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I Waited In Line One Hour To Vote This Morning, In A Small Precinct- OHIO
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Prepare for the potential that Ohio will NOT be determined tonight ... but having to wait on the Provisional Ballots which are not even opened until 10 days AFTER the election itself
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Very good synopsis!
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Anyone know the logic behind a 10 day wait for these to be counted?
The logic is as follows:
For "Provisional Ballots" (in Ohio) once they are cast the Board of Election then first determins the Legal Voting Status of the person who cast the Provisional Ballot. (was the person validly registered etc. etc.). This is usually caused by an issue of lack of ID when at the polls (10 days to provide it) moving and not changing one's voter registration location, but also includes if the person was registered at all.
It then checks to see if the person voted previously via mail or via early voting.
Finally it checks to see that the information THE PERSON filled out (ongoing Fed Ct. litigation at the moment on this one) the Provisional Ballot form accurately and the signatures match that which is on file.
With 150,000 to 250,000 provisional ballots being cast in Ohio today they COULD determine the outcome if the race is particularly tight.
In 2010 one Ohio Congressional race WAS decided by the Provisional Ballots.
All in all 10 days to perform all those reviews is easily accomplished in rural counties, but tough to get accomplished in the Urban Counties (the BOE's have an extra 10 days to complete their reviews AFTER the 10 day state wide hold is over with, if needed fwiw)
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Suffice it to say that Arizona's Adam Eaton has made a good first impression.
Eaton hit safely in his first five games in the major leagues, and he has done a little bit of everything else along the way while continuing the success he had at Class AAA Reno, where he was the league's most valuable player and rookie of the year after a minor-league season in which he hit .375 with 47 doubles and 44 stolen bases.
Center fielder Eaton is 10-for-25 with two doubles and six runs, scoring in every game. He added his first stolen base on the front end of a double steal in an 8-2 loss at San Diego on Sunday, which concluded a 5-5 West Coast swing that prevented the D-backs from making any meaningful headway in the NL playoff race.
Eaton has six infield hits, including a bunt single Saturday, and is the kind of leadoff hitter the D-backs have not had in their 15 seasons.
"He walks. He gets on base. He's scrappy," manager Kirk Gibson said.
Eaton showed off what scouts have called a plus arm on a remarkable double play in the fifth inning Sunday. With Andy Parrino on first base, Padres catcher John Baker hit a line drive to deep left-center field that Eaton tracked down on the run about 10 feet short of the warning track. A left-handed thrower, Eaton wheeled and fired a strike to first baseman Paul Goldschmidt to double off Perino. Eaton's throw reached Goldschmidt on the fly.
"He's shown a lot of ways how he can help a ballclub," Gibson said.
Eaton has not been out of the lineup since being purchased from Class AAA Reno on Tuesday, after starting center fielder Chris Young suffered a quadriceps injury while running out a ground ball in the eighth inning of a game at San Francisco on Monday. It is likely that the D-backs will continue to take a long look at Eaton even when Young regains his health.
"It's been a bright spot for us," Gibson said.
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Call of duty 2 follows the story (there isn't really an actual story itself – we all know the deal anyhow) of soldiers fighting for the British, American and Russian armies. You start the Russian campaign as a raw recruit, throwing potatoes into boxes because grenades are too expensive, but before you can even finish your training, the area is flooded with German troops. Immediately you're thrown into the thick of it, into what the game is all about; intense urban shootouts between large numbers of soldiers. There are tons of enemies, and you have lots of friendly soldiers fighting with you, and more replace the ones who die spawning offscreen and running to your position; this is a game where you genuinely feel in the thick of war. The firefights are so amazing, most shooters only have one or two of this kind of quality throughout their entire length, every single level in CoD2 plays out with this level of intensity and quality.Read more ›
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17. The Grey Zone (2001)
R | 108 min | Drama, History, War
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone.
