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Blown Away? It's Time To Make Charlie Crist The Last Man Standing
You have to hand it to Republicans who love to hear their own voices and talking points. They like nothing more than preaching to the choir. That's why they spend so much time on FOX.
Rick Scott is no different, and that's likely why he chose to close out the eve of the election at The Villages, the largely Republican Stepford-like retirement community in central Florida, along with two more of the worst GOP governors in the country: Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal. Earlier in the week he spent time with another, Chris Christie (R-Sit-Down-And-Shut-Up), and stood by quietly smiling as Christie called Charlie Crist a "loser."
What a class act.
Scott apparently picked up ideas from spending the better part of the last month joined at the hip with Christie, who's no doubt propping him up in the hopes Christie will be the next GOP nominee for President (he won't be) in need of Florida votes. Scott's usually a quiet bully, letting others do his dirty work for him while he flees questions, cameras, and anything resembling accountability. But today Scott apparently decided to end his campaign by bringing the ugly hammer down himself.
Here's what Scott threw out today as a prediction for tomorrow, emboldened by the red meat loving retirees who have no idea Scott, Perry, and Jindal would like nothing more than to rob them of their Social Security checks and their Medicare if their party gets it's way:
"We're going to announce at 8 o'clock that we kicked Charlie's rear," Scott said, drawing cheers from more than 200 supporters at the sprawling retirement community. "And he deserves it."
This from the guy who vowed to end negative campaigning and accused Crist of the same merely because he told voters the truth about Scott.
"We're going to announce at 8 o'clock that we kicked Charlie's rear. And he deserves it."
I'll just assume that this doesn't mean Scott has already "counted" all the votes, including the ones that have yet to be cast, (wink, wink) and that he isn't privy to something the rest of us aren't.
That being said, for whatever reason, today Scott chose to put his mouth where his bully tactics are. Because Rick Scott has been kicking Floridians in the rear for the better part of four years now, and his actions show that he's just getting started if voters give him another go at them. With unchecked power, no reelection worries for accountability, and a blind trust that keeps you from seeing what he may be profiting from at your expense as he gives the go ahead for oil drilling or rail projects to friends and big donors, those kicks in the rear he's given you so far are just a preview of what's to come.
I could list all the many reasons Scott doesn't deserve another term here now (and why he should have never gotten the first one), but if you're a regular reader of this blog, you're probably as sick of reading about them as I am of writing them down, so I won't. If you lived with both Charlie Crist and Rick Scott as governor, you're also well aware of who the better choice is. So I will simply close with this:
Now it's our turn. After four years of watching him destroy the state and hurt those of us who like to live in it that aren't in his inner circle of profiteers, we finally, finally get the chance to tell Rick Scott to pack his bags, jump onto his private jet, and fly as far away from our state as possible.
It's time to make sure Scott has to rewrite his own words tomorrow. If you haven't done so already, go to the polls tomorrow, vote for Charlie Crist, and "kick Rick Scott's rear."
Because goodness knows, he certainly deserves it.
These Two Don't Pass The Smell Test
This weekend Charlie Crist and Gwen Graham will be accompanied on the campaign trail with former President Bill Clinton.
Meanwhile, Rick Scott will be appearing yet again with Chris Christie, a man who dreams of, but never will be President.
It's hardly a surprise that Christie is making yet another appearance with Rick Scott. First of all, it gives him a reason to flee his cratering approval ratings back home where many of his constituents now loathe him, and it gives him a chance to boost his ego by standing next to the one man who may be hated even more than he is.
Rick Scott.
After all, in the early days of Bridgegate, when the two of them held a fundraiser together earlier this year, they tried to keep it quiet and hid from the cameras. They didn't do that because they're so popular that they'd never get a moment's peace from groupies. They did it because they didn't want voters to know that they're boosting Rick Scott because they want him to give them a hand in taking back the Oval Office in 2016, just as long as Scott isn't interested in occupying it himself.
There was a time during his early days as governor when there were a few whispers of Rick Scott and the word "president," probably whispered from Scott to the press, but those whispers went silent real quick when Scott showed Florida he had no clue how to run a state besides just pouring tax dollars directly into the pockets of his business pals and later to any big corporation with their hands out after they got wind of his incompetence, lack of business smarts, and lack of ethics. Scott's own approval ratings scraped the bottom of the barrel and never came back up much further. Soon members of the national GOP wouldn't come near him. They even hid him from view when the 2012 Republican National Convention was held in his own state.
But now that Rick Scott's reelection is quite possibly doomed, Christie and Scott are hiding no more. It's now an all out desperate effort to snow the voters and rally support for Scott no matter how much misinformation they have to dispatch, and no matter who the dispatcher is. So here comes Christie, a man who wants so desperately to boost his own prospects that he's willing to appear with "He Who Shall Not Be Named, Nor Be Seen With The National GOP In Public."
That's how you can tell the Republicans are desperate. They want to win 2016 so badly they'll even stand in the general vicinity of Rick Scott in public, in the hopes he'll somehow win reelection and give them a hand. After all, Shady Rick has proven time and time again that he doesn't like rules (unless they involve one of those scary portable fans) and he's not afraid to ignore them. This week, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush joined him at a fundraiser and they even made a GOTV video with him, although that proved to be comedy gold and looked more like a hostage situation. The looks on their faces were priceless and worthy of a spot on The Daily Show (hint, hint, Comedy Central). Sadly for them, all the nice things they said about Scott under political duress will be preserved forevermore for all to enjoy.
This brings to mind another video which recently captured Chris Christie and his ego being themselves, where he said something that applies to Rick Scott, and even Chris Christie himself. He was talking about the voices in his head asking him if he was going to run for President. While he was busy explaining for the entire interview how he hadn't yet answered said voices, he said it was flattering to be asked if one is planning to run for President. Then he said if you really stink, they won't ask.
Well, as we know, the GOP doesn't let "really stinking" get in the way of asking their stinkers to run. That's how we ended up with George W. Bush. Even though he was a stinker, his brother helped him along in 2000. They want stinkers who can win, and if they can't win on the merits, well, you know what happens next.
So that would explain the national GOP's sudden interest in Rick Scott. He's the king of the stinkers, and while they want to keep him at arms length, they also want to keep him in the Florida Governor's office long enough to quite possibly help get their next stinker into the Oval.
Florida voters need to wake up and smell the corruption, and then get out the vote for Charlie Crist.
Rick Scott: Fear The Invisible Hand Of The Great And Powerful Charlie
Before Rick Scott was elected in 2010, he blocked voters from seeing a deposition he had recently given, in a case that came after he was run out of Columbia/HCA, the company he founded and the same one that made history for their rampant Medicare fraud. Scott claimed he had no clue what was going on while at the same time telling people he was responsible for making it the great company it became. He refused to take responsibility for the company's Medicare fraud, as he fled with a golden parachute, but did take responsibility for what he claims are all the good things the company did. It's the same kind of selective responsibility he embraces as Florida's governor now, most recently saying he's responsible for all the good things that have happened in Florida regardless of the facts, and blames everything bad on others, like President Obama and Charlie Crist, things that neither one had anything to do with.
