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Ryan Reilly has liberated a list — such as DOJ would release — of the OLC opinions written under Obama. As he notes, DOJ has refused to even give him a list, much the number, of the classified OLC memos.
What's more interesting is what wasn't included: The office stated that it was withholding, in full, 11 lists of classified OLC opinions. Because the length of each list is unknown, it's unclear how many classified opinions the OLC has issued during the Obama administration.
And it has redacted a ton of the names of unclassified opinions, citing deliberative privilege.
The titles of many OLC opinions were fully redacted in the lists provided, with a Justice Department official writing that the titles were "protected by the deliberative process, attorney-client, and/or attorney work-product privileges." The names of the lawyers who wrote a number of opinions — including the memo on the president's use of recess appointments during the Senate's pro forma sessions — were also blacked out because their disclosure would "constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy," the official wrote.
Some of the memos mentioned in the list have already been disclosed online by the OLC.
He also notes one memo the existence of which has already been revealed doesn't appear on the list.
The Justice Department even redacted the title of the opinion on whether the president could unilaterally ignore the debt ceiling limit, though the existence of that memo was disclosed in response to a FOIA request from Talking Points Memo in 2011.
There's in fact at least one other known OLC opinion that doesn't show up on the list: a January 8, 2010 memo on whether the Electronics Communication Privacy Act would prevent telecoms from willingly turning over international communications to the government. It was first revealed in a January 2010 DOJ IG Report on Exigent Letters (see this post for background).
On January 8, 2010, the OLC issued its opinion, concluding that the ECPA "would not forbid electronic communications service providers [three lines redacted]281 In short, the OLC agreed with the FBI that under certain circumstances [~2 words redacted] allows the FBI to ask for and obtain these records on a voluntary basis from the providers, without legal process or a qualifying emergency.
In February 2011, McClatchy's Marisa Taylor received a FOIA denial for the memo, although in denying her request DOJ revealed that this was the section of the law the memo discussed.
(f) Nothing contained in this chapter or chapter 121 or 206 of this title, or section 705 of the Communications Act of 1934, shall be deemed to affect the acquisition by the United States Government of foreign intelligence information from international or foreign communications, or foreign intelligence activities conducted in accordance with otherwise applicable Federal law involving a foreign electronic communications system, utilizing a means other than electronic surveillance as defined in section 101 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and procedures in this chapter or chapter 121 and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 shall be the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance, as defined in section 101 of such Act, and the interception of domestic wire, oral, and electronic communications may be conducted.
Effectively, DOJ has already made clear that the memo says it can get international communications with no legal process.
But it didn't release the name of the memo to Reilly.
There are two explanations for that. It has redacted the names of many OLC opinions under deliberative process, which it often argues means that it did not rely on the memo and therefore it did not influence the Executive's final decision. That's probably what happened with the debt ceiling memo; we know Obama hasn't unilaterally raised the debt ceiling, meaning he hasn't relied on the memo, so even though it has confirmed the memo exists, DOJ is hiding the memo because the Administration didn't ultimately rely on it.
It may have redacted the title of the ECPA decision for the same reason. In the IG Report, at least, FBI claimed it would not rely on the opinion (no doubt meaning it would get all our communications via some other means).
Alternately, it could be considering this memo, which has been discussed at length, classified. Stranger things have happened with this Administration.
Update: Just checked, and via email at the time, Taylor said this is what DOJ told her:
The cover letter dated Feb. 8, 2011 to McClatchy said the OLC memo was protected by the "deliberative process privilege" under Exception Five. The letter also said the memo is "classified" and therefore "exempt pursuant to Exemption One, 5 USC 552 (b)(1)." The letter goes on to describe the memo as "a January 8, 2010 OLC memorandum analyzing the authority of the FBI under Section 2511 (2)(F) of the Stored Communications Act, 18 USC 2511 (2)(f)."
So they're at least claiming a b5, and possibly claiming that its very name remains classified, in spite of repeated references to it in unclassified form.
In any case, the refusal to release even the name of memos that we know exist sure boosts the Administration's claim to be the most transparent ever!
They came for the 4th Amendment, but it was necessary for the war on drugs. They came for the 5th Amendment, but due process had to be sacrificed for the war on terror. They came for the 6th Amendment, but confrontation had to succumb to classification and secrecy. They came for the War Powers Act because Libya was "required to be protected". Now they are coming for one of the most fundamental of Constitutional checks and balances, the Congressional prerogative of the purse.
Who are "they"? They are, of course, the ubiquitous Article II Executive Branch. And they have a never ending thirst for usurping power, all in the name of efficacy. It is always necessary, it is always an emergency, there is always a reason, for them to take the power. They are the Daddy Branch, and it is always best to trust them. So they say.
Back when "they" were the Bush/Cheney regime, liberals, progressives, and Democrats in general, had a seriously dim view of accumulation and usurpation of power in a unitary Executive. When Dick Cheney, David Addington and John Yoo contorted existing law, gave it application never intended, and manufactured legal and governmental gimmickry to accomplish stunningly naked Executive power grabs, those on the left, especially the blogosphere, screamed bloody murder. Well, that is precisely what is afoot here with the Mint the Coin! push.
Where is that principled set of voices on the left now? Things are different when it is your guy in office I guess. Because the active liberal/progressive left I see out there is currently screaming to "Mint the Coin!" doesn't seem to realize they are calling for the same type of sham rule of law that John Yoo engaged in.. This is most curious, because "Minting the Coin!" contemplates a naked power grab by the Executive Branch of historic proportions. It is a wholesale taking of the Congressional purse prerogative under the Constitution. But, hey, its an "emergency". Of course. It always is when the Article II Executive Branch comes to feed in the name of efficacy.
What is the value of Separation of Powers, and constriction of Constitutionally assigned powers to the branch to which they were assigned, and what is the value in insuring that an imperial Executive Branch does not usurp too many powers? Let James Madison, in Federalist No. 47 explain:
No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the federal Constitution, therefore, really chargeable with the accumulation of power, or with a mixture of powers, having a dangerous tendency to such an accumulation, no further arguments would be necessary to inspire a universal reprobation of the system. I persuade myself, however, that it will be made apparent to every one, that the charge cannot be supported, and that the maxim on which it relies has been totally misconceived and misapplied. In order to form correct ideas on this important subject, it will be proper to investigate the sense in which the preservation of liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate and distinct.
The constitution of Massachusetts has observed a sufficient though less pointed caution, in expressing this fundamental article of liberty. It declares "that the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them; the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them; the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them. " This declaration corresponds precisely with the doctrine of Montesquieu, as it has been explained, and is not in a single point violated by the plan of the convention. It goes no farther than to prohibit any one of the entire departments from exercising the powers of another department (Publius, Federalist 47).
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I write about our dying empire just about every day in my links posts. But given the debt limit debate and Friday's S&P downgrade, I wanted to look at four pieces that examine where we are more closely (note, all of these are well worth reading in full–do click through to read them).
There are two issues to grapple with: first, with the undeniable evidence that our government has become a clusterfuck, we have become incapable of taking obvious steps–like taking the profit motive out of our health care system or taxing the wealthy that just got a giant government bailout–that we need for the well-being of the country. At this level, S&P's downgrade makes sense.
