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Sunday, November 2, 2008
John McCain's Rib Recipe--in the CrockPot
Day 307.
Did you know that John McCain had a famous rib recipe? I had no idea, but was excited to see a post on BlogHer listing the ingredients.
These are the most simple ribs I've ever made, and they are good. Really good.
Obama's chili is coming up tomorrow!
The Ingredients.
--4 lbs of ribs (I used beef, but you can certainly use PORK)
--2 T garlic powder
--2 T kosher salt
--2 T black pepper
--3 lemons, juiced
The Directions.
I used a 6.5 qt crockpot. 4 lbs of ribs fit comfortably, but I maybe could have squeezed in another pound.
Cut the ribs to fit your crockpot. In a small bowl, combine the dry spices.
Rub the rack of ribs with the dry mixture, covering all sides of the ribs. Put them into your crockpot. If you have extra seasoning, pour on top.
Squeeze the lemons (use one of those hand-held juicer things, to make sure all the juice gets out) on top of the ribs.
Cover and cook on low for 7-10 hours, or on high for about 5. The meat will be more tender if you cook it on low.
Serve with corn on the cob and baked potatoes.
The Verdict.
I've never made ribs in the crockpot with a dry rub before. I was nervous that they'd get awfully tough and burn. I couldn't have been farther from the truth. The meat was flavorful, tender, and juicy. The lemon gave a neat tartness I've never had with ribs before. The kids ate the meat, and there were happy noises at the table. They've asked me to make this again.
pst. as an FYI, I'm not going to post any comments with a political slant. ;-0
52 comments:
I saw him make these on Rachael Ray! It looked super simple and delicious. I'm glad you tried it in the crockpot. For those of us in colder climates it's getting a little chilly to hang out by the grill. Thanks!
- November 2, 2008 at 8:16 AM
- C. Beth said...
Hey, when it comes to food, McCain's ribs and Obama's chili are equally exciting!
This looks great and easy--thanks!
- November 2, 2008 at 8:29 AM
- ellipses said...
Ribs... in the crock pot... I *heat* you for evah.
- November 2, 2008 at 8:30 AM
- Joanna said...
i saw the rachael ray episode too! he's like a grilling machine.
and i'm glad you don't post your political opinion. politics make people angry (really angry) and i don't want to have people yelling through blog comments.
- November 2, 2008 at 9:21 AM
- Stephanie M. said...
looking forward to Obama's chili!
- November 2, 2008 at 9:22 AM
- Posh And Trendy said...
These sound yummy!! Try the same seasoning on steak and broil it.. it's delicious too... it's an old Nicragua recipe.
- November 2, 2008 at 10:22 AM
- Becky said...
Thank you for not getting political with the recipe's. I just want to believe my crockpot lady is nuetral and not biased in her food tasting verdict's.
- November 2, 2008 at 10:43 AM
- Beth T. said...
Hmmmm...I've got some country style pork ribs in the deep freeze. I think I'll put them in the fridge to defrost and crock pot 'em on election day.
- November 2, 2008 at 11:01 AM
- Jen said...
I'd have new thought to do ribs in the crock pot! Thank you!
- November 2, 2008 at 11:22 AM
- TNelson said...
I also appreciate your politic-free blog. I read so many food blogs and there are some pretty politically opinionated "foodies" out there. This is a heated race - it's nice to read a blog and not to have to get angry about who you personally chose to support for president. :-).
- November 2, 2008 at 12:18 PM
- Tiffani said...
Hi Stephanie
This is a random comment just to tell you how much I've enjoyed your blog this year and the recipes you've shared. I appreciate your honesty about things that didn't taste good or work out right and enjoy your writing style and humor as well. Hope you will keep the site up, even when you are done with the every day thing! There are still lots of your recipes I'd like to try and haven't gotten to yet. :)
Thank you for doing this and for sharing it on a blog.
- November 2, 2008 at 12:49 PM
- Melissa said...
These sound good. I saw him on Rachael Ray and they looked good then to:) I can't wait to see the chilli.
- November 2, 2008 at 1:18 PM
- Pam said...
LOL ... when I clicked to enlarge the photo, it actually made my mouth water! (Think I'm hungry?)
I'm like you, in that I don't like the whole "swimming in fat and grease" thing. Did you elevate the ribs on foil balls or a rack?
- November 2, 2008 at 1:40 PM
- Four Tails Lampwork said...
I must say that, as a Texan, it's good to see someone do a Texas-style (= dry rub) beef bbq. I'll have to try this one out. Thanks for posting it, and thanks to Senator McCain for sharing it. I'm looking forward to Senator Obama's chili, too! Both are perfect things to serve for a night of bipartisan (or even partisan) election-watching. Reminds us that even those whom we oppose politically are still human beings just like us and deserve our respect for stepping up to serve.
- November 2, 2008 at 3:05 PM
This sounds delicious and easy enough for even me to cook! I'm looking forward to tomorrow's chili, too.
Thanks for posting these non-politically! I visit a couple non-political message boards that have gotten awfully rude lately due to differences in politics not being discussed politely. Hey, calm down! We all love good food!
- November 2, 2008 at 5:42 PM
- Sarah said...
I had some ribs in the freezer and an open slate for dinner tonight, so I threw these in the crockpot today. They were awesome! I know this seasoning combo as sluvaki which is a greek word that I am sure that I butchered in spelling. I hadn't done ribs in the crockpot before either and I was pleasantly surprised! They weren't greasy and the meat just fell off the bones. I will do ribs again! I stood them up to keep them out of the fat and that seemed to work pretty well. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
- November 2, 2008 at 6:44 PM
Thanks for the politics free blog...I like the other women just want to enjoy a blog that is politics free! I've really been excited since I discovered this blog a couple of weeks ago...it's been a real treat for me to check in and see what you prepared. I'm already thinking about what I'll do at the end of the year!!!
- November 2, 2008 at 7:15 PM
- utmomof5 said...
It is on my list of recipes for the week!! Thanks for the idea! :)
- November 2, 2008 at 7:27 PM
- Sarah Kate said...
I am very intregued by these, I have been craving some good ribs. Thanks for blogging about crockpotting. I live too far away and work long hours. My crock pot is the only way to have a warm, home-cooked meal some days. It is nice to get so many ideas in one place.
- November 2, 2008 at 7:45 PM
- Angela's Kitchen said...
Wow! This sounds yummy. A dry rub in the crock? I have got to try it!
- November 2, 2008 at 8:11 PM
- Sara said...
