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Houston Texans 2012 NFL draft needs focus on depth
Despite the loss a number of starters, this draft needs to replace backups
CORPUS CHRISTI - The Houston Texans have lost LB/DE Mario Williams, LB DeMeco Ryans, RT Eric Winston, RG Mike Brisiel, TE Joel Dreessen, CB Jason Allen, FB Lawrence Vickers and QB Matt Leinart by way of outright free agency, release and trade during an off-season that seems to be sending the wrong message to fans after the team finally broke through with an inspiring season in which they captured their first-ever AFC South title and a playoff win to boot.
Of those names above, four were starters, three were regulars and no one cared about Matt Leinart. In all, that's a big group of losses to take. The only additions that have been made, on top of re-signing RB Arian Foster and C Chris Myers, is the signing of free agent punter Donnie Jones and linebacker Bradie James, a 9-year vet from Dallas.
The actions above have some believing that the Texans are going to sink in 2012, but to assume that before the NFL Draft later this month would be a fool's move. The losses the Texans have suffered this off-season are many, but I think the shock value of the names lost is far more severe than the actual impact they'll have. Mario Williams only played five games, DeMeco clearly didn't fit in the Wade Phillips 3-4, Brisiel was nice but nowhere near irreplaceable, there's a million Jason Allens walking the wire and Vickers, while a stout run blocker, was really only there to fill-in for James Casey, who the team may push back into the tight end role if they can find a fullback worth drafting and a fullback worth signing.
The biggest loss is Eric Winston, a cap-casualty whose loss on the offensive line could be a massive disruption in the long-term if the team doesn't find the right guy to replace him. Winston was a stalwart on the line; an anchor who didn't miss a game in five years and was the model for consistency.
The loss of Winston will add priority to acquiring line help in the draft, but the priorities still remain: wide receiver, offensive tackle, linebacker, center or guard and fullback. It wouldn't stun me if, in the later rounds, the Texans select a tight end, a project running back or a project quarterback. With an additional fourth rounder in tow thanks to the DeMeco Ryans trade, expect the Texans to address depth issues while still acquiring a project or two to develop for the future.
The Texans won't pick until the 26th selection comes up in the first round, so many of the Draft's elite receiving prospects should be long gone by the time Houston pops up. So if you're a Texans fan and you have dreams of seeing Oklahoma State's Justin Blackmon, Notre Dame's Michael Floyd or Baylor's Kendall Wright holding up a new Nike Texans jersey – dream on.
That doesn't necessarily mean the talent is gone – far from it – but it does mean that wide receiver shouldn't be considered a slam dunk as a first round pick. One receiver to look for at number 26 will be Georgia Tech's Stephen Hill, who is everything the Texans want – tall (6'4"), fast (4.36 in the 40), and extremely athletic with elite leaping ability. A lot of mocks have the Texans taking Hill or Wright, who some believe could fall to Houston. I don't see it, but I wouldn't rule it out or be too upset about it. That said, I love Hill's potential. He'll need to be worked and molded, but his size, speed and natural ability is scary fun to imagine opposite Andre Johnson.
At linebacker, the Texans will be looking to replace the holes left by Williams and Ryans, but don't let that statement fool you. The Texans don't expect whoever they pick to replicate the reputations of Mario and DeMeco, but rather to simply provide what they got from those positions and players last season.
LB Bruce Irvin of West Virginia is a prototypical Texans defensive pick: 6-foot-3, 245 pounds, good defensive instincts, above-average ability to get around one-on-one coverage and explosiveness coming off the edge. If he gets around his man and has a path to the quarterback, it could get ugly quick for whoever stands in Irvin's way. In my opinion, not enough is made about Irvin. I'm also interested in North Carolina's Zach Brown, Nebraska's Lavonte David and Miami's Sean Spence. All three are great athletes, with elite football instincts and high-energy motors. Irvin also makes sense because, more so than defensive ends Whitney Mercilus (Illinois), Andre Branch (Clemson) or Nick Perry (USC), each of whom have been matched with Houston in recent mocks, Irvin stands to be a guy the Texans can wait until the second or maybe even the third round to get. I don't rule out the Texans trading down for more picks if the draft takes a compelling turn, but assuming they don't, Irvin makes the most sense in the second round if Houston goes defense. I'd also like Boise State LB Shea McClellin if he was available at 58, but with his stock rising, I don't think he will be.
If the Texans go offense in the second round, it'll be on the line and I can see a few scenarios in that instance. The Texans will be operating with the 58th overall pick in the second round, so guys like T Jonathan Martin (Stanford) and T Mike Adams (Ohio State) most likely will be gone. If they aren't, the Texans would probably rate them higher than any defensive player, so that would be a fortunate turn of events. But it's likely that they won't be, and operating under that assumption, I think the Texans would be fortunate to pick up a guy like T Zebrie Sanders from Florida State. None of his talents grade as elite, but he's quick, has good footwork and seems like a good fit in Houston's zone blocking scheme, where you don't have to be great to do great things.
The third and fourth rounds are great sleeper rounds for underestimated players. The Texans still need a lot of depth in positions like Center, Right Guard, Fullback, Defensive End, Inside Linebacker and Safety, so look for them to take the highest rated guy at one of those positions. G Brandon Washington (Miami), G/C Lucas Nix (Pittsburgh), DE Tyrone Crawford (Boise State), DE Jake Bequette (Arkansas), LB Demario Davis (Arkansas State) and S Markelle Martin (Oklahoma State) are all big board possibilities, as well as guys who seem to really fit the Texans mold of player.
In rounds 4 through 7, the Texans will have 5 picks (99, 121, 161, 195, 233), and will likely be focusing on additional offensive line depth, as well as projects or "hybrid" players, as well as special teams anchors and, perhaps even a kicker if they don't bring back K Neil Rackers. 5th round will be huge for fullbacks and I expect that the Texans will either take a good, hard look at Temple FB Evan Rodriguez or Clemson FB Chad Diehl. Beyond that, I see Houston going for "best player available", with maybe/possibly/definitely a tight end thrown in there somewhere. I went into the off-season thinking a quarterback would be get drafted, too, but it doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to waste a pick on one with Yates already onboard and a desire to put a veteran in that third spot. They'll probably sign an undrafted one, if any stand out, but I no longer consider QB something the Texans will consider using a pick on.
I will say though, that if Houston QB Case Keenum goes undrafted, I see a lot of potential there. Even if it isn't the Texans, I can see him being more than just another Chase Daniel.
It'll be an interesting draft for the Texans, who need to fill holes and could also draft with an aim to push out another veteran. The team has $3.5 million under the cap as we speak, which isn't a ton of money to fill out the rest of the roster after rookie signings and such. I don't anticipate a whole lot of surprises during the draft's three days so far as the Texans are concerned, but a trade down is a possibility if both Kendall Wright AND Stephen Hill are gone when 26 comes up. It's great news for the Texans to not have to draft guys who will have to start from day one, but depth is huge, so you still can't afford duds. Here's hoping the Texans nab a few gems.
NFL Draft is April 26 (first round), April 27 (2nd and 3rd rounds) and April 28 (4th-7th rounds)
First Round - 26th overall
Second Round - 58th
Third Round - 76th
Fourth Round - 99th and 121st
Fifth Round - 161st
Sixth Round - 195th
Seventh Round - 233rd
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The new Toronto Centre NDP Provincial and Federal Executives now meet every second Tuesday of the month.
The Provincial Exec meets from 6-8pm while the Federal Exec meets from 7-9pm. 7-8pm is a joint meeting.
This month's meeting (May 13) will be held at Daniel's Learning Centre at 540 Dundas St. E.
All Toronto Centre NDP members are permitted to attend. Please RSVP to Vince – firstname.lastname@example.com.
Day of Action: Toronto-Centre for Trinity-Spadina
It's election season! We're facing a series of elections: provincially, municipally, and even federally. Our neighbours in Trinity-Spadina are about to head to the polls in a federal by-election.
On that note, we're changing our plans for our Day of Action. To get ready for all the election work ahead of us, we're joining the Campaign Kick-Off Day of Action in Trinity-Spadina to support our neighbours and friends.