But then there's the question of why we let a thoroughly discredited entity like the S&P be the one to dictate whether we merit our world leadership position or not. That's not just a question of letting one of the agencies that created the bubble retain any position of authority in the world afterwards (though, again, the fact we left the rating agencies in place after the crash is another sign our governance has failed), but also why a nation-state would let a corrupted entity like S&P do so in the first place.
Therein lies the paradox here: the downgrade is at once a real measure of the collapse of our governance, one of the best symptoms of it, and a key piece of evidence of why our governance is failing. So what's going on?
This column at Spiegel Online looks on this as a problem of culture. It argues the US has left "the West."
America has changed. It has drifted away from the West.
The country's social disintegration is breathtaking. Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz recently described the phenomenon. The richest 1 percent of Americans claim one-quarter of the country's total income for themselves — 25 years ago that figure was 12 percent. It also possesses 40 percent of total wealth, up from 33 percent 25 years ago. Stiglitz claims that in many countries in the so-called Third World, the income gap between the poor and rich has been reduced. In the United States, it has grown.
Economist Paul Krugman, also a Nobel laureate, has written that America's path is leading it down the road to "banana-republic status." The social cynicism and societal indifference once associated primarily with the Third World has now become an American hallmark. This accelerates social decay because the greater the disparity grows, the less likely the rich will be willing to contribute to the common good. When a company like Apple, which with €76 billion in the bank has greater reserves at its disposal than the government in Washington, a European can only shake his head over the Republican resistance to tax increases. We see it as self-destructive.
The same applies to America's broken political culture. The name "United States" seems increasingly less appropriate. Something has become routine in American political culture that has been absent in Germany since Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik policies of rapprochement with East Germany and the Soviet Bloc (in the 1960s and '70s): hate. At the same time, reason has been replaced by delusion. The notion of tax cuts has taken on a cult-like status, and the limited role of the state a leading ideology.
Now, it is true that America's political culture has been hijacked, and that those who have hijacked it used hatred as a way to convince others to act against self-interest. But that's what (perhaps) distinguishes us from Europe; that's what explains why we, a country with our own currency, can be in as dire a situation as Europe with its common currency. Moreover, I'm skeptical whether, mere weeks after the terrorist attack in Norway, Europe should really be lecturing the US about hate.
Craig Murray looks elsewhere–at the military we feed at the expense of feeding our own people. Continue reading
As about everyone knows by now, the great debate is still ongoing on the issue of the debt ceiling. The frustration of those on the left with the intransigence of the Republican Tea Party, coupled with the neutered Democratic Congress, has led many to call for President Obama to immediately "invoke the 14th". The common rallying cry is that legal scholars (usually Jack Balkin is cited), Paul Krugman and various members of Congress have said it is the way to go. But neither Krugman nor the criers in Congress are lawyers, or to the extent they are have no Constitutional background. And Balkin's discussion is relentlessly misrepresented as to what he really has said. "Using the 14th" is a bad meme and here is why.
The Founders, in creating and nurturing our system of governance by and through the Constitution provided separate and distinct branches of government, the Legislative, Executive and Judicial and, further, provided for intentional, established and delineated checks and balances so that power was balanced and not able to be usurped by any one branch tyrannically against the interest of the citizenry. It is summarized by James Madison in Federalist 51 thusly:
First. In a single republic, all the power surrendered by the people is submitted to the administration of a single government; and the usurpations are guarded against by a division of the government into distinct and separate departments.
We see it particularly displayed in all the subordinate distributions of power, where the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other — that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights. These inventions of prudence cannot be less requisite in the distribution of the supreme powers of the State.
which must be read in conjunction with Madison in Federalist 47:
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
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My biggest complain about this statement from Raúl Grijalva is that he doesn't say who threw Democrats and the people they champion under the bus: President Obama.
That said, his comments about the crossroads facing the Democratic Party are spot on.
This deal trades peoples' livelihoods for the votes of a few unappeasable right-wing radicals, and I will not support it. Progressives have been organizing for months to oppose any scheme that cuts Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security, and it now seems clear that even these bedrock pillars of the American success story are on the chopping block. Even if this deal were not as bad as it is, this would be enough for me to fight against its passage.
This deal does not even attempt to strike a balance between more cuts for the working people of America and a fairer contribution from millionaires and corporations. The very wealthy will continue to receive taxpayer handouts, and corporations will keep their expensive federal giveaways. Meanwhile, millions of families unfairly lose more in this deal than they have already lost. I will not be a part of it.
Republicans have succeeded in imposing their vision of a country without real economic hope. Their message has no public appeal, and Democrats have had every opportunity to stand firm in the face of their irrational demands. Progressives have been rallying support for the successful government programs that have meant health and economic security to generations of our people. Today we, and everyone we have worked to speak for and fight for, were thrown under the bus. We have made our bottom line clear for months: a final deal must strike a balance between cuts and revenue, and must not put all the burden on the working people of this country. This deal fails those tests and many more.
The Democratic Party, no less than the Republican Party, is at a very serious crossroads at this moment. For decades Democrats have stood for a capable, meaningful government – a government that works for the people, not just the powerful, and that represents everyone fairly and equally. This deal weakens the Democratic Party as badly as it weakens the country. We have given much and received nothing in return. The lesson today is that Republicans can hold their breath long enough to get what they want. While I believe the country will not reward them for this in the long run, the damage has already been done.
A clean debt ceiling vote was the obvious way out of this, and many House Democrats have been saying so. Had that vote failed, the president should have exercised his Fourteenth Amendment responsibilities and ended this manufactured crisis.
This deal is a cure as bad as the disease. I reject it, and the American people reject it. The only thing left to do now is repair the damage as soon as possible. [my emphasis]
Kudos to Ezra for admitting he was dead wrong last year when imagining the Republicans might allow a deal that would let Bush tax cuts lapse.
A year ago, I was less concerned about the Bush tax cuts. I assumed, as did many in Washington, that the Republicans' antipathy to taxes was a negotiating stance. Eventually, we would strike a "grand bargain" that would reduce spending and raise revenue substantially. The past few months have proved me wrong.
But having recognized that the Republicans will not let those tax cuts expire, Ezra then imagines (apparently in an effort to spin this debt deal as less than catastrophic) that they will let the tax cuts expire in December 2012.
Democrats will have their turn. On Dec. 31, 2012, three weeks before the end of President Barack Obama's current term in office, the Bush tax cuts expire. Income tax rates will return to their Clinton-era levels. That amounts to a $3.6 trillion tax increase over 10 years, three or four times the $800 billion to $1.2 trillion in revenue increases that Obama and Speaker John Boehner were kicking around. And all Democrats need to do to secure that deal is…nothing.
This scenario is the inverse of the current debt-ceiling debate, in which inaction will lead to an outcome — a government default — that Democrats can't stomach and Republicans think they can. There is only one thing that could stand in the way of Democrats passing significant new revenues on the last day of 2012: the Obama administration.
Of course, the entire premise assumes that the tax cuts won't already have been extended by then.
In a couple of months, after all, we're going to see the next hostage crisis as Congress debates a continuing resolution to fund the government. There'll be another one in 2012. And I'm sure the GOP will find another several opportunities to stage a hostage crisis.
