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Selection of the president. (League Position Update).
The League is beginning a second update this year, mindful that, while our concern for a direct popular vote has probably not changed, the odds of eliminating the Electoral College at the national level are minimal. Other factors that merit attention have come to influence the presidential selection process in recent years. If the League's concern is to encourage the best candidates and promote the highest participation by informed voters, we need to understand the impact of the process on those values. The focus of this article is to understand the current process and how it has changed. A second article in the next Voter will cover the pros and cons of alternative strategies to improve the process.
Today, the process of selecting the president is dominated by questions of campaign strategy and campaign finance, the role of the parties in the primaries and caucuses leading up to the convention, the role of the media and the effect of developing technologies. The presidential selection system many of us knew as children was a very different one: the parties selected their nominees when they met at convention every four years; it was covered on radio and television; and the press followed the campaign at a greater distance, without quite so much interpretation as to the strategies of the campaign. Certainly, the candidates were allowed more privacy.
It makes sense to consider how we feel about the institutions that dominate the process today. What should their roles be? What do we want our roles to be as voters? This article will focus on the longer-term issues. A short survey follows (page 10) and is intended to provide the Update Task Force a better sense of how you feel about these issues as we move forward.
While never intended in the Constitution, political parties have been with us since the first Washington Administration. From the beginning, they represented coalitions of opposing political points of view and a way of organizing the work of government in Congress. Over the years, they became critical mediating institutions that absorbed new immigrant populations into the body politic, as well as a mechanism for graft and corruption. We have decried their strengths and their weaknesses. While we may not like living with them, we worry about living without them.
The two-party system is always challenged as new issues and cleavages in the body politic emerge but it has endured, in part because our system of separated powers makes it necessary to build a coalition for governance before election. The presumption is that different voices will be heard within the parties, but there is always a need to balance the desire to allow every voice to be heard against the need to make governance possible. It is likely that we will continue to see individuals emerge during presidential campaigns to challenge the parties as long as they can muster the resources. In the current system, candidates tend to select themselves, so an independent candidacy outside the two parties would not be significantly different from a candidate who ran without public financing, except for the complications of ballot access.
We think of parties in three ways: the organized party, the party in the electorate and the party as the organizing tool in legislatures (and a link with the executive branch). Our concern here is with the first two roles. Partisan identification used to be part of our American identity (along with gender, state and religion). While it has declined, today 34 percent still identify as Democrats, 31 percent as Republicans, and 24 percent as Independents. Although independents are not as uninformed and uninvolved as they used to be, their role in selecting the president is primarily limited to the choice made by the parties at the general election. Even so, what the parties have lost is control of the presidential nominating process, an important measure of a strong party system.
Today, Americans are more evenly divided between the parties than we may have ever been before. In some cases, there is a greater distance between partisans on attitudes toward core issues (e.g., gun control, health care and choice). While that may be an improvement over the view that "there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the parties," it also means close, hard-fought elections and the probability that the outcomes will leave a bitter and cynical aftertaste in the electorate. Further, the bipartisan consensus that used to dominate foreign policy and the role of government is a victim of the intense partisanship currently dominating the scene. In that context, the selection of the president is apt to become increasingly controversial.
There is a correlation between partisanship and confidence in government. While it is not clear whether you are partisan because you have confidence, or confident because you are partisan, the bottom line is that confidence in government is a critical factor in sustai ning a healthy democracy. Nations with strong parties have higher voter turnout. There is also evidence that parties that select their own candidates put up stronger candidates because their primary interest is in winning elections. They also tend to balance their tickets by taking into account gender, race, ethnicity and other factors. We could have cheaper, shorter elections if we went back to the system where party leaders chose the nominee at a national convention, but another verity is that democracy is an ever-devolving phenomenon. We are not going back.
The evolution of the presidential selection process has reflected the evolution of our government, from Congress, to the parties, and--in the latter half of the 20th century--to the people. Change was prompted by scandal and shifts in power. Factions gave way to Congressional caucuses by 1800, which broke down in 1824, with division between the Congressional Caucus and state legislators. By the mid-1840s, the national nominating convention was established, allowing for broader-based party programs, and the reconciliation of personal and regional rivalries. The convention system remained strong for over a century, even though the parties themselves changed.
The Progressive Movement (1870s to 1920s) took a serious toll on party strength in its effort to replace corrupt politics with professional administration. Primaries were instituted, although most were advisory in nature. Some states repealed them between the World Wars, but interest grew again in the post-War era as candidates used them to demonstrate their electability and, more recently, as they brought money and attention to the states.
A new age of reform followed the 1968 election amid the turmoil that accompanied the Democratic convention that year. There were a series of commissions in the Democratic Party to open the process to party members at the expense of its leadership. Over time, the Party backed away from its anti-leadership approach and began providing a place for members of Congress and other important party leaders in the delegations. The Republicans never quite moved that far in the first place, but there is a tendency for the parties to reflect each other's organization.
Caucuses seemed to be a wholesome way to select a candidate: people meeting together in a room to debate the merits of the candidates whom most have met and making their decision. While valuable for those who attend--and those who get a chance to meet the candidates in the campaign period--they attract far fewer voters (10 percent of the most committed partisans, compared to 20 percent of the next most committed partisan primary voters). Those who do not participate at all in the state caucus process tend to know no more about the candidates than voters in states without a primary.
