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Frank Martin: "Didn't put up much of a fight"
Here are post-game quotes from South Carolina coach Frank Martin, after his team was run out of Rupp Arena on Saturday, losing 77-43 to top-ranked Kentucky.
Post-game videos from Kentucky-South Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Post-game press conference videos after Kentucky's 58-43 win at South Carolina. We have UK coach John Calipari, UK players Tyler Ulis and Devin Booker, South Carolina coach Frank Martin and South Carolina players Michael Carerra and Sindarius … Continue reading
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Tagged Devin Booker, Frank Martin, John Calipari, Michael Carerra, Sindarius Thornwell, Tyler Ulis
Audio: Kevin Stallings, Frank Martin, John Calipari
Here are three audio files from the SEC basketball teleconference Monday morning. Kevin Stallings' Vanderbilt Commodores visit Rupp Arena on Tuesday night. Kentucky plays Frank Martin's South Carolina Gamecocks on Saturday in Columbia. Stallings called Kentucky maybe the best defensive … Continue reading
SEC: Leonard Fournette, Lane Kiffin and QB searches
SEC Links for Sunday: As the spotlight hits, LSU's Leonarde Fournette keeps working, reports Ross Dellenger of The Advocate. LSU goes after an Arizona commit at quarterback, reports James Smith of NOLA.com. Nick Saban and Alabama players explain Lane Kiffin's … Continue reading
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Tagged DeVon Walker, Frank Martin, Jacob Coker, Lane Kiffin, Leonard Fournette, Nick Saban
South Carolina suspends Frank Martin over language
Remember the post on Wednesday about Frank Martin being caught on camera cursing out one of his South Carolina players during Tuesday night's loss to Florida? The basketball coach of the Gamecocks has been suspended for Saturday's game with Mississippi … Continue reading
South Carolina's Frank Martin goes off again
Earlier this year, South Carolina basketball coach Frank Martin had to issue an apology for the way he angrily berated his guard Brenton Williams during a game. Last night in Carolina's 72-46 loss to visiting Florida, Martin tore into guard … Continue reading
Video: Frank Martin after the shocking win
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina coach Frank Martin talks to media after the Gamecocks upset Kentucky.
Coaches talk about basketball's transfer epidemic
By last count, since the end of the college basketball season, there are almost 500 college players who have announced their intentions to transfer schools. So that was a topic of conversation on the SEC basketball summer teleconference this morning. … Continue reading
Football schedule strength and more evening news
Evening news for Friday: – Former UK football player Champ Kelly held his CHAMP Camp today at Henry Clay High School. In the video above, he talks about the free camp, which continues today. – Pat Dooley of the Gainesville … Continue reading
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Detectives probably already are, but they should check people with (recent-ish) prior felony arrests in the Silva Terra area and generally the CB Road corridor. This kind of person gives drug users a bad name (trust me - if he's willing to tote a shotgun to a gas station to rob it for <$200, then he is on drugs.) Not all of us are willing to rob/steal/kill for a "fix". In fact, some of us can use in a socially and financially responsible manner. Shame that I have to stay "in the closet" while my idiot co-workers discuss boozing irresponsibly every Monday and Friday. SOME (though we are a minority in the our demographic)of us are truly productive citizens that just rely on a substance to get through the day (caffeine anyone?) or just like to catch a buzz. Is that sooooo evil? You never know, I might be wasting time on the internet in the same office as you. »
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and The Duke Spirit
Posted by paul - 10/12/10 at 10:12:59 amKT Tunstall and Slow Club
Posted by paul - 01/12/10 at 02:12:17 pmKT Tunstall playing at the Ritz with Slow Club in Manchester.
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Posted by paul - 01/12/10 at 02:12:05 pmGrammatics
Posted by paul - 01/12/10 at 02:12:54 pmGrammatics final gig at the Deaf Institute in Manchester.
Amazing gig, sadly I had to leg it for the train during the penultimate song.
Ólafur Arnalds
Posted by paul - 04/07/10 at 12:07:55 pmÓlafur Arnalds performs his latest album with the RNCM Symphony Orchestra at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.
Not my usual gig shoot, first time in a long while that I've been nervous. Didn't feel I shot enough to be honest, would have liked to have got more close shots of the RNCM Symphony Orchestra. It was tough trying to keep my shutter clicking unheard during the louder parts of the songs(there aren't many!). Really could have done with one of those shutter muffler kits.
I enjoyed the show, never seen an Orchestra live before, Arcade Fire I guess wouldn't count.
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Previously: The girls collaborated on an "expressive" dance challenge where they were masked, and all looked 100% more attractive. As if having to do interpretive dance wasn't punishment enough, they were also forced to go to Vegas where they encountered a giant Canadian tie-dye snail mime and a ringmaster who looked like an even more undead Mr. Jay. Ashley had no fire and so got the boot. Eight bitches remain!
We enter with the girls in their giant limo, on the way home from panel. Laura and Sundai talk about how they'd like to see their actual best photos from the Cirque du Soleil shoot, as opposed to the still-good photo that was chosen because they had to cater to the worst model in the three-person shot. Sundai is particularly happy to know that it was Erin and Nicole who were the weak links in her shot. Not so happy about this is Nicole. We flash back to Tyra telling Nicole, who was nestled in the crotch of a Cirque acrobat, that she lost her magic. That's because Cirque acrobats get all their magic via a head-to-crotch transmission. Nicole was putting herself in danger of losing her powers without even knowing it! She's also worried that the judges think she has no personality. Technically, they just think she has the personality of a weird stoner. Where would they get that idea? Nicole is ready to prove that she's more than just a Bloody Eyeball anecdote.
Meanwhile Kara, who is scarfing down snacks and totally has crumbs on her face (or...wait, is that a mole?), speaks with her mouth full (gah) and tells the others that she's casting for America's Next Top Model: The Musical. Er, no comment. Rae auditions for the role of Laura, and sings in a Southern accent about making pinto beans and eating collard greens. Excellent food-related rhyme! Rae also sings, as Laura, that her boyfriend works on the railroad. All the livelong day? Is this a true fact? There's then a very bizarre interview with Laura, in which she has either been crying a whole bunch or got very drunk after having a bad chemical peel. She says in either drunk or distraught voice with her shiny red face that even though people see her as a small town girl, she's been out of the small town a whole bunch. Okay, then. I guess this has been our weekly reminder that Laura's a hopeless hick.
