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Gregory Scolds Bachmann for Listening to Public Opinion on Debt Ceiling
It appears David Gregory is a bit confused about how our system of government works.
During intense questioning of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) on Sunday's "Meet the Press," the host scolded his guest for having the nerve to actually care what the American people thought about raising the debt ceiling (video follows with transcript and commentary):
DAVID GREGORY, HOST: Let me ask you about the debt ceiling. You were adamantly opposed to raising the debt ceiling. You voted against that.
REPRESENTATIVE MICHELE BACHMANN (R-MINNESOTA): Mm-hmm.
MR. GREGORY: And there's a lot of people who said that was an incredibly reckless thing to do for our economy.
REP. BACHMANN: Oh, hardly, hardly.
MR. GREGORY: But, wait...
REP. BACHMANN: Yeah.
MR. GREGORY: ...let me just, let me just take you through it. It wasn't just the president of the United States, it was also the chairman of the Federal Reserve, it was the Treasury secretary, it was your entire...
REP. BACHMANN: And they've done such a smashing job for us, haven't they?
MR. GREGORY: Well, if I can just finish the question. The entire Republican leadership thought that was the wrong thing to do. Major members of the business community in this country thought that was the wrong thing to do. Why should we trust your judgment that that was the right thing to do and not a reckless act...
REP. BACHMANN: Because...
MR. GREGORY: ...on the part of a congresswoman?
"Why should we trust your judgment that that was the right thing to do and not a reckless act on the part of a congresswoman?"
Before we get to Bachmann's answer, can you imagine Gregory or any member of the mainstream media asking this question of former Senator Hillary Clinton when she was running for president?
Or such a question being asked about votes made by other high-profile Democrat women such as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), or Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.)?
But I digress:
REP. BACHMANN: It's a great question you're asking, a fantastic question. Because that's the judgment of the people of this country. The people of this country would love to weigh in, and they would love to say, "Tim Geithner, Treasury secretary, you're wrong. Mr. President, you're wrong." And that's what we...
MR. GREGORY: But this is why we have elected representatives, Congresswoman...
REP. BACHMANN: That's, that's really, that's really...
MR. GREGORY: ...who actually know the true financial impact of a step like this. Maybe people are against raising the debt ceiling, but the reality is, bipartisan agreement, in the business community saying you don't do that, you don't mess with the full faith and credit of the United States. Would you have voted the same way...
REP. BACHMANN: That's right, that's exactly right.
MR. GREGORY: ...if you were the deciding vote?
Actually, we have elected representatives to go to Washington and carry out the wishes of their constituents whenever it's possible.
In this instance, the public as measured by a July 12 Gallup poll were strongly opposed to raising the debt ceiling. Such people didn't want the United States to default on its debt. They instead rightly believed there were ample revenues coming in from tax receipts in August to pay the interest on all of our outstanding treasury paper.
As such, folks like Bachmann that were against raising the debt ceiling were indeed carrying out the wishes of their constituents without being anywhere near as reckless as the administration and their shills in the media claimed.
On top of this, Gregory is certainly no one to point fingers about knowing the "true financial impact" of not raising the debt ceiling as he completely negected to determine that for his viewers when he interviewed treasury secretary Timothy Geithner in July.
Maybe if the "Meet the Press" host had grilled Geithner with the same intensity he did Bachmann, the nation would have been far better informed of the "true financial impact" of such a move:
REP. BACHMANN: That's right, you don't mess with the full faith and credit of the United States. That's why I introduced the bill that I did that would have prevented any form of default. It's President Obama who failed to put any sort of a plan forward. That's what led to uncertainty. I was at another business here in, in west Des Moines, Competitive Edge, and, and the owner of that company told me that their problem right now is, again, uncertainty and the fact that they didn't know what was going to happen with interest rates, they don't know what's going to happen with Obamacare, and so they're on hold right now for hiring. The president is not sending the right signals. And again, let me just answer your question because you said, well, all the people in Washington said we had to raise the debt ceiling, all the people out in America said don't raise the debt ceiling. That's the problem with Washington.
MR. GREGORY: Right. But, but why does that make it...
REP. BACHMANN: They're not listening to the people.
MR. GREGORY: ...why does it make it the right thing to do? I mean...
REP. BACHMANN: Well, because, because, because representatives are supposed to represent the people that they serve. The people that they're serving are saying, "You guys don't have it figured out. Stop spending money you don't have."
MR. GREGORY: But so public opinion will be the sole determinant of how you vote on a particular issue?
She didn't say it would be the sole determinant, but the wishes of constituents should certainly be a factor in how an elected official votes.
Unfortunately since the Democrats took over Congress in 2007 and the White House in 2009, the Left and their media minions have gotten used to their representatives doing whatever they want with total disregard for public opinion.
Now that some folks on the right are once again paying attention to the voters, Gregory and his colleagues think it's "reckless."
Quite the contrary, what has been reckless for the past four years is Democrats passing bill after bill with far greater support from the press than the citizenry. That started to change this January, and people like Gregory can't stand it.
Of course doing the public's bidding will surely come back in vogue the second it's once again on the side of the Left.
Funny how the public is only important when their views mesh nicely with those of so-called journalists.
When this isn't the case, these very same citizens become immediately labeled as uninformed and reckless.
It's always quite a treat to watch the intellectual capacity of the average American quickly skyrocket when he or she agrees with the prevailing liberal view.
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Bachmann also did a nifty bit
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 9:40pm.
Bachmann also did a nifty bit of tap-dancing when Gregory asked her about gay marriage and homosexuality. It was like watching Gregory Hines.
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Greg Hines
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 9:47pm.
I didn't know Hines was gay, Didn't know he was dead either.
Thanks, bal.
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WTH does homosexuals have to
Submitted by Dan Diego on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 9:52pm.
WTH does homosexuals have to do w/ the debt ceiling debate?
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→ Don't know, Diego
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 10:13pm.
Near as I can figure, bal is trying to imply men who wear tap shoes are homosexual.
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And obama, reid and pelosi
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 11:42pm.
And obama, reid and pelosi give straight answers?
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"But so public opinion will
Submitted by Dan Diego on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 9:47pm.
"But so public opinion will be the sole determinant of how you vote on a particular issue?" - Curious George
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They sure wanted it to be
Submitted by Dave81 on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 2:29pm.
They sure wanted it to be when they were touting polls showing that a majority of Americans supported increasing taxes on the rich. It's only when public opinion opposes the media's agenda that they don't like it.
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Yep. Caught it this a.m.
Submitted by krendler on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 9:51pm.
Yep. Caught it this a.m. Gregory had his scripted, filibuster-ish questions ready to go and was annoyed when Bachmann started to answer before he had gotten all his Dem talking points out ("Please let me finish!!!"). I kept waiting for Bachmann to say "Is there a question in there somewhere?" Then, when Bachmann finally had a chance to speak, Gregory didn't like what he was hearing/seeing (she was composed, polite, and thoughtful) and immediately interrupted her. MTP is a complete joke. Can't wait to see them go after Romney and Perry, and then contrast it to the softballs they toss to the Dem spokespeople.
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Bachmann is doing very well in these interviews
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 10:21pm.
I prefer her interview style so much more than her "stump" and talking point style (which she relied on too much in the debates).
When she speaks slowly, and sincerely, she is totally believable, which makes the media meme of wild-eyed crazy with rage just vanish in a wisp of smoke.
I have to say, as the fashion police, I saw her in a couple of clips today, and the woman knows how to dress. She was impeccable today. And in the debate. (I'm just now starting to pay attention to that).
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Submitted by wahappened on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 9:53pm.
of Self governance!!!