And why not? Obama has proven, over and over, that he will not take on the hostage-takers. Instead, with every hostage-taking, he just hands over one more thing for the Republicans to take hostage. The Republicans are perfecting a strategy that gives them complete control of a government while controlling just one of two houses of Congress. And each time they stage a hostage taking, Democrats allow outcomes that make the economy worse, all in the name of saving the economy.
But even without another hostage-taking, Ezra's take assumes that Obama would let the tax cuts expire, even while he admits that the Administration doesn't want that to happen.
The White House's strategy in the debt-ceiling negotiations has reflected its ambivalence, with Obama trying to extract either as much revenue as Republicans would allow or as little as Democrats would accept. Obama even offered Boehner a deal in which the Bush tax cuts would be extended right now, so Republicans wouldn't have to fear a subsequent negotiation in which they lacked leverage. Boehner rejected that deal and, in doing, might have saved the safety net.
But the Obama administration doesn't want to take its second chance. They argue that the economy will still be recovering in 2013, and so it's not an ideal time for a large tax increase. True. But what happens in 2012 is not simply setting tax policy for 2013. It's setting tax policy for decades to come.
Frankly, I agree with Ezra, that if these tax cuts don't expire–if we don't start making the rich pay their share to support this country–our country is sunk. I agree that we need to pressure the White House to get serious about revenue.
But think about how the Obama Administration is using this tax cut. He talked about it during the election, he has talked about it repeatedly since then. Yet every single time Obama has an opportunity to do something about it, he manages to cave.
It is serving the same function as abortion does for the Republicans: the promised policy used to get people to vote, even while delivering on that promise always remains in the future.
The problem is, as important as abortion is, having or not having choice won't collapse the country. Obama's refusal to do anything to tax the rich will.
KagroX, who just got named one of Politico's top tweeters yesterday, just asked this question:
Has there ever been a populist movement cheering for default & austerity?
We've seen default situations around the world, and austerity programs imposed as a result. But popular political movements in FAVOR of it?
I replied,
Wrong to describe as populist movement calling for austerity. I think it's partially populist partially astroturf calling for chaos.
Take a look, for example, at who Yochi Dreazen claims is riding herd on the TeaParty ideology at the moment.
Addington has taken on a new role as enforcer of tea party dogma during the intensifying partisan bickering over the debt ceiling. From his perch as the Heritage Foundation's vice president for domestic and economic policy, Addington is throwing verbal thunderbolts at House Speaker John Boehner's current debt-ceiling proposal, which he argues will pave the way to tax increases.
The merits of Addington's arguments about the need to oppose Boehner's proposals are in some ways less interesting than the simple fact that Addington is the one publicly making them.
And while I'm sympathetic with those who express horror that our torture architect is now whipping the pro-default vote, I think it worth looking more closely at what Addington said to whip the vote.
This man, after all, championed two unfunded wars. In fact, as he and his boss were putting the final touches on the lies that would justify the second, illegal war, his boss overrode the Treasury Secretary's fiscal concerns about one of several tax cuts, stating, "Reagan proved deficits don't matter." And that guy–one of the guys involved in blowing up the deficit with wars and tax cuts–had this to say:
The government has racked up $14.294 trillion in debt — thought of by no-one as a little credit card debt. The spend-tax-and-borrow crowd, currently headed by President Obama, has been in charge in Washington too long. They have mortgaged the futures of our children and grandchildren. Our government is so deep in debt that the share of debt of a baby born today is $45,000.
It is time for the spend-tax-and-borrow crowd to stop. As the President indicated, conservatives want deep spending cuts. In contrast, President Obama wants more taxes, a terrible idea. First, the government already takes too much money from the pockets of Americans in taxes. Second, if Americans give the government more money in taxes, the government will just find ways to spend it, rather than using it to pay off the public debt. Third, raising taxes reduces investment, which cuts economic growth and kills jobs.
So the Heritage Foundation, which of course first invented the legislation–health care reform–that ultimately set off the TeaParty, pays the guy who said, "We're one bomb away from getting rid of that obnoxious [FISA] court," the guy who wielded his pocket Constitution like a sword as he did battle to shred it, to attack those who "spend-tax-and-borrow," ignoring all the time that the folks who have been in Washington too long are those who "spend-cut-and-borrow." Addington's own people.
Meanwhile, the grassroots part of this? They mustered about 50 people for a rally in DC yesterday, one which many of the TeaParty members of Congress attended. And yet as a desperate John Boehner tried to wield what weapons he had to win votes (the TeaPartiers already led him to get rid of the all-important pork he might have used to persuade the TeaPartiers, and Boehner seems to have given up his former ways of distributing checks on the floor of Congress as bribes), one after another TeaPartier refused to budge, even in the absence of any remaining grassroots movement.
In other words, the TeaParty grassroots movement that used to exist is just the excuse, at this point, for those trying to finish the job they started in 2001 redefining our government.
With the chaos that default will cause, think how much easier it will be to convince voters they need a unitary executive?
Indicative of the praise is this tweet from Keith Olbermann:
You know my criticisms of this POTUS. In this news conference he has been absolutely effing kickass, and properly pissed off.
David Corn of Mother Jones tweeted:
O was as passionate and as close to angry as he gets. #debtageddon
And Corn is now on Lawrence O'Donnell's show on MSNBC, where Lawrence the "Eleventy Dimensional Chess Scold" himself just said of Obama's presser:
"It was a brilliantly effective appearance for his reelection."
And there is the problem isn't it? Obama really was, and is, worried more about his reelection than he is the welfare of the country and the entirety of its citizens who are not members of his cherished moneyed elite and financial sector magnates.
The details seemed to ebb and flow over the last few days, but this from Bloomberg sums up the basics of what Obama was willing to pull the trigger on:
Two congressional officials said the White House told Democratic leaders it was pursuing a deal to cut spending, including on Social Security and Medicare, and a tax overhaul that could raise $1 trillion. That provoked an angry reaction yesterday from Senate Democrats, who said they feared they might be asked to swallow steep reductions in programs and trims to entitlement benefits with no assurance of higher tax revenue.
Right. What Obama was caterwauling about being "left at the altar" was his willingness, nee burning desire, to make huge cuts in spending and social safety net programs, in return for the possibility of a tax reform later.
And, make no mistake, Mr. Obama is absolutely desperate to make that deal in order to get the debt ceiling issue off the table until sometime after his reelection campaign. His "Grand Bargain" is shit for the economy, shit for almost all Americans safety net now and in the future; it is only good for the howling idiots in the Tea Party sphere and, of course, the reelection campaign of Barack Obama.
So THAT is what was "left at the altar", and why Barack Obama was suddenly so apoplectically passionate about it. And, yes, it must be stated Boehner, Cantor and the Tea GOP are even more craven and lame than Obama here, but that is pretty weak tea to hang your hat on if you are a sentient being. And that, folks, was the way it was on the day the debt ceiling fell to the floor.
But, fear not trepidatious Americans, Mr. Obama is going to try to save your future and his "grand bargain" again tomorrow! Gee, what dedication.
UPDATE: Paul Krugman understands the ugly truth here, having issued an article today entitled "What Obama Was Willing To Give Away". Exactly.
