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Two of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's closest allies, his new vice president, Omar Suleiman, and his defense minister, Hussein Tantawi, are quietly working on a plan under which Mubarak would step down from power, according to a U.S. scholar who has been staying in regular touch with the Egyptian political and military leadership.
"They want to be sure that Mubarak is going to cooperate," said Stephen P. Cohen, president of the Institute for Middle East Peace and Development and a longtime confidant of Egyptian and Israeli leaders.
The two-part plan, according to Cohen, would involve the immediate removal of 100 members of the Egyptian Parliament whose election this past fall was seen as illegitimate. They would be replaced by 100 candidates who were barred from running in the election or who were defeated because of government meddling in the election process.
A second possible step would be the organization of new parliamentary and presidential elections. The plan, according to Cohen, "requires [Mubarak] to give up his office." Asked whether Mubarak would do that, Cohen answered, "He is getting ready to do so."
The White House on Sunday dispatched a former ambassador to Egypt, Frank Wisner, to fly to Cairo to urge the Egyptian government to, at the very least, embrace political reforms.
"As someone with deep experience in the region," a White House official says, Wisner "is meeting with Egyptian officials and providing his assessment."
Senior officials would not discuss whether Wisner was charged with showing Mubarak the door. Wisner, the ambassador to Egypt from 1986 to 1991, is currently in Cairo.
A major readjustment to administration rhetoric in response to the crisis in Egypt came on Sunday when the phrase of the day was "orderly transition."
The president issued a statement saying he supports "an orderly transition to a government that is responsive to the aspirations of the Egyptian people." And Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took to the Sunday shows to make that argument. "it needs to be an orderly, peaceful transition to real democracy," she said.
But transition to what?
One administration official tells ABC News: "we don't know."
Month: January 2011
The Monday Night Mental Health Break: The Perrys
I saw this on Facebook. Enjoy….:
Video: So, is this what passes for civil discourse among the liberals?
So, liberals — is this what you call civility?
Posted on liveleak, in case it disappears:
From the Comments section of the video:
RACISTS like this, are begging for war. Let's give them one. It is 220,000,000 white people, against 37,000,000 blacks. You know what a genocide looks like? You don't, because there is no one left, to remember it. Be? smart, though. Let them, make the first violent moves. Let the people, see their violence. Let them give us a reason. Be patient. Do not move, as an individual. Wait. Keep giving them rope, they need, to hang themselves. LOL!!!
A-Farking-Amen. 😡
(H/T Michelle Malkin)
BREAKING NEWS: Florida Supreme Court Judge Rules Obamacare Unconstitutional
This just in from the AP:
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Federal judge in Florida strikes down Obama health care plan as unconstitutional.
Here is Video of the decision announcement at Fox News by Megan Kelly via Eyeblast:
Update #4: Here's the text of the entire decision handed down: (H/T Weasel Zippers)
A highlight via Ace of Spades HQ:
It would be a radical departure from existing case law to hold that Congress can regulate inactivity under the Commerce Clause. If it has the power to compel an otherwise passive individual into a commercial transaction with a third party merely by asserting — as was done in the Act — that compelling the actual transaction is itself "commercial and economic in nature, and substantially affects interstate commerce" [see Act § 1501(a)(1)], it is not hyperbolizing to suggest that Congress could do almost anything it wanted. It is difficult to imagine that a nation which began, at least in part, as the result of opposition to a British mandate giving the East India Company a monopoly and imposing a nominal tax on all tea sold in America would have set out to create a government with the power to force people to buy tea in the first place.…
In the final analysis, this Act has been analogized to a finely crafted watch, and that seems to fit. It has approximately 450 separate pieces, but one essential piece (the individual mandate) is defective and must be removed. It cannot function as originally designed. There are simply too many moving parts in the Act and too many provisions dependent (directly and indirectly) on the individual mandate and other health insurance provisions — which, as noted, were the chief engines that drove the entire legislative effort — for me to try and dissect out the proper from the improper, and the able-to-stand-alone from the unable-to-stand-alone. Such a quasi-legislative undertaking would be particularly inappropriate in light of the fact that any statute that might conceivably be left over after this analysis is complete would plainly not serve Congress' main purpose and primary objective in passing the Act. The statute is, after all, called "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," not "The Abstinence Education and Bone Marrow Density Testing Act." The Act, like a defectively designed watch, needs to be redesigned and reconstructed by the watchmaker.
This is going to really put a monkey wrench Obama's plans. Although, I tend to think that the Obama Administration will argue it to the Supreme Court of the United States. The reaction from the White House is going to be an interesting one.
I do believe, that if this Healthcare Bill is scrapped, and they Democrats lose this issue; this may could very well render President Obama unelectable in 2012. Something tells me, that this entire Presidency is going to be Jimmy Carter all over again.
Stay Tuned.
Update: Memeorandum has the roundup of reactions so far.
Update #2: Jonathon Chait at The New Republic weighs in:
That aside, the pattern once again has held that every Republican-appointed judge has ruled against the law's constitutionality and every Democratic-appointed-judge has ruled for it. Now, the ultimate arbiter is the Supreme Court, where Republican appointees hold a 5-4 majority, though one of those 5 (Anthony Kennedy) is not a completely down-the-line Republican.
Given this divide, wouldn't it make sense to… let elected officials decide? That's the logic of judicial restraint, anyway, and it's logic conservatives used to employ about a host of topics. But that was before they gained the ability to win huge victories in the courts that they couldn't win at the ballot box.
Update #3: Steve Benon at Washington Monthly says:
Republicans are thrilled, of course, because activist court rulings are to be celebrated, just so long as it's activism the right can agree with.
Liberals do the same thing Steve; so quit your whining, please. You look childish.
Update #5: AllahPundit weighs in:
What is a bit surprising is that Vinson went further and held that the mandate isn't "severable" from the rest of the law — which means that the whole law is unconstitutional, not just the part that requires people to buy insurance. That's unusual insofar as courts like to be modest when striking down statutes; if they can find a section of it unconstitutional while preserving the rest of it, they'll do so out of respect for the democratic branches that enacted it. In this case, however, as we've been told by Democrats many times, you can't have universal health care unless you force people to pay for it. Cutting the mandate out of O-Care and keeping the rest of the scheme intact would create a nightmare scenario in which people avoid buying insurance until they get sick, with insurers required to accept them by the new rules governing preexisting conditions. Before long, that cost burden would drive most insurers into bankruptcy, with the golden age of a public option or single-payer soon to follow.
A fun fact about ObamaCare: Unlike virtually every other federal statute, it contains no "severabililty clause" at the end requesting that if any part of it should be held unconstitutional in court, the rest should be preserved as good law. Vinson actually mentions that fact in the opinion and notes that an earlier draft of the law did contain such a clause, suggesting that it was deliberately dropped because even Congress agrees that you can't sever any one part from such an elaborate scheme. The truth, however, may be more prosaic: According to a Democratic aide who spoke to the Times back in November, the clause was omitted because of … an "oversight." Oops!
Update #6: Obligatory:
Sorry, I couldn't resist. 😛
Oh Great: Looks like Ethanol might just end up in gas
I saw this headline earlier and wanted to write on it.
Jazz Shaw, who writes over at HotAir and on various other sites, reports the following which was reported over at The Washington Post:
WASHINGTON — Nearly two-thirds of cars on the road could have more corn-based ethanol in their fuel tanks under an Environmental Protection Agency decision Friday.
The agency said that 15 percent ethanol blended with gasoline is safe for cars and light-duty trucks manufactured between 2001 and 2006, expanding an October decision that the higher blend is safe for cars built since 2007.The maximum gasoline blend has been 10 percent ethanol.
Jazz Shaw reports:
This decision was made despite repeated warnings from industry experts who have been pleading for more time to perform exhaustive testing. Were they being overly cautious? That's a difficult argument to make, particularly since we told you last month that one delay in testing came from the fact that the higher ethanol blend fuel was melting down the seals in pumps and storage tanks during testing.
The laundry list of potential problems from this decision is extensive. Asking distributors to carry yet another fuel (even if it doesn't melt their pumps) will require logistical juggling, equipment changes, new signs and other expenses which are inevitably passed on down to the consumer. Ethanol burns hotter than conventional fuel, leading to earlier failure of catalytic converters. (An expensive fix, as any of you who have been hit with it at the garage will attest.)
All of this is still being pushed under the cloak of a more environmentally friendly solution to energy challenges, a claim which current science has increasingly put in doubt. But would it at least produce any type of savings as we fight to get the budget under control?
