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Tonight was the opening of the Democratic National Convention. It was a rather stunning difference from the scenes on the street yesterday and today, where there were minimal and well behaved cops in Philly as contrasted with the warrior cop oppressive stormtrooper presence in Cleveland. From my reporter friends from the Arizona Republic, the food is totally better in Philly too. Hey, armies move on food, and cheesesteaks rule.
Is everything coming up roses? Nope. There was the whole Debbie Wasserman Schultz thing. She was well advised by our friend David Dayen to stay away and excommunicate herself from the convention podium. But, crikey, the rest simply looks beautiful. Sanders supporters marching in the streets for change, mostly unfettered and unoppressed, other voices being heard, and all relative delegates meeting and co-existing in the halls. This ain't the dysfunctional RNC bigoted shit show. That, in and of itself, would be worth this post. There is more.
Don't let cable coverage and the relentless yammer of their panels of self interested toadies fool you, the few true camera pans at the RNC showed more than a few empty seats and a far smaller crowd (especially in the upper decks) than displayed tonight at the DNC.
The real tell, in difference, was in the quality of the speakers and presentation. The only lasting memory from the RNC's opening night was the embarrassing plagiarism in Melania Trump's speech. Honestly, my bet is that is not on her, but the understaffed and idiot handlers her narcissistic, yet bumbling, husband provided. That said, it was a res ipsa loquitur deal and, in the end, spoke for itself. What else do you remember from that night other than Tim Tebow did not appear? I got nuthin.
The first night of the DNC in Philly, however, came with a litany of decent and well presented folks presented to a full and energetic hall. Emphasis on full. The dynamics in staging and presentation were stark. As were the quality and mental coherence of the speakers. The first electric moment came when Sarah Silverman, who along with Al Franken, was doing a bit and intro to Paul Simon singing (a geriatric, albeit mesmerizing) Bridge Over Troubled Water. Silverman and Franken had to kill an extra 120 seconds or so and she blurted out some hard, and real, truth that her fellow Bernie Sanders supporters who refuse to help Clinton defeat Trump are flat out "being ridiculous". Truer words have never been spoken.
But soon came Michelle Obama to the podium. I am not sure I have the words to describe how good Michelle was. As a convention speaker, a surrogate, a leader, a mother and as a First Lady embodying all of the above. Michelle Obama killed it. She blew the joint up. I don't know how else to describe it, but if you did not witness it live, watch the video up at top. Just do it.
Frankly, at the conclusion of Michelle Obama's speech, it was hard to see how the last two key speakers, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, could possibly top the moment. Sadly, they could not. Liz Warren gave a great, and often in depth, speech. One that absolutely slayed Donald Trump in nearly every way. On its own, it would have been noteworthy. But sandwiched between the brilliance of Michelle Obama and Sanders, with his acolytes cheering and hers still reeling, it seemed good, but not great.
Bernie Sanders caught a little more fire, but mostly because of his yuuge contingent of supporters. And that is not just a good thing, it is a great thing. Sanders did everything, and more, he should have done in this speech by ginning up the classic points and issues his campaign, and its followers, were built on…and then transferring them to Clinton.
It did not work perfectly, but this will be a process up until the election date on November 8. Bernie went a long way, gracefully and patiently, tonight. And, while the cheering crowd appeared to be much more than just the "Sandernistas", all of the hall seemed to get on board. That, along with Sarah Siverman telling holdout Bernie Busters to wake up and not be ridiculous, were giant steps in unifying support for Clinton over Trump.
Listen, I have been around the block a few times, and know I am supposed to lead with the headline. Sorry, this one worked up to it, and here it is. The RNC and Trump got their lousy bounce because the media, once again, cravenly portrayed what happened in Cleveland as normal, and tit for tat, with what is happening, and will happen, in Philadelphia. That is simply a ratings and craven click germinated lie. The difference is stark.
Nowhere is it more stark than in the picture painted as to the surrogates who will come out of the respective conventions to campaign for their respective candidate between now and November 8.
Um, let's see, for the GOP we have Newt, Carson, Melania, Thiel, Flynn, Joe Arpaio and Chachi Baio. I excluded Ivanka because she might actually be competent. Seriously, that is basically it for Trump surrogates. From the whole convention. Even Clint Eastwood's chair took a pass in this, the year of the Orange Faced Short Fingered Vulgarian Bigot.
Let's compare that with what came out of the Democratic Convention's first night. Sarah Silverman, Al Franken, Paul Simon, Eva Longoria, Corey Booker and, then, the big three…Michelle Obama, Liz Warren and Bernie Sanders. That is just the first night folks.
See a bit of a dichotomy in personality and credibility there?
Then picture that Clinton's road warrior surrogates will include not just the above, but also Joe Biden, President Barack Obama and the Big Dog himself, Bill Clinton.
Elections are won in the trenches. Say what you will about Hillary Clinton, and I will probably join you on many negatives, but the Clintons do have a ground operation. And their surrogates are like the 1927 Yankees compared to the Bad News Bears for Trump and the RNC. How will Trump bolster his bench, by bringing in Roger Ailes to molest the women of America? Is there another ground plan for the Trump Juggalos?
Sure, Clinton can still muck it up and lose. She, and the DNC, have been beyond pathetic in how they have treated nearly half their party, and much of their activist base, during the primaries and aftermath. Not just ugly, but stupid. They deserve any hell they get for that, whether it comes from appropriately enraged Sanders supporters or from press reporting on hacks (THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!!!)
Bottom line is this: Which set of surrogates would you think would do a better job spreading out over the country: Crazy Newt, Racist Flynn, Bigot Arpaio and Chachi, …. or Michelle Obama, Liz Warren, Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama and Joe Biden?
Think I will go with the latter, and I think they will reach a heck of a lot more voters who will actually engage than will the trite and petty bigots Trump will have on the public offer.
And the Dems have a laundry list of other quality surrogates who will stand up. Trump has apparent Klan worthy members like Jeff Sessions, felons like Don King and Mike Tyson, and people who seek to be them.
Who you gonna call when it comes time to vote?
Seems like an easy decision, especially when you consider that the next 30 to 35 years of ideological control of the Supreme Court hang in the balance.
On August 3, 1980, Ronald Reagan delivered a watershed speech (pdf) as the presidential campaign entered its final three months. The most often-quoted passage of the speech is his siren call to states' rights:
I believe in state's rights; I believe in people doing as much as they can for themselves at the community level and at the private level. And I believe that we've distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended in the constitution to that federal establishment. And if I do get the job I'm looking for, I'm going to devote myself to trying to reorder those priorities and to restore to the states and local communities those functions which properly belong there.
As William Raspberry noted on the occasion of Reagan's death in 2004, both the call for states' rights and the location chosen for delivering the speech had powerful racial overtones:
Philadelphia, county seat of Mississippi's Neshoba County, is famous for a couple of things. That is where three civil rights workers — Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman — were murdered in 1964. And that is where, in 1980, Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan chose to launch his election campaign, with a ringing endorsement of "states' rights."
It was bitter symbolism for black Americans (though surely not just for black Americans). Countless observers have noted that Reagan took the Republican Party from virtual irrelevance to the ascendancy it now enjoys. The essence of that transformation, we shouldn't forget, is the party's successful wooing of the race-exploiting Southern Democrats formerly known as Dixiecrats. And Reagan's Philadelphia appearance was an important bouquet in that courtship.
Raspberry rightfully notes the Southern strategy preceded Reagan, originating during the Goldwater and Nixon campaigns and he even noted that when considering Reagan, Raspberry "used to find myself almost believing he wasn't truly responsible for the bad outcomes of his policies." But the bottom line is that the movement Reagan catalyzed had horrific racial consequences. Even worse, the Reagan movement also initiated changes that in the intervening 36 years have resulted in the virtual destruction of the middle class and the transfer of most of America's wealth into the hands of a very select few.
Even the pivotal Philadelphia, Mississippi speech sowed the the seeds for this destruction, as well. The very next paragraph in the transcript after the snippet quoted above shows how the process started:
I'm going to try also to change federal regulations in the tax structure that has made this once powerful industrial giant in this land and in the world now with a lower rate of productivity than any of the other industrial nations, with a lower rate of savings and investment on the part of our people and put us back where we belong.
Going back to look at the historical record on several fronts shows how these basic tenets of Reaganism from his Philadelphia speech resulted in massive institutional racism and the destruction of the middle class.
The powerful Republican dog-whistle of states' rights was implemented in the Reagan era on many fronts, but is illustrated most succinctly when we look at data on imprisonment of Americans.
The figure below, from the Prison Policy Initiative, has been making the rounds recently as the Sanders and Clinton camps have argued over the effects of the 1994 crime bill passed during Bill Clinton's first term: Continue reading
There are multiple better voices here to address the apparent demise of Firedoglake, whether briefly or at length. I was, in a way, an interloper by chance. By fortune, actually. Because I was asked, for inexplicable reasons I will never fully understand, but will always treasure, to join Emptywheel when it morphed from The Last Hurrah into the Emptywheel blog at Firedoglake. Yes, I had been a decent contributor to both Next Hurrah, and, often, FDL, but still it was a bit of a shock when it came.