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WGST 073 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
This course introduces some key concepts and methodologies in the interdisciplinary field of Women's and Gender Studies. We seek to define the differences between biological sex and gender and to examine the ways in which individual and group identities and life experiences are shaped by gender. We also consider the ways in which gender interrelates with other social factors such as race, class and (dis)ability. The course entails a variety of disciplinary approaches to feminist scholarship, including readings from history, sociology, economics, cultural studies, and literature. No prerequisites. Offered spring and fall.
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Three Stonewall Jackson Middle School students grabbed the attention of NASA. It's just one of four schools in the country asked to join in on a panel with NASA scientists.
The group was selected by the organization after participating in the STEM Challenge. The kids had to design challenges for astronauts and were judged on how well they did.They say the challenge that they had to showcase in detail, took weeks.
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Fixing Florida's Sinkholes, Hiring an Undocumented Programmer, Phony Yelp Reviews: August 14
What do you do when pavement in front of your house sinks into the ground? Call a sinkhole remediation expert such as LRE Ground Services Repair, writes Daniel Gross. [Daily Beast]
Jose Pagliery describes Poptip founder Kelsey Falter's 15-month effort to hire an undocumented immigrant as a programmer. [CNN Money]
California legislators tabled a bill the would govern the ways franchisers and franchisees negotiate. Don Sniegowski reports that the bill faced opposition from big franchisers. [Blue MauMau]
Yelp faces an uphill task as its attempts to rid itself of phony reviews, writes Joshua Brustein. [Bloomberg Businessweek]
Grouper Chief Executive Michael Waxman tells Kate Rogers about his company's group dating service (video). [Fox Business]
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* Appeared in 23 matches making four starts for the Seminoles during her junior season.
* Tallied over 700 minutes on the pitch playing a season-high 65 minutes against NC State.
* Earned starts against Oregon State, Oklahoma, NC State and Miami...the start against the Beavers came in the season opener.
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* Collected back-to-back starts for the first time in her career in the NCAA Tournament starting against Mississippi Valley State and Texas Tech in the first two rounds...played over 260 minutes in the postseason tournament...saw action against Penn State in the national semifinal in San Diego.
* Appeared in 20 games during her first year at Florida State.
* Tallied two points on the year with both coming on assists...assisted on goals in back-to-back ACC games against NC State and Virginia.
* Assisted on the eventual game-winning goal finding Ines Jaurena in the first half of a 2-0 victory over NC State...marked her first career collegiate point and assist.
* Found Tiffany McCarty for a goal in the waning minutes of the first half to tie the match going into the locker room at Virginia.
* Registered her first career shot on the road at Portland...tallied seven shots on the year with one going on goal at Clemson.
* Played a season-high 46 minutes against North Florida...tallied over 20 minutes a contest eight times in 2011.
* Saw action in both the ACC Tournament semifinal match against Virginia and the championship game against Wake Forest.
* Came up big for the Seminoles in the ACC Championship game against Wake Forest...led the team off in the penalty kick shootout converting on FSU's first attempt en route to claiming their first league title.
* Appeared in four NCAA Tournament matches including the national semifinal game against Stanford at KSU Stadium in Kennesaw, Ga.
* Member of the JFA Fukushima.
* Participated in the JFA National Tournament, representing all age, for three years from 2008-10.
* Daughter of Toshio and Aiko Murakami.
* Majoring in social science.


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I used to love this restaurant as it always provide fabulous food at a decent price despite the dogdy atmosphere and brusque service however I think they've got a little too big for their boots of late. Great food can't make up for poor and extremely rude service. The last three times I've been here I've been more than disappointed with the service, enough to say I wouldn't bother going again. These guys are in the Entertainment Book but require you to provide your voucher to them prior to eating - considering most restaurants only require it before the bill is tallied this makes me believe that either poor quality or less food is being provided, why else do they need to know before the food comes out? In months gone by you could get away with providing the voucher before the bill came out, once I even provided it to them after they given me the bill - they took the $70 bill away, brought it back crudely changed in handwriting to an $80 bill with the discount off that. too cheeky! If you're not interested in providing a discount don't particpate in the scheme! Quiet Waters along the same street provides similar food for around the same prices with much better service and way better atmosphere. Jerusalem is off my list of favourites, that's for sure!
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Politics can be rough — and fast! Check out what Club for Growth is circulating in the media about Congresswoman Shelly Moore Capito who just yesterday said she would announce today!
Is Shelly Moore Capito the "right" kind of Republican U.S. Senate Candidate?
The GOP Establishment says "Yes", but Recent History says "No"
Club for Growth President Chris Chocola: "The problem is that Congresswoman Capito's record looks a whole lot like the establishment candidates who lost this year."
Washington, DC – Today, Club for Growth PAC President Chris Chocola issued the following statement on news that Republican Congresswoman Shelly Moore Capito is running for the U.S. Senate in West Virginia:
"This year, the Republican establishment cheered the U.S. Senate candidacies of Congressmen Denny Rehberg and Rick Berg and former Congresswoman Heather Wilson. All three had the 'right' resumes, and all three had no 'divisive' primaries. Yet all three lost in races that were thought to be winnable," said Club for Growth President Chris Chocola. "These three supposedly 'electable' Republican candidates also had something else in common: consistent support for bailouts, debt increases, earmarks, and massive expansions of big-government spending programs."
"Today, along comes Rep. Shelly Moore Capito. Her candidacy will undoubtedly be cheered by the GOP establishment, and dire warnings will be issued against any 'divisive' primary challenges, lest other candidates hurt Capito's chances of winning," continued Chocola. "The problem is that Congresswoman Capito's record looks a whole lot like the establishment candidates who lost this year. Congresswoman Capito has a long record of support of bailouts, pork, and bigger government. She voted to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for massive expansions of government-run health insurance, giveaways to big labor, and repeatedly voted to continue funding for wasteful earmarks like an Exploratorium in San Francisco and an Aquarium in South Carolina. That's not the formula for GOP success in U.S. Senate races."
"The way back for the Republican Party is the way of Jeff Flake, Ted Cruz, Pat Toomey, Marco Rubio, Ron Johnson, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee. All were supported by the Club for Growth PAC and grassroots Republicans. All are consistent supporters of limited government principles. All were winners because they could clearly articulate the pro-growth economic message. They are the future of the Republican Party," concluded Chocola.
