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NAC-II: Why we must oppose it, and what is the alternative
I believe there are good reasons why it was a good thing NAC-I died abruptly, and why NAC-II should not be brought into existence. The critique is familiar: NAC is an undemocratic, unaccountable, constitutionally illegitimate body which must not be supported for strategic/pragmatic reasons. We are setting a dangerous precedent that will come back to haunt us -- how difficult is it to imagine a future government instituting an NAC packed with cultural-nationalists who direct the policy agenda of the country? No one will be able to object to it because no one is objecting to NAC-II. Its legitimacy appears to have been established. And it is not supposed to be democratic or accountable anyway - so who then can question its composition? On what grounds? The current balance of power may have induced some liberals and democrats to accept the NAC, but balance of power changes. We will come to regret having cheered NAC-II just as some of us came to regret having cheered judicial self-empowerment in the '80s. This is always a danger when we compromise on principles for short-term 'pragmatic' gains.
One way to understand the NAC is to see it as a unique institution made necessary by a unique set of circumstances where the leader of the party in power is not the Prime Minister. But political parties tend to have internal processes to influence governmental policy in any case: the letters exchanged between the Congress Party President and the Prime Minister over the last few years and made public recently suggest that this government is no exception. At any rate, the Cabinet, on the whole, reflects the Party leadership. The Party does not need an NAC to influence government policy. The real strength of NAC-I was in bringing in inputs of those who are engaged in non-electoral/civil society politics into governmental policy-making. Although government-appointed ad hoc commissions comprising experts and academics have always advised on policy, NAC is unique in being an official, apparently permanent, policy-proposing body with potentially limitless agenda, and whose members are hand-picked by the President of the ruling party.
While NAC-I may have been productive, this institutional arrangement remains a misguided response to an important and legitimate question: how do we make governmental policy-making consultative, where stake-holders, interest groups and experts are involved in the process. Our mid-20th century political institutions envisage political parties as the only actors in the polity, who make policy indirectly through control of the executive and the legislature. But politics and society have changed since then. NGOs, civil society, interest groups, academics, think-tanks and other experts have become important players in policy making, whose contribution is usually productive. But most of these actors tend not to seek or desire membership of legislatures.
A far better way to accommodate non-party-based democratic voices in the policy-making process is by reforming our legislative processes. Currently, draft Bills are publicly circulated only in an ad hoc fashion by the concerned Ministry. This news item suggests that even Opposition parties find it difficult to access draft Bills (See also, these opinion pieces calling for more transparency in law-making: I and II). Nothing stops the government from introducing a Bill and getting it passed by Parliament within a matter of days. Institutionalising pre-legislative processes where draft Bills are routinely made public, circulated and scrutinised before their introduction in Parliament will be a good start. Legislatures elsewhere have evolved mechanisms whereby their Committees regularly invite experts, academics and grassroots activists for giving evidence on policies being considered. Our parliamentary committees, on the other hand, still hold closed door meetings. Indeed, our system disincentivises even MPs from participating in policy-making. We burden our legislators with administrative duties, requiring them to disburse MPLAD funds. We offer them no research assistance. We do not even allow them to speak their minds and vote according to their conscience. All this needs a serious rethink.
The solution to the need for a more consultative, democratic policy-making lies in strengthening and adapting parliamentary procedures, rather than creating alternative power centres like the NAC that may come to challenge and discredit parliamentary authority. If Ms Gandhi still finds the NAC helpful, let it be a non-governmental think-tank. A democratically-elected Parliament (and state legislatures) must remain the only official fora where policy is discussed, scrutinised and finalised.
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- Anuj Bhuwania said...
Dear Tarunabh, while I am in substantial agreement with your post, I wanted to ask if you think the Planning Commission would be subject to similar objections as the NAC. Again some of us might prefer P.C. Mahalanobis to MS Ahluwalia, or vice versa, but the non-democratic nature of such a body remains an issue. Actually what is the legal basic of the Planning Commission? As far as I know, its neither a Constitutional nor a statutory body. What provides it with such an important policy mandate?
- Tarunabh Khaitan said...
thank you anuj. another reader has asked me very difficult questions through email, and both of your comments have made me think further on some of my ideas. i had muddled too many issues in my post. here are some comments and clarifications:
1. i concede that policy-making and legislation do not entirely overlap. parliamentary preeminence only lies in the field of legislation.
2. there is a difference between initiating, discussing and scrutinising legislation and finalising it. parliament alone has the say in the latter. but with regard to initiating, discussing and scrutinising legislation, i am told, and i think rightly so, that parliament cannot be the only institution doing it. i concede this readily. many official and non-official institutions must play a role at the pre-legislative stage. but i can still restate my case (less strongly) - while we need pre-legislative work to be done at various fora, we should not invent new fora solely for the reason that parliament is not doing what it is supposed to do. if there is a problem with parliament, fix it (the main post suggests some ways of doing it).
3. parliament may not have an exclusive pre-legislative role (initiating, discussing and scrutinising legislation), but it must have a preeminent and prominant role in this regard. this claim relates to issues of political legitimacy (rather than procedural discomforts). if parliament is to enjoy political legitimacy that apex legislatures depend upon, it should not have any institutional rivals that can approximate its roles (even in perception). a politically powerful, unrestricted, NAC has the potential to delegitimise parliamentary preeminence.
4. the final worry in my post related to the undemocratic and unaccountable nature of the NAC. this worry also lies at the heart of Anuj's question. I really don't know what is the legal basis for the existence of the planning commission, whether its members have to satisfy any qualifications, who they are accountable to etc. if it does not have statutory or constitutional mandate, we must worry about the planning commission just as we worry about the NAC (of course, with the caveat that the NAC performed a more obvious 'legislative' role than, i suspect, planning commission does).
