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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- It was last Wednesday, on a car ride back home with his parents for Easter break, that freshman point guard Trey Burke decided he would not enter the NBA draft and return to the University of Michigan.
"After talking it over with my family and my coaches, discussing it with some of the players, I felt like it was the best decision for me to stay for my sophomore year and compete for a national championship," Burke said.
Part of that decision was due to the fact he knew staying at Michigan would help him develop more as a player. But he also decided it would be a risk to leave because of the uncertainties of the draft and where he would be selected.
"[My parents] laid out the pros and cons for me to leave and laid out the pros and cons for me to come back," Burke said. "At the end of the decision I felt like it was in my best interest and the team's best interest for me to come back."
Throughout the entire process he kept in communication with the coaching staff. Coach John Beilein said they spoke nearly every day, and players said they spoke with Burke when they had the chance.
"It was a pretty private matter," junior guard Josh Bartelstein said. "I talked to Trey a little bit because we are pretty good friends, just about hearing different things and trying to help him out. But it was him, coach and his family trying to make a decision, and we understood it is such a big choice it is up to him and his family."
Burke texted with former Michigan point guard Darius Morris -- who left for the NBA after last season and is now playing with the Los Angeles Lakers -- more than a month ago to get Morris' input. Morris told Burke to do what Burke felt was best and to be confident in his final decision.
He also reached out to former high school teammate and Ohio State forward Jared Sullinger, who declared for the NBA draft last Tuesday. Burke said the two texted quite a bit and that he also spoke with Sullinger's father, Satch, who coached both boys in high school.
"Both of them pretty much said the same thing -- they were going to support me either way I went," Burke said. "Coach Sullinger was honest with me and he told me that he thinks I should stay another year because I can develop more."
While it was last Wednesday that Burke made his decision to stay, it wasn't until Monday that his teammates found out. Each player received a text message from Beilein around 1 p.m., informing them of the news.
Burke said he believes returning to Michigan to play with his teammates will help the Wolverines have a chance to play for championships, something Burke called "unfinished business."
"I saw how bright the future was for this team if I were to come back," Burke said. "[I saw] how close we were this year to conquering our goals, but with the three freshmen coming in, I see the future for us is that much brighter."
The Wolverines now begin preparing for next season and have already turned their focus toward the 2012-13 Big Ten championship.
"In time we'll see what was the best decision for him," Beilein said Burke staying. "I think it's a great decision for Michigan basketball."
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Callon Petroleum Company Completes Partial Redemption Of 13% Senior Notes Due 2016
Callon Petroleum Company ("Callon") (NYSE: CPE) today announced it has redeemed $31.0 million of its outstanding $138.0 million 13% Senior Notes due 2016 (the "Notes") using a portion of the proceeds from its previously announced common stock offering which was completed on February 16, 2011. The redemption was made in accordance with the terms of the indenture governing the Notes and the terms of the notice of redemption.
The Notes were redeemed at a redemption price of 113.0% of their face amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest to and including March 19, 2011. The total redemption price was approximately $35.9 million, including approximately $0.9 million in accrued interest. Upon completion of this partial redemption, approximately $107.0 million face amount of the Notes remains outstanding.
"The $31.0 million redemption of the Notes further strengthens our balance sheet and is expected to improve our profitability," Bob F. Weatherly, Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, explains. "We will save cash interest of approximately $4.0 million per year or approximately $22.0 million over the remaining life of the notes."
Weatherly adds that "Since 2008 we have reduced the face value of total long-term debt by 62%. De-leveraging our balance sheet has been a key objective for supporting our strategic plan to transition our operations from offshore Gulf of Mexico to longer life lower-risk onshore oil and gas plays that offer the potential for long-term visible growth."
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April 2, 2013: Casey Farm's Dominique chicken eggs have hatched and the first-graders at Robert L. Bailey Elementary School got a close look at them Tuesday morning. As part of Project Chick, they have been learning about the life cycle of chickens as the two dozen eggs were kept warm in an incubator for the last three weeks. On Friday, the chicks will go back to Casey Farm to live. As part of the program, some students may come to the North Kingstown farm to visit the chicks. Teacher Ruth Johnston, right, hands a chick to Jasmin Morales, 7, left, as Brianna Chittick, 6, center, looks at another one.