I just found you and am looking forward to looking at old posts. I am already going to try your brown sugar chicken this week. I linked your recipe in my blog. Thank you!
- November 2, 2008 at 9:41 PM
- Breezy said...
Lemon really? OK, I normally sprinkle garlic salt, salt and pepper on my ribs. I'll have to try the lemon next time.
- November 3, 2008 at 5:14 AM
- Amie said...
We are equal opportunity crockpotters, yes?
- November 3, 2008 at 5:57 AM
- Sarah M. said...
Oh, those look GOOD.
Looking forward to your review of Obama's chili!
- November 3, 2008 at 6:30 AM
- Jaden Paige said...
yum yum yum. Ribs in crockpot. Sounds too good to be true.
- November 3, 2008 at 7:36 AM
Yay, something to do with the politicians that I care to hear about LOL Looking forward to tomorrow, too!
- November 3, 2008 at 9:58 AM
- Thistledew Farm said...
mmmm sounds yummy - I can definately try this one!
- November 3, 2008 at 10:21 AM
- David Detlefsen said...
Looks yummy!!! If I use pork ribs do you think that would shorten the cook time??? Can't wait to try!
- November 3, 2008 at 11:09 AM
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
Would be fun to make both candidates' recipes for an Election Night party, and see which recipe is more popular!
- November 3, 2008 at 11:18 AM
- Hannah said...
THANK YOU!!! I saw McCain make these on Rachael Ray and was thrilled to see I could make them in the crockpot. And I just happened to have ribs in the freezer. Made them for dinner tonight and they were fabulous!
- November 3, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Its election day and I have these and Obama's chili in my crock pots. May the best man win.
- November 4, 2008 at 8:26 AM
- ScrappinAway said...
Thanks for sharing! I am trying them tonight in honor of the election. I blogged about and linked back to you!
- November 4, 2008 at 8:39 AM
- Angie (mighty-nice) said...
I made these last night using Country Style Pork Ribs. I used 10 large ribs with the seasoning exactly as in the recipe. I cooked on high for 1 hour then put it on low for 6.5 (they were probably done earlier). They we as tender as you could want, and totally fell off the bone - it ended up being pork chunks rather than ribs but it was delicious!
I served them with warmed bbq sauce on the side and we all liked them with sauce even more. There was enough meat left over to mix was sauce and have it on sandwiches tonight. I'll make this one over and over! YUMMY!
To answer someone's comment on swimming in grease - YES, they did cook in very greasy liquid. When taking them out of the crock I put them on a rack placed inside a 13 x 9 and let a lot of the grease drip off. As we ate it - the meat was moist but not greasy.
- November 5, 2008 at 11:52 AM
- amariaf2000 said...
I have these in the crockpot today!!! I'm really excited about dinner tonight! I'll let you know how they turn out!
- November 6, 2008 at 5:56 AM
- wv_mom said...
I wanted to try to make this and I had just one question. My ribs are int he freezer and my fridge takes forever to thaw things (well sometimes it even freezes things, I will have to look into that when I get the chance sometime). A
Anyway, the question. If I use frozen or partially frozen ribs, it still should be okay yeah? Do I need to just upt he amount of time it is in there or what?
- November 6, 2008 at 7:22 AM
- Crockpot Lady said...
wv mom, throw them in frozen. I've cooked with frozen ribs lots. I'd count on another 90 min-2hrs cooking time.
- November 6, 2008 at 7:35 AM
- amariaf2000 said...
We partook of these last night. My hubby likes pork better, but I made the beef and he LOVED them! We both loved them! I found them to be a bit too salty so next time I will lay low on the kosher salt. Otherwise, this are on the menu anytime I find ribs on sale!!!
You ROCK!
ps - probably this weekend or next week, I'll be writing a blog about how great these were - you will get ALL the credit! www.mccalled.com/peonypatch
- November 7, 2008 at 6:55 AM
- Cordial Connie said...
We do baby back pork ribs in our crock pot all the time. I season mine with plain old Tony Chacheries Cajun seasoning and cook on low for about 6 hours. You can also put them in still frozen. No liquid is necessary. They are tender and juicy.
- November 8, 2008 at 3:34 PM
- Rhonda Grote, President of www.ThinkThoughtful.com said...
I made these last night with your garlic baked potatoes in another crockpot and my husband loved both of them! Thanks!
- November 11, 2008 at 5:22 AM
- pam said...
Just ran across your blog. I too love cooking in my crock pot. In fact, I have potatoes baking in it right now. I am looking forward to trying the ribs, cheesecake and PB fondue.
- November 16, 2008 at 10:59 AM
- Big Daddy said...
GREAT idea being non-partisan in your blogging! There's plenty of that to be had elsewhere.
Here we can appreciate how good food brings people together, instead of splitting us apart.
Long live non-partisan crock potting!!!
- November 17, 2008 at 11:36 AM
I used beef ribs and they were amazingly tender. My husband liked the ribs, but I thought they were too salty. I did like how tender the meat came out and plan to try again with a different dry rub.
- November 18, 2008 at 6:49 AM
These are so yummy! I used pork back ribs, and seriously wish I had a bigger crock pot so I could make more in one batch. My hubby & 2 year old loved them too. There were no leftovers. So simple and tasty. Thanks for the recipe! I can't wait to make them again.
- December 1, 2008 at 8:01 PM
- Maricriss said...
These are so yummy. My picky son who does not like ribs loved these. THank you so much:-)
- December 4, 2008 at 10:26 AM
- Lisa said...
My ribs always fall off the bone in the crockpot so I had given up on cooking them in there. However, I decided to give these a whirl. I prefer my ribs to be sticky with sauce and still attached to the bone. These came out more like pot roast beef. They were a bit too spicy for us, so next time I will add less pepper. I also think 3 lemons was too much sourness so next time I will use 2 lemons and one orange. Hubby loved them and the girls would have liked them if there wasnt so much pepper. I will be trying these again though.
- January 9, 2009 at 8:13 PM
- veganvixen052507 said...
I just realized that my Blogger name is no longer applicable!
I made these tonight and they were DELICIOUS!
My tongue jumped outta my head and was doin a jig on the table!
I pared it with my mama's homemade BBQ sauce. I don't think it coulda been easier or tastier!
I will concur, however, with the PPs who said they were a bit too peppery. But, to each his own!
- March 15, 2009 at 5:32 PM
- xsnanc said...
Stephanie - my girlfriend just sent me the link to this blog last week and I LOVE it! I made these ribs on Sunday and they were fantatsic - can't wait to try more of your recipies!