It's Rick Scott's alternative reality, and he's working hard to sell it to anyone not paying attention.
Yesterday, Scott was due to sit for a deposition in California in a lawsuit he filed himself to block Florida voters from seeing what was in his email account, an account that he claims is personal, but which he and two of his aides used to allegedly discuss official business.
Fresh from telling voters in his third debate that he believed in open government and our Sunshine laws, Scott immediately sought to keep that deposition from happening until after the election, and yesterday he skipped out on it entirely to attend a fundraiser and campaign.
His supposed love of the rule of law and open government is laughable. He started skirting Florida's public records laws before he was even sworn in as governor, when his staff deleted his transition emails, and he's been doing so ever since.
Yesterday, while ignoring that deposition, Scott twisted himself into yet another "blame Charlie" pretzel by telling voters on the campaign trail that the deposition was just part of Crist's dirty political tricks.
What a powerful man Crist is, if he's able to first get Scott to hide emails from public view, and then use his invisible hand to force Scott to file a lawsuit in California to keep the emails out of public view after a court in Florida told him to fork them over, and then Crist managed to wave his magic Rick-Wand and before you know it, poof! Scott is ditching the deposition in the lawsuit that Scott himself filed.
It's just another move in the game Scott seems to have invented: Six Degrees Of It's Charlie's Fault.
Except, of course, it isn't Charlie's fault, nor merely a dirty trick he pulled. It's Rick Scott doing what he does best, avoiding public and legal scrutiny for his own actions. Well, that and that he's in a desperate neck and neck race with Crist, so he's adding more of his own money to the millions from outside groups and the GOP that haven't so much as moved the needle in his direction. Yet Scott still thinks more boatloads of cash will help him in spite of reality, so he skipped out on the deposition to attend a fundraiser. Making sure the public never hears a peep from him in a deposition, and that they never see what was in those emails until after the election is merely icing on Scott's deception cake.
So instead of showing up for his date in court, Scott spent part of the day courting donors in hopes that they would give him more money to flush, and making what looked like hostage videos with other GOP losers.
The rest of his time was spent campaigning and blaming not just the deposition on Crist, but also just about every other thing that came up in conversation.
He ignored a working mom's question on minimum wage and instead blamed Crist for an entire list of irrelevent things.
When asked if he would return the more than $1 million he received from Duke Energy after he's made sure they can charge consumers practically anything they want, he said there was no need to return the money, and besides, "Crist was a lousy governor." (What the first statement had to do with the second is anyone's guess, but it doesn't matter. Blaming Crist for anything and everything is Scott's favorite new shiny object.)
He steered questions away from his deposition no show to Charlie's fault! Because of course he did.
So, in sum, Scott says you can't see what's your right to see: Public records on how your governor in the darkness skirts Government in the Sunshine Laws, and you can't see them because of the great and powerful Charlie, who was also a lousy governor.
Also, JOBS!
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In the last debate with Charlie Crist, Rick Scott said "How would I know?" when asked what the minimum wage, which makes him cringe, should be. It was perhaps one of the first times Scott was being honest since he became governor. Not only does he have no clue what minimum wage should be, he also doesn't care. Hasn't even considered it. He's just taking the party line on minimum wage from the likes of his new cheerleader, fundraiser and BFF Chris Christie, who recently said he was just plain tired of hearing about minimum wage.
As you'll see in the video below, so is Rick Scott. Watch as he ignored and tried to drown out a working mom who tried to ask him why he won't support minimum wage. Instead of listening to her, he started shouting out talking points about Charlie Crist. When that didn't work he got an assist from his pal Will Weatherford, the guy who cares as much about Medicaid expansion as Scott cares about either Medicaid or minimum wage: Zip. Apparently Weatherford's new job is personal aide to the governor, ushering Scott out of uncomfortable situations and away from all the questions he won't answer.
Scott has gone from saying "How would I know?" to "I can't hear you!" when the topic of decent wages comes up, and it's no surprise he had to flee under Weatherford's protective wing. Not only did Scott completely ignore and dismiss this woman's question, but he did a little projecting about himself while trying to score points against Crist.
Listen as Scott says this about Charlie Crist, "He can't win talking about issues people care about," while Scott completely ignores this working mom and the issue she cares about: Minimum wage.
That projection on Crist speaks volumes about Scott himself. Scott's rewritten his job description as not talking about, or taking action towards the issues Floridians care about, and voters need to get to the polls and make sure Scott can't win because of it.
Minimum Wage? Sorry, Not Interested
When Rick Scott was asked at last night's debate what the minimum wage should be, he may have given one of the only truly honest answers we've heard from him.
He responded: "How would I know?"
Indeed. How would he know? He isn't even remotely interested in considering the subject of a minimum wage. After all, the minimum wage "makes him cringe."
His full answer was "How would I know? The private sector decides wages."
Apparently one of the things Scott doesn't understand about the job he's supposedly been doing for almost four years now is that he would have a hand in "deciding wages." Having a minimum wage means the private sector doesn't get to choose to pay their workers barely enough to get by, as many of them are doing right now in Florida. Worse, not only has he blocked a path to minimum wage, he's also helped make sure that many workers have to work even when they're sick. Without pay.
"How would I know?" Says the man who doesn't understand why you don't see what a virtual paradise this is for hard working people in Florida who make....who knows what?
Paradise for working people, to the millionaire Medicare fraud ignoring former hospital executive who purchased the governor's office, is a place where a ticket to the Happiest Place On Earth for a family of five would take a much less than minimum wage earner a over a month to earn, be they healthy or running a fever and sneezing all over their customers or co-workers for their trouble. (Something that Scott might want to look into the next time he's criticizing others for their infectious diseases preparedness guidelines.) Of course that same wage earner would never dream of purchasing a ticket to a theme park. They can barely afford to feed their families and pay rent. Besides, they probably have a second job on the weekends just to make ends meet anyway.
"How would I know?" Says the man whose state poverty rate has climbed higher than the national average since he and his millions purchased the governor's office.
"How would I know?" Says the man who clearly doesn't know, or care, what the little people he's been ignoring for years actually make.
Perhaps he should have just said "What do I care?"
A Picture And A Smile Are Worth A Thousand Words
During last night's debate, Rick Scott mumbled and fumbled his way through the discussion of the execution he canceled to accommodate a fundraiser for Pam Bondi, at her request. He finally admitted that was the reason he did so, after just shrugging it off as if an execution was merely just another unpleasant thing he dismisses with a smile and a prayer, like the recent shooting deaths of children who were supposedly under the watchful eye of his Department Of Children And Families. Scott topped it off with a flippant and sneering retort aimed at Crist (and Bondi): "Pam Bondi apologized, what do you want her to do?"
Oh, I don't know Rick, maybe you and Pam could do your jobs? And by that I mean maybe put Floridians and justice first for a change, instead of spending every waking moment groveling for the almighty campaign dollar so you can continue to find new ways to stick it to your constituents?
No, Scott and Bondi are two of a kind in that department. That's why Bondi would only participate in one debate that most Floridians were blocked from seeing, and why Scott can't answer a question during a debate without dodging and weaving, and only then giving an answer that is the exact opposite of one he gave before.
