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NBA Commissioner David Stern emits an aura that inspires an energy-sapping, dull fear in those around him. Players, media and even the owners that pay his rumored eight-figure salary all acquiesce meekly in his presence. The brave get gelatinous. The brown nosers polish their kneepads. The toadies ribbit.
It's certainly understandable why. Players fear that their employment opportunities will wither upon retirement. Media members fear that their access to the league will simply end. Fans fear that Stern could pull a Seattle Sonics and simply jack their team. Even owners don't speak out against him. After thirty years, he's become more like a tinpot dictator or a small-town Southern sheriff than a commissioner. Stern has become the emperor no one dares say is buck naked and now the basketball world is paying the price. We are going to lose much or all of the 2010–11 season due to a David Stern engineered owner's lockout. The NBA right now has more storylines than General Hospital. Could this be the year Lebron and the Miami Heat figure it out? Will Kobe tie Jordan with six rings? Can the Miracle Mavs repeat? What could Derrick Rose do for an MVP encore? But these questions won't be answered. We don't get answers to these questions because too many teams are losing money, and Stern has determined that only a lockout and taking it out of the union's hide is a path to solvency.
There are of course exceptions to this conspiracy of silence. Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks once made a sport of tweaking Stern, but after several million dollars in fines, he got the hint. Last year, Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy said that there is no free speech in the NBA and Stern responded, "We won't be hearing from him for the rest of the season." He then said of Van Gundy, "I see somebody whose team isn't performing…who seems to be fraying." Rasheed Wallace was an exception, saying, "I ain't no dumb-ass n— out here. I'm not like a whole bunch of these young boys out here who get caught up and captivated into the league…. I know what this business is all about…. I know the commissioner of this league makes more than three-quarters of the players in this league."
Stern responded publicly, "Mr. Wallace's hateful diatribe was ignorant and offensive to all NBA players. I refuse to enhance his heightened sense of deprivation by publicly debating with him." You might notice that Rasheed Wallace isn't providing commentary on NBA TV.
Mess with Stern, and become an object lesson. As Stern said to a group of NBA All-Stars, "I know where the bodies are buried because I've buried some of them myself." Stern has built an atmosphere of fear and intimidation over three decades with the subtlety of Rupert Murdoch. Even the owners, the ones who pay his salary, don't dare ask how much Stern, ostensibly their employee, gets paid.
Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports quotes a source who says that "two maybe three" owners even know the answer to this question. As Wojnarowski writes, "Mostly, it speaks to the authoritarian culture created within the league office, and how Stern carries it out through the NBA. Some younger owners have been warned to never push the issue with him, never ask, because it's simply unadvisable to get on the wrong side of the commissioner."
Meanwhile the solution to the NBA's financial crisis is obvious. It's doesn't lie in dramatic slashing of salaries, or more public subsidies. It's revenue sharing. The NBA shares less revenue than any other major league. In the NFL, the Green Bay Packers make the same television money as the New York Giants. In the NBA, it takes the Portland Trail Blazers more than ten years to make the same broadcast revenue that the Lakers make in one year. Forbes magazine determined that the league as a whole made money and if revenue was shared, the league would be fine. Stern's response to Forbes's findings was a sneer and a growl.
It's obvious to me that what stands in the way of a logical financial agreement is Stern himself. His intransigence is the logical extension of a decade of dress-code dictates, bullying officials and even changing the material on the basketball despite the fact that the new balls cut the hands of players. He has created a logic that no one dares stand up and say, "This guy has to go." He has become like Gabriel García Márquez's dictator in the novel Autumn of the Patriarch. As Márquez wrote, "The regime wasn't being sustained by hope or conformity or even by terror, but by the pure inertia of an ancient and irreparable disillusion, go out into the street and look truth in the face, your Excellency, we're on the final curve." We are on the "final curve" of a Commissioner's reign that saw the league go global, win millions of new fans, and create a remarkable constellation of superstars. But it's a reign that now ends with us, the fans, being robbed of the game we love. Yet this "inertia of disillusion" has fans, players, media members and owners on the sideline, too cowed to speak truth as obvious as it is unspoken: we don't need David Stern to have the NBA. His removal as commissioner would provide a path to labor peace and get the league back in business. But if no one stands up, Stern gets to fulfill every dictator's wish: to destroy the very world of his own creation.
Congress might pass a debt deal this week that would raise the debt ceiling into 2013 and reduce government spending by $2.5 trillion. After all the debate over who would be affected—or not—what does the final policy scoreboard say?
In short, it's a rout of the lower and middle classes by the wealthiest Americans. Since the deal relies entirely on spending cuts with no revenues—don't believe the White House spin that revenues are possible, because that would require Republicans to suddenly desire them—the wealthy escape any sacrifice since very few of them rely on the government services that will be cut.
Rather, as Brookings Institution senior fellow William G. Gale writes, "Low- and middle-class households have seen stagnating or declining earnings over the past few decades, and they have been hit hard in the Great Recession by the housing market collapse and the job market collapse. Now, they are being asked to shoulder—via spending reductions—all of the fiscal reduction agreed to so far." (Yes, that Brookings Institution).
How specific cuts will be determined, and who exactly is affected, is still hard to know. The deal truly "kicks the can down the road," in the overused Washington parlance. The $917 billion in "immediate" cuts are not really immediate, nor enumerated. Federal spending will operate under caps over the next ten years equal to $917 billion less than what was projected, but the exact areas of reduction are unknown and obviously depend quite a bit on political outcomes. The caps are relatively modest until 2013, and a Republican Congress with a budget proposal from President Rick Perry would make much a different decision about where to cut than would Obama, Pelosi and Reid.
Then, $1.5 trillion in additional cuts will be determined by a so-called super committee of six Democrats and six Republicans. Entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are subject to "across-the-board" cuts here, and if no agreement is reached by November 23, a "trigger" will be pulled, with the gun aimed squarely at senior citizens and the Pentagon.
So there are a lot of permutations for these cuts—but make no mistake about who is exposed, and who isn't. Cuts are guaranteed, revenue is not. Here's a quick rundown of the larger bill:
Who is exposed:
Veterans: Almost half of the first round of cuts will come from "security spending," which includes the Pentagon budget but also the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department and notably veterans benefits and compensation. The White House assured veterans they won't be harmed if the trigger is pulled, but did not assure them they are safe from any of the preceding cuts. More than 2.2 million veterans have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since September 11, 2001, many of whom have been seriously injured and require extensive care. The Disabled Veterans of America already has said it is "anxious" to see how these spending cuts are assembled.
Students: Graduate students would be the hardest hit, as the bill proposes an elimination of the interest subsidy on federal student loans for "almost all" of them. This means that beginning July 1, 2012, grad students will be responsible for the interest on their loans while in school and during any subsequent deferment period. Also, while the federal government currently offers subsidies for on-time payments in order to promote responsible pay-backs, they will be eliminated under the debt ceiling deal. Also, education accounts for the largest share of non-defense discretionary spending. It's nearly inconceivable that budget-cutters won't target that juicy budget line in making their cuts.
Seniors: As noted, Medicare is subject to across-the-board cuts in the super-committee, and if the trigger is pulled, provider payments will be slashed—though only up to 2 percent. The makeup of the super-committee and outside-the-Beltway campaigns to protect Medicare will determine a lot about the degree of cuts, but remember that inside the Beltway, the "left" side of the debate has been defined by President Obama and the Gang of Six as raising the eligibility age to 67 and/or $500 billion in cuts. So this probably won't end well.
The poor: Again, Medicaid will be subject to cuts by the super-committee. The Republican position, articulated in the Ryan budget, is a devastating 35 percent reduction in the next ten years, even as health costs rise. (However, Medicaid is protected from any cuts if the trigger should go off). Beyond that, federal housing assistance is the fourth largest slice of non-defense discretionary spending and is thus a likely target for cuts.