Join us on May 3rd! The campaign office is located at 343 College Street (southwest corner of College and Augusta).
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Come to our UNITY PARTY after the nomination meeting!
Join the Toronto Centre NDP after this Sunday's nomination meeting for a celebration of unity, teamwork, and to welcome our newly nominated provincial candidate for Toronto Centre!
We'll be at the Church Street Garage and refreshments will be provided. It is a fully accessible venue.
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NoJetsTO has organised a phone bank and needs volunteers for this upcoming weekend.
Give two hours this weekend and help preserve Toronto's mixed-use waterfront and boutique Island Airport.
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The office is at 1 Dundas Street West. Contact Vince @ email@example.com if you're able to join the fight this weekend or any other time to save Toronto's waterfront.
Our Provincial Nomination Meeting is on April 13th
Join us on Sunday, April 13th that New Democrats living in Toronto Centre will select the NDP candidate for the next provincial election.
Only NDP members in good standing and resident within the current electoral boundaries of the Toronto Centre federal riding, for at least thirty (30) days prior to April 13th are entitled to vote at the nomination meeting. If your membership has lapsed in the past year, you must renew by March 31st in order to be eligible to vote at the nomination meeting. Renewals will be available at the door for Status 1/2 members. For questions regarding the status of your membership, please call the Ontario NDP at 416-591-8637 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Non-voting observers are welcome to attend.
Registration will open at 1:30 PM. The meeting will begin at 2:00 PM.
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Congratulations to the newly elected TCNDP executive teams!
Congratulations to all the newly elected members of our provincial and federal riding associations! We have a great year ahead of us.
And also a big thank you to all the members who have finished their terms on the exec tonight for all their hard work during 2013-14. We hope to see you all again soon!
Our Annual General Meeting is tonight!
After a year of unprecedented growth, join us as we prepare to hit new heights in Toronto Centre in 2014-2015!
The Toronto Centre NDP Riding Association will be holding their Annual General Meeting tonight (March 4th) at OPSEU Hall.
• By-Election Report
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• Amendments to the Association Constitution
• Election of Officers — please refer to the proposed constitution (sent via email) for executive positions and descriptions.
• Guest speaker: Ali Chatur, the Everyday Political Citizen of the Year and the Youth Councillor for Ward 29
As you know, the Toronto Centre New Democrats have been operating as a joint federal and provincial riding association. At this meeting, we will be reconstituting ourselves as separate federal and provincial riding associations, each association with their own constitution and elected officers. This change is in order to prepare us for the new federal electoral boundaries.
Only members in good standing are eligible to vote in elections and on motions at the meeting. New memberships and membership renewals will be available at the registration desk. Registration will take place from 6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. and the AGM itself will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Stand up for Canadian democracy
Don't let Stephen Harper impose voter suppression tactics and prevent Elections Canada from promoting democracy
New Conservative election laws will make it tougher for Canadians to vote – but easier for well-connected insiders to play money politics.
Under Bill C-23, Voter ID cards will no longer be accepted. This will prevent thousands of students, seniors and Aboriginal people from voting.
That's on top of the 120,000 Canadians who had a neighbour vouch for them and who will be turned away next election.
While Conservatives are making it tougher for everyday Canadians, they're also making it easier for well-connected insiders.
Stephen Harper's election reforms will increase the influence of big money in politics by raising individual donations to $1500 and allowing candidates to give $5000 to their own campaign.
Let's protect our democracy from voter suppression tactics. Let's fight back.

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Idiot Wife Loses $41,000 After She Transferred Money Into Wrong Account
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Money issues can often affect a couple, and this one is sure to make the husband cringe, as his wife mistakenly transferred $41,000 to a stranger instead of her husband.
The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, accidentally sent the $1,580 she earns monthly as a hairdresser to a stranger, as she was off on the bank account number by one digit.
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text: Huh, nothing wrong with the SiSes that I know of. As a side note, I've heard rumors that the Linux version of Navigator runs better on oBSD than the BSDI one does. Something to try out, perhaps, but then again it's just a rumor. Still shouldn't be causing reboots, but I'm out of ideas. Michael Shutes wrote: > the k6-2 is running at 400 MHz. the mainboard is a P5SS-ME using the SiS > 5595/530 chipset. one thing i am narrowing it down to is the x desktop. i > am using kde 1.1.2. things seem most likely to flake out when either > navigator 4.61 (BSDI version) or a screen saver is involved on this desktop > environment. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Michael Bacon <email@example.com> > > > What speed? What chipset (mainboard chipset, not video chipset)? Or, if > you > > don't know that, what make of motherboard? If I recall correctly, there's > one > > or two speeds at which th K6-2 is just flakey. The other thing I'd > suspect is > > a mainboard chipset that wasn't up to snuff. Neither one is good news, I > know, > > so I hope someone else has a less fatalistic idea.


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What happens when you trust the markets
April 23, 2013 - Harry Eagar
You know all those people who say you cannot do better than allow the market to do as it lists? In particular, that it is impossible to sit down and think about something and then act on your conclusions and have your act turn out better than if you just let the invisible hand take care of it?
Well, balderdash. Here's today's evidence, from Business Insider:
"Of course the story was false, though it remained uncorrected for several minutes. Eventually an AP employee tweeted that the company's account had been compromised.
"But in that time, the stock market briefly tanked.
"The Dow had been up over 100, but it then lost 150 points."
How much is 150 points off the Dow worth?
Tuesday's event was transitory, because it proved easy to show and tell that the market was reacting to a delusion. The market always reacts to delusions, and sometimes those delusions persist for years and years.
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Apr-25-13 3:49 PM
Playing the stock market it seems is a legal form of gambling and allowed. Yet gambling in Hawaii of any sort is illegal. If the stock market was a sure thing, then everyone would be rich and therefore the numbers would change from 99% rich to 1% poor. 1% who believe that gambling is sinful.
Gambling is Gambling.
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I didnt know what to expect when I purchased this, the name just sounded yummy. The opening is something floral and sparkly, which I can only assume is the orchid accord melding sweetly with it citrus counterpart. The two of them linger for 45 minutes or so until succumbing to the amber and Peru balsam. The funny thing I get with this scent is an ever present honey note. Its not, knock your hat off ninja in the face like Serges Miel de bois or anything. It just makes the fragrance surprising and charming in its dry down. I cant say that the fragrance vanishes; more that I forget its there until I move and catch it by surprise. Make sense? And, that quick hello is soft, human and lovely in its greeting. Its subtle and I think modern, unlike the Peace & Patchouli of Haight and Ashbury, San Francisco.
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Problem with desktop image--Help!
My desktop wallpaper no longer shows up on my iMac G5. The screensaver works fine. I read on another post about a problem with a screensaver, so I deleted the thread for a screensaver I had recently downloaded and used, but that still didn't fix the problem. I disconnected my peripherals and also reset the PRAM, to no avail, except that the wallpaper shows up briefly at startup, then disappears, leaving a grey background. Weird! Also, this applies to all the images in my desktop preferences folder, including the apple ones that came with the computer.
Welcome to Mac-Forums, felixauthor.
What you could do, if you haven't tried it yet, is download MainMenu and run the cleaning scripts Clean User Cache and Clean System Cache - > Deep Clean. Restart and see where that takes you.
Report back and let us know what happened, ok? :)
MainMenu problem
Thanks for your suggestion. I downloaded MainMenu and put it in the applications folder, but I can't use it. I double clicked the icon, and the computer says it's running, but there's no menu for it up top and nothing happens. When I try to trash it in order to download it again, my computer won't let me trash it because it's "in use."
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You mean you don't see the little cross in the menubar? (See attached file)
Yes, I found the icon--sorry. I ran both cache cleaning ops, as you suggested, and restarted, but the problem persists. Any other ideas?
1- What is this screensaver you talk of?
2- Have you looked via Spotlight to make sure all the bits are gone?
3- Did you look in your user Startup Items?
It was called Osirus (very cool, too), and I checked again with Spotlight and there are no traces of it.
