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Updated: October 15, 2012 7:12PM
Sure, a bicycle helmet can save your life in an accident, but it can also be murder on your freshly coifed hair.
Now there's an alternative — an airbag for your head. And like the ones in your car, when it's not in use, the Hovding collar tucks neatly and stylishly around your neck, claims its Swedish manufacturer.
"Hovding is a collar for bicyclists, worn around the neck," according to the Hovding website. "The collar contains a folded-up airbag that you'll only see if you happen to have an accident. The airbag is shaped like a hood, surrounding and protecting the bicyclist's head. The trigger mechanism is controlled by sensors which pick up the abnormal movements of a bicyclist in an accident."
The manufacturers claim the airbag takes 0.1 second to inflate and "will be fully inflated before head impact."
According to news reports, it took inventors Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin six years to develop the collar. It currently costs about $600 and, according to the Hovding website, is currently only available in Scandinavia.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, December 10, 2012 — The news from Michigan is that Governor Rick Snyder will sign a right to work bill, if the legislature sends one to him. The unions are planning massive demonstrations in Lansing on Tuesday. Two school districts in the metro Detroit area are closing because so many teachers are taking time off to protest.
Taking on the role of Agitator in Chief, President Obama spoke today at Redford Township, Michigan ostensibly to drum up support for socking it to those making over $250,000 a year, now defined as "the wealthy", but midway through the speech to UAW workers he attacked the right to work law.
The New York Times opined:
"The decline of the middle class in this country has paralleled that of the labor movement, which has been battered by the relentless efforts of business groups and Republicans to drive down wages, boost corporate profits and inflate executive salaries and bonuses. Now that campaign is on the verge of a devastating victory in Michigan, home of the labor movement…."
Madison, Wisconsin. It's déjà vu all over again.
Right to work laws are exactly what the name implies: you have a right to work without first having to join a union and pay union dues. Freedom of association and equal opportunity: isn't that what America is all about?
Not if you're a unionist.
Labor unions represent just 11% of the workforce, and half of those are government workers. Teachers form the largest unions. Somehow, when I think of industrial sweatshops, I don't think of classrooms.
Unless maybe we're talking about the students.
In order to not become totally obsolete, unions have ensured that people are forced to join a union as a condition of employment; hence the need for right to work laws.
I had my first experience with unions as a teenager working minimum wage as a bagger and stocker in a grocery store in Wisconsin. Before the union, we all did stocking and bagging as needed. The more experienced guys taught the more junior guys how to do things. One day I found out the store had been unionized. No vote, no advance notice.
Now everyone was ranked according to seniority—not skill or experience or aptitude or attitude—and a line was drawn half-way down the list. Top half, Stockers; bottom half, Baggers. No more stocking cases of beer for me!
And for the privilege of being represented by the union I was to have my wages automatically hit for union dues. I quit.
Colorado is a free will state. That means that you can work for who you want to and you can quit at any time—you don't have to give notice. Same is true for employers—you can be fired on the spot. Some school districts have union representation, some don't. If you teach at a district with a union, you don't have to join.
You also have the right to have the portion of your union dues that go to political purposes returned to you if you ask.
Michigan, on the other hand, is home to powerful auto worker unions—the unions Barack Obama gave Government Motors to. Passing a right to work law in Michigan is like plunging a stake in the heart of unionism. I don't need to recite the high-paying jobs UAW workers have or their incredible benefits for you to understand what's at stake from the union point of view.
But Detroit isn't doing all that well. Michigan isn't doing very well, despite Jeff Daniels commercials. They could use a bit more competition. They could use some of those auto plants that have been built throughout the south.
One of the problems with unions, though, is the same problem with Establishment Republican politicians: neither group wants to give up power in their own sphere, despite the fact that their reason for existence is long gone.
In the 1950s and 60s Michigan and Wisconsin were part of what was then called the Iron Belt—the industrial heartland of America. Those industries are long gone and the area has long been called the Rust Belt.
Historically, industrial jobs were called Blue Collar jobs and blue collar workers were working class. High-paying union jobs made blue collar workers into middle class families. This is what Joe Biden means by middle class when he says, "We're going to rebuild the middle class."
That's not what middle class really means, however. Since we don't really have a class system in America, middle class really means middle income, or the 50% percentile, which is somewhere around $50,000 per household per year.
If you ask Americans what class they're in (lower, middle, upper), a whopping 89% say they're middle class.
To say the definition is fluid is an understatement. Middle class are the entrepreneurial class: small business owners, independent contractors, white collar workers. Those are the kinds of jobs that post-industrial America offers.
Joe Biden can't rebuild a union-wage middle class because those jobs don't exist anymore. They're Chinese jobs. They're robot jobs.
First Wisconsin, then Indiana and now Michigan are passing right to work laws. Regiments from all three states fought together in the Civil War in the much-decorated Iron Brigade. The Union then secured freedom for plantation slaves.
Now these states are securing freedom for union slaves.
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- 2.5 cup(s) cake flour (not self-rising)
- 2 teaspoon(s) baking powder
- 1 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1 cup(s) unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cup(s) sugar
- 5 large eggs, separated
- 2 teaspoon(s) grated lemon zest
- 3 tablespoon(s) fresh lemon juice
- 2 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract
- 1 cup(s) sour cream
Lemon Filling:
- 1 cup(s) sugar
- 3 tablespoon(s) cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt
- 3/4 cup(s) water
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1/2 cup(s) fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoon(s) unsalted butter
Fluffy Frosting:
- 3 large egg whites
- 3/4 cup(s) sugar
- 3 tablespoon(s) water
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) cream of tartar
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- 1/4 teaspoon(s) almond extract
- 1.5 cup(s) sweetened flaked coconut
- Cake: Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat 2 (9 x 2-inch) round cake pans with baking spray. In a bowl, mix flour, baking powder, and salt. In a bowl of an electric mixer, at medium-high speed, beat butter until creamy. Add sugar; beat 5 minutes until light and fluffy. Beat in yolks, one at a time. Beat in lemon zest and juice and vanilla. On low speed, beat in flour mixture (in fourths) alternately with sour cream (in thirds), until combined.
- In a bowl with clean beaters, beat egg whites at high speed, until stiff peaks form. Fold into batter; spread in prepared pans. Bake 32 to 34 minutes. Let cakes cool in pans on wire rack 10 minutes; turn cakes out. Cool completely.
- Lemon Filling: In a saucepan, whisk sugar, cornstarch, and salt. Whisk in water, yolks, and lemon juice. Bring to a boil over medium heat; boil 1 minute. Remove from heat; whisk in butter until melted and smooth. Cover surface directly with plastic wrap; let cool to room temperature. Place 1 cake layer on serving plate; spread filling evenly over top of layer; cover with remaining layer.
