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Bill Hader in #TrueDetectiveSeason2? Well, not quite. But the Saturday Night Live alum has signed a development deal with HBO to write and star in a new show. Few details have been revealed about the project, but it will (obviously) be a comedy series.
The comedian catapulted to stardom during his eight-year stint on SNL. He created a slew of memorable characters, including socialite Stefon, and perfected impressions of James Carville and Al Pacino. He also serves as a consulting writer for South Park on Comedy Central. The news was first reported by Deadline. Jordan Valinsky
A massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal Saturday, leveling historic structures, causing widespread damage, and killing at least 1,457.
The quake struck around noon about 50 miles from the capital, Kathmandu. The death toll is expected to rise as rescuers pick through the rubble in search of survivors.
"We never imagined that we would face such devastation," Minister of Information and Communications Minendra Rijal said.
The quake also triggered a fatal avalanche on Mount Everest that killed at least a dozen climbers while injuring or trapping several more. From Romanian climber Alex Gavan:
Huge disaster.Helped searched and rescued victims through huge debris area.Many dead.Much more badly injured.More to die if not heli asap.
— Alex Gavan (@AlexGAVAN) April 25, 2015
The U.S. said it would send a disaster response team and pledged $1 million in aid. Jon Terbush
An internal review of NBC anchorman Brian Williams' reporting has found several more alleged exaggerations, according to multiple reports. The New York Times on Friday reported NBC found a half-dozen such instances; CNN and The Washington Post later upped the tally to 10 and 11, respectively.
In February, NBC suspended Williams as it launched an investigation following his apology for embellishing details of his wartime reporting from Iraq. When completed, the investigation is expected to form the basis of NBC's decision to keep or cut ties with Williams. Jon Terbush
President Obama and Bill Nye sat down Friday for an Earth Day chat in the Everglades where they discussed America's lagging interest in, and understanding of, science.
After discussing ways to get American kids excited about science again, the conversation turned to Washington's inability to reach a consensus on climate change. And on that front, Obama lamented the way some lawmakers are "being part of the climate-denier clubs and basically stiff-arming what we know are facts — and not rebutting them with other facts, but rebutting them with anecdote or just being dismissive."
'"Oh, I'm not a scientist,'" Nye chimed in, mocking the standard defense climate change skeptics employ when pressed on their beliefs. —Jon Terbush
A massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Nepal on Saturday, causing substantial damage and killing at least 1,000 people, according to government estimates. Via the BBC, here's some footage of the quake and the immediate aftermath. —Jon Terbush
Hawaii on Friday passed a bill that would raise the legal smoking age to 21 while also banning the sale and purchase of electronic cigarettes for anyone under that age limit. If Democratic Gov. David Ige signs the bill — he has yet to indicate whether he will — Hawaii would become the first state in the nation to raise its smoking age to 21.
"The activities we've engaged in over the years to manage smoking — our additional efforts in education, the raising of cigarette taxes — this is a continuation of those policies," Democratic state Senator Rosalyn Baker told Reuters. Jon Terbush
Baltimore's police commissioner on Friday conceded that officers made mistakes in their handling of Freddie Gray, the unarmed black man who died last weekend of a severe spinal injury while in custody.
"We know that police employees failed to get him medical attention in a timely manner," Commissioner Anthony Batts said, adding that 30 investigators are probing the incident.
"If someone harmed Freddie Gray, we will have to prosecute him," Batts said.
As they have all week, demonstrators took to Baltimore's streets Friday to protest the incident. Jon Terbush
After a 40th anniversary screening of the cult classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the five surviving members of the Monty Python comedy troupe — John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, and Terry Jones — reunited live on stage on Friday for a special Q&A at the Tribeca Film Festival.
The Q&A was moderated by Last Week Tonight host John Oliver, a longtime Monty Python fan who quickly embraced the anarchic spirit of the evening. As he asked the panel about their career-long commitment to a "healthy disregard for authority," John Cleese wandered around the stage, grabbed Oliver's question sheet, and stuffed his microphone into his mouth, as the rest of the Monty Python members repeatedly switched seats in an impromptu game of musical chairs.
When the Monty Python members did settle down, they spoke engagingly (and often coarsely) on a wide variety of subjects, including the filming of Holy Grail, their 2014 series of live shows at London's 02 stadium, and the state of comedy in general. "I think we don't talk enough about this awful political correctness," complained Cleese. "I do a lot of… I don't know if they're really racist jokes, but jokes like, 'Why do the French have so many civil wars? Answer: Because they like to win one now and again."
"I used to do these jokes, and then I would say, 'There were these two Mexicans,' and the room would freeze. And I would say, 'Why's everybody gone quiet? We did jokes about Swedes, and Germans, and Canadians, and the French. What's the problem about the Mexicans? Are they not big enough to look after themselves?' I find a lot of that very condescending."
The group also recalled the 1989 funeral of deceased Monty Python member Graham Chapman, during which Cleese delivered a legendarily irreverent eulogy. "Graham's whole ceremony was like that, because we were laughing and then crying, and then laughing and crying. It was as though the emotion was sort of flowing through us, instead of getting blocked, like it usually does in England," said Cleese. "When I was writing it, I got that idea, and I thought, 'No, I can't do that.' And then I thought, 'That's exactly what Graham would like.' Because one thing Graham could not stand was what he called mindless good taste."
