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2011 will be the season the Broncos return to ground and pound. With Austin Pettis and Titus Young off to the NFL, Boise State's running game has become as important as ever. Hopefully D.J. Harper can stay healthy and Jay Ajayi can step up and contribute. For the Broncos, the time is now. I feel pretty good about Doug Martin returning for his final season on the Blue and it would be nice to send the seniors out with a bang. He's on the Maxwell preseason watch list. This 2 star recruit has shown that Boise State's recruiting methods are sound. Here's to a promising 2011!


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Almost two weeks after police say she was murdered, the community is still mourning the loss of six-year-old Shirley Mundia.
According to police, Shirley's life was taken by her own father on June 2nd. Still 11 days after her murder, dozens of people at a vigil found themselves grieving the death of a child the majority of them had never met.
"How could a father do this? Parents are supposed to take care of their children, not kill them," said Rev. Tina Velthuzien.
Among those praying for the young girl was South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg. He says this murder has brought the community together against senseless violence.
"When something awful like this happens we feel like it's happened to all of us," said Mayor Buttigieg. "Everybody wants to respond, everybody wants to embrace the family in their thoughts and prayers. That's what you see."
Shirley's death is still hitting home especially hard for the South Bend Police Department. Officers say they had to shoot her father at the scene in order to prevent him from continuing to stab his daughter.
"It's absolutely traumatic. It maybe one of the worst responses, calls to service that some of us may face in our career," said Chief Ronald Teachman, SBPD. "We hope that they never have to respond to a call like this again."
The vigil was fairly short, but its message was strong. The Michiana community is there for a family who will never get to see the smile of Six-Year-Old Shirley again.
"I think in a situation like this, there's been god knows how many prayers sent out for the family and Shirley," said vigil organized Michael Elliott. "Hopefully that will help the healing process."
This was the second vigil for the young girl. Just over a week ago, friends, family, and members of the community gathered to remember Shirley near her family's South Bend apartment.
Her funeral will take place this coming Saturday, June 15. The viewing of Shirley's body will be on 1:00-3:00 p.m. at Alford Mortuary at 1222 Napier Street in South Bend. A memorial service will follow at 4:00 p.m. at Pentecostal Cathedral Church of God in Christ, 1025 Western Ave., South Bend.
The family is still in need of financial support to lay Shirley to rest. You can donate at www.shirleymundia.com.
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Jail officials say this is the first group of dogs graduating from this program. They say it's a program that they plan to continue for as long as they can.
"It's giving a lot of the inmates, you know, responsibilities to do and something to take care of while they're in here," said Aaron Ballew, Participant, Inmate Dog training program.
Aaron Ballew is one of six Henderson County inmates spending time each day taking care of an assigned rescued dog: Feeding, walking and teaching the dog simple commands.
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All six dogs are from New Hope Animal Rescue Center, dogs they say have been through some rough times.
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Mirkarimi case -- the aftermath
So many things to think about after last night's Board of Supervisors vote on Ross Mirkarimi. It was a dramatic moment in local politics, a clear rejection of the mayor by four supes, including one of his appointees, a show of political courage by some and weakness by others.
But before I get into that, let me say:
I argued against removing Mirkarimi, for a lot of reasons. One of the most important is the precedent here -- the City Charter gives the mayor too much power, the ability to singlehandedly remove an elected official for what the city attorney's office concluded was pretty much any reason at all. There is no definition of "official misconduct" -- and the way this case was presented, it could be interpreted really broadly. That's dangerous, and the supervisors (or four of them, anyway) knew it.
I'm also a believe in restorative justice, in redemption, in the idea that people can do bad things and turn themselves and their lives around.
Still, it's important to remember that what Mirkarimi did on New Year's Eve, 2011, was awful, unacceptable. He was, at the very least, a total asshole and a jerk, treating his wife in a way that was -- again, at the very least -- psychologically abusive. Some of the comments at the board meeting were way off base; some speakers attacked the domestic violence community and made it sound as if Mirkairmi's crime was pretty minimal.
I agree with David Chiu that the city's going to have to come together after this -- and the progressives who supported Mirkarimi are going to have to reach out to, and work with, the DV advocates. Because domestic violence is no joke, is no "private matter," is still a major, serious issue in this city, and the worst possible outcome would be a reversal in San Francisco's progressive policy on handling these cases.
I wish the audience hadn't erupted in cheers when the final votes were cast. I heard Mirkarimi on Forum this morning, and when Michael Krasny asked if he was "elated," he indicated that he was. Wrong answer: Nobody should be happy about what happened here. Mirkarimi's biggest political and personal flaw has always been his ego, which at times bordered on arrogance, and that has to end, today. The sheriff needs to be humble about what happened to him, recognize that nobody "won" this ugly chapter in city history, and get back to work trying to mend fences with his critics. He's facing the very real possibility of a recall election, and if he acts like he's been totally vindicated, it's going to happen.
This is a chance for Mirkarimi to take the notion of restoration and redemption seriously -- by doing what Sup. John Avalos suggested at the hearing. He has to become a changed man. He has to show the world that he really, really gets it. Starting now.
Speaking of change .... the Number One Profile in Courage Award goes to Sup. Christina Olague. Olague was under immense pressure from the mayor, who wanted her vote badly. And because of the rotation of the votes, she had to go early, when it wasn't clear at all which way this was going to turn out. And she came through, 100 percent solid. She made all the right points, and once she said she was going to vote against the mayor's charges, the whole thing was over. At that point, there was no way David Campos or John Avalos could or would go the other way, so Mirkarimi had his three votes. I have been critical of Olague, but in this case, I want to give full credit: She did the right thing, when it wasn't easy. She may have just won the election. (Let me clarify that -- she may have kept herself from losing the election.)
Sup. Jane Kim was brilliant in her questioning of the mayor's representatives and her analysis of the case. She showed real leadership and helped set the stage for what happened by pointing out the flaws in the mayor's case.
And of course, Campos and Avalos, the undeniable, solid left flank of the board, came through.
It wasn't easy for any of these four supervisors, and they all deserve immense credit.
Not so Eric mar, who I realize is in a tough race, but ... when Olague, who has been accused of being too close to the mayor, had the courage to stand up, Mar, who has nearly universal progressive support, did not.
This is a great opportunity for the city to start talking about restorative justice in a serious way. Let's get started.
Isn't this funny, Tim? Mild-mannered Jane Kim, whom the Guardian thought wasn't much of a progressive is now way over in the Campos-Avalos camp making courageous, principled decisions! Ha! You'll have to take her more seriously from now on!