Director: Tim Blake Nelson | Stars: David Arquette, Velizar Binev, David Chandler, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 8,610 | Gross: $0.51M
18. In Hell (2003)
R | 98 min | Action, Thriller, Drama
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the wardens' entertainment.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lawrence Taylor, Lloyd Battista, Carlos Gómez
Votes: 14,992
19. The Contractor (2007 Video)
R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
An ex-CIA agent is asked to take out a terrorist, only to realize he's been set up by his former employer.
Director: Josef Rusnak | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Eliza Bennett, Lena Headey, Ralph Brown
Votes: 6,587
20. Unstoppable (2004)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Dean Cage is a former CIA operative who suffers from extreme PTSD. While in a program to resolve the stress of the loss his future brother-in-law Scott, he plans to meet Scott's sister at a... See full summary »
Director: David Carson | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Jacqueline Obradors, Stuart Wilson, Kim Coates
Votes: 4,031
21. Black Forest (2012 TV Movie)
84 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Modern day tourists find themselves lured into a deadly game in an alternate world where every fairy tale we were told at bedtime is real.
Director: Patrick Dinhut | Stars: Tinsel Korey, Dhaffer L'Abidine, Andy Clemence, Oliver James
Votes: 815
22. Asylum (II) (2014)
R | 93 min | Horror
A veteran hostage negotiator's next call leads him to an overrun insane asylum. He soon finds that dark forces are pushing the patients to commit atrocities, and he may be the only one that can stop them.
Director: Todor Chapkanov | Stars: Stephen Rea, Bruce Payne, Dimo Alexiev, Velizar Binev
Votes: 275
23. Submerged (2005 Video)
R | 96 min | Action, Thriller
Chris Kody, the world's best mercenary, is freed from prison -- but there's a catch. Kody must use his lethal weapons and fighting skills to stop a group of terrorists who have taken over a nuclear sub.
Director: Anthony Hickox | Stars: Steven Seagal, Christine Adams, William Hope, Nick Brimble
Votes: 3,964
24. Bridge of Dragons (1999)
R | 92 min | Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
The tough and cold mercenary Warchild, is working for the man who took care of his war training and upbringing, the greedy General Ruechang. Ruechang is planning to take over the country by... See full summary »
Director: Isaac Florentine | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Valerie Chow, Gary Hudson
Votes: 2,006
25. Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys (2004 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A group of toymakers seek to use Andre Toulon's formula, now in the hands of Toulon's great-nephew Robert, to give life to a line of killer toys that they plan to unleash on Christmas Eve.
Director: Ted Nicolaou | Stars: Corey Feldman, Vanessa Angel, Danielle Keaton, Silvia Suvadová
Votes: 1,638
26. Cyclops (2008 TV Movie)
94 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The corrupt Emperor Tiberius forces his bravest general, Marcus, to subdue the monstrous Cyclops that has been decimating the countryside. Once the Cyclops is brought to the dungeons, ... See full summary »
Director: Declan O'Brien | Stars: Eric Roberts, Kevin Stapleton, Frida Farrell, Craig Archibald
Votes: 1,159
27. Alien Apocalypse (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
An astronaut doctor Ivan Hood and his fellow astronaut Kelly return from their mission in space to find the world has been taken over by aliens. Now Dr. Ivan Hood and Kelly must lead a ... See full summary »
Director: Josh Becker | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Renée O'Connor, Remington Franklin, Michael Cory Davis
Votes: 3,292
28. The Russian Specialist (2005)
R | 94 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Spetnaz (Special Ops) veteran Nick Cherenko leaves Russia after his son and wife are killed in a gunfight by drug lord Aleksandr 'Sasha' Popov's mob men. He's threatened with exposure as ... See full summary »
Director: Dolph Lundgren | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Ben Cross, Ivan Petrushinov, Olivia Lee
Votes: 3,115
29. Star Runners (2009 TV Movie)
80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Given a undercover government mission to retrieve a "crate" from a distant planet, TY JOHNS and LEI CHEN find that they must smuggle not a crate, but a woman off world -- and when their ... See full summary »
Director: Mat King | Stars: Connor Trinneer, James Kyson, Toni Trucks, Aja Evans
Votes: 833
30. SharkMan (2005 TV Movie)
R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist tries to save his son from cancer but his experiments turn him into a shark-man instead. A group of people from a pharmaceutical corporation are sent to the mad doctor's island to investigate his activities.