John Oliver brought the evening to a close by praising Monty Python one last time. "We've established there's nothing less funny than sincerity, but you're the f----ing greatest," he said, to an enthusiastic standing ovation. Scott Meslow


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Number 1, that is a long way away to get your hopes up for an East Coast swell. You are setting yourself up for a huge letdown.
Number 2, Don't jinx it
Theres no doubt there will be something though..
now we play the waiting game - and of course check swellinfo.com many times during the day for wave map and forecast updates
Great, Now you guys JINX us again!!!
Would be nice to get some midweek nuggets.
Nope. Theres not going to be anything, it's going to be flat as a pancake. Nada, Zero, Zip.
I'm just trying to equal out the JINXING with Reverse Psychology...Now, lets keep our fingers crossed while we rub our lucky rabbits foot.....Any other good luck montras that I'm forgetting?


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(John Leyba, The Denver Post) RockiesJorge De La Rosa pounded by Padres, who lengthen Rockies' losing streak Rockies left-hander Jorge De La Rosa, the most successful starting pitcher in Coors Field history, departed after just two innings after being mauled for nine runs. |
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Opponent's Argument for voting No:Rep. MAFFEI: The American people want us to work together--Republicans and Democrats--to reduce our debt, pay our bills, and avoid an economic catastrophe, which would result from default. This legislation presumes it will happen and maps out not if but what happens when the United States defaults. Their plan ensures that foreign creditors such as China, Japan, and OPEC countries Iran and Saudi Arabia would continue to get paid while we halt other payments to groups of Americans who have earned those benefits. This bill prioritizes Chinese lenders ahead of American seniors and veterans and college students. That's why it's called the Pay China First Act.
White House statement in opposition:American families do not get to choose which bills to pay and which ones not to pay, and the United States Congress cannot either without putting the nation into default for the first time in its history. This bill would threaten the full faith and credit of the United States, cost American jobs, hurt businesses of all sizes and do damage to the economy. It would cause the nation to default on payments for Medicare, veterans, national security and many other critical priorities. This legislation is unwise, unworkable, and unacceptably risky."
The Contract from America, clause 3. Demand a Balanced Budget:
Begin the Constitutional amendment process to require a balanced budget with a two-thirds majority needed for any tax hike.
The Contract from America, clause 6. End Runaway Government Spending:
Impose a statutory cap limiting the annual growth in total federal spending to the sum of the inflation rate plus the percentage of population growth.
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Trophée Gerry Roufs - Équipe Henri Lloyd By Colleen Coderre, Sail Canada , 10:58 PM Thu 15 Jan 2015 Le Trophée Gerry Roufs, créé en 1998 par l'ACY pour rendre hommage à la mémoire de Gerry Roufs, un marin canadien de renommée internationale et navigateur-coureur au large en solitaire qui est disparu en mer en 1997. ...[more] 2014 Gerry Roufs Trophy - Henri Lloyd crew awarded By Colleen Coderre, , 10:54 PM Thu 15 Jan 2015 The Gerry Roufs award, established in 1998 by the CYA to honour the memory of Gerry Roufs, the internationally renowned Canadian sailor and single-handed offshore racer who was lost at sea in 1997. This award is presented to the person or people whose achievement in international offshore racing has had significant impact on the recognition of sailing in Canada. ...[more] Clipper Race skipper and his amateur crew to star at national awards By Julia Wall-Clarke, , 3:12 AM Tue 23 Dec 2014 Canadian Eric Holden and his international crew members finished victorious over eleven other teams to win the famous Clipper 2013-14 Race when it finished in London earlier this year following the challenging 11-month, 40,000 nautical mile challenge, the only of its kind in the world for amateur crew. ...[more] Clipper Race skipper to receive prestigious US award By Julia Wall-Clarke, , 9:04 PM Fri 19 Dec 2014 Clipper Round the World: The award is in recognition of the way he directed his crew during a dramatic man overboard rescue in the harsh northern Pacific Ocean last March. The Rod Stephens Trophy for Outstanding Seamanship is an internationally renowned trophy awarded annually for an act of seamanship which significantly contributes to the safety of a yacht, or one or more individuals at sea. ...[more] Clipper Race audience exceeds three billion worldwide, and growing By Julia Wall-Clarke, , 10:29 PM Wed 8 Oct 2014 Record numbers of people have followed the exploits of the latest Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, with a cumulative audience of more than 3.3 billion people in over 200 countries seeing news coverage in the press, radio, TV and online. Countless more have engaged through social media. ...[more] More than £23,000 raised for Clipper Race charity By Amy Martindale, , 8:43 PM Fri 25 Jul 2014 Announced as the official charity of the Clipper 2013 -14 Round the World Race in October 2012, over £23,000 has been raised for the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust during the 40,000 mile challenge. ...[more] Ollie Phillips joins the team at Clipper Ventures By Julia Wall-Clarke, , 8:28 PM Fri 25 Jul 2014 Former England rugby sevens Captain and 2009 IRB Player of the Year, Ollie Phillips has joined the team at Clipper Ventures, the company that owns and operates the unique Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, as a partnerships and development ambassador. ...