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"If I come across someone who I find really cool, I'll hang out. But the minute I find that we're getting too close I just—I don't let people in," the Hackney Festival performer admitted. Continuing, "When I was in love, I fell so hard. I was really, really, really in love. The way it made me feel was priceless. And in a blink of an eye my whole life changed. Everything that I knew was different. I never thought I'd feel that pain in my life. I'm afraid of feeling that again."
And just what does Rihanna miss right now? "I miss my ass. It just went away! I need a butt. I have an idea of one, but it's not living up to its full potential right now." Best of luck with that, RiRi.
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What's more, awarding huge contracts for books that may not even be written yet creates tremendous risk. The industry is plagued by what indie-publishing entrepreneur Richard Nash has called the "pathology of unearned advances." An author who gets a book deal is paid an advance against royalties, and if the royalties end up exceeding the advance, the author starts getting more checks. But that doesn't usually happen.
The uncertainty about a book's potential value cuts both ways. Daniel Menaker, former executive editor in chief of Random House, told me what happened when a fellow editor there presented a case to his colleagues for making an offer on Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit: "People just laughed, and someone said, 'Talk about beating a dead horse.' " Good one! The editor, Jonathan Karp, luckily won the argument, and Random House bought the rights for only five figures. More than 2 million copies were in print even before the movie came out. Unfortunately, the more common scenario is that a publisher opens the vault for a book that tanks. Bantam paid a reported $2 million in 2005 for two novels from a sci-fi writer named Gordon Dahlquist. If the title The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters doesn't sound familiar, you're not alone.
The publishing houses stay afloat only because the megahits pay for the flops, and there's generally enough left over for profit. Predicting the success or failure of any given book is impossible. Menaker recalls Jason Epstein, who led Random House for four decades, telling him, "Make no mistake—this is gambling." Which is why the pricing pressure on ebooks is so scary to publishers: If they are the gambler at the slot machines, placing scores of bets and relying on the winnings to trump the losses, Amazon represents a casino that offers smaller and smaller payouts.
Beyond the immediate concern over prices, publishers also worry that the disappearance of the physical bookstore could endanger the entire book business, even (ironically) Amazon. Research has shown that readers don't tend to use online bookstores to discover books; they use them to purchase titles they find out about elsewhere—frequently at physical stores. (If you want to see a bookstore owner get angry, mention Amazon's Price Check app, which allows customers to scan an item in a physical store and buy it for less from Amazon then and there.) With no stores to browse in, publishers fear, book sales everywhere could take a significant hit.
This is one reason that, in 2010, five of the Big Six publishers worked with Apple to institute a new model to keep other retailers competitive with Amazon. In an attempt to win customers, Amazon had been routinely selling ebooks at a loss, paying, say, $12 to $15 wholesale for a popular ebook and then selling it for $9.99. Under the new so-called agency model, the publisher would have the power to set the price everywhere—between $12.99 and $14.99 for most best sellers—but the retailer would take 30 percent. That is, the publishers agreed to a scheme in which Amazon would make significantly more per book and they would make less. They were playing the long game, trying to protect physical stores and print sales and chip away at Amazon's overwhelming ebook market share.
After fighting the plan, Amazon caved. But the Department of Justice sued the five publishers and Apple for collusion, and Amazon described one of the resulting settlements as "a big win for Kindle owners." The recently announced merger of the two biggest of the Big Six, Random House and Penguin, is widely seen as a move to build an entity that can stand up to Amazon's market power.
In the long term, what publishers have to fear the most may not be Amazon but an idea it has helped engender—that the only truly necessary players in the game are the author and the reader. "I was at a meeting God knows how many years ago at MIT," former Random House chief Epstein says, "and someone used the word disintermediation. When I deconstructed that, I said, 'Oh my God, that's the end of the publishing business.' " At a time when a writer can post a novel online and watch the revenue pour in by direct deposit, the publishing industry's skill at making books, selling them by hand to bookstores, and managing the distribution of the product threatens to become irrelevant. In Epstein's vision, the writer may need a freelance editor, a publicist, and an agent who functions as a kind of business manager, but authors will keep a bigger share of the proceeds with no lumbering media corporation standing in the way.
