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CIA Director-designate John Brennan's assertion to the Senate Intelligence Committee that Iran is "bent on pursuing nuclear weapons" is precisely the kind of dangerous "mistake" made by his mentor, former CIA Director George Tenet, who made many such "mistakes" a decade ago in greasing the skids for war on Iraq.
Of course, the appropriate word is not "mistake" but "fraud." And perhaps what should disqualify Brennan as much as anything is his intimate connection to the lies and abuses perpetrated by the thoroughly discredited Tenet. As one of Tenet's former protégés, Brennan could not even bring himself to admit on Thursday that waterboarding was torture.
Brennan's misleading statement on Iran was both "sly" and "intriguing." It also did not come as an off-the-cuff answer to a question, but rather was embedded in the written text of his "Opening Statement for the Record" for his confirmation hearing. His disingenuousness on this neuralgic issue is another reason to reject his nomination to be CIA director.
Brennan's assertion about Iran's nuclear ambitions stands on its head the unanimous intelligence community judgment in a 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) – revalidated every year since – that Iran stopped working on nuclear weaponization at the end of 2003 and has not resumed that work.
One might have thought that an indication from the next CIA director-to-be that he was predisposed to overturn the considered judgment of the intelligence community's top analysts – and take the politically preferred "tough-guy" position toward Iran – would have set off alarm bells with the Senate Intelligence Committee, which (commendably though belatedly) excoriated the politicization of intelligence that led to the Iraq War.
But committee members instead had their prepared posturing to do, and thus let the statement on Iran slide by without noticing – much less challenging – it. And, luckily for Brennan, by that point in his prepared testimony, committee chair Dianne Feinstein had removed from the hearing room the many Code Pink-led protesters, who would have been the only ones knowledgeable and courageous enough to call loud attention to Brennan's dishonesty.
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In that part of his testimony, Brennan warned the senators that the "regimes in Tehran and Pyongyang remain bent on pursuing nuclear weapons…" (Emphasis added)
When "practicing casuistry," half-truths and conflating two very different situations often work better than straight-out lies. They are, as the Jesuits might attest, very old rhetorical tricks. Is North Korea "bent on pursuing nuclear weapons?" A definitive "Yes" has been the answer to that question for several years. Indeed, the North Koreans apparently already have a few.
But the case is different for Iran, as the U.S. intelligence community has asserted since 2007. For instance, let's compare Brennan's phrasing to the most recent congressional testimony of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Jan. 31, 2012:
"We judge North Korea has tested two nuclear devices. Its October 2006 nuclear test is consistent with our longstanding assessment that it produced a nuclear device, although we judge the test itself was a partial failure. The North's probable nuclear test in May 2009 had a yield of roughly two kilotons TNT equivalent and was apparently more successful than the 2006 test. These tests strengthen our assessment that North Korea has produced nuclear weapons."
But what about Iran? Are the Iranians, too, "bent on pursuing nuclear weapons?" Clapper's words were much more conditional in that part of his testimony: "We assess Iran is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons, in part by developing various nuclear capabilities that better position it to produce such weapons, should it choose to do so. We do not know, however, if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons.
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Ok so this my first entry, used to have Blurty many moons ago and now Im back, this is, or was mainly for me but then thought it'd be good to share, maybe it wont be, I suppose anyone reading this will be the judge of that.
So right now you know abit, well less than abit about me from my info, my life will come out bit by bit here because everyday something usually happens that takes my thoughts back to my past.
But for now this is now.
Im gonna be honest here, why lie? So yeah Im 34, dont look it, dont act it, dont really wanna be it. Im a single mum with a very annoying and disturbed 'baby father' in my life, hate the word baby father but dont know how else to describe him other than demeaning put downs, which will happen, trust me.
Im on benefits now, but Im not a scrounger, I worked in good jobs since i left school, but then I got ill and then I got my child :) Id love to get back to work but there are certain restraints on me which will become clear.
