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Wed, June 13, 2012New students will kick-off their college careers at Marywood's new student orientation July 13-14. This year's theme is "Mission: I'm Possible."
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Thu, June 07, 2012At a recent board meeting, the African Sisters Education Collaborative voted to pilot a new program called Higher Education for Sisters in Africa.
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Sun, May 20, 2012Marywood has established an Office of Military and Veteran Services to help veterans transition from military to student life. Marywood is the first college in the region to offer these kinds of services.
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Sun, May 20, 2012Marywood awarded over 900 degrees at its May commencement ceremony. The spring dean's list was also recently announced.


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The Anti-Cult of Personality
What I suspect is that the president is probably a clinical narcissist. This is not necessarily a bad condition if one maintains for oneself what the psychiatrists call an "optimal margin of illusion," that is, the margin of hope that allows you to work. But what if his narcissism blinds him to the issues and problems in the world and the inveterate foes of the nation that are not susceptible to his charms?
Marty Peretz, via Rio, 1 — Chicago, 0. The Politics Of Narcissism And General McChrystal | The New Republic.
The American empire may be in decline, but I'm beginning to think we're still at the forefront of technological innovation in some areas. Not only did we invent lots of great new financial products that almost destroyed the universe, but we seem to have developed a new social phenomenon as well — the anti-cult of personality.
The old-style, Soviet-perfected, Living Color-referenced Cult of Personality was a kind of irrational hero-worship in which the Great Leader would be credited with everything from the invention of the threshing machine to big band jazz to low crime and high fertility rates. He never served in battle, but he was a military hero whose medals clinked during parades. The essence of the Cult of Personality was its knee-jerk irrationality and its pervasiveness.
There was absolutely no reason to think Joe Stalin would know anything about poetry or literature, or agriculture or history, and no rational reason why people would want him to be an expert on these things, but millions of people loved the idea that he was an authority even there. You had to be out of your freaking mind to want to think of Stalin as the world's greatest poet, but there were such people. Lots of them.
It's sort of the same, only in reverse, with all of this anti-Obama stuff. There are plenty of rational reasons to disapprove of the Obama administration. There are plenty of curious policy decisions in his history already and he has already drawn plenty of real ideological lines in the sand that people looking to whine about something could whine about, if they so chose.
But instead of that, the opponents of Barack Obama seem determined to make a villain out of him almost solely on the basis of his completely innocent and irrelevant behaviors. Instead of bitching at him for things like giving away billions of dollars via his Public-Private Investment Program — a natural rallying cry for conservatives, you would think — they're constantly getting on his balls about stuff that has no relevance to anything at all, much less the conservative-liberal divide. It's almost as though the haters have an emotional attachment to the notion of Obama as being guilty of and responsible for everything, from bad weather to the lack of good movies outside of District 9 to the flattening out of Brandon Webb's sinker.
This Peretz piece in the New Republic is one of the weirdest examples I've seen yet. Peretz blithely recounts the episode in which Obama traveled to Copenhagen to pimp Chicago's Olympic bid, recounts the humiliating decision by the IOC to stiff Chicago first of all, then jumps in a bizarre non sequitur to the above conclusion that Obama must be a "clinical narcissist," I guess for going to Copenhagen at all.
Then he finishes with this passage, which is weird even by the already sky-high weirdness standards of our leading pundits:
Chicago will survive its disappointments and Obama will, as well. It is the other stage sets on which the president struts–like he strutted in Cairo and at the United Nations–that concern me.
I know that the president believes himself a good man. My nervy query to him is: "Does he believe America to be a good country?"
I've been reading the piece over and over again and I can't figure out that last line. Is Peretz trying to say that Obama's decision to go to Copenhagen to press for America to win an Olympic bid means he doesn't believe America is a good country? At best, what you get from going over Peretz's reasoning is that Obama's people should have done a better job of divining ahead of time that the IOC planned on snubbing them. How does he jump from there to Obama not believing America is a good country?
The Peretz piece is just a high-end version of the bizarre anti-Obama propaganda that has been circulating on the internet ever since his campaign began, consumed in mass quantities by people who apparently are incapable of even clicking through to a link. I had one person send me a link to an Infowars.com piece by Kurt Nimmo warning that Obama was going to institute mandatory national servitude. The relevant section:
Obama's vision of the American dream, however, will not consist of Americans freely choosing to volunteer to work in their communities and neighborhoods. It will be a requirement. "Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year." (Emphasis added.)
This is the first time I've ever seen someone write "emphasis added" and mean it in a literal sense — they literally added the emphasized passage. This section was preceded by a link to the actual text of the Obama-Biden President-Elect website., and that text, for those who can read English, reads as follows:
Obama and Biden will call on citizens of all ages to serve. They'll set a goal that all middle school and high school students engage in 50 hours of community service a year, and develop a plan for all college students who engage in 100 hours of community service to receive a fully-refundable tax credit of $4,000 for their education. Obama and Biden will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55, while at the same time promoting youth programs such as Youth Build and Head Start… The Obama-Biden administration's volunteer initiatives are still taking shape, but take a moment now to let us know that you're interested, and we'll keep you posted on all the latest developments.
The really weird part about this stuff, and similar Alex Jonesian non-controversies like the birth-certificate issue, is — what kind of person worries about stuff like this? Are there people out there who really believe that this milquetoast Democratic Party bureaucrat is going to turn Head Start into the Komsomol? And let's just say Obama was born in Africa. He wasn't, but let's just say. Who gives a fuck? Are there not enough real problems out there for people to worry about?
It seems to me that the determination of the Obama haters to worry about irrelevancies and nonsense, and not his real policies, is evidence that they find something soothing in this villain-fantasy. Clearly, for one thing, the fantasy does not involve worrying about or even thinking about real problems. It allows people to transfer real anxiety and fear and anger over real problems into this fictional arena where the only thing to worry about is the presidency of this evil black Wizard of Oz-like figure who lies about his birthplace and has secret plans to institute a clearly-will-never-happen program of national servitude.If you're in that place mentally, you might as well be playing Dungeons and Dragons. There's no way thoughts like this can ever feel completely real, which maybe is the idea.
Maybe if you spend enough time dwelling on these imagined terrors, like the creation of Obama-friendly "civilian security squads" (the Obama-Stasi!), you might eventually forget for a few minutes that you owe $89,000 in credit card debt. Is that what's going on here?
Or maybe this is over-thinking all of this, and maybe Marty Peretz is just getting old and losing it. Either way, it's weird stuff. Even by American standards.
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Well, these people did just finish pretending the Bush administration was a good thing. That could take a while to recalibrate, no?
"And let's just say Obama was born in Africa. He wasn't, but let's just say. Who gives a fuck? Are there not enough real problems out there for people to worry about?"
I believe Obama was born in Hawaii and qualifies as a natural born citizen as described by the constitution and therefor is qualified to be President. Other then being teleported back in time to his birth, I can't think of any evidence that would convince me otherwise.
The law is important as is the constitution and if you start saying we have more important things to worry about then following the law you are advocating the same thing as the people who say its O.K. to violate our civil rights to protect us from future terrorist threats.