[more] Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - B.C.'s Eric Holden skippers wins By CBC, , 5:00 PM Sat 19 Jul 2014 2013 - 14 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - Thousands lined the banks of the River Thames near Tower Bridge to welcome a parade of a dozen 70-foot yachts and 270 crew members back from a round-the-world race — and a B.C. sailor commanded the yacht that led the pack. ...[more] Henri Lloyd Clipper Race Seamanship Award to Qingdao By Clipper Ventures, , 1:16 AM Thu 17 Jul 2014 After conquering 40,000 miles and facing some of Mother Nature's greatest trials the 12-strong Clipper Round the World Yacht Race fleet arrived back at St Katharine's Dock London after 11 months on Saturday where Chinese team, Qingdao stepped on stage as the winners of Henri Lloyd Clipper Race Seamanship Award ...[more] Clipper Round the World Race - Race Director reflects on final stages By Clipper Ventures, , 1:46 AM Tue 15 Jul 2014 It was an amazing finish to the 2013-14 edition of the Clipper Round The World Yacht Race which saw thousands of spectators line the River Thames, eager to catch a glimpse of the inspirational crew who returned to London, 11 months after setting off on the 40,000-mile challenge. ...[more] The Clipper Race - Henri Lloyd presented with the Clipper Race trophy By Clipper Ventures, , 3:02 PM Sun 13 Jul 2014 2013 - 14 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - Winning boat Henri Lloyd has been presented with the Clipper Race trophy at a prizegiving ceremony in St Katharine Docks, London, this afternoon having been victorious in the world's longest ocean race. ...[more] Clipper Round the World Race - Henri Lloyd claims overall victory By Clipper Ventures, , 2:36 AM Sun 13 Jul 2014 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race winning boat Henri Lloyd and the fleet have returned to a heroes' welcome in London eleven months after setting off. 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Southpaw to square off vs. Carroll in opener of four-game series
Rookie Roenis Elias gets the start for Seattle as the Mariners open a four-game series with the White Sox at Safeco Field Thursday. The two teams have squared off five times since March 6, with the White Sox taking three of the five games.
Seeking a playoff berth for the first time since 2001, the Mariners have struggled at home, losing more than half of their games at Safeco. They enter Thursday with a 28-31 home record, as opposed to a 31-23 mark on the road.
Elias took a 2-1 loss to the Orioles in Baltimore on Friday, but allowed just one earned run in 5 2/3 innings. The 26-year-old Cuban has pitched well since the All-Star break (1-1, 1.69 ERA in three starts), but saw his record fall to 8-9 after the setback to the O's.
"I did my job," Elias said. "I went out and pitched like I do every day. I didn't have the luck to win, but that's the way the ball bounces."
"I thought Elias was a lot sharper and really competed well," said manager Lloyd McClendon. "That was a hard-fought game and well played on both sides."
Elias lost his only prior meeting with the White Sox on July 4, giving up five runs in five innings.
Scott Carroll will take the mound for the White Sox. In his last outing vs. the Twins, he let the first four batters he faced reach base before completing seven innings for his longest outing in 10 starts.
"If I execute some pitches in those first couple of innings, it's a little bit different story," Carroll said after the no-decision vs. Minnesota. "I'm proud to compete and go seven and give this team a chance to win."
Mariners: Saunders to start rehab stint
Right fielder Michael Saunders will begin a Minor League rehab stint on Thursday with Triple-A Tacoma as he continues his rehab from a strained oblique muscle in his left side that has sidelined him the past three weeks.
"I passed all the tests, now it's time to speed it up and get in game situations," said Saunders. "You can't emulate that, so that will be the true test. I'll DH [on Thursday], then get back in the field the following day and we'll take it from there. We have a tentative schedule, so hopefully I can get ready as soon as possible and be ready to come back up."
The six-year veteran was hitting .276 with six home runs and 28 RBIs in 65 games before the injury.
White Sox: Ventura looking for a rebound
Heading into Thursday's matchup, manager Robin Ventura's White Sox are coming off of two of their toughest losses in a four-day span.
On Sunday, they were beaten by the Twins, 16-3, before getting blanked by the Rangers, 16-0, on Tuesday. Chicago then dropped Wednesday's finale to Texas.
"You'd like it to be better, but there's not a lot morale-wise you can do. It's pretty obvious what happened," Ventura said. "You've just got to be able to pick yourself up and come back. They've done well in spurts, and you have to be able to find that back, go out and compete and win the game."
Worth noting
• Mariners utility infielder Willie Bloomquist was scheduled to meet with doctors Wednesday for further tests on his bruised right knee, which is taking longer to heal than expected, according to McClendon. Bloomquist is eligible to come off the 15-day DL on Friday, but has been unable to do any baseball work since injuring his knee on July 23.
• Adam Eaton left Wednesday's game against the Rangers in the second inning after colliding with the right-center field wall while tracking a home run ball from Adam Rosales. Eaton sustained a bruised lower back on the play, but X-rays were negative.
Grace Raynor is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=8410Originally Posted by Phoronix
Digg Link: http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Linux...on_Performance
For those living under a rock that haven't heard about the kernel virtual machine in Linux 2.6.20, in early January Phoronix will be offering a first look at KVM in the Linux 2.6.20 release candidate. Some of the possibilities being thrown around at this time include a comparison against Xen and/or a comparison on different Intel and AMD processors with their virtualization technologies.
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http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=8410Originally Posted by Phoronix
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Nice article, Michael, thank you!