The unemployed: Unlike what happened during the December showdown over the Bush tax cuts, the White House was unable (or unwilling) to secure any extension of help for the jobless. That December extension will expire at the end of this year, and this was one of the last best shots to make sure that 3.8 million people won't lose their benefits at that point.
Who's protected:
The wealthy: Up until very recently, Obama and most Democrats were demanding that wealthy Americans pony up for some deficit reduction. The demands were admittedly narrow, and focused on itemized deductions on people who owned private jets or multiple homes—but both groups are exempted from sacrifice under the current deal. The super-committee could theoretically approve tax increases, including ending those loopholes, but House Speaker John Boehner has already sworn that won't happen, and it's tough not to believe that. If the Republicans on the committee refuse to back down on revenues, as they have in every recent negotiation, Democrats on the committee will be facing Medicare-slashing trigger unless they acquiesce—as they have in every recent negotiation.
Wall Street tycoons: In his budget proposal earlier this year, Obama recommended taxing the profit share of private equity managers, venture capitalists and other Wall Street high-rollers at the ordinary personal income tax rate, instead of at the smaller capital gains rate. No such deal was struck under the current bill, so these mega-rich traders won't spend a penny reducing the deficit—again, unless Boehner undergoes a religious experience and appoints pro-tax, anti–Wall Street Republicans to the super-committee. (He'd have to spend a long time looking first).
Oil and gas companies: Obama repeatedly demanded that oil and gas companies lose their tax breaks, since they are raking in record profits and enjoy many deductions and subsidies in the tax code. "If we choose to keep a tax break for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of millions of dollars, that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship [and] that means we've got to stop funding grants for medical research," Obama said in June. Since those tax breaks were preserved, in hindsight that soundbite was of a prediction than a warning.
Republicans should be happy with the debt-ceiling deal President Obama reached with Congressional leaders on Sunday night. They successfully took a routine function of government—allowing the Treasury to borrow money to pay for spending commitments Congress has already made—and used it as a cudgel to beat significant spending cuts with no tax increases out of a Democratic president and Senate.
But they aren't. The party's presidential candidates, who are an excellent weathervane for measuring the mood of the primary electorate, are almost unanimous in their opposition to the deal, which would shave at least $2.1 trillion off the debt, entirely from cuts to discretionary (including military) spending. House Republicans, despite their staunchly right-wing politics, are stuck with the responsibility of governing and preventing a catastrophic debt default. So they are rallying around Speaker John Boehner and the deal.
But GOP presidential candidates, most of whom do not currently hold office, are free to take the maximalist position. Front-runner Mitt Romney, who is supposed to represent the moderate, responsible wing of the presidential field, has said the deal should be voted down. He issued the following statement Monday morning:
"As president, my plan would have produced a budget that was cut, capped and balanced—not one that opens the door to higher taxes and puts defense cuts on the table. President Obama's leadership failure has pushed the economy to the brink at the eleventh hour and 59th minute. While I appreciate the extraordinarily difficult situation President Obama's lack of leadership has placed Republican Members of Congress in, I personally cannot support this deal."
Romney, as is his wont, tries to appeal to extremist conservatives while leaving himself some wiggle room. He seeks to soothe the egos of House Republicans who may be stung by his implication that they are sell-outs if they vote for the deal, by saying it's really Obama's fault that they have to vote for it.
Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty also opposes the deal. His spokesman Alex Conant sent The Nation a statement:
"This deal is nothing to celebrate. Only in Washington would the political class think it's a victory when the government narrowly avoids default, agrees to go further into debt, and does little to reform a spending system that cannot be sustained by our children and grandchildren."
While many of the second-tier candidates have not issued statements, it's probably safe to assume they will take the same tack, since they are all positioned to the right of Romney and Pawlenty, In fact, conservative heroine Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) promised long ago that she will not vote for any debt-ceiling deal that does include repeal of healthcare reform, so it's obvious she will be dead set against this agreement.
The only Republican presidential aspirant to support the deal thus far is former Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, who is angling for the support of independents and political pundits by striking a more reasonable tone. Huntsman endorses the deal, saying:
"While this framework is not my preferred outcome, it is a positive step toward cutting our nation's crippling debt. Because the legislation promises cuts commensurate with the debt ceiling increase, forces a vote on a much-needed federal balanced budget amendment and provides the only avenue to avoid default, I encourage members of Congress to vote for this legislation."
Still, Huntsman is hardly adopting a moderate stance on the larger budgetary questions. The Balanced Budget Amendment he speaks so fondly of is, as Ezra Klein has explained, a completely impractical and radical proposal that would turn the federal government into an ungovernable mess like the state of California. (Conservative economist Bruce Bartlett calls it "mind-boggling in its insanity.")
It's also important to remember that this deal is not yet done, even if it passes. A special Congressional committee will be asked to come up with $1.5 trillion in further deficit savings. What those savings will consist of is going to be hotly contested in the months to come. Huntsman, the supposed moderate in the GOP field, demands that they include no additional new revenues, saying, "Going forward, I will aggressively advocate for a plan from the congressional committee that includes real cuts, entitlement reform, and revenue-neutral tax reforms—without any tax hikes."
In short, the Republican presidential contenders can be counted on to push their party and the public debate even further to the extreme right between now and November 2012.
President Obama released a new video for campaign supporters on Monday, crediting them for the tentative debt deal that he just reached with Congress.
"The pressure you put on Washington is one of the reasons we finally reached a resolution," Obama says, "in the only way we could, through an agreement between both parties."
That feels like a stretch, since the tentative agreement covers most GOP priorities without addressing any of the proposals traditionally associated with the Democratic base.
One of the early, popular comments on YouTube pushed back on that score.
"What a joke, this isn't an agreement between both parties, it's the republicans holding the nation hostage and the democrats giving them all they want," wrote commenter Aetrion on Monday morning.
Obama campaign manager Jim Messina forwarded to the video to the campaign's massive email list under the headline, "Here's the story," and asked supporters to take it viral.
"Please share this video with everyone you know," he wrote.
Along with the video, the campaign website features a brief fact sheet touting the benefits of the tentative plan.
The video is below—for more Nation coverage of the debt agreement, check out reactions from Katrina vanden Heuvel and William Greider.
Between Melissa Harris-Perry, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Matthew Yglesias and The American Prospect's Adam Serwer, there's been a great discussion on the origins of the American middle class, and the extent to which it was purposefully built to exclude African-Americans. To add to the conversation, I'll say this: in addition to emphasizing the actual anti-black policies pursued by the federal government, it's also worth noting the pervasive climate of anti-black violence that directly discouraged African-Americans from reaching above their "station."
Lynchings, for example, were often used against blacks who emerged as economic competitors to local whites, and overrall, the lynching rate was correlated with regional economic performance. When competition for jobs was low, lynchings declined, and when competition for jobs rose—particularly during economic downturns—lynchings increased. The same was true for outbreaks of mass racial violence; by and large, white supremacists targeted prosperous black communities for destruction. The Tulsa race riots stand as a prominent example, along with the Rosewood massacre of 1923 and the East St. Louis riots of 1917.
In other words, not only could you be killed for transgressing the nebulous and arbitrary social requirements of the Jim Crow, but you could also be killed for starting a business, accumulating wealth and otherwise trying to improve your situation. Together with state and federal discrimination against blacks, you had—until the middle of the twentieth century—a country where the government worked to prevent black economic advancement, with an assist from widespread violence from private actors. With few exceptions, this predicament was unique to African Americans, and a critical part of understanding the "wealth gap" as it developed through the twentieth century and into the present.
Unfortunately, this is one of those things that doesn't have a place in the public conversation, in part because most Americans either can't or won't imagine an America where—if you were the wrong color—pulling yourself up by your bootstraps was punishable by death.
