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Message for the Commenters
Noah Kristula-Green January 6th, 2012 at 9:23 pm 16 Comments
Hello everyone. David and I have been in meetings all day but we made time to check in on the comment thread announcing the move to the Daily Beast and Newsweek. The support in the comments has been remarkable. However, there seems to be some misunderstanding going around so we wanted to clear up a few things:
1. Although David has been mandated with writing excellent magazine pieces for Newsweek, he will still be blogging regularly at The Daily Beast. In fact, we will be getting our own Andrew Sullivan-style blog. As of my most recent meeting, the url will be: http://www.thedailybeast.com/davidfrum. This blog will be updated as frequently as FrumForum always was.
2. This new blog will have comments! I strongly encourage all our regulars to sign up for the Daily Beast & Newsweek's comment system. You are a dynamic and well informed commentating community, and I have no doubt you can raise the caliber of the debate at the Daily Beast (and if nothing else, you will continue the work of keeping us honest).
3. FrumForum.com will be retooled into an archive. The URL, frumforum.com, will redirect to the new site, but all the content and blog posts will be saved. The current homepage should be accessible via a new url: frumforum.com/homepage. All the content that has ever been written on FrumForum will be preserved.
All Good Things…
David Frum January 6th, 2012 at 10:09 am 215 Comments
-FrumForum Goes Live
FrumForum launched itself almost exactly three years ago, on Inauguration Day 2009. Over the subsequent interval, our hundreds of contributors have reached more than 5 million individual readers. I like to think that together we have helped to move the national debate. When we launched, Sarah Palin was a leading candidate for president and Glenn Beck was broadcasting conspiracy theories on cable TV. Three years later–not so much. OK, maybe we can't claim all the credit. But we won't refuse some fair share.
Now like all good things, this adventure is coming to an end. I've been invited to move my blog and print journalism to the Daily Beast/Newsweek, a larger and more technologically advanced platform. Tina Brown is one of the great media visionaries of our time. The opportunity to work with her–and learn from her–is deeply exciting.
Starting Monday, my work will shift to the Daily Beast/Newsweek site. The FrumForum URL will forward readers to the David Frum page at Daily Beast/Newsweek. FrumForum itself will continue to exist as an archive site, preserving three years of debate–the brilliant insights of our writers–and the passionate comments of our readers. Noah Kristula-Green will join me on the Daily Beast/Newsweek team.
I sincerely thank all who participated and supported this project. The world is changed only very slowly. It's a big rock, and as human beings we represent only very minuscule and fleeting drips of water. But change is made, and together I believe the change we have offered here has been for the good.
Above all, I thank every reader–those who dissented fully as much as those who read with agreement. Journalism in the digital age is a process rather than a product; an exchange rather than a presentation; intimate rather than abstract. That process continues as ardently as ever, but in a new and improved form and at a bigger and stronger venue.
Gridlock Forever
Steve Bell January 5th, 2012 at 4:50 pm 28 Comments
Far from yielding an ambiguous electoral outcome, the Iowa caucuses solidly confirmed the Balkanization of the Republican Party, a fact that will lead to potential electoral failure in 2012 unless neutralized soon. These internal divisions hurt the party's leadership in Congress in 2011; they have already improved Democratic chances to retain the Senate, gain substantial seats in the House, and keep the White House in 2012.
Super-imposed on this chaos is a 2012 Congressional legislative schedule that virtually no one on Capitol Hill believes has a snowball's chance in hell of ever passing.
Let's take a look at the GOP. Mitt Romney gets a quarter of the vote, what we can call the "competency vote." Ron Paul gets a quarter of the vote, what has been called the "Libertarian" vote, mostly male, mostly an exaggerated macho response to external order, such as what government provides. Rick Santorum, coupled with the Michelle Bachmann cohort, gets about a quarter, centered on traditional "values" like abortion and prayer in school. The remaining quarter of the self-identified Republican base (those who vote in primaries) represent a Newt Gingrich kind of amalgam of the fiscal conservatives, neo-cons, political scientists, and a few "establishment" Republicans.
The overlaps are obvious. Romney will get many of the fiscal conservative/deficit hawks eventually. Paul will continue to get the theological "no government is best" crowd, but may steal a few of Santorum's vote. Gingrich's folks could split easily toward Romney if and when Gingrich throws in the towel, but some may go to Santorum on social issues and to Paul in the primaries. The divisions between Tea Party Republicans and social conservatives have been over-stated by the media as revealed in Iowa. As someone with a particularly sadistic sense of humor said, "Oh, great, we make get a real convention for the Republicans this time."
Meanwhile, incumbents in Congress have work to do, work that will raise almost every contentious issue that matters to voters.
Here's a rough sketch of the upcoming Congressional schedule that the Congress confronts:
*the Congressional Budget Office reveals its current law and current policy baselines for FY2013-17 later this month;
*President Obama makes his State of the Union Address the January 24;
*President Obama sends his recommended increased of $1.2 trillion in the federal debt limit Congress, and Congress must approve or disapprove by a 2/3rds margin;
*President Obama submits his budget recommendations for FY2013-17 the first week of February,incorporating the defense recommendations released today by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta;
*House and Senate must confront another round of warfare over the payroll tax holiday, Unemployment Insurance, and the Medicare doc's fix in February.
*CBO re-estimates the President's budget submission;
*Literally hundreds of hearings on all aspects of the federal budget proceed in Congress;
*Congress should produce a Congressional Budget Resolution for FY13 in April, but has failed to do so the past two years;
*Individual appropriations bills for FY13 stall (c.f. the past several years);
*Congress spends until the August recess in wrangling, producing little of any consequence;
*After the August recess, Congress faces the same agenda it faced in 2010 and 2011, with two added wrinkles: expiration of the Bush tax cuts and a sequester (across-the-board) of $1.2 trillion in selected, discretionary appropriated accounts;
*By this time, all focus will be on a closely fought Presidential race, and the hand-to-hand combat for Senate and House seats.
Review that list. Think about the likely behavior of the factions within Congress, and the little "Balkan" nations with the Republican Party as this agenda unfolds. Deficits, realistically, will once again reach the $1 trillion mark. Economic growth is likely to be slow. The size of layoffs in the defense industry throughout the country begin to dawn on voters. The debt ceiling question inflames Congressional passions.
Remember this schedule when analysts and pundits tell you the following three things: Congress will pass major infrastructure legislation; Congress will do something serious about deficits; Congress will reach compromise before the elections on defense and the Bush tax cuts.
Not. Going. To. Happen.
And just a final, politically realistic note: if Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination, an interesting "back to where we started" road begins. Romney has endorsed the Medicare reform proposals of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and Senator Ron Wyden. President Obama announced his opposition to those proposals the very day they were unveiled. That vote that House and Senate Republicans took way back in 2011 on the Ryan Budget Plan, which incorporated fundamental Medicare reform, will come back to haunt Republicans as Democratic strategists roll out the 30-second commercials and the blogosphere machinery.
One would think that the scenario outlined above would concentrate the minds of the House Republican caucus on unity and survival. It probably won't.
John Boehner still has the hardest job in town.
It's Time to Debate Birthright Citizenship
Howard Foster January 5th, 2012 at 4:04 pm 53 Comments
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has introduced a bill to repeal "birthright citizenship." It's probably the most significant immigration reform bill introduced in Congress since 1965 when nation quotas on immigration were repealed. That revision in the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA") significantly changed the racial and ethnic composition of the country and the number of unskilled immigrants.
Whether you believe the change has been good, or not good (my view), we can all agree that such a far-reaching change in the INA should have been the subject of vigorous two-party debate. That did not occur because the Democrats had huge majorities in both houses of Congress, Republicans did not offer a coherent opposition to the bill, and there was residual sympathy for anything originally offered by the recently assassinated JFK.
It's time for a vigorous national debate about legal immigration without name calling, histrionics, and, unlike 1965, guided by an understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment. Let's start with the relevant text of that post-civil War Amendment, which everyone agrees, was offered to protect and enfranchise the newly freed black slaves. It states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction there of, are citizens of the United States…" (emphasis added) (the "Citizenship Clause"). Sen. Jacob Howard (R-MI), introduced the Citizenship Clause to the version of the Amendment which had passed the House in 1866. He stated: This amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers… but will include every other class of persons."
Senators proceeded to debate whether Indians living on reservations would be citizens. Sen. Lyman Trumbill (R-IL), Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, answered that they would not be citizens because of the phrase "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" of the Citizenship clause. "That means subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof… not owing allegiance to anybody else." There was some discussion about whether "gypsies" and legal Chinese immigrants in California would be covered by the Citiizenship Clause. Sen. Howard indicated they would be.