Oh my! That screensaver was developed in 2002!
Well I googled and came up empty. What we need to see is if we can find the correct pref file that is associated to the screensaver/desktop picts so you can trash it. I've looked it up in my system and can't seem to find anything.
Sorry, maybe someone else has a better idea than I.
Success! Big-time Human Error!
An embarrassing admission for a long-time Mac user, but here goes: once you directed me to my icons on the top right, I noticed an unfamiliar one, which turned out to be some kind of wallpaper control thing. I got rid of it and, voila, my desktop image appeared.
I'm very sorry for the inconvenience, and I appreciate very much all your help. I know how precious everyone's time is, and I'm grateful. Please forgive me!
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The Failure of Feminism, by Nicholas Davidson; Feminism and Freedom, by Michael Levin
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The Failure of Feminism.
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Feminism and Freedom.
by Michael Levin.
Transaction Books. 336 pp. $39.95.
During the mid-1970's I was briefly a low-rung associate attorney for a corporate law firm. It was one of those career mistakes, for both me and the firm. Once, toward the end of my short tenure, a partner handed me a file and said, "Charlotte, here's an assignment I know you're going to like." The assignment consisted of drawing up the articles of incorporation—or, rather, opening up a form book and copying out the articles of incorporation—for an entity with a name something like "First Women's Bank." (The institution has long since gone out of business, merged with another financial institution, or changed its name.)
The partner's remark has stuck in my mind because of his implicit assumption that since I was a woman, I had to be a feminist, and would just love the idea of a women's bank. In truth, I was already finding feminism a big bore. Did I really have to pay my own way on dates? Why were men elbowing me aside to get out of the elevator first? Why did everyone address me with the ugly honorific "Ms."? And those awful sandals with the below-sea-level heels that liberated women had to wear. . . .
Nonetheless, as the partner's reflexive remark indicates, feminism—which started out during the late 1960's as an outré phenomenon of academic bohemia—quickly and apparently permanently transformed the way of life of the American upper middle class. Male religious leaders now busy themselves trying to think up "non-sexist" names for God. Few indeed are those who have been willing to criticize feminism for its appalling (if ultimately unsuccessful) efforts to blur differences between the sexes, its brutal denigration of motherhood, its indiscriminate nastiness toward men, its contempt for femininity.
In the early 1970's, there were, to be sure, the brave and much-maligned efforts of George Gilder and Midge Decter. Over the past few years, though, the well seems to have gone dry, even though a number of women in real life have been quietly sneaking back to preliberation ways: shortening their skirts, forsaking corporate-ladder jobs to stay home with their children, and even strong-arming their men to take them ballroom dancing. Anne Summers, the new editor of Ms. magazine, recently expressed dismay at market studies indicating that young women detest the word "feminist," associating it with man-hating. Nonetheless, women who can write have for some reason been mostly silent in print about the absurdities of their feminist soi-disant sisters. There are Suzanne Fields in the Washington Times, Maggie Gallagher in National Review, and Carol Iannone in COMMENTARY, but they are lonely exceptions to the rule.
Perhaps sensing a revanchist vacuum, two men have recently published critiques of feminism. Both Nicholas Davidson, a writer, and Michael Levin, a professor of philosophy at the City University of New York, had trouble finding publishers for their books, apparently because feminist editors hold the major New York publishing houses in thrall. Levin's is said to have languished at several houses before being rejected and finally picked up by a university press; Davidson's hails from a small house in Buffalo, New York. George Gilder has had similar woes. Although he is the author of several best-selling books about economics and technology, he had to turn to a tiny Louisiana publisher when he rewrote his 1973 Sexual Suicide as Men and Marriage in 1986, because no New York house would touch it.
Of the two new books, Davidson's is the less serious and the less focused. Its premise is that feminism, defined as a form of social activism aimed at improving the lot of women, accomplished a great deal of good, opening up corporate doors, garnering funds for women's college athletics, and so forth. Then, in 1984, Davidson claims, feminism died, presumably with the numbing vice-presidential candidacy of Geraldine Ferraro. (This year, the Ferraro-like Pat Schroeder went nowhere, despite heavy touting by the National Organization for Women, the same group that pressured Walter F. Mondale to put Ferraro on his ticket.)
"The Feminist Era is over," Davidson declares. "Organized political feminism speaks neither for women nor for progress; it increasingly reflects the views of an embittered minority which has long since forfeited the respect of the 'transitional' generation of its parents and has now lost the pulse of the rising generation." And Davidson predicts: "The major battles over gender issues in the post-Feminist Era will therefore not be fought between feminists and non-feminists but between more standard political groups: socialists, liberals, and conservatives."
Davidson's book glints now and then with zircons of insight. Of the dress-for-success movement, he writes with damning perception:
Thus, under the closely related pressures of feminism and careerism, a new image of the flower of middle-class American womanhood appeared—one of the most pathetically conformist norms ever seen in a culture as diverse as our own. Fighting back as they could, women spent a part of their new job dollars on sexier underwear. Beneath her drab business suit, complete with collar bow to match the male necktie, the professional woman often swathed her skin in luxurious whiffs of silk and lace. The scruffy running shoes with which the urban legions of women replace their heels at 5 o'clock for the ride home are partly a rejection of the corporate ethos to which the quest for independence has consigned American women, and partly a rejection of the femininity implied by more attractive footwear: a fittingly ambiguous symbol of our era.
And then there is the weepy New Man, presumably beloved of feminists but secretly despised by them as unmanly: "Unable to please either himself or women, the New Man, like the New Woman, was left to the cold comfort of envisioning himself as a pioneer of human progress."
Unfortunately, Davidson displays a tendency to slip out of this sort of high-spirited polemics into mere carping. His book—especially the last two chapters and an appendix, which are specifically addressed to men—occasionally has the whiny tone of one of those "men's rights" meetings where divorced fathers gripe about child support. He also protests a bit too much about feminists' "forcing us all to accept a neutered society"—an unlikely prospect if feminism is really as dead as he says.
The weakest but perhaps most telling part of the book is its exceedingly shallow discussion of abortion. Davidson believes that legal abortion promotes "family integrity and stability"—the idea being, one presumes, that if we get our pregnant daughters to the abortion clinic fast enough they will not be able to embarrass us at the next family gathering. This is the yuppie slant on teen pregnancy, and it puts Davidson in the position of describing the middle-class family in terms—"controlled, self-conscious, a locus of planning"—that recall the feminists' own inclination to regard pregnancy as a nuisance. Such remarks, together with others defending the sexual revolution (it made "millions of people feel more comfortable with their sexuality"), suggest that Davidson likes his women liberated enough for consequence-free sex, and that he may thus be far more ambivalent about feminism than he lets on.
Michael Levin's book covers much the same ground as Davidson's, although in a more thorough and thoughtful, if occasionally turgid, fashion. Levin's discussion of abortion, for example, reaches no conclusions about what sorts of restrictions ought to apply to the procedure, but he recognizes, as Davidson fails to do, that human life is at stake, not mere inconvenience. He also slices neatly through the contradictory feminist insistence that abortion should be strictly a matter of private choice, free of government intervention. "Probably the majority of feminists," he Writes, "hold that abortion should be publicly funded, which would not leave the matter to private conscience at all, since it would force taxpayers who do not approve of abortion to support it."
Levin is hardly as sanguine as Davidson that feminism is a spent ideology. He argues instead that it has been all too insidiously successful, and is likely to remain so for a long time, largely because it has captured the courts, the government bureaucracies, the educational system from kindergarten through graduate school, and the major philanthropic foundations, which distribute millions of dollars to fund "women's rights" projects. Thus:
The Supreme Court has outlawed pension plans that use the greater longevity of women as a factor in computing premiums. Public speakers can no longer use "he" or "man" comfortably. Critics reflexively apologize before praising books, movies, or ideas that might displease feminists. Newspaper reports on menstrual disorders note that feminists do not like the idea that there are such things, as if nature were obliged not to mark sex distinctions. . . . Political leaders of every persuasion reflexively apply gender quotas. . . . The popular press continues to suggest that wanting to marry and raise children is a curious goal for a woman.