- Fluffy Frosting: In a heat-proof bowl, mix all ingredients except extracts and coconut. Using a handheld electric mixer, beat 1 minute. Place bowl over a pot of simmering water, making sure bowl doesn't touch water. On high speed, beat until stiff, shiny peaks form, 7 minutes. Remove bowl from heat; add extracts. Beat 5 minutes, or until frosting is cool. Frost cake. Sprinkle with coconut.
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Some funny/curious quotes from the 2013 Yearbook (part 1)
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|posted Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:27:13 GMT(12/27/2012)
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Hi everyone
I just thought I'd amuse myself by seeing what madness awaits in the new 2013 Yearbook.
You might like to read some of the gems I've uncovered...
"True Christians are soon to cross into the promised new world, so they need to be courageous and strong." (page 2)
How soon are we talking about? Are we talking "soon" soon, or "the generation that saw the events of 1914 will live to see Armageddon" soon?
"Whatever situation you may face, be assured that if you are courageous, strong, and faithful, Jehovah will be with you to make you victorious." (page 2)
WHATEVER situation? What happened to time and unforeseen occurrence befall us all? Can I be victorious in surviving a plane crash if I am courageous, strong and faithful?
"Happily, Jehovah does not force us to serve him. He is not a dictator. He wants us to serve him out of love from our heart." (Letter from the Governing Body, page 4)
I'm glad you've clarified that point for me guys. My Dad threatening to shun me if I leave the organization must just have been a misunderstanding.
"Within the Christian congregation, we clearly understand the matter of free will. While elders are authorized to counsel and even to discipline, they do not seek to dominate or to control the life or faith of others. (Letter from the Governing Body, page 5)
No, they leave that job to the Governing Body.
"How satisfying it is to do something because we want to do it instead of being forced to do it!" (Letter from the Governing Body, page 6)
Yes, that would be satisfying.
"We love you all very much." (Final words of the Letter from the Governing Body, page 7)
Those are touching sentiments, but it would mean so much more if you guys weren't encouraging my family to shun me if I left your religion.
"Because of the [branch] mergers, brothers who had been serving in small branches can now concentrate on preaching the good news." (page 12)
If the branch mergers are supposed to reduce the size of the bethel families and free up people to preach, why is there over one thousand extra bethelites reported for 2012?
"Beginning with the January 2013 issues, Awake! and the public edition of The Watchtower were reduced from 32 pages to 16 pages. Because the magazines contain less material, translation teams will be able to make them available in more languages." (pages 17,18)
Stoopid translation teams not translating fast enough. Now we need to halve the pages in our public magazines to compensate for their laziness!!
"On Sunday, June 3, 2012, there was a tragic air disaster in Nigeria. A plane carrying 153 persons crashed in a crowded suburb of Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, killing all on board and an unknown number on the ground. Collins Eweh and his family lived on the top floor of the three-story apartment building that was hit by the plane.When the accident occurred, the family was attending a congregation meeting at the Kingdom Hall." (page 29)
153 people die in a plane crash, but (hold the front page) a family of Jehovah's Witnesses survived by not being in the building the plane crashed into. I do love happy endings.
On a serious note - remember to attend meetings folks! Failure to attend may lead to death in a plane accident.
"We have truly seen Jehovah's hand in our case. I am very happy." (page 30)
...said the Daddy of the family who survived the plane crash. It is reassuring to know that their survival was thanks to "Jehovah's hand."
"I'm so happy to see my son get baptized as a man." (The happy ending to an article entitled "A Transvestite Makes Changes," pages 57,58)
He made one change too many if you ask me.
"To encourage him, the brother studying with him opened the Bible and explained in sign language: 'Your name, Samuel, is in the Bible. The Samuel in the Bible served the true God, Jehovah, until he was very old. You too can faithfully obey Jehovah.'" (From the amusingly entitled article "A Cult Member Finds the Truth," page 60)
So what if your name is Judas?
"When Nihad greeted him, the man said: "Excuse me, I noticed a magazine in your car with the title, 'How to Be a Good Father.' I would really like to have a copy." (From an article entitled "The Title Intrigued Him," page 65)
Nihad is clearly very easily intrigued.
"I couldn't put the chocolate in the contribution box, so I ate it," (From an article entitled "No Chocolate for the Contribution Box," page 67)
You clearly gave up too easily.
"How heartwarming to know that even on remote islands where there is no television, radio, newspaper, or Internet, our literature is helping people to learn the truth in their mother tongue!" (page 76)
Yes, getting pulled into a cult in an internet-free zone. What are the chances of that happening?
|posted Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:40:12 GMT(12/27/2012)
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"A Cult Member Finds the Truth"
Someone was reading JWFacts.com and they reported on it in the Yearbook?
Seriously... someone needs to cut and paste that entire article.
|posted Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:48:23 GMT(12/27/2012)
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I admire your fortitude in reading WTS literature, cedars. I can no longer even look at their publications let alone open and read them. The quotes you shared only reinforced my feelings. The quaint and misleading answers given to the situations and challenges people face make my blood boil. The example of the transgendered man especially troubled me. This poor fellow will soon learn that he will find no peace, no acceptance and no love among Jehovah's Witnesses. He would have been better off to have never studied with them in the first place. As for the Nigerian family, while we can all be glad none of them was injured or killed, one can only wonder what the WTS would have said if the plane had crashed into the building where the Witnesses were meeting. More than likely, that tragedy would have been given no mention in the literature at all. Ah well! I rejoice that I'm out and will never go back.
|posted Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:59:27 GMT(12/27/2012)
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Love your comments, Cedar. Keep reading and let us know what else you find facinating about the new 2013 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses.
(I used to hate reading them while I was in, now they are like comic books.)
|posted Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:05:11 GMT(12/27/2012)
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Found it. It's downloadable on JW.org My, how Jehovah's chariot is speeding up the work in these last days...
Anyway... Page 174 thru 176 - an article entitled "One Hundred Years Ago 1913"
Quote on page 176: "Jehovah's people were also optimistic but for different reasons. The Bible Students had long heralded 1914 as a pivotal year in human history, and their expectations ran high." Further down a couple of paragraphs: "What was in store for 1914? How would the 'Photo-Drama (of Creation) be received? What would happen in the fall, at the end of the Gentile Times? The Bible Students eagerly awaited the answers to these questions, confident of Jehovah's backing. ... The next year was to be one of great change for the Bible Students-and the entire world." End of article.
Wait... What? What was pivotal about 1914? What was in store for 1914? What did happen in the fall at the end of the Gentile Times? What was the great change?
