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— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) January 27, 2015
Snowmageddon 2015 Edition.
Rosebud. pic.twitter.com/DReFW4m3hF
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) January 27, 2015
Snowmageddon 2015 Edition.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey has established an essay competition to honor the late Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, the Pentagon announced Monday.
The competition, to be hosted at the National Defense University over the next academic year, will focus on issues related to the Arab and Muslim worlds, according to the official DOD News.
"This is an important opportunity to honor the memory of the king, while also fostering scholarly research on the Arab-Muslim world, and I can think of no better home for such an initiative than NDU," Dempsey said in a statement.
It's going to be a generation before the military is able to purge itself of all the rot it collected during the Obama Administration.
You think relations are chilly between the White House and Capitol Hill? You might not know the half of it, as Politico's David Rogers reports:
But the sequence of events does capture how much the normal courtesies between this White House and Congress have deteriorated — even in front of guests from another country.
"There appear to be no rules anymore. If you can do it, do it," said Patrick Griffin, who recalls nothing quite like this even in the tempestuous times Griffin served as White House liaison between President Bill Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), herself a former speaker who oversaw similar joint meetings for foreign guests, said the management of the invitation was "inappropriate" and Boehner risks squandering his power in a fit of "hubris."
But privately, Democrats admit too that this White House — as seen in the South Korea episode — is no innocent. And Jackson, who has served at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, said he is baffled that the administration should talk now about "protocol" after being so quick to exert its executive power to run over Congress.
"This is not the first time where they got cross-wise thinking the House was not an equal branch," Jackson said. "When I heard about this, I shook my head."
From there, the report really gets ugly — you'll want to read the whole thing.
Fact is, President Obama doesn't even play well with his own cabinet, much less mere Congresscritters. As we've discussed here repeatedly, his inner circle seems to consist now of Valerie Jarrett and whichever of his old first term cronies he can get on the phone. This state of affairs might explain part of last week's Bizarro Earth State of the Union Address, the rest of which can be explained by partisan politics and Obama's notorious mean streak.
He'll leave the White House still adored by millions, and liked by nobody.
The New York Times has a heartbreaking piece on Venezuela's politics and dim future:
Since he was voted into office in April 2013 by a minuscule margin after Mr. Chávez's death, Mr. Maduro has leaned heavily on the legacy of his predecessor, a populist who governed poorly but had magnetic charisma and shrewd political instincts. Woefully lacking on both fronts, Mr. Maduro has become increasingly erratic and despotic in a quest for political survival that seems more daunting by the day. Healthy oil export revenue allowed Mr. Chávez to build a robust network of patronage and create generous welfare programs during his 14 years in power. Those are becoming increasingly paltry on Mr. Maduro's watch.
The tumbling price of oil, which accounts for 95 percent of Venezuela's export earnings, has nearly destroyed an economy that has been managed dismally for years. Inflation rose to 64 percent last year. On Wednesday, the International Monetary Fund predicted that Venezuela's economy would contract 7 percent in 2015, which could force Mr. Maduro's government to default on its loans or significantly curtail the subsidized oil his country provides to allies in the Caribbean, including Cuba.
Mr. Maduro has been vague about the type of painful economic measures his government has been willing to embrace, yet he bafflingly has promised to expand social programs and raise salaries. Far from acknowledging responsibility for the crisis, he and his loyalists have blamed the revenue shortfalls on political opponents they accuse of enabling an international conspiracy.
What word is missing from this tale of Venezuelan politics?
"Socialism," which was Chavez's and is Maduro's battle cry — which makes it seem, you know, maybe a little germane?
Don't insult the prophet of Islam on Facebook, at least not in Turkey, if reports are correct:
Following an order by a Turkish court, the popular social network has blocked pages considered insulting to the Prophet Muhammad, The New York Times reported Monday, citing a company employee with direct knowledge of the matter.
The court on Sunday threatened to ban access to the entire site if Facebook did not comply with the order. The court order followed a request by a prosecutor.
Facebook had faced a tricky situation that has confronted other companies such as Twitter and Google.
It's hard to seriously fault Facebook on this one — when you play in a foreign country, you have to play by their rules. Although just once I'd love to see a social networking site tell the local Imam/Mullah/Commissar to stick their orders where the sun don't shine, then close up shop and say au revoir with a middle-finger salute. That said, any company's first duty is to its shareholders.
So really what we have here is yet another small sign that Kemal Ataturk's dream of a modern and secular Turkey is turning into yet another premodern Islamist nightmare.
In the meantime, the best we can hope for our relations with Ankara is, "It's complicated."
Are you familiar with Waze? It's a smartphone app, which my wife turned me on to a year or two ago, which crowdsources traffic information. There's not much use for it here in Monument, Colorado ("Teeming city of tens!"), but I keep it installed for shopping & drinking excursions to Denver, or for road trips to anywhere. It's well designed, it works in realtime, and I've avoided some serious snarls with small kids in car — which by itself elevates Waze to "priceless." Google, which is pretty smart about these kinds of products, bought the company in 2013 — but it's handy enough that I don't mind occasionally letting Google data-mine me about my driving habits.
Of course, users can and do crowdsource information about speed traps, and that has some cops up in arms:
Sheriffs are campaigning to pressure Google Inc. to turn off a feature on its Waze traffic software that warns drivers when police are nearby. They say one of the technology industry's most popular mobile apps could put officers' lives in danger from would-be police killers who can find where their targets are parked.
