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Historically, the economy has always done well with a Republican congress and a Democrat president...
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If the democrats had some guts, they would just quit. Hand the country over the tea-party. Then when it has all collapsed come back and demand the first son/daugher (according to sexual preference) of every republican family.
The tea baggers will cause one hell of a mess. Normal republicans are merely inept and corrupt. Most are not completly batshit insane.
But this is the ultimate failure of democracy. When people think they punish the PRESIDENT by voting for some nutters.... yeah, because Obama is NOW going to take the hint and FIX the economy after all that was ruined by the republicans because without a majority that makes that job a lot easier...
When voters start basing their vote to punish a leader for not doing fast enough what they want and then vote for people that are totally against what they want... just call it quits and get me a benign dictator (translation, any dictator whose deathlist I am not on).
Punish Obama for not pushing heathcare reform by voting for a tea bagger... maybe voting should require an IQ test. If you eat the piece of paper, you fail it.
in spite of the fact that the 2008 candidates left the campaign trail to focus on the rapidly failing economy
Focusing by sending a ton of money to banks? Or was it the focus later where they decided the best way to "improve" the economy was to scare businesses with massive changes to health care and insure business spending would pucker faster than a North Dakotan chewing on a raw lemon?
They had a laser like focus on the economy for sure. It shows in that the economy is now blind, staggering and badly burnt.
Doing what you wanted to do anyway and claiming it was to help the economy, is not ACTUALLY helping the economy. And it turns out the average voter is smart enough to see that (well, anywhere except for California).
Punish Obama for not pushing heathcare reform
Maybe you missed the memo - the majority of the country opposes the healthcare reform that got passed. Many of them are the people who just did they annual enrollment and discovered how much more their premiums went up because of it.
The House take over, while expected, is not the big news. The major push Republicans made at the state level shows the strength of the move. Actually by not winning the Senate the Republicans may have preserved the ability to take the White House in 2012. Given that there are more Democratic Senators up for election in 12 than Republicans they have a near majority on many issues.
God, Gays, and Subpoena's, are about the best way for Republicans to knock themselves out of the House control in 12, as in, lean into any of those areas too far and the voters will show them the door.
Do I expect budget miracles, nope. I expect a whole lot of gridlock, preventing new large government programs from being implemented. That will do us nicely. The government has been on a binge of spending in the last four years and needs to be reigned in. Too much of the government spending is untouchable but if the line can be held, by gridlock or vote, to where spending does not go up by more than 2% per year the economy can grow us out of the deficit spending.
However, like I read elsewhere, the good news is the Democrats lost the House, the bad news is the Republicans won it. Like Rove and a few others mention, Washington doesn't care what the country thinks and the Senate is the worst of the lot. As in, Tea Party candidates, candidates of "change", or whatnot, are in for one rude surprise. The nice thing about the Senate however is that regardless of seniority or committee assignment anyone can submit new legislation
Was is a slap in the face of Democrats. Sure it was, just like 08 was us telling Republicans, no more of this crap; let alone don't expect us to vote for rights killers like McCain. Obama and Pelosi got told, there are no Kings and Queens in America, so quit acting like one.
Each representative should vote in a manner that is consistent with the best interests of their constituents.
And I voted for the representative whose conception of what is best for my district matches mine. For instance, one of the candidates believes that gun control was best in the best interests of our district, the other one believes that gun rights are best for the district. Neither of them came out and said "I have a policy on guns that is wrong for you!".
Meanwhile, there is another problem: both candidates believe that economic growth is best for our district (gasps from the audience) but one believes the best way to achieve that is by cutting taxes and the other believes the best way to achieve it is to fund a second round of stimulus spending. Neither of them came out and said "I have a policy on the economy that is going to wreck it!".
If we all agreed on (a) what constitutes the best interests of the district and (b) which policies are most likely to achieve those interests, then there wouldn't be much point in a political process at all. As it happens, we are pretty divided as a nation both on (b) but more fundamentally on (a) -- on what outcomes are normatively preferable. That can't be resolved by a "best interests of the constituents" test because the constituents themselves don't agree.
Ok genius, tell me how these price increases [market-ticker.org] aren't going to work their way through the supply chain and make the basic necessities of life cost more.