Life for me right now is very up and down, I suffer depression which I play down but is actually very much alive and kicking although most people dont see it. im very good at putting on a mask and being 'ok'. I dont like to rely on people, I dont like to open up, i dont like to burden people with my problems and the result is I keep it all tucked away inside and then cry myself to sleep most night where no one can see my tears.
Im actually really unhappy inside.
I feel lost right now, Im overweight because I feel so sad, so I comfort eat and then I get sad about that so I get more down, so i comfort eat more, nasty circle lol. I have no self confidence, but at the same time I can be the most opinionated person around. I suppose I have no self confidence in terms of the way people see me, if someone wrongs me I can soon stand up and and and open my mouth. I always say I dont care what people think of me, but I do really :) I had a complete breakdown a few years back and it lead to self harming, i have ALOT of visable scars, I also have a lot of tattoos, and people often look at me with that pre judge "you must mental" look, but if only they got to know me, theyd know i was the most honesty, trust worthy, caring person around. I have a lot to prove because of my scars and my tattoos and I feel I have to prove it everyday.
I live a boring life where my routine never changes and that makes me sad cos times not standing still is it.
I love my daughter, she is the most beautiful, funny, witty, loving child anyone could ask for, sometimes I think she doesnt deserve me. Id give my life for that little girl, Ive made some wrong choices where shes concerned, choices I thought were right because i thought i could trust. I live for that child and Im sorry to her for the things shes had to see, those things will also come apparent in time. I live for her right now and if she wasnt around, I doubt I would be.
So Ive given you a vague picture of a depressed, unhinged layabout on benefits, tattoos scars with a child that doesnt deserve her!
But the reality also is, we laugh alot, i laugh alot, Im childish in my humour, i have clever humour too, i love music and put all my effort into making my home nice and making sure my childs neat, clean and wants for nothing, I have a bank account that some might wish for because Im really careful (and Ive been really lucky)
I want for nothing (other than a simple life with an erased past), I speak well, I have manners, we dont live on junk food and rubbish meals, I do cook from scratch, I have friends that I choose to keep at arms length and we have life ok.......yes my life is very catch 22!
Well for today, another day of being lied to like Im some sort of fucking idiot by my daughters useless dad. He smokes weed, has done since I met him but i gave him the choice, stop the weed or stop being with me, he choose me but got sneaky and over the past 4 years its been rocky and rough, ive been lied to, abandoned and treated like Im an idiot by him. We've been apart for 2 years now but he still has this notion "he can win me back" hahaha even though I continually tell him to go get another girlfriend and get on with his life, he still thinks I love him even though I went to court to take away his parental responsibility of my daughter and put a non molestation order on him (due to some very silly actions by him) and he still has the nerve to say "the door will never be shut, i will win you back" !!! He is an idiot, makes wrong choices and pisses me off daily. He can be a good dad but for the most, hes shit. So today he let me little one for the millionth time so he can go hang with his drug friends cos its so cool to knock about wioth people who steal off you and use you, but hey ho, he knows best i guess! Im pretty much anti drugs. But i dont preach. ive been there which is why Im so anti, I used to be a crackhead, best dressed and most healthy crackhead youd ever of seen though :) I wasnt one of those ones in the dirty ripped clothes and mud covered faces with scabs thats homeless and shop lifting to fund it, no, i had a home, I had money but yeah I did knock around with those sort of people. Ive been clean now 6 years, 7 next April and I did it by myself, it was hard but I done it. So I dont care if anyone else doe drugs, thats down to them, but I do care when it the idiot ex who now has physcosis because of weed, and I care because he lies and says he doesnt smoke it when he does, I care because hes not safe to be around my child un supervised and I care because he spends so much money on it that 1 day after payday he begging me for money. So i really dont like him right now cos he puts his drugs and drug friends before vistation with his own child.
So back to today, me and my gorgeous made princess fairy cakes, played in the sandpit, he took her to the park for the hour he could spare and we've had an ok day in the sun, me and her.
