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The most significant is electoral reform—for decades the Liberals' holy Grail.
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Old English halig "holy, consecrated, sacred, godly," from Proto-Germanic *hailaga- (cf. Old Norse heilagr, Old Frisian helich "holy," Old Saxon helag, Middle Dutch helich, Old High German heilag, German heilig, Gothic hailags "holy"). Adopted at conversion for Latin sanctus.
Primary (pre-Christian) meaning is not possible to determine, but probably it was "that must be preserved whole or intact, that cannot be transgressed or violated," and connected with Old English hal (see health) and Old High German heil "health, happiness, good luck" (source of the German salutation Heil). Holy water was in Old English. Holy has been used as an intensifying word from 1837; used in expletives since 1880s (e.g. holy smoke, 1883, holy mackerel, 1876, holy cow, 1914, holy moly etc.), most of them euphemisms for holy Christ or holy Moses.


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This week Language and Worldview Language and Worldview Worldview encompasses all elements of how we perceive and make sense of the universe – our fundamental beliefs and values. In this sense, worldview and culture have similar meanings. Most linguistic anthropologists say: Language is intertwined with our understandings of how the world works and can't be separated from worldview. Example: count and mass nouns A count noun is something you can count – five apples. A mass noun is something that can't be counted individually: sand, not "three sands" butter, not "three butters" Variation - semantics Languages vary in how they indicate mass and count nouns. In English, you have to memorize them. In other languages, they may be "marked," for example with affixes. What kinds of things are mass or count nouns also varies. In Russian, vegetables come in both count and mass noun forms: luk = onion, mass noun "some onion" lukovitsa = onion, count noun, one onion morkov' = carrot, mass noun "some carrot" morkovka = carrot, count noun, one carrot Example: Whorf and Hopi Time See Agar, pp. 63-64 Whorf argued that in English, time units (days, weeks, minutes) are count nouns. You can count ten days like ten apples. In Hopi, you can't count time like apples, or spend it, or borrow it like money. You can only experience time, like a verb "It was being day" Language and Reality Agar, pg. 66 "Two different languages aren't just alternative ways to talk about the same reality. Alternative languages carry with them a different theory of what reality in fact is." For example, English speakers experience time as "chunks" that can be counted – it can be hard for us to imagine time in other ways. Cultural models A cultural model describes our understanding of how the world is put together and how it works. These models are specific to a language and are not necessarily universal. Example: English speakers think of dawn as the "beginning" of the day and sunset as the "end" of the day, also we see the future as being "before" us and the past "behind" us. Metaphor and Worldview A metaphor relies on a comparison between two things based on some sort of similarity between them. Each language and culture has its own set of metaphors that influence our cultural models, how we imagine that the world works e.g. "Up is good and down is bad." Up is good. Down is bad. • Things are looking up. • I feel up. • That lifted my spirits. • That really brought me down. • That was a really low thing to do. • He reached the peak of his profession after going through a low point in his career. Source and Target A metaphor is composed of a SOURCE and a TARGET. The target is the thing you are trying to describe, and the source is what you are comparing it to. "Life's a beach." TARGET SOURCE "Time is money" Source is? Target is? If time is like money then: You can spend, buy, save, have, waste, borrow, beg, steal, count, divide, budget, economize, etc. In English, time nouns are COUNT nouns (days, minutes, hours…) in some other languages, like Hopi, time units are not count nouns. This means that in some languages, "money" would not be an appropriate "source" for a time metaphor Metaphors as Cultural Models Metaphors provide a cultural model of how the world works. One very common general cultural model throughout the world is the human body as a model for other objects. e.g. English "head" and "foot" of the bed Copala Trique body metaphors Body metaphors don't work the same in every language. Take Copala Trique, a Mexican language "nose of the airplane" "foot of the mountain" BUT: • nose of the machete = handle • back of the house = roof • foot of the year = beginning of the year • head of the month = end of the month • stomach of the house = inside the house • face of the house = in front of the house Time and causality in Trique Copala Trique uses a body metaphor to describe when things occur and why: Within 3 days = "stomach of three days" After Monday = "back of Monday" Caused by = "feet of (he died feet of illness)" Also, seeing a person is spoken of as having seen a body: Saw John body of Peter (John saw Peter) Western Apache cars • hood=nose • headlights=eyes • windshield=forehead • battery=liver • radiator=lung • hoses=intestines What is the metaphor here? W. Apache also classifies cars, grammatically, with animate beings, such as people and animals. Emotion metaphors Emotions are both abstract and directly, even physically experienced. Not surprisingly, many languages use metaphors to understand how emotions work, and what effects they can have on the body. English emotions: 2 metaphors The BODY is a CONTAINER for emotions. EMOTIONS are a VOLATILE LIQUID My anger boiled over/ my blood boiled I was ready to explode. He was overflowing with love for his mother She poured out her feelings His emotions roiled inside him. Don't bottle your feelings up inside. I blew my top. "Let it out." "Heart of the matter" The heart is viewed as the center and location of emotions and is also the metaphorical "center" of other things • She/he has my heart • My heart aches for those children • I didn't have the heart to bring burst their bubble • My heart is broken Many other languages locate emotions in the stomach Japanese Emotions Hara – stomach Hara rises up, hold it in hara, keep it in hara Mune – chest I feel strangled with mune because of the rise of hara Atama – head It came to atama with a click Gapun Metaphor of anger Gapun is a New Guinea language [week 12] Gapun metaphors surrounding anger: • Anger is a poisonous substance • Stomach is the seat of emotions. • Unexpressed emotions will "rot" in the stomach and cause illness Assignment #2 due 10/04 • I give you three metaphors in English – choose ONE of these three and come up with TWO more example expressions that use this metaphor • Discuss how metaphors help linguistic anthropologists