Waze, which Google purchased for $966 million in 2013, is a combination of GPS navigation and social networking. Fifty million users in 200 countries turn to the free service for real-time traffic guidance and warnings about nearby congestion, car accidents, speed traps or traffic cameras, construction zones, potholes, stalled vehicles or unsafe weather conditions.
To Sergio Kopelev, a reserve deputy sheriff in Southern California, Waze is also a stalking app for law enforcement.
There are no known connections between any attack on police and Waze, but law enforcers such as Kopelev are concerned it's only a matter of time.
Let's face it — the real culprit here is sheriffs and police departments losing any of their speeding-ticket revenue stream.
Apple reports last quarter's profits at market close today, but Fortune says the company will surpass even the most optimistic forecasts:
Apple told Wall Street to expect total sales somewhere in the range of $63.5 to $66.5 billion — representing, at the midpoint, 15% growth from fiscal Q1 2014.
Analysts aren't buying it. They saw the lines for the new iPhones. They've seen IDC's Mac numbers. They know iPad sales haven't totally died. They watched Apple shift production to meet demand for the larger — and higher margin — iPhone 6 Plus.
They're expecting a big quarter.
The consensus among the analysts Fortune polled — 20 professionals and 15 amateurs — is that Apple's total sales for fiscal Q1 2015 will come in at about $68.3 billion, up 21% year over year.
Apple is certain, once again, to garner the biggest quarterly profits in corporate history.
At some point, the Law of Large Numbers will put the bite on Apple's growth, but clearly that point has yet to be reached.
If Bush released five captured Taliban soldiers for Bergdahl, this picture would lead every newscast for weeks. pic.twitter.com/8WKW45nrE5
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) January 27, 2015
That's right — but there's a catch:
Cablevision is getting ready to pick a fight with your mobile phone company. Next month, the cable operator is going to introduce a low-cost mobile phone service dubbed Freewheel that's based entirely on Wi-Fi connectivity. Freewheel will offer existing Cablevision internet service subscribers unlimited talk, text and data for a mere $9.95 per month. Consumers who don't use Cablevision's internet service can sign on for $29.95 per month.
Ten bucks is cheap, but WiFi isn't as universally available as cellular is. That said, Cablevision appears to be going for serious disruption, and there's nothing but time and money stopping them from rolling out massively-expanded wifi coverage. For urban users, where wifi is nearly ubiquitous, Cablevision's offer might be a no-brainer.
Well, except for one other little catch:
At launch, Freewheel is only working with one handset: Cablevision will sell Motorola's Moto G for $99.95, and the phone will come preloaded with apps that automatically authenticate with any of the company's hotspots.
Moto G is a low-spec phone, aimed at the lower end of the smartphone market. And who knows just how intrusive or snoopy Cablevision's un-uninstallable crapware will prove to be?
Ah… the New Normal… someday, someday soon, we'll pine for it.
The Congressional Budget Office just released its 10-year budget and economic forecast. Let me boil it down for you: These are the good times. Enjoy them because things are unlikely to get much better. In fact, they are likely to get worse. For instance: CBO expects the US economy to grow at 3% this year and next, and at 2.5% in 2017. That's a definite upturn in post-recession performance, though still below the postwar average of 3.4%.
But then deceleration: "For 2020 through 2025, CBO projects that real GDP will grow by an average of 2.2 percent per year—a rate that matches the agency's estimate of the potential growth of the economy in those years."
The reports continues to predict that by 2025 — just ten years from now — trillion-dollar deficits become the new normal and even meager growth is leached out of the economy in the name of "compassionate" social spending.
Obviously, we are failing to tax or spend enough.
I never get tired of reminding people when the President promised that his health coverage reform would save us jillions and jillions of dollars by eliminating waste, fraud, and unnecessary amputations — and then linking to stories like this one:
An internal investigation into how the federal government awarded contracts for developing and building the Affordable Care Act's most important public element — the online exchanges that were to be used by millions of Americans to purchase health insurance — has found the process was flawed.
The investigation showed that The Department of Health and Human Services failed to conduct background checks on prior work by companies awarded many of the Obamacare contracts and failed to require those same companies to be accountable for cost overruns, leaving taxpayers on the hook instead.
The report published Thursday by the Office of the Inspector General for HHS concludes those mistakes cost taxpayers more than $400 million in unexpected costs — essentially doubling the expected cost of building the exchanges in the first place.
Honestly, anyone who bought into Obama's promises, or who continues to parrot the "good news" that ♡bamaCare!!! "is working" is probably too stupid to breathe unassisted.
Dear @Disney: Hire @DavidMamet to write/direct just one standalone Star Wars movie. Maybe a Lando caper/con/heist flick.
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) January 26, 2015
There's so much to explore in the Star Wars universe, that something like this could easily become a standout entry in the Saga.
What would you want to see?
One if by tax, two if by spend.
Megan McArdle reports on the White House non-starter plan to tax 529 education savings accounts — and everything else:
As I observed when I first wrote about the plan, the very fact that we are discussing taxation of educational savings — redistributing educational subsidies downward — indicates that the administration has started scraping the bottom of the barrel when seeking out money to fund new programs. Why target a tax benefit that goes to a lot of your supporters (and donors), that tickles one of the sweetest spots in American politics (subsidizing higher education), and that will hit a lot of people who make less than the $250,000 a year that has become the administration's de facto definition of "rich"?