I was there. I commented. I agree absolutely with everything Tim said in this op ed.
Olague showed immense courage. Jane Kim was brilliant.
Mirkarimi needs to drop his ego, and that's really hard to do.
As a domestic violence survivor-thriver, I know occult emotional violence is worse on victims than physical violence. Hidden emotional violence is often a precursor to physical attack. From there, these abusers generally escalate; this is the norm.
Recovery is immensely difficult; many years of intensive therapy is required.
Without understanding fully the abusers' deep psychology and behavior patterns, the wife/girlfriend/significant other forgives too easily, and can be so locked into her/his fear, they are paralyzed. This happens especially if there are children who the abuser may threaten.
Not enough time has gone by with this couple for healing to occur or realizations made.
Still I supported re-instating Ross because clearly this couple was being used in a loathsome political game.
The fact that I personally like Ross means nothing here.
Ross must show humility and true healing, or he will lose everything in the end.
You almost got to make the closing public comment but were pipped at the post!! I have of course commented elsewhere but just want to second your comments about Ross. Publicly, and I imagine privately, he needs to do some serious soul searching, especially if he hopes to continue as the effective 'politician for the people' that he has always been. I wish him well in this urbane renewal project, he's a smart dude and we need him.
Olague for Mayor.
I so agree with Poster Harvey. Healing is a life-long process that never ends. True healing and humility takes times, even decades.
We all have emotional wounds thata need healing.
Ross? Eliana? Please begin your healing.
I so agree with Poster Harvey. Healing is a life-long process that never ends. True healing and humility takes times, even decades.
We all have emotional wounds thata need healing.
Ross? Eliana? Please begin your healing.
penny wise and pound foolish regarding your view on mar's vote. you are lucky you have a progressive in d1. it is a moderate district. you should understand this and not ask so much of him or you're gonna wind up with david lee, fool!
The progressive community is darn lucky to have Eric Mar in D1. He's a class act - thoughtful and restrained - even if his votes don't always follow the progressive pablum. The smartest progressives will be spending whatever time and money they have over teh next 4 weeks to try to get him re-elected.
It's a safe bet that D5 supervisor votes on particular issues would be fairly similar regardless if it's Olague, Davis or Breed casting the vote over the next 4 years, whereas the vote of the D1 supervisor would often be quite different between Mar and his main challenger.
The current board has a tenuous hold on 6-5 outcomes, especially when Ms. Olague votes to support massive gentrification projects like 8 Washington. And 8-3 mayor override votes have been rare. Without Mar in D-1, forget about winning many 6-5 votes over the next 4 years, much less many 8-3 votes.
The smart progressives will be spending their time and money helping Mar win in D1, even if most of the "cool campaigns" with all the hip, connected hangers-on are currently centered in D5.
Agree with you, Guest1.
Regarding this:
"I wish the audience hadn't erupted in cheers when the final votes were cast. I heard Mirkarimi on Forum this morning, and when Michael Krasny asked if he was "elated," he indicated that he was. Wrong answer: Nobody should be happy about what happened here."
People worked really hard and made way too many sacrifices to keep the mayor from seizing this much arbitrary power and to keep Ross in office. It is unreasonable to expect them not to celebrate this victory.
And no one, absolutely no one who spoke against sustaining the charges minimized or trivialized domestic violence. So many who spoke out for Ross said that they were dv survivors themselves that it was hard not to conclude that households suffering domestic violence are the rule rather than the exception.
The two things I agree with are that:
1) the audience should not have boo'ed anti-domestic violence advocates.
2) Ross should take John Avalos's words to heart and make a real effort to be transformed by this.
While no one trivialized domestic violence, I disagree with Tim about the city policy. I wouldn't use Tim's term "reverse," but perhaps it's time to "rethink" it. I've never been a fan of so-called "zero-tolerance" policies on *anything*, whether it's DV, drugs, whatever. Zero-tolerance is a one-size-fits-all approach that doesn't deal with the nuances of real life. We should all re-read that brilliant and heartfelt letter that Eliana's friend Myrna Melgar wrote a few months back, because it was the most sane approach to the issue that I've heard in a long time.
And while it may not be the best optics to boo a domestic violence advocate, optics aside, on the merits I don't think a DV advocate should enjoy special privileges any more than any other member of the public. To the extent that booing *anyone* is rude, Tim may have a point. But it was an emotional issue. Give people a break.
What I do think was off-base, was how the Supervisors (particularly Carmen Chu) berated the voters who felt passionate enough to comment on this issue and took time out of their day to come to city hall and speak at public comment. That was *totally* inappropriate. The Supervisors tend to forget that they work for us, not the other way around.
PS... it was great to finally meet you in person.
They are a huge waste of time. The Supes often have to sit through hours of self-serving, sometimes demented monologs, before they can get to the actual business before them. And when, as in this case, the crowd behaves badly, she is right to complain.
Also bear in mind that it's often the same "usual suspects" who come to every meeting, just to have their 60 seconds of mediocrity, again. Those who show up are rarely representative of the city - it's the activists who show up.
So the Supes should ignore them; I certainly would. Public comments are a total waste of time, and I've seen no evidence that any Supe has ever had their mind changed by some buffoon in a beard wearing sandals, or a screechy activist chick like some of the women we heard from yestreday
then you are probably against sunshine laws, campaign finance disclosure and any number of other progressive advances; even democracy.
The people who call and write their representatives in democracy, being a minority, aren't average citizens either; but they absolutely represent the opinions of the larger population.
While I've long believed that public comment periods -- like war protests -- are not effective, I maintain they are worthwhile as an expression of democratic sentiment. And just maybe, when the numbers are as lopsided as in this case, such displays might actually have effect; if not on the voting itself, at least on the explanations made by the supervisors.
As for speakers diminishing the importance of DV, several people observed that Ross' arm grab did not demonstrate an intent to cause an injury to his wife. I see no reason to ignore such comments or characterize them as the DV advocates seemed wont to do: as diminishing the importance of DV awareness.
An arm grab, while clearly wrong, does not make Ross Mirkarimi a "wife beater;" it only demonstrates that he is fallible and perhaps at risk for such behavior.
There is little questyion to my mind that the public comments heard on this and other issues and well to the elft of the voter population as a whole. The simple fact is that it is only activists who show up at these meetings - the average person has a job and family and can't spend 4 hours waiting for his or her turn to speak.
so the idea that these gaggles are representative is off the mark, and I think the Supes know this. I encourage you to watch the Supes closely during the public comments section - most are clearly not listening, doodling, working on something else, and generally just waiting for it to be over.