understand the relationship between language and worldview and how the way we use metaphors in everyday speech provides a link between language and worldview • TIPS: Choose one of the three metaphors I give you AND avoid non-cultural explanations Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Grammar and Worldview Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis • Strong version: Language determines worldview (linguistic determinism) – – Agar pg. 67 • Weak version: Language strongly influences our cultural model of the world (sometimes called linguistic relativism) – Agar pg. 68 According to Sapir and Whorf: Different languages carve the world up in different ways. Language focuses our attention on certain things, thereby shaping the way we see the world. Whorf examples English has pilot, airplane, dragonfly Hopi has one word for "things that fly" English has one word for water Hopi has two words: pahe (running water) kehi (water in container) Ottenheimer pg. 16 gives the example of the Russian word "ruka" which means both "hand" and "arm" Grammar and Worldview Lexical categories: categories of words that share some culturally meaningful element e.g. animate/inanimate animate objects are "alive" inanimate objects are not In many languages, animate and inanimate objects are treated differently in the grammar How does language "carve up the world"? Example: Navajo animacy hierarchy You can say "The girl drank the water" but not "The water was drunk by the girl" Things lower on the animacy hierarchy can not act upon things higher up. So you can say "The man kicked the horse." but not "The horse kicked the man." Instead, you have to say "The man allowed himself to be kicked by the horse." Cultural Emphasis Ottenheimer pg. 16 – the more important something is to a culture, the more single words there will be for or related to it Historical linguistic example from Tzeltal Maya Old Tzeltal: Chih - deer Tunim chih – cotton deer ("sheep") In Modern Tzeltal, chih is sheep, and deer is tetikil chih, or wild sheep, because the culture has shifted from hunting to farming Agar example of cultural emphasis: pg. 52 working in a South Indian village three words for uncle: motobaap – father's older brother kaaka – father's younger brother masi – mother's brother Hinton article • worldview and grammar • emphasizes expressive distinctions available in Wintu not available in English • Think about how the world is divided up differently by Wintu grammar; also what kinds of distinctions does the language "force" us to pay attention to? Example: Generic vs. Particular Hinton pp. 62-63, example from Wintu Generic nouns refer to a general category, like "grizzly bears" wimay Particular nouns refer to specific members of a category – wimah "that/those particular grizzly bear(s)" Example: Evidential suffixes In many languages, when you make a statement, you must indicate where your information came from. In Wintu, you add a suffix to the verb: no suffix = you witnessed (saw) it yourself -nte = you perceived it by other senses -re = you deduced it from evidence -ke = you heard it from someone else Worldview: Taxonomies A taxonomy is a way of classifying things. Every language has classification systems built in. The study of these systems is sometimes called ethnoscience or ethnosemantics. Taxonomies and Worldview Classification systems create a linguistic model of the world. Example: English distinguishes between live animals and the meat that comes from them. Compare "I ate beef." and "I ate cow." cow beef sheep mutton pig pork deer venison bird poultry Deeply cultural taxonomies Example: Dyirbal noun classification – Dyirbal has four noun classes, each with a central characteristic of items in that class. Bayi - human males [hawks, animals] Balan – human females [sun, birds, poisonous animals and fish] Balam – non-flesh food Bala – everything else Taxonomy of Breakfast Gussie Lavern of Hinesburg, born in the 1920's, talks about eating waffles for the first time: Taxonomies and Worldview Classification systems create a linguistic model of the world. Example: English distinguishes between live animals and the meat that comes from them. Compare "I ate beef." and "I ate cow." cow beef sheep mutton pig pork deer venison bird poultry Deeply cultural taxonomies Example: Dyirbal noun classification – Dyirbal has four noun classes, each with a central characteristic of items in that class. Bayi - human males [hawks, animals] Balan – human females [sun, birds, poisonous animals and fish] Balam – non-flesh food Bala – everything else Like Dyirbal, many languages make grammatical distinctions that English doesn't. Example: Bantu has different noun classes person prefix: um um-fana boy animal prefix: in in-ja dog abstract prefix: bu bu-bi evil Example: Navajo has 11 shape classifiers yishjaa' "I am handling granular plural objects" [seeds, marbles] yishka "I am handling something in an open container" [water glass, bowl] yishjool "I am handling noncompact matter" [wool, dust bunny] How does grammar affect perception? Boxes example. John Lucy on CBC How are Mayan-speaking children and adults different? How do Mayan and English "focus speakers attention" on objects in the world differently? Universalism vs. relativism Linguistic universals = things that are true of all human languages – they are assumed to be "hard-wired" or "cognitive" in nature. Linguistic relativity = the idea that linguistic elements (like words) have no meaning outside of the linguistic system in which they are used. Example: Color Terms All languages have words to refer to colors. All normally developing humans can perceive colors in the same range of visible light. To what extent are "color terms" a linguistic universal? (Ottenheimer pp. 22-24) Universal order of appearance 11 basic color terms – which colors a language has depends on how many basic colors it names individually: 2 3 4 5 6 7+ white GRUE yellow brown red blue purple black yellow GRUE green pink orange gray Color Linguistic Universals • The progression in which basic color terms appear as the number of them increases in a language is a human linguistic universal • Humans have a shared cognitive capacity to perceive color and to some degree the same meanings for colors • This capacity divides the color spectrum into "chunks" that are not dependent on cultural differences But… If we all, biologically speaking, see the same colors, then how can language influence how we see, or our "worldview"? Consider: Tickled pink, feeling blue, seeing red, you're yellow, green with envy, "brown is the new black"
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Five years later, we found the perfect piece of land on the banks of the Guadalupe River, just outside Seguin, Texas. This was not your average, worked-over land by those who had come before. This was the pure Texas earth in its raw form, ready to nurture that which would join it.
