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Posted on 09/28/2012 1:35:34 PM PDT by madprof98
That, apparently, is the long-held view of Mitts men not and not just about the forthcoming debates, but about the whole campaign.
I have this from the lips of Sam Coates, the deputy political editor of the London Times, who was on BBC Radio 4′s Broadcasting House last Sunday participating in one of those panels of pundits-looking-at-the-press. Everyone agreed that, according to the polls, the U.S. election was finally over and that Obama would be back for four more years. All the newspapers all said so. It feels, said Coates, that the incumbent is pulling away.
Coates said the assumption of a Romney defeat fit his own view of the Republicans surrounding Mitt, a pessimism he saw back when Romney was in London eating his foot while talking about the Olympics. His aides were there, he said, and they were telling some of our political advisers that, really, they werent that optimistic about their guys chances. Theyre pretty resigned to it not going well, and its interesting to see that people are already moving away from his campaign.
Does this seem plausible? Coates is a normally careful reporter. So does it seem that the coterie of mostly cautious Republicans surrounding Mitt are just going through the motions, they way they did for Dole and McCain? Does it seem, as it does from the Euro side of the Atlantic, that Mitts Republicans are embarrassed by their base by the vision thing and sometimes even by their VP nominee? If thats true, then maybe all those odd polls reported by Katrina are true, too. After all, for two terms in the state of Kansas, where almost every voter is a Republican, voters routinely chose Sebelius, a left-wing extremist, over GOP candidates well-marinated in moderation. Nobody wants to vote for the reasonable chap running as functionary-in-chief.
In fact, what Americans seem to want is more polarization, not less. Those Republicans who try to campaign by galvanizing and leading their base, instead of ignoring and avoiding it, must be feeling now the way Romneys dour aides have apparently felt all along pretty resigned, minus the pretty. This is true in Senate races, too, and especially with influential PACs. In Michigan, where conservative Pete Hoekstra was running neck-and-neck with liberal Debbie Stabenow, the super PACs quit early and went elsewhere. As one source well-placed in the Hoekstra campaign told me, We feel like the Rodney Dangerfield of Senate races.
Scott Walker, the conservative Wisconsin Republican who defeated an all-out, union-run recall effort in a Democratic state, seemed to speak for many of the unwashed, according to the Independent:
It is no accident that Mr Romney hopes to close the book on his latest embarrassments with a bus tour in Ohio. It may also be telling that the tour will be opened by his running mate, Paul Ryan. Mr Ryan, who will address supporters in Lima, Ohio, today, is increasingly being seen as the more effective campaigner. Scott Walker, the Governor of Wisconsin, said as much when he praised Mr Ryan and said he hadnt seen the kind of passion I know that Paul has transferred over to our nominee.
Like other Republican luminaries, Mr Walker is no longer shy in offering his counsel to Mr Romney. I want to see fire in the belly, he declared, demanding evidence that the nominee is lit up and ready to go. He added: I think you got to get off the heels and get out and charge forward.
Fire in the belly? Lit up and ready to go? Mitt? Like a Glo-Stick on a bus, maybe.
up to 1 point in Ras swing state polls, up plenty with indies, no worries
As I recall there have been several hundred "anonymous" sourced" Mass Media stories like this that have turned out to be total BS in the last 10 years.
Odd how the sour grapes crowd wants to dismiss mass media stories that challenge their emotion based opinions while feverishly clinging to one that validate their sour grapes that Romney won the Primary
Almost no one here was excited when Mitt became our nominee, but he is the only chance we have to derail four more years of hell on Earth.
I will support him regardless. I just hope he can pull things together, inspire the base, and spark a rally before this thing ends.
Boo freakin' Hoo - I'm not buying it. At the very least, I think it's going to be very close. If I'm wrong, so be it, I'll eat my words on 11/6.
Unlike Dole the economy sucks. They keep beating the drums that Obama is winning because they want to discourage Republicans from voting. Rasmussen is showing too close to call.
I don't believe for a second that the campaign was resigned to loss in July when they were on their visits to London and Israel. The campaign was at the time running well, and the outlook for Obama was terrible as the economy was tanking all summer. It makes no sense.
This is a hacker job article, pulling unnamed sources and out of context quotes from people like Scott Walker. Walker's comments were positive and encouraging, not negative and hopeless.
Oh yeah everyone, let's just give up and go home in September.......Obama is unstoppable.
Nobody wants him re-elected, nobody wants him to have four more years but hey, all those polls cannot possibly be lies to disocurage us now can they?
And since when does the Romney camp talk to reporters in London about how they feel?
Again the message is "Stay home, it's over".
It's only over if we allow it to be over. That is what Obama is counting on, it's the only prayer he's got and we need to do a much better job of recognizing psychological operations when we see them.
Wake up!
As for who we nominated, we'll know better after the debates.
you anti Romney people may get your wish yet....
and you will face the consequences like the rest of us...
you'll be in the pro obama camp from here on out, and may God have mercy on your souls...
I don't know this Dennis Boyles, but I don't know why National Review would try to undermine Romney. He was their first choice!