Presumably, because you're running out of other places to get the money. The top tax rate on people who make more than $413,000 ($464,000 for married couples) is already almost 40 percent. That's on top of Medicare taxes (2.9 percent, not capped), Social Security taxes, state and local taxes (in a deep blue area like New York City, these can amount to 10 percent, though you get some of that back by deducting state taxes from your federal tax) — a marginal tax rate of around 45 to 50 percent in blue states, and possibly even more if you run a business.
Capital gains are taxed at a lower rate, of course. But if you combine the Obamacare capital income surcharge for higher earners, and the administration's new proposal to raise the base rate to 28 percent, you're looking at a capital gains tax of almost 32 percent for people who make more than $200,000 a year ($250,000 for married couples). We are simply running out of room to pay for generous new programs with higher taxes on the small handful of people who make many hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
Two thoughts on this, the first perfectly expressed in today's ♡bamaCare!!! Fail comments by Longtime Sharp VodkaPundit Reader™ RBJ:
"My experience perfectly highlights the insanity of the Affordable Care Act. It forced me — a paying, insured, well-educated, healthy American — out of the coverage I'd had, then tried to push me into Medicaid."
It's not insane, it's perfectly sane. The intent is to get you dependent upon the government for health care. It's why Dear Liar's plan to tax education 529 savings is sane: you do not work hard and save to pay for your education, it's going to be a government freebie — making you dependent upon the government for higher education.
The second thought is slightly more involved.
Washington is reaching saturation point — it's running out of income streams to finance its ever-increasing vote-buying schemes. It's one thing to have a permanent underclass; it's quite another to inflate the underclass with the ranks of the formerly middle class. And yet, that's the road we've been on for a decade or longer now.
Those who survive this Big Squeeze are the Very Rich and the Devious Middle. The Very Rich will pay up enough in taxes to keep the Permanent Underclass from becoming revolutionaries, but will use their political clout to avoid any truly painful confiscations. The Devious Middle will be those remaining members of the middle and upper middle classes, forced into the ranks of the underground service economy, using Bitcoin and other electronic mattresses to hide their income and their savings.
It's a nasty future, but don't say that nobody warned you.
China is taking delivery of Russia's top-of-the-line S-400 antiaircraft missiles:
Russia recently revealed that it had sold China six battalions of its new S-400 anti-aircraft missile system. Each battalion will cost $500 million and includes training as well as spare parts and additional missiles. Each S-400 battalion has eight launchers, each with two missiles, plus a control center and radar and 16 missiles available as reloads. All equipment is mobile. S-400 is also known as the S-300PMU-3, SA-21 or Triumf and was renamed S-400 because it turned out to be far more than just another upgrade of the S-300 and was considered sufficiently different to warrant a name upgrade. Russia deployed its first S-400 battalion in 2010, around Moscow.
The S-400 is similar to the U.S. Patriot and pays particular attention to electronic countermeasures that the Americans might have, or be developing.
Two questions should concern us (and especially the Israelis), apart from the actual efficacy of the S-400 system. The first is if Russia will soon fulfill its threat to equip the Iranians with the S-400. The second is if the Iranians would be able to effectively man the systems themselves.
Reason's Jim Epstein reports on the extremely pricey efforts to fix public education in the nation's poorest small town:
By far, the largest initiative to combat poverty with government largess has been directed at Camden's public schools. New Jersey spends about 60% more on education per pupil than the national average according to 2012 census figures, or about $19,000 in 2013. In Camden, per pupil spending was more than $25,000 in 2013, making it one of the highest spending districts in the nation.
But all that extra money hasn't changed the fact that Camden's public schools are among in the worst in the nation, notorious for their abysmal test scores, the frequent occurrence of in-school violence, dilapidated buildings, and an on-time graduation rate of just 61 percent.
Watch the video (above), which is the first of three parts. The rest are available at the link, which I would have headlined "Required Reading" if I hadn't already posted one of those today.
Fascinating stuff from Jim Geraghty, who gives you his sense of the GOP's "first tier" of presidential contenders. His first tier consists of Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Rick Perry, and Bobby Jindal.
I still get the feeling Perry is going to surprise us with his next campaign, but I have no idea if he'll surprise us with his sudden strength or with continued ineptitude on the campaign trail. Rubio has been working hard to mend fences with conservative primary voters, if not exactly working hard to build a southern fence. Jindal and/or Walker could prove formidable, although Jindal strikes me as wonkier than the mood of the electorate. Walker beat back the Wisconsin Deep State Democrat/Public Union Machine twice, and reportedly was on fire at this weekend's big confab in Iowa.
Geraghty's second tier? Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina. And I think Jim is really being too kind — Santorum, Carson, and Fiorina probably belong in an even lower tier named "Everybody Else." However, Bill Whittle tells me he saw Fiorina speak recently, and that it was obvious she'd been taking lessons and learning them well. Geraghty notes that she's actually running for Vice President, and that sounds right to me.
Here's what Jim says about Paul:
He'll have his dad's network, and he's way more compelling than his father was. But there's a ceiling to Libertarian-minded candidates in the modern Republican Party, and it's going to be tougher to sell quasi-isolationist non-interventionism as the world blows up and grows even more dangerous in Obama's final two years in office.