As for DV, I think the issue was the booing of the DV activists, and that was wholely inappropriate and uncivil regardless of whether you think Ross ducked a DV rap or not.
Protests too for that matter.
They let the politicians know that people do care, and they're watching. No, it's not the "average" citizen who engages in public comment. Hell, the average citizen is totally disengaged from the democratic process altogether. But these are the people who will make up the volunteer base of any politician. They're the people who care, and that's important.
The amount of speakers at public comment may or may not measure the percentages of people on each side (though I do think it provides some rough measure of that as well). But it most certainly measures intensity of opinion. And that's huge.
Look, the people on both sides of this issue have jobs, and kids, and pay taxes. I personally came after work and skipped dinner. I hope you're not insinuating that one side is disproportionately composed of people who don't work and don't have family responsibilities, because that would be insulting. So given that both groups have these same time issues, it's very instructive to see which side *cares* enough to bring hundreds of people out there. The side that wants Ross removed is not only not as numerous (as evidenced by the weak results they got in even the push poll), but they don't *care* as much. They're less likely to base their votes on it. That's important.
And yes, in theory anyway, I'd like to think the pols listen to those who bother to show up, perhaps over those who do not.
That said, it's my experience that those who do show up are well to the left of those who do not. Now, if those who do not show up are so apathetic that they don't even bother to vote, then the issue is moot. But I don't believe that is true.
In this case, we have polls showing 60%-70% wanting Ross gone, we have Lee ebating Avalos last year by 60-40, and you have the supes voting 7-4 that Ross should go. Those figures are remarkably consistent, and tell you something.
But then listen to the crowd and you get a very different story. So the question, if you are a Supe, is who do you listen to?
As for being able to show up, a lot of City Hall meetings are during the day, and then inevitably the crowd will be skewed towards those who don't have to work all day, every day. And few would say that is representative.
While even for evening meetings, those with family commitments are less likely to show up. There's a "look and feel" those who show up and, from what I've seen, there is a core constituency that show up for every meeting. I'm not sure we should over-weight them.
elderly people, disabled people, poor people, the very people Ross helps. makes sense.
Just one angle I'll add, and it relates to something that I heard library user Peter Warfield remark on:
Internet forums *seem* like equivalent alternatives to speaking at public meetings, but that can be highly illusory.
SFBG seems to be pretty free, but many forums are heavily controlled by the site owners. Depending on the specific policies of these privately-controlled sites, one's comment may be editted or disappear.
On SFGate, they ban commenters regularly, and they do so in a way which may not be obvious to those so banned. When such users are logged-in, there comments appear on their screens as they might expect, but every other user seems some generic phrase such as "This comment was left by a user who has been banned."
Speaking during the public comment period not only allows us to know whether our representatives are listening to us and how our comments are being received, but it allows us to communicate with *each* *other.*
And yes, the supes may not be listening, but it leaves them open for becoming the butt of amusing zingers, as when one commenter prefaced his pro-Mirkarimi-reinstatement comment with a (perhaps wholly facetious) observation of how it was great that he could comment and have all the supervisors hear... except for the one who was playing with her iphone; Malia Cohen.
(usuallu hopelessly biased) stories. By and large, other stuff doesn't get censored here, and Tim deserves a certain amount of credit for that.
I doubt that the Supes are in the fog over what most Sf'ers think. They have people out there taking feelers, there are private polls, and they get letters which are probably more indicative than being able to rouse a mob, or whoever has the time to spend all day posting online.
Public comment appeals to the left because it is usually the elft who show up. That doesn't make it relevant, however, and generally such public comments are ignored, rightfully so IMO.
It's just like claiming the media has a "left wing bias."
And as for your snipe regarding the ability to "spend all day posting online," it would be nice if you had the honesty to admit you are a paid flack posting under the name Guest in order to conceal you own remunerated prolificity.
1) I'm not paid to post here. In fact, I'm fairly sure that nobody is, because SFBG just isn't that important, powerful or influential. And "Guest" is no more anon than "Lilli".
2) There can be little question that those who endlessly picket City Hall meetings are not the silent majority.
3) I don't think the media in general does have a lwft-wing bias. I just think that SFBg does, and the average "activist" is.
I have no doubt you much prefer the staid dignity of suited lobbyists passing quietly through portals of power at City Hall.
How many other screen names do you use?
But i will never reach the dizzy heights of ChrisCraft's sock puppetry.
he was offered a plea deal(ask why) from the DA. He didn't duck anything and has been tortured enough and has come out stronger.Leave this young family alone...enough already.
I disagree. The supes represent the people. No matter where you stand on an issue, you have the freedom to "show up", to be engaged. No "side" has a monopoly on that.
I think it is very important for anyone who feels they have something to contribute to go and be heard. If only for the reason that someone watching on TV might be inspired to do the same in the future...
We have a woeful lack of civic engagement in this country. The more bits and pieces of an argument you can hear, the better the chances of true "justice"—whatever that ultimately is—to prevail.
We can all learn from each other. And if I were a supe, you better believe I'd be listening. They are just people, too. They can learn something new, just like you and me.
...and I will always remember the commentator whose words gave me an "aha" moment, and inspired me to eventually speak out on an important issue of our day.
And even Carmen Chu's remark, think what you will of it, gives us (me anyway) pause to consider the basic premise behind it--which is respect for all sides, emotions notwithstanding.
I do wish somehow/somewhere that we could all get together—both "sides" to discuss further our values, fears, commonalities for better understanding and resolution. Around some round table.
I said that I understand it when I see the supes looking bored, rolling their eyes, and generally looking impatient while the gallery of usual suspects pontificate.
In my experience, the average city hall meeting is 4 hours long, with public comments lasting 3 and 3/4 hours, and then the Supes voting the way they would have done anyway.
There remains no evidence that those who show up are representative. If they were, we wouldn't need elections which routinely give a different emphasis than the usual suspects.
Frankly, it annoys me when I see supes not listening to public comment. This is their job, and it's kind of disrespectful to choose to get up and leave or talk with their neighbor while it's going on. They are paid to be there and their jobs are to represent the public. If you have no tolerance for "the riff-raff" you shouldn't be there.
That's the nature of the beast: you'll get a few folks who are more "on the edge". Newsflash: that's life.
When you say that Carmen was right about her public comment comment "...I think the issue was the booing of the DV activists, and that was wholely inappropriate and uncivil regardless of whether you think Ross ducked a DV rap or not." I think it's interesting that one the one hand, you agree with her plea to be respectful, and then on the other hand, you call some of the people who participate in PC to be: "buffoons", "screechy activist chicks"...and downgrading some to merely be "activists", "the usual suspects"..."a total waste of time".
