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Originally posted by drivers1492
What is the difference if a kid that is attracted to the same sex being put in the same situation.
Originally posted by smyleegrl
IMO, this is good news and long overdue. I'm sure there will be a backlash from the conservative groups, and that is understandable. My guess is those who disagree might form their own version of Boy Scouts which does not allow homosexuals to join. That is their right, of course.
Not much more to add, except I see this is a big step forward.
Originally posted by LeaderOfProgress
... selfish people decided it wasn't their right and forced change....
Originally posted by beezzer
Forcing a group to accept another group is wrong.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
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Originally posted by beezzer
Forcing a group to accept another group is wrong.
Hey beez.
I think forcing the boy scouts to accept gay people is wrong. Do you know who forced them and how? I'm curious about this now.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
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The gay community preach tolerance but practice selective intimidation by any means necessary to reach their end on any given target. It's not got ANYTHING to do with gay people....but the scumbag way they advance their cause. Any means to the end.


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Menendez slips into Jersey, goes to church
Posted By Bob Ingle On February 25, 2013 @ 8:49 am In Uncategorized | Comments Disabled
Sen. Bob Menendez, just back from a tour of Afghanistan and Pakistan, slipped into New Jersey where a recent poll found voters think he is unbelievable and dishonest. He went to a church in Trenton and quoted the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. before a crowd gathered for Black History Month. "In the end, I believe that justice will overcome the forces of darkness," he said. Menendez blamed his problems on "anonymous, faceless, nameless individuals from right-wing sources seeking to destroy a lifetime of work. And their scares are false. I have worked too hard and too long in the vineyards to allow, at my hands, for the harvest to be soured."
The FBI, hardly anonymous, is investigatng his friend and major contributor, a Florida eye doctor, Salomon Melgen. Menendez last month quietly wrote a check to the doctor for $58,500 for two round trip flights on the doctor's plane to the Dominican Republic in 2010. He said not paying two years earlier was a paperwork foulup. Menendez was found to have used influence on behalf of issues involving his pal the doctor and a port security contract in the Dominican Republic. That was reported by The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Miami Herald — hardly what you would call right-wing sources.
The Star-Ledger reported the audience at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton Sunday gave him ovations and there was support from the religion and black leaders in the audience. Assembly member Bonnie Watson Coleman was the mistress of ceremony. "He lives resiliency," the Rev. Darrell LaRue Armstrong said in introducing Menendez: "And from his earliest of childhoods, when he was born to his native Cuba, to what God has brought him to today, we are grateful that he has a rich testimony." Menendez was born in New York City. Menendez has said his parents fled opression in Cuba but he was born five years before Fidel Castrol came to power.
In a recent Quinnipiac poll, New Jersey voters disapprove of Menendez's performance 41-36. And, 44-28 percent say he is dishonest and not trustworthy. His approval rating dropped 15 points from the previous poll. "The only poll that matters is what do I get accomplished each and every day," he told reporters.
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#1 Comment By inglejunkie2 On February 25, 2013 @ 8:53 am
MEMO TO MENENDEZ—NOW HEAR THIS, WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY Menendez clearly expects the rest of us to shutup as he walks allover the US and the Constitution. Menendez's unmitigated contempt for US law, his trampling the mores and conventions of our sovereign Nation suggests an "imperial overlord" fixation. And there's more to come, as the open borders crowd kneels in obeisance to Third World hellholes.
Menendez's delusional thinking is right out of Orwell. HE is the suspect—but in his sex-crazed, self-serving world, those who expose his activities are tarred as the villains.
THE FACTS ARE THESE: The US Senate and Senate Foreign Relations Committee are there to protect US INTERESTS and its citizenry — not to advance the interests of a Senator fixated on the pleasures and profits of a foreign country. Menendez is co-opting govt authority and govt resources to serve himself and his hand-picked collaborators.
He's a Florida resident, but Menendez spends an inordinate amt of time servicing his big buck donor. Salomon Melgen's first loyalty is to his offshore homeland.
POINTS TO PONDER Leonel Fernandez, the ex-Dominican president, named Melgen as Domincan Republic's alternate delegate to the United Nations during Fernendez's first term and an ambassador assigned to the Dominican Republic's Foreign Ministry in his second.
New Jerseyans are of no interest to Menendez—he's getting his kicks elsewhere.
#2 Comment By Jim On February 25, 2013 @ 9:02 am
No shame. Simply no shame.
#3 Comment By inglejunkie2 On February 25, 2013 @ 9:13 am
Menendez rushing to church to expiate his sins is s-o-o-o-o predictable.
Religion, is, of course, "the last refuge of a scoundrel"……the philosphy Menendez fervently adheres to. OTOH, keep in mind, Senor Bob has been very cunning in labeling all charges as "right-wing." B/c in liberal-land, "right-wing" is code for horrid things like "judgementalism," "moral certitude," and, "religious piety."
Menendez is part of a tight-knit Capitol Hill clique bound together by "enlightened values" — reason, tolerance, diversity, equality.
Quoting the left's intellectual mentor, author, Saul Alinsky: "They do not have a fixed truth — truth to them is relative and changing….. they are free from the shackles of dogma." (from Rules for Radicals).
#4 Comment By dan'l On February 25, 2013 @ 10:44 am
Rockin Robbie definitely has read Bubbas' manual for wayward politicians, but did he miss the part about carrying a bible under his arm? These scoundrels always head for a place where the less informed, government dependent folks will give them some highly visible sympathy. When was the last time this slimeball attended church?
#5 Comment By inglejunkie2 On February 25, 2013 @ 11:17 am
FAMILIAR ROUTINE Menendez in deep doo-doo poses as "victim" to gain sympathy.
DUPING THE FAITHFUL Menendez lets 'em believe he and his parents "fled oppression" in Cuba. But the better-informed among us know he was born in NYC five year before Castro took power.
Of course, he believes the Big Lie—b/c his parents instilled it in him.Why?
B/c immigrants to the US pleading "asylum from oppression" are showerd with numerous tax-paid freebies. His parents were pretty well-off when little Booby was born in NYC…..thanks to taxpayers. Menendez has always been a professional parasite, long before Jerseyans even heard of the guy……..
and he's continuing the legacy.
Menendez is being protected by scardey-cat Democrats, paranoid about a Christie appointment when we dump Menendez. The power-crazed scumbags would rather Menendez trash the Nation than have to deal with a Christie appointee.
"Get out of our government, Senor. And do it now."
#6 Comment By stopplease2012 On February 25, 2013 @ 11:23 am
I hope he was praying that he doesn't go to hell for all of the underhanded things he is all about. He actually makes my skin crawl.
#7 Comment By ed On February 25, 2013 @ 11:23 am
So it was a false accusation that he took two trips on a private plane. Why did he pay if it was false. Why did it take from October to Jan. to make payment? The report by the false scares should have jarred his memory that he did not pay for the trip. What proof has been offered that payment was made?
#8 Comment By inglejunkie2 On February 25, 2013 @ 11:37 am
FYI BLOGGERS—Under US law—called the Cuban Adjustment Act—Cuban immigrants receive unique and highly favorable treatment, including (1) permanent residency just a year after arrival, (2) eligibility for a catalogue of tax-paid govt benefits–including Medicaid, monthly SS payments, child care, and SSI disability benefits, PLUS, (3) whatver other tax-subsidizations they could got their hands on.
The benefits of being "Cuban" is so advantageous it has spawned its own form of identity fraud. In 2012, federal agents busted a ring that sold almost 50 fake Cuban birth certificates for up to $15,000 apiece to "impoverished" illegal aliens from Latin America so they could obtain green cards……and amnesty.
The illegals know that all Cubans have to do to gain entry into the United States, is show-up at the Texas-Mexico border, show a Cuban identity card and birth certificate. They then bring in extended families, reunite w/ parents, and build a tax-fueled dream life thanks to one of the most generous US immigration laws extant: the Cuban Adjustment Act.
