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Re: Standard gui You forgot MacOS X, the web front ends, the handheld front ends, etc. Yes I rememberd me when I had post it, and I forgot to change it. 2) Crossplatform interfaces do not necessarily serve anyone well. They are forced to meet the lowest common denominator of each platform they serve. That means the software for each platform is poorer than it might have been if it had been custom written for that platform and had been allowed to take advantage of platform-specific features. I do not agree with this, it is possible to put platform independand code into the source (example: #ifdef win32) 3) There aren't any decent crossplatform frameworks. Qt is very expensive and incompatible with our license on Windows & Mac. wxWindows is being looked into, but has some deficiencies, compared to KDE/Qt, for example. That could be trough, I don't really know, but I understnad it now |
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I think we'll see a Hurricane Emily type track from 2005, except with a USA landfall farther west. Too far out though... |
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 11:34 PM GMT on July 26, 2010
"Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity" is NASA climate change scientist Dr. James Hansen's first book. Dr. Hansen is arguably the most visible and well-respected climate change scientist in the world, and has headed the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City since 1981. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. Dr. Hansen greatly raised awareness of the threat of global warming during his Congressional testimony during the record hot summer of 1988, and issued one of the first-ever climate model predictions of global warming (see an analysis here to see how his 1988 prediction did.) In 2009, Dr. Hansen was awarded the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the American Meteorological Society, for his "outstanding contributions to climate modeling, understanding climate change forcings and sensitivity, and for clear communication of climate science in the public arena."
Storms of My Grandchildren focuses on the key concepts of the science of climate change, told through Hansen's personal experiences as a key player in field's scientific advancements and political dramas over the past 40 years. Dr. Hansen's writing style is very straight-forward and understandable, and he clearly explains the scientific concepts involved in a friendly way that anyone with a high school level science education can understand. I did not find any scientific errors in his book. However, some of his explanations are too long-winded, and the book is probably too long, at 274 pages. Nevertheless, Storms of My Grandchildren is a must-read, due to the importance of the subject matter and who is writing it. Hansen is not a fancy writer. He comes across as a plain Iowan who happened to stumble into the field of climate change and discovered things he had to speak out about. And he does plenty of speaking out in his book.
James Hansen vs. Richard Lindzen
Dr. Hansen's book opens with an interesting chapter on his participation in four meetings of Vice President Dick Cheney's cabinet-level Climate Task Force in 2001. It seems that the Bush Administration was prepared to let Dr. Hansen's views on climate change influence policy. However, Dr. Richard Lindzen, whom Hansen describes as "the dean of of global warming contrarians", was also present at the meetings. Dr.Lindzen was able to confuse the task force members enough so that they never took Dr. Hansen's views seriously. Hansen observes that "U.S. policies regarding carbon dioxide during the Bush-Cheney administration seem to have been based on, or at a minimum, congruent with, Lindzen's perspective." Hansen asserts that Lindzen was able to do this by acting more like a lawyer than a scientist: "He and other contrarians tend to act like lawyers defending a client, presenting only arguments that favor their client. This is in direct contradiction to...the scientific method." Hansen also comments that he asked Lindzen what he thought of the link between smoking and cancer, since Lindzen had been a witness for the tobacco industry decades earlier. Lindzen "began rattling off all the problems with the data relating smoking to health problems, which was closely analogous to his views of climate data."
Global warming contrarians often dismiss scientists such a Dr. Hansen as "alarmists" who concoct fearsome stories about climate change in order to get research funding. Dr. Lindzen made this accusation at Cheney's Climate Task Force in 2001. However, Dr. Hansen notes that "in 1981 I lost funding for research on the climate effects of carbon dioxide because the Energy Department was displeased with a paper, 'Climate Impact of Increasing Carbon Dioxide,' I had published in Science magazine. The paper made a number of predictions for the 21st century, including 'opening of the fabled Northwest Passage', which the Energy Department considered to be alarmist but which have since proven to be accurate." If you read Dr. Hansen's book and listen to his lectures, it is clear that he is not an alarmist out to get more research funding by hyping the dangers of global warming. Hansen says in his book that "my basic nature nature is very placid, even comfortably stolid", and that nature comes through very clearly in Storms of My Grandchildren. Hansen's writings express a quiet determination to plainly set forth the scientific truth on climate change. He has surprisingly few angry words towards the politicians, lobbyists, and scientists intent on distorting the scientific truth.