Tyra Mail! "How driven are you? We'll find out tomorrow. Love, Tyra." Laura, whose extreme happiness all these weeks possibly has just been inebriation, screams that they'll be driving bumper cars. Rae tells us that the girls are very confused, but have deduced that there must be a hidden meaning in this Tyra Mail. Meanwhile, Kara thinks that everyone should just vote Nicole off the island. Apparently, some others agree. Rae pipes in and says that Nicole doesn't simply have a lack of social skills, she has a lack of feeling and soul. They kind of make her sound like a sociopath. Kara adds that Nicole has the social graces of a fetus. This is my cue to jump in and add that I have always thought Leonardo DiCaprio looks like a fetus. It has nothing to do with the matter at hand, but I always like to run that one by people to see if they agree. Anyhoo, these girls are haters. Kara interviews that Nicole is like a monotone robot, and to boot she's really excelling in the competition and doing quite a bit better than Kara herself. Maybe it's because she's actually attractive and doesn't have a Simpsons mouth. Kara really bugs me.


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Ten One Design introduces the Fling mini joystick for iPhone
You have probably seen Fling, the joystick put together by Ten One Design that sticks right onto your iPad. And now the company has introduced a new version called the Fling mini, available for preorder right now. As you can imagine, the Fling mini is smaller than the iPad version, but Ten1 says it still feels like an analog stick and works just fine on the iPhone's haptic touchscreen.
I was very impressed with the Fling joystick when I tried it at Macworld earlier this year, and while it's tough to see how Ten One could replicate that same balance and feel in a smaller model, I have no doubt the company was able to do it. As you can see above, the designers had to compromise a bit and add those little arms that sit out on the non-screen part of the iPhone. But while it does cover up the screen quite a bit (maybe too much for some games), this thing is more about the feel of the joystick and getting that just right.
The full Fling sells for US$29.95 in a two-pack, and the Fling mini will be $5 less -- $24.95 for a dual pack. We're told they'll start arriving in mid-July, and we'll get our hands on one to try out as soon as possible.
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John Wentworth's Chocolate Ride went right to the front and never looked back to upset the $125,000 Fair Grounds Handicap (gr. IIIT) at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots Feb. 21.
John Wentworth's Chocolate Ride went right to the front and never looked back to upset the $125,000 Fair Grounds Handicap (gr. IIIT) at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots Feb. 21.
European invaders Brown Panther and Hillstar will be well-backed as part of a competitive field of 10 expected for the $1 million Pattison Canadian International (Can-IT) at Woodbine Oct. 19.
Suntracer, beaten by 20 lengths in his last start, was all out to hold off the closing Pyrite Mountain by a nose to win the $347,400 Kentucky Cup Turf (gr. IIIT) over the twisting Kentucky Downs turf course Sept. 13.
His Race to Win fired through an opening between horses near mid-stretch and edged clear of 11-10 choice Winning Cause to post his first stakes victory in the $166,038 Ontario Derby (Can-III) Sept. 15 at Woodbine.
New York shipper Winning Cause, trained by Todd Pletcher, is the 8-5 favorite in a field of six 3-year-olds to contest the $150,000 Ontario Derby (Can-III) Sept. 15 at Woodbine.
Heavily favored Up With the Birds, driving to the lead in upper stretch, sprinted away from his rivals to register an impressive 2 3/4-length score in the $484,426 Breeders' Stakes to wrap up the 2013 Canadian Triple Crown.
He was a half-length short as the favorite in the Queen's Plate, but Up With the Birds will get a second chance at glory Aug. 18 when he challenges nine rivals in the $500,000 Breeders' Stakes at Woodbine.
Up With the Birds, dominating winner of the Marine Stakes, was made the 2-1 favorite in the $1 million Queen's Plate, heading a field of 12 Canadian-bred 3-year-olds July 7 at Woodbine.
Dynamic Sky, ridden patiently by Joel Rosario, nosed out a game His Race to Win to capture the $147,903 Plate Trial in a superb finish June 9 at Woodbine.
A day after the Belmont Stakes (gr. I) wraps up the American Triple Crown series for 2013, the spotlight shines on 3-year-olds at Woodbine.
Seventy-three horses have been made eligible for the 154th edition of the historic Queen's Plate, to be held July 7 at Woodbine.
Uncaptured, Canada's 2012 Horse of the Year, was caught a bit short in his return to Woodbine May 5 when Pyrite Mountain swept past him to deep stretch to take the $115,690 Wando Stakes.


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I am going to use a TP-Link router here for writing these steps but these are generic so these steps can be used to configure any router with your PTCL modem. We would also change the IP address for the router and disable router from getting an IP automatically which in other words mean disabling DHCP on the router. 1.Plug in your routers power cable and turn it on. 2.Now that your router is turned on you need to connect this router to your computer using an Ethernet cable. Please connect using the LAN port. 3.Your computer will establish a connection with the router automatically as DHCP is enabled on the router by default. 4. Open Firefox or whatever browser you use for surfing websites and type in the routers default IP address in the address bar which in our case is http://192.168.1.1 as we are using a TP link router. Please find out what the default IP is for your router from the user manual if you are using a different brand. 5. You would see a log in prompt and your default id and pass word are both "admin" without the quotes. Once you hit enter after entering admin in both the fields you would see the admin console on your browser. 6. Go to the LAN option listed under Network and change the IP address to 192.168.1.2 and save. The reason we are doing this is because your PTCL modems IP address is 192.168.1.1 and we don't want a conflict resulting into a mess. Once you save the new IP address your router will automatically reboot. 7. Once your router is restarted you need to open the admin console again but this time you would need to use the new IP address that we have changed it to which is http://192.168.1.2 and again enter the same user name and password which is "admin" and you will see the admin console again. 8. Go t the option that says Wireless Settings and you would see the SSID field. Please change it to something more individual because that's the name you would see when you are looking for your WiFi network and please don't use any rude words as this can be seen by every one who lives near by Use some thing like "My home network" or something on those lines. 9. Change the country to Pakistan or where ever you live and rest of the settings can be left to whatever the default is. 10. Now go to the Wireless security option to make sure no unauthorized people are able to access your WiFi network. Choose wpa-psk option as it is reasonably secured unless some hacking top shot lives near by you are pretty safe using this option. You can choose the encryption option TKIP or AES. 11.Enter the PSK pass phrase that you can remember and try using alphabets and numbers to make sure people are not able to guess it. It is generally safer to choose a non dictionary set of alphabets that make no sense. 12. Go to DHCP option and click on disable. 13. Your Router is ready to use, now just plug the Ethernet with modem. 14. Save everything and now go to Tools and click on reboot. This will restart your modem using the new settings that we have saved in all the above stept. 15. Your router is now all set and all you need to do is connect the router with the modem using an Ethernet cable. You can now take out the cable that connects to router with your computer and use the wifi network that we have created to use the internet. If you have further questions then please post a reply here and I would be more then happy to help you every step of the way if you are still not able to get it right. Please don't forget to hit the Facebook like and G+ button at the bottom of this page if this post was helpful. Thanks UPDATE: I have written a guide for configuring a PTCL adsl broadband modem that you can use to configure your modem with PTCL adsl broadband connection.