Yesterday, an American Dream Movement rally demanding a debt deal that "protects seniors and makes corporations and the rich pay [their] fair share" drew a significantly larger crowd than a Tea Party rally a day earlier that essentially demanded the opposite. Both were held on Capitol Hill, both focused on the same ginned-up debt ceiling "crisis," but you'd be hard-pressed to find the Beltway media noting the difference in crowd size—or even reporting on the progressive rally at all.
Wednesday's conservative rally, organized by the Tea Party Express, was a bust: only about fifty people showed up to see presidential candidate Herman Cain and hear Senators Jim DeMint, Rand Paul and Mike Lee speak. "It had all the makings of a big time Tea Party rally," Politico wrote. But "by the time the senators had spoken there were still fewer than 50 tea partiers in attendance."
But then, Thursday's American Dream rally—organized by MoveOn, Rebuild the Dream, AFSCME and AFGE, and featuring speakers like Van Jones and Representatives Keith Ellison and Jan Schakowsky—clocked in an estimated 450–500 people, according to the coalition. Oddly, though, as of twenty-four hours later, Politico didn't mention it. CNN.com, meanwhile, talked up the Tea Party rally both the day before it took place and afterward—when it spun the measly crowd (and its own pre-event notice) by writing: "Don't be fooled by the tiny turnout at the Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill Wednesday. The conservative movement doesn't much need rallies anymore. November 2010 changed all of that."
That's a handy excuse. And maybe that's why CNN.com didn't bother to mention the American Dream rally at all. What could it have said?: "Don't be fooled by the larger turnout at the progressive rally on Capitol Hill Thursday. The liberal movement desperately needs rallies. November 2010 made it so"?
Thursday's rally was built on the progressive coalition's mass action on Tuesday: 20,000 people protesting the various debt deals at more than 800 Congressional offices across the country. For those smaller rallies, MoveOn's Justin Ruben told me, "We received a huge amount of local coverage, and very little national coverage."
Readers, if I've missed any mainstream reporting on the big American Dream rally, let me know. But I won't hold my breath. For the most part, the corporate media has been Pavlovian in breathlessly covering even the tiniest TP event—really, anyone tripping into a public space wearing a tricorn hat will do—while virtually ignoring similar gatherings with a progressive tilt. (Exception proving the rule: the Madison, Wisconsin, rallies were too massive to ignore.)
Compare, for instance, how the MSM handled the Tea-Partyed-up town hall meetings protesting healthcare reform during the summer of 2009 to this year's town halls protesting the GOP bill that would end Medicare, as Rachel Maddow did in April. If the Beltway media treats Tea Partyers like celebrities, it covers liberals, she said, "almost as foreign news."
And it's just that sort of double standard that helped create the myth of the Tea Party's power before which an insane Washington, DC, believes it must genuflect.
That is, the media helped manufacture the Tea Party's power every bit as much as the Tea Party manufactured our current debt "crisis."
There's a tense vote count in Washington today as House Speaker John Boehner tries to rally Republican members behind his debt ceiling plan. After one postponement and public disapproval by many prominent House Republicans, Boehner's plan is teetering on the brink.
The conservative rebellion against Boehner's plan is being driven by Tea Party activists and many of the freshman members they helped elect. For months, the House Republican leadership has been quietly tutoring these members on the intricacies of the federal budget and the need to raise the debt ceiling, using what Politico called a "stunningly simple" presentation of color-coded charts and graphs. This week, leadership even showed a clip from a Ben Affleck action movie to help persuade the members to act.
But so far, the aggressive pitch doesn't seem to be working—at one point this week, Boehner was only eight votes from defeat. And if he cannot rally his party to support a dreadful plan with no chance of ultimate passage anyhow, what can he get them to vote for? In the words of British Business Secretary Vince Cable, "The biggest threat to the world financial system comes from a few right-wing nutters in the American Congress."
That may seem harsh, but only to someone that's not familiar with the specific Tea Party forces that are whipping conservative members into this rebellion. One group in particular, Let Freedom Ring, has mobilized Tea Party groups across the country and enjoys close connections to incredibly powerful Republican lawmakers. And a quick examination of the group's history shows that if anything, Cable is being generous.
Let Freedom Ring was founded in 2004 by Colin Hanna, a former state official in Pennsylvania who now enjoys very powerful political connections. He is a part of Grover Norquist's weekly strategy meeting, and has served as emcee of the Conservative Political Action Conference, a yearly gathering of far-right wingers who like to joke about nuking Chicago or the foreign-born, communist occupant of the White House.
In recent months, Let Freedom Ring has made an aggressive pitch for the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act—this is the legislation House Republicans are currently holding out for, contra Boehner's plan (or any other). The act would immediately cut spending to pre-2008 levels, eventually cap spending at 19.9 percent of Gross Domestic Product, and pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. Such dramatic reductions would savage domestic spending programs; Robert Greenstein at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities said the legislation "stands out as one of the most ideologically extreme pieces of major budget legislation to come before Congress in years, if not decades." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called it "perhaps some of the worst legislation in the history of this country."
The legislation originated in the Republican Study Committee, a group of 175 ultraconservative House members led by Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio. As soon as the RSC drafted the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act, they turned to outside groups and in particular Let Freedom Ring to help promote it. In a Family Research Council interview with Hanna and FRC president Tony Perkins, Jordan explained that "we just went to members of the RSC and said 'What makes sense?' And we came back with this cut spending, cap spending, and get a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. And then you all took off with it," he said, turning to Hanna. "The outside conservative groups, Americans, have taken off with this."
Jordan added that if the long-shot legislation doesn't pass, and the federal government hits the debt ceiling, it wouldn't be such a bad thing. "I'd rather have the crisis now and say 'let's deal with it,' " Jordan said. "Versus making a few changes, raising the debt ceiling, and having the crisis in two or three years…. virtually every economist—there's a consensus out there saying we will have a debt crisis in two to three years."
Soon after the legislation was unveiled, Let Freedom Ring organized a coalition of over 100 conservative groups, including Americans for Prosperity, Club for Growth, Freedom Works, Tea Party Express, and local Tea Party chapters from coast to coast.
Then Let Freedom Ring and its coalition led the charge. They created a website, cutcapbalanceact.com, which has a pledge asking lawmakers to support the legislation—so far, every major GOP presidential candidate except Jon Huntsman has signed it, along with twelve senators and thirty-nine House members. Over 240,000 people have also pledged to push their elected representatives to support Cut, Cap, and Balance, which already has forty co-sponsors in the Senate and 115 in the House.
The group had a news conference on Capitol Hill in June, featuring Hanna, Jordan, Senators Lindsey Graham, Jim DeMint, Orrin Hatch, Mike Lee and Rand Paul along with Representatives Joe Walsh and Ron Paul, and others. "This is beyond partisanship; this is beyond ideology. This is truly about survival," Hanna told the assembled reporters.
This week, when Boehner rolled out his latest debt ceiling proposal, the coalition led by Let Freedom Ring struck a major blow against it the same day. In a statement, the group blasted the proposal and said "falls short of meeting (the coalition's) principles…. we urge those who have signed the Pledge to oppose it and hold out for a better plan." Soon after, many conservative House members began publically denouncing Boehner's bill.
This level of influence is impressive for a group that formed only seven years ago. In 2004, Hanna got $1 million from the reclusive conservative financier John Templeton to start Let Freedom Ring. Hanna had gained some national notoriety while commissioner of Chester County, PA, when he refused to remove a Ten Commandments plaque from the county courthouse, and Let Freedom Ring aimed to get evangelical voters to the polls that fall in support of George W. Bush.
At the time, the Wall Street Journal said the group was "attracting wealthy Christians who don't want to be seen as political." Hanna said the group would have "a positive political philosophy based upon respect for Constitutional principles, economic freedom and traditional values…. Let Freedom Ring will not engage in negative personal or partisan political attacks."
That pledge didn't last long. In 2005, the group aired controversial ads on national television advocating for a border fence with Mexico, where the narrator claims "illegal immigration from Mexico provides easy cover for terrorists" as slow-motion footage of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center plays on screen.
