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Honda has somehow managed to turn tardiness into a virtue. The company got into the minivan market late but ended up producing the benchmark Odyssey. It was slow to enter the SUV market, then designed the popular MDX and Pilot, which fit full-size interior space into mid-sized packages. It even had to be dragged kicking and screaming into making V6 engines, then designed an engine family that may be the most sophisticated and versatile in the automotive industry. Given that track record it is no surprise that Honda has just now gotten around to building a pickup truck, and once again it seems as though the dilatory development cycle will pay off with the Ridgeline.
FOR AND AGAINST. The Ridgeline is not designed to steal F-150 or Silverado customers…per se. It is designed to give the 18% of Honda owners who also own pickups a chance to make their garages a Honda-only parking area. At the projected annual sales volume of only 50,000 units, the Ridgeline won't even scratch the paint on American automakers' truck dominance, but to Honda's credit it designed its first truck as if it would have to eat Ford's lunch to survive.
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HYBRID BODY. The Ridgeline team was loathe to put the Honda name on a vehicle that rides and handles like a typical pickup, so they developed a new body structure that merges a smooth-riding unibody with a rigid truck ladder frame. Using finite element stress analysis, they determined that the best way to increase body rigidity and thereby enhance handling is to provide an upper load path for the rear of the vehicle—something that is conspicuously missing on conventional pickups. This led to the integrated structure that undergirds the Ridgeline's signature angled sail panels, which ties directly into the reinforced back wall of the cab forming an assembly that is 20 times stiffer in torsional rigidity than competitors. The underlying frame consists of fully boxed, full-length high-strength steel frame rails laced together by seven boxed crossmembers. To help achieve ambitious payload and towing targets of 1549 lb. and 5000 lb. respectively, the rear rail depth is increased by 70% over the Pilot frame on which it is loosely based. In fact, Honda had to re-design so much of its global light truck platform to accommodate the requirements of a pickup that the Ridgeline's body ended up with the mixed blessing of 93% exclusive parts. Likewise, the chassis is 69% exclusive and features independent suspension all around (a first for a pickup), and front and rear subframes isolated by rubber mounts. The payoff for this markedly untrucklike setup is ride and handling more like an upscale SUV than the squirrelly nature of the average pickup.
Citing research that projects pickups will actually lose about 5% of their market by 2008, while new truck variations like SUTs will grow by 40%, Honda says it is just in time to hit a sweet spot in the market with the Ridgeline.


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Ravello, a startup with ties to the Red Hat KVM platform, has released a platform for firms looking to simplify the way they build and test applications.
Executives from Ravello claimed that their service will allow firms to test applications in the cloud in an environment which mirrors their on-premise deployments.
In doing so the company hopes to remove the processing limitations of on-premise testing without the development hurdles of a cloud migration.
Ravello senior vice president of products Navin Thadani told V3 firms previously had to choose between limiting the workload of application tests or migrating to a cloud infrastructure which requires an application to be adjusted.
"If you want to use the public cloud you have to recode and rebuild your application," Thadani explained.
"At that point it does not make sense, it is something completely different."
To overcome those hurdles, Ravello created a layer which sits between the traditional virtual machine and the cloud environment. The Ravello service offers users a cloud front-end in which an administrator can create a virtual "blueprint" of the on-premise testing structure and systems.
The blueprint is then combined with a software-defined network architecture and the company's HVX virtual server hypervisor platform to create a fully functional test environment which can be then run on a cloud service as a single compute instance.
The result, said Thadani, is a test environment which mirrors the customer's own on-premise structure but allows the compute and storage flexibility of a cloud instance.
Currently, the service supports the Amazon, Rackspace and HP cloud environments, though further partnerships are planned.
Based out of offices in Israel and Silicon Valley, Ravello has its roots in the virtualisation space. Prior to striking out on their own, the company's founders worked on the Qumranet KVM virtualisation project which was later acquired by Red Hat.
Under their new banner, the company hopes to bridge gaps which previously existed between on-premise deployments and cloud environments.
Ravello is now offering its service as a free public beta. The company hopes to take the paid service live with general availability later this year.
Shaun Nichols is the US correspondent for V3.co.uk. He has been with the company since 2006, originally joining as a news intern at the site's San Francisco offices.
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As I laid out yesterday, Mitch McConnell's victory lap made it clear he plans to set up ObamaCare — the individual mandate — as a key campaign issue for 2016.
There were another few details from that speech that were very telling.
First, McConnell said he would roll out tax reform — that is, very large tax cuts for corporations. That's clearly payback for the Chamber of Commerce, which had a very critical role in the GOP's success, according to this great article from the WaPo.
American Crossroads and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce played aggressively in primaries to boost the candidates they believed could win general elections — including Thom Tillis in North Carolina and Dan Sullivan in Alaska.
For much of the primary, Cochran was sleepy and might have been defeated outright were it not for a late push from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which aired a pro-Cochran testimonial from football legend Brett Favre on his farm in Hattiesburg, Miss.
Despite his corporate pedigree, Perdue was one of the few Republicans running without the backing of the U.S. Chamber. In late 2013, the Chamber's Rob Engstrom scheduled an endorsement interview with Perdue in Atlanta at 8 a.m. Perdue arrived at 8:35 and did not apologize for being late, according to three people familiar with the exchange. Sitting with his arms folded, Perdue told Engstrom, "I don't give a damn about the U.S. Chamber." Perdue put his finger on the table and said, "You're either going to endorse me right here, right now, or you're wasting my time."
Seven minutes in, the meeting was over.
It was Republican former Senate leader Robert J. Dole, 91, who first sensed trouble for Roberts. Amid a tour of Kansas, Dole in May called Scott Reed, his 1996 presidential campaign manager and now an adviser at the U.S. Chamber, with a warning. "There wasn't the enthusiasm I expected for Pat," Dole said.
Of course, that's going to leave a hole in the budget. Eliminating the medical device tax — another tweak McConnell promised to make to ObamaCare — will create another hole in the budget.
McConnell revealed part of how he was going to fill it with his response to a question about the Democrats' filibuster reform. He noted that the Senate doesn't need 60 to get things done for some issues. He noted they can use reconciliation and push stuff through with just 51 votes.
The GOP has spent 4 years complaining that the Democrats pushed ObamaCare through using reconciliation. But it took just 15 hours after winning the majority for McConnell to make clear that he plans to push through aggressive ideological legislation using the same tool.
Still, all the cutting in the world isn't going to make up for steep drops in corporate tax cuts. Which means — as always happens when Republicans are in charge — we should expect the deficit to start growing again.
One point I tried to make in this post on George Orwell's fighting in Spain is that the fight between Bashar al-Assad and ISIS is one that has become an ideological magnet. I was trying to argue that we're offering little by way of positive ideology to combat ISIS, particularly among those most susceptible to its draw.
Two recent commentaries have made related points. This Jocelyne Cesari NYT op-ed on Europe's need to more fully embrace Muslims notes the "collapse" of ideologies in Europe.
Third, the collapse of all major ideologies in Europe — nationalism, Communism, and liberalism — has left room for new radical options. For some young Europeans, adherence to radical Islam provides a viable alternative ideology, comparable to that of radical leftist groups in the 1970s.
And at the New Yorker, Steve Coll notes that ISIS is the kind of thing that arises when people feel they have no other avenue for security and justice.
The group's lightning rise is a symptom, however, of deeper instability; a cause of that instability is failed international policy in Iraq and Syria. If the United States is returning to war in the region, one might wish for a more considered vision than Whack-a-Mole against jihadists.