Congresswoman Shelly Moore Capito's Anti-Growth Record Includes:
· Has never voted for a conservative Republican Study Committee Budget (RCV #68, 2001; RCV #79, 2003, RCV #90, 2004; RCV #83, 2005; RCV #156, 2006; RCV #211, 2007; RCV #140, 2008; RCV #189, 2009, RCV #275, 2011)
· Voted for SCHIP, the massive expansion of government-run health insurance five times, including once in 2007 when she was one of just five Republicans to do so. (RCV #787, 2007; RCV #906, 2007; RCV #1009, 2007; RCV #16, 2009; RCV #50, 2009)
· Voted for "Cash for Clunkers" (RCV #314, 2009; RCV #682, 2009)
· Voted for the $300 billion bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (RCV #519, 2008)
· Voted for the Auto Bailout (RCV #690, 2008)
· Voted for No Child Left Behind (RCV #497, 2001)
· Voted for the August 2011 deal that raised the debt limit by trillions of dollars (RCV #690, 2011)
· Repeatedly voted against blocking "Davis-Bacon" wage requirements (RCV #488, 2007; RCV #807, 2007; RCV #15, 2008; RCV #561, 2008; RCV #122, 2009; RCV #144, 2011; RCV #395, 2011; RCV #414, 2011; RCV #585, 2011)
· Repeatedly voted for wasteful earmark spending like the Bronx Council for the Arts (RCV #335, 2006), an American Ballet Theatre (RCV #668, 2007), an Exploratorium in San Francisco (RCV #664, 2007), an Aquarium in South Carolina (RCV #669, 2007), and Grape genetics research (RCV #810, 2007)
· Voted for McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform (RCV #34, 2002)
The Club for Growth is the nation's leading group promoting economic freedom through legislative involvement, issue advocacy, research, and education.
The Club's website can be found at http://www.clubforgrowth.org/


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With Joy Behar leaving ABC's daytime talk show "The View" after 16 years this May — the biggest cast departure since Meredith Vieira ankled in 2006, unless you count Rosie O, which I certainly do — it is now time to officially shake out the dust.
Put some life into this kaffeeklatsch!
Of course, I have suggestions who to replace her with. You'll have to decide how facetious they are, but there is gold in this list, mark my words. Also, you're going to need replacements sooner or later. After all, Barbara Walters could get sick again (I'm wondering if she ever had the mumps as a child). There are rumors — by the way, there always are rumors; this is TV — that one or another cast member may also be announcing shortly that they, too, must "finish that play they've been writing …" (I wonder what Joy's play is about, BTW?).
It won't be the person you may have heard is leaving. More on that later.
In the meantime, here is the list:
• Ann Curry – I start off with one of the softer possibilities. Ann needs work, wants out of NBC, needs a public forum to tell wonderfully gossipy-and just-short-of-libelous stories about Matt Lauer.
• Roseanne Barr – Come on, admit it. You thought of this too. She would make "The View" insanely, compulsively watchable; just keep that 7-second delay handy, Bill.
• Sarah Silverman –Would shred the polite veneer with a visceral, venal, voracious joie de vivre. Oh, how Silverman would be the best "get" ever. Of course, all of the other hosts would quit.
• Tina Fey – Doesn't know how to write. Can't act. Bad at hosting awards shows. Out of work. Will never get a film starring role again. TV is done after that hugely disappointing run at "30 Rock." The poor woman must be good at something, right? That's where "The View" hosting gig comes in — you don't have to be good at anything to do this!
• Amy Poehler – (See Fey)
• Andy Cohen – Knows how to keep squabbling squabblers in line.
• Nicki Minaj – After she's fired from "American Idol" this season, naturally.
• Lena Dunham – Need youth, and after all, she is the Voice of an Entire Generation; surely she has something to say about where to get the best latte in Boerum Hill.
The good news for the show's producers is that they don't have more than one spot to fill. There is no need to say goodbye to Elisabeth Hasselbeck. She's staying put as a co-host despite reports insisting otherwise.
Walters called that story "particularly false" on Monday's edition of the show.
She also denied reports that Hasselbeck has lost favor with "The View" for her conservative political stances, something Walters says "we value and appreciate." Hasselbeck has been on "The View" for a decade.
Walters on Monday confirmed that Behar will exit the show in August. Behar was among the first co-hosts with Walters when "The View" debuted in 1997.
Besides Walters, the remaining panel includes Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Irving v. Lipstadt
Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Transcripts, Day 14: Electronic Edition
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1 A. [Mr Irving] Yes.
2 Q. [Mr Rampton] --- after you have quoted Heim Burman, you say:
3"Commenting on the squabbles that had already broken out
4between rival factions ... and the anti-defamation league,
5all of whom want their pound of Swiss flesh." Whose words
6are those?
7 A. [Mr Irving] Probably Bermont. I have quoted Bermont.
8 Q. [Mr Rampton] It is not in quotes.
9 A. [Mr Irving] Bermont wrote a savage leading article in the Jewish
10Chronicle. I have never seen an article written -- if a
11non-Jew had written that he would be described as being
12viciously anti-Semitic.
13 Q. [Mr Rampton] It is a reference to the unsympathetic portrait of Jewish
14nature presented by William Shakespeare in the Merchant of
15Venice, is it not?
16 A. [Mr Irving] Yes.
17 Q. [Mr Rampton] It is your reference and not Mr Bermont's, is it not?
18 A. [Mr Irving] Whether it is mine or Mr Bermont's I do not know, but
19placed where that it is in a paragraph which starts with
20Bermont and ends with Bermont, I am pretty certain it
21comes from Bermont.
22 Q. [Mr Rampton] Can we go back to the paragraph on the left-hand side of
23the page?
24 A. [Mr Irving] Yes.
25 Q. [Mr Rampton] You say: "All the elements of anti-Semitic stereotype are
1 A. [Mr Irving] The stereotype.
2 Q. [Mr Rampton] Yes.
3 A. [Mr Irving] Yes.
4 Q. [Mr Rampton] I know. I have heard what you said about it. What I want
5to know is why the rest of it is there: "The cosmopolitan
6rootless millionaire bereft of any local patriotism".
7Where does that stereotype come from?
8 A. [Mr Irving] That is part of the stereotype.
9 Q. [Mr Rampton] It is, is it?
10 A. [Mr Irving] Yes.
11 Q. [Mr Rampton] In whose mind?
12 A. [Mr Irving] It is part of the general anti-Semitic stereotype of the
14 Q. [Mr Rampton] Which is you are busy promoting here, are you not?
15 A. [Mr Irving] No. I am not quoting in fact -- shall I bring in the
16article that Bermont wrote? I am pretty sure I can find
17it or get it from his web site.
18 Q. [Mr Rampton] It has all this stuff, does it, about ----
19 A. [Mr Irving] The only thing I admit which Bermont did not write was
20where I said that the weddings rings may have come off the
21lifeless fingers of the Hamburg victims or the Dresden air
22raid victims, because I happen to know that our witness
23Hans Voight collected three buckets of wedding rings off
24the fingers of lifeless victims of the Dresden air raids,
25and they went to the Reichsbank and they were filmed in
26the Reichsbank subsequently for the Nuremberg trial.
1I have the record of the Nuremberg trial officers who
2said: "Unfortunately we cannot use that film of the gold
3rings found in the Reichsbank because we have no evidence
4it came from concentration camps".
5 MR JUSTICE GRAY: So you are saying part of the stereotype is
6true and part is not?
7 A. [Mr Irving] Well, most of the stereotype is untrue, but this is what
8the Jewish people, the community, rightly objected, that
9they have gained this stereotype somehow and Bermont has
10written this warning editorial in the Jewish Chronicle
11saying: Here we go again, we are just helping create it
12again because a few self-appointed leaders of the Jewish
13community, whether they are Abraham Foxman or Charles
14Edgar Bronson, or whoever it is, are going about this
15ill-advised campaign against the Swiss, which is just
16helping to reinforce the ugly stereotype.
