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[Czech Republic] Czech government parties look to calm spat over failed smoking ban bill
Czech ruling parties tried to calm a public row on Friday, agreeing to submit new anti-smoking legislation after some coalition lawmakers torpedoed a government-backed bill this week, angering the prime minister. The three-party centre-left coalition has
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I'm working on a game (and have asked a couple questions on it already), and now I have another question to ask of you guys.
The level format in this game is set up as a tilemap of Uint16's (I'm using SDL) which are indices into an array of tilemapData structs. One of the bits of the tilemapData struct is the isConductive bit/boolean.
The use of this bit is basically to create paths that connect various objects together into a single "powerNet." I've got some code below on the current method (which works, but I'll cover why I really hate it after)
void findSetPoweredObjects(unsigned long x, unsigned long y, powerNetInfo * powerNet) {
//Look for poweredObjs on this tile and set their powerNet to the given powernet
for (int i = 0; i < level->numChunks[CHUNKTYPE_POWEREDDEF]; i++)
if (level->poweredObjects[i]->position[0] == x && level->poweredObjects[i]->position[1] == y)
level->poweredObjects[i]->powerNet = powerNet, powerNet->objectsInNet++;
void recursiveCheckTile(bool * isWalked, powerNetInfo * powerNet, unsigned long x, unsigned long y, tilemapData * levelMap) {
//If out of bounds, return
if (x < 0 || y < 0 || x >= level->mapDimensions[0] || y >= level->mapDimensions[1]) return;
//If tile already walked, return
if (isWalked[x + (y * level->mapDimensions[0])]) return;
//If tile is nonconductive, return
if (!(level->tiles[levelMap->map[x + (y * level->mapDimensions[0])]]->flags & TILETYPE_CONDUCTIVE)) return;
//Valid tile to check, see if there's a poweredobj on the tile (link it to the net if it is) and check the adjacent tiles.
isWalked[x + (y * level->mapDimensions[0])] = true;
recursiveCheckTile(isWalked, powerNet, x - 1, y, levelMap);
recursiveCheckTile(isWalked, powerNet, x + 1, y, levelMap);
recursiveCheckTile(isWalked, powerNet, x, y - 1, levelMap);
recursiveCheckTile(isWalked, powerNet, x, y + 1, levelMap);
bool buildPowerNets(void) {
//Build the powernets used by the powered objects
//TODO: Rewrite buildPowerNets() & recursiveCheckTile() to avoid stack overflows and make it easier to backtrace powernets in-game
bool * isWalked;
isWalked = new bool[(level->mapDimensions[0] * level->mapDimensions[1])];
unsigned long x, y;
tilemapData * levelMap = level->layers[level->activeMap];
for (y = 0; y < level->mapDimensions[1]; y++) {
for (x = 0; x < level->mapDimensions[0]; x++) {
if (isWalked[x + (y * level->mapDimensions[0])]) continue;
isWalked[x + (y * level->mapDimensions[0])] = true;
if (level->tiles[levelMap->map[x + (y * level->mapDimensions[0])]]->flags & TILETYPE_CONDUCTIVE) {
//it's conductive, find out what it's connected to.
//But first, create a new powernet
powerNetInfo * powerNet = new powerNetInfo;
powerNet->objectsInNet = 0;
powerNet->producerId = -1;
powerNet->supplyType = POWER_OFF;
powerNet->prevSupplyType = POWER_OFF;
powerNet->powerFor = 0;
//Find adjacent tiles to this one, add them to it's powernet, and then mark them walked. Then repeat until the net is done.
recursiveCheckTile(isWalked, powerNet, x, y, levelMap);
delete isWalked;
for (int i = 0; i < level->numChunks[CHUNKTYPE_POWEREDDEF]; i++)
if (level->poweredObjects[i]->powerNet == NULL) return false;
return true;
Note that returning false means that the function failed (in this case, it didn't properly link all of the objects).
My worry is that the function to walk the conductive tiles will flat-out fail on more complex maps because of a stack overflow. What are some ideas for how to mitigate this risk with these functions? I can provide more info on the structs used if it's needed.
I've thought of modifying the code so that
recursiveCheckTile only makes a recursive call when it reaches a junction and just interatively follows the conductive path it's on otherwise, but that still seems to be only a partial solution since I can't know ahead of time how twisted or branching the path might be.
If it makes a difference, speed is entirely unimportant here, since this function only runs once when the map is being processed before being used, and so using a little extra time won't hurt.

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This series is sweet! But it's soooooo long, still great though. It's really 'mystic' (and by which I don't that crap "series" "mystic kiss"). And even though it was slideshow like it was still able to show action, in a slideshow-ish manner. very very very awsome. That is not only a great series, but also great literature, story lines, music, and especially the art! complely awsomely drawn manga characters, near perfecttion, I wish I could draw stuff like that :'( . Awsome series, but way too long! But I still wish to give a 6/5 but that doesn't exist so I'll give the next best thing. -5/5 :)
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The Tweets: Luis Suarez joins Gareth Bale & Wayne Rooney on the sickbed (are you kidding?!)
- August 6, 2013
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Liverpool have announced on Tuesday afternoon that Luis Suarez is out of Wednesday night's friendly against Valerenga with a foot injury.