I can honestly say I, as a result, encountered some of the finest and most genuine people in my life. That happened because of FDL, both as to the lifetime friendships with people that are here with us, including, most notably, Marcy, and all the others. Marcy, Rayne, Jim White, Ed Walker, Rosalind….and, please, let us not forget Mary and some of the others no longer here. All that came, at least for me, out of seeing Scooter Libby coverage early on nearly a decade ago. At FDL.
This medium may be digital, but it has wings and real life beyond the URL's and binary code or whatever. The people I have met and interacted with as a result of being around FDL were, with little exception, remarkable, intelligent, wonderful and I think the world has been made better by them.
So, to Jane Hamsher, Christy Hardin Smith, Siun, Pachacutec, Richard Taylor, Karl, Suzanne, Bev Wright (Bev and Book Salon was one of the most awesome things ever), Ellie, each and every one of the fantastic moderators who were the ones who kept the enterprise really alive for so long, and a host of others that allowed me to participate with them, thank you. There are too many to list, and I love one and all. You will all be missed, and I apologize to the too many other friends I met there and have not listed. You know who you are, and thank you.
I am starting to see eulogies all over the web, and most are quite decent. FDL was right, and early so, about the rule of law, the Cheney Administration, torture, surveillance, marriage equality and ACA/Obamacare, just to name a few of the plethora of topics breached on her pages. The voices have not died, but, now, the common enterprise has.
I will leave it to others to say where exactly FDL fits into the hierarchy and history of the blogosphere, but it was certainly up there. Thanks, and vaya con dios FDL.
Update, from emptywheel: bmaz forgot to mention DDay, but I'm certain it was an oversight.
Here is a bloody secret about blogging: The best ideas you express often come from others, even if you value add on to them. Welp, there will be no value adding on here, this post is 100% the work of our longtime friend at both Emptywheel and FDL, the one and only Peterr:
I had this vision of Donald Trump taking down the Statue of Liberty, replacing it with an even larger figure of himself, with a new poem inscribed on the base befitting his views on immigrants.
The New New Colossus
Not like the New Colossus, French-built bile
With calling torch and open arms so grand;
Now on this isle a Grander One shall stand:
A mighty huckster with a scam, whose smile
is a racist, hateful sneer, with his pile
of ego-sculpted hair. From his grasping hand
comes a devil's contract; his beady eyes demand
payment 'ere any travel one more mile.
"Keep, foreign lands, your homeless poor," cries he
with flapping lips. "Give me your greedy, your rich,
Your coddled wealthy yearning to pay me,
the grasping powers drawn here by my pitch.
Send these, the makers, ready with my fee;
I snuff the lamp of Liberty, that bitch."
I leave it to your imagination to envision the figure of The Donald standing astride New York harbor for yourself.
Okay, Peter is a long time friend, and his take totally merited publication. But Lady Liberty takes some attending to. You have to want the freedom of this country, you have to want it bad, and you have to be willing to fight for it, even when that freedom makes your blood curl (props to Sorkin's American President). But wanting the American ethos is easy for an apparently gerbil topped pretender like Donald Trump. Trump wants the limelight, wants all the glory, and never wants to answer for the hell of stupidity, bankruptcy, loss of jobs and ignorance that he really stands for. Troll on Donald.
So many have given their lives for the right of a hollow shill to troll the American electorate. So many have died for that. So many just to give a blowhard clownshow jackhole the right to parade around like he is diddly shit other than the court jester and a sideshow amusement huckster.
The American people can propagate and tolerate an enormous amount of stupid, but not enough to let a pompous, bankruptcy generated, pompous jackass like Donald Trump through the door. Just an opinion, and a sincere hope.
Nope. George Bush was one thing, Trump is a bridge too far.
As the kerfuffle over SB-1062 dies down, politics march on here at ground zero in Arizona. The GOP runs the key Executive Branch offices such as governor and Secretary of State but, more importantly in many respects, also the state legislature, and as long as they do state politics will continue to be dominated by clusterfucks and cleanups. But Arizona has issues with their statewide federal elected officials too. The current manifestation is not McCain, Flake, nor even the Pleistocene era brainfart known as Trent Franks.
No, today's issue is the once and forever self proclaimed liberal Democrat, Kyrsten Sinema. The transformation of Sinema, who aggressively sold herself as progressive liberal when seeking election, to a conservative Blue Dog toadie of the Minority centrist Dem leadership has been nothing short of astounding, especially for those of us who reside in her district and voted for her in 2012. She completely betrayed her base constituents in Arizona District 9. That is mostly a story for another day though, today's story is not about discrete policy issues, but wholesale admission of the deceptive nature of Kyrsten Sinema's incursion into AZ-9 to start with.
The baseline is this: Thursday, longtime Arizona Democratic Congressman Ed Pastor of AZ-7 announced his decision to retire and not seek reelection in 2014. Local politicians, from seemingly forever Maricopa Board of Supervisor's member Mary Rose Wilcox to new and fairly refreshing voices like state legislature member Ruben Gallego, were literally stepping over one another to announce they would be running for Pastor's seat. They are almost all minorities vying to represent a solidly minority district. And this is no small thing, as most all of them have to give up their current position to do so under Arizona's "resign to run" law.
I was asked early on Thursday, not long after Pastor's announcement, by a friend who supports liberal Dems nationwide, about Kyrsten Sinema jumping in. I thought it was a joke question and said so. Because it was crazy talk. The joke, however, was squarely on me and her other constituents in AZ-09. Yeah, Kysten Sinema, who pledged herself to AZ-09, started lusting after AZ-07 the second it was announced available.
Not that Kyrsten Sinema (see her Twitter feed, which is a litany of everything but her contemplated district switch) or her managers/spokespeople will admit it, or even address the subject, but she was ready to walk from second one. How do we know? Because the Arizona Republic/12 News (via the excellent Brahm Resnik) got a copy of an email to Sinema's inside staff proving it.
So, why is this a big deal? Because it shows that, for first term congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema, her own raw narcissistic ambition, in a dynamic situation, immediately trumps loyalty to her constituents Continue reading
Hello. Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me.
I am not sure how well the Trash Talk Machine is greased after such egregious neglect. But, we can only do what we do, and carry on. And those skilz have NOT been forgotten jack. So saddle up cowboys and cowgirls.
You would think being a blogger is an easy, Cheetos filled, lifestyle. Not the case. It is hard work, hard work I tell ya. I have suffered the indignation of Marcy and Jim yammering about wanting "trash this" and "trash that". Weeeeelllllll that is so much SPAM! So, as I said earlier, it's not easy, you know. I get no respect!
To make a quick comment on the title of this 2013 football season opening trash, shit is truly fucked up and bullshit. We have Mr. Constitutional Nobel Scholar President agitating to make unilateral bizarrely unnecessary war on Syria….apparently because he screwed up and drew a moronic "red line" in the sand and now has to prove he actually has bolas, in addition to stupidity and hubris. The man who when seeking votes to be elected in 2007-2008 claimed war without Congressional assent was wrong, and whose Vice-Predident called such unsanctioned war bullshittery and an "impeachable offense", now insists without the UN, without the Brits, and with a coalition of effectively one (one who were previously described as "cheese eating surrender monkeys" not that long ago in American lore). But that is where we are now. Which is why the best name for this clusterfuck is "Operation Ballsack". Yes, it is all about Obama's balls, and his desperate need to prove he actually has a primordial pair.
Huh? Oh, wait! This was supposed to be football Trash Talk wasn't it?!?!
Yikes, better get to that then. Last night was a pretty exciting open to the NCAA 2013 schedule. The 'Ole Ball Coach Spurrier and the 'Cocks did not seem all that animated, but still clocked a fairly solid NC Tarheel team. Looked like Vady was gonna take a bite off the 'Ole Miss Rebels, but Ole Miss tailback Jeff Scott let loose with a 75 yard TD romp with 1:07 left, giving the Rebels a 39-35 last minute win. Good stuff. In other news, Lane Kiffen proves the question of why he has not been fired yet is still very salient by coaching a narrow win for Tommy Trojan over the Rainbows. Mighty Troy barely made it over the Rainbows. Yay. If that is all USC has, even the Sun Devils are going to wax them this year (a game I will be attending by the way). also, from Friday night, let me just say that Sparty has some VERY sticky fingered defenders. Look out B1G.