So far this phenomenon has largely been limited to previously unknown writers like Hugh Howey. Amanda Hocking, a 26-year-old Minnesotan who worked days at an assisted-living facility, grossed about $2 million on ebooks in a little over a year with her paranormal romances and zombie novels for young adults. John Locke, a self-published crime writer, had already beaten Hocking to the 1-million-ebook mark on Amazon. And then, of course, there is E. L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey, which began as self-published Twilight fan fiction but wound up making 2012 so bountiful for Random House that it gave a $5,000 bonus to each employee.
But these are the exceptions. In general, new writers gain much more than they lose by signing with a major house. Most self-published authors have trouble selling a copy outside of their immediate family. Even if they have talent, they lack professional help or the imprimatur of quality that a publisher can bring. Indeed, Fifty Shades, which some have taken to be the definitive evidence in favor of self-publishing, is more accurately a demonstration of the opposite: The book became a massive commercial success only after Random House got involved, placing giant stacks of paperbacks in bookstores everywhere and buying huge ads in the London Underground.
The real danger to publishers is that big-ticket authors, who relied on the old system to build their careers, will abandon them now that they have established an audience. As Howey says, "When that happens, all bets are off." The John Grishams of the world already manage to extract excellent deals in the traditional way because of their huge and reliable sales, and few writers relish the work of being their own publisher. But as that work grows easier—as complex print distribution loses ground to low-cost digital delivery—the big names are starting to get tempted. Stephen King has been experimenting with bypassing his publisher, releasing his latest essay as a Kindle Single directly (albeit with some editing and promotion) through the Amazon store. The popular suspense writer Barry Eisler turned down a $500,000 book contract with the intention to self-publish—but before he could do so, Amazon Publishing offered him a sweetheart deal.
Pretty soon one of these famous writers will step up to the cliff and actually jump. Maybe it will be Tim Ferriss. His less-than-stellar results with Amazon might push him back to a traditional publisher—or in another direction entirely. A great deal of money hinges on what he and his fellow best-selling authors decide to do next. "I wouldn't be surprised if I self-published in the next few years," Ferriss says. "Wouldn't remotely surprise me."
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A 29-year-old man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl in a Mountain View church restroom, authorities said.
David Chiklak was arrested Sunday on a felony count of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor. The incident was reported just before noon on Sunday, police spokeswoman Jennifer Castro said.
According to the charges, a woman and the 6-year-old were both in the women's restroom at the unidentified church when the woman heard a man asking the girl to leave with him.
The woman left the restroom and heard the girl crying. When she entered the men's restroom and looked through a crack in a stall door, she saw the man standing over the child with his belt unbuckled, the charges said.
Chiklak was detained by churchgoers in the building's parking lot.
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The Red Dragon Players are preparing to present Gypsy, hailed by critics as "the greatest American musical ever." Performances begin January 15.
Costs associated with a show of this nature are significantly higher than standard productions, so the Red Dragon Players are seeking help and financial support from parents of the cast and crew. Cast members are required to bring in $200 each and crew are required to bring in $125 each. The difference in contribution is due to large costume fees for the cast. Four options are available, and you can combine them to meet your goal. Thank you for supporting our young artists! Parent ContributionsParents may pay all or part of the target amount as a direct contribution by clicking on the button below. |
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Cincinnati, OH—Research published in the March issue of British Journal of Nutrition indicates that Concord grape juice may help support healthy brain function in older adults. Data presented in a double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot investigation suggest such findings.
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Boston, MA—Consumers are familiar with product labels touting the heart healthy benefits of eating oats. They most famously lower blood cholesterol and are an important part of a heart-healthy diet. An expanding field of research into oats and their benefits is shedding light on reasons for oats to impress even more enthusiasts.
Tours, France—Another health application of omega-3 fatty acids has been identified, this time proving a beneficial component in helping women undergoing breast cancer treatment. Specifically, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) was found to increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatment for certain cases of breast cancer. The findings were published late last year in the British Journal of Cancer, and may present a means to better combat breast cancer for the millions threatened by the disease, which is the most prevalent form of cancer in women. The research was led by Philippe Bougnoux, of the Henry S. Kaplan Cancer Center in Tours.
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In a supposedly solitary, spontaneous act, Rosa Parks sparked the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, which gave birth to the civil rights movement. Parks is often described as an unassuming woman whose fatigue caused her to defy the Jim Crow laws. The truth of who she was and what really started the boycott is far different, and, until now, unwritten . . .