I think Geraghty is correct on the second point, but on the first point I'm less certain about Geraghty's estimation. Paul has been clever in wrapping up his libertarian leanings in populist language, and he's likely to improve his messaging as he gets his feet wet in the early states. I doubt he'll be the nominee, but his "ceiling" might prove to be a bit higher than most prognosticators have been prognosticating.
Christie reminds me of none other than former SecDef Donald Rumsfeld — he's great when he's giving better than he gets from the press, but not the right man for the job.
Cruz can be inspiring to true believers, but he needs to work on increasing his likability. He might prove to be the Complicit Media's easy target in its attempt to discredit the entire GOP field.
I think Geraghty is correct in putting Mitt and Jeb in the second tier. I pray he's correct.
Anyway, that's my very early take — now go read Geraghty's.
The LA Times reports on life in Mosul after its takeover by the Islamic State:
Those who disobey Islamic State's fundamentalist edicts — including banning smoking or doing business during daily prayer times, and requiring women to cover their heads and faces — are whipped. Or worse. Late last month, two doctors were executed, according to ousted officials who continue to communicate by phone with Mosul residents, for having failed to save the life of an Islamic State leader wounded in an airstrike.
"The people of Mosul, a lot of them were educated overseas and they're facing this primitive mentality," said Atheel Najafi, governor of surrounding Nineveh province and scion of an old Mosul family, who was forced to flee when the city fell to the Sunni militants in the summer.
"In many ways, this is a clash of civilizations," he said, "Day by day it gets worse. People are becoming more and more backward."
But we wouldn't want to insult the doctor-killing, women-whipping barbarians, because that would be wrong.
My goal today was to come up with a really clever metaphor for something, but then a drone crashed into the White House lawn.
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) January 26, 2015
Reality trumps wit yet again.
A Princeton University professor and a prominent Muslim American figure, as well as five other religious freedom advocates, are offering to take 100 lashes each for imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi who was sentenced by Saudi Arabia to 1,000 lashes for insulting his country's clerics.
In a letter to the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S., Robert P. George, a Princeton professor and vice chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, urged the immediate release of Badawi.
The Saudi blogger was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes after criticizing the country's powerful clerics on his blog. Badawi received the first of 20 weekly floggings almost two weeks ago. The second flogging, which was scheduled for last Friday, was postponed on medical grounds.
In other words, the Saudis had flayed his flesh so badly with the first 50 lashes that Badawi was medically unable to receive the second set of 50 — still leaving 950 lashes to go.
If you've ever gone to LiveLeak or similar sites which host atrocity videos from the Middle East, you know these lashings are the real deal. When Badawi was sentenced, I wondered if it was possible for a human being to survive 20 sets of 50 lashes, delivered weekly. The Saudi authorities are apparently having the same doubts, which makes the bravery displayed by George and Jasser and those five others even more remarkable.
There was something charmingly fatalistic about watching Greece's various statist factions vie for control over the country — but before we get to that, a brief summary from Spyros Economides:
As had been widely predicted, the left-wing party Syriza has secured a victory in the Greek election. Having finished with just short of enough seats in parliament for a majority, leader Alexis Tsipras has agreed to form an anti-austerity coalition with the right-wing party Greek Independents.
Throughout the short campaign, it appeared the relative newcomer to Greek politics, led by the charismatic Tsipras, would win. Now it appears he has done so by a significant margin.
Speaking in the wake of the victory, Tsipras said the vote would end years of "destructive austerity, fear and authoritarianism" and that his country could now leave behind the "humiliation" it has suffered.
Greece's humiliations have just begun. It doesn't matter who is in power, because the end game for Greece has always been the same: Exit from the euro, followed by default on the euro-denominated debt for which there will never be enough drachma to repay, followed by further chaos.
Or is there another end game I'm not seeing?
It's Hobson's Choice for that insurance you've been legally mandated to purchase:
"I'm sorry sir," the polite Healthcare.gov customer-service agent said. "There's nothing I can do. You're either going to have to enroll in Medicaid or you're going to have to pay the full health-insurance rate."
"The rate you quoted earlier?" I asked. "That's nearly 30 percent higher than my current insurance bill, I just can't afford it."
"You'll have to pay the full rate, yes," the agent replied.
"I don't understand," I explained. "I have plenty of money to pay you a reasonable rate, but I can't afford to pay the same rate a millionaire would be asked to pay. Why can't I just receive a partial subsidy? I'm willing to pay more than what Medicaid offers."
"Sir, that's just not how the system works."
I found this old Russian joke:
An American spy is dropped by parachute on to Soviet territory. He immediately decides to give himself up. He makes it to a town, finds the appropriate organization and goes up to the doorman:
'Listen, friend, I'm an American spy and I want to give myself up. Who should I see?'
'Second Floor, Room 218,' replies the doorman.
The spy gets to Room 218.
'I'm an American spy. I want to give myself up.'
'What's your area, sabotage, terrorism or ideology?'
'Sabotage,' replies the spy.
'Then you've come to the wrong place. Go to Room 613 on the sixth floor.'
The spy gets to Room 613.
I'm an American spy specializing in sabotage. I want to give myself up.'
'Did you specialize in transport or industrial targets?'
Transport,' replies the spy.
'Well that's the seventh floor, Room 742.'
The spy gets to Room 742.
'I'm an American spy specializing in the sabotage of transport. I wish to give myself up.'
'What kind of transport, road or railway?'
'Railway,' replies the spy.
'Then you've come to the wrong place. Room 936, ninth floor.'