So, the NAC should either remain an unofficial/non-governmental body, or it must find statutory basis where its powers, functions, qualifications for membership, terms of reference and accountability structures are strictly defined.
in this light, let me restate the final sentence of my original post:
'Official/governmental fora where policy and legislation are initiated, discussed and scrutinised must be democratic, transparent, accountable, and (perhaps) have statutory pedigree. They should not impinge upon Parliament's formal powers, nor should they challenge or appear to challenge its legislative preeminence.'
- Prasan Dhar said...
I think tarunabh has tabled an important point. and his clarification is welcome. but i think his suggestion is still too strong. although his concerns of legitimacy are correct, i dont think that the NAC will ever impinge on parliament's formal (even informal) powers. the ruling party should be free to consult whoever it wishes. after all, isnt the IAS something like the NAC, only formalized? but formality is not the issue. the issue i think tarunabh raises (i think he does) is that one cannot have whoever one wants on the NAC. if we wish to subject MPs to minimum qualifications like not having committed a crime, then so should members of the NAC. but i think that is the only limited sense in which we should meddle with the NAC. just like we want to minimize who we can legitimately elect to parliament.
- Rohit said...
Tarunabh, thanks for starting this fascinating discussion.
The Planning Commission is a non-statutory body and was set up under a government resolution. The history of the planning commission as an institution goes back to 1940 where the Congress Party set up a National Planning Committee and invited experts to join. The role played by the planning commission is arguably important than legislation since it determines allocation and priority of functions and initiates several government projects.
If anything, the NAC appears to be a counter balance to the Planning Commission emphasizing the social over the economic.
The key problem here is not the existence of the NAC (indeed its formalization makes it more accountable, than a scenario where Mrs Gandhi had a group of experts advising her behind the scenes) but its the gradual irrelevance of parliament. Even before the NAC, under the NDA or UF governments parliamentary debate was kept to a minimum and most legislations were passed almost formulaically. The NAC does not challenge the parliament's legislative preemminence any more than unelected bureaucrats in the Law Ministry .
The reasons for this are both structural and 'cultural'. Chief amongst them are the strong anti-defection laws, coupled with (as Nick Robinson) pointed out the lack of support that most MP's have.
Perhaps, one needs to reconsider whether India needs to fit into the norms of liberal political theory, whose claims of universality have been successfully challenged. Partha Chatterjee has recently argued that the Indian electorate expectations are different from their representatives. So perhaps, Westminister practices cannot be used as a benchmark from which India (and I suspect most of the world) seems a deviation. Perhaps, we need to think examine more closely the provinciality of much of our political theory.
I have not seen any criticism of the NAC on the grounds of it being non transparent. In several ways, due to the involvement of social activists, its functioning was more transparent than the Cabinet and the Planning Commission.
The strongest point of concern raised by both Tarunabh and Anuj is perhaps the question of democratic gap. Yet, I am not sure whether a situation where the NAC members were all elected to the Rajya Sabha and sat in the same Parliamentary sub committee have would greatly reduce this perceived democratic deficit.
NAC's legitimacy comes from Sonia Gandhi and the Congress Mandate. Yes, the Congress is not the only political party with a power center outside the government. The Left and the BJP have their equivalents, though they are no where as dominant.
There is a lot of scope of criticism for individual projects that the NAC under this regime or if resurrected by other regimes might carry out.
- Shamnad Basheer said...
apart from this important issue that you raise, the whole issue of legislation and law making itself needs to be subjected to more intense scrutiny and debate. Many bills are never made public (for debate) till they are tabled in Parliament. The Indian Bayh Dole bill (which many of us vehemently opposed) is an example in this regard. The copyright bill is another example. The government claims that there is no legal mandate to make it public prior to introduction in Parliament--and I suspect they are technically right. However, from a broader constitutional perspective, if "democratic" ideals have to have some meaning, shouldnt we able to legally insist on a more meaningful participatory legislative exercise?
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Because it's a topic that, like domestic abuse, still drags the weight of whispers, seeing 25 women talk about it openly in Woman On Fire, a new documentary by local filmmaker Kathleen Laughlin, is something of a revelation. (Go ahead and laugh at the title, by the way--you have the director's blessing.) I wondered if it wasn't tough getting these women "of an age" to pipe up. "I've done documentaries where I had to hold hands and cajole them," says Laughlin, whose past projects include Unwasted Stories, about a garbage burner; Junkie (with Martha Boesing); and My People Are My Home, on Meridel LeSueur. "[This time] there were actually friends of people begging to be in the film...I think because people haven't talked about it, it comes pouring out."
In a pastiche of animation, nature footage, and dramatized black-and-white scenes from Laughlin's youth, these women let loose as if speaking to their closest girlfriend though most had never met Laughlin before: "I became the world's worst bitch!"..."Waves of paranoia--what will I do, what will become of me?" Hot flashes. A new shot of testosterone. A tense collusion of terror and reclaiming the Inner Ass-kicker.
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About 30 kids, many of them toddlers, showed up for a recent gig in Peavey Park, where sunburned homeless people sat on benches, young men with cell phones stood under trees, and a police car rolled slowly through the green. With a young man off to one side doing voices, keyboards, and percussion, and with a painted backdrop of Lake Street, the show was a montage of scenes using masks, painted cardboard props, and those famous jumbo puppets. "Everyday Magic" looks at a young man's Greyhound odyssey to Chicago and Detroit; a dreadlocked flute player adds a dose of beauty to this otherwise tragic tale of black migration. In "Dog Love," a stray dog meets and falls in love with another stray. He steals food from a meat shop for her, only to have her rounded up by the blue-and-white dog catcher paddy wagon.