The restoration of human rights in the region first requires a renewed search for a tolerable—and, where possible, tolerant—path to stability. ISIS feasts above all on the suffering of Syria, and that appears to be unending. The war is in its fourth year, with almost two hundred thousand dead and nine million displaced, inside the country and out. The caliphate now seated in Raqqa is the sort of dark fantasy that can spring to life when people feel they are bereft of other plausible sources of security and justice.
Though the very terms Coll discusses may betray part of the problem — and the neoliberal ideology Cesari doesn't account for in her piece.
It is not yet clear that ISIS will endure as a menace. Fast-moving extremist conquerors sometimes have trouble holding their ground. ISIS has promised to govern as effectively as it intimidates, but its talent lies in extortion and ethnic cleansing, not in sanitation and job creation. It is vulnerable to revolt from within.
Conceiving of governance as "job creation" may undersell what a destabilized region is looking for — not to mention ignore what ISIS has done in Syrian areas they control.
The group also has a surprisingly sophisticated bureaucracy, which typically includes an Islamic court system and a rovingpolice force. In the Syrian town of Manbij, for example, ISIS officials cut off the hands of four robbers. In Raqqa, they forced shops to close for selling poor products in the suq (market) as well as regular supermarkets and kebab stands—a move that was likely the work of its Consumer Protection Authority office. ISIS has also whipped individuals for insulting their neighbors, confiscated and destroyed counterfeit medicine, and on multiple occasions summarily executed and crucified individuals for apostasy. Members have burned cartons of cigarettes and destroyed shrines andgraves, including the famous Uways al-Qarani shrine in Raqqa.
Beyond these judicial measures, ISIS also invests in public works. In April, for instance, it completeda new suq in al-Raqqa for locals to exchange goods. Additionally, the group runs an electricity office that monitors electricity-use levels, installs new power lines, and hosts workshops on how to repair old ones. The militants fix potholes, bus people between the territories they control, rehabilitateblighted medians to make roads more aesthetically pleasing, and operate a post office and zakat (almsgiving) office (which the group claims has helped farmers with their harvests). Most importantly for Syrians and Iraqis downriver, ISIS has continued operating the Tishrin dam (renaming it al-Faruq) on the Euphrates River. Through all of these offices and departments, ISIS is able to offer a semblance of stability in unstable and marginalized areas, even if many locals do not like its ideological program.
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I've long been intrigued by the response to the discovery of CIA spies in Germany, starting last week when seemingly everyone wanted to admit that the alleged spy was CIA's. Unlike the Pakistani, Mexican, Afghan, and other precedents, the government either didn't succeed or didn't care to prevent Americans from learning about our overseas spies.
Now we've got competing explanations for why we spy in Germany.
According to Eli Lake source David Albright (whom Jim regularly embarrasses for his Iran propaganda), we spy on Germany because AQ Khan got much of his plans for Pakistan's nuclear program in Germany. Lake also points to Germany's close relations with Russia. The CIA has to spy on Germany, then, because Germany is not very good at spying on others, including Russian spies.
And of course, the forerunners to Russia's modern spy services had plenty of experience operating on German soil. Vladimir Putin famously ran agents for the KGB from 1985 to 1990 out of Dresden, which was then in communist East Germany. His successors are still in the country, albeit on less friendly terms. "There is a huge Russian presence in Germany," said the senior U.S. intelligence official.
Part of the current concern about Russia's activities in Germany stems from unease about Berlin's equivalent of the FBI, known as the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BFV). One former U.S. intelligence officer who worked on European issues said the BFV had a strong reputation for identifying and neutralizing domestic threats inside Germany, but was not very good hunting so-called "moles" – foreign agents burrowed into their spy services. "I can tell you they never watched us very carefully at all," this official said. "That is almost definitely going to change now."
Meanwhile, German Die Zeit editor Jochen Bittner relied on CIA's former German Station Chief Joseph Wippl for explanation; Wippl provided a bizarre suggestion that CIA was accidentally treating Germany like it treats "Third World" countries, and anyway the Germans aren't willing to do the dirty work to gain full membership in a Five Eyes like relationship.
I asked Joseph T. Wippl, who was the C.I.A.'s Berlin station chief in the early 2000s, why the agency had recruited German sources. "The C.I.A. has developed strongly in the direction of a third world agency, in that its officers work in places where the U.S. has great leverage over others and where there is no rule of law," he said. "They are not used to or have not been trained to work in countries with similar democratic, constitutional institutions." At the same time, he went on, the Germans had never seemed interested in the level of cooperation that might obviate this sort of unilateral snooping — the sort of treaty relationship that America has with Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, the so-called Five Eyes intelligence alliance.
To suggest that the Germans could be treated as a Sixth Eye is a flattering idea. Yet I doubt the Germans would accept the honor. As is the case with America's nuclear umbrella, we're happy to have the protection while being still happier not to have to carry the responsibility. If Germany entered into a real intelligence alliance with America, the government would have to deal with a load of dirty knowledge — and lose the benefit of plausible deniability.
As you read Wippl's comments, remember his own rather dubious exploits in Germany.
This whole conversation feels a lot like Keith Alexander's spectacularly successful effort to use a few journalists to cover up his admission that we do spy in Europe, but only for targets – Chinese, Russian, and al Qaeda – that can be deemed not-European.
But it ignores the great deal of spying we do on the European Union, which has long served to strengthen Germany, but the recent collapse of which has eliminated the most viable competing reserve currency in the world.
There has been a tremendous adjustment in the European power base in recent years, which largely stems from the EU, which in turn largely stems from Germany's successful effort at making the rest of the EU absorb the pain of the financial crisis. I guarantee you we were aggressively spying on that, all in the name of preparing for instability (but surely using that intelligence to preserve the dollar's competitive advantages).
Meanwhile, all this takes place against the background of negotiations on the TTIP, in which the US would demand concessions from Europe that gut many of the better policies of the EU.
We may be concerned that the Germans have good reason to want closer relations with Russia than we want them to have. But we also have a financially competitive relationship with Germany, and there's no reason to believe we're not doing a ton of spying to our advantage. Key details of that spying has not (yet) been fully revealed. But I do wonder if that's part of the issue here.
In the NYT, David Sanger describes US efforts to develop some common understanding over cyberattacks with China by briefing it on what our escalation process would be. Unsurprisingly, China (which hasn't had a massive data leak as an excuse to admit to information now in the public domain) has no reciprocated.
And while Sanger makes it clear the US is still not admitting to StuxNet, his US sources are coming to understand that the rationalizations we use to excuse our spying aren't really as meaningful as we like to tell ourselves.
Mr. Obama told the Chinese president that the United States, unlike China, did not use its technological powers to steal corporate data and give it to its own companies; its spying, one of Mr. Obama's aides later told reporters, is solely for "national security priorities." But to the Chinese, for whom national and economic security are one, that argument carries little weight.
"We clearly don't occupy the moral high ground that we once thought we did," said one senior administration official.
I especially love the spectacle of an SAO coming to grips with this, but doing so anonymously.
Yet this anonymous admission will not stop the US from imposing such double standards. On Friday, the US Trade Representative issued its yearly report on barriers to trade in telecom and related industries. (Reuters reported on the report here.) None of these complaints are explicitly about the NSA. And some of USTR's demands — that Turkey stop shutting down services like Twitter — would make it harder for other countries to spy on their own citizens.
But many of the USTR's complaints single out measures that are either deliberately meant to undermine NSA's spying advantages, or would have the effect of doing so. So these complaints also amount to whining that other countries are making NSA's job harder.
Consider some of the complaints against China, whose top equipment manufacturer Huawei the US has excluded from not only the US, but also Korea and Australia.