Well, what else is up I wonder? Hmmmm, appears some fella named "Manziel" was suspended half a game for something. Guess it wasn't anything bad, cause Dez Bryant got suspended a whole season for eating dinner with Neon Deion Sanders. I sign my name on things a lot too. I get paid to do so. Not sure who would sign thousands of items for zip, nuthin, free. Apparently the crack investigators and accountability specialists at the NCAA found no problem though. And you KNOW how sane they are, cause they banned Penn State from all bowls for four years without having any NCAA violation whatsoever present. Ugh.
Alright. Games. Real ones are being played this weekend. Battle manufactured where it should be. Naturally. By a nerd at ESPN instead of that fake Operation Obama Ballsack baloney.
The game of the weekend looks to be Georgia at Clemson. These are two top ten worthy teams, if not potential national championship contenders. Special players abound everywhere on both teams, including Sammy Watkins the super receiver for the Tigers, and Tajh Boyd his quarterback. For the Bulldogs, Aaron Murray may be the best QB in the conference, and that includes Johnny Football. Awesome game to have so early. Alabama hosting Virginia Tech is another unusual one to start off with. The Tide will roll them, but there could be a struggle. should be a way better game than the Tide expected.
Honorable mentions goes to TCU and LSU in neutral Texas, Boise State/Washington and Cal versus Northwestern. Tell us what you have and why!
The one other thing I want to address is the noggins of the NFL. As you may have heard, there was a settlement this week, and it heavily favored the NFL. The craven plantation owners admitted nothing, gave up no liability findings, and gave up a ridiculously cheap total sum as hard settlement. By the time lawyer's fees and mandatory testing etc. is deducted, it is criminal how little was gotten for a class of at risk humans. Down the road, if these class members live, they and their representatives will be screaming bloody murder. Here is an outrageously great article laying out the factors, and doing so with the tart and sarcastic truth it deserves
This long Labor Day weekend's music is from the one, the only, Ms. Linda Ronstadt. I have a real affinity for Linda, and haver seen her numerous times including a couple of very special ones. If there has ever been a better pure female vocal talent, I am not sure I have seen it. Pure, and with a range to die for. The singing voice may be silenced, but Linda is rocking on and fighting for the causes she believes in. And they are, and always have been, great, and the right, ones. Oh, also, in case you didn't notice, she had a backup band on the first video. Chuck Berry, Keith Richards, Robert Cray and some other chaps. The second is the band she normally toured with (including Waddy Wachtel – but with Mike Botts on drums instead of Russ Kunkel, who I always saw) and, trust me, they were absolutely killer, and very cool people to boot.
That's it for now. Let Willis, and one and all, rock this joint. We are Livin In The USA. All things considered, it is still pretty fucking grand. Enjoy the holiday weekend my friends.
The other day, Hugo Chavez' successor Nicolás Maduro beat opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski by 2% of the vote. In the days since, opposition figures have sown violence, claiming vote fraud.
Yesterday, Secretary of State Kerry encouraged a recount.
Mr. Kerry, in comments to a House committee, said, "We think there ought to be a recount." He added that he had not yet evaluated whether Washington would recognize Mr. Maduro's victory.
This, in spite of a leaked recording of a close Capriles advisor admitting that this result was a political triumph but an electoral defeat.
This, in spite of the fact that when Bush beat Kerry with precisely the same percentage of the vote in 2004 amid reports of (limited) electoral oddities, Kerry chose not to demand a recount.
On November 2, 2004, George W. Bush beat John Kerry 50.7 percent to 48.3 percent. Venezuela's foreign minister immediately (either that night or the day after) recognized the results: "we will hope that in this second mandate we can improve our relations."
Fast forward nine years, and Nicolás Maduro beats Henrique Capriles with 50.7% of the vote and the US refuses to recognize the result. "Look, we're just not there yet," said a State Department spokesman (who now works for—wait for it— John Kerry). "Obviously, we have nearly half the country that had a different view. And so we'll continue to consult, but we're not there yet."
Most interesting of all is something James Clapper just said in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. In response to a question from Richard Blumenthal about whether there had been fraud in the election, Clapper said (my rough transcription):
There may have been some, but it's unclear whether it was of sufficient magnitude to merit recount. Right now it doesn't appear to be.
In other words, even the intelligence says, whatever fraud there was, it wasn't enough to affect the outcome.
At this point, the Administration's hesitation at recognizing Maduro and Kerry's support for a recount do nothing but stoke violence.
Which I can only assume is the point.
I am going to do something different today and put up a post for semi-live coverage – and discussion – of the DOMA oral arguments in the Supreme Court this morning. First, a brief intro, and then I will try to throw tidbits in here and there as I see it during and after the arguments.
The case at bar is styled United States v. Windsor, et al. In a nutshell, Edith Windsor was married to Thea Spyer, and their marriage was recognized under New York law. Ms. Spyer passed away in 2009 and Windsor was assessed $363,000.00 in inheritance taxes because the federal government, i.e. the IRS, did not recognize her marriage to Spyer in light of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA. Litigation ensued and the 2nd Circuit, in an opinion written by Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs, struck down DOMA as unconstitutional and ruled in favor of Edith Windsor. Other significant cases in Circuit Courts of Appeal hang in the lurch of abeyance awaiting the Supreme Court decision in Windsor, including Golinski v. Office of Personnel Management, Gill v. OPM and Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management.
As an aside, here is a fantastic look at the restaurant where Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer met nearly 50 years ago.
Arguing the case will be Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli again for the United States, Paul Clement for the Bi-Partisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) on putative behalf of Congress, because the Obama Administration ceased defending DOMA on the grounds it was discriminatory and unconstitutional, and Robbie Kaplan for Edith Windsor. Clement and Verrilli are well known by now, but for some background on Robbie Kaplan, who is making her first appearance before the Supremes, here is a very nice article. Also arguing will be Harvard Law Professor Vicki Jackson who was "invited" by SCOTUS to argue on the standing and jurisdiction issue, specifically to argue that there is no standing and/or jurisdiction, because the Obama Administration quit defending and BLAG will argue in favor of standing and jurisdiction.
Here is a brief synopsis of the argument order and timing put together by Ed Whelan at National Review Note: I include Whelan here only for the schedule info, I do not necessarily agree with his framing of the issues).
Okay, that is it for now, we shall see how this goes!
Live Updates:
10:39 am It appears oral arguments are underway after two decisions in other cases were announced.
10:51 am RT @SCOTUSblog: #doma jurisdiction arg continues with no clear indication of whether majority believes #scotus has the power to decide case.
11:00 am By the way, the excellent SCOTUSBlog won a peabody award for its coverage of the Supreme Court.
11:05 am @reuters wire: 7:56:34 AM RTRS – U.S. SUPREME COURT CONSERVATIVE JUSTICES SAY TROUBLED BY OBAMA REFUSAL TO DEFEND MARRIAGE LAW
11:15 am Wall Street Journal is reporting: Chief Justice John Roberts told attrorney Sri Srinivasan, the principal deputy solicitor general, that the government's actions were "unprecedented." To agree with a lower court ruling finding DOMA unconstitutional but yet seeking the Supreme Court to weigh in while it enforces the law is "has never been done before," he said.
11:20 am Is anybody reading this, or is this a waste?
11:32 am @SCOTUSblog Kennedy asks two questions doubting #doma validity but nothing decisive and Chief Justice and Kagan have yet to speak.
11:40 am Wall Street Journal (Evan Perez) Chief Justice Roberts repeatedly expressed irritation at the Obama administration, telling Ms. Jackson, the court-appointed lawyer, and without specifically mentioning the administration, that perhaps the government should have the "courage" to execute the law based on the constitutionality rather instead of shifting the responsibility to the Supreme Court to make a decision.
11:45 am Wall Street Journal (Evan Perez) Paul Clement, attorney for lawmakers defending the law, argued that the went to the very heart of Congress's prerogatives. Passing laws and having them defended was the "single most important" function of Congress, he argued.
11:52 am Wall Street Journal (Evan Perez) Justice Scalia and Mr. Srinivasan parried on whether Congress should have any expectation that laws it passes should be defended by the Justice Department. Mr. Srinivasan said he wouldn't give an "algorithm" that explained when Justice lawyers would or wouldn't defend a statute, but ceded to Justice Scalia's suggestion that Congress has no "assurance" that when it passes a law it will be defended. That's not what the OLC opinion guiding the Justice Department's actions in these cases says, Justice Scalia interjected.
11:56 am Associated Press (Brent Kendall) One of the last questions on the standing issue came from Justice Samuel Alito, who asked whether the House could step in to defend DOMA without the Senate's participation, given that it takes both chambers to pass a law.
11:59 am Bloomberg News During initial arguments today on the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, Justice Anthony Kennedy suggested that a federal law that doesn't recognize gay marriages that are legal in some states can create conflicts.
"You are at real risk of running in conflict" with the "essence" of state powers, Kennedy said. Still, he also said there was "quite a bit" to the argument by backers of the law that the federal government at times needs to use its own definition of marriage, such as in income tax cases.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that when a marriage under state law isn't recognized by the federal government, "One might well ask, what kind of marriage is this?"