I don't think there is any way to interpret the original intent of the Citizenship Clause as applying to the children of illegal immigrants. No member of Congress expressed such a view. And my opinion is supported by the second sentence of Sec. 1 of the amendment which expressly provided that the states had to give equal protection of the law to "any person within its jurisdiction," a broader guaranty than that expressed in the Citizenship Clause. So the Senate was creating two levels of rights for two different classes, citizens and equal protection for everyone including aliens.
The Supreme Court interpreted the Citizenship Clause as requiring "consent" of the U.S. government. So, an Indian wanting to register to vote in Omaha, Nebraska was properly denied the franchise even though he was born in the state. According to the Court, birth was insufficient. Because he was born on an Indian reservation, he needed to become naturalized in order to obtain citizenship. Elk v. Wilkins, 112 U.S. 94, 103 (1884). Thus, the concept of "citizenship" also included sole political allegiance.
However, in 1898 the Supreme Court changed course. In a controversial decision written by Justice Gray, who had written the Elk opinion, the Court held the child of legal Chinese immigrants born in the U.S. was a U.S. citizen. The decision limited the "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" phrase of the Citizenship Clause to foreign diplomats and persons at war with the U.S. United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649, 655 (1898). It must be pointed out that neither Mr. Ark nor his Chinese-born parents were in the country illegally. It must also be noted that there was no statutory change in U.S. immigration law between the Elk and Wong Kim Ark decisions that may have changed the Court's analysis. The fundamental flaw in the reasoning is that the Supreme Court is supposed to adhere to its prior decisions, a principle known as stare decisis. Supporters of Roe v. Wade like to bring this up whenever a new Supreme Court justice is nominated. Justice Gray should have followed his own analysis from Elk. Instead, he settled on a meaning of the word "jurisdiction" (which has several meanings in the law) from an admiralty case from 1812, 54 years before the 14th Amendment was written. That admiralty case held that a particular vessel was under U.S. jurisdiction by virtue of being in U.S. territorial waters.
Justice Gray also made the incorrect conclusion that the United States had always adhered to the rule of birthright citizenship. But the very first naturalization statute, enacted in 1790, allowed only "free white" people to become citizens. Id.at 654. And the law in effect at the time of the decision allowed birthright citizenship only when the father was a U.S. citizen. Id. at 674. Justice Gray also stated that the American colonies and states adhered to a policy of "birthright citizenship." Yet his research failed to cite any precedent from any state court agreeing with that view. Id. at 682. Needless to say, there was a vigorous dissent written by Justice Fuller. His most compelling point, and one completely overlooked by the majority, was that under the English common law, there was a distinction between the law of domicile which was decided by where one's birth and the law of allegiance, based upon nationality. The concept of American citizenship was a hybrid of the two, as expressed inElk. And if this was the correct view of the law then Justice Gray made a tremendous error.
More recently the Supreme Court has held that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment applied to the children of illegal immigrants. Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982). The 5-4 majority struck down a Texas law that withheld public education funding for the children of illegal immigrants. But the Court did not hold they were citizens.
All of this brings me back to the INA. Does the law provide for birthright citizenship? The answer is ambiguous. 8 U.S.C. 1401(a) simply provides that a person born in the U.S. "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" is a citizen and national of the U.S. But the INA does not define "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." Under the Wong Kim Ark interpretation of that phrase, children of illegal immigrants might be citizens, and certainly a lawyer can make a strong argument that they are. But I've made the contrary argument here, and it is not frivolous. Certainly, we would benefit from revising that INA to clearly define citizenship. I think Rep. King and his 80 co-sponsors are correct in doing away with birthright citizenship. The only other country having such a rule outside the third world is Canada. The U.K., France, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and India have repealed birthright citizenship in the last 30 years as immigration has increased. According to the Rasmussen poll of likely voters, 65% favor repeal. Birthright citizenship is a magnet for illegal immigrants. This costs the taxpayers billions of dollars each year just in paying for illegal immigrant births in hospitals, which as I've written here, are barred under another federal law from turning anyone away from their emergency rooms if they want Medicare funding.
It's time for a robust and civil debate in Congress.
Heed McCain's Warning on Immigration
Jeb Golinkin January 5th, 2012 at 1:32 pm 31 Comments
Someone should listen to John McCain. Asked by First Read whether he thought Arizona was in play this election cycle, McCain reportedly responded "I think that if not this election cycle, the demographics are that Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, even Texas will all be in play." The Senator then added, "We have to fix our problems with the Hispanics."
McCain is absolutely correct. As I have noted previously, the demographic tides are indeed shifting rapidly within the United States in ways that do not favor the GOP. Specifically, Hispanics are growing at a much faster clip than the whites that make up the GOP base and, should they decide to vote, the polls mentioned above suggest that they are increasingly likely to vote Democrat (if they vote, of course).
So where does a solution start? Senator McCain told First Read that "It starts with a way to address the issue of immigration in a humane and caring fashion–at the same time emphasize the need to secure our borders." I agree with the old war hero here as well. Unfortunately, the highly visible fight for the 2012 GOP nomination and for the White House features Republicans that are decidedly not compassionate or thoughtful on the issue of illegal immigration, which of course deeply affects the Hispanic and Latino communities within the United States.
The likely frontrunner, former Gov. Mitt Romney, has run a commercial on immigration that features prison wire as the backdrop of a revolving display of ominous statistics on illegal immigration. But this pales in comparison the rhetoric of the "other than Mitt crowd." In his failed re-election bid for his old Senate seat, the Santorum campaign attempted to label his opponent as an "amnesty" supporting sissy and in a clip featured on his YouTube channel from one of the Senate debates, he implies that many illegal immigrants are also identity thieves. Santorum ripped into Newt Gingrich for supporting granting "amnesty" to illegal immigrants.
Thankfully, if Mitt Romney wins the nomination, he probably will avoid the sort of "round up the illegals and ship them out of here" rhetoric that might otherwise be expected because, well, Mitt Romney once had a reasonable position on illegal immigration before he decided he wanted to be the Republican nominee for President. But McCain is right: going into the future, the GOP must actually be willing to address this problem in a thoughtful manner if it is to hold onto the political territory it has claimed as its own for decades.
The Cordray Crisis
David Frum January 5th, 2012 at 11:02 am 89 Comments
Constitutional abuse begets constitutional abuse.
President Obama has engaged in a dubious maneuver to force a recess appointment through a Senate that denies it has recessed.
(Brad Plumer has a good run-down of the legal issues, here.)
The president's action has ignited a fireworks show of Republican outrage. And yes, Obama has here pushed presidential power beyond past limits.
But it's not only presidents who can bend the rules. The Senate has also pushed its powers here beyond the usual limits. The Senate is pretending to be in session when it's obviously not in session. It is engaging in this pretense in order to use its power over confirmations to negate an agency lawfully created by the prior Congress. Most fundamentally, the Senate here is further extending a weird quirk in its own rules–the quirk that allows individual senators to delay votes on appointments–in ways that allow the Senate minority to impose its will on the whole US government.
Over the past three decades, we have lived through a prolonged cycle of partisan revenge. Each party pushes the law to score partisan points in ways that would have been deemed unacceptable only just a little while ago. Then at the next turn of the cycle, the other party pushes the law further and wider and even more destructively. One by one, they sequentially smash the customs and traditions that enabled the US government to function. This latest episode over the Cordray appointment may be the most extreme example. But it's surely not the final example.
It is instead an ominous milestone in the deterioration of the US political system into ever more intense acrimony and paralysis.
Romneycare Bent the Cost Curve
Fred Bauer January 5th, 2012 at 8:53 am 44 Comments
Via an interesting post by Chris Conover, I came across this recently released National Health Expenditure report, which has data on health-care spending up through 2009. This data includes a state-by-state breakdown of personal health-care spending (a number that includes direct expenditures on health-care but does not include administrative costs).
Digging into these numbers allows one to calculate (roughly) the growth of health-care spending in each state from 1991 to 2007. This data set tells an interesting story for Massachusetts after the passage of health-care reform there: after the passage of Romney's reforms, the rate of per capita health-care spending growth slowed in Massachusetts both in absolute terms and relative to the national average.
Here's a chart I put together looking at the cumulative growth over two periods: from 2004 to 2006 (prior to Romneycare) and from 2007 to 2009 (after the measure was applied). I've included the US national average as a whole as well as the New England average in order to situate Massachusetts in its local context. New Hampshire offers the example of a New England state which did not engage in Romney-style reforms, and Ohio offers a counterexample of a Midwestern state with relatively slower-growing health-care costs. Texas, often touted as an alternative model for the nation, also helpfully sets up a contrast with Massachusetts. This chart looks at the cumulative percentage change in per capita personal health-care spending over the 2004-2006 and 2007-2009 periods.
