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This is an interesting book for any seafood lover, an even mix of recipes and food writing.
The recipes are never complicated, and have the added bonus of having suggested substitutes when the original seafood is not available.
The food writing makes for good reading, if it is a bit North American-centric. That said, there are some sojourns to other parts of the world - but why is it that foreign writers always have to make mistakes about Australia?? (we don't have alligators here guys, they're crocodiles!). This leaves the reader wondering about the veracity of his accounts of other places such as Thailand and Chile. But overall, a very enjoyable read. Now i just have to try out some of the recipes!
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BMC Application Diagnostics is the next generation application deep dive monitoring solution that helps users to proactively diagnose application transaction issues such as slow and failed transactions. BMC Application Diagnostics combined with BMC End User Experience Management provides an end-to-end application performance management solution that helps diagnose application issues. The solution will trace from a real end-user to the application method. In this blog, I will how discuss you can you get started with BMC Application Diagnostics.
Understanding Architecture and Components
The following figure shows the integrated architecture of BMC's Application Performance Management (APM) solution.
The following are important components of BMC Application Diagnostics
- Application Diagnostics Server contains Portal and Server components that can be installed in the same server or in a distributed architecture on multiple machines
- Application Diagnostics Agents (either Java or .NET) that get installed on your application server. Application Diagnostics supports Java 1.5 or newer and .NET 2.0 or newer applications. The Java agent runs as a part of JVM and the .NET agent runs as a Windows service.
- Application Performance Console visualizes all application performance management data including Application Diagnostics and End User Experience Management.
For details, refer to the BMC Application Diagnostics documentation at http://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/appdiag20/Home
BMC Application Diagnostics Server (Portal/Collector) is supported in windows and Linux 64-bit machines.
Downloading Software
The latest version of BMC Application Diagnostics available is 2.0. You can download this from BMC EPD website.
Please review the Application Diagnostics documentation for details. It provides both interactive and silent installation. You can install both BMC Application Diagnostics Portal and Collector in the same machine. Following is a screen shot of the interactive installer.
Note that the installer will automatically install a MySQL database where the monitoring data is stored.
Enabling Diagnostics data in APM Console
BMC Application Performance Management console unifies all application monitoring data. If you do not have an APM Console already, perhaps as part of an EUEM installation, then you have to install the APM Console. APM Console is an appliance VM that needs to be deployed in ESX environment.
You have to enable the Application Diagnostics plug-in by navigating Application Diagnostics -> System Setting in APM Console and entering the Application Diagnostics Portal configuration as follows:
After you configure the Portal Address, you will see Application Diagnostics data in the APM Console.
Installing and Configuring Agents
BMC Application Diagnostics support applications running Java 1.5+ and .NET 2.0+ platforms. The agent binaries can be downloaded from BMC EPD website.
The .NET agent runs as a Service in Windows. The Java agents require the –javaagent parameter to be specified in the startup script for the application server. The agent communicates with BMC Application Diagnostics Portal and Collector using http(s) and hence the Portal Server and port needs to be specified. Following is a screen shot for .NET Agent installer:
The Java agent install is a command line installer as shown below:
As I discussed earlier, you need to modify the startup script to include the agent. Here is an example for Tomcat (catalina.bat).
After you start the agent it will connect to the Application Diagnostics server. You can verify this by navigating to Application Diagnostics -> Agents screen in APM Console as shown below:
Now you are all set!
Monitoring Your Applications
BMC Application Diagnostics discovers your application servers and business transactions automatically. You can navigate to Business Transactions and start monitoring your business transactions as follows:
Application Diagnostics captures transaction traces when there is a latency violation or when an error occurs. You can view captured traces by drilling down on a specific transaction as shown below.
This help you diagnose your application issues.
If you are developer or application support personnel then you can further drill down method call as below:
Hope this helps you get started with monitoring your application using BMC Application Diagnostics.
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Experience mixed with local talent describe the Eastern Oregon women's basketball squad.
Nine Mountaineers return from last year's team (14-13 overall, 11-7 Cascade Collegiate Conference).
The Mountaineers' season ended in an overtime loss to Southern Oregon in the CCC semifinals.
Eastern Oregon coach Anji Weissenfluh said the Mountaineers' goals are to improve their win-loss record and go further into the playoffs.
She said the Mountaineers would like to finish in the top three in conference and host a playoff game at home.
Last season, the Mountaineers were tied with Western Baptist and Cascade at the end of conference play for the third best record. Because of tiebreakers, the Mountaineers finished fifth.
Last year, the Eastern women as a whole were among the toughest rebounders in the conference, even though the Mountaineers were one of the smallest teams in the CCC.
