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"CornerStore" chronicles one eventful hot summer day at a convenience store on Detroit's Six Mile Road. Owned by the Jenkins family, the store is operated by Earl, a handsome, middle class, full?time father of 2 teenagers??his son Gerard, an aspiring chef, and daughter Gail, a fun?loving yet sneaky teen. The eccentric customers are the real stars of this comedy. From winos to gangsters, thieves to neighborhood kids, a LOT can happen on the corner.
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Four more years.
That is what Gulf District School will ask voters when they return to the polls March 5 to renew or extend the additional mil operating levy that has been in place the past four.
The Gulf County School Board unanimously voted to conduct the balloting during a one-day election March 5, instead of the mail out ballot that was used four years ago when voters first approved the additional operating levy.
The difference was cost and timeliness.
A mailed ballot, newly-installed Supervisor of Elections John Hanlon said, would cost more than $2 per voter or roughly $20,000 to mail ballots to all registered voters in the county.
The total cost of an election conducted by mail would be roughly $25,000, Hanlon said.
However, conducting the election on a single day would cut that price to $14,500, Hanlon said.
"We would not have to hold early voting for this kind of election and that would dramatically reduce the costs," Hanlon said. "We would still have absentee ballots available for anyone who wishes to vote that way, but we would not early voting."
On March 5, all polling places in all county precincts would be open the typical hours for election day, 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. ET or 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. CT.
Voting by mail would also require Hanlon to submit a plan to the state Division of Elections for approval, which would likely push the date back at least two weeks.
"We don't need to spend any more than we have to and we want to know what we are dealing with as quick as we can," said board member John Wright.
If voters do not approve the extension of the mil operating levy, Wright said, the results could be "ugly" and the board will need as much lead time before budget crafting for the coming fiscal year as possible.
What the district is asking is for voters to approve extending the additional mil operating levy for four years in order to stave off drastic reductions.
"This is a renewal tax, it is not the creation of a new tax," said Superintendent of Schools Jim Norton. "We have cut funding for the past four years but maintained standards. For us to continue the integrity of the product we are providing for the good of Gulf County we need this funding."
The district is facing a shortfall of roughly $500,000 even without the additional funding. There will be cuts, to jobs or programs. However, take away the additional mil levy, currently worth about $1.3 million, and the budget deficit would be $1.8 million, Norton said.
"Even if this (levy) passes we will still be short dollars," said board member George Cox. "It will be easier to cut half a million dollars than it will be almost two million dollars."
If the levy does not pass, that could mean as many as 50 jobs cut and would likely render the district out of compliance with state constitutional mandates on class size ratios.
Norton said it would be likely the district could not cut 50 jobs, more likely around 30, but said the cuts would then have to come from programs.
"We are not asking for anything but to maintain," Norton said.
Wright said, "School won't be like we have it now if this doesn't pass. It will be ugly."
Voters approved the additional operating levy four years ago, but the economic winds have whittled the worth of that mil nearly in half over the four years. What was once worth $2.2 million is now equal to $1.3 million.
Meanwhile, the School Board has maintained local capital improvement millage rates, which the board could levy itself, at the lowest level in the state.
Local capital improvement dollars may not be used for operating expenses, so the only method available to the district is to ask voters to extend the levy, which sunsets in the current fiscal year.
"The funding is desperately needed," said board member Billy Quinn, Jr. "We hope the community will rally behind this."
Board chair Linda Wood said the levy was not so much for the district or the schools.
"This is about those little heads that get on and off the school bus each day," Wood said. "We need the people in place to make sure they get the education they need so that their world will be better than their parents'."


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The last surviving title from the notorious and critically acclaimed EC Comics line, the magazine offers satire on all aspects of American life and pop culture, politics, entertainment, and public figures. Its format is divided into a number of recurring segments such as TV and movie parodies, as well as freeform articles. Mad's mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, is typically the focal point of the magazine's cover, with his face often replacing a celebrity or character that is lampooned within the issue.
Owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment, the magazine is under the corporate control of subsidiary DC Comics. Over the course of its history, Mad has been published in over 20 countries, and has been adapted into different media including recordings, stage shows, games and a late night sketch comedy television series, Mad TV.
Graydon Carter chose it as the sixth best magazine of any sort ever, describing Mad's mission as being "ever ready to pounce on the illogical, hypocritical, self-serious and ludicrous" before concluding, "Nowadays, it's part of the oxygen we breathe. Joyce Carol Oates called it "wonderfully inventive, irresistibly irreverent and intermittently ingenious American. Roger Ebert wrote, "I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad Magazine... Mad's parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin—of the way a movie might look original on the outside, while inside it was just recycling the same old dumb formulas. I did not read the magazine, I plundered it for clues to the universe. Pauline Kael lost it at the movies; I lost it at Mad Magazine. Rock singer Patti Smith said more succinctly, "After Mad, drugs were nothing."
The phrase "Tales Calculated to Drive You" above the title Mad referenced radio's Suspense which often used the opening, "Tales well calculated to keep you in... Suspense!" With wordplay on "jocular," the vertical subtitle, "Humor in a Jugular Vein," hinted at a sinister satirical edge.
The first two issues of Mad spoofed only comic books and movie genres of romance, horror, sports and science fiction, without overtly specific references. However, with issue #3, Kurtzman turned to direct parodies, targeting two well-known radio programs with parodies of Dragnet and The Lone Ranger, and he soon began satirizing selected comic strips ("Little Orphan Melvin!"), comic books ("Superduperman!"), books ("Alice in Wonderland!"), films ("Hah! Noon!") and television programs ("Howdy Dooit!").
In 1955, with issue 24, the comic book converted to magazine format. According to popular myth, this was done to escape the strictures of the Comics Code Authority, which was imposed in 1955 following United States Congressional hearings on juvenile delinquency. Actually, Kurtzman had received a lucrative offer from the publisher of the digest periodical Pageant, and only stayed when Gaines agreed to upgrade Mad. The immediate practical result was that Mad acquired a broader range in both subject matter and presentation. Magazines had wider distribution than comic books, and a more adult readership.
However, the Comics Code Authority had proven fatal to most of Gaines's EC Comics line due to restrictions on title and content. Gaines suffered both financially and creatively from targeted industry censorship and the enmity of his fellow publishers. EC's national distributor, Leader News, was the nation's weakest and did not have the clout to withstand an undeclared industry boycott of EC product: the company's comics were frequently returned still in their original unopened bundles. These factors combined to drive all EC Comics from the stands, except for Mad, which was too profitable to ignore. The company's financial status grew shakier in 1956 when Leader News declared bankruptcy, leaving EC over $100,000 in debt. Only the Gaines family's investment of capital and a fortuitous deal with the much stronger American News distributor kept Mad afloat.