Salam,this is saim mughal sir tell me that is there any way that i connect my tp link router with ptcl modem by using wifi signal of ptcl wireless modem not by ethernet cabal if u have any way then plz tell me my email is ***.
Bro i did by using ptcl wireless signal and it connected with tp link and tp link wireless modem also through signal the around a near area but there was a problem that was it did not browse it this thing i did not understand it and i am finding the solution of this
Me using TP-Link Mr-3420 Router. Issue is when going to connect using notebook Wifi, it shows "limited connectivity" until I reboot router. How to configure router so it directly connects without reboot each and everytime?
Hi Noman, To enable your router to connect automatically you would need to enable DHCP as PPPoE would need manual dialing under normal circumstances. I hope this helps.
Hi admin Actually my problem is that I have just bought a ptcl wifi modem, which later on didnt give me range, they say that it is around 10 meters range but the range is only covering the TV lounge area where I have installed my modem. I was then told to buy TPlink router, I bought the router TL-WR841N and I installed it, the result was the same range I got by the ptcl wifi. I couldnt even use it it my room. what should I do?
There seems to be some manufacturing defect. Have you contacted the manufacturer's customer support? If it is still under warranty then get it replaced else get your local computer repair shop have a look into it for you.
Hi I have ptcl modem that is not connecting to the internet my kids reset it by its reset button now i am unable to even connect it by cable? Can u please help me to find solution to this problem? Ip address 220.127.116.11 is also not connecting. No connection is can be established at all. Please help I request to ptcl office to please set up my modem but no one came to help me. Kindly help me to find out its setup. Thanks Need help to set my ptcl modem. from 0
My ptcl default password admin admin doesn't work n no body has changed it what m I supposed to do????
Every modem and router has a reset button either at the back side of the modem or underneath it. Please make sure you have all the settings handy before you reset it if you have to. Resetting by pressing the reset button will restore all the factory settings including the default user name and password.
I don't know the settings ... I knew resetting would make it default factory ..... Is there any other way..? Or kindly if u know the settings let me know
Omer brother this thread I wrote is for exactly that purpose. Please check the top of this page, all the settings and step by step instructions are posted up there. Have you tried admin as user name and password as password?
Hi im farooq i hve different network. My questions is this can i use my ptcl network to another network. On that dedicated network i hve photocopier specific ip. So i need to join ptcl network because those users have using ptcl internet they can also send the print jobs to my network. Is it possible Please answer me Thanks
I do not understand your question very well but if you are asking if a print job can be sent over the internet then no it cannot unless you have some specialized software running at both ends that enables you to do that.
Dear, will u plz tell me k PTCL broadband Router me wo settings ks trah krty hen js ke wja se agr hmen majburan kse ko apne Wifi ka paswrd dena bhe pary to wo connect b ho jaye usky pass bt after some seconds wo disconnect hota rahy means continous us client ko signals na mlen. to agr is trah ke koi setings hoti hn to Kindly mjy guide kijye, will be thankful to u
basically mere pas 2 network chal rahe he ek dedicated line he internet ki jis par ek specific ip dekar printing machine ko har user ke liye enable kia huwa he dosra mene ptcl lia he jis par users wirelessly connect hote he me ye pochna chah raha hn kia me apni photocopier par do ips chala sakta hn ek sath ya ptcl ke net ko dosre dedicated net se mila sakta hn.


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Home security Margahayuland
Furthermore Jeffrey Law explains that Bosch has BIS and BVMS with integrated surveillance and security system in its class. All shocked and amazed how easy, practical, and intelligent BIS and BVMS able to combine all of the access control security devices, CCTV, public address up on the platform (with software). When BIS works as alarm management, BVMS act as video surveillance management with efficient management and IVA her. Home security systems Kata Mutiara Margahayuland
Customers still look so enthusiastic about the ability of the Bosch product capabilities, further introductions will IVA, Intelligent Video Analysis is able to demonstrate its ability to analyze objects have movement, changes in shape and size, direction, up to speed, all of that can be processed as a variable that reacts to the rules that have been programmed by the user, the alarm will sound.
Presentation slides are never enough, until Dapot Sitanggang provide product demonstrations in front of the guests, all pay attention to how an act as an intruder / intruders walking in restricted areas within a certain time, until the IVA gives a signal to the alarm management and alarm spur, the room filled with cheers in unison ovation from the audience.
Curiosity finally paid guest at lunch time. Session visiting booth looks so crowded by visitors who want to know how the security device capable of connecting to each other. And at that time the booth Bosch provides 4 Video Surveillance, IVA, Access Control and Public Address provided by partners who contributed their best, namely Jakarta Alarm, Multi Communication System, Danatel Primary, and Sensorlink Home security systems Kata Mutiara Margahayuland
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Dil Chahta Hai
Dil Chahta Hai is a 2001 Hindi language film written and directed by then-newcomer Farhan Akhtar, starring Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Preity Zinta, Sonali Kulkarni and Dimple Kapadia. It is set in modern-day urban Mumbai and focuses on a major period of transition in the lives of three young friends.
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To comply with current pesticide handling laws, those who use certain pesticides must receive training on the proper use, storage, and disposal of these chemicals. A license is required of anyone who purchases and/or applies a restricted-use or state-limited use pesticide for the production of an agricultural commodity. Restricted-use pesticides are classified by the Environmental Protection Agency. The Texas Department of Agriculture classifies state-limited use pesticides. Product labels indicate restricted-use pesticides, while state regulations list state-limited use chemicals.
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service provides private applicator introductory courses that can prepare applicators to qualify for a license by passing a test. Anyone wishing to become a licensed private applicator can attend a training/testing program on Friday, March 22, at the Parker County Extension office, 604 North Main, Weatherford. The training program is from 8:30 a.m. to noon with testing to follow. An 80-page private applicator training manual and a copy of the current pesticide and herbicide laws and regulations are available at the Extension office for $40 (cash or check). It is recommended that these be purchased prior to the day of the training to begin familiarizing yourself with the material. There is an additional $10 fee (cash or check) the day of the training. It is also recommended that you bring a calculator for math computations.
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616. King and no king. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1963 (OCoLC)586809198 |
Document Type: | Book |
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Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher |
OCLC Number: | 4283974 |
Description: | 154 pages ; 20 cm. |
Series Title: | A Bison book; Regents Renaissance drama series. |
Responsibility: | Beaumont and Fletcher ; edited by Robert K. Turner, Jr. |
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Choke (2008)
Critics Consensus: While bolstered by strong performances from Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston, Choke struggles to capture the tone of Chuck Palahniuk's novel.
Critics Consensus: While bolstered by strong performances from Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston, Choke struggles to capture the tone of Chuck Palahniuk's novel.