The science of climate change
The bulk of Storms of My Grandchildren is devoted to explanations of the science of climate change. Hansen's greatest concern is disintegration of the gerat ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica causing sea level rise: "Once the ice sheets begin to rapidly disintegrate, sea level would be continuously changing for centuries. Coastal cities would become impractical to maintain." Hansen is concerned that evidence from past climate periods show that the massive ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antarctica can melt quickly, with large changes within a century. For example, sea level at the end of the most recent Ice Age, 13,000 - 14,000 years ago, rose at a rate of 3 - 5 meters (10 - 17 feet) per century for several centuries. Hansen is convinced that just a 1.7 -2°C warming, which would likely result if we stabilize CO2 at 450 ppm, would be a "disaster scenario" that would trigger rapid disintegration of the ice sheets and disastrous rises in sea level. Hansen advocates stabilizing CO2 at 350 ppm (we are currently at 390 ppm, with a rate of increase of 2 ppm per year.)
Another of Hansen's main concerns is the extinction of species. He notes that studies of more than 1,000 species of plants, animals, and insects have found an average migration rate towards the poles due to climate warming in the last half of the 20th century to be four miles per decade. "That is not fast enough. During the past thirty years the lines marking the regions in which a given average temperature prevails (isotherms) have been moving poleward at a rate of about thirty-five miles per decade. If greenhouse gases continue to increase at business-as-usual rates, then the rate of isotherm movement will double in this century to at least seventy miles per decade."
Hansen's other main concern is the release of large amounts of methane gas stored in sea-floor sediments in the form of methane hydrates. If ocean temperatures warm according to predictions, the higher temperatures at the sea floor may be enough to destabilize the methane hydrate sediments and release huge quantities of methane into the atmosphere. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 - 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
Solutions to the climate change problem
Dr. Hansen is a controversial figure, since he has stepped outside his field of expertise and become an activist in promoting solutions to the climate change problem. He devotes a chapter called "An Honest, Effective Path" in the book to this. His main theme is that we need to tax fossil fuels using a "fee-and-dividend" approach. All of the tax money collected would be distributed uniformly to the public. This carbon tax would gradually rise, giving people time to adjust their lifestyle, choice of vehicle, home insulation, etc. Those who do better at reducing their fossil fuel use will receive more in the dividend than they will pay in the added costs of the products they buy. The approach is straightforward and does not require a large bureaucracy, but currently has little political support. Hansen is vehemently opposed to the approach that has the most political support, "Cap-and-trade": "Cap-and-trade is what governments and the people in alligator shoes (the lobbyists for special interests) are trying to foist on you. Whoops. As an objective scientist I should delete such personal opinions, to at least flag them. But I am sixty-eight years old, and I am fed up with the way things work in Washington." Hansen also promotes an overlooked type of nuclear power, "fast" reactors with liquid metal coolant that produce far less nuclear waste and are much more efficient than conventional nuclear reactors.
Quotes from the book
"Humanity treads today on a slippery slope. As we continue to pump greenhouse gases into the air, we move onto a steeper, even more slippery incline. We seem oblivious to the danger--unaware how close we may be to a situation in which a catastrophic slip becomes practically unavoidable, a slip where we suddenly lose all control and are pulled into a torrential stream that hurls us over a precipice to our demise."
"In order for a democracy to function well, the public needs to be honestly informed. But the undue influence of special interests and government greenwash pose formidable barriers to a well-informed public. Without a well-informed public, humanity itself and all species on the planet are threatened."
"Of course by 2005 I was well aware that the NASA Office of Public Affairs had become an office of propaganda. In 2004, I learned that NASA press releases related to global warming were sent to the White House, where they were edited to appear less serious or discarded entirely."
"If we let special interests rule, my grandchildren and yours will pay the price."
"The role of money in our capitals is the biggest problem for democracy and for the planet."
"The problem with asking people to pledge to reduce their fossil fuel use is that even if lots of people do, one effect is reduced demand for fossil fuel and thus a lower price--making it easier for someone else to burn...it is necessary for people to reduce their emissions, but it is not sufficient if the government does not adopt policies that cause much of the fossil fuels to be left in the ground permanently."
"I have argued that it is time to 'draw a line in the sand' and demand no new coal plants."
"The present situation is analogous to that faced by Lincoln with slavery and Churchill with Nazism--the time for compromises and appeasement is over."
"Humans are beginning to hammer the climate system with a forcing more than an order of magnitude more powerful than the forcings that nature employed."
"Once ice sheet disintegration begins in earnest, our grandchildren will live the rest of their lives in a chaotic transition period."
"After the ice is gone, would Earth proceed to the Venus syndrome, a runaway greenhouse effect that would destroy all life on the planet, perhaps permanently? While that is difficult to say based on present information, I've come to conclude that if we burn all reserves of oil, gas, and coal, there is a substantial chance we will initiate the runaway greenhouse. If we also burn the tar sands and tar shale, I believe the Venus syndrome is a dead certainty."
"One suggestion I have for now: Support Bill McKibben and his organization 350.org. It is the most effective and responsible leadership in the public struggle for climate justice."
James Hansen understands the Earth's climate as well as any person alive, and his concern about where our climate is headed makes Storms of My Grandchildren a must-read for everyone who cares about the world their grandchildren will inherit. Storms of My Grandchildren retails for $16.50 at Amazon.com. Dr. Hansen's web site is http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/.