But i still cried 3 times today. because im lonely, because im emotional, because i looked at my child and prayed to god i could be a better mum. And no doubt I will burst into tears when I go to bed.
But tomorrow will be a new day. Cos i get to see my daughters face pushed into mine at 7am in the morning going "mum....mum....mum...ben 10, i dont want breakfast....mum can i play dsi, can I watch telly" and that for me will start my day off good especially when she kisses me on the lips and says "morning mum" even if its an hour after we get up. Got some stuff to do tomorrow, gotta see the idiot ex, thats how ill refer to her dad from now on i think. So yeah another night gone and another day full of the same shit tomorrow.
Night x
Current mood: discontent.
Current music: Jettie - Start Stop.


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Contributed by Crystal Jones, principal of Beecher Hills Elementary School, Atlanta
As the principal of a Title 1 Atlanta-area school, Crystal Jones always struggled with devising ways to engage families, particularly in the quest for literacy. Most parents remained uninvolved in their childrens education, and the typical after-school events did nothing to spark their interest. The school clearly needed a new approach.
Recognizing that many of the Beecher Hills Elementary School students had to be driven to school, Media Specialist Kristie Stargell came up with an out-of-the-box plan: Why not hold a family literacy event in the daytime?
Kristie used every medium available to get the word out and promote the event.
We did a lot of social networking through our Facebook page and our Twitter account. We sent home constant reminders in the folders that the kids take home daily, and we promoted it on the news every morning, Kristie shared. We wanted parents and students to know that this is a big deal for Beecher, something we had never done before. Parents took note of that.
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The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.William H. Wharton
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.Walter Lippmann
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.John Muir
Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.Hugh Miller
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.Elayne Boosler
I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.Mary A. Ward
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.Kate DiCamillo
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.James Longstreet
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life." "In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness." "I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." "Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West."John Muir
"Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization." "Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible." "For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to realize that we must now challenge that dogma, or do without our wilderness? Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?" "The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only those who know the most about it can appreciate how little we know about it. The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."Aldo Leopold
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We are part of the wilderness of the universe. Some of us think we see this so clearly that for ourselves, for our children�s, our continuing posterity, and our fellow men we covet with a consuming intensity the fullness of human development that keeps its contact with wildnessHoward Zahniser
The wilderness that has come to us from the eternity of the past we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the future.Howard Zahniser
It is not long since man thought of himself as the center of the universe, thought even of the Sun - the very source of all our life - as a light by day revolving about the Earth. As our new understanding has come - through science - science also has brought us many other new and wonderful discoveries, and the new knowledge of what we are has been overlooked by many of us in our eagerness for the new knowledge of what we can do. We have become as proud over what we can do as ever our ancestors could have been over themselves as the center of the universe. We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed be one of the spiritual benefits of a wilderness experience. Without the gagets, the inventions, the contrivances whereby men have seemed to establish among themselves an independence of nature, without these distractions, to know the wilderness is to know a profound humility, to recognize one�s littleness, to sense dependence and interdependence, indebtedness, and responsibility. Perhaps, indeed, this is the distinctive ministration of wilderness to modern man, the characteristic effect of an area which we most deeply need to provide for in our preservation programs.Howard Zahniser
In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do it right. Not in our generation, nor ever again, will we have a land and wildlife opportunity approaching the scope and importance of this one.Morris Udall
Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food and drink is not all. There is the spiritual. In some it is only a germ, of course, but the germ will grow.John Muir
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world -- the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.John Muir
Man always kills the things he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?Aldo Leopold
The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know what it is to experience life on undeveloped, unoccupied land in the same form and character as the Creator fashioned it... It is a great spiritual experience. I never knew a man who took a bedroll into an Idaho mountainside and slept there under a star-studded summer sky who felt self-important that next morning. Unless we preserve some opportunity for future generations to have the same experience, we shall have dishonored our trustFrank Church�
If we are to have broad-thinking men and women of high mentality, of good physique and with a true perspective on life, we must allow our populace a communion with nature in areas of more or less wilderness condition.Arthur Carhart�
There is not as much wilderness out there as I wish there were. There is more inside than you thinkDavid Brower�
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and immediately became baptized by the Holy Spirit?