Tune in next year, same batshit channel, same batshit publication, to see what new batshit revisionist history they come up with to deflect what really happened in 1914, yet try to convince 2014 dubs that the WTS was on top of their game a hundred years ago.
|posted Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:06:17 GMT(12/27/2012)
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Thank you, Cedars! I can't read that drivel anymore, but you brought out some great points!
|posted Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:09:59 GMT(12/27/2012)
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Happily, Jehovah does not force us to serve him. He is not a dictator.
Ah. So that would explain the whole Armageddon thing. It's just a loving readjustment of mankind's population!
|posted Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:16:45 GMT(12/27/2012)
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Thanks everyone!
"We have truly seen Jehovah's hand in our case. I am very happy." (page 30)
I'm wondering what the relatives of the 153 people who died in the plane crash would make of the JW-version of this tragedy. Do they feel they have seen "Jehovah's hand?"
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|posted Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:23:11 GMT(12/27/2012)
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Big J says "Armageddon is coming", ....then much later says "Ah, only kidding! Now please LOL about it or I will send my angel of death against you."
|posted Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:24:31 GMT(12/27/2012)
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I'm wondering what the relatives of the 153 people who died in the plane crash would make of the JW-version of this tragedy.
I'm wondering what the family and friends of the JW girl raped and killed by a fellow JW makes of how Jehovah truly had his hand in this tragedy, saving the family, yet lifted not a finger to help this poor girl in her tragedy...
I've already gone off on a couple of people who have pulled the "Jah/God/Allah was with me/them/us/whoever" mentality. Whether it's JWs, or any other religion, that is about the most insensitive and stupid thing anyone can say after a tragedy.
|posted Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:49:53 GMT(12/27/2012)
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For sure, they want people to believe that failure to attend boasting sessions results in your dying in a plane crash. Which happened in Nigeria, where corruption and scams dominate (and things are generally far from safe). The plane could just as easily have gone down onto the Kingdumb Hell.
What that doesn't mention is a recent bus accident where some witlesses on their way to a big boasting session died in a bus crash. Those who missed the boasting session were not involved in that accident. Or, how many witlesses die en route to the boasting session or while out in field circus because they get into accidents on their way. How many die as a result of injuries sustained while out in field circus? Particularly, things like falls, householders that are forced to physically defend themselves against a scam, dog bites, and getting hit with a car while crossing the street to start their time. Many get diseases (diabetes, heart disease, cancer) because of the ongoing stress of attending boasting sessions and field circus, and die. Which causes more suffering than the plane crash would have.
|posted Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:09:56 GMT(12/27/2012)
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Very funny lol
|posted Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:27:59 GMT(12/27/2012)
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I'm wondering what the relatives of the 153 people who died in the plane crash would make of the JW-version of this tragedy. Do they feel they have seen "Jehovah's hand?"
Yes, in the form of either a backhand (ie. 'pimp slap') or a middle finger shoved way up an orifice divinely chosen for that purpose.
|posted Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:36:08 GMT(12/27/2012)
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Tune in next year, same batshit channel, same batshit publication, to see what new batshit revisionist history they come up with to deflect what really happened in 1914______UNDERCOVER
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|posted Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:58:03 GMT(12/27/2012)
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The governing body "letter" in this new yearbook is just. . . .
I don't know. . .
Absolutely fuckin' bizarre!
|posted Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:50:34 GMT(12/28/2012)
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20 JWs died in a bus accident enroute to the convention recently here in Nigeria. Yes, Jehovah's hand was definitely seen in it- they were already running late for the convention. So Big Jay says, "You guys are going to my place late right? I'm gonna show ya what it means to be late." Now they are all late! LOL And they(WTS) were even late about the air crash stuff anyways, because another church here in Nigeria already used that pitch with one of its members, and they got a mighty shoutdown for it. Also, a married man that was supposed to be on board survived because he went to an hotel room instead with a lover, he did see Jah's hand in it, because he went for Thanksgiving afterwards. Wrong man, if you want to thank Jehovah, you go to the bloody Kindumb Hell, not a church!
|posted Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:08:23 GMT(12/28/2012)
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I guess all those people on the buses going to conventions were not as blessed as the family going to the meeting????
Out thanks to Blondie, Cedars and everyone else who can stomach taking the time to read through all that stuff for gems. AND those who can actually sit through a meeting long enough to report news. I can't do it anymore. My favorite chair and a cocktail harken to me now at 7:30 pm.
Hats off.
|posted Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:14:56 GMT(12/28/2012)
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"We have truly seen Jehovah's hand in our case. I am very happy." (page 30)
This is disgusting and selfish.
|posted Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:22:13 GMT(12/28/2012)
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For sure, they want people to believe that failure to attend boasting sessions results in your dying in a plane crash. Which happened in Nigeria, where corruption and scams dominate (and things are generally far from safe). The plane could just as easily have gone down onto the Kingdumb Hell
How many of these stories have we heard over the years? What about that KH bombing in Australia years ago? In that instance it would have been better to have been lolling on the couch watching TV at home.
|posted Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:48:11 GMT(12/28/2012)
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And also page 29/30 air disaster "At about 3:35 p.m., during the Watchtower Study, Collins and his wife, Chinyere, noticed several calls
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Republicans in Congress Wage War on Poor by Opposing Raising the Minimum Wage
The Republican War on the Poor is evident in their continued opposition to raising the national minimum wage. Like on many other issues they are out of tune with the American people. Fully three quarters of the American people support raising the national minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9.00 according to a Gallup poll released this week. Almost as many support indexing it to inflation so the issue does not have to be raised every few years in Congress and held hostage to Republican obstructionism.
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Despite President Barack Obama's State of the Union call to raise the wage to $9 — and widespread rallies populated mainly by hourly fast-food workers — legislation that would accomplish this goal has thus far languished. More recently, the Obama administration has voiced support for the Harkin-Miller bill, which would raise the minimum wage even higher — to $10.10.
Republicans in Congress have continued to support tax breaks for the wealthy and oppose raising taxes in general which has benefited the wealthy the most. At the same they are resolutely opposed to helping people on the bottom of the economic ladder. Republicans in the US House in March voted unanimously against raising the minimum wage to $10.10.
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Washington voters twice passed initiatives to raise the minimum wage in recent years. The last time in 1998 they added a provision to index the minimum wage to inflation. That Initiative, Initiative 688, passed with a 66% yes vote.
Voters in SeaTac, Washington on the Nov 2013 ballot are passing a proposal to raise the city's minimum wage to $15/hour. As of Nov 14 the measure is ahead by 52 votes. And it looks like if it wins, next up will be a court battle.
Tim Kaine Resigns as DNC Chair to run for Senator from Virginia
Tim Kaine has sent out the following e-mail to Democrats announcing his decision to run in 2012 for US Senator in Virginia. Jim Webb, the current US Senator, has previously announced he would not be running for re-election.