Spending Growth 2004-2006
Spending Growth 2007-2009
US National Avg
New England
Perhaps in part due to the recession, the rate of growth for health-care spending dropped for the nation as a whole (though spending did still grow). However, it's worth noting that, in the years after Romney's reforms went into effect, the rate of growth for health-care spending in Massachusetts dropped even faster than the national average did. Between 2004 and 2006, health-care spending in Massachusetts grew almost 27% faster than it did for the nation as a whole; between 2007 and 2009, it grew only 5% faster. After Romney's reforms, Massachusetts went from having a health-care spending growth rate well above the national average to one just a little bit above. For example, between 2008 and 2009, personal health-care spending increased at a rate of 3.8% in the US, while Massachusetts saw its spending increase by 3.9%. Compare that to the changes between 2005 and 2006: US spending grew at 5.3%, but Massachusetts spending grew at 7.6%. Situating Massachusetts in the context of the rest of New England makes the change in spending rates even starker: prior to Romney's reforms, Massachusetts personal health-care spending grew faster than the New England average most years. After his reforms, it grew slower than the New England average (often having one of the lowest rates of health-care spending growth in the region). These numbers suggest that Texas is doing a worse job at taming the rate of health-care spending growth than Massachusetts (though, for the moment, per capita health-care spending in Texas is lower than that of Massachusetts).
Massachusetts seems to have especially slowed down the rate of growth in hospital spending. Between 2004 and 2006, Massachusetts hospital spending jumped 16.5%; between 2007 and 2009, it only climbed 5.5% (a 67% reduction in the rate of growth). US spending on hospital care grew 12.7% between 2004 and 2006; between 2007 and 2009, it grew 8.6% (a 33% reduction in the rate of growth). Spending in Massachusetts hospitals rose much more slowly than the national average. One of the key premises of Romneycare was that bringing all of the commonwealth into the health-care system would lower the need of hospital use (especially the use of emergency room care) and thereby lower spending at the hospital level. These numbers seem to suggest that something like that may be happening.
In many areas of health-care spending, the rate of growth for spending in Massachusetts either fell more than it did for the nation as a whole or fell at roughly the same rate. This data would seem to muddy the waters for the claim that Romney's reforms caused health-care spending in Massachusetts to skyrocket. Since Romneycare, health-care spending in Massachusetts (at least until 2009) grew more slowly than it did in many other states and also grew much more slowly compared to the rate of spending growth in Massachusetts before Romneycare took effect.
Health-care spending depends upon a variety of factors (including population aging and economic growth), so this data set does not tell the whole story regarding the effect of the 2006 reforms on health-care spending. It does, however, pose a challenge to the argument that Romney's reforms uniquely inflated health-care spending in Massachusetts. In terms of raw health-care spending, Massachusetts seems to have bent slightly down the curve of growth—compared to many other states and, in many respects, the nation as a whole.
(Of course, the rate of growth in health-care spending is not the sole deciding issue for Romneycare: other questions about long-term sustainability, the role of government coercion and spending, and other topics are also very important. Nor is there a direct correlation between health-care spending and private insurance premiums, which seem to have increased in recent years. Moreover, data for years after 2009 might tell a more complicated story.)
MSNBC Joins the Anti-Romney Bandwagon
Jay Gatsby January 5th, 2012 at 12:15 am 52 Comments
I have always been weary of the whine regarding the purported "liberal media"; having won 60% of presidential elections over the last 40 years, near-complete dominance of the radio airwaves, and a cable news behemoth with ratings greater than the aggregate of both its nearest competitors, conservatives are hardly the most suppressed segment of our society. Yet even for a skeptic like me, MSNBC's coverage of the Iowa caucuses was truly a sight to behold.
For starters, once it became apparent in recent days that Mitt Romney was at least charted for the top three—a squeaker of a victory or a third place finish in a closely bunched spread—"Hardball" host Chris Matthews began rallying to the defense of the bombarded Newt Gingrich. Matthews upbraided the insidious Romney Super PAC Restore Our Future at the close of his Monday broadcast, trumpeting the end of democracy as we know it with Newt Gingrich as the first slain giant.
Like Gingrich himself, he made no assertion that the content of anti-Gingrich advertisements was false. Nor did he document what, exactly, was "nasty" about the PAC advertisements. Matthews' qualms were couched entirely in the advertisements' funding apparatus (undercutting his very own argument by identifying Romney as the attributable candidate Restore Our Future supports). Were any viewers unaware that Restore Our Future is a pro-Romney Super PAC? If they were, Matthews certainly took care to remove all premise of anonymity. Problem solved.
But Matthews' duty was not yet done. Once it became clear that the anti-Newt barrage was doing nothing to diminish Romney's support in Iowa on Tuesday, Matthews took up the cause of giving a Gingrich attack line free air-time—quite a favor given Gingrich's inability to afford a riposte on his own behalf. In Matthews' hypothesis of the nominating contest going forward, he began echoing Gingrich's recent charge that the Massachusetts state health law signed by Romney had provisions for state-funded abortion. No less than four times over the course of Tuesday's broadcast, Matthews repeated various iterations of how an ennervated Gingrich would now fly to New Hampshire and South Carolina to warn them that Romney funded abortion at the state level as governor, energizing "the Pat Buchanan crowd" in the former and the southern evangelicals in the latter. Howard Fineman, nodding sagely in agreement, couldn't help but concur, confirming the real threat now posed to Romney's candidacy by the emergent Rick Santorum—just as he had done previously regarding Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, and most recently, Gingrich himself.
There was another instance of strange bedfellows made Tuesday night: Ed Schultz waxed poetic about Santorum's closing speech, praising it as a refreshing ode to the American working class before declaring Santorum's retail politicking to be superior to that of President Obama. Meanwhile, Al Sharpton's contribution to the evening consisted of declaring that every development somehow redounded to the president's benefit, at one point declaring how worried the Romney camp should be given "the clear lack of enthusiasm among Iowans to remove the incumbent". By the evening's conclusion, the MSNBC narrative was clear: Romney was an insidious corporate toady whose chance at the nomination was quickly fading; Gingrich the beleaguered victim of the cruel underbelly of modern campaign finance, ready to expose the liberal governor's pro-choice record; Santorum the only hope for a Republican Party looking to reconnect with Reagan Democrats; and the coming war involving the three would only help President Obama.
One can be forgiven for suspecting that the MSNBC crowd would prefer that President Obama not face the candidate universally considered to be the toughest challenge to his reelection. Could it be that the channel's talent has decided to do its part to stop Romney at the gate? With an apparent move underway by movement conservatives to do the same, the thought isn't entirely out of the question. Strange bedfellows, indeed.


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Sheriff's immigrant raids in Panhandle - unconstitutional?
Seán Kinane
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In April, Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen created a so-called Illegal Alien Task Force and began to target construction sites in order to arrest undocumented immigrant workers. Deputies in patrol cars pull up to a construction site and then chase and arrest anyone who runs away. WMNFâs Seán Kinane reports that civil libertarians and immigrant rights advocates think the sheriff may have crossed a legal line.
Elise Shore is the southeast regional counsel for MALDEV, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. She describes the raids occurring in the Florida panhandle county.
âWe have received a number of inquiries regarding the sheriffâs office in Bay county conducting raids on certain construction sites and in some cases running after people who, when they see the sheriffs arriving, start to run. And the sheriffs see the people running ⦠â
Benjamin Stevenson is a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union in Florida. He said there could be at least two problems with this type of raid. One is that it was conducted by the Bay County Sheriff rather than the federal immigration authorities that have jurisdiction. The Sheriff is trying to enforce a Florida law that prohibits employers from hiring an undocumented worker. But Stevenson says a federal law has preempted the Florida law.
âThe Florida law was passed in 1972. Subsequently Congress, in the mid-80s spoke to this issue directly and vested specific authority and jurisdiction â¦â
Stevenson says the other reason the raids could be a problem is that there may not have been a reasonable suspicion to stop the workers who were fleeing and investigate them, what is known as a âTerry stop.â
âA Terry stop must be predicated upon a reasonable suspicion of a criminal activity. â¦â
But running from a construction scene probably does not constitute âreasonable suspicion,â according to Stevenson.
âRunning from law enforcement upon seeing them from a high-crime area would â¦â
MELDEVâs Shore says she thinks the raids might be based on a personâs appearance rather than suspicion of any crime that has been committed and agrees that the practice might be unconstitutional.
âItâs not known to be a high-crime area, you know, itâs a construction site. â¦â
Shore thinks the raids could be a way to intimidate immigrants.
