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2011 Kia Optima
By Cars.com,
Kia's midsize sedan used to be a forgettable car with an obscure name. (Optimal? Altima? Optimus Prime?) Today, the redesigned 2011 Kia Optima boasts sharp styling, competent driving dynamics and a cabin that leapfrogs other family sedans — and could stay in the lead for years to come.
Honda and Toyota should pay close attention to the Optima's success, which seems all but inevitable.
Trim levels for the car include the LX, uplevel EX and sport-tuned SX, with normally aspirated and turbocharged four-cylinder engines.
Assertive Styling
The Optima and its platform sibling, the Hyundai Sonata, are both sharp-looking cars, but the Optima looks better to my eye. Designed by Kia's studios in Germany and California, it's longer and wider than before, losing more than an inch of front and rear overhang versus its predecessor — a car that, in its final years, looked interesting up front but utterly forgettable everywhere else. What an improvement: The new Optima sports a clean, assertive profile. Its belt line rises simply, with no swooping curves or sudden kinks; the furrowed expression recalls many mid-decade Acuras. Kia has found a corporate face worth sticking to, and it doesn't matter so much that it's derivative — almost everything is these days.
Stick-shift LX models have 16-inch steel wheels with plastic covers; other cars get alloy wheels — 16-inchers on LX automatics and 17s on all EX models. One upscale touch: All models have body-colored side mirrors with integrated turn signals. EX cars add chrome door handles. The Optima SX gets a range of exterior appointments: xenon headlights, LED taillights, a small rear spoiler, various ground effects and 18-inch wheels. That description may sound gaudy, but the SX is tastefully done.
Competent Performance
Kia offers LX and EX trims with a 200-horsepower, direct-injection four-cylinder. Come December, a 274-hp, turbocharged four-cylinder will be optional in the EX and standard on the top-dog Optima SX. Alas, I didn't drive the turbo, just the normally aspirated EX models equipped with the Optima's staple transmission, a six-speed automatic. It's a capable pairing: The engine lacks the low-end oomph to come out of a corner in a high gear and accelerate uphill, but the transmission kicks down soon enough to get you back up to speed. On the highway, the car moves competently: Squeeze the accelerator two-thirds of the way down, give the automatic a beat to fetch 4th gear, and the Optima turns 60 mph into 80 mph with surprising vigor. It's no V-6 impersonator, but it represents a sort of halfway compromise that most owners should be able to live with — and appreciate, given the drivetrain's impressive 24/34 mpg city/highway EPA rating. Stick-shift models get a slightly better 24/35 mpg, while the turbo gets an impressive 22/34 mpg. Not bad, given both drivetrains run fine on regular gas.
Kia officials characterized the Optima's suspension tuning as decidedly firmer than the Sonata's — closer to a Mazda6 or Nissan Altima than a Toyota Camry or Chevy Malibu. The car rides a bit stiffer than its Hyundai counterpart, but not by much, and it's much better than the brittle Altima. On highways, our test car picked up the general rhythm of surfaces underneath it, but it didn't play them back staccato. Noise levels, too, are competitive — the Optima quells highway wind sounds better than road ones, but overall noise won't drown out conversations or music.
Product planner Ralph Tjoa said the EX shares suspension tuning with the LX, while the upcoming SX will have firmer shock absorbers, plus 18-inch wheels and lower-profile tires. The SX also dials back the steering wheel's power assist, which some will find too generous in LX and EX models. As in the base Sonata, steering the Optima around parking lots is a picnic. I'm fine with that, but the wheel doesn't firm up enough at higher speeds: Cruising down the highway at 80 mph, it still felt loose.
Find some back roads, and the car holds its own. The nose pushes a bit, and on curvy roads the steering reveals a degree of slop that doesn't plague the Mazda6 or Suzuki Kizashi. The Optima corners pretty flat for what it is, though; it refuses to pitch off-kilter into hard corners and throw its nose wide, tires squealing, like the Sonata and Camry do. The brakes are marvelous, too, with a strong, linear pedal sensation and little suspension dive on hard stops. EX turbo and all SX models have upgraded brakes, with front discs that measure a healthy 12.6 inches across.
The Inside
The Optima's cabin impressed us at its auto show introduction, and it held up over a daylong drive. Materials are good, with padded surfaces where they count — namely, along the door panels and armrests. The dashboard has Saab-like wraparound contours; Kia says the center controls are angled roughly 10 degrees toward the driver. Step up to the EX or SX, and the whole panel comes surrounded in a strip of stitched leatherette — the stuff of luxury cars just a few years ago. Our test car's faux-wood trim and metal shifter trim looked decent, and once you move up from the Optima LX, Kia shows merciful restraint with the shiny silver plastic that spoils too many interiors in this class.
The front seats have ample adjustment range, but after a few hours' driving I could feel harder pieces of the seat underneath the cushioning. Our test car's leather felt high-quality, but Kia could stand to crank up the padding. Kia states headroom as a decent 40 inches, but an optional panoramic moonroof knocks it down significantly. The automaker hasn't published a figure for those models, but most adults will have to lower their seat to compensate. I sat in a car without the moonroof, and the difference is as great as a couple of inches. By the numbers, the Optima has lost 2 cubic feet of passenger volume in its redesign, but its cabin volume is still comparable to the Camry. From the driver's seat, the cockpit seems a bit smaller; that's due mostly to the wraparound design, which enhances the impression of driver-centric sportiness — at the expense of overall space.
The backseat has decent legroom but, as in the Sonata, the seat sits close to the floor, leaving most adult passengers' knees in the air. Sitting upright, my head mashed into the ceiling. Trunk volume, however, is impressive: At 15.4 cubic feet, the Optima beats most of the class. Only the Sonata, Ford Fusion and Mazda6 have appreciably more.
A competitor to Ford's Sync system, Kia's newly optional UVO system stands for "Your Voice." Implemented in part by Microsoft — the company behind Sync — UVO indexes the content off a connected iPod or other compatible MP3 player; as with Sync, you can call up songs, playlists or artists on the stereo by saying their name. Kia demonstrated the system to journalists, and it works fluidly enough. Its female voice sounds more natural than Sync's robotic lady, and you can turn her off once you get the hang of things, which expedites the command response. UVO comes packaged with an upgraded stereo that has a new head unit with a small color display. Though you won't be able to get UVO with the Optima's top-shelf Infinity stereo and navigation system (which are packaged together), Kia plans to make the combination available soon. Other Kia models, starting with the Forte and Sportage, are also slated to get the system.