In this groundbreaking book, Danielle L. McGuire brilliantly reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the ritualistic rape and sexualized violence that for almost three hundred years had been perpetrated against black women. She looks at the crucial role played by African American women, at people like Rosa Parks, already a seasoned anti-rape activist more than a decade before the bus boycott, who turned a one-day protest on the buses into a three-decade war against white supremacy that changed the world.
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"Following the lead of pioneers like Darlene Clark Hine, Danielle McGuire details the all too ignored tactic of rape of black women in the everyday practice of southern white supremacy. Just as important, she plots resistance against this outrage as an integral facet of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This book is as essential as its history is infuriating." —Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People
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Movie: Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Michael Madsen, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Josh Brolin
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Release Date: October 4, 2013
Robert Rodriguez and his Troublemaker Studios are back again with Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. In this sequel to the stylistic graphic novel by Frank Miller ("The Dark Knight Returns"), Dwight (Josh Brolin) is hunted down by the only woman he ever loved, Ava Lord. As he watches his life go straight into the toilet, the story is a prequel of sorts to "The Big Fat Kill" (featured in the "Sin City") and explains how Dwight came to have a dramatically different face.
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- Traditional Animation
- Klasky-Csupo Productions
- Animation Studio: Klasky Csupo, Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Anivision
- Distributed by: Viacom International, Inc
- Cartoon Characters: Drew Pickles, Chas Finster, Department Store Santa, Chuckie Finster, Didi Pickles, Angelica Pickles, Tommy Pickles, Grandpa Lou Pickles, Dream Santa, Barney, Charlotte Pickles, Elf, Stu Pickles, Real Santa, Announcer, Clerk, Phil DeVille, Lil DeVille, Betty DeVille.
- Voice Actors: Michael Bell, Christine Cavanaugh, Melanie Chartoff, Cheryl Chase, Elizabeth Daily.
- Directed By Charles Swenson.
- Produced By Geraldine Clarke, Gabor Csupo, Arlene Klasky, Vanessa Coffey, Paul Germain, Charles Swenson, Cella Duffy, Richard LeRoy; more Producers ...
- Written By Joe Ansolabehere, Peter Gaffney, Paul Germain, Jonathan Greenberg.
- Music: Mark Mothersbaugh, Denis M. Hannigan.
- Editor: Karl Garabedian.
- First Aired on December 06, 1992.
- Originally Aired on Nickelodeon.
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
- Season: 2
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The Rugrats and their parents go to the mountains to spend the Christmas holidays. Angelica, however, is skeptical of Santa Claus' existence.
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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith insists the Government is "committed" to helping families who lost loved ones in the Hillsborough disaster. Last Wednesday was the 20th anniversary since 96 Liverpool supporters died in a crush at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium on 15th April 1989 where their team was to meet Nottingham Forest in an FA Cup semi-final. A number of high level discussions have taken place over hundreds of official documents about the tragedy and Ms Smith revealed it could result in those documents being made public for the first time. In a statement, the Home Secretary said: "The Government is committed to helping those who lost loved ones in the Hillsborough tragedy. "That is why I will be working with colleagues in the Ministry of Justice, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and the Attorney General's Office to put out any information that exists that could shed light on the disaster and its aftermath in the public domain as soon as possible." Relief Trevor Hicks, of the Hillsborough Families Support Group, was relieved to hear the news. He said: "We have heard that a request has been made about the documents and we are expecting confirmation this week. "I am pleased, it's better late than never. "This will enable us to see the full picture of events in a way that we have been denied for 20 years. "It is vital that these files are released in full and not sanitised in any way." The documents covered by the 30-year-rule could include police files and the records of other emergency services, government departments and the local authorities. But a statement by South Yorkshire Police said: "The Chief Constable has not met the Home Secretary on the subject of Hillsborough, nor been asked by anyone to release files early. "The Chief Constable, prior to the anniversary, independently offered to review all material held by South Yorkshire Police to establish what could lawfully be released, given that the force has already made public so much of its archived information."
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I learned the hard way how important it is not to be naïve about my feelings. Just because I didn't have a problem with strip clubs when I was young and single didn't mean that I wouldn't find a visit to one disrespectful and hurtful the week before my wedding. More importantly, no matter how good your relationship is, that guy you're with can't know how you feel if you don't tell him!
