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HoopsHype Stephen A. Smith rumors
Alex Kennedy: Stephen A. Smith, on his radio show, said that LeBron James struggled in Game 4 due to some personal issues. He didn't go into any details. Twitter
The mercurial sports personality and journalist Stephen A. Smith has rejoined his former employer, ESPN. Smith, who previously hosted the short-lived television show "Quite Frankly," will write for espn.com and, in the words of the press release, serve as a weekly "local" radio host for the Los Angeles and New York markets with a concentration on NBA coverage. One show will air on 1050 ESPN in New York from 7-9 p.m. ET and another on 710 ESPN in Los Angeles from 6-8 p.m. PT. Interesting definition of local. Orlando Sentinel
"Words cannot express how excited I am to return to ESPN," said Smith. "The five-plus years I spent here in my previous stint were unquestionably the best years of my professional career. To have the opportunity to return to a place where I have an abundance of friends – with individuals whose contributions to my life, both professionally and personally, deserves far more credit than I can describe – simply makes my return that much more special. I'm sincerely grateful. And very, very ready. As in right now. Let's go!" Orlando Sentinel
About a year ago, Steve Czaban's long-running morning show was canceled by FOX Sports Radio and replaced by Stephen A. Smith. The idea was to provide a different sound from the competition in the East Coast morning drive slot. Stephen A. did just that and did it well, but his style was not for some folks. Because of that reason, FOX wisely offered affiliates a second morning show option — the Zakk and Jack show with Dominic Zaccagnini and former Colts QB Jack Trudeau. Tuesday it was announced that Stephen A. would be leaving his morning show and Zakk and Jack will become the network's morning show. Stephen A. will play the new role of NBA analyst for the network, which likely means guest spots talking basketball. Larry Brown Sports
Smith predicted that Chris Bosh and James would join Dwyane Wade in South Beach during his morning radio show on June 28, saying, "You're only as good as your sources. LeBron James is going to play with Dwyane Wade in South Beach. Chris Bosh and LeBron James are going to Miami Heat. It's not official, but I'm telling you LeBron is going to the Miami Heat." To the dismay of the "Screamin' A" doubters and critics, 10 days later that's exactly how the dominoes fell. Sports Radio Interviews
Smith On whether NBA commissioner David Stern likes James' move: "I think he would be because I think when you look at it for what it's worth, the fact of the matter is that you've got a juggernaut. You've got a franchise that everybody's going to be chasing and everybody's going to be trying to measure up to. I think that's incredibly significant, there's just no way around it. That's the way I look at it. I'm a die-hard Yankees fan. I like the evil empire. I like the team that everybody's shooting for, trying to knock them off their pedestal. I think that's what ultimately made the [NBA] great." Sports Radio Interviews
Smith On the expectations of the Miami Heat this season: "The Miami Heat, they don't have to beat the Lakers, but if the Miami Heat don't get to the NBA Finals or they lose to anybody else other than the Lakers, this season is an abject failure. They must get out of the Eastern Conference, they must be playing in the NBA Finals, and unless they go against Kobe Bryant, they have no excuse to lose in the NBA Finals." Sports Radio Interviews
Fox Sports Radio sent out a release about how Stephen A. Smith was right. If he hadn't sent an ass-covering tweet just before 9, I'd agree. Twitter
Stephen A. Smith: I just reported on my show that LeBron James is heading to S. Beach -- with Chris Bosh -- to team with Dwayne Wade and Pat Riley. Here's the Twitter
The pay cable channel, which has found critical and ratings success over the past few years with original shows such as "Dexter," "Nurse Jackie" and "Weeds," is in serious talks with Stephen A. Smith, the outspoken sports commentator about hosting a late night talk show. Smith who first rose to prominence as a sports columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer, is no stranger to anyone who watches ESPN or Fox Sports. Besides being a regular on ESPN's basketball show "NBA Shootaround," he also had his own show on ESPN2 called "Quite Frankly." Smith, who is known for his brash style, hosts a nationally syndicated radio show. Los Angeles Times
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In a high rise of downtown Atlanta, Twelve Centennial Park is less than 1mile from the World of Coca-Cola. It features a roof-top pool and self-catering suites with contemporary furnishings.
Score from 262 reviews Excellent
Equipped with state-of-the-art amenities and services, and only 15 minutes from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, this hotel is ideally situated within walking distance to many downtown...
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This ideally located downtown Atlanta hotel has a fitness center and restaurant. The Ritz-Carlton is less than one mile from MARTA mass transit and features 37-inch flat-screen TVs for guests.
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Known as "the grand dame" of Atlanta's Peachtree Street, this classically elegant hotel is across from the Fox Theatre. It features a rooftop pool, on-site dining, and free Wi-Fi.
Score from 267 reviews Excellent
The room color was too dark. I prefer lighter colors. Also the rooms were too small.
Ambience nice for young adults
Poor customer service of staff, valet mandatory.
The cleanliness of the rooms.
Not walking distance to much. Wish we would've had a better view. The breakfast was very disappointing. We've stayed at cheaper hotels and the breakfast was amazing with so many more selections.
There is no phone signal at all in the room. The decorations looks old. No free wifi.
Shower is very nice and luxury; the view of the city is wonderful; the in hotel bar and lounge area is also nice if you are willing to pay for it!
Snooty staff and hotel customers. You have to pay for everything...breakfast, WiFi, anything you touch in the room that has a price tag.
High room rate compared to what I normally pay. I normally receive a government rate and this was not allowed. Room service(maid) was adequate not really great. I believe the it is nuts to pay that room rate and you still want additonal monies for WiFi service. I did not see the bill at the end of my stay as it was sent to my email address(which normally would be ok) but there was a munch charge that I should not have been charged. I do not use that service.
Room decoration, Lack of a coffee maker, Room Lighting,
I didn't agree that for a room that cost us 500 for one night we also had to pay 70 dollars for parking that's ridiculous
When I went to formulate my remarks right after checking in (see negative remark), the staff was really attentive and gave us another room with a super view of the city. Didn't even have to insist.
The room we first got looked out on a wall, the wall was about 1m from te window. No natural daylight, couldn't see the sky from any angle, absolutely not in accordance with the floor to ceiling windows advertised on the site.
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The room had odd stains and the shower is all glass. It can be kinda creepy if you are staying with someone other than your significant other because you can see everything.
fantastic hotel with staff that couldn't do more for you. Highly recommend.
Nice design
No hottub on the pool deck. For the money we paid, many better choices in Atlanta. Hotel was much smaller than I thought.
Location and service are excellent!
