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I know, I know, I think the nomination form failed to mention some key points that may have really docked my score had they come to the judges' attention: things like how I slam doors when I'm mad and how I missed my daughter's dance performance last week.
I know that there are so many other mothers who are much more worthy of this title than I am. I happened to be in the right place at the right time. But I am very honored. And my kids, bless their sweet little hearts, had stars in their eyes that they got to go to such a special dinner for their mom (Lucy got to stay home with a great babysitter).
I think it's interesting that my own mother happened to be the "Young Mother of the Year" in Utah years ago. I still remember when she gave her acceptance speech. My younger, teenager self was there in the audience with stars in my eyes, so proud of her.
She and my Dad flew down for the big event.My in-laws were in town from Idaho too and so many kind friends and family came to show their support.
Each of them is an amazing mother in her own right. I'm so grateful for their examples of honoring motherhood in my life.Elle was the self-assigned "event photographer" for our family.
She got some interesting shots.The Mother of the Year and Young Mother of the Year from 2010 spoke for a while, there were "Honored Mothers" who have done outstanding things in their communities who were recognized, and then the new Mother of the Year and I gave our little acceptance speeches.
They requested that I bring whatever I felt described me and display it there:
My table looked a little silly next to the Mother of the Year's table which was laden with awards of all sorts. She is quite an amazing lady.In April I will go to the national convention and meet all the other "Young Mothers" from across the United States and I'll meet regularly with the local chapter of American Mothers. Hopefully I will have some opportunities to do one of the things I love most: promote the power of motherhood.
49 comments:
- Kara Pothier said...
Glad I was there to share in that honor! Congrats-
- March 1, 2011 at 8:44 AM
- Raluca said...
Congratulations! You are doing a great job! Love your blog.
- March 1, 2011 at 8:52 AM
- Lesa said...
Congrats! You have a beautiful family. Motherhood is the best!
- March 1, 2011 at 8:53 AM
- SydneyMin said...
Awesome! Well-deserved :) Glad there are people out there recognizing you for the wonderful mom you are!
- March 1, 2011 at 8:55 AM
- Eyrealm said...
Well-deserved honor! Such fun to be with you!
- March 1, 2011 at 8:56 AM
- Gabriella said...
Congratulations! From what I read on your blog, that award is so well-deserved!
- March 1, 2011 at 9:07 AM
- Seriously... said...
congratulations! you are a great example of motherhood! you deserve it!
- March 1, 2011 at 9:07 AM
- jeana said...
Congratulations! You deserve it!
- March 1, 2011 at 9:08 AM
- NattybyDesign said...
What a great example you are to all of us "young" mothers!
- March 1, 2011 at 9:09 AM
- Chelsea Coon said...
Congrats Shawni!!! You sooo deserve it! You are such a great example and I'm so glad I've gotten to get to know you!
- March 1, 2011 at 9:18 AM
- Glenn and Natalie said...
How wonderful! Congratulations Shawni--you deserved it:)!
- March 1, 2011 at 9:59 AM
- Admin said...
Congratulations, Shawni!
I am thrilled that you will be representing Arizona mothers! I, too, was humbled to hear recently that I will have the opportunity this year to represent Utah mothers as "Young Mother of the Year". I am looking forward to meeting you at the National Convention. Our moms have been friends for ages, so it will make the meeting you all the more anticipated (on my part)!
Emi Dalton Edgley
- March 1, 2011 at 10:04 AM
- charity said...
you are so cool. and I'm your sister. makes me feel cool! xxx
- March 1, 2011 at 10:11 AM
- Susan said...
Wow! I had no idea there are awards for mothers! Congratulations! And you get mad?! haha... makes me feel better : )
- March 1, 2011 at 10:36 AM
- bludworths said...
Congratulations Shawni! You are so deserving of such an award. Thanks for reminding all of us how blessed we are to be mothers!
- March 1, 2011 at 10:42 AM
- Ann Marie said...
Congratulations! From everything I have read on your blog you are an outstanding mother! This is very much deserved!
- March 1, 2011 at 10:51 AM
- Louise said...
Congatulations! This post made me teary, so well deserved. ps. Elle did a great job with her camera skillz!
- March 1, 2011 at 11:11 AM
- Melanie said...
Congratulations! I am not surprised you were chosen. From everything I know about you, you are a fabulous mother! And how fun to see your cute kiddos in those pictures looking so proud of you.
- March 1, 2011 at 11:15 AM
- Kelly's Blog said...
If I could be half the person you are, I would be such a better person/mother/wife.
You are an inspiration!!
Love the blog!!
- March 1, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- Cheryl said...
You are such a great example and inspiration of a wonderful Mom! None of us are perfect, but you are doing so many things right!
- March 1, 2011 at 11:54 AM
- Kristin said...
Congratulations!!! That is wonderful! :)
- March 1, 2011 at 12:58 PM
- Holly said...
Congratulations! what an honor, but more importantly, what a legacy of wonderful mothering! I have learned so much from reading your blog and so enjoy hearing about your family and seeing all of their smiling faces!!
- March 1, 2011 at 1:43 PM
- Susan R said...
Congratulations, what an honor. You should feel deserving because you are.
I know several people who have more than 5 children, but anyone who has the courage to have and raise 5 or more children is deserving of all kinds of awards.
Hey...you have to fix the red (vampire) eyes on your photos.
- March 1, 2011 at 1:53 PM
- teamkc said...
You are my hero. The End.
- March 1, 2011 at 1:56 PM
- Cardalls said...
The Young Mother in Nevada is Stephanie Waite who is amazing and has a wonderful blog too
Yours is one of the only "Mormon Mommy Blogs" I can stand to read...yours is so real yet full of joy in motherhood. You deserve the award!
- March 1, 2011 at 2:27 PM
- Nichole said...
It was fun to be there! When I heard you were nominated I thought it was the perfect title for you. You are such a natural at being a mom. You make me want to be a better one! Congrats Shawni!!!
- March 1, 2011 at 3:54 PM
- SupaFlowaPowa said...
Congratulations! That is awesome - makes me really look forward to motherhood, especially among all the skeptics in this world.... I hope it's all you are making it out to be!
- March 1, 2011 at 4:02 PM
- Stephanie said...
I came over to your blog after seeing the comment on my blog from "Cardalls" telling me about you. As soon as your blog came up I recognized it. I am not a blog surfer. I haven't been to very many blogs but I had been to yours somehow. Then I noticed we have a mutual friend in Erika Garner.
I would love to email with you a bit before the convention in April. If you are interested in this my email is firstname.lastname@example.com.
Congratulations by the way.
- March 1, 2011 at 6:53 PM
- Shell in your Pocket said...
Congrats to you-
sandy toe
p.s. I watched your video on another post and you seem like you fit that title quite well.
- March 1, 2011 at 7:02 PM
- Chrissie said...
Congratulations! I had no idea, but it is totally fitting :)
- March 1, 2011 at 7:12 PM
- Elisha Wiggins said...
Congratulations! You are an awesome example and so deserving of this award.
- March 1, 2011 at 7:19 PM
- whaemmer said...
Congratulations, Shawni!! You are an amazing woman with a beautiful family!! You are an inspiration to all mothers!!
- March 1, 2011 at 7:41 PM
- Nancy said...
woooooow!! Congrats!!
- March 1, 2011 at 7:59 PM
- Kristen Duke Photography said...
I wondered if you would go to the convention. My mom goes every year, she just finished her 2 year term as the National President and is an officer now. She has done it for many years and I believe rubbed shoulders with your mom way back when. Raelene Hill is her name. She is busy working on the yearbooks for this years convention as I type. I love your display!
- March 1, 2011 at 8:28 PM
- stacie said...
Congratulations! Although I just found you out here in blogland and I live hundreds of miles away ... you inspire me all the time! I think you're one amazing Mama!! Thank you.
- March 1, 2011 at 8:57 PM
- Garrity said...