Movie Info
Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) has got some problems -- when he's not at Sex Addicts Anonymous meetings hunting for women to bed, he masquerades as a choking victim in restaurants as a scheme to gather money from unsuspecting strangers, which he uses to keep his ailing mother (Anjelica Huston) in a high-end extended-care facility for her extreme dementia. But what happens when this messed up Colonial-era theme-park employee finds Mrs. Right in the guise of his mother's doctor -- and how can he … More
- Rating:
- R (for strong sexual content, nudity and language)
- Genre:
- Drama , Comedy
- Directed By:
- Clark Gregg
- Written By:
- Clark Gregg
- In Theaters:
- Sep 26, 2008 Wide
- On DVD:
- Feb 17, 2009
- Box Office:
- Runtime:
as Victor Mancini
as Ida Mancini
as Paige Marshall
as Denny
as Ursula
as Lord High Charlie
as Beth/Cherry Daquiri
as Young Victor
as Nico
as Det. Ryan
as Phil
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as Detective Palmer
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We'll allow this sad little premature ejaculation of a movie to choke on its own insufficiencies.
Choke is an admirably fearless no-net movie, but rather than wowing the crowd below, it lands in the center of the big top with a resounding thud.
Squandered dime-store philosophy.
Despite the busy plotwork, surprisingly little actually happens.
an erotic gospel for the secular age
'Choke' never manages to be as edgy, amusing, insightful or plain messy as you'd hope it would be, especially considering its 'naughty' promotional poster and the distribution of anal beads as a marketing device.
Uneven and oddly compromised in tone, Choke is a competent enough black comedy, but in the shadow of that other film, it never shines.
Choke is a confused sex comedy by Clark Gregg that blunders around for 90-odd minutes trying to look butch and sensitive.
For all its flaws and fumbles there is a certain guilty pleasure in Choke.
This adaptation of a novel by American provocateur Chuck Palahniuk is profane, offensive and obscene, and packed with balefully weak jokes.
Choke was never going to win any prizes for subtlety, but by toning down Palahniuk's nastier absurdities in favour of obvious laughs, Gregg's adaptation is no more provocative than the average Carry On film.
But his sterility and romantically curved plot, twisted as it might be, feel respectively reductive and pat next to Palahniuk's fast, filthy and scabrous satirical stabs.
It's hard to know what aspect is the most offensive: the glib, cynical approach to mental illness; the sleazy sexism; the infantile attempts at blasphemy; or Rockwell's smug, boorish performance.
Palahniuk's novels are so wilfully quirky, so egocentric, so out there, that transferring them to the screen must be like using chopsticks to transport a blancmange across a room.
All this madness provides amusing moments, but the full-throttle absurdities become too difficult to swallow.
The whole movie is dying, actually. But it puts on a brave face and gratefully receives visitors.
An uneven take on Palahniuk's fourth novel, Rockwell and Huston shining brightly enough to eclipse a patchy directorial debut.
Sharper direction and a less throwaway tone would have allowed it to add up to more.
Enjoyable, blackly comic drama with a great script and a terrific central performance by Sam Rockwell.
The many opportunities to send up sex and psychiatry are thrown away when the film gets serious about Victor's bond with his mum. We are Freud alive.
Audience Reviews for Choke
It was okay. Kind of played out like Californication as a movie - similar in theme with the sex addict lead character. I didn't really like him too much, the actor or the character. It was watchable in a dark way, but not something I would like to watch again, and I generally like dark/twisted themes.
The best thing for me was Kelly McDonald. I seem to have caught a few of her movies lately and I've been quite impressed with her. The flashbacks to his childhood with his mum, played by Angelica Huston, were also fun to watch.
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Felt like a great premise that got "watered down". Like it wanted to be darker, but for whatever reason never quite goes there. Which is sad, because I think it would have been a much better film, if it had.
Great performances from the cast with Anjelica Huston (who I love) really shining.
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the title "choke" refers to a man who makes a living by disguising himself as choking victim. this man happens to be a sex addict. there's no surprise this kind of story is written by chuck palahniuk, who favors to utilize caricatured social outsiders to delineate the conceptualization of his philosophy of life. of course, none of those things he's written should be taken seriously because none of those characters of his are real to the extent that they're devoid of humanity. but who says they aren't fun even it's an apathetic kind of fun? because you cannot relate to any of those palahniuk characters even you ARE really a sex addict with a wacko-mother who steals you from the hospital as an infant then practically spends all her time drifting around the country and doing a series of fun-seeking sabotages. somehow you're soothed by such weird but creative dramatization of his writings while you still remain quite detached.
perhaps the only genuine emotion i feel or personally relate to is the void within those palahniuk characters who would do ANYTHING to invite others' attention and an artificial 10-minutes of love because their lives are so pathetically vacant in a world where they cannot find any substantial empathy. under the facade of those palahniuk characters is an angry teenager who imagines himself as sex-addicts, anarchist, psychopath, any member of those marginalized social groups, trying to barrow some of those real sorrows from the social outsiders to give their wounded sentiments a falsified meaning.
but why?
to give it a rough, dismissive answer would be they're people who are so bored and so spoilt that they need excuses to amuse themselves and live up a little. (quite true, maybe a bit insensitive and judgemental)...the other version of answer would be: his frivolous "style over substance" kind of writing is a substitution of sentimentalism. "fight club" (the book) was released in 1996, right? the nineties, the decade of slackers, who listened to nirvana and pearl jam. i suppose, people who lived through that decade as teenagers or young adults in their early 20s are inclinded to suffer from a mental obstacle which hinder themselves from appropriately expressing a simple sentiment, especially those who've been obssessed with an "it" attitude. it's like when you feel hurt, lonely, devastated, you don't know how to say that word directly, then you seek other ways to express it: smearing your face with bad makeup, dyeing your hair, cutting yourself or imagining yourself doing many of those forbidden crazy things. but all you crave is just love, compassion and any of those common things. the ending of "choke" and "fight club" is just the guy finally finds the woman who loves him and they hold hands together. they don't really give a damn about social stratifications, existentialist search of identity or meaning. what they want is just as mundane as everyone else: love and acceptance, and the release of sentiments. any form of anarchy or revolt is just a camouflage of an individual emotionally crippled from voicing out their sentiments. (simply, because it ain't cool.)
whether it's choke or fight club, chuck palahniuk writes common love stories with lots of imagined twists which have nothing to do with reality but slackers' attention-grappling wish-fulfillments.
(ps) i say i feel it because i could literally do anything to get the attention for those i have personally cared or liked or loved. just like throwing stones randomly into a pond to create some ripples or ANYTHING to repress the hurt of being emotionally abandoned by your friends or once-friends and to escape the feelings that those you still somehow care (not willing to admit it) don't really respond you. i try hard not to do it because...ok, IT AIN'T COOL. (ha, pathetic, i guess..and very emo, just like a needy teenager!)..a confession from a pseudo-slacker in 2010s.