Iowa is the classic case because it is the first test in the election cycle and a small state that gives voters the opportunity to meet and weigh the candidates personally, but there are over a dozen other caucuses held in both the Republican and Democratic Parties. The attention given to candidate reaction in Iowa by the media is an important factor for at least a year before the actual caucus is held. The same is true in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary a few weeks later: they are alone on the election schedule. The fact that they are small states makes the campaigning economically feasible, but it is not politically representative of the rest of the nation. But, for 2004 there are efforts being made by other states to be first.
If a few primaries and caucuses test appeal, too many become impractical. It is expensive and gives the advantage to well-funded and well-known candidates, or those without jobs who can spend several years on the campaign trail. The campaign season lengthened to at least two years, and the costs of running for the presidency rose astronomically--from $230 million in 1984 to $1.5 billion in 2000. Candidates cannot afford to run everywhere all the time. With the choice about whether or when to hold a primary left solely to the states, the 2004 primary period will be more "front-loaded" than ever before as states rush to have a say. The race for the nomination is likely to be over before the Ides of March, although some states are considering withdrawal from the process because of budget deficits. This is true particularly in Republican-led states (that do not want a primary with an incumbent president), and is opposed by Democrats who expect a competitive race. In 1996, the Republican Party tried but failed to slow the process by giving "bonus" delegates to states holding late primaries. A rotating regional or a national primary is talked about as a possible alternative.
In theory, a long race gives voters a chance to test the mettle of presidential candidates. The reality is that whoever has the most money in the bank by December 31st of the year before the first event wins the nomination. After New Hampshire, there is no time to gain name recognition, raise funds, build an organization in every state, and shift momentum. Once the delegate count is secured, the campaigns fade in the public mind until the conventions several months later.
The press, which always had a bias toward demonstrating its objectivity by being cynical about politicians, increased its posture of disdain after Watergate. When it comes to television, there are several factors that predominate in the declining quality of free media coverage of the presidential election, but the most important is that news shows became profitable. They are cheap to produce with a plethora of pundits to populate them, and--as entertainment--they value controversy. The emergence of 24-hour cable news helped, but the broadcast media (which reaches a far greater audience) decreased its hard news coverage of candidates enormously. What used to be 42-second sound bite is now down to under 10 seconds. The coverage they provide tends to reflect the horse race (who is ahead in the polls) and campaign strategies rather than analysis of programs being offered by the candidate. The best way for a campaign to get its message out is to buy ads (hence the increasing expense), and more and more ads tend to be negative in nature, adding to cynicism of the electoral process. How does a free society impose restraints on insults of its public figures when negative ads work?
Televised debates help as voters try to assess the candidates, looking not only for their positions on issues but also a sense of their character. Even the very limited convention coverage helps voters get a sense of who the candidates are and what the parties want to be. But as the convention has become less newsworthy, it also gets less coverage.
The Internet has become a valuable source of information about candidates for those who access it. Rather surprisingly, it has also proved an effective way to raise funds if candidates include a "contribute" button on their Web page. Many people--who never gave before--do. Resources such as LWV's DNet and SmartVoter provide critical information about voting and candidate positions, but there is a great deal we do not yet know about its impact overall. Is there a significant bias in its accessibility? How does disinformation get addressed? We do not know how it will affect the message candidates send to voters, nor voters to candidates.
Democracy is a fragile thing. There is no absolute best way; the most we can do is follow the rules on which we agree. Reforms will come in response to emerging problems. Reforms work. They do change the process, but response to a change in one area is almost unforeseeable in another. If these reforms send us reeling from one unintended consequence to another, it is our obligation to try to understand what happened and why, and consider what ought to happen next.
We saw the increase in the professionalism of campaign consultants, but we did not foresee the impact of tracking polls and negative campaign ads. There are times when the rules seem to interfere with democratic values: the 2000 election was such a case, but we accepted the legitimacy of the process in the end. Given the political divisions in the nation today, it is likely we will continue to see the rules running perilously close to the sense of legitimacy we need to sustain our political system. Our goal is to get a better grasp on what is changing, how it affects the participants in the presidential election: the candidates, the parties and the voters. Is the process really too long and too expensive? What is the impact of the new technologies? Are there ways to encourage more responsible media coverage?
Anderson, David M. and Michael Cornfield, eds., The Civic Web: Online Politics and Democratic Values, 2002.
Bibby, John F., Politics, Parties, and Elections in America (3rd Edition), 1996.
Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, Packaging the Presidency 1996.
Jamieson, Kathleen Hall and Paul Waldman, The Press Effect, 2003.
Kimberling, William C., Deputy Director, FEC Office of Election Administration. "The Electoral College," ww.fec.gov/pdf/eleccoll.pdf.
Mayer, William G., ed., In Pursuit of the White House, 1996.
Patterson, Thomas E., The Vanishing Voter 2002.
Wattenberg, Martin P., The Rise of Candidate-Centered Politics, 1991.
Witcover, Jules, No Way to Pick a President, 1999.
Xandra Kayden, senior fellow at UCLA's School of Public Policy and Social Research, heads the League's Presidential Selection Update Task Force and is LWVUS board member and LWVEF trustee.
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TULIA — Raymond Harris, 74, of Tulia died Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, in Amarillo.
Services will be at 4 p.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Rusty Gray officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Arrangements are by Kornerstone Funeral Directors of Tulia.
Raymond was born March 29, 1938, in Wellington to W.R. and Lois Harris. He grew up and attended school in Wellington. They moved to Hartley, where he farmed and helped build the grain elevator. He moved to Bakersfield, Calif., in 1958.
