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In Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, players will compete in events that take place in environments based on the official venues of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Using a supporting cast of characters from the amazing worlds of both Mario and Sonic, gamers will be able to compete as or against a range of lovable personalities including Mario, Sonic, Luigi, Knuckles, Yoshi, Tails and more.
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mario + sonic + olympics = very great game
A fun game, even better with friends and family. The controls dont have much variety, ur mainly just shaking your hands as fast as you can on most events. Its quite hard to begin with but u'll get used to the controls, however soon gets repetitive and then some of the challenges you get are almost impossible. Defo worth a rent for a weekend.
Fun game with great wii controls but probably better played as a multi-player as the single player option gets repetetive quite quickly.
Great game even if you're on your own definetly rent, Probably buy
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Syria in Bible Prophecy
turneth herself to flee
Isaiah 17:1
By Craig C. White
The city of Damascus in Syria is prophesied to be destroyed in Isaiah 17. This happened already when Assyria invaded Damascus and then invaded Israel. If you read Isaiah chapter 17 you will see that conditions in Israel during this prophecy are much the same as during the future tribulation. So Isaiah 17:1 may also refer to a future destruction of Damascus. The destruction of Damascus in Isaiah 17:1 may also be a prelude to the tribulation.
Isa 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
Jeremiah chapter 49 below suggests that Damascus (population 2.6 million in the metropolitan area) will turn to flee. Today many have already fled. There are currently over 1,000,000 Syrian refugees in surrounding countries. Some three million Syrians have left their homes. In verse 27 "kindle a fire" means that Jesus will send an army to invade Damascus. Benhadad is the title of several Syrian kings who ruled in Damascus (1 Kings 15:18).
Jer 49:24-27 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. 25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts. 27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.
The prophet Amos also condemns Damascus. This prophecy was fulfilled when Tiglath-pileser the Assyrian king conquered Damascus and carried the Syrian (Aramean) captives away to Kir (mountainous region in western Jordan). However, like many bible prophecies this may also refer to a future event. In verse 5 the plain of Aven is a valley in the northeast of Lebanon near the Syrian border. Today it is called the Bekaa valley. It has been suggested that Saddam Hussein hid WMD's here before the invasion of Iraq.
Amo 1:3-5 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: 4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad. 5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
Syria is in turmoil today. The US president has condemned Syria's President Assad. He has said that the US will not interfere militarily but has already imposed economic sanctions. Now the US is pushing for a Middle Eastern led military action. Bible prophecy may be unfolding concerning Damascus.


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Life in Rahm's Chicago. Teachers, schools, pensions and murders. Poll numbers take a huge hit. Just 2% strongly approve.
There was last week's trial ballon about Rahm running for president in 2016.
Of the United States.
Then there are reports of his meddling in the May CTU election.
He may want to do some rethinking in light of polling numbers coming from Crain's today.
Just two percent strongly approve of his job performance as mayor.
Two percent. That's the fat content in a glass of milk. Not an approval number.
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February 21, 2013 1:41 pm
The Chicago Way cabal is not a friend to Chicago. What makes people think that now that it is Washington D.C., that it will be a friend to the nation. Read this comprehensive essay on what it has done to public education and be warned of what's to come if we idly stand by: http://www.scribd.com/doc/106337306/THE-CHICAGO-PUBLIC-SCHOOLS-ALLERGIC-TO-ACTIVISM
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I have been following the events around the election for the 2nd congressional district as it effects many in my area. Yesterday Rahm insists that he is neutral in the race, despite his big money pals like Bloomberg sticking their nose (and money) in. Then he says on the news yesterday, "Who ever wins better be with team Chicago." The 2nd district doesn't even lie inside Chicago boundaries. Who the heck does he think he is???
Bob Brill permalinkFebruary 21, 2013 2:40 pm
Unfortunately, Rahmses (who was the "King of Spin" as a former chief of staff to the president who most underwhelmed us for what he promised and could of accomplished) will be able to say "I had to make the hard decisions!". Where is it said the best candidate will win? Just ranting at the universe, Fred.


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1) I believe Timberlake actually IS in the NBA. I believe he's part of a group that has purchased or is in the process of purchasing the Memphis Grizzlies :)
2) The audience isn't there...yet. The new interface hasn't been launched to the public yet. Give it some time. I think you'll see a lot of people migrate over. There's a lot of angst among consumers and brands with Facebook. I'm scaling back my efforts on Facebook and if I could get rid of it completely (personal and professional) I would. I would kick Facebook to the curb before Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr. In a heartbeat.
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With temperatures hovering just above freezing and winds whipping off the Cooper River on Friday afternoon, the College of Charleston baseball team hit the field for its first practice of the season under less than ideal conditions.
Cougar Quick Facts
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2013 Record: 31-26, 18-11 in SoCon
Last NCAA appearance: 2012
Last conference title: 2012, SoCon
Position players returning: 8
Starting pitchers returning: 1
Season Opener: at North Carolina, Feb. 14
Players to Watch: SS Gunnar Heidt, Jr. (.349, 4 HR, 54 RBI); OF Brandon Murray, Sr. (.306, 9 HR, 54 RBI); 1B/3B Carl Wise (.321, 10 HR, 30 RBI); P Nathan Helvey, So. (5-3, 3.12 ERA, 30 Ks).
That didn't seem to bother Cougars head coach Monte Lee.
"It's not baseball weather yet, but that doesn't make any difference to me," Lee said. "Baseball season is right around the corner and to me, that's the best time of the year."
Like the rest of the teams at College of Charleston, the Cougars embark on their first campaign through the Colonial Athletic Association. The Cougars came from the Southern Conference, which is widely considered to be one of the top mid-major baseball conferences in the country. In 14 years in the SoCon, the Cougars were 286-148-1 with five conference championships and five NCAA Tournament trips.
The CAA is no slouch either as the league produced three NCAA tournament teams a year ago in UNC Wilmington, William & Mary and Towson. The league ranked ninth in overall RPI, according to WarrenNolan.com.
"We have a pretty good feel for a lot of the teams in the CAA," Lee said. "We've played Wilmington every year, so we have a lot of respect for those guys."
The Cougars, who were 31-26 and 18-11 in the SoCon last season, were picked to finish second in the CAA behind UNC Wilmington in the coaches' preseason poll. The Cougars received one of eight first-place votes.
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Cijeruk, Bogor. For one week, the quiet village of Cijeruk, at the foot of Mount Salak, transformed from a sleepy farming village to a bustling site.