After the bulk of EC's line was canceled in 1954-55, the company was completely reliant on the improving fortunes of Mad. In a creative showdown, Kurtzman insisted on a 51 percent share in the company or else he would quit. When Gaines rejected the demand, EC was without its dominant creative force, and Kurtzman was separated from the magazine that crystallized his talents. Al Feldstein returned to EC and oversaw Mad during its greatest heights of circulation. Taking over with issue #29, Feldstein set to work assembling a phalanx of humor writers and cartoonists. His first issue as editor coincided with the debut of Don Martin: crucial longterm contributors such as prolific writer Frank Jacobs and star caricaturist Mort Drucker quickly followed. Before the classic Mad staff was assembled, Feldstein also relied on celebrity guest contributions to attract attention and fill pages. Some of these pieces, attributed to Bob and Ray, were actually the work of their main writer Tom Koch, who would flourish in Mad for decades under his own byline. By the early 1960s, with notables such as Antonio Prohias, Al Jaffee and Dave Berg well in hand, Feldstein had fully established the format that was to be a commercial success for decades.
For tax reasons, Gaines sold his company in the early 1960s to the Kinney Parking Company. Kinney was in the process of becoming a conglomerate, including acquiring National Periodicals (aka DC Comics) and Warner Bros. by the end of that decade. Though technically an employee for 30 years, the fiercely independent Gaines was named a Kinney board member, and was largely permitted to run Mad as he saw fit without corporate interference.
By early 1978, Mad was obliged to include a UPC symbol on its covers. The magazine responded by devoting the entire front cover of issue #198 to a giant UPC bar code, saying they hoped it would "jam every computer in the country" for "forcing us to deface our covers with this yecchy UPC symbol from now on." For more than two years, subsequent issues labeled the normal-sized symbol with a series of humorous captions, such as "Closeup of the gap in Alfred E. Neuman's teeth" or "Hair of man watching horror movie."
Following Gaines' June 3, 1992 death, Mad became more ingrained within the Time Warner corporate structure, which did not share Gaines' idiosyncratic ideas about marketing Mad. Time Warner turned the magazine over to DC Comics' publishers Jenette Kahn and Paul Levitz, and DC Vice President Joe Orlando became the magazine's new associate publisher. Closely involved with DC licensing, Orlando had also been a staff artist with EC Comics in the 1950s, and a prolific contributor to Mad during the 1960s. Time Warner put a much stronger emphasis on Mad merchandising and licensing, including products for its chain of Warner Studio Stores. Orlando's Special Projects department at DC Comics hired Bhob Stewart to edit a new Mad Style Guide (1994), featuring artwork by Sergio Aragonés, Angelo Torres and George Woodbridge.
Eventually, the magazine was obliged to abandon its long-time home at 485 Madison Avenue (printed as "MADison" Avenue in the masthead), and in the mid-1990s it moved into DC Comics' offices at the same time DC relocated to 1700 Broadway. Although Orlando retired from DC Comics in 1996, he continued to design cover layouts for Mad right up until the month of his death in 1998.
In 2001, the magazine broke its long-standing taboo and began running advertising. The outside revenue allowed for the introduction of color printing and improved paper stock. Some black-and-white material, however, remains in each issue.
Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding on the radio, Ernie Kovacs on television, Stan Freberg on records, Harvey Kurtzman in the early issues of Mad: all of those pioneering humorists and many others realized that the real world mattered less to people than the sea of sounds and images that the ever more powerful mass media were pumping into American lives.
Bob and Ray, Kovacs and Freberg all became contributors to Mad.
In 1977, Tony Hiss and Jeff Lewis wrote in The New York Times about the then 25-year-old publication's initial effect:
Mad is often credited with filling a vital gap in political satire in the 1950s to 1970s, when Cold War paranoia and a general culture of censorship prevailed in the United States, especially in literature for teens. Activist Tom Hayden said, "My own radical journey began with Mad Magazine. The rise of such factors as cable television and the Internet have diminished the influence and impact of Mad, although it remains a widely distributed magazine. In a way, Mad's power has been undone by its own success: what was subversive in the 1950s and 1960s is now commonplace. However, its impact on three generations of humorists is incalculable, as can be seen in the frequent references to Mad on the animated series The Simpsons.
Mad's satiric net was cast wide. The magazine often featured parodies of ongoing American culture, including advertising campaigns, the nuclear family, the media, big business, education and publishing. In the 1960s and beyond, it satirized such burgeoning topics as the sexual revolution, hippies, psychoanalysis, gun control, pollution, the Vietnam War and recreational drug use. The magazine gave equal time, generally negative, to counterculture drugs such as cannabis and LSD, as well as towards mainstream drugs such as tobacco and alcohol. Mad always satirized Democrats as mercilessly as it did Republicans. It also ran a good deal of less-topical material on such varied subjects as fairy tales, nursery rhymes, greeting cards, sports, small talk, poetry, marriage, comic strips, awards shows, cars and many other areas of general interest.
In 2007, the Los Angeles Times' Robert Boyd wrote, "All I really need to know I learned from Mad magazine", going on to assert:
In 1994, Brian Siano (The Humanist) discussed the eye-opening aspects of Mad:
Pulitzer Prize-winning art comics maven Art Spiegelman said, "The message Mad had in general is, 'The media is lying to you, and we are part of the media.' It was basically... 'Think for yourselves, kids.'" William Gaines offered his own view: when asked to cite Mad's philosophy, his boisterous answer was, "We must never stop reminding the reader what little value they get for their money!"
This precedent-setting case established the rights of parodists and satirists to mimic the meter of popular songs. However, the "Sing Along With Mad" songbook was not the magazine's first venture into musical parody. In 1960, Mad had published "My Fair Ad-Man," a full advertising-based spoof of the hit Broadway musical My Fair Lady. In 1959, "If Gilbert & Sullivan wrote Dick Tracy" was one of the speculative pairings in "If Famous Authors Wrote the Comics".
In 1966, a series of copyright infringement lawsuits against the magazine regarding ownership of the Alfred E. Neuman image eventually reached the Supreme Court. New York's Federal Appellate Court had invalidated all previous copyrights, thus establishing Mad's right to the character. This decision was also allowed to stand.
As a comic book, Mad had run the same advertisements as the rest of EC's line, and the magazine later made a deal with Moxie soda that involved inserting the Moxie logo into various articles. Mad also ran a limited number of ads in its first two years as a magazine, helpfully labeled "real advertisement" to differentiate the real from the parodies. The last authentic ad published under the original Mad regime was for Famous Artists School; two issues later, the inside front cover of issue #34 featured a parody of the same ad. After this transitional period, the only promotions to appear in Mad for decades were house ads for Mad's own books and specials, subscriptions, or promotional items such as ceramic busts or a line of Mad jewelry. Mad often explicitly promised that it would never make its mailing list available to anyone to exploit.