Historically the world and the country has done really well when the house, senate and president are all split and fighting against each other. Less crap get's passed as the other party vetos or stops the others garbage from getting passed. So the bleeding heart liberal socialisim wont get passed easily nor the Whiney conservative Corporate welfare and deep tax cuts for the rich will get passed. The government will be stalemated and nothing will get done.
This is a VERY GOOD THING! And is exactly how the founding fathers designed it.
Actually it's just that the Paranoid right is simply completely nuts.
I have met the man, you can not help but like him when you meet him and talk to him.
Of course the real losers in all of this are us: the idiots who keep voting for Democrats and Republicans while believing the platitudes pounded into our heads: This is democracy! The people have spoken! Let freedom ring! And other rubbish.
It isn't even a secret that the politicians work for the lobbyists and not for us: the "campaign contributions" are made one day, and the very next day the vote just so happens to go the way of the contributor. What a shock!
Reform from the inside seems hopeless, because the people charged with making that reform are the very people benefitting from keeping it the way it is. The few honest politicians who get into office get twisted and corrupted so quickly that they become indistinguishable from the most self-serving of the bunch.
If we want to ever break out of this complete rape of our selves by our lords and masters, there is only one option. No it is not revolution. That too is unrealistic both motivationally and militarily. Our only hope is to create an alternative, open-source-style government [metagovernment.org] and make the current system obsolete.
It is a long shot, and you can find a lot of problems with it. But do you have a better idea?
The laws that enforce the terms of contracts are automatically bad for the economy?
Those laws were passed decades and centuries ago. New laws are not needed for that.
Unless you're suggesting that Israel ordered the US to invade Iraq and subsequently bolster of Iran in the region, and are attributing the cost of Iraq to Israel, in which case you might want to check your lips for crack pipe burns.
It's a shame when people rewrite history so casually. The idea that you call the health care plan "Obamacare" when he didn't put it together and basically dropped the ball on it is completely absurd. Then, in an effort to work with Republicans the plan was whittled down to almost nothing, yet you still call it "Obamacare" and claim nobody talked to the Republicans.
Sorry, but I was paying attention, and I saw a perfectly reasonable and popular health care bill relentlessly torpedoed by the right, and that is the damaged bill we have now. Which, by the way, is still better than nothing and that will be obvious in 20 years as it is tweaked -- like every successful social policy of the past century. You know, the stuff that brought us to the top of the list of developed countries after WWII.
Your notion that this administration is the most partisan is merely a reflection of the fact that sometime since the early nineties when Newt shut down Congress, Republican leaders have simply decided "my way or the highway" on everything. Democrats under Bush were far more reasonable than the Republicans have been in decades now, which is why Bush was able to "work across the aisle".
It may be worth calling attention to the fact, which seems to slip your mind, that under Clinton's leadership we saw one of the greatest decades of growth this country has ever experienced. And under Bush we saw one of the worst. And under Obama we are slowly recovering. Doesn't any of those plain facts make you wonder about the Republican plan?
I was glad to see this time around that the Diebold machines did a great job of allowing me to quadruple-check my vote, AND created a paper trail right before my eyes.
Looks like they finally got it right, at least in my precinct.
There's no denying that banks played a major role in the collapse, largely due to not properly ensuring that borrowers were capable of repaying the loans.
They didn't want the borrowers to repay the loans. The whole thing was a scam [market-ticker.org] from day one.
The sold unpayable loans to generate more fees by forcing borrowers to refinance.
They sold the same mortgage more than once so that when it defaulted the investors would not realize that it had been pledged two, three or four times over and blame the default for their loss. (Think of the plot of The Producers)
The Republicans and Democrats both know this but neither one is willing to throw their benefactors in jail.
Any propaganda you read about Republicans working to repeal ObamaCare is all hype. It can't be done unless they gain 12 seats in the Senate and take over the presidency in 2012. Until then, enjoy your premium increases.
Premium increase... LOL...
Just drop your coverage, take the token fine, and pay out of pocket for general doctor visits. This will save thousands of dollars per year. If you actually need the insurance, just sign up when you get really sick. The insurance companies will have to take you!!
And don't worry that enough people will eventually figure this out to bankrupt the entire industry, forcing President Pelosi in 2016 to socialize the entire healthcare industry. Couldn't happen...