Jeff Masters
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I think we'll see a Hurricane Emily type track from 2005, except with a USA landfall farther west. Too far out though... |
Good morning all. Tropical Tidbit for Wednesday, July 28th, with Video |
Quoting CybrTeddy: I don't think the high will be that strong, the EURO shows a potential northward movement rather then west at the end of the run as it reaches the end of a strong high, also note a trough on the east coast. I mentioned a pattern change was coming a few weeks ago that would steer systems to the GOM and possibly the East Coast. It might be happening soon. |
Quoting Neapolitan: And you call me a "denialist"! You got faith in China??? |
Quoting AussieStorm: Have to find the source yet, but population prognoses is for ZPG by 2050-2100. |
Quoting knochel: To answer 2 first.. Hanson's tax idea isn't one for the globe over but a better idea then the fleasing of us by the energy companies/law makers are currently trying for in the US. His proposal calls for a "simple, honest" carbon fee, collected from fossil-fuel companies upon the first sale at the mine, wellhead or port of entry. As of now we pay so much more for oil than the bill at the pump or from the power company, it is heavily subsidized with tax money in huge money gifts & tax breaks to the oil companies & protection in foreign lands with the military. $35 billion in oil company tax breaks are planned for this coming year alone. This is just corporate icing too, not to make it all more affordable. A move was made earlier this month to stop the $35 billion tax break subsidies but was voted down in favor of the corporations instead of a more balanced budget. AS for your 1st point~ The money collected via this fee would be distributed to the public as a monthly "dividend" or "green check." Distributing all of the revenue equitably to households will ensure that families can afford the energy they need during the transition to a clean energy future, and it should help win public support for a rising carbon fee. Hanson's plan is all the tax money people pay for using nonrenewable energy sources is simply to be divided among the people that payed it evenly.. You conserve, you pay less & get the same check at the end of the month. You want to pollute & can afford to then pay more taxes & get the same check at the end of the month (it even keeps oil use a freedom). As more people conserve & find other sources of power the checks will grow smaller because less taxes are payed. In Hanson's plan the oil/mine/power companies never get to touch the tax money & won't profit from this. Since they also make the laws there is no wonder why his idea isn't exciting most lawmakers. Ya'll can argue all day about CO2 causing global warming, it doesn't matter.. It's proven that the oceans are absorbing a huge amount of CO2 that we are dumping in the atmosphere & that is turning the ocean more acidic & rapidly. It will kill our oceans as we know them if we don't stop...well if the oil we keep dumping in them doesn't kill them 1st. Mountain top removal is ugly & a death sentence to communities. There is only so many mountain tops & oil.. Air pollution from coal power plants has been blamed on 30,000 deaths in the US alone per year. Globally air pollution last year caused 2 million early deaths.. We need to get away from a carbon run society for many reasons.. |
The CMC, GEM, NOGAPS, and the reliable EURO model now develop the wave off of Africa. It's reasonable and I expect more models to jump on because conditions are becoming favorable where the SAL is now lifting north, in fact, SAL should not be an issue with this wave. Things are moistening up and shear is on the decline. The NHC may mention it tonight if the EURO makes another aggressive run on the system. It takes it to the Caribbean which sounds reasonable to me do to the westward motion of the storms so far this year. Though I notice the EURO doesn't have a big high in the southeast at the time it has what appears to be Hurricane Colin nearing PR. This is all by observation. The NOGAPS keeps the storm weak as the CMC, like the EURO aggressively develops it, though it takes it out to sea. It's definitely something to watch now that the EURO has jumped on board. We might be seeing our first Cape Verde development this weekend. |
Quoting whs2012: maybe the world population will be 12 billion by 2200, 4 billion in both China and India. |
Quoting PensacolaDoug: You repeated a conjecture from a known climate change denier, a conjecture that completely failed to tak into consideration the entire contents of the page to which he linked. I responded by A) showing that the GISS numbers are not being manipulated, and B) highlighting the fact that even if they were--which, again, they aren't--there are still reams of data showing that the globe is indeed warming, and it's doing so at the hands of man. Please tell me/us how that equates to "smoke and mirrors"? Furthermore, as I pointed out more than once yesterday, China will eventually get its act together, and in fact is trying to do so as we speak; they realize the unsustainability of the current fossil fuel paradigm. It's to our own peril that we haven't yet figured that out. (Besides, the alternative is to get all cynical and sit back and do nothing...and that's just plain immoral and--yes--stupid.) |
i agree w/all 3 path's rather than the path it might take. |
I am wondering if there will be any Cat 5 hurricanes this year. there has been 10 Cat 5 Hurricanes in the ATL since 1992, 4 in 2005 and 2 in 2007. |
Let me emphasis.. I meant TRACK, not intensity of Dean. It could be like Bill too in terms of track. Its way to far out to speculate on a track, we might not even get a system. All three of our tropical cyclones have been forced west by that high, it wouldn't surprise me if that happened with that kind of system. There could be a weakness in the high too, never know its too far out to really speculate. 240 hours out nothing is definite. |