The birthers aren't actually arguing about the law, they are trying to vilify the president because they don't see him as a valid human being and they are trying to use these technicalities as logic wedges to debase him and infuriate people.
I would welcome a real debate on the natural born citizen clause as a great many children of US Military service members are born overseas and are unduly prohibited from being president because of their parents service.
Regardless, I enjoy your articles and hope you keep up the good work.
The "Anti-Cult of Personality" = the "Politics of Demagoguery."
H.L. Mencken: a demagogue is "one who will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."
This is all advance work for the 2012 election. The GOP is praying for another "terrrist spectacular," which will enable them to run a semi-retired US Air Force General for President.
By that time, 15% of the US will be living in FoxNews-sponsored "Obama-villes." They'll use Acorn-inspired tactics to get the unemployed registered to vote in swing states, which is why they had to get Acorn out of the way in the first place.
Thank you Matt. This stuff is beyond weird. I think it is clear signs of insanity.
I think Peretz mainly just wanted to talk about Obama "strutting." As a middle-aged white guy in the Midwest, I can be fairly oblivious to matters of race, but it's becoming reasonably clear to me that when conservative pundits say "ego," what they mean is "uppity."
Obama can't help his strutting any more than McCain could help his shuffle.
Now that W! There was a Walker! I always thought that was why they called him "Walker". Because the only time we'd see or hear from him, he was just walking across that lawn. Walking up to the plane, waving. It was his one true talent!In response to another comment. See in context »
It's all an attempt to delegitimize Obama in the eyes of the public because he's not a Republican (who, according to them, are the only legitimate people to govern).
Recall that Robert Bork used to quote the DSM chapter and verse to "prove" that Clinton was a sociopath.
If anything, the closest we've gotten to that Soviet model is the younger Bush, whose propensity to dress up for the troops–and the cameras–was only equalled by the media-enabled hagiography that was a daily occurrence for eight straight fuckin' years. Remember the excitement when news was leaked that J. Alfred Prufrock "Lump in the Bed" Bush wrote poetry to his wife? Remember the seemingly neverending reports of the public intellectual "I read three Shakespeares and a Camus" Bush having reading contests with Karl Rove? The folksy photo-ops of Rancher Bush endlessly cutting brush? The repetitive stories of George "On Fire On Wheels" Bush always out-cycling people twenty years his junior, and the dreary recountings of his resting heart rate (fer chrissakes, the guy puts Mao swimming the Yalu River to shame in the Everyman category).
Not to mention the sixty fucking million pictures of Bush with halos of light around his head, or of him praying with his hands so tightly clasped that one expected them to sprout stigmata any second, and his eyelids so tightly closed that they must have cramped.
And the press just went swimmingly along promoting that particular cult of personality without a trace of introspection about what they were doing. And, Republicans never said one silly, stupid, demeaning thing about him. They even let him slink off into obscurity after he'd fucked things up so badly that a lot of them were going to lose their lifetime sinecures because of him.
I'm the last one to say that running for President–and winning–doesn't encourage a certain amount of narcissism–hell, one has to crazy to a certain degree to even run for the job. But, I'm all for a certain amount of perspective and proportion that the conservatives never apply equally, and never to their own. They're in the business of ruining the reputations of their opponents and that's what this Marty Peretz bullshit is all about.
I think you're on the right track. I'll go slightly further, though. The GOP is really skilled at character assassination, with or without ANYthing to back it up. With no substance, they and their ilk tend to paraphrase rhetoric that came from the left against their man or woman and shoot it out against the favorite politico on the left. You'd think everyone would see through this, but no, there's so much concurring that it's sickening.
Ex: many on the left felt that Rove, Bush and Co. were creating an increasingly fascist society with the increasing corporatism that included manipulation of the media (Rupert Murdoch and FOX News as the poster children for this). Now we can read what a fascist Obama is, complete with Hitler mustache during the all important demonstration against the latest socialist policies. It's soooo true, isn't it, Sparky? (sorry; haven't had a This Modern World fix in awhile)In response to another comment. See in context »
Mr. Taibbi,
In 1973 the House Judiciary Committee held impeachment hearings for Richard Nixon. There were several articles of impeachment. All of the articles were voted on except one. The single article that was not moved forward to the House floor was the charge that Richard Nixon had illegally invaded Cambodia without a declaration of war by congress. If you think about it, that is probably the most serious of the articles in terms its implications for the constitution and the nation yet it was the only one that did not get out of the committee.
People understand that nobody gets really excited about actual policy or constitutional issues. Politicians rarely get in real trouble for them either. What president ever lost their job for invading a country that should not have been or allowing a major American city to be destroyed through inaction and corruption?
What gets politicians into real trouble and people really riled up are the strange, small things – like say bugging the campaign headquarters of your political opponent, or getting a blow job from an intern, or soliciting sex with a man in an airport bathroom. Those are the political knock out blow, not policy disputes.
So when you hear these ridiculous claims from people, they are just swinging for the gates. They are going for broke. They know that they cannot destroy the Obama Administration with debates out regulating flash trading, they have to hit him with something that will put him on the mat for a ten count.
The people advancing these claims are not stupid, they know that their claims are not facts, they are weapons. The intent of those putting forward these claims is not to illuminate the truth but to destroy a president. When you strike at the king you must kill him, and only these sorts of claims can do it.
I wonder if this anti-cult of personality phenomenon (which is a good name for it), is truly sincere. Do they really believe that Obama can rightfully be blamed for virtually everything? Or are they consciously exaggerating their criticisms because they feel that the ends justify the means?
If it's the former, then we are dealing will a full-blown clinical neurosis. Forget Peretz's faux diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder in Obama. Let's look at the case for GOP having Oppositional Defiant Disorder–a diagnosis for children–which is:
A pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior lasting at least 6 months, during which four (or more) of the following are present:
(Note: Consider a criterion met only if the behavior occurs more frequently than is typically observed in individuals of comparable age and developmental level.)
often loses temper
often argues with adults
often actively defies or refuses to comply with adults' requests or rules
often deliberately annoys people
often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior
is often touchy or easily annoyed by others
is often angry and resentful
is often spiteful or vindictive
I'll let you make your own diagnosis.
Did you know about the behavior modification programs that are available for children with oppositional defiant disorder?In response to another comment. See in context »
I hate to pick nits, but it's Living Colour – Sorry, I'm a fan of yours and, theirs.
As to the right's obsession with the irrelevant, what else do they have? It really doesn't make sense to attack him from their perspective on policy grounds – they have no ground on which to stand because he really isn't that far from them on most things. To REALLY attack his policies, they'd have to be over here with us, to the left of the President. I doubt that appeals to them much.
I remember reading an article about how after the election, millions of American wives and girlfriends had sex with their partners while imagining they were with Obama. Here in Far White East Texas, I'm pretty sure I could convince a lot of people that Obama's popularity is energized by collective, Satanic sex magic.