Dear DNC Members,I am writing to let you know that I have just announced my decision to run for the U.S. Senate from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 2012. To that end, I am stepping down as DNC Chair, effective immediately.In the coming days, I will share some thoughts on my decision to run, my appreciation for the opportunity you gave me to serve as your Chair, and what we were able to accomplish together.In the meantime, I am sure you will be as supportive of the President's choice to replace me as you have been of me for the past two years. There will be more information about this important transition to follow.I will treasure the friendships I've made during my time at the DNC, and hope that we will maintain those friendships in the years ahead.It is an exciting time for the DNC. It is also an exciting next chapter for my family and me, as I embark down a new path on which I hope to serve as one of Virginia's U.S. Senators.Thank you for your hard work and support along the way and for all that you will do in the months and years ahead.With gratitude,Tim Kaine
Kaine also has a video up at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mBX1TotZYtk announcing his decision.
Republicans in the US House have come up with their budget cutting ideas and guess who and what loses out? Not the rich or wealthy or corporations but pregnant women and children, childhood immunizations, assistance for blind and disabled children, legal aid for the poor, family planning, National Public Radio and public television, police hiring grants, job training grants, community health centers, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Republicans, in December, held out for and got an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. As CNN Money reported this came to $81.5 billion over 2 years. No offsetting spending reduction occurred elsewhere and now the bill starts coming due. Republicans in the House of Representatives have come up with a proposal to cut some $74 billion from the current budget.
So just who do they propose should give up the revenue lost by extending Bush tax cuts for the wealthy? None other than the people least able to help themselves in our down economy and who most need help. According to the Washington Post, the Republicans say this is necessary to create jobs.
Yet as has debated and documented, giving tax breaks to the wealthy does not stimulate the economy anywhere near what directly providing assistance to people out of work does. People with little or no money spend what they get right away and it goes into the economy. The wealthy have been shown not to spend the extra money they get.
As reported by Bloomberg.com news "rich Americans save their tax cuts instead of spending":
Give the wealthiest Americans a tax cut and history suggests they will save the money rather than spend it.
Tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 under President George W Bush were followed by increases in the saving rate among the rich, according to data from Moody's Analytics Inc. When taxes were raised under Bill Clinton, the saving rate fell.
So much for the benefits of a tax cut for the wealthy. Here's some more details on what the Republicans want to cut to pay for the tax cut for the wealthy according to the Washington Post:
House Republicans sketched their vision for a smaller federal government Wednesday, proposing sharp spending cuts that would wipe out family planning programs, take 4,500 cops off the street and slice 10 percent from a food program that aids pregnant women and their babies.
Top White House priorities also would come under the knife: Key Republicans are proposing to defund President Obama's high speed rail initiative, slash clean energy programs and gut the Office of Science by 20 percent – cuts that would deal a direct blow to Obama's innovation agenda. They would also cut the Environmental Protection Agency by 17 percent.
Here are some more specific cuts attributed to the Associated Press in a Seattle Times article today.
Budget proposals released Wednesday by House Republicans:
Program eliminations:
AmeriCorps $373 million in 2010 budget
Police hiring grants $298 million
High-speed rail $1 billion
Family planning $317 million
Corporation for Public Broadcasting $531 million
Food aid to pregnant women and their children $407 million cut, or 6 percent
NASA $103 million, 1 percent
Environmental Protection Agency $1.9 billion, 18 percent
IRS $106 million, 1 percent
Legal aid for the poor $60 million, 14 percent
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention $894 million, 13 percent
Food and Drug Administration $61 million, 3 percent
Community Development Fund $600 million, 13 percent
Agricultural research $246 million, 10 percent
Last night my answering machine recorded a Republican robo-call. The call said that "A lot of people are upset with Washington DC because nothing gets done. Patty Murray is part of the problem" The joke/deception of course is that they expect the public to believe it. Republicans by obstructing and stopping a lot of legislation from being passed by the US Senate through their threat of the filibuster, prevented many things from getting done. The joke/lie is that the Republicans expect us to believe it is the Democrat's and Patty Murray's fault. Is enough of the public really gullible enough to believe it's the Democrats fault? And when one looks at what Democrats accomplished in Congress over the last two year's (see below) it's obvious the Republicans are lying about what Congress did.
Unfortunately with the country still fairly evenly divided politically it doesn't take a lot of voters to change the makeup of Congress. The answer in the current political climate is that enough people will believe the Republican joke/deception/lie such that Republicans will be even more able to obstruct Democrats from moving the country forward with needed reform.
The right wing free market and corporate deluging of the media has been intense. The public is being fooled by the Republican storyline because voters are looking for a scapegoat for the country's problems. It is a lot easier to blame someone – like the Democrats- because they are in power, than it is to work for solutions. And the Republicans have been more intent on demonizing the Democrats for political gain than they have been on advocating for solutions that will benefit the majority of Americans that are not wealthy.
Democrats inherited a colossal problem It is for multiple reasons they are not faring well in this election. There will be endless discussions of this over the next few days. Reasons listed will include the Democrats not boasting about their accomplishments enough, Obama not providing a clear vision of his future for America, the question whether the Government is responsible for the state of the economy or whether it is private enterprise and Wall Street greed driving things, the issue of the news media preferring to cover conflict rather than resolution, the huge influx of hidden corporate and special intererest money and a Republican noise and propaganda machine that set the agenda for what this election was about rather than the Democrats.
Obama's role in the Democrat's plight can somewhat be explained when he publicly said he was concentrating on getting things done rather than dealing with politics and outreach to the public. The deactivating after his election of his grassroots organization that helped him get elected was obviously a serious mistake. It's re-activation in this Election season comes too little and too late for many Democrats.
There are many candidates and elected officials that have had good ideas but who did not see them come to fruition. It is not enough to be "right". You must also bring the people along with you. And you must keep them with you. It is not enough to win a legislative battle if you do not win the public perception battle that this is progress and is good for them.
A few reports by the news media note that both Congress and the President have accomplished a lot in the last two years. But it is too little recognition too late. The reports are true but the Republican death song has been going on too long to really get people's to stop and look.
If some people perceive that Congress couldn't act these last two years, they certainly will see much more inaction with more Republicans in Congress. And you will see the Republicans continue to blame the Democrats of course for any inaction, regardless of Republican inaction or their obvious intent to do as little as possible to pass anything the Democrats or Obama wants..
The Republican plan of action will be to obstruct most everytihing unless they get exactly what they want. The reality is it doesn't matter what Obama does as long as the Republican goal is power and not solving our nation's problems. Their goal as Republican Senator Mitch McConnell said is to make Obama a one term President. And they will not give or do anything that they think will make Obama look good.