17 MR RAMPTON: While we are in this volume, Mr Irving can we just
18pick up that reference to the pound of flesh, please?
19 A. [Mr Irving] Yes.
20 Q. [Mr Rampton] It seems to be one of your themes, if I may say so. Page
2150 of the same volume, my Lord. This is page 23 at the
22top of the clip. I am going to read from the clip,
23because my copy of the article has been sliced off by the
24machine. There is a paragraph on the right-hand side
25beside the box in the middle which begins "Finally". Do
26you have that?
1 A. [Mr Irving] Yes.
2 Q. [Mr Rampton] "Will Jon Dem Janjung now sue his tormentors" and it is
3all about ----
4 A. [Mr Irving] Yes.
5 Q. [Mr Rampton] --- that man.
6 A. [Mr Irving] Yes, the most shocking episode in American judicial
7history I think.
8 MR JUSTICE GRAY: What, that he got acquitted?
9 A. [Mr Irving] He was finally acquitted on the orders of the Israeli
10judges, except he had been framed and set up by eleven
11false eyewitnesses, as one man identified him, and the
12Israeli Supreme Court set him free.
13 MR RAMPTON: Mr Irving, I am tempted to say "so what" but if I
14do you will produce a life size portrait of Mr Dem Janjung
15I dare say. Really, Mr Irving, you did not mean that.
16Page 23, my Lord.
17 A. [Mr Irving] You do not always get the answers you need, Mr Rampton.
18 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Page 23 of the little clip.
19 MR RAMPTON: I did not ask you about Mr Dem Janjung. That was
20one of your offerings, Mr Irving.
21 A. [Mr Irving] You asked me about the paragraph.
22 Q. [Mr Rampton] And then you gave us a long lecture about something which
23has nothing to do with this case.
24 A. [Mr Irving] Perhaps you should not have paused.
25 Q. [Mr Rampton] What you have actually written is this: "The world will
26not easily forget how, even when" ----
1 A. [Mr Irving] "Even when acquitted after all".
2 Q. [Mr Rampton] Do not give me another pitiful lecture about Mr Dem
3Janjung, please?
4 A. [Mr Irving] You are just going to read what I wrote.
5 Q. [Mr Rampton] "Dem Janjung was detained in custody by his enemies for
6two more weeks while they thumbed through their sweaty
7manuals looking for some way to crush him that they might
8have overlooked. Nor how when they failed again these
9shylocks cheated on their pray, frog marched him to his
10plane home to freedom still in handcuffs like a convicted
12 I quite agree that one can take the view that it
13was a disgraceful prosecution. The fact that the
14prosecution was made by Israelis, who one must assume were
15Jewish, do you think that that justifies the use of
16language like this?
17 A. [Mr Irving] I do not think these particular lawyers are above
18criticism, and that was a criticism I chose to level at
19them. I think they are below, beneath criticism, these
21 Q. [Mr Rampton] Why the shylocks though?
22 A. [Mr Irving] Because they wanted -- you know the Shakespearian
24 Q. [Mr Rampton] Yes, Mr Irving.
25 A. [Mr Irving] They wanted their final pound of flesh. Although he had
26been acquitted by the Supreme Court they kept him in jail
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Mina Shalabi left out in the festival cold
Poor Mina Shalabi was gearing up for whirlwind tour of the Abu Dhabi film festival when the news came through that her latest movie had been booted off the awards list at the last minute. The young Egyptian actress took a starring role in 'Baed al Mawqiah' (The Aftermath) but the drama was not included in the roster of potential prize winners.
Mina told reporters she was devastated as she had expected the film to win in a number of categories and despite festival organizers agreeing to screen it, cast and crew didn't receive any award nominations.
The film, directed by Yusri Nasrallah and starring Basem Samrah alongside Mina, was taken off the list of nominees after festival bosses realized it did not meet their requirements. Only movies screened and marketed outside the Gulf were allowed to compete but the film's producers claim only pirated copies reached the UAE. Unfortunately festival head, Ali al Jaberi, has so far been unconvinced by their claims so Mina will have to try again next year.


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For Release: November 26, 2013
Four Smithsonian scientists have been awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They have been elevated to this rank because of their efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished. The names of all 388 AAAS fellows for 2013 were announced in the Nov. 29 issue of Science.
The four Smithsonian honorees are:
"This is a proud moment for Smithsonian science," said Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian. "There are now 47 Smithsonian scientists who are AAAS Fellows. Congratulations to my colleagues; they are making a mark and advancing scientific discovery in their respective fields of endeavor to the benefit of the scientific community and the public at large."
James, Marra, Murray and Tocheri are four of more than 500 Smithsonian staff scientists, who conduct research in field stations and laboratories on all seven continents and serve as national and international experts in a wide scope of disciplines.
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Three Marietta residents arrested on drug charges
January 5, 2013
MARIETTA — A Marietta mother and her companion are charged with child endangerment in addition to counts related to manufacturing methamphetamine after a raid Thursday evening by the Major Crimes......
Mack? Matt? I'd venture to say that if either of you two have children and have ever sped, talked on the phone or text while driving that you not only put your children in danger but any other motorist on the road and should be charged with attempted murder :)
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Why is the bond here $85000.00 and yet for basically the same charge Jack Lee Poland, 45 set at 5,000.00?? Broken down crooked system is the only real organized crime there is.....
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Terrible that a child would be exposed to the noxious fumes and unsavory lifestyle associated with meth labs and users...just awful. Hope the kid's ok. That mother should be ashamed of herself.
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Sidewalk Series-Walk of Stones 2 LbNA # 24053
|Placed Date
|Jul 15 2006
|El Paso
|Colorado Springs, CO
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|Jul 3 2009
|Hike Distance
NEW BOX, NEW LOGBOOK, NEW STAMP. SAME GREAT FAMILY FRIENDLY WALK. The first box was muggled twice, then finally destroyed. Please, please, please use caution when accessing this box, and rehide it well.
A quiet family-friendly walk, a little over 1 mile round trip. Essentially flat, stroller and wheelchair friendly, though those wheelchair confined will need assistance retrieving and returning the letterbox. Depending on what time of year you are travelling through, there are varied birds and wildflowers along the walk and many trees. Your furry family members are welcome, but must be leashed; please be responsible and clean up after your pet.
In Colorado Springs, I-25 north to Briargate Parkway (exit 151). Take Briargate Parkway east to Austin Bluffs. Turn right (south) on Austin Bluffs to Family Place. Right (west) on Family Place and park in the YMCA/John L. Stone Park parking lot.
At the northeast corner of the skatepark, find the sign describing John L. Stone. Follow the sidewalk along Family Pl. east towards Austin Bluffs. Turn south along Austin Bluffs keeping to the sidewalk until it intersects a gravel path heading roughly northwest and veering west. Take the gravel path past Casey's Rock and continue until it returns to concrete. At the first intersection, veer left and follow the path. At the next intersection, continue south. At the triangular flowerbed, stay to the right and continue on the path as it turns west. Cross the asphalt "river" at Cottage and continue south along the concrete walk. Soon ahead, come to a "lake" of stones. In the center is an "island" with 3 long needled pines and 1 blue spruce. Veer to the right of the lake to find a space into the center of the island between the 4 trees. Find the letterbox nestled beneath the outer edge Mugho pine between the northernmost pine and the blue spruce.