The spy gets to Room 936.
'I'm an American spy specializing in the sabotage of rail transport. I wish to give myself up.'
'Look here, Comrade, don't you see that it's six o'clock? We've finished interviewing for today. Come back tomorrow."
Is it too late for us to surrender to ♡bamaCare!!!?
Here's the California Senator yesterday on Face the Nation:
"The American people don't want another war," but it's clear that the problems in the Middle East are going to require a new approach, the former Intelligence Committee chairman said.
Considering the problem of the Islamic State, Feinstein said, "I don't know whether 6,000 ISIL people have been killed or not — that's the figure that's been floated around. But that's not going to do it. So where [Senator John] McCain is right, I do think we need some Special Operations [forces] in these countries, on the ground, more than just advisers. We need to protect our allies."
Feinstein has been a relatively hawkish Democrat for some time now, but calling for significantly more involvement in the Middle East is a big break from the White House.
You have to wonder if ISIL isn't the leading indicator for the medium-term future of the Middle East. Its territory is wide, sparsely populated, and brutally (and ineptly) ruled. Our own Spengler has compared the current fighting in the Middle East to the Thirty Years War, in which the German states lost one-third of their population — and that a similar demographic tragedy might have to befall the Middle East before it ever settles down.
The problem with Feinstein's proposal is twofold.
• It's might be too hawkish for the American mood (and is almost certainly too hawkish for this White House.
• And while too hawkish, is probably still a case of "too little, too late."
And to that second point I'd add that even if not, this White House and this Pentagon would probably screw it up, anyway.
We may then have reached the point where trying to contain the problem to the Levant is probably the best we can do, a precarious three-way balance between the chaos in the Levant, the Gulf States, and Iran. The problem with that though was described on Friday by Krauthammer:
Iran's domination of Syria was further illustrated by a strange occurrence last Sunday in the Golan Heights. An Israeli helicopter attacked a convoy on the Syrian side of the armistice line. Those killed were not Syrian, however, but five Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon and several Iranian officials, including a brigadier general.
What were they doing in the Syrian Golan Heights? Giving "crucial advice," announced the Iranian government. On what? Well, three days earlier, Hezbollah's leader had threatened an attack on Israel's Galilee. Tehran appears to be using its control of Syria and Hezbollah to create its very own front against Israel.
The Israelis can defeat any conventional attack. Not so the Gulf Arabs. To the north and west, they see Iran creating a satellite "Shiite Crescent" stretching to the Mediterranean and consisting of Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. To their south and west, they see Iran gaining proxy control of Yemen. And they are caught in the pincer.
The White House's Middle East policy is, to paraphrase Orwell, objectively pro-Iranian — and has been from the start.
The Roman–Parthian War of 58–63 began when the Parthians (today's Iranians, more or less) established control over Armenia (standing in for today's Iraq), which had long been a buffer state between Rome and Parthia. Emperor Nero's claim to fame was fiddling while Rome burned, yet acted quickly and decisively against Parthia.
Our Nero in almost every case prefers to fiddle over decisive action, and the results speak for themselves.
It's Episode 24 of Trifecta Extra.
George Michael had a rough time of it in the 90′s and much of the Naughts, seemingly trying to kill himself with booze and drugs and anonymous sex. Like Gerry Rafferty before him, it seems he really wasn't cut out for fame.
He and Wham! partner Andrew Ridgely hit the Britpop music scene in the early '80s, tailor made for the video age — two good-looking white singers ripping off Motown, and ripping it off well. It's difficult to imagine now how genuinely excited people were in 1987 for Michael's debut solo effort, Faith, given how little music Wham! had actually produced. But it was a huge success, generating 25,000,000 worldwide sales and six Top 40 hits.
Production of his followup album, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 is where the trouble began.
Michael had had enough of being the pretty poster boy, and refused to allow his face ([snark]or even his rear end from the "Faith" video[/snark]) on the cover. Instead he opted for Weegee's 1940 photograph, "Crowd at Coney." He even refused to appear in most of the videos. The album's biggest hit was "Freedom! '90," the lyric of which was Michael's declaration of independence from MTV, from his record label executives, and a plea to his fans to be grownups. Listen Without Prejudice was considered something of a commercial failure, selling "only" two million copies in the US and eight million worldwide. It would be six years before he released another studio album of new material.
Artistically though Listen was Mission Accomplished as Michael worked on improving his songwriting and orchestration skills. Tonight's pick, "Cowboys And Angels," is proof that he achieved both of his goals, with what is easily my favorite single of his.
He could put out an album of this kind of material once a year, every year, and I'd be a happy buyer of each and every one.
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The headline says everything you need to know about the position Jews hold in today's Europe.
Apparently the West Wing is in "meltdown" over Bibi Netanyahu. Noah Rothman explains:
Speaking to the center-left Israeli newspaper, one unnamed source said that congressional Republicans' decision to invite Netanyahu to speak before an upcoming joint session was an affront to the dignity of the administration. When Netanyahu travels to the United States in March, he will not have the privilege of meeting with either President Barack Obama or Vice President Joe Biden. They will have their revenge against Netanyahu by completely yielding to him control of the national stage. That ought to show him.
According to Haaretz, one official says they have more ammunition to deploy against the leader of one of America's strongest allies, and they intend to use it.