It complains about China's limits on telecom providers — and pretends this is exclusively a trade issue, not a national security issue.
Moreover, the Chinese Government still owns and controls the three major basic telecom operators in the telecommunications industry, and appears to see these entities as important tools in broader industrial policy goals, such as promoting indigenous standards for network equipment.
USTR criticizes China's categorization of business that can be used for spying — such as cloud computing firms — as a telecoms subject to licensing restrictions.
China's equity restrictions on foreign participation constitute a major impediment to market access in China. These restrictions are compounded by China's broad interpretation of services requiring a telecommunications license (and thus subject to equity caps) and narrow interpretation of the specific services foreign firms can offer in these sub-sectors.
Several VAS definitions in the draft Catalog also raise trade restriction concerns. First, the draft Catalog created a new category of "Internet Resource Collaboration Services" that appears to covers all aspects of cloud computing. (Cloud computing is a computer service or software delivery model, and should not be misclassified as a telecommunications service.) MIIT approach to cloud computing generally raises a host of broad concerns. Second, the draft Catalog significantly expanded the definition of "Information Services" to include software application stores, software delivery platforms, social networking websites, blogs, podcasts, computer security products, and a number of other Internet and computing services. These services simply use the Internet as a platform for providing business and information to customers, and thus should not be considered as telecommunications services.
USTR complains about Chinese requirements for encryption both for information systems tied to critical infrastructure.
Starting in 2012, both bilaterally and during meetings of the WTO's Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade, the United States raised its concerns with China about framework regulations for information security in critical infrastructure known as the Multi-Level Protection Scheme (MLPS), first issued in June 2007 by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The MLPS regulations put in place guidelines to categorize information systems according to the extent of damage a breach in the system could pose to social order, public interest, and national security. The MLPS regulations also appear to require buyers to comply with certain information security technical regulations and encryption regulations that are referenced within the MLPS regulations. If China issues implementing rules for the MLPS regulations and applies the rules broadly to commercial sector networks and IT infrastructure, they could adversely affect sales by U.S. information security technology providers in China.
And for providers on its 4G network.
At the end of 2011 and into 2012, China released a Chinese government-developed 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) encryption algorithm known as the ZUC standard. The European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) had approved ZUC as a voluntary LTE encryption standard in September 2011. According to U.S. industry reports, MIIT, in concert with the State Encryption Management Bureau (SEMB), informally announced in early 2012 that only domestically developed encryption algorithms, such as ZUC, would be allowed for the network equipment and mobile devices comprising 4G TD-LTE networks in China. It also appeared that burdensome and invasive testing procedures threatening companies' sensitive intellectual property could be required.
In response to U.S. industry concerns, USTR urged China not to mandate any particular encryption standard for 4G LTE telecommunications equipment, in line with its bilateral commitments and the global practice of allowing commercial telecommunications services providers to work with equipment vendors to determine which security standards to incorporate into their networks.
Finally, USTR dubs China's limits on outsider VOIP services a trade restriction.
Restrictions on VoIP services imposed by certain countries, such as prohibiting VoIP services, requiring a VoIP provider to partner with a domestic supplier, or imposing onerous licensing requirements have the effect of restricting legitimate trade or creating a preference for local suppliers, typically former monopoly suppliers.
All of these complaints, of course, can be viewed narrowly as a trade problem. But the underlying motivation on China's part is almost certainly about keeping the US out of its telecom networks, both to prevent spying and to sustain speech restraints behind the Great Firewall.
It's not just China about which USTR complains. It issues similar dual purpose (trade and spying) complaints against India and Colombia, among others.
And of course, it finds European plans to require intra-EU transit limits — a plan done largely to combat US spying — a 'draconian" trade restriction.
In particular, Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG), Germany's biggest phone company, is publicly advocating for EU-wide statutory requirements that electronic transmissions between EU residents stay within the territory of the EU, in the name of stronger privacy protection. Specifically, DTAG has called for statutory requirements that all data generated within the EU not be unnecessarily routed outside of the EU;
The United States and the EU share common interests in protecting their citizens' privacy, but the draconian approach proposed by DTAG and others appears to be a means of providing protectionist advantage to EU-based ICT suppliers.
Meanwhile, even as I was writing this, one of the EU's top Data Privacy figures, Paul Nemitz, just floated making the reverse accusation against America, that its NSA spying is a trade impediment to European businesses trying to do business in the US.
Fun stuff.
Robert Kaplan wrote a predictably horrible defense of empire that a number of people are giving the appropriate disdainful treatment.
Against my better judgement, I'd like to take a different approach and treat it as a useful piece (though not one I agree with or find palatable at all).
I think its useful, in part, against the background of the NSA disclosures. Key players in NSA discussions — people who travel some of the same circles as Kaplan, even — premise their treatment of the disclosures from an exclusively national perspective, completely ignoring that the NSA (and its GCHQ poodle) is different precisely because it depends on and serves as a key instrument of authority in an empire (or global hegemon, if the term empire gives you the willies). Approaching and assessing NSA's behavior solely from a national perspective not only represses the obvious reasons why NSA's dragnet of other countries' citizens matters, but it also fails to assess our actions in the proper light, even from the standpoint of efficacy. NSA's tasking choices reflect not our national interest, but rather the needs of the empire, which is why a relatively minor country like Venezuela gets prioritized along with Russia and China. That's why we made Huawei such a high priority target: because it presents a unique threat to the functioning of our empire.
I would like to get to the point where we can discuss the NSA disclosures not just in terms of what they mean for Americans' civil liberties as well of those who may not enjoy Fourth Amendment protection but nevertheless are citizens in a US order, but also whether the prioritization of complete dragnet and offensive spying and hacking serves the interests to which they've been put, that of the American global hegemon.
And here's where I think Kaplan, in spite of his racism and paternalism and selective history, serves a useful role at this point in time. He claims, cherry picking from history, that only empires can provide order.
Throughout history, governance and relative safety have most often been provided by empires, Western or Eastern. Anarchy reigned in the interregnums.
And then he asks whether or not America can afford to sustain its own empire.
Nevertheless, the critique that imperialism constitutes bad American foreign policy has serious merit: the real problem with imperialism is not that it is evil, but rather that it is too expensive and therefore a problematic grand strategy for a country like the United States. Many an empire has collapsed because of the burden of conquest. It is one thing to acknowledge the positive attributes of Rome or Hapsburg Austria; it is quite another to justify every military intervention that is considered by elites in Washington.
Thus, the debate Americans should be having is the following: Is an imperial-like foreign policy sustainable?
Once that caution is acknowledged, the debate gets really interesting. To repeat, the critique of imperialism as expensive and unsustainable is not easily dismissed.
Perhaps predictably Kaplan dodges his own question, never seriously answering it. Instead of answering the question that he admits might have answers he doesn't much like, he instead spends a bunch of paragraphs, in all seriousness, arguing that Obama is pursuing a post-Imperial presidency.
Rather than Obama's post-imperialism, in which the secretary of state appears like a lonely and wayward operator encumbered by an apathetic White House, I maintain that a tempered imperialism is now preferable.
No other power or constellation of powers is able to provide even a fraction of the global order provided by the United States.
And by dodging his own question by launching a partisan attack, Kaplan avoids a number of other questions. Not just whether the American empire is sustainable, but whether there's something about the means of American empire that has proven ineffective (which is really a different way of asking the same question). Why did Iraq end up being such catastrophe? Why did we lose the Arab Spring, in all senses of the word? Why, even at a time when the US still acts as global hegemon, is instability rising?