Seems Satan surely has "you" all hoodwinked? What a bunch of uncaring judgmental hypocrites, IMO.
Indeed, this may actually be an atheist forum from what I've seen so far?
So I am assuming your question about the Holy Spirit is not directed to the atheists and hoodwinked Christians on this forum!
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if you are like me and had to google the definition of the term "hoodwinked" i found a good example of how to use it. here it is:
Tom Sawyer famously hoodwinked the other boys into thinking there was nothing more enjoyable than whitewashing a fence.>
thats some copy pasta from websters dictionary website. hope you enjoyed it as much as i did. :)
i did have hands laid on me. and i started speaking in another language instantly. can do it anytime i want too. and i have also laid hands on people since and they prayed in tounges and some was even healed, right there, johnny on the spot. just like it says in The Book. i enjoy that more than googling definitions too.
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The LORD led me to start a street ministry. There have been a number of times when I've prayed with people, who believe Jesus died for their sins and arose three days later, and the LORD poured out His Spirit upon them in prayer as I was holding their hands. There are tears, brokenness, and repentance. There is also joy. Sometimes they look at me and tell me they want to do what I'm doing, or that they want to follow me. I can only point them to Jesus. He has the words of life, not me.
I am quite sure the LORD knows how to follow up with such people. He's large and in charge. Many people falsely presume we've got to micro-manage someone's walk with the Lord. That's the Holy Spirit's job. I really wish churches would spend more time teaching people they need to seek the Lord on their knees and in His word daily, instead of convincing them they need to come to church once a week. We'd have a more power-filled Body of believers than we currently have. Jesus wants to do stuff through us. It's His power and authority that will manifest, nothing of us. Thank you, Jesus!
The discipling process involves one-on-one relationships; seasoned believers walking alongside new believers as mentors and guides. While its not about micro-managing lives, it is about having people ready and eager to work with new believers, answering their questions and encouraging them.
I want to be a coin in God's pocket that He can spend any way He wishes.
I agree with you, but my concerns stem from things I have seen in many churches. I would like to suggest to you that much of the modern church does not trust that the Lord is in control. Jesus is the head, yet we want to do all the thinking, as if we could make sure the Lord's will be done. This quenches the Spirit of God, and disempowers a ministry.
People who are shepherding are role-models, not micro-managers (emphasis mine):
1 Peter 5:1-5
1 So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: 2 shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; 3 not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. 4 And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. 5 Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."
I would never suggest newborns in Christ to isolate themselves. No one is to forsake fellowship with brethren. I do insist, however, that newborns in Christ need to pray the Lord lead them where they need to be in order to get godly support. You don't know where they need to go anymore than I do. The Lord, however, knows exactly where they need to go.
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Yes when I was nine I experienced new birth from Christ and then started speaking in tongues, all in my parent's living room.Has anyone had a Christian lay hands on them and immediately became baptized by the Holy Spirit?
I have since witnessed the baptism in others many times.
Religion is an ugly tyrant.
I'm more familiar with the Bible than with modern church culture, Ed. But what I've seen of the modern church is sad. I see more of Jeremiah 23 and Matthew 23 than I see of the Book of Acts. I won't trust what man can try to do what I know God will do.
Are there churches doing a good job? I'm sure there are some out there. However, the vast majority of churches are failing to evangelize, feed the flock, take care of the poor, and disciple whatsoever. So please understand why I would direct any newborn in Christ to chase after the Lord and His guidance than to chase after some local church which may or may not be following the Lord. The Lord will lead a follower to the right place and the right people.
The modern church model is nothing like the Book of Acts. We've got a model that funnels 90% of offerings into a building that stands dormant 90% of the time. The stewardship of these resources is no joke. What's going on is inexcusable, and as we are entering these last days God will chastise this system and deal with it.
