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As I was thinking about what to blog about today, I went to check the mail. Exciting post so far, eh? I received an Ebates rebate check in the mail. So, I thought I'd share a little secret with you.
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When I was in 7th grade, I received the best Christmas present from my parents EVER. It was a massive make-up gift set from Elizabeth Arden. The case was a red door (a la their perfume) and filled with multiple eyeshadow palettes, blushes, and lipsticks. I was in heaven. I remember taking it to school and breaking it out in computer class to show to me friends.
In retrospect, I realize that this best present ever was probably a "free with purchase" that my Dad got when he bought my Mom her Red Door perfume. But who cares–it was still awesome!! And I've been a sucker for make-up sets around the holidays ever since.
Here are a few that I've got my eye on.
1. Benefit's Sweet Tintations
This set includes 2 lipbalms and 2 cheek stains. I'd get it for the cheek stains. I've found cheek stains to be better for me in the winter when my skin in drier.
2. Philosophy's Pink Marshmallow Buttercream Trio
Some sort of Philosophy gift set always makes to a friend, family member, or to myself around the holidays. This year I have my eye on the Pink Marshmallow Buttercream. Such a fun name! I'd have to pop into a store to smell it in person before committing though.
3. Tarte's Chic to Cheek Deluxe Amazionian Clay Blush Set
I realize that I just commented about cheek stains being better than blushes in the winter, but I'm really into this gift set. Tarte's blushes last all day and have great pigment. I wear their Frisky shade regularly. All the shades in this set would be new to me: amour (candy pink), classic (soft apricot pink), prim (plum nude), and daydream (rosy pink).
4. Too Faced's Under the Mistletoe
I've recently started gravitating toward lipsticks/creams and away from glosses. These neutral shades look like they'd work with my pale skin. I did read online that the pink bag flakes glitter everywhere so don't factor that into your purchase if you're thinking of getting this item.
Lip cream colors are: Naked Dolly, Marshmallow Bunny, and Spice Spice Baby
5. bareMinerals' Vison of Light
A great value for everything you get in this kit! Any bareMinerals lover would enjoy this gift.
You get:
Stroke of Light Highlighter (luminous peach)
Illuminating Mineral Veil Finishing Powder
Celestial Eyecolor (spun sugar)
After Dusk Eyecolor (shimmering clove)
Lasting Line Long-Wearing Eye Liner in Eternal Bronze
Daybreak Blush (terracotta pink)
Marvelous Moxie Lip Gloss in Stargazer (gilded mauve) (0.15 fl. oz.)
Full Tapered Shadow & Blush Brush
Lash Domination Volumizing Mascara in Intense Black
Now I just need some holiday parties to attend to have a reason to glam up!
Not surprisingly, it was 2013's NaBloPoMo that I last blogged a Listening, Reading, Watching post.
Are we sure November isn't over already? I kid, sort of. I do have a list of blog topics. They just aren't terribly food related. Maybe I should change my blog name from Sugarfoot Eats to Sugarfoot Writes Aimlessly about Pop Culture. Doesn't have right the same ring to it though.
1. Listening to recently…
True albeit embarrassing story, I stumbled upon Andrew Belle when one of his songs was played during an episode of Pretty Little Liars. Is it weird for a 35 year old to watch PLL? If so, I stopped watching last year when I was 34…so there.
I have Belle's Blackbear & The Ladder albums and really like them both. If you like Matt Nathanson, Mat Kearney, Matt Wertz (you know the Matt's)…then odds are you'll like Belle.
2. Reading currently…
Oh wait, this book is food related….score. I haven't decided on Medium Raw yet. I have a love/hate relationship with Anthony Bourdain. While I do love his sharp tongue, quick wit, and knowledge…he's also kind of an asshole.
3. Watching on Netflix…
Season 4 of Portlandia was recently released on Netflix. Hooray!!
What are you listening to, reading, and/or watching??
Who's listening to Serial? Over 850,000 people, that's who! If you haven't heard of Serial, get out from under the rock that you're living…download the podcasts…listen…join the obsession. Because I need people to talk to about it!
I knew that I was going to listen to Serial as soon as Ira told me to. As a lover of podcasts, I can be a fairweather fan. Some podcasts I leave piling up on my phone until I get around to listening. And some I'm listening to the morning that they are recently. This is how I know I love a podcast. It will motivate me to get up early and excited versus fighting the snooze button if a beloved podcast has a new episode that morning. Serial is such a podcast.
So what is it about?
Serial is a podcast where they unfold pieces of a true story every week. I read it described on Twitter as This American Life meets True Detective.
From the Serial website: "On January 13, 1999, a girl named Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland, disappeared. A month later, her body turned up in a city park. She'd been strangled. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. The case against him was largely based on the story of one witness, Adnan's friend Jay, who testified that he helped Adnan bury Hae's body. But Adnan has always maintained he had nothing to do with Hae's death. Some people believe he's telling the truth. Many others don't.
Sarah Koenig, who hosts Serial, first learned about this case more than a year ago. In the months since, she's been sorting through box after box (after box) of legal documents and investigators' notes, listening to trial testimony and police interrogations, and talking to everyone she can find who remembers what happened between Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee fifteen years ago. What she realized is that the trial covered up a far more complicated story, which neither the jury nor the public got to hear. The high school scene, the shifting statements to police, the prejudices, the sketchy alibis, the scant forensic evidence – all of it leads back to the most basic questions: How can you know a person's character? How can you tell what they're capable of? In Season One of Serial, she looks for answers."
I am hooked. I was almost hesitant to blog about this podcast as I was sure that my desire to Google the case to find the outcome would get the best of me, which it did. But there's the interesting fresh twist on this podcast/story/investigation. They only produce each episode a week ahead of time. So
we they are still investigating the case themselves. We are in it together. And I have to say–I don't know if Adnan killed Hae. After one episode, I was pretty sure–yes, he did it. And after the next, I was thinking no way, he didn't do it.
It does seem very plausible that this story will end with no real answer. Simply presenting as much information/facts as they can and we'll just have to form opinions versus everything wrapped up in a nice bow. I'm along for the ride regardless.
Are you listening?? Did he kill her?? Does anyone else think Sarah has a slight weird prison crush on Adnan??
A couple of months ago…particularly August…it was rough for me. I was in a funk. I was feeling emotionally and mentally drained. I was feeling dismissed by some friends with no clue as to why. I was weepy and sad.