There are some underlying reasons, like climate change, that the imperialists would like to distinguish from our oil-based power and the dollar exchange it rests on.
But even more, I think, the imperialists would like to ignore how neoliberalism has gutted the former source of our strength, our manufacturing, has led us to increased reliance on Intellectual Property, and has not offered the people in our realm of influence the stability Kaplan claims empire brings. People can't eat, they can't educate their children, they can't retire because of the policies Kaplan and his buddies have pushed around the world. And the US solution to this is more trade pacts that just further instantiate IP as a core value, regardless of how little it serves those people who can't eat.
The NSA is intimately a part of this, of course. The reason I find it so hysterical that NSA's one defense against China is effectively the IP one — the NSA doesn't steal IP and give it to "private" companies to use. But that's just another way of saying that the empire we've rolled out has failed to protect even the increasingly ineffective core basis of our power, its IP.
I've said this before, but what is happening, increasingly, is that the US has to coerce power rather than win it through persuasion — persuasion that used to be (at least for our European allies) increased quality of life. It's a lot more expensive to coerce power, both in terms of the military adventures or repression you must engage in, but also in terms of the dragnet you must throw across the world rather than the enhanced communication of an open Internet. Nevertheless, the Obama Administration, for all of Kaplan's claimed post-Imperialism, seems to be doubling down on more coercive (or, in the case of trade agreements, counterproductive) means of retaining power.
And so Kaplan, who's so sure that empire is a great thing, might be better considering not empire in the abstract (indeed, abstracted to the point of suppressing the many downsides of empire), but the empire we've got. He seems to implicitly admit he can't rebut the claim that our empire is no longer sustainable, but since he can't he changes the subject. Why is our empire unsustainable, Robert Kaplan? And for those who believe the US offers a good — or even a least-bad — order for the globe, what do you intend to do to return it to sustainability?
Dragnets and austerity aren't going to do it, that's for sure.
Update: Thanks to Wapiti for alerting me to my huge error of substituting Kagan (generic neocon name) for Kaplan's actual last name. Sorry for the confusion.
Now that the super exciting Pro Bowl is over (shoot that thing and put us all out of its worthless misery), we are down to just one last football game. But it is a good one, with the top ranked team in each conference representing, and the best offense versus the best defense. And all that jazz.
And, really, what else is there to say about the game at this point? It has been the fascination of sports, general and entertainment media for two weeks of hype now. I could take you through the normal rundown on the teams, but why? My one real take is that the game boils down not to Denver's offense or Seattle's defense, but rather to Denver's defense. Peyton and the Broncos will score some points no matter how well they are defended. The same cannot necessarily be said about the Seahawks. So, if the Broncos defense plays big, Denver wins. If not, they don't.
Can't wait to find out; will be one hell of an exciting game to watch. If you can't wait and want a simulation, this Breaking Madden piece is pretty great.
So, let's talk for a bit about the game itself in terms of what it means and does for the host city. Does hosting a Super Bowl mean as much to a city as is commonly claimed?
Here is a report on the effects of 2008 Super Bowl XLII on the greater Phoenix area by the Arizona State University WP Carey School of Business. The results claim:
Super Bowl festivities generated a record $500.6 million in direct and indirect spending by visiting fans and organizations, according to the newly released Super Bowl impact study produced by the W. P. Carey MBA Sports Business program.
The gross impact of a half billion dollars in the Arizona marketplace brings rejuvenation to an economy that has been weakened by a recession.
The ripple effect of return visits, family and company relocations, and word-of-mouth marketing nationally could equal or exceed the record Super Bowl spending in years to come.
That is in line with many of the claims that are commonly pitched for Super Bowls, but is that right?
Well, maybe not. There are a lot of demands on a host city, and they really add up. One of the best journalists out there writing on the intersection of sports and society is Travis Waldron, and he reported this on the eve of last year's Super Bowl in New Orleans:
Those estimates, though, are likely fool's gold, according to an assortment of academic research into the actual economic impact of Super Bowls and other major sporting events. When professors Victor Matheson and Robert Baade studied the economic impact of Super Bowls from 1973 to 1997, they found that the games boosted city economies by about $30 million, "roughly one-tenth the figures touted by the NFL" and an even smaller fraction of what New Orleans officials predict. A later Baade and Matheson study found that the economic impact of a Super Bowl is "on average one-quarter or less the magnitude of the most recent NFL estimates."
Similarly, a 1999 paper from professor Philip Porter found that the Super Bowl had virtually no effect on a city's economy. Research on other events New Orleans has hosted, including the men's Final Four, is similar. When Baade and Matheson studied Final Fours, they found that the events tend "not to translate into any measurable benefits to the host cities."
There are multiple reasons the estimates are often overstated. Impact estimates usually take into account how much money will be spent in the city during an event like the Super Bowl without examining how much potential spending will be lost because people don't visit or leave the city to avoid the crowd — that is, the impact studies account for gross spending, but not net spending. And the estimates rarely include the additional cost of putting on the event, further distorting the disparity between gross and net spending figures.
Frankly, I find the Williams College study undergirding Travis' argument far more persuasive than the happy face one put out here by ASU that is cited above. Still, even if the net impact is "only" 150-200 million dollars, that is a good thing for a city's economy. And I don't know what people going to the Super Bowl in cold weather place like New Jersey/New York are going to come away →']);" class="more-link">Continue reading
As part of an NYT story on implants the NSA has placed in 100,000 computers around the world, some of them via radio, it lists "trade institutions inside the European Union" among the targets for Computer Network Exploitation.
It must be particularly sensitive to that declaration above others, because the NSA spokesperson offers a tired excuse for why our economic spying is not bad, while China's is.
While refusing to comment on the scope of the Quantum program, the N.S.A. said its actions were not comparable to China's.
"N.S.A.'s activities are focused and specifically deployed against — and only against — valid foreign intelligence targets in response to intelligence requirements," Vanee Vines, an agency spokeswoman, said in a statement. "We do not use foreign intelligence capabilities to steal the trade secrets of foreign companies on behalf of — or give intelligence we collect to — U.S. companies to enhance their international competitiveness or increase their bottom line."
I wonder whether the people who parrot this line really have so little understanding of the distinctions between the way China's government presses its economic advantage and the way we do? I wonder if they've never seen cables showing our diplomats pressuring other countries in ways that benefit specific, named US companies (or trade organizations), surely relying on intelligence gained from both SIGINT and HUMINT?
We are neither better or worse capitalists than China because of the way we spy. Both countries are cheating on behalf of ostensibly "national" companies (though cheating and illicitly gained intelligence are an established feature of even the best regulated markets).
For some reason the NSA thinks that so long as it doesn't spy on one of the few remaining areas where the US has the biggest competitive advantage — its Intellectual Property — its economic spying is morally better than China's economic spying.
That's nonsense. It's all cheating in the name of national strength. If it's acceptable for us to do it, we really can't perform moral outrage that our rivals are doing it.
I was actually surprised, back in May, when the White House announced a State Visit for Brazil's President, Dilma Rousseff.
After all, not long after Obama visited Brazil in March 2011, the real started gaining value against the dollar, significantly slowing the boom Brazil had enjoyed in the wake of our crash.
When she was here in April 2012, Dilma explicitly blamed US Quantitative Easing for the reversal in currencies, and suggested the policy was meant to slow growth in countries like Brazil. Before that, Brazil's boom and its advances in energy independence had put Brazil in a position to assume the global stature a country of its size might aspire to. And Dilma (partly correctly) blamed US actions for undercutting that stature.
I interpreted the State Dinner to be an attempt to woo Brazil away from natural coalitions with the Bolivarist governments of Latin America and the BRICS (Brazil, Russsia, India, China, and South Africa).