The area teemed with rescue officials, journalists and curious onlookers observing each step of the arduous rescue mission to evacuate bodies from the wreckage of a Sukhoi Superjet that crashed into the dormant volcano's rocky face on May 9.
Mount Salak has been a favorite getaway site, located a mere 80 kilometers south of Jakarta, but only a handful of trekkers climb the northern face, on the Cijeruk side. Most choose to ascend the 2,200-meter mountain from Cidahu, where the eastern-side trek is milder.
Mount Salak's tallest peak, Salak I, was covered in thick fog at the time of the crash and heavy rain masked the sound of plane's metal body hitting the near vertical cliff, shattering the Superjet to pieces.
When the wreckage was spotted the following day, Cijeruk residents — mostly poor peasants, construction workers and sand miners — tried to make sense why police and military officials were suddenly storming their village.
"I was speechless," 34-year-old Karta said. "Every corner and turn was guarded by police officers. And at my daughter's school, they erected tents and cleared its field to make way for a helicopter landing pad."
An estimated 2,000 people eventually crowded into Cijeruk, and the village has been busy since.
Motorcycle taxi drivers benefited the most by the bustle, offering rides to journalists from one evacuation center to the next while other residents offered what little plot of land they had for parking.
"Fifty motorcycles can park here," said Rizky, 19, pointing to a nearby football field which he and two of his friends manage. "Everyday we got people parking here and on a good day I can get Rp 200,000 [$22]."
Raodah, 29, decided to abandon her field and become a food vendor, traversing from one evacuation site to the next selling snacks and drinks.
Empty fields in Cijeruk were littered with military vehicles, ambulance and cars which sometimes carried tourists.
One woman who refused to give her name said she traveled all the way from Sumedang, a four-hour drive, with six members of her family drawn by her curiosity of the rescue efforts.
"Stand here, son. Stay close to your father," she said as she snapped a picture of her son and her husband in front of a parked rescue helicopter.
Disaster tourism is rife in Indonesia, an archipelago often plagued by floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Disaster tourists also packed the site of the 2009 twin-suicide bombing in Kuningan, Jakarta, as well as the 2009 dam burst which killed more than a thousand in Situgintung, Tangerang.
There was occasional scolding directed at the vendors and morbid tourists who often crowded the narrow beaten pathway used by rescuers to remove body bags containing victims' shattered limbs and belongings from the wreck site to the helicopter landing pad.
Rescuers were only able to reach the wreckage on the third day, hampered by bad weather as constant rain turned the shrub-covered trek to a nearly impenetrable, mud-filled pathway.
It was clear that not many climbers went through Cijeruk as the trail ended at the first checkpoint at the mountain's base. Beyond that point, rescuers had to cut their way through a dense jungle amid pouring rain before reaching the edge of a cliff near the summit. The wreck was 200 meters below, scattered at the near-vertical face.
Rescuers had to camp at the summit for two days, plotting the best way to reach the wreck site before rapelling down the cliff. The first bodies were moved out last Saturday.
Much of the plane was scattered along the cliff, while its black box, a crucial part to solving the mystery of why the crash occurred, was another 500 meters down, near the bottom of the ravine.
The forces of nature were enough to knock back even the most experienced mountaineers who volunteered as rescuers, let alone inexperienced and ill-equipped journalists.
"Four years ago I climbed Mount Elbrus in Russia but this trek was the hardest for me," said Alexis, a member of the Russian rescue team.
It was also a challenge for Ambrosius Harto, a journalist from Kompas Daily who climbed the world's tallest peaks years earlier.
Rescuers managed to retrieve the black box on Wednesday afternoon, one week after the crash, and by Friday most of the bodies had been retrieved.
But the long process of identifying the victims — none of the bodies were found intact — is far from over. And there is still the mystery of what happened that day, which could take months before experts reach a conclusion.
The National Police on Friday announced that they had identified 15 of the 45 victims from the doomed flight but refused to divulge further details.
With the box and most of the bodies found, the number of rescuers has dwindled by the day.
As the rescue mission officially ended on Friday — only a handful of military officials continue to sweep the mountain in search of the flight data recorder — Cijeruk suddenly found itself returning to its normal, tranquil self.


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Invisible Armies:
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Any author who attempts to relate the whole history of guerrilla warfare from Mesopotamia in 2334 B.C.E. to present-day Afghanistan, and then draw 12 overarching lessons from such a vast swath of human experience, must be hubristic or brilliant, or both. For the historian and journalist Max Boot to use the phrase "an epic history" in the subtitle of his own book implies a magnificent lack of modesty in his own capabilities. The work more than matches the hype.
Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a regular contributor to Commentary's blog, argues that guerrilla warfare, far from being a bastardization of the "normal" way of warfare, with armies facing each other in the open field, has actually been the more usual form throughout history. Words often used to describe it, such as nontraditional, irregular, and unconventional, are misleading, since time and again—from prehistoric tribal warfare to the War on Terror—the side that can't hold its own in the field of battle always resorts to guerrilla action, assuming it has enough support from the local population to permit it. With low-intensity conflict the norm rather than the exception, Boot argues that if the West isn't ready to fight such conflicts properly, it will pay a heavy price.
For the first 550 pages, Boot adopts a roughly chronological approach to the phenomenon of asymmetric warfare, introducing the reader to the part it played in the Maccabee and Bar Kokhba revolts, the Scythian struggle against the Persian Empire, the downfall of the great counterinsurgency power of Rome, in ancient Chinese warfare, the Scots' endless rebellions against the English, and the American victory over the British Empire. In the course of his account, Boot enjoys highlighting dichotomies and paradoxes, such as the fact that the black leader of the 1790s Haitian slave revolt against the French, Toussaint l'Ouverture, was himself a slave owner.
From controlling a mere 15 percent of the world's landmass in 1450, and still only 35 percent of it by 1800, the European nations and their offspring came to control 84 percent by 1914. Boot asks an obvious but rarely posed question: Why did so few indigenous regimes resort to guerrilla tactics?
His answer makes perfect sense: For all the Westerners' assumptions that the people they conquered were primitive and backward, the indigenous "in a sense…were too advanced for their own good," he argues. They believed they could compete as modern warriors. In the Boer War, for example, the Zulu nation was able to deploy regiments that undertook disciplined maneuvers on the battlefield and suicidally attempted to fight in the open against Britons armed with Martini-Henry rifles. Sheer lack of information about the power of European armies hampered them, but as Boot points out, "their incomprehension was understandable given how slowly news travelled before the spread of telegraphs, undersea cables, steamships, and railroads." Even when native regimes were in a position to learn from the West, he writes, "their impulse was usually to make their armies more conventional, rather than less, by hiring European advisers and buying European arms."