They might get a "Guiliani pass." When he was elected mayor, crime rates had been dropping rapidly for about 2 years under the Dinkins? administration which had completely halted and reversed skyrocketing crime rates. You can find the stats out there on the internet and graph them yourself. This drop continued for a few more years and leveled out.
Right now, the bleeding has been stopped and the economy is slowly improving. I imagine the progress will continue unless the Republicans do something catastrophically stupid.
Republican health care ideas might have lead to some savings in some areas, but they aren't going to fix the real problems.
A perspective (that happens to be mine) is that the only real problem is the cost.
I don't care about providing universal coverage for all. I don't care about mandating coverage. I care about my own healthcare costs. From this perspective, I expect my elected officials to champion my interests. The idea being that if you get 100 senators and 435 representatives all looking out for the expressed interests of their constituents you will eventually get a compromised piece of functioning legislation.
Instead, what we got was a self serving piece of garbage intended to leave a "Democratic Legacy" shrouded in some pseudo altruistic nonsense. We got a ridiculous amalgamation of pet projects and wishful thinking that commits American taxpayers to picking up the insurance and medical costs of the uninsured. I don't want that. And I want my elected officials to listen to me when I say that I don't want that.
This was my issue with the healthcare bill. Cost, and lack of consideration for the people that will be bearing the brunt of the increased costs.
Actually, Ralph Nader said that, apart from foreign policy, the Democratic part is farther right than Richard Nixon.
I think he's right. Nixon's Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare was Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who was non-partisan but promoted a lot of ideas that we would consider liberal.
One Nixon/Moynihan proposal was the guaranteed annual income. We would fold the welfare system into the income tax system. If you earned over a certain amount, you would pay taxes. If you earned under a certain amount, you would get "negative taxes." It was a good idea, but to avoid negative incentives, it would have been expensive.
If the guaranteed annual income had gone through, we would have eliminated poverty. We would have had the economic distribution of Finland.
I met GWB. In person, he's actually articulate, thoughtful. Contrasted to his TV persona, he's a completely different person. I've thought long and hard about that experience, and I have concluded this plainly observable difference can be explained in two plausible ways: 1) He's just not good at public speaking, might be camera shy. I'm the same way. 2) His public image is a carefully constructed ruse. An act.
#1 makes me wonder how we can elect a president who is a social clusterfuck
#2 gives me the willies.
more jobs added in the last two years than during Bush's entire reign
...and in other news, the chocolate ration has been increased from 30 grams per week to 20.
NCLB was the main reason I moved my family. Both of my elementary school children hated school because they were so bored. The teachers taught to the minimums. They got bonuses if more kids passed the end of year tests. Guess what happened the last few weeks of school. 1. First end of year test. 2. Reteaching those who failed the test. 3. Second end of year test for those who failed the first test. Do you know what the kids who passed the first test did during the reteaching & retaking of tests? Nothing. For 2+ weeks. I mean my older kid was watching 2 movies a day in third grade during this time. We couldn't see anything on the weekends because he had seen everything.
Now, I pay more in taxes and it's worth it. MUCH better school system - teachers & students trying for the top, not the bottom. NCLB is nowhere in sight.
Rush D Holt, from New Jersey, is a former rocket scientist and generally a friend of geeks on issues like electronic voting.
Firstly... I can't moderate for some reason ( I have points but there is no "moderate" button right now).
Secondly.. I'm with you up to point 6.
6. The insurance mandate in the HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT was put there by the HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY. The HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY complained to Obama that they could not insure sick people, it would cost them too much money, so they needed to have healthy people be forced to buy health insurance to offset their cost of insuring sick people.
You understand the concept of "insurance" right?
100 people pay $1, the cost of a problem is $100, 1 person gets sick out of the 100 and is taken care of. If 2 people get sick then next year the premium is going to have to be $2.
Insurance is particularly susceptible to "adverse selection". Only sick people choose to pay for insurance.
If 100 sick people pay for insurance and 100 people get sick, then premiums have to be $100 to cover the cost (and probably $101 since the insurance plan becomes pure overhead at that point).
Where this went wrong is using insurance at all. The government should have just flat out taken away the first $5,000 worth of health care and made it free for everyone and paid for it out of income tax and property tax.
That would include basic shots, basic broken limbs, basic physical exams. "Basic".