Who know what lies behind this story. It must be said that Romney has a bunch of spineless losers for handlers. He lent some of them to McCain last time around, and they did everything they could to lose the election.
NRO belongs in the same dust bin as Peggy Noonan and Crease Brooks. Waving the white flag on September 29th. Unbelievable.
I want to see this guy's face when Romney wins convincingly on November 6th.
donate...vote....pray...that simple....
Romney has a natural constiuency..Mormons...he has money...he has monied friends....this is the worse economy since the Great depression and more and more job layoffs are announced each day...
our Ambassador was just torn out of his home and sodomized and murdered....
THIS is not 1996....
Romney wasn't my first choice but I'd rather have him as president than Obama. We are in the middle of a war. Sitting back and this point and saying "I told you so" isn't going to advance anything.
I'm just plain disgusted by the media and the "conservative" weak-kneed pansies who are more interested in moaning about how horrible everything is than winning. They need to stop writing this type of BS, stop writing columns about how Romney should change his campaign and start writing about how bad the enemy is.
The end result of this campaign, whether Romeny wins or loses, is that I'm a lot less likely to read "conservative" blogs that put a lot of negative BS up, or that turn tail and run when Romney is down. Its not how I want to spend my time. Screw them.
Same reason they tried to undermine McCain, who was also their first choice in 2008: NRO is run by closet Obama-bots.
Yes, I'm an idiot supreme and that is why I believe that all of Romney's team members, when they were over in London in July, were telling everyone that they thought they were going to lose. Why would that not be credible?
Ubama is not winning any demographic he lost in 2008, and is behind 2008 in the demographics he did win.
Fact is, Ubama is going to lose in a landslide, and he knows it, which is why he and Moochelle just bought that new crib in Hawaii.
He wouldn't be planning a move if he thought he was going to win.
I know people who've never voted who are registered now and cannot wait to pull the Anti-Obama lever. All of these "articles" make me laugh. Look at any yahoo article bashing Mitt or stroking Obama and it's easily a 60/40 split if not more of posters who LOATH Obama. The guy is the biggest Worm in American politics and November 6th will show it.
In 2008 my fingers were crossed because every damn person I talked to would not say a negative thing about Obama.
I can't find a person to say something nice. Coal plants shut down (union). Energy plant filed bankruptcy (union) RR workers who move everything but mostly coal (union). They all hate the Socialist POS.
Mittens has no fire in his belly(unless he's running against conservatives in the primaries).
There are so many ways to attack Zero, but he chooses not to.
I still predict that about two weeks before the election, he will turn hard right to attempt to ensure conservatives will
get out and vote. Will it work? Who knows.
Me either but what I do know is that in any war, there are always the weak and feckless types that at the slightest sign of adversity, start either cozying up to the enemy or going into a variation of Stockholm Syndrome.
Sounds like their game plan is working - make the Right depressed and have them give up because "it's already over". Don't let them get to you with the BS.
Funny to see NR complain about the GOP-e that they themselves are card carrying members of.
The UK media shows Romney as a right-wing nutter buffoon... even the TELEGRAPH seems to do so, you can tell from the people who leave messages at the TELEGRAPH blogs
I would like to see an utter repudiation of 0bama along the lines of 1980, or better.
I recall many (including Rush) say obama and the LSM would pull out all the stops to demoralize us. That's what I remember and that's what's happening.
I have one word for both you and Dennis Boyle:
-proudly quoting General Anthony McAuliffe, responding to the German ultimatum to surrender at the Battle of the Bulge
Most of us here opposed Romney in the primaries. Our candidates didn't win. Now the primaries are over.
Surprizingly, Romney shifted more conservative after the primaries, first time we've ever seen that in our lifetimes, perhaps the first time it ever happened.
Right now, Romney is ahead by about 10%, and the trend is against Obama. That upward curve will be almost vertical by the first week in November.
By Nov 6, Romney is going to win the popular vote by about 59% to 39%, and the electoral vote will look like 1980 or 1984. Obama will lose Illinois, along with the rest of the midwestern states, and will be lucky to finish with just DC, NY, and CA.
I just don't know why you Obama supporters are hanging out on FR, other than to spread your commie propaganda.
Heck, it was predicted for more than a year before the nomination. There are those who saw this coming four years ago.
"by Dennis Boyles" no it's 'Denis Boyle'
Obviously French...
Welcome visitor from the future. May we also have the winning Super Lotto numbers from that time period?
You seem happy to be spreading this CRAP.
Doper research on
Your AstroTurf next time .
The author of this hit piece is a Ex Pat living in
France !
He is a lib and a French living elite !
He quotes the London Times , a
Left wing rag which trashes Romney non stop !
Obama and Axelrod appreciated your work today
It may be that I'm wrong and Obama will win.
But I am so disappointed that so many people on this site actually think the media has suddenly started reporting the truth 40 days before a Presidential election. Good grief. Come buy a bridge from me.
You've been here long enough to know that posting this article would result in a 100* personal attacks, and the highly original invitations to "go back to DU", yes?