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When trying to configure the joint compiler to treat java compile warnings as errors I tried to set the following javac args:
- -Xlint:all
- -Werror
I found that -Xlint:all worked, but -Werror gave me an error saying that it was an unrecognised option. After some digging it seems that the joint compiler prefixes all options bound for javac with -F, which means the lint option was transformed to "-FXlint:all" but the -Werror option didn't get this same transformation. If I manually added the "-F" making it "-FWerror" everything worked as it should.
I went looking for whereabouts this prefixing gets applied to try and determine why it wasn't happening to "-Werror" but couldn't find it.
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-X options become -FX in joint compilation here: https://github.com/groovy/groovy-core/blob/GROOVY_1_9_BETA_3/src/main/org/codehaus/groovy/ant/Groovyc.java#L751
javac -help doesn't show -W options. Is "-Werror" an officially supported option?
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/tball/archive/2006/11/get_medieval_on.html calls 'Werror' a hidden option.
Although, it should probably do no harm to allow it if Ant allows it.
If no one has any objection, I can add jointOptions.add(optionStr.replace("-W", "-FW")); to support -Werror in joint compilation.
what -W options do exist?
>> what -W options do exist?
Looking at JDK make files, I can see options like:
-Wno-unused -Wno-parentheses -Werror
But why? Does the decision depend on what options are there? Or is it more like being a pass through to Javac like Ant, and not bother about the specifics of the options?
The amount was interesting to me to see if we do that for a general thing or for just a few options. -X is used with in many combinations, so it is really worth it. -W options is partly undocumented and kind of non-official. Also there exists a way to get this working.
Roshan and Luke, you guys think this is really worth it?
One more thing to say... I actually think this kind of forwarding is a bit problematic for us. Adding -W as a forwarding means we cannot use it ourselves. I actually would have been against the -X version, but I missed that issue I think. The only reason I am considering this here at all, is because we have -X. Which makes it a bit a weak argumentation chain for me.
Jochen: so are you proposing that we do nothing and require users to prefix the args themselves?
I am not yet proposing, I want more to see your opinions on this
Anything short of being able to just specify the same args I would specify to javac is going to be confusing. It would just be implementation detail leaking through.
but two things speak against that argumentation:
(1) not all java compilers support that option
(2) you give this option to the groovy compiler in the first place, not the java compiler. Controlling the java compiler is supposed to work with -F and -J.
Not sure that (1) is relevant, if the Java compiler doesn't support it should complain and not Groovy.
As for (2), how so? If I nest a <javac> element I would expect as a user for it to be the same as a regular <javac> element. The fact that it behaves differently because it is nested inside <groovyc> is not obvious at all (and shouldn't be).
I also happen to think that Groovy should not block -W options in reaching javac from nested <javac> elements.
It seems inconsistent that in joint compilation, a user can pass one option to javac as <compilerarg value="-Xlint:all">, and for other, he needs to do <compilerarg value="-FWerror">.
Sorry, guys, I did totally oversee that this is for the ant task, not for the command line.
But then there should be actually a more general approach. Not only the -W and -X options should be given through, but everything. For example the -g variants. Only problem in that is we would have to check for an assignment, to then use -J, or -F if there is none. The Jikes compiler for example has +K options. Though I think the javac element we have does not support a jikes in fork mode.
What do you think Roshan, Luke?
I guess there's not many other options than just amending the list as new args are found.
+1 to Luke's suggestion. Otherwise it is un-necessarily stuck holding even the options that we know about.
ok then.. Roshan, you want to take the issue?
Done. In joint compilation, -W options are now passed to javac like -X options.
Nice one Roshan, thanks.


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text: AYM summit: A meetup for the world's youth activists David Rowan's Blog 10 March 10 by David Rowan AYM I'm at the Alliance for Youth Movements (AYM) summit in London, at the Intercontinental Hotel. The two-day summit, which ends tomorrow, is an impressive gathering of youth activists from more than 18 countries, NGOs and tech giants, here to learn more about using online tools to promote their extraordinary range of social movements and promote non-violent change. You can read more about the AYM here.At the opening reception last night, hosted at Google's headquarters, I met a smart bunch of people from organizations such as Blue State Digital (which ran Obama's online campaign), Howcast, Middle East peace activists One Voice, and the East London-based Young Foundation.But the highlight is an A-list bunch of conference speakers at the conference today and tomorrow -- including Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP, Scott Heiferman of MeetUp, as well as top people from Google, YouTube and the World Bank. Other keynote speakers include Jeremy Gilley, the former actor who founded Peace One Day, and Joe Rospars, who was the new-media director for Obama for America.There's strong representation here from Washington DC. This morning, Jared Cohen, of the US State Department, moderated a session titled Seizing the Moment: Responding to Crises and Mobilizing Around Key Events. That had speakers from Mobile Accord, Ushahidi, Mazahery Law, AccessNow and the Censorship Research Center. I'm now sitting in a session called Turning Video into Tangible Action, featuring experts such as Ramya Raghaven of YouTube, Levi Felix of Causecast, and Chris Sarette, Invisible Children.There's much discussion of how to produce a viral video to spread the word about an urgent crisis -- a panelist who's involved in the Robin Hood Tax campaign (to promote a redistributive 0.05% tax on final transactions) is currently explaining how getting the help of director Richard Curtis helped the campaign soar.Now a human-rights activist from Israeli NGO B'Tselem is explaining how they gave 250 cameras to Palestinians in the West Bank to document the reality of local life. Not to activists, but to ordinary families, such as a 16-year-old in Hebron whose one-minute video about her frustrations became national news and influenced official policy on law-enforcement in Hebron. It wasn't about using new media -- it was about using traditional tools to provoke established media to notice a story that had been under the radar.It's an inspiring event, geared towards helping activists share top-level information and making connections that lead to significant change. You can sense the scale of their practical ambition from the title of some of the sessions: one is called Tech Solutions to Repressive Regimes; another is titled Effective Strategies for Mobile Content to Increase Empowerment. You can follow the conference's live stream here: http://www.movements.org. Edited by Nate Lanxon Latest on wired.co.uk


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Windows 8 is Microsoft's latest computer virus that installs on your hard drive just like an operating system. It was released on
26th October 2012 and took 24 years to develop, and so far has lost Microsoft $90,000,000.