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I really hate to tell you, comrade Gregory...
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 10:01pm.
...(and yes, I am actually calling you a stinking commie puke), but we-the-people still run this country, not you, the mindless Marxist government worshiping twits.
Learn it, know it, and live it, you worthless pinko jerkwad wussy.
Vote for the American in November
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'If I can just finish this
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 9:58pm.
'If I can just finish this question'???? Hey BaboonFace...........it didn't sound like a 'question' to me.........it sounded like some kind of lecture. Why have Bachmann on your show, if you're just going to sit there and tell her what YOU think she should have done?
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Wouldn't it be great
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 10:23pm.
....if any (and all) conservative(s) replied with the following to a filibusterish/lecturing question:
Oh, is there a question in that liberal talking point lecture, Mr. X? In exactly the tone of voice Bachmann used on Dancing Dicky. It would be perfect.
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Submitted by Chris Norman on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 12:53am.
Gregory must have gone to "Bill O'Reilly College of TV News Interviewing Style". :)
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Bachmann n Gregory
Submitted by Bob T on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 9:59pm.
I saw that and Gregory was so out classed and out smarted I almost felt sorry for him. She made sure she got to answer and made him look like a spoiled brat. I still await the conservative who in return for the religion question ask "Why do the main stream media wing and other wings of the Democrat party hate God so?
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Just as a sanity check...
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 10:02pm.
... I turned off the computer after reading and listening to that exchange. I went outside to see if the sun had set (it hasn't yet) and came back inside to see if I had any beer left in the refridgerator.
I can now report some BREAKING NEWS: We are still on planet Earth (as far as I can determine)! Where Gregory is... is a case foreither Astrophysicists' or Gypsy Tea Readers.
- Grump :o)
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You make a valid point Noel
Submitted by Reaver on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 10:14pm.
You make a valid point Noel if Gregory could have found a poll somewhere that showed that a majority of Americans were in favor of raising the debt ceiling the question would have been "Why are you going against the wishes of the American people?" Since there is no such poll the question becomes "Why does that make it the right thing to do?" and "Will public opinion be the sole determinant of how you vote on a particular issue?" I recognize this game it's called heads I win, tails you lose.
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Submitted by topdog729 on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 10:15pm.
Did this clown really say that at the end?????
How shameful of michelle to listen to her constituents. That s just un-american!
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On a futher note
Submitted by topdog729 on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 10:49pm.
He addresses her as Representative UMMM DAVE you obama anus licking twit, She was representing!
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The funniest part of this exchange was ...
Submitted by Fredy on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 11:02pm.
That Gregory actually thinks HE is SMARTER than the 'American People'!
What a total jerk Gregory made of himself on this fine Sunday morning.
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Submitted by PJRyan on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 11:06pm.
The arrogance of Gregory to be a condescending a'hole to a true public servant with conviction to an actual plan. What would have happened to the "full faith and credit" if the administration's "plan" to do nothing more than get an increase had come to fruition?
"And they've done such a smashing job for us, haven't they?"
"It's President Obama who failed to put any sort of a plan forward. That's what led to uncertainty."
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Gregory played right into Bachmann's hands
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 9:27am.
By confronting her with the DNC talking points, Meet the Press essentially turned into an info-merical for Bachmann, and she acquitted herself well.
When Gregory established that Bachmann opposes the alleged wisdom of Geithner and Bernanke on the debt ceiling and taxes, it strengthens her position. Afterall, even Bernanke conceded weeks ago that the Fed doesn't understand why the economy isn't recovering faster.
The icing on the cake came when Gregory asked if she was going to base her votes on public opinion, her answer was perfect and sounded very Constitutional. Afterall, she represents her constituency, just as 434 other Representatives do theirs.
The only opportunity she missed was when Gregory suggested that she almost brought down the economy with her No vote on raising the debt ceiling. Had she responded by noting that more Dems voted against it in the House than Republicans, and named some of those Dems, Gregory's whole line of reasoning would've jumped the track.
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Submitted by Tjexcite on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 11:10pm.
When is the whole square of Washington DC going to grow 300 feet high to be nothing but a tower of Ivory. The when they look down there noses at the little people and say. You sent us here to do something and we will do the exact opposite because you are to stupid to know what is good for you.
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QUIZ: How much is our national debt? If you said $14 Trillion,
Submitted by Rush Fan on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 12:04am.
you're not even close. According to Prof. Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Professor of Economics at Boston University, our real debt obligation is $211 Trillion!
Prof. Kotlikoff, who served as a senior economist on President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, also is a columnist for Bloomberg and Forbes. He was interviewed by NPR last week. Here is a portion of the AUDIO where he discusses our true $211 Trillion debt, based on Congressional Budget Office figures. Here is the accompanying NPR article titled A National Debt Of $14 Trillion? Try $211 Trillion.
If Prof. Kotlikoff is correct, our long term debt obligation is enormous, and our promises to current and future generations is, as he describes it, a "massive Ponzi Scheme".
As for David Gregory, Noel and NewsBusters will be documenting Gregory's predictable bias until he retires or the Earth comes to an end, whichever comes first.
---------------------- ----------Recommended Links----------
Prof, Kutlikoff's website and list of Op-eds.
Bloomberg column titled Generational Balance, Not Budget Balance: Laurence Kotlikoff
Laurence Kotlikoff - VIDEO The U.S. is Broke
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And how did we get there?
Submitted by TheHistorian on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 9:52am.
George W Bush? Don't make me laugh. It has been every liberal program and progressive dream that has put us here. It certainly wasn't limited government. Libs, take a bow. You have screwed the greatest nation on earth, turning it into Zimbabwe.
Dennis Prager
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I couldn't agree with you more that Liberals have decimated the
Submitted by Rush Fan on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 6:50pm.
fabric of our society, both moral and economic.
Glad to see your a fan of Dennis Prager, one of my favorite talk radio hosts.
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That's even worse than my $132 trillion debt calculation
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 6:58pm.
Vote for the American in November
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Mr. Gregory, when the rubber hit the road,
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Sun, 08/14/2011 - 11:45pm.
what did Moody's think of the plan that I voted against? Wouldn't it have been better to get a plan that would do better to answer the concerns about our credit rating?
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How Republican leaders and
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 12:27am.
How Republican leaders and conservative advocates can allow themselves to be interviewed by imbeciles without figuratively taking them by the scruff of the neck and making them sniff the sh*t they've done to this country is a complete mystery to me. People like Gregory should be belittled in these interviews because they don't have the intellectual honesty and capabilities to formulate sensible views on how to govern this nation properly. It's time to take off the kid gloves.
Chris Matthews: The Joy Behar of MSNBC.
Bill Maher: The Joy Behar of HBO.
Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.
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David, David....must be the forelock.....
Submitted by Herbster on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 1:14am.
Little David's grasp of how CONSTITUTIONAL government - and basic economics - is pitiful. As an aside, have you been following the ratings of this travesty of a Sunday show? In the toilet. He thinks he's another Tim Russert. Let me tell you, Little David, I knew Tim Russert, and David, you sure as Hell are not another Tim Russert! Little David's stock in trade for questions always start out......."Back in 1974, you said......." What a twit. Bachmann ate his lunch....cool, lucid....factual. Little David got very testy while trying to (Remember?) all the White House talking points. I'll be polite here. The man is a lightweight. He was totally outclassed today - as he is on most Sundays.
The media will now go after Bachmann, Perry and Romney with a vengeance. Here's a sample of what's coming: Did you know that none of the three were born in this country? They are all alchololic drug users? Each has murdered at least three people and had them buried in the cement used on a "Shovel ready" job in their respective states. All their children are illegitimate. They were seen ganging up on a minority person in an Iowa biker bar. Perry and Romney were seen together at a gay bar.....Bachmann was the lookout. All these statements will soon appear in the New York Times citing anonymous sources. We need two things in our country if we are to grow again into greatness......an HONEST media and TERM LIMITS!