Both Kurtzman and Feldstein had wanted the magazine to solicit advertising; each editor felt this could be accomplished without compromising Mad's content or editorial independence. Kurtzman remembered Ballyhoo, a boisterous 1930s humor publication that made an editorial point of mocking its own sponsors. Feldstein went so far as to propose an in-house Mad ad agency and produce a "dummy" copy of what an issue with ads could look like. But Bill Gaines was intractable, telling 60 Minutes, "We long ago decided we couldn't take money from Pepsi-Cola and make fun of Coca-Cola." However, Gaines' primary motivation in eschewing ad dollars was less philosophical than practical:
Four months after the last Berg artwork was published, his final set of gags, which Berg had written but not penciled, appeared as a tribute. These last "Lighter Side" strips were divided among 18 of the magazine's regular artists, including Jack Davis' last original work for Mad. In 2007, an occasional feature called "The Darker Side of the Lighter Side" debuted. These consist of reprinted Berg strips, with rewritten word balloons that change the gags to references about disease, sex offenders, corpse disposal and other unsavory, un-Berg-like topics.
When Martin first joined Mad, he employed a nervous, scratchy art style, but this developed into a rounder, more cartoony look. Many of his cartoons used similar titles (e.g., "One Exceedingly Fine Day at the Beach"), and these titles became increasingly elaborate (e.g., "One Night in the Acme Ritz Central Arms Waldorf Plaza Statler Hilton Grand Hotel," "One Hot Sunny Afternoon in the Middle of the Ocean," or "One Fine Day at the Corner of South Finster Boulevard and Fonebone Street").
Martin's 31-year association with Mad ended in some rancor over the ownership of his original artwork. Not long after leaving Mad, Martin ended up working at Mad's competitor Cracked, which, unlike Mad, allowed creators to keep their pages. In 1994, Martin left Cracked and published a handful of issues of his own self-titled publication.
Aragonés also provides the "Mad Marginals" or "Drawn-out Dramas", which are small gag images that appear throughout the magazine in the corners, margins or spaces between panels. Aragonés debuted the feature in Mad #76 (January 1963), and it has appeared in every issue of the magazine since, except for Mad #111. According to Aragonés, his work for that issue was lost in the mail.
These articles run for several pages, and are presented as a sequential storyline with caricatures and word balloons. The opening page or two-page splash usually consists of the cast of the show introducing themselves directly to the reader. In some parodies, the writers sometimes attempt to circumvent this convention by presenting the characters without such direct exposition. Many parodies end with the abrupt deus ex machina appearance of outside characters or pop culture figures who are thematically tied in to the nature to the movie or TV series being parodied, or who comment satirically on the theme. For example, Dr. Phil arrives to counsel the psychologically damaged Desperate Housewives, or the former cast of Sex and the City are hired as the new hookers for another HBO series, Deadwood.
The parodies frequently make comedic use of the fourth wall, breaking character, and meta-references. Within an ostensibly self-contained storyline, the characters may refer to the technical aspects of filmmaking, the publicity, hype or box office surrounding their project, their own past roles and clichés.
Several show business stars have been quoted to the effect that the moment when they knew they'd finally "made it" was when they saw themselves thus depicted in the pages of Mad. Many celebrities parodied by the magazine have posed for photographs which were printed in Mad's letters column, holding up the copy of the magazine they appeared in, and reacting in some comical way. an example came from Guns N Roses guitarist Slash, who told Mojo, "The magazine cover that has meant the most to me was probably when I appeared in Mad Magazine, as a caricature of Alfred E. Neuman (#330, 1994). That was when I felt that I'd arrived.
Besides the above, Mad has returned to certain themes and areas again and again, such as fullblown imaginary magazines, greeting cards, nursery rhymes, Christmas carols, song parodies and other poetry (including several versions of "Casey at the Bat"), comic strip takeoffs and others.
Each Table of Contents cites one article that does not actually exist. Examples of these imaginary listings have included "Santa Claus, Porn Star"; "What if Cap'n Crunch Was Brought Before a Military Tribunal?"; "If Bobby Knight Coached the Special Olympics"; "Only the Assistant Undersecretary of Transportation Would Possibly Believe..."; and "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions During the Bombing of Belgrade." In one instance, the fake title listed, "If Chickens Could Time Travel," showed up as a genuine article in the next issue.
Each Table of Contents also includes a quote or aphorism attributed to Alfred E. Neuman. With a handful of exceptions, this is the only time the character ever "speaks."
There have been a few recurring sub-departments, including the "Make a Dumb Wish Foundation" which promises to make readers' stupid requests come true (a parody of the Make a Wish Foundation); "Antiques Freakshow with Hans Brickface", in which photographs of readers' bizarre household items are appraised by the slightly psychotic Hans; absurd one-sentence observations called "MAD Mumblings", which are typically non sequiturs posted online by the readers; and celebrity "Two-Question Interviews" which are essentially over before they begin, thus revealing nothing.
The magazine solicits reader photos of famous people posing with a copy of Mad. A reader who sends in such a photo gets a free three-year subscription (provided that the celebrity is touching the issue). Once a year, Mad publishes "The Nifty Fifty," listing 50 famous people they hope to see in upcoming "Celebrity Snaps". The magazine was delighted to publish a photo of Dan Quayle unwittingly holding the "PROOFREADER WANTED" cover of Mad #355, on which the magazine's logo appeared as "MAAD." During a photo op in 1992, Quayle incorrectly "corrected" an elementary school student about how to spell the word "potato."
A Wikipedia parody has appeared twice, first called "Wonkypedia," and then "Wakipedia." Both entries featured a convoluted assortment of unrelated facts, in the style of an inaccurate or vandalized Wikipedia page (e.g. the "article" on Pearl Harbor discussed Mao Tse-Tung's surprise attack and how it led to the bombing of Chernobyl). Wonkypedia is now an actual website.
Truncated versions of two preexisting features, *Celebrity Cause of Death Betting Odds" and *Melvin and Jenkins' Guide to..." have been moved to Fundalini.
Though the "20 Dumbest People, Events and Things" are numbered 1-20, the "rankings" appear to be essentially random. The "20th dumbest" slot of 2001 was awarded to Mad itself for its "slide down the slippery slope of greedy commercialism" in finally permitting advertising in its pages.
Keeping in mind the indiscriminate positioning, these were the "#1" selections for the various years:
Mad has made frequent use of esoteric words, including potrzebie, furshlugginer, veeblefetzer and axolotl, and humorous names such as Melvin, Bitsko, Kaputnik, Cowznofski, and Fonebone. Mad used the word "ecch" or its cousin "blecch" as an all-purpose expression of disgust so often that even The Simpsons made passing references to the practice, showing Mad covers with the unseen parodies "Beauty and the Blecch" and "NYPD Blecch". The word "hoohah" was an early running gag, often exclaimed by excited characters in the comic book issues written by Harvey Kurtzman; the very first story in the first issue of Mad was titled "Hoohah!". Its Eastern European feel was a perfect fit for the New York Jewish style of the publication. (The word's precise origin is unknown, although it may have sprung from the Hungarian word for "wow," which is hűha [1]). "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide" was a non sequitur-ish phrase that found its way into Mad on several occasions in the 1950s; this was dated British slang meaning "it is foolhardy to bribe a policeman with counterfeit money."