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Besides it being potentially unconstitutional, another reason why having local law enforcement act as immigration officers is a bad idea, according to Shore, is that it might cause immigrants to not call the police when they need help.
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Some jurisdictions, such as Miami-Dade, are prohibiting their local police from performing immigration enforcement that should be the role of federal officials.
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The ACLUâs Stevenson says that besides the legal reasons, the Panhandle raids also go against the values of the American people.
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Earlier this week the Miami Herald reported that the Bay County Sheriff McKeithen had asked Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum for an opinion on the legality of the sheriffâs immigrant raids. But a spokesperson for the Attorney General told WMNF today that they have not received a request for a legal opinion from the Sheriff and cannot issue an opinion without a request.
For WMNF News, Iâm Seán Kinane
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Terry v. Ohio (âTerry stopâ) on FindLaw
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Measurements: The chain measures approximately 7 3/4" in length and is 3/4" at the widest point. The horse head fob hangs approximately 1 3/4" long and is 1" at the widest point. The agate stone has a diameter of 5/8".
Condition: The overall condition of the bracelet is excellent. Besides normal surface wear, there is no serious damage to the sterling chain or fob or to the carnelian stone. There is some surface wear to the gold, but this is not noticeable when worn. The clasp is secure and in good working condition.


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Tuesday 26th February 15:55
Castleford's commercial director Nick Fozzard has left the Super League club a week after chief executive Steve Ferres quit.
Crusaders duo join Harlequins
Friday 5th August 16:10
Harlequins have agreed deals to sign half-back Michael Witt and experienced prop Mark Bryant from Crusaders.
Tigers pounce for Saints duo
Thursday 16th September 09:38
Castleford have signed Nick Fozzard on a one-year deal while Jacob Emmitt will also be joining the club from St Helens.
Internationals to face Wigan
Tuesday 22nd December 15:21
St Helens have named five international players in their team to face Wigan in Sunday's friendly at Knowsley Road.
Cockayne to miss Quins clash
Tuesday 9th June 20:21
Hull KR's Ben Cockayne has been handed a one-match ban by the RFL's disciplinary committee.
Robins duo in the dock
Monday 8th June 15:56
Nick Fozzard and Ben Cockayne have been summoned to appear before the RFL's disciplinary committee.
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Thursday 30th April 14:40
Hull KR veterans Nick Fozzard and Stanley Gene are pushing for a starting place in Sunday's clash with Warrington.
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Friday 3rd April 10:11
Prop Nick Fozzard insists Hull KR can go all the way to Wembley in this season's Carnegie Challenge Cup.
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Tuesday 29th July 09:09
Justin Morgan has admitted his interest in St Helens forward Nick Fozzard.
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St Helens star Leon Pryce is convinced that staying fit will the major factor in deciding this season's Super League champions.
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St Helens prop Nick Fozzard has ruptured his anterior cruciate knee ligament and is likely to be sidelined for six months.
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St Helens' 22-16 win over Bradford came at a price as Nick Fozzard looks to have suffered a serious knee injury.
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11th July 2013
Ireland: LGBT campaigners welcome anti-homophobic bullying government report 3
1:42 PM — Campaigners in Ireland have welcomed calls by a government child protection adviser to improve the way schools deal with homophobic bullying and also for legal recognition of same-sex parents.
8th July 2013
Telegraph columnist Cristina Odone: Banning 'gay' as an insult would be like banning 'chav' 96
12:14 PM — The former editor of The Catholic Herald, Cristina Odone, has criticised the Education Secretary for stating that it's wrong to use the word "gay" as an insult.
6th July 2013
Northern Ireland: MLAs participate in fiece debate around LGBT issues 2
12:56 PM — Intense debate was seen earlier this week at Belfast's Europa Hotel on Tuesday when politicians participating in the panel at an annual Belfast Pride Talks Back event were taken to task on issues affecting LGBT people.
Education Secretary Michael Gove: Using 'gay' as an insult is 'outrageous and medieval' 21
1:51 AM — The Education Secretary Michael Gove, has spoken at a conference on equality in education, to condemn the use of the word "gay" as derogatory, saying it is "outrageous and medieval".
5th July 2013
Association of Teachers and Lecturers says free schools will make it harder to fight homophobia 7
4:45 PM — Discrimination is becoming harder to challenge as more schools become academies and free schools independent of local control, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers has warned.
28th June 2013
Yvette Cooper: Pride is a time for celebration and a call to action to tackle homophobia in schools 3
10:38 AM — Labour's Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Minister for Equalities, Yvette Cooper, writes exclusively for PinkNews.co.uk about her pride that gay couples will soon be able to marry but argues that more needs to be done to tackle homophobia in schools.
11th June 2013
MPs await Commons debate on sex education amendment 6
3:33 PM — MPs in support of a Labour amendment for more comprehensive sex and relationship education in schools hope they'll be enough parliamentary time to allow for a debate and vote.
10th June 2013
Yvette Cooper: Young gay men face 'huge mental health problems' and we need stronger LGBT inclusive sex education 22
2:08 PM — Labour's Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has told PinkNews.co.uk that the government needs to make Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education a statutory requirement in order to address the health challenges faced by LGBT students.
25th April 2013
UK: Stonewall anti-gay bullying posters translated into Hebrew for use in Jewish faith schools 4
2:30 PM — Stonewall's anti-gay bullying posters have been translated into Hebrew for use as a modern language resource in Jewish faith schools.
Oregon: Gay former principal close to resolving legal dispute with school district 2
1:09 PM — A gay principal in Oregon who says he has been forced to quit his job because of homophobic discrimination is said to be close to resolving a legal dispute.
20th April 2013
US: Anti-discrimination bill to protect LGBT students introduced in Congress 1
4:11 PM — Two members of Congress introduced legislation which, if passed, would protect LGBT students against bullying and discrimination.
2nd April 2013
NUT urges for sex education to be made statutory in order to tackle homophobic bullying 8
12:20 PM — The government's decision to maintain sex education as a non-statutory subject has been criticised by the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers.
28th March 2013
US: Tennessee's reintroduced 'Don't Say Gay' bill dies 12
12:48 PM — Tennessee's 'Don't Say Gay' bill, which would have required teachers to tell parents if their child confided in them about their sexuality, has died before a House Subcommittee.
21st March 2013
UK: Government criticised for failing to mention LGBT youngsters in sex education report 4
3:51 PM — The National AIDS Trust (NAT) says the government's sex education review "makes no mention of sex education which addresses the needs of LGBT young people."
18th March 2013
Canada: Teenager stands up for gay-straight alliances 7
12:40 PM — A student in Canada has pushed to set up a GSA following his Province's consideration of a bill supporting them in all schools, which is currently facing a growing backlash from faith groups.
10th March 2013
Gay rights activists warn of reintroduction of 'Section 28 style' discrimination in Scotland's schools 35
9:55 PM — Gay rights advocates have voiced concerns that those opposed to equal marriage are trying to "reintroduce Section 28 style discrimination" into Scotland's schools, in an attempt to "roll back equality".
7th March 2013
Scotland: Christian teacher says being forced to teach about same-sex marriage contributed to a breakdown 33
5:12 PM — A committee of MPs has heard that a Christian teacher in Scotland claims he was forced to teach about same-sex marriage against his wishes – and the stress contributed to a breakdown.
UK: MPs hear of Christian teacher disciplined for refusing to read pro-gay Penguin book to class 52
5:09 PM — A solicitor from the Christian Institute has told a committee of MPs that a primary school teacher was previously disciplined by a head teacher for refusing to read 'And Tango Makes Three' – a children's book about two male penguins looking after a female chick.
21st February 2013
Anti-gay group leader: Study doesn't prove bullying is worse for LGBT kids, 'if there is such a thing' 19
4:43 PM — The leader of an anti-gay conservative group in the US state of Massachusetts has claimed that a recent study on anti-LGBT bullying in schools was "propaganda" and went on to doubt the existence of gay and trans students.
Australia: Gay kids bullied by teachers as well as other students says study 10
11:20 AM — A report by Parents and Friends of Gays and Lesbians (PFLAG), based in the Australian state of Queensland, says 70% of gay students have been bullied because of their sexuality, even by their teachers.


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Not One Vote!
Alterman, Eric, The Nation
Bernie Sanders is right. Ralph Nader is "one of the heroes of contemporary American society." How sad, therefore, that he is helping to undo so much of his life's work in a misguided fit of political pique and ideological purity. The Nation's election editorial is wrong in its recommendation of "strategic voting" in this election. Ralph Nader's campaign does not deserve a single progressive vote on November 7. Not one.