For those who would like to see how Windows XP performs under KVM, check recently published article at http://www.linuxinsight.com/finally-...for-linux.html
And, BTW, 2.6.20-rc3 has a serious bug in the CFQ I/O elevator, it doesn't merge read requests at all, so disk is very slow! It has been fixed slightly after rc3 came out, so rc4 should be okay...
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Hi, I'm a Swedish IT journalist. I read Michael's article about KVM and is interested in more opinions about KVM, especially from Swedish users. What do you think about KVM in comparison to Xen and VMware's and Microsofts efforts in the field? What's the potential for KVM?
Any chance of getting a VMware run included? I'd do it myself but I lack a AM2 or 775 socket to check it.


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Jim Sturgess for Mr Porter
It's been a while. Not that Jim Sturgess hasn't been working. It's just that, well, none of what he's been working on has been very high profile. With several films due for release over the last year, Sturgess is making some moves. He wants to be talked about. He thought that would have happened after One Day with Anne Hathaway. Full Story
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Jim Sturgess was photographed on the set of Electric Slide yesterday in LA. It's the true story about a dude from the 80s who sold furniture but also robbed banks on the side because he thought that might turn on his girlfriend. Isabel Lucas plays the girlfriend. Aside from "cheated on Adrian Grenier with Shia LaBeouf" and "flower child", what do we know about this girl? Does she have a personality? Do you care? She walks around often with pale lips and a middle part and I'm not sure I need more. Full Story
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Why trailers should not be so long
Cloud Atlas will premiere at TIFF. Have you read it? As I noted the other day - click here for a refresher - I was nervous about how it could be a film and at the same time, curious about how it would look as a film as imagined by the Wachowskis. Now an almost 6 minute trailer is online. Full Story
Anne Hathaway after the weekend
Perspective can be really corny. Or, maybe it's the way someone who says they gained some perspective communicates to you how they arrived at the gaining of that perspective. You know, when that girl describes how she went to plant trees somewhere in BC and came back home to Vancouver/Toronto/whatever urban city and decided to get rid of her TV because being with nature "gave me perspective"? That kind of perspective, to me anyway, is not only corny but also really punch-me-in-the-face annoying. Full Story
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Written by Sarah The long-awaited Jeff Buckley biopic (once called Mystery White Boy) is happening at last and Jake Scott (son of Ridley) is onboard to direct. Long attached to the part of Buckley, James Franco exited stage left a while back when everyone realized he can't sing to save his life, which opened up a coveted role for young actors. Full Story
One Day in 10 days
I was about write, "Why didn't they premiere this in London", and then I realised that would be a really bad idea right now. As a brief break from London burning though, have a look at this photo of Ealing and the #riotcleanup. Last night over in New York, Anne Hathaway's really small waist showed up in an Alexander McQueen dress alongside Jim Sturgess for the premiere of One Day. Full Story
One Day I'm nervous about
Jim Sturgess was at Jimmy Kimmel yesterday promoting One Day. The movie will be released on August 19th. This makes me nervous. I just... I feel really uneasy about the date change (was originally supposed to be July, and obviously July 15th would have been ideal) and then you know my thoughts on the first trailer Full Story
This trailer is (half) sh-t
Last summer I read a book called One Day. And I wrote about it incessantly afterwards. I was even optimistic when I found out they were making the movie, because David Nicholls is a screenwriter too, and One Day was easily adaptable. When they cast Anne Hathaway as Emma and Jim Sturgess as Dex, I was beyond excited. Full Story
Jim & Mickey make music
I just found out that Jim Sturgess is on Twitter - http://twitter.com/mrjimsturgess. It's mostly in service of his music. Apparently he and his longtime girlfriend Mickey O'Brien (keyboardist for La Roux) are working on some music together. Full Story
One Day: the poster!
We talked about this a lot just now on the liveblog – the poster for the One Day movie has just been released. For those of you who loved the book… Yes? I say yes. I say a thousand times yes! To me it captures so many things about the story – the time, the years, the connection, the urgency…and a little pain. Full Story
Jim Sturgess: Best of British Talent
UK InStyle put together a portfolio of exciting young British stars for their March 2011 issue. Jim Sturgess is one of the featured players. There's video too. And if you're a fan of Misfits, you'll also be rewarded with some Robert Sheehan action in there. Also Douglas Booth, the really pretty boy Full Story
Now this is a trailer: Hanna edition
I know. It's one of my common refrains. That there is an art to cutting movie trailers and most of the time, Hollywood doesn't give a sh-t. Which is why when a really, really great one comes along, it's something to fist pump about. The film is Hanna, due in theatres in April, starring the always sublime Cate Blanchett and a surprisingly enigmatic Eric Bana. Full Story


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April 03, 2013 4:30 AM | Author: DENISE CARKHUFF
Denise Carkhuff is a partner at
Jones Day
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Sellers of companies should observe and learn from toddlers opening presents on Christmas Day.
They are obsessed with the wrapping paper — so obsessed that they are distracted from the contents of the gift. From my experiences, the right packaging also can increase purchase price received in a sale process, preserve the purchase price post-closing and prevent the sale from tanking.
Your advisers are the first layer of wrapping. Having top-notch investment banking, law, accounting and other advisory firms on the front lines representing you to the buyer is essential. You need seasoned teams from credible and respected firms that are truly focused on your deal. These teams will be who the buyer sees and judges. They will reflect on you, the seller.