Raymond returned to Dumas in 1959, working at American Zinc Plant for about 13 years and building fences in his spare time. He farmed in Dumas until he moved to Tulia in 1979. He owned R&T Harris Services Inc., hauling fertilizer and silage to and from area feed lots. He started Rock Hard Trucking about four years ago. He attended First Baptist Church in Tulia.
He was preceded in death by his parents, W.R. and Lois Harris; a brother, LeRoy Harris; and three sisters, Marie Peterson, Evelyn Sasser and Wanda Shields.
Survivors include a daughter, Becki Robertson and husband Byron of San Angelo; four sons, Kenny Harris and wife Susan of Casa Grande, Ariz., and Chris Harris, Tommy Harris and wife Lisa and Kevin Harris and wife Cynthia, all of Tulia; two sisters, Peggy Griffin of Temple and Cookie Friemel and husband Zig of Dumas; and 10 grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to American Cancer Society, 3511 10th St., Lubbock, TX 79415.
Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
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On December 19, 1956, Bill Russell signed his first contract with the Boston Celtics.
On December 19, 2008, I went back to where he made history.
In the 1950s Bill Russell transformed the University of San Francisco from a small school in California into a collegiate basketball powerhouse. Russell, and future Celtic teammate K.C. Jones, led the Dons on a 55-game winning streak and back-to-back NCAA Championships in 1955 and 1956, shattering racial barriers along the way.
Despite their success, the men's basketball team was forced to practice in various high school gyms and played 'home games' on random courts in the Bay Area. It wasn't until two years after Russell left for the NBA that the Dons were granted their own gymnasium on campus.
Today, tucked away in the hills of San Francisco, there is not only a basketball court but a tribute to the man who put USF basketball on the map as one of the most notable collegiate programs in NCAA history. See more pictures of Russell's legacy at USF after the jump.
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This week's Please Explain, Dr. Michael J. Balick of the New York Botanical Garden talks about herbs! He'll explain how to grow them and use them in cooking, medicine, cleaning, and more, and he'll discuss the relationship between humans, plants, and culture. He's the author of the new book Rodale's 21st-Century Herbal: A Practical Guide for Healthy Living Using Nature's Most Powerful Plants.
Some Common Herbs
Basil is easy to grow in a pot on a windowsill or outside in a garden. You can start it from seed or from a cutting—Cut a 6-inch stem with several leaf nodes on it. Strip the bottom two-thirds of the stem and dip it into a rooting solution. Then stick the cut end about three-inches deep in soil. Keep it moist and, ideally, keep it in a humid environment until the roots form—about 4-6 weeks. You can do the same with rosemary, lavender, sage, thyme, mint, and oregano, among others. For the best flavor, harvest the springs before flowers develop. You can cut back the tips every couple weeks to keep the plants bushy. There are many well known culinary uses for basil, but basil can also repel flies and mosquitoes. You can rub basil leaves on your clothing to keep mosquitoes away.
Aloe vera is a good indoor plant. It's a succulent, so it doesn't require a lot of water or attention to thrive. The leaves are thought to speed healing of skin and aloe is often used to treat sunburn and rashes. You can break off a leaf and rub the gel found inside on skin. Balick recommends harvesting the outermost leaves first, as new growth comes from the center of the plant.
Dill is a versatile herb in cooking and in pickling. Dill seed has been used to treat gas and calm the digestive tract. It's been shown to slow the growth of the bacteria E. coli. In the garden, dill flowers attract beneficial insects like ladybugs and lacewings, which help control pests such as aphids.
Turmeric is used frequently in Indian, Persian, and Thai cuisine. It has long been thought to treat a wide range of health conditions and is used as an anti-inflammatory and an antiseptic. There are currently many scientific investigations into the medicinal qualities of turmeric. It's also used to dye fabrics bright gold. It's a tropical plant, but if you want to grow it inside, you can plant the rhizome in soil. Place the plant in a very sunny, warm place and keep it moist and misted.
Thyme is a great herb to use in soups and in poultry, fish, or vegetable dishes. It has antibacterial qualities made thyme useful for preserving meat before refrigeration. Balick writes that the emperor Charlemagne had thyme planted in all of his gardens. Like many herbs, thyme is believed to calm the stomach and ease digestion.
You can preserve herbs by drying them or freezing them. You can hang bunches of herbs or lay them out on trays and let the herbs air dry. The leaves of basil, thyme, cilantro, dill, mint, parsley, and tarragon also freeze well. Chop them and put them in an ice cube tray with a little water. You can just toss a cube into whatever you're cooking. Use within 3 months.
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Herbs, if they have an effect, have one because of the active compounds in them...drugs. Herbs and alternative medicine proven to work is called....medicine. Way too much woo on this show.
@ Carol from NYC: I save basil for later use by making pesto & freezing the pesto. Keeps for a year in the freezer.
This is dreadful, irresponsible quackery.
Garlic is also known as a blood thinner. Once I ate soup w/a lot of fresh garlic in it the night before I gave blood, & both the fingerstick & the vein puncture took a lot longer than usual to stop bleeding. I'm careful not to eat much garlic before giving blood now, & I wonder if people taking blood-thinning meds should avoid it too?
I actually cured squamous cell cancer on my face using the eggplant curaderm cure from the island of Vanuatu---(where the Dr. just returned from?)
My dermatologist told me not to use it but was amazed and verified the fact that the leision was gone using the eggplant cream!
Also called Devils Apple? Not sure...
I actually cured squamous cell cancer on my face using the eggplant curaderm cure from the island of Vanuatu---(where the Dr. just returned from?)
My dermatologist told me not to use it but was amazed and verified the fact that the leision was gone using the eggplant cream!