Some of the magazine's visual elements are whimsical, frequently appearing in the artwork without context or explanation. Among these are a potted avocado plant named Arthur (reportedly based on art director John Putnam's personal marijuana plant); a domed trashcan wearing an overcoat; a pointing six-fingered hand; the Mad Zeppelin (which more closely resembles an elongated hot air balloon); and an emaciated long-beaked creature who went unidentified for decades before being dubbed "Flip the Bird." In late 1964, Mad was tricked into purchasing the "rights" to an optical illusion in the public domain, featuring a sort of three-pronged tuning fork whose appearance defies physics. The magazine dubbed it the "Mad poiuyt" after the six rightmost letter keys on a QWERTY keyboard in reverse order, not realizing that the existing image was already known to engineers and usually called a blivet.
Mad cartoonists have regularly drawn themselves, fellow contributors and editors, and family members into the articles, most famously Dave Berg's self-caricature "Roger Kaputnik." Al Jaffee sometimes incorporates a self-caricature into his signature. The magazine's photo spreads have typically featured Mad's own staff. Originally, the magazine tried hiring models for its photo shoots, but found that many were unwilling to make the exaggerated faces the magazine wanted. While trying to prompt the reluctant outsiders with demonstrations, the magazine soon decided that they were better suited for foolish posing than the professionals, and more cost-effective.
In the 1990s and 2000s, the magazine has made periodic references to "the monkey juice," generally in the context of overimbibing with same. Many letter column responses are punctuated with the breezy interjection "Fa fa fa!" The mysterious name "Max Korn" has popped up for years; reader requests to clarify Korn's true identity have been greeted with increasingly outlandish explanations.
The image most closely associated with the magazine is that of Alfred E. Neuman, the boy with misaligned eyes, a gap-toothed smile and the perennial motto "What, me worry?" Mad first used the boy's face in November, 1954, on the cover of the comic book's first reprint paperback, The Mad Reader. His first Mad cover appearance was in miniature, amid the novelty products parodied on the front of issue #21 (March 1955). From #24 through #30, Neuman was a part of the ornate border design on each cover. His first iconic full-cover appearance, in which he was identified by name and sported his "What, me worry?" motto, was as a supposed write-in candidate for the 1956 presidential election on the cover of issue #30 (December 1956).
The original image was a popular humorous graphic for many decades before Mad adopted it. It had been used for all manner of purposes, from U.S. political campaigns to Nazi racial propaganda to advertisements for painless dentistry. In the 1950s and 1960s, the magazine was sued by multiple claimants over the copyright to the image but prevailed by producing similar images dating back to the late 19th century.
Harvey Kurtzman first spotted the image on a postcard pinned to the bulletin board of Ballantine Books' editor. "It was a face that didn't have a care in the world, except mischief," recalled Kurtzman. The name "Alfred E. Neuman" was derived from the 1940s radio show of comedian Henry Morgan, which included a running gag trumpeting the imminent arrival of Hollywood composer Alfred Newman, which was supposed to create intense excitement, after which Newman would appear for mere seconds, then vanish. According to Kurtzman, Morgan used "the name Alfred Newman for an innocuous character that you'd forget in five minutes." Later, Morgan was a contributor to Mad.
The face is now permanently associated with Mad. With the "What, me worry?" motto, Neuman has often appeared in political illustrations as a shorthand for unquestioning stupidity or naive innocence, as in publications such as The Nation. and National Lampoon.
In 1958, Mad published letters from several readers noting the resemblance between Neuman and England's Prince Charles, then nine years old. Shortly thereafter, an angry letter under a Buckingham Palace letterhead arrived at the Mad offices: "Dear Sirs No it isn't a bit – not the least little bit like me. So jolly well stow it! See! Charles. P." The letter was authenticated as having been written on triple-cream laid royal stationery bearing an official copper-engraved crest. The postmark indicated it had been mailed from a post office within a short walking distance of Buckingham Palace. Unfortunately, the original disappeared years ago while on loan to another magazine and has never been recovered.
For many years, Mad sold prints of the "official portrait" of Alfred E. Neuman through a small house ad on the letters page of the magazine (claiming that these prints were also useful for wrapping fish). In the early years the price was one for 25 cents; three for 50 cents; nine for a dollar; or 27 for two dollars. A female version of Alfred, named Moxie Cowznofski, appeared for a very brief time in the late 1950s.
Two of Mad's most memorable covers have omitted Neuman's face. The highest-selling issue in history, #161 (September 1973) featured a survivor of a sinking ship - presumably Neuman - submerged upside-down in a life preserver with only the feet visible. The following year brought the controversial cover to #166, which declared Mad to be "The Number One Ecch Magazine," illustrating the claim with a human hand giving the profane "middle finger" gesture. Some newsstands that normally carried Mad chose not to display or sell this issue. To date, only a dozen Mad covers have not depicted Alfred E. Neuman since his appearance on issue #30. Two issues featuring Alfred have depicted him without his trademark gap tooth: the 1982 issue featuring the parody of the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which featured the titular alien on the cover healing the gap in Alfred's tooth with his finger; and the first issue to be published following the September 11, 2001 attacks, which featured a closeup of Alfred's smile, but with an American flag motif in the place of the gap.
Within the industry, Mad was known for the uncommonly prompt manner in which its contributors were paid. Publisher Gaines would typically write a personal check and give it to the artist upon receipt of the finished product. Wally Wood said, "I got spoiled... Other publishers don't do that. I started to get upset if I had to wait a whole week for my check." Another lure for contributors was the annual "Mad Trip," an all-expenses-paid tradition that began in 1960. The editorial staff was automatically invited, along with freelancers who had qualified for an invitation by selling a set amount of articles or pages during the previous year. Gaines was strict about enforcing this quota, and one year, longtime writer and frequent traveller Arnie Kogen was bumped off the list. Later that year, Gaines' mother died, and Kogen was asked if he would be attending the funeral. "I can't," said Kogen, "I don't have enough pages." Over the years, the Mad crew traveled to such locales as France, Kenya, Russia, Hong Kong, Monte Carlo, England, Amsterdam, Tahiti, Morocco, Italy, Greece, and Germany.