Last month Cuba ended its practice of requiring an exit permit to leave the island, and said all Cubans could obtain a passport, potentially increasing the exodus.
NOTE Immigration experts say that living under a communist regime is frequently used to seek "political asylum" in the US (and the trainload of tax-paid benefits "asylum" brings).
But those seeking refuge here for "persecution" for political or religious beliefs…….would trigger migration by a multitude of residents from poverty-stricken, corrupt misgoverned countries (who would be eligible to gorge on the US gravy-train).
#9 Comment By JerseyOpine On February 25, 2013 @ 8:18 pm
I'm not the least bit impressed that he quoted MLK at a Black History Month celebration & won over the crowd. These are the same easily distracted Dems who voted for him.
There is no right wing conspiracy about the facts of his selling out to the highest FL bidder. Not just the port deal & plane rides, at least 2 interventions with Medicare fraud allegations against the Dr.
Influence peddling is illegal & he should be removed from office.
#10 Comment By Alanseeeeeeee On February 25, 2013 @ 9:38 pm
Porky Pig played the race card in front of members of the Democratic Plantation.
#11 Comment By inglejunkie2 On February 26, 2013 @ 9:34 am
Menendez will gets lots of accolades—even awards—in Hudson County (his home base). And Piapic Bob wont't even have to sully himself by going into a (gasp) "church."
Hudson County exalts, admires and elects crooked pols….and is well-rewarded for its loyalty. The US State Dept once refused to accepts passports from Hudson County—b/c they were all fraudulent. Then-Gov Corzine quickly appointed the latino Hudson County clerk forging all the passports to a high post in his admin.
Count on it—-the H/C Dominican poulation will hold a celebratory dinner
for their conquering hero……..but the guests may be too young to drink alcohol (cackle).
#12 Comment By inglejunkie2 On February 28, 2013 @ 11:10 am
(Sniffle) I guess Sen Menendez is back in church, on his knees, thanking God—-
b/c hundreds of illegal aliens freed by Pres Obama were let go in Hudson County (Menendez's home base).
Gee, that was nice of Obama to free Sen Menendez's voting blocs—hardened criminals that are not deportable–meaning they are so bad, even their home countries do not want them.
Face it, Menendez needed a lift from all those right-wingers (sob).
Immigration officials occasionally free detainees on supervised release. But Obama's suckup—the mass release of so many illegals in such a short span of time—appears to be unprecedented—a "first" for a sitting president.
S-o-o-o thoughtful of Obama to reward his pal Menendez. I do hope a grateful Menendez and Dr Melgen will have Obama down to Casa de Campo for a (cough) restful respite from WH business real soon.
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Rutherford County Sheriff's Dept. responded to 163 calls on Thursday; Forest City police had 45 calls; Rutherfordton police had 34 calls; Spindale was dispatched to 46 police calls and Lake Lure had four calls; Rutherford County EMS responded to 32 calls and Rescue had 26 calls.
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Bill's Creek firefighters and Shingle Hollow firefighters responded to vehicle accidents; Cliffside responded to a vehicle accident and smoke report; Forest City responded to a fire investigation; Hudlow responded to a grass fire and gas leak; Lake Lure and Union Mills responded to smoke reports.
David Lynn Anderson of Lookout Lane in Forest City was arrested for extradition/fugitive from another state; $100,000 bond.
John Thomas Hinton, 49, South Church Street in Forest City was charged with assault, inflicting serious injury; 48-hour hold.
Ralph Edwin Jones, 58, Dogwood Lane in Forest City was charged with driving while license revoked; $5,000 bond.
Angela Carson Murray, 39, Ledbetter Road in Spindale, charged with obtaining property by false pretense; $10,000 unsecured bond.
Christopher Robert Queen, 23, Lee Road in Forset City, charged with failure to appear on communicating threats; second degree trespass; misdemeanor driving while license revoked, driving while impaired and reckless driving to endanger; $8,000 bond.
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The NRA's Christmas wish: more guns in schools
David Gibson December 21, 2012 - 1:14pm
Yep, that was the big announcement from NRA head Wayne LaPierre at a news conference today, the gun lobby's first public comments since the Newtown massacre a week ago.The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, LaPierre said in one of the many gems he unveiled at the briefing. Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones, they issue press releases bragging about them ... in doing so they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk."LaPierre also excoriated those who sought to use the tragedy for political gain, noting that the NRA had "remained respectably silent." Yes, he said that. Oh, and he wants a crackdown on violent video games because, well, in NRA math the Second Amendment comes before the First Amendment. I still fear history will repeat itself and the NRA will probably win this round, too, alas.Yes, our blood-soaked culture is a problem. But in an almost reasonable column -- amazing, I know -- even Charles Krauthammer puts it third behind gun control and mental illness.But first and foremost it is the guns, stupid -- fewer, not more. Fareed Zakaria said it best the other day, in a must-read column on why America has a gun homicide rate that is far higher than other countries:
So what explains this difference? If psychology is the main cause, we should have 12 times as many psychologically disturbed people. But we dont. The United States could do better, but we take mental disorders seriously and invest more in this area than do many peer countries.Is Americas popular culture the cause? This is highly unlikely, as largely the same culture exists in other rich countries. Youth in England and Wales, for example, are exposed to virtually identical cultural influences as in the United States. Yet the rate of gun homicide there is a tiny fraction of ours. The Japanese are at the cutting edge of the world of video games. Yet their gun homicide rate is close to zero! Why? Britain has tough gun laws. Japan has perhaps the tightest regulation of guns in the industrialized world.The data in social science are rarely this clear. They strongly suggest that we have so much more gun violence than other countries because we have far more permissive laws than others regarding the sale and possession of guns. With 5 percent of the worlds population, the United States has 50 percent of the guns.There is clear evidence that tightening laws even in highly individualistic countries with long traditions of gun ownership can reduce gun violence.
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Dressed in military attire,used military weapons bought by his mom who thought they would be needed here.Collateral damage.We tell tribal afghans they should modernize and become a nation state with a military, police force and rule of law to defend the citizens,even as we are becoming like them. We distrust more and more the rule of law and our centralized [or local]government,we are filled with citizens arming themselves with military weapons as if they were tribal afghans in the mountains with no governemnt in place facing threats from outside.The label mentally ill -regarding these mass murderers-what is that but a culturally palatable way of dealing with the effects of the coarsening of our culture.Though we've always been quite violent one on one, after 11 years of warring and the glorification of all things military,when an Alan West who tortured and murdered a captive iraqi could get elected to office and hailed by the media as a hero,when graphic war games are being played by young people while at the same time they know we're really dropping bombs on men women and children with impunity and reveling in our ability to do so-is it surprising that this militarism,this glorification of mass violence would seep through right here?And even as we tell others that they should adapt our ethos of the right to freedom of speech-we ourselves are not so thick skinned regarding speech as we are telling these cultures to be. Here people get violent over any slight -and we now call it anger management issue or mental illness or now we acknowledge such violence as the effects of bullying.[speech].We want them to be enlightened like us even as we are thinking like them!
Let's think this through. Is this a plausible solution? There are more than 100,000 public schools in the United States. (Let's assume that private schools and home schools are on their own.) Given shift work, vacations, the large size of some schools, let's say you would need 200,000 armed enforcement officers. By way of comparison, the entire active US Marine Corps is about that size (a solution?). Or is the idea a George Zimmerman in every school? What about playgrounds, school buses, and, of course, the many other venues children and adults congregate -- movie theaters, shopping malls, McDonalds and so on.And even if you did, how might that work out? Well-trained police officers who engage in the very rare firefight routinely shoot themselves, each other, innocent bystanders, inanimate objects, and, occasionally, the person they aim at. So schools become some kind of free-fire zone? Wouldn't the crazy perpetrator take out the guy with the gun first?And, of course, remember: Virginia Tech had an entire police department...