Fast forward to today, when the Brazilian government announced that it has postponed the visit that had been scheduled for October 23.
The usual suspects are mocking Dilma's decision, insisting that everyone spies, and that Brazil is just making a stink for political gain. The White House statement echoes that, suggesting that it was the revelation of US spying, and not the spying itself, that created the problems.
The President has said that he understands and regrets the concerns disclosures of alleged U.S. intelligence activities have generated in Brazil and made clear that he is committed to working together with President Rousseff and her government in diplomatic channels to move beyond this issue as a source of tension in our bilateral relationship.
There is something to that stance. Dilma's government faces a lot of unrest and the tensions of preparing for the World Cup. The portrayal that the US was taking advantage of Brazil caught her at a politically sensitive time.
All that said, those poo-pooing Brazil's complaints ignore the specific nature of the spying as revealed. As I noted, even James Clapper's attempt to respond to concerns raised by the original reports in Brazil didn't address (and indeed, may have exacerbated) concerns that the US is engaging in financial war, including manipulating its currency to undercut other countries as they rise in relative power. If the US is using its advantages in SIGINT to engage in such financial war, Brazil has every reason to object, because it's not something Brazil's currency or telecommunications position make possible.
US disclaimers of industrial espionage no longer matter if the US is collecting SIGINT that would support substantive financial attacks, especially since Clapper in March made it clear the US envisions such attacks (even if they only admit to thinking in defensive terms).
It is wealth inequality day, in which, on the same day, the Census Bureau releases information on poverty and CQ releases the list of richest members of Congress.
As for poverty: things didn't get statistically worse, but things didn't get better at all, not even with decreasing unemployment (which, admittedly, is largely about labor market participation). (In good news, President Obama today extended minimum wage and overtime protections to home healthcare workers, though he bizarrely delayed implementation of the rule until 2015.)
As for wealth, 50 members of Congress are worth $6.67 million or more.
No wonder they seem so distant from the worries of their constituents.
But the truly mind-blowing detail from CQ's wealthiest list is the remarkable luck Darrell Issa had in the last year. In just the last year, his net worth has increased from $140.55 million to $355.38 million — or a net worth increase of 152.8%. (He also became the richest member, but would have anyway on account of John Kerry's retirement.)
No wonder he gins up factually problematic attacks on the IRS.
Here's how CQ describes Issa managed such a feat:
The longtime denizen of the 50 Richest list finally reached the No. 1 spot after making about $135 million in 2012, mostly from investments that swelled in a bull market.
Issa appears to make his money in the stock market. He ended 2012 with at least $390 million in bonds and stocks. His true worth, however, could be far greater. Members of Congress aren't obligated to disclose exact figures, only ranges, and Issa has seven accounts with a minimum of $50 million, which is the highest category available on standard disclosure forms.
Issa also has about $75 million in outstanding loans, owing at least $50 million to Merrill Lynch and $25 million to Union Bank. Whether he truly is the richest member of Congress actually depends on precisely how much money he owes to Merrill Lynch.
So in the last year in which insider trading was legal for members Congress, Darrell Issa managed to make at least $100 million.
And yet he believes Benghazi is the most urgent matter facing this country.
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Yesterday, TV Globo published details of NSA spying on Brazil's oil company, Petrobras, SWIFT, and financial organizations. Besides revealing that man-in-the-middle attacks are sometimes used, the report didn't offer details of what the NSA was actually collecting. Its sources suggest NSA might be seeking Brazil's leading deep sea drilling technology or geological information that would be useful in drilling auctions, but it is also conceivable the NSA is just trying to anticipate what the oil market will look like in upcoming years (this is one area where we probably even spy on our allies the Saudis, since they have been accused of lying about their reserves).
To some degree, then, I await more details about precisely what we're collecting and why.
But what I am interested in is James Clapper's response. He released this statement on the I Con site.
It is not a secret that the Intelligence Community collects information about economic and financial matters, and terrorist financing.
We collect this information for many important reasons: for one, it could provide the United States and our allies early warning of international financial crises which could negatively impact the global economy. It also could provide insight into other countries' economic policy or behavior which could affect global markets.
Our collection of information regarding terrorist financing saves lives. Since 9/11, the Intelligence Community has found success in disrupting terror networks by following their money as it moves around the globe. International criminal organizations, proliferators of weapons of mass destruction, illicit arms dealers, or nations that attempt to avoid international sanctions can also be targeted in an effort to aid America's and our allies' interests.
What we do not do, as we have said many times, is use our foreign intelligence capabilities to steal the trade secrets of foreign companies on behalf of – or give intelligence we collect to – US companies to enhance their international competitiveness or increase their bottom line.
As we have said previously, the United States collects foreign intelligence – just as many other governments do – to enhance the security of our citizens and protect our interests and those of our allies around the world. The intelligence Community's efforts to understand economic systems and policies and monitor anomalous economic activities is critical to providing policy makers with the information they need to make informed decisions that are in the best interest of our national security.
Let me take this extraordinary statement in reverse order.
In the fourth paragraph, Clapper reiterates the final defense that NSA defenders use: that we're better than, say, China and France, because we don't engage in industrial espionage, stealing technology with our spying. That may be true, but I suspect at the end of the day the economic spying we do might be more appalling.
In the third paragraph, he retreats to the terror terror terror strategy the Administration has used throughout this crisis. And sure, no one really complains that the government is using financial tracking to break up terrorist networks (though the government is awfully selective about whom it prosecutes, and it almost certainly has used a broad definition of "terrorism" to spy on the financial transactions of individuals for geopolitical reasons). But note, while the Globo report provided no details, it did seem to describe that NSA spies on SWIFT.
That would presumably be in addition to whatever access Treasury gets directly from SWIFT, through agreements that have become public.
That is, the Globo piece at least seems to suggest that we're getting information from SWIFT via two means, via the now public access through the consortium, but also via NSA spying. That would seem to suggest we're using it for things that go beyond the terrorist purpose the consortium has granted us access for. Past reporting on SWIFT has made it clear we threatened to do just that. The Globo report may support that we have in fact done that.
Now the second paragraph. James Clapper, too cute by half, asserts, spying on financial information,
could provide the United States and our allies early warning of international financial crises which could negatively impact the global economy
Hahahahahaha! Oh my word! Hahahaha. I mean, sure, the US needs to know of pending financial crises, in the same way it wants to know what the actual versus claimed petroleum reserves in the world are (and those are, of course, closely related issues). But with this claim, Clapper suggests the US would actually recognize a financial crisis and do something about it.
Hahahahaha. Didn't — still doesn't — work out that way.


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Let's be accurate: The KRFX morning show is a redneck act--simple tobacco-spitting ignorance and backwardness attempting to pass itself off as hip and with-it.
I want to see the follow-up story, ten years from now, when the two no-talent hicks are holding down the all-night shift at some Laramie, Wyoming, convenience store.
You would think Patricia Calhoun could get more aggressive reporting than the oh-so-balanced Lewis and Floorwax publicity handouts she's been printing.
B. Matthews
In regard to the two "women" from Aurora suing Lewis and Floorwax and KRFX, I say listen to KOSI from now on. They knew darn well what they were getting into.
Did they think the "masters" would act differently? They play with people. But that is all...play. These "girls" obviously like what the "masters" do on air, but it offended them in person.
The "masters" are the furthest thing from rude in real life. I have seen Floorwax at different businesses around town, and he couldn't be nicer. From what I remember in L.A., Rick Lewis wasn't rude, either.