The process is part of the packaging. Once you have hired the right advisers, it is important to listen to and trust them. This seems like simple advice, but it is the most common mistake I see made by sellers. It is hard for business owners who are accustomed to being in the lead chair to take a backseat to the advisers.
It is a buyer's dream to get direct access to the business owner, to develop a rapport, to get the seller to start empathizing with the buyer (particularly when the seller also is rolling some of his equity into the buyer entity). Business owners should hide behind their advisers and allow their advisers to be the "bad guys." The advisers know all the tricks buyers will try to pull.
You will get a much better deal if you let your advisers do the job you hired them to do. Trust them on content and trust them on timing. If they ask you to go quiet, go quiet. If they ask you to go quickly, go quickly. Pausing at the right time can lead to an increased purchase price. Moving quickly at the right time can feed momentum and preserve a deal that otherwise might die.
Package and box your sins. You always must know more about your company and its little (or big) problems than the potential buyers. Once you get your arms around all the "issues" with your company, you can strategize a plan with your advisers on how and when they will be introduced to bidders. Being on top of an issue can prevent a hit to purchase price or the request for a seller to reimburse the buyer for any and all losses arising from a troubling issue discovered by the buyer in its diligence.
Looking organized and "clean" will give buyers confidence in you and keep them from digging deeper. Before you start your sale process, take the time (with the guidance of your legal adviser) to clean up your company and, for example, update your record books, employment and option documentation (i.e., make sure you are 409A compliant), update expired contracts, obtain missing signatures to contracts and get old liens that relate to retired debt released.
Let's take a company tainted by asbestos as an example. If you want to increase your chances of selling a company with asbestos litigation, you need to make it easy for the buyer to understand the facts and box the risk. I have seen many buyers walk away from targets with asbestos issues because their first inclination is to run. If the target doesn't quickly put the potential buyer's mind at ease, the buyer is a goner.
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Obama must find a mid way to exert fiscal cliff. Politics will remain politics even in golden time.
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Obama must find a mid way to exert fiscal cliff. Politics will remain politics even in golden time.
It should also be noted that in order to get more votes for his 'Plan B' Mr. Boehner rescinded ALL of the defense cuts in the sequester. As I've said previously, ignoring defense cuts is crazy. It's especially crazy to ignore defense cuts AND cut other things, like SNAP.
Just in reference to the last paragraph, how did "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president" work out for the GOP? Why would the President think crushing the Republicans will work out better for him?
Because despite the rhetoric, he has been willing to work with them.
When the 400,000 cap and chained CPI were announced, left wing people freaked out for a day because these were actual concessions and a big pounds of flesh that Obama was handing over. People commenting that Obama had betrayed them and that they'll never donate to Democrats again and yada, yada, yada.
Then Boehner rejected that by going for Plan B.
Had he taken it, there would have been howls of betrayal among Obama's supporters and the political pain of the deal would rain on Democrat and Republican alike.
But by not taking it, and going for a unilateral bill, Obama gets the credit for making the concessions, but none of the blame that they got rebuffed. Will this destroy the Republicans probably not, but it's in Obama's interest to make sure things stay difficult for them. McConnel made stopping Obama the primary objective, while for Obama stopping the Republicans is a target of opportunity.
Heck, Obama is up 56% to 37% in the latest Gallup approval rating, numbers he hasn't seen since August of 2009.
Yeah, swell, but we have too large a deficit, too much debt and a potential recession ahead. I can't answer for the polls, but I think the failure to do something about all of these things makes Barack Obama and the house Republicans goldbricking jackasses unworthy of their offices.
I'm not sure the work break and crush carry the same semantic payload.
The distinction that can be called out here is that opposition simply for the sake of making a sitting president a one term president per-se has far less virtue than attempting to fracture a political alignment that is inimical to the concept of negotiation.
Let's take the what-if that the GOP Frankenstein of alliances finally unravels. It may be the best thing ever to happen to the party in a generation.
Now, if we could just get the same thing to happen to the other party, we might enjoy some progress in this country.
If we go over the cliff, the deficit is solved instantaneously.
The recession will suck, but the CBO says it'll be half a year to a year.
I don't think it's to his advantage to try to "crush" them. It's to his advantage to try to divide them. The GOP was most effective when playing Blue Dogs against liberals. The fiscal cliff is going to force part of the GOP to do things that the other part of the GOP finds repugnant, and it's to Democrats' advantage to exacerbate that.
It's to our advantage to get this done and reasonably well and the sooner the better. I'm guessing it's to his advantage to do what's to our advantage. Have you ever watched a failed president try to fix his legacy in the last year of his second term?
I don't think it is Obama's intention to break the GOP,it is just a bonus. And I think its pretty clear why Obama thinks this situation will "work out better for him"
(GOP) Scenario A: Spend 4 whole years getting literally nothing done in Congress to make the President ineffective so he is unelectable- Failed
(Obama) Scenario B: Spend Two Months allowing Republicans push everyone off the fiscal cliff, create tension within the republican party, and get most of what you wanted in the first place.
Everything he wanted except a growing economy, a constructive budget deal and a more transigent house. I stand by my goldbricking jackass unfit for office diagnosis if this isn't settled by the first week of January.
Outline a scenario where a more transigent house appears.
If I may interject with a modest scenario: the president and senate need to introduce a plan that passes the house. This is required by the u.s. constitution to enact any new legislation,
regardless of who won the presidency.