I have no problem with gun control. At the same time, I am not sure that it is the answer to the problem.Everyone seems to put their own particular spin and interpretation on the data. And to be fair, the date can be interpreted in many ways.Clearly, guns are a factor in homicides and suicides in the USA. But given the history and the constitutional issues associated with gun control, it might be difficult to reasonably apply.Then there is the issue of confinement of the mentally ill. I have read that one of the precipitating factors for the killer, in this instance, was that his mother was taking concrete steps to have him committed involuntary for psychiatric care. Given the laws, it is difficult to do and the fact that his mother was moving in this direction made this young man very angry and he lashed out against her violently and what she held most dear - the children.I am not in favour of loosening psychiatric commitment laws, but in this instance, the Colarado killing instance, and the Arizona shooting of the congresswoman, one fact, in addition to guns is glaringly obvious; each of the perpetrators had diagnosible and/or already diagnosed psychiatric disorders.
And while the NRA was holding this press conference, another mass shooting was taking place in Pennsylvania near Altoona. Several dead and at least two state troopers injured. http://gawker.com/5970497/while-the-nra-was-on-tv-talking-about-the-need...
@George: There is no doubt that we need better -- and better funded -- mental health care in the United States. But there are people with mental health issues throughout the world, but among developed countries It is the United States that has more shooting deaths than anyone by a huge margin. The major difference is access to firearms.Also, mental health diagnosis is imprecise, and trying to determine who among those who are diagnosed might at some point become violent would be very difficult. Are you going to put large numbers of people, who have committed no crime, in custody? What would be the right scale to ensure that one doesn't slip through the cracks? The incident of mass killings is statistically small, so your chance of stopping the one in 100,000, or 1 million, who might become violent to the point of killing people is pretty daunting.And all because we want people to be able to walk around in public with guns?
FWIW, perhaps Megan McArdle has something to offer in this conversation, despite denunciations of her on other posts. Here she responds to Jonathan Chait's misunderstandings:http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/18/can-collective-action-s... Mark Kleiman is puzzled: "Rage Against the McArdle seems to run deep in Left Blogistan."http://www.samefacts.com/2012/12/wayward-press/the-rage-against-the-mcar...
McArdle just seems to keep digging. The problem for her, and others of her libertarian ilk, is that their ideology doesn't allow for confronting the plain fact of the problem, which is guns. Ban or regulate them. It works. What's the problem?
"took no questions"So much for any willingness to engage in good faith discussion about the gun issue. I hope there will be those within the NRA who will speak out against the leadership. In the last week, I've heard interviews with several NRA members who do not support the civilian ownership of semi-automatic rifles, and I'm hoping they will raise their voices against LaPierre and the gun manufacturers standing not so invisibly in the background. And are these armed school guards to be equipped with semi-automatic or automatic weapons? How else to stop an intruder like Adam Lanza? My children are well beyond elementary and high school age, but if they weren't, and schools were to become armed barricades, I think my wife and I would think seriously about home schooling.
How come the NRA doesn't also advocate for people to carry guns when flying? I mean, if every passenger on board had a gun, just think of how difficult it would be for terrorists to take control of an airplane.
@Claire. What makes you think they don't? Their position is that if you have a concealed carry permit, you should be able to carry it anywhere -- except into their presser.
I saw several references on Twitter to the Clint Eastwood empty chair routine while this was going on. My hope is that such a disastrous public appearance will destroy the NRA's mythic power. It was an alarming look behind the curtain: They had a week to come up with a response, and this was the best they could do? Is this the powerful lobbying group all the politicians are afraid of?
Public opinion is against the NRA right now. That is the bottom line. Will they win the war of public opinion. There is not doubt that the perpetrators have mental problems. The math is they would not kill as many or been as effective without guns. It is a no brainer. And it is a testament to money that all do not see that.
Guns and porn are said to have some constitutional protection. Gun makers and gun nuts should be treated just like porn makers and porn addicts. phew.
A high school outside of Philly had to shut down today after a 15 year old threatened last night to bring a gun to school to shoot everybody. The police searched his house and found two 9mms on his nightstand. http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/courier_times_news/we-very-well-ma... agree with William Collier, NRA-members need to take ownership of this issue and take ownership of the organization they support. I think the consequences of the NRA's anti-regulation lobbying is as much on the membership as it is on the organization.
The first person encountered by the Newton shooter (let's not keep naming people who seek recognition this way) was armed and knew how to use her guns. The shooter shot first. Had an armed officer at school been the first person the shooter encountered and similarly lost, there would have been one more death. The assumption that the good guy will always shoot first is a dangerous illusion.And when armed guards at the schools fail to stop it, the next step will be armed guards in every classroom. (End of unemployment problem. Or will we pay for the guards by laying off more teachers? There is a TP solution.) The NRA is going, deliberately, toward creating a society in which everyone is armed to defend himself or herself from everyone else. The open-carry, guns-to-church, guns-to-the-job, guns-wherever-the-gun-owner goes laws in the various legislatures make clear the ultimate goal.
What is it that they always talk about on the the TV law & order shows?meansmotiveopportunityMost of these killers have few if any motives. They find their own opportunities.Without the MEANS how often would this happen?
Why do you say that Charles Krauthammer's column is "almost" reasonable? And why are you "amazed" that he possibly could write a reasonable column? I find some of what he writes quite insightful at times, but then again I do have some conservative leanings. :)
@ Rose-Ellen Caminer: Retired Lt. Col. Allen West fired his weapon near the head of a suspect his men had just roughed up, but he didn't kill anybody. His mouth is much fiercer than his deeds, and when the new Congress is seated he will be unemployed.
The best way to foster the even more rapid expansion of the possession of guns, regulate or unregulated, is to continue to defund programs and services that help keep violence under control. Note that I said HELP; no claim to 100% success.The teapartying of American works hand in hand with the goals of the NRA. And, of course, the gun manufacturers who are, in reality, the NRA.
"McArdle just seems to keep digging. The problem for her, and others of her libertarian ilk, is that their ideology doesnt allow for confronting the plain fact of the problem, which is guns. Ban or regulate them. It works. Whats the problem?"David G, have you read McArdle's first post? After reviewing some of the sloppy thinking that prevails on preventing massacres, she writes:"That leaves us with the big one, the argument I've been circling around for 2,000 words: ban guns. Ban them all. "I'm not going to insult your intelligence by arguing that this wouldn't work. Guns do not create homicidal intent, as some people have argued, but they do make homicidal intent more lethal. A bullet is harder to stop, requires less physical strength to deploy, and does a huge amount of damage. And shooting someone takes a lot less time than stabbing or bludgeoning them. That is why we now arm the US military with rifles instead of big knives. Conservatives who argue that a total ban wouldn't lower the homicide rate are being ridiculous. "America would still have a higher homicide rate than anywhere else, because for whatever reason, America is an incredibly violent place. "But I think there's no question that our homicide rate would be lower than it is now, simply because fewer killings would succeed."Elsewhere in that post, she expresses her support for banning high-capacity magazines, requiring background checks for private sales, and requiring owners to pass a shooting and gun safety test.She is extremely skeptical that these measures would stop something like Newtown from occurring. So is Ezra Klein, who compiles a list of policy recommendations very similar to what McArdle writes, and concludes,"Even if we do all this, and more, we may still see rampage shootings, and we will still have to grieve for murdered children. But the shootings will be fewer, and the deaths rarer. We may not know how to prevent the massacre in Newtown, but we do know how to reduce gun deaths."http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/18/a-better-targ...