Well, not so much so says Craig Cox of the Environmental Working Group:
Rather than furthering his goal to make America "the first country to have a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015," however, Obama's focus on biofuels as the way "to break our dependence on oil" would have the opposite effect if it means sending billions more taxpayers dollars to corn country to finance ethanol infrastructure, Cox said. "Building an ethanol infrastructure at taxpayer's expense will just lock us further into the past rather than lead us to tomorrow's energy future," added Cox, who heads EWG's Ames, Iowa, office.
Jazz makes a very, very, very, very good point here:
This is clearly a victory for King Corn, but lies in stark contrast to the President's stated goals of Winning the Future. Exit question: Even if gas stations manage to offer this for cars built in 2001 and after, how will they ensure drivers of older vehicles don't wind up putting it in their vehicles without retooling the entire delivery system?
Good question. I can see the lawsuits coming now. The first idiot that accidentally puts the corn-laced fuel into an older vehicle and tears the snot out of his engine; and ends up suing the gas station, the fuel delivery company and the oil company that produced the product and comes away with a few million dollars — will cause this little program to be stopped in it's tracks. Think it would not happen? Think again; there are tons and I do mean TONS of lawyers out there, that are chomping at the bit to take a lawsuit like this and make money off of it.
Updated to add: ….and there is a alternative scenario — What will happen is, some person, who is barely getting by and making minimum wage, and can barely afford a car. This person will accidentally fuel up with this Ethanol laced gas, it will gum up his motor and the poor man will end up having to junk the car and will have scrape around for another one. That is the part that really bothers me. The fact that liberals are so damned hell-bent on fulfilling an agenda that they do not think of all of the possibilities — and because of that, someone out there, not necessarily someone of means; gets screwed in the end. That my friends is the sad part.
Just another example of your feckless Government at work.
Video: Andrew Breitbart blows the lid off the pigford lawsuit story!
I am going to be totally honest with you all; I do not even like Andrew Breitbart —- But this video right here, is pretty darned interesting.
If everything in this video is true, the Obama Administration could be looking at some problems down the road. To be fair to Mr. Breitbart, he also goes after Republicans for their cowardice in not checking this out. In short, it is fraud on a massive scale and hopefully when this story breaks, someone in the Republican Party — like in the House, will order investigations. The really funny part is, Breitbart says he hired someone from Huffington Post — of all places — to debunk the story and he could not.
Having said all of that; here is the video which comes from Ed Morrissey, who is out in California:
Of course the cynical person in me thinks that nothing will become of this; because of race and other factors, none of the people involved in this scandal will see justice. It is just how our system works. Only those who ruffle the wrong feathers — so to speak — are the ones who are actually prosecuted.
However, as they say; I will wait and see.
Stay Tuned.
The Sunday Night Mental Health Break: J.D. Sumner & Stamps Quartet
This is from 1972 with Elvis Presley:
Quote of the Day
FRANCES FOX PIVEN: "She wouldn't even harm a fly." "In the course of this brouhaha, it becomes apparent that leftist academics don't want to be and should not be taken seriously, that the cultural elite can dish out violent rhetoric but cannot take being called on it, that the NYT has blundered into another loser of an argument, and that people who want to waste their tuition money should major in sociology, which has obviously become the redoubt of clueless, revolutionary manqués. . . . Piven denied to the NYT that she advocated violence in the article. It's hard to see how that defense stands up, unless she is saying that she didn't know what happened in Greece when she urged the American unemployed to take action 'like the strikes and riots' there."
Here's a reminder of what Piven's "strikes and riots" in Greece involved:
At the same time, tens of thousands of protesters marched through Athens in the largest and most violent protests since the country's budget crisis began last fall. Angry youths rampaged through the center of Athens, torching several businesses and vehicles and smashing shop windows. Protesters and police clashed in front of parliament and fought running street battles around the city.
Witnesses said hooded protesters smashed the front window of Marfin Bank in central Athens and hurled a Molotov cocktail inside. The three victims died from asphyxiation from smoke inhalation, the Athens coroner's office said. Four others were seriously injured there, fire department officials said.
Just for the record. And here's the conclusion:
"In sum, this was another week in which the media and cultural elites acted stupidly and were called on it. Twice in a row now they've tried to paint their opposition as violent thugs only to be revealed themselves as snobbish poseurs, projecting their own thuggish urges onto others. It was another week in which those living off the productive labor of others deride those others, try to undermine them, and are in the process undermining the very society which makes it possible for such foolish poseurs to live in comfort."
Video: Why Egypt wants Mubarak out
So the truth comes out!
This comes via Bare Naked Islam:
Looks like this situation is a bit more complicated than many first thought.
Looks like this is going to turn out to be a very interesting story.
But, as a Paleo-Conservative, I simply say, this is what happens when American involves itself in foreign entanglements. This is that blowback; and Israel is going to suffer for it.
I feel need to clear the air here a bit
I quote many people here on this blog of mine. But rare is it that I end up quoting me! 😛
Anyhow, last night, I was a bit upset at something that I read yesterday; and I wrote the following:
Say what you want; but I am really beginning to lose faith in the Republican Party, the whole idea of this damned Tea Party and the entire political process. It is all a big dog and pony show anymore. In other words, sometimes, I believe that Lew Rockwell and Yes, Ron Paul might just be absolutely right about the whole thing and I, yes, I, might have been wrong. I might not agree with everything Lew Rockwell and Ron Paul says — but I think they've been right all along. American Politics; especially among Republicans is rotten to the core and all that the people on "The Hill" care about is their own political careers.
Well, 24 hours later and a few frantic e-mails from some of my readers, of whom I did not know I even had; I need to clear the air here.
No, I am not going to leave the Conservative side of the fence and become a Democrat again. Are you kidding?!?!?! I could never support that party again; especially after everything that I have learned about how they do business.
No, I am not going to join the ranks of the anarchists and start devolving into radical stupidity. I haven't lost my mind yet folks! 😉
Nope, I was simply venting about my dismay about the Republican Party in it's current state. That's all. 😀 I'm not going anywhere and/or changing any views about anything.
So, relax gang… You have not lost me. I simply wish that the Conservative Republicans would fight the battle the right way; and not the stupid way. The problem is, the Republicans here as of late, are stuck on stupid. So are some of their bloggers.
Video: Suspicious Activity at Walmart
This is some seriously funny stuff…
Via Moonbattery:
Ok….Ok… Seeing that I am a Paleo-Conservative. How come when Barack Obama is warning about terrorism, it's a joke. But when George W. Bush did it, it was truly serious? Just sayin'….
There is a reason why America is declining
I saw this over at the New York Times and I thought it warranted a comment:
MY grandmother, who was born in 1905, spoke often about the immense changes she had seen, including the widespread adoption of electricity, the automobile, flush toilets, antibiotics and convenient household appliances. Since my birth in 1962, it seems to me, there have not been comparable improvements.
Of course, the personal computer and its cousin, the smartphone, have brought about some big changes. And many goods and services are now more plentiful and of better quality. But compared with what my grandmother witnessed, the basic accouterments of life have remained broadly the same.
The income numbers for Americans reflect this slowdown in growth. From 1947 to 1973 — a period of just 26 years — inflation-adjusted median income in the United States more than doubled. But in the 31 years from 1973 to 2004, it rose only 22 percent. And, over the last decade, it actually declined.
via Incomes Are Stuck on Technology's Plateau – NYTimes.com.
This article goes on to lament about how America's standing in the world has fallen and how America's level of income has fallen, in comparison to the rest of the world.
There is a simple reason for that; and that is Globalism. We have sacrificed America's standing in the World and our financial superiority in the world at the altar of globalism. Free trade has killed America's standing. Do not misunderstand me here; I am not for outright protectionism, however, I believe ALL of these so-called "free trade agreements" are unfairly slanted against America. We need to renegotiate this silly agreements with these foriegn countries and if those countries do not agree to the new terms; we should simply revoke the agreements. The we should go back to the old system of strict tariffs on those who wish to import their goods into this Country.
Until we do this; we are simply spinning our wheels.
The sick and sad part is that President Obama, when he was campaigning promised to do this very thing. Now that he is elected, he has done nothing. Which speaks volumes for the man and the Party that he represents. Perhaps now populists will that Democratic Party, for that which it has become; the part of parasites and socialism — instead of the party of the common man — of which it was founded.
Others: Marginal Revolution, The Reality-Based Community and Economist's View
The Saturday Night Mental Health Break: Steve Martin
Seeing what's in the headlines and all, I figured this one to be right on target….so to speak! ( 😮 )
I get mail!