Quoting PensacolaDoug: I'll never look at The Wheel the same way again (sniff) |
Quoting MiamiHurricanes09: I know, joke. ;) Nothing wrong with this either though... |
Quoting angiest:Nah, I'm pretty sure he means Dean from 2007. |
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Quoting CybrTeddy: This guy? |
Pat Sajak to the resue! Link |
A little reminder from a previous blog might help you dealing with fact-ignoring people: How facts backfire PS: I had troubles getting the article on the first attempt. After showing it for a few seconds the page went blank and it claimed that the page was no longer available. When I tried again to open it in a new tab, I highlighted the entire article and it remained visible. ts ts ts, has anyone a problem with revealing how denialists' brains are working? Just in case, I made a copy of it. |
Quoting AussieStorm: Aussie, asking that question on this blog is like askin' the Soup Nazi for extra crackers. |
Yes, this 2012 stuff is all BS. |
any guesses on how many stroms we will see in augest im in for 6 |
Quoting jpsb: Thank you! That's pretty much a New Age myth. |
Quoting reedzone: I'm thinking a very Dean like track personally. |
this group of cynics blocked efforts to pass comprehensive energy and climate legislation...that was LOADED with pork. |
Quoting MrJoeBlow: pure opinion, no supporting data, dubious linkage -3 |
This could be a potential "real" threat down the road.. The EURO shows the high building eastward and not spreading west like it did with the other storms. This would steer "Colin" to Florida or the GOM. |
Quoting MrJoeBlow:That storm is off of the coast of Africa...at this point track is all speculation. |
Quoting jpsb: my Birthday is 23rd December... will i see my 36th birthday? |
Quoting CybrTeddy: Quoting from StormW: Elsewhere, a Tropical Wave has entered the far eastern Atlantic just off the African coast. Most of the Global Forecast models seem to develop this wave as it continues westward in about 4-5 days. I will be analyzing model runs for consistency in both cyclogenisis and strength during the next 24-36, given the fact the models have a tendency to be more aggressive during initialization and the first 24 hours of "development". |
Quoting whs2012: I heard on the radio here that temps will continue to rise till 2200 then start to fall until we go into a little ice-age. |
Quoting MiamiHurricanes09: Hope thats the case, but i kind of dont see it happening unless the H moves out strongly |
Does that storm got Florida wrote all over it or not? |
Quoting CybrTeddy:I wouldn't be surprised to see the ECMWF go a little more aggressive in the 12z run later this afternoon. |
Active preparation is always a good hedge on a expected Active Season. As a side note. Hurricane Preparation 2010 |
Quoting Bigguy675:The Mayan Calender ends dec 21, 2012. However it is not really the calender that ends, calenders never really do end. It is just the largest cycle in a complicated system of cycles that ends. This particular cycle has ended before so it is not really all that big of a deal. just saying |
Quoting AussieStorm: ok makes sense now |
Quoting MiamiHurricanes09: Very large and powerful hurricane too. |
Quoting Neapolitan: This is smoke and mirrors Nea. My original post was an assertaion by people much smarter than I, that the GISS numbers are being manipulated and how it is being done. Debunk that. For the record I have never said the planet hasn't gotten warmer. It has, I concede that. What I have never been convinced of, is that it is man-made. I still contend that even if it is. There isn't much we can do about it unless the whole world is on board with reducing emissions. Americans can't do it by ourselves. China is building new coal-fired plants at an alarming rate. The rest of the 3rd world won't even discuss limits on their emissions. Whats the point of us tying our own hands if it won't make a difference? |
So, hurricanes are finally gonna pay me a visit here in PR? =P |
The 00z GGEM (extension of the CMC) takes the wave off of the African coast into a hurricane and then sends it poleward through the subtropical ridge. 00z GGEM 240 hours. |
Thanks Senior Chief... "Given this, and based on the updated MJO forecast models as projected in the Multivariate MJO Index, I would still count on the Atlantic really picking up in activity starting the week of 09 August, and mostly later on in that week (14th). Again, I will reiterate, the signals point toward a very active season. I do believe we shall see more SAL outbreaks, however the A/B high is forecast to weaken over the next 2 weeks, and I believe based on the parameters, we will see activity just flourish from mid August, through October. Based on the CFS MSLP monthly means, September and October could see above normal activity, as the forecast, which has been consistent on a daily basis since May, indicates well below average MSLP means for both of those months. Tropical Storm formation is not expected through Thursday. "Storm" Quoting Bigguy675: Not me! I plan on livin' forever. So far, so good... |
August is coming and the CV train is getting loaded with its goodies and is about ready to leave the station, I wonder how many carriages the train will have???? |


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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Monday, November 19, 2012Van Riper: GM Anthopoulos Has Blue Jays Back In The Game - CheaplyThrough the Blue Jay past, darkly. Reader Comments and RetortsStatements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy. Please report any inappropriate comments. 1. Rough Carrigan Posted: November 19, 2012 at 09:40 AM (#4305810)So Anthopoulos has targeted the risky talent, guys that can play but still manage to scare others off for one reason or another You mean, undervalued talent? Yeah, that has nothing to do with Moneyball.