"We thought we've seen everything," a senior American official said. "But Bibi managed to surprise even us. There are things you simply don't do. He spat in our face publicly and that's no way to behave. Netanyahu ought to remember that President Obama has a year and a half left to his presidency, and that there will be a price." [emphasis added]
Someone in the White House has been watching far too many episodes of House of Cards and thought that the casual casting about of petty and impotent threats makes the issuer seem tough and appear in command. In fact, it just sounds juvenile.
We've seen lots of juvenile statements from this Administration, perhaps starting with "I won" almost exactly six years ago. The rest of the White House has followed Ditherton Wiggleroom's less-than-sterling example.
Colorado voters spoke, but our governor wishes he didn't have to listen:
"If I could've waved a wand the day after the election, I would've reversed the election and said, 'This was a bad idea,' " Hickenlooper said Friday on CNBC's "Squawk Box."
"You don't want to be the first person to do something like this," he said.He said that he tells other governors to "wait a couple of years" before legalizing marijuana as Colorado continues to navigate an unknown, nonexisting federal regulatory landscape for the industry.
"There's a whole regulatory environment … that really regulates alcohol," he said. "We're starting from scratch, and we don't have a federal partner because [marijuana] is still illegal federally."
We're supposed to be a laboratory of democracy, Mr. Governor, and not a mere satrap of Washington. I'd apologize for the inconvenience, but why don't you try earning your paycheck instead?
The truth, it is revolting.
Another piece of Ukraine for Russia, perhaps:
The Ukrainian army retreated Thursday from key strongholds at the Donetsk airport, an epicenter of fighting in the country's conflict-battered eastern region, handing a symbolic victory to pro-Russian rebels amid a surge of violence that threatens to further unravel peace efforts.
Tensions in Ukraine have escalated since the start of the new year to levels that NATO's top commander said he has not seen since summer, before government troops and pro-Russian rebels signed a cease-fire agreement — an accord rendered ineffective by the recent surge in violence.
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Taking a red-eye from Los Angeles to New York just a few hours after her Dancing With the Stars victory did not slow Amber Riley down at all on Wednesday morning. The Glee alum continued her victory tour on Good Morning America, performing one of her winning dances.
Riley, appearing alongside partner Derek Hough and runners up Jack Osbourne and Cheryl Burke and Corbin Bleu and Karina Smirnoff, chatted with the GMA hosts and performed their umpteenth encore of the Charleston that helped them secure Hough's fifth mirrorball trophy. (The veteran pro now stands heads above his closest rivals in the DWTS pro pool.)
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Perhaps this is an insight into a peculiarly metropolitan existence, but walkers and bangers have been a major preoccupation this week. It's not often that Esther Rantzen and Gok Wan sum up the predicament of today's girl-about-town, but bear with me.
Rantzen has gone public with a tricky dilemma. As a single person who has more red-carpet invitations than hot dinners, she is badly in need of a walker: one who is not too big, not too small, not too boring, not too randy, not too greedy .... All she asks is for a nice tall man who can accompany her to a party, eat a canapé without incident and isn't too weird; but he turns out to be devilishly hard to find. Tell me about it, Esther.
The start of July is party season for London's literati, and it puts some peculiar anthropology on show. Among glitzy celebs or genteel historians, from the lady reviewers at one party to the naughty boys and poets at the next, from Bloomsbury to ... well, the other side of Bloomsbury, Esther's Law can be seen at work. Nobody likes to go to a party on their own. But for the women in the drawing room, on the terrace and under the plum tree last week, there were just not enough walkers to go round.
Take the head count at one party: spare women of all ages and talents, about 187; spare men, 3. And a straw poll found that these three were not entirely cut out for the part. One spent the evening trying to buy cocaine. Another was marched out by his wife. The third had obviously studied Neil Strauss's rancid book, The Game, and was working it on every woman in the room. We didn't so much mind his blatant resort to tactics, we decided; but using Virginia Woolf as a chat-up tool cannot be forgiven.
This is where Gok Wan comes in. This season, women are mostly loving Gok. He has a new fashion show on Channel 4, a book out from HarperCollins in October and a new harem of adoring women who would do just about anything to get close to him at his publisher's party last Tuesday. We didn't want to get into his knickers (though they were black, silky and very stylish) and he didn't want to get into ours. It was just so nice to meet someone who likes women.
What Gok has to offer is hard to define. If it were easy, all men would be at it. The thing is that, for a gay man, he really seems to love women's bodies. On TV and in magazines, women stylists sneer at each other's wobbly bits and plot how to conceal their bulges. He loves those bad boys, worships women's hooters and squeezes untold numbers of beautiful bangers (get used to this terminology, it will catch on), and women love it. I know, he did it to mine – but only when I asked him to.
I fear it is only a matter of time until gorgeous Gok gets sick of all the attention. Even he could squeeze one bap too many. Until that sad day, will all spare men please study his behaviour and get on to the party circuit, where 187 women, Esther Rantzen and I will be very glad to see them. And please leave the seduction guides at home.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor, 93, Hospitalized After Bone-Breaking Fall
Gabor was watching TV in her home in Bel-Air, California when she fell, publicist John Blanchette said. Gabor has been partially paralyzed since a 2002 car accident -- Blanchette describes her as "pretty much bedridden and wheelchair-bound for the last eight years."
"She's fragile, but she's still very bright -- she still makes me laugh," Blanchette said of recent visits with Gabor. "Her faculties are intact, but her body's failing her."