The ways in which courts and governments implement the feminist agenda—trying to fit the two sexes into the same Procrustean bed, as it were—has produced a laundry list of discordances that is hilarious when it is not horrifying. An example: the desperate efforts of cities, often under the gun of court-ordered quotas, to produce substantial numbers of female firefighters. Sensible physical tests clearly related to public safety, such as the ability to carry human loads of a certain size and weight, must be dispensed with. In the new, sex-integrated military forces, most female soldiers simply do not have the strength to meet the minimum tests routinely required of men: lifting standard-size 90-pound boxes of ammunition, throwing a grenade far and accurately enough. Unisex athletics? A joke. Yet as Levin documents, the advocates of "sex equality in sports" have mandated that single-sex teams of children cannot play on public facilities in Minnesota, and that girls in public schools have a constitutional right to try out for boys' teams.
The most frightening use of feminism as an instrument of social control is in education. Levin explores college-level programs in women's studies, where the content usually violates all canons of academic objectivity and the course work is typically laughable (in one course, students can get an A for writing a short paper on how they feel about menstruation). But the worst violations against human nature occur in the "nonsexist classrooms" of the elementary grades: textbooks cannot use the words "housewife" or "mother," and teachers are instructed to break up the single-sex social groupings that all children find natural.
Levin is not entirely without hope for the human species, even in the world feminism has created, for he believes that human nature—particularly the abiding desire of women for husbands, children, and families, no matter what they say in public—will out. "Feminists may be beyond rational persuasion, and will continue to proclaim their errors with complete assurance," he writes. "But they are, in the end, asking women to make themselves unattractive to men and to forgo love and children. Feminism will be forgotten, commanding only the loyalty of barren women whose genetic lines are running to extinction."
If Levin displays a fault in all these observations, it is that he tends to rely for much of his argumentation not so much on common sense—which would suffice—as on an odd collection of pseudo-scientific theories of a sociological stripe. (Davidson has the same tendency; both authors show the influence of Steven Goldberg's 1973 book, The Inevitability of Patriarchy.) Too, Levin seems more enamored than is strictly necessary of the benign workings of an evolutionary free market. Yet these are minor faults in an admirable book. Indeed, there is much to welcome in the message both Davidson and Levin bring us. One wonders when we will start hearing it from women.


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We know that D.C. has the stupidest drivers in the nation, so it comes as no surprise that we ranked dead last — 193 of 193 — on Allstate's "best drivers" list, with Baltimore right behind us. While this might seem like another frivolous list from a company looking for free publicity, it's actually based on data about the frequency of collisions for the average driver.
According to the report [pdf], D.C. drivers get into accidents every 4.8 years, on average — an astounding 107.3 percent above the national average of every 10 years. Arlington and Alexandria aren't much better, ranking 180th and 184th, respectively. Topping the list for the second year in a row was Fort Collins, Colo., but that makes sense since everyone there rides either bicycles or horses.
How can we improve? Allstate suggests things like "minimize distractions," "be aware of road conditions," "avoid road rage," and "buy Allstate insurance." (It's possible we made that last one up.) But we have a better idea, which comes from Allstate's methodology: "The report defines an auto crash as any collision resulting in a property damage claim." All we have to do is stop reporting accidents.
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Have you ever read a book that you knew would change you forever? I recently read a couple books by Jen Hatmaker . I'll be honest, I had not heard much about her before I read the books. Maybe that's a good thing, I don't know. What I do know is that after reading Interrupted I was WRECKED. And reading her book 7:A Mutiny Against Excess I knew my life had to change. I have told many in my world that reading these books was the hardest, best thing. It is not a book to read and put back on the shelf and say, "Well, wasn't that nice." No. These book should prompt you to do something. They should wreck you… in a good way.
As I read… no devoured Interrupted, I knew. I knew that the words she wrote would profoundly impact me. I have guessed for some time that God was up to something in my life. Ever clueless, I had no idea what it would be. If we're being honest, I still have no idea, but I am one small step closer.
In this book, Jen explains how God interrupted her pleasant little life and opened her eyes to a greater purpose. God made her see the hurting and hungry in her area in a whole new light. He challenged her with the call to care for the least of these. In reading the book, it begs to reason that we are all called to care for the orphans and widows, to fill the needs of the least.
The book 7:A Mutiny Against Excess is actually the first book I came across. However, being a stickler for book order, I realized that Interrupted was the prequel to 7, so I read that first. In 7, Jen is real and honest in her 7 month long fast of sorts. I laughed along with her, I cheered as she wore seven items for a month, I was convicted when she noted the items in her closet and home that were complete excess. It was a tough read. But when she took the month to pause seven times in a day to refocus and pray in that moment, I was in awe. I saw the beauty in her moments. Intentional about praying to God, the one who gives us life.
After reading the books, I knew. I knew that my life was lived in excess and for myself, not for others. I knew this before, but really didn't do anything. I walked around my home and looked at my pretties sitting around that I paid money for knowing that there are those around me who struggle to clothe and feed their family. It hit me hard. But, even though I have stuff I do not need, even though my closet has items that hang season after season, even though there are times when I feel our debt load too much to bear, I knew I had to do something.
And I did do something. Even though financially I cannot feed the multitudes and I cannot clothe the nation, I found what I could do. Friends and I gathered gently used kids clothes, shoes, book bags, and lunch boxes. We hosted a Back to School giveaway and gave the items away to those who came. It was a beautiful day. The faces of those getting things needed for back to school were beautiful. We served Jesus in serving some of the least.
This. This is what I was made to do. I feel I was created to serve Jesus by helping others. What does that look like on a daily basis? I'm not sure, but I daily pray for direction. Maybe hopping back into bloggyland will help with that in some way. If not no other reason for me to put my thoughts down to help sort it all out.


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United Gospel Production Presents....... "A Time For Singing Gospel Music Competition and Showcase". This is an opportunity for Soloists, Choirs and Groups to unite in an evening of competition, performance, brotherhood and fun to share their varied talents in this very diverse city of St. Louis, that has an abundance of Gospel Music Performers at all levels. The competition will offer awards in cash and trophies to winners in the above mentioned categories.
Having traveled with his own Church's Men's group and singing in different churches and events in the city of St. Louis and beyond, Glendon McFarlane has discovered a vast reservoir of talented people in Christian Gospel Music which should be brought to a much wider audience, as he sees, this type of music as a vehicle to tell the "Good News". Glendon said, "this is an opportunity to do just that" . America should taste of the wide variety of music within the Gospel Music Fraternity here, and of which this great historic city is blessed."
Glendon and all members of United Gospel Productions wish to thank all those who have already supported and those who will support this event, weather as individuals or corporate sponsors and all prospective patrons. It will be a dramatic, spirit filled and inspirational evening that should be highlighted on your calender. Please register to participate at this event at www.atimeforsinginggospel.com
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Each year the Scioto County Fair, in Lucasville, is packed with rides, food, and shows, but it just wouldn't be the same without the games. Albanese Amusements in Huron, Ohio, has been providing games to the Scioto County Fair more nearly 70 years, and owner Michael Albanese said he'll be ready this year.
As a child, Michael grew up traveling with his parents from one county fair to another. He said the family business has been coming to the Scioto County Fair since the 1940s, and he always enjoys the experience.
"It was pretty neat (growing up). I got to meet a lot of people, and I made a lot of friends. I got to see a lot of Ohio. We came from Columbus Ohio, and I always liked Scioto County because they always had good name entertainment and I like the different changes in the views; the hills and stuff. In Columbus we don't have any of that," Albanese said.
Now Michael is the owner, and he continues his parents' tradition, bringing games to Scioto County. Each year he and his brother bring about 30 popular games to the fair.
"One would be the water race game, where you squirt the water in the target and the animals go up the track. First one to the top wins. There's the machine gun shoot out, where you shoot the red star off the paper with the air BB gun. The basketball, duck ponds, and the goldfish," he said.