Although Mad was an exclusively freelance publication, it achieved a remarkable stability, with numerous contributors remaining prominent for decades. Critics of the magazine felt that this lack of turnover eventually led to a formulaic sameness, although there is little agreement on when the magazine peaked or plunged. It appears to be largely a function of when the reader first encountered Mad. Like Saturday Night Live or The Simpsons, proclaiming the precise moment that began the magazine's irreversible decline has long been sport. Mad poked fun at this dynamic in its "Untold History of Mad Magazine," a self-referential faux history in the 400th issue. According to the Untold History:
Among the most frequently-cited "downward turning points" are: creator/editor Harvey Kurtzman's departure in 1957; the magazine's mainstream success; adoption of recurring features starting in the early 1960s; the magazine's absorption into a more corporate structure in 1968 (or the mid-1990s); founder Gaines' death in 1992; the magazine's publicized "revamp" in 1997; or the arrival of paid advertising in 2001. Mad has been criticized for its overreliance on a core group of aging regulars throughout the 1970s and 1980s and then criticized again for an alleged downturn as those same creators began to leave, die, retire or contribute less frequently. It has been proposed that Mad is more susceptible to this criticism than many media because a sizable percentage of its readership turns over regularly as it ages, as Mad focuses greatly on current events and a changing popular culture. The magazine's art director, Sam Viviano, has suggested that historically, Mad was at its best "whenever you first started reading it."
Among the loudest of those who insist the magazine is no longer funny are supporters of Harvey Kurtzman, who had the good critical fortune to leave Mad after just 28 issues, before his own formulaic tendencies might have become oppressive. This also meant Kurtzman suffered the bad financial timing of departing before the magazine became a runaway success. However, just how much of that success was due to the original Kurtzman template that he left for his successor, and how much should be credited to the Al Feldstein system and the depth of the post-Kurtzman talent pool, can be argued without resolution. During Kurtzman's final two-plus years at EC, Mad appeared erratically (ten issues appeared in 1954, followed by eight issues in 1955 and four issues in 1956). Feldstein was less well regarded creatively, but kept the magazine on a regular schedule, leading to decades of success. (Kurtzman and Will Elder returned to Mad for a short time in the mid-1980s as an illustrating team.)
Many of the magazine's mainstays began slowing, retiring or dying in the 1980s. Although the magazine had always been open to new talent in theory, the influx increased from this stage onward. Newer contributors include Anthony Barbieri, Scott Bricher, Tom Bunk, John Caldwell, Desmond Devlin, Drew Friedman, Barry Liebmann, Kevin Pope, Scott Maiko, Hermann Mejia, Tom Richmond, Andrew J. Schwartzberg, Mike Snider, Greg Theakston, Rick Tulka and Bill Wray.
On April 1, 1997, the magazine publicized an alleged "revamp," ostensibly designed to reach an older, more sophisticated readership. However, Salon 's David Futrelle opined that such content was very much a part of Mad's past:
Mad has continued to receive complaints from fans and foes alike, sometimes over its perceived failings, sometimes because of controversial content, but generally over its decision to accept advertising. These accusers sometimes invoke the late publisher Bill Gaines, asserting that he would "turn over in his grave" if he knew of the magazine's sellout. The editors have a ready answer, pointing out that such protests are completely invalid – because Gaines was cremated.
According to the "Mad Magazine Contributor Appearances" website, close to 700 contributors have received bylines in at least one issue of Mad but fewer than three dozen of those have contributed to 200 issues or more. Al Jaffee has appeared in the most issues (445 as of October 2008). The other six contributors to have appeared in more than 300 issues of Mad are Sergio Aragones, Dick DeBartolo, Mort Drucker, Dave Berg, Paul Coker Jr. and Frank Jacobs. (The list calculates appearances by issue only, not by separate articles; e.g. if two "Spy vs Spy" episodes by Prohias appeared in a given issue, his total would have increased by one.)
Each of the following contributors (including those noted above) has created over 150 articles for the magazine: Writers:
The editorial staff, notably Charlie Kadau, John Ficarra and Joe Raiola, also have dozens of articles under their own bylines, as well as substantial creative input into many others.
Contributing just twice are such luminaries as Tom Lehrer, Gustave Doré, Danny Kaye, Stan Freberg, Mort Walker and Leonardo da Vinci. (Mr. da Vinci's check is still waiting in the Mad offices for him to pick it up.) Frank Frazetta (3 bylines), Ernie Kovacs (11), Bob and Ray (12), and Sid Caesar (4) appeared slightly more frequently. In its earliest years, before amassing its own staff of regulars, the magazine frequently used outside "name" talent. Often, Mad would simply illustrate the celebrities' preexisting material.
In the 2000s, the magazine ran occasional guest articles in which notables from show business or comic books have participated. In 2008, the magazine got national coverage for its article "Why George W. Bush is in Favor of Global Warming." Each of the piece's ten punchlines was illustrated by a different Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
Mad also frequently repackaged its material in a long series of "Super Special" format magazines, beginning in 1958 with two concurrent annual series entitled The Worst from Mad and More Trash from Mad. Various other titles have been used through the years. These reprint issues were sometimes augmented by exclusive features such as posters, stickers and, on a few occasions, recordings on flexi-disc, or comic book-formatted inserts reprinting material from the 1952-55 era.
One steady form of revenue has come from foreign editions of the magazine. Mad has been published in local versions in many countries, beginning with the United Kingdom in 1959, and Sweden in 1960. Each new market receives access to the publication's back catalog of articles and is also encouraged to produce its own localized material in the Mad vein. However, the sensibility of the American Mad has not always translated to other cultures, and many of the foreign editions have had short lives or interrupted publications. The Swedish, Danish, Italian and Mexican Mads were each published on three separate occasions; Norway has had four runs cancelled. United Kingdom (35 years), Brazil (33 years), and the Netherlands (32 years) produced the longest uninterrupted Mad variants.
Some of the foreign editions have spoofed material that is completely unfamiliar to American audiences, or is not in keeping with Mad's general avoidance of obscenity (for an example of both, see the Swedish Mad parody of Fucking Åmål (known in English-speaking countries as Show Me Love).
Most of these productions aped the format of Mad right down to choosing a synonym for the word Mad as their title. Many featured a cover mascot along the lines of Alfred E. Neuman. Even EC Comics joined the parade with a sister humor magazine, Panic, produced by future Mad editor Al Feldstein.
In 1967, Marvel Comics produced the first of 13 issues of Not Brand Echh, which parodied their own superhero titles as well as DC's; the series owed its inspiration and format to the original "Mad" comic books of a decade earlier. From 1973–1976, DC Comics published Plop! which featured Mad stalwart Sergio Aragonés and frequent cover art by Basil Wolverton, but was less slavish in its Mad mimicry, relying more on one-page gags and horror-based comedy.