I needed a way to pull myself out. Enter the gratitude journal. It's not a new concept, but was new to me. You can make it your own. Since early September, I've been journaling (almost daily). I'm keeping it every simple as I didn't want this gratitude journal to feel like a chore.
I simply title each day with:
Today, I'm happy/grateful for
–then I list 3 things. It can vary between being happy that I made it to the gym, happy that I saw a beautiful sunset, happy for my dog…easy breezy.
Some days are deeper and I'm happy that I felt self-acceptance that day or happy that I didn't binge eat again.
I've felt like a sense of calm since starting the journal. Taking 5 minutes a day to reflect has helped me find peace and not get so caught up in negativity.
As we are in November…the season of Thanksgiving, consider giving a gratitude journal a try.
***Note: I am in no way saying that a gratitude journal will bring one out of a serious depression that may require the assistance of a medical professional.
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Today is the day! If you early voted, A+ for you. If not, get to your polling station and make a difference.
Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan
After having been out of town the last couple of times that Jim Gaffigan has been in Austin performing, I was finally able to see him live in October. And with your ticket of a premium seat, you received a copy of his book. Sold!
Gaffigan is one of my favorite comedians. He's wholesome and very relatable. Not that I relate to his having FIVE kids, but I relate to his food humor. I have read Gaffigan's first book, Dad is Fat, which I enjoyed, but Food: A Love Story is SO HILARIOUS!
Each "chapter" is only a few pages long, so I soared those this book. If you are a food lover with a humble background (ie not a food snob) and you have a sense of humor, you'll really enjoy this book.
I've already discovered & discussed with friends that I learned from this book at I'm not a "foodie"…I'm an "eater". Read the book to find out more!!
For now, I'll just leave you with some of Gaffigan's gems that kept me laughing:
–Of course cops love doughnuts, because they know the difference between right and wrong. And not liking donuts is wrong. Have you ever met someone who doesn't like doughnuts? Of course not, because those people are in jail.
–There are some people who don't like ketchup. I think they are called losers.
–Crackers are the junk food of adults. There are so many different types of crackers for adults to eat while they congratulate themselves for not eating potato chips.
–Hotdogs are like strippers, really. Nobody wants to know the backstory.
–When I have to eat unsalted fries, I often feel like I should be a contestant on Survivor or something. I took forward to telling Survivor executive producer Mark Burnett: "Once I had fries without salt on them, so I could probably live anywhere."
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It has been a long while since I have posted anything.
Mainly, haven't had much to say.
However, now I have me a new party for my FF HERO campaign, so I thought I'd post summaries of that game.
Now we started from the beginning rather than from where I last left off. So it is interesting to see how they approach the adventure.
Instead of posting EVERYTHING that has happened, I will just introduce our new characters.
(as taken from the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth game module by Gary Gygax. I have added the chest with items donated by the March of Bissel as well as the wagon and two horses and the barrels with two weeks feed for the horses.)
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(After playing the Dark Sun Revised and Expanded (2nd Edition AD&D) scenario Mystery of the Ancients Friday in High Point with Jeff Smith, and Ken Woody, Steve Turner, and Erik Huffine from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.)
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Melanie Klein.
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Melanie Klein's pioneering work in the psychoanalysis of the child, made possible by the 'play technique' she developed for working with very young children, has yielded insights into the earliest and most basic psychic states. Her writings on topics such as mourning, guilt, anxiety, paranoia, and schizophrenia have been influential in theoretical and practical psychology. In this book, the first short introduction to a very important body of work, Hanna Segal- herself an eminent psychoanalyst and a former colleague of Klein's- traces the development of Klein's ideas within the historical context of the early years of psychoanalysis, showing where she followed and where she departed from Freud, and portrays her as a woman of great insight and originality. Dr. Segal also discusses Kleinian psychology today and its application to such areas as ethics, aesthetics, and group therapy. -- from Book Jacket.
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Billionaires running ads to try to persuade young people not to get health insurance is one thing. Besides being just weird, that's just sabotage. The right's undercutting the President's foreign policy and love of Putin is something else.
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Will The GOP Get Away With Its Economic Sabotage?
Republicans smell an election opportunity – but only if they can keep the economy down, jobs down and wages down. Most recently to keep people and the economy miserable they filibustered long-term unemployment assistance, and are working to cut back from the meager 26 weeks of assistance the states offer.
The New York Times explains in "States Cutting Weeks of Aid to the Jobless," "[L]ast July, North Carolina sharply cut its unemployment program, reducing the maximum number of weeks of benefits to 20 from 73 and reducing the maximum weekly benefit as well."
When North Carolina did this, a huge number of people just gave up looking for work and disappeared from the workforce. This made it look like the unemployment rate went down because only people who are actively looking are counted in the statistics. But what actually occurred was an increased need for food stamps and other aid. This, of course, doesn't save the government money because, instead of paying unemployment, they are paying for this assistance.
As Republicans explain it, their idea is that people getting unemployment assistance are too "comfortable." So the have to force these lazy, comfortable people into conditions that are so bad they will take any nasty, low-wage, humiliating, dangerous job. Of course, this means they will work for even less than the people who are already in such jobs. Meanwhile, the reality is that there is only one job for every three people looking for work.
Here is the thing: Obviously cutting this assistance drags down the surrounding economy as even more people can't pay their mortgage or rent or buy shoes, gas, clothes of even enough food. So local stores have to cut back, causing even more unemployment. Billions are taken out of the economy, things get worse… And now more "red" states are working on doing the same thing.
The Bet Is That The Public Will Blame Democrats
Republicans are betting that voters will blame the "party in power," which means the party of the president. Our corporate media is complicit in this strategy. If Americans found out that it is Republican filibusters in the Senate and obstruction in the House that keeps bills from even getting a vote that is holding back the economy, they would know who to blame. The media works to keep that a secret.
For example, from the New York Times story cited above:
A federal program supplying extra weeks of benefits to the long-term unemployed expired at the end of 2013, and congressional Democrats failed in an effort to revive it.
Right, It was Democrats who "failed to revive it." This surely tells voters to hold Democrats responsible for the cutoff of long-term unemployment assistance. With media reports like this, Republicans will win their bet.