In the 2008 presidential campaign, positivity really went out the window. As the election approached, Hanna sent missives to his large membership base charging that Obama would "appease worldwide Jihadism" and "[transform] America into a country we might not recognize within just 4 to 6 years."
Let Freedom Ring created smear ads against Obama which channeled virtually every right-wing theory about the Democratic candidate. One ad, "Puzzle," showed images of Jeremiah Wright (a "radical and [a] racist"), William Ayres, Tony Rezko, Louis Farrakhan, Iran, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and ACORN—all in sixty-one seconds. The ads were praised by Fox News because they "did something that John McCain's camp has still not done: create a negative ad that challenged Barack Obama's credibility."
Hanna was also busted by NBC News conducting a push poll in Pennsylvania only days before the election, in which voters were asked if "knowing that the former head of Fannie Mae made millions of dollars while working there and worked on the Obama campaign" would make them less likely to vote Democratic.
After Obama was elected, Hanna helped push the idea that Obama wasn't born in the United States. In an MSNBC interview, Hanna said "Obama and those supporters around him have not answered perfectly simple and straightforward questions that would have put this to rest long ago. Where is the proper documentation?"
Let Freedom Ring was instrumental in putting together the Tea Party and 9/12 rallies in 2009, and last year the group released a photography book of signs from the protests called Grandma's Not Shovel-Ready. In the foreword, Hanna wrote that "it is our hope that these signs will give you strength, encouragement and an occasional chuckle in these challenging times. This book proves that in America, the spirit of freedom still lives!"
The book featured signs labeling "Comrade Obama" as "World's #1 Crypto-Marxist," and an "undocumented worker." The book also flirted with revolution and overthrowing the government. "Oust the Marxist Usurper! Honduras did it!" read one sign.
Another man was pictured grimly holding a sign that said "I will give my blood for my children's freedom." ("Blood" was dripping with red ink). Another woman was shown holding a sign that said "A revolution is brewing. We will not subsidize tyranny. Violate our liberty at your peril." A man stood next to her, wearing a T-shirt with crossed AK-47s and holding a sign that said "find out what happens."
This type of Tea Party vitriol and dirty politics is unfortunately standard fare, accepted long ago by mainstream journalists as part of the political game. But it's long past time to question how an organization that puts out a book like Grandma's Not Shovel-Ready can also be a major power player in a debate that has the country five days from financial catastrophe.
"Our plan includes more cuts," Chuck Schumer bragged at a news conference on Capitol Hill yesterday when comparing Harry Reid's debt plan to John Boehner's.
The fact that Senate Democrats are trying to out-cut the cut-obsessed Republicans pretty much sums up the current political debate in Washington. "Harry Reid's plan wins the austerity sweepstakes," Adam Serwer wrote yesterday. "It's the austerity party vs. the austerity party," blogger Atrios tweeted.
President Obama has actively shifted the debt debate to the right, both substantively and rhetorically. Substantively by not insisting on a "clean bill" to raise the debt ceiling at the outset and actively pushing for drastic spending cuts and changes to entitlement programs as part of any deal. And rhetorically by mimicking right-wing arguments about the economy, such as the canard that reducing spending will create jobs (it won't), or that the government's budget is like a family's budget (it isn't), or that major spending cuts will return confidence to the market and spur the economy recovery we've all been waiting for (Paul Krugman calls it "the confidence fairy").
"For the last few months, I and others have watched, with amazement and horror, the emergence of a consensus in policy circles in favor of immediate fiscal austerity," Krugman wrote on July 1. "That is, somehow it has become conventional wisdom that now is the time to slash spending, despite the fact that the world's major economies remain deeply depressed. This conventional wisdom isn't based on either evidence or careful analysis. Instead, it rests on what we might charitably call sheer speculation, and less charitably call figments of the policy elite's imagination."
In the last few weeks, the austerity hawk choir has only gotten louder. President Obama has successfully used the bully pulpit to undermine the case for progressive governance.
Even after the 2010 election, which supposedly was a referendum on government spending, there was little evidence that the public cared about the deficit and a lot of evidence that they wanted Washington to address the jobs crisis. For example, 56 percent of Americans ranked the economy and jobs as their top priority for the new Congress following the election, while only 4 percent named the deficit.
By a two to one margin, according to a July Quinnipiac poll, Americans still believe that reducing unemployment is more important than cutting the deficit. But they only narrowly believe that reducing unemployment is more important than reducing federal government spending, by a 49 to 43 margin. And the public now says that "major cuts in federal spending" would help, not hurt, the economy, a 15 point reversal from March.
Things might have been different had President Obama made an aggressive and sustained argument that the government still has an important role to play in spurring an economic recovery and creating jobs. Instead, the president sided with the austerity hawks and strengthened the elite Washington consensus.
Throughout the debt ceiling debate, Obama keeps touting how he's bucking the activists in his own party. It seems as if the president wants to run against the Democratic base in 2012 and position himself as the supposedly sensible centrist candidate. As a result, the president's approval ratings among liberals are at the lowest point of his presidency.
That "triangulation" strategy worked for Bill Clinton in 1996, although he had the benefit of a rapidly growing economy. My guess is the 2012 election will be much more like 2004 than 1996, when the country is fiercely divided about the incumbent leader, unsure of the opposition, and in a politically restive mood. If that's the case, Obama will need his base to knock on doors, make phone calls and persuade undecided voters who to vote for. That's how Bush won in '04, by ratcheting up Republican turnout in states like Ohio. The more Obama bucks his supporters—and keeps ignoring the jobs crisis in favor of deficit hysteria—the dicier his path to re-election becomes, especially if the economy continues to lag.
But let's forget about the 2012 election for a moment. Right now, the public is being deprived a real and vital debate about how to solve the economic crisis. Obama is governing like a moderate Republican. Republicans are governing like Grover Norquist. The net effect is that US politics keeps shifting further and further to the right.
--Ari Berman is the author of Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics. Follow him on Twitter at @AriBerman.
Representative Peter King's third installment in a series of hearings examining domestic Muslim radicalization, held Wednesday on Capitol Hill, didn't have a particularly inflammatory topic—the committee was exploring the real, albeit rather minor, problem of radicalization among Somali-Americans. But ever the showman, King began the hearing by throwing some bloody meat to the packed hearing room and the conservative media that lay beyond.
In Monday's New York Times, columnist Roger Cohen labeled King an "ideological fellow traveler" of Anders Breivik, the Oslo shooter, because King's frequent Islamophobia. (Cohen didn't get specific, but for example, King has said there are "too many mosques in this country.")
In his opening remarks Wednesday, King tore into the newspaper. "I note that certain elements of the politically correct media, most egregiously the vacuous ideologues at the New York Times, are shamelessly attempting to exploit the horrific tragedy in Norway to cause me to refocus these hearings away from Muslim-American radicalization," King said.
"If they had even a semblance of intellectual honesty, the Times and the others would know and admit that there is no equivalency in the threat to our homeland from a deranged gunman and the international terror apparatus of Al Qaeda and its affiliates who are recruiting people in this country and have murdered thousands of Americans in their jihad attacks."
King then went on to characterize his hearings as "liberating and empowering" to "many Muslim-Americans" who "are now able to come forward," and closed by invoking the victims of the September 11 attacks.
The attack generated immediate headlines, and King announced on Twitter shortly after the hearing that Fox News' O'Reilly Factor would highlight the conflagration.
From there, the hearing didn't have too many fireworks—committee members questioned law enforcement officials and other experts about the recruiting efforts of Al Shabaab, a group fighting to overthrow the Somali government. Al Shabaab has successfully recruited about forty Somalis from the Minneapolis area to join their cause, including Shirwa Ahmed, who drove a truck bomb into a Somali government building in 2008.