Judgment begins in the house of God, and I think God is giving us a repeated warning for the church to repent before He begins to cleanse this mislead system: See the reports of the latest quakes occurring once again in Christchurch New Zealand.
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Chris Cillizza reports:
Some neutral observers and senior strategists within the party have begun to believe that the national political environment is not only similar to what they saw in 1994 — when Democrats lost control of the House and Senate — but could in fact be worse by Election Day. …
Combine the similarities between 1994 and 2010 on the generic ballot and presidential approval with a clear intensity gap between the Republican base (fired up to vote) and the Democratic base (less so), and Democratic strategists are worried that they are watching history repeat itself.
Sort of like conservative outlets have been explaining for months now, I suppose.
As Pete has aptly detailed, this in part explains the unhinged quality of the left's rhetoric. Members of the left are infuriated and bewildered that the grand shift to a center-left nation proved as illusory as Obama's political brilliance. But in voicing their fury, do they depress the base even more? Perhaps. But they will certainly poison the atmosphere for any potential for moderation and compromise by the surviving Democrats after November. "How can they co-operate with the crazy, Islamophobe cosnervatives?!" the left will rail.
The meltdown may not simply be electoral for liberals. They will need to figure out how to regroup and cope with a country so stiff-necked as to reject what they are peddling.


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The one thing about many of the Iranian soups that is overwhelming, not to mention the Norouz meal itself, is the cleaning and chopping of the herbs. Many people bypass this process by using dried herbs. In recent years Persian markets have been carrying packages of frozen herbs. While these are very convenient and shorten the amount of labor, I have a couple of issues with them. My first issue is that they cost too much for what you get. I get the commodity part, I really do. But I find it hard to shell out anywhere from $6 to $9 per package. At times, more than one package is needed and that drives up the price even more. The second issue that I have is the ratio of the herbs. It's hard to know how much of each herb is included in the mix and that makes a difference taste wise.
Three years ago I posted a tutorial on what to do with leftover herbs. This year I am posting a tutorial on how to create your own packages of fresh herbs for your own recipes and save a whole lot of money in the process. This tips comes in very handy as well when planning ahead for large Norouz parties.
The bundle of herbs that you see in the above picture came from my local Persian store. I spent about $11 for the following: 5 bunches of parsley, 5 bunches of cilantro, 3 bunches of mint, and 4 bunches of chives.
First strip all leaves from stems. Before washing, combine herbs according to desired recipe. The above combination is for Asheh Reshteh.
Allow herbs to dry.
Chop all leafy herbs.
Wash and chop chives separately from leafy herbs. Add to the mix after chopping.
Write the name of the recipe on a Ziploc bag and fill with herbs. Remove as much air as possible and place in the freezer until needed.
Here is a great tip for the upcoming Norouz. Every year we have a party to celebrate the arrival of our new year. Our guest list will fluctuate from having 20 guest and it has gone up for about 45. The days leading up the party are always super stressful because of all the herbs that need to be cleaned for the Sabzi Polow, Kuku Sabzi, and Asheh Reshteh. This year I got smart and prepared ahead for the soup and kuku because I am OK with using my own cut and packaged frozen herbs.
I created two packages for the Asheh Reshteh as they are cooked in our two crockpots. I also made a package for the Kuku Sabzi, where I multiplied my recipe by seven. The only herbs missing for the kuku is dill, which I forgot to purchase.
So for the price of $11 in herbs I have enough herbs for 3 Asheh Reshteh and 7 Kuku Sabzi which brings my cost to $1 per recipe. It sure beats the $6 to $9 per package of bought frozen herbs!!!


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Thursday, August 1, 2002
Who's Afraid of Dialogue?