In 1985, two operating systems were being planned out by the Blinky Smoked Meats and Fishes company, which would later become Microsoft. One was a primitive DOS-based 8-bit system codenamed "Lansing", and an NT-based 128-bit OS codenamed "Whore". In alpha tests, Whore would freeze and crash because its graphics system was incompatible with the primitive computers of yesteryear, so they ditched Whore, and continued on with Lansing, which would be released as "Windows 1.01".
22 years later, when new, more graphically enhanced technology was being developed, they started working on Whore again. Unfortunately, it couldn't be completed by the deadline, so Microsoft was forced to merge Windows 7 and the iPhone's codes and repackage it as Windows 8.
Windows 8 is the greatest...all hail Lord Bill Gates...Windows 8 is the greatest...all hail Lord Bill Gates...Fuck Apple...
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Windows 8 universally got negative feedback that had absolutely no positive reception, by the morons who pretend to be pros that they asked to test this OS's non-existant awesomeness. They expected something good, but got something totally unoriginal. PC World gave it a 0.5, the only rating they can give something that is crap, like anything Microsoft.
The disaster that this OS caused macs so much pain with lots of non-existantawesomeness of Windows 8 caused Microsoft to gain nothing, and lose $90,000,000, and Bill Gates was so happy he was not going to heaven, but still got kicked out of his posh mansion. You can see him on the corner of 98th and Woodinville in Redmond, working as a guy who helps people. A.k.a. a prostitute.
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a few seconds, we watched the creek burst through the canebrake where the otters live and spread over the floodplain on the opposite bank. Soon the wild brown water carried huge trees and odd items of farm equipment.
Inspired by the Missouri Department of Conservation Stream Team program, we've been working to protect and improve the stream corridor on our land. I've planted more than 100 saplings of native witch hazel, false indigo, spicebush, buttonbush, chokecherry and water tupelo along the creek bank. I wondered if they'd be able to hang on through the flood.
The water rose quickly that morning but stopped within feet of our door. By 7 p.m., the sun broke through and offered what seemed a magical light, though an ominous black cloud lingered in the sky.
We rescued a bluebird that had flown into the woodstove flue for protection. The water introduces us to all kinds of wildlife. We've spotted snapping turtles basking on old logs or rummaging along the bottom, nearly transparent minnows flocking in the shallows, flamboyant kingfishers, lumbering muskrats and shy river otters.
That glistening evening a grandiose lime-green luna moth decorated our door, along with a gray tree frog that was probably awaiting insects drawn to the outside light. The frog's camouflage did not work well against the cedar logs. We spotted a Baltimore oriole with its flaming-orange chest and a rose-breasted grosbeak at the feeders. They had just arrived to scout the land for the females that would be following.
During a lull in the rain, we walked our woodland trails and enjoyed the brilliance of newly washed wild plants. The pokeweed looked so fresh that we picked some for supper. You have to boil the leaves in three changes of water, but they make a delicious "spinach" on pasta with a little cheese.
Spring is best time for fresh wild greens. I'm learning to identify the edibles and am experimenting with including them in meals. A wild leaf salad of chickweed, young dandelion, plantain and violet leaves decorated with white, yellow and blue violet flowers and dark-pink redbud flowers looks and tastes astonishing.
When the warm rains come, everyone's attention turns to edible morel mushrooms. My husband is fascinated by all the fungi that grows here. Some mushrooms are toxic, so I advise him not to eat anything unless a local expert approves it.
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Hostess is bankrupt? Now Michelle Obama's healthy eating campaign is KILLING JOBS!
Hostess is bankrupt? Now Michelle Obama's healthy eating campaign is KILLING JOBS!
There's a Hostess Bakery in Columbus. I'm thinking of taking off work and helping them haul stuff off.
Would this be a "down Twinkies?"
Let them eat Little Debbie Snack Cakes.
Wait. Doesn't Hostess make "Suzy Q's ?"
@Rock Thrower: Nutty Bars…mmmmm.
I was randomingly thinking about all the rain we've had here. I fear we are entering a period of global wetting.
I told to tell them but they didn't listen. "Nobody wants tuna pies" they said. Now look where they are.
lmao @DamnCat, that's funny!
I forecasted this when Hostess sank too much R&D investment into their flagging SnoBalls division. Those things have been a dead-end from Day 1.
Bitterly clinging to my cup cakes and twinkies. From my cold dead hands woman
Speaking of R&D (which is the best I can do for a segue), I was grepping about for some technical information and somehow stumbled onto this German Military Skunkworks site (totally safe for work). Have the Gerries uncovered our plans to weaponize dinosaurs? Will Obama address the "goat gap," and if he does, will we enter the goat race? Can we begin to contemplate thousands of weaponized goats stampeding across the lowlands?
Well, the good news is you can stockpile a twenty-years' supply of Twinkies and they won't go bad.
"Tuna pies" ?
Rejected even by Tuna predators.
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Get your paws off my Twinkie you derned dirty Sasquatch!
This just in: bill clinton seen holding hands with wife as Twinkie withdrawal makes him delirious.
If every American would just buy 1 box of Twinkies and 1 box of Hostess-O's and mail them to the White House, we would save Hostess and bail out the postal service at the same time. Not to mention increase Michelle's waistline.