12:05 pm @SCOTUSblog Final update: #scotus 80% likely to strike down #doma. J Kennedy suggests it violates states' rights; 4 other Justices see as gay rights.
12:07 pm The argument at the Court is well into the merits portion of the case now
12:09 pm Wall Street Journal (Brent Kendall) Justice Kennedy, however, jumped in with federalism concerns, questioning whether the federal government was intruding on the states' territory. With there being so many different federal laws, the federal government is intertwined with citizens' day-to-day lives, he said. Because of this, DOMA runs the risk of running into conflict with the states' role in defining marriage, he said.
12:12 pm It is pretty clear to me, from a variety of sources I am tracking, that the Court has serious problems with DOMA on the merits. Clement is getting pounded with questions on discrimination, conflict with state laws and federalism concerns. Pretty clear that if standing is found, DOMA is going down.
12:15 pm Wall Street Journal (Brent Kendall) Justice Ginsburg again says the denial of federal benefits to same-sex couples pervades every area of life. DOMA, she said, diminished same-sex marriages to "skim-milk" marriages. Justice Elena Kagan (pictured) follows a short time later saying DOMA did things the federal government hadn't done before, and she said the law raised red flags.
12:19 pm @reuters wire: U.S. SUPREME COURT CONCLUDES ORAL ARGUMENTS ON FEDERAL LAW RESTRICTING SAME-SEX BENEFITS
12:30 pm @AdamSerwer Con Justices contemptuous of Obama decision not to defend DOMA but still enforce law. Kennedy said "it gives you intellectual whiplash"
Okay, as I said earlier, if the Justices can get by the standing issue, it seems clear that DOMA is cooked. I think they will get by standing and enter a decision finding DOMA unconstitutional as to Section 3, which is the specific part of the law under attack in Windsor. That effectively guts all of DOMA.
That is it for the "Live Coverage" portion of the festivities today. It should be about an hour and a half until the audio and transcript are available. As soon as they are, I will add them as an update at the top of the post, and will then put this post on the top of the blog for most of the rest of the day for further discussion. It has been bot a fascinating and frustrating two days of critical oral argument; please continue to analyze and discuss!
One of the relentless memes that keeps cropping up in the marriage equality battle is that, were the Supreme Court to grant full broad based and constitutionally protected marriage equality in the Hollingsworth v. Perry Prop 8 case, there would be a destructive backlash consuming the country on the issue.
A good example of the argument was propounded by Professor Eric Segall at the ACSBlog in a piece entitled "Same-Sex Marriage, Political Backlash and the Case for Going Slow":
There may be a better way. The Court could strike down DOMA under heightened scrutiny making it clear that government classifications based on sexual orientation receive heightened scrutiny. The Court could dismiss the Proposition 8 case on standing grounds (there are substantial standing arguments which the Court asked the parties to brief). This combination would leave all state laws (except perhaps California's) intact but subject to likely successful challenges. Obviously, this would be a slower and more expensive route to marriage equality, but it might make the right more secure over time while decreasing the chances of serious backlash.
I know that it is easy for a straight male like me to suggest that the Court should refrain from quickly and forcefully resolving the same sex marriage issue on a national basis. But issues that some gays care deeply about are not limited to marriage equality, just like feminists face many challenges other than abortion such as equal pay, equality in the military, and glass ceiling barriers. Where gender equality would be without Roe is unknowable but even Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has observed that the right to choose today might be more secure if the Court hadn't decided it "in one fell swoop." I don't know what will happen if the Court announces a national rule on same-sex marriage but history strongly suggests that a more incremental approach might better serve the long term interests of people who identify themselves as liberals and progressives, including gays and lesbians.
I like and respect Eric quite a lot, but I cannot agree with him, nor other advocates of this position (for further discussion of the "Roe backlash" theory, see Adam Liptak in the New York Times). I have long strongly advocated for a full, broad based, ruling for equality for all, in all states, most recently here. But the issue of "backlash" has not previously been specifically addressed in said discussions that I recall.
Fortunately, there are already superb voices who have addressed this issue. The first is from Harvard Law Professor Michael Klarman in the LA Times:
What sort of political backlash might such a decision ignite?
Constitutionalizing gay marriage would have no analogous impact on the lives of opponents. Expanding marriage to include same-sex couples may alter the institution's meaning for religious conservatives who believe that God created marriage to propagate the species. But that effect is abstract and
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US Senator Arlen Specter, whose political career took him from Philadelphia City Hall to the US Congress, died Sunday morning at his home in Philadelphia at the age of 82 from complications of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. He was born February 12, 1930.
His career was marked by what the pundits and Specter himself called "fierce independence." But long before Specter ever stepped onto the Senate floor in Washington DC, he made it into national prominence by serving as assistant counsel for the Warren Commission, which investigated the 1963 assassination of Pres. John F. Kennedy.
Specter postulated the controversial "single-bullet theory" that was eventually embraced by the panel and still stands to this day, despite the cry of conspiracy theorists who say there was more than one gunman in Dallas that November day.
"Admittedly a strange path for a bullet to take, but sometimes truth is stranger than fiction," Specter said.
We have had a complicated relationship with Arlen Specter here at Emptywheel, sometimes castigating him, sometimes praising him, sometimes laughing at him, sometimes laughing with him. Specter engendered all those things. But I always sensed a very decent heart beating underneath Specter's surface, even if it was all too often masked by his votes for, and often vociferous support of, ever more destructive policies of the right.
For this, Specter earned the nickname "Scottish Haggis" here in the annals of Emptywheel. The term had its root in Mr. Specter's predilection for Scottish Law, and goes all the way back to the original incarnation at The Next Hurrah. For a number of reasons, offal and otherwise, it was a nickname that stuck and seemed appropos and seemed to reflect the complicated nature of Senator Specter.
On a personal note, I did not have an abundance of interaction with Sen. Specter and his office, but in that which I did have, I found him and his office to be beyond both kind and professional. One instance stands head and shoulders above the others, and surrounded the Obama scuttled nomination of Dawn Johnsen to be head of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). It was my contention from the outset that the whip count votes were there to confirm Professor Johnsen for the job she was perfect for. And, in the roiling aftermath of the Bush/Cheney unitary executive excesses, the country desperately needed Johnsen's intellectual sense of honesty and Constitutional integrity.
The only reason Dawn Johnsen did not get confirmed as OLC head was Barack Obama used her as false bait and cat nip for the more noisy progressive liberals. It was a glaring sign of depressing things to come from the not nearly as Constitution minded Barack Obama as had been pitched in his election run. Not only could Johnsen have been confirmed, as I pointed out before, she could also have been recess appointed by Obama. Despite all the ridicule I took at the time, that point has been proved conclusively by the later recess appointment of Richard Cordray to be head of the CFPB (another instance of Obama using a supremely qualified progressive, Elizabeth Warren, as bait and then hanging her out to dry).
The point was never that Dawn Johnsen couldn't be confirmed, it was that Barack Obama and the insiders of his White House did not want her confirmed into leadership of the OLC. I knew that from talking to several inside the DOJ and Senate Judiciary Committee, but that was all off the record. When I found an obscure old comment from Arlen Specter indicating he was willing to support a cloture vote for Johnsen as far back as his second meeting with Dawn Johnsen on or about May 12, 2009, it was by then an old, and quite obscure comment. Specter could have walked it back or dissembled on the subject.
Arlen Specter didn't walk it back or dissemble, instead he personally confirmed it to me. With the already in the bag vote of Sen. Richard Lugar, that was the 60 votes for Dawn Johnsen at OLC. Specter knew it would infuriate both the GOP and the Obama White House, and he knew exactly what story I was writing. He stood up. Oh, and, yes, he knew about "Scottish Haggis" too. The man had a sense of humor.
For the above vignette, and several others, I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Snarlin Arlen Specter. His life and work in government spanned over five decades, he has got my salute today.
Sen. Specter repeatedly had to fight off serious cancer, and he did so with aplomb, courage and his good humor. He also was a tireless champion for the NIH and funding of cancer and stem cell research. When confronted with the last battle, the one which finally took him, Specter was upbeat, defiant and determined to get back to his part time hobby of stand up comedy. May the Scottish Haggis have many laughs wherever he may travel.


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I've created a hierarchy of categories with different wines. The categories get translated as they should but the problem is that the wines have the same name in danish and engelsk and therefore will be a little double work to insert them both when they have the same information. Is there any way to make it work for both languages without making the same post twice?
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Haredi Convert to Islam Pleads Guilty to Incitement
A Jewish convert to Islam pleaded guilty to inciting violence, including a call to leave Chabad headquarters in New York "a message from Islam."
"Yousef Mohamid Al-Khattab (a.k.a. Joseph Cohen), 45, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, pleaded guilty Thursday to using his position as a leader of the 'Revolution Muslim' websites to use the Internet to place others in fear of serious bodily injury," said an Oct. 31 statement from the Alexandria, Va., office of the FBI.