No complaints
Awsome amenities and good location... the room decor was real modern and young. .. i would definitely stay there again
In the morning the window covers cover all sunlight except for one little beam right over our heads into our eyes...
The security of the hotel and the bar
My room was a little dirty. I had to pay 30 dollars a night for my car. No like breakfast only coffee, you could at least give a muffin or bagel.
You can't beat the location.
The hotel overall was dirty. The floors needed to be vacuumed. There was long dark hairs all through out the bed I slept in. The bathroom needed extra cleaning. The room needed to be dusted. The wifi cost $15.00 a day. There is a shuttle service within 2 miles of the hotel that was advertised but was never available for us to use. I paid $900 for three nights and it was not worth it. Parking was an extra $90. I would suggest staying somewhere else.
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The staff that checks you in was fablous! No issues. All request were granted and the bar staff was professional and knowledgable in their craft. Gym was great. Loved the views!
Front desk staff was very helpful. Good fitness area and pool. Excellent location near downtown attractions and Marta for transportation.
Have to pay for WiFi in the rooms!
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The room was filthy, I have seen Days Inn's that have cleaner rooms! For someone to pay $200.00+ a night I would rather not have a window so scummed over it obstructs the view, nor un vacuumed carpet and filthy walls! I also find $30.00 for parking a bit on the extreme side for paying guests. This hotel presents itself as a nice luxury get away only to be a supped up roadside motel.
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I called to get my car 2 days and when I got downstairs the car wasnt there...I called for a bellman to get my luggage and noone came.
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Child rape victim jailed in India: A journalist's "immunity" breaks down
Her story is like so many I have heard in my years of reporting on the plight of girls and women in India.
It is a story of rape. A story of police insensitivity, of ostracism, of fear.
I think I've heard enough of these stories to be immune, unaffected by the tale of suffering that each victim recounts in the aftermath of her sexual assault.
But I am wrong -- perhaps because this girl is just 10 years old.
Her vulnerability is overwhelming as the shy, dark-skinned little girl with sun-bleached black bobbed hair sits nervously on a charpoy, in a pretty turquoise salwar-kameez with bright pink trim.
Asking anyone to speak about being raped is difficult in any circumstances; asking a village schoolgirl -- with little exposure to the world at large, with her entire family gathered around her, with a television camera pointing at her -- can challenge even the most hardened journalist.
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Aarakshan: A balanced take on reservation
"Aarakshan" gives a hurried yet comprehensive walkthrough of the educational system and sub-systems that currently exist in India.
It takes the issue of educational quotas as the basic plot and makes an attempt to comment on the premise of education as a means of politics, as an industry or as a higher end in itself.
from India Insight:
Caste and Race: Two sides of the same coin?
The attack in a Sikh temple in Vienna and the subsequent clashes in Punjab have brought renewed focus on the internationalisation of what many Indians see as a domestic problem.
In August 2001, I heard Martin Macwan, a human rights activist, talk about raising the issue of caste at international forums, specifically in the context of the U.N. race summit in Durban that year. The move was however opposed by the government.
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Nothing holy in India's temple tradition
I wonder whether news of Indian priests doing a purification ritual after a minister belonging to a lower caste visited a temple comes as a surprise in a country where religion plays a big role in politics?


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Oct 09, 2013 10:14 AM EDT | Jonathan Lambert
If you're a fan of the tabloids, you may be wondering if Khloe Kardashian is on drugs. A major US gossip magazine is claiming that Khloe turned to marijuana after Lamar Odom's cheating scandal. While the two have not officially filed for divorce, numerous reports indicate that the couple is going to split.
According to Star magazine, the same tabloid that published multiple interviews with Lamar Odom's mistresses, Khloe has now turned to drugs as well. Even if the rumors are true, Khloe isn't doing anything near as hard as what her husband has been accused of. According to the source, "She is drinking and smoking pot to try and block out the pain of what she's going through."
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The alleged "witness" didn't stop at outing Khloe's drug use. They called out nearly every member of the Kardashian clan, telling the publication:
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Of course, this report is in direct contrast with a Radar Online article which claims that Khloe is so anti-drugs, she hired a crew to search for drugs in her own home:
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Colossus and Red Hulk show off their angry faces.
As the Phoenix Force continues its bee-line towards Earth, Cyclops leads the X-Men into their toughest battle yet! Also, fans can't miss two mammoth titans, Colossus and Red Hulk, square off in a bare knuckle brawl across Utopia with an outcome that may sway the tide of the war! Can the X-Men keep the Avengers out of their nation? Find out in Uncanny X-Men #11 from the blockbuster creative team of Kieron Gillen & Greg Land, available in comic shops worldwide and on the Marvel Comics app this April!
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1 Known Unknown, Wed, 13th Jun '12 10:54:50 PM from Here. There. Everywhere.
Fresh For 2014Figured we needed a thread for this. Y'know, just in case there were some fans who still wanted to talk about it. But really, I just had this thought and had to share it: Is it just me, or did the murderer from "Mr. Monk And The Magician" think he was a supervillain or something? I kept thinking "Batman" every throughout the whole episode. I liked it, but it was a little tacky once or twice. It kind of showed me how gimmick villainy played straight in a different genre kind of courts incredulity unless handled perfectly.
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"My final prayer: O my body, always make me a man who questions!" — Frantz Fanon
IOU one titleA lot of them were crazy smug pricks, like the radio DJ and the astronaut.
3 Known Unknown, Tue, 3rd Jul '12 1:44:59 AM from Here. There. Everywhere.
Fresh For 2014But this guy... it was like: "magic is my thing... so I'm going to do magic every waking moment, use misdirection based crimes, use a magician's tool as a murder weapon, theme my gloating around magic, make deals with my mob contacts by doing magic, and even use stage magic to put my nemesis in a deathtrap (though thankfully the deathtrap itself wasn't magic based)." The whole time, I was like "this guy is hilarious."
edited 3rd Jul '12 1:45:46 AM by KnownUnknown
"My final prayer: O my body, always make me a man who questions!" — Frantz Fanon
4 Giggles Mc Yummy, Wed, 1st Aug '12 4:22:57 PM from Ohio
wobbledewopple wob wopplDoes anyone know if Wordof God ever confirmed what was written on the page Natalie ripped off in "Mr. Monks Favorite TV Show" ?
My PM box is always open to anyone who wants to talk/vent.
5 johnnyfog, Wed, 1st Aug '12 7:48:27 PM from NYC Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
Mornin'.Now that I think about it, Monk riffed on Columbo a bit. The bad guys act like bullies and taunt Monk's neuroses. And both dectectives use their weaknesses as advntages.