While much was watered down that Obama and the Democrats passed, like financial reform and health care, a lot else did get done from a Democratic perspective. Two female Supreme Court Justices The Lily Ledbetter Act for equal pay for women. More student loan money. Withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq. But so much is in what people think, not the reality. The reality is that Congress did get a lot done, despite what the majority of the voting public may believe. If people perceived that Congress couldn't act, they certainly will see much more inaction with more Republicans in Congress.
Actually here's a list of 42 things Democrats and Obama accomplished. It's unfortunate that the Republicans have been able to spin a false picture to the American voters. Regardless of the vote today, this list stands. It remains to be seen what will get done with more Republicans in Washington. This will be the record to compare with two years from now. Thanks to rescue truth. for this list of "Democratic Accomplishments you may not Know About".
25 Tax Cuts Passed By Obama & Democrats
1."Making Work Pay" tax credit
2.Earned Income Tax Credit increased
3.Increased Eligibility for Refundable Portion of Child Credit
4."American Opportunity" Education Tax Credit
5.First-time Home Buyer Credit
6.Temp. Suspension of Taxation of Unemployment Benefits
7.Tax Credits for Energy-Efficient Improvements to Existing Homes
8.Sales Tax Deduction for Vehicle Purchases
9.Premium Credits for COBRA Continuation Coverage for Unemployed Workers
10.Economic Recovery Credits to Recipients of Social Security, SSI, RR Retirement, and Veterans Disability Compensation Benefits
11.Computers as Qualified Education Expenses in 529 Education Plans
12.Plug-in Electric Drive Vehicle Credit
13.Tax Parity for Transit Benefits
14.Health Coverage Tax Credit Expansion
Small Business
1.Extension of Enhanced Small Business Expensing
2.5-Year Carryback of Net Operating Losses for Small Businesses
3.Extension of Bonus Depreciation
4.Exclusion of 75% of Small Business Capital Gains from Taxes
5.Temporary Small Business Estimated Tax Payment Relief
6.Temporary Reduction of S Corporation Built-In Gains Holding Period from 10 Years to 7 Years
Other Business
1.Advanced Energy Investment Credit
2.Tax Credits for Alternative Refueling Property
3.Work Opportunity Tax Credits for Hiring Unemployed Veterans and Disconnected Youth
4.Delayed Recognition of Certain Cancellation of Debt Income
5.Election to Accelerate Recognition of Historic AMT/R&D Credits
Fun Fact: 1/3 of the $862 billion stimulus was for tax cuts, something Republicans claim to support … although they still stand against stimulus. I suppose it depends on who gets the tax cuts.
Women's Rights
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Protection against pay discrimination
Restores interpretation of Title VII of Civil Rights Act that protected women and other workers
Financial Rights
Credit CARD Act
Prevents retroactive rate increases
Requires companies to provide 45 days notice before changing rates and other contract provisions
Additional restrictions placed on fees
Prevents companies from taking advantage of students
Ends unfair double-cycle billing practices
Financial reform bill
Establishes Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which seeks solely to ensure financial institutions are being fair to consumers, and improvement in the simplicity in contracts
Prevents taxpayer bail out of financial institutions
Allows the GAO to audit the Federal Reserve
Various mortgage and derivatives reform, etc.
Student loans[1]
Ends "socialistic" federal subsidies to banks and other financial institutions (Interestingly, Republicans are okay with the kind of socialism that redirects taxpayer money to banks and other financial institutions.)
Eliminates unnecessary "middle-man" in student loan process, which placed financial burden on taxpayers while banks took in profits
Annual student loan payment capped at 10% of income
Saves an estimated $61 billion over 10 years
Health Care
Children's health insurance bill[2]
CBO said bill will allow states to cover more than four million uninsured children by 2013, in addition to seven million already covered
Requires states to provide dental and mental illness coverage to children
Tobacco regulation
Provides graphic warnings on tobacco use risks
Restricts advertising to prevent marketing to minors
Health care reform
Insurers cannot cancel coverage when a person gets sick
Requires health insurance corporations to cover preexisting conditions
Eliminates lifetime limits
Allows insurance purchase across state lines
Allows young adults to stay on parents' health insurance policy until 26
Crime & Civil Rights
Hate crime legislation[4]
Provides protection for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people
Tribal Law and Order Act
Provide additional means to reduce high rates of violent crime, including rape & sexual assualt within Native American reservations
View the rescuetruth.com post on the Tribal Law and Order Act
The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act
Expands service and voluteer opportunites
Benefits education, health care, energy, etc.
Cash for Clunkers successfully contributed to 680,000+ vehicle sales in summer 2009
Largest clean energy investment ever made
Reduced deficit by $122 billion[5]
Reduced federal spending by 2%[5]
What didn't get passed because of Republican obstructionism?
Health Care for 9/11 Emergency Responders
DISCLOSE Act (transparency in elections, specifically campaign financing)
Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal
Removal of $75 million cap on oil spill payouts
Elimination of tax incentives for companies shipping American jobs overseas, and creation of tax incentives to businesses bringing jobs home
David Frum's Comments on Health Care Worth Contemplating by Both Right and Left
David Frum last week resigned from the right wing American Enterprise Institute after they cancelled his pay and office. Frum is a former President George W Bush speechwriter and decided to speak his own thoughts rather than follow the current Republican campaign strategy of saying no to anything and everything the Democrats and President Obama proposes. Frum's comments relate to the just passed health care reform legislation.
The Republicans hope that Congress's not acting on many critical issues helps Republicans get elected. The only thing they don't consider in this negative strategy is that the public may wake up and realize that it's the Republicans that are causing this inaction, not the Democrats.
David Frum, in his column entitled Waterloo on Frum Forum irritated the right wing by his comments that the Republican strategy on health care was and is wrong. It's not that he's supporting the Legislation that passed but he believes the Republicans are making a big mistake.
This bill will not be repealed. Even if Republicans scored a 1994 style landslide in November, how many votes could we muster to re-open the "doughnut hole" and charge seniors more for prescription drugs? How many votes to re-allow insurers to rescind policies when they discover a pre-existing condition? How many votes to banish 25 year olds from their parents' insurance coverage? And even if the votes were there – would President Obama sign such a repeal?
We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat.
His comments were not a one time fluke. He repeated his comments on CNN the next day in an atricle entitled How GOP can rebound from its "Waterloo"
"Some Republicans talk of repealing the whole bill. That's not very realistic. Even supposing that Republicans miraculously capture both houses of Congress in November, repeal will require a presidential signature.