- March 31, 2009 at 6:03 AM
- VanderbiltWife said...
We made these last night (well, ate them last night, made them yesterday morning!) and they were SO good! I love the different flavor rather than just using BBQ sauce or something. I used country-style pork ribs and they worked out great.
- April 28, 2009 at 6:31 AM
- MemeGRL said...
These were great--thanks! So easy, stuff I always have in the house for spices--a true winner.
One thing--I used country style pork ribs, and they ended up almost braising, there was so much liquid. Still delish and enjoyed by 3/4 in the house, so success, but not what I expected!
- June 2, 2009 at 6:39 AM
- Stephanie said...
I tried this last night. My family loved it! John McCain really knows his way around some ribs, and I love the crockpot variation. I put a bit of barbeque sauce on mine, and I am looking forward to leftovers for lunch.
- September 22, 2009 at 3:28 AM
we made these for a casual dinner party for 4 and NONE were left. i think the husband of the couple who came for dinner now wants to marry me because of these ribs. Just joking but they were the best things we've eaten in a LONG time! thank you!
- January 12, 2010 at 5:56 AM
- threekidchaos said...
I made these tonight & they were a huge hit! Due to our political leanings, I'd call this recipe a bi-partisan success!
- July 14, 2011 at 5:09 PM
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She glared at me. "Hellenizers"—secular Jews—"will never understand," she said with contempt.
Anat Cohen is known, even among Hebron's Jews, who are some of the least placatory of all the settlers, for her ferocity. According to Army commanders, she has cursed and insulted soldiers, and assaulted Arabs. The first time we met, she told me that she was a soldier of God.
Cohen has about ten children—like certain religious Jews, she refused to specify the number, in order to confuse the evil eye. The Cohen house is cramped and dark, and there are few toys. On one wall hangs a framed photograph of Meir Kahane, the zealot rabbi from Brooklyn, who advocated the expulsion of all Arabs from Israel. Behind a stone pillar hangs a photograph of Baruch Goldstein, with the inscription "The Saint Dr. Goldstein." A candle burned in a makeshift shrine, in memory of Cohen's brother, Gilad Zar. He was the security chief of the settlements in Samaria, the territory of the northern West Bank. He was killed three years ago by terrorists.
Cohen's one-year-old son, who is named after her late brother, burst into the room, spilling Cheerios. Cohen swept him off the floor, and said, "You don't live just to keep living. That's not the point of life."
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Cohen brought up the story, from the Second Book of the Maccabees, of a God-loving mother of seven boys, partisans in the Jewish revolt against Hellenistic rule twenty-two hundred years ago. The boys were called before King Antiochus, who ordered them to eat swine, as a loyalty test. The sons refused.
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Just before the last son was martyred, the mother gave him a message to deliver in Heaven: "Go and say to your father Abraham, 'Thou didst bind one son to the altar, but I have bound seven altars.' "
After the seventh son was killed, the mother threw herself off a roof. The Talmud says that, on her death, a voice was heard from Heaven, singing, "A happy mother of children."
One afternoon, I went to the Tomb of the Patriarchs. The detachment of Border Police that day was commanded by an Ethiopian immigrant who was wearing a knit kipa. He seemed tense; Rabbi Levinger, he said, was inside. Moshe Levinger, who is in his sixties, is Hebron's first Jewish settler, a fierce man, and a source of vexation for the Army and the police.
A flight of broad stone steps leads to the main hall of the tomb. The Muslim rulers of Hebron once banned Jews from climbing higher than the seventh step. Levinger was the first modern-day Jewish settler in Hebron, but there were Jews in Hebron before Islam was founded. In 1929, a pogrom erased the Jewish presence, when sixty-seven Jews were murdered by their Arab neighbors. The British, then in charge of Palestine, removed the Jewish survivors from Hebron, for their own safety. I entered the main prayer hall. Benches that had been placed in rows in front of an Ark were mostly empty. Elderly men prayed alone. Underneath the stone floor, in the double-chambered Cave of the Machpelah, the bones of the Jewish patriarchs and matriarchs are said to rest. According to Genesis, Abraham bought the cave as a burial place for his wife, Sarah. It was his first, fateful purchase of land in Canaan.
Rabbi Levinger approached. For many years, he has been the face of the settlement movement, which is no favor; his head is small, but his eyes are bulbous and his teeth outsized. His voice is deep, and his beard seems constructed of iron shavings. I said hello. He grunted a reply.
I told him that the police seemed uneasy about his presence in the tomb, and I asked whether they were worried that he would lash out at the Palestinians.
"The Arabs know to behave like good boys around us," he said.
Levinger first came to Hebron in 1968, after Israel seized the West Bank in the Six-Day War. He rented rooms in an Arab hotel, in order to hold a Passover Seder. Then he refused to leave. He struck a deal with the Israeli government, and moved his family and his followers to a hill just northeast of Hebron, where, with the state's coöperation, they built the settlement called Kiryat Arba. There are now seven thousand settlers there. In 1979, his wife, Miriam, led a group of settler women in an unruly takeover of the Hadassah House building. The squatters stayed, and a community grew up around them.
In 1988, Levinger killed a Palestinian shoe-store owner in Hebron. Levinger told the police that he was defending himself from a group of stone throwers. He served thirteen weeks in an Israeli jail for the killing. He told me once, "I'm not happy when any living creature dies—an Arab, a fly, a donkey."
In the Israel he envisaged, Levinger said, Arabs would be allowed to stay only so long as they "behave themselves. Foreign residents"—Levinger's designation for Arabs—"will be allowed to stay in Israel if they follow our laws and don't demand privileges." He added that they might vote "for mayors and such" but not for Prime Minister. He did not believe that the Arabs would acquiesce to such an arrangement, and that is why he advocated "transfer"—a euphemism for mass expulsion. "Whoever hurts Jews will be expelled," he said.
I had first met Levinger last year, at his small apartment in Hebron, and I had asked him to help me understand the scriptural basis for his claim to the city, and to all of the Biblical land of Israel. He reached into a bookshelf and brought down the Torah, the five books of Moses, and opened it to Genesis.
"I will read you a verse," he said. " 'Now the Lord said to Abraham, get out of the country, and from the kindred, and from the father's house, to the land that I will show you, I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing, and I will bless them that bless you, and curse them that curse you.' "
Levinger looked up. "Shall I read more?
"All my ideas are formed from the Torah," he went on. "It's not complex. This land is ours. God gave it to us. We're the owners of the land."