@Obamaaintmymama – and Barry wouldn't have to wake up the chef every time he gets "the munchies".
I guess Hostess lost out to Solyndra.
Why is everyone worried? With the shelf life of Twinkies, it will be at least 100 years before we even need to worry about a new supply.
Man, what kind of DingDong is running that place?
I hope the guvmint doesn't bail them out.
It's been so long since a well-known company in this country went through an old-fashioned bankruptcy reorganization that maybe people have forgotten that there IS a system in place to handle this sort of thing without making a big hairy 'Crisis' out of it.


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Trust No One
The first of the three spots, "Let's See," is actually a revision of the sarcastic, widely panned "Really." Gore's still blathering on a TV set in the kitchen, but a soothing piano soundtrack has been added, and the female announcer criticizes him directly instead of ridiculing him. The voice we hear complains about the 1996 campaign-finance scandal and then hops to the accusation that Gore's education accountability plan lacks teeth because it "doesn't require any real testing."
While this ad is less of a turnoff than its ancestor, it continues to suffer from a lack of coherence. The essential flaw is that the two problems that it tries to connect—the Buddhist temple fund-raiser and Gore's flimsy education standards—are miles apart. What's more, neither issue is precisely about credibility, the theme that is supposed to unite them. You can tell that this ad is a bit afraid of its own tail from the way it buries its real slam in the text of the mandatory disclosure line: "GoreWillSayAnything.com Paid for by the Michigan Republican State Committee." To have the announcer utter that comment would have sounded too personal and harsh. But by not saying this aloud, the ad pulls its punch and comes across as both vicious and timid, like a bully who hits and runs.
By the time the RNC released "Notebook" just over a week later, Bush's strategists recognized that even more modulated Gore-slamming wasn't turning the race around. So the approach of their negative ads became less personal still. Instead of focusing on Gore's untrustworthiness, "Notebook" concentrates its fire on his favorite policy. It's a classic "contrast" ad about the two candidates' prescription-drug plans. That the pictures are mostly of text being typed out on a yellow notebook is supposed to underscore its substantiality. But while the ad isn't nasty, it's far more deceptive than either of its predecessors.
You made the point about the $600 "access fee" that is actually a projected premium in 2008. But I think the smarmiest charge comes in the repeated assertion that Gore's plan would force seniors into a "Government HMO." Bush began making this metaphorical point a while ago. His argument was that Gore's government-run plan would operate like an HMO, since administrators would decide what medications to cover. As long as he used the word "like," Bush was within the bounds of fair comment. But in this ad, the RNC drops the metaphor and turns the charge literal, as Bush has also been doing lately out on the stump. And as a factual statement, the charge is simply false. Gore's prescription-drug plan wouldn't be a Government HMO any more than Medicare is now a Government HMO. "Gore's plan: When seniors turn 64, they must join a drug HMO, selected by Washington, or they're on their own," the announcer continues. That's not only untrue, it's what would happen under Bush's proposed system (which the ad describes as one under which "seniors choose"). Gore's plan envisions retirees receiving drug benefits under fee-for-service Medicare. It's Bush's alternative that would create pressure on recipients to join managed care plans. I happen to think that's a sound idea, by the way. But Bush is denying his own plan's intended consequences and attributing them to his opponent. I guess we're into the "he who smelt it, dealt it" phase of the campaign.
The rhetorical softening continues in the most recent RNC spot, "Education Recession." This ad, too, is based on a metaphor. Schools are in such bad shape that it's as if they're in a "recession." The use of this term is a sly bit of political marketing. Obviously, the economy is in great shape, which is Bush's principal problem as a candidate. So the Republicans are trying to implant the notion—liminally, if not subliminally—that things haven't been so good under Clinton and Gore anyhow. And while the statistics in this ad about how badly schools are doing are all disputable, Bush keeps his main charge defensible by leaving it vague.
Style does more of the work in this one. As the narrator explains that Clinton and Gore are "failing our kids," we watch a slow-moving black-and-white slide show of abandoned, anomic children. When the narrator switches to discussing what Bush has done for education in Texas, the ad turns into a vivid color movie about students learning to read and proudly graduating from high school. This visual gimmick begs the question of which candidate's education record is stronger. Whose schools do you prefer, it asks—Dorothea Lange's or Steven Spielberg's?
"Education Recession" is a solid, slick spot much more like the well-produced Bush campaign ads than the previous, clumsy RNC ones. The credit line "Cold Harbor Films" remains the same. But the rapid improvement suggests that folks in Austin, Texas, may be supervising their B-team a bit more closely.


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Max Sandlin is an old hand at campaigning.
While he's now identified as the husband of South Dakota's congresswoman, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, he served four terms in the House representing Texas House District 1.
On Monday, Sandlin, 58, was back on the campaign trail — and he was seeking votes in Kristi Noem's home county. Sandlin made several campaign stops in Hamlin County. He shook hands and met with voters in Estelline, Bryant and Lake Norden, all located in the northeast South Dakota county.
Noem, a state representative and the Republican candidate for the state's lone House seat, is originally from Hazel and now lives in Castlewood, both also located in Hamlin County. Sandlin didn't stop in those towns.
Hamlin County has long Republican roots. It was named for Hannibal Hamlin, who was the first vice president of the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln.
Bryant, one of the places where Sandlin met with voters, was once the home of Karl Mundt, the longest-serving congressman in South Dakota history. Mundt and his wife Mary taught school at Bryant High School and he also served as superintendent of the school district.
The Bryant School District no longer exists; it was merged with other local schools to form the Hamlin School District. That's the school that Noem graduated from in 1990.