Moneyball - Signing BJ Ryan, Vernon Wells and Alex Rios to huge contracts
3. Callum
Posted: November 19, 2012 at 10:12 AM (#4305828)
That was JP Ricciardi's mandate when he was hired: be like Billy Beane. I think that the author is referring to how JP slashed payroll from ~ $75 million in 2002 to $50 million annually in 2003 while fielding a relatively competitive ballclub. Then the Moneyball strategy went out the window when the Canadian dollar became stronger.
4. Rants Mulliniks
Posted: November 19, 2012 at 10:47 AM (#4305842)
This Jays team is definitely a high risk, high reward ball club. I can see them winning 100 games if everything clicks (I don't mean career years from everyone, just reasonable upside performances) or only winning 77 games if reasonably conceivable injuries happen.
5. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F)
Posted: November 19, 2012 at 10:49 AM (#4305844)
Jose Reyes has poor fundamentals?
6. RJ in TO
Posted: November 19, 2012 at 10:51 AM (#4305846)What is the Jays budget like now? I'm eyeballing and it looks like they have $100 mill committed for next year as is. Is that about it? The crazy thing is that this doesn't really seem to hamstring them down the line - they have about $70 mill committed for next year, with Rasmus and Bonifacio being the only significant arb cases.
or only winning 77 games if reasonably conceivable injuries happen.
7. Rants Mulliniks
Posted: November 19, 2012 at 11:07 AM (#4305863)In case you haven't noticed, when the Jays are involved, they don't stop at reasonably conceivable injuries. In case you haven't noticed, when the Jays are involved, they don't stop at reasonably conceivable injuries. Which is why we could be talking about 68 wins in that scenario....
The Jays budget is whatever their owner (Rogers) decides it is. Toronto has an exclusive TV market of over 30 million people - far more than any other team. The city of Toronto (5-6) is bigger than Detroit (4-5 million) and far more wealthy, bigger than San Francisco (3-4 million) and Arlington/Dallas/Fort Worth (4-7 million) as well yet each of those has a $125+ million budget without anything like Toronto's potential for TV.
9. jwb
Posted: November 19, 2012 at 01:04 PM (#4305981)The Jays should have a $130-$150 million budget based on what other teams do and what the population base is. Mix in history (used to get 4 million per season) and desperate fans (Leafs 7+ years since playoffs, Raptors 4+ despite playing in leagues where over 1/2 the teams make it) and you have a place that easily should sustain a high payroll. If you go by just plain old inflation and the $50 million the Jays spent in 1993 (which the team said was the max it could sustain with 100% sell outs and 2 WS wins) you get $77 million today, but adjust it to 'baseball inflation' of 5% or 10% and you get $133 million and $336 million. However, don't forget the Canadian dollar in 1993 was around 89 cents US vs being on par today thus adding 12% to the final total, making the 3 figures $86, $149, and $377. Obviously no one argues the Jays (or any team) should have a $377 million payroll. However $149 does sound reasonable as a target for once the Jays pack that park, while $86 is the ballpark where they were before this offseason.
Cots has the Blue Jays with 15 players under contract for $93.8M, but he has the payment from the Marlins at $8M. Everything I have read says it is $4M.
10. John Northey
Posted: November 19, 2012 at 01:42 PM (#4306022)The Blue Jays also have a large arbitration class (estimates from Matt Swartz at MLB Trade Rumors): Cory Wade ($700K), Bobby Wilson ($600K), Colby Rasmus ($4.5M), J.A. Happ ($3.8M), and Emilio Bonifacio ($2.5M), for a total of $12.1M. Wilson is really the only non-tender candidate and he doesn't move the pile much. This takes them up to 20 players, add five pre-arb players at $500K, and they're at $112M.