In theater, as in life, we expect marriages to fail, lovers to betray, and family members to hurt us, but when friendship takes the center stage, one cannot help but take note. This familiar but unpredictable territory offers much dramatic potential, and GableStage's current production Chinese Coffee makes the most of it. This a moral play clothed in muscular language and comic sidelines. It deals with the ethics and philosophical underpinnings of drawing fiction directly from reality. Chinese Coffee is also a play about friendship. As we watch two men dismantle their own, it is somehow more disconcerting than to watch a romantic relationship unravel, something that is virtually common. Writer Francine du Plessix Gray mused, "Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty." Chinese Coffee challenges that premise, and it does so superbly.
The story: It's around 1:30 a.m. on a freezing night in New York City when struggling novelist Harry Levine (Paul Tei) pounds on the door of his best friend's apartment, failed photographer Jake Manheim (Michael Gioia). Harry has just been fired, he has $1.50 to his name, and he's come to collect some money Jake owes him. As luck would have it, Jake has even less money. But cash is only one of the things on Harry's agenda. He has entrusted his third novel for Jake to read and wants his friend's opinion. The two circle around each other, Harry pressing the issue and Jake sidestepping it, until finally Jake confesses that he has indeed read the novel: Not only is it a failure but it is at best a cheap imitation of life -- Jake's life. Jake accuses Harry of using intimate details from his family, love, and professional life to make a commercially successful novel. Worse, he accuses him of doing this knowingly. The two launch into an explosive battle of wit and words about the ethics of writing fiction and the value of their friendship, which becomes increasingly strained.
Unlike the predictable drama of two friends scratching and clawing each other to get to the top, Chinese Coffee is a more earnest, compelling drama of two men battling each other not to be at the bottom of the garbage heap. Both are middle-aged men who have long missed their chance to "make it" in the Big Apple -- Harry as the author of two remaindered novels, Jake as a mediocre nightclub photographer turned failed studio photographer.
This one-act, hour-and-a-half dialogue is a reminder that realistic, hard-nosed, dialogue-driven scripts, which are the very foundation of contemporary American theater, are still one of our most successful methods of resolving ethical and psychological dilemmas. Ira Lewis's play has the kind of venomous, rapid-fire dialogue of David Mamet's American Buffalo and Sam Shepard's True West, which Chinese Coffee particularly mirrors in its mercurial shift in the balance of power. One also thinks of Edward Albee's relentlessly swift and ironic retorts in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Seeing it done here and now is like watching an old standard revived with more potency than ever. This meaty dialogue is full of challenging epithets; humorous, sardonic one-liners; and several thunderous crescendos that result in the play's thought-provoking conclusion.
Chinese Coffee is a quintessentially New York play. Tim Connelly's ramshackle bachelor's apartment captures the Greenwich Village milieu, as well as the black-coffee, no-milk, no-sugar existence that both characters live. Early on, the play borders on a Neil Simon, odd couple sort of setup, but as soon as the characters begin to engage in true verbal combat, all risk of typecasting is shattered. Lewis is a Neil Simon with intellectual acuity. He's a Woody Allen who doesn't lean toward absurdity, although the script's hilarious bantering and affection for the neurotic is delightfully reminiscent of both of those writers. Character details such as Harry's teeth grinding -- "I'm a grinder. I wake up with a mouthful of white dust" -- and hypochondria (he fears such maladies as knuckle cancer) provide not only comic relief but also vary the play's tempo. This is no small feat for 90 minutes without an active plot, scene change, or secondary cast.
Jake says of Harry's writing, "It doesn't feed you. It feeds on you." The same is true for this nonstop dialogue -- as the characters converse, they come unglued, and we as the audience become eavesdroppers. We are obliged to participate as if we were listening in on a conversation at the laundromat. Besides Lewis's top-notch writing, what really saves Chinese Coffee from falling into cliché is the outstanding trio of director Joe Adler and actors Gioia and Tei.
Like GableStage's widely acclaimed Popcorn (also starring Tei), Chinese Coffee is a play that could be successfully realized on-stage or in front of the camera. In fact, Al Pacino played one of the roles in 1992 and then directed himself and his costar, Jerry Orbach, in a yet-to-be-released Fox Searchlight film of the same name, also penned by Lewis. Adler's character-driven directing style elicits multiple responses from Tei and Gioia. Each maintains a persona and then gradually shreds it without fully abandoning it.