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Choke the film is like the book in many ways and not like the book in many ways. First off, It's a great book but not one of Chuck Palahniuk's best. It should in no way be compared to Fight Club as they are both very different films. I thought Sam Rockwell was very well cast as were the rest of the cast for the best part. The book is dark and so is the film but the comedy doesn't quite match the book, inevitably, the set up just isn't there. Still , that all said I though Clark Gregg did a great job in his directional debut, I've never thought much of his acting to be honest so maybe it should be a permanent move he should consider - before he gets totally lost in the Marvel world!
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You can determine properties of two angles by using properties of corresponding angles. Remember, corresponding angles are congruent. So, by using corresponding angles, you can determine that two angles are congruent. Additionally, two angles that are adjacent are linear are supplementary (meaning that the sum of their measures is 180°. By using properties of corresponding angles, you can find that an angle around one line is supplementary to an angle on another line.
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214 min | Music
Films contending for the annual awards include Brokeback Mountain (2005), Capote (2005), Crash (2004), Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) and Munich (2005).
Writers: Rich Blomquist, Josh Bycel, Tim Carvell, Jonathan Fener, Brendan Hay, Scott Jacobson, David Javerbaum, Ben Karlin, Jon Macks, Jason Reich, Rodney Rothman, Jon Stewart, Dan Vebber | Directors: Louis J. Horvitz, Roger Goodman, Troy Miller | Stars: Jon Stewart, Amy Adams, Moustapha Akkad, Jessica Alba
Votes: 867
24. Jasmine Flower (2004)
130 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Generational family saga set in Shanghai in the thirties, sixties and eighties.
Writers: Yong Hou, Su Tong, Xian Zhang | Director: Yong Hou | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Joan Chen, Wen Jiang, Ye Liu
Votes: 656
25. Princess Raccoon (2005)
111 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Amechiyo (The banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised to human). This is an Operetta which includes comedy, singing and dancing, and a love story.
Writer: Yoshio Urasawa | Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Jô Odagiri, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Mikijirô Hira
Votes: 573
26. 2005 MTV Movie Awards (2005 TV Special)
107 min | Music
The fourteenth annual of the MTV Movie Awards. Hosted by Jimmy Fallon.
Writers: Mike Bender, Liz Cackowski, Will Forte, Jon Glaser, Paul Greenberg, Aaron Matthew Lee, Murray Miller, John Ritchie, Erica Rivinoja, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Robin Shorr, Jorma Taccone, Scott Tomlinson | Directors: Joel Gallen, David Dobkin | Stars: Jimmy Fallon, Jessica Alba, William Alva, Pamela Anderson
Votes: 554
27. Film 2015 (1971– )
30 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Jonathan Ross, Danny Leigh, Claudia Winkleman, Barry Norman
Votes: 357
28. Til Death Do Us Part (2011)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Writer: Changwei Gu | Director: Changwei Gu | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Aaron Kwok, Wenli Jiang, Zeru Tao
Votes: 353
29. 2001 MTV Movie Awards (2001 TV Special)
Writers: Mike Bender, Adam Jay Epstein, Will Forte, Stacey Grenrock-Woods, Andrew Jacobson, Erica Rivinoja | Directors: Bruce Gowers, Joel Gallen | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Jimmy Fallon, Aaliyah, Christina Aguilera
Votes: 303
30. My Lucky Star (2013)
114 min | Adventure, Comedy
A woman gets caught up in an international diamond heist that draws her near to a spy trying to save the world.
Writers: Amy Snow, Chris Chow, Hai Huang, Yao Meng, Dennie Gordon, Ming Beaver Kwei | Director: Dennie Gordon | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Leehom Wang, Terri Kwan, Ryan Zheng
Votes: 266
31. Extra (1994– )
60 min | News | Active
Extra, a television news updates show on current events in the mass-entertainment business such as movies, TV, music, etc.
Stars: Mario Lopez, Tanika Ray, Maria Menounos, Renee Bargh
Votes: 245
32. The Crossing (I) (2014)
129 min | Drama
In the midst of the Chinese Revolution during the late 1940s, couples flee to the island of Taiwan.
Writer: Hui-Ling Wang | Director: John Woo | Stars: Shan Cong, Xiaoming Huang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Jack Kao
Votes: 224
33. The 2001 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards (2001 TV Special)
Director: Chris Donovan | Stars: John Waters, Mini Anden, Miguel Arteta, Javier Bardem
Votes: 134
35. CNN Newsroom (1989–2015)
30 min | News
Stars: Jawn Murray, Brooke Baldwin, Howard Bragman, Don Lemon
Votes: 81
36. The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Stars: Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Renée Fleming
Votes: 69
37. 2006 Independent Spirit Awards (2006 TV Movie)
109 min | Documentary
Writer: Billy Kimball | Director: Chris Donovan | Stars: Sarah Silverman, Hany Abu-Assad, Amy Adams, Shohreh Aghdashloo
Votes: 66
38. 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2006 TV Special)
120 min
Writer: Stephen Pouliot | Director: Alan Carter | Stars: Amy Adams, Don Adams, Mason Adams, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Votes: 65
E! Live from the Red Carpet (1995– )
The 2006 Golden Globe Awards
Director: Fred Mendes | Stars: Jessica Alba, Kate Beckinsale, Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher
Votes: 50
40. Xing xing dian deng (1996 TV Movie)
93 min | Drama
Touching Starlight is a true story about a young girl, Chen Wei, an aspiring dancer whose hopes and dreams for the future are dashed when her leg is amputated due to cancer. To encourage ... See full summary »
Writer: Sun Wenxue | Director: Sun Wenxue | Stars: Jian Chen, Qiang Chen, Shan Jiang, Chan Kou
Votes: 43
41. Better and Better (2013)
105 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Yibai Zhang | Stars: Christy Chung, Jue Huang, Tian Jing, Aaron Kwok
Votes: 42
42. MovieReal: Memoirs of a Geisha (2005 TV Movie)
Writer: Richard Brehm | Director: Michael Meadows | Stars: Colleen Atwood, Lucy Fisher, Arthur Golden, John Hoskins
Votes: 27
43. The Fabulous Picture Show (2006– )
History, Talk-Show
Creator: Amanda Palmer | Stars: Amanda Palmer, Mohamed Al Daradji, Scandar Copti, Cherien Dabis
Votes: 25
44. Kung Fu Choreography (2001 Video)
9 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Alita Holly | Stars: Jackie Chan, Mark Helfrich, Conrad E. Palmisano, Brett Ratner
Votes: 24
45. Making Magic Out of Mire (2001 Video)
Documentary made for the "Rush Hour 2" DVD. Features interviews from the cast and outtakes from the "Rush Hour 2" film.