Notably, Al Shabaab only seems interested in recruiting Americans to fight the Somali government—not the American one—but it's at least something the House Committee on Homeland Security might reasonably investigate. This is in contrast to King's first two hearings; the first one was general enough to potentially indict all Muslim-Americans, and as I reported last month, the second hearing discussed Islamic radicalization in prisons but offered no actual examples of terrorists converted behind bars.
In any case, practical inquiry into Al Shabaab's efforts frequently devolved into nonsense. With a thick Southern drawl, Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina offered his advice for "eye-mams" in American mosques. "In my church, I'm Baptist, we sing patriotic hymns about America, we talk about American greatness, we talk about freedom of religion and separation of that and government, and our founding fathers' creating of this land," he said. "That's what I would hope the imams in the mosque would begin to talk about."
Later, Texas Democratic Representative Al Green engaged in a protracted exercise of asking the witnesses what they knew about the physical characteristics of Colleen LaRose, a Pennsylvania woman known as "Jihad Jane" for her amateur efforts to join an Islamic resistance movement. Hurried along by a frustrated King, Green cut to the chase and asked each witness to raise his hand if he knew Jihad Jane was white. (Even King hasn't suggested that only dark-skinned people are subject to Islamic radicalization).
During the hearing, King's staff released a report into Al Shabaab radicalization efforts, which is useful insofar as it goes. But with Al Shabaab out of the way, where will the committee turn next?
Given his tirade against the New York Times at the start of today's hearing, perhaps King will aim directly at the liberal media. He does, after all, view them—and liberals "in general"—as complicit with Al Qaeda. In an April interview with National Review Online, King described a "liberal psychological disorder" that actively helps terrorists.
"There's no doubt that radical Islamists in this country have become a protected force," he said. "All of the radical Muslim groups such as CAIR, their allies in the media, and liberals in general have just rallied to their defense…. The New York Times trips over itself defending [radical Islamists]." Perhaps Jill Abramson should watch her mailbox for a subpoena.
Balance Bias (bal-ance bi-as)
1. The assumption that there is truth and legitimacy to both sides of every dispute.
2. The iron law in political journalism that one side in a debate can never be exclusively right, or have a monopoly on the facts.
This increasingly disorderly fight over raising the debt ceiling has not only exposed the petty dysfunctions of the US Congress, it has also revealed a core failure of American political journalism. The press has made the debt fight the top story for the last two weeks—even accounting for half of all stories on radio and cable news—but much of the coverage has failed to tell the very basics of what is happening.
I don't mean how this deficit was created (by tax cuts, Medicare and recessions), or why the debt ceiling gets raised (in response to past decisions by Congress). That stuff matters, but at bottom, this is a story about politics, not the bond market.
This fight started with a partisan threat to sabotoge the economy in order to extract policy concessions, but then, when Democrats offered most of the concessions, it ricocheted and morphed into something else: a high-stakes lightning round of intramural GOP posturing. Right now, we are living through a Republican primary for economic policy. The results may hurt the nation—an externality that Republicans have widely acknowledged, lending bite to their bark—and no one seems to know what you do with an army that wants to keep fighting after there's no land left to conquer.
One might quibble with some details and word choices, but that's the basic story. It's gripping, it's scary, and it's not anything close to the press's story about this debt fight. Take this headline, running at the top of CNN a day after President Obama's national address:
"They're all talking, but no one is compromising, at least publicly. Democratic and GOP leaders appear unwilling to bend on proposals to raise the debt ceiling."
Journalist Josh Marshall confronted that bizarro narrative with evidence of what's actually happening. "By any reasonable measure, this [CNN headline] is simply false, even painfully so," he notes, adding, "even the firebreathers on the Republican side" are not suggesting otherwise. Marshall reports that over $2 trillion in cuts is the current offer from Senator Reid, which is actually larger and more "Republican-leaning than what Speaker Boehner was demanding a few months ago." And the Reid plan—which could just as accurately be called the Super Sized Boehner plan—does not include any revenues, which was "the primary demand of Republicans from the beginning."
Whether you think it's good or bad, we have just seen one party's leadership embrace the platform of the opposing party, only to watch that party apparently back off its own original position. That's news! Marshall continues:
It is not partisan or spin to say that the Democrats have repeatedly offered compromises. The real driver of the debate is that the fact that Republican majority in the House can't agree to win... The real problem at the moment isn't that neither side's caucus can accept the other side's 'plan' - [it's] that Speaker Boehner doesn't have the votes in his caucus for his own 'plan'.
That reality, however, is deeply uncomfortable for reporters nursing Balance Bias. Saying that "Washington is broken" or "both sides are squabbling" is easy. It is safe. And it's often true, since structural problems hinder our democracy regardless of which party is in power, and politics is full of petty, meaningless bickering. But not on this one. New York magazine's Jon Heilemann, an accomplished author and astute political analyst, fell into the habit this week, when he was asked why there's still no debt deal. The "ideological convictions of two sides have proven to be unshakable," he observed. It was as if Reid and Boehner were at opposite ends of the table, when Reid actually took Boehner's seat. Over at The Times, Economist Paul Krugman observes that most news accounts portray this "as a situation in which both sides are equally partisan, equally intransigent—because news reports always do that." This conventional wisdom was sealed a few weeks ago by Jon Stewart, who gingerly knocked both parties, with false equivalency, for stoking their own equally horrific political endgames. (Never mind that only one party was making threats; the video is below.)
So why does this ur-text keep trumping the facts?
Let's turn to NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen, a prolific media critic who has a theory, developed in a series of essays that are both elegant and reproachful, that today's political reporters are on a futile "quest for innocence" when reporting political disputes. By innocence, Rosen means "a determination not to be implicated, enlisted or seen by the public as involved." I asked him how that works on this debt story.
"Asymmetry in a highly contested situation fries the circuits of the press," Rosen said via e-mail this week. "The bigger the stakes, the more dangerous it feels for reporters to reflect that asymmetry in their accounts," he proposed. That makes sense, since often it's "the big lie" that gets more traction than little fibs. So the political press rebuted Sarah Palin's spin about opposing "The Bridge to Nowhere" in 2008, a low-stakes example, but they back down on a market-shaking feud like the debt fight. And Rosen suggests that while Democrats or Talking Points Memo or Eugene Robinson may call out the problem, that doesn't actually do much.
"The people screaming about an asymmetrical situation that has been artificially balanced are likely to be on one side of the contested ground, right? This fries the circuits even more, adding to the danger [for innocent reporters]," he says. This is also your brain on Balance Bias.
Rosen believes that the worst offenders in media literally care more about maintaining their innocence than their first obligation of accuracy. "Our press has an unacknowledged agenda: to advertise itself as an innocent player in politics, to show off how even-handed it is always being," he argues. "It will put that agenda before truthtelling. But since nothing can come before truthtelling, the agenda stays hidden, repressed."
That's a pretty compelling theory. Balance Bias is somewhat lower on the continuum, I think, because reporters can practice it without repressing anything. They may even oppose the concept but follow its rules, knowing that their editors or management will not accept a political story about one side being completely wrong. Or irrational. Or irresponsible. Because that "can't be the whole story!"
And if you believe that, then your only response to the endgame of the debt crisis is total denial. That may be human, but it ain't journalism.
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Thirty-one years is a long time to remember everything about anything. Sure, most of us can remember who was president of the United States at the time or that the No. 1 show on American television was Happy Days. But how many people remember the shoes they wore that July 4 or the dinner they had that Labor Day? After thirty-one years, it's easy to come up with amnesia.
The same holds true for custom wide-body C3 Corvettes. Most Vette aficionados can recognize a '73 dual-bumper model or a silver-and-black '78 pace car, but how many people remember the Eckler's Can Am Corvettes? Thankfully, our case of "Can Amnesia" was cured when Jeffrey Plotkin of Amboy, New Jersey, sent us the details of his '75 Can Am coupe.