Lucky players will win fun prizes, featuring some of their favorite popular cartoon characters. But the classics never go out style, either, Albanese said.
"Of course the regular standby is still the fluffy teddy bear," he said.
The busy season begins in June and continues through October, Albanese said. He'll typically visit 20 county fairs in that time.
"Over the years I've done business there in town, like at Gahm's across the street getting tires for the truck, and going to the grocery store. Over the years, they know to stock up over fair time. I've always said that anybody in the town that would be mad because the fair is coming, that owns a business, would be crazy because all the trucks need gas. The gas station people get more money. The grocery store gets more money. Everything in general brings a lot of revenue to the town," Albanese said.
He's looking forward to the Scioto County Fair, which he said is always one of his favorites.
"Scioto County is one of the better fairs because for one thing a lot of fairs charge you to get in, then they charge you more money to ride the rides, then they charge you more money for the grandstand entertainment. It all adds up. But at Scioto County you pay at the gate and you get access to all of it," Albanese said.
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Barack and Michelle Keeping the Faith
American Thinker ^ | February 22, 2008 | Kyle-Anne Shiver
I'm not buying the Obama campaign spin on Michelle Obama's patriotic faux pas this week, any more than I'm inclined to believe that Barack Obama's refusal to wear our flag pin in his lapel is a meaningless gesture. Both Michelle's stated lack of pride in America until this precise moment in history, and Barack's unwillingness to don our national symbol are in perfect keeping with the doctrines of their church, Trinity United Church of Christ.
The simple truth is that if any of us exposed ourselves to the kind of teachings espoused by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright for 20 years, we might find it downright impossible to do any better than Barack and Michelle in the loving-America category of citizenship.
We probably couldn't summon a whole lot of American patriotism if our brains were stuffed on a weekly basis with sermons like this:
"Racism is how this country (America) was founded and how this country is still run!"
or this:
"We (Americans) are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional KILLERS. . . . We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. . . . We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. . . . We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means!"
If I listened to stuff like this every Sunday for 20 years, I probably wouldn't be all that proud of my Country either, and certainly would feel it hypocritical to wear the symbol of this God-forsaken Nation in my lapel.
Wouldn't you?
Trinity's Black Liberation Theology
The Chicago Tribune's religion reporter, Manya Brachear, interviewed Rev. Wright in January 2007, writing:
"Wright sought to build on the black theology of liberation introduced in 1968 by Rev. James Cone of New York, by emphasizing Africa's contribution to Christianity rather than that of mainstream white theologians."
If only it were this simple.
But it isn't.
According to Cone:
"Christian theology is language about God's liberating activity in the world on behalf of freedom of the oppressed. Any talk about God that fails to make God's liberation of the oppressed its starting point is not Christian." (Speaking the Truth; James H. Cone; p. 4)
The gospel according to Cone revolves around a single dimension of the Christian faith and necessarily interprets the very nature of "oppression" as solely material and of this world. In effect, black liberation theology reduces the entire Gospel down to a Marxist people's struggle and hijacks the Christ for political purpose.
"What else can the crucifixion mean except that God, the Holy One of Israel, became identified with the victims of oppression? What else can the resurrection mean except that God's victory in Christ is the poor person's victory over poverty?" (Speaking the Truth; p. 6)
This certainly puts an altogether different light on the crucifixion than any to which I've ever been exposed.
According to this theology, we are not individually saved by grace. God hasn't anything at all to do with salvation or sanctification.
"...sanctification is liberation. To be sanctified is to be liberated - that is, politically engaged in the struggle of freedom. When sanctification is defined as a commitment to the historical struggle for political liberation, then it is possible to connect it with socialism and Marxism the reconstruction of society on the basis of freedom and justice for all."
(Speaking the Truth; p. 33; emphases mine)
According to the writings of Cone and the preaching of Rev. Wright, America can lay no claim whatsoever to any sort of goodness, and will perhaps never be able to do so until we are all residing in one, big, happy Marxist America with the presently "oppressed" on top and the evil "oppressors" on the bottom.
When these theologians re-wrote the gospel around their political ideology, they evidently came up with a way to make two wrongs into right.
Not exactly changing water into wine, walking on water, healing the maimed, the deaf and the blind, but quite a feat nevertheless.
Obama's Own Faith
Barack Obama expends an entire chapter in his book, The Audacity of Hope, writing about faith. In a chapter of 31 pages, he gives only 2 pages to his own decision to finally "walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ" and "be baptized."
Having been raised by a "spiritual," but non-religious mother, Obama says that he had quite a bit of antipathy for organized religion, but was able to overcome this at Trinity, where he recognized that faith was more than "just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death," but that faith was rather an "active, palpable agent in the world."
Obama's statements on his own faith in his book are as vague as his now all too familiar mantra, "Yes, we can."
But Trinity United Church of Christ isn't afraid to be more specific and blunt. Where mainline Christian denominations might focus on the Apostles' Creed, stating the basic tenets of Christianity, Trinity has this:
Trinity United Church of Christ is committed to a 10-point Vision:
A congregation committed to ADORATION.
A congregation preaching SALVATION.
A congregation actively seeking RECONCILIATION.
A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA.
A congregation committed to BIBLICAL EDUCATION.
A congregation committed to CULTURAL EDUCATION.
A congregation committed to the HISTORICAL EDUCATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN DIASPORA.
A congregation committed to LIBERATION.
A congregation committed to RESTORATION.
10. A congregation working towards ECONOMIC PARITY.
Interestingly enough, a change has been made quite recently (in the past 2 weeks) to number 3 on this list, obtained from Obama's church website. It did read, "a non-negotiable allegiance to Africa." Perhaps the church felt that it might reflect badly upon an American presidential candidate to be a prominent member of a church espousing "non-negotiable allegiance" to another continent.
Obama continues to see some of us as "oppressed," and he spouts a very condescending attitude towards those of us who have found spiritual food in evangelical Christian churches. Writing about why these churches have been growing by leaps and bounds, he says explanation for the success of these churches could be anything from "the skill of marketing religion" to the "charisma of their leaders," but primarily points to "hunger for the product they are selling."
So, how does Obama describe this "hunger"?
"They (religious seekers) want a sense of purpose, a narrative arc to their lives, something that will relieve a chronic loneliness or lift them above the exhausting, relentless toll of daily life. They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them - that they are not just destined to travel down a long highway toward nothingness." (Audacity of Hope; p. 202)
That's a very bleak picture of our lives.
Precisely the kind of picture Marxist revolutionaries have always painted for the masses, right before they offer up the "hope" of something new and different, and the perfect "blueprint for change" that will make it all better.
As for me, I have been at the very, very bottom of life's rungs, even downright oppressed at times, but I have never been so far down that I would look to a mere man, or any government or movement, or even a church community, for salvation. And I'm surprised that anyone with a grain of self-respect or reverence for God would swoon over the purely preposterous notion that any man or government has such power to offer.
Pope Benedict XVI seems to agree:
"Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes, not divine, but demonic."
Kyle-Anne Shiver is a frequent contributor to American Thinker. She welcomes your comments at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Obama usa la misma retórica demagógica de Benito Mussolini y Fidel Castro para hipnotizar a las multitudes que reaccionan con un fervor y fanatismo irracional en una forma de culto casi místico. ¿Resultará la retórica de Obama para USA como el Kool Aid que le administraron a los seguidores de otro culto tan irracional como el culto a Obama, quienes reunidos en "jonestown", Guyana, cometieron un suicidio en masa?
Que la inspiración e histrionismo de Obama es fraudulento quedó demostrado cuando plagió al pie de la letra, incluyendo los manierismos, de un discurso del gobernador de Massachusetts.
Bajo el estribillo de "hope" y "change" se esconde la aviesa maniobra de llevar a los Estados Unidos hacia el socialismo a pasos aún más acelerados que los que planea Hillary.
Obama no especifica cuales son los cambios a los que quiere llevar la nación y espera que el pueblo los acepte ciegamente sin tener la menor idea de lo que se trae entre manos. Su record como denota una militancia más de extrema izquierda que la propia Hillary, ¡que ya es mucho decir!