More relevantly: Do Republicans write a one-sentence bill declaring that the whole thing is repealed? Will they vote to reopen the "doughnut" hole for prescription drugs for seniors? To allow health insurers to deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions? To kick millions of people off Medicaid?
It's unimaginable, impossible."
Such blunt talk didn't sit well with his right wing free enterprise think tank employer. Hence his resignation.
While Frum discusses the GOP's mistakes and problems he also see the issue from a larger perspective which it is important to keep in mind. Consider these comments he made later to the The Globe and Mail in an article entitled David Frum makes no apologies to Republicans
"The health-care status quo is for sure not sustainable. The United States is now spending 17 per cent of its GDP [on health care] and Canada spends about 10. The average in most developed countries is about 10 1/2 and the runner-up in Switzerland spends about 11. If the United States spent as much on health care as Switzerland does per person, relative to the economy, you would liberate six points of GDP. You would get your entire defence budget for free and have two points of GDP left over to pay down your debt."
Such straight talk is uncommon these days from Republicans. While I don't agree with his proposed "solutions" to changing the health care reform legislation just passed, it is refreshing to see a Republican discuss some hard realities of the problems that our current health care system has produced.
Are there serious flaws in the approach Congress is taking on health care? Business Week estimates that some $700 billion of heath care costs each year are wasted and believes the current reform bills don't address this problem. They state that a new Thomson Reuters (TRI) report finds that:
A sum equal to roughly one-third of the nation's total health-care spending is flushed away on unnecessary treatments, redundant tests, fraud, errors, and myriad other monetary sinkholes that do nothing to improve the nation's health. Cut that figure by half, and there would be more than enough money to offer top-notch care to every one of America's 46 million uninsured.
The Business Week article attributes the $700 billion wasted as being the result primarily of the fee-for-service system that pays hospitals and doctors based on the quantity of medical services provided, rather than on the quality of care. Without fixing this flaw in the way we provide medical care, the article states health care costs over the next 10 years will double to some $5.2 trillion per year or about 21% of the nation's gross domestic product.
What is interesting about the article is that it is not against health care reform; in fact it's emphasis is on ideas that can be implemented now by the medical profession without legislation being required. A number of these ideas are ones that consumers and patients and the medical profession should be demanding that action be taken on because it is absurd that we have a health care system that is dysfunctional and outrageously expensive compared to that of other industrialized nations in the world.
Here is a list of their 10 ideas to cut health care costs now:
1.Crack down on fraud and abuse
2. Develop a healthy workforce
3. Coordinate care through family doctors
4. Make health a community effort
5. Stop infections in hospitals
6. Get patients to take their medicine
7. Discuss options near the end of life
8. Use insurance to manage chronic disease
9. Let well-informed patients decide
10. Apologize to the patient.
The national League of Conservation Voters has been active for many year working to defeat anti-environmental members of Congress. Each Congressional election year since 1996 they target the worst environmental Congressmen as the Dirty Dozen.
Since 1996 over half of the candidates named to the Dirty Dozen list have been defeated.This year was no different – seven of their targeted anti-environmental Congressmen went down to defeat.
The losers included:
1. Senator Elizabeth Dole, North Carolina Senate race- 7% LCV lifetime voting average
winner Democrat Kay Hagan 53%/44%.
2. Rep. Tim Walberg – Michigan House race (MI-7) – 5% LCV lifetime rating
winner Democrat Mark Schauer 49%/46%.
3. former Rep Ann Northup, Kentucky House race (CD-03)- 7% LCV lifetime score
winner Rep John Yarmuth 59% /41%.
4. Steve Pearce, New Mexico Senate race – 1% LCV lifetime rating
winner Rep. Tom Udall – 96% LCV lifetime rating – 61%/39%.
5. Rep Joe Knollenberg, Michigan House race (MI-09)- 7% LCV lifetime rating
winner Gary Peters 52%/43%.
6. Dean Andal, California House race (CA-11) – 9% LCV lifetime voting rating
winner incumbent Rep. Jerry McNerney 55%/45%.
7. Rep Bob Schaffer – Colorado Senate race – 5% LCV lifetime rating
winner Rep Mark Udall 53%/42%
Other targeted Dirty Dozen races were those of Rep Don Young of Alaska, Rep Sam Graves of Missouri, Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, Sen James Inhofe of Oklahoma, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Senator Mary Landreau of Louisiana.
Senator Steven is leading in Alaska 48%/47% (106,594 / 103,337) with the race still not called. Rep Young of Alaska had 114,043 votes to Berkowitz's 97,104 for a 54%/44% vote.
(latest CNN results)
Wall Street Drops like Lead Ballon as House Rejects Bailout.
Earlier this afternoon, the US House of Representatives, by a vote of 228 to 205, rejected the proposed $700 billion bailout of the financial industry. On Sunday McCain spokesman Steve Schmidt was busy on Meet the Press rewriting history by touting John McCain's bringing all the parties to the table and laying out a number of principles, including oversight and responsibility.
I imagine now McCain's campaign will be busy again rewriting history with a new explanation since some 133 Republicans voted nay on the bailout.
Wall Street, already jittery in the morning because 3 banks failed overseas and Apple stock was downgraded on consumer buying worries in the current economic downturn, saw the Market plunge precipitously by day's end.
The Dow was down 778.68 points (6.98%)
Nasdaq was down 199.61 points (9.14%)
S&P 500 was down 106.85 points (8.81%)
Democrats voted 140 aye and 95 nay on the bailout.
Republicans voted 65 aye and 133 nay.
How the Washington State Delegation voted:
aye – McDermott, Smith, Baird, Larsen, Dicks
nay – Inslee, Reichert, Hastings, McMorris-Rodgers
So who's responsible for Congressional Gridlock? Most Americans have a very low opinion of Congress right now and both parties are blaming the other for preventing action being taken on major issues like health care, immigration, education, transportation, energy independence, and global warming.
In the Presidential race Barack Obama is suggesting that progress will be made by everyone working together while Hillary Clinton is noting the partisan nature of American politics and suggesting that it more complicated than that. John McCain wants to continue the Bush agenda.
I think we are facing a watershed election. The problem is not partisan politics per se but the fact that we are facing a significant and defining difference in political philosophy and goals being expressed by the two major parties that signify a major change in the future direction this country is going to take. And I do not believe that the problem is as simple as merely wishing that we all be nice and work together and we will have a great country.
We are facing a major choice in the fundamental principles and philosophy that govern our country – whether the public interest or private corporate interests will be our guiding principle.Voting Republican or Democrat this November will take our country down completely different paths.
I believe that the Republicans have lost touch with the average citizens in America and under Bush/Cheney/Rove have aligned themselves with the corporate world and special financial interests over that of the public interest. Democrats meanwhile are aligning themselves with the public interest and individual rights and protections over corporate interests.