The future will surely triumph over the perpetual yesterday.
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Baboon face....LMAO, it fits this clown perfectly.
Submitted by richard on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 1:30am.
Gregory demonstrated the liberal (yes, I used liberal, rather than the new hip term, progressive) water carrying jagoff fool that he is, while trying to rattle Bachmann with inane questions about religion and homos, which mean nothing toward her ability to be a good president. MTP should be renamed Meet the Enemy, when it comes to Republicans being interviewed, because that is how they are treated by baboon face (sorry, I couldn't help myself from stealing that one).
After Gregory gave Bachmann the prefunctory, "Thank you for being here," I would have loved to hear her to say to him, "I wish I could say the same to you."
It would have been neat if she had a wallet sized picture of Obama with her that she could have set him up with, "Here David, I brought you a little present to keep in your wallet, so you won't ever have to be so far away from your best friend."
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It's OK, richard............I
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 1:39am.
It's OK, richard............I usually don't get too wrapped up on somebody's looks, unless they've got the attitude and the agenda that somehow matches their physical characteristics...........and then it gets really easy!!!
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Monkey Boy Gregory, Liberal Waterboy
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 7:11am.
Is it just me, or does this moron look like the missing link with his ape-like noggin?
I think she more than held her own under the onslaught of questions that were designed to paint her as a religious nut. Funny, I can't remember Hillary ever getting these kinds of questions. Only conservative women.
The funniest question had to be when he referred to "Geithner and other 'experts' asseeing the debt-ceiling issue as catastrophic..."
Turbotax Tim? That gerbil could spell cat if you spotted him the c and the a.
Ms. Bachmann, I give you an A+
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He is so freaking stupid it boggles the mind.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 9:34am.
So, you mean you're going to do what the people that elected you want you to do? How is that? I am shocked? I mean look around and see how well our faith in government has rewarded us.
Are you really that dumb or such a hack partisan a-hole, that you cannot let the truth out unless it's alined with your failed and failing ideologies?
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Obviously the liberals know they're losing the war...
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 9:51am.
Based on how upset David Gregory gets these days. Laughable liberal garbage TV.
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Diesel: "Mr. Gregory, a lot
Submitted by Diesel on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 10:00am.
Diesel: "Mr. Gregory, a lot of people are saying that you do sick & perverted things with gerbils....."
David Gregory: "B-b-but I-I-I..........."
Diesel: "Let me finish Davey, then you may speak"
This is how it works? Do I have that about right?
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Little Geraldo is such a
Submitted by frank14 on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 10:35am.
Little Geraldo is such a mental lightweight. You could tell he was mad because Michele interrupted his TelePrompTer reading of Media Matters talking points. He is an embarrassment to journalism.
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Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 10:44am.
they've done such a smashing job for us, haven't they?" Good one!
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Can't wait until he tries
Submitted by marpel on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 10:49am.
Can't wait until he tries that liberal crap with Rick Perry. He won't be as tolerant as W was with him...Can't wait, can't wait!!
"Deep within my heart lies a memory. A song of ol' San Antone..."
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Very simply Gregory - most in the media = a stupid turd.
Submitted by russedav on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 11:20am.
Very simply Gregory - most in the media = a stupid turd.
Now how do you pick him up by the clean end?
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He just came off as a jerk, in my opinion, but the
Submitted by Lipton on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 11:33am.
problem is that liberals have confined themselves to being the world's largest clique so they probably see nothing wrong with how he questioned her, especially when you compare them to the all too clever (overused) "Faux News".
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Interesting comment.
Submitted by E.S.Blofeld on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 12:56pm.
"Actually, we have elected representatives to go to Washington and carry out the wishes of their constituents whenever it's possible."
One could say if the majority of constituents wanted their elected official to vote on a particular piece of legislation then what could be wrong with it passing and being the law of the land? If the rhetoric is wrong what harm could become of it? I wonder how many constituents actually understand the complicated points of the US economy and how it pertains to the rest of the world. What would China have said if we defaulted and left their economy in a shambles? I guess the local WalMart would close up and people would have to get their 5 gallon jars of mayonnaise at the 7-11. Well, maybe just the 8oz portion at the same price.
"Isn't it pretty to think that way?"-EH
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For the gay Q
Submitted by bobbys on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 2:42pm.
For the , I'm going to find a "gotcha" Q about gays to paint you as a anti gay she should have just replied with...
Its above my pay grade
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Submitted by PrimalElements on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 3:17pm.
This fool should pledge never to quote another poll again then.
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Gregory was just waiting for
Submitted by marpel on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 4:05pm.
Gregory was just waiting for the chance to "chew" Michele out. That way, he'll have a good seat at the next liberal's dinner party.
"Deep within my heart lies a memory. A song of ol' San Antone..."
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Gregory's agenda giveaway
Submitted by 4Deuce on Mon, 08/15/2011 - 5:09pm.
So, Gregory has reduced MTP to a Katie Couric carnival show, huh?.
Any hack who initiates an interview with that soory old "I have an agenda to push" statement like: "Some people say.... (fill in any unsubstantiated allegation you wish here...) aptly demonstrates to all that he/she has entered the interview as an advesary and not as any sort of objective interviewer.
Gregory should wear a Democratic Party donkey lapel pin on the show. His idea of objectivity is not calling a conservative guest a "criminal".
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tax cuts created the deficit
Submitted by hayate1 on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 4:03am.
Economists, including numerous Bush advisers, reject claim that previous tax cuts have increased revenues
Time: "Tax Cuts Don't Boost Revenues." In a December 6, 2007 article titled, "Tax Cuts Don't Boost Revenues," Time magazine noted that "economists agree" that the Republican talking point that tax cuts raise revenues is "false":
If there's one thing that Republican politicians agree on, it's that slashing taxes brings the government more money. "You cut taxes, and the tax revenues increase," President Bush said in a speech last year. Keeping taxes low, Vice President Dick Cheney explained in a recent interview, "does produce more revenue for the Federal Government." Presidential candidate John McCain declared in March that "tax cuts ... as we all know, increase revenues." His rival Rudy Giuliani couldn't agree more. "I know that reducing taxes produces more revenues," he intones in a new TV ad.
If there's one thing that economists agree on, it's that these claims are false. We're not talking just ivory-tower lefties. Virtually every economics Ph.D. who has worked in a prominent role in the Bush Administration acknowledges that the tax cuts enacted during the past six years have not paid for themselves--and were never intended to. Harvard professor Greg Mankiw, chairman of Bush's Council of Economic Advisers from 2003 to 2005, even devotes a section of his best-selling economics textbook to debunking the claim that tax cuts increase revenues.
Bush CEA chair Mankiw: Claim that broad-based income tax cuts increase revenue is not "credible." Economist Greg Mankiw, who also served as chair of the Bush CEA wrote on July 2, 2007:
I used the phrase "charlatans and cranks" in the first edition of my principles textbook to describe some of the economic advisers to Ronald Reagan, who told him that broad-based income tax cuts would have such large supply-side effects that the tax cuts would raise tax revenue. I did not find such a claim credible, based on the available evidence. I never have, and I still don't.
My other work has remained consistent with this view. In a paper on dynamic scoring, written while I was working at the White House, Matthew Weinzierl and I estimated that a broad-based income tax cut (applying to both capital and labor income) would recoup only about a quarter of the lost revenue through supply-side growth effects. For a cut in capital income taxes, the feedback is larger--about 50 percent--but still well under 100 percent. A chapter on dynamic scoring in the 2004 Economic Report of the President says about the the [sic] same thing.