Director: Michael Oblowitz | Stars: William Forsythe, Hunter Tylo, Jeffrey Combs, Elise Muller
Votes: 1,363
31. Man with the Screaming Brain (2005)
Unrated | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
The brains of a Russian taxi driver and a wealthy businessman are brought together in one body by a mad scientist.
Director: Bruce Campbell | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Tamara Gorski, Ted Raimi, Antoinette Byron
Votes: 4,482
32. Octopus (2000 Video)
PG-13 | 100 min | Adventure, Horror
During the Cuban Missle Crisis, a Russian sub is sunk while en route to Havana. As the sub goes down, the hold is breached and barrels full of some mysterious substance tumble out. Years ... See full summary »
Director: John Eyres | Stars: Jay Harrington, Ravil Isyanov, David Beecroft, Carolyn Lowery
Votes: 1,601
33. Code Red (2013)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Horror
A Special Forces soldier is sent into Bulgaria when a chemical agent from WWII is uncovered that can reanimate the dead.
Director: Valeri Milev | Stars: Paul Logan, Julian Kostov, Ralitsa Paskaleva, Borislav Iliev
Votes: 686
34. Liaisons (2015– )
Comedy, Drama
LIAISONS is a modern dramedy, telling the story of the affairs and relations within a family and beyond; the ongoing search for love and the various ways of getting it today. The series ... See full summary »
Stars: Mihail Bilalov, Nikolay Ishkov, Lorina Kamburova, Iliana Lazarova
Votes: 485
35. Boa vs. Python (2004 Video)
R | 92 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
After an overly ambitious businessman transports an 80-foot python to the United States, the beast escapes and starts to leave behind a trail of human victims. An FBI agent and a snake ... See full summary »
Director: David Flores | Stars: David Hewlett, Jaime Bergman, Kirk B.R. Woller, Adamo Palladino
Votes: 3,288
36. Icon (2005 TV Movie)
190 min | Thriller
On the eve of the elections in Russia, there's an outbreak of a mysterious disease. The British are curious to find out what's going on, so they need to send someone. An official knows ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Martin Smith | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Patrick Bergin, Michael York, Annika Peterson
Votes: 709
37. Ruby Strangelove Young Witch (2015)
Ruby Strangelove Young Witch: When Ruby, a young witch discovers her long lost mother was abducted by evil forces she sets out to use all her magical powers to get her back.
Director: Evgeny Ruman | Stars: Seanna Pereira, Ed Stoppard, Twinnie Lee Moore, Stephen Rea
Votes: 49
38. The Malevolent
Horror | Post-production
Director: Jordan Taratoot | Stars: Mischa Barton, Velizar Binev, Carolina Bratanova, Clare Durant
39. Spiders II: Breeding Ground (2001)
R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Jason and Alexandra 'Alex', a close couple, lose their sail yacht in a storm and are grateful to get picked up by Captain Jim Bigelow's commercial carrier. Suspicious about the rough ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Firstenberg | Stars: Stephanie Niznik, Greg Cromer, Daniel Quinn, Richard Moll
Votes: 1,186
40. Shark Hunter (2001)
R | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Years after his parents are killed by a megalodon (an enormous shark that has supposedly been extinct for millions of years), Dr. Spencer is obsessed with the idea of hunting down and ... See full summary »
Director: Matt Codd | Stars: Antonio Sabato Jr., Christian Toulali, Grand L. Bush, Heather Marie Marsden
Votes: 779
41. Hannibal (2006 TV Movie)
89 min | Action, Biography, Drama
It is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world. She believes she is invincible - but one man is destined to change that. He is a man bound by... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bazalgette | Stars: Alexander Siddig, Emilio Doorgasingh, Bashar Rahal, Mido Hamada
Votes: 1,167
42. Mansquito (2005 TV Movie)
R | 92 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
A scientist and her subject turn into mutant insects.