If my "handlers" were telling any media they thought I was going to lose I would fire their butts yesterday.
Seriously, if you people spreading defeatism and gloom cost us this election I will blame YOU for the loss of my liberty to my dying day.
If you can't lead, get the hell out of the way and for God's sake Shut Up!
I think the ground game of the Dems is to saturate the ground with negative expectations ahead of the debates. They just aren't breaking into the 50 per cent territory they would like to be at with Obama. The Dems fear that Mitt will cream Obama in the debates as there is so much to cream him with. If, however, they are able to get it into peoples' heads that Mitt is the foregone loser, then the people who need to watch the debates won't watch them and America's destruction will be assured. We'll have voted our own destruction into being!
NRO is part of the "We have to be nice and civil and never lower ouraleves to do the things Democrats do" crowd.
They have created this mess. So Mitt hasn't got a fire in his belly? Neither does anybody at NRO!
My take on this is that with all this "it's all over but the shouting," being reported, while it may demoralize some Republicans/Conservatives, they are much more energized and will (for the most part) ignore this BS (as we are smart enough to realize the corrupt, biased, MSM is doing this on purpose) turn out to vote.
On the other hand, I suggest that if they keep this up and the Ijits in the RAT Party keep seeing this reported, they are apt to think they don't have to bother to vote as it's "in the bag!"
I'm sorry but your definition of "100%" is rather at odds with the facts here.
The Democrats have successfully turned themselves into an ideologically coherent fighting party, who know what they want and what they are prepared to do to get it.
The Republicans? Don't make me laugh.
IF Romney loses by a couple of points we are all going to point at people like YOU as the cause.
Those of you supposed "conservatives" clinging to your sour grapes about the primary who are so willing to propagandize for the enemy may cost the GOP 1-3 points in votes nation wide.
We are going to remember that after Nov. After the Elections Conservatives are not going to just forgive and forget those who actively worked to re-elect 0bama
Rubbish. Obama is an endless disaster. I find it hard to believe there are enough dumb people in the U.S. to get him re-elected.
You can't blame EVERYTHING on Obama when Bush had 8 years to figure out the mortgage loan issue and did nothing, the Republicans held the Congress I think for 6 of those years, they currently hold the House yet they do nothing about the out of control spending even though spending bills originate in the House, etc, etc, etc.
ALL of Washington DC is to blame for this mess, not just obama, and Romney did just as badly in Taxachusettes as Obama has done for the country.
Sorry, but I can't stand to listen to this "Our side, YEAH!" crap any longer. There isn't a single trend to the positive for either side and the RNC gives us an extreme left-wing liberal FR used to make fun of just a few years ago as their presidential candidate and you sing that praise simply because that left winger is to displace the other side's left winger?? Insanity.
I have direct reports that Romney bumper stickers are popping up in liberal towns.
My personal observation has been that Obama stickers are few and far between.
I have no explanation for why conservative pundits are pushing the lie that Obama is ahead in the polls.
If Republicans are just going through the motions, then I will have to change my party affiliation, since there would be no point in being a Republican.
The largest massive debt increases have been when the Republicans held the House, and some years even the Senate. BOTH sides are just as guilty of this mess.
After a war is over, it is the collaboraters and quislings who are shot. They are the lowest form of scum. Defeated enemy soldiers are treated much better.
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What follows is something of an epistemological experiment, an 'essai' in what might be possible. What is at issue here is the researcher and their research 'eye'. The chapter steps back to consider the researchers themselves before going on to the practice of research itself. Following the drafting of the chapters in Part II, the four authors were invited to contribute material to this present chapter in the form of four 'reflexive accounts'. We wanted to examine how it was possible to objectify important aspects of the relationship between researchers and their various objects of study. In so doing, we are aware that the accounts sometimes cover biographic information and introspection in ways which are more personal than Bourdieu's own 'reflexivity'; although he does talk quite openly in places in terms of his personal social and academic trajectory and its effect on his research and writing (see for example Bourdieu and Grenfell, 1995; Bourdieu and Wacquant, 1992b, pp. 209-15). In order to guide the authors' reflection, we listed some possible


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You begin and end your Magic Kingdom visit on Main Street, which may open 30 minutes before and closes 30 minutes–1 hour after the rest of the park. The Walt Disney World Railroad stops at the Main Street Station; board here for a grand tour of the park or a ride to Frontierland or the forthcoming Storybook Circus Station.
Main Street is a Disneyfied turn-of-the-20th-century small-town American thoroughfare. Its buildings are real, not elaborate props. Attention to detail is exceptional: Furnishings and fixtures are true to the period. Along the street are shops, character-greeting venues, eating places, City Hall, and a fire station. Occasionally, horse-drawn trolleys, fire engines, and horseless carriages transport visitors along Main Street to the Central Plaza.
Two recently completed construction projects should help Main Street better handle large crowds. First, the huge circular area around the Central Plaza has been paved over and rebuilt into a FastPass+ viewing area for the Magic Kingdom's parades and fireworks.