Sandlin also made stops in nearby Lake Preston in Kingsbury County and in Arlington, which is located mostly in Kingsbury County. A small piece of the town is in Brookings County. Sandlin and Herseth Sandlin now live in Brookings.
Sandlin will continue to hit the road in the closing days of the campaign, according to Betsy Hart, Herseth Sandlin's deputy campaign manager.
Another veteran Democratic politician who is related to Herseth Sandlin will also be on the road shaking hands and making the case for the incumbent, Hart said. Lars Herseth, the candidate's father, will hit the trail. Herseth is a former longtime legislator who was the 1986 Democratic candidate for governor.
His father Ralph Herseth served on term as governor, from 1959-60, and his mother Lorna was secretary of state from 1973-1979. Both Ralph and Lorna Herseth have passed away.
Three Democrats who are very much alive are playing a reduced role in the Herseth Sandlin campaign: George McGovern, Tom Daschle and Tim Johnson.
Neither McGovern nor Daschle has made an appearance with the congresswoman and Johnson has so far just appeared at an event in Aberdeen, according to Hart.
The two former senators and the state's senior senator are all very much identified as Democrats, while Herseth Sandlin is reluctant to use that word. It only appears once on her campaign website: In describing her father as the 1986 Democratic candidate for governor.


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Jim Burroway
October 14th, 2008
Regina Griggs, past LaBarbara Award winner, has out out another press release under her PFOX banner, announcing that they are suing the Washington D.C. Office of Human Rights for "failing to protect former homosexuals under its sexual orientation anti-discrimination law." And get this:
The ex-gay community is the most bullied and maligned group in America, yet they are not protected by sexual orientation non-discrimination laws," said Regina Griggs, PFOX executive director.
"Former homosexuals and their friends have been fired from their jobs, repeatedly ridiculed, assaulted, and intimidated. This harassment is most often perpetrated by the same groups who demand protection under sexual orientation laws but work to deny ex-gays the same respect."
Really? The ex-gay community is the most bullied and maligned group in America?
Really, Regina? Are you serious?
Chutzpah isn't a strong enough word to describe this outrage. I am truly at a loss for words. I'll let you take over in the comments.
Please provide examples of LGBT people and/or ex-gays being bullied, murdered, or fired from their jobs. I'm all ears.
[Hat tip: Stefano]
PFOX's Griggs Goes Off the Deep End
Timothy Kincaid
July 30th, 2008
PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays) claims to be a support group of parents and others that support and work for the interests of their ex-gay children and friends. However, a closer look at their activism reveals that they are comprised mostly of a handful of ex-gays, a few parents that wish their children were not gay, and some others who just want to "fight the homosexual agenda".
And while there may be a place for an organization that fights for civil inclusion for those who identify as ex-gay, this group does not fulfill that function.
Ex-gays face discrimination and hostility in society – most of it based on perceptions and stereotypes. It is not unknown for ex-gay men to appear less masculine or ex-gay women to appear more so than social norms may expect. And while they may have religious objections to homosexuality, many of the employment, housing, and other protections that gay people seek would also benefit those ex-gays who may appear to be gender atypical. So any organization seeking to better the lives of ex-gays could find common cause with the LGBT community on a number of issues.
But PFOX has no interest in common cause. Or even in the civil protections of ex-gays.
PFOX pays but nominal attention to ex-gays and instead expends its efforts in seeking to restrict services and information for gay people, primarily youth. And they have a long history of showing little regard for truth, decency, or integrity in their efforts.
They have distorted the work of reputable scientists, made wild accusations against various schools and youth programs, manufactured "attacks" by gay activists, hurled vile insults against those who disagree with them, and, most recently mangled research to exploit suicide statistics for political positioning.
But now Regina Griggs, and PFOX, have bested themselves. They now have made a claim so phenomenally ridiculous, so homophobic (in the traditional sense of the word), that even anti-gays should be driven to mocking them.
As reported by the American Family Association's OneNewsNow, Griggs opposes Gay-Straight Alliances and other safe spaces for gay teens:
Research shows that individuals often go through periods of gender and sexual confusion as they grow from children to teenagers to adults. Griggs wonders why, then, would schools opt to send children along a dangerous path. "Why are we allowing people to tell them, 'Try it — you might like it?' Over 70 percent of young kids 13- to 24-years-old, men having sex with men, are now HIV-positive," Griggs notes.
Seventy Percent?
That claim is phenomenally stupid, even by anti-gay standards.
As Ed Brayton at ScienceBlogs.com notes:
According to the 2000 census figures, there are roughly 50 million people between the age of 13 and 24. Slightly more than half would be female, so let's say conservatively that there are 22 million men between those ages. If 2% of them are MSM, that's 440,000. The percentage of HIV positive MSM between 13 and 24 is more like 3.1%, a far cry from 70%. Okay, it's probably a bit higher than that because there will be some men in that age group who were diagnosed before 2001, but at the absolute outside we're talking 5%, not 70%.
I might calculate using different variables, but Brayton is right. HIV infection in gay youth, or even in sexually active gay youth, is FAR from 70%.
Griggs is either a wanton liar or a raging loon. Perhaps both.
I calculate around 0.7% of all gay youth aged 13 to 24 are now HIV-positive.
PFOX Misrepresents LGBT Suicide Research
Jim Burroway
July 22nd, 2008
It's very difficult to imagine a more disgusting, callous and cynical act than exploiting the very real problem of LGBT youth suicides for political gain. But that is exactly what PFOX has done. And they did it by deliberately misrepresenting some of the important research studying the very real problem.
PFOX recently responded to a Washington Post article on Gay-Straight Alliances in schools last week:
The Washington Post recently ran a sympathetic article about a 15-year-old boy named Saro who described his homosexual feelings and how Gay Straight Alliance student clubs help such gay teens to deal with discrimination and bullying in high school and middle school.