Weissenfluh will be counting on the entire team in the rebounding department because all-CCC honorable mention Heather Epeldi, who led the Mountaineers with nine rebounds per game, completed her eligibility last season.
"I foresee everyone doing their job on the offensive boards," Weissenfluh said.
Post Sarah Smith stands 6 feet, 3 inches tall. Forwards Michelle Kinley and Christy Smith are 5-10 and 5-8 respectively.
"Our guards got to be active on the boards," Weissenfluh said.
All-CCC first team junior Jamie Jo Cant (Imbler High School), junior Linzi Strohm (Enterprise), junior Sandy Isbell (La Grande), sophomore Candice Davis (Echo) and freshman Christie Weaver (La Grande) will draw more fan and community support, Weissenfluh said.
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Cant led the Mountaineers in scoring with an average of 13.8 points per game. She is one of four returning starters.
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Luxury hotels are increasingly being taken over by dogs, a trend that we animal lovers are happy to see holding strong.
The Jefferson in Washington is the newest property to add a canine executive to entertain guests and promote its animal friendly policies, recently rescuing a street beagle named Lord Monticello, or Monti, and making him its first "canine executive officer."
Monti joins a growing number of furry mascots at luxury hotels around the world, from Bachelor the Saint Bernard and Miner the golden retriever at the Ritz-Carlton's Bachelor Gulch property in Beaver Creek to a pack of Labrador retrievers that work at Fairmont properties across North America. The Fairmont dogs can be borrowed for walks and hikes and are so popular it can be hard to even catch a sighting of them.
In addition to entertaining animal-loving guests, the programs also are bringing another layer of community involvement and social consciousness to the industry.
While the furry workers like Bachelor and Miner are top-of- the-line pedigrees, the hotel uses their birthday parties to raise money for animal advocacy groups.
Monti, on the other hand, is a symbol of one of the many nonprofits around the country that work to save homeless animals.
The Jefferson says Monti was born on a farm in West Virginia but ended up on the streets in Ocean City, Md. A good Samaritan brought him to PAW Rescue, an adoption organization based in Maryland, where he was found by the Jefferson and given his luxurious new life.Monti currently makes his home in Managing Director Philip A. Wood's office. But the hotel says he
likes to spend as much time as possible meeting, greeting and generally keeping an eye on things in the Jefferson's historical lobby.
He also makes sure four-legged guests are well attended to, and ensures there are no ridiculous rules such as those preventing dogs from being left alone in their rooms uncrated.
The hotel welcomes dogs of all sizes with no extra fee (except for inadvertent damage, of course.)
He also makes sure they are pampered as well as their owners with amenities like appropriately sized receptacles for food and bottled water and an array of entertaining toys and treats containing only human-grade ingredients. Additionally, the hotel's concierge staff is equipped with detailed maps of the best nearby dog-walking routes, and can recommend pet welcoming establishments throughout the city.
"For pets of discriminating taste looking for a change of scenery without sacrificing luxury," the hotel says, "The Jefferson, DC is a destination of choice that understands a dog's or cat's particular needs."
And for those of us who rarely travel with their pets, it's always nice to have a resident pooch to take out for a walk or just make us feel that much more at home in the lobby.
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This perceptive psychological chamber drama centres on Raquel, a quiet, ungainly 41-year-old maid from a remote village who's spent most of her life keeping house for an upper-class Chilean couple and bringing up their four children. Trouble begins when the considerate, liberal employers aim to help her by hiring an assistant, a gesture that is met by fanatical resistance from the resentful, possessive servant. The movie becomes darkly comic as she starts feuding with the two teenage children and causes chaos in the household by deliberately undermining her co-workers, successively a kindly Peruvian girl, a tough, middle-aged woman of recent European extraction, and an easygoing, well-educated girl.
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- Production year: 2008
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- Runtime: 95 mins
- Directors: Sebastian Silva
- Cast: Alejandro Goic, Anita Reeves, Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedon, Mariana Loyola
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The Evil Within the Gentle Soul
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After three people were killed near Kansas City by a white supremacist who apparently thought they were all Jewish, a local television station went to a nearby small town to talk with those who had known the apparent perpetrator.
The televised segment went pretty much as you would expect. The man residents had known was a bit different. He was outspoken. You always knew where you stood with him. Nobody expected violence.
The mayor of Marrionville, MO, said the alleged killer had been a friend years ago. He spoke with a sort of understated irony.
He was always nice and friendly and respectful of elder people. He respected his elders greatly, as long as they were the same color as him.
- Daniel Clevenger, Mayor of Marrionville, MO, in an interview with KSPR-TV of Springfield, MO, April 15, 2014
Then came the one statement that went around the internet, endowing his honor the Mayor with instant notoriety:
"Kind of agreed with him on some things, but I don't like to express that too much."