Second, the areas behind the shops on either side of Main Street have been repurposed as pedestrian walkways for use during parades and fireworks during peak times, allowing guests to exit and enter the park from either side of Main Street when it would be otherwise impassable. One arcade, the one most frequently used, runs from just past Tony's Town Square Restaurant to the Tomorrowland side of The Plaza Restaurant; the other runs from near the First Aid Center next to The Crystal Palace to the Fire Station near City Hall on Main Street.
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Most park services are centered on Main Street, including:
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Police officer who took Donna Rice's triple-0 flood call was diverted from regular duties
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- May 11, 2011
THE Toowoomba police officer who rebuked Donna Rice during a 000 call just minutes before she and her son, Jordan, were swept to their deaths was redeployed to the call centre following an "incident", the flood inquiry has heard.
And the Queensland Fire and Rescue service communications officer who took 13-year-old Jordan's urgent call for help seven minutes later said she asked him to stop his mother screaming to ensure a swift reaction to the emergency.
During a day of renewed focus on the response to the Rice family's pleas for help from their swamped car, experienced police and QFRS officers relived events of January 10.
Officer-in-charge of the Toowoomba district police communications centre, Senior Sergeant Julie Cooling, said Senior Constable Jason Wheeler had been reassigned to the communications centre a "couple of weeks" prior to taking the 1pm phone call in which he rebuked Ms Rice for driving in to floodwater and refused her request for a tow truck.
"I'm not quite sure of the details but I believe he was put in there as a result of a management decision," she said.
"He was put there because he had an incident a few weeks earlier."
Sen-Sgt Cooling was not required to elaborate after Commissioner Catherine Holmes ruled the specifics of the incident would fall outside the inquiry's terms of reference.
Sen-Sgt Cooling, who was on annual leave on January 10 but had listened to recordings of the phone call, acknowledged Sen-Constable Wheeler's handling of the call was "not appropriate" but added call centre staff were under enormous pressure on the day.
She could not say if she would have handled the call differently. "I may have asked her if she could get out of the car but I was not there on that day."
QFRS communications officer Kelli Docherty-Tanaskovic told the inquest of the call for help from Jordan Rice she took at 2.07pm on January 10.
It was among the first she took after being recalled from annual leave.
Ms Docherty-Tanaskovic said it was the apparent urgency of the situation which prompted her not to establish the number of people involved in the incident nor take down caller details.
"It was difficult at the time to have the person on the phone focus on me," she said.
"There was a lot of noise in the background with screaming and I had to ask him to tell the woman behind him to stop yelling.
"It was difficult enough to get him to tell me where he was, let alone how many people were with him. At that stage, it was good enough, I guess, to get enough detail from him to know where he was and yes they were in water, yes they were in a vehicle and get it through to them."
The inquiry heard the first fire truck was dispatched four minutes after the call.
The first rescue truck arrived at the scene at 2.17pm but Jordan and Donna Rice had been washed to their deaths.
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The Afghan Whigs' music hit me hard in my 20s and hasn't left me since
The music of one of Cincinnati's all-time greatest musical exports, The Afghan Whigs, hit me at precisely the right time. As a child, the music of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who tattooed itself on to my DNA, while my high school years found me becoming obsessed with College Rock, Punk, Hip Hop and Hard Rock. But The Afghan Whigs were my "coming-of-age" soundtrack — from (approximately) the ages of 20-27 — and, like those childhood musical heroes, their music has never left me. Those years were pivotal in my growth as a human being. In that brief span, I was a raging alcoholic, a one-step-from-the-gutter junkie and a newlywed — at least for a few years all at once — with a handful of relationships that played themselves out painfully woven in between, followed by the "light" that comes with sobriety and clarity. I can't remember exactly the first time I heard The Afghan Whigs. I knew of them right after high school by seeing their names on fliers for shows at bars I wasn't old enough to get into. But once I finally got my hands on the band's debut for SubPop, Up In It, in 1990, I was hooked. While the music on Up In It still gives me a jolt every time I listen, the songs (save "You My Flower") never became as emotionally resonant as 1992's Congregation, 1993's Gentlemen and 1996's Black Love would prove to be for me. The sound of the Whigs' music was the perfect transition for me from favorites like Dinosaur Jr., The Replacements and Husker Du. But there was an aura in the Whigs' music that those groups were never capable of invoking. And originality — no one before or since has conjured the magical abstract-art guitar squiggles Whigs guitarist Rick McCollum has churned out and John Curley is one of the "Alt Rock" revolution's most distinctive bassists, with his sublime mix of melody, feel and sheer propulsiveness. Original drummer Steve Earle also had a trademark sound in his playing, a flurry of Hard Rock bluster and shuffling dance rhythms. Together with the hearty, evocative songwriting, The Afghan Whigs always had something more — an air of mystique and a sound beyond the trends — than their late '80s SubPop peers, not to mention their '90s Alternative Nation breakthrough