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The numbers will ride, as it were, on the coattails of the vision.
They aren't eager young design students hoping to score someone's extra invitation or sneak in on a kindly editor's coattails.
also coat-tail, c.1600, from coat (n.) + tail (n.). In 17c., to do something on one's own coattail meant "at one's own expense. Meaning "power of one person," especially in politics, is from 1848 (in a Congressional speech by Abraham Lincoln, in reference to Andrew Jackson); expression riding (someone's) coattails into political office is from 1949.
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First Church of Christ, Scientist, Roswell, Georgia.
In the year 1866, Mary Baker Eddy discovered the Christ Science in Massachussets. In that year the War Between the States was still reverberating in Roswell, Georgia. The people of Roswell were beginning to re-establish, in earnest, the foundation of today's historic city. It would be more than 100 years before a small group of Christian Scientists would establish the Church of Christ, Scientist in Roswell. Today, this church is committed to sharing the healing, reforming power of the Christ with the community.
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MRS DOUBTFIRE Sequel Now in Doubt Following Death of Robin Williams; Chris Columbus Issues Statement
Variety reports that plans for a written by David Berenbaum-penned sequel to the hit 1993 film MRS DOUBTFIRE, which starred Robin Williams may not move forward following the tragic death of the comedic actor yesterday.
According to the report, sources reveal that though no decision has been made over the project's future, it will most likely not move forward.
In a statement, Chris Columbus, who was to return to helm the sequel, said of Williams, "His performances were unlike anything any of us had ever seen, they came from some spiritual and otherworldly place. He truly was one of the few people who deserved the title of "genius". We were friends for 21 years. Our Children grew up together, he inspired us to spend our lives in San Francisco and I loved him like a brother. The world was a better place with Robin in it. And his beautiful legacy will live on forever."
The original film was based on the book by Anne Fine, and centered on a struggling actor who dresses as an elderly Scottish housekeeper in order to see his kids who have been taken away from him in a messy divorce settlement. The film also starred Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan.
The film, which took more than $400 million worldwide at the box office, quickly became a global hit. It has since become the most frequently played movie on basic cable.
Williams upcoming films include "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb," hitting theaters in December and the drama "Boulevard," which screened at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
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It's been seven long years since British pop meisters XTC have graced us with a dose of their sublime art. The long wait after Nonsuch was the result of the band striking against their former employers, Virgin, in an effort to extricate themselves from a less than favorable contract. Well judging by Apple Venus Volume 1, it was more than worth the wait. Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding used their time off well, lavishing extra care and attention on this set of tunes that rank among the best music they have ever produced.
Dubbed "orchustic" for the almost total reliance on orchestral and acoustic instrumentation, the record begins slow and organically with a solitary violin plucking before spiraling into a melange of syncopated horns and multi-tracked voices on "River Of Orchids." It is similar in spirit, but not sound, to the opening of Das Rheingold. It's not many pop bands you could liken to Wagner, but then it's also not many pop bands that claim show music like My Fair Lady to be of equal influence on them as the Beatles.
Settling down for the McCartney-esque acoustic love song "I'd Like That," XTC keeps the off-kilter rhythms going, while moving onto the lush, trumpet-ornamented "Easter Theatre," that positively reeks of the Beatles' "She's Leaving Home" on the chorus. I could go on forever about Apple Venus, but the long and the short of it is that this record is a shoo-in for one of 1999's best records, and XTC isn't even finished this year, promising a rockier, electric Apple Venus Volume 2 later in the year.
Meanwhile, if you need a bigger XTC fix, Transistor Blast is an irresistible treat that collects 52 live tracks from 1977-1989 on four CDs. These live performances, many from the vaults of the BBC, show a band at the top of their game, before Andy Partridge's legendary stage fright drove XTC to become the brilliant studio gods they are now.
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Just got a phone call from WDW and since Teppanyaki won't be refurbished in time for our reservation they have asked us to reserve somewhere else and suggested Coral Reef which we agreed to, but for the inconvenience caused we are getting VIP seating for Illuminations! Woohoo! I know its probably not a big deal to most of you but I'm mostly excited for getting my badge saying im a disney VIP!
Was wondering whereabouts the seating is? and if any one has any reviews of the Coral Reef restaurant?
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The Sportsman Channel has decided to not renew the National Rifle Association's (NRA) weekday news show, Cam & Company, ending the program's two-and-a-half year run on the outdoor-themed network.
The hour-long show served as a vehicle for the NRA's frequent misinformation and extremism on the issue of gun violence. During the June 26 broadcast, host Cam Edwards announced the end of the series, effective that day.
Edwards said, "Beginning next Monday, you will be seeing a different program here at 5 p.m. Eastern on Sportsman Channel. We do want to thank all the folks at Sportsman Channel for our time here on the program. I wish I -- there's no drama, there's no dramatic backstory to this. It's just one of those decisions that has happened."
The NRA's three-hour weekday radio show, also called Cam & Company, will continue to air at NRANews.com and on SiriusXM.
Cam & Company debuted on Sportsman Channel on January 15, 2013. In a press release, the network claimed the show would be "the one and only news-talk series on television that can authoritatively address the issues that are vital to America's more than 80 million sportsmen and sportswomen."
In a nod to the fact that the show debuted just one month after the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, the release stated, "With national passions running high on the issue of firearms ownership and rights in America, the series launch is especially timely."
The NRA's executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre added, "The partnership expansion of these two great American brands, the Sportsman Channel and the NRA, comes at a critical time in the history of preserving our Second Amendment freedom."