In 2013, when Bondi asked Scott to "pencil out" the execution of Marshall Lee Gore, a man who raped, strangled, stabbed, and then disposed of Robyn Novick's body at a dump, so Bondi could wine and dine with rich donors, Scott had a different answer for honoring Bondi's wishes:
After Scott last month rescheduled the execution for Sept. 10, the date of Bondi's "hometown campaign kickoff" at her South Tampa home, Bondi's office asked that it be postponed. The new date is Oct. 1.
Scott said Monday that he did not know the reason for the request, and he declined to answer when asked whether he considers a campaign fundraiser an appropriate reason to reschedule an execution.
He claimed he had no idea why he, as the Governor of Florida, was postponing an execution?
No idea. Let that sink in for a moment.
The man dismisses something so serious as executing one human being, who was convicted for raping, stabbing and strangling another human being and putting her out with the trash, with a simple, oh, I don't know, she asked?
Just another favor for Bondi, who ignores Scott's questionable financial disclosures, because why not? It's what we do in my Cabinet and hey, it's just another murder and another execution, so who's counting?
Here's Scott "elaborating" at the time:
"When another Cabinet officer asks for something, we try to work with them," Scott said.
Indeed you do governor. Cancel an execution? You bet! Anything else I can do? Would you like fries with that?
Who wouldn't ask "why?"
Gore's attorney, Ted Scher, said he had asked the governor's office for more information about why the execution was postponed, but the governor's staff would say only that it was at the request of the attorney general. That it turned out to be because of a campaign event came as a surprise.
"It's very unusual," Scher said. "It's particularly unusual given the attorney general's position in these cases that all we (defense lawyers) do is delay these executions," Scher said.
But sadly, it's not particularly unusual anymore. Bondi has turned the AG's office into a campaign wing of the GOP. A job that isn't intended to be political has become nothing but political under Bondi. Look at her record.
It's also not unusual that Scott would give two different answers to the same question, while completely missing the point that everyone but Scott understands that the job of putting people to death in order to bring justice to victims and their families is a serious one, a fact that is clearly lost on him.
If you believe him when he says he cares and quietly offers "prayers" to the victims, a dead giveaway that he really doesn't can be read by the eerie smile on his face as he says it.
One of the most damaging, and stunning moments of tonight's Florida Governor's debate was when Rick Scott admitted he postponed an execution to accommodate a fundraiser at Attorney General Pam Bondi's request.
As you watch, notice Rick Scott's habit of eerily smiling while his unconscionable actions are described by others. Last week he smiled the same way during Charlie Crist's discussion of DCF child deaths on Scott's watch, and both last week and tonight, as his company's dirty Medicare fraud laundry was exposed again. It's truly disturbing.
Watch as he tries, and fails miserably, to dance around the truth, until finally admitting it:
Charlie Crist vs The Governor Who's Been MIA For Most Floridians Since He Was Elected
I've been largely absent from the blog lately, only because I've been busy undergoing a major move and, reluctantly, I haven't had the time to do both. However, tonight is the last debate between Charlie Crist and Rick Scott, and I need to weigh in.
I took a moment to say a few things about it on Twitter, but before I knew it, it turned into a mini-blog post anyway. So I'm repeating what I said there, and elaborating on it here.
What prompted my latest round of Tweets was this: Yesterday the Miami Herald published another story in what recently has been a great effort reporting on the disasterous job Rick Scott has done as governor, and the consequences. If you haven't read it, this one centers on Scott's management style when he was running Columbia/HCA and the company committed the largest Medicare fraud in history, and how Scott took no responsibility for his actions. (Well, unless you count the golden parachute he took with him when the company forced him to leave, which he later used to purchase the governor's office. My words here, not the Herald's.) Scott blamed everyone else instead, and that's pretty much what he does as governor now. Read the story for yourself here.
My two cents on that story, Rick Scott, and why we need all hands on deck to vote him out and put Charlie Crist back in the governor's office:
Both then as CEO of Columbia/HCA and now, as governor of Florida, this is how Rick Scott "takes responsibility" - He wants "no paper trail, no records, no fingerprints."
Scott's doing the same thing again now with Ebola: He slashed health department budgets, tried to block health care for Floridians and the ACA, and said no to Medicaid expansion, yet he now points the finger of blame at the CDC on Ebola preparedness. (Also recall how he "handled" the worst Florida TB outbreak in 20 years a couple years back.) He's also stoking fear and spreading misinformation about Ebola by wrongly telling people CDC guidance may be wrong, which is unconcionable as a governor. Of course, while this man who's "not a scientist" is criticizing them, he's also asking for federal money for Ebola preparedness. If he gets it, well, follow the money and see where it actually lands.
It's one thing to run a company and take no responsibility for Medicare fraud, but Scott can't do that as governor. He's not a CEO, he's an elected "public servant."
Scott can't claim plausible deniability as governor. He can't deny responsibility by saying he was unaware: That makes him an incompetent leader.
If Scott owns up to his failures as governor, that also makes him an incompetent leader.
Scott ASKED to be elected as governor of the state. He wasn't just appointed as Florida's CEO. He doesn't own the state. The oath of office he took still means something. Does he also deny knowing what that oath actually said?
No matter what side you view this from, Rick Scott is a disaster and a failure who's never taken responsibility for anything he's done.
That's also why all the newspapers that still want to be taken seriously haven't endorsed Scott and chose Charlie Crist. Scott is a walking disaster destroying our state.
The Florida GOP knows Scott's a disaster. They didn't want him either at first and got stuck with him. So they invested heavily in him anyway and now they own him and his mess. Their recent attempts to make lemonade out of Gov. Lemon have been laughable, stupid, unutterably unbelievable, and a real stretch, to put it in the mildest of terms. The finger pointing and circular firing squad that results after he's gone will no doubt be a spectacle to watch.
When Rick Scott's term as governor ends, he'll leave the state and the mess he made of it behind. Floridians will be stuck with his tragic choices.
You think four years of Scott were bad, imagine four more when he has no political obligations to run on again. He'll turn what's left of Florida's resources into a fire sale. (Literally. He refuses to act on climate change because he's not a scientist.)
Unless you're a millionaire with a vested interest in profits down the line, there's NO good reason to vote for Scott. None. But you'll still pay for it if he wins again. Just add it to your growing tab.
At tonight's debate, when Scott says he's taken responsibility, ask yourself how? Look at his history. When have you ever seen him do so?
Scott's never been popular, always at the bottom of the barrel in approval ratings. He didn't purge the voter rolls because he's a great guy.
When numbers don't add up for Rick Scott, he just changes the numbers.
When he can't answer questions he creates distractions, like the fan stunt at last week's debate. It's since come out that Scott's team was trying to get the entire debate cancelled over a fan and to pin the whole debacle on Crist on Scott's behalf. It backfired on him and only called attention to his own dodge and weave tactics on the national stage.
After Scott "hit the fan" he blamed it on his staff, and the debate organizers. He took no responsibilty. He blamed it on everyone but himself. He even blamed Crist anyway in one of the most bizarre television moments ever when he told the audience who watched Crist standing next to Scott's empty podium for six minutes, that it was Crist who didn't show up. Scott demanded that you ignore your lying eyes and step into Scottworld's alternative reality. He thinks you're stupid, and he was telling you so in front of a nationwide audience.