To listen to the Naderites--many of whom I admire--you might believe they were constructing a diverse, representative progressive movement with the possibility of one day replacing the Democrats. How odd it is to note, therefore, that this nascent leftist movement has virtually no support among African-Americans, Latinos or Asian-Americans. It has no support among organized feminist groups, organized gay rights groups or mainstream environmental groups. To top it all off, it has no support in the national union movement. So Nader and company are building a nonblack, non-Latino, non-Asian, nonfeminist, nonenvironmentalist, nongay, non-working people's left: Now that really would be quite an achievement.
Although Nader has said that he would not consciously work to elect Bush over Gore, "he is not keeping his pledges," according to his onetime comrades in Nader's Raiders for Gore. Nader has been campaigning aggressively in Florida, Minnesota, Michigan, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin. If Gore loses even a few of those states, then Hello, President Bush. And if Bush does win, then Goodbye to so much of what Nader and his followers profess to cherish. Goodbye, for instance, to affirmative action, abortion rights, gun control, campaign finance reform, minimum-wage raises, environmental protection, consumer protection, class-action lawsuits, worker-safety legislation and just about everything else the government can do to help the neediest and most vulnerable among us.
These are not the scare tactics of the "frightened liberals" that Nader and his fellow political puritans hold in such profound contempt. This is the truth. Nader supporters argue that his candidacy is likely to help elect a Democratic Congress. Oh really? In the first place, careful studies have never been able to identify the so-called silent progressive majority--the Nader voters who otherwise wouldn't make it to the polls but who once there would vote for lower-level Democrats--upon which this strategy rests. And wait a minute: I thought the Democrats weren't worth saving, anyway. The far more likely outcome of Nader's Pied Piper run is the election of a dimwitted right-wing President with Trent Lott, Jesse Helms, Tom DeLay and Dick Armey inaugurating an era of conservative reaction the likes of which Newt Gingrich could scarcely have imagined.
And for what? A party that polls single digits in national elections? Who needs it? While it has been salutary to see Nader speak some occasional truth to power on television, given the winner-take-all structure of national and local elections the US political system has no role for third parties other than that of a spoiler. …


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It was a long, rough night for Chowchilla High on Friday when it traveled to Hilmar High to face off against the Yellowjackets. After driving roughly 40 miles to McSweeney Field, the Redskins were hard fought to cover any more ground against the 'Jackets' defense as they netted -2 yards of total offense and managed to convert one first down all game.
The Turlock High girls' water polo squad topped out in third place in the Central California Conference last season, despite numerous tight contests against league opponents, including a one-goal loss to second place Buhach Colony to end the regular season.
The Central California Conference has become one of the premier leagues for high school water polo in the area and the state. That competition was too much for Pitman and Turlock boys' water polo teams last year; but it's a new season and new teams.
Typically, football teams take the first few weeks of the season to find themselves-to fine tune fundamentals, build team chemistry, and cement a foundation for success during league play.
Pitman High hosted Lincoln High of Stockton on Friday as the Pride looked to follow up their stellar opening day performance with another decisive victory over the visiting Lincoln High Trojans.
Last year the Central California Conference proved why it is one of the most dominant leagues in the state when it comes to boys soccer. Five of the six teams finished with at least four draws in league contests, while the first and second place teams - Turlock and Atwater - were only one game apart.
Delhi High wanted the 2013 season to be different; it wanted to taste sustained success on the gridiron and compete for the Southern League title. Last week the Hawks took their first step towards that goal with a shutout victory against Galt High, and then followed it up with a second, more convincing, step on Friday with a 48-18 victory over Big Valley Christian High.
With only nine players on its bench, Hilmar High's volleyball team mirrors the look and feel of its school-small. But what the Yellowjackets lack in depth, they make up for with consistency and power.
To say Pitman High was eager to get the 2013 high school football season started would be an understatement. They waited through the off-season, had to wait through opening Friday, and were forced to wait an extra half-hour due to a delay before their Saturday night home opener-but when the wait was over the Pride uncorked.
Turlock High kicked off the 2013 high school football season in grand fashion Friday night when it hosted Valley Oak League stalwarts and 2012 Division II State runner ups Oakdale High.
The Delhi High football team won its season opener at home in shutout fashion, dominating Galt High by a score of 20-0, after an all around impressive performance by the defense.
Fresh off a Division VI Sac-Joaquin Section championship run last season, the Turlock Christian volleyball team is hoping to capture the one title that was out of reach - a Southern League banner.
It was a rollercoaster last year in the Central California Conference for local high school volleyball teams. Pitman High blazed through the conference going undefeated with a 15-0 record, while Turlock went 1-13 and struggled with a young team going through a reconstruction phase in coach Amber Castillon's second year.
The Hilmar High varsity volleyball team placed second last year in the Trans Valley League with a 10-2 record; but this year they return with a vengeance with one goal in mind - dethroning Escalon. The Cougars were last year's conference champions, finishing with an undefeated record of 12-0.
Like many small schools, Turlock Christian High has had its fair share of problems when it comes to student enrollment and athletics. Typically, the resulting effect of low roster numbers is a decreased level of competiveness but other measures-such as the elimination of junior varsity programs- have also been taken in years past.
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Rossellini enthusiastically acts out various sex acts while costumed as an earthworm, a spider, a bee, and other invertebrates.
1590s, from earth + worm (n.). In this sense Old English had eorðmata, also regnwyrm, literally "rain-worm." Old English also had angel-twæcce "earthworm used as bait," with second element from root of twitch, sometimes used in medieval times as a medicament.
For the blake Jawndes take angylltwacches, er þei go in to the erth in the mornynge and fry hem. Take ix or x small angyltwacches, and bray hem, and giff the syke to drynke fastynge, with stale ale, but loke þat thei bene grounden so small that þe syke may nat se, ne witt what it is, for lothynge. [Book of Medical Recipes in Medical Society of London Library, c.1450]


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PITTSBURGH - DECEMBER 06: Rashard Mendenhall #34 of the Pittsburgh Steelers high fives Ben Roethlisberger #7 during the game against the Oakland Raiders on December 6, 2009 at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall has missed the last four games with an Achilles injury that he suffered against the Tennessee Titans back in Week, but the reports are looking good that he will be back in the lineup this week as the starter against the Baltimore Ravens Sunday night. Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports via Twitter on Thursday that fellow running back Isaac Redman indicated that it is looking like Mendenhall will indeed start Sunday night at Heinz Field. The Steelers will be facing a Ravens defense that has allowed an average of 132 yards rushing Read more [...]
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CANNON AIR FORCE BASE -- The U.S. Air Force is giving people more time to comment on a proposal that would establish areas in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado for low-altitude training flights.
The Air Force initially asked that comments be received by Oct. 4. That has been pushed back to Nov. 15 due to tremendous public response, including a letter from members of New Mexico's congressional delegation.
The training out of Cannon Air Force Base in eastern New Mexico would involve C-130 and CV-22 aircraft flying as low as 200 feet above the ground.
I understand hoodlums are back to pitching rocks through plate glass windows of art galleries on Bridge Street. For-profit art galleries are closing at a disappointing rate. The local Arts Council has decided to quit doing the Las Vegas version of the popular Studio Tours that communities around the state look forward to.
Sixteen-year-old Miranda R. Mondragon of Las Vegas missing, police said.
Mondragon was last seen Tuesday afternoon.
Mondragon is described as a 5 feet, 2 inches tall Hispanic female, who weighs 110 pounds.
Miranda has shoulder length brown hair and brown eyes; she was last seen wearing a white and black hooded pullover and blue jeans. There is suspicion that Mondragon may possibly be in Colorado. Mondragon also has a medical condition that requires medication, police said.
It seems wrong to me that property taxes are, without a vote, to be increased by 30 percent. Is that an arbitrary decision? Is it to pay for the $3 million overcharge to NMHU by the city? and county? I don't even have a trash container, which I requested from the city seven years ago. Doesn't matter. This sudden announcement by Mayor Alfonso Ortiz is certainly unwelcome, and his duh, duh answers lead us to further questions.
Let us explore what exactly is being done with our tax dollars.
Kirk Bonds
Las Vegas
In defense of council member Tonita Gurule-Giron and city employee Theresa Duran, I would like to point out that both women are being placed in an uncomfortable situation when addressing resident complaints, as reported in the Optic.
Ms. Duran's position exposes her to catching fire from both sides. I wouldn't want to be in her shoes. I wouldn't doubt that council member Gurule-Giron may be fielding complaints from two wards on the west side.