It went from there. Mayor Clevenger went on to calmly speak out against Jews:
There some things that are going on in this country that are destroying us. We've got a false economy and it's, some of those corporations are run by Jews because the names are there.
The television station did a little research and came up with even stronger language from years ago. Mayor Clevenger wrote for publication about his friendship with the future killer and how he too condemned what he called the "Jew-run medical industry" and the "Jew-run government backed banking industry."
Pretty ugly stuff.
What is striking about the bigotry expressed on camera is the calm, almost gentle, way it is expressed. Listening, over the years, to relatives, friends, a few, thankfully very few, churchgoing fellow worshipers, certain phrases keep coming up. "I'm not a racist" or "I'm no bigot."
It doesn't often become comic, but once in a while... I remember, as a kid, walking with a group on a naive, self-appointed, mission to search the hearts of neighbors. "I'm not prejudiced," insisted one adult we met. "But I'll tell you who is. It's those damn Irish Catholics."
Hannah Arendt made the point a couple of generations ago in her study of the crimes and times of Nazi genocide perpetrator Adolf Eichmann. The Nazi leaders and those around them were so ordinary in the way they lived, in the way they apparently thought of themselves.
More recently, Atlantic Magazine's Ta-Nehisi Coates rejects what he sees as the Racist Child Molester Serial Killer theory. Racists are not monsters. They are seen, and often see themselves, as decent, goodhearted people.
That bigots are viewed as monsters enables us to reject such harsh opinions about ourselves and those we encounter in everyday life. We, and those we care for, are not the snarling menaces we see in movies. We look within ourselves, we look to those around us, and we can honestly say there is not any such evil in view.
Those who throw about such obviously false and hurtful charges are themselves guilty of malicious slander, playing the race card.
To those two men, race has been both a shield and a sword that they have used effectively to defend themselves, and to attack others.
- Brit Hume, Fox News, April 13, 2014
Brit Hume was speaking specifically about President Obama and his Attorney General, but the same charge can be heard on any given day about pretty much any historically oppressed minority. We need not even turn on radio or television. Face to face conversation in everyday life provides most of us with enough examples.
We look within, we do not find pure evil, and so we reject the charge.
The clearest insight for me comes from my own eventual change of heart as I turned away from from the harsh attitudes toward gays that I accepted so uncritically as I grew up. I wonder what other demons now find shelter inside, protected by a lack of examination, an absence of healthy questions.
Our friend the mayor might, if he chooses, insist he is not a bigot. After all, he thinks the killer of innocent people, presumed to be his friend the white supremacist, should be executed. He himself is not a monster, therefore he cannot be a racist.
We can find, among the famous and among the almost unknown, examples of the opposite: living demonstrations of the human capacity for growth. Hodding Carter, Jr. was an outspoken white supremacist as a college student. He eventually became a tireless campaigner against the very racism he once espoused. He recognized the evil within, then he turned.
Anti-Gay bigotry was once unquestioned. Now most Americans have changed their minds and their hearts. People can change.
Bigotry exists within an umbrella, separated from recognizable evil. I haven't killed anyone. I haven't spit on a child trying to go to a previously all-white school. I haven't attacked anyone, or said anything I recognize as evil.
The worst lie is the one that lies to the teller of the lie.
The unrecognized monster that dwells within survives undetected. It is the evil within the gentle, caring soul.
It lies peacefully, surrounded by the best protection of all:
The security of obscurity.
Walkin Lawton and the Future of Bush
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It was a discouraging time for folks like me.
Barely two years after Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy had been assassinated, just seven years after we had lost a President, the war in Vietnam continued and continued, seemingly without end.
Richard Nixon had just made an angry speech in Phoenix, televised nationally, talking about demonstrators as a core group of the violent few. It was a final appeal to voters to elect Republicans, casting those who opposed the war as a combination of brick throwers and those who thought brick throwers should be appeased:
The networks had provided 15 minutes to Republicans and equal time to Democrats. The President had provided a good summary of that year's campaign. Democrats were cast by Vice President Spiro Agnew as "an effete corps of impudent snobs." So confident were members of the administration, they went after Republicans who were insufficiently enthusiastic about the war effort.
Richard Nixon yelled to his audience and they roared back, furious at those disloyal enough to oppose him. It was a ferocious performance. He ended with a shout. "Nobody is going to tear this country down as long as you are ready to cast your vote to build this country up."
And that was it. Americans were told that those who opposed the war, or were insufficiently angry at those who did, that they were willing to see the country torn down. And he was talking about me and those like me.
Historians tell us it was a continuation of the Nixon Southern Strategy, devised with the help of former Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond.