Plan B fails even to get enough GOp votes, fiscal cliff kicks in, GOP seen as holding tax cuts for everyone hostage in insisting on cuts for top income of wealthiest 2%, Boehner or new speaker scrambles incoherently, ultimately (late January) half of GOP in House caves and takes something close to Obama 's compromise offer from Monday.
It's historically unique to have such tight British-style discipline as current GOP House has. In these circumstances the chances are they'll revert to American historical norms.
Actually, it's not tight. There are 40 or 50 GOP obstructionists who won't work with Boehner on compromise. Ironically, that's enough obstruction to turn the GOP majority into a minority.
Yea, verily, "divide et impera" by [homage to Shakespearee] "any other name would smell as sweet."
It's a little hard for me to believe the President won't look bad if the fiscal cliff dealybob happens and the economy tanks. Obviously the GOP will look bad. At some point doing the dadgum job ought to be on the agenda somewhere.
Perhaps the problem is that you (and I) think that their job is to run the country. Preferably competently and well.
But they mostly seem to think that their job is to raise funds for their reelection campaigns. And to vote for whatever legislation will further their reelection.
So they arguably are doing the dadgum job . . . just not the job we think they ought to be doing.
Yeah, ok. But it's easy to get re-elected as a fundraiser and lots of jobs are available in the field.
It is funny, as you say, that they would see the job as getting re-elected to the one they aren't doing.
Over in the legislative branch, the allocation of committee membership is based on one's ability to bring home the bacon to the party. Tell me if that just doesn't smell like outright corruption right there.
It seems more than a little unfair to blame the President for failing to do the Congress' job for them, especially since he actually can't.
The fact that Obama is running point on a purely legislative problem, rather than, say, the House Minority Leader, is more than a little distressing. He really ought to be more focused on things like being Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces which are involved in several ongoing armed conflicts around the world, dealing with how the Department of Justice will handle new state-level marijuana laws contradicting Federal laws, and keeping the many disparate divisions of the Executive running coherently to keep the country together.
Long story short: Obama and Boehner were getting close to an agreement by behaving like adults, then one of them decided he didn't want to be a grownup and walked away. Obama hasn't removed his offer from the table, and he's pretty publicly stated he has every intention o continuing to deal whenever his counterpart is done sulking in the corner. Pretty hard to blame Obama for Boehner refusing to act like a professional, or even an adult.
With so many suffering, the argument of 'tax breaks for the rich' has fallen flat for many Americans.
Fantasies of tax break grandeur are found a lot in Republican rhetoric: the plans and the outcomes sound great until you implement them. Here in Ohio, Governor Kasich was able to repeal the Estate Tax. Supposedly, this is great for everyone, so the rich will willingly vouchsafe their money upon the middle class in the form of business investments.
The result? There are now budget shortfalls in many towns around my area. The people who pay? What's proposed is that the middle class and poor pay. The tax burden is shifted.
Republican tax policy is, at best, a great story with a sad ending.
Don't forget that Kasisch wants to use the Ohio Turnpike to sell bonds - future toll hikes - to pay for other infrastructure projects in Ohio.
Kasich also slashed the money the state gives to schools. The Cleveland City School District residents had to pass a huge tax hike to make up for that loss.
I think democrats are playing with fire when they say the public will blame the republicans for going over the fiscal cliff. True enough that there is blame to go around, but there is a lot of uncertainty when your party is in control of the presidency, its election year and the economy is bad.
Taking polls not long after a election when emotions are high, should be taken with a grain of salt. Democrats were riding high in 2008, and looked invicible, yet two years later that got a historic spanking.
Its also worth noting that, republican have in fact offered tax increases to Obama (both rate and deduction), so to say they won't ever increase taxes is misleading.
"Death panels" was one of those things that thinking people couldn't see coming.
Because a "death panel" is exactly the same thing as a "healthcare actuary" which all insurance companies public and private already had.
Also, the Democrat victory in 08 was bouyed by the not Bush vote, where 2012 is a more direct endorsement of Obama.
I think Obama's 2012 election was just as buoyed by the not-Romney vote.
I'd wager that Mr. Romney received more votes then Mr. Santorum, or Miss Bachmann or the remaining assortment of fruitcakes on the republican fringe would have ever received.
Nothing like red-tinted glasses to detect a long and consistent misreading of the US electorate by the GOP, starting before the 2010 elections. If the targets of opportunity they've chosen to rally around show one thing, it is that we like to enjoy our perks, don't want to pay for them and resent having the arithmetic rubbed in our faces.
Paraphrasing a towering political wit, the Americans will explore every conceivable alternative before defiantly and grumblingly coming around to doing the right thing. We love novels built on procrastinated rape.
The Economist position is a complete whitewash of the historical democrat position on the Bush tax rates. When Bush introduced them years ago, the liberals and democrats cried that they were tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts for the rich, over and over again, for months that is all we heard. Replublicans correctly pointed out that you can't get a federal income tax cut if you don't pay income taxes. Now Obama and the left are claiming to be the champion of these same Bush tax rates claiming that if they go away, everyone in America will be affected. Where is the Economist's perspective on this?????
Tax cuts for the rich supposedly spur investment.
Investment leads to better products or lower prices.
Bernanke is trying to inflate the economy.
Tax cuts for the middle-class and poor spur consumption.