According to official reports, Suarez has now joined Tottenham's Gareth Bale and Manchester United's Wayne Rooney on the treatment table, with all three players being the main characters in the summer's biggest transfer stories.
Cynics, who appear to be most people out there, can't help but believe that all three injury victims are actually big-time fakers.
Below are a collection of the best Tweets on Luis Suarez and his cohorts injury status.
Bale, Rooney and Suarez all injured? What are the odds?
— John Brewin (@JohnBrewinESPN) August 6, 2013
Suarez out with a… pic.twitter.com/u2RPzkrU0g
— Oli (@GiroudAFC_) August 6, 2013
Is Suarez foot injury a recurrence of the foot in mouth problem he had earlier this summer? #LFC.
— Simon Steers (@sisteers) August 6, 2013
Rooney, Bale and now Suarez all sidelined with transferitis. An injury that can linger.
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) August 6, 2013
To be fair to Suarez he reported the knock to Brendan Rodgers straight after open training yesterday.
— Tony Barrett (@TonyBarretTimes) August 6, 2013
Luis Suarez to miss Liverpool's pre-season game in Norway tmrw with a foot injury. As with Rooney/Bale injuries, good job I'm not a cynic
— Oliver Kay (@OliverKayTimes) August 6, 2013
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Though the dress didn't go unnoticed, reactions were mixed to say the least
It certainly made me look younger — but not in a good way.
I had the disconcerting impression that I had regressed to the age of about five. It was just like a party dress I used to own as a little girl, except that mine had been rose pink.
All I needed to complete the illusion were ribbons in my hair and a missing front tooth.
On the plus side, it was incredibly comfortable. Wearing Victoria's tight bodycon dresses, I had to suck in my stomach constantly and ended the day with aching muscles around my midriff. This loose style, by contrast, couldn't have been more relaxing. I was warm and cosy in my blanket frock and for once was blissfully free to eat as much lunch as I liked.
Victoria gave her cloud dress the necessary edge by accessorising it with a pair of killer shoe-boots and her usual outsize sunglasses. Donning the same, I sashayed out to see how our home-made version went down with the general public.
I knew I wouldn't pass unnoticed. Even Victoria, an absolutely fearless fashionista, seemed to be rather surprised by the reaction to her design. 'This created quite a storm when I went out in it,' she said. 'I popped into a couple of shops and people were like: "Oh my God, we love your dress!" '
And as I walked down the street, every head turned, too. But the reaction was, to say the least, mixed.
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I felt the full force of the Victoria Beckham experience when some tourists — paparazzi style — took up a position on the opposite pavement to take my picture.
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Another passer-by stopped dead in his tracks and gazed at my dress in a puzzled manner for several moments.
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My daughters were less enthusiastic. 'Revolting!' said Anastasia, nine, who doesn't mince her words.
Rosie, seven, was more tactful. 'I think if the waist was higher and tighter, it wouldn't look so terrible,' she suggested, which was hardly a ringing endorsement.
Apparently Victoria's little girl, Harper, two, also has strong opinions on Mummy's outfits. I suspect she would have loved my blanket dress, if only to snuggle under for a nap.
I shall probably be hanging onto this for a little longer — at least until Christmas lunch is over, when it will come in very handy indeed.
Maybe I'll ask my husband for a Victoria Beckham handbag instead.
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| Gunning Ruddy Duck by Ian McNair, Charlottesville, VA. Nice solid, fat Ruddy with a real patina. I McNair carved under bottom .This gunner has been gunned over. Out of a fine rig from Virginia. 7.5 inches tall. $450.
|Widgeon pr. by Grayson Chesser, Sanford, VA. This is the real deal here. Gunning pair that's never seen the shelf. Carved "C" under bottom. Drake has fine crack in bill but solid. From a gunning rig out of Virginia. $700.
|Bluebill pair by Oliver Lawson, Crisfield, MD. 1983. Solid bodies carved from Cedar and painted with oils. Mint condition. Mr. Lawson started visiting and learning from the Ward Brothers in the 1950's. $1175.
|Ruddy Duck hen by Delbert "Cigar" Daisy, Chincoteague, Va.Signed and stamped. Cute hen with carved primaries and tail feathers. A very nice Cigar Ruddy for $650.
|Miniature Bluebill by Robert (Bob) McGaw (1879-1958) Havre De Grace,MD. Original carving, circa.1950, measures, approx.5 and 3/4 inches long. Drake has a hairline crack in neck. Drake rests on Walnut base, felt was applied to bottom of base. Great patina highlights the outstanding paint patterns. $475.
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Cobb Island VA. by Frank Finney. This two piece hollow decoy portrays the realism of its 100 + year old namesake. This decoy was exhibited in the Chincoteague Decoy Museum for many years. Own this museum quality decoy.
|Dowitcher by Delbert "Cigar"Daisey, Chincoteague, VA circa 1980's. Made for John Maddox and the Chincoteague Decoy Museum. Shorebird is stamped and signed and displays on a clamshell base. $625
|Excellent 30 year old Bufflehead pair by Pete Peterson, Cape Charles, VA. Signed dated and rigged. Priced right at only $550.
|Sanderling by Pete Peterson, Cape Charles,VA. 2000. This little shorebird stands about 6 inches tall and is about 6 inches long, Bill to tail. A great little carving by PETE for just $250.