The '70s saw the birth of wide-body C3s from body-kit manufacturers Eckler's and Greenwood. Eckler's, owned by Ralph Eckler and based in Titusville, Florida, was a leader in fiberglass moldings for the Corvette. Greenwood and Eckler's both began designs on wide-body Vettes in 1974, with street versions available soon thereafter.
At first, these Corvettes were created exclusively in Eckler's Titusville shop, but word quickly spread, and soon customers were calling from across the U.S. in the hopes of converting their stock Corvettes into the widened Eckler's version. Eckler's began selling custom wide-body parts-fenders, flares, and hoods-as well as full body kits for installation at shops and in home garages. Famous custom shops from New York to California began to turn out wide-body Corvettes. Customers called the kit "Can Am" after a then-popular SCCA race series.
Many people feel these Can Am Vettes perfectly embody the zeitgeist of the era. There is no doubting the visual impact the cars had on late-'70s and early-'80s American culture. Like bell-bottom pants and knee-high Adidas socks, they continue to stand proud as a testament to the times.
Jeff's Can Am story begins in 1975, when the then-21-year-old car buff bought a '73 Corvette coupe. One night, Jeff, a resident of Brooklyn, New York, left his Vette parked outside. Well, as the story goes, thieves stole the hubcaps ... and the Corvette they were on. Jeff longed for a second Vette, and in 1976, he bought his second coupe-a '75 model-from a friend.
Every big city has its own "most famous Corvette shop in town." At that time in Brooklyn, it was Zaino Brothers Corvette Shop. Jeff was friends with Tommy and Sal Zaino (creators of the famous Zaino car wax and polish products) and knew he wanted his Vette to go to their shop for its customization. Zaino Brothers was already ordering fiberglass from Eckler's on a weekly basis and was familiar with the parts. The brothers ordered the full-body Can Am kit, intending to turn Jeff's Corvette into one of very first kit Can Ams built outside of Ralph Eckler's Titusville shop.
Jeff Plotkin was now 24 and a buyer for an electronics firm in Brooklyn. He spent many days and nights at the Zaino brothers' shop, watching his Can Am take form. "The Can Am took forever to build," Jeff says. Its intensive body change took "a year of dedicated labor from Zaino Brothers" and between $12,000 and $15,000 of Jeff's hard-earned money. That's an incredible amount of cash to put into a custom conversion considering the MSRP of the '75 Corvette was $6,810. Jeff says he wanted the best work in the nation, and although it was expensive, it was worth it.
Zaino Brothers prepared the Can Am to feature a stock rear window and a four-taillight bumper with air vents on either side. The front fenders, rear flares, and high-rise hood, however, were from the Eckler's kit. Thus configured, the car resembled a Greenwood wide-body and was often mistaken for its like-minded competitor. Make no mistake, though: Jeff's Vette is 100 percent Can Am.
It was painted Candy Apple Brandywine over a Black Pearl base using special-order paint from House of Kolors.
Jeff caught the show bug immediately and rushed to enter his first competition, the '77 ISCA Custom Car and Motorcycle Show at the New York Coliseum. He took home a First Place award the weekend before Thanksgiving.
In 1981, Jeff wanted a new look for his Can Am. He felt a rework of the paint color would bring terrific results, so he took the car back to the Zaino Brothers Corvette Shop. Sal Zaino decided to also work an Eckler's fastback window and a six-taillight rear bumper into the Can Am's revised design.
While he was at it, Jeff decided to swap out the interior. He wanted a color contrast to the car's show-stopping exterior, so he chose '80 Corvette Oyster White leather. Tommy Zaino then stripped the paint, and a gold base was shot onto the body, followed by the same Candy Apple Brandywine color. The result was a Candy Apple Red deeply layered in 75 coats(!) of hand-rubbed lacquer.

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Newsweek's depiction of President Obama on its latest cover has irked some Indian Americans who, fresh off Obama's visit to the world's largest democracy, are not happy with the image of the U.S. president as the Hindu deity, Lord Shiva.
The Newsweek cover shows Obama with several arms carrying policy issues while balancing on one leg. The headline reads: "God of All Things" with a subtitle, "Why the Modern Presidency May be too Much for One Person to Handle."
Shiva, who is one of three pre-eminent gods in the Hindu religion along with Brahma and Vishnu, is considered the destroyer of the world, which must end, metaphorically speaking, in order to be reborn as a more universalistic place. However, the god's purpose is not to foretell an apocalyptic ending.
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I didn't read the article, and I'm not going to. The premise is ridiculous and totally unfair to every president who came before BOZ the clown.
Why didn't Newsweek think the presidency was too much to handle for Bush? All of a sudden we make excuses for presidents who don't wet our whistle? Is this latest depiction of Obama as a deity meant to be a downgrade or pivot from the left's messianic delusions of grandeur?
Newsweak...um..."Newsweek cover Obama" and you would think he was the god of that magazine. PSST! maybe they're trying to save face.
Here's a little Newsflash for NewsWEAK (now that we don't have to answer to Google for the rest of this post)....are you ready?.....brace yourselves, because I don't want to cause any aneurysms over there.....every presidency is too much for one person to handle!
That's why they get to have entire administrations, with a Vice President, and a cabinet, and a chief-of-staff with advisors, and cool logos, and undersecretaries, and deputies, and they ALL have to work together because those 3,000 person $200,000,000.00/day trips to India aren't going to coordinate themselves!
I've got a great investigative story to pitch to them for their next issue. Its perfect for their style of hard-hitting journalism. It goes something like this:
Why a burning fireplace may no longer be the best place to store gasoline.
I REALLY want to know who brokered the deal to sell that rag for A DOLLAR. Seriously, because I've got some ice to sell to eskimos, and anyone who can sell something at a price that is 100% of what its actually worth is someone I want working for me.
If it really is true that Obama inspires the revelation that "the modern presidency may be too much for one person to handle" then we must all be ghosts, because I was totally unaware that he was the last person on earth.


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There's much more to Goa than sun, sand and sea. The allure of Goa is that it remains quite distinct from the rest of India and is small enough to be grasped and explored in a way that other Indian states are not.
Goa became one of the youngest Indian states after 451 years of colonial rule and 26 years as Union territory. Its history dates back to the 3rd century when it belonged to the Mauryas, followed by the rule of the Satvahanas, Chalukyas, the Shilharas and Kadambas. In 1312, Goa fell into the hands of the Muslims. The Portuguese took over in 1510, ending the Muslim rule. Apart from a brief spell during the Napoleonic wars, when the British briefly occupied Goa, the Portuguese were the masters of Goa till 1961, when they were finally driven out.