If you agree with Carmen, then I think you have no choice but to re-think your mindset and just plain cultivate more acceptance of the whole of our population. It is a reflection on *you* (or whomever) that you cannot/won't have the wherewithall to listen respectfully to all...hey, at least most of the time. Sorry, but that is this thing called "democracy". Love it, or go get an office job or something else.
And I will stand by it, warts and all. Because it is a dying thing, this "power to the people". I applaud anyone who has the courage to do public speaking (isn't it one of the top "scariest things to do"?) with your allotted 2 minutes (not easy).
If it's long, then maybe the powers that be could break it down--have more breaks. Don't know. But I don't share your "understanding" of bored looking electeds. Just as I would not condone a teacher who really doesn't want to be there for the kids...Then don't go into the field.
As far as the "representative" part, I can only speak for myself. I spoke the other night, but I don't consider myself to be your typical "activist". I will especially follow an issue if it is one I feel I *can* speak to, because of familiarity or expertise with the particular issue at hand. And that is all. I don't have time to be abreast of everything...but it is the caring and willingness to give one's perspective that is the point and should never be taken for granted, especially not by our elected officials.
didn't go after Ross because they were shocked and appalled at a simple arm grab. They were given a deal to gain more political power, by being lliteral lynchpins of an attempted coup. They had no problem trying their hardest to destroy this family. They smiled and chuckled when Eliana spoke, because they knew better than any woman could ever know..what was in that woman's mind.
They deserved to be booed and outed. Their lack of proportionality and willingness to screw over a strong woman, a contrite sheriff, and a three year old boy is and was disgusting.
I don't agree with you very often, but I like this blog post. You really make your point without excusing Mirk's behavior. My respect for you has significantly increased. Please keep it up!
Who knows how effective he might have been over all these years if only he'd ignored Steven's advice that objectivity is dishonest.
"Sup. Jane Kim was brilliant in her questioning of the mayor's representatives and her analysis of the case. She showed real leadership and helped set the stage for what happened by pointing out the flaws in the mayor's case."
...and Jane Kim has now stated that she supports recalling Mirk.
Guess she isn't going to get any more adoring statements in the Guardian.
been. Kim actually thinks about the issue and then votes independently. So she supports the Twitter tax break one minute, and then votes for Ross the next. That's what we should really want from Supes, and not the kneejerk predictable voting pattern of Avalos who really doesn't need to listen to any of the evidence because he is always going to vote the hard-left party line, whatever.
Olague is good like that too.One minutes she votes like a Lee clone and hack - the next minute she's giving Lee a slapdown.
I suspect both would vote tor ecall Mirk. Just not in this way. Fair enough.
the way to remove an elected official,like Mr.Mirkarimi, or Miss Kim, is through a recall, not through an unconstituionally vague city charter passage which would be found such by an appellate court, then costing the city even more millions than the 1.3 mill of tax dollars that Lee spent to try to destroy a foe who won't kiss his puppet rear.that's what Ms. Kim means by the appropriateness of recall as a remedy.
The International Association of Chiefs of Police and their collective wisdom/experience would not agree with you that "redemption" in the form of handing a gun and authority to a convicted DV offender is a good idea. Usually violence from rage is not a once in a lifetime act -- and the model policy would preclude Mirkarimi from serving as sheriff. It is long overdue for San Francisco and the entire prison industrial complex to adopt this important model policy. The reason the entire domestic violence support network and the National Organization for Women (sfnow.org) has worked so hard to demand freedom from a DV offending sheriff is simple: we support the IACP Model Policy.
I am a Ross supporter (to a point). However, I agree that he should relinquish his gun. And I think he needs to do more to work on transforming himself, and reach out to the dv community in the process. But there are limits to how far he should go in humbling himself by groveling and taking direction from the likes of political grandstanders like Gascon.
Wendy Witt, a commenter at KQED News said it best, "Gascon is still trying to score points in a game of political football. In his statement he anoints himself as the the "chief law enforcement official" in the City. In reality he is the top prosecutor in S.F. (which in and of itself is laughable given that he has NEVER actually tried a case!) but no where in the city charter or state constitution does it say that the local district attorney is the "chief law enforcement official." In fact, historically that designation goes to the locally elected sheriff. Gascon's call for recusal reeks of political gamesmanship and over reaching."
Are you telling us that SF N.O.W. actually supported the politically opportunist, and very woman dis-empowering circus show that we all just went through over the past year.
I find that hard to believe. Can you direct us to the minutes of the board meeting where this alleged decision was made?
(And by the way, I don't believe the Sheriff has access to guns during his probation.)
who do a lot more than arm bruise each other.
it's not only doesn't make sense, but i can't figure out who it's directed to. please clarify
the members or leadership of NOW had any sense of proportionality. If a NOW member had grabbed her girlfriend's arm thusly, the NOWettes wouldn't be making a peep...and you all know it.
None of your actions and positions are consistent with people who oppose domestic violence, or any other feminist issue, in such a way that you would have evaluated the consequences of having your guy in there running the domestic violence offenders programs and supervising the incarceration of people who've committed those offenses. It honestly just never comes up. Nor does what might be another sort of argument... we'll get these specific policy changes by keeping this guy in there that did this shitty stuff. You get two motivations governing most progressives, in the end, explicit anti-feminism, and an inability to distance yourself from whatever particular horse you picked in some race. You might actually win occasionally as an anti-feminist party, if that's where you want to go, but no one really cares about your horses.
The opinions of those who make time to show up and participate in public dialog, as limited as it may be, are far more important than those of nameless nincompoops who are afeared to be identified with their usually inane opinions.
If you like being imped, by all means carry on. But if you think you're going to force everyone to march in lockstep just because you and your fellow apparatchiks say so, you got another think coming, Ms. Manners. Some of us have minds of our own and don't need to be told how to comport ourselves.
So, Jane Kim voted with Ross yesterday on legal grounds but would support a recall of the sheriff.
Move on people!
Get over it! These anti-domestic violence people need to understand that the Ross won the fight yesterday.
Didn't you hear all the cheering in the courtroom yesterday after all was said and done?
""I wish the audience hadn't erupted in cheers when the final votes were cast. I heard Mirkarimi on Forum this morning, and when Michael Krasny asked if he was "elated," he indicated that he was. Wrong answer""
No way. It was the RIGHT answer.
After putting up with a witch hunt hill for 9 months, a little juvilation should be approved.