|Dowitcher shorebird by Ronald Justis, Chincoteague, VA. Outstanding oil painting. Bird rest on a piece of coral and stands about 8 inches tall. Signed and stamped under tail. Only $300.
|BlackDuck, S.Douglas Jester (1876-1961) Chincoteague, VA. Circa: 1940's. Carved from Cottonwood with a hand chopped head nailed to body. Excellent condition with very nice scratch paint. Old collection numbers under bottom. From a fine Eastern Shore collection. $850.
|Canvasback by Mark McNair and Ian McNair. 2008. Slightly hollowed body with accented primaries. Made for Eastern Shore VA Ducks Unlimited. Measures about 16 inches long, Bill to tail. Nice aged patina applied to the gray on the back. $1200.
|Bluebill/Scaupe pr by Pete Peterson, Cape Charles, VA. 1990. Two piece slightly hollowed bodies with a North Hampton County VA raised/shelf neck and head. Very nice. Made for the T. O'Connor collection. $825.
|Canvasback pair from Havre de Grace, MD. Carved by Paul Gibson. Nice pair of "Kings of the Chesapeake" gunning birds. $450.
|Delbert Hudson, Chincoteague, VA (B. 1927 D.1979) Black Duck made around 1945 in all original condition. Head and bill are carved from redwood (redwood could only have been from a screen door purchased at a hardware store). Scratch paint and head paint patterns are similar to those of Charles Jester from the 20's and 30's in my opinion. Cracks in neck are firm, this bird is 100%. $200.
|A very nice pheasant by Ralph Reed Chincoteague, Va. Circa. 1970's. A great find off the island. Mr Reed lived on Ocean Blvd and made and sold carvings during the 1960s 70s and mid 80s. This pheasant is in excellent condition and stands 8 inches tall. $175
|Bluebill by Charles Clark, Chincoteague,VA circa early 1900's. Mr. Clark was a boat builder, note the boat hull similarities on his decoy body. Charles Clark Shorebirds tend to be found more so than ducks. Mr. Clark made decoys for hunting parties at the Russell Hotel, on Chincoteague, owned by William Mathews in the late 1800's. This heavy and large decoy is about 15 inches long bill to tail. Crack through neck but firm and some filler missing on head and neck. $1300.
Sleeper Canvasback by William Kennedy (formerly from Havre De Grace, MD. Great form with sleek lines, this hollow two-piece decoy had square nails attaching top and bottom. Wide through the hips (7.5 inches).Bill, a former MD State trooper has worked with and known some of the Upper Bay makers such as Paul Gibson and Madison Mitchell. $ 450.
|Black Duck by Josiah Travers, (1900-1965) Vienna, MD. This cork body Black Duck, circa 1950, has pine wood carved head and a pine bottom board. Mr. Travers made Black Ducks and Canada Geese out of cork. He used extensive wing carving as evident on this Black Duck. $175.
|New Jersey shore Ruddy Turnstone by Ed Itter. Great carving and paint by Ed. Lots of feather detail and raised primaries. This Shorebird has glass eyes, wire legs and stands on a Jersey Cypress knee base. Signed on bottom, this Ruddy Turnstone is $325.
Hooded Merganser by Rocky Detwiler, Chincoteague, Va. 2009. This life-size decoy is finely carved. Extremely detailed feathering with raised primary feathers. The Assateague lighthouse is drawn under bottom near signature. A very nice Chincoteague decoy for $295.
Decoys Deluxe, Morrison, IL. ca. 1939-1940's. These factory decoys were produced from live birds preserved through taxidermy. Decoys Deluxe were produced only in the Mallard species. $300
Information obtained from North American Factory Decoys 2003, Kenneth L. Trayer. Reyart Publishing
|Goldeneye decoy pair by the late Zack Ward, Crisfield, Md. Circa 2000. Gunning birds made in the Crisfield school style by Zack, a cousin to his better known relatives, Lem and Steve Ward. These Goldeneyes are hollowed, rigged and painted with oils. "Z" carved under body. $275.
|Canvasback Drake by Grayson Chesser, Sanford, VA. 2016. Mint Canvasback with a highly detailed head and bill. Nice comb painting on a full hollowed body. Signed and dated, carved C under bottom. Sale Pending.
|Widgeon drake by Cameron McIntyre, New Church, VA. Outstanding and excellent decoy by one of the world's finest and most popular artist. A hollow carved decoy with a slightly turned head. Has a fine "snakey" neck and head style. Comb painting on back and a soft patina. Sale Pending.
|Sanderling shorebird by Ronald Justis, Chincoteague, VA. 2016. A 6 inch long carving, Bill to tail. Feeding pose standing on an Assateague Channeled Whelk shell base. Painted in oils and signed on bottom. Cute realistic shorebird. Sale Pending.
|Mallard pair by Grayson Chesser, Assawoman, VA circa 1978. Very nice early pair. Hollow with shot marks and C carved under bottom and signed. Weight removed for shelf. A mellow near 40 year patina. Sale Pending.