Reader "NullVoid" writes:
Dear Paleo Pat,
I'm a libertarian; meaning, beyond foreign policy, there's not much a paleoconservative like you would like about me. I'm for gay rights; free trade (NAFTA or no); open borders; etc. However, I cannot help but feel some pity for how old fashioned conservatives are treated. For one, it confuses the political spectrum to have them excluded.
Here's hoping that, post-War On Terror, people like you will define the American Right.
Here's something for your fellow paleos to be encouraged by; neocons are losing their grip on intellectual discourse. Oh, they still have the op-eds; but, their ideas are ridiculed in the university by reputable people. Seize the initiative, and use this opportunity to critique the neoconservatives and define what conservatism, properly conceived, consists in. Don't compromise with the neocons, libertarians, liberals, progressives, or anyone else.
Those little e-mails make it worth every nasty e-mail, troll comment or technical glitch! 😀
I'm glad to see that someone is actually reading here. Oh noes! Does this mean I have to act like a respectable writer now? Horrors! 😮 😉 😛
The Republican Party claims to be all about the Constitution
But where were they back in 2003?
This bunch of silly nonsense comes from The Politico:
The federal lawsuits against last year's health care overhaul were greeted with eye-rolling and snickers from many conventional legal scholars.
Nobody's laughing now.
A federal judge in Virginia ruled late last year that a key underpinning of the health care law stretches the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution past the breaking point, while another judge in Florida is expected to rule on Monday. Both cases are likely to proceed toward the Supreme Court.
And the challenges to the health care reform law are just the most visible sign of a broad, national flowering of state efforts to find shelter from the federal government in sometimes-neglected corners of the Constitution that touch conventional political hot buttons such as immigration and gun control, and exotic ones, such as citizenship and currency.
"This has been brewing for decades, and it just needed a catalyst to set it off. The Obama health care package happened to be that catalyst," said Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. "It emboldened us to assert states' rights with regard to an array of different issues in which we are feeling that the federal government has overstepped its bounds."
The model for this revival is the transformation of the Second Amendment from a hazily interpreted legal backwater to the core of a new gun-rights movement. And while the Constitution is often invoked, and even misquoted, for all manner of conservative causes, perhaps the truest meaning of the new phrase constitutional conservatism is found in the broad, imaginative and sometimes quirky new efforts to hem in the power of the federal government.
The Supremacy Clause, which asserts the primary role of the federal courts and the Constitution, could stymie much of this activity. But it's all part of a movement that Bruce Ackerman, a liberal constitutional scholar from Yale Law School, told POLITICO constitutes "the most serious challenge" to the current constitutional regime since it took shape in the New Deal and the Civil Rights era.
So, the Republican Party is all about the Constitution now? Seems mighty funny to me that all of the sudden that the Republican Party is all about the Constitution now; but back in 2003, when their feckless leader George W. Bush, which I did not vote for — decided to invade the sovereign nation of Iraq, that none of the Constitutional purists were around to challenge him then. They, like most Conservatives in the beltway, cheered as President George W. Bush invaded Iraq, based on what we now know to be faulty information.
I also find it to be highly ironic that during the Presidency of George W. Bush; a white American — that not one person in the Republican Party questioned his tactics, spending or actions on foreign policy. However, now that there is a liberal and yes, black President in the White House; the Republican Party has turned into the Constitutional purist party. They claim that they want to repeal Obama's healthcare plan to save money. I call B.S. on this one. They want to do to protect their biggest donor — the Healthcare industry. Further more, I believe it is because a good majority of the Republicans on the hill are just straight racist, like some other people I know.
Say what you want; but I am really beginning to lose faith in the Republican Party, the whole idea of this damned Tea Party and the entire political process. It is all a big dog and pony show anymore. In other words, sometimes, I believe that Lew Rockwell and Yes, Ron Paul might just be absolutely right about the whole thing and I, yes, I, might have been wrong. I might not agree with everything Lew Rockwell and Ron Paul says — but I think they've been right all along. American Politics; especially among Republicans is rotten to the core and all that the people on "The Hill" care about is their own political careers.
I hate to be the one to admit it. But it is just damned true. 😡
Update: RedState.com allows racist content on their site – Redstate pulls post, no apologies
After attacking me as a racist and an Anti-Semite. Funny how that works, isn't it?
Well, I'll be dipped in doo doo. RedState.com, the site that brutally attacked me a long while back for being a racist and an Anti-Semite……is now doing the same damned thing.
Brownstein writes: 'The new data show that white voters not only strongly preferred Republican House and Senate candidates but also registered deep disappointment with President Obama's performance, hostility toward the cornerstones of the current Democratic agenda, and widespread skepticism about the expansive role for Washington embedded in the party's priorities. On each of those questions, minority voters expressed almost exactly the opposite view from whites.' Comment: Indeed, because these white voters are generally creative, ambitious, studious and self-reliant while many of today's blacks, whose lives are modeled after angry, nonproductive agitators like Jackson and Sharpton, are often the opposite.
Brownstein writes: 'David Axelrod, Obama's chief political strategist, said in an interview that "it would be a mistake to take exit polls from a midterm election and extrapolate too far" toward 2012. Conditions—and the composition of the electorate—will change a great deal by then, he said. But he acknowledged that Obama must "reset" the public perception about his view of government's role. Axelrod… also made it clear that he sees as a "particularly instructive" model for 2012 the case of Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet in Colorado, who won his contest last fall by mobilizing enough minorities, young people, and socially liberal, well-educated white women to overcome a sharp turn toward the GOP among most of the other white voters in his state.' Comment: 'Conditions… will change a great deal by then'? Hardly. The public has a very well-founded idea of where Obama stands and conditions are not going to change, or change that perception. And look at who is supporting Obama – well-educated white women who just might, over time, understand that his agenda is harming them and their own children. Many apparently are just not smart enough to know it yet even with all their advanced degrees… or because of them.
Brownstein writes: 'Meanwhile, Republicans, with their 60 percent showing, notched the party's best congressional result among white voters in the history of modern polling.' Comment: And that number is not going to go down again. Because the media anger generated toward conservatism and Republicans always has been based on the theory that Democrats could do much better for the American people. Now the contrast between media rhetoric and reality is in.
Brownstein writes: 'The racial gulf was similar when voters were asked whether they believed that Obama's policies would help the nation in the long run. By 70 percent to 22 percent, minorities said yes; by 61 percent to 34 percent, whites said no.' Comment: Because whites are generally well-disciplined higher-income people who generate wealth and pay taxes to the government. Meanwhile many blacks are collecting money and benefits from the government at a level that is absolutely unsustainable.
Brownstein writes: 'Democrats have been losing support among blue-collar white voters since the 1960s, but in this election, they hit one of their lowest points ever. In House campaigns, the exit poll found, noncollege whites preferred Republicans by nearly 2-to-1 with virtually no gender gap: White working-class women—the so-called waitress moms—gave Republicans almost exactly as many of their votes as blue-collar men did.' Comment: That is why they are referred to as "working class" voters. Because they know what it means to really work for a living and get their hands dirty, not live on some elite college campus or work in a media newsroom or sit in a law office or collect welfare or work at a do-nothing government job. This is something that liberals do not understand – what it means to really work for a living.
Brownstein writes: 'Rodolfo de la Garza, a political scientist at ColumbiaUniversity who studies Hispanics' attitudes, says… More minority workers hold marginal positions in the private economy… so they were less likely to be shocked by the severity of the downturn—and more likely to turn to government, rather than the private sector, to help survive it. "They didn't lose money on Wall Street; they had shitty jobs, if they had jobs, so where would they look to if not the [government]?" de la Garza asked.' Comment: And why do 'minority workers hold marginal positions in the private economy' and need to look to the government? How about their poor academic achievement and dropout rate. How about their refusal to learn English. How about their lack of skills, education and ambition to better themselves. How about their terrible schools run by Democrat teacher unions. How about young black males walking around with their underwear hanging out and Democrats defending them at every turn. That is why they have "shitty jobs", professor.
Brownstein writes: 'Merle Black, a political scientist at Emory University, says that (white) blue-collar disaffection from Democratic candidates reflects not only immediate economic distress but also a longer-term process of alienation from the party. "The noncollege whites … see themselves as a declining minority within the national Democratic Party, where they have very little control or influence on the policies," he says. "The party is controlled by the coastal elites and nonwhites, and that is a very different kind of Democratic Party" than a generation ago.'Comment: Indeed. Working white people never have supported the kind of radicalism in the Democrat party today. As the old saying goes, "I did not abandon the Democrat party. The Democrat party abandoned me."