It was hardly likely that Boot, who has acted as a civilian adviser to David Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal and whose book War Made New examined the way military technology has affected warfare since 1500, would content himself solely with a narrative history of guerrilla warfare, not least because he covered some of the same ground in another volume, The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power. As a vocal supporter of the War on Terror, which he considers ultimately winnable, Boot quotes with approval the statement of the British victor of the Malayan Emergency, Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, who said of the vicious anti-Communist struggle between 1948 and 1960: "I have always said that the complete cure of it all will be a long slog."
Public opinion is therefore vital, and Boot ascribes a great deal of importance to the intestinal fortitude—or, more often, the lack of it—shown by Western electorates and leaders in deciding whether they have the stomach for that long slog towards the complete cure. "The most important development in guerrilla warfare in the last two hundred years," Boot believes, "has been the rise of public opinion," a term that appropriately enough first appeared in print in 1776. The author believes that the increase in its importance has been fostered by "the spread of democracy, schools and colleges, communications technology, the mass media, and international organizations—all of which have sapped the will of states to engage in protracted counterinsurgencies, especially outside their own territory, and heightened the ability of insurgents to survive even after suffering military setbacks." The classic example is Vietnam, where "the United States was defeated not because it had lost on the battlefield but because public opinion at home had turned against the war," Boot points out. "The same thing almost happened in Iraq in 2007."
Where this work departs from the normal historical treatments of the concept of guerrilla warfare—and what will make it controversial in academia and deeply unpopular on the left—is Boot's chapter drawing 12 present-day, actionable "implications" from the preceding 550 pages of historical narrative. In order to support his 12 theses about guerrilla warfare, he has constructed "The Invisible Armies Database," which analyses no fewer than 443 insurgencies since 1775 that he (with the immodesty already noted) describes as "more wide-ranging, more detailed, and more accurate than any previous compendium."
Boot's database records which country formed the regulars; which group, clan, tribe, sect, or terrorist organization made up the insurgents; when the insurgency started and ended; and what the outcome was. The results are fascinating, and more than justify an approach that some will doubtless criticize as taking an overly mathematical approach to something as visceral as warfare. They teach us that, as Boot states, "most insurgencies are long-lasting; attempts to win a quick victory backfire." The average insurgency since 1775 has lasted seven years, with 9.7 the average for the post-1945 period. But—and this is the key finding—there is no discernible correlation between the length of a conflict and the insurgents' chance of ultimate victory. The conventional wisdom, as propagated by the Communist Chinese in the late 1940s, that time is on the side of an insurgency is simply not true. Instead, incumbent governments won 66.9 percent of the post-1775 insurgencies that lasted less than a decade, and 65.6 percent of those that lasted longer than two decades. Terrorism has been even less successful. Boot defines terrorism as "the last tactic of those too weak to create guerrilla forces," just as guerrilla warfare is the last tactic of those too weak to create conventional forces.
Boot has also ascertained that "the ideology that has proven most popular and hence most durable as a motivating force for guerrillas and terrorists is neither liberalism nor anarchism nor socialism nor Islamism, but, rather, nationalism." Its power, he writes, "may be judged from the fact that even though most terrorist groups of the 1970s failed, those that had a nationalist appeal, such as the PLO and IRA, managed to win important concessions, whereas those that advocated radical social change, such as the Baader-Meinhof Gang and the Weathermen, disappeared without a trace after the death or imprisonment of their leaders."
"In reality guerrilla warfare is neither invincible nor unwinnable," Boot states, and "guerrillas have seldom achieved their objectives." Out of the 443 insurgencies he has analyzed, insurgents succeeded in 25.2 percent of the concluded wars, while incumbents won in 63.8 percent, the other 11 percent being draws of some kind.
What does this teach us? Victory against guerrillas "requires the application of violence and coercion but in carefully calibrated and intelligently targeted doses." As an Israeli general once told him: "Better to fight terror with an M-16 than an F-16"—with a gun rather than a plane. The counterinsurgency style for which Boot proselytizes most effectively in this book is the "population-centric" one associated with Gerald Templer and David Petraeus. Yet Boot is no starry-eyed naïf regarding this approach: "In most conflicts, the majority of the population has sat on the fence until it was clear which side was likely to win…which is why population-centric policies aim to control the people, not to win their love and gratitude."
This pathbreaking book should thus be on the reading list of every NATO officer hoping to defeat an insurgency. As for what it tells us about the War on Terror: The enemy has only a 25 percent chance of winning, and we mustn't crack internally. History gives us far better odds than the mainstream media does.


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"How can a New Englander love Manhattan over New England clam chowder? Because I like to taste the clams, not just heavy cream with lumps. I came up with this recipe today using what I had on hand, but feel free to improvise. This tastes just like the chowder you get at the beach with clam cakes! When reheating, do not boil or it will 'rubberize' the clams."
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1 (46 fluid ounce) can
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1 (10 ounce) can
whole baby clams, drained and juice reserved
onions, chopped
3 large
carrots, chopped
3 large
potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
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1 (6.5 ounce) can
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2 tablespoons
dried parsley
ground black pepper to taste
This is like a recipe that my mom taught me to use up leftovers from a clambake . I use V 8 or Clamato Juice and the water that the clams were steamed in . Made from scratch , it does go good on a cold wet day with a grilled cheese sandwhich .
This is actually a Manhattan Clam Chowder recipe, not Rhode Island as the title indicates. Living adjacent to Rhode Island, RI clam chowder is actually a clear broth...sort of like Manhattan without the tomatoes.
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Just tasted like clams in tomato juice. I tried to save the dish and spice it up but nothing really helped. I will stick with my cream based clam chowder. I just wanted to try this because of less fat.
Ok so this is an ok version of Mahatten chowder. RI chowder is a clear chowder, using chicken broth and clams and spices...Not sure where the name came from, but it is an ok recipe all in the same...
Yum... This was great and very easy. I much prefer Red clam chowder over it's white counterpart. It's much healthier for you, too!!! I added a pinch of basil and oregano to mine for a little italian flair. If you're used to white, and have never had red clam chowder, it isn't really fair to compare the two. They are 2 different animals completely. 5 Stars!