So at $112 they still have space to add Greinke or trade for Felix Hernandez :)
11. ...and Toronto selects: Troy Tulowitzki
Posted: November 19, 2012 at 06:13 PM (#4306299)Hey, us Jay fans can dream right? Cots has the Blue Jays with 15 players under contract for $93.8M, but he has the payment from the Marlins at $8M. Everything I have read says it is $4M. They're surely getting this from Heyman, who Tweeted last week, he was hearing the Marlins were sending $8M not $4. Gregor Chisholm who covers the Blue Jays for MLB.com has the 2013 payroll at approximately $122,200,000. He manages his own site where this is provided. Payroll commitments: 2013 J.P. Arencibia — (**500,000) Edwin Encarnacion – 8,000,000 Emilio Bonifacio – (*2,500,000) Jose Reyes — 10,000,000 Brett Lawrie – (**500,000) Melky Cabrera – 8,000,000 Colby Rasmus – (*4,500,000) Jose Bautista – 14,000,000 Adam Lind – 5,000,000 John Buck – 6,000,000 Maicer Izturis – 3,000,000 Rajai Davis – 2,500,000 Mike McCoy – (**500,000) Josh Johnson – 13,750,000 Mark Buehrle – 11,000,000 Brandon Morrow – 8,000,000 Ricky Romero – 7,500,000 J.A. Happ – (*3,800,000) Casey Janssen – 3,900,000 Sergio Santos – 2,750,000 Darren Oliver — 3,000,000 Steve Delabar – (**500,000) Brad Lincoln – (**500,000) Esmil Rogers – (**500,000) Brett Cecil – (**500,000) Dustin McGowan — $1,500,000 Approximate 2013 Total – 122,200,000 Extras – Potential deals for Bobby Wilson, and Corey Wade. Also contracts for players on the 40-man roster such as Luis Perez, Drew Hutchison and Kyle Drabek. Miami reportedly is sending $4-million to the Blue Jays as part of their deal so some savings will be found here as well. *Arbitration eligible. Salary projection taken from MLBTradeRumors **Contract can be renewed by the club as player is not yet eligible for arbitration. This is a very rough estimate for the salary. Miami reportedly is sending $4-million to the Blue Jays as part of their deal so some savings will be found here as well. I've not seen anyone mention it, but it seems to me this $4M is for Mark Buehrle, not just some random cash that Anthopolous forced out of the Marlins that he can now turn around and use to sign Melky Cabrera or whomever. According to Cots, when Buehrle signed with the Marlins he agreed to a well under-market salary of only $6M for 2012. But he was also given a $4M signing bonus which he agreed to defer without interest. My guess (just a guess) is that Buehrle has still not been paid this signing bonus, so Anthopolous asked for the money in the trade.
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Rand Paul: I Will be Campaigning for Mitt Romney
Submitted by DeejayG on Tue, 09/11/2012 - 22:12- Login to post comments
what a joke rand is
has anyone looked into his fathers politics what a lunatic just like him
I'm voting for OBAMA, third run here we come
who's with me?
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As always, it's easy to sit back and point out the negatives
without offering any sort of better option.
While Rand surely isn't perfect, right now he's the best chance for change that I can see.
That being said, I welcome hearing who anyone thinks is a better candidate and why.
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Your post assumes that we must handcuff ourselves to some human being; which, given we are 2 years away from the next national election - is a bit premature.
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Not sure why so many are crying about the last election
so much. What's done is done. It's 2016 that really matters now. Romney couldn't get elected this go around if he had to.
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why all the downvotes?
Is it because of cognitive dissonace?
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This article was in the top list of daily paul article stories - i do not control that. So I clicked on the article and made a comment.
Not sure why you are making personal insults to a fellow daily paul member...
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First of all...
why the hell do you think this deserves to be resurfaced after 2 years?
and 2nd...If romnie runs (AGAIN) it will further legitimize the rotten state of politics and life that we have in this country and, imho, push more people to revolt.
Romnie? Seriously?
What a joke?
its 'cos I owe ya, my young friend...
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Heck who is to say Rand won't
Heck who is to say Rand won't be supporting Mitt's in 2016?
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rand paul is dead in the water!
his father, our hero and the greatest American Statesman this country has seen in 200 years, flatly refuses to endorse romney yet, 'ol chipper here hits the "campaign trail" for the neocon
dead in the water, i say, they'll leave him high and dry in the next cycle and all his support will evaporate
Henry Clay, my arse!
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I am giggly
Rand Paul is doing a fantastic job. He is our celebrated Trojan horse. He went all in to get inside the fort; established great credibility and then come out of the horse and start the fire in the neighborhood. Watch this recent attack on Romney's foreign policy.
I love the last line in the article, "The Tea Party favorite, however, wrote that he still stands behind Romney for the top of the 2012 ticket. Romney is the "clear choice to lead our country come January," Paul wrote."
Of course. He doesn't want to be ousted from Troy (GOP) but bring it to its heels from within.
I predict that Rand Paul is going to be more effective "pratically" than his dad was. Just look what he is doing with RandPac to throw Harry Reid out of his chair! Unfuckingbelievable!
The fuse was ignited by the father. The son will finish the job! Amen to that.
All you Rand Paul doubters, pay attention. Give to RandPac if you want Harry Reid, the unconfirmed pederast (http://wizbangblog.com/2012/08/04/is-harry-reid-a-serial-ped...) put to the pasture. THAT IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHO WINS THE WHITE HOUSE!! You know it!!!