Brownstein writes: 'College-educated white women, though not immune to these trends, displayed more resistance. Although traditionally the most liberal portion of the white electorate, even these women cooled toward Democrats last year. In contrast to the majority support they provided Obama in 2008, they voted 55 percent to 43 percent for Republicans in 2010 House races. In the exit poll, most of them agreed that government was trying to do too much, and a slim majority of them said they wanted Congress to repeal the health care law.'Comment: Because some of these women finally are using their education to look at what is happening around them rather than reading about reality according toThe New York Times. It's about time these females wised up like we conservative men have been suggesting for decades now.
Brownstein writes: 'According to veteran conservative strategist Jeff Bell, all signs suggest that Obama has permanently antagonized much of the white electorate (nearly half of which this year identified itself as conservative in the exit poll). "The significance of the tea party is that it is not a situational vote," says Bell, the policy director at the American Principles Project, a right-leaning advocacy group. "They are going to be militant even if, or when, the economy improves.… It's significant if you have more voters who are willing to vote with the conservative coalition regardless of what's going on with the economy."Comment: Very good observation. White Tea Party activists are not going to sway even with an improving economy. They are smart people who will always remember how the Democrats manhandled America between 2008 and 2010. They are not going to let it happen again. They finally understand the Democrats all too well.
Wow…. Just Wow…
Screenshots in case it disappears: (click to make them bigger….)
Hypocrisy, thy name is RedState.
I mean, I could understand if it was Altright.com; but Redstate? Wow… That is interesting… 😮
Update: ….and just like that, the posting disappears. But, the internet, is forever. Click here to see the cached version over google.com.
Like the folks at RedState.com told me a good few months back:
The Internet always remembers, Mr. Adkins. And we'll remember the next time you pop up your racist head, too.
Likewise Mr. Erickson, the internet always remembers YOUR racism and your straight up hypocrisy. Because I dispise those who say one thing and do another — I will continue to expose this sort of nonsense and call it for what it is. You and your crown princess of the Neo-Conservative movement Michelle Malkin, and the rest of the Neo-Conservative Blogosphere; who say one thing and do another, as usual. What is very shocking to me, is that CNN; a very respectable organization actually has this assclown on their network. It is a sad and very sick thing.
On Egypt
I am really not much interested in blogging about that. But if you're interested, AllahPundit over at HotAir has one nice roundup.
Interesting Book Review: The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942-2009
This is pretty interesting….
The Story via the NYT:
Irving Kristol, who died in 2009, is sometimes called the "godfather" or even "father" of neoconservatism, and the patriarchal honorific, like a well-worn hat, sits comfortably atop "The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942-2009." The book is strictly a family enterprise. It has been lovingly edited by Kristol's widow, the historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, and carries a prefatory funeral eulogy by their sorrowful son, the Republican journalist William Kristol. Even the selection of essays reflects a uniquely familial degree of intimacy.
Himmelfarb recounts in her introduction that while "rummaging among old files" after her husband's death, she discovered tattered copies of a short-lived and wholly forgotten little magazine called Enquiry: A Journal of Independent Radical Thought. Her husband and some of his young friends founded the magazine in 1942, the year of her marriage, and they kept it afloat for eight issues, until the young friends and Kristol himself disappeared into the Army. Himmelfarb has reproduced the cover of Vol. 1, No. 1 — austere, elegant, partly sans-serif in the 1940s style, 10 cents a copy — and the sight of the magazine does conjure an era.
There is sometimes a charm in Kristol's prose, once he had gotten past his pompous Lionel Trilling period — a wry, man-of-the-people modesty, nicely joined with a genuine talent for summarizing ideas. Then again, he tried to capitalize on his Everyman sonority by claiming to speak on behalf of "the majority of Americans" or even "the overwhelming majority of Americans," and sometimes "the American people" altogether, which, to my mind, undercuts the charm. In the course of an otherwise intelligent essay about Communism and McCarthyism as long ago as 1952, he wrote: "For there is one thing that the American people know about Senator McCarthy; he, like them, is unequivocally anti-Communist. About the spokesmen for American liberalism, they feel they know no such thing."
The remark is one of Kristol's most famous, if only because his enemies have been quoting it back at him for almost 60 years. The habit of invoking the American people served him well, even so. Some of the more talented leaders of the Republican Party eventually cocked an ear in his direction, in search of oratorical and political and programmatic possibilities. And the alliance was formed.
Himmelfarb has thoughtfully filled "The Neoconservative Persuasion" with pieces that, with one exception, have not appeared in previous collections. The subtitle, "Selected Essays," might lead readers to suppose that here must surely be Kristol's Greatest Hits — the best and most popular of his essays. But Kristol himself gathered together his Greatest Hits in an anthology in 1995 called "Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea."
The new book ought to be regarded, instead, as a Volume 2. It is faithful to his ideas and their evolution. And it offers an opportunity to evaluate his abilities as an essayist — his achievements as a thinker and writer within the little world known as the "New York intellectuals." The achievements do not seem to me large. Kristol was not a Trilling, a Hook, a Howe or a Bell. For that matter, he never produced anything as substantial as his wife's scholarly meditations on English history.
But it is true that unlike any of those other talented people, Kristol, with his tirades and simplicities, helped found a political movement. And under the name of "neoconservatism," his movement invigorated the party of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush and, for better and for worse, wreaked enormous changes on America and the world.
As many of you know. I do have personal issues with the Neo-Conservative as a whole. However, I believe it to be fair to examine the history of the people around it. The book sounds like it might be an interesting read.
You can get it here:
There are those that might not like that I even blogged about this; to them I say this. Perhaps if you put some money into my Tip Jar, maybe I would not have to resort to blogging about subjects that I utterly detest. Further more, the way I see it, when those people start donating to this blog; then they can bitch at me about what I write about. Until then, quite frankly, they can just fuck off. (and I mean that in the most Christian way possible… 😛 😉 😀 )
Not only that, I do try; even I disagree with that person — to get everyone a fair shake. I might disagree with them on some things, but there has to be something that I agree upon. If only the Neo-Cons felt the same way about us that disagree with them. Most of them are almost Nazi like in their fascism against dissenters. The Bush era proved that one.
Trading Advice: What Most People Don't Realize About The Fed's Superpowers
Bob Prechter's Conquer The Crash reveals whether the Fed really can rescue the US economy
January 27, 2011
By Elliott Wave International
Since its creation in 1913, the primary intended role of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank has been that of protector. In theory, the central bank was bestowed with the power to shape monetary policy in a way that would keep both booms and busts in check. The two main tools at its disposal — interest rates and money creation — would provide a "ceiling of normalcy" above expansions AND a "net of safety" below contractions.
To this day, the financial mainstream holds great faith in the Fed's ability to fulfill its save-the-day duties — as these recent news items make plain:
- "Why Raising Fed Funds Rate Is Positive For Equities." (Seeking Alpha)
- "Fed's Moves Lift All Asset Classes." (Associated Press)
- "US Stocks Erasing Losses: The aggressive moves of the Fed have been an important driver for the stabilization of stock prices." (Bloomberg)
But of all the variables the Fed creators took into account, there's one glaring factor they neglected to consider: Namely, it cannot force consumers to spend, creditors to lend, or businesses to borrow. The events of 2007-2009 "credit crunch" and the subsequent "Great Recession" made that obvious. Remember how the government was upset at banks for sitting on the bailout funds instead of lending them out to consumers? And consumers weren't exactly lining up on the street to get a loan, either.
The Fed's inability to change social mood is the central theme in Chapter 13 of EWI President Bob Prechter's NY Times business bestseller book Conquer the Crash. There, Bob describes the Fed's strategy of lowering the federal funds rate to stimulate spending to be as effective as "pushing on a string." Writes Bob:
"The primary basis for today's belief in perpetual prosperity and inflation with an occasional recession is what I call the 'Potent Directors Fallacy.' It is nearly impossible to find a treatise on macroeconomics today that does not assert or assume that the Federal Reserve Board has learned to control both our money and our economy. Many believe that it also possesses the immense power to manipulate the stock market. The very idea that it can do these things is false."
And so begins one of the most groundbreaking studies into the very real INABILITY of the Fed to fell the great bears of economic declines, or to feed the great bulls of economic vigor.
The best part is, you can read Chapter 13 of Conquer the Crash in its entirety FREE via a Club EWI resource "You Can Survive And Prosper In A Deflationary Depression." The free report also includes SEVEN other chapters of Conquer the Crash that shed equal light on some of the most misleading notions of mainstream economic wisdom.
- Chapter 10: Money, Credit and the Federal Reserve Banking System
- Chapter 13: Can the Fed Stop Deflation?