Thumbs UP for ... A NEW LOOK. The Las Vegas Police Department headquarters, which stands on some choice real estate at the Old Town Plaza, is getting a new and long overdue look. A groundbreaking ceremony took place last week for the building renovation.
We're glad to see it. The PD's new facade promised to complement this beautiful area of town.
Chad Roanhaus is not expected to be on the sidelines as his New Mexico Highlands football team hosts Western State in Saturday's homecoming game.
Roanhaus has requested and been granted leave for health reasons, NMHU athletic director Ed Manzanares told the Optic on Wednesday.
Just how long Roanhaus will be away is not certain. A call to Roanhaus' office went unreturned as of press time.
I would like to thank our courageous Mayor Alfonso E. Ortiz Jr., Peace Center community advocate Pat Leahan, our city council members and the people of Las Vegas for their input and concern about the Air Force LATN (Low Altitude Tactical Navigation) proposal.
We now have a comprehensive resolution — No. 10-78 — citing the adverse affects this could have on our community.
I am confident that San Miguel County and all of the other cities and counties of New Mexico and Colorado will follow in the protest of LATN.
I am so proud of Las Vegas.
Yes, the city of Las Vegas has recently passed a revised water conservation Ordinance No. 09-18, which applies to all citizens.
Paint and body shops utilize water to clean the vehicles as part of the process of repair; they are not in the "car wash business."
If a city department is unable to satisfactorily answer your questions, please remember that the buck stops at the desk of City Manager Tim Dodge. Tim has always answered my questions. If you have been overcharged, Mr. Dodge will investigate and correct the error.
Bruce McAllister
A top local official in the state Children, Youth and Families Department has been placed on paid leave, a department spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday.
Audra Salas, the county manager for the department's Protective Services Division, has been on leave for the last couple of weeks, spokeswoman Romaine Serna said.
Serna said because it's a personnel matter, she couldn't provide any more details.
The Protective Services Division deals with child welfare issues such as abuse and neglect. It also handles the foster kids program.
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Bubble and Squeak Bake
|Green cabbage
|1 Pound, shredded
|1 1⁄2 Pound, peeled, boiled and mashed with milk and butter
|1 Small, peeled, finely chopped
|2 , peeled and chopped
|To Taste
|Freshly ground black pepper
|To Taste
|Cheddar cheese
|3 Ounce, grated
1) Preheat the oven to 375°F.
2) Lightly coat the bottom of the ovenproof dish with 1oz. of butter.
3) In a pot, cook the cabbage in boiling salted water for 5 minutes.
4) Strain the cabbage and chop finely.
5) In a bowl, place the cabbage, potatoes, onion, tomatoes and seasoning.
6) Stir the cabbage mixture well.
7) Place the cabbage mixture into a ovenproof dish.
8) Dredge the top with cheese.
9) Bake in the oven for 30 minutes or until browned all over.
10) If you wish to freeze the dish, then do so at this stage. Wrap the cooled dish with foil and pack in freezer bag.
11) Seal, label and freeze the bag.
12) Serve hot garnished with chopped parsley if desired.
13) If using the frozen potatoes take off the wrappings and thaw at room temperature for 3 hours.
14) Reheat in a preheated moderately hot oven for 30 minutes or until heated through.


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Type of pizza cutter
My old rotary wheel pizza cutter no longer does the job.
Now looking at 14 " Pizza Knives, 14" or 20" Pizza Rockers, etc.
What are most using and why.
Leaning towards the 14" pizza rocker as it looks like it can work fast, make clean cuts and looks indestructible.
Since I am not mass making pizzas the wife won't let me get a pizza sword (large rocker). She doesn't like the rollers either and using a large carving knife is just gouch. So I have settled for my grandmothers 6 inch rocker. It has a real rusty cast iron handles but a sharp stainless steel blade that is deep , good for cutting those messy New York Pizzas or Rocky Mountain Pies without getting your knuckles immersed. It stores easily.
I guess I'm old fashion, but I use a wheel. I've gone through a handful of them, but they work.
I would look forward to hearing how the "sword" works.
I prefer a wheel also. A good restaurant quality wheel will last for years ans when it wears out....get a new one. My 2 cents!
You can even buy restuarant grade wheels with detachable cutting wheels, which can be sharpened and replaced.
I can get those, so let them know if anybody is interested in the "super cutter".
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I find that the rolling wheel cutter works ok with thin pizzas. I make a pizza which has a high crust and it is slightly thicker than thin dough pizzas. The "rocker" pizza cutter is excellent for the pizza I make.
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There were postings on this very subject some time ago,
The rocker cutter that I made from a scrap piece of stainless (actually from my chimney void) works an absolute treat and never use the commercial rotary cutter any more.
Re: Type of pizza cutter
I've tried various rotary cutters, but the rocker cutter is my cutter of choice. As I said earlier, the pizzas I make have a high crust and the rocker cutter does a great job. I was watching a program on satellite the other day and the pizza maker was cutting his pizza with a rocker pizza that I have never seen before. It had a vertical handle on either side of the blade. I was searching for this rocker cutter when I happened on this site. I'm still searching for the rocker cutter this pizza maker was using. I'm sure to find the manufacturer soon.
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with all the pizza lovers on this site, I'd pot all the information and picture(s) of your favourite cutter.
I also agree with your preference. They are safer, quicker, easier and damage (lift off the cheese topping) the appearence if the pizza.
If you can't find a supplier, then make one. Very easy to do.
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I think I saw that show and what he was using looked like draw blade for wood working that was dulled on the cutting side and sharpened on the back. It may have been a pizza cutter but it looks similar. Nice tool indeed. This one I could find and is similar http://www.baileysonline.com/prod_images/15707_L.jpg
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The wayward life (1898-1979) of the voracious art collector and great female patron of world-famous artists. 'Mrs Guggenheim, how many husbands have you had?' 'Do you mean my own, or other people's?' Peggy Guggenheim was an American millionairess art collector and legendary lover, whose father died on the Titanic returning from installing the lift machinery in the Eiffel Tower. She lived in Paris in the 1930s and got to know all the major artists - especially the Surrealists. (Later she bullied Max Ernst into marrying her, but was snubbed by Picasso.) When the Second World War broke out, she bought great numbers of paintings from artists fleeing to America; as a Jew she escaped from Vichy France and set up in New York, where in the 1940s and 50s she befriended and encouraged the New York School (Jackson Pollock, Rothko, etc.) Her emotional life was in constant turmoil - a life of booze, bed and bohemia (mostly rich bohemia). Her favourite husband was a drunken English dilettante writer called Lawrence Vail, but she bedded many others, including Samuel Beckett. Later she moved to Venice, where her memory is enshrined in the world-famous palazzo that houses her Guggenheim Collection.
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Anton Gill has written several plays and features for radio and television, novels and many distinguished works of non-fiction, including THE JOURNEY BACK FROM HELL: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors, which won the H.H. Wingate Prize in 1988 and is still in print as a HarperCollins paperback; BERLIN TO BUCHAREST (HC); AN HONOURABLE DEFEAT: A HISTORY OF THE GERMAN RESISTANCE TO HITLER; and THE DEVIL'S MARINER: A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM DAMPIER.
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Peggy Guggenheim was one of the 20th century's most prominent collectors of modern art. Born in 1898 into the Jewish-American Guggenheims, Peggy lost her father on the Titanic and inherited a fortune. She moved to Paris in the 1930s, involved herself in the bohemian lifestyle of the American expatriate community and used her money to gain a foothold in the male art world by supporting artists and writers and assembling a formidable collection of works by Cubists and Surrealists. An independent woman, she also had relationships with, among others, Samuel Beckett, Yves Tanguy and Max Ernst, whom she married. After her escape from Vichy France, she opened the pioneering Art Of This Century Gallery in 1940s New York. Here, she was one of the first collectors to champion the Abstract Expressionists, particularly Jackson Pollock, and her salons allowed exiled European avant-garde painters to meet their younger American counterparts. Peggy spent the final years of her life in Venice, a city she loved, where she played host to a passing parade of the rich and famous and where, after her lonelier later years and her death in 1979, her collection was kept in her palazzo where it can now be seen. Anton Gill is a contemporary historian and provides a fast-moving and entertaining account of Peggy Guggenheim's life derived from both public and private archives. He is particularly strong on the way anti-semitism shaped her family history. The original Guggenheims moved to America to escape restrictions on Jews. Yet, ironically, Peggy preferred Europe because of the anti-semitism she encountered in the USA. Gill is also strong on art history and seems to revel in the anecdotes which surround the legend of Peggy and her many friends and lovers. This is an interesting and informative life of a formidable woman. (Kirkus UK)


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Foundation of Resistance
It is a short time before the Battle of Yavin. The tyrannical Galactic Empire claims complete control of the galaxy. Shipping routes across the bulk of the galaxy are choked with ships of the Imperial Fleet. In the Outer Rim, though, the Imperial grip is not so tight. The Empire has only a nominal hold in the Troius Sector, with only a few outposts and a handful of ships maintaining the will of the Emperor.