More consumption leads to demand-pull inflation.
It should be noted that the Republicans don't object to spending if it is their spending 2 unfunded wars, prescription drug benefit and Bush tax cuts, ONLY they object to Obama's spending!!!
Not their DEAL!!!
Enjoy the ride, and
Good luck,
The Democrats have every reason to go over the cliff, now that it's apparent that the Republicans will take the blame. Then everyone sane will be talking as fast as they can about tax cuts for the middle class, and increased budgets for almost every government program.
It would be a nice change for the GOP, and a very useful lesson.
Lessons are only useful if one is capable of learning from them. Just sayin'...
I join in to say what you just said. Just sayin'...
Great post.
"...it's also in his interests to use the impossibility of the Republicans' position to weaken them."
The Republicans have painted themselves in a hole on all kinds of positions which make them look loopy, irrational, uneducated, or heartless, as mentioned here.
And, the electorate is noticing. For example, the oft-told Republican statement: "Guns don't kill people, people kill people."
America just learned how nutty and heartless this sounds to the victims of gun violence.
Laughable piece, particularly the end where the entirety of the budget issue is blamed on Republicans;
"Republicans have locked themselves into an impossible position on budgeting by simultaneously vowing never to allow taxes hikes, and passing long-term budgets that create a fiscal cliff necessitating tax hikes."
That, of course, fails to mention that they work for spending cuts to make up for tax revenues. These cuts are often agreed to by their Democratic counterparts on the condition that they take place a few years off. Then when the time comes to trim the fat the Left no longer has a taste for budget cuts.
The health care overhaul for instance ("Obamacare"). Benefit and tax increases were passed with the allusion of a "balanced budget" based upon cuts elsewhere. Such cuts (doctor reimbursement for instance) were considered as savings and have already been rolled back. This completely ignored prior precedent ("this time we actually will reduced reimbursement;" "this time we will be effective at cutting fraud") and "double budgeted" savings which were already part of prior "reforms" and included in the forward looking budget forecast.
The current landscape with the "fiscal cliff" is another (poorer) example. Prior policy which had a specific date for implementation (cuts, tax increases, etc) was considered unreasonable due to public opposition to such cuts.
As an aside, irrespective of whether republican policy of protecting "the 1%" is good or bad economic policy (I would argue that ensuring action which effects your largest contributors and most mobile class is correct policy), the nature of modern democracy (vote yourself more near term benefits at someone else's expense) will dictate that the same eventuality will be achieved. It is too politically advantageous to promote ideology and policy targeting such a population... The real discussion (in my opinion) hinges upon how individuals will and should react to such an environment and what sort of economic impact this will have. I will leave for another discussion my personal conclusions of: decreased domestic capital; increased before tax investment hurdles; and decreased incentive for incremental work/income.
You don't understand what a citation is. It's a link to a reputable source where they support the initial claim.
Not just the original statement more elaborately phrased.
This "Plan B" of Mr. Boehner is the best thing that happened in a while. It was almost sounding too familiar when Obama seemingly compromised with himself and put on the table an already watered-down proposal which was sure to be further watered down during the negotiations with the Republicans. But Plan B prevented that, apparently.
I thought Republicans were against the "morning-after" pill.
I'm glad someone finally drove a truck thru that opening. Been sitting on the fence about it for days.
Nowhere in this article does the writer even question the notion of whether the fiscal cliff is real. The Congressional Budget Office predicts a brief recession - but then says that NOT increasing taxes and cutting spending is a bigger problem long-term. Other economists even question whether going over the fiscal cliff will lead to any recession at all. It should be noted that the bipartisan debt commission that Obama formed released recommedations in December 2010 that included LOWER income tax rates (but higher gas taxes, treating capital gains like ordinary income, and reducing or eliminating most federal deductions) as well as spending cuts. Apparently, they did not fear a fiscal cliff, either.
Why would the White House think that they need to "break the Republicans"? The Republicans in the House seem to be doing a bang-up job on that without any administration assistance whatever. Of course, there is the risk that they may pull together and break the nation instead . . . .
A lot of "squishie" pundits have said that Obama needs to be like LBJ and treat the Republicans nice after he wins.
This is after the extreme right has basically declared war on the Administration and its policies.
After he wins, I'd like to see Obama shove the football in the Republicas' face, do a big endzone dance, and then a power spike like Gronk does.
The British folks here may remember Gronk's "Palace Guard" power spike in London.
I agree that Pres. Obama needs to actually govern without bowing to a reactionary GOP that won't go along with compromises, even when those "compromises" are the adoption of previous Republican positions.
They were and are determined to stonewall the black man in the white house, no matter how much the country suffers as a result.
Your analogy does not go far enough, Obama needs to shove that football south and to the rear of the Republicans' face.
We'll see. I seem to remember a plethora of articles (particularly here) about Obama's deep game on other pieces of legislation that turned out to be nothing more than a seeming passivity; perhaps this time will be different, but I'm not hopeful.
(Sung to Over the River and Through the Woods. )
Up to the edge
then into the abyss,
it's over the cliff we go.
The Republicans say,
we'll lead the way,
'cause the rich need to keep their dough, OH!
Up to the edge
then into the abyss,
it's over the cliff we go.
A New Year Eve bash,
then a Wall Street crash,
it's over the cliff we go.
Brilliant HFG; you should definitely PWFTL for this one.