Miniature Canada Goose by Curtis Waterfield, Knotts Island, NC circa 1970. This folk art carving stands approx 5 inches tall and has wire legs with painted feet on base. Great patina on this art piece. Sold.
|BlackDuck by Brian Piccirillo, Miami, Fla. 2016. Nice contemporary folk decoy in a back preen or sleeping pose. Inspired by a decoy by Robert Morse, Churches Island, NC. Neck is inserted at base. BP carved under tail. Sale Pending.
|Pintail by Pete "Hurricane" Peterson of Cape Charles, VA. 1991. This is a very fine and large gunner. 20 inches long with excellent paint on a hollow carved decoy. A nice one for any VA and or Pintail collection for only Sold.
|Green Winged Teal pr by Grayson Chesser, Sanford, VA. Gunning birds in a swimming posture. Ice grooves behind neck. C carved under bottom. Sale Pending
|Hen Red Breast Merganser, Ronald Justis. Chincoteague, VA. 2015. Approx 15 inches long with outstanding carving and painting. Note the veins in neck and .details of the head crest. Made as a tribute to his mentor and friend "Cigar" Daisey. Drake available per request. Sale Pending.
|Curlew in feeding pose by William Gibian, Onancock, VA. Outstanding carved shorebird with raised and seperated primary feathers. Measures about 14 inches long. Gibian incised under bottom. Sale Pending.
|Cardinal by Will Birch, Chincoteague, VA. Circa 1970. Folk carving measures about 8 inches long, bill to tail. Raised wings with artistic feathering. Bird stands on wire legs and a wooden base approx. 5 inches tall. Signed on base. Sale Pending.


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Football season is just around the corner and the iPad is set to become a fixture for both college and pro teams. As we noted earlier in the year, a handful of NFL teams made the switch to iPad-based playbooks at the start of last season and more are making the switch this year. In addition to NFL teams, several colleges have announced that they are transitioning to the iPad playbook model as well.
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There are plenty of stories out there about the explosive growth of mobile technology in the workplace. The trend towards bring your on device (BYOD) models in which employees are allowed or encouraged to bring their own iPhones, iPads, and other devices into the office is driving a massive expansion of the number of mobile devices used for work tasks. At the same time, the annual (or even more frequent) device an OS release cycles that have become common are driving up diversity of devices and resetting the mobile technology playing field every few months.
That constant change is forcing the IT professionals to adapt to new devices, apps, use cases, network models, and security threats faster than anything the IT industry has ever seen.
This is particularly visible in the mobile management space. A year ago, the primary method for handling mobile device and data security was to manage and lock down the device itself using one of dozens of mobile device management (MDM) suites on the market. Over the past six to nine months, however, MDM has been replaced by mobile app management (MAM) as the best way to secure business data. That's a warp-speed transition in the mindset and goals of IT professionals.
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The number of companies investing in mobile management and security solutions related to bring your own device (BYOD) programs is growing, but not nearly as fast as the number of companies that are actually offering BYOD to their employees. The result is that many companies are putting themselves and their data at risk by jumping onto the BYOD bandwagon too quickly and without properly securing employee iPhones, iPads, and other devices or the business data that is stored on them.
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In addition to launching Mountain Lion Server last week, Apple rather quietly released a Mountain Lion Server version of Workgroup Manager – the traditional Mac management tool included in previous releases of OS X Server. The move was unexpected after Apple released the Advanced Administration guide for Mountain Lion Server, which implied that administrators would need to begin an almost-immediate shift to Mountain Lion Server's Profile Manager.
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Reading about the Donald Trump campaign day after day has gotten me thinking about one of the most influential–and mostly forgotten–media figures of our modern era, Morton Downey Jr. No, he wasn't Iron Man's brother, he was a career media guy who, among other things, had a right-wing talk radio show in the very time slot on Sacramento radio that Rush Limbaugh took over after he left (we native Sacramentans have so much to be proud of) and later had a televised talk show that was, for a moment, the biggest thing on television. It was a very big deal, actually–the obvious progenitor of the angry political confrontationalism of Bill O'Reilly, though it included a lot of the trashy/sleazy material that would later find a home with Jerry Springer and Maury Povich. Hell, even someone as anodyne as Jay Leno borrowed some moves from the guy, namely the running into the audience and shaking hands bit. Seriously, all of that stuff gets traced right back to Downey. And, for a year or so, people couldn't get enough of it. Downey became a TV superstar who somehow managed to fit a music career alongside taping a daily show into what wound up being a very short window of fame. (Seriously, you have to check out his music. It's insane.) Watch this (featuring a surprise special guest) and tell me that Trump isn't cribbing Downey perfectly:
Downey's show keyed off of confrontation. It was a sort of fantasy for very, very angry people: Mort Downey would tell the smartypants pointyheads to their face exactly what they wanted to say to them. There's no intellectual component to the debate whatsoever. The clip is interesting because Paul is clearly getting the better of the argument on intellectual terms, and obviously is used to dealing with a hostile audience. But he clearly wasn't used to dealing with someone who had no interest in debating ideas, and was only using Paul as a prop, in effect. He starts to get rattled. Downey keeps escalating, invades his space, lobs gratuitous insults at Paul. And yet Paul winds up looking not much better in the end. Now, admittedly, Ron Paul is a crank in real life, and is perhaps not the best example of a stable person. But this shows just how brilliantly Downey's method of confrontation worked. Downey is clearly able to reach down into a person's emotional core, bully them, shatter their composure. Paul after a point just sounds crazy, even though the points he makes are generally solid. It's Downey who maintains his composure and control, so he ultimately "wins" in the eyes of his audience. Downey may prefer "scum" to Trump's "loser", but it's the same basic strategy of using confrontation to allow an audience to experience some measure of uptake on their anger, vicariously of course. (Also, if you watch long enough, you get a spiel from Congressman Charles Rangel which serves as a forgotten reminder of just how avidly black elected officials supported the war on drugs, once upon a time.)