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Corin Nemec, Musetta Vander, Matt Jordon, Patrick Dreikauss
Votes: 1,484
43. Dragon Dynasty (2006 TV Movie)
89 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Returning from China, Marco Polo is given a stone by the Chinese Emperor after successfully establishing trading relationships with the country. Unknown to Marco, the stone unlocks the ... See full summary »
Director: Matt Codd | Stars: Federico Castelluccio, Aaron Hendry, Dion Basco, Stana Katic
Votes: 367
44. Python 2 (2002 Video)
R | 89 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Hired for his transportation services, a former mercenary and his wife accompanying a secret convoy to a Soviet military base find it overrun by a gigantic snake and must battle the creature to get out alive.
Director: Lee McConnell | Stars: William Zabka, Dana Ashbrook, Alex Jolig, Simmone Mackinnon
Votes: 847
45. Dark Relic (2010 TV Movie)
88 min | Fantasy, Horror
The Holy Land, 1099AD. The end of the first Crusade. When the conflict began, Christian knight Sir Gregory lead over a hundred men, but now less than ten remain. They include his squire ... See full summary »
Director: Lorenzo Sena | Stars: James Frain, Clemency Burton-Hill, Tom Basden, Alyy Khan
Votes: 750
46. Raging Sharks (2005 Video)
R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Doctor Mike Olsen returns from his oceanic observation station, where his wife Linda feels in charge, when it's reported in desperate trouble after a sudden shark attack wrecked the oxygen ... See full summary »
Director: Danny Lerner | Stars: Corin Nemec, Vanessa Angel, Corbin Bernsen, Todd Jensen
Votes: 787
47. Cold Fusion (2011)
84 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In 1979 a UFO is spotted over Ukrainian territory in the Soviet Union. A squadron of MIG23 fighters are dispatched to intercept it.
Director: Ivan Mitov | Stars: Adrian Paul, Michelle Lee, William Hope, Vladimir Kolev
Votes: 352
48. Mission London (2010)
107 min | Comedy
A concert to celebrate Bulgaria joining the EU is being planned at the Embassy in London and it is the job of VARADIN, the new ambassador, to ensure the Queen attends. But with corrupt ... See full summary »
Director: Dimitar Mitovski | Stars: Alan Ford, Tomas Arana, Ralph Brown, Nick Nevern
Votes: 5,419
49. Finding Rin Tin Tin (2007)
PG | 90 min | Family
The true story of the legendary German Shepherd who was found by American pilot Lee Duncun in France during World War I, and later became the most famous animal star in Hollywood history.
Director: Danny Lerner | Stars: Tyler Jensen, Ben Cross, Gregory Gudgeon, Steven O'Donnell
Votes: 377
50. U.S. Seals II (2001 Video)
R | 95 min | Action, Adventure
A commando of retired US SEALs must invade an island in North Japan from where a rogue ex-SEAL menaces to launch a nuclear strike against the US. Because of a leak of natural gas, fighting is restricted to blade weapons.
Director: Isaac Florentine | Stars: Michael Worth, Karen Kim, Damian Chapa, Marshall R. Teague
Votes: 673


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How This Teen Hero Outsmarted Her Body Shamers
After high schooler Dannie "Dee" McMillan was teased about her weight by her classmates, the teen proved that body-shaming bullies don't have to have the last laugh.
The 16-year-old was naturally upset when she first heard about a fake Twitter account a schoolmate made called "Dee's a fat whale," which featured a profile photo of a cartoon whale on top of McMillan's face. "I was so embarrassed," she told her local news station KCEN-TV. But she decided that the story didn't have to end there; instead, she saw an opportunity to turn something hateful into something helpful.
Inspired by the exact insult her peers threw her way, McMillan designed shirts emblazoned with the slogan "Dee the Fat Whale Saves the Whales" — thus taking back the joke, while simultaneously spearheading a fundraiser for whale conservation. The shirts are available for purchase online, and she plans to send all of her proceeds to Save The Whales.