- Chapter 23: What To Do With Your Pension Plan
- Chapter 28: How to Identify a Safe Haven
- Chapter 29: Calling in Loans and Paying off Debt
- Chapter 30: What You Should Do If You Run a Business
- Chapter 32: Should You Rely on Government to Protect You?
- Chapter 33: A Short List of Imperative "Do's" and Crucial "Don'ts"
Keep reading this free report now — all you need to do is create a free Club EWI profile.
Cartoon of the Day
Neo-Conservatives are hypocritical about free speech
I saw this over at HotAir.com this morning and I nearly fell out of the chair……laughing:
The civility narrative that grew legs after the shooting in Arizona is really just a ruse to keep Republicans from calling Democrats what America knows they are – Socialists. After all, it's that kind of 'hateful rhetoric' that gets people killed right? Yeah, right.
The Democrats lost power in the House after Americans got too big a taste of their left-wing socialist agenda over the last two years. Now that they've lost power they need to stem what could amount to even bigger losses in 2012. Since they can't really legislate to cover their tracks, they need to prevent Republicans from continuing to remind Americans about their socialist agenda – and what better way to do that than to decide that America needs a dose of civility. Of course they cloak it in the ludicrous notion that it's contributing to an atmosphere of hate that might set off a crazy person on another shooting spree. But to any able minded person that's just nonsense.
Even Obama's rhetorical move to the center also plays into this civility narrative. With the entire MSM and political world gushing over Obama's new and improved centrist talk, it increases the chances that Republicans will feel more uncomfortable pointing out his socialist agenda, or even calling him a socialist, and it will serve to neuter Republicans and make them less effective.
The bottom line here is that Republicans simply need to stop mincing words and continue to remind Americans just how destructive these radicals are to this great country. If they do that, along with some great legislating, I assure you that Americans will respond in 2012 just as they did in 2010.
Yeah, let us talk about the neutering of free speech shall we? Some of you might remember, when I was attacked by some of David Horowitz's vultures for pointing out the fact that a good majority of the people that were raising a stink about the so-called 9/11 mosque….were Jewish. All because I dared to point out that making fat jokes about Megan McCain was rather farking lame. My real name was posted, a very unflattering picture of me was posted and straight up lies were published about me, all by these Neo-Conservative vultures, who claim to be Conservative and also some of them Christian.
Further more, I also recall how I was attacked, my blog hacked and basically, I am considered a pariah among the Blogosphere — all because I dared to call Michelle Malkin on her yellow journalism and outright stupidity. I mean, these people went out of their way to threaten and intimidate a blogger; whom I thought was a good friend of mine, who really turned out to be a spineless coward. All because I dared to call a spade….a spade…..
So, to the Neo-Conservative right I say this; please, do not sit and carp about the so-called "Neutering of Free Speech or the Neutering of Republicans" okay? Because you are just as bad about that, as the damned Democrats are, especially when it comes to Jews and when it comes to your crown princesses, like Michelle Malkin, who is one of the most yellow Journalists in the Business. Her politics might be decent, but her ethics are lousy and I called her on that. For this, I was made to be someone that I am not.
Again, I will state for the record; I am NOT, nor have I EVER BEEN, a Neo-Nazi, Anti-Semite or White Nationalist. I am someone however, that despises Identity Politics on the LEFT and the THE RIGHT. Further more, I am someone who despises yellow journalists; who distort facts and make up lies to the further their political agenda.
The Neo-Con right likes to gripe about the left doing it; to that I say, what about Michelle Malkin? What about Jim Hoft? What about Ed Morrissey, who straight lies about Unions and other such stuff that he disagrees with? Meanwhile his wife lives on Medicare Advantage. It is straight up damned hypocrisy, and I will call it every damned time I see it folks.
I think the Neo-Conservative right, which is really Democratic Party Lite —- needs to look in the mirror, and clean up their own backyard, because they accuse the left of the very same thing, that they do themselves. Is it Anti-Semite to point out that Jews are involved in anything? No, it is not. Anyone who says that, is a identity politics vulture who wants to stifle freedom of speech. Political stance and leanings means nothing. All of it is damned wrong. Period, End of Discussion.
I am shutting comments off of this posting, because I am not interested in hearing the Neo-Con vultures idiotic ramblings about how I am an Anti-Semite. 😡
Video: Who's up for some Chris Christie Porn?
Our first flick comes from The coalition of the swilling: (H/T to HotAir.com's resident Beta Male)
If that is not enough to wet your whistle, how an radio ad of Chris Christie trying to lure Illinois Businesses to….you guessed it, New Jersey: (Via Eyeblast)
I'll tell you, this might just the guy for the Republican 2012 nomination. The office of the President of the United States is a heavy job. But, isn't that right up Christie's alley?
It is official: Mike Pence will not be running for President in 2012
Well, we can count this guy out:
U.S. Rep. Mike Pence shut the door today on a run for the presidency, but left wide open the likelihood that he'll seek a different office: Governor of Indiana.
"In the choice between seeking national office and serving Indiana in some capacity, we choose Indiana," Pence, R-Columbus, said of himself and wife Karen in a letter being sent to supporters. "We will not seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012."
He said he would make a decision "later this year" about what his next political step is, but by not running for president it is considered a virtual certainty that he will run for the GOP nomination for governor. While he could, instead, run for a seventh term in Congress, that's not considered likely given that Pence gave up the job that would have made him the fourth-highest ranking Republican in the House after the November elections, in order to focus on other political opportunities.
via Rep. Mike Pence closes door on White House run | The Indianapolis Star | IndyStar.com.
AllahPundit, as always, frets:
Needless to say, a big reason for the "Draft Pence" push in recent weeks was some social cons being uncomfortable with Palin or Huckabee as the nominee. Where do those people turn now?
To be quite honest, if all the social cons have to choose from is Huckabee and Palin; then that speaks to the sorry condition of the GOP in this day and age. I would say Mitt Romney, but the Evangelical Christians loathe him. As a Fundamentalist Baptist, I can tell you that I am not too big on the idea of a Mormon being in the White House at all. What I really believe personally is that the Republican Party needs to focus on fiscal issues and leave the social cons out of the mix in 2012. Because honestly, that crowd is so darned fickle anyways, not to mention the rank hypocrisy that comes from those ranks. I mean, just look at Palin, rode in on the white horse of social Conservatism and a few weeks later, her daughter comes up pregnant.
The simple solution is Tim Pawlenty. He is a fiscal Conservative, he is not a extremist and his family is not a reality show. I personally believe he would be a good choice for the G.O.P. in 2012. Here is hoping that Tim runs in 2012, because for once, I would like to vote for a Republican, that actually acts like one and not some made beltway boy or some right wing extremist or a talk show reality star. I want a real CEO type, that will make decisions to help small business and people like me find jobs again.
We need to put America back to work. We cannot do that with a shrieking harpy glamor model who's got a reality show; that somehow believes that she is entitled to be President, because of her sex organs —- nor can we do that with a Democrat with a Bible who is prone to extremism.
Challenger: It has been 25 years
It is truly unbelievable. It has been 25 years ago, when these images were splashed across our TV screens:
A President comforts a grieving Nation:
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honoured us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.' —- Ronald Reagan
This is a great one here, I ask that you go and read the entire thing….:
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — For many, no single word evokes as much pain.
A quarter-century later, images of the exploding space shuttle still signify all that can go wrong with technology and the sharpest minds. The accident on Jan. 28, 1986 — a scant 73 seconds into flight, nine miles above the Atlantic for all to see — remains NASA's most visible failure.
It was the world's first high-tech catastrophe to unfold on live TV. Adding to the anguish was the young audience: School children everywhere tuned in that morning to watch the launch of the first schoolteacher and ordinary citizen bound for space, Christa McAuliffe.
She never made it.
McAuliffe and six others on board perished as the cameras rolled, victims of stiff O-ring seals and feeble bureaucratic decisions.
"I wonder if it's because the image is so ingrained in our brains, that it seems like yesterday," Rodgers said.
Almost as many years have passed since the accident, as the span of her 26-year marriage to Dick Scobee.
"Isn't it interesting about the number 25?" she asked softly. "Challenger was the 25th mission. This is 25 years."
A full generation has come and gone.
Something to watch, a documentary on this awful event….:


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Commonwealth Games urged not to discriminate against LGBTI
With the Commonwealth Games just weeks away, organisers are being urged to secure pledges from participating countries to uphold Article 7 of the games constitution and not discriminate against LGBTI people.
The Peter Tatchell Foundation has written to the Chief Executive of Glasgow 2014, David Grevemberg, suggesting the Games expand the constitution to include no- discrimination based on ethnicity, gender identity and sexual orientation.