Two paths diverged in the woods and I -
I took the one less traveled by.
And that has made all the difference as I tumbled over the cliff.
Anything to keep Grover happy.
Ok, reading what is actually in Plan B makes it even more ridiculous. The plan is just a list of things Republicans like. It rolls back Dodd-Frank and cuts Medicaid, food stamps, and Obamacare.
Waste of time that doesn't further a deal, and seems like a particularly poor play for positive media attention. What's the upside?
I'm not so convinced that Obama's popularity would not fall considerably if the tax increases and sequester takes effect in January. While the GOP will take some of the blame, the spin keeps missing that there are two sides to every negotiation and Obama is president. GOP has been doing more compromising more than Dems so far. Both sides have much to lose and which side it will hurt more is somewhat unpredictable.
I think what you fail to understand is that the President won on these principles. MOST americans want tax increase on people making over 250,000, most americans disagree with short changing social security, medicare and medicaid. Raising the tax bar up to 400,000K by itself is a HUGE compromise. It's a shame politics dont represent the will of the people. I rather see us go over the fiscal cliff. Republicans have little chance in 2014, either way it goes.
"I think what you fail to understand is that the President won on these principles" - To assume that is to give legitimacy to the idea: "I think what you fail to understand is that the Republicans won their districts on their principles".
I have no doubt that liberals feel any compromise is a HUGE sacrifice. I also have no doubt Republicans feel the same about giving in to tax increases. That's why it called sacrifice. It isn't painless.
Why do Republicans have little chance in 2014. History is on their side being that its a non-president election year, and democrats will have more senate seats to defend. I wouldn't put it past republicans to choke, but democrats will likely start on the defensive. 2 years is a long time away in politics.
250K is nothing if you don't live in hicksville.
"GOP has been doing more compromising more than Dems so far."
Let's see:
On revenue, Rs started at $800 bn; Ds at $1,600 bn. Rs are at $800 bn (maybe $1,000 bn); Ds are at $1,200 bn. Ds win that one.
On marginal rates, Rs started at infinity; Ds at $250k. Rs now at $1,000k, Ds at $400k. Close call.
On entitlements, Rs started at 'cut it all', Ds at 'touch nothing'. Rs now at 'cut it all', Ds at 'only touch some of it'. Ds win that one.
How exactly has the GOP been compromising 'more'?
"250K is nothing if you don't live in hicksville."
And we all know the folks in Hicksville don't get to vote. Wait, if they don't, then this a seriously Democratic electorate, and the problem goes away. Gold star for foot-shooting!
"250K is nothing if you don't live in hicksville."
But we are only talking about a few percent increase on the dollars earned that exceed $250k, not the whole income. And reallly it is only on adjusted gross income that exceeds $250k, thus very few couples earning $260k or even $280k are going to see any increase in their taxes.
Your comments remind me how ass backward incentives have become for the bulk of Americans. Penalize success to reward mediocrity---yep, that will get us out of this mess.
It's unfortunate that the pendulum is swinging in the direction of a welfare state. People and businesses are driven by incentives...for starters the retirement age SHOULD be raised and social security should be privatized. Spending is the problem but the narrative has been focused on taxes despite their relative insignificance to the problem. Repeat---SPENDING is the problem. Social security + healthcare is the problem. Debt associated with social security is understated using the archaic cash accounting methodology---we are at the tipping point where rather than investing the surplus payments into social security in treasuries, the government is drawing them down. The present value of this shortfall brings about the eye-popping figures that are sometimes discussed in the press. Take into account the fact that the Fed is monetizing the debt and keeping rates low and this becomes more problematic down the road (2 tailwinds turning into a headwind). No amount of taxes will solve this problem. Period. The dems got everyone distracted from the real problem. The successful and job creators will be hollowed out of this country in a generation or two (to be generous) if the current policies are followed.
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How about The Republic of Glorious Macedonia or United Macedonia or just The Republic Of Macedonia.
Because then it would exclude the vast majority of real macedonians who want no relation to Gruevfski and co.
glorious macedonia.... and united macedonia the old Bulgarian expansionistic dream of IMRO in 1903 with the old bulgarian maps it's coming on again . It seems that a caste of ultra nationalists extremists from fyrom are planning new troubles in Balkans,
New troubles?! When did Macedonia cause trouble? With whom and when did this trouble occured? Please do tell:)
Trouble occurs in greece every single day, riots,looting,killings,murders and suicides on a very big scale.
Just look at your parliament wall:))) it is littered with Macedonians names I guess it is there to remind you of us Macedonians and for you not to forget what you stole from us.
Macedonia will stay above greece as Macedonia we are going nowhere, it is upto greece to come to terms that there is a Independent country called Macedonia.
Velikmakedonija. UNTRASLATED !!
But lets not forget that the name Vardaristan is more accurate.
How about you translate it in just greek:
Velika or Slavna Makedonija.
But lets not forget that the name Yunanistan is more accurate for you.
If you remotely knew what you were talking about you'd know Yunan is ancient Persian name for Greeks.


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It takes a lot more money than Moller has ever had just to develop an ordinary car that can actually be licensed and driven, never mind one that flies.
Their lead engineer, was the one who had no clue and pushed the test forward, threatening the operators with a trip to Siberia if they did not comply, comrade.
If you seriously want to run an airplane safety blog, you may want to learn the difference between a "crash" and a "landing"