I submitted this recipe about 10 years ago. I continue to make it often. I live a weak stone's throw from the RI border. Forgive me for not knowing that RI's chowder is clear, as I have never had it. I just assumed that the red was yours because every eatery, from the City to all along the coast, offers either red or white. This recipe is a quick and easy fix for the red. The tomato soup and sauce in the recipe is not the major player. It's the 46-oz can of clam juice, which is not always easy to find. Add just enough tomato sauce for color. Thanks JimD for your review. I have the same memories of the Shore Dinner Hall.
This recipe was fantastic. I swapped half of the carrots for celery—which I recommend to all.
I'd like to take issue with the few negative reviews. I grew up in RI (1957) and have had red chowder, just like this, all of my life. I had done some research and the red, tomato-based chowder is traced to RI's Portuguese immigrants, who came with tomato-based soups. New Englanders called it "Manhattan" chowder as a derisive term, because it was not clear or white. But RI red chowder was always a fixture at George's in Galilee and at Iggy's and I wouldn't eat a clam cake without some!
Actually, in addition to the clear chowder served in Rhode Island, there is indeed a tomato-based chowder that has long been a RI tradition/favorite -- what we call "Rocky Point Clam Chowder." Even though Rocky Point chowder has a tomato base, it's definitely not "Manhattan," it's 100% Rhode Island. This recipe is something of a version of that. It's not a bad chowder at all, but I just can't help comparing it to the real Rocky Point chowder I grew up with.
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Climate change is one of the defining issues of our times. What the world does, or fails to do, about climate change will impact virtually everyone on earth. In a very real sense, the contingent of 22 Moravian College faculty members, students and alumni who will attend the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, Monday through Dec. 18, have an opportunity to watch history being made and sharpen their skills as activists at the same time.
One reason climate change is a particularly thorny problem is that the market mechanism leads to sub-optimal results. In the case of burning fossil fuels, each individual nation determines that it is better off, with benefits exceeding costs, from increasing its carbon emissions. However, from a global perspective, the decisions of each nation add up to disaster. That's why climate change is one of those issues for which markets simply do not work. Here the span of the ''invisible hand'' is just too narrow. This kind of market failure can be corrected through collective action. But as we all know, there is no global government able to force nations to emit carbon levels that are optimal from a global perspective. Enter the United Nations. However, the U.N., without the authority of a central government, can only provide at best a framework within which central governments must negotiate cooperative agreements leading to a slowing of carbon emissions growth.
These negotiations are made more difficult by the lack of inexpensive technologies to substitute for carbon-based energy sources. Nations fear that limiting carbon emissions also means slower economic growth and lower standards of living for their populations. At the center of the negotiations is the issue of equity: both intra-generational equity (which is why we see the rich nations and the poorer nations on different sides of the table) and inter-generational equity (which is why this is so important to young people). Once it's clear that we are dealing with issues that center on equity concerns, it is also clear that they can only be addressed in the political arena. Welcome to Copenhagen!
It seems to me that, in the future, more and more of the world's most difficult problems will require collective action, or will center around issues of equity, and so it will be in arenas like this in which they will be resolved, if they are resolved at all. Observing what happens (or doesn't happen) at Copenhagen is preparation for more conferences to come.
Members of the Moravian College delegation will have the opportunity to participate firsthand in what could be history-making agreements on the reduction of greenhouse gases; in the creation of international collaborations that lead to innovative, clean and sustainable technologies; and in conversations that will consider issues of environmental justice. They'll have a front-row seat from which to observe a political process that will hopefully be repeated many times over. Successful democracies demand educated, informed, active citizens. Preparing those citizens is what a liberal education is about.
Moravian is one of only six private liberal arts or predominantly undergraduate institutions to be selected to serve as a ''civil society observer'' from the United States. Hilde Binford, associate professor of music, and Diane Husic, professor and chairwoman of biological sciences, who co-teach ''Climate Crises: Past, Present, Future,'' applied for the observer position. They attribute the selection on the strength of Moravian's academic course work and undergraduate research related to environmental science. Other factors in Moravian's favor included its many community partnerships and its proposal to use the observer status to engage and educate both the campus and broader community.
The delegations' experiences in Copenhagen will give the students a head start in understanding how to become the kind of citizen this world will need more of in the future; the kind of citizen that Moravian College calls its own. I invite readers of The Morning Call to follow members of the group as they share their experiences at conference on the blog: http://moraviancollegeatunfccc.blogspot.com/ .
Gordon Weil is a professor of economics, dean of the faculty, and vice president of academic affairs at Moravian College.


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Parishes in Slums: Ruaraka Deanery
St. Joseph Mukasa - Kahawa Parish
Kahawa West Parish was born out of "Queen of Apostles" Ruaraka. The late Cardinal Maurice Otunga gave Kahawa the parish status in 1992, under the Pastoral guidance of the Consolata Missionaries. It has been given as a patron Saint St. Joseph Mukasa . Kahawa West, is the Parish center, and it serves three outstations namely: Consolata Kahawa Farmers, St. Peter and Paul Kamae-Kiwanja, and St. Francis of Assisi, Soweto . Fr. Thomas Barbero was the first Parish Priest .Currently,
Fr. Franco Cellana is the Parish Priest assisted by Fr. Charles Jaggwe.
Geographical Location
Kahawa Parish is 25 k/m from the City center in an easterly direction along Thika and Kamiti road.
The main features bordering the parish are Kenyatta University and Kahawa Barracks in the North-East, Kamiti Prison in the West and Kamiti road in the South. Currently it has an estimated multi-ethnic population of 500,00.
Highlights of the Parish
(i) Kahawa West- St. Joseph Mukasa (Parish Centre).
It has a fast growing middle class population.
Part of it is a Site-and-Service settlement with all the social amenities. The rest is characterized by self developed houses with inadequate infrastructure like roads and sewers. There is a slow improvement of those pathetic facilities.
There is a Pastoral Center with different offices and facilities for seminars, and thirty two beds.
Of paramount importance the Church which is under construction will have an Adoration chapel.
(ii) Kahawa Farmers- Our Lady of Consolata
A rapidly growing middle class settlement that has developped in a formerly coffee and maize growing area.
The residents are either workers in the city or business persons.
This Church is also under construction needing the last finishing like floor, windows, glasses etc.
(iii) Kamae-Kiwanja- St. Peter and Paul
A very low income settlement on land that formerly belonged to Kenyatta University.
Incidence of poverty is high arising from acute unemployment. Casual labour, coffee picking and brewing of illicit alcohol characterize life in the area. Crime rate is also high since the youth have no employment opportunities.