From secret bases, ships and freedom fighters of the Resistance strike against the Imperial military. They harass shipping lanes and strongholds, gaining material and support little by little as their campaign grows. They face a new danger, though, as the Empire discovers a new ally among the decaying relics of the Old Republic…an ally that could end the rebellion before it grows to become a significant threat…
"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over" Union General William T. Sherman
The game takes place shortly before the events in A New Hope, in the Troius Sector (a small sector of space in the Outer Rim). The Empire maintains its hold with a handful of outposts and garrisons, and a small supply of ships. They use hired mercenaries to protect manufacturing and production facilities, and have replaced local leadership with Imperial governors.
The sector has a representative to the Imperial Senate, who spends much of his time at the Imperial Center in the Core. The peace is maintained by the local government, and the fear of Imperial retaliation. Local governments collect their taxes, and turn them over to the Imperial representatives.
The Rebel Alliance (more formally known as the Alliance to Restore the Republic) operates in the sector out of a handful of operations bases (some landing fields for fighters, some small supply depots, and a couple of capital ships). Though many of the common people may quietly support the growing rebellion, there is little material support that can be offered. The underworld of the sector, overwhelmed mostly by a Hutt syndicate, does not look favorably on the Alliance (knowing that the growing rebellion only brings a stronger Imperial presence, which is bad for business). The Alliance not only has to stand against the Empire, but also pirates, bounty hunters, and the Hutt syndicate. What few allies and material they have, they hold precious.
The sector holds relics from the Old Republic. A Techno-Union stronghold still operates, and there are rumors of storehouses of Republic and Separatist material hidden throughout the systems. Other relics, from eras far back, are also talked about.
"We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it: to his home, to his centers of entertainment; a total war. It is necessary to prevent him from having a moment of peace, a quiet moment outside his barracks or even inside; we must attack him wherever he may be, make him feel like a cornered beast wherever he may move." Ernesto Che Guevara


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Arizona Cardinals
Report: Former Cardinals RB Stump Mitchell to be running backs coach
Arizona Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians has filled up his coaching staff with plenty of old colleagues from his time with the Indianapolis Colts and Pittsburgh Steelers.
However, according to Mike Jurecki of XTRA Sports 910 in Phoenix, Valley fans might recognize who Arians has reportedly picked to be the team's new running backs coach.
Hearing Stump Mitchell will be the Cards RB's coach, played for the St. Louis/ Phx Cards 81-89... HC @ Casa Grande HS, Morgan St. & Southern— Mike Jurecki (@mikejurecki) February 3, 2013
As Jurecki noted, Mitchell played all nine of his NFL seasons with the Cardinals, both in St. Louis and Phoenix. During his two years at Sun Devil Stadium, Mitchell ran for 891 yards and four touchdowns.
Following his playing days, Mitchell went on to coach in the high school ranks, leading Casa Grande High School from 1993 to 1994.
He had his first taste of coaching in the NFL in 1999, when he served as the Seattle Seahawks running backs coach for eight years. Under Mitchell's tutelage, Seattle running back Shaun Alexander claimed the franchise's first MVP award in 2005.
In 2008, Mitchell served in the same role with Washington and the Redskins finished with the eighth-best rushing offense (130.9 yards per game) in the league.
Mitchell spent the last two-plus seasons as the head coach of Southern University. However after a rough start in 2012, he was reassigned to another position.
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To the perceptive, Christmas helps us see those around us for the gifts they truly are.
I saw that side of Mindy, so observant, so perceptive, so aware of what was happening to her.
perceptive per·cep·tive (pər-sěp'tĭv)
Of or relating to perception.
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#logo31 is like a playoff outside of Dribbble.
It started as a spec to redesign a logo for a greek political party youth organization. It was so poorly conceived that everybody could participate and vote, and ended up with valid and serious proposals like this one (caution, teh horror cannot be unseen). This is the original logo 31, as it was filed. This very "logo" failed so hard; it instantly became a backslash meme here in Greece, that led to numerous blog posts, trending topics, the #logo31 hashtag, and even an independent creative project.
The #logo31 project features a series of random meta designs/logos/doodles around the #logo31. It's not about the original logo contest, or the logo31 itselft, but a creative initiative inspired by a chain of cultural/political/social failures.
This is my "logo", based on a title page of a scanned greek dictionary of the 19th century. It writes To The Logotype Thirthy One in old greek dative case.
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The AKG Perception 170 is a small-diaphragm true condenser microphone offering outstanding build quality and excellent value. The lightweight diaphragm delivers outstanding clarity and transient response and conforms to the stringent standards defined for AKG recording products. The Perception 170's design is based on AKG's six decades of experience in making microphones and on input from sound engineers around the world who use AKG products every day.
Its 1/2-inch small-diaphragm true condenser transducer brings AKG studio quality to the project studio and all other areas of recording. A switchable preattenuation pad enables the Perception 170 to be used close to sound sources delivering up to 155 dB SPL. The heavy-duty, all-metal chassis and reliable gold-plated XLR-type output make the Perception 170 an excellent choice for a variety of live sound applications, too.


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Learn more about BIGR Audio XL-CC1 Crooks & Castles Headphones:
|Artists and producers spend hours fine-tuning and mixing music to get it exactly how they want the people to hear it. But the majority of headphones can't reproduce the sounds accurately produced by the artist. Simple enough these reference headphones can. With advanced engineering, and precision speaker design, you hear music the way it was meant to be heard the way today's top music and sound developers want you to listen.
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Customer Reviews of BIGR Audio XL-CC1 Crooks & Castles Headphones
A word of warning.8/17/2012
I bought these to use with my non-Ipad, Iphone, Ipod devices. The feature that lets you answer your phone makes these not readily compatible with standard stereo headphone jacks. I had to buy an adapter "pigtail" for these that cost nearly as much as the phones themselves to get them to work properly on my devices. They sound fantastic! But it would have been nice if they had included an adapter to standard stereo headphone wiring. They could have forgone the cute box and bag to pay for it.
great headphone6/27/2012
best headphone ever
big headphone6/27/2012
quality ok
BiGR Audio XL-CC15/12/2012
I like these headphones only because I got them on a deep deep discount compared to the retail price. Otherwise, I never would have bought them. They sound nice and they are very comfortable. I love the bamboo box and bamboo bag which all together make the purchase price tolerable.
Affordable Big Audio5/11/2012
These headphones are great for what they cost. I don't love all the aesthetics of them, but they're for home use anyway, so it doesn't matter much.
Great headphones!5/9/2012
Great sound and very comfortable headphones. I have Bose headphones and these sound as good as my Bose headphones.
Good headphones5/8/2012
I like this headphones. They are quality ones. I use them to watch TV while my 2 year old is asleep. In comparison with the ones I have (JVC) the sound is louder and the bass is less evident. But overall I am pleased with the product.
Boom for the buck...5/8/2012
These headphones are pretty dang awesome. While they're not the best I've ever heard, they certainly don't cost anywhere near the $350 that the other pair does. They have a very clear and clean sound. Very full. The one thing I would recommend is getting a DAC/Amp if possible to make the experience even better, but just out of the box they are great.
Great Experience5/8/2012
Headphones are exactly as described. Great quality.
Great Headphones5/4/2012
The headphones were packed well. The headphones itself were comfortable and sound good.
good value5/4/2012
Good sounding, well made, and comfortable
Very Nice Headphones for the Price5/4/2012
These headphones are very comfortable with a long cord and a nice sound. The storage bag and wooden box were additional icing on the cake.
This is what music is supposed to sound like...5/4/2012
I ordered these on a whim as they were on sale and was looking for a good pair of "real" headphones. I was blown away by the sound quality, everytihng was crystal clear, bass was deep, highs were clear without a hiss. The sound quality cannot be beat for the price, and would easily be worth three times that. The only slight drawback is that they are very large/bulky, not the easiest if you are going to travel with them, but Iikely if you are looking at these, you are aware of that.
good headphones5/2/2012
Great sound, comfortable, really nice layout.
i knew i should have bought 2 pairs...5/1/2012
Really dynamic, fantastic sound. I HATE the headband though. These would be smaller and perfect if it weren't for the huge headband. I love the cord also. If they ever go on sale again, I'm snatching another pair and modifying the headband.