Safety, Features & Options
As of the start of the 2011 model year, the Optima has not been crash-tested by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Standard features include six airbags, all-disc antilock brakes, active front head restraints and an electronic stability system. One oversight: The rear center seat — the safest position for backseat passengers — lacks a head restraint.
As of this writing, Kia hasn't priced the Optima yet, but sales vice president Tom Loveless said he expects a stick-shift LX to start in the low $19,000s. The car comes well-equipped at that, with features like USB/iPod integration, steering-wheel audio controls, air conditioning and keyless entry. At the top end, the equipment list reads like that of a big luxury sedan: heated and cooled front seats, xenon high-intensity-discharge headlights, heated rear seats and a heated steering wheel. There's no word how much a loaded turbo Optima will cost, but given Kia's penchant for value, it will probably compete with a loaded Camry or Accord; both sedans can top $30,000.
Optima in the Market
The market's 15 family sedans — several on their last legs — have accounted for nearly one-sixth of all vehicle sales this year. The ubiquity can be oppressive: At Cars.com's eight-car family-sedan shootout last spring, our test-family parents, Jill and Ben Tiernan, remarked how similar everything was.
Indeed, shopping for a family car inspires all the excitement of choosing between Friday's, Chili's and Applebee's for a Saturday dinner. Until now, the Optima has owned a minuscule slice of the reheated apple pie, so to speak, selling on par with the nearly extinct Mercury Milan in August 2010. But this redesign could change that. Extravagant amenities, smart styling and, in all likelihood, good value stand to lift the car at least to midpack popularity. The Optima's slice is poised to get bigger, and deservedly so.
$18,995 – $25,995
EPA Fuel Economy:
City: 22 – 24
Highway: 34 – 35
Available Engines:
192-hp, 2.4-liter I-4 (regular gas)
200-hp, 2.4-liter I-4 (regular gas)
274-hp, 2.0-liter I-4 (regular gas)
Available Transmissions:
6-speed automatic w/OD and auto-manual
6-speed manual w/OD
New or Notable
• Redesigned for 2011
• Choice of two four-cylinders, including a 274-hp turbo engine
• Available hybrid version (beginning in 2011)
• Available heated and cooled seats, heated steering wheel
• Available voice-recognition audio system (beginning in 2011)
What We Like
• Sharp styling
• Richly appointed cabin
• Roomy trunk
• Standard USB/iPod integration
• Gas mileage


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Jetstream Podcast Ep 26: Keep Kane
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On this week's episode, the guys run through Kane's busy week, pick our biggest disappointments and surprises of the season, and begin our donation campaign to buyout Pav. All that, plus a few awesome questions from our listeners!
Game 77 @ Phoenix: Scoring Chances & Observations
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Coming off of one of the most epic collapses in Jets 2.0 history, the Jets faced a Phoenix team that had the opportunity to mathematically knock them out of playoff position. Yet somehow, with the odds stacked against them, the Jets pulled through and left the desert with a shootout win.
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JGD 76: The Tour of Respect
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Jets fans had their chance to say good bye to Teemu at the MTS Centre back on October 6th. But this will be his last game against the Jets. His 76 goals with that white Titan won't be forgotten for fans of a certain generation, and it seems Winnipeg left an impression on him as well. It's your last chance to see the Finnish sniper ply his trade against the Jets and reminisce about when he came over the Atlantic as a teenager.
But this game isn't just about Teemu.
The Jets have had a wild season. They've had deep lows, like the 9 losses in October with Scheifele falling all over the ice, or the 7 games Pavelec lost in December on the back of a stunningly bad .863 save percentage. But there have been times when the team looked next to unstoppable instead, even beating Anaheim and Chicago five days apart during the Paul Maurice honey moon where the team went 9-3-1 heading into the Olympic break.
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Lucky Tourists Get to Go to Museums for Free Today
After an two-week hiatus, the open air National Mall and the federally funded museums that line it were open for business Thursday morning, and things felt pretty much like they did before the Oct. 1 doomsday.
Families posed for awkward photos, groups of middle school students wearing the same school shirts huddled in front of museums, and about half the people on the Mall seemed to be staring at maps.
"We lucked out," said Bob Williams, from Iowa, who was headed to the Museum of Natural History with his wife. "Just like the government, we lucked out."
The Williams had booked their hotel before the government shutdown and couldn't have canceled their trip even if they wanted to. Same goes for the Norton Middle School eighth grade class, whose field trip from Columbus, Ohio, had been planned more than six months ago. They got in yesterday and had two itineraries: one for if the government was open, the other for if it was closed.
If the government was closed, the eighth graders would have seen at least 10 memorials over three days (which would have only been questionably legal). So the students, for better or worse, have been watching the news, learning about Congress, and hoping the government would reopen.
"They know a lot more about Congress than I ever did at that age," says Josh Anderson, a teacher and chaperone on the field trip.
Anne Marie Laporte, a docent at the Museum of Natural History for more than 30 years, couldn't have been more excited to be back volunteering at the museum Thursday. She says things seemed a little quieter than usual in the morning, likely because field trips to the museums were canceled before the shutdown ended and people were still confused as to what was open or not.
"I hadn't been here in more two weeks," she says. "I couldn't wait to come back."
A maintenance worker at the Smithsonian was grateful to be going back to his job, but was a little less enthused.
"I'm happy to be back at work, but after you stay at home for a little while, you get complacent," he says. "[The shutdown] seemed like a waste of time. They didn't accomplish anything, and they're still paying everyone."
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Back in blue: Johnson reveals paint scheme with self-deprecating video
Jimmie Johnson will be back in blue at Bristol Motor Speedway. But why? Recently, Johnson hasn't exactly had the best of luck in the white No. 48. After watching this video, it's hard to argue with his decision.
By Josh Richter
Jimmie Johnson's No. 48 Lowe's Chevrolet will be back in blue at Bristol Motor Speedway this weekend.
Lowe's Racing used an outstanding "Old School" reference when making the announcement from the sponsor's Twitter account.
Starting this weekend, "Blue is Back" for @JimmieJohnson! pic.twitter.com/vCnOCuu3AO— Team Lowe's Racing (@LowesRacing)
August 19, 2014
But why the change?