"We are asking Glasgow2014 to require competing nations to sign a pledge of non-discrimination in their team selection, in accordance with Article 7 of the constitution of the Commonwealth Games Federation - but with expanded grounds of non-discrimination such as ethnicity, caste, sexual orientation and gender identity," said Peter Tatchell, Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation.
"This would be a very significant, high-impact equality initiative. It has never been done before and would make Glasgow2014 unique, trailblazing and rightly deserving of public acclaim."
Tatchell said all participating countries agree to the Commonwealth Games Charter but they have never before been asked to specifically agree to non discrimination.
"Prejudice, discrimination and legal victimisation are prevalent in many Commonwealth countries, which may prevent affected athletes securing access to top class sports facilities and training camps - and inhibit their selection for the Commonwealth Games. This needs to be challenged," Tatchell said.
"We hope Glasgow 2014 will accept our proposal to further enhance its existing commitment to equality," Tatchell finished.
- TOPICS: Commonwealth Games, Commonwelath Games 2014, gay rights, Glasgow, LGBTI rights, Peter Tatchell, Peter Tatchell Foundation
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|Kitchener, Ontario Canada
Event Description
Challenge yourself on our 7 km course which will boast unconventional, but achievable obstacles that are truly "Bad Ass". Participants that are 14+ looking for the personal challenge of a lifetime may register in our RECREATION DIVISION ($65 pp)
All participants that finish will receive an award. Participants that are 18+ and in good physical condition, may choose to register for the ELITE TRAINED DIVISION ($85 pp).
Don't delay, Register early for discounted registration fee.
BAD ASS DASH is a proud supporter of Autism Speaks.
|Start Time
|Sep 13, 2014
|8:00 am
396 Morrison Road
Kitchener, Ontario
N2A 2Z6, CanadaView on Map
|Mountain Bike
|Trail Running
|Obstacle Racing
2015 Waterloo Kitchener.
I was especially excited about this race because I had managed to convince my girlfriend to do it with me. Although we still had fun due to the fact that anything we do together is fun, I felt the obstacles lacked in many areas.
The obstacles where ok. But when we went through, half of them were knocked down or messed up and nobody there to fix them. I guess all the staff was eager to leave because by the time we finished, there was hardly anyone around and it wasn't even that late. We definitely weren't in the laat group to finish. There were a few people to cheer us on as we got to the finish line. None of which were staff. Just a person to give out the metals who didn't look like they wanted to be there. No photographers. I went through every photo and not one of my gf and I, or of my group or the groups after me. They all left early afternoon. If your gonna take people's money to book them in later races, at least stick around to let them finish. This was my 8th mud run and by far the most poorly organized. I may try my dog in the k9 division this year, but for myself, I'll still to mud hero and spartan races.
I have a love/hate relationship with the badass dash.
Hate: I signed up for this race using the living social deals webpage, advertising the race for $40 (a very good deal). I signed up and was given my promotion code. Upon entering the promotion code on the 'Badass dash' race site I had to pay an additional $15 in fees and taxes to sign up. For shame badass dash. For shame.
Love: I picked up my race packet and timing chip on the Friday before the race and did not have to wait like everyone else. I feel no pity for those who said they had to wait for their chip on the day of. They had two days before from 10am to 8pm to pick their chip up. You snooze, you lose.
I was able to promptly start the race at 8:40. The only obstacle with backlog was the one across the lake. Obstacles were challenging but do-able, volunteers were excellent and the course was fun. After the race I was in a great mood. Good times.
Hate: I check my time when the results are posted and my results were not listed. I checked my chip when I started and it worked, I ran in my proper heat and I was in an 'Elite' heat. It really put a damper on the entire weekend as I love tracking my progress and seeing how I improve. Now that's impossible.
Badass dash really needs to up their game next year to bring me back. To many mistakes in an already over saturated market.
Yes, I would consider attending this race/event next year.
Hey Jeremy – I ran in the same start time wave as you and had the same issue with my finish time. Just an FYI that I did email the timing people at firstname.lastname@example.com and someone did get back to me pretty quickly with my time.
Yes, I would recommend this race to a friend.
Yes, I would consider attending this race/event next year.
I've done a lot of runs and this was, by far, the worst. The course itself was good, with a nice balance of hills and obstacles of varying challenge levels. However, the event was so disorganized that getting started took over two hours from arrival time to actually hitting the course.
Most importantly, though, was the lack of safety measures. There were obstacles, such as the barrel run across the river, where volunteers couldn't answer basic questions (like how deep the water is), or there were no volunteers at all.
Also, after the first mile, there were no manned water stations. The tables were there but no people, no water, no orange slices… very dangerous leading to plenty of cramping by the finish line. Luckily it was a cool, wet day. Had it been hot people would have been in big trouble.
As I was stretching my calves half way up the final hill someone on a quad asked if I was having trouble with my vagina (I'm a guy, but it's not cool no matter who you are). Clearly this was a mock, as opposed to, you know, asking if I was OK.
Also, some of the obstacles were dismantled by the time we hit them, such as the second-to-last bouncy castle thing.
Being disorganized at an event this large is not unexpected, but this seemed like no one was actually in charge of anything. And the major oversights in basic safety made what could have been an excellent experience a very worrisome one.
I don't recommend it and I won't be back.
I'd give this half a banana, which is more than anyone offered me. Oh wait, no. I did have a chance to grab a few crackers from a gritty, muddy tub that people had already stuffed their hands into. I passed.
We did the K9 race and my 2 year old black lab ROCKED! He had no problems with any of the course, I had a problem trying to keep up to him! This is my first obstacle race every and I didn't train for it at all. At 46 years of age I'm feeling it this morning Next year I will be ready so I can keep up with my PAL!!! I found it very well organized and was surprised in all the chaos and mud and wet and cold that the volunteers and staff were all very helpful and gracious.
Yes, I would recommend this race to a friend.
Yes, I would consider attending this race/event next year.
The organisation of the race is really not well organized, they don't have any special obstacle, it's all like others obstacle race and the staff was very arrogant. Really disappointed
This race was really well done. The medal this year was waaay better than the plaque last year, and actually the most interesting of the ones I got this year. The obstacles were challenging and fun, they are very creative. We loved this race.
Yes, I would recommend this race to a friend.
Yes, I would consider attending this race/event next year.
This was my first time running any kind of obstacle race (heck, this was my second race ever!) and I loved it. I was sore, tired, and cold, but it was totally worth it.
The hardest part of this race is its location – running up and down hills and trails was exhausting. The trails were really well marked. The other "worst" part of me was the "claustrophobic crawl" because I lost the skin on both elbows.
The volunteers were terrific, cheering us on.
Yes, I would recommend this race to a friend.
Yes, I would consider attending this race/event next year.
VIP Parking for $15.00 well worth it! Arrive early to get the best spots. For $10.00 you can park and get bussed in. Well organized, tech shirt and medal at the finish. Timing chip return gives you ticket for food and drink. Water stations were well planned out and each obstacle was fun and creative. 30 obstacles was great over a 7K course. The hills were physical but not as brutal as some of the others (Spartan/Warrior) and the wooded trails were beautiful. Great M/C, prizes for the speedy ones. Kids events were also well received. Medical on-site and lots of excellent volunteers throughout to keep you safe, on track and motivated. Bag check, lockers, change rooms and showers on site. Be prepared to get really wet and dirty at this one and have good fun along the way!! One of the best yet. Heats of 50 every 4 minutes keeps the obstacles clear of bottle necks and makes it a stress free course. Well Done! We stayed 6 minutes away at the Sheraton Four Points and it was very clean and reasonably priced.
Yes, I would recommend this race to a friend.
Yes, I would consider attending this race/event next year.
My first obstacle race ever! Enjoyed most of it, but skipped one water event and opted for push ups. Back surgery 1 year ago and pushed through this race! Felt great to finish!
Yes, I would recommend this race to a friend.
Yes, I would consider attending this race/event next year.
First ever obstacle course and it was a blast! I was so concerned it would be too intense, but it was a fun filled 7km. Obstacles were challenging but achievable, and never once was I concerned that I would get hurt along the way! Am totally doing it again in '13!
Yes, I would recommend this race to a friend.
Yes, I would consider attending this race/event next year.
A avid triathlete and marathoner I decided to try this new fast growing recreation activity .
My first obstical race was more fun than I expected.
I picked the BadAss dash because of the less possibly annoying obstical s " fire, Electricution, ice baths, eg.
The Venue was first class , the staff was very polite and answered my rookie questions .
I enjoyed the finisher plaque , I have hundreds of finisher shirts and medals ,and the plaque was different .