Reagan economist Feldstein: "It's not that you get more revenue by lowering tax rates, it is that you don't lose as much." The New York Times reported on March 26, 2008:
While Mr. Laffer insists that tax revenue will rise when tax rates are cut, other supply-siders are less categorical. Martin Feldstein, a Harvard economist who was the first chairman of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers and now supports Senator McCain, estimates that a 10 percent tax cut would in fact reduce tax revenue -- but only by 3 to 5 percent.
"It is not that you get more revenue by lowering tax rates, it is that you don't lose as much," he said.
Feldstein also reportedly wrote in 1986 that "[t]he height of the supply-side hyperbole was the 'Laffer curve' proposition that the tax cut would actually increase tax revenue because it would unleash an enormously depressed supply of effort. ... I have no doubt that the loose talk of the supply-side extremists gave fundamentally good policies a bad name and led to quantitative mistakes that not only contributed to subsequent budget deficits, but also made it more difficult to modify policy when those deficits became apparent."
Former Bush chief economist to CEA Samwick: "You know that tax cuts have not fueled record revenues." In a January 2007 "New Year's Plea," to "anyone in the [Bush] Administration who may read this blog," Andrew Samwick, an economics professor at Dartmouth College and former chief economist to the Council of Economic Advisers during the Bush administration, wrote:
You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues. You know what it takes to establish causality. You know that the first order effect of cutting taxes is to lower tax revenues. We all agree that the ultimate reduction in tax revenues can be less than this first order effect, because lower tax rates encourage greater economic activity and thus expand the tax base. No thoughtful person believes that this possible offset more than compensated for the first effect for these tax cuts. Not a single one.
FactCheck.org: Revenue would have been higher without Bush tax cuts. FactCheck.org concluded on June 11, 2007, that "it is clear" the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 "did not 'increase revenues'" as Sen. John McCain had claimed. The post further stated: "The Congressional Budget Office, the Treasury Department, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the White House's Council of Economic Advisers and a former Bush administration economist all say that tax cuts lead to revenues that are lower than they otherwise would have been - even if they spur some economic growth."
Former Bush economist: "[N]o dispute among economists" that Bush tax cuts reduced revenue. The Washington Post reported on October 17, 2006:
"Federal revenue is lower today than it would have been without the tax cuts. There's really no dispute among economists about that," said Alan D. Viard, a former Bush White House economist now at the nonpartisan American Enterprise Institute. "It's logically possible" that a tax cut could spur sufficient economic growth to pay for itself, Viard said. "But there's no evidence that these tax cuts would come anywhere close to that."
Krugman: After Reagan's 1981 tax cuts, "revenues are permanently reduced relative to what they would otherwise have been." Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman wrote on July 15 that "the revenue track under Reagan looks a lot like the track under Bush: a drop in revenues, then a resumption of growth, but no return to the previous trend." He added, "This is exactly what you would expect to see if supply-side economics were just plain wrong: revenues are permanently reduced relative to what they would otherwise have been."
Clinton economist: Reagan tax cuts and Bush tax cuts "contributed to record US budget deficits." Harvard economist and former Clinton economic advisor Jeffrey Frankel wrote in 2008 that cuts in federal income tax rates "reduces revenue ... this was the outcome of the two big experiments of recent decades: the Reagan tax cuts of 1981-83 and the Bush tax cuts of 2001-03, both of which contributed to record US budget deficits." Frankel added that this is "the view of almost all professional economists, including the illustrious economic advisers to Presidents Reagan and Bush."
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A man has been charged with murder after Mirian Garcia, 29, was found dead last week behind the Department of Motor Vehicles in Riverhead allegedly strangled her with a belt after raping her.
Suffolk County homicide detectives arrested Guillermo Alfonso Alvarado-Ajcuc, 21, of Riverhead for the on Wednesday at approximately 6 p.m.
A Shelter Island police chase led to the arrest of a Montauk man who was reportedly in possession of about $70,000 in proceeds from burglaries around East Hampton.
Following his arrest on Wednesday, William A. Donnelly Jr., 30, is being held at the Suffolk County jail in Riverside without bail.
Shelter Island Police Detective Sgt. Jack Thilberg said in a statement on Friday that police tried to pull over Donnelly in a stolen van on Route 114 on Wednesday at 3:56 p.m., but he refused, leading police a short case down Smith Street and Menantic Road. He ended up crashing on Menantic Road and exited his vehicle and fled on foot into a residential area.
Members of the of Westhampton were on hand at the Westhampton Beach Village meeting on Wednesday evening to garner approval for a new, annual Westhampton Beach Oyster Festival to be held on the Saturday of Columbus Day weekend.
Ralph Schenk, a Kiwanis committee member, said his club is looking to create an event similar to one held each year in the Village of Oyster Bay, complete with a chowder contest, wine tasting, blue grass music, vendors, rides for the kids and of course, fresh oysters and clams.
The 's failed, 228-275, on Tuesday, and former School Board member ousted incumbent by an 8-vote margin.
Steudte received 220 votes to Grindle's 212. At least 71 voters abstained from deciding on a candidate.
Under the proposed budget, the tax rate was projected to rise by 9.54 percent to $7.23 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. The tax rate increase was pushed up by a 4.91 percent dip of the total assessed value of properties in the district, meaning the impact on homeowners whose property values decreased would have been less than 9.54 percent.
Oysterponds Elementary School was the only district on the North Fork to fail in passing its 2012-13 budget Tuesday night. Voters spoke out 192 yes to 253 no to vote down the $5,353,894 budget — a plan to reduce spending by $270,000 this year, but the tax levy increase is estimated at 2.5 percent.
Though board incumbent members Linda Goldsmith and Krista de Kerillis won their bids for re-election Tuesday night after polls closed, the victory was bittersweet. To de Kerillis, the failure to pass what seemed like a reasonable budget is the result of an ongoing distrust the Orient community feels toward their board of education.
Recently, the issue of whether or not Oysterponds should allow parents the option of sending their kids to for secondary schooling has been a main source conflict in the district. Commenters on election 2012 stories on Patch have questioned the motivations of board members for allowing this secondary school choice, some citing elitism and racism.


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Waterfront Condo-Fishing, Boating in Resort Community in St Petersburg
- bedrooms 2
- baths 1
- sleeps 6
- pool yes
- hot tub yes
- pets allowed no
- type Condo
- community Waterside at Coquina Key
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$ 2,000 - $ 2,500 / month
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Beautiful upgraded condo on a 24 hour gated Resort Style community. This unit will inspire you to relax and rejuvenate. You will appreciate the new eco friendly bamboo floors, contemporary dark wood decoration. and all the special touches we have put in it. This 2 bed 1 bath unit comfortably sleeps 6.
- Enjoy your favorite movie or playstation game on the 42 inch plasma TV with surround sound located in the living area.
- Fully equipped kitchen for your gourmet meal includes all stainless steel appliances, espresso coffee maker, toaster, blender, dinner ware.
- Stack washer and dryer.
- Master bedroom with a queen bed and memory foam mattress
- Second bedroom has 2 twin beds and a sofa futton
- Blackout - lined drapery in bedrooms
- Relax sipping your favorite wine while looking at the sunset over the Sunshine Skyway bridge on this 2nd floor private balcony with outdoor furniture.
- Fishing rods, cooler, beach chairs and umbrella included.
- Electric BBQ
- Wireless Internet
If you want to enjoy St Pete on your boat, private boat slip is available for additional fee.