Al-Khattab pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court. He faces a sentence of up to five years when he next appears in court, in February.
Many of his incendiary calls were made during Operation Cast Lead in 2009, among them a call to seek out leaders of Jewish federations "and deal with them in their homes."
He also posted a map with directions to Chabad headquarters and, according to The Washington Post, called on his readers to "make EVERY attempt to reach these people and teach them the message of Islam or leave them a message of Islam."
The Post said al-Khattab was a dual Israeli citizen.
A before-and-after photo on the Vosizneias news website showed a younger al-Khattab when he was a haredi Orthodox Jew.JTA
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I feel sorry for this idiot. Anyone who has the opportunity to convert to Islam is certainly insane. God help this wandering soul.
This Haredi lost his spiritual path. No one cared enough to take him to "task". we are our brothers' keepers and responsible when things go awry. No, he is not an idiot. He is someone who found disappointment within himself or the Jewishness let him down. It was our responsibility to reach out to him and find out what was upsetting him so much to find "comfort" in Islam.
If his faith is as fragile as it appears , he will not make a good Muslim either!!
This self-written off jew,was-he a real jew or did he belong to the circus neturey-karta?


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Reading, writing, spelling difficulties - could the problems your child is facing suggest dyslexia?
Dyslexia is a common difficulty, but that does not make it less of a problem. Despite its being so well recognised, there are still those who deny its existence or, more subtly, underestimate or ignore the significance of the problem for a particular individual.
A child with dyslexia?
Dyslexia is primarily about difficulties with reading, spelling and writing. It is difficult for any child to realise why they are different. They may recognise that what they can and cannot do is different, for example spelling accurately or remembering times tables, but they are unlikely to know why.
Dyslexia is a life-long condition that cannot be cured, but its effects can be minimised with appropriate, timely help and intervention, and good use of coping strategies. There may be associated difficulties that can be identified and treated; for example, glue ear (otitis media), common in children with dyslexia, can affect their hearing, which in turn affects their ability to learn phonics in reading. Aids, such as coloured lenses (it is important to screen for this), are likely to be effective in only some 20 per cent of cases.
The dyslexic child is one who usually:
- Fails at school despite adequate intelligence.
- Writes 41 for 14, reads 'on' for 'no', writes b for d and can't remember the sequence of letters that make up a word.
- Hears a clock ticking, the sound of pencils scratching on paper, but doesn't hear what the teacher says.
- Forgets names of people, places, their own phone number, date of birth, but remembers the ads on TV.
- Loses homework, misplaces a book, doesn't know what day it is.
- Has a messy room, a shirttail hanging out, shoelaces undone, attracts dirt like a magnet.
- Doesn't look where they are going, bumps into doors, doesn't look at the person who is talking to them.
- Has trouble lining up, doesn't stop talking, fiddles with anything and everything.
- Calls breakfast 'lunch', says 'Good morning' in the afternoon, has little sense of time.
- Has a limited concentration span, especially with anything written.
- Is reluctant to try new things, to accept even minor changes in routine.
- Says 'I don't care' or 'I won't' when they mean 'I can't', and would rather be labelled bad than stupid.
- Is a quiet child who has withdrawn from involvement in any classroom activity.
- Is the child who has a headache or tummy ache on the same day each week, the day of the lesson they dread.
Indicators of dyslexia
- Dyslexia in the family.
- Problems with speech and language, including mispronouncing or jumbling words, poor use of syntax, difficulties with rhymes, inaccurate and inconsistent use of words, word-naming problems.
- Problems with putting words or numbers in sequence.
- Poor organisational skills including difficulty dressing.
- Visual difficulties - standard eye tests may reveal perfect vision, but there may be underlying problems.
- There may be auditory difficulties. The child may hear, but not be able to distinguish sounds. Hearing test results may be normal, but the child may have problems remembering a string of instructions, learning nursery or other rhymes, learning tables, the alphabet, days of the week or months of the year.
- Counting, especially counting backwards, may be problematic.
- Fine motor skill problems may be apparent – perhaps holding a pencil awkwardly, having difficulty with scissors or cutlery, problems tying shoe laces.
- Gross motor skill difficulties may be apparent: the child may be slow to hop, skip or jump, appear clumsy and bump into things, have difficulty distinguishing right from left.
In isolation, or indeed in young children, these indicators of dyslexia should not give cause for concern. It is when several indicators are present that dyslexia (or another specific learning difficulty) may be present. If you suspect that your child may have a learning difficulty, discuss it with teachers.
Facing the school day
Dyslexia is mainly associated with reading and writing, but it affects more than just English lessons. For example, the writing demands of history can be a problem and the child may find sports difficult..
Dyslexics can also run into difficulties in maths if not taught appropriately – many dyslexics find learning times table facts very difficult, which can be a great source of frustration for child, parent and teacher.
The impact of dyslexia depends on the tasks the child is asked to do and on the circumstances that surround them. Dyslexics can flourish in the cosy, reassuring atmosphere of a good primary school, but many things about the structure of secondary schools make them inherently more difficult. For example, pupils now meet many teachers instead of just the class teacher, and they are expected to be more independent in their learning, to read more and write more, to adjust to more new demands from each new lesson, to be organised. Dyslexic children will struggle with all of these to a greater or lesser degree.
10 things that hinder the dyslexic child
- Teachers who go too fast and expect too much.
- Being expected to produce the same amount of work (as non-dyslexic pupils) in the same time.
- Teachers who do not stick to the point.
- Teachers who know that the child is dyslexic, but don't help enough. Being patronised.
- Too much copying off the board and/or dictating notes. Removing work from the board too soon.
- Having test results read out loud. People who make fun or who are sarcastic.
- Being told off when asking a friend for help.
- Not being allowed to use a laptop in lessons.
- Confusing 'dyslexic' with stupidity. Lack of understanding/empathy for dyslexia (from teachers and other students).
- Being made to read aloud in class.
20 things that help the dyslexic child
- Being given help disreetly.
- Being given more time.
- Handouts with summaries of work.
- Marking work in dark colours ... tidily.
- Working in smaller groups.
- Trained teachers. An awareness of dyslexic difficulties.
- Teachers who care.
- Grades that show individual improvement.
- Marking that is clear and helpful.
- Catch-up exercises.
- Work judged for content, not spelling.
- Working from the pupils' strengths.
- Multi-sensory teaching and learning.
- Use of study skills and mind maps.
- Visual aids such as diagrams, pictures, charts, interactive whiteboards etc.
- Audio-visual aids – including encouraging alternative means of recording such as voice-recognition software.
- ICT as a tool (eg for touch-typing) as well as a teaching/learning aid.
- Emphasising and promoting key words.
- Limiting the amount to be copied from the board.
- Praise, encouragement and rewards.
These issues should be addressed in any school's policy for special educational needs. Ask to see the policy and ask for examples as to how it is implemented in the school.
Vision and reading problems
Sometimes problems with reading or focusing have nothing to do with actual visual impairment, but with control over how the eyes move, or how the brain interprets what they see. Vision and reading problems are frequently identified in children with specific learning difficulties.
Difficulty with the control of the eyes often results in unpleasant visual symptoms, which commonly include: blurring, movement, shimmering, flickering, fading, distortion of print, merging of print and background, double vision, headaches and/or sore eyes.
Children who suffer visual stress may have difficulty with:
- viewing patterns in print
- seeing colours in print
- copying
- scanning and maintaining their place when reading
- reversing letters
- organising and spacing print.
Symptoms may be worse under certain lighting conditions, in particular fluorescent lighting, and if print is small and densely packed. Sufferers may also feel that the page is too bright to look at. The symptoms may be constant or intermittent and may be caused by several visual difficulties.
Visual problems do not in themselves cause dyslexia or dyspraxia; however, they may be a considerable additional barrier to learning to read and write.
The more visual symptoms a person has the more likely they are to have problems with reading. Equally, of course, visual problems can afflict children and adults who do not have dyslexia or dyspraxia.
Symptoms can be indicative of a number of problems, which an orthoptist can check for and treat. Undetected, they can lead to children lagging behind or missing out on learning at crucial times.
Binocular vision difficulties
Binocular vision involves the control and co-ordination of both eyes. Although each eye sees two separate images, these images are blended in our brain into one single picture. There are many aspects of binocular vision which are crucial to comfortable and accurate reading.
Our eyes are rarely completely straight. In most people the eyes drift slightly and this is controlled without our even noticing. If the eyes drift too much, this can cause headaches and discomfort, especially when reading. Three essential components of eye control, if faulty, affect our ability to read for prolonged periods. These are:
- convergence (pulling the eyes in)
- accommodation (fine focusing of vision to stop things looking blurred)
- fusion (a brain function which compensates for drifting of the eyes and keeps the eyes aligned).