cohorts. I got lost in the dark corners and ominous shadows of the music, as well as its manic moments of pure, jubilant uplift and smothering, inescapable sadness. And I soon began to pick up on the words of frontman Greg Dulli, which have repeatedly given me those moments every deep music lover has where they're almost freaked out by how closely the lyrics mirror their own feelings and experiences. Dulli's lyrics were raw, clever, poetic and brutally honest "love songs." It was the brutal honesty of his poetry about relationships that led to a still ongoing belief by detractors that Dulli is a misogynistic asshole. But I never got that vibe, even when the lyrics (always taken out of context when used against him) skewed that way, like on Gentlemen's "Be Sweet," where Dulli croons,"Ladies, let me tell you about myself/I got a dick for a brain/And my brain is gonna sell my ass to you/Now I'm OK, but in time I'll find I'm stuck/'Cause she wants love and I still want to fuck" Some find Dulli's swaggering "lothario" persona onstage off-putting and such lyrics crude, sexist, deplorable. I find them a relevant part of the story and character development, but also a realistic portrayal of a virile young man's mental process. Dismissing Dulli's words because you find them dick-ish or "sexist" just seems disingenuous. Men are assholes sometimes. And they can realize that in themselves. And women can be assholes, too. When I met my current longtime partner, she was as obsessed with Liz Phair's music as I was The Afghan Whigs', which made me draw some parallels between the two. She loved Liz Phair for the same reason I loved the Whigs — their music spoke directly to us and was dazzling in its self-awareness and rare candor. It should be noted that I really love Liz Phair's first album (the main one she built her legend upon, Exile in Guyville), but my girlfriend merely seems to tolerate my affinity for the Whigs. Still, The Afghan Whigs have tons of female fans, some who just love the sound of the band, some who appreciate the quality writing and musicianship, some who find Dulli's honesty sexy and some who find the man himself a hunk among hunks. There are usually an equal amount of male and females in an Afghan Whigs audience. Dulli's lyrics have a personal, intimate style, like something being revealed to you in a whisper or drunken yowl in the backroom of a speakeasy, which might be why most of his critics fail to consider the possibility of a non-autobiographical "narrator." What Dulli's lyrics offered to me was something I hadn't heard before, and it all goes back to that brutal honesty. He was presenting a more complete and complex picture of love, one that admitted mistakes, wielded vitriol like a sword, cranked up the self-deprecation, wallowed in sex, drugs and misery and held on to the hope and promise that love first presents. The Whigs' connections to classic Soul music isn't just in the sound or beats; that lyrical description could also be about Marvin Gaye or any number of great vintage Blues and Soul artists. Dulli sings about the emotional ups and downs a man in, out or around love feels. And his honesty made a lot of uptight people (and men trying to seem "femi-sensitive") uncomfortable. It's sort of like a non-ridiculous version of Howard Stern's "He says the things we all think and feel but can't say ourselves!" Like Charles Bukowski and Henry Miller, Dulli never ran his insight through a PC filter — he just ran it out, filter-less. I can be masochistic in my listening habits, cuing up songs that are painful in their reminder of darker times or clinging to them during fresh, new depressing moments. But I've also listened to the Whigs while elated and ready to celebrate. Though I don't have the same visceral response to the Whigs' more upbeat "party" anthems (particularly on the band's swan song, 1965), I've grown to love them almost as much. During dysfunctional moments in love affairs, with my issues with drugs and alcohol, Gentlemen's "Fountain and Fairfax" — with it's lines like "Let me drink, let me tie off/I'm really slobbering now" — stung. But it was a good sting, like a shot of whiskey. Songs like these, the ones that echoed my weird, nihilistic feelings of "fuck it all," helped me realize I wasn't totally insane. Or at least I wasn't the only one who was trying to understand and deal with this insanity. Black Love closer "Faded" has been an anthem for many breakups, the Purple Rain-sway giving me the same kind of chills Wendy and Lisa get in the Prince movie when he plays the title track for the first time. And whenever my longtime battle with depression has led me to suicidal thoughts in my life, "Crime Scene (Part One)," the numb, opening salvo on the Whigs noir, emotionally-wrenching masterpiece Black Love, starts running through my brain: "Tonight, tonight I say goodbye/To everyone who loves me/Stick it to my enemies, tonight/Then I disappear." More than once, it's brought me to tears and squashed all suicidal thoughts — thinking of saying goodbye to everyone who loves you is sometimes all it takes. As I eventually got my shit together, getting off the hard drugs and managing my alcohol intake, another Whigs' song would haunt me, but this time in a purely reassuring way. I've used a "program" called Rational Recovery to help me stay off of drugs and alcohol and the essence of the system is mental cognizance — being able to recognize when your mind and body are trying to get you to drink or do drugs. You turn this "feeling" into a physical thing and name it. I suppose it could be named anything, but I've gone with "The Beast," per the suggestion of the Rational Recovery book. It sounds silly, but merely saying in my head, "That's The Beast," has worked wonders for me staying sober. I eventually started to cling to a line from The Afghan Whigs' single "Debonair" from Gentlemen: "Once again the monster speaks/Reveals his face and searches for release." It so perfectly matches my "sobriety mantra" and mental ritual, I've