What I lacks in brains I make for in um I make up for in in um gummy bears. Yeah, that's the ticket.
6 Morwen Edhelwen, Fri, 14th Sep '12 12:38:23 AM from Sydney, Australia
Tolkien freakI love Monk.
The road goes ever on. -Tolkien
7 Mousa The 14, Sat, 15th Sep '12 9:10:24 PM from Northern Virginia Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Artist, Writer, IgnoredI love this show to death but it really does bug me that 90% of the humor is derived from the fact no one will just spit out "HE HAS OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER ANDA GERM PHOBIA!"
My Art |Bloggening When All Else Fails, worry, that's the 14 way.
A lot of them were crazy smug pricks, like the radio DJ and the astronaut. Those 2 are nothing compared to the guy that played chess.
9 qtjinla 15, Fri, 21st Sep '12 7:41:12 PM from Los Angeles
Qtjinla15That would require use of Common Sense/Logic and that would take away the humor.
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19 lots sold for $10,000 or higher; highest was $80,000
|Dave Rama handled the gavel and Horace Backus presented pedigrees all evening.
Farmshine file photo by Dieter Krieg
SYRACUSE. N.Y. -- A final average of $9280 on 86 full lots and a sale gross of $820,400 turned out to be the highest ever for the New York Spring Holstein Sale. Nineteen lots sold for $10,000 or higher. Held here in Syracuse on April 12, the renowned sale series attracted an overflow crowd.
Topping the sale was Lot 1, View-Home Mcc Found-ET, selling to Claynook Farm in Canada for $80,000. Her consignors were Ferme Girelou, Inc. and Tactex Gen of St, Wencelas, Quebec, Canada. A flush-age McCutchen carrying a GTPI +2512 from the Martha Sheen family, the 15-month old heifer saw bidding from every direction. Her dam is Pine-Tree 2149 Robst 4846-ET (VG-85), a proven high genomic transmitter, with three offspring over +2500G and eight sons as well as 12 daughters all over +2400G. Her offspring have sold for as high as $100,000. Found's full brother, Monteroy, is at ABS, with a +2538G to his credit.
Lot 7, Richmond-FD Oak Banch-ET, from Richmond Farms Dairy, New Collins, N.Y., sold for $55,000 to Sexing Technologies of Texas. A daughter of Alta Oak and out of Richmond-FD S Barbara-ET, Oak Branch carries a +2473 GTPI. Her dam's credits read: +2358GTPI +1814M +58F +47P +6.2PL +3.02T +2.62UDC. She completed her first lactation at 2-4y 365d 33,460M 4.2% 1401F 3.2% 1065P.
Sexing Technologies stepped up to the plate and made several other purchases including Lot 2 for $24,000, a pick of two very high GTPI heifers offered by Seagull Bay; plus Lots 13 for $32,000 and Lot 9 for $28,000.
Lot 13 was a second choice of seven daughters out of Woodcrest Shmrck Bronte-ET, offered by Markland Registered Holsteins, Macedon, N.Y. Sires include Jacey, Oak, Jabir and McCutcheon.
Lot 9, Ms JJR Shotglass Dara-ET, was the consignment of Jacob and Jared Dueppengiesser and Russell George, Perry, N.Y. The 10-month old heifer is out of Miss OCD Robust Deja Vu-ET, whose 305d projected ME is 38,530M. Dara herself boasts +2357GTPI 77KK +1915M +,03% +79F -.01% +56P +802NM$ +5.7PL +2.39T +2.04UDC +1.68FLC +.8 DPR 2.65SCS.
Cattle were sold to 16 states plus several to Canada.
The sale was managed by The Cattle Exchange, Delhi, N.Y. and sponsored by the N.Y. Holstein Association. Sale staff members, including Rick Verbeek, Ray LeBlanc, Tom Harkenrider, David Crack, Jamie Black, Patsy Gifford, Nick Raggi and Don Welk, were kept busy with phone bids throughout the sale.


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Boenher is pretty amazing as he stands there in his $1000. suit proselytizing. He has enjoyed the reckless spending of the last thirty years and now is not willing to make the difficult decision. We need to both reduce spending and raise taxes to eliminate the deficit and pay down the debt so we do not end up like Greece
No problem with Clinton Era tax rates – Take the spending there as well – or better yet – no debt limit increase so the spending stops – shut it down
So if both parties believe raising taxes is the solution to our mess why do we have two parties?
The big news this week is 200 Congressman are switching offices. So while you may think the 'fiscal cliff' is what they are working on – they are really working on where to place the Congressman's lazy boy.
We end up like Greece if fewer and fewer people work to support those that don't. Entire net worth of top 1% not enough to eliminate deficit much less pay down the debt. Yes, the political class lives well without real-world responsibilities, just like….everywhere else. Wake Up.
The best outcome we can hope for is nothing happens this month …next month …or next year…then and only then… will we post a deficit below $1 trillion
Reduce my city wage, real estate, school & state income taxes back to 2000 too!!! Both sides are clowns…
Obama has the solution he wants on the table. Take us over the cliff. Raise taxes on everyone. He knows his spending must be supported by all of us. $80B in new revenue from the 2% richest is a downpayment. He wants more from all of us.
Spoken like a true mentally challenged human. Your comment on your estimated price of his suit, besides being unnecessary, just indicates your willingness to invoke ad hominem attacks instead of rational discourse. You would do well as a substitute Obama. Then, yes, we need to cut spending, but until we see real cuts, and not fake ones, raising taxes would only allow Obama to increase spending and never cut.
To a Democrat, if I decide that next week I will eat out, and then I decide I'm not hungry, I have just cut my spending. That's the crap we're dealing with.
My attitude is let Obama take us down the drain and over the cliff. It is better to allow him to demonstrate his unwillingness to forget his ideological wants than to corrupt my integrity.
As long as he wants to conduct class warfare we have a man as President who is not Presidential.
Well, Anonymous, Boenher put revenue on the table the day after the election, so to be "balanced" why don't you and your messiah tell us what reductions in real spending (not future spending) you propose? I have not heard any Libs say the word "cut" unless it involves the military. OK, that won't fix the problem. Do you have any other ideas? Do you have any plan for when the money of the "evil rich" doesn't make a dent in the debt? Will we just keep printing Bernanke Bucks until the US dollar is worthless and there is a global depression? Oh, yeah, that will help the poor.
You play a dangerous game, my enemy, dividing the people in order to conquer them, and destroying the American economy which has lifted more people of more nationalities out of poverty than any other nation on earth (that's what makes us exceptional)! So enjoy your cynical, hollow victory because once you destroy the country, what will you control? You are just another useful idiot electing for your own destruction. Too bad we're all getting the government YOU so richly deserve.