I absolutely think you deserve this award - even though I know nothing about the nomination process.
In fact, can someone enlighten me? Is this an organization that ladies belong to (kind of like an honors society or a sorority)and they vote amongst their members? Or does a 'panel of experts' suddenly one day telephone or postal mail a lady telling her that she's the best mother in her state for that calendar year?
I hope it doesn't make moms feel like they're in a competition. Or does it?
- March 2, 2011 at 12:03 AM
- LaDawn said...
Shawni--congratulations! It is so fun to know you, watch and learn from such an amazing woman!
- March 2, 2011 at 12:12 AM
- Heather said...
You are truly wonderful...congrats dear friend!
- March 2, 2011 at 5:57 AM
- Love Being A Nonny said...
From my view, you deserve this. Bless you for mothering TO THE BEST OF YOUR ABILITY...and for your encouragement to so many others. Your message seems to be *you don't have to get it right to do it well.*
- March 2, 2011 at 6:08 AM
- Michelle said...
Congrats, Shawni!! So cool!
- March 2, 2011 at 8:57 AM
- Karen said...
Congratulations!!! My aunt was also young mother of the year for her state this year. It's a great honor!
- March 2, 2011 at 9:17 AM
- Rachel said...
You are perfect for this honor! I think you've inspired countless of us readers in ways you don't even know, and helped us all carry on a little bit better in motherhood.
- March 2, 2011 at 11:47 AM
- Raskills said...
Yay! I'm so glad you were awarded this - your strong devotion and love for your family and the gospel are such an inspiration to me! Thanks for continuing to blog. :)
- March 2, 2011 at 1:51 PM
- Keisha said...
Congratulations! Very well deserved (from what I read on your blog). You inspire me to be a better mother & we need more of you out in this world to make women WANT to be better!
- March 2, 2011 at 1:55 PM
- Caroline Green said...
A well deserved honor Shawni! You continue to amaze and inspire!
- March 2, 2011 at 9:13 PM
- Tracey said...
You are a shining example of what a mother should be! Love you. xoxo
- March 2, 2011 at 10:14 PM
- Emine said...
I just love your pictures. I have a canon Rebel XT but don't know what kind of lence to get to take bright pictures like yours. when there is no good light my pictures looks awful.
- March 5, 2011 at 5:11 PM
- shawni said...
Garrity, I'm actually not entirely sure how the nomination process goes, but I just know that people can nominate anyone they feel may be a good candidate. It doesn't feel like a competition, at least not from my point of view...just a nice way to recognize motherhood.
- March 6, 2011 at 6:42 PM
- Julie said...
Congratulations!!! Wonderful! I'm a nominee for my state for 2012. I just found your blog and can't wait to read more and see more of your beautiful family. Have fun at the national convention!
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And while on the subject of the nursery- imagine this:
creamy white walls with neutral bedding {white bumperpads w/ a linen cribskirt and a white coverlet w/ linen bedskirt for the twin bed in the room}
Here is the fabric that I'm using for the bedding (the one on the right will also be on my rocker/ottoman):
And now for the color. Now y'all know that I'm not a color person---- but I'm thinking I want a little bit since it's a nursery. Everything is neutral except:
crib & lantern: pale aqua
lamp for side table: yellow
maybe some simple artwork on the walls
That brings me to Amy Butler's August Fields fabric in the Coreopsis pattern. Here it is in peach (which works with the yellow/aqua combo I have going on):
And here it is in the yellow- again still works:
I would use this color/pattern for two 20" pillows for the twin bed- and maybe for a throw blanket to keep on the rocker.
With ALL of that said/in mind- which colorway do you like better? Or neither? While I know which one I'm leaning towards- I would love to hear your thoughts!
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We love the area with EVERYTHING at our doorsteps, the cafes, shopping, Prahran Market, beautiful parks and gardens and of course all of our wonderful friends. But the time has come to move to something slightly larger for our growing family. We're moving only 25 mins away close to the beach, so its a sea change I suppose. And I definitely won't miss the traffic.
After all these years of renting you can't imagine how exciting it's been to be able to renovate a place of our own. It's nothing fancy or large, but it felt like home the moment we stepped inside. I'll show you the before and afters when we get to the 'after' stage but for now we're in packing mode. I just want to start fresh. I don't want those hand-me-down furniture items you just kind of end up with. I want everything in that house to be something I have chosen and love. And it's time to get seriously organised. I want to throw out that plastic laundry basket and start fresh with some clever and lovely storage and cleaning stuff. That's the theory anyway, the bank balance might be a totally different situation! ps. that ironing board below is over $200- not gonna happen!


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The Charleston Battery defeated the Phoenix FC Wolves by a score of five goals to one Wednesday night at Blackbaud Stadium in front of 2,786. Forward Dane Kelly led the way with two goals as the Battery moved into a tie for fourth position in the USL PRO standings.
The Battery enjoyed the better of the opening exchanges but did not break through with the first goal until the 31st minute. Quinton Griffith played in a corner from the far side and Amadou Sanyang snapped a header at goal from inside six yards. Phoenix goalkeeper Neil Kitson made the initial save but defender Colin Falvey was first to react and volleyed home the follow-up.
The Battery doubled its lead on the 59 minute mark as Jose Cuevas picked out Dane Kelly with a near post cross. Kelly beat his defender to the ball and angled a header past Kitson into the goal.
Five minutes later the Battery moved further ahead after a frantic sequence in front of goal. Bryce Alderson shot from the left side but saw his effort come back off the bar. Cuevas tried to drive in the rebound but instead found Kelly who spun and slammed home a left-footed shot.
Phoenix defender Scott Morrison pulled a goal back for the visitors in the 71st minute with an exquisite curling free-kick but his celebrations were short lived as the Battery hit back quickly with a fourth goal. Substitute forward Heviel Cordoves drove the ball across the face of goal and Morrison's attempted clearance skewed the ball into his own net.
Midfielder Amadou Sanyang added a fifth for the Battery just before full-time with close range finish as the Battery scored five goals in a game for the first time this season.
The Charleston Battery concludes a three-match home-stand this Saturday night with a 7:30 PM game versus the LA Blues at Blackbaud Stadium (1450 AM).
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A selection committee in late March ranked Fentress first of eight proposals received in response to a city bid for the project.
Miami Beach is looking for a firm to draw up plans that will become the basis of another bid — this one to pick a design-build team that will complete a $500 million renovation.
At a special meeting scheduled for April 9, the city commission will weigh the committee's rankings and the city manager's recommendation and make the final decision to award the current bid.
In selecting Fentress, Morales noted the firm's 27 years of experience in convention center planning and design, and its experience keeping convention centers open while under construction. Morales also emphasized that the company has "completed 150 public buildings on time and on budget." The company has built new convention centers in Denver, Colo.; Palm Springs and Pasadena, Calif.; and Sante Fe, N.M.; and currently is expanding the San Diego Convention Center.
Fentress also earned a nod for its familiarity with the Miami Beach project — the firm was on the second-place team in last year's convention center proposal. A mostly new commission, elected in November, voted to dump the old project, which had a $1 billion price tag and spanned 52 acres of prime real estate in the heart of South Beach.
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PHOENIX -- An ABC reality show that centers on weight loss will be hosting a casting call in the Valley on Saturday.
The casting team of "Extreme Weight Loss" will hold an open call on Saturday, Feb. 22, at Toby Keith's I Love This Bar and Grill in Peoria, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
The ABC show features Chris Powell, a trainer/transformation specialist, helping each participant safely drop half their body weight over the course of one year using exercise regimens and healthy eating.
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It is low tide in one of the myriad mangrove creeks accessible along the southwest Florida coast in Everglades National Park. It is a sight and smell I witnessed so many times that today I need only close my eyes to see again.