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Mapusa - 13kms from Panaji, Mapusa is a small town in north Goa. People from all over Goa come here to buy and sell their wares in the famous Friday market.Margao (Madgaon) - is the second largest city in Goa and a commercial metropolis. Margao an 18 km stretch of silvery sand: Palolean, Betul and Colva. Other interesting places around Margao are Chandreshwar Bhutnath temple and the Rachol Seminary.Vasco-Da-Gama - This coastal town popularly known as Vasco was originally called Sambhaji. This well planned city is also the railway terminus for passenger service. Goa's only airport, Dabolim is also 4km from Vasco, at the other end.Ponda - is also called Antruz Mahal because of the concentration of culture, music, drama and poetry. This town also has many temples - Shri Gopal Ganapati Temple, Mahalakshmi temple, Shri Nagesh temple dedicated to Lord Shiva, Shri Mangesh temple and the Safe Shahouri Masjid.Old Goa - is the state's showpiece and the only remnant of the Portuguese. In the 1500s, it was the largest and most flourishing of the great Asian cities. The monuments and cathedrals today represent just a fraction of the urban development that was Old Goa.Se Cathedral at Old Goa – The largest church in Asia, the cathedral in Old Goa, is a mighty 16th century monument to the Roman Catholic rule of Goa under the Portuguese. Its huge Golden Bell is the biggest in the world. It has 14 side chapels; the last chapel, in Mauresque style, preserves a cross upon which a vision of Christ is said to have appeared in 1919.Church of St. Francis of Assisi at Old Goa - Built in pure Manueline style, the interior is adorned with a profusion of carvings and exquisite paintings. The convent at the back of this church is now the Archaeological Museum. It houses many portraits of the Portuguese Viceroys and fragments of sculpture from Hindu temple sites in Goa.Bom Jesus Basilica - Partially in ruins but awesome still, it is a fine example of Jesuit architecture. The church's most precious relic is the embalmed body of St. Francis Xavier entombed in a marble mausoleum presented by the Duke of Tuscany, who received the Saint's pillow in exchange. Once every 10 years, the mortal remains of St. Francis Xavier are exposed for public veneration. It was last exposed in 1994.Aguada Fort – This Fort was built by the Portuguese in 1609-1612 to control the entry into the river Mandovi and to protect Old Goa from potential enemy attacks. A spring within the fort provided water supply to the ships that called there. The fort presently houses the Central Jail.Cabo Fort (Raj Bhavan) - 9 km from Panaji, the Cabo Fort lies on the peninsula at Dona Paula, which juts into the Arabian Sea. Initially during the Portuguese era, a Franciscan Convent, was attached to the fort. This later became Coba Palace and is now the Governor's residence.Chapora Fort - Located 10 km outside Mapusa, this fort has a splendid view of nearby Anjuna and Vagator beaches. The fort, which belonged to Muslim rulers before the Portuguese wrested it, has some interesting ruins.Terekhol (Tiracol) Fort - 42 km. away from Panaji, at the northernmost tip of Goa's shoreline, at the mouth of the river Terekhol, stands the Terekhol Fort. In its courtyard is the century-old church of St. Anthony. It is now a tourist resort.Rachol Museum of Christian Art - About 7 km east of Margao, is the Rachol seminary. Its main attraction, the Christian art museum is the only one of its kind in South Asia. It was set up by the Indian National Trust for Architecture and Cultural Heritage and the Gulbenkian Foundation of Portugal. The Museum has an amazing collection of artefacts from Goa's churches and chapels, private collections and donations.Kerkar Art Complex - in Calangute is the only art gallery of its kind on this beach strip. The gallery stocks a wide variety of art, as well as arts and crafts done by local artistes. Concerts of Indian classical music and dance are held on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Goans are keen fish-eaters, both among the Hindus and Catholics. While the Hindu Goan food does not seem to have picked up any Portuguese influences, the Christian food has been influenced not only by the Portuguese, but also by its overseas settlements.
Goa is famous for its distinctive cuisine that boasts of delicacies like the tangy pork 'vindaloo', (also can be made with duck or chicken), spicy 'sorpotael and the popular Goan rice with fish curry. Goan food is often accompanied by one of their innumerable local wines or the local liquor called 'Feni'.
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The Mardi Gras Carnival takes place on three days in February or early March. People indulge in feasting, drinking and merrymaking just before the 40 days of Lent. This is Goa's most famous festival and has been celebrated since the 18th century. Huge parades through the cities are organised with bands, floats and dances in the evenings. The final day concludes with the famous red-and-black dance held by the Clube Nacional in Panjim.
Shantadurga Prasann is celebrated in January at Fatorpa village, south of Margao. Drawing a crowd of lakhs, a night-time procession of chariots bearing figures of Shantadurga, is the prime attraction.
The Umbrella Festival, at Cuncolim, south of Margao, has a solid silver image of Shantadurga carried in procession over the hills to the original temple site. This happens in January.
Shri Bodgeshwar zatra is a temple festival that takes place south of Mapusa, also celebrated in January.
Shri Mangesh is a 3-day festival in February, that takes place in his temple in the Ponda district.
Shigmo as it is called in Goa is really the full-moon festival of Holi. It is celebrated with big parades and crowds, drums and dance groups competing with huge floats.
Janmashtami is another popular Hindu festival celebrated in Goa. Ritual bathing in the River Mandovi, to celebrate the birth of Krishna is common.
Bonderam: This carnival is held on the river island of Divar on the fourth Saturday in August. Bonderam means the festival of flags. Colourful processions and mock battles are staged in a recollection of the property wars that raged on this island till a century ago.
Dussehra - There are nine days of festivities in Dussehra when effigies are burned on bonfires, and children perform episodes from the life of Rama. Dussera marks the day on which Lord Rama, a reincarnation of Lord Vishnu, liberated his wife Sita who had been abducted by Ravana, the king of Lanka. This festival, celebrated throughout India, culminates with the setting fire to an effigy of Ravana, thus signifying the end of evil.
Diwali, the five-day Hindu "festival of lights", commemorates the return of Lord Rama to his kingdom of Ayodhya, after 14 years of exile in the forests. It features processions all over the region, often accompanied by fireworks, burning of effigies and the exchange of sweets by neighbours, regardless of their faith. Diwali also symbolises the victory of light over darkness. Many celebrate Diwali as a festival of wealth and prosperity.
Christmas, New years and Easter, are celebrated by the mainly Christian population of the state.
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I haven't experienced what you described. The bass impact does have a dial which you can dial down. Perhaps that would help?
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You can plug the USB dongle into a USB port and connect a 3.5mm jack to a headphone jack and use the headset.
Example: T.V. with USB port, connect the dongle to the port, plug 3.5mm jack into side of dongle and the other end of lead into the headphone port. Boom. Headset works with your T.V.
Posted 01 February 2013 - 19:39
I got this headset a couple of days ago and while overall I'm quite satisfied with it there's one thing that's annoying me.
It has a feature called BassImpact that's supposed to translate bass beats into vibration, and I don't know if it's because my headset is broken or because BassImpact is just crap but if I enable it (even if just at the minimum setting) I can hear a constant bass crackling.
That's with the "game" EQ, if I set it to "shooter" then BassImpact seems to think that things are exploding around when actually there's nothing going on.
I'm returning the headset this week and getting a new one, just in case the thing is broken, but I wanted to ask if anyone could confirm wether this is "normal" (ie. bassimpact is kind of crappy) or not.
Again if I turn that feature off the sound is great so it's not a deal breaker (and also bassimpact drains the battery fast, so I'd likely have it deactivated more often than not) but since it ships with that I'd had hoped it would at least work as intended.
Posted 01 February 2013 - 20:21
I registered on this site especially for this topic. Listening to some nice music now on my Pulse headset.
I'm from The Netherlands and was in Chicago last year for some business and decided to take a Sony Pulse headset back to Europe.
The same thing happened to me, I thought the sound quality was great, but the bass impact didn't make sense, its just... hmm... crappy. Crackling noises and even on the lowest bass impact setting (with the hardware slider) I just can't listen to it, it sounds broken. Next thing I did was call Sony about this and they told me the headset isn't even out in Europe yet (it is now btw..).
End of the story, Sony _doesn't_ have world wide warranty and I was asked to return it to the shop... lol.. only the costs to send it back to America are 50+ dollars I guess.
My question, are more people experiencing this crackling, broken, weird bass impact noises and does anybody know if it can be fixed by yourself?
Thinking about buying a Xbox in the future, Microsoft _does_ do worldwide warranty. It's just bad a big company like Sony can't support me with this while being in another country... *sigh*
Cheers, Willem
Posted 05 February 2013 - 12:05
As I mentioned above, these headphones are for true HD audio. Music, mostly being recorded in stereo mode, just doesn't sound well on these headphones with bass impact. If you turn it off, it sounds better, you just lose a lot of thump and bump. These headphones are meant for gaming and movies, in which the audio is of better quality.