Matt, I love you. That being said, I disagree with you. Why? Because, frankly, Obama IS a narcissist. It's all about him. And that Copenhagen debacle was a prime example – but not because he was arrogant enough to think he could merely show up and everything could go his way. It was narcissist in that it was a self-serving thing to do versus a nation-serving thing to do. Look – we are descending into a depression that will surpass the Great Depression. Our Federal Reserve is pumping billions of taxpayer dollars into fraudulent banks who are then reaming the taxpayer even further with amped up credit card fees and fines. We are having soldiers die in Afghanistan which should be decided one way or the other. We are having a lunatic leader of a slave state called North Korea exploding his nuclear bombs; we are having another lunatic in charge of an even bigger slave state building his SECOND nuclear reactor. And what does the President do?
He gallivants off to Copenhagen because it will benefit his ego and his political debt to his old Chicago pols. And as he gets on the plane, he brags 'l'etat c'est moi' of ending his second term as President by opening the games in Chicago in 2016.
Forget the arrogance and address the real problem. Did strutting in Copenhagen help any of those soldiers in Afghanistan? Did any of it address the horror of the banks draining our funds by the billions every day? Did any of it address the growing crisis that China's recent default of debt for credit derivatives? No. The only thing it addressed was Obama's ego, his narcissism. The classic definition of a narcissist is that he doesn't make the dull, painful, hard decisions that will help others – but only easy superficial decisions that will help him.
We're in a crisis. We need a leader. Someone who puts US first and not himself. And I didn't see anyone but himself strutting the stage in Copenhagen.
You hit the nail on the head here. I voted for him and was simply stupid, forgetting first principles.
All politicians are the same. Regardless of party, they exist to exist and with VERY rare exceptions take no chances to affect real change. It's all about re-election, and that's where the real hubris sets in.
APIn response to another comment. See in context »
Obama stuck his neck out politically by going to Copenhagen. He and his staff knew Chicago was a long-shot, and that if the Olympics went to another city that his critics would jump all over him for being "weak" because he could not reel in this prize.
This is not narcissistic behavior.In response to another comment. See in context »
"a natural rallying cry for conservatives, you would think — they're"
Well that should be a signal that maybe these people aren't really conservatives any more than a Neo-Con who deregulates and spends Trillions while cutting taxes and putting it all on the debt tab is conservative.
Semantics matter, and distorting a good concept by applying it to bad examples is no help. True conservatives are the biggest threat to the elite power structure. I'm sure banksters smile every time they hear you or Bushco or anyone else referring to these religious zealots and birther loons as conservative.
Lumping these irrational people in with those who base their thought from generations of sound economic principal and history is dangerous.
Narcissist is the trendy insult today. Your werewolf friend Grayson was just called a narcissist by a Republican senator and he said, and I swear, "but I just might be the lunatic you're looking for."
The Right is fueled by collective pathology of hate and paranoia. It's so nonsensical and removed from reality as to defy belief. It certainly seems to defy analysis.
It's just there.
It's like gravity, expect more stubborn and pervasive.
The mind wanders blissfully to Watergate, when Barry Goldwater, the Lion of Conservatism, went to Richard Nixon and told him the gig was up: Resign or you'll be impeached, and I'll vote to impeach you. I cannot imagine Mitch McConnell or John Boehner conceiving of a sin that would enable them to defy another Republican. Can you? And I certainly can't imagine the Right Wing Media Cabal ever doing so. They are through the looking glass.
The GOP is politburo-like in its slavish devotion to the party. The GOP, from top to bottom, cares more about the party than about the country. And its talking-point-guardians keep them all in obedient formation with obsessive indoctrination.
Unfortunately, the Dems are not a far sight better.
Obama's a soshalist.
Obama's gonna kill yer grandma.
Obama will make yer kids stay in school and get one edumacation.
He must be an alien who lived in Kenya when dropped off the rocket ship because he has no birth certificate.
Orly Taitz is a Nobel prize winner.
You can make up all kinds of crazy shit and by god, people in America will believe it. Cause they read it on the Internetz. Or on Faux Newz. It's hilarious what the American public will believe.
On the other hand, I'm really worried that Obama kicking the lobbyists out of the Temple is going to get him killed! That's serious.
Carolyn, give me a friggin' break. If I were the president and my city, Boston, was up for Olympic consideration, I would travel to Denmark to lobby for it to get the bid if I thought it would help. Regardless of who I owe favors to, it would awesome if my hometown got the Olympics.
As for your remarks about Afghanistan, Obama actually met with Gen. McChrystal in Copenhagen, and like Obama, the general had an opportunity to lobby in person for a 40,000 soldier increase.
You also say, "We're in a crisis. We need a leader. Someone who puts US first and not himself."
You talk as if you've never seen an American president in action. Every president we've had for at least the last fifty years has been in the bag. So if you want to criticize Obama for not being more forceful with health care reform, or not using his political capital earlier this year to pass legislation regulating Wall St, or his decision to reappoint Bernanke to chair the Fed, that's totally legitimate and fine by me. But please, let's cut this BS about the Copenhagen thing. It's completely stupid. The issue is completely void of any substance, and takes away from the real shortcomings of this president that NO ONE is talking about.
EVERYONE is a "narcissist" in someone's eyes, and EVERYONE is a "sociopath" too. These are utterly meaningless terms, which is why they are used all the time to describe one's opponents.
So. Just boil it down: "Nothing but a bunch of sociopathic narcissists, the lot of them."
There. That's settles it once and for all.
And it makes about as much sense and fretting oneself into a stupor over birth certificates, lay lines and the Face On Mars.
It'd be excellent if we had a sane, coherent, and intelligent opposition party there to critique the actions of the Obama administration (that sort of falls to the likes of congressional progressive caucus folks and maybe ron paul, it seems), but instead we have these folks. It has a two-fold effect:
1) It makes the opposition look crazy
2) It makes Obama look very good in comparison. The administration probably doesn't want intelligent critics to its plans anyway.
Either way, we lose out.
I agree, it's becoming all about extremes now, and that could help the Obama administration not be held accountable. After all, Obama seems to be only looking good against Bush, which is I guess all he has to do. What more can we ask for, he's BUsh light and a seemingly responsible centrist and we have to take it. I believe that the only reason Taibbi can't seem to criticize Obama directly is that he sees that it would only feed the ridiculous wingnuts. I've been waiting, as a big Taibbi supporter, for him to criticize Obama directly and now that he actually comes out in a roundabout defense I understand that there's no progressive point in attacking Obama from the left and giving any more ammo to the automatic haters who threw logical arguments out the window when Obama got elected.In response to another comment. See in context »
Taibbi picked a weird time and place to stick his neck out for Obama, Nobody gave a rats ass about that stupid Marty Peretz thing in TNR, I read it last week and it was just irrelevant. Taibbi picked a non-issue to defend Obama, and I'd like to think he did it very purposefully. It's a hard place for someone who wants change when the 2000 status quo would suffice.
>believe that the only reason Taibbi can't seem to criticize Obama directly is that he sees that it would only feed the ridiculous wingnuts.