In June, 1967, Israel launched successful preëmptive strikes against Egypt and Syria, which had been jointly planning an invasion. When Jordan, which then occupied the West Bank, entered the war on the side of the Syrians and the Egyptians, Israel defeated it as well, seizing the Old City of Jerusalem and the West Bank. Israel's victory also left it in control of the Golan Heights, Gaza, and the Sinai Peninsula (which was returned to Egypt in 1982). Thirty-seven years later, there are roughly two hundred and thirty-five thousand settlers in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. There are an additional hundred and eighty thousand Israelis living on land in eastern Jerusalem, captured in the 1967 war. Israel's Jewish population is about five million; more than a million Israeli citizens are Arab. The West Bank and the Gaza Strip are home to more than three and a half million additional Arabs, who do not hold Israeli citizenship.
Perhaps three-quarters of the Jews in the West Bank and Gaza could be considered economic settlers. Many of them moved to the West Bank for benefits unattainable inside the pre-1967 borders of Israel: space, tax breaks, and mountain air. They are reliable supporters of right-wing parties, but many of them are secular in their outlook.
The remainder of the settlers, fifty thousand or so, came to the territories for reasons of faith. Although many of the settlements are near the Green Line, the 1949 armistice line that separated Israel from the West Bank, the national-religious settlements tend to be isolated from Israel and from each other. Many of them are along Route 60, the main north-south highway that runs near the mountain spine of the West Bank. This is the heart of the land known in the Bible as Judaea and Samaria—the part of ancient Israel most thickly crowded with sites that figure in Jewish history. It is also the part of the West Bank most densely populated by Arabs.
The national-religious camp can be divided into two main groups. The Jews of the central West Bank, in settlements such as Beit El and Ofra, are Biblical literalists, but they tend to respect the authority of the elected government in Jerusalem. If the Israeli Army evacuated such settlements—and this is not happening soon—the people might resist, but it is believed that they will not shoot.
The more unremitting settlers are the Jews living in Hebron, in Kiryat Arba, and in a chain of settlements in the mountains near Nablus, the main Arab city in the northern West Bank. The zealots include those who build "illegal" frontier outposts, which are not approved by the Israeli Cabinet, although they are protected by the Army. Most international legal authorities believe that all settlements, including those built with the permission of the Israeli government, are illegal.
The seventy-five hundred Jews of Gaza represent the absurdist wing of the settlement movement. In the Israeli mind, Gaza—a strip of land shaped like a sardine can, and running from south of Tel Aviv to the Egyptian border—is synonymous with sand dunes and refugee camps, wilting heat and the fierce anti-Semitism of the Islamic terror group Hamas, whose most fervent followers are based there. Gaza is marginal to Jewish history; its biggest moment came when Samson pulled the temple of the Philistines there down on his head. The most isolated settlers are those in Gaza. They are killed regularly by terror groups (over all, a hundred and fifty settlers have been killed); their school buses are armored, a precaution that hasn't prevented their occasional demolition; and they require the presence of thousands of Israeli soldiers, who are also being killed in consequential numbers.
The most hard-core settlers are impatient messianists, who profess indifference, even scorn, for the state; a faith in vigilantism; and loathing for the Arabs. They are free of doubt, seeing themselves as taking orders from God, and are an unusually cohesive segment of Israeli society. Hard-core settlers and their supporters make up perhaps two per cent of the Israeli populace, but they nevertheless have driven Israeli policy in the occupied territories for much of the past thirty years.
The settlement movement has long been aided by Israel's parliamentary system, which gives single-issue parties an inordinate say in government decisions. The movement has also been effective at placing supporters in key government ministries. And it has been helped by the doubt that many secular Israelis feel about the Palestinians' willingness to recognize the legitimacy of a Jewish state—and by anger at Palestinian violence.
Many Israelis believe that evacuation of many settlements—even all of the settlements—would not satisfy the Palestinians. The Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, even while negotiating with Israel in the framework of the Oslo accords of the nineteen-nineties, never prepared his people for compromise. Palestinian schools continued to teach about the evils not only of occupation but of the very idea of Israel. Arafat refused to recognize any historical Jewish connection to Palestine, and, in the climactic negotiations at Camp David in 2000, he rejected Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's offer of the entire Gaza Strip, nearly all of the West Bank, and a capital in east Jerusalem, and abandoned the talks. Many of Barak's critics accused the Prime Minister of mishandling the negotiations and of making miserly concessions that were impossible for Arafat to accept. But the dispositive fact of Camp David is this: Barak made an offer, and Arafat walked out without making a counter-offer. Three months later, after Ariel Sharon, then the leader of the opposition Likud Party, visited the Temple Mount, surrounded by Israeli police, the Palestinians ignited the second intifada, which continues today. Sharon capitalized on the violence in 2001, defeating the compromise-minded Barak in the election for Prime Minister.
Polls have consistently shown that the majority of Israelis want the settlers to withdraw from Gaza in particular. Sharon had told me while he was campaigning, "The settlements represent the best of Israel. To abandon them would go against Jewish history and morality." And yet, three years later, Sharon has turned against some of the settlers, and is now proposing to evacuate settlements in Gaza and the northern West Bank.
Sharon seems to have recognized—belatedly—Israel's stark demographic future: the number of Jews and Arabs between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea will be roughly equal by the end of the decade. By 2020, the Israeli demographer Sergio Della Pergola has predicted, Jews will make up less than forty-seven per cent of the population. If a self-sustaining Palestinian state—one that is territorially contiguous within the West Bank—does not emerge, the Jews of Israel will be faced with two choices: a binational state with an Arab majority, which would be the end of the idea of Zionism, or an apartheid state, in which the Arab majority would be ruled by a Jewish minority.
A de-facto apartheid already exists in the West Bank. Inside the borders of Israel proper, Arabs and Jews are judged by the same set of laws in the same courtrooms; across the Green Line, Jews live under Israeli civil law as well, but their Arab neighbors—people who live, in some cases, just yards away—fall under a different, and substantially undemocratic, set of laws, administered by the Israeli Army. The system is neither as elaborate nor as pervasive as South African apartheid, and it is, officially, temporary. It is nevertheless a form of apartheid, because two different ethnic groups living in the same territory are judged by two separate sets of laws.
Sharon is considered to be one of the most effective fighters in Israel's history (he is certainly thought to be one of the most brutal). He came to power promising to use force in order to end Palestinian violence. But he has not succeeded. What he is proposing now is a two-pronged survival strategy: the building of a security fence separating the Arabs of the West Bank from Israel; and a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, which will remove more than a million Palestinians from Israel's direct control. "The Palestinians have created this bloody mess," the Vice-Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, told me recently. But, he added, "We realized long ago we would have to share this land."