The launch of the show kicked off a growing partnership between Sportsman Channel and the NRA, with the network participating in both the 2014 and 2015 NRA annual meetings. In January 2015, Sportsman Channel was acquired by Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, a media company that has a "strategic partnership" with the NRA through its Outdoor Channel.
In a June 24 press release, Sportsman Channel announced several changes to its lineup for the third quarter, including 13 new series, beginning on June 29.
Sportsman Channel issued the following statement to Media Matters about the end of the Cam & Company television show:
We have enjoyed our relationship with Cam & Company and appreciate their efforts over the 2 1/2 years they were on our air. Sportsman Channel was proud to be the first network to take the forward step to air a daily show focused on our second amendment rights. Unfortunately, we are not able to continue with the program. We continue to support Cam & Company and the NRA, as well as to air a robust schedule of the best in class firearms programming.
Viewers can continue to watch the Cam & Company show on NRANews.com from 2-5 p.m. each weekday. Also, previously aired shows and interviews are available at http://www.nranews.com/cam/list/cam-company and podcasts can be found on iHeartRadio and iTunes. In addition, Cam & Company is simulcast on SiriusXM.
The complete schedule can be viewed at www.nranews.com/cam/list/cam-and-co-schedule.
Conservative media used the Supreme Court decision affirming that marriage is a fundamental right of all Americans to argue that the Constitution also requires states to recognize concealed carry permits issued by other states. But the Supreme Court has never held that carrying a gun in public is a fundamental right.
On June 26, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, holding that the Fourteenth Amendment requires that states issue marriage licenses to same sex couples.
Conservative media and the National Rifle Association (NRA) quickly seized on the decision to draw a parallel with concealed carry reciprocity, a top federal legislative priority of the NRA. Reciprocity legislation, also known as federally mandated concealed carry, would force states to recognize permits to carry concealed guns issued by other states, regardless of what the issuing state's standards are for issuing permits.
Reciprocity legislation has been introduced in both chambers of the U.S. Congress, but conservative media and the NRA view Obergefell as an opportunity to argue that the Constitution extends at least some right to reciprocal permit recognition regardless of whether Congress acts. The problem with that argument, however, is that the 2008 landmark Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller limited the scope of the Second Amendment right to gun possession to people's homes.
Despite this, on the June 26 broadcast of the NRA's news show Cam & Company, host Cam Edwards made the argument that the marriage ruling "might present an additional argument to make at the legal level for extending reciprocity nationwide," remarking, "Since we're talking about licenses, a lot of gun owners are wondering, ok, does this, could this have an impact on the debate for instance over right-to-carry reciprocity?"
National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent distorted recent comments President Obama made on the race issue in America to defend the use of the N-word including its racist use by former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman.
In a June 24 column for conspiracy website WND, Nugent addressed President Obama's reference to the word "nigger" on Marc Moran's WTF podcast. Obama said, "Racism, we are not cured of it. And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say 'nigger' in public."
Apparently misinterpreting the point Obama was making about racism, Nugent praised Obama, writing that he "is not afraid of speaking honestly without fear of politically correct word nazi's going berserk."
Nugent went on to heap praise on the word, without mentioning its long and vile association with racism. Citing himself as someone who "continue[s] to use the word nigger at one time or another," Nugent listed several well-known people, including Fuhrman, whom he said were not bound by "political correctness" in their use of the word:
Along with President Obama and my hero Richard Pryor, we join Howard Stern, Johnny Cochran, Mark Furman [sic], O.J. Simpson, Kid Rock, James Brown, the mighty Funkbrothers, Al not so Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Malcom X, Kanye West, Fifty Cent and pretty much every black rapper and hip hopper on earth, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, a few thousand NBA, NFL, MLB sports stars, legions of famous and not so famous musicians, actors, politicians, media personalities and assorted celebrities of every color, creed, ethnicity and walk of life, along with a few million others around the world who have used and continue to use the word nigger at one time or another.The dishonest referencing of the word by its first letter is the epitome of political correctness gone mad.
Fuhrman, who is now a Fox News contributor, was an LAPD homicide detective on the O.J. Simpson murder case. During Simpson's trial, the defense produced tapes of Fuhrman using the N-word more than 40 times over a 10-year period. According to the tapes, in his capacity with the LAPD, Fuhrman said things to African-Americans like, "You do what you're told, understand, nigger?" He was also recorded bragging that he liked lining up "niggers against the wall and shooting them."
In his WND column, Nugent lavishly praised the word. He wrote, "The word nigger has historically been used in a powerfully positive way when describing the proud heritage and history of deeply respected, even revered 'blackness,'" and noted that he considered it "the greatest compliment" when someone uses the word to describe his music.
Nugent added, "The word is used constantly across America in a friendly, even tribal greeting and salutation with no hint whatsoever of negativity nor hostility," and compared its use to the "'MF' word" -- a reference to "mother fucker" that he never spelled out, although his column did spell out the word "nigger" five times.
Nugent also wrote, "As blacks blow away blacks in record numbers in Chicago and other urban hellzones each weekend, does anyone have the audacity to believe that words play any role in this insane widespread criminality?" adding, "What sort of goofball could possibly believe that certain words are OK for one group of people but forbidden by others?"
On Facebook, Nugent promoted his WND column in a post that said, "When I play my Motown guitar, I niggerup."
Nugent, who has a lengthy history of racially-charged rhetoric, is correct that he has used the N-word before. In a 1990 interview with Detroit Free Press Magazine, Nugent defended the apartheid system in South Africa and said, "I use the word nigger a lot because I hang around with a lot of niggers, and they use the word nigger, and I tend to use words that communicate ... I don't mean to offend."
In a 1995 interview with Bob Mack of Grand Royal magazine, Nugent claimed "real America" was full of "working hard, playing hard, white motherfucking shit kickers, who are independent and get up in the morning," before saying of James Brown and several other African-American musicians, "Those are niggers, those are fucking spirited, genuine African-Americans."