None of the politicians want a deal now. They all want to go over the cliff, then come back in January with targeting "tax cuts," lowering the rates back down for most Americans.
What heroes they'll be!!
BOEHNER is posturing and trying to buy time, he knows that he will be forced, sooner or later, accept the Obama proposal. with some modifications.
He is trying to assess how much support he could muster in the HOUSE, and if it is sufficient that with the support of the vast majority of the DEM vote, it would allow the approval o such proposal, so avoiding that the issue would drag until later than Jan 1, damaging the prestige of the US, spooking the Markets and distract from further improvement of the economy, even if later approved, the latter (an irreversible fact)
Anf of course, he must convince imself thhat even if such would cost him the Speaker position, his resultinhgpositive image would compensate that.
why can't the republicans accept the fact that they lost the election and their power and step up to the plate and solve the mess there party created. They act like a bunch of kids that were told they cannot have any more candy.
I'm a member of the 2% and ready to pay a bit more. Both parties caused this mess. Tell your congressional reps you want a vote before Christmas.
Not anyone I know. For some reason, there are all these people that want taxes to go up. Or they want their own taxes to go down, but they want someone else's taxes to go up. They want to get their blessings, but they want to deny someone else their blessings. It looks to me that people would want taxes to go down on everyone, not just themselves.
Instead of giving the republicans the devil because they are standing up to Obama, we should all be thankful for the balance of power that exists in congress. Obama can no longer just pass anything he wants to, no matter what. That way, the American people can, just maybe, get the best deal they can get out of this.
Dems to the left of me, Tea Bagers to the right of me, I'm surrounded by my enemies!
Nobody likes me, everybody hates me . .
Vote republican.
Republicans have the same power now as before the election . . . they control the H of R. The status quo hasn't changed. Why does Obama think his 2.8% popular vote win gives him emporer powers?
Just because you lose doesn't mean you're dead, doesn't mean you give up doing what's right. By your rules no one should be talking against Chavez, Putin, Kim, Castro or any other despot. Just because Obama won does not mean he's right nor intelligent. In our society celebrity clouds the eyes of the 12 year olds. Bottom line is that Obama is a Chicago thug. That's his political upbringing. He's never held a real job. He's been a politician all his life. As for the mess, it was both parties that helped create it but the Democrats that refined it to be as bad as it is and it was Clinton and the demand to make loans to the poor and others who clearly could not afford them that led to the housing crisis. Obama's objective is not to save the country but rather to make sure everyone has the same amount of money, except maybe his friends and his supporters.
Republican state legislatures gerymandered the heck out of House districts, else there would not be a republican majority in the House. That is going to change in states like Texas and Georgia. Hispanics could make Georgia a blue state by 2016.
Save the middle class….vote against Democrats.
Get back with us, after obama taxes the life out of the middle class.
Unemployment, that mysteriously slightly dropped the month before the election, hmmm……is now back up to 8.3 percent.
See, in what obama has planned for america, there is no room for a powerful middle class…you are either poor and dependent on the gov, or rich.
with the health care bill…look for your premiums to double.
Can't wait for energy taxes, VAT, plus cap and trade to resurface.
What obama wants from the rich, isn't enough to make a dent in anything…but the foot in the door tax trend, will open it to a wide range of taxes, or "revenue", as obama likes to call it….on the already struggling middle class.
Payrolls in U.S. Increase More-Than-Forecast 146,000
Bloomberg – Dec 7, 2012 1:01 PM ET
The U.S. labor market withstood the impact of superstorm Sandy as job growth exceeded forecasts in November and the unemployment rate declined to the lowest since December 2008.
The median forecast of 91 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a gain of 85,000. The unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent
I'm also part of the 2 % and I hope my extra tax payment helps pay for his lavish vacations he and his wife continue to take. This guy is the biggest hypocrite walking the planet.
Anon, what revenue did Boehner put on the table? All he said was do spending cuts now, and next year we will dicuss closing loophole and deduction caps. What loopholes? What deduction caps? Decide next year? Thats a plan? Why not be specific now? He's not even sure of the amount of revenue increase becouse he doesn't know which loopholes, etc he wants to eliminate.
I would rather broaden tax base than raise rates, but raising rates not such a big deal in the long run. But repubs DO NOT cave on letting Obama have authority on debt limit. This will head us further to dictatorship. Better to go over the cliff if no other choice. And by the way, Boehner, why are you not just working with the Senate to get a bill onto his desk? You learned nothing in Summer of 2011? Fool me once, fool me twice?
Hi ho, hi ho. Over the cliff we go.
"This is not a progress report as there has been no progress." Actually, going over the cliff is better policy than the proposal by BHO so I am happy to go over the cliff. Of course, those that will be unemployed, those that will lose their unemployment, and the others hurt by this policy, agreed by BHO to delay any decisions until after the election, may not like it.
BHO may not seem like he has won when the unemployment spikes, and he has to ask for increasing the debt ceiling.
Wingers blamed the President when Citi announced layoffs of ten thousand world wide.
So they must be giving the President credit for the great job numbers today, right?
Wrong. Wingers are not logical, they are ignorant.
Speaking of ignorant. The job numbers are not great. 147K in new jobs. Should be twice that. Factor in the "adjustment downward" of jobs the last two months and it looks even worse. Look, you want to be a low information voter, that is your business. Quit dragging the rest of the country down to your level….Moron.
The deal has already been made. It's just an act to try to impress the electorate that they negotiated the best deal for their supporters they could get. Pure theatre folks, nothing to see here..
The official metric for unemployment U-3, counts only people looking for jobs.
The w post explains….."the jobless rate dropped in large because the labor force fell by 350,000, suggesting that people gave up looking for work. The number of people saying they had a job actually fell by 122,000.And the labor dept revised downward it's estimates of job creation in sept and oct by a combined 49,000.
Bonehead and the whole GOP need to go over the cliff. I am sick of hearing about lazy welfare cheats. How about CORPORATE welfare cheats. The wall street thieves, mortgage scammers, and corrupt politicians on the take to protect those mentioned. Don't continue to put down the middle class, the problem is the wealthy,power hungry, ceo's that need to be castrated.
For all the wingers who think the country is going down – please feel free to renounce your citizenship and emigrate to whichever country you feel has the level of government you feel is appropriate. Like Somalia.
@Screw Obama
Your handle says it all – everything you post will be an anti-President rant so why did you think anyone, other than fellow Tea-Baggers will take anything you post seriously? Please see post @2:37. Somalia awaits you.
Boehner spends way too much time working on his tan.