"Ladies," if these two are so bad, tune into "Huck & Chuck" and leave the "masters" alone.
Brett Hasetto
I wrote before, after I heard Lewis and Floorwax whining because they weren't picked for Best of Denver. That same morning they made their usual juvenile cracks about women, this time about Westword's editor, Patricia Calhoun, and whether she was the "cow" who had posed for the cover of the Best of Denver issue. I couldn't believe that in the same issue my letter was printed there was a story about how these guys had also trashed a woman who won a contest and a friend of hers. I want to congratulate those two women for having the guts to sue Lewis and Floorwax. I hope they win big. Lewis and Floorwax, you are the Worst of Denver. And I want to congratulate Patricia Calhoun for printing such a fair story about the lawsuit. Personally, I think she should beat the shit out of them.
Susan T.
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Robin Chotzinoff's July 20 story about Weldon Kees, "Kees to the Kingdom," was amusing, and the part about guys in shorts, black socks and sandals hit a certain nail on its head. But there was short shrift done to DPL by its part as straight man in this little story.
The Denver Public Library is a vibrant, vast store of knowledge, ideas and information that far exceeds anyone's chance of exhausting. It is a far cry, too, from the sleepy catacombs you describe. And when the doors of the new building open, you will gape in astonishment at what is there for you to use. DPL is a rich wellspring of material for the information highway and will be a major node.
And another thing. It's Phil Panum--with a P, not a T. Thank you and keep up the good work. Kenny Be is wonderful.
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Kudos for Robin Chotzinoff, whose thorough research and gutsy writing enliven your pages often--though it can't be too often for me. Her piece on Weldon Kees was absolutely first-rate, and that's only one of so many I've appreciated. Give her whatever she wants to keep her happy, but hang on to her!
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Regarding Richard Fleming's "Drawing the Line" in the July 20 issue:
Hispanos shut out of power should come as no surprise for those of us who were born and reared in the San Luis Valley. The valley has always had a heavy taint of racism, rampant when I was growing up. Alamosa, Monte Vista, Center and Del Norte were as oppressive toward Hispanos as Selma was toward blacks. In the Forties and Fifties, one could see signs that read "No Mexicans or Dogs Allowed" in barbershops and restaurants. Hispanos lived in designated parts of these towns. The schools did little to meet the educational need of Hispanos. Teachers were openly disdainful and prejudiced toward Hispano children. The dropout rate was at close to 50 percent, and this has not changed much. Seldom would one see Hispanos working in banks, stores or as teachers in the schools. Hispanos were the beasts of burden in the fields and in the potato cellars. They still are.
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OK, finally, I got those wedding/reception pictures on Photobucket. We had the obligatory short and sweet Methodist wedding ceremony, total time 12 minutes and they were married. The wedding party didn't look too tacky in their red, white and blue:
The bride and groom had the first dance on the "dance floor", which was the lawn/hayfield outside the town hall: The formal dance over, it was time for the traditional wedding "chicken dance": Any of the women with any sense at all took off their shoes because their heels sank down into the dirt. Here is Amanda, David and Elery. Notice her bare feet? Meanwhile, the dinner was going on inside the hall and it was only about 95F. Sigh. Dylan had helped make the pickle trays and had plunged his unwashed and sweaty arm into the jar of pickles. Elery decided that perhaps he'd lost his appetite and had a second glass of wine. I decided that I'd better become the designated driver. Dylan decided to have a piece of wedding cake. He had long since discarded the white tuxedo... My brother's girls were waiting in line for supper, they're tough and figured the vinegar in the pickles would kill most germs: My sister was "mother of the groom". She's the one in blue, trying to keep everything under control: Dad was supervising, of course: Stepmom Shirley was just eating and trying to ignore Dad: Ashley loves the camera, of course, and posed with her friend Cody: It was pretty crowded inside at the buffet: My Mom's sister and SIL helped in the kitchen, Aunt Bea was married to Mom's brother and Aunt Ronni is Mom's sister. She's the blonde one that one everyone says I look like. She's 72, I hope I look that good at 72! My cousin Joyce decided it was too hot inside the hall and promptly stripped down to her slip. Having both lost my appetite and having been satisfied that the cake didn't fall over before it was cut, I went outside and took off my shoes. Makayla danced with me for a minute, then decided that Elery was more fun: I tried to avoid the tables outside, it was the only place I've ever seen Bacardi Silver, Juicy Juice and Jello Shots all together, and it was kind of....unsettling: Amanda danced with Bud: My brother in law, father of the groom, had a couple of drinks more than absolutely necessary and decided to dance. He did so well that the party named a dance after him. The Rich: He did so well that the other guys decided to dance The Rich too, including my cousin Bubba and nephew-in-law, Eric: About the time the guys started riding down the hill in the kids' wagon, an argument started between my oldest nephew's girlfriend and her mother. Notice the background, that's my sister's...um....residence. Yeah, I know, it's scenic: By that time Elery had half a bottle of wine, nothing to eat, and a sip of the Jack Daniels in David's possession. He promptly declared his never-ending love. About a dozen times. That was just before he tried to walk UP the hill in his slick bottomed leather shoes. The dew had just started and he promptly fell down. I teased him about drinking too much and decided to take him home. Just on time, too. I was told the next day that the girlfriend and mother who had been arguing kept arguing. The girlfriend finally left in a huff and my nephew was unhappy with his future mother in law. You probably don't need to know that this is the same nephew that got married last summer and I baked his wedding cake, if you remember. A couple of weeks after that wedding the very pregnant girlfriend introduced herself to the new wife and the nephew promptly got served with the divorce papers. Anyway, he wasn't very happy with the soon-to-be MIL, to the point where he finally tried to slap her and hit his own mother, my sister. About that time the drunken mother-in-law to be began to flirt with the DJ, and sat on his lap. Unfortunately, she peed on his leg. The DJ took exception, said something derogatory. My nephew-in-law decided to come to the fair maiden's rescue and it became interesting. Someone called the police. The arrival of our friendly guys in blue ended the party and I'm just thankful I was gone by then! I took Elery home where he fell asleep on the couch and I shook my head. The next morning we went to the farm. As Elery was picking beans (his punishment for waxing so romantically poetic the night before) he noticed the newlyweds. They had just come out of the tent behind my sister's house trailer. That's where they spent their honeymoon night. I think Elery said something about romance and location and such.... And a good time was had by all! Annie |
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I'm on the floor! What a hoot! You've made my evening. |
- Posted by denise8101214 (My Page) on Wed, Aug 15, 07 at 0:30
1. Your running commentary made me giggle after a very hard day. 2. Your daughters are the most beautiful members of your family (inside and out). 3. You have amazing grace and humor. |
What a hoot!!!! |
ROTFLMAO!!!! I've been to weddings much like the one that you have described here. They are always so much fun. I'm thinking the DJ will not soon forget this wedding! LOL! Annie, Your girls are so beautiful! |
What? No shotgun shenanigans? Well, at least there were jello shots! LOL. And when did Bud get so big? He was just a baby last time I saw... |
- Posted by girlsingardens (My Page) on Wed, Aug 15, 07 at 21:37
OMG, I read this and it was too funny. I even had to take the laptop over to DH and he was rolling on the floor laughing. I am remembering my brother's wedding last summer. My SIL's family is ummmm "Special". The wedding was alcohol free but by the time the end was over I was ready for more than one drink. Stacie |