Also called Devils Apple? Not sure...
Kava can cause liver damage, even in short term use. See WebMD.
I am growing basil. How do I save it to use later on?
Basil is soooo easy to grow from seed; just put seeds in a pot with loose soil and water well; Start outside in May or June & replant thruout the summer. Tiny little basil plants will sprout within a week. Take them out by the teaspoonful to place in other pots or your garden.
Question: Can you talk about Queen Anne's Lace? Does it have any purpose? I found some seeds and have lovely bunches of it growing in my garden now. I believe it is invasive, but not sure.
This discussion is starting to veer into the suggestion that herbs are somehow essentially different from drugs. Herbs such as kava work because they have psychoactive ingredients which are often not biochemically different from pharmaceuticals. As such, they can interact with each other (and other drugs) and be abused and misused. Just because something is found in a plant, does not mean it is benign.
Aloe is also said to prevent poison ivy rash when applied soon after exposure, & they often grow close to each other.
Are there invasive species that we should not plant here?
What does your guest think about genetically modifying plants by inserting genes from other species to "enhance" certain features of a plant? And what does he think of companies like Monsanto being allowed to patent the genes of plants?
Can your guest tell us how to grow cilantro in a window box? It grows OK but bolts so fast it's not worth the real estate, even "slow-bolt" varieties. Any workaround for this?
Interesting, I was here researching nettle leaf for menstrual problems that won't aggravate my fibroids.
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Resident in western North America (Scott 1986). Habitats are DESERT TO PINE FOREST. Host plants are usually herbaceous with most known hosts largely restricted to a few species in one family, CRUCIFERAE. Eggs are laid on the host plant singly. Individuals overwinter as pupae. There are is one flight each year with the approximate flight time MAY15-JUN30 in the northern part of the range and FEB1-MAY30 in the southern part of their range (Scott 1986). Listed as Pieris sisymbrii by Scott (1986).
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Berlin-Mitte is home to some grand and palatial hotels, like the old-fashioned Adlon and the stately Four Seasons. This upscale boutique joins the old boys on the Gendarmenmarkt (one of Berlin's celebrated squares) and has proved itself a worthy competitor, drawing guests who prefer a sleeker and more modern environment.
The facade is a sort of Art Nouveau replica, constructed in 1981 by the East German government to house a youth hostel, but once inside there is nothing retro about it. This is modern boutique chic all the way, an understated and—dare we say it—Zen take on the modern luxury hotel. The look is more high-tech than the usual whitewash-and-wood boutique treatment, owing to futuristic lighting effects and lots of glowing green frosted glass.
Some high-design hotels sacrifice substance in pursuit of style, but not so here — for this hotel to have a fighting chance against the Adlons of the world requires five-star service and facilities. Thus despite its emphasis on design, the Sofitel Berlin Gendarmenmarkt has both feet firmly in the five-star world, featuring such luxe touches as a spacious rooftop gym and, in some rooms, balconies overlooking the square.
Service is definitely up to snuff, with a staff as efficient and accommodating (though perhaps not quite as buttoned-up) as those at the competition's hotels. This hotel's small size, though, makes for a more personal and intimate experience, and the mix of the best modern design with the kitschiest of Communist Party architecture is absolutely unforgettable.
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"We tried to pressure them early, make them speed up a little bit, but we didn't sustain it," Georgia point guard Ashley Houts said. "They found some easy baskets on us and made it a long game."
Georgia 6-foot-5 center Angel Robinson was held scoreless, while fellow post Porsha Phillips went 2 of 12 for seven points. She was ineffective after scoring Georgia's first four points. Houts, Georgia's leading scorer, shot 2 for 11 and missed all five of her 3-point tries.
"They have more size than most anyone and their size is skilled," Landers said. "You're talking about really talented players. They pass it better than anyone else's bigs. They scored. They defended. Their kids are great defenders, but their coaches are excellent schemers."
Stanford point guard Jeanette Pohlen effectively penetrated and dished off to Appel and Ogwumike for five assists to go with 12 points and two steals - and she committed only one turnover. Pohlen played in control a day after VanDerveer said: "Sometimes she's going 100 mph, which we like, but then has a 100 mph car wreck."
"Ultimately, we are going to go into our posts," Pohlen said. "They brought us here and they are going to take us very far."
After Jasmine Hassell's basket at the 15:16 mark of the first half put Georgia ahead 8-4, Stanford responded with an 11-0 run capped by Pedersen's three-point play.
The Lady Bulldogs had won five of six to reach their 18th Sweet Sixteen, including a thrilling 74-71 overtime win over Oklahoma State in the second round. But Landers' young team couldn't get Georgia back to its first Final Four since 1999 - and its longtime coach is still waiting to win his first NCAA title.
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The as-yet-unnamed computer, which is made by Electronic Equipment Produktion & Distribution and uses an Intel Pentium M chip, can give drivers access to the Internet via 3G, Wi-Fi or 3GSM wireless networks.
Drivers can check e-mail using voice recognition, surf the Web, put on a DVD for the passengers in the back or even watch a second DVD when stationary. The computer also works as a route finder.
The computer, which was installed in a modified BMW Mini at the CeBit trade show, is designed to fit the radio slot in dashboards and can also play MP3s to compensate for the lack of a dedicated sound system.
In addition, the chipmaker showed off a touch-screen "stick on the dashboard" portable PC, the Sony Vaio U-70, that is smaller than a typical laptop but bigger than a PDA. Intel said the U-70 was designed to let people synchronize the machine with other PCs for calendar details, directions and other voice-activated information.