Sin embargo hay quienes si están seguros de los planes de cambio que proyecta Obama, y han lanzado públicamente su apoyo a esos cambios. Así vemos como se han unido en darle su apoyo a Obama el Partido Comunista de Estados Unidos, los musulmanes a través del mundo, incluyendo los terroristas islámicos, Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Evo Morales, Hugo Chávez, los órganos de desinformación de los partidos comunistas de América Latina y Europa, lo cual deja claro que esos expertos de la política tanto americana como global, consideran que Obama es el candidato que mejor sirven a sus intereses, que en el caso de comunistas y terrorista, son intereses comunes.
El reciente episodio en Houston donde en la oficina de la campaña de Obama no estaba la bandera americana, sino por una bandera cubana profanada con la cara del Che, demuestra la osadía de los comunistas y agentes de Castro que expresan abiertamente su apoyo a los cambios que trata de imponernos Obama.
¿Sucumbirá el pueblo americano a las ofertas de "cambio" que quiere perpetrar Obama cuando el país esta en medio de una guerra a muerte declarada por el terrorismo islámico contra los Estados Unidos y la civilización occidental o responderá rechazando a Obama como rechazó a McGovern en 1972, en medio de la guerra de Vietnam quien sufrió la segunda peor derrota de la historia frente a Nixon con el 60% -38% del voto popular y 530-17 de los votos del colegio electoral?
Roguemos a Dios que le pueblo americano realice el peligro que representa Obama para la libertad y el progreso de los Estados Unidos.
Publicado: 02-22-2008 08:50 PM
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Study: 3 in 4 U.S. mosques preach anti-West extremism
Secret survey exposes
widespread radicalism
Posted: February 23, 2008
9:51 pm Eastern
An undercover survey of more than 100 mosques and Islamic schools in America has exposed widespread radicalism, including the alarming finding that 3 in 4 Islamic centers are hotbeds of anti-Western extremism, WND has learned.
The Mapping Sharia in America Project, sponsored by the Washington-based Center for Security Policy, has trained former counterintelligence and counterterrorism agents from the FBI, CIA and U.S. military, who are skilled in Arabic and Urdu, to conduct undercover reconnaissance at some 2,300 mosques and Islamic centers and schools across the country.
"So far of 100 mapped, 75 should be on a watchlist," an official familiar with the project said.
Many of the Islamic centers are operating under the auspices of the Saudi Arabian government and U.S. front groups for the radical Muslim Brotherhood based in Egypt.
Frank Gaffney, a former Pentagon official who runs the Center for Security Policy, says the results of the survey have not yet been published. But he confirmed that "the vast majority" are inciting insurrection and jihad through sermons by Saudi-trained imams and anti-Western literature, videos and textbooks.
The project, headed by David Yerushalmi, a lawyer and expert on sharia law, has finished collecting data from the first cohort of 102 mosques and schools. Preliminary findings indicate that almost 80 percent of the group exhibit a high level of sharia-compliance and jihadi threat, including:
Ultra-orthodox worship in which women are separated from men in the prayer hall and must enter the mosque from a separate, usually back, entrance; and are required to wear hijabs.
Sermons that preach women are inferior to men and can be beaten for disobedience; that non-Muslims, particularly Jews, are infidels and inferior to Muslims; that jihad or support of jihad is not only a Muslim's duty but the noblest way, and suicide bombers and other so-called "martyrs" are worthy of the highest praise; and that an Islamic caliphate should one day encompass the U.S.
Solicitation of financial support for jihad.
Bookstores that sell books, CDs and DVDs promoting jihad and glorifying martyrdom.
Though not all mosques in America are radicalized, many have tended to serve as safe havens and meeting points for Islamic terrorist groups. Experts say there are at least 40 episodes of extremists and terrorists being connected to mosques in the past decade alone.
Some of the 9/11 hijackers, in fact, received aid and counsel from one of the largest mosques in the Washington, D.C., area. Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center is one of the mosques indentified by undercover investigators as a hive of terrorist activity and other extremism.
It was founded and is currently run by leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. Imams there preach what is called "jihad qital," which means physical jihad, and incite violence and hatred against the U.S.
Dar al-Hijrah's ultimate goal, investigators say, is to turn the U.S. into an Islamic state governed by sharia law.
Another D.C.-area mosque, the ADAMS Center, was founded and financed by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, and has been one of the top distributors of Wahhabist anti-Semitic and anti-Christian dogma.
Even with such radical mosques operating in its backyard, the U.S. government has not undertaken its own systematic investigation of U.S. mosques.
In contrast, European Union security officials are analyzing member-state mosques, examining the training and funding sources of imams, in a large-scale project.
Some U.S. lawmakers want the U.S. to conduct its own investigation.
"We have too many mosques in this country," said Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y. "There are too many people who are sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully."
Publicado: 02-23-2008 10:58 PM
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For a long time, there has been a controversy brewing in America over whether or not to make English our official language. The arguments in favor seem overwhelmingly compelling to me. Doesn't it seem absurd that when so many people living in foreign countries see obvious advantages in learning English, that millions of those who actually reside here, who make their livings and raise their children here, and who vote in our elections, can neither read nor write the language?
Yet, most Democratic politicians and even some Republicans balk at the idea. All this time, I have assumed that their objection was predicated on their fear of being labeled racists, and worried that it might cost them votes in future elections. But I am beginning to wonder if their reluctance isn't based on the fact that for so many of those in public life, basic English skills are simply beyond them.
For instance, have you ever listened to Robert Byrd give a speech on the floor of the Senate? Have you ever heard Barbara Boxer try to answer a reporter's questions? You would think these people had just been introduced to our mother tongue last Thursday.
Even though it pains me as a conservative to say so, we're not always any better than the liberals. Take President Bush. I'm sure he's a nice guy, but how many times over the past seven years has some White House spokesman had to step forward after the president has given an address to explain what the Commander in Chief really meant to say? The president, whichever party we belong to, speaks for all of us. In Bush's case, though, as often as not, he misspeaks for all of us.
Now I'm not as hard-nosed as some people when it comes to flip-flopping on the issues, so long as the politician winds up agreeing with my -------------. But when you realize how much talking these people do every hour of every day, is clarity too much to expect? I don't expect them to be Churchillian, combining wit and vocal grandeur in a way that suggests that the free world's gain was the theatre's loss. But, if practice makes perfect, is it too much to ask that a politician be at least as clear-speaking as, say, a Valley girl?
And when I refer to a politician, I'm also including their wives and husbands, if those spouses are going to hit the campaign trail and speak on their behalf.
Which brings us to Michelle Obama. Recently, in Wisconsin, while addressing an audience of her husband's disciples, she said: "What we have learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback…and let me tell you, for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what I made of this is that she's proud of America for the first time, perhaps the only time, because people are hungry for a change. Funny, because I knew the country was pretty darn hungry when Reagan defeated Carter in 1980, but Mrs. Obama was only a teenager at the time, so maybe that doesn't count. How about when Bill Clinton defeated George H.W. Bush in 1992? Didn't that make her proud? Then there was 2000, when George W. Bush defeated Al Gore because, I assume, people were hungry -- perhaps downright ravenous -- for change.
But as I soon discovered, I'd been wasting my time trying to figure out when change didn't really mean change because Obama's people were soon e-mailing reporters the following clarification: "What she meant is that she's really proud at this moment because for the first time in a long time, thousands of Americans who've never participated in politics before are coming out in record numbers to build a grass-roots movement for change."
That's the best these high-priced spinners could come up with? Frankly, if that's what she meant to say, I'm pretty certain that this rich, privileged Princeton graduate would have said that. To which I would have replied: "What about Ross Perot's grass-roots movement? What about Howard Dean's or Ralph Nader's? Or even Ron Paul's? How is it that none of those movements made Michelle Obama swell up with pride at being an American?"
To me, though, the really scary thing is that when she made her statement, thousands of people in the audience gave her a rousing ovation. Apparently, all those folks in Madison, Wisconsin, were finally proud to be Americans, too.