If you had a job, a family, or a business you put your life into, you might not be so happy about sending those of us who do over the cliff.
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Hi ho, hi ho. Over the cliff we go.
"This is not a progress report as there has been no progress." Actually, going over the cliff is better policy than the proposal by BHO so I am happy to go over the cliff.
Craig Bradley, how much time does Obama work on his tan? You are a complete racist.
Wonder if 'crystal night' will be our next experience? I have never before seen such rancor and hatred between the two parties of our country. How can we expect to have strong government when a person runs for office that is a solid citizen, has contributed not thousands by millions in taxes to our countries budget and is attacked so dirtily and called a liar. We seem to have stooped to a very low level. The future does not look too bright for many of us in the middle class unless we are government employed or in the health care industry.
Wonder if those who voted for and scream 'tax the rich' really know how much many of the 'rich' are already paying in taxes or do they think l the 'rich' all pay only 15 or 16% like Buffet and Romney! Many pay 50% of a dollar earned already and they don't really know where their money ends up. I guess those screamers feel that 50% is no enough! It has sure become easy to take another persons money – just vote!
The old school John Boehner, McConnell and the other long time Republican leaders, need to just quit, or step aside.
Altho what they advocate is absolutely correct, these guys have no clue as to how to get the public to see things
their way.
Reagan knew how to communicate, and had a powerful, in your face message for the democrats.
These present guys don't know smoke from reality. All they argue about is "fiscal cliff" and word games about Bengazi, etc. I've never seen guys who were so easily led into the weeds and miss the 4 lane paved highway of what actually happened there.
They sound like 5 yr. olds arguing about a "word" instead of the treachery and deaths of our citizens there.
The military guys were there to defend our ambassador……and Obama and friends let them be murdered.
Obama is likely guilty of being an unindicted co-conspirator to murder.
In any case, he could have stopped it…..but didn't.
I guess he learned his grief techniques from the NFL..
siobhan, can you write about the lybian debacle and the fact that barack obama allowed four of our brave men in his service be murdered and then tried to cover it up? does washington have a gag order on the wsj?
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Catoosa County commissioners have decided the time has come, and passed, for Hutcheson Medical Center to provide audited financial reports for the years 2008-2013.
A traffic stop in Catoosa County leads authorities to make a major meth bust.
This happened Tuesday night at 7:00 on Highway 41 in Ringgold.
During the stop, deputies seized two pounds of methamphetamines, which has an estimated street value of $30,000.
Deputies arrested Jesus Humberto Lopez Deanda, age 27, of Lilburn, GA and Mitchell L. Mary Cordova, age 24, of Duluth, GA.
Both individuals were charged with Trafficking Methamphetamine and Possession of Schedule II narcotics. Jesus Deanda also faces additional traffic charges.
Dr. David Smith opened his first chiropractic clinic back in 1998. 16 years later, he now has a thriving business in the Cleburne Shopping Center in downtown Ringgold. Three years ago, he added Dr. Shaun Roach to the practice. We sat down with him to discuss what made him become a chiropractor, why he chose Ringgold, and the importance of chiropractic care.
Why did you choose to open your business in downtown Ringgold?
A Ringgold man was arrested on child sex charges Monday afternoon, Oct. 20, for allegedly sexually assaulting a young girl on several occasions in Catoosa County.
According to the Catoosa County Sheriff's Department:
Robert Adams Alexander, 42, of Cloud Springs Road was arrested for aggravated child molestation, child molestation, and aggravated sexual battery.
The city of Ringgold plans to make major improvements to its water treatment plant by repairing its old clear well tank, while also looking into making a switch to liquid chemicals in lieu of the powder ones it has used for years.
The design for the new clear well upgrades are being drawn up by CTI Engineers, and project manager Philip Schofield says the revamp will keep the well in prime operating condition for several years.
Ringgold Telephone Company and the City of Ringgold Present Movies by the Creek on October 25th
Ringgold Telephone Company and the City of Ringgold are pleased to announce Movies by the Creek, an outdoor movie night, at the Ringgold Recreation Field on Saturday, October 25th, 2014. This event will be hosted in conjunction with the Haunted Depot, Ghost Ride, and Bonfire.
The free movie will be the ever popular and much loved film, Frozen!
Where: Ringgold Recreation Field (Near the soccer fields and entrance to walking trail, behind the City Pool)
The city of Ringgold awarded the bid for one of its downtown enhancement projects during its regular city council meeting Monday night, Oct. 13, which means that a new sidewalk along the south side of Nashville Street downtown is now imminent.
The project includes a new sidewalk space along Nashville Street from LaFayette to McClain Streets in front of Teter & Company.
Ringgold's mayor and city council will try to determine the fate of two ginkgo trees that were accidentally scheduled for demolition as part of the city's downtown streetscaping plan, which is currently underway.
"To me, these trees are not in the way of our downtown project," Barger said during the most recent city council meeting on Monday night, Oct. 13. "I want to keep those trees there. I planted one of the trees myself, and the Boy Scout troop planted the other one after that."
A military man from Ringgold got a glimpse of his future Wednesday morning, Oct. 15, during an unveiling ceremony in which a Chattanooga-based non-profit showed him the land where his new special-needs home will be built early next year.
It was a sobering day for Army Sgt. Jason Smith, a 2004 graduate of Ringgold High School, who lost both his legs during an explosion while on patrol in Afghanistan on July 25, 2012.
Ringgold officials have agreed to revisit talks with the Georgia Department of Transportation about adding a traffic light at the intersection of U.S. 41 and Chapman Road after several citizens expressed concerns about safety and congestion.
A group of citizens living in the Callaway Farms subdivision off Chapman Road and led by former Catoosa County manager Jim Callaway, voiced their request during the city council meeting Monday night, Oct. 13.


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Turkish security forces have seized suicide vests, bombs and guns in a recent anti-ISIL raid
Doğan Holding announced that a website report claiming the potential sale of Hürriyet Gazetecilik ve Matbaacılık A.Ş. is untrue
The 'domestic security package' that the Turkish government is preparing may introduce unprecedented new measures on social media, including special prison sentences for Internet users who call for protests
Turkish President Erdoğan said he has been proven right for his objections to the US airdropping of weapons to Kobane, claiming that some of the supplies ended up in ISIL's hands. The Pentagon admitted that one bundle was seized by the jihadists
PYD originally asked for YPG to be sent to Kobane, only to be sent Peshmerga from northern Iraq instead, Salih Muslim has said
Turkey will be able to give temporary identification cards to Syrians through a temporary protection decree, according to a new measure published in the Official Gazette on Oct. 22.