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Enjoy a walk on our 88 acres of beautiful landscaped and waterfront grounds. You might see the dolphins or the manatees. You can also invigorate enjoying the numerous amenities inside our gated Resort Style community.
- 2 state of the art fitness centers
- 2 saunas
- Village market convenience store (temporary closed)
- 2 resort style swimming pools
- Outdoor jacuzzi
- Tennis courts with lights
- Sand volleyball court
- Private movie theater
- Fishing
- Bicycling
- 2 story yacht club with private restaurant and lounge
activities and attractions in St Petersburg Gulf Coast Central
Our condo is located minutes away from downtown St Petersburg, area hospitals, the University of South Florida, and the gulf coast beaches. St Pete area offer cultural activities, best white sandy beaches, shopping, dining, concerts and games. Our favorite spots are:
Cultural - Salvador Dali Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Saturday Fresh Market, St. Petersburg Pier
Beaches and Boating - Fort De Soto Park (12 miles), Shell Key Island, Pass a Grill (love their shops and outdoor cafes - 9 miles), Egmont Key State Park, St Pete Beach (10.5 miles)
Shopping - Downtown St Pete antique stores, Ellenton Outlet Mall
Dining - Pass a Grill Restaurants and Downtown St Pete Restaurants.
vacation rental rates
Security Deposit - $400 for monthly rentals / $100 for weekly rentals
Cleaning Fee - $75
No pets allowed
No smoking unit
Nilda Graniela
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Prior to paying a reservation deposit, always verify payment instructions by calling the phone number displayed on this listing page. By contacting the owner directly and paying by an approved method - credit card, paypal, check or bank transfer - your reservation payment will be protected up to $1,000.Learn more in our Security Center
Top things to do in St Petersburg
- Hang out at the white sandy beaches
- Shopping at the Ellenton factory outlets
- Salvador Dali Museum
- St. Petersburg Pier
Top things to do on a budget
- Fishing outside your door
- Tanning by the pool
- Play tennis at night
- Grill on your private balcony
- Spectacular sunset at Pass a Grill Beach
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Freshman goaltender Dan Sullivan makes 21 saves to earn shutout for Black Bears
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LOWELL, Mass. - Maine's Brian Flynn (Lynnfield, Mass.) netted two goals as the Black Bears roared to a 4-0 win over UMass Lowell in the Tsongas Center on Friday night. River Hawks' goaltender Marc Boulanger (Olds, Alta.) was terrific in net, recording his second career 40-save game.
The loss pushes UMass Lowell's record to 4-23-2 overall this season and 3-19-0 in conference play. Maine picks up an important victory, improving to 13-10-6 on the year and 10-8-4 in Hockey East action.
The Black Bears came out firing in the first period, outshooting the River Hawks 14-5. Boulanger was up to the task, holding the score sheet unblemished through the opening 20 minutes.
Maine kept up the pace in the second period and was rewarded at the 2:15 mark with a goal by Matt Mangene (Manorville, N.Y.). Mike Banwell (Scarborough, Ont.) fired a shot from the point and Mangene redirected the puck through Boulanger's five-hole.
The Black Bears expanded their lead late in the second with a power play goal from Jeff Dimmen (Colorado Springs, Colo.). Dimmen took a shot from the far boards and a River Hawk forward got a piece with his stick, sending the puck high over the goaltender's glove.
Maine put the game out of reach in the third, picking up a pair of goals from Flynn. Mangene set up Flynn from behind the net and the forward roofed the puck at 8:16 into the third. Just over six minutes later, Flynn buried a mid-ranged shot from Dimmen to secure the 4-0 victory.
In his first game back from injury since Oct. 29, River Hawk captain Scott Campbell (Navan, Ont.) took the ice for UMass Lowell. Campbell was strong in the loss; winning 9-of-13 face offs and nearly converted a first period breakaway.
For the night, Boulanger turned away 40-of-44 shots as he fell to 0-11-1 on the season. The rookie goaltender has recorded 30 or more saves in each of his last seven starts and has made 35 or more stops in five of his last six outings.
The Black Bears' Dan Sullivan (York, Pa.) secured a shutout, stopping 21 shots to improve to 5-6-1 overall.
The teams will have little time to rest, battling once more on Saturday night live on NESN at 7:30 p.m.
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Luxury Holidays in Central America
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Paul Sheehan Eight countries, three weeks, 87 strangers: Paul Sheehan boards a private jet for a serial adventure.
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It seems nothing is too out there in global spas devoted to your relaxation, writes Rachael Oakes-Ash.
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Candy received a B.S in Biology from Mount Olive College in 1997 and a Master's in Physical Therapy from East Carolina University in 2000. Candy has been working in the field of neurological rehabilitation since 2000 and received an assistive technology practitioner (ATP) certification in 2005 and became a certified neurological clinical specialist (NCS) in 2007. Candy then received a Doctorate of Physical Therapy degree from Rocky Mountain Health Care University in 2008. She has been involved in numerous research projects and has focused much of her career on interventions and program development promoting recovery after neurologic injury or disease. Candy is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association and the Neurologic Section.
Candy is passionate about neurologic rehabilitation and recovery. She loves helping individuals neurologic disability and disease achieve their goals and she is especially focused on creating environments where people can work toward lifelong health and wellness. Outside of work, Candy enjoys spending time outdoors playing volleyball, running and skiing. Candy also enjoys spending time with friends and family and especially her niece and nephew.
Julie sets the direction and client care at the PEAK Center as our Doctor of Physical Therapy. She is also a certified CrossFit trainer and manages EKSO, Lokomat, Bioness, FES Devices, RT600, RT 300, and the Zero-Gravity Gait Trainer.
Julie's DPT degree is from Regis University in Denver, CO. She is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association. Her passion is working with individuals with neurological disabilities and diseases. She has a strong commitment to life-long learning, as she is consistently attending conferences and courses to keep up with the current best treatment strategies and continuing to grow as a professional. She has actively participated in multiple research studies.
Julie loves her job, her clients, and The PEAK. Her favorite part is empowering individuals to achieve their optimal health, wellness, and or recovery. "Nothing is more rewarding than to see my clients healthy and happy." Julie is best known for her compassion and her ability "think outside of the box" with her creative and individualized treatment techniques.
Outside of the PEAK Center, Julie enjoys spending time with her family and friends and loves doing anything active: camping, hiking, cycling, running. She is a huge Broncos fan!
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Kaci's passions center around helping clients, pushing them to achieve their best and strive towards their goals. Kaci helps PEAK's clients work toward healthier, active lifestyles. She's learned from her clients to live every day to the fullest. Her motto is "attitude is everything, be thankful for what you have."
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Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) - Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Dwayne Bowe is questionable for Sunday's game against the Cleveland Browns because of a groin injury.
Bowe suffered the injury at the end of practice on Thursday and sat out practice on Friday.
"It's day to day," said Chiefs head coach Andy Reid. "We'll just see how he does. He was feeling a little bit better today than he did yesterday, which is good. We'll just see how he is tomorrow and we'll go from there."
Bowe has 25 receptions for 295 yards and two touchdowns for the 7-0 Chiefs this season.
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Silverman: The Rangers have an opportunity in Game 1 to set the tone of the series. The Bruins are still in the clouds after their seventh-game miracle comeback vs. Toronto.


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Disabled son's mum forced to 'badger' Merton Council for school place
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The mother of a child with Down's Syndrome has blamed bureaucrats for months of stress after they were unable to allocate her son a school place until seven days before the end of the school year.
Tracy Eaton, of Aylward Road in Merton Park, was left fighting to find a place for her 11-year-old son Samuel after he was rejected by Garratt Park School in Tooting.