Recently, Johnson hasn't exactly had the best of luck in the white No. 48 Lowe's Chevrolet. After watching this video posted to Johnson's Instagram account, it's hard to argue that a change might do some good.
Here's guessing it'll be a while before we see a white No. 48 car again.


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labor and false labor can have the same symptoms, but i'd say if you are having contractions that are not going away when you move, change positions or take a warm shower then it's probably actual labor. I mean you're 10 days out so it's not unreasonable for you to go into labor now. listen to your body because you know how you normally feel so anything abnormal could signal the start of labor.
Sounds like your LO dropped some from all of the cleaning and movement. I knew it was real labor when the contractions kept getting increasingly stronger and closer together. I ended up being around 4cm with ds and dd by the time I got to the hospital lol
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I know it's not something you want to hear but.. you'll know labour for what it is when it happens. There is no mistaking labour for normal pregnancy pains. The intensity and feel of labour contractions should take your breath away and make it difficult to think through the pain. BH will not do that.
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I knew I was actually in labor because for the first time I was experiencing contractions that came at regular intervals, they were increasing in frequency and pain. I started noticing a pattern and timing contractions when they were 8-9 minutes apart. I actually left for the hospital when they were 6-7 minutes apart because the hospital was over an hour away and there was a huge snow storm starting. My doctor told me to go to the hospital just so I didn't get stuck without a way there, but I didn't actually have DS until 2 days later.
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CBS's modern-day take on the Sherlock Holmes mythos is gaining a new character next season: Sherlock's brother Mycroft. And a familiar face has been cast in the role: actor Rhys Ifans will recur throghout the show's second season as Sherlock's estranged brother.
Ifans is most recently known for playing Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard in last year's 'The Amazing Spider-Man,' though other credits include 'Notting Hill', and 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1.'
Ifans will appear in the season 2 premiere (which airs Thursday, September 26), in which, according to a CBS press release, "Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller) is called to London to revisit an old case, where he is forced to face his older brother, Mycroft. Although the siblings suffered a drastic falling-out a few years earlier, Mycroft allows Sherlock and Joan (Lucy Liu) to stay in his new home, 221B Baker Street. With Joan in the middle, the brothers are forced to confront their very complicated history."
Sounds like a real winner.
Fans of the BBC's version of the 'Sherlock' mythos know Mycroft Holmes as the high-ranking government official played by writer Mark Gatiss. Famed British comedian Stephen Fry also assumed the role for the 2011 film 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.'
Are you excited to see Sherlock and Joan interact with Mycroft? What do you think of Ifans' casting?
'Elementary' season 2 prmeieres Thursday, September 26 on CBS.


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Bobby Lee Lamere, 37, was arrested early Tuesday morning after fleeing from police after a traffic stop.
Bobby Lee Lamere, 37, was arrested early Tuesday morning after fleeing from police after a traffic stop.
The Car thief that was on the run all day yesterday was eventually apprehended after he walked out of the woods.
Early in January, five men wearing black hoodies entered the Jay's Mart convenience store and savagely beat store clerk Patrick Bendig with baseball bats, causing extensive injuries.
Tom George Vineyard, 38, made an appearance via video in Missoula Justice Court from the Missoula County Jail on Thursday afternoon before Judge Karen Orzech.
The Missoula County Sheriff's Department is asking the public to help find the perpetrator of a grocery store theft that occurred on Sunday May 12 at Bronc's Grocery in Frenchtown.
Investigators in Butte-Silver Bow County, Missoula County, and the city of Missoula are attempting to track down the source of a credit card theft racket.
Missing items from vehicles on Short Street and Juneau Drive are just the latest instance of a rash of vehicle break-ins in Missoula .
On April 1, Chance Geery, 18, was struck and killed by a distracted driver, Yoon Hee Cho, 38, an assistant professor at the University of Montana. It was determined last week that no felony charges could be filed in the case.
Missoula businessman Jason Washington, convicted recently of federal drug crimes, has been ordered to appear in Ravalli County District Court to face more felony drug charges.
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The Missoula County Sheriff's Department is looking for anyone who might know about a burglary that occurred on May 1, in Lolo.


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Stanley Horwitz Mar 8, 2007 1:55 PM
in response to Reuben FefferYou can arrange the icons on the desktop any way you want. You need to disable the Finder view option to arrange them though, but that options disabled by default.
Why does Mac OS X place the icons on the right by default? I have no idea; however, I am so used to it being that way that I prefer it. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that most people are right handed.
Francine Schwieder Mar 8, 2007 2:22 PM
in response to Stanley HorwitzYes, it is a legacy from when Apple actually consulted and implemented its own Human Interface Guidelines, some of which were based on studies/theories (Fitts' Law) of what is easiest to hit with the mouse for right handers. As I recall, the primo location for "hitablility" was the lower right corner, which was where Apple originally had the Trash (mine is still there, because the theory works). For some entertaining reading on various design bugs, see Bruce Tagnazzini's web site:
He really really hates the Dock--lists it as Bug #3 in worst design bugs.
Reuben Feffer Mar 11, 2007 7:55 AM
in response to Francine SchwiederOk thanks.
It just seems a bit weird to have your Desktop items arranged in Name order, but starting in the top-right corner and then going down and to the left. If you could reverse the order of items, so choose betwen ascending or descending, it would be nicer.
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Sorry to come late, and two quite separate extras:
As Stanley says you can arrange anything where you like, but I think Finder will put the disk icons back - after the Startup Disk, in at least semi-random order - in the topmost rightmost free spaces at every Restart, unless you use a third-party utility to lock them. I can't recommend one simply because I've never thought that was worth doing.
I think Francine is right about the HIG, and I think we're all mistaken in thinking that we read from left to right. I don't remember the source for this and I do recall being told that while we think we read from left to right, and while it makes much less practical difference after the first line of text, our eyes actually want to scan from right to left - which is why almost every publication charging for advertising will charge more a right hand page, for one thing.
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A weakening global economy lowered Cummins Inc.'s sales by 4 percent last year, and the company projects a similar sales trajectory for this year because of continued worldwide economic difficulties.
Nonetheless, the Columbus-based company Wednesday announced its second-best year in terms of sales and profit — and shares rose 2.6 percent as Cummins said it has seen recovery in some markets, including Brazil and North America.