Good write up. My main quibble is that you didn't take Ed Lee and George Gascon to task, for extreme overreaching, even abuse, regarding elective and prosecutorial powers.
Mirkarimi and his wife had a fight; it was heated. NONE of us know what transpired during that fight - i.e. what he said, what she said; whether or not she slapped him and he grabbed her arm reflexively; whether he forcefully tried to restrain her and warned her that she was going to get beat up, etc. etc. WE DON'T KNOW. The only ones who know are Lopez and Mirkarimi.
For me, the test for prosecuting or charging someone for DV is whether there has been an elongated pattern of such behavior - with the exception for someone who batters their partner, even the first time. This was, from the best description we'll probably ever have - an arm grab that caused a bruise. Unless Mirkarimi was defending himself against physical aggression from Lopez, that arm grab is NOT appropriate. But - - BUT, does something like an arm grab rise to a level where one is charged with domestic battery, separated for months from family, and caused to lose one's job? My answer that question is "no".
This is a case that should not have resulted in a charge; it should have been a case where Mirkarimi was brought in, along with his wife, to hear their story. They should have been referred immediately to compulsory counseling, with a stern warning that if any further physical aggression is seen from either spouse, there will be more serious consequences.
Instead, we have Lopez' panicked emoting in from of a camera held by a neighbor that would betray her confidences in the worst imaginable way - a real Judas. How unfortunate for Lopez, and Mirkarimi. Ivory Madison's betrayal of a confidence unleashed a series of events that made people like Ed Lee, George Gascon, and every other conservative toady in this city drool. The prospect of firing up charges that could cause a political opponent to lose his job, and at the same time smear the Progressives in San Francisco (of which I am not one).
So, being opportunistic, Ed Lee took the leap. He should have looked more carefully. In fact, if weak-kneed Lee was on his own, he probably wouldn't have tried to take Mirkarimi out, but simply made some self-congratulatory statements about how he supports causes against DV. But Lee wasn't alone; he was being advised by people in the background, who thought they didn't have anything to lose. Big Mistake!
the thing that really bothers me about this- aside form egregious abuse of power - is all the posturing around the DV issue. Methinks people brag about their position, too much. INcluding you, Tim. DV is ALWAYS wrong, but there are DEGREES of DV, just as there are degrees of most other crimes. Mirkarimi and his wife were betrayed in the most fundamental way, by a neighbor who is reported (by an ex-boyfriend, if he is to be believed) as an arch-feminist who loves the limelight and is hair-trigger sensitive about violence and men. It's reported (by that same boyfriend) that she also has a way of "creating" the truth. Imagine someone like that, with all her built in bias, advising Lopez to make that tape, and then letting her bias cloud judgment in a way that led to FAR more pain for Mirkarimi and his wife, and this city, than ever shuld have been possible.
What REALLY gets me is how Madison is off, scott-free, in all this. Why are people afraid to say that Madison overreacted, and why are they afraid to say that if Madison thought that Mirkarimi's actions were so egregious and that Lopez was in danger, why did she wait FOUR DAYS to report this faux-crime, AFTER consulting with city insiders. Really, really fishy - so fishy that the whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Without understanding fully the abusers' deep psychology and behavior patterns, the wife/girlfriend/significant other forgives too easily, and can be so locked into her/his fear, they are paralyzed. This happens especially if there are children who the abuser may threaten.
Not enough time has gone by with this couple for healing to occur or realizations made.
that it has been given a name - Stockholm Syndrome.
This is why DV prosecutions do not require a spouse to testify, and can even proceed if the spouse denies the abuse.
Note: Eliana did not deny the abuse until AFTER Ross was convicted. Her earlier testimony might have saved him, but instead she "lovingly" ran away to South America, and only later contradicted her earlier video "testimony", when it was too late.
She wanted some leverage over Ross, but also wanted his paycheck.
She has always said that Ross grabbed her arm. She shows it in the video, produced and directed by Ivory Madison. She testified to it ,under oath, at the ethics commission, as did he.
As for her "wanting his paycheck".. Who do you think makes more moolah, an international film star or a local sheriff?
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3.43/5 rDev -11.4%
Appearance: A redish brown pour with an off white and modest head. Hmmm, looks kinda like a Christmas beer...
Smell: When i think of Christmas & Christmas beer i think of strong spice & fruitiness....lots of alcohol warmth...the nose on this beer was mild to a fault.
Taste: The beer picks up somewhat here and has a decent spiced body with hints of nutmeg and cinnamon that reminded me a little of a fruit cake. The flavours didn't last long enough for me and the beer ended with a candycane sugary sweetness. Nice warming effect on the finish due to the 10% alcohol content.
Mouthfeel: Somewhat lively and a lightly rich.
Drinkability: Not as intense as i would have liked for a Christmas beer. There are other Christmas beers i would definitley prefer. Having said that, it is still a worthwhile beer...hey, i've tried pure crap in the past and this isn't crap. It's good.
11-03-2003 14:21:57 | More by Popsinc
4.1/5 rDev +5.9%
Appearance Deep sugary brown color with a tinge of orange and a rising head that required an attentive pour. The head went down rather quickly tough and didnt leave any lacing, probably due to the high ABV.
Smell Musty, with notes of alcohol and malts. Theres also some rich spicing in there and some fruity sweetness, most notably apple, banana, and peach.
Taste Sugary sweetness makes an entry at the taste. Weve got some big table sugar, an even mix of regular and brown, along with chewy candy caramel, a little dark chocolate, and a dash of sugar cane. The big fruit from the nose is mixed into this concoction of tooth decay.
The malt comes out here as well, but clearly this is secondary. The must characteristic is present, too. Nicely done.
Mouthfeel Moderate carbonation and big sweetness give the mouth a nice overall feel.
Drinkability This was the gem of the Delirium trio that Ive tried this week.
Update I reviewed this for the first time the month after I joined the site, so I thought it would be interesting to re-review it with a 2004 vintage. It was extraordinarily consistent and I would only add that I picked up a strong buttering effect this time around.
Update The 2006 vintage if more of the same without the buttery taste. Maybe the 04 I had was an anomaly? Anyway, an all around excellent brew.
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3.53/5 rDev -8.8%
Pours a deep brown, ruby-red color with decent clarity. Very volatile with a smokey-white head that forms on top - fluffy and thick. Sweet, fruity, estery aroma, complete with all kinds of berries, plums, and figs. Dark, deep, and sweet fruits. Heavy alcohol presence on the first sip, warming quite a bit with a high phenol-like character. Sweetness hits the tongue right away; black licorice, plums, black cherries, white grapes. In the background, you can pick up hints of the banana-clove combination that is found in many Belgian style ales. The malts are very sweet and earthy. In the middle of the sip, I was even getting a bit of tartness; cherries and pears. Slight musty aftertaste with some funky yeast. Medium body, high carbonation.