Director: Alita Holly | Stars: Jackie Chan, Brett Ratner, Chris Tucker, Ziyi Zhang
Votes: 23
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
The First Emperor
189 min | Music
To unite the lands he has conquered, the First Emperor of China, believes that a national anthem is needed. He hires a childhood friend to compose it for him, not realizing that his friend does not share the Emperor's aspirations.
Writers: Ha Jin, Dun Tan | Director: Brian Large | Stars: Plácido Domingo, Elizabeth Futral, Paul Groves, Hsing-kuo Wu
Votes: 22
47. Coldplay: Magic (2014 Video)
5 min | Short, Music
Music video for the song, "Magic," by Coldplay, an award winning British band.
Writers: Chris Martin, Dusan Tolmac, Jonas Åkerlund | Director: Jonas Åkerlund | Stars: Peter Fonda, Chris Martin, Ziyi Zhang
Votes: 19
48. On the Set: Memoirs of a Geisha (2005 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 22 min | Documentary
Writer: Tjardus Greidanus | Director: Tjardus Greidanus | Stars: Rob Marshall, Lucy Fisher, Douglas Wick, Dion Beebe
Votes: 19
Film 2015 (1971– )
Episode dated 29 December 2005
Director: Bex Palmer | Stars: Jonathan Ross, Kevin Bacon, Antonio Banderas, Jack Black
Votes: 17
50. Cannes Film Festival 2011 (2011 TV Movie)
News, Talk-Show
The Cannes International Film Festival (French: Festival du Cannes), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from ... See full summary »
Stars: Woody Allen, Didier Allouch, Pedro Almodóvar, Elena Anaya
Votes: 15


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This Is "Rich"
I'm still amazed that many people who put their support behind Obama in the presidential election, are suddenly discovering things about him they don't like.
Really? Now they discover Obama is a class warrior? It comes as no surprise for those of us who took the time to assess where he came from and what (little) he'd done.
Suddenly, the rich are concerned that the guy they backed may not be what they hoped he was (notice that's the correct context in which "hope" should be used when "hope and change" is spoken):
Some of Barack Obama's richest supporters fear they have elected a "class warrior" to the White House, who will turn America's freewheeling capitalism into a more regulated European system
Ya think? What was your first clue – his remarks about "spreading the wealth" to Joe the Plumber or the thousands of other things he said which might imply such a tendency?
And as an aside, America's capitalism is about as "freewheeling" as a modern waterslide is "death defying".
Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute, a free enterprise think tank, said Democrats in Congress were unnerved by the president's latest plan to raise $210 billion over 10 years from multinational corporations.
The money is needed to pay for a national debt that will double over the next five years; and triple over the next 10 years to $17.3 trillion. But the crackdown already faces fierce Democratic resistance.
"These big companies are based in New York Boston, Seattle and Silicon Valley, where Democrats dominate," Mr Edwards said. "Obama's tax plan is already cleaving him from his big corporate supporters," he said.
The good news in this, of course, is that Congress has to pass the legislation that enables this, and per Edwards, they're getting cold feet. The reason is also obvious – any "cleaving" of Obama from "big corporate sponsors" also means the rest of the Democrats suffer the same fate.
The level of taxation necessary to pay for the profligate spending now taking place will have to be massive as anyone with a 5th grade education understands. But the Dems also understand that any taxation that takes place must be other than income taxes because it is important to maintain the mirage that "95% of all Americans" are getting tax cuts. That leaves "the rich", corporations and smoke and mirrors.
The rich have been identified ($250k or more), corporations are on the block with much higher taxation in the offing. So the investor class and the engine of the economy are under assault. The smoke and mirrors show? Wait until health care and cap and tax trade hit. 100% of Americans will be paying large sums for both.
But back to the point – the deeper we get into the Obama administration, the more we come to understand how gullible a good portion of the American public appears to be. There is a certain level of satisfaction with the buyer's remorse being seen among many of his supporters as they see what their vote has actually bought. I sure hope they don't shop for other important items as badly as they apparently shop for presidents.
"Star Trek" – My Review ***With Spoilers***
The short review is simple. If you are really devoted to the current Star Trek canon, you won't like it. For everyone else, you'll probably like this movie. Taken on it's own, it is a good movie, albeit with a few minor problem here and there. And most people won't even notice the problems.
The acting is very good. Chris Pine's performance as the young Jim Kirk is especially well done. When the guy is on the screen, you just have to look at him. And he has the character of the young Kirk down pat: Brash, womanizing, risk-taking, and self-confident. Karl Urban's Dr. McCoy is also well played, and we even got an "I'm a doctor, not a physicist!" out of him. Zachary Quinto expresses the conflict between emotions and logic that plagues his character with surprising subtlety. Zoe Saldana's Uhura is, for practically the first time in 40 years, an interesting character, with a story and a life.
The dialogue is sharper and wittier than we're used to seeing in a Star Trek movie, and the wit pops up in unexpected places, like Capt. Pike's first encounter with Nero, the Romulan villain of the piece: "I'm Captain Christopher Pike, of the Federation starship Enterprise." "Hi, Christopher, I'm Nero." The back-and-forth banter between the Spock and McCoy characters that was so much a part of the original series is presented well in the new movie.
The action in the film is practically non-stop, with hardly any time to catch your breath. So, the film is tightly scripted, which makes the 2.5 hour running time seem like much less.
Based on the above, I rate the movie very highly.
I did mention some problems though, and I'd like to address them. I can't do that, though, without giving away some spoilers.
Do not read any more, unless you're willing to encounter serious spoilers.
This is your last warning.
Another Saturday Bush-era Backpeddle
Another "horrible Bush-era rule", uh, er, kept:
The Obama administration on Friday let stand a Bush-era regulation that limits protection of the polar bear from global warming, saying that a law protecting endangered species shouldn't be used to take on the much broader issue of climate change.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said that he will not rescind the Bush rule, although Congress gave him authority to do so. The bear was declared threatened under the Endangered Species Act a little over a year ago, because global warming is harming its habitat.
So why is this interesting (and important)?
The US Environmental Protection Agency designated polar bears an endangered species last year, because their habitats were disappearing as ice-caps melted.
Environmentalists seized on the ruling, arguing that endangered species were entitled to heightened protection under US law and that the government was therefore obliged to crack down on the carbon emissions causing global warming.
The Endangered Species Act bars federal agencies from "taking actions that are likely to jeopardise the species or adversely modify its critical habitat", and lays down civil and criminal penalties for people that kill or injure designated animals.
But the Bush administration passed a rule exempting "activities outside the bear's range, such as emission of greenhouse gases" from prohibition.