This is not to say that Sharon and his party, the Likud, have done much to encourage negotiations. Sharon's proposals are not anchored in any larger peace plan. At best, the proposals are half measures. The fence will not follow the Green Line; in places it will penetrate deep into the West Bank, encompassing highly populated settlement blocs. Most settlements beyond the fence will remain in place as well, as will battalions of soldiers to protect them. In Gaza, Israel will still control the borders, the coastal waters, and the airspace, making it, in essence, a recalcitrant protectorate.
Modest though these measures seem to many Israelis (they are seen as comically parsimonious by most Palestinians), to the settlement movement they are a betrayal. The borders of Israel, in the view of Jewish religious nationalists, are drawn by God, and one does not negotiate with God. So the settlers have, golem-like, risen against one of their creators, and pledged to stop any attempt—including Sharon's provisional attempt—to disentangle Jews and Arabs. The settlers reject the idea of a demographic crisis. They still see themselves as Sharon once saw them—as the avant-garde of Zionism, heirs to the pioneers of the early twentieth century who restored the Jews to Palestine. But, should they somehow prevent the emergence of a viable Palestinian state, they may well be the vanguard of Israel's demise as a Jewish democracy.
They are, for the moment, prevailing. Earlier this month, the settlers humiliated Sharon, organizing the defeat, in a Likud Party referendum, of a plan to evacuate seventeen settlements in the Gaza Strip. Sharon has promised to pursue some version of his evacuation plan, but this pursuit might cause his coalition government to break apart.
The harshest critic of the settlers in the government is Tommy Lapid, the justice minister. He heads the Shinui Party, which argues for the separation of synagogue and state and is a member of Sharon's ruling coalition. He told me recently that the settlers have three reasons for hope: "They believe there will come a point in the critical clash between us and the Palestinians when it would come time to transfer the Palestinians to Jordan; the second thing they hope for is the great American aliyah—a million more Jews coming to Israel. The third, and by far the most stupid, thing is that they believe God will help them."
Indeed, some of the leading ideologues of the settlements, far from supporting the idea of a Jewish democracy, hope to establish a Jewish theocracy in Israel, ruled by a Sanhedrin and governed by Jewish law. Moshe Feiglin, a Likud activist who lives in a West Bank settlement and heads the Jewish Leadership bloc within the Party—he controls nearly a hundred and fifty of the Likud central committee's three thousand members—believes that the Bible, interpreted literally, should form the basis of Israel's legal system. "Why should non-Jews have a say in the policy of a Jewish state?" Feiglin said to me. "For two thousand years, Jews dreamed of a Jewish state, not a democratic state. Democracy should serve the values of the state, not destroy them." In any case, Feiglin said, "You can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic. You're dealing with a culture of thieves and robbers. Muhammad, their prophet, was a robber and a killer and a liar. The Arab destroys everything he touches."
The community of Yitzhar, in the mountains near Nablus, is one of the flagship settlements of the zealots. I went there one day in search of Yehuda Liebman, an official of the Joseph Still Lives Yeshiva. Until the second intifada, the yeshiva had been situated next to the tomb that many Jews believe holds the remains of Joseph, the son of Jacob, in Nablus. During the Oslo peace process, which ended the first intifada, Yasir Arafat promised Israel that the Palestinian Authority would protect Jewish holy sites that came under its control, but the Joseph's Tomb compound was torched and vandalized by Palestinian militias a number of times, and the yeshiva moved to Yitzhar.
I was told that I could find Liebman at an outpost down a gravel road from the main settlement. The outpost, called Yitzhar Lookout, consisted of two mobile homes and a temporary synagogue. The buildings sat on a gently sloping hill. Halfway down were olive trees that belong to the neighboring Arab villages of Ein-Abus and Burin. Settlers from Yitzhar have repeatedly attacked these olive trees. When I visited, the branches of trees just below the outpost looked as though they had recently been sawed off. A Palestinian farmer named Ibrahim Muhammad Zaban had told me that he no longer brought his children to help during the olive harvest. "The settlers come and they curse at us and attack us. They beat up a man with a metal pipe." The settlers, he said, stole the olives, then burned the trees. "These trees were for my sons," he said. His children had lost their inheritance, and he had lost his livelihood. "I have to work in another man's fields now," he said.
As I looked for Liebman, I came across David Dudkevitch, a rabbi in Yitzhar. Dudkevitch, a sour-faced man in his thirties who was dressed in a black suit and a white shirt, is a person of influence among yet another type of radical settler, the "hilltop youth"—teen-agers and young men who have built makeshift settlements, sometimes out of nothing more than rusting shipping containers, on remote mountaintops. They are seen as troublemakers by the Israeli Army and the Palestinians, but some settlers consider them heroic. Many of the hilltop youth are unruly high-school dropouts who are fluent in the mystical concepts of the Kabbalah and are adept in marksmanship. They also have a reputation for marijuana use.
I asked Dudkevitch whether the youth of Yitzhar were cutting down the Arabs' olive trees.
"I'm not hearing you," he replied. I asked again. "I'm not hearing what you're saying. You don't understand me. I'm not hearing and I will continue not to hear." Then he walked away.
Liebman was outside one of the ramshackle trailers, talking on a cell phone. He is a thin and jumpy man, quick to show irritation. One of his brothers was murdered in Yitzhar six years ago by Arabs. Another brother was accused by the Shabak, the Israeli internal security agency, of being a member of a Jewish terrorist network.
I asked who was destroying the olive trees. The destruction of fruit-giving trees, even those belonging to an enemy, is considered a grave sin in Judaism. But the only subject that concerned Liebman was Joseph's Tomb.
"What is an olive tree compared to the burial place of Joseph, the son of Jacob?" he said.
To the farmer who supports his family with the tree, I said, the tree is important.
"But the farmer is an Arab," Liebman replied. "He shouldn't be here at all. All this land is Jewish land. It is meant for the Jews by God Himself."
And if the Army comes to carry off the Jews of Yitzhar?
"Let them try," he said.
In May, more than eight hundred Israeli soldiers and policemen attempted to dismantle the outpost. They were confronted by seven hundred settlers, who fought them for several hours. Forty-one settlers were arrested, before the outpost was torn down. After the police left, the settlers returned, and erected two new buildings.