While Republicans are doing everything they can to hold back economic recovery, the right's propaganda machine is blasting out that the economy is terrible. For example, one of the headlines at Drudge this week, "Wall Street Advisor: Actual Unemployment is 37.2%…," was right there next to the usual drumbeat, "Record 20% of Households on Food Stamps…"
The strategy is paying off. This from The Hill: "Boehner touts poll finding more blame Obama for economy than Bush":
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Tuesday used a private meeting with House Republicans to tout polling that suggests that voters now blame President Obama more than former President George W. Bush for the state of the economy.
. . . Republicans, he argued, now have the upper hand when it comes to the economy.
. . . After Obama's 2012 reelection, according to Winston's polling, 53 percent of voters said "policies of the past" were causing the nation's economic problems, while 44 percent blamed policies "of the present." Polling in November 2013 found those numbers largely reversed; 41 percent blame the policies of the past, while 49 percent blame current policies.
Other Sabotage Examples
Related to this is the ongoing Republican effort to sabotage Obamacare. This Wednesday TPM had this: "Republicans Seek To Sabotage Obamacare With Higher Premiums":
Conservative wonks and Republican lawmakers are coalescing around a new strategy to sabotage Obamacare by repealing a temporary piece of the law designed to hold down premiums in the event of major market disruptions.
. . . The conservatives are open about the end goal: collapse Obamacare by causing higher premiums on the law's marketplaces for the newly insured, which progressive experts who support Obamacare agree would occur if the provision is scrapped.
But wait, there's more. The Guardian reported last month that "State conservative groups plan U.S.-wide assault on education, health and tax."
Conservative groups across the US are planning a co-ordinated assault against public sector rights and services in the key areas of education, healthcare, income tax, workers' compensation and the environment, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.
The strategy for the state-level organisations, which describe themselves as "free-market thinktanks", includes proposals from six different states for cuts in public sector pensions, campaigns to reduce the wages of government workers and eliminate income taxes, school voucher schemes to counter public education, opposition to Medicaid, and a campaign against regional efforts to combat greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.
Here's the strategy: Sabotage things, wait as corporate media doesn't inform the public who is filibustering and obstructing, let conservative propaganda outlets tell the public to blame Democrats for the terrible suffering and economic catastrophe that result. Over time people really don't have much choice except to blame the people who the radio and TV and FOX News and all the other outlets tell them to blame: Obama and the Democrats.
The sabotage strategy is starting to become apparent. Brian Beutler at Salon recently wrote this article, "GOP's ulterior motive on unemployment: Economic sabotage?"
Unemployment benefits make people's lives better and buoy a fragile, but possibly accelerating recovery. Some Republicans are apparently reluctant to give the economy, and by extension the Democrats, a shot in the arm right now.
A while back I posted this at Crooks and Liars, "It's Economic Sabotage As GOP Obstructs Infrastructure Work" and C&L published this video at the top:
5 Years of Republican Economic Sabotage Explained in 3 Minutes
Rev. Al Sharpton had this on the air:
Here is the Economic Policy Institute, a year ago, in "The congressional GOP has smothered a more rapid economic recovery":
If this ideologically driven objective of deeply cutting spending is met, this will represent just one more way that the GOP Congress has managed to delay full recovery from the Great Recession. The evidence continues to pile up that these spending cuts, forced on a still-depressed economy, can easily throw the nation back into an outright recession and prolong the nation's economic misery.
Is this an overly harsh read on the motivations of GOP members of Congress? Not at all. Motivations aside—regardless of whether they deeply believe that their ideological goal of reducing government spending will help the economy or whether they think that a slowed economy will simply help their own electoral prospects—the facts are simply that congressional Republicans have consistently hamstrung efforts that a large consensus of economists agree would have provided crucial help in lowering American unemployment.
[. . .] Conclusion
Concern that the GOP Members of Congress have a vested interest in slowing economic recovery has been brewing for quite some time. Speaking at Cuyahoga Community College ahead of the election, former President Bill Clinton accused congressional Republicans of deliberately trying to keep the unemployment rate elevated for political gain.
Here is Talking Points Memo from June 2012, "Harry Reid Accuses Eric Cantor Of Economic Sabotage":
It's a theory that progressives have grown sympathetic to as Republicans make it ever-more difficult for President Obama to govern and thwart initiatives in Congress to stimulate the economy. Democratic operatives have loosely floated the claim in broad ways by suggesting the GOP is hoping for economic failure, but Reid's pointed accusation took it to a new level.
But these are not the outlets that reach the broad majority of Americans. Will the Republican strategy of economic sabotage win them the House, Senate and maybe even the presidency? If it does succeed, what does this mean for the future of our economy and our country?
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF. Sign up here for the CAF daily summary
Senate Democrats: Change Filibuster Rules, Make Them Talk
Republicans filibustered the extension of unemployment benefits on the Senate floor Tuesday. Why? Because they can get away with it. Look at how the press reported what happened.
If the public doesn't know that filibusters are occurring, how can democracy hold Republicans accountable for doing it? Instead they hear from the corporate media that the bill is "stalled," "the Senate failed" or "the Senate deadlocks" due to "finger-pointing" or "partisan squabbling." What message does the public get from that? Probably that they shouldn't bother to vote.
The New York Times: "Unemployment Extension Is Stalled, With 2 Proposals Defeated in the Senate": "Unemployment benefits for 1.3 million of the long-term unemployed — and millions more in the future — were imperiled on Tuesday after Senate efforts to reach accord on legislation to revive them collapsed in partisan finger-pointing."
GOP Economic Sabotage Continues With Filibuster of Jobless Benefits
Republicans are engaged in yet more hostage-taking obstruction. (Whatever gave them the idea that hostage-taking can work?) They are engaged in a filibuster of the effort to extend unemployment insurance, using it as a hostage to try to get even more cuts to the things government does to make our lives better. Their "pay-for" demand is really a demand for Democrats to agree to even more economic sabotage.
Senate Republicans Monday continued to fight Democratic efforts to pass an extension of federal unemployment insurance benefits for people who have been out of work longer than 26 weeks. Traditionally our government has provided this assistance to unemployed workers at times of high unemployment. This is an "automatic stabilizer," meaning that this assistance helps stop the downward spirals that occur when business hit recession. Unemployed workers aren't forced to pull back from paying mortgages or rent, or buying food and other basic needs, which then causes even more unemployment.
Many feel this economic stabilization effect is the reason Republican oppose the extension. They suspect Republicans want the loss of this assistance to cause more layoffs, foreclosures and economic hardship. This way the economy looks worse as the 2014 elections approach, and voters will turn on what they perceive as the "party in charge" – namely the Democrats.