Merton Council had told Mrs Eaton in December that Samuel's place was guaranteed, but a month later the school said it could not take him after all.
But then, in an apparent breakdown in communication, Merton was unaware Samuel – who currently attends Joseph Hood Primary – had been rejected and Mrs Eaton was not told until June she had to find a new school for him.
She said: "The way we have been handled by the school and the council was not nice.
"They knew they weren't going to take him and they should have told us they were not going to take our son.
"The organisation of it doesn't seem right at all.
"Unless we badgered the council, to the point of getting the Wimbledon Guardian involved, Samuel probably wouldn't have a school place next year."
Last Friday, the council offered a Samuel a place at Cricket Green school, Mitcham, after what Mrs Eaton described as "the hard sell".
A Merton Council spokesman said: "Our top priority is for all children in our borough to be placed at a school, which best meets their educational needs.
"We are pleased we have now been able to offer a place in one of our outstanding schools."
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Harris goes, but Byatt says he is the man to fire Corinthian Casuals to safety (From Wimbledon Guardian)
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Harris goes, but Byatt says he is the man to fire Corinthian Casuals to safety
10:44am Friday 28th February 2014 in Non-League By Tim Ashton, Sports Editor
Striker Jamie Byatt banged a hat-trick past Walton & Hersham and then declared that Corinthian Casuals can stay in Ryman Division One South.
Despite the 4-1 win at Stompond Lane on Tuesday night, which included a cracking volley from Dave Hodges, the Casuals remain in the bottom two.
However, a run of form this month that has garnered seven points from a possible 12 has sent confidence pouring through Casuals' veins.
But it was not enough to keep boss Kim Harris in his job after he was released following Saturday's 3-1 defeat at home to Merstham.
Harris was in his second spell as boss after he stepped down due to ill health just weeks into this campaign.
Now, as then, Brian Adamson has taken temporary charge, and in Byatt he has a man desperate to score as many goals as possible.
Byatt said: "It was good to get the points, and I enjoyed getting that hat-trick.
"Saturday was a lapse, so it was good to get back to it."
He added: "There's no reason why we cannot stay up. If we carry on playing how we did in the second half, then why not?
"But we need to take this result into training, work on a few things and then take that into the game at Faversham. We're confident we can get something there."
Keeping hold of Byatt will prove key, and although he now has 18 goals in all competitions this season and is attracting attention from elsewhere, he is happy where he is.
"I love playing week in week out for Casuals, I love banging the goals in for them," he said.
"They have looked after me and I have a lot of respect for them.
"Tony Davis, Luke Gerrard and Tommy Williams are doing a great job here, and long may it last."
Casuals go to play-off chasing Faversham on Saturday.
Gone: Kim Harris was released from his manager's job after Casuals' defeat to Merstham last weekend
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Shortstop was not a pretty affair for the AL East. Between Derek Jeter's glove, Sean Rodriguez' bat, and the Red Sox' gamble on Mike Aviles' everything, it's the sort of thing we would all be happier to move on from.
So let's do that, and head instead to a position of strength. From tomorrow's star in the Jays' Brett Lawrie, to yesterday's MVP in Alex Rodriguez, the names are big, the bats are big, and in some cases, the gloves aren't bad either. In fact, it's not easy to exclude any of them from a top-10 list of third basemen.
But which one is the best? How do they all stack up? Is the new guard ready to supplant the old guard? Or do the long-term veterans have something to say about that?
Blue Jays: I won't deny that I'm a sucker for prospects, so perhaps I overrate him, but Brett Lawrie is quite the exciting player for the folks up in Toronto. After absolutely destroying the competition at Triple-A Las Vegas as a 21-year-old, Lawrie was promoted and...quickly destroyed the competition in Toronto. In just 43 games, Lawrie produced what most third basemen might over the course of an entire season, amassing a 2.7 fWAR on a line of .293/.373/.580 and strong (small sample size) defensive numbers.
Of course, Lawrie has to guard against the sophomore slump that effects so many players as pitchers start to pay attention and develop specific approaches to deal with them, and his defense wasn't ever expected to be anywhere near Longo's level. But even if he does drop off some in 2012 (which is by no means a given), it's hard to doubt that he will still be one of the better third basemen in the league for a while to come.
Rays: The real class of the league at the position, Evan Longoria suffered through a bit of a down year thanks to a .239 BABIP in 2011, but still managed to finish the season with a MLB-leading 6.1 fWAR at the position thanks to his typically excellent defense and an impressive (under the circumstances) .365 wOBA. With his foot expected to be healthy again after some minor offseason surgery, entering his prime, and likely with a little more luck, Longoria seems likely to stay atop the charts.
Red Sox: Quite frankly, the Red Sox' third baseman never seemed quite right last year. Hampered by a hip injury and ultimately a sports hernia, Youk was still effective with a .366 wOBA and some fringe-average defense at third, but he wasn't Youkilis. The hope is that a healthy Youkilis will return to his pre-2011 form, and even though it seems like he's been around (and older) forever, the fact is that Youkilis is still 32 years old--not young, but not so old that we should be discounting his recuperative ability.
It seems unlikely that Youkilis will be the best third baseman of the bunch next year, but with a decent bounce back, he could certainly get back into the conversation.
Yankees: Where once Alex Rodriguez would have been a shoe-in for the best third baseman in the division, if not the best player in the game, now he's surrounded by question marks. Before his knee surgery, he was playing well, if with BABIP-inflated offensive numbers. Afterwards, he wasn't even a shadow of the A-Rod we had all grown to hate and fear over the past decade.
The fact is that A-Rod is 36, and all these years of major league play may well finally be catching up to him. The chances that he actually reaches his former heights seem relatively small, but even playing 150 games at a midway point would be a big boost for A-Rod. But as the player that we've seen over the last couple of years, Rodriguez is actually in danger of falling behind the pack if things fall right for Youkilis and Lawrie. He's not bad by any means, but he'll have to prove that he's still A-Rod.
To answer the earlier question, yes, it does seem as though the old guard has been supplanted. Evan Longoria is likely untouchable as the king of the hill, and if Brett Lawrie can reproduce something akin to his 2011 season in longer form, there's little stopping him from joining Longoria.
Still, the mantra of "spring brings new hope" is not limited only to teams, but players as well. A healthy Kevin Youkilis could find himself back in the conversation, while it's hard to imagine Alex Rodriguez is ready to simply accept his decline as fact. The fact is, past Longoria, there's no telling how any of these players will sort out. All we can be sure of is that the level of competition will be very high indeed.


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The Double-D Diner makes meals made from scratch.
Eric Shangraw is having breakfast at the Double-D in this week's You Gotta Eat.
The Double-D Diner is a classic, old-school eatery. Everything is cooked to order. Ninety percent of the menu is homemade.
"The sausage gravy we make fresh everyday. The biscuits we bake fresh everyday. It is those little things that we take pride in that sets us apart from everybody else," said manager and cook Eric Hiller.
Owner Pat Webb says the place is named after his sons Daniel and David. He opened it adjacent to his wife's bar-business after they got tired of seeing her customers leave the bar to get something to eat.
"And we felt we needed to have good food over there so we kept this non-alcoholic over here and we have a serving window that we serve through and seat a hundred and some people over there," said Webb.
Customers say they cherish the friendly service.
"We are the paramedics on duty (in Washington). If we get a call and come back, they bring our food right back to use or re-fix it. We just really enjoy the portions and the price. Seems like a god deal," said Dan Fishel.
Photographer Dave Janssen had ham and eggs with hash browns and wheat toast. He diced and mixed his order into a custom casserole. DJ gave it an early morning A-plus.