Then if we want to handle more serious stuff (cancer can run $1 million-- for me it was $132,000 back in 1993), then we need to first decide
a) HOW MUCH ARE WE WILLING TO PAY IN. 10%? 12%? Whatever the amount is- that results in a fixed amount of money. Then we have to use the Kansas system. Once we are out of money, people start dying. next year do we increase the premium or are do we feel the death rate is fair? Because clearly we are not going to spend $1 trillion dollars to save one person. There must be a life time limit, a triage level where we say, "sorry but it's not going to happen.".
It should not go through insurance companies. And costs should be balanced against mean income and compared to other countries ( which by the way have MUCH lower costs for better coverage so having the government do things can be much more efficient than private companies).
The biggest problem we have is that we have huge corporations which have gotten undue influence and captured the government. This is where we are basically screwed. I don't think we can fix that problem. I have a very dark view of the future around that problem.
Tea Party guys, I really am halfway with you. I like the beginnings of a lot of your speeches. But somehow it always goes psycho. I'll believe you guys are sincere when you tell the Republicans to fuck off. Until then, you're the enemy that you're preaching against.
The Tea party is just the Republican party's bait-and-switch tactics all over again. Look, they tried this after Nixon ruined the party too: they pretended to care about a whole host of things that real Americans care about (less government intrusion, more fiscal responsibility, economic stability, following the Constitution), but somehow when they get elected all those promises take a back seat to increased debt, lower taxes for the very rich, and big business-friendly/small business unfriendly laws.
I eagerly wait the exception, but I again have little faith that, this time, maybe the Republicans really mean to follow up on what they say they want.
Republican gerrymandering happened quite flagrantly ten years ago, prompting Rove and others to talk about a permanent conservative majority. It didn't happen. Gerrymandering is good at protecting incumbents from real opposition but it's bad at assigning districts to any particular party. Don't worry so much about gerrymandering, worry about certain SC decisions.
I'll agree, with some qualifiers.
No President has ever decided they should be able to hold a US citizen without due process other than Abraham Lincoln and his situation was far, far different than Obama's. Lincoln was in the middle of an armed insurrection. Furthermore, no President has ever given himself the power to assassinate a US citizen. Let alone without any due process or without anything other than an accusation.
I haven't agreed with much the Republicans have done for years. They have become just as progressive as the Democrats with respect to tax and spend. They've grown government way too much. However, in with respect to Republican failings the Democrats have been Republicans on steroids.
We are at a point in our history where we must make a 180 degree turn and go back to what worked, or we will end up bankrupt and all our freedoms will be gone. We can't afford to keep on creating debt for our grandchildren and their children. Debt is slavery, and that's exactly what we've been doing to ourselves and our posterity. We're enslaving ourselves in the vain hope of getting something for nothing. It's unsustainable.
Our founding fathers did things right. Under their system we became a country in which even our poorest citizens were better off than a very large percentage of the world, and our country was fiscally sound. Now we are bankrupt, morally and financially.
Last week when I was traveling an acquaintance who owns and runs a farm handed me this quote from the book "Somebody's Gotta Say It" (page 92) and I have to say that it is interesting.
I am not going to say whether or not I agree with it, nor what stage I think America is in right now, because I just want you to ponder it. What I will say is when I vote, I follow JFK's lead and vote where my conscience leads, with this principle: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." I didn't vote for how I could possibly line my pocket, or from a sense of entitlement, but based on what the government is chartered to do as our founding fathers intended.
Here is the quote:
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back to bondage.
Right or wrong, it's a great quote to ponder.
Again, 3rd party PAC spending for the GOP outspent the dems 4 to 1 or 2 to 1 DEPENDING ON THE RACE. Again, these are massive amounts of money unlocked by the CU ruling because companies feel more free to spend when they don't have to reveal who they are.
Again, Meg Whieman spent 145 million dollars. Linda McMahon 46 million and Johnson 8 million of their personal cash.
And your reply is "hollywood moguls and foreigners" bullshit? You're the one in the fantasy land.
The only they could do was keep it from getting even worse with the stimulus money.
That's absolute bullshit. They could have closed the bankrupt TBTF institutions and prosecuted every single responsible individual under RICO, releasing non-violent pot heads to make room in the prisons for all the white collar thugs.
Instead the rest of the economy is being bled dry to prop them up and cover for their theft.