McMillan told KCEN that she took to Facebook to get advice from one of her role models, plus-size model Laura Lee, before making the shirts. She explained that she wanted to do something to show her bullies that they couldn't hurt her, and Lee helped by giving her total support.
It's rare to see a response to body-shaming that's funny, powerful, and altruistic all at once. The Twitter account has since been deleted, but McMillan's GoFundMe page has already raised over $2,000.
We're going to count this as a major win for both body-positivity and wildlife preservation, which makes McMillan a teen hero, if you ask us.
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This is breaking news as I write at 9:30 ET, so we have to piece together the story from fragmentary accounts, but the death toll now stands at 61, with hundreds injured, in a bomb attack on a peaceful demonstration by members of the Hazara minority. The Taliban have disavowed the attack, and IS has claimed responsibility. The Hazara, who are Shiite muslims, were demanding that a proposed power line be routed through their territory, which centers on Bamiyan.
I'm sure we'll be seeing candlelight vigils in every U.S. city.
In Iraq meanwhile, bombs targeting civilians fleeing Shirqat kill 13 and injure 9. The grip of IS on the town has been weakening, giving civilians the opportunity to flee.
This is a (weird) indication of how convoluted the situation is in Iraq. Iraqi forces are digging a miles-long trench north of Fallujah, apparently to prevent government-allied (presumably Shiite) militias from entering the city, following allegations of looting and abuse of civilians. There are fears that the project will hinder repopulation of the city. More detail on the difficult situation in Fallujah from AP.
The power struggle among Iraqi Shiite factions may be spilling into the streets with their respective militias.
Saturday, July 23, 2016
Update for Saturday, July 23, 2016
This is breaking news as I write at 9:30 ET, so we have to piece together the story from fragmentary accounts, but the death toll now stands at 61, with hundreds injured, in a bomb attack on a peaceful demonstration by members of the Hazara minority. The Taliban have disavowed the attack, and IS has claimed responsibility. The Hazara, who are Shiite muslims, were demanding that a proposed power line be routed through their territory, which centers on Bamiyan.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Update for Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Oops. U.S. air strikes in Syria kill at least 56 civilians near Aleppo today, after killing 60 civilians near Manbij yesterday. Collateral damage, don't you know.
It's a good thing climate change is a hoax engineered by the Chinese or we might have to blame somebody for 120 degree Farehnheit temperatures in Baghdad today, with hotter temperatures expected tomorrow. A holiday from work has been proclaimed. Oh yeah, lots of people don't have electricity.
Aid agencies are trying to prepare for the expected exodus from Mosul but time and money are running short.
PM Abadi has accepted the resignation of 6 ministers.
Turkey resumes the air campaign against the PKK after the failed coup.
Ministers from 30 nations are meeting in Washington, D.C. today to discuss combatting IS. The focus appears to be the military campaign in Iraq, particularly the coming assault on Mosul.
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Monday, July 18, 2016
Update for Monday, July 18, 2016
Special "Things Aren't Always What They Seem" edition.
I could speak for myself about this but I'll let MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT of the New York Times do it. What does it mean to label the horrific incident in Nice "terrorism"? The perpetrator was not religious, in fact he was a drunkard who never went to mosque and never prayed, had never expressed Islamist or jihadi opinions, and had no known connection to any relevant organization. Deranged people have driven into crowds before, and of course there was that German pilot who flew the plane into a mountain in France. Nobody called those incidents terrorism. But the perpetrator in Nice happened to have been born in Tunisia and was of Muslim heritage, even though he was himself evidently an apostate. So it's terrorism. Maybe it's just a lunatic. Possibly the existence of IS provided a hook on which to hang his delusions, although there is no direct evidence of that. That does seem to be the basic description of the Orlando night club shooter.