Earlier this year, security researchers were looking into the possibility that viruses could attack onboard computers. Intel denied that viruses could affect driving system computers.
"The computer system is totally separate from the car's electrics, ABS airbag and motor," said Hans-Jurgen Werner, business press spokesman for Intel Germany.
Dan Ilett of ZDNet UK reported from Hannover, Germany.
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But the Dane insists no-one will be allowed to leave on the cheap.
"It will be very difficult for me and the club and the players in August saying if that if we finish 17th on the last day of next season it will be a success.
"Maybe it would because we are still one of bottom clubs in terms of transfers and salaries, but we have to work well in transfer market to keep as many important players as possible.
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Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey (Giles Lytton Strachey), 1880–1932, English biographer and critic, educated at Cambridge. He was one of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group. Strachey is credited with having revolutionized the art of writing biography. In reaction to the copious dull scholarship and the lengthy panegyrics of the 19th cent., he determined to write biographies that were swift, selective, critical, witty, and artistic. His work includes Eminent Victorians (1918), a volume of short biographical studies; Queen Victoria (1921), his masterpiece; Elizabeth and Essex (1928); and Portraits in Miniature (1931). As a critic, Strachey was the author of such works as Landmarks in French Literature, a study of the classical spirit (1912), and Books and Characters (1922).
See biography by M. Holroyd (2 vol., 1968; rev. ed. 1995).
Lytton Strachey: Selected full-text books and articles
R. A. Scott-James.
Longmans Green, 1955
J. W. Cunliffe.
Macmillan, 1933
Edgar Johnson.
Stackpole Sons, 1937
Maria DiBattista; Lucy McDiarmid.
Oxford University Press, 1996
Mark Longaker; Edwin C. Bolles.
Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1953
Ruth Hoberman.
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Tracy Chevalier.
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Getting the Limbaugh record straighter
Wednesday - 3/21/2012, 12:54pm EDT
As a newsman who grew up with the old fashioned notion of trying to get the record straight, I have been puzzled by the reporting on the Rush Limbaugh attack on Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University student.
I declare up front that I am no Limbaugh fan and consider him the way God considered the snake. And it is fitting, given Mr. Limbaugh's record with women, that God, after condemning the snake, added, "I will put enmity between thee and the woman "
News reports, even including those of the FOX opinion network, have documented Mr. Limbaugh's name-calling of Miss Fluke as a "slut" and "prostitute." His slander was prompted by Miss Fluke because she spoke out for employer-paid health care to include contraceptive drugs.
Mr. Limbaugh himself has admitted he was wrong in using those two words and apologized. He hasn't said he was wrong about anything else he said.
Most of the legitimate news reports-not opinion comments-have credited Mr. Limbaugh with his apology. But these reports have focused mostly on the two words and his subsequent demand that he and the world be allowed to see videos of Ms. Fluke having sex.
What is curious to me is that very few of the news stories have questioned Mr. Limbaugh's facts or his sources for his slander. A quick look at his bombast finds that he not only showed contemptuous, boorish behavior but he was not telling the truth.
Here's a short list taken from Mr. Limbaugh's own loud mouth:
- He reported on February 29, as fact, that Ms. Fluke's women colleagues at Georgetown "are having so much sex that they're going broke." He was wrong. Ms. Fluke said no such thing in her testimony before a Congressional hearing.
- Mr. Limbaugh said Ms. Fluke was "having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills." Not true and not in her testimony.
- Mr. Limbaugh said Ms. Fluke "wants to be paid to have sex." Again, unfounded. Ms. Fluke never said she wanted to be paid to have sex.
- Mr. Limbaugh said on March 1 that he got his information from a Cybercast News Service reporter, but offered no proof of the inflammatory internet accusation.
Mr. Limbaugh then repeated his earlier false statements and added, "I want to know who bought, Ms. Fluke, who bought your condoms in junior high? Who bought your condoms in the sixth grade " Again, false. He had no proof that Ms. Fluke had sex in the sixth grade or any other grade.
Mr. Limbaugh's defenders aren't likely to be bothered by his despicable tastelessness. That's standard fare. But they, and the reporters who cover this story, should be concerned about whether he's telling the truth. Judging by his record here, he's not.


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Tariq Drabu Issues Strong Call for Dental Public Health Agenda
Tariq Drabu says, "The government talks a lot about reducing health inequalities. It needs to show that it is serious."
(PRWEB) March 29, 2013
Tariq Drabu, leading Manchester GDC registered dentist and the owner of Langley Dental Practice in Middleton, Manchester has today issued a strong call supporting the fluoridation of public water supplies as part of a dental public health agenda.
His call follows the news that in Wales more than four in 10 children are suffering tooth decay by the age of just five, according to figures released today by the Welsh Government. These worrying figures came to light last week as the Government launched its National Oral Health plan, which aims to tackle dental problems in children. The story can be seen here. Commenting on the findings Tariq Drabu said "tooth decay is a preventable disease and it is a well known fact that getting fluoride in to contact with teeth will have a positive effect on dental health. The best ways of doing this is by Fluoridation of the public water supply."
However he sounded a note of caution since the current major NHS reforms that are due to be implemented next week may well mean that matters such as dental public health will be overlooked. Tariq Drabu said "with the abolition of Primary Care Trusts responsible for local health provision these current NHS reorganisations may lead to moves towards public water fluoridation being missed and in some cases abandoned, leading to a deterioration in the dental health of the population, especially children."