(iv) Soweto- St. Francis of Assisi
An informal settlement on land that belongs to the City Council; It is characterized by very poor overcrowded housing conditions, absence of basic infrastructure like roads, sewer and electricity.
There is absolute poverty, unemployment, idleness, prostitution, brewing of illicit alcohol, and crime are the main features of social economic life. There is an upgrading project in progress sponsored by the Italian Embassy and UN-Habitat. The upgrading project focuses on the following areas: toilets, sewer, roads, and houses.
Pastoral Presence and Initiatives in the Parish.
1. Consolata Fathers.
They are involved in integral, human, spiritual and social promotion of different activities that include: the announcement of the Word of God in the 49 small Christian communities, Retreats ,Celebration of Sacraments, Catechesis Adoration to the Holy Eucharist, Office Service-in particular.- Spiritual development and welfare of the Christians.
- Help for the poor of the Parish.
- Support for the sick
- Sponsorship for the orphans and the vulnerable families.
- Upgrading efforts in the slums -houses, water, roads, toilets. In November 2005, partnership with
Adopt a Light, help to install a lamp post in Soweto. This project has changed life in the slum in many ways.
- Pambazuka Recreational Center.
- Have partnered to offer computer services at affordable fees
2. Consolata Sisters
They started the work in the Parish in 1995. Their work consists in:
3. Elizabethan Sisters
They started to work in the Parish in 1992
4. Mary Immaculate Sisters
They came into the Parish in the early 1997.
5. Community Pope John 23rd
They started to work in the Parish in 1995
Structure of the Parish
There are 48 Christian communities ; 20 at Kahawa West; 17 at Kahawa Farmers; 6 at Soweto, 5 at Kamae.
The Parish has 7 Ministries (Hudumas) namely: Justice and Peace; Poor and Sick; Marriage; Liturgy; Ecumenism; Youth & Children; Catechism.
Each outstation is administered under the local council.
The Parish council is made up of the Parish Executive members and representation of the Apostolic Groups namely: CMA, CWA, Youth, Marriage Encounter, Catechists, Choir , St. Joseph, single Mothers Group, Office Secretary and Charismatics.
Each Small Christian Community is administered under the Executive Committee and the Ministries (Wahudumu), under the protection and assistance of our Lady of Africa and St. Joseph Mukasa.
The Parish Pastoral Priorities
1. The Ruaraka Deanery made up of 8 Parishes.
2. Exodus-Kutoka Network of 12 Parishes of the slums in Nairobi.
3. MUSEN-Mustard Seed Ecumenical Network of different Churches in Nairobi.
Fr. Franco Cellana- Parish priest-Kahawa West
Mr. Mathew Kibe - Communication - email@example.com
Ms. Mary Muthoni - Parish Secretary.
Time Table:
6.00 pm - Every day Eucharist at St. Joseph Mukasa - Kahawa West
Sunday Masses:
Kahawa West (Parish center): 7.30 am. Kiswahili; 9.00 am. English; 10.30 am. Kiswahili
Kahawa Farmers: 8.30 am. Kiswahili
Kamae/Kiwanja: 8.00 am. Kiswahili
Soweto 10.00 am. Kiswahili


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The DHL Stormers ended any talk or speculation about relegation from Vodacom Super Rugby by systematically squeezing the life out of the Southern Kings en route to a 19-11 win at a drenched Newlands on Saturday.
The game was fairly close on the scoreboard for most of the way, but then it was always going to be on a sodden field after long periods of torrential downpours earlier in the day.
It only really bucketed down for a short period during the game, shortly after halftime, but when the game started the players were kicking water as they ran through puddles.
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Considering the conditions, both teams deserve credit for how they tried to play, but the driving maul was always going to be the most likely source of profit when it came to try-scoring.
And that was how it proved, with the Stormers effectively wrapping up the match with a quarter of an hour remaining as Deon Fourie dotted down off a rare drive that the Kings couldn't cope with.
Up until then the Kings had done remarkably well to check the Stormers' big men, but the try eased them into a 19-6 lead – they had been leading 12-6 as Pietersen kicked two and Whitehead one in the third quarter – which in those conditions was always going to be a winning advantage.
But full marks to the Kings for once again showing the character and fighting spirit that has been the hallmark of their play this season.
Wimpie van der Walt dotted down off a drive after 73 minutes, and then they stormed straight back onto the attack and were camping on the Stormers' line in the last minutes of the game.
The Stormers, as is their wont, were strong defensively and marginally won the collisions against a team that competed well, but the Stormers got it right by spending most of the match playing in the right areas of the field.
Apart from his goalkicking (he missed one out of six kicks at goal in tough conditions) Pietersen was on the mark with tactical kicking, and the Stormers' back three played a big part in paving the way for a win that doesn't too materially impact on their log position, which sees them locked in 10th/11th position with the Sharks on 38 points.
As Stormers skipper Jean de Villiers said afterwards, a win is a win, but it won't be remembered as a great match. But realistically what more could you expect in the middle of the first big storm of the Cape winter?
DHL Stormers - Try: Deon Fourie. Conversion: Joe Pietersen. Penalties: Pietersen (4).
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The Scottish Third Division leaders made the decision after a meeting with Sandaza and his agent on Friday morning.
Sandaza allegedly declared details of his salary and declared himself open to a move to a better league during a recorded hoax telephone conversation.
A club statement read: "Francisco Sandaza has been suspended by the club pending an investigation into comments made by the player in a recorded telephone conversation.
"The club, Francisco and his agent have had discussions and manager Ally McCoist also spoke with the player, who did not take part in today's training session.
"Francisco will not return to the club while the investigation is under way.
"Rangers regard this is an extremely serious issue but there will be no further comment until the inquiry, which could take a week, has been completed."


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Yes we all know we should back up photosWe talk about it and warn our friends about it. But what about our own photos? Well I was working on a project for photo gift ideas and pulling photos from my computer files. I was making a photo slideshow as a gift for my friend's 40th birthday, when POW!
All my programmes disappeared, all my documents, files and folders and YES! all my precious photos too.
I had not taken my own advice which I had given to friends, backup photos online and they will be safe if your computer crashes. Despair!
Where can you back up photos online?
Fortunately I had done something good and that is to back up photos and all the rest on my computer on to an external hard drive which is designed for the job, the one I use is Simple Save, very good. All my stuff I realised would be on there and I was able to clean off my computer from the spyware using MalWareBites and do a restore.