Local analysts said the company remains well-poised to take advantage of sales opportunities when the global economy returns to more solid growth.
Cummins' profits in 2012, at nearly $1.66 billion, fell 10.3 percent, from the record $1.85 billion profit the company generated in 2011.
Sales for the year, at $17.3 billion, were down 4 percent from a year earlier. A sales gain of 9 percent in North America was offset by an international sales drop of 15 percent, primarily because of weakness in Europe, Brazil and China.
Fourth-quarter revenues fell 13 percent from a year earlier, while fourth-quarter profit fell 30 percent, dragged down in part by costs related to global job reductions.
"After a strong start to the year, demand declined across most geographies and end markets in the second half of 2012 as the global economy slowed," Tom Linebarger, chairman and chief executive officer, said in a news release.
Mark Foster, chief investment officer of Columbus-based Kirr, Marbach & Co., said solid orders in the North American heavy-duty truck market could bode well for employment in Columbus — although he warned that company management probably would hesitate to add employees to make sure the higher number of orders was continuing.
In the fourth quarter, three of four business units posted sales declines compared to the fourth quarter of 2011.
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- The Components unit posted sales of $939 million, down 14 percent from a year earlier as lower demand in North America and Europe more than offset higher sales for after-treatment systems in Brazil. The segment's earnings before interest and taxes, at $78 million, were down from $132 million in the fourth quarter of 2011.
- The Power Generation segment recorded sales of $765 million, down 17 percent from a year earlier. Sales declines in international markets outweighed higher demand in North America. The segment's earnings before interest and taxes fell to $42 million, down $45 million from a year earlier.
- The Distribution unit posted sales of $907 million, up 9 percent from a year earlier — though flat excluding the impact of acquisitions. The unit's earnings before interest and taxes were $84 million, down from $87 million a year earlier.
Based on current conditions, Cummins said it expects revenues for 2013 to be flat or down 5 percent.
Craig Kessler, president and chief investment officer of Columbus-based Kessler Investment Group, said Cummins' forecast keeps in mind Europe's continuing struggles and the cloud hanging over the U.S. economy because of the upcoming debt-ceiling negotiations.
Cummins' forecast is based on an honest look at current conditions, Kessler said. But he emphasized that as some of those issues get resolved, Cummins could see an unexpected boost in sales and profits.
"There's a real possibility that we'll get an uptick in business," Kessler said.
The company's shares on Wednesday rose $2.99, or 2.55 percent, closing at $120.38. Volume was more than double the three-month average. The Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard and Poor's 500 stock indices were virtually unchanged Wednesday.
Despite global economic uncertainties, analysts are seeing that Cummins has reduced costs, gained market share and is preparing for growth, Kessler said.
Analysts also have appreciated that Cummins' leadership responded to the weaker demand in the second half of last year very quickly and let analysts know about the weaknesses the company was seeing.
"This is how the market rewards them," Kessler said.
Foster said markets reacted favorably to Cummins' report in part because its margins, meaning the difference between sales and the cost of those sales, improved from the third to the fourth quarters.
Cummins management moved quickly to the weakening global economy by reducing costs, Foster said.
That means once markets, especially overseas, generate significant growth again, the company should be able to take advantage of sales opportunities.
"I think there's reason for optimism," Foster said.
Kessler agreed: "They're positioning themselves to grow .. and to do it in an effective way."


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Skip to comments.YouTube Censors Anti-Dem 'Scary Movie' Commercial [Lefty users block non-registered from viewing]
Posted on 10/10/2006 5:16:07 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
The video sharing site YouTube, just recently purchased by Google, has once again allowed a band of determined users to censor something they don't like.
The latest casualty is a a controversial spoof political ad by a Republican filmmaker David Zucker (producer of such films as "Scary Movie 4," "Airplane," among others) which depicts former secretary of state Madeline Albright, a Democrat who served in the Clinton administration, acting as a maid, servant and cheerleader for Islamic terrorists and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. After the Republican party declined to run with it, the ad was sent to Matt Drudge who splashed it worldwide by embedding it in a page on his site.
The story doesn't end there, though. After Drudge picked it up, Democratic YouTube viewers used the site's software to "flag" the video as "inappropriate," a designation usually reserved for extremely violent or sexually explicit video clips. There is nothing even remotely sexual or violent in the clip. The closest thing to an explicit image in the ad is a scene in which "Albright" bends over and her skirt tears a bit in the seat, hardly the stuff that sets FCC commissioners' hearts aflutter.
While you can still view the video if you watch it embedded on another web site, if you try to watch it on YouTube, you'll be greeted with the message: "This video may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube's user community. To view this video, please verify you are 18 or older by logging in or signing up."
This isn't the first time YouTube's editorial buzzsaw has dismembered conservative and politically incorrect speech. The site has repeatedly pulled videos critical of Islam, and even gone so far as banning popular conservative blogger Michelle Malkin from posting videos. No similarly high-profile liberal or anti-Christian censorship has been reported.
Questions also remain about YouTube's editorial process. It appears that the site allows anything (including sexually suggestive content and entire episodes of television shows) to be posted initially but if too many complaints about a particular clip come in, the software will automatically censor it. Almost certainly what happened with the Zucker ad is that liberal users complained it was "offensive" and managed to get the clip censored automatically.
I'm certain that the site allows administrators to override user votes for and against video clips. Will they do so in a patently obvious case of "flag spam" or will YouTube once again allow angry activists to censor speech they dislike? YouTube put controls on disingenuous users who aren't looking out for objectionable content but instead trying to stifle those with whom they disagree?
Here's a link to Hot Air's embedded version of the ad. Decide for yourself whether the ad is "inappropriate."
So typical of these leftwingers to bow to the censorious will of their masters in Peiping.
I think republicans as a rule are more tolerant than dems...if an army of us decided to flag a video as inappropriate, it would be marked as well.
You can still get it on Drudge.
Darn, I just signed up 30 minutes ago so I could watch it! I KNEW I shoulda waited...
I didn't know David Zucker was a Republican.
Just watched it on Drudge, LOL, excellent.
A competitor will arrive, and Google can't buy them all. But this ad is up all over the place, and is probably multiplying like a virus all over the web.
We're going to wish we'd sold Google when it had its nice little jump this week.