I've heard this a few times now, and I'm curious what you think would have happened if the US decided to shut down, or allow to fail, some of the largest banks in the world.
Do you honestly believe everything would have turned up roses, or are you just venting? We have examples both in the US and worldwide of what happens when a government allows it's major banks to fail, and its not pretty.
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Burned by Karen Marie Moning is one I had been anticipating for a while now, mainly because I've been following this series since day one. It's the latest installment in Moning's Iced series, which consists of just one other title, Iced, and is a small segue in Moning's longer-standing Fever series, which so far consists of Dark Fever, Blood Fever, Fae Fever, Dream Fever, and Shadow Fever. This is important to know, because Moning's set of characters in the world she's built develops over time, and you have to start at the beginning or you'll be a bit lost.
Moning's series is set in modern-day Ireland, and it's about fairies. That's right -- fairies. But I'm not talking about the tiny, cute, iridescent-winged, glitter-spreading variety. Anyone remotely familiar with the fae of Celtic lore knows these creatures are a bit… scarier than we like to portray them here in the U.S. They're sometimes evil, sometimes ugly, all the time complex beings, and they don't care about humans at all. Moning's fairies are about as disturbing and repellent as you can imagine, even the "pretty" ones.
Since this is a continuation, and backtracking through the series would take more pages than this article affords me (although it'd be a thrilling recap!), I'll say, in a nutshell, that Burned continues the story of MacKayla "Mac" Lane, gifted sidhe-seer (pronounced she-seer, a person who can see through the glamour that the fae dress themselves in so they can mingle in the human world). Mac, along with the not-quite-human and darkly sexy Jericho Barrons, has recently defeated the Sinsar Dubh (pronounced she-suh doo, an ancient book of evil). However, evil still runs rampant because the wall that separated humans from the fae was torn down on Halloween night, and now the fae have overrun not just Dublin, but the entire planet. Everyone is vying for ultimate control over everyone else: Humans are battling fae; the Seelie and Unseelie -- the light fae and dark fae -- themselves are pitted against one another; a rival band of sidhe-seers have come, seemingly from nowhere, determined to claim the city for their own; and the Crimson Hag, a disgusting and evil being, is holding the powerful Highland druid Christian MacKeltar hostage. On top of it all, Mac has lost her former friend and protégé, fourteen-year-old Dani "Mega" O'Malley, to betrayal and one grave misunderstanding. Nothing is normal or safe in this new world, so it's no surprise that unlikely alliances are formed, the good turn to evil (and vice versa), and everyone -- including Mac -- has to decide how much they're willing to sacrifice to survive.
Many fantasy fans already know Karen Marie Moning through her Highlander books. By the time you read Burned, you really care about the characters Moning has introduced you to, so it's important to start at the beginning.
More importantly, as far as fantasy is concerned, I like scary stuff -- I mean, I like having my pants scared off me. More impressive, to me, is when a book or a movie or a similar medium can truly disturb me with subtle creepiness. Over-the-top scares are fun, but you know they're not real (in fact, you go to bed at night telling yourself that so you can fall asleep). The subtler the scare, the more realistic it feels, the more it sticks with me. And it's such a sophisticated way of storytelling. As soon as I saw The Voices by F.R. Tallis sitting on the New Books shelf at the Library, I plucked it right up. A version of the classic haunted house story, I could just tell it had the right amount of thrills I was looking for.
Set in mid-1970s London during a heatwave, this story surrounds Christopher Norton, a composer of film soundtracks; his wife, Laura, a former model; and their new daughter, Faye. After having just moved into a new - or rather, very old - Victorian house, Laura begins hearing strange things over the baby monitor. First it's barely audible. Then the voices begin coming through loud and clear. Chris, having built a recording studio so he could work from home, sees the strange, disembodied voices as an opportunity to be taken seriously again in the music world. He begins conjuring the voices and recording them for an ingenious symphony, and becomes obsessed with the project. But one voice in particular wants something Chris isn't willing to give up, although it may be too late by the time he figures that out.
The concept of The Voices reminds me of a mixture of Stephen King's classic The Shining and the 2010 film Insidious (one of the scariest movies I've seen in a while, for the record). I'm reminded of this pair of works in particular because of two things pervasive throughout this story: the sense of frenetic desire to create something (and the creation threatening to consume you), and the idea that your house might not be haunted, but, in fact, you are. How scary is that -- knowing you can't get away from the thing that's haunting you, no matter where you go?