The water is completely off the flats and the redfish and snook that patrol these flats, feeding at high tide, are in the creek as far out as the creek mouth. The shore birds and wading birds are everywhere, poking and prodding in the mud, and fishing along the edge. A pair of skimmers comes rocking down the creek with their lower bill barely in the water leaving a slight trail. One hits a baitfish and breaks formation swinging high to swallow its catch.
Over my left shoulder a flock of flamingos, almost looking like they were freshly painted that hot pink color, glides by. Every few minutes a white crown pigeon that migrated up from Cuba or over from the Bahamas flies at tree top level. They always seem to be flying the same direction, as if they had a rendezvous of some sort. Game birds and considered very tasty in the Caribbean, they are protected here. In fact, all of the wildlife here is protected.
Somewhere on Cape Sable is the grave of Guy Bradley, an Audubon Society warden, who was murdered by plume hunters in 1905. His death led directly to federal legislation banning the killing of wading birds. I found his grave once a long time ago.
According to somewhat conflicting stories, Bradley was shot while trying to apprehend plume hunters on the Oyster Key bird rookery, and his body was discovered somewhere near Flamingo. The large key in Florida Bay just to the west of Flamingo is named Bradley Key in his honor. The marker that originally identified the location of his grave is now in the park visitor's center.
I still smell the flats. Like an old friend that beckons me to go fishing, the odor will forever linger in my mind. We used to be able to pick up the smell on the old Ingram Highway, now a paved road that leads from Homestead to Flamingo. As we approached Flamingo, it was always a special treat to be the first to find the smell. It was a game we played.
As a kid, I had a number of games to play on the way to Flamingo. As he drove, I would count with my father the number of swamp rabbits sitting along the edge of the road; one hundred and one, one hundred and two. They were everywhere on the roadside, and seemed to be more numerous the closer we came to Flamingo. We counted deer, box turtles and snakes. Sometimes in the early morning dark a lightening show from a lingering thunderstorm completely lit up the grass prairie.
Nine-Mile Pond. The last curve in the road that headed now in a straight line for the ramp at Flamingo was at Nine Mile. We stopped there more than once. I remember one terrible day that we headed home early. Normally we fished until the sun was one thumb notch up from the horizon. That meant we had thirty minutes of daylight left, just enough time to make it back to the ramp safely. We stopped to see the last and southernmost body of freshwater on the Florida peninsular. A sign asked us – actually warned us – not to feed the alligators. As we stood at the water's edge, two very large gators made their way toward us from the middle of the lake. It was obvious they were used to being fed.
Somehow, on all those days when it was just me and Pop, I was always the one that seemed to count the most rabbits. I was always the one that picked up the smell of the flats first. He never won. Oh, sure – I know why. But it takes me longer to realize some things than I really wish it would.
I still smell the flats. I will always smell them when my mind wanders to a time when fishing was great; a time when a boy could be a boy with his father; a time when even a peculiar odor could evoke life long memories.


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I love Mexican food: spicy, fresh, and exotic yet with easy to find ingredients. It can be fancy fine dining or as down to earth as the delicious tacos you can find in carts along the street.
So how can you mess up a simple tostada?! Shan and I went out this week on a rare date and when looking for somewhere to eat chose a Mexican restaurant. We weren't expecting anything amazing, just somewhere decent to get a bite after our movie. We don't go out to eat very often, so if we do and it's not good I feel so cheated! Like I wasted my restaurant experience. It was terrible – cold, grey meat with no seasoning, just a sad, sad plate. Thank God for my Corona and the lovely company or it would have been a total loss.
Whenever this happens, I end up craving the food I was slighted. All week I'd find myself dreaming about enchiladas, posole, and tamales, so this weekend I decided to try out the Beer-Braised Turkey Taco recipe in this month's Food and Wine.
This is very easy to make, and like soups and stews gives you the satisfaction of simmering something away on the stove while you tidy up the kitchen and throw together a salad. It uses turkey legs, which is cool, because I don't think I've ever actually cooked non-Thanksgiving turkey. I pulled the legs out of the package feeling like a queen at the Renaissance Festival.
Here's what you do, with my rebellions and inabilities to follow directions in parentheses: You just brown the legs, bone in, and remove from the pot, then sauté a diced onion, several garlic cloves, and an oregano sprig (I used dried…shh. I also forewent the jalapeño that's supposed to be added at this point so that Zoeya could eat it). After the onions are softened, add a diced tomato (I used a handful of cherry tomatoes since tomatoes are not in season) with a cinnamon stick and an ancho chili. Anchos are dried poblanos, so they aren't very spicy, but give a nice smoky flavor. Then, add a cup of water and a bottle of Mexican dark beer (they did not have Modelo Negro at the store so I settled for Dos Equis which is amber) and simmer away for about an hour. Observe my smoky caldron:
After an hour, remove the turkey from the pot and shred with two forks. This is a great answer to pulled pork for people who don't eat pork! Much lighter too. Reduce the liquid in the pot, puree it, and throw everything back in the pot to heat through.
In the meantime while the turkey was braising, I made a roasted tomato salsa by roasting the rest of the cherry tomatoes with some garlic cloves and a red chile, then pulsing them in the food processor – I rescued the chile from the roasting pan and chopped it a little finer so nobody would get a surprise bite. This turned out very nice, but it probably could have used another chile, especially since there was no jalapeño in the turkey sauce and we needed something to spice it up. Shan turned to sriracha. He puts that stuff on everything.
Finally, I just heated up some white corn tortillas, and made a quick salad from romaine, an avocado, and a can of octopus. This is my dear friend Denise's salad, and I love it because it's so easy to make (you just dress it with the oil from the can of octopus, a little salt and pepper and a spritz of lime) but it still feels special.
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'Cherry-picking' bill desperately needed
Over the past year, I have watched in amazement as a number of stakeholders from a certain school district in Howard County have written letters to the editor that have appeared in the Kokomo Tribune. All have the same message: They oppose Rep. Mike Karickhoff's "cherry-picking" bill that would prevent public schools from choosing their transfer students.
The resistance to this bill by so many people connected to a school district that is, in fact, carefully choosing its transfer students amazes me because it actually indicates a lack of confidence in their school. After all, if their teachers and school are so great, then why are they afraid to admit certain students? Could it be that the school itself is not so superior, but that their high standardized test scores and self-perceived superior school climate are a direct result of the socioeconomic status of the students who attend that school? And, in order to retain this mask of superiority, they are working hard to keep their student body as homogeneous as possible?
It could be that this school system and others like it are indirectly admitting what every teacher in a high-poverty, urban school already knows: It's a whole lot easier to be a "top performing" school when the vast majority of students in that school come from middle-class homes.
Study after study indicates that the No. 1 predictor of a student's success on standardized tests is not the student's teacher or school. It is the student's socioeconomic status. As Donald Orlich claimed in a recent study at Washington State University, students from middle-class homes outscore their poverty-stricken peers by as much as 60 percent on standardized tests.
The results of this study are nothing new, though. Paul Thomas of the New York Times argues in his article "Avoiding the Poverty Issue" that we have "decades of evidence that test scores reflect more significantly the lives of children than the quality of teachers or schools."
It follows, then, that schools choosing their transfer students based on test scores, parent interviews, attendance and behavior records from a previous school, or any other factor that influences academic achievement, is a form of socioeconomic segregation. If this segregation is allowed to continue, it could have devastating consequences for our community.
We all live in this community together. We are all human beings, woven together in a beautifully diverse tapestry. Some of us can try to erect walls around our middle-class schools and pretend that the poverty in this community is not our problem, but that won't make it go away.
Siphoning off resources from urban schools by picking off their best, most advantaged students is immoral because it ultimately hurts the poorest of the poor, those who lack the power and the resources to speak out for themselves. It also undermines one of the core values of our nation — that all children, regardless of race or ethnicity or socioeconomic status, deserve access to a quality education. It is this value that has made our country great.
I applaud Rep. Mike Karickhoff for standing up for our most disadvantaged students and their schools by pushing the "cherry-picking" bill through the Indiana House. And I thank the public educators in our community who have dedicated their lives to helping ALL children succeed.