When Edmond Muskie spoke next, it was from an armchair in front of a fireplace. He spoke calmly, as if to each individual voter. He asked those about to cast their ballots not to vote against themselves. He characterized the tactics of the Republican campaign.
There has been name-calling and deception of almost unprecedented volume. Honorable men have been slandered. Faithful servants of the country have had their motive questioned and their patriotism doubted.
I still remember a sense of youthful relief. Even though the forces of angry intolerance were about to prevail, a calm voice had spoken against the tide. The case had been made. We could lose with some bit of honor. Someone had fought back with plain truth and crystal clarity.
One small hope flickered in Florida. Out-moneyed, outshouted, a mostly unknown state Senator had conducted an unusual, almost bizarre, public effort. He went hiking. Lawton Chiles had announced that his campaign would be very simple. He would walk across the entire state, meeting and talking with average voters. And he took a 1000 mile hike through Florida.
It was hailed as quite the gimmick. A campaign tactic of such creative novelty would get some attention, doomed as it was to lose against wealthy and well known opposition. The Republican, William Cramer, had been active in state politics for many years.
But the walking tour - no vehicles allowed - caught on. People liked the easy going one-on-one. Television outlets found that audiences seemed to get bigger when Walkin Lawton Chiles was on screen, listening to some ordinary voter, or explaining some complex issue in homespun terms.
Lawton Chiles won that year, by almost 8 points. Florida became a setback for Nixon politics.
Republicans didn't do so well around the country, either. The Muskie voice of calm discussion had more appeal than a President who looked as if he was running for local prosecutor.
I'll always remember Lawton Chiles as leading the way out of those dark times by walking a thousand miles and talking to individual voters.
But his place in history may turn out to have been earned years later.
Lawton Chiles served three terms in the Senate, then retired from politics in 1989. It didn't last long. He was pretty much drafted the next year to run for Governor against incumbent Republican Robert Martinez. He won in a landslide.
He got to be a popular governor. He introduced insurance reforms, then dealt with a major hurricane with active diligence that won wide acclaim.
Still, 1994 was a very tough year for Democrats. Chiles ran for re-election against a very famous challenger. Jeb Bush was not only set to become governor of Florida, he was said to be on his way to become the second Bush to be President of the United States. All of them.
History in democracy is changed by elections. They matter in ways that are not always predictable. George W. Bush was not supposed to win in Texas against popular Ann Richards. His smarter brother, Jeb Bush, was supposed to win that year in Florida.
Lawton Chiles never saw the beginning of the second Bush administration. He died in 1998. I wonder if he suspected what might come.
Had things gone according to the Bush family plan, would a different brother have been the Republican nominee in 2000? Would he have been more interested in policy once he took office in the White House?
Outgoing President Clinton and his advisors had urged the new Bush administration to take very seriously the threat posed by international terrorists. Incoming Republicans had actually laughed among themselves at what they considered a silly Clinton obsession. Would a President Jeb Bush have reacted similarly?
If Karl Rove had remained relegated to Texas, smearing opponents with whispering campaigns about child molestation, would a Jeb Bush have ordered United States Attorneys to drop corruption investigations against Republicans or to contrive charges against Democrats? Would he have launched voter suppression drives to keep minorities from voting?
Would torture have become official policy under a euphemistic label? Would financial regulation have been bobbled with resulting financial calamity following?
It's hard to think of worse Presidential performance in modern times, with the exception of Nixon criminality. Would George's smarter brother have been a smarter President?
Personalities do often drive policy. But I am still inclined to believe that policy drives results. One interesting question about the past is whether the policies of President Jeb Bush would have differed at all from those of George W. Bush.
A better question just now translates that to future tense. In what respect will policies of a President Jeb beginning after 2016 differ from those of President George?
If that difference is not compelling, we may yet hope that the legacy of Walkin Lawton extends a few more years.
ObamaCare Costs Lower than Projected
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ObamaCare's health insurance benefits will cost the federal government $104 billion less than previously expected over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Monday.
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From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Amid raucous debate, Nevada Republican Party conventioneers on Saturday stripped opposition to gay marriage and abortion from the party platform and endorsed Gov. Brian Sandoval for governor in the June 10 primary despite misgivings by conservatives, his criticism of the process and his absence from the meeting...
...Republicans who sat on the platform committee said they decided not to deal with social issues this year because the U.S. Supreme Court and lower courts have weighed in and it doesn't make sense for the party of "personal freedom" to have the government or the political party get involved in people's personal lives.
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Love and Immigration
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The way I look at this is someone who comes to our country because they couldn't come legally, they come to our country because their family's dad who loved their children was worried that their children didn't have food on the table, and they wanted to make sure their family was intact.
And they crossed the border because they had no other means to work to be able to provide for their family.
Yes, they broke the law, but it's not a felony. It's kind of -- it's a, it's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family.