During an interview for the release a 2002 album, Nugent reportedly said, "So when ever someone tries to claim that I'm a racist because I use the word 'nigger,' the word 'nigger' is a badge of honour where I come from."
Beyond his use of racial slurs, Nugent has called Obama a "subhuman mongrel" and has claimed that African-Americans should be racially profiled the same way members of a community might profile a breed of dog that was biting children. He also said that African-Americans could "solve the black problem" if they were more honest and law-abiding, and that the African-American community has a "mindless tendency to violence" and an inability to "read or speak clearly."
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During an appearance on the National Rifle Association's radio show, conservative radio host Tony Katz said relatives of the victims of the Charleston church shooting showed "serious weakness" in forgiving the accused gunman and suggested that it would be justifiable to kill members of the gunman's family out of retribution.
On June 19 several family members of victims killed in a June 17 mass shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, attended the first court appearance of the alleged gunman and forgave the man for killing members of their family.
Hours later Katz, who makes regular Friday appearances on the NRA program Cam & Company, reacted to the court appearance by calling the move to forgive not "a moment of strength" but rather "a moment of serious weakness that we do not respond with a 'you don't get to kill us, we kill you.'"
Katz continued, "As a matter of fact, we kill you tenfold, who's in your family today?" -- putting forward the suggestion that the family members of accused murderers should be murdered themselves in retribution.
He concluded by calling his reaction -- which included advocacy for the killing of innocent people -- "far more natural and in many ways far more decent than sometimes the reactions I see." Host Cam Edwards responded, "All right, far more natural I might agree with, far more decent, I don't -- I'm going to have to disagree with you there."
KATZ: Now we know me and we know you and others who may think about being attacked and put ourselves in positions not to be or at least be able to fight back, but that's what I come to and I get the fact, I get it, not everybody is going to agree with me, but I think that my reaction is far more natural and in many ways far more decent than sometimes the reactions I see.
EDWARDS: All right, far more natural I might agree with, far more decent, I don't -- I'm going to have to disagree with you there.
Katz previously appeared on NRA News to criticize the victims of several calamities, including Hurricane Katrina, for not doing enough to save themselves from death or injury.
Katz is not the first conservative figure to criticize those affected by the Charleston shooting. In a June 18 post on a pro-gun web forum, NRA board member Charles L. Cotton wrote that the victims "died because of" Reverend Clementa Pinckney's advocacy for gun safety laws. Pinckney was also killed in the attack.
During the June 24 broadcast of Tony Katz and the Morning News on 93.1 WIBC, Katz addressed his June 19 comments he made on NRA News about the Charleston shooting victims' family members forgiving the gunman. Katz said that he was "sickened," "disgusted," and "very bothered" by the forgiveness shown to the alleged perpetrator, but also said it was "probably wrong" of him to characterize the forgiveness given by victims' family members as "weakness" and that he was not "entitled" to say so.
He also said, "I think I did a poor job of pivoting, which has happened to me before, and I don't believe in hiding these things. I don't believe in saying, 'Oh, it's just one conversation, it's no big deal.' And some people will tell me, 'Tony, you dwell on this stuff too much.' I believe that if we're going to be honest with each other the only way to do that is to when you think you don't do it right, or you don't do it clearly, you go back and do it clearly. Let me say it again, and I don't apologize for what I said, I'm going to go for clarity. I look at forgiveness of somebody who murders your family not as a virtue. I look at it and I say, 'I don't get it.'"
Katz also talked about his suggestion that it would be acceptable to murder members of the gunman's family out of retribution. During his June 19 appearance on NRA News, Katz said, "We do not respond with a 'you don't get to kill us, we kill you.' As a matter of fact, we kill you tenfold, who's in your family today?" During his June 24 WIBC broadcast, Katz said, "One of the non-journalistic organizations of the world, Media Matters for America, picked it up they called me bloodthirsty because they were discussing how I'm proactively wishing that these family members would go out and kill the family members of this murderer, Dylann Roof. Which is not-- it, it goes to a much larger conversation that I have, and that conversation is about being prepared for moments and being a society in which those who wish to do harm, because you can't stop people from doing harm if they really want to, you can't stop the sick, you can't stop the demented, but those who want to do harm, they should at least have to question whether or not they should do it to you."
Katz's full discussion of his comments:
National Rifle Association board member Charles L. Cotton wrote that the victims of a mass shooting in a Charleston, South Carolina church died because of Reverend Clementa Pinckney's advocacy for gun safety laws.
Pinckney, along with eight others, was killed by a gunman during a June 17 attack at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 2013, Pinckney, who was also a South Carolina State Senator, introduced legislation to require more comprehensive background checks on gun sales and supported several other gun safety measures during his career as a legislator.
In a post on an online forum for Texas supporters of the concealed carry of handguns, Cotton wrote, "he [Rev. Pinckney] voted against concealed-carry. Eight of his church members who might be alive if he had expressly allowed members to carry handguns in church are dead. Innocent people died because of his position on a political issue."
At the bottom of Cotton's post was an image that promoted NRA membership:
Cotton, who is active in Texas NRA affiliate group Texas State Rifle Association, faced criticism in February for his assertion that corporal punishment for children could prevent him from "having to put a bullet in him later." According to Talking Points Memo Cotton wrote:
"I'm sick of this woman and her 'don't touch my kid regardless what he/she did or will do again' attitude," Cotton wrote in a thread titled "HB567: Corporal punishment in schools."
"Perhaps a good paddling in school may keep me from having to put a bullet in him later," he added.
Cotton is listed in the NRA's magazine as a member of the board of directors, with his term expiring in 2017.