Amy McCauley, Kokomo
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A reunion took place Tuesday morning in Evansville that's been more than 40 years in the making.
These veterans were never on the LST 325, but they were on two very similar LST's. The 824 and the 836, which have both since been decommissioned.
But that didn't matter to these guys. The memories flooded back just the same.
Jack Murphy hasn't been on an LST in 44 years.
"I hear this boom, boom, I thought I was dreaming, right," Jack recalls.
The first thing he recalls is a night in Vietnam when he was shot at.
"The tracer bullets and rockets, phew. I didn't have time to stick around," Jack says.
Listening to these guys relive the days, you learn tidbits you could only hear from them. Things like a certain hatch would constantly flood.
They also told 14 News about a stormy night aboard the 824, where an ammunition room held several 500 pound bombs and they had to make sure they didn't hit together.
For George Murphy, Jack's brother, it's also a reunion of long lost friends.
"It became a big family. There was only 124 of us on there. Everyone was just like everybody's brother," George says.
Although some habits are just too hard to break.
"Captain is the best man I've ever seen. He wants me to call him Bill now, but I told him I can't do it. He'll always be Captain as far as I'm concerned," George says.
The 325 is the only still active LST that looks like a Navy ship left in the U.S.
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Love and Marriage: How Much Are You Paying Uncle Sam for Your Wedding [Infographic]?
Average wedding costs are back on the rise with the average cost for tying the knot at about $28,000 in 2012. Newlyweds (or their families) are spending more due to regained confidence in the economy and all the new amenities available for guests (everything from photo booths to cartoonists). Our infographic looks at the average costs of wedding expenses and the sales tax associated with those costs. Full story


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The Browns are putting something together. They've held the Bengals scoreless in the second half while scoring 17 unanswered since the second quarter.
Quarterback Derek Anderson (who Terry Bradhaw referred to as "Derrick Alexander" in the halftime show, whoops!) has thrown for 207 yards, while Jerome Harrison has recovered from his first-quarter fumble to rush 20 times for 95 yards. Meanwhile, entering the fourth quarter, the Bengals' Carson Palmer has managed only 120 yards passing.


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This serves as the formal, festival opening service for the academic year. This year it also marks the beginning of our 150th celebration. During the service we bid farewell and Godspeed to President and Ruth Ann Johnson. After worship, the festivities continue with live music (Country & Western) and refreshments in the Triangle. All are welcome!
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Spring break is here! Go wild.Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
With spring break comes a vacation from school classes — and for parents like me, a break from work.
March a great time to get outside and explore. It's generally not too hot, though often windy.
Some outdoors suggestions for spring breakers:
*Hike trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park or ride the Camp Murphy mountain bike trail. Admission: $6 per car. Call (772) 546-2771. The park also has canoe and kayak rentals and a pontoon boat that takes visitors up the Loxahatchee River to Trapper Nelson's camp.
*Paddle the Loxahatchee River — from Canoe Outfitters at Riverbend Park in Jupiter or from Jonathan Dickinson State Park. The narrow, winding sections of the Loxahatchee near Riverbend Park are my favorites.
*Fish the Lake Worth or Juno Beach piers. Call 799-0184 for the Juno Beach Pier and 582-3474 for the Lake Worth Pier.
*If the weather is not too windy and the ocean relatively calm, try heading out on a drift boat such as the Blue Heron boats in Riviera Beach and Jupiter, the Lady K in Lantana and the Sea Mist in Boynton Beach.
*Explore the Everglades. Wake up early, drive to the main entrance of Everglades National Park near Homestead, stop at the visitor center, then continue down the scenic drive to Flamingo for a boat tour or to rent a canoe. Bring food and drink. You can camp overnight in Flamingo or drive back to Palm Beach County the same day if you start early. Don't forget binoculars and a camera. Call (305) 242-7700 or go to www.nps.gov/ever
*Try one of the ranger-led swamp walks, hikes or canoe trips at the Big Cypress National Preserve. Start at the Oasis Visitor Center on U.S. 41 about 50 miles east of Naples. Call (239) 695-1201 or go to www.nps.gov/bicy.
*Go bass fishing on Lake Okeechobee. The bass bite has been strong lately, and March is often a peak month for catching big bass. Call Slim's Fish Camp in Belle Glade at (561) 996-3844 or Roland and Mary Ann Martin's Marina in Clewiston at (863) 983-3151 or Gerrard's Tackle Shop in Okeechobee, (863) 763-3416.
*Try snorkeling a reef at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park in Key Largo (305) 451-1202 or Biscayne National Park east of Homestead. For more information about Biscayne National Park, call (305) 230-1120 or go to www.nps.gov/bisc. Take a few minutes at both parks to stop in the visitor centers to learn about the fish you might see underwater. The diversity of marine life is amazing.


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Atlanta, Ga - Atlanta Police officers are investigating a stabbing incident that occurred Sunday at 6:40p.m. outside of the Georgia Dome, following the San Francisco 49ers/ Atlanta Falcons playoff football game.
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An Atlanta police spokesperson says that police with the Georgia World Congress Center are handling the matter.
Fans were cleared from the area in front of the Silver Lot along Georgia Dome drive to investigate the incident.
The victim's friends say that he has been transported to the hospital. The man is listed in stable condition in an Atlanta hospital.
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I lost some credibility for Queenryche when they released RAGE FOR ORDER, succumbing to pressures to dress thjemselves like Motley Cure or Poison or Dokken or Bon Jovi. But with EMPIRE and OPERATION… they proved once and for all their autenticity and special place in the metal world. It was hard to follow those two great albuns and one had to be expecting a brief decline in thheir next album. And it came in the form of PROMISED LAND, a really weak album, withou any firm orientation, lacking punch, over produced, totally synthesized.
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Quite simply, this is the finest effort in the Queensryche catalog. Rage For Order may be a little more musically ambitious, but R4O's problem is that it sounds dated, as great as it is. Promised Land sounds as fresh and vibrant today as the day I bought it. One of the top reasons for this album being their best, besides the music, is the fact that it has QR's most personal and introspective lyrics. Let's face it, as great as albums like Rage For Order and Mindcrime are, the lyrics lose their impact after a while. Can you really relate at all to Nikki from Mindcrime??? Promised Land has lyrics that I think a lot of people can indentify with, but that take on more and more meaning as you get older. How many of us have felt estranged from a parent or loved one at one time or another? Or felt like the goals you set earlier in life now seem out of reach? When I hear the words on this album, combined with music ranging from hard-hitting (I Am I), tragic (Someone Else), haunting (Lady Jane) to despairing (Promised Land), it makes that much more of an impact.No, you will not hear wanking guitars. No, you will not hear the usual amount of over-the-top Geoff Tate vocals. No, you will not get a sonic assualt of drum and bass. What you will absolutely get is an album of powerful music and lyrics, one that you can make a connection with (and yes, you can live a happy life and still identify with downcast lyrics), and one that will not leave you the same person as before.