Then there is that bizarre coup attempt in Turkey. As Dan Rodrik discusses, the top ranks of the Turkish military are entirely loyal to Erdogan. The coup plotters were astonishingly inept and never had any chance of success. Erdogan's attempt to blame the exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen is preposterous. The consequence of these strange events is of course that Erdogan will tighten his grip on power and further erode democracy in Turkey. Cui bono?
Back to Iraq. Muqtada al Sadr has been calling for political reform in Iraq, which seems nice. Now he also wants his followers to attack U.S. troops.
Iraqi army moves on a village near Qayarrah in furtherance of the campaign to take Mosul.
In Afghanistan, Taliban attack a bazaar near Kunduz, with one police officer and three militants said to be killed as fighting continues. Khaama reports additional battles in the area with more Taliban casualties but no mention of additional government casualties.
MoD says four ANA troops killed since Sunday without specifying the circumstances.
Attack on a police outpost in Badghis said to result in death of 9 attackers, again no mention of police casualties.
Fighting in Ghazni said to result in death of 12 Taliban and one police officer. As always, these highly lopsided casualty totals are not independently confirmed.
Air strikes in Helmand said to kill 16 militants. This report does not say whether the strikes were carried out by U.S. or Afghan forces. (Afghanistan now has some attack helicopters.)
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
Update for Thursday, July 14, 2016
U.S. signs a deal to give $415 million directly to peshmerga for weapons, supplies and pay. Apparently the Baghdad government approves of this deal. That represents a significant change because they have complained in the past that aid should go through the central government. This does represent a step toward de facto recognition of Kurdish autonomy, in my view.
The U.S. claimed to have killed Omar al-Shishani, IS "Minister of War," a few weeks ago. Apparently they have managed to kill him again, this time for real, according to IS-linked sources. His death occurred in Sharqat which as we noted earlier was besieged. It now appears that IS control of Sharqat is collapsing amid infighting as the group tries to prevent fighters from fleeing. IS leadership may be resigned to losing control of any territory and going underground.
The Iraqi government held a military parade in Baghdad to celebrate recent victories, even as terror bombings against civilian targets and attacks on police in the city continue.
Muqtada al-Sadr continues to sponsor demonstrations against corruption, even as the government calls for them to stop for security reasons.
U.S. is bombing IS targets near Mosul.
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Monday, July 11, 2016
Update for Monday, July 11, 2016
In an unannounced visit to Baghdad, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter says U.S. will deploy 560 additional troops to Iraq to support the offensive against Mosul. It appears at least some of them will be at the recently recaptured Qayyarah airbase, which will be the staging area for the assault.
Reports that IS forces are abandoning Hawija, a city in Kirkuk province.
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Sunday, July 10, 2016
Update for Sunday, July 10, 2016
Iraq Interior Minister Interior Minister Mohammed al-Ghabban's resignation is accepted by PM Abadi on Friday, following bombings in Baghdad and the shrine of Imam al-Sayed Mohammed bin Ali in Balad. Abadi also fires Baghdad Operations commander Abdul Amir al-Shammari, and other officials.
The Balad attack killed 50 people.
Asharq al Awsat provides the interesting insight into Iraqi politics that Abadi requires the approval of the Badr organization to appoint a successor to Ghabban. (The Badr organization is a Shiite political party that succeeds the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a militia sponsored by Iran. The former Badr brigade, it's military arm, is now part of the "popular mobilization" Shiite militias that fight alongside the Iraqi army.)
Iraq says it has captured the Qayara air base, a step in the campaign to recapture Mosul.
An Israeli diplomat in the U.S. says that Israel would recognize independent Kurdistan.
Tony Blair continues to face serious repercussions over the Chilcot report, although oddly George W. Bush does not. In fact the report has been largely ignored in the U.S., although it is just as much about the U.S. as it is about the U.K. Former Deputy PM John Prescott says the war was illegal and that Blair deceived him and the rest of the cabinet.
Sarah Helm, the wife of Blair's chief of staff, claims to have overheard the following phone call between Bush and Blair two weeks before the invasion, as reported by the tabloid Daily Mail. I leave it to the reader to decide on the veracity of this, but it's certainly amusing. "Cojones" is Spanish slang for testicles.