Taner Yıldız's words, which evoked President Erdoğan's dismissive remarks about 'a few trees' during the Gezi protests, came a day after a group of local activists were beaten by private security guards
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored twice as Borussia Dortmund exploited poor defending to beat Galatasaray 4-0 in the Champions League
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Despite overall optimistic messages by Turkish government officials, a key Cabinet member has suggested that the jailed PKK leader actually fueled the fire during recent deadly protests
Four men were arrested by police in Ankara after raping four women, in an incident that has again shone the spotlight on an increase in crimes targeting women
BEIRUT - Agence France-Presse
Air strikes by the US-led coalition in Syria have killed 553 people since their launch a month ago, the vast majority of them jihadists, a monitoring group said on Oct. 23.
Danish media had reported that Turkey used the suspected jihadist as part of a prisoner swap with ISIL
New military posts built in Turkey's eastern and southeastern provinces are key measures against terrorism, the only female contractor in the region has said,
TOKYO - Agence France-Presse
Japan's new trade minister said on Thursday a political support group spent money at a racy bar, a blow for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after his cabinet suffered two high-profile resignations over separate funding scandals.
The Justice Ministry has cleared the path for investigations into nine civil servants, including the former police chief of Istanbul Celalettin Cerrah, who are accused of negligence in the murder of the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in 2007.
OTTAWA - Agence France-Presse
Canada's prime minister vowed Wednesday to redouble the nation's fight against "terrorist organizations" after a soldier was gunned down in the capital and parliament was stormed by an assailant.
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A Palestinian rammed a car into pedestrians in Jerusalem on Oct. 22, killing a baby and injuring six other people in what Israeli police said was a 'hit-and-run terror attack'
Local activists near Soma were beaten by the private security guards of an energy company firm building a new coal plant in olive groves
A prominent Turkish historian has argued that today's political Islamists use Ottomanism as a guise for their ulterior motives to reach the Islamic "Golden Age."
Details of the 31-page indictment about the elevator accident that killed 10 workers at the Torun Center construction site in central Istanbul have been revealed.
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'We cannot understand the logic of dropping arms to a city as street clashes are going on, but the Americans believe in their ways; we'll see.' Those were the words of a Turkish military expert
Again we see that Ankara is bedeviled by events just across its border, which it can't control or prevent because of the futile way the government is trying to impose its conflicting agenda on developments that have their own dynamics.
Ahead of last week's vote for a non-permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Turkish envoys in African and Asian capitals were telling me how Turkey continued to be popular in the countries where they were on duty.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu announced Oct. 21 planned amendments to laws and regulations, which he claimed to be "a revolutionary reform."
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC), with its five veto-wielding permanent members and 10 non-permanent members elected for two years, is considered the supreme and most prestigious body in world affairs.
I listen to politicians attentively, whoever they may be, when they do not shout and when they speak civilized and with content.
Pop thinker of the global opposition Noam Chomsky spoke to the T24 website the other day. "Whenever Turkey does not obey the U.S., the American media launches 'massive attacks' against Turkey," he said.
Lean enterprise and real time marketing are the two phrases that I hear most often these days.
Rock paintings in Hakkari from 10,000 years ago have been examined for the first time since 1960, when they were first discovered. The paintings shed light on prehistorical human activity in the area
Trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf will play at the Akbank Jazz Festival on Oct 25. Growing up in an intellectual milieu under the influence of his uncle, author Amin Maalouf, he incorporates many different genres of music
A Beşiktaş club striving for European success will face Partizan in a maiden Belgrade visit tonight
A day after thrashing local club Roma 7-1, Bayern Munich staff and players Wednesday paid a visit to the Bishop of Rome, otherwise known as Pope Francis.
Ben Bradlee, the hard-driving editor who reigned over the Washington Post with the style of a well-dressed swashbuckler and the profane vocabulary of a dockworker as the newspaper helped topple President Richard Nixon, died on Oct. 21 aged 93.
The migration away from the beach marks the transition from summer to fall in places like Kilyos on Istanbul's northern coast. But while swimming is no longer a possibility, the coast in autumn offers its own delights
Turkey's biggest air sports festival kicked off in the Mediterranean town of Fethiye's Ölüdeniz with paragliders from around the world participating in the event.
As Turkey bids to create its first national automobile brand, Science, Industry and Technology Minister Fikri Işık has said the current plan is to make the car electric.
Turkish officials confirm that the sarcophagus of Heracles, which was seized in 2012 by Swiss Customs, was smuggled from Antalya's Perge
The 'domestic security package' that the Turkish government is preparing may introduce unprecedented new measures on social media, including special prison sentences for Internet users who call for protests
Taner Yıldız's words, which evoked President Erdoğan's dismissive remarks about 'a few trees' during the Gezi protests, came a day after a group of local activists were beaten by private security guards
Turkey will be able to give temporary identification cards to Syrians through a temporary protection decree, according to a new measure published in the Official Gazette on Oct. 22.
Air strikes by the US-led coalition in Syria have killed 553 people since their launch a month ago, the vast majority of them jihadists, a monitoring group said on Oct. 23.
PYD originally asked for YPG to be sent to Kobane, only to be sent Peshmerga from northern Iraq instead, Salih Muslim has said
Rare Roman inscription unearthed in Jerusalem
First snowfall of season in eastern Turkey
Ölüdeniz air games take off
Autumn scenes from Turkey
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Istanbul
Turkish pilots give full marks to locally co-manufactured assault helicopter
Kurdish people watch clashes in Kobane from hill in Turkish border town
Archers riding horses compete in Turkey's new championship
Barcelona residents fight back against drunken, naked tourists
Black Sea's unique Kamilet Valley threatened by hydroelectric plants
Cappadocia's secret 'Soğanlı Valley' awaits visitors
6,000 people honor Atatürk's memory by forming his portrait
Two Istanbul reservoirs close to drying out
Erdoğan sworn in as new Turkish president
Lone house stands in middle of gigantic construction site in Ankara
Overpass collapses on busy Istanbul highway
Stunning photos from starry nights at ancient ruin site of Blaundus
Turkish jets stage air show for 95th anniversary of Sivas Congress
Drought takes heavy toll on reservoir in eastern Turkey
A bird's eye view tour of Turkey's eastern provinces of Van and Hakkari
Temple of Serapis in Ephesus undergoes restoration
Lady Gaga hits the stage in Istanbul
Masked group sets schools alight to protest closed Kurdish education school
Greenpeace activists call for halt to coal plant frenzy in mythical Kaz Mountains
Lake Bafa, haven for animal and plant observers
Syrian children struggle to survive on Istanbul streets
Turkey opens border to Syrian Kurds fleeing ISIL offensive
15,000 police launch major operation in Istanbul
Locals march to protest constructions on Istanbul coastal area
People rally to save Lake Burdur from drought ahead of 'water fast'
Huge crowds of Syrian Kurds rushed across the border into Turkey in the middle of a sandstorm
Hong Kong demonstrators protest with 'love and peace' as police resort to tear gas and batons
Japan's Mt. Ontake engulfed in ash after deadly volcano eruption
Belgrade holds first gay pride since 2010 under tight security
Extraordinary artist finishes Istanbul drawing
Turkish tanks take up position on Syrian border next to besieged Kurdish town
Clooney and Alamuddin cap weekend nuptials with civil ceremony
Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong
496 Afghan police officers complete training at the Sivas Polis Academy
Clashes between PYD and ISIL continue near Turkish border
Hot-air balloons fly to raise awareness of breast cancer
Highlights from Paris Fashion Week
Summer continues on Turkey's southern coasts
Traffic jam paralyzes Istanbul as people leave for Eid al-Adha holiday
Turkey holds border exercise
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Turkish army deploys tanks on Syrian border
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Frescos at Cappodocia's open-air museum attract tourists
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This week's #MasterofCocktails marks the turn of the seasons. It's clearly autumn now, and with fireworks displays, Halloween etc. coming, clearly we need a hot buttered rum recipe.