First things first. Promised Land was the last Queensryche album that I liked and they have released nothing that I enjoyed much since 1994. As a matter of fact, whatever they did post-PL sounds nothing like the Queensryche we all discovered in the 80's and grew to love so much over the years. Unfortunately they took a completely different direction after this record obviously going for a more commercial sound alienating some of their die-hard fans along the way, myself included. Well, so be it. To me Promised Land was the last nail in the coffin of Queensryche and they will never be the same band again.I'm all for change and progression. I do not expect my favourite bands to carry on walking on the same musical path for ever. The self-titled debut was great as was The Warning. With Rage for Order they were onto new soundscapes and Mindcrime was the pinnacle of their success. With Empire they also managed to sell their albums. And all of this happened in a space of eight years always pushing their limits a bit broader and developing their mindset. As years passed by, the brilliance of Mindcrime and Empire was even more evident, so the guys took a long time — 4 years — to write their ultimate follow-up to these magnificent records. And Promised Land proved to be a completely different, more mature in a way and unexpected Queensryche album. While it surprised some fans, it eventually began to grow on those who were open-minded, particularly with "I Am I" getting a lot of airplay and MTV support.This is not a concept album or as unified a release as Mindcrime was; however it has its own unique traits to it and is possibly the most balanced album in their entire catalog. Everything runs so smoothly satisfying both the old metalheads and the ones who lean towards Ryche's proggy roots. The Pink Floyd influence was never so prevalent before. There are spots on this disc that are very reminiscent of Floyd's A Momentary Lapse in Reason for all I know. The opening tracks "I Am I" and "Damaged" both penned by DeGarmo and Tate are the heavier sides of the album with nice hooks and remarkable vocal harmonies. They are followed by "Out of Mind" and "Bridge" which are both stamped by Chris DeGarmo's trademark sound and feature the more laid-back and their softer moments. DeGarmo's solo in "Out of Mind" is perhaps the LAST guitar solo I liked on a Queensryche album. Its slow progression and minimal writing charged with tons of emotion make this solo a masterpiece all on its own standards. Too bad this guy got all the unfair crap from his very own fanbase and was always overlooked one way or another among prog metal listeners. Too bad because Chris DeGarmo, whether his musical style nowadays appeals to me or not, is one of the most prolific songwriters ever. He was always regarded the 'second' man of the band because of Tate, but it showed hideously how important his role in the band is when he left the band. And as for the albums that he played on, they weren't bad albums because of DeGarmo, they were bad because DeGarmo played on them without having his heart in it. That's my take at least. If Ryche was so good on their own, they wouldn't have asked him to co-write on their last album Tribe, would they?The title track, also the longest song on the album, is neatly placed right in the middle of the record and is my favourite song on the album. It was composed by all members in the band together and there is room for everyone to show how great they function together. "Promised Land" is an integral part of the way they all express themselves so well. The Floydan atmosphere is there, Tate does his lower register vocals flawlessly as well as he lets out his killer screams. I think this album was when his voice was its best. A perfect smooth tone with a lot expression. The rhythm work is top notch with solos played in random all over it. "Disconnected" is one of those songs I would despise if I heard it on their post-PL records but it sounds okay on this CD as it's the only one following the album's most complex track. It is very alternative sounding as it's the only tune that DeGarmo had no hand in writing. Still there's a nice solo towards the finale which makes it listenable. It is however sad that Ryche decided to ground their 'new' work on this song taking the easy way out instead of the title track with its layered melodies and intricate musicianship."Lady Jane" is another personal favourite of mine and while I have always enjoyed listening to "My Global Mind" as it's the next heavy tune to keep things in order I always believed it fell a little short in the lyrical department. As for the last two songs here, "One More Time" and "Someone Else?", the latter of which became another radio single, I have to point out that no Queensryche album has had such amazing album closers, that includes their masterpiece Mindcrime. I can't stop listening to this disc without hearing these two songs. Only then do I feel complete, hence the "perfectly balanced album" thing I mentioned previously. This album is so successfully produced and recorded it almost brings me to tears when I think of all the CDs they released after it. Why did all their brilliant ideas go down the drain all of a sudden?Promised Land is one of my top 3 Queensryche albums always changing places with Empire. Mindcrime is unquestionably their best moment, but I also highly recommend their earlier stuff if you like good heavy metal with progressive overtones. If you don't like metal and prog, but just simple alternative pop-rock, then maybe their newer material would be more up your alley.
People whine about HITNF but the truth is Queensryche's sound has evolved considerably all along. The EP was metal. The Warning was metal tinged with progressive. Rage was metal tinged with more progressive and some pop. Mindcrime was metal — progressive in the sense of telling a story, but musically, metal. Their masterpiece. Empire started the shift to a more lush pop sound, very much in Pink Zeppelin/Led Floyd sort of way while retaining some metal. With Promised Land, the metal was polished to such a smooth mirrored finish it's not really metal at all, but a masterful popcraft and one of the most listenable albums of the last decade. From here things went arguably south, but Promised Land is the Queensryche album the boys and girls, fans and non fans, critics and MTV viewers, can all agree on. Apart from Mindcrime, if you have one 'Ryche, have this one.
Promised Land is an incredible album that stands strong on its own merits, even outside of comparison to other QR efforts.As others have observantly stated, chances are Promised Land will not "grab" you on the first listen.. It didn't grab me at first; something I believe owes alot to its being so opposite a release than Empire. There's *so* much going on that you *couldn't* get it all on one listen. It isn't possible. But given the chance, reading the lyrics and listening to it atleast *once* with a good set of headphones.. it *will* grab you. It is by far the most personal of their efforts and is, in my opinion, the most masterfully crafted.From the songwriting to the performances, arrangements, "ambient layering" and production – everything is top-notch. The music, lyrics and Geoff's vocal delivery of each song are perfectly matched. If the raw emotion conveyed in the last verse of "Promised Land" alone doesn't draw some derivative of "whoah" out of you… little else will.If, as many people seem to feel, "Mindcrime" was the peak of 'ryche's career, then Promised Land is undoubtedly their second wind. My personal favorites are: 'Damaged', 'Bridge', 'Promised Land', 'One More Time' and 'Someone Else?'. All eleven tracks are brilliant and Promised Land is a work that no lover of deep, intelligent and masterfully conceived music should pass on giving a chance… or two… or three .


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Fox News' The Kelly File hosted 2012 Republican presidential nominees Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to attack President Obama's foreign policy and rewrite the history of U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq.
President Obama on August 7 authorized limited airstrikes against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq to prevent "genocide" and protect Americans in the region. The Islamic State released a video of its murder of American journalist James Foley on Tuesday, citing the U.S. airstrikes and demanding an end to them. The airstrikes prompted a right-wing media backlash blaming President Obama for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, which they accused of increasing the danger posed by the Islamic State.
On August 21, Fox host Megyn Kelly accused President Obama of a reversal on "whether he did or did not order the withdrawal of all of our troops," and of making the decision not to leave a residual force in Iraq. After making this assertion, she asked 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney whether Obama "is misleading the American people." Romney claimed President Obama had made "extraordinary errors with regards to the Middle East," and cited the lack of "the Status of Forces Agreement that would allow us to have troops in Iraq" as a fundamental cause contributing to the growth of the Islamic State and the danger it represents.
Contrary to this attempt to rewrite history, President Obama did not refuse to negotiate a SOFA with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to leave behind American forces. His attempts to negotiate the SOFA were thwarted by the Iraqi government, whose parliament was unwilling to approve the agreement -- approval that was made necessary by a precedent set in 2008 by President Bush.
Time reported in 2011 that the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq was "an overwhelmingly popular demand among Iraqis, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki appears to have been unwilling to take the political risk of extending" the existing SOFA. The AP also noted that the Iraqi government stopped the SOFA negotiations when it became unwilling to grant American troops legal immunity -- protections "common in nearly every country where U.S. forces operate," and similar to those guaranteed in Bush's 2008 SOFA. Colin H. Kahn, the senior Pentagon official responsible for Iraq policy during the first three years of the Obama administration, explained:
Iraq's prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, told U.S. negotiators that he was willing to sign an executive memorandum of understanding that included these legal protections. But for any agreement to be binding under the Iraqi constitution, it had to be approved by the Iraqi parliament. This was the judgment of every senior administration lawyer and Maliki's own legal adviser, and no senior U.S. military commander made the case that we should leave forces behind without these protections.
Unfortunately, Iraqi domestic politics made it impossible to reach a deal. Iraqi public opinion surveys consistently showed that the U.S. military presence was deeply unpopular (only in Iraqi Kurdistan did a majority of people want American G.I.s to stay). Maliki was willing to consider going to parliament to approve a follow-on agreement, but he was not willing to stick his neck out.