Other U.S. humor magazines of note include former Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman's Humbug, Trump and Help!, as well as the National Lampoon, Spy Magazine, and The Onion. However, these titles had their own distinct editorial approach, and did not directly imitate Mad. Of all the competition, only the National Lampoon ever threatened Mad 's hegemony as America's top humor magazine, in the early-to-mid-1970s. However, this was also the period of Mad's greatest sales figures. Both magazines peaked in sales at the same time. The Lampoon topped one million sales once, for a single issue in 1974. Mad crossed the two-million mark with an average 1973 circulation of 2,059,236, then improved to 2,132,655 in 1974.
Gaines reportedly kept in his office a voodoo doll into which he would stick pins labeled with each imitation of his magazine, removing a pin only when the copycat had ceased publishing. At the time of Gaines' death in 1992, only the pin for Cracked remained.
An early 1970s Mad television pilot using selected material from the magazine was not picked up. In 1995, a sketch TV show produced by Quincy Jones using the magazine's logo and characters debuted: MADtv, which aired comedy segments in a fashion similar to Saturday Night Live and SCTV. However, there is no editorial connection between the sketch comedy series and the magazine, which are unrelated in style. Don Martin's cartoon characters and the "Spy vs. Spy" cartoons were animated as bumpers during the show's early years. "Spy vs. Spy" sequences have also been seen in TV ads for Mountain Dew soda.
In the 1980s, three Spy vs. Spy computer games, in which players could set traps for each other, were made for various computer systems such as the Commodore 64. While the original game took place in a nondescript building, the sequels transposed the action to a polar setting and a desert island. In 1996, Mad #350 included a CD-ROM featuring Mad-related software as well as three audio files.
In 1999, Broderbund Software/The Learning Company released Totally Mad, a Microsoft Windows 95/98 compatible CD-ROM set collecting the magazine's content from #1 through #376 (December 1998), plus over 100 Mad Specials including most of the recorded audio inserts, thus becoming one of the first magazines to make a comprehensive archival release available in digital form (others such as National Geographic, Rolling Stone and The New Yorker have done the same). The seven discs of Totally Mad were divided chronologically, from "The Earliest Years: 1952-1960" and "The Early Years, but Not the Earliest: 1961-1968" through "The RELATIVELY Late, but not as Late as, the Latest Years: 1988-1994" and "The Latest Years: 1995-1998." The product's "Totally" claim was misleading, since it omitted a handful of articles due to problems clearing the rights on some book excerpts and text taken from recordings, such as Andy Griffith's "What It Was, Was Football." Some of this deleted material can be viewed at Collect Mad.
In 2006, Graphic Imaging Technology's DVD-ROM Absolutely Mad updated the original Totally Mad content through 2005. A single seven-gigabyte disc, it includes more than 600 issues and specials, and is missing the same deleted material from the 1999 collection. It differs from the earlier release in that it is Macintosh compatible. All the printed content can be read on any platform for which a PDF viewer is available, whereas Totally Mad had used a special viewer program that was compatible only with Microsoft Windows. Absolutely Mad also includes numerous video clips including interviews with the editorial staff, several "Spy vs. Spy" segments from MADtv and the "Spy vs. Spy" Mountain Dew commercials. It is missing the audio music files that had been included on Totally Mad.


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Aquarian Power-Thin Tom-Tom Head 10"
The Power-Thins play like a twin-ply but sound like a single-ply and are harder wearing than a Remo CS head, however, they are marginally less edgy
The concept of Aquarian's new Power-Thin head is that it has virtually the same strength and durability as a twin-ply head but sounds more like a single-ply head.
Aquarian already make Classic Clear Power Dot and Texture Coated Power Dot heads. The difference is that they have dots stuck to the underside of the head whereas the new Power-Thin has the dot (made from a slightly thinner, newly patented material) stuck to the upper side. Aquarian says that whereas the Power Dot is designed to take some ring out of the head, the new Power-Thin is supposed "to play like a twin-ply but sound like a single-ply" head.
The idea of strengthening the middle area makes sense. The absolute centre of any head is a relatively dead spot and it's the area around which you mostly aim, particularly on your toms. That leaves the perimeter area undamped, and that's the most resonant area of the head. The single-ply head material is the usual 10mm (0.01") gauge Mylar, while the dot is a much thinner 4mm. Because the dot is relatively thin and flexible it shouldn't detract much from the single- headed sound. However, the dot does soften the attack a fraction, making the sound slightly warmer with marginally less attack than a normal single-ply head.
It's an inevitable trade off between wanting a sharper edge and needing extra strength.
Controlled comparison
Inevitably we find ourselves comparing the Power-Thins with Remo's long serving CS (Controlled Sound) black dot heads, which were the first to go this route back in the '70s. The CS dot is on the underside, actually making it directly comparable with Aquarian's Power Dots. However, we can't see how putting the dot on the top or the bottom is going to make that big a difference sonically.
Comparing a couple of CS heads alongside equivalent Power-Thins we noticed that the CS dot material is even thinner than the Aquarian dot and what's more, it takes up less area. For example, the dot on Aquarian's 14" tom head is 71/2" across, while the dot on Remo's is 53/4". The result is that the Remo head has a little more resonance and attack. On the other hand, the Aquarian head no doubt has more strength and durability.
There's a full range of Power-Thin tom head sizes from 6" through to 18", but there are no bass drum heads. There are however two snare batters, a 13" and a 14". These have an additional power dot on the underside for even more resilience. The dot on the 14" snare drum batter is bigger than the one on the 14" tom. In fact, at 9" in diameter, it takes up most of the head. This affords the head maximum strength but shouldn't affect your playing style. The outer band, where you're likely to play ghost strokes and rolls, is still clear.
Once more Aquarian smartly fills a slot which is not quite taken by the omnipresent Remo. The Power-Thins are harder wearing than a Remo CS head, but as a result of the heftier dot they are marginally less edgy. This may not be so apparent if you're a hard hitter, and in any case, you may like the warmer sound.
MusicRadar Rating
Plays pretty close to a single-ply head in sound but has the strength of a twin-ply.
There are no bass drum or coated heads available in the range.
Aquarian heads are always constructed to the highest standards, so if you like heads with reinforcing dots but find that you are getting through them rather quickly, and if you don't want to go to a double-ply head, then here's your answer.
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Mitt Romney, Unzipped
Mother Jones has obtained a video of Mitt Romney at a private fundraiser where he offers a candid view of the election, voters, and the people who support Barack Obama. In the case of the latter, the former Massachusetts governor sounds more like a Tea Party activist than a mainstream politician:
Here's a partial transcript:
There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax. […]
[M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.
To be fair, there's no way to know if this is what Romney "really" thinks. Remarks to donors and fundraisers are just as crafted and audience-targeted as any speech to the public. This isn't an excuse, but it's context worth considering.
That said, Romney is right to say that there are 47 percent of Americans who don't pay income tax, but he's wrong to imply that they pay nothing—in addition to paying a variety of state taxes, those 47 percent also pay federal payroll taxes on their earnings. It's not that they don't work—they just don't earn enough to owe additional income to the federal government. To begrudge them for this—to attack them as people who don't take "personal responsibility" for their lives—is to show a real callousness and disdain for many of the people he seeks to represent.