What a relief, there were all my photos, files and all. Please don't let it happen to you. Especially please back up photos and your special documents. I use Tiny Uploads to store my photos now, it is easy and free.


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The Drudge Report this morning led off with a link to audio of Barack Obama on WBEZ, A Chicago Public Radio station. And this time, candidate Obama was not eight years old when the bomb went off.
Speaking at a call-in radio show in 2001, you can hear Senator Obama say things that should profoundly shock any American – or at least those who have not taken the time to dig deeply enough into this man's beliefs and affiliations.
Abandon all Hope, Ye Who Enter Here:
Barack Obama, in 2001:
"You know, if you look at the victories and failures of the Civil Rights movement, and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples. So that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it, I'd be okay, but the Supreme Court never entered into the issues of re-distribution of wealth, and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.
"And uh, to that extent, as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution – at least as it's been interpreted, and Warren Court interpreted it in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties: [it] says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf.
"And that hasn't shifted, and one of the, I think, the tragedies of the Civil Rights movement was because the Civil Rights movement became so court-focused, uh, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways we still suffer from that."
A caller then helpfully asks:
"The gentleman made the point that the Warren Court wasn't terribly radical. My question is (with economic changes)… my question is, is it too late for that kind of reparative work, economically, and is that the appropriate place for reparative economic work to change place?"
Obama replies:
"You know, I'm not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. The institution just isn't structured that way. [snip] You start getting into all sorts of separation of powers issues, you know, in terms of the court monitoring or engaging in a process that essentially is administrative and takes a lot of time. You know, the court is just not very good at it, and politically, it's just very hard to legitimize opinions from the court in that regard.
So I think that, although you can craft theoretical justifications for it, legally, you know, I think any three of us sitting here could come up with a rationale for bringing about economic change through the courts."
There is nothing vague or ambiguous about this. Nothing.
From the top:
"…The Supreme Court never entered into the issues of re-distribution of wealth, and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And uh, to that extent, as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical."
If the second highlighted phrase had been there without the first, Obama's defenders would have bent over backwards trying to spin the meaning of "political and economic justice." We all know what political and economic justice means, because Barack Obama has already made it crystal clear a second earlier: it means re-distribution of wealth. Not the creation of wealth and certainly not the creation of opportunity, but simply taking money from the successful and the hard-working and distributing it to those whom the government decides "deserve" it.
This re-distribution of wealth, he states, "essentially is administrative and takes a lot of time." It is an administrative task. Not suitable for the courts. More suitable for the Chief Executive.
Now that's just garden-variety socialism, which apparently is not a big deal to many voters. So I would appeal to ANY American who claims to love the Constitution and to revere the Founding Fathers… I will not only appeal to you, I will BEG you, as one American citizen to another, to consider this next statement with as much care as you can possibly bring to bear:
"And uh, to that extent, as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution – at least as it's been interpreted, and [the] Warren Court interpreted it in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties: [it] says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf."
The United States of America – 5% of the world's population – leads the world economically, militarily, scientifically and culturally – and by a spectacular margin. Any one of these achievements, taken alone, would be cause for enormous pride. To dominate as we do in all four arenas has no historical precedent. That we have achieved so much in so many areas is due – due entirely – to the structure of our society as outlined in the Constitution of the United States.
The entire purpose of the Constitution was to LIMIT GOVERNMENT. That limitation of powers is what has unlocked in America the vast human potential available in any population.
Barack Obama sees that limiting of government not as a lynchpin but rather as a fatal flaw:
"…One of the, I think, the tragedies of the Civil Rights movement was because the Civil Rights movement became so court-focused, uh, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways we still suffer from that."
There is no room for wiggle or misunderstanding here. This is not edited copy. There is nothing out of context; for the entire thing is context – the context of what Barack Obama believes. You and I do not have to guess at what he believes or try to interpret what he believes. He says what he believes.
We have, in our storied history, elected Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives and moderates. We have fought, and will continue to fight, pitched battles about how best to govern this nation. But we have never, ever in our 232 year history, elected a President who so completely and openly opposed the idea of limited government, the absolute cornerstone of makes the United States of America unique and exceptional.
If this does not frighten you – regardless of your political affiliation – then you deserve what this man will deliver with both houses of Congress, a filibuster-proof Senate, and, to quote Senator Obama again, "a righteous wind at our backs."
That a man so clear in his understanding of the Constitution, and so opposed to the basic tenets it provides against tyranny and the abuse of power, can run for President of the United States is shameful enough.
We're just getting started.
Mercifully shorter than the First, and simply this: I happen to know the person who found this audio. It is an individual person, with no more resources than a desire to know everything that he or she can about who might be the next President of the United States and the most powerful man in the world.
I know that this person does not have teams of highly-paid professionals, does not work out of a corner office in a skyscraper in New York, does not have access to all of the subtle and hidden conduits of information… who possesses no network television stations, owns no satellite time, does not receive billions in advertising dollars, and has a staff of exactly ONE.
I do not blame Barack Obama for believing in wealth distribution. That's his right as an American. I do blame him for lying about what he believes. But his entire life has been applying for the next job at the expense of the current one. He's at the end of the line now.
I do, however, blame the press for allowing an individual citizen to do the work that they employ standing armies of so-called professionals for. I know they are capable of this kind of investigative journalism: it only took them a day or two to damage Sarah Palin with wild accusations about her baby's paternity and less time than that to destroy a man who happened to be playing ball when the Messiah decided to roll up looking for a few more votes on the way to the inevitable coronation.
We no longer have an independent, fair, investigative press. That is abundantly clear to everyone – even the press. It is just another of the facts that they refuse to report, because it does not suit them.
Remember this, America: the press did not break this story. A single citizen, on the internet did.
There is a special hell for you "journalists" out there, a hell made specifically for you narcissists and elitists who think you have the right to determine which information is passed on to the electorate and which is not.
That hell – your own personal hell – is a fiery lake of Irrelevance, blinding clouds of Obscurity, and burning, everlasting Scorn.
You've earned it.
This discovery will hurt Obama much more than Joe the Plumber.
What will be left of my friend, and my friend's family, I wonder, when the press is finished with them?
After about 30 comments I realized I forgot to do what I forgot to do last time...
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Now let's see some distributed intelligence and basic human decency! Don't make me come down there every five minutes!
Excellent, timely and concise!
Well done, Sir!