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Served from a bottle at a beer brunch at Tyler's Taproom in Apex, NC.
This was poured into a wine glass and served with a dessert course. It was very dark brown in the glass, translucent when held to light with dark ruby hue. There was initially a full 2-3 fingers of head at the initial pour, eventually settling down to about a finger or so of light brown to off-white foam.
Aromas were very light but could be brought out with a few swirls of the glass. Dates or raisins, some vanilla, spices like nutmeg or coriander, and just a trace of alcohol. This really smells like something you might want to mull on the stove.
I tasted this brew with and without food. On its own, it has the most interesting complexity of malts and candied fruit that I can remember. There is some sweetness that goes along well with a nice full bodied and relatively heavy mouthfeel. The linger was long and a bit warm, with traces of spice that seemed to just dance at the back of your tongue.
Then I tried with the food, both a chocolate pastry and fresh picked blueberries. The pastry and beer were great, but what shocked me was how well this beer played with those blueberries! The dark fruity sweetness of the berries just brought the heart and soul out this brew, highlighting the subtle spices that were easy to miss before, like cinnamon or cardamom and bringing to the forefront the fantastic malty sweetness. It was a fantastic experience, one that I would have never considered on my own.
This brew is fantastic on its own or paired with the right food. It has the classic Belgian candy sugar tone to it nestled nicely within all that complexity. I should note that the beer I sampled was from the previous years Christmas stock (from Christmas 2007) and I don't really know if that was for the better or worse. All I know is that this stuff rocks and I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in a beautiful Belgian dark ale.
07-14-2008 20:05:16 | More by SIRIUS2
3.65/5 rDev -5.7%
Review from BeerAdvocate Magazine Issue #47 (Dec 2010):
Pink elephants are in abundance during the holidays--we're sure St. Nick is seeing them on his last night of work each year. Clear mahogany color, crackling head downsizes to a thin ring of lace. Smooth and slick, creamy body. Malty with a toastiness throughout; hint of caramel soon leads to a very warming alcohol. Candied tropical fruit and raisins mesh well with a spiciness from the alcohol and hops. Ghost-like herbal phenols barely make any noise. Hint of yeast and more spicy warmth in the end. Tastes like the holidays and drinks like a Belgian beast, pink elephants and all.
03-04-2011 23:21:27 | More by BeerAdvocate
New York
3.63/5 rDev -6.2%
A - A little lighter than expected for a Belgian Dark Strong, very high carbonation feeling a less than spectacular head which fades rapidly and really leaves no lace.
S - Very yeasty, dark fruit such as raisins, and some spice. Almost has a chai tea like aroma.
T - Interesting, lots going on some good and some bad. The dark fruit and yeast are nice (perhaps a touch too yeasty) and the alcohol at the end let you know this is definitely a strong ale. The spice is too strong, too many penols in here it seems, they just kind of overwhelm you from beginning to end.
M - Light body, and lots of tingle from the carbonation. The alochol gives a nice warmth at the end.
O - Not a bad beer, but there are just too many other Belgian Dark Strong Ales (like their own Nocturnum) to get this again.
12-28-2011 00:03:18 | More by steelerguy
3.73/5 rDev -3.6%
A dissapointing beer concitering the good reputation of the brand. It poured a nice amber color with a small head that had faded once it got to the table and settled into a froth. The smell was of light pepper and clove. The taste was quite subtle for a beer of this size, and had a bit of a thin mouthfeel. The flavor was nice enough but seemed like it was holding back a bit with just a bit of belgian yeast and pepper flavor shining through. I think I'll pass on this one next time.
12-21-2004 10:32:59 | More by Dmann
4/5 rDev +3.4%
03-06-2014 21:14:46 | More by bulldogg915
4.13/5 rDev +6.7%
I like Delirium Noel more than Nocturnum, but not as much as Tremens.
A lovely reddish color with a small head that leaves no lacing.
The 10% alcohol content is very present in the nose & overpowers pretty much everything else.
The taste is strong, bold. Again, the high alcohol content is very noticeable. Somehow, the taste also comes out somewhat smooth. Interesting.
I'm glad I tried this one, but at $9 a bottle, I'll probably stick to Delirium Tremens next time I buy one of their products.
12-09-2005 01:13:57 | More by chOAKbarrell
4.25/5 rDev +9.8%
11-27-2013 01:41:59 | More by RoninBirdman
3.75/5 rDev -3.1%
12-10-2012 06:58:53 | More by danthehopslamman
3.75/5 rDev -3.1%
02-03-2013 18:06:56 | More by Satyr179
3.98/5 rDev +2.8%
A 750ml bottle with 2.006 stamped on the cork. It was a red/orange color with a very small head. Fairly still. Fruity aroma, raisins mostly, with a little bit of spice. Pleasant fruity taste, again the mild spiciness, and a hint of licorice at the end. Nice beer, easy to drink.
11-07-2007 16:09:38 | More by lordofthewiens
4/5 rDev +3.4%
12-13-2012 01:33:30 | More by warnerry
3.9/5 rDev +0.8%
Notes from the 2002 Kerstbierfestival, Essen, Belgium.
Tawny brown beer with a creamy off white lace. Aroma of yeast, spice and alcohol. Smooth and creamy mouthfeel that builds on the palate. Spicy phenolic character paired with a prickly alcohol. A tad vinous. Dry sweetness and a dry yeast finish.
A good first beer to ease me into the 2 day festival ... lovely stuff.
01-13-2003 03:45:36 | More by Todd
3.2/5 rDev -17.3%
750 ml bottle, 1 year old. Pours hazy ruby amber with a big creamy off white head that retains well and leaves a little lacing.
The aroma is sweet bready (almost gingerbread) caramel malts with a some dark fruit and a little alcohol.
The flavor is sweet gingerbread caramel malts and some dark fruit with some alcohol in the finish. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with smooth carbonation.
Overall, a decent Belgian, but overly sweet and not too complex.
09-30-2013 05:44:07 | More by Beaver13
4.18/5 rDev +8%
Beautiful amber and semi-unclear, with a thick creamy head that settled as a nice thick layer. Nice gueuze scent to it. Very nice soured, aged, lightly wine cellery scent. Very smooth and creamy mouthfeel. There is a good amount of carbination, but you dont feel it swirling around and foaming, you just notice it sitting on your tongue after a moment, but it is not too much. Very nice. Tastes of sherry and port. You can really tast the alcohol. Caramelly, maple sweetness, bit of sea water, bit of dark fruits. Granny smith apple, maybe a bit of raisin. Good flavors. The 10% may keep it from being a session, but it has such nice flavors and does feel so damn good. Very enjoyable.