By requiring "pay-fors" – cuts somewhere else – in exchange for allowing this assistance to the unemployed, they are removing the economic boost that the program provides, causing damage to the economy. In other words: they are engaged in economic sabotage.
One such proposal from Republicans is to stop working people with disabilities from claiming both Social Security Disability Insurance and federal unemployment benefits. Cutting this really means preventing people with disabilities from taking the risk of going out and working to see if they can get off of disability. Michael Hiltzik writes about this at the Los Angeles Times in "An awful idea: Hammer the disabled to pay for unemployment benefits":
It uniquely burdens the disabled among all workers, and it sets a terrible precedent of raiding Social Security to pay for other social programs.
… The idea that disabled persons are "double-dipping" by collecting wages or other compensation while also getting a disability check is enshrined in conservative attacks on disability. But it's untrue. The Social Security disability program is designed as a bridge to full employment. Its benefits aren't intended as a substitute for wages, but a supplement.
Michael Tomasky writes about the hostage-taking involved here in "The Fight Over Unemployment Benefits Underscores the Right's Extremism" at The Daily Beast:
Republicans are insisting on cuts from elsewhere in the federal budget to pay for the benefits' $6.4 billion cost. And Democrats are talking with them. But there's no progress yet. In fact, it seems today that even the six Republicans who voted in the Senate last week to allow debate to proceed would not vote to extend the benefits just yet.
[. . .] if Democrats win, great. But it looks like they'll only win by agreeing to the pay-for demand, which means that there'll be new demands next time. There's no end to how far right these people will go.
Richard Eskow (who really should have a column in the New York Times) writes about the economic sabotage of "pay for" in "No, Congress, You Shouldn't "Pay For" Extending Unemployment Insurance":
The simple truth is, Democrats are still being outmaneuvered by Republicans on economic policy. They're letting the GOP call the shots, rhetorically, even though Republicans lost two out of three seats of federal government (the Senate and White House). They even lost the total popular vote for the House of Representatives.
… Here's a better idea: Don't try to pay for extended unemployment benefits. Don't boast, as Reid did last week, that the extension is "entirely paid for." Sure, Democrats will eventually need to make a deal – if they can – in order to extend unemployment insurance benefits. But why aren't they first making the case against "paying for" those benefits on the Republicans' terms?
Why aren't Democrats instead speaking up against the "pay for" logic that gives a free pass to the wealthy and corporations – especially when the total cost is a blip, a rounding error, on a $1 trillion 2014 federal budget?
Economically, "pay for" is a Catch-22: It means every job-creating proposal must be offset with job-killing cuts elsewhere.
5 Reasons To Extend Unemployment Insurance
The AFL-CIO Now blog offers "5 Reasons Congress Must Extend Unemployment Insurance." (Click through for details, charts and links.)
1. The long-term unemployment rate is higher than ever before.
2. The typical unemployed worker has been out of work longer than ever before.
3. More unemployed workers are running out of benefits than ever before.
4. The unemployment rate remains unacceptably high.
5. There are still three job seekers for every job opening.
Call To Action
The Coalition on Human Needs wants us to "tell your senators to renew federal unemployment insurance now, before the next recess, and don't tie renewal to harmful amendments like denying the Child Tax Credit to low-income immigrant families or denying aid to unemployed workers with disabilities."
If you haven't called your senators yet (or even if you have!) please call 1-877-267-2485 (Toll Free). (Thanks to AFSCME for making this toll-free number available.)
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Who Will Fight To Help The Unemployed?
At the beginning of November, the poor went over the "Hunger Cliff" as Food Stamps were cut. Now long-term unemployment assistance will run out at the end of December. Regular people think the government has given up on them. They have been hit by one blow after another, with little or no help in sight. They see shutdowns and budget cuts at the very time the government needs to spend more to help Americans.
This is part of the Republican effort to turn Americans against government, because the public will blame Democrats. Democrats have to stop letting Republicans get away with it, and return to being seen as trying to help the unemployed and poor.
Long-Term Unemployment Assistance Running Out
In a few days, long-term unemployment benefits run out in spite of a "budget deal." This cutoff of long-term aid means that in most states aid will end after a person is unemployed for 26 weeks, and in other states even less – some dramatically less. It occurs at a time when the average length of unemployment is 37 weeks, and there is still only one job for every three people still bothering to look for work.
1.3 million people will lose this assistance immediately, just after Christmas. By mid-2014 another 2 million will lose this aid as well.
"If my wife loses her benefit before she finds a job, we lose our house." – Philadelphia resident.
Budget Deal Is More "Awesomely Destructive," Economy-Killing Austerity
Austerity is holding back our economy — and that's the plan. There is simply no other way to explain it. Republicans know voters blame (or credit) the party of the President for the economy, and they are doing everything they can to make things as bad as can be. This new "budget deal," for example, holds the country in full austerity, with spending lower than even the original "Ryan budget" that shocked everyone.
Austerity kills economies and jobs, and they know it. We know it, they know it, everyone knows it. It is obvious in front of our faces, and Republicans continue to force cuts — with many Democrats going along.
Since the financial collapse government spending has been cut and the results have been terrible for the economy. Under every previous President government spending and hiring propped up the economy until recovery was underway. Republicans as well as Democrats understood this is how it has to be done. Until now.
In Charts: What if Obama spent like Reagan? Ezra Klein explains, "It's simply a fact that real government spending fell in three of President Obama's first four years." Klein compares government spending to Reagan and 'W' Bush:
Under Reagan and 'W' spending went up. This helped the economy get out of recessions. Under Obama, with a much worse recession, Republicans forced spending to go down.
What was the effect of these cuts? This next chart shows how this is a drag on GDP:
So yes, the spending cuts are obviously hurting the economy.
Paul Krugman's blog post, Unprecedented Austerity comments on this. He starts with a chart showing what has happened to government spending since Obama took office, writing, "Look at total government spending — federal, state, and local — and correct it for inflation …"
Krugman writes, "You can see that there was a brief, modest spurt in spending associated with the Obama stimulus — but it has long since been outweighed and swamped by a collapse in spending without precedent in the past half century." He calls this, combined with private-sector deleveraging, "awesomely destructive."
"Awesomely destructive." And you can see it.