Yes, but what new information is there? If Ayers, Wright, radical community organizing, endorsements from the Democratic Socialists of America and New Party, etc. haven't been enough to convince anybody, why will this?
I guess it can't hurt to try.
Excellent article.
In regard to the Second Circle of Shame, I predict that after this election (and however it turns out), the press as we know it will be finished. The blogosphere and internet in general will take over. And it cannot come one moment too soon.
Thank you again for a very well written article.
Good work, Bill but you missed the easy sound bite takeaway: in this interview Barack Obama came out in favor of reparations.
More useless alarmist drivel! You could of found the same thing from quotes from
GW Bush when he entered his first years as a
gov. down in
Your party is over you should be scared. Maybe next time you shouldn't put a extreme right wing bible banging nut job on your ticket.
One of the best, articles I have read on this election. I feel ashamed to say, however, that a lot of the "masses" have been hoodwinked or brainwashed into thinking that this "obamanation" is our future. I surely hope not . . . !
One of the main things I look for when choosing someone to hold power is humility. Power corrupts. It is especially intoxicating for the young, idealistic, arrogant and untested.
A man who seems himself as the one qualified to respond to the "fierce urgency of now" with a "righteous wind at [his] back," capable of reversing the rise of oceans, scares me, especially if he has Congress on his side.
However, the founders understood human nature and power, perhaps better than any other group in history.
This is the hope. Obama wants power. He will want to keep power. Wright was right: Obama will act as a politician acts. He will be forced to go right.
More than anything, Democrats want to keep power, so they, and their media cohorts, will be forced to make compromises contrary to their ideology, just as Bill Clinton did with welfare reform and other policies.
Congressional Democrats and the media and all the king's men will bend over backward to make Obama successful, and that will not be done with a Leftist agenda.
It's a second term we need to really fear.
This Obama audio is deeply disturbing and profoundly scary.
That this was brought to national attention by an individual on the Internet, and not the press, does not surprise me at all. You can't trust the press to do their job anymore.
Thanks for people like you to get this information out to the citizens of this country - everyone of which needs to hear this audio of Obama himself talking about his desire for redistribution of wealth.
Perhaps even more disturbing than Obama's desire for "redistributionist change" is his failure to understand the nature of the Constitution. The Founding Fathers (who Obama obviously doesn't think much of) wrote the Constitution to expressly limit the power of government. They knew firsthand the danger that arises when government becomes to powerful. Instead of protecting its citizens, it oppresses them.
Reagan said it best: "When government expands, liberty contracts".
Say no to socialism on Nov. 4 - vote McCain/Palin.
There really is somebody else that can see past the carefully constructed gossamer of lies and obfuscation.
I like your writing style. Not only do you have something to say but you know how to add a touch of eloquence. Your ending was weak, though. It has merit but you didn't put as much care into its construction as your first two points.
I hope its still not too late to save this nation. Thanks for standing tall in this hour.
What an October surprise?! Thank you for putting this out and I am on the record for saying I completely agree. That probably allows me to put dibs on the same dungeon cell that you'll get once this Marxist is elected president. At least we'll have something to talk about... Vote McCain---he'll help you keep the change...
"Share the wealth" is thus understood, by his own words referencing Civil Rights and how it "failed", to more acurately mean reparations. This is a frightening man.
Wait a second. Obama wants the government to "do" for the little guy. But corporations, so often driven by profit over ethics, can receive as much help from the government as they want, as many breaks - tax and otherwise - and that's OK? And then there's the Bush White House trashing of personal liberties and expanding of government surveillance into our lives - and you're concerned about Obama's abuse of the Constitution? Give me a break!
The right wing truly has become pathetic. Grasping at desperate straws. This article is a statement about what is wrong in this country and why it is over for the Republicans. At last we might get to live in a world with some flexibility and opportunity for real change!
"You could of found the same thing from quotes from GW Bush when he entered his first years as a gov. down in Texas."
Got any proof of that?
Everyone that supports Obama should think this way when the go to the store. If you buy groceries for your family, think about a government representative coming up and taking half of them away. You will have no say in who they are given to or what items are even taken. Pretty soon you are going to get tired of spending your hard earned money to buy groceries for your family only to have them taken away. If you only get to keep half of them why should you even work to buy them when you can get in line to get the same amount or more from someone else?
Great article btw Mr. Whittle!
Be careful...
Your transcript of the video leaves out the fact that the audio consists of MULTIPLE excerpts from that radio interview. The video is carefully edited to play a sentence or two spoken by Obama - then display text on the screen interpreting those sentences - then moves on to more NON-CONTIGUOUS sentences.
If you listen to the entire interview (appx 12 minutes - see WBEZ Chicago website) - in context, the "redistribution" of which Obama speaks is the "redistribution" of VOTES for African-Americans. The audio clips are from a discussion about blacks having NO VOTES, then being COUNTED in Southern States but not actually being able to vote, the "three-fifths" compromise, etc.
He's not talking about taking peoples' money away. He's talking about UNIVERSAL SUFFERAGE.
Surely you Republicans support SUFFERAGE, do you not?
Dear Deborah,
In what way has the Bush White House trashed your personal liberties and expanded government surveillance into your life? Please be more specific. And exactly what would you want the government to "do" for you that isn't covered by the Constitution? Inquiring minds would like to know.
And Tish E., have you ever heard of that old Chinese ill-wish, "May you live in interesting times"? You might remember that "change" covers a plethora of states, amazingly few of them good. Once you go to the top and start that ball rolling, you have no notion nor control over where it's going to go, except my experience has shown that it's more than likely not going to be what you wanted or asked for, so don't be surprised if you end up flattened.
- Tanka
I, unfortunately, also don't see this as changing much. I think people are well aware of this tendency of Senator Obama and have chosen to support him either because of it or in spite of it. I know that the plural of anecdote is not data, but here is some commentary from the left as an example:
They're both fine and analytical people, but they have bought into the idea that the top earners don't need all of that money, so why not tax it away? To them, the redistributionist tendencies of Sen. Obama are not only acceptable, they are cause for cheer.
I don't see what the big deal is all about. You write "we all know what political and economic justice means, because Barack Obama has already made it crystal clear a second earlier: it means re-distribution of wealth. Not the creation of wealth and certainly not the creation of opportunity, but simply taking money from the successful and the hard-working and distributing it to those whom the government decides "deserve" it."