Other than being offensive to dhimmicrats and Halfbright, there wasn't anything there that smacked of violence or obscenity. There's only one conclusion we can draw from it's removal.
He switched over---he finally saw the light!
The Left is posting like crazy over at YouTube. Sure sign of an effective video.
I just watched it on Drudge. That was hysterical!
They cannot stand free political speech.
More leftist "free speech". What the liberals say is okay, what conservatives say needs to be banned.
and the problem with the ad is what? it's to the point and simply says appeasement doesn't work..
The story is there but I can't find a link to the actual video.
On Drudge, go to the story and scroll down. Click the arrow on the power plant picture.
It's typical leftist reasoning, however they are driving potential viewers to other sites. It feels good, but it's not good for business.
They haven't realized that when they 'ban' something or otherwise try to stifle it, curiosity naturally grows. Now the buzz will circulate and more people will want to find it.
So let's see if I get this right... this video is inappropriate, but hey, let's go check out that movie about assassinating Pres Bush. Uggh. I hate libs!!!!!!!
Still my favorite
The fact that they labeled it as inappropriate/18 years or older, just made it a heck of a lot more popular.
Another screwed up clip was from one of the Turner Civil War movies. It showed some guy singing "Bonnie Blue Flag" and the it was posted as if the singer was George Allen.
Automatic ranking sites like YouTube and Digg are about as intelligent as the machines that run them. Give me honest editorial content rather than the opinions of the mob.
I went to the link provided but couldn't find it. Could you tell me where it is? Thanks, Dustbunny.
Typical of Stalinists! Free speech is a one way street for them. They had good teachers in Russia, China and Cuba. Clip is hysterical.
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Fine. I propose we retaliate by all going to Youtube and doing the same thing to every Daily Show clip we can find.
***On Drudge, go to the story and scroll down. Click the arrow on the power plant picture.***
I did that. It took me to the Your tube web site and I spent 30 minutes trying to get signed in, all failures.
When I went back to Drudge It was on!
The Albright video is hilarious!! I'm still laughing!
Saw it before it was pulled. Was funny...
I thought is was great AND TRUTHFUL
It WASN'T pulled.
It WASN'T censored.
People, get a grip.
Because - for whatever reason, it was deemed "offensive", they slapped a "mature audiences only" flag on it, and you have to log in and agree you're over 18 to watch it.
Even if you're not registered with Youtube, you can go to bugmenot.com, and easily retrieve a login to get in with.
But let's not get hyterical here - the ad was neither censored or removed.
And, yes, I, too, think it's very funny and right on target... COME ON, RNC. GROW A PAIR AND RUN THE DAMN THING. THE RATS WOULD CERTAINLY RUN SUCH A THING AGAINST US.
Why don't Republicans fight fire with fire? Why not get ALL liberal and democrat videos "censored" as well in the same manner they do to us? Perhaps someone could collect a list of the appropriate videos, post the links on a page, and we all just scoot over and start complaining about them.
What you said is true, but it sure exemplifies the lefties view of free speech.
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Ice is an unforgiving mistress, less so than rock, which is why falling on ice is bad. It is also why being fully competent before leading is important. I agree with Hoppinbig's warning. You were wise to come down but I have to disagree with your belief you knew what you were doing. Learn on TR and by seconding, get some milage under your belt, then you may be better suited to leading ice. Take care.
It is indeed a fun part of the ridge although the first time I crossed it, none of us realized it was "the" cheval part until walking back across it when we realized we had no pics. That's when my buddy threatened to kill me if I didn't stop dancing a jig. Idle threat, we were roped together... haha.
I guess you two were too far back last time to see what Yvette was doing?
Nichole - you're a fine figure of a lass and very pretty. The photo itself is nothing great but you are. I'll not say more for fear of being called a dirty old sod except you'd look even better with a little less eye makeup. Wow.
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Option[T] class in Scala. I mean, I am not able to see any advanages of
None over
For example, consider the code:
object Main{
class Person(name: String, var age: int){
def display = println(name+" "+age)
def getPerson1: Person = {
// returns a Person instance or null
def getPerson2: Option[Person] = {
// returns either Some[Person] or None
def main(argv: Array[String]): Unit = {
val p = getPerson1
if (p!=null) p.display
getPerson2 match{
case Some(person) => person.display
case None => /* Do nothing */
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getPerson1 returns
null, then the call made to
display on first line of
main is bound to fail with
NPE. Similarly if
getPerson2 returns
None, the
display call will again fail with some similar error.
If so, then why does Scala complicate things by introducing a new value wrapper (
Option[T]) instead of following a simple approach used in Java?
I have edited my code as per @Mitch's suggestion. I am still not able to see any particular advantage of
Option[T]. I have to test for the exceptional
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SYDNEY: A significant proportion of Australian consumers are developing their use of connected devices to include in-car connectivity and monitoring of biometrics.
Market researcher TNS conducted a study – Connected Life – into digital attitudes and behaviours in 50 countries and found that Australia was one of the most connected countries in the world, with the average Australian owning 4.8 devices and spending 3.3 hours a day online on personal interests, including browsing, shopping, entertainment.
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"We should be marketing by occasions, needs, attitudes, and the various mindsets for different media, reaching customers through specific channels at specific times of the day," he added.
The study found some predictability in the timings of channel usage, with, for example, 31% of respondents going online first thing in the morning, but by the evening TV became the more popular channel (36%).
In the battle for personal media time, television, at 2.2 hours, was losing out to online (3.3 hours), although there was some cross-over with people multi-screening. Only 53% cent of TV time was undivided, said TNS, but it remained a viable channel at certain times of the day.
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What is corporate governance? It is a process set up for the firms based on certain systems and principles by which a company is governed. The guidelines provided ensure that the company is directed and controlled in a way so as to achieve the goals and objectives to add value to the company and also benefit the stakeholders in the long term. Continue Reading →
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Women on Corporate Boards: Global Trends for Promoting Diversity
We last explored the topic of gender diversity on boards, in particular the underrepresentation of women on them, late in 2012, but much has happened globally on the subject since then. More companies have adopted regulation on the issue that range from "comply-or-explain" rules to quotas for the percentage of women on boards.
A 2014 Grant Thornton report, Women in Business: From Classroom to Boardroom, finds more leaders warming to a quota system, with 45% of international business leaders supporting quotas — up from 37% just a year ago.