One day a few months ago, Moshe Saperstein, who lives in Neveh Dekalim, the biggest Jewish settlement in Gaza, picked me up at the junction that marks the border between Gaza and Israel. The junction, called Kissufim, is an armored camp. Three dozen tanks and bulldozers were lined up in order to pass through the gates. The only civilians here are the settlers of the Gush Katif bloc, a string of settlements—Neveh Dekalim among them—along the beaches of southern Gaza, between the Palestinian city of Khan Younis and the Mediterranean.
Saperstein was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and came to Israel thirty-six years ago with his wife, Rachel, who is originally from Brooklyn. As a soldier in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, he lost part of an arm and part of his vision in an Egyptian rocket attack. He is a heavyset man who smokes bad cigars and has perhaps the most profane mouth in Orthodox Judaism.
The road from the border to the settlement is under Israeli control—concrete pillboxes are planted intermittently along the way—but Palestinians regularly fire on the settlers' cars. Two years ago, Saperstein was ambushed near Kissufim; Palestinian gunfire tore off two fingers of his remaining hand. He had the presence of mind to push down on the accelerator, and struck a Palestinian gunman.
As we drove, Saperstein pointed to the spot on the road where the attack had taken place. "Here's where I tried to run over the peace-loving Muslim," he said. Sometimes, he told me, he gets the feeling that "Ahmed is trying to kill me." Saperstein refers to Arabs generically as "Ahmed."
Just before we reached the fortified entrance to the Gush Katif bloc, we passed the ramshackle Bedouin village of Muwassi. "They like to live like pigs in shit," Saperstein said. I disagreed, vehemently, and he said, "I'm sorry, that's politically incorrect. 'They have a different cultural aesthetic.' Is that what I'm supposed to say?"
The Sapersteins came to Neveh Dekalim to retire; their children are grown, and live elsewhere in Israel. The couple's ranch house, which overlooks the sea, would not look out of place in the Jewish neighborhoods of South Florida. The settlement is a community of dozens of whitewashed houses and sand-dune playgrounds, and it is the frequent target of Palestinian attacks. A fifty-foot wall of concrete slabs sits about five hundred yards from the Sapersteins' house, separating the Jews from the Arabs.
Over lunch, I asked Saperstein and Rachel, who teaches English in the settlement's girls' school, why they had chosen a remote and dangerous settlement in Gaza rather than one of the urban settlements near Jerusalem. "We like the weather," he said. "We never lived near the sea. And I'm here because of a religious commandment, believe it or not, as irrational as that may seem to you." The Sapersteins see a unilateral pullout from Gaza as theological heresy and political suicide. They moved here from Jerusalem in 1997, as a protest against the Oslo peace process. "Oslo meant the abandonment of land that was meant for the Jews," Saperstein said. "In this respect, I'm a fundamentalist. . . . Call me an extremist. I don't care."
I raised the question of whether Jewish parents who place their children within range of Palestinian rockets had their priorities in order. Exasperated, Rachel said, "If I believe in holy law, that the settlement of the land of Israel is a commandment of God, and I want my children to be raised as Jews, I have to take them where they're going to fulfill this mitzvah. I have to take my child and physically he has to settle the land with me. I can't say I won't do things because I don't want him to suffer."
Saperstein said, "If I believed that if all the settlers disappeared tomorrow then peace and happiness would reign forever, that we could live in peace as Jews in what's left of our homeland, then I would seriously consider picking up and going somewhere else."
Rachel looked at her husband.
"I wouldn't," she said.
Saperstein is skeptical about this scenario, however. He considers the idea that peace will come to Israel only when it cedes territory to the Arabs to be a Diaspora psychosis. "We've lived for so many years in exile, we've forgotten what it is to be a powerful and ruling people," he said. "We have always depended on the kindness of strangers, wherever we were. The tsar, or some Polish landowner. We had to kiss ass because we couldn't defend ourselves. Now that we have the strength to defend ourselves, we don't know how.
"Most of this country has an exile mentality," Saperstein went on. "Most of the population here takes the attitude that the Jews are at fault. But what have we done to provoke those poor Palestinians?"
"Do we have to kill ourselves? Is that Jewish?" Rachel said. "You have to teach them: 'No more. You want to do evil, you're going to take the consequences.' This is what America did to Germany. You finish them. Bomb the hell out of them. Just bomb the hell out of them."
I asked Rachel about her youth, in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn.
"The blacks hit me, of course," she said.
"She doesn't know the difference between being hit and being hit on," Moshe said.
"They also did that," Rachel said.
"We were raised in a very Jewish area," she said. "Then the blacks came in and the Jews ran. The first blacks came in and the Jews flew out of there so fast. Everybody went to Crown Heights. I don't want to run away. I always see Jews running and running."
American-born settlers often recollect encounters with anti-Semitic roughnecks, and many of them see an explicit link between the Palestinians and the shvartses, a word I heard several times in interviews: the Jews were chased from Brooklyn, and they won't be chased again.
Saperstein, too, has a story of street anti-Semitism. "I was about ten or eleven. I looked out of our window. Some yeshiva guy was walking and these two drunk Italians started pushing him, yelling at him, slapping him. He just covered himself up. One of my parents yelled out the window, 'Police! Police!' They went away. Then my mother said, 'I wonder what he did to provoke that.'
"It was at that point I knew I had to come to the Jewish country and be proud. 'Goyim used their hands. Jews used their brains'—well, that's nothing more than a justification for weakness."
I suggested that he try to imagine himself in the place of a Palestinian. "You're a Palestinian, you're here, you have your farm, your grandparents are from here, and—"
But Moshe interrupted me. "Stop being Jewish!" he yelled. "Stop being Jewish! Only a Jew would say, 'Imagine yourself as a Palestinian.' Could you imagine a Palestinian imagining himself as a Jew?"
Neveh Dekalim is one of the settlements that Ariel Sharon has promised to shut down. What seemed to offend Saperstein most was that Arabs might one day live in his house. "I had this Ahmed in here once, doing repairs, and he said, 'Do you know why I'm doing such good work? Because one day I'm going to live here.' And I told him, 'If I'm kicked out of here, I'm going to blow this place up before I let someone like you have it.' "


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Joe Brennan wont let anything stand in the way of his pursuit of the Watertown Red and Blacks career rushing record.
Not even his honeymoon.
Brennan, who married his longtime girlfriend Kristi last Friday on Lake Champlain near Plattsburgh, will be in the backfield Saturday when the nations oldest semipro football team begins its 117th season with a 7 p.m. game against the Syracuse Shock at Liverpool High School.
The newlyweds said they will wait until after the Empire Football League season concludes in October to get away and celebrate the marriage.