Pen in the box, and there is an inkpad. Please replace the box where found and recover with needles so it is not noticed by passers-by. Return the way you came. On your return, enjoy the park and it's amenities, including a playground, picnic areas, skate park, basketball court and your furry family will enjoy the open grassy area. Thanks and enjoy.


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Google Inc. agreed to buy restaurant-review firm Zagat, a deal that highlights the Internet giant's recent moves to grab a share of the revenue from local businesses.
In a blog post Thursday, Google said the acquisition of Zagat would be "a cornerstone of our local offering—delighting people with their impressive array of reviews, ratings and insights."
Zagat—well known for its pocket-sized guides—provides reviews of accommodations, restaurants and bars and shopping locations. It offers travelers and locals tips for more than 100 cities.
The acquisition highlights how the mobile market continues to attract attention from technology vendors and consumers. Zagat has a "Zagat To Go" app that costs $9.99 and can be used on Apple Inc.'s iPhone or iPod Touch, as well as app options for the Android, BlackBerry and other smartphones.
Google declined to discuss the terms of the deal.
The news sent shares of OpenTable Inc., which provides online restaurant reviews and reservations, down 11% to $56.07 in midday trading. Google's shares were up 0.4% to $536.35.
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As the History miniseries "Hatfields and McCoys" wraps up tonight, viewers will likely be left with some questions. A few of them: What kinds of liberties did the fictionalized drama take with the real-life story? What surprising stories did the show leave out? And what is the status of the Hatfield-McCoy feud today?
To get some answers, the Journal talked to Lisa Alther, author of "Blood Feud: The Hatfields and the McCoys: The Epic Story of Murder and Vengeance." She's not just an expert on the subject of the feud, her family has marriage connections to the McCoys. (If any Hatfields are reading this, let's hope her responses don't spark a new beef.) Alther answered our questions via email.
What do you think of the "Hatfields & McCoys" so far? Were there any scenes that stood out to you?
On the whole, I think the miniseries is doing a great job of conveying the complexities that fueled the feud and the contradictions of the personalities involved.
How accurate is the miniseries in depicting the Hatfield-McCoy feud?
Several scenes stood out for me because of their historical inaccuracies. Some characters are murdered in the miniseries who weren't murdered in reality, or by people other than their actual murderers. Also, the Tug Fork Valley at that time was a remote rural area, so the existence there of a classy Wild West saloon and brothel startled me. The depiction of Perry Cline was especially surprising to me because he lived in Pikeville, 25 miles away from the feud area, with his wife and five children and wasn't actually roaming the Tug Fork trying to persuade Roseanna to marry him or manipulating the McCoy sons into attacking the Hatfields. He wasn't even a lawyer until the final years of the feud. But this is how historical fiction works, and the miniseries is a fiction, not a documentary. And of course many of the feudists weren't as physically attractive as the Hollywood actors who are portraying them.
What is your blood relationship to the McCoys? What kinds of things did you hear growing up?
My father's first cousin married a McCoy whose grandfather was a brother of Sarah McCoy, Randolph's wife. So her children are my second cousins. The only thing I ever heard about the feud growing up was that it concerned a wandering hog claimed by both families. And there were lots of jokes about feuding hillbillies, as well as many related cartoons in the newspapers and sitcoms on TV.
What's the most surprising thing you found in your research?
During my research I was most surprised to discover the devastating long-term impact this feud has had on Appalachian people. Almost single-handedly it shaped the unfortunate stereotype of the ignorant, drunken, violent, lazy hillbilly, which was used by industrialists after the feud ended to justify their invasion of the southern Appalachians to extract the timber and coal, keeping most of the profits for themselves and leaving behind poverty, diseased and maimed workers, and environmental destruction, including 500 mountains that have been destroyed so far.
What kind of relationship do the Hatfields and McCoys have today?
I encountered no lingering rancor between the latter-day Hatfields and McCoys. Many have friends in the other family. In 2000 a joint reunion was held in Kentucky that drew 5000 Hatfields and McCoys from all over the country. This reunion has been held every summer since and always closes with a tug-of-war between members of the two families across the Tug Fork, very near the site where the Hatfield posse shot the three McCoy sons dead for murdering Ellison Hatfield.
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Death Brings Life to Darksiders II 1
Darksiders II leaves behind War to spin the tale of Earth's apocalypse from the perspective of Death as he spans the universe to save his brother from damnation. This fantasy-inspired theologain action adventure role-playing game will take you on a journey of epic proportions, but the 20-30 hours it will take from start to finish is worth every minute. Check out the video review below....10 out of 12 found this review helpful.
Death delivers killer gameplay 0
Darksiders II is the embodiment of how a sequel should be done. The original Darksiders was one of the surprise hits of 2010, an eclectic blend of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and the scribbled drawings from the margins of a 14-year old boy's notebook. By taking the somewhat stagnating conventions of such an eternally classic title and thrusting it kicking and screaming into the cold light of modernity, the team at Vigil Games created a wonderful, albeit highly derivative, action adventu...6 out of 7 found this review helpful.
Darksiders II has no dearth of depth, but suffers from its size. 0
Darksiders left our anti-hero War contemplating his options as his brothers (and sister) caught the last few express meteors to Earth to help in what promised to be an Alamo style stand-off between the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and apparently every other force in the universe. Darksiders 2 doesn't quite pick up there, however, electing to roll back the clock a few years before the first game begins and follow the redemptive arc of War's more emaciated and guilt-ridden sibling Death instead...3 out of 3 found this review helpful.