"What the article failed to describe," said PFOX Executive Director Regina Griggs, "is the danger of young sexually confused teens self-identifying as gays at an early age. Research has shown that the risk of suicide decreases by 20% each year that a person delays homosexual or bisexual self-labeling. Early self-identification is dangerous to kids."
What Griggs failed to describe was exactly what the article she referenced actually said. That article was "Risk Factors for Attempted Suicide in Gay and Bisexual Youth" by Dr. Gary Remafedi and colleagues (Pediatrics 87 (June 1991): 869-875). This study only looked at a non-representative sample of 137 boys, which means that it is not the kind of study one can draw such specific conclusions. Among the many caveats of this study was that "The circumstances, prevalence, and severity of suicide attempts in this cohort may not reflect the general population of homosexually oriented boys."
Wayne Besen contacted Dr. Remafedi, who supplied this response:
My work has been cited by PFOX in response to a Washington Post article on gay-straight alliances (GSA)," wrote Dr. Remafedi. "PFOX misuses one of my studies on suicide attempts in gay youth to argue that people should not identify their sexual orientation at young ages. Our findings do not support the contention that young people choose their identity or the timing of events in identity formation. Nor is there any evidence that the availability of GSAs influences those developmental processes.
Speaking of Fair Weather Friends…
Jim Burroway
November 9th, 2007
We already mentioned Joseph Nicolosi and Rigina Griggs, whose organizations once pretended they never heard of Richard Cohen last March when the world was laughing at his appearance on Comedy Central's The Daily Show. Now that it looks like the coast is clear, Nicolosi and Griggs back out of the closet and endorsing his latest book, Gay Children, Straight Parents.
More questions are arising as to whether Cohen himself may be a fair weather friend to Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, known colloquially as the "Moonies." He had been a member of thee Unification Church for twenty years, and his marriage is an arranged marriage that he said was suggested by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon himself. Cohen says that he left the Unification Church in 1995 and now professes to be a Christian.
But more recently, Cohen's organization, the International Healing Foundation, was listed by the Freedom Of the Mind Center, a cult awareness web site, as a Moon Cultural and Social Front. Cohen denied the charge, calling it a "slander." But questions about his links continue to pile up. Warren Throckmorton has been compiling a rather exhaustive dossier on the question.
What do you think? Moonie, or just Loonie?
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From Buggery To Huggery: Richard Cohen Has A Plan For Your Family
Richard Cohen's Back In The Saddle Again
Jim Burroway
November 9th, 2007
So here's the puzzling thing. It was just last March when Cohen's hilarious demonstration of his "holding" therapy on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show proved to be such an embarrassment that Exodus publicly disassociated themselves from Cohen, while NARTH (headed at the time by Joseph Nicolosi) and PFOX (headed by Regina Griggs) quietly scrubbed all references to him on their web sites.But now it looks like Nicolosi and Griggs are willing to let bygones be bygones. Look at these two endorsements printed on the back of Cohen's latest book, Gay Children, Straight Parents:
"Richard is movingly candid about the brokenness in his own family life, and he's not afraid to get down in the trenches and cry, mourn and laugh with everyone else who struggles. This book offers sound practical advice for healing family relationships."
— Joseph Nicolosi, author of Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality and Preventing Homosexuality: A Parent's Guide
We all want the best for our children. Please read this book and follow Richard's suggestions for building a healthy parent-child relationship, one based on unconditional love and mutual respect."
—Regina Griggs, national director, PFOX
Among the "sound practical advice" that Cohen offers in Gay Children, Straight Parents is the same therapy that he demonstrated on CCN, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and on Comedy Central. Cohen's "suggestions for building a healthy parent-child relationship" haven't changed one iota since they first appeared in his 2000 book, Coming Out Straight. So why are they now endorsing something that they found so terribly embarrassing then? Maybe Cohen's fair weather friends are ready to rejoin Cohen's huggery bandwagon after all.
You can read all about each of his twelve steps for parents in our latest report, From Buggery To Huggery: Richard Cohen Has A Plan For Your Family.
The LaBarbera Award: PFOX's Regina Griggs
Jim Burroway
September 5th, 2007
Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) Executive Director Regina Griggs has long co-opted the status of a persecuted minority by describing a strange parallel universe where homosexuality is perfectly accepted and it's the ex-gays who experience "discrimination." Her organization works aggressively against gays and lesbian families at all levels, but if anyone expresses any opposition to her efforts they are labeled as engaging in "discrimination against the ex-gay community." She's even positioned "ex-gay" as another kind of orientation. To support this line of argument, Griggs has a long history of blowing criticisms out of proportion to prop up the idea that the so-called "ex-gay community" is a persecuted minority under constant siege.
In her most recent example, Griggs claimed that members of her PFOX organization were "attacked" at the Arlington, Va County Fair:
As happens every year, gay activists disrupted our booth activities. They screamed obscenities, threw our materials from the exhibit table to the ground, insisted we recognize their same-sex "spouses," demanded that PFOX leave, and hit a PFOX volunteer because he is ex-gay.
One gay man went so far as to hit our ex-gay volunteer because he refused to recant his ex-gay testimony. We summoned a police officer, who ejected the gay man off of the fairgrounds. Our ex-gay volunteer decided not to press assault charges against the gay man because he wanted to turn the other check as Jesus had done.
This is not the first year that PFOX has had to summon the police for protection from gay activists.