Six months into our marriage, and I've already been able to put my "strip club" lesson to good use. From the mundane, "When I'm under deadline, the noise of the television is very distracting," to the more significant, "Sure my family's crazy, but you're not allowed to say they are." When I tell him how I feel, my husband is quite good at respecting those feelings. So perhaps I have to thank my husband for his pre-wedding faux pas: sometimes, the clarity brought on by a car full of guys headed to a strip club is invaluable.


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- Voice Actors: Rick Jones.
- Originally Released in Dec 8, 1990 (Estimate).
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
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Matt, a diehard comic book fan, is particularly enthralled with Super Kidd, a superhero who can do absolutely anything. C.L.Y.D.E. tells the kids about super... (more)
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ŌĆ£To me, HowlinŌĆÖ Wolf was a true Delta bluesman.ŌĆØ
Grammy-nominated, veteran musician and Delta native Lamar ThomasŌĆÖ phonebook-sized historical commentary on the origins of American music contains biographies and ThomasŌĆÖ own feelings on just about every person who ever came in contact with the Blues.
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ŌĆ£Da Delta Black Music and Me!ŌĆØ runs nearly 500 pages, and it serves as comprehensive resource for anyone researching Blues artists and the history of the musical genre, while making a strong case that much of the music in popular culture over the last few decades was inspired, borrowed and oftentimes even stolen from the original Bluesmen of the Delta.
So much of our music was taken, borrowed, stolen, and then used as someoneŌĆÖs else ŌĆ£originalŌĆØ by unscrupulous promoter, singers and players who were not Black, that the truth is often time credited to others,ŌĆØ Thomas says of the music. But the truth is that, ŌĆ£the Blues and Black Music started and Changed everythingŌĆØ
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ŌĆ£I came to know HowlinŌĆÖ WolfŌĆÖs music because of my dear mother, Rebecca,ŌĆØ Thomas declares on page 178 of his book. ŌĆ£She loved HowlinŌĆÖ Wolf.ŌĆØ
The official biography of Wolf is just a page over, describing ŌĆ£Chester Arthur BurnettŌĆÖsŌĆØ birth at White Station, near West Point.
ŌĆ£The rough-edged, slightly fearsome musical sytle is often contrasted with less crude but still powerful presentations of his contemporary rivals,ŌĆØ the bio declares.
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The music of the Beatles and American artists like Bob Dylan has its roots in the Delta says Thomas, not in Britain or the ŌĆ£VillageŌĆØ in New York.
Thomas provides an oftentimes controversial but honest portrayal of the evolution of American music during the 20th Century. His book is accompanied by a documentary by the same title on a DVD attached inside of the book.
Coming up in the Spring, Thomas readies his second book.
This time the musician and author says he has found a deeper and more personal connection to Clay County, other than his love for HowlinŌĆÖ WolfŌĆÖs music.
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ŌĆ£This book is going to be very eye opening for people in Clay County,ŌĆØ Thomas said in a phone interview last week. ŌĆ£It is going to ruffle some feathers.ŌĆØ
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"Today's Republican Party may revere Reagan as the patron saint of low taxation. But the party of Reagan – which understood that higher taxes on the rich are sometimes required to cure ruinous deficits – is dead and gone. Instead, the modern GOP has undergone a radical transformation, reorganizing itself around a grotesque proposition: that the wealthy should grow wealthier still, whatever the consequences for the rest of us."
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Americans who actually listen to the empty words spewed by politicians, in this case of the Republican variety, often hear the name of Ronald Reagan invoked as the grand poobah of anti-taxation conservatism. For many of the GOP faithful, that's all they need to hear to feel all warm and fuzzy about the state of the nation as soon as their guys and gals "take their country back."
Other Americans, like me, pay very little attention to what is being said by either side, mainly because no one is saying anything particularly coherent. We are numbed by the failure of rhetoric and party-line catch phrases to move us out of the deep muck we slipped into in 2008.
Sunday morning, however, the spectre of another critical deadline in Washington got my attention, and for the first time I can recall, I actually listened to Candy Crowley interview members of the Deficit Super Committee. That's when the name Grover Norquist penetrated my political brain fog for the first time. This is the guy who convinced 279 Republican members of Congress to sign a pledge written by his lobbying front organization, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR.) Norquist was the subject of Sunday's 60 Minutes lead story.