Blanchette said he received a call from Gabor's husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, at around 8 p.m. Saturday night with news that Gabor had fallen and taken an ambulance to UCLA.
"He said it was bad, she had broken several bones," Blanchette said of von Anhalt's call.
"My wife is a fighter," von Anhalt told TMZ. "She will be okay."
The New York Times refers to Gabor as "the prototypical 'professional celebrity': famous merely for being famous." Prototypical indeed -- who can't name one or five of those types today? Get well soon, Zsa Zsa...
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- Sunday 18 JulyBy JoannaHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
I suggest you take the age cure...knock your
ignorant self off, ASAP. - Sunday 18 JulyBy bymeili
Stu..Stu...Stu...you really don't get it do you? How sad for morons like yourself.
- Sunday 18 JulyBy Too Cute
You are stu pid! - Sunday 18 JulyBy J
So not cool man! She is 93, keep breathing and you will get there soon enough, and maybe you will fall out that bed and break somthing. Dumb @ss
- Sunday 18 JulyBy LARRY
stu, Ever day we look and see who is going to be the Idiot of the day, Way to go stu it"s you !!
- Thursday 22 JulyBy pugz
this woman is the original hollyweird skankasaurous. just because she has managed to hang-on for a few years does not change who she is. she never had a big acting career and was mainly famous for being famous and for being a gold-digging tramp who turned the cycle of marriage-divorce-alimony into a cottage industry. at least liz taylor made a couple of movies before she joined this little club.
- Monday 19 JulyBy mers48
you are probably right. He is one weird one too. He said he was Anna Nicole's baby's father.
- Sunday 18 JulyBy LonHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Best wishes and lots of hugs to Miss Gabor. Thanks for the great memories, get well soon. Miss Gabor the ultimate diva!
- Sunday 18 JulyBy rasslebearHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
"prototypical" refers to her being "an original type, form or instance serving as a basis or standard for later stages"... and she certainly was the first and best. even the spoiled, no-talent "celebs" of today (hilton, simpson, lohan, et.al.) would not dare slap a cop for pulling them over.
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In the wake of the Rodney King incedent, the L.A. cops may well owe her an apology.
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I didn't realize Ms. Gabor was still alive. God bless her!
- Sunday 18 JulyBy Al Schrader
I think she should have taken Arnold Ziffel's advice and moved to Hawaii with Mr. Hainey. Hope she recovers well....Al-
- Sunday 18 JulyBy JimHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Hope she didnt break her slapping wrist! Heal fast Dear!
- Sunday 18 JulyBy rodLowest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
No talent for sure. Just pedal your butt and end up with more husbands than she could count. What a waste.
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go watch "The Queen of Outerspace" 1958 with Zsa Zsa and Leslie Nielson and you will be an instant life long fan!!
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Aside from her slapping deputy sherrifs, Zsa Zsa knew how to behave herself.
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she will always be a great lady and will be missed when she leaves this world GOD BLESS HER
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Thanks for all the great memories. We miss the glamor and glitz of the old Hollywood greats. Get well soon and Bless you.
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A truly glamorous woman, Dah-link!
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Physician Assistant identifies discipline as ingredient for national progress
Accra, July 31, GNA – Mrs Juliana Kuatsinu, Principal Physician Assistant of the Trades Union Congress Clinic in Accra has noted that through discipline Ghana could have a cultured and responsible youth to run the country in future.
"Parents too can contribute by spending quality time with the child, and taking a deeper interest in what is happening at school and by making efforts to meet the teachers...to make their children schooling more productive and satisfying," she added.
Mrs Kuatsinu made the observation at the graduation and speech and prize-giving day of California Star School Complex at Omajor in the Ga West Municipality in the Greater Accra Region at the weekend on the theme: "Discipline: Hallmark of Producing Future Leaders of Distinction."
She said the positive approach to discipline was to instil a sense of responsibility in students by using youth/adult partnerships to develop and share clear rules, provide daily opportunities for success.
She noted that parents do not notice that by giving in to their children's demands, they are making them uncontrollable and a menace to the society.
Mr Kuatsinu said parents do that as a result of alienating children and would want to make them happy realising that they were losing their family support system for their old age.
"Parents begin to give in to everything that their growing teenagers demand, just to keep them happy and in his or her good books...," she stressed.
The Principal Physician Assistant said to increase positive behaviour in schools there should be an effective principals who would be liked and respected, rather than feared, communicate caring for students as well as willingness to impose punishment if necessary.
She said discipline was something one must cultivate from home and school and urged the pupils to show respect by learning to say; "thank you" and "please" to adults and be ready to assist their parents at home.
"Co-operate with school authorities to achieve goals. Be punctual at school and consistent with home work. Dress in a decent way, 'no Otto Pfister' or 'I am aware' dressing. For you girls wear simple and nice hairdo to school. No stealing of pens, pencils and erasers, ask and it should be given to you. Don't join bad company. You will only get bad advice. Do not play truant," Mrs Kuatsinu said.
Mr Edward K. Manu, Proprietor of the school said the academic facility started with 18 pupils but now has a population of 500 and had chalked out 100 per cent for four consecutive years in the Basic Education Certificate Examination.
He called on the government to extend the Capitation Grant to private schools operating in the deprived communities.
"Because of our peculiar location we offer fee-free education to school going children from the crèche, nursery, kindergarten one and two, when the school introduced this support system about a year ago and more than 60 pupils have enrolled in both the crèche and the nursery," Mr Manu said.