- Jeb Bush, Commemoration of Presidency of George H. W. Bush, April, 6, 2014
Most analysts have looked at the statement from a political perspective, grading Jeb Bush's strategy and his calculation of its effect on the Presidential race of 2016. One or two mention a family tradition of tactically including Hispanic voters in political appeals.
I have yet to hear anyone, anyone at all, speculate that he may simply have been saying what he believes is right. I look to another practice begun by President George W. Bush..
There really were not that many things about the policies and practices of the latest President Bush that I can bring myself to appreciate. There are some, of course. He did indeed make honest appeals to Hispanic voters. He initiated programs to save lives in Africa, where AIDS was endangering millions.
I was especially grateful that he stood tall against anti-Muslim bigotry.
The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends. It is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists... and every government that supports them.
- President George W. Bush, to a Joint Session of Congress, September 20, 2001
That "every government that supports them" is striking. It is unfortunate that the Bush administration adopted the cold war view that every significant act against Americans by citizens of other countries had to have a government sponsor. They considered the idea as not worthy of consideration that thousands of Americans in urban centers could be killed by order of a comic book villain in a cave on the other side of the world without some government sponsorship.
There had to be a government sponsor, and the guilty government had to be that of Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
But the distinction between Islam and terrorism is one he made repeatedly in the heated days after the September 11 attacks. Three days before his address to Congress, less than a week after the terrorist attacks, he journeyed to the Islamic center in Washington, DC, to make the same point. We were not attacked by Islam, and our battle is not against Islam.
Through the remainder of 2001, and through 2002, at every public opportunity, he made the same point. Pretty much every visiting head of state was greeted with the same message.
To the the visiting President of Indonesia:
"...the war against terrorism is not a war against Muslims."
To the King of Jordan:
"...our war is against evil, not against Islam. There are thousands of Muslims who proudly call themselves Americans, and they know what I know -- that the Muslim faith is based upon peace and love and compassion."
To the Warsaw Conference against Terrorism:
"All of us here today understand this: We do not fight Islam, we fight against evil."
At a Town Meeting in California:
"this great nation of many religions understands, our war is not against Islam, or against faith practiced by the Muslim people. Our war is a war against evil."
At dozens of public events, at diplomatic ceremonies involving heads of state, at formal gatherings and political events, he would stress the same theme.
Even in retrospect, I don't find much political benefit in all this for President Bush. He struck me as taking a stand that was good for the country and, more important, morally right.
In what is a constant corrupting competition for votes, we should acknowledge occasional stands of humanity, of doing the right thing when the right thing is costly.
Jeb Bush, the brother and son of Presidents, has not proposed open borders. He has not suggested more than moderate changes to existing law to make legal immigration more available. He is not for relaxing enforcement.
He seems to have suggested what is, or ought to be, obvious to any of us, regardless of what policies we favor.
I don't see much hope for the Republican Party in the long term. The political base that determines nominees is shrinking, driving out those who are thoughtful and tolerant. Those who remain take the party to ever new extremes of disdain for those of different religions or cultures, for those less well off, for those who are desperate for opportunity, for those who have sacrificed their well being in military service to the nation.
Certainly they have expressed intolerance for those from other lands who struggle against restrictive laws to gain entrance.
If I turn out to be wrong, it will be because of conservative leaders who convince moderates that it is okay to express compassion and common sense. That tolerance can be tolerated. That hatred can be rejected outright.
It is a fact that many of those who break laws to gain entrance are struggling to benefit their families, that they are, in fact, acting out of love.
That some conservatives find that idea too offensive to consider tells us something about their strain of ideology.
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Italian Court Recognises Gay Marriage for First Time
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From Agence France-Presse:
An Italian court on Wednesday recognised a gay couple as married for the first time in Italy, which does not have any form of official acknowledgement of same-sex unions.
The court in Grosseto in Tuscany ordered the city council to list the couple, who had their wedding in New York in 2012, as married in a ruling that was immediately hailed by gay rights campaigners as historic.
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Why Women Don't Want Equal Pay
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Terri Lynn Land (R-MI) explains that women are more interested in other job related issues.
Capital Comedy in Congress - the Voice Vote
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I've seen a lot of dumb things, but I've never seen anything quite as comical as this.
- Representative John Dingell (D-MI), March 27, 2014
As vaudeville goes, it wasn't really up to Three Stooges level. But it was kind of entertaining for those who like policy procedures and think Congress, as currently constructed, is a passel of comically tragic people.
Medicare has a fatal flaw. It puts serious caps on what doctors will be paid for treating Medicare patients. Nobody can get the votes to fix those rates permanently, so Congress keeps passing temporary fixes. The fixes last for a few months, sometimes even for a full year. But no permanent fix has the votes to make it into law.