considered having it tattooed on my arm. I'm fairly certain that I would've become a huge Afghan Whigs fan if I wasn't from Cincinnati. Even before I found a way to make a living from writing about music from the area, I loved "homegrown" music and never saw it as simply "local music." But being able to see the Whigs in concert dozens of times, venues big and small, all over the region, including a few epic holiday shows and a couple of "secret" warm-up shows the band would sneak in before hitting the road — that certainly helped their "favorite band" status in my mind. The Whigs have long been a phenomenal live band. Musically, it's always been a tight but ragged glory. But Dulli is one of the most entertaining, funniest banterers in the history of Rock & Roll. His mid-set chats (formerly trademark "smoke breaks," though Greg is now apparently a non-smoker) were like an edgy, fired-up stand-up comedian going into the audience for some "Hey, where you from?" volleying. But in Dulli's case, it was usually a time to talk musical tastes, new bands, maybe throw out some humorous sports commentary, playfully taunting every other person in the venue. It was loose, like party chatter, and I always found it an hysterical highlight of every Whigs show. Comedy and music are my two favorite things in the world and the Whigs usually delivered both in concert. The band members were a few years older than me, so there was a sense of awe early on when seeing them around town. When a band I was in was playing at Sudsy Malone's in the early '90s, it would be a total mind-fuck to hear a Whigs member was in the crowd. Especially because I'd taken to listening to the band's music so much, almost everything I played for a long time was informed by the Whigs. (Big C chords with a suspended 7 or mere C to E-minor chord progressions are classic early Whigs' motifs.) I'm far from the only local musician from the'90s (and likely beyond) inspired by the Whigs' music, but there was another kind of inspiration during that era when all of the band members were out and about in Cincinnati. The Whigs' "fuck it, let's just go do this" ambition, just getting in the van and going, actually worked. That gave a lot of musicians hope that they could be heard outside of city limits even if they were from Cincinnati. But, unlike in Seattle, where there were several groups with similar sounds rising simultaneously, the Whigs were too unique to copy to the point where a label might sign a "soundalike" band. It's what's great about Cincinnati music — the lack of a unifying sound as a result of artists trying to make their own unique thing. The Whigs were even involved in starting my career — the very first review of any piece of art I ever wrote was a take on the band's Congregation album for a features/criticism class I took at the University of Cincinnati. (I remember getting a pretty high grade and thinking, "I got this.") Once I'd decided I wanted to write about music full-time, I accepted an internship in New York City. Driving over the hills into New York City, the Whigs' remix of "Miles Iz Ded" called "Rebirth of the Cool" came on some random NY/NJ-area radio station. It made me feel like I was on the right track. Gradually, I'd meet all of the members out and about, and each had that Midwestern down-to-earthness that it usually takes outsiders to point out. Well, I'd meet every member except Mr. Dulli. During the peak Whigs years, Dulli seemed especially sensitive to negative press, reportedly calling out (or just calling up) writers who'd say sometimes legit, sometimes stupid things about him or his band. I was a mentally unstable substance abuser who, for reasons I don't completely remember or understand, added a couple of dumb barbs about the band into my column or elsewhere in CityBeat over the course of a few years. They weren't especially harsh, save for one aside where I mentioned (jokingly) that a rumor was suggesting Dulli had developed a massive bourbon habit and gained 500 lbs (or something equally outrageous). It was stupid and baseless and, given his family lives in the area and might read it (this was pre-internet-is-everywhere), he had every right to be angered by my youthful idiocy. If you're reading this, Greg, I apologize. It was another lesson in growing the fuck up, courtesy of The Afghan Whigs. I came to despise that sort of trashy journalism but, in a cruel twist of fate, baseless gossip websites might just be the only job I'll be able to get one day given the state of newspapers. In response to my bad-taste alcoholic/obesity sentence, I received a fax (a fax!) from Dulli's publicist saying the Greg was challenging me to an AIDS test. I'm still not totally sure why, though I think it was either a comment on my taste in women or my IV drug problem at the time. I was flummoxed. Embarrassed. Ashamed. Confused. Then tickled. "Greg Dulli knows who I am?" (Then ashamed again: "One of my musical heroes hates me.") That how much I love Dulli and his musical partners' output — he might've strangled me with his bare hands if we ran into each other at a bar and I would've been all, "He touched me!" Many of Dulli's more direct peers from the Cincinnati area who were around when the Whigs were coming up don't seem to have a very positive opinion of the man, but I've always taken their shots at him with a grain of salt. There might have been some jealousy or maybe Greg really was an asshole in his mid-20s. I can relate. There are so many stories and legends about Dulli's personal life and actions during his time in Cincy as the Whigs were taking off, he's like an urban Rock Star Davy Crocket. None of it has ever changed how I listen to the Whigs' music. To this day, when I've been in a relationship in turmoil or crumbling apart, I still think to myself, "My life is becoming an Afghan Whigs song again." And I know there will be some emotional pain and probably a few bad decisions involved, but it's at least going to be an interesting ride. The one that never ends.