How long have you been reading Matt's stuff? He's laid direct criticism at Obama's feet. In this blog, read back – start in September, though; this month's been wrapped up in other criticisms.In response to another comment. See in context »
I agree completely. The Right is completely brainwashed. The only people making principled, coherent arguments against Obama are the libertarians. (Disclaimer: I am a libertarian). The Right, contrary to all evidence, believes that Obama is soft on terror. Apparently a section of society will always believe the rhetoric from 2002-03. We are the best country ever, we can't let the terrorists win, we are the world's moral police, and those terrorists hate us for our freedoms. It couldn't be that they hate us for our foreign policy the past hundred years!In response to another comment. See in context »
Meanwhile, the media is providing cover for the administration by focusing on *gasp* the outrageous thing Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh said last night, or what Sarah Palin had for dinner last night. No mention of the bombs falling in Pakistan or Afghanistan. No mention of the Patriot Act renewal, or FISA renewals. No mention of the corporate bailouts and the new political spoils system referred to as "stimulus."
Rachel Maddow has even taken to saying things to the effect that some GOP Senators are treasonous for telling other countries that the US Gov't. lies in its statistics. Shocking, right!
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Yeah, one of my Libertarian friends sent me that phony passage about the Obama Youth stuff. To his credit, he also sent out an apology upon its immediate debunking, but even that was couched in a backhanded critique, something about how Hitler comparisons don't get taken seriously. Wrong lesson drawn there, my friend.
The phony issues/psychology 101 attack on Obama baffles me, but I think much of it is born of narcissism – not Obama's, but his critics'. Everybody wants to be the first to properly analyze him, which is perhaps the inevitable end of our Facebooked, hyper-personalized (yet clearly not genuinely personal) politics. One wonders, of course, where these people were for the last eight years…was Bush just not enough of a challenge for these Dr. Melfi wanna-bes?
The man wrote an article titled "Irving Kristol Will Be Missed". I rest my case. It's difficult to discuss Peretz's state of mind on anything without discussing his particular obsession (which is pretty obvious to anyone scanning his blog 'The Spine'), but his John Bolton-like disdain for the international community and his growing irritation at Obama since the Cairo speech is probably the culprit here. Hell, it's not like he's hiding it. The last quarter of this blog post about The President and The Olympics, which you were smart to avoid, is about Egypt and Israel and Tehran. Peretz shares the monomaniacal problems of the tea bagger and birther types you allude to, but his is a different motivation.
Never trust a guy who hides his brith certificate…..what more needs be said
And how Obama "hide" his birth certificate? It's available in Hawaii, just like George Bush's is available in Connecticut. Come to think of it, I never saw Bush's birth certificate. Hmm…In response to another comment. See in context »
It was Col. Acorn in the FEMA Death Camp Trailer with The Candlestick.In response to another comment. See in context »
I just choked laughing at that.In response to another comment. See in context »
Ouch. half-chewed apple slice tried to come out nose.In response to another comment. See in context »
What's a "brith certificate"? Can I get one of those?In response to another comment. See in context »
Only if you first get a brith. And to do that, I think you have to be male and Jewish and have a high tolerance for pain.In response to another comment. See in context »
Exactly! Those who said Obama's a Muslim were on the wrong track! OMG!!!In response to another comment. See in context »
Okay, somebody talk me down. Here's what I think. The congress is largely filled with marginally inspired drones and a some seasoned whores. While the claim that the left and the right are the same is an exaggeration, it is true to the extent that both parties are manipulated to achieve corporate goals with crumbs of liberal issues tossed in to feign authenticity.
Barack Obama was accepted by the corporations that allow Presidential candidates because he's ideologically supple enough to be used. He's been a fantastic failure as far as achieving Democrat/Liberal goals, not to mention proving to the right that he can look the other way while Democrats are ordered around by Glenn Beck.
It's a fantastic farce.
It's absurd what they do but the tactics of the Right are pretty much irrelevant because what they do is 100% effective… and isn't that all that matters?
I don't like what they do one bit but you have to admit no one else in this country is nearly as good at it. And they're probably better at it than anyone else in the world.
No amount of reason or logic or pleas of "country first" will turn them into noble patriots. They're like a relentless plague that I call The Ignorance Movement and we're going to be at their mercy for a long time unless we can turn around our educational system really fast.
"Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year."
Who gives a fuck? Matt, YOU'RE the economics maven these days. Isn't it obvious?
The compulsory servitude plan is obviously a FRONT to develop a revenue stream for BLACK REPARATIONS! Dontcha SEE?
That's a front-burner issue, because if there's one thing we corporate chattel have come to learn, it's that every dollar counts.
for a debunking of George Will's contribution to the "Obama narcissist" nonsense, see
Language Log: Fact-checking George F. Will, one more time
I really enjoy most of your stuff, Matt, but this one compelled me to register and comment.
You are quite correct. There are an extreme number of vastly more important issues to be dealing with. I take issue with your path to that point.
Not sure what your Nimmo article is dated (or if it even was in the form you received it) since there is no link, but here's another from Infowars (Paul Joseph Watson) on 11/10/2008 detailing the wording change from change.gov:
Also, here is an article from Nimmo that mentions the change:
"Last week, Obama's Office of the President-Elect website announced it would implement a plan designed to "require" citizens to work in community service programs, including senior citizens. In response to criticism of this plan, primarily on the web and blogosphere, the text on the site was reworded and the word "require" was removed."
And now, nearly 1 year later, you follow the link and oboy, look at those wackos that can't even do a blockquote correctly and are adding shit just cuz they hate Obama! (This would be an interesting beginning to a discussion on the ease with which things can be/are memory-holed on the 'tubes and the ramifications, but alas, there is not the time or space.)
I point it our for one reason. The Infowars people you're attempting to castigate are not "Obama-haters" and should not be lumped in with such. AJ and crew excoriated GW and his policies/programs with the exact same amount of fervor. As someone who has listened to AJ for approx. 3 years now, I can tell you that, while he is a 'birther'(for the record, I'm not), the issue is not his baby (it belongs to Phil Berg and WorldNutDaily), and that he has stated time and time again that, for the most part, it's a ridiculous side-show to take focus away from the economics/wars/continual loss of liberty.
Why am I taking the time to write all of this in their defense? Because he's one of the very few people out there who stating time and time again that it's not about Obama (which is basically what I took from your piece here). The men we call president (and most of the other "repesentatives") are little more than sock puppets for the M/I-Banking Complex that Truman, among many others, warned about.
Of course, I guess that makes me crazy too. Mock away.
And in regard to the issue of whether or not this supposed Civilian National Security force and any "compulsory" or "required" duties that may spring from such a thing, only time will tell, as it does with all things. However, I don't think it's completely ridiculous to imagine such a thing is indeed possible, especially keeping in mind the doctrine of Incrementalism our rulers are so well-versed in. The space from here to there isn't all large, especially as the economy continues its collapse and we transition more fully into the continual War/Security/Prison economy.
Here's Rahm's C-span interview if you haven't seen it:
Start ~5 min mark and watch through 8 or so to here the "required" remarks.
Although I did enjoy the analogy, who the fuck is Kurt Nimmo? Don't give these clown shoes any attention.