Below is a brief summary of some of the most recent developments concerning women on boards. Continue Reading →
Review: Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Innovation
Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Innovation (Elgar Original Reference) edited by Tyrone S. Pitsis, Ace Simpson, and Erland Dehlin.
Innovation is never free of its social context, its resistors, enablers, recalcitrants, champions and the like. Indeed, innovation can be thought of as the very stuff of social relations, as in the case of Hannah Arendt's (1958) idea of innovation being integral to democracy and vice versa. Wherever there is an absence of democracy, Arendt argued, there is also the decline of innovation.
Video Friday: SEBI vs Companies Act, 2013
I don't follow corporate governance in India as much as I would like but this video explains some recent reforms too important to ignore.
To exhort listed companies and their top executives to follow 'good business practices', regulator Sebi cleared new corporate governance norms that require them to justify CEO salaries, put in place whistle-blower policies and have orderly succession plans. Continue Reading →
Video Friday: Brian Cheffins on Comparative Corporate Governance
In 2012 Cambridge University launched a Masters degree in Corporate Law (the MCL), which offers students the opportunity to engage in detailed study of the legal and regulatory framework within which companies are governed and financed.
The MCL, a full-time nine-month program, is taught by the Cambridge Law Faculty's team of corporate lawyers, widely recognized as one of the strongest in the corporate law field. The MCL, the first entirely new degree in Law to be established by Cambridge University since the nineteenth century, has been designed to combine Continue Reading →
Two+ Calls for Papers – Towards Sustainable Re-embedding & Civil Society
The next European Academy of Management conference will take place in Valencia (Spain) between the 4th and the 7th of June 2014. The conference will be held at the Valencia Conference Centre and the Faculty of Economics of University of Valencia. The theme of the conference, Waves and Winds of Strategic Leadership for Sustainable Competitiveness, is aimed to open an interesting and fruitful dialogue about how management research and education can contribute to the enhancement of new waves and winds of strategic leadership that will stimulate a balanced and sustainable view of competitiveness in our societies. Continue Reading →
ICGN 2013: Raw Notes From New York
These are some fairly raw notes from the June 2013 ICGN Annual Conference in New York City. I was unable to attend the second day but the first day was great. Don't miss the 2014 ICGN Annual in Amsterdam, 16-18 June.
Opening Remarks by Jon Feigelson, Senior Managing Director, General Counsel and Head of Corporate Governance, TIAA-CREF and Roger W. Ferguson Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, TIAA-CREF. Continue Reading →
New Proxy Advisor in Australia Doesn't Ignore Retail
KOLESNIKOFF Governance touts itself as "the only professional provider of independent proxy voting and governance research on ASX listed companies and capital markets which is accessible by all investors." According to their website:
We fill the void in professional corporate governance and proxy voting research available to Australia's retail, self-funded and self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) investors, who have previously had no way to access costly reports prepared for institutional clients. Continue Reading →
ICGN June Conference: Challenging the Accepted Orthodoxy
I look forward to seeing many of you at ICGN's forthcoming Annual Conference, hosted by TIAA-CREF and taking place from 26th-28th June at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York. A summary agenda is accessible via this link for more information. Please visit the ICGN website where you can register. See my 2010 coverage. Continue Reading →
Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment Journalism Awards 2013
PIRC and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP are pleased to announced that the Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment Journalism Awards 2013 are now open for entries. These awards are intended to recognise those journalists who are helping record and clearly explain the issues emerging in these vitally important areas. Continue Reading →
Institutional Investor Engagement Improves Disclosure of Bribery & Corruption Risks
A three-year engagement by PRI signatories has resulted in improved transparency and disclosure of anti-corruption strategies, policies and management systems by several global companies with significant exposure to corruption risk. Continue Reading →
Firms in Emerging Economies Can Counter Country-Based Deficiencies
Governance scholars debate the relative importance of country characteristics and firm characteristics in understanding variations in corporate governance practices of firms in emerging economies. One of the main questions is whether weak or incomplete public institutions dictate the governance quality of firms located in these countries. Results of analysis in this paper provide evidence that many emerging economy firms distinguished themselves above and Continue Reading →
Five Traits Characterize Effective Island Style Leadership
Guest post from Glenn Furuya, courtesy of Pacific Business News, 1/18/2013, page 31. The article caught my eye soon after returning from the funeral of my wife's great aunt, Kay Kramer (98), who embodied the three cultures Furuya discusses below, both in the flesh and through her work and life.
Having read hundreds of publications and worked side-by-side with many successful leaders in Hawaii for over 30 years, I believe that Hawaii's cultural context contributes significantly to effective leadership.
Although few outside these Islands may recognize it, many of our leaders possess a "hard-wiring" that produces outstanding results. Many who have heard my presentation on island-style leadership agree. The following five examples will give you a feel of the inherent potential of island-style leadership. Continue Reading →
Take Action: Write to Chevron to Protect Shareowner Rights
Chevron's subpoena of e-mails in this case goes well beyond the individual players and is a threat to the communication rights of all shareowners. Action: Please take 60 seconds right now to send a message similar to the following to Chevron:
I write to protest Chevron's subpoena seeking emails and communications from Trillium Asset Management and Simon Billenness to hundreds of organizations, investors and individuals active in challenging Chevron on its oil pollution crisis in Ecuador.
Your action is without precedent. Never before have shareowners faced such a legal challenge for merely communicating with each other. This is a brazen attack on shareholder rights. I urge you to reconsider your position and withdraw your subpoena.
I share the following from the Needmor Fund and Zevin Asset Management on behalf of everyone who is concerned with the rights of shareowners and the rights of people: Continue Reading →
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Importance of Proxy Advisory Firms in Indian Capital Markets
Shriram Subramanian, the Founder and MD of InGovern Research Services, in a recent interview with "Report Insights" highlighted the importance of proxy advisory firms in Indian capital markets. The extracts of the interview can be read in InGovern's monthly publication: Governance Watch – December 2012 Newsletter


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love the page... but alexis' eyes seem a bit weird
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im hopeing for a sequel to this.
I hope no one request it >_>'
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I'm bad at drawing uniforms...
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What Congress Needs to Know
Rothenberg, Stuart, State Legislatures
For at least the ninth time in the past 50 years the Congress of the United States is engaged in a process of intense self-criticism. Some of those earlier efforts to improve the legislative process ultimately led to major reorganization and new procedures, but many of the problems now being addressed were created by previous reforms.