The food and beer were great after, but I really needed a warm place to change out of my wet cloths after.
After the event I emailed the organizers and told them how much I enjoyed there event and my suggestion of a place to change after, they agreed and said that was a priority for 2013.
I told them I would definitely be back in 2013 and convince my friends to also try it.
It's tough to convince people to try this new sport, but it only takes one event to get hooked.
Yes, I would recommend this race to a friend.
Yes, I would consider attending this race/event next year.
This was the most "BadAss" and personally challenging thing that I have ever done, physically. The obstacles were definitely challenging but ultimately do-able; and being that I am not a "runner" the running/jogging of the course was my biggest challenge (brisk walking came into play on a few occasions for me).
I loved the way the obstacles were laid out, as it broke up the 7km "off road" course nicely; kind of gave me the feeling of a HIIT workout. I was so excited to cross the finish line knowing that I had overcome every obstacle/challenge of the race, and the camaraderie amongst the racers & the course crew was both motivating & refreshing.
I thought the plaques were unique and I was proud to write my time on mine after I crossed the finish line, it's a bragging piece that sits on my desk at work; and a reminder that all challenges including those that I face day-to-day aren't insurmountable.
My friends & I that raced last year in Chicopee are already registered for the race this September and this time we are showing up as a much larger group, we have ignited the fire within our circle of friends!
Yes, I would recommend this race to a friend.
Yes, I would consider attending this race/event next year.
All in all a fun run, the obstacles were good and challenging, the food and beer were good afterwords and despite the rough weather the race was a lot of fun.
I couldn't really get behind the finishers plaque…. or plate…. or whatever it was. It truly is a shame, the badass dash had such a cool logo. I was really looking forward to a black and gold medal based on the logo.
The main problem I had with this run was that there were a few times I almost got lost……. and once that I did. I was about 1km into the run and there was a fork in the paths (this was right where the second lake was) and no person to tell me which way to go or signs to point me in the right direction. So I went straight…. which took me back to the challet and the kids race….. about 500 meters off track. This is what I get for leading my heat I suppose. Needless to say I wasn't leading it again when I got back on track.
The creativity on the obstacles really sold it for me for this run and is the main reason why I would come back. Getting free food to go along with the beer after the run was key as well. Why arn't more races doing this?


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"History itself is a kind of alchemical process. ... History is the catalyst of nature."
"If we could raise to consciousness our alchemical heritage, and our heritage in the shamanism of the archaic, then we could actually see that the purpose of technology is to liberate, not to enslave, and somehow we've lost the thread."
"You know, Tim Leary used to say, 'When in doubt, double the dose.' "
"Capitalism, I can't say this enough, is NOT in our interest."
"The Earth is perfectly capable of raising outrageous hell without us triggering a nuclear war."
"My faith is that we're just slow to get rolling, and that once the battle is joined, once every person on Earth realizes that we're in a battle for planetary survival, then people will get with the program, it's just that things aren't bad enough yet."
"We're lead by jackasses. We [the psychedelic community] don't bother with our political processes."
"What we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us makes their way into those positions of power. I mean, you can see that now [1992], those guys are not fit to throw guts down to a bear ... ANY OF THEM!"
"What we have to do is knock off this fantasy of being citizens inside a democratic state. I mean, what we are are the propagandized masses inside a Fascist dictatorship."
"Know your enemy and they probably will not be your enemy."
"I think that the Third Reich was a Sunday school picnic compared to the population policies of the Roman Catholic Church. ... In a civilized political environment those people would be placed under immediate arrest."
"The way to gain power is to reclaim a command of history."
"And so it's up to the creativity of ordinary people, and the strongest weapon to support and augment the creativity of ordinary people is the psychedelic experience, because it allows you to put information together in new and exciting ways. And this is to be then the basis of a new political order. It has to be."
"The model of human nature which this society has deified makes it a pathological act, a sin, and a crime to alter your own consciousness. This doesn't make any sense. We are at war with ourselves, and we're losing."
"It's all about personal empowerment, and personal empowerment means deconditioning yourself from the values and the programs of the society and putting your own values and programs in place."
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The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating the death of James Blackburn, 31, formerly of Warren, as a possible suicide following his death Tuesday in the Lebanon Correctional Institution in Warren County, according to the Columbus Dispatch.
Blackburn was serving a 21-year prison sentence that began in 2006 for raping a young boy in 2005. Blackburn was found in his cell at 2:09 a.m. and pronounced dead 20 minutes later.
Blackburn's death would mark the eighth suicide in Ohio prisons this year.
That Danny Lee Hill boy rapist/murderer from Warren, OH is better protected in prison. Didn't he have his death sentence commuted?


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And, unsurprisingly, they're sounding craaazzzyyy.
The last time one part of a state seceded from the rest, West Virginia separated from Virginia because it didn't want to fight the Civil War. Now the debate over the secession of Long Island from New York revolves around an equally monumental event: the payroll tax recently levied to bail out the MTA (with an exemption for school districts, at the insistence of two Long Island state senators). What, that's not good enough for you? Well, it's broader than that. Long Island pays more to the state than it gets back. Still not convinced? Then let Suffolk County legislator Dan Losquadro frame the issue:
"I truly believe that the actions that have been taken by those in Albany on the part of Long Islanders are tyrannical," he said in a statement. "I think we are at the point of revolt, we have gone past that ... Long Island needs to stand up and take whatever actions ... necessary to throw off those shackles of the tyrants up in New York State."
At least one other legislator quoted by Newsday worried that all this secession talk could make Long Island's politicians look like "whackos." But an admittedly unscientific poll accompanying the story shows readers are 69.4 percent in favor of secession, though that could be the result of Losquadro voting all day. More disappointingly, 88.4 percent would name the new state "Long Island." Boring. Let us know in the comments if you can think of something better.
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The Health and Social Welfare Directorate is headed by DCG Aminu Suley
The Health and Social Welfare Directorate of the Nigerian Prisons Service is an amalgam of various units that are charged with the physical, psychological and developmental well-being of the inmates and staff.
The Directorate is charged with the administration of prison clinics and hospitals. With its complement of Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists and Paramedics, the Directorate ensures all year round rendition of medical services to inmates in all the Prison nation-wide. The Directorate also develops and implements new strategies for confronting changing faces of disease control and management in the ever changing global systems. One result of such programmes is the newly introduced Drug Compounding project in the Federal Capital designed to produce drugs that will support the clinic and hospital network in the prison system.
The Directorate also sees to the maintenance of proper environment in the prisons through the environmental health section. This section takes care of environmental sanitation in all the prisons. Through fumigation of cells, provision of potable water, maintenance of sewage systems and general environmental orderliness in all prisons, the section helps to maintain environmental friendliness in all prison formations in the country.
Through its Welfare Section, the Directorate ensures the realization of one of the major objectives of the Prisons Service i.e. the reform and rehabilitation of convicts. Through a complicated set of mechanisms consisting among others of counseling, group work, case work session, recreational activities, religious services and adult and remedial education programmes (AREP) this section tries not only to identify the causes of the inmates anti-social behaviour but also endeavours to set them on the road to reform through induced self-rediscovery and eventual change for the better. This is also done through the provision of educational development project that have led some inmates to obtain Degrees and Diplomas through correspondence while serving their terms.
This is complemented by skills acquisition programme which the section conducts in conjunction with the Inmates Training and Productivity Directorate which enables inmates acquire skills in various vocations like carpentry, tailoring, printing, building and masonry etc. in the course of serving their terms of imprisonment.
Through its After-Care Services programme, the Directorate also helps to settle successful discharging inmates in their chosen vocations. This is done through assisting them with tools, spaces and even post-discharge supervision and patronage so that they can fit properly into lawful relationship in the society. And by so doing the circle of want and crime in their lives is broken for good.
The other section of this Directorate is the Catering Section. This section regulates the supply of food to the prison. It supervises the cooking of the food and implements policies that have to do with the feeding of inmates in terms of the provision of cooking utensils, the maintenance of prison kitchens and the determination of the nutritional and calorific contents of the food of the inmates in term of wholesomeness and health. This means that the section is staffed by qualified catering officers.


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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced proposed changes to its Worker Protection Standard (WPS), which is the set of regulations that govern pesticide, fungicide, and herbicide exposure of agricultural workers. The Federal Register notice is scheduled for publication on March 2, 2014; a pre-publication copy of the proposed changes is available online now.