For that, he wants your vote.
I wouldn't be surprised if Scott's team has spent the last week pressuring CNN to go easy on him. He can't stand on his record. He's got nothing. That's what the GOP does: Bully the media into doing what they want. Most of the time, that works. CNN has already said no fans. Let's hope they don't let Scott and his team of incompetents run the show tonight.
Scott barely got elected once. If voters let him win another one (with or without an assist from his beer lobbyist Secretary Of State charged with the election) he gets the last laugh.
He'll be laughing all the way to the bank. Just don't ask Scott what's in his blind trust. He's counting on your blind trust in him. No questions!
If you haven't already voted, do it now. Vote by mail, vote early. Take someone else who hasn't voted with you. Get out the vote. Voters remorse is costly, and we've paid enough already as it is.
I'll be live Tweeting tonight's debate.
If you like, you can follow me here: @BeachPeanuts
Charlie Crist vs An Empty Podium
The second debate between Rick Scott and Charlie Crist just ended, and the most that anyone will remember is the empty podium beside Crist, after Rick Scott said he refused to participate in the debate because Charlie Crist had a fan under his podium. Scott claimed it violated the rules.
Yes, Rick Scott went diva with a stunt, and it backfired.
Scott hit the fan.
It may have been the latest tactic for Rick Scott to avoid questions we've witnessed. The stunt ate up six minutes of debate time, and Crist handled it perfectly, saying he couldn't believe we were debating a fan when there are serious issues to be discussed that Floridians are facing.
That pretty much sums up what a lot Floridians think of Rick Scott. His promises are as empty as his podium was for those six minutes. As the debate ended, Scott even tried to turn it around in a bizarre fumble of an excuse and said Charlie was the one who refused to show up. It was stunning even for the incredibly inept Scott.
As far as the rest of the debate went, Rick Scott might as well have skipped the entire thing. He fumbled, he mumbled, he dodged questions as always, and many of his non-answers were incoherent. At times it was hard to recall what the question was in the first place. Every answer turned into "jobs" or "Charlie's fault."
In short, Rick Scott's got nothing, and tonight it showed more than usual.
More to come.
Last week, during the first debate between Charlie Crist and Rick Scott, Scott demonstrated that he had little to offer his Hispanic audience beyond saying he loves families and that, as a poor child growing up he could relate to them (yes, really), that he wanted them to have every advantage he did. He hoped they would aspire to the same success he did.
The only problem with that is that in Rick Scott's Florida, to go on to become a health care CEO whose company made Medicare fraud history and left with a golden parachute they could later purchase elected office with, one will just have to do so by riding a bicycle to their low paying job (if they can find one, of course) without the benefits of a decent wage, health care, an education, and the ability to vote.
You're welcome!
The most frequent question during last weeks debate was "Gov. Scott, could you please answer the question?"
He dodged questions on driver's licenses, education, climate change, inserted the word "jobs" wherever he could regardless how irrelevant they were to the question, and blamed all that is bad in Florida on Charlie Crist and the GOP, including his own current Lt. Governor who supported pretty much everything Scott has tried to pin on Crist.
He said he wanted to make sure everyone had access to health care, when he's actually done everything in his power to keep them from it.
He asked Floridians to ignore their lying utility bills and claimed they haven't gone up.
He claimed that the number of child deaths under his DCF (which he tried to weaken) weren't really all that bad, using the dead children as political pawns, and claiming shock that a family was murdered on their/his watch.
He again said he was against same sex marriage and that was a matter for the courts to decide, when in fact they have. He and Pam Bondi are apparently waiting for the court that agrees with them.
Scott chuckled and smirked when Crist pointed out that Scott wants to make women's medical decisions for them.
Scott smiled when Charlie Crist brought up Medicare fraud during a question on ethics.
When asked how he would deal with Ebola, Scott said he would treat it like any other disaster, (like ignoring the TB outbreak two years ago?) and that he sought expert advice from his buddy Rick Perry, who is currently monitoring the situation in Texas from Europe.
Last of all, Scott gave a closing argument in butchered Spanish.
In other words, it was like listening to Rick Scott saying the same things, and dodging the same questions as he's done for the past four years.
Will tonight's round two will be different?
Somehow, I doubt it.
Every time Scott dodges a question and smirks at the mention of the misfortunes of others, it becomes clearer why Charlie Crist should again become Florida's governor.
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Our Picks: The best shows in Fairfield County this week
Thursday, Feb. 16: Marcia Ball at the Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield. She got the blues so bad.
Friday, Feb. 17: Two Fisted Law at the Heirloom Arts Theatre, Danbury. Hat City punk rock, on Sling Slang Records.
Saturday, Feb. 18: Foreigner at the Klein, Bridgeport. They've been waiting, for a girl like you.
Sunday, Feb. 19: George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic at Toad's Place, New Haven. Fuckin' Parliament, dude.
Monday, Feb. 20: Beatnik 2000 at Cafe Nine, New Haven. Music, poetry, open mic... you know the deal.
Tuesday, Feb. 21: Shaka and the Soul Shakers at Two Boots, Bridgeport. It's Fat Tuesday! Like, the real one. Every Tuesday is Fat Tuesday at Two Boots, but this one is official.
Wednesday, Feb. 22: Mishka at StageOne, Fairfield. Reggae dude who grew up in the Carribean.
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Ayurveda (Sanskrit Āyurveda आयुर्वेद, "life-knowledge"; English pronunciation /ˌaɪ.ərˈveɪdə/[1]) or Ayurvedic medicine is a system of Hindu traditional medicine of Vedic tradition[2] native to the Indian subcontinent, and a form of alternative medicine. Some of the oldest known Ayurvedic texts include the Suśrutha Saṃhitā, Charaka Saṃhitā. These Sanskrit texts are among the foundational and formally compiled works of Ayurveda.
By the medieval period, Ayurvedic practitioners developed a number of medicinal preparations and surgical procedures for the treatment of various ailments.[3] Practices that are derived from Ayurvedic medicine are regarded as part of complementary and alternative medicine.[4]
There is no scientific evidence for the effectiveness of Ayurvedic medicine for the treatment of any disease.[5] Concerns have been raised about Ayurvedic products; U.S. studies showed that up to 20% of Ayurvedic U.S. and Indian-manufactured patent medicines sold through internet contained toxic levels of heavy metals such as lead, mercury, and arsenic.[6][7]
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- 5 Current status
- 6 Efficacy
- 7 Use of toxic metals
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 Further reading
- 11 External links
Eight components of Ayurveda
In classical Sanskrit literature, Ayurveda was called "the science of eight components" (Sanskrit aṣṭāṅga अष्टांग), a classification that became canonical for Ayurveda:[8][9][10][11][12][13]
- Kayachikitsa (General medicine): "cure of diseases affecting the body".
- Kaumāra-bhṛtya and Bala Roga : "treatment of children".
- Shalya tantra: surgical techniques.