Every political scientist, journalist and member of Congress has his or her own list of the institution's ills, but all agree that excessive fragmentation, poor scheduling and increased political posturing at the expense of serious debate have crippled the legislative process and shaken the public's faith.
"I've been associated with many public and private organizations," says Congressman Paul Gillmor, who served 22 years in the Ohio Legislature, six of them as president of the Senate, "and the U.S. House is the worst run entity I've ever seen."
If Congress is searching for proven solutions to its seemingly intractable problems, it might consider the experiences of the 50 state legislatures. These laboratories" for experimentation, as Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once called them, have grappled with--and frequently overcome--many of the same procedural problems that today plague Congress.
The Leadership Vacuum
At the end of the first decade of this century, members of the U.S. House of Representatives rebelled against the dictatorial authority of Speaker Joe Cannon, stripping him and his successor, Champ Clark, of many of their formal powers. Today, most observers of Congress agree that the diffusion of power in the House of Representatives, encouraged by reforms adopted during the 1970s, is one of the main causes of the body's inefficiency and legislative paralysis.
As committees and subcommittees carved out their own niches, and individual members looked less to their party caucuses for their political marching orders and more to interest groups and local constituents, party leaders in both houses of Congress have found it increasingly difficult to enact a coherent agenda.
The experience of state legislatures suggests that Congress could redress that chaos and fragmentation by enhancing the powers of its formal leaders-including the speaker of the House and the majority leaders. Strong leaders translate into agenda-setting and party discipline, creating an institution that knows where it is going and how to get there.
Many state legislative presiding officers have the authority to appoint and, remove committee chairmen, refer bills and unilaterally manage their chambers. That makes them more powerful than the leaders of Congress. Not surprisingly, their legislatures are often more responsive and productive than Congress.
Congressman Ben Cardin, who served eight years as speaker of the Maryland House, thinks Washington could take a lesson from the states. "In Congress, committee chairmen get their position from seniority, so they have little structural loyalty to party leadership or to the institution. Congress gives individual members too much freedom. In the states, which give more power to their legislative leaders, legislators take great pride in the institution's overall product."
Weak institutional leadership at the very top, however, is only one aspect of Congress's growing decentralization. More than 100 years ago, in 1885, Woodrow Wilson wrote, "The House has as many leaders as there are subjects of legislation." But even Wilson would be shocked by the explosion of committees and subcommittees and by the multiple referrals in today's Congress.
In the 103rd Congress, there are 251 standing Select, special and joint committees and subcommittees accounting for about 4,100 seats, according to University of Maryland political scientist Roger Davidson. Davidson has calculated that the average U.S. representative sits on two committees and four subcommittees, and the average senator sits on 11 committees and subcommittees. …


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The Decade In Masculinity
Based on anecdotal experience, I'd contend that women are about as into marijuana as men are. And yet, the stoners who graced the silver screen over the past decade were overwhelmingly male, and the weed culture they created was decidedly masculine. In a post on female pot smokers back in September, Double X's Samantha Henig could count the decade's on-screen lady-stoners on one hand: namely, Mad Men's Peggy Olson, Knocked Up's Charlyne Yi character, and the girls of That 70's Show. Meanwhile, from Dude Where's My Car to Harold and Kumar to most of Judd Apatow's film works, weed emerged as the romantic lead for stoner dudes who were uninterested in relationships with actual women.
Peak Year: 2004
Ambassadors: Harold, Kumar, most Judd Apatow heroes
Uniform: Untrimmed facial hair, bong water stains
Activities: Smoking, eating, ignoring women.
Peak Year: 2006
Like the metrosexuals who rose alongside them, bros incorporated some traditionally feminine aspects into their own version of masculinity—think pink polos, pastel ribbon belts, and store-bought scents. But bros differentiated themselves from the metro set with a healthy dose of crippling homophobia that encouraged both aggressive heterosexual behavior and subversive homoerotic displays among the bros. And so—we got aggressive heterosexual sexual conquests (banging some chick in the frat house), alongside decidedly homoerotic sexual conquests (banging some chick in the frat house with three of your best bros). We got extreme masculine contests (CHUG! CHUG! CHUG!) alongside absurd homosocial displays (fraternity initiation paddling). At least women got a reliable warning sign of likely brodom—the double-popped collar.
Ambassadors: Tucker Max, Asher Roth
Uniform: Popped collars, Axe Body Spray
Activities: Drinking, homophobia, sex, chowing on 'za.


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Storing information encoded in light is critical for realizing optical buffers for all-optical signal processing
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Displaced single-photon entanglement is a simple form of optical entanglement, obtained by sending a photon on a beamsplitter and subsequently applying a displacement operation.
Harnessing nonlinearities strong enough to allow two single photons to interact with one another is not only a fascinating challenge but is central to numerous advanced applications in quantum information science. Currently, all known approaches are extremely challenging although a few have led to experimental realisations with attenuated classical laser light.
Physical Review Letters 112, 143602 – Published 9 April 2014
We show how to use the radiation pressure optomechanical coupling between a mechanical oscillator and an optical cavity field to generate in a heralded way a single quantum of mechanical motion (a Fock state). Starting with the oscillator close to its ground state, a laser pumping the upper motional sideband produces correlated photon-phonon pairs via optomechanical parametric down-conversion.
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We analyze the low energy excitations of spin lattice systems in two dimensions at zero temperature within the framework of projected entangled pair state models. Perturbations in the bulk give rise to physical excitations located at the edge.
Nature 517, 64-67 (2015)
In transport experiments the quantum nature of matter becomes directly evident when changes in conductance occur only in discrete steps, with a size determined solely by Planck's constant h. The observations of quantized steps in the electric conductance have provided important insights into the physics of mesoscopic systems and allowed for the development of quantum electronic devices. Even though quantized conductance should not rely on the presence of electric charges, it has never been observed for neutral, massive particles.
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Demonstrations of primitive information processing elements with quantum bits (qubits) have been
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feed-forward (conditioning future operations on measurement results) has proved challenging.
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News that it took nearly eight minutes between the time a social worker called 911 to report that Josh Powell's children were in danger and the time Pierce County deputies were dispatched -- and then another 14 minutes for a deputy to get to the home -- has touched a raw nerve. (See Seeingred's Comment of the Day after the jump.)