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The ATR web site describes The Pledge as follows:
In the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, candidates and incumbents solemnly bind themselves to oppose any and all tax increases. While ATR has the role of promoting and monitoring the Pledge, the Taxpayer Protection Pledge is actually made to a candidate's constituents, who are entitled to know where candidates stand before sending them to the capitol. Since the Pledge is a prerequisite for many voters, it is considered binding as long as an individual holds the office for which he or she signed the Pledge.
Read more: http://www.atr.org/taxpayer-protection-pledge#ixzz1eGPKi4Rb
Norquist claims he was asked by Reagan himself to form ATR in 1986. Apparently, there is no term limit on that pledge, no opportunity for renewal or a decision NOT to renew. The Huffington Post reported on November 9, 2011 that a growing number of House members want out of that pledge, but Norquist refuses to remove their names from the published list of signers.
In the meantime, Norquist's pledge keeps coming up as a major reason the Super Committee cannot reach an agreement.
[The players: Sens.Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), John Kerry (D-Mass.), and Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Reps. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Dave Camp (R-Mich.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), and Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.).]
"The difficulty we find is that every one of these discussions, Grover Norquist seems to be in the room," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters last week. "I am hopeful that the Republicans on the super committee will break away from this."
The idea that one man, not an elected official, but a powerful Washington lobbyist, can effectively bring the nation to the brink of yet another failure to do the jobs for which they were elected, is frightening to me. Even Republicans who believe it is time to take a look at forcing the rich to pay a more reasonable share of taxes are finding it impossible to circumvent the pledge they might have signed several campaign cycles ago, because "the voters don't want any tax increases."
I think it's time for us who see things differently to pay more attention to what the other side is saying and doing. I may be one of the few who, until now, was unaware of the name Grover Norquist or his organization, but I doubt it. If you need a concrete reason for my concern, see the chart below from the November 24, 2011 edition of Rolling Stone:
I guess they don't understand that they would be respected more for admitting a mistake publicly and telling us they want off of the list, they are removing their name, even if Grover won't erase it.
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alsoknownas: I saw that quote when I was researching this post. Unbelievable.
Bamy: AWRGH is right!
phyllis45: It is only a matter of time before ol' Grover gets knocked down a peg or two.
Christine: Thanks.
Congress beholden to a lobbyist. That's the story of America 2011. Somebody should remind them that their only pledge is to honor and defend the Constitution.
He is one of the few people on Earth whom I would enjoy drowing in that same bathtub instead.
Failing that, I think fierce public scorn criticism and villification of Norquist and all who toe his line is years overdue. Let him learn to fear the 99% percent!
We have to make it so uncomfortable to be on this list, all the congresspeople can't tell the difference between being on that list and having hemorrhoids.
There does seem to be a growing uneasiness within the Republican ranks. A few Republicans have renounced the pledge saying it was written in and for a different time. An David Frum, Conservative columnist has stated that the GOP has lost it's mind.R
Abrawang: Well put. And dogma creates mindless automatons.
Cranky: I knew what you meant. Nothing is more delicious than when Colbert skewers a guest and the guest thinks he's getting over.
NobleExperiments: Didn't he remind you of some kind of reptile?
Shiral: I predict some modern-day Woodward and Bernstein will soon blow the lid off Grover's empire.
Seer: I should have run like the wind as soon as my ex told me his dream job was to be a Washington lobbyist.
Algis: Talked about and misrepresented, I guess.
bobbot: I love that imagery, even if figurative.
odetteroulette: You are too funny! I am in complete agreement.
Mother: Yep, that would be him. From what I understand, a Big Business marionette.
Frank: I had the same impulse.
Steve: It WAS great!
Rodney: The uneasiness your noticing is the realization that the base of the GOP has lost control over the party, I believe. It might be too late.
fernsy: … and under no circumstances worry about the collateral damage!
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Couldn't have said it better myself. You are right though. Much as I hate (yes hate) listening to conservation dribble, I have recently begun forcing myself to do so. Keep your enemy closer.... right? Well done. Well said. Really well written.
Tom: Excellent piece you wrote before my joining OS. Thanks for the new term: grovering.
Dawn: I've always believed that. Otherwise, they sneak up on you like this clown did me. Thanks.


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