Blair may face a vote of Contempt of Parliament.Bush: Hello, hello.Blair: Hi, how are you?Bush: I'm fine. Fine. But, hey, most important, how are you… you're being so courageous. Really, really brave. Your body language. Truly. I watched you on TV. Terrific. Real leadership will be remembered. Believe me.Blair: Yeah, well. It's hard sometimes. Believe me. But you're doing pretty well yourself.Bush: What me? I'm just ready to kick ass.(Blair laughs nervously, then says French President Jacques Chirac is 'causing trouble' over Blair's hopes of a second UN resolution backing war.)Bush: Yeah, but what did the French ever do for anyone? What wars did they win since the French Revolution?Blair: Yeah, right. Right.(More jokes about the French. Blair tries again.)Blair: So, er… where do we go from here?Bush: I'd like to do the second [UN] resolution Friday. We need closure… call in the chips with Chile, the Mexicans… close it down.(Pause. Sound of breathing. Bush says new intelligence suggests Saddam is about to 'offload' weapons of mass destruction (WMD).)Blair: Yeah. Well, er, let me explain how we see it… I want to take the Europeans with me so Friday might be a little early…(Long silence. They deride Hans Blix, the UN weapons inspector who had not found any WMD and wanted war delayed. Bush mocks 'that no count' Blix.)Bush: And you know what? We could put a bug in on this and make sure Chirac gets to hear it. When that son of a bitch [Saddam] hits Europe, they'll be saying: 'Where were George and Tony?'(Laughter.)Blair: We've got to make people understand we aren't going to war because we want to but because there is no alternative.Bush: Yeah. I've got a big speech coming up tomorrow so I'll put some words in on that… but I have to do something about my body language. Your body language is great. How do you do it?Blair: Yeah.(Blair's attempt to get through to Bush on the timing of the new resolution, and hence the war, has failed. He knows it. Before he hangs up, Bush tries to bolster Blair.)Bush: Y'know, Tony, the American people will never forget what you're doing. People say to me, you know, is Prime Minister Blair really with you all the way? Do you have faith in him? And I say yes, because I recognise leadership when I see it. And true courage. He won't let us down.Blair (laughing): Well, it might be my epitaph.Bush (laughing): Like, RIP here lies a man of courage, you mean?Blair (nervously): Yeah, right.(Blair pleads with Bush for 'words' on a possible Israel-Palestine peace deal but an impatient Bush wants to go.)Bush: I've got to hop off to Texas. Hang on in there. And – cojones.
UNICEF says more than half a million Iraqi children are working rather than in school due to displacement and economic desperation.
Regarding Afghanistan, following the NATO summit in Poland NATO commits to funding Afghan security through 2020. Canada pledges $440 million in military and civilian aid. The UK commits to keeping 450 troops in the country through 2017. South Korea, which had observer status at the summit, pledges $135 million. Note that Afghanistan is completely dependent on foreign support for its military.
U.S. drone attack said to kill 16 mililtants in Nangarhar. Separate attack attributed to NATO, but probably meaning U.S., kills 5 in Kunar.
U.S. General John Nicholson says Afghan forces are suffering rising casualties due to Taliban attacks on fixed positions.
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Thursday, July 7, 2016
Update for Thursday, July 7, 2016
Death toll in the Karada bombing reaches 281. I'm still waiting for the candle-light vigils in western cities. The corporate media in the U.S. has already forgotten about this completely. (As the linked story reports, there was indeed a candle-light vigil in Kurdistan.)
A couple of takes on Chilcot, from Zack Beauchamp and Tom Switzer. Switzer asks, "So will the British Establishment learn the lessons of its failures and hold to account Blair and others responsible for the debacle? As Oborne warns here today, if the Chilcot report does not achieve this, then the British system of government is in serious trouble." Well, I have the same question about the U.S. The Chilcot report in fact indicts George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld even more powerfully than it indicts Blair. He does indeed appear in the report as Bush's poodle, and is following the U.S. lead the whole way. He was just a ventriloquist dummy for the lies of the Bush administration. But the report is being portrayed in the U.S. corporate media as being all about Britain, with no particular relevance to the United States. Astonishing.