I should say that I'm one of those people who believes government has a responsibility to provide health care, food and housing. Like Romney says, I see these as entitlements—the basics that people need to flourish and work toward their potential. And as the wealthiest nation to ever exist, I believe we have an obligation to provide them, so that we can create the space for individual achievement. Romney favors a world where taxes are low and businesses are freed from social obligation. I prefer one where the sick can have care, the poor can have food, and the homeless have shelter. It's why—at a minimum—I support Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and assistance programs for food and housing.
Liberals are sure to unload on Romney for this statement. But in correcting the facts and providing a more accurate picture of the public, we should also use this as an opportunity to defend our vision of the good. Romney is attacking the values and goals of American liberalism, and we shouldn't let it stand.
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Mr. Romney finally speaks from the heart.
He will dismiss 47% of Americans as beneath his consideration. He will be the President of the 53% (or whatever percentage of the population votes for him.)
This was no gaffe.
A gaffe is when one misspeaks.
This was not a mistake.
Mr. Romney was telling it as he believed.
For the first time, we hear a man speaking confidently, eloquently, because he is saying what he believes.
Who knew. We had thought he was just a candidate uncomfortable with oratory. No, he was a man who was hiding what he really believed and unable to do it artfully.
Yes, Mr. Romney has finally told the truth.
And that is the problem.
Goodbye, Mr. Romney.
Go away.
Go to your multiple homes, or to Switzerland or to the Caymans or wherever else you can be with your millions (or is it billions?)
Go away and don't come back.
Tue, 2012-09-18 20:43
Sweet baby Jesus... Damn near half the population DOESN'T pay a dime in federal income tax and you people want to blast Romney for pointing that out? Meanwhile Obama spins a yarn about the "evil 1%ers" not paying their fair share - yes the same 1% that pay 37% of all federal income taxes. The US is rapidly becoming Greece, a nation in which more people depend on the government than pay taxes to support it. Once we get past 50.1% it's game over, folks. But it seems that the Left will have none of this talk... just spend the nation into oblivion while taxing productive Americans into the poor house. Show me a country where this has worked out and I'll buy you a steak dinner (for you vegans I'll buy you a head of lettuce...). I'm not sure if Romney will win this November (nobody does at this point) but I applaud him for speaking honestly about the allegiance of the dependent-class that our food-stamp President has created. Flame away, comrades!!!
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MILTON — Santa Rosa County Commissioners could hire a permanent economic development director at their Thursday meeting, but there is controversy surrounding the decision.
Santa Rosa County Administrator Hunter Walker has selected Shannon Ogletree, who has served as the interim director of the county's economic development department since it was created last year, to be its permanent director. Commissioners will vote on confirming that appointment at their Thursday meeting.
"I've been very pleased with Shannon's work and progress over the past eight or 10 months," said Santa Rosa County Commissioner Don Salter at Monday's meeting. "Ten months ago, I wasn't sure whether he was the right person or not. Since he was put into that leadership role, I think he's done an outstanding job."
The controversy doesn't necessarily involve hiring Ogletree but how the search for an economic development director was handled.
Santa Rosa County contracted with the firm KiJobGrowth to oversee the search for a permanent director and received 48 applications. Under county ordinances, Walker has the authority to hire a department head as long as the County Commission confirms the hire.
However, commissioners Jim Williamson and Jim Melvin were disappointed the commission did not have an opportunity to interview the final candidates and make their recommendations.
"I agree that Shannon has done a great job and I have no problems with him," Williamson said. "My problem is I think we should have had public interviews with the top candidates and some input or feedback from the commission.
"I'm sort of disappointed with the way it came out," he added.
Commissioners would have to hold a public hearing to change either the county ordinance or the organizational structure of the economic development department to make that position one that the board oversees. The only positions the commission has direct approval over are the county administrator and county attorney.
Although commissioners expressed their confidence in Ogletree as the county's first economic development director, several residents spoke against his hiring because of his connection to TEAM Santa Rosa, the private organization that had the contract to oversee area economic development for roughly 20 years before it was terminated last year.
Ogletree had been TEAM's industry recruiter and associate director before being named its interim director following the resignation of Cindy Anderson in early 2012.
The FBI investigated TEAM Santa Rosa last year after records showed Anderson pre-selected a company owned by a TEAM board member to receive a $170,000 grant to market the Whiting Aviation industrial park. At the time, a former TEAM employee told the FBI that official board meeting minutes had been falsified and that TEAM staff members had been knowledgeable of that falsification.
County residents Alan Isaacson and Jerry Couey expressed concern with Ogletree over the falsified minutes and wanted commissioners to question him on what he knew about it.
"I'm reluctant to have anyone heading up our economic development agency that possibly would not have had the integrity at the time to come forward and say, 'We have an issue,' " Isaacson said.
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The Fight Of The Century Venue Madison Square Garden, New York, 8th March, 1971. A young hungry undefeated fighter Named "Smoking" Joe Frazier took on the seemingly Invincible Mohammad Ali. It was back and forth for many rounds but Frazier seemed to be getting stronger. In Round 15 he shocked the world with a big LEFT HOOK. Had that been an MMA Match he probably would have finished Ali.
Now fast forward to July 6th 2013, A young undefeated fighter named Chris "The All American" Weidman took on the seemingly invincible UFC middleweight champion Anderson "The Spider" Silva, amazingly no one had made comparisons to the 1971 boxing match perhaps until now. Because who would have imagined Chis Weidman catching Anderson Silva with a Left Hook and ending the fight in brutal fashion? Now I'll be the first to admit, I didn't think Anderson Would lose to this young Kid. I honestly thought he was made to order for Anderson and he would put on another amazing show. Unfortunately maybe Anderson thought the same thing. In any event we saw history repeat itself in almost spooky fashion. A big Left Hook once again shocked the world some 42 years or so later....But what happens now?
Well we could see a rematch, and perhaps see a more focused and determined Silva destroy Wiedman, kinda like Ali did in the rematch. Or maybe Anderson retires and we see him fight someone else. But the biggest new problem a man who is in Weidman's position faces is how does he beat Anderson Silvas Legend? As Middleweight champion Anderson Silva had become a mythical figure deposing and embarrassing really good world class fighters and making it look easy. Does Weidman have the same talent? Can he dodge punches and befuddle his opponents? Can he pull out miracle subs? Can he dominate every challenger in his path on his way to his own legacy?