- Śālākya-tantra (Ophthalmology): cure of diseases of the teeth, eye, nose or ear etc.
- Bhuta-vidya deals with the causes, which are directly not visible and not explained directly from tridosha.:[13] pertaining to micro-organisms or spirits.[14][15]
- Agada-tantra : Gada means Poison. "doctrine of antidotes"
- Rasayana-tantra (Geriatrics)/(Anti Agings) : Doctrine of Rasayana/Rejuvenation.
- Vajikarana tantra (Aphrodisiacs): deals with healthy and desired progeny.
Principles and terminology
There are two ways in which to approach Ayurvedic principles and terminology: one may either focus on the historical foundation (as evidenced in the oldest Ayurvedic texts) or, alternatively, a description may take an ethnographic approach and focus on the forms of traditional medicine prevalent across India today.
Much like the medicine of classical antiquity, Ayurveda has historically taken the approach of enumerating bodily substances in the framework of the five classical elements (Sanskrit [maha]panchabhuta, viz. earth, water, fire, air and ether. Moreover, Ayurveda names seven basic tissues (dhatu). They are plasma (rasa), blood (rakta), muscles (māmsa), fat (meda), bone (asthi), marrow (majja), and semen (shukra).[17]
Ayurveda states that a balance of the three elemental substances, the Doshas, equals health, while imbalance equals disease. There are three doshas: Vata, Pitta and Kapha. One Ayurvedic theory states that each human possesses a unique combination of these doshas which define this person's temperament and characteristics. Each person has a natural state, or natural combination of these three elements, and should seek balance by modulating their behavior or environment. In this way they can increase or decrease the doshas they lack or have an abundance of them respectively. Another view present in the ancient literature states that dosha equality is identical to health, and that persons with imbalance of dosha are proportionately unhealthy, because they are not in their natural state of balance. Prakriti is one of the most important concepts in Ayurveda.
In Ayurvedic theory, there are 20 qualities or characteristics (guṇas), which are inherent in all substances. They can be arranged in ten pairs of antonyms: heavy/light, cold/hot, unctuous/dry, dull/sharp, stable/mobile, soft/hard, non-slimy/slimy, smooth/coarse, minute/gross, viscous/liquid.[18]
Ensuring the proper functions of channels (srotas) that transport fluids is one part of Ayurvedic treatment, because a lack of healthy channels is thought to cause diseases. Practitioners treat patients with massages using oils and Swedana (fomentation) to open up these channels.[19]
Hinduism and Buddhism have had an influence on the development of many of Ayurveda's central ideas.[20] Balance is emphasised; suppressing natural urges is considered unhealthy and claimed to lead to illness;[20] to suppress sneezing, for example, may give rise to shoulder pain.[21] However, people are also cautioned to stay within the limits of reasonable balance and measure when following nature's urges.[20] For example, emphasis is placed on moderation of food intake,[22] sleep, and sexual intercourse.[20]
Ayurvedic doctors regard physical and mental existence as well as personality as a unit, each element having the capacity to influence the others. One of the fundamental aspects of Ayurvedic medicine is to take this holistic approach into account during diagnosis and therapy.
Ayurveda has 8 ways of diagnosis. They are Nadi (Pulse), Mootra (Urine), Mala (Stool), Jihva (Tongue), Shabda (Speech), Sparsha (Touch), Druk (Vision), Aakruti (Appearance).[23]
Ayurvedic practitioners approach diagnosis by using the five senses.[24] Hearing is used to observe the condition of breathing and speech.[17] The study of the lethal points or marman marma is of special importance.[18]
Treatment and health protection
While two of the eight branches of classical Ayurveda deal with surgery (Śalya-cikitsā, Śālākya-tantra), contemporary Ayurvedic theory tends to emphasise that building a healthy metabolic system, attaining good digestion and proper excretion lead to vitality.[18] Ayurveda also focuses on exercise, yoga, and meditation.[25] To maintain health, a Sattvic diet can be prescribed to the patient.
Concepts of Dinacharya are followed in Ayurveda; dinacharya stresses the importance of natural cycles (waking, sleeping, working, meditation etc.) for a healthy living. Hygiene, too, is a central practice of Ayurvedic medicine. Hygienic living involves regular bathing, cleansing of teeth, skin care, and eye washing.[17]
Natural medical substances used
Ayurveda stresses the use of plant-based medicines and treatments. Plant-based medicines are derived from roots, leaves, fruits, barks and seeds such as cardamom and cinnamon. William Dymock and co-authors summarized hundreds of plant-derived medicines in 19th century, along with the prevalent myth, stories, uses, microscopic structure, chemical composition, toxicology and commerce in British India.[26] Some animal products may also be used, for example milk, bones, and gallstones. In addition, fats are used both for consumption and for external use. Minerals, including sulphur, arsenic, lead, copper sulfate and gold are also consumed as prescribed.[17] This practice of adding minerals to herbal medicine is known as rasa shastra.
A variety of alcoholic beverages known as Madya are used in Ayurveda.[27] It enhances Pitta dosha and mitigates Vatta and Kapha dosha.[27] They are grouped by the raw material and fermentation process and classified as: sugar based, fruit based, cereal based, cereal base with herbs, fermentation of vinegar and tonic wines. Madya are used for various purposes including to cause purgation, improve digestion and taste, to create dryness and to produce looseness of joints. Ayurveda texts describe it as non-viscid, quick in action, enters into minute pores of the body and cleaning them, spreads quickly.[27]
Purified opium the dried latex from the plant capsule[28] is used in eight Ayurvedic preparation.[29] It balances Vata and Kapha Doshas and enhance Pitta Dosha.[28] Used for treatment of certain conditions of diarrhoea and dysentery, and also to increase the sexual and muscular powers and produce stupefaction of brain. But, sedative and pain-relieving properties of opium on the human organ was not considered for Ayurvedic treatment purposes. The use of Opium is not found in the ancient Ayurveda texts. Although no exact time is known, it is possible that that Opium was brought to India along with or before the Mohammedan conquest.[8][29] The therapeutic usage of opium is first mentioned in Sarngadhara Samhita, a book on pharmacy written between 1300-1400 CE that was referred by physicians of Rajasthan in Western India, as ingredient of an aphrodisiac to delay seminal ejaculation.[30]
The book Yoga Ratnakara written in 1700-1800 CE by an unknown author and popular in Maharashtra uses opium as an ingredient for a herbo-mineral composition for treatment of diarrhea.[30]
In Bhaisajya Ratnavali, opium along with camphor is used in treatment of acute gastro-enteritis. In this drug, the respiratory depressant action of Opium was counteracted by the respiratory stimulant property of Camphor.[30] Later books have included the narcotic property for use as analgesic pain reliever.[30]
Cannabis Indica, a plant of Indian origin is not mentioned in the ancient Ayurveda books. Its use as medicine is first mentioned in Sarngadhara Samhita, a book on pharmacy written between 1300-1400 CE, for the treatment of diarrhea.[30] Later, in Bhaisajya Ratnavali it has been used as ingredient in an aphrodisiac [30]
Both oil and tar were used to stop bleeding.[17] Traumatic bleeding was said to be stopped by four different methods: ligation of the blood vessel; cauterisation by heat; using different herbal or animal preparations locally which could facilitate clotting; and different medical preparations which could constrict the bleeding or oozing vessels. Various oils could be used in a number of ways, including regular consumption as a part of food, anointing, smearing, head massage, prescribed application to affected areas,[31] and oil pulling. Also, liquids may be poured on the patient's forehead, a technique which is called shirodhara.