Its football season, Brennan said.
Ive missed weddings. Ive missed anniversaries. Ive missed birthdays. Ive missed so many things, he added.
Brennans sacrifices over the last six seasons four as the starting running back have positioned him just more than 1,000 yards away from breaking Al Countrymans Red and Black record for career rushing yards.
With about 3,960 career rushing yards entering Saturday, Brennan is about 200 yards shy of passing Mike Britton for second place on the all-time list.
I want to go down in history as one of the best Red and Black players, one of the best running backs in their history, said Brennan, a 2006 graduate of Sandy Creek who grew up in the area.
And for me growing up, watching Al Countryman play, he was like a God out there. So for me to come in and possibly break his record someday, it was a goal of mine because hes someone I looked up to.
Brennan said that winning the teams first EFL title since 2009 takes precedent over any individual achievements he may have in mind. But at the same time, the record is something he would cherish.
It would put me in the record books and being the oldest semiprofessional football team in America, thats a big deal to me, Brennan said. Because theres a lot of history, there are a lot of great players that have come through this organization, and for me to one day finish my career being on top would mean the world to me.
Red and Black coach George Ashcraft noted that Brennan has missed just two practices since he graduated from college in 2010.
He was absent from this Mondays practice because he was still in Plattsburgh with his in-laws after the wedding, and he missed one last summer to be with his wife when she had surgery.
Hes ready to roar, Ashcraft said. Every time he carries the ball hes getting closer to setting that rushing record, and I want him to do it. I want him to be able to be the guy to do it because hes legit, he doesnt talk crap, he stays away from all that BS and he never misses practice. Thats a true ball player.
Brennan stayed focused during an offseason filled with controversy that saw several coaches and players leave the team, some of which have come back, and the organizations financial practices questioned publicly by former starting quarterback/accountant Brian Williams.
I never considered leaving the Watertown Red and Black organization, Brennan said. From the beginning I said Im a football player and all I want to do is play football. And for me, the best opportunity to do that was with the Watertown Red and Black.
Throughout the whole thing, Ive had lots of friends who left and have lots of guys that are new friends that have come in. So it was kind of a distraction for most, but to me, I just left it to football and it made me train harder to make sure that I was prepared for this team so we can have as much success as weve had in our past, he added.
And that success, Brennan believes, will come despite the loss of several veterans at key positions.
I think were going to surprise some people, Brennan said.
I know that a lot of people have probably written us off and thought, well with all the problems that there have been and so on and so forth, he added. I strongly feel that this team has a lot of potential to surprise some people.
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Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
Rayhawk wrote:Moronstudios wrote:Matt wrote:I'll bet Rayhawk can fix that.......
And I will bet he doesn't want to do anything about it.
I could put effort into doing something about it, but that would almost be like saying having more posts is actually worth something. Instead I'd rather spend my energy on things that truly matter, like giving people funny rank titles.
Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
IVhorseman wrote:Gonna necromance the shit out of this thread due to the appropriate title. TL;DR: I rolled a 1 while climbing a wall and broke both my legs and now I'm in a wheelchair!
I totally almost died this summer! This is the story! I was hanging out at my friend's house that he just moved into that week. We're walking around the house and we went to the back yard, and start talking about the wall separating the front and back yards. It's a cinder block wall, about 6-7 feet tall, and I decided to climb up and jump over it. because why not.
So I'm running at this wall, and I jump up against the house wall, kick off, and land on top of the cinder blocks. Hey, I did it! I started pushing myself up and over, and then I hear a horrifying crack, followed by several cries of "ohhhh shiiiit!" I look to my side and see that the wall was falling backwards on top of me, and I got the solemn realization that I was about to break a lot of bones, very fast. All I had time to do was jump as far away from the wall as I could muster, and doing so assuredly saved my life.
I land first and the wall comes crashing down on top of my legs, instantly crushing my right femur and snapping it in half. That's the big-ass thigh bone and is the hardest bone in your body to break. My left tibia (shin-bone) was also cracked radially. I also ALSO tore my femoral artery, which means that I had about 20 minutes before I bled to death. Thankfully, all my bleeding was internal and I didn't find out about it until the next day, when I woke up in a hospital with a huge metal technic-looking assembly jutting out of my leg and attached to my bones.
However I totally remained conscious after the fall. I picked up my right leg and saw it fall over like a wet noodle, and fortunately enough for me the ambulance showed up in about a minute. They took a bunch of X-rays and shoved me in an MRI machine, then put me under and started operating. I ended up in the hospital for a month and two days, and am still in a wheelchair 4 months later (this happened June 28th).
Fortunately, I will most likely end up making a full recovery. All in all I only broke two bones (they just happened to be the two biggest ones in both of my legs), and didn't mess up my hip or my knee so I'll definitely be walking again in like a month or two. I'm already using crutches around the house. And of course, I have to thank the fact that I jumped away from the wall, or else I would have broken several more bones at the very least, and punctured/flattened several major organs at the worst.
So, ask me about my horrifying injury!
Tzan wrote:I'll bet the wall had no reinforcing bars in it.
So... do your friends parents want you to pay for breaking their wall.
Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
IVhorseman wrote:As a matter of fact, it did not! Moreover, there wasn't any mortar within the wall. Instead? rolled up newspapers from the sixties.
IVhorseman wrote:... I attempted to read all the posts so I would be back in the loop on wtf was going on before I posted anything, which was clearly not worth the effort.
Tzan wrote:I'll be sure to let my engineer know that 60's newspapers are not a good replacement for steel bars in filled cores.
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2010. China. Directed by Li Ning. Avant-garde dancer Li Ning documents five years of his struggle to balance his career as a choreographer with a dance troupe of committed college students, and his responsibilities as a son, husband, and father. The artist's life becomes intertwined with the film and with his own obsessions. Tape utilizes a variety of approaches, including first-person documentary, guerilla street video, and even homemade CGI, to produce an uncanny portrait of a private life enacted in public. Courtesy of dGenerate/Icarus. In Mandarin; English subtitles. 120 min.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — IntercontinentalExchange Inc.'s $8.2 billion blockbuster deal to buy NYSE Euronext is likely to be approved by U.S. and European regulators because the two companies businesses don't have much direct overlap in the markets they run, according to observers.
The two exchanges said Thursday they would seek to combine, with ICE offering valuing NYSE shares at $33.12 a share, a 38% premium over Wednesday's closing price. The two firms said they expect the transaction to close in the second half of 2013. Read about the deal
Is the NYSE-ICE deal bad news for small investors?