Consider the penultimate paragraph of Jim Pauwels' 4:27 pm posting of today. (This is not an argument with Jim.)McArdle and others point out that assorted efforts have not shown themselves to be especially effective in reducing gun violence. Shift the burden of proof. Would anyone say that banning assault weapons, or big magazines, or background checks, or... Have increased the likelihood of gun violence? If not then why not try them together? What would be lost, other than some convenience that people now have in arming themselves as they see fit.If public safety is the primary objective, then why wouldn't the presumption be that Mr. or MS. x doesn't qualify for gun ownership until he or she can show that they are people who can be trusted with guns?
@Jim Pauwels (12:21, 4:27 pm) I read McArdle's essay and I agree she made some good points (some I agree with, and some I disagree with but can see that there's a reasonable argument that she's making).But when the big finish to her essay includes the following: "I'd also like us to encourage people to gang rush shooters, rather than following their instincts to hide; if we drilled it into young people that the correct thing to do is for everyone to instantly run at the guy with the gun, these sorts of mass shootings would be less deadly, because even a guy with a very powerful weapon can be brought down by 8-12 unarmed bodies piling on him at once. Would it work? Would people do it? I have no idea...."she (in my view) undermines almost everything that preceded it.Almost all of us have spent time in schools like Sandy Hook elementary. The adults are outnumbered at least 15:1, sometimes closer to 30:1. The activity in the building is designed so that the adults are isolated from each other. (Most of the time it's 1-2 adults per classroom. Rarely is there an assembly where 8-12 adults are in the same room.)In that paragraph, McArdle is basically arguing that fewer people would have died at Sandy Hook elementary if the children had regularly practiced gang-rushing and tackling adults with semi-automatic firearms. It takes more nerve than I have to make that argument when the bodies haven't even been buried.
@ LukeCharlotte Allen, at the National Review online, made the same argument as McArdle, even using the term "bum's rush." Unfortunately, she was a mite cavalier with the facts, not mentioning that the Sandy Hook principal DID try to rush Adam Lanza, and died without noticeably slowing his progress. Allen also assumed that Sandy Hook is K-6 and would have students in the upper grades who have played football. It's actually K-4, so the oldest children would be no more than 9 or 10. Gee, when the Iranians forced children to the front lines to set off the land mines before they could kill the adult males, we called that a crime against humanity. I won't say we can't afford to pay teachers because we could if we chose to. The fact that we don't pay teachers a living wage is simply a matter of political will. But the NRA thinks we can afford billions to hire armed guards at schools? Oh, but the NRA has the answer to that: volunteers. They deserve every bit of derision that will be heaped on them after this disastrous PR ploy.
We have been concentrating on the massacres which, though horrifying, are only a tiny part of the total number of people murdered with guns. The main problem by far is guns in the hands of non-crazies. And to speak of "the" answer is to oversimplify vastly. There is no doubt a number of causes, ncluding the availability of guns and ammunition. We must work on them all.Helping the mentally ill should be a major goal regardless of the involvement of a few of them in gun violence.
I think we'll be able to get meaningful gun regulation in the next 20 years. Look at who are the gunowners in the US: white. male. Protestant. non-urban. That group is shrinking in this country; I think the NRA will be come increasingly less relevant (and thus less obstructive) as their base shrinks.
Assuming that1.Teachers bear some responsibility for the safety of the children in their care;2.Schools are a target for people who want to kill in numbers, and3.There is currently not a ban on all gunsDo teachers have a moral obligation to take precautionary, affirmative action to do what it takes to protect those in their care, and that should not exclude the ability to defend the children with a firearm?
Mark- We could meet that moral obligation to protect our children (that all of us share) by working really hard to ban guns (your point 3). It seems to be the more Christian approach, rather than buying guns ourselves to shoot people with.
Why we refuse to research matters before we sound off on things is a constant annoyance. A sheriff deputy was present at Columbine while 11 out of the 13 victims were still alive. He fired four times and missed. How much better would a person not trained in law enforcement do? Police departments work on controlling unnecessary gunfire. In August the NYC police shot an armed person outside the Empire State Building. But they wounded nine bystanders.
@Mark Proska (12/22, 10:33 am) Thanks for your question. For what it's worth, I think teachers *do* have a moral obligation to take precautionary, affirmative action to do what it takes to protect those in their care. Given that all available data indicate overwhelmingly that school is the safest place for American children, both now and in decades past, I think there's abundant evidence that the overwhelming majority not only take that moral obligation seriously, but that they're extremely good at carrying it out.Given the strong pacifist strand in Christian belief and practice, I'd hesitate to argue that teachers should be required to use firearms as part of their duties. Your thoughts?P.S. It seems to me that those, like Megan McArdle, who argue teachers should be armed and trained in the use of firearms, have an obligation to get much more specific about how they envision this happening, how it's paid for, what schools will look like, whether and under what circumstances students can carry weapons around school, etc.In the absence of such specifics, then it looks like merely an overly intellectualized and abstracted attempt to force reality to fit into the straightjacket of their own beliefs and ideologies.
Do teachers have a moral obligation to take precautionary, affirmative action to do what it takes to protect those in their care, and that should not exclude the ability to defend the children with a firearm?
I don't think that I can see the Franciscan nuns who educated me packing side arms. And neither can you, I bet. Or to put it another way, what about workplace shootings. Do you want to arm your co-workers?
The notion that teachers should be armed to shoot the intruders first overlooks the fact that at least from middle school on, there are very angry and sometimes crazy students who are quite capable of stealing the teachers' guns and using it on the others. And some little kids are curious and will want to find and inspect them, a very dangerous thing for them to do. Having the teacher lock up her gun won't help -- by the time she gets to where the gun is under lock and key, she's dead.
IreneI think you can make an arguable case than an appropriate long-term response is to work to ban all guns, as you propose. Its not an approach I think will work, but its certainly one way to go. But my question dealt more with the here and now. When school re-opens in early January, what responsibility do teachers bear and what is the appropriate short-term response?LukeI think it is certainly good news that schools are generally so very safe. But, though its unusual that schools would burn down, they still have fire extinguishers just in case. I do not think teachers should be required to carry firearms to protect their children, but I do think they have a moral obligation to consider the option, or to have some plan in place beyond, say, yelling for help.Im not aware of the strong pacifist strand Christian belief and practice to which you refer, or how it is relevant to my point. For instance, what if the school is not Christian?UnagidonDont see how the Franciscan nuns who taught you are germane to the situation but, to answer your question, if I worked in an environment where workplace violence was a real threat, I would certainly feel better knowing that one or more of my co-workers might be trained in the use of firearms and might be armed.AnnYour response assumes the worst will always happen. I dont see it as being terribly compelling.
@Mark Proska (12/22, 1:45 pm) Thanks for your responses. If you Google "catholic social teaching" and "pacifism", you'll find thousands of links on the topic. (I mentioned it because it seemed relevant to a discussion on a Catholic website.)In our area, public schools (at least, I don't know as much about private and parochial schools) not only "have some plan in place", they regularly practice their response to a variety of potential disasters and threats. (I know of a second grader who got off the bus Monday morning and said to the principal, "Did you hear what happened to that school in Connecticut? That couldn't happen here because we practiced what to do, didn't we?") Just as schools hold fire drills regularly (and don't merely rely on the presence of fire extinguishers to keep everyone safe), most schools these days hold drills for other types of emergencies.Speaking just for myself, I was taken aback by your response to Ann. First, an individual gunning down 26 students and educators is pretty much a worst-case scenario. In fact, planning for any type of emergency is pretty much defined by assuming the worst will happen, and trying to figure out how to deal with it.The typical schoolroom contains 1-2 adults and 20-35 students. Any plan to arm teachers that doesn't assume students will try to get control of those nearby firearms and use them---either maliciously or for some other reason---isn't worthy of the name "plan".
I'm pretty shocked that there is actually a discussion about elementary school teacher arming themselves. Do we Americans care that much more for our guns than we do for our children that we would go that far to avoid restricting guns?