So when Iraq's major political bloc leaders met in early October 2011 in an all-night session, they agreed on the need for continued U.S. "trainers" but said they were unwilling to seek immunities for these troops through the parliament. The die was thus cast. Obama and Maliki spoke on Oct. 21 and agreed that U.S. forces would depart as scheduled by the end of the year.
Suffering an election hangover after having been told by Fox News that Mitt Romney's victory was a sure thing (a "landslide" predicted by Dick Morris), some Republicans have promised to break their addiction to the right-wing news channel in the coming year. Vowing to venture beyond the comforts of the Fox News bubble, strategists insist it's crucial that the party address its "choir-preaching problem."
Good luck.
This grand experiment of marrying a political movement around a cable TV channel was a grand failure in 2012. But there's little indication that enough Republicans will have the courage, or even the desire, to break free from Fox's firm grip on branding the party.
For Fox News chief Roger Ailes, the network's slash-and-burn formula worked wonders in terms of catering a hardcore, hard-right audience of several million viewers. (Fox News is poised to post $1 billion in profits this year.) But in terms of supporting a national campaign and hosting a nationwide conversation about the country's future, Fox's work this year was a marked failure.
And that failure helped sink any hopes the GOP had of winning the White House.
From the farcical, underwhelming GOP primary that Fox News sponsored, through the general election campaign, it seemed that at every juncture where Romney suffered a major misstep, Fox misinformation hovered nearby. Again and again, Romney damaged his presidential hopes when he embraced the Fox News rhetoric; when he ran as the Fox News Candidate.
Whether it was botching the facts surrounding the terrorist raid on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, parroting the Fox talking point about lazy, shiftless voters who make up "47 percent" of the electorate, or Romney's baffling embrace of reality TV show host-turned Fox News pontificator Donald Trump, the Republican candidate did damage to his chances whenever he let Fox News act as his chief campaign adviser.
Fox viewers didn't fare much better. Fed a year's worth of misinformation about the candidates, and completely misled about the state of the race (all the polls are skewed!), Fox faithful were left crushed on Election Night when Romney's fictitious landslide failed to materialize.
"On the biggest political story of the year," wrote Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic, "the conservative media just got its ass handed to it by the mainstream media."
Ted Nugent claimed that Democratic politicians in Detroit "train[ed] and reward[ed] people to scam, cheat and refuse to be productive" causing the majority of residents to become "pimps, whores and welfare brats that have made bloodsucking a lifestyle" during an October 30 interview with The Washington Times. Nugent, a board member of the National Rifle Association and columnist for the Times, is also a high-profile endorser of Mitt Romney.
According to Nugent, President Obama is "doing everything he can to take the whole country down" the same path as Detroit:
It is so very true that my birth city of Detroit was the cleanest, most neighborly, positive-energy, work-ethic epicenter of planet earth when I was born there in 1948, right on through to the 1960s. Enter the liberal death wish of Mayor Coleman Young and a tsunami of negative, anti-productivity policies by liberal Democrats that put a voodoo curse on our beloved Motor City. When you train and reward people to scam, cheat and refuse to be productive, there is only one direction that society can go: straight down the toilet. It is truly a heartbreaker. Some wonderful people are still to be found back home, but they are outnumbered by the pimps, whores and welfare brats that have made bloodsucking a lifestyle. And now we have a president who is doing everything he can to take the whole country down that same path. Truly amazing.
Nugent also claimed that The New Deal and Great Society economic programs "succeeded in brainwashing a segment of our country to believe Fedzilla would provide for anyone who decided, for whatever reason, to not be productive."
The New Deal was responsible for creating the Social Security Administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Housing Administration, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs to combat poverty were responsible for the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, and a variety of other anti-poverty programs. These initiatives dramatically reduced the rate of poverty, particularly among the elderly.
A CNN article published yesterday about increased efforts by the National Rifle Association to defeat President Obama credulously echoed false NRA talking points on assault weapons, without noting Mitt Romney's well-documented flip flop on the issue.
The article notes that in responding to a question about assault weapons in Tuesday's presidential debate, Obama mentioned an assault weapons ban. Instead of offering independent reporting on the topic, CNN political director Mark Preston only provided readers with the take of the NRA's chief lobbyist, Chris Cox, on the issue of assault weapons bans:
"Some gun owners took Obama at his word four years ago, when he said he wouldn't take their guns away," said Chris W. Cox, executive director, NRA's Institute for Legislative Action. "So, after years of paying lip service to the Second Amendment, President Obama finally let it slip last night that he supports the most draconian form of gun control - a gun ban."
Preston, however, did not acknowledge that 62 percent of Americans, including 61 percent of Independents and 49 percent of Republicans, favor assault weapons bans. Nor did he mention that President Obama never made a promise to gun owners to not restrict access to assault weapons, as Cox suggested.
Turning to an exchange during Tuesday night's presidential debate where Romney was asked by moderator Candy Crowley about his changing position on assault weapons, Preston served as a stenographer for Romney without noting that the GOP nominee told a distorted version of events concerning his role in banning assault weapons while governor of Massachusetts.
In an October 16 column, Washington Times senior opinion editor Emily Miller praised Mitt Romney's opposition to gun violence prevention legislation while fearmongering about President Obama' s support for an assault weapons ban. But Miller did not acknowledge that Mitt Romney has been a proponent of assault weapons bans -- as recently as the last time that he ran for president.
Criticizing former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens for backing some gun restrictions, Miller warned that Obama "would put another liberal justice -- or three -- on the bench if given a second term." Miller presented Romney in sharp contrast to Justice Stevens, and reprinted Romney's claim that his "Sportsmen for Romney" coalition, whose members include representatives of the National Rifle Association and the gun industry, "will have a friend in the White House" if he becomes president. Obama, who has not enacted any new restrictions on firearms while president, was characterized by Miller as "an outspoken gun-control advocate before he ran for president."
By presenting Romney as a vigorous defender of gun rights, while attacking Obama on the issue, Miller effictively hid Romney's own well documented past support for rigorous gun violence prevention measures.
During tonight's presidential debate, Republican nominee Mitt Romney echoed a false claim from the National Rifle Association's radio show Cam & Company that whitewashes the former Massachusetts governor's record on guns.
News outlets will surely report on what was a contentious exchange between candidates on an issue that has thus far been ignored in the presidential race. But will they get to the bottom of Romney's past support for gun violence prevention measures?
Romney echoed the NRA talking point that an assault weapons ban he signed into law while governor of Massachusetts was agreeable to that state's leading gun advocacy group after moderator Candy Crowley suggested that his position on assault weapons has changed in recent years.
CROWLEY: Governor, if I could, the question was about these assault weapons that once were banned and are no longer banned. I know that you signed an assault weapons ban when you were in Massachusetts. Obviously with this question, you no longer do support that. Why is that given the kind of violence we see sometimes with these mass killings? Why is it that you've changed your mind?
ROMNEY: Well, Candy, actually in my state the pro-gun folks and the anti-gun folks came together and put together a piece of legislation. And it's referred to as an assault weapon ban, but it had -- at the signing of the bill both the pro-gun and the anti-gun people came together because it provided opportunities for both that both wanted.
The NRA has endorsed Romney and recently used its NRA News radio outlet to rewrite history in an attempt to hide Romney's past support for tough gun control measures.
During the October 2 edition of Cam & Company on NRA News, host Cam Edwards told viewers that Romney's gun policy while governor was in line with the positions of Gun Owners Action League (GOAL), the Massachusetts state gun advocacy group. Edwards also claimed that Romney loosened restrictions on assault weapons while governor instead of enhancing them. Neither claim is accurate.
NRA News is deliberately misleading its supporters about Mitt Romney's firearms policies while he served as governor of Massachusetts. During the October 2 edition of Cam & Company, host Cam Edwards suggested that any action taken by then-Governor Romney on assault weapons was supported by Massachusetts state gun rights group Gun Owners Action League (GOAL) and further stated that Romney "actually undid some of the damage" of the commonwealth's 1998 assault weapons ban. In fact, legislation signed by Romney in 2004 made the Massachusetts assault weapons ban permanent.