These aspects of vision are weak in many people who find reading difficult. Difficulty with accommodation and convergence will result in problems seeing print clearly and maintaining single clear vision. If there is insufficient fusion, the eyes will tire and visual symptoms will result which will make reading difficult. Some people have problems with focusing and co-ordinating the eyes, resulting in fatigue when doing close work.
The good news is that binocular vision problems are easily remedied for most people with some simple exercises, and in some cases glasses.
Meares-Irlen syndrome (MIS)/visual stress/scotopic sensitivity
This is caused by pattern sensitivity. Children (and adults) with MIS may complain of many of the visual symptoms in the list above. They may appear to have sore eyes and will get tired easily when reading. In extreme cases they may avoid reading altogether.
It has been shown that patterns or stripes can create uncomfortable visual distortions, which can cause headaches.
Print can also take on the appearance or illusion of stripy patterns, creating uncomfortable visual symptoms and distortions when reading. These distortions are common (they are an exaggeration of a normal phenomenon) and are not exclusively experienced by people with dyslexia, but can affect up to 50 per cent of dyslexic readers. MIS sufferers find their problems are worse with small print, shiny paper and some font types.
This condition can be treated with tinted overlays and precision-coloured lenses. Each person has an individual colour preference, and the right colour (ascertained by a specially trained orthoptist) will generally reduce the symptoms and discomfort, increase reading speed, reduce headaches and so possibly improve attention and concentration.
Eye movements
Good eye movements are essential to reading. People with reading difficulties may have eye movements that are not properly controlled or coordinated.
Abnormal control of eye movements is particularly common in children with other co-ordination problems such as dyspraxia or developmental co-ordination disorder.
Saccadic (jumping) eye movements are used in reading to change focus from one word to another. If these little leaps are poorly controlled then the reader may lose their place or miss words out. This may also cause problems when copying, and the student may not be able to copy accurately, especially if they have problems directing their gaze accurately. Common indications of this include:
- excessive head movements when changing gaze
- difficulty changing focus from one target to another (called an initiation problem)
- poor control of reflexive eye movements, making the person easy to distract
- inaccurate eye movements.
Gaining better control of saccades can make reading more accurate and faster.
Tracking ability
Tracking is used when reading to search for information and follow a line of writing. The ability to do this improves with age and practice. If it is underdeveloped, a child will have problems keeping their place when reading and copying. This can be improved with exercises and by using a ruler or window to keep the place. Copying can be improved by placing the material to be copied on the desk directly above, rather than to the side, of the paper the child is writing on.
A bright future?
For those who persevere, and many dyslexics persevere at levels non-dyslexics will never attain, the results can be impressive. There is generally good help and support for bright dyslexics at university. Note-takers, mentors and extra-time are some of the things that may be funded via the Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA) grant. Each case is assessed on merit and will need to be supported with appropriate up-to-date document such as a recent educational psychologist's report.
Well-known dyslexics include Tom Cruise, Lord Rogers, Sir Jackie Stewart, Sir Steve Redgrave, Linda LaPlante, Cher, Sir Richard Branson and Susan Hampshire.
With thanks to Sandra Hutchinson, Dr Nadia Northway and to Steve Chinn for additional material. 'What helps, what hinders' reproduced with kind permissions and in part from Thomson and Chinn in Dyslexia: Theory and Good Practice, Whurr, 2001)


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Gregory's return to contention comes after fit-again Amine Linganzi was named on the bench for last weekend's 3-1 defeat at Notts County, with the Frenchman also pushing for match action.
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Thomas (Tom) John Ypsilantis (Greek: Θωμάς Ιωάννη Υψηλάντης; June 24, 1928 in Salt Lake City, Utah – August 16, 2000 in Geneva, Switzerland) was an American physicist of Greek descent.
Ypsilantis was best known for the co-discovery of the antiproton in 1955, along with Owen Chamberlain, Emilio Segrè, and Clyde Wiegand. His field of research was the construction of detectors for use in particle physics. He had a long association with CERN.
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|Colts | Donte Moncrief almost at full health
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 11:39:10 -0700
Indianapolis Colts WR Donte Moncrief (toe) said his surgically repaired toe is 96% to 97% healthy.
Fantasy Tip: Moncrief has plenty of time to nurse that toe to 100% health between now and the regular season. As long as he doesn't suffer any setbacks, he should be in the WR2 conversation with Andrew Luck returning.
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|Colts | Indianapolis using three receiver sets
Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:15:00 -0700
Indianapolis Colts WR T.Y. Hilton, WR Donte Moncrief and WR Phillip Dorsett have been part of the three-receiver lineup implemented by offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski in the first two days of training camp. Under former offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton, Indianapolis primarily used two-tight end sets.
Fantasy Tip: The big winner is Dorsett, who should be on the field enough to approach WR4 territory.
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|Colts | Donte Moncrief may catch a lot of passes
Tue, 19 Jul 2016 17:50:07 -0700
Indianapolis Colts WR Donte Moncrief is expected to lead the Colts in catches this year, in the opinion of ESPN.com's Mike Wells.
Fantasy Tip: Moncrief has definitely shown he's capable of producing in the NFL, and he'll be even better if Andrew Luck can stay on the field. He has WR2 upside in 2016 after posting 64 catches for 733 yards and six touchdowns last year.
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|Colts | Donte Moncrief skidded without Andrew Luck
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 05:34:49 -0700
Indianapolis Colts WR Donte Moncrief caught 34 passes for 381 yards and five touchdowns through seven games with QB Andrew Luck under center last season. In the nine following games, Moncrief caught just 30 passes for 352 yards and a single touchdown.
Fantasy Tip: Obviously, losing Luck was a big blow for Moncrief's fantasy value in 2015. Entering 2016, though, it is Moncrief who isn't 100% healthy after offseason surgery to repair his turf toe, yet the third-year wideout is still commanding a selection in the early middle rounds of drafts. And while there is a lot to like about the chances of a breakout season from Moncrief, you'll just want to be careful that any profit potential isn't squeezed out of his fantasy stock by reaching too early for him in drafts. Keep tabs on his health leading into the season, too.
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Sat, 18 Jun 2016 10:35:29 -0700
Indianapolis Colts WR Donte Moncrief (toe) began running routes earlier this week for the first time since his toe surgery earlier this offseason.
Fantasy Tip: Moncrief's timetable isn't crystal clear at this point, but he may be somewhat limited in training camp if the Colts want to limit risk of aggravation. If he's full-go by the regular season, though, then he's worth a WR2 selection.
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Indianapolis Colts WR Brian Tyms stood out during organized team activities (OTAs), as he is locked in a battle for one of the two receiver spots behind WRs T.Y. Hilton, Donte Moncrief and Phillip Dorsett. Beat writer Zak Keefer noted Tyms emerged from the pack of contenders for the No. 4 job, and he boasts size at 6-foot-3 that the team lacks among their top three receivers. The team expects to keep as many as six receivers.
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Indianapolis Colts WR Donte Moncrief (toe) had surgery on his turf toe early in the offseason, but it's not expected to be a long-term issue.
Fantasy Tip: Moncrief will be the Colts' No. 2 wide receiver behind T.Y. Hilton, assuming he's at full health. There is the possibility that Moncrief could have a breakout year if Andrew Luck stays upright. For now, though, Moncrief should be drafted as a low-end WR2 to high-end WR3.
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|Colts | Donte Moncrief suffers injury
Sun, 03 Jan 2016 13:00:53 -0800
Indianapolis Colts WR Donte Moncrief (toe) suffered a toe injury during the team's Week 17 game against the Tennessee Titans and will not return.
Fantasy Tip: Moncrief posted decent numbers this season and should be one of the top two or three receivers for the Colts in 2016. He could be a late-round pick in deeper leagues next season.
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|Colts | Donte Moncrief probable for Week 17
Fri, 01 Jan 2016 15:21:03 -0800
Indianapolis Colts WR Donte Moncrief (toe) did not participate in practice Friday, Jan. 1, and is listed as probable to play in the Week 17 game against the Tennessee Titans.
Fantasy Tip: Moncrief ($4,900, 9.8% of cap) hasn't practiced all week, so it is somewhat surprising to see him listed as probable for Week 17. However, his fantasy value is tied to a yet-to-be-named starting quarterback, which is far from ideal. View the receiver as a desperation start at FantasyScore this weekend.
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|Colts | Matt Hasselbeck, Donte Moncrief out
Thu, 31 Dec 2015 12:12:03 -0800
Indianapolis Colts QB Matt Hasselbeck (shoulder, ribs, back) and WR Donte Moncrief (toe) both missed practice for the second straight day Thursday, Dec. 31.
Fantasy Tip: Hasselbeck ($4,800, 9.6% of cap) was already doubtful to play this weekend and is a long shot. Stay away from any Indy quarterback who starts this one against the Tennessee Titans. Moncrief ($4,900, 9.8% of cap) has faded in the second half as he's battled injuries and should also be ignored on FantasyScore, even if he plays.