That "modest spurt in spending associated with the Obama stimulus"? This is the effect the stimulus spending had on jobs:
The stimulus took us from losing more than 800,000 jobs each month to gaining jobs every month since. It completely turned the situation around. But then it stopped and Republicans were able to force austerity and kill off the recovery.
This Budget Deal
So that's the story of what has happened to government spending as Republicans impose austerity. Down down down. Now we have a "budget deal" (that even leaves out help for the long-term unemployed and doesn't replace the "Hunger Cliff" $5 billion Thanksgiving Food Stamp cut, etc…) This next chart shows where this budget deal fits with earlier budgets proposals.
This is what is missing from the explanations of this budget "deal:" spending will still go way down. This is not a spending increase, it is less of a destructive, devastating cut than the full "sequester" would be next year. But it is still a cut, and it will still cost us jobs and economic growth. It will still be "awesomely destructive."
And that is their plan. It will still let them campaign on "Obama's terrible economy."
This chart from Calculated Risk shows how government hiring pulled us out of previous recessions, which government firing is holding us in this one.
Key point, Presidents Reagan, GHW Bush, Clinton and 'W' all increased public hiring to help get us out of recessions. But under Obama and austerity the public sector has lost 703,000 jobs.
The public sector grew during Mr. Reagan's terms (up 1,414,000), during Mr. G.H.W. Bush's term (up 1,127,000), during Mr. Clinton's terms (up 1,934,000), and during Mr. G.W. Bush's terms (up 1,748,000 jobs).
However the public sector has declined significantly since Mr. Obama took office (down 703,000 jobs). These job losses have mostly been at the state and local level, but more recently at the Federal level. This has been a significant drag on overall employment.
The 2014 Election
So let's take bets: do you disagree that Republicans are planning to campaign in 2014 by saying that the terrible economy is Obama's fault?
PS: Some of these charts are from Three Charts That Show That Republicans Have Won The Budget War by Danny Vinik, who writes that "the fact of the matter is that the GOP has won the budget wars." Let's see if they take credit for the economy and terrible human pain they are causing.
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Misunderestimating Who They Are
There is a miscalculation at the core of Democratic strategies for ending the shutdown and avoiding default. Democrats keep saying, "They wouldn't really do that." But this calculation doesn't "get it" about who and what the country is dealing with.
Here is the miscalculation: If you listen to right-wing radio, watch FOX News and read their online media and take it seriously (because they do) then you would know that many on the right don't want to live in a country that has Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, the minimum wage, Food Stamps, immigration, public schools, infant nutrition programs and the rest of the things government does to make our lives better. And they don't want anyone else to live in a country that has those things, either.
They are willing to destroy the village to keep the village from having those things. If you don't "get that" before entering into negotiations, you're at risk of making a terrible mistake — like the sequester.
The Sequester
Remember what led to the sequester? There was a fundamental miscalculation that led to these terrible economy-killing cuts taking effect. White House negotiators believed the sequester cuts were so terrible and stupid that Republicans wouldn't really let that happen. So they offered these cuts as an inducement — a worst alternative — to coming to an agreement about taxes and cuts. (Never mind the mistake that any deficit reduction at all right now is economy-killing.) The idea was that the sequester cuts are so terrible and have such a disastrous effect on the country and economy — and people — that "they wouldn't really do that."
But they did that. Now many Republicans are celebrating the sequester cuts, calling the sequester an accomplishment. They are celebrating the damage that they have caused to our government.
If you "got it" about who they are then you knew that of course they would do that. Offering the terrible sequester cuts because they were so terrible and stupid that "they wouldn't really do that" was a fundamental miscalculation of how terrible and stupid — and destructive — their insular ideology has become. It was based on a fundamental misunderestimation of who they are.
Misunderestimating Who They Are
Are enough Democrats listening to right-wing radio, watching FOX, reading the right's online media? Are they taking what they see and hear seriously? We listen to Rush Limbaugh and laugh. But they listen to Rush Limbaugh and believe.
Are Democrats and the President making a fundamental miscalculation by assuming the right-wingers of the Republican Party don't want the country to default, and the terrible economic destruction that would bring? A strategy based on the idea that movement conservatives will yield rather than do that much harm to the country and economy and people, like the sequester strategy, is a fundamental miscalculation, fundamentally misunderestimating who they are: They do want things to be that bad!
Don't Give In
The strategy of offering terrible and stupid cuts to an opposition that is bent on destruction only led to terrible and stupid cuts becoming the ongoing baseline, with them celebrating the sequester as a victory. Trying to scare and shame them with the terrible specter of the destruction from default could be offering them just what they want.
I am certainly not saying here that Democrats should give in to avoid the destruction Republicans are willing to cause. Giving in — or miscalculating and accidentally handing them what they want (like the sequester) — means they will just escalate the destruction — as they have done each time. That has been their game and will be their game. It's just time to realize this and change strategies.
It is late in the game, much harm has been done, much harm is being done, but it is time for a shift from "get along" strategies to reach "bipartisan compromise" to instead realizing this crowd fundamentally opposes and seeks to dismantle the very things that most of us treasure about our country.
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If Dems Give In Now, Social Security And Medicare Will Be Future Hostage-Taking Targets
Remember how Republicans "won" the 2000 election? Remember how they tricked the country into going to war in Iraq? They used non-democratic means to get what they couldn't get legitimately, and it worked, so they did it more. They got used to getting their way using bullying, so they did it more. Now it's flat-out hostage-taking. And they're doing it more.
Again and again, Republicans take a hostage and demand something they could not get through elections or the legitimate constitutional legislative process. The hostages over the last few years have included (but are not limited to) unemployment benefits, the Federal Aviation Administration, the "fiscal cliff," disaster relief, government funding, even the debt ceiling. Manufactured crisis after manufactured crisis…
Again and again, they take a hostage and demand they get their way. Never mind election results, House and Senate majorities, and especially never mind the will of the people.
And then they have the nerve to mock democracy, saying, "How's that hopey-changey thing workin' out for ya?"
The Ongoing Obstruction And Today's Hostage-Taking Are The Same Game
Here is something to recognize as part of what is happening today. They have also used obstruction to take hostage the power of We the People to legislate. They have used the filibuster in the Senate and the "Hastert Rule" in the House to obstruct almost everything We the People tried to do to make our lives better in the last several years.
They have blocked bills to hire millions to fix the infrastructure. They blocked bills to remove the incentive to move jobs out of the country. They blocked further stimulus to get the economy going. They blocked efforts to fix immigration laws. They blocked the "public option." They blocked nominees and judges. They have blocked … everything.