While U.S. jets were bombing IS troops fleeing Fallujah, they were called away from providing air support to New Syrian Army troops in a battle at Al-Bukamal, leading to a defeat and the apparent capture of weapons by IS.
Obama has abandoned plans to reduce U.S. troop level in Afghanistan to 5,000, and now says 8,400 will remain when he leaves office.
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Game cards trigger memories, stories in 'Lotería'
In an institutional room in California, the aptly named Luz ("light") tries to make sense of the trauma and tragedy that has befallen her family. She has only a journal, the presumed attention of You, the God or higher power she addresses, and a deck of Lotería cards.
In "Lotería: A Novel," debut novelist Mario Alberto Zambrano makes the cards, used in a Mexican game as the visual counterpart of the numbers in bingo, serve as writing prompts. They're not instruments of divination like tarot cards, but, like the tarot deck, the simple, traditional design of the Lotería cards gives them a touch of the archetypal. (Large images of the cards begin each of his novel's short chapters.)
Nearly every card she turns up brings a memory to mind for Luz, but that's not surprising, since her Castillo family played the game with the Silvas nearly every Sunday after church. "La Escalera" ("The Ladder") prompts a story of Luz spying on Papi, who's gone off the wagon, and is furtively drinking Don Pedro in the garage. With "El Diablito" ("The Little Devil"), she remembers a mean prank she played on her otherwise beloved Aunt Tencha.
"La Estrella" ("The Star"), the pivotal chapter, focuses on Luz's older sister Estrella. Light-skinned, pretty and girly, Estrella makes teachers at school wonder if she is Spanish, not Mexican. This makes the darker-skinned Luz burn: Luz is the only one actually born in the United States. Estrella takes after Mom; Luz identifies with Papi ("I wanted to be the mini version of him"). The girls squabble but love each other, and hold each other for comfort while their parents engage in angry, furniture-hurling, bruise-leaving fights. No one in this family escapes Papi's violent wrath. But Luz, her father's daughter, does not condemn him out of hand. Late in her recollections, she remembers watching Papi, in a fit of remorse after slapping Estrella hard enough to knock her out, punishing himself:
"But I kept quiet and watched the whole thing, flinching every time he hit his hand against the wall. Once he was done, I went to the freezer and took out a bag of frozen shrimp so he could ice his hand. It was all purple and swollen. I grabbed a kitchen towel and rinsed it with warm water and cleaned the blood from his hand and from the wall. He didn't say or do anything but keep his head down, embarrassed. 'Cabezón,' I said. 'Eres muy cabezón, Papi.' ('Pigheaded. You are very pigheaded.')
"That night I figured he fought us not because he didn't love us but because he believed in right and wrong."
Both Mom and the State of California don't necessarily see Papi's actions in the same light that Luz does, which leads to significant complications.
It doesn't hurt to know a little Spanish, including some familiar curse words, to read "Lotería," but it isn't mandatory. In fact, feeling a bit dislocated or between cultures puts a reader in position to be more empathetic with the Castillos. Papi, a steelworker, doesn't get the promotion he's seeking. Is it because his English isn't good enough?
While Luz looks unmistakenly Mexican, this American-born chica doesn't have as solid a grasp on Mexican culture or the Spanish language as the rest of her family. In "El Arpa" ("The Harp"), a section that should warm the heart of any beginning Spanish student, Luz complains about the difficulties of mastering which words take the masculine article el and which take the feminine article la: "How am I supposed to know what is woman and what is man simply by the arrangement of letters?"
Each Lotería card is associated with a traditional riddle the caller cries out during play; sometimes a witty caller improvises new ones relevant to the players. Luz uses the cards to work through the riddles thrown at her: Is it better to live in the U.S. or in Mexico? How can love and violence be present in the same family?
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