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I read sometime back that a Merrill Lynch analyst has a $65 target on Comcast, anyone have the link to this?
Industry-leading scale, best execution and NBCU upside
We are adding Comcast to our US 1 list. Comcast offers industry-leading scale,
best-in-class execution, and an NBCU (Entertainment company) division showing
consistent and improving signs of a turnaround; for a recap of Comcast's 2Q, see
Comcast Corp: 'Despicably' consistent (again) 31 July 2013
Leading innovator amongst cable operators
Comcast has become an innovative, entrepreneurial and nimble company with
leading-edge consumer-friendly technology as evidenced by its X1/X2 platforms.
The company will soon roll out the second generation (X2) of its cloud-based
entertainment operating system, which has features including improved search,
recommendation engine, voice activation, etc. , is working closely with Verizon to
develop mobile video solutions, is building (and launching) a vast network of Wi-Fi
hotspots and will offer 1Gbps+ HSD connections in the not-too-distant future.
Performance excellence
Comcast is leveraging its leading scale, flexible and robust infrastructure as well as
its "top of the class" innovation to generate differentiated results vs. its cable peers.
(Yet the stock, inexplicably, lags the broader group.) Video losses have been
minimized and are improving, while HSD net adds have grown Y/Y for 10 of the last
11 last quarters; in addition, the company has consistently grown its voice business.
Comcast's business services (SME) segment is projected to grow at a 23% CAGR
(2012E-2017E), with upside. Additionally, NBCU has shown promising signs of an
early turnaround.
Reiterate Buy and $60 PO
Comcast is one of our favorite stocks across our universe due to: 1) industry-leading
scale; 2) unparalleled execution; 3) a conservative, yet lucrative approach to its
capital structure which leaves ample room for shareholder returns; 4) a
management team second-to-none; 5) attractive valuation and 6) significant upside
in each and every NBCU division. We strongly reiterate our Buy rating on Comcast
People think the only thing Comcast does is provide cable programs, a very false assumption!


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Google Dec Action vs Rockstar
Rockstar v TWC
Sources: Google countersuit on Scribd, Bloomberg, Gigaom
quote: by Mitch101 on December 27, 2013 at 1:47 PM...also worth pointing out is that Microsoft Communications head Frank Shaw attached a screenshot to a tweet reflecting Google General Counsel Kent Walker's refusal to Microsoft's offer.That email reads:Brad –Sorry for the delay in getting back to you — I came down with a 24-hour bug on the way back from San Antonio. After talking with people here, it sounds as though for various reasons a joint bid wouldn't be advisable for us on this one. But I appreciate your flagging it, and we're open to discussing other similar opportunities in the future.I hope the rest of your travels go well, and I look forward to seeing you again soon.– KentSo say what you will about Rockstar's lawsuits, but it's hard to feel terribly bad for Google given that this could have easily been avoidable.
quote: RockStar is a group of manufacturing companies investment into the Nortel Patent Portfolio. Its not a patent troll where a group of non-manufacturers group aka investors group together to purchase valuable patents to sue others and yet never produce a product.
quote: If your going to call MS and Apple trolls include be sure to add in EMC, RIM, and Sony because they also were with Rockstar in the patent purchase. Oh also add Google because Google also partnered with Rockstar in the purchase of the Kodak Patent portfolio.Sorry if the author chose to leave out details, failed to any actual research, or if he chose to target certain companies.
quote: In addition to Microsoft, Apple, and BlackBerry, other minority owners of Rockstar include Japan's Sony Corp. (TYO:6758), Sweden's Ericsson AB (STO:ERIC.A, ERIC.B), and the Mass.-based EMC Corp. (EMC).Sony, in particular, is notable, in that it's a minor Android OEM. If somehow Microsoft and Apple are able to troll other Android OEMs to death, Sony could see gains in market share, as the only OEM who doesn't have to pay direct licensing fees to Microsoft/Apple (Sony also notably has preexisting licensing deals with Microsoft and Apple).
quote: Obviously Google did a little growing up
quote: Fact is your upset that Microsoft/Apple won these patents
quote: Coming from the biggest loser Ive ever seen online in my entire life
quote: Coming from the biggest loser Ive ever seen online in my entire life and not just this site either.
quote: Rockstar Consortium Inc., originally named Rockstar Bidco,[1] is an organization formed by a consortium including Apple, Inc. and Microsoft[1] to negotiate licensing for patents acquired from bankrupt Nortel.[2][3] Other companies in the consortium include BlackBerry, Ericsson, and Sony.[4] Rockstar is a patent holding non-practicing entity (NPE) and submitted the winning US$4.5 billion bid for the Nortel patents at a week-long auction held in New York in June 2011. [5]
quote: So say what you will about Rockstar's lawsuits, but it's hard to feel terribly bad for Google given that this could have easily been avoidable.
quote: Google claims there was collusion between the parties and they were left out of the process at various stages.
quote: Tony knows what happened on the inside: Apple did the right thing!
quote: No, Google bought moto and its patent portfolio to FEND OFF Apple's endless patent trolling attack.
quote: Tell me, who is at the center of it all involved with more suits than any other? You guessed it (although you already knew it) Its "Precious"
quote: Google are pussies.
quote: So, it sounds like you're saying that Google should have joined a consortium that would have protected the patents in a way that's completely contrary to Google's business model and screws over the Android OEM's?
quote: Would achieving sole ownership of the Nortel patents...
quote: Google's Motorola division is very active in taking legal actions almost of which are based on SEP and FRAND patents (and have as a result been mostly unsuccessful)
quote: Collusion takes place within an industry when rival companies cooperate for their mutual benefit. Collusion most often takes place within the market structure of oligopoly, where the decision of a few firms to collude can significantly impact the market as a whole.
quote: They didn't buy the patents for nothing. All they want is force everyone else off the market, raise prices across the continuum, and kill real innovation at its tracks.
quote: Filed: Aug. 1996Granted: Nov. 1998
quote: Many of these patents appear to be representative of the controversial practice of repatenting existing, ubiquitous hardware and software technologies in a mobile context.
quote: Included among those improvements, in our view, are the elimination of the expansion of the kinds of patents that can be reviewed...


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On Saturday, May 11 at 11 a.m., graduation caps will be seen soaring through the air at Lees-McRae's annual commencement ceremony. Among the noteworthy attendees will be this year's keynote speaker, Ms. Elizabeth H. Roberts, former Director of the Financial Stability Institute (FSI) at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland.
Due to weather conditions, the ceremony will be held in the rain location, Williams Gymnasium.
Parking will be available at the following sites: Chaffee Administration Building, Stinson, Hayes, Cannon Student Center, and Avery parking lots along with the two gravel parking lots of Williams Physical Education Center. These parking lots are on a first come, first served basis. The paved parking lots of Williams Physical Education Center will be reserved for handicapped and VIP/Reserved parking (valid permit required).
Shuttle Service will be available at Hayes, Stinson, Cannon Student Center and Avery parking lots. Signs will be posted for shuttle service at each location. The shuttles will begin at 8:30 a.m. and run continuously until the last person has been shuttled to the ceremony site. Shuttles will also be available at the Best Western Plus Mountain Lodge. That shuttle service will begin at 8:45 a.m. and the last shuttle will run at 10:15 a.m.
Reserved Parking and Seating
The college has reserved the main, paved parking lot of Williams Physical Education Center for guests with mobility impairments; however, the total number of parking spaces is limited. To park in one of these reserved spaces, a valid permit is required. In addition, areas within the seating section have been reserved for wheelchair users and handicapped individuals.
Keynote Speaker
Lees-McRae is honored to welcome Ms. Roberts to campus. Prior to joining the Financial Stability Institute (FSI), she was a staff member of the Federal Reserve Board's Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation for more than twenty years. In 1993, she was appointed manager of the Division's International Policy Section where she developed, among other things, the Federal Reserve's program for supervising the U.S. operations of foreign banks. Ms. Roberts has also worked in the International Division of First Union National Bank (now Wachovia) and in retail banking at a community bank in the U.S. State of Virginia. Since her retirement, she has continued to work in the area of global financial stability, primarily through special assignments with the International Monetary Fund.
Ms. Roberts has a Masters degree in international finance from the American Graduate School of International Management and a Bachelor of Arts degree in German Studies from Sweet Briar College. She also studied for a year at the Ludwig Maximilian Universitaet in Munich, Germany.
Additional Events
In addition to an exciting keynote speaker, commencement weekend will be full of exciting events including a Baccalaureate Dinner and Baccalaureate/Hooding Service on Friday. The Baccalaureate Dinner will be held from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in MacDonald Dining Hall. Family and friends are welcome to attend. The cost is: $14.00 adults, $7.00 children 6-12 yrs., and free for children 1-5 yrs. Guests must purchase a ticket in advance to attend the dinner. Tickets can be purchased through the Registrar's Office by calling 828-898-8256. There is no cost for graduates. After dinner, the Baccalaureate/Hooding Service will take place in Hayes Auditorium at 7 p.m.