This obstruction is part and parcel of what we are experiencing with this shutdown and the threats to force the country to default. It is about getting what they want but can't win in elections or through legitimate legislative means.
It Will Not Stop Here If They Win
They continue these tactics because it is getting them what they – and the billionaires and giant corporations who fund them – want. They do it because it works. And then they do it again, because it worked.
Here's the thing about this budget "standoff." If Democrats or President Obama give in again, Social Security and Medicare will certainly be targets, sooner than later. What else?
Things Republicans hate:
- #1 of all time: Social Security.
- #2 of all time: Medicare.
- Public schools.
- Environmental Protection.
- The Food and Drug Administration.
- The minimum wage.
- The eight-hour workday and the 40-hour workweek.
- Unions and the National Labor Relations Board – the right of workers to organize.
- The 47% of Americans who they say are "takers" and "moochers."
- Anything other than fossil fuels to provide energy.
This is not a complete list. Think of things Republicans hate, and then try to picture them not using hostage-taking to dismantle whatever you are thinking of.
Constitutional Crisis: Self-Government Under Attack
It has to stop.
This is a constitutional crisis – as in Republicans have thrown out the idea of following the Constitution, democracy and law, recognizing only power. Republicans have one power that We the People have not yet managed to take away from them: the power to destroy. And they're using that power to get what they want for the billionaires and giant corporations who fund them.
If we are going to maintain the idea of government by We the People, using elections and the legislative process and everything else the country is supposed to be about, we can't let them win again. If they win again, they'll just escalate.
March 31, 2011 Budget Fight: Why Are Republicans Forcing a Shutdown?
Sept. 23, 2011 ANOTHER Hostage-Taking Threat To Shut Down Government,
Just weeks after the "debt-ceiling" hostage-taking, forcing trillions to be cut out of the economy, the hostage-takers are at it again. Now they are threatening a government shutdown, demanding even more cuts in the "continuing resolution" that keeps the government operating. This time they even want to cut the disaster-relief spending that helps people hit by wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural disasters.
Sept 26, 2011 Shutdown and Hostage-Taking — It Is NOT Both Sides Doing It.
Nov. 29, 2011 Will Republicans Shut Down The FAA Again To Help Deltas Union Busting.
Dec. 15, 2011 Republican Hostage-Taking Threat Again Guess Who Benefits,
Once again, Republicans are holding government hostage, trying to force through unpopular cuts to the things We, the People — "the 99%" — do for each other and our economy, while giving handouts to the 1% who pay for their campaign ads and smears. Once again they are threatening to just shut down the whole government if they don't get their way. This time the hostage is unemployment benefits for 2 million people and the payroll tax cut that is the only stimulus left to keep the economy going. Here's the thing, they say they want "cuts" but what they are really doing is shifting costs from the 1% on to the rest of us.
Jan 10, 2013 Disarm The Hostage Bomb: Stop Governing Based On Threats, Intimidation And Lies,
The "fiscal cliff' was the result of the last debt-ceiling hostage-taking and threats and lies, which was enabled by earlier capitulation to hostage-taking and threats and lies, which was enabled by earlier capitulation to hostage-taking and threats and lies, which was enabled by earlier capitulation to hostage-taking and threats and lies…
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Does Tanking Economy Really Hurt Republicans?
Hey if you knew Friday what Republicans were going to do over the weekend you could place bets on the stock market, and make millions.
How To Dismantle A Country
Let's say it's the 1970s and you're a foreign power of one sort or another – Soviet Union, China, Arab oil interests, secret cabal of billionaires, whatever – and you want to dominate the world. But the US is in your way…
Let's say you do a comprehensive analysis of all the things that make the US a world power (for better or worse). Let's say you develop a plan to infiltrate, undermine, weaken, fracture and ultimately dismantle each the institutions that made America so strong.
Looking back today, can anyone offer anything that could have been more effective at accomplishing this plan than funding America's conservative movement?
Insider Trading
If I had knowledge of what the Republicans were going to do with the government shutdown and the debt ceiling, and when they were going to do it, I could make billions on the stock market.
And if I was one of those billionaires who funds the Republican Party, I WOULD have that knowledge.
Just sayin' …
The Bill
Republicans say people don't need health insurance, just go to the emergency room.
My wife had to go to the emergency room last month. (She's OK.) We just got the bill: $14,965 for a 4-hour visit.
Luckily we have insurance.


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SAN ANTONIO - For all married couples, Army life brings its own set of strains, with factors like deployments and frequent permanent change of duty stations causing them to lose their connection which can lead to troubled marriages.
To help couples understand and maintain their marital connection, the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division ministry team held a Strong Bonds retreat for 20 couples in the brigade from May 17 to 19 at the Drury Plaza Hotel Riverwalk, here.
"The intent of Strong Bonds is to make the marriage stronger using Army approved curriculum and the chaplain as a facilitator," said Sgt. Jessica Covello, a chaplains assistant from San Antonio, 1st ACB. "With this retreat we had soldiers ranking from captain to private and we merged them all together into one group."
Once in their group the couples went through different scenarios together, Covello said.
"We used everyday situations such as arguments about money and had the couples resolve them together," she continued. "They found working as a team was more beneficial than trying to solve it alone."
Covello said she has attended the retreats on a consistent basis over the last five years, with the most common problem being poor communication between married couples and their inability to express themselves in a manner which each other understands.
"This class did really well at solving their problems and finding middle ground," she said. "We also separated the spouses and they talked to the chaplain individually about their specific issues in their marriages from their viewpoints."
"The more involved you can get with putting them face to face and working them out together is the best method," she added.
An Air Cav spouse who attended the retreat was Sgt. 1st. Class Mariel Morgan, from Fort Hood, Texas, brigade retention noncommissioned officer in charge, 1st ACB, who said the training helped herself and her husband understand why there are specific dynamics between them both.
"We discovered the differences between his love language and mine, which is something we had no idea about before the training," Morgan said. "His language is physical touch while mine is acts of service; he likes to be touched while I like to see him do things for me all the time."
Morgan said the event was excellently run by the ministry team and with the wealth of relationship mentoring given at no cost to the participants; she would attend again and encourage other couples to sign up too.
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CINCINNATI - The Bengals are in their no-huddle offense, hurrying to sell tickets and avoid a playoff blackout.