Like many 'oft-neglected' classics, this drink has a simple problem, with a simple solution. The problem is immiscibility, by which I mean that butter and rum simply don't like each other and don't want to play together. One's Lipophlic, or Hydrophobic, or some other shit that I can never remember. Basically we need an emulsifier. That's where the lecithin comes in...
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You may have seen, but the fantastic Drinks by the Dram advent calendars for 2014 are now available for pre-order! (Estimated despatch date 5th November.*) Full of your favourite spirits rather than the usual naff chocolate fare, each one contains 24 different 3cl sample 'drams', one behind each window for your Christmas countdown! (Full contents can be found on the product pages for those who don't want it to be a total surprise.)
So, what's new for 2014? As well as exciting new lineups of specially selected contents, we're also rather chuffed with the new boxes, illustrated by the brilliant Duncan Beedie. Let's take a look at the 2014 Whisky Advent Calendar first (the one with the pre-order promotion attached to it…).
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Right then cocktail fans. Time for this week's #MasterofCocktails extravaganza. This time, we're making a Banana Daiquiri recipe. Course we are.
This is a rather prep-heavy drink, and with most of it we will be able put it together a day or so in advance. Following that, all we'll need to do is remove it from the freezer, give it a quick blitz with a stick blender, tip into a glass and garnish. But first, let's have a look at the homework we will have done beforehand.
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This week's drink (a day later than usual due to the bank holiday) is a twist on a Palmetto recipe, using the amazing Rumbullion! XO along with a couple of superb vermouths, and Bitter Bastards Black Truffle Bitters. The Black truffle notes add a superb, almost ethereal balance to the drink that makes it probably my favourite creation of the last few months.
It's a simple drink to make, which I'm sure will be welcome after last week's (and next week's) more prep-heavy drinks.
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The folks here at MoM Towers aren't going to win the World Cup anytime soon. Our team, Bitter Bastards FC, are just a few players short of a full squad and therefore wouldn't qualify, so the German team has nothing to be worried about… Yet. We're also not going to win Wimbledon, despite a small subset of us being pretty gosh-darn good at squash (they're basically the same sport, one just has more passive aggressive connotations and a wall). Oscars? Probably not. Grammys? Unlikely. Nobel Peace Prize? Doubtful at best. Medals for making stunning drinks? Now you're talking!
That's right, that little preamble is leading up to us proudly showing off the medals our products scooped up at the prestigious International Wine & Spirits Competition 2014. We're always immensely excited and grateful when the products we make are commended by the highly knowledgeable tasters behind these awarding bodies - it really does mean the world to us.
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After a break from Daiquiris on #MasterofCocktails last week, they're back in force with probably the finest evolution of the drink – maybe with the exception of Artesian's Frozen Banana with Caviar... and I'll be having a crack at recreating that one in a few weeks' time incidentally... but this week we're going with The Hemingway Daiquiri.
He liked a drink or two did old Ernie, and this recipe is a fine legacy indeed. The theory here is essentially unchanged from the standard, only we're going to be replacing boring old sugar syrup with Maraschino. The original recipe also calls for a splidge of Grapefruit Juice. Not convinced it needs it myself but we'll stick it in anyway and you can easily omit it if you've not got grapefruits in (who does, usually?).
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Right then y'all. It's time once again for #MasterofCocktails. This week's drink (and next week's come to think of it), are both drinks that you *should* feel comfortable ordering if they're made correctly.
They are both pink though. Very pink.
This one (as you may have guessed) is a Strawberry Daiquiri. We're making it properly, which means no strawberry syrup, no strawberry liqueur and absolutely no sweet and sour mix. Shall we?
Tags: master of cocktails, strawberry daiquiri, rum, diplomatico reserva exclusiva, sugar syrup, harlf, very pink drinks
Sticking with the Daiquiri theme, we're (finally) making Mojitos this week on #MasterofCocktails. It's taken a while to get round to it, but is there a more crowd-pleasing summer drink?
Now the very first thing you're going to need to do is take a small amount of granulated sugar...
and do this with it...
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In this week's #MasterofCocktails we're making what is probably the most abused drink in the history of all time: The Daiquiri.
It's such a blisteringly simple drink when done correctly. Rum. Sugar. Lime. That's all.
Now, there are some variations worth lauding (we're going to do a few over the next couple of weeks), but the classic version is one that should be in everyone's repertoire.
The recipe really couldn't be simpler. Can you remember the following?
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It's hard to believe, but the original Rumbullion! hasn't even been with us for 3 years yet.
Initially launched in November 2011, and followed by a punchier Navy-Strength version late in 2012 (you'll want to click on that one – it's got explosives in it), it felt like high time we stepped up and produced a super-premium version.
With this in mind, development and sourcing work for this ultra-aged expression began over 2 years ago – it's taken us this long to find a reliable source of exceptional, superbly-aged Caribbean rum that fits and compliments the flavour-profile of the original offering.
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Apple support profile lists purchase history, sign up for VoicePass and SMS
Apple quietly released My Support Profile, which offers a hardware purchase history and access to Apple's VoicePass, its trademark filed shortly before Christmas.
Once I signed in, I set up my iPhone to use VoicePass and receive SMS messages (available only in the US) from Apple Support. VoicePass will link Apple Support to your product history and allow them to provide personalized service.