Although the EPA asserts that these proposed regulations are "an important milestone for the farm workers who plant, tend, and harvest the food that we put on our tables each day," the agency seems to lack a basic awareness of who these workers are, which may hamper its execution of any regulations that become final. For example, the EPA states that these proposed regulations will "increase protections from pesticide exposure for the nation's two million agricultural workers and their families [emphasis ours]." However, according to the National Center for Farmworker Health, "there are three million migrant and seasonal farm workers in the United States [emphasis ours]." (The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there are 749,400 agricultural workers in the United States, but these are likely only the ones legally authorized to work in the United States, and employed on a non-seasonal basis. PBS reports that as many as 1.3 million American citizens are migrant agricultural workers.)
The EPA's proposed regulations are available in Spanish, but it seems unlikely that a migrant worker has the internet access required to read and comment on the regulations. Additionally, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports that "half of all hired crop farm workers lack legal authorization to work in the United States," making it unlikely that they would report any violations of EPA regulations -- old or new -- by their employers, even if they were aware of the regulations.
If the proposed EPA regulations are approved, for the farm workers who are aware of the regulations and who work for an employer who chooses to comply with them, they will provide several protections, including:
- Mandatory worker safety trainings every year instead of every five years,
- A prohibition of pesticide handling by children younger than 16 (with an exemption for family farms),
- "No-entry" buffer zones around pesticide-treated fields to protect workers from pesticide overspray,
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- Availability of pesticide label and safety information to workers.
Estimates of the number of migrant agricultural workers vary, but the ban on pesticide handling by children -- if enforced -- would protect between 300,000 migrant workers (GAO estimate) and 800,000 migrant workers (United Farm Workers estimate). For the 1.3 million American citizens who are migrant workers (to use the aforementioned PBS estimate), it is unclear whether even annual training on pesticide safety is sufficient, depending on how and when the training is given. For example, a training session given at a particular farm on the same date every year will not serve any workers who leave the farm before that date or join the farm after that date. Additionally, the EPA has not proposed any specialized regulation of cholinesterase inhibitor pesticides, despite the plentiful documentation of human harm caused by these agents.
Despite the probability that many farm workers will go unprotected even by these proposed regulations, the agricultural industry has been given the opportunity to comment on the regulations, including the "relative benefits to and burdens on employers." It remains to be seen whether the regulations will survive in their proposed versions. All interested parties are directed to comment via the following link: http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=EPA-HQ-OPP-2011-0184-0002.


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I'm having some difficulty understanding 'Linear Homogeneous Recurrence Relations' and 'Inhomogeneous Recurrence Relations', the notes that we've been given in our discrete mathematics class seem to be very sparse in terms of listing each step taken to achieve the answer and this makes it incredibly hard for people like myself who are not of a maths background to understand (I'm a computer science student, not a maths student) and I guess my main problem is that I don't understand the notes, as they some to jump steps due to assumed maths knowledge and this is troubling for me coming from a purely computer science background.
I was wondering if somebody could write out the steps in order to achieve the answers for these types of questions?
I've searched around on youtube and google on guides of how to do them, but they all differ slightly from the one's that we are supposed to learn, and I don't want to learn the wrong thing. I'm not sure if maybe my lecturer has called it something slightly different, but if somebody could help me out, that'd be great.
An example question in the notes for Linear Homogeneous Recurrence Relations is:
1. Find the solution of: with
And an example of Inhomogeneous Recurrence Relations would be:
2. Find a particular solution of:
Here is a second example for a more complicated linear homogeneous recurrence relation:
3. Find the solution: $ a_{n} = a_{n-1} + a_{n-2}$ with $a_{0} = 0 \ and \ a_{1} = 1 $
The lecturer came up with the general solution of $a_{n} = c\left ( \frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2} \right )^{n} + d\left ( \frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2} \right )^{n}$
And I just can't see how he got here, is there some way that he has worked this out, or is it pure deduction?


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PHOTOS – Here are fotos of Solange Magnano Miss Argentina 1994 dead from a gluteoplasty. Pics of Solange Magnano Miss Argentina 1994 are being used to remember the stunning beauty queen from Buenos Aires today who captivated a nation in 1994 winning the country's national beauty queen title.
The cause of her death was a plastic surgery procedure to her derriere – a gluteoplasty – that left her in critical condition for three days in Buenos Aires.
Roberto Piazza, a friend of Magnano, tells press: "This woman who had everything is dead because she wanted to have a slightly firmer [body]." "She only underwent the procedure because she thought it was no big deal" added friend Guillermo Azar.
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- 1922b:179 (M*, F*; Cellia)
- Valle do Rio Doce, [Espirito Santo], (Baixada Fluminense), Brazil (MNRJ)
- Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela
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- 1932:566 (M*, L; tarsimaculatus var.)
- Type-loc: Panama Canal Zone (LU)
- The immature stages of oswaldoi are found in the interior, usually in or on the margins of tropical forests, frequently along roads, in cultivated fields or grasslands adjacent to forested areas. They occur in permanent or temporary ground pools, margins of ponds or lakes, swamps, and stream-side pools; the sites most often are found in deeply to partially shaded areas, less often in full sun. The immature stages are commonly collected in the grassy margins of pools with muddy bottoms. Algae and abundant flotage often are present. The water is always fresh and may be turbid or clear. (Faran and Linthicum 1981:42)
Medical Importance
- An. oswaldoi has been experimentally infected with Plasmodium vivax and P. falciparum by Fonseca and Fonseca (1942) in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and by Rozeboom (1942) in Trinidad; however, it has never been found naturally infected or otherwise implicated in transmitting malaria. Deane, Causey and Deane (1948) dissected 540 females from the northeast of Brazil and found none infected with Plasmodium. At present, oswaldoi does not seem to be a vector of malaria. (Faran and Linthicum 1981:42)
Additional References
- Senevet 1934: 49 (P*; to sp. status).
- Rozeboom and Gabaldon 1941:91 (M*, L, E).
- De Oliveira and Verano 1942:353 (L*).
- Komp 1942:74 (F*), 124 (L), 160 (M*).
- Rozeboom 1942a:239 (E*).
- Cova Garcia 1946, fig. 1 (E*), 34 (L*), 86 (F*), 121 (M*)
- Belkin, Schick and Heinemann 1971:6 (type info.).
- Faran 1980:55 (M*, F*, P*, L*).
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A married couple move into the Lusman Building, an old Hollywood landmark, but during a renovation of the building evil spirits are released. The wife discovers the mystery behind the spirits and tries to combat the malevolent, supernatural force that thrives within the walls of the Lusman.
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Theme of Suffering in Io
Poor Io. It's hard not to feel more than a little bad for her. This little nymph does a whole bunch of suffering before it's all over. As fun as being transformed into a cow might be (to us, but we're weird), it would definitely stink if you had to stay that way for a long time. Add to that a few more gems—being ripped from your home, being made a prisoner, being forced to wonder the earth while being tortured, and possibly being raped—and you've got the makings of a seriously unpleasant life.
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- In your opinion, what is the worst thing that Io suffers throughout her tale?
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- What, if anything, does Io learn from her suffering?
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In its Aug. 16 arbovirus surveillance report released Aug. 20, the Florida Department of Health identifies two more locally acquired chikungunya illnesses in that state. The total is now six, with four of those having come from Palm Beach County. The two latest cases are a part of that four.
Florida also reports 171 imported, or travel-associated, chikungunya cases since the Caribbean outbreak began in Dec. 2013. Four counties have recorded the majority of the mosquito born illnesses which were contracted abroad, Broward and Miami-Dade with 30 each, Palm Beach with 28 and Orange with 18. Haiti and the Dominican Republic were the sites for 87 percent of these infections.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released its weekly report on reported chikungunya cases in the United States on Aug. 20. It is less current than report from the state of Florida.
The report reveals 636 travel-associated chikungunya cases reported from 43 states and the District of Columbia. Florida continues to lead the number of reported illnesses. New York, city and state, is second with 100 chikungunya illnesses through Aug. 19. New Jersey reports 50 cases, while Massachusetts has seen 26 and Tennessee has 25.
Internationally, the Pan American Health Organization weekly report for August 15 shows a significantly higher number of chikungunya cases in Puerto Rico than does the CDC report. The commonwealth has reported 708 cases of the illness and 2,549 suspected cases. The U.S. Virgin Islands has changed their data very little for many weeks, with 4 confirmed cases and 29 suspected.
Chikungunya is a viral illness spread by an infected mosquito from human to human. There is no cure and there is no vaccine. It was introduced into the Western Hemisphere in Dec. 2013 and has been spreading throughout the Caribbean and Latin America since that time. It is rarely fatal, but causes intense, debilitating joint pain. Symptoms may continue for months or years after the infection has disappeared.


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