What ended Downey's brief reign as the hottest star on television? As the truly excellent documentary about Downey from a few years back tells us, the show ran out of gas because, after a certain point, they couldn't book guests anymore. Nobody was desperate enough to air their views and get subjected to such savage treatment. As a result, the show simply couldn't provide the sort of confrontation that set it apart in the first place, and became increasingly reliant on the sort of sleazy programming that would become commonplace on Springer in the next decade. Didn't save Downey, though, as his show was canceled not quite two years after it began, a mere part of the cycle of self-destruction that characterized Downey's life generally. (Modern equivalents of Downey–O'Reilly and Bill Maher come to mind, though the latter obviously has different politics, both only go up to a certain point in their confrontations in order to keep guests coming and ensuring a steady dose of conflict that keeps those ratings aloft. Downey didn't and maybe couldn't.) Trump's campaign has been highly successful in much the same way Downey was: by providing the thrill of confrontation with all manner of superior know-it-alls: the mainstream media, John McCain, Megyn Kelly. He knows how to deal with all of them, the respectable types are shocked, Trump wins. But eventually he'll run out of targets, just like Downey ran out of guests. There are only so many people he can get into a public spat with, and eventually when he runs out of new ones, the thrill will be gone. Then and only then will his poll numbers begin to fade. The real question is: when does this happen? November? Next August? You really have to wonder if the Republican Party will actually be able to field someone other than Trump as the nominee if he's able to suck all the oxygen out of the room until then. Couldn't happen, you say? Keep in mind that Silvio Berlusconi–an extremely Trumplike figure–actually served multiple terms as Prime Minister of Italy. During which time he did such things as: have (not alleged, he was convicted) sex with underage prostitutes, comment incessantly and crudely on the attractiveness of female politicians, have all manner of tangles with legal authorities over enriching himself at public expense, not to mention speaking positively of Mussolini and Hitler. His Wikipedia controversies section is longer than most peoples' full entries. Didn't matter. After years of political instability and politicians' scandals, people were extremely, utterly pissed off, didn't trust politicians, loved the brash anti-politician. In fact, were he not legally ineligible to run for office, he could be running the country right now. Obviously, that's a different country with a different political system. But people are people.
I've just about had it with the theory that because Carly Fiorina is a woman, therefore she cannot be sexist/misogynist, and as a result can use whatever language she wants without giving offense. It's profoundly silly. It's perfectly possible to have self-loathing that manifests itself as a hatred for your own race/ethnicity/gender. It doesn't count for any more or less than if someone of a different group does it. It makes me think of one of the Coen Brothers least-loved, most underrated films, The Man Who Wasn't There, which is obsessive in its attempt to recreate the postwar era (many argue too much so), but it brings some interesting, often forgotten things to light. In the movie, Frances McDormand plays a full-blooded Italian woman who displays nothing but open contempt for Italian people, employs the usual stereotypes and uses derogatory language about them. This is because the character aspires to a certain WASPy suburban ideal, which leads to her disastrous marriage to the main character, played by Billy Bob Thornton, and these attitudes continue to work and lead to her affair with her boss at work, who is richer and more socially successful than BBT, and who is ironically played by James Gandolfini, though with a hearty hail-fellow affect. What we're talking about here is identity politics, basically, though the flip side of the usual kind of identity politics, in which people aspire to a more "desirable" identity by dragging down the one they were assigned. FOX News makes the most of these folks when they happen to be women or minorities, of course. But it's a sign of some kind of delusion at work to think that they will to any degree work in solving the Republican Party's many diversity problems, as the only reason to make use of them is to convince older white FOX viewers that they're right-on, everyone's a right-winger deep down, they're just being brainwashed, etc. Just let Michelle Malkin tell you all about it. Pushing Carly Fiorina's candidacy is thus too clever by half: it is a non-serious bid by a notorious self-aggrandizer which is more likely to convince Republicans that horribly abusive language toward women is fine, which will ultimately be a disadvantage. The fact that she was, as Trump might say, a total disaster as a CEO and a loser at every political position she's been in are beside the point.
Dear Sir or Madam,
It might seem reasonable to make some sort of concession should you come under attack from right-wing critics. Believe me, it isn't, and I'm speaking pragmatically here. Ignore any sort of ideological angle. Look at it this way. This isn't personal. There's a multibillion dollar industry made up out of whipping people into a frenzy, not to mention any number of freelancers and hobbyists either trying to get in on it or just having their own kind of fun. They scour far and wide to find things to get outraged about. You've landed on their list. It happens. But if you decide to play ball in hopes of avoiding being labeled as "loony left" or some such, then you will be sorely disappointed, because that will happen anyway and this will be merely the beginning of a long chain of harassment. Once they have a scalp, so to speak, they will never stop scrutinizing you and hounding you, since this constitutes "proof" and justification of their beliefs and actions. They will go on demanding more concessions until finally they go too far and you just say, the hell with it. By which point, you'll have alienated just about everybody with nothing to show for it. Just take a look at what the New York Times has done over the years, such as trying to avoid using the word "torture" in reference to things it had historically described as torture during the Bush years, or its more recent blowup over a badly mistaken story about Hillary Clinton's email. In going overboard to attempt to appear neutral, it has merely made people rightfully suspicious of them. Or take NPR. Or take whoever in the media Bill Kristol is drawing a paycheck from this week. It never works, they're still incessantly criticized in spite of making serious compromises. Learn from this.