After getting a 24-hour reprieve from the NFL, the Bengals have until 4 p.m. Friday to sell out Paul Brown Stadium for Sunday's 1:05 p.m. game against the San Diego Chargers and ensure that the game will be shown on local TV.
The Bengals cited "strong ticket sales" Thursday and support from businesses but didn't say how many thousands of tickets are left.
RELATED: What an NFL blackout means for fans
Restaurateur Jeff Ruby gave ticket sales a boost by buying a block of 100 and challenging local businesses to do the same. Ruby said he would donate the tickets to AFTA Cincinnati (Armed Forces Ticket Association) so military families can attend the game.
The Bengals also cited support from Fifth Third Bank, Cincinnati Insurance Company, Cintas, United Dairy Farmers, Liberty Mutual/Safeco and WCPO/Scripps.
Businesses that wish to purchase blocks of tickets should contact Jeff Berding, director of sales and public affairs, at (513) 621-8383.
The remaining tickets are priced at $86 and $96 – more than for regular-season games.
See how fans can buy Bengals playoff tickets below.
A blackout would mean the Bengals-Chargers game would not be shown on local CBS stations in the Cincinnati, Dayton or Lexington markets. That also goes for the online stream from CBS.
Fans have pointed to the higher price of playoff tickets as the primary reason for not buying.
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Still, Cincinnati has the cheapest tickets for any NFL playoff games this weekend, according to Forbes.
The NFL - not the Bengals - gets all the revenue from playoff tickets and sets the prices, Forbes said.
The Bengals aren't the only team facing a playoff blackout this weekend - the Indianapolis Colts and Green Bay Packers haven't sold out, either, and needed an extension. The NFL usually imposes a blackout if tickets are not sold out 72 hours before kickoff
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The Bengals said they had 10,000 tickets available on Monday and 7,200 left as of Thursday morning.
The Bengals have been using players to try to sell tickets. Domata Peko, Michael Johnson, Andrew Whitworth and Marvin Jones appear in a TV and radio ad exhorting fans to give the team a strong home-field advantage in The Jungle on Sunday.
Some players say a non-sellout would be a disappointment for a team that has won all eight home games this year and is hoping to go deep into the playoffs.
They're surprised fans aren't more excited about the reasonable possibility of a run at the Super Bowl after losing wild-card games on the road the past two years.
Besides that, there's the chance to get the franchise's playoff losing streak off their backs. The Bengals haven't won a playoff game since the 1990 season – the longest current drought in the NFL and the seventh longest in NFL history.
Asked about the possibility of a blackout, quarterback Andy Dalton told reporters Wednesday:
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The Hotline and the ticket office reopen at 9 a.m. Friday.
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Zoe and friend so sexy and wold love to share a few hours with the two of them.
I want to lick that dildo afterward!
Great job!
that fucking freak in the blue needs to be taken to the wood shed and have his fucking face blown off what a fucking freak of nature
Would like to see also the cock of the blue shemale
god...shemales are some gilty pleasures
fuckin awsome. the broad with the cock can fuck my asshole anytime
These 2 are hotter then any woman
@ Muffdiver: I'd love to "help" you. I'm straight and I can't wait to fuck a tight tranny ass, preferably while my wife fucks mine! : O
So hot!!! dunno which one of those 2 I'd rather be lol
how she perfect mmmmm !
Wow! Great job, I love it...........
wish that was my cock instead of that dildo!
I'm straight and I jerked off watching this video. I need help.
Oh what I would give to suck her cock and swallow her, it makes my cock throb to think of it...
God...I can only get it up to shemales... I would worship Zoe's dick and savor every drop of her delicious white cum.
This vid is perfect and proves that a shemale knows exactly how to give the maximum possible pleasure to another one : sensational ! She holds her dick like a candle and she lends her mouth to allow her partner to cum in it when she warns she is going to cum : it must have been a nice load of sperm and they are very solidar. I like the cleaning-up with the trickle of semen along the shaft... Excellent. She gave her partner a good time and the cummer is more than satisfied, she is so happy that she is in heaven...
One more great video from TGIRLS-UK.
OH please, let me have her COCK IN MY MOUTH, I would swallow every drop of her wonderful juice!!!!! Not a drop would go to waste!!!
I liked hoe Zoe to her to suck her cock whilec she was sucking it.
Zoe cums perfectly
They are the 2 hottest girls on the planet!
Zoe makes me crazy.
I HAVE sucked that cock and swallowed her, and believe me, it's worth it!
Very nice vid!
I need to know someone like her and fuck everyday
soo good!
yeaa me 2


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Businesslike colors, and treat it like a vest - wear it under jackets or cardigans, over a plain colored blouse? I would imagine that if your bosom isn't overflowing the top, and it's not shiny/bright/lacey, you'd do okay if the rest of your outfit is simple and office-appropriate.
(I tend to follow the rule of 3 in work situations - you're allowed three distinctive elements per outfit, and if something's really distinctive, then you only get one. Everything else should be neutral or conservative or both. So you can wear a quirky watch with an interesting necklace and a colorful blouse, but if you're wearing bright red tights everything else had better be a neutral in a classic cut. I'd say that a corset is at least a distinctive element, and may, depending on your workplace and your corsets, count as a Really Distinctive only-one-allowed piece.)
A few comments on corset saftey and the workplace.....
Please be careful if you decide to wear it "not too tight". I have worked with Timeless trends corsets, and I have a lot of experience wearing corsets. If you have a steal boned corset (like one from TT) and the corset is not tight enough (i.e. one that you can fit four fingers between the corset and you) you may have the tendency to slouch. You could bruise a rib or even dislocate one, not to mention the really bad soars from the rubbing of the corset on your clothing/skin. Corsets are best fit when you can get only 2 fingers in between you and the corset, any tighter and you can run the same risks as before, unless you have a lot of experience and a doctors supervision (tight lacers).
I echo everyone else's sentiment that if the corset is paired with a vest or jacket it will work well for business. Corsets were, originally, undergarments that were worn with fitted dresses over them. Corsets are now, also almost unanimously, associated with sex in the publics mind. I am sure you know what is appropriate attire for your workplace. A hostess at an upscale restaurant, sales woman, and artist, or computer programer (they can get away wit anything) should have no problem. You may want to clear it with your boss though (especially if you have customer interactions) as a conservative attire may be part of the job.