Ironically, it is the very intensity of the anti-Obama cult that suggests the clearest indication that there a frightening number in the US that yearn for that dreaded code-word, a "strong leader". God forbid, you ever get that version (Obama's brains & Dubya's values).
But Barack's determination to remain smack-bang in the middle of the political road, just where he can be hit by every imaginable obstacle, makes him feel more and more each day a modern Quixote. Hardly the stuff of authoritarian nightmares. But not a source of great progressive hope either.
I think most of it gets down to two things:
1. people not being able to accept a black man in charge.
2. fast food politics where people only get their news and views from yahoos like Limbaugh.
If they were true conservatives or focused on the issues, they would site policy. Instead, they focus on things like Chicago "losing" the Olympics. Chicago never had the Olympics to lose, Rio was always the front runner due to global economic shifts and, oh by the way, it's the president's fucking job to go and advocate for his country–he would have been negligent in NOT going. No one points to Bush not going to push for New York when it "lost" the Olympics to London. The population and the media can't find the time to be concerned with WMD, bill or rights or the rest, but it can obsess over these non-stories?
Next up, Peretz will say his diagnosis of the president is proven by his passing healthcare reform.
Life has become full of weirdness. The reality is that the new boss IS the same as the old boss, except that his fashion sense is different.
We expect continually (hope?)things will be better or different. But the historical trajectory of this country simply follows that of other formerly great nations who became seduced by their own hubris, fame and fortune.
We've become a product of the medium, which has massaged us into following.
It's hard to swallow the fact that people get the leaders they deserve, but it's becoming painfully clear that's a truth. Could it be otherwise after our collective will and committment has been fractured by generation(s?) of political swine.
Keep raging against the dying of the light! Maybe the other monkees will begin washing their yams…
Like the reference to Living Colour's "Cult of Personality", great band and song. I saw one reasonable comment that alluded to debating issues with regard to policy instead of bullshit non-sequitur attacks. So many others are frankly hypocritical. No doubt Beck, Limbaugh, and others including Maher are at times counter-productive, self glorifying rabble rousers. Generalizing all members in a political party with a unified evil hidden agenda seems a bit naive. I like Obama and will support him because he is my president, a good man, and a patriot. Sometimes when you steer the ship toward the middle, you get pelted with rocks and garbage from the left and the right.
Matt, you're being way too rational. People who read and listen to this crap are LOOKING for a scapegoat to blame their discontent and total confusion on. It doesn't have to make "sense" because they're not thinking, they're groping. It's purely emotional. The more names they can call him the more they can feel angry and strong (USA! USA! HANDS OFF MY HEALTHCARE!) instead of weak and screwed, which is what they (we) really are.
What's been eye-opening for me is the number in high places of cynics who stoke and lead the scapegoating and fear mongering. They know exactly what they're doing but are willing to erode what's left of this democracy for their own personal interests. We have no real statesmen anymore to keep the ship on an even keel in rough times. So it's a brave new world. And your generation's up at bat. I think you (in particular) and others like you are doing yeoman's work. I read your articles and columns all the time and have learned plenty. Thanks for that.
While I was driving from Charlottesvile to Richmond in Virginia back in April I had the radio on, no idea what the station was but there was some sort of religious (evangelical) official harping on and on about how a vote for Obama was like handing Barrack your personal permission to have the choice of your next car, future health care, your next house and anything else you might care to want, to be determined by presidential edict, as though the President was going to find time to personally intervene in every decision you are ever going to make.
It struck me then that the low quality of this 'commentators' rhetoric was tantamount to saying, 'actually there is not much wrong in this neck of the woods but I am going to have a go at my President anyway'.
I guess cheap shots come easy in the land of the free and the brave.
I've known Marty Peretz since he was a dickhead at Harvard forty years ago.
He's still the same dickhead.
Just older.
And worse.
Okay. Here's a crazy conspiracy theory. The teabaggers, birthers et. al. were actually STARTED and FUNDED by Obama himself or people close to the president. Here's the logic. Let's fan the flames of Obama-hatered, (which has been there since the election, and is real) but the whitehouse says, "let's FAN those flames, let's make them the LEGIT viewpoint of the right and the republican party, and eventually the GOP will look so crazy no one will want to be a part of it.
Crazy? Anyone noticed how GOP politicians are starting to distance themselves from the birther crowd all of the sudden? After months of tacit approval and even support for them? The gig is up. Their onto Obama's plan.
Crazy? I hope so. I'd rather Obama be the middle of the road politician he is than this sneaky planner I'm describing.
Given today's award, I'm wondering how they'll couch the narcissism characterization.
I agree that America has fallen into fantasyland. Check out this conversation about Alex Jones and his dark fantasies.
Hey, did you catch that Mary Robinson is a "nice frigid anti-Semite"? Bet you never knew that! Bet you never suspected you'd ever see those three adjectives together!
Marty Peretz, you lovable nut!
BTW, I too have suspected that Obama may be a clinical narcissist. But since that is just about a job requirement for becoming President of the United States, why should anyone be shocked? What I want to know is: How many TNR pundits are clinical narcissists? Hey, Marty! Maybe you can hire back Stephen Glass to "report" on your latest insight!
Matt – WSJ just wrote about you!
"The kinder jokes refer to the legendary investment firm as "Government Sachs," because of its connections to former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson (once a Goldman CEO) and other alumni who, as Washington officials, had hands in last year's financial crisis rescue operations. More rudely, a writer in Rolling Stone magazine likened Goldman to a "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
Poor Matt, you're now the person they dare not speak the name of — you're just "a writer" who is "rude". But don't sob into your pillow, hon. They may sneer at your vampire squid sucking money – but this WSJ writer sucks ass. Seriously. If this article is anything to go by, I can just see the "the cherubic and youthful" Blankfein walking down the sidewalks of New York with this thunking noise behind him because Holman Jenkins' lips are permanently vacuumed to Blankfein's butt.
Oh, man, hold your nose as you read this thing. Blankfein is 'more bemused than hurt' by your rude article; in fact, he's 'serene' because of Goldman's 'disciplined risk taking', "it plays a vital social role in matching those who have capital with those who need it; that its partners frequently retire young to devote themselves to philanthropy or public service." As for your naughty charge that Goldman may be influencing government by having so many of its people in public office, Blankfein says that we should instead be thankful that so many Goldman alumnae have done the selfless and noble thing by putting their 'pursuit of personal wealth aside and go(ing) into public service".
But my favorite is this one – "the Treasury secretary (Paulson) FORCED the nation's nine biggest banks and investment banks to accept infusions of government capital." (Yup, just flung Goldman to the ground kicking and screaming and shoved those billions straight down its blood funnel. Poor dear.)
A close to perfect description in every detail — and different from the Left's perception (my own included) of the last three R presidents only in the intensity and number of respective fantasies. Of course more of our "fantasies" turned out to be real. Still, it's a bipartisan affliction.
As a longtime Dungeons & Dragons player, I resent the needless slur against me and my friends in your 3rd-to-last paragraph. I know plenty of D&D players with enough grasp on reality to see through this insanity / inanity. There are actually quite a number of us who don't play in steam tunnels and have sufficient grasp on reality to be able to spot a nonsensical fantasy, having created several ourselves. (It doesn't take much grasp on reality to spot the fantasies in this case.)