A July 1, 2004 press release issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, titled, "Romney Signs Off On Permanent Assault Weapons Ban," leaves little doubt that the former Massachusetts governor was involved in restricting access to assault weapons. Indeed, at the bill's signing ceremony Romney stated that the "sole purpose" of assault weapons is "hunting down and killing people." In response to the new law, GOAL stated that the Romney administration "took a major shot at lawful gun owners and showed their true colors."
CAM EDWARDS, HOST: Doc in Jacksonville, Florida says, "Cam, due to the fact that Mitt Romney signed a gun ban into law while he was governor of Massachusetts, does the NRA trust him to stand up for the Constitution and Second Amendment as president?" You know, I'm glad you asked this question, Doc. Last time -- I've got to promote this video because we've got it up I know on our YouTube page -- the last time we had Jim Wallace from the Gun Owners Action League in studio, that's the state-level organization in Massachusetts, we asked him about this. Because Mitt Romney did sign a bill as Governor of Massachusetts, but he did not institute an assault weapons ban. This was actually a bill that the Gun Owners Action League in Massachusetts supported. The quote unquote assault weapons bill, or excuse me the quote unquote assault weapons ban, was already law in Massachusetts. It was already permanent in Massachusetts. This bill actually provided some relief to gun owners in the state of Massachusetts. It was portrayed and it has been portrayed in the media as Governor Romney signed a bill to ban quote unquote assault weapons in the state of Massachusetts. But that's not the case. This was a bill, as I said, that was supported by the state gun owners' organization in Massachusetts because it actually undid some of the damage of that original legislation.
Fox News misrepresented Mitt Romney's statement that supporters of President Obama are the 47 percent of Americans who "pay no income tax" and "believe that they are victims."
Fox claimed that Romney was actually talking "about our country becoming an entitlement society and too dependent on government," and presented polling showing that most Americans agree with him.
But Romney's 47 percent remark was not simply an argument that Americans are becoming "too dependent on the government," as Fox anchor Gregg Jarrett and the poll claimed. Romney disparaged Obama supporters, saying:
ROMNEY: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them.
Romney also declared: "My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
But on Happening Now, Jarrett and his guest Steve Hayes hyped the findings of a Fox News poll that asked respondents if they agreed with "what Mitt Romney said on the tape about our country becoming an entitlement society and too dependent on government." Jarrett claimed that 63 percent of Americans think Romney is right. Jarrett's guest Steve Hayes said that while Romney "made an argument that had some problems with it," it is "indisputable" that Romney's "broader case is true."
Fox has defended Romney's comments since they were first revealed, but it seems clear the only way the network can get Americans to buy into its defense of the comments is by mischaracterizing them.
In an attempt to shield Mitt Romney's campaign from criticism that many of its claims against the Obama administration are based on falsehoods, conservative media have resorted to attacking fact-checkers, accusing them of liberal bias or of "shilling" for the Obama campaign. This is in keeping with the position of the Romney campaign, which has said, "We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers."
Local Wisconsin reporters say that as the national media begins to scrutinize Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) life and career following his selection as Mitt Romney's running mate, they may overlook details such as his inside-the-Beltway focus, the high level of unemployment in his hometown, and his family connection to the natural gas industry.
In the early stages of such reviews, news outlets are often dependent on the campaigns themselves, prior national coverage of the candidate, and even Wikipedia for insight and can miss the kind of information local reporters who have covered the vice presidential selection for years may know best.
Media Matters went to some of those local reporters in Wisconsin and asked for their take on the information voters, and reporters, need most but may miss as they look at Ryan's career.
One issue most journalists raised was that Ryan left Wisconsin at a young age and climbed the political ladder in Washington. One local scribe compared him to Dick Cheney in that regard, stating both men rose to the top by focusing on D.C. connections and not in home state political circles.
"The way to understand him is he is Dick Cheney, he is a guy who went to Washington as soon as he could, rooted himself in the establishment, got himself elected as soon as he could and became a major player," said John Nichols, an associate editor at the Capital Times in Madison. "He is Dick Cheney with very good hair."
Other Wisconsin news people who have covered Ryan describe him as likeable and accessible to reporters, but something of an unknown even to local voters who re-elect him regularly despite his hometown being hit by hard economic times.
Scott Angus, editor of The Janesville Gazette, the daily newspaper in Ryan's hometown, described Ryan's fellow residents as having mixed views on their representative.
"The people of Janesville are probably as divided about Paul Ryan as the rest of the country," Angus said Saturday, hours after Ryan was announced as Romney's choice. "A lot of people would view [Ryan's opinions] as pretty conservative and pretty far to the right and that does not sit well with a lot of people in his district."
Angus, a 21-year editor of the paper, added, "He has lived here, but he has not worked here much, he has been in Washington working on his career path. I think a lot of people are surprised because he has always said his plans were not to rise to national office. He never had any elected office until he was elected to Congress."
But Janesville's recent past is also important, several reporters said, citing the town's difficult economic situation, sparked by the closure of a General Motors plant in 2009.
"Their unemployment rate is double digits," said Jeff Flynt, a news reporter at WTAQ Radio in Green Bay. "For a state that is trying to turn around the business aspects of the state the fact that Janesville unemployment continues to be pretty high and you have a guy who is known pretty well nationally and has not found a way to help the plant or put something in its place, that may catch" the national media's attention.
Outlining the growing controversy about the timeline of Mitt Romney's Bain Capital career, CNN's Jim Acosta recently asked the candidate if he believed he was "being swift-boated in this campaign." Later that same evening, reporting on Anderson Cooper 360, CNN's Tom Forman forged a tighter connection, suggesting "Republican analysts fear Mitt Romney could become the second politician from Massachusetts swift boated out of the presidency."
Here's how Forman describe the Swift Boat affair [emphasis added]:
FORMAN: He's talking about the Swift Boat campaign, in which President Bush's challenger John Kerry was demonized over what his campaign considered an attribute. His decorated service as a soldier in Vietnam. The Swift Boat ads, backed by a group of pro-Bush veterans, questioned the Democratic challenger's conduct in the war, his anti-war activities later and his patriotism.
Kerry was slow to respond and never very effective in refuting their claims even though his critics offered little in the way of proof. He lost the election of course. And for many Democrats, swift-boating became a catch-all term for any unfair, untrue, personal assault on a candidate.
Trying to tie contemporary questions about Romney's Bain past with an infamous GOP smear campaign is an exercise in false equivalency. "The Swift Boat campaign was completely a lie," Esquires' Charles Pierce recently reminded readers. "Nothing the Swifties said about John Kerry was true." And yet, despite the cavernous gap between the Swift Boat affair and the ongoing Bain story, the comparison continues to gain currency.
The conservative Washington Examiner editorial page on Monday lamented the "Swift-Baining of Mitt Romney." What had the Obama campaign done that was so unfair to the Republican candidate? It had "seized on reports by liberal websites Mother Jones and Talking Points Memo -- and later by the Boston Globe -- citing Securities and Exchange Commission filings that listed Romney as the CEO of Bain after he was said to have left for the Olympics."
Quoting news outlets that cite government documents regarding Romney's employment record now constitutes a smear campaign?
Let's stipulate this fact going forward: A candidate having his résumé or biography examined during the course of a presidential campaign does not constitute being "swift boated." Enthusiastic "vetting" of candidates' backgrounds is a routine aspect of general elections.
The distinguishing feature of a Swift Boat smear campaign, of course, was that virtually every single war-era allegation made against Kerry's military service proved to be false, leaving the assumption that the entire point of the coordinated, deep-pocketed attack was to purposefully spread as manly lies as possible. And not just small fibs, but truly unconscionable lies about a serviceman's record during the unpopular Vietnam War.