Establishing his legacy Wiedman believes he has to do to truly break a curse that many fighters in Boxing and MMA seemed to have when they beat Legends. You can go down the list of fighters like Buster Douglas, Evander Holyfield, Joe Frazier, Roberto Duran, Vernon Forrest, Matt Seirra, and lets not forget Ryo Chonan (I thought of him when Wiedman went for the heel hook, looks like Anderson learned how to defend that move in his sleep after that loss). Men like Silva cast a very long shadow over their conquerors, sometimes overshadowing their entire careers leaving that victory their one "claim to fame". I think Wiedman is very aware of this curse and will do the best he can with what he has, but will it be enough?
Will Wiedman's career change the sport the same way Anderson Silva's career had? Probably not, I mean lets be honest Silva is a fighter like no other who did things you were not supposed to be able to do in the cage. His absolute control and dominance flavored by his cockiness made him the 2nd G.O.A.T of the MMA world, but the only one who drew comparisons to Ali maybe mixed with a bit of Bruce Lee. Is it fair to expect Chris Wiedman to live up to that kind of a legend? Probably not, but that's the burden of defeating a Legend and I don't think Chris thinks that's such a bad deal. At least not right now anyway......
Anyway congrats to Chris Wiedman, I hate that he beat one of my favorite fighters, but he worked hard and earned his victory. I was wrong about the kid and give him his props and respect!!!
Buuuuuut I will be rooting for him to suffer the same kind of brutal loss, call it petty, but when you destroy one of my favorite fighters that's just how I feel. One good thing about his victory is the possibility of Cung Le fighting for the title and winning, call it a pipe dream.... But I think this new champ gives a lot of guys a good opportunity to win the title.


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Unless you're born under a rock then you know that until last week Harry Reid was sort of a closet racist, but just in case you missed it here is a passage from the new book "Game Change" about the 2008 presidential election...
He was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama -- a "light-skinned" African American "with no NEGRO dialect, unless he wanted to have one"...
scin·til·la n.
1. A minute amount; an iota or trace.
2. A spark; a flash.
3. The measure of George Will's knowlege of what this word means
Now liberals are circling their wagons around Reid because race isn't a four letter word in the Democratic party (usually because Biden gets to spell it).
Even conservative DC bubbleheads like George Will are going to bat for Reid on George Stephanopoulos's show saying there wasn't even a "scintilla" of evidence of racism.....
Not even a scintilla? Does Will even know the definition of that word? The whole thing is ONLY about race, and it denigrates "real" black....ahem....."negro" people!
Honestly, if that isn't racism then I'm starting to wonder if that word actually has less to do with the color of people's skin and more do do with prefering Nascar over golf. At least then we can try to begin to make sense of George Will, who has obviously been drinking the DC establishment water for way to long now. Being a conservative on any network political program is like being a permanent pledge on the most elite fraternity on campus (in their minds only).
Of course what Reid said is loaded with racism! Next to figuring out how to steal other peoples money for themselves all liberals think about is how to be better race pimps....they've been vote counting to it for decades.
Social security
Universal Health Care
Affirmative Action
But just because someone utters something that smacks of racism does not a racist make, right? Its not like Reid or other Democrats are supporting institutions that oppress, rob liberty, or even enslave the constituents they are marketed to in ways that make them scared to vote for Republicans lest they loose access to the "stash".
Hmmmm...studies have shown that homophobes are really just lashing out in an effort to quell their own latent gay sensibilities.....maybe Reid isn't racist so much as he is trying to....express himself.


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I want to extend my congratulations to the Democratic party for another decisive victory over evil using one of the greatest tools in its arsenal....
The RESOLUTION - UTION - UTION - UTION - UTION - UTION - UTION
That's like the ultimate weapon for liberals....a stern warning. They work like magic too! City councils issue them to condemn wars and genocides to make the point that potholes, trash collection, and sewer systems are all issues that take care of themselves.
Ooooh! Remember the U.N. Resolution leveled against North Korea's nukes that ended their ambitions and thus averted nuclear holocaust! Where were you when.................
During the hour-long debate, Wilson refused to apologize, saying his phone call to White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was sufficient and because Obama himself said the matter was closed.
Wait a second....this was debated for an HOUR?!?! Lets FIGURE THIS OUT....
The average congressman's salaray comes to about $175,000/year. (were not figuring the actual salaries of the leadership...so we're lowballing this puppy)
That comes to about $84/hour.
Which means congress spent approximately $36,598 of our dollars on a PIECE OF PAPER that tells Congressman Wilson that he probably shouldn't have told the American people something they already know.
Why did it take an hour of their time and our money? Is that how long it took for their interns/fluffers.....ahem....."legislative analysts" to give them what their votes should be?
In the end what good does it do to "disapprove" of what Wilson did? Is it supposed to embarrass him? It clearly won't because if it would then he would've avoided it by "formally" apologizing.
Is it supposed to make him look bad to his constituents? His congressional district went for McCain 53.87% - 45.11%....considering McCain this is like a Reagan-esque landslide so I don't think this will hurt his chances at reelection.
Really, this is just another example of Democrats demonstrating their hubris knows no bounds....
"Before the war, week after week after week we were told lie after lie after lie after lie...."
Oh! Am I not supposed to speak ill of the dead?


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UPDATE: Although the PDF files here show the Color Sensor as a required component, that is not the actual case - the Light Sensor can easily be substituted and the challenge modified to work with grayscale. Sorry for the confusion.
Chris Smith has been hard at work putting together two PDF files:
1. A list of parts required for King's Treasure but not found in the Education Base Set
2. A list of parts required for King's Treasure but not found in Ed Base Set plus Resource Set
Click on a link above to download the PDF.
LEGO Education created and sold a parts pack for The Mayan Adventure that provided parts for Education Base Set owners so they could build the robots in that book... I have no word or idea whether LEGO Education will do the same for The King's Treasure, but I'll be inquiring and let you know when I know something.
Thanks, Chris - I know many teachers who have been anxiously awaiting this!
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King's Treasure Parts List for Education Set/Resource Set
Posted by: James Floyd Kelly (Jim) at 12:24 AM
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- Bill Shaw said...
Unless there is now a separate download for the Color Sensor block, one item missing from the list is the NXT-G v2 CD-ROM. The Educational CD available as an upgrade doesn't have support for the color sensor.
- Jan 22, 2010, 12:49:00 PM
- Christopher R. Smith (Littlehorn) said...
Ah, Good point! Chris
- Jan 23, 2010, 12:56:00 AM
- James Floyd Kelly (Jim) said...
I'll have to update this post, but the Color Sensor is NOT required for the book... sorry about that. While it will be useful (and you can substitute the HiTechnic Color Sensor easily enough), the Light Sensor can be used and the challenge modified slightly to detect grayscale. (I explain this in the book and offer a suggestion for using the Light Sensor in place of the Color Sensor).
- Jan 23, 2010, 1:00:00 AM
- Samarth said...
you need the nxt 2.0 retail set to have all the parts
- Jan 24, 2010, 5:08:00 AM
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