The next best thing is a temporary fix.
Everyone knows the next best thing needs to be done, so it gets done every year without controversy, kind of like bills dealing with the debt ceiling used to be passed.
You getting my drift yet?
Each year there is a bill that lets government pay out what it owes for Social Security, and highway repair, and breakfast programs, and ammunition for soldiers under fire in combat zones. It's called the debt ceiling bill. If that bill doesn't pass, the government shuts down, along with a significant part of the US economy.
In recent years, Republicans had gotten into the habit of using the debt ceiling to get concessions. Last year, they demanded a partial dismantling of Obamacare. If they didn't get it, the government would shut down, the country would go into default, and the economy would go into a tailspin for years.
For once, President Obama said never again. He held firm, and pressure built on Republicans to cave. They eventually did. Big money people, with deep pockets for Republican candidates, might scoff at the poor, but they don't much tolerate the entire economy sinking. It would tend to take them down with it.
So Republicans folded. They also suffered for a while at the polls until the Obamacare website crash drowned out the GOP crash.
So now, Republicans are a little like a pet cat having experienced sitting on a hot stove. The cat won't sit on a hot stove ever again. Or ever on a cold stove, either.
The Doc Fix didn't much look like a stove, so Republicans got the notion this year to hold Medicare hostage instead of the debt ceiling. They demanded that Obama hold off on essential provisions of Obamacare for five years. Otherwise, they would destroy Medicare by refusing to pass this year's Doc Fix.
Doctors tend to support Republicans. At my age, medical people are a part of my life. Sitting in offices with courtesy televisions, I see more of Fox News than I care to endure. But a fellow has to live, so I watch climate denial, Obama bashing, and the ridicule of people struggling against poverty.
Only one thing will turn doctors against Republicans. Money. Politics is everyone's passion when you dig deep into their bank accounts.
Doctors put the squeeze on Republican members of Congress. But so did the extremist Republican base. So Republicans could lose because doctors put their money on another team. Or they could lose because the base stayed home instead of voting for them this November.
The hostage taking was quickly forgotten as Republicans in Congress tried to figure out how to take the money and not lose their primaries.
When the vote came, news outlets were ready for a train wreck. For one thing, the vote for the Doc Fix would require suspending the rules. So it would need a two thirds vote. No way could that happen in the Republican House of Representatives. A majority, yes. But two thirds? Keep dreaming.
But Republicans kept meeting all day long. Sometimes the leadership would dash on out to gather with Democrats.
Very mysterious.
Finally, it looked like the end of the road. Everyone knew there was no hope of a Doc Fix this year. Just like football fans sometimes leave early when their team is way behind or way ahead, members of Congress began heading for the door. Why wait for the inevitable?
Then it happened.
"So many as are in favor say aye."
"Those opposed no."
"In the opinion of the chair, two thirds being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table."
Uh, huh, uh huh, they passed by a voice vote that only required the subjective judgment of the fellow with the gavel.
Democrats, of course, had no objection. Conservatives winked and nodded to each other, then shouted angry shouts of defiance.
It was only later, that reporters found out that there was an additional provision hidden in the fine print. Republicans had agreed to some improvements to Obamacare that would lower costs for small businesses offering group policies.
Apparently the President had been negotiating Republicans out of their hostage-taking and into a corner. Congressional Conservatives provided their own paint for the floor around them.
Gamesmanship in the halls of the national legislature is frustrating to those of us who care.
But every once in a while, watching the shenanigans can be fun.
Or as one long term member put it, I've seen a lot of dumb things, but I've never seen anything quite as comical as this.
Gallup: Uninsured Rate Lowest in Years
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Obamacare is Working
Uninsured rate declines most among blacks and lower-income Americans
by Jenna Levy
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In the U.S., the uninsured rate dipped to 15.6% in the first quarter of 2014, a 1.5-percentage-point decline from the fourth quarter of 2013. The uninsured rate is now at the lowest level recorded since late 2008.
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Republican Tipping Points
By Burr Deming on Apr 4, 2014 | In Policy | Send feedback »
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When Bill Clinton won the Presidency in 1992, conservatives looked for whatever comfort they could generate from his low share of the vote. It had been a three candidate race, and Bill Clinton won with 43 percent.
George Will reacted with some degree of scorn, not toward Clinton, but toward Clinton's critics. He mocked the "delightful Republican attempt to build confidence on a rickety scaffolding of little numbers."
He stated two obvious facts.
One was that the President-elect would have won with a substantially larger share of the vote had the third candidate, Ross Perot, not engaged in a campaign that was self-financed by equal parts big money and big ego.
The other was that Clinton had ... well ... won.
"Clinton`s strong number is: He won 100 percent of the White House."
