put that on and squeeze real hard and know that it's a hug that's coming from me, because Santa loves you all the time."
Santa explained that he chose Peppermint because it will remind her of Christmas.
But Santa was really there to bring an "Elf on the Shelf" to watch over Bailey and tell Santa how she's doing along with the adventures she has along the way.
"I thought that we could name her something about Christmas, like Peppermint," said Bailey.
Bailey doesn't know it yet, but Peppermint has even more plans, and here's where you can help.
A group of local anonymous do-gooders, the Elves of Christmas Present, is gathering volunteers to send Peppermint on adventures. Anyone can get a copy of one of the elves, pose it in fun places and take photos to put up on a Facebook page.
"It will help lift her spirits, I think every day," said Polen.
It's giving a special girl one more thing to look forward to and another friend to stand by her, day by day.
"She's an inspiration to a lot of people. She's tough, she's tough," Polen said, as Santa gave her a final hug and wished Bailey: "Merry Christmas to you, dear."
Click here to see how you can get instructions to get a Peppermint for Bailey.
Click here to read more about the Elves of Christmas present and how you can help make special wishes come true.
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Race is no obstacle for brave Sam
9:00am Sunday 16th March 2014 in Local News By Caroline Tilley
A WOMAN is preparing to run the longest obstacle course in the world.
Sam Baxter, 39, of Laindon, will fight her way through 200 obstacles on the 20-mile course in May.
As well as trying to make her way across the world's largest monkey bars, which only three people have ever managed to do, she will have to crawl under barbed wire, and wade through a construction site filled with scaffolding.
The exhausting feat will be even more of a challenge for Sam after she broke her hip running a half marathon last summer.
Sam, of Monastery Road, said: "I just couldn't walk.
"I had to have emergency surgery and they thought I was going to have to have my hip replaced this year, but I have been given the all-clear.
"There's no doubt the course will be hard, but I did the smaller version last year and I really want to do the full thing this time."
Contestants will face a water wipe-out zone, where they have to jump across obstacles in water, fight their way through a village in the trees and crawl over seven foot horse jumps.
Sam is back up to running five miles at a time since her accident in order to train for the competition, but she said she will be happy if she just finishes.
She said: "I haven't got a time in mind.
"Some people do it in less than three hours, but I honestly just want to get round."
The Rat Race Dirty Weekend takes place at Burghley House, near Stamford, Lincolnshire on May 10.
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Of the 102 New Factories Planned From 2013 to 2020, 67 Will be Located in Asia
DETROIT, June 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Of the 102 new factories planned from 2013 to 2020, 67 will be located in Asia, according the PwC's Autofacts. In the latest publication titled, How to be No. 1: Facing future challenges in the automotive industry,' finding the right assembly location is one of the top priorities for automotive companies.
"A key trend in the industry is 'build where you sell,'" said Felix Kuhnert, PwC's European automotive leader. "Automakers continue to have their sights on the Chinese market where sales and assembly are forecasted to grow to approximately 30 million by 2020. Each market has different customer preferences that automakers are producing to meet those local demands. The level of that customization varies in complexity from market to market, impacting production costs."
PwC analysis indicates that an estimated 400 trillion possible variations are offered in a typical German mid-class vehicle model. This is compared to just 1,500 variants offered in a comparable vehicle in the Chinese market.
Planning is critical for automakers. While demand for different models and variants continues to change, automakers need flexible suppliers who are able to deliver the required modules and components reliably and on-time. And the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) should to be able to install the right parts and produce their own customized versions where necessary. That means flexible assembly lines, ideally those that can produce vehicles across different segments.
In addition, shorter production cycles create other challenges, such as increasing the need to modify production processes. That means it's important to plan ahead for future vehicle generations and work to integrate a high-level of standardization into platforms and vehicle architecture.
"Global platforms are essential to improving profit margins for automakers," noted Rick Hanna, PwC's global automotive leader. "Strategically companies approach global platforms to meet their needs based on R&D, vehicle segment, market, and a number of other factors. Having a plan to fulfill the production model of tomorrow can make the difference in gaining future market share."
As the automotive industry continues to grow to record levels, the industry should consider the challenges ahead, including:
Automotive manufacturers and suppliers are confronted with complexity as a result of increasing numbers of products and options, shorter technology cycles, increasing pressure to innovate and global supply networks. And at the same time they need to balance the needs and demands of customers, investors, regulators, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the public.
Competition breeds efficiency, inventiveness, flexibility and decisiveness mandatory. The key to success for the challenges in this fast moving environment are:
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About PwC's Automotive PracticePwC's global automotive practice leverages its extensive experience in the industry to help companies solve complex business challenges with efficiency and quality. One of PwC's global automotive practice's key competitive advantages is Autofacts®, a team of automotive industry specialists dedicated to ongoing analysis of sector trends. Autofacts provides our team of more than 4,800 automotive professionals and our clients with data and analysis to assess implications, make recommendations, and support decisions to compete in the global marketplace.
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No video updates at the moment, as my entire night was spent at the Eleventh Annual Las Vegas Supermeet, a meeting of the Creative Pro User Group Network, which is a gathering of editors and like-minded post people. Unfortunately the event was plagued by projection and sound problems (the in-house staff are the only people who can touch that stuff). It's ironic that this happened to a room full of nerds who understand the issues and could have fixed it pretty easily! Regardless we got to see a bit of Adobe CS6, the new Smoke, the Blackmagic Cinema Camera, Shane Hurlbut talked about the Canon 1DC, and we got a wonderfully hilarious talk from Morgan Spurlock, who went into detail about his career. More »