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The artist Jasper Johns made a rare public appearance on Thursday to testify in a Manhattan federal court. The 83-year-old artist gave his testimony in the US Attorney's case against a foundry owner, who allegedly made unauthorised copies of famous sculptures and tried to sell them as authentic works for millions of dollars.
"I know what I do to authorise [my sculptures] and this isn't mine," Johns told the court after examining a bronze Flag sculpture that resembled a series of four he made over more than 30 years. "It's finished in a way I wouldn't finish it, the frame has been polished… the signature appears to have been done photographically and there is a copyright symbol, which I would never use." The US Attorney has accused Brian Ramnarine, the former owner of the Empire Bronze Art Foundry in Queens, of selling or attempting to sell 13 unauthorised sculptures by Johns, Saint Clair Cemin and Robert Indiana. Ramnarine was arrested in 2012 after an art collector who had been offered the Johns Flag sculpture for $11m suspected it was a fake and alerted the FBI. (In 2003, Ramnarine pled guilty in state court to falsifying business records in an attempt to sell unauthorised copies of works by Kenny Scharf.) In court, both Johns and Cemin said they had never approved the additional copies Ramnarine produced. Ramnarine's attorney said that artists often gave works to Ramnarine as gifts or as a substitute for cash payment for other castings. Because Ramnarine did not have formal, written contracts with his clients, including Johns and Cemin, the accusations against him could not be proven, the lawyer said. Both Cemin and Johns objected to that defence on Thursday. "When I traded with him I always made a note of it," Cemin said. "The worst provenance a piece can have is from a foundry, because it is the only place that can create unauthorised pieces." Johns, who took the stand wearing black Nike sneakers and patiently explained his process to the jury for over an hour, said he had never asked Ramnarine to make a bronze cast of Flag, only a wax impression. "I was investigating the possibility of casting in gold, and I needed the wax to see what the price would be," the artist said. Ramnarine produced the wax cast as requested in 1990, but never returned the original mould from which the cast was made. Prosecutors said he used this mould to create the bronze Flag sculpture in 2010.Asked whether Ramnarine could have created the new cast from the old mould, Johns said it would be possible but also "unusual and unethical". Cemin said Ramnarine's actions "diminished the value of all the art I'm making". Update, 28 January: Ramnarine pleaded guilty on Monday to three counts of wire fraud, ending his trial after one week. Before the judge, the former foundry owner admitted to fabricating additional unauthorised sculptures even after his arrest in 2012. As part of his plea deal, Ramnarine agreed not to challenge a sentence of ten years or less in prison. (Had he not pleaded guilty, Ramnarine could have faced up to 80 years.) Sentencing is scheduled for 30 May.
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-- Assets at March 31, 2013 came to COP 22.6 billion (USD 11.5 billion), showing an increase of 7.6% compared to year-end 2013.
MEDELLIN, Colombia, April 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Grupo SURA has presented its financial results for the first quarter of this year, showing operating revenues of COP 183,211 (USD 93.0 million) and net profits of COP 148,050 million (USD 75.2 million). Assets came to COP 22.6 billion (USD 11.5 billion), showing increases of 2.6% compared to the same period last year and 7.6% versus year-end 2013. Shareholders´ equity at the end of this first quarter came to COP 20.9 billion (USD 10.6 billion), which was 3.0% higher than for year-end 2013.
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Overall results for this past quarter showed an increase in liabilities due to the financing obtained for the acquisition of preferred shares in Bancolombia back in March of this year. This produced a debt ratio of 4.7%. On the other hand, the Colombian Superintendency of Finance has given its authorization for an issue of Ordinary Bonds and/or Commercial Paper for up to COP 1.3 billion. This new issue of bonds to be placed in stages, the first for almost 50% of the total amount authorized, shall be used to restructure the Company's debt, providing it with more flexibility in taking full advantage of market opportunities or advancing its expansion plans.
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A Happy Art Room
18 comments:
Congratulations on playing w/ re-shaping your blog and I'd love to see more pics of your "Happy Art Room". I've been wanting to make some changes to my blog, you've inspired me to get around to it sooner rather than later.
Curious what the "passport" is that the 6th graders have to "submit"?Thanks, Jan. Someone left that table in the hallway as a "discard" in June 2009, and I rescued it, sanded it, and over the summer painted it, with a little help from a sweet 6th grade girl. I recently put a fresh coat of poly on it, and I hope the teacher who comes after me when I retire likes it too!
ReplyDeleteFantastic Ideas and great atmosphere in your class! So colourfull and inventive and good to read you give very hounest reflections to everything. I'm very curious about how you see and think of pure drawing in combination with the regular lessons, like interfacing with the other program. Wish you a very good retirement time!! Love from Amsterdam
ReplyDeleteHi, Phyl, I really admire the way you write about your work and your life! It is a great experience to read your blog! Greetings from Slovakia!
JanaHi Phyl, love your blog. I am an art teacher in Phoenix, Az. I want to start an art blog and love the way yours looks. Can you advise me on how to start one like yours?
ReplyDeleteRepliesMaria, thank you so much! I'd be happy to help you as much as I can; best to do it by email. My email address is not on by blog or profile because of spam issues I had a while back, but if you want to leave your email address in a comment (I suggest you write out the words 'at' and 'dot' to prevent being spammed) I'd be happy to answer you.