According to NRAOnTheRecord.org, Cotton has served on the NRA board for more than a decade and has also served on the Board of Trustees of the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund.
Conservative media and the National Rifle Association (NRA) are fearmongering over a supposed "new" Obama administration regulation to limit the ability of convicted domestic abusers to buy firearms.
In reality, the regulation would simply implement a 1998 law and has been under consideration for the past 17 years, including during the entire eight years of George W. Bush's administration.
The conservative opposition campaign to what is in fact a long-standing proposal began with a flawed May 30 article in The Hill headlined, 'Administration preps new gun regulations," that claimed, "The Justice Department plans to move forward this year with more than a dozen new gun-related regulations, according to [a] list of rules the agency has proposed to enact before the end of the Obama administration." The article described the regulations listed in the Department of Justice's semi-annual Unified Agenda (a periodic list of proposed or recently completed rules) as "new," when in fact several of them date back to prior administrations.
The National Rifle Association is falsely characterizing a legislative proposal from Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) that would allow felons to petition the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for restoration of their gun ownership rights, saying the option would only be available to "non-violent felons."
In fact, any felon could apply to have their right to own a firearm restored under Buck's proposal, which is why the ATF program that used to provide that option was defunded in the early 1990s -- research showed that even violent felons had won their appeals, and in some cases went on to commit new violent crimes.
For the past 23 years, standard language in appropriations legislation -- first inserted by then-Rep. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) -- has prohibited the ATF from using budget money on a program that allowed people who had lost their legal right to buy or own a gun because of a felony conviction to apply for restoration of that right. That longtime prohibition was challenged on June 2, however, when the Republican-controlled House of Representatives adopted by voice vote a rider introduced by Buck that would re-fund the program.
During a floor speech, Buck argued for support by citing an example of a man who is prohibited from owning a gun because he wrote a bad check 40 years ago. He declared, "This bill does not intend in any way shape or form to allow a violent criminal to possess a firearm, only those non-violent criminals that ATF deems are not a danger."
But in fact, there is no language in the proposal that limits the right to appeal to non-violent felons. Buck's rider merely reverses the prohibition on funding, changing the words "none of the" funds to "such" funds in the following line: "Provided, That such funds appropriated herein shall be available to investigate or act upon applications for relief from Federal firearms disabilities under section 925(c) of title 18, United States Code."
Despite this, the NRA and some conservative media outlets have run with the blatantly false talking point that the program would only apply to "non-violent felons" in coverage trumpeting Buck's proposal.
An article in the National Rifle Association's (NRA) "official journal" attacked survivors of the 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech for using the tragedy to advocate for stronger gun laws.
On April 16, 2007, a gunman at Virginia Tech opened fire in a dormitory and several classrooms, fatally shooting 32 people and wounding 17 others. Following the shooting, several survivors and victims' family members began to advocate for gun violence prevention laws, especially for a federal law to close a loophole in the national background check system that allowed the gunman to acquire his weapons.
In a June 4 feature, NRA magazine America's 1st Freedom attacked those advocates and ran an interview with Holly Adams, who lost her daughter in the shooting and doesn't believe that additional regulation of firearms will prevent future tragedies.
America's 1st Freedom writer David Burnett posited that some victims of the shooting were "coached by gun control lobbyists" and had politicized their experiences with the tragedy by using "their victimhood to advocate for gun bans throughout the nation":
Some Virginia Tech victims and survivors, several no doubt coached by gun control lobbyists, responded to the tragedy by demanding harsher gun laws. (In reality, the perpetrator had passed a background check when purchasing the firearms he used in his crime, even though he had been court-ordered to undergo mental health treatment. The failure was in the reporting of the information, not the gun laws.) Like most, however, Holly preferred to grieve in private rather than politicize her loss. But after five years of watching a vocal minority continuously use their victimhood to advocate for gun bans throughout the nation, Holly released a statement through the Virginia Citizens Defense League that read, in part:
Following the December 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, members of conservative media frequently and offensively labeled victims of gun violence who supported stronger gun laws as "props" who weren't speaking voluntarily. The NRA's magazine not only did that, it went one step further and accused some survivors of politicizing their own personal tragedies.
The National Rifle Association (NRA) used its online magazine to encourage readers to "splurge on a new gun" to mark National Gun Violence Awareness Day, a nationwide event that commemorates victims of gun violence.
Americans are wearing orange on June 2 to honor victims of gun violence as part of a national campaign organized by the Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund. According to an Everytown press release, "More than 200 organizations, cultural influencers and elected officials" will promote wearing orange as "a way to visibly honor the 88 American lives cut short by gun violence every day, plus the countless survivors forever altered by shootings each year."
The "Wear Orange" campaign is an outgrowth of efforts to honor the life of Chicago teenager Hadiya Pendleton. On January 29, 2013, Pendleton was fatally shot while taking shelter from a rainstorm in a South Side Chicago park, allegedly by gang members who thought the group she was standing with included rival gang members. The Chicago Tribune called Pendleton's murder "arguably Chicago's most galvanizing killing in recent years," and noted that "Pendleton, a dimple-faced sophomore drum majorette, had performed just a week earlier at festivities for President Barack Obama's second inauguration."
Following her death, Pendleton's friends decided to honor her life with a series of events revolving around the color orange in a project called Project Orange Tree. The group's past president, Nza-Ari Khepra, told the Chicago Sun-Times, "The question then was, 'What's the next step?' We brainstormed. Someone said we should use orange because that's the color hunters wear to alert other hunters they're not the targets."