For more information on Commencement at Lees-McRae, please contact the Registrar's Office at 828-898-8856 or click here to visit the graduation page of the Lees-McRae College website.
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Rivers of Blood Lyrics
Rivers of Blood Song Lyrics
[Intro: RZA]
The Chinese have a saying; "Dangerous men will meet in narrow streets"
And so it was, Wu will raise between the Clans
And that meant pressure on me, to make more weapons
And as word of the gold shipment spread
Strangers suddenly appeared in Jungle Village
Aiyo, aiyo, machete's still stainless, the archbishop run from the narcs
A crisp biscuit, plus play the heart, wrist glisten
Cool captain, catch me in Africa, blacked down
With four, five Somalians, black Timbs
Rubber suit Wonder Woman, bangles and blue Coupe
I'm usually up on the roof, counting mad loot
Root beer reefer, T-frame, doing my one-two
Smoking with a plain Jane trooper
Excellent with rifles, out in Japan, in a flight goose
Switchblade that poke out the night boost
Flustered on the bullet train with chains on
Getting my train on, thunder money make bread brainstorm
All this is made for the Forbes list, whores get p**sed
Aiyo, he f**ked me out his drawers, he dissed me
All this is calculated, the Batman of the Blackhand
Mafia money, killas who rock tans
[Chorus 2X: U-God]
Bone, crushing, smooth, kicks
Blades, chopping, through, bricks
Master of the weaponry, sells to both clicks
Blacksmith, with the Iron Fists
[Ghostface Killah]
Yeah, yo, rigamortis, I watch your body rot to the bone structure
Scr*pe out your brain watch your eyeballs rupture
Black magic, leave your f**king skull in a soup pot
Makaveli, vamoose like 2Pac
Suicidal tendencies, downing white Hennessey
Look in the book, I'm the definition of menace, B
Choking niggas out for no reason, it's Duck Seazon
I'm cold as ice, six degrees below freezing
Stay dipped, rock a striped shirt like Freddy Krueger
You'se a baby piranha surrounded by barracudas
Seven thirty, I'm more like six o'clock
Straight up and down, beating niggas til there's blood in the socks
Ox' and duff 'em, stuff 'em in black bags
Without getting no blood on my fresh rags
Ruthless, heart of a stone, born with no emotions
I p**s out brouhahas, poisonous potions
[Chorus 2X]
[Kool G. Rap]
Yeah, it's the three deadly venoms, with weapons in the denims
Some sh*t that'll shake windows and break late tenants
Come left field, aim crooked, and just straight blaze in 'em
Have you niggas with straight legs, with a fake leg in 'em
Wolf in sheep's clothing, nah, I'm scoping a tender lamb
Spin you b**ches like a ballroom dinner dance
G mode, dress code, got suspended plans
Russian roulette, money bet, go and spend your chance
You little fleas, the Killa Beez and army ants
EMS cut up your jeans like zombie pants
Hollow chrome to your collar bone, pinned against a dope beat
That sound like the first key on the xylophone
Grown men discussing death in the mildest tone
See how quick the smiley faces turn solid stone
Ghostface, Rae and G be the wildest known
We straight street, but we keep a seat in the palace throne
[Chorus 2X]
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Revitalize Downtown! That's the goal of Clarkesville Main Streen. Each year, thousands of visitors are drawn to downtown Clarkesville to participate in events. With a variety of happenings for all ages throughout the year, Downtown Clarkesville is the place to be for events and entertainment!
Friday Night Flicks
Friday Night Flicks kicked off its fourth season in Pitts Park. A partnership with Cornelia Better Hometown, this signature event entertained over 1200 movie-goers with a movie under the stars. Local non-profits sold concessions.
Magical Gardens of Mauldin
An enchanting event designed to stimulate the imagination of children (and parents!) The Mauldin House Gardens come to life in this magical Fairy and Dragon experience, complete with face-painting, live theater, music, magic and games. This unique event also features a nine foot dragon!
Easter Bunny
The bunny trail ends at the Mauldin House, where hundreds of children gather annually for a picture with the Easter Bunny himself!.
Mountain Laurel Festival
A beloved tradition that has been a fixture in Clarkesville for over fifty years, The Mountain Laurel festival highlights local arts and crafts, food, entertainment, a Kids Zone, Classic Auto Show, historic tours and so much more! The event also features a spectacular evening fireworks show!
A Taste of Clarkesville
A culinary carnival featuring tastes from downtown restaurants, local wineries and nearby breweries. Live music and delicious food all set to a gorgeous fall backdrop in the mountains! Held annually on the last Saturday in September.
Back to School Bash
A free event designed to help students prepare for the new school year. Free school supplies, health screenings, haircuts - as well as fun, games and food. Held on the Saturday before the start of the school year.
Worldwide Photo Walk
An annual tradition that invites photo enthusiasts of all skill levels to walk the streets of downtown, capturing Clarkesville on camera.
A Downtown Clarkesville Christmas
Downtown comes to life with the annual tree-lighting, caroling, hot cocoa and Santa at the gazebo, and the ever-popular Windows at Woods. Combined with the Christmas light contest, extended shopping hours, and the Elves on our Shelves Hunt, this festive celebration brings hundreds of visitors Downtown each year.
Clarkesville Mardi Gras
With all the pizzazz of jazz and beyond the heartiest of parties, Clarkesville brings Mardi Gras to the mountains! Clarkesville Mardi Gras is an award-winning fundraiser designed to raise money for the beautification and restoration of downtown. Complete with New Orleans-themed food, costumes, a live DJ, photo booth, silent auction and dancing, you can see why this event has sold out every year!
Friday Night Live
Held on the third Friday each month from April-September, Friday Night Live is a social event featuring live music, extended shopping and a variety of local specials throughout downtown.
Dinner & A Movie
Grab a bite from one of our local restaurants and watch a favorite flick in Clarkesville's original movie house- the historic Habersham Community Theatre!
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12 Reviews
Fresh orange juice is a must! The chicken was in the marinade for about 3 hours. The end result was moist, flavorful chicken. It was served on a bed a wild a brown rice with Broccoli With Red Pepper Flakes and Garlic Chips.
Deliciously moist chicken and an easy marinade mixture using pantry staples. All my family enjoyed their chicken tonight and the recipe was already gluten-free suitable :D Photo also to be posted
This is a great marinade for chicken! Short marinade time and made with ingredients I always have on hand is a real plus too. This combination of flavors made a great blend with no one flavor overpowering the others. Loved this - thanks for sharing the recipe!
Loved it! I didn't have fresh limes, but did have some bottled key lime juice, so I dumped that in. I didn't measure out the orange, just used all the juice from a fresh orange and then scraped in some of the pulp. The chicken was a thickly-cut, so I sliced them in half for thinner pieces. Put all the marinade and chicken together and soaked overnight. It came out so juicy and tasty! Neither juice flavor was overpowering, but it was just an overall nice citrus flavor. I completely recommend this!
This was OUTSTANDING. I doubled the recipe, and used an entire bag of chicken breasts from Costco, so that we would have leftovers during the week for salads and sandwiches. We had company for dinner, and the chicken was a big hit. Flavorful, but not overwhelming, and very tender and juicy.
I made this exactly as posted using fresh-squeezed orange juice. I sliced my chicken breast in half to speed up the cooking time and poked it all over with a knife so that the marinade would soak into the chicken. The end result was a delicious, tender, juicy chicken bursting with flavor. Made as an extra for the July 2011 Aus/NZ Swap.
I served the chicken "fajita-style" with sauteed onions and red peppers. I used fresh thyme and lemon juice for the lime and was lucky enough to have a fresh orange for the juice. It had a light citrus flavor with a "woodsy" flavor from the thyme. We all enjoyed and I'll keep some oranges on hand to make again. Thanks Chef Bugsy Mate! Roxygirl
Delicious recipe! This chicken turned out juicy and tender. I agree with mamere94 in that it doesn't have tremendous orange flavor--just a nice overall citrus flavor. I especially loved the spice combination, which reminds me of fajita seasoning. Thank you! Made for Recipe Swap #19 Aus/NZ.
Made for Recipe Swap #18 Aus/NZ. Yummy, yummy chicken. It was so moist and tasty. I love the combination of flavors. Can't wait to try the left over chicken on a salad for my lunch! I've just added a new recipe to my list of chicken grilling recipes! Thanks for posting this Chef Bugsy Mate!
Excellent! We really enjoyed this chicken. I made ahead and froze in the marinade. Then thawed and grilled on serving day. The combination of herbs and orange juice is just wonderful. Very flavorful and moist chicken. Had a little leftover and made fried rice with it the next day. Terrific!


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