And I think the Democrats are going to increase significantly their numbers in Congress as well as win the Presidency because the American people are ready for change. They have seen the consequences of putting special interests and corporations in charge of running the country. They are ready to put the public interest back into our government goals and agenda rather than the profit motive of individual and corporate greed.
The March 2008 AARP Bulletin gives some historical perspective and some of the factors contributing to the current gridlock in Congress.
"Many political analysts trace the polarization to the 1980s presidency of Ronald Reagan and his bitter tug of war with a Democratic Congress. Reagan moved the Republican Party to the right, shunning liberal or even moderate Republicans…..
Consolidated around conservatives, the GOP grew stronger and, in the 1994 elections during President Clinton's first term, took control of both the House and Senate, though by margins too slim to exert unrivaled power. In the House, leaders such as Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, who were very conservative, gave no quarter to those who disagreed with them, even in their own party. They took hard-line positions and refused to compromise….
Democrats, crushed under Republican power, moved left and in 2006 returned to power in the House under liberal Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. But they, too, found their majority too slim to govern efficiently. Neither party has the numbers to impose its will nor the inclination to make the kinds of compromises that lead to landmark legislation."
The main reason stalemate remains is because of the filibuster. Because Democrats control the Senate by only a 51 to 49 margin, Republicans despite being the minority, are refusing to compromise on most issues, thus preventing most legislation from passing.
As AARP notes:
"Senate rules provide for filibuster, a procedure that can prolong debate and requires 60 votes to stop. Historically it was rarely used—fewer than seven times a session in the 1960s. Now virtually any vote of consequence requires a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority to close off debate. Last year, minority Republicans used filibusters a record 78 times, nearly 50 percent more than the previous high of 42 in 2002, when Democrats were in the minority."
So what's the answer. AARP goes on to say:
Even the most inspirational presidential vision, oratory and leadership are unlikely to move major legislation. [Emory University Professor Meade]Black says it takes one party or the other accumulating enough seats in both houses of Congress to ram bills through on its own. Gridlock in the early 20th century ended in 1932 when Franklin D. Roosevelt and Democrats seized lopsided control of Congress (a 60-35 margin in the Senate and a 310-117 margin in the House)."It's not the parties coming together, it's one party moving into the position of being a governing majority," Black says.
AARP goes on to quote former Senator Bob Graham as saying that "History tells us that bipartisanship is possible." but I believe that the burden is on the Republicans to prove that point. I don't agree with Graham's optimism based on the recent Republican history. When they most recently controlled Congress they acted as bullies. I have heard both Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott and Jay Inslee repeat how under Republican leadership Democrats were excluded from helping to write legislation and they literally only saw bills right before they were to vote on them.
Bipartisan works only if you agree to share power and Republicans have done their damnest to ignore Democrats and legislate unilaterally when they were in power. And they are continuing to do all they can to obstruct Congressional action by increased use of the filibuster and the continued threat and use of a Bush veto. The only way to stop Republican obstructionism is to vote them out of office. And I think that is what the public is going to do come November.
US House of Representatives Passes Landmark Mental Health Legislation
The U.S. House of Representatives, by a vote of 268 to 148 has passed the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Act of 2007. The struggle to achieve mental health parity with physical illness coverage has been going on for the last decade.
The bill is named after the late Senator Paul Wellstone, a Minnesota Democratic Senator who died in a plane crash in 2002. Wellstone had pushed the legislation for many years.
The Associated Press carried the following reactions to the bill:
"It's a historic step," said the late senator's son, David, 42. "It's a civil rights bill for people with mental illnesses and chemical addiction. It forces insurance companies to treat them as they treat others." …
The House bill was sponsored by Reps. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., who has battled depression, alcoholism and drug abuse, and Jim Ramstad, R-Minn., a recovering alcoholic who is Kennedy's Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor.
"It's about opening up the doors and ending the shadow of discrimination against the mentally ill," said Kennedy.
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, a longtime mental health advocate, said the bill would help erase the stigma of mental illness that prevents many people from seeking treatment.
The US Senate has previously passed a weaker version of the bill. The Senate bill was sponsored by Rep. Patrick Kennedy's father, Senator Edward Kennedy and two Republicans – New Mexico Senator Pate Dominici and Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi. Senator Dominici has a daughter who has schizophrenia.
The House and Senate bill now go to conference committee. The house bill specifically says that mental illnesses and addiction disorders listed in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders would be covered under any plan offering mental health benefits. The Senate version is less specific and allows more variation in what would be covered.
The Bush White House opposes the House bill – even though Bush has in the past said he supported mental health parity. As usual words are easy for Bush and seem to mean little , his action and inaction tells the truth of his beliefs. Just like his inaction on global warming says more of where he is coming from than the few token utterances he has said about the need to do something about global warming. Words are cheap in the Bush White House.
see also New York Times , "House Approves Bill on Mental Health Parity"
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Is the Canaanite of the Amarna Letters a Precursor of Biblical Hebrew?
Over at Awilum an interesting discussion of literacy in the Ancient Near East has developed from Charles' comments on my post about the Revadim Seal. Take a look at the comment thread if you are interested in this question. In the course of this discussion, a sometimes related issue has arisen concerning the evolution of the Hebrew language.
Responding to Jake, Charles said,
I also agree with the largest changes in Hebrew occurring between CBH [Classical Biblical Hebrew - des] and LBH [Late Biblical Hebrew-des] and Amarna Canaanite's similarity to CBH–especially in Amarna's use of waw's.
I have decided to reflect upon that issue here. Perhaps I am setting up a straw man but I think the underlying presupposition of this comment is that Classical Biblical Hebrew developed out of Late Bronze Age Canaanite. This presupposition is at best problematic. Perhaps Rainey put it most pointedly in a rant against Dever and company in a Biblical Archaeological Review piece,
Dever must rely on the conventional wisdom that Hebrew is a Canaanite dialect. I have begun to assemble numerous features that distinguish ancient Hebrew from coastal Canaanite (which we often call Phoenician). It is now obvious that Hebrew has its closest affinities not with coastal Cannanite, but with Aramaic and Moabite east of the Jordan. The argument for coastal Canaanite was often based on supposed Canaanite features in inscriptions from east of the Jordan like the Aramaic text from Deir Alla. The Aramaic text from Dan is another such Aramaic text, although found west of the Jordan headwaters; the Aramaic inscription of Zakkur, king of Hamath, is another. But these features are absent from Canaanite (Phoenician) inscriptions and from the Amarna letters (a hybrid language) and from Ugaritic (which is not Canaanite) (see p. 112, col. 1 of the Sacred Bridge for a preliminary treatment of these issues).