When Death rides, none can hide. 0
The original Darksiders was a game that was relatively underrated by both critics and gamers alike, and at the same time, criticized for being a "rip-off" of multiple major franchises such as the Legend of Zelda and God of War. Yet, I liked to see it for what it did correctly. Instead of blatantly ripping off such popular games, Vigil Games instead chose to brilliantly craft certain ideals from those games and blend them together with an extremely engaging story to create a new IP well deserving...2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
Darksiders 2 Review: Death Lives 0
After playing the original Darksiders to completion in preparation for the sequel I was very interested in how Darksiders 2 would turn out. Vigil are still a fledgling developer and with the troubles of THQ in the backdrop I was concerned yet anticipating how the changes that were being made to the game would turn out. Luckily Darksiders 2 is one of the most refreshing titles I have played this year so far for numerous reasons, and is a game that deserves a lot of attention despite the problems ...2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
Deadly deal 0
Darksiders 2 Reviewed by Doc D StrangeI never played the original Darksiders. I was always interested in checking the game out but just never did. I always heard great thing about Darksiders, one of my friends told me "it's like Zelda but mature". So when the sequel was almost out I had to see what the kids thought was so great about Darksiders for myself.Story/GameplayDeath doing his thang.Darksiders 2 takes place during the first game just in different realms/worlds. This time you play as Deat...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
One step forward, two steps back. 0
Darksiders 2 is a hard game for me to judge. In some ways it is better than the original Darksiders. In some key areas though, I loved Darksiders 1 over what Darksiders 2 delivered. Most game sequels refine what the previous game in the series did. It is rare to get such a diferent experience from a sequel. I loved the original Darksiders for taking the best aspects of a Zelda game like temple puzzles, valuable tools, and more. It also had a cool unique art style, an interesting story, and solid...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
My Thoughts on Darksiders 2 0
Back in 2010, Vigil Games did something very bold; they took various elements from other popular games and mashed them together to form something of their own. It was more than just a shameless rip-off and it created one of the best games of that year. Two years later they've managed to do it again, only its bigger and better in almost every way.GameplayDarksiders 2 takes gameplay from many different games. It takes combat from God of War/Devil May Cry, platforming from Prince of Persia (2008), ...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Death's a Bitch, and Then You Die 2
Like its predecessor, Darksiders II combines familiar game elements in ambitious new ways. While it can be a bit rough around the edges, fans of the original should be satisfied, and newcomers to the franchise should give it a look.Darksiders II is the sequel to the 2010 post-apocalyptic adventure game Darksiders, developed by Vigil Games and published by THQ. In the first game, War (by which I mean the famed horseman of the biblical apocalypse, and not the 1970s funk band known for "Low Rider")...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Darksiders 2: A Side Sequel 0
Death. The word itself conjures immediate images in our psyche. We picture the night-shrouded scythe-wielding skeleton appearing out of nothingness, hand outstretched to collect what's owed. Maybe death is a nice, pleasant sleep that is simply never awakened from, or even a riotous blaze of glory sung about in annuls of rock and roll. The image may even be of the horrible, black vomit that accompanies Ebola, the dreaded retching, blood oozing from your orifices as you pray for relief and receive...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Expands massively upon its predecessor 0
The video game industry today is loaded with annualized franchises and sequels being crapped out like cheap toys off of a Chinese assembly line. In this environment, sequels like Darksiders 2 are extremely rare. Darksiders 2 is not just an iteration on its predecessor. It is the most massive expansion of a series since at least Assassin's Creed 2. Darksiders 2 is so much different from the first game that if they didn't have the same name on the box, you might get the impression that they aren't...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Darkside-Story 1
What does a developer do to follow up a hit original game? Audiences generally want larger, more refined sequels and publishers are willing to back a studio's sophomore outing with a sizable budget. Darksiders 2 follows the same path as Batman: Arkham City, offering a larger, longer game than its predecessor. For Vigil Games bigger doesn't mean a poor experience but nor does it mean a better game.Taking place roughly at the same time as Darksiders 1, the sequel replaces War with his fellow horse...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Death is on the scene 0
Death is on the scene in this follow up to the sleeper hit Darksiders. In seeking to clear his brother, War, Death is taken on a journey through mystical space, hitting up the forge lands where all is created, the undead city, an apocalyptic Earth, heaven and hell. This vast expansion in the world is a welcome change over the first, and the fast travel mechanic is a necessary blessing. Its points such as this where it's clear the Darksiders developers wanted to iterate on the first and simply ma...1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Sequel takes a few steps forward, many steps back 3
The first Darksiders was a surprise hit, unexpectedly overcoming its pigeonholing as a "dark Zelda" and crafting a game that successfully incorporated and outdid many of its inspirations. The result is a sequel that comes in with higher expectations and a fanbase excited by an amazing ending that left us all wanting more. Darksiders 2 improves on elements from the first game, adds whole new elements which expand the gameplay greatly, but also breaks some of the better parts of its predecessor an...1 out of 2 found this review helpful.
Fun stuff 0
For the most part this game is pretty great. It takes a further step into feeling like an rpg compared to the first one. You constantly pick up armor, weapons, and accessories for your character. The game starts off like it will be really long because there are 4 areas to go through and the first one is pretty much just as big as the first game but as you get further each area starts to get smaller and smaller. The puzzles in the game are relatively fun but eventually they become really repetiti...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Darksiders II Manages to Overcome its own Demons 0
Put quite simply, Darksiders II is a fantastic game. But no game can claim to be perfect, and Darksiders II proves this quite handily. Between weird pacing issues and terrible console optimization on what most people would consider to be the game's primary platform, the game has its issues. These flaws take an excellent game and somewhat chip away at the finish, but these small blemishes are not anywhere near enough to make it aggravating or unplayable. Vigil manages to create a cohesive experie...0 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Darksiders II Blurs Genre Lines 0
The original Darksiders truly was a surprise to many when it hit store shelves in January of 2010. It was quickly applauded for delivering a game not unlike the ones seen in The Legend of Zelda series, albeit with a darker tone and combat more akin to God of War than anything seen in latter-day Zelda titles. That was two and a half years ago, and Darksiders has gone from cult hit to full-on franchise. However, not content with retreading the same formula with the sequel, Vigil Games has stepped ...0 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Darksiders 2 - A welcome home. 0
Vigil Game's Darksiders franchise is often described as a retrospective look at adventure games. Brimming with nostalgia and familiar mechanics, Darksiders was a game that many fans either liked or disliked for its sincere homage to the past. In the second installment of the franchise, Vigil Game's approach places more emphasis on an iterative process.Darksiders 2 remains mechanically similar to it's predecessors. We are still collecting keys to open locked doors, dodge-rolling out of harms way,...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
More of the same but it fills a hole 0
Darksiders II might not be the game you were hoping for after finishing the first game a couple of years ago.The sequel was screaming out for a four player co-op game featuring all Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (War, Death, Fury and Strife), but what you get here is some more of the same.The first game very much wore its influences on its sleeve, heavily borrowing from games like The Legend of Zelda and Darksiders II is no different.This time you play as War's brother Death and the story plays...0 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Darksiders II Review 0
Darksiders two is unique in the fact that it takes the elements from many genres and works them into a cohesive and fun game. It combines the visceral combat of a hack and slash with the weapon, gear, and skill customization of a full blown RPG. It also ads some platforming and puzzle solving to keep things fresh.The art style of the game is fantastic, there is plenty of variance in the art style throughout the game to keep things fresh. Graphically the game is on par with consoles, textures do ...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Something went wrong here. Very, very wrong. 0
Disclaimer: This review is solely based on my personal experience with the game. I understand that other people probably have had a different relation with the game. So, yeah. Take it as you will.Darksiders was a great game. It took some of the most entertaining features of some of the most well known franchises of all time and mixed them together to create a very cool and original game: the exploration of a Metroidvania, the dungeon-and-item-based gameplay of a Zelda, the ledge-grabbing-column-...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
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Comment by Alberto ... Maybe this question sounds a little weird, but, so many great good looking and amazing models, so many pics, so many times together, and? which model is your favorite one? don't you have an affair with one of them?
my answer : I got several nice stories with some muses but nothing like sex or love. For two of them, I was like a Pygmalion or a Master of something (I mean like a guardian of their secret fantasies and not master like used in a bdsm relationship). I got several periods with a different muse : my favorite is Anais because she totally shared her thoughts and because some of my best pictures have been made at this period. Dana is close because she gave a lot but my photography skills were average when I was used to shoot her : so, even if I have great memories with she, the result of our collaboration is not so good and complete than the one I got with Anais. I did more than 60 sessions with Anais and more than 100 days with Dana : it helps to be closer than others muses or models. More time you spend with others people, more things you share :)