Unless you are Chris Christie making a ruthless run toward national Republican prominence, that 100 percent of any elective office means you would not be willing to block lanes or break heads to get a few more points past 60 percent. As long as you get enough past half to avoid a nail biting recount, who cares?
That's why it was hard for me to take seriously the Huffington Post headline a few days ago:
Marriage Equality, Despite
Growing Support From Base
The growth in Republican acceptance of gay marriage is impressive. It's now at about a third of the base. A third of the most conservative major political party in my lifetime is in favor of gay marriage. That is amazing news to me, probably to most folks of my generation.
I grew up in an atmosphere of bigotry so pervasive none of us then recognized it as bigotry. It just seemed like the natural order of things. There were normal people and there were those from whom polite society would avert its gaze.
Today, a comfortable majority of the public at large supports gay marriage. All other things being equal, if two candidates were to run in a representative general election, one for gay marriage and one against, who would be favored?
But two facts stand out for Republican candidates. They can never get to a general election if they cannot win a Republican primary. And most Republicans are representative of those who elect them.
To win 100 percent of a nomination, candidates need support from substantially more than a third of those Republicans who will vote. The fact that supporters of marriage equality compose one third of the base, rather than one tenth or one fiftieth, will not make any difference at all.
If we get a lot closer to half, and those who reject the bigotry I grew up sharing feel strongly enough about fairness for it to affect their vote, a different crop of conservative Republicans will win primaries and get to the general election.
The Republican base is accelerating toward extremism on most issues. Ending entitlements (that would be Social Security), letting the uninsured die outside hospital doors, ending breakfast programs for little kids, letting bridges collapse, and allowing climate to go asunder, denying minority citizens the right to vote are all issues that the base embraces.
Gay rights is the one issue on which the party seems to be headed in the right direction. Today one third, tomorrow the arc of the moral universe bends toward a tipping point, even in the Republican base. A Republican polling expert is quoted in the Huffington Post article: "Everybody's moving on this."
In fact, you cannot name any demographic that has not shown a growth in support for this over the last 10 years, whether it's Republicans, Republican primary voters, conservatives, evangelicals. Everybody's growing. So while 30 percent, 33 percent may seem very low, the movement that we've seen there is just remarkable. And it's going to keep growing.
- Alex Lundry, chief data scientist at TargetPoint, March 31, 2014
Too bad that the one third beginning is so far behind the rest of the nation.
But this is the Republican base. You can't have everything.
One Lesson of History is to Wait for the Facts
By Ryan on Apr 1, 2014 | In News, Policy | Send feedback »
In response to T. Paine's Ukraine: Beware Losing the Lessons of History
Certainly our President's pulling the plug on our plans for theater missile defense systems out of the Czech Republic and Poland in his first term simply to appease the Putin regime was not in our or our allies best interest.
- T. Paine, March 25, 2014
This is worth a read:
PunditFact on
Romney: Obama stopped missile defense shield 'as a gift to Russia'
And this:
Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System
(Program history and development)
Obama then further explaining to Putin's hand-picked puppet Medvedev that he could afford to be "more flexible" with Mr. Putin after Obama's re-election certainly didn't send the desired signal that the United States would not tolerate the annexation of free and sovereign nations by Russia.
- T. Paine, March 25, 2014
It also didn't send the signal that we would. It is a big jump from political flexibility in some areas to tolerance of annexation.
My problem with most foreign policy analysis is that we do not have all of the information. We are not privy to meetings between Obama (or Putin) and his advisors, to the reasoning that Obama (or Putin) employs to agree or disagree with that advice, or to actions carried out in secret.
We often hear only half the story, e.g. Obama canceled X, when the other half is also important, e.g. Obama approved Y to make up for X. We make a big deal out of the negative consequences of a decision and completely ignore the positive ones. And yet we feel free to pretend that our uninformed speculation is fact, that we would have done so much better if we were in power.
In any case, the question at hand is not whose fault it was, but what can be done now.
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How the Republican Party Plans to Survive and Prevail
By Burr Deming on Mar 31, 2014 | In News, Policy | Send feedback »
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A conservative Harvard economist, writing a guest column for the New York Times, recently provided traditional arguments that can be, and are, used for by Republicans who favor cutting back on Social Security, ending unemployment benefits, canceling student loan programs, and, of course, repealing the Affordable Care Act.
I suggested that the article provides an idea of what Republicans will do if they ever get into complete power in government. My friend T. Paine responded, in part chiding me for my own long standing prediction:
Now I am really confused, Burr. Are you not the same gentleman that has written many an article gleefully predicting and celebrating the imminent demise of the Republican Party? Surely you aren't now envisioning the progressive nightmare of them returning to power to wreak havoc on the enlightened paradise that our president and his progressive minions have wrought, are you? How does one reconcile such diametrically opposed positions?