A news story on the BBC News website in 2012 talked about the issue of water fluoridation and why it continues to be a major issue. Tariq Drabu continued, "last year there was confusion surrounding the proposed fluoridation of water in Southampton. In early 2012, the South of England Strategic Health Authority, which is due to be abolished in April 2013, insisted that fluoridation was due to go ahead in Southampton. However, from April 2013 the decision for fluoridation was to be passed to the local council. The council itself has already voted against the measure. The current understanding is that now, in a move that makes matters even more confusing, Southampton city council will await the outcome of a government consultation before deciding if they will consult residents on whether the fluoridation scheme should go ahead or be stopped." The story can be seen here.
Tariq Drabu commented on the confusion and ambiguity by saying "If the Southampton situation is reproduced all over the country where nobody knows what is going on then we are heading for a complete and utter mess. The current state of affairs is ambiguous, uncertain and muddled and it must be reviewed."
Tariq Drabu who has owned Langley Dental Practice since 1998, was outspoken in his support for water fluoridation as an effective public health measure. He said, "We practice here in North Manchester, which is an area of high social deprivation and poor dental health. In terms of tooth decay levels, our local health trusts are in the bottom 20 out of all 300 health trusts in the whole country. Figures from the Department of Health show that areas like ours have children's tooth decay rates that are eight times worse than the best areas in the country. Therefore we need prompt and proactive public health measures such as water fluoridation in order to improve the dental health of the population, especially children. A comparable area like South Birmingham, which is in the bottom third for social deprivation but which has fluoride in the water, is in the top third of areas with the lowest levels of tooth decay. So, when we compare like for like we can see that fluoride does work."
Tariq Drabu went on to say "back in 2010 after the election the Coalition government in its flagship "Programme for Government" document said not only that it would introduce a new NHS dentistry contract but more importantly it talked about an additional focus on the oral health of schoolchildren. The new contract is making ground but the dental public health of children is falling by the wayside and the confusion surrounding fluoridation will only make matters worse."
Tariq Drabu who was chairman of Bury and Rochdale Local Dental Committee between 2003 and 2006 urged on the government to take the lead and press ahead with a workable public health agenda that put water fluoridation at the top of dental public health especially for children.
Tariq Drabu concluded by saying "We need a strong lead from government to get fluoridation back on the agenda. The government talks a lot about reducing health inequalities. It needs to show that it is serious. It can show that it is serious by pushing forward with a programme of water Fluoridation."
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Nearly 50 years ago, Shockers made run at history
Jerry Reimond remembers the captain coming on over the speakers in the airplane cabin, asking a bunch of wide-eyed kids from Wichita State to gaze out the windows.
On one side, Mount Rainier climbed to the clouds. On the other, snow-capped Mount Hood.
They were on their way to the school's first Final Four, played that year in Portland, Ore., and a date with John Wooden and his powerhouse program from UCLA. They'd made it without their two best players, and a team featuring five blacks in an era of segregation, oblivious to exactly what they had overcome - something that would take the Shockers nearly 50 years to repeat.
''We had a police escort to the airport, and I remember that was the first time we'd had a police escort,'' said Reimond, a backup forward on the team. ''It was a beautiful flight, and then Portland was so green. Everything about it opened our eyes.
''Then I remember stepping on the court that first night,'' Reimond said, ''and what struck me as a kid at that time was that it was sort of a rarified or electric feeling in the air. The sounds were louder, they were sharper, the colors were more vivid, brighter, more intense. It was just an atmosphere, and it's a cliche and overused, but it was just indescribable.''
The surprising Shockers are finally back in the Final Four this year, facing Louisville on Saturday night in their first national semifinal since 1965, and you can bet they'll be feeling many of the same sensations on the elevated floor of the Georgia Dome.
But while this year's team has been a longshot from the start, the Shockers of yesteryear were title contenders from the beginning of the season, returning nearly everybody of consequence from a team that lost to Kansas State in the previous year's regional finals.
Then, everything threatened to unravel in a few short weeks.
Their best player, two-time All-American Dave Stallworth, exhausted his eligibility at the semester, and senior center Nate Bowman was declared academically ineligible in late January.
The Shockers started five Kansans the rest of the season, none over 6-foot-5.
''We anticipated Dave was going to lose his eligibility, and when Nate had some personal problems, it was a shock,'' said John Criss, who played guard. ''We had to start all over again, but that last semester was probably the best team basketball we had ever played.'''
The Shockers managed to win their first outright Missouri Valley Conference championship, and that automatically qualified them for the NCAA tournament. But they were no longer the sure bet to make it to Portland, just one of 23 teams trying to survive and advance.
''We had the best team that year, if we had a complete team,'' said Mohamed Sharif, a guard then known as Kelly Pete. ''Others did step up real good, and we were able to accomplish more than most people thought we would. I still hear guys we played against back in that time, they're still amazed that we were able to go that far with the kind of talent we lost.''
The Shockers began their tournament run by beating SMU, and then used the trademark press that they learned under former coach Ralph Miller and honed under Gary Thompson to baffle a team from Oklahoma State that was led by another icon of the game, Henry Iba.
''That,'' Criss said, ''was my greatest thrill of the tournament.''
The result was a trip to the Final Four, even back then a big deal, where they were to meet a Bruins team that featured Gail Goodrich and Edgar Lacy. The Bruins were well-respected by then, the defending national champions, but had yet to earn the mystique of Wooden's later teams.
''They were very well-coached, and a wonderful unit,'' said Dave Leach, would have 12 points and 10 rebounds in the game. ''They certainly weren't all that big. I think Lacy was their biggest player at 6-7, but they had a very good press and it ended up being a fast-paced game.''