I also assume that you know how much moving and lifting you may need to do each day, but as a general note to all other readers, be sure that you do not need to do to much bending at the waist in your job bc it might become an annoyance to your coworkers if they need help you get things every time you wear your corset.
One last note on corset safety, for all readers. For women at risk for blood clots (older, overweight or taking birth control), it could also be dangerous to wear a corset for 8 hours while sitting still (as many jobs require nowadays). The corset will restrict blood flow slightly, as will sitting down for too long, and can raise the risks of blood clots and embolism. If you decide to make wearing a corset part of your regular wardrobe it is important to discuss this decision with a medical professional (chiropractor, dr, or nurse) so that they can advise you.
Now that I have the gloom and doom out of the way, I hope you find a great way to express you love of corsets in the workplace!
Another large part of a corset coming across as simply part of your wardrobe rather than a scream for attention is your attitude while wearing it. I have brightly colored corsets and wear them with neutrals as mentioned for more serious functions. Though if your attitude is nonchalant, it will go over much better. If you are furtive it will come across as sheepish or embarrassed that you wore this to work. If you keep touching it/adjusting it, you look like you are trying to draw attention to it. And finally, don't make it look uncomfortable. One of the hardest things about wearing tightlacers, is that they tend to start to make your ribs uncomfortable as the day goes along. Similar to wearing uncomfortable shoes, don't let it show that you are uncomfortable or it just draws attention to it. If someone gives you a compliment on it, accept graciously and don't over-do it. If someone makes a snarky comment, of course use discretion since you are in the workplace, but dang you are wearing a corset. Everyone is bound to know you have some attitude. ;)
Kudos on adding this delightful piece to your everyday wardrobe! Wear it with confidence and the rest will follow.
My only suggestion would be to wear trousers with them, in any case. A long skirt would seem costumey, and anything shorter would come off as too promiscuous. Unless either of those are appropriate for your workplace, trousers are a sure bet.
Hm. I'm afraid I have no advice on this topic, but as I have been considering adding a corset to my wardrobe, the information dispensed here has been very useful to me. It also makes me thankful once again that I own my own business and as long as my clients aren't offended by what I wear, then I can be as eccentric as I wish. Oddly, I've found that most of them (my clients are mainly seniors) truly enjoy seeing what sort of getup I might walk in wearing every week. Many of them find nostalgia in the more vintage items, and enjoy the creativity of some of the other style elements. I think they're all secretly Steampunk! ;)
Kudos to you for taking it to the conservative world! Perhaps you'll make a convert of someone!
Be well. Be wild.
And thank you, as well, Greene Fyre! Props are always appreciated, and wouldn't it be wonderful if all these closet steamers would just come out so we could have a much more interesting world of gizmos, gadgetry, and fancy threads? Ohhhh, how I dream!
My sister works for the Ministry of Justice and wears corsets to work regularly.
The trick is to select your corset and style is as you would any other officewear garment - no overflowing bosom or anything to flashy. Generally black or grey in pinstripes, or any fabric you would make a suit of, works well.
Wear your corset over a business shirt or blouse so you're not showing too much skin. If you wear it with business staples, i.e a pencil skirt or wide leg pants and a suit jacket, it'll blend right in :)
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That is what I am looking at I am trying to get the whole module out I beleive the pump has a filter sock on it so I assume I have to pull the whole module to get the pump out of the housing?
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Outpost Two and Three never managed to get off that much
Which is quite unrealistic IMHO, is all. Unless we postulate jamming, or perhaps a constant Romulan campaign of destroying nearby comm relay buoys to create and maintain Starfleet's otherwise exceptional commlag problem. Perhaps that was what the Romulan ship (among dozens of others) was tasked with?
If that's the case, couldn't the Romulans observe the construction of the asteroids as the Starfleet ships coming over to build them probably would not be stealthy. And at that scale, it's like watching what's going on in your own backyard. Plus with 100 years of time on their hands you would think that the Romulans had plenty of time to identify and target the outposts?
But the Feds or Earthlings would know all that, and prepare accordingly. It would be like digging tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall in the 1960s or right against the trenches of the damned Huns or Boches in the 1910s - something militaries and intelligence forces rather routinely engage in. Well worth the effort, and this alone will eventually provide the means.
I tried searching on more info about Remus but there doesn't seem to be much out there except for Nemesis. I guess I'll take a look to see if there is anything that might be of use.
Remus is basically completely forgotten in canon after "Balance of Terror". All we know is that visuals of Romulus never show it nearby in TNG or DS9. Perhaps Romulans wanted the same setup they had enjoyed on Vulcan - a planet with a companion planet that is
a moon, but occasionally pays a very close visit? This would be a smooth way to combine the "Charlie X" insistence that Vulcan has no moon with the visuals of heavenly bodies over Vulcan in TAS and ST:TMP and the depiction of the orbits in ST:NEM.
If they did, what campaigns did the Romulan commander and his buddy go on? He seems to be a seasoned starship commander.
Perhaps he's just a generic military commander instead? The "Roooomans in Spaaaace!" concept would well cater for the idea that naval battles are fought by land warriors who embark on ships as needed.
But if the RNZ was light years across (the big RSE model) then suddenly the outposts would be out of range to hit Romulus.
Nope - because the setup would then imply that the outpost weapons have a range of several light years. Otherwise, they couldn't cover the gaps between adjacent outposts, either.
It's the placement of the outposts on the map that dictates their weapon range, and that scales nicely up and down with the map. The exact nature of the weapons is left as an exercise to the viewer; since these things are a century old, perhaps we're talking about armageddon-level nuclear (or "atomic") missiles?
Was there a second Romulan ship involved?
Apparently not - but our heroes could not know that, and therefore could not use the distance from outpost to outpost as a yardstick for measuring the speed of their opponent.
But 8 couldn't have been the first one to get destroyed because 2 is the first one we're told that they lost contact with.
Unless these outposts maintain stealth and only send out reports on schedule - and 8 wasn't scheduled to report yet.
Romulans might even have found out the schedule and timed their attack that way. For all we know, fifty outposts were leveled in this attack, and Outposts 2, 3 and 4 were the only ones that could not be taken down in optimal schedule, so Starfleet learned of their loss and was able to respond - too late to save the lives of thousands of outpost crew, but swiftly enough to avenge.
I still think that the "small RSE/Single system RSE" has too many problems to be viable. If we expand out the evidence to later TOS episodes it becomes even more problematic.
Agreed - even if we think of ways in which a "small RSE" could
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