- T. Paine, March 26, 2014
Difficult as the task may be, someone must try to help my friend out of his periodic confusion. I'll give it my best effort.
It is not a contradiction to predict what would happen if Republicans regained power, and also predict that it will not occur. However, I have not even gone that far.
My original prediction has been, and remains, that Republicans will continue on the path of self destruction. That does not mean a steady decline in election prospects. This is less akin to a smooth glide downward than it is like a series of waves as a tide recedes. In fact, the process is choppier than even waves and tides. But the analogy will do for now.
Republicans will win some elections. They will even seem to be on the upswing in some years. If conditions of war or economics take unexpected surges, they may even win complete control, at least for a while.
But beneath the ebb and flow of political cycles, there is an underlying trend that has broken away. The ideological path of the Republican Party is no longer in a cycle. I believe I am able to discern six predictable steps to self-demolition.
They can be found here. The short version is that technology that did not exist in a meaningful way 20 years ago has altered the way Republican politics works.
Republicans are more resistant to self-correction because the internet and television cable offers a cocoon of reinforcement. No need to change direction if you can surround yourself with a thousand voices all chanting that you and those like you are awesome. Republicans are becoming more extreme and losing members as a result.
One disturbing part of the accompanying collateral damage is that Republicans are now going where fair minded people have not gone for a generation. They are trying very hard to deprive legitimate voters of the right to participate in elections.
It started as what Republicans said was an attempt to address a serious issue that could strike at the core of a democratic society. Voter fraud was the danger. Democrats have protested that voter fraud pretty much does not exist.
Elections are not stolen by ineligible voters or people voting multiple times. They are stolen in the backrooms of election halls, where tallies are changed, and boxes are stuffed.
But Republicans discerned a danger and passed laws to ensure the integrity of elections. Those measures, by some coincidence, just happened to put obstacles between the ballot box and a substantial number of minority voters and young voters.
Chief among the restrictions was a photo ID requirement. A photo ID is an easy and natural thing for most of us. A Driver's License is not hard to produce. But it is not an easy thing for others: those who do not yet drive, or who do not own a vehicle and commute to work by bus, or who have retired and given up driving themselves. Those folks tend to vote for Democrats, a fact which which lends itself to the suspicion that maybe the integrity of elections is not the actual objective.
Republicans generously allowed for alternate photo IDs that would be provided without cost. But then actions were taken to make those alternatives even harder to get.
Texas closed state offices in Hispanic areas that could issue alternate photo IDs.
Ohio issued strict orders that state workers would not be allowed to volunteer where citizens could find issuing offices. One worker was actually fired for disobeying that order.
Mississippi requires that voters provide identification in order to get an alternate photo ID that includes, absurdly, a photo ID.
Now, the fig leaf of voter fraud is itself being abandoned.
Republicans are taking steps way beyond the photo ID restriction. Voting places are being shifted to nearly inaccessible locations. Weekend voting, especially useful to low income workers who have a hard time taking off from hourly work, is being cut back or eliminated. Precincts are eliminated and combined in minority areas.
The recent Supreme Court decision cutting out a provision of the Voting Rights Act was largely based on the premise that an act to protect voting rights is no longer needed.
Other provisions can still be enforced if federal authorities can show that race was a factor in restricting voters. So state records have been subpoenaed, including email messages dealing with voter restrictions.
Legislators in North Carolina and Texas are furious about having documents examined in which they have stated their motives. State officials have filed motions urging the court to do away with more provisions of the Voting Rights act.
The goal of voter suppression seems obvious. Republicans hope to postpone indefinitely the day when their shrinking base arrives at a vanishing point. That any number of eligible voters are faced with additional obstacles is not tolerable in a democratic republic.
Winning by denying the hard won right to vote is a sort of political depravity in a modern society. The strategy combines a lack of faith in democracy and a loss of confidence in Republican arguments.
By keeping minority voters, young voters, elderly voters from voting, Republicans hope to maintain the power of a dwindling base. That strategy can succeed only in postponing the unavoidable.
But the cynical deprivation of the individual right to vote is something we should fight vigorously against anyway.


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"It's a big number certainly, but it ranks with some of the biggest employers in the area in terms of economic impact," said Joe Sutter with ETMAC. "And East Tennessee is very attractive to military retirees from a cost of living, healthcare access, recreation activities, employment opportunities."
Military salaries have also been increasing, but there's been a slight decline in Department of Defense contracts because the war in Afghanistan is winding down and from last year's government shutdown.
"The other piece of that, in addition to the economic impact, is a lot of these members of these military units are actively involved in our community as well," said Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero.
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