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No way, never, ever!
"All you Rand Paul doubters, pay attention. Give to RandPac…"
My deeply felt and honest reply to your above quoted statement is as follow: Never, not one penny, not one time. If I ever felt anything positive about Rand Paul, he killed that by endorsing and supporting that no good piece of garbage named willard romney. There was, in my opinion, no reason for him to endorse romney as early as he did. He could have waited till the convention. I hope that is perfectly clear.
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Obviously you do not
understand how the political system works in it's current form. Look no further than Ron Paul to see what happens when you buck the system. The only way to defeat this system is to get in the dirt with the rest of them and then flip after the election. If Rand had refused to support Romney he would have had zero chance in 2016. Become a delegate at your 2016 State Convention and you will quickly understand how the system works and why you have to at least appear to be playing the game!
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Not to defend democrats, but
Not to defend democrats, but the booing at the DNC was about supporting Israel, not GOD. Rand knows that.
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This is why I hate politcs
Some say its part of Rand's master plan to build a constituency within the GOP so he can reform it--or at least make inroads in the name of liberty.
Others say he's selling out, or at least very naive to think he can win the hearts and minds of the GOP to bring them to his way of thinking.
If you are in the first group, then you believe in playing the political game as a necessary evil. That somehow, someway, working inside the belly of the beast will convert it. Politics is like the dragon Smaug in the Tolkien's Hobbit. It charms you, seduces you, then devours you.
I'm in the second group, because that's what I liked about Dr. Paul--If you are honest and uncompromising, you don't need to play politics and have some shady backroom deal you did years ago come back and bite you, or demand you return a favor pro quo on a issue you are against because you owe someone. Rand is going to find his endorsement of Romney become a political millstone around his neck.
Now some will say I'm radical, or stubborn, or being naive. But I thought that was the point of following the good doctor. Now we have apologists for Rand's behavior, which even if its for good reasons, are still the inverse to what attracted us to Ron Paul in the first place.
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you speak for me, too...
semper fi
why are we here, after all?
its 'cos I owe ya, my young friend...
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9/11 Truth.
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I hate politics too
for the very reasons you state. I know what you're saying.
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Research the truth, vote your OWN conscience, and you will have less to worry about :-)
Ron Paul set the standard. We must never lower it.
"What if the American people learn the truth" - Ron Paul
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Good for Rand. With Romney
Good for Rand. With Romney practically destroying his campain, Rand is positioning himself very well by playing ball.
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Can't blame Rand if Romney goes down.
I heard Michael Savage last night talking about how "Sweater Vest" and Gingrich were to blame for taking Romney down, especially Gingrich, because of all the opposition research they did on Romney during the primaries. All that research was like a gift to the Democrats.
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Well to be fair (yuck) what
Well to be fair (yuck) what did Savage expect Santy and the Gingrich to do? They were running against Romney to be the GOP nominee.
And yes you're right they can't blame Rand. If Romney loses, because Rand is a Paul, the GOP can't blame Ron Paul supporters even though they know a majority of us will not vote for Mittens. If that's the case they might as well blame Huckleberry and the evangelicals too, and that won't happen.
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Oh, I don't know
They might start blaming everybody and everyone. They have been itching to find their scapegoat for their own failures.
I am hoping for the whole party to go down in flames.
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I sure hope there is an
I sure hope there is an ulterior motive behind Rand's pandering to the GOP elites. Because his father and all his supporters have given a HUGE amount of blood sweat and tears just getting to where we are now.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants
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and to getting rand where he is today...
if not for his father, rand would still be pushing foster grants in lexington!
and this is how he rewards him?
it must be crushing to Dr. Paul to see his son do this...
its 'cos I owe ya, my young friend...
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9/11 Truth.
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I heartily endorse the candate that has a consistant record of..
Standing in opposition to everything I shook down supporters for donations to fight against...It's my secret plan.
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Nothing he does surprises me anymore.
It seems to me that he just can't get enough of sticking his entire head, up hannity's behind. But this is no surprise to me and it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone here at the daily paul. I suppose he believes in that old saying about "in for a penny, in for a pound."
Larry in North Carolina
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Asked this in another thread with no answer
Who else is fighting for our Liberty in a position of power as high as the Senate?
Who is for auditing the Pentagon, legalizing industrial Hemp, ending foreign aid to 3 countries among many other issues that the "Liberty Movement" is supposed to be all about?
Because of a meaningless endorsement of someone he knows can't win in November Rand's been called a traitor among many other ridiculous names. GET OVER IT! You are cutting off your nose to spite your face. It's ridiculous.
Next election, you will still only have a choice between the two parties. There will not be a third party run that has a chance, Ron Paul knows this and has even said it. But then again, I guess you all know better than Dr. Paul too.