NYSE Euronext and IntercontinentalExchange's stocks were up on news of a deal to merge. But what does the deal mean for small investors? Marketbeat's Steven Russolillo reports on Markets Hub. Photo: Reuters.
"I don't expect there to be much objection," said Larry Tabb founder of the capital markets research firm Tabb Group in New York. "This has a lot fewer regulatory hurdles than two other recent efforts to buy NYSE Euronext."
The proposed combination comes after ICE and Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. NDAQ, -0.46% had proposed in April 2011 to buy NYSE Euronext US:NYX for roughly $11 billion. However, that deal fell apart after the Justice Department had warned it would reject the deal on antitrust grounds over the combination of two major U.S. stock exchanges and worry that one company would dominate U.S. stock listings.
A rival bid by German exchange operator Deutsche Borse DB1, -0.75% also was rejected by regulators.
According to reports, Jeff Sprecher, ICE's CEO, said the transaction was well received by regulators after he and NYSE CEO Duncan Niederauer finished a tour of the U.S. and Europe ahead of the deal announcement.
Regulatory observers note that while NYSE Euronext focuses on stocks and stock-options trading, ICE's central operations are in electronic commodity futures trading — two different business focuses.
According to a report by Financial News, the combined firms' futures market operations would have a collective market share of 10%, making it very unlikely that U.S. regulators would reject the deal.
Susan Grafton, partner at K&L Gates in Washington, agreed that there is little overlap between the two businesses making it more likely to obtain regulatory approval in the U.S.
Certainly, she said, it would have less regulatory hurdles to overcome than the previous efforts to acquire NYSE Euronext, particularly the effort to combine NYSE and Nasdaq.
"Some of the antitrust concerns that would have come up if this was a stock exchange to stock exchange merger are not going to be present here," Grafton said.
She noted that because ICE is regulated by the CFTC and the NYSE is overseen by the SEC, the deal will be reviewed by both agencies.
"They will both look at the transaction, but I don't think they will find anything insurmountable," she said.
In addition, she said, the Justice Department will look at it from a distance but also will not likely find any major problems.
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Peter Lenardos, analyst at RBC in London, said that despite several regulatory reviews in Europe, he expects it won't experience any regulatory opposition in Europe.


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Oregon's (not always) Civil War
EUGENE, Ore. - On the Monday after Oregon State won the Civil War game in 1937, students from Corvallis drove down to Eugene just to rub it in.
Oregon students were waiting on campus: with fire hoses.
The Beavers turned their attention downtown, riding through Eugene with burning corn stalks en route to a restaurant known as a student hangout.
The Beavers took over the joint.
The Ducks pushed back.
City and state police responded, and some of those rowdy Beavers spent the night in Eugene's jail.
Others wound up in the Mill Race, courtesy of the fighting Ducks.
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If you picked up a fashion magazine sometime in the last few months, surely you've heard the news. As dictated by the runways, the fashion story of the S/S 09 season is strong shoulders (and we're not talking about deltoids). That's right, dear readers, collarbones be damned, there's a new body part to fetishize! While the most directional runways were bumper to bumper with jackets and dresses featuring this exaggerated silhouette, we've been waiting for our favorite tastemakers to take to this trend. At long last, we found a few wholly fantastic examples wearing the commanding look and hope you find them as inspirational as we do.
But before we break down how the cutting-edge crowd wears a strong shoulder, first, we'd like to put the trend into context. Now, admittedly, this shape is not new to fashion and has been prominent before (hello, 1980's power suit!), but the most current iteration of the trend conveys a much more sophisticated and dramatic effect. Right now there are essentially two different types of the bold-shouldered look. At Marc Jacobs and Stella McCartney, jackets had a boxier, boyish cut, whereas Balmain, Balenciaga, and Givenchy offered up sharper, more compact shapes with a bit of flounce. Regardless of the proportion, the overall effect was one of strength and femininity.
Now that we've finished with the trend tutorial, it's time for the fun part: spotlighting the fashion-forward early adopters! It is instructive to see how they wear a new shape-all opted for black-as an indicator of how to best incorporate the trend into your own wardrobe. Vanessa Traina, a WWW favorite and stylesetter extraordinaire, looked impeccable in this season's most lust-worthy jacket: Balmain's Wrinkle Optic Leather Jacket ($6339). The skinny sleeves and perfectly pronounced shoulders looked super smart, especially when paired with black jeans and a drapey, neutral shirt. Mary-Kate Olsen was spotted wearing a similarly shaped version, proving that the bold-shoulder can work on a more petite frame. We also love a subtler, forties-inspired look à la Kate Lanphear, ELLE's Style Director. The exquisite editor wore a square-shouldered belted dress to the Brian Reyes A/W 09 and looked incredibly sophisticated and chic. Of course, we couldn't have a cutting-edge trend without Kate Moss. The fashion muse du monde went for a classic look with a twist, choosing a tuxedo jacket with sharp, peaked shoulders for the AnOther Magazine party during London Fashion Week.
Though there are a zillion different ways you can wear this look, we've gathered a few of our favorites for you. If you like menswear-inspired jackets, check out Lauren Moffatt's Double Breasted Blazer ($326). The boyfriend-blazer cut and padded shoulder are slightly eighties but still completely modern. Switching directions, we also found a more ladylike option with Aryn K's Buckle Crop Jacket ($82). The tweed, cropped jacket has a rounded shoulder (the shape is very similar to some of our favorite looks from Dolce & Gabbana's Spring 09 collection) and can easily be styled in a number of ways. Wear it with destroyed jeans for a downtown look or pair it with a pencil skirt and polished pumps for a prim-yet-sexy uptown outfit.
Another way to try the exaggerated shoulder is via a dress. We suggest checking your favorite vintage store for unique and affordable frocks: they're the best resource, for sure. Aside from that, there are a few bold options in stores now. Topshop's Plain Tea Dress ($160) is a perfectly understated dress with a Lanphear-style silhouette. Additionally, we also adore the crisp look of Acne's Dita Pre Dress ($425). The coat-like shape has padded shoulders (but of course) and can be worn as is, for a more androgynous look, or belted at the waist if you prefer a feminine shape.-Kate Mulling
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Natalya wrote:I can't tell whether I should be banning people, or their posts have been tampered with by Rayhawk.
You can see who's tampered with which posts, Colette of all people was the one to point it out to me. Let me see... oh yeah. If you've got mod access, it's under the "Quick-mod tools" menu down there at the bottom. Hit "View logs."
If you don't have mod access, then it will remain forever a mystery.