Wow. I know hindsight is 20/20, but I'm blown away how this dispatcher is arguing about and focusing on details that seem pretty irrelevant. I'm sorry, but every time I hear a 911 call, I'm always surprised by the tone of the 911 dispatchers. It's obvious they need to remain calm, but it always sounds like they are irritated they received an ER call.


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Get This Rat a Lawyer!
Glenn Beck says Cass Sunstein wants to give animals the right to sue humans. Really?
In 1510, the respected French lawyer Bartholomew Chassenée made his name by serving as legal counsel for a horde of rats. The rats stood accused of eating through the province's barley crop. But the trial was tainted, Chassenée argued, for two reasons: First, the court failed to properly notify the rodents of the trial date. And second, the defendants could not possibly appear in court when getting there entailed risking a run-in with a cat.
This scene may have taken place in Medieval Europe. But, if you believe Fox News host Glenn Beck, it could happen here too.
Beck has been monitoring the threat for quite some time. "The day may not be far off, animal lawyers say, when animals are not only present in the court room but participating in the proceedings," Beck warned on his radio program in March 2008. He reiterated his concern last Wednesday on Fox. When he was 8 years old, he said, he loved "Ben," Michael Jackson's 1972 tune about a pet rat. "But do you really want a police officer telling Ben, who's just shown up in your home, 'Ben, you have a right to remain silent. … If you can't afford an attorney, Ben, one will be provided for you'? The world is upside down!"
And it's Cass Sunstein's fault. A constitutional-law professor at Harvard University, Sunstein was confirmed Thursday as the director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, or "regulatory czar." Now, according to Beck, the possibility of being dragged to animal court is even higher.
The foundation for Beck's vision of a murine judicial system is a paper Sunstein wrote in 2002, in which he argued that individuals as well as the state should be able to file suit for animal cruelty. (Read it here.) Sunstein also gave a lecture on the subject at Harvard in 2007. (Watch it here.)
Sunstein is best known for his scholarship on cost-benefit analysis in public policy as well as his work on behavioral economics—the idea that government can use incentives, or "nudges," rather than heavy-handed regulation to drive behavior. But his animal rights article, which later became the introduction to a book called Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions, has received special attention.
Sunstein is now caught up in Beck's anti-czar crusade. (Never mind that czar is just a word used by the media for appointed advisers not subject to Senate approval or that, by that definition, Sunstein isn't a "czar" at all.) The Web site StopSunstein.com catalogs statements by Obama's "radical anti-hunting, anti-gun, animal rights law professor." Many attendees at Saturday's 9/12 protest in Washington echoed Beck's concerns. "He thinks rats should have the right to an attorney, to sue humans," said Davy Reeves of Kalamzaoo, Mich. "Rats have no right to live in my house."
Reeves is right about the second part. The first is a little more complicated. What Sunstein says in his 2002 paper is that state animal-cruelty laws get enforced only when a public prosecutor brings charges. And in practice, that rarely happens. To correct this "enforcement gap," he says, people should be able to file civil lawsuits to prevent cruelty to animals. "The very idea might seem absurd," he writes. "But it is simpler and more conventional than it appears." Just as a child might be represented by an adult human, so too would an animal.
Sunstein also argues that anti-cruelty laws should be applied to animals that suffer because of farming, meat-industry practices, and hunting. "We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun," he says in his 2007 lecture. "That should be against the law. It's time now."
Sunstein isn't saying that animals should be autonomous (and thus able to hire an attorney) or that an animal's life is as valuable as a human's. In fact, he rejects these arguments outright. Rather, he says, we should do everything we can to minimize animal suffering. We already have laws that make it illegal to cause distress to animals, he says. We just need to enforce them. Allowing private lawsuits on behalf of animals is one way to do that.


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Obamas plan 20-day, $4 million vacation...during Time of Fiscal Cliff hitting US Economy
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Rich people spend $4 million on a vacation.
Growing up, my parent spent $20k to $40k on one to two week vacations we took every year; they were just upper middle class ($400k a year household). I can see $4 million on 20 days for the upper class.
Anyway. He doesn't need to be around to prevent the fiscal cliff, he doesn't make the laws, he signs them. If congress passes something, he said he will sign it. Even if he isn't there, the auto pen is.
Wait for congress to act, and then for him not to, to be upset. Until then, you are just blowing smoke.
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Spoken like a true spoiled Lib apologist.
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Sorry, I'm a conservative ( as are most sucessful black men, registered republican, voted for Gary Johnson). As are my parents (maybe my mom not so much). My mom owned a medical company, my stepdad was an electrical engineer. They probably payed more in taxes than you ever have. They also probably put more kids through college than you ever will (four of us, at least three kids who were friends of the family). I went to school, got a degree, work in R&D, bought a house, got married. Point to me where we are spolied.
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And yet you call yourself "A Pimp"... Some people are not helped by years of education. Were you hired through 'Affirmative Action" by any chance?
Hmm... Glad the employees of the medical company were well paid. They were, weren't they? They weren't part-time workers without benefits, I suppose. Did you ever learn that before and during the Civil War, blacks owned slaves? Black entrepeneurs know how to make money, all right.
Congratulations for throwing your vote away. Stopping Obama with Gary Johnson was not going to happen, but you were just "blowing smoke", not really participating in the most important election of your lifetime.
Thanks for your comments.
The name is from a cartoon, The Boondaocks, just something silly.
The employees were payed well, phlebotomist, with highschool educations and a bit more training, made between $15 and $40 per patient (based on distance from headquaters, home care). It wasn't uncommon for some of them to make $60k a year, they were 1099 workers. The people that worked in the labs were salary with benifits, and paid according to education.
Yup, I know black people owned slaves. However, my ancestors were slaves, owned by white people. You know what is funny, their owner left all his land to my great great grandfather and his brother (I think that is the right amount of greats), instead of his son's, because they were more involved and harder working people than his children. That dedication to work (and education) has been passed down through the generations.
Nope, I was hired on merit. Plenty of black people work for this company, I'm sure the quota was already met. Plus, I've made them money, millions, have awards for it, I'm sure I've earned my keep, and will continue to do so as long as they will have me.
My vote was my vote, I voted for who I thought was the most conservative person running. The thought of a vote being wasted (as if it really matters) is the problem with voting anyways.
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