In short, Hebrew is not a Canaanite language, but a Transjordanian language. It is encouraging that my most respected mentors, colleagues and former students have received with enthusiasm my new definition of Hebrew as a Transjordanian language. . .
Gary Rendsburg has pointed out to me that Hebrew, Aramaic and Moabite (if André Lemaire's new reading is confirmed) each have a distinct verb "to be." Its root is HWY or HYY. That verb is not in Phoenician (Canaanite) or even in Ugaritic. These two languages from the Mediterranean coast have another verb entirely to indicate "to be." Moreover, the personal name of Israel's God—Yahweh, is derived from the verb "to be"! This reflects a strong connection between ancient Hebrew and the languages east of the Jordan, which in turn are key to Israel's origins.
I don't want to debate Rainey's conclusions about Israel's origins here but, regardless of how this debate turns out, his linguistic observations are well taken.
The issue of the relationship between Hebrew and Canaanite is technically quite complex and there are unquestionable close affinities between Amarna Age Canaanite and Classical Biblical Hebrew: some uses of the waw and the so-called Canaanite shift are among them. And of course, there are a great many cognates. It is difficult to say much about this whole subject without reference to Rainey's four tomes on the grammar of Canaanite in the Amarna tablets. As far as I know, the nearest copy is 45 miles away at the UCLA research library. The relationship between Amarna Age Canaanite and Phoenician is also not completely clear. As I discussed in a previous, perhaps too lengthy, post in my series on how to recognize a scribal school, there is even more than one recognizable dialect in the Canaanite of the Canaano-Akkadian from Amarna but none of them appear to be "proto" Hebrew. The methodological problem is not so much to account for the similarities, after all both Hebrew and Canaanite are cognate West Semitic languages, but to account for the differences. For one "dialect" to be a predecessor of another, their differences must have definable evolutionary pathways. Let's look at a couple of their differences. I have chosen the examples below, not because they are necessarily the best or strongest examples, but because they were easy to document without a trip to UCLA.
Proto Semitic Ś becomes s in Amarna Canaanite but is unchanged in Biblical Hebrew. Interestingly, in the Jerusalem dialect of Canaanite one sees š where one might expect ś in Hebrew. This is based on Egyptian transcriptions of place names when compared with their cuneiform counterparts. See Sivan, 48-50, on this particular issue. Izre'el, 8, and a few others, suggest that the Jerusalem case is an orthographic convention rather than a phonetic difference. Ś becomes š in Ugaritic. While one could explain a shift from s back to ś on phonetic grounds, I think it more parsimonious to assume that Hebrew is simply more conservative with respect to this sibilant.
Perhaps the best illustrations come from important vocabulary items such as Rainey's example of the verb HWY/HYY which does not occur in Phoenician (or Ugarit) and can not be found in any of the extent Late Bronze Age Canaanite. One would need to explain how this could come about. And while one might claim that there was not enough Late Bronze Age Canaanite to be sure, there certainly is enough Phoenician.
Even looking at the very scanty evidence from the multilingual texts from Aphek and Ashqelon, and despite certain obvious affinities, one is hard put to see a clear precursor of "Hebrew." One should remember that these texts are from the very end of the Late Bronze Age, twelfth century BCE, nearly 100 years after the Amarna age. If the reading is correct, and this is a big IF, the best example of the difference between Late Bronze Aphek Canaanite and Hebrew is du?-uš-bu, "honey(?), in Aphek 8151/1:5'. This may represent a form of a noun with the same order of consonants as seen in Akkadian but not Hebrew. This is likely a metathesis of the proto-Semitic root, *DBŠ as is seen in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic ("to become black or brown," "honey color"). On this, see Rainey, 1976, 139. Should we read the Canaanite as dušbu? But alas, as Rainey correctly says of this word, "Under the present circumstances, all suggestions must be conjectural." Of course, some may see this as an Akkadianism in the Canaanite language of Aphek. The fact that the Akkadian word is actually dišpu rather than dušbu argues against this suggestion. A more firm example would be nice, but one must work with what is available however little that may be.
To be sure, Isaiah 19:18 uses the expression שְׂפַת כְּנַעַן, "(the) language (literally 'lip') of Canaan." This late(?) addition to Isaiah's oracle concerning Egypt speaks of five cities in Egypt where the people in them speak "the language of Canaan," Hebrew, as opposed to Egyptian. But by the time this passage was written there was already a long tradition of Hebrew being spoken in Canaan. The passage has nothing to do with the origins of the Hebrew language. And in other places, Nehemiah 13:24, 2 Kings 18:26, 28 and Isaiah 36:11, the language of the people is referred to as יְהוּדִית "Judean." Nehemiah complains that half of the children of mixed marriages spoke Asdodian rather than "Judean." The 2 Kings and Isaiah passages contrast Judean, "Hebrew," with Aramaic.
I think one should not be too dogmatic on the question of the origins of Hebrew and how it relates to Canaanite. However, they are not the same language and do not appear to me to be related in an evolutionary way. However, it is not at all unlikely that Canaanite informed Hebrew at many levels and just as it is likely, at least in my view, that those people we call Israelites were of heterogeneous origin, it is also possible that the language of their greatest literary works and their every day conversation at the time those works were first committed to writing was also heterogeneous. By way of analogy, one need only think of how our modern English language evolved from its Celtic, Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Norman mixed ancestry.
Please remember and never forget that there may have been a reason that,
לֹא-נִבְדְּלוּ הָעָם יִשְׂרָאֵל וְהַכֹּהֲנִים וְהַלְוִיִּם מֵעַמֵּי הָאֲרָצוֹת: כְּתֹעֲבֹתֵיהֶם לַכְּנַעֲנִי הַחִתִּי הַפְּרִזִּי הַיְבוּסִי הָעַמֹּנִי הַמֹּאָבִי הַמִּצְרִי וְהָאֱמֹרִי (Ezra 9:1b,c)
Moran, William L., Amarna Studies, Collected Writings, John Heuhnergard and Shlomo Izre'el eds, Harvard Semitic Studies, 54, Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2003
Sivan, Daniel, Grammatical Analysis and Glossary of the Northwest Semitic Vocables in Akkadian Texts of the 15th-13tg C.C.C from Canaan and Syria, Kevelaer: Verlag Butzon and Bercher, 1984
Rainey, Anson F., Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets: A Linguistic Analysis of the Mixed Dialect Used by the Scribes from Canaan, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996 (4 volumes)
Rainey, Anson F., "A Tri-Lingual Cuneiform Fragment from Tel Aphek," Journal of the Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology, 3:4, 1976, 137-140
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