Publicado: 02-24-2008 10:55 AM
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Michelle Obama's comments may prove significant.
By Michael Barone
He promised to "make sure Americans are not deceived by an eloquent but empty call for change that promises no more than a holiday from history and a return to false promises and failed policies of a tired philosophy that trusts in government more than the people."
Scorch. Some 40 minutes later, Hillary Clinton got up before the cameras and set out her platform as if she were the winner, ignoring Obama as she had on primary night the week before. Having not been extended this courtesy, Obama did not extend her the courtesy of waiting for her to finish before he began his victory speech.
The networks quickly switched from Clinton to Obama, who went on for 45 minutes, cutting and pasting platform planks into the unspecific ode to hope that has enchanted so many voters.
That camera switch may turn out to be the beginning of the end of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. She's still hoping for victories in Ohio and Texas on March 4, but Obama's margin in Wisconsin makes that seem less likely, and in any case, she will still be behind in delegates. She could win the nomination only with the votes of super-delegates or by counting the results in Florida and Michigan, where the national party commanded candidates not to compete.
Either move will strike many Obama enthusiasts — and others — as profoundly unfair. The way Clinton has run her campaign — like the way she ran health-care reform in 1993-94 — undercuts her claim to be ready for the presidency from day one. In both cases, she had no fallback strategy, no Plan B, in case her best-case scenario failed to come to pass. She started campaigning in Wisconsin only last Saturday and had to cancel her events because of a snowstorm. Didn't anyone check weather.com?
Obama's cut-and-paste job does respond to the complaint that he is without substance. But it's hard to mix poetry and prose and come up with an appealing product. Particularly when, as columnist Robert Samuelson points out, there's not much that's interesting about the substance.
Then there are the wives. In Milwaukee on Monday, Michelle Obama, who has spoken frequently in the campaign, said: "Hope is making a comeback, and let me tell you, for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country. Not just because Barack is doing well, but because I think people are hungry for change."
For the first time in her life? Coming from the realm in which Michelle Obama has lived her adult life — Princeton, Harvard Law, a top law firm, a $342,000-a year job doing community relations for the University of Chicago hospital system — this may not sound out of the ordinary. As Samuel Huntington has pointed out, people in this stratum tend to have transnational attitudes — all nations are morally equal, except maybe for ours, which is worse.
This is not, to say the least, the view of most Americans, including very many who regularly vote Democratic. And it undercuts Barack Obama's most appealing rhetoric, which emphasizes what Americans have in common.
Cindy McCain, who ordinarily doesn't speak in public, picked up on this immediately. On Tuesday, she made a point of saying, several times, that she has always been proud of America. On election night, John McCain said he was "proud, proud of the privilege" of being an American.
I remember the electric feeling in the hall, at the first Republican National Convention I attended, in 1984, when Lee Greenwood belted out his country hit, "I'm proud to be an American." I don't believe that I've heard it at any Democratic National Convention, and I'm pretty sure that some nontrivial number of the delegates would find it off-putting, even obnoxious.
Barack Obama has explained that his wife was just saying that she was proud for the first time of her country's politics. But that's not what she said, and said with considerable emphasis. Tuesday night seemed to be the beginning of the general-election campaign. But what was said on Monday may prove to be just as important.
Publicado: 02-24-2008 08:11 PM
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Publicado: 02-26-2008 01:18 PM
Algunas ovejas perdidas del Clinto's Farm!
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EL BILLETAL PARA EL POLITIC BUSINESS DE DOñA CLINTON
Dime y lo olvido, enséñame y lo recuerdo, involúcrame y lo aprendo.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Estadista y científico estadounidense.
Cuando debemos hacer una elección y no la hacemos, esto ya es una elección.
William James (1842-1910) Psicólogo y filósofo estadounidense.
Tú verás que los males de los hombres son fruto de su elección; y que la fuente del bien la buscan lejos, cuando la llevan dentro de su corazón.
Pitágoras de Samos (582 AC-497 AC) Filósofo y matemático griego.
Como la dicha de un pueblo depende de ser bien gobernado, la elección de sus gobernantes pide una reflexión profunda.
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) Ensayista y moralista francés.
La muy "SINCERA" candidata, Hillary Clinton y Barack Obama solo tienen de comun el ser democratas, por que despues representan dos opciones totalmente diferentes dentro de su partido.Desde sus origenes Clinton proviene de una opulenta familia con una vida que nunca conocio privaciones, en suma una vida facil que le dio todo sin casi pedirlo. Obama por el contrario es un hombre que se forjo por si mismo
hijo de un inmigrante africano y de una madre blanca, por lo tanto conocio tambien los problemas mas comunes de una familia promedio como el divorcio de sus padres, el racismo, las dificultades y las visicitudes extremas para un muchacho rechazado pero que por mas obstaculos que la vida le dio salio adelante. El abandono de su padre a los 2 años de edad, la prematura muerte por cancer de su madre por que el seguro que tenia no le cubria su mal... y se graduo con honores en Harvard como abogado en derechos humanos...Puede Ud. comprender porque eligio el camino que tomo?
Otra gran diferencia y muy con el tema electoral, el dinero que el esta usando para su limpia campaña libre de adjetivos o guerra sucia proviene de solo donaciones de personas como Ud. o yo. Obama se rehusa a tocar el dinero de empresarios que solo quieren ganar influencia en Washington. El no acepta dinero de grupos corporativos que mandan nuestros trabajos a otros paises para ahorrarse dinero.
Hillary si ha tomado ese dinero de las companias que lo ofrezcan, de las aseguradoras, etc. Yo me pregunto ahora si Ud. cree que ella nos va a dar una cobertura medica justa asi? Ahora la pobre le ha echado guante a 5 millones de su ahorros pero para el noble fin de seguir mintiendo por todos los medio a su alcance, con tal de conseguir el poder por el que llora, desespera y hace lo que fuera...
¿Tres Iraq son mejor que uno?
El Senado aprobó el octubre pasado 75 contra 23 una resolución que llama a descentralizar a Iraq en un sistema federal .La idea consiste en separar el territorio iraquí en una entidad kurda, otra chiita y otra sunita, con un gobierno federal en Bagdad encargado de la seguridad de las fronteras y de administrar las ganancias del petróleo .
WASHINGTON, 5 oct (IPS) - Miembros del opositor Partido Demócrata de
Estados Unidos y moderados del gobernante Partido Republicano insisten
para que el presidente George W. Bush cambie su política en Iraq, en
especial considerando que una fuerte mayoría de la población quiere un
repliegue militar en el corto plazo.
Pero, como muchos miembros del gobierno han reconocido, cualquier giro en la política hacia Iraq no cambiaría mucho la realidad. "No hay buenas opciones, sólo malas y peores", señalan.
El Senado aprobó la semana pasada 75 contra 23 una resolución no
vinculante, propuesta por los senadores Joe Biden, demócrata, y Sam
Brownback, republicano, que llama a descentralizar a Iraq en un sistema
federal con el objetivo de impedir que se agrave la guerra civil en ese
país de Medio Oriente.
La idea consiste en separar el territorio iraquí en una entidad kurda,
otra chiita y otra sunita, con un gobierno federal en Bagdad encargado de
la seguridad de las fronteras y de administrar las ganancias del petróleo.
"Si Estados Unidos no puede poner en marcha esta idea de federalismo,
no tendremos oportunidad de una solución política a Iraq y, sin eso, no
podremos dejar ese país", escribieron Biden y Leslie Gelb, ex presidente
del Consejo de Relaciones Exteriores, en el diario The Washington Post.
"El federalismo es la única fórmula que se acopla a los al parecer
contradictorios deseos de la mayoría de los iraquíes de permanecer como un
todo y a la vez que diversos grupos se gobiernen a sí mismos", señalaron.