This story was picked up all around the anti-gay circuit, including Focus on the Family's Citizenlink webzine and Family News In Focus radio program. But it appears that this incident didn't really happen. Ex-Gay Watch's David Roberts did some digging and has the story:
Since PFOX stated that the police were "summoned" and that they "ejected the gay man off the fairgrounds" we decided to check with the Arlington County Police Department…
We contacted the Arlington PD and ended up speaking with John Lisle of the Media Relations/Legislative Affairs Office. He had no initial knowledge of such an incident. After checking briefly, he again said that no one was aware of such an incident. So we sent a copy of the PFOX statement to him at which time he agreed to check more thoroughly. After over two days of research, there was nothing he could add to his statement; no report exists and no one recalls such an incident.
David Roberts also learned that Arlington County Fair officials hadn't heard of any problems either. In a follow-up story, he reported:
Yesterday, we spoke with Jackie Abrams, Vice Chair of the Arlington County Fair. According to Abrams, no physical altercation occurred, police were never called and no one was ejected from the fairgrounds – she was emphatic and certain. "I was in radio contact with the other board members during the Fair, and definitely would have known if the police had been summoned. It did not happen [her emphasis]," said Abrams. She added that her calls to PFOX, and specifically to PFOX president Regina Griggs, had gone unanswered.
David Roberts also spoke with two eyewitnesses who worked at nearby booths. Each reported an incident of a heated discussion, but neither of them saw anything physical — no shoving, no hitting, no police or fair officials escorting anyone off the property.
In other words, there is no shred of evidence that anything happened the way Griggs describe it. In fact, all evidence suggests that this is just another one of her many attention-grabbing stunts.
This isn't the first time Griggs has claimed victimhood status for ex-gays. It's been a long-running theme of hers, and she's been very diligent in coopting the experience and the language of the gay rights movement. One of her best examples can be found in this letter she sent to the APA last March:
The ex-gay movement is a civil rights movement to ensure the inclusion of former homosexuals in all realms of society and to support the ex-gay community's equal access to schools on the same level as gays currently enjoy. Ex-gays and their supporters should not have to be closeted for fear of other's negative reactions or disapproval. They do not think something is wrong with them because they decided to fulfill their heterosexual potential. Nor do they believe others should condemn them for the personal decision they have made for their lives. Because of the abuse heaped upon them by society, former homosexuals experience discrimination at every level.
The PFOX website's "About" page has more examples where the "ex-gay community" experiences "abuse heaped upon them by society." And in the most amazing turn of logic, they go so far as to claim that anti-discrimination and hate crime laws which identify sexual orientation as a factor for protection somehow "legitimize intolerance against former homosexuals" — a notion that is both ludicrous and blatantly false. The fact is, these laws protect everyone regardless of sexual orientation — including non-gays of all stripes, ex-gays among them.
But it's the last point which makes Grigg's hysterical notions of "discrimination at every level" so particularly outrageous. Terrance Heath recently began a huge undertaking with the LGBT Hate Crimes Project, and if Grigg's really wanted to understand the face of intolerance, she should look at a few of these examples:
• Michelle Abdill and Rhonda Ellis of Medford, Oregon were shot execution style on December 4, 1995 by Robert Acremant, who wrote a letter to his hometown newspaper saying that it was easier to kill them knowing they were lesbians.
• Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder of Redding, California were murdered on July 1, 1999 by white supremacist brothers Benjamin Matthew Williams and James Tyler Williams, who confessed to killing the couple because they were gay.
• Author Warren, a developmentally disabled gay man from Grant Town, West Virginia, was murdered on July 3, 2000 by two teenagers. After kicking and beating him, they drove him to the edge of town ran over him four times to disguise his death as a hit-and-run.
• Guin "Richie" Phillips disappeared on June 17, 2003. His body was found on June 25, 2003, stuffed in a suitcase in Rough River Lake. During Joshua Cottrell's trial, Cottrell's aunt and cousin testified that he planned to kill Phillips because he was gay.
• Michael Sandy died on October 13, 2006 after being hit by a car while trying to escape four attackers. His attackers later said they targeted Sandy because they were seeking gays to attack and rob.
Griggs might do well to consider that a little bit of perspective is in order. There were 1,171 hate crime incidents in 2005 based on sexual orientation. Twenty-three of those crimes were anti-heterosexual. It's quite possible that a few ex-gays might be caught up in that mix. If so, those crimes are every bit as deplorable as the other 1,148. But to try to compare the "ex-gay community's" experience with the very real discrimination and harassment that gays and lesbians experience across the country is beyond offensive.
If the "ex-gay community" has experienced abuse and discrimination "at every level," where are the ex-gays who were kicked out of the military for being ex-gay? Where are the ex-gays who have been fired from their jobs because they were ex-gay? Where is their answer to Daniel Fetty?
The "ex-gay community" should consider themselves blessed that they have no such answer.
But Regina Griggs isn't interested in counting blessings. Instead, she'd rather count something else. Notice how she ends her rant about the Arlington County Fair:
… Almost every day we are on the front lines suffering harassment and injustices merely because we demand our equal rights.
The public eats up our information because they have never been exposed to factual truth about same-sex attractions. Teens especially are eager for our educational literature. But our brochures and flyers cost money to print. We also have to pay for exhibit fees and travel. If you would like to help with costs, please make a tax deductible donation to …
Nice. Milking a non-event using hysterical hyperbole to raise money. The LaBarbera Award was created to highlight "the most outrageous, offensive, malevolent, crazy, or excessive statement or claim." Regina Griggs more than earned the award just on her latest drama-queen antics alone. Capping them with a fundraising appeal is just the rhetorical equivalent of running up the score. Congratulations, Regina. You'll be a hard act to follow.
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Philadelphia Apartment House Developer Offers Bike-Sharing For His TenantsThere will be three bicycles for residents to share at each of five Dranoff Properties' buildings: three in center city, one in Manayunk, and one on the Camden waterfront.
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