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Why Steve Earle & John Hiatt Make Ideal Tourmates
Hiatt and Earle (plus his Dukes) perform together at the Taft Theatre tonight
There isn't a huge stylistic gap between Steve Earle and John Hiatt, so it makes sense that they would make a good tour package (one that hits the Taft Theatre tonight for an 8 p.m. show). They're both moderately successful Americana artists with slavishly loyal fan bases and solid bodies of work over long careers (Hiatt having the earlier '70s start). To the curious mind, the billing begs the point: What else do Earle and Hiatt have in common?• They both began their careers as staff songwriters and launched performing careers after one of their songs became a hit for someone else (Johnny Lee for Earle, Three Dog Night for Hiatt).• They've both been covered extensively by other artists, Earle by Travis Tritt, Robert Earl Keen and others, and Hiatt by Bonnie Raitt, Rosanne Cash, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and many more.• They both signed with Epic Records for their first deal; Earle never recorded for them, while Hiatt did two Epic albums which sold poorly and expedited his release.• Their second contracts were both with MCA; Earle had a pretty decent run with the label, including his 1988 hit Copperhead Road, while Hiatt's was a repeat of his Epic experience.• They've both been nominated for Grammys, but Earle has a commanding lead with 14 nods and three wins, while Hiatt has been nominated twice with no mantle bling to show for it yet.• They've both been married multiple times, but again Earle has the lead with seven marriages; Hiatt has only had three.• Both have successfully dealt with substance issues.• Both are balding; Hiatt has the lead here with more hair, but Earle compensates with a ZZ Toppish beard.• Both will kick your ass in the live setting, so bring an extra ass.Here's a clip for Hiatt's "Damn This Down," off his latest LP, Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns. And here is part of a documentary filmed during Earle's sessions for I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (also the name of his novel and, yes, both are based on the Hank Williams tune, which he covers on the album as a bonus track. The novel is centered around Williams mysterious "doctor" who traveled with the singer until his death, then disappeared).
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Steve Earle continues to write one of the best second acts in music history
Gregory Gaston
0 Comments · Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Sober now for 18 years, Earle has been on fire since cleaning himself up in rehab and prison. In fact, I would stand on Townes Van Zandt's coffee table and argue that never before has an artist improved to such a degree after getting sober. The second half of his career has seen him release consistently great records.
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Steve Earle with Joe Pug
June 27 • Memorial Hall
Brian Baker
0 Comments · Monday, June 22, 2009
Steve Earle once noted that Townes Van Zandt was a great songwriter but maybe not the best role model. Earle would know: Just as his friend did, he's collected wrong moves like charms for a bracelet.
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anyone have these on their bikes? im interested in any pros and cons
im thinking of putting them on a road frame and so im also curious if it you can save money traveling with the s&s allow you to fit it into a case rather than a bike box
anyone have these on their bikes? im interested in any pros and cons
im thinking of putting them on a road frame and so im also curious if it you can save money traveling with the s&s allow you to fit it into a case rather than a bike box
Standard/Accepted Airline case is 26x26x10 - Our Santana fits into two cases. Works great! The cases are treated as luggage so there is no discussion about bicycle cases or additional fees.Originally Posted by oneraindog
I would say 1 to 1.5 hours to put the Tandem bike together. A single bike would be much quicker. Self extracting crank bolts, Quick Release Cable connecters and a case "fit system" all help to speed up assembly and disassembly.
The fit system also helps TSA inspections - TSA can open the case and easily inspect components without damaging your packing.
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From a previous post where someone else asked about the "value" of S&S couplers:
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Here's the deal: The S&S option on a new frame or an upgrade to an existing frame IS a significant expense even without the cases. The cases themselves are a wash since you can argue that a full-size tandem travel case will cost the same as the S&S cases or, conversely, there can be little if any cost of you opt to pack either your full-size tandem or a partially or fully dis-assembled S&S tandem in one or two standard bike boxes.
So, if you're looking to save money the answer is probably "no", unless you plan to do a lot of travelling, e.g., ~10 round trips with excess/oversized baggage charges + increased costs for any ground transportation to accommodate the full-size bike, e.g., bigger rental vehicle or exclusive shuttle trip. What you are buying is convenience and elimination of travel hassles. Of course, if you're not mechanically inclined, the assembly and disassembly hassle at the beginning and end of each trip would probably errode if not eliminate the added value of the S&S couplers so that must be factored into your decision as well. I cite 45-60 min but have heard of others who spend 1.5-2hrs.
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Even though my husband got paid today, our bank account doesn't reflect that. There were seven bills out there in limbo counting on this money to come in. It kills me. The day he gets paid, we are already broke again. This vicious cycle sucks! We haven't paid our car tag renewal yet (due in August) and have been driving around with an expired plate because we can't afford it. We don't live a lavish lifestyle. We don't live in a huge house. We only have one car. Jody takes the bus (free pass) to work more days than not. He also takes his lunchRead More →


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The iconic downtown building, which houses the McDonough County Voice on the first floor, has fallen into disrepair over the years. It will take millions of dollars to rehabilitate.
Community Development Coordinator Ed Basch says the city has received permission to submit an application for historic status to the state. The state will then, in turn, submit the application to the National Park Service.