By the way, a lawyer for the Vampire Squid is holding on Line #4 for you.
I am reminded of two things: Back around 2003 or so, you went undercover at a re-elect Bush office, and you wrote something like: "These people will believe anything you feed them, just so long as you leave them a demon to wrestle with in their dreams." That phrase has always stuck with me because it really cuts to the chase. All the conservatives I know measure their self-worth by how fiercely they are fighting supposed 'enemies'… (As opposed to their own positive, constructive achievements)… and when the supply of enemies starts to run thin, they seem to pick out the nearest person they don't like, and label him or her as the next Mortal Threat to Civilization. After all, there's only so much you can say about Al-Qaida, comparatively a very small and secretive group, without actually taking the bother to visit the Middle East and do first-hand research, which is expensive and inconvenient. Much easier and more fun to pick on your next-door neighbor who dresses funny or has funny-colored skin, and accuse him of subverting the country. You can do that from your armchair without bothering to stand up.
I am also reminded of a quote I read on the website iTulip — probably they stole it from some other famous writer, but so far I haven't figured out whom.
"When the people lose faith, they do not then believe in nothing. They believe in _anything_."
These are people who no longer have faith that their cherished values and mores are going to survive into the future, and now at some subconscious level they are also realizing that their wealth and middle-class status is a lie — and even that pleasant illusion is being taken from them. So, polemically, they just lash out at anything they can see, since they know they can never even touch the real forces behind their decline.
Thomas, thank you for those two incredible quotes. I love the first one (thank you very much, Matt):
"These people will believe anything you feed them, just so long as you leave them a demon to wrestle with in their dreams."
That's an awesome quote. The irony of it, however, is that this is exactly how I define Leftists. (How about that, huh?) Because, man, they are desperate for their demons. I found out how desperate when I read about Sally Kohn (Senior Campaign Strategist of the Center for Community Change) who just drooled buckets over Ahmadinejad as he spoke at the UN. Man, she tingled up her whole damned body for him. The stunning thing was that she started her drooling ode by stating cheerfully that she knew he would kill her because she was a Jewess and a lesbian. But – gosh – that didn't matter! Why? Because Ahmadinejad hated Bush. Yep, whack her head off as a Semite and a gay, it didn't matter. All she cared about was going to her grave wrestling deliriously with the demon of Bush hatred.
This is why when I read your phrase, Thomas – "All the conservatives I know measure their self-worth by how fiercely they are fighting supposed 'enemies'…" I couldn't help but see the drooling Sally Kohn. She totally measures her self-worth by how fiercely she fights the enemy called Bush – even if it means replacing Bush with a worse enemy who will butcher her because she is a Jewess and gay. Unbelievable that a dream would be worth that price.
And that leaves me with your final quote (which I again thank you for): "When the people lose faith, they do not then believe in nothing. They believe in anything." Well, Thomas, I have to be honest. To me, that is THE classic definition of the atheist Left (and Ms. Kohn, of course). Funny, huh?
I do agree with you on one thing, however. You describe the conservatives as "people who no longer have faith that their cherished values and mores are going to survive into the future…" Well, damn, you are so right, we ARE afraid, we are very afraid. But I disagree with you that it is because we have realized that our "wealth and middle-class status is a lie.." Sorry, hon, but we don't. In our opinion, the only liars are the ones trying to take it away from us. And we're fighting them tooth and nail.
It is a strange battle. But as I tell my fellow conservatives as we gird for 2016 – "Welcome to the fight. This time I know our side will win."In response to another comment. See in context »
People, I meant 2012 — NOT 2016. I swear, it wasn't Freudian, just sloppy. My bad.In response to another comment. See in context »
The interesting thing about the fear for the loss of values and cultural mores, is that it is only a threat for people who don't, well, believe in evolution (pardon the double entendre)…
Not to get all Godwin here, but the example of Germany pre- and post- World Wars is illustrative.
19th-century Germany was a nation that, broadly speaking, was rationalist and realist; strongly Christian (Protestant) in spiritual matters; Capitalist and economically industrious; with an intense drive towards developing and mastering modern science.
Then some dude started talking about how "international elites want to emasculate us as a superpower" (funny, I heard Rush use that phrase on his radio show just last Friday), and how "traitors" inside the country were "stabbing the real citizens in the back" (dolschtoss). The Apocalypse that guy was predicting, more or less came to pass. Germany lost. The country went through a rough patch, for, oh, the better part of the century.
But today, 21st-century Germany is still, broadly speaking, rationalist and realist; basically a Christian/Protestant nation in spiritual matters; it's again Europe's Capitalist and industrious economic powerhouse; due to its intense drive towards developing and mastering modern science.
Their culture and values didn't die, they simply evolved. The German culture still has a multitude of connections to its historic past. They merely lost the aggression, the paranoia and hate (or had it bombed out of them).
I'm quite confident something similar will happen to America. If we don't disintegrate into some kind of third-world banana republic torn by civil war, along the way. In 50 years, Americans will still be strongly Individualist, Freedom-loving, and Capitalist. They're part of our culture and are not going away. But we will somehow be all those things while simultaneously having:
* universal health care, and socialized aid for certain basics such as education and housing;
* a strong respect for the environment and a consciousness of how we impact it in our everyday lives;
* a multi-racial and multi-ethnic culture.
…because if we don't, the citizens and government will be bankrupt, the quality of life will be in the crapper, and we'll be so wracked with division and strife that historians will say the USA actually ended during the 21st century even if it keeps the name.
Evolve or die, that's basically what life is like. Good luck with that whole thing about sitting athwart of History and yelling "Stop".In response to another comment. See in context »
I think you can drive yourself nuts trying to find actual logic or deep structure to the frothing coming from the current insanely right wing fringe in the US. It's all based on Rovian tactics: attack your enemy's strengths, or whatever it is you can find to attack.
If Barack Obama were less charismatic, then they would never have developed the "narcissism!" thing and they'd be attacking something else. If he stays at home they'd call him isolationist. If he travels they'll call him not focused enough domestically. They were viciously happy about the world "turning him down" for the Olympics, then days later livid that the world recognized his work with a big award.
It's throwing mud and seeing what will stick, it's just a little more thought-out than that phrase implies, though not by much.
People like Marty Peretz are the second-tier middle-brows who find themselves soaking up whatever inane attack people like Rove or whoever is the current equivalent dream up, like some impressionable joiner who suddenly finds himself having deep thoughts about whatever it is he heard the ranting lunatic charismatic speaker just say last night, "You know, it occurs to me that narcissism really IS the issue here" (or blacks having some character flaw or gays being evil or you name it) and then penning some idiotic piece like the one he did here.
Obama is being hit with the narcissism thing because he's personally popular. Were he more retiring, they'd be attacking that and blowing it up into a cartoon in some other way.
It's sort of like the mistake the Democrats keep making with the Republicans in Congress, not recognizing to a sufficient degree that they're just going to oppose anything that the Democrats or Obama propose, and trying instead to puzzle out just what it is they're objecting to.