Which, apparently, the Obama administration has found to be the proper rule:
It is this rule that the Obama administration has decided to let stand.
Because, you see:
"The Endangered Species Act is not the proper mechanism for controlling our nation's carbon emissions," Mr Salazar said.
"Instead, we need a comprehensive energy and climate strategy that curbs climate change and its impacts."
While I'm not so sure about Sec. Salazar's last point, I agree whole-heartedly with his first.
The usual suspects, of course, are livid – but then they spend most of their life livid.
Military Commissions Again In Saturday News
Last Saturday, May 2nd, we were reading about the possibility that the Obama administration might revive the military commissions that candidate Obama had so reviled.
Today, Saturday May 9th, we again see more on the subject. Could the administration be any more obvious in their attempts to "hide" this story?
The Obama administration is preparing to revive the system of military commissions established at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under new rules that would offer terrorism suspects greater legal protections, government officials said.
The rules would block the use of evidence obtained from coercive interrogations, tighten the admissibility of hearsay testimony and allow detainees greater freedom to choose their attorneys, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
So apparently it really wasn't the commissions themselves, but how they were run. Of course they were run by rules that Congress had put in place. Yeah, you can figure out the rest.
And the only change I can see is the elimination of some evidence, tightning of the rules on other evidence and the ability to choose their attorney (to a point).
Yet, in the big scheme of things, it ensures that secret testimony, exposure of which so concerned the previous administration, will remain secret. Yes, that's a good thing.
But, as the Obama administration begins to reinvent the wheel (even though it will claim that these military commissions aren't the same as the previous military commissions – a bit like saying a Ford isn't a Chevy. They're still both cars) I keep remembering a very sure candidate proclaiming:
"By any measure, our system of trying detainees has been an enormous failure."
The Obama administration is seeking a 90 day extension on the 120 day extension previously imposed on military commissions. They would be moved to American soil (given the ruling by SCOTUS that doesn't mean as much as it would have previously). But by all appearances, they will be pretty much the very same thing that candidate Obama said was unacceptable and an "enormous failure". In the end, it appears, it has just been justice delayed (another reason he was against them).
Of course the real critics of such commissions (those whose opposition wasn't strictly political in nature) are not happy:
"This is an extraordinary development, and it's going to tarnish the image of American justice again," said Tom Parker, a counterterrorism specialist at Amnesty International.
Yeah, well he won you know Tom, and with that, he reserves the right to throw issues under the bus if necssary, especially when it becomes clear that he had no idea about the subject he was condemning. And as an aside – I suspect that the slight differences in the commissions listed above will be enough for the fevered left to roll over and accept these military commissions as "OK".
About Your Illegal Yard Sale
One of the things I try to consistently feature here at QandO is the depth of intrusion of the federal government into our daily lives. Talk about "mission creep". There's little that we do any more that doesn't seem to involve the government looking over our shoulder and I, frankly, don't welcome that sort of monitoring or intrusion.
The latest? The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a 28 page pamphlet which outlines the result of a recent law (Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act) and its impact.
So if you're planning on selling your kids old books (or anything else that a kid under 12 might use) and they haven't been "tested" first, you're liable to a $100,000 fine. Now I know you're reading this and saying, "no way. Our government would be that intrusive".
I guess the best way to counter that is with the CPSC's own words:
This handbook will help sellers of used products identify types of potentially hazardous products that could harm children or others. CPSC's laws and regulations apply to anyone who sells or distributes consumer products. This includes thrift stores, consignment stores, charities, and individuals holding yard sales and flea markets.
The next line of defense for those who support this level of intrusion, once that level of intrusion has been exposed in the government's own words, is "well, how would they enforce it"?
It's not a bad argument (the answer is selectively), but it misses the real point.
Obviously, it's unlikely the CPSA goons are going to bust up your yard sale. But putting out a detailed booklet that reserves the right to do so is hardly encouraging about where the implementation of this legislation is heading.
It is about precedent. And, it's about acceptance. When both are established, it doesn't require much in the way of the imagination to realize that like any entity which seeks to increase its power, government will soon attempt to stretch the envelope just a little further (further precedent/acceptance).
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Car Czar Thuggery (Updated)
Steven Rattner, the Obama administration's "Car Czar," was recently accused of acting, well, rather czar-ishly by White & Case attorney Tom Lauria. Those accusations were later corroborated by others privy to the meetings. Now comes a rather disturbing (and presently unsubstantiated) account of exactly what was said1:
Confronting the head of a non-TARP fund holding Chrysler debt and unwilling to release it for any sum less than that to which it was legally entitled without compelling cause, this country's "Car Czar" berated the manager of said fund with an outburst of prose substantially resembling this:
Who the f*** do you think you're dealing with? We'll have the IRS audit your fund. Every one of your employees. Your investors. Then we will have the Securities and Exchange Commission rip through your books looking for anything and everything and nothing we find to destroy you with.
Faced with these sorts of threats, in this environment, with valued employees in the crosshairs and AIG a fresh, open wound upon the market, the fund folded.
Keep in mind that the non-TARP creditors in the bankruptcy have been forced to lump their fates in with the TARP recipients (emphasis added):
As of last night's deadline, we were part of a group of approximately 20 relatively small organizations; we represent many of the country's teachers unions, major pension and retirement plans and school endowments who have invested through us in senior secured loans to Chrysler. Combined, these loans total about $1 billion. None of us have taken a dime in TARP money.
As much as anyone, we want to see Chrysler emerge from its current situation as a viable American company, and we are committed to doing what we can to help. Indeed, we have made significant concessions toward this end — although we have been systematically precluded from engaging in direct discussions or negotiations with the government; instead, we have been forced to communicate through an obviously conflicted intermediary: a group of banks that have received billions of TARP funds.
Rattner's alleged threats should give everyone some pause. Is it really the case that private companies will be forced to do the President's bidding or face the full brunt of the state's police power? Because that's exactly what's being alleged. I share the concern of the reporter of Rattner's comments in that I certainly hope the accusations are inaccurate/misstated/outrageously untrue.
It is my deepest wish at this point that there is nothing about this latest bit of Car Czar thuggery even remotely based in fact- as this would mean that this country has truly and unarguably descended into fascism.
I use this term, "fascism," quite deliberately. I also use it well aware that many will consider it needlessly inflammatory. Be this as it may, I submit there is simply no other term that properly describes the style and tenor of government emerging both in public and behind once closed doors.