According to some experts, the practice of the cleansing practices known as panchakarma (Devanāgarī: पंचकर्म)) is a therapeutic way of eliminating toxic elements from the body.[33] Panchakarma includes Vamana, Virechana, Basti, Nasya and Raktamokshana. Panchakarma is preceded by Poorva karma (Preparatory Step)and is followed by Paschat karma and Peyadi karma.
Ayurveda is a discipline of the upaveda or "auxiliary knowledge" in Vedic tradition. It is treated as a supplement or appendix of the Rigveda. However, some believed that Atharva-Veda is the prime origin of Ayurveda. The samhita of the Atharvaveda itself contains 114 hymns or incantations for the magical cure of diseases. Charak has advised in his samhita that physicians should adhere to Atharva-Veda. Origins of Ayurveda have been traced back to 5,000 BCE, originating as an oral tradition and later as medical texts, Ayurveda evolved from the Vedas.[34][35] There are various legendary accounts of the "origin of Ayurveda", e.g., that the science was received by Dhanvantari (or Divodasa) from Brahma.[17][36][37] Tradition also holds that a lost text written by the sage Agnivesa, a student of the sage Bharadwaja, influenced the writings of Ayurveda.[38]
Main Texts
There are three principal early texts on Ayurveda, they are Charaka Samhita, the Sushruta Samhita and the Bhela Samhita. The Sushruta Samhita is based on an original written during the 6th century BCE,[39][40] this work was updated by 2nd century Buddhist scholar, Nagarjuna.[41] The Charaka Samhita, written by Charaka, it is dated to the period of 6th century BCE.[42][43] Bhela Samhita is also dated to a period of 6th century BCE, and attributed to the sage Atreya Punarvasu, who was the personal physician of King Nagnajit of Gandhara Kingdom.[44] During early centuries of common era, Dridhabala had added updated Charaka Samhita.[45] The Bower Manuscript, is also of special interest to historians due to its inclusion of Samhitas[46] and its concepts in Central Asian Buddhism. A. F. R. Hoernle in his 1897 edition identified the scribe of the medical portions of the manuscript as a native of India, using a northern variant of the Gupta script, who had migrated and become a Buddhist monk in a monastery in Kucha. The Chinese pilgrim Fa Hsien (c. 337–422 AD) wrote about the health care system of the Gupta empire (320–550) and described the institutional approach of Indian medicine, also visible in the works of Charaka, who mentions a clinic and how it should be equipped.
Other early texts, mentioned alongside the Sushruta, Charaka and Bhela Samhita, are Agnivesha Samhita, Kasyapa Samhita and Harita Samhitas. The original edition of Agnivesha Samhita can be dated to 1500 BCE,[47] it was written by Agnivesa and the text was later modified by Charaka.[48] Kasyapa Samhita includes the treatise of Jivaka Kumar Bhaccha and [49] it is dated a period of 6th century BCE.[50][51] While Harita Samhita is dated to an earlier period, it is attributed to Harita, who was a disciple of Punarvasu Atreya.[52] Some later texts includes Astanga nighantu (8th Century) by Vagbhata, Paryaya ratnamala (9th century) by Madhava, Siddhasara nighantu (9th century) by Ravi Gupta, Dravyavali (10th Century), Dravyaguna sangraha (11th century) by Cakrapanidatta, among others.[53]
Illnesses portrayed
Underwood & Rhodes (2008) hold that this early phase of traditional Indian medicine identified "fever (takman), cough, consumption, diarrhea, dropsy, abscesses, seizures, tumours, and skin diseases (including leprosy)".[17] Treatment of complex ailments, including angina pectoris, diabetes, hypertension, and stones, also ensued during this period.[3][54] Plastic surgery, couching (a form of cataract surgery), puncturing to release fluids in the abdomen, extraction of foreign elements, treatment of anal fistulas, treating fractures, amputations, cesarean sections, and stitching of wounds were known.[17] The use of herbs and surgical instruments became widespread.[17]
Further development and spread
The field of Ayurveda flourished throughout the Indian Middle Ages; Dalhana (fl. 1200), Sarngadhara (fl. 1300) and Bhavamisra (fl. 1500) compiled works on Indian medicine.[55]
The medical works of both Sushruta and Charaka were also translated into the Arabic language during the 8th century.[56] The 9th-century Persian physician Rhazes was familiar with the text.[57] The Arabic works derived from the Gupta-era Indian texts eventually also reached a European audience by the end of the medieval period.[56]
In Renaissance Italy, the Branca family of Sicily and Gaspare Tagliacozzi (Bologna) are known to have been influenced by the Arabic reception of the surgical techniques of Sushruta.[56]
British physicians traveled to India to observe rhinoplasty being performed using native methods; reports on Indian rhinoplasty were published in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1794.[58] Instruments described in the Sushruta Samhita were further modified in Europe.[59] Joseph Constantine Carpue spent 20 years in India studying local plastic surgery methods and, in 1815, was able to perform the first major rhinoplasty surgery in the western world, using the "Indian" method of nose reconstruction.[60] In 1840 Brett published an article about this technique.[61]
During the period of colonial British rule of India, the practice of Ayurveda was neglected by the British Indian Government, in favor of modern medicine. After Indian independence, there was more focus on Ayurveda and other traditional medical systems. By 2014, Ayurveda was part of the Indian National health care system, with state hospitals for Ayurveda established across the country; however, Ayurveda treatments were not always well integrated with others, especially in allopathic hospitals.[62]
Current status
According to some sources, up to 80 percent of people in India use some form of traditional medicine, a category which includes Ayurveda.[63][64]
In 1970, the Indian Medical Central Council Act which aimed to standardise qualifications for Ayurveda practitioners and provide accredited institutions for its study and research was passed by the Parliament of India.[65] In India, over 180 training centers offer degrees in traditional Ayurvedic medicine.[5][25] The Indian government supports research and teaching in Ayurveda through many channels at both the national and state levels, and helps institutionalise traditional medicine so that it can be studied in major towns and cities.[66] The state-sponsored Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS) has been set up in order to do extensive research on the subject.[67] To fight biopiracy and unethical patents, the Government of India, in 2001, set up the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library as repository of 1200 formulations of various systems of Indian medicine, such as Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha.[68][69] The formulations come from over 100 traditional Ayurveda books.[70]
The Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) a statutory body established in 1971, under the Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, monitors higher education in Ayurveda.[71] Many clinics in urban and rural areas are run by professionals who qualify from these institutes.[65]
According to a WHO survey, about 75% of the population of Nepal uses herbal medicines.[72] Ayurveda remains the most practiced form of medicine in the country.[73]
Sri Lanka
The Sri Lankan tradition of Ayurveda is very similar to the Indian tradition. Practitioners of Ayurveda in Sri Lanka refer to texts on the subject written in Sanskrit, which are common to both countries. However, they do differ in some aspects, particularly in the herbs used.