Harry appears to be on a nonstop Xanax trip. He is wired, depressed, and obsessive. He's constantly chattering, challenging, and probing; he scratches his balls and rummages through Jake's empty refrigerator -- all appropriate to his character. Now in his sixth play at GableStage, Tei has reached a new level of skill in .Chinese Coffee. At one moment cagey, weak, and vulnerable, he is at the same time passionate. His character's vulnerability is a labyrinth of insecurity and passion. Together, Adler and Tei have crafted the quintessential artist -- neurotic, insecure, self-absorbed but also resolute in his struggle to defend the validity of his work.
Back to the stage after several years' hiatus, Gioia is incredibly powerful as the world-weary Jake. Gioia's excellent control of voice and mood almost threatens to overshadow a more subtle but brilliant aspect of his performance: his silence. His facial expressions along with Jeff Quinn's subtle lighting become a constant subplot, an untold story that is deeply rooted in this vitriolic encounter. When Harry confronts Jake on the true motive for criticizing his work so harshly, his nonverbal presence becomes monolithic and even frightening.
This is a play about values -- the value of a writer's effort, the value of something that has not attained commercial success. Then the flipside: What happens to the artistic value of creativity when it becomes monetarily qualified? It is also a portrait of human nature that is rarely so well portrayed in the plethora of movies and plays where an ethical question is at the crux of the matter -- both characters are incredibly sincere, mistaken, broken, and pliant.
How to make an hour and a half of two men arguing not look like a mere battle of wits or duel of words? Get an intelligent and poignant script and two excellent actors and get them up on GableStage.
Wednesday, July 31, 2002
Two top-notch performances in 'Chinese Coffee'
By Hap Erstein, Palm Beach Post Theater Writer
CORAL GABLES -- There are some provocative statements about artistic aspirations in Ira Lewis' 1983 two-character play Chinese Coffee, but the main reason to trek to GableStage is to see a pair of terrific performances.
Paul Tei and Michael Gioia play a couple of down on their luck, would-be writers, hashing out the nature of art and commerce late one night in a Greenwich Village apartment. Their words are worth chewing on, but they come in a distant second to the scenery-chewing they do as the wary, jittery characters they bring to life.
The play had been kicking around about a decade until it surfaced on Broadway in 1994 with Al Pacino as down-on-his luck, nervous novelist Harry Levine. Maybe he attached himself to the play for its thematic content, but he surely saw the potential for bravura acting and, from most reports, capitalized on it.
Tei does not rely as much on facial tics and vocal volume as Pacino, but he is the actor of choice at GableStage when it comes to volatile low-lifes. His Harry arrives at the apartment of longtime acquaintance and part-time mentor Jake Manheim, desperate to get some money he is owed and just as desperate to hear some feedback on his latest novel.
Tei, who wears those needs as uncomfortably as he wears a ratty raincoat, proceeds to take over the production with a dazzling display of neuroses.
As Jake, Gioia has the calmer, more reactive assignment, but playwright Lewis has thoughtfully parceled out a few incendiary moments for him as well. By the time Chinese Coffee's intermissionless 75 minutes have sprinted by, Gioia has made it evident that Jake is an equally combustible kindred spirit of Harry's.
The evening sprints, but only after a slow, wordy opening in which the two characters parry and feint, testing each other, as the play takes its time coming to a boil.
Until it declares its intentions, Lewis takes his characters through some enjoyable, if tangential, riffs, including Harry's discourse on the coffee and funerals of Chinatown.
Early on, Jake had dismissively said that he hadn't had time to read Harry's novel. It turns out that he not only had read it but also took great offense at the way his life had been co-opted into its pages. In this sense, Chinese Coffee may bring to mind Donald Margulies' whose-life-and-history-is-it-anyway drama Collected Stories, perhaps filtered through the sensibility of early David Mamet.