Even without Stallworth and Bowman, the plucky Shockers held their own at first, their game at Portland's old Memorial Coliseum tight until midway through the first half.
''That last 20 percent of the game, we broke the press but our shooting went stone-cold,'' Reimond recalled. ''We just fell off a cliff, and it demoralized the guys.''
Goodrich and Lacy were too much for the Shockers, who lost 108-89.
The Bruins would go on to beat Cazzie Russell and Michigan for the championship, while the Shockers were relegated to the third-place game. There, they watched helplessly as a future senator named Bill Bradley scored 58 points and the Shockers were routed by Princeton.
''It was probably one of the greatest experiences of my life,'' Sharif said of that Final Four odyssey. ''For someone 21 years old, it's something that you really cherish.''
Wichita State would go into a long period of morass during the 1970s, only to rebound behind guys like Xavier McDaniel and Antoine Carr in the early 1980s. But despite all their success, they never made it to the Final Four, losing to LSU in the 1981 regional finals.
It wasn't until this year's team, led by Gregg Marshall, that the Shockers have finally made it back to college basketball's biggest stage. After stringing together upsets over the likes of Gonzaga and Ohio State, they'll make their their long-awaited return Saturday night.
You can bet those players from that '65 team will be watching.
''This program has a great history. I mean, it's not Duke, it's not UCLA, but there's been great players and a great program for a long time,'' Marshall said. ''Those guys built the program. I'm just the steward of the program. One day, I might not be the coach here, but they will always be Wichita State greats, former players who did something special.''
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Chicago emcee Add-2 has been living the player's lifestyle for quite a while now, but success with the ladies didn't always come easily to him—in fact, picking up women is a skill that he's cultivated over many years of study and hard work. On this unreleased cut, Add reminisces about one of the turning points in the development of his game: back in his School Daze, Add was frustrated by the fact that every woman he encountered seemed to be looking for a long-term relationship; though this problem seemed insurmountable at first, the dilemma vanished into thin air once the emcee learned to turn those hopefuls down without losing his cool. Frequent Bullet producer Slot-A gets his "classic Kanye" on, delivering some baritone hook vocals as well as an ear-pleasing, old-school beat. Fans can hear more from the self-proclaimed "Leader of the Anti-Bullsh*t Coalition," on his forthcoming Tale Of Two's City (Vol. 3) mixtape, which has yet to receive an official release date.
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Pune: Bank account holders in the city should make sure that they spend their own hard-earned money from their accounts and not blow off somebody else's money deposited by default in their account lest they get nabbed by the police. Here is a case of a Gondia-based woman who has been booked by Chaturshringi Police on charges of cheating a nationalised bank to the tune of Rs 8.21 lakh.
The woman has been charged for fraud for siphoning off Rs 8.21 lakh which was deposited in her account by default by Pune Branch of NABARD ( National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development ). The police have identified the suspect as Rajeshwari Dilip Pache, a resident of Sainagar in Marartoli area of Gondia after a complaint was lodged against her by the bank General Manager Sunil Krushna Jahagirdar.
He stated that Pache instead of returning the amount to the bank, its rightful owner , suppressed the information and siphoned off the same for her personal gains. The complaint further stated that the incident took place between July 31 and Oct 29, 2012 and acts as the principal cash delivery agency for different schemes of the state government.
According to the police, an amount estimated to be worth Rs 8.21 lakh sanctioned by the state government for a rural development scheme was scheduled to be deposited in the Bank of India account of Social Action for Rural Development, an Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) based in Gondia. However, due to a mistake, the amount got wrongly credited in Rajeshwari's account with BOI, Gondia.
Chaturshringi Police Station incharge Arun Sahebrao Sawant informed DNA that a mistake on the part of the NABARD employee resulted in the amount getting deposited in Rajeshwari 's account and not the NGO for which it was actually meant. " It was her duty to inform the bank that the amount did not belong to her. Instead she was evasive in her replies to the bank officials when they got in touch with her. Later, after a series of oral and written correspondence between the bank and the suspect, relented and agreed to pay the dues. However, she retracted from her stand and did not pay the pending amount ," he added.
Sawant further said that Rajeshwari spent the amount for personal use despite being given an advance option to return it to the bank. A team of Detection Branch ( DB) officials under the guidance of Assistant Police Inspector (API) V R Gaud will soon be leaving for Gondia to arrest the suspect, Sawant said.


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VOLLEYBALL Varsity loses two nailbiters Last Thursday the YSHS girls varsity volleyball team played its best volleyball of the season but couldn't hold off the perennial powerhouse of Dayton Christian, losing 20–25, 25–23, 13–25, 25–19. According to Coach Chris Linkhart, the Lady Bulldogs put up quite a battle. Modjeska Chavez's serving (14 points) was one […]
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On the northeastern fringe of Austin the subdivisions and office parks peter out and the prairie takes over, a pastoral scene that goes on for miles until it is broken by a trapezoid facade of green glass and a mammoth longitudinal complex that goes back and back and back, evolving from offices to factory as it recedes into the distance. This is the U.S. headquarters for Samsung Semiconductor, one of the prize catches for Texas in the high-stakes competition for corporate expansion and relocation, and it is here, Brenda Arnett says, because of George W. Bush. "We were competing with Georgia and Oregon," recalls Arnett, the former head of the Texas Department of Commerce (now called the Texas Department of Economic Development), "and he met with Samsung's top executives. He didn't promise them anything. He talked about how much he loved Texas and why this was a good place for business, and that really impressed them. He's a seller."