I had the classic two-egg combo; eggs over easy, hash browns, sausage and toast. Now, you really have to be clueless to screw up a simple breakfast. Mine was hot and prepared spot-on.
With coffee and iced-tea, our bill; $17.00 plus tip. The Double-D is worth every dime.
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Suffolk County police have stepped up patrols in Deer Park, Long Island after reports of strangers in cars following students near bus stops.
Parents of students at Robert Frost Middle School were notified of the incidents.
On Friday, a girl was walking to the bus stop near Washington Ave. and Hickory Ave. when a car slowed down and the child thought she was being followed. The girl went back to her house. A school official called 911 once the child got to school at about 8:49 a.m., said police.
There was one person in the black BMW SUV, according to the girl.
On Thursday, a small maroon or red car with tinted windows followed a female student near a different bus stop. That car also was on the wrong side of the street. She ran to her mother, who chased the car as it sped away, again running a stop sign.
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on Feb 10, 2013 at 5:54 pm
great, i can use these savings to pay my 22% health insurance increase from obomacare.
on Feb 10, 2013 at 7:11 pm
... which is as yet uncalculable, and won't kick in until 2014 at any rate. But listen to Rush, Dittohead, and make a clown of yourself.
on Feb 11, 2013 at 12:10 pm
don't be a hater
on Feb 11, 2013 at 2:08 pm
liberalism is a disease is a registered user.
Apparently, antidildohead hasn't seen the latest CBO projections, while formulating his defensive position for his messiah's plan:
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Each year on February 14, we find the perfect gift or card for a loved one. Though people mostly refer to Valentine's Day as a celebration for couples, it is also about recognizing all the different people you love in your life.
We may remind friends and family how much we love them everyday but Valentine's Day provides a great opportunity to let them know how much we care. Now, here are some ways you can express your love this special day:
* For students, create a personalized greeting card. Give your closest pal a surprise and stick it to his/her locker at school.
* As for your parents, leave them a note saying how much you love them. You could insert it in their organizer/diary or stick it on their dresser.
* If you are a parent, use heart-shaped cookie cutters to cut out your kids' sandwiches for lunch. Place heart stickers on their lunch bags. Don't forget to add a note telling them how much you love them. Also, let your kids help you bake heart-shaped cookies and deliver them to grandparents, neighbors, residents of a nursing home or anyone else you think might enjoy receiving a treat.
And as for couples out there, aside from surprising your partner with red balloons, flavored body oils and diamonds from malls, here's one quick tip for all of you:
It's all about self-awareness. Celebrating Valentine's day is not the true measure of how much you love. It's how well you know your special someone and how accurately you can guess how mad she'll be if you make mistakes and also how much you'll care if she gets mad at you anyway.
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Affiliation: Anglo-Danish Maritime Archaeological Team (ADMAT) and ADMAT-FRANCE with Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris, départememt Préhistoire, UMR-CNRS 7194.
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ADMAT & ADMAT-FRANCE are running a Maritime Archaeological Project on 1-15 Feb 2014 to continue the Survey work on The Tile Wreck 1720's wreck as well as a new survey of the northern Monte Cristi Reefs in July 2014, in the Dominican Republic. The work is being carried out for the Oficina Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural Subacuatico (ONPCS) the Government department. This project will instruct students survey and exploration techniques as well as documentation of artifacts. This is open for all students or volunteers over 18 years of age, with a minimum qualification of PADI Advanced Open Water / BSAC Sports Diver or equivalent. The project language is English. Two week slots available. Full information about these projects can be found on ADMAT's website. This is a hands on course going through the process of artefact documentation working on the artefacts from The Tile Wreck. For further information on this and other projects, please look at ADMAT's website www.admat.org.uk.
Period(s) of Occupation: A.D. 1650 - 1800
Project Size: 1-24 participants
Minimum Length of Stay for Volunteers: Two weeks for diving one week for artefact handling courses
Minimum Age: 18
Experience Required: No previous archaeological experience is required for student or volunteer team members, but applicants must speak English and be qualified divers to the level of PADI Advanced Open Water or the equivalent.
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MORE than a third of ambulances in the West Midlands are failing to arrive at emergency calls within the eight-minute target time.
A report presented to the governing body of South Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) on Thursday, January 23 showed only 65.75 per cent of West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) crews called to the most serious 'Red One' incidents – including heart attacks and serious car crashes – in the region had arrived within the target time since April.
Those called to less serious but still urgent cases such as suspected strokes or breathing difficulties met the target slightly more often, only missing it 26.28 per cent of the time.
Speaking at last week's meeting joint clinical lead for Malvern Hills and Pershore Dr George Henry said the service aimed to arrive at a minimum of 75 per cent of emergency incidents within eight minutes, but had been consistently failing to achieve that.
"If someone stops breathing they need to be there as soon as they can, so whatever we set the target to is going to be somewhat arbitrary," he said.
"They told us if we set the target at ten minutes they would be performing very well, but if you're a patient you don't want to wait ten minutes, or even one minute."
The board's joint clinical lead for Worcester Dr Felix Blaine said he did not agree with lengthening the target time.
"When you are with someone who is genuinely ill eight minutes feels like a very long time," he said.
A spokesman from WMAS said the service is called to an average of one Red One incident every day in South Worcestershire.
"In very rural areas like South Worcestershire where travel distances are far greater, it will always be difficult to hit the 75 per cent target," he said.
"We are working with CCGs to look at the resources we have and our response time targets.
"The current independent review, which updates work completed in 2009, will determine whether we have sufficient resources – which we do not believe that we do – and decide whether we can improve the way we use the resources that we do have."
He added the service was working with communities to develop more first responder schemes and publicly-accessible defibrillators to keep people as safe as possible.
He said: "Together they mean that those who are unlucky enough to suffer a cardiac arrest in rural areas are more likely to get life-saving intervention in the first few minutes which can mean the difference between life and death."
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The City of Alliance possible acquisition of Carhenge will have to wait until the city council meets on Tuesday, August 6.
The city council was scheduled to act on the acquisition during the Thursday, July 25 meeting, but city Manager J.D. Cox says all of the paperwork and financial information necessary for the proper consideration of the gift and the transferring of the property are not in place that need to be finalized by legal counsel.
At the council's June 13 meeting, Cox and Visitor's Bureau director Kevin Howard presented a due diligence report that recommended the city acquire the Stonehenge replica that has served as an Alliance tourist attraction since 1987.
The Friends of Carhenge organization approached the city council last December requesting the city consider taking over its operation.
The August 6 council meeting is schedule to begin at 7 pm at the Knight Museum and Sandhills Center.
Thursday's meeting will be held at the Alliance Learning Center beginning at 8 a.m.
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Oracle's Fusion Applications are finally generally available to all customers, the company announced Wednesday at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco as part of the most extensive public demonstration of the long-awaited software to date.
Fusion Applications are the result of a massive engineering effort spanning more than six years. They constitute a superset of the best elements of Oracle's JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and Siebel systems, along with a theme of "pervasive" BI (business intelligence) throughout the user experience.
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Oracle wants to make upgrading to Fusion "a business-value-driven decision rather than a vendor-forced decision" for customers, said Steve Miranda, senior vice president of application development, during a keynote on Wednesday.
They will be made available in on-premises, hosted, and SaaS (software-as-a-service) form, but some details of the latter option, including subscription pricing information, haven't yet been released. The same codebase is used for all versions, meaning customers can switch as their needs change, Miranda said.
For some time, Oracle has discussed how its installed base can "coexist" with Fusion Applications, running the new software side-by-side. This week at OpenWorld, Oracle announced a series of "coexistence processes" that tie various E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Siebel applications with like-featured Fusion modules.