Plenty of organizations want to maintain a reputation for political neutrality, and that's fine. For all sorts of organizations, that makes absolute perfect sense. But you have to realize that this is not always within your control, and while the FOX/Rush crowd is loud, their attention is constantly shifting from one world-ending disaster after another. The aforementioned industry may decide to come into your lives for no better reason than a whim, and they can be quite loud and quite irritating. The best choice is simply to stick to your guns, so to speak.
Most Sincerely,
Someone tell me again how Republicans aren't crazy, just misunderstood?
Definitive proof of the former?
Trump leads the field with 24% support among likely Republican voters.
Oh how the world laughs at us.
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Three weeks into the Trump Era, we're starting to see efforts to put the man into a broader context. Trump has perhaps hit his peak for the cycle in terms of media attention and polling support, but it's worth remembering that the man is fundamentally volatile and unpredictable, and if you've ever seen an episode of The Apprentice, then you know that he considers this a point of pride. I could just as easily imagine him dropping out of the race next week as I can imagine him continuing on, with no hope, through every single primary just like Jerry Brown in 1992, and then even possibly taking on a third-party presidential bid when he loses. Or not. In any event, we have to assume that he's here to stay, which raises the question of what impact he will have on the Republican race. And I think the obvious answer is that he fucks up Scott Walker's shit. Most people taking this question on argue that Trump helps Bush, which I agree with. Nobody in Bush's orbit is going to be remotely tempted by Trump. Walker, however, is attempting to replicate what his idol, Ronald Reagan, and previously Barry Goldwater accomplished, which was to beat the establishment from the right. A typical Republican field includes a large number of very conservative minor candidates who split up the vote, while the party's political professionals and donors will decide on a single candidate and lavish their undivided support on him. It's why the party wound up with Romney and McCain over Santorum and, well, Mitt Romney. (The party shifted quite a bit to the right over those four years.) But this year was going to be different: weak, compromised establishment choices in Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, and a uniquely strong hardcore conservative in Walker, who had widespread name recognition and a national base. For a noted Reagan idolater, Walker had to just be praising the stars at this setup.
The nightmare scenario for him, though, is a candidate like Donald Trump. While Walker has perfectly followed the Tea Party's methods in office, as a communicator he cannot touch Trump's mastery of the movement's aggrieved, angry, antipolitical rhetoric. As this piece astutely notes, simply by running, Trump can fracture the field's conservatives and make it much harder for Walker to win. Just by showing up and taking a nontrivial chunk of support, that's it. And he can't out-right the guy on substance, either. Trump is willing to go far beyond what best judgment dictates, and it just so happens that on his signature issue of immigrant crime, things on the right are turning rapidly in his favor, in ways that could wreck Walker's whole strategy and derail his candidacy. I refer to the august Representative from Western Iowa, Steve King. Obviously, King has said some nice things about The Donald's immigration views just in general. King says essentially the same things as Trump in much the same way, sometimes with even less tact, and it seems unlikely that anyone who actually cares about their general election is even going to try to one-up him/them. But even beyond that, events have conspired that could make this even more meaningful: the right-wing media has recently been caught up in a frenzy–easy for people outside the bubble to miss, given the multitude and rapidity of frenzies they engage in–over the horrific murder of Kate Steinle in San Francisco. Why does this connect? Because San Francisco is a sanctuary city, which essentially means it doesn't enforce deportation laws and the like, and the accused is an illegal immigrant. The right-wing media has been going full-tilt on this–according to my wife, who had unfortunate occasion to watch several hours of FOX News because she was visiting a family member post-surgery, every FOX show was running with this, each one interviewing a separate family member–and now Rep. King himself has weighed in in his typical, considered manner. He has directly tied this to Trump's message:
King said that three weeks ago, he brought an amendment to the floor on the Commerce Justice Appropriations bill that prohibits any funds from going to any sanctuary cities or jurisdictions just has he has for years.
The amendment passed with strong support, but in previous years it has stalled in the Senate.
"We've got an opportunity to hold that language because of Donald Trump and because of this national crisis," King said.
Though GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has been under fire for his statement that many illegal immigrants are bringing drugs into the country and that some are killers and rapists, King said recent events have shown he was right.