Luke - regarding that now-famous passage of McArdle's: I don't believe she wrote that in reference specifically to first graders at Sandy Hook, but as a more general recommendation for massacre situations, which have taken place in all sorts of settings: shopping malls, movie theaters, college lecture halls, high schools, outdoor venues, airplanes and so on. If you take a look at her follow-up post, linked above in Patrick Molloy's comment, she explains this at some length.She's not alone in recommending this; the US Department of Homeland Security has put together training materials for employees and staff at places where incidents may take place - for example, I understand that employees of stores in shopping malls might receive this training. The DHS recommendations basically are as follows:* If you can, get the heck out of there. Go quickly. Don't help anyone else. Don't attend to anyone who is wounded. Get away as quickly and safely as you can.* If escape is not possible, try to hide. If possible, barricade yourself in, away from the shooter. Stay silent. Turn off your cell phones.* If that also is not possible, then - if possible, coordinate a mass attack on the shooter. There have been instances (perhaps the most well-known being the incident in which Gabrielle Giffords was wounded) when this succeeded in limiting casualties.I agree with your analysis of elementary schools. I'd think it would be almost impossible to find 8-12 adults in an elementary school who didn't have direct responsibility for the safety and well-being of children in their own classrooms. Elementary schools might be the very worst place for an aggressive response.
Bernard - I agree. I can't think of a compelling reason not to put those reasonable restrictions in place. Many commentators have argued that these measures may not deter a determined attacker like Lanza. But casualties in massacre situations are a tiny percentage of overall gun deaths in the US, and if these measures help limit gun deaths overall, then I'd think we're pretty much morally obligated to pursue them.FWIW, my take is that President Obama would also agree. Whether reasonable recommendations and common sense will carry the day is yet to be determined. Apparently it doesn't prevail in fiscal cliff negotiations :-(.
One factor is not recognized in talking hopefully of more trained weapon carriers, whether guards or kindergarten teachers. There are two parts to the training. The first is learning how to hold, load, aim, fire, clean, and store a gun. The second is learning how to fire at another human being with the intent of killing that person. I mastered the first part as a teen and could teach it to my wife, an elementary school teacher by nature, in a week. I have never learned the second part and it would be humanly impossible for my wife, notwithstanding the profound moral obligations she has demonstrated to her students over years. The infantry recognizes the problem. History has recorded the number of troops in combat who never pulled the trigger. Talk about arms training for teachers and others need to be explicit about the goal of the training - skill in shooting to kill a person - and about how that is to be accomplished.
Trained, professional police officers, when they must use their firearm, often shoot innocent bystanders, other police officers, and all kinds of inanimate objects. Can you imagine the situation where an armed teacher or school employee might successfully engage an armed intruder? Since such situations are rare, most teachers would never, ever have actual experience to fall back on. The vast majority of teachers would never experience such a situation or even know anyone who did. What could go wrong? Well, everything!
I suggest that the schools be manned by Hell's Angels volunteers, just as the Guardian Angels patrolled the subways a few years ago when there was a crime scare in NYC. The Angels probably didn't prevent a great deal of crime but they made people feel safer. "When in doubt, knock 'em out" is the motto I've seen on a Hell's Angels clubhouse. A disturbing thought: if we make schools safer do we thereby render other public spaces less safe?
"A disturbing thought: if we make schools safer do we thereby render other public spaces less safe?"Yes. And if you follow LaPierre's reasoning, then we arm the people who hang out in the other places and all is well. If you listened, he said the next shooter was already planning to hit a school because schools, being safe, are good places to shoot people. Wisconsin -- which used to be filled with sane people but now something has happened to them -- recently passed a take-your-gun-to church law. (Bishops respectfully hoped parishioners won't overdo it. Priests watch what they say during the homily.) on the same principle: If churches are safe, someone may be shot there. The goal, as I said earlier, it so arm everybody all the time so every place is unsafe, in which event we will all be a lot safer. Please pass the Kool-Aid.
By the way, where I live people are allowed to carry their weapons to county commission meetings. I have to send my rosary case through the X-ray, but if I am carrying a Ruger I am supposed to simply tell the officer with the wand and walk right through the metal detector. I am always tempted to declare my rosary and try to walk through the detector to see what level of DEFCON that would send the county building into.
As Eugene Robinson said in the Washington Post, arm teachers and the next school shooter will wear bodyarmor into the building. Then what--do the teachers and children wear body armor too?
"Or to put it another way, what about workplace shootings. Do you want to arm your co-workers?"Personally I think we should arm everyone ... at taxpayer's expense, of course.Then we could disband all of our police and other public security services (saving a veritable fortune and allowing for reducing taxes on the already overpaid) and let the last person standing declare victory to the tune of "What A Friend We Have in Jesus's Glocks".
@Patrick Molloy (12/22, 4:20 pm) While the Guardian Angels may have made some NYC subway riders feel safer for the short time they regularly "patrolled" the trains about 25 years ago, you correctly note they had little or no impact on the actual crime rate. What did have a dramatic impact on the crime rate in NYC and elsewhere was effective police work and major investments in the subway's infrastructure and maintenance. The same has been true in other cities.As for the your "disturbing thought" that "if we make schools safer do we thereby render other public spaces less safe?", public schools are already one of, if not *the*, safest places in our society. The question more appropriately pointed back at Wayne LaPierre and other advocates of arming teachers is "since schools are already one of the safest places in our society, do we thereby render them *less* safe by introducing semi-automatic firearms into the buildings?".
I think it is complete madness to consider having armed personnel in schools. This is NOT a direction which will produce resolution for our struggles related to gun violence or mental illness. It is quite possibly, a step in the direction of full fledged civil war. God help us.
I grew up with a dad who was a policeman. He also had a problem with the drink which led him to threaten to kill us if we didnt straighten up. It was scary and explains why I've always hated guns. But I do not suffer from gun-o-phobia as appears to be the case with so many in this string. Mrs. Lanza bought the semi-automatic weapons before CT banned them. She apparently did not foresee that her sick son would kill her in order to obtain them for this heinous crime. No laws now being proposed would have spared the Newtown victims. Sad but true, we are vulnerable to madmen with an intent to kill others and themselves. Lee Oswald was such a madman, but the very thought that a young president could be a victim of a nut with a gun fueled more than 40 years of alternative scenarios designed to make us feel less vulnerable. If more guns are banned, the liberals will insist its the sensible solution. But the libertarians will throw a fit at the loss of freedom. Mass killings every once in a blue moon will continue with the perpetrators using everything from fertilizer bombs to dynamite.
Let's try to be a bit scientific about the data we have. The scientific method says that cause-effect relationships vary with each other. The presence/absence of the effect varies in size with the variation of size of the presence/absence of the cause.So what de facto happens when there are few guns? There are few shootings. When there are many guns there are many shootings. When there are a great many guns, there are a great many shootings, Wouldn't it be odd if there were no causal relationships, only correlations?True, there can be (and probably are) other causes involved which prompt the shootings besides the easy availability of guns. But if the availability of guns is actually irrelevant, then isn't it odd that there are correlations of presence, absence and varying numbers?
"he wants a crackdown on violent video games."Right. Let's crack down on the free market for pretend guns and force 'em, if they want to shoot it up, to buy the real thing.And armed guards in schools ... didn't Ms Lanza have guns? What's the difference between attacking George Zimmermann and stealing his guns right there at the school?If this weren't so tragic, I'd be laughing at the insanity of it all. Let the NRA keep speaking. Let 'em keep digging deeper.
Any plan to arm teachers that doesnt assume students will try to get control of those nearby firearms and use themeither maliciously or for some other reasonisnt worthy of the name plan.LukeChange firearm to fire extinguisher in your sentence above, and I think youll see that its hyperbolic. Believe it or not, despite that fact they could be misused, schools are still equipped with fire extinguishers.Of course there will be a plan to keep any firearms out of the hands of those who shouldnt have them, I guess I thought that went without saying. In fact, the students would not know which teachers/administrators/principals might be armedand thats only a very small part of the plan.BTW, I googled leprechaun and got almost 10 million hits. I still have doubts about their existence. ;-)
@John Feehily -- Newsweek counts 31 mass killings since April 1999 (Columbine). None of them were done with dynamite, fertilizer bombs, knives, brass knuckles or nunchucks. That is considerably oftener than "once in a blue moon" (once every two or three years).