So I take it that you think all the money market managers are getting fair pay for their hard work when they make many millions or even billions from investors? This at the same time that the middle class has lost real income? The USA has had a progressive tax system for many years that trys to redress the situation by having the well-to-do pay at a higher rate. That is the principal way that income is redistributed. Of course, some of those hard-working, well-to-do people hide their income in the Bahamas, etc, or get congress to provide protected tax-free avenues for their income, and some millionaires pay no taxes. But why are you guys so surprised by Obama's stance here? Progressive taxation has been around for a long time.
Oops, where are my manners? Bill, that was a great article, and as always I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on your new book(s)! And congratulations on your Pajamas Media and National Review contracts; what dream jobs!
Go, Bill!
- Tanka
Great blog Bill. There are some glaring perspectives in your writing that I think cause the major fundamental difference between people like you and people like me. I will start from the bottom up.
"We no longer have an independent, fair, investigative press."
We haven't had an independent press since well before even you were born. The idea that this just happened now is absurd. If anything, the fact that I am reading your blog for free which is a recapitulation of other free information via a relatively free internet, proves the exact opposite.
"The entire purpose of the Constitution was to LIMIT GOVERNMENT."
The purpose of the Constitution is to provide a framework in which to manage the business that is America. We elect those that we feel can run the business best and treat all the "employees" of that business fairly by providing resources for those employees to thrive.
We disagree specifically about this excerpt of Obama's philosophy because we disagree about who has been getting the wealth. For a very long time, the wealth has been spread amongst the wealthy, and that same elite has written the rules to keep it so. Those rules are government. Those rules have not been limiting for those that have been successful, in fact quite the opposite. But now we enter a new era in human history where it actually benefits everyone to have everyone prosper. It is a new time in economics, in social justice, and governmental rules. The constitution allowed the last 232 years to pass, and you are correct in saying that we have thrived. Our constitution is going to elect Barack Obama in a few days and our constitution is going to allow a redistribution of wealth to all the employees of the business that we call America. Everyone under the umbrella, creates greater prosperity. Animosity declines slowly. Stratification of wealth still exists. It's all going to be ok.
Horray for this independent news.
Thanks again Bill. Your perspective confirms the path of this America, simply because we will out vote you.
The most damning report on Barack Obama's political -as yet unreported!!!- biography
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Eric, you just said it yourself: "That is the principal way that income is redistributed."
Your presumption is that this is acceptable, but we're here to tell you that in Bill Whittle's house, that it is NOT acceptable.
Why should I work hard, become knowledgeable in my field, and earn more money just so I can watch the goverment take it away and give it to who-knows-who? For that I'm supposed to work harder?
Do you know nothing of what goes on in socialist countries and what that sort of thing does to worker morale and pride in accomplishment? If you don't, try reading Hedrick Smith's books, "The Russians" and "The New Russians" for a nice overview of what Senator Obama has in store for us. Else maybe soon you'll find yourself using that favorite Russian saying about the State: "They pretend to pay us, so we pretend to work."
- Tanka
"We no longer have an independent, fair, investigative press."
Bill, now that you have woken up...do you need your beard trimmed? Or would you just like a cup of coffee to clear the cobwebs?
Let me be the one to break it to you, Bill. News divisions are run by the corporations that own them.
Yes, Jake you are correct. News organizations are owned by corporations, generally large ones. If I were a large corporation, and there was a marxist candidate running who planned on regulations and taxes so invasive and onerous as to virtually guarantee the winners and losers in the market place - independent of their abilities to provide good and services and tied solely to their political patronage - , I might be in the tank for that guy, too... Out of survival (besides If I win, he will sweep aside my competition, without me having do do any of that inconvenient stuff like lowering my prices or improving my quality and selection)
Why is it that liberals can't seem to differentiate between capitalism and corporatism, at least insofar as what they actually mean.
Do you mean to suggest that Professor Obama may have made similar statements regarding the Constitution to students in his Constitutional Law course at Chicago? Certainly, you do not mean to suggest that any of those students should (or could) be located for comment. See puff piece in U. of Chicago Mag on Obama.
As usual, very well said. I'm so glad you're back writing (and appearing) regularly. Your common sense and clarity are badly needed!
Great blog, Bill. I've enjoyed your very insightful blogs in the past, particularly the ones dealing with conspiracy theories.
This audio should be a game changer, but, alas, I'm not sure it will be. Never underestimate the power of the media to either bury a story they don't like (like the video of Obama at a dinner with Rashid Khalidi, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, which the LA Times has in its possession but refuses to release) or to spin it in a way they want it to appear. It will probably be up to McCain/Palin to push this story in the hope that it will resonate with the voting public.
Would Jesus be ashamed of a man who was more concerned about feeding the poor, than helping the rich amass even greater wealth.
Yes, indeed, Jesus would be very ashamed.
I wondered why we hadn't heard about this sooner and it's very interesting to learn that it was a "small potatoes" American who is responsible for it. Please thank your friend for us. I don't know that it will help enough at this point but please tell them their efforts are appreciated.
Would Jesus be ashamed of a man who was more concerned about feeding the poor, than helping the rich amass even greater wealth.
Yes, indeed, Jesus would be very ashamed.
Pure B.S. True if Obama was feeding the poor WITH HIS OWN MONEY, but he wants to force others to feed the poor. Jesus, as far as I can tell, had no interest in that.
Ah yes.
I remember the hyberbolic hysterics of Liberals just before Bush took office..."he'll make this country a Fascist state just like his grandfather tried to do!"
Every election year, opposition forgets the modifying power of the American system and they degrade into angst that the United States is doomed.
Have faith in your country. Have faith in your countrymen. It's going to be alright.
Obama is making a pretty standard criticism of liberals: that, instead of pursuing change democratically, they attempt to do so through the court system. Note that he describes the tragedy as being "of the civil rights movement," not a tragedy of the Constitution. More specifically, I believe he's saying that African Americans would be economically better served by civil society institutions (e.g., church-run after-school programs) that help them get educations and jobs, rather than Supreme Court decisions that, for example, mandate affirmative action. Seems to be a pretty conservative position.
It's just such ... such torturous logic! You could make a case to throw my grandmother in gitmo!
This is what you've got? A statement that it was a tragedy that the African American community relied too heavily on the courts to gain economic parity? That is pretty thin gruel, even for a campaign in despair.
There is no suggestion that the courts could, or should have done otherwise. He didn't say the court's behavior was tragic, but the people's dependence on it. The suggestion seem to be a more conservative one than you place on it... that the black community had to work harder to lift itself from poverty.
There have been many accusations of racism in this campaign, most unjustified. This, I think, may cross the line.


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