Okay, so maybe I wouldn't choose to put myself in a situation like that, but the sheer ordinariness of the lives of the main characters, the details of their ups and downs, their worries as new parents, and the small interjections of actual London history from that time period all make me feel like it could be me.
With all this talk about my tendency to avoid reality, I was certainly caught off-guard by the stark realness of Nobel Prize-winning Toni Morrison's latest novel, God Help the Child. This book dealt with some very real issues and detailed struggles in the lives of African-Americans as it pertains to identity through skin color, something I can totally relate to.
Simply put, God Help the Child tells the story of Bride, a beautiful woman with very dark skin who finds herself jilted more than once in her life. First, her father's abhorrence for the color of his own daughter's dark skin causes him to leave the family the moment she's born. Her mother, the only person left to take care of her, treats her horribly throughout her young life because of the way she looks. Then her lover, Booker, leaves her, though his reasons aren't as obvious as we're originally led to believe. Though Bride becomes wildly successful later in life. mainly because of the color of her skin, she spends the majority of this story taking from her hurtful past to validate her present decisions, yearnings, and obsessions.
For all its realness, there is still a sense of other-worldliness woven ever so delicately throughout this story, a tendency of Morrison's as a storyteller. As Bride goes searching for Booker, for example, she's under the impression that she's regressing to a pre-pubescent state: certain feminine features of hers are changing, and her once-pierced ears are closing up, among other things. Whether or not these things are really happening is never revealed, and appear to be all in Bride's head. I was never really sure, but it brought to light how powerful the mind is, how much of an escape it can provide, or how the realities of life can affect it.
I don't think it's a problem at all to willingly lose yourself in a bit of whimsy, especially as an adult. Whether you prefer to lounge on the reality side of the pool and dip your toes in fantasy -- an experience you'll find yourself having with Morrison's book -- or you prefer to cannonball dive right in with Moning's Fever series, it's always a refreshing way to escape this world. After all, that's the reason why we read in the first place, isn't it?


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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The scope of the damage from the Gulf Coast oil spill is still hard to calculate, but here's a grim tally: More than 23,000 workers and business owners along the Gulf Coast have filed claims so far for lost income.
BP (BP) has made payments already on 9,000 of those claims, disbursing $27.8 million to fishermen, shrimpers, charter boat captains and others whose livelihoods are now in limbo, according to BP spokesman David Nicholas. The company has 420 claims adjusters staffing nearly two dozens processing centers in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi.
"We've paid claims for immediate hardship," which typically come to a month's estimated salary, Nicholas said. "We're trying to process the others as quickly as possible."
Damon McKnight is the owner of Super Strike Charters, which operates three boats in Venice, La. He said he was paid $5,000 three weeks ago. Among his employees, the captains of two of his boats got $2,500 each, while deckhands each received $1,000.
That's a drop in the bucket compared to what they could have earned out on the water, McKnight said. In a good year his company can pull in $50,000 a month during the fishing season's May to August peak.
"We expected to make a lot of money [this summer]. Right now, we're not making the money we need to make," said McKnight, who has been in business for 14 years.
Others are still on hold, unsure of when they will receive a payout.
"I submitted a claim three weeks ago and haven't heard back," said Josh Howard, the 28-year-old owner of Venice-based Deep South Charters. "I talked to [BP] once and they said my name was in the system."
Howard, who expects to be paid $5,000 for the month he's already been out of work, is fairly new to the charter business, and was relying on a strong season this summer to help pay off his startup costs.
"A lot of people just got their businesses up ... this was going to be a good year for a lot of us," he said. "I just got a new boat this year and spent $50,000 alone on tackle."
All claims will be assigned to an adjuster for evaluation, BP said in a prepared statement. Some will be paid within days, but BP's Nicholas said that "tax returns and previous records of earnings may be appropriate" for larger and more complex claims.
McKnight has already been asked to submit three years of tax returns in order to receive additional funds.
The requirement could prove thorny for fledgling companies like Deep South Charters, which are still struggling to establish themselves. "If they are going off the last three years, we're going to get screwed," Howard said.