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Hello, We are planning our first trip to Europe and have been intending to get a Global Eurail Pass for myself and husband for most of our travel needs while there. We will be flying in to Milan (MXP) and staying in Lake Como for a few days, then we'd like to travel through Interlaken and up to Murren for 2 more nights and see the Jungfrau region, then take the train up to Mainz and take a river cruise up to Koblenz. We'll complete our trip with a few nights in the Dusseldorf area and then take the train over to Brussels and fly out of that airport. My question is, will it be the most effective to travel by train or should we rent a car? It seems that every where is connected by a train, but getting to and from train stations and hotels etc. has me concerned. I am also confused as to what will be covered by the Eurail pass in Switzerland.
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The music of the short film Rood, composed by Dennis Braunsdorf, was nominated for the Peer Raben Music Award. Dennis personally asked me to play all the percussion in the film and I did. The awards will be on the 21st – 24th of november this year in Cologne.
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Over a month ago I told a few of my friends that I wrote book during the holiday, a fictional story based on true events during the establishment of the Peace of Utrecht, the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) and the preceding war. This wasn't a lie. This book was to be presented on the opening night of the Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2013 in Museum Speelklok. So I invited these friends to come to my "book presentation". They did. And when they did, they found out my book wasn't an ordinary novel. On the contrary:
I wrote an organ book so that a big dance organ (built in 1927) could play my composition, my story. It's called El Anterior, which means "The Preceding". I appreciate a little joke from time to time. Luckily, so do my friends! :D
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Today I am participating in the 48-hour Film Festival in Rotterdam. Al of the sound design is done by me. I just finished running around in the forest with some audio recording gear. Now it's off to the set to record more of the actors there. The movie is called "Weg" which is Dutch for, "Away" or "Gone". It will be shown in a Rotterdam Cinema and afterwards it shall also be uploaded so I can share it with you.
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Have you heard about the Dutch Indiegame development team Vogelsap? They're creating this eerie and awesome new game, The Flock. Together with their composer Felix Pulmano, also known as Tonsofpaperbrokenpen, I am producing the theme song for this game. It's going to be epic and beautiful and will soon be released!
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In 2012 I've made a physical audiogame with a few classmates using the ceiling speakers of the schools PA system. It turned out a whole lot of fun to play and watch.
1221 by Phenomenon Group a great success!
The physical free-roaming binaural experience was a very successful project. With only one day to let people play the game and people standing in line for the attraction, just a few were given a chance to experience it. We hope that one day we can rebuild the installation for a longer period of time so that we can reach a larger audience.
1221 takes place in a fully furnished eerie room where one can walk around to find an object. The narrative is explained through binaural audio. As lead programmer and assistant sound designer on this out-of-control-schoolproject, I am technically responsible for throwing the player in a world of suspense and full immersion.
The audio team, consisting of Timothy Scheek and myself, had a few months to research the possibilities and limitations of implementing binaural audio in a free roaming world. The research basically taught us, that in this day and age, a next to perfect binaural reproduction in a free roaming setting is simply impossible. Thousands of sub-factors contribute to the quality of binaural audio. Alas, way too much to implement them all in a fully adaptive and interactive game environment where multiple distinguishable sound sources are needed.
The serious CPU limitations forced us to make a lot of compromises in the versatility of the binaural audio, while trying to prosecute the quality standard of testers being able to point out where a sound came from. In the end we succeeded in balancing between high fidelity and CPU-"Friendliness". People where very impressed with the audio and I am very, very pleased with the result.
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Crush 2012 is now pretty much completed and most of the winemakers I have talked to were pretty happy with their harvest. While there were some minor weather issues on the whole it was an uneventful (no hurricanes) harvest.
Virginia Wine Club President Stewart Reynolds and I kicked off the month by attending the Governor's Wine Summit in Richmond. In the Breakfast of Champions tasting (8 comparative tastings VA vs. the world) the hundreds of gathered experts chose Virginia Wine again and again over some very stiff, and tasty, competition.
The tasting revealed significant surprises for the Commonwealth wine industry. Keswick Vineyards' 2009 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon edged out the 2009 Chateau Montelena Cabernet Sauvignon. Additionally, a strong showing was made by another Virginia vineyard when 2008 Barboursville Nebbiolo was preferred over 2008 Vietti Barolo..
Internationally acclaimed British wine authority Steven Spurrier was the keynote speaker. Spurrier, a consultant editor to Decanter and president of the Circle of Wine Writers. During his presentation, Spurrier praised Virginia's wine industry and said that Virginia is now a solid competitor in the global wine industry
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Here's how we're going to do it -As you think about you holiday gift list, think Virginia Wine and of course the Virginia Wine Club. As a member, you know how much you enjoy receiving each month's shipment. Your Tasting Panel tastes literally hundreds of wines each year to bring the best of Virginia wine to your doorstep each and every month.
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While it's nothing more than a placebo, believe it or not, some people actually argue over which color M&Ms taste better. If the latter speaks to your spirit and you're tired of manually filtering unwanted sweets from your holiday spread, then you might be in luck. A crafty tinkerer who goes by the YouTube handle "Nxt1engineer" has shared a clever contraption that sorts M&Ms by shade. Using tone-detecting sensors, this Lego-powered machine separates and dispenses the popular candy-coated snack, ensuring that everyone receives their favorite hue without any fuss. It's not entirely clear how you might be able to bring this awesome apparatus home, but you can at least see it in action -- check it out in the video after the break.
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Weird, I read the title as 'Standard For Electric Chair Announced'. I was actually surprised that they didn't already have one......
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Could you not just check the list here:
and go with your favourite supplier of quality hardware? Also, bear in mind that some of your connected equipment isn't and can't be N-enabled (PS3 it think from memory). Therefore, you'll want something that can gracefully handle both G and N at the same time (ideally as separately configured wireless networks).
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Nah, still full price over here, plus the HP Sales line is now closed. Was going to call and ask for the same pricing as the US. Maybe we'll see some movement on Monday when everyone gets back to work.
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And, bang, HP's shopping cart goes down.
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Even more so when you implement the message passing with a non-blocking IO paradigm. Something like http://www.jboss.org/netty
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If the premium on the phone isn't huge (you usually pay more for PAYG as it's not a guaranteed income to the operator), it could be a good way of getting a non-contract iPhone to jail-break. If it can be jail broken (I give it 10 hours, any advances).
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AT&T's nationwide coverage and wide selection of prepaid monthly and pay-as-you-go plans are attractive. But so-so network quality, relatively high cost and meager phone selection leave experts and users disappointed.
Wide selection of plans. AT&T offers both pay-as-you-go and monthly plans. Pay-as-you-go users can choose between a $2 plan that allows unlimited talk and text, but charges you $2 on any day you use your phone. Otherwise, calls are 10 cents per minute, while texts are 20 cents each, though frequent texters can lower the cost by selecting a text package (Est. $4.99 per month and up). Basic-feature phone monthly plans start at $25 for 250 minutes of talk and unlimited texts and run to $50 per month for unlimited calls, unlimited texts and unlimited data/mobile web. Smartphone users can choose between a $60 monthly plan that includes unlimited calls and texts, plus 2 GB of data, or a $40 plan that caps data at 200 MB. Extra data is pricey, especially for the $40 plan ($5 per 100 MB). Also available is a $50 plan that includes unlimited talk and text, but Wi-Fi access only for data. Finally, a $25 smartphone plan includes 250 minutes and unlimited text, with data packages an add-on at $5 per 50 MB.