- Posted by dishesdone (My Page) on Thu, Aug 16, 07 at 7:30
ROTFLMAO! What do they say "A picture is worth a thousand words?" although I am ROTFL from your storytelling, Annie! and I thought the silly string at my wedding was crazy fun, LOL! |
Great narrative Annie. It takes all sorts to make a family doesn't it. ;-) So who's gonna make Annie's cake?!?? (out the door.....) Maureen |
So who's gonna make Annie's cake?!?? Yeah, that's what I want to know! Annie, thanks for posting the pics...the story is so funny even the second time around. |
- Posted by booberry85 (My Page) on Fri, Aug 17, 07 at 14:24
ROTFL! Please pass the Bacardi & Juicy Juicy (I think I'd be doing "the Rich" if I had a few of those too.) I agree whole heartedly with Denise. |
- Posted by teresa_nc7 (My Page) on Fri, Aug 17, 07 at 15:02
LOL! LOL! Annie.....too funny! I can't see the pics here at work for some reason, but I was laughing out loud just reading your description!! Ha ha! You should write a screenplay and send it to Fox or Country Music TV so they can make a sit com! Then you can retire to La La Land and let Elery be your pool boy/boy toy. Heeeeeeee! We will skip the Peach Sangria and try Bacardi and Juicy Juice at the next get together! |
Oh Annie, thanks for the laugh. I keep forgetting to check the Gallery. Glad I didn't miss this. Ann |
OMG, I am going to pee my pants, I am laughing so hard! Unfortunately no DJ's nearby so I will cross my legs! Redneck Bonanza! Love it! Linda |
OMG Annie, too funny and unbelievable! There's obviously good reason that you chose to live in town and not out at the farm! |
- Posted by earthlydelights (My Page) on Sun, Aug 19, 07 at 16:16
OMG, i am just dying of laughter. i love your story-telling, i can just visualize it all. too, too funny!!!!! and i thought my nephew's "country" wedding was a tad colorful. thanks for sharing, today i really needed a good laugh! |
Ellen, believe it. It all happened, and I captured it on film. LOL I do want to take this opportunity to once again remind you that most of the "bad actors" here are NOT related to me, but were guests of other family members. (grin) Now, as for baking my cake, well, I just don't know. What's not to like, though, about a man who can make me smile like this? Annie |
- Posted by arabellamiller (My Page) on Mon, Aug 20, 07 at 8:42
Hi Annie! I'm glad I dropped in, I'm having a laundry day in between trips. First, that picture of you adn Elery is amazing. You are gorgeous and he is dashing. You both look like former movie stars. And I mean that in a good way, not a post-rehab way! Now, your description of the wedding is absolutely hilarious. Your family is a trip. The dj getting pee'd on was my favorite part! AM |
I have come back to read this four or five times and laugh out loud over and over again. Tooooo funny. I can't believe you have a cousin named Bubba. Your girls are gorgeous and so are you. Are you sure you weren't switched at birth? I don't know who is luckier -- Elery or you. Nice! |
Well, Bubba's name is really Joe. He has a brother named Brian and we affectionately refer to the pair of them as the Water Buffaloes ever since the time they came to a 4th of July party at my house and both jumped into the pool at the same time, creating a "high tide". LOL AM, thanks for the explanation about not being "post-rehab". (grin) Thank you. Switched at birth? Well, I dunno, but the first time Elery met my sister and her "crew" he looked at me and said "You were adopted. That's the only explanation". I just smiled and told him I was the "white sheep" of the family.... Annie |
Hey! What happened to the redhead? |
Gina, I'm having trouble staying a redhead! The original $45 salon color job stayed red about 4 days. I've been coloring it every couple of weeks and it's red for a couple of days, then it's blonde again. It just doesn't seem to "stay" no matter what I or the salon does. That picture was taken 6 days after I colored my hair "apricot" for about the 5th or 6th time. I keep trying though, I'm committed to the concept of being a red headed floozie.... Annie |
Well I sure came to the right place. I needed this little pick me up badly. Thanks for such a hilarious story with pics to boot! I lost it when I got to the part about the drunkin mother in law peeing on the DJ's leg. OMG that is by far the funniest thing I've heard. You Annie look very beautiful. Nice looking couple you are! |
It's been 6 or more months since I checked in at the Gallery. I'm sure glad I did. The stunning picture of you and Elery makes me so happy for you. Cathy |
- Posted by irislover7b (My Page) on Tue, Aug 21, 07 at 0:16
Annie, are you sure you don't live in North Carolina? I think those people are my mother's immediate family! This is the first time I've checked in at the Gallery, and I'm glad I did...that was hilarious! |
- Posted by pghsteelerfan (My Page) on Tue, Aug 21, 07 at 1:06
Annie - you and Elery just look sooo happy in that picture - I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you two. What a wonderful couple you make. And thanks for sharing the wedding pics/story - I haven't laughed so hard in quite awhile!! Barb |
Annie, I think that's the best story yet! Certainly some magazine or tv show would pay you to re-tell it for the public's amusement, you're such a good storyteller. In any case I love the photo of the two of you. Elery is so good looking and so kind, you'd better grab him now, before he sees much more of your black sheep family! LOL! |
Do you know how hard it is to NOT laugh at this when you have kids sleeping next to you in a hotel room? Annie, you might want to ask some of the folks at the Health and Beauty forum about hair coloring issues. Just don't read threads about shoelacs, 'k? Hmmm.....potential first forum wedding? Grand Rapids airport, right? |
- Posted by chancesmom (My Page) on Wed, Aug 22, 07 at 12:11
Oh man that was funny! The peeing mother took the cake.....by then I was laughing out loud! And the cousin in the slip! You two do look really happy together. I think that makes us all happy. |
Sorry, Jessica, but your boys would probably have enjoyed the story a lot. (grin) As for those shoelaces, isn't it clear from my pictures that we don't even WEAR shoes? Ahem... Forum wedding? Elery and I are planning a trip to California in Feburary, I think, to visit his oldest son. We'll discuss it then. Besides, Gardengrl is marrying Steven this month, so she's before me, and Mique got married a couple of years ago. Now, I will admit that I would probably be the first forum member to have you all go through my divorce after a 30 year marriage, my very traumatic 50th birthday, the birth of BOTH of my grandchildren, my youngest child starting college AND a second marriage, if that were to happen. Wow, a lot has happened in my life in the last five years, I gotta learn to RELAX!! I refuse to pee on the DJ's leg, though, sorry. (grin) Don't worry, when I get the "official" proposal, I'll make sure I make an announcement here. Annie |
Annie, Now that you have mentioned it, you have had a lot of activity in your life of late and thanks for sharing. All for the good! Cathy |
Great things for a great lady. It's about time! California trip? You'd better make it to L.A, we need to check him out for ourselves! |
Ellen, his son lives in Irvine, he's talking about a couple of days there, then several more to visit Napa or surrounding areas, whatever suits us. Please, though, don't make me drive anywhere horrible... Annie |
We're in between Irvine and Napa, so you'd better have Elery bring you to L.A. Missy, or you'll never hear the end of it! |
Time for the LA Gang to get our united front together and ensure this happens. We can't let Annie weasel out of meeting us. I volunteer my place for a get-together unless we can talk Pharoah into his place. |
- Posted by vacuumfreak (My Page) on Thu, Aug 23, 07 at 21:11
Very funny story and great pictures as usual, Annie! Thanks for sharing. I'm glad you all had such fun and that you got out of there just in time! |
Name the time and the place, I'll be there! My house is available too! |
Ellen, I'd love to visit everyone, or meet for supper or whatever. I just don't want to drive anywhere that will make me never want to come to California again, I'm still not sure I want to go there now! I've heard too many stories about the 5 hour traffic jams and such and you know how claustrophobic I get if you have a whole lot of people in one spot? Heck, I won't even go to concerts, there are too many people! Right now we're looking at Feburary 15-22, but that depends on whether it works for his son. Could you maybe get everyone to move out of LA for a weekend? LOL Annie |