Everytown built on Project Orange Tree's efforts by asking Americans to wear orange on June 2 -- which would have been Pendleton's 18th birthday -- to mark the first National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
The NRA's online magazine, America's 1st Freedom, lashed out at the campaign, calling it pointless in a May 30 post. On June 2, it encouraged readers to mark the day by buying a gun, saying, "If you see any friends or neighbors wearing orange, consider the possibility that they: a) don't support your right to self-defense; and b) have a rather naïve view of what constitutes real activism."
The NRA proposed an "alternative" way to mark the day: "Actually go to the range; splurge on a new gun; take someone shooting for the first time. It's that kind of quiet but productive activity that makes the NRA base so powerful -- and that Everytown is still trying to figure out."
Media Matters is a partner in the "Wear Orange" campaign.
Editors of the National Rifle Association's magazine, America's 1st Freedom, attacked a national plan to honor Hadiya Pendleton, the Chicago teenager whose 2013 shooting death made national headlines, and draw attention to all victims of gun violence, calling it "pointless."
June 2 will mark the country's first National Gun Violence Awareness Day. A national campaign organized by the Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund has asked Americans to wear the color orange to honor victims of gun violence. The "Wear Orange" campaign organizers say they hope to turn the color "into a symbol for the value of human life everywhere."
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, "Groups such as Amnesty International USA, MomsRising and Sandy Hook Promise; mayors from Chicago to Miami and Chapel Hill; and members of Congress representing states from Illinois to New York and California will be wearing or promoting orange on Tuesday. Media entities such as HBO and Essence Magazine are involved, with MTV and Motown Records planning to turn their logos orange." (Media Matters is also a partner organization.)
In a May 30 post in its digital magazine, America's 1st Freedom, the National Rifle Association attacked the campaign as "pointless" and said "participating is an easy way of scoring points for being 'socially conscious.'" The magazine also criticized celebrities Julianne Moore, Russell Simmons, and Michael Stipe for participating in National Gun Violence Awareness Day, writing, "It's a shame that quite a few presumably well-meaning celebrities are caught up in a thinly veiled anti-gun stunt orchestrated by Bloomberg and friends." (Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is the founder of Everytown for Gun Safety.)
The results of an 18-month survey of advertisements in the National Rifle Association's (NRA) magazine, America's 1st Freedom, squared neatly with the gun group's own tendency to use to fear as a marketing tool.
Media Matters reviewed advertisements that appeared in the NRA magazine from January 2014 through June 2015 and discovered that they appealed to a wide range of fears, including the threat of starvation due to food shortages, the dread of losing the ability to live independently because of declining health, the prospect of a terrorist attack, and the need to carry a collapsible assault weapon in a briefcase for self-protection.
NRA executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre often uses fear to motivate people to support the NRA or purchase firearms.
In a February 2013 column for the magazine, LaPierre argued that Americans needed to buy guns to ensure their "survival" while warning of calamities including, "Hurricanes. Tornadoes. Riots. Terrorists. Gangs. [and] Lone criminals." Prior to the 2014 elections, in a special election edition of America's 1st Freedom, LaPierre urged supporters to back the NRA's preferred candidates while raising the specter of several different terrorist attack scenarios, including an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack that would kill 9 out of 10 Americans. LaPierre has also warned conservative audiences about the threat of "home invaders, drug cartels, carjackers, knockout gamers, and rapers, and haters, and campus killers, airport killers, shopping mall killers and killers who scheme to destroy our country with massive storms of violence against our power grids or vicious waves of chemicals or disease that could collapse our society that sustains us all."
Advertisers in the NRA's magazine often played on the same fears, urging readers to buy their products to protect against one calamity or another. Similar to other conservative media websites, some of the products advertised in America's 1st Freedom were of extremely dubious value, including an "anti-aging" supplement that had not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and expensive jewelry made from low-cost materials. Some products in the magazine were simply bizarre or retrograde, including an accent lamp that celebrates the Confederacy and a watch that allows users to "Tell Time Like a Man."
"The Light Of The South," an accent lamp featuring the likeness of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and several pieces of Confederacy iconography, was advertised in the NRA magazine for $135 under the tagline, "Southern Pride Shines On." The lamp featured several variations of the Confederate flag as well as two CSA (Confederate States of America) emblems and the dates commemorating the beginning and end of the Confederacy.
National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent attacked President Obama and gun safety advocates for calling attention to the deaths of children from guns, calling such efforts "The Big Lie" -- a phrase associated with Nazi propaganda.
Gun accidents and homicides involving children happen far more frequently in the United States than in other affluent nations.
In a May 13 column posted on conspiracy website WND (World Net Daily), Nugent wrote, "The Big Lie about guns is that innocent kids are being gunned down or are accidentally shooting each other."
Arguing that "very few kids under the age of 10 die or are injured as a result of gun-related accidents," Nugent wrote, "The vast majority of teenagers who die as a result of guns are involved in gangs. They are punks, thugs and street rats who have dropped out of school and let out of their cages over and over again by a so-called 'justice system' gone bad."
Hitler first wrote about "the big lie" in Mein Kampf. The Nazi leader accused Jews of telling "the big lie" to corrupt "the broad masses," who he claimed "more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie." The phrase is also associated with tactics used by chief Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
It's hard to argue that accidental gun deaths involving children are not worth calling attention to, let alone that covering such tragedies is comparable to Nazi-style propaganda. And it is no surprise that accidental shootings involving children receive widespread media coverage, given how shocking and senseless they are.
According to a project of Everytown for Gun Safety, there have been at least 88 incidents just this year "in which a child 17 or under fired a gun unintentionally and someone was harmed as a result." In 2013, the group documented at least 100 accidental shooting deaths of children aged 14 or younger. A Mother Jones report that examined the same time period found 84 fatal gun accidents involving children aged 12 and under, 64 of which involved a child pulling the trigger, killing themselves or someone else, which debunks Nugent's claim that children are not "accidentally shooting each other."