The novel is Harry's third, and the first two failed to make an impression on the commercial or critical radar.
As Harry and Jake argue over the book, the possibility arises that it could be a breakthrough of artistic consequence. It is, at least, a catalyst for their feelings about artistic struggle and the quest for success, as well as the wedge that comes between them and threatens their already tenuous friendship.
In lesser hands, this could disintegrate into a static talkathon, but Tei and Gioia are helped considerably by the staging of Joseph Adler. He makes physical their verbal tug of war, moving his actors around every inch of Tim Connelly's well lived-in apartment set. Long left unproduced post-Pacino -- except for a little-seen movie version released two years ago -- Chinese Coffee is the sort of high-intensity, highly theatrical fare that Adler and company do so well.
Thursday, August 8, 2002
'Chinese Coffee' at GableStage
By Tony Guzman
Joe Adler's GableStage is concluding its 2001-2002 season with the Florida premiere of Ira Lewis' Chinese Coffee, which depicts a critical sea change in the alternately anguished and funny relationship between two penurious New York writers struggling to stay afloat both financially and emotionally in a philistine world.
Jake Manheim is a middle-aged extravagantly unsuccessful theatrical photographer who long ago had shown some promise as a fiction writer. In the dead of a frigid New York February night, struggling novelist Harry Levine appears pounding at his door virtually in rags, with $1.50 to his name. He's come to collect on a, for him, sizeable loan he charged on a credit card he inexplicably received, and to get Jake's reaction to his latest novel, a manuscript of which he had left him. Jake has no money and blithely disclaims having yet read the book, further exacerbating Harry's in extremis state. Harry is up against the wall of a looming old age of poverty, isolation and increasingly insulting marginalization. Unsympathetic Jake torments Harry with his loser status and bleak prospects and cynically counsels various strategies for "selling out" and going for the bucks. As the plot and true nature of the relationship unfolds, it turns out that Jake has in fact read Harry's novel and is enraged by its depiction of him as "a pompous coffee house phony." Particularly galling to Jake is the fact that Harry's book actually may have considerable commercial potential. Incensed - and jealous - he reverses himself and now berates the incorrigibly Bohemian Harry for selling out and having "nothing in your heart but money."
As for the play's title: Harry ascribes restorative powers to Chinese coffee, and, along with his idealized view of the Chinatown in which it is served, the warming beverage becomes a metaphor for a cohesive, nurturing community in contradistinction to our exclusionist, commercialized-to-the-core society.
Michael Gioia confers an arresting Zen-like stillness and centripetal weight to Jake that makes Jake's histrionic outbursts toward the end quite dramatic, while serving as an effective contrasting focal point to Harry's nervous effusions. He gives us an arresting and compelling, if somewhat opaque, Jake. Paul Tei's trademark has been the palpable sense of danger he brings to roles involving charismatic villains teetering on the edge of mayhem and beyond. A chief source of interest in this production for Tei aficionados is to see him in "sensitive intellectual" mode, assaying a whole range of new colors and effects. It's a lucid, affecting performance, although Tei may have reined himself in more than necessary: after all, Lewis' script makes the point that Harry is the spitting image of a "subhuman" killer from Queens.
One gets the feeling that Chinese Coffee is a highly autographical work, with Harry serving as a stand-in for the playwright. Lewis' depiction of the plight of the "outsider artist" is certainly deeply felt and closely perceived. The play is almost Chekhovian in its sly humor, psychological insight and the way Lewis fleshes out a compelling dramatic world largely through dialogue. In the midst of the slim pickings and typically lightweight fare associated with our sultry theatrical off-season, GableStage's Chinese Coffee is a savory and substantial brew indeed, and it really hits the spot.


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After County Judge Chad Adams excused himself so the commissioners could go into executive session, Carol Bush was appointed as new county judge on a 3-1 vote.
Motion by Bill Dodson and second by Dennis Robinson with an interuption by Heath Sims to ask for the appointment to be delayed.
Ron Brown approved the motion.
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