Nothing. They're not objecting, they're opposing on principle, the principle of opposing anything you want. The right is making all this shit up to throw at Obama because they want something to throw, move the bucket and hand them something else, and they'd throw that. And then fools like Peretz would suddenly find deeply compelling logic in what's in the bucket.
When hasn't Marty Peretz been a douchebag? Strangely, Obama is a narcissist for trying to win the Olympics for the US, but Bush wasn't a narcissist when he declared himself "The Decider" and said his job would be easier if he could be a dictator.
It's a fool looks fer logic in the chambers of the pundit brain.In response to another comment. See in context »
I remember this one time, when Marty Peretz wrote an article about John Kerry's "arrogance" and employed the French term "de haut en bas" as a descriptor of Kerry's manner. And I remember sending Marty Peretz an email on that occasion, in which I asked…"de haut en bas…doesn't that literally translate into English as 'I'm so smug I'm in love with the smell of my own farts' and doesn't it exclusively refer to the person who employs the phrase itself?"
He never wrote back to me – what a stuck-up dude. He's a fine one to be pointing at anyone else and calling them a narcissist.
Absolutely, Jennofark. Personally, I know that I would look forward to having an email exchange with someone who started off the conversation by describing me as a person 'so smug that I was in love with the smell of my own farts'.
Who wouldn't want to respond to that charming description of themselves? Especially when they knew that if they didn't, people would call them a stuck-up dude and a narcissist.In response to another comment. See in context »
Maybe sometime I'll tell you about the email exchange I had with Victor Davis Hanson.In response to another comment. See in context »
Racism has transformed itself to a complete rant full of distortions,lies, and irrational fear, that, this type of political dialogue seems acceptable. Our President is very cool about this way of talking,say, accusing him of instituting a healthcare socialistic plan: like,"Yeah, We true American should pay more money for our incomplete Heathcare, continue to have insurance companies be in control of how and who will receive healthcare; and this "option plan" does not have a "death panel", but insurance companies will drop you once you are very sick, and in the meantime you will lose your job ( funny, insurance companies want only clients who work in companies who can afford their preimiums but not to cover everyone and single-pay). But our President is trying to institute socialism into our economy. I wonder if a white President would receive the same treatment. I really feel for our President, give him a chance and let work out the many issues we have and listen how we will do it,c'mon now, let's get the show on the road. Way back when I was a kid in a Bronx grade school and everyone was white, jewish,italian,or irish if you call me a "commie" I would kick your ass until you cried home to mommy and everyone would follow you and humilate you and slap you daily for being such a stupid ass until you learned better; it took about a year to straigthen you out.I want to the same towards some lobbyist and some republicans. How is that for fear? Let the President do his job–Please.
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Backing Up Your Mac: A Joe On Tech Guide, Second Edition
Develop a bulletproof backup strategy!
Joe Kissell has been writing about Mac backups since 2004. In this latest title, he explains the three components of a solid backup strategy and helps you figure out the best way to adapt that strategy to your needs. You'll learn the hows and whys of backing up your Mac, understand the benefits and limitations of Time Machine (as well as alternatives to it), and discover how elements like bootable clones and cloud storage may factor into your overall setup. You'll also discover how to deal with unusual backup needs and restore your data in an emergency.
This book covers 10.9 Mavericks, 10.10 Yosemite, and 10.11 El Capitan.
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We can focus our attention on only so many books, so when our friend and longtime collaborator Joe Kissell proposed revisiting this topic in a book on his own, we jumped at the chance to bring it to you. It's his book, not ours, so it looks different, but the content is great.
This ebook is designed to help you jump to the information you need, so you can get started with your backups without having to read the whole thing. You'll learn how to:
Design (or update) the ideal backup system. If you're starting from scratch, you'll find all the information necessary to assemble a reliable and easy-to-use backup system. If you're updating an existing system, you'll learn about what's new in hardware, software, and online services that might affect the way you back up your Mac in the future.
Choose backup software. Apple's Time Machine, built into OS X, is both free and easy to use. But it's not the best choice for everyone, and even if you do use Time Machine, you'll certainly want to supplement it with other tools. You'll learn about the key features to look for when considering backup apps and find tips on using several popular tools. You'll also discover the pros and cons of using cloud backup services, and get help choosing the right one. (An online appendix covers nearly 100 apps and services.)
Shop for hardware. For most users, hard drives make an excellent backup destination, but the range of options (sizes, interfaces, speeds, and more) can be bewildering. Joe helps you find the best backup hardware, whether it's individual hard drives, RAIDs, Drobo storage devices, Time Capsules, or NAS devices.
Operate Time Machine. For readers who use Time Machine, the book explains its ins and outs. You'll learn how to back up and restore individual files, application-specific data (such as contacts), and even an entire disk. You'll also discover why and how to encrypt Time Machine backups and what to do if Time Machine misbehaves.
Make and maintain backups. Once you've selected hardware and software, you'll need to know how to make your first backup, set up your backups to run unattended, and test them regularly to make sure they're working as they should. This includes both versioned backups (which contain old file versions and deleted files) and bootable clones. And, you'll learn about strategies for keeping extra backups offsite.
Deal with unusual backup needs. If you deal with exceptionally large files (such as audio and video files), spend a lot of time on the road away from your usual backup hardware, run Windows on your Mac, or rely on cloud services to store essential data, you'll want to take extra (or different) steps to make sure everything is safely backed up.
Manage your media. What happens when a backup drive fills up, or becomes so old that you worry about its future reliability? What if you want to archive older files for posterity, but not necessarily maintain them as part of your daily backups? Joe explains how to deal with media management tasks such as these.
Recover lost data. Backing up data can be easy, but restoring it is often more challenging. When you discover that data is missing (whether due to a disk error, theft, or a simple mistake), you need to know the exact steps needed to recover it and get back to work as soon as possible.