Posted 05 February 2013 - 16:49
It's not what I mean. When I turn on the bassimpact on its lowest setting, the crackling is so loud, you can't even hear the normal music or gaming sounds anymore (ok, you can hear them, but the main sound you will hear is the crackling noise). It's that worse that it is just not an option to turn it on, when I turn it on it isn't a matter of less nice audio quality, its a matter of just crackling noises and nothing else. It's hard to explain, but I think my unit really is broken, just like the topic OP told.
Was hoping for a reaction from the OP so I would knew I had the same issue. Because I can't return it to the USA, I'm stuck with a broken Pulse
!! Did some more testing. This is weird, but when I switch the 'modes' it can handle, the problem disappears now and then. Looks like the game and shooter modes are killing. When first trying out this headset I was playing CoD MW3 with the shooter mode. It just sucks! Only crackling noises. Now I'm listening to some bass tests via Spotify with it and indeed, when switching to shooter or game mode, the only thing you will hear is *GRGRGRGgrgrgrgbbbbr*, not so nice When switching to 'music' mode this problem disappears, but the vibrations in music mode are also very limited, barely feeling any vibrations now... Anyhow, have to test further, but the mode setting does a lot.
Posted 01 August 2013 - 17:47
I just installed the Pulse app from PSN, had to create a US account as the app is still for some reason not available in my country.
The new presets are nice, I'm linking the one for BioshockInfinite (not just for that game) as bass impact is still noticeable but a lot more subtle than on action or shooting modes.


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I used to take iosol and got great results (weight loss, more energY, but also acne unfortunately), but then it stopped working.
i test normal for thyroid hormone panel, but have so many symptoms of being hypo.
i want to try iodoral.
is it better than iosol or other iodine?
how much should i take?
also does anyone cycle?
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I took iodoral for about 18 months, just stopped about a week ago. I got my iodine level tested and it was nearly double what it should have been and my thyroid panel looked a bit weird as well. My TSH was higher than it probably should be at 2.220, while T4, T4 Free, T3 Free all were above midrange. TSH supposedly optimally should be close to 1.000, so it seems that it was possibly pushing higher to get rid of excess Iodine, but that really is just a guess.
Thyroxine (T4) - 10.0 (4.5-12.0)
Triiodothyronine,Free,Serum - 4.1 (2.0-4.4)
T4,Free(Direct) - 1.43 (0.82-1.77)
Iodine, Serum or Plasma - 134.2 (40.0-92.0)
My recommendation would be to either take LEF Sea-Iodine (1mg), or possibly just take half of an Iodoral per day (~ 6.25mg), as a full Iodoral (12.5mg) pill seems to be way too much, at least for me anyway... I personally switched to 900mcg split throughout the day since my local vitamin store didn't have the LEF Sea-Iodine pills.
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You mention a lot of blood work at regular intervals.
Frankly the sight of my blood puts me out faster than anything else, shocking behavior, but shedding blood isn't a badge of honor I wear lightly.
But I'm curious to know your testing routine and which have proven the most beneficial.
I've heard of SpectraCell and believe its for vitamin/mineral and I've heard of the TSH (phenomenally bad? at predicting Thyroid problems).
Beyond that though I'm at a total loss.
Are there any good books on how to weigh the pros and cons of picking and choosing tests or a protocol for determining the most economical path to predicative coverage?
Along those lines I've wondered about viral loads, infectious diseases ectera as well.. it seems almost like children need a panel of tests for coming into Life, older indidviduals should have a panel based on the common odds of contracting sub-chronic or chronic diseases and infections they should test for.. Lyme comes to mind.. but then I've never randomly picked a disease and deliberately tested for it.
Its odd.. seems just as odd.. to base medicine on "symptoms" as it is basing them on statistical evidence or probability. An open wound.. okay.. you got grounds for treating that.. but if a large proportion of people have Hepatitis-C or some type of chronic Liver disease and don't know it.. seems like we should regularly test for that.
Thanks for your insights.
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Sorry for the slow response, been busy this past week.
I'm afraid of needles/blood so yea that is a lot of fun. :-\
I test at least
Chemistry Panel & Complete Blood Count
each time I go in. I have tested nearly every nutrient via serum/rbc level at one time at least, and have had the SpectraCell test done once back in Oct. A few of the more uncommon tests are cheaper elsewhere, but I get most of the non-SpectraCell tests via LEF. SpectraCell seems to be more reliable for detecting deficiencies, esp masked ones, eg things serum levels don't show, but it can't detect over intake, which serum tests are useful for. I had very low copper and B6 on my SpectraCell test but serum of copper appeared fine and B6 was way over limit (ie not being used). I switched B6 to p5p and doubled my intake of copper and things seem to be improving slowly. I'm getting the SpectraCell test done again in a few weeks to see if those changes helped. Until last month SpectraCell didn't cover manganese, and it still doesn't cover several of the other minerals either: eg Boron, Iodine, Molybdenum, Vanadium. The rest are covered by the CP/CBC, insuring you aren't taking too much does require serum/whole blood tests though.
TSH doesn't tell you much other than that the is thyroid being told to work hard. It appears it can be high (hypo) for various reasons not directly related to the thyroid itself. As I have fixed various nutrient issues it appears my TSH has slowly been going down to roughly where it should be (normal is thought to be ~ 1.0).
As far as books I'm not aware of any covering testing but they may be out there. There are books that are pretty interesting on vitamins though such as 'Handbook of Vitamins', along with lots of pubmed studies.
- is also interesting, I noticed it when looking up my low manganese result with respect to MnSOD.
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Have you ever used Lugol's iodine and if so what did you find?
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I haven't used Lugol's but I have taken Iodoral both in 50mg and 12.5mg forms for about a year or so before dropping down to just 900mcg Iodine per day.
SpectraCell apparently is planning to add Iodine to their test sometime in the near future (maybe next year or so), it was listed on a slideshow they published documenting the Manganese and Immunidex additions to their test.
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Hi Calc,
I am new to the forum. Forgive me if I am duplicating previous postings.
I am a recent IODORAL convert as it is much better than Lugols. Lugols only contains the iodine salt KI (potassium iodide) 10%. IODORAL contains the elemental iodine I2 which is more protective particularly to breast tissue.
Addressing thyroid disease is a challenge. One has to look at the adrenal gland and hormone functions as well and balance the three - thyroid-adrenal-hormone. Then do the balancing act.
Lots if not all thyroid disease patients have wavering control it seems. I tried looking at the adrenal and hormone as well and one may find your answer than not. Then you are entering a wider world of MTHFR mutation (methyltetrahydroxyfolatereductase gene mutation), homocysteine, SHBG, estrogen metabolites, Vit D3 etc. Findings this gene- addressing its heterozygous or homozygous deficiency of either C677T or A1298C and giving redox preparations address the problem including Hashimotos. It May take more than 4 months to show changes. And then, one must understand that if the gene has mutated support for that should be on going.
In a nutshell - One has to look at the wholistic
Iodora and holistic
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I, too, love Iodoral! I have to vary it according to how it feels. I take on average, about 500 mg of tyrosine with it. I vary both. When caffeine is not working, my tyrosine is too low. Energy down, then I need more Iodoral. When I say energy, its almost more like drive and ambition, and alertness. I take 1 Iodoral tab per day. Working hard, I take 1.5 tabs. They break in half easy. If I am a little too wired at night, I drop the doses of both down. Tyrosine will vary between 300-600 mg, 400-500 more typical.
Iodoral and Tyrosine together 4ever
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I support what Lita said in her post.
I'm a naturopath and I specialize in thyroid
Thyroid issues aren't easy issues. And it's much more than only a question of iodine.
In fact, I've rarely seen miraculous results when patients were on Iodoral or on Lugol's solution.
Why? Because it's multifactorial. Because all causes must me addressed, and causes are specific to each and every patient.
These include hormonal balance, blood sugar regulation, body composition, genetic mutation (MTHFR), nutritional deficiencies, inflammation, etc.
naturopathe a Montreal specialise dans la sante de la glande thyroide
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