The National Rifle Association's media arm is deliberately misrepresenting a proposed new law in North Carolina that would repeal background checks on private pistol sales, falsely claiming that it would merely shift required background checks from one government system to another.
In reality, the bill would eliminate a pistol permit requirement that currently ensures that buyers of pistols from private sellers at gun shows and online undergo a background check, thus creating a loophole for felons and other persons prohibited by law from purchasing firearms.
Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives are currently considering H.B. 562, a piece of legislation that would repeal a state requirement that anyone who wants to purchase a pistol first obtain a permit from their local county sheriff -- a process that involves undergoing a background check. H.B. 562 has so far passed two House committees, although an effort to fast-track it was recently abruptly canceled.
If the pistol permit requirement is repealed, individuals who buy from private sellers at gun shows or online would no longer have to undergo a background check before completing their purchase.
Right on cue, the National Rifle Association has unveiled its 2016 presidential election conspiracy theory with the baseless claim that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is harboring a secret plan to confiscate Americans' firearms. But Clinton has never endorsed such a plan and in fact has defended private citizens' right to own guns.
In a May 11 article published in the NRA's magazine and on its lobbying website, the gun group wrote, "Whether or not she understands the Second Amendment, Hillary Clinton disdains and distrusts that freedom," and claimed Clinton "wants control over every aspect of your right to keep and bear arms -- so she can deny it at will."
Clinton's own recent statements about "the right of people to own guns" meant the NRA was forced to juxtapose a series of old Clinton quotes -- some dating back to the late 1990s -- and hope that its readers would make implausible leaps of logic to buy into the conspiracy theory that a President Hillary Clinton would confiscate firearms. The NRA ran a similar fearmongering campaign about President Obama during the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections that also had zero basis in fact.
In the article, the NRA purports to describe a secret plan by Clinton to confiscate firearms. The alleged starting point for the plan, however, is based on a distortion of the truth.
A newly expanded version of the National Rifle Association's flagship magazine has already featured racist and sexist content, a claim that gun owners are the victim of "institutionalized discrimination," and other inflammatory commentary.
In recent weeks, the NRA has rebranded its magazine America's 1st Freedom. While the magazine was previously available in a print and digital format, a newly-launched website has more content, including "F1rst Things First" ("The Daily Threat Assessment for Your Firearm Freedoms"), features by a wide range of NRA writers and outside contributors, and material from the NRA's lifestyle magazine NRA Sharp and the NRA News commentator series.
One thing that has not changed for America's 1st Freedom is the magazine's penchant for inflammatory commentary.
In a May 4 feature that promoted controversial "Stand Your Ground" self-defense laws, former NRA lobbyist Darren LaSorte, who now works for the NRA's ad agency Ackerman McQueen, described a past experience where he would have felt "clearly justified in [his] mind" to push a homeless man who was yelling at him and waving his hands around his waist in front of a bus. As it turns out, LaSorte was actually able to defuse the situation by crossing the street.
LaSorte recounted how "[o]n an evening walk home from work a while back, a mentally ill man picked me out of the crowd for whatever reason and things went south from there." According to LaSorte, the man yelled at him and came "contact-close" while "[h]is hands went from waving wildly in the air to down around his waistline."
He then recalled almost pushing the man into traffic (emphasis added): "I was about to launch him away from me with an explosive and instinctive push to his chest. Just at that moment out of my peripheral vision, I noticed a city bus speeding by in the nearest lane of traffic. I stopped at the last moment and instead moved off a couple of feet to my right. If I had pushed him away from me, I would have been clearly justified in my mind, but the government might have viewed it differently if this man had been severely injured or killed by the passing bus."
Once the traffic light changed, LaSorte wrote that he walked across the street and the man did not follow him. Citing other instances of being approached by "someone suspicious," LaSorte promoted the NRA's work in advancing "Stand Your Ground" laws. These laws actually increase the incidence of homicide, and a primary criticism leveled at such laws is that they needlessly escalate situations, resulting in lethal outcomes.


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The city of Detroit will propose closing its health department, to be replaced by a public health institute with much of the funding to carry out most of the same services it now offers, the Free Press has learned.
The proposal is outlined in a document given to the Free Press. It was to be presented today to the Detroit City Council, which tabled the discussion for a yet-to-be-scheduled date.
Though other cities have set up similar institutes, this would be the first conversion of a health department to an institute in a major American city, according to Vern Davis Anthony, a former Michigan health department director and consultant on the institute project to the city health department.
The institute would continue to offer most of the citys current health programs, such as immunizations, restaurant inspections and maintenance of birth and other vital records, Anthony said.
Still to be decided is how Detroit will oversee the health departments animal control division, she said.
The closure of the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion, which provides services to more than 200,000 Detroiters each year, would eliminate some 400 jobs, Anthony said.
Workers can reapply for jobs at the Institute for Population Health, as the nonprofit agency will be named, Anthony said. The new positions would be nonunion jobs with more limited retirement and health benefits, she said.
Anthony said that while final figures are not available, she expects the institute may employ about 250 workers. As many as one-third of the citys 400 health department workers are eligible to retire, she said.
Given the fiscal problems of Detroit, the department faced tough decisions to eliminate or cut services, she said. Its unconscionable there would be a disruption of services, Anthony said. The new institute will be leaner, more efficient and able to better leverage state, federal and foundation grants.
Jean Chabut, deputy director of the state health department, who has been involved with the proposal, said the change is a very significant transformational change that will let the city arrange health services more efficiently.
The arrangement also will save Detroit money because the city no longer will have to contribute money to help offset higher labor costs for health department workers.
The document outlining the change said the institute will have a governing board with the the citys health director serving as a board member.
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