Annie: We love you. Suffer. |
Oh lord, what's with all this whimpering? Is that you Annie? You sound like me trying to get up the nerve to go to the mall! Come on out, it ain't so bad. Let Elery do the driving and you just sit back and listen to the radio and relax! |
Oy, I can't believe I've been so busy I missed this wonderful thread!!! Annie, those pictures tell a perfect story of the Redneck Wedding:-)I really love the photos of your family, your daughters are beautiful, Makayla and Bud are adorable, and well, you know Elery is a hottie!! You know, if we didn't have family members (I use that terms loosely) that were less than perfect, what WOULD we talk about????? You should go to California, and not worry about the traffic and the crowds. Especially if Elery does the driving. It will make you appreciate your small town in Michigan all the more. Even the rednecks:-) And if you're anywhere near LA, there will definitely be some good eatin'! |
Does this mean Annie is a back-seat driver? LOL! Come on up north to see me. Yes, there are traffic problems in some places but no where you really want to go. And I know all the back roads. |
I'll tell you what, Irvine is about an hour and 20 minutes away for me when there's no traffic and I'm the CF member that's furthest away. We could even meet at a place down there! None of us want to miss the opportunity to see you and check him out! LOL! |
- Posted by blueiris24 (My Page) on Sun, Aug 26, 07 at 15:22
ROFL I haven't been around much lately, just stopped by and saw your post Annie and you made my day. I laughed so hard--having just come back from spending time with family, I salute you - and Elery, for being brave enough to join you! Thanks for sharing and for your wonderful perspective on life! |
Jessica, I'm just asking that you find a place that won't cause me to find the nearest road headed East, that won't make me spend 5 hours in a traffic jam to get to. Elery has been out to visit his son once before, he flew into LA and said he learned to hate driving in California within the first 15 minutes. He swore he'd never go back. And this is a man who will drive me into Detroit, so it had to be bad. His son just adopted a little boy from Russia, and wants him to come out and meet the new grandson. It's probably the only thing that would get Elery back to California. He's tried to talk his son into coming here so everyone could visit but apparently he has a relatively new job and can't get the time off work, plus there would be plane tickets for five (they have two other biological sons). So if/when we go, we'd visit them on the weekend and spend the rest of the time doing whatever suited us, although I could take the rental car and drive wherever I had to to meet everyone, or Elery would drive me if that fit in with his son's schedule and time to visit. So c'mon, make it easy for me, instead of having a driving experience like Elery's, one which made him swear to never go back. Annie |
- Posted by denise8101214 (My Page) on Sun, Aug 26, 07 at 23:21
John Wayne Airport http://www.ocair.com/airlines/JWAairlines.htm might save you some traffic when you arrive in California and then you could jump on the "back roads." |
thanks, denise, I thought Elery said we'd be flying into John Wayne and I thought "that can't be right". LOL I guess so! Back roads? Does that mean less than 12 lanes? (grin) Annie |
Well, see, Elery flew into LAX and drove to the OC last time. That's no fun, I agree. And it depends on the time of day he was on the freeway. Rush hour? Fuggedit! Sounds like you won't have much time, so us L.A. people will just have to come down there somewhere - maybe meet you at the South Coast Plaza. (Did I say that? Auuughhhh!!!!) |
- Posted by denise8101214 (My Page) on Mon, Aug 27, 07 at 22:04
I was on a 14 lane freeway this weekend. :) |
Well, Gina, I guess that must mean that South Coast Plaza is a mall? LOL I don't know what time Elery got into California but he said it took over two hours just to pick up his rental car and then a bit more than three hours to get to his son's house. He's used to here, where you look at the map, say "that's 50 miles away, it'll take an hour or less". (grin) That clearly did not happen, but since I am already intimidated by the thought of California traffic, his experience did not help my "fear of California" at all! Annie |
There's also a big IKEA down there by the freeway. I'd like that better than the mall. They have a spacious cafeteria there. Well, when you guys are firming up your plans, send me or Jess his son's address and we'll look up what's nearby. |
I've never been to an IKEA either, I just have to remember that I'm going home by plane and not buy anything big. Just the thought of the mall made you change your mind, didn't it? (grin) And what's the OC? I don't know a darned thing about anywhere in California, I know Jessica also offered her house, but I don't know where that is compared to all of the rest of you. Of course, I don't know where ANYTHING is compared to the rest of you. I think my biggest fear isn't the traffic, it's getting LOST.... Annie |
You're not LOST, you're just somewhere you've never been before......... Jessy, Gina and Ellen were all so accomodating when I was there! Awesome chauffeurs!! Thanks for sharing the....uh.......adventure! Deanna |
- Posted by canarybird (My Page) on Wed, Sep 5, 07 at 4:53
Annie this is such a great story and your narration is perfect! Yes you, Ashley and Amanda are really the beauties of the group. Did Ashley cut her hair? It looks shorter in that photo. Good luck for your trip out to the west coast and for your future with Elery. SharonCb |
Finally, I'm back! Sharon, welcome home. Yes, Ashley got her hair cut. Again. She changes her hair more often than her shoes, it seems like to me. Thanks for all the good wishes too, I spent a couple of days last week camping with Elery and we're still smiling, so that's a good thing.... Annie |
Threads like this make me glad I got high speed working again. : ) |
- Posted by dishesdone (My Page) on Sun, Sep 9, 07 at 19:57
Glad you're back, Annie, and still smiling! So how was the camping trip? |
Hey Annie, glad to hear you are safely home. I had the joy of driving down PCH on a Sunday afternoon. Took five hours from Ventura to La Jolla. At least I wasn't doing the driving so I got to watch the crazies dash across four lanes of highway carrying all their beach gear to get to their car parked along the side of the road. No thank you. Give me Cape Cod in September over that! |
- Posted by readinglady (My Page) on Tue, Sep 11, 07 at 12:22
What can I add that hasn't already been said? All the best in the world to you and Elery, Annie. There's something especially joyful about two good people finding each other. Oh heck, this hasn't been said. To quote the inimitable Spock, "Live long and prosper." Carol |
- Posted by msafirstein (My Page) on Tue, Sep 11, 07 at 17:14
OMG...memories of MI and I think I've been to a couple of similar weddings. Dang, you and Elery look so good together and so happy! Michelle |
- Posted by phyllis_philodendron (My Page) on Sat, Sep 15, 07 at 20:52
OMG, this reads like Erma Bombeck, Annie. I think you've missed your calling. ;) |
Hey Annie, Is the trip to CA still on? Gotta be, right? FWIW, I'm used to country driving/small city driving and I drove in Orange County with no trouble. (Preferred it to what I'm having to get used to in Baltimore!) Also, Laguna Beach and Crystal Cove are unbelievably gorgeous. You can escape to nature in half an hour/an hour while you're there. You'll be fine. You might even like it. 8^) Just wish I could meet you there. ~Amanda P.S. LOVE the wedding story and pictures! Michigan... Texas... apparently they're the same! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Irvine to Crystal Cove
Amanda, the trip is definitely still on, we're leaving Michigan February 14 or 15 and coming back the 22nd, I think. Thanks for the vote of confidence, I'm just about having a panic attack thinking about driving there... I wish I could meet you too, I just know I'd love you. I already do! See, I keep telling you that Michigan and Texas are really the same, except for temperature! Lars even tells me that my Lake Michigan shoreline looks like the surf in Galveston! Annie |
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White Mystery (Planet Of Ice)
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