On CBS Sunday morning, Face the Nation's Bob Schieffer gave a free pass to Mitt Romney's on his changed position on whether an individual mandate should be part of federal health insurance reform.
Schieffer's interview was the first Sunday morning interview Romney has done this campaign cycle with a show other than Fox News Sunday.
Schieffer asked Romney to respond to the assertion that the federal Affordable Care Act enacted by Obama is essentially the same as the plan that Romney enacted in Massachusetts. Romney responded that he believed an individual mandate at the federal level is "unconstitutional."
However, in a 2009 USA Today op-ed, Romney advocated for a federal individual mandate, expressly stating that the federal government follow his Massachusetts law as a model, a fact Schieffer did not bring up.
As TPM explained:
In July 2009, Mitt Romney called on President Obama to require Americans to buy insurance as part of his health care plan, using "tax penalties" as a backstop -- in other words, the individual mandate that Republicans virulently oppose.
In a USA Today op-ed titled "Mr. President, what's the rush?," which is also available on MittRomneyCentral.com, Romney urged Obama to "learn a thing or two about health care reform" from his Massachusetts plan that contained the same policy, and touted it as effective.
"First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance," Romney wrote. "Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages 'free riders' to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others."
The revelation could damage the GOP presidential frontrunner, who has been attacked by conservatives for enacting a similar law as "Obamacare," but has defended himself by saying such an approach is acceptable on a state level, not a federal level.
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When a distant Obama controversy was resurrected last week by the president's most fervent media foes, the New York Times noted how Mitt Romney's campaign distanced itself from the debate, and from the president's extreme critics.
The Times reported [emphasis added]:
On Thursday, the Drudge Report posted a link on its Web site to a report that sought to revive the long-discredited assertion that Mr. Obama was not born in the United States.
The Romney campaign has kept a considerable distance from the anti-Obama fringe. It only turns off moderate and independent voters, while stirring up Mr. Obama's base.
But has the GOP campaign really kept its distance? It's true that with last week's resurrection of the long-debunked conspiracy theory about Obama's true birthplace, the Romney campaign showed no interest in embracing the story.
In general though, the Republican Party's presumptive nominee has gone out of his way to embrace the anti-Obama fringe, in the form of today's right-wing media complex. The Romney campaign has built strong ties with Fox News, The Drudge Report, and with an array of far, far-right websites that traffic in every imaginable type of anti-Obama hysteria, and do it on a daily basis.
Indeed, the Romney campaign seems determined to wage a general election campaign battle alongside the anti-Obama fringe, in a way that Sen. John McCain did not four years ago.
Recall that earlier this month the Huffington Post reported that in effort to reach out to right-wing bloggers and online journalists, Romney met with dozens of conservative writers for two hours during an on off-the-record gathering in Washington, D.C. The bull session centered around ways the bloggers and writers could help Romney's campaign with its messaging, and how they could most effectively distribute opposition research on Obama.
In other words, the Romney campaign deputized the right-wing blogosphere. And yes, the bloggers whom Romney so graciously met with represent a Who's Who of the anti-Obama fringe. Among those assembled for the Romney meeting were representatives from American Spectator, Human Events, RedState, Townhall, Powerline and PJ Media, among others.
Here's a sample of their recent work:
Sean Hannity hosted presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney for a 16 minute interview last night but failed to ask about comments in which Romney claimed "a lot of the credit" for saving the auto industry. Hannity did, however, find time to ask: "Do you believe that this President has failed in his time in office?"
Hannity has a long pattern of offering embattled right-wing figures safe refuge in the face of controversy. Last night's one-on-one with Romney definitely fit the pattern.
During a WEWS-TV interview, Romney said "I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy. And finally, when that was done, and help was given, the companies got back on their feet. So I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry's come back."
Romney's claim generated many headlines because in a 2008 New York Times op-ed, Romney argued that a government bailout for auto companies would "virtually [guarantee]" the demise of the auto industry, and that a "managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental restructuring the industry needs."
Contrary to Romney's advice, the federal government did provide assistance, and economists and a key person who was part of the negotiations say that without assistance from the federal government, a bankruptcy of the auto industry would have likely resulted in liquidation, due to the lack of available private financing.
Even Fox Business' Lou Dobbs has highlighted the controversy. But not Hannity. Instead Hannity's viewers were treated to questions like this:
National Rifle Association board member and Washington Times columnist Ted Nugent lost his cool during his first televised interview following the firestorm that surrounded his infamous claim that he would "be dead or in jail" if the president is reelected. During a May 4 appearance on CBS This Morning, Nugent took umbrage with interviewer Jeff Glor's suggestion that Nugent will have a hard time attracting moderate voters for Mitt Romney:
TED NUGENT: I'm an extremely loving, passionate man, and people who investigate me honestly, without the baggage of political correctness, ascertain the conclusion that I'm a damned nice guy, and if you can find a screening process more powerful than that, I'll suck your d--k.
Nugent then turned to a female CBS producer and said, "Or I'll f--k you, how's that sound?" CBS' video bleeped out some of Nugent's words at the end of his tirade, but they were transcribed by TMZ.com.
CBS reported that "Nugent's wife told him after the interview ended that Nugent owed an apology to the producer. And Nugent did. He also called Glor Thursday and said that, after the interview, he was rushed to the emergency room and had a kidney stone removed." Just earlier this week, Nugent appeared on NRA News to suggest that he could play a role in convincing moderates to not vote for President Obama this fall:
CAM EDWARDS, HOST: I think between now and November, I think you would agree, that the most important thing that anybody listening could possibly seek to do is to make sure that on election day we elect somebody other than Barack Obama.
TED NUGENT: Correct. And so -- I know it's that middle ground, it's the moderates. We've already got the Second Amendment community. I hope we have the hunting community and conservation community. I hope we have the most productive community in America. But I will learn from, maybe the greatest articulator and believable and revered man in the history of individual freedoms, and that's Charlton Heston. And I know that's quite a leap going from the "Motor City Madman" to the supreme eloquence of Charlton Heston, but officially on Cam & Company right now today May 2, 2012, I vow to my fellow patriots that I will work hard to be as efficient and effective for that middle ground to understand the right to keep and bear arms and to gut the abuses in our federal agencies, including Fish and Wildlife and EPA and FDA and USDA etcetera etcetera ad nauseam. I will try to be more -- I hate the word moderate -- but effective to the moderates because they're the voting block we need to access.
Nugent's appearance on CBS was not, of course, the first time that the "Motor City Madman" had a rather immoderate meltdown.


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Abduction survivors, including Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Dugard, say the rescue of three abducted women who had been missing for 10 years say the story shows people should never give up hope.
"It's amazing," said Allison Feigh, of the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center. "It's absolutely amazing. It gives us hope to continue this work."
Feigh said the story developing in Cleveland is proof that no one should ever stop looking for missing children -- and for her, the story is also personal because she spoke with Amanda Berry's mother after her daughter disappeared.
"Her mom had called it in soon after she went missing, trying to find extra resources," Feigh recalled. "One of the things that [she] was adamant about, publicly as well as to us privately, is that she did not believe Amanda ran away."
Sadly, Berry's mother did not live to see that she was right and that her daughter escaped. She died a few years ago. For other mothers of missing children, however, her belief and the events in Cleveland embody the powerful message that persistence matters.
Jacob Wetterling's mother, Patty, spoke with FOX 9 News from Washington, D.C., where she was presenting an award to Dugard, who was rescued after 18 years in captivity.
"This is just a testament that missing children are out there and it takes everyday citizens to pay attention and to ask," she said. "Look at the pictures and ask questions."
What stands out in the Cleveland case is that the victims escaped. Experts say it is typical for kidnapped children to appear compliant, afraid to run or even speak.
"This is a very different recovery than what we're used to," said Feigh. "Often, when missing children are found, they deny that they're missing because they're trying to protect the abductor, who -- at that point -- was their only lifeline."
In Cleveland, it appears the young women saw a long-awaited chance and took it.
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