The corporatist model — i.e. where unelected government officials and industry "leaders" fashion economic policy for the benefit of the state as whole, and in complete disregard of, and often quite hostile to, individual liberty — has never died, and is used more often than you might think (e.g. in the creation of energy policy, environmental policy, financial market rules, etc.), albeit in less radical form. That does not mean that Jews or any other disfavored groups will be marched off to concentration camps (opponents of gay marriage not named "Barack" can be forgiven for thinking otherwise). But it does mean that the preconditions necessary to ease the way for totalitarian control are already present. If enough people buy the "myth" presented by those in charge, then more and more power will eventually be ceded to a central authority, who will then have the ability to steamroll any opponents to the collective will. The accusations presented above suggest that Rattner (and one has to presume Pres. Obama), believes that enough Americans have bought the myth as to allow for such bullying. If so, that is a truly disturbing thought to contemplate.
UPDATE: In an article at the WSJ essentially chiding the MSM for failing to dig into this story, Tom Blumer notes the following (my emphasis):
The New York Times, in a report by Michael J. de la Merced and Jonathan D. Glater, does note the threats and Gonzales's ruling, and has the following at its second-last paragraph.
When the debtholders, calling themselves the Committee of Non-TARP Lenders, made their first public statement last Thursday, they said their group consisted of about 20 investment firms holding about $1 billion. According to their motion to file under seal, the group now claims about $300 million in holdings.
de la Merced and Glater were apparently not curious about the possible reasons why the amount involved, and presumably the number of holders, is significantly lower than it was just a few days ago.
Maybe it's because the threats are real, guys.
1 Edited to make SFW.
No Credibility
Not that I've ever believed Nancy Pelosi ever had any to begin with, but the "EIT Briefing" scandal puts the final nail in the coffin of her credibility.
Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months that she was never told that these techniques were actually being used.
In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress ever briefed on the interrogation tactics. Then the ranking member and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, respectively, Pelosi and Goss were briefed Sept. 4, 2002, one week before the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Now don't forget this is the Leon Panetta led CIA making these claims, not a bunch of "Bushbots". So when Pelosi recently claimed that she had "never, repeat never" been briefed on the techniques used, it just doesn't square with the record.
More specifically:
The memo, issued by the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency to Capitol Hill, notes the Pelosi-Goss briefing covered "EITs including the use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah." EIT is an acronym for enhanced interrogation technique. Zubaydah was one of the earliest valuable al-Qaeda members captured and the first to have the controversial tactic known as water boarding used against him.
Pelosi, of course, tip-toes through the controversy with statements like this:
"As this document shows, the Speaker was briefed only once, in September 2002. The briefers described these techniques, said they were legal, but said that waterboarding had not yet been used," said Brendan Daly, Pelosi's spokesman.
Pelosi's statement did not address whether she was informed that other harsh techniques were already in use during the Zubaydah interrogations.
Pelosi can issue all of the "carefully worded" statements she chooses too, but it seems pretty clear that she not only knew about EIT and their use since 2002, but said little and certainly did nothing to protest or stop their use. And because of the implied sanction that gives those techniques, she has no moral high-ground from which to condemn anyone.
Another Troubling Sign
What if the Treasury held a bond auction and nobody came? After today, that's not a rhetorical question.
Weak demand at a Treasury bond auction touched off worries in the stock market Thursday about the government's ability to raise funds to fight the recession.
The government had to pay greater interest than expected in a sale of 30-year Treasurys. That is worrisome to traders because it could signal that it will become harder for Washington to finance its ambitious economic recovery plans. The higher interest rates also could push up costs for borrowing in areas like mortgages.
We are moving closer to what I warned about in March, after the UK had a failed auction of 15-year gilts. Apparently, the Chinese didn't turn out in force today. They did however, continue talking about a new reserve currency–one that isn't the US Dollar. And apparently they've been doing more than talking about it.
As we learned last week, the Chinese–who haven't announced anything about their gold holdings since 2003–casually dropped an announcement that they'd nearly doubled their gold holdings from 19 million to 34 million ounces. Moreover, this gold, which had previously been kept for foreign trade in an account at the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, has now been transferred to the bank of China, as part the country's monetary reserves.
I don't think they're all that keen on lending us money any more.
This is important because it indicates the extent to which gold is being rehabilitated as a monetary reserve asset, not only by the Chinese monetary authorities but by central bankers around the world. It has been clear that gold was being restored as a more important part of the world's financial system, with rising investment demand over the past nine years. The Chinese government's decision to say that this gold belongs in its monetary reserves emphasizes that monetary authorities also are looking at gold with greater interest than they have since the 1960s.
There's a new reserve currency in town, and it's yellow and shiny. What it isn't is green with pictures of dead presidents on it. Maybe the Fed's doubling of M2 the monetary base over the last eight months was a bit…intemperate.
So, the key take-aways here:
1) Higher interest rates possible as auctions fail to find bidders at lower yields.
2) Billions and billions of dollars floating around, with no place to go but back home. "Wouldn't you like to wear $3,000 suits and smoke $75 cigars? I know I would."
But, we probably shouldn't worry. As Glenn Reynolds says, "The country is in the best of hands."
$3.4 Trillion In Spending, $17 Billion In "Savings"
I am enjoying the spin on this – a $3.4 trillion dollar budget offset by $17 billion in "savings". And what does the administration want you concentrating on? That pittance of a savings.
Now I welcome any program eliminations and reductions, don't get me wrong, but my goodness, $17 billion in relation to the spending that's being done with the budget and outside the budget for "stimulus" and bailouts makes these "savings" simply laughable. They're diversionary bait. They're larger than the 100 million Obama ordered previously only because of the derision with which that cut was met. In the context of total spending, this 'savings' is comparable.
Even liberals aren't fooled for the most part. Isabel Sawhill, who was a senior official in the Clinton budget office and now with the Brookings Institute finds little to be excited about:
"This is a good government exercise without much prospect of putting a significant dent in spending."
Translation: "This is all for show. It demonstrates no committment to smaller government or less spending. Its purpose is to dampen criticism of the huge spending increases".
As I understand it, half the cuts come from Defense spending and the other half from discretionary spending. Again the politics of these cuts is smart if not transparent. If you're going to cut defense, something the right is passionate about, you have to even that out by eliminating something the left likes. Again, I'm not necessarily against cuts to defense (if they're smart and appropriate then fine) but you have to again admire the way this is being done – defense cuts and cutting "Even Start", a program created in the late 1980s to promote literacy for young children and their parents.
Of course Even Start was probably a boondoggle from the start, but what does it do for the administration – give them political cover and somewhat immunize them from criticism.
Smart politics, to a point, but absolutely irrelevant except as a show piece and certainly pitifully insignificant as a spending cut.
Yes Virginia, There Really Is A Pogue
I'll be traveling most of the day, but I have to tell you that I thoroughly enjoyed meeting up with "Pogue Mahone" from our comment section.
We had a fantastic time. Great discussion and enough humor that my ribs hurt when I got back to my room.
More on it later (with a pic as soon as the photographer in question sends it to me), but in the meantime, thanks Pogue!