- What's New
The heavily revised second edition of Backing Up Your Mac has been updated to include coverage of OS X 10.11 El Capitan, and includes numerous other changes:
Changed all the alt.cc and joeontech.net links to use HTTPS
Switched to using the term "macOS" (the new name for OS X starting with Sierra, due in late 2016) where possible
Updated A Note to Readers to reflect the availability of other books in this series—Maintaining Your Mac, Troubleshooting Your Mac, and Speeding Up Your Mac
Added a new section, Can You Reduce Your Backup Footprint?, about strategically reducing the amount of data you need to back up
Revised What's New in the World of Mac Backups to reflect changes that have taken place since the first edition of this book was published
Added coverage of a unique cloud backup app called Arq
Included a new sidebar, Restoring Photos Data Using Time Machine, with advice about restoring data from Apple's Photos app
Added new details about Backblaze in Self-Contained Cloud Backup Services
Expanded BYOS (Bring Your Own Software) Internet Backups to cover additional cloud storage providers, including Amazon Cloud Drive, Backblaze B2, and Google Cloud Drive
Updated the discussion of CrashPlan (in Choose Another Versioned Backup App, CrashPlan Tips, and Self-Contained Cloud Backup Services) to address changes in pricing and service offerings, and to mention my Wirecutter article comparing online backup services
Added a new section, Creating a RAID with SoftRAID, that discusses the use of software-based RAIDs as part of a backup strategy
Revised the instructions involving Disk Utility to account for the significant changes to that tool in El Capitan
Included a tip, Increase Time Machine's Performance, that may speed up Time Machine (while potentially slowing down other things on your Mac)
Added a new sidebar in the Create and Use a Bootable Duplicate chapter, about Creating a Bootable Duplicate over a Network (with Carbon Copy Cloner)
In Perform a Safe Boot, clarified that a safe boot doesn't require a complete shutdown, just a restart
Updated the sidebar Securely Deleting Old Backups to address the fact that El Capitan removed the Secure Empty Trash feature from the Finder and the Secure Erase features from Disk Utility
Added a sidebar, Ultra-Long-Term Archival Storage, about a novel (and expensive) way to preserve your data for centuries
Added a new section, Back Up a NAS, that provides some guidance on backing up data on a network-attached storage (NAS) device to another destination
Revised Back Up Data from the Cloud to include additional apps and cloud services
By popular demand, added a brief section about how to Back Up an iOS Device
Updated the online appendixes to reflect the latest versions, features, and prices of backup apps and online backup services
- Update Plans
June 27, 2016 — Having just updated this book, Joe has no immediate or specific plans for when he'll update it next.
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Not only were the pieces not lining up properly they were't locking together in many instances despite numerous techniques and strategies. What's even worse is that of the first 12 boxes he opened, approximately 30 percent of the flooring pieces had blemishes, chips, inconsistent sizing, or other problems.
We contacted our local store and were very quick to blame our contractor for not installing it correctly. We explained what was happening - very carefully and kindly - they basically offered no guidance , sympathy, or assistance whatsoever.
We asked if someone could come and look at the flooring that we had attempted to install and they refused, stating it was not allowed.
So we, along with our contractor's help took blue painters tape, wrote on the tape specifically what was wrong with each piece and packed up over 2 boxes of problem pieces to show the. At the store once again they were quick to blame us before looking at the samples. We tried to be as nice as we could about it to get cooperation.
After practically begging for help and explaining that it was costing us over $600 each day for our contractor's lost time they said they could send in the sample pieces to their headquarters, and that the headquarters would be in contact in a couple of days.
After allowing a few days pass my husband called them. No response. After multiple calls he finally reached someone who said they would send out an independent assessor to our home. The assessor came out and validated our problems. He said he would file the report within 2 days and the headquarters would contact us.
It's now been a week. My husband has called and left 3 messages with our claims adjuster and , just like the other 12 times he tried to reach her, she never answers or calls back. My husband has spoken with a manager, several others at the customer service center and has sought help from our lock (Columbus, oh) location. No help. No ownership. And we have no hope of getting this resolved at this point.
We have thousands of dollars of this flooring sitting in boxes in our house - likely that a lot of it is faulty - and no answers, no assistance, and no idea what we can do about it. We have lost time and money as we wait. Yet Lumber Liquidators does seem to care in the least.
I work in the customer service business and have heard about and experienced poor service in the past. But this has been the worst. We are extremely frustrated and need this to be resolved.
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To advance the mission of the University by providing superior information technology services to our clients through teamwork, partnership, and innovation.
News & Accomplishments
- Al Ling was featured at the 2015 SAP TechEd conference where he discussed UM's Suite on HANA project.
- Robby Seitz and Harshul Sharma were featured in the October 2015 Campus Technology article discussing UM's efforts around accessibility and responsiveness of myOleMiss.
- Kathy Gates is serving as a faculty member for the EDUCAUSE Leadership Program.
- Shweta Shakya and Jie Tang made a presentation titled, "A successful recipe for a streamlined approach to multiple supplemental applications," at HighEdWeb Alabama in Tuscaloosa Al, June 2015
- Frank Mathew co-presented with Geof Corb of Johns Hopkins University on "Making a Business Case for HANA" at SAP ASUG SAPPHIRE in Orlando Fl, May 2015
- Frank Mathew presented on "Success with a Responsive, Accessible and intuitive enterprise portal" at SAP ASUG SAPPHIRE in Orlando Fl, May 2015
- Harshul Sharma and Robby Seitz presented on Accessibility and our Portal Project at the EDUCAUSE Connect conference in San Antonio, TX, April 2015
- Kathy Gates and Robin Miller (remotely) made a presentation titled, "Suite on HANA and the University of Mississippi," at the 2015 HERUG conference. (April 2015)
- Al Ling made a presentation titled, "Milestones in Finance and Administration at the University of Mississippi," at the 2015 HERUG conference. (April 2015)
- Jimmy Ball presented his paper titled, Can an Evolutionary Development Teaching Model Accelerate Programmer Competency for Beginners?, at the SWDSI 2015 Annual Meeting in Houston, TX. (March 2015)
- Teresa McCarver, Mia Hardy and Jimmy Ball presented at the Google in the Classroom Conference, sponsored by the School of Education. (February 2015)
- Susan Lukose and Chris Reichley presented titled, I Can See Clearly Now: Gaining Insight into Academic Processes through Analytics at the annual EDUCAUSE conference in Orlando, FL, October 2014
- Kathy Gates made a presentation with Mark Askren from the University of Nebraska Lincoln titled, Planning for the Future: The Next CIO at the 2014 Annual EDUCAUSE conference.
- Chris Barnes crossed a major IT milestone by logging and closing over 10,000 IT Helpdesk tickets. Chris was honored with a plaque to show our appreciation for his work ethic, service and commitment. (July 2014)
- Jimmy Ball attended the IHL's 2014 Ethics Workshop held at Jackson State University.
- Kathy Gates was one of ten CIOs in the US and UK who participated in an effort sponsored by EDUCAUSE and JISC to define the characteristics of successful higher education CIOs. This work has been featured in several presentations and articles such as: Technology in Higher Education: Defining the Strategic Leader .
- Brian Hopkins co-authored the ECAR paper titled, Research Data Storage: A Framework for Success (July 2014).
- Robby Seitz attended the "An Event Apart" conference on website design and user experience in Boston.
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- Chris Reichley made a presentation titled, "Automated Attendance Monitoring and Intervention for Student Success," at the March 2014 EDUCAUSE Connect conference in Chicago.
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- Kathy Gates facilitated the EDUCAUSE SERC CIO and executive IT Leadership Roundtable in May, 2013.
- Mary Robinson attended DAS Installation and Commissioning training in May 2013.
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- In April 2013, Chris Reichley made a presentation on UM's attendance tracking solution at the 2013 SAP HERUG conference.
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When he revisited the castle in 1831 Turner is reported to have said, 'I made a drawing or painting of Norham several years since. It took, and from that day to this I have had as much to do as my hands could execute.' In all his depictions the castle is seen at dawn, its dark form given emphasis by the rising sun beyond, an effect which must have been one of Turner's chief joys in repeating the subject so often. This watercolour was executed in the early 1820s for a group of views of the Rivers of England by which time he had already included a similar view in his Liber Studiorum.
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