Would King endorse Trump? This is the key question. It would be almost too awesome to come true from a liberal perspective, but there's very little reason to believe he wouldn't strongly consider it. Trump donated significant sums to King in the past according to the National Journal article, they share a common stance on King's pet issue, they are broadly similar in attitude and rhetoric. They like each other. If you find it impossible that King would endorse Trump, then I think you owe us all an explanation of why this couldn't happen. Someone like Ted Cruz is clearly a con artist whose crazy exterior masks a cynical base, but I'm not sure you can say the same thing about King. He gives every indication of being a sincere kook who would gladly endorse a no-hoper who would damage the party, since that's what's so often said of him. And if King endorses Trump, you have to consider the possibility that Trump wins Iowa. If it seems odd that a Manhattan-based billionaire would win the Iowa Caucuses, long the best hope of evangelicals, ultracons and cornpone, well yes, it does. But with a King endorsement, I think it becomes a real possibility. There are, obviously, other hurdles. Winning Iowa would mean a lot of retail politicking that it doesn't seem obvious Trump would excel at. And then there's his well-covered history of supporting liberal causes and candidates. I am not entirely persuaded by the arguments that this will be his undoing–teahardists love purity but Reagan himself had a much more extensive record of left-wing politics and activism reaching well into the late 1940s. This sort of thing derailed Newt Gingrich's moment in the sun three years ago, but Gingrich's responses tended to be detached and professorial, while Trump's would be anything but. And it's also true that envisioning Trump as a man of deep faith is utterly implausible. So, obviously some challenges are there. But given that Walker's current lead is basically based on name ID as governor of a neighboring state, Trump's populist approach plus the support of Steve King would certainly put him in the game. And if Trump does win or finish a close second, Walker's chances are basically hosed. It's unlikely that he'll win either in New Hampshire or South Carolina, and Nevada presents real challenges in the form of a genuinely moderate GOP governor who will have to be handled carefully, and a diverse, politically apathetic electorate very different from his exurban Milwaukee stomping grounds. It's anyone's guess who would win under those circumstances, but if Bush wound up winning (as I think he will), then that's two in a row, and the stampede may well happen just from that.
Again, it's worth saying that Trump is an unpredictable crazy person who could just drop out tomorrow. But if he remains in the race through the early primaries, by dint of fracturing conservatives and screwing up Walker's strategy, he could end up making Walker 2016 look like Giuliani 2008. Watching Steve King should give us a good sense of whether this will happen. In the meantime, why not enjoy Tom Scharpling's vintage recaps of The Celebrity Apprentice, easily among the best writing of that form ever. Here's the web link, or you can download this PDF of The Celebrity Apprentice and let the hilarity roll on your mobile device, without all that scrolling and clicking.
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The disastrous moment for Chase was a leaked memo to investors – written in January 1995. It said the president's PRI party, which had ruled since 1929, "will need to consider carefully whether or not to allow opposition victories if fairly won at the ballot box". It declared that a peaceful solution to the clash with the Zapatistas was unlikely. "While Chiapas, in our opinion, does not pose a fundamental threat to Mexican political stability, it is perceived to be so by many in the investment community," it read. And then continued: "The government will need to eliminate the Zapatistas to demonstrate their effective control of the national territory and of security policy."
The punch line is the notion that the PRI needed encouragement to rig elections. In any event, this is from an article about Britain's new Wall Street-bred Business Secretary and his history, and it's nice to remove any doubt that the Tories are basically just Republicans now.
Some men seek greatness, some have it thrust upon them. And some meekly hope to stumble into it somehow. My working theory is that Jeb Bush is only running for president to keep the Bush apparatus warmed up for his son's inevitable run next decade. I doubt he really wanted to run deep down, but realized that a 12- or 16-year gap between Bush candidacies is too long to keep all those meticulously maintained connections intact, and decided to go for it largely out familial duty. I have no proof of this theory but it happens to fit the facts like no other one does, such as the fact that Bush is running a shitty, uninspired campaign that has been completely ignored for weeks now thanks to a buffoon from New York who has zero chance of winning, and also the fact that Bush seems to be unable to say anything that isn't at best unhelpful or at worst completely tone deaf. Not only does citing one of slavery's most successful champions as your favorite president not wash in today's environment, but he's also going to get it from the right for not saying Reagan is his favorite president. No doubt the intention was to imply that Bush would be similarly as effective as Polk, though it's just as likely to imply a single-term pledge that seems to be a bizarre new Republican idea that gets kicked around every four years, as both McCain and Romney were known to contemplated it. This isn't so much ill-considered as unconsidered. Bush has been running, officially and not, for months now. Debates are starting soon. One wonders if he'll ever be in fighting shape at this rate.
Bush remains the frontrunner, in my consideration. But ultimately there's no real rationale here for his candidacy, no fire in the belly, no nothing. Ted Kennedy got a significant amount of flak for seemingly running for president in 1980 based on being a Kennedy, but at least Teddy had significant identifiable policy differences with Carter that were a plausible basis for a run, combined with the fact that Carter's 1976 win was due to his superior understanding of the brand new nomination system rather than to his broad appeal to the party, as well as Carter's fundamental lack of competency as president–all this combined to make a decent case on paper for Ted, if not a winning campaign. Bush's campaign rationale seems to be based largely on a sort of emotional blackmail, implicitly trying to cash in on all that "Dubya will be vindicated by history" nonsense from a few years back by party actors, along with a heavy reliance on the family's political network to push him through, as well as a lot of lazy assumptions. He's the "electable" candidate who isn't appreciably more electable than any of the others, the "visionary" candidate whose only real departures from rightist orthodoxy are the same ones his brother had, and the "intelligent" candidate who seems to say ignorant and impulsive things as much as any other standard, non-Trump Republican does. And he's still most likely to get the nomination, as his main competition are an amateur, his own protege, a Bible thumper, and a buffoon. But that may well be a Pyrrhic victory if his campaign damages the Bush brand even more than it already is, which is both incredible to consider and not at all impossible.