Great Sound - Very Comfortable5/1/2012
The quality of the sound and product is great. The best sound of any other headphones I had. The cord is very good and unusual. It is very comfortable for extended hours of listening. But it is bulky.
I'll take 2!4/24/2012
Crooks & Castles is one of the dopest brands on the market, and they have paired up with the most spectacular new headphone company, releasing the sexiest set of headphones I have ever seen! The quality of sound is unreal, and at this price it's practically a crime not to swoop a pair - I'll take 2. Thanks!
best looking headphones with killer sound4/23/2012
I love these. They look great, they're unique and the sound is better than the bose ones I used to have. They come in this wooden box - reminds me of a cigar box - which is cool. I get many compliments on them...great buy, definitely recommend highly.
These are so sick!4/23/2012
I've recently had my MONSTER Beats by Dre headphones stop working on me, well the left side went out. Took a chance on these BigR's and so far so good! Mad comfortable, a lot more than my last couple sets of high end headphones. The sound is clean, & I use them in my home studio and even with my iPhone. The case is pretty legit too, a cool wooden box that I keep next to my mixer on display!
Love Crooks & Castles & these Headphones are SICK!4/23/2012
I love the Crooks & Castles Brand. The clothes are awesome. Definitely one of the top street-wear Brands out there with most cutting edge gear. These headphones are right in line with everything that else Crooks puts out there...really cool!


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Okay, so, I haven't really jumped in 4 years, and my 7 year old TN Walker hasn't really jumped anything other than logs in the pasture. We were playing around yesterday and we just started popping over crossrales (lowest it will go). My position is REALLY really rusty, so I'd love some critique :) We're jumping in a saddle seat saddle BTW.
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NASA Curiosity hits 'jackpot' on Mars; What has NASA discovered, exactly?
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has reportedly hit the "jackpot' on the Red Planet.
According to NASA administrators, the rover has arrived at a site widely seen as the perfect location for determining whether water once flowed across the surface of the planet. NASA engineers have spent the better half of a month directing the rover to the location, where white veins of minerals course through rocks on the floor of Mars's Gale Crater. Scientists say these rock provide some of the strongest evidence yet that the rover Curiosity's landing site once was a wetter, warmer place.
"[It] turns out to be kind of the 'jackpot' unit," said John Grotzinger, the mission's chief scientist of the California Institute of Technology. "It is literally shot through with these fractures and vein fills."
Yellowknife Bay, the rover's current location on Mars, is supposedly littered with rocks fractured by minerals that once precipitated out of water flowing through fissures in the rock. The site, therefore, is seen as the best source for collecting rock and soil samples that could provide scientists with definitive proof that water once flowed on Mars.
"The scientists have been let into the candy store,"said Richard Cook, the project manager of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in reference to the string of rocks discovered by Curiosity.
"There is a high diversity of rocks types here to characterize," added Mike Malin, principal investigator of Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS). "We see layering, veins and concretions. The area is still undergoing some changes."
The announcement comes as NASA is preparing the rover for its first drilling session. The car-sized rover will carry out history's first drilling of a Martian rock that was percolated by liquid water. The samples collected from the rock will then be analyzed by the rover's laboratory system. Curiosity has the ability to drill about two inches into rocks, presenting scientists with their first chance to penetrate the surface of Mars and better understand past and present conditions.
Whether the latest findings eventually lead to clear evidence of liquid water remains to be seen. NASA's key goal with the Mars rover is to establish whether life once existed on Mars, and discovering signs of water would greatly increase the odds that life once roamed Mars.
The latest mission comes nearly six months after the rover survived a stunning descent to the Red Planet. The rover has spent the last six months exercising its array of ten scientific instruments and its seven-foot robotic arm, all part of a process to flawlessly execute a series of upcoming missions. While the current site is viewed as a "jackpot," NASA scientists say they are even more thrilled about the upcoming mission to Mount Sharp, a geologically important feature that Curiosity will travel to before the end of the year.


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Bluegrass Cycling Club/West 6th
Pedaling for a Purpose Initiative
Weekend Ride and Education Sessions – Plan to Join Us!!!
See the BCC rides calendar for additional details.
The Bike Part:
Beginning April 4, 2015 the Bluegrass Cycling Club will host a ride and education session every other Saturday morning at West 6th Brewery EXCEPT the sessions on the 3rd and 4th weekend in May will be held on SUNDAY, MAY 17 and SUNDAY MAY 31 beginning at 1:00 pm with rides following at 2:00 pm. Education sessions will begin at 9 am and will feature a different topic each week. Saturday rides will begin at 10 am. Several distances and paces will be offered with ride leaders, including options on the Legacy Trail for cyclists who do not want to ride on the roads. (Novice on the legacy trail, C on the legacy trail and on the road, B/C on the road, B on the road, A/B on the road, and A on the road).
Cyclists who do not want to participate in a BCC group ride will also be able to show up, sign in, and do an urban ride or ride in a smaller group – the point is to get people out and on bikes and however they want to do that is good (except we must insist t that anyone riding as part of one of our club rides wear a helmet).
The Charity Part:
We have identified Folk Bike ReCyclery in Frankfort, Broke Spoke in Lexington, and Bikes for the Bluegrass as our beneficiary charities for the initiative. We will ask all riders participating in each ride to sign in and record their miles at each ride as they finish (this is standard practice for BCC rides anyway). We will keep track of total miles ridden over the course of four (4) rides and at the end of that period, will determine, based on the number of miles ridden by all participants, how much will be donated to the featured charity for that segment.
Ride Dates, Identified Charity and mileage/contribution levels:
We will have posters on the wall at West 6th where we will track total miles ridden/dollars raised during each period. Charities will be invited to participate and be creative in how they do that during the period they are the beneficiary, or during the whole thing –whatever works for them.
Contributions to the charity will be made at $0.10 per mile ridden, with a maximum contribution of $1,000 for each charity.
Folk Bike ReCyclery - April 4 and 18, May 2 and SUNDAY May 17
Bikes for the Bluegrass – SUNDAY May 31, June 13, and 27, July 11
Broke Spoke – July 25, August 8 and 22, September 5
Celebration/Party – Early October – We will present our charities with their checks, and will distribute tee shirts and jerseys
Rider Rewards Part:
Riders will receive rewards at the end of the program based on participation points. One point will be awarded for each education session attended and one point for each ride attended for a total possible point total of 24 points.
Riders who have 18 or more points will receive a free jersey
Riders who have 13 or more points will receive a free tee shirt


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Hey there! So you want to know a little about me huh? Well let's see... I was born and raised in L.A. (Lower Alabama that is). I am a laid back, very easy going person. I enjoy life and I love family. I am searching for someone who is family-oriented as well. I am outgoing and I enjoy going to the movies, trying different restaurants, and traveling. I am a huge music lover and I love to sing as well (not just an in the shower singer...lol). I love to cook, read, and write inspirational devotionals. I think that I am pretty outgoing and that I have a pretty good sense of humor. I can appreciate a guy with a good sense of humor as well. I really love to laugh. I am drama free and not about playing games with anyone's emotions. I am not holding on to any past issues from past relationships and I am just ready for something real. Be honest with me and I will be honest with you. I am sure that there is more to tell, but if you like what you see and think that I am someone that you would like to get to know better, just send me a message and let's see where things go from there... Of course we should start off as friends. I am ready to settle down, but don't worry, there is no real rush to the altar...LOL!!
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I do not own any pets at this time, but I am open to maybe one day adopting a puppy.
Barnacles-Duluth Bahama Breeze. Terrelli's in Dallas. Ollie's in Mobile. Love visiting New Orleans.
Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL
I love all types of music from Phil Collins, Maroon 5, No Doubt all the way to Anita Baker, Outkast, Faith Evans. BBQ tops my list of favorite foods. Ribs for breakfast? Just kidding...
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"I've used the Google to bring up maps," George W. Bush shared in 2006. "I kinda like to look at the ranch." Four years later, Google Maps is still the best resource for ranch-gazing from Washington, but now the site has a fantastic new feature that will be far more valuable to those in politics trying to dial in to more consequential matters across the country.
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Comment: "Compactify" may be a real word... (Score 1) 184 184
by Girckin (#33987084) Attached to: Physicists Say Graphene Could Create Mass
...but it's being spelled "compactifiy" with an extra "i" in the summary. Double sigh.
There are around 43,000 traffic fatalities per year in the US. If we posit that a mere 60,000,000 people (only 1/5th of the US population) get in a car or cross the street on foot every year, that's a total death rate of about 0.00072%.
43,000 divided by 60,000,000 is 0.00072, which is 0.072%.
You'll therefore have to excuse me if I find your math lacking.
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination -- but the combination is locked up in the safe. -- Peter DeVries