The Sri Lankan government has established a Ministry of Indigenous Medicine (established in 1980) to revive and regulate the practice within the country.[74] The Institute of Indigenous Medicine (affiliated to the University of Colombo) currently offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and MD degrees in the practice of Ayurveda Medicine and Surgery, and similar degrees in unani medicine.[75]
There are currently 62 Ayurvedic Hospitals and 208 central dispensaries in the public system, and they served almost 3 million people (approximately 11% of Sri Lanka's total population) in 2010. In total there are currently approximately 20,000 registered practitioners of Ayurveda in the country.[76][77]
According to the Mahavamsa, the ancient chronicle of Sinhalese royalty written in the sixth century A.D., King Pandukabhaya of Sri Lanka (reigned 437 BC to 367 BC) had lying-in-homes and Ayurvedic hospitals (Sivikasotthi-Sala) built in various parts of the country. This is the earliest documented evidence available of institutions dedicated specifically to the care of the sick anywhere in the world.[78][79] Mihintale Hospital is the oldest in the world.[80]
Outside the Subcontinent
Ayurveda is a system of traditional medicine developed during antiquity and the medieval period, and as such comparable to pre-modern Chinese and European systems of medicine. However, beginning in the 1960s, Ayurveda has begun to be advertised as "alternative medicine" in the Western world. Due to different laws and medical regulations in the rest of the world, the unregulated practice and commercialisation of Ayurvedic medicine has raised ethical and legal issues. In some instances, Ayurvedic practices or terminology have also been adapted specifically for Western consumption, notably in the case of "Maharishi Ayurveda" in the 1980s; in some cases, this has involved active fraud on the part of proponents of Ayurveda in an attempt to falsely represent the system as equal to the standards of modern medical research.[81][82][83]
Baba Hari Dass was one of the early proponents who helped bring Ayurveda to the US in the beginning of 1970s. He taught classes in the three-dosha theory derived from the classic scriptures the Suśrutha Saṃhitā and the Charaka Saṃhitha, leading to the establishment of the Mount Madonna Institute, College of Ayurveda, Ayurveda World, and Ayurvedic pharmacy. He invited several notable Ayurvedic teachers (Vasant Lad, Sarita Shrestha, Ram Harsh Singh, and others). Michael Tierra, Ayurvedic practitioner, wrote: "The history of Ayurveda in North America will always owe a debt to the selfless contributions of Baba Hari Dass" (The way of Ayurvedic Herbs, Lotus Press, 2008, XIV).[84]
In the United States, the practice of Ayurveda is not licensed or regulated by any state. Practitioners of Ayurveda may be licensed in other health care fields such as massage therapy or midwifery. A few states have approved schools teaching Ayurveda.[85]
No significant scientific evidence has shown effectiveness of Ayurvedic medicine for the treatment of any disease, although massage and relaxation are often beneficial for some cancer patients and there are indications from animal studies that some herbal products used might be explored further.[5] A systematic review of Ayurveda treatments for rheumatoid arthritis concluded that the few reported clinical trials fail to show convincingly that Ayurveda treatments are effective therapeutic options for RA.[86] A review of the use of Ayurveda in cardiovascular disease concluded that the evidence is not convincing that any Ayurvedic herbal treatment is effective in the treatment of heart disease or hypertension, however, many herbs used by Ayurvedic practitioners show promise for future research and could be appropriate for larger randomized trials.[87]
In India, research in Ayurveda is undertaken by the statutory body of the Central Government, the Central Council for Research in Ayurveda and Siddha (CCRAS), through a national network of research institutes.[88]
Use of toxic metals
Rasa shastra, the practice of adding metals, minerals or gems to herbs, may include toxic heavy metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic.[7] Adverse reactions to herbs due to their pharmacology are described in traditional Ayurvedic texts, but the practitioners are reluctant to admit that herbs could be toxic and that reliable information on herbal toxicity is not readily available; there is a communication gap between modern medicine practitioners and Ayurvedic practitioners.[89]
According to a 1990 study on Ayurvedic medicines in India, 41% of the products tested contained arsenic, and 64% contained lead and mercury.[63] A 2004 study found toxic levels of heavy metals in 20% of Ayurvedic preparations made in South Asia and sold in the Boston area; it concluded that Ayurvedic products posed serious health risks and should be tested for heavy-metal contamination.[90] A 2008 study of more than 230 products found that approximately 20% of remedies (and 40% of rasa shastra medicines) purchased over the Internet from U.S. and Indian suppliers contained lead, mercury or arsenic.[7][91][92] In 2012 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) linked Ayurvedic drugs to lead poisoning, based on some cases where toxic materials were found in the blood of pregnant women who had taken Ayurvedic drugs.[93]
Ayurvedic proponents believe that the toxicity of these materials is reduced through purification processes such as samskaras or shodhanas (for metals), similar to the Chinese pao zhi, although the Ayurvedic technique is more complex and may involve prayers as well as physical pharmacy techniques. However, these products have nonetheless caused severe lead poisoning and other toxic effects.[91][94]
Due to these concerns, the government of India ruled that Ayurvedic products must specify their metallic content directly on the labels of the product.[6] But in Current Science, a publication of the Indian Academy of Sciences, M. S. Valiathan noted that "the absence of post-market surveillance and the paucity of test laboratory facilities [in India] make the quality control of Ayurvedic medicines exceedingly difficult at this time."[6]
"Most Ayurvedic products are marketed either for drug uses not approved by FDA or as dietary supplements. As such, consumers should understand that these products have not been approved by FDA before marketing". There is an import alert on some such products issued by the FDA since 2007 in order to prevent them entering the United States.[95]
See also
- Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine and Surgery
- Bhaisajyaguru
- Clinical trials on Ayurvedic drugs
- Dosha
- Georgian folk medicine
- History of alternative medicine
- List of ineffective cancer treatments
- Siddha medicine
- Traditional Tibetan medicine
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Can we be square again? We were last square half a century ago. Then we were, more or less successively, hep, hip, cool, wild, beat, alienated, mod, groovy, radical, turned on, dropped out, camp, self-actualizing, meaningful, punk, greedy, ironic, Clintonian, and, finally, postmodern, which is to say exhausted—and who can blame us? In all these states we were, first and above all, not-square. Everything was a variation on that; to be seen as clever and even profound you had to be not much more than not square.
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Merle Haggard's sandblasted truth has been eclipsed by the twinkly perfection of today's country music. By Tony Scherman
Now we are supposed to be square again. No one puts it that bluntly, because square remains the condition that dare not speak its name. Even country music gave up on square, Merle Haggard's 1969 great anthem of square, "Okie From Muskogee," being more on the order of a last defiant gasp than a call to arms. Nevertheless, post-September 11 we are, the surveys say, patriotic, prayerful, serious, and determined. We love our country. We support our President and our armed forces. Our heroes are police officers and firefighters. Our first official war hero was a CIA agent. Well, beat me, Daddy, eight to the bar, as Mamie Eisenhower used to say, this is squaresville.