As Arnett related how the governor had sold the Korean high-tech company on coming to Texas, I realized that his message was much like what he had told me when I had asked him about his record on business issues. "It starts with philosophy," he had said. "I understand that the role of government is to create an environment in which entrepreneurship flourishes. Our business environment sends a clear signal that entrepreneurship is welcome here, that Texas is a good place to take a risk." Bush should know. Not only did he start his career as the head of his own oil company in Midland and move on to become the managing general partner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, but in deciding to pursue the presidency he has now embarked upon the biggest political risk of all. Apparently the Samsung executives are not the only business leaders who have been impressed. A recent profile of Bush in Fortune cited a poll of CEOs in which a whopping 86 percent favored him for president. This near sweep is all the more remarkable because one of his chief competitors for the Republican nomination, Steve Forbes, was a CEO himself.
As with other polls showing Bush astonishingly far in front of his rivals, Republican and Democratic, the question that comes to mind is, Why? Indeed, Bush himself asked it a year ago, when early polls for the 2000 presidential race showed him rocketing to the top before he'd displayed any overt interest in running for the White House. Is the support for him explained by his familiar name and the royalist impulse of conservatives to favor the promotion of whoever has the best claim as heir apparent? Or are his supporters aware of his philosophy and actions? How much do CEOs know about Bush's business record? It is quite an intriguing record, and one that reveals the kind of politician Bush is. In 1995 he made good on a campaign promise to bring tort reform to Texas—but he also declined to veto a 1997 bill, the first of its kind in the nation, exposing HMOs to malpractice suits. He believes that science should prevail over politics in environmental decisions—but his appointees to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission last fall made a highly controversial decision to shut down the Sierra Blanca low-level radioactive-waste facility in the West Texas desert after eighteen years of work and $50 million had been spent. He believes in helping business create jobs, as he did by wooing Samsung—but the rate-cutting and pro-deregulation policies of his appointees to the Public Utility Commission have so weakened Texas electric utilities that one, Central and South West, has been bought by an out-of-state company and others fear that they will suffer the same fate.
What these battles have in common are high visibility, considerable controversy, and friends of the governor's on both sides. Their outcomes suggest two indisputable facts. The first is that George W. Bush is not the kind of politician who falls on his sword over philosophical fine points. The second is that, even in Texas, it is not as easy to be pro-business as it used to be.
The importance of a healthy business environment has been a continuing theme in Texas politics ever since the petrochemical and defense industries began the industrialization of the state's economy in the thirties and forties. In the ensuing decades Texas governors spoke reverently of nurturing a "good bidness climate," which meant low taxes, friendly regulation, hostility to unions, and protectionist policies for Texas companies, like intrastate trucking firms. Texas was a one-party state in those years, and the Capitol was ruled by conservative Democrats who were loyal to business and warred constantly with populists, labor, minorities, and others in the party's liberal wing. In the sixties Governor John Connally foresaw the growth of the Sunbelt and convinced business that if Texas was to attract Northern companies seeking to relocate, the state had to spend more money on basic services, from education to parks.
And so it came to pass. The seventies were boom times in Texas, but prosperity brought about the fall of the old political order. The Northerners who immigrated to Texas with their companies were mainly Republicans who cared nothing for the state's byzantine political traditions. The conservative wing of the Democratic party withered; its adherents drifted toward the GOP, and the remaining Democrats moved left. Meanwhile, the diversification of the state's economy made it impossible for business to continue to speak with a single voice. The oil bust of the eighties was fatal to business's political clout. Politically active independent oilmen, real estate developers, and lenders were wiped out, and in many cases ownership passed to out-of-state interests indifferent to Texas politics. The phrase "good bidness climate" disappeared into history, plaintiff's lawyers dominated the Capitol and the courts, and Democratic governors Mark White and Ann Richards were elected after campaigning against utilities and insurance companies, respectively. The nineties have brought to Texas, as elsewhere, a politics that revolves more


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GOP ponders long list of names, policies, for 2016
Schmidt notes that the base's loyalty didn't keep the party from losing the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections.
If Republicans recalibrate their message "based on talk radio hosts and extreme bloggers, it's like putting a magnet to your compass," Schmidt said. "The readings go haywire," and there's no way to pick up the extra voters the party needs, he said.
Schnur, the consultant-turned-academic, said Republicans realize they can't win presidential races without changing. "A much harder decision is not whether to do things differently," he said, "but how."
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What are some of the best live performances The Beatles ever did? I'm Down at Shea Stadium was pretty good.
That's I Want To Hold Your Hand on the Morcambe & Wise show in 1964
And that's She Loves You, live in Melbourne!
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Definitely "I'm Down" at Shea. Before I saw that video, I didn't even like the song that much.
The video changed my mind.
I also enjoyed watching "Yesterday" at the Budokan. It was really different.
Basically anything at Shea. "A Hard Day's Night" was really different than the album version. (John's voice.)
If I seem to act unkind, it's only me, it's not my mind that is confusing things.
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Yep - 'I'm Down' at Shea is my single most favourite bit of film / performance of The Beatles. The sheer fun John is having with George playing alongside him is magical and Paul just stands there, belting it out with his Hofner waving about.....and sweat pouring off his brow!
The live 'Baby's In Black' from Anthology comes in second with the third being 'She Loves You' from The Hollywood Bowl concert - John's voice is just so good on that.
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I've always liked this performance of Help! at Blackpool Night Out. John just delivers...also, this is a nice video with the gags and that at the beginning
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