Nationwide coverage, but only average quality. AT&T GoPhone uses the AT&T network, which ensures nationwide coverage. However, its performance receives average reviews and leaves something to be desired. Editors at TopTenReviews.com like GoPhone's live-chat feature and say that the free mobile-to-mobile calling within the AT&T network could save you money. However, user contributors to PrepaidReviews.com complain about poor reception throughout the network.
For prepaid users, customer service still lags. AT&T's traditional plans have seen some improvement in customer service surveys, but that's yet to be reflected in surveys that concentrate on the carrier's prepaid offerings. In user reviews, complaints that the quality of AT&T GoPhone customer service is poor are commonplace.
Modest selection. AT&T GoPhone offers only a limited selection of smartphones and basic phones, and some are refurbished or certified like new. There are no iPhones, but some LTE-capable Android phones, like the Samsung Galaxy Note II (Est. $650), and Windows 8 phones, like the Nokia Lumia 520 (Est. $100), are available.
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Kajeet doesn't do well in this review of prepaid phone services, coming in 11th out of 16 carriers reviewed. Editors do say that Kajeet has parental control features that aren't generally offered by other carriers. Its prices are higher than those of other services, but some plans offer unlimited text messaging. This review doesn't look at how the phone service performs.
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Editors here give Kajeet 3.5 stars out of 5. They appreciate that parents can track what their kids are doing on the phone, but say some of the lower-tier plans can cost a lot per minute. About 170 users have posted reviews, earning Kajeet an overall user rating of 3 stars out of 5.
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In this version of the Friday Roundup, we begin on a note of hope.
In cities across the nation, people came together to silently remember Michael Brown, the Missouri teen whose shooting death sparked a wave of unrest.
Video courtesy of USA Today
Calm returns
In Brown's hometown of Ferguson, the unrest of previous nights seemed to have ended. And the name of the officer who shot the teen was released.
President Obama weighed in, saying many Americans "have been deeply disturbed" by images of clashes between police and protesters. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., went further, condemning the presence of military vehicles and heavily armed police.
"Ferguson reminds us that American society has a long way to go in healing old hatreds," wrote Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention.
If you're not angry and grieved about what has been going on in Ferguson, then you simply aren't paying attention, writes evangelical blogger Sarah Bessey. And she's Canadian.
Conflict rages on
Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki agreed to step down, and the nation's top cleric approved of his successor. Meanwhile, it's not clear that the crisis with Iraq's minority Christian and Yazidi minorities is over.
British PM David Cameron is prepared to supply weapons directly to Kurdish forces fighting militants from the Islamic State in northern Iraq. And hundreds of hardline extremists in Indonesia have begun to openly pledge allegiance to the Islamic State.
Linguistic emergency
Foreign Policy has an interesting story about what it calls a "linguistic emergency of historic proportions," namely the destruction of Aramaic, the language of Jesus, in Christian Iraq.
"After a century of expulsions and persecutions, can spoken Aramaic survive without its homeland on the Nineveh plains? Between assimilation and dispersion, the challenges of maintaining the language in diaspora will be immense, even if speakers remain in Erbil."
Faith coerced by the Uzi
As a Baptist, Bill Leonard of Wake Forest University writes that the persecution of religious minorities in Iraq ought to be a wake-up call.
"Might we recommit ourselves to resisting all efforts to coerce faith, whether instituted by governments or privileged religious majorities? Faith coerced by the Uzi, the culture or the courts is no real faith. In this we Baptists have a great lineage, evident in British historian Edward Underhill's observation that "a distinguishing … trait" of the early Baptists was their claim, "for the church and for the conscience, of freedom from all human control."
A compact approach
Pope Francis started his five-day visit to South Korea by riding inside a compact Kia hatchback. He also took a high-speed train from Seoul to the central city of Daejeon, where Catholic youths have been meeting for the Asian version of World Youth Day. In his homily, Francis urged the youth to renounce materialism.
Two Amish girls were abducted from their family's roadside farm stand about 150 miles northwest of Albany. But the girls showed up Thursday in Richville, a town some 30 miles away, after the abductors dropped them off.
Leonard Fein, a veteran Jewish activist and writer, has died at 80. Fein was the founder of Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger and of the National Jewish Coalition for Literacy.
Pare down
Megachurch pastor Bill Hybels has a new book, "Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul" (Tyndale, Aug. 19), focused on helping people take a hard look at their life choices.
Mental heath 101
The death of beloved comedian Robin Williams has heightened awareness of suicide and its relationship to mental health problems. But many African-American churches quietly began educating members on the issue well before the Oscar winner's death, writes Adelle M. Banks.
The embattled Mars Hill Church canceled its annual Resurgence conference late on Thursday, scuttling an event that brings big name preachers to the Seattle area. Can anyone say "Mark Driscoll"?
Taking a second look
British Christian musician Vicky Beeching has come out as gay. She tells our own Jonathan Merritt:
"All I want to do is play whatever small part I can to help people rethink their beliefs around sexuality; to stir people to reexamine doctrines that need a second look. "
Sounds like what we do here at RNS: taking a second look at religion. Be sure to sign up below and reexamine what you thought you knew from the world of religion on Monday.


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I need to get the lighting right," mutters the man with the camera in "The Master," one of the few truly vital and unruly American films in recent years.
The man is Freddie Quell, a World War II Navy veteran suffering from what has been diagnosed as a nervous condition. He's a long way, adjustment-wise, from the disenchanted returning vet author James Jones wrote about in "Some Came Running," played by Frank Sinatra in the movie.
Freddie's far gone: An alcoholic, a brawler and a survivor of a harsh and unloving childhood, as well as untold horrors of combat, he is pulled into one scrape and out another, sneering as if an invisible fishhook had gotten snagged in his upper lip. By the time he lands a job as a department store portrait photographer in 1950, he feels no less at sea than he did in the South Pacific.
Crouching behind his tripod, Freddie is plagued by a nasty hangover and last night's flop date with a co-worker. His mood is not good. Freddie takes an instant dislike to his latest customer. He keeps inching his floor lamp closer to his adversary's sweating face. "It's too hot," the customer says. Freddie pushes the lamp an inch or two closer. It's a bizarrely funny scene, and Joaquin Phoenix as Freddie handles it with a crazed sense of calm, even as fists begin to fly and writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's camera careens all over the store, in exquisite unbroken tracking shots. Anderson, like Freddie, is just trying to get the lighting right while chasing the lost soul at the center of the story.
Eventually Freddie finds himself in the company of a fellow misfit. Philip Seymour Hoffman, who shared the best actor prize for "The Master" with Phoenix earlier this month at the Venice Film Festival, plays Lancaster Dodd, the founder of "The Cause," a Scientology-like religion (for the record, the word "cult" is uttered only once in "The Master"). The Cause is built upon an elaborate combination of grief therapy, past-lives examination, theoretical time-travel, birth-trauma hypnosis and the belief that all true believers can, in Dodd's words, return to humankind's "inherent state of perfect."
No Anderson film will ever reach that state. Anderson has never placed neatness ahead of the happy accident or the sidewinding discovery. "The Master" is brilliantly, wholly itself for a little more than half of its 137 minutes. Then it chases its own tail a bit and settles for being merely a fascinating metaphoric father-son relationship reaching endgame. It may not all "work," but most of it's remarkable. And the best of it matches or exceeds writer-director Anderson's previous film, "There Will Be Blood" (2007), which in many ways was the film, the portrait of American dreamers and exploiters, of its decade.
Much has been written about "The Master" and its oddness, and one of the oddest of its personality traits is how straightforward it is on one level, and how challenging on others. One evening, after his toxic homemade moonshine (whose ingredients include paint thinner) leads to a migrant worker's death, Freddie is scuttling down by the waterfront in San Francisco. A wedding party yacht, lit up like a dream of elegance and "belonging," beckons to him. Freddie hops on board and stows away. This is the boat whose self-proclaimed commander is Dodd, the L. Ron Hubbard-meets-Charles Foster Kane self-made man portrayed by Hoffman with sly wit and an ever-shifting degree of sincerity.