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San Francisco -- The Milwaukee Brewers have placed Rickie Weeks on the 15-day disabled list with the strained left hamstring he suffered in last night's game, and recalled Scooter Gennett from Class AAA Nashville.
"We needed a second baseman, somebody who could go out there and play every day," manager Ron Roenicke said following the Brewers' 4-1 loss to the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park.
"Not just that – if we don't bring up Scooter, you've got an infield that you can't do anything with. Like today, we couldn't do anything, couldn't pinch-hit for any of them, because there were no other options."
Roenicke started Jeff Bianchi at second base on Thursday and he went 0 for 2 with a walk and a stolen base. The only other player on the roster capable of playing second was Yuniesky Betancourt, and he was already in the lineup at third.
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Den Beste: Hooray for the Second Amendment!
Steven Den Beste sent the following, which I am pleased to publish here for ya'll.
Let's talk about the Third Amendment for a moment. Remember that one? Probably not; in this day and age it's something of a Constitutional joke. "No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."
Remember now? The Bill of Rights which passed Congress had twelve clauses, and ten of them were almost immediately ratified by the states. Amendment Three was one of those. Why did they bother?
It's because memory of the Revolution was still current. It was only a few years after the Revolution succeeded, remember, and memory of British tyranny was still fresh. The British had done this, and the citizens of the nascent United States wanted to make sure their new government didn't.
The reason the colonies revolted was because the King of England was viewed as having become a tyrant. Having fought a bloody war to become free of his tyranny, the founders wanted to make sure the new government they created did not in turn become tyranny. Trading one tyrant for another wasn't what they had in mind. So the Constitution contains layers of mechanisms to try to prevent tyranny. And the last and best of these is the Second Amendment.
Remember how the shooting revolution began? The Battles of Lexington and Concord. Rebels in the Boston area had been stockpiling weapons, powder, and ammunition near Concord MA, and the British got wind of it and sent an armed column out from Boston to seize the stockpile. Superb espionage by rebel forces detected this, and word spread through the countryside for the militia (remember that word; it's important) which formed up and fought against the British force. The main battle was fought at Lexington MA, which repelled the British and caused them to retreat again back to Boston.
The "militia" was all able bodied men in the area, who were to show up with their own rifles (or muskets). Weapons of that era varied quite a lot, and of course they were muzzle-loaded using black powder. It took a lot of training to use such a weapon effectively (especially rifles, which were much more difficult to load than muskets) and that's why it was desireable that the men have their own weapons. It was assumed they already knew how to use them.
The earliest battles of the revolution were fought by such militia formations. Another was the Battle of Bunker Hill. It was only later that the Revolutionary Army was formed, and began training at Valley Forge.
Having just won their revolution, in which privately owned firearms played such a critical role, and mindful of the potential for their new government to potentially become tyrannical, the purpose of the Second Amendment was to make sure that the people of the United States would have the means to rise in revolt once again, should it become necessary.
That's what it's really about. It's not about hunting weapons; it's not about the "National Guard" (which isn't a militia). It's about everyday law-abiding citizens having the ability to resist a tyrannical government. And with that deterrent in place, we've managed 230 years without our government descending into tyranny (though it's come close).
And that's why Progressives hate it. Deep down, progressives (i.e. socialists) are not populists. Deep down, progressives despise the majority of their fellow citizens, and don't trust them at all. They love America but hate most of the Americans. Progressives are entranced with the possibilities presented by a benevolent dictatorship. They ignore the peril, that it can mutate into a malevolent dictatorship because they believe in their own virtue. They're sure it won't happen if they're in charge. As to Democracy? It's a burden, a barrier; it gives the vote to all the rednecks and knuckle-draggers who have been mislead by the evil capitalists (remember the Doctrine of False Consciousness? Pernicious claptrap, that one, but it has a lot of currency on the left) and will resist the Progressive program even though it's Obviously the right thing to do.
If only Progressives, as an enlightened elite, had the ability to impose their program on the rest of us, eventually we'd come around to their point of view. But that means they need dictatorial power, and Democracy prevents that.
And the last and strongest barrier against the creation of a benevolent dictatorship by the Progressive enlightened elite is that damned Second Amendment, and all those firearms owned by the rednecks and knuckle-draggers.
So let's be clear: Progressives don't fear guns in the hands of criminals, or not very much. It's not about school shootings, either. It's guns in the hands, and homes, of law abiding citizens that Progressives hate. Those are the guns they wish were gone; those are the guns they will try to eliminate if they can. Because those are the guns which stand in the way of them taking over.
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Acting on a tip-off Police raided Gulistan-i-Jauhar area, after a brief encounter, the police arrested Liaquat Bangash, along with four of his companions. It was disclosed that the suspects were involved more than 100 target killing cases. The police recovered four Kalashnikovs, one repeater and three hand grenades from their possession His group was said to consist of more than 200 criminals and professional killers, and was well-known for spreading terror in different areas of Karachi. The group was also involved in kidnapping for ransom, police encounters, extortion, drug peddling; arm trafficking and land grabbing in the area. Liaquat Bangash and his accomplices were organizing criminal gangs by recruiting children in different areas of Karachi under patronage of ANP Leaders. Ansar Abbasi Sb, This is not your fabricated JIT, its real, would you like to write a novel about it (ANP) please !! A- Karachiet