Basch says if there's any hope of viably using the hotel again, the historic designation is needed.
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Lot's of people fantasize their whole life about Paris but I think the dream is better than the reality. Of all the places I've visited I would have to say Paris is the place I am least likely to return. But don't let my negative comments deter you, I still think Paris is one of those places everyone needs to see for themself. I think that if you can afford to stay and dine at Paris's luxurious locations, then you're in for a treat. But Paris is not a good destination for a budget traveler.
The best part about my trip was my day on Mont Marte and getting to sing inside Notre Dame Cathedral with my choir. I also really liked my trip out of Paris to Versailles. And the Louvre Museum would be worth the trip no matter where it is was located; it really is spectacular! There is no disputing that Paris has lots of notable architectural wonders and sites of interest. The main thing that turned me off from Paris is the arrogance of the people. If I want to be treated rudely I'll stay in NJ and it doesn't cost me anything.
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A visit to the Arc D'Triumph is on the short list of things you must do while in Paris. Of course the Eifel Tower, Louvre, Mont Martre/Sacre Couer, Notre Dame, and walk the Seine are also on that list.
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Just a quick note, you don't HAVE to take the funiculaire to get up to Sacre Couer. There are plenty of side streets and long sets of steps to get up there. It's harder work but the steps are very pretty.
Well, Joy we certainly have different takes on Paris! It is my favorite city and will go back any time I can. It sounds like you enjoyed it to and you have some great photos. Thanks for visiting my London page. I love it too.
Great Paris page! We're going to have to back someday, ourselves...
Hi Asturnut, I just wanted to say hello and wish you a happy birthday
Very nice Paris report !! So near and yet so far !!
Excellent Paris page! I agree with you with your nightlife tip!
Ah Joy, partly joyless in Paris. The question "why don't (or won't) Americans do this?" is at the root of Parisian "snobbery." Around so much culture, activity, and beauty, one naturally feels the same deep pride in city and country -- that's all it is.
Fantastic page! Brings back wonderful memories... I loved Paris!
Very well done page, the antedotes were nice.
Paris is a wonderful city. Sorry you didn't enjoy it very much.
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"Right as Rain" appears as the eighth track on Adele's debut album, 19. It is preceded by "First Love" and followed by "Make You Feel My Love". "Right as Rain" was written by Adele, Nicholas Anthony Movshon, Leon Marcus Michels, Jeffrey Scott Silverman, and Clay Holley. The track was the final song written for 19.
"Right as Rain" is currently the featured song on Adele's MySpace page. [1]
Background and compositionEdit
The song is speculated to be written about the ex-boyfriend who inspired the majority of the songs on the album. It was written in the key of F Major. [2] On the album version of the track, Adele played the cowbell, while her touring guitarist and close friend Ben Thomas played the guitar.
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"Right as Rain" was heavily promoted and performed on various occasions, most notably during Adele's second promotional tour, the Adele Live tour, in which it was the only non-single from 19 to be promoted on the tour. It was also performed during the iTunes Festival and of course, the An Evening With Adele tour, which promoted her debut album 19.
The song was also performed on the American television series Ugly Betty. Adele's appearance on the show helped the episode to gain generally positive reviews. [3] The song was used in the season 2 episode of Lipstick Jungle entitled "Pandora's Box". [4] Due to the song's heavy promotion, it was speculated to be released as a single but never was.
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Born in Djibouti, Waberi is professor of English in Normandy, France. One of the few Francophone writers of Djibouti, Waberi's literary output includes: Le Pays sans ombre (The Country Without Shade) (1994); Cahier nomade (Nomad Book) (1996); Balbala (Balbala) (1997); and Rift routes rails (Rift Routes Rails) (2000). Like the Somali novelist, Nuruddin Farah , whom he considers to be a major influence, Waberi has constructed an oeuvre that closely scrutinizes his country Djibouti, and indeed the whole of northeast Africa, in narratives sprinkled with Arabaphone, Francophone, and Anglophone cultural references. Waberi has also published Moisson de cranes (Harvest of Skulls) (2000), a collection of texts written in response to the Rwanda genocide.
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Gakaara wa Wanjau wrote and published works in Gikuyu for fifty-five years. His publications included short stories, a prison diary, a novel, songs and poetry, historical works, and political position papers. He promoted writing in African languages and began a series of books in twenty Kenyan languages for primary school teachers. During the last forty years of his life Gakaara ran a printing and publishing business in Karatina, Kenya. From 1947 to 1952 Gakaara wrote and published a newspaper, political statements, and political songs. He was arrested for these publications in 1952 and detained until 1959. In detention he secretly kept a diary that later was published: Mau Mau Writer in Detention (1986) (Mwandiki wa Mau Mau Ithaamirio-ini) (1983). The diary was awarded the NOMA Prize in 1984. Gakaara was again falsely charged, detained, and tortured in 1986. Human Rights Watch later awarded him a persecuted writer's grant. His novel about the 1982 coup attempt in Kenya, Wa-Nduuta: Hingo ya Paawa, was translated into English in 2002.


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