BP recently said that costs to clean up the oil slick have exceeded $350 million, or $16 million per day, since the April 20 explosion that sank BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana, leaving 11 workers missing and presumed dead.
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At this point, Tiësto is so huge that he could do pretty much whatever he wants, musically, and he'd still have an audience for it. And yet, on his latest album as the primary artist, called Elements of Life, he goes straight for what he knows, with another set of techno-trance anthems designed to get the dancefloors bumping. Of course, this is also the same music that can inspire electronic experimentalists to punch themselves in the head. As trance albums go, Elements of Life isn't that bad, but the Tiësto sound is such a trademark at this point that he'd have to do something awfully extraordinary to convince anyone to buy this album over any of the other albums (or even the DJ mixes) that he's put out over the years. "Sweet Things", on which singer-songwriter Charlotte Martin does what Tori Amos did for BT's "Blue Skies" all those years ago, is a soaring, ear-catching highlight, as is BT's own vocal attempt on "Break My Fall", a song highlighted by Tiësto's dirtying up of a bassline. Still, there's plenty of generic filler like the painfully trite "Carpe Noctum" (get it?) and the closing, "bonus" track, Tiësto's remix of the Pirates of the Caribbean theme. I mean, it's a good, fun, current idea, but the result comes off as laughable and throwaway. That said, the sound of Elements of Life is polished, and it will get you to dance if played at loud volumes—and really, that's most of what Tiësto's audience is looking for anyway.
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I felt much more confident about the Pacers going into their showdown with the Lakers at the Staple Center after their solid loss (if there is such a thing) against the Spurs several days ago. The offense was still rocky but it showed signs on improving, as did players such as Roy Hibbert and DJ Augustin (who both sucked tonight, unfortunately). I was less optimistic when I found out that Kobe would be playing despite battling the flu. Kobe always has good games when he is sick because he is dying to have a monumental "flu game" like Michael Jordan, and I was afraid the Pacers -- who always tend to give up huge numbers to superstars -- would be a victim. In the end, the Pacers' offense was still fugly and Kobe took off for 40 points (he had a triple-double, actually, with 10 rebounds and 10 turnovers!), but it didn't matter because George Hill hit a running right-handed scoop shot high off the glass over the outstretched hands of Dwight Howard, with the ball sinking through ...
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Last semester I received a two paragraph response from my professor to an essay I had written saying that in my writing, you could not tell if I was saying something profound or whether it was just verbiage. The professor accused me of being, "enamored by [my own] cleverness."
Just to be clear, that is not a compliment.
Of course, reading those words was disappointing and crushing. My identity and self-esteem, not surprisingly, are affected by my academics. After moping around and trying to process exactly what I needed to change about my writing, I rationalized away some of the criticism. But I could not explain away all of those harsh words by the situational influences that made me write what I did; my professor was putting the pressure directly on me. So I took the professor's words seriously, which let me become aware of some of my failings, and gave me the space to grow.
What do you do when a professor trashes your work? You can handle it all sorts of ways, such as undermining the professor's authority by listing their shortcomings (something I am sure that no one at EMU has ever done). You might be devastated by the criticism, making you want to drop out of college, or you might cope by laughing it off, or maybe by internalizing it.
All in all, there are many possible consequences of criticism. One is the chance that the criticism will harm the student without creating new space to grow into. My point here is that criticism is dangerous.
Fortunately, I escaped my only serious run-in with harsh college-level criticism relatively unscathed. I learned from it, I passed the class, and I am even still on good terms with the professor. I was pushed to swallow my pride and mature in a much needed way.
It is important to remember that my professor wrote two paragraphs about my essay.
Within those two paragraphs, along with the harshest (but accurate) attacks on my essay, there were also some sincere compliments that came through. Admittedly, the two most significant compliments were immediately followed with a clarifying 'but' statement. I can choose to take those as well-intentioned compliments no matter how they are framed.
Although criticism is a dangerous tool, it is one we need to start using more. Those two paragraphs deeply
impacted my life. We all need to tell each other to wake up sometimes, when the moment is right. With that said, I am urging professors to criticize us students more, to push us, but to insulate the direct (and often most needed) criticisms with genuine compliments. I am urging students to be vulnerable to the process of criticism, if it is constructive; maybe that professor is right to be critical about your work, and maybe if you listen, profound things will happen.
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