12-25-2004 06:05:24 | More by shapudding
4/5 rDev +3.4%
Opaque brown, "Ohio River Water" color. Spicy aroma as expected with most Christmas Seasonals. Medium body and full flavor. Decent mouthfeel. Fruity finish, smell/tastes similar to Fruit Leather fruit snacks. Quick dissipating head.
It's like Delirium's spicy cousin that comes to holiday parties. Awesome every once in a while, but you wouldn't want to live with them.
12-09-2010 23:39:08 | More by stevegerl
New York
4.7/5 rDev +21.4%
Presentation: It was poured from a painted "stone" bottle into a tulip glass. The sample size was 750ml bottle with a freshness date on the label.
Appearance: The body has a deep, slightly reddish amber color. It has a slightly hazy appearance with some streams of very tiny little bubbles rushing up to the head. The head is tall, light tan in color and slowly fades leaving little to no lacing behind.
Smell: The aroma is big and full of sweet malt and fruity notes.
Taste/Mouth feel: The flavor is big and full of fruity notes inside a deep, sweet malty base. Flavor notes of tropical fruit like papaya, pineapple, and guava pop out of the sweet malt, no doubt full of Belgian candi sugar. Yeast adds some funk and alcohol is also present in a mellow warming way that adds another nice level of complexity. There is even a slight leafy hop note than brings a hint of bitterness at one point before being surrounded by everything else. Its mouth feel is big, smooth and well rounded. Carbonation is soft and its body is a solid medium to full.
Notes: This is a wonderful and very enjoyable beer. Very well done, cheers Delirium Noel!!!
05-07-2009 16:10:22 | More by generallee
3.25/5 rDev -16%
05-16-2013 02:07:35 | More by SmellsofMahagony
Rhode Island
4.1/5 rDev +5.9%
Pours a bright copper color with minimal head.
Smells of fruit, cherries, yeast, sweet malt, pineapples...
Tastes of fruitiness, raisins, sweet, papaya, yeasty, bready, slight alcohol, warming
Mouthfeel is medium bodied, well carbonated.
Pretty drinkable considering the 10%abv, but the sweetness as well can hold it back. Very good nonetheless.
11-21-2006 02:34:30 | More by Doomcifer
New Hampshire
3.5/5 rDev -9.6%
11-23-2013 22:25:27 | More by JakerLou
Delirium Noël from Brouwerij Huyghe
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It's no secret that medical meetings are changing. Show organizers, exhibitors and physicians are all adjusting to the new norms of the Sunshine Act. While these new regulations hold serious implications for what happens inside exhibit halls and networking receptions, a new survey shows that many healthcare professionals are thinking long and hard about what's happening within their actual work environments, too.
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"Not only are healthcare organizations dealing with a shortage of high skill workers, they are facing higher demand fueled by an aging population and more Americans having access to medical benefits," Jason Lovelace, President, CareerBuilder Healthcare, said in a statement. "The survey shows healthcare workers are seeking a more manageable work experience."
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Making predictions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might be considered a particularly dangerous form of hubris, but I could hardly have guessed how soon my fears would be realised.
One of the main forecasts of my book was that Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line — those who currently enjoy Israeli citizenship and those who live as oppressed subjects of Israel's occupation — would soon find common cause as Israel tries to seal itself off from what it calls the Palestinian "demographic threatâ€: that is, the moment when Palestinians outnumber Jews in the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
I suggested that
It was also closing off the last remaining avenue of a Right of Return for Palestinians by changing the law to make it all but impossible for Palestinians living in
The corollary of this Jewish fortress, I suggested, would be a sham Palestinian state, a series of disconnected ghettos that would prevent Palestinians from organising effective resistance, non-violent or otherwise, but which would give the Israeli army an excuse to attack or invade whenever they chose, claiming that they were facing an "enemy state†in a conventional war.
Another benefit for
I sketched out possible routes by which
* by redrawing the borders, using the wall, so that an area densely populated with Palestinian citizens of Israel known as the Little Triangle, which hugs the northern West Bank, would be sealed into the new pseudo-state;
* by continuing the process of corralling the
* by forcing Palestinian citizens living in the Galilee to pledge an oath of loyalty to
* and by stripping Arab Knesset members of their right to stand for election.
When I made these forecasts, I suspected that many observers, even in the Palestinian solidarity movement, would find my ideas improbable. I could not have realised how fast events would overtake prediction.
The first sign came in October with the addition to the cabinet of Avigdor Lieberman, leader of a party that espouses the ethnic cleansing not only of Palestinians in the occupied territories (an unremarkable platform for an Israeli party) but of Palestinian citizens too, through land swaps that would exchange their areas for the illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Lieberman is not just any cabinet minister; he has been appointed deputy prime minister with responsibility for the "strategic threats†that face
Lieberman has been widely presented as a political maverick, akin to the notorious racist Rabbi Meir Kahane, whose Kach party was outlawed in the late 1980s. That is a gross misunderstanding: Lieberman is at the very heart of the country's rightwing establishment and will almost certainly be a candidate for prime minister in future elections, as Israelis drift ever further to the right.
Unlike Kahane, Lieberman has cleverly remained within the Israeli political mainstream while pushing its agenda to the very limits of what it is currently possible to say. Kadima and Labor urgently want unilateral separation from the Palestinians but are shy to spell out, both to their own domestic constituency and the international community, what separation will entail.
Lieberman has no such qualms. He is unequivocal: if
These arguments express the common mood among the Israeli public, one that has been cultivated since the eruption of the intifada in 2000 by endless talk among
Recent polls also reveal how fashionable racism has become in
A poll of students that was published last week suggests that racism is even stronger among young Jews. Three-quarters believed Palestinian citizens are uneducated, uncivilised and unclean, and a third are frightened of them. Richard Kupermintz of
Lieberman is simply riding the wave of such racism and pointing out the inevitable path separation must follow if it is to satisfy these kinds of prejudices. He may speak his mind more than his cabinet colleagues, but they too share his vision of the future. That is why only one minister, the dovish and principled Ophir Pines Paz of Labor, resigned over Ehud Olmert's inclusion of Lieberman in the cabinet.