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But is it sustainable? Returning to square seems like re-virginizing. The problem is knowingness. All anti-square postures stand on a base of superior knowingness: Suburban life may look wholesome and sweet, but it is really one vast snake pit tarted up as a gunite swimming pool. George Washington may look like the star of Founding Father Knows Best, but really he was a false-toothed real-estate speculator. Woody Guthrie carries a nice tune, but this land is not your land, unless you are a Trump or a Tisch.
Knowingness, of course, is not knowledge—indeed, is the rebuttal of knowledge. Knowledge was what squares had, or thought they had, and they thought that it was the secret of life. Knowingness is a celebration of the conceit that what the squares knew, or thought they knew, was worthless. In The Graduate the career advice ("Plastics") of a family friend, Mr. McGuire, to Benjamin Braddock, played by Dustin Hoffman, is classic square knowledge. Benjamin's mute disdain toward that advice—and his elaborately played out disdain for all that McGuire and the Robinsons represent—is classic anti-square knowingness.
You can see in this example the problem that a return to square poses: anti-square is so much easier and more fun. Knowledge, even on McGuire's level, is notoriously difficult to acquire. Sixteen years of hard, slogging schoolwork, and what do you know? Not enough to carry on ten minutes of intelligent conversation on any subject in the world with any person who actually knows something about the subject. Knowingness, though—a child can master that. (Can and does: there is an obvious inverse relationship between age and knowingness; the absolute life peak of knowingness generally arrives between the ages of twelve and sixteen for females, fourteen and eighteen for males—whereas, as these cohorts can attest, grown-ups don't know anything.)
This is why Benjamin Braddock had to ignore, with prejudice, Mr. McGuire. McGuire may have been a fool, but he was, in the limited area of business and economic trends, probably a knowledgeable fool. Had Benjamin been obliged to respond to McGuire's advice in terms of knowledge, he would have been utterly lost—he would have been the one exposed as a fool. But for Ben—and more to the point, for the movie's audience—knowingness offered a lovely way to not only counter McGuire's knowledge but also trump it. Ben didn't have to know anything about McGuire to show himself intellectually (and aesthetically, and even morally) superior to McGuire. He only had to know that what McGuire thought he knew was a joke and McGuire was a joke because—because the McGuires of the world are definitionally jokes, and if you don't understand that, I can't explain it to you, because you are a McGuire. That's knowingness, and for no-sweat self-satisfaction you can't beat it.
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"In certain moments of deep absorption you will become one with the divine.
"This can happen listening to the song of a bird also, so the question is not of the Gita, Bible or Koran – the basic question is of the listener. How do you listen? Are you just greedy to know more? Then the Gita, Koran, Bible will all poison you. If there is no greed, you will just read it as a beautiful poem; it has tremendous beauty in it. You are not trying to fill your memory with it, but you are just being aware; reading, watching, observing, moving into it as much as possible but remaining at the same time aloof – a watcher on the hills. You should not be impressed, because all impressions are like dust gathering on the mirror. If you are not impressed – I am not saying not inspired, that is totally different. To be inspired is totally different than to be impressed. Anybody can be impressed, but to be inspired you need great intelligence, understanding.
"Inspiration is getting in tune with a certain scripture, to be meditative with it – not through the mind but through your totality. If you read the Gita that way, you are reading the Gita with your blood, with your guts, with your heart, with your mind, with your body. Everything that you have, your totality, is there. When you are simply collecting information, only your head is there and nothing else. Then you gather impressions and you have missed.
"Listening to me the same is possible. You can listen to my words; you can listen to me. If you listen only to the words you will leave a little more knowledgeable than when you had come here; your burden will be more not less. You will be deeper in bondage, not freed, because whatsoever I am saying, these are not words. Listen to the silence in them. Listen to the person who is speaking through them. Be with me! If you forget my words, nothing is lost. But if you carry only my words and you forget me, everything is lost.
"Listening to me should not be through the head only, but with your totality."
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Did Third Point chief Dan Loeb recently tell friends he had a plan to "undermine the credibility" of Sotheby's Chairman and CEO William Ruprecht? Yes. Did Ruprecht refer to Loeb as "scum"? Indeed. Are the two men going to let either of these things make Sotheby's board meetings, at which they'll be working together, awkward in the slightest? Of course not. Why would you think that?
Activist investor Daniel Loeb and auction house Sotheby's announced a settlement Monday that concludes his seven-month campaign to shake up the company a day before shareholders were to vote on his board candidates. The pact gives Mr. Loeb three board seats by expanding the board to 15 people, rather than seeing Mr. Loeb's candidates go up against company nominees. The deal also caps Mr. Loeb's stock ownership at 15%. His hedge fund, Third Point LLC, currently owns about 9.6%, but had sought the ability to go to 20%, a request the company had blocked, leading Third Point to sue…In a joint statement Monday, Mr. Loeb said: "As of today we see ourselves not as the Third Point Nominees but as Sotheby's directors, and we expect to work collaboratively with our fellow board members to enhance long-term value on behalf of all shareholders." Sotheby's Chairman and Chief Executive William Ruprecht said the agreement "ensures that our focus is on the business." […]
Monday's agreement comes after a Delaware judge on Friday blessed Sotheby's so-called poison pill that limited the amount of stock Third Point could acquire. Beyond that legal issue, a court hearing last week in the suit enabled Third Point to surface internal board emails showing support for Mr. Loeb's point of view; inflammatory comments by Mr. Loeb also were revealed. The airing of the various remarks added to the drama of a campaign that had captivated both Wall Street and the art world…At one point, according to a Friday court ruling, Mr. Loeb emailed allies he was waging a "holy jihad" with the plan to "undermine the credibility" of Mr. Ruprecht. Mr. Loeb said the email was intended as a joke and not meant to offend. Mr. Ruprecht referred to Mr. Loeb as "scum" to another board member and said his campaign was about "ego," the judge's ruling said.
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FREE FIGHT FRIDAY #FFF Joe "Sandman" Seavy vs Dakota Palmer at AFC 102, Anchorage, Alaska at the Sullivan Arena. ALASKA FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP www.alaskafighting.com watch video >>
During a live interview on AXS TV's Inside MMA UFC light heavyweight contender Glover Teixeira talks about his upcoming fight versus current champion Jon Jones. Watch Inside MMA live every Friday at 9pE/6pP. watch video >>
Anthony Johnson says he knows that he can knock Mike Kyle out, and he will finally get his chance to prove it on January 18th after months of waiting. Johnson vs. Kyle on WSOF 8 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL. See it live on NBC Sports Network on Saturday, January 18th, at 9 PM EST/ 6 PM PST. watch video >>
Some butter-toothed Brits ask Matt if he would knock out Dan Hardy. I guess you had to be there. Riddle was cut for a second positive marijuana test shortly after this was taken. Thanks to George Tibbles for the footage. watch video >>
Hardrock MMA 3 Fight 1 Aaron McDaniel vs Jacob Rabbeth 205 Knock Out watch video >>
Segerintervju med Dexter Dyall Wallin som besegrade Martin Halvorsen på knock i den första ronden på Superior Challenge 9. watch video >>