So when you can pick between Hillary or Jeb, Marco, Chris, or Rand, who will you choose. Or will you sit in your ivory tower lobbing verbal grenades at Rand that he isn't 100% as idealogically pure as his father. The naivety is becoming laughable.
I think that many here need to realize that there is an effort to co-opt you to the left. Wake up people, you're smarter than that. The battle for 2016 has already begun, don't be fooled.
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is that what you call it?
thats not the way his father, our Great Statesman, played it!
its 'cos I owe ya, my young friend...
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jeff, I'll attempt to answer your post.
There is the letter of 'the law,' and there is also the spirit of the law. No question that Rand fulfills the letter of the law. Rand is standing up to the tyranny in the Senate. I applaud him for that. The Bills that he's introduced in the Senate and the great majority of his votes cast both reflect that commitment to Liberty. In my opinion, these actions are the hardest part of 'the law' to fulfill. They take the most guts for sure.
The rest should be much easier, but it seems not to be in this case, and I do not know why. Verbally endorsing your own father for president not Romney, and casting the lone dissenting Kentucky vote for Ron Paul would have been the best ways he could have of respected his father's Congressional career. These two little things would have sent a very powerful message to us as well. Imagine the effect those two actions would have had with just the members on the Daily Paul alone? He would have gained the complete support of everyone here. Such simple actions; an endorsement and casting one KY delegate vote for Ron Paul. Romney still would have won. Everything else would remain unchanged, except Rand would have gained our full future backing in the process. Rand did not fulfill the golden opportunity to honor the spirit of 'the law' by supporting Ron Paul. I may forgive him someday for that, but not anytime soon.
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In most countries, ingredients must be labelled. None of those ingredients are gluten.
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If you've been following this blog for a while, you will know that I am not big on making resolutions, but every now and then, throughout the year, I make an attempt to eat breakfast. I am the kind of person that wants to wake up each morning and be surprised by what I find on my plate for breakfast. While I am quite content to eat the same thing 2 to 3 days in a row for lunch or dinner, that is not the case when it comes to breakfast. I seek variety: savoury and sweet (more savoury), heavy and light, liquid and solids.
Here's the thing, because I want breakfast to be a surprise and something different daily, I find that I cannot plan what I want to have for breakfast the day or night before, this generally results in me not having breakfast at all. If I am not rushing to get out of the house, invariably, I'll have tea.
The other day I got up and felt like eating potatoes for breakfast. Ah, a rare occasion that I actually knew what I wanted to eat for breakfast. These potatoes were done cooking in under half an hour. I like that.
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Last week, Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis I, the first non-European Pope in over 1,200 years, and the first from Latin America. As the first Pope from the region that currently includes a plurality of the world's Catholic population, Francis' election signals the importance of Latin America to the Church. Francis' election may also help rekindle Catholicism among those in the U.S. with roots in Latin America: the Hispanic population.
Hispanics in the U.S. are becoming a major demographic force within the American Catholic Church. In two decades the percentage of American Catholics of Hispanic descent has more than doubled; today nearly 3-in-10 (29%) American Catholics are Hispanic.
The U.S. Catholic Church has been reinvigorated by the growth of the Hispanic population. In fact, one of the primary reasons why the overall Catholic population has not witnessed they same type of precipitous decline experienced by the mainline denominations is because of immigration and natural population growth. In 1990, nearly 8-in-10 Catholics were non-Hispanic whites. Currently whites make up 63% of the U.S. Catholic population. Nearly half (48%) of Catholics under the age of 30 are now Hispanic.
However, there are signs of decline among Hispanic Catholics. Nearly half (49%) Hispanics currently identify as Catholic while nearly three-quarters (74%) reported being raised as Catholic.
This decline stems from two very different patterns of conversion. Nearly one-third of Hispanics (32%) now identifies as Protestant, a significant increase over the 1-in-5 who report being raised in a Protestant tradition. The ranks of the religiously unaffiliated have nearly tripled among Hispanics primarily the result of conversions away from the Catholic Church.
Yet there are reasons for optimism in the Church since the new Pope seems ideally suited to appeal to Hispanic Catholics. Pope Francis reportedly is a traditionalist who also champions the issues of poverty and social justice. Hispanic Catholics are significantly more likely than white Catholics (48% vs. 40%) to believe the Church should preserve its traditional beliefs and practices and a majority of Hispanic Catholics (52%) believe that in its statements about public policy the Church should focus more on social justice and the obligation to help the poor.
The Catholic Church is also facing similar challenges in Latin America, where conversions away from Catholicism, either into other Christian traditions or no-religion, are becoming commonplace in Brazil and Mexico, the world's largest Catholic countries. Maybe a Pope from the region where the preferential option for the poor was born will halt these defections and move the Church in a direction more in sync with the preferences of Latin American Catholics. If this is the case, we can expect the effects to spill over to Hispanic Catholics in the U.S.
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An open message to the Pope.
You still don't get it. If you want to save the Church, Save the Planet.
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