Contrast that response with the uproar caused by the Labor leader Amir Peretz's appointment of the first Arab cabinet minister in
Raleb Majadele, a Muslim, is a senior member of the Labor party and a Zionist (what might be termed, in different circumstances, a self-hating Arab or an Uncle Tom), and yet his apppointment has broken an Israeli taboo: Arabs are not supposed to get too close to the centres of power.
Peretz's decision was entirely cynical. He is under threat on all fronts — from his coalition partners in Kadima and in Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu, and from within his own party — and desperately needs the backing of Labor's Arab party members. Majadele is the key, and that is why Peretz gave him a cabinet post, even if a marginal one: Minister of Science, Culture and Sport.
But the right is deeply unhappy at Majadele's inclusion in the cabinet. Lieberman called Peretz unfit to be defence minister for making the appointment and demanded that Majadele pledge loyalty to
A few Labor and Meretz MKs denounced these comments as racist. But more telling was the silence of Olmert and his Kadima party, as well as Binyamin Netanyhu's Likud, at Lieberman's outburst. The centre and right understand that Lieberman's views about Majadele, and Palestinian citizens more generally, mirror those of most Israeli Jews and that it would be foolhardy to criticise him for expressing them — let alone sack him.
In this game of "who is the truer Zionistâ€, Lieberman can only grow stronger against his former colleagues in Kadima and Likud. Because he is free to speak his and their minds, while they must keep quiet for appearance's sake, he, not they, will win ever greater respect from the Israeli public.
Meanwhile, all the evidence suggests that Olmert and the current government will implement the policies being promoted by Lieberman, even if they are too timid to openly admit that is what they are doing.
Some of those policies are of the by-now familiar variety, such as the destruction of 21 Bedouin homes, half the
These kind of official attacks against the indigenous Bedouin — who have been classified by the government as "squatters†on state lands — are a regular occurence, an attempt to force 70,000 Bedouin to leave their ancestral homes and relocate to deprived townships.
A more revealing development came this month, however, when it was reported in the Israeli media that the government is for the first time backing "loyalty†legislation that has been introduced privately by a Likud MK. Gilad Erdan's bill would revoke the citizenship of Israelis who take part in "an act that constitutes a breach of loyalty to the stateâ€, the latest in a string of proposals by Jewish MKs conditioning citizenship on loyalty to the Israeli state, defined in all these schemes very narrowly as a "Jewish and democratic†state.
Arab MKs, who reject an ethnic definition of
Lieberman himself suggested just such a loyalty scheme for Palestinian citizens last month during a trip to
Erdan's bill specifies acts of disloyalty that include visiting an "enemy state†— which, in practice, means just about any Arab state. Most observers believe that, after Erdan's bill has been redrafted by the Justice Ministry, it will be used primarily against the Arab MKs, who are looking increasingly beleaguered. Most have been repeatedly investigated by the Attorney-General for any comment in support of the Palestinians in the occupied territories or for visiting neighbouring Arab states. One, Azmi Bishara, has been put on trial twice for these offences.
Meanwhile, Jewish MKs have been allowed to make the most outrageous racist statements against Palestinian citizens, mostly unchallenged.
Former cabinet minister Effi Eitam, for example, said back in September: "The vast majority of West Bank Arabs must be deported … We will have to make an additional decision, banning Israeli Arabs from the political system … We have cultivated a fifth column, a group of traitors of the first degree.†He was "warned†by the Attorney-General over his comments (though he has expressed similar views several times before), but remained unrepetant, calling the warning an attempt to "silence†him.
The leader of the opposition and former prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, the most popular politician in Israel according to polls, gave voice to equally racist sentiments this month when he stated that child allowance cuts he imposed as finance minister in 2002 had had a "positive†demographic effect by reducing the birth rate of Palestinian citizens.
Arab MKs, of course, do not enjoy such indulgence when they speak out, much more legitimately, in supporting their kin, the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza, who are suffering under Israel's illegal occupation. Arab MK Ahmed Tibi, for example, was roundly condemned last week by the Jewish parties, including the most leftwing, Meretz, when he called on Fatah to "continue the struggle†to establish a Palestinian state.
However, the campaign of intimidation by the government and Jewish members of the Knesset has failed to silence the Arab MKs or stop them visiting neighbouring states, which is why the pressure is being ramped up. If Erdan's bill becomes law — which seems possible with government backing — then the Arab MKs and the minority they represent will either be cut off from the rest of the Arab world once again (as they were for the first two decades of Israel's existence, when a military government was imposed on them) or threatened with the revocation of their citizenship for disloyalty (a move, it should be noted, that is illegal under international law).
It may not be too fanciful to see the current legislation eventually being extended to cover other "breaches of loyaltyâ€, such as demanding democratic reforms of
Soon Arab MKs and their constituents may also be liable to having their citizenship revoked for campaigning, as many currently do, for a state of all its citizens. That certainly is the view of the eminent Israeli historian Tom Segev, who argued in the wake of the government's adoption of the bill: "In practice, the proposed law is liable to turn all Arabs into conditional citizens, after they have already become, in many respects, second-class citizens. Any attempt to formulate an alternative to the Zionist reality is liable to be interpreted as a 'breach of faith' and a pretext for stripping them of their citizenship.â€
But it is unlikely to end there. I hesitate to make another prediction but, given the rapidity with which the others have been realised, it may be time to hazard yet another guess about where
The other day I was at a checkpoint near
I had heard that Palestinian citizens of
In April last year, at a cabinet meeting at which the Israeli government agreed to expel Hamas MPs from
Is it too much to suspect that before long, after
Lieberman doubtless knows the answer already.
Jonathan Cook is a writer and journalist living in Nazareth,


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A classic temperature inversion over the Front Range and eastern plains sat on the Front Range Thursday. This is a situation where milder air is over the mountains and foothills, while colder, heavier air is on the plains.
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25 U.S. Code § 4229 - Eligible affordable housing activities
(a) In general
Affordable housing activities under this section are activities conducted in accordance with the requirements of section 4230 of this title to—
(b) Activities
The activities described in this subsection are the following:
(1) Development
The acquisition, new construction, reconstruction, or moderate or substantial rehabilitation of affordable housing, which may include—
(2) Housing services
The provision of housing-related services for affordable housing, including—
(3) Housing management services
The provision of management services for affordable housing, including—
(4) Crime prevention and safety activities
The provision of safety, security, and law enforcement measures and activities appropriate to protect residents of affordable housing from crime.
Source(Pub. L. 104–330, title VIII, § 810, as added Pub. L. 106–568, title II, § 203,Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2886, and Pub. L. 106–569, title V, § 513,Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2980.)
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