Already, the shot in "The Master" of the yacht chugging out into the night, under the Golden Gate Bridge, has become famous -- it's that beautiful symbol of one door closing and another opening. Earlier, when Freddie bursts through a shadowy migrant workers' tent somewhere near Salinas into the early morning light, Anderson and his cinematographer Mihai Malaimare capture brilliantly an image of a wounded, terrified animal (Freddie, that is) trying to outrun his own demons. Much of "The Master" was photographed using ancient 65 millimeter cameras, lending both widescreen scope and a patina of nostalgia that may or may not be telling the truth about what we're seeing. Like "There Will Be Blood," this is an intimate, even claustrophobic epic, largely composed of tense two-person confrontations and power struggles. Amy Adams, her innate sweetness hidden behind a delicate will of iron, is Dodd's latest wife, Peggy, who sees in their newfound "guinea pig" Freddie both an acolyte and a storm cloud.
In step with Anderson's conception of Freddie, a hairy ape straight out of Eugene O'Neill, Phoenix's performance begins a long way out on the branch and keeps going further. He's a sexual being, but a mess, and an adolescent. His first words on the beach, in the final days of WWII, concern the proper method of ridding oneself of sexually transmitted crabs, and we see him simulating intercourse with a nude woman made of sand. At times Phoenix's Freddie hearkens back to Montgomery Clift in "From Here to Eternity," to name another James Jones tale. Only here the alienation is a hundredfold.
There are moments, and whole scenes, such as Freddie and Dodd side by side in jail cells, when Phoenix goes nuts in ways that leave characterization in the dust. For better or worse, the actor can be all Method in his madness, and not enough selectivity. Anderson sometimes allows scenes to play out just past their expiration date. As the story of "The Master" moves to Arizona and elsewhere, the momentum sputters. But scenes such as the first so-called "processing," when Dodd questions Freddie on board the ship ("Do your past failures in life bother you? Do you get muscle spasms for no reason?"), rivet the attention. They're as close to cult indoctrination as many of us would like to come, but they work, searingly, as minutely observed drama. Freddie needs saving, an arrow pointing him in some direction. The Cause is that arrow, and "The Master" puts you in extremely close quarters, often in paradoxically open-air settings, with seekers who may be full of it. Or may not.
Jonny Greenwood's agitated, agitating score, Jack Fisk's production design, Anderson's self-effacingly astounding camera sense all add up to an evocation of mid-20th-century America that is spot-on in its surface detail. Yet we sense an alien land underneath those surfaces. (Sometimes Greenwood overdoes that part.) In "Boogie Nights" and "Magnolia," his sprawling ensemble films, Anderson gave us Southern California in all its everyday peculiarity, from the porn industry to biblically sprung frogs from the sky. All things are possible in his movies, but the fix is in; the ones in the positions of power likely got there in ways that generally make for a good story. Anderson's a sardonic optimist. And he loves choreographing interactions between actors and the camera, which makes him practically alone in American movies.
"The Master" doesn't explicitly lay out how a religion, or a cult, or a belief along the lines of Scientology manages to draw a crowd. Rather, the movie makes the "how" clear and, at its best, unforgettable, by showing, not telling. The people on screen are not conventionally sympathetic, or heroic, or villainous, but interesting. (One of the sharpest exchanges, between Hoffman's sputtering Dodd and Christopher Evan Welch's undermining skeptic, is breathtakingly well-sustained.) The key to the film, I think, is that Freddie and Dodd like each other and, in fact, love each other (though the epilogue tips things in too obvious a direction for Dodd). Anderson fixes on an extremely sad, messed-up guy, Freddie, and then makes his path as rich and strange as cinematically possible. In "The Master," we're often left gasping for air, as in the scene when Freddie is required not to blink for a painfully long stretch of his processing. Or because of the sheer beauty of some of the compositions. Warts, wanderings, reiterations and all, this is a film destined to be processed in many different ways. And hallelujah to that.
MPAA rating: R (for sexual content, graphic nudity and language).
Running time: 2:17.
Cast: Amy Adams (Mary Sue Dodd); Philip Seymour Hoffman (Lancaster Dodd); Joaquin Phoenix (Freddie Sutton); Jesse Plemons (Val Dodd).


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Don't Let GERD Stop You From Enjoying The Holidays
National GERD Awareness Week is November 24-30, and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) urges individuals who suffer from gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD, to seek medical diagnosis and treatment to make their holidays and every day comfortable and symptom-free. Before sitting down to a big holiday meal, here are a few things to know about GERD.
What is GERD?
Gastroesophageal reflux occurs when contents in the stomach, particularly gastric acid, flow back into the esophagus. This happens when the valve between the stomach and the esophagus, known as the lower esophageal sphincter, is unable to keep the stomach contents from reaching the esophagus.
What causes GERD?
GERD is caused when there is an imbalance between the normal defense mechanisms of the esophagus and offensive factors such as acid and other digestive juices and enzymes in the stomach. Often, the barrier between the stomach and the esophagus is impaired by weakening of the muscle (lower esophageal sphincter) or the presence of a hiatal hernia, where part of the stomach is displaced into the chest. Hiatal hernias, however, are common and not all people with a hiatal hernia have reflux. A major contributor to reflux is obesity; when a person is significantly overweight, increased pressure in the abdomen can overwhelm the barrier between the stomach and the esophagus. Obesity, pregnancy, smoking, excess alcohol use and consumption of foods such as coffee, citrus drinks, tomato-based products, chocolate, peppermint, and fatty foods may also contribute to reflux symptoms.
What are the symptoms of GERD?
Common symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease are heartburn and/or acid regurgitation. Heartburn is a burning sensation felt behind the breast bone that occurs when stomach contents irritate the normal lining of the esophagus. Acid regurgitation is the sensation of stomach fluid coming up through the chest and sometimes into the mouth. Less common symptoms that may also be associated with gastroesophageal reflux include unexplained chest pain, wheezing, and sore throat and cough, among others. If the GERD is severe, you might experience trouble swallowing, which is a symptom that should be evaluated by a gastroenterologist.
Do you have GERD?
If you answer "yes" to two or more of the following questions, you may have GERD.
1. Do you frequently have one or more of the following?
- *An uncomfortable feeling behind the breast bone that seems to be moving upward from the stomach?
- *A burning sensation in the back of your throat?
*A bitter acid taste in your mouth?
2. Do you often experience these problems after meals?
3. Do you experience heartburn or acid indigestion two or more times per week?
4. Do you find that antacids only provide temporary relief from your symptoms?
5. Do you take prescription medication to treat heartburn but still have symptoms?
Can it be prevented or treated?
If you suspect you or a loved one may have GERD, the first step is to consult your healthcare provider or a gastrointestinal specialist to obtain an accurate diagnosis. A gastroenterologist is a specialist physician who diagnoses and treats diseases of the digestive tract, such as GERD. Work in partnership with your physician to initiate the best available treatment plan.
Treatment options can include lifestyle modifications, medication, surgery, or a combination of methods. Many over-the-counter medications provide temporary symptom relief but may not prevent recurrence of symptoms or allow an injured esophagus to heal. If you feel that you need medications on a regular basis, for more than two weeks, you should consult a physician for a diagnosis and appropriate treatment, as other serious conditions could coexist.
Enjoy your holidays and every day
Seek diagnosis and treatment if symptoms occur on a regular basis. Your gastroenterologist can help you enjoy your holidays and every day by defining your discomfort and providing treatment designed for you. For more information on GERD and to find a gastroenterologist in your area who can diagnose and treat you or a loved one, visit www.asge.org.


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