La senadora y candidata demócrata Hillary Clinton votó a favor de la
resolución, en tanto que su competidor del mismo partido, Barack Obama, se
ACUERDATE QUE GRACIAS AL OLVIDO REPUBLICANO Y LA PREFERENCIA DE LA GUERRA POR SOBRE LA TRAGEDIA DEL HURACAN KATRINA EN NEW ORLEANS GRAN PARTE DE SU POBLACION (un 30 % segun algunos calculos) SE VIO OBLIGADA A EMIGRAR AL ACOGEDOR ESTADO DE TEXAS.Y ESA ES UNA REALIDAD QUE SE CONVERTIRA EN VOTOS POR EL CAMBIO!
Post-Debate Coverage: Support in Texas
Latinos For Barack Obama
Viva Voz - NCLR - La Raza - Barack Obama http://youtube.com/watch?v=5WLQZMZtoSo
Imagine - John Lennon
Bob Dylan & Joan Baez Blowing in the wind
Publicado: 02-26-2008 02:21 PM
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MICHELLE OBAMA First Lady Of Gaffes
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Friday, February 29, 2008
Election '08: After revealing she had never been "really proud of my country," Michelle Obama damns business as "the money-making industry." By contrast, she says, the Obamas are in "the helping industry." Bad omen.
Visiting a day-care center in Zanesville, Ohio, America's would-be first lady advised the assembled women not to "go into corporate America."
"Become teachers," she counseled. "Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we're encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the moneymaking industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond."
No disrespect to teachers and nurses, but there are problems with those remarks.
First, when she says "move out of the moneymaking industry into the helping industry," she speaks volumes. Apparently, well-paid people in all kinds of profitable fields are, in the Obama worldview, just idle, scheming splinter-collectors who help only themselves.
On the other hand, the social workers who make sure the cash flows from the various elements of the massive government bureaucracy are the great and noble helpers.
However, the oil CEO who invests billions of dollars of his firm's profits in the research and development of new technologies that bring hitherto unreachable deposits of fuel to the cars and homes of millions of Americans is very much in "the helping industry."
So is the pharmaceutical executive who uses her business skills and scientific knowledge to decide to spend billions on R&D for new drugs that lengthen the lives of millions.
The real, productive jobs in the private sector help people in ways government can't. A president who does not understand these things will kill the geese who lay the golden eggs — kill them with high taxes and onerous regulations and ultimately adverse economic conditions.
Second, did the Obamas really make a tough choice to give up high-paying jobs to work in community service? The University of Chicago Medical Center reportedly pays Michelle more than $300,000 a year for her services as "vice president of community and external affairs."
Her husband made a big splash last year with a bill to curtail lavish executive compensation. If he could incorporate that concept into his health care plan and stop hospitals from overpaying their public liaisons, it might go a long way toward cutting health costs.
We doubt, however, that Michelle would find that very "helpful."
Publicado: 02-29-2008 09:39 PM
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Barack Obama's revival tent rhetoric stirs his followers' emotions. But in them there is a disturbing lack of the usual tools of leadership that may indicate a disqualification to serve as commander-in-chief.
Great leaders have to be great communicators, not just orators. Throughout history, they have used more than mere appeals to emotion. From Caesar to Churchill they have all given context and weight to their speeches by showing they have a command of the facts, of history and of literature.
Obama's speeches are devoid of these essential tools. Why? Apparently because he lacks the knowledge and understanding to employ them.
Obama gained national attention with his speech to the 2004 Democratic National Convention. It was a purely emotional appeal, borrowing ------------- from Martin Luther King, Jr. Instead of "I have a dream," Obama incanted "I believe."
His campaign speeches are equally devoid of substance and historical reference. In his response to the president's State of the Union address Obama said, "I believe a new kind of politics is possible, and I believe it is necessary. Because the American people can't afford another four years without health care, decent wages, or an end to this war."
What this "new kind of politics" is and how Obama will create it are left to our imagination. Last month, in his stock condemnation of Washington he said, "It's a Washington where decades of trade deals like NAFTA and China have been signed with plenty of protections for corporations and their profits, but none for our environment or our workers who've seen factories shut their doors and millions of jobs disappear..." Is he naïve enough to believe that all our trading partners -- including totalitarian regimes such as China and kleptocracies such as Saudi Arabia -- will adopt American environmental and labor standards if only we ask them to?
Of the facts, Obama has little grasp. He insists, for example, that there was no al-Queda presence in Iraq before we decided to invade it. But Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was in Baghdad as early as June 2002 and was confirmed operating there in September 2002. By the time of the invasion, al-Queda was deeply embedded in the Sunni Triangle, its operational organization having been established in the six months we fiddled and diddled at the UN before the invasion.
Obama's judgment -- what little we know of it -- lacks a foundation in history and evidences no understanding of how the levers of American power can be pulled to move the world.
Does he really believe that the war the terrorists and the nations supporting them are waging against America will end with a retreat from Iraq? Or does he understand how our withdrawal from Beirut in 1984 and our retreat from Somalia emboldened our enemies? Has he read any of bin Laden's or Zawahiri's screeds bragging of how Islam defeated America in those instances?
What do we know about Barack Obama?
We know he often ducks responsibility, as he did when -- having voted earlier that day -- he absented himself from the Senate when it voted on Sen. John Cornyn's resolution condemning the infamous MoveOn.org "Petraeus/Betray Us" ad. We know that when he does vote on national security matters, he gets it wrong. He voted against the bipartisan Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act bill last month, one of only 29 senators voting in the negative.
We can learn much about a man by what he reads, what influenced him in his youth. Obama's youth -- as much as we can learn about it -- is in his early memoir, Dreams from My Father. Obama was born in August 1961, the "memoir" published in 1995 when he was thirty-four.
Dreams reads like an historical novel by Leon Uris or Alex Haley. It is a long string of recounted conversations, written as if he recalled them verbatim, including details of what people wore, how they sat and what weather was while he was growing up in Hawaii and Indonesia, and in his early career in Chicago. Dates to place them in context are not provided.
We can learn a lot about a man by discovering what he read and what influenced his mind in his formative years. Churchill said, "Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft." Has Obama studied history? If so, he does not value it enough to mention it. In Dreams, Obama mentions only one book that influenced him, the autobiography of black radical Malcolm X. Obama writes, "Only Malcolm X's autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in discipline, forged through the sheer force of will."
What does Obama know about the military? In Dreams the only reference is in a conversation with a young man named Kyle who had been considering an Air Force career and then rejected it because the Air Force would never allow a black man to fly a plane. Obama disagreed but Kyle won the argument by asking, "Yeah, well…how many black pilots you know?" Apparently, Obama didn't know of any, not even the Tuskeegee Airmen or their most successful member, four-star Air Force General Daniel "Chappie" James.
And how does Obama define the "change" mantra of his campaign? In Dreams he writes that in 1983 he decided that he'd do his job as a community organizer by pronouncing the need for change: "Change in the White House, where Reagan and his minions were carrying on their dirty deeds. Change in Congress, compliant and corrupt. Change in the mood of our country, manic and self-absorbed."
Every president is challenged by our adversaries soon after he takes office to take the measure of the man. In April 2001, just three months after his inauguration, George W. Bush was challenged by the Chinese. Patrolling in international airspace off China, a Navy EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft was intercepted by a reckless Chinese pilot who collided with the US plane which was then forced down on Hainan Island, its crew held hostage to an American apology.
President Bush reacted weakly, obtaining the release of the crew after expressing regret at the death of the Chinese pilot. China has grown ever more aggressive since then. As Chris Wallace joked, we know that Hillary's experience in answering the Red Phone consists entirely of saying, "Wake up, Bill. It's for you." But the fact that she's no better than Obama is no comfort.
What would a President Obama do if Russia does to Poland what it did to Estonia last year, interrupting the nation's government and economy in a highly effective cyber war attack? What would he do if the Musharraf government falls and a radical Islamic regime takes over Pakistan's nuclear arsenal? How would he react to the next terrorist attack against America?
If he is as ignorant and unmindful of history as his novelized "memoir" indicates, if his understanding of the world is as shallow as his speeches, Barack Obama will fail disastrously. Investigating that failure, Congress will have to modernize the mantra of Watergate. For Obama, it will be, "What didn't the president know, and when didn't he know it?"
Publicado: 03-03-2008 09:27 PM
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