The right side of the page features a list of repairs and products that you've purchased and registered with Apple. You can also add nicknames to your purchases. The purchase history area is a bit spotty -- it registered my very first Apple product (15 GB 3G iPod from 2004), but missed the 5.5G iPod purchased two years later, iPhone 4 and iPad. But, it's easy to add your other products. Clicking on the product will show you if it's still under AppleCare and extend your AppleCare if it's available.
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The hubris of modern rationalismJOSEPH HEATH
Over the last twenty years, the political systems of the western world have become increasingly divided — not between right and left, but between crazy and non-crazy. What's more, the crazies seem to be gaining the upper hand.
For Europeans, who had spent centuries believing that their own civilization was inferior to that of the ancient Romans and Greeks, this sudden discovery of massive error in the ancient worldview created an enormous crisis of confidence, not just in ancient belief systems, but also in ancient institutions. Worship of ancient wisdom — Aristotle in particular — came to be seen as a major impediment to the progress of knowledge. It was not so great a leap to imagine that deference to ancient institutions — the church, the monarchy, Roman law — might be an impediment to progress as well. And of course, there were all sorts of problems with these institutions. Abandonment of the principle that the king and his subjects must share a religion, for instance, represented a major advance.
Yet there was considerable overreach in the Enlightenment project. Reason wound up being assigned all sorts of tasks that, in the end, it simply was not powerful enough to perform. At the same time, because partisans of the first Enlightenment conceived of reason in purely individualistic terms, as something that works away inside the brains of discrete persons, they wound up inadvertently dismantling much of the scaffolding that reason requires in order to function correctly. As a result, they kneecapped reason just as they were sending it onto the field to face a much larger and more brutish opponent. It is no surprise, then, that rather than improving various social institutions, in many cases they wound up making things a lot worse.
Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has an amusing story that illustrates precisely the trap that early Enlightenment thinkers fell into. It concerns a baseball coach who, frustrated that his outfielders were missing too many catches, became convinced that it was because they were running too slowly, taking too much time to get to the ball. And it's true — if you look at baseball outfielders, they often run at something much less than top speed when they are moving toward the spot where a pop fly is about to land. The coach decided that if the players simply ran to the spot more quickly, then they would have an easier time making small adjustments to improve their chances of catching the ball. So he gave them a set of new instructions on how to catch fly balls: look and see where it's going to land, run as fast as you can to get there, then look up and make whatever adjustments are required in order to catch it. Unfortunately, when the players tried to follow these instructions, they found that their ability to catch the ball had been completely undermined. They wound up standing nowhere near where the ball was going to land.
Why is that? Intuitively, anyone can sense what the problem would be. Imagine that you're standing around the outfield, slightly bored, enjoying the nice summer day. Suddenly there's a pop fly. You look up into the sky, and you see the white baseball moving against the clouds and the sun. You know it's your job to catch it. But how do you know where it is going to land? The answer is, you just know. Even people who are terrible at actually making the catch know — they usually manage to get to the general vicinity of where it is going to land. If you close your eyes and imagine the baseball, you can even feel what needs to be done in order to catch it. And what you know, in your body, is that adjusting your running speed is part of how you do it. That's why you see baseball players slowing down and speeding up as they move toward the ball.
What they're doing, in fact, is following a very simple heuristic. The mathematical calculations involved in figuring out where a flying baseball is going to land are much too difficult for us to carry out in real time. What we use, instead, is a simple little shortcut, which Gigerenzer calls the gaze heuristic. The rule is something like this: "Adjust your running speed so that your angle of gaze to the baseball remains constant."If you follow this rule with a descending ball, you will initially start out running slowly, then gradually speed up until, as if by magic, you arrive at the ball just as it comes level with your head. (The rule for positioning yourself with respect to an ascending ball is slightly different, but just as simple.) If you override this heuristic by fixing your running speed — the way the coach wanted his players to do — the trick no longer works, and so you're likely to wind up nowhere near the ball at all.
This is a script that has been replayed countless times, often with far more serious consequences. The literature on development aid, for instance, contains literally thousands of stories of Westerners showing up and messing things up: replacing inefficient local irrigation schemes with large — scale projects that don't work at all; pressuring farmers to switch their seed, only to find that the new crops won't grow; bringing in complex equipment that breaks down and can't be repaired; clearing vast areas of forest, only to provoke large — scale soil erosion. Here is an example, taken almost at random from the literature:
In Malawi's Shire Valley from 1940 to 1960, British officials tried to teach the peasants how to farm. They offered the standard solution of ridging to combat soil erosion, and were at a loss to understand how Malawian farmers resisted the tried — and — true technique of British farmers. Unfortunately, ridging in the sandy soils of the Shire Valley led to more erosion during the rainy season, while exposing the roots of the plants to attacks by white ants during the dry season.There is an interesting parallel between these two examples. The first — catching the baseball — involves overestimating the power of reason by underestimating the effectiveness of nonrational cognitive systems. The second — choice of farming techniques — involves overestimating of the power of reason by underestimating the power of evolutionary processes in society. If farmers in Malawi are not able to offer a sophisticated explanation for the soil management practices that they use, there is a temptation to regard these practices as irrational, unjustified, "merely traditional." And yet people have been farming in the Shire Valley for thousands of years. Chances are their soil management practices are reasonably well adapted to the local environment. Furthermore, the chance that a total stranger is going to be able to walk into this complex ecology and figure out from first principles how things should best be organized is quite remote. And yet time and again, this is precisely what rationalists have done.
Modern conservatism was born as a reaction against this sort of Enlightenment hubris. It is well summarized in G. W. F. Hegel's powerful yet opaque pronouncement that "the real is rational." What Hegel meant was that if you look hard enough, you will find that there is usually a reason for the way that things are, even when the way that things are seems to make no sense. People may not be able to say what this reason is, and in the end it may not be the best reason, but you need to understand what it is before you start fiddling with things, much less breaking them down and trying to rebuild them. Thus the conservative temperament was born, as a defence of tradition against the tendency of Enlightenment rationalism to take things apart without knowing how to put them back together again, much less improve them.
In this respect, the core of the conservative critique was absolutely correct. The question is, once we acknowledge this, is the only alternative to fall back into an uncritical acceptance of tradition? Or is it possible to use this insight as the basis for a more successful form of progressive politics?
Joseph Heath. "The hubris of modern rationalism." excerpt from in Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring sanity to our politics, our economy, and our lives (Toronto, ON: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., 2014): 79-83.
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Copyright © 2014 Joseph Heath
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