Oracle's strategy is pragmatic for a number of reasons. One, a more aggressive attempt to push upgrades could frighten or anger customers who are heavily invested in older Oracle software suites. Secondly, Oracle will continue to collect lucrative maintenance dollars from those users even if they don't move to Fusion.
Also, Fusion Applications are still new, and after years of delays getting them to market, Oracle is probably happy to have a relatively small number of customers check out version 1.0, so any final kinks can be worked out before the software is sold at significant scale.
In the meantime, on Wednesday Oracle sought to dazzle customers with Fusion Applications' new capabilities.
Oracle spent a lot of time talking to customers to figure out how best to embed BI within the Fusion experience, according to Miranda.
"We really want to change the way people think about BI," Miranda said. It's not just dashboards, KPIs and metrics. It's sometimes just simple things you need to move your job forward."
He showed how a manager working inside a Fusion human-resources application could mull whether a solid employee would leave the company by visually drilling into her personnel file to find historical pay-increase and promotion information and contrasting that with performance reviews. The manager could then initiate a salary bump or promotion process directly from the same workflow.
Fusion Applications will also target two of the hotter areas in enterprise software of late: social media and mobility.
Enterprise applications being built today have to follow a new set of rules thanks to the usability of today's consumer Web services and sites, Miranda argued.
"All of us in this room expect search to work in a certain fashion," he said. "We all know and expect how the [Web] shopping experience should work. And we all know how it should work and feel in the context of mobile applications."


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Students participate in a lesson that focuses on the skill of analyzing information. They pick the subject for keeping engagement throughout the assignment. The information is analyzed using higher order thinking skills and they develop an outline.
Engage your scholars in a discussion about pigs! Scholars analyze information about keeping pigs as pets and write a persuasive paragraph. An informational text and video are included for research. While examining these materials, class members write down their findings on a graphic organizer. The final product is a well-supported and organized paragraph.
Investigate how graphics in informational text enhance the author's purpose. Your class will discuss the benefits of graphics in informational texts such as text books, and use a rubric to evaluate the graphics. Additionally, they bring in articles to evaluate, and develop a graphic that enhances a text article provided by the teacher. Use this resource to emphasize textual evidence in informational text.
Students gather information about life in a different era. In this information gathering lesson, students interview a parent and grandparent to learn about life during their childhood and compare it to their own life.
Students explore how culture effects our world. In this culture instructional activity, students work in groups to do a web quest. Students gather and analyze information to decide if Mayan ruins should be destroyed to build a shopping center. Students give a presentation supporting their opinion.
Political cartoons are interesting and motivating, and they provide a great opportunity for critical informational analysis. This resource includes background information on the current credit crisis, a political cartoon, and three in-depth analysis questions. Appropriate for grades 11 and 12.
Watching R-rated movies causes in-grown toe nails! Well, not really, but what effect does violence in the media have on us? Your class will complete a research project to answer this very question and then design a public awareness campaign to share what they have learned. A very detailed and thorough lesson, this resource includes warm-up activities, an experiment design, and an outline to help structure pupils' independent research. Also included are several rubrics and examples for the teacher. Note: While this lesson is well designed, it deals with sensitive subject matter. The lesson and the video it suggests should be reviewed before it is used.
Students determine pulse rates using Team Labs heart rate monitor software and probe. They determine the effect on pulse rate of at attention, holding your breath, breathing into a bag, deep breathing, exercise, and make a line graph using Excel.
Seventh graders use the Internet to research the city of ancient Rome. They follow guidelines to design and create a travel brochure about the city and the class then votes on the most convincing representation.
This is an awesome instructional activity filled with tons of engaging learning activities. Over a period of weeks learners will make observations, collect plant and analyze plant data, read and review agricultural articles, design and conduct an experiment based on a developed hypothesis, conduct research, and work toward having a strong paper and product for the science fair.
Young scholars view butterflies and participate in a butterfly activity to learn needed vocabulary. In this butterfly life cycle instructional activity, students access prior knowledge of butterflies. Young scholars listen to a butterfly life cycle book. Students create a graphic organizer about the life cycle of a butterfly. Young scholars record a journal entry.
Fourth graders describe how the French and Indian War resulted in expansion of United States Territory and analyze information from two or more sources for agreements, contradictions, facts, and opinions.
Students engage in a simulation/role play. They analyze information about flavors and ingredients that create a unique flavor of a culture. They make recommendations to the executive chef on menu items appropriate for international buffet.
Students study wolves and their habitat in Yellowstone. In this environment and behavior instructional activity students create an interactive map of wolves in Yellowstone.
Eleventh graders brainstorm controversial themes of Spanish-speaking countries. They read articles written in Spanish. They discuss the articles, practicing their Spanish speaking skills. Students conduct research and design a presentation about one of the themes from above.
Eleventh graders examine the way emerging medical technologies contribute to desirable and undesirable outcomes. They read and discuss news articles and editorials, and conduct Internet research. Students contribute to a Web Log, and participate in class discussions.
Eleventh graders use medical technologies and protocols to debate certain innovations. In this technology lesson students research biotechnology and publish their findings.
Tenth graders explore narrative poetry. They analyze sections of a poem and present to groups. They compose their own narrative poems using pictures as prompts. They exchange their poems and analyze their classmate's poem.
Middle schoolers research weather disasters by exploring relationships in the atmospheric variables that they can observe locally. They describe people who need weather forecasts in their daily lives/occupations and analyze weather data to produce a local forecast. Consider having learners create an online bulletin board showing pictures of different types of weather and forecasting tools.
Middle schoolers explore the theme of "The Californian's Tale" by Mark Twain. After reading Twain's short story, they identify and study its literary theme. Additionally, they analyze information and relationships in the piece, and write a persuasive essay.


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Of all the important issues that need to be resolved during this colossally boring labour war, let me throw one out there that I can guarantee nobody is talking (or caring) about during negotiations.
It's been proposed before by a few people, journalists and players, but surely this is an idea whose time has come. The players should slip a clause in there that the Stanley Cup is no longer presented to the winning captain by Gary Bettman. It's just getting too ugly to continue. Nobody wants to see a player unwilling to shake Bettman's hand at the most photographed moment of the year.
If there is a Stanley Cup awarded in June (or July) of 2013, let it be Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Jean Beliveau or Mark Messier who hands the trophy to Daniel Alfredsson (yes, that's me being clever).
Let Bettman come out with the microphone and get booed but let him announce that Wayne Gretzky is going to present the Stanley Cup and you instantly turn an awkward moment into something everybody involved in the game would be happy with. The person presenting the Cup has to be a past winner and that's the only criteria. You might say it's tradition that the Commissioner (or in the past, the President) gets to do the duty but it wasn't that long ago when Gretzky himself started the tradition of all the players sitting at centre ice for the Cup photo right at the peak of celebrations. It wouldn't be long before it would seem weird that we once let the Commissioner pass the greatest trophy in sports.
To get more legends involved, do the same thing with the Clarence S. Campbell and the Prince Of Wales trophies to the winners of the East and West.
It's the smallest thing in the world right now, but the payoff would be bigger than many can imagine.
In the meantime, I'll be watching Youngblood until this thing blows over.
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- Peter Raaymakers said...
Maybe it's a little bit sentimental or kooky, but I think the Canadian Governor General should present the trophy. I don't care if mostly American teams win the award and the GG is a complete unknown to them, it's straight-forward to me: It was a gift from a past Governor General, and should be handed out by the current Governor General.
- October 10, 2012 at 12:38 PM
I like both ideas. But especially the Governor General one. Players can have baggage.
- October 11, 2012 at 12:55 PM
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